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By Orll G. Bahcall my eye," havez id. "Thi posi- Chavez recei ed a BA degree in ASSOCIATE EWS EDITOR tion could get me back to dvi e- peech and Theater Arts and a MA Thr e ndidat for the unfilled ment of tudent government," he in Education from Colorado tate po ition of a i tant de n for re i- aid. University in 1984. At C denc and campu activitie Cha vez tre ed de ire to be Chavez ha been active in the addr ed i ue of student concern "in trumental in setting a frame- ad vising on finances, tudent at thr e open forum thi week. work," to teach tudent kill uch i ue, and mediation of tudent E ch forum, one with each can- Ie d r hip that complement acad- i ue. didate, wa attended by about 20 emic. student repre enting student gov- The "po ition i not only to guire di cu proc dure ernments and club . advi e tudents, but al 0 to be an Maguire di cu ed the proce- The three candidate - Univer- advocate for them," by erving as a dure that tudent organizations sity of South rn California Student communication link between stu- there were required to follow in Organization Advi er Rebecca A. dents and other admini trative order to acce s their funding, Chavez, Emer on College Student offices, havez aid. Thi will including having the group' advi- Activitie Director Jeanne M. "allow me to work with student in or sign-off on all reque ts for pay- Maguire, and Tufts University a different level than I am u ed to ments. Assistant Director of Student Activ- working at." Maguire is mo t proud of her itie Katherine G. O'Dair - dis- Chavez suggested pre idential "ability to make connections, build cussed their experience and fielded forums, where the presiden of all bridges and work collaboratively questions from the various student the student clubs would meet ever- with students," and believes that leader in the audience. al times a year to "throw out thing often the "experience outweigh the The open position was vacated that students are upset with," in an product," she said. She plan to take earlier this year when former Assis- open forum. a proactive role as the assistant dean tant Dean for RCA Susan D. Allen While Chavez plans to advocate for RCA. left to become dean of students at for the students, "thi is ju t one peg "My style is not a a mother," Roxbury Community College earli- in the whole board," she said. "The Maguire said. "I am here to help er this year. larger question is if we are working make sure there is a sy tern that is with an institute that is willing to helpful to students, as well as being Chavez would be tudent advocate change. [Students] are one part of safe, sincere and honest." The position of assistant dean that, and RCA is just one part of of student activities "really caught that," Chavez said. RCA, Page 12 I, acuity Express Doubt OverFinal ROTC Plan After ecord ...... "'e A py By Anders Hove munity input through a series of EXECUTIVE EDITOR open forums, he said. By Kwong H. Yung this year bee au e three out of four Puerto Ricans. In all four individual The members of the ROTC task While the final report released STAFF REPORTER main competitors for students - categories, the actual number of force met a mixed response this week represents the completion MIT received a record number Stanford, Princeton, and Yale - admitted students al 0 increa ed. Wednesday as they presented their of the third phase, the task force has of application for the incoming had Early Decision programs for the Women comprised 43 percent of final report. Wednesday at the March been asked to oversee a fourth phase Class of 2000, but admitted fewer first time this year," Behnke said this year' cla 5, a slight decrea e faculty meeting. in which the final recommendations students than last year, the admi - The admi ion office is un ure from last year' record 45 percent. The faculty also approved a are again 'brought before the com- sions office announced thi week. how these early decision programs easure to establish a master of munity for discussion, Graves said. From the 8,023 completed appli- will affect the the number of admit- Te t core remain unchanged engineering program in nuclear cations, only 1,894, or 23.6 percent, tee that choo e to enroll this fall. The mean SAT verbal score and engineering. Task force goals discussed were admitted. Last year, 2,102 out "Because we are being so cau- mean AT math score were 712 and Professor of Management Graves outlined several key of 7,955, or 26.4 percent, were tious, we do expect to admit some 752, re pectively. Last year, the Stephen C. Graves, chair of the task issues or goals for MIT ROTC. admitted. students from the waiting Ii t later mean verbal and math score were force, c.alled for a "model ROTC ROTC should provide an "open, Even though the number of in May to bring the class up to the 649 and 747. program" that would combine the honest environment that respects the applications received increased, 1,080 target," Behnke said. "We best aspects of other schools' rights and privileges of all," he said. fewer people were admitted to will also be admitting about 40 Although the change represents a approaches to the military's "don't The task force respects the value "make absolutely sure that we do transfer" students, he added. ignificant nominal increase in the ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy of ROTC to students at MIT, as well not exceed the class size target," This year, the percentage of verbal score, the numbers cannot be on homosexuals. as "a citizen-soldier principle" said Director of Admissions- under-represented minorities among compared directly. Thi year, the Graves began by discussing the according to which "the military Michael C. Behnke. admitted students increased to 18 SAT verbal scores were re-centered. pha es of the task force's work. In should be representative of the soci- Last year, 1,130 of accepted stu- percent. Last year, the number was If the same re-centering were the first two phases, the task force ety ," Graves said. dents, or 53 percent, chose to attend, 14 percent. Under-represented applied to last year's verbal core ollected information, issued an far more than expected. minorities include black , Mexican average, the two verbal scores nterim report, and gathered com- Faculty, Page 13 "Extra caution was called for Americans, ative Americans, and would be nearly identical. I SIDE • GSCto hold elections for officers. Page 10 • AIDS research pro- gram needs correction, Baltimore says. Page 10 Student Democrats club tarts. Page 11

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THE WASHl POST e Gro General otor Corp. and th United Auto orker agreed Thursday to end the 17-day trike again t two Ohio brake plants that ha idled hundred of thou and of workers and hut down G 's orth merican auto operations...... ~-----ces either side would disclo detail of the ettlement until wor TS ratify it, but e ential1y it reiterate the term of the existing contract, By J n ch rtz to the court. Hoffman cited esti- Duvall entered the on-line addre according to company and union ources. THEWASH1NGTO POST mate that the value of electronic for Penthouse Magazine's page, The 3,000 worker t the two G bra e plant in Dayton are PHILADELPHIA commerce on the Internet will connection failed to go through, and scheduled to vote on the agr ement Friday, and bra e production It w the first day of a legal pro- approach 5.8 billion by the year the creen read, "Blocked by Sur- could resume immediately. ceeding that puts the Internet on 2000. fWatch." The strike began March 5 with a local union dispute over G ' tri I, but the star witnes was balky. Duvall was trying to take the The case, which is on a fast track plans to "outsource" 12 future jobs to a nonunion supplier without "Well, we've ju t had a little judges on a tour of the global com- for con ideration by the-federal notifying the union. The trike"~ effects were oon felt by the compa- CT h of the computer," witne Ann puter network to show them why the court ystem, will "give the burgeoning new medium differ ny' orth American a embly plants and their suppliers. G laid . Duvall aid, after trying to show Supreme Court the opportunity to from traditional communications off 175, 00 worker in the United State , Me ico and Canada, and a pan Iof three federal judge how decide what the First Amendment ea y it is to bring up the Phillies' technologies like televi ion and tele- thou ands of other were idled by uppliers caught in a ju t-in-time rule wiJI be in cyberspace," said system of manufacturing that has no room for stockpiles. late t core on-line. fter a econd phones - a crucial point, since the Christopher Hansen, an attorney for ource on both ides said the new agreement reaffirms the attempt to retrieve the cores failed, laws being applied to the new medi- the ACLU. The judges will hear union' right to be given a chance to compete for work the company Judge Ste art Dalzell quipped, um are based on regulations for the four more days of testimony wants to send to outside supplier . In exchange, GM ha received a "They've had a tough year." old one . Although television pro- between now and April 15th. firm promise from the union that if it cannot meet the cost of the out- Cra hes are standard operating grams enter the home unbidden, at side supplier the company ha the right to out ource the work. procedure during high-tech demon- the push of a button, people have to The unusual proceeding was an As part of the agreement, a company ource said, the union strations, or "demos," as they call seek out information on-line - "it example of the uneasy relationship allowed OM to out ource the 128 job that began the strike. Robert them in the busine s. But this demo doesn't just come at you," Duva)) between law and high technology. Bo. ch, a German company with nonunion operations in South Caroli- wa anything but routine. It was part said. The courtroom, although rigged na, will build anti lock brake ystems for the 1998 model Camaros of an attempt by a broad coalition of The other goal of the on-line with jwnbo projection screens and a and Firebirds. 27 plaintiff: - including the Amer- demonstration was to show the high-speed Internet connection to ican Civil Liberties Union, the judges that Duvall's company's pro- display the various on-line wares, American Library Association and gram, Surfwatch, puts tool in par- seemed an uncomfortable venue for Gee trade groups for high-tech comp'a- ents' hands to keep objectionable Duvall, the software entrepreneur, • nies and journalism organization materials away from children. Pro- and for the Internet expert whose of ep - to strike down the new Commu- grams like SurfWatch, which testimony preceded hers. NEWSDAY nications Decency Act, a part of the Duvall's husband developed after Justice Department lawyers Di covery of a faulty gene that directly causes a rare form of new telecommunications law that becoming concerned that some defending the government's posi- epilepsy was announced Thursday by scientists in California and Fin- bans making "indecent" or "patently material he found on-line was tion would not speak with report land, opening the way, perhaps, to understanding more common offensive" material available to unsuitable for their daughter, consti- Thursday, but Bruce A. Taylor, forms of the neurological di order. minors via computers. tute the heart of the plaintiffs' con- president of the National Law Cen- "This open a whole new area of research, and the real hope is in The plaintiffs argue that re tric- tention that Congress did not fulfill ter for Children and Families, said the new ideas about what goe wrong to cause epilepsy," said geneti- tions to ensure that the Internet is its constitutional responsibility to opponents of the law are trying to cist Richard Myers at Stanford University. "It gives us hints that suitable for children would be unen- find the least restrictive means to other forms of epilep y may be in the ame biochemical pathway." forceable on the global network and curtail protected speech when it make Internet regulation sound In collaboration with re earchers in two Helsinki laboratories, will choke the emerging medium. passed the Communications Decen- more burdensome than it is. Taylor, Myers and his colJeagues found the exact gene mutation that causes If the government is allowed to cy Act. whose organization favors banning progressive myoclonu epilepsy, a rare and severe form of the disease enforce the new law, "the most Eventually, Duvall's technicians on-line indecency and who helped that involves repeated seizures. They reported their findings in the important innovation to human soci- worked out the bugs, and the judges shape the legislation, said the law journal Science. ety since the development of the watched as their computer screens would allow youngsters to use the The discovery was surprising because the gene, which sits on printing press will be effectively filled with images from London's Internet while protecting them from chromosome 21, was already known. It make a o-calJed protease destroyed," said Vanderbilt Univer- ational Gallery and medical infor- . pornography and would "allow inhibitor, a protein that keep enzyme from chopping up other pro- sity business profe sor Donna Hoff- mation about Fragile X syndrome, adults to get their precious porn, . teins. But the inhibitor, cystatin B, had not be n a suspect in epilep y man in written testimony submitted an inherited disease. But when that's whatthey want." before. ---e Ap roves: Tough Bill ",,~..aliz,emega! Aliens By Marek Zeb owskl By Marc Lacey of illegal immigrants. The hard-line san lines. STAFF METEOROLOGIST LOS ANGELES TIMES Federation. for American Immigra- The elimination 0'£ legal immi- As surface and upper level lows gradually move towards the Mar- WASHI OTO tion Reform announced its opposi- gration reform from the bill decreas- itimes, a slight break in the damp and dreary weather i fore een for The House overwhelmingly tion to the bill Thursday after law- es significantly the chances that the the weekend. A week surface low offshore will cau e some more approved a tough crackdown on makers stripped legal immigration House will address the issue th. I showers on Friday and, as it merge with the upper-level system, the illegal immigration Thursday night, reform and weakened worker verifi- year. Already, the Senate Judiciary resulting northwe terly flow will usher in a colder airmass for the re t but struck from the bill a series of cation provisions. Committee has voted to consider of our weekend. More cold air will build up over the orthern Plains new restrictions on the number and "Despite a variety of high-mind- legal and illegal immigration in two by Sunday, and there are indications of a good- ize storm paying us a type of legal immigrants allowed in ed sounding attempts to reform separate bills. The Senate is expect- visit by Tuesday. Thus, cold and wet weather (with white mixed-in the country and rejected the admit- immigration policy', Congress - ed to approve a similar illegal immi- over the higher terrain) will likely persist through a good portion of tance of 250,000 foreign agricultur- with the fun support of a do-nothing gration bill next month. next week in our region. al worker. administration - is on its...,)¥ay to On illegal immigration, the Today: Partly cloudy with a few breaks early. Scattered sprinkles The bill, on a vote of 333-87, passing another bill that may only House bill aims to tighten security and showers are likely in the afternoon. Cool highs in mid 40s (6- would further restrict public benefit make things worse," said Dan Stein, at the border but acknowledges that 7°C) for illegal immigrants, increase executive director of FAIR. some people will still elude the new Tonight: Scattered shower early (mixed precipitation po sible penalties for smugglers and docu- In a last-minute change, law- agents and barriers there. inland), then partial clearing and turning colder. Low near 30°F (- ment counterfeiters, and boost bor- makers eliminated the proposed 30 Other provisions would make it 1°C) der enforcement by adding 5,000 percent cuts in the number of legal more difficult for illegal immigrants Saturday: Partly sunny early, clouds moving in during the after- more agents and 14 miles of triple immigrants and rejected a plan to to find work and receive gover noon. Becoming chilly with scattered rainshowers and wet snow pos- fencing near San Diego. disallow siblings and adult children ment benefits. And deportation pr sible inland. High around 42°F (5°C) with blustery north we terly The mo t contentious aspects of . of U.S. citizens from receiving fam- cedures would be streamlined to winds. the legislation would a))ow state ily visas. remove the undocumented, especial- unday: Becoming partly to mostly sunny, but windy and chilly the option of denying free public The move to excise legal immi- ly those who committed crimes. with lows in mid 20s (_20 to -40 C) and highs in upper 30s to low 40s schooling to undocumented stu- gration reform from the bill was a The bill would reduce the 30- (4-6°C) dents, would increase cooperation blow to those who argued that for- odd identification documents that between local law enforcement offi- eign workers were reducing wages immigrants can now present to Meanwhile, for the lucky ones who plan to escape fickle fronts Cials and the Immigration and atu- and taking jobs from U.S. citizens. employers to just six. And it would and locally chilled spring fever; here is the all-important Florida fore- ralization Service, and would per- The reform was al 0 aimed at reduc- treat those who forge immigration cast: manently ban those who violate ing the huge backlog of immigrants papers like counterfeiters of U.S. immigration laws from ever legally seeking to join family members here currency. For northern ectiol} (panama City, Gainesville and ae onville): entering the country. by eliminating adult children and The legislation calls for a pilot Friday and aturday: Sunny. High 65°F (19C), low near 40°F Although most legal immigra- sibling from the eligibility Ii t. program that would allow partici- (6°C) . tion restrictions were removed, the "In a country of 260 million peo- pating employers to check the unday and onday: Partly sunny and warmer. High in lpw bill would st1l1 cut public benefits ple, 700,000 legal immigrants (a immigration status of new hires in 70s (22°C), lows in mid 50s (13°C) for legal immigrants and make their year) is not an exorbitant amount," government database. To defuse Tuesday and ednesday: Partly cloudy, chance of showers. sponsor financially re pon ible for said Rep. Dick Chrysler, D- ich., opposition from businesses and civil Highs in upper 70s (24-26°C), lows near 60°F (I°6C) their well-being. who argued for deleting many of the libertarians who can it intrusive, the " mericans got the whole loaf proposed changes in legal immigra- program is voluntary. For southern Florida and the Key: on illegal immigration reform and tion. "We are all immigrant or The bill would forbid undocu- Friday and aturday: Sunny and pleasant~ Highs in mid to upper half the loaf on legal immigration de cendants of immigrants. ' mented parents from receiving gov- 70s (24-27°C), lows near 60°F (16°C) reform," said Rep. Lamar S. Smith, He was aided by a bipartisan ernment benefits even if their chil- unday and onday: Fair and warmer. Highs near 80°F (27- R-Texas, putting the best face on coalitioo of group, ranging from dren are U.S. citizens, a provision 28°C), lows in mid 60s (I7-19°C), except near 70°F (21°C) in the the breakup of the bill he sponsored. labor unions to the Christian Coali- critics called "anti-child." Current Keys "Three-fourths of a loaf taste pretty tion. The 238-183 vote to retain cur- law forbids illegal immigrants from Tue day and Wednesday: Partly cloudy, chance of showers, good." rent immigration levels - now receiving benefits for themselves warm. High in low 80s (28-29°C), lows 65-70°F (18-21 °C) The bill pleases neither immi- capped at roughly 700,000 people but allows parents to receive the grant rights groups nor strong foes . per ye~ - cllt,d eply .aqros~ parti- benefits for citizen children. , " , ., r- «• r l~ ..... " arch 22, 1996 THE TECH Page 3

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POST WASHI GTO Change the pre ident has propo ed in measuring inflation would mean lightly maller co t-of-living adjustments (COLAs) in federal none e plicitly declined to parti i- don bus, killing th man carrying it and military pay and ocial Security retirement benefits. But the bud- p te - c pt inn Fein, th politi- nd injuring a number of get plan would a e taxp yers billion of dollars. LONDO cal wing of the outl d Iri h by tanders. Curr ntly, government r tiree get annual COLAs to help protect Prime inister John ajor Republican Army, which i b rred eeking to nd the impa se, them from inflation, which typically doubles every decade. Partial, announced Thursday a complicated from the proce s in any c e un! ~or and Irish Prime Minister John occasion I COLAs are rare in private pension plan . Full, annual election plan the next step in the the IRA agre to h It its n w cam- Bruton jointly propo d an election OLAs are unknown. ocial S curity COLAs are paid ach January. That would not orthem Ireland peace process, ay- paign of violence. a prelude to all-party talk that change. But und r the pre ident's budget, a "temporary" delay in fed- ing, with vi ible frustration, that he The election plan - put tog th r ould begin on June 10. Bitter eral-military retiree COLAs (from January until. April of each year) was forced to produce his own pro- by Major from an amalgam of pro- argum nts about the form, wisdom would continue for another seven year . posal because rival political parties po al by the orthern Ireland par- and comparative dvantage to vari- The Clinton plan has been endorsed by congre ional Republicans there could not agree on one. ties - is designed to re-energize ous p rtie of uch an election and many economi ts. It would lead to a .3 percent drop in the annual Major's plan, a outlined to the peace talk that began nearly a year erupted immediately, leading to House of Commons, calls for voters ago, after Catholic and Protestant rate of growth of the Con umer Price -Index. In effect, the Bureau of M ~or's announcement today. in the British-ruled province to elect paramilitary groups d lared a h It Labor tati tic would use new He timation procedure .. to measure a II O-member body, or forum, on to 25 years of warfare in the Und r his plan, voters in each of changes in the cost of living. May 30; that forum will then select province. Discus ions broke down the 18 parliamentary constituencies Many economi ts feel the current PI overstates inflation because delegate to uall-party" negotiations about six months ago over the locat d in orthern Ireland will cast it measur big-ticket items that people don't buy every year and may aimed at achieving a permanent et- IRA's refusal to 'decommi sion" its ballot for political parties, and the purch e only once or twice in a lifi time. Eliminating or discounting tlement to decades of political and weapons as a condition to Sinn top five vote-getters in each con- ome of tho e item from the CPI measurement would almo t certain- sectarian turmoil in orthem Ire- Fein's participation in all-party tituency will end delegate to the ly reduce annual COLAs. land. negotiations. forum. In addition, ~O more dele- The plan appeared to please only The IRA ended its cease-fire on gate will be allotted to the 10 par- one of the many fractious parties in Feb. 9 by detonating a car bomb at ties receiving the highe t number of Guatemalan Pre ident Delivers the troubled province - the Ulster London's Docklands development votes province-wide. Each party Unionists, who represent the majori- that killed two people and injured represented will then select from its Cease-Fire Order to Troops ty of orthern Ireland's Protestants. dozens. A second IRA bomb was delegates a negotiating team for the WSANGELES Catholic-based parties, as well as a found days later in London's theater June 10 all-party talks; the forum GUATEMALA ITV smaller Protestant group led by the district .and defused; a third later it elf will have no role in those Sealing a two-way cease-fire, the mo t ignificant advance yet Rev. Ian Paisley, ridiculed it. Still, explod~d prematurely aboard a Lon- talks. toward peace in entral America's last remaining civil war, President Alvaro Arzu on Thursday personally told soldiers in trife-torn Quiche province to top anti-guerrilla operations. Arzu had ordered a halt to counterinsurgency operations late Panel Votes to Sanction Those Wednesday, hour after guerrilla commanders declared a cea e-fire from their Mexico City office. "I think it's the end of the conflict," said Frank La Rue, a political Conducting Business with Iran analyst at the Washington-based Legal Action Center for Human Rights. By Thomas W. Upprnan be the target of formal complaints business with Iran, which the United The ending of hostilitie is a major breakthrough in the five year THE WASHINGTON POST filed with the World'Trade Organi- States regards as the major state of peace talks to halt three decades of civil war and appears to vindi- WASH INGTO zation, which was set up with strong sponsor of international terrorism, cate Arzu's decision to name a government negotiator who many mil- Shrugging off strong objections U.S. backing to enforce internation- but other nations have not followed itary supporters grumbled was too sympathetic to the guerrillas. from U.S. allies, a key House com- al free-trade agreements, adminis- Washington's lead. The cease-fire also lends credibility to Arzu's promise that within mittee voted 32-0 Thursday to tration officials said Thursday. "American diplomacy has a taste seven months of his January inauguration he would end the fighting impose far-reaching econQmic sanc- Complaints were aired informally at for embargoes and boycotts which that has claimed more than 150,000 lives, produced 45,000 refugees tions on foreign corporations that do a WTO trade council meeting Tues- we do not share," a European and left 40,000 people mi sing. Most of the victims have been Indian business with the oil industries of day, Europeans diplomats said, but ambassador said Thursday. uYou peasants, and the heaviest casualties were in Quiche, 100 miles north Iran or Libya. no formal charges have been filed have always used that as a weapon, of Guatemala City, where Arzu spoke Thur day. A similar but somewhat narrow- , because no sanctions have actually with a remarkable degree of ineffec- er measure has already cleared the been imposed. tiveness." Senate, with Clinton administration . uWe see certai]l ,risks to United LegisHltion aimed at isolating Clinton Authorizes Spending approval. At least two more House States policy interests," Deputy Cuba, Iran and Libya economically committees must approve the bill Assistant Secretary of State C. amounts to a "secondary boycott," For Additional B-2 Bombers before it reaches the full House, but Richard Welch, leader of the admin- the amba ador said. "That i unac- THE WASHINGTON POST congressional sentiment against Iran istration's Iran sanctions team, told ceptable .... We have not elected WA HI GTO in particular is so strong that mem- the House International Relations the American Congress, we never Lifting its cap on the B-2 bomber program by one more plane, the bers predicted quick passage. Committee as it marked up the leg- voted for it, and I don't see why we Clinton administration announced Thursday it would seek to increase Following on the heels of Presi- islation for passage Thursday. "But should let it legislate for the rest of the number of tealth aircraft from 20 to 21, u ing the extra money dent Clinton's signature of a new there are considerable benefits also" the world." Congress appropriated for the program last year. law subjecting foreign companies from trying to head off investments , At Thursday's committee ses- The surprise move was derided by some Republicans as an elec- that invest in Cuba to U.S. court in the economies of hostile nations, sion, Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb., tion-year maneuver, but was applauded by B-2 proponents in Con- action, the Iran-Libya measure has he said. read a letter from the European gress. The plane's supporters had all but given up hope of securing outraged major U.S. trading partners uThe administration supports Union expressing "our strong and more of the controversial aircraft after Pre ident Clinton reaffirmed such as Canada and the IS-nation sanctions, but we want them to hurt unequivocal opposition" to the bill. the 20-bomber limit a recently as last month and announced that the European Union. Iran more than they hurt us," said Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., congressional add-on would be applied to upgrades of the current They have accused the United acting Assistant Secretary of State responded that the Europeans have fleet. States of trying to impose its law on Barbara Larkin, signaling that the forfeited their standing to complain Explaining the switch, Pentagon officials said they had discovered them, and of trying to force them to administration prefers the Senate about U.S. legislation by continuing that the extra $493 million appropriated by Congress could just about pursue what they see as a futile poli- version because it carries less risk of to do business with "sickening cover the cost of refurbishing an early B-2 test model now in storage cy of seeking to change the behavior retaliation by U.S. trade partners. regimes." He said Uthe Europeans at Northrop-Grumman Corp.'s assembly plant in Palmdale, Calif., of hostile states through isolation. Clinton has already barred U.S.- come in with no moral standing on and previously destined for a mu eum. Earlier cost estimates for The United States can expect to owned corporations from doing these issues." transforming the test plane into a fully operational bomber had run around $700 million, the officials said. The Pentagon has long opposed buying more of the bat-winged B- SecretInk Used in New $100 Bills 2s, saying there are less costly ways of meeting potential threats than expanding the bomber fleet. But with several thousand subcontractors spread around the country standing to benefit from additional sales, Will Help To Fight Counterfeiting political pressure to order more bombers has come from congression- al Republicans and Democrats alike. By Marylou Tousignant bay. green to black depending on how WASHINGTON POST This much, though, is known: light hits it. WASHJ GTON Public Reacts to British Beef Scare For more than 10 years, SICP A, the The first of the new $100 bills WS ANGELES TIMES Security is almost a religion at American subsidiary of a 70-year- will be shipped to banks Monday, the firm's low-slung headquarters old Swiss ink-making company, has LONDON putting the U.S. greenback on a par, and manufacturing plant, tucked been the world's sole producer of a Consumers at home and abroad revolted against British beef technology-wise, with the French into the recesses of an industrial hot commodity called Optically Thursday after the British government conceded that there may be a franc, the Italian lira and the Ger- park. Aonored trucks pull in and out Variable Ink. link between what is known as "mad-cow disease" and the deaths of man mark, to name just a few of the at regular intervals, and a list of When viewed from different 10 people from an incurable brain disorder. currencies that use color-changing expected visitors is kept at the angles, the ink appears to change The government denied there is any cause for alarm, but said the ink. locked front gate. colors, and when applied to paper entire national herd of 11 million cows could be slaughtered if scien- "You're two minutes late," notes currency, it makes counterfeiting SICPA, which has a $10 million tists advise it. a uniformed guard as he hands over impossible, SICPA maintains. U.S. contract to provide 20,000 In a move Agriculture Minister Douglas Hogg called "unreason- a company security badge and Some have tried but none has pounds of the special ink - enough able, unnecessary and probably illegal," France, Belgium and five directs the tardy guest to park close succeeded, according to Beruff. to print more than 2 billion bills - German states bann"td imports of British beef. In Brus els, Belgium, by, where he can keep an eye on the This makes "the good .guys" assiduously guards the proprietary British scientists conferred with worried European Union officials. stranger's car. Once inside, the visi- over at the U.S. Treasury - and in technology behind it. Across Britain, school boards announced they would scrap beef from lunch menu. joining an estimated one-third of British schools tor signs a logbook and is escorted government currency circles from "It's like Coca-Cola," Beruff Albania to Zaire - very happy that were already beefles . It was burgers as usual at fast food restau- to the second-floor offices of Eduar- said. "Few people know all the do Beruff, president of ICPA indeed. rants in downtown London Thursday night, but cattle prices slumped pieces." Does he? "I know a little Industries of America Inc. In the fall, U.S. money-makers 15 percent, food-processing companies lost ground on the stock mar- bit about it." Only a little? Well, The Cuban-born Beruff is all announced a monetary face lift, the ket, and crisis gripped the $6 billion a year cattle industry. Nearly ~ maybe more, maybe a lot more, smiles, his manner at once gracious- first heavy-duty nip-and-tuck in 66 half of all British farmers have some cattle. "after having it explained to me sev- ly welcoming yet resolutely with- years, beginning with Ben Franklin Mad-cow alarm has been a regular visitor to Britain for a decade: eral time ," he said. holding. Clearly, he is not about to on the 100 bill. The 765,000 Cattle began dying of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE, spill any secrets on how his compa- redesign incorporates several anti- Like the ink itself, the pigment in 1985. The disease in cattle has been traced to infected sheep offal ny is helping the United States - counterfeiting devices, including a that goes into it is made in only one in cattle feed. The sale of offal, including spinal cords and brains, and more than 40 other countries - splotch of SICPA's color-shifting place, by a company in Santa Rosa, was banned in 1989. keep what he cai1s "the bad guys" at ink in one comer that changes from Calif. • l Page 4 arch 22, 1996

Letters 1b TheEditor tion-and-answer se ion would not erve the priority. For thi re on we tru t friends and ALL.LLLLUU'Je student population well. We re eeking a tud nt repre entative to make a fair judg- dean who can work well with tudents, advi e ment. Occa ion ally , however, we feel so and support them, be an advocate for their. trongly about a ubject that we do get Ch irm n As an organizer of the tudent forum with i sues, help them organize event and lobe involved personally. cott C. De kin '96 the final candidate for the po ition of assi - a respected and fair upervi OT. A three-way The anonymous monster called 'the tant dean for Residence and Campus Activi- debate may yield the mo t telegenic politician, admini tration" is quite receptive to student Editor in hief ties, J feel obliged to re pond to The Tech's but not a good advocate for students. We are input. The large t ob tacle is tudent apathy. Ramy A. Amaout '97 editorial of arch 15 ["Open Forums ot hiring a professional and to do so, we have to Influence on decision of the administration Done Right"]' meet with the candidates in a personal setting can only be gained by working with the indi- Bu ine anager The fonnat of the e event , to meet each that will reveal their individual strength and viduals that make them. othing is served on Chri tine Chan '98 candidate individually, has been criticized. skills. Imagine if you were to be hired for a ilver platter. Many processes are overly This point was raised by many student prior your first job in the way suggested by th edi- burdensome for students, but active participa- anaging Editor to the meeting and rejected. The forums are torial. tion will alway be necessary for obtaining aul Blumenthal '9 only part of a larger interview process in It is already remarkable that we have the re ult , passive criticism rarely brings about which candidate meet members of the com- opportunity to interview candidate before the change. Those who scream the loudest of not ecuti editor munity with whom they will interact in the final decision is made. Student were repre- being heard are typically those who do not Anders Hove '96 future. Time at the end of the interview day sented on the search committee, and thi has how up no matter how much you plead for

N£WSSTAFF was set aside courtesy of A sociate Dean for also been true for previous dean searches, It their participation. Furthermore, I want to add that these Editors: A. Arif Husain '97, tacey E. Residence and Campus Activities Margaret R. was my aim to offer all students the opportu- Blau '98, hang-Un Chuang '98, David D. Jablonski, who i in charge of hiring for this nity to decide for themselves if the candidates forums provide student input on a decision Hsu '98; soci te Editor: Venkate h position. In order for the students to jointly meet their expectations. I fear that despite that Dean Jablonski will make. The mission of atish '98, Orli G. Bahcall '99, Dan meet with all candidates they would have to heavy publicity, most students will not come the search committee was completed when the McGuire '99; taff: Kwong H. Yung G, be invited for a third time at con iderable no matter what fonnat the meeting has. Prob- three finalists were proposed. Oleg E. Drozhinin '97, Jame M. Wahl '97, expense and effort. Furthennore a single que - lem sets, classes, or laboratories have higher Andrew Rhomberg G Chri topher L. Falling '98, Brett Alt chul '99, hawdee E hghi '99, Carina Fung '99, Yaron Koren '99, Jean K. Lee '99, May K. Tse '99; eteorologist: c orce's Proposals Inadequate Michael C. Morgan PhD '95, Gerard Roe G, Guest Column by Robert • Wedgwood So, even in a "model ROTC program" the in homosexual conduct. If these MlT officers Marek Zebrow ki. serious fonns of discrimination will continue detennine that the evidence warrants the con- In spite of their superficial attractions, the unabated. clusion that a student is gay, then they will PRODUCTION STAFF recommendations outlined in the "Final But there is worse to come. The whole have to set their seal of approval on an inquiry Editor: Teresa Lee '96, Jennifer Peltz '98; Report of the ROTC Task Force" are totally idea of a model ROTC program requires the whose purpose is to punish this student for taff: Amy Hsu '94, Laura DePaoli '97, misconceived and should not, under any cir- MIT administration to collaborate, more allowing his or her homosexuality to become Jimmy Wong '97, Larry Chao '98, Yun-)u cumstances, be adopted by the faculty. closely than before, with the ROTC comman- known. The purpose of such an inquiry would Lee '9 , Josh Bittker '99, Jeremy J. " orne of our sister in titutions," the report ders, so that the administration can ensure that be to strip the student of an ROTC scholar- Lilley '99, rthur Murakami '99, haron says, "have decided to distance themselves our ROTC program is a model of inclusive- ship, possibly to order the student to reim- hen '99, Binh Truong '99, Hoi Wong '99, from ROTC, in order to remove the conflict ness and the "citizen soldier" principle. The burse the DoD for tens of thousands of dollars Jason C. Yang '99, Khelga Karsten. from campus ... We recommend a different inevitable consequence is that the MIT admin- of scholarship money, and ensure that the stu- istration will be more closely involved in the dent 'cannot pursue his or her chosen career, OPINION STAFF course for MIT. We propose that MIT work with the [Department of Defense] to create a implementation of discrimination. The report for the sole reason that he or she is gay. The Raajnish A. Chitaley '95. model ROTC program that is more inclusive calls for an ROTC oversight committee, con- MIT professors who are appointed, by the SPORTS STAFF and more aligned with the values and mission sisting of full-fledged members of MIT facul- Institute administration, to sit on these com- ssociate Editors: Bo Light '96, Jennifer of MIT." The idea is to take advantage of the ty, appointed by the president of the Institute. mittees will play an active role in carrying out N. Mosier '96; taff: Darren Castro G, fact that almost an ROTC subjects are open to Page 12 of the report proposes that "The the discrimination that is practiced by the Brian Petersen '96, David Berl '97, Jeremy all MIT students, even if, on account of being chainnan of the oversight committee, along ROTC. What the report proposes is nothing Cohen '97, Ja on Weintraub '97, Farhan openly gay, they have no hope of being com- with a representative of the dean for under- less than thorough-going Institute complicity Zaidi '98. missioned. If a student completes all of the graduate education and student affairs, will in ROTC discrimination, ROTC subjects that would be required in order erve on any inquiry into the homosexual con- Is that what it meant on the front page of ARTS STAFF to receive a commission, ROTC commanders duct of an MIT ROTC cadet called by any of the Bulletin, where it says, "MIT does not dis- Editor: Craig K. Chang '96; s ociate could write a letter stating that they have done the commanders of ROTC units." criminate against individuals on the basis of ... Editor: David V. Rodriguez '97, taff: o. 0, in this sense, they could be said to have Let us be clear about what is proposed .sexual orientation ... in administration of its Thomas Chen G, Teresa Esser '95, Audrey "enrolled in an ROTC program." The report here. Members of the MIT faculty, the presi- educational policies, admissions policies, Wu '96, Brian Hoffman '97, Kamal say that they could also "participate in all dent, and appointed members of committees employment policies, scholarship or loan pro- wamidos '97, Rob Wagner '97, Hur parts of the program without di crimination or of the Institute will be charged with the task grams and other institute administered pro- Koser '98, Daniel Ramirez '99, tephen differential treatment" - for example (if the of sifting evidence regarding the homosexual grams and activities?" Or was I wrong to Brophy. DoD kindly agrees) they could be allowed to conduct of MIT students. The professors of think that the statement of non-discrimination PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF wear the same unifonns as students who are MIT who serve on these committees will be puts any limits on what the MIT administra- Editor: Adriane Chapman '98, Indranath expected to receive commi sions. required to scrutinize the evidence of stu- tion would ever instruct its officials to do? eogy '98; ssociate Editor: Helen Thi proposal will not improve the lot of dents' unguarded remarks or misdirected e- Robert N Wedgwood is an Assistant Pro- Lin '97; taff: Gabor C anyi G, Rich gay students in any meaningful way. Since mails to detennine whether or not MIT stu- Jessor oj Philosophy in the Department oj Lin- Fletcher G, Ari fur Rahman G, Brian you cannot get MIT credit for ROTC subjects, dents are gay, or whether they have engaged guistics and Philosophy at MIT. Vanden Bo ch '96, Jiri Schindler '96, the only point of taking such subject haron . Young Pong '96, Tiffany Lin '97. ("enrolling in a ROTC program") is to receive a commi sion to serve as a junior officer in F£A TV RES STAFF the Anned Forces. So it is still the ca e that Hugo M. Ayala G, Pawan inha G, Willy any gay students enrolled in these programs Zimin ky G, teven D. Leung '96, Cherry will have to remain deeply closeted if they are Ogata '96. to achieve any meaningful career goals

BUSINESS STAFF through enrolling in the program. Operations anager: Pamela hade '98; More seriously, the proposal only touches dvertising Manager: Angela Liao '98; on the most trivial aspects of discrimination taff: Ricardo Ambrose '98, Melody A. (such as unifonns), leaving the serious fonns Lynch '98, Jessica Maia '98, Winnette of discrimination totally untouched. Indeed, Mcintosh '98, Karen Chan '99, Terri A. there is no way in which MIT can change the Wilson '99. serious forms of discrimination, which are required by federal law. Even if MIT ensures TECHNOLOGY STAFF that the ROTC commanders here are totally Director: Daniel C. Steven on '97; opposed to the military' policy on homosexu- ssociate Directors: Christina Chu '98, als, these ROTC commanders are required, by Cristian A. Gonzalez '99; taff: Timothy K. the rigorous requirements of martial law, to Layman '97, Jfung Lu '97, Kathleen Lynch. take note of any evidence that comes to light of a student's homosexuality, so that this evi- EDITORS A T URGE dence may be used to deny the student an Contributing Editors: Eva Moy G, ROTC scholar hip or an ROTC commission. Thomas R. Karlo '97, Jennifer Lane '98.

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In the first For one thing, much of it has already been in your world think you're a little nutty of the mental ho pit I." Ro 'u e of Purcell' tory the woman works for drug smugglers done equally well in Longtime Companion becau e of it. If you don't really want to go Funeral Mu ic for Queen Mary under cores and packs a gun; the second story centers on a almost a decade ago. Granted this film is mad, you can either come to MIT or become a his debt to A Clockwork Orange, which opens young woman who works behind a fast-food much more brave in facing the issue of sui- ma s murderer. Or at least that's the way it with the ame theme. counter and her obsession with a policeman cide, but it tends to get lost in all the other eem in The Young Poisoner's Handbook, a Young Poisoner's Handbook i a cold who is slow to notice her. The two stories bal- melodrama. 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- BY THE TECH ARTS STAFF - * *:E ceDent d **:Good ing *: erage Dead Man Walking, direct- *: Poor ed by Tim Robbin nd t r- ring e n Penn and u an * 1/2 ntonia' Line arandon, addr e th d ath Antonia's Line A magnificently open- pen lty i u unflin hingly and hearted feminist vision of a way the world comprehensiv ly. It folIo could be if men were not always struggling to convicted killer tth Pon- dominate it. This epic magical-reali t story celet (P nn) from the murd rs, begins just after World War II and culminates through hi e eral ppeal, the day after tomorrow. It's not some matriar- and finally to hi e ecution in chal never-never land, however -=- the ro es in excruciating d tail, corted by this paradise stil~ hold thorns. As the seasons his spiritu 1 advi er, i t r turn over, friends and lovers grow older and Helen Pr jean ( arandon). die, and those who are left behind have to mix Don't look to this movie for some sadness with their satisfaction. But its much action, adv nture, or vision is inspired, and it plants hope in our excitement. Thi emotionally hearts that what has had to be separated in the brutal film challenge you to past can be brought together again. -Stephen think about the is ue ur- Brophy. Kendall Square. rounding the death penalty. You'll walk away from the the- ***1/2 The Birdcage ater with a profound sense of The American version of the French farce the tragedy that any murder i , La Cage aux Foiles succeeds on many levels, whether it is committed by a thanks in part to the ebullient performances of person or by the government. Robin Williams and Nathan Lane. Armand And you will leave with a bit- (Williams) is the owner and musical director ter sense of pity both for the of a nightclub in Miami's South Beach sec- original victims and the con- tion, while his lover Albert (Lane) is the diva- victs on death row. -Audrey in-drag who's the star performer at the club. Wu. Sony Nickelodeon. The trouble starts when Armand's son (Dan ed, but still satisfying, conclu ion. -Charlene pro pective hu band ; through their trial and Futterman) starts courting the daughter of a **1/2E ecutive Deci ion Chen. Sony Copley. misfortune (including liaisons with pro pec- conservative U.S. Senator (Gene Hackman) In Executive Decision, Muslim terrorists tive suitor Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman), whose election platform is steeped in "moral threaten to crash a passenger plane loaqed **** Lea ing Las Veg the family tands together and never for ake order" and "family values." By the time the with DZ-5, a lethal nerve toxin, killing all the This sometimes-harrowing, often-redemp- its honor. The dialogue and ruminations on film reaches its climactic, comic showdown passengers aboard, most of Washington, and tive look at a relationship between a de truc- sexual impropriety may seem quaint by between the two families, the message of sending a deadly plume of gas over much of tive alcoholic (Nicholas Cage) and a prosti- today' standards, but Thompson's screen- "family" and the characters' foibles are so the eastern seaboard. Enter Kurt Russell and tute (Eli abeth Shue) could be a pi ritual play does ju tice to 18th-century romance and skillfully exploited that one overlooks the Steven Segal, who must sneak aboard the plan antidote to the excesses of Showgirls. Cage i chivalry. - CD. Sony Harvard Square. expected degrees of slapstick, even when to stop them. Although we know how it will a newly-fired screenwriter whose vices have resorting to gay stereotypes. Director Mike turn out, Executive Decision keeps us hooked torn apart his family and led him to Las Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May have from one climax to the next with surprising Vegas, where he resolves to drink him elf to ** tarmaker A disappointing new film from the maker struck the appropriate comic and social chordS efficiency. -Yaron Koren. Sony Cheri .. death. Shue falls in love with him for his lack of Cinema Paradi 0, tells the story of a con- for this film to be a witty, beguiling, and rele- of pretense, and both embark on a journey of man travelling through icily selling dream vant film. -Scott C. Deskin. Sony Cheri. love and self-revelation. Director Mike Figgi *** Fargo of international movie stardom. Two thing Joel and Ethan Coen revisit familiar terri- completely redeem himself for the pathetic . make thi movie watchable - the magnifi- tory, both personal and professional, in this Mr. Jones; here, he paints the character" with **1/2 Broken Arrow cent location photography and the way people John Travolta and Christian Slater play tale of crime in the heartland. Set in the win- warm, natural emotion and uses the garish reveal them elve before the con-man's cam- Vic Deakins and Riley Hale, two Air Force try Minnesota landscape from which the two backdrop of the Vegas Strip (where even the era. When they can't remember the words pilots who fly a Stealth bomber on a predawn brothers escaped a few years ago, this story of golden arches of McDonald' are adorned . from Gone With th Wind that he wants them over the Utah desert. Travolta is the older, a kidnapping plot gone bad retreads the suc- with a multitude of f1a hing light ). The run to spout, they fill in with the content of their wiser mercenary who steals the two nuclear cess of the Coen's first movie, Blood Simple. soundtrack of soulful contemporary ong by own p yche - fears, de ires, and the re 1. warheads from the bomber's cargo bay; Slater This revisiting is underlined by the casting of Sting, Don Henley, and other performers i But the central story was much better told in is the young, idealistic whipper-snapper who Frances McDormand, Blood Simple's femme hypnotic and artfully u ed. It' definitely Fellini' La trada. - S. Kenda// quare. enlists a spunky park ranger (Samantha Math- fatale, but in a very different role - a preg- worthwhile and uplifting for tho e who can is) to foil the plan. The action sequences nant police chief with more brains, determina- take it. -SCD. Sony Copley. shouldn't disappoint fans of director John tion, and grit, not to mention moral sense, **1/1. hite B 1I00n Woo - they're all executed with humor and than anyone else in the movie. -S8. Sony ***1/2 en e nd en ibility A gently-told little gem of a tory of a lit- finesse, with people leaping across the screen Nickelodeon. Director Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet) tle Tehran girl who want to get a pecial in slow-motion with both barrels blazing. But and screenwriter-actre s Emma Thompson goldfish for her families aw-Ruz, or ew the story is trite and predictable in comic- *** If Luc Fell pre ent one of the newe t Jane Au ten adap- Year' celebration. Razieh' tory is filmed in book fashion (it's basically a rewrite by Gra- If Lucy Fell doesn't begin like your typical tations this year. De pite the imilarities to real time; we experience with her the count- ham Yost of his own script for Speed), and the love story. Lucy (Sarah Jessica Parker) starts SSC television's Pride and Prejudice, the down to the ew Year as he struggle fir t to pivotal fight scenes feel staged and choreo- off reminding her college friend, Joe, of the film is a treat to watch. Thomp on play li- convince her mother to let her buy the fi h, graphed. But you don't get to see an explod- death pact they made while in college. If they nor, the older, more en ible si ter of the then ets out on the adventurou journey to ing nuclear warhead (below-ground) every- haven't found their true loves by the age of 30 family, while Kate Win let plays Marianne, fulfill her mi ion. Thi imple story enable day, and more often than not the special (which is one month away for Lucy) they are her younger, more pas ionate ister. When its director, Jafar Panahi, to capture a large effects team delivers the goods. -SeD. Sony to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge together. 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* Years of experience serving major Hospitals & Universities * KodIIk By Brett A chul Institutes of Health, the government IH. too few hum n tudie. The panel ed re earch, that will become clear- STAFF REPORTER gency re ponsibl for the majority " u h of the intelligence of the recommended that a nongovernment er." La t week, a government- of public sector 10 research. It research community lies outside of cientist be appointed to over ee the The panel was made up of 114 appointed panel released its adviso- said the IH need d more input and IH, 0 bringing out ide people vaccine program. leading cienti ts, drug company ry report on the state of the nation's involvement from non-governmen- clo er to the decision-m king representative , and people from 1.4 billion AIDS research pro- tal scientist . proces will strengthen that r rch eed organization AIDS action and community gram. The panel, which included The panel orked with the full process," Baltimore said. "There 'AIDS research has not been group . Professor of Biology David Balti- support of IH Director illi m are many enior and junior scien- coordin ted over the units that make more '61, called for significant Paul, Baltimore aid. "The director tist whose programs could con- up the H," B ltimore sid. "That changes in the way the program i of the office of AIDS re earch s tribute to the AIDS effort but who ha led to unnecessary duplication. run. well the director of the H have have not been encour ged to get That is one of the organizational 'The AIDS program has gone committed themselves to careful involved." issues," he said. ' Another is that the well but not perfectly," Baltimore review of the recommendations," he The report also called for definition of AIDS-related work ha said. ' It is in need of a serious mid- said. change in the IH's programs for been different acro the In titutes." course correction and that is what "Their commitment is real and developing new drugs and vaccines. The report called on the IH to the panel recommends." public and I would expect that a It recommended a reduction in the establi h a more universal definition A pioneer in virology, Baltimore majority of the changes will be budget for re earch into new AIDS of AID . It aid differing definitions received the obel Prize in physiol- implemented," Baltimore said. drugs, becau e pharmaceutical caused orne AIDS funding to go to ogy or medicine in 1975 for his dis- companies could do the same research projects only marginally covery of retroviTU es, the group of Out ide invol ement n ded research. related to AIDS, although Baltimore viruses that includes HIV, which The report said the IH needed It said that the drug discovery admitted that the severity of this cause AIDS. more involvement from scientist program hadn't produced any problem is unclear. The report said the AIDS outside the government. It called for important and novel new drugs "How much money i going to research program had accompli hed the IH to double the amount it since AZT, which has been used to work that should not really be con- impres ive things, but there is still gives in grants to outside scientists. treat AIDS for about 15 years. sidered AIDS-related ,is uncertain," room for improvement. Such grants currently make up 20 The vaccine development pro- Baltimore said. "Once there is a The panel criticized the ational percent of AIDS expenditures t the gram received criticism for having consistent definition of AIDS-relat- e Graduate Council By Eva oy politics of multiculturalism." '96 agreed. "MIT hasn't always CONTRiBUTING EDITOR The alliance includes members been and need not be an apathetic, The first week of April will mark of several campus groups including detached environment, where too MIT's first multicultural awareness Lucha, Mujere Latinas, Gays, Les- many people function unaware of To Elect Officers week, with speakers and activities bians, Bisexuals, Transgenders, and their world around them." organized by an alliance of student Friends at M IT, Hunger Action "We keep hearing of reverse dis- By Ramy A. Amaout groups. Group, Amnesty International, crimination and special rights, and EDITOR IN CHIEF Entitled 'Stand Up, Stand Out, Alliance for a Secular and Democ- the alleged tyranny of political cor- On April 2, the Graduate Student Council will elect a new presi- Speak Out: Week of Multicultural ratic South Asia, The Thistle, Share rectne s," Sen said." ot only is this dent, vice president, and other officers. The deadline for candidacy is Solidarity," activities will include A Vital Earth, MIT Student Pug- untrue, but blatant discrimination Monday. discu sions on hunger and human wash, and the Committee for Social and inequality are still widespread. As of yesterday evening, two students had been nominated for rights, violence against women, Justice. They never went away; in fact they president and three for vice president; the positions of treasurer and environmental racism, and the dis- Some groups were hesitant about are growing." . secretary are uncontested. play of a collage in Lobby.7. The joining the alliance, Shihadeh said. "I Sometimes efforts like the multi- Important issues facing the graduate student body range from the activttie will conclude with a rally think that our lack of feeling safe cultural alliance are seen as angry, re-engineering of student services and tuition costs to parking and on the steps of the Student Center. enough to raise our voices with oth- Sen said. "Though anger is often housing, said presidential candidate Andrew 1. Rhomberg G. "We dedicate the week ... to cel- ers who are fighting oppression here stereotyped as being destructive, we In addressing these concerns, it will be important to get thorough ebrating our di verse histories, underscores the need to dismantle the see anger directed against injustice representation of the student body and to bring the issues to students' protesting the myriad injustices cultural domination we experience as with the goal of overcoming it to be attention, Rhomberg said. His goal is to make sure people don't over- against us, drawing in piration from third world peoples in the first world. a profoundly constructive sentiment. look the issues that affect them, he said. _ our pa t truggle against these Why is it afe for some people to We intend this to be the first step to Rhomberg cited his experience as a GSC representative and a injustices, and articulating our peak out but not others?" he said. building something more long term." dean search committee member and his involvement in graduate stu- visions for a just future," aid Basav Coordinator Prashant Sinha G dent activities as reasons for his interest in being president. The Sen, one of the coordinators. IT not afe from di crimination wanted to get involved as part of search committee is looking for a new associate dean of residence The alliance "is not a group per "On the pretext of a technical learning about the history of such and campus activities. se," said Alan L. hihadeh, one of education, social issues are almost injustices. "We are fighting the Maria Ehsan G, the other candidate for president, could not be the event's organizers, but "groups completely ignored, so MIT gradu- pride and greed and prejudice that reached for comment. Both Rhomberg and Ehsan have also been that have come together to promote ates do not place their technical edu- creates such legislation," he said. nominated for vice president. cation within a social and political "Hopefully by educating those The other vice-presidential candidate, Constantine A. Morfopou- context," Sen said. around us, we fight apathy and pro- los G, plans to build on the current officers' work to ensure graduate Coordinator Shamim M. Islam duce socially responsible citizens." student involvement in decisions that affect them. He cited graduates' 'lwo~~mpSUp! " involvement in the dean search as an example. Morfopoulos is currently a departmental representative and has helped organize GSC events in the past. "I have a feeling for how things work," he said.

Candidates for secretary, treasurer unchallenged ma a "I have always believed that outside activities should playa role in stu- dent life, and I have been a part of a variety of student groups in my five years at MIT," said Eva Moy G, who is the sole candidate for secretary. "I think the GSC does many good things in looking out for stu- dents, from lobbying the recent parking fee increases to actively par- ticipating in the selection of a new RCA dean to organizing winter a ye • skiing trips," Moy said. Lawrence D~ Barrett G, the candidate for treasurer, stressed the importance of student/faculty interaction for improving the graduate stu- dent experience. If elected, he would work at "getting the grad students out of the lab. I'd hope to be in a position to allocate funding for" events that would put graduate students more in touch with each other, he said The fuB graduate council is composed of these four officers, together with representatives from each degree-granting program and graduate student living group. Any student may run for office. Unlike the undergraduate elections process, only students on the council can vote for GSC officers. 1\ student must have 20 students in his or her department or living group sign a petition to become a vot- ing council member, Rhomberg said. he & will come acro with great foo . ~AdmittedStudents If you're throwing a party for up to 200 people, it doe n't 1996 1995 change ound or ta te any better than our party combo. The newly Completed applications 8023 7955 68 refurbi hed Ryle ha a tate of the art ound y tern and Applications admitte~ 1894 2102 -208 a great dance floor. And the S& ju t won the award for b t Percent admitted 24 26 -2 caterer from the Cambridg Chronicle. So call today. Because if you're going to party hearty, a Male 1071 1158 -87 Female little omething like Ramp hire t. houldn't come between 823 944 -121 you and a nice meal too. Under-represented minorities 350 302 48

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It works. Merchant '99, the club's co-presi- club and Libertarian club. dent. Other plans includ tarting dia- This space donated by The Tech Areej Hassan '99, the other co- logue and debate bet een group -- president, agreed. "We have found and individuals that tend to dif- - , that mo t MIT tudents are pretty ferent stands on i sue ," Ho ard apa~hetic when it comes to politics," said. I she said. Some of' our sp cific plan In an effort to increase political include tarting a oter r gi tration awareness, the club plans to invite project," Has an said. While mo t I Democratic speakers to MIT, said student are of voting age, many Andrew W. Howard '98, treasurer have not yet registered to vot , he and director of party affairs. said. "The first thing thOatwe noticed The College Democrats are I 0 during the activities midway, after working to organize an un-campus we passed by the Republican Club debate this fall between en. 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I Monday - Thur day, 11:30 a.m. 010:00 p.m. Friday - arurda, 11:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. I unday, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. I Gather to Speak at S~ osi~_- .J By Venkatesh Satlsh the magazine Internet World. He friendly for the visually impaired. ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR spoke about the task of creating Because many web sites make text a A diverse group of experts gath- content for Internet publications. graphical element in advertisements ered at MIT last Saturday to discuss Companies that have attempted and toolbars, for example, they can a number of media-related issues at ° to publish things specifically on the not be read using the screen-reading a symposium on the role of informa- Internet are failing financially, Welz oftware often the blind often use to tion technology in society. said. "Advertising revenues don't access the Internet, he said. The symposium, entitled "Infor- begin to approach the costs" Another panel, which included mation Technology for Society," involved in producing a publication, Media Lab student Alan D. Wexel- was held in the Bechtel Lecture Hall he said. blat G, Virtually Wired Educational (1-390) before an audience of most- "Big companies are discovering Foundation President Coralee Whit- ly of MIT students. that they can't even compete with comb, and Director of Bo ton Uni- The keynote speaker was Walter some lone individuals who have versity's Institute for Democratic R. Bender, associate director for insight into what people want," Communication Phyllis Zagano, information technology in the Welz said. discussed the censorship of different Media Lab. He opened the discus- The most successful World- media. sion with a talk about changes in the Wide Web sites, in terms of the This year's Telecommunications focus of developers in,the field. number of accesses, or "hits," Act, which prohibits "indecency" on "In the 80s, engineers spent time include search engines like those of the Internet, treats the Internet as a on the infrastructure, how to get Infoseek, Yahoo, and Netscape, broadcast medium like televi ion, information from one place to instead of pub Ii hers, Welz said. instead of a publication, like a mag- another," Bender said. "A lot of azine, Zagano said. effort was on [data] compression." Panels discuss access, censorship "The cyber-community concept But that has changed, Bender A panel including Hiawatha doesn't work," Zagano said, in ref- said. The emphasis today is on Bray, a technology reporter from erence to judicial rulings that have adding information, so that the The Boston Globe, and Larry Gold- barred indecent material from being data is "made relevant to the com- berg, from WGBH Public Televi- broadca t to the public. munity and individuals. It has to sion, detailed some problems in be engaging." making the Internet accessible to "Censorship is a dead issue," The event was organized by a everyone. Wexelblat said, insisting that the group of students from MIT and "The problem is that people who emphasis of current tools to block Harvard University, including aren't affluent don't want to get on out undesirable material should Mayukh V. Sukhatrne '97 and Tere- the Internet" because they were change. sa Huang '97. never exposed to it, Bray said. "People should be able to set up "I think it's a unique forum that But "young people who don't their software to avoid [such] mate- gets people from different back- have access to it are in trouble," rials," Wexelblat said, describing a grounds with similar areas of inter- Bray said, pointing out that Massa- system where users could choose est to interact," Sukhatrne said. chusetts is in the lowest quartile from a variety of standards that rate among states for the number of material that is broadcast or pub- Internet publiclttions are failing computers in school classrooms. lished. "If we produce a good rating An introductory speech was also Goldberg also stressed the need system, people will subscribe to it," given by Gary Welz, a journalist for for making the Internet more user- he added. Former ortheastem Student Is Found G · ty By Dan McGuire defense attorney, William Homan, ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR argued that the claims were pranks. Former [Northeastern News, March 6J Northeastern Short University stu- Harvard tuition up to 29K dent Stephen Harvard University administra- Womack was tors announced March 13 that it Takes convicted of would raise its tuition next year to receiving stolen 28,896, up 4.8 percent from the property and maliciously destroying current tuition of 27,575. "Increas- books from ortheastern and Har- es are limited to tho e necessary for vard libraries early this month. He sustaining the quality of our acade- faces a maximum of 30 years in mic programs and operating the prison from the charges. facilities that house them," aid Uni- Womack was acquitted of versity Dean for the Faculty Jeremy attempting to extort the school. R. Knowle. Womack admitted sending four let- ters threatening to bomb the univer- Officials said the ri e in tuition sity unless it fired all Jewish faculty was due mainly to the increasing members and paid him money. He demands for funds by the libraries also said he would kill and mutilate and the Harvard informational tech- four ortheastem librarians if his nology systems. demands were not met. Womack's [Harvard Crimsofl March 14J Dean for RCA u an D. Allen left would put candidates in a difficult The Tech. of the A ociation of tudent to become Dean of tudent t Ro - po ition," he said. Undergraduate A ociation ctivitie . Too much effort i Three candidate for the po t of bury Community College earlier The forum were ucces ful in Trea urer Rus ell . Light '98 required to get anything done, he a si tant dean for re idence and this year. allowing students to have more agreed with Chavez' entiment. said. campus activities were introduced The a si tant dean function a input in this decision, Jablon ki "While 0 percent of the adminis- Graduate tudent Council Pre i- eparately at three student forums an overseer for issue related to stu- said. tration would like to help you, the dent Bonnie outer G replied that in this week [see story, page 1]. dent activitie , from organization of The forums were attended on ystem is ju t so entangled and fact "you can get things done here, All three candidate are quali- events to management of activitie ' average by about 20 students and complicated that they can't. [It's] but you need to know how to work fied; "the real decision i the fit finances. everal administrators. not because of a lack of trying," with the administration." between the per on and MIT and the "To have about 20 student lead- Light said. "One of most important func- people they will be working with," C endor e forum ers how up is extraordinary," "I think that this perception tion [of this office] is to teach stu- said Associate Dean for RCA ar- The tudent "forums are a good Jablonski said. The forums were comes from the fact that IT is dents how to be leaders, and work in garet A. Jablon ki. opportunity [for students] to ask attended by representatives of stu- very large, and it can be confusing teams" she aid. The deci ion proce s includes whatever they want to of a candi- dent government and various stu- to deal with such an entangled struc- . getting feedback from the tudents date, and gives the candidate the dent clubs. ture." This is why students often O'Dair asked the students what at the forums, as well as from opportunity to get an under tanding Those students or group that feel they "get the run around" Jere- they were expecting from this posi- administrators that the candidates of what the real issues are for stu- would be working directly with the my D. Sher '99 said. tion. The consensus was that stu- have met with. dent " Jablon ki said. assistant dean were present or had Other students centralized the dent just want an administrator An offer should be made by the While logistically it may have their opinions represented, Jablonski problem to the student govern- who will be on their side. end of next week. The po ition been ea ier for student to attend a aid. ments. "If I am the UA and I want "We are going through lots of hould be filled by May I, Jablon ki single forum where the candidates Chavez questioned the student to get something done, I can't just changes here at MIT, and we aid. debated each other, it is "not stan- at the forum regarding a sense of vote it in. All the UA can do is would like to see someone who is The position was vacated earlier dard practice to have several candi- animosity between tudents and the allocate money and elect itself," willing to take a lot of risks," said thi year when former Assistant dates compete for a job. .. [a debate] administration, citing editorials in said Doug K. Wyatt '96, president Light. • Candi ates Would Advise Students RCA, from Page 1 she would like to meet with the student organizations by sitting in, Maguire would try to bring the government meetings, campus heads of various organizations publications and student focus together to facilitate collaboration. groups. She described herself as being Maguire received her Masters in Counseling Psychology from Vil- • lanova University where she was "I'm sensing that the active with student organizations. She continued to serve four years in financial isme is the Villanova student activities probably the maior office. concern, and rw matter O'Dair says it's students' money O'Dair said she became interest- how it is resolved, ed in the RCA position because of rwt everyone will be all the changes going on at MIT and the opportunity to to be a part of happy, but I want to be such change. O'Dair said student finance is seen as a resource to the important. In her current position at • students. " Tufts, the student government directly supervises their own finances, she said. "It's the stu- Katherine G. O'Dair dents' money, so they should have control over it... my job is just to make sure that everyone is on "pretty much what you see is what track." you get." She also expressed hope O'Dair said that increasing fund- in improving the relationship ing for co-curricular activities was a SHARON YOUNG PONG between student activities and the major concern. Several ways to William Lee G of the Logarhythms sings solo from the song "In Your Eyes." administration. Maguire said that if selected RCA, Page 13

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The Faculty, from P g 1 Graduate tudent ouncil Pre i- I- W1fc:-..w't __ dent Barbara J. Souter G que tioned Th final r port of th k force the value of the rein urance idea. MARCH 15, 1961 th i u by propo ing 'Whether MIT paid [for a revoked model ROT program that i cholarship] or not, I would still feel . inclu i e and nondi criminatory, ' very di criminated against," she MIT Professors egotiate Prisone Gra e id. aid. Rele ewith OVle The program would h thre Profe or of Literature David M. Thirty-five years ago Pr id nt nnedy too main fe ture : ROTC program Halperin called the proposal "a thi week, the U.S. gov- offi in January, 1961. op n to all tud n , poli y of rein- compromise that is not truly work- ernment revealed that Aft r the incident, surance for cadet who 10 e their able." While he aid he did not wi h two MIT faculty mem- Wie ner and Ro tow cholar hip for re on of homo ex- to hold the faculty to the 1990 reso- bers - former Professor continued to work for ual onduct and an MIT committee lution on ROT which he helped of Electrical Engineer- int rn tional peac . Ro - re pon ible for advo ating change draft, 'MIT hould try to di tance ing Jerome B. Wiesner to became an advi er in th federal law, Gr v aid. it elf further from the U.. mili- and former Professor of to Pre ident Kennedy, hil the recommendation tary." Political Science Walt rving a deputy as i - were m de "in the hadow of' nti- "I can't accept the finding of the W. Rostow - had tant to the president for ROT ' legi lation," the t k force ta k force," Halperin aid. He calleo worked to free two national ecurity affairs. had' tri d be t we could to ignore the report' vague and impre i e in a American pilots captured and imprisoned by the Wiesner was Kennedy's cientific advi er and this legi lation" in it deliber tion , number of factual are ." He que - Soviet government. was in trumental in the creation of the Arm Control Grave aid. tioned whether MIT ould negotiate , We have not formally talked to Wiesner, who died two years ago, would later and Disarmament Agency. He al 0 i ted in orga- with the 000 without violating fed- become the 13th President ofMIT. nizing the Partial Te t Ban Treaty of 1963, an agree- anyone in the [Department of eral law whi h "make a mockery Rostow and Wiesner spoke with Soviet officials ment with the oviet Union th t banned atmo pheric Defen e]," Grave aid, although of MIT' nondiscrimination policy." the task fore did di cu th recom- while they were attending a meeting of the Pugwash nuclear weapon te ts. Profe or of Material cience mendation with the commander Conferences in Moscow in November 1960. They The Pugwa h Conference Ro tow and Wie - and ngin ring Thom W. Eagar on campu . Grave aid that, if the were acting as unofficial agents of the incoming ner had been attendi 19 were awarded the obel '72 offered a more po itive re pon e DoD rebuffed efforts at negotiation, Kennedy administration. Peace Prize la t year for their efforts to end to the comrvittee' recommenda- the i sue would be brought back to Arguing that the detention of the U.S. airmen was nuclear proliferation and toward the eventual elim- tion . "I don it mind compromise," a major obstacle to bettering East-West relations, ination of all nuclear weapon . At least six scien- the faculty in one year. aid agar .."1 would like to endor e "What we're a king for i an Wiesner and Rostow successfully convinced the tists currently affiliated with MIT are members of . [the task force' proposal] as ome- attempt, and not an endle commit- Soviets, who released the two pilots five days after Pugwash. thing that continue the dialogue." ment," said task force member Alan The faculty is expected to vote E. Pier on '96. on the committee's recommenda- Faculty re pon e mi d tions at their April meeting. Allow- Members of the faculty rai ed a ing one month for discu sion is cu - Open Forums IntroduceRCA number of objections to the ta k tomary for important matters, force proposal. Profes or of Politi- Pre ident Charle M. Vest said. cal Science and Philosophy Joshua Vest stated that it would be inap- Cohen questioned how the recom- propriate for him to participate in AsSociate Dean Candidates the di cussion about the ta k force mendations differed from the policy ReA, from Page 12 ship with the student body. "Trust cation, Student Personnel and Coun- adopted by other universities in recommendation , but said he has cannot be established overnight," seling from Northeastern University which ROTC i exempted from "been very proud of the MlT com- increase funding, including adding she said. in 1991. statements of nondiscrimination. munity while thi topic has been an activities fee or taking a fixed O'Dair also brought up up Shawdee Eshghi and Christo- The proposed program wou ld under di cu ion." percentage or lump sum out of several ideas that would be new to pher C. Falling contributed to the merely "violate [MIT's statement of "I have been impre ed at the tuition, were brought up. "I'm really the Institute. At Tufts O'Dair has reporting of this story. nondiscrimination] in the best way plane in which this discussion is not quite sure of the system here, lead large information sessions on that we know how," Cohen aid. taking place," Ve t said. .but a'gain, this is very important, various topics including leadership especially in light of re-engineer- and programming. ing," she said. O'Dair would like to see a simi- "I'm sensing that the financial lar program at MIT. She also favors issue is probably the major concern, meetings where student leaders and no matter how it IS resolved, not would meet to di cuss the goals of everyone will be happy, but I want their groups and share leadership S ill eci to be seen as a resource to the stu- ideas. dents," O'Dair said. O'Dair received a BA degree in O'Dair stressed the point that Communication from Miami Uni- she wanted to build a good relation- versity in 1988 and an MA in Edu- -r o 00 r ? Jo •

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By Jennifer os er fencer competing. ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR In men's sabre, Brian Bower '99 The men's and women's varsity one again competed well, missing fencing teams concluded their ea- the top ten by only one touch, and sons March 10 at the Division I fini hing in 11th place. Teammate CAA Regional Championship , Jo h Trauner '97 was close behind held at Wellesley College. Thirteen in 19th place. individuals qualified for this presti- gious tournament; the regionals erve omen' epee places well as part of the criteria for election to Once again the women's epee the _CAA ational Championship . squad dominated the competition. The fonnat differs from the reg- All four starter not only qualified, ular season's fonnat in that there is but placed among the top 24 out of no team competition and only indi- 41 fencers at the tournament. viduals can qualify to regional or Merideth Rising '98 fenced a national competition this year. The very strong tournament and finished tournament is run in pools of five or eighth, only eight touches away six people, all the way up to a final from the final pool of six. Kari pool of six people to detennine the Backes ' 96 was not far behind in winner. 12th place and fenced an outstand- JIRJ SCHINDLER-THE TECH Since the fencers who qualify for ing tournament, especially given that Goalie Robert P. Bennett '99 def nets he IT goal from the Assumption College forward. MIT higher rounds do so on the basis of she has only been competing in the on he game 8-5. their record for the previous round, sport for six months. Jennifer Mosier every touch counts to determine '96 also fenced well, ending in 14th placement if two competitors tie for place, only two touches away from wins. the round of 12, while Nicky Leifer In men's epee, Jonathan Bland- '98 finished in 22nd place. ford '97 had an outstanding perfor- Based on their season records mance, defeating some of the top and their perfonnances at regionals, fencers in the competition. He fin- three MIT -fencers - Rising in ished 13th, only four touches away women's epee, Nauman in men's from a spot in the final 10. David foil, and Bower in men's sabre - Lewinnek '97 also competed well, were in the running for nationals. ending in 21st place. Unfortunately, the special regional In women's foil, captain Wanda committee's final decision resulted Chin '97 finished 17th out of the 43 in none of the fencers qualifying to competitors. Amy Hwang '97 and ationals, despite their excellent Leejee Suh '97 also fenced well, perfonnances. Massac u etts L titute of Technology ending up in 30th and 38th place, Despite the disappointing results respectively. of the regional selection committee, Str tton Center/; a de erto Rico In men's foil, captain David the team is looking forward to an 84 as a se auman '97 fenced beautifuJly, even stronger finish next season, ending the day in eighth place. Jae with only two out of the 22 varsity Park '98 finished 20th out of the 26 members graduating.

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