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Today: Cloudy, howers, 42°F (5°C) T night: Showers, cold, 30°F (- 1°C) Tomorrow: loudy, 42°F (5°C) De . ,Page 2 Volume 116, Cambridg 02139 Friday, March 22, 1996 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 • Aprill tarts cultural awaren weekPage 10 Experts speak at infor- mation technology sym- JIR/ SCHINDLER-THE TECH posium. Page 11 MIT players warm to the defend goal during the match against umptlon College yesterday. IT won the game, 8-5. Page 2 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.