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oily Confusion, Back Page The eather Today: Partly sunny, 85°F (29°C) Tonight: Partly cloudy, 65°F () 8°C) Tomorrow: Partly unny, 80°F (27°C) Details, Page 2 Sunday, August 30, 1998 Killian Housing Changes Begin Prompted by Thrmoil By Brett Altschul By Frank Dabek NEWS EDITOR NEWS EDITOR A much-modified Killian Kick- A fre hmen make their rounds touring MIT' off campus living Off started the official proce s of option this week, they are walking in the twilight of an 125 year tra- ru h ye terday. dition. A eries of event and deci ion in Despite periodic misting and ?Jsl). ~ the past year has had major repercus ions patches of mud, the weather Anal '::1:. ~ for the In titute's hou ing ystem. remained reasonable, so that the Pre ident harles M. Ve t ealed the fate event didn't need to move indoor , of fre hmen ru h when he announced to the MIT community and the as it did last year. world that all freshmen would live in dormitories beginning in the The biggest change in the Kick- fall of 2001. Vest cited the still unrelea ed report of the Task Force Off this year was the more relaxed on Student Life and Learning, which recommended moving fre hmen atmosphere, and the less-restrictive to campus, when making his announcement. regulations. Living groups were One cannot igrtore, however, the influence that a string of alcohol allowed to advertise as soon as they incidents on and off campus beginning with the death of cott S. arrived but were forbidden from Krueger '01 must have had on Vest. carrying off freshmen once rush officially began, as had been com- Potter report predates deci ion mon in previous years. The idea of placing fre hmen in In titute housing i older than the The change was designed to tragedy of last year, however. In 19 9, the report of the Freshmen make the whole event more friend- Housing Committee, known commonly as the Potter Report after it ly, said Katherine E. Hardacre '99, chairman,~Profe or Mary C. Potter, recommended that freshmen live chair of the Interfraternity Council in on-campu housing for their fre hmen year and be given the option Judicial Committee. to move off-campus during their sophomore year. The committee Freshmen and upperclassmen hoped to encourage diver ity among students and an identification were supposed to mix gradually, with the Institute. It expressed concerns that the housing system was Hardacre said. The mixing could go unprepared for the increasing number of women in entering classes. on before the official beginning of In an interview with The Tech during at the end of his first year as rush, she added. president, Vest said of the housing system and the Potter report, "I However, until the ceremonial don't think it's clear that a system that served this institution very opening of rush, upperclassmen well in a day and age when the student body was almost entirely male were not allowed to pass out materi- and extremely homogeneous in its makeup will nece sarily be the als to freshmen or to try to recruit best sy tern for 10 years or 20 years from now." them, Hardacre said. The Potter report was never even brought before the faculty for a DAVID TARIN-THE TECH Since people were no longer for- vote, however. It sweeping changes were unpopular with large por- A brother of Tau Epsilon Phi dances before a bemused audience yes- bidden from' displaying their frater- tions of the student body and with alumni faculty. terday during Killian Kick-off. nity letters, they couldn't be prohib- ited from answering freshmen's that dormitories were allowed to same kind of extensive preparation Chorover provokes debate questions about their hous-e 'even participate in Killian Kick-Off, with for the Kick-Off as the other living The tragedy of last year provided a completely different environ- before rush officially'began, she dormitory rush beginning at the groups. However, the Ea t Campu said. same time as fraternity rush. Housing, Page 9 This year marked the first time Few dormitories displayed the Klck-off, Page 9 • Hoyt C. Hottel 8M '24 Professor of Chern ical group that developed incendiaries. Engineering Hoyt C. Hottel SM '24 He also led the Armed Forces passed away August 18 at his home Special Weapons Project Panel on in Winchester, MA. He was 95 Thermal Radiation. years old. In recognition of his work, he Hottel came to M IT in 1922 was honored with the Medal ef from the University of Indiana. Merit and Great Britain's Kings After getting his masters in chern i- Medal for Service to the Cause of cal engineering in 1924, he stayed at Freedom. MIT, working as an Institute fellow Hottel was named profes or in fuel and gas and as director, of the emeritus In 1968, but he continued School of Chemical Engineering to teach and work, He lectured over- Practice. seas at the Univer ity of ewcastle He joined the faculty as a profes- in ew South Wales, an'd 1n South sor in 1928 and became a full pro- Africa. fessor in 1941. He was named the Hottel also got involved in poli- first Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of tics. In 1984, at the height of the Chemical Engineering in 1965. Cold War, he volunteered, along Professor Hottel helped found with 55 scientists from 13 countries, the Fuels Research Laboratory and to go to the Soviet Union in directed it from 1929 to 1968. He exchange for the release of dissident also chaired th'e M IT Research Yelena Bonner, who was fighting to Committee on Solar Energy from get permission to go oversees for 1938 to 1964. medical treatment. It was feared that THOMAS E. MURPHY-THE TECH Hottel played an active role in if she went overseas she would not Jim Matthews speaks- to students yesterday In Kresge Auditorium about the dangers of alcohol research during World War ll, serv- return to the Soviet Union. on campus in "Beer, Booze, and Books ••• a guide to college drinking," an interactive presentation ing as the chair of the ational featuring video clips of MIT st ..~ents. Defense Research Committee's Hottel, Page 9 Phish phans Comics OPI ION enjoy the New England offers a varied World & Nation 2 band's annu- landscape and has a rich history Opinion 4 al concert in to enjoy. Arts : 6 Maine. TechCalendar 9 Page'6 Page 8 Page 5 August 30, 1998 ......~III''''''''r. Says THE WASH! Gro POST LO DO e ere to Stay hen the new from Pari reach d here early on a unday morn- ing one year ago, a tid I wave of shock and grief engulfed Britain. By Richard C. Paddock vote on whether to confirm the high as nine to the dollar, compared Then, fairly quickly, the adne over the death of Prince Diana LOS A GELES TIMES prime mini ter. to 12 to the dollar at orne locations MO cow e olved into anger - anger at Prince Charle , the cheating ex-hu - ow, Duma leader want the Friday. band, and anger at Queen Elizabeth, the eemingly cold and di ap- Acting Ru ian Prime Mini ter power to confirm or reject all But prices remained high, espe- proving mother-in-I w. Viktor . Chernomyrdin ought to Cabinet mini ter before they will cially for imported good , as some Thi weekend, a Briton troop to church ervice and memorial a ure hi people and the We t on agree to Yelt in' choice of hoppers stocked up on food that marche marking the fir t anniver ary of the fateful auto accident on aturday that Ru ia will not revert Chernomyrdin. They al 0 want can be stored ea ily - just in case ug. 31, 1997, the national orrow per it. What ha harply to oviet- tyle tate control to re - Yelt in' guarantee that the crisis wor ens. changed, though, i th public attitude toward the royal family. cue it beleaguered economy from Chernomyrdin will have a free hand In his televi ed remarks, The anger ha been tran formed into wide pread approv I. year it current cri i . in electing hi Cabinet and that the Chernomyrdin attempted to reassure after Diana' death, Queen Elizabeth, Prince h rle , and the monar- With a ummit meeting between president will not di mi the gov- bank depositor that they will not chy it elf are enjoying the tronge t popular upport that they have Pre ident Clinton and Bori ernment for at lea t a year. lose their savings, despite the seen in year . ... Yelt in cheduled to begin here The Communi t ' goal i to eizure of one major b k and a Opinion survey taken ju t after the inten ely emotional funeral Tue day, Chernomyrdin said that obtain eats in the Cabinet for at drop of at least 40 percent last week ervice for Diana la t eptember howed that only 42 percent of the Ru ia's main goal continues to be least a handful of their member and in the value of the ruble. country approved of Prince Charles' conduct; only 40 percent the e tabli hment of a market econ- win a greater say in government "The main thing is to make sure thought he would make a "good king." ew poll publi hed thi omy and a democratic ociety. policies. people don't suffer," Chernomyrdin week give the 49-year-old heir apparent an approval rating of 63 per- "We have already entered the egotiations over the power- said.