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MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Light snow or rain, 38°F (30C) Tonight: Clear, cold, 24°F (-40C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, 38°F (4°C) Details, Page 2 NUDlber 11 Cambridge, The day, March 11, 199 Corporation Passes 5% Tuition mcrease Student self-help levels remain constant By Z3reena Hussain is the steady decrease in federal ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR funding, Williams said. The Executive Committee of the "I continually worry about the MIT Corporation approved a 5 per- cost of education, but I am pleased cent tuition hike for the] 997-98 that we have kept the growth of the academic year, President Vest student budget (tuition, room and announced at Friday's Corporation board) to within about one and a meeting. half percent of the [Consumer Price This amounts to an increase of Index] for the last three years," Vest $1,100 to a tuition level of $23,] 00. said. Including a projected increase in the The Consumer Price Index is a cost of room and board by 3.1 per- standard benchmark used to calcu- cent, the total cost for an MIT edu- late inflation. cation during the coming year will "The cost of education increases be about $29,650. and does so faster than the While the costs of tuition and Consumer Price Index. MIT's edu- room and board increased, the stu- cationa] programs are both labor dent self-help level will remain the and capital intensive, and tuition is same at $8,600. Self-help includes a major source of unrestricted ~he base amount expected of stu- dents to contribute toward financing Tuition, Page II their education before receiving scholarship assistance, and it includes MIT term-time work, loans, and savings. UATaIks Expenses justified by high costs "MIT's tuition is slightly larger About +/- than many of our peer private insti- .. THOMAS R. KARLa-THE TECH tutions. Around 80 percent or more Neal Padre of the Boston University Jazz Ensemble performs in the MIT Big Band Bash on of what we do is directed at educa- Saturday evening in Kresge Auditorium. tion in engineering and science, Grading which are expensive in terms of excellent faculty, staff, and infra- structure," said President Charles System Cloning Research Stirs Discussion M':Vest. "The education .we provide is By Douglas E. Heimburger By Ramy A. Arnaout naturally into a baby sheep" geneti-' most of the genes embryo cells use expensive, intrinsically," said Dean ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR SENIOR EDITOR cally identical to the ,first ewe. for growing an entire organism. for Undergraduate Education At last night's Undergraduate It has been 17 days since scien- Of course, what has generated all Before now, scientists thought Rosalind H. Williams. Association Council meeting, stu- tists in' Scotland announced they had the excitement - and not a little that that off switch was permanent. "Faculty and staff deserve merit dents voiced opinion on the inter- succeeded discomfort - is that sheep and Dolly seems to prove them wrong. increases in salary and wages, and mediate grading system, finalized humans are not all that different "The only explanation is that it's infrastructure and services need to funding allocations to student Feature ~n c~~~~~~ from.a biological standpoint, a fact reversible," said Professor of be maintained and improved. It is groups, and approved nominations and the ini- that raises questions about whether Biology Rudolf Jaenisch, a develop- 'important to understand that tuition to various faculty committees. tial storm of publicity surrounding cloning might soon be tried in mental biologist who studies how revenues pay less than half of the Professor of Aeronautics and the event has begun to die down. humans. this on/off switching works. actual co'St of an MIT education," Astronautics Paul A. Lagace PhD But the waves made by Dolly, Cloning itself is nothing new. "I think the cloning of an entire Vest said. '78, who chairs the Committee on the first animal to be cloned from Scientists have been cloning sheep mammal has shown me exactly how "We estimate the actual cost of Plus/Minus Grading, spoke to the adult genetic material, will not soon and cattle from embryos' genetic . fast biology is moving ahead," saId an undergraduate's education is council about possible courses of subside. Bi910gists and social scien- material since the mid-1980s. The Sarah B. Tegen '97, a biology major about $44,550," said Director of action the group may take. tists here and elsewhere will likely significance ofWilmut's experiment and president of the Biology Student Financial Aid Stanley G. As the internal intermediate be discussing !his discovery for a is that Dolly's genetic material Un~ergraduate Students Association. Hudson. grading experiment reaches its mid- long time to come. came from an adult cell, not an Another reason for the increase point, the committee is investigating The experiment itself, by now, is embryo, and adult cells switch off Cloning, Page 15 the potential effects of a permanent old news. A team headed by Ian change, Lagace said. The group is Wilmut, an embryologist at the "really at the point now where we're Roslin Institute animal research cen- going to focus on getting input" ter in Edinburgh, transplanted the from students and faculty, he said. genetic material of a cell from an Plus and minus grading was adult ewe's mammary gland into an implemented on an internal basis egg cell from another ewe after only for a three-year period that removing the egg's own genetic started in the fall of] 995; the exper- material. iment ends in June] 998. The team let the egg divide and At that point, the faculty will grow in a test tube and then decide whether to implement plus implanted the young embryo into and minus grading on a permanent yet a third ewe, where it developed basis, Lagace said. "Sometime in the spring of next year we hope to have a policy ready" for the Committe on Academic Per-for- mance, which will recommend 'iny . proposals to the faculty for adop- tion, he added . • Institute plans to Changes in grading investigated renovate Building 2 The Committee on Plus/Minus classrooms. Page 7 Grading is currently in the process of looking at information provided • Student discovers bug by the Registrar's Office concerning the use of intermediate grades and m browser. Page 9 their p'otentia] effects on cumulative averages, Lagace said. • Police Log Page.9 Between 70 and 80 percent of Institute courses currently use the Page 14 intermed'iate grades, Lagace said. "One of the motivations of the GABOR CSANYI-THE TECH experiment was the ability [of inter- CAAFinal Four The group Shalhevet dance In the 21st Israel Folkdance Festival held on Sunday. aftern~ in mediate grades] to give better bracket Page 13 Krece Auditorium. , UA, Page 2] Page 2 Tn cn March 11, 1997 Wi drawal LOS A GELES TIMES LOS A GELES a~ .........g C•·, Arafat Says Saying that she had done "more damage" to the banking system "than most bank robbers," a federal judge Monday sentenced M. By Marjorie Iller full Palestinian control, while only 2 that left at least 75 dead and 1,000 Elizabeth Broderick to 16 year in prison for running a bogus check LOS ANGELES TIMES percent would switch from Israeli wounded. scam inspired by the Montana "Freemen" that defrauded victims JERUSALEM occupation to partial or full "Arafat realizes violence would from large financial institution to poor followers. Israel's plan for a limited West Pale tinian control. hurt him a lot, but he.is worried that "You dropped an atomic bomb on the banking sy tem with this .Bank troop withdrawal has pro- The Palestinian had expected a it could break out whether he wants bogus cheme," said U.S. District Court Judge Dickran M. Tevrizian. voked "a real crisis" in the peace 30 percent withdrawal and angrily it to or not," said a U.S. official who "You're not a patriot," he said, rejecting Broderick' claim that process, Palestinian Authority rejected the first of three redeploy- follows the peace negotiations. she was resisting a tyrannical federal government in issuing home- President Yasser Arafat charged ments that are to take place by the Several Palestinian leaders and made checks at seminars throughout Southern California between Monday, as the Israeli government end of next year under the Israeli- political observers said Arafat had October 1995 and April 1996. threatened to put the redeployment Pale tinian peace accords. been embarrassed by the recent "You defrauded thousands of people ... people who were de per- on hold and its soldiers clashed with "There is a real crisis because events and appeared backed into a ate." Palestinian demonstrators near there is a clear breaching of what comer. They said he went to the Broderick, a 53-year-old former teacher, defended herself, saying Hebron. had been agreed upon," Arafat t~ld United States last week seeking-help "1 was here to give damages to the American people. You can lock Israeli officials said the pullback reporters in the Gaza Strip. He from the Clinton adIt!inistration but me up but you can't lock up my knowledge." could not take place while the called the Israeli move "a trick and instead got a U.S. veto of a U.N. A federal court jury convicted Broderick in October of 26 counts Palestinians rejected the govern- a conspiracy against the peace Security Council resolution con- including conspiracy, fraud and money laundering for organizing and ment's proposed military withdraw- process." . demning Israel's proposed construc- leading a scam in which Broderick's customers paid up to $200 to al from 9 percent of the West Bank Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak tion in East Jerusalem.