Welcome Prospective Freshman MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Sunny, then cloudy, 63°F (17°C) Tonight: Cloudy, mild, 48°F (9°C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Some showers, 62°F (17°C) Details, Page 2 Volurnel20,Nurnber18 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 7, 2000 C W Rules Dropped UAHalfJJ Following Protests Race For Prefrosh No Longer Restricted to Campus By Matthew Palmer "This was an errant judgement," President ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones Prospective students descended said of the admissions office's con- Council Elections 'lb on MIT yesterday for Campus Pre- tract, which stated that prefrosh can view Weekend amidst controversy only leave campus to visit an Continue as Planned over new rules requiring wrist- FSILG. bands for prefrosh and their signed "I eliminated the contract" agreement to stay on Institute Thursday morning, Jones said. Stu- grounds. dents coming later in the morning In response to discrepancies in the After meeting with residence were not asked to sign the agree- election process, the Undergraduate . leaders, Dean of Admissions Mar- ment, and there will be no written Association Judicial Board has indefi- ilee Jones announced prefrosh contract next year. nitely sus- would in fact be allowed to leave . The admissi ons office also dis- pended the campus and are not required to wear tributed purple wristbands, which' UA Presiden- their purple wristbands all day. prefrosh were told to wear in order tial and Vice Other college campuses are still off- to gain admission.to the many activ- Presidential limits. ities planned for the, four-day CPW. elections. The eleventh-hour changes Associate Director of Admis- JudBoard marked a drastic departure from the sions Zaragoza A. Guerra denied Jim Zavadoskl directs prospective freshman Maria Wang to 20 Chim- announced neys to wait for her host. Wang, who is from New York, arrived yester- CPW rules as they were issued on I. the suspension and the cessation of Wednesday. CPW, Page 19 day along with hundreds of potential members of the Class of 2004. campaigning for the suspended elec- tions in a statement released Friday morning. Students will vote again on Ro6erts Elected asDormcon President for 2000 a new ballot which will include aJJ L four candidates. By Frank Oabek best resource students have to Institute policy on pets which may be President, will focus his efforts on However, according to the state- EDITOR IN CHIEF improve their lives." finalized before the end of the term. "shaping the future of donn rush." ment, class council and Finance the Dormitory Council has . He promised to continue the Roberts will also be involved in He also noted recent improve- Board elections will proceed as elected Baker House resident Jef- . improvements current President "creating more student-designed ments to Dormcon' s stature: planned. frey C. Roberts '02 as its new presi- - Jennifer A. Frank '00 has made to and student-led resources" in the "We've started a lot of good things This decision to suspend the presi- dent by a wide margin over Bongo Dormcon, one of MIT's five student dormitory system, such as the pro- ... I want to carry them to fruition." dential election ovenules the election the gerbil, a resident of Bexley governments which represents the posed "FireLinks" who would over- At the same meeting, Brandy L. commission's prior removal of the . House. Matthew S. Cain '02, a resi- dormitory system. "Dormcon 'is on see fire safety inspections. He also Evans '01 was re-elected secretary Christopher D. Smith '01 and Patrick dent of Random Hall, will be Dorm- an upswing. I want to keep that, plans on continuing to work closely and Scott E. Purnell-Saunders '02 Kane '03 ticket from the UA ballot as con's next vice-president. going," Roberts said. with the Interfraternity Council and treasurer. Andrew T. Singleton '02 a result of the team's excessive cam- Roberts, who .serves as a mem- Roberts said his efforts will focus other student governments. will serve as the next Dormcon judi- paign poster violations. ber of-the Founders' Group and. the on the continuing redesign of the res- "Dorm con is looking to the cial committee chairman. The social "There are good people on both Strategic Advisory Committee', idence system including dorm rush future," Roberts said. called the dormitory system "the and continuing negotiations on the Cain, who will serve as Vice DormCon, Page 19 Elections, Page 2 I Graduate Student Council Holds Presidential Elections By James Camp by a question-and-answer period PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR with the candidates answering as a In contrast to this year's UA panel. Questions occasionally elections, the Graduate Student touched on prior leadership experi- Council elections concluded ence, but candidates focused main- smoothly as Soulaymane Kachani lyon graduate student issues and G won the presidential race, with the various roles of the GSC. the office of Vice President going Kachani said his main goal to Ryan J. Kershner G. would be to improve communica- The remaining races were tions with the administration, grad- uncontested: Krishnan Sriram G uate departments, and the students was elected Secretary, and J. Alan the GSC represents. "The GSC Groff G won the position of Trea- needs to be the brain of the admin- surer. istration," he said. Kachani, who would otherwise To better communicate with have run uncontested, resigned his students, Kachani intends to nomination before the elections to improve the GSC's publication, give others a fair chance to run. the Graduate Student News, and to Kachani was then renominated at work more closely with MIT's stu- the meeting and ran against dent press. He also hopes to con- Christopher S. Protz G and J. Alan tinue last year's successful Orien- MING-TAJ HUH-THE TECH GroffG. tation week in order to help LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD INTERNS - Class of 2003 presidential candidate Sina Kevin Nazemi '03 graduate students get acquainted recruited Bill Clinton lookallke Jeffery Monk '03 to help attract student voters. Elections included debate with the GSC and help them get a The GSC elections featured a speech by each candidate followed GSC, Page 29 Habitat for Comics SPORTS World & Nation. , , 2 Humanity Women's tennis earns victories fundraiser hits over both Wesleyan and Vassar. Opinion, 4 snag in admin- Arts , 9 istration. On The Town , , .. , 11 Sports. , , .. ,., 32 Page 16 Page 12 Page 30 Page 2 THE TEe April 7, 2000 o · SaceS ·0 akis ani Premier Opens For Business LOS ANGELES TIMES MOSCOW e ce to Life· Prison Hoping to give the Mir space station new life as a commercial venture, two cosmonauts entered the rundown station Thursday and By Kamran Khan urged the court to impose the death discuss a nationwide plan for peace- prepared to make it habitable again eight months after the last crew SPECIAL TO THE WASHl GTON POST penalty. ful protest rallies and marches. shut it down. KARACHI, PAKlSTAN Reading the verdict to a packed Besides the two concurrent sen- Foreign investors, working with the Russian government, want to Former Pakistani prime minister courtroom, Judge Rehmat Hussain tences, Sharif's property was confis- use the Soviet-era station for a variety of money-making ventures, awaz Sharif was spared the death Jafri said he had not sentenced cated and he was ordered to pay such as scientific experiments, advertising from space, Internet cam- penalty and sentenced to life in Sharif to death because "the lesser $18,500 in fines and $37,000 to era hookups and perhaps even a space hotel for wealthy adventurers. prison Thursday after being found punishment in this case would meet compensate the flight's passengers For the first time, private companies will be able to arrange to use guilty of hijacking and terrorism the justice." He added: "This is a and crew. an orbiting platform in space without having to get government charges stemming from his futile simple case of attempt to hijack." There is a growing perception in approval - as long as they have enough cash. attempt to prevent a military coup As the verdict was read, Sharif s the legal community here that "Mir has in fact become a private business," said Sergei K. Gro- that ousted him from power last three daughters, who had been Jafri's decision would help the for- mov, chief engineer of state-run Energia, which built Mir. "Today, October. praying in the courtroom, wept and mer prime minister's case. Mir is open to any commercial offers that may come along." An antiterrorism court cleared shouted. Sharif, 51: showed no sign "Today's judgment showed that Sharif of attempted murder and kid- of emotion and softly asked his the state wouldn't have a very napping charges in connection with daughters to calm down. strong case to defend in the appel- National Cancer Insti te eaches his efforts to prevent a commercial "This is a cooked-up judgment," late courts," said Abdul Hafiz aircraft carrying Gen. Pervez Sharif's daughter Marium Safdar Pirzada, a prominent lawyer and Out to Racial Minorities Musharraf from landing in Pakistan quoted her father as saying. "It was former federal law minister. LOS ANGELES TIMES on Oct. 12. Six co-defendants, more of a personal vendetta than a "Through this verdict the judge has WASHINGTO including Sharif's brother, were trial." already expressed dissatisfaction The National Cancer Institute on Thursday announced $60 million acquitted on all counts. Military authorities ordered state over the evidence produced against in new grants to large research institutions to help link them with The sentence was seen by some prosecutors to appeal the judge's other co-defendants and the con- community programs to better prevent, treat and study cancer among as a setback for Musharraf, who decision not to sentence Sharif to spiracy theory that the prosecution racial minorities.