Freshman Registration TodayToday MIT’s The Weather Today: Clear skies, 83ºF (28ºC) Oldest and Largest Tonight: Mild, 66ºF (19ºC) Tomorrow: Warm, 83ºF (28ºC) NewspaperThursday Details, Page 2 VolumeVolume 125, Number 34 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Thursday,Thursday, September 1, 2005 Greenblatt Selected As Interim Exec. VP By Marie Y. Thibault who help STAFF REPORTER m e m b e r s Sherwin Greenblatt ’62 has been of the MIT named MIT’s interim executive vice community president for fi nance and administra- interested tion, taking over for departing Exec- in starting utive Vice President John R. Curry. their own President Susan Hockfi eld, who businesses. appointed Greenblatt last week, said On the in an e-mail that he “brings a wealth third day of experience in running a complex of his new operation, and, importantly, one in job, Green- MIT NEWS OFFICE which innovation is a core value.” blatt said Sherwin Greenblatt ’62 Greenblatt, currently director of it was a bit MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service, soon to talk about plans or changes he was also president of Bose Corpora- might implement. tion for 15 years. He obtained both Greenblatt said that when he bachelor’s and master’s degrees at learned he was being offered the MIT before becoming the fi rst em- position, he was “totally shocked.” ployee hired by Professor Emeritus After the news settled in, however, DAN BERSAK—THE TECH The MIT Police presented the colors at Fenway Park Tuesday night. They were the fi rst group as- Amar G. Bose ’51 at his company . he said that he realized it would be sociated with an educational institution ever to present the colors at Fenway. The Venture Mentoring Service a way for him to make “a really neat is a group of volunteers with ex- perience with start-up companies Greenblatt, Page 10 Charles Street Cashier’s Offi ce Moves A Tastyt Education in Boston Dining son Stree Bent Street r e k ul By KathyF Lin nese food, the best is not surpris- tea. CONTRIBUTINGRoge EDITOR rs Stree ingly in Chinatown. Try out Taiwan To NE49N57 from Infi nite Kathy Lin t ’05 shares some of her Cafe, which is frequented by many Thai Food t State Street favorite localBinn destinations in a fi ve- MIT students. The food is authen- Smile Thai Cafe e illage S y Stree V Windsor Street t By HanhanSidney Street Wang part series this week. Part 4 of 5. tic and cheap; I’ve spent $12 for a 16-18 Eliot Street 2nd Floor Pacific Street STAFF REPORTER NW86 Mass. I love food, so I naturally love res- fi lling meal for two, tip included. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-497-8288 B r Landsdowne Street oad A v e Smart Street New . wa The Cashier’s Offi ce closedCross Street its taurant-hunting in any Grab your nearest http://www.smilethaicafe.com/ y offi ce in the Infi nite today and will location new city I go to. As Kathy Lin ’05 shares some Chinese speaker The Boston area has surprising- re-open tomorrow in its new location you start your search of her favorite local desti- before you go, ly many Thai restaurants, most of in NE49-3077, accordingAlbany Street to a press for your new favorite though, as their which are quite tasty and classy. My release from the Controller’s Ac- restaurants, give these nations in a fi ve-part series English is not favorite is Smile Thai Cafe in Har- Main Street t counting Offi ce. Vassar Stree a try: this week. Part 4 of 5. so good. (And if vard Square, where the wait staff is W79 Dock Street A communityt lounge will replace Charlotte you look vaguely exceptionally friendly. I always try Third Street Vassar Stree ’s W W89 the spot left behind along the Infi nite. Chineseay Food Asian, expect to be spoken to in dishes named after the restaurant, A committee of students, designers, Taiwan Cafet Chinese.) and the Smile Noodles lived up to W92 Carleton Street and Student Life Programs adminis- 34 OxfordHayward Street Street After your meal, head one block all my hopes. Also try the Fried Ice adsworth Stree W Amherst Street Audrey Street Amherst Street trators areAmherst Alley working to design the new Boston, MA 02111 west on Beach Street and up the stairs Cream and the Thai Iced Coffee. lounge. AlthoughFowler Street designs are not yet Although Royal East and Mary at the corner to the juice bar, which Danforth Street fi nal, the new loungeEndicott Street Memorialpromises Drive to Chung’s offer temptingly close Chi- makes fresh smoothie-like bubble Dining, Page 10 provide an open community space, Canizares said, and the new lounge said Claude R. Canizares, chair of should open byCharles the Riv erend of fall term the Committee for Review of Space or January next year. Planning. “This is a central part of campus, The future of the infamous super- and here’s a place to stop and sit” or sized dollar bill painted around the use a laptop computer to do work, he old Cashier’s Offi ce entrance has not said. yet been determined, Canizares said. Assistant to the Controller Paul The committee originally planned J. Arsenault said the Cashier’s Offi ce to replace the giant dollar with a move was delayed by two days so glass wall, but architectural diffi cul- workers could fi nish installing secu- ties may hinder these plans. “If the rity at the new offi ce, located on the dollar bill is removed, there will be corner of Main Street and Portland efforts to memorialize it,” Canizares Avenue, right next to the MIT Fed- said. eral Credit Union. Before the end of September, “We are trying to work with de- demolition will begin on the space, partments to make it an easy transi- tion,” Arsenault said. Last year’s senior class donated BCS Project $1,131 amount to the Class of 2005 Lounge Fund, and an additional On Schedule $1,710 was matched by Gregory Construction on the Brain Moore ’73, the Fibonacci Challenger and Cognitive Sciences Proj- for the fi rst year of the challenge, said ect is on schedule, and fac- Rich Jacobson, associate director ulty members will move into in Class Giving Programs. He said the new building in Septem- that an additional $10,877 has been ber, said Senior Project De- pledged over the next fi ve years. ASHLEY FINAN—THE TECH velopment Manager Arne The Cashier’s Offi ce offers servic- Random Hall residents Valerie A. Yorgan ’08, Tucker A. Jones ’07, and Jeffrey S. Walden ’08 make Abramson MCP ’82. The es including accepting cash and check liquid nitrogen ice cream for the 2005 Orientation East Party Sunday night. project remains on budget, deposits and redeeming petty cash. he said. The building, near the Stata Center along Vas- sar Street, rises over the rail- World & Nation. 2 road track and will become Comics ARTS the home of the Department Opinion . 4 of Brain and Cognitive Sci- W. Victoria Lee reviews Campus Life . 5 ences, the Picower Center for an exhibition of works Learning and Memory, and by Degas at Harvard. Arts . 8 the McGovern Institute for Gaggle . 10 Brain Research. Page 6 Page 8 —Marie Y. Thibault Sports . 12 Page 2 THE TECH September 1, 2005 WORLD & NATION FDA Approves Drug Meant 1,000 Iraqis Die in Stampede To Help Short Children Grow By Lawrence M. Fisher THE NEW YORK TIMES SAN FRANCISCO Over Rumors of Suicide Bomb The Food and Drug Administration gave approval Wednesday to In- crelex, the fi rst new drug in 30 years for the treatment of abnormally short By Robert F. Worth The pilgrims were among a throng whelmed, their fl oors lined with dead stature in children. THE NEW YORK TIMES of hundreds of thousands of mostly bodies, including many women and It is the fi rst drug approved for Tercica, a biotechnology company BAGHDAD, IRAQ poor Shiites from northern Baghdad children, some drenched in river wa- based in Brisbane, Calif., whose stock rose 21.2 percent on the news, More than 950 people were killed and the surrounding area who had ter. Relatives of the victims streamed closing at $11.31. and hundreds injured Wednesday converged on the shrine bearing col- in and out, some of them pulling up In clinical studies submitted to the FDA, Increlex prompted growth in morning when rumors of a suicide ored banners and symbolic coffi ns to the sheets on dozens of bodies until children who did not respond to injections of growth hormone, the stan- bomber provoked a frenzied stam- mark the anniversary of the death of they recognized one, and then burst- dard treatment. An estimated 6,000 children in the United States have the pede in a procession of Shiite pil- Imam Musa al-Kazim, one of Shiite ing into wails of grief. specifi c condition for which the FDA approved the drug, although some grims as they crossed a bridge in Islam’s holiest fi gures. There were reports in Baghdad’s doctors expect Increlex to be more broadly prescribed to children with northern Baghdad, government and “We were all chanting slogans hospitals that some pilgrims had less severe growth abnormalities. hospital offi cials said. about Imam Musa, and then people died in a mass poisoning. But Health The drug’s price has not yet been set, but it is expected to be similar to Most of the dead were crushed or started shouting about a suicide Ministry offi cials said they could not that for growth hormone, which is roughly $20,000 per year.