MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Sunny, windy, 59°F (l5°C) Tonight: Cool, cloudy, 43°F (6°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Rainy, 52°F (11°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 119, Number 52 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, October 22, 1999 MIT Presents Donn I Why They Plans to Cambridge Were Cut By Laura McGrath Moulton ry "to bring about a stronger sense More Female Spom, STAFF REPOR7ER of community," he said. "In order to The new undergraduate dormito- do that, we should really house all Flat Budget Are Cause ry received a warm reception from of our freshmen on camp~s, which I the Cambridge Planning Board at its we haven't had the dormitory space I By Dana Levine meeting on Tuesday. The meeting to do. Over time, we've been I STAFF REPORTER was the first opportunity for MIT to becoming more and more of a resi- I The recent controversial cuts of present its latest'plans for the dormi- dential campus, and this is the next sub-varsity sports teams and reduc- tory to the board and for the board step in doing that." I tions in the sizes of existing varsity to solicit feedback from the I ~~~~~~~~~ tea m s Cambridge community. MIT says dorm has local benefits Chancellor Lawrence S. Bacow In addition to aiding the MIT I Analysis ~ere ~~~ , 72 led the presentation, which community, the new dormitory is I addition sought to portray the project as a designed to benefit Cambridge as of two new female varsity sports and positive addition to Cambridge as well, according to both Bacow and a flat budget, administrators say. well as to MIT. Director of Planning 0, Robert Dean for Undergraduate Bacow emphasized that the 350- Simha. Bacow cited the planned Education Rosalind H. Williams bed facility is not part of a plan to "pocket park" and the overall design attributes a large part of the recent increase the size of MIT's student body. MIT is planning the dormito- , Dorm Plans, Page 17 Sports Funding, Page 17 Trumbull Behind Local Development By Frank Dabek lonely position as a conservative a 24 hour city." He hopes to use ED/TOR/NCJ//EF among a field of progressive Cambridge's influence on the _Most of the candidates in this democrats. MBTA's governing board to city council election only reinforce The 40-year-old endorsee of the extend the T's hours to 24 hours a the old nickname "People's Republican party calls himself a day if possible. If logistical prob- =======~ Republic of "libertarian'type republican" and lems prevent 24-hour service, Election. Cambridge," emphasizes the elimination of so- Trumbull proposes a system of late JAMES CAMP-THE TECH - but David call.ed "nuisance regulations," night buses. CJ,ancelior Lawrence S. Bacow '7~ (foreground) and' Director of 'fl9 . Trumbull's increased public transportation, and . The libertarian -aspect of Planning O. Robert Simha discuss ,the proposed undergraduate dor- UI ant i - r e n t property owners' rights. Trumbull's p'hltform is most appar- mitory during Tuesday's Cambridge Planning Board meeting. -------- control and Trumbull 'called the MBTA's ent in his desire to eliminate several pro-development stances give him a closing time "outrageous ... This is "crazy rules we have in Cambridge" which he considers "nuisances." .Trumbull cftes a Cambrjdge regula- BU To ~11ildNew Undergraduate DQrm for FaJl.of 2000 tion requiring a $500 a year poetry By EfrenGutlerrez - , a high student demand for on-cam- selection dUring the summer . .it is the re~erse condition." ;-" , - - permit and a milk license. STAFF REPORTER p~ housin-g. Risirig costs "in Boston '- Kevin If. Carleton ,(iom-Bo~ton ,. ""W~' ;-dmit more students that The regulations are.a "nuisance MIT is not the only local institu- and a low rate'of vacancy have University's Office of Public we can house, h~cause some stu- and drag on business" he said. For tion preparing to build a new under- forced upperclassmen to request on- Relations said, "Demand for on- dents change their minds over the example, newspapers in Cambridge graduate dormitory in the next few campus housing. campus residency has risen over the summer about atte~ding Boston are required to pay a fee for their years. In fall 2000, Boston Unlike MIT's current residence past decade due to the rebirth of the University. If there are still excess distribution boxes,. he said. University will be opening the assignment policy (and similar ~o real-estate market in Boston. Back students, 'then they will be housed at biggest dorm'it has built in the last the.policy outlined in the Residence in the 1980' s, there was a high a floward Johnson's," Carleton said. Tr~mbull opposes rent control 30 years on Commonwealth Avenue. System Steering Committee report), vacancy rate, so many students BU's current housing policy, Trumbull is strongly opposed to Boston University's residence decided to live off campus. Today, Demand drives construction assignment policy requires that all BU Dorm, Page 19 Trumbull, Page 22 The II:1ainfactor driving Boston freshmen to live on-campus fresh- University to build this new dorm is man and to choose their housing ,lAP 2000 Sports MIT Design :Contest, Lecture Demo Series By Naveen Sunkavally "Any student can individually NEWS ED/TOR sponsor an activity by going to the . This year's Independ~nt Activities lAP website at <http://web.mit.- Period (Jan. 4 - Jan. 28) .will feature a -~edu/iap>" and following directions, design contest, a lecture demonstra- Friedman said. tion series, and an Institute ball, while On the other hand, ASA-recog- continuing-to use the new web-baseq nized student groups sponsoring system introduced last year for regis- activities must designate one to two :r."l'tering activities .. ' lAP Program Coordinators who are ~ authorized through Friedman to post ~ Registering activities lhat group's listings. Further infor- While there is no strict guideline mation about who may post, the for registering an lAP activity, stu- posting procedures, and the appro- dents wishing to register an activity priateness of activities can be found to appear in the print guide must do at the lAP website. so by October 27, said lAP Program Administrator Donna Friedman. New events for lAP 2000 Those, students or student groups for Among the new commu'n.ity- whom the print guide is not a con- wide events being planned for lAP CHRIS MCEN/RY-TIIE TECH 2000 is a design contest on all sideration may post their activities Tod Machover and Maggie Orth .'93 demonstrate The Big Thing, a massive, chlld-orlented music aspects ofMIT in the ye'ar 2030. at any time, and the website will be construction kit, at the Media Lab's day long SENS*-BLES conference In Kresge on Wednesday. updated accordingly through the end Some aspects include the physi- SENS*BLES extends the Lab's prior Wearables symposium, and provides a glimpse Into future of ofIAP. cal structure of the campus, the ~~~ . "The print guide will appear Dece,!llber 1," Friedman said. lAP, Page 20 MIT's Akamai Comics Arts Editors Vlad and Rebecca World & Nation 2 Technologies discuss the movie Fight Club, Opinion 4 is on the starring Edward Norton and Arts 6 verge of going , Brad Pitt. On The Town 12 public. Sports 28 Page 16 Page 13 Page 6 Page 2 THE ~'ECH October 22, 1999 WORLD & NATION Banking Bill to Get Private Hearing THE lI'ASHINGTOS POST Russian Shells Hit Grozny, WASHINGTON With the fate of a landmark banking bill hanging in the balance; Republican leaders decided Thursday to effectively discontinue pub- Killing lic negotiations between the House and Senate and instead engage in Scores of Civilians secret talks to resolve issues with the White House over community investment laws. By Daniel WIlliams ror," said Alkha Tosuyev, a televi- dence. Russian aircraft also heavily House Banking Chairman James Leach (R-Iowa) sent a memo at THE WASHINGTON POST sion cameraman with the Reuters bombed Grozny and the damage is noon telling lawmakers conducting the negotiations that their meeting MOSCOW news service who said he personally. still visible Thursday - almost noth- at 2 p.m. Wednesday "will be the last meeting of the conference" and Rockets slammed into the capital counted more than 60 bodies at the ing in the city has been repaired. that "there will be no vote on the final" version of the bill, according of Chechnya Thursday, hitting the market, and .as many as 200 injured. In recent days, Russian troops to a copy of the memo. city's bustling main market and a - A Chechen official told the and their armor have been advanc- Leach chairs the conference committee of House and Senate maternity hospital and killing scores Associated Press that at least 118 . ing on Grozny. The Russians con- members trying to reconcile different versions of bank legislation of civilians, reports from the break- people were killed and up to 400 trol heights within 15 miles~ of the passed by the two chambers earlier this year. The legislation would away republic said, as the Russian others injured. city, making it an easy target. - overhaul banking law from the 1930s and 1950s to make it easier for mi Iitary appeared to step up its Prime Minister Vladimir Putin During the offensive, artillery banks, insurers and securities firms to merge with each other and sell assault on the city. launched the ground offensive in and jet bombers have consistently their products under one company name. Chechen officials said the rock- late September in response to a attacked urban and rural population Lawmakers on the conference committee convened at 2 p.m.