Commencement Today ~~~~~~~~~~~~Olde~~~s~t\ -f and? Lar~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ge~~~s~tHF IToday: Cool, breezy, 63°F (17°C) TM^J~i;L~ ^^^»S ,P~ l ~ytI?^t&Bg(B6 I Tonight: Clear, chilly, 45°F (7°C) ,atUll0!WU^1S^-r... -. _ _^^ _5 Details, Page 2 Volume 114, Number 27 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, May 27, 1994 ,,,,,- _r----------- s~r-iI_ . .· .. Administrators to Shift Jobs in June By Josh Hartmann She was recommended by the Cor- CONTRIBUTING EDITOR poration's executive committee last The vacuum left by last month's night. Her position would start June sudden death of Vice President 1, according to Lois Graham, asso- Constantine B. Simonides '57 will ciate secretary of the Corporation. be filled on June 1, when a reshuf- Current vice presidents Glenn P. fling of senior administration offi- Strehle '58 and James J. Culliton cials will take effect. will take on new responsibilities at President Charles M. Vest the vice presidential level after the announced last week the promotion realignment. Strehle, who currently of Director of Personnel Joan F. oversees resource development, will Rice to vice president for human become vice president for finance; resources and Director of Founda- he remains treasurer of the Institute. tion Relations and Development Culliton, now the vice president for Services Barbara G. Stowe to vice financial operations, will become president for resource development. vice president for administration. In addition, Executive Assistant to the President and Director of Leadership cited Public Relations Services Kathryn Rice joined MIT in 1972 and has A. Willmore is expected to be elect- been director of personnel since THTOMAS R. KARLO-THE TECH ed secretary and ex officio member Hackers placed this fake Campus Police car on top of the Great Dome in the early morning hours of the Corporation this morning. Administration, Page 9 of May 9th. L UROP Benefit Rates to Fall I 1,700 Students to By Ramy A. Arnaout UROP working group he formed to efit rate of 8 percent will not be a ASSOC-IATE NEWS EDITOR solve the funding crisis expected in cure-all for the UROP Office, Graduate Today Members of the faculty and staff the fall. "Phil estimates that the total McGavern said. "We knew it was are trying to ease the financial strain benefit charge will be about 8%," ii iikely io happen, bui we diuii't want II-y l -.. Lorna..It 1 ssa.Ra-- 1 If 31I POiD . A...-.·A it C n~, ADVISORYBOAtD '94 will then present the senior class on the Undergraduate Research said, rather than the current rate of to confuse people more than they then give the Opportunities Program by reducing 43.5 percent. were already confused," she said. About 1,700 students will gift to Vest, who will employee benefits rates on student Faculty and staff say the plan "We gave our money away as if we receive some 2,000 degrees at charge. funding, according to Provost Mark will likely succeed. While the rate knew we were getting more money. MIT's 128th Commencement exer- Commencement, Page 11 S. Wrighton. reduction is not yet official, it is Even a difference of 30 percent cises, to be held today in Killian Comptroller Phillip Keohan "official enough" for the provost to more than we thought we were Court. "plans to submit MIT's 1995 benefit have announced it in his report on going to have was not enough" to The Aga Khan, spiritual leader package with a 'UROP benefit cate- the status of UROP at the May 18 avoid a crisis, she said. New gov- of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, will gory' that would include only the faculty meeting, said UROP Direc- ernment regulations have prompted deliver the Commencement address INSIDE benefits that the students actually tor Norma McGavern. "It's not the UROP Office to call this sum- to the graduates and nearly 8,000 get: Social Security (when not regis- something that there's a lot of doubt mer the most difficult funding peri- relatives and guests expected to tered), Medicare, and workman's about," said McGavern, who is also od in its 25-year history. [See relat- attend the ceremony. President a Graduate dorms to compensation," according to a a member of the working group. Charles M. Vest will deliver the memoramdum to Wrighton front the Despite its likely success, a ben- UROP, Page 7 charge to the graduates, and Corpo- join MITnet Page 6 ration Chairman Paul E. Gray '54 will preside over the exercises. - - s - n C -----w -- · Y _-, -L -s1118- 3 Im R-OP short on sum- F _ Formal Commencement activi- ties begin at 9:45 a.m. with the tra- mer funds Page 7 ditional academic procession from 77 Massachusetts Ave. to Killian Court. The Aga Khan will deliver m BuildingW2 will join his address after an invocation by McCormick Page 9 the Rev. Scott Paradise, MIT's Episcopal chaplain. The Aga Khan's philanthropies have helped * Students win $10K for the poor in many countries where new business Page 10 the Ismailis live. Following the Aga Khan's speech, Caryl B. Brown G, outgoing XFormer UAP, UAVP president of the Graduate Student Council, will deliver a salute to MIT reflect on year Page8 from the graduate student body. Muriel Cooper MIT NEWS OFFICE Professor Muriel R. Cooper, a designer, educator and researcher whose work has been internationally acknowledged in exhibits and publications, died, apparently of a heart attack, yesterday morning. She collapsed Wednesday evening while attending a dinner in Boston and was taken to the New England Medical Center. Cooper, who lived in Brookline, was 68. Cooper, professor of interactive media design in the Program in the Media Arts and Sciences at the School of Architecture and Plan- ning, cofounded and directed MIT's Visible Language Workshop at the Media Laboratory. "She was a remarkable woman," said Professor Stephen A. Ben- ~~~-------'r,,4~f(fivH NV.r{uurl(.-r"uNet-iV nf-T tceH Cooper, Page 11 Students in the Music of Indonesia class this semester accompany guest J. Nyoman Catra as he dances the Barif Traditional Warrior Dance on May 8th in front of Kresge Auditorium. .i --- -- I -- ------ i- - __ Page 2 THE TECH May 27, 1994 .___WORLD & NATION.._. r.9I I I Further Documents Show Clisnon GratI Ch0ila xlIF Mrs. Clinton's Trading Was Legal LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON Reversing^^^ Campaigni4 ^w Pledge^5f The White House released additional records Thursday related to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's commodities trading activities, in By Ann Devroy Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., said that edged that the one sanction he was further efforts to show she did nothing illegal or unethical in making THE WASHINGTON POST the decision reflected a key role imposing - the ban on imports of her investments. WASHINGTON China can play in geopolitics, guns and ammunition from China The White House also issued a brief analysis by a commodities President Clinton Thursday specifically "maintaining stability involving about $200 million in expert who was asked by the Clintons to review her trading, in which reversed course on China and on the Korean peninsula and pre- sales - constituted little more than he found that she "violated no rules in the course of her transactions." renewed its trade privileges despite venting the proliferation of nuclear a "discrete" symbol of U.S. displea- Leo Meiamed, former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile what he said was Beijing's lack of weapons." sure. Most weapons are made by the Exchange, one of the nation's largest commodities exchanges, noted significant progress on human Clinton had been the subject of Peoples Liberation Army, agent of in a statement that new data from the Chicago exchange "largely con- rights. heavy lobbying by American busi- the 1989 crackdown that set off con- firms and also complements" records from Mrs. Clinton's brokerage Echoing the case made by ness interests and his economic gressional calls for revoking account released last month by the White House, he said. George Bush when he was presi- advisers to continue China's trade China's trade status. "These records are being released today in order to give as com- dent, Clinton said he was convinced privileges. With China now the The other measures he plete a picture as possible of Mrs. Clinton's trading," said Lisa the Chinese would take more steps world's fastest growing economy, announced include increased broad- Caputo, Mrs. Clinton's press secretary. to improve human rights if the issue the United States exports $8 billion casts for Radio-Free Asia and the Melamed said the records provide more detailed information were separated from the threat of a year there, which sustains up to Voice of America, increased sup- about Mrs. Clinton's first day of trading than was available from the trade sanctions. 150,000 American jobs. Many port for non-governmental organiza- earlier records. They show, he said, that Mrs. Clinton had risked her "This decision offers us the best major American businesses see even tions working on human rights in money in the transaction, demonstrating that it was a legitimate opportunity to lay the basis for long- greater potential in Chinese mar- China and the development with investment and not some form of favorable insider transaction term sustainable progress on human kets, expecting China to become a U.S. business leaders of a voluntary arranged by her broker. rights and for the advancement of massive purchaser over the next set of principles for business activi- I our other interests with China," he decade of the phones, electronic ty in China.