MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Clear, 71°F (22°C) Tonight: Clear, colder. 54°F (12°C) Newspaper ~-~ •• Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. 68°F (20°C) . -- • Details, Page 2 Volume 122, Number 42 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, Septemer 24, 2002 Elections Z-Center Opens Doors to Community Support For 2006 .. For MEng To Begin Students Thursday Reduced By Matthew Kwan By Lauren E. LeBon Because of the economic down- The Class of 2006 will elect their turn in recent years, many Masters representatives for the Undergradu- of Engineering, or MEng, students ate Association beginning this in Course VI (Electrical Engineer- Thursday. ing and Computer Science) have Online voting will open at mid- found themselves without any night on Thursday and will close at funding or stipends for their time midnight on Monday. Paper ballot- here. ing will be held on Tuesday, Oct. Course VI was one of the hard- 1st, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Lobby est hit departments in terms of 10. income when the stock market Election winners will be began to fall. announced on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at Students met with department noon. leaders to voice their concerns over the matter. However, the matter is Candidates note low interest still unresolved as the economic outlook remains unchanged. So far, candidates have been dis- JEANZHENG appointed with attendance at cam- Students, Faculty and Staff enjoy the opening of the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center yesterday. The Funds issue only arose recently paign events. new athletic center boasts 13,000 square feet of Health fitness space. "At the [study break] on the Ever since the MEng program's 19th, there was almost nobody By Veena Ramaswamy result we have seen so many stu- enthusiasm. initiation in 1993, MEng students there," said Tanzeer S. Khan '06, dents coming in." "It's a big improvement. I'm had few problems finding funding, candidate for 2006 President. The Albert and Barrie Zesiger "It's been really exciting," said glad that they actually did some- which included tuition, room and "More than anything, a lot of Sports & Fitness Center opened its Assistant Fitness Director of Oper- thing like this for the $40K we're board, and a stipend. people are just trying to get the free doors for the first time on Monday ations Chuck Rainey. "We have a spending a year," said Rafiq Z. A graduate student would usual- food," said candidate for 2006 Vice Sept. 23 to a "really 'good turnout," lot more people than we thought Dhanani '05. ly sign on with a professor to assist President Noelle J. Kanaga '06. said Assistant Department Head we'd get on the first day." Michelle C. Verticchio '02, an with research, and the professor in Some candidates cited low pub- for Facilities and Operations assistant field hockey coach at turn would grant the student fund- licity as a reason for the low Daniel J. Martin. MIT gladly accepts new center MIT, is also very pleased with the ing as a research assistant. Other- turnout. "It wasn't advertised very "We're very pleased with it - Students and MIT staff much," said candidate for 2006 being a day off," he said. "As a embraced Monday's opening with Zeslger, Page 15 MEng, Page IS Treasurer Christopher A. Suarez '06. "Most [freshmen] are busy. to Everyone is having their first round Over 100 Companies VISitInstitute for Career Fair of tests, so their focus is on acade- By Kathy Un tions, we tried our best to get a lot noon to 8 p.m. in Johnson Athletic afternoon each day. mics, not the election," Kanaga said. of companies to come to provide Center on Wednesday, Sept. 25. "About 160 companies will be the best Career Fair for the stu- The time frame of the fair is Fair appeals to small companies Campaigning to increase there" at tomorrow's Fall 2002 dents," said Career Fair planning different this year; in the past, it "This year's career fair is very This week, the candidates will Career 1:air, said Career Fair plan- committee member Jessie Q. Ding was two-day Career Fair, but the diverse. We offered smaller com- begin the last leg of their cam- ning committee member Michael '04. hours on each day were shorter, paigns. R.,Hall '03. The fair will take place from with the fair ending in the early Career Fair, Page 12 "It's going to become a lot more "It is certain that there are serious," Kanaga said. "The actual fewer companies hiring and that campaigning will really start to pick the companies that are hiring are up in the next day or two." hiring less ... but it's still a great Khan expects the UA to publi- time for MIT students because cize the election more heavily this companies want the best students, week. "The [study break on the] and they're at MIT," Hall said. "Despite the economic condi- Elections, Page 16 Arrow St. to Open in October, One Month Behind Schedule By Jenny Zhang "soft opening"t'n-hichinvolves com- plimentary ice cream and other Arrow St. Crepes, which occu- foods will take place. Only lunch pies the former space of Toscani- will be served. Later, Arrow St. will ni's Ice Cream in the Student Cen- move on to its full schedule of 17 ter, is slated to open between Oct. 2 hours a day, six days a week, with and 4, owner James Murray said. half-days on the seventh. The restaurant's opening, original- ly scheduled to be at the beginning Opening is later than expected of this term, has been delayed Several factors prevented the because of construction slow- store's opening this month. downs. Murray said he thought the JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH Arrow St. will serve crepes, cof- delay was due to the building's low Deborah Uverman, Assistant Director for the School of Engineering' with the OffIce of Career Services fee, and some flavors of Toscanini's and Preprofessional Advising, assists Davis Wamola G (left) and Ephraim Tekle G In the workshop How ice cream. For the first few days, a Arrow St., Page 19 to Work a Career Fair. The workshop will be repeated today In Twenty Chimneys from noon to 1 p.m. Aaron Carter Comics OPINION World & Nation 2 concert is as Gretchen Aleks argues the U.S. Opinion 4 exciting as government is not doing enough Events Calendar 7 Nickelodeon. to fight a global AIDS crisis. Arts 8 Daily Confusion 22 Page 9 Page 6 Page 5 Sports 24 Page 2 THE TECH- September 24, 2002 WORLD & NATION Congress Headed Toward Giving Marfues to Begin Desert War Bush What He Wants on Iraq LOS ANGELES TJ.\ff:S Congressional opposition to authorizing a potential military attack Training on Kuwaiti Shores on Iraq is crumbling, but leading lawmakers are making a last-ditch effort to narrow the focus of a White House-requested resolution that By Tony Perry years ago in the months leading up Several thousand heavily armed would grant the administration wide latitude in dealing with Baghdad. LOS ANGELES TIMES to Operation Desert Storm. At that Army troops also are moving into White House officials and congressional leaders are meeting to ABOARD USS MOU/I.'T VERNON time, not so long after the end of the Kuwait as part of regularly sched- discuss possible changes to temper the far-reaching powers the presi- A thousand combat Marines Cold War, far more of the Penta- uled exercises or troop replace- dent asked for in a draft resolution sent to Congress last week. were scheduled to go ashore in gon's resources were still deployed ments, while about 600 military Meanwhile, the administration turned up the heat on the interna- Kuwait on Tuesday for a long- in Europe. planners from the military's Central tional community on the eve of introducing a formal resolution at the planned desert warfare exercise that But for much of the past decade, Command, based in Tampa, Fla., United Nations to force Iraq to surrender its weapons of mass has taken on added significance the Pentagon has based more than are now training in Qatar. destruction. because of the standoff between the 20,000 American military personnel The Pentagon says the planners Bush, during a trip to New Jersey, warned the United Nations that United States and Iraq. within close striking distance of have deployed to the Persian Gulf to it risks being seen as "nothing but a debating society" if it does not The Marines, from the 11 th Iraq, along with heavy equipment test the command's ability to set up pass a tough resolution on disarming Iraq. Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp for at least four armored brigades a headquarters in a crisis. But senior Pendleton in California,. will train and Patriot anti-missile batteries to Pentagon officials say the planners with Kuwait army troops in the flat, protect them. could remain in Qatar to establish a Gore Challenges Bush sandy land near the border with Senior defense officials also say new forward headquarters in the - Iraq. The outskirts of Baghdad are that earlier this month, elite Special region based at Al Udeid Air Base On Iraq Policy only about 300 miles away. Operations troops began -training outside Doha, the capital of Qatar. ,\IEWSDAr The decision to move forward alongside CIA units that could be The Air Force is also taking Former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore Monday with the exercise is the Pentagon's used in covert counterterrorism steps to prepare for a war, augment- issued a broad and blistering critique of George W.