MIT's The eather Oldest and Largest Today: Mostly cloudy, 69°F (21°C) Tonight: Mo tly cloudy, 53°F (l20C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, 67°F (19°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 121, umber 56 02139 Friday, ovember 2, 2001 ALook CACTo AtDining Announce Systems Plans For Mandatory Plans Nothing New at MIT Lounge By Maral Shamloo By Jennifer Krishnan STAFF REPORTER NEWSEDlTOR The Campus Activities Com- As students discuss recent dining plex, its student advisory board, and proposals, they may wonder how the the MIT Real Estate Office will Institute could seriously consider issue a plan next week for the Tran- making campus dining mandatory. sitions space on the first floor of the But for residents of some dormito- Stratton tudent Center. The plan ries, the MIT meal plan was manda- comes after a year of attempts to tory until less than 10 years ago. find a permanent use for the space. The newly expanded Campus CAC Director Phillip J. Walsh Dining Board, which has been said that the main objective of the instructed to come up with a viable BRiAN D. HEMOND-THE TECH new plan will be to formalize the dining plan, is not the first group to Amado G. Dehoyos '04 carves a Iack-o-tantem on the Student Center steps Wednesday afternoon. temporary ad-hoc style of the receive that charge. The event was sponsored by the Junior Interfraternity Council, who donated proceeds from pump- lounge to create a space for the ben- Interim Chair of the Campus kin sales to the American Red Cross. efit of students, probably trying to Dining Board Kirk D. Kolenbrander earn some financial returns by said that MIT has been revising its incorporating retail kiosks. dining system for years. Walsh said that no actions have "The status quo is really quite CAC Installs New MIT Card Locks been taken in the past year to beauti- broken," he said, adding that he fy the space because serious invest- doesn't know anyone who doesn't By Harold Fox Association of Student Activities delayed in part because the first ven- ment can come only with a perma- think the current dining system has STAFF REPORTER petitioned the CAC to offer combi- dor chosen by MIT did not have nent plan. "I do not consider a great deal of room for improve- After numerous delays, student nation locks and card readers card readers that could be cus- spending money on a temporary plan ment. group offices on the fourth floor of instead. tomized to work with the MIT card. a good stewardship of the Institute's the Student Center are finally being Card readers are more secure CAe did not discover the problem budget - to which students are Dining mandatory until 1993 made more secure by the installa- because, unlike keys, the cards can- until after trying to install them on major contributors - considering In 1993, residents of the four tion of new card locks. not be easily copied. In addition, if a the fourth floor. that furnishi g a room that large is dormitories with residential dining New locks were initially key is lost or stolen, the lock and all Once this problem was resolved not inexpensive at all," he said. halls - Baker House, Macgregor promised by the Campus Activities keys must be changed to ensure with the selection of Ingersoll-Rand "I like the lounge as it is. It is a House, McCormick Hall, and Next Complex more than a year ago, after future security. With ill cards, the Locknetics card locks, the first unit very convenient place to come to eat House - were required to purchase several student groups suffered lost or stolen card can simply be was installed at the Alpha Phi or to have meetings," said Vimal M. a meal plan of at least $530 per break-ins. A safe was stolen from removed from the system. Omega office. Bhalodia '04. "I don't think differ- semester. Aramark was operating the Technique office. The CAC "The first time they put it on was ent furniture would make that much originally planned to replace the old First locks had glitches of a difference." Dining, Page 17 key locks with new ones, but the The promise of new locks was Card Locks, Page 12 orne students believe, however, that the plain appearance of the room does not encourage use. "I have used the lounge once. It Slow Finger Hurts MIT looks very dull and plain to me. I like the idea of having a lounge on the first floor but I also think better Student on 'Millionaire' furniture might encourage me to use it more," said igel A. Drego G. By Eun J. Lee stuff on national television and to One option that may appear in the ASSOCiATE NEWS EDITOR counter the stupidity of all those plan is to set up kiosks that house Have you ever watched those people before me that I had so su tainable and self contained busi- million dollar television game loathed in the comfort of my living nes es that would generate revenue. shows and thought "how do they room. Although my mind was will- pick the ing, my finger were low and weak. To canini' may become a kio k idiot to In particular, negotiations are in Reporter's be on Cutting class not all bad to move Toscanini's to a kiosk. t his I am still not sure how I even got Although Walsh declined to give Notebook show?" I to be on the show. The progression details on these negotiations until was once of events till puzzles me because it they are finalized, he noted that ten- a member of the television viewing happened in a whirlwind that ants need and objectives are being public that went aghast at the stu- panned about two weeks from start considered and MIT has a very pos- pidity of contestants on game to finish. On the morning of Friday, itive opinion towards Toscanini's shows. That is, until I became one October 12, I heard on the radio that presence as they are one of the of those idiots. there were auditions in Boston for most succe ful retailers on campus. Thi past weekend, I was one of the game show Who Wants to be a Gus Rancatore Toscanini's man- the ten finalists on the ABC television Millionaire. I entertained the ager, was not available for comment. show Who Wants to be a Millionaire. thought of going to the auditions in Walsh aid that prospective uses I wa one of the ten people intro- the back of my mind a I rushed to for these kio ks might include retail duced at the beginning of the show, cla s, but I didn't think that I would of women's health and beauty prod- who must race to win the fastest fin- seriously go. ucts, international press and maga- ger question (putting four things in I have to admit, though that I zines, or food. order) to get into the "hot seat." You found orne perverse ati faction in are probably wondering how I did. formulating hypothetical conver a- Changes part of larger plan WAN YUSOF WAN MORSHlDi-THE TECH I'm sorry, but officially I am not tion I might have with Regi . For These changes all fall under a R2D2 makes another appearance as a hack, this time in uppo ed to reveal the results of my example, the other day I was watch- more general plan to convert the Lobby 10. show. All I have to say i that I had the chance of a lifetime to how my Millionaire, Page 13 Transitions, Page 16 Learn how to vote in Cambridge Comics OPINIO elections. Dan Tortorice discus es the World & ation 2 economics and politic of Cipro. Opinion 4 Arts 6 On the Town 8 Page 13 Page 9 Page 5 Event Calendar .19 Page 2 WORLD & NATION Hop fnl Intelligence Agencies Warn Re eding THE WASHlNGTO, POST California of Bridge Threats Increasingly optimistic health officials in a hington Thursday shrank the univer e of pri ate-sector workers who should take step By Gail Gibson Departm nt official aid the infor- the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge , to thwart anthra and prepared to curtail the hour of the city THE BALTlMORE SUN mation wa un orroborated and that both in an Francisco; the Vincent screening and antibiotic op ration at D.C. General Hospital. CALIFORNIA the bureau wa 'attempting to eri- Thoma Bridge at the Port of Los With no new 10 al ca e of inhalation or skin anthrax ill more than alifornia Gov. Gray Da i on fy the alidity of thi report." Angele and the Coronado Bridge a wee and no report of a tinted letter in more than two, the city' Thur day ordered ational Guard Ju ti e Department spoke - in an Diego. health director, Ivan C.. alks sugge t d that the ashington area soldiers po ted on the tate s four woman indy Tucker aid authori- He also decided to go public, was "on the downside" of a cri is that began with the opening of an oaring suspen ion bridge , includ- tie didn't con ider the information telling the state's residents about envelope Oct. 15 on Capitol Hill. ing an Francis o's Golden Gate to be as credible a the intelligence the threat. Test result for some facilitie are till unknown, however. And Bridge, after he said authoritie that prompted Attorney General "We are bound and determined just Thursday, the federal Food and Drug dmini tration announced recei ed 'credible e idence" that John D.