MIT’s The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Sunny, pleasant, 74°F (22°C) Tonight: Clear, chilly, 52°F (11°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Warm, 73°F (22°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 120, Number 49 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, October 13, 2000 Humanities School Receives $75 Million Most of Sahin’s $100 Million Goes to HASS By Laura McGrath Moulton Sahin Fund can be transformatory NEWS EDITOR for the SHASS,” Khoury said. The School for Humanities, Describing the establishment of Arts, and Social Sciences got a the fund as “monumental,” Khoury huge birthday present when Presi- said that although he knew of the dent Charles M. Vest announced decision in advance, “I had as many the establishment of the $75 mil- goose bumps as the 400 guests in lion Kenan Sahin Fund for the attendance who had no idea what school at a gala dinner celebrating was coming.” the fiftieth anniversary of their The Fund is subdivided into founding. five main parts: $21 million for Kenan E. Sahin ’63, founder of distinguished professorships on the Kenan Systems, Inc., group presi- Humanities, Arts, and Social Sci- dent for software technologies at ences on a school-wide basis; $24 Lucent Technologies, as well as million for the Kenan Sahin Presi- vice president of software technolo- dential Graduate Fellowship Fund, gy at Bell Labs, gave a surprise for graduate students in both the GARRY R. MASKALY—THE TECH donation of $100 million last spring HASS school and the Sloan School PARADE OF PACHYDERMS — Elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus passed with no stipulations as to how the of Management; $20 million to through MIT’s campus on their way to the FleetCenter. The circus will be performing in Boston money should be spent. pay for space for the Economics from October 13th to the 22nd. With former presidents Paul E. department within the new Sloan Gray and Howard W. Johnson and School building; $5 million for the Chairman of the MIT Corporation Kenan Sahin Deanship of the Alex d’Arbeloff, Vest decided to SHASS; and $5 million for the create the SHASS fund. The other Kenan Sahin Endowment for Edu- Local Citizens Discuss Profiling $25 million will be used to create cational Initiatives. the Kenan Sahin Presidential Initia- Cantabrigians Voice Concern about City’s Racial Profiling Policy tives Fund. Fund may have national impact Dean of the School for Humani- The establishment of the fund By Michael J. Ring ing at the meeting. Barnes recounted Cambridge’s political circles said ties, Arts, and Social Sciences may change not only the status of CONTRIBUTING EDITOR one incident in the town of Brook- they have been victims of racial pro- Philip S. Khoury said he believed SHASS within MIT but also the sta- About 100 Cambridge residents line, where he said he was stopped filing. Councillor Kenneth E. that the choice of his school as the tus of the humanities generally in and city officials, including over one while driving for no apparent reason Reeves told the board that he and an recipient of much of Sahin’s gift American higher education, accord- dozen Cambridge police officers, and subjected to racial epithets. African-American friend were will allow the gift “to have a maxi- ing to HASS faculty members. gathered last night to discuss the “You feel there are no reprisals. stopped by police cruisers in the mum impact on an area of MIT that Professor of Literature John issue of racial profiling in Cambridge. What is the next step?” asked Brattle Street area when searching is already strong but that can go to Hildebidle said that the establish- The primary purpose of the meet- Barnes about how to end profiling for an address. Reeves listed about the highest level with such an ment of the fund adds meaning to ing was to gather testimony from practices. investment. residents about their experiences The Cambridge Police Review Profiling, Page 23 “In other words, the Kenan Gift, Page 28 with both the Cambridge Police and Advisory Board, a citizens’ Department and other police forces group which investigates complaints with regard to racial profiling. and reviews the policies and proce- Middle East Clashes Spark Activism Speakers at the meeting agreed dures of the Cambridge Police that racial profiling is a serious Department, organized the meeting. By Rima Arnaout problem in both Cambridge and the The meeting was the first of a series NEWS EDITOR nation as a whole, though some of forums to be coordinated by the The two weeks of unrestrained were careful to caution that most board to discern the extent of racial violence in the Middle East has officers do not engage in profiling. profiling in the Cambridge and to been followed closely here at MIT “There is fear and apprehension find ways to halt profiling. with students taking part in local out there,” said Frank Barnes, a vigils, e-mail campaigns, and Cambridge resident who spoke about Political leaders speak on profiling protests. his personal experiences with profil- Several minorities active in MIT students participated in a protest that took place yesterday afternoon in front of the Israeli con- Homeruns.com Gets Permit sulate in Park Plaza in Boston. The crowd of about 75-100 people then marched to the Park Street MBTA To Sell Alcohol in Boston station and continued waving signs. By Brian Loux universities and officials concerned The protest also included students STAFF REPORTER about campus drinking, from Harvard, Tufts, and Boston The city of Somerville has per- Homeruns.com should have been University. mitted Homeruns.com, a grocery prepared for local protest, at least. “It’s just important for people to and convenience delivery site, to Instead, Homeruns.com got the know what’s happening,” said Ibi El distribute alcohol from their alcohol license without a hitch. Tatawy ’03, a participant in the Somerville warehouse. No university lodged a com- demonstration. “A lot of people at At present, the company is in the plaint against Homeruns.com from MIT aren’t really aware” of the situ- planning stages and has not yet application for a license to approval. ation in the Middle East, he said. added alcohol purchases to their Other local universities, including The group chanted slogans such website. So far, Homeruns.com has MIT, said they were not familiar as “Sticks and Stones will Break not announced whether or not they with the issue, nor could they con- Your Bones but Israeli Weapons will deliver alcohol to campus firm that they had received any Will Kill You.” The group listed addresses. information about the pending alco- names of Palestinians who have MAX PLANCK—THE TECH Many students at MIT and sur- hol license from authorities. recently been killed in the West Ibi Tatawy ’03 protests the Israeli army’s use of force against rounding colleges use Homeruns to Dean of Students Larry G. Bene- Bank and Gaza as well as in Israel. Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. buy their groceries. After the failure dict was also unaware that Home- A police detail and State Depart- Department official. She said that it’s important MIT stu- of rival e-grocery company runs.com has obtained the alcohol ment security officials awaited Ola Ayaso, a graduate student in dents be aware and active in global Kozmo.com to obtain an alcohol them, but the protest was well- Electrical Engineering and Comput- license due to protest from local Homeruns.com, Page 24 behaved, according to one State er Science, also was at the protest. Middle East, Page 33 Harvard Comics Students give perspectives on World & Nation . 2 hosts the Ig coming out for Coming Out week. Opinion . 4 Nobel cere- Arts . 7 monies. On The Town . 12 Features . 17 Page 18 Page 13 Page 20 Sports . 35 Page 2 THE TECH October 13, 2000 WORLD & NATION U.S. Sanctions on Belgrade Lifted To Avenge Mob Kills, Israel THE WASHINGTON POST BELGRADE President Clinton on Thursday lifted key economic sanctions against Serbia, the dominant republic of Yugoslavia, and promised to Bombs Palestinian Targets work closely with the new Yugoslav government to foster democracy and economic recovery. By Lee Hockstader tinians seemed on the brink of sis, the worst sustained violence in The announcement in Washington came the same day as a senior and Keith B. Richburg something akin to a war, albeit a the Middle East since the Gulf War. Clinton administration emissary called on the new president, Vojislav THE WASHINGTON POST lopsided one — a cycle of fury, Indeed, the action of the ground, Kostunica, in Belgrade and was told that Washington can establish a JERUSALEM death and revenge that neither and the emotions on the street, small diplomatic office at a Belgrade hotel. In a sudden escalation of the seemed fully able to control. The seemed to be moving at a tempo “We hope our relations will normalize,” Kostunica said after the Mideast crisis, Israeli attack heli- deepening crisis, coupled with what that could outstrip diplomacy. meeting with James O’Brien, special envoy for the Balkans. “It’s copters fired missiles at Palestinian U.S. officials described as a terrorist Palestinians officials called the now different.” The U.S. Embassy withdrew from Belgrade in 1999 targets in Gaza and the West Bank attack on a U.S. Navy warship at helicopter attacks a declaration of before the NATO bombing campaign began; Kostunica has warned Thursday after an enraged mob of port in the southern Yemeni city of war. Some vowed to strike back. that memories of those bombs might make it hard to restore full rela- Palestinians set upon at least two Aden, had immediate regional and Others called for an urgent session tions quickly.