THE DAILY TUFTS Volume XXXVIII, Number &w You Read It First Mondav. Februarv 1,1999 5 I New stock market class leads Ex-college registration surge by JEREMY WANGIVERSON. number of students that can sign Students felt’stratford did the Daily Editorial Board up for an Ex-College class, the in- best he could in narrowing down Interest has never been higher structors often find themselves the class. for the Experimental College, a having to cut students from their “It was pretty fair,” said senior division of Arts and Sciences classes. At one time, class sizes Gabe Brooks, “but I think if the which offers an off-beat variety were capped at registration time, demand is that high, the school of electives on a semester basis. but Gittleman said the process was should try to do something about Initial sign-ups on registration changed to make things more fair. it. I feel pretty lucky to have gotten day were far above average with “When I first came here [regis- into the class.” “Understand- Gittleman ex- ing the Stock plained r;mowing Market: His- down ;he class has tory Struc- been the hardest ture, and Im- part for some visit- pact” leading ing professors. the way with “I’ve hzdsome 179 regis- come to me and tered. say, ‘I can’t do it! “This has What should I been the larg- do?...’ Some est registra- choose to do a lot- tion ever,” tery, sometryfora said Robyn balance.” Gittleman, di- Although rector of the many Ex-College Ex peri men ta I classes focus on College. narrow topics, “There were Gittleman said the over300to400 coursesfit inalib- more sign-ups era1 arts environ- than in recent ment. semesters.” ‘‘It’s not an Gittleman adult course explained that where you learn registering for something for an the Ex-college end result. It has is notably dzferent in that it is not tration] was on a first come, first some basis in a liberal arts curricu- on a first come, first serve basis. serve basis, starting at 9 a.m., and lum ... It teaches students to take a ‘LThere’s the one day where people would camp out with their critical look at things.” anyone can sign up, and if they sleeping bags, cereal, and coffee Despite the increase of student also go to the first class, everyone at 1 a.m. the night before ... we interest, Gittleman said the Experi- has an equal chance ofgetting in,” moved the start time to noon hop- mental College is not looking to Gittleman said. ing it would stop, but people just grow. Since there is no limit on the started camping out at 6 a.m. “We don’t necessarily want to “It brought out the ugliest be- grow in numbers, but rather main- 0 a havior, pushing and shoving, and tain quality,” she said. Hlodgdon changes carried out it didn’t seem right since the col- Many courses now imbedded lege is about collaborative work,” in the catalogue found their starts by ILENE STEIN wrapped and ready to go. S tu - said. Gittleman said. at the Ex-College. According to Senior Staff Writer dents arenow allowed toaddtheir Although students may feel The 179 students lured to the Gittleman,jazz, photography, and To lower costs and shorten own toppings. that the new sandwich approach stock market class were vying for “American Sign Language” were lines, dining services has changed Some students find this new is inconvenient, members of the fewer than 30 spots. Usually there all offeredat the Ex-College before a few things for the spring. Small policy a nuisance, while others Hodgdon staffbelievethe changes isaconsiderable dropoffbetween being adopted by their respective but important changes have been don’t mind it as much. expedites the process. those who sign up and those who departments. made at the “[The manage- attend the first class, but 17 1 stu- Will acourse on the stock mar- Hodadon din- I3 ment] decided that dents still crammed the basement ket soon follow? ing Lll which the l&es.were too of Braker Hall to try their luck at Probably not, according to- will affect eaters long,” said staffer enrolling in the most popular Ex- David Garman, chair of the eco- on the go. Maria Cerasuolo. college class in recent history. nomics department. First of all, “It seems to be “I found out [about the regis- “I don’t think we would offer a changes to the much faster... Stu- tration] the morning of [the first class this specific,” he said as he drink policy dents come in one class],” said Timothy Stratford, looked over the syllabus. “Eco- were made. In- minute and are out the class’s instructor. “It was ab- nomics courses focus more gener- stead of two the next.” solutely incredible.” ally on all types of markets ... the cans, students These sand- To get down to 25 students, stock market is only one type of can now carry wich changes are Stratford had the prospective stu- market. out %I20 02. only a test, how- dents write a short essay explain- “The general principlesofmicro bottle, accord- ever.Lee explained ing why they wanted to be in the economics can be applied [to the ing to Patti Lee, that Hodgdon was classand whatthey could contrib- stockmarket] ... Finance istheclos- director of din- looking to try to ute to it; 70 students helped his est in terms of the applications it ing services. speed things up, cause by leaving during the first makes,” Garman continued. on but nothing has class. He knew he wanted equal Lee went Daily file photo Garman credited the over- to say that yetbeenmadeper- numbersofmales and.females,and whelming interest in the stock ’ Hodgdon carry out has undergone- changes- this semester, in- g cluding a new-one 20 02. bottle policy to replace the former manent. an equal balance of those who market class to the recent bull carry out budget two can policy. knew about the stock market, and market, something that is inher- was too high, so Cerasuolo ex- those who didn’t. ently changeable. adjustments had to be made. “With each day I get better and plained: “I noticed it wasquicker, “I wanted what was best for the “I think the enrollment (in the However, some students were better at wrapping my own sand- and I believe soon the students class’s benefit, for better discus- stock market class) is a specula- exasperated by the new drink wich,” student Shelly Nelson will notice the difference too.” sions,’’ Stratford said explaining tive bubble; if we offered a Dolicv.’ auimed.a 1. whv he strove for the balance. course on the market six months “I‘d rather that they have two One student doesn’t like the after a crash, I don’t think this smallerdrinksthenone big one for extra work which the new policy would be the case,” Garman a variety purposes,” said frequent entails. concluded. Hodgdon-er Jeremy Baron. “Even though it is supposedly Garman did say, however, that Sandwiches will also be made more efficient, it is less convenient there has been an increased en- differently.now. Last semester, a for students. I went to Hodgdon rollment in the economics depart- member of the Hodgdon staff because it was convenient how ment as a whole which he attrib- woulcl make the sandwich in its everything was prepared and uted to a growing student interest entirety, condiments and all, wrapped up for you,” Matt Baron in the business world. 2 THETUFTS DAILY February 1,1999 ’ Report says Starr may plan .to.indict Clinton WASHINGTON -The White House reacted angrily Saturday night to a report that independent counsel Kenneth Starr is consideringwhether to indict PresidentClinton before the president leaves office, charging that Starr, in disclosing his plans, is interfer- ing with the ongoing Senate impeachment trial against Clinton. Whetherapresident can be indicted while he is in office has been a subject of intense debate among constitutional scholars, because the Constitution appears to provide impeachment as the sanctioned course for dealing with misdeeds by incumbents. On the other hand, there is some thought that while the Consti- tution provides for impeachment for “high crimes and misdemean- or~,~~more conventional remedies -such as indictment by a grand jury-areavailable foroffensesforwhichremoval from office would be considered too extreme. Ronald Rotunda, aprofessor ofconstitutional law at the Univer- sity of Illinois who has served as a consultant to Starr, has written that indictment is indeed an option. He wrote in Legal Times that the Supreme Court tipped its hand when it dismissed, in 1997, Clinton’s attempt to postpone until he was out ofoffice the sexual harassment lawsuit filedagainst him by Paula Corbin Jones -and that the ruling raised another question, that of punishment. “While Clinton vs. Jones thus establishes that a sitting president may be indicted and tried, the court’s decis.ion leaves the next, 3bvious question unanswered: Can a sitting president be impris- med upon conviction for a criminal offense?’ . “Most people say the president can’t be indicted,” Mark Tushnet, a :onstitutional law expert and associate dean ofthe Georgetown Univer- jity Law Center, said. “My view is, probably, yes, it is permissible.” Blumenthal testimony Chimps most likely source of. might shed light on HIV strain, study determines treatment of Lewinsky Los Angeles Times-Washington strainsofHIVorotherviruses into Equatorial Guinea, Congo, and the Post News Service the human population. Central African Republic. WASHINGTON-IfVernon E. Jordan Jr.’stestimony so far has CHICAGO -Solving a long- Researchers have already . Among humans, there are three ieen protective of the president, aide Sidney Blumenthal’s testi- puzzling mystery about the origins found nearly a dozen instances in major types of HIV-1, which re- nony unintentionally but indisputably puts President Clinton in a of the AIDS epidemic, Alabama which rarer formsofHIVhave been searcherscall M,N, and0.