MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: unny, 64°F (1°C) Tonight: howers, 55°F (l3°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Cloudy, 6 of (20°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 121 umber 53 Cambridge 02139 Tuesday, October 23,2001 Dining Board Seeks Optional Meal Plan Dining Board accepted as a goal to come up with a dining plan that did Following rna sive student oppo- not require participation," Kolen- sition to proposed mandatory dining brander said. He said he believes the plans, the Campus Dining Review Board can still improve campus din- Board will draft an alternative plan ing without requiring participation based on wider student involvement. in a meal plan. The Board ho ted a town meet- ing on October 11, at which Chan- e board relie on tudent cellor Phillip L. Clay PhD '75 out- The decision to expand the board Iined plans for expanding the to include student members resulted Campus Dining Review Board to from public outcry following the start a brand new dining plan with five new meal plan proposals draft- more student and community input. ed by the Office of Campu Dining. "Chancellor Clay told the audi- "To say that the community was- ence that he had set aside the five n't thrilled with them would be plans originally put forward that putting it mildly," said Laura Capone, included mandatory participation," director of organizational perfor- said Kirk D. Kolenbrander chair- mance and human resources with STANLEY HU-THE TECH man of the Dining Board and spe- Office of the Dean for Student Life. Members of the USRowing team don shirts remembering the heroes of the September 11 terrorist cial assistant to the president and Capone is helping to organize attacks. They won their seventh straight Head of the Charles title in the Men's Championship Eight. chancellor. At this meeting "the Campus Dining Board, Page 13 Trujillo Named Dean for Alcohol Education New Dorm By Rima Arnaout work of the Alcohol Working committee for the new dean. "This is a position that's going Rta . NEWS AND FEATURES DiRECTOR Group and coordinating across to cut acros all of our living nnzng MIT has announced the creation many Institute and student groups. ew dean to tackle range of issues groups," Benedict said. "It's not , of a new Associate Dean for Alco- Trujillo said that his job is to As Associate Dean, Trujillo will just fraternity oriented but Institute- •• hol Education and Community "listen, collaborate with people, and coordinate interaction between wide." Trujillo will also work with B.....lding Development in response to sugges- put something in practice that will many MIT offices, not only for the Graduate Student Council. UII tions by working groups on improv- be accepted and welcomed by all alcohol education but also for other Trujillo will work with Residen- ing alcohol policy on campus. members of the community." community issue like mental tial Life and Student Life Programs Con 'nue« Daniel A. Trujillo, Alcohol "We were looking very much health. staff, Campus Police, MIT Medical lit ~ Coordinator for the State University for the kind of person who would fit One aspect Benedict stressed staff, the Dormitory Council, and of New York, will fill the position the climate of MIT right now," said was that Trujillo was "not just an other groups across campus, Bene- By E. Zachary Berry effective January 1. He will report Director of Organizational Perfor- alcohol dean. That's why the com- diet said. His respon ibilities will S_T._'AF_r_RE_P_O_R_TE_R _ directly to Dean for Student Life mance and Human Resources Laura munity development piece is part of Work on Simmons Hall is pro- Larry G. Benedict, reviving the Capone, who chaired the search the title." Trujillo, Page 17 gressing on two fronts, as contrac- ( tors race to fini h the concrete struc- ture before winter and students try. to resolve residential life questions. Polaroid Goes Bankrupt; As casting of the ninth floor fin- ishes today and form work begins on the tenth and final floor Construction Plans to Sell Existing Assets of Simmons Hall nears a major mile- Economy and Digital Competition Explain Low .Sales stone. Chief Engineer Jim Whalen of Daniel O'Connell's Sons, the con- By Sandra M. Chung which specialized in the use of tractor for Simmons Hall, said that ASSOCiATE ARTS EDiTOR polarization technology in such all concrete work, including the roof, The Cambridge-based Polaroid items as glasses, lamps, ski goggles, should be completed by Thanksgiv- Corporation obtained bankruptcy and windows. In 1939 the corpora- ing. The building is currently one protection in the United States tion moved from Boston to Cam- week behind the original schedule. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, bridge. While weather wa generally Delaware on October 12. good over the summer, "We lost Last June, Polaroid announced Land drove creation ofUROP about a week of work because of that it would lay off 2,000 employees, Land held the title of Visiting hot weather," Whalen said: Temper- approximately a quarter of its 8,000- Institute Professor from 1956 until atures were occasionally too high to member global workforce. In Sep- his death in 1991. In 1957, Land's cast concrete. tember, the company reduced health famous "Generation of Greatness" Cold temperatures would al 0 benefits for some of its workers. speech for the Arthur D. Little make concrete pouring difficult, and Polaroid intends to continue chemistry lecture helped to inspire Whalen said the contractors hope to making and shipping its products the creation of UROP. get the building weather-tight as while it restructures its business "I believe each incoming fresh- oon as possible to prevent further operations and finances and search- man must be started at once on hi delays from rain and snow. "Rain es for buyers for all or parts of the own research project if we are to pre- really bothers the job," Whalen said. company. Declining profits and serve his secret dream of greatness However, the building has long growing debt resulting from the and make it come true," Land said. had a weather-tight temporary seal increasing popularity of digital cam- In 1968 Land established a trust on the sixth floor, which has allowed eras and the nationwide economic fund and dedicated its income to edu- work to continue on the lower floors. slump. have forced the company to cational development at MIT. The Contractors are currently working on redesign its operations and pare fund paid for the development of the heating, ventilation plumbing, and down employment. UROP program, established 1969. electrical work on the basement Polaroid's founder, Edwin H. Land s influence and support of NATHA OLLIN THE TECH through the third floor. Land, dropped out of Harvard Uni- undergraduate research also lives on Yoko Ono and Fluxus scholar Jon Hendricks play chess at versity in 1926 to develop commer- in the Eloranta Undergraduate Ono's 1997 "Play It By Trust" last Friday at the Ust Visual Founder' Group eek input cial applications for light polariza- Research Fellow hip. The fellow- Arts Center. "YES Yoko Ono," on which Hendricks consulted, tudent members of the im- tion. In 1937 he formed the features Ono's work from the 1960s to present. Boston-based Polaroid corporation Polaroid, Page 9 Simmons Hall, Page 14 OPINION Comics MIT's mu ic Sanjay Basu discusses the nega- en embles World & ation 2 tive impact of the U.S. aid cam- open the fall Opinion ~ 4 paign in Afghanistan. season. Events Calendar 7 Arts 10 Page 4 Page 6 Page 12 October 23,2001 WORLD & NATION uspected as Cause ryEW'DA} thrax . w rplane continued to pound T lib n front-lm fighter (a the bombin . mpaign m fzh 111 n mo r d mo It orkers Death thud week with a new empha i :helpin orthem thane troop o o a ad ance toward the capital and other ke cines. By homas F ank red last week in the office of en- howed orne anthra , aid Dr. en- The United tates onginally wanted the orthem lliance to hold and Elaine P rc ate Majority Leader Tom a chle. neth orit ugu, the deputy urgeon off on attacking Kabul until diplomat orked out who \ ould rule EWSDA} "There' been a 1 t f concern general. fghanistan if the Taliban fell. But ecreary of t te Colin Powell today not just fr m th ayor, but "We were taking it ne step at a on unday appeared to welcome a orthem lJiance dvance toward Two po t worker in a a h- from everybody that erhap the time to determine what in fact e Kabul. 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