The Weather Today: Cloudy, 70°F (21°C) Tonight: Drizzly, 60°F (15°C) Tomorrow: Showers, 68°F (20°C) Details, Page 2 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, August 30, 2002 Onl.Y 1/7 Necco Workers Strike Over Health Care Costs By Jennifer DeBoer STAFF REPORTER New England Confectionary Co. Freshmen machinists, on strike since Monday, Aug. 19 started their picket shift outside the 254 Massachusetts Ave. factory at six 0' clock Thursday ~equest morning. "They [the Necco administra- tion] make their own rules," worker 1ransfers Tim Stevarcor said. ' According to Stevarcor, changes By Kevin R. Lang in health care costs for machinists NEWS AND FEA TURES DIRECTOR p~ecipitated a call to the local union Of the 981 1Jlembers of the Class for approval to leave work starting - of 2006, 751 of whom were eligible Aug. 19. to move to another dormitory, 140 requested a housing change in tb,e O~going .negotiations displeasing Orientation Adjustment Lottery, and One of the changes the strikers only 84 of those students were able were protesti~g was the reduction to move. of time-and-a-half overtime hourly East Campus led all dormitories pay to straight time. Since state law with 35 -freshman requests for trans- requires overtime pay after forty fer'into the dorm. East Campus was hours per week, 'the company want- followed by MacGregor House with ed to. change the workdays to four AARON D. MIHALIK-THE TECH Jim Peluso (left) and Bob Wolusky talk to a worker as he exits the Necco parking lot. 20 and New House with 19. The ten..:hour days, 'depriving workers of usual favorite Baker House only opportunities for extra pay for striker .Kevin Brennan was able to take away another," employee the brunt of the company~s already received seven requests, the third weekend or after-hours work. procure former work-day,condi- Steve Quigley said. implemented changes. According to lowest of all dormitories~ Next This suggestion was on the table tions at a ten cent hourly wage loss. Doug Silver, out on worker's House received no requests. until two days ago,:wben head "They give us ,one thi.ng and compensation for weeks, has felt Necco, Page 9 This.year, 74 percentoffreshmen received their first choic~ dorm, a number slightly above average for 'MITHires Mental Health, Campus Life Directors the algorithm. However, only around 50 percent of freshmen who placed a By Brian Loux announced on Wednesday. tudes." the mental health chief. top-pick dorm as their first choice NEWS EDITOR "I very. much look forWard to The Mental Health Task Force Siegel will replace Dr. Peter , were able to get in, while low-pick Dr: Alan E. Siegel will be the working with them," said Larry G. had recommended the addition of a Reich, who announced in June dormitories us~ally accommodated . next chief of mental health,. and' Benedict, the dean for student life. clinical director for campus life in 2000 that he would step down this Maryanne Kirkbride the first clini- "They are very student-oriented, its report last November, and MIT term as mental health chief but Lottery, Page 13 cal director for campus life, MIT. positive, and upbeat in their atti- Medical had simultaneously been remain at MIT Medical. discussirig a similar new position. Kirkbride and Siegel accepted Siegel beats out 200 applicants MlT Prepares for AnniVersary of Sept. 11 their appointmt:nts over the sum- A search committee including mer, but had asked MIT to hold off psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, By Kevin R. Lang '. by New York City firefighters and an D. Kolenbrander, special assistant to -on public announcements until deans, housemasters, and graduate NEWS AND FEATURES DIRECTOR all-day vigil. the president and chancellor, is head- closer to the fall term. students began the selection MIT has annoUnced a full sched- MIT established a Sept. II ing up the committee. "I think that this was the best process for the .new mental health . ule of events leading up to the one- Anniversary Committee, with more "Over the course of the summer, time to make the announcement, chief. The committee also included year anniversary of the Sept. II , than 30 facultY, staff, and studentS, to because this was the time when an associate dean for counseling, ~OO I terro,rist attacks, including talks coordinate remembrance events. Kirk people were coming back to cam- appearing to signal a desire to pus, so people could he'ar about it," bring together MIT's counseling said Professor Ellen T. Harris, -chair of the search committee for Mental Health, Page 10 MIT Finishes Three Lawsuits, Initiates One During Summer By Keith J. Winstein the bench. NEIVS EDITOR' Over the summer, MIT, Harvard Patent said to cover NF-x:B University, the Whitehead Institute MIT, Harvard, and the Whitehead for Biomedical Research, and Ariad are the owners of U.S. Patent No. 'Pharmaceutical Inc. sued Eli Lilly 6,410,516,. "Nuclear factors associat- and Co., alleging that the company's ed with transcriptional regulation," drugs to treat osteoporosis and an for an invention by a group led by infection condition known as severe Institute Professor Phillip A. Sharp, sepsis infringe a newly-issued patent. former MIT Professor and current MeanwhJle, three other MIT -ini- California Institute of Technology tiated lawsuits, against Dolby Labo- President David Baltimore ' 61, and ratories Inc., American Supercon- Harvard Professor Thomas Maniatis. ductor Corp., and Time Inc. MIT, Harvard, and the Whitehead concluded. MIT and Dolby lawyers received the patent on June 25 of this reached a last-minute settlement at year. The three groups and their the trial in their five-year lawsuit, exclusive licensee Ariad filed the • _ DANIEL BERSAK-THE TECH The Reflecting Wall, erected as a memorial after last year's Sept. 11 attacks, will be retired during the after jurors had rea~hed a decision annlversa~ memorial service this year • but before the verdict was read from lawsuits, Page 12 .This is the last of The Tech's daily Comics OPINION publications for this year. Jordan Rubin assures freshmen World & Nation. : 2 The Tech returns to its,Tuesday- that recent changes at.MIT aren't Opinion 4 Friday schedule beginning fri- as bad as th~y're being told. Events Calendar .- 6 day, Sept. 6. Page 6 Page 5 Page 2 THE TECH August 30, 2002 WORLD & NATION Palestinian Economy Crippled Hijackers Chose in '99, LOS ANGELES TIMES wre JERUSALEM A U.N. report released Thursday paints a bleak picture of the eco- nomic destruction that has resulted from the lattice of checkpoints, Gennan Prosecutors Charge. encirclement of cities, roadblocks, incursions, and destroyed build- ings and supply networks under the military lock-down over the past By Peter Finn knit conspirators. Nehrn said. several months. THE WASHINGTON POST Cell member Marwan Al-She- "At the latest in October 1999" the BERLIN The numbers tell part of the story. Unemployment for East hhi, who investigators believe pilot- members of the group decided ... to Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza rose sharply between the first One of the Sept. II hijackers ed the second 'airliner that struck the actively participate in jihad through and second quarter, to 50 percent from 36 percent, the United Nations boasted a year and half before the trade center, had a conversation in ,terrorist attacks on America to kill a reports, as the military tightened restrictions on travel and trade. attacks that the World Trade Center April or May 2000 with a female large number of people," Nehm said. For the first time in memory, the jobless rate in the West Bank - would be hit and "there will be librarian in which he mentioned the "All of the members of this cell '\ 63.3 percent on curfew days - is higher than the Gaza Strip's 50 thousands of dead," Germany's trade center as a target, Nehrn said. shared the same religious convic- percent, following the encirclement of Ramallah, Hebron and other chief prosecutor said Thursday, pro- "There will be thousands of tions, an Islamic lifestyle, a feeling of major West Bank trading centers. viding one of the most detailed pub- dead," Al-Shehhi, originally from the being out of place in unfamiliar cul- lic reconstructions of terror planning United Arab Emirates, told the librar- tural surroundings. At the center of ' that took place in Germany. ian, according to Nehnl. "You will all this stood the hatred of the world Bush Tops Fundraising Records , The hijackers began to coalesce think of me." The librarian later came Jewry and, the Upited States," he said. TilE 11:-lSJ//NGTON POST as a cell in Hamburg in 1996' and by forward as a witness, according to the In November 1999, Atta, Al- LITTLE ROCK. ARK, October 1999 had committed them- federal prosecutor's office, which ,Shehhi, and Ziad Samir Jarrah, a It was another million-dollar day for the hundred-million-dollar selves to striking the United States declined to identify her or say when Lebanese citizen who piloted the president. and killing large numbers of people, she provided the information. plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, President Bush came here to keynote a fundraiser that the White said the prosecutor, Kay Nehm. The Hamburg cell, recruited into traveled to an al-Qaida camp near House said will generate $600,000 for the re-election of Sen. Tim Members traveled to Afghanistan in al-Qaida by a German of Syrian ori-' Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he Hutchinson (R-Ark.), and for the Arkansas Republican Party. 1999 and 2000 to receive training gin, Mohammed Haydar'Zammar, lived in a guest house run by the Thursday morning, Bush helped to raise $500,000 in Oklahoma and specific instruction about the slowly united around Egyptian citi- country's Taliban movement, Nehin City for Sen.