MlT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Rainy, windy, 54°F (t2°C) Tonight: Colder, 32°F (O°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, 37°F (30e) Details, Page 2 Re-engineering Team Issues New Senrices Redesign Plans By Shang-LIn Chuang will recommend to the re-engineer- centralized database location, and NEWS EDITOR ing steering committee on Tuesday changes to the processes involved in In an effort to solicit community the redesign of programs in career on-campus student employment, feedback, the student services re- assistance, educational program balancing student accounts, and engineering team will hold an open support, residence and orientation, tracking student records, the last of house today to present information personal support, provision of sup- which would be done electronically on -the seven processes recommend- plies and materials, student housing, and with an earlier deadline. ed for redesign and its new pro- and support for co-curricular life. The open house will be held in posed model of student services to The key ideas proposed by the Lobby 10 and Room 10-100 from the campus. team last week to red.uce work and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The team has examined a range improve service include a new of services that affect student life. It model of service delivery, a new Re-englneerlng, Page 15 MIT Worker Victim of Mugging; .CPs Say Robbery Is Off Campus By Stacey E. Blau in the right eye," Emanuel said. The Street and Main Street, said Frank " NEWS EDITOR purse fell down, and "the person Pasquarello, public infonnation offi- An MIT employee was mugged picked it up and ran," she said. The cer for the Cambridge Police. on Wadsworth Street on the far east attacker was not armed, she said. The perpetrator was about six feet side of campus at about 6:30 a.m. Emanuel said that the robbery tall and was wearing a a blue coat, last Wednesday. occurred right outside of Building blue jeans, and gloves, Emanuel said. Constance. L. Emanuel, an E40 on Wadsworth Street. The Although Emanuel claimed that she administrative assistant at the Sloan building houses offices of the Sloan was unable to identify the sex of her School of Management, was walk- School as well as parts of Informa- attacker, a Campus Police report ing from Kendall Square down tion Systems and other programs. states that the perpetrator was male. JIRI SCHINDLER-THE TECH Wadsworth Street to Amherst But according to Campus Police, The Cambridge Police have no sus- The pyramid structure In Lobby 7 has been l'8Y8aled as a com- Street, where she works in Building the attack took place further up pects, Pasquarello said. puter terminal connected over the Intemet with the Modem E40, when she was approached Wadsworth Str~et at the parking lot Art Museum 1n Lyon, France, that tra.-lates speech on-the-fly. from behind by the perpetrator. across from 51 Wadsworth St. Mugging classified as off campus Jeffrey C. Krause G demonstrated the facility yesterday morn- "Someone tugged on my purse, Cambridge Police place the inci- Although the crime took place on Ing. See article, page XYZ. ' and I turned around to see what was dent even closer to KendaH Square, at going on, and the person pOked me the intersection between Wadsworth Mugging, Page 10 litster Takes on Research, ~raduate Education By Orll G. Bahcall the vice president of research" is level," Souter said. His appointment The office of the dean of the INSIDE STAFF REPORTER directly involved, Litster said. "is likewise great for MIT's reputa- graduate school "has a huge admin- As the concerns of researchers "It makes sense to put them tion on a national level. Many grad- istrative task - all the stuff associ- and graduate students become more together - to have one pe~n wor- uate students are concerned that ated with research assistants, teach- • Lobby 7 computer closely linked in an era of threat- rying about all of those things," Lit- MIl' [retain its] good reputation - ing. assistants, and fellowships," setup translates trans- 4 '~ned.federa~ funding,. J.. David Lit- ster said. their futures depend upon this repu- Litster said. o ,':1/ er PhD '65 began hiS Job as dean "It is very appropriate in these tation." . The office is also responsible for Atlantically. Page 8 for graduate education this week. times when research funding is counseling of graduate students and Litster continues" to serve as the vice growing tight to appoint someone .Litster balances two positions recruiting of new students. • .Early acceptance rate president and dean for research. whose focus is in gathering funds," "This was my first week actually "The thing I know least about J. "I would guess that one of the Graduate School Council President back at MIT and in this position," are the recruiting issues that the drops slightly. Page 9 ~ reasons that motivated the president Barbara J. Souter G said. Litster said .. Litster is still in the office has engaged in. J haven't and provost to decide to fill the two "At many schools now we see process of figuring out how things spent a' lot of ti'1le recruiti ..g, and • On The Screen. Page 6 jobs [with one person] is that there the dean of the graduate school also operate in the graduate office and especially not for minority stu- are big issues coming up that have the dean of research," Souter said. learning about what his new job dents," Litster said. an impact on graduate education," Litster's strengths and experience in entails. "I am interested in learning more • Female cast shines in Litster said. these two areas complement each The new post of dean of gradu- about how all these things work. I Waiting toExhale. "These issues "are going to be other very well, she said. ate education replaces the previous have sort of figured out how to do strongly coupled with research "Lister is a stron'g advocate of position of dean of the graduate Page 7 funding and are issues with which graduate education on a national school. Utster, Page 16 Kendall Sculptures Bring Music, Talk to Strangers By Eva Moy STAFF REPORTER Local artist Paul Matisse looks like an artist, with his beard, longish hair, and baggy clothes. But his musical sculptures displayed at the Kendall Square MBT A station are nothing short of engineering. Matisse spoke about the three works at the Kendall T station - Pythagoras, Kepler, and Galileo - last Wednesday at a talk sponsored by the Media Laboratory. The sculpture-instruments are operated by the passengers waiting for their trains. The music brings together the people, allowing them to make eye contact and exchange a few words, something they otherwise might be scared to do, Matisse said. UEverybody can play, but nobody can force their music [style], because their music is coming from the sculpture itself," he said. Matisse won an MBT A commission for the artwork in 1981. Howev- er, because of the T station reconstruction, the Kendall Band was not installed until 1987. "I found this very dirty, abandoned station back in 198 I," Matisse said. He worried that the sculpture would be covered with black brake dust, and that people would vandalize or climb on his sculpture. Matisse chose to put the artwork at the station's center. "It had a third rail JIRI CHINDLER-TilE TECH on one side, a third rail on the other side, and I thought it would be safe." The most well-known of Paul Matisse'. musical r,culptures III the Kendall Square MBTA station Is ..Pythagoras," a series of ~nglnc tubes. Kendall, Page 17 Page 2" fif", WORLD & NATION AOL, Netscape Consider Alliance French Nuclear lest Caused THE WASHINGTON POST WASHJNGTO America Online Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp., maker of the leading software used on the Internet's World Wide Web, are Leak ofRadioactive Material in talks about a possible alliance, according to company sources. The aim would be to combine forces to fight off competitors, By William Drozdlak "There is no way to assess round of nuclear tests and that offi- notably software giant Microsoft Corp., which last August launched THE WASHINGTON POST whether tl.ere is a coverup because cials from his agency were striv' an online service called the Microsoft Network and has its own ver- PARIS the French do not allow independent to suppress the information. sion of Web software. France acknowledged Tuesday verification," said Tom Cochran, a The paper quoted sources at the Under one scenario, America Online, the country's largest con- that radioactive materials have nuclear-testing specialist at the Nat- Geneva disarmament conference, sumer on-line service, would license Netscape's popular software leaked into the sea from its nuclear ural Resources Defense Council in where the global test-ban treaty is program, Netscape Navigator, and integrate it into the package of tests in the South Pacific but insisted Washington. "What makes people being negotiated, as saying a French software used by America Online customers. that the quantities were so minimal suspicious about whether they are nuclear expert disclosed the radia- The talks also have raised the possibility of America Online chief that they posed no threat to the envi- hearing the truth is the fact that tion leakage at a meeting in Wash- executive Steve Case taking a seat on Netscape's board of directors. ronment. these tests were really unnecessary ington last November. Ho~ever, officials are concerned that Netscape customers such as The confirmation that radioac- in the first place." The French specialist was quoted AT&T Corp. which compete with America Online might object.