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Volume 121, Number 52 Friday, October 19 2001Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

MIT Alumnus 1bRun Chomsky Discusses TerrorismFor City Council Spot ~F7n7:~:::::SSOToam A,

Maior Issues Include H.ousing, MBTA.Service - Chomsky delivered a critical analy-'1J - sis of America's "War Against Ter-

By Christine R. Fry during his undergraduate years thatSTAFF REPOR7ER he became aware of the city council.

MIT alumnus Steven Jens '98 However, Jens said that it waswill be among the candidates run- probably not his classroom educa-ning for a seat on the Cambridge tion that prepared him for a political

City Council career. "I learned about the citynext month, [politics] while I was at MIT," but

Jens, who not in the classroom, Jens said.earned a degreein mathematics,decided todeclare his can-didacy for citycouncillor when

Steven Jens '98 he noticed ashortage of candidates who heldviews similar to his on issues. suchas property rights, schools, andparking regulation.

Seven of the nine current citycouncillors are running for reelec-tion. There are also 12 others run-ning for a- seat on the council,including Jens.

As a student -at MIT, Jens wasactive in the Undergraduate Associ-ation and in local politics. It was

rorism" to a packed 26-100, as wellas 3 full over-flow rooms.

Chomsky's talk last nightfocused on the September 11 disas-ter and its implications within and

City issues have campus impactAs the price of housing in Cam-

bridge has risen drastically over thepast few years, affordable housinghas become a major concern forboth city residents and students.Some blame MIT and Harvard forbuying ~aluable land to expand theircampuses and real estate portfolios.

Steve Iskovitz, the council can-didate endorsed by the MIT Greens,said that areas around universitycampuses should be zoned such that

- the universities can't buy up theland to expand their campuses.Instead, the land could be used for

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AMY WONG

Institute Professor Noam A. Chomsky speaks about the implicationsof the "War Against Terrorism" during his lecture yesterday eveningin room 26-100. -

MIT Debaters Take First,at HarvardBy Jennifer DeBoer

Patrick 1. Nichols '03 and AdamG. Unikowsky '03 edged out 141other teams at the Harvard DebateTournament to eam the first placetrophy, MIT's best finish ever.

"I was still in shock that we gotthat far," Unikowsky said. To reachthe tournament's finals, held onOctober 6, the team had to over-come Princeton University's A andB teams in the quarterfinal and

semifinal rounds, respectively. Inboth cases, "MIT Flippant"(Unikowsky and Nichols) won by aunanimous decision of the judges,3-0 in the quarterfinal round and 5-0m semifinal round.

Before the final rounds, there arefive rounds of debating to narrowdown the field. In these rounds, MITFlippant won four out of five,falling only to a Yale novice team.With such a performance, MIT Flip-pant, as well as MIT A, which con-

sists of Debate Club PresidentPhilippe C. Larochelle '03 and RajKrishnan '02", "broke" to quarterfi-nal rounds. Nichols said that this isthe first time in recent memory thatMIT has broken at the HarvardTournament.

Flippant fares well as governmentIn each of the final three rounds,

MIT played the role of the govern-

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JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH

The MIT Environmental Health and Safety Team carries a bag of hazardous materials up the stairsof Building 8 on Wfdnesday. A description of the contents of the bag was not released, and noexplanation was given for the evacuation of the third floor of Building 8.

outside the U. ., raising que tionsabout what the origins of the crimewere and what policy option theUnite tates has.

He expressed his astoni hment atthe reaction of people in U. . andEurope over the situation inAfghani tan. "Seven to eight mil-lion people are on the urge of star-vation in Afghanistan now," he said,"but there ha been no reaction tothe stopping of food delivery truethrough Pakistan since the bomb-ing have tarted.

"Thi is a ilent genocide" hecontinued, but what is more dis-turbing is that even in a society ofelite, which we are part of, this iconsidered normal."

He called the eptember 11 dis-aster "a historic event," not becauseof its scale but becau e of the natureof the event itself. "This i the firsttime since 1814 where a nationalterritory of United tates is beingattacked," he said. "The guns havealways been directed the otherway."

Referring to military attacks bythe United tates on icaragua, he

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Explaining the BiologyBehind Bioterrorism

ByBrtanLouxASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Recent threats and rumors of bioterrorism on American institu-tions have set many members of the public and the media on edge.Still, even with all the focus, most are left with burning questions

about the "mysterious white powder" peoplehave found on envelopes, and what scien-tists are doing about it.

After the events of the past week, it mayappear that even our own college campus issusceptible to such an attack. But scientists

are saying that even the worst case scenarios may not be all that men-acing. Still, the readiness of the nation to respond to such an attackremains in question,

'What is anthrax?The powders of anthrax, known in the scientific community as

Bacillus Anthracis, behaves very much like any other bacterial conta-gen. "Anthrax is a disease of intoxication, where the organism isinhaled, ingested, or is inserted under the skin" said MichaelStarnbach, an Associate Professor of Microbiology and MolecularGenetics at Harvard Medical School. "It enter the body as dormantspores, and then germinates into bacteria and begins replicating onceinside the body."

The bacterium secretes three distinct proteins which cooperate tokill the host oiganism and aid in replication. The first protein is clas-sified as "Protective Antigen, , or PA. Though not harmful in itself,P A binds to cellular membranes to serve as the delivery molecule forthe other two deadly proteins known as "Lethal Factor" (LF) and"Edema Factor" (EF). Once able to enter the cell via PA, LF will dis-rupt cellular activity and result in cell death. In the meanwhile, EF isleft to disrupt the the cell's ion flow, resulting in an accumulation offluid in between cells, known as edema. "The activity of these toxinsis the majority of the disease itself," said Stambach.

Like many other bacterial diseases there is a vaccine for anthrax

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Troop deployed in the war against terrori m hould expect to beaway from home longer than military per onnel have at any timesi e World War II, senior Pentagon official are cautioning ervice-men and women tationed around the world.

In a radio address broadcast ednesday night on military net-works, Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chief: of taff,aid the Pentagon i likely to di card the per onnel rotation chedule

used in peacetime that limit the time troop are eparated from theirfamilies.

While a tran cript of the radio addre wa not made a ailable, adefense official said yers told troop , e're going to do every-thing we can to manage thi thing, but we're in a brand-ne ituation,so buckle your chin trap . '

The rotation schedule wa adopted in the early 1970s - when themilitary was having trouble retaining it recruit - a a way of mak-ing life in the armed forces more palatable. It limit the time that

rmy, avy, ir Force and arine per onnel cu tomaril aredeployed to about ix months. Longer deployment require pecialorders from a four- tar general.

our Emb BombersGet Life rthout Parole

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Under a blanket of unprecedented ecurity and ju t blocks awayfrom the moldering wreckage of the orld Trade Center four mem-ber of Osama bin Laden's terror army were ent to pri on for the re tof their lives after being convicted of conspiring with him in a world-wide plot to attack Americans.

The conspiracy culminated in the bombings of the U. .Embassiesin airobi, Kenya and Dar es alaam Tanzania on Sept. 7 199 .Tho e attack ripped through the buildings, killing 224 peopleincluding 12 Americans. Thousands of others were also injured.

All four received the ame life terms without parole and orderedto pay a total of 33 million in re titution to the individual victims aswell as the United tate.

Thi is time not for eloquence but for justice," U. ,DistrictCourt Judge Leonard and aid after hearing from five of the victimspre ent in court. "Even were I tempted to engage in rhetoric I certain-ly could not match the eloquence and the poignancy of the witnesseswe ve ju t heard.

Airlines Begin to ShowEvidence of Financial Strain

LOS A GELES TIMES

outhwest Airlines, Alaska Air Group Inc. and United Parcel Ser-vice Inc., providing the first major evidence of the financial effect ofthe ept. 11 terrorist attacks on the air-transportation system, Thurs-day posted sharp declines in their third-quarter profits compared witha year earlier.

But the financial damage will look much worse when the othermajor airlines announce their third-quarter results in the coming day .Tho e result are expected to show enormous losses for uch majorcarrier as AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and UAL Corp.'s UnitedAirline.

The U .. airline industry overall is expected to lose 7 billion to$10 billion for 2001, owing to an unprecedented two-day shutdownof civilian air travel after the attacks and a subsequent plunge in pas-senger traffic and reduced freight shipments. But even before Sept.11 mo t carrier were facing a dismal third quarter.

u.s. Special Forces Begin WarOn Terrorism inAfghanistanBy Thomas E. Ricksand Vernon loebTHE WASHINGTO POST

in southern Afghanistan i de ignedto e pand an ongoing ClA ffort inth region to encourage ethnic Pa h-tun leaders to break away from theTaliban militia, a enior defen eofficial aid.

But another official aid addi-tional special force ar likely to bedeployed oon and could take onother mi sion uch as reconai -'sance target designation for aircraftand on rare occasion , directattacks on Taliban or terrorist lead-ers.

Di clo ure of the new pecialforces mi ion came on a day whena number of prominent officialcommented on the inevitability ofground groups.

peaking in London BritishPrime Minister Tony Blair said "thenext few weeks will be the mosttesting time but we are on track toachieve the goals we set out." Headded: "I don't think we have evercontemplated this being done by airpower alone."

Defense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld, briefing reporters at thePentagon, declined to comment onthe presence of special forces inAfghanistan "until we have anactivity that is significant andnoticeable." Rumsfeld noted that

ramparts, Zaman instructed hiscommanders to go to Afghanistanand persuade Talibanfighters togive up their posts or face the wrathof a renewed and re-armed opposi-tion backed by U.S. firepower.

"We will ask the Taliban to sur-render political power;If they don't,we will go after them," Zaman said.

His commanders made a wishlist of what they wanted for the job:rocket launchers, surface-to-surfacemissiles, long-range cannons, cratesof assault rifles and lots of cash.

The extraordinary meetingThursday morning in this dustyfrontier city represented an earlymilestone in the U.S.-backedattempt to construct a viable alterna-tive to theTaliban in the importantPashtun-dominated borderland,where the fundamentalist regimestill enjoys its strongest support.

As the Northern Alliance andIranian-backed fighting units con-

aircraft ' cannot really do ufficientdamage; They can't crawl aroundon the ground and find people. '

Joining Rumsfeld at the rostrumir Force Gen. Richard Myer ,

hairman of the Joint Chiefs oftaff, added: 'Weare prepared to

u e the full pectrnm of our militarycapabilities. That' not just bomber:or carrier-ba ed aircraft; that' othera sets a well."

yers concluded with a directappeal to all U. . military forcesand the American people. "I firmlybelieve that this is the most impor-tant task that the U.S. military hasbeen handed since the SecondWorld War" aid Myers, a fighter r

pilot who flew 600 combat hoursover Vietnam. "And what's at stakehere is no less than our freedom toexist as an American people. ... Soto every soldier, sailor, airmen,Marine, and Coast Guardsmen, andDOD civilian, and our allies andfriends, I say, 'Let's stay ready, let'sstay focused.'''

As Myers and Rumsfeld hintedat the impending ground war, EC-130 "Commando Solo" psychologi-cal operations aircraft filled the air-waves of Afghanistan withinstructions to civilians to followwhen U.S. troops arrive.

Taliban Opposition Plans ActionRebel CommandersGather To OverthrowTaliban Government

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verge on Kabul, the Afghan capital,from the north and west, the Talibanstill has space for strategic retreat tothe south unless a Pashtun resis-tance force can be raised to meet it.

The local commanders at themeeting Thursday were from twoeastern Afghan provinces, Nan-garhar and Konar, but more suchmeetings of commanders from otherprovinces are expected in comingdays as opposition leaders rush toassemble a post- Taliban rulingcouncil under the banner of exiled87-year-old Afghan monarchMohammad Zaber Shah.

Key to the success of the effortis the recruitment of anti- Talibanand moderate Taliban Pashtuns, thelargest ethnic group in Afghanistan.The task is complicated by a four-year Pakistani policy supporting theTaliban that was reversed underU.S. pressure after the Sept. 11attacks on America.

U. . pecial force have begunthe ground phase of America' waragainst terrorism in fghani tanoperating in small numbers insouthern Afghani tan in upport ofthe lA' exi ting effort in the Tal-iban heartland, defense official saidThur day.

Their pre ence on the battlefieldcomes amid growing indicationsthat the war' inten ity i about toincrea e dramatically after 11 daysof U. . and British airs trikes thatPentagon official ay have pum-meled the defense of Afghanistan'ruling Taliban militia.

The number of U. . per onnelon the ground i just a handful nowand i unlikely to ever resemble thelarge number of conventional forcesas embled in the Persian Gulf War adecade ago defense officials said.But their presence marks a turningpoint in only the econd week of theconflict, heightening the risk to U.S.forces and underscoring the serious-ness of the Bush administration'scommitment to prosecuting its waragainst terrorism.

The new special, forces mission

By Rone TempestLOS ANGELES TIMES

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In a heavily guarded, walledcompound here, Haji MohammedZaman presided Thursday over awar council of 100 black-beardedPashtun commanders who may holdthe key to the future of Afghanistan.

Expelled from his Pakistani basein 1997 because of his activitiesagainst Afghanistan's Talibanregime, Zaman has spent the pastfour years as a political refugee inFrance. On Thursday, Zaman wasback in Peshawar at the invitation ofthe same Pakistani government thatkicked him out.

As armed sentries patrolled the

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Northern Ireland ProtestantsPullOut of Power Sharing PactsBy Michael Dobbsand Adi BloomTHE WASHINGTO POST

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orthern Ireland Protestantpolitician announced Thursdaythey were pulling out of a power-sharing arrangement with Catholicsto protest the failure of the IrishRepublican Army para-militarymovement to surrender its weapons.

Political analysts interpreted theannouncement as a tactical movedesigned to put pressure on the IRAto start disarming. But it could leadto the suspen ion of orthern Ire-land's three-year-old experiment inself-government and the reimposi-tion of direct rule from London.

"It is well past time for Republi-cans to act," said David Trimble,leader of the pro-British UlsterUnionist Party, referring to protract-ed negotiations with'Ik.A leaders on"decommissioning" of weapons. "Itis up to them and no one else."

Thursday's decision- by theUlster Unionists to pull their minis-ters out of the coalition government

et up in the wake of the 199 GoodFriday peace accord marks a et-back to British efforts to return

orthem Ireland to self-rule. It fol-lowed Trimble' own resignation as

orthern Ireland's first minister inJuly because of an earlier deadlockon decommissioning.

Trimble said that all three UlsterUnionist ministers were withdraw-ing from the orthern Ireland exec-utive, or government, along withtwo ministers representing the alliedDemocratic Unionist Party.

Under constitutional arrange-ments accepted by all sides, theBritish government now has sevendays to decide whether to orderfresh elections in the province or tosuspend the orthern Irel andAssembly for an indefmite period.Intensive negotiations are likelyover the next week in an attempt tofind a compromise.

Leaders of Sinn Fein, the IRA'spolitical wing, which favors unionwith the Irish Republic, have hintedduring the past few days that theyare moving toward an agreement on

giving up their weapons. A in thepast, however rumors of progre s inthe ba k tage negotiation ha ealternated with reports of deadlock.

Trimble held private talks withinn Fein leader Gerry Adams earli-

er Thursday, but both sides weretight-lipped about" their discus ions.Sinn Fein earlier said that it wasworking with both the British andIrish governments and the UlsterUnionists to end the stalemate in thepeace process.

Under the Good Friday agree-ment, all parliamentary groups in

orthern Ireland are required tohand in all their weapons as part ofthe power-sharing agreementbetween republicans and loyalists.A spokesman for the Ulster Union-ist Party, Philip Robinson, said that"not one bullet not one gun not oneounce of Semtex," the plastic explo-sive, has been handed over by theIRA as a result of the agreement.

Under the rules for power-sharingin the assembly, the orthern Irelandgovernment cannot formally meetwithout unionist ministers present.

Palestinian Leaders Reject IsraeliDemands to .Extradite AssassinsBy Lee HockstaderTHE WASHINGTON POST

RAMALLAH,wtSTBANK

Yasser Arafat' s PalestinianAuthority Thursday rejected an ulti-matum by Israel to hand over theassassins of an Israeli cabinet minis-ter. Threatening a major attack,Israeli tanks roared into the outskirtsof three Palestinian cities, killingthree Palestinians.

On the heels of the assassinationof Tourism Minister RehavamZeevi, the Israeli newspaper Maarivquoted Prime Minister Ariel Sharonas telling his cabinet: "Arafat hasseven days to impose absolute quietin the (palestinian) territories. If notwe'll go to war against him."Another Israeli daily, YediothAhronoth, quoted Sharon as saying,"As far as I'm concerned, the era ofArafat is over."

Arafat ordered the arrest of atleast three political leaders of thePopular Front for the Liberation ofPalestine (PFLP), the militant groupthat took responsibility for assassi-nating Zeevi, an extreme nationalist.But Palestinian officials said therewas no question of extraditing theleaders or anyone else to Israel,including the suspected killers ifthey are caught, and Israel said thearrest orders were insufficient.

"We reject the Israeli ultima-tum," said Palestinian InformationMinister Yasser Abed Rabbo. "Thisultimatum is Israeli blackmail, notan attempt to seek a solution to thepresent crisis."

Meanwhile, in Jordan, veteranPFLP militant Leila Khaled said thegroup would try to assassinate moreIsraeli politicians, with Sharon atthe top of the list. The Palestinianssaid they had ''uncovered'' an Israeliplot to assassinate Arafat; theIsraelis dismissed the allegation asnonsense.

As the day progressed, the tempoof violence intensified. At dawnSharon ordered Israeli tanks andarmored vehicles into Palestinian-controlled parts of Ramallah andJenin in the West Bank, triggeringfirefights that left three Palestiniansdead, including a 12-year-oldschoolgirl.

In Ramallah, just north ofJerusalem, the tanks rolled to withina half mile of Arafat's main head-quarters there, and Israeli forcesdeclared a round-the-clock curfewfor Palestinians in areas of the WestBank under their control. In theafternoon, Israeli tanks entered athird Palestinian city in the WestBank, Nablus.

Sharon's strategy, said an Israeli

official, "is to apply moderate forceon the Palestinians and send theAmericans to pressure them, hopingthey'll get the message and it'll notbe necessary to do anything reallyserious. So it's a game of chicken inaway."

Thursday evening, a well-knownPalestinian armed militant and twocompatriots were killed by anexplosion in a jeep carrying them inBethlehem. The militant, AtefAbayat, was on Israel's most-want-ed list, and Palestinians said he hadbeen assassinated by Israeli agentsin a booby-trapped car.

Abayat's death touched offextremely heavy gun battles Thurs-day night between Palestinian gun-men who opened fire from the townof Beit Jala and Israeli troops in theJewish neighborhood of Gilo onJerusalem's southern fringe - thefirst fighting there in almost twomonths. Palestinians also fired amortar shell toward Gilo.

Sharon, who put Israeli troops inBeit Jala for two days in lateAugust, had vowed tore-occupy thetown if Palestinians resumed firingfrom there.

Also Thursday, one Jewish set-tler was killed and three othersinjured in two separate ambushesnear Jericho and Qalqilya.

Postal Worker, Dan Rather's AssistamBecome Most 'Recent Anthrax VictimsBy John Lancasterand Hel~n DewarTHE WASHINGTON POST 0

A New Jersey postal worker andan assistant to CBS News anchorDan Rather have contracted the skinform of anthrax, bringing to six thenumber of people known to havebeen infected by the bacterium in aseries of bioterrorist attacks, federalhealth authorities aid Thursday.

The news came as congressionalleaders and the Bush administrationafter several days of confusion andmixed messages launched a broadcampaign to contain public anxietyabout the mysterious anthrax-conta-minated letters sent to media outletsin ew York and apparentJy Floridaas well as the Capitol office of Sen-ate Majority Leader Tom Daschle,D-S.D.

Thursday night a second NewJersey postal worker also wasreported to show symptoms of skinanthrax which would bring the totalnumber of known infections toseven. Federal health officials also

said they are investigating severalother possible cases of anthraxlinked to ew York and Florida.

In Washington, where the Houseand three Senate office buildingshave been closed since Wednesdayafternoon, officials announced withevident relief that the number ofpeople who show evidence of expo-sure to anthrax, which does notmean they will fall ill, has notincreased from the 31 congressionaland law enforcement personnel whohad previously been identified.

They said, however, that anyonewho spent time Monday on the fifthor sixth floor of the Hart Building'ssouthea t quadrant, near Daschle'sfifth-floor office, should take theantibiotic Cipro for the next twomonths as a precaution.

Since the anthrax was discoveredMonday, about 3,000 people, someof whom were nowhere near theHart building that .day, have linedup for nasal swabs that can deter-mine the presence of anthrax porethough not actual infection. A of

Thursday afternoon, results were infor 878 tests, all of them negative,officials said. The Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention advi edthat no further medical screening isrequired for those who were outsidethe so-called expo UTe zone nearDaschle s office.

"I'm very upbeat, very opti-mistic," Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., theSenate's only physician, toldreporters at an afternoon briefingwith federal health officials. "Peopleare working together in a harmo-nious, almost symphonic way."

But containing the anthrax scareproved easier said than done amid aspate of new reports, mo t of themfalse alarms and hoaxes, but aJl ofthem taken seriou ly in the new cli-mate of vigilance.

The story took an internationaltum Thursday when health authori-ties in Kenya di cIo ed that a lettermailed from tlanta to a privatehome in airobi te ted positive foranthrax the first confirmed foreigncase ince the ept. 11 attacks.

Letter to airobi ManTests Positive for Anthrax

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Health authorities in Kenya said a letter mailed from Atlanta to aman in the capital airobi tested positive for anthrax, the first suchca e confirmed beyond .. border since the ept. 11 terroristattacks on ew York and Washington.

The letter, containing white powder and everal small bits ofcloth wa po tmarked ept. 8 and delivered Oct. 9 to the man, whoopened it two day later. A culture test by the state-run Kenya Med-ical Research Institute on Wednesday came back positive for anthraxspores, health minister am Ongeri told a news conference Thursday.

"He saw the letter, he saw the powder and he looked at it and hereported it,' Ongeri said of the recipient, who he declined to identifyby name or occupation. The man and four members of his family areundergoing tests for exposure to the pathogen.

Authorities did not identify the man or his family and offered noexplanation as to why anthrax might have been ent to them or bywhom. There was no evidence other than time and similarity to linkthe mailing to anthrax cases in the United State.

Kenya is a close ally of the United tates. In 1998, a bombexploded at the U.S. Embassy in airobi, killing 213 people. TheKenyan government cooperated closely in extraditing suspects asso-ciated with Osama bin Laden to the United tates for trial.

Arctic Drilling Dispute EscalatedBy Discrepancy in Testimony

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When a Senate committee asked Interior ecretary Gale ortonquestions about caribou in the Arctic ational Wildlife Refuge sheought an wers from the agency in her department that runs the

refuge,But when orton formally replied to the committee, she left out

the agency's scientific data that suggested caribou could be affectedby oil drilling, while including its data that supported her case forexploration in the refuge, documents show. orton also added datathat was just wrong, stating that caribou calving has been concentrat-ed outside the proposed drilling area in 1"1 of the last 18 years, whenin fact the opposite is true.

The Arctic refuge was already the first issue to pierce the biparti-san consensus that prevailed on Capitol Hill since last month's terror-ist attacks, with drilling proponents pushing for a vote on nationalsecurity grounds and opponents arguing for delay. orton's behind-the-scenes rebuff to the Fish and Wildlife Service - which is theInterior Department's front-line environmental agency, but is not yetstaffed by any Bush administration political appointees - is likely toheighten tensions over the nation's most disputed patch of tundra.

UCLA Surgeons SuccessfullyImplant Artificial Heart

LOS ANGELES TIMESLOSA GELES

University of California, Los Angeles surgeons successfullyimplanted a self-contained artificial heart in a patient Wednesday,marking only the fourth time it has been done and the first time in theWest.

Dr. Hillel Laks, who headed the surgical team, said Thur day thatthe 11th-hour procedure "went exceptionally well and the artificialheart is functioning beautifully."

The patient, a man in his 70s, was said to be resting comfortably.The medical center did not release any other details about the patient.

Abiomed Inc., which manufactures the heart, has been criticizedfor withholding information about earlier patients who underwent theimplant operation until well after their surgeries were completed. Butthe company has responded by saying that its actions were meant toprotect the privacy of the patients' families and to avoid distractingthe physicians from their work. 0

Surgeons at Jewi h Hospital in Louisville, Ky., implanted thedevice - the AbioCor artificial heart - for the first time July 2 inRobert Tools, 59, who was near death from heart disease. Theyrepeated the procedure Sept. 14 on Tom Christerson, 70, who wasalso near death.

A team from St. Luke's Epi copal Hospital in Houston performedthe third procedure Sept. 28 on a man who has so far been describedonly as "desperately ill." All three patients are doing well on the arti-ficial heart, according to Edward E. Berger, a vice pre ident of Abio-med Inc., of Danvers, Mass.

Swift Officially AnnouncesCandidacy for Governor in 2002

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Surprising no one, Acting Gov. ane M. Swift declared Thursdaythat she will be a candidate for the state's top office in 2002.

Swift, 36 has occupied the coveted corner office of the gold-domed statehouse since April, when fellow Republican Paul Celluccileft the governorship to become U.S. ambassador to Canada.

After several missteps as lieutenant governor, Swift, in late-termpregnancy took office with low approval ratings and widespreadskepticism about her ability to do the job. In the ensuing months, shehas delivered twin girls - making her the first governor in U.S. his-tory to give birth while in office - and has gained public confidenceand popularity.

Swift has assumed a high profile since the Sept. 11 terroristattacks. The two planes that hit ew Yor ' World Trade Centeroriginated at Boston' Logan International Airport, vaulting Swiftand her tate into a worldwide spotlight.

Swift announced her candidacy Thursday after a send-off ceremo-ny for 100 ational Guard troops headed to Fort Dix, .J.

" he said all along she would be letting folks know her intentionsometime in late winter,' aide arab agazine said.

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Letters TOThe EditorGave Peace a Chance

I have seen many peace rallies planned andoccurring in the area recently. People areangry over U.S. bombing in Afghanistan.

However, I am worried by these people'sidea that we can just stand aside and makepeaceful gestures, and everything will be bet-ter. The problem is, this won't work.

Imagine 100 people in a room, 99 ofwhom are peaceful. The remaining one, if he.wishes to cause violence, will succeed in hurt-ing the other 99 people unless they fight back.But fighting back means sacrificing theirpeaceful demeanor for a little while. It's even Aram Harrow G

before we can relax and Jive our lives withoutbeing threatened. Otherwise the terrorists cancontinue to hurt us, without fear of retribution.

harder when the one person who wants to hurtall the others is armed.

And yes, perhaps he has his reasons.Maybe he feels threatened by how the othersare staring at him, feels as if they are waitingto laugh at him when he picks his nose. Per-haps he is feeling lonely and dejected becausethe other 99 people are ignoring him. It does-n't matter, the point is, if the other 99 peoplewant peace, they're going to have to eliminatethe one violent person in the room somehow.

I want peace as much as the peace raIliersdo. But I understand that we must sometimesfight and eliminate those who wish to hurt us,

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Economic Stimulusart Craighead

The battle between the Keynesian and thesupply-sider ha returned with a vengeance.T.he economic ituation is not in di pute: analready slumping economy took a big hit on

eptember 11. Billions of dollars of wealthvanished in just a few hours. umerous com-panie have announced layoffs with total joblosses in the hundreds of thousands. Previ-ously flat economic growth will undoubtedlyslip into recession.

Many have asked what kind of economicpolicy the government should undertake to helpout. To these people, I would first point out thatthis question rests on a false premise: the ideathat the government should engage in econom-ic policy at all. But surely, we can at leastexamine the proposals and see what is reason-able and what is nonsensical. (In all fairness,neither side speaks WIth one voice, but there.are some definite trends and common 'ideas.)

The Keynesians suggest that our econo-my's basic problem is lack of demand; there-fore, they urge increased government spend-ing on infrastructure, be it roads or schools orreconstruction of damaged areas, another taxrebate (this time targeted largely to the poor),higher unemployment benefits (for the poor),and cuts in payroll taxes, which affect mostlythe poor and middle-class. The essentialthings the government needs to do, accordingto Keynesian economists, are borrow moneyand spend it. Whatever we do, they demand,we must not reduce taxes on the rich, whoalready got a tax cut earlier this year; the richwon't spend that money anyhow.

The supply-siders see a different problem:a recession caused by slumping businessinvestment. Therefore, they suggest, we mustboost the incentives to save and invest. Theywant to allow businesses to expense theirinvestments more quickly, accelerate the pre-viously enacted tax rate cuts, repeal the corpo-rate alternative minimum tax (which hits espe-cially hard during recessions), and reducecapital gains taxes. These actions will increasethe amount of capital available for investmentand the rates of return on investments.

The Keynesians' ideas about spending rely,on a concept known as the "multiplier," If you

~give someone $100, they'll spend some frac-tion of it; say they spend $80 and save $20.Then the person who receives the $80 will inturn spend $64, and so on. The total spendingthat results from this $100 gift is, in fact,$400. In this case, the multiplier is four; itsactual value depends on the economic variableknown as the marginal propensity to consume:the fraction of the gift spent each time.

By this theory, to boost consumption, andthus the economy, the government shouldspend more and give money to the poor andmiddle class. Keynesians point to a fact not indispute, that the marginal propensity to con-sume drops with income, and conclude thatgovernment spending is beneficial.

This analysis fails on several levels. Itcompletely ignores where the money camefrom. Governments obtain money in three-ways: taxing, printing, and borrowing. Taxes

Philip Burrowes

Blind Date recently added a "Hall ofShame" segment to their new episodes whichshowcases "classic" scenes from old dates.With its daily, yet emitic, schedule - WCVBnot only switches the show's time, but willoften push it back to accommodate ABC pro-grams. As most people won't get to see allshows, this seems' like a good idea. However,even casual viewers will realize that the showhas only been on since 1999, so these nominalclassics are actually chosen from a relativelysmall selection. Not only is it an obviouslycheap attempt (from an admittedly cheapshow) to fill time with old content, but it'sactually not distinct from the "new."

Such poorly executed content-incest wouldbe ignorable if it were relegated to late nightsyndication, but it has become frightfullyprevalent. Cartoon etwork, while neverexpected to fill its schedule with new produc-tions, has gone out of its way to repackage oldprograms in a novel way. Adult Swim, itsweekly three-hour block of "mature" car-toons, contains one hour of original TurnerBroadcasting material sandwiched betweentwo hours of shows originally aired elsewhere(Cowboy Bebop, Home Movies). Those origi-nal programs are often a mixed bag of repeatsand the occasional new show (The Brak ShowSpace Ghost: Coast to Coast). Whatever timeis left consists of three shows containing high-

take money from one per on and gi e it toanother. There may be a small effect if theper on ta ed is richer than the person receiv-ing the tran fer payment, but the multiplier isessentially wiped out. In the second ca e,printing money merely causes inflation, andis equivalent to a wealth tax, so the analysisis the same. Finally, borrowing not only.involves a cash transfer and falls through bythe same analy is, but creates an additionalgovernment debt to be paid by taxation, Print-ing money to payoff a debt is a certain recipefor hyperinflation.

Now, even if this policy did boost con-sumption, it would not create wealth. Goodsmust be produced before they can be con-sumed. What is produced but not consumed iscalled savings; when consumption exceedsproduction, savings are depleted. The problemis that wealth is being measured in terms ofmoney ,not in terms of goods. Imagine thateveryone suddenly had twice as much money.Businesses would double their prices, andnothing would have changed. Money alone isnot a measure ,of wealth; money is only valu-able because it can buy things. Giving peoplemore money 10 consume will not increase pur-chasing power; it will merely increase prices.

The mindlessness of deficit spending isbest illustrated by a classic example: the gov-ernment that pays people to dig ditches andfill them back up. This gets money movingaround in the economy, but obviously, it cre-ates no wealth; in fact, it wastes productiveenergy. A real-world example is Japan'sexperience in the 1990s. Japan didn't exactlydig ditches and fill them back up, but it did goon an orgy of deficit spending for publicworks projects, and has nothing to show for itbut a recession and a massive national debt.

Once we recognize that consumption can-not create wealth, the rest falls into place eas-ily. If a government wishes to promote thecreation of wealth, it. must promote produc-tion; not consumption. Production can onlybe increased in three ways: more labor, morecapital, and better technology.

Labor is largely fixed in any industrializedeconomy with low population growth, butcapital and technology can grow withoutlimit. Capital is investment; investment issavings; and savings is past production thatwas not consumed. To increase the capitalstock, we must therefore encourage invest-ment. Technology is also linked to capital andinvestment. It is only through investment inresearch that technology will ever improve.

So, insofar as the creation of wealth goes,the supply-siders are invariably in the right.Wealth is production, and production requiresinvestment. The supply-siders don't have ashort-term fix for the current situation, true.But theirs is the only solution that can work,because they recognize in the words of one ofthe great presidents of the 20th century, anardent supply-sider, that "If weIook to theanswer as to why for so many years weachieved so much, prospered as no other peo-ple on Earth, it was because here in this landwe unleashed the energy and individualgenius of man to a greater extent than hasever been done before."

A Quick GuideTo Recessions

Says Law implied thatrecessions did not happen}but it died with the GreatDepression and the worksof John Maynard Keynes.

Dan Tortorice

We are about to experience the Unitedtate in a recession. Mo t readers of thi

article have never really experienced anAmerican recession, since during the lastone in 1991, most of us were too young tonotice.

Since this is the first recession we willreally live through, it may be a bit scary. Butnot to worry, recessions are temporary mat-ters and soon we will be looking back onthis one.

There are two ways of thinking abouthow the economy generates output. The firstis the black-box way. The economy hasresources, machines, people, land etc., andyou put those resources in a box and outpops a bunch of goods and services. Thisview of the economy doesn't allow forrecessions. If you put the same amount ofthings into the box you should get the sameamount' out. In order to understand reces-sions, one must look at the economy in asecond way, and real-ize that sometimesconsumers won'twant everything thatcomes out of the box.When this happens,businesses produceless, and they put lessstuff into the box.When there are fewerpeople put in the box,we have more unem-ployment. And whenthey put less stuff inthe box, less comes out, and we have lessoutput. That's a recession.

Originally, economists didn't believethat this could happen. They argued that inmaking the stuff that went into the box,enough income had to be generated to buywhat came out of the box. This idea, calledSay's Law, implied that recessions did nothappen. Say's Law died with the GreatDepression when John Maynard Keynes, thefounder of macroeconomics, pointed O"Gtthatthere is no reason that consumers will wantwhat comes out of the box. The only way toget them to want to buy it is if pricesdecrease to the point that consumer demandrises again. But he noted, and many empiri-cal studies have confirmed, that for whatev-er reason, prices are slow to adjust. Untilprices adjust, some of what could come outof the box, won't, because people just don'twant to consume it. This is the first cause ofa recession, a shortfall in consumption.

There's a second cause, which is similar,but worth considering separately because itdeals with businesses. Businesses invest alot, and that contributes to output. But thesedecisions are made on expectations. A con-sulting firm invests in computers, hopingthat they will improve its business and makemoney in the future. What happens when

Classic or Recycled?ly recycled animations, with Sealab: 2021's lionaire? The show Emeril is perhaps theentire premise revolving around dubbing a most egregious example of non-news televi-show from 1972. Even commercials are inces- sion feeding upon itself. Chef Lagasse starstuous, filled with ads for parent company on The Joey Bishop Show (now there's aAOL Time Warner. switch), except that he retains his Food et-

, Maybe you don't think highly of animation work shows while on his sitcom. With all duein general, and are not surprised that it would respect to Emeril, the day when the highest-share quality standards with a show hosted by rated network is drawing from the ranks ofa Talk Soup reject. cooking shows is a sadWell, you close-mind- day indeed.ed twit, take a look at Although ABC is aprime-time networks. Last weekends airino 0+The distant third amongUPN's schedule reads ~ J The Big Three - a farlike USA's will a Emperor's New Groove was cry from their WWIIdecade down the road. status ahead ofTuesdays' USA shows buttressed by discussions of Snow Churchill and Stalin -(Buffy, Roswell) are Ulhite and the Seven Dwarfs} it integrates parentboth WB castoffs, the company resources inlowest of the low. ostensibly on its historical imoaa the very manner mostEnterprise on Wednes- T disturbing to critics ofdays reveals the net- but in reality highlighting the conglomerates. Thework's Paramount I ,,{ h Wonderful World ofroots. Only Mondays re ease C!J t e movie on DVD. Disney not only bringsseem at all original, specific films out ofand even its leadoff Anaheim to the nation,(Hughleys) was cut from ABC. but also acts as a promotional tool for other

Let's not kick a network when it's down, projects. Last weekend s airing of The Emper-though. NBC has been winning the Nielsen or's New Groove was buttressed by discus-race for the eason to date but its strategy is sions of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,on par with UP's. Sunday feature Law and ostensibly' on its historical impact but in realityOrder: Criminal Intent, part of a franchise. It highlighting the release of the movie on DVD.is preceded by The WeakestLink which is not Similar synergy was exercised for the releaseonly imported from Britain but is essentially of Lady and the Tramp 11 where ABC actuallyan attempt to counter Who Wants to be A Mil- showed the original film.

those expectations do not pan out? Firms arestuck with too much investment, they havetoo many computer and machines andthese firms no longer want to invest. In otherwords, there is a shortfall in busine invest-ment demand. This is the second cau e of arecession. And the coming recession will becaused by a combination of this and the pre-vious reason.

The nice thing about knowing the causeof omething is that one can then fmd a cure.And there are three specific cures that willhelp lift the United States out of recession.This is why I can confidently say we will belooking back on the recession soon enough.

The first cure is for the government toprint money. Make more dollars and putthem into the economy. This may seemstrange, after all. If you just doubled theamount of money in the economy overnight,shouldn't things just become twice as expen-sive and shouldn't everything go back tonormal? The answer is yes, eventually.Remember that it takes a bit of time forprices to adjust; this means that the govern-

ment can createincome in the shortterm by printingmoney. When peoplehave more money,they pend more.When people spendmore, busine ses wantto make more comeout of the black box.So resources are putback into the box, gen-erating more income,which sustains the

increased demand, getting the economy backon its way.

To cure the lack of business investmentthe government can reduce interest rates.This happens as a consequence of printingmoney. When the government increases theamount of money in the economy, people'sbehavior needs to be modified in order forthese people to want to spend that moneyand not save it. For that to happen, it mustbecome less valuable. to save; that is to say,the interest rate on your savings must fall.When that happens, banks charge less forloans, businesses can invest more cheaply,and they begin to invest more. In investing,these businesses begin to employ some ofthese unused resource and the economygets going again.

The last thing the government can do isto force people to spend. ot by use offorce, per se, but by taxing them, takingtheir money, and then spending on publicworks projects, transfers to the disadvan-taged, and the like. This will get resourcesgoing again, and get our economy back ontrack. So if you are worried about the com-ing recession, don't be: Our government hasthe tools to fix it, and seem to be usingthem. It'll be tough, but soon our economywill be growing again,

Saturday morning fare has been surround-ed by crass commercialism for the past twodecades, so it would be nothing exceptionalto reveal any insidious relationships therein.Once ABC starts turning the family hour intoa giant ad, it is a major change for the worse.Aside from the foreign imports of Million-aire and Whose Line is it Anyway?, ABC'sprime time schedule seems the most originalof all the networks. Does Michael Eisnerwant to avoid seeming too megalomaniacalby keeping Mickey Mouse and Co. out of thepicture? Frankly, how long can the networkkeep holding back its own franchises whileRupert Murdoch gains from his own brand ofanimation? Would that really be a bad thing?Perhaps rehashing old hits (or misses) is giv-ing people just what they've proved theywanted. If for every dozen Afier-M*A *S*Hesthere's a Frasier, isn't the viewing publicbetter off than if it had no Kel ey Grammerwhatsoever?

As the the fiftieth anniversary of I LoveLucy passes them by they should be carefulto remember the spiraling decline in quality ofMs. Ball's subsequent projects. Leaving cre-ativity and originality aside, even if it is amatter solely of entertaining the masse , it isobvious that the same ideas cannot entertainindefinitely. Any production resting on theshoulders of its predecessor will rely increas-ingly on its name over its content. Should thatname itself be of questionable value, the endproduct will be all the more unpleasant.

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FILM REVIEW

SerendipityGreat Title Bad ovieBy Amy MeadowsSTAFF WRiTER

Directed by Peter Chelsom.Written by Mark Kleintarring John Cusack, Kate Beckinsdale,

Jeremy Piven, and Molly 'hannon.Rated PG-13.

could ju t live like that night they m 1. Bothcharacter lie to their fiancee and manipulatetheir be t friend in order to ha e a bot atfinding the oth r. In Hie real world theywould have to grow up and face reality atome point. In tead the haracters are dri en

to are elfi h and shortsighted ends to ay theleast. Life i imply much too short for thecenario here.

The movie continually emphasized thetheme of fate and chance, and I, for one, donot enjoy a movie clobbering me over the headwith the point. It wa tes my time and it wastesthe time of tho e who in ested their talent inthe movie. Cusack showed that he was capableof a romantic lead in Grosse Pointe Blank, butin this he is tremendously under-utilized.

We barely learn more about his characterthan we knew from the outset: he has a girl-friend and he likes Sara. Cusack certainly hascome a long way from his bit part in SixteenCandles, but I am not sure whether this waspositive or negative progress. Although Beck-insdale has not had much of an opportunity tothoroughly showcase her abilities, butthroughout the movie, she gives some smallglimmers of hope that she could do more.Instead of being whimsical, frivolous, or dra-matic, as her character suggests, she is anaccessory, like the knock-off Prada wallet shecarries. Serendipity does not fail from lack of

talent but from talent' mi use.I gues ed the ending from about the fir t

five minute of the movie; it i certainly not achallenging conclusion to draw. Although theending v a entirely predictable the rest of themovie could have been inno ative or at leastwitty but it fall in the rut of the wen-traveledroute. Serendipity is mindless, feel-goodmush' even the names of the lead characters,Jon and Sara, are bland.

It is a rare distinction indeed to say thatthis romantic comedy is almost entirely joy-less. The few moments of genuine comedy areprovided by Jeremy Piven (PCa. Ellen). Anobituary writer for the New York Times, hegives a hilarious toast to Jon and his fiancee,and provides enthusiastic support for all ofJon's half-cocked ideas, even flying all nightto San Francisco. Molly Shannon, as Sara'sbest friend, is a cynical, realistic owner of anew-age store. She provides a needed balanceto the movie, questioning and criticizing herbest friend's actions.

Serendipity fails to put forth a compellingargument for its existence, and it shows. Theplot buckles under the weight of forced coin-cidences and contrived acting. The theme ofcoincidence, the twists of fate stitching theleads together and rending them apart, thesearch for a soul mate have elsewhere beenfunnier, better, and more compelling.

Serendipity means a fortunate coin i":den e uch as when Jon (John

usack) and ara ate Beckin dale)meet 0 er glove at Bloomingdale' .

However the ne t hour of the movie namedafter the encounter is anything but a luckychance; in fact, I found it a rather unfortunatecoinciden e that I happened to be watchingSerendipity.

In the first 20 minutes, Jon and ara meet,fall in love, and - due to a twi t of fate -are eparated. Those 20 minutes could havebeen an entire movie in itself and maybe abetter movie than the entirety of this one. There t of Serendipity consists of a flurry of nearencounters with one another and failedattempts to reconcile themselves with the pastand the present.

Even though Sara is a psychologist, thetwo protagonists are very maladjusted people.On the verge of committing to marriage, theyboth search high and low for the other, won-dering what their life would be like if they

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9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - FamIly Weekend 2001. Please join us for Family Weekend and witness, firsthand, the envi-ronment in which your student is living and learning and get a taste of what MIT is like when the campus is in fullswing .. Room: MIT. Sponsor: Parents Association.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Orientation to'Computing at MIT. This seminar provides basic, non-technical informationabout the MIT computing environment. . free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - FORt Seminar. free. Sponsor: AeroAstro.1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Test Stress Workshop. Preparing for and taking exams can be overwhelming. Learn how totum test stress into test confidence with these preparation techniques .. free. Room: W2D-491. Sponsor: LearningStrategies.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Advances in the Control of Complex Chemical Systems. Department of Chemical Engi-neering, University of Illinois, Urbana. free. Room: 66-110. Sponsor: Chemical Engineering.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Mechanical EngIneering Seminar. "Multi-SCalar Imaging in Turbulent Aames". free. Room:3-133. Sponsor: ME Seminar series.4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Catalan paths and Quasi-Symmetrlc Functions. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PMin Room 2-349. free. Room: Room 2-338. Sponsor: Combinatorics seminar. Department of Mathematics.4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.rn. - Ge~ Electric R&D In India. A presentation by Dr. Jean Heuschen, Vice President andDirector of General Electric's R&D center in Bangalore, India .. free. Sponsor: MIT India Program.4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - GE Talk. The largest such establishment in India, the JFWTC fosters projects ranging frompolymer chemistry to mechanical engineering design to information technology. This is the biggest research com-mitment by any American firm in India .. free. Room: E51-151 (Tang Bldg.). Sponsor: MIT Japan Program.5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m . .,...Yes Yoko Ono Opening Reception. First major US retrospective of works by Yoko Ono, oneof the early participants in the international Ruvus movement. This exhibition surveys her career from the 1960s tothe present with films, videos, artist's books, installations and instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroeand Jon Hendricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free. Room: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor: Ust VisualArts Center.6:00 p.m. - 7:30p.m. - How to Have a Daily Quiet TIme. lou Soiles will talk about how to have a daily quite time. Thetalk will be followed by dinner .. free. Room: West Lounge, Student Center. Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fellowship.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Falun Gong Exercise workshop. The Falun Gong exercise is an easy and effective way torelieve stress and improve physical and mental health. Millions of people in over 40 countries practice these 5sets of gentle movements .. free. Room: 1-242. Sponsor: Falun Dafa Club ..7:00 p.m. - MIT Anlme Club Weekly Screening. Trigun; Dual! (eps 7-8); feature TBA. Most screenings are subtitledin English. Japanese animation is a unique visual arttorm for all ages .. free. Room: Rm 6-120. Sponsor: MIT AnimeClub.8:00 p.m. - Family Weekend Concert: An Evening of Humorous Music. MIT Wind Ensemble, Festival Jazz Ensem-ble (Frederick Harris, music director) and the MIT Chamber Chorus (William Cutter, music director) perform musicby PDQ Bach, Ives' Variations on "America": Jacob's "Old Wine in New Bottles"; Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No.7;Percussion and Brass Ensemble pieces, and also jazz works by Parker and Monk. free. Room: Kresge Auditorium.Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section.9:00 p.m. - Potluck Perfonnance Art Party. AKA show+tell. Bring video, poetry slides, anything to read, show,perform and/or consume. If you bring something to perform or consume, you get in for free .. $4 donation request-ed for selected charity. Room: N52-115. Sponsor: MIT Electronic Research SOCiety.

9:00 a.rn. - 5:00 p.m. - Family Weekend 2001. Please join us for Family Weekend and witness, firsthand, the envi-ronment in which your student is living and learning and get a taste of what MIT is like when the campus is in fullswing .. Room: MIT. Sponsor: Parents Association.12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Yes Yoko Onor First major US retrospective of works by Yoko Ono, one of the early partici-pants in the international Ruvus movement. This exhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to the present withfilms, videos, artist's books, installations and instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hen-dricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free ..ROOf!!: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center.1:00 p.m. - Reid Hockey vs. Wellesiey. free. Room: Barry Turf Field. Sponsor: Department of Athletics.1:00 p.m. - Men's Soccer vs. Clark. free. Room: Steinbrenner. Sponsor: Department of Athletics.2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.rn. - Lecture with Yoko Ono-SOLD OUT. The artist talks about Yes Yoko Ono, her first majorUS retrospective. Yoko Ono is one of the early participants in the international Ruvus movement.This exhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to the present with films, videos, artist's books, installationsand instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hendricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free.

Room: Bartos Theater. Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center.8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Travel to strange, new classrooms;meet interesting, unusual people;and kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up; guns provided .. free. Room: Building 36, First Roor. Sponsor: Assas-sins' Guild, MIT.8:00 p.m. - MIT Symphony Orchestra. Dante Anzolini, music director. Britten's Simple Symphony; Gandini's ESara; Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin. $3 at the door. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts,section.

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9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - family Weekend 2001. Please join us for Family Weekend and witness, firsthand, the envi-ronment in which your student is living and learning and get a taste of what MIT is like when the campus is in fullswing .. Room: MIT. Sponsor: Parents Association.9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - MIT Swapfest. Buy/Sell/Swap All Things High Tech. $5. Room: Albany St. Garage. Spon-sor: MIT Radio Society.12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Yes Yoko Onor First' major US retrospective of works by Yoko Ono, one of the early partici-pants in the international Ruvus movement. This exhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to the present withfilms, videos, artist's books, installations and instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hen-dricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free. Room: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center.1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Ballroom Dancing Workshops. Beginner ballroom dance steps will be taught. There willalso be a new focus on developing techniques as well. Open to everyone. No experiences necessary. No partnersrequired .. Visit our website for pricings, Room: Visit our website for venues. Sponsor: Ballroom Dance Club.3:00 p.m. - Unda TIllery and the Cultural Heritage Choir. San Francisco composer, singer, musicologist and Gram-my-nominee Linda Tillery and the all-women a cappella ensemble, Cultural Heritage Choir, perform African-Americanroots music - ranging from slave songs to contemporary African American vocal music and jazz - for the wholefamily. Music includes field hollers, moans, shouts, playsongs and folk spirituals, performed with sticks, stonesand tapping feet for accompaniment.. $15, $5 MIT students. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: President'sOffice; Associate Provost for the Arts; Women's Studies Program; Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Tech-nology and Medicine; Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity Program Office.

Monday, October 22

12:00 p.m. - Arts Coiloquium. All MIT faculty and arts staff are invited to hear Bill Aming, curator of the List VisualArts Center, speak on his work at 12noon. Lunch will be served; reservations required. For more information, con-tact Laura Moses by Oct 17. One in a series of arts colloquia organized by Associate Provost for the Arts AlanBrody.. free. Sponsor: Associate Provost for the Arts.12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - WINPartners. he WinPartners is a group of Windows workstation users and administra-tors who have banded together to support each other in the use of Windows. WinPartners share their experiences,ask and answer questions, solve problems, discuss hot topics, and wam each other of pitfalls. Any Windows userat any level of expertise and experience is welcome to join the group and attend meetings .. free. Room: N42Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - "Spin Manifolds, Einstein metrics, and Differential Topoiogy.". ote the starting time haschanged for this day's Seminar .. free. Room: MIT Room 2-143. Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar. Depart-ment of Mathematics.4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - STS Coiloquium. "Hydrology as Myth and Science: The American Experience". free. Room:E51-o95. Sponsor: STS.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - EECS Coiloquium Series. Distance Learning: Past, Present and Futures. free. Room: 34-401 (Edgerton Hall). Sponsor: EECS.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Continuum Seminar Series: Seminar moved to November 19. Room: seminar datechanged. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept..7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Test·Taking Strategies. learn the mechanics of taking tests at MIT, including how to pre-pare for tests and how to approach specific types of problems .. free. Room: Talbot Lounge, East Campus. Sponsor:Leaming Strategies.8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. - Monday Night Football at the Ear. Watching football at the Ear makes Dennis Miller a lit-tle more tolerable. The Thirsty Ear Pub.is located in the Ashdown House basement. Enter through the courtyard.Hours: Monday: 8 pm .. -12 a.m., Tuesday - Thursday: 7 p.m. - 1 a.m., Friday: 4 p.m.·l a.m. Must be over 21.Proper 10 required. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: The Thirsty Ear Pub.

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Low CostHousingAt Issuecity Council, from Page 1

affordable residential neighbor-hoods.

Cambridge is a desirable placeto live" Iskovitz said. "The cityhasn t really done anything to pre-vent the [housing] crisis."

Jens, on the other hand, disagreeswith changing the zoning laws."Cambridge is Cambridge becauseof MIT and Harvard," he said.Instead Jens believes that the maincause of the shortage of affordablehousing is the influx of people whowant to live in Cambridge.

"J think. housing prices could beeased if we allowed development,"Jens said. "Expanding the supplywould allow things to be moreaffordable."

In addition to City Councillorelections, the Community Preserva-tion Act, a measure to developaffordable housing in the city, willbe on Cambridge voters' ballotsnext month.

Many candidates hope that theCommunity Preservation AcJ, ifpassed, will help alleviate the Cam-

-bridge housing crunch. Councilincumbent Henrietta Davis said thatthe act would provide $5 million instate funding to develop affordablehousing in Cambridge. The moneywould also be used to preserve openspaces and historical buildings.

"We need to support CPAbecause that could give us $5 mil-lion from the state," Davis said.

An issue which is also on severalcandidates' platforms is the expan-sion of the Massachusetts BayTransportation Authority system inCambridge. The MBTA is a state-funded agency governed bya boardconsisting of representatives fromthe areas served by the MBTA,including Cambridge.

Iskovitz said Cambridge shouldadd more of its own local routes 'tothe system. He also encourages Cam-bridge citizens to use cars less forenvironmental and health reasons.

"All over the city, you get the.feeling that Cambridge is for dri-vers," Iskovitz said.

Jens would like to see moreMBT A service in Cambridge aswell. He 'thinks that the subway,which currently closes at midnight,should close after bars and clubsshut down on weekends.

Other relevant issues includelowering the voting age in Cam-bridge to 16, making MemorialDrive safer for pedestrians, andexpanding the system of bike lanes.

"Students should vote becauseall these specific issues are impor-tant to our lives," said David J.Strozzi G, a member of the MITGreens. "Democracy had to befought for because it is not automat-ic or inherent."

The Cambridge City Councilconsists of nine elected officials,who elect a mayor from amongthemselves. The main duties of themayor include presiding over citycouncil meetings and acting as thechairperson of the school commit-tee. The council also appoints thecity manager, who handles the dailyoperations of the city.

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J£ 'lFER DEBOERAdam G. Unikowsky '03 (L) and Patrick J.Nichols '03 placed first inthe Harvard University Debate Tournament on October 5-6.

Victory UnexpectedDebate, from Page 1

ment in the debate, whose styleemulates that of the British Parlia-ment. As government, the team putsforth the topic to be debated and hasthe burden of proof. Unikowskysaid that this is often seen as a dis-advantage. .

Before an audience of 200, MITFlippant presented a case in the finalround which asked whether or not anewly formed religion would benefitfrom having a leader.

Although 12 of the 13 judgesvoted for Nichols and Unikowskyover Stanford University's Team A,Unikowsky and Nichols knew thatthey had won before they receivedthe verdict. "The audience cheered alot louder for our points than fortheirs, so we basically knew duringthe round that we had won,"Unikowsky said.

"It was great to pick up the tro-phy," said Nichols, "especially sincewe weren't one of the well recog-nized teams going into the tourna-ment."

Team has unusual background"The vast majority of our com-

petitors are pre-law and we're allcomputer science or physicsmajors," Nichols said. "It's gratify-ing for us to know that even thoughwe're not. studying constitutionallaw we can still be competitive."

In the American ParliamentaryDebate Association's biggest tour-nament of the year, MIT was theonly technical school in the entirefield, which includes all of the IvyLeague, as well as top west coastschools such as Stanford and some-times schools from Canada. "Thefact that MIT, the lone technicalschool, is able to perform againstpeople who do this as their major isvery impressive," Larochelle said.

A further disadvantage arisesfrom the nature of the cases.Nichols said that scientific cases arenever run because their subject isusually too specific. "We're usuallycompeting on their turf," he said.

Flippant forced to-think on feetIn two of the final three rounds,

the cases put forth by MIT wereinvented just minutes before the

rounds, as they ran out of preparedcases after the quarterfinal round."We had talked about the ideas forthe last two cases a little bit, butmost of the planning was done inthe' fifteen minutes before theround," Unikowsky said.

"You become really proficient atimpromptu speaking," Nichols said.

Nichols never debated beforecoming to college, and Unikowskyonly had one year of experienceprior to joining MIT's team.

Going in to the tournament,expectations were not quite as highas the final results. "We really hadno chance of winning," Unikowskysaid. "Our goal was to be in the topfifteen."

MIT Flippant was not the onlyMIT showing in the final rounds.Krishnan and Larochelle finished7th overall and MIT had four of thetop ten individual speaker scores(individual scores awarded duringdebates to each competitor).Larochelle finished fourth, Nicholseighth, Krishnan ninth, andUnikowsky tenth.

Neither Nichols or Unikowskyfelt pressure to perform. "Before weweren't really looked on as one ofthe top schools," Nichols said."We've improved a lot in the pastfew years."

Victory boosts national standingAs a result of their victory, MIT

Flippant was ranked as the numberone team in the nation last week.Because they did not attend tourna-ments this past weekend, they arenow number three. Last year, MITA, which consisted of Amit Roy' 01and Krishnan, placed tenth.

Because the Harvard tournamentis so big, some see it as a projection

, of nationals. "It's about as big atournament as things get," Nicholssaid. "It will be the same field atnationals."

Upcoming tournaments that theteam will attend include Columbia,Brown, and Brandeis. These tourna-ments, though not quite as large,will be worth the same number ofpoints for national standing, andwill include many of the same topcompetitors who attended the Har-vard tournament. "Hopefully theywon't want revenge," Nichols said.

Vaccine Readiness Questioned

The vaccine isproducedby only one company,

called Bioport, which hasnot been able toproduce the

amount of vaccine forwhich they were contracted.

Bioterrorism, from Page 1 duction but is not at liberty toexplain the reasons used and meth-ods employed for the acceleratedprogram.

ment of Defense to create a ensornetwork which could detect anyform of biochemical agent. Griffithwas unable to comment on the mat-ter.

Modem day biological weaponshave severe limitations, whichcomes as a great relief to all. "Theonly substantial thing that [biologi-cal agents] will be able to do is

unnecessarilyscare the popu-lace," aid

chauer.

Anthrax' u eTo some sci-

entists, anthraxis not seen asjust a threat, butinstead may be atool. SpecificallyStarnbach, inconjunction withhis colleague R.John Colli r atHarvard Medical

chool, has fur-thered the sci-ence ofimmunology

with their research on anthrax'smethod of transmission. "We areinterested in using anthrax as deliv-ery system because of the unique-ness with' which P A can delivercomponents inside the cell," saidStambach. ''The challenge [in medi-cine] is not to get the vaccine pro-tein into the body but getting it intothe cell so. it can stimulate MemoryT cells which can be activated uponactual exposure to the disease."Some scientists have experimentedwith other methods to ensure thatthe proteins enter the cell, but havecome across high safety risks. Col-lier and Starnbach, however, havecombined proteins from anthraxwith proteins from other viruses 'andbacteria against which they wish toimmunize.

The PA protein guarantees thatthese proteins will enter the cyto-pla m and induce memory T cellsto create antibodies. "We do notwork with the anthrax bacteria itself. .. we are working with fragmentsof D A housed in E. Coli," saidStarnbach discussing the proce-dure' safety. The team has alreadypr.oduced results with a vaccine

against Liste-ria Monocyto-genes, a bacte-ria that causesmeningitis.They are' alsoattempting todevelop anHIV vaccinewith the samemethod. Thisvaccine deliv-ery techniqueis licensed by

Avant Immunotherapeutics, whoare working with Harvard Medicalto develop the technology commer-cially.

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which induces the reation of anti-bodie against the anthrax toxin.The va cine is an injection of largeamounts of PA, which the body thenlearn to treat as a foreign invader,developing the proper antibodyagainst PA. These antibodies alterPA such that it wi 1 no longer beable to bind the cell membrane, sub-sequently blocking the path for thefatal proteins.

Large cale attack implausibleWhile anthrax has grown a repu-

tation for being as the world's worstthreat since the atom bomb, scien-tists would argue otherwise.Anthrax is not con-tagious, whicheliminates the po -sibility of sec-

accine readiness in question ondary casualties.An antibody sounds simple It also does not kill

enough to create, right? fief all, instantly allowingthey've been made for everything the infected to befrom the common cold to treated and aved.Alzheimer's Disease. Unfortunately, Also, developmentthere are a limited number of of an anthraanthrax vaccines in existence for aerosol that couldmany reasons. Foremost, 'the infect a large num-demand has been quite low outside ber of people hasthe military since now," said David never been effec-Schauer, an assistant professor of tive. "A muchBioengineering at MIT. more technologi-

However, he said that vaccines cally advanced ter-can't be produced by just any lab. rorist group in"While they are gearing up produc- Japan attempted totion efforts now, there won't be develop an anthraxmany groups able to produce a safe aerosol and use it in a subway, butvaccine. There aren't good systems there were no fatalities," Schauerto test the efficacy of the vaccine, said.which most likely would have to be The inherent problems withdone in animals and requires great effectiveness might make Anthrax asafety." bad choice for a weapon. However,

The vaccine is produced by only it is a terrorist favorite due to theone company, called Bioport, which ease with which it can be produced.has not been able ------------- "It's quite easy toto produce the grow Bacillusamount of vac- Thefirst protein, "Pro- Anthracis," saidcine for which Schauer. "Some-they were con- tective Antigen, "is not one could proba-tracted. Being the ha iful' 'ts If, but bly grow it insole contractor rrn 'in'i e , their garage ifsince 1998, they serves as the delivery they wanted,had failed to meet while growing aFederal Drug moleculefor two dead- contagious strainAdministration lyproteins, knoum like smallpox is a(FDA) standards much more diffi-twice in previous as "LethalFactor" and cult task '" soyears due to poor there really is a''E',J ~ roo r;ractor.. "documentation. Uf51/lA1I r l catch-22 forWhile they have bioterrorists."been spurred by Over the pastthe government there has not yet few weeks there have been specula-been a date set for a third presenta- tions as to how many anthrax sporestion to the FDA. could kill a person, though there is

no scientific evidence to back upany of these claims. "For obviousreasons," said Starnbach, "therehave been notests on howanthraxaffectshumans, sothese specula-tions are notbased on anydata."

W h i 1 ethere willalways be athreat that arecombinantstrain of a disease will be used as aweapon, Linda G. Griffith, an asso-ciate professor of Bioengineering atMIT, has worked with the Depart-

Smallpox also concernSmallpox has been dubbed the

second largest bioterror concerntoday. The Center for Disease Con-trol signed a contract with Acambisin late September to recreate a 40million dose stockpile of the small-pox vaccine. During the 1970s,organizations successfully "eradi-cated" the disease, though strainswere left in laboratories around theworld, which concerns manyexperts.

The United States had scheduledto destroy all of its remaining strainsof smallpox in the near future,though that may change. LyndsayWright, spokeswoman for Acambis,said that the company has accelerat-ed their program for vaccine pro-

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Vest Announces NewSecurity Task ForceTask Force To Assess Risks Faced by MIT

Anthrax scares alert task forceRecent anthrax scares have

alerted many to the threat of biolog-ical materials on campus. On Tues-day, a lecturer in Foreign Lan-guages and Literature in Building14E reported an envelope contain-ing a white substance to,the police.The Biological Safety Team andCampus Police arrived at the sceneand quartered off and decontami-nated the surrounding area. The Student perspectives differcontaminated items were then Among the student population,bagged and taken to the Massachu- there are mixed feelings about thesetts State Laboratory for anthrax likelihood of an attack on the insti-tests, Curry said. tution. Some, such as Christina T.. So far, Curry reports that of the Fuentes '05, admit to being con-two items tested, both tested nega- cemed about their safety. "Beingtive. In the past week, four cases of at MIT, one of the centers of tech-such mail-related substances have nology and research, I feel more atbeen reported, but none have been risk than if I were _atany anotherconfirmed to be anthrax. university in the country," Fuentes

T u e s day's -----------...... said.incident has Others, such asbrought the issue "we affirm that [the Joshua P. Aronsonof biohazard 'O( "feel prettythreats to the Institute's privacy secure- here" andforefront. Curry policies] are as riahi "don't see MITsaid that the task ' ~. being a target."force has sent out today as they were in For Raymonda briefing about Raad '04, thewhat to look for, the past," Dean/or promptness withhow to handle TT",,~~ ,,,..~ te p~ which Tuesday'Smail, where to U"UU:Hyruuua DUUCa- anthrax incidentget latex gloves, tion Robert R Redwine was dealt with is aand details about sign that the insti-anthrax. said. tution is well pre-_ Curry admits pared for any situ-

that Tuesday'S ation. "The factprocedures were "not well orches- that MIT responded so quickly andtrated" and that "clear protocols for so well kept me at ease," Raadsuch a situation" need to be defined. said.For this purpose, Litster's subcom- With heightened security, themittee is arranging training sessions Task Force now faces the importantto plan coordination between the issue of personal privacy and hasBiological Safety Team, the Cam- created a subcommittee to overseepus Police, and the Cambridge Fire this subject.Department. Undergraduate Association

president Jamie E. Devereaux '02sees this as a positive indicationthat the institution is concernedwith the issue "That this subcom-mittee has been established to lookspecifically at what would beappropriate for MIT indicates thatthe Institute takes the issue of pri-vacy very seriously and is not bow-ing to outside pressure to discloseunnecessary information," Dev-ereaux said.

By Shirali Pandya

In re pon e to the terroristattacks of September 11 PresidentCharles M. Vest announced the for-mation of a new Task Force onCampus Security.

In a press release issued onOctober 9, Vest said that the taskforce would "assist us in setting pol-icy and planning for heightenedsecurity and safety for the immedi-ate and longer-term future."

The task force, chaired by Exec-utive Vice President John R. Curry,will look at the potential risks thatthe Institute faces, assess theserisks, and develop a priority list forhow to deal with them. Its focuseswill be the physical safety of peopleat MIT and the flow information.

An initial report, outlining themajor issues at hand and suggestingsafety measures, will be presentedto Vest by mid-November, accord-ing to his press release.

Group uses several strategiesThe task force has adopted a

three-prong approach for campussecurity. One subcommittee, head-ed by Vice President and Dean forResearch J. David Litster, is look-ing at biological, chemical, andnuclear hazards. Director of PublicSafety Anne P. Glavin is in chargeof the subcommittee overseeingaccess and openness of the cam-pus, and Robert P. Redwine, Deanfor Undergraduate Education,chairs the subcommittee aboutinformation policy and privacyissues.

MIT to limit vehicle accessIn his broad plan for campus

safety, Curry said that MIT may be"the most permeable campus" hehas seen. With many entrances fac-ing city streets and "virtually nocontrol points," there is reason forconcern. It is quite possible, he said,for a truck to cut across campuswithout being stopped.

Glavin's subcommittee is inves-

tigating the vehicular acces of thecampus, and implementing securitymeasures for protection. Some pro-cedures are already in place, such asincreased checking of permits inparking lots. Fire lanes, which areoften used for shortcuts throughcampus, will be blocked off, andbollards, jersey barriers, and gateswith card access will be installed atother key points. Curry hopes thatwith these precautions, MIT will be"less open to those we might wantto stop and check."

Redwine affirms privacy policy' •Another major issue at this time

is that of privacy and the release of

Executive Vu:ePresi-dent John R. Curry

said that MIT may be"themost permeablecampus" he has seen.

information. Redwine's committeeis focusing on "how MIT willrespond to requests for informationabout students, faculty, staff andothers in our community, by lawenforcement and other governmentagencies or the media."

"We affirm that [the Institute'sprivacy policies] are as right todayas they were in the past," Redwinesaid. "The policies that have histori-cally been in place are quite appro-priate for our circumstances." Theseold policies maintain that the per-sonal information of someone in theMIT community will not be dis-dosed outside of MIT without indi-vidual consent, or in the case ofhealth or security emergency. Anyinformation other than basic person-nel information will not be releasedin the case of a court order or sub-poena.

October 19,2001

ChomskyCriticizesPoliciesChomsky, from Page 1

addressed the issue of definition ofterrorism.

''Nicaragua took the case to sev-eral courts, but the U.S. simply dis-missed all the verdicts," .he said."This is a good evidence that theworld is ruled by force."

He added that this is sadly theculture in which we live, one inwhich violence works. "Terrorism isnot a weapon of the weak, it's aweapon for those who are againstus, whoever 'us' might be." ".

Chomsky said the U.S. govern-ment is unable to accept most of thecurrently existing definitions for ter-rorism because the consequenceswould be unacceptable; many of thepolicies maintained by the UnitedStates would fall into that category,he said. '

When challenged by a memberof the audience about blamingAmerica for what is happening inAfghanistan, he answered, "I amblaming you and me, because weare the people who can do some-thing about it, not an entity calledAmerica." These comments weregreatly praised by the audiences'applause.

Pointing out that no convincingevidence has been presented to thepublic, he said, "there is a possibili-ty that Osama bin Laden was notinvolved at alL In fact, thisis notthat illogical at all if we think abouthow a person in a cave inAfghanistan without any equipment

~could organize such a complicatedseries of operations."

When asked by a member ofaudience .whether he though .the Tal-iban's offer to hand bin Laden to athird country was a ruse, he said,"Certainly American governmentdoesn't think it's a ruse if they arerefusing it!"

Chomsky pointed out thatalthough most of the people in theMiddle East and Islamic countriesstrongly disagree with Bin Laden'sterrorist actions, they certainly rec-ognize and agree with some of hisreasons for hating the United States."They see America responsible forthe death of thousands of Iraqis, forthe suffering of Palestinians and forthe policies which prevent economicdevelopment in these countries," hesaid.

He added that the view given tothe public is completely different."We are hated because we are thechampions of capitalism, individual-ism and democracy, notions thatshould become natural everywhere,"Chomsky said.

Discussing the policy options toattack the problem, Chomsky sug-gested that the reasons for suchactions need to be investigated anddealt with appropriately.

"You need evidence for accusinganybody, even Osama bin Laden,and that's what Taliban has beenasking for before they can hand himover."

"The only way we can put a per-manent end to terrorism is to stopparticipating in it," he said.

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Judicial Board to Hear Tech Appeal of ASA SanctionBy Harold FoxSTAFF REPORTER

to .elate the rush rule ," aidPre ident lvar aenz-Otero G.

e had to do something. iola-tion ju t c n t go ithou theenforcement of the rules. reg-ulation tipulate that member tu-dent organization cannot recruitne member b tween ugust 15and the ctivitie id ay.

The Tech ha app aled to theG judicial board hich was

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'The ha these rule ," aidPre ident Jaime E. Devereaux

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t the rule and h the ability todetermine the sanction, it be orne aproblem.' .

Jordan Rubin 02 hairman ofThe Tech agree that the judi ialboard i trongly needed. e weretried ithout even kno ing therew a trial," Rubin aid. 'They aresuppo ed to aid tudent groups. Inthi itu tion, they are singling outThe Tech to try to pro e that theirrules have an enforcement mecha-ni m behind them. '

joint ndergraduate ocia-tio Graduate tudent ouncil judi-cial board will hear The Tech'appeal of the sociation of tudent

tivities' deci ion to revoke partof The Tech' office pace.

In late ugust the E ecu-tive Board an tioned The Tech forincluding repeated recruiting ad er-tisements in its publications prior tothe ctivities id ay. The Techha filed an appeal to the newUndergraduate ociatio Gradu-ate tudent Council judicial board.

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Howe er the B 0 changed the method of ticket distribution this year, introducing the"College Card" which allow T tudent a chance at free ticket to a pecific numberof concert, the fir t of which i on October 26.

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We never ran a full-page adafter Wednesday," Rubin said.

The ASA Executive Committeethen met, and decided to imposesanctions immediately.

The initial ruling was to ban TheTech from the Activities Midway.The newspaper appealed this penal-ty, and the board instead decided toreallocate a portion of The Tech'soffice space on the fourth floor of theStudent Center. If the appeal isdenied, The Tech wiIllose room 477,currently its business office, after theIndependent Activities Period.

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SPORTSCross Country EarnsMention inDID Poll

to OS, working together throughoutthe race, finished within .01 secondsof each other at 20:21 and 20:21.01respectively, 151st and 152nd place.

MIT's team, the secondyoungest in the conference, greatlyimproved its overall place from lastyear. The team dropped 350 points,the biggest turnaround for any ofthe teams at the Championship.

"N ow that was 'cross-country!"Coach Harold B. Hatch said.

Rounding off the varsity wereMargaret F. Nervegna G with a timeof 20:38 and Katie R. Huffman '04'right behind her, at 20:38.01. Thetwo placed 173 and 174 respective-ly. Crystal A. Russell '03 finished180th with a time of20:45. .

The team is now looks towardthe end of the season. Coach PaulSlovenski is hopeful about the team,though he admits the pressure is onMIT to perform.

"Times like these call for a deci-sive hit in order to separate out anysupposedly even parties," Slovenskisaid.

NEWMAC Championships areOctober 27th at Franklin Park, locat-ed at the last stop on the orange line.The women's race starts at 2:00 p.m.

The only conference team MIThas not yet beaten is Wheaton.Slovenski hopes to concentrate onthe Wheaton and Wellesley teams tosucceed at the Championships.

"Let's not even make it close,"Slovenski said to his team. "We'rehoping to claw our way past thosewho-have done it to us in other con-ference championships."

By Jennifer DeBoerTEAM MEMBER

After strong finishes in last Fri-day's All-New England race, thewomen's cross country team broke

into the elite Divisionill rankings, receivingone vote in the rank-ings for this week.

The poll, voted onby member coaches in

the ew England Division ill Con-ference, ranks the top ten teams, andalso includes those teams receivingany votes. Middlebury topped thelist, followed by Williams andAmherst.

The race included not only theteams included in the poll, but alsoarea Division I and Il teams such asHarvard, Brown, and Boston Uni-versity. The field included 41 teams,each competing with seven runnersin the varsity race.

Leading the MIT team wasMartha W. Buckley '04, who fin-ished 66th overall. Her fmal time,

- 19:27, was quick enough to eam heran honorable mention in the Divi-sion III polls .. At the Wellesleymeet last week, Buckley's time of19:32 and her second place finishearned her the title of NEWMACRunner of the Week.

Currently, the Engineers are hold-ing on to the number one spot in theNEWMAC rankings after grabbing itfrom Wellesley two weeks ago.

Julia C. Espel '05 came in sec-ond for MIT with a time of 19:50,105th place overall. Veronica A.Andrews '05 and Lynn K. Kamimo-

MARISSA L. YATES-THE TECH

Kathleen R. Huffman '04 (center) leads Margaret F. Nervegna G (right) and Crystal A. Russell '03 (left)in All-New England Cross Country Championships this Saturday. The MIT women ran in solid packs,with less than 80 seconds separating the top seven women at the end of the 5 kilometer race. MITplaced in the top ten Division III schools.

Lacrosse Club Wms TournamentVolleyball Ranks 20thPaulson '02 and Theresa Cheng.This tournament marked the firstofficial competition of the year forthe student-run team. The program'looks forward to continuing theirrecent success, both this fall and inthe spring season.

Kadyszewski. "This will be a bigyear for us if we realize this poten-tial."

The club, which was formed byMIT Varsity Women's Lacrosseplayers to prepare for the upcomingspring season, is led by Lorien M.

By Lorien PaulsonTEAM MEAfBERBy Roger F. Crosley

DIRECTOR OF SPORTS lNFORMATlO The MIT Women's Lacrosseclub went undefeated in fivegames to win the First Annual

Columbus Day Tour-nament at BrandeisUniversity.

Despite a lack ofany extra players forsubstitutions, MIT

easily swept Brandeis University,Northeastern University, and theUniversity of Rhode Island in thefirst round of Sunday's tournament,defeating them 11-1, 7-2, and 6-2,respectively. In the semifinalround, number one seed MIT facedoff against number fOUTBrandeis.Stepping their game up a notch,MIT kept Brandeis scoreless thistime and took the match with ascore of 12-0.

In the finals, MIT played numbertwo seed Rhode Island and the gamewa tied 4-4 after the 25 minute reg-ulation game. In sudden death over-time, URI gained the first posses-sion. However the MIT defensewas impenetrable, thanks to a coor-dinated effort led by Rachel KnipeG and Helana M. Kadyszewski '03.

The ball traded possessionsseveral times, but finally ended upwith the MIT attackers. While dri-ving in for a goal, Debbie Cheng'04 was fouled by a URI defender.Cheng was given a free shot fromthe center of the 8 meter are, andfired a quick bounce shot to theleft side of the goal to give MITthe win.

Tournament goals were scoredby Debbie Cheng, Theresa Cheng'02, Stephanie 1. Hsu '04, Paulson,Christine Lin '04, Deborah M.Rothman G, Jennifer M. Fiumara02, Lynn Matthews G, Kathryn S.Auw 'OS, and Maria C. Schriver'05. MIT scored a total of 40 goalsand only allowed nine goals intotheir own net, thanks to goalie JoyceC. Ho '03.

"The Brandeis tournament onlyproves the potential of MIT'swomen's lacrosse program" said

• The MIT women"s volleyball team recently won its fourth consec-utive tournament by sweeping through the Eastern Connecticut StateUniversity Crabtree Invitational MIT defeated Lasell College, PIy-

~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mouth State College, Endicott College, Babson Col-Soorts lege, and the host school in straight sets. ChristinaO'.,y AJmodovar'~ MIT"s setter, was named the tour-(YJa ~n nameut ~ valuable player, and was also selectedOllAIl ~U) the New England Women's & Men's Athletic C0n-

ference Player of tile Week. Barbara J. Schultze '02was named to the All- Toumament team. MIT is cmrently the top tankedDivision ill team in New England, and is ranked 20th in the nation inDivision ill out of 395 volleyball playing schools.

• The MIT women's cross country team recently captured theWellesley Invitational for the first time since 1993. Leading the wayfor the Engineers was Martha W. Buckley '04, who placed secondoverall in the meet. For her effort, Buckley was named the NEWMACRunner of the Week. Buckley covered the 3.2 mile course in 19:32,only two seconds behind the winning runner. Both the MIT women'steam and the MIT men's team are ranked first in the NEWMAC. Themen's team was the third Division ill finisher at the recent All-NewEngland Championships. The Engineers placed 12th overall in the 42team field, led by Daniel R. Feldman '02 who finished ninth coveringthe 5.1 mile course in 24:57. Feldman was the top finisher from a non-Division Icollege.

• MIT s Kelli A. Griffin '03 was named the NEWMAC Co-Playerof the Week in women's soccer for the week ending October 7. Griffinhad 13 points during the week leading MIT to three wins in threegames. The team currently boasts its best record since 1993.

• The MIT golf team finished third at the recent NEWMACchampionship at Holden Hills Country Club. MIT's Robert R. Desoe'02 was named to the NEWMAC All-Conference team by virtue ofhis fifth place :finish among all participants.

• In water polo, MIT was unable to defend the Eastern Division mchampionship, falling to Johns Hopkins University 10-14 in the finals ofthis year's tournament Five Engineers were named to the All-touma-ment team. First team selections for MIT were James C. Brady '03 andPeter D. Vanbuskirk '04. Named to the second team were David D.Lohrey 'OS and Daniel F. Morris '02, while Devon C. Charlton '04 wasan honorable mention pick.

UPCOMING HOME EVENTSSaturday, October 20

en' Soccervs. Clark, 1:00 p.m.Field Hockey vs. Wellesley, 1:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 25en's Soccer vs. Gordon College, 3:00 p.m ..

MARISSA L. YATES-THE TECH

Albert S. Uu '03 approaches the finish of the men's 8«IIome-ter race at the AII-New England Cross Country Ch-..pIonshlpsthis past saturday. Daniel R. Feldman '02 led the team with a9th place finish, while MIT captured 12th out of 42 teamsfrom Divisions I, II, and III.