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02139 Friday, September 28, 2001

9•PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE UA

The class of 2005 elected Vice-President Alexis R. Desieno, Secretary Sheila M. Krishna, Publicity Coordinators Joyce Y. Chung andKathy H. li, and Social Chairs Jocelyn K. D'Arcy and Elizabeth C. Laws. The President and Treasurer are to be determined today.

Freshmen Revote on President, TreasurerUAJudicial Board Declares Paper Balloting Invalid After Alleged Violations

By Brian LouxASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The Undergraduate Association JudicialBoard announced last night that the paper ballotelections for the Class of 2005 President andTreasurer will be run again.

Although the UA declined to comment on thespecifics of the violations, complaints wereapparently lodged against Jesse R. Alejandro '05and Daniel F. Kanamori 'OS, candidates forTreasurer and President, respectively. Com-plaints were specific to the paper balloting por-tion of the election, which was held in Lobby 10on Thursday.

Allegations against the two candidateincluded campaigning inside Lobby 10 and ille-gal po tering on the scaffolding outside Lobby 7.An individual close to the election said that "weall were told that the unwritten rule was to avoidLobby 10 as much as po sible."

The UA Judboard began deliberating at 7 p.m.,reaching a decision four hours later. The officialtally of votes began later than originally scheduleddue to the complaints. The counting did begin at 9p.m., before Judboard reached a final decision onthe matter. At the vote count, representatives forthe candidates were told that Judboard was con-vening to hear the allegations. Votes cast for Presi- 2005 Elections, Page 17

dent and Treasurer were not tallied last night.In accordance with the Judboard ruling, a

new round of paper ballots for the two officeswill replace yesterday's round of voting. Votethat had been cast online will be used for theofficial count. The new round of voting beginsagain today in Lobby 10 at 9 a.m., and will con-tinue until 5 p.m.

Kanamori, Alejandro up et b deci ionKanamori and Alejandro were displeased by

the Judboard's ruling, saying that their strategy

Vaamt Seats ATO Brothers Left Homeless by CLCIntensifyatyCouncilCampaignsBy Harold FoxSTAFF REPORTER

The Cambridge City Councilrace is heating up as the candidatesbegin their final month of campaign-ing.

Of the 19 candidates vying fornine seats, seven are incumbents.This means that at least two slots areopen for new members on ElectionDay, November 6.

As Cambridge faces the trafficcongestion, open space depletion,and soaring housing costs thatplague rapidly growing cities, themajor issues are affordable housingand growth management.

Incumbents have advantageBecause of the format of City

Council elections, name recognitionplays a huge role in the outcome.None of the seven incumbents areexpected to lose their seats.

The other important factor in theelection is fund raising. In 1999, theyear of the previous City Councilelection, the nine elected were alsothe top nine fundraisers.

These circumstances leave a. large group of individuals shooting

for just two spots opened up by theretirement of Councillors KathleenBorn and Jim Braude.

Brian Murphy, a Harvard gradu-ate and former campaign managerwho is running for public office forthe first time, is an early leader. Hehas raised nearly $35,000 and has

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By Richa Maheshwari last year. This led to a physical con-frontation between ATO brothersand members of the band.

"We notified them about thedecision with plenty of time forthem to make alternative arrange-ments. It's a punishment and itwouldn't be if we provided otherhousing," Scali said. This marks thesecond time ATO has been evicteddue to CLC violations. Last year,alcohol violations forced forcedboth ATO and Kappa Sigma to runrush outside their houses.

sleeping all around campus, orcommuting to school from places asfar away as tonehill College, anumber of concerns exist.

"It is unsafe for tudent to sleepanywhere. They are completelyhomeles , and if they don't findsomeplace to sleep, they literallywould have to sleep on the treet. Itis a complete health hazard," saidATO President George S. Gluck '02.He is trying to ensure that the ATObrothers can tay at other fraternitiesor with friends.

Jesse M. Barne '02 who com-mutes from either Welle ley Collegeor Jamaica Plain, spends 45 minutesto an hour every day commuting toand from school. Hi major concernhas been keeping in touch with the

IFe PlansFor 2002Transition

The first thing Nathan 1. Acker-man ' 04 has seen every morningsince Rosh Hashanah is the laptopcomputer he clutches in his armswhen he sleeps on the "slobbery"blue couch in the fifth floor studyroom of the student center.

Ackerman, along with the rest ofhis Alpha Tau Omega brothers, ishomeless for 20 days because theCambridge Licensing Commissionsuspended ATO's housing license.

Richard V. Scali, executive offi-cer of the CLC, said ATO was foundguilty of "underage drinking on theroof and a public disturbance whichled to an altercation." An A TObrother allegedly shouted a racial.slur at a member of The Roots, aband performing at Spring Weekend

Housing hazardou for brothersAckerman's backpack weighs

37 pounds because he carriesaround all of his books and his lap-top computer. Aaron J. Parness '01showers and changes at DuPontevery day. With numerou brothers ATO, Page 17

Committee ReleasesOutline for ext RushBy Dana LevineEDITOR IN CHIEF

Just a few weeks after the end ofMIT's final re idential rush, adminis-trators and the Interfraternity Councilhave already begun to gear up forrecruitment 2002.

"I think the only way you'regoing to succeed through the 2002decision is if you change with it,"aid Kathleen Baxter, the program

coordinator for the fraternities, sorori-ties, and independent living groups inthe Office of Residential Life andStudent Life Programs.

The IFC 2002 recruitment com-mittee recently proposed a basicframework for fraternity and inde-pendent living group recruitment in2002.

AndresSawic~ '02,thecommi~tee's chair, said that planning beganduring the IFC Leadership Retreat inSeptember 2000. "We started at theleadership retreat. .. From that point, Ihad weekly committee meetings," hesaid.

ew ru h to last two weeksUnder the current plan, recruit-

ment for fraternities and independentliving groups will begin on the thirdfriday from the beginning of the fallterm.

Prior to thi period, FSILGs willnot be able to do anything defined bythe IFC as "recruitment," which cur-rently involves such things as wear-ing shirts with greek letters and hold-ing events as individual houses or asa community. The report says that ithopes to ee the IFC "change its out-dated definition of recruitment."

According to a report publishedby the MIT Panhellenic Association,Panhel recruitment will run from thelast day of Independent Activitiesperiod until the following week.

Bidding and pledging would beallowed to begin two weeks after thestart of recruitment. In past rushes,pro pective members could notpledge until the day after houses firstoffered bids. The report state thatthis delay in the schedule will beremoved because freshmen will haveample time to examine their optionsbefore they receive a bid.

Other changes involve the elimi-nation of the clearinghouse systeman alternative, low pressure event forthose who choose not to attend Kil-lian Kickoff, and recruitment advi-sor who will aid pro pective newmembers with the recruitmentproces .

awicki said that the committeehas received administrative approvalfor the plan through monthly meet-ings with the residence system imple-mentation team, a group of adminis-trator charged with setting specificfor the re idence system redesign.VINCENT CHE -THE TECH

Nathan J. Ackerman '04 of ATO spends the night in the Student Center because the Cambridge licens-ing Commission has evicted the fraternity members from their house for an alcohol-related violation. Rush 2002, Page 14

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ComicsWorld & ation 2Opinion 4On the Town 7Events Calendar .10

Chancellor Phillip L. Claydiscusses the proces to improvedining services on campus.

The Womens' Crew Team, inhibit-ed by new CAArille ,fights toobtain Divi ion I tatu.

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eptember 28,2001

WORLD & NATIONLOS A GELES TIMES

The Rev. Je e Jackson aid Thursday he i considering a trip toAfghani tan to meet with Taliban leaders, but U. . official aid theybelieved the journ y would erve no purpo e.

Jackson aid he received a telegram edne day from a Talibanrepre entati e in iting him to talk about re 01 ing the i sue of hand-ing over 0 ama bin Laden ' in a way that preserve dignity andintegrity of a1l ide." He said he i considering leading a pri atAmerican delegation to talk about bin Laden listed by the U.. gov-ernment a the primary u pe t in the ept. 11 t rrori t attack in

ew York and ashington.Jackson told ecretary of tate Colin L. Powell of the invitation

apparently hoping to recei e instructions for a ba k- hannel diplomat-ic initiative. But Powell aid he thought the trip would be pointle .

ndisPermi trike From BasesTHE WASHINGTO POST

CAIRO, EGYPT

Tom between the conservati e religiou leaning of its people anda desire to help in the war on terrori m audi Arabia ha signaledthat it will permit U. . troop and plane tationed on it oil to par-ticipate in military action against 0 ama bin Laden and his protectorin Afghani tan according to enior U. . official .

Prince aud Faisal, the foreign minister trongly indicatedaudi willingnes to cooperate after meeting edne day with Euro-

pean Union officials. He said the kingdom wa committed to anaggres ive international campaign 'not ju t to track down the crimi-nals of the ept. 11 attacks, but to e terminate the infra tructurethat helps the terrori ts.' Fai al said that if it comes to militaryaction, audi Arabia 'will not avoid its duty" a part of the coali-tion, according to an account of hi remarks in the audi-ba ed

ab ews.audi Arabia provided another important boo t to the Bush

admini tration' campaign on Tuesday. It not only se ered diplomat-ic relations with the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, but did 0 in harshlanguage that accused the ultra-orthodox movement of havingbecome little more than a criminal gang that tarnished the image andinterests of uslims worldwide.

Gunman Kills 14, SelfAt Swiss Government Meeting

LOS ANGELES TIMESLO DO

A gunman wearing a police vest and bearing a deadly grudgetormed a regional parliament in Zug wi tzerl and, on Thur day,

killing 14 people and wounding at least 10 others before fatallyshooting him elf

The as ault - unrelated to the recent terror attacks in the Unitedtate - was the worst on record in bucolic witzerland, a country

that prides itself on its peace-loving image and low rate of violentcrime.

Police said the gunman, identified as Friedrich Leibacher, 57, shothis way into a joint meeting of the Zug regional government and par-liament with a standard-issue Swiss army assault rifle, shouting abuseand seeming to fire randomly.

The fatally wounded lawmakers collapsed as others creamed anddived for cover. Leibacher turned hi fire on journalists who had beencovering the parliamentary debate and detonated an explosive, whichblew out doors and window and filled the chamber with moke.Then he killed him elf.

Three of the seven members of Zug's government council wereamong the dead, and two more were wounded. But council memberRobert Bisig, whose name the gunman reportedly called out amid hisfury, was unharmed.

Bush Plan Calls For PuttingArmed Marshals on FlightsBy Edwin Chenand Ricardo Alonso-ZaldivarLOS A GELES TIMES

CHIC GO

Pre ident Bu h urged Ameri ansThur da to get on board thenation airline and 'enjoy life'and call d for armed ationalGuard patrol at airports to queU thepublic's fears about security.

But as Bu h outlined new e uri-ty measure at an upbeat rally on theOHare irport tarmac debate rum-bled among member of Congre sover whether he is going far enoughin using the go ernment' power toguarantee safety.

enior Democrats aid uni-formed federal officer hould carryout pa enger and baggage screen-ing. They called for a 3-per-ticketfee to permanently finance a new airecurity ervice that would be simi-

lar to U .. Custom. For his part,Bush i pr po ing higher tandardand cIo er federal over ight for pri-vate guards hired by the airline .

, We're being offered half a loafon thi critical part of security onour airlines," said Rep. PeterDeFazio, D-Ore.

"This is a bedrock respon ibili-ty" added Rep. James Oberstar, D-

inn. 'The most basic responsibili-

ty of government i to protect it cit-izen against a t of war.'

Th .. onference of ayors,hich i al 0 calling for federal offi-

cer at e urity chec points,announced Thur day that Los Ange-l s ayor lame Hahn would heada new ta k force to lobby Congresand the admini tration on the i sue.

Bu h authorized federal funding,estimated at $100 million to 150million to tate who e governorchoo e to temporarily deploy the

ational Guard to augment ecurityat commercial airport until hiecurity program is fully imple-

mented. That could take four to ixmonths, the White House estimated.

One key element of the pre i-dent' initiative i a significant andpermanent expansion of the Federal

ir Mar hal program. Armedplainclothes officers will be pre ent- but unannounced - on manyflights. Previously, marshals flew ononly a handful of flights.

Authorities declined to disclosethe number of marshals who wouldbe deployed, to keep would-behijacker guessing. But a senioradministration official said the mar-shals' ranks have grown steadilysince the attacks, adding, "that num-ber is increasing by the day."

The pre ident plan al 0 callsfor a 500-million fund to help air-line fortify cockpits again t intrud-er and make other improvements.The money an be u ed to equipco kpit with video monitors toalert pilot of di turbance in thepas enger cabin - 'so our pilotswill alway b in command of theairplanes,' Bush said. Anotherchange includes aircraft transpon-ders - identification beacon -that cannot be switched off. Bushal 0 called for resear h into remotedevices that could allow a pilot onthe ground to take back control ofan airliner from a hijacker.

Bush went to Chicago not onlyto announce the new security mea-sures but to underscore his messagethat Americans have a patriotic dutyto return to their routines, evenwhile they remain vigilant aboutsafety.

When the terrorists struck onSept. 11, "they wanted to create anatmosphere of fear," Bush said."And one of the great goals of thisnation's war is to restore public con-fidence in the airline industry.

Bush's appearance was aU butdevoid of the somber, funereal ambi-ence of many of the other post-attack events that Bush has attended.

Authority Given to Down PlanesTwo Generals MayAttack, DestroyCommercial AircraftBy Paul RichterLOS ANGELES TIMES

the American people, that is thekind of situation we're talkingabout," said Scott McClellan, aWhite House spokesman.

Previously, only the presidenthad authority to order domestic jetsshot down, which President Bushgave in the hour after the initialattacks Sept. 11 on the Pentagonand the World Trade Center

Since then, a military air defensenetwork that had focused exclusivelyon incoming international traffic hasbroadened its mission to includethousands of daily domestic flights.Defense officials have also tightenedties with civilian air authorities andhave stepped up fighter-jet air patrols.

The air defense system, which isrun by the North American Aero-space Defense Command, or

ORAD, previously kept 14 fighterplanes on constant "strip alert" atseven Air Force bases around thecountry. Now, 100 fighters are on

alert and ready to fly within 10 min-utes from 26 locations.

F-15 and F-16 fighters are onregular patrol over New York Cityand the Washington federal com~tJplex, and other fighters planes inter-mittently patrol other parts of thecountry.

A military source said theORAD was also flying AWACS

surveillance planes, which cantrack large numbers of aircraftsimultaneously. Air patrols are alsobeing used at major public events,such as NFL football games, theofficer said.

The generals who can authorizea fighter to strike an airliner includeAir Force Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold atTyndall Air Force Base in Florida,who has authority for the continen-tal United States, and Lt. Gen. Nor-ton A. Schwartz, at Elmendorf AirForce Base in Alaska, who hasauthority for that state.

The Pentagon, in its first majormove to strengthen homeland secu-rity, has embarked on a major over-haul of the nation's air defense sys-tem that authorizes the military toshoot down commercial jetliners in"extraordinary circumstances."

In an effort to encourage jitterytravelers to fly, the White Housestres ed that two generals will givesuch orders only in the rarest of cir-cum tances, when the president ortop ranking generals cannot bereached.

"If the plane is nose-down andthreatens the safety and security of

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By Michael J. RingSE JOR EDITOR

September is traditionally the most active month of the hurricane sea-son, it is fitting that we end the month by discussing two storms.

In the tlantic, Tropical torm Humberto continues to weaken a itslide toward Europe. t its peak, Humberto contained sustained winds ofup to 100 mph (160 kph). But Humberto tayed away from the shore, caus-ing no more trouble than choppy seas for re idents of the tlantic coast.

The situation is far less serene in the Pacific Ocean. Hurricane Juliettewill graze the coast of Baja California today. Juliette sports sustained windsof90 mph (150 kph) and is expected to dump over 6 inches (15 cm) of rainon the Baja peninsula.

Rain is in our local forecast today as well, though our shower will benowhere near the ferocity of Juliette's downpour. A trough slid eastwardfrom the Great Lakes overnight, bringing intermittent light rain to Bostontoday. The trough will depart overnight, leaving sunny skies and cooler thannormal temperature for the weekend.

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1\vo Candidates for NYC MayorWould Extend Giuliani's Term.By Dan Janison

EWSDAYNE YORK

In an unheard-of deal,· ayorRudolph Giuliani on Thur day gottwo of three contender for hi jobto agree that if elected they wouldsupport letting him stay beyond hilegal term.

But the mayor was unable toper uade Bronx Borough PresidentFernando Ferrer to accept the so-called 'unity" pact. Ferrer, whofini hed fir t in Tuesday' Democ-ratic primary, said Giuliani's pro-posed deal would set an unwiseprecedent.

"I just don't think it's right," Fer-rer said on ew York 1 cable newsThursday night. 'It's the mayor'sjob to deal with whether they'reanticipated or unanticipated ...There can't be a mayor and a half."

Giuliani earlier threatened ifthere was no deal he would try tofind a way around the term limitslaw to run again, which state law-makers are reluctant, and po siblyunauthorized by the law, to allow.

Gov. George Pataki and tateen ate aj ority Leader Joseph

Bruno ha e shown support for post-poning Giuliani s departure. But

s embly peaker heldon ilverhad not igned on to the deal.

Con ervative Party ChairmanMichael Long aid Giuliani told himWednesday that if there was no dealon a voluntary continuance, Giulianiwould 'try to seek a third term."

Long has said that he'd welcomeGiuliani onto the Conservative linedespite past friction, and that nomi-nee Terry Gray would step aside.The legality is murky but Longaid, "We are at war and '" we're

willing to support him."Earlier, Public Advocate Mark

Green issued a tatement sayinghe'd support a mea ure delaying hisinauguration for up to three monthfor the sake of unity and a seamlesstran ition "given the unprecedentedWorld Trade Center catastrophe."

Green said he "adamantly oppo -es repealing term limits" on the eveof the ovember election.

And Giuliani said the GOP nom-

inee, billionaire ichaelBloomberg 'agreed to it immedi-ately" when he broached the matterin a meeting Wedne day.

But for everal hours, su pensesurrounded the re ponse of Ferrer,who revealed that he poke for anhour with Giuliani on Wednesdaynight and gave Deputy MayorJo eph Lhota hi response Thursday.

Ferrer faces an Oct. 11 runoffagainst Green because he landed shyof the required 40 percent for nomi-nation. He has been the mainstreamcandidate mo t critical of Giuliani'spolicies throughout the campaign.

Ferrer aid Thursday: 'I amdeeply concerned about the prece-dent this would set and the implica-tion of this extraordinary step forthe long-term interest of our city.For centuries, we have made order-ly, constitutional transitions of gov-ernment - even in times of crisis."

Ferrer offered in tead to uspendcampaigning to attend meetingsconcerning the crisis and rebuild-ing and called for other candidatesto do so.

Taliban Locates Terrorist Leader,Asks Him to Depart AfghanistanBy Pamela ConstableTHE WASHiNGTON POST

ISLAMABAD, PAKlST AN

Afghanistan's ruling Talibanmilitia has located Osama bin Laden,the leading suspect in the Sept. 11attacks on New York and Washing-ton, and delivered a message from acouncil of Islamic clerics asking himto leave the country, according to theTaliban's top diplomat here.

The Bush administration hasdemanded that the Taliban, whichhas harbored bin Laden for fiveyears, surrender the wealthy Islamicextremist. But Taliban leaders haveso far refused, insisting bin Ladenwas under their control and .couldnot have orchestrated any interna-tional terrorist act.

Last week, a council of Afghanclerics decided to ask bin Laden toleave Afghanistan, but only of his.free will and at a time of his choos-ing. Soon after, Taliban officialssaid he'd vanished and that theydidn't know where he was.

On Thursday, however, AbdulSalam Zaeef, the Taliban's ambas-sador to Pakistan, said, "Osama hasnow received the ... recommenda-tions," according to the Taliban newsagency. "We have not lost Osama,but he is out of sight of the people."

The Taliban's conciliatory moves

appeared to be eleventh-hour effortsto forestall any foreign militaryattack. A spokesman for a major Pak-istani Islamic group said the delega-tion being dispatched to Afghanistanwould try to persuade the Taliban tohold talks with the United States inan effort to resolve "all disputes,"especially over bin Laden.

Officials in Washington havesaid repeatedly that it's too late forany negotiation concerning binLaden "and that the Taliban wouldface a U.S. assault if they don't turnhim over. Taliban officials havedemanded that the United Statesprovide them with solid evidence ofbin Laden's involvement in terror-ism, but Washington hasn't done so.

The U.S. position was reluctantlyechoed here Thursday by U. . offi-cials. Francese Vendrell, the U. .political envoy for Afghanistan,said, "I'm afraid when it comes toOsama bin Laden and al Qaida, thetime for negotiations on these issuesis past." Al Qaeda is the terroristnetwork affiliated with bin Laden.

Despite the new ge tures by theTaliban, its supreme religiousleader, the usually reclusiveMohammed Omar, publicly threat-ened Thursday that any Afghan whocollaborated with a U.S. interven-tion in Afghanistan would be "treat-

ed like those who were brought inby the communists."

On this day in 1996, Talibanfighters swept into Kabul and round-ed up official who'd backed theSoviet occupation of Afghanistan in1979. They dragged the Soviet-installed former president, Najibul-lah, behind a truck and hung hismutilated corpse from a traffic post.

"Those Afghans who want totake over power in Afghanistan withthe help of American troops are thesame as those Afghans who cameinto Afghanistan with the help ofthe Russian troops" Omar wasquoted as saying. "In case of inter-vention in Afghanistan, no differ-ence will be made between Americaand Russia."

The government of Pakistan,which has expressed concern overthe possibility of a violent spilloverfrom the mounting crisis inAfghanistan, is supporting theplanned visit by Pakistani I lamicleaders to talk with Taliban officials.

At the same time, Pakistani policewere reported to be hunting downand arresting supporters of bin Laden,especially in the port city of Karachi.Police there said they had picked upan undisclosed number of suspectedbin Laden associates ' for intensiveinvestigation and interrogation."

FBI Opens Civil Rights InvestigationsNinety Cases of HateCrimes Filed SinceTerrorist HijackingsBy Richard A. SerranoLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHlNGTO

Despite repeated requests forcalm from President Bush and toplaw enforcement officials, the num-ber of hate crimes directed at ArabAmericans has almost doubled froma week ago, and the FBI has formallyopened 90 civil rights investigationssince the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

FBI Director Robert S. Muellersaid Thursday that 30 FBI fieldoffices are investigating attacksagainst members of Arab, Muslimand Sikh communities around thenation.

In addition local police and stateagencies are handling hundreds ofother hate-related cases, includingslayings in San Gabriel Calif., Dal-las and Me a, Ariz., as well asnumerous shootings, beatings, andincidents in which individuals havebeen dragged from their cars.

Citing criminal charges filedWednesday against two white menin Seattle and Salt Lake City,Mueller warned, "These indictmentsare proof that those who attempt totake out their anger and frustrationon innocent Americans will beinvestigated and prosecuted to thefullest extent of the law."

In Seattle, Patrick Cunningham,53, was charged with hooting atworshipper and attempting to torcha mosque. In Salt Lake City, JamesHerrick, 31, was jailed for allegedlysetting fire to a Pakistani restaurant.Both crimes occurred two days afterthe attacks on the World Trade Cen-ter and the Pentagon.

The large numbers of attacksagainst Arabs, Muslims and Sikhsappear-to be directly related to theSept. 11 attacks, which federalauthorities say were carried out by19 men from the Middle East. Tra-ditionally, hate crimes have beentargeted against blacks, Latinos,Jews, Asian Americans and Ameri-can Indians, while people of Arabdescent have been ubjected to rela-tively few such attacks, according tofederal crime statistic .

Under U.S. statutes, authoritiescan file federal hate crime chargesagainst individuals who attack oth-er based on their race, religionsexual orientation, disability, ethnic-ity or national origin.

In many of the investigationsbeing conducted by the FBI, author-ities are weighing a wide range ofpossible charges. Mueller said thatthe federal grand juries in Seattleand alt Lake City indicted the sus-pects because they believed thatwere trying to take violent revengeon Arab communities.

In Seattle, Cunningham wascharged with four offenses:obstructing free exercise of religion,attempting to deface religious prop-erty, attempting to damage a build-ing and using a gun in a violentcrime. He pleaded not guilty.

The religion-related chargeseach carry a maximum sentence of20 years in pri on' a conviction onthe other charges could add 15 yearor more.

Police aid Cunningham pointeda gun at two wor hippers outside thenorth eattle Idriss Mosque andal 0 doused cars with gasoline.

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Union Wants to Allow FlightAttendants to Carry Stun Guns

EWSDAY

the climate of airplane cabin and cockpit has shifted tofear in recent wee , flight attendant are pu hing for federal per-mis ion to arm themselves with stun guns should they encounterhijacker.

The group's largest union, the A sociation of Flight Attendants,says it wan its members to have on-board access to such devices,according to its president, who approached federal lawmakers withthe idea thi week during House aviation security hearings.

"We consider that [ tun guns are] the weapon of choice," aidPatricia Friend, the group's president, who said the union is opposedto pilot carrying firearms. 'We would definitely need extensivetraining not only on how to use it, but under what conditions you

ould need to use it."tun guns are widely used by law enforcement agencies across the

country. The devices vary. orne, with the brand name of Tazer, usecompre sed gas to shoot barbs connected to metal wires into skin totemporarily incapacitate an attacker with an electric shock.

Other, less ophisticated version, are box-like, with metal prongsthat convey an electrical charge when they make contact with skin.They range from a few hundred dollars to $1 000, depending on thetype.

Report Cites BioterrorismVulnerability

THE WASHINGTON POSTWASHINGTO

The federal government' plan for responding to bioterrorism is acollection of poorly coordinated often underfunded, project thatspan I I separate Cabinet-level agencies, according to the first com-prehensive report on the subject ince the Sept. 11 attacks.

Further, the study by the General Accounting Office warns thatstate and local health departments appear equally unprepared to dealwith a biological assault, despite the fact they are likely to be the firstto respond.

"Bioterrorism remains a low probability, but a growing probabili-ty, coupled with a high vulnerability for our nation," said en. BillFrist, R-Tenn., who, along with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Ma s.,requested the report.

In this year's budget, the Bush administration has allocated 343million for dealing with a biological attack, 113 million of which isfor the Pentagon to protect soldiers in the field. The rest, whichamounts to less than $1 per U.S. civilian, goes to projects as diverseas environmental assessments, pharmaceutical stockpiles and com-puter upgrades.

More money is being spent by the Defense Department andother federal agencies on prevention and detection, although Fristand Kennedy argue it is nowhere near enough. They have urgedPresident Bush to spend an additional $1 billion to immediatelyupgrade public laboratories, train medical personnel, pursue newvaccines and therapie and secure overseas stocks of biologicalweapons.

U.s. Embassy in IndonesiaWarns of Mounting Threat

LOS ANGELES TIMESJAKARTA, I DO E IA

Concerned by mounting threats against Americans in Indonesia,the U. . Embassy here said Thursday that it will begin withdrawing"nonemergency" employees and family members who wish to leavethe country.

In a strongly worded waming, the embassy urged other Americansto con ider leaving and advised those who remain in Indonesia to"exercise maximum caution."

Outside the U.S. Embassy, more than 1,000 demonstrators bumedAmerican and Israeli flags and an effigy of President Bush on Thurs-day to protest the expected U .. military action in Afghanistan. Somechanted, "Go to hell America."

In recent day, everal Islamic fundamentali t groups have threat-ened to kill Americans if the United tates retaliates againstAfghanistan for the Sept. 11 attacks on ew York and near Washington.

One radical newspaper publi hed a death threat this week againstU.S. Ambassador Robert Gelbard. On Thursday, the ambassador crit-icized Indonesian authorities for not taking action against extremists .

"They have not been prepared to act, to warn or to arrest peoplewho break the law when there are threats against the lives of Ameri-cans' Gelbard told reporters.

Pentagon Unveils MedalFor Civilian Workers in Attacks

LOS ANGELES TIMESWASHlNGTO

More than two centuries after George Washington awarded thefirst Purple Hearts to veterans of the American Revolution the Penta-gon has created an equivalent medal for civilian employees killed orwounded in the ept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The edal for the Defense of Freedom was unveiled Thursday byDefen e Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who called it "a recognitionthat the world ha changed, that we can no longer count on futurewars being waged safely in their regions of origin."

The new medal will be awarded to all Defense Department civil-ian employees who were killed or wounded in the suicide hijackingsof four jetliners.

All military personnel who were casualties of the attacks willreceive the Purple Heart.

'Tho e Department of Defen e employees who were injured orkilled were not just victims of terror, 'Rumsfeld aid during a Penta-gon briefing. "They were combat casualtie , brave men and womenwho risked their lives to afeguard our freedom. And they paid forour liberty with their lives."

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A Meal Plan That Makes Sensefor MITa Cour e Pritchett Bio Cafe, Dome Cafe and RefresherCour e make more en e as a fa carte cafes. Students shouldha e the option of all-you-can-eat or a fa carte dining for eachmeal.

Howe er tudents choosing not to participate in the mealplan hould be prepared to make ome compromises. Swipingthe card for laundry, vending machines and photocopies mayonly be available to those who opt into the meal plan. In addi-tion a student who does not buy into the plan would have topay cash for a la carte meals and would have to pay a premi-um for all-you-can-eat meals.

There is no reason to treat freshmen differently thanupperclassmen with regards to dining, and similarly there is noreason to exclude graduate students from the new dining plan.The Institute should especially encourage Graduate ResidenceTutor and Teaching Assistants to enter into the meal plan tofoster interaction between graduates and undergraduates. Fac-ulty and staff should also have the option to enter a meal plan.

One of MIT's key arguments behind the meal planregards the process of selecting vendors who would accept theMIT card. Clearly, greater quality and variety of vendors willencourage more students to sign up for a meal plan. LaVerde'sshould be included as one of these vendors, given the obviousexisting demand. MIT should also explore options for includ-ing FSILGs and language houses in any proposed meal plan.

Fixing the flaws in the current campus dining system willrequire drastic changes, but MIT should strive to preservemuch of the current system's freedom of choice. We proposeoption six.

La t eek the Offic of ampu Dining announced that amandatory meal plan for all und rgraduate dormitory re ident

ill begin ne t year. 0 one at IT denie the need toimpro e campu dining and fun-damental change to the currenty tern might certainly be neces-

ary to impro it. Quality and co t of ervice are intimatelyrelated' in mandating a meal plan, the admini tration ackno 1-dged that fact and ought to take a bold step toward improv-

ing the dining y tern.Ho e er, it may not be nece ary to require all dormitory

re ident . to purcha e a dining plan. All fi e of the Institute'propo al in 01 e pen i e meal plan . The Tech proposes acompromi e plan that ill be more affordable for tudent andmay be more compatible with the current culture while tillputting additional capital into the dining system. Regardle ofthe In titute deci ion for a new dining proposal, studentshould be able to opt out entirely.

Under the current y tern tudents who choose to use thecurrent meal plan can put a little as $200 onto their cards, andany unused fund are refunded at the end of the academicyear. It i likely that MIT' new proposal will require partici-pant to pay a minimum amount, significantly higher than

200, hich will not be refunded. This minimum should belower than the current per term prices for all five of theoption currently on the table while additional plans offeringmore meals at a 10 er per-meal rate should also be offered.

tudents should also be able to add cash to their plans that willbe refunded if not spent.

The Tech supports MIT's efforts to improve the campuscommunity by offering all-you-can-eat dining. Such serviceencourages students to sit down for a longer period of time, astime spent waiting in line to pay will no longer be greater thanthe time spent eating. However, purchasing food to go is oftennece ary for student with bu y MIT schedules. The mealplan should offer both all-you-can-eat meals and a decliningbalance for a la carte meals, but an all-you-can-eat mealhould be e changeable for a fa carte credit. Certain dining

facilitie uch as Lobdell, Walker, and dormitory dining hallscan establi hed as all-you-can-eat cafeterias, but facilities such

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ErratumThe September 25 article "MIT to Impose Mandatory MealPlan" states that Vikash Gilja '03 circulated a petition address-ing the shortcomings of the proposed meal plan. The petitionwas in fact circulated by Vikash K. Mansinghka '04.

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The Importance of Progress in Campus DiningChancellor Clay Stresse the Goals ifMaximi ing tudent Input and Improving Food Service

ing or building dining facilitie cannot be ing ure that tudent in their house eat as office have listened carefully to the studentsmade. It i on this basis that we will ha e part of their re idential programs. This we and have informed me of some of the issuesminimum parti ipation 0 that dining vendor want to respect. We also know that some that are still a concern in the current draft.will have a stable client ba e. dorm have kitchen and we are looking at They are working hard and will look for

Our tudent de erve a comprehen ive how to include this accommodation for those opportunities at the Town Meeting and fromapproach to dining that support balanced and tudent . For most students, however there other sources in the coming weeks to greatlyhealthy living and that i part of what makes are no such choices. We also understand the improve the options. It certainly is true thatthe community fabric strong. The plan hould cost issues and want to make ure we adju t our students are often our most creativecontain features that match the different financial aid to match any extra burden the problem-solvers, and the input of students

plan impo es. We are very aware that many will be a valued part of our proce as westudent have limited degree of freedom in move forward.managing their re ource . I acknowledge that having been out of the

Initially, we cannot fully implement a sys- dining plan business for almost two decadestern-wide plan. While we will open one, and and having had a number of false starts, theperhaps two, dining facilities next year, our is ue of tru t is a legitimate one. To addressoverall plan calls for incorporating dining as this is ue and maximize student input, I wantpart of construction and renovation plan to note an addition to the process effectivegoing forward. 0, the extent of expected par- immediately. We will add up to 5 additionalticipation ne t year and in the years following student members (there are three presently)will lie in our physical capacity and in our to the Campus Dining Board. The board willability to sustain a quality program. be charged with reviewing comments on the

There are se era I draft option that have current proposals, refining the options, andbeen framed to begin the di cu sion of the designing a process for making a choicedining plan. The e options cover a range of among the refined options. The board willareas, and students will have strong views also develop a process for opening the ven-about which of these options would work dor interview process to a broader cross sec-be t for them. We respect these different tion of students. There is not current commit-views, and expect that the next few weeks ment of a specific vendor for the new plan.

Finally the board will par-ticipate in the review of ven-dor performance, and adviseon future implementationissues.

Dining is complex. It isboth a business enterprise anda critical student service.Both of these must work. Wewant to make this process apartnership for those whowill benefit from the service.A partnership in the process

that involves students as well as staff will pro-duce a dining plan that is fir t class. Weshould want nothing less.

Phillip 1. Clay is the Chancellor of MIT

Gue t ColumnPhillip L. Clay

everal concern have emerged in recentdays about the draft propo als for implemen-tation of the Dining Plan. I write toacknowledge the e concern, and to haresome of my thoughts on how important it isfor our community to moveforward with substantialimprovements to our diningy tern. We hope in this

period of comment to sortout the concerns that willguide the refinement of thecurrent draft. We also wantto enhance the student voicein that process.

For a period of nearlytwenty years, MIT has failedto develop and sustain a din-ing plan that supports community and wellbeing. Throughout this time, students havemade some valuable accommodation to com-pensate for MIT's shortcomings. Expectationshave been lowered to match the level ofinvestment. For some students, expectationsare now so low that our present inadequatesystem seems worth defending.

Our mission for improving our diningsystem comes from the Task Force on Stu-dent Life and Learning. In 1998 the' TaskForce proposed and the MIT communityagreed that we needed to make substantialimprovements in the overall quality, flexi-bility, and character of dining as part of ourlarger efforts to build community andimprove residential life. The report makesno mention of required participation by stu-dents in a dining plan. Our efforts since1998 to improve dining, however, haveshown that until we can count on major stu-dent participation in the plan, the operatingcosts and the basis for investment in upgrad-

Our students are often our mostcreative problem-solvers]and their input will be

a valued part of our processas we move forward.

Veena Thomas

Just when I was about to retire from col-umn-writing, MIT's powers-that-be have con-vinced me that they think up misguided poli-cies solely so that I can rail against them.

Quite frankly, it's getting boring; I'm run-ning out of creative, yet polite ways to writecolumns pointing out flaws in the administra-tors, thinking, and obviously it's not workinganyway. I've decided this entire process canbe automated. Hence, I have created Veena'sForm Column. Clip this column and save it.Next time MIT makes a decision, simply cir-cle the most pertinent phrases in the FormColumn, and voila! An instant column on theissue, and I don't have to leave retirement.

Veena's Form ColumnIn a surprise move, MIT has decided to

(house all freshmen on campus/ place residen-tial coordinators in dorms/ ignore the dining

I believe in freedom of choice)not imposition of mandatory

(and expensive} plans inan attempt to build a nebulous

"community" the latestMIT buzzword.

committee's recommendations and renewAramark's contract! house TEAL in the read-ing room! eliminate second-term P/D/F/ cutfunding for. IV sports/ place temporary facultyoffices on The Dot! decree a mandatory mealplan for all undergraduates on campus). Theadministration claims this policy is necessarybecause (there isn't any other space on cam-pus/ MIT doesn't have enough money/ thefreshman year needs to be re hap ed/ we needto build "community"). Students, however,trongly oppose this plan because they were

not consulted on the matter beforehand and(they like MIT the way it is/ the policy does-n't make en e).

Here are the flaws in said plan: (list flawshere). Here are some proposed olution to theproblem. MIT wi hed to correct: (list ideashere). The Undergraduate ssociation andDormitory Council (have pa ed a resolution

tastes and lifestyles our students have. Inorder to be sustainable, it should also fit stu-dents' budgets and the institute's financialconstraint. MIT have committed to make -over the next 3-4 years - the investment tocreate a system we can be proud of.

In 2002 we are committed to begin theimplementation of a minimum participationprogram. Minimum participation means thatparticular students will be required to partici-pate in the dining program. The proposedplans call for full participation on the part ofnext year's freshman class and no requiredparticipation on the part of students who arecurrently juniors and will be seniors next year.The standards for nexf year's sophomores andjuniors have not been fully established, but weanticipate some flexibility and choice that dis-cussions over the next few weeks win inform.

The concerns we have heard over the lastseveral days reinforce the need for this flexi-bility and choice. For example, some themehouses have well-established plans for mak-

The students deserve a comprehensiveapproach to dining that supports

balanced and healthy livingand that is part of what makes the

community fabric strong.

will provide an opportunity to refine theoptions so that students can decide whichplan offers the most flexibility.

Dean Larry Benedict and members of his

Here We Go AgainProposed Meal Plan Follows Usual Policy Cycle

politely asking the administration to reconsid-er this policy/ have not yet formed an officialopinion on the matter/ are forming a subcom-mittee to study the issue more closely). Theadministration most likely will (stand by theirdecision/ ignore student input completely/propose a mildly revised policy which willcause students to celebrate andignore the fact that the new policyis only slightly more palatablethan the old policy). Students canprotest this decision by (signingthe circulating petition! attendingmeetings/ joining a committee).

But for old time's sake, I willwrite one last old-fashioned col-umn on the latest edict to befallthe undergraduate community: amandatory meal plan.

However, even my real col-umn on a mandatory meal planreads like the Form Column;.mandatory meal plans are a badidea because (the minimumlevel of involvement is far toohigh/ nonrefundable balancesare a tremendous waste of stu-dents' money/ few people follownormal 5-7 pm dining hours/ stu-dents like cooking for themselves/mandatory does.not equal communi-ty-building).

Personally, I find it amusing that we havefallen into a set routine for dealing with newpolicies:

1. Administrators announce new policydesigned to "improve undergraduate life."

2. tudents hate said policy.3. Students protest said policy.4. Administrators ask for student input on

policy. (Note this is tep 4, not step 1.)5. Administrators work with students on

new policy.We could save ourselves a lot of anguish,

time, and effort if students were consultedbefore, not after, policies are announced onissues concerning them.

I couldn't believe the overwhelming oppo-ition I heard from students regarding manda-

tory mea) plans. Consider the following casestudie :

The document at <http.t/pj.mit.edu/Dorm-Con/Dining/> Ii t 5 propo ed meal plansstating that the there are 206 dinners per year.The dining plan described as "close t to thecurrent sy tem" requires both a I 50 initialannual enrollment for freshmen designed to

cover all 206 dinners and a retail balance of$1800. I whipped out my trusty calculator anddid the math. $1850 divided by 206 dinnersalmost exactly equals nine dol-lars per dinner. I spend lessthan that when I eat out.

in the vicinity? Certainly not.I believe in freedom of choice, not imposi-

tion of mandatory (and expensive) plans in anattempt to build a nebulous "community" thelatest MIT buzzword. Even kindergartners are

granted the option to choose whetherthey fork over their dollar bill to

buy hot lunch or have Mommypack them PB &J and no one is

accusing them of lacking incommunity spirit. I demand

the right to be treated like akindergartner.

October 3rd is Free-dom of Dining ChoiceDay. On this day, I willjoin others in exercisingmy right to eat where Iwant, when I want, byboycotting all campusdining services. I urgeyou to send a message _by doing the same.

I've commentedbefore that, one by one,MIT has eliminatedmany of the reasons Ichose to come here in thefirst place. (I've still gotmy fingers crossed that

they leave lAP untouched.)What I liked most about MIT was their

philosophy that "we do things a little differ-ently." I never realized that by the end of myundergraduate career, MIT would eliminatemany of its most unique features.

I hope that the MIT administration eventu-ally learns from its mistakes and decides toconsult students before announcing major newcontroversial policies.

Even my boyfriend, who eats like a vacuumcleaner, doesn't spend 3600 per year on cam-pu food. Ifhe doesn't, who does?

I asked my former roommate, a juniorwhat she thought of the mandatory mealplan. She looked terribly upset. "I haven'tput money on my MIT card in the two yearsI've been here, ' she said. "I cook most ofmy own food or buy it somewhere else.There was one time that I was absolutelystarving, so I went to Lobdell. But the food Igot was so bad, I had to throw it away. I justwent on starving."

Personally, I only load 400 on my MITcard per term, and I u e that mainly for lunch,laundry, and photocopies. I haven't eaten din-

.ner from campus dining once thi year. Fresh-man year was the last time I ate dinner in adormitory dining hall more than once a term.Have I felt myself isolated from the campuscommunity becau e I cook my own dinner ororder from one of the many ethnic re taurants

4.Administrators askfor student input on policy.

( ote this is step 4)not step 1.)

In the meantime, I will continue to begrateful that I am graduating this year,becau e I (don't want to be around next yearwith the implementation of at least 3 majornew policie I prefer to leave before things getworsel am tired of fighting! all of the above).

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For those of you who Ii ten to pop radio,what ong have you heard lately? Have youheard "Falling for the First Time" by BarenakedLadie ? Or maybe Fuel's new song ''Bad Day?"

Depending on which tat ion you tum thedial to, you may not ha e heard the e ongand many other in the last two wee if yourstation i owned by Clear hannel ommuni-cation Inc. lear hannels owns and oper-ates 1213 radio tations and 19 te1evi ion ta-tion around the country from its 'Q

headquarters in an Antonio, Texa .5couple of wee ago, the com- .....

pany sent out a li t of about a hundred z.and fifty songs to all of its tations. ~This list contained song the higher- Jup felt should not be played after the 0

orld Trade Center were destroyed •on eptember 11tho While they arenot forcing any of the radio station tofollow suit, the pre ure from on highwould cau e most to play along.

One can expect that the entertain-ment industry and media should besensitive at a time uch as thi andtake off songs with obvious implica- t.otions and literal analogies such as "Jet Airlin-er" by teve iller or" eek and Destroy" byMetallica. orne tations may even want toavoid playing depressing song altogether.

However, the li t made up by Clear Chan-nels does not simply recommend overtly con-nected songs or even just songs about death.Many of the ongs would even comfort peopleand give them hope. Peter & Gordon's 'AWorld 'Without Love" "What a WonderfulWorld" by Loui Arm trong, and "Dust in theWind" by Kansa are all on the list.

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lackli ted, But Why?2001

Empir . Especially considering the mini ulenumber of peopl who know this trivia, must itreally be wiped from the radio? Ro k the

a bah" ween the fir tong played overArmy radio during Operation De ert tonn.

hile the Ii t mainly target particularong from ariou arti t , there i one listing

that ay , 11Rage gain t the achineong . hy i thi one particular band 0

offen i e to them? Certainly there are moreobjectionable group in general. Marilyn

an on i in fact, mentioned nowhere on theli 1. ould it have something to do with the

tion. ormally KI 10 ought to be playingorne of the more recent ongs mentioned on

the Ii 1. I tuned in to that tation for an entireday, and did not hear one ong from th li t.During their request hour, I reque ted Rage

gain t the achine' Renegade of Funk."Though I wa ob iou ly one of the fir t tomake a reque t it wa never played. Otherongs from that genre were played, but not the

one I reque ted from the list. dmittedly itould be ju t bad luck, but till there were no

other ong from the li t played.According to lear Communications itself,

the e songs are not banned," the listis imply a recommendation. After thebad pre s started rolling in concerningthe u e of cen orship, headquarterssent out a release saying, "It is up toevery radio station program directorand general manager to under tandtheir market, listen to their listeners,and guide their tations music selec-tions according to local sensitivities."If they really wanted program direc-

;-..~~~ ~ tor to take charge and ju t 'take the, ~ pul e' of the locals, why even make~~~' ~ uch a list at all, especially if you

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for?/ bsolutely nothing." 0 matter what group's overt political views? Perhap the In times like these, when our nationalyour political beliefs, there i no reason to company took offen e at the fact that the lead security and peace of mind is important, wetake all song encouraging peace off the radio. singer i openly communist. Thi could even must not lose sight of what makes us different

Other song were taken off the air for their relate back to an incident from everal years from regimes like the Taliban. We are a freeArabic affiliation. fter all, the ong "Walk ago, when the group criticized the ew York people. We have the right to disagree and toLike an Egyptian" by the Bangles is certainly Police Department for putting 41 bullets into a criticize our military and government. It is theoffen ive, right? And the upbeat party song possibly innocent and unarmed black man. duty of a citizen to do so. We also have a rightRock the Casbah' by The CIa h has to go. Whatever the rationale, it is not reasonable, it to criticize companies for public wrongdoing.

The song i filled with Arabic references. In is censorship. Additionally, we cannot allow corporate cen-fact a casbah refers to a ca tle or the old part of Locally the radio tations owned by Clear sorship in any way shape or form. This lista Middle East town. The song really makes ref- Channel Communications are Jarnn945 a hip- should never have been made, but I'm gladerence to hi tory that goes back to the Ottoman hop station, and KISS108, a pop music sta- that its presence still gets some attention.

What' Michael?

Other music on thi Ii t include patrioticAll-American ong like D n cLean" Amer-ican Pie" and eil Diamond' America".

uch of the mu ic ha no other offen ethan to be general peace-nik anti-war mu ic.Why el e would you ban The Beatle ' 'OblaDi, Obla Da", Cat t ven 'Peace Train",and Imagine" by John Lennon? In fact'Imagine" a th first ong to be played after

T s rally for peace. The song ar' byEdwin tarr and Bruce pring tein i al 0included. For those of you unfamiliar with theong, the chorus goe: ' ar, what i it good

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would be his greatest challenge, with less peo-ple than ever believing he could succeed, mak-ing it all the more appealing.

Beside the circular logic which supportseither claim (he came back for this reason, there-fore this is the reason he will come back), thereis considerable evidence in Jordan's trackrecord. He was notoriously apolitical, notablyrefusing to take a stance against the now-retiring

enator Jes e Helms because Republicansbought neakers too (he supported Bill Bradley'spre idential bid, but that was after his retire-ment). While he never came out and said he wasthe greatest of all time, ne did make severalpushes for recognition as a tar in all respects,including proclaiming he would be named theNBA's Defensive Player of the Year. As for lov-ing the game, he has generally avoided being theleague's tool even barring them from marketinghis image on clothing, in video games, etc.

one of this conclusively proves eitherpoint, however, and indeed could go either way.Whymake a political stance when there is nodi tinct challenge to be overcome thereby?Doesn't an intense drive make him more charis-matic and thereby marketable? The argumentagainst "loving" the game likewise perceives

him as maximizing "revenuefor his employers (if the

BA sells Jordan T-shirtsthen ike is losing potentialmoney) and that defying theleague undermines conven-tion, which is always a chal-lenge.

Hi love of the game,"however, explains away the other conceptions.While it's true he could simultaneously be act-ing in pursuit of money and accolades, solelyplaying for the love of the motions reduces theaforementioned impul es to impure agents. Toseek a championship out of desire for that joywhile at the same time utilizing it for profit is abase hypocrisy worse than conniving: self-denial. Although such a psychological deficien-cy is not out of the question for a man who hasbeen under so much media crutiny in his life-time, it would simply be rude to suggest. Fur-thermore, an appreciation of athletics apart fromits secondary benefits e plains what is other-wise mysterious: playing baseball. It was eithera silent challenge or the ultimate challenge, ren-dering inexplicable either why he began orended; from a marketing viewpoint it was total-ly irre ponsible. Doing it for fun, as simple as itsounds makes the mo t sense.

Perhaps it is too imple. After all, he haslong been wary of leaving well after losing hisedge, as almost all professional athletes have.Yet we can be sure he didn't do it simply for thepundits any more than he believes him elf apanacea to the Washington Wizards. If it is aconglomera.tion of reasons which compel him,then it is best his decision. hould it indeed be ahedonistic jaunt, then who is anyone else totand.in hi way?

What made Michael idiael, they might s~was a coriflueru:eof physical prodw

extraordinary congeniality and marketing genius.

Philip Burro e

Let's make this quick, let's make this pain-Ie lot of you don't care about Michael Jor--dan and think it's ridiculous that others do. Hedidn't come back to change your mind. ome-where out there, people have indeed let them-selves be dictated by his pre ence, either gravi-tating towards him or expending surprisingenergy hoping for hi downfall. 0, he-didn'tcome back to fulfill any duty to you either.

ichael Jordan isn't playing professional bas-ketball again because he wants to prove any-thing to doubters, or because he feels an altruis-tic obligation to save any organization. Fact ofthe matter is, he loves the game.

ure, that's a trite explanation, symbolizingmore than it actually means. It simultaneouslyconjures up the contradictory image of a recip-rocal relationship and obsessive supplication ofone to side to other; either Jordan somehow bet-ters basketball or loses himself totally in it.

obody eriously makes either argument, point-ing to his very business-oriented demeanor,individuali tic pursuits, and previous dallianceswith other fields entirely (primarily, perhaps,

baseball). People will debate however, howmuch any of those factors have augmented oreven superseded his professed' love."

What made ichael ichael, they mightay, was a confluence of physical prodigy,

extraordinary congeniality and marketinggenius. For them, ichael Jordan as we knowhim was a product, an amalgam of theretoforeindependent factors. Teammates did not needhim to seem unimpo ing, adison Ave. did nottruly need him to be physically superior to hiscompetitors and basketball certainly could havedone without a Michael Jordan cologne. Com-bining all these interests however inherentlymade them feed off the other, and 0 Jordancame back to fulfill his contracts with each insome sort of benevolent collusion.

Other would contend. that what we con-ceive of as Michael Jordan is therefore totallyfalse, and that expecting him to conform withour delu ion will never explain his action.Instead they ingle him out as an individualcompetitor, who imply sought to dominateeverything that ood in his way. The trappingsof fame and fortune were auxiliary or - if any-thing - merely a econdary manife tation ofhis desire to control, except in the apparel mar-ket and not on the basketball court. Under thislogic, hi very achievement was an attempt atovercoming challenges po ed to him. Returning

A Poorly Thought OutBailout

Dan Tortorice

A week ago President Bush signed a billearmarking 15 billion dollars to bailout theairline industry. The bill was passed withoverwhelming support, by almost 300 votes inthe House and with only one dissenting votein the Senate. Even those congressmen whoquestioned the bill voted for it to show unityin this difficult time. But this is not for thebest, because the air line bailout bill is mis-conceived and harmful.

Part of the bill is meant to compensate theairlines for time they were required to groundtheir planes. However, as was duly noted byobjecting congressmen, $15 billion fat:exceeds the loss suffered by airline industrywhen the Federal Aviation Administrationgrounded all flights.

The real motive behind the bill is to keepairlines running at the same level they werebefore the events of September 11tho While itis noble to say that we will not let terroristseffect our airline industry, it is also a waste ofresources. The airlines are scaling back flightsbecause people do not want to fly. They can notfind enough people to fill a flight so that itwould be profitable for the airline to fly. Peoplederive a benefit from flying, and are willing topay money to receive that benefit. If the airlinescan not fill planes, it is because the economicvalue of the benefits the flight will create areexceeded by the costs. These are flights thatshould not happen, and they waste resources.

When the federal government subsidizes air-line industries, it pays for these flights to takeplace. It pays for flights which have more coststhan benefits ..It pay money so we can wind upwith less resources than we had before. Whywould congress do such a thing? Their justifica-

The airline industry createsexternal costs to society that they_ are not required to pay for.

tion is that the airline industry would collap e ifnot for their aid. This is silly. While personaltravel will decline, business travel will probablynot be affected much. Moreover, while peoplecan chose to take trains short distances, air trav-el is still the only realistic way to travel acrosscountry. What congress must believe in order tojustify their bill is that there will be a hugedecrease in demand that will wipe out the air-line industry, and people will later see the lightand want to travel by air again. And they mustalso believe that it would cost more than IS bil-

lion dollars to resurrect the airline industry.Only then would it make sense to spend the 15billion now. This simply is not the case.

The irony of this whole situation is that. governments usually argue that an industrygives some external benefit to society, a bene-fit that they can not force consumers to payfor, and that is why we should fund that indus-try. But if anything, the' airline industry cre-ates external costs to society that they are notrequired to pay for. Pollution from theirplanes, the demolition of a couple of billiondollars of property in Manhattan, and the

.I would venture to say that,this month, the societal costs

of the airline industry operatingwere greater than its benefits.

death of over 6,000 people are just a few ofthese costs. I would venture to say that, thismonth, the societal costs of the airline indus-try operating were greater than its benefits.

But even if you think bailing out the indus-try is a good idea, there are some more per-verse elements of the bill that you would mostlikely find objectionable.

Take, for example, the provision thatrequires airlines to freeze salaries of airlineexecutives. Now is the time that airlines needtheir best executives. To prohibit them fromincreasing salaries, to not allow airlines to com-pete with other industries for the top execu-tives, is counterproductive. Congress shouldencourage airlines to do what it takes to hire thebest possible managers. They need people whocan confront the problems that these eventshave made evident, and provide solutions sothat this sort oftragedy never happens again.

A final provision, which seems quiteinsensitive, is a provision that win allow fami-lies to receive compensation from a specialgovernment fund if they give up their right tosue airlines. While this is an attempt tostreamline the compensation process, it seemsdownright wrong to ask people who lost afamily member to give up their legal rights, togive up their right to seek justice. While theairline industry clearly does not have the mainshare of culpability here the victims' familiesmay believe they do. They may feel they oweit to their loved ones who died to hold the air-lines accountable for the shortcomings whichmade these attacks possible. Our governmentshould not try to bribe them to give up thisperceived obligation. Often when actions aretaken in haste we later come to regret them.This bilI is one such example.

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ClubsAxis13 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2437Sundays: See valon below.Mondays: Static. Gay, casual

dress. $5, 18+.Thursdays: ChromejSkybar. Pro-

gressive house, soul, disco;dress code.$10,19+; $8, 21 .

Fridays: Spin Cycle. Prog, house,80s.$12, 19+; 10, 21+.

Avalon15 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2424Sundays: Gay Night (with Axis on

long weekends). Featuringhardcore house and techno.$10,21+.

Thursdays: International Night.Eurohouse. $10, 19+.

Fridays: Avaland. House. $15,19+.

Saturdays: Downtown. Modernhouse, club classics, and Top40 hits. $15,21+.

Karma Club9 Lansdowne St., 617-421-9595Sundays: "Current dance

favorites" by guest DJs. Covervaries.

Tuesdays: Phatt Tuesdays. WithBill's bar, modern dancemusic. $10.

Wednesdays: STP. Gay-friendly,house. $15,21+.

Thursdays: Groove Factor.House.

Fridays: Pure. Drum and bass,guest DJ. $15, 19+.

Saturdays: Elements of Life.International House. $15.

Man Ray21 Brookline St., Cambridge,617-864-0400

Wednesdays: Curses. Goth.Appropriate dress required. $5,19+; $3, 21+.

Thursdays: Campus. Populartunes + House. Gay, casualdress. $10, 19+; $8, 21+.

Fridays: Fantasy Factory (Firstand third Friday of the month.Features kinky fetishes andindustrial music.) Hell Night(every second Friday. 19+.Includes Goth music.) Ooze(the last Friday of the month.)$10, 21+. reduced prices forthose wearing fetish gear.

Saturdays: Liquid. Discojhse. +New Wave.$15,19+; $10, 21+.

Popular MusicAxis13 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2437Next: 423-NEXT

Oct. 6: Gold Frapp.Oct. 7: Bis.Oct. 17: Lucky

Confusion/Bad Ronald.Nov. 9: Social Distortion.

Avalon15 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2424

Sep. 28: Long Beach Dub AllStars

Oct. 4: St. Germain.Oct. 12: Megadeth.Oct. 16: Sum 41.Oct. 30: They Might Be GiantsOct. 31: Cowboy Mouth, Fighting

Gravity.

Berklee Performance CenterBerklee College of Music1140 Boylston St.Free student recitals and facultyconcerts, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.some weekdays. For info onthese concerts, call the Perfor-mance Information Line at 747-8820.Oct. 13: Dulce Pontes.

Club Passim47 Palmer St, Cambridge, 617-

492-7679

Tuesdays: Open Mic at 8 p.m.(sign up at 7:30). $5.Sep. 28-29: Kevin So.Sep. 30: Richard Cambridge'sPoet's Theater presents EartH-eart.Oct. 1: 2 Song Open Mic featur-ing Sarah Siskind.Oct. 3: Richard Gates Benefitwith Louise Taylor, Jim Henry,Deb Pasternak.Oct. 4: Anne Heaton.Oct. 5: Sonia CD Release, Tim

TREARTS

A ~eekly guide to the arts in BostonSeptember 28 October 4-

Compiled by Fred ChoiSend submissions to ott@the-tech.mit.edu or by interdepartmental mail to "On The Town," The Tech, W20-483.

BIG HASSLE PR

Multi-talented musician Robert Randolph (above, not to be confused with the Dean, of course) plays the ParadiseRock Club tonight.

Mason.Oct. 6: Paul Rishell and AnnieRaines.Oct. 7: Jon Svetkey.Oct. 10: James O'Brien,Gooselove & Antara.Oct. 11: Dave Carter & TracyGrammer.Oct. 12: Carrie Newcomer.Oct. 13: Don White.Oct. 17: Teddy Goldstein, BrianWebb.

Boys

FleetCenterTicketmaster: 931-2000.Oct. 2-3: Neil Diamond.Oct. 26: Rod StewartNov. 24: Bob Dylan

The Middle East

Central Square, 354-8238Ticketmaster: 931-2000.

Sep. 28: Uncle Sammy, Ulu.Sep. 28: Black Eyed Snakes.Sep. 29: Crack Torch, Damn Per-

sonals, Lost City Angels.Oct. 1: Elephant Men.Oct. 2: Quasi.Oct. 4: Ass Ponys.Oct. 7: Beulan, Mates of State.Oct. 8: Explosions In the Sky.Oct. 9: Handsome Family, Amor

Belhom Duo.Oct. 11: Fridge, Charlene, Land-

ing.Oct. 12: Scissorflght, Roadsaw,Oct. 13: Sleazegriders Wedding

Party.Oct. 17: Ivy, David Mead.

Orpheum Theatre1 Hamilton Pl., Boston, 617-679-0810Ticketmaster: 931-2000

Oct. 2: Nick Cave and theSeeds.

Oct. 5: TravisOct. 10: Judas Priest.Oct. 12: Janeane Garofolo.Oct. 13: Gov't Mule.

Sanders Theatre45 Quincy St., 02138, 617-496-

2222

Oct. 12: Waifs and Nerisssa and

A Midsummer Night's DreamThrough Sep. 30, at the Wang Theatre, 270JremontSt. The Boston Ballet begins its season with Gerald

Arpino's Suite Saint-Saens, a ballet so fast and brightthat Agnes de Mille once said it was "like standing in a

flight of meteors." The evening also includes BruceWell's Shakespearean familiar romp, A Midsummer

Night's Dream (Music by Felix Mendelssohn), a tale offour lovers caught up in the strange enchantment of amidsummer's eve as Oberon, the King of the Fairies,

spars with his proud queen, Titania. Buy tickets on-linethrough tete-charge (-aetecnsrge.com» or call 1-800-

447-7400.

Katryna Nields.Oct. 13: Four Bitchin Babes.Nov. 17: Folk Concert With Cris

Williamson.Nov. 24: Capitol Steps.

Wang Center for the PerformingArts

270 Tremont St., Boston 02116,617-482-9393

Oct. 12: Bjork.Oct. 15: Tori Amos.

Jazz MusicRegattabarConcertix: 876-77771 Bennett St., Cambridge 02138,617-662-5000

Sep. 28-29: Dave Holland Quin-tet.

Scu/lers Jazz ClubDoubleTree Guest Suites, 400

Soldiers Field Rd., Boston,617-562-4111

Sep. 28: Acoustic Alchemy.Oct. 25-26: Dee Dee Bridgewa-

ter.

Classical Music

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Boston Symphony OrchestraTickets: 266-1492.Performances at Symphony Hall,301 Massachusetts Ave., Boston,unless otherwise noted. For MITStudents: Tickets are offered forThursday evening concerts (8p.m.) and Friday afternoon con-certs (1:30 p.m.) and are avail-able on the day of the concertonly at the BSO Box Office atSymphony Hall (301 Mass. Ave.Open 10 a.m. - 6.p.m.). Two tick-ets may be obtained with two cur-rent valid MIT student IDs, sub-ject to availability. For updatedMIT student ticket availability, call638-9478 after 10 a.m. on theday of concert.

Oct. 2 at 6:30 p.m.: Seiji Ozawa,conductor; Dawn Upshaw, sopra-no; Susan Graham, rnezzo-sopra-no; Blythe Danner, narrator.Women of the Tanglewood Festi-val Chorus, John Oliver, conduc-tor. Mendelssohn: Overture andComplete Incidental Music to AMidsummer Night's Dream, Op.61.

Oct. 5, 6, 9 at 8 p.m.: SeijiOzawa, conductor; Peter Serkin,piano. Brahms: Piano ConcertoNo.1, Op. 15; Symphony No.1,Op. 68. Pre-concert talk by MarcMandel.

TheaterJames Joyce's The DeadAt the Huntington Theatre Com-pany, 264 Huntington Ave (Takethe Green Line to Symphony).Through Oct. 14. Music by ShaunDavey. After it closed an extend-ed run at Playwright's Horizon off-Broadway, the show moved to asuccessful run on Broadway, win-ning a Tony for Best Book. Theshow is based on James Joyce'sbrilliant short story. It's set atthe Christmas party of GabrielConroy's music-loving aunts,where three generations gathereach year for a holiday feast.This year, a guest's song awak-ens a memory for Gabriel's wifeand revives a long-buried pas-sion. For tickets, call Ticketmas-ter at 617-931-2000.

Sunday In the Park with GeorgeThrough Oct. 5: At the LyricStage, 140 Clarendon St.,Boston. 1985 Pulitzer Prize win-ning musical portrait of 19th-cen-tury artist Georges Seurat, libret-to by James Lapine, music by thegreat Stephen Sondheim. Tickets$36-$25; call 617-437-7172.

Mamma Mia!Tickets available through Nov. 3,at the Colonial Theater (106 Boyl-ston St). The threadbare plot ofthe latest British import (builtaround classic hits by ABBA) is:Young bride Sophie wants herdad to give her away. But herspunky mom - an e -nightclubdisco singer named Donna -doesn't know who he is. SoSophie secretly invites three ofmom's old boyfriends (her possi-ble dads) to her wedding. At first,it's a complete disaster. ButDonna and her old backup-singerbuddies save the day and trans-form the island into an ABBA-accompanied silver tami adven-ture that includes scuba-diverdancers, grooms in bridal gownsand choruses in neon showercaps. An engagingly clever sing-along satire of itself, MammaMia! makes you move, chuckle,and stomp your platform heels.

Comedy ConnectionMon.-Wed. at 8 p.m.; Thurs.8:30 p.m.; FrL and Sat. 8 p.rn.,10:15 p.m.; Sun. 7 p.m. The old-est comedy club in Boston show-cases big-name, national comedi-ans on weekends andup-and-coming local talent duringthe week. At 245 Quincy MarketPlace, Faneuil Hall, Upper Rotun-da, Boston. Admission $10-$8

(weekend prices vary). Call 248-9700 for more information and acomplete schedule.

Blue Man GroupCharles Playhouse, 74 WarrentonStreet, Boston, indefinitely. Cur-tain is at 8 p.m. on Wednesdayand Thursday, at 7 and 10 p.m.on Friday and Saturday, and at 3and 6 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets$35 to $45. Call 426-6912 fortickets and information on how tosee the show for free by ushering.

ExhillitsIsabella Stewart Gardner Muse-um280 The Fenway, Boston. (566-1401), TueS.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Admission $10 ($11 on week-ends), $7 for seniors, $5 for stu-dents with 10 ($3 on Wed.), freefor children under 18. The muse-um, built in the style of a 15th-century Venetian palace, housesmore than 2,500 art objects, withemphasis on Italian Renaissanceand 17th-century Dutch works.Among the highlights are works byRembrandt, Botticelli, Raphael,Titian, and Whistler. Guided toursgiven Fridays at 2:30 p.m.

Museum of Fine Arts465 Huntington Ave., Boston.(267-9300), Mon.-Tues., 10a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Wed., 10a.m.-9:45 p.m.; Thurs.-Fri., 10a.m.-5 p.m.; SaL-Sun., 10a.m.-5:45 p.m. West Wing openThurs.-Fri. until 9:45 p.m. Admis-sion free with MIT ID, otherwise$10, $8 for students and seniors,children under 17 free; $2 after 5p.m. Thurs.-Fri., free Wed. after 4p.m.

Mon.-Fri.: introductory walksthrough all collections begin at10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.;"Asian, Egyptian, and ClassicalWalks" begin at 11:30 a.m.;"American Painting and DecorativeArts Walks" begin at 12:30 p.m.;"European Painting and Decora-tive Arts Walks" begin at 2:30p.m.; Introductory tours are alsooffered Sat. at 11 a.m. and 1:30p.m.

Permanent Gallery Installations:"Late Gothic Gallery," featuring arestored 15th-century stainedglass window from HamptonCourt, 14th- and 15th-centurystone, alabaster, and polychromewood sculptures from France andthe Netherlands; "Mummy MaskGallery,' a newly renovatedEgyptian gallery, features primi-tive masks dating from as far

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back as 2500 B.C.; "EuropeanDecorative Arts from 1950 to thePresent"; "John Singer Sargent:Studies for MFA and Boston Pub-lic library Murals." Gallery lec-tures are free with museumadmission.

Museum of Science

Science Park, Boston. (723-2500), Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 9a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.-5p.m. Admission free with MIT 10,otherwise $9, $7 for children 3-14and seniors.

The Museum features the theaterof electricity (with indoor thunder-and-lightning shows daily) andmore than 600 hands-on exhibits.Ongoing: "Discovery Center";"Investigate! A See-For-YourselfExhibit"; "Science in the Park:Playing with Forces and Motion";"Seeing Is Deceiving."

Ongoing: "Friday Night Stargaz-ing: Fri., 8:30 p.m.; "Welcome tothe Universe," daily; "Quest forContact: Are We Alone?" daily.Admission to Omnl, laser, andplanetarium shows is $7.50,$5.50 for children and seniors.Current Laser Light shows: LaserBeastie Boys, Laser Regetest 3,Laser Pink Royd: Dark Side, LaserAerosmith.

A Studio of Her Own: WomenArtists In Boston ~87o-~940

Through Dec. 2, 2001, at theMuseum of Fine Arts. This exhibitpresents over eighty of the finestpaintings, SCUlpture, and decora-tive arts created by women at theturn of the last century. Drawnequally from the MFA's holdings,other museums and institutions,and private collections, the exhi-bition includes works by overforty artists. While some of themare well known, like Lilian Haleand Anna Vaughn Hyatt, manyothers remain uncelebrated. Nomatter the level of their fame,their art represents an aestheticachievement of great significanceand beauty.

A Dynamic Duo: Jules Dasslnand Melina Mercourl

Oct. 4-0ct.24: The Harvard FilmArchive presents a selection offilms examining the works ofdirector Jules Dassin and Greekactress and singer Melina Mer-couri. Over the course of aneclectic directorial career thatspans some forty years, JulesDassin has worked in Hollywood,London, France, and Greece andhas directed film noir, comedy,contemporary versions of theGreek classics, documentaries,and political dramas. Melina Mer-couri, an acclaimed performerbecame Deassin's wife and thestar of eight of his films. The fes-tival includes screenings of Phae-dra (1961, Oct. 7-8) and Neveron Sunday (Pote tin Kyriaki,1969, Director in presence). Call617-495-4700 for more info. orvisit <www.harvarfilmarchive.org>for a complete schedule. For thescreening Oct. 11 tickets may bepurchased in advance at the Har-vard Box Office.

All festival films will be screenedat Harvard Film Archive, locatedat the lower level of the Carpen-ter Center for the Visual Arts, 24Quincy St. Cambridge. Tickets$7, $5 students, seniors. Ticketsmay be purchased at the HarvardBox Office, located at: HolyokeCenter Arcade, 1350 Massachu-setts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. Forticketing info. call 617-496-2222ornY: 617-495-1642.

The Films of Frederick Wiseman

The Museum of Fine Arts offers acomplete retrospective of Wise-man's 31 documentaries, everySaturday, through April 14, 2002.At the Remis Auditorium Museumof Fine Arts, Boston, 02115unless otherwise noted. For tick-ets and more information, call369-3770. Tickets are $8, $7MFA members, seniors, stu-dents.

Multi-Handicapped

Sep. 29 at 10:30 a.m.: (1986,126 min.). This film shows theday-to-day activities of multi-hand-icapped and sensory impairedstudents and their teachers, dor-mitory parents, and counselors atthe Helen Keller School. The filmpresents situations involving per-sonal hygiene, mobility training, con-cepts of time and money, self help andindependent living, dormitory life,recreation, sports, vocational training,and psychological counseling. This filmwlJl be shown on 16 mm in the RileySeminar Room

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12:10 p.m. -1:15 p.m. - GABLES onthly Lunch. GABLES is the Gay, Bisexual, and Les-bian Employees and Supporters group. Each month, on the last working day, we gather toenjoy lunch and the company of our colleagues and friends. Occasionally there are discus-sions of topical interest, however the focus of this event is social. The organization alsoworks to advance the interests of GBLT employees at MIT. The lunches are open to anyonein the wider MIT community interested in our work. We have often welcomed guests fromother universities and their friends .. The cost of your lunch. Room: A variety of local eater-ies. Sponsor: GABLES.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Frontiers of Biotechnology Lecture, "'Microfabricated Tools forBiotechnology" • 3rd Annual Frontiers of Biotechnology Lecture, Chemical EngineeringDepartment. free. Room: E51-115. Sponsor: Chemical Engineering.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.rn. - Mechanical Engineering Seminar. "Exploiting Elasticity in Engineer-ing Design: Synthesis and Applications". free. Room: 3-133. Sponsor: ME Seminar Series.5:00 p.m. - Arts Grant Deadline. Deadline for 2001-2002 Council for the Arts funding.Forms available at the Office of the Arts, E15-205 .. Room: E15-205. Sponsor: Council forthe Arts at MIT.7:00 p.m. -12:00 a.m. - IT Anime Club Weekly Screening. Most screenings are subtitledin English. The MIT Anime Club is a non-profit IT student organization dedicated to increas-ing the awareness of Japanese animation (ani me} on campus. free. Room: Rm 6-120. Spon-sor: Anime Club, MIT.7:00 p.m. - LSC Presents: A Knight's Tale. Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales, n this is thestory of William (Heath Ledger), a young squire ith a gift for jousting. After his master diessuddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, theystumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convincesChaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-mint-ed history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country'sjousting competition, and finds romance along the way. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.7:00 p.rn, - 9:00 p.m. - Asian Gourmet: Chjnese Style. Our first event of the year! Comeand see what we have in store for the semester. Meet new club members over some deli-cious Chinese food. Free. Room: ext House Country Kitchen. Sponsor: Epicurean, The.7:00 p.m. - Ptolemy Players: B Sides. Chamber music by Byrd, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms,Britten and the Beatles performed by an ensemble made up of MIT students, alumni andaffiliates. free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Ptolemy Players.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Falun Gong Exercise workshop. The Falun Gong exercise is an easyand effective way to relieve stress and improve physical and mental health. Millions of peo-ple in over 40 countries practice these 5 sets of gentle movements. free. Room: 1-242.Sponsor: Falun Dafa Club.7:30 p.m. - Natyanjali. A presentation of the various classical dance styles of India by MITstudents. $7, $5 MIT student or faculty. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: BharathaNaatyam Clum.10:00 p.m. - LSC Presents: A Knight's Tale. See 7:00p description. $3. Room: 26-100.Sponsor: LSC.- Men s Tennis ITA ew England Div. III Championships. free. Room: Tennis Courts. Spon-sor: Department of Athletics.- Arts Grant Deadline. Deadline for 2001-2002 Council for the Arts funding. Forms avail-

able at the Office of the Arts, E15-205. free. Room: Rm E15-205. Sponsor: Council for theArts at MIT.

Saturday, September 29

1:00 p.m. - Field Hockey vs. Springfield. free. Room: Barry Turf Field. Sponsor: Departmentof Athletics.1:00 p.m. - Men's Soccer vs. SUNY - Plattsburgh. free. Sponsor: Department of Athletics.7:00 p.m. - LSC Presents: A.I. Artificial Intelligence. A film conceived by the cinematicgenius Stanley Kubrick and completed by Steven Spielberg. Stars Haley Joel Osment as aDavid Swinton, an 11-year-old living in a post-apocalyptic world sometime in the future. In hisworld, because of global warming melting the earth's ice caps, water covers most of theearth. Therefore, a race of robots (Artificial Intelligence) have been constructed to help main-tain human life. David goes out on an emotional journey to try to discover if he can everbecome more than a machine. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.7:30 p.m. - atyanlalt. A presentation of the various classical dance styles of India by MITstudents. $7, $5 MIT student or faculty. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: BharathaNaatyam Clum.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 provid-ed. free. Room: Building 36, First Floor. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, IT.8:00 p.m. -Indian Cinema: "'Encounters with Modernity" . "Shakespeare Wallah" (lvory-Merchant). Indian Film Series. free. Room: Rm 4-237. Sponsor: Center for InternationalStudies, International Film Club.10:00 p.m. - LSC Presents: A.1. Artificial Intelligence. See 7:00p listing. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.- Men's Tennis ITA New England Div. III Championships. free. Room: Tennis Courts. Spon-sor: Department of Athletics.

Sunday, September 30

1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Ballroom Dancing Workshops. Beginner ballroom dance steps willbe taught. There will also be a new focus on developing techniques as well. Open to every-one. No experiences necessary. No partners required. Visit our website for pricings. Room:Visit our website for venues. Sponsor: Ballroom Dance Club.7:00 p.m. - LSC Presents: A Knight's Tale. Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales," this is thestory of William (Heath Ledger), a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master diessuddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, theystumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convincesChaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him. off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the coun-try's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor:LSC.10:00 p.m. - LSC Presents: A.I. Artificial Intelligence. A film conceived by the cinematicgenius Stanley Kubrick and completed by Steven Spielberg. Stars Haley Joel Osment as aDavid Swinton, an 11-year-old living in a post-apocalyptic world sometime in the future. In hisworld, because of global warming melting the earth's ice caps, water covers most of theearth. Therefore, a race of robots (Artificial Intelligence) have been constructed to help main-tain human life. David goes out on an emotional journey to try to discover if he can everbecome more than a machine. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.- Men's Tennis ITA New England Div. III Championships. free. Room: Tennis Courts. Spon-sor: Department of Athletics.

Monday, October 1

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Web Publishing Overview. A prerequisite for the Web PUblishing:Basics course, this three-hour lecture/demonstration session gives an overview of the elec-tronic publishing process as it works at MIT, focusing on: how to code files using HTML tags(HTML, the HyperText Markup Language, is the standard for publishing on the web); how toupload files to the Athena system for delivery through MIT's primary web server,web.mit.edu. Special attention is paid to issues affecting web sites at MIT (MITnet rules ofuse, Athena file conventions, special services available on web.mit.edu, etc.). free. Room:N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.2:00 p.m. - TEst series. sad. free. Sponsor: Web Communications Services (WCS).3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - STS Colloquium. "Three Roots of Human Recency: Molecular Anthro-pology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCOResponse to Auschwitz". free. Room:E51-095. Sponsor: STS.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - "'Local estimates for a class of nonlinear PDEs arising from confor-mal geometry.". free. Room: MIT Room 2-143. Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar.Department of Mathematics.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Continuum Seminar Series: A gradient theory of single-crystal plas-ticity that accounts for geometrically necessary dislocations. This talk discusses the kine-matics of geometrically necessary dislocations (GNDs) and develops a concomitant gradienttheory that accounts for GNDs within a thermomechanical framework. The theory is basedon classical macroforces; microforces for each slip system consistent with a microforce bal-ance; a mechanical version of the second law that includes, via the microforces, work per-formed during slip; a rate-dependent constitutive theory that includes dependences on a ten-sorial measure of geometrically necessary dislocations. The microforce balances areequivalent to nonlocal (pde) yield conditions for the individual slip systems. To make contactwith classical dislocation theory, the microstresses are shown to represent counterparts ofthe Peach-Koehler force on a single dislocation. Some numerical comparisons with discrete-dislocation theory will be discussed, if time permits. Room: 3-370. Sponsor: MechanicalEngineering Dept.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m, - EECS Colloquium Series. Cryptography - Science or Magic? free.Room: 34-101 (Edgerton Hall). Sponsor: EECS.4.:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Opening of MIT's newest Graduate Student Residence. Come cele-brate the opening of MIT's newest Graduate Student Residence. Refreshments and tours ofthe residence will be available. free. Room: First floor of 224 Albany Street. Sponsor: Infor-mation Center.4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - A Whole New World: A Special Lecture by William McDonough.A great opportunity to meet with one of the world's most profound thinkers in design andcommerce, incorporating a concern for economic intelligence, social equity, and environ-mental responsibility. William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and oneof the proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call "The Next Industrial Revo-lution". free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Technology Policy Student Society, Real EstateClub.5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - MIT Teach-Ins on the Crisis. Technology, War, and Terrorism. Dis-cussion led by Rosalind Williams, Metcalfe Prof. of Writing (Informal dinners for interestedstudents, faculty and staff will follow each Teach-In) Sponsored by the MIT Center for Inter-national Studies in cooperation with the Political Science Department, Boston Review, For-eign Languages and Literatures Section, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Compar-ative Media Studies Program, Economics Department, and the Dean's Office, School ofHumanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. free. Room: MIT Bldg. 26 Room 100.

2001

New Administrators Join MIT Communityew Faces in the Administration Hope to Bring About More Student-Faculty Interaction

By Jing-Helen Tang

Everyone at IT knows thename' Charle . Ve t,' but howmany people know who Barbara

. Baker is? How about Claude R.Canizare , or Kim R. Beamon?The e administrator can be ju t aimportant to tudent as the Presi-dent, Provo t, or Chancellor, butmost students probably do noteven recognize their name .

Baker is the new AssociateDean and Director for tudent LifePrograms. Canizares was recentlynamed A sociate Provost, replac-ing Professor Phillip L. Clay PhD

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Associate Dean for Student LifePrograms Barbara A. Baker'75, who now serves as Chancel-lor. Beamon is the new AssociateDean and Director for the Officeof Minority Education.

Students often do not know thenew faculty members on campus,but anyone who wishes to plan anevent, voice an opinion regardingspace allocation, or get help on anassignment should know theadministrators who are available tohelp.

Baker wants students to reachout

Baker hopes to work closelywith students to build a "sense ofsupport and trust ... and a sense ofcommunity on campus within boththe residential and the FSILG sys-tem."

The Office of Student Life Pro-grams, which operates under DeanLarry G. Benedict's Office for Stu-dent Life, works to encourage andsupport student participation inactivities outside of classroomsand to provide assistance to stu-dent concerned with their livingoptions.

"Our focu i to help tudentsappreciate all the learning out idethe cia room and laboratori ,"Baker said.

With the upcoming change inorientation and hou ing electionin 2002, the office is busy planningfor next year's freshmen orienta-tion e pecially with F ILGs.

'We have a wonderful opportu-nity for F ILG to think throughwhat they are offering to the stu-dents at MIT ... what' special andunique about them to attract stu-dents to live there. We will helpthem out in sorting through theirquestions," aid Baker.

Baker oversees the five mainbranche of tudent Life Pro-grams: Public ervice Center, Stu-dent Activities, Residential Pro-grams, FSILGs, and inance. Priorto MIT, Baker worked at DukeUniversity as Dean of StudentDevelopment and Residential Edu-cation.

Other new members to tudentLife Programs include DavidRogers, new FSILG Dean andDirector, Lisa M. Walsh, newFSILG Operations Coordinator,Linda Noel, new Program Coordi-nator for Student Activities, andfour new Residential Life A soci-ates, Anthony E. Gray PhD '01,Chandra L. Mincher, GabriellePardo, and Aaradhana Prajapati.

Canizares tackles space issuesCanizares, who is currently

Director of the Center for SpaceResearch, takes great interest inMIT's own space problems.

"Space is the hardest problem.No matter what we do, space islimited, residential and non-resi-dential. We try hard to do spaceplanning and renovation to fit wellwith goal of the Institute and pro-mote more interaction betweenfaculty, student and staff,"Canizares said. "The best conver-sations are ones that are sponta-neous and casual ... like chemicalreactions."

Canizares currently chairs theInstitute's Committee on Resourceand Space Planning. This year, healso takes on the new responsibili-ty of maintaining good communi-cation between Washington andthe Institute.

"MIT has a very important rolein being a spokesperson forresearch universities in this coun-

try and playing a role in hapingcience policy. People in Wa hing-

ton do not really under tand theconnection between education andre earch and we need to makesure they do not hamper freeexchange of information on cam-pus' anizares aid.

In the pa t, anizare has hadexten ive contact with Washing-ton A A and the ational ci-ence Foundation. He believes hiexperience in dealing with Wa h-ington' agencie makes him well-uited for thi new re ponsibility.

"When every senior official ielected, the job reflects what ineeded and what their kill andexperience are," lay aid.

"I've lived through five direc-tors. I think Claude has been themost effective and will do a fantas-tic job. It's unfortunate that he'sleaving the center because he'sirreplaceable,' aid Professor ofPhy ics Walter H. G. Lewin.

Taotao Fang G, a postdoctoralassociate at the Center for SpaceResearch said that Canizares hasgiven good insight and has beenencouraging as an associate advi-sor.

"[There i ] a steep learningcurve to climb. I'm a freshman inmy job, starting my first semester,and have a lot to learn and lookforward to," said Canizares.

A recognized Bruno Rossi Pro-fessor of Physics, Canizares saidthat, in addition to his new respon-sibility, he will continue his cur-rent positions as the associatedirector for the Chandra X-ray

Observatory Center, and, until anew appointment has been made,as the director for the Center forSpace Research.

Before coming to IT to workas a po tdoctoral fellow in 1971and later becoming a faculty mem-ber in 1974, anizare receivedBA, A ,and PhD degrees fromHarvard Univer ity.

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Assistant Dean of MinorityEducation Kim R. BeamonBeamon bring e perience too

Beamon noticed a great prob-lem at the Office of Minority Edu-cation. "One of the things I think isimportant is how the communityviewed our office. Sometimes peo-ple put a boundary round the office... thinking that's not for me. Theyhould come and see our office

instead of deciding beforehandwho they think we are. We arehere for the students, the faculty.We are not unlike the other offices.Our focus is to help, academically,socially and emotionally," Beamonsaid.

The OME offers tutorial, coun-seling, internship and eminar XL.Hoping to broaden the sense ofcommunity around the office, Bea-mon invites student to take advan-tage of the resources her officeoffers. Even if one is not consid-ered under-represented, she saidthat they should still come andtutor.

"Kim brings a lot of experi-ence, pragmatically and socially,"said Leo Osgood, Director ofOffice of Minority Education.According to Osgood, Kim Bea-mon came ahead of the other can-didates after a yearlong searchconducted with "due diligence" bystudents, administrators and facul-ties.

Beamon previously worked asthe clinical upervisor for theBoston Public School's Compre-hensive chool-Age Parenting Pro-gram.

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CMI ends 33 MIT Students to Cambridgeu n rogram urn Offer Encouragement to Departing ngineer

By Christine R. Fry

The Cambridge- T In titute( I) tudent exchange programheld a celebration Wednesdaye ening to officially end off the 2MIT tudent who left Thur day top nd the ne t year at ambridge

Uni ersity in England. The celebra-tion ,. as a1 0 an opportunity toextend yet another welcome to the33 Cambridge Uni er ity studentswho have already begun their yearat IT.

The C I e change programbegan last year when nine IT tu-dent ventured to Cambridge topend the year studying in their

re pe tive majors. Thi year theprogram wa e panded to accom-modate a total of 60 transfer tu-dent . Although there are currentlyonly even IT department thatare participating in the exchange,Kirk D. Kolenbrander ssociateProgram Director 0 I hopethat the program will e pand e enmore in th coming years. The maindifficulty in e panding the programi coordinating the curriculum at thetwo schools 0 that tudents won'thave much difficulty re eivingappropriate credit for cour ework.

"Ideally within the ne t year or0, any IT undergraduate who

wi he to participate will be ableto," Ko1enbrander said.

e t .she tudents farewellany high-ranked T adminis-

trator attended the celebration,including Pre ident Charle M.

e t. Ve t, in his peech to thegroup, called the program "analliance of two great institutions."

'This ha really been a dream alabor of 10 e." Vest aid enthusiasti-cally to the crowd.

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Dean for Undergraduate Education Robert P. Redwine spoke at the Cambridge-MIT Institute farewelldinner on Wednesday.

Cambridge Univer ity side, DavidGood, wa also excited about theprogram a he poke to thee change student.

"You're the builders now. It'sup to you."

In addition to brief peeche byadmini trators, the exchange stu-dent from la t year were allowed tohare their e periences through a

video. The video was a collectionof short skits with topic rangingfrom one student's addiction tooperas and ballet to "How to speakEnglish."

Previous students offer adviceBefore and after the speeches,

the current and former exchangetudents could be seen swapping

stories and tips for surviving Cam-bridges on either side of the ocean.

The MIT tudents who will beattending Cambridge this year wereencouraged to a k the Cambridgetudents for advice on life in Eng-

land."Play hard in your first term,"

Cambridge University studentFaryal Khattak suggested. Khattakde cribed Cambridge, England as"quaint" and "old school."

Kristen L. Clements '02, one ofla t year's participants, noted thatthe biggest difference between MJTand Cambridge was the attitudes ofthe students. According toClements, MJT students tend to tryto fit into their schedules as manyactivities, both academic andextracurricular, as they possibly can.She said that at Cambridge she hadmore time for social activities suchas three or four course dinners

where students wore their "smartclothes." These dinners, called for-mal halls, were an opportunity forstudents to get to know each other.

Some students were still worriedabout the journey ahead. Brett A.Whittemore '03 is an MIT studentwho is participating in the exchangethis year. His main worry about theexchange is the transition to theCambridge curriculum. Whittemoresays that the classes he will be tak-ing at Cambridge in Course 6, aremore electrical engineering-orientedthan his classes at MIT.

Cambridge exchange studentBen S.R. Lishman is optimisticabout the MIT exchange students'success.

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Women's Crew TeamTries to Enter Div INCAARules Prohibit Interdivisionary PlayBy Vincent Chen

In order to improve coaching andpractice opportunities for VarsityWomen's Crew MIT has decided topetition the ational Collegiate Ath-letic s ociation for reclassificationat the Divi ion I level.

'We, as an in titution wish topre erve the trong traditions of row-ing at the EAWRC [Eastern A socia-tion of Women's Rowing Colleges]print level of competition" said

Director of thletics Candace L.Royer.

For the 2001 -2002 year MITwomen will continue to abide by theregulation of CA Di i ion Ill.However they intend to petition the

CA for an e ception regardingthe last portion of the eason. InterimHead Coach arah Lynch said,"We're going to compete at the Divi-ion ill level thi year but will seek

special tatus so we can compete atthe IRA [Intercollegiate RowingAssociation] championships."

nder current regulations MIT'sseason would end with CAA cham-pion hips. However, MIT wants tolet lightweight women rowers com-pete in the IRA championship inMay.

ew eAA rules prompt moveMIT's decision to petition was

sparked by two changes that theCAA made last year, the first of

which established a separate Divi-sion III championship in women'screw. The second change limited thepractice hours of an Division IIIteams. Until last year, there was onlyone level of competition forwomen's rowing, so MIT competedagainst Division I schools.

"This never was an issue beforelast year," Lynch said. "They createda Division III national champi-onships this year. Before now, therewas only one CAA Champi-onships."

Women s crew competed in theEastern Sprints race at the end of thecrew season in May, but of the I 8schools that participate in that race,

MIT was the only university classi-fied as Division Ill. In January the

CAA Division III membershipvoted to limit the season of allports at Division III schools to a

maximum of twenty-one weeks. Thisaffects all CAA teams at MIT.

However, some teams at MITcompete in the ational CollegiateChampionships despite being classi-fied as Division ill teams, and priorto this decision, they had beenallowed to practice up to twenty-sixweeks in a year. ow they will belimited to twenty-one weeks, whichput them at a disadvantage relativeto their Division I rivals who willstill be allowed twenty-six weeks.

Every Division III institution isallowed to petition to have a men'sand a women's team reclassified.After filing the application, there willbe a waiting period during which thetransition to Division I would bemade.

MIT debates merits of Division ISome question whether MIT

should have any Division I teams,since the Institute is a Division IIIuniversity. However, Royer said,"We believe that this decision is inthe best interest of MIT oarswomenand oarsmen, and that our basic com-mitment to the Division ill philoso-phy of participation and promotingexcellence in athletics while preserv-ing academic integrity will not becompromised."

The move has been consideredsince the NCAA decisions last yearplaced MIT women's crew in Divi-sion III. "This rowing program hascompeted at the elite level since thebeginning, and being Division I willallow that sort of competition to con-tinue," Lynch said. "We'll be able torace against the best schools in thecountry at the Division I level."

Men's crew is not affected sinceit is not a NCAA-sanctioned sport.Rather, men's crew is part of theEastern Association of Rowing Col-leges. Men's crew follows rules sim-ilar to those of NCAA Division Iteams.

RLSLP Will ContinueWith IFC RoundtablesRush 2002, from Page I

Sawicki hopes that the !FC willuse the results of next year's rush todetermine how he will modify rushfor the following year. "It might take4 or 5 years to hammer the processdown," he said.

Fall rush versus year-roundThe proposal deals primarily with

fall rush, as Sawicki said that FSILGshope to attract freshman at the start ofthe year. "The majority of it is thatwe feel that the earlier we getinvolved in someone's freshmanyear, the more we can help themout," he said.

He thinks that spring rush willprobably be run in a similar mannerto fall rush, making an additional pro-posal for spring rush unnecessary.Baxter said that the most successfulFSILGs will learn to spread theirrecruitment efforts over the wholeyear.

She believes that a year-roundrush will put less pressure on FSIL-Gs, while allow them to get to knowfreshmen better before giving thembids. "As it stands, I think that youguys work so hard over the first fewweeks. With this new system, it paysfor you to be as invested as possiblethroughout the school year," she said."Spend more time getting to knowthe people you offer bids to."

Roundtables .focus on transitionBaxter has planned several round-

table discussions that allow FSILGmembers to discuss issues relating tothe 2002 transition.

At the first event, held Wednes-day night in 20 Chimneys, Dean ofAdmissions Marilee Jones dis-cussed the changing demographicof the freshman class. "The housingsystem as we have known itbelonged to a different era," Jonessaid.

Jones said that housing and thequality of the campus was the num-ber two reason that admittees gavelast year for not choosing to attendMIT. Ten years ago, this complaintwas not even on the list. "Freshmensay, why do I need 27 choices? Justgive me a room," she said.

In order to distinguish them-selves, particularly when freshmenlive on campus and pledge non-resi-dentially, FSILGs will need to offersignificantly more than just a placeto live.

Jones said that freshmen havebecome much more interested incommunity service, an area in whichFSILGs are active. "These kids areabout community service," she said.

Students have also become moreinterested in brand, which is some-thing that greek letters can provide."You guys have a brand, and thesekids are extremely brand-con-scious," she said.

The next roundtable, which focus-es on budgeting for 2002 and beyond,will take place on October J O.

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but this suspension has had a nega-tive impact well beyond our broth-erhood. We've had to disrupt theschedules of friends, families, andeveryone else who depends on us,"Barnes said.

All of the brothers agree that this'punishment does not fit the crime."However, they do feel that MIT hasbeen as supportive as they could bewith their dealing with the CLC.

"MIT would never leave ushomeless," Gluck said. The diningoffice implemented Dean Larry G.Benedict's decision to provideA TO with $200 meal cards fortheir twenty day suspension sincethey could not utilize their kitchenduring that time.

Benedict also offered to house

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involved specifically courting votersduring the paper balloting phase ofthe election.

, The decision of the Judboardwas completely subjective andincompetent," said Kanamori. "Theidea of redoing this is ridiculous. Itwas the strategy of Jesse and I tofocus on getting paper ballot voteswhile other people worked foronline votes. I spent half my moneyyesterday, worked since 3 a.m.Thursday on posters and spent myentire day campaigning ... now I amtrying to be taken down."

Alejandro said, "I spent $50 oncandy and spent 6 straight hours inthe hallway, which was aU thrownaway."

Alejandro said that Judboard'sdecision seems considerably harsh.Earlier in the campaign, he was cen-sured for postering too early. "I wasnot made aware of the rules when Iwent to pick up my campaign pack-et, unlike other candidates. I thenbegan postering around midnight,and when I realized I made a mis-take, I took them down the nextmorning and wrote an apology. YetI was still punished."

Both candidates remarked howcampaigning tomorrow will betougher and different for all candi-dates. "This decision completelyignores the money and effort we putinto Thursday's campaign, and wedo not have the ability to put sucheffort into Friday's campaign. Pluswe all have tests tomorrow, whichmakes campaigning much tougher."

Kanamori accused Judboard of"picking favorites." He said, "Iplaced two or three posters on con-struction .,. while other candidatesspammed entire dormitories andwere only forced to write letters ofapology ... I'm worried that shouldthis have happened to someone else,this may not have happened,"Kanamori said. Alejandro alsonoted that Judboard has showninconsistency in its rulings, citing apair of e-mail violations which hefelt were similar in nature. Accord-ing to the VA web site, ShimaGoswami '05 was removed from theballot for class Secretary due tosoliciting votes via e-mail before thebeginning of the campaign period.Judboard ruled that Dexter Ang '05,candidate for class President, violat-ed election rules by sending an e-mail to the freshmen list for BakerHouse. Ang was required to send anapology to the list and received aofficial warning, but was notremoved from the ballot.

"I understand the actions ofsome candidates, because they arecompetitive, but I do not understandwhy the VA is trying to be subjec-tive and spur of the moment here,not acting wisely," Alejandro said.

Kanamori and Alejandro are

drafting a petition to rever e thedecision of the Judboard and toreimbur e all candidate for themoney they spent to campaign onThursday. They argue that a deci-sion should have been reachedbefore the VA even opened the bal-lot box.

Other people disagree withKanamori and Alejandro's assess-ment of the situation, and were dis-tressed by their proximity to the vot-ing booth. "They could have greatlyaffected the outcome of the electionif people are voting while someoneis campaigning right by where youplace your ballot," said Scott M.Edinburgh '05, a candidate for Trea-surer. "This is why such practicesare not allowed here and in otherelections."

Another student who wished toremain anonymous stated thathe/she noticed a Judboard officialapproach the two candidates and askthem to move from Lobby 10. Thetwo subsequently moved down theInfinite Corridor adjacent to thelobby. "I think their actions violatedthe spirit of the campaign and theyshould be treated as such," the stu-dent said.

Four class council offices filledThe election commission tallied

votes for the four other class councilpositions and announced officialresults. Alexis R. Desieno '05 wonthe Vice Presidency, Shiela M.Krishna '05 was named Secretary,Joyce Y. Chung '05 and Kathy H.Li '05 will serve as Publicity Coor-dinators, and Jocelyn K. D' Arcy '05and Elizabeth C. Lawes '05 asSocial Chairs.

"I was excited, but even moresurprised," said Desieno. "The cam-paigns were above and beyond any-thing I saw in high school, andeveryone was very qualified. Thewhole campaign was very hardcore,with people being turned in andbeing kicked off the ballots. I triedto take a more laid back approachwith my campaign ... but I wantedto do something unique to standout." Desieno is glad to have theopportunity to tackle the foodissues that are at the forefront ofmany student discussions on cam-pus today.

Krishna said that the campaignas a whole went well, "there were afew issues with violations, but peo-ple ran some clean campaigns andwe can pride ourselves on that," shesaid. She also wanted to congratu-late everyone who ran because "run-ning takes guts." She hopes to meetwith the other officers soon. "I real-ly don't like this idea that MIT ishell, and I want to see what we cando about it."

The UA has yet to set a schedulefor the tallying of tomorrow's bal-lots and the announcement of thewinners of the two seats in question.

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new pledge in MacGregor duringthe 20 day suspension.

a detrimental effect on the brother-hood. "This has really impacted thebrotherhood. I mis my roommate .I was ju t getting to know them andwhen we go back we're switchingrooms so I feel like I won't get toknow them as well as I could have, ,

ohen aid. He claims that they aretrying to maintain the brotherhoodby eating meals together at Lobdell,Baker Dining and Courses.

The freshmen only re ided in thehouse for three weeks before theywere asked to leave. Originally, thesuspension was to take place on

eptember Ist, but at the request ofBenedict, and Jeffrey J. Billing G,CLC po tponed the suspension untilSeptember 18.

CL also attempted to ease thesuspension by allowing the brothersinto the house from 11 a.m. to 1p.m. each day but many brothers donot have the chance to go back dur-ing those times because of classes.

Fre bmen guaranteed hou ingIn the dim lighting of the former

MacGregor lounges, three beds arelined up side by side, and two ATObrother crouch 0 er the laptop com-puter they managed to bring fromtheir house. The general attitude ofthe room is somber as the freshmentalk about the punishment they mustserve for an incident that happenedwell before they arrived at MIT.

"We weren't even around for theincident. I feel if MIT didn't give ushousing we would be homele s likethe rest of the brothers," Jesse D.Chandler '05 said.

"It's the little things like staplesand cup and bowls. Or, if I want toask one of my brothers for help on aproblem set. We don't have thatanymore," said Daniel S. Cohen '05.

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been endor ed by the liberal Cam-bridge Civic Association ( C ), theLavender Alliance and everal 10 alunions. Murphy bill himself a a'pragmatic progre sive.

Another candidate with an insidetrack is E. Deni e Simmon . Cur-rently a member of the school com-mittee she lists her ten years ofexperience working with the citycouncil as an outstanding feature.She has raised nearly $30,000, andalso has the CCA and LavenderAlliance endorsements.

Capitalizing on the success ofRalph ader's presidential cam-paign in Cambridge, Green Partycandidate Steve Iskovitz hopes tobring the Green vision to local poli-tics. His platform includes the reen-action of rent control, promotion ofclean transportation, and the preser-vation of parks and open spaces.

Running for the second time isMassachusetts Bay TransportationAuthority policeman Helder"Sonny" Peixoto. He is running anoutspoken campaign which isfocused on fighting for Cambridge'spoor and powerless. "I have a lot ofthe family vote: working mothersand low income people," he said.

As a policeman, public safety isalso high on his agenda. "If elected,the first thing I will do is remove thecurrent police commissioner, Peixo-to said. "He is not doing his job."

Another prominent communityactivist is John Pitkin, currentlypresident of the Mid-CambridgeHomeowners Association. He is run-ning to set up a more organized cityplanning process focused on improv-ing quality of life for Cambridgeneighborhoods. "Without an overallapproach, you can have develop-ments like Kendall Square: coldstreetscapes, huge buildings, and noopen spaces," he said.

Housing the biggest issueAll of the candidates acknowl-

edge that the cost of housing is theprimary issue facing Cambridge.

"Y ou have families that havelived in the city for generations whocan no longer afford to do so," Mur-phy said. "It's a critical need of thecity to maintain its economic diver-sity."

A tool the Council can use is theCommunity Preservation Act, a bal-lot initiative that will be up for avote in November. It lets the citylevy a three percent surcharge onproperty taxes for use in subsidizedrent, public housing, and otheraffordable housing programs. IfCambridge passes the initiative, itwill also receive matching funds

from the tate.De pite the e measures, the can-

didate acknowledge that it is anuphill battle. "The programs don'tgo ery far to meet the problem,"Pitkin said. They do a lot for amall number of people but we need

more broad-based programs that doa small amount for a larger group ofpeople."

The more radical Iskovitz wouldlike to bring back rent control,which was aboli hed in 1995. Mur-phy takes a more practical, ad hocapproach. "I don't think that that'spolitically feasible right now" hesaid. "It's got to be done family-by-family."

Another related issue is universi-ty expansion. "I have a major prob-lem with Harvard University," saidPeixoto, referring to the school'aggressive real estate acquisitionsthat have some local residents up inarms. The acquisitions havesqueezed the housing market, andbecause Harvard doesn't pay proper-ty taxes, many people feel that itisn't making a fair contribution tothe community. "Harvard is a 19 bil-lion dollar corporation that needs tobe reined in," Peixoto said.

MIT students apatheticMIT typically suffers from

abysmal voter turnout. In 1999, thetwo precincts containing all of thestudent dormitories reported a mere402 ballots, despite the candidacy ofMIT student Eric C. Snowberg '99.

Students' lack of involvementhas allowed City Councillors tosafely ignore the interests of stu-dents. This has contributed to theclosing of the Massachusetts Avenuefirehouse serving MIT and the lackof bicycle paths around the campus.

The Council is elected by propor-tional representation. Voters ranktheir favorite candidates. To win, acandidate needs to be ranked in thetop nine or ten on at least a tenth ofthe ballots. This approach ensuresthat minority constituencies canhave a seat on the council. It alsoensures a wild, wide-open race.

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SPORTSot all Hopes fo UMass Wm

B e PIa 0 Break Da mou h Ofi n nd Lo ing treakBy Spencer CrossTEAM MEMBER

This weekend the T footballteam is looking to end its two gamelosing kid by beating a Dart-

mouth in a conferenceleague game.

Thi will not be aneasy ta k as U aDartmouth is comingoff of a big win over

a. aritime and wants to keepthe momentum flowing. On theother hand, the Bea er are lookingto create a little momentum of theirown.

The Beaver are in good piritafter the la t two 10 e to Curryand alve Regime (both of whomare undefeated.) In fact, there i agrowing feeling among the teamthat this weekend could be thegame in which IT's sea on iturned around. This feeling is morethen ju t words, though, as thepractices have been reflecting thecombative nature of the team.

Rarely doe a play in practice go bywithout player encouraging eachother on in preparation for thi at-urday.

"The team i determined to dowhatever it take to turn the pro-gram around," aid out ide line-backer lexander T. Kamal 0 ."Expect nothing le on aturday.'

Defen ively, the Beaver arepreparing for the pa ing attack of

Dartmouth led by John Fal-cone. Falcone i ranked third inpa ing in th ew ngland Foot-ban Conferen e and he will be look-ing for his tar receiver Joe abina,who averages 5.7 catche per gameand ha 2 2 yards thi eason.

Falcone and abina will be fa -ing tiff competition, howeverfrom IT cornerback Yo hitaka

akanishi '02 and orey D. Carter'03. long with Brian D. Hoying'03 at free afety IT ha had astingy pa sing co erage that hasbeen able to adapt on a week-by-week ba is to prevent oppo ing

team from quickly mo ing th ballin the air. Thi week hould proveto be no exception.

On the run attack, the MIT line-backers have had a good year attuffing the run, and are ready for

whate er a Dartmouth run atthem.

Offen ively, the Beaver are try-ing to keep the momentum fromla t game second half. While ittruggled in the fir t half against

Curry the offen e wa able toexplode in the econd half with keyr ception by Robert R. Owsley '02and Gregory el on 02. Whenn t in the air, the ball wa in goodhand, ith e ceptionally talentedrunning back given running laneby a tenaciou offen i e line. Ifthey keep it together, the Beaveroffense can it rna e a long day forthe ass Dartmouth defen e.Either way, expect the Bea ers tochallenge the Umass Dartmouthoffense and make them work forevery yard.

Freshmen Aid Cross-Country TeamKamimoto Benedetti Help IT Finish 14th at Saturday's Codfish BowlBy Jennifer DeBoerTEAM MEMBER

The women s cro -countryteam fini hed 14th in a field of 19at aturday's Codfish Bowl meet

at Franklin Park. Theteam, hich i com-po ed of one sopho-more and nine fre h-men, finished the 3.1mile course in an

average time of21: .2.Lynn K. Kamimoto 'OS, return-

ing from an in ect-related injury,led the pack with a 5th place fin-

ish in a time of 20:52. ancy J.Benedetti '05 also fini hed trongwith a time of 21:37. Just behindher was Kathleen R. Huffman 04,who came in at 21:37. de pite anongoing illnes . Jes ica E. Karnis'05 and hri tina L. Greene '05howed the benefit of pack run-

ning with time of 22:25 and22:27 finishing 156th and 157th,respectively.

lthough coach Paul Sloven kiwas plea ed with certain pair whoworked together on the course, both

loven ki and coach Harold B.

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lynn K. Kamimoto '05 sprints past a Brandeis runner in the final200 meters of the women's cross country meet on Saturday. Kami-moto finished 75th, and led the team to a 14th place finish on theirhome course at Franklin Park.

Hatch look to e en larger packs torun together and push each other inthe future.

Shirleen X. Po on '05 workedhard on Franklin Park' Bear CageHill, and finished with a time of22:41. Jennifer A. Gaugler '05came in at 22:46. Rounding out thecoring pack was Jenna . Mathe-

ny 'OS, whose 176th place finish in23 :08 helped MIT to edge outUMass Lowell. Judy Y. Yeh '05finished with a quick 23: 18. At269th wa MIT's Jillian L.Dempsey' 05 in a time of 25: II.

Even though the squad isyoung, Slovenski and Hatch seepromise. "I am wicked happy for[the runners],"said Slovenski.Eight of the team members scoredcourse per onal records.

'Let's continue trying hard topack attack others by working togeth-er during training," aid Slovenski tothe team. "There's strength in morenumbers than just a couple."

Looking to the future, Slovens-ki stressed moving up by closinggaps between the different spreadsof runners. "Look at where youare in relation to teammates, andset goals to squeeze those spacese en tighter till" he said.

Amber t took first place at themeet, followed closely by Brandeis

niversity and orthern Colorado.IT's total points came to 453.

'I'm so proud of MIT [women's]cro country" said lovenskiafter the meet. "We had a nicestrong showing."

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Kelly A. Martens '03 jumps up to spike the ball during the Womens'Volleyball game on Tuesday. MIT defeated WPI 3-0 and capturedthe top spot in the New England region. I

MIT Tops New EnglandWith Undefeated RecordVolleyball Leads Region, Holds 20th Rank in NationBy Paul Dill kills to the 3-0 (30-20, 30-19, 30-TEAM COACH 28) victory.

MIT earned the first place Tank- The finals saw a rematch of theing in the ew England region and Eastern College Athletic Confer-rose to 20th nationwide this week ence finals of last season, as MIT

after winning the faced Wesleyan College. Last sea-eleven team Amherst son, Wesleyan College endedCollege Tournament. MIT's great run at ECAC's. BothMIT went 4-0 this teams had virtually the same line-past weekend, beating ups on the court this year, but thisTrinity College, St. time the Engineers would get the

Lawrence University, Tufts Univer- better of Wesleyan, winning 3-0sity, and Wesleyan College. (30-19,30-24,30-28).

The Engineers first took out MIT controlled the match forTrinity College 3-1 (26-30, 30-21, the first two games, but found30-21, 30-15) with the hitting of themselves down 20-25 in the thirdKelly A. Martens '03 and Nydia M. before Linda M. Yu '02 went backClayton ' 04, who had 16 and 13 to serve Wesleyan off the court andkills respectively. Jillian M. Kaup get the Engineers back in the'03 also came off the bench to add match. MIT outscored Wesleyanseven kills and a .438 hitting per- 10-3 at the end of the third game tocentage. take the championship. Martens

St. Lawrence University from was named to the All-Tournamentew York was the next victim of first team, while Clayton was

the Engineer, and fell 3-0 (30-23, named to the All-Tournament sec-30-17,30-24). Clayton had 15 kills ond team.this time, while Christina Almod- The Engineers are currentlyovar '02 dished out 37 assists. undefeated within the ew England

The semi-final match vs. Tufts region and are on an eleven matchsaw MIT's Parisa . Habibi '02 win streak. This 13-1 record is theanchor the defense with 17 digs, best start for the program since thewhile Amy W. Mok '02 added 9 1988 season.

UPCOMING HOME EVENTSFriday, eptember 28

Men's Tennis, ITA ew England CAA Division ill Championships

aturday, eptember 29Men's Soccer vs. UNY - Plattsburgh, 1:00 p.m.Field Hockey vs. Springfield, 1:00 p.m.Men's Tennis, ITA ewEngland CAA Division ill Championships

eptember 30Tenni , ITA ew England CAA Division III Championships

Tuesday October 2Women's Tennis vs. Brandeis, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 3Water Polo vs. Harvard, 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 4Women's Soccer vs. Curry College, 4:00 p.m.Women's Tennis vs. Tufts, 4:00 p.m.Field Hockey vs. UMass Dartmouth, 5:00 p.m.Men's Tennis vs. Dartmouth College "B"