By Joy ForsytheSTAFF REPORTER

The first phase of OpenCourse-Ware is underway. With financialcontributions from two foundationstotaling $11 million, an interimmanagement committee is setting upan infrastructure for the online ini-tiative.

The Andrew W. Mellon andWilliam and Flora Hewlett Founda-tions have each donated $5.5 mil-lion for the pilot phase of the pro-gram, a project that intends to place500 courses online in 27 months at acost of $12 million.

OpenCourseWare will make

MIT material such as course out-lines, lecture notes, assignments,and handouts available on the Inter-net. It is designed to benefit both theMIT community and people aroundthe world.

“We’re obviously pleased that[the foundations] are enlightenedand interested in the benefits such aproject can bring,” Dean for Under-graduate Education Robert P. Red-wine said of the foundations.

Greater access to course materialmay aid students and faculty. Stu-dents will be able to access all of thematerial associated with the coursethey are taking at any time and have

more access to information aboutcourses they are considering. And itmay be easier for faculty to get theirmaterial out to their students and seewhat other professors are doing inrelated subjects.

The project’s offerings are notintended as a replacement for class-es, and no credit or degrees will begranted through OpenCourseWare.Associate Dean of Engineering DickK. P. Yue ‘74 describes the projectas “not a door; more like a window”for those outside MIT.

Yue was instrumental in the cre-

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By Jennifer KrishnanNEWS EDITOR

Alpha Tau Omega will be sus-pended for 20 days by the Cam-bridge License Commission (CLC)as punishment for underage drink-ing and causing a public disturbanceduring Spring Weekend. The sus-pension period will not coincidewith rush.

The CLC, which made its deci-sion at last night’s hearing, wasinvestigating a complaint of racialremarks allegedly shouted fromATO’s roof, an ensuing altercationwith The Roots band, and the sup-posed presence of alcohol on theroofdeck.

Photographs provided voluntari-ly by a member of ATO led com-missioners to believe that many

underage people on ATO’s roofdeckthat afternoon were drinking.

Jeffrey J. Billing, ATO summerhouse manager, had originally testi-fied that there was a case of beer onthe roofdeck and that a only a fewpeople were drinking.

CLC Chairman Benjamin C.Barnes said he could see “hardliquor … and some 40 oz. bottles ofalcoholic beverages” in the pho-tographs.

Additionally, CLC ExecutiveOfficer Richard V. Scali hinted thatInterfraternity Council PresidentRory P. Pheiffer ’02 withheld the“most disturbing” photographs fromthe Commission. The CLC original-ly received only 12 of 16 pho-tographs mentioned in the policereport.

‘Positive actions’ lighten sentence

Billing, Pheiffer, and AssociateDean for Students Robert M. Ran-dolph argued that ATO took steps todeal with the racial implicationsincident on its own, adding thatpunitive measures would detractfrom the utility of the constructivemeasures already in place.

“The positive actions ATO took[are] the only reason I’m not recom-mending 30 days,” Barnes said.

Cambridge Police DepartmentCaptain Henry W. Breen said thatthe racial slurs that were allegedlyshouted from ATO’s roofdeck werewrong, but that, as a first offense,they merited “positive discipline” in

License Commission SuspendsAlpha Tau Omega for 20 DaysPunishment for Underage Drinking, Spring Weekend Disturbance

By Jennifer KrishnanNEWS EDITOR

A Wellesley sophomore wasfound dead at Alpha Tau Omega,her summer residence, on July 2.Cambridge police said the deathappeared to be a suicide.

The student, 18-year-old MollyThompson, was found by a room-mate at approximately 11 p.m.Associate Dean for StudentsRobert M. Randolph said thedeceased had apparently ingestedsomething and that a note was alsofound.

The cause of Thompson’s death

is pending, said Charles McDonald,Director of Communications at theSuffolk County Executive Office ofPublic Safety.

Thompson was from out of stateand had a summer job in Boston.Randolph said she was living in atriple at ATO with two otherWellesley students.

She was last seen in the earlyevening by friends, Randolph said.

“We at ATO are truly saddenedby the unexpected death of one ofour summer boarders,” said ATO

Wellesley Sophomore,Boarder, Dies at ATO

By Jeffrey GreenbaumSTAFF REPORTER

The Office of Residential Life andStudent Life Programs (RLSLP) willadd one new undergraduate and twonew graduate dormitories within thenext two years to guarantee on-cam-pus housing for more students.

The Simmons Founders Groupprojects that Simmons Hall, the newundergraduate dormitory, will openin time for Orientation 2002. Todevelop a Simmons community, theFounders Group will be meeting withprospective Simmons residents toorganize the dorm life. The FoundersGroup will discuss issues, such as amandatory meal plan for its dininghall, with the prospective residents.

Graduate students will begin liv-ing in 224 Albany Street (BuildingNW30) on August 16. Only first-yeargraduate students can occupy NW30for a period of nine months, as gov-erned by the lease, because the dorm

has been financially organized to hostconference guests during the summer.

The other graduate dormitory, 70Pacific Street, is located on the cornerof Pacific Street and Sydney Street.The building will house a maximumof 750 graduate students next fall.After its completion, MIT will housenearly half of its graduate students.

“We are very excited about thesenew dorms,” said Karen Nilsson,Director of Housing Operations.“They are architecturally unique.”

Innovative DiningThe Simmons Founders Group,

led by its future housemaster, Profes-sor Anne E. C. McCants, has estab-lished the framework for Simmonsby including a two-level fitness cen-ter, a music practice room, a gameroom, a multi-purpose room, fivelaundry rooms, an Athena cluster, a

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OpenCourseWare Receives FundingFrom Mellon, Hewlett Foundations

By Jonathan Petersonand Edwin ChenLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON — FromCatholic Charities in San Franciscoto a Baptist home in Kentucky toSalvation Army posts around thecountry, faith-based groups havelong defended personnel practicesthat collide with public laws.

Now, as President Bush pusheshis plan to increase the role of reli-gious groups in providing social ser-vices, many are clamoring to keeptheir special exemption to discrimi-nate in hiring.

In a political firestorm Tues-day, White House officials backedaway from a proposal to help the

Salvation Army fight for its rightto discriminate against homosexu-als.

But even without that provi-sion, under legislation working itsway through the House, faith-based employers would still retainbroad, legal rights to discriminateon religious grounds when hiring— rights they were granted in theCivil Rights Act of 1964.

The bill will “ensure that reli-gious organizations have the rightto hire individuals who share theirreligious faith,” said White Housespokesman Ari Fleischer.

The dispute over discriminationis only partly about the right offaith-based groups to excludestaffers based on the clear-cut mat-ter of religious affiliation. In addi-tion, critics argue that such traitsas sexual preference, pregnancystatus, whether someone has beendivorced and possibly gender

could be used by faith-basedemployers to veto potential hiresor dismiss employees.

Courts have affirmed the rightof a Catholic school to fire ateacher for marrying a divorcedman, the right of a Christian retire-ment home to fire a Muslim recep-tionist who insisted on wearing ahead covering, the right of a Bap-tist nursing school to fire anemployee who became the ministerof a gay-oriented church, and theright of a Catholic school to dis-miss a teacher who remarried with-out gett ing her first marriageannulled under Catholic doctrine.

The broad exemption to thecivil r ights law reflects thedemands of many religious institu-tions to retain their ability to hirethose who fit in with their spiritualvision — but also has promptedcalls for more rigid limits on possi-ble bias in hiring.

WORLD & NATIONPage 2 THE TECH July 11, 2001

Singapore AcknowledgesOnset of Recession

By Mark MagnierLOS ANGELES TIMES

TOKYO — Singapore said Tuesday it had slipped into recession,the first Southeast Asian nation to do so since the 1997-98 Asian eco-nomic crisis. But economists say it won’t be the last.

“We’re going to see a string of these, either extremely poor ornegative numbers in the near future,” said Song Seng Wun, Singa-pore-based regional economist with G.K. Goh Research. “They’re allgetting hammered.”

Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry said the economy fellby a seasonally adjusted 0.8 percent in the second quarter over a yearearlier. This is the second consecutive decline in its gross domesticproduct, which meets the definition of a recession.

Singapore is the first country to report its second quarter results,but Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines, which also reported nega-tive first quarter growth in its gross domestic product, could also turnout to be in recession when they reveal their second-quarter results inthe next few weeks.

Singapore has been among the hardest hit by the U.S. slowdown,given that foreign trade accounts for three times its GDP. This com-pares with about twice GDP for Malaysia and 0.75 percent for thePhilippines. Furthermore, a huge percentage of Singapore’s foreigntrade and manufacturing involves in particular electronic goods,which have seen demand fall off the retail shelf as consumers every-where grow more cautious.

Federal Mediator Says CaliforniaMight Not Get Power Refund

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Megan GarveyLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON — A federal mediator said Monday that electric-ity suppliers overcharged California by only a fraction of the nearly$9 billion claimed by Gov. Gray Davis, and suggested the state mightreceive no refund at all because its utilities’ unpaid bills exceed theovercharges.

The mediator, Curtis L. Wagner, said after two weeks of hearingsthat refunds of up to $1 billion probably were justified — a fractionof California’s claim. But in an indication that California might comeaway from the proceeding empty-handed. Wagner added: “Can arefund be required when overcharges are less than the outstandingbill? The case judge thinks not.”

Wagner said he would present his conclusions to the FederalEnergy Regulatory Commission, which had given him 15 days to tryto engineer a settlement between California and the energy suppliers.Monday was the 15th day.

FDA to Regulate CertainFertilization Procedures

By Rick WeissTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration hasinformed doctors that a controversial class of fertility treatments thatuntil now has been performed without government oversight can onlybe performed with the agency’s approval, marking the federal gov-ernment’s first significant foray into regulating the fertility field.

The FDA has long maintained that it has the authority to regu-late fertility practices — a claim that some in the field doubt islegally assured — and has been edging toward doing so for manyyears. Until now, however, that oversight has been essentially limit-ed to fertility doctors’ use of drugs and medical devices, a level ofregulation that has not raised alarms within the specialty since theagency regulates those areas in medicine generally.

Second Terrorist ReceivesLife Sentence for BombingBy John J. GoldmanLOS ANGELES TIMES

NEW YORK — Again statingthat execution might turn a terroristinto a martyr, a federal court juryTuesday spared the life of a secondman convicted in the 1998 bomb-ings of two U.S. embassies in EastAfrica that killed 224 people.

At the start of their third day ofpenalty-phase deliberations, thejurors announced that they could notreach agreement on whether Khal-fan Khamis Mohamed, a 27-year-old native of Tanzania, should beexecuted. That deadlock means anautomatic sentence of life in prisonwithout the possibility of parole.

Mohamed showed no emotionupon hearing that the jury had savedhim from a lethal injection.

He was one of four followers ofIslamic militant Osama bin Ladenwhom the same jury in May foundguilty of bombing the embassies inNairobi, Kenya, and in Dar esSalaam, the capital of Tanzania.Prosecutors said that the almostsimultaneous attacks, which alsoinjured more than 4,500 people,were part of a worldwide plot to killAmericans. Bin Laden was indictedin connection with the embassybombings. He is a fugitive and

believed to be under the protectionof the Taliban regime inAfghanistan.

On June 12, the jurors decidedagainst sentencing MohamedRashed Daoud al-‘Owhali, a 23-year-old Saudi Arabian, to death forthe Nairobi bombing. He tooreceived a life sentence. The twoother men convicted of conspiracyin the case, 40-year-old Wadih El-Hage, a naturalized U.S. citizenborn in Lebanon, and MohamedSadeek Odeh, a 35-year-old Jordan-ian, face automatic life sentences.

Mohamed had been convicted ofmurdering the 11 people who diedin the Dar es Salaam explosion.Prosecutors charged that he had pur-chased a vehicle used to transportbomb components, rented the houseused as the bomb factory and helpedgrind the TNT used in the device.

He was captured a year later,after fleeing to South Africa, wherehe worked in a fast food restaurant.

“This man decided on Aug. 7,1998, that people could die in anembassy with a bomb he helpedbuild, lined with TNT and madesure the truck got there,” AssistantU.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgeraldtold the jury during the penaltyphase of the trial. “He didn’t (care)

about the people he killed.” Fitzgerald said that when

Mohamed was caught, “he threat-ened to do it again.”

“What he has is ice in his veins,that’s what makes him more danger-ous because he coldly, coolly decid-ed, ‘I’ll kill,’” the prosecutor said.“Zero remorse.”

Government lawyers argued dur-ing the penalty phase that Mohamedwould create a constant threat toguards and other correctional per-sonnel if he were sentenced to lifein prison.

They alleged that he had helpedMamdouh Mahmud Salim, anotherdefendant awaiting trial in theembassy bombings, to attack aguard at the Metropolitan Correc-tional Center in November.

Guard Louis Pepe, 43, wasstabbed in the eye with a sharpenedcomb, a wound that penetrated 2-1/2inches into his brain, after beingsprayed in the face with hot sauce.He was also stabbed in the skullwith a sharpened hairbrush.

After the near-fatal attack, theguard — who lost the use of his eye— suffered a stroke that left himwith partial paralysis and severelydamaged his ability to speak andunderstand language.

Faith-Based Plan Draws Fire

Cool WaveBy Efren Gutierrez Jr.STAFF METEOROLOGIST

A cold front that passed last night will bring in cooler temperaturescompared to yesterday’s hot and humid afternoon. However, moisturefrom last night’s thunderstorm will give rise to more showers, whichshould last until Thursday morning. On a brighter note, this comingweekend will be very much cloud-free, since the next cold front is fore-cast to arrive early next week. Cooler temperatures are forecast for thefollowing week.

Today: Mostly cloudy, with increasing chance of rain showers. High75ºF (24ºC).

Tonight: High possibility for light to moderate rain. Low 59ºF (15ºC).Thursday: Clouds will part for clearer skies. High in the upper 70s.

Low in the lower 60s.Friday: Mostly clear. High in the upper 70s.Saturday: Sunny. High in the lower 70s.Sunday: Sunny. High in the mid 70s.

WEATHERSituation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, July 11, 2001

Bush Seeks to LetReligious GroupsHire As They Please

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Putin Takes Strong StandAgainst Capital Punishment

By Maura ReynoldsLOS ANGELES TIMES

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s words wereuncharacteristically strong and unequivocal — “I am against therestoration of capital punishment in Russia” — and they set off afresh wave of controversy Tuesday in Russia over whether the coun-try needs the death penalty.

The statement late Monday ended months of fence-sitting by theRussian president, torn between overwhelming support for the deathpenalty by his countrymen and overwhelming opposition to it inWestern Europe.

In order to retain membership in European organizations, Russiahas been halfheartedly observing a moratorium on capital punishmentsince 1996, but the statute permitting its use remains on the books.

Russian opinion polls show about 80 percent of respondents favorthe death penalty.

Condit Offers to Let PoliceSearch His D.C. Apartment

By Allan Lengel and Arthur SantanaTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Rep. Gary A. Condit will provide “whateveradditional information or material” is needed by police searching formissing intern Chandra Levy, his attorney said Monday, includinggiving investigators access to his apartment, his telephone recordsand his staff.

Abbe Lowell, emphasizing what he called Condit’s full coopera-tion in the Levy case, said at a news conference Monday night thatthe congressman would be willing to provide a DNA sample andwould “listen” to police if they asked for a lie detector test.

Mars Launches New M&M’sVariety Aimed at Latino Buyers

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Hoping to tap into the collective sweet tooth of the growing Lati-no market, candy maker Mars Inc. will launch a “dulce de leche”caramel variety of its popular M&M’s candy in five markets the com-pany said Tuesday.

The Hackettstown, N.J.-based company, the nation’s third-largestconfectioner, follows in the footsteps of such well-known food pur-veyors as McDonald’s in trying to convert the popular taste — simi-lar to caramelized or sweetened milk — into a retail hit.

The candy will feature a swirl of dulce de leche caramel andchocolate inside the traditional candy shell.

House Republicans CampaignTo Approve Energy MeasuresBy Peter BehrTHE WASHINGTON POST

House Republican leaders Tues-day began a hurried campaign topass a package of energy measuresbefore Congress’s summer recessbegins in three weeks, but left manykey issues on the sidelines becauseof differences with Democrats and alack of clear policy signals from theBush administration.

A House Energy and Commercesubcommittee is scheduled to beginvoting this week on a scaled-backlegislative proposal that wouldincrease federal subsidies for clean-er coal-burning technology, helpmore low-income households win-terize homes and pay energy billsand call for more energy efficienttelevision sets.

But a much longer list of high-

priority issues, including many inPresident Bush’s energy plan, arestalled or tangled by divisions with-in the energy industry or betweenthe industry and environmental crit-ics. The delay could threaten actionon the energy production and trans-mission problems cited by theadministration eight weeks agowhen it unveiled its program toaddress what it said was a loomingnational energy crisis.

“Whatever momentum there is(for comprehensive energy legisla-tion) is dissipating by the day,” saidRandall Davis, a Washington attor-ney who was a White House energypolicy adviser under Reagan.

Bush administration officials arefinishing legislative proposals todeal with challenges to the nation’selectricity system, including siting

of new power lines, transmissionnetwork reliability and the future ofretail electricity deregulation. WhiteHouse aides say the complexity ofthese energy problems takes time toresolve.

“If we were to rush throughthese things, you’d be asking,‘Don’t these issues require moredeliberation?”’ said Dan Bartlett,deputy assistant to the president.

The test for the president iswhether the window of opportunityfor enacting major energy legisla-tion will close this summer or fallbefore the administration can weighin — and how much leverage Bushcan exert.

“If you don’t have the WhiteHouse exerting leadership, I don’tsee where it comes from,” Davissaid.

By Craig TimbergTHE WASHINGTON POST

RICHMOND, Va. — African-American lawmakers and the Amer-ican Civil Liberties Union warnedMonday that Republican plans forredrawing Virginia’s congressionaldistricts may violate the VotingRights Act of 1965 by lessening theinfluence of black voters.

The charge threatened to throw awrench into what Republicans, whorule both houses of the GeneralAssembly, hoped would be a smoothtwo-day special session to adopt newcongressional boundary lines to

account for population growth. Complaints focused on the 4th

Congressional District, which waswon in a racially divided specialelection last month by J. RandyForbes, a white Republican, over ablack candidate. Virginia is amongthe first states to begin the once-a-decade redistricting process.

Under the original Republicanplan submitted by Del. JeannemarieDevolites, R-Fairfax, the 4th District,stretching from the Richmond sub-urbs to Hampton Roads, would havegone from 39 percent black popula-tion to 32 percent, making it poten-tially easier for Forbes — or anyother Republican — to win. AfricanAmericans are among the most reli-able supporters of Democrats.

Devolites, who defended her planas legal Monday, raised the African

American population to 34 percent ina revision, but black leaders said theupdated plan still dilutes the votingpower of African Americans.

“My assessment is that’s ille-gal,” said Rep. Robert C. Scott (D),Virginia’s only African American inCongress. “What happens to theability of minority voters to elect acandidate of their choice?”

State Sen. Yvonne B. Miller, D-Norfolk, said of the Devolites plan,“It’s also making Virginia look likea state that’s going through a secondReconstruction period, when we’rerolling back the rights of AfricanAmericans.”

Virginia is one of several south-ern states with a history of segrega-tion that are monitored closely bythe U.S. Justice Department underthe Voting Rights Act.

Virginia Redistricting ChallengedACLU, Republicans Accuse Each OtherOf Gerrymandering

OPINIONPage 4 THE TECH July 11, 2001

Letters To The EditorUpgrades to

‘Cable Upgrades’I am writing in response to the article

“Cable Upgrades to Digital” in the June 15edition, which I feel requires clarification.

MIT Cable Television presently carries 48channels. MIT provides 22 of these channelsfree of charge to all campus residents and tomany offices, classrooms and other areas. Thisfree service will continue to be offered andthose who do not subscribe to pay serviceswill still receive the same channels that theydo now, although the channel numbering willchange. The new digital service that MITCable will deliver beginning September 1 hastwo basic offerings: 60 channels for $23.99 or80 channels with 31 no-commercial stereomusic channels for $32.99 monthly.

By comparison, AT&T Broadband’s basicservice for MIT consists of 19 channels. In thetime since the article appeared, AT&T Broad-band has increased the monthly price of theMIT basic 19-channel service to $16.15. Thearticle states that Falls Earth Station wasselected to provide the service mainly becauseit “would cost MIT nothing up front.”Although my quote is correct, the emphasisadded by the Tech article is misleading. FallsEarth Station was selected because their pro-posal addressed our concerns by greatlyexpanding the channel lineup and improvingservice. The MIT Cable Television DiscoveryProject at <http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/-cabletv/> provides much detail about thework that went into selection process.

Also, the statement that “AT&T Broad-band’s proposal would have eliminated indi-vidual subscriptions and instead sent one bill

to MIT” is not correct. AT&T Broadband hasnever made a proposal like this to MIT.Rather, it has been stated by several AT&TBroadband representatives over the past sev-eral years that billing individual customerswould be discontinued and that MIT would besent a “bulk” bill based on the number of con-nections our system provides. Connectionsthat are available but not used are also billed,creating a situation where people who do notuse the service subsidize it for those who do. Iand others working with me have taken thisseriously considering that AT&T Broadbandcurrently uses this model at other colleges anduniversities and we do not think that it isappropriate for MIT.

Randy WinchesterCoordinator, MIT Cable Television

Project Leader, MIT Cable TVDiscovery Project

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Shunmugavelu D. SokkaG was inadvertentlyomitted from the list ofStewart Award winnersin the article “AwardsCeremony Honors Stu-dents, Faculty” [May15].

Basil Enwegabra

MIT has shown through its extensive tech-nological breakthroughs and expansive pro-grams that it has no competitor anywhere inthe field of innovative technology and scien-tific research. With its recent high-tech initia-tives around the world, from the MIT-Ger-many program, MIT-Japan program,MIT-France program, MIT-Italy program,MIT-China program, and MIT-India program,to the Cambridge University-MIT alliance andMIT-Singapore alliance, the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology has finally monopo-lized technological innovation and scientificresearch.

In Germany, for example, MIT students,researchers, and engineers have brainstormeda new strategy that could make Lufthansa theleading airline of the 21st century. In India,MIT is building a technologically advancedmedia laboratory (Media Lab) that couldtransform and give India a competitive edgein the ongoing global race for technologicalinnovations. At Cambridge University, MITscientists and students are working hand inhand with their Cambridge counterparts toshare the benefits of cutting-edge technologi-cal and scientific research.

Although MIT has led the world of tech-nological innovation for decades now,recently the speed with which it is advanc-ing and modernizing has become incrediblyhigh and beyond the grasp of other rivals.From human-centered computing, biotech-nology, and nanotechnology, to neuro-science and microphotonics, MIT has dra-matized the current race to technologicalinnovation and breakthroughs. Cutting-edgetechnological transformational vision andchallenges have made this top technical uni-versity a technological icon. Or how couldthese innovations in biotechnology,microphotonics, and nanotechnology beexplained to the scientific and technologicalworld? What about the ongoing translationof knowledge into dramatic advances inmedicine, energy, and materials, all leadingto new ways of treating heart attacks, cysticfibrosis, and cancer?

These ongoing discoveries and inventionsat MIT are changing the face of future tech-nology forever. For example, nanotechnologyadvancement has already led to the creation ofunique materials and structures that now trig-ger the race to microscopic nanomachines andmicrophotonics innovations, optical devicesand circuits on the same size scale of comput-er chips. Microphotonics alone has revolution-ized telecommunications, data communica-tions, and computing.

This cutting-edge university also alreadyresearches in neuroscience, creating newunderstanding of brain and mind as well aspotentially offering hope for new therapiesand cures for illnesses such as Alzheimer’s,schizophrenia and manic depression. Theamazement and surprises developed by itshigh-tech researchers and scientists have ledthe Institute to believe that within the next 25years the development of more sophisticateddevices for diagnosis and therapy, such asimaging and virtual surgery, will not only bepossible, but also readily and cheaply avail-able to hospitals and medical centers aroundthe world.

With these revolutionary expectationshigh, MIT’s biomedical engineering is equallyundergoing a major ideological change — thatis, from the fusion of engineering with molec-ular cell biology to pushing the evolution of anew engineering discipline that should beappropriate to tackling the challenges of mole-cular and genomic medical changes. Alsoundergoing advanced modernization areMIT’s school of Architecture and Planning,the Sloan School of Management, and Schoolof Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Thechanges have become inevitable, to makethem fully ready to play the new role thesetechnological revolutions are expected toimpose on MIT.

How to make Africa and Africans benefitfrom the ongoing revolutions at MIT remainsthe greatest challenge facing MIT andAfricans alike. While some believe that theway to begin making MIT’s technologicalimpact felt in Africa is through distance learn-ing and teaching, others view the creation ofan African technological window at MIT themost creative way the ongoing technologicaland scientific innovations taking place at MITcould also benefit Africa.

ConnectingMIT toAfrica

Jyoti Tibrewala

The issue of affirmative action hasreturned to center stage. On June 25, theSupreme Court let stand the ruling in the caseTexas v. Hopwood. This ruling led the state ofTexas to end its affirmative action policies atits public colleges and universities. The state’seducation officials feel that this has left thestate’s public education system at a disadvan-tage compared to states with affirmativeaction policies.

Two cases involving the University ofMichigan are on their way to the high court;one of these involves undergraduate admis-sions, which rates its applicants on a 150-point scale, giving Blacks, Hispanics, andNative Americans 20 extra points for theirrace.

The University of California recentlydecided to give more weight to the SAT-IIexam — which test such specific subjectareas as history, biology, and foreign lan-guages — than the SAT-I exam in evaluat-ing applicants. This decision coincided witha new freshman class in which the percent-age of Hispanic and Asian-American stu-dents increased. Many suspect that the for-eign language test may have provided anunexpected opportunity to students takingthe exams in Spanish, Korean, or Chinese,as these languages may be spoken in thehome.

Affirmative action programs were put inplace to make up for past economic and socialwrongs to minorities. However, these pro-grams need to be dropped if the nation is tomove forward.

In “past economic and social wrongs tominorities,” the primary economic wrongbeing referred to is slavery, and the primaryminority is the African-American popula-tion. But we as a nation are far past the daysof slavery. We have also come out of thecivil rights movement and the street riots ofthe 1960s which led to the establishment of

affirmative action. Today, blacks and otherminorit ies are being accepted into thenation’s top schools and making their way tothe top of major corporations.

However, this is only due in part to affir-mative action. Yes, affirmative action mayhave acted as a starting push to get minori-ties on the way to success. But achievementcomes from a desire to succeed. One needs

to set goals, and he or she must be devotedto that cause, accepting only excellence,never mediocrity; only then can goals beachieved.

Society has changed as well. Much of theracism present as late as the 1950s and ’60s isnonexistent nowadays. This is basically due toa general increased tolerance. Attributing it tothe workings of affirmative action would be astretch.

It should also be noted that the caseinvolving the University of Californiashould not qualify as affirmative action atall. Mastery of a language is an importantthing to have, whether it is learned at homeor in school. For native English speakerswho may feel cheated, take as an example anative speaker of Chinese. He or she proba-bly learned the language as a child. Then,when school began, he or she had to learnEnglish. A native English speaker will havebeen introduced to English as a youngster.Elementary and secondary schooling pro-

vide the opportunity to sharpen his or herskills in English, complemented by its beingspoken at home. The native English speakerwill have a better grasp on the languagethan the foreign speaker, as it is the formerstudent’s first language, and he or she mayhave had more time to master it for thatvery reason. And English might prove moreuseful attending school in an English-speak-

ing country.A f f i r m a -

tive actionmay havebeen neededto get the ballroll ing, butthe ball isr o l l i n galready, andit’s picking upspeed as i trolls along.A f f i r m a t i v e

action has done its job, and as such it shouldbe retired. The Supreme Court should takeadvantage of cases, such as those citedabove, that are heading its way and are chal-lenging the doctrine of affirmative action,and it should use the opportunity to help thenation take another step forward. One majorargument for affirmative action is that itaims to level the playing field so thatminorities and the majority are on equalfooting. Eliminating affirmative action,though, would encourage everyone to standon their own two feet. That’s not to implythat some use affirmative action as a plateaufrom which the finish line is clearer. Thegoal is to eliminate the haunting questionfrom a job or college acceptee of whetheraffirmative action or solid achievement is tothank. This in turn would challenge all of usto work our very hardest in everything wedo, since we will be evaluated solely on thebasis of our credentials. Only then will weall be on equal footing.

July 11, 2001 OPINION THE TECH Page 5

Kris Schnee

In the recent movie The Sixth Day ,Arnold Schwarzenegger tackles the complexethical issues of human cloning. Clones inThe Sixth Day are slave beings grown in theglass tanks of mad scientists and used tobring back the dead with full memory ofhow Arnold killed them last time. When hediscovers that he too is a clone, Arnold turnsto the cam-era andpines, “Do Ihave asoul?”

B a dmovies areeasier to for-get whenyour gov-e r n m e n tdoesn’t startusing themas inspira-tion for law.

On June 20, the Bush administrationendorsed HR 1644, the harshest of severalbills pending in Congress to ban humancloning. The bill, endorsed by Reps. DaveWeldon (R-Fla.) and Bart Stupak (R-Mich.),prohibits any creation of cloned humanembryos, in contrast to the milder HR 2172sponsored by Rep. Jim Greenwood(R-Pa.).

Greenwood’s bill allows the cre-ation of cloned embryos so long asthere is no intent to bring them to term— it allows cloning for research, butnot reproduction.

The Weldon-Stupak bill is a gov-ernment power grab made in thename of legislating morality. Theprime reason given in the bill for thecloning ban is that cloning poses“massive risks” to children. Does it?The first mammalian cloning attempt,Dolly, produced only one birth, ahealthy lamb. Not st i l lborn,deformed, or otherwise “mutated,” just anordinary animal. The other embryos nevercame to term, just as a large percentage ofhuman pregnancies end in natural termina-tion. Years of research since Dolly haverefined the technique, and it will onlybecome safer and more successful in thefuture.

It is not Congress’ business at all to

decide what medical procedures are safe.We have the Food and Drug Administrationand other regulatory agencies for that; it isthe job of experienced physicians and scien-tists to evaluate the safety of new treat-ments, just as they do for less controversialmedicine. Safety is no justification for a fed-eral cloning ban.

Nor is the other line of argument Wel-don-Stupak advances: a complex of fear ofthe unknown and desire to control people for

their own good. “Efforts to create humanbeings by cloning,” the bill states, “mark anew and decisive step toward turning humanreproduction into a manufacturing process inwhich children are made in laboratories topreordained specifications and, potentially,in multiple copies.” Elsewhere it expresses

worry that cloning “threatens to weakenexisting notions regarding who bears whichparental duties and responsibilities for chil-dren.” The implication of the bill’s languageis clear: in the mindset of the anti-cloning(and also the anti-genetics) crowd, biologyis destiny. If two children are geneticallyequal, they are “copies,” not distinct people(ignore identical twins). If children are given

natural advantages of health and intelligencethrough some future genetic process, thesechildren are only “manufactured” goods, andcan never rise above their biological destiny.

The opponents of cloning show a lack ofrespect for human life, for people’s abilityto be more than the products of their genes.Advances in biological technology will beused benevolently to improve people’slives, yet some want to ban them (thusdenying them to all but the super-rich)because they fear that a cloned humanwould be enslaved or treated as less thanhuman. But if this happens, will the culpritsbe the parents who love their child, or thelobbyists who despise his existence? Pre-serving our cultural notions of parental dutyis not the government’s job; nor do we needprotection at the expense of our freedom asparents and children.

If you oppose cloning as a means ofreproduction so strongly that you woulddeny it by force to everyone, reject the Wel-don-Stupak bil l in favor of the milderGreenwood one. Greenwood realizes thatthe use of embryonic cloning for medicineis a research pathway well worth pursuing.Technology Review estimates that 48,000people in America alone are waiting forreplacement kidneys. Hundreds of thou-sands die of heart failure each year inAmerica; an estimated 2,100 were on wait-ing lists for hearts last year and didn’t get

them. Human embryoresearch and cloningare a promising line ofresearch which couldsave countless lives,and we need to protectthe freedom of scien-tific research to maxi-mize the chance that,when someone wecare about is in dangerfrom organ failure, wecan save them. A voteto preserve humancloning as a legaloption is a vote to pro-

mote human life.The proposed cloning ban is in its early

stages in Congress; there is still time to letour representatives know that cloning tech-nology, far from threatening our “culture,”is an expansion of human freedom and willsave human lives. Keep cloning legal, andprevent a bad action movie from comingtrue.

Laws Cloned from Hollywood

Time to Retire Affirmative Action

In “past economic and social wrongs to minorities,” theprimary economic wrong being referred to is slavery, and

the primary minority is the African-Americanpopulation.But we as a nation are far past the days of

slavery.

It is not Congress’ business at all to decide whatmedical procedures are safe.We have the Food andDrug Administration and other regulatory agenciesfor that; it is the job of experienced physicians andscientists to evaluate the safety of new treatments,

just as they do for less controversial medicine.

Human embryo research and cloning are apromising line of research which could save

countless lives, and we need to protect the freedomof scientific research to maximize the chance that,when someone we care about is in danger from

organ failure, we can save them.

Page 6 THE TECH OPINION July 11, 2001

Philip Burrowes

It could be said that this nation is fond ofage limits. There are little to no merit-basedrequirements (depending on one’s definitionof “merit”) for Congress, for example, butminimum ages of 25 and 30 are needed to jointhe House and Senate, respectively. Under-graduates probably care most about, that’sright, being over 18 so they can vote and jointhe military. A few adolescents passingthrough these hallowed halls right around nowmay even be glad that they’re past the variousages protected in the Fair Labor Standards Actof 1938 (or corresponding state ordinances).

Some may want to rush to the defense ofthe discriminated by denouncing such provi-sions as “age-ist” and unconstitutional. Peoplelike that are stupid, considering age limitsshow up in the third sentence of the Constitu-tion, not counting the delusional preamble.They do, however, realize that there is oftenlittle concrete evidence to back up establishedage limits besides the fact that, hey, they’vebeen established.

To underscore this, simply observe therationale behind the voting age. Twenty-onewas originally chosen because the prevalentsocial notions dictated that maturity wasachieved by that time. Only adults would begenerally responsible enough to vote deliber-ately and of their own accord. Childrenmight not only lack the mental faculties toproperly choose candidates, but could also beheavily influenced by their parents; a similarargument was advanced concerning women

and their husbands prior to the 19th Amend-ment.

Where is the age minimum for membersof the Electoral College, however? At first itmight seem that Article II is deferring powerto the states in some sort of appointmentquid pro quo. Upon further inspection, thatseems dubious, as even the pre-17th Amend-ment Constitution spends the entire first arti-cle telling the same states exactly how Con-gress is to be run. Presumably an elector’sstature is validated because he is appointed,but that mandate does not render moot the

minimums for Congress. Nor does it holdthat age doesn’t matter, because obviously ifyounger voters could be bullied, youngerelectors would be just as — if not more so —susceptible.

For those who think such seemingly arbi-trary provisions are relegated to obscure fed-eral laws and Constitutional clauses, take alook at the world of professional basketball.

The collective bargaining agreementbetween the National Basketball Associationand the players’ union actually does set aminimum “age” for the athletes, underwhich they cannot be signed if their highschool class has not graduated. Primarily, itseeks to ensure a modicum of physical andemotional maturity because presumablyteams could bully prodigies into joiningtheir organizations. Either that or, akin thevoter and his congressman, teams would bebetter off with older players.

Like the ages required for federal office,neither contention is supported by evidence.Young athletes are far more likely to fall vic-tim to agents, economic pressure, or their owninflated egos than a general manager, and aplayer’s actual ability does not seem to mapconclusively to age (take Tracy McGrady, 22,and Nick Anderson, 33).

People who complain about this tend tofavor an increase in the minimum age, consid-ering the glut of NBA players without collegedegrees. Where are these people to decry theabsence of experience or education in poli-tics? Granted, the ramifications on basketballseem to be more pronounced than the currentstate of government, but the train of logic isthe same.

Basketball also displays perhaps the mainproblem with age standards, and that’s theirdisjunctive nature. Lobbyists seek a return tothe pre-American Basketball Association daysof early entry lockouts while teams becomeall the more willing to draft “youngsters.”Going back to the government, the higher thepolitical office, the higher the required age,

yet some of the most memorable officialshave been young ones. The clincher for for-eigners is the difference between drinking ageand voting age, a byproduct of the 26thAmendment. It’s irrational, it’s unwanted, andit’s without good intention.

MIT has it right. Here, it is not out of thequestion to have proctors or even TAs whoare your junior. The fact, however depressingit may be, is that there are people who will besmarter yet younger than you, and you will bemore capable than many older than you. It isnot so much that admissions evaluates on acase-by-case basis, but that it maintains somesort of identifiable standard — in the Insti-tute’s case hopefully intellect. Age in and ofitself, to paraphrase the lyrics of the onceambiguously-aged Aaliyah, is nothing but anumber. Nobody should suggest a test to voteand the like, but it couldn’t hurt to knowwhere you stand and why.

No Limit to Limits

For those who think suchseemingly arbitrary provisionsare relegated to obscure federal

laws and Constitutional clauses,take a look at the world of

professional basketball.

The fact, however depressing itmay be, is that there are peoplewho will be smarter yet youngerthan you, and you will be morecapable than many older than

you.

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By Erik BlankinshipSTAFF WRITER

Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by Ian Watson and Brian AldissStarring Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, DavidSwinton, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards,Jake Thomas, Brendan Gleeson, DaveighChase, William Hurt, and Jack AngelRated PG-13

A n endearing movie A.I. is not. It is amovie about robots, narrated byrobots. Even though the star of themovie, little robo-boy David, might

look like the cute little actor Haley JoelOsment, he brings awkward to a new level.Let’s imagine what David’s programmingmight look like:

10 print “Mom, do you love me?”20 get A$30 if A$ == “n” then goto 1040 if A$ == “y” then end

Now, if you are a robot like David, you fol-low these instructions pretty closely withoutmuch room for interpretation. If your momisn’t around or threw you away, you might getstuck in this routine for, say, a few millennia.

But why wouldn’t Mom just love Davidback? That is the central question raised earlyon in A.I. Can we love our machines? Can wereally love them?

Here at MIT, where we cheer for our 6.270lego robot creations more than we do for anysporting event, it seems plausible to love ourrobots. If they asked to us to love them back,we might. Maybe. Might check the sourcecode first.

STS Professor Sherry Turkle’s researchshows how children’s perceptions of what is“alive” have been challenged over the lastcentury. A hundred years ago, things thatcould roll were considered “alive.” Morerecently, responsive games like Simon wereconsidered quasi-sentient, while Tamagotchispuzzle children of today.

Spielberg’s leap in this film is that adultswill not be able to make the distinctionbetween machine and man; that the TuringTest will not be solvable in the near future.And what will make this distinction impossi-ble is putting A.I. into the form of children,playing upon Freudian archetypes we areunable to resist. Mothers are especially proneto this belief in Spielberg’s film.

David enters the world wary of his father(Sam Robards), addressing him only by firstname. He is ever eager to love his mother,“mommy” (Frances O’Connor), to have herconstant affection. He does everything he canto reach that state. Even disobeying his pro-gramming.

Helping David differentiate between rightand wrong is his very own Jiminy Cricket, inthe form of robo-stuffed bear Teddy (voicedby Jack Angel). Teddy is so cool in the movie,he should be up for best supporting actor inthe Academy Awards this year. Or better yet,get his own Teddy movie.

Overhearing the story of Pinocchio, andnoting their similar real-boy aspirations,David decides he must find the blue fairy. Forif he can become a real boy, then maybemommy would truly love him.

But hardly anybody feels love across themechanic-organic chasm. Mommy is oftenhaunted by her doppelganger of a child. Daddywants to have David dismantled at the factory.David’s creator, the Geppetto-vest-wearing Pro-fessor Hobby (William Hurt), is primarily inter-ested in marketing more Davids to families.Rogue gatherings of humans collect and muti-late robots in retal-iation for theirinfiltration of ourhuman lifestyles.

To save Davidfrom this technoci-dal fate, Spielbergonce again appealsto our instinctualprogramming; thepremise that some-where in oursuper-ego is a fail-safe which pro-hibits the destruc-tion of children.This is where themovie stumbles.Putting ourselvesinto the mindset ofan angry anti-tech-no mob, intent onthe destruction ofmachines, why notkill them all? Whocares how they arepackaged? It’s atelevised robotwar, a monitor

drop from the Green building, a spectacle ofexploding machinery.

But Spielberg implores us to reconsider theinnocence and importance of a child. Similarto how Oskar Schindler is guided by theunknown red-coated little girl to become asavior of humankind, Spielberg uses a robotchild to make us reconsider how we treatmachinery. Even if we cannot make this leapourselves, within Spielberg’s fable the chasmis crossed.

This loveless environment is the stage forthis sci-fairy tale, where technological propsstand in for the traditional folk story elements.Future pleasure palace Rogue City (a sharedneon set from Moulin Rouge?) appears asA.I.’s answer to Pinocchio’s “TemptationIsland.” Instead of misbehaving men turninginto donkeys, the boundaries between humanand artificial are further blurred; love and sex-ual servicing are conflated.

The consequences for our illicit, abusiverelationships with our creations are hauntinglydire in A.I. Our devices are left to blankly loveus in return, iterating endlessly on the mean-ing and process of love, while emptily tryingto solve the puzzle of humanity.

At the end of the film, the role of god-likecreator is taken from Geppetto, and assumedby the machines, which now create humanlives to love robots. It should be an eerie,unnerving future where only echoes ofhumanity reverberate. But Spielberg playsdown the haunting sci-fi aspects, focusing onwhat the machines were programmed toacquire: the love of humans. We have toremind ourselves that this is a horrifyingfuture, one where David completes his Oedi-pal quest to take his father’s place in hismother’s bed. But it is told lovingly, as a fairytale, an ever-after ending.

The tale is told from a child’s perspective,without knowledge of the bizarre humanlessnature of the character’s motivations. Thefears of abandonment play on emotionalchords I recall as a child. The future“mechas” (as opposed to “orgas” — livingbeings) appear as creatures that Spielberg’simagination was haunted by as a child atnight.

The suspension of disbelief required toaccept the motivations of the fairy tale A.I. arefar more than many adult film goers have beenwilling to make. I found myself repeatedlyreminding myself of my own childhood fearsand strange beliefs, and letting the film playupon these lingering frames of mind. Spiel-berg suggests that this is the mindset of thesentient machine, a mind we have createdwhich cannot separate reality from fantasy. Itis an interesting proposition and a cruelpredicament.

FILM REVIEW★★★★

Pinocchio: A Spielberg OdysseyFairy Tale-like ‘A.I.’ Questions Boundaries of Humanity with Robot Child

DAVID JAMES

A child-bot, David (Haley Joel Osment), finds himself facing technocide in Spielberg’s A.I.

By Scott LeeSTAFF WRITER

Saffron279A Newbury St.Back Bay, Boston617-536-9766

S affron is a spice derived from the fall-flowering plant of the same name thatis native to Asia minor. For centuries ithas been prized as one of the most pre-

cious ingredients of cooking in the old world. Itis estimated that the stigmas of 4,000 flowersare required to make one ounce of saffron pow-der. Such a name for a restaurant lends itself tohigh expectations of the cuisine to come.

I visited Saffron in the middle of the day,during the hustle and bustle of a NewburyStreet crowd. The open patio seating on thisstreet makes for some interesting people-watching, and, during the summer months, itis particularly pleasant. That is, of course, ifyou bring your own sunblock. Some of thetables are without parasols, and if you prefernot to get skin cancer from Saffron, you mightwant to move inside or get a shaded seat.

Once comfortably seated at one of themany shiny metallic tables surrounded by ahedge of protective shrubbery, a menu of bothtraditional Indian and Western fusion cuisinesis brought out. I tried a variety of appetizers,soup, and entrées from both the American andIndian sides of the menu.

Of the appetizers, the chicken chaat wasthe standout. It was an atypical preparation ofchaat, a light meat salad dish mixed with acucumber and yogurt sauce. The addition of

extra spices created a dish with zing, morezing than the simple creation of a traditionalacidic base. The shrimp maseladar was flavor-ful and well prepared. Though the garlic andginger were not prominent, the crunch of thepoori bread and the oiled vegetables created anice gustatory texture.

The presentation of the entrées was mostimpressive. The artistry of the paneer ravioliwas evident by the use of four or five colors increating a well-balanced work of art. Thesweet aroma and juxtaposition of the raviolibeneath a crisp and dry, deep-fried leek, creat-ed a successful entrée.

The vindaloo pork chop was another dishthat was presented skillfully. When I think ofvindaloo, however, I think of burn-your-tongue-off spiciness. This was a mild rendi-tion of a vindaloo dish, using maybe a pinchof the spice, which only required maybe oneglass of wine to clear my palate.

The halibut was very fresh, with the appro-

priate amount of coriander and cumin. Thismay have been the best fusion dish, as iteffectively balanced the old world with new-world flavors. Cooked perfectly, it had a nicegelatinous center that melted deliciously. Thetomatoes accentuated the dish with a tartnessthat complemented the beans and fish.

The tandoori at Saffron was relativelystandard. There were no surprises here. Thequality of the dishes was up to par and themeat was neither overly juicy nor dry. Theportions were large and were more than suffi-cient for a person’s weekly dose of tandoori.

Of the breads, the aloo paratha and garlicnaan were fresh and made well. The aroma of

the garlic wafting to New-bury Street was enough toturn the heads of manyGucci-clad pedestrians.These delicious breads werenice accompaniments to themeal.

Dessert concluded withthe kulfi (a type of pistachioice cream), which was beau-tifully prepared. Many fruitswere puréed to create a rain-bow of flavor and color thatwas placed beneath a baseof noodles and cardamon-infused scoops of kulfi. Ittasted fine, but the vermicel-li was mysterious — is it agarnish or not?

Saffron’s decor isthoughtful and tasteful andthe dishes were exquisitecreations of taste and pre-sentation. The dessert alonewas an outstanding andaddictive fare. Saffron’sexcellent service, atmos-phere, and food is a wel-come jewel on NewburyStreet.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Saffron — Indian JewelIndian Fusion that Lives Up To Its Name

WAN YUSOF WAN MORSHIDI—THE TECH

Diners at Newbury Street’s Saffron enjoy the atmosphere and delicious food.

Page 8 THE TECH THE ARTS July 11, 2001

By Chad SerrantSTAFF WRITER

‘Super Mario Advance’Made for Gameboy AdvancePublished by Nintendo$29.95

When Nintendo releases a new con-sole system, a Mario game isalways released. Its mission issimple: show what the system is

capable of, and provide some fun, too. Usu-ally, the fun part appears in the form of anall-new, exciting adven-ture that will open youreyes to the future ofvideo gaming. SuperMario World on theSNES showed how largea world could fit on atiny cartridge. And SuperMario 64 taught playersto explore and backtrackto previous worlds. SuperMario Advance, howev-er, uses some of the olderMario games to demonstrate its power.

Basically, Super Mario Advance containsSuper Mario Bros. 2 and Mario Brothers(not to be confused with Super Mario Broth-ers, by the way). These two games are …well, they aren’t anything like the otherMario games.

Super Mario Bros. 2 is the most irregularMario game of the bunch. Mario and hisfriends stumble upon the dream world of sub-con, where the evil Wart has taken control.

Two things that make this game differentfrom the other Mario games is that you canchoose between four characters (Mario, Luigi,Toad, and the Princess, Peach), each with dif-ferent strengths and skills. Mario is average,Luigi jumps high, Toad can grab things faster,and Peach can float. There are some stages thatare easier for some characters to handle thanothers.

The other big difference is that you attackenemies by throwing things at them. Stomp-ing does nothing. This game takes the mostfundamental attack in platform games, andthrows it out the window. It is a great game,but was it really the best title to use for alaunch title?

Also included on this is Mario Brothers,the first Mario Brothers game, before therewas a Bowser, before there were goombas. Itwas the day when Mario and his brother Luigiwere Italian-Americans living in Brooklynworking as plumbers. There aren’t any alliga-tors in the sewers, but there are a lot of weirdlookin’ creatures in it. You have to knockthem from below to turn them over, then kickthem. With a large variation of enemies and afrenzied pace, this game is great for peoplewho want to run around for a small amount oftime.

The frenzied pace is also great for multi-

player. With one cartridge, you can play withup to four people, either cooperatively orcompetitively. Either mode will keep you onyour toes as you try to beat your friends to thepoints.

As I said before, Super Mario Advance issupposed to demonstrate the power of theGame Boy Advance, and it does. In SuperMario Bros. 2, when you throw things, theyrotate. You can also notice rotational effectswhen you enter the magical pots. The back-ground features a lot of rotating gears and astrange ferris wheel. Many enemies are huge

and will scrunch under yourweight if you jump on them. Thisgame shows a lot of rotation andscaling.

There is also a musicalimprovement. The backgroundmusic sounds as good as it didin the Super NES version. Andthe characters have voices. Peo-ple have various opinions on thevoices. You see, they seem tohave a phrase for every possiblemaneuver: jumping, getting

energy, taking damage, losing a life, com-pleting a stage, walking, eating, sleeping,writing essays … sorry, I trailed off. Thepoint is, they won’t shut up. That, and Toadhas a very shrill voice. Very. The voice hehad in Mario Kart 64 was a lot more enjoy-able than this. In the end, you will find thevoices charming yet annoying or obnoxious.Take your pick.

I’m a little concerned about the gameselection for this launch title. I don’t knowwhy, but I was hoping for more than SuperMario Bros. 2 and Mario Bros. Maybe Iexpected a new adventure. Or maybe I hopedthat they would put all of the old Mario gameson one cartridge, like they did in Mario All-Stars. Or maybe it’s because I like SuperMario Bros. 3 more. For newbies, this will bea great game that shows how varied platformgames can be. But for those who have playedthese games already, this is not worth the pur-chase.

VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Super Mario AdvanceBefore There Were Goombas

Graphics

Overall RatingReplay Value

GameplaySound

8.08.5

7.57.0

7.0 all scores

out of 10

By Shankar MukherjiSTAFF WRITER

Called by many the “doyen of Indianclassical music,” Pandit RaviShankar performed to cri t icalacclaim last October in New York

City’s Carnegie Hall. The concert, recordedand released by Angel Records, featuredboth newly composed pieces by Shankar aswell as his family’s next generation of artis-tic talents as daughter Anoushka Shankaraccompanied on the sitar. For Shankar theconcert marked a return to Carnegie, wherehe first performed as a dancer and instru-mentalist in 1938.

Although ostensibly composed in a verytraditional form, Shankar does not blindlyfollow the style of his musical forebears. Inthe Alap, or opening, section of the RagaKaushi Kanhara, a night raga, the sitaristclearly is attuned to the harmonic blends ofhis notes with those of the tanpura , astringed instrument used for i ts droneeffects, in a manner reminiscient of theWestern musical tradition. At the same time,however, the composition remains groundedin its Indian classical roots as Shankarrepeatedly intersperses expressive, slurredphrases with highly rhythmic, nearly stacca-to notes thus driving the beat even in the

absence of the tabla.The next section, the Gat, is performed in

the 14 beat cycle dhamar taal. The entranceof the tabla allows Shankar to dance aroundthe rhythm, interleaving short trill sectionswithin the main melodic line of the raga. Fur-

thermore the sitarists make exquisite use the5-5-4 division of the beat cycle in their rapidruns, especially in conjunction with the cre-ative mixture of on and off beat notes. Theend effect is one that keeps the music, basedon an ancient melodic line, fresh and exciting.

This idea of grounding the melodic linein a particular rhythm while keeping themusic from being predictable is best wit-nessed at the end of the section. Theextremely effective crescendo andaccelerando up until the raga’s conclusionis met with enthusiastic applause.

The second raga presented, Raga MishraGara, according to Shankarhimself, “is played in thecontemporary Khyal andThumri forms.” As he fur-ther explains, he changesfrom the raga’s tonic note,Sa , to the fourth, Ma.Described as a light, roman-tic raga, Ravi Shankar anddaughter play the piece in atechnically precise manner,again exemplifying the Indi-an classical emphasis onrhythm and melody.

In this raga the tablaenters soon after the openingwhich again allows the mainvoices to develop themelody from one of simpleto complex lines. Themelody of the slow sectionof the Gat, in fact, can bedescribed as almost song-like in its simple beauty at

onetime and highly ornamented nature thenext, clearly the result of the highly impro-visatory nature of the art form.

The slow section features the bass tanpuraprominently, played by Ajay Sharma, adding ahighly effective contrast to the melody of thesitar; the elder statesman of Indian classicalmusic then effectively closes the slow sectionwith a highly intricate melodic run, showingthat even at age 80 his fingers are still nimbleenough to race up and down the instrument.

The transition to the fast section of the Gatis extremely smooth as the tabla is able toseamlessly translate the rhythm to the new,accelerated beat. Thenew section is builtaround a simple refrain which is repeatedthroughout the remainder of the raga. Flirtingabout the refrain, Ravi Shankar is allowed todisplay his full brilliance as a master ofimprovisation, using the full tonal range of hisinstrument as well as the full scale of hisextraordinary sense of rhythm.

The final, frenetic moments of the ragabring to culmination all the emotion evoked inthe melodic lines. It leads to a moment ofcatharsis in which the audience can lose itselfin the musical storm. Despite the furious paceof the conclusion there is remarkable unitybetween the various instrumentalists, heldtogether by an impressive display by tablaplayers Bikram Ghosh and Tanmoy Bose.

The concert clearly marks a triumphal19th performance at Carnegie for Indianclassical music’s greatest ambassador.Shankar will be appearing at Carnegie againon the November 18 and will be coming toBoston on May 5, 2002.

MUSIC REVIEW

Shankar Thrills CarnegieCaptures Essence of Indian Classical Music

By Jumaane JeffriesSTAFF WRITER

‘Sonic Adventure 2’Published by SegaMade for Dreamcast$39.99

V ery few people can forget how Sega setthe world ablaze ten years ago with thefuriously fast, gravity-defying gameplay of Sonic the Hedgehog. Set in fan-

tastically colorful and elaborate worlds, thequest to save the world from Dr. Robotnikallowed players to either stop and explore, or runlike the wind and never look back. Now Segapays tribute to the legacy in Sonic Adventure 2,the sequel to the Dreamcast’s flagship title.

This time around, as the heroic trio of Sonic,Tails, and Knuckles again faces off againstRobotnik, two mysterious new villains join thefray. The nature of good and evil is embodied inShadow, a black hedgehog whose own legacy istied to Robotnik’s family, and is on anunknown quest for redemption and revenge.Shadow and the Doc are assisted by Rouge theBat, a relentless female Emerald hunter and a“vamp” in every sense of the word.

In a new twist to the series, you can take ontwo particular quests: that of either the HeroSide or Dark Side. As such, each character has anearly identical counterpart. As Sonic or Shad-ow, you play the light-speed stages that havedefined Sonic for a decade. Tails grows up a bitin taking on Dr. Robotnik as they each battle inMechwarrior-style robot walkers, similar to the“shoot-em-up” stages of E-102 in Sonic Adven-ture. Knuckles reprieves his role as guardian ofthe Emeralds, while Rouge serves as his foil ineach of their own seek-and-find stages.

The Sonic/Shadow stages flow crisply andsmoothly, with no hint of slowdown, and noneof the weird collision-detect problems of theoriginal Adventure remaining. The wizards atSonic Team even attempted to alleviate the phe-nomena where the game seems to play itself(the up-button phenomena) by adding moresuddenly appearing pitfalls and obstacles. Sure-ly these action stages will take a lot longer tomaster, especially with all the hidden tricks forwhich you can get bonus points, but it adds tothe replay value, so it’s all good. As Tails or Dr.Robotnik, you just pretty much blast everythingin sight, but it’s a good little action shooterthat’s fun to play once you get accustomed toyour aiming mechanism.

Most of the game’s ire comes from theKnuckles/Rouge stages, which are a true test ofpatience. The goal is to find three objects ofsome kind — usually pieces of the MasterEmerald — and there is a tracking indicator toguide you along the way. Unfortunately, thetracker only has three distinguishable degrees ofproximity (green, yellow, red), which is actuallyless reliable than what Knuckles had in the pre-vious Adventure. Furthermore, the camera fauxpas that sometimes detracts from the 3-D Sonicexperience occur most often here. The chal-

lenge can be unwelcoming when the size of thestage exceeds “freakin’ huge.” The going getseven tougher with the inclusion of time limits inlater stages.

The feeling of improved overall control canbe attributed to the fact that the graphics areexquisite, and is possibly this game’s biggestimprovement over the original. They’re pol-ished nearly as well as graphical Dreamcastgems like Dead or Alive 2 or Phantasy StarOnline. And the characters are actually fun towatch in the cinematic scenes, much more capa-ble of facial expression than ever before. It’sjust like a 3-D version of the Sonic the Hedge-hog cartoons (remember those?).

The sound effects haven’t changed muchfrom Sonic Adventure (like they’ve changedmuch from Sonic 1?), and still include the stan-dard boings, screeches, and explosions. Themusic, while really good, sometimes drownsout the voices with its own lyrics, which isunfortunate for those who prefer the more suit-able Japanese voices. That’s right, there’s a full-fledged soundtrack, where some bleepy, boingymusic plays alongside Sonic’s rockin’, upbeattunes. Others, such as Knuckles’s variousthemes, kick some mad flavor. (Or at least theyreally try.) Rouge’s sexy jazz tunes are decentas well. It makes spending 45 minutes trying tofinish their respective stages almost worthwhile.Almost.

Did I try to conclude this piece withoutmentioning SA2’s billions of extras? At the riskof writing another article, I must say that themini-games will make you want to relive thisAdventure over and over again. Each and everystage offers rewards for missions involving ringcollecting, Chao searching, and other tasks. Andwhen you’re done with that you can grab afriend and engage in some two-player action.Sonic and Knuckles battle Shadow and Rouge,respectively, in their two player race-to-the-fin-ish vertically split-screen stages. Or you canhave a mech-war between Tails and theEggman. There’s even competitive cart racing,though the handling on the cart is a little askew.When you tire of incessant speed, you can raisea Chao with the animals and “Chaos Drives”you collect. This time, in addition to racing andfeeding, you can do such things as modify itsnature and even put it in Chao World’s kinder-garten, in order to prepare it for Chao Adven-ture 2.

All of those extras aside, Sonic Adventure 2is an outstanding new addition to the slowlygrowing Dreamcast lineup, and practically asteal with a $40 price tag. It has improvedgraphics, stunning gameplay, and even an enter-taining, if still primitive storyline. You’ll have alot of new adventures to undertake, and a lot oftreacherous rails to grind.

VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Sonic Adventure 2 ArrivesCelebrating a Tenth Anniversary In Style

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9.59.0

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out of 10

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By Chad SerrantSTAFF WRITER

F Zero: Maximum VelocityMade for Gameboy AdvancePublished by Nintendo$39.99

In the early SNES days, there was a racinggame called F-Zero. Using the rotation ofthe SNES, F-Zero simulated driving froman over-the-shoulder perspective. It was a

wonderful pseudo-3D effect. And there was agreat racing game behind it, too.

F Zero: Maximum Velocity is the reincar-nation of the SNES version. It has differentcourses, and the game physics are slightlyreadjusted. All in all, this is a very decent rac-ing game that shows what the Game BoyAdvance can do.

This is a racing game, and you have onemission: get to the finish line before everyoneelse does. You have five laps to do so, and ifyou’re not ahead of a certain ranking aftereach lap, you lose. Of course, you can alsolose if your car explodes. Oh yes. This gametakes place in the future, where humanitygains violent tendencies. Running into walls

causes damage, and there are in-road hazardsthat can damage your vehicle.

The driving is simple. The A buttonaccelerates, the B button brakes, the topbuttons can slide your vehicle and hittingthem simultaneously will use a turbo boost.The entire key to turning is tapping theaccelerator. You can handle any turn by tap-ping A at the right time. With this skill, youcan easily cruise past Beginner level. Stan-dard and Expert levels will require moreracing skill. You will have to memorize thetracks and know the best way through themto succeed. When you do survive, you willget five more courses to endure.

This game is capable of multiplayer may-

hem, as well. If your friends only have onegame, you can still play. But be warned: thisis a very limited feature. You cannot choose avehicle to race, and your choice of courses isvery limited. When I tried this feature, myfriend and I could only play on one course. Ifyour friends have their own copies, then youcan play on many more courses and you can

choose many more carsto play with.

The graphics are onpar with the SNES ver-sion, since it is using asimilar technique. Thething is, you aren’tmoving. The racetrackis being rotated andmoved underneath yourcar. It’s a wonderfultechnique that gives anillusion of depth. Thecars have more anima-tion, so they are morefluid when they turnand slide. But nothingtoo spectacular.

The sound is a slight improvement overthe SNES version. The music is new. It isfast-paced enough to keep you on your toes.The sounds of cars, boosts, and explosionssound the same, though.

F Zero: Maximum Velocity is a great rac-ing game. But anyone who has played theSNES version may want to avoid it. It’s noth-ing really new. You’ve done it already.

VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Around the Track AgainGame Boy Advance ‘F Zero’ Is as Fast as Ever

By Chad SerrantSTAFF WRITER

‘Fire Pro Wrestling’Published by Bam! Entertainment$39.99

Fighting games are one of those genres of video games that concentrates on one ofthe smallest, least significant events in our lives: one-on-one battle. It is a very rareevent indeed to walk down a street and be challenged to a duel. Most tournamentfighting games concentrate on controller manipulation and good timing. Platform

fighting games (like Super Smash Brothers) depend on using the right move at the righttime. Wrestling games tend to combine both forms, allowing free movement around thering, but still forcing you to time your attacks correctly. Fire Pro Wrestling is an excellentexample of a wrestling game.

There is no story behind Fire Pro Wrestling. Your reason for fighting is to beat youropponents silly. Fire Pro Wrestling lets you wrestle the way you want to. Do you like tooverpower your opponent with brute force? OK, that can be done. Do you like to movearound the ring like a scared chicken, then lash out at the first sight of your opponent’sweakness? That’s fine. Fire Pro Wrestling lets you play the way you want to.

But no button mashing. The only place pressing random buttons repeatedly will getyou is on the mat. Fire Pro Wrestling requires skill. When you begin a grapple with anopponent, you have to press the correct sequence first. If you try to mash buttons, you willalways lose the grapple. Also, if you use heavy grappling maneuvers early in the match,you will be countered. The grapple system for this game is perfect. No longer can peoplewin by pressing the grapple button faster than their opponent. They need skill to win.

Fire Pro Wrestling also uses fatigue to force you to use a variety of moves. If you justpunch throughout a match, your character will tire out and won’t be able to move for awhile. And you will tire out every time you punch. Either hold the L button to regain sta-mina, or use a different move. Either way, you cannot depend on one move to get youthrough a match. Also, your fatigue levels can change depending on whether or not youare bleeding. Too many face rakes and a woman will scream, indicating that you havebled. Your recovery rates will change at this point, to your benefit or disadvantage.

There is no WWF or WCW or (insert favorite wrestling organization here) license, soFire Pro Wrestling simply “made up” wrestlers who “coincidentally” have similar movesto the popular wrestlers. My favorite is The Cremator. He’s tall with medium build, hewears gloves, and he likes choke holds. Also, the crowd always boos whenever he taunts.All of the imitation wrestlers look and operate exactly like their real-life counterparts, soyou can unofficially set up your “dream team” of wrestling.

However, you’ll have a lot more fun in the Create-a-Wrestler mode. One word: cus-tomization. There are options to edit every single part of the wrestler’s body. There are341 faces alone. You can also edit the colors of the costume (4096 ways for each piece ofclothing, by the way). The moves your character can execute, his strengths, his weakness-es, his style of fighting — all of these can be edited to your liking. And you can save it toone of the 77 save slots on the cartridge. Or you could trade it to another cartridge if youfelt like it.

The wrestling matches you can have are also customizable. You can choose the dura-tion of the match, where you are wrestling, and which rules are legal. You can evenemploy UFC rules and have a “hardcore” battle.

The graphics quality is mixed for this game. The wrestlers show an incredible amountof animation. If you’ve seen the wrestling move in real life, you will recognize it in thegame. Everything else, however, is pretty static. The referee has three to four frames ofanimation at the most, and there is no reason to change which ring you are fighting in; theyall look the same once the match begins.

The sound is worse. It sounds like it was ported from the Game Boy Color, and will remindmany of the NES game, Pro Wrestling.

Make no mistake. This is an excel-lent game that will test you timing andmoving skills, instead of relying onbutton mashing. And, you can finallymake the fighter of your dreams.

VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Fire Pro WrestlingBurning with Desire

Graphics

Overall RatingReplay Value

GameplaySound

7.06.5

8.08.0

6.5 all scores

out of 10

By Sandra ChungSTAFF WRITER

E veryone’s favorite five-piece bandfrom Oxford continues pioneering inmodern musical art with a variety ofinnovative sounds and introspective

lyrics on Amnesiac. Lead vocalist ThomYorke’s keyboard taps atmospheric chordsequences, while Jonny Greenwood rewireshis guitar and plays around with the synthe-sizer to create original sounds. Lanky eye-candy Ed O’Brien backs up Yorke’s vocalswith his subdued pipes and a wry rhythm gui-tar. Bassist Colin Greenwood and drummerPhil Selway strum and drum with musicalfinesse.

Many of the acoustic and electronic soundshave improvised or irregular rhythms. Thesongs themselves are uniquely structured,often lacking conventional harmony andmelody lines. Though Kid A and Amnesiacwere recorded at the same time and share thesame moody, experimental flavor, each albumhas a distinct character. Kid A embraces futur-istic and political ideas; Amnesiac is loadedwith personal, aching images of human imper-fections and secret dreams. Casual Radioheadfans beware; this is heavy stuff.

“Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box”is a strange, multi-layered study in claustropho-bia and a prime example of the weirdness ofrecent Radiohead. Vowels plucked from thetitle leave the consonant sounds overlappingeach other like crowded fish. The piecedescribes a person who is all too aware of theoppressive confines of reality: “After years of

waiting nothing came/As your life flashedbefore your eyes/You realize/I’m a reasonableman/Get off, get off, get off my case.” Green-wood’s rewired guitar shrieks faintly in thebackground. Synthesized drums, a tin can drum,and various unidentifiable electronic soundseither sustain long, smeared notes or ricochetoff each other in a complex mixture of synco-pated and non-syncopated rhythms similar toCaribbean oil drum music. Three voices accom-pany Yorke’s soft vocals — one an echo of hisown voice, another a speaking woman, and thelast a distorted male voice.

Yorke speaks of peaceful drowning in the“Pyramid Song,” the album’s slowest, simplesttrack, which is best described as musical water.Off-beat piano chords begin their upwardsclimb in half-steps and increase their jumps towhole steps, then fall in half-steps, evoking therhythmic heaving of waves. Each line ofYorke’s lead vocals begins with one of severalpatterns of ascending and descending pitches,echoing the wave motif.

In addition to claustrophobia and drown-ing, other tracks contribute to the album’seerie feel with ghost and witchcraft themes.Radiohead returns to the world of the livingwith the lush “Dollars and Cents,” whichcomments on cutthroat capitalism and high-lights Selway’s excellent drum work.

The album version of “I Might Be Wrong”is the logical choice for a radio single. Stan-dard electronic and bass guitar lines establisha recognizable rock sound. Aspects that standout are Yorke’s haunting voice, layers of syn-thesized bass and percussion, and distorted

electronic whines. The most listener-friendlysong, however, is “Life In a Glasshouse,”which pleasantly surprises with a no-nonsensejazz band. The mixture of piano, clarinet,trumpet, trombone, drums, and Yorke’s voiceis what the blues would be like had they beeninvented in a London lounge.

The other U.S.-released Radiohead albumshave a distinct unity to their tracks. In contrast,the pieces on Amnesiac seem to be pagesripped randomly from the threadbare diary of a

deeply introverted man. The CD book consistsof 14 pages of tortured sketches and scribbledsnatches of lyrics superimposed over eachother in ghostly collages with as much morosecomplexity as the songs on the album. Radio-head taps a vast realm of cynical creativity forthe waves of indecipherable percussive andelectronic sound that make this album unlikeany you’ve ever heard.

Radiohead plays Suffolk Downs onAugust 14.

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Life After ‘Kid A’Radiohead’s Haunting New Release, ‘Amnesiac’

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ClubsAxis13 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2437

Sundays: See Avalon below.Mondays: Static. Gay, casual

dress. $5, 18+.Thursdays: Chrome/Skybar.

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

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

Avalon15 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2424

Sundays: Gay Night (withAxis on long weekends).Featuring hardcore houseand techno. $10, 21+.

Thursdays: Internat ionalNight . Eurohouse. $10,19+.

Fr idays: Avaland . House.$15, 19+.

Saturdays: Downtown. Mod-ern house, club classics,and Top 40 hi ts. $15,21+.

Karma Club9 Lansdowne St., 617-421-

9595

Sundays: “Current dancefavorites” by guest DJs.Cover varies.

Tuesdays: Phatt Tuesdays.With Bi l l ’s bar, moderndance music. $10.

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

Thursdays: Groove Factor.House.<None>

Fr idays: Pure . Drum andbass, guest DJ. $15, 19+.

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

ManRay21 Brookline St., Cambridge,617-864-0400

Wednesdays: Curses. Goth.Appropr ia te dressrequi red. $5, 19+; $3,21+.

Thursdays: Campus. Populartunes + House. Gay, casu-al dress. $10, 19+; $7,21+.

Fr idays: Fantasy Factory(First and third Friday ofthe month. Features kinkyfet ishes and industr ia lmusic.) Hell Night (everysecond Fr iday. 19+.Inc ludes Goth music. )Ooze (the last Friday of themonth. ) $10, 21+.reduced prices for thosewearing fetish gear.

Saturdays: Liquid .Disco/house + New Wave.$15, 19+; $10, 21+.

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

Aug. 9: Simon Says.

Avalon15 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2424

Jul. 14: Reel Big Fish.Jul. 21: Brian Setzer's '68

Comeback Special.

Berklee Performance Center

Berklee College of Music1140 Boylston St.Free student recitals andfaculty concerts, 4 p.m. and7 p.m. some weekdays. Forinfo on these concerts, callthe Performance InformationLine at 747-8820.

Jul. 25: Rhythm of Love.

Club Passim47 Palmer St, Cambridge,

617-492-7679

Tuesdays: Open Mic at 8p.m. (sign up at 7:30). $5.Jul. 11: Linda Sharar CDRelease, Steph Corby.Jul. 12: The Kennedys, BobMalone.Jul. 13: Lowen & Navarro.Jul. 13: The Burns Sisters,Thea Hopkins.Jul. 14: Mary Lou Lord, JoDavidson.Jul. 15: Teddy Goldstein,Stephen Kellogg, Ben Arnoldand Brian Webb.Jul. 18: Tara Greenblatt CDRelease, Wendy Greenblatt,Stephanie Cornell.Ju l . 19: A lbert & Gage,Dave's True Story.Jul. 20: Laurie Lewis.Jul. 21: Charlie Farren.Jul. 22: Poet's Theater &Story -Lab: A MidsummerNight's Awakening.

Fleet CenterTicketmaster: 931-2000.Jul. 6-11: Backstreet Boys.$124.50, $68.50, $48.50,and $38.50.Aug. 6, 8: Madonna.Aug. 22: Sade/Lovers RockTour.Aug. 25-26: Janet Jackson.

The Middle East

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

Jul. 11: Bellini Major StarsFred Weaver.Jul. 12: Yellowman.Jul . 12: Crooked F ingersJohnny Dowd.Jul. 13: Beatnuts With GretNice Arsonists.Ju l . 14: Psychot ic LarryCanine Mary Prankster Toot-sie.Ju l . 14: V ibewise T jov iGinen.Jul. 15: Flickerstick Love-

less.Ju l . 15: Drowning ManAbsolve Puritys Failure.Jul. 16: Cephalic CarnageNeuraxis Stasis Kevorkian.Jul. 17: Immortal Lee CountyKillers Quitter.Ju l . 17: Posies Pern iceBrothers Chamber Strings.Jul. 18: Rebecca Gates.Jul. 19: Little Horse MissFortune.

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

Call for schedule.

Tweeter Center for the Per-forming Arts (GreatWoods)

885 South Main St., Mans-field, MA 02048

Ticketmaster: 931-2000

Jul . 13: Paul Simon andBrian Wilson.

Jul. 14: Stevie Nicks.Jul. 18: Area: One Festival

With Moby, OutKast, NewOrder, Incubus, Nelly Furta-do and a separate DJstage.

Jul. 19: Tim McGraw.Jul. 25: Bon Jovi.Aug. 8: Ozzfest 2001.

Jazz MusicRegattabarConcertix: 876-77771 Bennett St., Cambridge02138, 617-662-5000

Aug. 1: Sugar Ray and theBluetones.

Aug. 4: Roomful of Blues.

Scullers Jazz ClubDoubleTree Guest Suites,

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

Jul. 13-14: Jimmy Smith.Jul. 17: Alma Vucinic.Jul. 18-19: Gerald Albright.Jul. 20-21: Diane Schuur.Jul. 24: Ralph Irizarry and

Timbale.Jul. 25-26: Strunz and Farah.Jul. 27-29: Flora Purim &

Airto.

Classical MusicBoston Symphony Orchestraat TanglewoodTickets: 266-1492.

Performances at Kousse-vitzky Music Shed, Lenox,MA unless otherwise noted.Call or check <www.bso.org>for fu l l schedule, t icketprices, and times.

Jul. 18: Mitsuko Uchida.Ju l . 19: Yo-Yo Ma andEmanuel Ax.Ju l . 26: Emerson Str ingQuartet with Yefim Bronf-man.

Boston PopsTickets: 266-1492.Performances at SymphonyHall. Call for ticket prices.Performances conducted by

Keith Lockhart unless other-wise noted. The Pops per-forms most days during thesummer, generally at 7:30p.m. on Sundays and Mon-days and at 8 p.m. otherdays of the week. Check<www.bso.org> for fu l lschedule.

Jul. 14-15: Symphony Hallsizzles as the Pops performselections from their latestCD, The Latin Album. Theprogram will also feature theMexican folk group, MariachiCobre.Jul. 17: At Tanglewood.After Jul. 17: On Tour.

TheaterThe Real Inspector Hound

By Tom Stoppard. In TheReal Inspector Hound, Stop-pard ingeniously turns the

country-house whodunnit onits head, breaking down thewal l between stage andauditorium. Two drama crit-ics, each preoccupied withhis professional status andpersonal dissatisfaction, goto the theater to see a newthriller. With great dexterityand comic talent, Mr. Stop-pard involves these profes-sional observers in the playwith results that prove sur-prisingly serious for both.TheatreZone was founded in1995 to produce innovativeand socially significant the-atre, and to make participa-tion in the arts accessible tothe community both as audi-ence and participant throughaffordable prices, trainingopportunities for youth andadults, non-traditional cast-ing, opportunities for artiststo experiment and createnew work, and the creationof a home for the arts inChelsea, MA, the ChelseaTheatre Works. Per for -mances are through July 28,Fridays and Saturdays at8:00pm, at Actors Work -shop, 40 Boylston Street,Boston conveniently locatedon the MBTA, one half blockfrom the Boylston Stationon the Green Line and China-town/Essex Station on theOrange Line. Tickets are $12in advance, $15 at the door.Tickets can be purchasedby call ing 617-887-2336.Informat ion on- l ine at<www.theatrezone.org>.

Tomfoolery

Jul. 13-14, 20-21, 27-28 at8 p.m., Jul. 15, 22 at 3 p.m.At Tower Auditorium (621Huntington Ave., Boston,MA). The Old Joke PeddlarTom Lehrer's brief but phe-nomenal career writing satire

On The TownA weekly guide to the arts in Boston

July 11 – August 15Compiled by Fred Choi

Send submissions to ott@the-tech.mit.edu or by interdepartmental mail to “On The Town,” The Tech, W20-483.

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Moby (above) headlines a star-packed Area: One Festival Tour to Mansfield’s Tweeter Center, carrying with himthe likes of Nelly Furtado, Outkast, The Roots, Paul Oakenfold, and Incubus, among many others. Area Onearrives this Wednesday, July 18.

Twelfth Night

Jul. 20-21, 24-27, 28, 31 at 8 p.m., Jul. 22, 29at 7 p.m., Jul. 28 at

3 p.m. Boston Common, Parkman Bandstand(Off Beacon St., Boston, MA). Traditional sum-

mer Shakespeare under the stars. After Viola isshipwrecked on Illyria, she disguises herself asa male page named Cesario for her own safety.

While she searches for her lost twin brother,Sebastian, she falls in love with Orsino, the

Duke she serves. Meanwhile, the Duke'sbeloved, Olivia, falls for Viola,

believing her to be a man. Only Sebastian'sarrival can solve the plot snarls and let love tri-

umph. Free.

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The Vans Warped Tour hits Suffolk Downs on Thursday, August 9. Of the many artists in the all-day lineup areCrazytown, Papa Roach (above), Disturbed, Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson, Spineshank, Drowning Pool, Taproot,Slipknot, and Black Sabbath.

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and parody songs in the1950s and '60s has earnedhim a permanent place inAmerican offbeat culture. Inthis cabaret-style show, anensemble cast of vocalistsperform some of Lehrer'sriotously rude tunes, such as"Poisoning Pigeons in thePark," "The Vatican Rag" andthe pro-pornography anthem"Smut." $15, $12 seniorsand students; call 617-470-5329.

Comedy ConnectionMon.–Wed. at 8 p.m.; Thurs.8:30 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 8p.m., 10:15 p.m.; Sun. 7p.m. The oldest comedy clubin Boston showcases big-name, national comedians onweekends and up-and-cominglocal talent during the week.At 245 Quincy Market Place,Faneuil Hall, Upper Rotunda,Boston. Admission $10-$8(weekend prices vary). Call248-9700 for more informa-tion and a complete sched-ule.

Blue Man GroupCharles Playhouse, 74 War-renton Street, Boston, indefi-nitely. Curtain is at 8 p.m. onWednesday and Thursday, at7 and 10 p.m. on Friday andSaturday, and at 3 and 6p.m. on Sunday. Tickets $35to $45. Call 426-6912 fortickets and information onhow to see the show for freeby ushering.

ExhibitsIsabel la Stewart GardnerMuseum280 The Fenway, Boston.(566-1401), Tues.-Sun. 11a.m.-5 p.m. Admission $10($11 on weekends), $7 forseniors, $5 for students withID ($3 on Wed.), free for chil-dren under 18. The museum,built in the style of a 15th-century Venet ian palace,houses more than 2,500 artobjects, with emphasis onI ta l ian Renaissance and17th-century Dutch works.Among the h ighl ights areworks by Rembrandt, Botticel-l i , Raphael , T i t ian, andWhistler. Guided tours givenFridays 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.,10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sat.–Sun.,10 a.m.–5:45 p.m. WestWing open Thurs.–Fri. until9:45 p.m. Admission freewith MIT ID, otherwise $10,$8 for students and seniors,children under 17 free; $2after 5 p.m. Thurs.–Fri., free

Wed. after 4 p.m.

Mon.–Fri.: introductory walksthrough all collections beginat 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.;“Asian, Egyptian, and Classi-cal Walks” begin at 11:30a.m.; “American Painting andDecorative Arts Walks” beginat 12:30 p.m.; “EuropeanPainting and Decorative ArtsWalks” begin at 2:30 p.m.;Introductory tours are alsooffered Sat. at 11 a.m. and1:30 p.m.

Permanent Gallery Installa-tions: “Late Gothic Gallery,”featuring a restored 15th-cen-tury stained glass windowfrom Hampton Court, 14th-and 15th -century stone,alabaster, and polychromewood sculptures from Franceand the Nether lands;“Mummy Mask Gallery,” anewly renovated Egypt iangallery, features primitivemasks dating from as farback as 2500 B.C.; “Euro-pean Decorative Arts from1950 to the Present”; “JohnSinger Sargent: Studies forMFA and Boston Publ icLibrary Murals.”

Gallery lectures are free withmuseum admission.

Museum of ScienceScience Park, Boston. (723-2500), Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.;Fri., 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat.-Sun.,9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission freewith MIT ID, otherwise $9, $7for children 3-14 and seniors.

The Museum features thetheater of electricity (withindoor thunder-and-lightningshows daily) and more than600 hands-on exhibits. Ongo-ing: “Discovery Center”;“Investigate! A See-For-Your-self Exhibit”; “Science in thePark: Playing with Forces andMotion”; “Seeing Is Deceiv-ing.”

Ongoing: “Fr iday NightStargazing,” Fri., 8:30 p.m.;“Welcome to the Universe,”daily; “Quest for Contact: AreWe Alone?” daily. Admissionto Omni, laser, and planetari-um shows is $7.50, $5.50for children and seniors.

OtherFeast Days in the North End

Through early September, inthe North End: Most week-ends during the summer inthe North End, the Italian dis-trict of Boston, are dedicatedto a different individual saintwho is celebrated with food,drink, music and dancing inthe streets from morning to

night . You need not beRoman Catholic to partici-pate, however only RomanCathol ics in a "state ofgrace" should receive theEucharist during communionin mass. While you're there,be sure to check out Mike'sPastries (280 Hanover St.), apopular hangout and a greatplace to get desserts. Formore information and a com-plete schedule, v is i t<www.northendweb.com>.

Jul. 15: St. Rocco. Proces-sion Only.Jul. 27-29: St. Joseph. Bat-tery & Hanover Streets.

Film Series: New Beat Cine-ma from Japan

Through Jul. 12. At the Muse-um of F ine Ar ts, Boston,02115. For tickets and moreinformation, call 369-3770.Tickets are $8, $7 MFA mem-bers, seniors, students,unless otherwise noted.Jul. 12 at 5:30 p.m.: Cure(Kyua, Dir. by Kiyoshi Kuro-sawa, Japan, 1998, 111min.). Cure is an atmosphericpolice thriller with overtonesof mind control. A detectivetracking a series of identicalmurders realizes his suspecthas powerful hypnotic pow-ers. The unsettling endingbuilds a thought provokingepilogue to the film's centralidea: in a society stripped oftraditional guides such asreligion, family, and politics,the charismatic can exert apowerful hold on the mindsof those left unanchored.

Boston French Film Festival

Through Jul. 29. At the Muse-um of F ine Ar ts, Boston,02115. For tickets and moreinformation, call 369-3770.Tickets are $8, $7 MFA mem-bers, seniors, students,unless otherwise noted.

Jul. 12 at 8 p.m.: FestivalOpening Night: Under theSand (Sous le sable, dir. byFrancois Ozon, 2000, 95min.) The new prodigy of theFrench Cinema, Ozon wroteand directed Sand with a mas-tery of cinematic expositionthat recalls Hitchcock andKieslowski, Marie (Rampling)and Jean (Bruno Cremer), area comfortable, middle-agedcouple, satisfied with the dailyrhythms of their lives togeth-er. On vacation in the Landesregion of western France,Marie naps while Jean goesswimming. When she awakes,she cannot find him and mustface the enigma of her hus-band's sudden disappear-ance. Note: reception follow-ing screening. Ticket price:$15, $12 for members, stu-dents, and seniors.

SANTE D’ ORAZIO

Janet Jackson takes over the Fleet Center August 25th for her latest stadium tourcelebrating her latest album, All for You. Known for on-stage dynamics from her lastVelvet Rope tour, Janet will bring “nasty” to an all new level.

ROD SPICER

“I DON’T THINK THEY CAN HANDLE IT”Destiny’s Child (above) are touring with teenagers 3LW, “Must be the” Nelly, Dream,and Eve. They all come to Boston on August 10th.

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The following movies are playing this weekendat local theaters. The Tech suggests using<http://www.boston.com> for a complete list-ing of times and locations.

★★★★ Excellent★★★ Good★★ Fair★ Poor

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (★ 1⁄2)The Disney formula progresses from moldy

to rancid, albeit with new packaging. But allthe PG rating excesses (mostly heightened lev-els of violence and interminable sequences ofexplosions and gunfire), along with aheadache-inducing visual mess, cannot hide theinanity of the screenplay and the fact that this isa pre-marketed and pre-sold product instead ofa movie. Michael J. Fox (as the voice of thelead character) and John Pomeroy (as hissupervising animator) are alone responsible forthe generous rating above. — VladimirZelevinsky

Blow (★★★ )Johnny Depp plays George Jung, the

ambitious young capitalist responsible forcreating the Colombian cocaine drug trade.Nick Cassavettes’s and David McKenna’sscript seems to overly sympathize with Jungand omits the ruthlessness commonlyassociated with cocaine trafficking. However,director Ted Demme’s biopic does rise aboveits own shortcomings. With a great lead turnedin by Depp and a wonderful supporting rolefrom Ray Liotta, Blow does deliver and is oneof the better films available in current release.— Joseph Graham

Driven (★★ )Director Renny Harlin mixes stock footage,

choreographed stunt driving, and computer-generated effects with very impressive results.Unfortunately, Sylvester Stallone’s screenplaylacks any kind of convincing human drama.Driven provides plenty of action while thestory and characters take a back seat. — JG

Kiss of the Dragon (★★ )Kiss of the Dragon, if watched in the spirit

of “let’s see Jet Li kick ass and laugh at thismovie’s sad attempts to be dramatic,” is not a

bad movie. But for anyone interested in char-acter development or a plot without holes asbig as a slice of swiss cheese Kiss of the Drag-on is a waste of time. — Pey-Hua Hwang

Memento (★★★ 1⁄2)Christopher Nolan’s Memento is a puzzle

box of a movie, breaking up its narrative andshifting it in time, and is superbly successfulin putting the audience in the same frame ofmind as the ticking bomb of a protagonist,who is pursuing a criminal while sufferingfrom memory loss. Top-notch suspense, darkcomedy, and abundance of meaning make thisa movie to be remembered. About half of thecast of The Matrix appears in colorfulsupporting parts. —VZ

Moulin Rouge (★★★ )Shakespeare in Love meets La Boheme —

the film includes the dizzyingly fast-pacedediting of an MTV music video, the garishglamour of Strictly Ballroom, the melodramaof Bollywood, the society of La Traviata, andthe stark colors ofToulouse-Lautrec’s paint-ing. Despite a familiar storyand familiar scenes, greatacting (and singing) byNicole Kidman and EwanMcGregor as the lovers,combined with Luhrmann’scharacteristically over-the-top direction, make themovie entertaining andworth seeing — and some-times even moving. — FredChoi

The Mummy Returns(★★ 1⁄2)

A bigger film than thefirst on the scale of actionsequences and digital specialeffects (which make for atruly spectacular final half-hour), but less funny — andthus less enjoyable. BrendanFraser still uses his greatcomic timing, but the plot isjust a sequence of unneces-sarily slow-moving plot

devices involving overly elaborate and exoticdeaths. — VZ

Pearl Harbor (★★ 1⁄2)One of the most expensive productions

ever, Pearl Harbor may not however be a greatartistic movie, despite its astonishing visualscenes. Although the recreation of the WWIIbeginning is vivid, the story line is unnaturaland the romance featured is almost artificial.The characters are underdeveloped and uncon-vincingly acted, while the plot sometimeslacks. Nevertheless, the central scene featuringthe Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, with itsvast array of impressive special effects, may beenough reason to eventually go and see thismovie. — Bogdan Fedeles

Tomb Raider (1⁄2★ )Closely inspired by the homonymous

videogames series, Tomb Raider is a patheticmovie that features no art whatsoever. Thecharacters are sketchy and emotionless; the plot,childish and completely predictable. The special

effects are overly abundant and without them,there would be nothing left of this production.Don’t waste your time with this. — BF

Swordfish (★ 1⁄2)A father and paroled hacker (Hugh

Jackman) strikes a dangerous deal with amysterious, obsessed terrorist (John Travolta)and finds himself involved in a violentconspiracy. Halle Berry porn stars — er… co-stars; Dominic Sena (Gone In Sixty Seconds)directs this nonsensical, Swiss-cheese actionflick. — Sandra Chung

You Can Count On Me (★★★ 1⁄2)Winner of the 2000 Cannes Grand Jury

Prize, this is a poignant film about a sister anda brother. Offering provocative writing, sin-cere acting, and engaging editing, this filmtreats you like a friend who’s been inadver-tently asked to sit in the living room as a fami-ly drama begins unfolding. The characters arereal and their challenges tangible. — ErikBlankinship

O N T H E S C R E E N— B Y T H E T E C H A R T S S T A F F —

COURTESY INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC

Ben Affleck and Cuba Gooding Jr. star in the emotionally-enriched, plot-deprived Pearl Harbor.

By Sandra ChungSTAFF WRITER

Green Day, Living EndTsongas ArenaJune 22, 2001

T songas Arena in Lowell strayed from itsstandard folk and bluegrass shows for anight of moshing, plain and simple.Green Day, with opening act The Liv-

ing End, rocked Lowell on Friday, June 22.The Living End turned out to be a very ener-

getic group and fun to watch. The most memo-rable thing about the performance was the bassplayer, who used a huge stand-up bass that wasabout as tall as he was, and stood on top of thething to play it on a couple occasions. The setonly lasted around a half hour, although theonly familiar song was their radio hit “Prisonerof Society,” which everyone sang along to.

The group’s basic punk sound is uncannilylike Green Day’s. But when they launch intoquasi-ska and rockabilly riffs, leadguitarist/vocalist Chris Cheney reminds me ofBrian Setzer. And Scott Owens’ stand-up is aclassical double bass with an electric pickup onthe bridge and an acoustic pickup on the finger-board. Having played one a few times myself, Iknow that the strings on those things are fatterthan my fingers. The way Owens rips into it(like a massive guitar, Stray Cat style) I wonderhow he has any skin left on his fingers at all.

Drummer Travis Dempsey has more thanenough of the requisite hyperactive, head bop-ping skill. The Living End is currently in theprocess of touring exhaustively to recruit Amer-ican and Canadian fans. Green Day is probablyjust the right ticket to ride.

Once Green Day arrived on stage, it becameclear that they truly does own the stage. Thehorrible acoustics of Tsongas Arena are just theright platform for amplified punk rock. Hun-dreds of adolescent fans and at least three Techstaffers crowded onto the floor in a sweaty,jostling mass of Green Day-worshipping flesh.Hundreds more yelled and soaked up the music

from the arena seating. Billy Joe Armstrong was born to work the

crowd. He donned a crown for “King For aDay,” pitted the people on the left against thepeople to the right, got the people in the seats toresent the people on the floor, and had everyoneswear at him in unison. He bellowed “Yankeessuck!” to an audience of Red Sox fans. He leadthe crowd in “Hey-oh” and “1-2 … 1-2-3-4”until we were annoyed and sick of counting ourfingers, and then he did it some more. He intro-duced Mike Dirnt and Tre’ Cool and guestmusicians on trumpet, trombone, and saxo-phone.

Then he replaced the members of his bandwith volunteers pulled out of the audience. Theaudience musicians were 14 and 16 years old,and they picked up a few simple riffs so theycould play all by themselves while Billy Joesang. Cannons blanketed the crowd with Mylarand tissue paper confetti; band memberssprayed us with water and jumped and kicked inthe punk kung-fu style.

The set list was a bit of a disappointment. Itwas a greatest-hits collection: “Castaway,”“Church On Sunday,” “Longview,” “Welcometo Paradise,” “Hitchin’ A Ride,” “Brain Stew,”“2000 Light Years Away,” a cover of OperationIvy’s “Knowledge,” “Basket Case,” “She,”“King For A Day,” “Waiting,” and “Minority.”But the audience sang along and shoved andyelled anyway, until they finished “Minority”and left the stage.

Something washed over the crowd whenBilly Joe returned to the stage to encore alone.Moshing ceased, pogoers stood still. There isnothing quite like Billy Joe singing “Good Rid-dance” to the strains of a lone guitar. It seemedlike the last song, but the rest of the bandreturned and followed it up with “Warning,”“Platypus,” and “When I Come Around.” Theair had been crackling with rabid fan energysince the first strains of “Nice Guys FinishLast,” and remained electric till long after thelast notes of “Macy’s Day Parade” ceasedechoing in the arena.

CONCERT REVIEW

Lowell Punk SceneGreen Day, Living End Rock Tsongas Arena

By Sandra ChungSTAFF WRITER

Written and Directed by Tom TykwerStarring Franka Potente, Benno Fürman, andJoachim KrólRated R[German, with English subtitles]

If you’ve ever seen a German film, you’veprobably seen Run Lola Run, the one abouta woman with neon red hair running todeliver a load of deutschmarks to her

boyfriend within 20 minutes to complete ashady deal and save his life. Star FrankaPotente, director Tom Tykwer, and supportingactors Lars Rudolph and Joachim Król collab-orate again in The Princess and the Warrior.

Sissi (Franka Potente) was born in a psy-chiatric ward and has never lived anywhereelse. As a ward nurse, she devotes herselfentirely to the care of her patients, especiallyOtto (Melchior Beslon), a blind idiot, andSteini (Rudolph), a wiry troublemaker. BodoReimer (Benno Fürman), an ex-soldierobsessed with the death of his wife, lives onthe edge of society with his brother Walter(Joachim Król).

Sissi and Bodo cross paths when Bodocauses the accident that nearly kills Sissi.Bodo saves her life, then disappears withhardly a trace. Sissi is convinced they’re des-tined to be together, and when she leaves thehospital, she tracks him down, only to meet ahostile dismissal. However, fate once againlends a hand in crashing Sissi’s life intoBodo’s, this time in a desperate run from thelaw. They must escape the police and battlethe machinations of a jealous Steini to sur-vive. But to stay with Sissi, Bodo faces atougher battle within his own mind.

Writer/director Tom Tykwer’s script con-tains the bare minimum of dialogue. Fewactors deal with silence well enough that Hol-lywood doesn’t have to supply audio andvisual filler (e.g., Grammy award-winningsongs and extra explosions). Potente and Für-

man deliver such nuanced, riveting perfor-mances that subtitles are almost unnecessary.Potente’s puppet physicality—immobileupper body, sparse facial expression, hiplesswalk—perfectly complements her childlikecharacter. Fürman’s bottled-up rage and suf-fering boil over in Bodo’s explosive dreamsequences and burn in his expressive blueeyes (on which Tykwer wisely zooms inclose). Not even the supporting actors wasteso much as a twitch of a finger.

Princess boasts some of the best camerawork I have ever seen. Some directors manageto pull off beautiful shots inevitably obscuredby third-rate acting and mawkish orchestralswells. In Princess, the marvelous cinematog-raphy is unencumbered by the minimalistscript and subtle soundtrack. Tykwer boldlypushes close enough to reveal the downy hairon Potente’s upper lip and Beslon’s crookedteeth. He flies the camera through an invertedloop to introduce Bodo’s character in anunforgettable bridge scene, then fills out hispast with seamless transitions and gritty vio-lence.

Princess has no sex or frontal nudity andsome minor violence. A few disturbingly graph-ic scenes warrant the R rating. The psychiatricpatients have incredibly realistic breakdownsand tantrums that made all but a few audiencemembers cringe. Be prepared to see Otto eatglass shards and Bodo perform an emergencytracheotomy with a knife and a soda straw.

Don’t pay much attention to the subtitles.The translation misses some of the original con-notations and the words aren’t terribly impor-tant anyway. The actor’s lines are from a bare-bones script; the depth of the story lies in thewealth of visible and intuitive information.

The Princess and the Warrior is an intensevisual and emotional experience, best suitedfor modern art fans and hardcore romantics. Inother words, it’s an “artsy” movie. But ifyou’re adventurous enough to try a non-Chi-nese, non-British foreign film, I highly recom-mend it.

FILM REVIEW ★★★

Princess and the WarriorNaïve Princess, Dark Warrior Live Modern Fairy Tale

JASON LAPENTA—THE TECH

Isabelle serves up some wine at the Prudential Building’s Caveau.

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By Bogdan FedelesSTAFF WRITER

Directed by Simon WestWritten by John Zinman, Michael Werb,Patrick Massett, and Michael CollearyStarring Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, DanielCraig, Iain GlenPG-13

Although it has been called a movie, LaraCroft: Tomb Raider is very far fromhaving anything to do with the art ofcinematography. At best, this motion

picture may be considered a random exerciseof computer-generated special effects, or avery expensive advertisement for a computergame. From an artistic point of view, thismovie is a total fiasco — one of the worst tohit the silver screen in the last few years.

Inspired by the video-game series, TombRaider features Lara Croft, a young Britisharchaeologist on a dangerous mission. Giventhe success of the game series, the producersof the movie thought that they could makeadditional revenue by bringing the character tothe screen. Any expectation of character devel-opment goes unfulfilled; the movie is just areplay of the video game with empty actionsequences. Watch someone play Tomb Raider

or watch the movie — it’s the same experi-ence.

As you might expect, the story is pathetic.There is no twist, no tension, and almost nologic. Lara Croft incessantly fights the badguys, and after a linear, totally predictablestream of events, wins the game in the end.Although at times the plot is reminiscent of theIndiana Jones franchise, Tomb Raider is sobad that no action sequence can be enjoyed.There is no comedy, no drama, and no emo-tion. It is just a video game.

Angelina Jolie’s acting is almost nonexis-tent. Besides boasting her ample breasts, sheconveys very little emotion and her characteris as cold and emotionless as the video gamecharacter. Lara follows a pre-programmed pathwhere she shoots all the monsters, robots, andbad guys for 90% of the movie. In the rest, sheexecutes demanding stunts that are in fact use-less re-creations of arcade game sequences. Theextremely few scenes that show some trace ofhumanity of the character are sketchy andunconvincing.

Lara Croft’s father is played by Jon Voight,but his part is so small that it almost goes unob-served. He is on screen for a mere two minutes.Again, there is nothing we can learn about thecharacter, he is merely a voice that does not

stand out in the context of themovie.

The negative charactersare presented in the same man-ner: emotionless and uncon-vincing. We don’t even hatethem, because although theyare Lara’s foes, their lack ofemotion makes us be indiffer-ent. They are against Lara, sothey are probably the badguys. As in any stupid bedtimestory, they want to conquerand rule the world, and Lara isgoing to stop them. Nothinginteresting here.

The visual effects are theonly highlights of the film.However, there are too manyspecial effects, and aftersome time they get veryannoying and uninteresting.All the non-human foes ofLara (stone monsters, six-handed giants, armoredrobots, etc.) are very accurateanimations of their video-game counterparts. Theirdesign is nice, and the anima-tions are well-rendered, butbecause of their abundance,the movie feels more like avideo game. As a result,Tomb Raider ceases to be amovie and is a completewaste of time.

FILM REVIEW 1⁄2★

Lara Croft: Tomb RaiderAn entombment of art

ALEX BAILEY

Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) stars in Tomb Raider.

By Erika Brown & James CampSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS

Caveau Wine Bistro and BarPart of Marché Boston, Prudential Center800 Boylston St., Suite 001(617) 578-9700

Caveau Wine Bistro and Bar, the newkid on the Prudential Marché block,has really entered the market in a niceway, adding a table service option to

the traditional eclectic buffet of Marché. Theplace actually looks like the dining room of anice French château, complete with a warmfireplace, high vaulted ceiling, and artisticblack-and-white photographs all over thewalls. Also a nice addition were the longwooden tables and bench seating that made upmost of the dining area.

The meal started off with a nice loaf ofFrench bread, complete with a boulangerie-style paper bag. Though the bag was a bitgimmicky, the bread tasted fresh and had apleasant rustic aroma to it. The menu is most-ly seafood, running the gamut from $7 shrimpcocktail appetizers to a $25-per-personseafood extravaganza (two-person minimum).There is also an odd assortment of sandwich-es, steaks, salads, and soups.

Caveau is reasonably priced for a wine bar,and with wines available by the glass, the sweetVouvray white is a nice way to open anevening. Unfortunately, when we asked the first

waitress for a wine recommendation, she basi-cally pointed to the menu and said that theywere all good. We say “our first waitress”because one of the real oddities of Caveau is itstag-team waiting service. We had four differentservers over the course of the evening, and wereautomatically charged a 12% gratuity.

The meal arrived fairly promptly, and theplates were nicely presented with just a subtlebit of artistry. No awards, but nice. The PrinceEdward Island mussels were very tender, andthe flavor was enhanced by a nice light creamsauce with carrot pieces.

The grilled Atlantic salmon scored highmarks for freshness and flavor, but themélange of beans and spices that topped thedish clashed with the fish. The beans’ flavorsbetter suited the salad. People must learn toleave seafood alone.

Though the desserts were almost unneces-sary after the large portions, the cheesecakewith strawberries was enjoyable, and thechocolate mousse cake was decadent —chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate,with a lovely garnish of chocolate chips.

The tag-team waitstaff definitely leftsomething to be desired at the end of thenight. But all in all, Caveau has raised theMarché bar quite a bit with a friendly openatmosphere, well-chosen wine list, and a solidmenu. The reasonable prices make Caveaufriendly to college students and is worth a hopacross the river.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Raising the Marché BarCaveau: Something New Under the Pru

By Sandra ChungSTAFF WRITER

T here exists a vast contingent ofAmerican Britpop fans who aren’tcontent with just the Beatles Anthol-ogy. They are the people who can’t

get enough of the acoustic, Dave MatthewsyColdplay; the quirky, trendy Badly DrawnBoy; or the liquid, sometimes Foo FighterishDoves. They clamor for obscure importedPortishead and Spacehog EPs and loudlylament the disbanding of Massive Attackand The Verve. I am one of them. I can’tbloody well eat my porridge without mylongtime staples and reigning British musicroyalty, The Cure and Radiohead. So I leaptonto the Travis bandwagon when The ManWho , which outsold even Radiohead in1999, was busy spawning four hit singlesand the band looked to be the next big thingin Britpop.

The key to Travis’ appeal? Their musiccalls out to everyone’s inner child. The bandmembers are young, with a happy-go-luckyimage and hairstyles that range from DonaldDuck to Bart Simpson. Singer Fran Healy’slyrics, with tidy refrains, constant apostro-phe, and guileless musings on love and life,combine with the band’s glowing instrumen-tal work for a deliciously mellow sound,reminiscent of Radiohead circa PabloHoney. Nearly everything about Travissmacks of a softer, happier, more carefree

Radiohead. If Radiohead’s Thom Yorke’s voice were a

double espresso, Healy’s would be a hotchocolate with whipped cream. Dido’s wouldbe a vanilla drowsy.

Their latest album, The Invisible Band, iscoasting along on The Man Who’s momen-tum. If you're going to buy a Travis CD, you'dbetter start with The Man Who. Travis may beeven hotter now than they were in the U.K. in1999, but my feelings about The InvisibleBand are lukewarm. My biggest beef with thisedgeless album is that it threatens to play likea single hour-long song. They stray very littlefrom the standard guitar pop sound and noneof the instrumental work is particularly inspir-ing. You’ll hear some windchimes, everydaypercussion instruments, an organ, somestrings, and some keyboard work, but general-ly they stick to an acoustic or tame electricguitar and unremarkable bass and drums. Pro-ducer and mixer Nigel Goodrich does astraightforward and astonishingly consistentjob, which unfortunately makes the bandsound excessively one-dimensional andmonotonous.

“Sing,” the first single, is a textbook exam-ple of what I call the Guitarist’s GirlfriendSong. Healy wrote it to help his fiancée over-come her reluctance to sing in front of him.Repetition and rhyme are his key persuasivetechniques. Healy sings the word “sing” 43times and makes his point with this neat

rhyme: “For the love you bring won’t mean athing unless you sing.” Yes, that’s a deftlyplucked banjo in place of the rhythm guitar —my first reason why Travis should take overthe underappreciated (read: nonexistent) Scot-tish country music niche.

About half the songs on the album are“happy” songs. “Follow the Light,” “Side,”“Pipe Dreams,” and “Safe” reflect a self-assured, “Let it Be” attitude toward life.“Flowers in the Window” is such a blatantBeatles rip-off it should be considered a copy-right violation. To spice things up a little,Travis also throws in some vaguely melan-choly songs like the antisocial “Indefinitely,”

which aches to be reworked into a countrysingle, and the bitter and homicidal yet stillrelaxing “Last Train.”

The two bonus tracks, lumped togetherwith “The Humpty Dumpty Love Song” in amonstrous 15-minute track, are the best onthe album. “Ring Out the Bell” is a balladfrom the point of view of — you guessed it— an angel without wings. The 6/8 metermakes me think he’s sitting on a playgroundswing as he sings to himself. “I’m so lone-ly/God won’t know me/ I can hardly get up/Isold my halo.” Healy’s voice is the star onthis one-take song; it has more raw, realenergy than it does on the other tracks. Theelectric guitar contrasts well with light xylo-phone and snare work.

Travis’ laid-back instrumental work mesh-es perfectly with the fun, ironic, old-schoolcountry sound of “You Don’t Know What I’mLike.” Healy is great on this one, too; he singslow and full with an accent like a twangyMichael Stipe (R.E.M.).

I have to give Travis a lot of credit forrecording a remarkable number of consis-tently catchy and pleasant (though “Safe”and stuck in “The Cage”) songs with “hitsingle” written all over them. Certainly,music does not have to be negative to begood. The Invisible Band is a lovely, solidalbum, and it’s perfectly acceptable toswoon to Fran Healy’s creamy voice. Secret-ly, I predict they will someday grow old andcynical and change their name to Trav-ishead. But for now, the members of Travisare quite comfortable being their positiveselves, and all their songs have that infec-tious Britpop quality that irresistibly temptsone to sing along. That’s right, sing, sing,sing.

MUSIC REVIEW

The Emotionally-Inclined, Invisible ManBright and Cheerful, Travis Carries on Britpop Tradition

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Fuel, Jenifer ListenCape Cod Melody TentJune 27, 2001

In between a Tuesday and Thursday showwith Aerosmith, the band Fuel managed tosqueeze in a one-night headliner in Hyan-nis. The big blue “Melody Tent” housed

hundreds of cheering fans and high energy

rock as Fuel played to a sold out crowd. Theyplayed songs from both their newest CD,Something Like Human, and their previous hit,Sunburn. Many bands encounter the sopho-more slump, but if there is such thing as asophomore spike Fuel has achieved it. Manyof the new songs are more lyrical but havelost none of the power or drive of the firstalbum.

After the energy started to build withopening band, Jenifer Listen (who replaced

the original opening band, Saliva), the stagedarkened, a thunderous drumroll ensued, andout strode Fuel. Clad in a red leather andblack denim jacket and matching cowboystyle jeans and boots, Brett Scallions, the leadsinger, started up with the high energy“Ozone,” throwing the crowd into a frenzy.When the song concluded all the band mem-bers were dripping with sweat, Scallionstossed his jacket backstage and called out,“Welcome to the Party! Ready to have some

fun?”They then launched

into the similarly up-tempo “Mary Pretends,”but then gave themselvesa breather with the slight-ly more mellow but noless intense “Knives.”

Next, they attacked“Bittersweet.” Lead gui-tarist Carl Bell’s fingersflew over the frets on hiselectric guitar and Scal-lions took out a guitarhimself. Then it was timefor “Shimmer,” one ofthe band’s hit singles.Here they milked thecrowd for all it wasworth. Scallions put hisguitar away and threw hisbody into a crucifixionpose. He worked thecrowd, used the micro-phone stand as a prop,and danced like a true“rock star.” Then hecommented on how itwas nice playing forAerosmith but it waseven better “to see our

own f—kin’ people.” After playing “Scar” they played the title

track of their first album, “Sunburn.” This piecereally showed off Bell, as it began with a guitarriff and was more lyrical. Out came the lightersfor “Innocent.” This song was the first onewhere you got to really hear Bell’s voice, whichhad a deeper timbre than Scallions’s. The twotraded off vocals while armed with guitars. Thispiece which was also more melodic and againfeatured Bell in a guitar solo.

Fuel then kicked the pace back up as Brettput away his guitar and put all his efforts intowielding the microphone for “Down.” Hespent a lot of time at the edge of the stageshaking hands with the fans. Bell’s lyrical gui-tar solos were exchanged for ear piercinghighnotes that indicated both skill and enthu-siasm. With three more songs, they finishedthe show to an audience roaring for an encore.

Fuel would not disappoint. Out they cameagain, and kicked off the encore with the hitsingle “Bad Day.” They followed up with acover of Nirvana’s “Breed,” doing full justiceto the posthumous band, and finally finishedwith their chart topper “Hemorrhage,” whichhad the audience singing along with moreenergy than the rest of the concert. The bandtossed out guitar picks and drum sticks.

Backstage with Fuel and “Fuelies”A Fuel CD is amazing, but a Fuel concert is

an experience not to be missed. After the con-cert there was an opportunity to talk to the bandand some of their biggest fans backstage. The“Fuelies” had each been to approximately 15Fuel concerts, knew all the band members on afirst name basis, and even knew their favoritebackstage foods.

The band members I was able to talk towere also quite personable. The lead singer wasunavailable for comment, but bassist Jeff Aber-crombie was quite happy to talk about how theband got together, and about growing up withlead guitarist Bell. Bell, who writes most ofFuel’s songs, commented on success.

“It’s like off the radar; you don’t actuallythink it’s possible,” he said. As for the inspira-tion for his songs, he cited “lifeexperience…livin’ it.”

CONCERT REVIEW

Fuel Sweats to SuccessThe Band’s Latest Concert Spree Through Massachusetts Doesn’t Let Fans Down

MING-TAI HUH—THE TECH

Fuel front man Brett Scallions works up a sweat while rocking Cape Cod Melody Tent on June 27.

By Erik BlankinshipSTAFF WRITER

Depeche Mode Exciter TourTweeter Center for the Performing ArtsJuly 1st

Depeche Mode sounded pretty avant-garde back in ninth grade. Music forthe Masses was techno enough not tobe mistaken for mainstream pop, and

the British accents were strong enough to becool. But some combination of the band’sweak live performances, limited thematicrange (biblical guilt, statutory lust, greed), andbeing older than fifteen ended my love affairwith Depeche Mode.

I remember from high school the unwrittenrule that you wear as much black as you canto a Depeche Mode concert. Of course, otherrequisite wear are Cure and Morrissey shirts.Low and behold, arriving at the July 1st showat the Tweeter Center were all of the expectedcostumes.

When I heard about the tour for their latestalbum Exciter, I was baffled — they’re stillaround? Wasn’t Violator the end of them? Ohyeah, there was Ultra, but who listened tothat?

The show at the Tweeter Center beganpretty strongly with some of their new tracks.Lead singer David Gahan has learned to domore than spin in circles. Now he shakes hisass at the audience — a lot — and runsaround the stage with the microphone stand.It’s as if someone let him in on the secretthat he’s a rock star, allowing him to performas such.

But despite Gahan’s stronger stage pres-ence, the show wasn’t at all personable. Theaudience received a mere “How are you doingBoston?” and a “Thank you Boston!” —despite the fact that the Tweeter Center issomewhere off of Interstate 95, closer to Prov-idence than to Faneuil Hall. It was like listen-ing to someone do Mad Libs. How about a lit-tle conversation with the crowd, David?Something a little more than just followingthe script?

But Depeche Mode can’t do that. They didnot even play instruments for most of theshow. Sound effects, like the sampled breath-ing in “Personal Jesus,” would just begin, andGahan would just sing along. Guitarist MartinGore would strum a chord repeatedly when

required. There was a drummer at the show —although it didn’t look like he played everysong. It seemed as though everyone wasaccompanying a cued tape.

Adding to the McConcert feeling of theshow were cued films that played on a giantscreen. The most ridiculous sequence was agoldfish swimming alone, and with theaccompaniment of a heavy bass chord, a giant

shark entered the screen as well. Ooh, themat-ic! Swim away little virgin goldfish!

Martin Gore did do a small acoustic guitarset of some country-sounding songs. No oneseemed to know what they were, but theywere nice. It was especially nice to knowwhere the music was coming from.

But my heart has not entirely hardened. ladmit it — the twinkling instrumentation of“Waiting For The Night” struck a sentimentalside. Some of the fun was just knowing howthe songs would sound, even down to synthe-sized voice echoes.

“Clean” was also fun to hear again, espe-cially with Gahan’s low, groveling voice.Songs like “Halo” had Gahan reminding usthat we all wear guilt like shackles on our feet.

Once upon a high-school eve, DepecheMode’s lyrics did seem to hold some impor-tance, but seeing the old guy up there spewingout the same agonized words was just sillythis time around. Especially when Gahanseemed to be having so much fun. “I Feel YouWalking In My Shoes” had the same sense ofhollow importance. At one point Gahan actu-ally picked up the microphone stand and usedit as a phallic extension.

Still, the show was entertaining. Everymid-twenties geezer should go see a “best ofDepeche Mode” show, if only to find that youstill know nearly all of the lyrics to “EnjoyThe Silence” and “Black Celebration.” Youmight even get a chance, since Gahan endedwith a “see you next time … Boston!”

CONCERT REVIEW

Depeche Mode In ConcertMusic for Molasses

NATHAN COLLINS—THE TECH

David Gahan (above) joined fellow band members Andy Fletcher and Martin Gore July 1 at Tweeter Center in Mansfield for a nightof Depeche Mode favorites old and new.

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Revelers on both sides of theCharles River were witness tospectacular fireworks July 4;those watching from theEdward Hatch Memorial Shellon the Esplanade were alsotreated to a concert featuringArlo Guthrie (middle right),Cyndi Lauper (bottom left), anda fair amount of exuberant flag-waving.

—MATTHEW T. YOURST

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By Pey-Hua HwangSTAFF WRITER

Directed by Chris NahonWritten by Jet Li and Luc BessonStarring Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tcheky Karyo,and Max RyanRated R

K iss of the Dragon is a highly con-trived, entirely action sequence-dri-ven, summer action movie. Generallyspeaking, there is a certain suspension

of disbelief when one goes to see a movie, butKiss of the Dragon can’t seem to decidebetween just maintaining a completely over-the-top plot or the reality of a drama leavingthe viewer merely laughing at the inconsisten-cy.

This film finds Johnny (Jet Li), a Chineseintelligence officer in Paris, as he is supposed-ly going to help in a drug bust but ends upbeing framed for two murders by the crookedhead of the French Police force Jean-PierreRichard (Tcheky Karyo).

The murder has only one witness, Jessica(Bridget Fonda), an “ex-junkie hooker” whosedaughter is being held hostage by Richard.Not surprisingly, Jessica and Johnny end upteaming up to take Richard down.

However, the motivations and characterdynamics are never clearly resolved in Kiss ofthe Dragon. Richard never seems to have amotive for his malevolence. There are alsoplenty of loose ends: for example, at one

point, Johnny goes to find the “emergencyphone” as he is playing fugitive from theFrench police. At this point, he also stumblesupon a large stash of auto-matic firearms which areemployed in quelling somesecurity guards but arethereafter never againnoted.

Yet, even with a thread-bare plot, when Li is fight-ing, the film almost does jus-tice to his martial arts skill.Fast, brutal, and at timescomical, Li finds ways touse steam irons, a red bil-liard ball, chopsticks, andvarious blunt objects thatRichard’s thugs attack himwith. Single-handedly dis-arming, dislocating, andoccasionally dismemberinghis opponents, Li’s characteris the one redeeming featureof this movie. His final face-off with Richard, though itexplains the movie’s title, isalmost anti-climatic afterseeing the fight scene before.

As far as acting, MaxRyan manages to steal ascene as the sleazy Lupo,Jessica’s pimp, who caresnothing for flesh but much

for profit. He stands out as the only characterwhose motives are clear.

Much more could have been done withTcheky Karyo’s super villain who always getsaway clean. For the part he is given, though,Karyo pulls off the part of smooth diplomatwhen speaking to government officials, sym-pathetic friend when speaking to Jessica’sdaughter, and mob leader as he orders hisgoons about with polish.

Fonda, as the girl who just turned downthe wrong path, keeps her part marginallybelievable.

Kiss of the Dragon, if watched in the spir-it of “let’s see Jet Li kick ass and laugh atthis movie’s sad attempts to be serious,” isnot a bad movie. For anyone interested incharacter development or a plot withoutenormous holes, Kiss of the Dragon is awaste of time.

FILM REVIEW

Kiss of the DragonKiss Believability Goodbye

P. CAMBOULIVE

Jet Li both writes and stars in Kiss of the Dragon — for now, he should stick with the acting.

SHORT TAKES

Keys to SuccessBy Huanne ThomasSTAFF WRITER

T he album Songs inA Minor is everybit as vibrant as the20-year-old New

York native who penned it.Yet it is only a hint of theeclectic cornucopia of hertalents still to come.

Alicia Keys demandsyour attention with herjazzy ballads and breathy-yet-powerful voice, oftenreminiscent of so manypopular gospel greats. Thisfreshman effort is a collec-tion of tunes she composedand produced, mostly byherself, while in highschool.

Some might be tempted to place her in the same bucketwith other recent R&B divas like Erykah Badu, India Arie,and Jill Scott. But don’t box her in just yet. Alicia’s youthand breadth of talent brings something fresh and excitingthat other artists haven’t touched yet. And she is just gettingstarted.

“Fallin’” is her first track to hit the radio waves, and ithas topped R&B and pop charts alike. She manages to trans-port the listener to a smoky New York jazz club as she tellsa familiar story of a young woman uncontrollably in love.She shows off the stunning range of her voice with poignanthigh-notes that add to complex rhythms. “Fallin’” has fullharmonies that keep you swaying while you enjoy the sin-cerity in her voice.

In every track, Alicia drops subtle hints of her classical-ly-trained voice among hip-hop threads. In “Girlfriend,” weget that street symphony mixture of Alicia’s jazz with Jer-maine Dupri’s rap skills. The keyboard patterns draw you inand the catchy lyrics keep you there. And the keyboardistconsistently adding the danceable melodies is none otherthan Alicia herself.

Final recommendation: definitely get the album. Let hervoice accompany you on a rainy weekend afternoon. And ayear or two from now when a more experienced, mature Ali-cia drops an earth-shattering album, you will honestly sayyou saw it coming.

Shangri-La Di DaBy Freddy Funes

The Stone Temple Pilots’ latest release is Shangri-LaDee Da. If you are expecting anything revolutionary orstunning, then you will be disappointed. If you areexpecting “Wicked Garden” or “Plush,” you will be dis-

appointed again. You will not find much hard rock on Shangri-La Dee Da; rather, you will find melodic and slow songs.

The first four songs that start the album are great rocksongs that are reminiscent of the Stone Temple Pilots’ bril-liance. The bass and guitar sounds on “Dumb Love” are crispand elegant, while “Days of the Week” is incredibly catchy.“Hollywood Bitch” is probably the best track on the album.

Singer Scott Weiland adjustshis voice perfectly to thechanging music, and his I-don’t-give-a-hoot attitudethat saturated the other StoneTemple Pilots albumsappears in this song. Unfor-tunately, it is one of a fewsongs with that attitude.

The fifth track, “Wonder-ful,” is where the StoneTemple Pilots’ new stylefirst emerges. An incrediblyslow song, “Wonderful” hasa decent melody, but Wei-land’s voice is improperlyused. As a result, the track isawkward, especially after the more up-tempo “HollywoodBitch.”

Luckily, the album takes a turn for the better with“Regeneration.” Weiland’s voice magically flows throughthe song and the hard-hitting rock sound is amazing. “Trans-missions from a Long Room” shows the greatness of theStone Temple Pilots’ musical talent. The bass and guitarplaying are superb.

Shangri-La Dee Da is an honorable attempt to redirectthe Stone Temple Pilots’ musical talent and compose anentirely new sound. However, Shangri-La Dee Da isplagued with mediocrity and lacks flow and direction. Withtheir latest endeavor, the Stone Temple Pilots attempt to takeus through a spiritual journey; they attempt to show us thatthey have matured musically. They no longer need to spell-bind listeners with their grunge, or so they want us tobelieve.

Breakfast AgainBy Sandra ChungSTAFF WRITER

R emember “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” the ubiquitous songabout the irresistible Audrey Hepburn flick being theonly common thread between a troubled couple? Evenway back in 1996, when the tune was no. 3 on the U.S.

charts and in the top five everywhere else, many more peoplecould sing the chorus than could name the band. It didn’t helpthat Deep Blue Something essentially dropped out of sight forthe next few years.

Recently the Texas band re-emerged onto the music scenewith a self-titled album and a new label, Aezra Records. Broth-ers Todd and Toby Pipes take turns on lead vocals, which haveeither a young John Lennon orJon Bon Jovi character, depend-ing on which brother is singing.Todd plays bass, while Toby andKirk Tatom share guitar dutyand John Kirtland mans thedrums.

“She Is,” the first single offthe CD, nails the pop/rock hitformula. The track features anelectric guitar/drum base in thestyle of Weezer, complete withstylish guitar solo. Pipes’ pipeslean toward the Bon Jovi end ofthe spectrum as he sings aboutjealousy in his relationship witha girl he puts on a pedestal: “She

is everything that I believe in/Can’t you see thatshe and me/Are the way things should be?”

“So Precious” is a distinctly indie mixbetween rock and Latin dance music, with itsjaded, Cake-like vocals, tropical drum set andhorn complement. Deep Blue Something con-tinues to show off its versatility with songsvarying in character from the acoustic,orchestrated “Enough to Get By” to “WhoWants It,” which walks the line between rockand metal. Some pieces start in one genre andend in another, or mix eclectic choices suchas Vapors and Metallica.

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was a departurefrom the distinctly alternative album Home.The new album strays closer to mainstreampop without losing the band’s roots. Deep

Blue Something starts with a solid rock guitar base andadds the indie rock touch with intelligent lyrics, nimbleelectronic work, and excellent artistic choice in guestinstruments and percussion. Though it would be tough forany single to top the success of “Breakfast atTiffany’s,”Deep Blue Something has enough intelligent andtalent behind its generally well-crafted songs to help putthe band back on the charts.

Trance-InducerBy Joseph GrahamSTAFF WRITER

Containing some of the most creative and disturbedinterludes ever recorded, Lateralus is 70 minutes ofbrutally aggressive, clear, tight, and at times trance-inducing, progressive metal. Although the album

lacks most of the sardonic and contemptuous lyrical stylingfans may be used to hearing from front man MaynardKeenan, Lateralus still contains haunting vocals, calmingmusical lulls, and violent distorted guitar busts that fansenjoy.

One of the disc’s highlights comes near the end with a10-minute piece that is unexpected and soothing. With itsEastern influences, “Reflection” feels like the calm after thestorm. Although the track sounds a bit out of place (strangeto say that something actually sounds out of place on a Toolalbum but it’s true), drummer Danny Carey truly steals thisnumber. His skill is also evident in Lateralus’s second sin-gle, “Ticks & Leeches.”

As the disc changes tracks, so does the attention and focusof the music. Each member seems to have their say, which isevident in the instrumental tracks “Eon Blue Apocalypse,”

“Mantra,” and “Triad.” While the first sin-gle from the disc “Schism” rings clear as atotal group effort and is arguably their mostpolished effort to date, the more experimen-tal tracks show that the band is always pro-gressing and taking musical chances.

All in all, Tool’s new album will not dis-appoint. Lateralus blends the visceral powerof their earlier recordings with experimentaltracks. Tool triumphs again with a combina-tion of dense and loud artistry over anger.With most of the tracks reaching epiclengths, it is clear that Maynard and compa-ny may not score the widespread commer-cial appeal that most bands covet, but thisseems to never have been their intention inthe first place.

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Wednesday, July 11

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. – Eudora Quick Start. This session shows how to configure Eudora, cre-ate messages and address lists, send and receive attachments, and sort incoming e-mail. free.Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. – Blood Drive. free. Room: La Sala (Student Cener 2nd Floor). Sponsor:American Red Cross Team and Network, Blood Drives.12:10 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. – “Mixing and Circulation in the Deep Brazil Basin”. free. Room: 54-915. Sponsor: Physical Oceanography.3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – spouses&partners@mit-Summer Meetings. Join us for conversation onthe steps of the Student Center during the summer months. free. Room: Steps outside of Stu-dent Center. Sponsor: spouses&partners@mit, MIT Medical. 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. – Rollerhockey. Pickup rollerhockey. See the URL for directions and moreinformation.. free. Room: Kennedy Elementary School, Cambridge. Sponsor: Pickup RollerhockeyGroup.7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. – Renaissance Dancing. There are many forms of Renaissance Dancingthat we practice. From Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country. We dance them all withflair and fun. Dress is common street clothing. No experience necessary; instruction is provided.free. Room: 31-161. Sponsor: Society for Creative Anachronism.

Thursday, July 12

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. – Web at MIT Quick Start. Learn how to explore the Web usingNetscape, and get an introduction to the Web at MIT. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor:Information Systems.12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Blood Drive. free. Room: La Sala (Student Cener 2nd Floor). Sponsor:American Red Cross Team and Network, Blood Drives.6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Rollerhockey. Pickup rollerhockey. See the URL for directions and moreinformation.. free. Room: Kennedy Elementary School, Cambridge. Sponsor: Pickup RollerhockeyGroup.

Friday, July 13

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. FileMaker Pro Quick Start. This session introduces database terms,shows how to create a simple database, and covers the six modes of FileMaker Pro. free.Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.

Sunday, July 15

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. MIT Swapfest. Buy/Sell/Swap All Things High Tech. $5. Room: AlbanySt. Garage. Sponsor: MIT Radio Society.

Monday, July 16

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PowerPoint Quick Start. PowerPoint makes it easy to jazz up your pre-sentations. Get an introduction to what PowerPoint can do. Find out how to create shows. Learnhow to use drawing tools, graphics, and create handouts. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Spon-sor: Information Systems.6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Rollerhockey. Pickup rollerhockey. See the URL for directions and more infor-mation.. free. Room: Kennedy Elementary School, Cambridge. Sponsor: Pickup Rollerhockey Group.7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra Rehearsals. George Ogata ’92,founder, music director and conductor. Membership by audition only. Concert on Aug. 4 ofTchaikovskyís Capriccio Italien, Rimsky-Korsakovís Capriccio Espagnol, and Tchaikovskyís Sym-phony No. 4 in F minor. George Ogata is on the faculty of the Longy School of Music in Cam-bridge where he is conductor of the Young Performers Chamber Orchestra, a senior youthorchestra program of the Preparatory Division. Last summer, the MIT Summer PhilharmonicOrchestra received a standing ovation for our most memorable performance of Mahler’s Sym-phony No. 9. free. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra.7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Ballroom Dance Workshop. Beginner Ballroom Dance Workshops. $1 formembers, $2 for non-members. Room: visit our website at http://web.mit.edu/bdclub forschedule and location. Sponsor: Ballroom Dance Club.

Tuesday, July 17

11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Learn Chado - The Way of Tea. No class on July 3, 10, or 17. Classes

will resume on July 24. Experience over 400 years of history and culture at a Japanese tea cere-mony. Mrs. Kyoko Wada will share the “happiness of the tea ceremony” with you. Drop in any-time between 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.. $3 for students, $5 for others. Room: McCormick Hall. Sponsor:spouses&partners@mit, MIT Women’s League.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Excel Quick Start. This course presents an overview of Excel’s basicfunctions, as well as some of its more powerful features and capabilities. free. Room: N42Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.

Wednesday, July 18

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Element K Hands-On Workshop. Is web-based training for me? Spendan hour in an instructor-led workshop. Learn how to get started using web-based training,explore what is offered and ask questions. For more information, go to:http://web.mit.edu/is/training/wbt. free. Room: W89-125. Sponsor: Information Systems.12:10 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. “Mixing and Circulation in the Deep Brazil Basin”. free. Room: 54-915.Sponsor: Physical Oceanography.4:30 p.m. Interactive Machine Art Kal Spelletich, Artistic Director of SEEMEN, will describeand demonstrate participative robotic art. free. Room: Bartos Theater. Sponsor: Media Lab.6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Rollerhockey. Pickup rollerhockey. See the URL for directions andmore information. free. Room: Kennedy Elementary School, Cambridge. Sponsor: PickupRollerhockey Group.7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Renaissance Dancing. There are many forms of Renaissance Dancingthat we practice. From Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country. We dance them all withflair and fun. Dress is common street clothing. No experience necessary; instruction is provided.free. Room: 31-161. Sponsor: Society for Creative Anachronism.

Thursday, July 19

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. WINPartners User Group. (Recently renamed from NT Partners)WINPartners is a group of Windows NT workstation users and administrators who havebanded together to support each other in the use of Windows NT. NT Partners share theirNT experiences, ask and answer questions, solve problems, discuss hot topics, and warneach other of pitfalls. Any NT user at any level of expertise and experience is welcome tojoin the group and attend meetings. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: InformationSystems.6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Rollerhockey. Pickup rollerhockey. See the URL for directions and moreinformation.. free. Room: Kennedy Elementary School, Cambridge. Sponsor: Pickup RollerhockeyGroup.

Friday, July 20

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Orientation to Computing at MIT. This seminar provides basic, non-technical information about the MIT computing environment. Topics include: telephones andvoice mail operating systems supported software and recommended hardware the campus net-work security computer-related health issues. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Informa-tion Systems.

Monday, July 23

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Mac Tech Partners User Group. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Spon-sor: Information Systems.6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Rollerhockey. Pickup rollerhockey. See the URL for directions and moreinformation.. free. Room: Kennedy Elementary School, Cambridge. Sponsor: Pickup RollerhockeyGroup.7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra Rehearsals. George Ogata ‘92,founder, music director and conductor. Membership by audition only. Concert on Aug 4 ofTchaikovskyís Capriccio Italien, Rimsky-Korsakovís Capriccio Espagnol, and Tchaikovskyís Sym-phony No. 4 in F minor. George Ogata is on the faculty of the Longy School of Music in Cam-bridge where he is conductor of the Young Performers Chamber Orchestra, a senior youthorchestra program of the Preparatory Division. Last summer, the MIT Summer PhilharmonicOrchestra received a standing ovation for our most memorable performance of Mahler’s Sym-phony No. 9. free. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra.7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Ballroom Dance Workshop. Beginner Ballroom Dance Workshops. $1 formembers, $2 for non-members. Room: visit our website at http://web.mit.edu/bdclub forschedule and location. Sponsor: Ballroom Dance Club.

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By James CampCONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Robert Langer is one of thoserare people who seems to do exactlywhat he wants to.

His lab is dubbed the “LangerCorporation” for its success in thefledgling biotech industry. He tack-les problems ranging from findingnew ways to deliver drugs and bio-molecules to building tissues in thelab, and his research staff comesfrom such diverse fields as solidstate physics, clinical medicine, andchemical engineering. According toLanger, “whatever it takes to solvethe problem, that’s what we’ll do.”

And solve problems he has.Langer holds around 380 patents,licensed to almost 80 companies. Heestimates 30 products, either on themarket or in the FDA-approvalpipeline, have come from technolo-gies developed in hislab.

Many of theseproducts involve newtypes of biomaterials,beginning withporous plasticimplants for drugrelease, and workingtheir way into diversefields such as DNAdelivery for genetherapy (designing apolymer that acts likea virus), “intelligent”drug release (a sili-con-chip system thatreleases precise quan-tities of drugs on pre-programmed sched-ules), and cellularsystems (integratingcells with his newmaterials to build tis-sues or bioreactorsystems). Along theway, Langer helpedto invent the twinfields of controlleddrug delivery and tis-sue engineering.

While best known for thesehighly marketable engineering suc-cesses, Langer insists on a commit-ment to academia as well. Langerbegan his academic life as a chemi-cal engineering student at Cornell,then went on to do his doctoralresearch in the same field here atMIT. After doing postdoctoral workin a medical research lab at Har-vard, Langer returned to MIT as aprofessor and has spent most of hiscareer blurring the lines betweenengineering and medicine.

Langer sees himself as a dedicat-ed undergraduate educator as well.Together with chemistry professorJohn Essigmann, he created the“Biotechnology and Engineering”course (5.22J/10.02J), and himselfcreated and taught two IntegratedChemical Engineering (10.491)modules on drug delivery. His rat-ings don’t let his reputation downeither, with consistent student eval-uations in the high 6s.

The Man and His ResearchThree decades ago, before

Langer began work on developingnew materials, physicians would useany material on hand that wouldseem to fit the bill: mattress stuffingfor breast implants and ladies’ gir-dle fabric for artificial hearts weretwo of the more ridiculous exam-ples. Langer’s first major insightwas that materials science and poly-mer chemistry could be used todesign materials suited exactly tothe purpose at hand: “We ask thequestion, what do you want in a bio-material?”

The first application was to buildpolymers that would allow con-trolled release of “essentially any-thing” in a biological environment.

But according to Langer, poly-

mers “just happened.” He was work-ing with Dr. Judah Folkman at Har-vard on trying to find a new way tostop blood vessels from growing(angiogenesis) in a tumor and hitupon the idea of using a porous plas-tic to release anti-angiogenic factors.This idea has led to a variety of prod-ucts both inside the Langer group andin the medical world at large, fromanti-cancer brain chemotherapywafers (used to treat TV’s Dr. Greenon ER) to implant materials thatsecrete factors encouraging tissueregeneration.

Langer did not stop there, how-ever. Together with Dr. JosephVacanti at Massachusetts GeneralHospital, Langer started working tocombine living cells and biodegrad-able polymers in an effort to buildtissues in the lab. These structurescould then be implanted in a patient,

and after the plastic backbone haddissolved away, what would remainwould be living, functional tissue.Thus the new field of tissue engi-neering began to emerge; and today,scores of research labs and startupcompanies across the country arecurrently in a race to produce mar-ketable tissue-engineered products.

Another recent Langer lab inno-vation, designed by researcher JohnSantini in collaboration with Profes-sor Michael Cima, is a chip withmicroscopic wells containing mea-sured doses of drugs, biomolecules,or even perfumes that can bereleased by applying very small cur-rents. While initial experimentshave used small numbers of wellsand simple release patterns, Langerand his collaborators predict thatthese devices could someday beused to run complex drug-releaseprograms that are difficult with pillsand impossible with passive-releasesystems like porous plastics. Theycould even incorporate biosensors torespond to biological changes withdifferent release patterns.

This kind of dreaming seemstypical of Robert Langer. Whenasked where his research is going,he rattles off a list of possible pro-jects. Intelligent drug delivery thatwould control both amount andlocation of a drug; noninvasive glu-cose testing using ultrasound; genetherapy by designing artificial virus-es that deliver healthy genes to stemcells; control of cell diffusion inmedical implants — and on and on.

He even mentions a possible col-laboration with the Department ofEarth and Planetary Sciences tocontrol the weather. His only criteri-on for a project, he says, is that it bedone in a reasonable amount of timeand have a reasonable impact.

Life in Langer’s Lab

Langer maintains an “open bookpolicy” (just put your name in hisappointment book and he will seeyou), a system which provides eachof his students and researchers equalopportunity to reach him (and heanswers his e-mail almost as prompt-ly as undergrads).

Langer is a joint faculty memberin three MIT graduate programs:Chemical Engineering (Course 10),Health Science and Technology(HST) and Bioengineering (BEH).Even so, Langer draws studentsfrom an even greater variety ofdepartments, with ten different dis-ciplines represented in his lab.When asked which of his threedepartments he feels most at homein, Langer responded “all of them.”

“The role of a graduate student isto learn,” he said, pointing out that

the main differencebetween a graduatestudent and anundergraduate isthat grad studentshave to learn to asktheir own questionsbefore they can goabout answeringthem. “My goal fora graduate studentis to make thattransition,” he said,noting thats u c c e s s f u lresearchers are“able to ask impor-tant questions.”

Langer wantshis graduate stu-dents to enjoyresearch and to getexposed to differ-ent ideas, andthinks that his labis an excellentenvironment forboth purposes. Healso believes thatgrad studentsshould have the

opportunity to train and superviseother students, and so he encouragesthem to take on undergraduateresearch assistants. The net result isa very functional laboratory thatproduces professors at top-notchengineering schools, engineers atbiotechnology companies, and agood number of startup biotechfirms.

Undergraduates in the Langer labalways report to a supervising gradstudent or postdoc, usually on a sub-project of their supervisor’s research.Some work as many as three or fouryears in the lab and “hopefully get apaper or a patent out of it.” Perhapsunusual for an MIT professor,Langer’s open-book policy extendseven to his undergraduateresearchers. While he encouragesthem to discuss most issues withtheir supervising graduate student, heis willing to sit down and talk aboutresearch with just about anyone.

Perhaps the one drawback of theLanger lab is that its success hasmade it very popular. “We get a hugenumber of applicants,” says Langer,citing around two thousand requestsa year for graduate and postdoctoralresearch positions in his lab. Withthat kind of competition to get in, it’sreally no surprise that so much inno-vation happens in Langer’s lab.

PROFILE

Bob Langer: Quest of Curiosity700 Papers … 13 Books … 80 Academic Honors … One Man

By Leigh Outten

The problems have all moved tothe forefront of an emerging publicdebate. Environmentally friendlydrilling techniques? Soaring energycosts for the American family?Industrial productivity? California’sabsurd costs for pumping water?

They all seek resolution in Presi-dent George W. Bush’s energy poli-cy, which takes the “we’ve gotproblems and they should be fixed”approach.

Bush’s policy addresses ourever-increasing dependence on for-eign fuel supplies. In suit with the“can-do” nature of the policy, Bushhas come to the conclusion that wecan deal with hemorrhaging foreignoil imports. As well, the probabilityof more drilling on our home turfseems dubious. One thing is clear— home turf drilling won’t happen.

In the areas of electricity produc-tion, improved coal-burning tech-nologies are promoted. This is rea-sonable in light of the fact that thepolicy identifies SO2, NOX, andmercury as major pollutants.

New technologies would resultin reductions of those toxins, buthave we left out CO2? In order topromote fossil fuels, as this policydoes, one must ignore the controver-sial CO2. Of course, in my opinion,Americans have been ignoring it foryears, but now it’s officially onpaper. Due to finite coal suppliesand the reality of CO2’s threat, coalis not the answer for the future, sowhy dwell on it?

The policy is also very encour-aging of nuclear power. The recom-

mendations made involve promo-tion of nuclear power plant licenserenewal and increased generation atexisting facilities. In eager anticipa-tion of deregulation, the nuclearindustry has become amazinglycompetitive in recent years.

The attention nuclear powerreceives in the policy is pleasing,but there’s nothing new to it.Nuclear power has been holding itsown for the past several years, andthis policy recognizes that fact.

Bush’s policy also addresses theissue of energy efficiency. The UShas severely increased energy effi-ciency over the past severaldecades. I’m not seeing any newinsights from the policy in this area,more of a restatement of our statusand small promotions of energy-friendly equipment. After all, welive in a capitalist society — if ener-gy efficiency saves money, thenenergy efficiency is what happens.

I cannot say I am overly pleasedwith this new president’s policy, butthen I cannot say I am overly unsat-isfied. Realistically speaking, I thinkour energy policy is a true reflectionof our times.

A promotion of coal use willonly cause our finite coal supplies todwindle even sooner and perhapsthrust us toward other electrical gen-eration technologies. Perhapsincreases in the use of fossil fuel willhelp us to face our CO2 problem.We are certainly not ready for largechanges in electrical generation, andthis policy reflects that reality.

Leigh Outten is a graduate stu-dent in the School of Nuclear Engi-neering.

PERSPECTIVE

Fossil Fuels Forever

JAMES CAMP — THE TECH

Professor Robert Langer’s lab is called the “Langer Corporation.”

T he great physicist Isidor IsaacRabi once said that, “Scienceis a great game. It is inspiring

and refreshing. The playing field isthe universe itself.”

In an effort to bring the MIT community news from the

front lines of current research, as well as reports on thenewest gadgets to hit the market, The Tech presents its newScience and Technology section.

The following pages contain stories on the people andideas that expand humankind’s understanding of the worldas well as analyses of the figures and issues that shape it.From developments in the realm of particle physics to thepioneers of the biotechnology revolution, the section willcover the gamut of discoveries and innovations that theworld’s scientists think up.

In addition to spreading the news, the section will alsooffer a forum for discussion on the science policy issuesthat affect the nation as well as the planet as a whole. Thecurrent issue, for example, includes a perspective piece onthe controversial energy policy put forward by the currentpresidential administration in Washington. Future pieceswill discuss issues such as federal funding for stem cellresearch, the causes and impacts of global warming, as wellas future of science education in schools across the country.

As we try to provide a Science and Technology sectiongeared toward those with the literacy of “MIT Freshman,”we grapple with the problem of writing for what probably isamong the most scientifically diverse communities in exis-tence.

Along the way, we hope to bring you lectures and inter-views by people who spark our curiosity. In this endeavor,we welcome your comments, suggestions, and contributions.

Some people come to MIT for Course 21.For the rest of us, there’s Science.

science@the-tech.mit.edu

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ROUNDUP

Bush Names Democrat Science AdviserAfter months without leadership, the U.S. Office of Science and Tech-

nology Policy under President George W. Bush finally has its head, John H.Marburger III. His appointment as National Science Adviser comes at atime when the heated issues of environmental policy and stem cell research

are in debate.The delay in choosing an adviser has been attrib-

uted to the lukewarm reception received by many inthe scientific community to invitations by Bush. It iseven rumored that MIT President Charles M. Vest wasconsidered for the position.

Marburger, a physicist with degrees from Princeton and Stanford, carrieson the tradition of having a physicist in the post since the days of Eisenhow-er. What sets Marburger aside from his predecessors is his unabashed dis-closure of his political affiliation. Immediately after Bush’s nomination,Marburger introduced himself as a lifelong Democrat.

The nomination now awaits confirmation by the Senate and a month-longbackground check, neither of which are expected to delay the appointment.

Marburger is an adamant supporter of nuclear energy, though his viewson stem-cell research are as yet unknown.

What remains unclear is Marburger’s relationship with the White House.The White House has indicated that the National Science Adviser’s rolewith the President will be mediated through White House Chief of StaffAndrew Card. Though that situation isn’t ideal for Marburger, he remainsoptimistic that his views will be heard.

Marburger, currently the Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory,achieved national prominence for his role in ameliorating Brookhaven’ssafety record and relations with the lab’s neighbors. He also pioneered theeffort to bring the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider to Brookhaven.

-Devdoot Majumdar

Abnormalities In Stem Cell ClonesScientists at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the

University of Hawaii have determined that cloned genes are often improper-ly expressed, even when using embryonic stem (ES) cells, leading to seriousabnormalities later in life. The finding comes at a time when federal fundingfor stem cell research is being fiercely debated in Washington.

“These data imply,” the scientists write in their paper, published in Sci-ence, “that even apparently normal cloned animals may have subtle abnor-malities in gene expression.”

According to the findings, there is no reason to believe that the genesthemselves were altered in any way during the cloning process. Instead,they found, the manner in which the cloned genetic code was translated intoproteins was both unstable and flawed.

The nuclei ES cells are favored for reproductive cloning over differentiatedadult cells because it is thought that the egg can more readily bring ES cellnuclei to the correct developmental stage compatible with embryonic growth.

In an interview with Reuters, lead author David G. Humphreys G said,“Throughout pregnancy, you find if you use embryonic stem cells as nucleardonors that you have a higher percentage of mice at least making it to birth.”

“It’s also easy to imagine that using embryonic stem cells as donors mightbe easier to reprogram back to a state compatible with a fertilized egg.”

-Shankar Mukherji

B Meson Found to ViolateCharge-Parity Symmetry

A team of over 600 researchers from 75 institutions around the world hasfound a fundamental difference between the behavior of matter and antimatter.Working out of the United States Department of Energy’s Stanford LinearAccelerator Center (SLAC), the scientists studied the subatomic particleknown as the B meson and its corresponding anti-particle, the anti-B meson. Intheir series of experiments, the researchers observed that as the two particlesdecayed, more matter was left than antimatter. It has been theorized that such aphenomenon could explain the prevalence of matter in today’s universe.

The phenomenon, known as charge-parity violation, has only beenobserved once before, when Dr. Val L. Fitch of Princeton University andDr. James W. Cronin of the University of Chicago discovered it whilestudying the neutral K meson, or kaon. They later went on to share the 1980Nobel Prize in physics for their work.

The B and anti-B mesons were generated by high-energy collisions ofelectrons and positrons, or anti-electrons, in the 1.3-mile particle acceleratorin California. A 1200-ton detector, known as BABAR, recorded how theparticles in question decayed.

According to the researchers, the magnitude of the CP-violation is gener-ally in line with the Standard Model of particle physics, the general frame-work which is used to describe the fundamental constituents and forces inthe universe.

Despite the new evidence, most theorists still believe that the degree ofthe CP-violation is not great enough to account for all the matter that inhab-its today’s universe.

– Shankar Mukherji

COURTESY BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABS

Dr. John H. Marburger III, Bush’s chosen Science Adviser, sits asidehis prized Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

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By Dan BergstresserSTAFF WRITER

In almost any economics text-book, a reader will encounter thework of MIT Institute Professor andNobel Laureate Franco Modigliani.Developing and testing powerfultheories of personal saving behaviorand corporate financial policy,Modigliani played a large role inmoving economic science from ad-hoc models to firmer foundations.Equally striking is the enduringrespect and affection thatModigliani has earned from col-leagues and students. In Adventuresof an Economist, Modigliani dis-plays his considerable economicinsight and shows the wit and com-passion that have earned him thelove of fellow economists in Ameri-ca, Italy, and the world. This book isdelightful reading for anybody withan interest in economic theory orpolicymaking.

Potential readers should bewarned, however, that this book isnot quite a traditionala u t o b i o g r a p h y .Modigliani movesquickly back andforth across standarda u t o b i o g r a p h i c a lmaterial, economictheory, and analysisof postwar economicpolicy in Europe andthe US, and closeswith a proposal forSocial Securityreform. Those whoprefer to read autobi-ographies that haveno equations may findsome parts of thebook tough sailing,but for the rest,Adventures of anEconomist makes forrewarding reading.

It is useful to startwith a summary ofModigliani’s contri-butions to economicsciences. The 1985Nobel awardannouncement madeparticular mention ofthree of his contribu-tions. First cameModigliani’s work onpersonal savingbehavior. Startingwith the intuition thatsaving during theworking life is moti-vated by the goal ofmaintaining a compa-rable standard of liv-ing during retirement, Modiglianiand fellow economist RichardBrumberg developed a well-speci-fied life-cycle model of individualconsumption and saving behavior.This model of microeconomicbehavior had important implicationsfor the aggregate economy, and in alater series of papers Modiglianioutlined and tested these aggregateimplications. This link from a well-specified microeconomic model tomacroeconomic implications was animportant leap forward for econom-ic practice.

The Nobel committee also citedtwo joint works with Merton Millerin the field of corporate finance.Taken together, these papers movedcorporate finance from the testing ofad-hoc models onto firm economicfoundations. Prior to theModigliani-Merton papers, corpo-rate finance focused on assessingthe ‘optimal’ financial policies forfirms to follow. Researchers paidparticular attention to assessing howmuch firms should pay out as divi-dends, and what mix of equity anddebt firms should use to financetheir operations.

The Modigliani-Miller theoremsshowed that, given perfect markets,investors are indifferent about bothtypes of corporate financial deci-sions. For instance, if investors canborrow and lend at the same interestrate as the firm, they can undo anychange in the firm’s mix of debt andequity by borrowing and lending on

their own account. Becauseinvestors can costlessly undo afirm’s leverage decisions, thesedecisions do not affect the firm’stotal market valuation. TheseModigliani-Miller papers represent-ed a leap forward, incorporatingmore solid economic reasoning intothe analysis of corporate financialbehavior.

In addition to these three seminalresearch papers, Modigliani playeda large role in the development ofone of the first large-scale macro-economic models. This model wasdeveloped in the 1960s byModigliani and other academicresearchers under the auspices ofthe Federal Reserve Board, and wasthe most important macroeconomicmodel in use at the Fed until themid-1990s. In his role as a teacherat MIT, Modigliani also trained along list of prominent economists,including MIT’s own Institute Pro-fessor Peter A. Diamond.

Adventures of an Economist

gives a picture of the man behindthese contributions, and the picturethat emerges is one of a witty, car-ing man whose dedication to truthand to his friends is inspiring. Hisdedication to economics is alsoawe-inspiring; pages 20 through 43of the book are a discussion of Key-nesian economics that would notseem out of place in a traditionalmacroeconomics textbook.

The book is divided into threesections, and the first of these sec-tions comes closest to traditionalautobiography. This sectiondescribes his upbringing in Rome,where he was born in 1918 andwhere his father was a prominentpediatrician. After studying law incollege, Modigliani was forced bythe Fascist persecution of Jews toleave Italy for France and then theUnited States prior to the SecondWorld War. Arriving in New YorkCity in 1939 with his wife Serenaand her father’s family,Modigliani’s first job was as awholesale dealer of Spanish andItalian-language books. At the sametime, Modigliani studied economicsunder Jacob Marschak at the NewSchool for Social Research, whichat that time was a haven for intellec-tuals forced by fascism and war toflee Europe.

After completing his PhD in eco-nomics at the New School,Modigliani taught at Bard and at theUniversity of Illinois. At Illinoisduring the McCarthy era,

Modigliani and the other Europeanfaculty were forced from the eco-nomics department in a purge led bynone other than the famous footballplayer Red ‘The Galloping Ghost’Grange, who at the time was atrustee of the University.Modigliani was the last of thepurged economists to leave Illinois,and he left with a blast that waspublished in the local newspaper:“Now there will be peace in theDepartment of Economics: Thepeace of death!” That FrancoModigliani does not seem ever tohave been one to mince words ispart of his charm.

From Illinois, Modigliani wentto the Carnegie Institute of Technol-ogy, where he spent eight years in adepartment led by future NobelLaureate Herb Simon. It was duringthis period that Modigliani and Mer-ton Miller developed their theoriesthat would revolutionize corporatefinance. He paints a memorable pic-ture of the Carnegie department dur-

ing this period:Herb Simon eat-ing the samelunch of Ameri-can cheese onwhite breadevery day inorder to save thetime spent decid-ing what to have.Modigliani cameto MIT in 1960,where he hasbeen a centralfigure in an eco-nomics depart-ment thatincludes fellowNobelists PaulA. Samuelsonand Robert M.Solow. FromMIT, Modiglianihas served as anadvisor to theFederal Reserve,the Treasury, andthe Italian Cen-tral Bank, andthe second sec-tion of the book,a history ofexchange ratepolicy startingwith the collapseof the BrettonWoods era,reflects hiswealth of knowl-edge. At thispoint Modiglianimakes the first of

his policy prescriptions, that the per-sistently high rates of unemploy-ment in Europe must be relieved byold-fashioned Keynesian monetarystimulus.

The third section of the book,entitled ‘Italy and Me,’ is primarilya reflection on Italian economic pol-icy since the 1960s, peppered withreflections on differences betweenhis adopted and his native lands.The most striking part of the sectioncomes when Modigliani relateshow, while being interviewed forItalian TV in 1979, he learned of thepolitically-motivated jailing of adeputy at the Bank of Italy.Modigliani immediately stopped theinterview, saying on TV that hewould refuse to work further in Italyuntil the deputy was released andcleared.

Particularly striking are histhoughts on the nature of citizen-ship; some are deeply moving:“When a state goes against the con-science of one of its citizens, she orhe has the right to protest and musthave the right to fight against itsdecisions. Our Fatherland is human-ity, friendship, fair play — valuesthat stem from deep within the con-science of each of us and that thestate must respect.” Indeed, for allthe economic theory, policy, andequations, the reader will comeaway from Franco Modigliani’sAdventures of an Economist movedmost by his human qualities of com-passion, honesty, and wit.

BOOK REVIEW

Engaging Economic Adventures

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coffee house, and a dining hall.Although the Founders Group has leftmany of the details of the coffee-house and dining hall for Simmonsresidents to decide, it wants to man-date a meal plan for all Simmons res-idents.

Simmons Hall has run up an $88million construction bill despite aninitial donation of $20 million fromRichard Simmons ’53. “I am reallysurprised that it is so expensive anddoes not even have air conditioning.70 Pacific houses twice as many stu-dents and costs only $2 millionmore,” said former GSC PresidentSoulaymane Kachani G.

“The Simmons Founders Group[therefore] wants a commitment toSimmons’ community as well as itsdining… for financial and social rea-sons,” said Richard D. Berlin III,Director of Campus Dining. To sup-port the dining hall financially, eachresident will be entitled to subscribeto a meal plan that will be added tothe house bill.

The Founders Group has not yetdecided upon a specific meal plan orminimum subscription to the mealplan because they want to see whattype of meal plans residents wouldprefer. It does believe, however, thatsince students will be serving them-selves and that there is a demand formore meal-based, rather than à lacarte dining, then a meal plan is thebest solution for Simmons.

Simmons dining will offer an out-door dining section as well as a largemenu variety. It will include a grill, adeli, burners, hot entrees, a salad bar,a bakery, and a beverage section. “Iwould like to see numerous foodoptions, particularly healthy food andvegetarian food,” Berlin said. “Iwould really like to see residents ofother living groups eating at Sim-mons.”

Simmons’ unique coffeehousewill be located by the dining halland multi-purpose room. TheFounders Group believes that thecoffeehouse will most likely open atthe end of dinner and close at 2 AM.“We want to supplement the optionsto nighttime dining at MIT,” saidFounders Group member JeffreyRoberts ’02.

The Founders Group has also cre-ated the coffeehouse as a supplementto the dining hall and multi-purposeroom. “If somebody misses Simmonsdining, then he can go to the coffee-house to buy a prewrapped sub. If agroup saw a play in the multi-purposeroom, then they could get coffee atthe coffeehouse,” Berlin said.

Simmons solicits 2002 residentsThe RLSLP office will open Sim-

mons to undergraduate residents thisyear on a voluntary basis. “We hopeto keep the same proportion of upper-classmen to freshmen which willbecome 65% to 35% in 2002,”Roberts explained. “We also hope tosee an even mix of each class.”

To foster a community withinSimmons, the Founders Group willsolicit potential Simmons residents inthe fall for house meetings. “We aretrying to promote the idea of startinga new community and shaping adorm,” Roberts said. “We are hopingto find people who are legitimatelyinterested in creating a dorm charac-ter.”

In these house meetings, theFounders Group would like to dis-cuss issues such as dining, orderingfurniture, rooming assignments, andforming a house government. Themembers of the Founding Grouphave been debating all of the feasibleoptions for the dorm in preparationfor these house meetings. “We wantto run our ideas by the people whowill actually be affected by thembefore making decisions,” Robertssaid.

Finding Simmons ResidentsRLSLP and The Founders Group

do not foresee that it will be difficult

to find upperclassmen to live in 65%of Simmons Hall. They believe thatstudents will want to contribute to thehistory of Simmons and will enjoythe living arrangements of the dormi-tory.

Simmons will provide only sin-gles and doubles to its residents. “Ianticipate that we will receiverequests from people who will try toget a single instead of a crowdedroom,” said Manager of Undergradu-ate Residential Services Phillip M.Bernard.

“I cannot tell at this point exactlywho will want to move into Sim-mons,” Roberts said. “Although Sim-mons will be on the west side of cam-pus, I hope that people from eastcampus dorms will be interested inbringing east campus culture intoSimmons.”

“More people from Next House,New House, and MacGregor mightmove to Simmons Hall because theyare already used to the west campuswalk,” Bernard added.

Nonetheless, RLSLP does notbelieve that fraternity pledging willbe negatively affected by the creationof Simmons. “Freshmen will stillwant to eventually move into theFSILGs because of the appeal ofbrotherhood,” Bernard said. “Peoplewill still realize how great the MITFSILGs are.”

Unique Simmons DesignSimmons will house 350 under-

graduates, the average number offreshmen living in FSILGs over thepast few years. 75% of the rooms willbe singles, and the remaining roomswill be doubles. Architect StevenHoll has designed the rooms inassorted clusters to span the ten floorsof Simmons; each cluster will haveits own bathroom.

Each Simmons cluster willinclude two to three rooms, a bath-room, and a vestibule entryway. “Itis different from the design of theother dorms,” Roberts said.

“The Simmons singles will not bemuch larger than those of other dor-mitories,” Roberts said. The ceiling,however, is expected to measure 9.5feet. As a result, the Founders Grouphas been exploring various furnitureoptions to take advantage of the highceilings.

In fact, Progressive Architecturehas already recognized Holl for Sim-mons Hall’s blueprints. Thesedesigns include 8 atria and terraces.“There are not many floors whichresemble another floor in Simmons inthe designs,” Nilsson said. “Simmonsis being designed to be a differentand unique dorm.”

NW30 hosts confrence guests120 first-year graduate students

will be living in NW30 on August 16for the start of graduate orientation.Each room is a studio single that willbe furnished. “By adding anotherdorm to campus, we will be integrat-ing more graduate students into thecampus community,” said CapitalProjects Communications ManagerTeri F. Weidner.

To ensure that social activitieswill occur at NW30, future House-master Steven R. Lerman ’72 hasselected a few continuing students toserve on the house government.These students will be paid for theposition.

NW30 residents will sign a nine-month lease and cannot live in thedormitory during the summer, whenthe Conference Committee will beusing the dormitory for conferencesand guests. “Twelve-month housingwould be ideal, but there is alwayssome extra housing in the grad dormsduring the summer,” said NW30Founders Group member Jenny Farv-er G.

“We wanted to design the dormso that it would suit the graduate stu-dents need and be adaptable for thesummer guests,” Nilsson said. As aresult, NW30 will have seminarrooms on every floor and a multi-pur-pose room on the first floor. The sem-

inar rooms can be used for classesduring the year, and the multi-pur-pose room can be used to host parties.

Nevertheless, RLSLP designedthe building primarily for studentsand then for guests. “We have alwayslooked for graduate students’ needfirst. We looked at other graduatedormitory facilities and duplicatedthe best features of each,” Nilssonsaid. “Our secondary priority is oursummer guests, and we did not makeany compromises for them.”

Nonetheless, the summer guestshave affected some of The FoundersGroup’s decisions. “I feel that if thedorm were to be built again for grad-uate students on a twelve-monthlease, then the present model wouldnot be that model,” Farver said.

The Founders Group felt thatthey had to make the dorm as com-fortable as possible for the summerguests even though some graduatestudents will appreciate the dorm’sfeatures as well. “For example, wecould have made rooms of doublesor had people share kitchens,” Farv-er said. “Those are less comfortableoptions, but they could have loweredthe rent and made the dorm morecost-effective.”

Although this limits the type ofstudent who can live in the dormito-ry, students who participate in someof the nine month programs orMBA students will not be affectedby the summer guests. “MBA stu-dents intern in their summer and notnecessarily in Boston,” saidKachani.

In addition, NW30 will be anexpensive graduate dormitory forfirst-years. “The summer guests, whowill pay a nightly rent for the dorm,will help finance the dorm,” Farver-said.

As a result, the GSC has soughtways to reduce the rent for graduatestudents to $800 per month. “Tang,the other dorm for first-years, is fairlylow in rent, but 224 Albany is moreprivate and offers more amenities.224 Albany might attract more stu-dents in progressional programsbecause they might have moreresources and might want the extracomfort,” Farver said.

Although the nine-month leaseand the costly rent may dissuadesome who would otherwise live atNW30, the graduate students areexcited to see another graduate dorm.“We prefer a building to nothing,”said Kachani. “We understand thatconference guests will bring muchmoney to MIT and alleviate the greatdemand for conference housing,”Kachani said.

In addition, “undergraduatesshould benefit because they will havemore summer housing on-campus,”Farver said.

70 Pacific UpdateRLSLP expects that 70 Pacific

will open next year for a maximum of750 graduate students living in most-ly singles and some doubles. When70 Pacific opens, almost half of grad-uate students will receive on- campushousing.

Analogous to Simmons Hall, the70 Pacific Street Founders Grouphas designed several unique featuresto develop a graduate community.They include a courtyard, commonrooms, a multi-purpose room, akitchen, an administrative office, amusic practice room, a game room,and a fitness center. “Unlike 224Albany, everything about 70 Pacificis for building a graduate communi-ty,” said Farver, who also serves onthe 70 Pacific Founders Group.According to Kachani, because theFounders Group hired Senior RealEstate Officer Treasurer Michael K.Owu, they were able to add thesefeatures to the dorm and not makethe dormitory expensive.

In an effort to open 70 Pacific tothe graduate community, all MITgraduate students will be grantedaccess to its first floor multi-purposeroom without having access to theliving space.

70 Pacific will also include tworetail spaces that will be open to thecommunity as well as to 70 Pacificresidents. “I would like to see one ofthe retail spaces offer food because Iknow that will please graduate stu-dents. The other space can be usedas a dry cleaner or a barber shop thatboth the community and residentswould appreciate,” Kachani said.

Other special features to 70 Pacif-ic include its large park and parkinglot. The Founders Group hopes thatresidents will make full use of thepark to further develop a sense ofcommunity. It also foresees that itsresidents will greatly appreciate theparking lot, which will accommodateover 200 residents. Although thedorm rent has not yet been deter-mined, “we feel that this dorm willappeal to many graduate students

because of its sense of community,”Kachani said.

The Founders Group is currentlyexploring the idea of housing marriedstudents. “Having children will createa difficult environment and spouseswill take away from the 750 maxi-mum,” Farver said. However, “ifthere will be two new graduate dormsthen anybody should have the optionto live in either of them.”

As Opening of Simmons Nears,Many Decisions Still Pending By Jeffrey Greenbaum

STAFF REPORTER

Simmons Hall will open with a dining hall and coffeehouse, whichthe Founders Group believes will enhance the residential dining sys-tem. After Simmons dining opens, the Dining Office hopes to renovateits existing residential dining halls to further develop the MIT under-graduate community. To add diversity to undergraduate diningoptions, the Simmons Founders Group has decided to establish amandatory meal plan for Simmons residents.

Berlin has been discussing several new dining options for residen-tial dining with the Founders Group. Under consideration are seven ornine meals per week for Simmons, provided that it is financiallyviable. “I support the notion of weekend dining, since it is hard to findfood at MIT on the weekends,” said Director of Campus DiningRichard D. Berlin.

The Founders Group aims to create a meal plan for Simmons inorder to satisfy a growing demand for meal-based dining. TheFounders Group and Berlin do not yet know the type of meal plan orlevel of commitment they would like for the plan. Although they havediscussed one in which students could pay for a fixed number of mealsper week, the group has concerns that this plan may discourage thosewithout a large subscription to the meal plan from entering the dininghall.

“I think that MIT students are going to be resistant to any sort offorced dining plan, even if localized to the residents of particulardorms,” said UA Dining Committee Chair LeeAnn L. Henn ’02. “Sim-mons residents will be just like any other MIT students, and will bejust as busy … so there will be conflicts because of time and distanceissues.”

In fact, neither Berlin nor the Founders Group knows if Aramarkwill work in Simmons Hall. The dining service’s contract ends afternext year. “It is [therefore] perfectly possible that another food vendorwill work at Simmons,” Simmons Founders Group member Jeffrey C.Roberts ’02 said.

After completion of Simmons, Berlin believes that the residentialdining halls need to immediately begin renovating in order to helpbuild the MIT community. “We need to support freshmen moving tocampus,” Berlin said. “I would like to see everybody who lives on-campus have the opportunity to eat at a dorm that’s within a reason-able geographic proximity.”

“Simmons will serve as a catalyst for a lot of changes that we hopeto make in MIT dining,” Berlin said. After Simmons, Berlin hopes todevelop Next House, Baker, and McCormick and complete renovationof Next House dining by the fall of 2002.

“Next House Dining is small for its number of residents,” Berlinsaid. “The food is pretty good considering what it works with, but itcan be doing better.”

Next House has been exploring the option of adding outside diningto give its residents a view of the river. In addition, according to NextHouse President Daniel P Riordan ’02, Next House has been dis-cussing hiring outside chefs from Boston and local restaurants on anoccasional basis. Riordan feels that if hiring these chefs is financiallyviable, then it will add a substantial variety of food.

This year, Riordan was excited to see that Next House diningadded a means of making stir-fry food and welcomes these changesbecause “having dining in your dorms where dorm residents cansocialize over all meals contributes to building a residential communi-ty.”

In fact, Next House’s kitchen will be used to prepare Simmons din-ing. “This will lead to a great synergy between Next House and Sim-mons dining if they will be working and opening together,” Berlinsaid. “We want to offer these features to these two dorms because oftheir geographic separation from other dining options.”

Renovations to Baker and McCormick dining are in the works toinclude a greater variety of food options and more frequent dining.

Berlin is exploring the idea of reopening Burton-Conner’s dininghall and Walker Memorial for dinner. By opening Burton-Conner andWalker Memorial dining halls for dinner, “every dorm on west cam-pus and east campus will be in close proximity to another [residential]dining hall,” Berlin said.

The Dining Office hopes to see a greater sense of community atMIT. “I would like to see students eating at dorms at which they arenot residents,” Berlin said.

With the potential of an intricate residential dining system, Berlinfeels that the evening demand for Student Center dining may decrease.The only current multi-purpose room in the student center is La Salade Puerto Rico. Therefore, “if the Dining Services closes Lobdell fordinner, then another multi-purpose room could exist in the StudentCenter,” Berlin said.

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By Nancy L. KeussASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Professor Alice P. Gast, AssociateChair of the Department of ChemicalEngineering at Stanford University,will assume the positions of vicepresident for research and associateprovost, effective in the fall.

“Alice is a renowned researcher,scholar and educator and a tremen-dous advocate for research,” saidProvost Robert A. Brown inannouncing the appointment. “Shewill add a wonderful perspective tothe leadership of MIT in these andother important areas.”

Dr. Gast will be the Robert T.Haslam Professor of Chemical Engi-neering in addition to her administra-tive positions.

Professor J. David Litster PhD’65 will continue to serve as vicepresident and dean for research untilProfessor Gast arrives on campus.

Financially, about one-third ofMIT’s research takes place in inter-disciplinary labs and centers thatreport to the vice president forresearch office. Thus, MIT policieson research and intellectual propertyare a main focus of the position.

“That’s an important focus. Thejob is rather complicated and has sev-eral important aspects,” Litster said.

The vice president and dean forresearch also deals with academicmisconduct.

Litster has advised the Provostthat there should be some changes inthe responsibilities of the vice presi-dent and dean for research, as well asin the position of associate provost.

“I wouldn't be surprised if thosetwo offices will have somewhat dif-ferent and increased responsibilitiesthan they have had in the past,” Lit-ster said.

Gast will supervise the Institute’ssizeable inter-school laboratories andcoordinate policy regarding researchand graduate education. Workingwith Provost Brown on these areas,she will deal with the budgetingprocess and planning, assignment andutilization of space at the Institute.On matters of graduate education pol-icy, she will report to ChancellorPhillip L. Clay PhD ’75.

Professor Gast, an expert oncomplex fluids and colloids, joinedthe Stanford faculty in 1985 afterearning the PhD from Princeton

University. Gast’s research involvesexploration of the chemical physicsof colloidal and polymer solutionsand polymer adsorption. Morerecently, she has focused herresearch on proteins, using experi-mental scattering methods and statis-tical mechanics.

The co-author of a classic text-book on colloid and surface phenom-ena, Dr. Gast been recognized withan array of honors, including aCamille and Henry Dreyfus TeacherScholar Award and the Allan P. Col-burn Award of the American Instituteof Chemical Engineers.

The valedictorian of her class atthe University of Southern Califor-nia, Gast earned the BSc in chemi-cal engineering in 1980, and wenton to receive an MA (1981) andPhD (1984) from Princeton Univer-sity.

A member of The AmericanAssociation for the Advancement ofScience, the American ChemicalSociety, the American Institute ofChemical Engineers and the Ameri-can Physical Society, Professor Gastwas elected to the National Academyof Engineering this spring.

Gast Named as New VP forResearch

By Shankar MukherjiASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Former MIT student and NewYork native Lori Berenson has beenconvicted on charges of terrorism bya civilian court in Peru. Berenson,who has served five years in the Peru-vian prison system, could face anadditional fifteen if the conviction isupheld in the appellate proceedings.

A three-judge panel found Beren-son guilty of collaborating withTupac Amaru Revolutionary Move-ment (MRTA) forces with the intentto take the entire Peruvian Congresshostage.

The tribunal, which was carefulnot to brand Berenson an outright“militant,” concluded that she renteda house in Lima to harbor the Marxistgroup, purchased computer and com-munications devices for the group,and used her press credentials to sur-vey the halls of Congress and helpplan the imminent attack.

In addition to the 20-year sen-tence imposed by the court, whichwas the minimum requested by theprosecution, Berenson will be finedroughly $28,000.

Following the sentencing, Beren-son maintained her innocence.

“I’ve been classified as a terror-ist,” Berenson said. “I am not a ter-rorist. I condemn terrorism, and Iwant to reiterate that.”

In an interview with Reuters,Berenson remained optimistic aboutbeing freed before 2015.

“This was not a fair trial. It’s allbased on hearsay, and I think that’sinsane,” Berenson said.

“I’m not the monster they makeme out to be. That has to come outand it may take a while but it willcome out before 2015,” she added.

Meanwhile, human rights groupshave begun exploring other avenuesby which to free Berenson. Amongthe more promising is the possibilityof a presidential pardon from newly-elected Alejandro Toledo as a gestureof goodwill toward the United States.

Toledo, however, has reportedlyruled out any special favors for theAmerican-born Berenson, saying toreporters in New York that, “[Thetrial] was open. I’m not a judge, noram I a lawyer, and I am respectful ofthe independence of the institutions.”

Parents speak outBerenson’s parents, Mark and

Rhoda, issued a press release imme-diately following the court proceed-ings, blasting what they consideredan unfair decision.

“Even before this trial began weknew that, as responsible and experi-enced observers worldwide uniform-ly recognized, a fair trial in Peru onterrorism charges in its special civil-ian court … would not be possible,”they wrote.

“We can only hope that theAppeals Court will look carefully atwhat has occurred in this trial andwill reverse the verdict. Meanwhile,we will continue our efforts at theInter-American Commission forHuman Rights.”

The Berensons, who attended thecourt proceedings in Lima, have beenoutspoken advocates for their daugh-ter throughout the six-year saga. Inaddition to waging a fierce publicrelations campaign on her behalf,they have created the Committee toFree Lori Berenson, a non-profitorganization that lobbies lawmakersand disseminates information regard-ing her case.

Activist groups drum up supportHuman-rights groups and activists

worldwide expected the guilty verdictand have rallied around her cause.

“Some of the facts of her case arequestionable, but what is beyonddoubt is the unfairness of her originaland new trial, which is reflective of ageneral denial of civil rights in Peru,”said David J. Strozzi G, former presi-dent of MIT’s Amnesty Internationalchapter.

“Lori’s case is symbolic of thelack of justice throughout the world.The U.S. government is supposed toprotect all of its citizens who aretreated unjustly abroad, but instead, itprotects those that have a politicalpay-off and ignores the rest,” saidAimee L. Smith G, a member of theSocial Justice Cooperative.

According to the United StatesState Department, “There have beennumerous accusations of humanrights infractions. Reports of torture,and the lack of accountability and due

process, remain areas of concern.”

Berenson holds ties to MITBerenson, who was an MIT

undergraduate in the late 1980s, firstbecame acquainted with the peopleand culture of Latin Americanthrough her work with late anthropol-ogy professor Martin Diskin.

Soon after Berenson dropped outof the Institute, she moved to LatinAmerica, eventually settling in thePeruvian capital Lima in Novemberof 1994. There she rented a four-storyhouse, which was also inhabited bymore than 15 members of the MRTA.

In November 1995, Berenson wasarrested on charges of treason andwas convicted by a military court sixweeks later. The hooded judges whopresided over the trial subsequentlysentenced Berenson to lifetimeimprisonment without the possibilityof parole.

Having spent most of the past fiveyears in an Andean prison cell,Berenson was granted a new trial lastAugust by a military tribunal in whatappeared to be an effort by an embat-tled President Alberto K. Fujimori tobetter relations with the UnitedStates.

Since then, Fujimori has fled thecountry amidst a corruption scandal,and his adversary Alejandro Toledowill assume the presidency on July28. All throughout, however, Peru-vian public opinion has consistentlyweighed against Berenson.

Still, her supporters continue tofight on.

“I think the appeals process couldbring a change if the US governmenttakes an active interest in the case,”Smith said.

Lori Berenson Convicted in Peru

By Rima ArnaoutNEWS DIRECTOR

Despite a snag in negotiationswith Korea caused by an apparent-ly premature Korean newspaperarticle, and recent criticism in thepress over the slow progress ofMedia Lab Europe, MIT will con-tinue efforts to create Media Labsin many countries, according toMedia Lab Senior Research Scien-tist Walter R. Bender.

With its most recent agreementto establish a research center inIndia, the MIT Media Lab is con-tinuing to export its research pro-jects and personnel around theworld.

“Things in Korea are at a moreadvanced stage in terms of discus-sion than they are at any otherplace,” Bender said. However,Bender also said that the June 21article in the Korean Internet pub-lication Donga.com, announcingthat Media Lab Asia would beestablished in Seoul, was “verypremature … an internal lobbyingeffort more than anything else.”

“We are open to discussingpretty much everything with every-body,” Bender said. The MITMedia Lab is already involved inresearch collaborations with manylabs around the world, in countrieslike Korea, Mexico, Costa Rica,Thailand, Brazil, Denmark, andSenegal. In certain countries, MITmay decide to unify its researchcollaborations under the MediaLab name.

Right now, MIT involvement inKorea is “more of a research pro-ject rather than anything more thanthat, and we’ll see where it goes,”Bender said.

MIT launches Media Lab AsiaWhile talks with Korea have

been temporarily confused by inac-curate news reports, the Media Labhas continued its expansion byentering into a one-year explorato-ry agreement with the Indian gov-ernment to establish a 10-year longMedia Lab Asia project.

As part of the year-long con-tract, the Indian government haspledged $12 million, $1.7 millionof which goes to MIT. Media LabAsia is “really more of a researchproject than a lab,” Bender said.“We’re trying to act as a catalystfor a lot of activity in India.”

After Media Lab Europe’sopening earlier this year, MITreceived calls from around theworld hoping to recreate the MediaLab in their countries, but MITwasn’t interested, Bender said.

“But then we got a call fromIndia. We got seduced by thescale, the complexity, the chal-lenge of what we might be able todo in India. The idea is not somuch to put together a replica ofwhat we did in Dublin but insteadto think and explore what ... howwe might get together to structurea research program in India,” Ben-der said.

The Media Lab is especiallyinterested in applying new tech-nologies to the developing world.“I think the lab tries to find a nicebalance between short term andlong term problems,” Bender said.“Right now we think there’s a realneed and a real opportunity tofocus on the impact of technologyon the third world.”

India and MIT have not yetspecified a location for Media LabIndia, although Bender said theymay choose the region in southeastIndia where ITT India is based,

since MIT has been in collabora-tion with that company for overtwo years.

Digital village sees funding cutsAlong with the opening of

Media Lab Europe earlier thisyear, the Irish government has alsolaunched a $100 million initiativeto develop the surrounding areainto a digital village. While Irishfunding of Media Lab Europe hasstayed at its original level, the Irishgovernment halved investment inthe digital village in May, accord-ing to The Irish Times.

“In addition to establishingMedia Lab Europe, the Irish gov-ernment set aside some funds toestablish a big technology centeraround the neighborhood whereMedia Lab Europe has been built,to use it as a cornerstone to breathenew life into that part of town,”Bender said. “The funding for thetechnology center has been cutback somewhat.”

Media Lab Europe was the firstfruit of MIT’s yearning to createan entrepreneurial research labora-tory abroad. “Six years ago, we gotit in our heads to see if the MediaLab model of combining academiaand research could work at a placeother than MIT. So we began talk-ing ... people at all levels of gov-ernment, academia, and industry indifferent parts of the world,” Ben-der said.

“We had a few false starts, butthe first, Media Lab Europe in Ire-land, had its grand opening a bitless than a year ago,” Bender said.MIT entered into a 10-year con-tract with the Irish government tostart and run Media Lab Europe. Inaddition to funding Media LabEurope, Ireland gave $40 millionto the MIT Media Lab.

Media arts and sciences spreadsWith the launch of the Open-

CourseWare initiative, the MIT-Cambridge alliance last year, andnumerous MIT-industry partner-ships, one may wonder whether theexpansion of research labs withinthe Media Lab is part of a trend tofranchise that which makes MITunique. Bender, however, thinksthat expanding the Media Lababroad is positive for both the col-laborating nations and MIT.

“The idea behind Media LabEurope was to see whether wecan’t infect Europe with the samespirit of exploring, risk-taking, andfun that the Media Lab repre-sents,” Bender said.

Bender also noted the impor-tance of increasing awareness andparticipation in media arts and sci-ences. MIT created the Media Artsand Sciences program when itstarted the Media Lab and is theonly university that offers it.

“We think that media arts andsciences is bigger than just theMedia Lab and bigger than justMIT,” Bender said. “To somedegree, part of our interest inengaging in these sorts of pro-grams” is to spark development ofmedia arts and sciences elsewhere,Bender said.

“That being said, MIT remainsa special place, and our relation-ship to MIT is really central tohow the Media Lab works,” Ben-der said.

While the MIT Media Labreceived funding to help start bothMedia Lab Europe and Media LabAsia, both research laboratories areclassified as non-profit organiza-tions independent of MIT.

Media Lab SoldiersOn With Expansion

1988 Lori leaves MIT to live and work in Latin America1995 November 30: Berenson is arrested on charges of terrorism1996 January 8: Berenson is presented as a “gringa terrorista” and

convicted in military court; she appeals the decision February–March: Berenson’s subsequent appeals are all

rejected by Peru’s Supreme Military CourtDecember 7: Mark and Rhoda Berenson visit their daughter in

prison for the first time1997 December 5, 10: 52 senators and 175 representatives

pledge their official support for Berenson’s quest for anew trial

1998 October 7: Berenson is moved out of Yanamayo prison formedical tests; she is subsequently transferred toSocabaya where she is held in solitary confinement

December 23: Amnesty International issues an “UrgentAction” on Berenson’s behalf

1999 February 2: Berenson’s period of solitary confinement endsafter 115 days

October 14: The Committee to Free Lori Berenson opens itsheadquarters in Washington, D.C.

2000 August 28: Berenson’s sentence is nullified and her case isremoved from military court jurisdiction

2001 March 20: Peru opens a public, civilian trial against BerensonJune 20: The civilian tribunal convicts Berenson and sen-

tences her to 20 years imprisonment

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By Eric J. CholankerilMANAGING EDITOR

MIT has filed a lawsuit againstan AOL Time Warner company inU.S. District Court in Boston overthe use of its Technology Reviewtrademark in a new magazine.

The complaint names Time Inc.and CNET Networks, Inc. asdefendants, charging them with“trademark infringement, famousmark dilution, unfair competition,and violation ofMassachusetts Gen-eral Law.”

In January, For-tune magazine andCNET announcedthe joint publica-tion of the For-t u n e / C N E TT e c h n o l o g yReview , abiannual spe-cial issue ofF o r t u n emagazinewhich firsthit news-stands inJ u n e .F o r -mer lyp u b -lishedas the FortuneTechnology Guide , theReview has a circulation of1,200,000, including all of For-tune’s North American subscribersand CNET’s registered users.

MIT has owned the trademark“Technology Review” since Octo-ber 1958, when it was registeredwith the US Patent and TrademarkOffice by the Alumni Associationof MIT. The trademark was lastrenewed by MIT’s TechnologyLicensing Office in April of 1999,for a 10-year period.

Technology Review has been inpublication since 1899 and by nextJanuary will have a circulation of300,000, of which 80,000 are

alumni subscriptions.“Technology Review is trying to

stand on its own as an independententerprise,” said R. Bruce Journey,CEO and publisher of the MITmagazine. “Our objective is notmonetary damages at all but ratherto protect our trademark and pre-vent confusion in the market-place.”

After informal discussions withexecutives at Fortune, a cease anddesist letter was sent to Time Inc.,the publishing division of AOL

Time Warner. When TimeInc. refused to

c h a n g et h e

t i t l e ,M I T

reacted byfil ing a

lawsuit inJune. Nixon

P e a b o d yLLP is the

law firm rep-resenting MIT

in the case.“We feel we

have a verystrong case,”

Journey said.“We’re just a small

business trying todo i ts thing, but

we’re going upagainst a four-hun-

dred-pound gorilla.”“MIT believes that the com-

plaint speaks for itself,” KarinRivard, counsel for the Technolo-gy Licensing Office, said.

Bill Stephen, publisher of theFortune/CNET TechnologyReview, declined to comment onthe lawsuit.

Technology Review publishesten times a year. While it focuseson “promoting understanding ofemerging technologies and theirimpact,” the magazine alsoincludes a section containing MITnews and alumni class notes.

MIT Sues Over MagazineTrademark InfringementSuit Names AOL Time Warner Company

the form of instruction. On the otherhand, he said, since the underagedrinking was a direct violation ofthe law, and not a first offense, ATOdeserved “negative discipline” inthe form of a suspension.

Billing spoke about the SpeakOut community forum, which ATOco-sponsored, as well as the diversi-ty symposium and sensitivity train-ing planned for next year.

Randolph called events immedi-ately following the Spring Weekendincident “the most educationalmoment” in the time he had been atMIT. He added that alcohol is “anissue we’re grappling with” andasked the CLC to “give us a chanceto continue that process.”

“That’s what we did the firsttime,” Barnes said.

Commission discusses racismBilling contended that no racial

slurs were shouted from theroofdeck.

“There were four or five AfricanAmericans of the 24 or 25 people onthe roofdeck” that day, Billing said.“If something had been said, theywould not have stood by” and donenothing.

Billing added that one personwho used the word “black” hadapologized immediately and beenreprimanded.

Racism is “not a problem I’dimagine us having,” Billing said,pointing out that minorities com-prise about 40 percent of the chap-ter.

“Just because you live in adiverse community, it doesn’t meanracism doesn’t exist” there, Barnestold Billing at the end of last night’shearing.

Billing agreed that by living in adiverse community, “maybe attimes we become too comfortable,and we say things we wouldn’t oth-erwise say.”

CLC to watch for improvementAn additional 10-day suspension

must be served if the CLC fails to seethe fraternity taking “positive steps.”

Barnes recommended that thesuspension not coincide with rushbased on testimony from Billingdetailing the importance of rush tothe fraternity.

Additionally, Barnes recom-mended that ATO and the Office ofthe Dean for Student Life look intofinding a “more adult [house] man-ager.” Billing is 22 years old.

George S. Gluck ‘02 said ATOalso retains an older resident advis-er, Thomas J. Klemas ’92.

“Expecting far worse”Randolph called the CLC’s sanc-

tion “a reasonable outcome.”“I’m grateful it wasn’t more seri-

ous,” Gluck said. “I was expectingfar worse.”

“I’m content,” Billing said. “Ifeared the worst, even though I feelwe deserved the best. Now I’mready to move on and to do all thethings we said we were going to do,to prove that they’re not justwords.”

Barnes RecommendsMore ‘Adult’ ManagerATO Decision, from Page 1

President George S. Gluck ’02.“Our hearts go out to her friendsand family as well as to all othersaffected by this tragedy.”

In an e-mail addressed to theMIT community, President CharlesM. Vest urged community mem-bers to be “caring and alert. Wemust be willing not only to provideor seek support for other membersof our community but also to recog-nize when we ourselves need helpin handling the complexities oflife.”

The resources of MIT Medicalare available to everyone, includingsummer boarders, in a “crisis situa-tion,” according to Randolph.

MIT fraternities commonly rentrooms in their houses to summerboarders, including students fromnearby colleges. There are currentlyabout 25 people staying at ATO,including ten members of the fra-ternity and five other Wellesley stu-dents.

Randolph said that the Insti-tute’s relationship to summerboarders is one that will have tobe re-evaluated, as it is currently“virtually nonexistent.”

Regardless of whether MIT isresponsible for individuals rentingrooms in private residences affiliat-ed with the Institute, Randolph saidthat at MIT, “we ask what needs tobe done before we ask what we’reresponsible for.”

WellesleySophomoreDies at ATOATO Death, from Page 1

ation of OpenCourseWare, togetherwith Professor of Civil and Environ-mental Engineering Steven R. Ler-man ‘72 and Professor of ElectricalEngineering and Computer ScienceHarold Abelson PhD ‘73.

“OpenCourseWare, in somesense, is a way for MIT in particu-lar, but the modern higher education[in general], not to fall into this areawhere educational content is viewedin a monetary way,” Yue said.

Victoria K. Anderson ‘02, outgo-ing chair of the Student Committeeon Educational Policies, expressedsupport for OpenCourseWare.

“Our consensus from this pastsemester is that if MIT is going tospend time and money on this, itshould benefit students in someway,” Anderson said. “We believethat in the current proposed for-mat, OpenCourseWare will benefitthe students, as we will haveincreased access to information,the ability to better ‘shop’ classesbefore the semester starts, and achance to remain part of the schol-arly community at MIT after wegraduate.”

MIT is expected to follow thekey recommendations that a taskforce recently submitted. Headed byYue, the task force suggests that aprofessional, centralized organiza-tion administer OpenCourseWare.An executive director, ideally anoutside professional with manage-ment and administration back-ground, would head the project, andreport to a faculty director, like anAssociate Provost.

Another task force recommenda-tion involves making OpenCourse-Ware centralized but with “strongrelationships” to departments andschools. Liaisons would be assignedto each but will not be independentof the central organization.

An interim management com-mittee, responsible for the searchand hire of the executive directorand other top managers, is in place.The committee, which is eyeing topinformation technology executives,should complete its hiring withinseveral months.

Other responsibilities of theinterim committee include coordi-nating communication, both inter-nally and externally, and exploringpossible partnerships or relation-ships.

“Since the announcement ofOpenCourseWare, there has beenlots of interest in working with us,”Yue said.

Reactions within the MIT com-munity have been mostly positive,despite reservations about the effecton the education of students at MIT.Some questioned whether it woulddevalue the MIT education and takefaculty and staff time away fromstudents.

“I think it’s a really good idea,”Kelly N. Zimmerman ‘04 said. “It’swith good intentions, but I’m alsocurious as to what is going to hap-pen to the current MIT students.Why bother to pay the $30,000when you can get it for free?” Zim-merman is the new chair of the Stu-dent Committee on EducationalPolicies.

Redwine fends off suggestionsthat the MIT education will in anyway be devalued.

“The essence of [an MIT educa-tion] is what happens on campus,working together with faculty andeach other. What would peoplethink if we charged them our tuitionand sent them a large box of books?In some ways, OpenCourseWare isanalogous to that box of books,” hesaid.

Many look to the introductorycomputer science class, Structureand Interpretation of Computer Pro-grams (6.001), to see what Open-CourseWare will be like. The courseWeb page features lectures, lectureslides, problem sets, projects, thetextbook, and all course informa-tion.

Meredith L. Gerber ‘04, a 6.001student this past semester, believesputting material for more classesonline “would be really helpful. Iwouldn’t have to carry around x-pounds of books. I could just find anAthena terminal.”

Redwine agrees, saying, “Wehope and expect this will make itpossible for all or almost all to have

that sort of material. The truth is Idon’t think anyone knows how posi-tive of an effect that will have.”

He also acknowledges that facul-ty time is a concern.

“I think that is the most impor-tant thing in terms of making itwork is to help the faculty put thison the Web and keep it updated. Inmany ways the most precious quali-ty here is faculty time, and there areonly 24 hours in a day.”

The Mellon Foundation, formedin 1969 by consolidating two foun-dations started by the children ofAndrew W. Mellon, is known for itssupport of higher education. Otherareas of funding include culturaland performing arts, population,conservation, and the environmentand public affairs.

“There are quite a few grantswe’ve made in recent history thathave to do with higher education andtechnology,” Associate ProgramOfficer of the Mellon FoundationSaul Fisher said. “OpenCourseWareis the latest and greatest in this line.”

The Hewlett Foundation, found-ed in 1966 by William R. Hewlettand family, also funds many educa-tional ventures. Its funding empha-sis is on performing arts, populationissues, the environment, conflict res-olution, family and communitydevelopment, and US-Latin Ameri-can relations.

“We think it’s an importantexperiment with the way universi-ties deal with their intellectual prop-erty,” President of the HewlettFoundation Paul Brest said. “Whatthis will look like ten or twentyyears from now ... who knows? Butwe think this is a very promisingdirection.”

Many find that benefits to thoseoutside MIT are the true reason forthe project. Yue believes that manyfaculty support the project in partbecause it “appeals to the moralhigher ground” by forgoing anyattempts to commercialize on theinformation.

“If MIT sets a good standard andmodel of how to do it, other peoplewill follow,” Yue said. “Then wewill have truly changed the land-scape.”

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FROM UNIVERSITY WIRE

MIT joined with 27 of thenation's most prestigious privatecolleges and universit ies inannouncing an agreement last Fri-day on new financial aid guide-lines aimed at better calculatingand fulfilling students' financialneed.

The agreement comes after twoyears of discussion among the 28college presidents on ways to con-trol "bidding wars" between peerinstitutions for the most talentedstudents.

Schools committing to the newguidelines include Stanford, Yale,Cornell, Columbia, and Wellesley.

"In all too many instances, aidis going to the squeakiest wheel,rather than to the neediest stu-dents," said President Charles M.Vest in an interview with The NewYork Times. "By adopting a con-sensus approach to need analysis… we will assist families in under-standing and comparing our institu-tions."

Under the new guidelines, themethod used to calculate a student'sfamily contribution would take intoconsideration factors like cost ofliving and rising property values.According to a report released bythe 28 schools' presidents, onlyhome equity that does not exceed2.4 times a family's income shouldbe considered in calculating need.

The agreement also has provi-sions for parents who are not cov-ered by retirement plans and stu-

dents of divorced parents who haveremarried. Schools that previouslyconsidered the assets and incomesof both parents and stepparents willnow only consider the financial sta-tus of two adults.

The new guidelines are expect-ed to take effect within a year.

The agreement comes inresponse to a belief that commit-ment to need-based aid has beenthreatened by competition betweentop-tier schools to attract the mostdesirable students with merit-basedscholarships, said John Burness,senior vice president of Duke Uni-versity.

"The principle is that aid shouldbe awarded based on the student'sneed more than any other factor,"Burness said.

The new guidelines are expect-ed to decrease the amount ofmoney families are asked to con-tribute in most cases and increasethe amount of grant money as wellas need-based aid awarded, Bur-ness said.

Two notable absences from theagreement are Harvard and Prince-ton, both need-blind schools.

"They felt that some of the pro-visions of the consensus would beless advantageous for their studentsthan what they already do," saidHenrik Dullea, Cornell's vice presi-dent for university relations. "Forinstance, Princeton is no longerconsidering home equity at all."

(By Elizabeth Taylor – TheDaily Texan, 07/09/01)

Leading Private CollegesAdopt New Guidelines forAwarding Financial Aid

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By Kevin R. LangNEWS EDITOR

I never planned on going toCambridge — it just sort of hap-pened. How I got there is not terri-

bly rel-e v a n t ,but thef a c tthat Ih a dn e v e r

considered the possibility of goingbefore I was invited is. I had noidea what to expect, and thus myfirst week in Cambridge gave metrue first impressions. This is myfirst attempt at putting them intowriting, some nine months afterfirst setting foot in England.

English weather sucksThis was my first thought as I

flew into Heathrow through heavyclouds and l ight rain, leavingbehind a week of sunny New Eng-land skies. Though I rarelyencountered torrential rain, andsnow was almost nonexistent, I'destimate that 80 to 90 percent ofmy days in Cambridge were rainyor at least overcast. I'm convincedthat England established colonies

not for economic or political rea-sons, but just to get a break fromthe weather. Still, during the busride up to Cambridge I started toappreciate the beauty of the Eng-lish countryside, once I got overthe novelty of driving on the left(i.e. wrong) side of the road.

Rain or shine, Cambridge istruly a beautiful city. The RiverCam runs beneath centuries-oldbridges, past fields of daffodils,and manicured lawns of collegesfounded by kings. The architectureblew me away, especially when Ifirst set eyes on King's CollegeChapel. Any one of the magnifi-cent Gothic or Anglo-Saxon col-lege courts or chapels in Cam-bridge would be a renownedlandmark if it stood alone, butKing's is the Eiffel Tower of Cam-bridge. It 's the first image thatcomes to mind for tourists orwould-be tourists, but those wholive there see much, much more.

Settling inAfter a lunch of fish and chips in

a nearby pub, I unpacked until jetlag set in. My room was almost toobig. Lacking my normal MIT fur-nishings – computer, home theater

system, fridge, toolboxes, and every-thing else that fills my MacGregorsingle to the gills — my new 15’ by18’ room with 12’ ceilings feltabsolutely empty. Even the locationwas almost surreal, with a postcard-perfect view of the courtyard andcollege chapel. I could only laughlater on when friends complainedabout getting “small” rooms, sincethe smallest room in college stilldwarfed my room at MIT.

As I explored town the nextday, I tried not to let myself beoverwhelmed by history — mycollege’s 14th century courtyardwas once home to ChristopherMarlowe, and still houses under-graduates today. I felt l ike atourist, possibly because my col-lege predated the Declaration ofIndependence by a good 400 years.English students are much better atcoping with history. My secondday in Cambridge I went out drink-ing with a bunch of math majorsand they certainly didn’t prattle onabout Newton, although they didintroduce me to the beauty of awarm pint of proper English beer.

Yet as more and more studentsarrived, I found myself welcomingback old friends I had never met

before. A college as small as Corpusis more family than community,albeit dysfunctional at times. Withindays I knew every face, if not everyname, and England began to feel likehome. I would always be “the Amer-ican” to those who didn’t know mevery well, but my friends often for-got that I was only there for a year.

A different sort of firehoseI was disappointed with my first

week of lectures — where was allthe work? Where were the killerproblem sets? Not to mention thatthe problem sets weren’t evengraded! Fortunately, just when Ibegan to wonder if I had made thewrong decision, I started to row.And hit the clubs. And have fun —in the middle of the week, let alonethe middle of the term! This was arevelation to me. I could scarcelybelieve that I had time for fiveclasses, crew, and two, three,sometimes four nights of pubs andclubs each week. All without punt-ing a single lecture or problem set.I think I actually put more time intomy problem sets and labs than mostCambridge students, out of MIT-induced habit if nothing else. Butto go out drinking on a Wednesday

night is unheard of at MIT (at leastwith my circle of friends and whereI live). My choices at MIT werealways between work, UROP, andThe Tech. At Cambridge, work wasa given, so choices fell to whichdrink, which club, and which party.I wouldn’t go so far as to call Cam-bridge a party school, but com-pared to MIT, Cambridge lookslike Mardi Gras all year long.(Except during exam term, ofcourse, but that’s another matterentirely.) I made up for two yearsof lost time very, very quickly.

My first impressions of Cam-bridge were somewhat contradicto-ry, but nothing seems out of place inretrospect. I found myself in one ofthe greatest universities the worldhas ever known, walking amongstbeautiful chapels and quaint court-yards, studying with the best andbrightest from England and everycorner of the globe. I was just toobusy having fun to really notice.

Author’s note: This is the first ina series of Reporter’s Notebooks onthe Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI).Future articles will address issuessuch as academics, housing, studentlife, athletics, alcohol, and othertopics relevant to MIT life.

The Other Cambridge: A Reporter’s First Impressions

By Pey-Hua HwangSTAFF REPORTER

Phillip M. Clay PhD ’75 hasassumed the MIT chancellorship,following the July 1 departure of

LawrenceS. Bacow’72 tob e c o m e

president of Tufts University. TheTech sat down with Clay to dis-cuss his vision for the MIT com-munity.

The Tech: What first interestedyou about this position?

Clay: I guess the thing to say isthat I’ve always valued the oppor-tunity for service. I didn’t reallycampaign for the job, but I wasvery honored by the opportunityand am taking it with great excite-ment.

The Tech: Bacow was highlyinvolved in restructuring the resi-dential system. Will you continuethis involvement?

Clay: There’s a plan in placefor the physical changes in the sys-tem. All of that will continue. Thechallenge in the next year is todevelop the programs to build upthe support for the softer side ofthe system.

The Tech: What do you meanby the softer side of the system?

Clay: By softer side I’m distin-guishing from bricks and mortarand focusing on the programs inthe implementation of the system.

The Tech: So you’re referringto dealing with more of the peopleissues?

Clay: That’s right. That’s whatI mean by the softer side of thesystem. Bricks and mortar have avery limited role in shaping thecommunity.

The Tech: In regards to thenew Simmons Hall, do you plan tohold meetings with students?

Clay: Basically, I have to planfor next year when the residencehall opens. I know we have ahouse master in place. I’m excitedabout it, but we can’t just open the

doors and hand out the keys andexpect everything to just be there.

The Tech: Have you workedwith former Chancellor Bacow onpast issues?

Clay: Well, Larry and I joinedfaculty at about the same time inthe same department, so we’veknown each other for many years,long before either of us came tothe administration. We go wayback.

The Tech: Do you view anycertain issue as a main focus underyour chancellorship?

Clay: My main job is to contin-ue the implemenations of the TaskForce on Student Life and Learn-ing. I’ve reread the mission princi-ples recommendations that havenow been out there for three orfour years, and I still think thatthat’s the game plan for those of uswho work in campus life. I wouldadd that the same kind of attentionthe task force has given undergrad-uates should extend to graduatestudents. I want to make it veryclear that student life means gradu-ate students as well.

The Tech: How do you plan tokeep graduate rent low?

Clay: The whole purpose ofdeveloping housing for graduatestudents is to provide some relief— to provide affordable, depend-able housing. I cannot say that rentsare going to be cheap, but what Ican say is that they will be underour control and not under the con-trol of the market. I wish I couldsay that they were going to becheap, but I can’t. We will set therent with a full understanding ofwhat resources the graduate stu-dents have. And the rent is only onepart of the picture. We have, forexample, increased graduatestipends. We want to make sure thatthey aren’t at the mercy of the mar-ket. Another aim of graduate hous-ing is to provide graduate studentswith a basis for student life on cam-pus. I want to support student lifefor graduate students, and we can

do that by moving them on campus.The Tech: How will the chan-

cellorship differ from other posi-tions you’ve held in the adminis-tration?

Clay: This position is morestudent-centered. When I wasAssociate Provost and departmenthead [of the Department of UrbanStudies and Planning], I dealtmostly with faculty. I was thehead of a masters degree pro-gram, so my dealings there werepredominantly with graduate stu-dents. The biggest change for mepersonally is more work withundergraduates.

The Tech: Associate Dean forStudents Robert Randolph has saidthat he believes every studentshould leave MIT having trulygotten to know at least one profes-sor. What are your thoughts onthis?

Clay: I would say it ought to betwo or three. These lifelong rela-tionships are important, and theyare real. Over the course of theirtime here every student will haveat least forty professors, and youwould think that you would knowat least one of them, even four orfive, relatively well — wellenough to remember you after theclass is over. Some will get toknow you well enough to write anintelligent two paragraphs, to helpwith jobs, or to give career advice.One of the saddest things I read inThe Tech was a student who Iknew… he wrote a column inwhich he basically said that he did-n’t know a single faculty memberwell enough to count on a verygood letter. In practice, we needways to get more informal interac-tion between students and faculty,especially in the Institute environ-ment, where both students and fac-ulty are overscheduled and over-burdened.

The Tech: This informal inter-action was one of the goals ofputting faculty in residence halls,but there are many students who

feel that this is an intrusion. Howdo you plan to get over this hurdleof some initial antagonism?

Clay: I think it’s important tolisten to students to see what theconcerns are. I think many stu-dents view the dormitory and thearea across Massachusetts Avenueas a different world. That side ofMassachusetts Avenue is facultycontrol, and this side is studentcontrol. And I’d like to break thatup a little bit. I think there has tobe a way for students to learn fromfaculty, and getting together is notan invasion, and it’s not an imposi-tion. The faculty feel comfortablemaking themselves available forstudent activities, and students feelcomfortable inviting faculty in.This is all about invitations. Thetrick is engineering the invitationand faculty flexibility. We have towork at it. It’s not going to happenspontaneously. I have to figure outhow to get it to happen apparentlyspontaneously... food helps.

The Tech: Do you see thefreshmen physics program expand-ing into other programs?

Clay: We have a number ofgrants looking for other ways topromote student learning. There aregoing to be lots of experiments.Some will work, and some won’t.They will be similar only in the factthat they will be experiments, inno-vative, creative. The emphasis oughtto be on experimentation. We’reencouraging experimentation.

The Tech: So, in the long termwhat do you see as the MIT of thefuture?

Clay: If you asked me aboutsome feature of MIT ten years ago,I would have said, “Naw, thatwould never happen,” but the taskforce really monitors culturalchange and issues under pressure.One of these would be the graduatestudent. Before, when I was gradu-ate student, being a graduate stu-dent was like a job. We’ve gonewell beyond that, and I believewe’ll go farther. This has to do

with the increasing percentage ofgraduate students in the population,and that more and more of them aremarried. More are masters studentsas opposed to PhD students, andmore and more of them are viewingtheir graduate education as morethan grinding deeper and deeperinto some narrow subject. That’s acultural change. There are changesand there will be others. The ques-tion is whether we take someresponsibility in taking advantageof societal changes or whether wesort of sit back and let the hiddenhand shape the changes — whetherwe manage change or becomehostage to it.

The Tech: I assume you’re aproponent of managing change.

Clay: Well, of course, other-wise MIT is wasting its moneypaying me. The same goes fordeans. We can’t just have someonewho just sits back and makes surethe bills are paid and doesn’t gettoo deeply engaged in task forcesand committees and just lets thingshappen.

The Tech: How would youencourage graduate-undergraduateinteractions?

Clay: That’s one of the areaswhere we really do need to manageit because we have the case of theMEng program where there hasbeen some question of whether thefifth-year student is a graduate orundergradute. I think we need totake a look at that. We can proba-bly take a lesson from programsthat have had lots of masters stu-dents in the past.

The Tech: Is there anythingelse that you would like to let theMIT community know?

Clay: I think I’ll hold off onthat. I’ve had a number of conver-sations with Larry [Bacow], butI’ve yet to talk with much of thefaculty and regular students or stu-dent leaders. I’ll be getting quitean education before orientation,and I’ll probably have somethingmore to say then

New Chancellor Discusses His Vision for Institute

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By Joel RosenbergAdvisory Board

Sir Roger Penrose, renownedphysicist and mathematician, tookthe first turn at responding to six

i m a g e spresent-ed to thep a n e lfor dis-cussionat last

month’s Image and Meaning Con-ference. He interpreted the picturesof a mushroom cloud, a fetus, andWatson and Crick as reminders ofthe social issues raised by science.He said that a photo of the Earthover the lunar horizon, while agreat technical achievement,reminds us that the basic scientificresearch that got us to the moon inthe first place must not be over-shadowed. And he took an illustra-tion of the evolution of man and animage of brain activity asreminders that given how little weunderstand of ourselves, we can’tbelieve that we’re the pinnacle oflife.

Susan Sontag, renowned essay-ist and novelist, went next, andinterpreted Sir Roger’s “shallow”interpretations as a “very normalresponse” to the “celebrity”images, which she called “thevisual equivalent of sound bites.”It was an interesting point.

Sontag, a self-proclaimed “sci-entific ignorant,” was criticizingthe selection of these famousimages that even she recognized.And in doing so, she was challeng-ing the purpose of the conferenceitself, which Boyce Rensberger,one of its co-chairs, explained was“to stimulate thinking on the partof scientists, photographers, illus-trators and writers on how to makemore use of the powerful newimagery coming out of science.”The images were powerful, butcertainly not new. And Sontag did-n’t think they stimulated much inPenrose, or in herself for that mat-ter.

But the images shown to thepanel were an anomaly at the con-ference, most of which Sontag did-n’t attend. The presentations overthe three days in Kresge did stimu-late thinking among a diversegroup of people who make theirliving either doing or communicat-ing science; much of the imageryshown was powerful and new.From microscopy to mathematics,molecular modeling to the movies,and museums to the mass media,people shared their latest experi-ence with images in their work,and how it is helping their under-standing. Sontag just saw the con-ference out of context. And con-text was the real point of theconference.

By having images as the focus,journalists and scientists werefreed from their usual topic of howthe former can make the work ofthe latter understandable to thepublic, and scientists were able totalk across disciplines about howthey can borrow imaging tech-niques from each other to use ininteresting new ways. With anunusual context for the meeting,there was an unusual setting fornew associations to be made.

Within the presentations of theconference, context was often animportant theme. Benoit Mandel-brot, the Yale mathematician forwhich the most famous fractal setis named, claimed that he dislikeslegends for his images becausehaving them “spoils the wholestory.” But Philip Campbell, editorof the journal Nature, stated hisbelief that some visualizations “dowell with a caption.” Differentaudience, different context — dif-

ferent approach.Sally Duensing, a director at

The Exploratorium in San Francis-co, showed images of sciencemuseums from around the world toillustrate how the physical layoutand design of a space provides thecontext for how people perceive it.The theme of The Exploratorium:perception itself.

And Cindy Faber-Smith, designdirector for the journal Science,even began to explain how thecontext in which we perceive our-selves can influence what webelieve we’re capable of. She saidthat scientists call her daily regard-ing their images for the magazine,saying, “I’m not a creative per-son.” Since they tend to be open toexperimentation, she often getsthem to iterate drawings from ascribble into a full illustration.This problem of self-limiting per-ception, she explained, beginswhen we share our drawings askids and get asked, “What is this?”When what we draw begins to notlook like what we want, we startbelieving that since we’re notartists, we shouldn’t be drawing.And our beliefs can be a prettylimiting context.

Susan Sontag, it turns out, fitinto the conference perfectly. Shewas the educated intellectual whoproudly professed scientific igno-rance, a huge problem, as pointedout by Cornelia Dean, science edi-tor for The New York Times. Butshe was also the perceptive critic,arguing for new images, newthinking, and more meaningfulcontext than the “false pretense” ofthe panel discussion. At a gather-ing of preachers and the choir, shewas the heretic. And that’s theimage whose meaning remains tobe seen.

congratulatesGregory Kuhnen and Camelia Turcu

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Camelia Mariana Turcu ’01 and former Tech photography editor Gregory Farrell Kuhnen ’01 marriedamongst friends and family at the North Congregational Church in Woburn, Mass., June 16.

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The following incidents were reported to the MITCampus Police between May 11–31, 2001. This sum-mary contains most incidents reported to CampusPolice but does not include incidents such as medicalshuttles, ambulance transfers, false alarms, and gen-eral service calls.

May 11: Bldg. E56, stolen computer, $3,500;Bldg. E23, various items stolen, $135; Bldg. E51,stolen laptop, backpack and other items, $2,700; out-side of Bldg. N52, assist Cambridge Police with analtercation. West Garage, motor cycle helmet stolen,$280 and vandalism to motorcycles, Pacific Lot, sus-picious individual.

May 12: Kresge Oval, suspicious activity.May 13: Boston, 1) Sigma Phi Epsilon, noise

complaint; 2) 518 Beacon Street, noise complaint;Bldg. 14, bicycle stolen, $180; Cambridge, Phi BetaEpsilon, noise complaint; West Lot, report of a suspi-cious person, individual was gone on arrival of offi-cers; McCormick Hall, loitering person sent on theirway; Ashdown, person entered room and lookedaround while victim was victim was in suite; GreenHall, vandalized motor vehicle; Student Center., bicy-cle stolen, $140.

May 14: Bldg. E51, laptop stolen, $3,570; Bldg.35, vacuum stolen, $298; Bldg. E52, audio visualequipment stolen, $50,000; Bldg. 1, laptop stolen,$1,700; MacGregor, bicycle stolen, $400; Bldg. 9,stolen computer, $4,000; Student Center, jeans jacketstolen $60; Bldg. W92, suspicious activity; Bldg.W31, suspicious activity; Bldg. W32, disturbance;Bldg. 26, suspicious person.

May 15: Bldg. NE43, stolen bicycle valued at$600; Bldg. 36, small fire in trash barrel; Bldg. 54,suspicious activity; Bldg. E15, suspicious person.

May 16: Kresge auditorium, suspicious activity;Bldg E15, stolen digital camera, $456; Student Cen-ter, tools stolen approximately $2,100 worth; Edger-ton House, stolen bicycle, $150; Westgate Lot, carbroken into and attempted larceny of same, AmherstSt., vehicle plate stolen.

May 17: Bldg. W13, noise complaint; Bldg. 10, 1)suspicious activity; 2) hack of a banner across roof;Kresge Lot, attendants’ booth window broken; Chapelmoat hack, a sailboat and shark were in moat; Bldg.32, suspicious activity; Bldg. 37, suspicious person;Bldg. E52, bicycle stolen, $400; Edgerton House,report of homeless person; Purrington Street, report oftwo homeless people; Stata Center, suspicious activi-ty; Pacific Lot, syringes found.

May 18: Bldg. 35, suspicious activity; Brookline,Zeta Beta Tau, noise complaint; Boston, DeltaUpsilon, noise complaint; Sloan Lot, hubcap stolen;Random Hall, suspicious activity.

May 19: Sailing Pavilion, wallet containing creditcards stolen; New House, annoying phone calls; Hay-ward Lot, male taken into custody on an outstandingwarrant; two other males arrested for trespassing;Purrington Street, individuals issued trespass warning.

May 20: Ashdown House, noise complaint; West-gate Lot, car stereo stolen $300, larceny; Student Cen-ter, $300 cash stolen; Albany lot, two-way radiostolen from swap fest; Bldg. 50, suspicious individu-als; Bldg. NW61, report of two homeless people.

May 21: Student Center, 1) suspicious activity; 2)stolen wallet, $10; 3) backpack stolen $300; 3) stolenbackpack; Bldg. 13, suspicious person; Stata Center,suspicious activity; Bldg. 54, breaking and entering;Bldg. E40, stolen bicycle, $500; Audrey Street, ’90Toyota stolen later recovered in Boston; Bldg. E17,vacuum stolen, $296; Westgate lot, vehicle brokeninto and stereo stolen.

May 22: Bldg. NW61, suspicious activity; Bldg.10, hack — sign put on dome; West Garage, motorcy-cle helmet stolen, $150; Bldg. 7, stolen wallet, $50.

May 23: Bldg. 64, suspicious activity; Bldg. W32,1) jacket stolen, $60; 2) jacket, wallet and watchstolen $220; Bldg. 18, suspicious person; Bldg. W32,larceny.

May 24: Boston, Lambda Chi Alpha, Boston FireDepartment requests residents playing with fire extin-guishers cease activity; McCormick, report of annoy-ing phone calls; Westgate Lot, CD/stereo playerstolen $200; Bldg. W32, $150 cash stolen; Bldg.NW16, suspicious person; Bldg. 9, $85 bike stolen.

May 25: McCormick, stolen box of t-shirts, $550;East Garage, suspicious activity; Student Center, sus-picious person; Bldg. 18, laptop stolen $2,600;

May 26: Cambridge, Theta Delta Chi, noise com-plaint; Baker, malicious destruction of property; Stu-dent Center, purse stolen, $500; Random Hall, Clif-ford Bonvie arrested for possession of narcotics.

May 27: Bldg. E55, suspicious activity; PacificAnnex Lot, suspicious activity.

May 28: Student Center, bike bag stolen $30, lar-ceny; Bldg. E56, suspicious activity.

May 29: Boston, Delta Upsilon, noise complaint;Student Center, larceny; Bldg. 13, person sleeping inbasement; Bldg. 18, plywood stolen, $960 and pastlarceny of plywood valued at $1,500; Albany Garage,suspicious person; Bldg. E52, suspicious activity;Bldg. 14, stolen bicycle, $950; Bldg. E20, refrigeratorand insulation stolen $350.

May 30: Bldg. 1, suspicious activity; Bldg. 10,malicious destruction of property; Bldg. W51, larce-ny of jewelry, $700.

May 31: Bldg. E17, suspicious person; Bldg.NW61, hypodermic needles found.

Reporter’sNotebook

POLICE LOG

By Ming-Tai HuhCONTRIBUTING EDITOR

The visiting Kansas City Wiz-ards snapped the New EnglandRevolution’s five-game unbeatenstreak with a 2–1 victory atFoxboro Stadium last Saturday,July 7.

Midfielder Chris Brown scoredin the 91st minute to put the Wiz-ards safely up 2–0 with only fourminutes left. Revolution’s JayHeaps slid between the goal andBrown on the breakaway. Chargingout of the net, Revsgoalkeeper JoseFernandez con-fronted Brown witha dive on the rightside of the goalbox. Brown fell tothe ground fromthe Heap’s tackleat the place of theloose bouncingball. Fernandez, out of reach andoutside the net, gave way forBrown to push the ball into theempty net.

Revs captain and defenderMauricio Wright had no intentionof being shut out by the Wizards.The Costa Rican native moved upto forward and scored just two min-utes after Brown’s garbage goal tomake the score 2–1. Revs midfield-er Johnny Torres, substituted forShaker Asad in the 80th minute,played the ball to Wright nine yardsout on the right side of the Wizards’net. Wright wasted no time andone-timed the ball to left side ofWizards’ goalkeeper Bo Oshoniyi.

“The ball is not bouncing ourway,” said Revolution coach Fer-nando Clavijo (4–8–4). “Thedefense played well, nothing to dowith the goals.” The game endedwith a loss for the Revs, but CoachClavijo was not upset. “We didextremely well as a team, exceptfor putting the ball in the back ofthe net,” said Clavijo.

Wizards score firstWizards’ Chris Klein scored in

the 66th minute for his second goal ofthe season. The unmarked St. Louisnative received a pass from double-guarded forward Gary Glasgow onthe right side of the Revolution’s goalbox. Klein beat Revs goalkeeper Fer-nandez one-on-one with a shot overthe head of the kneeling Bolivian.

Kansas City coach Bob Ganslerwas very pleasant about the win,especially coming back from anembarrasing 7–0 loss to Chicago

last week. “It wasgood that we gotback in the saddlehere.” Ganslercommented onBrown’s goal fromthe ground, “It’sthe way the ballrolls.” The Wiz-ards (7–9–1) willface the Dallas

Burn next Saturday back at home atArrowhead Stadium.

Revolution 0–1 on homestandThe Revs are 3–2–2 at Foxboro

Stadium and 1–6–2 on the road. Theloss to the Wizards starts a three-game homestand on a slow note.Next Saturday’s game is against theD.C. United (5–10–1), who arecoming into Foxboro with a two-game losing streak.

“Gato” Fernandez making stopsThe Revolution added Jose Car-

los “Gato” Fernandez of Bolivia totheir roster on June 27. Since Juer-gen Sommer ruptured his leftachilles tendon, the Revolution havebeen looking to deepen their goal-keeper position. Fernandez lastplayed with Cordoba of Spainbefore coming to MLS. The Boli-vian goalkeeper made his startingdebut against Dallas on July 4 in a1–1 tie, making 9 saves. Fernandezadded 8 saves to his total againstKansas City.

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New England Revolution defender Mauricio Wright jumps over Kansas City Wizards forward Roy Lassiterfor a header on Saturday, July 7.

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Kansas City Wizards Kerry Zavagnin, left, and Mike Burns, right,battle the New England Revolution’s Shaker Asad, center, for theball on Saturday, July 7.

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New England Revolution goalkeeper Jose ‘Gato’ Fernandez puntsthe ball during Saturday’s game against the Kansas City Wizards onJuly 7.

Hispanic Heritage Night at Foxboro Stadium

The New England Revolution announced July 9 that it will host the team’s first-ever Hispanic HeritageNight on Tuesday, July 17 when the Revs take on the Los Angeles Galaxy at 7:30 p.m. at Foxboro Stadium.

The Revolution will help celebrate the diversity and culture of the New England Hispanic community withan evening full of events. Fifty local Latino community members will be honored with a half-time presentationas well as a pre-game reception.

The Revs Soccer Celebration area will open two hours prior to kick-off as Latino music groups “CentroLatino de Chelsea,” the “Colombian American Cultural Society,” the “Tango Society of Boston,” and “Misturade Raza” will perform.

Hispanic Heritage Night will feature vocalist Veronica Robles singing the National Anthem and a YouthRecognition Ceremony before kickoff. Fans will be able to enjoy Latino food and Spanish announcementsbefore and during the match.

Complimentary Soccer VideoFans attending Hispanic Heritage Night will receive a free MLS “Golazo,” a video highlight tape of Hispan-

ic MLS players.

Revolution Fall to Wizards, Break Unbeaten Streak

‘The ball is notbouncing our way.’—Revolution coachFernando Clavijo