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Students Take OverNew Donn PlanningBy Dana LevineEDITOR IN CHIEF

Planning for immons Hallentered a new pha e thi week, withthe official dissolution of theFounder's Group on Friday and yes-terday's first meeting of a tudent-led Simmons Steering Committee.

Founder's Group member Jef-frey C. Roberts '02 said thatalthough "the Founder' Group hadone a pretty good job in layingdown the philosophy for the com-munity ( immons)," the steeringcommittee will be a "governmentthat's more representative of thepeople who are going to live there."

, The steering committee, formedby student members of theFounder' Group, will allow futureresidents of Simmons Hall to set upa house government, select graduateresident tutors, and to advertise thedormitory to incoming freshmenand current undergraduates. Thesteering committee will exist untilthe dormitory opens next fall andthe official house government takesover. .

Founder's Group members RossE. Benson '03 and Vikash Gilja '03WIll co-chair the new group, pro-viding a bridge between thefounder's group and the undergrad-uates who will move into the dormi-tory. Roberts, who will begin gradu-ate studies in the fall and may applyto be a Graduate Resident Tutor,will not participate in the steeringcommittee's activities.

Professor of History and futureSimmons Hall housemaster Anne E.McCants said that the steering com-mittee was created in order to"transfer student leadership to stu-dents who will actually live there."Several of the student members of

the founder s group will graduatethis year, and will never have achance to live in immons.

McCant likened the tudentsmoving into immons to 'peoplewho buy a house that i n't fini hedyet .,. Deci ions about how theywant to et up their governing body,interact with [the Dormitory Coun-cil], the house fellow program ...all those decisions are going to bemade by students."

The Founder's Group was acommittee of faculty members, tu-dent , and admini trator who pro-vided input into the de ign of thedorm and helped to formulate initialhouse policy.

Committee bas many tasksMembership in the steering com-

mittee will be open to all students,but will require a commitment toactively attend meetings and tomove into Simmons when it opensnext fall. The committee will consistof five subgroups: GRTs and Visit-ing Scholars, House Governance,Facilities Oversight, Publicity, andDining.

The most immediate task willfall to the publicity subgroup, whichwill advertise Simmons Hall toupperclassmen as well as nextyear's freshmen. Simmons Hall willattempt to attract 125 freshmen and75 members of each other class, thesame proportion that other dormito-ries will have.

Gilja, a member of the publicitysubgroup and head of MIT's Inter-active Introduction to the Institute(B) CD-ROM project, said that thesubgroup will be able to advertisethe committee's work and ideas.

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JENNIFER KRISHNAN-THE TECH

This Baker House room was designed as a triple, but it currently holds five beds and other furniture.Crowding has meant bunk beds and small spaces for many MIT dormitory residents.

Graduate Rooms Could Be UsedTo Alleviate Undergrad CrowdingBy Aora M. Amwayi

Despite the additional housingthat Simmons Hall will provide nextyear, Chancellor Phillip L. ClayPhD '75 has recommended thatgraduate student housing be used 'toalleviate MIT's undergraduate dor-mitory crowding problem.

Clay's report, e-mailed to admin-istrators and student leaders late lastweek, discussed the current state ofcrowding on campus, includingcauses and potential solutions. Clayexplained that "currently we have140 more undergraduate studentsthan 'we have uncrowded resident

Jindong ZhouJindong Zhou a second-year doctoral student in

"the Department of Physics, died last week. He was27 years old.

"He was a very nice guy," said Bin Zhang G, amember of Zhou's lab group. "He was really quiet... he always showed his passion in a few words."

Yuan Xiao G, another colleague, described himas "a quiet guy ... but he was. .. , brilliant"

"He was also very warm-hearted," said FengXiong G, who also worked with Zhou, "He "liked tohelp other people .... Even though he was very busywith his own work, he always re ponded immediate-ly to other people's requests."

Zhou frequently played badminton and alsoenjoyed swimming, Xiong said. "He liked to bearound friends," Xiong said.

Xiao said Zhou also enjoyed classical music.Zhou earned his Bachelor's degree from the

Department of Modem Physics at the University ofScience and Technology of China in 1997, and hisMaster's from the same department in 2000. Hecame to MIT in the fall of ZOOO to work on his doc-torate.

Zhou was a student under Professor WilliamBertozzi in MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science.He bad been working at the Thomas JeffersonNational Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) inNewport News, Virginia since June 2001.

"He was sent by our group ... to do some experi-

ments for his thesis," Zbang said. "He was upposedto stay there for a couple of years."

Zhou s friends contacted the police on ThursdayJanuary 10, after not seeing him for two days. Hewas found in dead in his room. The initial policereport said he appeared to have died of natural caus-es, but the exact cause of death is not yet known.

An online memorial for Zhou has been et up at<http://earthsci.mit.eduljindong>. Over 80 peoplehave already signed the gue t book.

Zhou i survived by his father, Tonghong Zhou:.his mother, Shunhua Wang; and his younger brother,Jincheng Zhou.

COURTESY THE CHJNESE STUDENT AND SCHOLAR ASSOClATIOJlndong Zhou

hall rooms to accommodate them."Dean for Undergraduate Educa-

tion Robert P. Redwine supportedthe report's assertion that one of thebest solutions so far may be tohouse undergraduates in graduatehousing. Other ideas include reduc-ing class size, purchasing morehousing, or continuing to crowd.However, Clay stated in the report,"Considering all options, I ampresently inclined to recommendthat we use a fraction of the housingintended for graduate tudents ... "to address the crowding problem.

However, Dean for GraduateStudents Isaac . Colbert aid there

were no good or bad options; eachoption had it own problems andrepercussions that needed to betaken into account before decidingon which one would be most viable.

" othing definite has beendecided upon and the discussion isstill going on with the Chancellor,"Colbert said. He aid the main pur-pose of the report was to spreadinformation and gain feedback.

Hundred affected b crowdingAlthough the number of crowded

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IFC JudComm LightensRuling Against Chi PhiBy Kevin R. LangNEWS EDITOR

More than three months after theclose of rush, the Chi Phi fraternityhas finally settled their appeal withthe Interfraternity Council over fallrush violations.

Following an appeal hearingbefore the IFC Judicial Committeeon Monday, Dec. 10, Chi Phi muststill pay a 1500 fine, but the frater-nity is now allowed to contact fresh-men over the summer. "That washuge for us," said ina Kevin aze-mi '03, Chi Phi's assi tant ru hchair at the time.

However, Chi Phi till cannotmail their rush book over the sum-mer, but the fraternity can give thebook to freshmen once they arriveon campus in the fall. In addition,Chi Phi till cannot host any eventsuntil ru h begins in fa112002.

While Chi Phi did not overturnmuch of the previou IFC ruling,

azemi was atisfied nonetheless."We're ju t happy it's over," aze-

mi said. "Rush is just one part of theyear, it's one part of our fraternity'sactivities; we're much bigger thanju t rush as a fraternity."

Earlier re elution attempt failedBefore thi final appeal, the IFC

and Chi Phi attempted to reach anagreement by working within theexecutive committee and the judi-cial committee. However, no agree-ment could be reached by the twosides. "We were never able to getpeople on the ame page' said RoryP. Pheiffer '02 last term's IFC pres-ident.

Pheiffer was not directlyinvolved in the final appeal, but heaid that he tried to act as a "calm-

ing force" between the two sides."We were trying to make everybodyhappy, but that's really not po i-ble, 'Pheiffer aid.

David B. Gottlieb '04 a memberof the IFC review board, chaired the

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OPINIODan Tortorice criticize theSenate s handling of Pre identBu h' economic timulus bill.

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ORLD& ATIONu.S. Taliban Fighter SparedDeath Penalty in Indictment

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LO ANGELES THIES

Federal safety investigator said Tue day they ha e di co eredinternal damage in the tail fin of the merican irlines jet thatcrashed la t ovember in ew York, but further te ting is needed todetermine if it occurred before or after the accident.

The ational Transportation afety Board aid A cienti tsexamining the 27-foot tail fin found that some layer of the advancedcomposite material u ed to build it had peeled apart from each other,a phenomenon known as 'delamination." It wa the fir t tentativeindication of po sible flaws in the material.

The tail fin of the Airbu 300 jet broke off hortly after takeofffrom John I:. Kennedy International Airport and Flight 5 7 era hedinto a nearby neighborhood, killing all 260 aboard and five people onthe ground.

The crash wa the first civil aviation disaster involving the failureof a major component built with composite , which are lighter andstronger than mo t metals. Compo ites are built of many layers ofcarbon fibers embedded in a special re in and molded together underheat and pres ure. They 10 e their trength when delamination occur .

attorney Tue day Walker' parent,arilyn Walker and Frank Lindh,

complained that their son had beenheld for 45 days by military authori-tie without contact from hi family.They aid they have not receivedconfirmation that any of their lett rto him have been received.

"We now hope that we will seeour on soon and give him the loveand support he needs," the statementsaid. 'We are grateful to live in anation that presumes innocence andwithholds judgment until all of thefact are presented, and we pray fora ju t re olution of thi ca e.'

The filing of charge in Alexan-dria would bring Walker into thesame court ystem where prosecutorsare preparing to try Zacarias Mous-saoui, the French national who is theonly person in the United Statescharged in connection with the Sept.11 attacks. Moussaoui, charged withconspiring with al-Qaida, could facethe death penalty if convicted.

Two of the charges againstWalker - conspiracy to kill U.S.nationals and providing materialassistance to al-Qaida - carry max-imum sentences of life in prison,according to Justice officials. Theother two counts would bring penal-ties of 10 years in prison.

By Dan Eggenand Brooke • astersTHE WASHlNGTON POST

ing a bloody upri ing at an fghanprison compound hortly after inter-viewing the 20-year-old convert toradical I lam.

Pre ident Bu h, who pre iouslydecided with his adviser to havethe Justice Department pro ecuteWalker, igned off on the criminalcomplaint before it was filed Tue -day afternoon ource aid.

Ashcroft said in a news confer-ence that the .. government "doesnot casually or capriciously chargeone of it own citizens with provid-ing support to terrori t ," but that

alker "knowingly and purposeful-ly allied him elf with terror."

The charge indicate thathcroft and federal prosecutors

intend to take a hard line in thepro ecution of Walker, whosestrange tran formation from rap-loving California teenager to unlike-ly jihad warrior has captivated the.nation and prompted debate aboutparenting and permissivene s.

"We may never know why heturned his back on our country andour value , but we cannot ignore thathe did," A hcroft aid. "Youth is notabsolution for treachery, and person-al self-discovery is not an excuse totake up arms against one's country."

In a statement released by their

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John Walker Lindh, the restle sarin County, alif., wanderer who

journeyed halfway around the worldto fight along ide the Taliban mili-tia, was charged Tue day with con-piring to kill U .. citizens infghanistan and providing upport

to terrorist groups, including Osamabin Laden' al-Qaida network.

In outlining a case that could putWalker in prison for life, prosecu-tor al 0 di closed that Walkerlearned three month before the

ept. 11 terror attacks that binLaden had ent operatives to theUnited tates to carry out un p ci-fied suicide mission , according tothe criminal complaint filed in U. .Di trict Court in Alexandria, Va.

The current charges pare Walk-er the death penalty, but AttorneyGeneral John Ashcroft aid pro e-cutor would continue to eek evi-dence to prove a capital offen euch as trea on.

enior U .. officials conceded,however, that they have been un uc-ces ful in directly linking Walker tothe death of CIA agent JohnnyMichael Spann, who wa killed dur-

eek' ommontil Brazil

THE WASHfNGTO POST

Amid renewed public protest and violent attacks on foreign-owned banks, Pre ident Eduardo Duhalde declared Tuesday thatArgentina would attempt to deepen tie within Latin America andconfront the region' economic' domination" by the indu trializedworld.

In remarks that signaled a hift away from Argentina's decade-long stance as Washington' closest ally in outh America, Duhaldecalled for the creation of a common currency with neighboringBrazil, and for a united front against "protectionist" U.S. trade barri-ers blocking Latin American agricultural exports.

During the 1990 , Argentina embraced U .. -backed economicpolicies and received the coveted "non- ATO" ally status re ervedfor countries such as outh Korea and Egypt. But Duhalde's com-ments Tuesday to foreign journalists appeared to foreshadow a chal-lenge to Washington' economic interests in the region.

Analysts say the demands by Argentina and Brazil - the region'sthird-largest and large t economies, respectively - for a relaxed U.S.policy on agricultural imports are unlikely to be granted by Washington.

Americans Arrive in Philippines.S. Special Forces

To Aid Filipino ArmyInThreatened Areas

several hundred plus," Secretary 'ofDefense Donald Rumsfeld said inan interview with radio journalists."But it is a group of people that aregoing to be with the Philippineforces for the purpose of training."

Even as Pentagon officials saythe focus of the war will remain onAfghanistan, the dispatch of severalhundred U.S. troops to the Philip-pines underscores the Bush adminis-tration's intention to wage its fightagainst terrorism on a global scale.

Having put aside such targets asIraq, at least for now, the adminis-tration is working with friendly gov-ernments uch as the Philippines,Malaysia and Singapore that areseeking help in rooting out terroristgroups. It's also looking to suchcountries as Indonesia, Yemen andSomalia, where al-Qaida cells arebelieved to be located.

The U.S. forces moving to the'Philippines will help the Philippine

army in the fight against -Abu Sayyaf,a terrorist group that Washingtonsays is linked to bin Laden, whose al-Qaida network is blamed for the Sept.11 attacks against the United States.

"United States military trainerswill be helping the Philippine gov-ernment and Philippine armedforces to deal with the terroristthreat they have that affects theirinterests, as well as ours," Secretaryof State Colin Powell said in aninterview Tuesday with ABC News.

A shipment of weapons from theU.S., including automatic rifles andgrenade launchers, arrived in thePhilippines recently, part of a pack-age of American military assistance.

Over the next 30 days, about 150U.S. troops, primarily Army specialforces, will arrive in the Philippinesand begin accompanying Filipinoforces on patrols on Basilan, arugged, jungle-clad island that is astronghold of Abu Sayyaf.

ewBaggage Screening easureTo Begin Friday By Steve Vogel

THE WASHINGTO POST

LOS A GELES TIMES U. . pecial Forces have begunarriving in the Philippines' to assistPhilippine troops in their fightagainst Mu lim guerrillas linked toOsama bin Laden, a significantexpansion of the U.S. war on terror-ism out ide Afghanistan.

Although the deployment is atraining exercise, the U. . troopswill accompany front-line Filipinoforce on patrols in guerrilla-threat-ened areas in the southern Philip-pines. pproxirnately 650 U.S. sol-diers, including 160 Special Forces,will take part in the exercise,defense officials said Tuesday.

"It is not a modest number, it's

s the airline industry scrambles to meet its first major securitydeadline, government and aviation officials said they do not antici-pate major disruptions when new baggage screening measures go intoeffect Friday.

Transportation ecretary orman Y. Mineta is scheduled toexplain the new measures in a peech Wednesday. But the plan isonly temporary, until a system for checking all bags with specializedexplosive-detection machines can be put in place.

"The airlines have been particularly vocal about their prepared-ness, which indicates to me that they are expecting this to go smooth-ly," said Kevin itchell, chairman of the Busines Travel Coalition,which monitors the industry. "There are probably some airportswhere they won't get it right on the first day, but, by and large, wewill get through it."

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Today, a high pressure sy tern will be covering most of the east-ern U , pushing yesterday's mixed bag of clouds and precipitationout over the anadian aritimes. Another weak torm will moreacros northern ew England during Thursday; thi will keep us onthe warmer side of the tonn so that precipitation will change over torain. Fair weather will then settle in for Friday and most of aturday.

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Firm Fires Executive, PlacesThree on Leave in Enron CaseBy James T. MadoreNEWSDAY

The accounting firm ArthurAndersen Tue day fired the execu-tive it said had ordered the destruc-tion of documents about EnronCorp. when he learned of a federalinve tigation of the troubled energycompany.

David B. Duncan, who super-vised the auditing of Enron s finan-cial statements a lead partner inAndersen' Houston office, directedhis staff to shred piles of documentsand delete thousands of e-mails theaccounting finn aid in a tatement.The disposal began Oct. 23 afterDuncan allegedly learned that Enronhad received a request for informa-tion from the Securities andExchange Commission.

Andersen also placed three otherHouston partners on administrativeleave Tuesday and stripped fourmore of their management authorityin a clear attempt to distance itselffrom rhe document destruction. Butlegal and accounting experts saidthe Chicago-based firm's admis-sions only. served to spark new

que tion about it role."Thi is a startling disclo ure ...

a bunch of flag now are raisedabout criminal liability on the partof Arthur Andersen," aid Robert R.Rigg, a criminal law profes or atDrake niver ity in Des Moines,Iowa. "The E and Justice Depart-ment will be all 0 er thi ."

Enron declared bankruptcy inDecember - the biggest bankrupt-cy in U.S. corporate history - andit plunging stock price deva tatedthe retirement accounts of thou andsof its employees. The energy com-pany was forced to restate fiveyears' worth of revenues' and profits,prompting a search for blame thathas become a hot political and legalissue stretching from Houston toChicago to Washington to ewYork, where the bankruptcy wasfiled.

Duncan, the executive singledout by Andersen's top brass, couldmeet with congressional investiga-tors looking into the Enron debacleas early as Wednesday. "We have ameeting with him set up with ourinvestigators," Ken Johnson,

spokesman for the House Energyand ommerce Committee saidTuesday night. ' ow that he habeen fired, he may have a little moremotivation to cooperate with us.'Duncan had turned over six boxesof document to the committee buto far refused to be interviewed.

Andersen said the de truction ofdocuments was "on such a scale andof uch a nature as to remove anydoubt that Andersen s policies andreasonable good judgment were vio-lated."

The firm' investigators alsoreportedly found that the hreddingof Enron documents continued until

ov. 9, a day after Andersen wasordered by the EC to turn overinformation about its dealings withEnron. In fact, the documents' dis-posal had started about a weekbefore the EC launched a formalprobe of Enron.

Experts said the revelations byAndersen raised the specter that the89-year-old accounting firm - oneof the industry's so-called Big Five~ purposely attempted to interferewith a federal investigation.

Administration to Push ForwardWith Lawsuit Over Clean Air ActBy Elizabeth ShogrenLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTO

After an eight-month review, theBush administration announcedTuesday that it will proceed withlawsuits filed by the Clinton admin-istration against polluting powercompanies because the lawsuits areconsistent with the Clean Air Act.

"The department takes seriouslyits obligation to enforce the lawsprotecting our nation's environ-ment," Attorney General JohnAshcroft said in a statement.

However, a senior Justice- Department official acknowledged

that the 10 power companies areunlikely to settle the cases beforethe Environmental ProtectionAgency announces its expectedweakening of the rules that arecen-tral to the lawsuits.

At issue is whether the utilitiesbroke the law by making modifica-tions to their facilities that signifi-cantly increased pollution.

The so-called new-source reviewprovision of the 1970 Clean Air Act

requires companies to install modempollution-control devices whenbuilding new plants or modifyingexisting ones. The Bush administra-tion, however, has been working onchanges to the rules that would makethem more acceptable to industry.

"Todays announcement onlyreinforces my puzzlement over whythe administration is about to under-mine the very same laws they areprosecuting," said John Walke,director of the clean air program forNatural Resources Defense Council,an environmental organization.

Indeed, the Electric ReliabilityCoordinating Council, which repre-sents several of the targeted utilities,said the government's decision topursue the cases does not necessari-ly bode ill for the council's clients.

Scott Segal, an attorney who is aspokesman for the council, suggest-ed that the EPA could have difficul-ty prevailing in the cases if theunderlying regulations are changed.

The fate of these highly technicalregulations and the lawsuits filed toenforce them could have immense

implications for air quality, particu-larly in the Northeast. Changes tothe rules will be viewed by environ-mentalists as a measure of how farthe administration is willing to go tosatisfy the concerns of industry.

A weakening of the regulations,which dictate what changes busi-nesses must make to their facilitiesto reduce pollution, is unlikely torender the lawsuits moot, but itcould result in settlements that aremore favorable for the utilities.

Settlement terms are likely to bebased on the requirements of rules inforce when the settlement is reached,rather than when the lawsuit wasfiled, according to a senior JusticeDepartment official, who spoke onthe condition of anonymity.

The utilities targeted in the law-suits include Illinois Power Co. andDynegy Midwest Generation,Southern Indiana Gas and ElectricCo., American Electric Power Ser-vice Corp., Ohio Edison Co., Geor-gia Power and Savannah Electric &Power Co., Alabama Power Co.,and Duke Energy Corp.

High COurt Rules EEOC Can IgnoreAgreements Made Under ArbitrationBy Charles LaneTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON

The Supreme Court ruled Tues-day that the federal agency incharge of fighting job discriminationmay sue an employer for allegedviolations of an employee's civilrights, seeking damages for anemployee even when the employeehas agreed to submit job disputes toarbitration.

By a vote of 6- , the court heldthat a federal law designed toencourage arbitration as an alterna-tive to litigation does not impingeon the Equal Employment Opportu-nity, Commission's authority to fightlegal battles when employees claimon-the-job bias. .

Writing for the court, JusticeJohn Paul Stevens noted that theEEOC itself is not a party to thearbitration agreement at i sue, andthat nothing in federal law «autho-rizes a court to compel arbitration ofany issues, or by any parties, thatare not already covered in the agree-ment."

Tuesday's decision is especiallyimportant because it comes after aruling last year in which the courtsaid that an employee's signature ona job contract containing an arbitra-tion agreement waives the employ-ee's right to go to court on his or herown behalf.

ow, however, employers maystill be deterred from illegal dis-crimination by the costly prospectof being taken to court by theEEOC. Under the ruling Tuesday,the EEOC will be able to seek notonly a court order requiring anemployer to stop any illegal activity,but also back pay, punitive damageand other individualized relief for aworker.

'Punitive damages benefit theindividual employee (and) they alsoserve an obvious public function indeterring future violations" tevensnoted.

The stakes in the case were highfor employees-rights advocates,who feared that a ruling against theEEOC in this case, EEOC v. WaffleHouse, o. 99-1 23, would have

given employers an easy way to getaround all but the mildest legalremedies for discrimination underfederal civil rights law.

"This means the enforcementscheme of the civil rights statutes isstill in place," said ThomasOsbourne of the AARP Foundation,which filed a friend-of-the-courtbrief in support of the EEOC. "If ithad gone the other way, you'd haveenforcement of public law in privatehands."

In dissent, Justice ClarenceThomas, joined by Chief JusticeWilliam Rehnquist and JusticeAntonin Scalia aid that the majori-ty ruling "evi cerates (the employ-ee's) arbitration agreement withWaffle House and liberates (him)from the consequences of his agree-ment."

Thomas, a former chairman ofthe EEOC, sugge ted that the rulingwould give employee two chancesto win money - at arbitration andin an EEOC lawsuit - a result, hesaid, that would undo much of whatthe court did in its decision last year.

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Chretien Overhauls CabinetIn Wake of Surprise Resignation

LOS ANGELES TIMESOTTAWA

anadian Prime Minister Jean hretien overhauled his Cabinet onTuesday, di missing seven ministers and bringing 10 new faces intothe government just one day after the country was stunned by the res-ignation of a popular Cabinet member who had been Chretien's pre-sumptive heir.

The restructuring was the most significant development yet in theunofficial but quite public race to succeed Chretien as head of theLiberal Party when - or rather if, as skeptics here say - the long-serving prime minister decides to retire, political analysts here say.

The shake-up also reflects the changed political environment inCanada four months after the terror attacks in the United tates, withmuch greater emphasis on domestic security and military prepared-ness than in recent decades.

Brian Tobin, a garrulous and ambitious ewfoundlander who hadserved as minister of industry until he abruptly announced Mondaythat he was quitting Parliament, had long been considered Chretien'spreferred successor but had been eclipsed by Cabinet rivals in recentmonths.

Tobin, who said he was leaving government for family reasons,may have preferred to re ign rather than lose hi undeclared cam-paign for the party leader hip, Canadian poJitical commentators said. .

Palestinian Gunmen Kill'Iwo ear Jerusalem

THE WASHINGTON POSTJERU ALEM

Palestinian gunmen shot two Israelis to death near JerusalemTuesday, including one, an elderly American citizen, who was kid-napped in his car, taken to a field and murdered.

The shootings, both of them in the West Bank, were a further signof the collapse of a ceasefue proclaimed by Palestinian leader YasserArafat in a televised speech Dec. 16.

After one of the quietest three-week periods since violence erupt-ed here in September 2000, death and bloodshed is quickening again,and all three major Palestinian armed militant groups have announcedthey will no longer observe the ceasefue.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a group of visiting Americancongressmen Tuesday evening that the second Israeli killed, a 45-year-old motorist sprayed with bullets as she turned into a gas station,was also an American passport-holder. However, Israeli police andarmy spokesmen could not confirm that.

The Palestinians blamed Israel for the escalation, citing the killingof a prominent gunman, Raed Karmi, who died when a remote-con-trol bomb exploded Monday outside his hideout in the West Banktown of Tulkarm. Karmi acknowledged killing two Israelis a year agoin Tulkarm, and Israel blamed him for the murders of seven otherIsraelis.

Rights Group Reports Deadly'Operations' Aimed at Chechens

LOS ANGELES TIMESMO COW

Russia's leading human rights group says it has documented theapparent killing of three men and the disappearance of six others dur-ing a Russian "special operation" in Chechnya over the ew Year'sholiday.

"As interviews with local residents make clear, the special opera-tion was carried out with the crudest violations of human rights andthe law," the chairman of the group Memorial, Oleg OrJov, wrote in aletter to Vsevolod Chernov, the chief prosecutor of the separatistrepublic. Memorial released the letter alleging actions in the villageofT otsin- Yurt to news organizations Tuesday.

In addition, Orlov said Rus ian force detained mas ive numbersof local residents, most of whom complained that they were insultedand humiliated by the soldiers. About 80 residents said they were"cruelly beaten" during their detentions, which took place betweenDec. 30 and Jan. 3.

Russian soldiers continued firing at suspected rebels even afterbeing informed that civilians were in the line of fire, according toinformation collected by Memorial, and used two detainees as"human shields" during the battle. Witnesses said that the two menwere still alive when the battle ended but that their bodies turned upshortly afterward near the local military headquarters.

u. . Documents Show RussiaAs Iraq's Top Importer

SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON POSTUNITED ATIO S

Six months after Russia blocked a U.S. effort to overhaul U. .sanctions against Iraq, Moscow has emerged as Baghdad's largestimporter, according to U. . diplomats.

Russian companies have signed more than $4 billion in businessdeals with Baghdad as part of a 1996 arrangement that allows Iraq tosell oil to purchase food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies.In the last six months, Russia concluded more than 1.4 billion intrade under the U. . program, surpassing Egypt and France as Iraq'stop importers during the past five year , the diplomat said, citingconfidential U. . figures.

The expanding trade relationship is the product of a long-standingIraqi policy of rewarding companies from countries that help it cir-cumvent an Ll-year-old U. . embargo imposed after its 1990 invasionof Kuwait. It poses a major challenge for U.S. diplomats seekingMoscow's upport for a plan to strengthen anctions against Baghdad.

Iraq exported nearly $30 billion in high-quality crude to refineriesin the United States, Europe and Asia over the past two years.Although the proceeds from Iraq's oil revenue are controlled by theUnited ations, Baghdad retains the authority to choose its tradepartners.

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DPI IONAn Impeifect Solution to Crowding

a one know e actly how Thou ing y tern ill ate but thi i an imperfect, temporary olution at be 1. Thiark next year with all fre hmen living on campu for the fir t fall Twill face the 'big crunch' of fre hm n ithout F IL-

time in In titute hi tory. But at lea t one a peet of on-campus G making ne t year' housing e pecially tight.

1 hou ing can already be fore een - la e timate that uch a olution could la t three to fiveEditoria IT will need more on-campu year thu putting further train on the graduate population andbeds for undergraduate than it can making T le attracti e to pro pective graduate tudent .

urrently provide, e en with immon Hall. Hopeful1 , pring rush for the F ILG ill reduce the numberChan ellor Phillip L. Clay PhD '75 prop a ed la t week that of tudent living on campu and the beds will b returned to

T use graduate housing for undergraduates ri king grad tu- graduate tudent in the fall of 2003. ccordingly, lay plandent anger. Howe er, fbi repre ent the b t a ailable option - hould be reevaluated next pring ba ed on the ucce of rush.redu ing enrollment, lea ing more housing, or allowing the If graduate tudent hou ing i to be u ed for undergradu-crowding ituation to continue are not viable option. till Clay ate , we recommend Tang Hall. Clay hould not u e bed fromi gathering community feedback before making a final deci ion, . the ne dormitory at idney and Pacific treets, imply because

hi h i certainly a elcom change from rec nt MIT practice. it i too far from campus and too isolated from the rest of theThe current era ding ituation i unacceptable. Clay found undergraduate community. Tang, on the other hand, is located

that over 400 undergraduates now li e in crowded rooms while along the row of undergraduate dormitories on Amherst Street.other are affected indirectly. acGregor Hou e re ident for Furthermore MIT needs to start planning it ne t under-example, have 10 t many lounge to crowded double . Recent graduate dormitory right away, rather than waiting anotherincrea e in fre hman cla yi ld have only aggravated the cri i. twenty years a it did between building ext Hou e and Sim-

While the admini tration cannot be blamed entirely for man Hall. MIT al 9 need to clarify which situations count asincrea ed cla size it i certainly at fault for allowing cro d- "crowded" in order to better under tand the scope of the prob-ing to get out of hand. By requiring fre bmen to live on campu, lern - orne tudent may already be in crowded rooms without

T i rai ing the demand for bed without accordingly increa - knowing, or even caring.ing upply. Cro ding a a problem long before breaking By mandating that fre hmen live on campus, MIT under-ground on immons; the building could have ea ily been took a great responsibility to guarantee undergraduate livingde igned to hou e more than 350 tudent without crowd. pace. Ample dormitory rooms will help to attract graduate stu-

ince the fre hmen-on-campu policy eem immutable, dents and ensure that the freshmen-an-campus policy does notClay i right to fa or reallocating graduate beds to undergradu- become a burden on the student body.

h irmanJordan Rubin '0

direr in hiefDana Le ine '02

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ana ing ditorEric J. Cholankeril '02

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Letters To The Editor...When TheyCome ForYou

ad ises one to call 911 if they feel the per-son is not a real trooper. With what phoneare you going to do this? Will the officerpermit you to go to a pay phone or call boxfirst to get verification before finishing writ-ing the summons? Or will the officer allowyou to reach for your cell phone, withoutmistaking the action as reaching for aweapon? Officer Connolly states that amarked car and a uniform and badge shouldbe enough verification that that the officer isgenuine, but once again, what happens ifthere is an abuse of power? Connolly statesthat if you drive off, the reason had better begood. What are examples of valid reasons?Is an officer s misconduct a validreason? Isbeing being alone and surrounded by severalofficers a reason to fear for your safety? I'mnot disagreeing with the officer when hesays you should not drive away. Youabsolutely should not drive away whenpulled over by an officer. I do have a prob-lem with the safety tips. They are one-sidedand don't take into account what threats areposed by possible wrongdoing on the part ofthe officer(s).

I write this letter earnestly, because I feelmore citizens,.no matter who they may be,should know what to do in situations like a traf-fic stop. These .safety tips need a little moreelaboration. They are a bit on the vague side.

William M. Morgan Jr.MIT Class of '00

''No, not right now, but I ... ""Then you can't be on the property.""But plenty of people who aren't students

use this library, I don't understand whatmakes me special."

"You can't be here. Talk to Dean ... (Iforget the name] about getting you backhome. Does that make sense to you?"

"Dean who? I don't see what I've donewrong."

A fourth cop showed up, and they took theman downstairs, where, according to a librari-an, one of them cracked, "Your ride's here."

When a librarian asked a policeman whathad happened, he made vague allusions tobad things the guy had done before, and thathe wasn't allowed on the premises. Thatmay be true. But during the time I witnessedthe police interrogating him, they made noreference to a criminal history. They simplyasked him if he was' a student. He said,"No." They told him he couldn't be on theproperty.

That is simply not the policy of thelibrary. Visitors are allowed; they just have tosign-in. As a non-student and regular visitor,I should know. Even if I snuck into Harvard'slibrary, however, as a white American Icouldn't imagine being handcuffed and takenaway by four policemen.

What I'm left thinking, with a sense ofcollective embarrassment for all Americanswho have allowed this climate to seize thecountry, is that this was nothing but the sameracial profiling and harassment that is takingplace all over the country.

If you were a good activist, you wouldhave said something to the cops, such as,"What has he done wrong? He's right, non-students are allowed to use the library." Ifyou were a wuss, like me, you would havestood silently and watched them lead thisman, humiliated, out of the building.

Needless to say, this was shocking for meto see. I have traveled in a lot of countrieswhere this would not have been shocking, butI have never had this feeling here. Pathetic tosay, but I think the reason I said nothing wassimple fear.

I've called the MIT police several times toget the full story, but my calls have goneunreturned.

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SPORTS STAFF

Recently my attention was brought to anarticle in The Tech entitled ' tudent Arrested

fter Chase" [Dec. 11, 2000]. I am anacquaintance of the student, Ms. Bostick,who was arrested and I was also surprised tohear what had happened.

However, I wa more alarmed by the safe-ty tips given by Police Officer Clifford Con-nolly of the Boston Police. I'm not sayingthese safety tips are wrong. They are valid,but very insufficient: especially since we aretalking about the ew Jersey Turnpike whichhas been under scrutiny in recent years forracial profiling of motorist by law enforce-ment officers. I'm sure orne of us rememberthe nationwide attention about the fourminoritie in the van on the J Turnpike whowere pulled over. When their van began toroll backward , the trooper fired 11 shots intothe van injuring three of them. The Tech arti-cle includes a brief testimony from a native tothe area about an officer convicted of illegalsexual acts and the fear some locals have forsome of the officers. These are not small

. problems in ew Jersey, and other areas forthat matter. Officers do violate their own jobguidelines and regulations.

o in following Officer Connolly's safetytips, what should you do in the event that anofficer may overreact or step outside of theguidelines and regulations of being a lawenforcement officer? uppo e you areuncomfortable and decide you want to beescorted to a marked car or police station.

uppose you would like to see a badge?What should you do if the officer refuse ?

orne may say the officer won't refuse, butthis is true only if the officer is acting withinthe guidelines of what they are supposed todo. Officer Connolly states that if the officerrefuses, you can drive yourself to the stationand explain it. How do you do so withoutthis being mistaken for driving off and how

.do you do thi if you are not "free to leave"under law. What happens if an officer (ormore than one officer) approaches the carwith a gun drawn andlor demands that youget out of the car? Something I really couldnot quite understand is when the officer

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Racial ProfilingIn the Library?

If you were tudying in the MIT Humani-ties Library the night of Tuesday, Dec. 11,around 10 p.m., you would have looked upand seen a Middle Eastern-looking manhauled out of there by three cops.

If you were curious. like me, you wouldhave gone out of the room, into the stairwell,and listened while the cops handcuffed andinterrogated the man, accusing him of steal-ing the backpack he was carrying and ofholding someone el e's credit card.

When he finally spoke, the man said soft-ly, "I don't understand what I've done."

"Are you a student here?"

Aaron I aksen G, Solar Olugebefola G, XixiD'Moon '01, Bao-Yi Chang '02, Jumaane Jef-fries '02, Lara Kirkham '03 Duane Tanaka '03,Ali on Wong '03, Tina Shih '04.

nager: Rachel Johnson '02;anaaer: Jasmine Richards '02;

Brendan Cooney

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Black Bars and Belly Button

If a network feels people are incapable if decidingnot to watch videos which mention)

let alone showcase drugs) then it shouldfeel compelled to do more than snipout "objeaionable" material) which it

can't do properly anyway.

Philip Burrowe

orne people would have you think tele-vision station are morally obligated to cen-or their own hows. The e people believe

that the influence television e ercise 0 erociety demands that it influence be as pos-

itive as po ible. Whether or not this is true- not a simple a question a one mightthink - there are clearly forms of censor-ship that work in this regard and form thatdo not. Demanding that an actress be clothedover her belly button, a they didin the days of "I Dream of Jean-nie," for example, is more effec-tive than editing a small blackbar around a navel. In otherwords, it is one thing to prohibitan action and it is another thingto edit out the action in a waythat still allows the viewer toknow what is going on. Yetmu ic videos have been doing thelatter for years.

owhere is this more egre-gious than in the video for "PartII," a song off the soundtrack tothe Method Man and Redmanmovie How High. A cable station whichshall remain nameless blanks the word"high" in the song's chorus, but only some-times. Said hook (and the song's back-ground) is partially taken from the ToniBraxton song "Making Me High" - a songconcerning men and masturbation, not mari-juana - with Toni beginning "I get sohigh." Meth's subsequent warning of get-ting "high off your own supply" has both"high" and "supply" silenced ..Braxton con-tinues "I can touch the sky," but when Methfollows with "So high thaL." it is again qui-eted. Finally, the refrain's end of the rap-pers saying "Let's get" and Braxton ringingin "high" is removed so all the listenerhears is the beat.

Of course it can be rationalized that the"high" at the beginning of the song does notsuggest smoking until it is placed in the con-text of "supply." By the same token, oncethe song is placed in the context of it beingby Method Man and Redman (note that thisis "Part II") it should be obvious. Further-more, consider that it is off the soundtrackof a motion picture with the premise -.besidesthe running joke that Harvard is toouptight - that marijuana is a panacea. The

a t majority of people watching the videowill know thi , so bleeping any part of theong doe little to affect the public' already

attained de en itization. Perhaps it is awarning to the arti t but if they went farenough to make a film purporting (and prof-itably so) weed a an all-purpose herbalremedy, orne video editing will little dis-suade them.

, High" i not the only recent target ofthi ineffective strategy. "Ecstasy' wase cised in ' Cash, Money, ars" by RuffEndz. "Crack" was censored from "We

Thuggin'" by Fat Joe and R. Kelly. "Drug"itself and "dealers" were deleted fromLudacris' "Southern Hospitality." If J hadthe patience to sit through all the Puffy (Idon't care what he wants to be called) andJay-Z videos which came out last year, Icould find many more instances. This is allfrom a network that still managed to airAfroman's "Cuz I Got High."

What really renders this strategy impo-tent is not the lack of coordination within agiven network, but throughout the entiremusic playing industry. To illustrate this,consider that Jammin' 94.5 FM playedD12's "Purple Hills" with "acid" referencesintact, but even the toned down video ver-sion which replaced it with "Tums" wasbanned from some television programs. Bythemselves, lyrics need not suggest eitherthe use of or abstinence from drugs. Howev-er, once a song is aired, listeners wouldknow what was censored and it may makethe word more pronounced, paradoxicallyreinforcing what was removed.

All this is to say it is indeed a concern,that the prevalence of drugs in popularmusic is a problem. It is a largely one-sidedstory, one of profitability and glory. When

Missy Elliot made a mini-video of "4 MyPeople," he was able to seamle sly sub ti-tute American" for "ecsta y," which shouldgive you a hint of it original context. uchlyric overlook the consequences of sub-stance abuse, either because of ignorance onthe part of arti t or, even wor e apathy.The concern, however, cannot solely bedrug-related.

Conceptions of drugs are simply not dic-tated by music (of that form, anyway). Off-hand I couldn't name a single song in 2000that mentioned ecstasy. While I can name

several from 200 1, theactual jump in teenage use- according to the recent-ly released IH-fundedstudy "Monitoring theFuture" - was lowestsince it popularity jumpbefore the turn of the cen-tury. In fact more 12thgraders are associating ri kwith experimentation thanever before on record. Tothink this will be reversedbecause Ja Rule claims tokeep women "drugged upoff that ecstasy" in

"Always on Time" misses the problem;that' just a reprehensible line to put in asong.

By keeping drugs taboo music televisionallows artists to convey a certain feelingsimply by mentioning a random substance,freeing musicians from having to craft trulysubstantive messages. Yes, it is unfortunatethat a video audience may be presented withthe idea that drug use is something morethan hedonism, but it's far worse that gener-al music quality is decreasing as salesincrease.

Each of the artists I've mentioned hasgotten away with multiple hits (yes, evenAfroman). If a network feels people areincapable of deciding not to watch videoswhich mention, let alone showcase drugs,then it should feel compelled to do morethan snip out "objectionable" material(which it can't do properly anyway). Whereare the attempts to prevent music like thatfrom becoming popular? OT how aboutaddressing the musicians' own conceptionsof drug use rather than doing their own workfor them? As it is now video censorship ismerely a superficial attempt at addressing adeeper issue.

The Monolith MovieTao Yue

2001 has come and gone. Though I cer-tainly would like to take part in the flood ofretrospectives that comes at the beginning ofany new year, I find myself strangely unableto do so. For one, I do not know where tobegin.

So many topics, so many interconnec-tions, too many dilemmas. Some people mayhave sorted it all out, but personally, I willwait a few years and look at it from theviewpoint of a historian rather than a jour-nalist.

There is, however, one small, neglectedtopic where the facts, if not the reasons, areclear-cut. That is the strange saga of the re-release of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiecefilm, 2001: A SpaceOdyssey.

As its namesakeyear approached, thefilm worked its wayback into popular cul-ture. Everywhere onecould hear the strainsof the classical pieceadopted by the film asits signature theme: .Richard Strauss'"Also SprachZarathustra." Adverti ements took on apace-oriented theme, making fun of the

monolith that figured so prominently in thefilm. Columnists adopted a new. favoritetopic: comparing the innovations imaginedin the film to present-day technologies.

.It would seem logical, then, for WarnerBrothers, the studio which bought a sub-stantial portion of MGM' library and inow the copyright holder of 2001: A SpaceOdyssey, to participate in the recent frenzyof restorations re-releases and director'scuts (Ii ted in decreasing order ofrespectability). These have made an incredi-ble amount of money, perhaps because so

many current movies are awful. The 1997Special Edition of the original Star Warstrilogy, featuring a Greedo who shot first,brought in $461 miltion in domestic boxoffices for Episode IV alone. The 1998restoration of Gone With the Wind, whichsuffered from blurry images and color fring-ing, brought in $199 million.

Despite criticisms, though, at least thefilms were released. They also required afair amount of money, substantial thoughinsignificant compared to digital effectsbudgets for films like Lord of the Rings, torepair damage and fading of the negatives.But 2001: A Space Odyssey requires neither.Because of Stanley Kubrick's famous per-fectionism, the film was stored in a properarchive, unlike mo t film which slowlyturned to vinegar in stuffy, non-air-condi-

While film buffs waited and waited for are-releaseif(2001/Warner.Brothers was silent.Then in September came the sudden

announcement that an extremely limitedrun if thefilm would be made. Why?

tioned warehouses. The film is in near-per-fect condition, and required almost no workbefore prints could be struck.

Finally, it happened. But only for limitedrelease in the United Kingdom. A few fe ti-vals in the United tates howed 200 1 forspecial events, such as ew Year's Day,2001. However, while film buffs waited andwaited for a general, or even limitedrelease Warner Brother was silent.

Then in eptember came the suddenannouncement that an extremely limited runof the film would be made, showing in fourpremier venues. The e were place wherethere's a curtain in front of the screen where

an actual human devotes all his attention toone film, not twenty-four like at a multiplex;where epic movies are treated as well as livetheater. The Seattle Cinerama was boughtand restored by overshadowed Micro oft co-founder Paul Allen, while the Uptown inWashington, D.C. has not been quite solucky. Despite those problems, all four the-aters tried their best, doing everything po si-ble to make sure the film was pre ented cor-rectly. All four run were an enormoussucce s, making it pos ible for thousands tosee the film on the big screen.

Then it was announced that Loew s AstorPlaza in ew York City would get a secondcopy of the film. The film arrived amideager anticipation. Then it was abused. Theintermission which comes at an importantdramatic point and was designed to allowthe audience to think, was chopped out ofthe film.

Lack of attention scratched it so badlythat it looked worse after two weeks thanmany movies do after three months. Thesound system was not calibrated, leading to

_ warbling. To save cost , a projectionist wasbrought in only on Fridays, leaving an usherto push buttons to run the film and switchover to a backup when something wentwrong. Obviously, with nobody there to takecare of the film, something did go wrongseveral times, and the backup had to be run.

Why did Warner Brothers wait whileeveryone around them was taking advantageof the year 200 1 to advertise the film forthem, then release it when the year wasalmost over and the side promotion hadended? Allow four theaters to worship itand one to ignore it?

One thing is for ure - this story willonly get more interesting. A significantnumber of very vocal people will keep push-ing Warner Brothers to do a more generalrelease of the film. In the coming year,whenever you get tired of pondering greatworld is ues, well, here's omething lessweighty to think about.

The Senate'sRecess Time

Dan Tortorice

If you followed the events leading up tothe most recent Congressional recess, youmight have very well asked yourself what theheck is going on. First, Congress informed usthat the billion-dollar budget surplus wascompletely gone, and we were back to thedays of budget deficits. Then enate MajorityLeader Tom Da chle made the indefensibleclaim that our current recession was worsenedby Bush's recent tax cut. In response our Pres-ident said Congress would raise taxes "overhis dead body."

ext, the Senate leadership under Daschleproceeded to block a vote on the economictimulus bill passed by the House. In the end,

our Congressmen went home to their familiesfor winter recess giving no aid to the Ameri-can people as they confront this recession.

It's fitting that Congres ' break is called arecess, because the Democratic leaders in the

enate are behaving like a bunch of children.Constantly we heard the leadership discu s thetax cut despite it already being law. When theyshould have been discussing the issues at hand,they were content to complain about a politicalbattle they had fought and lost - and lost quitehandily, with twelve enate Democrats votingfor the tax cut. This is not to say the Democ-rats' anger at the passage of the tax cut isn'tjustified, but to say that the enate leadershipwould have better served the American peopleby hashing out an economic stimulus bill thanby pouting about a lost political battle.

To make things worse, the Senate's Democ-ratic leadership then asked us to believe that thetax cut worsened the recession. Anyone whohas studied a page of macroeconomics wouldknow that the best cure for a recession is topump money into the economy. This is what thetax cut did, albeit not in the most efficient way.Daschle and his fellow leaders lose credibilitywhen they ask us to believe that cutting taxeshas a contractionary effect on the economy.

The pouting and asinine economic theoriz-ing is not in itself contemptible. What's con-temptible is how these attitudes prevented avote on an economic stimulus bill. The U.S.economy is not in good shape. The economycontracted in the third quarter of 200 1 and mosteconomists expect to see an even sharper con-traction to the end the year. The unemploymentrate has climbed to 5.8 percent. It's a sick econ-omy in need of medicine. But Daschle, stillmiffed about the tax cut and not wanting Bushto score another political victory, failed to evenschedule a vote on the stimulus bill that passedthe House. In doing so he prevented even mini-mal aid to our economy. In times of recessionthe government usually extends unemploymentbenefits past the normal 12 to 26 week period aclaimant is allowed to collect for. This was amuch-needed measure in this recession, butbecause of Daschle's obstructionism, thosepeople who have lost their jobs will soon findthemselves without a source of income. Thesepeople can't wait until Congress comes backfrom its recess.

The enate leadership needs to grow up. Itneeds to realize that America is in need ofhelp. It needs its leadership to stop its childishpolitical games and enact effective legislationto soothe the impact of this recession.

This recent action by the Democratic leader-ship, though, is part of a political strategy thathas recently lead to substantial Democraticpoliticallosse . The Democrats have long reliedupon voters seeing the Republican Party as theparty of big business and the wealthy. And for avery good reason: that is the real Republicanconstituency. However, despite this reality,voter perspective is changing. Bush succeededin elling his tax cut as a tax cut for all. AverageAmericans voted for him because he promisedto give them money, even though he was clear-ly going to give much more money to wealthyAmericans. The fact that Republicans are look-ing out for the interests of the wealthy is nolonger enough to prevent the average Americanfrom voting Republican. The Senate leadershiphas not learned this lesson.

In the stimulus fight, they have again triedto portray the Republican as enemies of thecommon man arguing that no economic stim-ulus was better than the Republican-propo edstimulu , but the average American will notsee it this way. With surging popularity forBush the average American will say that yes,a with the tax cut the wealthy will benefitgreatly from the stimulu package, but hey,we will benefit too, and we'd rather have thisthan nothing. They will see the Democrats asblocking the very help they need, blockingtheir unemployment benefit , and being inertin a time which called for decisive action.

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January 16 200

A Little Polishing Gone too FarOrange Cou ty.' 0 Fru "t Joke Here

By Dan RobeyASSOCiATE ARTS EDiTOR

Directed by Jake KasdanWritten by Mike WhiteStarring Colin Hanks, Jack BlackRated PG-13

range County is not the typical teenmovie. Then again, it is. smoothmix of teen comedy and drama,Orange County i too smooth at

times.haun Brumder (Colin Hanks) is a high

school senior from Orange County. Feelingunderwhelmed by his surfer-dude lifestyle,he comes across a book washed up on thebeach which changes hi life. After readingit obse sively, he decides to devote hi lifeto writing. He give up urfmg to pursue hisdream of getting into Stanford and workingwith Marcus kinner the author of the bookhe found on the beach.

haun' guidance counselor accidentallysends another student' transcript to tan-ford, effectively halving his GP and T

scores. eedless to ay, he i rejected andhe is forced to resort to get help from hischemically enhanced brother, Lance (JackBlack).

Lance didn't go to college, and is, toquote haun, "perpetuaJly recovering fromthe night before." He has an impressive col-lection of pill bottles, the organizationalscheme of which is always in a tate of flux.From hi fir t moment on-screen, we sen ethat Lance' i a good natured person, whoseplans are constantly foiled by his habits ofexce .

Lance, haun, and his girlfriend drive totanford to contact the dean there and

explain the situation to him. Lance goe forthe lame Bond approach, while haun andhis girlfriend look up the deans residence inthe phone book.

In the end, a fateful meeting betweenhaun and his idol, arcus Skinner, givehaun the guidance he so desperately needs

to decide what is right for his life.Although Orange County has the manda-

tory gag and antics of teen movies, includ-

ing near-inge tion of bodily fluids, ac iden-tal drugging , and meddle orne friends italso ha chord of deeper qualitie . Thecharacter though tereotypical at time ,have actual dimension. Even with tandardteen gags there i clever comedy lurkingabout the movie. In one scene a funeral fora urfer all the attendee are dres ed inblack bikinis and board hort .

Jack Black makes the movie what it is.Hi brand of comedy ucceed in adding afew poignant moments to the movie. He ial 0 the dri ing force behind most of thestoryline. s much as haun think hibrother is a deadbeat, we see that he reallycare for haun and would do anything tohelp.

Even more frightening is the drama underthe comedy. The cla sic tale of a youth com-ing to grips with his birthplace combinedwith coming of age blend urprisingly wellwith the comedy. The package borders onbeing too slick. Line are delivered at theexact moment they are needed, and visualgags work too well. In polishing the movie,

I it eems to have lost much of its edge.Subplots abound, adding to the delicate

weave of the movie. The other stories arenever enough to di rupt the movie, and inthe end draw it even into an even tighter sto-ryline. Divorced parents find their new liveslacking something, haun' s girlfriend feelsthat if he goe to Stanford it will be the endof their relationship. All these ketches ofstories combine to form a cleanly directedmovie.

In fact, the only real flaw in the movie,a ide from the fact they play Crazytown' s"Butterfly" over and over and over, is that itis such a cleanly woven story. The storylineflows too smoothly. 0 real surprises hap-pen along the way, and in many places, I feltas if I wa just drifting with the current. Allthe jokes have been seen before, the storyhas been heard before. The package is theonly thing that has changed.

Orange County is a slick, stylish teenmovie. The gags and storyline will providetwo hours of enjoyment, but it lacks the kickthat might make it memorable. While itmight have been poignant, Orange County is

. too polished to truly resonate.

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V OEO GAME REVIEW

FFX: the Final Say in FantasyLatest Adventure Marks Series Debui on PlayStation 2 ConsoleBy Sandra ChungASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

Square oft's Final Fantasy series is aninstitution in the world of role-play-ing video games. Engro ing tory-line , vivid characters, and addictive

gameplay e tablished the popularity and rep-utation of the eries on the first two inten-do con oles, the intendo Game Boy, the

ony Play tation, and the PC. Final FantasyX is the late t installment in the series andthe first created exclu ively for the Play ta-tion 2. FFX embroider classic father versusson, spirituality ver us technology. and goodver u evil conflict into a tory of love,friend hip, and hope in a richly detailedworld.

pira, the world of FFX, is an odd mix-ture of medieval weaponry, magic, mytholo-gy and modern Japanese style. pira i over-hadowed by in, an enormous monster that

bring death and destruction. The religion ofthe land considers the aptly named bea tdivine puni bment for the overuse of machi-na, or technology. ummoners, a group ofgifted beings who have the ability to controlpowerful creatures called aeons, undergo anarduous pilgrimage in hopes of obtaining theFinal eon, the only force that can defeat inand bring temporary peace to Spira. Caughtin a depres ing cycle of death and fear, thepeople of pira turn to blitzball a wildlypopular game akin to underwater occer, astheir chief entertainment.

The tory centers around Tidus a starblitzball player who survive a massive cata-trophe only to be wept into an unfamiliar

world. He is rescued from the sea by the AlBhed, a seafaring desert people who peak astrange language (which the player candecode by finding Al Bhed 'primersthroughout the game). After another disasterhe washes up on the Isle of Besaid, where

akka, the goofy, loyalty-inspiring leader ofthe local blitzball team, recruits him for atournament. Wakka is also one of theguardians of Yuna a young ummoner at thebeginning of her pilgrimage, and events atthe blitzball tournament make it clear thatWakka's place - and Tidus' - is withYuna on her journey across pira for theFinal Aeon.

With FFX quaresoft leaves no doubtsabout it ability to exploit the processingpower of the 128-bit Play tation 2. Amplecut scene and motion capture footage accom-pany breathtakingly beautiful backdrops andexpre sive, detailed characters. Charactersmove and fight in a wholly three-dimension-al world, with smooth changes in per pective(completely out of the player' control andsometimes rapid and confusing, unfortunate-ly). The score, too, lives up to high FinalFantasy standards with longtime FF com-poser obuo Uematsu returning to channel

pira's morbid beauty with elegant morosepiano themes and a love song," uteki Dane'("Isn't It Beautiful' ).

Final Fantasy X is the first game in theseries to include voice acting for all the maincharacters and several minor figure . Voicesare the final tep in bringing the sene fan-tastic characters to life. Wakka' s hilariouantics and Lulu' dry comment color cutcene , world map conversations, and battle

in a way that text alone never has. However,the voice talent is not remarkable; Wakka is .the standout.

With oundtrack, voices, and lengthy cutscenes, Final Fantasy X often has the feel ofa motion picture. one of the boss battles areparticularly difficult, and players may beannoyed to fmd themselves watching morethan doing. The first 90% of the game islargely story-driven and doesn't allow forside quests or backtracking. However, thegame opens up considerably just before thefmal battle, once the ubiquitous Final Fanta-sy airship is under the player's control.

Squaresoft's game design delegatesample control to the player and emphasizescustomization and efficiency. Armor andweapons can be customized with differentattributes such as poison resistance or ele-mental attacks. Aeons can be controlledlike normal characters during battles,unlike their earlier counterparts, guardianforces and vespers. Aeon animations canalso be set to short form when the playerbecomes tired of viewing the full summon-ing sequence.

FFX' battle system offers even more vari-ety. Overdrives, like the limit breaks of earlierFF game , temporarily increase characters'attack power. Overdrive meter can be set tocharge with inflicted damage, received dam-age, party victories, or a number of otherevents. Of the seven chief characters, threemay be in battle at anyone time though andof the seven party member can be swapped inand out of the lineup during the battle. Char-acter swapping prove handy in awardinge perience to pecific character or charging

their overdrive meters.The most significant change in FFX from

earlier FF games is in the character improve-ment system. Characters still gain levels byearning experience from fighting monsters.Instead of automatically gaining strength, hitpoints, defense, and magic as they level up,additional levels enable them to move aboutthe Sphere Grid. The Grid consists of nodesset in concentric circles and connected bycomplicated, meandering pathways. Nodescontain power-ups such as additional hitpoints, spells, special skills, and magicdefense. Characters can activated nearby nodesby using the appropriate spheres - e.g. abilityspheres, power spheres. Thus a sword-wield-ing character can be taught black magic or amage can be honed into a formidable fighter.

Blitzball, FFX's mini-game, plays aminor part in the plot but stands alone as anenjoyable game in itself. Each city in Spirahosts a blitzball team and players can berecruited from other teams to play for theBesaid Aurochs (Tidus's and Wakka's team).Blitzball controls allow for varying degreesof difficulty and player control. Playing largeamounts of blitzball is not essential to finish-ing FFX, but it can lead to valuable itemsthat are difficult to obtain otherwise.

The game is not for impatient souls. Thesphere grid appeals to control freaks but istedious to u e; enemy encounter are fre-quent and often inescapable' and, the attrac-tive cut cenes are long and unavoidable. Atypical treatment of FFX requires around 60hours of gameplay. 11that effort, however,makes one appreciate the incredible endingeven more.

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~OVIEREVIEW ***Family Dysfunction at Its Best"Ienenoaums'Iaues with Subtle Camedy

The Tenenbaums take a family outing to one of Margot's plays.

By Pey-Hua HwangSTAFF WRITER

that befall the unabashedly eccentric familyof characters and the poor souls that theyinvolve themselves with is introduced byAlec Baldwin's narration of the first sen-tence of a chapter of a storybook titledRoyal Tenenbaums. The movie's first chap-ter begins by introducing the family Tenen-baum, which consists of the absentee fatherRoyal (Gene Hackman), persevering motherEtheline (Angelica Huston), and the threechildren who were child prodigies that havegrown up to be dysfunctional adults: Chas(Ben Stiller), financial wizard and breeder ofDalmatian mice; Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow),playwright and closet smoker; and Richie(Owen Wilson), tennis prodigy with anunhealthy, obsessive love for his adopted

sister Margot. Eli (Luke Wilson) is the boywho lived across the street but always want-ed to be a Tenenbaum, who has grown up tobe a drug-abusing author of historical novelsof questionable quality.

Most movies with such eccentric charac-ters would then proceed to bring them alltogether for a family reunion of sorts andmake them sort out all of their problems andconclude the movie with all the familiesproblems smoothed over and a happy familypicture. However, The Royal Tenenbaumsrefuses to take the ea y way out, and theaudience appreciates the scenic route to anending that hearkens to an earlier scene inthe movie when Royal talks about what ortof epitaph he would like to have on his

Directed by Wes AndersonWritten by Wes Anderson, Owen WilsonStarring Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller,Gwyneth PaltrowRatedR

Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenen-baums is a movie full of subtlechuckles. Featuring a large cast

. of actors who are all well knownon their own, The Royal Tenenbaums suc-ceeds in producing some wonderful ensem-ble moments.

The movie is set up like the reading of amodern fairy tale book. Each set of events

tombstone.In fact, Royal has many such scenes

where Gene Hackman, who is clearly enjoy-ing playing the part of a elf-centered, child-i h, old man, makes blunt comment aboutdelicate is ues, but does it with such aban-don and charm that the audience smiles tothem elve in tead of hating his character.With the help of his sidekick Pagoda(Kumar Pallana, who comes quite close tostealing several scenes) Royal is delightfullydespicable as he fakes stomach cancer 0 hecan move back into his house after beingkicked out of the Lindbergh Palace Hotel,where he had lived for 22 years, and thentake his grandsons Ad and Uzi out onjaunts like riding on the back of the garbagetruck, which would scandalize their father,Chas.

Cha , a ide from disliking his father, isparanoid because his wife died in a planecrash and keeps himself and his sons in redjumpsuits so he can keep track of them moreeasily. Royal clearly favored Richie overChas when they were young and even shotChas with a pellet gun when they were onthe same team, which founded has' deepantagonism towards his father. However,Royal eventually does make amends withChas in a most unexpected gesture of solici-tude.

Whereas Chas is clearly a very shortfuse Margot is the epitome of ennui. She isthe object of the affections of Eli, Richie,and Raleigh inclair (Bill Murray), her oft-cuckolded husband. She doesn't actuallylove any of them except Richie and actuallyhas everal preposterous exploits, and alsohas only nine fingers because of an unfortu-nate accident. Her character is probably theleast developed, however, it is interesting toobserve the titles of the plays she is picturedconstantly reading and notice how her fash-ion sense is exactly the same from childhoodto adulthood.

Finally, Richie and Eli are just eccentric.Both of them have a "special" taste in art.Eli's is definitely in part drug influenced,while Richie's consists exclusively of pic-ures of Margot. His pet falcon Mordicae

also serves the purpose of one of the fewmoments which approach sappiness.

Etheline's marriage to Howard herman(Danny Glover), the family accountant whois everything that Royal never was, mainlydependable, could easily have fallen into thesappy category, but it is disrupted in a waythat stretches the idea of suspen ion of dis-belief to its limits. However, The RoyalTenenbaums is a fairy tale set in reality. Itscollection of vignettes depicting both thefragility and the resilience of the humancondition while keeping the audience chuck-ling instead of warding off the gag reflexmakes this movie worth watching, if only totry and catch all of the details hidden in thebackground.

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E ents Ca endarEvents Calendar appears in each issue of The Tech and features events for members of the MIT community, TheTech makes no guarantees as to the accuracy of this information, and The Tech shall not be held liable for anylosses, including, but not limited to, damages resulting from attendance of an event,Contact information for all events is available from t~e Events Calendar web page.

isit and add events to Events Calendar online at http://events.mit.eduWednesday, January 16 entrepreneurship. Please check http://web.mit.edu/sebc for a list of workshops and

speakers. Free. Room: Wang Auditorium. Sponsor: Science and Engineering Business Club.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - MIT Macintosh Partners. MIT Macintosh Partners is a group ofMIT employees who help computer users in their department with Mac-related issues. Arepresentative from Apple Computer attends many of the meetings. Free: Room: N42Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Adoption in America: New Trends. Members of the MITAdoption Support Group discuss their personal experiences of open adoption andinternational, transcultural and transracial adoption. Information will be offered onmethods of adoption currently available. Free. Room: 16-151 (Family Resource Center).Sponsor: Family Resource Center, lAP. MIT Adoption Support Group.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Element K Workshop. Is web-based training for me? Spend anhour in an instructor-led workshop. Learn how to get started using web-based training,explore what is offered and ask questions. Free. Room: W89-250. Sponsor: InformationSystems.8:00 p.m. - Startup.com. Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzmanand Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipalgovernments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the relationship ofthese best friends. Kaleil raises the money, Tom's the technical chief. A third partnerwants a buyout; girlfriends come and go; Tom's daughter needs attention. And alwaysthe need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions.Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine covers. Will the business or the friendship crashfirst? Rated R for language. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - ATIC Lab Open House. The Adaptive Computing Lab holds itsannual open house. Come learn about cool alternative technologies for people withdisabjlities! See magnification, scanning and reading, Braille translation, screen readingsoftware, and more. Free. Room: 11-103. Sponsor: Information Systems, ATIC Lab.12:00 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. - P annlng MIT's ew Stata Child Care Center: A Design and'Program Update. MIT will be opening an innovative new child care center in the StataBuilding in 2003/2004, designed by acclaimed architect, Frank Gehry. The Stata ChildCare Center will serve 73 children of MIT students, faculty, and staff. Participants will beoffered a slide presentation of the architectural model, a construction update, and anoverview of the child care center program, with an opportunity to provide suggestions tomembers of the MIT Stata Child Care Center Design Committee. PRE-REGISTRATIONREQUIRED. Free. Room: stata Project Trailer (entrance across from Building 16/56, nextto Alumni Pool). Sponsor: Family Resource Center, lAP. Department of Facilities.12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - Web at MIT Quick Start. learn how to explore the World WideWeb using Netscape, and get an introduction to the web at MIT. Topics include:navigation basics simple searching creating and editing bookmark lists printing a page atour of MIT web pages for information and administrative applications basics of webcertificates. Free. Room: N42 Deroo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Modeling the Dynamic Complexity of the uclearPolicymaking Process. The goal of this work is to produce a system dynamics model ofthe policymaking process and the social/political system around energy generationissues with emphasis on public and political concerns: specifically high-level nuclearwaste and greenhouse gases. A system dynamics model is useful for creating a commonpicture of the system and for understanding how attitudes and policies are created, aswell as how they can be influenced and modified so as to obtain the desired results.Some preliminary results are presented. Free. Room: E40-496. Sponsor: Laboratory forEnergy and the Environment.12:10 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Physical Oceanography Sack Lunch Seminar. Free. Room: 54-915. Sponsor: Physical Oceanography.7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.rn, - Renaissance Dancing. There are many forms of RenaissanceDancing that we practice. From Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country. Wedance them all with flair and fun. Dress is common street clothing. No experiencenecessary; instruction is provided. Free. Room: W20 (Sala or 407 or 491). Sponsor:Society for Creative Anachronism.9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. - Music at The Ear. Live electronic music starts at 9 p.m., hostedby Richard Watson. The Thirsty Ear Pub is located in the Ashdown House basement. Enterthrough the courtyard. Hours: Monday: 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. Tuesday - Thursday: 7 p.m. - 1a.m. Friday: 4 p.m. - 1 a.m. Must be over 21. Proper ID required. This event is funded inpart by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT. Free. Room: The Thirsty EarPub. Sponsor: The Thirsty Ear Pub. MITDMC, ATat.

Thursday, January 17

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - BrioQuery Quick Start. Learn how to download, install, and setup BrioQuery on your desktop. Learn how to download and process a standard report. Anoverview of the features and capabilities of BrioQuery will be given. Free. Room: N42Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Department of Facilities staff meeting. Quarterly meeting ofFacilities staff. Room: Bartos Theatre (El5-070). Sponsor: Department of Facilities.'8:00 p.m. - Identity: New usic for a ew Century. Vocalist Mili Bermejo along withdrummer/arranger George Schuller join forces to produce a multi-layered approach tosong and orchestration.Take Bermejo's heritage of folk-based and socially inspired music from Latin America,informed by her deep understanding of jazz improvisation and composition, and mergethat with a septet of horns and rhythm led by George Schuller (Orange Then Blue,Schulldogs) and you have a remarkable blend of music from the far corners of the worldunited by a common thread: jazz. With guests pianist Tim Ray (Lyle Lovett), saxophonistDonny McCaslin (Danilo Perez), and bassist Dan Greenspan.Pre-concert talk at 7:15pm. $10 suggested donation. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Musicand Theater Arts Section.

Friday, January 18

10:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Technology and Entrepreneurship Forum. The SEBC is proud topresent our 2nd Technology and Entrepreneurship Forum, showcasing leaders in hottechnologies, and providing tips on how you can get starting on the path to successful

Saturday, January 19

7:00 p.m. - Startup.com. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Tr.avel to strange, new classrooms;meet interesting, unusual people; and kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up; gunsprovided. Free. Room: Building 36, First Floor. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, Mil.10:00 p.m. - Startup.com. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

Sunday, January 20

1:30 p.m. - Piano Recital to Benefit the Homeless and Hungry. Benefit concert byDaniel Goodman, who received his PhD. from MIT in 1989. Program includes Chopin'sTwo Nocturnes Op. 37, Mozart's Twelve Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman,"Brahms' Klavierstucke Op. 118, Prokofiev's Piano Works Op. 12, Joplin's "TheChrysanthemum," and improvisiations on themes suggested by the audience. This is theeigth "Participatory Piano Recital" since Daniel Goodman introduced the format to MITaudiences in 1983. Goodman works as an experimental plasma physicist. Donationsrequested. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Hillel, MIT.

Tuesday, January 22

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - "Entering Space". lAP Event. .This lecture will describe some of the preparations necessary for a human space missionand the constraints involved in living and 'working in space. The lecture will be illustratedby examples from actual space missions. Part of the lecture series on Human SpaceflightOperations. Free. Room: MIT, 33-206. Sponsor: AeroAstro.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Microsoft Word User Group. The MIT Microsoft Word UserGroup (WUG) was formed for people at MIT, from beginners to experts, who areusing orinterested in learning to use Microsoft Word word processing software. Free. Room: N42Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.7:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. -ladies Night at The Ear. Every Tuesday is Ladies Night at TheThirsty Ear Pub, with special Tuesday-only beverages. The Thirsty Ear Pub is located in theAshdown House basement. Enter through the courtyard. Hours: Monday: 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.Tuesday - Thursday: 7 p.m. - 1 a.m. Friday: 4 p.m. - 1 a.m. Must be over 21. Proper IDrequired. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: The Thirsty Ear Pub.7:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. - Film and discussion: MIRACUlOUS INJUSTICE. We will watchand discuss two films about how justice is too often dispatched in Peru. "Abducted" (60mins.) discusses the case of Hugo Munoz Sanchez, a professor kidnapped (along withnine students) and murdered by the Peruvian military intelligence service; while"Convicted by an Image" (30 mins.) argues that Lori Berenson, a former MIT student nowimprisoned in Peru for supporting terrorism, "was actually convicted twice, first by akangaroo court in Peru and then, more effectively, in the media." Free; light refreshmentsprovided. Room: 3-133, MIT. Sponsor: MIT Western Hemisphere Project.

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A Message from the ~IT Office of Career Services and Preprofessional Adv·sing (OCSPA)

Dear IT tudentith the am a1of2002 the Offi e of Car r ervice and Preprofe iona1 Ad i ing (0 P) ould like to wi h you a happy n w year,

provide orne guidanc about finding job or intern hip in the current economy and encourage you to u e our rvices. OC PA, and theIn titute at large, offer a gold mine of car er re ource including lAP program ,on-campu recruiting trong employer and alumni

~ conne tion ,and pand d ork hop, en and information. Th r ar re ources for tudents at all tage - fre hmen, uppercla men,profe ional degre candidate, Ph.D. and po tdo - and in all department.

bat do the economic foreca t mean for our job arch?any economic foreca relea ed at th nd of 2001 agreed that

the economy eem to ha e topped it dramatic freefall andthere ere orne early indications that a reco ery might not befar off. The unemployment rate now at 5.7% i predicted topeak early in the second quarter ofthi year (at perhap 6.5%),by which tim a recovery could be emerging. graph of theU. . economy since 1970 hows that the current rate ihi torically low. References to the "highe t unemployment ratein four year ", omit the fact that tho e year represent the lowestrate of the past 40 year , and rival orne of the best economictime since the industrial revolution. The fact i that thetechnology industry' growth spurt produced an 0 erheatedmarket and unreali tic expectation, both of which are 'nownormalizing. Also always remember that economie arecyclical. They go up, then they go down. When the down cycleis ending, as this one appear to be, a recovery often follow .

Sharp Job losses continued in manufac-turing. and employment also fell inservces, wholesale fade. and retaIl trade.

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re there any career planning benefit of a lower econom ?OCSPA' taff understand the challenge of job-hunting at this time. However, along with the hardships, there are positive dimen ion. Someof us have worked with tudent through everal rece sions and have een that a lowdown in economic activity may create a state in whichreflection- a ba ic human need- is possible, even ine capable. The frenetic environment of recent years made it hard for students to makethoughtful, informed decisions. For example, "exploding offer" (where candidates had 24 hour to accept ajob before the offer wasrescinded) left no margin to a k "Am I ure I have found the field I want? Does my choice reflect my mo t central values and intere ts? Arethere different choices I might make if I thought they might lead somewhere?" One outcome ofa slower economy is time for "due process" inyour job earch, lessening the chance that you will jump into a particular field just because it is booming. Hot fields of recent year, uch asmanagement consulting, investment banking, electronics, and internet start-ups, are not the only field with compelling opportunities, nor arethey necessarily the ones which best match your aspirations. Alumni" who graduated in a hot job market often wish they had explored theircareer interests and options earlier, and had set their directions accordingly.

How are employers responding?Today, employers are recruiting more strategically, participating in fewer campus events, interviewing more electively, and traveliri.g less thanin recent years. Despite this, many opportunities exist for MIT tudents, who are high priority candidates for employer . 238 employersrecruited in OCSPA this fall, and approximately 130 participated in the September Career Week. Because employers are making hiringdecisions later than in recent years, it is too early to predict what the spring recruiting ea on will be like. Some employer are scheduling theiron-campus visit later than usual, which may re ult in an extended recruiting ea on in OCSPA. Check our employer webpage regularly, foradditions. .

How can you influence the outcome?More than ever, the key to a strategic job search is to be proactive and flexible, well prepared to explain your fit with an employer's needs, andaware of the other qualifications that make you a good candidate, be ides strong professional training. The staff of OCSP A can hel p youdevelop a successful strategy, ba ed on knowing who you are and what you want to achieve. We can also help you present your elfmo teffectively in your job search. In thi economy, effective pre entation kills are vital.

The following is an abbreviated list of our services, to help you get tarted. We provide many additional tool to assist with your careerdevelopment.

¥ Pick up a Career Service Manual in 12-170 or view this publication on the web at http://web.mit.edu/career/wwwlhandbook/index.html.

¥ Visit our "calendar" link at http://web.mit.edu/career/www/calendar.html for information on two new venues for networking with alumni in.many different fields: the Alumni Industry Panel Serie and" Ask the Insider" .

¥ Schedule an appointment with a career counselor (253-4733) to learn about self- as essment, realistically explore your options, and learnwhere opportunities exist.

¥ Attend Career Services workshops. List viewable at http://web.mit.edu/career/www/workshops/ Don t mi s "Getting A Great Job in ATough Economy" a special lecture by Sloan faculty member; Howard Ander on on February 13th

.

¥ Participate in career-related lAP programs offered by OCSPA, academic and administrative departments, the Biology Po tdoc As ociation,and other MIT affiliates. See http://web.mit.edu/career/www/peciaIProgramIIAP2002.htm.andpp.ll -15 in the lAP Guide.

¥ Register for MIT's job-listing service and on-campu recruiting at http://www.monstertrak.com.pring recruiting tart the la t week inJanuary. Check this site frequently for new interview dates and job announcement .

¥ Use the countless networking opportunities available throughout MIT, e.g.: the Alumni Association III titute Career Alumni etwork(http://web.mit.edu/alum/career/ican/index.html), on-campus presentations by employers about their organization and jobopportunities (http://web.mit.edu/career/www/presentation I), and speaker, in variou departments and program (TIle Tech'Events Calendar lists many of the e under "lectures" and "conference", some are publicized on departmental websites, and still more,via word of mouth.) .

¥ Finally, attend upcoming career fair http://web.mit.edu/career/www/newfairs.html. We are collaborating with other universities to bring youseveral new opportunities in 2002 (both virtual and on-site.) They include an e-fair for graduate student from February 1 -15,sponsored by a consortium of graduate programs including University of Texa at Au tin Brown Univer ity and other, a nonprofitcareer fair in April at Tufts, and a fir t-ever MIT/CaITecJl internship ePair, to facilitate we t coast earches. Check this list regularlyfor additions and also see monstertrak.com (which will feature buttons for upcoming MIT efairs.)

Please know that we have redoubled our efforts to ea e the difficultie po ed by thi economy, and are committed to helping you realize yourprofessional goals. The more you prepare and take advantage of OCSP A, lAP and other community re ources, the greater your chances ofurviving and thriving in any economy.

With best wishes,~p~_.c.~~,",,---_

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student looked mall, lay wrote,"the students affected by crowdinginclude not only the 140 studentbut all of the other tudent whoroom with them.' ore than 400student are currently living incrowded rooms, and even those arenot the only one affected by crowd-ing. ' All of the student in theaffected residence halls suffer theloss of lounges, study room andother space meant for communityu e,' Clay wrote. Clay could not bereached for comment.

Graduate bou ing d batedtudent are already debating

possible ways to alleviate crowding."The only options are either 'to con-tinue crowding or to a sign part ofthe graduate hou ing to the tu-dent," aid ean W. Kelley G. Hesaid that he would be di appointedif the latter was implemented, but hewould understand since "denyinghousing to undergraduate would bewor e."

While orne would call such anaction unfair to graduate students,Dean for tudent Life Larry G.Benedict argued that the i sue athand was not fairne s but rather thevalidity of the measure sugge ted.Benedict repeated Clay's point thatMIT has not built an undergraduatedorm in twenty years, while gradu-ate housing ha continued toincrease with the addition of GreenHall, 30 and Edgerton House.

Dormitory Council Presidentatthew . Cain '02 backed Bene-

dict's point that the i ue at hand wasnot fairne s but helping to alleviatecrowding. "We need to take a step tohelp counter the problem. Thi maybe a temporary solution but it mighthelp out ince it currently i the mo t

viable of all the options we ha e tocon ider," ain aid.

'It appear that immon ... willhave little effect on crowding" Cainaid. immons will hou e appro i-

mately 350 tudents, roughly theame number of freshmen who nor-

mally live in fraternities, ororitieand independent living group .

Redwine argued that the newgraduate dorm at idney and Pacific

treet would till benefit graduatetudents even with some bed going

to undergraduates. "The net effect ifavorable for graduate student "Redwine said.

olbert admitted that some grad-uate students would be unhappy.Cain upported thi point, sayingthat despite the fact that a igningsome graduate housing to under-graduate tudents would help reducethe exi ting crunch, it will not begood for the graduate tudents. "Theundergrads themselve may not wantto live in the graduate houses and itmight be hard to convince them thatit will be the same as living with fel-low undergrads," Cain aid.

F ILG another optionThe possibility of using fraterni-

tie, sororities, and independent liv-ing groups to to alleviate crowdingi also being discus ed. The reportuggested encouraging F ILGs to

play a role in housing more under-graduate by taking steps tostrengthen them. "We have notcome up with pecific steps we aregoing to take to make this happensince the idea was to encourage peo-ple to give their opinions on thei sue," Benedict explained.

However Redwine aid, "Thereis uncertainty in F ILGs recruitingpeople to relieve the crunch in hous-ing and we cannot be sure if a steptaken to help trengthen them will

help them get more tudent . 'ain wa a bit more optimi tic.

'F ILG will not rush fre hmen butru h will continue and the chanceof them recruiting uppercla menare high," he aid.

ro ding or en d raduallccording to Benedict, the

crowding problem ha wor ened .gradually, as different stresse to thehou ing sy tern compounded. Forexample, Benedict aid, the clo ingof two F ILG in the past few yearsadded extra tudent to the sy tern.Another factor wa that more admit-ted fre hmen matriculated at MITthi year. "We were ery popularthi year .. : 1030 tudents came"instead of the expected 1000 matric-ulant.

Benedict said that the turningpoint in the crowding cri i hap-pened in the fall. "What brought[the crisi ] home this erne ter isthat we ended up taking all thelounges in MacGregor" and makingthem double, Benedict said. MITalso made some quads in BakerHouse into quints, and crowdedsome ew House room . 'Thatclearly is not the living arrangementthat that student can live in orthrive in," Benedict said.

Miranda L. Priebe '03, MacGre-gor House president, said thecrowding situation was worse lately."There has been a great demand onthe resources we have and this hasbeen going on for years. The studentgovernment has been working forlong to try and initiate action,"Priebe said.

Clay and other administratorsbrought up the crowding issue atvarious meetings throughout fallterm, including Academic Counciland the Committee on Undergradu-ate Admissions and Financial Aid.

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, t till point [ lay'] thinking hadbeen informed" by the many con-versations Benedict aid, and layput the idea and information intothe report he ent to admini tratorsand tudent leader la t week.

Report encourage feedbacThe report asked its recipients,

including the Undergraduate A 0-ciation, Graduate Student Council,Interfraternity Council, Faculty Pol-icy Committee, and cademicCouncil, to respond with feedbackby Feb. 12.

Benedict said the report is notintended to let people know aboutpolicies that have been made butrather to open a forum for discus-sion on the i sue of crowding thathas been of great concern to faculty,student and parents, "Our commit-ment is to take necessary steps toeliminate crowding of residencehalls in an effort to improve the liv-ing conditions of students byenhancing privacy and availingmore space," Benedict said.

Crowding affects many freshmenHow have students been affected

by- crowding? Samuel N. Gikandi'05 was disappointed to end up in alounge in MacGregor, especiallyafter choosing the dorm to escapethe crowding that was taking placein most of the other houses. Mac-Gregor is comprised almost entirelyof single rooms.

athaniel K. Choge '02 addedthat the use of the lounge in his suiteto house students for the wholesemester deprived him of a studyarea where he could do problem setswith his study group and pull all-nighters whenever he had to. "I nowhave to get used to studying in myroom and holding the group meet-ings in some other places," he said.

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Upcoming Cafe in Lobby 7 Highlights RenovationsBy Karen Robinson

Almost everyone at IT walksthrough Lobby 7 at least once a day,hurrying to a elas or meeting. Late-ly, however, people are topping,and looking up.

The Lobby 7 kylight i uncov-ered, for the fir t time in almo tsixty year . The lobby itself has at 0

undergone ignificant renovationand cleaning, and the addition of asmall cafe and changes to dropposter policy are underway.

Lobby 7 serves four importantfunctions for MIT said Kathryn A.Willmore, vice president and ecre-tary of the MIT Corporation andleader of the project group torestore Lobby 7. It is MIT's frontdoor, it is a gathering space for peo-ple around MIT and for visitorstouring the Institute, and it used tobe the home of MIT's doughnutstand. It is also where people getinformation of all kinds fromposters and publications. Therestored Lobby 7 should still per-form all these functions, Willmoresaid, while also reflecting the excel-lence of MIT.

MIT to put cafe in Lobby 7After the floor cleaning is fin-

ished, a small cafe will be put nearthe entry from Lobby 7 into Build-ing 1. Willmore said that such a cafewill r.eplace the function of the for-mer doughnut stand.

Dean Wellington "Duke" Reiter,professor of the practice of architec-ture and advisor to the projectgroup, headed last year's renovationof the Information Center in Lobby7. The cafe will have a similar lookand feel, he said.

The project group will also con-sider how to dispense and displayinformation in Lobby 7. Willmoresaidthat pamphlets, newspapers,and other information will be avail-abie in dispensers on the east wall

·of Lobby 7-> heading toward the Infi-:nite Corridor. .

Reiter said that information dis-semination is the project group's

Icurrent focus. He added that now.that the scaffolding is down, he canset up "real tests to look at lighting"to plan other features, such as theinformation wall and cafe, as wellas large information displays."There are a lot of interesting com-puter simulations we have of howthe space could look," he said, ''butwe didn't really know how light thestone would be."

Another question the projectgroup will address is what to dowith the statue pedestals currentlyon the edges of Lobby 7, Reitersaid. The original designers ofLobby 7 intended to have statueslining the lobby with inscriptions onthe walls near them, but now Reiteris looking for creative solutions forthe pedestals, he said.

And after all that? "Then, wemight be done," said Gayle M. Gal-lagher, also a member of the projectgroup. She added that one morepossibility is the addition of airlockscoming in from MassachusettsAvenue to prevent winter windsfrom blowing into the lobby. MIT'sDepartment of Facilities is. explor-ing that possibility, she said, butanything that alters the outwardappearance of the building is much

. more delicate because of the build-ing's historical nature.

ew drop poster policy in worksThe next big decision facing the

project group will be how to replacedrop posters, Willmore said. Shesaid that drop posters do not fit withthe new look of Lobby 7, but thatthe ability to display informationwith high visibility is an importantfunction.

The project group will be hold-ing meetings open to the studentbody this week and next, to generateideas for displaying information.There, ''we will discuss what needto be said, how best to say it, andhow to have flexibility and keepLobby 7 looking great" Reiter said.Reiter, Lobby 7' lead restoration

kylight and colored "laylight", theglass visible from the lobby floor,and repaired the lay light itself.Some pieces of the current lay lightwere till installed in the ceiling ofthe dome, Fixler said, while otherswere remade based on drawingsfrom the MIT archive.

The green railings and metaldoors in the lobby are painted sothat they look like bronze, but are

aluminum, he said.Painters repaintedthe aluminum -fir t with a coat ofpaint to look likenew bronze, thenwith layers ofgreen paint con-taining purple andbrown flecks "sothat it looks likenaturally agedbronze," Fixlersaid.

Another chal-lenge was the ceil-ing and inscriptionon the inside of thedome. The originalis an exceptionallyhard plaster, meantto look like thelimestone on theoutside of thebuilding. "Forsome reason, in1938, they had hadproblems withstaining [the pla -ter]," Fixler said.To avoid removingthe original coat-ings the grouptested severalcleaning methods,which resulted inunexpected delays,he said.

Some new let-ters for the lime-stone face of 77MassachusettsAvenue had to becarved, Fixler said.He said that somedamage may havecome from thestreet work, and hehas placed moni-tors on someremaining cracksto see whetherthey get big

JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH enough to needDan Corson '05 and Amanda Beeson '03 admire the newly renovated Lobby 7. replacement

architect, David Fi ler of EinhornYaffee Prescott, and Ted Johnson 'ofMIT Public Relation ervices willbe at both session .

, tudents go through (Lobby 7]more than anyone" illmore aid.

illmore and Gallagher bothaid that the group is looking to dif-

ferent technologie for a newmethod of displaying information.The meetings on January 17 and 23

in La ala de Puerto Rico will dis-cu high-tech media and elaborateannouncements as well as considerhow to incorporate quick, smallnotice . "This i a fact-findingstage," Gallagher said.

pert 0 erhauled Lobb 7Restorer replaced the glass

brick in the skylight, put new,brighter electric lights between the

In addition to the new light fromthe skylight, architects and restorersrenovated the lighting on the bal-conies and around the base of thedome. The light fixtures on thethird floor were original, but weremodified and relamped to bebrighter and more effective, Fixlersaid.

kylight hut forInstitute lore says that the sky-

light was covered during WWII, dueto fears that light coming throughthe glass would make a target forbombings along the Charles River.

Fixler said the skylight wasclosed in 1941 or 1942. "We knowthat it was briefly reopened at theend of the war, because there is a1945 photograph of the skylighttaken by Harold Edgerton," Fixlersaid.

Reiter said that a 1997 reportdetailed all the advantages and dis-advantages of Lobby 7. "[Therestoration] was a committeeeffort," Reiter said. He added thatespecially when considering so pub-lic a space, "things take a lot oftime. Consensus needs to be cometo, voices need to be heard." Oncethe people involved decided to goahead, things went quickly, he said.The decision to restore Lobby 7,including the dome, was made inFeb. 2001, and in May the scaffold-ingwent up.

There was something of a fund-ing crisis back in 1997, however.According to Willmore, there was adonor who helped with "a big part"of the restoration effort, but no spe-cific fundraising drive. The Corpo-ration is thinking of creating an"explicit funding opportunity,"however, she said. "Most people areinterested in contributing to thefuture," she said, not necessarily torestoration of the past. "The Lobby7 project is a hybrid."

More restoration could followDavid Myers, Architect for the

Department of Facilities, called theLobby 7 restoration a "real historicpreservation in a public space" andsaid it is important to have restoredthe most public space first. He saidthat with the completion of theLobby 7 project, administrators anddesigners will naturally think nowabout other key signature spaces atMIT, but declined to commentspecifically about possible futureprojects.

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Bylaws Revised Afte HearingChi Phi, from Page 1 to reestablish a healthy relationship

with the IFC, and invited th offi-cer to dinner at the house immedi-ately after the appeal ended. "We'reready to move on," azemi said.

new et of bylaws does a better jobof di tinguishing who pecificallyhears appeals and who pecificallyhears hearings," Pheiffer id.

While the new rule give moreauthority to Jud omm with the goalof more efficient hearings Pheiffersaid thi might caus problems forca es where it would be better forthe IFC executive committee to actdirectly, uch as when dealing withthe Boston Licensing Board orCambridge Licen e Commission. "Ithink it's going to be a bit of a chal-lenge," Pheiffer said.

However, he acknowledged thatthe old rules were unclear regardingwho should hear what cases. "It wasdefinitely very confu ing,' Pheiffersaid.

"This is the last case that startedunder the judicial system rules,"

azerni said. "It took longer than itshould have under the old judicialbylaws."

azerni said that Chi Phi wanted

ake up time ,jaunt .in iolationChi Phi's fir t major violation of

rush rules re ulted from problemswith wake up times. On two con ec-utive days, Chi Phi li ted all fresh-man wake up time as 10 a.m.,regardles of the actual time thateach freshman gave to Chi Phi. Thispractice i illegal under IFC rules.

hi Phi's other major violationsregarded jaunt , including a harborcruise where freshmen returned late,and a jaunt to the activitie midwaywhere return times were not enteredcorrectly.

As a result of this final violation,the IFC Rush Committee decided todo e down Chi Phi's rush. The fineand other sanction were assessedseveral weeks later.

final hearing after both sides agreedthat he would be an impartial mod-erator. IF JudComm chair ThomasB. Fi her '02 did not chair the hear-ing because of hi previous involve-ment with the ca e.

Gottlieb said that he was intenton "making ure both ides felt thatthey got a fair trial." Gottlieb him-elf did not vote on the ruling, but

would have been able to break a tieamong the other four voting mem-bers if neces ary.

B law rewritten following appealA lasting change to come out of

Chi Phi's appeal process was therevision of the IFC' JudCommbylaws. The new rules shi ft respon-sibility more clearly to JudComm,rather than the executive committee."The bylaws at the time were notclear," Gottlieb said.

Pheiffer agreed, saying that the

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Systems Administrator Resigns After Piracy RaidsBy Jennifer DeBoerand Keith Winstein

hristopher . _Tre co the ITEconomic Department y ternadministrator alleged to have ille-gally di tributed computer oftwarefrom the sy terns he ran resignedon Jan. 4.

Federal agents had executed aearch warrant at MIT on Dec. 11,eizing three computers from the Eco-

nomics Department, MIT said in apress release. United tates Customs

ervice investigators also questionedTre co that day, eizing one computerfrom his apartment in All ton.

The eizures were part of a glob-al crackdown on software trading,or "warez" groups. Jeffrey I.Schiller, a network manager forMIT Information Systems, said thatby taking such a large-scale syn-chronized action to disband the ring,federal investigators 'may believethey sent a mes age."

Three separate multi-agencyFederal operations, along with for-eign law-enforcement counterparts,executed over one hundred searchwarrants nearly simultaneouslyworldwide on Dec. 11, the Depart-ment of Justice said in a pressrelease. Seizures were conducted inat least 27 United States cities andsix foreign countries.

Tresco allegedly involved in piracyAlthough Tresco, 23, has not

been arrested or charged with acrime, Federal officials assert thathe was a member of the secretiveInternet software trading ringknown as "DrinkOrDie" and that heused his system administrationposition at the Economics Depart-ment to illegally distribute soft-ware, The Boston Globe reported on

- Dec. 12. The report quoted Trescoas saying, "I regrettably gotinvolved with some stuff I should-n't have and to anybody I affected,I'm sorry."

Tresco s post as-me EconomicsDepartment system administratormay have been valuable to the ring,Schiller said, because of MIT'shigh-speed connection, lack of fire-walls, and the fact that, as systemadministrator, Tresco would havebeen in control of the file serversallegedly used to illegally distribute

.software. "It's like watching thewatcher," Schiller said.

tion again t Tre co Jame D.Bruce, Vice Pre ident for Informa-tion Sy tern, aid in a writtenstatement, 'If true, this i a veryeriou iolation of IT' rules

and the law. The violation wouldinclude mi use of copyrightedmaterial and software, overloadingthe MIT system and u ing expen-sive bandwidth that MIT h s to payfor." Bruce pledged MIT's cooper-ation in the investigation and aspecial agent at the .. Customs

ervice office in Bo ton, whodeclined to give hi name, con-firmed that "various parts of MITwere very cooperative in a istingthe investigation."

chiller doubted that MIT woulditself be implicated in the investiga-tion, but added that investigatorsplanned to search through recordskept on the seized computers andmight seek to charge individualswho server log indicated were fre-quent traders.

Immediately after the raids,Tresco continued to work at MITbut was "shifted to different tasks,'according to a Dec. 13 report in theBoston Herald. The MIT ewsOffice reported that Tresco came into work on Dec. 12 to help theinvestigators sort things out but sub-sequently went on administrativeleave. Tresco resigned as of January4, according to the MIT ews.Office. Laura Avakian, Vice Presi-dent for Human Resources, had con-

ducted an investigation into the mat-ter.

'DrinkOrDie' back d indo 95DrinkOrDie, which wa a major

target of the raid ,i credited withpublishing icro oft indows 95on the Internet two weeks before itsofficial release and the developmentand publication of one of the fir ttools to allow the trading of perfectcopies of DVD movie over- theInternet.

Bob Kruger, Vice Pre ident ofEnforcement for the Busine s oft-ware Alliance, an industry tradegroup which was credited by theJu tice Department in assisting theinve tigations, aid that some of thegroups targeted by the Dec. 11 raid'appear to be responsible for muchof the trafficking that's taking placetoday."

However, Kruger was not opti-mi tic that the raids would have animmediate effect on the roughly

12 billion in lost revenue fromwhich the Alliance claims itsmembers uffer each year, saying adecline would come when 'peopleengaged in software piracy cometo better under tand the seriousconsequences of that type of activ-ity."

Operations continue worldwideIn addition to MIT, investigators

carried out raids Dec. 11 at the Uni-versity of California at Los Angeles,

Purdue University Duke Univer i-ty, the Univer ity of Oregon, orth-ea tern University, and theRoche ter Institute of Technology.The three Federal inve tigations thatconducted the raids were known as'Operation Bandwidth", "OperationDigital Piratez", and "OperationBuccaneer."

The Justice Department charac-terized Bandwidth and DigitalPiratez as undercover operationsinvolving the Federal Bureau ofInve tigation, while Buccaneer,which performed the investigationat MIT was conducted by the Cus-toms ervice with DrinkOrDie asone of its primary targets. Uncon-firmed online reports attempting tocatalogue information on the raidsindicated that DrinkOrDie was"dead 100 percent" as a result.

Although news reports quotedofficials as claiming that arrestswere imminent immediately afterthe first raids, no arrests or crimi-nal charge have been reported inthe United States. Police in Lon-don announced on Dec. 12 thearrest of six DrinkOrDie memberson charges of conspiracy todefraud Reuter reported inDecember. A report Monday byReuters quotes Allan Doody, a

.S. Custom special agent, assaying the raids have continued,turning up roughly thirty suspectsand that agents would again "raidan East Coast university" early this

week.

artier ca e in pired lavTresco may risk punishment

under a Federal law created beeauseof a previous case involving anMIT student. According to the gov-ernment, suspects may be prosecut-ed under the 0 Electronic Theft( ET) Act, which provides forcriminal copyright infringementpenalties of up to three years inprison. Congre s enacted the law in1997 to close the so-called"LaMacchia loophole," a term sup-porters of the law used to refer tothe government's unsuccessful1994 criminal prosecution of then-MIT senior David M. LaMacchia'95.

The government alleged in anApril, 1994 indictment that LaMac-chia bad operated a file server atMIT to facilitate the illegalexchange of software programs,similar to the reported allegationsagainst Tresco. Because LaMacchiahad not personally profited from theendeavor, the government wa notable to charge him with criminalcopyright infringement, and insteadunsuccessfully pursued a charge ofwire fraud. The NET Act closed thisloophole by making the act of ille-gally distributing copyrighted workswith a total value of over 1,000within a 180-day period a criminaloffense, irrespective of personalprofit.

MIT cooperated in investigationIt was not immediately clear

what Tresco had been doing or ifanybody else at MIT knew about it.Tresco could not be reached forcomment. Olivier Blanchard, headof the Economics Department,declined to comment.. Tresco' s co-workers in the Economics Depart-ment computer systems team wereeither unavailable or declined tocomment.

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"We plan to make a lot of what'going on in these groups public,' heaid.

Daniel R. Ramage '04 aid thatthe 13 CD will not be available touppercla smen, so the publicity sub-group will poster campus for com-mittee events. Current students whochoo e to move into immons willneed to enter the housing lottery fornext year, which takes place inApril.

"One of the most important rolesof publicity is establishing immonsHall as having a personality. We arenot an arm of the administration; weare student-controlled' Ramagesaid.

Committee to plan GRT selectionThe GRT and Visiting Scholar

committee will set up guidelines forGRT selection and oversee theselection of the ten GRTs for Sim-mons HaIL Roberts said that someof the Simmons Hall GRTs may beexperienced tutors who come fromother dormitories.

Although Simmons has fiveapartments that were created for vis-iting scholars, the Founder's Groupdid not come up with a comprehen-sive plan for how these visitors willinteract with the community: Visit-ing scholars will be appointed bythe Dean's office, but the studentson the committee may elect to havethe visiting scholars play an activerole in students' lives.

The governance subgroup willhelp to set policy for SimmonsHall's house government, includingrooming policy and use of housefunds. Although several parameters,such as the pet policy and the art-work policy, have already been set,the committee will have leeway in

things such as room selection anddeciding how to raise dorm fund .

According to Roberts, the dininggroup will have fewer choices thanthe other ubgroup, a many diningdeci ion were either decided by theFounder's Group or will be left toDirector of Campus Dining RichardD. Berlin TIl. In addition, the dininghall will not be completed by thetime the dormitory opens.

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