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Prospective Studentsffit Campus fQr CPWBy Jennffer KrishnanNEWS ED/TOR

Over 700 prospective freshmenarrived on campus yesterday forCampus Preview Weekend.

About 850 prefrosh in all areexpected to participate in this year'sCPW, said Associate Director ofAdmissions Zaragoza A. Guerra. Hesaid he expects between 675 and700 parents to attend as well.

Prospective student Laurie D.Burns said people had generallybeen friendly. "Having been herethree hours I can see that [thestereotypes about MIT are] not thetruth at all," she said.

This year's turnout is signifi-cantly higher than that of recentyears, particularly the number of.parents attending. Last year, only

770 students and 400 parentsattended CPW.

Guerra said parents are invitedand encouraged to participate inCPW because "they are. a maj orstakeholder in the student's deci-.sion."

Many prefrosh staying in F~ILGsRoughly 40 percent of the pre-

frosh are staying in fraternities,sororities, and independent livinggroups this weekend, and theremainder are being housed in cam-pus dormitories, Guerra said.

David S. Glasser of Pennsylva-nia, .who happens to be Jewish butexpressed no preference for hous-ing, was assigned to stay at Alpha

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. MICHAEL F. UN-THE TECH

(L to R) Amy Wu, David Post, Ethan Rigel, and Phil Rlcherme browse through their information packets.More than 850 prospective members of the Class of 2006 are expected to visit for Campus PreviewWeekend.

lawsuits, Page 15

suit different legal situations.The parents of the late Elizabeth

H. Shin '02 alleged in Shin v. Mass-achusetts Institute of Technology, etal. that MIT violated the Massachu-setts unfair and deceptive businesspractices and consumer fraud statuteknown as Chapter 93A by providingineffective medical care which theysay led to Shin's April 2000 suicide.

Part of MIT's response was topaint itself as far from "business" aspossible. In its answer, MIT disput-ed the Shins' introductory language.

By Keith J. WlnsteinSTAFF REPORTER

To students occupied with thedaily grind of MIT life, it may notbe obvious that MIT is more than

• just anAnallJls~s ~ca.deI?ic---- ....!3...__ - __ mstltutIon.MIT not only deals with teaching,research, and student life; the Insti-tute is also involved in many legalbattles. A review by The Tech of17 of the Institute's currentlyongoing lawsuits found that incourt, MIT has interpreted its non-commercial status differently toGSC Elections, Page 17

Wijesinghe ran unopposedAlthough he was running unop-

WJjesinghe Elected GSC President MlT's Legal Approachesposed at Wednesday's election could not commit enough time to T~ • Di.ffi t £lmeeting, Wijesinghe declined his the GSc. Seneviratne estimated that f'ury In z eren t/asesearlier nomination at the meeting to being a GSC officer takes an aver-allow nominations to be reopened: age of 35 to 40 hours per week.'Seneviratne said candidates ninning "That's significant t,imethat youunopposed will normally decline the take away from research," he said.nomination at the election meeting Wijesinghe said he thought grad-for that reason. uate students were often limited by

However, no other candidates their research from getting involvedran for president. Wijesinghe said as GSC officers. Many faculty advi-that two other candidates were nom- sors do not allow their students toinated earlier, but each had get involved as officers due to thedeclined. lost research time, he said.

Seneviratne said numeroUs can- However, Wijesinghe said thedidates expressed interest in running GSC needs to make graduate stu-for the offices .. "There were more ,dents more aware that involvementthan four candidates" who initially and research can be balanced.accepted nominations, he said, butseveral later declined because they

By Kevin R. LangEDITOR IN CHIEF

The Graduate Student Councilelected'its officers for the 2002-2003academic year,Wednesday, choosingSanith Wijesinghe G as president,John P. Lock G as vice president,Vijay Shilpiekandula G as secretary,and Alvar Saenz"Otero G as treasurer.. Outgoing GSC President DilanA. Seneviratne said he thought thatthe new leadership gave the GSC "avery good mix of experience andyouth and energetic people." Thenew officers will take over at the.May GSC meeting.

Ashdown House LaunchesNon-Aramark Meal OptionBy Jeffrey Green~um especially given that the dinnersSTA.FF REPORTER would be open to all."

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Massachusetts State Pollee officers watch over a fleet of motorcycles, pollee cruisers, andSecret Service armored SUVs parked between the Media Lab and Building 66 Monday morning.An unlHlbllclzed visit by the President of Nicaragua was apparently responsible for the securitymeasure~~ .' _

In an attempt to diversify diningoptions on campus, Ashdown Housewill open its dining hall to the MITcommunity on Tuesday eveningswith a rotating international cuisine.

Local vendors will serve thefood in Ashdown's Hulsizer room.The dining hall will open this Tues-day with Indian food from Passageto India restaurant.

The dining plan will serve as away of "developing a greater senseof/community of the Ashdown stu-dents, developing a greater sense ofcamaraderie, as well as the opportu-nity to have a series of social eventsaround dining," said Dean for Stu-dent Life Larry G: Benedict.

Dean for Graduate StudentsIsaac M. Colbert said the plan was a"fine way to strengthen graduatecommunity across the Institute,

Arainark not involved in planA group of Ashdown residents

formed a committee and decidedthat they preferred to have foodfrom local restaurants, making thisthe one of the only dining halls oncampus that does not work withAramark.

In particular, the committeemembers decided to invite restau-rants that serve international mealsbecause "Ashdown has a significantinternational population ... [and]international cuisine in popular atAshdown," Shilpiekandula said.

In addition, the corrimitteemem-bers selected this dining planbecause "we thought that this would.provide a more cultural option to the

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Institute Professor Nicholas Ash-ford discusses global sustainabil-ity to kick off a new lectureseries.

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Comics

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OPINIONDan Tortorice argues why YasserArafat must go for peace to bereached in Israel and Palestine.

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World & Nation 2Opinion 4Events Calendar 9On the Screen .. : 11Sports .. " 20

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WORLD & NATIONApril 5, 2002

. By Dan Eggenand Walter PincusTHE WASHINGTON POST

Bush Confronts Prime MinisterWith New Demands for Israel

Hanssen Report Criticizes FBIFor Failure to Monitor Agents

u.s. Unveils StreamlinedAir Passenger Checkpoint

LOS ANGELES TIMESLINTHICUM. MARYLAND

The government Thursday unveiled its model airport passengercheckpoint, designed to prevent gridlock this summer as flights areexpected to return to near-normal levels and security screening dutiesswitch from private to federal employees.

The prototype, now operating at a concourse of the Baltimore air-port, is better organized and more closely controlled than a typicalcheckpoint, officials say. It features detectors that can't be unplugged,special enclosures for passengers who require more scrutiny and elec-tric gates that can be closed quickly if there is a security problem.

Hans Miller, a project manager for the Transportation SecurityAdministration, said the new approach offers measurable improve-ments in efficiency and weapons detection. The model will be phasedin at other airports on a yet-to-be determined schedule.

By summer, the transition to federal security screeners at 429 air-ports will be in full swing to meet a Nov. 19 deadline. If security isn'tstreamlined, industry analysts warn that summer travel could becomea maddening experience.

One Killed as Church StandoffIntensifies in Bethlehem

LOS ANGELES TmESBETHLEHEM. WEST BANK

The war of nerves and guns at the Church of the Nativity heated upThursday. Palestinians accused Israeli troops of killing a mentallyimpaired bell-ringer and advancing into the church compound, while theIsraelis said that Palestinians barricaded inside fired on them withoutprovocation.

An eruption of gunfire and explosions shortly after midnight Fridaywas an ominous development in the standoff at the site revered as thebirthplace of Jesus.

The siege began Tuesday during an Israeli military incursion intoBethlehem. About 200 Palestinians - at least 100 armed fighters and anumber of Palestinian Authority officials and civilians - took refuge inthe compound housing the Church of the Nativity and adjacent RomanCatholic and Armenian houses of worship.

Tensions escalated steadily Thursday. Palestinians said the Israeliswere tightening the military vise around them in preparation for anattack. About 1 a.m. Friday, Bethlehem Gov. Mohammed Madani saidby telephone from inside St. Catherine's Church next to the Church ofthe Nativity that he had heard four explosions and sustained gunfire.Israeli soldiers had entered the east courtyard of the compound, he said.

White Received Enron SupportDuring Transition as Secretary

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WASHINGTON

While his confirmation as Army Secretary was pending last spring,Thomas White received significant support from his employer, EnronCorp., including a letter of recommendation from then-chairman Ken-neth Lay, and rides to and from Washington on the company's jet.

The support was entirely appropriate, White said in an interviewThursday, adding that he flew from Houston to Washington "probono" to meet with the government's transition team and to getbriefed on the job. Relaxed and voluble during a half-hour interviewin his Pentagon office, White said he followed the rules in his transi-tion from Enron to the Bush administration.

"What would be improper?" he said of his several Enron-financedflights to Washington while awaiting Senate confirmation. "The gov-ernment's not paying me. I'm volunteering to do this for the benefitof the government."

By Alan SipressTf{E WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON

In dispatching Secretary of StateColin Powell to the Middle East,President Bush has substantiallybroadened the range of issues up forimmediate bargaining and confront-ed Israeli Prime Minister ArielSharcm for the first time with unwel-come demands aimed at addressingPalestinian concerns.

Bush's remarks Th ursda yincluded the harshest criticism hehas ever directed at Palestinianleader Yasser Arafat. But they werewrapped around a negotiating agen-da reflecting the White House'sconclusion in the past few days thatthe Palestinians must be providedmore tangible enticements to stopattacks on Israelis so the peaceprocess can resume.

The president explicitly urgedimmediate action by Sharon to easethe longstanding blockade on theWest Bank and Gaza Strip, whichhas staggered the Palestinian econo-my, and made the clearest demandever issued by an American presi-dent for an end to "Israeli settlementactivity in occupied territories."

The insistence on stopping set-tlement construction is certain to

WASHINGTON

The FBI's "pervasive inatten-tion to security," including a fail-ure to monitor the computer useand peorsonal finances of its agents,enabled Robert Hanssen to passsecrets to Moscow for more than20 years, according to a specialcommission's sharply wordedreport released Thursday.

"Simply put, security is not asvalued within the Bureau as it is inother agencies," concluded thecommission, headed by formerCIA and FBI director WilliamWebster. The report quoted an FBIInternal Security Task Force thatfound "security policies are too

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run afoul of Sharon, who has longbeen a chief patron of Jewish set-tlers, and is but one of severalAmerican demands that could leadto friction with the Israeli govern-ment.

Yet, even as the Bush adminis-tration sets new, more difficultrequirements of Israel, U.S. officialsare not contemplating the kind ofambitious negotiating strategyadopted by the Clinton administra-tion in pursuit of a final peace deal.Eighteen months of violence anddramatic political changes insideIsraeli and Palestinian societies nowpreclude this.

In addition to calling on Israel totake specific steps to satisfy Pales-tinian political and economic con-cerns, Bush is also seeking to enlistU.S. allies in the Arab world, name-ly Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia,to help win Arafat's agreement tocrack down on militant groups andaccept an American-brokered cease-fire. Powell spoke with the leadersof those countries Thursday andplans to visit them during hisupcoming mission.

A senior U.S. official saidadministration thinking had evolvedsince the weekend and concludedthat "these ideas that we were

often viewed as a nuisance tonegotiate around, rather than (as)edicts with which to comply."

Hanssen, whom the commis-sion interviewed and quoted pub-licly about his spying for the firsttime, told investigators that hepassed secrets to the Soviets andRussians because of financial pres-sures that created "an atmosphereof desperation." He gloated overthe lack of scrutiny by his superi-ors at the FBI.

"The only thing that possiblycould have uncovered my espi-onage activities was a completeinvestigation of my financial posi-tions and deposits -to bankaccounts," which would haverevealed wealth ° that his salarycouldn't explain, Hanssen said: "If

putting on the table were too nar-row. It wasn't enough. It simplydidn't provide an incentive for thePalestinians and the Arabs to startsaying and doing things we wantedthem to."

For much of their tenure, Bushand his national security team haveendorsed Sharon's demand that' aPalestinian crackdown on violenceprecede broader negotiations andaccepted that Israel's security needstrump Palestinian political aspira-tions, at least in the short term.

Powell's new mission will be tochart a negotiating course thatincludes security measures andpolitical steps satisfying both sides,what a senior administration officialcalled "road maps and reciprocalobligations." The goal is the restora-tion of calm after 18 months ofbloodletting and a resumption ofnegotiations toward a final peacedeal.

But although Bush said "the out-lines of a just settlement are clear,"he left them vague. He said onlythat this would include "two states,Israel and Palestine, living side byside in peace and security." Hemade no mention of the issues thathave long bedeviled peace talks andthwarted President Clinton's efforts.

I had been a more malevolent spythan I was,'~othe FBI "would havehad a very difficult time findingme."

"I could have been a devastat-ing spy, I think, but I didn't wantto be a devastating spy," he toldthe commission. "I wanted to get alittle money and to get out of it."

Webster said in an interview hebelieved Hanssen's espionageactivities were fueled by money"plus anger," which came from hisnot gettfng the recognition andadvancement he believed hedeserved. Webster, who was FBIdirector when Hanssen carried outsome of his espionage activities,will brief the Senate JudiciaryCommittee on the report on Tues-~~ .

Wmter RelapseBy Nikki Prive.'lUFF METEORO/.()GIST

The warm weather which visited us earlier this week did not linger, andthis weekend will seem more like early March than April. A region of highpressure will grip the Boston area all weekend, with a bout of cold air andflurries arriving this evening to bolster the cool temperatures. Only a fewflakes are to be expected, unlike in 1982, when more than 13 inches of snowfell during April 6-8. This cold snap should not last long, however, andmore seasonable temperatures will return early next week, with highs in the50s F (11°C).

In the rest of the country, strong thunderstorms and flooding are possibleover the southern central states this weekend, from Texas to the Ohio valley,as warm, moist air is drawn up from the Gulf. Drought conditions persist inthe Rockies and the East coast, with wildfires possible in some areas of theSouthwest.

Extended Forecast:

Today: Becoming cloudy, with chance of drizzle late, highs in the low40s F (6°C).

Tonight: Cloudy, chance of flurries, lows in the mid 20s F (-4°C).Saturday: Chilly with some clouds, highs in the lower 40s F (6"C), lows

at night in the low 20s F (-6"C).Sunday: Sunny but cool, highs in the mid 40s F (TC), lows around 30"F

(-I "C).Monda)': Warmer but windy, highs around 55.F (I3.C).

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Hundreds Arrested or' DetainedFor Alleged Assassination Plot

American Captured in MghanistanMay Face Federal Charges

THE WASHINGTON POSTWASHINGTON

Bush, Blair Prepare for .New TalksOn U.S. Role inMiddle East Crisis

By Robyn DixonLOS ANGELES TIMES

KABULTargets of an alleged Afghan

assassination conspiracy includedforeigners, the country's exiled king.and Prime Minister Hamid Karzai,authorities said Thursday, accusingthose arrested of "undermining,threatening, sabotaging and harmingthis government."

Interior Minister YounisQanooni said about 300 opponents.of Karzai's interim regime werearrested or detained in recent days,and 160 remain in custody. Authori-ties claimed to have seized bomb-detonating devices and documentsoutlining assassination plans, butQanooni said the plot never got

By Edwin Chenand Robin WrightLOS ANGELES TIMES

eRA WFORD. TEXAS

On the world stage, British PrimeMinister Tony Blair stands withoutrival as President Bush's head cheer-leader - to such an extent that crit-ics deride him as "America's poo-dle." But Blair arrives here Friday_for a weekend of consultations withBush as a counselor with sometough advice to dispense.

. His message: Forget about Iraquntil the Middle East crisis and thewar on terrorism"in Afghanistan _abate. Even then Blair is known toharbor doubts about the conse-quences of a campaign to oust IraqiPresident Saddam Hussein ..

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beyond the planning stage.Qanooni was among those on the

hit list, Afghan security officialssaid, as was Defense MinisterMohammed Qass.im Fahim andMohammad Zaher Shah, themonarch who was expelled in 1973and who is expected to return toAfghanistan this spring. Qanoonisaid the plot was also aimed"against our foreign guests as well"but did not specify whether hemeant soldiers, peacekeepers, diplo-mats or civilians.

The majority of those arrestedwere connected with the Hezb-i-

. Islami party of warlord Gulbuddin'. Hekmatyar, who had returned from

exile in Iran and was now in west-ern Afghanistan, according to

The talks between "George" and"Tony," as they call one another,should be cordial, reflecting a mutu-

-al affinity and their many sharedgoals and preferences, right down tothe same brand of toothpaste.

But Bush and Blair face no short-age of difficult subjects, quite asidefrom the Middle East andAfghanistan. That includes a furtherexpansion of NATO and a trade dis-pute with Europe resulting fromBush's recent imposition of tariffson steel imports.

"I think you're going to see avery wide-r~riging series of discus-sions," White House spokesman AriFleischer said at a news briefingWednesday.

"The United States and Great

Qanooni."These are people who have

been accused. The accusations arenot yet proven. An irivestigation isunder way, and in phases it willdetermine whether they are innocentor guilty," Qanooni said.

But he added: "What I'd makeclear is that they were engaged inundermining, threatening, sabotag-ing and harming this government."

It was difficult to determine towhat extent. the assassination threatwas real, or whether those arrestedwere engaged in legitimate politicalactivities in trying to reorganize theHezb-i-Islami party.

However, the arrests revealedthe fault lines in Afghanistan's frag-ile peace.

Britain enjoy a very special relation-ship .... And the two leaders enjoyspending time together and talkingabout these various topics," headded.

On the Middle East, they agreeon a common framework of action- the implementation of a cease-fire plan devised by CIA DirectorGeorge J. Tenet, followed by negoti-ations on a final political settlementas outlined by former Sen. George J.Mitchell.

But notwithstanding Bush'sannouncement Thursday that he isdispatching Secretary of State ColinL. Powell to the Middle East, Blairmay propose a British or Europeanrole in the search for peace in the .region. '

U.S. officials are considering transporting an American-born pris-oner from Guantanamo Bay either to a Navy base in Norfolk or toAlexandria, where he could stand trial on criminal charges similar tothose filed against John Walker Lindh, the California man captured inAfghanistan, government officials said Thursday.

Yasser Esam Hamdi, 22, who was captured in the same Afghanprison rebellion as Lindh last November, has been telling U.S. inter-rogators at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba for weeks thathe was born in Louisiana and moved with his family to Saudi Arabiaas an infant. Federal agents recently located his birth certificate inBaton Rouge, La., and government officials are weighing how to han-dle his case.

U.S. officials say they have not finally confirmed Hamdi's citizen-ship, but persons born in this country are automatically U.S. citizensunless they renounce their citizenship. It could not be learnedwhether he also is a Saudi citizen.

Governme~t officials said it is likely Hamdi will be flown to adetention facility in' the United States in the coming days or weeks,but they have not decided where. They also are discussing the legaljustifications for continuing to hold him. One option is sending himtemporarily to a jail at the Norfolk Naval Station until Justice Depart-ment officials decide what charges to file, officials said.

Bush, Congress Draw Battle LinesOn Trade Expansion Legislation

LOS ANGELES TIMESWASHINGTON

President Bush on Thursday gave Congress less than threeweeks to act on legislation to expand U.S. trade, but Democrats saidno progress was possible until the administration agreed to helpworkers laid off because of foreign competition.

Bush challenged the Senate to begin work by April 22 on twocontroversial bills. One would give him "fast-track" authority tonegotiate new trade agreements, and the other would grant tradepreferences to Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.

The president said U.S. credibility and South American stabilitywere at stake. "These bills are good for America, these bills aregood for our friends," Bush said in a sp~ech to State Departmentofficials ..

But he was silent on a third measure that Senate Democratsinsist must be part of the legislative package: more aid for U.S.workers who lose their jobs because of imports.

Senate Democrats said they were willing to approve the fast-track and Andean trade legislation by Memorial Day but only if thedeal included further trade adjustment assistance.

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OPINIONGive 17-Year- aIds a Local VOte

ChairmanJordan Rubin '02Editor in Chief

Kevin R. Lang '02Business ManagerRachel Johnson '02Managing EditorJoel C. Corbo '04

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Editors: Ian Lai '02, Joy Forsythe '04; AssociateEditors: Anju Kanumalla '03, Andrew Mamo'04. Shefali Oza '04; Staff: Gayani Tillekeratne'03, Eric Tung '04. David Carpenter 'OS, HangyulChung 'OS, Jennifer Fang 'OS. James Harvey 'OS,Nicholas R. Hoff '05, Jean Lu '05, Mandy Yeung'05, Ed Hill. Nur Aida Abdul Rahim.

After an 18-month campaign by students at Cambridge'sRindge and Latin high school, the Cambridge City Councilwill bring a petition requesting suffrage for 17-year-olds in

local elections to the Massachu-Editorial setts state legislature.Seventeen-year-old Cam-

bridge residents would be eligible to vote for City Counciland School Committee elections, in addition to local ballotquestions, Cambridge teenagers would be the only people inthe country younger than 18 allowed to vote in any election.

It is true that there is no obvious reason why the votingage would be lowered, as it was with the ratification of the26th Amendment in 1970, which gave 18-year-olds the rightto vote. In that case, teenagers argued that those who were oldenough to be drafted for the Vietnam war should be oldenough to vote in national elections, and the voting age waslowered from 21. In Cambridge, however, there is no obviousreason to lower the local voting age other than encouragingstudents to vote while still in high school.

However, there do not seem to be any legitimate argu-ments against letting 17-year-olds vote'in city elections. Sev-enteen is no less arbitrary an "appropriate age of maturity"than 18. The inclusion of 17-year-olds would not noticeablychange the local political landscape, especially given Cam-bridge's strong liberal voting block.

However, there is great benefit in the potential of a moreactive voting body. Lowering the local voting age to 17would give nearly all high school seniors the right to vote,whereas the current voting age means many students neverget to vote before leaving high school. By encouraging more

students to vote before heading off to work or college, Cam-bridge could help instill a sense of voting responsibility in alarger fraction of young potential voters. In Saxony, Ger-many, the local voting age was lowered to 16, and almostimmediately 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds were found tohave a higher voter turnout than 18-year-olds. While the samecannot be guaranteed to happen in Cambridge, the poor annu-al turnout from young voters could only improve with a lowervoting age.

However, there is perhaps no greater argument for lower-ing the local voting age than the simple fact that students cur-rently too young to vote are asking for the right to do so. Thefact that Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School studentsinitiated the campaign to petition the state legislature is apowerful reason for the enfranchisement for area high school-ers. Furthermore, educational funding initiatives and schoolboard elections will hit very close to home for those whoexperience the education system firsthand. While one couldargue that the voting age could be lowered even further forthis reason, there comes a point when students will simply betoo young to either take a serious interest in voting or sustainthat interest throughout the high school years, By letting 17-year-olds vote, students will be given the opportunity to reg-ister and get a first taste of voting just in time for their firstopportunity to vote in national elections the following year.With any luck, lowering the local voting age could have a sig-nificant impact on state and national turnout.

If nothing else, the plan is a noble experiment, and agood first step in reenergizing a dwindling spirit of civic dutyshown by the poor student voter turnout each November.

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men are created equal" instead of people ormen/women? Your ridiculous statements aboutthe ring obscure the real issue, gender bias inthe faculty.Fight the importantbattles first; oth-erwise you risk your voice and legitimacyamong your peers fighting the lesser battles. Ifthe seal bothers you (which is the issue you usethe ring as a proxy for), then fight the seal. '

Mostafa Sabet '00

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mittee. I think you're a tad cynical calling theRat a "means for corporate profit" and sayingyou "can choose to not purchase what wasdesigned within the patriarchal paradigm"merely because the seal has two men? What'snext? Calling the Declarationof Independenceasexist documentmeant to further the aims of thephallocracy through domination and reinforce-ment of traditional values because it says "All

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Maybe things have changed since my day,Ms. Wang ["ProgressingToward GenderBias,"April 2], but last time I checked the Ring Com-mittee's job is to design the class ring, not toredesignthe MIT seal.

If you have a problem with the seal, thenpetition the administration to start a Seal Com-

Fight the Seal

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It is undeniable that the World Bank hasfunded many initiatives attempting to alleviatepoverty, but the question is whether the fundinghas been effective.

Before evaluating the effectiveness of theWorld Bank, it is necessary to correct a basicfact that Mr. Tortorice told us about it["Defending the World Bank," Mar. 22]. Mr.Tortorice states that "a board of 24 executivedirectors -five from the United States, UnitedKingdom, France, Germany and Japan and theremaining 19 from the other member nations -make all but a few loan decisions." This is cor-rect, but each executive director does not haveequal voting power. Mr. Tortorice neglects totell the reader that each director is entitled to250 votes plus I additional vote for each shareof stock held. This means that the five executivedirectors from the developed world have morecontrol over loan decisions.

Next Mr. Tortorice comments on the SardarSarovar Dam Project in India. He states that"according to the Indian government the damwould have irrigated 1.8 million hectares offarmland in drought-prone areas." Mr. Tortoriceforgets to tell you that in 1992, the CerttralWater Commission, an office in the Indian Min-istry of Water Resources, admitted this estimatewas based on an over-estimate of river flow by17 percent! Furthermore, as students of scienceand engineering, we should also' analyzewhether year-round irrigation by canal of'anarea that is meant to be only seasonally irrigatedis sound. Evidence shows that such areas arefertile in the short term, but end up becomingwater-logged and saline. By the mid-1980s, 25million of the 37 million hectares under irriga-tion in Pakistan were estimated to be salinized,-water-logged, or both. According to Indian gov-ernment studies, over half of the Sardar Sarovarcommand area is prone to water-logging andsalinization. Given these problems, funding theSardar Sarovar dam does not seem like it was avery good investment by the World Bank.

Mr. Tortorice is also incorrect in writing that"the people who had to move didn't want'it [thecfun]." During the 'monsoon of 2000 and 2001thousands of Indians, many of whom do notlive in the valley, came out to support the Satya-graha (non-violent civil disobedience actions)against further construction of the dam andousting of people. Is it just to ask those with theleast political power in society to always sacri-fice for the good of the nation, even thoughnone of the benefits make it to them?

Next Mr. Tortorice tells us that "the Banksupports exemptions of user fees for those whocannot afford them," with regards to health careservices. He forgets to tell you that in a letter toa member of the U.S. Congress in the fall of .1999, then-World Bank. Vice President EduardoDoryan stated that "experience in and since the1980s has shown that the poor have not beeneffectively protected in many cases [from userfees]." A study by the Bank's Operation Eva.lu-ation Department reported in 1998 that in Zim-

- babwe, fewer than 20 percent of those eligiblereceived individual waivers for health user fees.A UNICEF study has shown that user fees arenot effective because of administrative barriersto obtaining an exemption; many people do notmow about the exemptions, and the decision togive exemptions is at the discretion of local ser-vice providers whose performance evaluationsare often linked to successfully collecting fees .It is useless for the World Bank to to have anexemption program if it is does not help those itwas intended for.

He also states that "it's only through userfees that the [health] system can be sustainedand the Bank can expect to have its loanrepaid." Yet the World Health Organization hasreported that user fees rarely. provide more than

. 5 percent of health budgets, but disproportion-ately reduce poor peoples' access to necessaryhealth services. Another strike against the effec-tiveness of a World Bank initiative.

I agree with Mr. Tortorice when he writesthat the World Bank is "simply that, a bank, nota foreign aid organization." The goal of a bank

. is to get a good return on its investment. TheWorld Bank has done that well. According tothe non-governmental organization 50 Years IsEnough, two thirds of the funding provided bythe Bank's International Development Associa-tion (a program that provides long-term loans atzero interest to the poorest of the developingcountries) was spent on repaying past World.Bank loans, not on poverty alleviation - a mis-sion that the 'World Bank has not been veryeffective in fulfilling the'past 58 years .

. Payal Parekh is a graduate student in theDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Plane-tary Sciences.

into Israel from Iran. But these documentsindicated that he continued to work in his oldcapacity even after he was "fired." The sce-nario seems typical 'of Arafat: He says onething and does another. He says he's commit-ted to peace, but is in reality funding terror-ism.

The implication of this disclosure is clear.Israel must never negotiate with Arafat. To doso would be to legitimize terrorism as a meansto achieving political objectives.

Make no mistake, the ghosts of those mur-dered by Arafat' s Al Aqsa brigade haunt anyfuture negotiations. Terrorism inspires fear.And any future IsraeVArafat negotiations willbe tainted by the thought that if they fail,

Arafat will be willingto use terror toachieve his ends.This is not to sayIsrael should notnegotiate for peace,but that they must dosO with someoneother than Arafat.Unfortunately aleader of the Pales-tinian people whorejects terrorism does

not now exist. Israel must wait until one doesto negotiate for peace.

Regrettably, the U.S. government stillwishes Arafat to be part of the peace process.I wonder how much longer we can dance thisdance until our hypocrisy is exposed, Wedestroyed the Taliban for being a governmentthat supported terrorism, yet we ask Israel tonegotiate with Arafat whose governmentfunds terrorism.' Like it or not, our war on ter-rorism gives Israel a license to declare war onArafat. And I hope they do, for the removal ofArafat is the first step towards peace.

in the execution?Maybe it's neither. Consider the past

Olympics, both in Sydney and Utah. Follow-ing the berating NBC received for airingevents "plausibly live," (read part two: tape-delay) in this brave new world of instanta-~eous online news, the network employed itsown form of triplecast. Using MSNBC andCNBC, a much higher number of events couldbe aired, and more in-depth coverage pro,vid-ed ..A similar tactic has been used to cover thepost-game interviews and press conferencesofNBA Finals games.

Why is that a more respectable route? It'sreally promoting the station instead of theevent. The initial Olympic "triplecast" - thepay.;.per-view sale of the events in Barcelona- was an economic failure, 'suggesting therejust wasn't that much interest to support large--scale coverage in this country. More remark-'ably, sports, especially relatively esoterico,nes, do not fit well into the programmingparadigms of either mini-BC, so it was not asiJ NBC could have drawn significantly moreviewers to its flagship network. Rather, it wastrying to draw people to cable, to get a name-brand edge over all the other around-the-clocknews' outlets. Next time that avid women~shockey fan thought news, he'd thinkMicrosoft.

Okay, so it had its glitches, and NBC willforever dramatize international sportingevents to a ridiculously and ironically Ameri-can-centric extent, but the point stands. Lordscannot reap large payments from their vassalsif upon the slightest success the vassal is pun-ished. The same is true of the media emperor;it must make a choice between furtheringitself or furthering the empire. At the very

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VJ;e destroyed the 7aliban for being a government thatsupported terrorism) yet we ask Israel to negotiate

With Arafat. UnJOrtunately a leader of the Palestinianpeople who rejects terrorism does not now exist.

Israel must wait until one does to negotiate for peace.

name (and occasional show) from the AOL-by-Turner' subsidiary. For those of you unwill-ing to see anything grand and conspiratorybehind kiddie cartoons, look no further thanthe worlds of auto racing, wherein TNt andNBC constantly promote the other's up com:ing programming.

Are we truly missing out on anything dueto this .lack of synergy? Each attemptdescribed above, after all, doesn't seem to besomething we'd want to see repeated else--where. Is it something inherent, or something

to the Saturday. morning television "ghetto."ABC's. bass-ackwards foray into cable -ABC Family - has not been promotedaggressively, no doubt because that channel'sprevious incarnation under Fox had not bene-fitted significantly from that network's exces- _

.sive branding. Once again, News Corp. showsup ...

. Yet the WB has had issues that can't bereasonably blamed on Rupert Murdoch,although Ted Turner makes a pretty goodstand-in for him. After taking all its animationoff the airwaves of other channels, WarnerBros. faced s~iff competition from the CartoonNetwork's "Toonatni" animation block. Thenetwork's response? Simply take the Toonami

bombings, one could argue that Arafat couldnot control these organizations so his speakingout against the bombing would have little tan-gible benefit. But at least three of the mostrecent bombings were carried out by Al Aqsa,the military arm of Arafat's own Fatah move-

.ment. By speaking out in opposition to thesehorrors committed by his own people Arafatcould stop them, yet he is silent. One shouldask why. And one should answer: because hesupports these terrorist acts.

The final nail in Arafat's coffin was ham-mered in on Tuesday. It was well known thatAl Aqsa received funding from Arafat's'Palestinian Authority but the direct link hadyet to be established. Then, on Tuesday, the

Israel Defense Force recovered documentsindicating that Al Asqa had asked Arafat for$100,000 to set up a weaponry ~factory and$15,000 per month to fund their operations.

_They indicated that Fouad al-Shoubaki, theformer chief of procurement and finance forArafat, had distributed funds to the -organiza-tion. Tangible evidence that Arafat's.Palestin-ian Authority is funding terrorism.

The discovery was notable for another rea-son. Fouad al-Shoubaki was the formerfinance chief because he was supposedly firedby Arafat after he attempted to smuggle arms

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I used to believe Yasser Arafat was com-mitted to peace. I used to believe that he want-ed a just resolution to the IsraellPalestine con-flict. I used to believe the terrorist actscommitted against Israel were done withouthis knowledge and against his will. I believedif he could have stopped them he would have.But recent events have proved this positionuntenable. In fact it has become obvious thatArafat supports terrorism as a means toachieve his political ends.

No conscionable individual could defendthe terrorist acts committed against Israel andthe Israeli people. To set a bomb off in acrowded cafe, restaurant or supermarket, toactively take the life of innocent civilians issimply immoral. No end can justify suchmeans. And to do so, in Israel, on Passover tokill Jews gathered for the Seder is an unspeak-able evil.

Yet Yasser Arafat did not speak outagainst these acts. Instead he chose to legiti-matize them. When, describing his own pre-carious situation surrounded by Israeli tanksand tnj'ops, he said, "They either want to killme, or~capture me, or expel me. I hope I willbe a martyr." What he did not say, he had noneed to. For the rest of the world finished itfor him. The message he sent to all would beterrorists was that he hoped to be a martyr likethe suicide bombers who attacked Israel.

If this were Arafat's only endorsement ofterrorism, perhaps Israel could still hope tonegotiate peace with him. However, it has

/ become increasingly clear that the organiza-tions which have carried out these bombingshave ties to Arafat. In the past, when Hamasor Islamic Jihad - .militant splinter groupsthat split with Arafat because of his conces-sions in the Oslo Accords - carried out the

Perhaps the greatest fear people have of -media conglomerates is their potential to grow .until they monopolize the airwaves. Yet there.seems to have been more cannibalization thancooperation on both sides of the tube. CBS'recent decision, for example, to air repeats of"Amazing Race" on UPN, has generated hor-rible ratings. "The. March to Madness," UPN'shour-long tribute to the NCAA basketball

- tourney-(read: an 'ad for CBS' broadcast of theF.i~al Four); ran afoul of several. UPN affili-ates owned by News Corp. If the networkchampion can't pull this sort of thing off, then 'who can?

Rupert Murdoch may justhave' been trying to keepsomeone else from doing whathe had long dreamed: owningthe world. While.he has indeedamassed a formidable army ofvenues in various forms ofmedia, their seeming dedica-tion to noninterference has leftthem largely incoherent. Late-ly there has been. a push toadvertise 20th Century Foxfilms on the Fox Network, butit has actually centered around the work ofLucasfilm. Nor do people seem to realize thatit's the same Fox; Murdoch has the goods butnot the brand.. Disney's 1995 purchase of ABC (through

Capital Cities), given ABC's established nameand the Mouse House's merchandisingprowess, seemed bette~ tailored to turn televi-sion programming into a giant commercial. I~reality. that has not been the case, for asidefrom "The Wonderful World of Disney," theDisney brand name's use has been relegated

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the United Nations on the UN inspectors' return.However, in response to Iraq's movement towards

meeting what the U.S. claimed to be its demands fromthe Iraqi government, the U.S. immediately cast, doubton Iraq's intentions and claimed that "the neighborshave enough experience with Iraq to know the value weshould place on Iraqi promises." (Richard Boucher, theState Department spokesman).

The U.S. might wish to ignore it, but the summit car-ried a blunt message: disproportionate and unjustifiedforce against Iraq will not be tolerated.

The Arab summit's stance on the Palestinian-Israelicrisis is also of imperative importance to de~tion andclarification of the relations between the U.S. and gov-ernments in the area. The peace initiative formulated byPrince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, now formallyendorsed by the whole Arab world, opens a new chapterin the political book of the Middle East. Although Israelis demonstrating the most militant reactions that havebeen practiced for more than a decade, the conditions fora peace agreement with Israel remain the same: com-plete withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories tothe 1967 borders. After 35 years of war, terror and occu- 'pation, 35 years of rel~ntless American and hence West-ern support for Israel, the demands stay the same.

The Arab summit once again demonstrated the longfO,rgotten pan-Arab responsibility and support networkthat holds the Arab population together. The summitdeclaration will need careful reading by the U.S. and itsallies as they consider their policies towards the regionas a whole in the months ahead.

What the Middle East is concerned with at themoment is putting an end to the bloody situation inIsrael, Making a second Palestine out of Iraq is simplyout of the question.

.Not Another PalestineOPINION

Maral Shamloo

A "no" was all Dick Cheney heard in his tour of 11countries in the Middle East. A firm "no" to America'sattack on Iraq or any renewed attempt to remove him byforce, now that war against terrorism seems to be thejustification for any action, whether or not it is just.

A unified "no," even from Saudi Arabia and Egypt,the United States' closest allies among the Arab nations,undermined the United States "soft" power: the powerto get others to want what you want as Joseph Nye, the 'Harvard professor, puts it.

But just in case that was not a big enough shock toBush's administration, Iraq emerged a victor last week,winning a statement of collective Arab' opposition topossible U.S. military action.

In my column "Sanctions Help No One" I arguedhow keeping the sanctions on Iraq would be disadvanta-geous to the U.S. for many reasons, not the least ofwhich is the increasing hostility towards the UnitedStates in the Arab world as a byproduct of U.S. foreignpolicies. The result of the summit is a 'further indicationtoward this claim. Whether or not Saddam' s govern-ment is considered legitimate by the Arab nations, hehas managed to earn their sympathy, which might wellbe a decision driven by public pressure.

What is more interesting is America's reaction to thenegotiations. Up until the summit, America's conditionsfor lifting the sanctions and even normalizing relationswith Iraq were the exact terms to which Iraq had commit-ted in the Beirut summit, namely recognition of Kuwait'ssovereignty, cooperation in seeking a definitive solutionto the issue of the Kuwaiti prisoners and perhaps mostimportantly, resumption of the dialogue between Iraq and

Saving Japan,Basil Enwegbara But even without the end of the Cold War, globaliza-

tion alone would have forced Japan to abandon theEveryone was taken by surprise. Even the world's empire building economic system and free ride on oth-

leading economists could not see it coming. Japan, once ers' domestic markets while tightly protecting its ownthe world's economic miracle, guided by the samurai domestic market. Or at least, it would have challengedbureaucratic warriors of the Ministry of International Japan's model of running two parallel economies, whereTrade and Indu~try and the Ministry of Finance, became one is a vibrantly competitive economy that is external-grounded in 1990. Since then the Japanese economy has ly focused, and the other one is a deeply inefficient andcontinued un~batedly deeper and deeper into recessions. corrupt economy that is internally protected.

As deflation causes prices to fall at about two percent There are two sins of this empire building economyannually and things cost less and less, everyone includ- of Japan. One is using the money cheaply extracteding leading companies and banks now prefers sitting on from the taxpayers (mostly through the Postal Savingscash to investing in the real economy. Even consumers Bank) to finance neo.:.mercantilists to aim not at profithave discovered that holding cash earns higher returns but at building market share that drives Japan's foreignsince goods bought today will be cheaper tomorrow and counterparts out of competition with cheaper and bettereven cheaper the day after tomorrow. But the same defla- products, particularly in cOIisumer electronics and auto-tion that is-making things cost less and less is also mobiles. The other is to at the same time tightly main-shrinking the world's second largest economy to such a tain a closed domestic economy led by the samuraigreat extent that increased loan defaults, corporate bank- bureaucrats and the old political guards of the Liberalruptcies, and unemployment are getting out of control. Democratic Party, who artificially. create domestic

Without clear reform policies, confusion has grown. monopolies reinforced by corporation-government rela-Experts now concur that the days of Japan as the tionships ..world's second largest economy are numbered. This It is this structural corruption that is mutually rein-convergence of opinion is convincingly reinforced as forced by ties between government and business,over $2 trillion in nonperforming bank loans are expos- between independent entities, and between .managementing leading banks such as Mizuho Financial Group, Mit- and labor that has sustained the two-economy systemsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, UFL Holdings, and that rewards cronies. Be~ause everyone is~fully aware5MBC to irreconcilable risks. Even depression econo-, that the system's purpose is empire building, no onemists, once with history and theoretical tools, now are opposes it. To support it at all costs, everyone does theirreexamining and doubting their own expertise as part including maintaining high savings, low consump-Japan's recession drags the country into the zone of an tion, and high exports for market share rather than foremerging economy comparable to Botswana. profit. The government further primes the system with

With domestic public and private institutions . domestic monopoly and de facto protection.increasingly exposed to great risks, most economists' But as Japan's economic engine gradually runs intonow consider Japan a threat to the global economy. grInding recession, economists now offer, all formS' ofEven the Japanese .people are increasingly accepting this rescue measures. Leading economists like Richard Katzview with anger, as they come to terms with this reality. believe the solution is in doing away with what they seeTheir anger, as they could not believe their eyes, is over as the fundamental structural flaws. To them that shouldhow could it happen to an economy they aU worked include dramatic structural reforms of the domestichard to build. The frustration grows into hopelessness economy, from the privatization of public utility firms,because they could not do anything other than watch the to competitive financial markets, to an efficie~t andeconomy fall deeper and deeper into recession. transparent banking system. But world-respected econo-

But why has this recession gone out of hand? Why is mists like Lester Thurow fail to agree that those reformsit that reforms remain difficult to come by? Does this are sufficient to turn the economy arowid, without Japanmean the failure of Japan's economic model? Here is dealing with the country's inherent communitarian andanother contraction; how co'uld Japan today become a familialist culture. Krugmanian economists are singingglobal economic liability even though it still remains the, an entirely new so'ng. They now blame miscalculationsworld's number one creditor nation with $1.3 trillion? It and the power of panic for the woes of this recessi~ntook a magisterial inquiry to find out the reality of the rather than 'Japan's flawed economic model.present devastating economic chaos Japan is in. The No matter which views are convincing, it is still inchaos will continue as long as there are no foreseeable the best interest of the Japanese people to embracesolutions, as long as Japanese people continue to hide major ref()rms. These reforms no matter what they are,from these realities, as long as they continue to embrace cannot have significance if they fail to address Japan'stheir predatory behavior and pianned economic system present style of capitalism by advancing economicrather than change to a free-market, free-for-all econom- transparency, efficiency, and democracy. It is here thatic system. Lester Thurow was completely right as he pointed out

But the most important lesson to learn from this the inherent danger of communitarian culture frustratinginquiry is that the neo-mercantilist economy so far true capitalism. Therefore, no matter how painful theseaggressively driven by great export orientation has long' changes might look, the Japanese people should realizesince become old fashioned and irrelevant with the end of that the changes ,are their only way to come out of reces-the Cold War. It revealed that why it lasted was simply sion.\>ecause America and its European allies tolerated it as There are great dangers in running huge budgetthe Cold War gesture to Japan. But this gesture could no deficits as a way of buying time. But' even th~ "buyinglonger continue in the present post-Cold War period, time" strategy will soon become more complicated,especially since Japan is no longer strategic to the world's especially when the working-age population declineonly superpower and largest economy. Therefore, not begins to impact the economy. In fact, the Japanese' peo-only did the end of the Cold War ground an empire-build- pie still have all that is required to turn the economying economy, but it also made it possible for the Japanese around. They have a highly educated workforce, sophis-game to be replayed back to ,Japan. It has come to the ticated managerial and entrepreneurial know-how com-point that Japan must agree to play by the new rule set for parable only to that of the U.S.; modem capital stock, afree competition, or should be out of the game entirely. good tax regime, and democratically stable government.

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about how we can integrate our faith and work. Free. Room: 4-231. Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fel-lowship.7:00 p.m. - Training Day. Free for Prefrosh! The toughest streets in L.A. are watched over by veterancop Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington, Academy Award Best Actor 2002). When rookie cop Jake Hoyt(Ethan Hawke) sees a fast route to making detective by going through the toughest ranks of theLAPD, he has no idea what he is in for his first day on the job with Harris. Hoyt is taken into thedepths of seedy drug underworld of Los Angeles for a frightening dose of what Harris calls ~realpolicing." From the moment these two characters meet we realize that their approaches to fightingcrime, while both effective, are going to collide head on. Training day is a test for Hoyt but this filmalso challenges its audience to question their morals, ideals, values and define how far they wouldgo to get justice. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.7:00 p.m. - MIT Anime Club Weekly Screening. MIT Anime Club Weekly Screening. ~Read or Die"Trilogy and Cowboy Bebop Movie: ~Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and ~Black Heaven" (1-3). Mostscreenings are subtitled in English. The MIT Anime Club is a non-profit MIT student organization dedi-cated to increasing the awareness of Japanese animation (anime) on campus. Free. Room: Rm 6-120. Sponsor: MIT Anime Club.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Autonomy and Freedom from Fear. Keynote Speaker: Susan Brison, Dart-mouth College. Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP). Free. Room: E51-151. Sponsor: Women'sStudies Program. Linguistics and Philosophy; Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Deanfor Graduate Students.7:00 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. - Large Group: Seeking International Justice. Join Asian Christian Fellowshipas we meet to hear a talk on ~Seeking International Justice." We will have a time of worship, prayer,and fellowship, and food! yay! Free. Room: McCormick Brown Living Room. Sponsor: Asian ChristianFellowship.8:00 p.m. - "Classic American Theater": Annual Campus Preview Weekend Concert. (MIT Ameri-can Music Series-March 2-May 10). The MIT Wind Ensemble and MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble (Fred-erick Harris. music director) and the MIT Concert Choir (William Cutter, music director) will collabo-rate in an evening of light music for winds, brass, and percussion. The performances will alsofeature a special arrangement by Cutter of American musical theater favorites for chorus and cham-ber ensemble. Rahul Sarathy '03, will be the trumpet soloist with the MIT Wind Ensemble. chorusand chamber ensemble. 7:15 p.m. Pre-concert talk on "Music at MIT." Free. Room: Kresge Auditori-um. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section.8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. - Spring Dance Festival. Come for two dance workshops and party at 9p.m.! See http://mitbdt.mit.edu for workshop schedule and pricing. Starting at $2. Room: Lobby 13.Sponsor: MIT Ballroom Dance Team. _8:00 p.m. - Dance Troupe Spring Concert. Dance Troupe is a student run organization and allpieces in the concert are student choreographed. A wide variety of dance styles, including modern,ballet. tap, jazz and funk is featured. $6 in advance, $7 at the door ($1 discount for pre-frosh).Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: DanceTroupe.8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Roadkill Buffet CPW Show! Come experience the touch, the feel, the amaz-ing improv comedy of Roadkill Buffet. So much freshly prepared humor, you'll feel slightly seasickafterwards. Best of all, it's FREE! Free. Room: 35-225. Sponsor: Roadkill Buffet.8:00 p.m. - "The Anomalous Museum: Arts Spaces in Institutions of Higher Learning." The final pro-gram in the second season of ABCD, Arts Boston Contemporary Dialogues, a series of annual paneldiscussions focusing on issues of interest and concern to the fine arts community of Boston. Bill Am-ing, Moderator - Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center. Laura Donaldson, Acting Director of the Galleryand Visiting Artist Program at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly. Joe Ketner, Director Rose Art Muse-um of Brandeis University. Linda Norden, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Fogg Art Museum,Harvard University. Judith Tannenbaum, Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum ofArt, Rhode Island School of Design. Free. Room: Bartos Theater. Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center.9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Club Z. Enjoy live jazz, free desserts and refreshments. Meet new peoplefrom all over MIT. Win gift certificates to J. Crew and BestBuy. Free. Room: 20 Chimneys (StudentCenter 3rd Floor). Sponsoc; ClubZ.:1.0:00 p.m. - TraLnlng Day. Free for Prefrosh! $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

Saturday, April 6

11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Science Fiction Ubrary. Here there be dragons; also spaceships. Also over90 percent of all science fiction (including fantasy) ever publiShed in English. Browse, read, whatev-er. Free. Room: MITSFS, W20-473. Sponsor: Science Rction Society, MIT.12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - ESP Open House. Imagine the chance to share all of your passions. ESPgives you that chance - to teach anything you want. Come hear about teaching for the EducationalStudies Program, a volunteer program that offers enrichment classes to high school students, righthere on the MIT campus. Free. Room: ESP - W20-467. Sponsor: Educational Studies Program, The.12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Solar Car Tour w/Food. Tour the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team lab.Everyone is invited! Free pizza! Meet for van pickup at 12 p.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Free. Room: Meetin Lobby 7. Sponsor: Solar Electric Vehicle Team, MIT.2:30 p~m. - 4:00 p.m. - Ice Cream Fiesta. In order to satisfy your sweet tooth Burton Conner is pro-viding Ice Cream to the pre-frosh and all of the MIT community. Free. Room: In front of Burton Con-ner. Sponsor:. Burton-Conner House.3:00 p.m. - SGBIS. Sping Greater Boston Invitational Sing. Come hear the A Cappella groups of MIT.FREE. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Chorallaries of MIT, The', Cross Products. Logarhythms, MIT, Muses,The MIT, Techiya, Toons, Resonance of MIT A Capella Group.3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - ATS Dessert Study Break. Come join members of MIT's Taiwanese-Ameri-can community for our study break this afternoon. Meet and hang out with Taiwanese-American stu-dents currently attending MIT, as well as your future classmates. Enjoy yummy desserts and pearlmilk tea. Come to ask us any questions you may have - about the institute, our community, anythingand everything else - we'd all love to help out. Free. Room: 8-119. Sponsor: Association of Tai-wanese Students, MIT.4:00 p.m. - Dance Troupe Spring Concert. Dance Troupe is a student run organization and allpieces in the concert are student choreographed. A wide variety of dance styles. including modern,ballet, tap. jazz and funk is featured. $6 in advance, $7 at the door ($1 discount for pre-frosh).Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: DanceTroupe.6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - United Christian Organization Potluck. Come and get some great home-made free food, fellowship, and fun! Meet Christians at MIT and ask them all manner of questions!(examples: what is the integral of (see x)"2? Do people at MIT ever shower? O/k» Stay as long asyou want getting some spiritual food (worship) or playing games after dinner. Free. Room: McCormickBrown Living Room. Sponsor: Asian Christian Fellowship.7:00 p.m. - The Business of Strangers. Free for Prefrosh! Debut director Patrick Stettner's darkthriller about a successful businesswoman (Stockard Channing) and her young assistant (JuliaStiles) who toy with a slow-witted businessman (Fred Willard) while stuck at an airport hotel. $3.Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.7:00 p.m. - MIT South Asian Cultural Show. Undergraduate and graduate student performers pre-sent MIT's diverse South Asian culture, ranging from Bengali singing to traditional Gujurati folkdances. $2. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Paksmit, South Asian American Students, Sangam.Bangladeshi Student Association,.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Autonomy and Freedom from Fear. Conference. Keynote Speaker: SusanBrison, Dartmouth College. Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP). Free. Room: E51-151. Sponsor:Women's Studies Program. Linguistics and Philosophy; Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sci-ences: Dean for Graduate Students.8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Travel to strange, new classrooms; meet inter-esting, unusual people: and kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up; guns provided. Free. Room:Building 36. First Floor. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, MIT.8:00 p.m. -1.0:00 p.m. - GaMIT movie night. GaMIT, the MIT LBGT group devoted to insuring theexistence of a queer-positive environment at MIT, is featuring the movie "Get Real" starring Ben Sil-verstone and Brad Gorton. Snacks will be provided. Free. Room: 50-306 (Walker Memorial, 3rdfloor). Sponsor: GaMIT.8:00 p.m. - Dance Troupe Spring Concert. Dance Troupe is a student run organization and allpieces in the concert are student choreographed. A wide variety of dance styles, including modern,ballet. tap, jazz and funk is featured. $6 in advance, $7 at the door ($1 discount for pre-frosh).Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: DanceTroupe.9:00 p.m. - Ivy Plus Virtual Career Fair. Looking for a job? Check out the Ivy plus Virtual Career Fair.See details at http://web.mit.edu/career/www. Free. Sponsor: OCSPA.

10:00 p.m. - The Business of Strangers. Free for Prefrosh! Debut director Patrick Stettner's darkthriller about a successful businesswoman (Stockard Channing) and her young assistant (JuliaStiles) who toy with a slow-witted businessman (Fred Willard) while stuck at an airport hotel. $3.Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

Sunday, April 7

1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. - MITR - My Friend (English movie with an Indian theme). Special moviescreening hosted by SANGAM.- the Indian Students Association. $5 ($3 for MIT students). Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, Sangam.2:00 p.m. - Dance Troupe Spring Concert. Dance Troupe is a student run organiz~tion and allpieces in the concert are student choreographed. A wide variety of dance styles, including modern,ballet, tap, jazz and funk is featured. $6 in advance, $7 at the door ($1 discount for pre-frosh).Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: DanceTroupe.4:00 p.m. - The Vega String Quartet. Wendy Yun Chen, violin; Jessica Shuang Wu, violin; YinziKong, viola and Guang Wang, cello perform Schubert's Quartetsatz, Soonjung Suh's Reminiscence(premiere) a~d Debussy's Quartet. Free. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Music and Theater ArtsSection.4:00 p.m. - Sashank, Carnatlc Flute. With Ganesh Prasad, violin; Satish Kumar, mridangam andKanijira; Radhakrishnan, ghatam and Guruaj, morsing. Presented by MITHAS (MIT Heritage of SouthAsia) in cooperation with Sangam and the New England Hindu Temple. Having made a sensation withhis playing since his debut at the age of 11, Shashank has continually developed his playing toinclude alternate flute fingerings to prOduce music of unique charm and original sound. $~ 7; $14-MITHAS and New England Hindu Temple members; $l0-students with 10; $5 MIT students with 10.Room: Wong Auditorium. Sponsor: MITHAS (MIT Heritage of South Asia).6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Grains of Rice: A Celebration of Asian Cultures. Annual pan-Asian ethnicbanquet and multicultural show, sponsored by 13 student groups and 8 academic departments ..Fea-turing performers from a multitude of MIT Asian student groups as well as. a cultural feast with dish-es from various Asian countries. This year's program includes spoken-word poets from Brown Univer-'sity.$8 presale, $10 door. Room: Walker Memorial Hall. Sponsor: Asian Pacific American Caucus,Association of Taiwanese Students, MIT, Chinese Students Club (MITCSC), Rlipino Students Associ-ation, Japanese Society of Undergraduates, Malays.ian Students Association, MIT, Thai Students atMIT, Undergraduate Association, Vietnamese Students Association, Foreign Languages & litera-tures, EECS, Natya, International Students Office. Bangladeshi S!udents Association, MIT BhangraClub, Oori, Council for the Arts, Architecture', Civil and Environmental Engineering, Literature Section,Materials Science and Engineering, Mathematics, MIT Fund, Sloan School of Management.7:00 p.m. -"Training Day. Free for Prefrosh! $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Autonomy and Freedom from Fear. Conference. Keynote Speaker: SusanBrison, Dartmouth College. Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP). Free. Room: E51-151: Sponsor:Women's Studies Program~ Linguistics and Philosophy; Dean of Humanities, Arts, and SociC!1Sci-ences; Dean for Graduate Students ...10:00 p.m. - The Business of Strangers. Free for Prefrosh! Debut director Patrick Stettneris darkthriller about a successful businesswoman (Stockard Channing) and, her young assistant (JuliaStiles) who toy with a slow-witted businessman (Fred Willard) while stuck at an airport hotel. $3.Room: 26-100. Sp'onsor: LSC.

Monday, April 8

12:00 p.m. - 1.:00 p.m. - Summer Camp Briefing. An overview of resources to help identify andselect day camp and summer enrichment programs for children. Free. Room: 16-151. Sponsor: Fami-.Iy Resource Center.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Working Group Recycling Committee Meeting. Committee Meeting ofWorking Group Recycling (WGR) task force. Open to all interested faculty, staff and students whowould like to help improve recycling at MIT. Free. Room: Adler Conference Room 39-327. Sponsor:Working Group on Support Staff Issues .. _ ..... .-2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Why So Slow: The Adva~~~~t~.'~u-py positions of power and prestige in every field? To achieve parity. we h~lVe to know what theproblems are as well as 'what the problems are not. The data show that there has been progressbut that a stubborn problem remains: advancement is slower for women than for men in every pro- 'fession. That stubborn problem is not (or not solely) due to too few women in the pipeline, -inequitable child care arrangements, or women's ~c~oosing" to leave the professions. Rather, theubiquity of women's slow advancement requires a general explanation, which this taJk will offer.The explanation uses the concepts of gender schemas and the accumulation of advantage. Gen-der schemas lead both men and women to see men as more competent and able than women, torespond more favorably to male than female leaders, and to attend and defer more to men than towomen. Many of the cases in which. a woman is disadvantaged are of. small scale. The notion ofthe accumulation of advantage demonstrates the importance of even small-scale disadv~ntageswhich mount up over time. The gender schemas analysis allows us to devise appropriate reme-dies at the institutional level and at more individual levels. Room: Building 34 Room 401. Spon-sor: MIT School of Engineering.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - EECS Special Seminar. Capacity and the Separation Theorem in Ad-Hoc Wire-less Networks. Free. Room: RLE Conference Room 36-428. Sponsor: Research Lab of Electronics.3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. - Special Physics Colloquium. Cascades and Singularities: Droplet Rssionand Selective Withdrawal. Free. Room: 2-190. Sponsor: Physics Department.3:00 p.m. - "Cinema Contemporaln et Critique Femlnlste." Talk (in French) by Genevieve Sellier.Free. Room: 14E-310. Sponsor: Foreign Languages & Literatures. MISTI-France.3:30 p.m •• 4:30 p.m. - Nondestructive Evaluation Technology for Nuclear Structural Materials.American Nuclear SOCiety/Nuclear Engineering Department Seminar Series. Free. Room: NWl4-1112. Sponsor: Nuclear Engineering ..4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - "Hilbert 16th problem and cyclicity of polycycles." Free. Room: 4-159.Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar. Department of Mathematics.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Mechanical Engineering Seminar - Fast and 'Robust: Hexapedal Robots viaShape Deposition Manufacturing. Despite recent advances in control and artificial intelligence, .today's robots lack the robustness and versatility of even the simplest of animals when operating inunstructured environments. This observation has prompted an interest in biomimetic robots thattake design and control inspiration from biology. In nature, structural compliance and damping arenot suppressed, but exploited. Dynamic motion is achieved not by high-bandwidth control, but by theuse of paSSive properties in structures and actuators that provide not only stability and disturbance-rejection, but also mechanisms for increased efficiency through energy storage and return. However,even biomimetic robotic designs are compromised by the complexity and fragility that re.su1t fromusing traditional engineering materials and manufacturing methods. Thus, biomimetic design andcontrol should be combined with structures that mimic the way biological structures are composed,with embedded actuators and sensors and spatially-varied materials. This proposition is made possi-ble by a layered-manufacturing technology called Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SOM). Room: 3-270. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept.4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - "Introducing the Euro:The Challenging Task of Polley Formulation." Speak-er will speak about Europe's initial experiences with introducing a common currency, the Euro. He willanalyze how the European central bank as well as the governments of member states are adjusting tothe change in financial sovereignty and explore the prospects for increased European integration.Free. Room: E38-615 (CIS Conference Room). Sponsor: History Office, Political Science Oept. MISTI.5:30 p.m. - 7:1.5 p.m. - The Resilient City Colloquium: Trauma, Recovery and Remembrance. MIT'sResilient City project was conceived in response to the terrorist attacks that destroyed New York'sWorld Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The COlloquium will examine critically how cities in the pasthave endured traumatic episodes, and prevailed to establish new order out of chaos and devastapon.Weekly lecture series. Free. Room: Room 10485. Sponsor: Department of Urban Studies and Planning.7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Stress and TMJ. Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction causes painand ~popping" in the jaw and can be related to stress. Come learn about this problem and what canbe done to treat it. Free. Room: W20-Private Dining Room 3. Sponsor: MIT Medical.7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Hungarian Folk Dancing. Mezosegi folk dance classes. Free. Room: 1-371.Sponsor: Hungarian Student Association of MIT.10:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. - Music at The Ear. The Lab8 Drum and Bass crew starts at 10 p.m. TheThirsty Ear Pub is located in the Ashdown House basement. Enter through the courtyard. Hours: Mon-day: 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Tuesday - Thursday: 7 p.m. - 1 a.m. Friday: 4 p.m. - 2 a.m; Must be over 21.Proper 10 required. This event is funded in part by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts atMIT. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: The Thirsty Ear Pub. ATat, MITOMC.

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classic novel. Though mostly enjoyable, withwonderful supporting performances byOrlando Jones and Jeremy Irons, the filmlacks continuity in both plot and theme. -Rich Redemske

The Time Machine **A mediocre time travel movie based on the

Super Troopers * *Dumb cops play tricks and,

have wacky~fun while on duty.The movie starts off cleverly'butquickly degrades into a' cliched .. -BRUCE TALAMONstory about catching drug Blade (Wesley Snipes) and Nomak (Luke Goss) facesmugglers and saving the off in New Une Cinema's action thriller Blade II.troopers' jobs. Good for a fewlaughs but quickly forgotten once you leavethe theater. -Megan. Ginter

Resident Evil *~

While its violence is barelyexcessive enough to make youcringe, its plot is not dynamicenough to make you truly care. Ifyou're looking a cheap thrill ride,Resident Evil can adequately con-jure your adrenaline. If not, thenavoid this one like the T-virus. -Jumaane Jeffries

RollerBall *Plot congruity, plot under-

standability, and finally, plot exis-tence follow' character develop-ment down the toilet in thisatrocious movie. As for action.scenes, there aren't many, and

.what 'is there isn't memorableexcept for its ridiculousness. Ifyou're thinking ..of going to thisone, just stay home. -Brian Loux

Crossroads * .

Three little girls bury a box of their goalsfor the future. Many years later, the girlsmeet up to open the box and talk about theirdreams and decide to take a road trip outwest. Many.adventures ensue on the car trip.The girls bond through N*SYNC sing-a-longs aild giggling. You'll laugh, you'll cry,you'll sing and dance, you'll get to seeBritney in a pair of little boy's BVDs.-Megan Ginter

I Am Sam **.*~I Am Sam centers around a mentally

challenged father, Sam Dawson (Sean Penn),and his fight against the state for his daughterLucy (Dakota Fanning). Abandoned byLucy's mother shortly after her birth, Samsingle-handedly raised Lucy until a socialworker questions Sam's ability to raise hisdaughter. With the he.lp of Rita Harrison(Michelle Pfeiffer) as his lawyer, Sam takeson tp.e state for the biggest challenge of hislife. - Ashley Robinson

. ~onsoon Wedding ***.The arranged marriage of a young Indian '

.couple in Delhi brings together a whole cast.~of delightful characters who sing, laugh andcry as they are reawakened and strengthenedby the power of love to bring peopletogether. Monsoon Wedding is a vibrant,light-hearted romantic comedy with atalented, all-star Indian cast and the intimatecreative touch of Mira Nair. - JonathanChoi

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40 Day~and 40 Nights * ~Just as Josh Hartnett vows to go 40 days

and nights without sex, he' meets the womanof his dreams. While it has its moments, 40Days and 40 Nights relies on the charm ofHartnett to carry the film; and fails. The tiredrepetition of one theme grates on the viewerand leaves the film stretched thin. - DanRobey

Blade II ***Although the plot is even less original than

the first, Blade II still delivers with its blood-drenched, dark vision of the world hiddenbeneath our own. If you want a serious moviewith a deep story, move on, but if you wanthard action and h~rrific visuals, see Blade II.-Dan'Robey

The Count of Monte Cristo **~An illiterate sailor finds himself

imprisoned because of the jealousy of his bestfriend. Seeking revenge, he manages to escapefrom solitude confinement to become amember of Europe's high society, in anattempt to wfu back the woman and the life heonce had. - Eric Chemi

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