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ILG Resident Adviser Pilot ProgramWill Receive Full Funding Next Year

President Clinton, after labelinghimself as "scientifically chal-lenged," in comparison to Ho andthe graduates present, outlined thetechnological and educational poli-cies which he feels are e sential tothe growth of the United tates. Hefocused on the desire for equal andadequate acce s to computer andthe Internet for all. linton warnedthat a refusal to act soon to providetechnological training to all wouldcreate a disparity of opportunity inthe United tates similar to thosecreated by the mechanization ofagriculture and the IndustrialRevolution.

"Choice cannot be deferred;they are made by action or inaction.Until every child has a computer inthe clas room ...American will missthe full promise of the informationage," aid Clinton.

Clinton presented degrees toCIa s Marshals Khan, amantha L.Lavery '98, and Michelle K.McDonough MCP '98. Coram,another class marshal who is still adoctoral candidate, received a hand-shake from the president.

Following Clinton's departure,Vest presented diplomas to thosereceiving undergraduate degrees,and Provost Joel Moses PhD '67,participating in his lastCommencement as Provost, award-ed advanced degrees.

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Campus Pollee remove a woman protesting Lori Berenson's plightafter she broke through security lines set up for the president's visit.

"society's lack of commitment tore earch in basic science" and urgedthe audience to reject the "prevail-ing view that immigrants constitutea con tant drain on our society."

Geoffrey 1. Coram G, outgoingpresident of the Graduate tudentCouncil, gave the salute from thegraduate students. Coram spoke ofthe pres ure of MIT, but then added''you would have been di appointedif MIT hadn't challenged you."

Coram expres ed confidence thatthe graduates would be succes fuland "make MIT as proud to claimyou as a graduate as you are of thatdiploma on your wall."

alman A. Khan '98, presidentof the graduating class, presentedPresident Vest with $26,000 for thepurpose of renovating the tudentCenter study lounge. Khan told hisclassmates, "It is no exaggeration tosay that we will change the world."

President Vest's annual chargeto the graduates was shortened sig-nificantly due to the pre ence of thetwo guest speakers. Vest told theaudience that he had recently beencalled a model president by an MITstudent, which delighted him "untilI looked up model in the dictionaryand saw that it is a small replica ofthe real thing."

He subsequently called upon thegraduates to "keep moving" throughtheir lives.

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Epsilon Phi, Zeta Beta Tau, ThetaXi, and possibly Kappa Sigma. Allof the resident sororities will be partof the program.

Originally, funding was onlypromised for the first six houseswho chose to participate in the fall.According to Dorow, several housessaid that they would be unable toparticipate if funding was not pro-vided.

Funding for houses beyond Fallterm 2000, when all ILGs musthave a resident adviser, remains

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towards a voluntary settlement withthe state attorney general's office thatwould increase alcohol enforcementand education in order to protect itfrom potential criminal charges.

The Globe also urged that MIThouse all freshmen on campus."MIT has the space. It has lackedthe will to change the policy."

Precedent for the Institute'spotential criminal liability comes inthe case of Commonwealth vWelansky. In the 1944 case, the

One of the longest ommence-ment exercises in history went offwithout any major hitches as thelargest audience ever was treated tospeeches from President BillClinton and celebrated researcherDr. David D. Ho last Friday inKillian Court.

The 2,100 graduates receiving1,049 undergraduate and 1,384graduate degrees were treated to asunny, cool day. An estimated10,000 guest watched the ceremo-ny, some arriving as early as 6:30a.m. in order to pass through thestringent security required by thepresident's visit.

President Clinton arrived byhelicopter on Briggs Field and metwith senior administrators and stu-dent leaders prior to the ceremony.He entered Killian Court after theacademic procession had been seat-ed near 11 a.m.

Ho delivered the first keynoteaddress in which he related hisexperiences in AIDS research to theaudience as examples of the excite-ment and wonders that scientificresearch can bring. He also warnedthe graduates in science and engi-neering fields that they will bestereotyped, undervalued, andunderpaid.

Ho also expressed concern over

By Susan BuchmanSTAFF REPORTER

independent living groups.The program will place graduate

students in off-campus fraternities,sororities, and independent livinggroups. These students will assumea position much like that of graduateresident tutors in dormitoriesalthough, as of yet, the role that res-ident advisers will play within agiven FSILG has not been com-pletely defined.

Ten living groups have appliedas potential participants in the pilotprogram. The fraternities likely toparticipate are Chi Phi, Sigma PhiEpsilon, Phi Beta Epsilon, Tau

reported Tuesday.Several MIT administrators have

voluntarily testified to the grand juryafter being summoned by Martin,including President Charles M. Vestand Chief of Police Anne P. Glavin.

Jim Borghesani, spokespersonfOf Suffolk County district attorneyRalph C. Martin III, declined tocomment on the case.

The Boston Globe published aneditorial today criticizing MIT'spolicies on alcohol in comparison toother universities. The editorial alsosuggested that the Institute work

All independent living groupswhich participate in the residentadviser pilot program next year willnow be funded by the Institutedespite early concerns that fundingwould not be available for all hous-es, according to Assistant Dean forResident and Campus Activities

eal H. Dorow."We will be able to provide

funding for all the houses whodecide to participate [in the pilotprogram]," said Dorow, who acts asadviser to fraternities, sororities, and

By Frank DabekNEWS EDITOR

GABOR CSANYI-THE TECH

President Bill Clinton and Dr. David D. Ho confer during the 132ndCommencement exercises held last Friday.

Krueger's Family Speaks Out; MITMay Face Added Public ScrutinyBy Zareena HussainNEWS EDITOR

The Institute has once againcome into the media spotlight asNewsweek published an interviewwith the family of Scott S.Krueger '01 about the events lead-ing up to and after his death in itsJune 15 issue.

The now eight month long grandjury investigation into the drinkingdeath of the freshman and PhiGamma Delta pledge is beginningto focus on MIT's possible liabilityin the case, The Boston Globe

MIT cele-brates itsgraduates.

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Parents of former MIT studentLori Berenson share insight intothe life of their daughter as theyplead for her release from aPeruvian prison.

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Clinton Defends China PolicyOn Eve of VISitto Tienanmen

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ODlS ABABA. ETHIOPIA

Eritrean and Ethiopian force clashed violently again Thur day,thi time on a new front 300 mile from the rocky triangle of di putedland that lie at the heart of their armed border conflict.

Ethiopia claimed a major victory in the fighting near the Red eaon the countrie ' far southea tern border, aying it killed, wounded orcaptured 2,000 Eritrean soldiers in a sneak attack gone awry.

"Thi time the Eritrean may have really gotten mauled," said adiplomat here in the Ethiopian capital.

Ethiopian officials claimed that Eritrean troops urprised theirforce near Bure. One Eritrean element attacked from the front, theofficial said, while a econd attacked from rear position they hadecretly a umed during the previous night. But the encircled

Ethiopian force repul ed the frontal attack, then "completely defeat-ed" the Eritreans behind them when Ethiopian re erve turned upbehind the Eritrean , according to a enior Ethiopian ForeignMini try official.

Eritrea di puted that account, claiming Ethiopia had opened thenew front and implying that it neighbor was trying to capture theRed ea port of A sab, 50 mile from the site of Thur day's fight.

ince Eritrea, a former Ethiopian province, gained independence in1993, Ethiopia ha been landlocked and has conducted its maritimecommerce through A sab and Ma sawa in Eritrea, a well a throughtiny Djibouti.

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The United Auto Worker union wa poised to spread its strike toa second General Motors Corp. parts plant in Flint, Mich. onThursday night, a move almost certain to shut down the company'sentire orth American assembly operation by the middle of nextweek.

Little progress was reported late Thursday in negotiation ateither plant.

In the meantime, the impact of a week-long strike against a GMmetal tamping plant in Flint continued to ripple throughout the com-pany's operation. As of 4 p.m. Thursday, GM said it had been forcedto layoff 25,000 workers in 24 plants in the United State, Canadaand Mexico because of a growing parts shortage. The plant makesfenders, door and hood. for a variety of GM vehicle .

UA W official in Baltimore said the company notified themThursday it would close the GM assembly plant on there sometimeduring the second shift Friday afternoon because of a shortage offrames. The plant employs 3,100 UAW members.

Albright Warns Mexico ot toIndict U.S. Undercover Agents

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U.S. ecretary of tate Madeleine Albright admonished Mexico onThursday to refrain from carrying out its threat to indict U.S. under-cover agents who delved into Mexican territory to catch Mexicanbankers in the Operation Ca ablanca money-laundering sting.

Despite her public defense of the U.. agents, new evidence sug-ge ts that, behind the scene , Albright ha been highly critical of theTreasury Department handling of this matter.

In a scathing letter to Trea ury ecretary Robert Rubin, publishedThur day in the Congres ional Record, Albright complained abouthi failure to notify her office and the Mexican government before hisannouncement of the sting three weeks ago.

"We might have achieved more favorable re ult ," Albright wroteRubin, "if we had brought [Mexican] Attorney General [Jorge]Madrazo and a few others into our confidence a few day before thepublic announcement.

Her admonition to the Mexicans about the threatened pro ecutionof U.. agent came at a news conference closing the annual meetingof the two nation' Cabinets. "I do think that prosecution and extradi-tion would be counterproductive," she told reporter. "We need toconcentrate on the criminal. That is the point of thi . We have tokeep our mind on what it is we're trying to do together, which is toget those who are engaged in criminal activities that are damagingboth our countries."

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By Douglas E. HeimburgerEDITOR IN CHIEF

This week's beautiful skies will give way to wet conditions thisweekend as a low pressure front over Illinois yesterday moves intothe region this morning, bringing with it cool temperatures, onshorebreeze and cloudy skies. Rain off and on today will be more com-mon to the west of Boston as the showers move in.

The rain will continue into Saturday, with a chance of showersand thunderstorms all the way through Tuesday. Temperatures willremain unseasonably cool due to the onshore breezes and the cloudyskies.

Today: Increasing cloudiness and showers preading from west toeast. Thunderstorms and heavy rain possible west. Highs in the 60s(16-2 1°C).

Tonight and aturday: Rain, heavy to the west. Lows in the mid50s (12-14°C). Highs in the 60s (16-21°C)

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It was not a telephone call that alawyer practicing in ewHampshire would expect. But on theline that day in January wa BruceR. Lind ey, a White Hou e official.

What, Lindsey wanted to know,did the lawyer' client, a retiredchief White House steward namedMichael J. McGrath, know aboutthe president and a former intern,Monica . Lewinsky? Lind ey, saida source familiar with the conversa-tion, "was trying to take a barometerof the facts."

After reviewing Lind ey'actions, a federal judge has sharplyque tioned why a lawyer on thegovernment payroll was doing thiskind of sleuthing.

"The court questions the propri-ety of the president utilizing a gov-ernment attorney as his personalagent in a personal attorney-clientrelationship," Chief U.S. DistrictJudge orma Holloway Johnsonwrote, in a 51-page opinion that sheigned on May 1. Johnson is over-

seeing the independent counsel'sinvestigation of Clinton's conductwith Lewinsky.

Lindsey's official title is assi -tant to the president and deputyWhite House counsel. His status asClinton's right-hand man is wellknown in Washington.

But secret portions of courtrecords in the case illuminate thepresidential aide's special role as anintelligence and reconnaissanceoperative. The records show thatLindsey directly sought informationfrom two other witne ses in theLewinsky matter at the time thecontroversy was erupting: VernonE. Jordan Jr., the Washington lobby-ist who helped Lewinsky find a job,and, D. Stephen Goodin, the presi-dent's per onal scheduler whose job

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After weeks of pummeling of hisoutreach to China, President Clintonissued a broad defense Thursday ofhis deci ion to seek closer relationswith Beijing, arguing that expand-ing cooperation i critical to pre-erving U.S. national security and

"building a stable internationalorder."

Two weeks before the beginningof hi fir t visit to the world's mostpopulous country, Clinton acknowl-edged the biparti an criticism of hispolicy of engagement. But he saidthe policy is a "principled, pragmat-ic approach" that does not glossover "fundamental differences" withthe communist regime while foster-ing reform through vigorous eco-nomic and cultural ties.

"Choosing isolation overengagement would not make theworld safer; it would make it moredangerous," the president said. "Itwould undermine, rather thanstrengthen, our efforts to foster sta-bility in Asia. It will eliminate, notfacilitate, cooperation on issuesrelating to weapons of mass destruc-tion. It would hinder, not help, thecause of democracy and humanrights in China."

The half-hour address at theational Geographic Society came

on the same day that a Senate panelopened hearings featuring allega-tions that U.S. policy had led to sen-sitive technology passing to theChinese from private U.S. firms.

had entailed shadowing Clintonthrough much of his workday.

Lind ey has refused to answerprosecutors' que tions about hiscontact with the witnes es or theirattorneys, citing lawyer-client privi.lege.

Lindsey, 50, declined to be inter.viewed for this article. In extendedcomments la t week, White HouseCounsel Charles F.e. Ruff defendedthe propriety of the role played byLindsey.

"When he is discussing the pres-ident's official business with thepresident and performing his role asdeputy White House counsel, Ibelieve those conversations ought tobe protected by the attorney-clientprivilege," Ruff said.

Independent Counsel Kenneth W.Starr want to know what Lindseysaid during his contacts and whetherLindsey crossed the line frominnocuous fact-finding to implicitlycoaching a witness' testimony.

Whether Lindsey must discloseunder oath what he know about theLewinsky matter is the subject of alegal battle that will go to an appealscourt Monday and, by next fall,probably on to the Supreme Court.

How the dispute is resolvedstands to influence the conduct ofgovernment lawyers for years tocome - and to shed fresh light onwhat Clinton's inner circle wasdoing in the frantic first days of theLewinsky controversy.

Lindsey's contacts with the wit-nesses came near the time when fed-eral investigators confrontedLewinsky on Jan. 16 in anArlington, Va., hotel with evidencethat she had had an intimate rela-tionship with the president and liedabout it under oath. The agentssought her cooperation in determin-ing whether Clinton or others wereinvolved in an illegal cover.up.They also sought other witnesseswith knowledge of the matter.

The talk was intended to help"shape the debate," as an aide put it.Until Thursday, even some support.ers had complained that Clinton hadnot offered the public a comprehen-sive and coherent case for his policyand the upcoming trip.

When he arrives on his nine-day,five-city journey on June 25,Clinton will be the first U.S. presi-dent to visit China since theTiananmen Square massacre in1989, in which Chinese troopskilled hundreds of pro-democracydemonstrators. In the most political-ly charged moment on his schedule,he will participate in a welcomingceremony at the square, where theChinese routinely greet visitingheads of state.

Clinton Thursday disputed sug-gestions "that somehow going therewould absolve the Chinese govern-ment of its responsibility for the terri-ble killings at Tiananmen Square nineyears ago or indicate that America isno longer concerned about such con-duct." Instead, he said, ~eijing must"recognize the reality that what thegovernment did was wrong."

Yet he maintained there was lit-tle to gain by snubbing his hosts."We do not ignore the value of sym-bols," he said. "But in the end, if thechoice is between making a symbol-ic point and making a real differ-ence, I choose to make the differ-ence."

Critics remained unpersuaded,assailing both his overall philosophyand his failure to set specific goalsfor this month's trip. "I don't think

Clinton has denied under oaththat he ever had sexual contact with ~Lewinsky.

Lindsey' early contacts with thewitnesses or their attorneys wereimportant to Clinton, in part becausethe president was considering what,if anything, to say publicly aboutthe nature of his dealings withLewinsky.

Lindsey's efforts also wouldhelp in the preparation of Clinton'sdefense strategy, as the presidentand his lawyers sought to anticipateand parry Starr's moves. ThroughLindsey's contact with McGrath'sattorney, Clinton also could learnwhether the retired steward was afirst-hand, or hearsay witness to thealleged episode in late-l 995.

Lindsey is also refusing toanswer questions about his conver-sation several months ago withJordan, who had been asked by theWhite House to help find Lewinskya job in the private sector. Jordanalso arranged for Lewinsky to berepresented by a lawyer inWashington.

Goodin, the scheduler who wasat the president's side for innumer-able meetings and activities, ~declined to comment Thursday on ..Lindsey's contact. "I'm not going totalk about that kind of stuff," saidGoodin, who left the White Houseabout three months ago.

The propriety of Lindsey'sactions involving the witnesses is amatter of intense dispute.

Starr maintains that governmentlawyers should not engage in suchconduct. The government lawyers,Starr says, serve the interests of thepeople, not a single office holder -in this instance, President Clinton.

Johnson, in ruling last monththat Lindsey must answer the ques-tions before the grand jury, ques-tioned the propriety of a govern-ment lawyer providing personallegal-defense services.

the president said anything particu-larly new or compelling here," saidMike Jendrzejczyk of Human RightsWatch/Asia. "To some extent, he'sarguing a point that's already beenmade. The more important point is:What does he actually expect toachieve by going to China?"

"He's setting up a false dichoto-my," said Gary Bauer, head of theconservative Family ResearchCouncil. "He's claiming that thedebate is between a policy ofengagement and a policy of isola-tionism, when in fact the debate isabout what kind of engagementwe're going to have."

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, O.Calif., saidClinton ignored evidence that Chinahas flouted attempts to curbweapons proliferation and continuesto imprison thousands of dissidents."If the president doesn't face up tothe realities of his trip to China, touse his own words, he will be goingon a fool's errand," she said.

Supporters of Clinton's approachwelcomed his full-throated entryinto the arena. Nicholas R. Lardy, asenior fellow at the BrookingsInstitution and author of a forthcom-ing book on China, called Clinton'stalk a "very effective speech" thatexplained his reasoning in a "clearand coherent way."

"I wish he had given it sooner,"Lardy said. "With the crescendo ofcriticism over the last few weeks,there's been so much adverse pub-licity it would have been good forthe administration to get its messageout earlier and more forcefully."

Stocks, Bonds. Fall as InvestorsPull Out of Weak Japanese Yen'By Paul Blusteln industrial average lost nearly 160 only be remedied by restoring eco-and Steven Mufson points, or 1.8 percent, to clo e at nomic strength in Japan." He aid itTHE WASHINGTON POST 8,811.77. was more urgent than ever for

The Japanese yen fell to an Top U.S. officials spent the day Tokyo to revamp its ailing banking. ght-year low against the U.S. dol- warning that the United States has system and boost its 'flagging eco-lar Thursday, driving down the few if any options for dealing with nomic growth.prices of stocks and currencies this latest jolt to Asia's economies, Japan's anemic economy andaround the world and prompting which they fear could deepen and. sagging currency hurt its neighborsinternational financial officials to prolong the region's crisis and in two main ways:warn that Japan's economic troubles spread to other countries, including Because Japan's high-tech econ-now threaten to tip Asia into a new' China and Russia. U.S. Treasury omy is a major market for Eastround of crises. Secretary R,obert E. Rubin told a Asian products, the fall in spending

Many investors dumped Asian Senate hearing that the responsibili- there dampens demand for Asianstocks and currencies and poured ty for stemming the slide in the yen exports and diminishes recoverythe cash into U.S. Treasury bonds, and quelling the crisis rests squarely prospects in crisis-stricken countrieswhich are considered 'a safe haven with Japan. such as South Korea and Thailand.in times of turmoil. That helped "I think the question is, what can' . The lower the yen falls, thedrive U.S. interest rates lower as the we do?" Rubin said, rejecting sug- cheaper Japanese products becomeyield on the benchmark 30-year gestions that the United States on world markets, which under-Treasury fell to a record 5.65 per- might take action to halt the dol1ar's mines the competitiveness of rivalcent. U.S. stock prices plummeted rise on currency markets. "The Asian goods. The yen fell Thursdayon fears that Asia's woes wi11 hurt weakness of the yen reflects the eco- to more than 144 in relation to thecorporate earnings. The Dow Jones nomic conditions in Japan, and can dollar.

Russia to Bolster Finances byBorro · g From Foreign Sources

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Rus ia, crambling to shore up its weak ublic finances andre tore inve tor confidence, announced plan Thur day to nearly dou-ble planned borrowing on global credit markets, officials hinted at aale of some state share in natural gas monopoly Gazprom, one of

Ru sia's corporate crown jewel . .It al 0 wa disclosed that Ru sia had secretly borrowed $200 mil-

lion in a ruble-denominated loan from Western commercial banksI t :rhursday. The Financial Times of London, which reported thedeal, aid the Rus ian government had agreed to protect the lenderfrom the risk of a devaluation by linking the loan to the ruble curren-cy exchange rate.

The government has taken a few uch loan in the past, but appar-ently thi wa the first time it offered protection again t devaluation.Pre ident Boris Yelt in repeatedly has in i ted that Ru sia doe notintend to devalue the ruble.

In another development, the Russian tock market continued tolide in the wake of vague statement from international finance offi-

cial meeting in Paris that, if needed, the International MonetaryFund would put together a new package for Ru ia. The markets hadbeen looking for 'a firm signal that a Ru ia rescue loan wa in thework.

The Ru sian Trading y tem' main index closed down 3.3 per-cent Thur day at 17 . I.

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Murdoch is Selling 1V GuideFor $2 Billion

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Ten year after Rupert Murdoch bought TV Guide in a packagethat cost a taggering $3 billion, the media titan announced Thur daythat he wil1 ell the publication to the operator of cable TV' Prevuechannel for 2 bi1lion in cash and tock.

The transaction will allow the buyer, United Video atelliteGroup Inc., which is part of cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., toparlay the TV Guide brand name and the magazine's voluminou TVlistings into an enhancement of the Prevue program-guide channeland its interactive listings services. Prevue, which features scrol1ingTV listings and pay-per-view ads, now reaches 50 million house-hold.

The deal wil1 give Murdoch's ews Corp. an ownership stake inUnited Video and allow him to continue focusing greater attention onhis electronic media and entertainment ventures.

The agreement also lets Murdoch shed a magazine with limitedgrowth potential and growing competition from new papers, whichpublish their own TV listings. TV Guide, who e weekly circulationof 13.1 million copies is down from 17 million when Murdochbought it, had estimated advertising revenue last year of 469 mil-lion.

"Was this the greatest inve tment for Murdoch from point A topoint B? 0," said John S. Reidy, a media analy t with mithBarney, referring to the $2 bil1ion price. "But he's drawn cash flowout of this for 10 year ... in the $150 million range" a year.

thousand I ft hom Ie in the fight-ing, which inten ified in late M ywhen erbian force launched anall-out c mpaign to clear theKo ovo-Albanian border region ofguerrillas. At lea t 10,000 refu~eeshave sine fled to Albania.

After reviewing what haevolved into Europe' wor t ecuri-ty crisi since the 1992-95 war inBosnian, the ATO mini terexpre ed concern that the situationin Ko ovo had "deteriorated eri-ou Iy in recent day " becau e of a<new level of violence" by erbianecurity forces.

The ministers called for the pro-tection of civil right for all ofKosovo' ethnic group and there toration of autonomy to ethnicAlbanians while preserving the ter-ritorial integrity ofYugo lavia - ineffect, siding against ethnicAlbanian ' demands for indepen-dence.

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detailed plans for additional . tep •including po ibl air tri e inYugo lavi , if Milo evic doe notback down. H' aid ATO hasthree go Is: to prevent the violentexpulsion of refugees, to end theviolence and to encourage seriounegotiations between erb and eth-nic Albanian .

Koso 0 is a outhern province oferbia, the largest of Yugo lavia's

two remaining republic, whereerb are outnumbered 9-to-l by

ethnic Albanians but control gov-ernment and ecurity ervice. TheAlbanians were tripped of theirautonomy in 19 9.

The conflict erupted in February,when Yugo lav army and Serbianpolice units began an offensiveagain t the separati t Ko ovoLiberation Army, which ha beenattacking Serbian targets in an effortto win independence. More than 250people have been killed and tens of

June 12, 199

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ATO La..--_OverB~ ..

BRUSSELS, BELGIU

ATO defense mInIsterThur day ordered allied military

uthorities to launch air exercise in.1bania and Macedonia to escalate

pre sure on Yugo lav Presidentlobodan Milo evic to halt the

crackdown on ethnic Albanians inneighboring Ko ovo. •

The show of air power, whichcould start within days, i intendedto demonstrate ATO strength inthe region while avoiding directWe tern military intervention.

"Milosevic has gone beyond thelimit of tolerable behavior:' ATOSecretary General Javier Solanasaid. "We are showing that we arewilling to back up internationaldiplomacy with military means."

Solana said the 16 ATOdefense ministers also would askmilitary planners to draw up

'Graduate Student Council.m ,Walker Memorial, 50-220 1r 253-2195

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.Large Event FundingThe GSC, VA, and ASA proudly announce the availability of funds for larg~ eventsfor the 1998-1999 school year. This funding, made possible by a $200,000 cillocation .from the Provost's Office, will allow $50,000 to be devoted solely to large community- :wide events over the next year. We.now ask student groups to develop and submit :P!oposals for funding. We plan to aIlocate approximately $10,000 - $2D,OOOof the . ·$50))00 in late June to organize more large events with campus-wide appeal.One person representing each event shoUld be available for a short presentation and ·to answer questions on Tuesday, June 30 between 6 and 7:30pm. Applications andmore information are at http://web.mit.edu/ gsc/www /money /. Deadline forapplications is Monday, June 29 at noon in thelJA office (W20-401). FUrtherquestions should be directed to asa-exec@mit.edu................................................................

Want to Get More Involved?!?The Orientation Committee is looking for people to help with this Fall's Graduate · litStudent Orientation. Contact Brian Lee (lee21@mit.edu) for more information. ~The Activities, Research, & Careers is looking for people to help with the Career Fair for •this Fall. Contact Philip Yoon (dreamer@mit.edu) for more information.There are still several opening on the Institute Committees. Contact Hans Jacob Feder(gsc-vice-president@mit.edu) for more information.

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World Cup Soccer USA vs. GermanyThirsty Ear Pub, 3-5 pm .Appetizers will be provided

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. Montreal Jazz Festival - July 10-12Leave 8 a.m. Friday, July 10 & Return 11 p.m. Sunday, July 12. $75 for MITgraduate students & post-

docs & $85 for guests, which includes transportation to and from Montreal, and two nights in a single :room at the McGillUniversity residence halls. Participants are responsible for providing their ownfood and incidentals. Many of the musical event are free!! Visaswill be needed for international

students. This event has been very popular & successful in the past. Students can sign up in 50-220. ;

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General Council Meeting ** at 5:30pm in Room 50-220.

All graduate students are welcome. Food is provided.

GRT : Admini tration's money trouble abruptly di -••• appear. 0 why lie about it in the first place?

Chancellor Position: Cool professor gets shunted••• into long-term planning job. But will anything get

done?

H cr. orry, guy, but e-mail does not on titute ahack. Even Clinton was expecting omething.

ewsweek: Washington Post publication exposesuntil-now ecret detail on the Krueger incident. Who'sbeen meeting with Bob Woodward in the parkinggarage?

Neutrinos: Physicist make biggest discovery in adecade. Too bad only Course VIII care .

S E: Major anctions from the IFC become a lap onthe wri t. Whatever happened to the y tern policingit elf?

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r. D "d 0: Relevant, thoughtful peech how anunder tanding of i sue facing IT grads.

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P nt Clin on: The pre ident may have the giftof gab, but his buzzword-punctuated speech lacked truecontent.

S,udent L ad r : Student elected on dubiousground get their five minute with the real pre ident.Hey, we wanted to meet Bill too!

Prote ter : Bill' other entourage i barely noticeable .••• We wish we could ee CP tackling people every day.

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Elaine Wan

Sometime in the not too di tant future,you will step into your doctor's officeexpecting that vaccination included in yourHMO, but all you will get is a potato. 0

painful shots, ju t a good wholesome potato.Except this potato is not genetically similarto your ordinary Idaho potato from thekitchen. This one can nouri h you with theessential vitamin and minerals and vacci-nate you against a di ea e. Whether you wantyour potato boiled, baked or ma hed is foryou to decide.

cienti ts today are ju t beginning toexplore the pos ibilitie for potatoe as vehi-cle for vaccine. Apparently, the convention-al yringe were not popular among patients.Pretty soon, you might even. be able to itdown to a family dinner that upplies you withthe va cines to keep you germ-free for a life-time. That way, you get your vitamins, miner-aI and medication in one do e.

I'm sure mo t people prefer eating a tuberto watching a needle puncture your kin but Ifeel unea y about thi potato concept Eatinga tampered potato doe n't eem appetizing at

II. everthele ,playing with food i thecurrent hot area of re earch. Mor e olomonand John B. Long reported recently inScience News a new method to tenderizemeat u ing xplo ie, olomon and Longclaim that thi new method uses explosivehock wave that can turn any chunk of tough

meat into a filet mignon and force bacteriaand parasites to turn into mush. The explo-ion pull apart mu cle fibers, thus making

the meat ea ier to cut and chew. This newmethod suppo edly also saves millions ofkilowatt-hours which are used in con ention-al meat packing. The traditional methoc;is oftenderizing, including chemical treatment andaging, can be thrown out the window.Exploding meat seems to be the new technol-ogy worth inve tigation and investment.Expect pounds of tender meat coming to asupermarket near you.

My entiment is that food is food. Wegenetically engineer plants, animal , organand now we are going to engineer our food.Food should not be tampered with. Over theyears, manufacturer have increased theirinfluence over the quality and tandard offood. Milk i now fortified with vitamin A andD. Calcium can now be found in orange juice.With all this fortification, it is more like weare imbibing gla ses of che~ical rather thanjuice.

Technology and genetic engineeringshould be used up to a certain extent in life.And when it comes to food, I think weshould draw the line. Everything we eat isquickly absorbed into our bodie.Genetically engineered potatoes may pro-vide us with convenience and lower costs,but the technology involved is horrifying.The potato used to vaccinate people can bethe same vehicle that causes genetic muta-tion in our bodies.

Genetically engineered potatoes andkitchen potatoes may taste the ame and lookthe same. If they were not labeled, we maynot know the difference between the two. Butthe truth is that there is a difference in themaking. Explosives may make meat more ten-der, but if all beef tasted like filet mignon thenfilet mignon wouldn't be unique anymore.There would no longer be a differencebetween chuck and round. Some meat has tobe tough and chewy. That is what beef jerky isfor.

We should ju t leave our food alone. Weinject our cows with bovine serum so that theyproduce more milk and become more hefty.Milk becomes more affordable, but we end upingesting bovine serum every time we havecereal with our milk. Obviously, it is not-theWheaties that is making us grow big andstrong. There is an increasing demand nowa-days for organic crops in supermarkets. Eventhe new Star Market in University Park has awhole shelf devoted to organic vegetables.

These new methods of treating foodsmake life 'more convenient' and reduce costsbut we are cutting down on the naturalprocesses involved in life. What happened tothe traditional methods of sowing a seed,waiting for the crop to grow, fertilizing withegg shells and manure and harvesting what-ever grows up in the fall? I believe that whenit comes to food, we should stick with our tra-ditional methods, because science has showedus many times that tampering with naturenever has a nice end,

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patience to learn correctly. The Internet doesnot give much help in practicing the construc-tion of sentences and paragraphs.

As in the case of mathematics, one comesacross a' number of examples of unacceptablegrammar and writing in everyday life. Howmany times a day do we see signs which con-fuse it's and its or the words less and fewer?The group of Americans that know how toproperly use the apostrophe or the semicoloncan justly be labeled an endangered species.These are terribly important rules of theEnglish language which are successfullytaught without the Internet.

Certainly, there is a place for the Internet insome classrooms. The information superhigh-way offers a wealth of information in currentaffairs, geography, history, science, and litera-ture. But these are the pursuits of older stu-dents, not those in the grammar school grades.Furthermore, they are pursuits best studied andenjoyed with a solid background in fundamen-tal topics such as reading, writing, and arith-metic. Certainly, some computer programs canreinforce a teacher's drills in arithmetic andgrammar through rote exercises and are impor-tant to enhancing primary education. But theInternet is not one of these tools.

The true keys to improving American pub-lic education lie in restoring these simple yetimportant subjects to the focus of teachers andstudents. President Clinton did give orne ofthe answers to solving these problems. Endingsocial promotion, expanding charter schools,and strengthening teacher standards will helpto improve our nation's schools if these pro-posals are enacted and enforced.

I am not a technophobe. I use the Interneteach day for its unparalleled speed in deliver-ing news and weather updates. But I wouldnot be able to read these dispatches if I couldnot properly read and comprehend the Englishlanguage. Those of us who are at MIT nowexcelled in learning the basic subjects of edu-cation without tne aid of the Internet. Let'steach our children the basics, those subjectswhich have been rightly held important forhundreds of years, in the first few years ofeducation. Then they will be ready to explorethe wonders of the Internet and gain intellec-tually from their experience.

hi fr time to prote ting hi department' poli-ci ,thi long- uffering former tudent can findno r dr beau of n ongoing con piracybetween IT, the U.. governm nt, and Tehran- a con piracy designed to prevent him fromreceiving an MIT education. And allow me tore ur you he i nor lone.

It' my impre ion that mo t of the WildlyIn an and Totally Outrageou letter-writersju t want publicity. A greater problem ariseswhen they w nt tangible help of some kind.T ke William, for example, a self-described

wi s e ile and freedom fighter who wantsTh 1"4 ch' help securing a hired-gun attorneyto repre ent hi . ca e against the 'fascist U ..government." And what a ca e! Consider thefollowing points in hi account:

• "Thirty-eight (count 'em!) agent of theFBI (America's Ge tapo) broke down the doorof my peaceful home high in the ColoradoRocky Mountain on March I 19 8.

• 'The American Storm Trooper imme-diately hot my small daughter's puppy (hewa eight week old) in the head directly inh r pre ence, killing him in tantly.

• 'The e coward then handcuffed myhand tightly behind my back, wai t-chainedme, shackled my leg and then beat me up sobadly that after I finally healed, no one I knewwa able to recogni e me again. (I don t evenr cognise my elf.)"

William goes on to de cribe cenes of tor-ture, deceipt, and deprivation of right thatwould indeed ju tify use of the word"Gestapo" if true. Toward the end of the let-ter, it emerges that the crime William wascharged with (if he can be believed) was,"presiding over a corporation which wasbehind in paying some computer paper bill ."

In other words, William had been spendinga lot of money that he didn't have under thename of a bogus corporation. William signshis name "In Liberty," a sign the SouthernPoverty Law Center states is an indication that"the signer rejects U.S. law and considers him-self totally self-sovereign. I believe the techni-cal classification in this ca e is Wildly In aneand Totally Outrageous.

If the ranks of the Wildly Insane and TotallyOutrageous were to swell, I wouldn't complain.Who would? Why, I'll bet that if everyonereceived letters like this, and if the fascist thugsthat control contemporary physic would coop-erate, we really could achieve world peace.

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Iy didn't help her learn basic mathematics.Why would the Internet or computer calcula-tion programs be any different?

The Internet is also not the best way tohelp grammar school children in learning howto read, The most effective method to learnreading skills is to know the rules of phonicsand to pick up as many books as possible topractice applying these rules. Such tacticsmay seem dull to schoolchildren, but phonicsworks. What does the Internet have to offerthis study? ot too much. Again, the memo-rization of phonics has worked for genera-tions; why should it not work now? Writingalso takes the same trial and error practice and

Any trip to your local supermarket willconvince'you of the futility of technology inteaching basic mathematics. If the computer isdown, all hell breaks loose as baffled clerksstruggle to compute change from a dollar on a59 cent candy bar. Cashiers sometimes lookbewildered when you hand them an extrapenny if your order's total pris;e ends in a one.One clerk with which I had the misfortune ofconducting business recently asked a fellowcashier how many quarters were in a dollarafter she ran out of ones in making change.Reading off the, cash register display obvious-

b ginning on Jan.1, 2000. Th t me ge, in e you'd for otten,i th t w hould top fighting h oth r andcon t lien, who e i tence th gov rnm nth b n prot ting us from.

Where did 11 of thi come to Albert. 'Itw combination of my emptine and thbig party the night b fore Rock Fe t th tsp wn d my ide ." According to our sour e,that night about 40,000 people w re tandingaround in parking lot drinking, moking pot,and "trippen" when omeone' car got tuck.When Albert and 20 oth r helped push it out, without any police control what oever" -well, that wa when Albert realized that"world peace" was po ible. ow apparentlyhe' the "CEO & President" of the WorldPeace Initiative (W.P.I.), an org nization th tsurely require no abbreviation.

Perhap the most wonderful letter ardirected at an MIT audience. A certain Dr.Ugrin of Belgrade, for example, ha beenbothering us for a while about problem he hawith " ontemporary physic ." It is the equa-tion describing the force of friction that reallyticks him off: he calls it a 'sen el s and fee-ble-minded cour e of thinking .... It belongs toimbecile and inane way of deduction."

Dr. Ugrin's problems with "contemporaryphysics" are long-standing and wide-ranging.Last ummer he called up to demand that some-one go down to the Cambridge Public Libraryand read through a stack of astronomy book toconfirm they had no basis in fact, and that thewhole thing was some sort of government con-spiracy. When you are unsure what someone italking about, it is often reassuring to learn thata government conspiracy is to blame. Lest I feelpowerless to overcome the mighty forces ofcontemporary physics, Unger assured me I wasa smart guy who could lick this problem on myown: "I'm sure the MIT people can solve thisone." I remember feeling vaguely inspired thatthe Institute is held in such high regard amongradical Serbian physicists.

Not all are ready to place such confidence inMIT, while still others never will do so, believ-ing the Institute to be the very Lion's den. Oneformer MIT student who will remain namelesshas written several times to claim that he wasthrown out of a degree program at MIT becausethe department head (who will also remainnameless) was in league with the AyatollahKhomenei. Although he devotes almost all of

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Back to Basics in the 'Classroom

In his Commencement address here lastwe'ek, President Clinton placed great impor-tance on bringing computer technology into

'the nation;s schools.Specifically, he calledfor a reduced "e-rate"for Internet access atschools, libraries, andhospitals. PresidentClinton's call for suchaction is nothing new;indeed in the past fewyears a number of

_ """ _ ~ politicians have placedexpanding technology in the classroom as oneof the nation's primary educational goals,

To hook up each and every classroom tothe Internet is a well-meaning idea, but will itbe effective? I question the wisdom of such apolicy when American public schools haveso many other areas of weakness. Ourresources are more wisely spent in giving ourschoolchildren a solid fundamental knowl-edge of reading, writing, and arithmetic thanin focusing on Internet hookups, at least atthe elementary school level.

We have all seen the test scores whichpiace American schools near the bottom incomparison to those with other industrializednations, so there is no need to go into detailon the results here. What is important, how-ever, is how to improve these results. TheInternet, and technology in general, is nosubstitute for learning basic knowledge theold-fashioned way.

How does a calculating program aid inteaching an elementary school child the basicsof mathematics? More likely than not thecomputer will have a negative impact in thisfield. With the computer comes the temptationto rely on its computational abilities instead ofmemorizing the addition and multiplicationtables. Everyone should be able to add two-digit numbers or multiply a one-digit numberby a two-digit number in his or her head, butlearning these simple mathematical operationstakes time and practice, not a slavish relianceon a computer.

June 12 199

Anders Hove

For many year The Tech' opinion policybox made the omewh t dubiou claim thatwe regret we cannot publish all of the I tters

we recei . Dubioubecause the paperreceive hundred ofbizarre e-mail letterfrom wacko peoplearound the world. 1imagine mo t of theworld's minor new

u: . outlets have the same1f(~ experience.~I~ :#~.... ;I!i~ ot that I have aproblem with crazy letters - in fact I adorethem. When they come by hard copy they area joy. And becau e there are a great manysuch' insane letters that I do indeed regret wecould not print, I have decided to give themsome much-deserved time in the sun.

What distinguishes a Wildly Insane andTotally Outrageous letter? Hand-writtenaddress information is one tip-off. In theseday of desktop publishing, the way to make atruly revolutionary screed stand out is to avoidaltogether anything remotely resembling type.

"Ask the students," writes one, "who willlead? Which university or college will be thefirst to organize and mobilize in order to setthe anti-capitalist revolution in motion?"

In this case the proponent of anti-capitalistrevolution is John of Durango Colorado.Judging from the street address I'd 'say that heis not a university student. His handwritingalso suggests complete insanity punctuated bymoments of ideological fervor - moments

'. that tend to erupt at the center of words andend in two-inch tall punctuation.

John is not ,alone in claiming we can savethe world, and to prove it he includes lots ofclippings from his favorite fellow travelers.Most of these letters come with clippings,many of which have tenuous connection at bestwith the content of the scrawled notes attached.

I've already conciuded that most of the folksof the nuttier variety are in their middle years orbetter, but here in front 'of me is an exception:Albert writes that he is a twenty-two year-oldcollege student attending North Central TexasCollege, and he has a plan to bring about world

. peace: Internet chat rooms wil~ enable him to

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Ah,Eugene 0' eill'splay ahout h. be tfriends as a kid

month in J 932, the Harvard educated play-wright take a well de erved vacation fromthi cold and unrelenting world, and give u aurpri ingly warm portrayal of middle-class

family life in "large mall-town America."The comedy, now playing at the HuntingtonTheatre, wa an experiment in wishful think-ing for 0' eill. ubtitled "A nostalgic come-dy of the Ancient Day when Youth wasYoung, and Right wa Right, and life was awicked opportunity," 0' eill de cribed hispi y a "a ort of wishing out loud. It is the

By Bence OlveczkySTAFF REPORTER

h, Wilderne !At the Huntington Theatre until June 14264 Huntington Avenue. BostonTickets: 266-0 0012-45. students 5 off

De pite all the praise and award hereceived during hi career, the Pulitzer and

obel prize winning merican playwrightEugene 0' eill wa not a content man. or

The character Richard iller was clearlymodeled on 0' eill's image of him elf as anaspiring poet, but unlike 0' eill, Richard'rebellion i quelled and his craving for roman-tic endeavors extinguished by a loving familywho cares and wishes him the best.Huntington Theatre's production ucceed increating the atmosphere of a tum-of-the centu-ry middle-class home, and we can all easilyidentify with the naIve young protagoni t andhis yearning for a world where idealism andintellectual curiosity are the norm.

The acting, while mostlyvery strong, is sometimes alittle exaggerated and man-nered. In the title role, JamesWaterstone tries too hard tolook seventeen, taking on awhiny voice and a strangebent posture to convince usof hi youth. Careena Melia,who plays Richard's girl-friend, is made into a stereo-typical no-brain cheerleader.While a little irritating in thebeginning, these affectationsserve to suggest, in a verysubtle and refined way, thatthe characters are acting outthe idyll in order to deceivethemselves. But we appreci-ate O'Neill's rare generosityin letting the self-deceptiongo unpunished, and werejoice in the happy and joy-ful conclusion.

Ah, Wilderness! becameone of 0' eill's greatestsuccesses, and HuntingtonTheatre's production givesus a good indication why.Director.Kyle Donnelly hasmanaged to create a worldwe all want to be part of. For~many, it wi II be a nostalgictrip back to their childhood,while others will shareO'Neill own yearning for achildhood they never had.

The visual frameworkfor the play superblydesigned by Scott Bradleysuggests a turn-of-the centu-

Kate Goehring (Belle) and James Waterson (Dick Miller) star In Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness I, playing now at the Huntington Theatre. ry middle-class home, butwere the fictional character he created for the way I would have liked my childhood to have "fir ts." He gets his fir t kiss from a prosti- the effect is achieved with a minimum num-tage e pecially enviable. In his play, 0' eill been." tute in the same leazy joint where he experi- ber of props. Ch 'rs, doors, and curtains are

portrayed with excruciating hone ty and deep Set on the fourth of July in 1906, the play ences his first drunken stupor and his first effortlessly reordered between the scenesp ychological in ight the cynicism and focuses on a young poet's rebellion against fight. with a clever usage of Huntington's revolv-hypocri y in a society driven by in ecurity the conformity of middle-class life and the But realizing that the indulgences roman- ing stage. The production flows naturallyand fear. Mo t of hi ma terpieces, like Long apparent elf deception that fosters it.17-year- ticized by his literary heroes are a far cry with a high pace, never letting the attentionDay's Journey Into Night and Strange old Richard Miller's weapon is the intellectu- from what they turn out to be, Richard of the theater-goer sway. This inspiring threeInterlude, are a bleak and discomforting a al heritage he has discovered through read- return to the loving family nest like the hour theatrical adventure rewards its audi-Edward Hopper's di turbing paintings of a.n ing, and his favorite ammunition is the prodigal son, and a happy ending looms ence with plenty of smiles, laughter, ande tranged and di jointed America. quotes of Ibsen, Swinburne, Wilde, and their when he learns that his girlfriend still loves light entertainment - and coming from

But in Ah. Wilderness.', penned in a ingle likes. He yearns to explore life in all its dif- him. O'Neill, that is a rare treat.

OVIE REVIEW

Kurt and CourtneyWhat's Love Got to Do With It?By Bence OlveczkySTAFF REPORTER

et's get a few things traight about thecontrover ial documentary Kurt andCourtney re-examines Kurt Cobain'smysterious death: Courtney Love is

BAD, Kurt Cobain is GOOD; Hollywoodinsiders are hypocritical, investigative jour-nal i ts are not; drug addiction screws you up,and so does a difficult childhood. That's asprofound as British filmmaker ickBroomfield's controversial new documentaryeve gets.

But the film, which hit the headlines ear-lier this year when it was banned from theSundance Film Fe tival after pressure fromCourtney Love's attorneys, i neverthelessan urgent and important addition to thisyear's summer movies. Made with the intentof portraying Kurt's relationship toCourtney, this fresh and somewhat obnox-ious documentary drifts into examiningLove's role in her husband's alleged suicidefour years ago.

Kurt died from a gunshot to his head, butno finger prints were ever found on the pistol,and what was thought to be the suicide notecould easily have been an apology for theimminent break-up of Nirvana. Uncertaintieslike these leave ample room for speculation

and con piracy theory, and in Broomfield'sdocumentary the common denominator of allpo sible cenarios i that Courtney Love wassomehow responsible for her hu band's death.Little wonder that Love, now a budding filmstar, tried to stop the production and distribu-tion of this film.

Broomfield, revelin'g in the role of the'heroic filmmaker who i~ up against theHollywood e tablishment, becomes our unof-ficial guide to the bizarre and disturbing

irvana hinterland. The film follows theBritish fil~maker as he interviews the famouscouple's relatives and friends. We meet Kurt saunt Mary who speaks affectionately abouther blond nephew, admitting that he had avery difficult childhood. We are introduced toex-girlfriend/roommate/moneylender Tracy,who still trea ures some disturbing examplesof young Kurt' artwork: grotesque depictionof what looks like tortured babies. The emerg-ing picture of the irvana frontman is that ofa shy and troubled musician who turned tohard drugs to escape the trappings of his ownsuccess. We see him as the victim of cult wor-ship and mass hysteria, a fate that was seem-ingly exacerbated when he met CourtneyLove, who is portrayed in the movie as anaggressive, ruthless, attention seeking oppor-tunist willing to do anything and use anybody

to further her career.ick Broomfield has rounded up a strange

mix of people to tell the story of CourtneyLove. Some of his subjects are believable,others are not. One of the more bizarreaccounts come from El Duce, a burly rockerwho confesses to having been offered $50,000by Courtney to "whack Kurt." He is willing totell the whole story if Broomfield buys him abeer. We later learn that El Duce was mysteri-ously run over by a train close to his trailerhome. Conspiracy and plotted murder? 0,

argues Broomfield, pointing out that the"liquor store was on the far side of the rail-road tracks."

Another surprisingly' venomous attack onLove comes from her own father, HankHam on, author of Who killed Kurt Cobain?Having disciplined her with pit bulls when shewa a little girl, he now exerts himself in wag-ing a public war against his daughter.Accounts from a bitter detective dedicated toproving that Kurt was indeed murdered, andfrom the couple's nanny who admits over-hearing Courtney nagging Kurt about his will,complete the unflattering picture of the rock'n roll widow.

Despite the evidence of Love's involve-ment in Kurt's death, Broomfield distanceshimself from the conspiracy theories and use

the ending of the film to raise serious issuesconcerning journalistic freedom and censor-ship. In the final scenes we follow him to adinner for the American Civil Liberties Unioncelebrating the First Amendment. Love, aHollywood celebrity since her role in MilosForman's The People vs. Larry Flint, is theafter-dinner speaker. She is comfortable in hernew role as a film star, chatting cordially WIthcolleagues and'members of the press. In inter-laced clips we hear about Courtney's repeatedattacks on journalists and her death threataimed at writer Lynn Hirshberg. The ratherbizarre scene makes for a good conclusion toa movie that has been continuously under-mined by the very people who gathered to cel-ebrate the First Amendment.

What makes Broomfield's film a grippingand interesting documentary is not its sophis-tication (there is none), but ather in its raw-ness, and in the shock value of it subject mat-ter. We feel like we are in a peep showwatching something we are not supposed tosee. With a journali~tic style that is on parwith the ational Inquirer, Broomfield givesus a voyeuristic show that caters to our per-verse fascination with stars and celebrities,while at the same time showing us how thisvery attitude can become lethal to the subjectsof our obsession.

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o E EVIEW

TheTruman ShowJim Carrey isn~allfun and games anymore

Jim Carrey stars as unsuspecting television star Truman Burbank In The Truman Show.

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ous subjects as TV-obsessed culture, modemcult of celebrity, and the interference ofmedia in private lives, but also the conflictbetween free wi II and de tiny, the fightbetween a man and a god, and the eternalquest for freedom.

This is clearly Jim Carrey' first bid to beconsidered a serious actor; after all, PeterWeir did help Robin Williams make the sametransition with Dead Poets Society. Carrey'sperfonnance is very good, but certainly not ofaward caliber; this di tinction belong to EdHarris, who plays the show' writer/directorChristof, who is also Truman's urrogatefather - and god. However, Carrey provesthat he can turn in a seriou - consi tentlyserious - performance. Towards the end, it ishe who provides most of the emotional pay-off.

The technical aspects are impeccable:Truman's world is both real and sitcom-like inits appeal; the pecial effects are spot-on; andthe score, including some original music bynone other than the seminal Philip Glass, isexcellent.

solo in which his fingers became a flurry ofaction - but we couldn't hear a note. Ithought perhaps a speaker had blown, and thesound guy were clueles about it since wewere way off to the side of the stage. Butnobody around us seemed to mind. Quicklylosing hope, we complacently tried to enjoyourselves.

Until-Jackpot! Two row in front of us three

spaces somehow opened up, and when weasked if they were claimed, our neighbors infront said no. We wonned our way forward,and experienced a small fraction of what itmust feel like to be released from prison!Fresh air! Freedom! The high end of thesound! It was remarkable. I'm not sure whatthe equations look like, but being in a humancage wreaks havoc on acoustics.

From our new vantage point Matthewsseemed to be leading a pretty grooving band.I'll be honest - I don't know the names ofthe tunes he played, what was new, what wasold, because I don't listen to DMB that much.The teeny-boppers around us seemed to knowwhat they were hearing, as they constantlytried to sing along with the choruses theyknew. To be fair, while we were in captivity,the crowd's singing was a welcome breakfrom hearing the guy behind me do a poor jobhitting on the girl he was standing next to.

The concert was enjoyable, if di appoint-ing. I'm not sure what I was expecting, butI'm pretty sure I didn't get it. The evening hadbeen more about getting in to see the showthan seeing the show itself. Funny how some-times you get wrapped up in such goals.

at least in the beginning, omewhat impedeenjoyment of it. If only iceol cho e to po i-tion the film viewers inside Truman's world tobegin with - with the crack in the illu ionurpri ing both Truman and the audience -

the emotional impact could have been stagger-ing. In tead, for it first half, the film followsTruman' life, and inexplicably cuts to thepeople in the out ide world watching Trumanon TV.

Thi is why I'm glad I knew what wasgoing on in advance: I presume that withoutthis knowledge, it' quite po ible to be mysti-fied by the seemingly random people oncreen discussing Truman's life. The decision

to construct the fir t half of the movie thiway i underwhelming, but thi is the movie'sonly real hortcoming, ince everything el e istruly remarkable.

The creenplay i the smarte t one I'veencountered thi year, deftly combininglaugh-out-loud comedy with razor-sharp wit,and a complex (but never obviou ) interplayof symbols and metaphors. The TrumanShow i concerned not only with uch obvi-

a bottle full of cold water. We were off to findseats.

Having purchased three singles, we knewsitting together was going to be a small chal-lenge. We first tried to go where our best seatwas, down in the 100s. Another young girl(there were a lot of them), this one a securityguard in a canary yellow windbreaker,stopped us to see our tickets. Having only onefor the section, she told us we couldn't sitthere. We tried to change her mind, but evenour green-backed stubs weren't persuasiveenough. We moved to plan B, and headed forthe 300s, where our other two tickets were.

We easily found three seats together in themuch less secure bleachers, and we situatedourselves between staircases so the sectionwould fill in on our sides. We had missed BenFolds Five, which I was disappointed about,and Beck was already halfway done by thetime we sat down. Judging by how uninterest-ed the audience was in Beck, and knowing hisability to bring the audience into his show, Icould only imagine how pathetic the crowdhad been for BFF. It's tough to play to a huge,empty stadium in full daylight.

Beck finished at dusk, and we waited forDMB to take the stage. The bench behind uswas empty, and we were eyeing it. The secondDave Matthews took the stage, though, therewere high school kids standing on it. To makethings worse, the people in front of us, per-haps the only ones older than us in the wholeplace, stood on the bench in front of us,squishing us in between.

One of the first few songs featured a picco-lo player, video of which showed a monster

leading a nonnal boring life. In "reality," thewhole world around him i a 24-hour TVshow, with Truman playing the lead - no,being the lead. Everyone around him is anactor, his town i a huge studio et, and 5,000TV camera record every second of hi exis-tence. But Truman him elf doe not knowthis, and it is he who is slowly discovering thetruth about his world.

That's a high-concept, all right. And ittars Jim Carrey, Mr. Rubberface himself, to

boot. However, The Truman Show also hastruly impressive pedigree, directed by PeterWeir (Witness, Dead Poets Society) and writ-ten by Andrew iccol (Gattaca). These twoturn this film into a extremely smart, alwaysthought-provoking, and once in a while emo-tionally affecting film. But only once in awhile.

Other than perfunctory similarities toiccol's Gattaca screenplay (a lone hero bat-

tling a major conspiracy, overtones of a reli-gious parable, feelings of general paranoiaand aquaphobia), thi screenplay also has anunwieldy and cumbersome structure, which,

By Vladimir V. ZelevlnskySTAFF REPORTER

Directed by Peter WeirWritten by Andrew iccolStarring Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, LauraLinney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone

usually strongly dislike when a film pre-view tells me too much about the plot ofthe movie 1 haven't seen yet - there arefew pleasures of movie-going quite equal

to the pleasure of discovering the world thatthe film's characters inhabit. Therefore J wasquite miffed by the preview of The TrumanShow, which gave away the central concept ofthe movie. But now I'm glad I knew what wasgoing on. In this modem era of Hollywoodmovies (all high-concept, and nothing buthigh-concept), knowing what the movie isabout is usually a sufficient substitute towatching the movie itself; such is not the casehere. The Truman Show is a high-conceptfilm, and much more.

Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) think he isa low-level worker in an insurance company,

By Joel RosenbergARTS EDITOR

Last Friday night I was inspired to try toget tickets to the sold-out DaveMatthews concert at Foxboro Stadiumafter miraculously procuring a ticket to

Commencement earlier that day. If nothingelse, I'd get to see who bought all 47,000seats in under two hours.

It was the first time I'd been to Foxboro,having missed U2 and the Rolling Stones,bands which obviously have the draw to fill afootball stadium. After paying $15 to park,since space is so valuable out in Foxboro, mytwo friends and I went in search of tickets.Fingers in air, we asked passers-by if they hadany extras, and with that many seats, it didn'ttake us long to find three separate singles.

Upon entry, security made us dump outour water, as is standard concert procedure toprevent alcohol from entering the stadium.But when we went to the bathroom to fill ourbottles back up, there was only hot water.Detennined to replenish our fluid, we askedthe young girl working at the Papa Gino'sstand if she could fill our container.

"Sorry. We don't have any water.""You make pizza, right? You must have

water.""Sorry.""Are there water fountains around here?""No, sorry. They sell bottled water.""Are you kidding? We have to pay for

water? What country is this?"At that point the manager took our bottle

and told us he'd see if it was raining outside.Apparently it was, because he came back with

Last-minute ticket buys make Foxborofun

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throughs, Ho pointed out that"AIDS is not over." Science, how-ever, provides hope and inspirationfor "government, academia, and theprivate sector to remain vigilant andto re-double our efforts to bring anend to this tragedy."

Scientific work importantHo emphasized the importance

and influence of a scientist's work,giving examples of many historicscientific breakthroughs. He laterasked the audience to "imagine theexcitement that must have pervadedthis campus when the synthesis ofDNA was first achieved from anRNA template."

Noting society's lack of recogni-tion for scientists and engineerswhose deeply involved work earnedthem the label "nerds," he placed amission on the graduates. "Bringback the spark, that sense of wonderabout nature that lies deep withinevery citizen."

He urged the graduates to "stayin the forefront of your chosen field,and never permit the excellence ofyour work to be compromised" butto "continue to let imagination andcreativity percolate throughout yourlives."

As an individual who hadexcelled in his own field, Ho attrib-uted his achievements to his Asianheritage.

Having had to deal with being animmigrant from Taiwan living inAmerica, Ho said "To this day, imaintain the underdog mentalitythat motivates me to a higher levelof work ethic."

The audience of over 12,000ignited with applause when heclosed with a comment that recog-nized the contributions that immi-grants had made to America in"many in the fields of science andengineering. Just look among thegraduates today."

"As future scientists and engi-neers, it is likely that you will - onoccasions - be under-appreciated,under-recognized, and very likely,under-paid by our society," said Hoin a statement that drew laughterfrom the audience. The true reward,however, lies in "knowing that yourwork has helped to build a better,safer, and healthier world," he said.

Regardless of what field of sci-ence and technology the graduatesentered, "anyone of you can cast agiant shadow on our planet," Hosaid. He concluded his address witha reminder for the class of '98 tothank their parents.

June 12, 1998

By Aileen TangSTAFF REPORT~'R

Prominent AIDS researcherDavid D. Ho spoke about the satis-faction and humanitarian benefits ofscientific discoveries in his addressto the aspiring scientists and engi-neers and soon-to-be graduates atCommencement.

Ho called for society and gov-ernment's commitment to basic sci-entific research and noted the indeli-ble contributions that immigrantshad bestowed on the American soci-ety.

A member of the third graduat-ing class of the Harvard-MITDivision of Health Science andTechnology program in 1978, Hobegan his speech by saying, "It'sgreat to be back." Ho briefly attend-ed MIT as an undergraduate beforetransferring to the CaliforniaInstitute of Teclmology.

Ho said HST was "where I trulylearned to tackle research with amultidisciplinary approach. I willforever be indebted to you."

Ho was one of the first scientiststo recognize that AIDS was a viruswhen he encountered some of thefirst reported cases of the disease in1981. In the early 1990s, he beganto work with chemicals known asprotease inhibitors that had thepotential to block replication of thevirus, which had already become aglobal epidemic.

Three years later, infectedpatients were given proteaseinhibitor as part of three-drug cock-tails which proved effective in thecurtailing the replication ofHIV, thevirus that causes AIDS.

"Unmatched were the joy andamazement as we watched the levelofHIV fall, ever so dramatically," Hosaid. These signs overturned whatscientists had believed for years:rather than remaining dormant withinthe body as a latent virus, HIV beginsreplication upon infection. Ho's workresulted in the discovery not only ofan AIDS drug but also of a new wayof treatment, which tackled the virusin the early stages rather than waitinguntil its outbreak.

Ho's research earned him theTime Man of the Year distinction in1996. He shared with graduates themerits of scientific achievements.Describing the "incredible, ensuingintellectual satisfaction" that camealong with making discoveriesabout the virus, Ho said, "when theanswers are simple, then you hearGod thinking."

Despite the recent break-

Ho Inspires GraduatesWith Personal History

new economy to be avoided by hisinclusive plan. "White students [are]more than twice as likely as blackstudents to have computers in theirhomes," Clinton said. "Affluentschools are almost three times aslikely to have Internet access in theclassroom."

Increased spending for researchClinton also used the podium to

announce his continued support forbasic research, to rich applause fromthe assembled faculty and guests.

"We must help you to ensurethat America continues to lead therevolution in science and technolo-gy," he said, while referencing therecent discovery of mass in the neu-trino by Department of Energyfunded physicists and the roots ofthe Internet in government fundedprojects. "It all started with researchand we must do more."

Clinton received his most heartyapplause of the speech by announc-ing the largest increase in researchfunding in history. Basic research is"a core commitment that must bepart of how every American, regard-less of political party or personalendeavor, thinks about our nationand its mission," Clinton said.

Benefits of E-rate toutedClinton urged those at the cere-

monies to lobby for the E-rate, aplan to provide libraries and learn-ing institutions with lnternet accessgrants funded by service charges ontelecommunications companies. "Isay we cannot afford not to have anE-rate," Clinton said. "Thousands ofpoor schools and libraries and ruralhealth centers are in desperate needof discounts."

"Every child in Americadeserves the chance too participatein the information revolution," hesaid.

The plan, which passedCongress as part of theTelecommunications Act of 1996, isnow facing a battle to avoid beingrepealed or thrown out in the legalsystem.

Speaking finally to the graduat-ing class, Clinton offered "my grati-tude for your commitment, ... forgoals reached and surpassed". Inclosing, the president urged gradu-ates, "Rise to your responsibility togive something back to America ofwhat you have been given."

"Twenty-first century Americabelongs to you. Take good care of it."

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Clinton Asks GraduatesTo Fight 'Digital Divide'

The first ever Commencementaddress at MIT given by a sittingpresident of the United States fea-tured a plan to aid America's youthby bringing technology to schoolsand a promise of increased fundingfor research.

Clinton used his address at MIT,which he called "a crucible of cre-ative thought" and an "epicenter ofthe seismic shifts in our economyand society," to refine his adminis-tration's take on the informationage.

Social and economic equality,increased growth, and prosperity areall part of the "limitless possibili-ties" of the information age, Clintonsaid.

"We can erase lines of inequityor etch them indelibly. We canaccelerate the most powerful engineof growth and prosperity the worldhas ever known, or allow the engineto stall," he said of technology.

Prosperity not freeWhile Clinton spelled out the

rosy prospects of the informationage, including positive current eco-nomic statistics, he cautioned thatAmericans must still work toachieve those gains. "We cannotpoint and click our way to a betterfuture," Clinton said. "If we are tofulfill the complete promise of thisnew age, we must do more."

Doing more entails placing acomputer and trained teacher inevery classroom by the year 2000,Clinton said. "Until every child hasa computer in the classroom and ateacher well-trained to help ...America will miss the full promiseof the Information Age."

Clinton used the East SomervilleCommunity School as an exampleof industry working with schools toplace technology in the classroomresulting in an "enormous boost inlife" for first to eighth-graders. Theschool received significant supportfrom Time Warner Cable whichallows all of its students to learn,produce publications, and communi-cate using new computer equip-ment.

"That small miracle can be repli-cated in every school, rich and poor,across America," he said.

The unequal distribution ofInternet access across class andracial lines was pointed out byClinton as a potential pitfall of the

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BOOK EV 5

Recommended title for your montGive me yaur tired, your bored, your unread masses yearning to be read

ojjreedomit had been written according to the principleof cla ical Greek science. Thi book will fas-cinate anyone intere ted in the history of sci-ence or anyone who want to imagine theworld as if it operated by dramatically differ-ent principle . It also manages to make somepointed comments about the links betweenmilitarism and applied research.

Some of the best reading in popular culturetoday can be found in the shape of graphicnovels. Here are three I might recommend tothe MIT community: Steve Darnall and AlexRoss's u.s. (a two part series) - Uncle Samwanders homeless and addle-brained throughthe streets of contemporary America, experi-encing bad flashbacks to traumatic moments inour history and spouting random slogans fromour past. Darnall and Ross's visually densework poses powerful questions about whetherAmerica has lost touch with some of its coreideals. A similar theme surfaces in ScottMcCloud's The New Adventures of AbrahamLincoln, which is written as a spoof of thecomics they used to distribute in my highchool civics class. America's ignorance about

its own history is exploited by an ersatz AbeLincoln who turns the country into a dictator-ship until he is stopped by a wide-eyed youngboy who knows how to question authorities.McCloud is known to many MIT readers asthe author of Understanding Comics, which isa good place to start for anyone who is discov-ering "sequential art" for the first time. Finally,Kurt Bursiek's Astro City: Life in the Big Cityis the latest revisionist superhero comic, onewhich tries to imagine what would happen ifour caped defenders faced the same emotionalproblems the rest of us face, such as not beingable to juggle work and professional lives.This one is recommended especially for any-one who knows the history of the genre andwould appreciate plays with conventions.

On the more academic side, 1 recommendtwo books which look at grassroots culturalproduction - Stephen Duncombe's NotesFrom Underground: Zines and The Politics ofAlternative Culture, and The Bad SubjectsCollective's Political Education for EverydayLife. Both foreground the efforts of everydaypeople to create cultural materials whichspeak to their own political and social con-cerns, whether through the photocopied zine(Duncombe) or through the net (BadSubjects). Both are readable accounts for non-specialists which are nevertheless substantiveenough to reward serious scholars.

Bill Mitchell, Dean of the School ofArchitecture and Planning, and author of Cityof Bits, the first full-text interactive book pub-lished on the Web.

I'm currently reading Les Murray'sSubhuman Redneck Poems. A (fairly) newcollection by an extraordinary Australian poet.Winner of the 1997 T.S. Eliot Prize.

For anyone who reads Les Murray, andwants a deeper understanding of Australianliterature, try Tom Collins' (aka JosephFurphy) Such is Life. It has one of the bestopening lines ever. Perfect for a long, hot dayat the beach.

Easter 1988, Age 6

lennium thoughts. I am al 0 readingHemingway's A Moveable Feast after beingreminded of its existence in the movie City ofAngels. I am really enjoying it: It has a lot tosay about how a writer works, and has lots ofnastiness and gossip to keep it lively. It al 0transports you to Paris, a city of which JimMorrison (who is buried there in PereLachaise cemetery) said, "When God gotdone with Paris, he broke the mold." Finally, Iam hoping to reread Milan Kundera's TheUnbearable Lightness of Being andImmortality.

Lorien Lea Denham.Killed by a drunk driver on Good Friday, March 29,1991, atCollege Park Drive and Hwy.19 North in Meridian, Miss.

Lester Thurow, Professor of Managementand author of The Future of Capitalism:

I recommend David Landis' new book TheWealth and Poverty of Nations.

teve Pinker, Professor of Brain andCognitive Sciences and author of How TheMind Works:

Brainstorm, by Richard Dooling. A wittyand ingenious neuro/legal/philosophicalthriller. Legal concepts of responsibility con-front our expanding knowledge of the biologyof mind when a paper-pushing lawyer is sum-moned to defend a hate-crime killer, and con-sults a beautiful and brilliant neuro cientist asan expert witness.

Conquest and Culture, by Thomas Sowell.An eye-opening, moving, and un-PC accountof how millennia of conquest have shaped theworld. Third in a magisterial trilogy (Raceand Culture; Migration and Culture) by thedistinguished African American economist.

The Expression of the Emotions in Manand Animals: Definitive Edition, by CharlesDarwin; with new material by Paul Ekman.Why do we shrug? Why do dogs wag theirtails? Why do we scowl when angry and poutwhen sad rather than the other way around?What is the difference between guilt andshame? This astonishing book answered suchquestions, proved that the mind (not just thebody) evolved, established the likeness of theraces during the heyday of scientific racism,and was the first scientific work to rely onphotography. Updated by this century's lead-ing emotion researcher, it is as fresh today asit was in 1872.

Margaret R. Bates, Dean for Student Life:I haven't had much time to contemplate

summer reading as yet, but am looking for-ward to finding time for Anne Tyler's newnovel, A Patchwork Planet.

Bonnie Walters, Associate Dean forAcademice Services:

Mary Karr's Liars Club, Knut Hamsen'sPan, Jane Austen's Persuasion, andTurgenev's Sportsman's Sketches.

Henry Jenkins, Professor of Literatureand author of Textual Poachers:

The most popular novel in my ScienceFiction and American Culture course this pastterm was Richard Garfinkle's Celestial Matter- an amazing first novel that tries to imaginewhat science fiction would have looked like if

Ifyou don't stop your friend from driving drunk, who will? Do whatever it takes.

Eva Luna, by Isabel Allende. I'd recommendanything by her, especially House of theSpirits.

If you like fanta y, try the Empire Trilogyby Raymond Fei t & Janny Wurts. For gener-al fun, read anything by Tom Robbins, tart-ing with Jitterbug Perfume. And it's of coursean obligatory ritual of hacker culture to read/IIuminatus! and whatever else you can findby Robert Anton Wilson.

1 guess I should recommend at least onecomputer book: Database Backed Web Sites,by Philip Greenspun G. Phil explains how tocreate web sites that are both valuable andtasteful, mixed in with funny and cynicalob ervations about the MIT culture as it relatesto the over-hype that surrounds everything thathas to do with the Web. It's too bad that Phillet his publisher browbeat him into such a bor-ing title for the book. Phil' original workingtitle - How to Be a Web Whore. Just Like Me- is much more descriptive. Since Phil is agood web publi her, he's also put the book on-line at http://photo.net/wtrldead-treesl.

David Baltimore, Former Profe sor ofBiology, now President of the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology 1975 obel Laureatein Phy iology or Medicine:

I'm reading Philip Roth's AmericanPastoral, and highly recommend it as a sum-mation of the large theme of the last half-century filtered through the eyes of one ofAmerica's greatest craftsmen 0 f the nove I.

I just finished Undaunted Courage,Stephen Ambrose's telling of the greatestadventure tory of American history, theLewis and Clark expedition. As a bonus, youee one of the many sides of Jefferson - in

thi case the Country Builder.Going to California seems to have fixated me

on American life but, after all, this is one of thegreate t of the decades of American a cendence.

Olivier Blanchard, Professor ofEconomics:

A big book: An Instance of the Fingerpost,by lain Pears, Riverhead Books. Oxford in the1660s. Revolutionary ideas about medicineand philo ophy. The intrigues of theRestoration and a mysterious murder. Hard toput down.

Gian-Carlo Rota, Professor ofMathematics:

I should like to recommend as summerreading a book of my own, which has metwith a certain amount of success, IndiscreteThoughts.

Ro alind H. Williams, Dean of Studentsand Undergraduate Education:

Right now I am trying to finish DonDeLillo's Underworld, but it is thick and lessentrancing than his White Noise (a favoritebook of mine), so I may not make it all theway through. I am also re-reading Huizinga'sThe Autumn of the Middle Ages, which I firstread in college under the title The Waning ofthe Middle Ages. It is wonderful cultural his-tory and not inappropriate for end-of-the-mil-,...--------------------------------------------,

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illiam Cutter, Lecturer in usic andTheater Art , composer, and renowned con-ductor:

Here are two suggestion , both of whichI'm reading now:

Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New PoeticAge ... by Boston University profe sor JohnDaverio. "What a godsend John Daverio'sbook i for those who need something on

chumann in Engli h. Daverio's account isinformed, sensitive, and delivered in an invit-ing style. I found myself e pecially grateful forits much-needed correctives: for the empha isof chumann's skill with large forms, sweep-ing away the old cliche that he was ucces fulonly in miniature and character pieces, and fordiscu ion of uch neglected masterpieces a'Das Paradies und die Peri,' and the ' cenesfrom Goethe' Faust.'" said Michael Steinberg,program annotator, an Francisco ymphony,

ew York Philharmonic.Digital Mantras: The Language of Abstract

and Virtual Worlds, by teven R. Holtzman."Steven Holtzman's new book marks the mostimportant synthe is of technical and culturalinsight since Code/. Escher. Bach." saidRandall L Stickrod, president and CEO of ZelosInc. and founder of Computer Graphics World.

Having een some of the entertainmentHollywood i offering u this summer, per-haps now is good time for book recommenda-tions. So here's a Ii t of what ome peoplearound MIT think is worth your time. Andjust to put in my uggestion: speed throughEdwin A. Abbott's 90-page Flatland. Ithould be required reading for MIT student.

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itch Re nick, Associate Profe sor ofMedia Arts and Sciences and co-founder ofthe Computer Clubhou e at the ComputerMu eum:

I'd recommend Inventing Kindergarten, byorman Brosterman. Kindergarten is one of

the few succe s stories in our educational sys-tem. We should learn lessons from kinder-garten - and try to extend the "kindergartenapproach" to learners of all ages.Brosterman's book provides an interestinghistory of how kindergarten was invented inthe early 1800s - and how it influenced thedirection of art and architecture throughoutthis century.

I recently read An Unquiet Mind, by KayRedfield Jam ison. Jami on is one of theworld's leading authorities on manic depres-sion. In this beautifully-written book, sheoffers a compelling fir t-hand account of herown personal battle with the illne s.

Hal bel on, Professor of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science and co-developer of tructure and Interpretation ofComputer Program (6.001):

I ju t finished Pasquale's Angel, by PaulMcAuley. It' a science fiction-like mysteryset in an alternate history IS-century Florence,where Leonardo's invention were actuallybuilt and worked. Right now I'm rereading

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EWS EDITOR tion in the long run. Throughout iThe long wait and 01 w ather hi tory, merica h continu lly

failed to hamper the pirits of tho e benefitted from the dri e, 1 bor, andattending IT' 132nd cr ati ity of immigrant ..."Commencement la t Friday, Thus tod y, on pre ailing viealthough not all were impre ed by that immigrants con titute a con tantthe ecurity arrangement or the drain on OlJI ociety i imply b e-gue t speaker. Is, wrong and hameful, in thi

While the p ech by orld- nation of immigrant ," Ho aid.renowned AID re ear her and I thought Ho mad a very mo -gr duate of the Health, cience, ing peech, e pecially about theand Technology Ho wa generally immigrants," Bharti aid.well-liked by graduates, Pre ident I liked how h poke about theClinton's speech and the ecurity history of his field of AIDS re earchimpo ed on this year's and how he tied it to our role in sci-Commencement by his secret er- ence and technology," aid Michaelvice entourage got mixed reviews. H. Perrot PhD '9 .

'I expected Clinton to make 'His comments on immigrationmore of a political tatement than he were pretty relevant and tuck homedid," said Piyu h Bharti '96. with everyone," on tag said. "He

"I think Clinton's peech was a was peaking from hi heart."little too long," said Bingru Zhou '9 . 'That thi whole country is made

"I figured it would be just trying up of immigrants; it wa true. Ito boost his political image," think America hould be more will-Timothy J. on tag '98 aid. ing to accept other ," Ru ell said.

While many criticized Clinton While the speeche by two high-for the lack of content and focus of Iy regarded men were fresh on thethe President's sometimes meander- mind of recent graduates, they al 0

ing speech, many appreciated the remembered the somewhat accept-fact he came to MIT. able inconveniences brought upon

"I thought Bill Clinton spoke the heightened security which wel-very well and he was definitely corned the pre ident.catering his speech to MIT students. Gracluates were expected toIt was very flattering," said Yumi report to Johnson Athletics CenterOshima '98. by 8:30 a.m. for security checks

"I think it was reallY.,9ool just to while families could arrive atsee the president speak," said Killian Court between 6:30 a.m. and. ndrew 1. Russell '98. 9 a.m., much earlier than in previ-

Clinton's mention of the recent ous years, for their own securitydiscovery that neutrinos have mass, check.was also well received, especially Commencement itself, whichamong those receiving degrees from was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.,the Department of Physics. was delayed by about 30 minutes

"When Clinton actually said it, for reasons including the securitywe all just freaked out. We just checks.cheered we were clapping. We "We waited a long time untilthought it was really cool," said [Commencement began]. It wasAnuranjita Tewary '98, a recent kinda anticlimactic. By that time, Igraduate in Course VIII. was so tired, I was ready to fall

During his 'Speech, Clinton called . asleep. We had to go through secu-upon MIT students and the world to rity checks twice," Zhou said.focus on overcoming the challenges "I thought [security] was poorlyto socioeconomic parity brought on organized," Perrot said. "The waitby the' information age. Clinwn definitely brought down the event."asserted that the gap between the "I thought it was an inconve-rich and the poor will be widened if nience that we had to be there sosteps are not actively taken to com- .early and we had to wait two hoursbat the so-called "digital divide." in Johnson," Sontag said.

Instead of talking bout policy, However, others didn't mind theHo spent most of hIS time dis- wait. "It didn't feel too long becausecussing his own experiences both . everything went so smoothly,"within HST and in researching the Oshima said. .virus that causes AIDS and offering "It' didn't seem as bad. It was ainspiration to graduates and their little annoying," said Lindsay A.families based on that experience. Kong '98.

, "Members of the class of '98, as "It was inconvenient but tolera-ou move on in life, be prepared to ble. Having to get there early made

take advantage of the opportunities the day much longer. Beforehand,brought up by serendipity. Then we were told what it was. I think itnave courage and conviction in pur- was worth it to hear the presidentsuing your goals and ideals," Ho speak," Russell said.said. "It was a pain in the butt, but it

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• We imply do not push studentsinto fraternities," Williams tated inthe pre release. he also said thatthere is guaranteed housing for allfreshmen on campus and that at anytjme a fre hman who has pledged afraternity may move back on campus.

The press release also noted thestep that have been taken by theInstitute to combat underage drink.ing ince last fall.

eal H. Dorow, assistant dean ofresidence and campus activities andadvi er to fraternities, sororities, andindependent living group said theNewsweek article looked only at theFiji incident and "ignored the stepsthat the [Interfraternity Council] andadministration have taken."

The press release also respondedto the pro pect of a civil or criminalsuit against MIT. "Bringing criminalcharges would be the worst me sageto send to universities at a time whenthey are trying to deal with the com-plex matters of student drinking."

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Krueger's family has been quietup to this point and ha only talkedto Newsweek in such detail aboutthe events as they saw them.

"They are a very private family.They are not much di po ed to talk-ing to the media," said attorneyBruce Henry, an assi tant to attor-ney Leo V. Boyle, the chief attorneyfor the Krueger family.

The family first was contactedby Newsweek in the early part of1998, Henry said, and the decisionto relea e the story halfway into theyear was made by Newsweek, notthe family.

Although the family will waituntil the proceeding of the grandjury investigating Krueger's deathto decide, Henry aid, "We believe acivil suit is likely, perhaps evenprobable."

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The sororities will likely taptheir pre-existing house directors asresident advi ers. The sororities pro-vide a "role model" for the program,ince their house director position

approximates the role of a tutor,Dorow said.

The additional funding shouldhelp the pilot program 'make surethe program will work the way wethink it will" as Dorow said, andwill hopefully aid the transitionfrom an idea conceived in the wakeof the death of Scott S. Krueger '01last fall into a part of everyday lifefor a large segment of the MIT com-munity.

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, are not being taken form the GRTapplicant pool'; exclusively. Houses'can go out and recruit people,"Dorow aid.

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'To have a form I employee [ofMIT] there [in the ILG ] could cre-ate a potential for liability th tdoe n't really exist," he aid, 'Wedon't want to imply th t thi per onis there as an agent of the Institut ,"Dorow said. He characterizedMIT's relation hip with the re identadviser a a partner hip.

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The folio ing incid nt er reported to the Campus Poli ebet een May 2 J and June 2. Information i compiled from theCampus Police's weekly crime summary and from dispatcher logs.

This report does not include alarms, general service call, or inci-dent not reported to the dispatcher. ,"Medical s rvices" includemedical shuttles, transports, escorts, and other mergency services.

21: Kre ge, minor fire con fin d to fu e bo ; Bldg. E 17, 1)computer monitor tolen, 400, 2) microwave 0 en stolen lat rrecovered, unknown value; Bldg. 53, ca h stol n 50' Bldg. 20,uspiciou individuals, unable to locate. Medical ervice caBs: .

a 22: tudent Center, pocketbook tolen, 40; Bldg. 24, aircompre or tolen, 500; Bldg. 6, computer tolen, 1,900; Bldg E15,u piciou acti ity; lO, hit and run damage to a e~icle; Be ley

Hall, Roland A. . Paul'9 of 53 outh Ridg ood Rd., outhOrange, .1. arre ted for tre pa ing. Medical ervice caBs:

23: Baker Hou e, computer tolen, 3,000; Kr ge, musicalin trument stolen, 2,000; Bldg. 1, camera tolen, $200. Medical er-vice calJs: 2. .-

a 24:. Bldg. 13, suspicious per on; Random HalJ, report of u -piciou person. Medical ervice caB : 1.

a 25: We tgate, unattended pans left on tove cau ing food toburn. Medical service calJs: 1.

ay 26: Bldg. 12, truck struck overpass; Herman garage, vehicledamage; Bldg. E15, su piciou activity; Student Center, I) daily plan-'ner stolen, 2) window accidentalJy broken; Bldg. 64, tudent prob-lem. Medical service cans: 2.

May 27: Bexley, report of loud noi e, no cau e found; The Coop,report of photos tolen, $ I 1. Medical ervice caB'S:O.

May 28: Block of 400 Beacon St., noise complaint, no cau efound; Bldg. 68, vending machine broken into; Bldg. 13, odor ofsomething burning, discovered to be a fan which overheated; Bldg. 2,fire which caused heavy smoke and water damage; Phi Gamma Delta,complaint of overflowing dumpster; Bldg. 7, unauthorized access toroof. Medical service cans: 6.

May 29: Pierce Boathouse, credit cards stolen from waBet; Bldg.N52, architecture tools stolen, $320; Bldg. 9 bike rack, tire stolen,$50; Bldg. N51, briefcase stolen, $80. Medical service caBs: 2.

May 30: Medical service calls: 4.May 31: Student Center, cash stolen from a vending machine, $5;

Walker, backpack stolen, $200; Main lot, tools stolen from vehicle,$116; Bldg. 2, stone lion found on roof. Medical service caBs: O.

June 1: Next House, notify student to caB home; Amherst St.,minor motor vehicle accident; Burton-Conner House, malicious dam-age; Bldg. 7, unauthorized access to roof; Bexley, jewelry stolen,$190. Medical service cans: I.

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ken, mild-mannered woman whowatche everything and only speakswhen necessary. - She showed meletters in Spani h that Lori had writ-ten to members of Congre s, letterswith the "approval" tamp of theYanamayo prison guards. All corre-pondence in and out of the prison

must be in Spanish so that theguards can read it.

Mark Berenson showed me pic-tures of Lori and him at MIT herfreshman year, and articles that herclassmates had written about her innewspapers world-wide. Peopleremember Lori, even though shedidn't stay long at MIT, he said.

Over 350 MIT affiliates signed aletter to President Clinton askinghim to press for a retrial onBerenson's behalf. Cambridge CityCouncillor Katherine Triantifillouhosted a press conference with theBerensons in Cambridge City Halllast Wednesday.

The Berensons held a vigil onthe morning of Commencement andhanded out white ribbons beggingPresident Clinton to obtain a trialfor Lori.

, In December of last year, 55Senators and 180 CongressionalRepresentatives sent letters toSecretary of State MadelaineAlbright calling on our governmentto do :'everything in [its] power" toachieve justice for Lori.

However, Lori's supporters havenot succeeded in obtaining a trial inan open civilian court like thetreaties Peru have signed dictate.

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on the windswept outhern Andeanhighland near Lake Titicaca,Yanamayo i considered one of theworld' harshe t prison .

Lori Berenson speaks outLori Berenson's only public

statement highlighted her concernfor human rights and her belief thatshe was innocent: "I am to be con-demned for my concern about theconditions of hunger and misery'which exists in this country. If it isa crime to worry about the subhu-man conditions in which the majori-ty of this population lives,. then Iwill accept my punishment. But thisis not a love of violence."

Lori said she was convicted in1996 by a hooded judge who deliv-ered her sente!1ce at gunpoint. Shewas not allowed to be present at hertrial and her lawyer was not allowedto cross-examine witnesses. Shewas sentenced to life in prison, themaximum sentence.

The Peruvian government hasdeclined to comment on theBerenson case.

The Commission of InternationalJurists, the Inter-American Court ofHuman Rights, the United NationsHuman Rights Committee as well asmany other UN committees have alldeclared that Peru was acting in vio-lation of binding internationaltreaties it has s.igned governinghuman rights and the treatment ofprisoners, including the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights, theInternational Covenant on Civil andPolitical Rights, AmericanDeclaration on the Rights andDuties of Man and the AmericanConvention on Human Rights.

For these reasons, AmnestyInternational has declared Lori a

'political prisoner.

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I met ark and Rhoda Beren onthe d y b fore Commencement.

They were inReporter's Bo ton to ho tsome activitie ,Notebook including apre confer-

ence and vigil' for Lori Beren on,their daughter and former ITstudent who ha pent two and ahalf year in an Andean maximumsecurity military pri on. .

They hared with me Lori' his-tory - from what fir t interestedher in human right i ue, to whatbrought her to Peru, to her experi-ence erving out her jail entence.

Lori wa in Peru as a free-lancejournali t for two leftist Americanpublications. Third World Viewpointand Modern Times, when she waarre ted by the country' governmentwith the charge of treason "againstthe fatherland of Peru." he had beenresearching articles on women'sright and poverty in Peru and hadinterviewed everal members ofPeru' Congre s and government.

he wa arre ted on ovember30, 1995, in Lima by Dinconte, thePeruvian anti-terrorist police, withthe charge of being a high rankingofficial in the Tupac AmaruRevolutionary Movement.

Lori committed to social justiceHer parents said that from the

very beginning, Lori was concernedwith human rights.

In high school, she sang' inschool musicals, playing Mame inAuntie Mame and Jesus in JesusChrist Superstar. She took a sum-mer job at age 12 to sponsor a poorGuatemalan child, and in highschool she worked at a soupkitchen. .

While a student at MIT begin-ning in fall 1987, Lori was part ofthe Experimental Study Group andthe Concert Choir.

According to her parents, it wasan Undergraduate ResearchOpportunities Position in anthropol-ogy that directed her footstepstowards becoming a human rightsactivist. She became involved withthe Committee in Solidarity with theP.eople of EI Salvador, a leftisthuman rights group through workwith Martin Diskin a professor ofanthropology who passed away infall of last year. She took an inten-sive Spanish course and went backto EI Salvador as soon as she could,studying Spanish and monitoringhuman rights efforts for twomonths.

When she came back, she quitMIT and went to work for CISPESfull-time. "It was clear," said

. Geoffrey Herzog,' a CISPES staffmember who met her that summer,"that she was very moved by the sit-uation there and wanted to commitherself to defend human rights inCentral America."

In 1990, she moved to Nicaraguaand a year and a half later she pro-ceeded to El Salvador. A few yearslater, she moved to Peru after fallingin love with the country.

ow, according to her parents,as Berenson continues to serve herjail sentence her hands have beendeformed by the effects of the alti-tude and cold weather as she suffersfrom repeated throat infections andchronic laryngitis.

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