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HOSED- The MIT Museum's special exhibit on hacking has been extended through the end of the month.The exhibit features pieces and pictures of famous hacks.

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excellent communicator, and is veryadept" at analyzing and resolvingissues.

Keyser, who is a professor in theDepartment of Linguistics andPhilosophy, will fill the special assis-tant for alcohol education positionuntil a permanent replacement is befound.

A committee headed byAssociate Provost Phillip A. Clay iscurrently searching for the perma-nent special assistant. Clay said thesearch committee is conducting anational search that will concludeby the spring. "We're looking basi-cally for someone who can orga-nize students, faculty, staff, med-ical personnel, police, as well asthe larger community to address theissue of changing the culture ofMIT."

ning on or very much leaningtowards filing a lawsuit - I certain-ly assumed MIT" would be a defen-dant, she told The Tech.

Williams was interviewed on20120 about the housing system andalcohol policies at the Institute.

Krueger died Sept. 29, 1997after spending three days in a comafrom acute alcohol ingestion.Krueger allegedly was participat-ing in an "Animal House" pledgenight activity at Fiji when hebecame intoxicated, prosecutorssaid.

In September, Fiji was indictedon one count of manslaughter andone count of hazing. The fraternity

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tion is accompanied by theapproaching addition of five newCampus Police officers to supportpatrols of fraternities, sororities andindependent living groups inBoston.

Both changes came out of sug-gestions by the Working Group onDangerous Drinking, led byProfessor Phillip A. Sharp, head ofthe biology department, and Dr.Mark Goldstein, chief of pediatricsand student health services at themedical department.

Keyser will work with PresidentCharles M. Vest and ChancellorLawrence S. Bacow '72.

"I think Jay is a great appoint-ment" to the position, Sharp said. "Ithink the students will find him fun,and he has a keen sense of thesocial."

Vest said that "Professor Keyserunderstands the culture of MIT, is an

not filed earlier because lawyerswanted to see what new informationmight come out from the 20120investigation, according to Henry.

"We had waited for the criminalprocess [to end]. By the time thecriminal process was at closure,20120 was already filming, so weheld off. We were interested to seewhat might come out that was new,"Henry said.

However, "I don't know thatthere was anything completely newexcept for what was said in some ofthe interviews," Henry said.

Dean of Students andUndergraduate Education RosalindH. Williams was unsurprised yester-day that MIT was a target of theKrueger's. "I knew they were plan-

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egers Reveal Intent to Suestitu e, iji on ABC's20120

which are the namesakes of Athenadialup servers, such as buzzword-bingo (some of the original"Buzzword Bingo" cards used dur-ing Vice President Al Gore's gradua-tion speech in 1996), cathedral-seven (the 0 x 10 commandments

By Rima AmaoutSTAFF REPORTER

During a 20 minute segment onABC's 20120 Sunday, the parents ofScott s. Krueger '01 revealed thatthey plan to file civil lawsuitsagainst the MIT administration, thePhi Gamma Delta national fraterni-ty, and local Fiji chapter leaders.

The segment, reported byElizabeth Vargas, again drew nation-al attention to MIT and Krueger'sdeath.

Yesterday, attorneys working forLeo V Boyle, the Krueger's attorney,suggested the civil lawsuits likelywill be filed within four to sixweeks.

Brad Henry, an attorney inBoyle's office, said the lawsuit was

By Susan BuchmanASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Samuel J. Keyser Named SpecialAssistant for Alcohol Education

input from the MIT community onthis issue.

In that vein, the museum held aspecial dinner last Saturday withmembers of the MIT communityincluding coordinators of the muse-um, the IHTFP Gallery, current stu-dents, and recent alumni. Discussionwas centered around what to dowith the museum's collection ofhacks.

"I certainly learned a lot, whichwas great," Pickering said of thedinner session. Suggestions fromthe session included putting thehacks where they were originally (abit difficult, according to Pickering)and potential other areas of campuswhich might be good places to puthacks. Additionally, members of thedinner session started the discus-sions to determine guidelines for themuseum collections committee onwhich hacks should be preserved.

"I think people tend to havecomments about how much affec-tion people hold the hacks in,"Pickering said. It was "certainlynever my intention not to displayany hacks. People do think that theyreally have a big part to play withthe museum."

Exhibit shows "greats"The "Hack Flashback" exhibit

contains a number of hacks whichthe museum describes as being"many of the greats." Hacks in thetemporary exhibit include several

GREG KUHNEN-THE TECH

Skip Lucey '01 dodges "between two defenders In a gameagainst Emerson College. MIT won the game 85-77.

Professor Emeritus Samuel J.Keyser has been named theInstitute's Interim Special Assistantto the President and Chancellor forAlcohol Education.

The appointment to a new posi-

MIT;'MUseum Extends Hac isplayDue to Doubled Weekend AttendanceBy Jennifer ChungASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The MIT Museum brought outthe contents of its hack archives lastFriday in an exhibit designed to pro-mote awareness in the MITCommunity about the exhibition ofhacks at the museum.

Originally scheduled to run foronly the holiday weekend, this auxil-iary hacks exhibit - which is anextension of the museum's morepermanent "MIT Hall of Hacks"exhibit - has been extended, andall hacks will be on display until theend of Independent ActivitiesPeriod.

"We've had a very busy week-end," said Jane Pickering, director ofthe museum. "We were actually sur-prised, because we're not usuallyopened on Mondays, and we dou-bled our number of visitors over theweekend."

According to Gallery AttendantCate Mackinnon, response to theexhibition has been very good.

Hacks taking up roomSince Pickering's tenure as

museum director began last year, themuseum has been considering howmuch space the hacks are taking up.In the past, Pickering has said thatshe would like to deemphasizehacks at the museum, to look atMIT and its community and its his-tory in a wider way, and that themuseum would like to encourage

Professor Thomas Magnanti isthe new dean of the School ofEngineering.

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aTaking advantage of that oppor-

tunity in the midst of the impeach- 4ment drama offered the presidentperhaps the most forceful defensehe can present, because if his enatetrial, as many political scientiststhink, is ultimately a political ratherthan judicial test, then maintainingstrong poll ratings may be his ulti-mate weapon.

Perhaps more than those of hisrecent predecessors, Clinton's Stateof the Union speech - and the bud-get he will present Feb. I - offerClinton what counselor DougSosnik called a "center of gravity"to project his most ambitious goalsfor the coming year. Tuesday's callfor reform of Social Security was asdramatic as any program he hasespoused since 1994, when hecalled for universal health insur-ance.

At its heart, the program Clintonpresented to the joint session ofCongress this year was built aroundthe need to tackle the most pressingproblems facing the nation as itnears a new century, and the oppor-tunities presented by the extendedperiod of economic growth that hasmarked the end of the decade, and 4the first federal budget surplus since1969.

about to back away from the brink,as he did when NATO first issued itsthreat.

Serbian police and separatistKosovo Liberation Army guerrillasclashed in Racak again Tuesday,the Serb-run Media Center said. Alocal deputy police chief waskilled and two other police officerswere wounded, the center said.They were guarding Yugoslavauthorities who are investigatingFriday's killings in Racak, whichWalker called an "unspeakableatrocity."

In explaining the massacre,Yugoslav authorities insist thatpolice were fighting terrorists whohad killed a police officer five daysearlier, and Serbian leaders havelabeled Walker a guerrilla supporterand protector.

trillion, to ocial ecurity, and therest primarily to Medicare, a newretirement savings program depen-dent on private investment, and mil-itary and education needs. The bud-get surplus is expected to be 4.4trillion over that period.

peaking at one of the moreextraordinary junctures in the his-tory of the presidency, Clintonmade no reference to his impeach-ment by the House ofRepresentatives and his ongoingtrial before the Senate.

Reflecting the divisions causedby the trial, six members of theHouse and one senator, allRepublicans, said they would boy-cott the address.

Some Republicans had said thepresident should postpone thespeech. House Speaker DennisHastert of Illinois reminded mem-bers of Congress earlier theyshould greet Clinton in a dignifiedmanner.

For Clinton, the speech repre-sented his grandest opportunity toremind his national audience of hisstrengths - those of a presidentfocused on the domestic and eco-nomic issues that the public, inopinion surveys, lists time and againas its greatest concerns.

mass murder in the village ofRacak, but on Tuesday the Yugoslavgovernment extended the deadlineby 24 hours.

NATO's two top generals kept upthe pressure Tuesday by warningYugoslav President SlobodanMilosevic to rescind the expulsionorder altogether and restrain hissecurity forces or else brace forairstrikes.

U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO'ssupreme commander, and GermanGen. Klaus Naumann, the chairmanof NATO's military committee, metwith Milosevic for several hours anddelivered what Clark called "a veryblunt" warning that the alliance isprepared to attack.

But after the talks in Belgradewith the generals, there was noimmediate sign that Milosevic is

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C~ ..tPresident Clinton proposed a res-

cue plan for the ocial ecurity sys-tem Tuesday night, u ing his eventh

tate of the Union addre s to offerthe most sweeping domestic agendaof his econd term.

Eight hours after his lawyersbegan telling the enate why heshould not be removed from office,the pre ident offered to the nation aroad map of social programs intend-ed to protect Americans' health andretirement.

Admonishing the nation to notfall into complacency at a time ofprosperity, Clinton declared: "Howwe fare as a nation far into the 21 stcentury depends upon what we doa a nation today.

"With our budget surplu grow-ing, our economy expanding, ourconfidence rising, now is themoment for this generation to meetour historic responsibility to the21 st century," he said, in a textreleased by the White House. "Solet's get to work."

His program is built on a strictparceling of the anticipated budgetsurplus over the next 15 years, allo-cating 62 percent, more than $2.7

By Paul WatsonLOS ANGELES TIMES

PRISTfNA, YUGOSLAVIA

As Yugoslavia does its best toblock an independent probe into themassacre of more than 40 ethnicAlbanian villagers in the separatistprovince of Kosovo, foreign moni-tors are hinting that they have damn-ing evidence from the killers' ownmouths.

Information gleaned from eaves-dropping on Serbian police radiosmay be the ace up the sleeve of U.S.diplomat William Walker in hishigh-stakes confrontation with theYugoslav government.

On Monday, Belgrade hadordered Walker, who leads an inter-national monitoring team in Kosovo,to leave the country within 48 hoursafter he accused Serbian police of

Stakes Rise in Kosovo ConflictAs Yugoslavia Protests Probe

George W. Bu h was sworn in for his econd term a Texa gover-nor Tuesday, even as ource clo e to him ignaled he was inten ify-iog hi efforts to explore a possible bid for the 2000 Republican presi-dential nomination.

While the focus Tue day wa on the econd term that Bu h won ina land tide re-election in ovember, many here viewed the day' fe-tivitie a only the overture for a pre idential announcement later thisyear. Aide said perhaps a soon a March, Bush could move closertoward such a race by formally establi hing a presidential exploratorycommittee.

"In March or so, if the answer (about running) is anything otherthan absolutely not, he' got to let something go forward," aid onesenior adviser to Bu h, who has emerged a the clear front-runner inalmost all early polls of GOP presidential preference for 2000.

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Allied Jets in Turkey Brace forAction Over Iraq

Hussein Returns to Jordan AfterCancer Treatment in U.S.

The co-pilot of aU. Air Force EA-6B electronic jamming planewas flying protective cover for several British Jaguar over northernIraq la t month when he was surpri ed to see the contrails of an Iraqisurface-to-air mis ile and hear an explosion overhead. Twenty min-utes later. another Iraqi missile arced into the sky toward a nearbyus. F-16, provoking three American warplanes to hurl six 500-poundbombs at their assailants.

The Dec. 2 attack was the first against U . aircraft in northernIraq since August 1993. Since then, Iraqi anti-aircraft batterie havefired on U . and British warplanes in northern Iraq twice more andwitched on radar at least three times in preparation for possible

attack - each time provoking a swift counterattack by air crewsunder orders from Washington not to let a single assault go unpun-i hed.

one of the Iraqi missile or anti-aircraft fire has struck a target,but three Iraqi batterie have been damaged or destroyed. Over thepast month, U . officials say, the Iraqi military evidently has laid thegroundwork to maintain a robust challenge to allied flights in north-ern Iraq by moving more than a dozen additional mobile missile bat-teries into the air patrol zone, which lies between the Turkish borderand the 36th parallel.

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A gaunt but smiling King Hussein returned home Tuesday to elated,rain-drenched crowds and simmering speculation over who will suc-ceed him as the ruler of Jordan, this strategic ally of the United States.

Claiming recovery from cancer after six months of treatment inthe United States, the king piloted his Royal Jordanian Air Force jetto a safe landing here. He then rode in a heavily guarded motorcadethrough the capital, poking his kaffiyeh-clad head through the sunroofof an aging limousine to salute the Bedouins, children, soldiers andother well-wishers who lined the streets.

Hussein's longest-ever absence from the desert kingdom he hasruled for 46 years fed a sense of uncertainty and unease among manyJordanians faced with high unemployment, endemic corruption, newtensions with neighboring Iraq and the stagnation of Israel's pursuitof peace with the Palestinians, who make up a majority of Jordan'spopulation.

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The longer range models are showing a strong storm developing overOklahoma on Thursday and Friday, moving northward into the westernGreat Lakes over the weekend. This storm track would leave us on thewarm side of the storm, with a warm front passing across southern NewEngland during Friday evening. Before the front passes, there will be ashort period of frozen precipitation (sleet or freezing rain), then warm airfrom the south will move in at all levels and change us over to all rain. Itappears that the storm will move only slowly, so that we can expect wetweather for much of the weekend.

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Tax Cuts Top the- List of GOP PolicyDifferences With President Clinton

Clinton Legal Team CommencesVigorous Impeachment DefenseBy Peter Baker ment trial marked the start of an Ruff's leaving the floor, they handedTHE WASHINGroN POST aggressive, three-day White House out the first of eight fact sheets they

WASHINGTON defense aimed not only at more would distribute during the after-president Clinton's legal team directly rebutting the evidence than noon to rebut the counsel's state-

opened its defense case Tuesday during the House impeachment ments, mimicking the leave-no-with a scathing assault on the debate but also at unraveling the attack-unanswered strategy of theimpeachment charges against him, credibility of the Gal? "managers" Clinton campaign war room.dismissing them as a "witches' trying the case. "He put the president's behaviorbrew" of conjecture and "prosecuto- In a performance later praised on in the best spin possible," said Rep.rial fudge-making" that do not add both sides of the aisle, Ruff main- F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., (R-up to high crimes and misde- tained his characteristically mea- Wis.). "The facts and the law aremeanors. sured demeanor, yet his dry tone against him .... Our case isn't'made

Appearing on the Senate floor belied the biting flavor of his of sealing wax and spider webs. It isjust eight hours before the president remarks. made of testimony under oath. It is

, entered the otl,1erside of the Capitol The prosecutors who addressed made of facts. It is made oflaw."to deliver his annual State of the the Senate last week advanced a As Ruff opened the defense, theUnion address, White House coun- "simplistic proposition" in compar- White House added to its legal teamsel Charles EC. Ruff accused the ing the impeachment of judges to former Democratic senator DaleHouse Republican prosecutors of the president's case. The suggestion Bumpers, a longtime Arkansas allytwisting the facts last week and that Clinton's prepared statement of the president who has been urg-imputi~g sinister motives to innocu- before the grand jury was a premed- ing him to fight vigorously and notous events based on nothing more itated lie is absolute "nonsense." make any of the concessionsthan "shifting sand castles of specu- The House deliberations were not a demanded by some congressionallation." considered appraisal of the presi- critics. Bumpers, 73t who retired

"William Jefferson Clinton is not dent's actions but a partisan "rush to just this month, sat at the defenseguilty of the charges that have been judgment." table Tuesday and was greeted withpreferred against him," Ruff said as Indeed, Ruff all but accused the clubby exuberance by arm-clasping,he began his presentation shortly House managers of lying to the shoulder-patting former colleaguesafter 1 p.m. "He did not commit Senate last week. "Be wary of the from both parties.perjury. He did not obstruct justice. prosecutor who feels it necessary to The White House tried to recruitHe must not be removed from deceive the court," he told the 100 former Senate majority leaderoffice." Two and a half hours later, juror-judges. George J. Mitchellt (D-Maine), tohe closed with the same flat denial. Through it all, the managers sat join its defense team, but while he

Ruff's calm but stinging argu- silently a few feet away at the prose- advises from the outside he hasments in the president's impeach- cution table. But within minutes of declined to take a formal role.

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By Anthony FaiolaTHE WASHINGro POST

BRASILIA, BRAZIL

Brazilian financial authoritiesaid Monday they will make perma-nent la t week' decision to allowhe nation's currency, the real, to

float on global markets. They added,however, that they will intervene toupport the real if it appeared to be

tumbling in value in the ame man-ner a the Russian ruble did lastsummer.

President Fernando HenriqueCardoso and Senate PresidentAntonio Carlos Magalhaes aid al 0

that Brazil will try to overhaul therepresentational system inCongress, in which 18 Political par-ties currently sit. That system,which political analysts say makes itdifficult to form a majority andenact legislationt has been blamedlargely for the legislature's inabilityto adopt austerity measures pro-posed by Cardoso to sReed recoveryfrom the current economic crisis.

In an attempt to tackle thosemeasures in the short term, however,

By Art PineLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHfNGTON

Co.ngressional Republicans;responding to President Clinton'sState of the Union address Tuesday,called for more bipartisan coopera-tion but served notice they plan topush proposals on key i.ssues thatare starkly different from the admin-istration's.

Reps. Jennifer Dunnt R- Wash.,and Steve Largent, R-Okla., the des-ignated Gap spokesmen, were todeliver televised remarks after

• Clinton's speech. The text of theircomments conspicuously omittedany reference to the presidentialimpeachment trial. Instead, the pairopted for soft, low-key speeches thatstressed "reconciliation." Clearly,the Gap response and comments byRepublican leaders earlier in the daysought to depict the party as focusedon more than impeachment.

"Our point is that we have a lotof work to do and that we're work-ing," said Deputy Senate MajorityLeader Don Nickles, R-Okla., at a

Cardo 0 declar d that Congre wille tend its p cial e ion on cuttingth nation' ma ive budget deficituntil Feb. 15.

While financial markets generallyreacted fa orably to Monday'announcements - with the key indexon the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange ri -ing 5.4 percent on the heels of a mas-ive 33 percent gain on Friday -

analy ts aid they expect Brazil' eco-nomic problem to deepen, withsome predicting that the country isheading for its most serious recessionin more than two decade .

In afternoon trading, the value ofthe real hovered around 1.55 to thedollar, down about 8 percent sinceFriday. If it continues to fall, finan-cial analysts said they fear the crisisin Latin America's largest nationcould pull down the rest of theregion, creating a new front in theglobal economic crisis.

Monday's decision to stick withthe hands-off currency policyannounced Friday followed weekendmeetings in Washington betweenFinance Minister Pedro Malan,

morning news conference. "Wehope that we'll have the president'scooperation," he added, "but weplan on doing it regardless.", Congressional analysts said the

five-part legislative agenda thatGap leaders outlined beforeClinton's address is sufficiently dif-ferent from what the president pro-

, posed that a serious partisan wran-gle seems all but inevitable -particularly over the question of atax cut.

The two sides differ sharply overseveral issues - particularly how touse the $4 trillion surplus that thefederal government is expected torun over the next 15 year~. Clintonwants the money used almost entire-ly to bolster the Social Securityfund, while the Republicans contendthat can be accomplished even aslarge tax cuts are enacted.

They also are split over whatkind of tax cuts to enact. WhileClinton proposed a few modest "tar-geted" tax breaks aimed at specificgroups - such as mothers who stayat home or people who care for dis-

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Central Bank President Franci coLopes and officials of theInternational Monetary Fund andthe U.S. Treasury Department -key contributors to a 41 billionloan package designed to hore upBrazil's ailing economy.

Both sides said the meetingswent well, de pite lingering tensionsover Brazil' decision to devalue thereal with no input from Washington.'I can as ure you that what hap-pened last week i water under thebridge," Malan told reporters inWashington Monday. "We, are look-ing ahead instead of looking back."

Although Brazil's economy hasbeen teetering since those of severalEast Asian nations began crumblingin late 1997, the threat of collapsebecame plain only last week. OnWednesday, the government said ithad no choice but to accept a lowerforeign exchange rate for the realbecause selling pressure on the cur-rency was becoming overwhelming.The Sao Paulo exchange nose-divedon the news, as did Wall Street andother world markets.

abled parents or children -Republicans touted a plan for moresizable cuts affecting a broaderswath of the public.

The Gap proposal would reducetax rates across the board by 10 per-cent - well short of what PresidentReagan pushed through in 1981) butstill sizable by any measure. Thebiggest tax benefits would go to tax-payers in the higher-income brack-ets.

Republicans also revived theirlongstanding call for eliminating theso-called "marriage penalty" - theformula that forces married couplesto pay more taxes' by filing jointlythan they would have had to pay ifthey had remained single - a hot-button Gap issue for the past sever-al years. _

The two sides also are dividedover how to invest Social Securityfunds in the stock market, in hopesof providing a better return. Clintonwants the government to invest themoney in the market, whileRepublicans want taxpayers to beable to set up their own accounts.

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Pinochet Linked to Crimes BeforeHe Seized Power

LOS ANGELES TIMESLONDON

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not immune frompro ecution as a former head of state becau e many of the crimes heallegedly committed took place before he seized power, lawyers forthe British and Spanish governments told Britain's highest courtMonday.

The lawyers, seeking Pinochet's extradition to Spain on chargesof murder, torture and kidnapping, made the argument on the openingday of an unprecedented rehearing of the court's own case.

Later that month, London's High Court ruled that Pinochet wasimmune because he was head of state when the alleged crimes againsthumanity were committed. That decision was overturned in

ovember when five judges in the House of Lords - Britain's high-est court - ruled 3-2 that Pinochet was not entitled to immunity forsuch heinous crimes.

But in December, another panel of Law Lords took the unprece-dented step of setting aside the ruling after lawyers for Pinochet com-plained that the judge who provided the deciding vote against theretired dictatort Lord Hoffmann, had failed to disclose his close tieswith Amnesty International. The human rights organization supportedthe case against Pinochet.

VIrginia Insurance ProgramReaches Few Children

THE WASHINGroN POSTRICHMOND

A program created by the legislature last year to provide freehealth insurance to more than 50,000 children of the working poorhas enrolled only about 2,000, leading supporters to accuse Gov.James S. Gilmore Ill's administration of dragging its feet on an initia-tive it had opposed.

Critics point to a state report last week indicating Virginia socialservices workers have so far located only five eligible children inRichmond, it city where nearly half of the 201,000 residents live inpoverty.

early a third of the children enrolled in the program across thestate live in rural Southwest Virginia, where local organizationssigned up families on their own, rather than wait for a slow-startingstate search that began only recently.

Del. Anne G. Rhodes was angry after learning of the Richmondnumbers and told Social Services Commissioner Clarence H. Carterthat she wants regular reports on the progress of the enrollment effort.

"Those numbers are not acceptable," Rhodes said in an interview."I'm very concerned and expect the state to show more of an interestin working with the city."

MH to Fund Research on HumanEmbryonic Stem Cells

THE WASHINGroN POSTWASHI GTON

The National Institutes of Health has decided to fund research onhuman embryonic stem cells - recently discovered cells that appearto have great therapeutic potential but have also stirred controversybecause they are derived from intentionally destroyed humanembryos.

The decision, announced Tuesday by NIH Director HaroldVarmus at a Washington meeting of the National Bioethics AdvisoryCommission, makes the $14 billion federal agency a reluctant partici-pant in the nation's longrunning battle over abortion rights andembryo research just a month before Congress starts consideringappropriations for the 2000 fiscal year.

Varmus told the presidentially appointed commission that thegeneral counsel of the department of Health and Human Services haddetermined that research on the embryo-like cells does not constituteresearch on human embryos. Under that interpretation, he said, theresearch is not subject to a four-year-old congressional ban on federalfunding of human embryo research.

These stem cells were first isolated last year by privately fundedresearchers from surplus human embryos that were about to be dis-carded by a fertility clinic. They have many of the properties ofembryos, including the capacity to grow into virtually any kind ofhuman tissue when cultured under the right conditions. But they donot have the potential to grow into an entire person.

Salt Lake City's VIrtuous ImageTarnished by Scandal

WASHINGroN POSTSALT LAKE CITY

Fifteen months ago, in a statewide radio broadcast, Gov. MikeLeavitt predicted that after the 2002 Winter Olympic Games conclude"the world will never see Utah the same."

Three years before the opening ceremony, Leavitt's prediction hascome trlle, but certainly not in the way he envisioned.

Reeling from a still-unfolding scandal involving charges thatUtah won the right to host the Games by showering cash, gifts andother financial favors on International Olympic Committee (laC)members and their families, this prosperous and booming city nestledagainst the Wasatch Mountains is undergoing a kind of civic and psy-chic crisis.

For a city sensitive to the world's view of it as a place of greatbeauty, weird liquor laws and a mysterious religion, the Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the 2002 Winter Games were goingto paint things in richer colors. .

"Utahans are very ashamed of what they are seeing," said TedWilson, a former mayor who teaches politics at the University ofUtah. "We felt we had earned the Games and now we find out weprobably bought them."

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Edl'torl'aI prai ed tudent input in the problem to be aware of everal i ue that have characterized this debate.of hou ing de ign and encourage MIT hould work to avoid a further polarization of the cornrnu-tudent , faculty, and staff to nity between dormitory and independent living group member .

become involved in the proce s. We call on the admini tration, While pre erving the benefits of the fraternity, sorority and.pecifically Chancellor Lawrence . Bacow '72 and Pre ident independent living group y tern uch a mentoring of freshmen

Charle . Ve t, to review tudent de igns with an open mind is important, much of the debate on thi i ue implie that uchand abide by tudent recommendation . benefits are not available in dormitories. These implications are

Ve t's deci ion to house an fre hmen on campus and the ~nsulting to many dormitory residents.que tions that fonn the basi of the design contest have already Moreover, we strongly recommend that the student teamslaid down limitations on the yet-to-be-designed housing sy tern. work with other members ofthe MIT community, particularly fac-We hope that the administration will now step back and allow stu- ulty. Most professors have been at MIT far longer than studentsdents to make the decisions that they will live with in the future. and can provide a useful historical perspective that students lack.Students are the most qualified group to design the new system. In addition, while freshmen on campus and FSILG rush are

Students, however, will not be re ponsible for this decision important issues, design teams should not overlook the lessif the admini tration pays only lip service to the proposed prominent but equally important issues such as the role of grad-designs or ignores them entirely. The admini tration must not uate resident tutors and resident advisors.try to choose the design that best fits its preconceived notions of This residence design contest presents the student bodya housing sy tern. The next residence system should represent a with an opportunity to truly shape its future. If students becomeconsensus of student opinion to the furthe t extent possible. involved and the administration maintains its good faith in this

Students, for their part, must become involved in the contest, the next residence system could truly belong to the stu-proce and must recognize practical limitations on housing dents who occupy it.

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Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendellwants to get rid of gun in America. Last year,he met with gun manufacturers and tried topersuade them to make guns with lock sys-tem and to support restrictions on gun sales.When Rendell was rejected, he went to thecourts.

Of course, many crimes are committed bycriminals with guns, and cities spend tax dol-lars on policemen's salaries, counseling forvictims' families, and other expensive tasks.Although the argument is flawed, it is some-what reasonable to say that if the gun industryis causing huge financial costs to Americancities, it must reimburse taxpayers for thosecosts. It makes sense for Rendell to appeal tothe courts to decide whether the gunmakershave this responsibility.

But that is not'Ren e11'slsH-'"gy. Instead ofsimply getting a court decision on the issue, hewants to harass firearms manufacturers intosubmission by getting 50 to 100 cities to filelawsuits. Rendell believes the cost to the indus-try of simultaneously defending itself againstso many lawsuits will help his chances for suc-cess.

The American gun industry is not prosper-ous. Threatened by foreign competition,domestic companies cannot afford to fight offan infinite number of lawsuits. Corporationsoften find it cheaper to settle a frivolous law-suit than to let each case go to trial. The system

rewards people who demand money from cor-porations even for laughable reasons and givespeople like Rendell a way to destroy entireindustries.

Whether there is any substance to lawsuitsbrought against the gunmakers, the companiesmay be forced out of business by legal costs.,Rendell would like to ruin thousands of work-ers' careers and remove a product from themarket not by lawful legislation but by legalharassment. His attempt to circumvent the waywe make laws is unacceptable.

Let's say we allow anyone to sue an indus-try into bankruptcy because its customers,fully knowing the risks of what they are buy-ing, hurt themselves or other people.Following on the heels of the tobacco law-suits, we should expect to see a round of law-suits against the fast food industry.McDonald's and the other fast food chains areknowingly selling a dangerous product whichcould cause heart disease; shouldn't they takethe blame for heart attacks and obesity?Alcohol makers could be sued not only forcausing health problems but for causing carcrashes and spousal abuse. The automobile.industry would pay for the danger and pollu-tion speeding cars create. IBM and Intelcould be sued out of business for buildingsuch good computers that they can be used tocommit crimes electronically, or MIT couldbe sued for giving potential computer crack-ers their sJ<ills.

Of course, the idea of suing Intel or BurgerKing is ridiculous, but if we allow Rendell'slegal tactics, how can we prevent someonefrom doing exactly that? It will become eco-nomically impractical to do business inAmerica if companies can be ruined by peoplefiling - not even winning - lawsuits againstthem.

Wars of legal attrition should not be thenew way to make policy. The best ways forAmerica to reduce crime and violence are byhonest legislation and individual initiative.People like Rendell make matters worse byabusing our court system, subverting theSecond Amendment and the' rest of theConstitution they were sworn to protect.

Instead of hurling lawsuits, why don't con-cerned citizens like Rendell try democracy?Rendell should use the normal legislativeprocess to achieve his goals.lf Rendell decidesto force gun control on Philadelphia withoutconsulting anyone, then the people whoserights he ignores should give him their opinionduring the next election.

Kris Schnee

,Legal wars are not the wayto make policy. Honestlegislation is the bestway to control crime.

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toward the teller-bullpen door; others will mut- applies to airline ticket desks, department andter while in line, "When are they going to bring retail store counters - almost anywhereout another teller?" there's more than one service point, it is rare

Logic suggests that the bank would do just indeed to see them all operating at the samethat, especially when the line snakes around time.and beyond the brass crowd-controlling rails.' I say "rare" because there are exceptions -But since the bank never sends in relief oddly enough, often in connection with com-tellers, no matter the length of the line, it panies not known for their efficiency. Formust not have any. It is impossible to imagine, instance, I am told that the shadowy secondeven at BankBoston, that a bunch of tellers token booth at the Harvard T station was oncewould sit drinking coffee in the back while a staffed. I have also seen the Coop's army ofmob of angry customers crowds the lobby. cashiers deployed, frighteningly, all at once.The only remaining question, therefore, is And, of all companies, Aramark has been"How could BankBoston be so insidious as to known to man all of the registers at Lobdellemploy only two tellers while implying, with and Walker. Is it that the MBTA, the Coop, andits five windows, that it has hordes of tellers Aramark are more honest with their customersin reserve?" than banks and retail stores, or is it that they're

Business, of course, is the answer. The cost not clever enough to dabble in customer psy-of constructing three extra, permanently empty cnology? ,windows must be more than offset by the extra Recent legislation has attacked another cus-business those three empty windows attract. tomer-psychology tactic - sale pricing. UntilBesides, most customers seem to accept the now, stores had wide latitude in marking "sale"situation for what it is, or at least never realize and "discount" pricing, and a particular item'sthat their minds are 'being played with. And regular, full price could often not be deter-BankBoston is by no means the only organiza- mined. A television with a "list price" of $350tion guilty of such customer-psychology tac- could be "on sale" almost permanently fortics. $300, leading customers to think they were

Many businesses present themselves as getting a bargain. Consumer-advocate groupslarge and capable, when in fact their cus- rightly comPLained about such underhandedtomers are forced to deal with all sorts of bot- psychological tactics, and they are now a thingtlenecks. Tech-support telephone numbers of the past.illustrate this nicely - computer and software Perhaps consumer-advocate groups shouldcompanies imply that help is available at the now investigate the perceived-customer-touch of a button, when in fact customers capacity to actual customer-capacity discrep-sometimes have to wait on the phone for ancy. I would be quite interested to see a sur-hours. This is actually worse than the bank vey determining what percentage of the co un-example, since over the phone there's no way try's cash registers and teller windows areto even guess at the company's relief-employ- staffed, and for what amount of time. And Iee strength. 'bave to admit, I would chuckle if advocates

Supermarkets can have more than a dozen spearheaded new legislation that ultimatelycash registers, but has anyone you know ever required Bank Boston to permanently boardseen all of a supermarket's check-out aisles in up three of the Kendall branch's teller win-simultaneous operation? Same question dows.

orry uaessors to Legacies qf Great Mening a run for the Oval Office can pre ent a in the hadow of great men like Roosevelt andtrong, principl d i ion for the 21 t century. Truman. Ever since entering into office, therizona enator John cCain has 1 d the admini tration of Bill Clinton has been rocked

fight in Congre 0 er tobacco regulation by scandal after candal: Paula Jone ,Kathleenand campaign-finance reform. Like Willey, Monica Lewinsky, Whitewater,Well tone, McCain i an honest senator with Filegate, Travelgate. Regardless of wh therpopuli t appeal. A ote for McCain is a vote one believes Bill Clinton has committedwell ca t. impeachable offense , it cannot be denied that

Unfortunately the chances of his winning Bill Clinton has marred and devalued the officethe nomination are very limo George W Bush of the pre idency.has already lined up much of the party struc- Although Clinton's poll ratings may beture behind his candidacy and will likely high (for_the moment), those ratings beliebuild one of the largest campaign war chests. what people really feel about this man. TheIt will take a miracle for McCain to win; endless parade of scandals in this administra-America's choice in 2000 will probably be tion ha fed the cynicism with whichBush-Gore. A more uninspiring, unpalatable Americans regard government. Bill Clintonchoice in presidential politics would be diffi- seems more in place in Hustler magazine thancult to find. in the annals of American history. Americans

There was once a time when presidents know this sorry man cannot hold a candle towere great men. They were sources of intellect the leadership provided by Roosevelt, orand wisdom; of charisma and inspiration. They Truman, or Jefferson, or Washington. That 70were worthy leaders of the great American percent of the nation would approve of thispeople. man's job performance is testament to the low-

I consider Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be ered expectations Americans hold for the pres-our greatest president. Certainly 'he faced idency.more challenges than any president; he grap- This is not to say there are not good peo-pled with the Great Depression and World pie in politics. Indeed some politicians holdWar II. During his presidency he signed many honor and valor as indispensible values.of our fair labor laws, laws which have been Senators McCain and Wellstone are goodcritical to extending prosperity to the working examples. But neither of them will be presi-people of this nation. dent; neither of them will become the most

But his greatest contribution is one that powerful man in the free world. Their qual i-cannot be measured by statistics; it is the hope ties which we, the American voters, shouldand optimism he gave to the American people. hold in the highest esteem instead sentenceHe assured Americans that the nation would them to their positions as congressional back-prevail through its darkest hours, and his benchers.steady leadership earned the belief arid trust of What hath wrought this terrible plague onthe American people. American society? Is it the corrupting influ-

Another one of our great American presi- ence of money? Is it that the monied interestsdents, Harry S. Truman, left a legacy of charis- prefer a yes man to an honest leader?ma and character any future president would Or is it the American people who are atbe wise to study. Like Roosevelt, Truman's fault here? Are we as a society so juvenile thatgreat gift to the nation was something intangi- we have to be placated by our leaders withble, something that could not be measured in what we want to hear; are we so spineless thatterms of numbers or laws. Truman's contribu- we are afraid to be told that taxes will have totion to America was his plain-spoken honesty. go up or entitlements down?Truman did not try to hide decisions or poli- If the former of the baneful influences, thecies from the American people, nor trick or corrupting power of money; is the only prob-deceive them. Instead he was brutally honest lem, then I have an easy solution. Campaignwith the people he led, a quality for which he finance laws such as McCain-Feingold shouldwas rewarded, to the surprise of the pundits, at remedy the situation.the polls. But if the problem is our unwiUingness to

Today, candidates worthy of these men's be told the truth, to have a leader who willlegacies flounder in the primaries. Mediocre make difficult national choices, then the solu-candidates who pander to our wishes and tion is much. more difficult to attain. Only aneeds, making promises they cannot keep, win searching of our conscience as we follow poli-our elections. When they fail to deliver on their tics and vote will cure the disease. As wepromises in office, they produce not hope and approach the third American century, now is aoptimism but cynicism and skepticism in the good time to start. Shame on us if we electAmerican political psyche. another pandering president mired in scandal.

Just look at the man who today is slithering Shame on us if we elect another Bill Clinton.

ichael 1. Ring

residential BluesClinton) 2000 Candidates

January 20, 1

Eric 1. Plosky

I returned last week from a trip to London.Thanks to certain spending efficiencies (lots offish and chips), I had a bit of sterling left over,and so I made a trip to the Kendall SquareBankBoston in order to negotiate an exchangeto dollars. While waiting in line, I noticed thatonly two of the bank's five teller windows werestaffed. "Hey. Wait a second!" I then said tomyself, and it is likely that my brow creased inthought. "Have I ever seen more than twoactive windows?"

I think not. In fact, I would wager thatBankBoston's Kendall Square branch hasnever actually had all five of its teller windowsin simultaneous operation. The bank may noteven employ five tellers on the same shift! Ifanyone can submit photographic evidence tothe contrary, I'm sure my editors here at The .Tech will be happy to immortalize yourachievement in print. Really, what is the pointof having five windows if you never plan to usefive windows? I had plenty of time to ponderthis question while still waiting in line (since,of course, the line was being served by onlytwo tellers). Eventually, I decided thatBankBoston was deliberately being devious,toying with its customers' minds. By display-ing five teller windows, the bank says, "We'rebig, and therefore busy and important, so youshould be pleased and proud to bank with us.We have five tellers here for you, so even if theline is very long, your wait is guaranteed to bevery short." .

It's a)) an illusion. Only later does theunsuspecting customer realize that he has beenduped; that although there are five windows,there are only 'two tellers. Still, even then, mostare still rooting for the bank to bring out someextra tellers from the bullpen. You can seesome customers craning their necks to look

The election of 2000 i fa t approaching,and potential pre idential candidate are nodeciding whether to make a run for the hite

Hou e or pas on therace.

While there are stillseveral months left inthi exploratory phaseof the campaign, itappears nearly certainthat the president whowill lead the UnitedState into the thirdAmerican century will'be unspectacular and

unremarkable for any positive achievements.The ranks of Democrats seeking the nom-

ination grow leaner by the day. NebraskaSenator Bob Kerrey has decided not to run forpresident, and Minnesota Senator PaulWellstone has also chosen not to enter thefray. Their departure leaves a thin field con-testing the Democratic nomination, a groupheaded by Vice President Al Gore and includ-ing former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley,and possibly Massachusetts Senator JohnKerry, House minority leader RichardGephardt, and civil rights activist JesseJackson. .

These potential candidates are a terriblysorry cast. Gore has joined in thisAdministration's destruction of traditionalDemocratic values. Gephardt is unimagina-tive and lacks a true national vision so vital to

. the office of the presidency. Bradley anderry are second-string players. Jackson at

times is immature and distinctly unpresiden-tial, and would be a horrible choice for thenomination.

There was a potential candidate in the fieldwhose candidacy had the potential to excitethe nation. Wellstone is a charismatic, populistsenator with a strong progressive vision forthe nation. He practices people-based politicsand places his constituents' interests beforespecial interests. His absence from this cam-paign leaves a gigantic void which cannot befilled.

The potential Republican nominees are justas unappealing as their Democratic counter-parts. The likely Republican ballot in the year2000 will contain many recycled names,including the son of a president, the wife of apresidential candidate, and 'several also-ransfrom the 1996 campaign, as well as a group ofrightist loons fighting to determine whose"family values" are the scariest.

Only one Republican currently consider-

THEAT E DI:'\I'I~

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Antonio i portrayed by Jonathan Epsteina a closet homo exual (a popular renderingthese day) who e love for the hand orneBa anio is a ource of both plea ure and ad-ne s. ot unlike hylock, his tortured soul is aconsequence of having to conform to rigidocial tereotypes. Ba anio, played with

youthful igor and innocence by AndrewGarman, is the beneficiary of Antonio's gen-ero ity. Flattered and honored by tMerchant' attention and love, Bas anio con-tinuously fails when put to the test by his truelove, Portia.

The beautiful Heiress, gracefully, enactedby Kristin Flander , is the symbol of mercyand redemption. Her Belmont is the Garden ofEden, represented on an otherwise sparselydecorated stage by Marielle Banou's andWilliam Bonnell's beautiful folding screens inbright pastel colors. Venice, in contrast, gets ablood red and golden tint. The atmosphere andsense of drama is further enhanced byElizabeth Swados' expressive score, per-formed live by ART's musicians.

As always in Shakespeare's plays, thereare plenty of comic interludes to make themost out of these situations. He blends slap-stick comedy with Comedia dell'Arte, infus-ing this difficult and ambiguous play withmoments of pure and unadulterated entertain-ment. .

To his credit and our enjoyment, Serban hasmade "The Merchant" into a fast-paced, three-hour theatrical feast that is at once subtly pro-voking, intellectually challenging, and highlyentertaining - just like good theater shouldbe. Go and see it while you can.

in ult to hi pride and integrity, hyloc ihungering for revenge.

ntonio, who un elfi hly borrowed themoney to allow hi be t friend Bas anio totravel to Belmont and marry the b autifulPortia, receives the news that his hip havebeen 10 t at ea. Rendered unable to repay theloan, he finds him elf at the mercy of a bitterand revengeful hylock. "The Jew" i harp n-ing his knife, ready to cut out Antonio's heart,when Portia, aware that she has precipitatedthe tragic situation, arrives to the scene dis-gui ed a a judge.

She pleads with Shylock to spareAntonio's life, but the unrelenting moneylen-der clamors to his right , showing no mercy.In an unexpected twist of event , Portia findsa clause in the Venetian Law that makesShylock's claim to Antonio's life a punish-able crime. Instead of getting his revenge,Shylock is stripped of his belongings. As afinal insult, "the Jew" is forced to convert toChristianity.

Rather than making "The Merchant ofVenice" into a morality tale, the AmericanRepertory Theatre's production is an ambigu-ous and ambivalent story of human frailty. Weare presented with a gallery of complex per-sonalities possessing a wide range of charac-teristics, both enviable and base.

Will LeBow's Shylock, while greedy andrevengeful, is also a sharp and intelligent sur-vivor who realizes that to assimilate he needsto play along with the Gentile's preconceptionsof what a moneylending Jew is like. He does sowith humor and distance, never giving up hisintegrity.

•'(Jn~cestumbling block i hake peare' unflatteringportrayal of hylock, the Jewish moneylender.In dealing with this anti- emitic element of theplay, modern director have traditionallytretched their interpretation to the point where

"The erchant" has become a parable for thesuffering of Je in the 20th century.Romanian director Andrei erban choose notto follow this trend. Rather he remain faithfulto The Bard' original intentions, which, itmu t be said, were neither anti-Semitic norvile.

In "The Merchant," Shakespeare sets twomoralities against each other. The idea of right-ful revenge ("an eye for an eye") is symbolizedby Shylock, while the Christian tenet of uncon-ditional forgiveness ("forgive and you will beforgiven") is represented in the play by theheires of Belmont, Portia.

"The Jew," as Shylock is referred tothroughout the play, is reluctant to lend hismoney to the Venetian Merchant Antonio,and agrees only after the merchant stakes apound of his own flesh as guarantee. Soonafter the deal is done, Shylock is delivered apainful blow when his daughter Jessicaleaves him for the warm embrace of herChristian lover, stealing his money in theprocess. Disgraced by what he sees as an

ofTheater the way the Bard wanted itTheMer

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During the e sorry day of De ert Foxesand impeach nt proceeding, in which ven-omou hypocrisy is countered only by right-eous grandstanding, it i a relief to see a showthat emph~sizes the qualities of compassionand clemency. In American RepertoryTheatre's visceral and daring version ofShakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice,"mercy and forgiveness transforms a morallycorrupt Venice into something enduring, ifnot endearing. Mercantile cynicism and big-otry i temporarily suspended by an ensem-ble of intriguing characters who show us thatlove and self-deception (is it not the samething?) can bridge the daunting gaps betweenmoral ideals and their imperfect human ren-derings.

"The Merchant of Venice," one ofShakespeare's most popular plays, is a truechallenge for theater directors in our political-ly correct post-holocaust times. The main

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1. Online Banking with BankBoston HomelinJ<Sl'is free (e.g., transferring funds, checking balances). There is a $3.50 monthly fee for Online Bill Payment with HomeLink. 2. Valid school ID or acceptanceletter required. To qualify for X-Press Check and Reserve Credit you must be at least 18 years of age and have no adverse credit history. 3. Purchase a six-inch Subwa}4 Sandwich and a 2l-ounce soft drinkand get a second six-inch Subwaye Sandwich and 2l-ounce soft drink of et.Iual or lesser price free upon presentation of a tudent Value Package coupon. Offer expires May 31, 1999. Offer available at par-ticipating Su locations and may not be combined with any other offer. One coupon per person per visit. Subway is a regi tered trademark ofDoctolS Associates Inc. 4. If you make withdrawals, deposits,transfers, and balance inquiries electronically by phone, ATM, or computer only, the monthly fee is discounted to $3. The normal monthly Student Value Package fee is S6.

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Duke U. subsidizes beer truckThe University has served stu-

dents beer before, but this semesterit will help pay for it too. .

Through a $5,000 grant from theDepartment of Alumni Affairs andDevelopment, student groups willonly have to spend $100 to use theUniversity-owned beer truck at theirsocial functions this semester, adrop of about $500. A group ofUniversity administrators solicitedthe grant after meeting at the end oflast semester to discuss the beertrucks.

At the meeting, representativesfrom Student Affairs and variousAuxiliary Services departmentsexpressed fears that the currentrental price for the truck was toohigh for students, said AssistantVice President for Student AffairsSue Wasiolek.

Students will now be able toapply, on a first-come, first-servedbasis, to use the truck once at thereduced price. Two student groumust apply together to use the beeltruck, splitting the new $200 rentalfee. Only 10 beer truck events canbe subsidized through the grant,said Shannon Bieter, coordinator ofthe Event Advising Center. Thedeadline for registering for the sub-sidized beer truck is Feb. 1.

Last semester student groupspaid between $529 and $629 to rentthe truck in addition to the $2charged to individual students wish-

Director of AcademicComputing Philip Long said theAryans did not di pute Yale's owner-ship of the image, but that they didattempt to continue using their ver-sion of it.

•We ent them a note stating ourownership of copyright," Long said.He added that Yale then received anacknowledgment of ownership frothe site and a request for permissioto use it

Yale refused to grant the Aryanation that authorization.

"In general ... permission is notgoing to be granted," Long said.

The University Licensing Office,a part of the University Secretary'sOffice, manages the use of Yale-owned images.

While Yale and the Aryan ationspent about two weeks exchangingletters, Yale prepared to begin moreserious action against the legallyresponsible party in case the site'soperators refused to remove the"Old Books."

Long said Yale was prepared topursue the site's Internet serviceprovider if the University was notable to determine who was responsi-ble for the copyright violation.

He added that an ISP can some-times bear responsibility for flagrantcopyright violations on its pages.

"It is our belief that the lawsclearly hold the Internet serviceprovider [liable] for content ... oncethe ISP has been made aware of. it,"he said.

Under this standard, Yale coultheoretically be held responsible formaterials on students' web pagesand on the Network Neighborhood.

Lohg said Yale does not monitorcontent on the network, but that theUniversity does respond to com-plaints from copyright owners. Headded that complaints come almostevery month and regularly focus onmp3 sound files.

Even without the "Old Books,"the Aryan Nation site continues tolist the catalog of its "LiteratureArchives" and offer materials forsale. Works listed include "LifeLaw: Theopolitical Outline ofNatural Laws of RaciallNationalSurvival;" "Swastika: Origin as aChristian Symbol Today;" and "The

. Anti-Defamation League: TheWorld's Foremost CriminalConspiracy and Organized CrimeApparatus."

Also available are "Gallery ofJewish Types," "An Expose of theRoman Catholic Church," and "TheJews and Their Lies."

[Yale Daily News, Jan. 19]

"I have lived here for 50 yearand I have never een anything likethis," aid Charlotte Leatherman,who lives cro s the street fromwhere the shooting occmred.

" y door are alway locked,but Iam not overly scared about thearea because I believe this wa afreak incident," she said.

Some area residents agree withLeatherman on the safety of thearea, but realize they might need tobe more careful.

"It makes me nervous being out-side sometime after hearing aboutthis. I have never even heard of anyrobberies or break-ins around here,maybe a few crazy parties once in awhile but it is usually pretty mild,"said Amy Szymanowski,an OSU stu-dent who livesabout one block away.

"I was just becoming more com-fortable with walking around herealone, but not anymore," said OSUstudent Alyssa Shanks, who livestwo doors down from 130 W.

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the only ones who are concerned.Scott Manifold, a manager atGraeter's Ice Cream in UpperArlington, where Long wasemployed, commented on the tragicincident.

"Everyone here in the store is intotal shock," Manifold said.

Manifold said Graeter's IceCream has placed the couple's pic-ture on the counter to show theircondolences for them. This pictureis followed by script that expressestheir care for them and how muchthey will be missed.

[The Lantern, Jan. 19]

Aryan Nation removes Yale imageThe Aryan Nation no longer uses

the "Old Books" image from Yale'swebsite to sell copies of "The HitlerWeLoved and Why."

After a student informed the Yalewebmaster team in December thatthe Aryan Nation's online"Literature Archives" contained the"Old Books" image from Yale's elec-tronic front door,Yaletook action.

The University informed theAryan webmaster that using theUniversity-owned image violatedcopyright laws. And after a briefexchange of correspondence, theAryans removed the image fromtheir pages.

The image formerly on the AryanNation's pages appeared to be ashrunken version of the "Old Books"image with the fetteringremoved.

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i itors enjoying hack"The general public has the most

questions about the exhibit becauseit's very inside," Mackinnon said.

onetheless, even non-MIT visitorsto the museum seemed to enjoy.thehacks exhibit.

"Some of them I don't get,"admitted Danny Eller, who is unaf-filiated with MIT. He seemed toenjoy the hacks, however.

"I really like" the hacks, saidBob Sumner G. "I think it's reallygreat that these are preserved ... Ilike the school's attitude [abouthacks]. It's a really important part ofthe school's culture," umner said.

Ryan Smith '93 came to themuseum to see the newly-displayedhacks. "I like the Hall of Hacks," hesaid, but "I realize that the space isan issue. I think it would be cool tosee the hacks rotated."

•camu eum' Hart autical Gallery in1979. Other hack in the exhibitinclude a menorah which waplaced atop the mall dome in 1993,a wing which was placed in Lobby7 in 1991, and various documentsby a mock-fraternity called GammaAlpha Gamma duringResidence/Orientation week in1991.

According to Pickering, most ofthe archived hack are now on dis-play, although there are still tapesand other videos which haven't beenput up. The exhibition does contain

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The exhibit also includes arti-fact from Ie er-known hack. Theexhibit, for instance, contain theoriginal "U... Tetazoo" shipmodel, which hacker added to the

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TechCalenda TechCalendar appears in each issue of The Tech and features events for members of the Mil community. The Tech makes no guarantees asto the accuracy of this information. and The Tech shall not be held liable for any losses. including, but not limited to. damages resulting fromattendance of an event. Contact information for all events IS available from the TechCalendar web page.

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Monday's Events7:30 p.m. - Seven Samurai (1954). After an attack, villagers seek the wisdom of an elder

who tells them they can find men with weapons, samurai, who will fight for them. Directedby Akira Kurosawa. 2 hours 40 minutes. Admission $2.50. Room 10-250. Sponsor: LSC.

Wednesday's Events 7:00 p.m. - Men In Black/The Fifth Element Double Feature. Missed the Science8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Athena 15th Anniversary Retrospective. A celebration of Fiction marathon? Catch the two headliner movies on Sunday at a special double fea-

Project Athena. A look at the past and a look forward to the future of academic com- ture. 4 hours. Admission $5.00. 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.putrng and rnstructlonal technology at MIT. Panel discussions, videos, BOF's, Demos,Food. and Fun. Room 10-250 and environs. Sponsor: Academic Computing.

7 00 P rn Animation Festival. Anlme. School House Rock, The ightmare BeforeChns I lClS. Bugs Bunny ... All your avonte animated films and some you've never heardof. E \25 Sarnt Paul St.). Sponsor: Epsilon Theta.

Thursday's Events4:00 p.m. - Introduction to Kendo, The Way of the Sword. It's not karate. It's not judo

and It'S definitely not aikido. Hlmeno sensei, 7th dan, from Harvard University will behere to give rnstructlon. Come hit some people With a sick. Interested? McCormickGym. Sponsor: MIT Kendo Club.

Friday's Events12:05 - 1.30 p.m. - Toastmasters@MIT. Practice your publiC speaking skills at

Toastmasters. Room E19-220. Sponsor: Toastmasters.

Saturday's Events7:00 p.m. - LSC Science Fiction Marathon XXI. This year's marathon features Men in

Black. The Fifth Element, Creature from the Black Lagoon (in 3-D), and Planet of the Apes,as well our classic short films. 12 hours. Admission $5.00. Room 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

Sunday's Events2:00 p.m. - Mock-the-Thetans Super Bowl Pa ty. We were going to watch the Super Bowl,

but It turns out to be on the 31st. You should come over anyway. We'll be doing somethingSuper Bowl-like. Probably. Unless it bores us. ET (Saint Paul St.). Sponsor: Epsilon Theta.

Tuesday's Events4:00 p.m. - Pd(lI) and NI(II) Catalyzed Olefin Polymerizations and Copolymerizations:

Mechanistic and Synthetic Studies. Professor Maurice Brookhart, Dept. of Chemistry,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Part of the Karl Pfister Lectures in OrganicChemistry. Room 6-120. Sponsor: Chemistry Department.

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nies will present themselves and conduct interviews with candidates. Building W33(Rockwell Cage). Sponsor: European Club.

2:00 p.m. - The Argument from Design. Rogery White. Part of the Is There a God lec-ture series. Room 37-212. Sponsor: Department of Philosophy.

4:00 p.m. - New Fe(lI) and Co(lI) Catalysts for Olefin Polymerizations andOligomerlzatlons. Professor Maurice Brookhart, Dept. of Chemistry, University of N.C.at Chapel Hill. Part of the Karl Pfister Lectures in Organic Chemistry. Room 6-120.Sponsor: Chemistry Department.

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Professor Wesley HarrisAeronautics & Astronautics

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Wednesday, January 27

Prof. Ceasar McDowellDirector of the MIT Community Fellows Program

"The Relationship Between the University and the Community"

Thursday, January 28

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have available a new 17.2 km. 16-station, heavy rail transit system. Slated to open in2001, Tren Urbano-Phase 1 is projected to carry 120,000 passengers daily by 2010.

Prof. Wilson is the director of The MITResearch Project on Tren Urbano, which is partof a larger technology transfer program involving the University of Puerto Rico whose

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PUBLIC LEcruRESWednesday, January 202-4 p.m.Room 1-390

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Event PlanningCommittee presents several panel ,workshopsand discussions designed to examine theaccomplishments and struggl~s of some. ~fthe individuals who are workmg for posItIvechange in the world.

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Leno commented.Pertof ky, ho e er, aid that

mo t tanford moker were under-graduate.

he said that undergraduat menmoke most frequently, followed by

undergraduate women, graduatemen and la t1y graduate women.

Stanford does not have a tobaccouse prevention program.

"I believe 90 percent of smokerstart smoking before th age of 18.

o the true prevention efforts happenin elementary and middle chool-many prevention peciali ts wouldagree that even high school pro-grams are more ces ation orientatedrather than preventive," Lenox said.

"We tried offering quit smokinggroups to students a few years agoand we never rounded up enoughstudents to make a viable group,"she said.

Lenox also mentioned that interms of the "recreational" smokers,they usually don't need a full-blown"quit smoking" program when theydecide to quit.

Currently the Health PromotionServices strategy is to offer infor-mation packets. The packets containself-help information and resourcesfor locating support groups.

[The Stanford Daily, Jan. J 9}

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14,251 randomly elected tudentin .1997, the re earch r found thatbetween 1993 and 1997 the .preva-lence of' current cigarette mokingamong college students increased by28 percent. The number of tudentswho had smoked in the last 30 daysincrea ed from 22.3 percent to 28.5percent. Of the 116 colleges in thestudy, 99 reported increases.

More than one-quarter of thesmokers in the 1997 survey begansmoking regularly while in college.

Although the increa e extendedacross all student demographicgroups, the findings indicate thatsmoking prevalence was higher inwhite students than black or Asianstudents; higher in freshmen, sopho-mores and juniors than seniors andfifth-year students; lower at privatethan public schools; and lower athighly competitive schools com-pared with less competitive schoolsas differentiated by standardized testscores and percentages of applicantsaccepted.

The study also revealed thatschools in the Northeast, NorthCentral and Southern regions hadhigher smoking rates than schools inthe West and that smoking preva-lence did not differ between ruraland urban schools, betweenwomen's and coeducational institu-tions, or between schools with andwithout a religious affiliation.

Carole Pertofsky, director ofStanford's Health PromotionServices, and Elise Lenox, who wasdirector of Stanford's Alcohol andOther Drug Abuse PreventionProgram from 1991 to 1998, illumi-nated Stanford's own cigarette con-dition. .

Lenox said, "The number ofStanford students who self-reportsmoking [tobacco], is below thenational average."

According to Pertofs!cY i 1993,18 percent of the 1,100 studentswho responded to the StanfordStudent Health Needs Assessmentself-reported that they smoked.

In 1997, 25 percent said theysmoked. Of that 25 percent, morethan half rarely smoke - 13 percentsmoked only once or twice a year -and less than 3 percent smokedmore, than once a week.

"What is important to consider ishow students smoke. It has been myobservation during my seven yearsat Stanford that most of the studentswho smoke do so 'recreationally'rather than in an addictive manner,"Lenox said.

"Most students don't smoke on adaily basis. They wouldn't 'qualify'as pack-a-day smokers," she said."They tend to smoke 'OCcasionally or'recreationally,' they like to have acigarette when they drink."

Pertofsky warned of the dangerof too quickly labeling "recreation-al" smoking as benign.

"One might erroneously con-clude that smoking rarely is notproblematic. One of the major prob-lems is that studies show that thevast majority of smokers begin withone or two cigarettes a year. I thinkthat tobacco dependency is one ofthe most serious health risks facingstudents," Pertofsky said.

Heavier smokers, according toLenox, tend to be older students,graduate students or internationalstudents.

"A number of international stu-dents expressed amazement orshock when they learned that smok-ing wasn"t the norm on campus,"

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Smoking on rise among studentsCigarette smoking on college

campuses has increased nationwideamong all student demographicgroups according to informationobtained by the Harvard School ofPublic Health's College AlcoholStudy. While Stanford's smokingrate is not as high as that of otherschools, the self-reported smokingrate at Stanford has risen over thelast four years.

The study, published in the Nov.18 Journal of the American .MedicalAssociation, examined changes incigarette smoking among differenttypes of college students and col-leges between 1993 and 1997.

Using data from 116 nationallyrepresentative four-year colleges,

.with a total of 15,103 randomlyselected students in 1993 and

ing to buy alcohol.'We thought it wa really high to

pay for beer, becau e [the tudents]till have to pay for the beer on their

• own," Bieter said.• Bieter tressed that student

group are only eligible for the lowrate once, and must still pay for theevent if it is canceled Ie s than a dayin advance due to bad weather.

Administrators largely credit thebeer trucks for encouraging studentsto attend and stage on-campus par-ties, Wasiolek explained.

"There was a sense that, at leastto a certain extent, social life hadreturned or reemerged on campus,"Wasiolek said. "I had talked toenough students and they felt [thebeer truck] had worked for them butone main concern was that it wastoo expensive."

Several fraternities began usingthe beer truck last semester after itssuccess at Campus Social Boardevents.

"I am very pleased that theadministration has done this. Itshows they are making an effort tokeep social life on campus, which isgood," said Interfraternity CouncilPresident Stephen Broderick, aTrinity senior.

Administrators decided to apply_ for funds from various University

departments because there was noway to reduce labor costs, which

. constitute the truck's primaryexpenses.

According to University policy,three bartenders and two Universitypolice officers are needed wheneverthe truck is used at a party, Wasioleksaid.

The three bartenders cost a totalof $360 for a four-hour event and tttepolice officers cost $144. TheUniversity must also obtain a $27 ~itypermit each time they use e truckA DukeCard office employee mustalso be on site to set up card readersand fix problems that might occur.

Bieter said administratorsapplied for money under UniversityLife's Program Enhancement Fundand approached the office of AlumniAffairs for a grant. University Lifedenied the request because theywould not sponsor alcohol-relatedevents, but Alumni Affairs agreed tooffer support.

"My gift was to help'overcomethe obstacles of bringing partiesback to Duke," said Laney

~Funderburk, associate vice presidentfor alumni affairs and development."Students are alumni-in-residence."

[The Chron.icle, Jan. J 9}

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interests both within' the school andoutside IT, agnanti aid. "A deanhelp to frame and upport commu-nity value . A dean timulate andsupports new initiatives."

"The Dean of Engineering atMIT has a particular responsibility,it seems to me, to be a spokespersonfor engineering and technology ingeneral."

Magnanti graduated fromSyracuse University in 1967 with adegree in chemical engineering. Helater received master's degrees instatistics and mathematics and aPhD in operations research.Magnanti i& a member of ttie

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He was named an In tituteProfessor in 1997.

Over the course of his tenure,Magnanti has taught everythingfrom freshman seminar to executiveeducation. His research involvesoptimization problems in logistics,manufacturing, telecommunications,and transportation, Magnanti said."I conducted some of my early workwith faculty in the MathematicsDepartment, so one might say that

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tion to law enforcement, the reportrecommended that "when CampusPolice is contacted on behalf of adangerously intoxicated person,MIT should grant 'immunity' -limited solely to alcohol citationsand sanctions - to students andtheir living groups."

According to Glavin, changes inthe ambulatory service will wait fora follow-up of the May report from acommittee headed by Professor JohnM. Essigmann. Essigmann could notbe reached for comment.

"Our position right now is tostrongly encourage kids to call theCPs if you need medical assistance,"said Glavin.

The main question is whetherKeyser's appointment and theCampus Police changes will helpthe Institute control alcohol on cam-pus.

"1 would be disappointed if itdidn't," Sharp said. "There are somany facets" of the alcohol issuethat appointing Keyser "can't helpbut improve the situation." Still,"this is not going to be a magicwand" that solves all of MIT's prob-lems.

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"Another way has been to bettercoordinate medical transport ser-vice for students who need help inalcohol-related incidents," Sharpaid.

The report of the working group,presented in May, investigated whyand how MIT students drink andmade nine recommendations tochange MIT's handling of alcohol oncampus.

The report urged the creation of"an administrative professional posi-tion... responsible for developing,coordinating and implementing edu-cational programs about dangerousdrinking" as well as representingalcohol policy outside MIT. Keyser'sappointment fulfills this recommen-dation.

There has also been talk ofenhancing the ambulance serviceprovided by Campus Police. Thereport's second resolution encour-aged MIT officials to "reduce per-ceived barriers to providing medicalcare to dangerously intoxicated stu-dents."

Because the Campus Police havea dual role in providing EmergencyMedical Technician service in addi-

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MIT foUows recommendationKeyser's appointment and expan-

sion of the CPs role aren't the firstchange in MIT's alcohol policy sincethe working group issued its report.One change has been the require-ment to place resident advisers inFSILGs, Sharp said.

Rol of c mpu police p nd dThe appointment of a new dean is

not the only change occurring inalcohol-related policies.

According to Chief of CampusPolice Anne P. Glavin, campuspolice are in the process of hiringfour patrol officers and onesergeant to start work by the begin-ning of March. The new squad willalso receive a new crui er withwhich to patrol the F ILGs inBoston from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. everyevening.

Glavin said that ''the officers inBoston will have the luxury of deal-ing with students one on one .... Asa result of that, we certainly hopethat they'll have the chance to domeetings on a whole litany of things,including alcohol emergencies."

Campus Police announced inDecember that it will expand itspatrol to the Back Bay, where mostMIT fraternities are located.

The move "definitely evolved asa result of the Krueger situation,"Glavin said, referring to the alcohol-related death of Scott S. Krueger '0 Iin the fall of 1997.

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MIT investigation continuesNow that the criminal proceed-

ings have finished, MlT's self-imposed ban on an investigation ofstudent involvement in Krueger'sdeath is over.

"I would hope that we completethat investigation soon. We alwayssaid that we were going to wait to doour MIT investigation until the crim-inal proceedings are complete; w~never said we were going to wairuntil the civil proceedings were com-plete," Williams said.

Williams said yesterday that theinvestigation was still in its initialphases and that no plans had beenmade yet for how to proceed with thecase. In December, students wholived at Fiji were asked to discussfacts that they knew about circum-stances leading to Krueger's deathwith Williams as an initial phase ofthe investigation.

Douglas E. Heimburger con-tributed to the reporting of this story.

drinking .... We have not ignored theproblem [of binge drinking], but wehaven't olved it."

Despite the program's scrutiny ofMlT, Williams said yesterday thatthe piece bring much-needed atten-tion to the problem of dangerousdrinking.

, Even though preparing for uchan interview is difficult and notentirely pleasant, in the end I'm glathey did the story because the}brought the problem to nationalattention," Williams aid yesterday.

A notable aspect of the programwas its somewhat one-sided perspec-tive of the MIT housing system.

WescWer implied that Kruegerhad no choice but to participate inthe hazing event because "he neededa place to live."

The segment did not mention thatMIT guarantees on-campus housingfor freshmen throughout the entireyear.

"I don't think [the piece] reallygave a full and complete picture ofhow housing goes here," Williamssaid.

going to happen again, either at MITor anywhere el e," Henry told TheTech.

Williams spoke to Varga as anMIT representative. 'What I wa try-ing to do in the interview was to addorne context and some substance

and also try to convey the humanfeelings that we at MlT feel inresponse to the death of ScottKrueger," she told The Tech.

On the how, William addressedMIT's di cipline of and interactionwith Fiji up until Krueger's death.

"There were complaints, therewere incidents, there were problemsfrom that house," Williams said onthe program.

However, Williams said that "theproblem isn't fraternities, it's binge

come out until the alcohol i gone?Is that an accident, carrying ome-body down in the ba ement andputting them on the couch and leav-ing them there pa ed out and throw-ing up?" aid Darlene Krueger.

Particip nt a piece f irYe terday, participants in the

how claimed that it was reasonablyfair to both sides.

The segment "brings up an awfullot of memories in a painful contextfor [the Kruegers]," Henry aid.

However, their pain is balancedby the possibilities for change.

"At least they can say that theyare satisfied that the issue of hazingin particular is getting national atten-tion with the hope that this isn't

pastor.The egment clarified the serie

of event that lead to Krueger' deathand que tioned whether it was pre-ventable.

'He had been left a time when,had he been brought to the hospital,we may have very well been able toprevent thi tragedy," said Dr.Richard chwartzstein, the doctorwho over aw Krueger's care whilehe was at the Beth I rael DeaconesMedical Center.

The bulk of the piece focused oncott's parents, Darlene and Robert

Krueger, who bri tled at Vargas' ug-gestion that cott's death could belabeled an accident.

"Is it an accident putting some-one in a room and telling them don't

egrnent e plore IT ternThe fir t half of the egment,

entitled "Why Did colt Die?"reviewed the life and death of cottKrueger. The econd part of the pro-gram covered the ramifications ofKrueger's death, including impend-ing civil lawsuits and changes toMIT's alcohol and housing policy.

The segment featured interviewwith Mr. and Mr . Krueger, cott'sdoctor, Williams, uffolk CountyA istant District Attorney PamelaWeschler, and the Krueger family's

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