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Volume 118, Number 13 02139 Tuesday, March 17, 1998

Gale Falls to Death from Green Building Classroom

TaUdng at Innovation Summit, GoreCal~ for an Earth-Vrewing Satellite

RICH FLETCHER- THE TECH

Scraps of wood and broken glass litter the ground In front of the Green BUilding Friday evening.

Vice President Al Gore pro-posed a new $50 million satellitewhich will provide a continuousfull-disk view of the Earth fromspace as part of a new effort tomaintain the United States' lead ininnovation in a speech at MIT.

Gore, who was a featured speak-er at the Summit on Innovation heldThursday and Friday at the TangCenter, said that the U. . is alreadymoving towards a new societybased upon innovation. "Our nationis building a new economy, one thattakes innovation a a tartingpoint."

Gore challenged the 200 gov-ernment, industry, and academicleaders attending the invitation-only summit to conduct researchinto areas that may not have imme-diate gains. "When we started pro-viding seed money for the Internet,there was no enthusiasm from thebusiness community," but todaythe Internet is revolutionizing com-merce, he said.

The new satellite which Gorehopes to have launched by 2000pending Congressional approval,would provide a "clearer view ofour own world" that could bring"new levels of understanding" toweather forecasting by providing aview much broader than is avail-able from current meteorologicalsatellites.

oting that the last full-view

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By Douglas E. HeimburgerNEWS EDITOR

Gale, Page 15

A wooden chair was reportedlythrown out of the window of aclassroom on the fifteenth floor onthe side of the building facing theCharles River. hortly thereafter,Gale fell to his death from the bro-ken window, Glavin aid. Gale waspronounced dead upon arrival atMassachusetts General Hospitalafter being transported from thescene by Cambridge Rescue.Multiple agencies reported to thescene, including the Boston andCambridge Police, Glavin said.

Whether the death was a suicidehas yet to be determined, Glavinsaid. The Middlesex CountyMedical Examiner said that thedeath was caused by "multiple trau-matic injuries."

While there was no suicide noteleft in the classroom, "some infor-mation was left in the room,"Glavin said. he would not com-ment on the nature of that informa-tion.

Gale had been preparing to takean Undergraduate Research

Police informed immediatelyAn anonymous male contacted

the Campus Police at 7:27 p.m.Friday to report the sound of break-ing glass followed by a scream anda person falling outside Building 54,said Chief of Police Anne P. Glavin .

Philip C. Gale '98 fell to hisdeath from a clas room on the fif-teenth floor of the Green BuildingFriday evening in an apparent sui-cide.

Gale, a music major and memberof the Phi igma Kappa fraternity,returned to MIT in 1996 to completehis studies after taking a leave ofabsence from the Institute.Originally from Charlotte .C.,Gale first came to MIT four yearsago at the age of 15, but left to serveas Director of Research andDevelopment for Earthlink

etwork, an internet serviceprovider, from March 1995 untilMarch 1996. Gale lived off-campusin an apartment in Central quareafter his return to the Institute.

By Zareena HussainCONTRIBUTING EDITOR

GREG KUIINEN TIlE TECf!

Vice President AI Gore speaks about America's technological futureat the Summit on Innovation held last Thursday and Friday at theTang Center.Alcohol, Page 16

ReA discusses possible newpolicy

On Sunday night, officers of theUndergraduate Association anddormitory governmentsparticipated in an alcoholawareness workshop designed toclarify current alcohol policies anddiscuss future changes.

RCA is looking into thepossibility of allowing dormitoriesto pay for a bartender with housetax funds, said Assistant Dean forRCA Katherine G. O'Dair. Thebartender would be able to serveboth alcoholic and non-alcoholicbeverages. "Dorm taxes would notpay for the alcohol but for theservice - that is an importantdistinction," O'Dair said.

Under the current alcoholpolicy, Institute funds, includinghouse taxes, cannot be used for thepurchase of alcohol when personsunder the age of 21 will be present.While academic groups can getexemptions from this policy,student groups cannot.

certified in the national Training inIntervention Procedures program.Living groups are also required tohave a representative on the IFCjudicial committee, which dealswith violations of the policies.

"People need to be educated,and the new policies represent a"minimally acceptable level in thesense of alcohol awareness,"Dreger said.

Fraternities, sorOrIties andindependent living groups canagain be certified to have alcohol atevents following the first newalcohol policy symposium.

On Saturday, the Alumni Inter-Fraternity Council and the office ofResidence and Campus Activitiessponsored a symposium on thelegal, medical, and sociologicalissues of alcohol use.

Attendance at Saturday'ssymposium satisfied two parts ofthe alcohol education programrequired by the InterfraternityCouncil's new alcohol certificationpolicy.

All fraternities, sororities, andindependent living groups have toapply for IFC alcohol certificationbefore alcohol can be reintroducedto any house events. Newcertification policies require thathouses meet a set of criteria inorder to qualify for recertification.

According to IFC PresidentDuane H. Dreger '99, no houseshave been certified yet. However,the IFC Judicial Committee beganhandling application at yesterday'smeeting, where the first housesmay become certified.

The goal of the new policies isto "provide a safe and responsibleenvironment in the FSILG system,"he said. In addition to requiringtwo-thirds of the living group tocomplete an alcohol educationprogram, the policy also mandatesthat one-third of the house be

. IFC Ready to CertifyGroups for AlcoholBy Aileen Tang

•A Harvardjunior wasfound dead inRevere onSunday.

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Congres ional reaction hinted atthe gravity of the matter. SenateMajority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) told reporters he foundWilley "credible," and regarded hercharges as adding "one more bit ofseriousness to the equation." Hedeclined to draw further conclu-sions, however, because "I don'tknow all the facts."

"If this is true, it is very, verydisturbing and I think it ultimatelyhas very powerful consequences,"said House Speaker ewt Gingrich,R-Ga., during an appearance in hishome state.

Clinton advisers inside and out-side the White House said they con-sidered the defense in the Willeycontroversy an especially delicatematter, with potential to increase hispolitical problems rather than allevi-ate them if not handled carefully. AWhite House meeting withClinton's lawyers and political aideson Saturday, according to partici-pants, dealt at length with the prob-lem of how to undercut Willey with-out appearing to directly attack her.

Democratic activists - Lewisamong them - had accusedRepublicans of attacking the victimwhen they noted in the ClarenceThomas confirmation hearings in1991 that Anita Hill had continuedto stay in close touch with Thomaseven after he allegedly harassed herwith lewd sexual remarks.

Lewis, who went on televisionnews shows Monday to note thatWilley had continued to speakwarmly of Clinton and seek jobsfrom him, said she was not trying toimpugn Willey. "I am not attacking,there are no adjectives here," Lewissaid in an interview.

Robert S. Rifkind, president ofthe American Jewish Committee,called the document a "step in theright direction for the future ofCatholic-Jewish relations."However, he added, "it only beginsto address many issues and ques-tions concerning the role of theCatholic Church in the evolution ofantisemitism throughout the agesand its culmination in the[Holocaust]. It tells the truth, but notthe whole truth."

Phil Baum, executive director ofthe American Jewish Congress, crit-icized the Vatican's failure to"impose moral culpability on someleading church authorities ... whowere either indifferent or in somecases actually complicit in the per-secution of Jews."

The document praised the "wis-dom of Pius Xli's diplomacy" andcited his warning in a 1939 encycli-cal "against theories which deniedthe unity of the human race andagainst the deification of the state,"which he feared could culminate ina terrible "hour of darkness."

The paper contends Jewish lead-ers supported the view that Piushelped save hundreds of thousandsof lives. It cites the words of GoldaMeir, the former Israeli prime min-ister, who eulogized Pius upon hisdeath in 1958 for raising his voice"when fearful martyrdom came toour people."

Vatican historians say Piusworked behind the scenes and didnot take a more assertive attitude indenouncing Nazi transgressionsbecause he feared it would have lit-tle helpful effect and would worsenconditions for Catholics as well asJews, in both Germany and othercountries occupied by Nazi forcesof command.

~eonrecords showing calls and OvalOffice visits by former White Houseaide Monica . Lewinsky, Mondaymade public records showing thatWilley regularly initiated contactwith Clinton following the contested1993 meeting. Included in the WhiteHou e release are notes from Willeypraising his performance in officeand asking for job help.

The vigorous public rebuttal tothe Willey allegations ran counter toa policy - followed devotedly inthe weeks ince the Lewinsky con-troversy broke in late January -that Clinton would not comment onthe waves of allegations that havebroken regularly a part of the Jonescivil lawsuit and independent coun-sel Kenneth W. Starr's criminalinvestigation.

The president and hi aides werehaken out of their no-comment

stance by a fear that Willey's inter-view, made on televi ion's highest-rated public affairs show, could pro-duce a new and damaging turn inpublic opinion.

Even as Clinton spoke out in hisown defense Monday, he suggestedthat he may never offer a fuller pub-lic explanation of the controversyover his relationships with women,despite his pledge after theLewinsky allegations broke thatthere were "legitimate" questionsand that he wanted to tell his story.

"Well, I did suggest that, butthat was before the deposition [hegave in the Jones case] was illegallyreleased," Clinton said. "And itbasically states my position.Whether and what else will be said Ithink is something that we'll have todeal with in the future depending onhow circumstances unfold."

Jewish leaders, the pope promisedthem the Vatican would publish thechurch's history in dealing withantisemitism and the genocide ofEuropean Jews. It was the first timeJewish representatives had heldinformal discussions with the pope,who insists Christians must over-come centuries of animosity andlearn to regard Jews as their "olderbr~thers."

"We deeply regret the errors andfailure of those sons and daughtersof the church," the Vatican papersaid. "We cannot know how manyChristians in countries occupied orruled by the Nazi powers or theirallies were horrified at the disap-pearance of their Jewish neighborsand yet were not strong enough toraise their voices in protest."

Meir Lau, Israel's chief rabbifor Jews of European ancestry, saidthat he was thankful that "after twothousand years of hostility betweenthe church and Jewish people, thereis something new, a new atmos-phere happening before our eyes."But he bluntly rejected the docu-ment's conclusions about Pope PiusXII.

"His silence cost us millions oflives," Lau said in Tel Aviv. "Onewho ... does nothing to avoid thebloodshed is like a partner to themass murder of human beings. Hedidn't do it, but he didn't stop it."

"It falls quite short of what washoped for," said Efraim Zuroff,director of the Simon WiesenthalCenter in Jerusalem. "Unfortunately,it does not unequivocally takeresponsibility for the teachings ofthe church that created the atmos-phere that ultimately led to theHolocaust, and to the participationof numerous 'believing' persons inthat crime."

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By John F. HarrlTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHI GTO

Breaking a week -long silenceon the sexual misconduct allega-tions about him, President ClintonMonday aid he was "mystified anddisappointed" by former aideKathleen E. Willey's nationallytelevised accusation that he forcedhim elf on her when she approachedhim for a job.

Clinton said he had a "veryclear memory" of his meeting withWilley in a private hallway leadingto the Oval Office in ovember1993, contradicting an earlier state-ment through his attorney that hehad "no specific recollection" of theevent. The president asserted that "Itold the truth" when he testified inthe Paula Jones harassment case thatthere was nothing sexual about theencounter.

Whi Ie "nothing improper"occurred with Willey, Clinton toldreporters during an event at a SilverSpring, Md., high school to promotehis education agenda, her "story'sbeen in three different incarnations"a told by various people.

Even before Clinton respondedMonday morning, senior WhiteHouse officials launched an aggres-sive campaign of interviews and doc-ument disclosures intended to callinto question the accuser's claims ofvictimhood. Far from being angryand shocked by Clinton's behavior,as Willey said on CBS's "60Minutes" Sunday, she eagerly soughtwork on his 1996 re-election cam-paign, White House communicationsaide Ann Lewis told reporters.

And the White House, whichhas repeatedly refused to release

Vatican Gives Fonnal ApologyFor Inaction During Holocaust

BERLIN

By William DrozdlakTHE WASHINGTON POST

The Roman Catholic Church for-mally apologized Monday for fail-ing to take more decisive action inchallenging the Nazi regime duringWorld War 11to stop the extermina-tion of more than 6 million Jews.

But in a long-awaited docum_enton the church's role in theHolocaust, the Vatican defendedPope Pius XII, who headed thechurch during the war, from accusa-tions that he turned a blind eye tothe systematic killing of Jews. Somecritics say Pius was motivated bychurch religious prejudices datingfrom the death of Jesus Christ.

Pope John Paul 11, in a prefaceto the landmark publication entitled"We Remember: A Reflection onthe Shoah," expressed hope that thehistoric declaration of repentance bythe Vatican about Catholic short-comings in dealing with theHolocaust "will indeed help to healthe wounds of past misunderstand-ings and injustices."

First reactions from Jewishleaders in Israel and the UnitedStates were mixed.

More than any of his predeces-sors, John Paul has made reconcilia-tion with the Jewish people a priori-ty of his papacy. During his 20-yeartenure as leader of the world's I bil-lion Catholics, he has become thefirst pope to visit concentrationcamp sites and to preach in a syna-gogue. He pushed the Vatican toopen diplomatic relations with Israelin 1993 and hopes to celebrate themillennium with leaders of Jewishand Islamic faiths in an extravagan-za of monotheistic religions onMount Sinai.

At a meeting in 1987 with

•IeDr. Spock, llthor of e eb ated

Child-Rearing Book,Dr. Benjamin pock, the pediatrician who e practical "Book of

Baby and Child Care" became the bible of American parent for twogeneration and whose opposition to the Vietnam War made him oneof the most controver ial figure of the 1960 and 1970s, ha died, itwas reported Monday.

pock was 94 when he died unday in hi an Diego home, aidDr. tephen Pauker, hi phy ician. There was no pecific cause ofdeath reported, but in recent years, pock had suffered a heart attack,stroke and several bout of pneumonia. Ju t la t month his wife wapublicly a king money from friends and family to help pay hi$IO,OOO-a-month medical bills.

pock won fame and fortune with his book, first published in1946, which sold nearly 50 million copie in 30 language andbecame America's econd-be teller - with only the Bible outpac-ing it. It told parent to "trust yourself. .. you know more than youthink you do."

"He was really the fir t person to talk about listening to children,which is uch a catch phrase now," British psychologist PenelopeLeach, author of the best-selling "Baby and Child," said from herLondon office.

CIA Official Sa~ AgencyWas Aware of Drug Trafficking

WASHI GTON

THE WASHI GTON POST

The CIA did not "expeditiously" cut off relations with allegeddrug trafficker who supported contra icaraguan rebel in the 1980s,CIA Inspector General Frederick R. Hitz told the House IntelligenceCommittee on Monday.

Hitz for the first time said publicly that the CIA was aware ofallegation that "dozens of people and a number of companies con-nected in some fashion to the contra program" were involved in drugtrafficking.

"Let me be frank," Hitz added, "there are instances where CIAdid not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationshipswith individuals supporting the contra program who were alleged tohave engaged in drug-trafficking activity or take action to resolve theallegations."

Hitz said some of the alleged trafficking involved bringing drugInto the United States. But, he added, investigators "found no evi-dence ... of any conspiracy by CIA or its employee to bring drugsinto the United States."

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Senate Panel Hears TestimonyOn Deceptive Loan Practices

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By Gavin Esler and Helen Johnson

A former employee of a lending company on Monday gave aSenate panel a detailed account of how he lured non-English speak-ers, racial minorities, and the elderly into signing away their homesby taking on big loans that promised low monthly payments.

Testifying anonymously from behind a shield to members of theenate pecial Committee on Aging, the employee helped lawmakers

drive home a point: that Americans with low incomes and high equityon their homes need to beware of lending companies that offer attrac-tive loan packages to consolidate bills, improve or refinance homes.

Because many of the lending practices technically are legal,Monday' hearing aimed to educate the public - especially thosedeemed most vulnerable - how to avoid being victimized.

With willing clients, these companies - who all agree representa small percentage of the lending marketplace - engage in threebasic types of practices:

Stripping, in which companies provide high-interest loans basedon the equity of customers' homes, not on their ability to pay, thusattracting clients with little, poor or no credit histories and fixed andlimited incomes.

Flipping, in which customers are induced to borrow successiveloans to refinance previous loans.

Packing, in which companies add overpriced or unnecessary prod-ucts to loan, such as health, accident, unemployment and life insur-ance, then charge interest based on the inflated amount.

Luckily things aren't too complicated ... at least until Wednesdaymorning. The current high pressure over ew England, which isresponsible for the clear skies and cool temperatures of the last fewdays, will move slowly off northeastwards. It will be replaced by acyclone with lots of nasty weather fronts bringing rain and stuff -maybe even snow. By lunchtime Wednesday, chances are it will beraining in Boston. After that, things look increasingly grim as the lowdeepens. We are unlikely to have much of a break from the rain beforethe end of the week. On the bright side, at least the temperatures willmake it into the mid to high 40s. Remember your green umbrellas!

Today: Calm and sunny. High 42°F (5°C).Tonight: Clear skies at first lead to low temperatures. Clouding

over later. Chance of rain by dawn. Low 23°F (-5°C).Wednesday: High probability of rain. High 45°F (7°C). Low

27°F (-3°C)Thursday: Similar to Wednesday, but with higher temperatures

overnight. High 44°F (7°C). Low 35°F (2°C).

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Pennsy vania Judge Withdrawsomination for U.S. Distric Court

THE WASHINGTON POSTWASHI GTO

McKinney Is Spared a Jail Tenn,Sentenced to Reduction in RaIik

By David LambLOS A G£LES TIMES

JAKARTA. I DO ESIA

Key finance officials fromEurope, the United tate, and A iade cended on thi capital city

;onday in an attempt to get;e ident uharto to accept econom-

ic reforms demanded by theInternational Monetary Fund.

Suharto smiled and nodded andsaid he would be flexible. But theIndonesian leader, who apparentlytill favors the much-criticized idea

of creating a currency board to pegthe rupiah at a fixed exchange rateto the U .. dollar, remained non-committal.

. As Suharto' new 36-member .Cabinet was sworn in Monday, uni-versity students continued their on-campus demonstrations against thepresident in the capitol city ofJakarta and in the city of Surabaya.The month-long protests have gen-

By Bill McAllisterTHE WASHINGTON POST

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A military jury sentenced Sgt.aj. Gene C. McKinney Monday toreduction in rank and a reprimand,

but spared hitri a jail term, after hisconviction for attempting to obstructan investigation into charges of sex-ual misconduct.

The sentence will allowMcKinney, once the highest rankingenlisted soldier in the Army, toretire with an honorable discharge.But the decision will cost him thou-sands of dollars in pension benefits.Prosecutors in the case had request-ed at lea'st six months in jail and amore severe reduction in benefits tothe level of a private.

McKinney was cleared last weekby the same jury of 18 counts of .sexual misconduct stemming from

erally be n peaceful, but uhartowas burned in effigy at one demon-tration la t w ek.

The compo ition of uharto'CCibinet alarmed many economi tbecau e it i practically devoid ofeconomi t and reformi ts.

Judging by their track record ,mo t of the people in the Cabinetare incompetent," aid Fai al Basri,a respected economist at theUniver ity of Jakarta. Last week,Indonesian markets reacted nega-tively to the po sibility that Suhartowould appoint the loyalists, but therupiah strengthened sl ightlyMonday, and the tock market wasup four percent.

The official who came toJakarta on separate missionsMonday included David Lipton, aU.S. trea ury under ecretary; KlausRegling, director-general ofGermany's Finance Ministry; andEisuke Sabakibara, Japan's vice

accusations by six military women,but found him guilty of a singlecount of obstruction of justice.Leaving Fort Belvoir, where thecourt-martial was held, McKinneysaid Monday, "Let's just say we'regoing to move on with our lives inspite of this long, extensive investi-gation and we did okay."

Shortly after the sentence wasannounced, McKinney's civiliandefense attorney, Charles W.Gittins, disclosed that McKinneyhad filed a $1.5 million libel suitagainst one of his accusers, retiredArmy sergeant major Brenda L.Hoster. Hoster's accusations thatMcKinney grabbed her in aHonolulu hotel room in 1996 trig-gered the investigation and costMcKinney his job as sergeant majorof the Army.

"You don't get to lie on national

finance mini ter. Hub rt Weiss, thehead of the IMF' Asia-Pacificoperation, is due in JakartaTuesday.

Japanese Prime MinisterRyutaro Hashimoto, who e govern-ment has pledged billion toIndone ia' bailout, traveled toJakarta over the weekend with anentourage of 50. He left withoutwinning any apparent conce sionfrom uharto in Indonesia's stand-off with the IMF.. "I am deeply concerned aboutthe economic difficulties whichIndone ia now faces and expectPresident uharto to make thecourageous decision in overcoming.the present difficulties," Hashimotosaid.

The IMF has threatened to pullout of Indonesia entirely if uhartogoes ahead with his currency boardidea without first undertakin majoreconomic reforms.

TV. . . Brenda Hoster needs to learna lesson," Gittins told reporters afterthe jury delivered its sentencing ver-dict. .

Gittens, who during the trialcharacterized McKinney's accu ersas "liars, cheats and frauds," saidHoster, a military retiree, was theonly one of the women McKinneycould sue. Members of the militaryare prohibited from .suing- subordi-nates or'superiors under long-stand-ing Supreme Court rulings. He saidthat the suit was filed in the Districtof Columbia Superior Court on Feb.5.

Although McKinney's sentencewill cost him money, the precisesize of his retirement pay remainedin dispute.

Prosecutors claimed a 1986 lawprohibits the Army from cuttingMcKinney's retirement pay.

Faced with probable rejection by the enate, Pennsylvania stateJudge Frederica A. Massiah-Jackson withdrew her nomination for theU. . Di trict Court bench.

Massiah-Jackson, who would have been the first black woman toit on the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, withdrew Monday in a

letter to President Clinton charging she had been ubjected to an"unrelenting campaign of vilification and di tortion" in a "politicizedenvironment. "

Republican leaders argued she was soft on crime, biased againstpolice and given to profanity from the bench and said she would havebeen overwhelmingly rejected by the enate in a vote that had beencheduled for Tuesday.

• Given the strong, bipartisan opposition from law enforcementgroup, her demonstrated leniency in entencing convicted criminal andthe Judiciary Committee's concerns about her lack of candor throughoutthe nomination process, 1believe withdrawing the nomination is the rightthing to do," aid committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah).

But en. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), a senior Judiciary Committeemember who led the fight for his fellow Pennsylvanian, prai ed her"tenacity and courage." He criticized the committee's handing of hernomination, including a ~econd hearing la t week during which heaid she was asked detail he could not pos ibly have remembered

from 15-year-old cases.

Cohen Orders Policies to AddressGender-Related Problems

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. Defense ecretary William . ohen ide tepped a recommenda-tion to egregate male and female recruits during basic training,ordering a et of Ie controversial "corrective measure" in trainingand living conditions to reduce gender-related problems in the rank .

Cohen gave the service 30 days to come up with plan toincrease the number of female recruiters and trainers and improvehow all trainers are elected. He also called Monday for greateremphasis on "core military values" in training and told the service to"develop more consistent training standards between the genders."

Pulled between an independent panel that recommended segrega-tion of men and women during part of basic training and the militarychiefs who opposed uch action, Cohen said he would "re erve judg-ment" on the segregation i sue and wait to see the effect of thesechanges before making a final decision.

He declined to mandate separate buildings for men and women,another panel recommendation. But he ordered the Army, avy andAir Force to improve security and supervision in existing housingarrangements. He complained that even though male and femaletrainees live in separate quarters or on separate floors, doors had beenremoved at some sites and privacy was in ufficient.

"There has been an attitude of a lack of discipline," Cohen said."And so what we want to do is maintain the separation during thosefirst weeks of basic training to make sure their focus i on the militaryaspects and not the social."

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Letters To The Editor'

.Ale hol Policy Breeds Distrust

Ibrahim C. Abou Faycal GPresident, Lebanese Club at MIT

has been preparing to install for the last year.o doubt this will make life a lot easier on the

many students without access to these things.I must excuse myself for not knowing muchabout these matters, but I never seem to findthe time to browse the up-to-date lIS webpages or press releases. However, I have nodoubt this new endeavor will add to the ongo-ing list of improvements, such as eventuallysupporting Eudora 3.0 - possibly evenbefore 5.0 is released.

It has been less than a year since the laststatus report on agreements to obtain AFS fo"rWindows NT. Even Kerberos will be workingwith NT any day now - the next release isdue out by May, 1997. They also may moveAthena over to version 5 someday - perhapsthey are negotiating with. the developers. I'msure that liS will even start supporting

etscape 4.0 and the Mac OS 8 some timebefore the next versions are out. .

I do have to question the use of CygnusSupport for providing updated distributions ofthe GNU tools, however (although it seemslike they may be reconsidering this - they'veobviously kept the available documentationtwo years out of date for a reason.). What canan organization which has only handled minortasks (like organizing releases of the GNUdevelopment tools for 60 different architec-tures or porting these minor developmenttools to NT over a couple of years) contributeto liS at MIT? We've already got a solid lISorganization to handle our software needs.

But this is only a minor problem. I am surethat with the re-engineering effort directingresources to where they can better serv.e thestudent community, lIS contJiibutions to quali-ty of comp'uting at MIT will become evengreater. The current delay in installing themultimedia equipment is a prime example -Obviously, the¥ want to get the perfect envi-ronment for us in which to scan and print. Iwill. eagerly await the release of these newmultimedia tools, at least for the rest of my~ndergraduate years. ~

Robert J. Ragno '99

but after a month of watching thi policy in op ration, we canafely a that thi ha not alleviated concern in the tudent

body. Furth r tep mu t b taken to rea ure tudent that theycan afely can the Campu Police.

In uch an environment, it i di turbing to e the tru tb tween tudent and graduate re ident tutor eroding. Tutorare already a fixture in Institute hou ing and will oon be a partof every independent living group. Hi tory ha hown that theycan be an extremely valuable re ource to student: They havealway been available a a voice of maturity who can be reliedupon for their di cretion. .

Deputizing tutors as alcohol enforcer would deny tudenta valuable re ource in times of need. A tutor should feel able tocoun el and a i t tudents involved in violations of Institutepolicy and tate law without prefacing a conver ation with awarning that they will be obligated to report any infraction ofIn titute policy to the ad mini tration. Good tutor are willing toaccept the kind of liabilitie involved in their deci ion ; MIThould have the courage to look beyond legal concerns, focus

on the welfare of students, and aHo the tutor this freedom.The admini tration hould en orce state law, but while

enforcing tate law, it hould also take constructive steps rootedin education and under tanding rather than in intimidation. Theadministration mu t balance ~dhering to tate laws and its ownpolicie with maintaining the tru t of the student body, which isexplicitly threatened by those very law and policies. Eventhough that balance is precarious, failing to find that palancewill nullify any good which might have been gained from oureason of intro pection.

women and children, freedom fighters, landplowers, journalists, students and othersdemand an explanation for this continuedoccupation. For twenty years now, the SouthLebanese citizens have been burdened withcontinued displacement campaigns, with airand sea raids, with port sieges, with curfews,with drinking water and food rationing, withinternationally forbidden weapons (phospho-rous bombs, explosive toys, and flechettes),with house demolitions, and with more thingsthan the pages of thi issue of The Tech couldever contain. These were all imposed byIsrael.

The illegitimacy of this occupation hasmade the Lebanese people compelled to resistthis unfair, unjustified and absurd occupation.By simply staying in villages, despite theaaily death threats and executions, by plowingtheir land, by rebuilding, brick by brick, everydemolished house, and by holding arms inlegitimate defense, the people of SouthLebanon have fought oppression and soughtfreedom. Resistance to oppression is com-monly recognized as the right and the duty ofthe oppressed.

Yet these freedom fighters, by exercisingtheir right and performing their duty of resis-tance, do not get their deserved recognition.Instead, they are consistently dismisseq in theworld press as terrorists and criminals, andlabeled as evil.

On this day, the twentieth anniversary ofIsraeli occupation, we wish to celebrate ourfreedom fighters. We want to recognize theiradmirable struggle to protect their' people'sright to be alive and free. We also want tohonor those courageous people who are stillliving in South Lebanon despite all theimposed miseries and dangers. We invite youto do the same.

The Contributions ofInformation Syste1!1s

I am pleased to hear about the new multi-media equip'ment that Information Systems

The incident of the pa t year have forc d the IT ommu-nity to que tion the role alcohol play in the live of tudent .Over th inter, tudent, faculty, and admini trator struggled

with that qu tion and propo edEditorial an wer in the fonn of newIn titute alcohol policie for indi-

idual and group. ow, with policie and committee reportin hand, the IT community must begin to live with thean wer that it ha found.

The fact that we have a policy, however, doe not meanthat the deci ion-making proce is over. The admini tration .mu t now determine how the e new policie will be enforced. Init deliberation, the admini tration mu t be careful not toenforce policy through in tilling fear and di tru t. uch a movecould have unfortunate con equence . We are concerned by thegrowing di tru t between tudents and the Campus Police. Weare al 0 concerned that a imilar di tru t is beginning to poi onthe relation hip between tudent and graduate re ident tutor .

The relationship between tudent and the Campus Policeexemplifie the way in which enforcement hould not be han-dled. The current alcohol policy force police officer to act asintru ive enforcer of tate law. The problem i am lified by thefact that the Campus Police serve as the only reliable medicaltran port on campus. There i orne fear in the student body thattudent cannot call upon the Campus Police for help in an

emergency without fear of inve tigation. othing compellingha been aid to addre the e fear. The "good amaritan"clau e in the alcohol policy makes calling for help an extenuat-ing circum tance when deciding on punishment for violations,

I raeli Occupation ofSouth Lebanon Unjust

It was March 14, 1997. A crowd had gath-ered in Lobby 7 around a display put up by'Lebanese students at MIT in order to com-memorate the day Israel invaded Lebanon, 19years earlier. A myriad of pictures of deadbabies and massacred men, women and chil-dren occupied most of the display. Sadly, itwas not the horrific sight of human sufferingthat prompted the tunnoil.

The object of controversy in Lobby 7 wasone particular picture depicting Lebanesefreedom fighter . The picture wa placed nextto images of I raeli heavy. artillery, whichwere bombarding Lebanese villagers.' Wewere struck by the fact that so many people.found nothing objectionable about pictures ofIsraeli forces bombing Lebanese civilians butwere scandalized by a single picture ofLebanese men or women fighting for theirright to live free. HI can't believe you are actu-ally endorsing terrorists," someone said.

One year later, we stop to ask: "How didright become wrong? How did the freedomfighter become the terrorist, and how couldthe oppressor of his/her people appeal to theworld as a victim?" When Israel first invadedSouth Lebanon, twenty years ago, the statedobjective was to eliminate the military pres-ence of the Palestinian LiberationOrganization in South Lebanon. Four yearslater, in 1982, in a bloody full-scale invasionthat caused the deaths of over 20,000Lebanese civilians, Israel expelled the PLOand all of its military wings from all ofLebanon.

The expulsion of the PLO from Lebanoncompletely nullified the stated reason forIsrael' occupation. In effect, since 1982,Israel has had no explicitly stated reason tostay in South Lebanon except to fight theL~banese resistance. Thus, Israel has forceditself into a vicious cycle whereby its presencein Lebanon is only to nght a resistance bornout of and feeding off its own occupation.

Sixteen years later, after mourning over50,000 innocent Lebanese civilians, we, men,

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Things IndiaCan TeachThe u.s.

Recent coverage of the elections in Indiain newspapers such as The New York Timeshas left me a bit disappointed. Western jour-

nalism as a whole has atendency to portray"third-world" countriesas illiterate, starving,and extremely corrupt,and the coverage of theIndian elections seemsto have provided noexception to the rule.

For example, onephoto caption from aMarch 1 Times story

["Front-Runner in India is Deep Doubt"] thatis typical of this Western bias reads: "InJaipur, in northwest India, Muslim childrenwho do not attend school spend much of theirtime in the streets." Another caption for thesame story reads, "Cows and other animalsvie with motor scooters and bicycles on thecapital's crowded streets." The story thendetails India's "governmental failure to dealeffectively with poverty, illiteracy and othersocial problems," while a later story on March15 describes the political drama in India as"tinged with farce."

It is not so much the validity of the e state- ,ments that bothers me as much a it is theTimes' condescending attitude and refusal tohighlight problems of imilar magnitude thatexist within the United States. It is true thatIndia has had three governments since 1996that have collapsed within a year, and it is truethat corruption and infighting are much moreprominent there than in the United tates, butthere are also some positive characteristicsthat India has which the United States doesnot.

For one thing; Indian democracy is farahead of the United. States with regard to theparticipation of .women. India has alreadyelected one women prime minister, IndiraGandhi, and Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-bornwidow of the a sas inated fonner prime min-ister Rajiv Gandhi, has already risen tobecome the leader of India's Congress Party.How conceivable is it that in the next tenyears America will elect a women to the high-est post in the country? And how conceivableis it that America will elect a minority woman(as Sonia Gandhi is in India) to one of thehighest posts in the country?

Indian educational standards are also farahead of those in America. It may be true thatthat there are more illiterate people in Indiathan there are in the United tates, but it isalso true that those who receive a education inIndia are far better trained than students inAmerica. A recent study called the "ThirdInternational Mathematics and Science Study"ranked America dead last in physics andadvanced mathematics.

In contrast, students in India are constantlychaHenged. They do not, like U .. studentsgo through a mind-numbing process in whichthey learn virtually the same basic-level arith-metic skills from third to eighth grade. In real-ity, how much did you learn between the thirdand eighth grades aside from basic multiplica-tion and addition? Fractions, algebra, negativenumbers, decimals, maybe even sometrigonometry?

Commentators also often fail to take intoaccount that India is a far younger democracythan America is: While America celebrated itsbicentennial more than two decades ago, Indiais just now reaching its fiftieth anniversary.For example, American newspapers alwaystake ample opportunity to point out that racerelations are not very good in India. Theypoint out that the Bharatiya Janata Party, nowthe leader of India's government, advocatesthe supremacy of of India's Hindu majorityover the Muslim minority, and that the castesystem still pits the poor against the rich.

These statements are mostly true and areworth making, but it is also worth noting thatAmerica, fifty years after its independence,was still subjugating blacks and denying themthe same rights accorded to whites.Furthennore recent studies show that the gapbetween rich and the poor in the United Stateshas greatly increased over the last decade.

India, though it may be behind the UnitedStates right now, is moving forward morequickly than the United tates ever has. If itcontinues along its present path India, despitethe persistent poverty, starvation, and racialstrife, has a bright future. Western journalistsshould take notice.

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then.More recently, the admissions office made

a concerted effort to increase the number offemale applicants. It commissioned a wildlysuccessful recruitment video that destroyedthe MIT male-nerd generalizations. The resulthas been obvious to even the casual observer.

I still know what a party school is. I havevisited tons of schools across the country. A

scrawl, and then putting them down just as stares vacantly, blatantly. A student drops hisquickly. Taken together, the students look like' pens, and the instructor turns faster than hisa flock of birds in a courtyard p'ecking at their shoes can stand. He stumbles and grumbles.food and looking up constantly. Every now But he is thankful for a distraction; he nowami then, one annoying person or another rais- restarts his rendition.es his or her hand to blabber away. To me it My artistic ambition takes over, while theseems as good a time as any to ponder yonder instructor graciously chirps in the background.on the spelling ofthe word torchure - no that Here is my first pass:can't be write. The instructor is like a humantypewriter; he has reached the end of the thirdboard and is hopping back like a carriagereturn. His giant swatter erases my hopes formaking a note-taking recovery.

While I decipher the instructor's hiero-glyphics, time stops while students transcribethe instructor's set of hieros into their own .Even the instructor stares in amazement at hiscreations, impressed by his own mental gyra-tions. But he doesn't stop long to wonder, hehas others' time to lay asunder. He asks ques ..tions to the class, to make sure the studentstake note of his brass.. When no one answers his dialogue, ~heinstructor frowns and takes it upon himself topunish us with another cumbersome mono- .logue. Good grief. My sleepy head has a mind 0'of its own; my eyes seem to jiggle while theinstructor squiggles and his cords vibrateunceasingly. I can only hear quack- ~ing sounds: "Quack, quack, / _quack." An annoying petson at '/ . .the front is brainstorming an f •

idea; his hands have become aflailing blur as he teases theinstructor. I awaken from mydream, and the instructor. is staring atme. I bustle, but the he spares me. His squinthad me rustled.

The student up front has a stroke of luck,the instructor takes notice: "What is yourquestion, you blistering baboon?" The stu- Third pass. I think some of you are begin-dent stutters, the instructor flutters; the class ning to recognize me.

'eujOund Reputation As a Party chool?a fe fri nds, and he ay: I don't ant to go party school is one wh re you ask your friendsto a school where I ha e to wor all the time. I where th kegs are on Tuesday. A party

ant to ha e om fun. I'm going to MIT!" chool has a thriving market for fake ill's. AThi s m at first complet ly crazy. But party school i one where naked people sign

th r i some pre ed n e for such an effect. each other s bodies whil chugging beer andThe admi ion office has made change goldfish. A party school has parties thatb fore whose results were readily visible to require duck shoes to navigate the spillage onthe killed observer. ou can still find profes- the floor. MIT is not a party school,ors who bemoan the the deci ion to eek Everyon already here knows that MIT is

well-rounded students. They think that IT not a party s hool. But our opinion ju t don'tand its caliber of student has declined since matter anymore. We all watched, helplessly

as the si 0' clock newsdefined who we were andpassed judgement. We areabout to reap the rewardsof that definition - Afterall the ~est of the worldthinks we are a partyschool.

MIT has had other,obvious changes on thebasis of internal MIT deci-sions, or perhap a videothat a few thousand peoplewatched. This school'srecent exposure is on a dif-ferent order of magnitude.Millions of pepple listenedas their long-trusted papersand anchonnen told themthat MIT is a place you goto drink yourself silly.

Of course, lean '1'believe this is the onlyresult. MIT will still recruitits hard-core science andnerd types. It will still haveplenty of students whowere forbidden by theirparents to liye off-campusor at a fraternity. MIT willnot become a Beer U.overnight.

But I think that therewill be a significant sliceof incoming freshmen whodo think this way. Therewill be people who cameto MIT because they heardthat there was an active,even wild social life.

Something momentouhappened at MIT., andthere is no way that the

Institute could remain unchanged by theevents that have passed. The questionremains: In what way has it changed? 0 onereally knows. But we 'do know that MIT'simage has been shaped by powerful outsideforces. We may ~e swamped next year by afew hundred students who think that MIT is agreat place to get a cheap beer.

It may even be a self fu1f?lling prophecy.

IT Have aDoeDan Dunn

The Alcoholic

La t October, IT changed forever. Butjust how did it change? I ha e only. onsideredworst-case enarios: fewer applicants, lower

applicant yields., andimportant to me, an all-time bad rush for fra-ternities. But I hadnever considered theup-side: Whatabout the po i-tive effects?

On undayI had lunchwith the theofficers of my

fraternity's alumni association. Wetalked about the usual things: redoingthe electrical system, mailing theannual fund appeal, and next year'sbudget. And, of course, we talkedabout rush for the coming fall.

Rush has been a regular topic ofdiscussion at these meetings. Butevery discussion has been from a neg-ative perspective. We have been veryafraid that students are going to cometo MIT demanding to live in dorms.Not only would the students want toavoid the fraternities, but the parentswould forbid students to live in frater-nities. What can we do to make surethat rush is successful? Can we writeletters to parents talking about howresponsible we are? What should wedo ifrush doesn't go well?

And then the treasurer spoke up:"My nephew got in to MIT. But his 'mother won't let him come becauseMIT is such a party school."

Party school? MIT?This knocked me back in my

chair. Party school? M~T? This wouldhave been my last idea of a pa;rtyschool. Party school? MIT? Wheredid this woman get the idea? Partyschool? MIT? I guess the only newsabout the school has been about itsalcohol habits. But still, MIT a partyschool? : r

. Onbe you' get over"the shock, theramifications of the idea are worthexploring. Perhaps, the Class of '02 won't bea group of beer-fearing, fraternity-hating kids.Perhaps, MIT's students of tomorrow willchoose MIT because they want to have a goodparty." .

Its a p,retty crazy concept, isn't it? Collegeoecision time is not too far away. Somewhere,there is a high school senior deciding betweenMIT and Dartmouth. He's sitting around with

Guest Column. Vishal Saxena

The Varied ThQughts of a.SketchArtist

The pace I'm walking at borders on insani-ty. While I'm bruising my muscl~s, those fiveextra minutes in bed don't seem important,and viceroy - I mean. Bertha, versa, whatev-er. No~ enough sleep can do that. I catch anunfortunate glimpse of Memorial Drive,where certain unnerving creatures are in themiddle of preening themselves - jogging,and dragging their complaining carcasses inhopes of immortality, and in the additionalhope of grabbing approving glimpses from the

. opposite sex.Now the despicab1~ elevator takes its time.

"I swear, if it doesn't ... " I wouldn't be a goodChristian if I swore - but I'm not Christian,so it doesn't matter. While the elevatormoans, showing signs of breaking its cables,nothing bad happens. That distinction isreserved for class, where the instructor blastsaway, squeezing and groaning. I swivel in mychair, daypreaming about the fragrant air,imaginirig petunias floating in the breeze. Mymind dawdles on the meaning of the worddawdle, while the instructor by now is in themiddle of his exorcism. The class yawns acollective sigh at ten minutes before the hour,only to watch exasperated as the instructor.take up the last few minutes, ending our hopesfor a leisurely walk to the next class'. I don'thave time to stop after class. I rush out, waitfor the blasted elevator again, and make myway through hordes of students playing tag inthe infinite chaos.

The next instructor is in a huff. This time Iam stuck looking forwards, facing my doomin a windowless, sunless classroom. A strangesort of primeval dance is occurring: studentsraising their heads to look at the instructor's

B thoven did evoke om beautiful playing,there was omething mi in that Ep t in hadfound. Ep tein' performance had an innerlogic that ha caped 0 many of the gr atmod m conductor who try to tick c10 ely tothe written ommands of the core. Ep tein'interpr tanon produced the most profound andhuman a count of what i at once om of thmo t lonely yet uplifting music ever written.

Finally, it wa time for the raptures of onof the madd st of movement in musical his-tory and Epstein' crew captured the massiveelation of the piece. The opening emphasizedlea hed power again, almo t tortured in itscelestial under tatement. The bas es and cel-los heralded the on et of joy followed by agentle orche tral playing of the choral maintheme. And then the power grew. And how!

Choral Director William Cutter endowed themassive chorus with the same appreciation ofrhythm as Ep tein produced from the orchestra,and it showed through in firm, well-shapedsounds that evoked the glory of the music.

The soloists did not stand out as much inthis performance as in many other accounts ofthe Ninth. Baritone Robert Honeysucker deliv-ered the most evocative of solo singing, withmezzo Gale Fuller adding some nice dashes ofcolor. Soprano Margaret O'Keefe and TenorMark Evans seemed a bit restrained, by com-parison. The choral ensemble was the truevocal hero of the performance.

Orchestral playing continued to be out-standing as the movement intensified: accu-rate and powerful, yet more than that, it wasintensely moving; a statement of joy, a mes-sage of hope, a homage to Beethoven, a testa-ment to the breadth as well as brilliance, thehumanity as well as Humanities to be found atMIT, and of whose profound excellence theoutside world should know a great deal more.

Jonathan Richmond, a Fellow at theKennedy School of Goyernment, HarvardUniversity, was a critic and .Jtns Editor for TheTech during much of the 1980s and early 90s.,

There was om how th most restrain d andubtle viol nce to th opening of th first mov -

ment: Here was om thing unbearably massivewaiting Jo let go. There wa the occasionallapse: a d lay on a cue, a mom ntary muddle inthe strings. Th e were but light glitch ,how-eVir, and few oth r than th mo t hardened. andmean-minded of critics would have even notedth m. Far more importantly, the movem nt hada sense of natural unity and its flowing - e erdriving - momentum captured the e nce ofBeethoven. Wind textures were particularlybeautiful, and cri p percu ion ounded thebuild up to a very intense climax.

Epstein points out in his performance notethat there are two approaches to the secondmovement, and it did not take a genius toguess that he would plunge hi orchestra intothe depths of the monstrousl difficult one, inwhich, to use Epstein's words, 'One sensesalmost an evil pre ence in the music - thedevil's grin, 0 to speak, lurking behind thenotes." The playing here was both alert andnuanced, with orchestral voices both clearlydifferentiated and blending harmoniously.Most importantly, the rhythms were satanical-ly intoxicating, pushing the music forwardwith tension and power.

I sat up at 2 0'clock this morning trying toprove Epstein's approach to the third move-ment wrong. The problem was that I h~d sim-ply. enjoye~ it too much. Where else had Iheard such a beautiful, contemplative celebra-tion of the inner most secrets of the humansoul, and where had I heard such wondrouslyserene playing? The st(ings were intenselylyrical, the brass brilliantly illuminating. Andyet, I pedantically told myself as I sleeplessly

rammed on one CD after another,Epstein's tempo was simply outrageous:far too slow.

So I listened to Norrington andGardiner, Zander, Harnoncourt andHogwood, and realized that while manyof their politically-correct models of

y e oms for th orche tra: There' hardly a pro-

fe sional orchestra on this planet that canengage themselve with uch concentratedrhetoric a wa produced in the performanceof thi most powerful, deliriou and crazed ofworks which was delivered with such fresh-nes from Kresge's tage.

Epstein cannot stop raving about the bril-liance of hi arti t : 'They're a rem rkablegroup of mu icians, they really are. The epeople are not just very highly gifted.butalso... very highly accomplished in terms oftheir technical capacities on their instruments.They're deeply intelligent and the combina-tion has very much worked to the benefit ofthi performance in the sense that I've beenable to discuss with them on a very probinglevel a lot of the is ues ... and I've een the eideas coalesce into a performance."

Epstein's most notable research has beenon the nature of time in music and in thisregard he has departed from much modemorthodoxy. At a time when obedience to themetronome has become increasingly de rigeur,Epstein instead probes the structure of thework and eeks such tempi as give it a naturalflow. The instant standing ovation, the cheer-ing, the sense of elation the second the perfor-mance concluded showed that Epstein and theorchestra had found the truth of Beethoven inthis work and given it a renewed lease of life.

ympMIT Symphony Orchestra.Conducted by David Epstein.MIT Concert Chorus andBrookline ChorusWi//iam Cutter, Director.Beethoven's ymphony o. 9.Kresge Auditorium, March 14.

By Jonathan Richmond

t' a big tatement. It's ome$.ing Iwanted to do for a long time. Anappropriate way to ay farewell,"aid David Epstein in an interview

about hi final concert after thirty-three yearsleading the MIT ymphony Orchestra. Butbig tatement" turned out to be an under-tatement for the devastating torrent of emo-

tion mixed with wisdom with which DavidEpstein en nared Kresge Auditorium in theworld premiere of Beethoven' NinthSymphony - reborn.

To those in the know, David Ep tein is nomore a mere college conductor than hisbeloved MIT ymphony Orche tra is an ama-teur orchestra. Hi career has included majorconducting engagements around the world;his compositions have attracted much praise;and his musicological scholarship places himamong the greatest thinkers on the nature ofmusic in our age.

GABOR CSANYI-THE TECH

David Epstein conducts the MIT Symphony Orchestra for the last time Satuiday evening.

THEATER REVIEW

Molly SweeneyA mbtle, sensual look at thepower of imaginationBy Bence Olveczky

Molly SweeneyBoston Playwright's Theatre949 Commonwealth Avenue, BostonMarch 13, 14, 19,20,21 at 8 pmMarch 29 at 2 pm.$20 on Fridays and Saturdays$17 on Thursdays and Sundays.$15 with student 1D

rish dramatist Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney,now playing at the Boston Playwrights'Theatre, is a sheer delight for the soul andan intellectual challenge for the mind. The

production by the award-winning ora TheatreCompany lends an unexpected warmth to latewinter with its loving portrayal of MollySweeney, a blind woman in search of "sighted-ness".

Molly Sweeney (Judith McIntyre), blindsince birth, leads a content and fulfilling lifedespite her disability. She is happily married toFrank (paul Kerry), a passionate and impulsivechampion of good causes and a true autodidactin subjects encompassing Iranian goats, blue-back salmons, and Ethiopian bee farming.Frank becomes increasingly fascinated by hiswife's impaired vision and endlessly researchesophthalmology and philosophical issues relatedto her blindness. With his boundless energyand enthusiasm, he finally convinces Molly toundergo a series of operations that couldrestore her sight.

Their hopes are tied to Mr. Rice (Richard

Mawe), a world renowned eye surgeon, whofled ew York and his career for the Irishcountryside after his 'wife left him for one ofhis colleagues. He still prides himself in hav-ing been a ''young Turk" - a fearless doctor,respected and celebrated wherever he appeared.His dormant ambition of proving himself onelast time comes alive when he meets Molly.

Molly, substituting her lack" of vision withbeautiful imaginary images, is at first reluctantto go through the ordeal, but is convinced whenshe sees the importance her operation has forFrank and Mr. Rice.

Expectations and anticipations grow as themoment nears when Molly is to discard herbandage and unveil the result of the operation.Miraculously she regains her sight. First bewil-dered by the sensual overload, Molly soonenters a state of profound disillusionment asher safe and secure world, created by her vividimagination, is swapped for a reality she is notready to deal with.

As a result, Molly becomes "bJindsight" -her vision is clear and her movements respondto what she sees, but none of the images reachher consciousness. In her mind the worldaround her has grown darker than before theoperation. She spends her days in a hospital,awaiting letters from Frank, who's ambitionand hunger for life has propelled him toEthiopia, where he leads a relief mission.

The play is written as a series of mono-logues, and unfolds as the three main charac-ters tell their own versions of Molly's recoveryfrom blindness. The implied story is rarely

acted out, and it is left to us, the audience, topiece it together. It is as if we enter Molly'sworld and recreate a reality that is a product ofour own imagination. It is a reality so full oflove, faith and naivete, that we want to hold onto it as we exit the theater. Facing the coldstreets of Boston after the two-and-a-half hourplay, we sympathize with Molly and her long-ing for a world beyond reality, beautified byillusion. .

This sensual and subdued production,directed by Scott Edmiston, succeeds in guid-ing its audience through Friel's eloquent play.

It is helped by a remarkable cast who play theirroles.with great insight and skill. They bring tolife three utterly lovable and authenticallyhuman characters, complete with flaws, insecu-rities, and thick Irish accents. The accompany-ing Irish folk music and the minimalistic stagedesign sets the mood and creates an atmos-phere that is very much in tune with BrianFriel's own bittersweet and melancholic world.

Molly Sweeney is a subtle, yet overpower-ing production that lingers on in your mind fora long time., It is a rare gem - go and see itwhile you can.

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THEATER REVIEW

Wait Until Dark

The Vegetarian Go:urmet

picking up. Tomei also brings a richne s to thepart that makes you really care about her andher welfare, perhaps aided by the despicablecriminal who are blatantly taking advantage ofher, and her will to fight back in the second act.

I think thi play has been treated extremelyunfairly by the media. The fact that the twostars have previously successful credits setsthem up for a fall, and I think that the Bostonpre s ha taken too much license with thatpoint. Review have been pretty miserable, tobe generous. The Boston Phoenix even ran acolumn last week listing "5 Quentin TarantinoRole ," which included a Laurie-killing Curlyfrom Ok/ahoma!, the Phantom in a gimp suittrying to get Chri tine to submit, and an abusiveDaddy Warbuck , a.k.a. Big Daddy 13, roughingup Annie. Sure they're funny, but they ignorenot only the play's value as among the bestentertainment in town right now, but also thepossibilities that might be opened up ifTarantino decide to try hi is hand at tagewriting and directing as the result of this suc-cessful endeavor.

Overall, Wait Until Dark i a fa cinatingplot played out by fascinating people, both intheir own right and in their ability to bring thecharacters to life. It's only here for anotherweek, so you better hurry if you want to try andcatch it before it depart for ew York. Whoknows? It might end up further changing thevalue of a camera.

five cents. Go figure.The Vegetarian Gourmet's Campu Be t Bet

is The Granary, which offer three daily vege-tarian entrees prepared to order, mo t of whichare vegan. These entrees are made with freshvegetable , legumes, grains, pOtatoe , and flat-bread, and are a very pleasant change from gar-denburger and salad. AI 0 to be found atLobdell are grilled vegetable sandwiches, pasta,pizza, a mall alad bar, and tofu bowls.

One final note about the M IT Diningervice's vegetarian selection: it i truly a

wonder to see how college food has improvedfor tho e eeking a plant based diet. Ten yearsago, when the Vegetarian Gourmet was anundergraduate, times were much harder. Oftenthe only vegetarian items would be the salad barand french fries. One day the "SpecialVegetarian Entree" was pork fried rice! Today,many more options are available, and MIT hasmade an honest effort to provide a veritable cor-nucopia of meatless options for the communityit erve. While it should not be forgotten thatanywhere that food is made in high quantity thequality will suffer, the selections are variedenough here to allow one to not have to fleecampus for a decent meal. MIT dining servicesprovides vegetarian meals that range from mun-dane and palatable to interesting and tasty. Takea trip around campus and see for yourselt1

effects that et the mood, such as the illusion ofa camera zoom to start the show, created byslowly moving the et up tage, and the imagi-native stage edit , where a strobe flash and aclick effect th darkening of the stage, only tohave th ame flash and ound bring the lightsup ag in on a newly po itioned cast. Perhapsmo t compelling el ment is Darron West'ound de ign, which quite effectively borrows

mu ic from movie thriller to build tension atjust th right moments.

Tarantino mu t have had . orne directinginfluence, mo t noticeably een in an overlygrue orne yet trademark murder scene. Butbeyond that, his character wa quite believable:well uited to Quentin' pre-exi ting image, yetdifferent enough so that you knew it wa n't justhim being himself. His be t moments were dur-ing the blackout scene towards the end, wherehe and Tomei exchange dialogue in the dark.Their interplay was quite natural, and helpedbring the show over the top.

Tomei was truly the star, though, overcom-ing whatever Brooklyn accent people mighthave been expecting to perform blind to a liveaudience, never breaking character. The littlething were what made it ring true: her difficul-ty in hanging up a phone and her frustration asGloria, the obnoxiou but eventually importantkid who lives up tairs, nicely played by ImaniParks, drop thin~s aH over the apartment whichTomei know she's going to have a hard time

ausage mixed in with one' tofu; although theVegetarian Gourmet's brother might argue thatexactly the reverse is true.

In the Student Center (84 Massachu ettsAve, Building W20) we visited etworks andthe Lobdell Food Court. etworks preparesevery meal individually, which take more timebut allows great flexibility in preparing yourfood. Substitutions are the norm, and the friend-ly staff will graciously ubstitute portabellomu hrooms or tofu in place of orne offendingcarnivorous option. In fact, every place we vis-ited was willing to make substitutions whenrequested, an option unknown to too many fru -trated veg-heads. In addition to the perfunctoryfries, salads and soups, Networks serves avegan tofu ravioli which has a marvelous slight-ly spicy taste and pleasant texture, although themarinara is far too watery (something the man-ager of Networks has promised would be reme-died). They also serve garden and vegan burg-ers, portabello parmesan, tri-pomadora basilpasta, vegetarian wraps, and daily special .

Lobdell Food Court of course houses a num-ber of different options, including Itza Pizza,The Granary, Kitchen Classics, Fresh Flavor ofAsia, and others. Every station has vegetarianoptions including, oddly enough, Burger King,which has an off-the-menu burgerless cheese-burger with everything but the meat for eighty-

marked with a green triangle, and meatlessitems with egg or dairy marked with a green cir-cle. These represent great improvements to thelot of the MIT vegetarian.

Our fir t stop was Walker Memorial (142Memorial Drive, Building 50). All told, thereare perhaps a dozen meatless items availableand several vegan ones. There are a variety ofalads and breads, Pizza Hut pizza, vegetarian

roll-ups, pastas, garden burgers, and sushi, aswell as the Fresh Flavors of Asia, which fea-tures self-serve vegetable and tofu rice or noo-dle bowls. Twice weekly there is a vegetarianpizza special (although there have been con-cerns about whether the sauce has animal prod-ucts), and vegetarian soups, in addition to thealways present vegetarian chili. In the fall theyintend to add food wraps and a pasta bar. Theywere very happy to mix together unrelateditems (rice and chili for example).

One very nice touch i that vegetarian dishesare cooked in separate containers and are servedwith separate utensils from those used for meatdish preparation. This is done campus-wide and

. should serve as a great relief to the loyal readerswho fear such cross contamination. There is lit-tle less appetizing than finding a big hunk of

Tarantino and 'lbmeiAreAbave U1tatCritic SayBy Joel Rosenberg to con id r futur proj ts a well. hat weSTAFF REPORTER really want is a tory with the cope of a movieWait Until Dark and the intimacy of a play. And what better wayWilbur Theatre for the e Hollywood-type to get to know thi246 Tremont Street, Boston medium than immersion?Info: 423-4008 Tarantino and Tomei do a great job of

'hrough Mar h 22, 35 to 62.50 immer ion, both of themselve and the audi-ence, into this beautifully crafted thriller byFrederick Knott. Quentin play Harry Roat, acriminal mastermind who has coordinated a bigdrug muggling operation. The only problem ithe drug are hidden in a doll, which has gonemissing. Roat thinks the doll i in the apartmentof a woman, Tomei, who e husband ju t left ona bu ine trip, and who ha been blind for ixmonths from an accident. The story is furthercomplicated when Roat enli ts the help of twothug , who together decide to con the womanout of the doH in tead of just muscling it awayfrom her. Suspen ion of di belief allows the trioof criminal to become an improv troupe, andthe story evolves from there.- Director Leonard Foglia does an intere tingjob tran lating this' 60s play-tumed-movie backinto a play. Aided by a beautiful set fromMichael McGarty, there are some really nice

T he ~o t intere ting line in the new pro-ductton of Wait Until Dark come rightafter the brick curtain ri e . Having justbroken into a photographer' house and

rummaging around a bit, two criminal di custreet values of different thing .

"How 'bout thi camera?" one a ks."Camera? You can't give tho e things away

anymore."It's a significant line, con idering the play is

the vehicle for Oscar-winning screenwriterQuentin Tarantino's Broadway debut, appear-ing opposite Oscar-winning actress Mari aTomei, herself making her debut (after JenniferJason Leigh bailed out). It's fascinating to seewhat these two (Tarantino in particular) trans-late from the screen back to the stage - some-thing that has generally been overlooked - and

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F riday, Marc~ 20 is the date of this year'sGreat American Meat Out! In honor ofthis auspicious event, the VegetarianGourmet is devoting this week's column

o the many vegetarian dining options availableright here on campus. Next week's column willdispel some of the myths of vegetarianism. Ifyou have any questions about any aspect ofvegetariana, send them to the VegetarianGourmet at gourmet@the-tech.mit.edu.

With the aid of the MIT Food ServiceDirector, the stalwart Kathy Richmond, theVegetarian Gourmet braved the freezing weath-er and high winds to seek out vegetarian optionsavailable from MIT Dining Services. It was apleasant surprise to find many options availablefor both ovo-Iacto vegetarians (those that eateggs and dairy but no meat) and true vegetari-ans or vegans. There has been an obvious andsignificant effort to make the meal selections oncampus more friendly to herbivores both byincreasing the number and quality of vegetarianoptions and by making them more easily identi-fiable. Over the next two weeks, all MIT diningservices menus should have vegan items

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The satellite, to be namedTriana after hri topherColumbus' navigator who firstspotted America, will also create3,000 new jobs during its design. Itwould be launched into theLagrangian point, where it wouldbe balanced gravitationallybetween the un and the Earth.Three earth stations would compilethe image every few minute , andprovide a continuously updatedimage via the Internet.

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In a panel discussion followingPorter's speech, industry leadersagreed that the U.S. is in danger offalling from its leadership position.

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William R. Brody '65, president ofJohns Hopkins University, calledon universities to become moreefficient.

"If [the costs of college] contin-ue to increase we will no longer becompetitive" in the world market,Brody said. More fundamentally,"we've got to focus on getting ourchildren to read" at grade level toprepare them for higher education.

"Innovation is [currently] tak-ing some small, evolutionary steps,not bold revolutionary steps" likethose that occurred during theApollo program of the 1960s,Goldin said.

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August, the SEVT will also besending several members to repre-sent MIT at Econo Move, anendurance race for electric vehi-cles at the Akita site in May.

Econo Move will be providingthe SEVT with a purely electricvehicle during the event. The raceis partly a publicity event, but it'salso "an opportunity to allow stu-dents to see the Akita track earli-er," said Clemenzi.

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for solar and electric cars. There'sparticipation by lots of differentclasses of vehicles," including tra-ditional vehicles and bicycles, headded. Akita is a 3-day endurancerace involving approximately 8hours of racing a day. "Tracks inJapan are apparently very long andfast," said Jimmie D. Walker '99, amember of the team.

The SEVT would have gone tothe second race at Suzuka last year,but the accident involving its vehi-cle derailed its plans, Carr said.

"I'm excited. This will be myfirst time to Japan - my first timeout of the country," said Walker.

The third and last race in Japanthat the SEVT plans to attend thisAugust is at Shishika, said Chen.Japanese sponsors are arranging totransport the team's vehicle and arefinding accommodations for someof the team members while they areat Shishika, added Chen.

increase its efficiency and robust-ness. The solar array on the MantaGT needs to be replaced due to anaccident involving the trailer carry-ing the Manta GT the day afterSunrayce '97. Other portions ofManta GT will also be completelyredone, and the team is having aninformal contest to rename theresulting vehicle.

"The body was damaged in theaccident," added Jacinda L.Clemenzi '01, the leader of thebody group. Since the body ismade of composites, things "needto be reglued," said Clemenzi.

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,..- Team to Attend Summer Races\ The first of the races that the

SEVT plans on attending is "theWorld Solar Rally in Akita," Carrsaid.

The track at Akita has a 31 krnperimeter and was a former lakethat was land-reclaimed, Carr said."This is a race and publicity event

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Stephen M. Zoepf '01, Jimmie D. Walker III '99, Chris E. Carr '98 and Carlos A. Araque '01 (left toright) work on the chassis of the Manta car that crashed in Sunrayce '97.

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'the incident. to the police, Glavinsaid.

"By the end, there were a coupleof dozen people around," said BrianT. Sniffen '00, who witnessed thefall from his room in East Campus.

Reaction to the fall was varied,ranging from extreme il1ness tosomething approaching levity.

"Personally, I fell into the physi-cal illness category," Sniffen said."I wil1 never forget that scream."

"Some people seemed to be tak-ing it very lightly. They seemed tobe almost cheerful," Sniffen said.They "seemed not'to really under-stand all the implications."

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Opportunitie Program po ition inthe Hyperinstrument tOpera of thFuture group at the edia Lab, aidProfe or of Mu ic and Media TodE. Machover, Gale' UROP advi -er.

Gale had taken Machover'scour e in Musical Ae thetic andMedia Technology (MA .8251)during the fall term. He de ignedgraphical mu ic game de igned forchildren that "wa ab olutely uniqueand remarkable" as his final projectin the course, Machover aid.

Machover, recognizing the quali-ty of Gale's final project, had invit-ed Gale to continue work on theproject as a UROP student after theclas was over.

"As seemed typical of Phil, hewent hi own way, and after threemonths of not hearing from him, hegot back to me just last week withanother - completely different -idea for a UROP project. Phil pro-posed to develop a way of analyzingextreJ1lely diverse sound - every-thing from crowd noises to naturesounds to machine clanging, specifi-cally from the Central Square area-: so that they could be organizedand associated according to rhyth-mic loudness, and coloristic similar-ities," Machover said.

"Phil was going to start work onthe project right away, and I have ndoubt that it would have yieldedspectacular and unexpected results.'~

Gale also impressed coworkersat Earthlink. "He was without adoubt the most intelligent guy ievermet. He was brilliant in nearly everyrespect," said Brian Murphy, whworked in the same division as Galeat Earthlink.

"He could have done anythinghe wanted in life, there just aren'tthat many people like him," Murphysaid. "I was utterly shocked when 1

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"He was just a really nice guy. Icouldn't think of a single bad thingabout him ifI'd tried;" Murphy said.

While at Earthlink, Galedesigned Total Access, the compa-ny's internet registration software,said Kirsten Kappos, vice-presidentof corporate communications atEarthlink.

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tudents who attended thework hop applauded theadm in i tration' s efforts to createdialogue on uch issues. It was goodthat "people representing manydifferent offices were [available to]answer our questions," said icoleA. Balli '00.

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Feb. 19: Alumni Pool, malicious damage, finger-nail polish spilled on counter Walker Memorial,food stolen. Medical ervice calls: 9.

Feb. 20: ain.and Wadsworth treets, WellesleyStudent harassed as she entered a cab; Bldg, 30,copper stolen, 2,000; Bldg. E15, computer CPUstolen, 4,000; Bldg, E38, bicycle secured with acable lock stolen, 200; Bldg, E40, laptop stolen,6,000; Bldg. 26, person burning documents, fire

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Feb. 21: Ashdown, loud noise complaint, noalcohol being served. All persons left area whenrequested to do so by Campus Police; Tang, loudparty complaint and alcohol being consumed, offi-cers determmed all persons were over 21, party shutdown. Bldg. 10, anti-war teach-in. Medical Servicecalls: 8.

Feb. 22: Eastgate, domestic situation; Bldg. E15,camera equipment stolen, $4,800; Bldg. 4, leatherjacket stolen, $1,000. Medical Service calls: 7.

Feb. 23: Fenway House, domestic situation;Bldg. NW21, smoke in building, motor on garagedoor seized; Memorial Drive, motor vehicle accidentnear boathouse; Bldg. E51, intoxicated individual.Medical Service calls: 8.

Feb. 24: Bldg. W59, computer reported stolen,later discovered only moved not stolen; Bldg. E40,laptop stolen, $3,000;Bldg W59, bicycle stolen, $280;Bldg. 4, hit and run accident; Walker Memorial, stu-dent problem. Medical Service calls: 11.

Feb. 25: MacGregor, ambulance called for over-dose case; Baker, suspicious phone call; Bldg. 10,suspicious activity; Bexley, report of a past assault;Bldg. E55, domestic situation; Bldg. 2, suspiciousperson; Windsor lot, 1986 Toyota Camry stolen, laterrecovered in Wakefield;Bldg. 56, saw stolen, $1,100;Amherst Alley, 1984Volvo reported stolen, later dis-covered to be borrowed by friend without permission;Fiji, Brass Rat and equipment stolen; Bldg. 10, break-. gad entering. Medical Service cafls~14. ~

Feb. 26: Networks, cash stolen from an employ-ee; $163; Boathouse, overturned sailboat in CharlesRiver, Medical Serv~cecalls: 23.

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Outlook: We return with most ofour lettermen from last year, includ-ing our top five scorers. We gradu-ated two starting defensemen andwill lack experienc.e there.However, we have some strong can- .didates working very hard to fi))those positions.

Coach's comments: I enjoy teachingand coaching golf. 1 hope all theparticipants of the MIT golf teamget a much from golf a I, and 0

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Last year's season: 6-6 overall, 4-4in the league.

Last year's season: e anticipateda . ea on of rebuilding with occa-

ional glimmers of hope andpromi e. OveraJI, however, wee perienced a difficult eason.

New prospects: Three fre hmen mid-fie ders who we expeCt to be immedi-ate impact players are Peter Jenkins'01, Pascal Rettig '0 I and GuillermoUrquiza '0 I. Tim olan '01, willcompete for the starting goalkeeperposition.

Key returnees: Our four year lette"rwinners are leading corer TylerMoeller '98,' top scoring midfielderMike ButviJIe '98 and captaindefen eman Ken Myer '98; ChriSmith '98 was our third leading'scorer; Gene Pyo '99 was our ec-ond leading corer; Mike Rainey'00 and John caeffer '99 are twoother key returnees at midfiel<t, andJu tin Verdirame '00, who playedevery minute of every game lastyear, returns as goalie.

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Coach's comments: We hope toimprove our overall and leag.uerecord and contend for the leaguechampionship in post-season play.

Key returnees: Marilyn Vogel '98,Anya Hawrylchak '98, MaddyBurke '99 Tracy Sadowski '99,Marjor!e Rosenthal, '98, Jessica

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Key returnees: Captain Young EKim '9 , Dan Henderson '9 , ToddKamin '00.

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Coach's comments: The team habeen working very hard, workingout twice a day all year everaltIme a week, and we hould ee thebenefit thi pring. The guy arereally dedicated, a they wiJJ need tob " a . our competition i fierce. eare pu 'hing to win a medal in the.lbsolute toughe t league in the\.:ountry. I feel confident about ourhances.

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Coach's comments: With the returnof so many veterans, as well as newprospects, the team is looking for-ward to an exciting season.

Last year's season: Last year'steam was the largest in school his-tory. It compiled a 6-2 recordwhile it rewrote the school recordbook. The team also shone with athird place finish in the ew 8Championship.

New prospects: ChristinaCosman '01, abrina Chang '00,Alicia Hardy '99, MelanieHarris '01, Julie Ma '99, LaurenMcCann '01, Rena asir, Margaret

ervegna '01, Deepa Patel '0 I,tephanie oohoo '00, Chian

Wang '01, Christina Wilbert '01,Janine Buseman-Williams '01

Key returnees: Sprints and hurdles:Alyssa Thorvaldsen '00, ElaineChen '99, atalie Smith '00,Stephanie Hong '98, ChristinaKalb '98

Middle Distance/Distance: JanisEisenberg '98, Debbie Won '00,Robin Evans '99, Jantrue Ting '00,Tanya Zelevi05ki

Throws: Jennifer Elizondo '99,Crystal Harris '00, JoycelynGathers '00, Valerie Pires '00,

icole Justis '00Jumps: Mia Heavener '00Pole vault: Lila French '99

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ew prospects: Phil Loiselle '01,Ed Keehr '01 and Liyan Guo '01

Outlook: Coming off a successfulindoor campaign, which included a12-1 record and a 2nd place finishin the ew England Division IIIChampionship Meet, the men'strack and field Team looks solid.

Hopes are high that SeanMontgomery '01 can shake the badknee blues, and return to action. Hisaddition would fortify this event andlift the 4x400 meter relay team up anotch as well.

Coach's Comment: I think that weare well stocked in the field and inthe longer running events, but Iwish we had more depth and experi-ence in the sprints. We have a toughschedule ahead, but I know the teamwill work hard and do well.

Head Coach: Joe Sousa

Last year's season: 8-0, 3rd placein New England Division III

support. eal Karchem '99 andTodd Rosenfield '01 will shoulderthe load in the 400 meters.

Patrick Dannen '98 and JasonDailey '99 and George Torres '99constitute the core of the throwers'group, aiming for high scores in theshot put, discus, and hammer. Chad

ouke '99 and ick Michalakis '0 Icould give MIT its strongest one-two punch in the javelin in years.

team in long jump, high jump, 110meter hurdle , 100 meter dash and200 meter da h. Ravi will also eeduty on the 4 100 meter relay andthe 4x400 meter relay.

The di tances will be a strongarea for the Engineer , with MikeParkins '99 and Chris McGuire '00at the fore. Parkins dominated theQuad Cup season in very e entfrom the 800 Meter through the5000 Meter. Last pring, Parkinsqualified for the ationalChampionships in the 3000 Meter

teeplechase, and made a run atMIT's varsity record. McGuire cap-tured the 5000 meter title at the

ew England Division III meet.Chris also won that event in lastspring's edition of the meet, and setan MIT freshman record of 14:50.35in the process.

Leif eed '99 spent the indoorseason either in England or battlingnagging injuries. Returned to goodhealth, he is running well as anchorman of the 4x800 meter relay thatqualified for ICAAAAChampionships at Cornell. Lastspring, Leif joined Parkins as a

ational Qualifier in theSteeplechase. Sohail Husain '98 andRich Rosalez '98 will be counted onfor good depth.

Joel Ford '98, an individualqualifier for the ICAAAA's in the1000 meters, will lead the middledistance group. Chuck Van Buren'98, Gus Blomquist '99, KenWalker '01, John Biesiadecki '01and Ed Tolson '01 will give solid

New prospects: Ricky Rossello '01,Rich Yeh '01, Anish Parikh '01,Marcin Strojwas '00

Outlook: We hope to qualify againfor the NCAA Tournament andrepeat as CAC ConferenceChampions.

Returnees: Eric Chen '00, AnitChakraborty '99, Ben Cooke '00

Last Year: MIT finished the yearranked 5th in the NCAA East regionand 3rd in New England DivisionIII. We are currently ranked 19 inthe nation in the preseason. MIT'snumber one doubles team, Chen andMatysczak, are ranked 8th in U.S.Division III.

Last Year's Sea on/Outlook: Lastyear the team made it to the EW-8semi-final and finished the seasonwith a 6-12 record. They are readyto go further this year. Building onthe strong points of la t year, addingsome key newcomers and a newcoaching staff, the oftball team isvery optimistic about the upcomingyear. Clark University, mithCollege, and Worcester Polytechniclnstitue are big games for the team.The most significant one, however,will be our home opening game onApril 3 against the national FinalFour team Wheaton College.

en's TennisTeam Coach: Jeff HamiltonCaptain: Jim Matysczak '99

captain Joanna Garelick '98 andspeedy Ali Pearlman '00.

Coach's comments: The coed varsi-ty sailing team is really fired up forthe pring. A regatta at ew YorkMaritime College starts the sea onne t weekend. The women and menof the team are particularly e citedabout the Boston Dinghy Cup on thefirst weekend of April. ixteenteams including the University of

_awaii, the aval Academy, theCoast Guard Academy and the U.S.Merchant Marine Academy at KingsPoint will come to Cambridge tosail in our boats on the Charles.MIT is ready to show them how tomaster the wacky windshifts and weintend to give them all a lesson onhow to sail a Tech dinghy fast.Other hot regattas this Springinclude two weekends at CoastGuard for the Professor GeorgeOwen (MIT) Trophy and theThompson Trophy. Our Freshmenare poised to take home the Spring

ew England Championships atBoston University. The NewEngland Varsity Championshipswill be hosted by Brown onNarragansett Bay on the secondweekend in May. The top 3 teams ofthat event go on to the Nationals inNew Orleans.

Women's SailingCoaches: Fran Charles and KyleWelch

005), with trong showings by fresh-men for the second year in a row.

Key returnees: Captain JenKelly '99, Jessica Lackey '00, Anna

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Key returnees/Outlook: Leadingindoor scorer Ravi Sastry, whose157 points in the Quad Cup sched-ule established a new team record,will be the team's top man in sever-al events. Sastry should pace for the

Interim Head Coach: Richard A.MacKenzieAssistants: Halston W. Taylor,William E. Singhose, and David H.Palmieri

Men's Track and Field

Coach's comments: I am glad thatwe are such a young group.Learning and personal growth willbe the keys to our success.

Last year's season: Finished 2nd inthe NEW 8 Conference in the Fall1997 Season.

Outlook: Our season goals are tohave team unity, improve our owngames, improve each others' games,and to always give it our best shot,no matter what.

Coach's Comments: This 1998 teamis very young, but the future appearsbright with no seniors on this year'ssquad. We may be one year awayfrom having our best tennis team infifteen years.

New prospects: Smriti Banthia '99,Sailu Challapalli '01, TinaChang '01, Shikha Gupta '01, Wan-Jen Hong '01, Jennifer Hsieh '01,Katy Kaminski '01, KosannaPoon '01, Sindhu Srinivas '00,Ayako Tanaka '00, Jessica Yeh '01,Yue Zhang '01

Returnees: Singh, AngelaMislowsky '99, Doana Cecan '00

Women's Varsity TennisCoach: Carol MatsuzakiCaptain:Nisha Singh '00

Coach's comments: We may be theunderdogs, but are working harderthan anyone and the results areshowing in both boat handling andregatta results.

Last year's season: We improvedgreat deal and missed qualifying forthe Atlantic Coast Championship bya point.

Coach: George Rollins

Outlook: Our primary goal this sea-son is to qualify for Nationals atTulane University in New Orleans.Another goal is to consistently racefour boats on the women's team.

New prospects: SusannaMierau '00, Julie Muyco '98,Rebecca Breazeale '01

Key ReturneeslNew Prospects: Withseven starters returning and several

... ood new prospects joining theWarn, the softball team is looking

forward to the oncoming season.Key returners are last year's AllNew-8 player co-captain SherryMowry '98 at shortstop and AnnaCherubin '99 at third base. Bothhave strong arms and good bats andgive the infield experience, stability,and attitude. Kristie Stokke '99returns at fIrst base and newcomerAnnie Thompson '01 showspromise at second base. AmberCrabbe '00 returns as our mainpitcher and we are building on herno-hitter from last year to make herone of the league's best pitchers.Replacing last year's catcher areJacki Baskin '00 and another new-comer Tamra Haby '01. BesidesThompson, the other newcomers arefreshmen Nann Kronschnabel '00and Joyce Lin '01, both outfielderswho have good arms and speed.They join last year's outfielders co-

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Lightweight en's Crew

Last year's season: We were thefourth fastest crew in the nation.While we didn't have much succesin our dual season races, after racking up wins over Rutgers, BostonCollege, Holy Cross, and the U.S.

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Replicating or even improving uponlast year's 17th place finj h may bein reach if Kallevig and Wu are ableto return in time and the quad con-tinues to improve.

Last year's season: Won five analost four and ranked 17 among theDivision I crews in the country.

Outlook: Last year, Harvard, Yale,and Princeton were the only threecrews in the country faster than ourlightweight varsity. We are hopingto crack into that group, but it won'tbe easy, as each of those three crewsonly lost one oarsman to graduation.The rest of the league will toughenup as well. Cornell has two out-standing transfer students, andColumbia, Rutgers, Penn andDartmouth all are building on medalwinning freshmen crews from twoand three years ago.

Coach's comments: The squad hasdealt quite well with losing ourCaptain and the other injuries.These have hurt our depth and willaffect both our First Varsity and

econd Varsity Boats. I have seensome remarkable improvement inour technique, however, and we arevery determined and working quitehard. I am looking forward to someexcellent races.

New prospects: The lightweightcrew class of '01 is one of the bestto enter MIT in years. KevinSchmidt '01 and Rich Hanna '01 areleading a large group of very talent-ed freshmen through a very success-ful winter training season. Thisshould shape up to be a successfulyear of racing.

Key returnees: Five of the eight var-sity oarsmen from last year arereturning, as well our outstandingcoxswain, Joe Irineo '98. StrokeGarrett Shook '98 and CaptainChris Liu '98 will lead the team,along with standouts Dan Frisk '99,Kris Kendall '98, and Paul Oppold'99. These oarsmen made up theheart of the 4th place finishin(nationally, Division I) 1997 crew.

Heavyweight CrewVarsity Coach: Gordon HamiltonFreshman Coach: Richard Branch

Outlook: MIT heavyweights com-pete in the toughest Division ILeague in the country. Injuries toseveral key oarsmen (Lentz,Kallevig, and potential first boat oarShane Wu '99) make this season abit more of a question than anybodywould like. However, the team hadan excellent Florida lAP trainingtrip where the heavyweight beavershandily defeated the University ofMiami. The extraordinary wintertraining continued at the WorldIndoor Rowing Championshipswhere II out of 13 rowers postedpersonal bests and Perry's fine per-formance nearly resulted in hismaking the Finals of the CollegiateHeavyweight Championships.

Key returnees: Robert Lentz '98,elected last June to a second year asCaptain of the MIT HeavyweightVarsity Crew and one of the bestoarsmen at MIT in a decade, injuredhis back lifting weights over thesummer and will be out for the sea-son. The team returns five letterwinners from last year's varsity:Dan Parker '99, Mike Perry '99,Karl Richer '99, and KarstenKallevig '99, who hopefully willrecover from an injury in time tohelp the first eight, and a finecoxswain in Jen Lykens '99.

Coach's Comments: Each new ea-on brings with it the optimism and

enthu iasm that seem to be part ofthe spring ritual for baseball every-where. MIT Baseball is no excep-tion as our players and coaches pre-pare for the opportunities andchallenges of the upcoming season.The dedication and eagerness thatthe players bring to practice is atrue source of strength for our pro-gram. The challenges in rebuildingour ball club each year are alwaysthere and this season is no excep-tion.

the departure of Coach FranO'Brien and the arrival of Coach

ingleton.

New prospects: Freshman CoachRichard Branch has what looks tobe one of the better crews in recentyears. Four of the squad had somerowing experience in High School:Paul Elliott '01, Chris Penny '01,Mark Thon '01, and Jim Morash '01.Jhon and Morash rowed with thevarsity in the fall and bring somegood experience and leadership toan eager group of beavers.

Spring ~orts

New Prospects: No pitchers graduatedlast year, but three freshmen pitcherswere added: Joseph Panganiban '01,Zachary Jenkins '01, and JeffreyBilling '01. Besides pitching, all threealso play positions in the field.

Returnees: Paul Collin, '98,Baldemar Mejia '98, and Will

iel en '98 will captain a veteran-rich club. Collin will continue athe workhorse behind the plate, hav-ing caught aU but one of the gamein 1997. Mejia, who was an AII-league selection last year, will startin his fourth consecutive year atright field while ielsen, who wasan All-league selection the last twoyears, hopes for another strong sea-son.

Pitcher Thomas Epps '97 andsecond baseman ikhil Batra '98round out the returning seniors.Epps had the lowest ERA in theleague for much of last season. Hehas also shown great promise as abatter, hitting three home-runs intwelve games in the fall. Batrabrings impeccable defense to theteam and compliments it with asolid bat.

Jason Szuminski '00, David Piho'00, Joel Morales, '99, and PeterGustafson '99, are other notablereturnees. Szuminski, a right-hand-ed fireballer from Texas, con-tributed significantly by leading theteam in strikeouts. Piho started atshortstop as a freshman and led theteam in home-runs last season.Morales won the conference battingtitle and team MVP award as afreshman at first base. Gustafson isa third year player at third base andone of the most steady bats in thelineup.

Head coach: Mac ingletonAssistant Coaches: Dwight mith,Tom Lenehan

Ba eball

Outlook: MIT looks to have a solidyear. Two years ago, when MITrecorded the most regular seasonwins in team history - 20 - theteam was led largely by this year'ssenior and junior classes. Since thatseason, many quality players havebeen added, making the team evenstronger. In addition, MIT went11-1 in the short fall season, whichpromises a strong spring. The keyobstacles to an excellent season thisyear include several quality teamssuch as Williams, Wesleyan, andperennial local rivals Tufts, Babson,and Brandeis.

Last year's season: Last year was adisappointing year for the baseballteam. Although the team finishedfirst in the East Division of theCAC, the final record of 16-15 wasdisheartening. However, this recordwas respectable given the amount ofchange the program underwent with

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Age: 20Major: Material cienceHometown: an Francisco, Calif.Years participating in sport: 15Most memorable moment:

Winning my first conferencegame by beating the WheatonLions for the first time in IIseasons.

Future plans: Winning the con-ference and attending a grad-uate school in a warm place.

"It's reaUy cool to go down inthe history books as a member ofthe best MIT women's basket-ball team ever. I want to thankmy family, friends, and, mostimportantly, my teammates formaking it all possible."

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Age: 21Major: Mechanical EngineeringHometown: Ann Arbor, Mich.Years participating in sport: 2Mo t memorable moment:

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Future plans: Making it onto theUS ational Team and goingon to compete in the 2000Olympic.

'Td like to thank Brad Layton'92, teve Tucker '91 and LindaMuri '86 for giving me inspira-tion. Also, I'd like to thank therest of my team, e peciallyCoates and Lykens, for all thegood time ."

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