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Tuesday, March 10, 1998

Students Protest Thition Hike, UAElects JudboardRevive 1raditional Annual Riot To Deal with Appeals

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Tuition increase is relatively smaUThe tuition increase this year was

one of the smaller in recent years, andwas accompanied by a $1,000 drop to$7,600 as the minimum self-helplevel, which is the amount studentsare expected to provide throughwork, loans, or savings. The overall"term bill", which includes tuition,room, and board, will be $30,800, a

WAN YUSOF WAN MORSHIDI-THE TECH

President Charles M. Vest briefly left his offlce to join Monday's Spontaneous Tuition Riot.

By Dan McGuire The group's route took them said that if the increase had to goEDITOR IN CHIEF down the Infinite Corridor and to the through, the additional funds should

A motley group of about 40 stu- second floor of Building 3, where be used to increase financing for stu-dents braved drenching rains to they paused in front of the President's dent activities.revive the traditional annual Tuition and Provost's offices in 3-208. TheRiot. Students were protesting MIT's clarinet, trumpet, and cymbalsdecision to increase tuition to accompanying the group roused$24,050 in the next academic year, a President Charles M. Vest, Provost4.1 percent or $950 increase from last Joel Moses PhD '67, and Secretary ofyear. the Corporation Kathryn A. Willmore

"In the time of classes before us... from their offices.the Tuition Riot was a vital instru- Vest was amused. "You didn'tment in our forerunners' efforts to want the cut in self-help? Is that whatprevent their wallets from being this is about?" he asked. The protest-drained ... this invaluable tradition ers presented a list of demands to theshould not be allowed to fall," said a administrators, including eliminatingpamphlet publicizing the riot. the $950 tuition hike. Students also

By May K. TseNEWS EDITOR

At the UndergraduateAssociation council meeting lastnight, five new members wereelected to the previously inactiveJudicial Review Board, and asubsequent motion gave the powerto delay the reporting of the 1998UA election results until alloutstanding complaints wereresolved.

Ashwin Viswanathan '98, JohnGavenonis '98, Atish R. Babu '0 I,Jin S. Kim '99, and Caroline Rhim'01 were elected to the board.Viswanathan will serve as theboard's chair.

Usually, the outgoing VAPresident nominates members to theboard, but last year's UA President,Richard Y. Lee '97, refrained fromdoing this so that the UA couldrevamp the board. However,"because of the time it would take toapprove changes, we're electing anew Judicial Review Board whichwill serve until May 15. Hopefullywe will implement a new process forthe upcoming year," said Dedric A.Carter '98, the current UA President,who nominated the candidates lastnight.

The elections to the JudicialReview Board come as the 1998 UAelections are being conducted.Several complaints have beenbrought before the UA electioncommission, but any appeals ofthose decisions had previously hadno outlet since the judicial board hadbeen empty.

UA approves motion on electionsUA executive committee

member Jeremy D. Sher '99

proposed a motion, which was lateraccepted, that allowed the board todelay releasing the election resultsuntil appeals were resolved

"Be it enacted, by theUndergraduate Associationassembled in Council, that: 0

winners be declared in the 1998elections for any office of theUndergraduate Association, untilsuch time as the Judicial Board ofthe Undergraduate Association hasruled on all election-related casesfiled prior to 6:00 p.m. onWednesday, March 11, 1998," themotion reads.

The motion does impose anupper limit on the amount of timethat may be spent resolving anyconflicts, however. "A time limit often days is in effect. Should theJudicial Board fail to render adecision in any case pending beforeit by 12:00 a.m. on March 22, 1998,this motion shall expire, and winnersof all electoral races shall then bedeclared according to the usualprocess," the motion continues.

"This is not going to draw theUA to a halt ... We're not going todrop the ball on important thingsbecause of an election problem,"Sher said.

Commission rulings questionedThe new motion comes as a

response to controversial rulingsmade by election commissioner SethM. Bisen-Hersh '01 and othermembers of the electioncommission.

Edgar H. Martinez '00, electioncommissioner emeritus, said thatthere were three main charges and

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Class of 2000 Holds Ring Premiere,Reveals Hidden Images inBrass Rat

MIODRAG CIRKOVIC-THE TECH

Kelly O'Grady glides across the Ice In her Shirley TempleMedley as part of the 1998 MIT Figure Skating Exhibition lastweekend In Johnson Athletics Center.

By Douglas E. HeimburgerNEWS EDITOR

The Class of 2000's Brass Rat,which features a straightforwarddesign compared to years past,premiered in a well-attended cere-mony in Walker Memorial.

This year's ring simplifiesmany of the features found onrings of previous years and alsofeatures a "more realistic" beaver,said Nicole A. Balli '00, whochaired the ring committee.

The class ring committee,which has been meeting sinceearly fall, decided that the ring willbe manufactured by Artcarved, adivision of CommemorativeBrands International, said LexNernzer '00, vice-chair of the com-mittee. The decision was "basedmostly on the design process" andnot on the relative costs of thecompanies.

Representatives of Artcarvedwill be in Lobby 10 this week totake orders from 10 a.m. until 4p.m .. The cost of the gold rings

ranges from a minimum of $174 to$422. Rings will be delivered dur-ing the first week of May, saidWilliam Johnson, a sales represen-tative with Artcarved.

Hidden messages in ringThe front of this year's ring

bore the traditional beaver perchedon a piece of wood and a columnsymbolic of the entrances to theInstitute.

Several hidden messages havesimilar symbolic meanings. Treesbehind the beaver signify the nat-ural environment of the beaver. Adead fish floating in water behindthe beaver signifies the demise ofthe fishbowl Athena cluster lastyear.

Much of the interpretation ofthis year's ring is left up to thewearer. The sun, for example, isdeliberately designed to be eitherrising or falling, reflecting the noc-turnal nature of MIT students.

The sides of the ring are tradi-tional, yet feature new looks at the

Institute. The class side featuresthe Great Dome viewed from anew aerial perspective. Snowflakesabove the dome reflect the snowywinters common in Boston, andespecially last year's April Fool'sstorm.

The seal side is dominated bythe letters "MIT" along with thetraditional "Mens and Manus."Beneath the characters are a globe,centered on Boston.

Both the Boston and theCambridge skylines are more real-istic this year than in previousyears. The Boston skyline featuresthe Longfellow Bridge along withits traditional features, while theCambridge skyline features theHarvard B!ld~e, complete with thetraditional Smoot markings

Rings expected to be in demandEach year, the ring committee

considers several companies andeventually chooses one which will

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March 10, 1998

•matic members. While the proce-dures state that their job will be toobserve that the provisions of theAnnan agreement "are being imple-mented in good faith," they have noauthority to give orders to theU SCOM experts or dictatechanges in the inspections. Anyobjections they might have are to beresolved informally between Butlerand Dhanapala or set down in thewritten report of the inspection.

"The diplomats are there asobservers and don't have a vetoauthority over anything that goeson; the inspections are to be per-formed by the experts," said asenior U.N. official who spoke oncondition of anonymity.

The official said that in choos-ing the diplomat members,Dhanapala prefers people alreadystationed in Iraq, partly to maintainthe ability to mount surprise inspec-tions.

Dhanapala plans to arrive inBaghdad on Wednesday to beginlaying the groundwork for theinspections, and senior U.N. offi-cials said the goal is to begininspections in approximately twoweeks. All eight sites are to beinspected. Annan is scheduled tomeet with President Clinton inWashington on Wednesday to dis-cuss the agreement.

In a related development, IraqiForeign Minister Mohammed SaeedSahhaf began talks with U.N. offi-cials here today about implementinga new phase of the agreement underwhich Iraq can sell oil to obtainmoney to buy food and medicines.The Security Council has authorizedincreasing the amount Iraq can sellto $5.2 billion every six months, butthe Iraqis want a greater relaxationof the restraints under which theymust operate.

Ambassadors~__an Proposes,

U.. Special Commission(UNSCOM) set up by the ecurityCouncil following the 1991 PersianGulf War to eliminate Iraq'sweapons of mass destruction.

That is a matter of particularimportance to the Clinton adminis-tration, which deferred plans for airand missile strikes against Iraq topermit a trial of Annan's agreement.The agreement was criticized heavi-ly by some Republican leaders inCongress, and the White Housesought assurances that inspectionsof the presidential sites would notbe politicized by the new rules.

"We are still reviewing the pro-cedures, but at first glance theyappear to be adequate," U.S.Ambassador Bill Richardson saidtoday, after they were delivered tothe council.

Under the agreement, the presi-dential sites are to be inspected by anew Special Commission composedof UNSCOM officials and diplo-mats from U.N. member states. Thecommission is to be led by JayanthaDhanapala, the U.N. undersecretarygeneral for disarmament affairs. Butit will make its reports to RichardButler, executive chairman ofUNSCOM, who will send them toAnnan.

Critics had expressed suspicionabout how the new commissionwould divide authority duringinspections. The procedures stateclearly that Butler, or in casesinvolving searches for nuclearweaponry, the director general ofthe International Atomic EnergyAgency (IAEA), will designate theteam leader and the expert membersof the team.

Dhanapala, an internationallyrespected arms control expert whowas chosen in part to reassure theUnited States, will pick the diplo-

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By John M. GoshkoTHE WASHINGTON POST

Secretary General Kofi Annanplans to propose that the ambas-sadors of the 15 Security Councilcountries travel to Iraq to see firsthand how his agreement forweapons inspections at Iraq's so-called presidential sites is working,diplomatic sources said Monday.The inspections are expected tobegin in about two weeks.

The sources said details of theproposed visit are still being workedout, but that the offer will be con-tained in a letter he plans to draft forsubmission to the council within thenext few days. Some ambassadorshave expressed interest informallyin such a trip, although the idea hasnot been broached to the govern-ments of council members, thesources added.

Annan submitted to the councilMonday the detailed rules govern-ing the inspections at the eight pres-idential sites under the agreement henegotiated in Baghdad two weeksago with Iraqi President SaddamHussein. The accord defused, atleast momentarily, a possible mili-tary confrontation in the PersianGulf by setting up a new system forsearching for prohibited weapons inthe sites which Iraq claims are vitalto its national security.

The procedures devised over thelast week at the United Nations forinspecting these sites - compoundscontaining an estimated 1,058 build-ings - appeared to conform toAnnan's assurances that the agree-ment does not compromise theU.N.'s ability to conduct inspectionsanywhere in Iraq. It also reaffirmsthat the ultimate authority in deter-mining the methods and timing ofinspections will remain with the

THE WASHINGTON POST

For the second straight day, the FBI refused Monday to saywhether officials believe a bullet shot from the gun of a private secu-rity guard at the Pentagon killed an apparently homeless man whosebody was found nearby.

Officials delayed by one day an autopsy that would produce theslug from the man's body so that it could be checked against theguard's gun. They refused to release the identity of the guard. Andthey were still trying Monday night to learn the name of the victimthrough fingerprints.

FBI spoke woman Susan Lloyd would not provide details of howthe guard's gun discharged, except to say the guard was tationedabout 20 yards from where the man' body wa found on a publicroadside near the Pentagon's River Entrance. She said the guardreported to his supervisors that his gun had fired about an hour beforethe man's body was spotted by a passing motorist.

''The heart of this investigation is to determine if there is a corre-lation between the discharge of the guard's weapon and the shootingof thi individual, and the circum tances leading up to the dischargeof the weapon," Lloyd said.

Congress Chief Sitaram KesriClears Path for Sonia Gandhi

FBI Won't Say Whether OfficialsBelieve Guard Shot Home ess an

Feds May Axe Lockheed Deal

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Sitaram Kesri resigned Monday as president of the Indianational Congress, clearing the way for Sonia Gandhi formally to

take charge of the political party that her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, ledfrom 1984 until his assassination in 1991.

Ke ri, 78, did not explain during a news conference why he resigned,but he did urge the Italian-born widow of the former prime minister totake charge of the second-largest party in the new parliament.

Gandhi, 51, did not respond publicly to Kesri's announcement,but party insiders indicated that she has agreed to become party presi-dent. Her spokesman, Vincent George, said, "If he said that, yes, defi-nitely she will consider it," the Associated Press reported.

Gandhi was the party's star campaigner in this year's parliamen-tary election, attracting large crowds but not enough votes to improveon the party's record low of 140 seats in the 545-member lowerhouse of ParI iament.

Sharad Pawar, a Congress party leader, said that Kesri resigned to"give the reins of the party to new blood." He said the resignationwill have no bearing on whether the Congress party joins with theruling United Front coalition to make a bid to form a new govern-ment, a prospect that has dimmed because several of the UnitedFront's member parties have expressed reservations about it.

THE WASHINGTON POST

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Indonesian Lawmakers Hand8uharto Emergency Powers

LOS ANGELES TIMESWASH I GTON

After an eight-month antitrust review, federal regulators haveraised serious objections to Lockheed Martin's $ 11.6 billion acquisi-tion of orthrop Grumman and may file suit to block it later thisweek, the companies said Monday.

The disclosure of serious opposition to the deal by the JusticeDepartment and the Pentagon shocked investors and sent shares inLos Angeles-based Northrop skidding by about 17 percent in tradingMonday afternoon.

Although the companies said they would try to meet the govern-ment's concerns, they also vowed to "vigorously oppose any attemptto block the transaction."

But the government's objections include a demand that Lockheeddivest virtually all of orthrop's defense electronics programs, locatednear Baltimore, Orlando, Fla., and Chicago, according to industrysources.

The electronics business was a key reason Lockheed wanted tobuy Northrop. Thus, if the government does not budge on thedemands for Lockheed to divest the radar, electronic warfare andintelligence programs, the entire deal could be jeopardized.

In a letter issued late Monday that was part of a tense exchange ofstatements throughout the day, Lockheed officials agreed to postponethe merger for 30 days beyond the original March 24 deadline forclosing the deal. The company said it would submit a proposal in themeantime to address the government's antitrust concerns.

WEATHERDeparting Remnants

By Gerard RoeSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

The heavy rain of the last couple of days should exit the area bythe end of this morning leaving only isolated patches of drizzle hang-ing on. As the powerful system drifts eastward we will feel the tem-peratures turn sharply colder as strong northerly winds bring colderair out of Canada. The night should see gradual clearing andWednesday will be partly sunny but chilly. The pool of cold air willsit squarely over us for the remainder of the week which will keepdaytime highs around the mid 30s (O°C) through Friday.

Today: Rain ending early. Chance of patchy drizzle though themorning. Some breaks in the clouds. Strong northerly winds.Temperatures will fall throughout the day, and will be in the low 40s(4°C) during the afternoon.

Tonight: Some clearing, but colder. Low 24°F (-4°C).Wednesday: Mostly sunny. High 36°F (2°C). Low 20°F (-6°C).Thursday: A few clouds possible. High in the low to mid 30s

(- 1°C). Low around 20 (-6°C).

By David LambLOS ANGELES TIMES

JAKARTA. INDONESIA

President Suharto was handedsweeping emergency powersMonday that give him dictatorialauthority over all national issues,from the economic crisis to socialunrest.

Details of the decree adopted bythe People's Consultative Assemblywere not immediately disclosed, butsources said earlier that it was likelyto include the rights to dissolve theassembly, abolish political organiza-tions, name a presidential successorand arrest people without trial.

"It empowers the president totake over all state authority if thepresident thinks the state is in jeop-ardy," Arbi Sanit, a University ofIndonesia political scientist, told theJakarta Post.

Suharto, 76, who has ruled for32 years and is scheduled to receivethe assembly's endorsementTuesday for another five-year term,asked for the powers last August,well before Indonesia fell victim toa financial crisis that is threateningto bring the country's economy to agrinding standstill.

Although human rights officialsand some academics expressed con-cern, Suharto supporters pointed outthat similar decrees have been inforce during his entire reign, exceptsince 1993. He used them only in1965 in a bloody campaign to ridIndonesia of Communists and dissi-dents.

Even without the new powers,Suharto has had over the years no'less authority than an ancient

Javanese king. But Western andAsian economists worry that thedecree is sending the wrong signalat a time when internationalinvestors' confidence in Indonesiahas evaporated and university stu-dents are calling for more democra-tization. The local currency, therupiah, and the Indonesian stockmarket both reacted negativelyMonday to news of the emergencydecree.

"The decree seems to suggestSuharto feels the need to move evenfarther along the authoritarian roadthan he has," said Bruce Gale, aSingapore-based economic-risk con-sultant. "The question is why. Andthe answer must be that he expectsmore opposition.

"But I think we're really dealingwith minutiae analyzing all this.Suharto runs the country prettymuch as he wants anyway. Thebroader question is whether he isgoing to implement the InternationalMonetary Fund reforms. That iswhat everyone is waiting to see."

Suharto signed a 50-point, $43billion IMF package on Jan. 15 andhas repeatedly said since then thathe would abide by it. But he alsohas hedged the particulars of theplan. He introduced his own "IMF-Plus" plan last month, and he saidSunday that the IMF plan he hadsigned was not in tune with theIndonesia Constitution, which stipu-lates that major sectors of produc-tion must be controlled by the state.

Observers believe Suharto ismoving toward setting up a curren-cy board that would peg the rupiahat a fixed rate to the U.S. dollar.

Most economists say that Indonesiadoes not have sufficient foreignreserves or a stable enough econo-my to support such a move.

The IMF and several Asianheads of state have urged Suharto toabandon the idea, at least untilreforms are carried out. The IMFunderscored its displeasure withSuharto Friday by announcing thatit was postponing for a least twoweeks a $3 billion installment dueto Indonesia this Sunday.

Many Indonesians - and asmall but growing number ofWestern officials - believe theI MF has been too tough onIndonesia.

"If you look at all the IMF isdemanding," a European diplomatsaid, "it's like the conditions theAllies demanded after the last war. "

These skeptics contend that,although Suharto has not doneeverything the IMF requires, he hasmade progress in dismantlingmonopolies, cutting subsidies andcurbing excesses.

On Monday, Australian PrimeMinister John Howard alsoappeared to express some reserva-tions. "We believe," he said, "thatthe International Monetary Fundpackage must be implemented withcare and sensitivity toward theimpact of that package on the socialstabilities and social cohesion with-in Indonesia.

"I hope that the IMF review canbe quickly concluded so that a pro-ductive partnership with the IMFand the Indonesian government canbe developed as quickly as possi-ble."

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Lott Mutes Complaints of StarrAfter Firestonn of GOP Criticism

State S pre e J ·c.aI CourtInitiates Woodward Hearing

Vmdent Strep Outb~eak in Texas

MIAMI

Four convicted killers, part of the Black Widow, are scheduled tobe strapped into Florida's notoriously unpredictable electric chair thismonth in a rash of executions that civil 'ibertarians fear signals adecision to challenge Texas as the capital of capital punishment.

"Florida's lawmakers' obsession with the use of 'Old Sparky,' asthey affectionately term the electric chair, is particularly gruesome,"said Larry Spalding, legislative counsel for the Florida AmericanCivil Liberties Union. "The next thing we'll see is a constitutionalamendment to change o'ur motto from the Sunshine State to theElectric Chair State."

Although 380 men and women are on death ro'w in Florida, noone has died in the chair since last March, when flames erupted fromthe headgear of Pedro Medina in an execution that touched off a year-long debate on the efficacy and humaneness of Old Sparky. The stateSupreme Court subsequently decided that using the chair did not vio-late the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Still, some lawmakers have proposed unplugging Old Sparky, athree-legged wooden seat built by convicts in 1924. But in debate lastweek, a majority in the Florida House and Senate seemed unmovedby arguments that the condemned should have a choice in how theydie.

"Dead is' dead," said state Sen. Ron Klein, a Democrat from BocaRaton. "Whether we do it by lethal injection or the electric chair, weneed to do it."

Scheduled Executions in Florida~pur Electric Chair Debate

THE WASHINGTON POST

LOS ANGELES TIMES

TEXAS

A virulent strain of streptococcus bacteria has infected 117Texans in the past three months - more cases than that state typical-ly sees in a year - killing 26 people, including nine children, statehealth officials said Monday.

Medical investigators said they were at a loss to explain theup urge in cases, most of which occurred around Austin, Houstonand San Antonio. At least 40 children were among those infectedwith the aggressive bacteria between Dec. 1 and Mat:ch I. About adozen of those children had chicken pox and apparently becameinfected through the pox sores on their bodies.

The culprit bacterium, called Group A streptococcus, is relativelycommon. At any given time, it can be found in the mouth and nasalpassages of about one-fifth of the population. Only occasionally doesit cause a noticeable infection, and most of those cases show up as"strep throat," which normally is easily treated with penicillin.

Occasionally, however, Group A strep turns invasive and poten-tially deadly, either because it has mutated into an especially virulentvariant called M 1 or because the victim is unable to fight off theattack. In those cases the bacteria get into the bloodstream and causea raging infection.

The Texas outbreak of invasive Group A strep is one of manysuch outbreaks in various parts of the country during the past fewyears, said Benjamin Schwartz, an epidemiologist at the NationalCenter for Infectious Diseases at the federal Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention.

Monday. "We could have proventhat this wa an old injury."

The Supreme Judicial Court isan appellate body that functions likethe'U .. Supreme Court, pepperingattorneys with questions and engag-ing in Socratic dialogue as each sidepresents a 25-minute oral argument.The court has 130 days in which toissue its decision, and is notrequired to confine itself to requestsmade by attorneys in the ca e.

Depending on this court's deci-sion, Woodward could return to herhome in Elton, England, as a freewoman, her name cleared. Or shecould be sent back to prison in thiscountry, a prospect defense attorneyBarry Scheck has said fillsWoodward with terror.

A third option would be for thecourt to call for a new trial. In thatevent, defense' attorneys say theywill have the baby's body exhumedto gain additional skull samples. _

allies. At one point, however, healso seemed to concede he, mighthave said too much.

"When you start being quotedby the White House, [former WhiteHouse chief of staft] Leon Panettaand Senator [Robert] Torricelli (0-N:J.) you know that you've eitherbeen misinterpreted or you saidsomething you shouldn't have,"Lott said.

Lott also said the controversywas "beginning to have an impact"on Clinton's ability to govern, sug-gesting it was affecting issues rang-ing' "from Social Security to what'sgoing on in Iraq to now what'sgoing on in Kosovo."

He said he came to that conclu-sion because the administration is"taking either small steps on bigissues or they're silent on bigissues."

when he exercised judicial authorityto reduce the conviction tomanslaughter, freeing the 20-year-old baby sitter on time erved-279 day . An unusual provision inMassachusetts alJows a judge tomodify ajury's action, Singh said.

"But there is one thing that itdoes not allow him to do, and that isto substitute his judgment for that ofthe jury," she said.

Defense lawyers were equallyinsistent in asserting that the prose-cution suppressed crucial medicalevidence that would have exonerat-ed their client. Woodward's attor-neys say they now have scientificproof that the child's fatal injuriescould have predated the episode inFebruary 1997.

If samples of Matthew's skullfracture had been provided to thedefense, "we could have ended thiscase before if started," attorneyAndrew Good told the court

WASHINGTON

BOSTO

By Elizabeth MehrenLOS ANGELES TIMES

By Helen DewarTHE WASHINGTON POST

The legal fate of British au pairLouise Woodward was handed tothe state's highest court hereMonday, as defense and prosecutionattorneys alike argued that hermanslaughter conviction in thedeath of 8-month-old MatthewEappen should be set aside.

In the:brief, contentious hearingbefore the Supreme Judicial Court,prosecutors urged the seven-mem-ber panel to restore the murder ver-dict delivered last October by a jury.Woodward was found guilty ofcausing fatal brain injury when sheshook Matthew on Feb. 4, J 997,slamming his head against a hardsurface so forcefully that his skullwas fractured.

Deputy District Attorney SabitaSingh argued Monday that SuperiorCourt Judge Hiller B. Zobel erred

Lott praising Stan: for "doing a greatjob under very 'difficult circum-'stances" and urging Clinton to stop

Under fire from some "stonewalling" and tell "the wholee Republicans, Senate. Majority truth" about allegations that he hadLeader Trent {..ott (R-Miss.) ail affair with former White HouseMonday played down his recent intern Monica S. Lewinsky and liedsuggestion that independent counsel about it. ,K~nneth W. Starr quickly wrap up "So while I enc,!urage Mr. Starrhis probe of President Clinton and to continue his work and try to com-sought instead to blame Clinton for plete that work, 1 today call on theany delays. president to come. forward, tell the

Lott drew criticism from House American people what has hap-Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and pened," he said. "What is the truth?some other GOP leaders for saying . What is the whole truth? Tell that toFriday during taping of a television the independent counsel, call off hisinterview that it is time for Starr to attack dogs, get this behind us so"show his cards" and that Congress that we can go on with the people'smight consider censuring Clinton if business."there is not enough evidence for Lott did not back off his earlierimpeachment. comments, saying only that they had

But by Monday Lott and his been "distorted" and overblown byGOP critics were back in step, with the news media and the president's

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Civil SocietyAt The

Street Level

When Mayor Rudolph Giuliani firstannounced plans to remake the denizens of

ew York into upstanding citizens of a "civilsociety," most resi-dents were aghast.Getting Gotham'spedestrians to cross atthe light would be atransformation everybit as dramatic as thatperfonned by ProfessorHenry Higgins on

.{lif.~.~ Eliza Doolittle.:i ~i~i~ Would ew York

:t: ~l~;~ still be ew Yorkwithout the cursing, honking, and generalmayhem? Many ew Yorkers have theirdoubts about civil society, and many haveexpressed them in no uncertain terms to policeofficers manning new pedestrian barricades.

In one humorous episode, one reporter forThe New York Times set out to learn whatsanctions police would impose for violationsof the new jaywalking policy. Jaywalking infront of the barriers, often directly in front ofpolice officers who watched his every move,th reporter not only failed to receive a singleticket, but officers wouldn't even reprimandhim when he demanded one.

Although New Yorkers don't like to hearit, Boston driving and pedestrian conduct issimilar to New York's. As The Boston Globepointed out in one editorial headline, drivingin Boston is no tea party. People double parkin the most outrageous places - next topolice cars at Dunkin' Donuts, for example.At intersections, cars squeeze past pedestrianson crosswalks as if they were cattle on a coun-try road. And in spite of recent attempts tostamp it out, the tradition remains that inMassachusetts, two cars are allowed to passafter the light turns red.

Although I am myself a driver in the state,I have been frustrated for years at how policehere are so little inclined to pull people overfor traffic violations. In most states, smallrural communities look at moving violationsas a cash cow: The more outsiders police pullover, the more money to maintain local gov-ernment. Though Massachusetts has manysmall and medium-sized towns, this ethic hasnever quit~ taken hold, perhaps because highcrime levels in some communities prevent theassigning of officers for such lowly, revenue-generating purposes.

Recently the tide has turned, if only slight-ly. During the past two months I have seenthree stops of vehicles running red lights -that's three more than I've seen in the previ-ous five years - and one of them involved adramatic moving sting carried out blocks frommy own house. As Simpson's police chiefWiggum puts it, "That's nice work, boys."

Traffic is so bad here that it's difficult tobe a good dri.ver. When so many people runred lights, how can drivers make and executeleft-hand turns in heavy traffic without dartingin front? Indeed, stopping for red lights can bedangerous because those behind are so intenton getting through.

As more and more vehicles whisk past thered light after the change, traffic signals them-selves lose meaning. During.a power-outagelast year, I was impressed at how well mostdrivers negotiated their way through congest-ed and completely uncontrolled intersections.In a way, they've been dealing with intersec-tion anarchy all along. .

Pedestrians and bicyclists are a more diffi-cult puzzle. Bad driving places these twogroups at risk. Yet bicyclists and pedestriansshow little interest in safety. While driversgrudgingly recognize the authority of the red 'light, many bicyclists don't. Instead they plowthrough intersections with barely a glance tothe right and left. The resulting danger ofswerving vehicles threatens everyone.. Pedestrians are not much better. They havean amazing knack for starting out across thecrosswalk ex.actly as the light turns green forthe opposing direction. It is the driver'sresponsibility to watch for pedestrians oncrosswalks, but pedestrians are eager to makelife difficult for drivers, increasing the danger.

Boston apd its surrounding cities andtowns are ripe for the Giuliani treatment.Much as we often turn a blind eye towardpetty misdemeanors like jaywalking, speed-ing, and running red lights, they do have seri-ous consequences. Other cities have con-trolled these activities without lowering thequality of life. Boston and New York can too.

saboteurs, and spies. We regularly use theseoperatives to break up pockets of proletarianresistance. The working classes grow moreand more restless, and our measures becomemore and more harsh as we suppress them.

Why can't the Maoists attack some bastionof corporate evil with which nonnal peoplemight have a vague chance of sympathizing?You rarely see posters for protests againstgenuinely powerful and dangerous entities.like Microsoft. Yet Microsoft is one of theworld's most important companies, and itengages in numerous practices that decreasethe quality of life for nonnal people.

Once, I tried to talk to a hard-core Maoist,to get an of understanding of his logic.Unfortunately, I could learn very little fromhim. He had set political views on three orfour current political issues, but his opinionswere couched in such arcane jargon that Icould never get a good understanding of whathe meant. Whenever I asked for clarification,he said I was uninfonned, and he shouldn'tneed to explain the issues to me on such abasic level.

Apparently, these people have given up ontheir world revolution ever actually occurring.They choose to expend their energy on thecauses that seem the least reasonable to nor-mal people. The'y evince no interest in actual-ly explaining and discussing the details if theirideas. In fact, they only really seem interestedin selling their materials and generating rev-enue. They exploit capitalism to perpetuatetheir Communist activities. .

The Maoist Intern tional Movement 'andsimilar organizations dwell a long way fromreality. If they spent some effort on things thatmattered to real people, I wouldn't laughevery time I pass by the fatherly portrait ofMao Tse- Tung that hangs in the window ofRevolution Books.

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11.5 hour more a school year for doingthose last minute problem ets! 11.5 hoursmore for playing the sycophant to your pro-fes or! 11.5 hour more of MIT studentbliss! .

In my ideal universe, no fuJly-abled stu-dents would be allowed to take the elevatorsunles they were handling freight; but elimi-nating the option of taking the elevator fromthe first to the fifth floor would probably causehavoc on campus. In my Five Year Plan ofelevator refonnation, I would eventually elim-inate the elevator altogether, requiring stu-dents to take the stairs for all floors.

Any proposal must also have a "plan ofattack." Unlike most re olutions proposed byour nations' legislators, my proposal is com-pletely feasible. I observed that the screws inthe control panels of the elevators can beremoved with a standard screwdriver or X-Acto knife. Indeed, the control panels werereplaced in a matter of days ju t last week.

In sum, I believe that re-replacing the con-trol panels to have only the first and fifth floorbuttons would greatly increase the efficiencyof the average MIT student. In addition, phys-ical fitne s confers many benefits, including alonger average life span. More importantly,MIT would no longer have to live with thetravesty of technological progress that theseelevators r:epresent.

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take today's tudent Center elevator. Totho e who doubt I actually perfonned thisexperiment, I can provide the name of ornebefuddled fifth-floor-lounge residents whoob erved a crazed lunatic joy-riding in the ele-vators for fifteen minutes last Sunday.

I obtained 30.7 seconds as a rough averageof the time nece ary to go from the first tothe fifth floor on the elevator. This e"~matedoes not include the time a studen~' . ,11ywaits for an elevator. After averaging the imenecessary to wait for an elevator into the theoriginal estimate, I came up with 46.8 secondsas the average total travel time from the fir tto the fifth floor.

Although I am less physically fit thanabout 90 percent of MIT students, I scaled thefour flights of stairs between the first and fifthfloors in a mere 18.96 seconds. The trip down

,tpok a mere 18.73 seconds. I estimate that theaverage MIT student can take the stairs in'about 16 seconds.

Assuming that the average MIT studentrides the Student Center elevator up and downthree times a day, taking the stairs results in asavings of 184.8 seconds a day, or 1293 sec-onds a week. Furthennore, assuming the aver-age MIT student goes away for IndependentActivities Period and the summer, taking thestairs then amounts to a savings of 41,395 sec-onds a school year.

freely attack Maoist ideology. This newspaperextends its hegemony aJl across the MIT cam-pus, stifling all opposing viewpoints. TheCommunist faithful must remain in hiding,fearing retaliation from imperialist, capitalistforces in powerful positions. Since no .realworker could oppose Chainnan Mao' s teach-ings, I must be one of those powerful bour-geois types.

As a member of the evtl ruling class, I nat-urally have connections with several multina-tional corporations. Moreover, all those com-panies have, extensive staffs of assassins,

instant electronic access to a regularly updated, list' of everybody in the country who everespoused left-wing political sentiments.That's what enabled the first officers. on thescene to identify Picariello as a fomenter ofdissatisfaction with the current regime. Thistechnology, used exclusively to target oppo-nents of the government, is kept totally hiddenfrom the public.

Police officers aren't the only enemy of theproletariat. From my position here at TheTech, a firmly capitalist institution, 1 can

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,On Saturday, a member of the MaoistInternational Movement accos,ted me in theHarvard subway station. H~ was selling theorganization's official new'spaper, rather vig-orously accosting his potential customers and .yelling slogans about pe<?ple' s li~eration.Apparently, I looked like an authentic sup-porter of class warfare, since he singled meout as a likely buyer.

I didn't purchase his Maoist rag. Instead, Imade every effort to pass by him quickly. Ihad to dash up the stairs, since the escalatorwas broken. (I'm sure the Maoists saw the

, broken escalator as a typical failure of theimposed socio-industrial order.) I escapedupwards into Harvard Square, which is hardlya haven for the oppressor classes.

As I dashed up the stairs, I caught the tail-end of the sales pitch he hurled in my direc-tion. It was something about the imperialistnations and their shameless exploitation ofThird World resources,. As I recovered mybreath, I began to wonder what sort of ratio-nale lies behind the jargon and posturing ofthese denizens of t~e far left. Their argumentsjust don't make too much sense to me.

For one thing, MIM tends to support thedumbest possible left-wing causes. LastAugust, the whole of the Maoist infrastructurein Cambridge threw' its support behindRichard J. Picariello, a fonner bomb-throwerarid radical, who was arrested for trespassingon MIT property. Naturally, the Communistsbelieved that the Campus Police, in coopera-tion with other law enforcement agencies, tar-geted Picariello because of his radical politicalbeliefs.

The Maoists appear to assume that everylaw enforcement agent in the country has

Student Center ExpressA Modest Proposal Might Be the Ideal Solution to Student Time Pressures

Some Notes on MaoistsCambridge Leftists Could Learn a'Thing or Two About PoliticalAgitation

Efficiency i a trademark virtue of the MITstudent. Every day one can observe a multi-tude of students bustling down the Infinite

Corridor trying to getfrom one place toanother without wast-ing any time. We've allheard stories of stu-dents negotiating stren-uous course loads withUROPs and otherextracurricular activi-ties aJl within the con-fines of a 24-hour day.And within MIT's lab-

oratories, scienti ts and research students arestriving constantly to improve machines tomake them faster and perfonn more tasks.

So it is a great shock to discover that stu-dents at MIT, the pinnacle of scientific reasonand efficiency, must submit to such techno-logical marvels as the slow, decrepit elevatorsin the Student Center. Every day these eleva-tors cause massive inefficiency by sucking upprecious seconds from a' student's day andcontributing to the decline in physical fitnessamong MIT students.

The biggest and most infuriating problemwith the eleva~rs is that lazy stu-dents and Aramark workers takethe elevator from the second tothird floor, or the third to thefourth floor, or any pennutation offloors not including the trip fromthe first to the fifth floor or' thee. fifth to the first. In addition, aside

. from the general sluggishness ofthe elevators, it seems that thedoor-close bultons on the contro!panels never work.

So what can 'be done toincrease' efficiency? I proposethat someone from Physical Plantremove the second through thefourth floor buttons on the controlpanels of at least one of theStudent Center elevators. First,students riding the ~ievatorswould be spared the nuisance ofother students riding the elevatorsfor petty trips. Second, thech,!nge would promot~ physicalfitnes's among MIT students.

In the spirit of scientific reason,I conducted time trials to verifythat it is always faster for studentsto take the stairs rather than to

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The ARCC also announced that the GSC willaward four of the Institute awards: the graduateteaching award and the Perkins, the Horton, andSizer awards. ominations are due by March 20 andnomination forms are available on the web.

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groups has been included in tbe draft of the newInstitute alcohol policy.

The GSC was allocated $8,000 of the 40,000newly awarded by the Provost's office to promotethe activities of student groups on campus. The GSCwill use this opportunity to promote cross-depart-mental contacts by subsidizing social events orga-nized jointly by severa] departments.

The GSC objected to not having been consultedin the special allocation of the Provost's $40,000 andwill raise this point with the Provost. The GSC ishowever appreciative of this extra source of fundingand of the Undergraduate Association's efforts inobtaining it.

Craduate student groups will be allowed to sub-mit proposals to use the $8,000 for capital expenses,which are not covered by the normal fundingprocess.

The Activities Committee announced that thetickets for the Formal Ball on the Sprit of Bostonwill go on sale on March 9th.

The Housiqg and Community Affairs Committeereported that the MIT Credit Union offers servicessuperior to those of the local commercial banks. Atpresent, graduate students are not allowed to join theCredit Union, but this may change in the near future.

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3.9 percent increase, from last year.This is smallest percentage increasesince 1970.

The group's pamphlet praised thepeople who "allowed us to protestonly a 4. I percent increase instead ofthe completely intolerable figures thatotherwise would have been forceddown our throats."

Susan E. Born '98, who printedthe pamphlets, criticized the drop inself-help levels. "It looks an awful lotlike they're trying to split the studentbody," she said. The pamphlet calledit a "wedge driven between the prole-tariat and the bourgeoise, to co-opthalf the student body, to seduce theneediest away from our gloriousCause."

"It's part serious and it's part jok-ing," said one student participating inthe Riot. "It's a tradition."

"Some of us are seniors," Bornsaid. "We haven't seen a riot sincefreshman year. .. if you go for yearswithout doing it," you forget how todo it, she said.

"We start when they do a smalltuition rise, to train the freshmen"how to react to future, larger increas-es, Born said.

Participants seemed to enjoy theRiot. "[I 'm here] to protest the peti-tion, but really just for the hell of it,"said Kailas N. Narendran '01.Otherwise, "I was going to do 18.03,"he said.

The rain did not seem to dampenspirits. One student called it "goodrioting weather," noting that "rainbreeds discontent."

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complaint that he had been talking House social mailing list, as well asabout his platform and, in essence, to the people who had given theircampaigning while getting usernames when they signedsignatures. The election campaign Oppold's petition. The e-mail wasofficially began on Saturday, Feb. sent on Saturday, Feb. 28.28, after all the signatures are "I think the election commissiongathered. The VA Election code was correct in their ruling to allowprohibits candidates from the mass e-mail. For example, thecampaigning before that date. Baker social mailing list was

Though ukerji had gotten 247 appropriate since Jen served as Vicesignatures and Oppold had taken President of Baker and ran for Bakerdown 680 signatures by then, which President," Oppold said.was well over the 440 signature "As for the list, I compiled [it]requirement, Oppold's new Vice from my signature sheets," saidPresidential running mate Kelly Oppold, "The sheets state, 'Add yourcontinued to get signatures. Oppold username only if you would like tothought that the 'safest thing to do be on an election update list.'"would be to get 440 new signatures If any party decides to appealjust in case the decision was these decisions before 6 p.m.reversed or appealed." tomorrow, the new motion enables

However, with only a few days the judicial board to postponeleft and Oppold on probation, which " r~leasing the election results untilprevented him from getting Mar. 22.additional signatures, Kelly only "The thing I really want is forobtained an extra 103 signatures. [the] elections to be the choice of the

evertheless, the fact that the students. There's bickering in theOppold-Kelly ticket turned in over VA but it should be the opinion of1000 signatures instead of the 440 the students expressed throughrequired raised some eyebrows. voting," said Oppold. "I don't want

The third ruling, made on the president chosen by the JudicialSunday, Mar. 1, was approved an e- Review Board, and their rulingmail message sent to the Baker could have that effect," said Oppold.

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rulings made in regard to thePresidential and Vice Presidentialticket of Paul T. Oppold '99 andJennifer A. Kelly '99 which 'somepeople felt were extremely unfairand might have biased the election."

In the fir t ruling, which wasmade on Saturday, Feb. 21,permitted Oppold to keep hispetition signatures even thoughsome of them had been taken whilehe shared a ticket with PamelaMukerji '0 I.

'I didn't want Paul to bepenalized for Pam quitting. I didn'twant him to be at a disadvantagebecause Pam didn't want to run withhim anymore," said Bisen-Hersh.

"The election commissioneracted without first consulting the restof the commission. It was within hispowers to do so, and the commissiontacitly agreed with his decision,"Martinez said.

Oppold put on probationIn the second ruling, made

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The final turned out to be amuch easier victory' as MIT plowedthrough Dartmouth in straightgames. Tl,mg defeated Yin Xu,21-17, 21-16, Shuster won againstJason Deeken, 21-10, 21-11Huang beat Tom Doan, 21-10,21-12 and Chechelnitski LukasCadil, 21-18, 21-12 as MIT swepttheir opponents with a 4-0 win.

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second MIT gymnast ever to win anevent at ECACs. Vault followedfloor without a bye in between, andthe team performed very well, tying •the school record for a 5 score vaulttotal (44.725), and only one tenthbehind the four score event totalwith a 36.125. Kronschnabel andChristenson performed clean hand-spring fulls for 9.0s and Ellefsonpulled out a layout tsuk for a 9.4,eventually taking 'third place overallon vault.

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During the course of the season,the team has improved.a full 4.5points on bars, but even that was notgood -enough to fight off a strongeCortland bars team. In the end, it thbars proved the deciding factor of

, the meet as Cortland beat MIT onthat event by 2.65 and. Ursinus by2.05.

The team had a lot of fun at thematch. They competed well andplaced three gymnasts in the' top 10all-arounds (Ellefson 3rd,Christenson 8th and Van Buren10th). Ellefson also captured thefloor championship as well as 3rdon vault, 4th on bars and 6th onbeam. The' most pleasant surprisewas Van Buren's 5th place finish onbeam with a 9.125. This teamaccomplished a lot just to get into aposition to be able to qualify to the'NCGA championships.. While Cortland will qualify as ateam, MIT will bring Sonja Ellefsonand Alii Christenson as all-aroooders to the meet, and possiblyRachel Van Buren on both beamand floor.

The season is. not quite over.MIT has one more dual meet atRhode Island College, the host sitefor the NCGA's. With three gym-nasts qualifying to Nationals, the.~hope to bring home some individualawards home from that meet.

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Gymnastics, from Page 20

The MIT table tennis teamsecured the League of NortheastIntercollegiate Table Tennis divi-sion championship last Saturdayafter defeating Harvard 3-1 in thesemifinal and Dartmouth 4-0 in thefinal.

After an impressive undefeatedregular season (6-0), MIT seemeda shoe-in for the division title. Inthe semifinal, however, Harvardput up the strongest competitionseen this season. Although MITstill won convincingly, it was notwithout a hard fight. Henry Tang'98 defeated Lewis Shi, 19-21,21-18, 21-10, Eugene Shuster Gbeat Aaron Chung, 21-17, 21-':10,Peter Huang '00 lost to LifanYang~ 21...:.8,19-21, 19-21, andMichael Chechelnitski G '98 won 'against Thomas Lee, 21-10, 14-21,21-17 to give MIT a 3-1 win overtheir nval. . ,

By Henry TangTEAM CAPTAiN

Table Tennis Team-Gets Division Title,Seeks League Wm

ule which will count towards theSAS portion of the ranking formula,but both teams would have to score3 points higher than they have allyear to overtake Cortland.

In fairness, the team fromCortland .Y., is better and theyhad the better meet. MIT has pulledeven with Cortland by competingvery consistent lately whileCortland, until now, has had prob-lems putting it together. So the say-ing rings true for when teams are

• closely matched: "it is not who has• the best team that wins, but the one• that hits their routines" that comes•• out on top.• MIT's meet started on beam• after a bye with Liz Ellingson '01• turning in one of her best efforts of•• the year for an 8.75. One of the• judges actually flashed a 9.1, which• was more in line with what she• should have received, but after a•• lengthy conference, the judges set-• tIed on the lower score. Mamie Ben,• '99 followed with a 7.65 which• included two falls. Nann• Kronschnabel' 00 hit her front on•

I mount just to fall off on a tuck jumpwith a full twist and still scored arespec~able 8.6~ Up next wasRachel Van Buren '99 who hi theroutine of her life for a personal best9.125. Her score was also go'odenough to place her 5th on beam inthe competi~on. .

Alli Christenson followed with asolid acro series and then balked ona jump and wobbled her way off thebeam. She attacked the rest of theroutine, but it just wasn't her dayand she had another major wobblebefore finishing with a score of8.35. Just as hitting a beam routineis contagious, so is missing it. SonjaEllefson '01 competed one of hermost solid routines all year but herbackhandspring layout was socrooked. that she landed it with one'foot on the beam and the rest of herbody coming down. Even with afall, she salvaged a 9.0, whichplaced her 6th overall on beam, butwith 5 team falls, the team was notoff to a good start.

Floor exercise was next, afteranother bye since there were 7teams in the competition. Everyonein the line-up performed a solid rou-tine including Van Buren's new,more difficult tumbling.passes. Thecleanest set belonged to El1~fsonand she was rewarded with a '9.35which was good enough to Crownher the 1998 ECAC Floor ExerciseChampion .. She becomes only the

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THE TECH ESENTSCAA DIVISIO I ME'S CHAMPIO SHIP

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Gymnastics, Page 18

By Eduardo OvallefEAMCOACIl

In a highly contested ECACChampionship meet on Saturdayafternoon the Engineers competedaggressively, but committed a cou-ple of mistakes which hurt them inthe end. MIT needed to hit 24 for 24routines in order to stay ahead inhopes of hanging on to the third andfinal qualifying spot for the CGANationals.

In addition, ECAC counts as aweighted score of 60 percent towardthe final season average so this meetbecame even more important for theteam as well as any individuals hop-ing to qualify. MIT was in a verytight race with State University of

ew York, Cortland and UrsinusCollege for the third position in theeast. By the end of the meet, MITfound themselves 2.2 behindCortland and 1 full point behindhost Ursinus College.

The final scores of this meetcombined with the current seasonalaverage score (SAS) in a weighted60 percent to 40 percent ratio, flip-flops the teams putting Cortlandahead for the third and last qualify-ing spot in the east. Cortland 141.32had, Ursinus 140.79, and MIT140.43. Both Ursinus and MIT stillhave one more meet on their sched-

J.e. Olsson '00Gymnastics

Age: 19Major: Electrical EngineeringHometown: Closter, JYears participating in sport: 12Most memorable moment:

Blowing my shot at nationalfinals on parallel bars bylanding on my butt.

Future plans: To stop being sucha wuss.

"Gymnastics is a team sport. Icould not have done this withoutmy teammate Andy McCraith."

This week's athletes of the week are Deirdre Dunn '99 and lC.Ols on '00. Dunn captured the title in the 50 yard butterfly at the

ew England Division III Women's wimming and DivingChampionships with a time of 26.28, a pool record at WesleyanUniver ity. Olsson broke the men's gymnastics team record onWednesday by coring a combined 50.00/60.00 points in six events.

The AtWete of the Week feature i sponsored by the MIT VarsityClub.

thletes of the Week

Deirdre Dunn '99Swimming

Age: 20Major: Chemical EngineeringHometown: Weston, Mass.Years participating in sport: 6Most memorable moment:

Qualifying for nationals andwinning 50 yard butterfly

Future plans: Compete at nation-als and break the 200 medleyrelay record.

"Thank you to my coach, team-mates, and my family for beingsupportive and making the sea-son fun."

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GREG KUHNEN-THE TECH

Louise Silver and Bill Rowe skated a lively show to the tune of "Luck Be a Lady" in Saturday's figureskating exhibition.

UPCOMING HOME EVENTSWednesday, March 11Men's Volleyball vs. Roger Williams University, 7 p.m.

Tell mom most of whatyou're up to.

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