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Tuesday, September 24, 1996
TIFFANY UN-THE TECH
Iyad Obeid '97 and Steven Niemczyk G have a man-to-man talk at
Late Night with Sigma Kappaheld Friday night in Kresge
Auditorium.
Cambridge, Mas achusetts 02139
Culliton, Page 10
of thought" on Ve t's part, saidDirector of Student Financial
AidStanley G. Hudson. Vest has beensoliciting a lot of input from
people.However, there's been "no commu-nication about what the next
stepsare going to be."
The Office of the Vice Presidentfor Administration supervises
theAdmissions Office, the Bursar'sOffice, the Registrar's Office,
theOffice of Student Financial Aid, theOffice of Career Services
andPreprofessional Advising, theAthletics Department, the
MedicalDepartment, and the Office of"Sponsored Programs.
Currently, Director of"
Volume 116, umber 44
. The death of Vice President forAdministration James 1.
Culliton inJune left a void at the vice presiden-tiallevel.
President Charles M. Vestis in charge of selecting a replace-ment,
but it is unclear how theresponsibilities of the vice presidentmay
change, said Senior VicePresident William R. Dickson '56.
"1 have no idea what's happen-ing," said Nancy M. Crosby,
admin-istrative assistant for the office ofthe vice president for
administra-tion. Vest said he would contact theoffice before making
a publicannouncement, but "no decisionshave been made as of yet,"
she said.
"I know there's been a great deal
By David D. HsuNEWS EDITOR '
Vest StillOn Replace e 0Former VP Cullito
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Greek Week, Page 12
INSIDE• With echoes of SHPC,administrators meet todiscuss
Institute's plansfor housing. Page 6
• Police Log.
• MIT grads' onlinegrocery stores offerfresh and
inexpensiveproducts. Page 8
Week packed with FSILG eventsToday a "Wing It" chicken
wing-eating contest will take placeon the steps of the Student
Center atnoon. The event involves teams oftwo tackling plates of
chickenwings for a prize, which will bepresented on Saturday night.
Extrawings will be present to draw inactive and daring audience
mem-bers. .
lAP, Pagei8
Greek Week kicked off its fes-tivities yesterqay with last
night'sshowing of the ever-popular AnimalHouse, a movie about
fraternitylife.
Sponsored by the InterfraternityCouncil, Greek Week intends
"topromote Greek life on campus andto get students involved in
produc-tive activities," said eal H.Dorow, adviser to
fraternities,sororities, and independent livinggroups.
With a variety of activities rang-ing from the educational to
thesocial, the events bring a numberchanges this year. The emphasis
inevents has moved away from alco-hol, said Greek Week
Co-ChairWaleed H. Anbar '99.
But for the first time this year,alcohol will actually be
present atthe Greek Week Charity Ball onSaturday night. It is going
to be sig-nificantly more limited at Thursdaynight's Progressive
Dinners, anElections, Page 15
ore re ponsibility for educationThe increasing number of credit
courses offered during lAP resulted
from the calendar change proposed in 1993 by fonner Chair of
FacultyRobert L. Jaffe, said Associate Dean of Undergraduate
Academic AffairsMary Z. Enterline.
There was a huge debate over whether lAP should be extended
fromits length the time of three weeks to its present length of
four weeks,
By Winnie Chol
are Darrell M. Drake '00, DanielleA. Hinton '00, and Ricci H.
Rivera'00.
''I'm running for vice presidentbecause I'd like to promote
unityand create a community that willembrace differences," Hinton
said."I feel that it is easiest to do thisform a leadership
position."
The candidates for treasurer areGillian M. Deutch '00, and
ShobhaD. Williamson '00.
"I'm interested in becoming trea-surer because I've held this
positionbefore and I really enjoyed it,"Deutch said. "I'd like to
getinvolved in any aspect of the studentgovernment here."
The candidates for secretary areJui-Chen Chang '00, Puja
Gupta'00, and Reshma Patil '00.
"In the month that I've beenhere, it seems to me that there is
alot of potential for improvementhere at MIT," Chang said.
With the increase ~n the number of credit cour es offered
duringIndependent Activities Period, there has been a rising
concern that MITstudents' annual break in January is becoming more
.and more academi-'caUy oriented. .
lAP - originally desi~ed as a way for students to take less
stressfuland more interesting classes between the fall and spring
semester - hasfor some departments become a time to squeeze in
undergraduate classes.
Some departments have chosen to offer some.required classes
duringlAP and only lAP, meaning that students in those departments
will beobliged to stay at the Institute for at least one January
during their under-graduate years to complete their degree
requirements.
The Department of Physics requires students to take either
ClassicalMechanics Il (8.21) or Advanced Project Laboratory (8.122)
white theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering requires Mechanical
EngineeringTools (2.670), all of which are offered exclu ively in
January.
fall were very close, with threeoffices being decided on a
margin ofless than 10 votes.
¥eting - which will run frommidnight on Thursday to midnighton
Sunday - is once again beingconducted electronically on
Athena.Freshmen can choose to read candi-dates platforms and vote
by typing"add ua" and then "vote" at theAthena prompt. Election
results willbe available by next Tuesday.
Six run for presidentThe candidates for President are
Brandy A. Karl '00, Lars C. Oleson'00, Marianna S. Parker '00,
MarkC. Phillip '00, Sandra C. Sandoval'00, and Zhelinrentice L.
Scott '00.
"I'm running for presidentbecause I'd like to be [as] involvedas
possible," Sandoval said.
"I hear that the class presidentshere at MIT are basically
figure-heads, and I'd definitely like tochange that," Phillip
said.
The candidates for vice president
Class~s over ~ Center Increasingly Around Academics
1NDRANATH NEOGY-TH£ TECHProgram Administrator of Undergraduate
Academic AffairsMarshall Hughes
By Shawdee EshghlSTAFF REPORTER
Despite a 20 percent decrease inthe total number of candidates,
thisyear's freshman class elections offera much broader field of
candidatesthan elections in the past few years.
The candidates this year arespread out over all six
electedoffices. This has not been the case inpast years, -when
there have been alarge number of freshmen running.for president and
few running forother offices.
There are six candidates forpresident, three for vice
president,two for treasurer, and three for sec-retary. There are
two teams of twostudents each running for socialchair and one team
running uncon-tested for publicity chair.
"The fact that fewer people arerunning for each position
shouldmake the contests more spread out,"said Undergraduate
AssociationPresident Richard Y. Lee '97. Theelections for the Class
of 1999 last
Frosh Run for All Class Positions Greek Week Focuses onIn
Departure from Past Trends ~~~l, Q mm~~~!!h!!'l~~~
"Progressive Orun " in previousyears by some.
"It has been in the pa t," Anbarsaid. "We're trying to move
awayfrom that."
In general, alcohol at all eventswill be kept to the most
"minimalpresence as possible," Anbar said.Only those 2] and older
will be ableto cross into the bar at the GreekWeek ball, for
example.
Greek Week is focusing its ener-gy on community service,
Anbarsaid. "Basically, the fact that wehave organizations like
FSILGs hereat MIT means that we should giveback something to M IT
and thecommunity."
Greek Week events are typicallyattended by mostly FSILG
mem-bers. But the hope is that non-FSILG members of the MlT
com-munity will a]so take part, Anbarsaid.
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& ATIONBritish Police Seize: 10 -Tons
IRA Explosives in RaidSIs
LOS A GELES TIMESWASHI GTO
Japan Asserts Claim to Islands,Turns Back Ships of
Protesters
A former federal drug agent said Monday that while stationed
inEI alvador in the mid-1980 he came acro evidence that membersof
the CIA-backed rebel force in icaragua were muggling cocaineinto
the United tate for profit.
Celerino Ca tillo III, a former Drug Enforcement Admini
trationagent, aid at a news conference he sent reports to his
agency aboutContra drug flights in 1985 and 1986, but that tho e
report wereburied by the DEA.
The House Intelligence Committee and the CIA's in pector
gen-eral have begun inquiries into recent newspaper reports that
suchflights were part of a drug pipeline from Colombian drug
cartels toblack neighborhoods in Southern California. In a eries of
storieslast month, the San Jo e Mercury ews said cocaine was
distrib-uted through a San Francisco drug ring, with proceeds
supportingContra forces at war with icaragua's left-wing Sandinista
govern-ment.
CIA director John M. Deutch wrote Rep. Maxine Waters (0-Cali
f.), earlier this month that an internal inquiry several years
agoshowed "the agency neither participated in nor condoned drug
traf-ficking by Contra forces." But Deutch said the inspector
generalwould open a new investigation into the charges.
Annenia's President DeclaresVictory in Controversial Vote
SPECIAL TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMESYEREVA • ARME fA
Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan declared victory in
hisbid for another five-year term Monday, riding rough over large
oppo-sition protest and observers' complaints of irregularitie in
Sunday'selection.
"It's a brilliant victory," Ter-Petrosyan declared in a
ramblingspeech televi ed to his supporter .
Official but incomplete returns gave the incumbent 57 percent
ofthe vote to 37 percent for Vazgen Manukyan, his former prime
minis-ter and nearest rival. It appeared that two-thirds of the
votes had beencounted by Monday night but officials could not say
for sure.
Manukyan claimed widespread fraud and declared himself thewinner
with as much as 60 percent of the vote. "Our country hasmany
faults. But we will fight to the end," he told one of a series
ofrallies that ended with a march to Parliament by 30,000
peoplechanting "President Manukyan!" The crowd generally was
calmbut some demon trators tore down Ter-Petrosyan
campaignposters.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
whichmonitored the election, is expected to declare Tuesday whether
it wasfree and fair.
By Fred BarbashTHE WASHINGTON POST
LO DO
Police eized about 10 tons ofexplosives in dawn raids on
suspect-ed Iri h Republican Army hideoutMonday, during which they
arrestedfive men and fatally shot another inWest London.
Authorities said they believe theseizures prevented
"imminent"attacks of a "significant" scale, not-ing that the
quantity of explosivestaken Monday was six times largerthan that
which the IRA used todevastate Manchester's centralshopping area in
June.
It was the third major police haulof what were believed to be
IRAbombs and bomb-making materialssince the terrorist
organization,based in orthern Ireland, ended anl8-month cease-fire
in February byexploding a powerful bomb inLondon's Docklands office
andapartment complex.
The West London raid was thefirst of the series to involve
gunfire.Police, acting under Britain's strictrules of pretrial
secrecy, did not dis-close details of the shooting, whichtook place
outside a guest house inthe Hammersmith section ofLondon - just
west of the centralcity - or the name of the dead man.
Despite the string of raids, lawenforcement sources said they
couldnot be confident that they have dis-abled seriously the
destructivecapacity of the well-organized para-military group,
which operates inindependent cells across the British
mainland and in orthern Ireland."I have no doubt that
today's
operation has frustrated an attempt"by the IRA to "carry out
significantand imminent attacks on the main-land with the
possibility, indeed theprobability, of grave loss of life,serious
damage and disruption tomainland cities," Sir Paul Condon,chief of
the Metropolitan Police,told a news conference.
Most of the seized materials -including fertilizer explosives
andthe chemical explosive Semtex -were taken during a raid on a
ware-house storage facility in NorthLondon. Police also recovered
threeKalashnikov rifles, two handguns,and trucks and other vehicles
thatthey said likely would have beenused to deliver the bombs.
Police provided no details aboutpossible targets.
During the past two decades, theIRA has set off hundreds of
bombs,wreaking billions of dollars in prop-erty damage as part of
its campaignto force Britain to relinquish controlof Northern
Ireland.
The illegal organization declareda cessation of hostili~ies on
August31, 1995 and was soon joined byterrorist organizations
fromNorthern Ireland's Protestant "loy-alist" community, which
favors con-tinued British rule in the province.
The IRA abruptly reversedcourse in February, declaring
itsimpatience with the British responseto the cease-fire. As a
result, SinnFein has been excluded from multi-party talks which
have resumed in
Belfast under the chairmanship offormer U.S. Senate Majority
LeaderGeorge Mitchell. Those discussions- involving both Catholic
andProtestant parties - are designed tolead to a permanent
settlement ofthe sectarian strife that has claimedmore than 3,000
lives in the past 25years. They have yet to achieve sub-stantive
progress, however.
Since February, the IRA has setoff two significant explosions
inEngland (in Manchester and at theDocklands in London),
detonatedseveral smaller devices and had sev-eral others foiled by
mistakes ofexecution. This summer, an IRAunit was blamed for
blowing up ahotel in Enniskillen in NorthernIreland.
But the organization has largelyavoided bombings in the
province,for fear, observers believe, of alien-ating some of its
own supportersand prompting the Protestant terror-ist organizations
to reinstate theirown bombing campaigns, whichthey have resisted so
far.
Gerry Adams, leader of SinnFein, did not dispute police
claimsthat they had thwarted a major IRAbombing campaign, and
heexpressed regret for the death of theman shot by police.
One of those arrested in the raidswas an employee of
BritishAirways, the airline confirmed lateMonday, stressing that it
had no rea-son to believe the man's activitieswere directed at the
country's pre-mier national and international aircarrier.
Yeltsin's Health Renews StruggleTHE WASHINGTON POST
MOSCOW
President Boris Yeltsin' s heart illness, which his doctors
haverevealed to be a more serious condition than was previously
known,has fueled a fresh and increasingly intense struggle among
leadingpoliticians who would like to ucceed him.
Although Yeltsin may survive bypass surgery and return as
thevigorou leader who danced and rallied his way through last
year'spre idential campaign, his rivals have begun behaving as
ifhis days inpower are numbered. They seem to be preparing for a
re-run of theleadership struggle that was seemingly settled only
two and a halfmonths ago, when Yeltsin won a second four-year
term.
The Ru sian constitution provides for a new election within
threemonths if the president suffers a "sustained inability due to
health todischarge his powers."
Zyuganov told Reuters Monday that hiding Yeltsin's conditiondays
before the vote "amounts to falsification. The elections werenot
fair." Asked if he wanted Yeltsin to resign, Zyuganov
said,"Yes."
Yegor Gaidar, the reformist economist who served as prime
min-ister under Yeltsin, said Monday that Yeltsin's illness "adds
anunpleasant element of uncertainty to the current political and
eco-nomic situation."
WEATHERWelcome to Autumn!
By Mlshelle MichaelsWHDH- TVIINTELLICAST
After ew England's first frost since the end of last May,
anotherrainmaker will head our way by tonight but will quickly exit
the areaearly tomorrow morning with little in the way of total
rainfall.
By tomorrow afternoon the skies should average out to be
partlysunny, and that trend should continue for the rest of the
week. In thelong range, there are hints of a weekend warm up.
Thursday night weare keeping our fingers crossed for clear skies,
as there will be a totallunar eclipse entering totality around 10:
19 p.m. and lasting forroughly an hour. Saturn will be visible and
at its brightest all year justunder the moon.
Today: Sunshine gives to afternoon clouds. High 60-67°F(16-1
9°C).
Tonight: Cloudy skies. Some showers. Low 48-55°F (9-1
3°C).Wednesday: Early clouds and shower, partly sunny in the
after-
noon and evening. High mid 60s (18°C).
By Maggie Farleyand Rone TempestLOS ANGELES TIMES
HO GKONG
Japan on Monday asserted itsclaim to a chain of disputed
islandsby blocking a flotilla of Taiwan andHong Kong demonstrators
who triedto land on the stony outposts toplant flags of Taiwan and
thePeople's Republic of China.
According to reporters aboardthe seven small vessels
containinganti-Japanese activists, the demon-strators were turned
back byJapanese coast guard craft beforethey could land on the
tiny, unin-habited islands located 100 milesnortheast of
Taiwan.
Japan, China and Taiwan allclaim the rocky archipelago,known in
Japanese as the SenkakuIslands and in Chinese as theDiaoyutai. A
lighthouse put upthere by Japanese ultranationalistsin July has
sparked anti-Japanesedemonstrations in Taiwan andHong Kong and has
emerged as abeacon for Chinese nationalistsaround the world.
Albert Ho, a Hong Kong legisla-tor aboard a ship turned away by
theJapanese, said before the trip thatthe protesters hoped to force
ashowdown between the Chinese andJapanese governments.
"This trip is planned to escalatethe matter to a higher level,
so thatboth governments can't afford toignore it," he told Hong
Kong tele-vision reporters as he boarded a 60-foot ship in Taiwan
this pastSunday.
Chinese officials say thatForeign Minister Qian Qichen
willaddress the issue with his Japanesecounterpart, Yukihiko
Ikeda,Tuesday at the U.N. GeneralAssembly in New York.
Despite both governments'attempts to downplay the conflict
-their first direct territorial clash
since World War II - popular sen-timent remains high in China,
HongKong and Taiwan against perceivedJapanese militarism.
Determined to create a con-frontation, Hong Kong andTaiwanese
activists have planned aseries of attempts to tear down theJapanese
lighthouse and replacethe Japanese flag with a Chineseone.
A rusting tanker carrying anothergroup of Hong Kong protesters
isexpected to reach the islands later inthe week; two fresh waves
ofChinese patriots will follow in thenext two weeks, including
40paroled Taiwanese convicts vowingto sacrifice their lives.
Japanese offi-cials had already turned away threeboats before
Monday's landingattempt.
One Hong Kong man preparingto leave on the boat that will
arrivelater in the week said he wouldrather not die for the cause
but itwas important to face the Japanesegroup's challenge. "We are
going toshow the world how angry we are,"said Angus Chan, 28. "We
want tofight for our island."
Just over 100 years since Chinalost the islands to Japan, and
65years after Japan invaded northernChina, Chinese all over Asia
took tot e streets to vent their rage at aJapan that has only
recently apolo-gized for long-denied wartimeatrocities.
To mark the war anniversary,which was commemorated in HongKong
on Sept. 15, 12,000 peoplemarched, chanting anti-Japaneseslogans,
even storming Japanesedepartment stores.
In Shenyang, China, where thefirst Japanese invasions
occurred,.citizens fell silent while a sirenwailed on the Sept. 18
anniversary.In Beijing, nearly 100 guards sur-rounded the Japanese
Embassy forthe day. On Sunday, as the ships
prepared to sail from Taiwan'ssouthern port of Chi lung,
15,000supporters paraded in Taipei, someflogging an effigy of the
Japaneseprime minister.
"We've been fighting Japanesemilitarism for a long time," said
AuPak Kuen, 49, a Hong Kong teacherwho first protested the
Japanesepossession of the disputed islands in1971, when the United
States hand-ed them back to Japan along withOkinawa. "We have to
settle thisissue before the wartime generationvanishes and the new
generationforgets."
The issue of who owns theislands - further fueled by suspect-ed
oil reserves beneath them - hascreated an unlikely coalition
ofChinese in Hong Kong, Taiwan,China and the United States;
theirusual political divisions have beensuperseded by their shared
anti-Japanese sentiment.
In Hong Kong, protesters whohad burned the five-starred
Chineseflags at a Tiananmen Square mas-sacre memorial gathering on
June 4,were waving them last week inpatriotic fury.
One prominent democracyactivist Who had picketed China'sde facto
embassy hundreds of times,was welcomed inside for ~!Ie firsttime
when he came to present apetition about the islands.
But after an initial flurry of criti-cal newspaper articles and
a strongofficial protest earlier this monthwhen Japanese right wing
activistsrepaired the makeshift lighthouse,Beijing has urged
restraint.
While anti-Japanese demonstra-tions raged in Hong Kong
andTaiwan, the mainland Chinese gov-ernment denied requests from
stu-dent and other groups' to stage pub-lic protests. Security has
remainedespecially heavy in the past weekaround the Japanese
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Gunmen Shoot, Kill 21 WorshippersDuring Services at Pakistani
Mosque
THE WASHINGTON POST
Private Sector Contract AngersAmerican Postal Workers Union
C Suggests TIghter RestrictionsOn cc to Computer Information
WASHI GTON
The Federal Trade Commission has suggested that Congresstighten
the restrictions on who can obtain information like SocialSecurity
numbers and prior addresses from consumer creditbureaus.
The move follows an outpouring of consumer concern last weekover
reports that anyone with a credit card and a computer could easi-ly
track down such details about people through various online
ser-vice. With such information. fraud artists have opened credit
lines inothers' names. run up thousands of dollars of charges and
wreckedorne consumers' credit historie .
The Fair Credit Reporting Act limits who can receive
informationconcerning individuals' credit-worthiness. But FTC
Chairman RobertPitofsky noted in a Sept. 20 letter to Sen. Richard
Bryan (D- ev.),enior Democrat on the Banking Committee's financial
institutionubcommittee. no provision of the law" pecifically
prohibits the
release of non-credit-related consumer identifying information"
likeSocial Security number .
In June. database giant Lexis- exis briefly made such
informationwidely available. a decision that sparked a wave of
consumer protestson the Internet. Other organizations include such
con umer identifica-tion information in electronic databases that
are sold to groupsincluding law firms and the media. The Washington
Post, forinstance. ubscribes to several such databases.
THE WASHINGTO POST
WASHI GTO
When you call the U.S. Postal Service's toll-free telephone
num-ber to ask about Zip codes or the location of the nearest post
office,the person providing the information may not be a postal
worker.
And that has the nation's largest postal union furious. Union
offi-cials are vowing to fight the federal agency's announced plans
to givea growing number of such jobs to private industry.
Last week. the 365.000-member American Postal Workers Unionfaced
its first challenge under Postmaster General Marvin T.Runyon's new
program to "contract out" postal chores to the privatesector. The
agency announced that it has signed a two-year, 65.7million
contract with a Denver firm to operate a 24-hour postal
infor-mation telephone line for six western states.
Teletech Facilities Management Inc. will hire about 1.200
full-and part-time workers to answer what postal officials describe
a"routine postal questions" for customers in the West under the
con-tract. It is the first of six regional information service
centers theagency plans to open within the next 18 months.
Beginning in mid-December. the Denver center will
offeraround-the-clock information to callers from Alaska.
Hawaii,California. Nevada. Oregon and Washington over an 800
telephonenumber.
Postal officials compared the service to that offered by banks,
air-lines and credit card companies and said it was another service
thatpostal customers wanted.
ct
men invaded the mosque and show-ered the worshippers with
subma-chine-gun fire. The gunmen. said tonumber four. managed to
escape.
All of the victims were Sunnis,the majority denomination
inPakistan. According to hospital offi-cials. many of the slain
worshipperswere students. ages 10 to 16. fromthe religious school
next to themosque. At least 33 people werewounded in the fusillade.
and thedeath toll was expected to rise.
Th'e matting where the Sunnishad been been praying was
soakedwith blood. The dead, their facescovered with cloths. were
wheeledaway in handcarts.
There was no immediate claimof responsibility. but authorities
saidthey believed the attack was for themurder of the Shiite leader
inBawahalpur the previous day.
ties de cribed their effort to meetthe new requirement as
chaotic.proclaiming the level of confusionthe worst me in 25 years
of socialwelfare reform.
California first announced lastweek that it would begin cutting
offnon-citizens. but by week' s end hadbacked off in the face of a
new fed-eral directive suggesting theirefforts may have been
premature.
Early Monday. county officialbegan stacking new food
tampapplications from non-citizens ineparate piles. awaiting word
from
their superiors on how to handlethem.
Susan Miller. a sistant districtmanager of the Orange
County.California. social services agency,said "We take the
application ...except we don't approve any of thenew applications
until further train-ing sessions. We don't have anyidea of what the
change are."
tions between militants of the tworival branches of Islam in a
countryfounded nearly a half-century agoso that the subcontinent's
Muslimswould have a state of their own.
Elsewhere in Pakistan, in thetown of Larkana. ancestral home
ofthe family of Prime MinisterBenazir Bhutto, police battled
fol-lowers of her estranged brother andpolitical rival Murtaza, who
wasslain by police in Karachi on Fridayin still murky
circumstances.
Some commentators predictedMurtaza Bhutto's death would fur-ther
erode the mandate of his sister.whose leadership of Pakistan
since1993 has seen a sharp downturn inthe economy and increasing
law-lessness in much ofthe country.
Witnesses said early morningprayers had just started at
Multan'sMasjid AI-Khair when the armed
the bill over the next six year .Cutback of other benefits to
immi-grant ccount for mo t of the rest.
tates could 10 e miJlions of dol-lars if they fail to implement
theprovi ion accurately and on time.The Agriculture Department
impos-e strict financial penaltie on tatesthat pa s out food tamp
to peoplewho are actually in ligible. so accu-racy is critical. But
under the newlaw. figuring out who qualifiesbecomes much more
complicated:
on-citizen legal immigrants canreceive food stamps, for example.
ifthey are new refugees. veterans orlegal residents who have worked
10years in the United States withoutreceiving any federal
means-testedbenefits.
Sorting through these changeseemed to be proving the most
diffi-
cult in California, which has 40 per-cent of the nation's
immigrants.Officials in several California coun-
HI GTO
The fir t provisions of the newfederal welfare law took
effectMonday. requiring tates to begindenying food tamp to
non-citizenin the initial pha e of a proce thatwill ultimately trip
benefits fromhalf a miJIion immigrant .
Effort to enforce the new lawcame amid delays. confusion and.
inat least one tate. administrativechaos. as caseworkers and
othersinvolved in the welfare bureaucracytruggled first to decipher
and then
to implement the required changes.The food stamp provisions of
the
law. which have received far lessattention than other sections
of thewelfare reform. are key to the suc-cess of the entire
measure. They areexpected to provide half of theexpected 54 billion
in savings from
By John-Thor DahlburgLOS ANGELES TIMES
NEW DELHI
Rivalry between two Muslimsects in Pakistan erupted again
inmurderous violence on Monday asmasked gunmen opened fire on
wor-shippers at a Sunni mosque. slaying21 people - many of them
boysfrom a religious school - as theyprayed.
The blood bath in Multan. a cityin the eastern province of
Punjab.came one day after the killing of aleader of the minority
Shiite sect ina town 60 miles to the south.
Infuriated by the attack on theirsanctuary, Sunnis in Multan
came outon the streets to stone Shiite neigh-borhoods, shout
anti-Shiite slogans,and block roads with burning tires.
The back-to-back incidents high-lighted the increasingly hostile
rela-
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If Aramark Stays, Better Cook for Yourself
Tr vi rritt: Dean of Charm ays goodbye.Building 7 neckware was
never 0 creative.
long-departed unified humanities "core" sub-jects of the 1960s
reflected a better sense of"systematic fields of study" than do the
vari-ous HASS-Distribution subjects of today -only that there was
some advantage then inhaving freshmen throughout the
residentialsystem reading and discussing the samehumanistic texts
at the same time, just as theyfocused in common on their
assignments incalculus, physics, and chemistry.
Travis R. MerrittDean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs
Because of a production error, thefinal line of a story ["UAA
Dean SearchBegins," Sept. 20] was omitted. Thefinal paragraph,
about Dean ofUndergraduate Academic Affairs TravisR. Merritt's
comments about the re-engineering process, should have read:
In the mean time, the process itself is"drawing people from the
office" toactually participate in re-engineering,Merritt said.
''That's sometimes vexing."
ERRATUM
also had the convenience of the MIT mealcard, they would only
become even more suc-cessful. MIT should consider options like
pro-viding free meal card readers to LaVerde'sand Toscanini's as an
interim measure while itmakes up its mind. Surely a giant
nationalcorporation like Aramark isn't scared of com-peting with
two local establishments?
Students need to be active in pushing forchange in the MIT food
situation. Rather thanwhining about the prices that Lobdell
chargesor how terrible the food is, try going toLaVerde's or the
trucks for lunch, or maybepicking up your morning caffeine at
Tosci's.Although you won't be able to use your mealcard, you'll
have a wider range of options,freshly prepared food, and friendly,
personalservice. By giving them your business, you'llhelp them
remain an option for MIT students.You'll also be sending a message
to Aramark:While the MIT administration can't seem todecide what
they think, you already have.
Bui ing 20: After years of promises, here's hopingthat the
beloved birthplace of radar will finally be takenin the direction
of our arrow.
For one thing, I would never characterize"most classes" in
humanities, social sciences,and the arts as "little more than
glorified bullsessions." My point was simply that, becausemany HASS
subjects are relatively light onsustained accountability (via
exams, quizzes,and other graded exercises) in comparisonwith their
counterparts in scientific and techni-cal fields, many MIT students
are less likelyto pursue them rigorously. Thus the referenceto
''playing hardball in a hardball league."
For another thing, I do not imagine that the
replacements for Aramark. Evidently thesefolks don't eat at
Lobdell enough.
The quality of campus dining is central tostudents on campus.
Few sections of campusaffairs touch on so many members of the
MITpopulation on a daily basis. According to thestudent life survey
conducted last year, themajority of MIT students would favor a
change in food ser-vice providers. Todelay the considera-tion of
such changefor years - when thevast majority of stu-dents demand it
now- is unforgivable.
The issue of foodservices is particularlycritical because of
therelative isolation MIThas from outside
foodestablishments.Compare the area
immediate to MIT to the areas around BostonUniversity or Harvard
University and you'llunderstand why students so commonly end
upeating at Lobdell despite hating the food andprices there.
Relatively few alternatives exist.
MIT needs to look toward alternatives toAramark's monopoly over
on-campus foodservices. Competition would not only increasethe
diversity of food available and drop prices;it would also come with
benefits like a greaterrange of dining hours and more
responsivemanagement in the smaller establishments.
Establishments like LaVerde's and themany food trucks around
campus are alreadyproving that students want an alternative
toAramark and that they will gladly patronizesuch alternatives. If
such independent outlets
Theyfeel no externalobligations to meet the
deOdline to request bidsfromreplacementsfor Aramark.Evidently
thesefolks dan f
eat at Lobdell enough.
HASS Courses Are Not'Bull Sessions'
Lest my valued colleagues who teachHumanities, Arts, and ocial
Sciences subjectsconclude that I regard them as a pack of fools,I
mu t correct the caricature of my views inlast Friday's feature
piece about me ["MerrittReflects on a Decade in Dean's Office,"
Sept.20], particularly under the subhead "Nostalgiafor the
humanities core."
Column by Thomas R. KarloCONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Better get your pots and pans out and prac-tice cooking for
yourself. It looks like MIT isgoing to extend the contract with
food serviceprovider Aramark for yet another year whilethe dining
review group tries to get its acttogether. At the current rate, it
doesn't 10 klike many of the stu- 'dents currently here at -----
.... -----------MIT will still bearound when changearrives to
campus din-ing options, if suchchange ever doesarrive.
I don't blameAramark for continu-ing to serve us thesame food at
inflatedprices as they have forthe last five years.They're a
business,and their goal is to make money. It's too badthey can't
seem to do that at MIT in a consis-tent manner. I guess trying to
sell food to stu-dents here is a bit easier than in some of
theprisons they service. Bet that's where they gotthe idea for
mandatory meal plans - youdon't see Cinderella'S Pizza delivering
to theCambridge jail much, do you?
The real fault lies with the dining reviewgroup. By failing to
even reach a point wherethey could start negotiations with Aramark
andother food services corporations, they have leftMIT with no
choice but to continue to extendAramark's contract. And they're not
particu-larly concerned about this. In interviews,they've stated
that they feel no external obliga-tions to meet the deadline to
request bids from
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Nearby Urban Centers Need'More Concentrated Housing
Now that I live inSomerville, Irecognize that
the idea of Boston as awalkahle city is actually a
grand delusion invented bytourism boosters and
propagated among captivecollege campus residents.
Column b.y Anders HoveEXECUTIYE EDITOR
When I was a freshman, I believed Iwould never need a car in Bo
ton. Cars aregood for travel and excursions, I thought, but
~ Boston is walkable and ha numerous attrac-tive ma s tran it
options. Cars are expensiveto maintain, insure, and even park.
Wouldn'tI always be able to find omeplace to livethat would make po
session of a car unnec-e ary? Four years later, the an wer for me
isno.
ow that I live in Somerville, I recognizethat the idea of
Bostonas a walkable city isactually a grand delu-sion invented
bytourism boosters andpropagated among cap-tive college
campusresidents. True, manyBostonians and Canta-bridgians find
theirtowns walkable, andthat's great. Yet walka-ble or
subway-accessi-ble towns contain lessthan 30 percent of
themetropolitan area'spopulation. That's asizeable fraction, to
besure - probably better than most other citiesin the country. But
it's not enough.
There are two problems with Boston'saccessibility. First, people
living in accessibleareas may need to visit or work in
inaccessibleareas. Second, the available housing stock inaccessible
areas is very small. As many recentMIT graduates will tell you,
it's difficult if notimpossible to get a good, cheap
apartmentnearby these days. So even those who work inattractive,
accessible areas (like MIT) may notbe able to live there.
Given the Boston area's current housingoptions, of course, many
people reasonablychoose to purchase the car and move furtherout. In
many cases, that means suburbia andoffice parks. While those places
are comfort-able and convenient for those who can affordto Hve or
work -there, suburbs and officeparks also represent a style of
living that isless social, less cultural, more private, andmore
disjoint from the life of the rest of thecity. Boston is ringed
with places that arefundamentally hostile to pedestrians or
busriders.
There are a couple of possible (ifgrandiose) solutions to the
above problems.From the bureaucratic perspective, the mostobvious
is the extension of the MassachusettsBay Transportation Authority.
MIT is alreadytalking with the state government aboutreplacing the
MBT A railroad tracks nearVassar Street with a ring-shaped fifth
subwayline connecting Charlestown, Cambridge, andSouth Boston. Such
a ring might cut trans-portation time but would not go very
fartoward connecting currently inaccessibleareas north and south of
Boston. At the same
time, a larger ring is undoubtedly a budget-buster.
The second, more difficult solution is toalter the city
landscape itself. Cambridge andSomerville are already two of the mo
t dense-ly populated cities in the country, yet there isstill an
excess demand for housing. The hous-ing supply, of course, wa
artificially reducedby rent control; now that it's gone,
developersshould move in.
But Cambridge and Boston need more thannew housing units.
Current resident want topreserve the historic and cultural feel of
the
places they inhabit,while planners want tomake new spaces
liv-able. These goalsoften don't mesh withthe
profit-seekingbehavior of develop-ers. It is far simplerfor a
developer to justbuild in Waltham.
I believe the bestsolution is to promotehousing developmentin
certain high-densityzones. Commercialareas in Alewife andKendall
Square havelittle complementing
residential development (earning them "edgecity" designations in
Jim Garreau's book ofthe same name). Cambridge should providelarge
tax incentives for housing developmentnear these and other current
MBT A stops.
Fortunately, MIT and Cambridge arealready working to
promote'housing develop-ment in both University Park and in the
EastCambridge-Kendall Square areas. By helpingdevelopers put up
new, livable units in theseareas, MIT would be promoting a number
ofgoals: First, there is the possibility that MITlease some units
for the use of graduate stu-dents. Second, some of the latent
demand forhousing would be satisfied, probably in anaesthetically
and culturally acceptable way.Third, the current mass transit
system wouldbecome more viable as more of the popula-tion liv,es
and works in subway-accessiblespaces.
The difficulty with planning politics, Iassume, is that cities
evolve at such a slowpace that it may take decades for residents
anddevelopers to reap the benefits of today's cost-ly projects. The
substantial risks involved indeveloping already urbanized spaces
are alsodifficult to bear.
In spite of these difficulties, I believe thatMIT, Cambridge,
and Somerville have amplejustification for ardently promoting
housingdevelopment in targeted zones like EastCambridge and other
MBT A-servicedregions. MIT's planning processes may stillbe
horribly non-inclusive. Yet our public andprivate leaders still
deserve praise for openingup the attractive prospect of a
revivedCambridge urban area.
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Student involvement to come laterStudent input in the process
has
been limited to debriefing sessionsthat the group has given to
graduatestudents after the meetings. Noundergraduates have been
involved. 4
Kaynor said that student inputwould come later in focus groups
andin meetings with student groups.
The Graduate Student Councilmet with the Planning Office on
Sept.11 at the GSC's behest to get anupdate on the current housing
situa-tion.
The GSC asked for the meeting todetermine "what was going on
withgraduate housing, what their planswere, and what we could to to
helpthem out," said Jennifer A. SullivanG; co~chair of the GSC
Housing.commIttee.
"I'd say it was useful to both par-ties," Sullivan said. "We got
a senseof what they were trying to do."
Undergraduates have yet to bepolled on the subject, Kaynor
said.The group has' not been approachedby the Undergraduate
Association,"although I imagine they're interest-ed," Kaynor
said.
"We're not trying to bring this toclosure quickly," Kaynor said.
"It'snot this particular group [of adminis-trators] that's going to
decide whatthe questions" are to be addressed by 4the focus
groups.
The group can use its findings asan initial step to figure what
othersthink, Kaynor said. "We would cer-tainly ask [student groups]
what theywanted to know."
House to a planned refurbi hing ofBaker Hou e. The main focus
was ondetermining exactly how to gatherstudent opinion on the
changes,Kaynor aid.
While analysis of last year's sur-vey of undergraduate is
proceeding,additional information needs to begathered on the
attitudes of tudentsin specific houses, he said.
Some things are known "anecdo-tally, but we don't have any
harddata," Kaynor said. "We expect thatpeople like Senior House now
that ithas been renovated, but we have nohard data."
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Group will not be SHPCThe creation of an administrative
task force to examine issues in hous-ing renewed fears among
some thatthe Strategic Housing PlanningCommittee was being
re-created.
SHPC presented a controversial tproposal two years ago to close
EastCampus and Senior House and moveundergraduates to west
campus.Students were not consulted aboutthe proposals, and their
anger andorganized reaction to the plan pre-vented the move from
taking place.
"Nobody wants [SHPC] repeat-ed," Kaynor said. "This is not
acabal" that will incorporate the ideasof SHPC, he said.
"Based on history, that's a legiti-mate worry," Kaynor said. But
"Idon't see anything like that at this~point, and it won't happen
if we dowhat we say we')] do."
"The effort here has been to startwith the information
gathering"process and propose some prelimi-nary questions for
consideration,Kaynor said.
Those questions will be answeredlater on by student services
re-engi-neering teams like the housing andresidential life teams
.
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rs eet to Discussange Ho ing Plans
dministrator review plansThe'meeting tried to bring admin-
istrators up to speed on the issuesfacing MIT's housing
program.Graduate housing was near the topof the list.
Despite recent attempts toincrease the number of units
avail-able, MIT is still able to house only30 percent of its
graduates, almost1,300 beds shy of its goal of housinghalf of its
students.
There is a "tremendous demandfor graduate housing, more now
thanin the past eight years," Maguiresaid. Increasing enrollment in
gradu-ate programs at MIT and a tighterCambridge housing market
since thedisappearance of rent control alsocontributed to the
change.
Plans to address the shortagewere discussed, including one
thatwould help guarantee occupancy fora new apartment complex
nearKendall Square. The oft-discussedplan to build housing in
UniversityPark also was brought up, Kaynorsaid.
Undergraduate housing proved tobe less of a hot topic, but plans
arestill in motion, ranging from thissummer's renovation of
Senior
Provo t, the Planning Office, theGraduate chool, and the Office
ofUndergraduate Education and
tudent Affair .There were no students at the
meeting, and there are no plan tohave any at next week's
meeting.
Kaynor called the meetings a"briefing session," a time to
makesure that aJl involved parties areworking from the same set of
fact .The facts presented "aimed to beba eline information" for
further dis-cus ions, said Dean for Student LifeMargaret R. Bate
.
The goal was to "bring everybodyto the same page - where we
areand where we're going," saidLawrence E. Maguire, who is
thedirector of HFS.
"This is not a committee that willact," Bates said. The meetings
areonly "an information session," shesaid.
By Dan McGuireNEWS EDITOR
Administrators are in theproce s of determining the currenttatus
of IT's housing plans in
preparation for larger future meet-fn~ with students.
The group met a week and ahalf ago will be meeting again
nextweek.
Beginning late last spring,enior Vice President William R.
Dickson '56 a ked that "all of theoffice that have anything to
dowith housing" meet and discu sMIT' housing situation, saidA
sociate Director of Planning,Robert K. Kaynor.
everal issues, including thehousing hortage that MIT faces
forboth its undergraduate and graduatestudents, were at the top of
the listfor discus ion.
The meeting included represen-tatives from the Department ofHou
ing and Food Services, theOffice of Residence and CampusActivities,
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Started in September, GroceriesTo Go allows customers to
placetheir orders on the Web and pick uptheir groceries the next
day at theirwarehouse, which is open fromnoon to 8 p.m. on weekdays
and 10 •a.m. to 7 p.m. to Saturdays.
Currently, deliveries are madeonly to Tang Hall Tuesdays at
7:30p.m.
Customers are attracted to theflexibility and convenience of
onlineshopping, Cuthbert said. But theycan actually save money and
shopbetter, too.
Members will be allowed tosave their shopping lists and
accessthem later, Cuthbert said. Thisallows the customers to save
evenmore time. •
"Quality is critical to us,".Cuthbert said. "We find the
bestsuppliers that will provide the fresh-est food."
Cuthbert stressed the communi-cation between the store and
cus-tomers. The products Groceries ToGo carries and the places it
deliversto will depend on the demand of thecustomers, he said.
Groceries To Go can be accessedat http://wWw.gtg.com.
residents of Zeta B 13 Tau, FrenchHouse, and shdown House to
savemoney and time by buying food inbulk. But hen the coordinating
stu-dents graduated in 1983, the co-opceased to exist.
Ten years later in 1993, the con-cept of a food cooperative
amongstudents was re ived. This time, the
mart Food Co-op - the group'snew name - became an
officialorganization with coordinators whohad already graduated and
hadthemsel es ventured into the foodindustry.
The SFC evolved one more timeto its present state on the Web.
Onthe Internet, the FC has allowedshopping to become faster,
easier,and more efficient, said Vice-President Chon Vo '83.
SFC's main objective is to pro-vide a free delivery service of
avail-able meat, produce, and other gro-cery products at discount
prices tomembers, Vo said. Using the SFC,customers can save money
andreduce shopping time, he said.
SFC customers are be requiredto complete a one-time
registration.Membership is free, Vo said
Members will always receive thebest price for products, Vo
said.Prices will either be based on thewholesale prices with a
markup -which will still be less than theretail market price - or
the cheap-est supermarket retail market priceswithout a markup.
The SFC offers over 1,500 popu-lar items, including most of
thefresh meat, seafood, and vegetablesthat can be purchased from
whole-salers.
All orders placed by midnightcan be delivered on any day of
theweek - except Sunday - starting5 p.m. the next day.
Members can pay by either cashor check on delivery.
Alternatively,members can send $100 check to
pricing because of their low over-head costs. The stores offer
freshproduce and meat that go straightfrom wholesaler to
customer.
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to realign them," Dickson said. Thedecision lies completely with
Vest.
President Vest declined to com-ment on what will happen to
thevice pre idential offices.
Re-engineering also affectedAlthough re-engineering is not
looking at the vice presidential levelitself, student services
re-engineer-ing is examining some departmentsthat fall under vice
presidents.
The Office of Student FinancialAid, the Bursar's Office, and
theRegistrar's Office are all beingclosely reviewed by student
servicesre-engineering. These offices all fallunder the Office of
the VicePresident for Administration.
"It's completely up in the air.about how we will
reorganize,"Hudson said.
In addition to his responsibilitiesas vice president, Culliton,
along withDean for Undergraduate EducationRosalind H. Williams,
also served asa co-sponsor of the student servicesre-engineering
effort.
Since the teams have moved intothe implementation stage, his
deathwill not affect the progress of re-engineering, Dickson
said.
However, some do feel thatCulliton's death has represented a
•substantial loss to the re-engineering ..process. "I've missed him
terribly asa co-sponsor," WilJiams said.
No arrangements have beenmade for another co-sponsor.
"Its been a real gap in theprocess of re-engineering,"Williams
said. "Everyone has beenaware of it and has been trying tofill in
to the best oftheir ability."
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PresidentsGlenn P. Strehle '58 and Cullitongained new
responsibilities.
It is not known whether or notthere would be a similar
reshufflingat the vice presidential level.
"WilJ they put a person in placethat has those same
responsibilities[as CulJiton]? I doubt it," Dicksonsaid. "I think
that the responsibili-ties that Mr. Culliton had were par-tially
because of the untimely deathof Simonides."
With the new re-eilgineeringlook of MIT, Vest has an
opportuni-ty to look at the vice presidentialoffices, Dickson
said.
"There's lots of possibilities,"Dickson said. Day to day
operating
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Dickson, are like-ly to stay in one area, he said.Housing and
dining issues may becombined with the Dean's Office, orthey may be
put in one vice presi-dential office in order to better servethe
students.
"You could go down the list ofvice presidents and think about
how
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OrTis has not been officiallydesignated as an acting vice
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well assitting in on the Academic Council,Hudson said.
Culliton, from Page I
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places to donate their time for com-munity service.
Throughout the week, FSILGswill compete through , Jar Wars,"
afundraiser held in Lobby 10. TheFSILG who e jar contains the
mostwins the event. The winning FSILGwill donate half of the
accumula-tions to the charity of its choice, andthe rest will go to
the SpecialOlympics.
"Everyone seems to be eager tosee how Greek Week turns
outbecause there are many more plansin the works than last year:'
Anbarsaid. "And success in the differ-ences that have been made
toGreek Week can be attributed tothe guidance of older members
inIFC."
"That's what makes things betterevery year, and hopefully, it'll
con-tinue in the future," Anbar said.
The week culminates inSaturday night's Greek WeekCharity Ball, a
dance open to theMIT community. Admission costs$5 at the door and
$4 in advancefrom a booth that is set up thisweek in Lobby 10. The
event,which is taking place in Morss Hallin Walker Memorial, will
run from9 p.m. to midnight.
ing place on Thursday .. IndividualFSILGs will host dinners at
theirhouse , where diners are treated tofinger foods, conversation,
and anatmosphere reminiscent ofResidence and Orientation Week,Anbar
aid.
Unlike past dinners, this yearinvolve great organization
withpre-planned groups that will gofrom house to house. People
willdivide up into groups and start witha sorority before filling
their stom-achs at various houses.
on-FSILG members are notincluded in those pre-plannedgroups. But
they are "welcome tocome to any houses," Anbar said.
Community service plays a roleThe Order of Omega Honorary
Fraternity is sponsoring GreekWeek's newest addition: a
commu-nity service event on Saturday.
All students are welcome to earna free lunch by donating some
timeto one of the six different activitiesdirected to help the
Cambridge andBoston community.
Groups will convene at theStudent Center at II a.m. to go tothe
Boston Food Bank, a women'scrisis s1)elter,and a number of
other
Greek Week, from Page I
The event wa moved to theafternoon from the evening this yearto
attract a greater audience, Anbaraid.
Tonight' event include "Checkinto a Winning Life: How to
UseAlcohol Responsibly," a lecture byBob Anastas, founder and
formerexecutive director of StudentsAgainst Drunk Driving.
Anastas will present "timely andimportant alcohol is ues," said
PhiGamma Delta Community ServiceChair Charles H. Yoo '97. Fiji
issponsoring the talk as part of thefraternity's punishment for "a
prob-lem that we had at a party" withalcohol, Y00 said.
The event seemed particularlyconvenient to hold during
GreekWeek, Y00 said. A local distributorof Anheuser-Busch is paying
for thetalk, which will be taking place in26-100.
Tomorrow marks the Strat's Ratconcert featuring Zed Bacchus
andother bands from the local area. Theconcert is open to everyone
and isfree of charge at Lobdell FoodCourt.
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Candidates share concernsOne of the common themes
mentioned by the candidates wasimproving the food situation
oncampus.
"I need to learn more about the'UA before I know how things
work,but I would like to do something toimprove the food at MIT,"
Changsaid.
Several candidates also men-tioned class unity in their
platforms.The Freshman Leadership Programand the Interfraternity
Councilretreat "reinforced to me that theMIT population is very
divided, andI'd like to try and change that,"Qasba said.
Almost three-quarters of the can-didates participated in the
FLP, aeadership program for freshmen
that took-place right before the startof Residence and
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"FLP gave me the opportunity tomeet more people coming into
MIT,which gave me more confidence in
"I have four years of experienceas a class secretary," PatH aid.
"Itwas something that I enjoyed andwould like to continue."
The candidates for social chairare the teams of Elsie Huang
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Spooner '00.
"I'm really interested in gettingour class unified from the
start. Mypartner and I have several newideas, including a Spades
tourna-ment and maybe a dating game,"Micheletti said.
"I've heard some negative thingsabout the UA, and I want to work
tomake it more useful," Qasba said.
The team of Jesse K. Baker '00and Stephanie E. Chen '00 is
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POLICE LOGThe following incident were reported to the Campus
Police
between Sept. 11 and 19:
Sept. 12: Bldg. 48, VCR stolen, 250; McCormick Hall,
TVNCRstolen, 300; Bldg. E51, 1) laptop tolen, $3000; 2) backpack
stolenand later recovered minus 80; Rockwell Cage gym bag stolen
andlater recovered minus 16; report of July larceny of checks at
SigmaAlpha Epsilon.
Sept. 13: East Campus, complaint of noise on third-floor
loungeof east parallel; Bldg. 5, report of pornographic pictures
hanging onwall; Bldg. 37, cash stolen, $100; Hayward lot, hit and
run damage tovehicle; Joseph M. Bals, of 465 Common Street,
Lawrence, arrestedfor trespassing.
Sept. 14: ew House, noise complaint; Tang Residence Hall,noise
complaint; intoxicated student transported from Cinderella's.
Sept. IS: Bldg. 31, window and steam pipe broken; StudentCenter,
wallet and contents plu $50 cash stolen from backpack whileperson
was asleep; MacGregor House, harassing phone calls; EastAnnex lot,
c'ar broken into and radio stolen, $1,000; riot at 84
.Massachusetts Avenue, Jerome Black, of Callaway Street,
Baltimore,Maryland, arrested for disorderly conduct; Ames Street,
report of per-sons throwing bottles from a brown van; LaVerde's
Market, personwith cut finger transported to Mount Auburn Hospital
for treatment.
Sept. 16: New House, malicious destruction to car tires; Bldg.
68,credit card stolen and over $500 charged; Bldg. E25, suspicious
per~son; Bldg. 4, camera equipment and wedding gifts stolen,
$900;Burton-Conner House, student falls, possible broken leg.
Sept. 17: Bldg. E52 CD/cassette player stolen, $150;
SeniorHouse, report of fire alarm, cause determined to be water
flow meter,declared safe; Senior House, report of fire alarm, same
water flow tmeter problem, declared safe again; Baker House,
suspicious personin lobby; Albany lot, person observed breaking
gate.
Sept. 18: Bldg. E38, annoying mail; Bldg. 16, Nicholson Lee,
of240 Albany Street, arrested for trespassing; Student Center
plaza, cel~lular phone left on plaza steps later discovered stolen,
$150; 120Massachusetts Avenue, Mehereteab Abreham, of 812
MemorialDrive, arrested for disorderly conduct as a result of a
domestic distur-bance; report from room on ground floor of East
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found to be asquirrel.
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com-bined ver ion of Calculus I and II(18.0lA and 18.02A) - the end
of ~which can be taken during lAP -can provide more options for
stu-dents to choose their best-suitedcia space.
The physics department believesthat 8.122, a laboratory ubject,
maygive students a good opportunity togain laboratory
experience.
"It is' good for tudents to con-centrate on doing labs and
researchduring a focused time period thanduring regular terms,"
said June L.Matthews PhO '62, the academicofficer of the physics
department.
Physics majors have relatively •few research opportunities aside
tromrequired classes and UndergraduateResearch Opportunities
Programprojects, Matthews said.
The new classes will helpstrengthen the undergraduate cur-
.riculum and make MIT physicsmajors more competitive withphysics
majors from other topschools like Harvard, Princeton, andStanford,
she said.
Students urged to participate"lAP can be used by students in
,-
a variety of ways," said President ofthe lAP Student Board
Ingrid M.Ulbrich '98. "We would like to pro-mote the spirit of lAP
and encour-age the students. to participate inlAP. Classes like
8.21 or 2.670 areonly six units each, so there are stilllots of
options for stugents."
Students who are members ofsports teams, however, have runinto
some problems. .
Members of the crew team, forexample, may have to
schedule:around conflicts because they' are ,.
~.expected to go to F:Joridafor springtraining for two weeks
during lAP.
"I will do 2.670 in the first twoweeks" of lAP, said Sabina Ma
'99,a mechanical engineering -major."Then Iwill probably go to
Floridafor the last two weeks in lAP."
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Enterline said. The faculty voted toapprove the increase and al
0agreed that each department couldoffer one of it intensive
requiredclasses during lAP.
With lAP extended to fourweek , some departments hope toplace
more respon ibility for acade-mics during lAP, Enterline aid.
But the aim i not to increase theactual load of academic
subjects bytransforming it to a compressedsemester; rather, it is
to encouragestudents to tay for at least one outof four lAPs, she
said.
"There may be a trend for lAPbecoming more academics-orientedin
the future," said UndergraduateAcademic Affairs
ProgramAdministrator Marshall Hughes."We are trying to have
morehumanities class offerings to take abalance between science and
engi- -neering classes."
There is always a demand forenough non-academic options,
too,Marshall said. "We're trying to finda happy balance between the
two ofthem," he said
Classes allow for some flexibilityThe arrangement does