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Pr id nt' Welcome onvocationin Kre g Auditorium.

Pre ident Charle M. Vet willintroduce tudent to the In titute.

ob I Laureate and Profe or ofPhy ic amuel C. . Ting will fol-low, welcoming tuden to campus.From there fr hman will participatein ontact MIT, a pre entationgiven by Dean of tudent Kip V.Hodge PhD 82 to give tudents aflavor of the academic offering atMIT.

While the detail of ontact MlTwere not pecified. han aid that itwould include a multimedia pre en-tation and be 'interacti e and fun."

Proj ct 0 to chaUenge killAfter the convocation fre hman

will head to Kre ge 0 al where theywill meet for Project Move OffYour A umption. tudents epa-rate into their MOY A group andparticipate in ice-breakers and prob-lem- olving activitie .

One addition to project MOY Athi year will be 'sticks & tone,' a

e erT y: Rainy, windy, 65°F (18°C)Tonight: loudy, cool, 60°F (16°C)

Tomorrow: loudy, 70°F (21°C)ta.ils,P 2

on ocation promi enjo m ntWhile many event will be

offered to acclimate tuden to theIn titute from hearing the agewords of uppercl men to hangingout in a local Bo ton night club,RIO will really begin with the

A ociate Dir ctor of Admi ionfor Information er ice andRe earch Elizabeth S. Johnson.

There ar minor change indemographic 'but nothing v t1ydifferent from la t year' cia ,"John on aid.

For example, the perc ntage ofwomen in the entering fre hmenclass decreased to 38 percent fromI t year's figure of 42 perc nt Thiwas b cause a lower percentage ofwomen were admitted, John onaid.

Seventeen percent of the la sof 200 1 are members of underrepre-sented minority group, a lightdrop from last year' figure of 1percent.

Mis i sippi i the lone unrepre-sented tate in the fre hman clJohnson aid.

Fre hmen demographic con tant. The total number of freshmanthi year is 1,077, relatively teadycompared with last year, aid

By lareena Hu nASSOCIATE NEWS EDfT'OR

Today mark the beginning ofRe idence and Orientation Week forthe Clas of 2001. For the next nindays, fre hman will explore themany living group and activitiesthey can choo e to take part in andwhich may become an importantpart of their MIT experience.

"We hope for them to be able toee the Institute for what it' worth"aid We ley T. Chan '00, the RIO

Committee logi tics manager, "peo-ple come in with certain expecta-tions, we hope to reinforce their real-ity or give them a new reality."

Reshma Patil '00, RIO publicityand personnel manager, said thatshe hoped the Clas of 200 I wouldtake the opportunity to have somefun and also get the chance meetother fre hmen and upperclassmen."As a whole, freshman will get a lotout of RIO this year," Pati1 aid.

DOUGLAS E. HEIMBURGER - THE TECHKathryn A. Willmore, Executive Assistant to the President, whohelped decide to exclude the Extroplans from the official freshmanmailing.

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beque after project Move Off YourA umption, for people who maynot want to participate in Thursday

igbt in the ity, han aid."It will be ju t a burger a hot

dog, and a alad, with no de ert,"han aid. That way, people hould

till have room for omething later,he aid

In addition, MOY A it elf hachanged with the removal of TechTrek an In titute-wide cavengerhunt that took place immediatelyafter MOY A, and the addition ofnew problem olving game to chal-lenge the creativity and kill of theincoming fre hman, aid Re hmaPatil '00 RIO publicity and person-nel manager.

c -Off to promote interactionKillian Kick-Off i al 0 eeing

orne change thi year. Unlike thela t two year there wi II be nokeynote peech by a tudent, Chan

Tech Trek out, b rbequ inThere will be a ery light baT-

By Brett AltschulASSOCIATE NEWS EDfT'OR

Beginning with today'i ue, The Tech will publi hdaily through the end ofRe idence and OrientationWeek, Augu t 29. RegularTue day/Friday publicationre ume eptember 5.

Thi year' Re idence andOrientation Week will ee ignifi-cant change a long- tandingevent uch a Thur day ightDinners and Killian Kick-Off are re-de igned a well as addition like

tand Up, a pilot program whichdi cus e diversity i ue. In addi-tion, thi RIO will ee big changeto the fre hman me aging y tern,and new rules for sorority rush.

Dinner change name add copThursday igbt Dinners has been

revamped and renamed, aid We leyT. Chao '00, RIO logistic manager.The new name, Tbur day igbt inthe City, reflects the move awayfrom just going to dinner, he aid.

"We want people to be able togo out to Jillian' [a local 18Boston nightclub] and have a goodtime' Chan aid. However thefre hmen hould till be back by10 p.m., he aid.

Thi year, upperclas men are notrequired to regi ter with the RIOcommittee if they want to takegroup of fre hmen out, Chan aid.However, th Interfraternity ouncilwill till place re triction on theactions of i member organizationswith regard to the event.

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decision."We thought the A A trial was a

farce" aid co-founder of theExtTopians Ja on B. Davi '98 inrespon e to the ruling. "We thoughtit should have never come to that.Our academic freedom of speechhould not have been curtailed in

the first place."

Dean's Office reject mailingThe Extropian controversy

began in mid-July when the groupsubmitted an eight page brochure

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a our of freshmen around campu y terday

that the mailing's content was inap-propriate for tbe general ASAfreshman mailing.

In addition, the ASA found theExtropians guilty of violating theMIT policy prohibiting unautho-rized use of mailing lists and tudentdata. The Extropians were found notguilty by reason of ignorance of vio-lating the ASA policy prohibitingnon-AS A mailings to incomingfre hmen.

"This unauthorized mailing isone of the most severe infractions ofMIT policies by a student group inseveral years," wrote the board in its

tor A. Toro '00 and 5

The MIT Extropian , a group ofstudents advocating an end to affir-mative action and new admi sionspolicies, were banned Tuesdayfrom petitioning the Association ofStudent Activities for membershipuntil September 1, 1998.

The ASA, a student-run organi-zation which governs student groupon campus, found the Extropiansguilty of sending an unauthorizedmailing to incoming fre hmen afterthe Office of the Dean fOTStudentsand Undergraduate Education ruled

By Douglas E. HeimburgerASSOCIATE NEWS EDfT'OR

A.fter Unauthorized Mll8S Mailing,Extropians Denied ABA Stnttu;

report from Lebanon, wa thepylon, which brought down linesfeeding hundred of Lebane ehomes and bu ines es, cau ing ablackout of everal hours. It was thefir t uch Israeli abotage inLebanon ince April 1996.

A tatement from the I raeliarmy aid its jets caused the black-out "to make clear to the Lebane egovernment that it must tart reiningin Hezbollah."

"The message to Lebanon wathis: 'If we can't have touri t , youcan't have electricity,''' aid DavidBar-Illan, a spoke man for

etanyahu.Timor Gok el, a U. . official

monitoring the border area, said thatmes age et off panic in Lebanonbecau e it revived an Israeli logic ofmaking civilians suffer in the hopethat they will turn against their gov-ernment.

"It's basically the same messagethey heard from Israel in 1993 and1996," he said, recalling majorIsraeli anti-guerrilla offensives thatkilled score of civilians in southernLebanon.

Officials in Jerusalem insistedthat a new large-scale interventionis exactly what Israel is trying toavoid.

"The policy today was not to ~~react massively and certainly not inkind," Bar-Illan said. "But if we failto react at all, we invite anotherprobe by Hezbollah, and anotherone, and that's what leads to a situa-tion out of hand."

Rongji, a brusque, hard-nosedadministrator who is credited withhaving reduced the inflation rate.Zhu, 68, a former mayor ofShanghai, is regarded as the besteconomic manager in the govern-ment. Analy ts expect the task ofcontinuing reform of the state-owned industries to fall to him.

"The We t would be very happywith Zhu," aid a Western diplomatin Beijing. The Communists "areclearly laying their claim to rule ongood economic management."

Communist Party history is filledwith internal struggles, and partyleaders have worked hard to hidesigns of factionalism. So it was allthe more noticeable last monthwhen reformers took on Marxists inthe press.

orne observers saw the attackas a way to rally support for Jiang,70, who does not have the politicalpower of Deng and remains in thelate leader's shadow.

The reformers' critici ms camein response to an anonymous docu-ment circulated by party conserva-tives, which compared foreigninvestment in China to colonization.The document al 0 suggested thatthe decline in tate ownership was ~undermining socialism and theparty' grip on power.

Those concerns seem farremoved from conditions in down-town Beijing, a rapidly modernizingcity where young people appearenthralled by the deluge of We ternproducts and the increased purcha -ing power that have come with eco-nomic reform .

It is unclear who would publiclychampion anti-reform views. Theleftists have lost much of their polit-ical might as their leader have diedretired or been shunted a ide.Analyst ay the leading figure onthe left is Deng Liqun. Oeng servedas acting mini ter of propaganda inthe mid-1980 but holds no officialposition.

age children of the late commanderof an Israeli-backed Lebane e mili-tia. The militia truck b ck that dayby helling the Lebane e port city of

idon, a Hezbollah tronghold,killing ix civilian and woundingdozen more.

Hezbollah replied Tue day byfiring more than 40 rocket intonorthern I rael, de troying home ,driving thou ands of villager intobomb helters and emptying busyre ort hotel . Three civilian werewounded.

I rael' retaliation Wedne daywa cautiou and omewhat reluc-tant. According to I raeli new pa-per, the defense and foreign minis-t r argued again t an armedre pon e, aying it could provokemore deadly exchange and under-mine la t year' cea e-fire agree-ment.

But Prime Mini ter Benjaminetanyahu, siding with cabinet

hard-liner and the army, approvedair strike on three targets - amountainous Hezbollah base atJanta near the Syrian border; aLebane e army artillery batterybetween Tyre and Sidon that hadreportedly ided with Hezbollah inMonday's fighting, and an electrici-ty pylon at Jiye, 15 miles south ofBeirut.

The raids reached 75 miles intoLebanon, far beyond the nine-milestrip of Lebanese borderland occu-pied by 1,500 Israeli soldiers since1985.

The only target hit, judging by

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I ra Ii jet truck down powerline and fired mi ile t army andguerriJIa po ition deep in ideL b non on edne day to retaliatefor a rocket bombardment of vil-lage in northern I rael.

Offici I in Jeru alem insi tedthe raid were carefully planned toavoid civilian blood hed, and theknown ca ualtie were twoLeb ne e children hurt when theroof of their hou con p ed underthe bombardment.

It wa I raet' fir t direct attackin a week of tit-for-tat exchangethat have ki lied at lea t nineLeban e civilian and woundeddozen of people on both ide ofthe I raeIi-Lebane e border. Thearea for year ha been the cene ofcombat between I raeti troop and

yrian-backed Hezbollah guerrilla .Thi week' violence prompted

an emergency meeting in Lebanonon Wedne day of the five-nationmilitary team that monitor an April1996 cea e-fire in which the twoide agreed to stop targeting civil-

ian.Be ide the United tate and

France, the team repre ents Israel,yria and Lebanon - the three

countries involved in the conflict.U.. official in Lebanon aid theye pect the cycle of strikes andcounter-strikes to ub ide.

That cycle began Monday, whena bomb in Lebanon killed two teen-

...~ ..a's President Strengthens0-.-.-.--.-0 - Advance of Meeting

By Frank langfitt occasion to con ol1date power in hisTHE BALTIMORE SUN new role a first among equals in

BEIJI G China' leader hip. Analysts expectIn preparation for a major meet- the party to endor e current eco-

ing thi fall, leaders of China's nomic reforms and also to call forCommuni t Party are ignaling that more rapid changes in the state-they are prepared to peed up their owned enterprise - about half ofcapitali t- tyle overhaul of many which lost money la t year.failing tate-owned indu trie . "They feel like they are up

While off ring few detail, against a wall on thi , because thePre ident Jiang lemin ha called for tate enterpri e y tern continue to"the deepening of reforms," mea- hemorrhage funds,' aid Kenneth G.ure that have included eJling Lieberthal a profes or of politicaltock and merging some failing cience at the Univer ity of

bu ine e with ucce fulone. ichigan. "I think they feel thatChina tate-owned indu trie they have to make orne very tough

employ 112 million people - about deci ion ."one-sixth of the nation's work force Although analyses of policy and- and are the large t roadblock in leader hip struggles may seemChina' march toward a competi- arcane the inner workings of thetive, market economy. Turning them Communist Party are increa inglyinto corporate- tyle, for-profit enter- important to the rest of the world.pri e could require layoff: and lead China it at the center of theto wide pread and politically dan- globe s mo t economically dynamicgerous labor unrest. region, and in tability in China

Economic reformers launched an could di rupt ten of billions of dol-unu ual public attack la t month lars in U .. trade and investmentagain t party hard-liners, who argue throughout A ia.that whole ale change in the state- With 1.2 billion people, nuclearowned indu trie are a betrayal of weapons and rapid economicociali m. growth, China is also one of the few

" ince la t year and the fir t half countrie capable of eventuallyof this year we can ee that lefti t challenging the United tate on thehave cia hed with current policie " world stage. And the character of itsaid party magazine editor Xing leader hip matters, as the two

Ben i in an interview with the China nations try to re olve i sues asEconomic Time. "We cannot diverse a acce to Chinese mar-expect arx to provide ready ket human rights, peace on thean wers to que tions that ari e a Korean penin ula and the ecurityhundred year or everal hundred of Taiwan.year after hi death.' Of the many per onnel changes

The aggre ive rhetoric come in planned for this faIl' congre s aadvance of the party congre s, replacement for Premier Li Peng iswhich will be the first since the among the mo t important.death in February of paramount Li,68 who e credential includeleader Deng Xiaoping. During the being the adopted on of the latemeeting expected to open in late Prime inister Zhou Enlai, is bestSeptember or early October, the known in the We t for supportingparty will outline policy and choo e the violent crackdown on thethe men who wiIl lead China into Tiananmen quare pro-democracythe next century. movement in 19 9.

Jiang, who is also the party's We tern diplomats predict thatgeneral secretary, will try to use the the job will go to Vice Premier lhu

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While their choolmate have be n at the pool, teenager whodream of winning the We tinghou e cience Talent earch have beenin laboratorie or garage or ba ement thi ummer, nurturing plant ,mixing chemical or contemplating the tructure of quark. The dead-line i ov. 24, and tho e who enter the nation' olde t and be t-knownyouth science competition need a head tart.

Yet, in many of the country' be thigh chool , orne have come toee uch conte t a a mi u e of time and energy. Their me age:

Ein tein i dead, and conte t that glorify individual cientific achieve-ment ignore the fact that cience the e day i mo tly teamwork.

The di enchantment with the We tinghou e conte t and imilar ci-ence competition reflects a growing preference in U. . chool foractivitie that empha ize group rather than individual work, educatorsay. One major cience competition ponsor, the Junior EngineeringTechnical ociety, ha reorganized it conte t to te t team rather thanindividual , and other are likely to follow uit.

Thi trend doe not it well with orne education peciali t . Che terFinn, a enior feHow at the Hud on In thute and a former a i tant U..ecretary of education, aid obel Priz till appe r to b won through

individual work and in piration. hunning individual-ba ed ciencecompetition al 0 contradict the view of many education reformersthat' high- chool curriculum are much too hallow, and it i better togo narrow and deep," Finn aid.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

LOS A GEL£S TIMES

Today: Rainy and very windy with heavy downpour po ible.Rain tapering to hower late in the day. Chance of a thunder-storm. High 60 to 65 (I 6-18°C). outhea t wind 25 to 35 milesper hour. Chance of rain near 100 percent.

Tonight: Cloudy with hower and thunderstorm likely.Temperature steady in the lower 60 (l6-21°C). Chance of rain 70percent.

Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy with howers likely. Possibly anafternoon thunderstorm. High 65 to 70 (18-2 I-OC). Chance of rain60 percent.

Friday: Mostly cloudy with howers likely. Possibly an after-noon thunderstorm. High 65 to 70 (I 8-2 1°C). Chance of rain 60percent.

eekend outlook: Chance of showers Saturday, fair Sunday.Lows in the 50s to 60s (10- 16°C) and highs in the 70 (21-27°C).

The nation' foreign trade d fi it narrowed in June for the fir t timein eight month , the go ernment report d edn day, but n Iy tthe hrinkage wa likely to be temporary and did not ign Iterm impro em nt in the trade pictur .

Commerce 0 partment figure how d that import cedede port by only .2 billion over the month, down from a revi ed 9.5billion in ay, but till high by hi toric I tandard. Import de linedlightly from ay level , while e port urged to are ord high.

n Iy t aid the b tter-than-e pect d perform nce wa Ii Iy topu h the economy' ov rail growth r te for the cond quarter of thiyear above the 2.2 perc nt annu I rate proj t d in preliminary e ti-mate - po ibly even ending it to a 3 percent to p rc nt p ceo

Trade i one of the component th t m k up the gro dome ticproduct, the v lue of all good and rvice th t the United tate pro-duce . In the fir t qu rter, the e onomy grew at .9 P rcent annu Irate - a pa e policy-m ker worried wa too rapid to k p infl tion incheck.

Although the Federal Re erve Board pa ed up chance to r i eintere t rate Tue d y, the central bank ha warned that it will not h i-tate to do 0 in the future if the e onomy do not low down. The Fedis aiming for n ov rail growth r te of betw n 2 p rcent nd 3 p rc nta year.

A 50th birthday call for celebrating in black tie and eveninggown with thou and of your be t friend , champagne, video tributethi -i -your-life urpri e gue t nd, if there' time, a bit of oul earch-ing about What It II ean. A 51 t birthday, on the other hand, emto ugge t a khaki -and-blazer kind of affair, a more intimate gatheringwith Ie glamorou fare - ay, a bucket of clam.

Of cour e, when you're the pre ident of the United tate even anintimate clambake can till draw orne boldface name, uch a actor

ary teenburgen and Ted Dan on, inger Carly imon and JimmyBuffett and game how impre ario erv Griffin.

Pre ident Clinton celebrated hi 5 I t birthday Tue day night at theoceanfront teenburgen-Dan on pread in the Chilmark area ofMartha' Vineyard, amid an extraordinary cloak of ecrecy rarely eenin Wa hington for Ie important event uch a budget negotiation.

The White Hou e went out of it way to keep detail quiet. The poolof reporter that typically follows the pre ident anywhere he goe wabrought by the hou e Tue day night but wa unable to identify anyoneentering before being huffled away to another location. A ked whowa on the guest Ii t, deputy White Hou e pre ecretary Barry Toivaid helpfully, "Friends."

UPS Employees Return to Positions,Losses May Result in 15,000 Layoffs

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Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, R, announced Wedne day that he willleave public office at the end of hi term in January 1999, etting upwhat i likely to be a wild cramble to ucceed him and a piritedRepublican primary for the right to challenge en. arol Mo eley-Braun, D-Ill., in the 199 general election.

With hi wife, Brenda, and their two children nearby, Edgar madethe announcement at a crowded new conference in the xecuti eMan ion in pringfield.

"It has been a very, very difficult deci ion," he aid. "Howe er,after 30 year in tate government I ha e concluded it is time forBrenda and me to begin a new chapter in our life."

Edgar, 51, would have been favored to win reelection to a thirdterm and was con idered the GOP' tronge t potential challenger to

o eley-Braun, a race that many tate and national Republi an lead-er had urged him to make. Hi deci ion to leave politic openedopportunitie for other Republican in both of tho e conte t . ButEdgar al 0 announced hi upport for two of those Republicanwho e deci ion on whether to run for the enate or the governor'offic hinged in part on what he decided about hi own future.

aying he wa confident he could have won reelection but hadalway planned to erve only two term, Edgar aid, "I alwaythought, I want to go out on top. orne people in politic I think, taytoo long. ometime if you don t go out on top, they throw you out. Ididn't think I wa going to get thrown out."

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Edgar to tep Down Me TermHE WASHINGTON POST

Congressman Paints Grim PictureOf Per cution in TIbet

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An out poken ongre ional critic of hina lipp d into Tibet ona touri t vi a earlier thi month, ditched hi government minder andpent four day talking to people and gauging condition in the inac-

ce ible Himalayan region, the lawmaker aid Wedne day.At a new conference, Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R- Va., sketched a

grim picture of religiou and political per ecution, har h pri on con-dition and an apparent campaign to flood the region with immigrantfrom other part of hina to make ethnic Tibetan a minority in theirown homeland.

"I want the world to know what i going on in Tibet," aid Wolf,the fir t member of Congres to vi it it without being accompanied byChine e monitor since Tibetan autonomy ended in 1959. "When peo-ple know, they will demand that hina change its policy of boot-heelsubjugation and end what one monk termed 'cultural genocide.' "

In sub tance, Wolf charges are not new. Although the hine eemba y in Wa hington i ued a blanket denial of Wolf charge,thi year's State Department human rights report allude to many ofthe ame conditions. And e iled Tibetan have told their story at theUnited ations, to Congre sional committee and elsewhere. ButWolf added fir t-hand detail that he obtained in a way that waunorthodox, ri ky and illegal under hine e law.

Twenty defendant were indicted Wedne day for allegedly mug-gling 60 deaf and peech-impaired Mexican into the nited tateand making them virtu I lave, at time beating, electrically hock-ing or otherwi e coercing them to ell trinkets to the public.

In carrying out a four-year con piracy of involuntary ervitude,outlined by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn that i ued the indict-ment, orne participant tand accu ed of beating a victim whobegged for a day off becau e of ickne ,electro-shocking one forlow ale, and handcuffing an attempted e capee to a bed for morethan a week while he attached key chain to trinkets.

"Every ca e of lavery i terrible, but thi one i e peciallyappalling becau e of the double exploitation" I abelle Katz Pinzler,acting as i tant attorney general for civil right, told a new confer-ence. "The victim were targeted both becau e of their alien tatuand becau e of their di ability."

"An enterpri e that e i ted for the ole purpo e of exploiting thelabor of hearing-di abled alien ha been ub tantially di mantled,and it ringleader apprehended and held to face eriou criminalcharge :' Zachary W. arter, U. . attorney in Brooklyn, aid.

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ter were called back to workThursday, with senior driver get-ting preference.

Adam Feit, a part-time loader atthe Gaithersburg, Md., facility, aidhe came home Tue day night to finda di traught wife and an an weringmachine mes age from UP tellinghim he had been laid off. The com-pany manager said he would beback in touch "when work dictates."

Feit aid he wa "a little bitup et" and expects to return to worklater this week once the packagevolume pick up. But UP officialThur day repeated a warning that upto 15,000 worker could be laid offif the company doesn't recover the 5percent of it bu ine 10 t duringthe trike.

"In orne place we'll need halfthe normal work force (this week).At other place we'll be on over-time," aid P pokesman Ken

ternad.A backlog of 15 million pack-

age that filled UP warehou e hasbeen cleared out in mo t part of thecountry, tern ad added.

brought the fir t public tears fromMcKinney's wife, who has been athis side during the proceeding.

Wilhelmina McKinney criedquietly when Jezcala te tified that awoman she believed to beMcKinney had called her numberand a ked who she was.

Jezcala aid he received a callidentified by her "caller 10" equip-ment a coming from McKinney'home. The caller didn't identify her-self, but asked who she wa , andwhether "Minnie" was there.

In cro -examination,McKinney's lawyer probed for thekind of details about Jezcala' per-sonal life that would likely enragefemini t .

He a ked what she wore to herfirst meeting with McKinney - aJune 1996, lunch. A tank top and aarong kirt, Jezcala told him.

"Y ou wore a bra under your tanktop?" asked Charles W. Gittin ,McKinney' lawyer.

"Yes, sir, all the time, ir,"Jezcala replied curtly.

The pretrial hearing may windup next Monday with clo ing argu-ment . Army officials would thendetermine whether there wasenough evidence again t McKinneyto court-martial him.

and often emotional conver ations,then pressured them for sex, some-times touching them while he did.

Jezcala told how McKinney mether during a June 1996, tour ofFlorida in which he invited her todinner. Two month later, on a sec-ond trip to Florida, he invited her tohis personal quarter at Patrick AirForce Ba e, she said, and engagedher in a painful discu ion of herpending divorce.

While beginning to leave, "I wasgrabbed from behind and pulledback," Jazcala testified. "Hegrabbed me by my wai t." But whenshe tried to hold him at bay, herelented and dropped hi hand .

he aid a male colleague,another Florida recruiter, hadwarned her about the motives ofMcKinney, whose job a top enli t-ed man made him one of theArmy's chief preachers again t sex-ual hara sment.

Jezcala said she believed it wasimportant to train oldiers to bemore ensitive to sexual hara ment.But, she added, pointing atMcKinney, "I realized I can't trainSgt. Maj. of the Army McKinney.He's up at the Pentagon. He's mysuperior:' she said.

The day's testimony also

toll-free phone line, UP said it wasresuming regularly cheduled ser-vice Wedne day everywhere in thenation except for Chicago and partsof northern Indiana, where twoTeamster locals with separate UPcontracts remain on strike.

UP began taking new reque tsThur day for pickup Friday. UPurged customers to u e its phone orInternet ervices to track the deliv-ery statu of package. .

It will take until Monday to getoperation back up to peed, UP'schairman and chief executive,Jame Kelly, aid on BC-TVThur day. Though the trike co t thecompany 650 million, he aid cus-tomers will not ee higher priceany time oon.

either the company nor theunion would e timate ho many ofthe I 5,000 UP Team ter ereworking Thursday, aying thatwould vary greatly by region,depending on how many pre- trikepackage remain in the y tern.

Beach said only even of theappro imately 50 driver at hi cen-

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By Beth Berselll and Peter BehrTHE WASHINGTON POST

Bob Beach's normal routinewas a little off Wednesday.

First the United Parcel Servicedriver showed up for work an hourearly at the UPS warehouse inLandover, Md. Then he loaded hiown truck, as the workers who usu-ally do that weren't back on the jobyet. Then the 17-year UP veteranpent the day driving around unfa-

miliar Washington street and deliv-ering packages to unfamiliar cu -tomers, finally dragging him elfhome two hour after his u ual quit-ting time.

"It s been pretty hectic" Beachadmitted as raindrop pelted himand hi package.

till Beach wa glad to join tenof thou and of other UP dri eraround the country who hit the roadagain on the first workday after apainful two-week Teamster strikeagain t the company.

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Sixth Woman Testifies AgainstMcKinney in Harassment Case

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With de p breath and mumbledprayer ,Ru ian pace Agen y offi-cial Wedne day declared all y-tern go for a peri Iou pace alkFriday from the troubled Mir pa et tion into it damaged p ktr

re earch modul .Two day aft r an une plained

computer failure ent Mir into anorbiting tumble, the glitch has b enfixed, solar batterie have beenrecharged, oxygen i being generat-ed and the Ru ian and U. . crew-men have declared them elve readyfor the dangerous repair job. Mircommander Anatoly olovev andflight engineer Pavel Vinogradoare expected to don bulky pace uitand helmets Friday to venture intothe airless module that ha beensealed off from the re t of the ta-tion since a June 25 accident.

Mir ha suffered at least 10 eri-ous accidents in the past ix month ,including three incidents dire

The sixth woman fo accuse theArmy's top enlisted man of sexualmisconduct testified Wednesdaythat he grabbed her around the waistas she sought to leave his hotelroom, and demanded to know if shewanted to kiss him.

"Hell, no, that's the last thing Iwanted to do," Sgt. 1st Class RitaJezcala, a Florida recruiter, said shetold Sgt. Major of the Army GeneC. McKinney. While McKinneystopped hi approach, she said sheconsidered his conduct "not plea ur-able. It was uncomfortable, it wasunwelcome, it was unprofe ional."

Jezcala was testifying at theeighth week of a pretrial hearing on22 misconduct counts again tMcKinney, a 29-year Army veteran.The counts could theoretically put'him in jail for 57 years, although

I some lawyers say it is more likelythat an adverse judgment couldforce him out of the Army withreduced benefits.

Jezcala's account followed a pat-tern described by most ofMcKinney's other accusers. Theyhave testified that McKinney soughtto win their trust through personal

By Paul Richter'.' LOS ANGELES TIMES

ERRATUMThe story" ew RIO Messaging

System May Change" which appeared inthe July 23 issue of The Tech incorrectlystated that freshmen will be permitted toreceive all mes ages only from dormito-ry terminals.

Mes age from fraternities, sorori-tie , and independent living groups canonly be viewed from dormitory termi-nals. However message from groupsthat are not FSILG , such a the RIOCenter, will be available to fre hmen atdormitory terminals a well as atF ILGs.

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that dormitorie practicing anti-ru h, hi Ie unappealing now,may contain orne of the b living condition on campu .

. There i no way that anyone, either in the e page or inp r onal conversation, can alert you to all of the strength andvic of IT' ru hing y tern. ou r th refor left to jumpin and ort it all out for your elf. You'll have to decide whereto go when, how much time to pend there, and who to belie e.You'll have to decide which ituation you feel mo t comfort-able in.

The kill you gain coping with the fa t-paced deci ionmaking you're thrown into during RIO will erve you wellthroughout your MIT experience. Let' face it; thi i anextremely fa t-paced place. You will have more cour e optionthan you could po ibly explore, more activitie than you couldpo ibly engage in, and more problem et than you could po -ibly complete. Your ta k will continue to be to ort out the

important from the menial, and allocate your time and energyaccordingly.

Above all, remember to take advantage of your opportu-nitie . After all, you are the commodity that all of thesegroup are bidding for during RiO. Let them butter you up,how you 80 ton, feed you lob ter . In the back of your

mind, try to remember that a few hour of inten e excitementdoe n't nece arily indicate a place you can be happy livingfor an entire erne ter, let alone four year. But trust us, there'will be plenty of time for reality and Ramen noodles comeRegi tration Day.

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Perhap we have become overzealous attime with thi task. We apologize for anyinconvenience we have caused the MITcommunity and for any wastefulnes . Wehave taken measure to correct the problemand are confident that it wi II not happenagain.

If you find that you have problems in thefuture, or if you have any concerns about irri-gation or any other grounds-related problems,you can feel free to end e-mail to plant-grounds-coaches@mil.edu.

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,o now you are a full fI dged m mber of the IT CIa of

20 1. Congratulation and w lcom . But by now you have prob-ably air ady h ar that pI nty oftim .Ov r the ummer, you

hav be n g aring up for yourarri Ion c mpu. imultan ou Iy,countle upp rela sm n have b en

pr paring for you. Tak a moment to marv I at, and avor, theheighten d cit ment level on campu a the arrival of the

la of200I come to fruition.It i your mbition, talent , and out tanding intellect that

hav landed you h re, and for that you hould be exceedinglyproud. 8 yond your raw abilitie ,how v r, you were broughth re to make po itive contribution to th diver e IT commu-nity. Deci ion you m ke over the ne t week will have a la t-ing impact on how, and where, you make your mark.

R idence nd Orientation W ek i one of the mo t h ctictime at IT. Over the next week, a plethora of living group

well a a lew of tudent activitie will extend you a heartywelcome - imultaneou Iy. Your ta k i to ort through thejargon, the enticing of~ r of food and trip , the profe ionallypubli hed book] t , and pick out what i right for you.

hen all of thi happ n within a week, you do not havth benefit of countle year of con v ntional wi dom whichupp rel men hold, or believ they hold, about RiO. You maynot r alize that th In titute depend on fratemitie to provide aignificant portion of the hou ing y tern th reby forcing RiO

to occur b for the tart of the erne teT. You may not notice

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sion, all integration) and "law and order"(playing on stereotype whites had aboutcriminals). When these code word fell outof favor, they were replaced by theBuchananite condemnation of affirmativeaction and "quotas."

o what do Huang and his fellow-travelershave to do with '80s paleoconservatism?Admittedly, not much. A read through theirWeb site reveals that their prejudices are morethe product of a geeky, high chool inferioritycomplex than anything else. Here we readwhat must be autobiography, cloaked in third-person narrative:

"Oh, you are going to try to excel at every:thing. Be totally hard-core, get straight A's ...write articles for some newspaper or maga-zine. You especially can't wait to meet theintense intere ting people ... " The authors goon to discover, shockingly, that people don'tcon tantly stand around talking about quan-tum computing and the Mandelbrot set. Theyalso decry fraternities for "their anti-intellec-tuali m," not to mention - gasp! - foo balltables.

People here have lives? The horror. And

mailing put out by the A ociation of StudentActivitie - and, later, after the ecretary of

'the MIT Corporation decided to extract theubmi ion from the mailing, when they sur-

reptitiou ly mailed out their pamphlet tofre hmen u ing mailing money out of theirown pocket. nd becau e Huang is a formerpublisher of Counterpoint, hi appearance atthe head of a prejudiced, Libertarian three-orne ha tami hed the image of that formerly

con ervative publication and cau ed a buzz ofgo ip on the fourth floor of the tudentCenter.

"It' ab olutely raci t and intolerant," aidJeremy D. her '99, Counterpoint enior advi-or and former colleague of Huang. "It made

me really mad. I was ju t absolutely floored toee the e opinion pre ented eriously at MIT

at all. It is ab olutely not 'rational discour e';it is filled with propaganda."

The idea that affirmative action reducesthe quality of entrants and stigmatize mem-ber of the groups it tries to help i by nomeans original to the Extropians. Its rootslie in the heart of I960s race politics, begin-ning with the Chicago marche and 0-

called white backla h. Backla h producedthe prote t against "bu ing" (and, by exten-

Column by Anders HoveOPI 10 EDITOR

IT certain Iy lower tandard forwomen and 'underrepre nted' minoritie .. ,The average woman at IT i Ie intelligent

and ambitiou than theaverage man at IT.The average 'under-repre ented' minorityat IT is Ie intelli-gent and ambitiouthan the average non-e underrepre ented'minority."

o ay the ITExtropian on theirWorld Wide Web ite

http://mit.edu/extropians/ and in the pamphletthat they ent out to fre hmen a few weekago. Under the elf-applied label "rea oneddi cour e," the Extropian ' founder,Hanyoung Huang G, Ja on P. Davis '98, andJohn R. Bender '00 are out to tir up andpromote good old-fa hioned white suburbanprejudice.

A new group, the Extropian , gained con-iderable renown over the summer after they

tried to include their literature in the fre hman

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• I'm UTethe 1 t few eek h b nnerve-wra king p ri-en e; aft r 11, you' ebe n pr p ring to he doff to a place th t ouprobably don't knomuch more about otherthan the few IT mail-ing you've re i dthi ummer. hi 1high chool friend argiving you their fallterm addre e, phone

number, and e-mail addre e, you' onlybeen able to meekly ay, "Well, I don't knovwhere I'm going to be living yet."

But that' all about to change. In the ne tfour day, you'll determine wh re you willlikely live for the next four year . Unlike yourold friend , who have been a signed room atethrough a great computer algorithm or by agroup of staff a sistant in some office, you'rgetting to ~hoo e where you want to live (or atleast rank your preference ) after eeing theplaces.

Residence and Orientation Week is a hec-tic time for sure. But it's well worth it in theend, since you'll be making the call on whereyou want to live, who you want to live with,

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Guest column by Jeremy H. Brown

Imagine, for a moment, that every wordThe Thistle ever wrote was absolutely true.Good. ow, imagine that every word the MITExtropians wrot~ in their letter to the freshmenwas absolutely.rtrue. Good. (For the sake ofyour mental health, don't try imagining both atonce.) ow, unless you've forgotten to med-icate your schizophrenia today, you probablyjust had at least one powerful, knee-jerk "noway!" reaction. More likely, you just had two.

And so this message is for the staff of TheThistle, and both members of the Extropian ,and anyone else who believes they know aTruth that needs dissemination: WithoutMarketing, the Truth can't win converts. Allyour ideal , proofs, conclusive evidences, anddeeply held belief: won't convert a ingle soulto your way of thinking if you present thembadly - and most of you pre ent them sovery, very badly indeed.

Because of space limitations, I'm going tospare The Thistle and simply consider the let-ter the Extropians sent to the freshmen.Assuming, for the moment, the absolute accu-racy of its primary content, there are twothings remaining that dictate the warmth of itsreception: form and forum.

We can pass over the Extropian choice of

forum quickly, observing that reaching fre h-men u ing a stolen mailing Ii t whose acquisi-tion ultimately gets one's group derecognizedby the Association of Student Activitie repre-sent a poor way to convey a mes age that caninspire knee-jerk calls of misogynism, racism,and long-winded boorishness.

So let's talk about bad form instead. By"form," I am referring to the choice of phras-ing, the ordering of thoughts, the quality ofargument, and the overall voice of the speakeror writer. In dis eminating a Truth, the fol-lowing rule is critical to a ucces ful form:The speaker mu t not ound like an as .

The Extropians break this rule in at lea tfour different ways.

One: They surround their primary Truthwith obviou Iy tupid secondary idea. ex onFriday nights is bad. IHTFP and PAMIT T-shirt are sign of wounded elf-e teem.

ietz che had omething intelligent to ayabout romance. Gentlemen, thi is not yourprimary content. The e are not the point youwant to be defending' they are indefen ible.They make you out to be the ignorant, fru -trated, ego-wounded victim you call other .

Two: The Extropians' presentation i toolong and utterly humorle s. There are few andfar between that can read a document thatamounts to a 17,000 word complaint, unlaced

with one bit of deliberate humor, without think-ing ill of those that wrote it - and withoutlooking for unintentional humor. That' nothard to find, because of the next problem ...

Three: The Extropian ' pre entation ipompou and laden with hubri . What would

ietz che have to ay about their romanticencounter, they ask? "What is Prime MaleMeat?" Are you an Ubermen ch? Are you aPromethean? "Fellow Ender ... thi letter wacompo ed to five of you ... " Are you a charac-ter from a cience fiction novel? Have you hadenough hyperbole yet?

The Extropian voice i the voice of theElite crying out for other member of the liteto acknowledge their greatne - and that' avoice just begging to have the chair kicked outfrom under it.

Four: The Extropian u e poor logi toju tify their primary the e , making the the ethem elve look tupid. If one accu e biologyof being a "gut" cour e of tudy, one houldexplain why math majors need take only ninecour e and write no the i . If one wi he toexplain why MIT i 40 percent, or 0 percent,full of 10 er , one need to explain why it ithat the remaining three in five, or one in five,aren't 0 exceedingly ucce ful compared tothe remainder that we haven't all noticed.

If one wi he to accu eMIT' religion of

having 'a chilling effect over the intellectualclimate," one need to provide at lea toneexample. (Incidentally, if one in ults theideal of another, and then claims to wor hipat the ideology of ietz che, one wouldn'tappear to have read ietzsche very clo ely.)

Proof by incomplete argument, by a er-tion, and by anecdote, are poor technique inany forum, and in the MIT environment, in acreed wor hipping technology and rationalityabove all, they are particularly ill-applied.

ow, all that aid, I'm ure that theExtropian and Th Thistl and the other allcan point to the myriad of people who havecome to them and aid "Ye ! Your ideas areright'" But a1\ they've rea1\y done i to findtheir choir ; you can preach in any voi e tothe already-converted, and they'll nod theirhead and mumble along with you.

The hard part of di eminating the Truth iconvin in the uninitiated; for that your me -age form ha to be calm, polite, to the point,

mode t, unpretentiou , and non-threatening. Along-winded, pompou , hum rle me agewill die almo t a fa t ... a one that objects toex on Friday night .

Jeremy H. Brown, MIT undergraduatecia s of '94, ot his master of ngin eringd gr e in /995 and is currently working onhis do torate in ompul r den e.

Extropians Err on WomenStory, from Page 4

worse: All this anti-intellectuali m is causedby affirmative action. Although the authorsadmit that "not all women or all 'underrepre-sented' minorities are unqualified" they notethat women comprise the majority of "archi-tecture, biology, management, or brain andcognitive sciences, obviously the Ie s rigor-ous majors." Proof positive, by Extropianstandards.

But the author reveal a far better ruler forjudging women on campus: "Ask upperclass-women, better yet a k a sorority, how often agroup of women will sit down on the weekendto discuss what Bell's Theorem and theAspect Experiment imply for a hidden vari-ables interpretation of quantum mechanic .. ,

') Such women are 0 rare here that these sce-nario never happen. (What orne men woulddo for intellectual women who are seriousabout living the exalted life.)"

While J leave the reader to imagine whatthe real motivation for such sentiment mightbe, I'm going to sugge t it i n't reasoned di -cour e.

And what about thi "rational di -course"? Fer orne rea on, that phra e ioften associated with Libertariani m - andthe E tropians are Libertarian, judgingfrom the Ayn Rand promotion smearedacross theirite. Yet the Extropian ' pro-fe sed wor hip of the word "rational" fallflat when their outrageou a ertion gowholly un upported by fact.

In an effort to find the facts about affirma-tive action in admis ions, I talked to ManleeJones, MIT's interim director of admi sion :

"I would ju t ay that all the tudent

coming in have about the same preparation.Which happens to be extraordinary," Jonesaid.

"The only difference that you ee in thedifferent groups would be in the te t score "Jones aid "That's a phenomenon that s notwell understood."

The college board, which ha studied testscore patterns in detail, ha concluded thatcore differences between group is not relat-

ed to the actual knowledge or preparation ofthe group in que tion. The difference appearto be caused by an external factor perhaprelated to the phra ing of questions. The col-lege board has al 0 determined that the scoreanomaly has no bearing on the groups' futureperformance in college. "The college boardtell us not to u e it in the ame way," Jonesaid.

Indeed, Jone added, the board core ofunderrepre ented minoritie at MIT are higherthan the mean core for all tudent attendingthe top 40 chool. Becau e of thi , Jonesdoubt anyone could rea onably draw anyconclu ion about difference in qualifica-tion .

"It does eem to me that the Extropiansare u ing perception in tead of fact, ' Jonesaid. "They're obviou ly working off orne

pre-conceived perception."o the fact i that all the a ailable evi-

dence indicates that women and underrepre-.ented minoritie admitted by IT are every

bit a qualified a everyone el e. 0 whydon't they hang out with Huang Da i , andBender, raving about Bell's Theorem andThe Fountainhead? Then again, would youwant to hang around a clique of bigotedgeek ?

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pa in rush, th re will be many non-rush activitie to occupy a re tiefre hrnan' time. There are "tons ofeven nd tour "Patil aid. "Wewould hop more, but between J 0and 15 [tuden per tour] would bea great number," Paril aid.

In addition, a new acti ity, tandUp, a program that addre e i ueof diver ity, ha been included inRIO Week. 'It i intended to basi-cally open the mind of the fre h-man' Patil aid, "to ee how theythink and how other people thin "

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change thi year, aid Joanna F. Au'98, vice president of rush for thePanhellenic A ociation.

Thi year, orority members willbe allowed to an wer direct que -tion from freshmen. Previou ly,they were not allowed to peak tofre hmen out ide their orority'de ignated rush room.

"If they ask what orority you'refrom, you can tell them," Au aid.However, if they ask too manyque tion ,we're uppo ed to directthem to explore the orority ru hproces ,Au aid. "We're notallowed to ru h them out ide therush room ."

The new rule are a pilot project,Au aid. It will require a three-fourth vot of PanhellenicA ociation to add it to the rulepennanently ne t year, he aid

Tbi year all organizations in thewomen' conference, whichinclude all group that rushwomen, will be allowed to wearidentifying marking uch as oror-ity lette ,before Killian Kic -Offand outside orority rush room, u

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aid orority members working atofficial RIO events before KillianKick-off can't wear their letters,he id.

the RIO Center which would relaythem to the dormitorie in whichfre hmen were housed The changewas made to ease the load on deskworkers who used to be responsiblefor tran cribing the message, aidJamieson.

The sy tern has pecial featurefor proce ing infonnation ent byF ILGs. We don't want the ystemabused, but we do want to help themwith rush, Chan aid

Me age ent by FSILG willbe expunged from the y tern after aet period of time. F ILG are also

limited in the number of me agethey can end to fre hmen, Jamie onaid. Thi wa added to prevent

groups from nding out many mes-sage ,or pamming, he aid

One new event this year, tandUp, is a test of a po ible replace-ment for OY A, Chan aid. Thiyear will te t its feasibility.

The event is designed to explorethe imilaritie and difference inthe fre hmen cl . A group of tu-dents approached the RIO commit-tee with thi idea, Chan aid Theyfelt that MOYA wasn't really fulfill-ing its mi ion, and they wanted totry omething different

rorlty ru h undergoe changorority rush will al 0 ee major

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Renee Hoffman (right), assistant to the associate director of the Educational Studies Group talksto Jan Meyer '01 at the program's open house yesterday.

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WAN YUSOF WAN MORSHIDI-THE TE<HBurrgert JohMn '01 collects his freshman pack.,. and some advice from Kaechy Chen '00 at theRIO Center.

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said. The Kick-Off is suppo ed tobe more of a fun event this yearwhere people can enjoy them elvesand eat ice cream, he said

"We want them to mingle,"Chao said ''We want them to enjoythemselves for the first 25 minute ,"he said

There will also be upperclassmenpresent for them to talk to, Chansaid However, there will be no orga-nized student group there except forthe solar car team, he said

The final portion of the eventwill remain unchanged from lastyear. "The last 15 minutes is thesame," Chan said. Speakers fromthe three living group options, dor-mitories, fraternities, and indepen-dent living groups, will presentthose options to the tudents.

ging tem re ampedThe new fre hman me aging

system will also improve RIO, saidKyle A. Jamieson '00, a member ofthe RIO committee in charge of thesy tern.

This computerized system willreplace the old system for sendingme sages to freshmen. Last year fra-ternities, ororities, and independentliving groups would end note to

RIO Brings Computer Messaging,Changes to Sorority Rush R es

In mid-August, rumors surfacedthat the Extropians had sent outtheir mailing to freshman. TheExtropians confirmed the rumorsthrough a posting on their WorldWide Web site.

When the Dean's Office discov-ered that the mailing had been sentout without permission, the Officeasked the ASA to hold a discipli- -nary hearing against the group forviolating ASA and Institute policies,Light said

At the disciplinary hearing heldMonday night, the Extropians vehe-mently denied having broken any ofthe Institute's procedures or ASArules. "We did not obtain our labelsfrom the Registrar's Office" where aprohibition exists on the use ofmailing labels for outside use and asa result the restrictions on the mail-ing do not apply to the Extropians, arebuttal brief provided by Davissaid

The Extropians also felt that themailing was for Institute purposes,Davis said, thus making it allowableunder the Registrar's Office policiescovering the privacy of studentinformation .

In re ponse to the charge of vio-lating the ASA policy prohibitingmailings other than the general ASAmailing, the Extropians argued thatsince the policy could not be foundin writing, groups could not be pun-i hed for violating it, Davis wrote inthe brief.

On Tuesday, the ASA found thatthe Extropians violated three out ofthe four policies that it was accusedof violating.

''The Extropians were aware thatDean's Office approval wasrequired for the ASA mailing ... anygroup seeking to legitimately sendthe mailing in good faith wouldhave at least inquired about whetherit was subject to Dean's Officeapproval," wrote the ASAExecutive Board in its decision.

EItropians plan to continueThe Extropians plan to continue

their activities despite the etbackcaused by the failure to gain ASArecognition, Davis said

Because they are not recognizedby ASA, the Extropians cannot gainoffice space a locker on the Athenacomputing sy tern, po tering paceor the use of the MIT name.

"We intend to re pond to allfre hmen [interested in theExtropians] and attempt to meetwith them, , Davi aid

In the end, the Extropian feelthat they were singled out for extrascrutiny, Davi aid. "It's an act ofpolitical censorship. '

The Tech has made the full textof the ASA Executive Board's deci-sion, the Extropians' prepared briefon the matter, and their publicstatement available on the WorldWide Web at <http://the-tecb.mitedu/Bulletinslextropians.htmJ>.

reason to doubt.It's no wonder that they're both

calling the Internet "spooky."

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that the medium has no verificationmechani m and that everything itaken at face value unJes there is a

espete Initial RulingE tropian dvocate new policies bold disciplinary bearing

On their World Wide Web page,the Extropians de cribe themselvesa "a force for increasing order,spontaneous organization, andlife."

The Extropian's pre entation oftheir views on affirmative actionconcerned members of the Dean'sOffice, prompting debate overtheir inclusion in the mailing,Bates aid.

''The concern was, in effect, theywere getting into a series of issuesthat were. perfectly appropriate fordiscussion in other venues but didnot seem appropriate for a freshmanmailing," Bates said.

Included in the mailing was asection entitled "Affirmative Actionat MIT: The Big Coverup," whichexplained the view that affirmativeaction has diluted the intellectualatmosphere at MIT.

"There's a lively debate nation-wide on affirmative action; these arevery legitimate issues," Willmoresaid.

Yet the mailing was inappropri-ate to send to incoming freshmenbecause "it wa sending a messageto the incoming tudents aying 'We

. don't think you belong here,'"Willmore said.

There were al 0 questions aboutincluding the view in an officialInstitute mailing, Willmore aid.

The final deci ion to exclude theExtropian was made by a group ofindividuals including Willmore andBate.

"Essentially, there were four ofus who looked at it that evening,and we talked through it and cameto the conclusion" that it should notbe sent, Bate aid.

nropian proceed de pite rulingAfter the ASA mailing was sent

to incoming freshmen without theExtropian pamphlet, theE tropians decided to separatelyend their brochure now extended

to sixteen pages, to the incomingCre hman.

"It's an act of civil di obedienceagainst an unjust censorship," Davisaid. "We thought our only recourse

was to mail it independently."To obtain the Ii t of incoming

fre hman, the Extropianapproached a member or membersof fraternities sororitie and inde-pendent living group Davi said

F ILG are allowed acce tothe Ii t for the pecific purpo e ofmailing rush material to &ehman.

At the A A hearing onday,Davis aid that getting the Ii ts wasea y. "We approached them, toldthem our ituation and everal pe0-ple aid they would be glad to givethem to us."

''The FSILG members who gavethe lis to the E tropians were nottold what the list would be used for.I just aid I wanted to do a mailingfor a group that bad mi ed the ASdeadline" said Han Y. Huang G, c0-

founder of the Extropians.

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The decided to recommendthat the Extropian be included inthe m iling because there wa till adi pute about the tatu of theirmembership, Light aid

The Dean' Office, however,continued to have problems with themailing. "I took it out for [Dean for

tudent Life] argaret R. Bate tolook at, and then after orne di cus-ion it eventually went to [ ecretary

of the Corporation and ExecutiveAs i tant to the President] KathrynWillmore' office and he ... madethe decision to exclude them fromthe mailing:' Light aid.

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"Later on ... it e med that it wpo ible th t their lack of recogni-tion wa a cleric I error on ourpart," h aid.

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Countries sending one new MIT student: 'Argentina,Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Croatia, CostaRica, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia,Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal,Nigeria, Norway, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan.

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