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THIS WEEK IN THE TECHOn March 1, the “Athena Insecurity Squad” collected andpublished 620 Athena passwords.On Friday, we’ll say who it was.

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By Hanhan Wang

Sixteen California Institute ofTechnology students pulled severalhacks on the MIT campus duringCampus Preview Weekend, instigat-ing a friendly inter-institute rivalry.

Among other things, the hackershanded out T-shirts promoting Cal-tech to prospective freshmen andcovered “Massachusetts” on the 77Massachusetts Avenue stoneworkwith a banner that read “that other,”so that it read “That Other Instituteof Technology.” MIT hackersresponded to some of the mischiefwith hacks of their own. For exam-ple, they altered the banner to say“The Only,” making the stoneworkread “The Only Institute of Tech-nology.”

“We have these two completelydifferent traditions that are so simi-lar. We tried to bring them togeth-er,” said one of the Caltech studentsinvolved, who wished to remainanonymous.

Caltech president and formerMIT Institute Professor David Balti-

By Jenny ZhangNEWS EDITOR

Irwin M. Jacobs ScD ’59 will bethe speaker at this year’s Com-mencement, according to an MITNews Officepress release.

Jacobs is thec o - f o u n d e r ,chairman, andCEO of QUAL-COMM Inc.,which “is nowthe largest satel-lite-based com-mercial mobilesystem for the transportation industry,”according to the company’s Web site,which also says QUALCOMM was apioneer with the use of Code DivisionMultiple Access (CDMA) technologyfor wireless and data products.

Many MIT students use the Qual-comm product Eudora, an e-mailclient that can be downloaded fromthe MIT Information Services&Technology software page.

Jacobs was a member of the MITelectrical engineering faculty from1959–1966, according to the pressrelease.

Jacobs and his wife Joan haveactively supported science and math-ematics education through large con-tributions to the University of Cali-fornia at San Diego and San DiegoState University, in addition to otherinstitutions, according to the pressrelease.

Jacobs will step down and handover the CEO position to his son,Paul, on July 1, but remain involvedwith Qualcomm as its chairman.

GRANT JORDAN—THE TECH

A banner hangs over 77 Massachusetts Avenue on Saturday, proclaiming MIT to be “the only” Instituteof Technology. The banner was put up by hackers from the California Institute of Technology and origi-nally read “that other” before MIT students removed, altered, and rehung the banner with its new mes-sage.

STEPHANIE LEE—THE TECH

Paul B. Hill, Information Services & Technology senior project manager, holds the Big Screw,awarded to him by Brian J. Pepper ’08 for winning the Big Screw contest. See page 12 for story.

By Marissa VogtNEWS EDITOR

Construction will begin thisweekend for installation of a newheating system for the EastgateApartments, a graduate residencefor married students.

The installation of the new sys-tem will require the residents,including families with small chil-dren, to each evacuate their apart-ments for nearly 10 hours per dayfor four days.

Several residents voiced techni-cal and logistical concerns afterplans for the installation wererevealed approximately six weeksago. The plans were altered after

several meetings between residentsand administrators, and residentscirculated a petition requesting thattheir concerns be addressed.

The construction was originallyplanned to begin last weekend andend mid-August, said Alicia Hunt,assistant director for graduate hous-ing. It was delayed a week to allowfor the incorporation of residentfeedback.

Heating system failing since 2004The renovations have been nec-

essary since last winter, said Direc-tor of Housing Karen A. Nilsson.After severe flooding ruined severalapartments in January of 2004, an

independent engineering firm wasbrought in to assess the current heat-ing system.

Nilsson said that the HousingOffice then brought a constructionproposal to the Department of Facil-ities and began informing residentsof the heating system replacementplans four to six months ago. Theannouncements came via e-mailssent to the entire house, Nilssonsaid.

However, Eastgate resident Gre-gory R. Singleton G said that withthe exception of the Eastgate Com-munity Association officers, resi-dents were not notified of the plansuntil mid-March. Singleton said that

the ECA was forbidden by MIT toinform all of the residents of theplan.

“Somewhere along the line,there was a miscommunicationabout who was telling who what,”Hunt said. “We assumed they wereupdating the residents all along.”

Heating units moved to closetsSingleton said that residents

expressed concern about the size,appearance, and proposed place-ment of the heating units. Severalstudents whose research involvesheating systems also questioned the

QualcommCEO toSpeak toGraduates

By Kathy LinEDITOR IN CHIEF

Despite predictions of 200 to300 applicants, only 81 studentsapplied for the 100 available slotsin the new minor in managementprogram, said Professor ThomasA. Kochan, chair of the FacultyCommittee on the ManagementMinor.

Because the program has capac-ity for 100 students, it will contin-ue to accept applications on a first-come, first-serve basis until eitherthere are 100 students enrolled inthe minor, or until April 20,whichever comes first, said Profes-sor Jeffrey A. Meldman, the direc-tor of undergraduate programs atthe Sloan School of Management.

The April 20 deadline is a resultof deadlines for the Sloan lottery; ifopen slots remain after April 20,students can still enroll in theminor, but would not have priority

in bidding for management classesthis semester.

Numbers do not meet expectationSloan had not been sure how

many students would apply for theminor and had worried that manymore students might be interestedthan the program can supportfinancially, Meldman said.

Enrollment estimates werebased loosely on three surveys overthe past twelve years, and the200–300 number was a “worst-casescenario,” Meldman said. The mostrecent survey was taken five yearsago.

The program “will find itsappropriate steady state,” but whatthat steady state will be is uncer-tain, Kochan said. He anticipateshaving a better idea in a year ortwo as the minor is implemented

Fewer Management MinorApplicants Than Expected

Caltech Pranks CPW; MIT Hackers Reply

Eastgate Heating System Update Annoys ResidentsPranks, Page 14

Eastgate, Page 10

Sloan Minor, Page 8

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By Richard W. StevensonTHE NEW YORK TIMES

CRAWFORD, TEXAS

President Bush and Prime Minis-ter Ariel Sharon of Israel differedopenly on Monday over Israel’sintention to expand a settlement inthe West Bank, but Bush gave theIsraeli leader robust backing for hisplan to withdraw from Gaza thissummer.

After a meeting at Bush’s vaca-tion home here, the president hailedSharon as a “strong, visionary”leader for having pursued a “coura-geous initiative” to pull Israeli set-tlers and security forces out of theGaza Strip and small portions of theWest Bank.

His embrace came on a daywhen Sharon described the politi-

cal atmosphere in Israel as akin tocivil war because of deep disagree-ments over the withdrawal plan,and was clearly intended to bolsterSharon as he heads toward awrenching confrontation this sum-mer with some Jewish settlers andtheir allies as he moves them, per-haps forcibly, out of Gaza.

Sharon, though, gave noground on Israel’s position that iteventually intends to build newhousing to establish an unbrokenpresence from Jerusalem to thesettlement of Maale Adumim, acommunity of 30,000 people, in away that could cut most north-south links between Palestiniansin the West Bank and make i textremely difficult for Palestini-ans to gain access to East

Jerusalem, which they hope tomake the capital of their eventualstate.

Sharon said it might be manyyears before any construction takesplace, but he said Israelis “are verymuch interested” in achieving“contiguity between Maale Adu-mim and Jerusalem.”

The Israeli position has height-ened tensions with the Palestiniansand put Sharon at odds with theWhite House, which says the frame-work for peace talks agreed on byboth sides, known as the road map,bars such construction.

“Israel has obligations under theroad map,” Bush said, speaking toreporters with Sharon at his side.“The road map clearly says noexpansion of settlements.”

WORLD & NATIONPage 2 THE TECH April 12, 2005

Military Raid in BaghdadCaptures 65, Officials Say

By Robert F. WorthTHE NEW YORK TIMES BAGHDAD, IRAQ

Hundreds of Iraqi troops and commandos backed by U.S. soldiersswept through central and southern Baghdad early Monday morning,capturing at least 65 suspected insurgents in one of the largest raids inthe capital since the fall of Saddam Hussein, military officials said.

Several hours later, at midday, an American contractor who wasworking on a reconstruction project was kidnapped in the Baghdadarea, U.S. Embassy officials here said.

The raid, which began at 3 a.m. and lasted more than six hours,disrupted three insurgent networks, U.S. military officials said. Theysaid those captured included men suspected of assassinations,beheadings, kidnappings and attacks on Iraqi and U.S. forces.

One group was planning attacks on the new National Assembly,said Maj. Gen. Mudher Moula Aboud, an Iraqi army commander.

In the raid, more than 500 Iraqi soldiers and police officers cor-doned off areas in some of Baghdad’s most dangerous and crime-rid-den areas, searching from house to house in more than 90 locationswith U.S. troops playing a supporting role, U.S. military officialssaid. One of the men captured was reported to have been injured.

Canadian Prime Minister Struggles to Keep Job

By Clifford KraussTHE NEW YORK TIMES TORONTO

Prime Minister Paul Martin sought Monday to distance himself froma scandal that is enveloping the governing Liberal Party, saying that hewas “personally offended” by a pattern of money laundering, payoffsand kickbacks by party functionaries that has emerged in recent days.

Martin’s government was elected only last June, but polls takenover the weekend show that its support is collapsing in much of thecountry. The three opposition parties have been holding closed-doormeetings to decide whether to vote in Parliament to try to bring downthe government sometime this month with the objective of holding anelection in June.

The crisis has been simmering for over a year as a commission ledby Justice John Gomery has been investigating charges that the Liberalgovernment under the former prime minister, Jean Chretien, transferrednearly $100 million to several advertising firms under a program topublicize federal activities in Quebec, in exchange for little or no work.

Ousted Chief of Big InsurerTo Stay Silent

By Jenny Anderson and Timothy L. O’BrienTHE NEW YORK TIMES

Maurice R. Greenberg, a former titan of the insurance industrywho is at the center of a wide-ranging investigation into possiblefinancial manipulation, will not answer regulators’ questions onTuesday, his lawyer said Monday.

“I am willing to accept responsibility and to account for the per-formance of my duties, but I believe that good order and fairnessrequire that I have an adequate opportunity to be advised of the issuesto be investigated and to my alleged involvement therein,” Greenbergsaid Monday in a statement. His lawyers have said that they have nothad adequate time to prepare their client and regulators have deniedrequests to postpone his testimony.

While the investigators’ focus intensifies on Greenberg, the formerchairman of the American International Group, the scrutiny of Berk-shire Hathaway’s chairman, Warren E. Buffett, appears to have dimin-ished. In a separate interview with regulators on Monday, Buffett indi-cated that he had scant knowledge of a transaction between AIG and aBerkshire subsidiary that is at the heart of the investigation.

At Hearing, Bolton Pledges‘Close Partnership’ With U.N.By Steven R. WeismanTHE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON

John R. Bolton, rebutting attacksfrom Democrats on his fitness toserve as ambassador to the UnitedNations, pledged Monday to bringabout a “close partnership” with theworld organization and denied evertrying to get anyone dismissed fordisagreeing with him on intelli-gence matters.

In his confirmation hearing,Bolton appeared to have reassuredthe one doubting Republican withhis answers and bolstered hisprospects of approval by the Sen-ate Foreign Relations Committee,possibly this week. In that case, afavorable vote in the full Senatewould then appear nearly certain.

Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I.,who had questioned Bolton’s quali-fications and probed his record dur-ing the hearing, said after the morn-ing session that he was generallysatisfied with Bolton’s answers andthat he was still “inclined” to voteto approve him, a step that wouldprobably send the nomination to theSenate even if all the Democratsvoted no.

Chafee did say that Boltonwould not have been his own

choice for the job.Chafee will not make a final

decision until he hears testimony onTuesday about disputes with otherofficials over how Bolton dealt withintelligence matters, a spokesmanfor the senator said Mondayevening.

Bolton, an outspoken conserva-tive who has served since 2001 asundersecretary of state for armscontrol and international security,calmly defended criticizing theUnited Nations and tangling withintelligence officials over how todescribe Cuba’s suspected biologi-cal weapons program.

He acknowledged that he hadsought to have intelligence officialsreassigned — one at the StateDepartment and one at the NationalIntelligence Council, an advisorygroup that produces the govern-ment’s formal intelligence assess-ments.

But Bolton said he actedbecause they had tried to undercuthis authority, not out of disagree-ment on the intelligence.

Democrats viewed Bolton’sdefense with skepticism andpromised to explore the intelligenceissue further. Their star witness,Carl W. Ford Jr., a former State

Department official who clashedwith Bolton in 2002 on Cuba, is totestify Tuesday.

Bolton sought to turn his criti-cism of the United Nations to hisadvantage, saying his views madehim the right person to help restorecredibility to the organization andmake it more effective.

“If confirmed, I look forward toworking closely with this commit-tee to forge a stronger relationshipbetween the United States and theUnited Nations, which depends crit-ically on American leadership,”Bolton said. “Such leadership, inturn, must rest on broad, bipartisansupport in Congress. It must beearned by putting to rest skepticismthat so many feel about the U.N.system.”

He added that despite his reputa-tion for strong words, he also had arecord of diplomatic success inmatters including rallying countriesto combat nuclear weapons prolifer-ation, and to renegotiate a nuclearweapons treaty with Russia, skillshe would use to expand the consen-sus of support for the UnitedNations at home.

He said he had learned that “thisconsensus is not only essential, butpossible.”

Bush Expresses Strong SupportFor Sharon’s Withdrawal Plans

Quiet Here, Extreme ElsewhereBy Michael J. RingSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

April is a month of transition between winter-like and summer-like cli-mates for much of the United States, and weather extremes associated withboth seasons have plagued different parts of the country over the past fewdays.

Winter's last hurrah struck the Rocky Mountains on Sunday, with heavysnow falling primarily in Colorado. About one foot of snow fell in most ofmetropolitan Denver, while over double that amount blanketed the higherterrain of Colorado.

The same low pressure and frontal system, now pushing east across thenation, is instead spawning summer-like severe weather as it encounterswarm, moist air entrenched over the Southeast. About twenty tornadoesformed in Kansas, on the warm side of the front, as the Rockies were beingpummeled with snow. The same system will bring the threat of twisters toMississippi, Alabama, and Georgia today.

In Boston, however, there will be no extreme weather this week. Rainshowers today give way to clear skies for the second half of the week, andtemperatures will hover near seasonal norms.

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U.S. Says 15 States ImproperlyGained Extra Medicaid MoneyBy Robert PearTHE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON

The Bush administration onMonday named 15 states that it saidhad used improper accounting tech-niques to obtain excessive amountsof federal Medicaid money.

Federal officials contend that the15 states have been “recycling” fed-eral money, rather than using stateand local tax revenue to pay their fullshare of the costs of Medicaid, whichprovides health insurance to morethan 50 million low-income people.

Officials from the states defend-ed their practices, saying that insome cases federal officials hadexplicitly approved them. State offi-cials also said that they had repeat-

edly asked the federal governmentto clarify the rules.

The dispute over the accountingpractices arises at a time when theNational Governors Association isnegotiating with the administrationand Congress to rein in the explo-sive growth in the program’s costs.

Michael O. Leavitt, the secretaryof health and human services, hasrepeatedly said that some states areusing “accounting gimmicks” to shiftcosts to the federal treasury. But untilMonday the administration had notpublicly identified the states.

The administration said it hadconcerns about Medicaid-financingmechanisms used by these states:Alabama, Alaska, California, Geor-gia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Massachu-

setts, Minnesota, Mississippi, NorthCarolina, North Dakota, Tennessee,Virginia and Washington.

The states were identified in a listthat the administration provided toCongress on the condition that it notbe disclosed. Copies of the list wereobtained from health care lobbyistsand from the federal Centers forMedicare and Medicaid Services.

The Bush administration’s con-cerns are shared by the GovernmentAccountability Office, an indepen-dent investigative arm of Congress.“By using complex, creative financ-ing schemes, states have inappropri-ately increased the federal share ofMedicaid expenditures,” saidKathryn G. Allen, director of Med-icaid issues at the auditing agency.

By Somini SenguptaTHE NEW YORK TIMES

NEW DELHI

China and India announced anagreement on Monday to resolve adecades-old border dispute and lettrade flourish between the two coun-tries.

Promising a new era of “peaceand prosperity” between the world’stwo most populous countries, theannouncement came during a four-day visit to India by Prime MinisterWen Jiabao of China.

It signaled an end to a protracteddispute over several patches alongthe 2,200-mile border between thecountries, stretching from Kashmirto Myanmar. China defeated Indiain a war over territory in 1962, and

relations have been fraught for fourdecades.

The two countries have reached“a certain level of maturity,” India’sforeign secretary, Shyam Saran, saidat a news conference here. “Indiaand China are partners, and they arenot rivals,” he added. “We do notlook upon each other as adver-saries.”

The announcement did not spellout which territory would go towhich country, but the two countriesdid agree to come up with a plan toresolve disputes over frontier terri-tory.

Each side has troops along theborder, but there have not been anyrecent skirmishes.

Relations between India and

China — both nuclear powers, bothwitnessing rapid economic growth,both facing an enormous demandfor energy — have flourished inrecent years, led primarily by trade.China is now India’s second-largesttrading partner, after the UnitedStates.

On Monday Wen and his Indiancounterpart, Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh, said the two countriesexpected to increase bilateral tradefrom $13 billion last year to at least$20 billion in 2008.

Chinese-made toys, toastersand televisions have proliferatedacross the Indian marketplace.India exports raw materials forChina’s booming constructionindustry.

Trial Opens for GI Accused Of Grenade Killings

By Shaila DewanTHE NEW YORK TIMES FORT BRAGG, N.C.

An Army sergeant charged with killing two American officers in agrenade attack on his own camp in Kuwait was mentally ill and actednot out of premeditation but out of desperation, his lawyer said Mon-day.

The sergeant, Hasan Akbar, was given a diagnosis of mental ill-ness at age 14, his lawyer said in opening statements of his court-martial. Akbar, 33, is the first soldier to be tried on capital murdercharges since 1998.

His mental condition is a central issue. His lawyers do not disputethat Akbar, a member of an engineer battalion at Camp Pennsylvaniain the Kuwaiti desert, ambushed three tents while their occupants gotready for bed on the night of March 23, 2003. But, they say, he wastoo mentally disturbed to have planned the attack, which also wound-ed 14 people.

Anticipating that defense argument, prosecutors promised to pro-vide a “unique look into Sgt. Akbar’s mind” through testimony andevidence, including his diary. “When he deployed, he was going tokill these soldiers,” said Capt. John Benson, a member of the prose-cution team.

Akbar is charged with two counts of premeditated murder andthree counts of premeditated attempted murder. If convicted, he couldface the death penalty. The trial is expected to last a month.

Ford Shares Lose Ground After Forecast

By Jeremy W. PetersTHE NEW YORK TIMES DETROIT

Shares of Ford Motor fell to their lowest point in more than a yearand a half on Monday after its surprise announcement on Friday thatit was cutting its yearly earnings forecast in half.

Ford’s news on Friday affirmed what many industry analysts hadsuspected: The financial problems facing General Motors, the world’slargest automaker, are not GM-specific and are a sign of the largerproblems that American automakers face in competing with theirAsian rivals. The announcement also raises questions about how can-did Ford was when it provided its financial guidance at the start of theyear.

Reaction to Ford’s revised earnings outlook, which wasannounced after the markets closed on Friday, brought the company’sstock down almost 9 percent early Monday. But by the time the NewYork Stock Exchange closed, Ford’s shares had recovered to close at$10.44, compared with $11.03 on Friday, a decline of 5.4 percent.

The effects of Ford’s falling share price hit other Detroit stocks onMonday, with the automotive suppliers Visteon, Delphi and Ameri-can Axle and Manufacturing all losing value.

Sunday April 17th

India and China Resolve BorderDispute, Agree to Expand Trade

Defending ChoiceIn his fabulously defensive article about

America, the best of all possible worlds, Nick

Baldasaro forgets that the trade-off betweenfreedom and security is about choice, notneed. Unlike the author, many Americansvalue their freedom so highly that they are

willing to give up some security. The PatriotAct isn’t much of a compromise between hispreferences and mine.

Katherine Rorschach ’05

Letter To The Editor

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By Bill AndrewsSTAFF COLUMNIST

Hey, guess what? I’m an uncle! I’ve beensaying that to everyone I meet now for days,ever since Thursday the seventh in fact, whenmy niece Amelie Astrid Haley was born. Ihaven’t been able to shut up about it or thinkabout much else; I can only imagine how thefather must feel.

In some kind of effort at journalisticintegrity, I should disclose that she isn’t liter-ally my niece, as I’m an only child. But I’vealways been very close with my cousins, andwe all figured it’d be too much to ask a childto call me “first cousin once removed Bill.” Oris it second cousin once removed … Ah, themysteries of childbirth.

I should also make clear that I had virtual-ly nothing to do with this occurrence but amstill immensely proud. It should seem obviousI had nothing to do with the baby’s creation,although since I am from Florida, perhapsthat’s not so obvious. While I “was there” for

my cousin these last nine months, I didn’treally do anything.

She, on the other hand, has gone through atremendous amount. I asked her what it waslike, having heard that childbirth is possiblythe most painful experience a human can con-ceive of (haha), and she just said, “It wasn’t sobad. The labor pains were pretty annoying, butafter that it was easy.” Have I mentioned mycousin’s a super marine who feels no pain?

All in a day’s work for her, but I’m besidemyself. A new baby! A whole new baby is inthe world, made entirely from my cousin andher husband. How freaky is that? It’s like mycousin’s a self-sustaining machine or a facto-ry; no matter how I think about it, I just can’twrap my heard around what’s happened.That’s the fundamental greatness of life, I sup-pose, but that’s almost a cliché.

I mean, miracles are all around us, right?The sun rising every day is a miracle, eventhough it doesn’t really feel like one. If noth-ing else, the sheer perfection and elegance of

gravity are pretty miraculous. Sure, the sky’spretty and the wind feels nice, but it’s notexactly a plague of toads, parting of the RedSea, or anything impressive like that. It seemslike all the best miracles happened a long timeago. There might be miracles everyday, butthey can sometimes seem, and forgive me forsaying so, a little lame.

Up until very recently, I saw giving birth asone of those lame everyday miracles. It’s cool,but that’s what women do. It’s one of theirsuper powers. (Quick philosophical question:Is it sexist to think that? Why? It’s true, right?)But now, I see what they mean about babiesbeing miraculous, and not lamely miraculous.Just hearing a little baby voice over the phonewas enough to melt my heart (admittedly notone of the hardest hearts around) and recon-sider all the greatness in the world.

My cousin and her husband are both aboutmy age. In fact, their average age is exactlymy age. What this means for me is it mightnot be all that far off until I have kids. (My

girlfriend almost choked on her drink as sheread that last line.) Throughout my cousin’spregnancy, while I was really happy for herand her husband and tried to be as supportiveas I could, I kept thinking some variation of,“Better you than me, kid.” I mean, I have toomuch to do these days, what with studying,reading, and writing these columns, and mygirlfriend works even harder than I do. Gettingpregnant right now is sooo not what we need.

But seeing and hearing my cousin, I’mstarting to see the light. While I still don’tthink it’d be best to have any kids right now,I’m beginning to understand that pregnancyisn’t a tragedy, it’s a celebration, an affirma-tion of life. Maybe I’m just getting older, ormaybe I’m just biased because now I get to bean uncle and play with a new baby, but I knowmy cousin and her husband couldn’t possiblybe happier; to be so happy in this world is def-initely not a lame miracle.

Congratulations to them. May we all be solucky.

By Ruth MillerOPINION EDITOR

Don’t you just love prefrosh? They makethe days warmer, the grass greener, and thefrats … fratier. Their dewy innocence bringsMIT undergrads to their knees and surpris-ingly, not always in a pedophilic way. In con-versation, they’re regarded as younger sib-lings. A lost prefrosh can melt even the mostramen-encrusted heart.

Their mere presence is so warm and glow-ing that before they even arrive, “You’re Awe-some” signs appeared up and down the Infi-nite. Don’t even think for a second those weremeant for you. They’re held up with Scotchwall mounting tabs. Eight quick tugs, andthose babies are gone as soon as the last ofthe Urban Outf itters shoppers in “I HeartNerds” shirts roll their suitcases full of free-bies off campus.

Remember “IHTFP”? This place is hell —not because it’s hard, but because it destroysits victims slowly and psychologically. Yet,somehow, we throw away our psets and teststo help these people. Why do we care somuch? Why do I take tests all week? Is it sothat I can get my F back just in time to startcooking apple pecan pie for newly-admitted

students? What has happened to me? Was Iever cool?

We’re the middle children of MIT. Wehave no purpose or place. Our great war is aspiritual war. Our great depression is ourlives.

OK, so I lifted that from Fight Club, butthe point is the same. We tool, we punt, wetool, and we tool some more, but the adminis-tration clearly has a favorite. Surprise! It’s notus. When they get here, the weather suddenlygets nice, and we all remember what the sunlooks like. When they get here, the Institutegoes crazy giving them free stuff and tellingthem how special they are. We are shuffledaside while Mommy Hockfield takes awayfridge space for crappy crayon drawings fromthe new class. Why is that?

Theory 1 — They’re actually better thanus. I think most of us here believe in evolu-tion. As the admissions people tweak andfine-tune their machine, it’s a fair guess thatthe next class is just cooler. The previously-enrolled students get to live in the bell tower.

Theory 2 — We strive for acceptance.Having prefrosh (a.k.a. high school students)around brings the social mean back into thehigh school region, and thus, we attain cool-

ness by having them think that we’re cool,rather than the other way around. Our inner,suppressed high school nerds want badly towin them over, even if our outer, collegenerds don’t care. Once they leave, the socialmean snaps back to nerd, and that’s that.

Theory 3 — MIT students are graciousand want to help others. Moving on …

Theory 4 — The Institute needs freshmeat to survive. Think about when Draculaturns all suave and charming only to drain theblood of his victims. Now, think about thefact that MIT students only come out at night,are generally pasty, and eat weaker studentsfor breakfast. Enough said.

Now, to rebut these theories (this columnhas more organization than my last philoso-phy paper).

Rebuttal 1 — They aren’t better than us.Better is relative, and we own this place. Theyaspire to be us, and some day, they will be.

Rebuttal 2 — Sure, we like attention, butthey’re not cool. They don’t know wherethings are, they all wore “I Heart Nerds”shirts on the first day, and they don’t do any-thing for us to like them. Frats rush thembecause they’re walking potential house bills.We flog them with attention because they’re

warm bodies, and every group but Bexleyfeels like it’s in a dire strait for new blood(even The Tech).

Rebuttal 3 — Yeah, and I have five A’s thissemester.

I suppose I can’t rebut Theory 4. A friend whom I had met as a prefrosh

was reminiscing about my visit to his flooryears ago. “When we set that apple pie onfire, you were like, ‘that’s so cool,’ so then wewere like, ‘yeah, I guess it is really cool.’Now, if we did that, I’d be like, ‘oh, I should-n’t have used Bourbon, I should have used151,’ because we kind of take our coolnessfor granted around here.”

Culinary pyrotechnics aside, he’s got apoint. We’re older, more mature, and more atpeace with our inner nerds. Maybe for all ourtalk, regarding them as little siblings worksthe other way around as well. I rememberthinking my host’s friends were the coolestpeople in the world, second only to my hostherself. My prefrosh seems to like me now,but I can’t imagine why, especially since Ipunted her for work, but I did feel guilty. Iguess that’s why most middle children don’tdrown their baby siblings for lack of atten-tion.

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By Robert WeismanTHE BOSTON GLOBE

MIT is teaming up with Tai-wan’s Quanta Computer in a five-year, $20 million research effort todefine the future of computing andcreate the next generation of com-munications platforms and products.

The project, made public Friday,is called “T-Party,” to invoke boththe partners’ technology heritageand the revolutionary fervorunleashed by the Boston Tea Party.The Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology’s partnership withQuanta, one of its largest computingalliances ever with a single collabo-rator, is intended to reshape thefield. Its logo is a desktop computerbeing tossed into the water.

“We’re rethinking what comput-ers are,” said Rodney A. Brooks,director of the Computer Scienceand Artificial Intelligence Laborato-ry, which will run the project fromthe Stata Center.

While some T-Party technolo-gies might find their way into com-mercial products before the projectis completed in 2010, many of themwill be geared to laying the founda-tion for a new era, when computerhardware recedes into the back-ground and computing is all butinvisible to the average person.

“An ultimate form would be foryou to walk into a room and yourbiometrics would validate you andgive you your data,” Brooks said,referring to fingerprint or iris scan-ning that could enable the display ofinformation on electronics-embed-ded surfaces or mobile devices.

The marriage of MIT’s researchexpertise and Quanta’s productionprowess — it’s the world’s largestmaker of laptop computers — isdesigned to eliminate the clunkinessof personal computers and the frus-tration of having to use devices that

don’t easily talk to each other,including cellphones, digital calen-dars, and hand-held computers. Thegoal is to make accessing data moreintuitive, while addressing suchtricky issues as information transfer,configurations, security, mainte-nance, backups, and upgrades.

In that sense, T-Party is the nat-ural successor to CSAIL’s ProjectOxygen, now winding down. Itpioneered “human-centered com-puting” innovations, such as recon-figurable microchips and voice-activated software, in an effort tomake computers as invisible tousers as the air they breathe, in thevision of MIT’s late Michael Der-touzos, the project’s founder.CSAIL researchers have workedwith six business partners on that$30 million project.

This time, MIT researchers willbe paired with just one company. Itlooms large in the computer uni-verse and is a titan of Asian busi-ness, but is virtually unknown inthe United States. Quanta, which isprojected to ring up annual sales ofmore than $12 billion this year,builds notebook and other comput-ers and electronic devices that aresold worldwide under the brands ofsuch companies as Dell, Apple,IBM, and Hewlett-Packard. It was apioneer of the “original designmanufacturer” business model, inwhich Taiwanese companies designand produce computers and elec-tronics for Western technologycompanies.

“Quanta is hugely significant inthe industry, even though they don’tbuild anything under their ownbrand,” said Roger Kay, director ofclient computing for InternationalData Corp., a technology researchfirm in Framingham. He touredQuanta’s production lines outsideTaipei last fall. “They’re as efficientas they can get. They have refinedtheir processes, and they do it aswell, or better, than anyone.”

In a phone interview, Quantafounder and chairman Barry Lam,who helped to popularize the con-cept of portable computers in the1980s, said his company plans toopen an office in Cambridge towork with MIT researchers.

“Over the coming five years,wireless computing will be any-place, anytime, any medium,” Lamsaid, suggesting that the machineryof computing could be confined tocentral offices, while access toinformation could be distributedwidely to consumers and business-es. “The personal computer can be avirtual device.”

To kick off their T-Party initia-

tive, MIT and Quanta plan an invi-tation-only conclave of the world’stop computer scientists in Cam-bridge this summer to discuss newmodels of human-computer interac-tion. The first step, Lam said, wouldbe to develop a vision. Then thepartners will define the platforms —the underpinnings of the new com-puting environment — and come upwith products. The intellectual prop-erty would be owned by MIT, butQuanta would have first rights tolicense T-Party technology.

Lam, however, said that Quantahas no plans to move toward brand-ed products. He said the companywould use the fruits of the researchcollaboration to build products forits business partners.

Initially, several dozen MITresearchers and graduate students,along with about a dozen under-graduates, will be working on T-Party. Quanta will also tap somemembers of its 3,000-person engi-neering force to work on the projectin Taiwan and Cambridge.

Quanta’s introduction to MITcame through its involvement inthe Epoch Foundation, a consor-tium of technology-oriented Tai-wanese firms that has had a rela-tionship with the Sloan School ofManagement for the past 13 years.In October, Lam spent half a dayat CSAIL, meeting with Brooksand Victor Zue, the lab’s co-direc-tor. Noting that many of his cus-tomers were scaling back onresearch and development, Lamasked them what the “post-note-book computer era” would looklike, they recalled.

“We have to plan for our future,”Lam explained in the interview.“We have to look for the new appli-cations for our end-users. We hopethat MIT can help us lead theresearch for the platform, and wewill work with our technology part-ners to deliver the products.”

That began a series of discus-sions that culminated with Brooksand Zue visiting Taipei and signinga research contract late last month.Zue said he envisions T-Party con-tinuing a long tradition of influen-tial MIT-created computing fea-tures, from the bitmap displaysused in laptops to the Nu-bus archi-tecture adopted by Apple for itsMacintosh computers. Under thepartnership, Zue said, he sees MITresearchers developing new gad-gets, and Quanta engineers makingprototypes.

“This will give us the ability tobuild cool machines, which willattract students to come here and dotheir research,” Zue said.

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Sloan minor just beginning The 100-student cap will hold

through the spring of 2009, with aspringtime lottery when necessary.The minor will then open to allinterested students. Students whocomplete all the course require-ments without officially enrollingcan still receive the minor.

Next year, the program will like-ly circulate more information about

the details of the subjects, and“we’ll have a year of activities forstudents to see what the minor lookslike,” Kochan said.

However, he does not anticipatemarketing the minor, because Sloanwant students to be managementminors out of interest, not becauseof an enticing advertising campaign.

The minor was made possible byan anonymous gift to the SloanSchool of Management of $20 mil-lion, according to The BostonGlobe. The gift will be used to openmore subjects and hire additionalfaculty and instructors, Kochan said.

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effectiveness of the units.Nilsson said that five students

and the graduate student coordinatormet with the engineers to suggesttechnical changes to the plans.“After that meeting, we gave thecommitment that we would go backand see if any changes were possi-ble,” Nilsson said.

The planned location of the heat-ing units was moved from the livingroom to the bedroom closets inmany of the apartments following apoll of the residents. Many studentshad previously complained that theplacement in the living room inter-fered with furniture placement anddaily activities.

Housing addresses concernsHunt said that she was brought

in to deal with the logistics of whatto do with the displaced residentswhile the heating units are beinginstalled.

Nilsson said the common spacein the Eastgate penthouse would bereserved for this purpose.

Also, Hunt said the residentsrequested assurance that any dam-age done by the contractors wouldbe covered by MIT and that Hous-ing would follow standard proce-dure and reimburse for such dam-age. Students requested storagespace, but Eastgate did not haveany, and Housing was not success-

ful in obtaining outside storagespace at a discounted price.

Some students asked to beallowed to move out at any time,though housing has strict policiesregarding this, Hunt said. She saidthat Eastgate residents will beallowed to terminate their leasebecause of the construction, thoughrequests to be move out temporarilyfor the summer and not pay rent,then move back in the fall, wouldnot be granted. Such a concessionwould cost MIT too much money,as there are approximately 200apartments in Eastgate, whichcharge an average rent of $1200each per month, Hunt said.

Timing constrains changesHunt said that the repairs need to

be completed by next winter, or thesystem would be at risk of failing,resulting in the loss of heat for theentire building. The original plancalled for the renovations to becompleted by mid-August in timefor new students to move in withouthaving to deal with it.

Many of the residents’ requestscould not be granted by the timethe design was presented to theresidents because of a lack of timeor financial reasons, Singletonsaid.

“Perhaps if we had put a studenton the team from day one itwould’ve helped,” said Nilsson.“We’ve learned from that.”

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Nathan B. Ball ’05 beatboxes against Steve Foxx of Berklee School of Music last Saturday, April9, at Noize, an event hosted by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

By Jenny ZhangNEWS EDITOR

Paul B. Hill, Information Ser-vices & Technology senior projectmanager, was announced yesterdayas the winner of the annual AlphaPhi Omega Big Screw Competition,despite only being nominated latelast Wednesday in the week-longcontest. He represented IS&T andWinAthena.

Byron M. Roscoe, an ElectricalEngineering and Computer Sciencetechnical instructor, came in second,representing 6.101 (IntroductoryAnalog Electronics Laboratory).

In the contest, MIT communitymembers donate money to candi-dates they feel have screwed themover the most. All the money isdonated to a charity chosen by the

winning candidate.

Hill shares award with teamAs he accepted the four-foot-

long screw, which he will have for ayear, Hill said his win “was a teameffort” and produced nine normal-sized screwdrivers to give to someof the people with whom he works.He mentioned IS&T’s historicalsuccess in the Big Screw Competi-tion and said that one past winnerhad created a cast of the screw.

The win was “not too surprising,”since problems with IS&T tend toaffect a large portion of the commu-nity, Hill said. Some felt that WinA-thena had screwed them over becauseits AFS software, which is needed foraccessing home directories and fileson Athena, has been responsible for

crashing and disabling the AthenaAFS servers multiple times this term.

Hill said he will probably hangthe four-foot-long screw on his wall.His name will be engraved on thescrew as part of a 25-year tradition.

The $1,565.07 sum will bedonated to Hill’s charity selection,the International Relief Coalition.

Roscoe plans to screw moreIn response to his second place

status, Roscoe said, “I must workharder.” Specifically, he said, hewould not make the 6.101 laborato-ry projects more difficult, but mightrevise them over the summer.

6.101 has been nominated twoyears in a row, and Roscoe said hetook that as a sign that students real-ly like the course.

New ASA OfficersPresident: *Jennifer D. Lobo ’07Treasurer: To be determined.Secretary: James R. Peacock ’08Undergrad Members at Large: Michael Shaw ’07, *Janet H. Leung ’06Graduate Members at Large: *Ken T. Takusagawa G, Nicoli M. AmesGStudent Member at Large: William C. Taggart G

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Monks Pour Sand from Simmons Mandala in Charles

Clockwise from above:The Vajrasattva Sand Mandala is composed of millions of grains of coloredsand painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of severaldays, forming an intricate diagram of the enlightened mind and the idealworld.A crowd follows the monks carrying the sand from the mandala crafted inSimmons Hall towards the Charles River.Onlookers watch as the intricate patterns of the Mandala are swept away asa symbol of the impermanence of all that exists. The Mandala DissolutionCeremony was held in Simmons Hall on April 9, 2005.The sands of the a mandala crafted in Simmons Hall are poured into theCharles River so that the waters may carry the healing energies throughoutthe world.Photography by Joel Sadler

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MIT hosted the Engineer’s Cup last Saturday, April 9, in Steinbrenner Stadium. The meet wel-comed both men’s and women’s teams from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and WorcesterPolytechnic Institute. Both MIT teams placed first.

(top) Ulzie L. Rea ’07 finishes third in his heat of the 200-meter dash.

(bottom) Teixeira D. Anthony ’08 runs down the final straight of the 400-meter hurdle race.Photography by Omari Stephens

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Road signs appeared mysteriously in the Infinite Corridor, directing pedestrian traffic safelythrough crowded hallway intersections.

more openly supported the hacks,writing in an e-mail to PresidentSusan Hockfield, “Our team had agreat time at MIT, and we look for-ward to being hosts for the nextround.”

Rules say pranks must be harmless Although different names are

used to refer to the jokes, both Cal-tech and MIT hackers have rulesrequiring that the mischief be harm-less. At Caltech, these activities arereferred to as pranks, which aredefined as harmless practical jokes,usually between living groups.

The Caltech hackers said theidea to hack MIT came to them nearthe end of last fall. The group decid-ed to carry out its pranks duringCampus Preview Weekend becausefaces would be unfamiliar, and theywould have just begun their thirdquarter. They also wanted an extrachance to learn about the innerworkings of MIT by posing as pre-frosh on Tangerine Tours. The 16Caltech students booked $215 planetickets for CPW Weekend. Addi-tionally, they stayed with formerCaltech undergraduates at MIT toavoid hotel costs, according to theCaltech hacker.

Jones amused by pranksDean of Admissions Marilee

Jones said she knew about the Cal-tech plans for CPW. A few daysbefore CPW, she said, she receivedthe prank T-shirt in the mail. Withthe T-shirt was a note that read“Dear Dean Jones, please acceptthis shirt in the nature of rivalry. Ifyou have any questions about thepranks, please contact us at thisWeb site,” http://www.caltechvsmit.com.

“I think it’s hilarious. I considerhacks a performance art, and I likethe concept of inter-institute rival-ry,” she said. She believes that CPWwas a perfect time, as it helps sparkinterest in the hacking culture atMIT, she said.

Those T-shirts were passed out atthe Academic Fair and on 77 Massa-chusetts Avenue on Friday. PoojaJotwani, a prefrosh from Miami, saidshe initially thought the shirts werenormal MIT shirts until she noticedthe back, which stated “Because noteveryone can go to Caltech.” Over400 shirts were handed out, accord-ing to the Web site.

The Caltech hacker plans to dis-tribute the T-shirts at Caltech inexchange for fifteen dollar dona-tions.

Tom Mannion, assistant vicepresident for campus life at Caltech,said the student government loanedthe prankers the money to pay forthe T-shirts.

MIT hackers respond An MIT hacker said the MIT

hackers did not respond to Caltech’sshenanigans until the Caltechpranksters placed inflatable palmtrees on top of Building 10.

After sneaking into TangerineTours, “we easily got onto the roofand headed over to the Big Dome toplace our pranks,” wrote the Caltechhackers on the Web site. “We inflat-ed Palm trees and duct taped themto the edge of the wall in front ofthe dome, as well as in front of thelibrary window, so that the cold,damp MIT students could at leastget a glimpse of the paradise thatwould have awaited them in Cali-fornia,” stated the pranksters’ Website.

While they were putting themup, however, an MIT hacker saw thetrees and quickly removed them,according to the MIT hacker.

Saturday evening, the Caltechteam sequentially projected the let-ters C-A-L-T-E-C-H onto the topfloor of the Green Building. AnMIT hacker said when they noticedit, they asked the Caltech hackers tostop.

There were some discrepanciesfrom MIT and Caltech about howcooperative the Caltech pranksterswere about turning the flashes off,but they do agree that the Caltechhackers eventually agreed to stop.

In Lobby 7, Caltech pranksterslaunched a giant “C.I.T.” balloon upto the ceiling of Lobby 7, along withmany smaller orange balloons.Three MIT hackers removed theCaltech balloons around midnighton Saturday night.

“After some deliberation andanalysis of the situation, we deter-mined that removal was possible ina safe and nondestructive fashion,”an MIT hacker wrote in an e-mail.“We placed double-sided mountingtape on two helium balloons, whichwere then raised from the groundfloor of Lobby 7 on approximately200 feet of cotton kite string.” Thethree balloons were then broughtdown together.

MIT shows Caltech ‘a real hack’MIT students found a Caltech

prankster attempting to take downthe banner over 77 Mass. Ave. andtook the student to the GreaterBoston Invitational Sing. “Theycourteously invited him to ‘see areal hack,’” said the Caltechpranksters’ Web site.

During the Logarhythms’ perfor-mance at Greater Boston Invitation-al Sing, a banner dropped from theceiling. It said, “More dome foryour dollar, More beaver for yourbill, More bang for your buck,” withappropriate illustrations.

Now that Caltech has struck thefirst blow, will MIT students retali-ate? The Caltech prefrosh weekendis this upcoming weekend. “We’renot going to play by their rules.We’re going to surprise them,” saidan MIT hacker.

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By John Miller and Andy HillTEAM MEMBERS

Last Saturday morning proved tobe a nice one for the MIT Heavy-weight Crew Program, as three ofthe team’s four boats emerged vic-torious in the Donahue Cup races.

Rowing in a gusting tailwind,the varsity, first freshmen, and sec-ond freshmen crews all defeatedcrews from Williams College,Worcester Polytechnic Institute,and Connecticut College in theirrespective races.

The varsity eight (with NicholasJ. Barsley CMI at bow, followed byMartin E. Harrysson ’07, John J.Bergin ’06, Michael P. Whitaker’06, John B. Miller ’05, Raymond(Andy) Hill ’05, Robert A. Figueire-do ’05, John J. Cooley ’05 at stroke,and Craig J. Rothman ’05 ascoxswain) had a solid start andslowly walked through a quick-

starting WPI crew. The Engineers’strong first half of the race pushedthem out ahead of the field by anentire boat length. Figueiredo saidfollowing the race that “With 300meters down, we knew we weregoing to win. We just had more basespeed than the other crews.”

MIT finished off the race with asteady second 1000 meters, movingeven farther away from the trailingcrews. Captains Cooley and Milleraccepted the Donahue Cup onbehalf of the team for the secondstraight year.

The junior varsity (with NicholasA. Allard ’06 at bow, Brian M.Sweatt ’07, Evan A. Karlik ’07,Dwight M. Chambers ’06, Brian T.Neltner ’05, Benjamin D. Wasser-man ’07, Christopher R. Rhodes’06, Brendan J. Smith ’06 at stroke,and coxswain Jeanna Q. Liu ’07)lost but got a second chance to chal-lenge WPI after stroke seat Smith

was ejected from the boat after“catching a crab” (a rowing term forwhen one’s oar blade gets stuck inthe water, often striking the oarsmanforcefully). While he does notremember the details of his flight,teammates said he was at leastinverted once before his plunge intothe icy water of Lake Quinsiga-mond.

Three hours after fishing Smithout of the water, Tech’s JV lost toWPI by about a length.

In contrast to the JV crew, bothof MIT’s freshmen crews performedwell in their events. With unusualpower for a freshmen crew, the firstfreshmen eight opened up a leadover the other three crews in theirrace in the first 200 meters, a leadthey maintained. The second fresh-man eight was also victorious asthey pushed away from a sprint byWPI with 600 meters to go andmaintained their lead.

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By Yong-yi ZhuCOLUMNIST

The drought is over.We didn’t believe him when he

told us in interviews that he wasputting a great swing together. Wethought it was just his way out ofanswering the media’s tough ques-tions. We didn’t believe he wouldever have that stature of dominanceagain after leaving Butch Harmon.We thought he would stoop to thelevel of the field and have troublewinning another major tournament.

Boy, were we wrong.Tiger Woods beat Chris DiMar-

co Sunday afternoon in a playoff tofinally get the major monkey off hisback. He didn’t play great down thestretch, but he did play just wellenough when it truly mattered. Thedefining stretch of this Masters hap-pened again on the back nine asDiMarco slowly erased Tiger’sseeming indomitable lead with hisown steady play.

It started out as a three-strokelead at the beginning of the round.But that lead did not last. DiMarcohit a magnificent shot on the four-teenth hole that rolled up snuglynext to the pin. He had the tap-inbirdie, and when Tiger missedmoments later, the lead was down toone. Then, DiMarco put anothershot in close at the fifteenth to chal-lenge Tiger again. He and Tigerboth made birdies on the par five tostay within one of each other.

The sixteenth hole is one thatnobody will ever forget. Eventhough it looked as though Tigerwould bogey and Chris would

birdie, Woods hit the shot of his life,chipping from the rough to get theball barely into the hole. However,Tiger bogeyed the 71st and 72ndholes of the tournament to take it toa playoff. But, he made a birdie onthe playoff hole to win and erasedany doubt that he is now the numberone player in the world again.

After the Masters this Sunday,our impressions of Tiger Woodsmust be different from those we hada week ago. Sure, he dispelled ourthoughts that he would never beTiger-like again by beating PhilMickelson one-on-one several weeksago. But this performance was gritti-er and much more entertaining. Hebook-ended two absolutely spectacu-lar rounds with two mediocre ones.

When he putted the ball intoRae’s creek on Thursday, ending upwith a bogey at the thirteenth, wethought his tournament would beover. He was plagued by bad luckand poor shots the entire first day ofthe Masters. But he battled back.

The second round was fantastic,as Tiger shot a six-under 66. In con-trast to the first round, when he wasone over par for the par fives, in thisround, he was three under par. Hecontinued his dominance in the thirdround when he tied a record bymaking seven straight birdies. Infact, Tiger was 11 under par for the26 holes that he played on Saturday.What was perhaps most telling,though, was that Tiger completelyerased Chris DiMarco’s four-shotlead in exactly 26 minutes of theSunday morning third round.

When Sunday rolled around,

Tiger looked tentative. It looked likethis was the attempt at his first major,not his ninth. The tentativeness mighthave been because he had not won aMajor in over two years. It might alsohave been because his dad is not interribly great health. Whatever it was,he started Sunday afternoon just theway he played the second and thirdrounds — with plenty of birdies. Hebirdied both the first and the secondholes but quickly ran into a wall.

The third, fourth, and fifth holesof Sunday were problems for Tiger.He was confused by the fact that hisputts on three and four were short,so he ran the putt on five way by thehole. As a result, he three-putted,and his charge atop the leaderboard was halted. He never lookedcomfortable after that until the play-off hole, when he hit two great shotsto finally win a Major again.

We definitely saw a differentTiger Woods on Sunday afternoon.He took more time with his clubselection. He took more time withthe reading of the greens. He evenused the help of his caddie, SteveWilliams. It was an uncharacteristicTiger, but it was a better Tiger. Hewas not recklessly aggressive. Heplayed to the safe sides of greens ashe tried to keep the ball hole-highwhenever possible. Even when hemade mistakes, he gave himself achance to get out of them. It was,after all, a Major tournament; I’msure he had the right to be nervous.

Is this Tiger going to be the onefrom the 2000 season? Or will he bemore like the one from the last twoyears? We will find out at Pinehurst.

By Travis JohnsonSTAFF WRITER

MIT’s women’s softball team con-tinued this season’s offensive woesFriday, losing 5–0 and 5–2 in a dou-

bleheader against visit-ing Worcester Poly-technic Institute.

MIT struggledagainst WPI pitchingall day, recording only

10 hits in 45 at bats. The Engineersparticularly struggled against WPI’sMeghan Kelley, who pitched 10shutout innings — including theentire first game.

“We can hit any pitcher in thisleague,” MIT Coach Lisa Vega saidafterwards. But since their confer-ence season began, the team’s confi-dence has disappeared, and theyhaven’t been able to string enoughhits together to score any runs, shesaid.

The result is a 0–8 start in theNew England Women’s and Men’sAthletic Conference, particularlyhard to swallow after playing bettersoftball earlier in the season.

MIT’s offense struggled Fridayas it has many times this season.The best chance MIT had in the firstgame was in the bottom of thefourth, when a leadoff double byLeah A. Bogsted ’08 was followedby a walk. However, two ground-balls and a strikeout left the runnersstranded.

MIT also got a runner in scoringposition in both the fifth and sixthinnings but were unable to score.All totaled, MIT was 0–5 in at-batswith runners in scoring position.

The second game got off to agood start for the Engineers. Aman-

da M. Jason ’08 started the gamewith a single, which was followedby a single from Amanda N. Poteet’08. Jason got out while trying toadvance to third on the single,which was unfortunate because thesubsequent double of Cheryl A.Texin ’06 only drove in one insteadof two. MIT added another run inthe third inning when Texin tripledpast a diving right fielder and drovein Jason, who singled earlier thatinning.

But WPI came back in the fifth,when they put together a two-runrally. WPI then took the lead in thetop of the sixth, taking advantage ofa defensive lapse by MIT.

MIT’s offense went into hiberna-tion after the third, due in part to thereturn of WPI’s Kelley, who addedfour shutout innings to the seven shepitched in the first game.

On the bright side, Bogsted, whoalready has a team record for strike-outs in a season, pitched excellently.After Friday’s games, she had animpressive 117 strikeouts in 97innings this season.

Bogsted is one of the nine fresh-men on MIT’s team that make upthe future of the program. A teamthis young can get experience andimprove their play quickly, which ispart of the reason Vega is still hope-ful for this season. “Our goal is towin games, and we can still dothat,” she said.

So far this April, MIT hasplayed 11 games, including 5 dou-bleheaders. That kind of schedulemakes it more likely to go onstreaks, and unfortunately for MIT,they have only been on a losingstreak.

Women’s Softball’s WoesContinue in Double Loss

Heavyweights Row Well at Donahue Cup

Masters Show It’s Finally Tiger’s Time Again

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MIT competed in a collegiate criterium race in the 2005 Boston Beanpot Cycling Classic, held lastSunday, April 10, at Tufts University. With solid performances during the previous two days, the MITcycling team placed 7th overall.(above) Dye-Zone A. Chen G hangs at the front of the pack.(left) Jason A. Sears G takes a fast, downhill left-hander.

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By Travis JohnsonSTAFF WRITER

MIT Baseball came from behindfor two dramatic wins in a double-header Saturday against Coast

Guard, with scores of2–1 and 4–3.

Lagging 1–0 in thebottom of the seventhinning during the first

game, it was do or die for MIT.Their usually-potent offense hadbeen unable to earn a run againstCoast Guard’s Mike Jarbeau for thefirst six innings.

MIT tied the game on a singlefrom Jason T. Witzberger ’07,which knocked in Kevin Wheeler’08, who had been walked. Aninning later, Wheeler won the game

with a walk-off single that knockedin Wayne P. Duggan ’06.

Against a hot pitcher like Jar-beau, MIT Coach Andrew Barlowhad his players do anything theycould to change the bad trend. “Wetalked about slowing his rhythmdown, stepping out a lot. He wastough,” said Barlow afterwards.

Their tactics worked: Jarbeaumade mistakes down the stretch,including the leadoff walks in theseventh and eighth that allowedMIT to score the tying and winningruns.

On the defensive side, Dugganpitched eight innings and held CoastGuard to only one unearned run onfive hits. He pitched very efficiently,only throwing 73 pitches in eight

innings, which helped keep thedefense sharp.

MIT got off to a faster start inthe second game, grabbing an early2–0 lead on a Duggan home run anda Coast Guard error in the firstinning.

Starting pitcher Jay M. Turner’08 had a smooth first couple ofinnings. He was aided by a spectacu-lar defensive play by right fielderWitzberger, who caught a line driveand threw out a stealing Coast Guardbase running at first. But, CoastGuard took advantage of wild pitch-es and used aggressive base runningto score three runs in the top of thefourth, putting them in the lead.

MIT responded in the sixth,when Kyle M. Zeller ’06 and War-

ren W. Bates ’06 led off with sin-gles. Zeller advanced on Bates’ sin-gle, and Bates advanced on a stolenbase, giving the Engineers a runneron second and third with nobodyout. Michael M. Batty ’05 drove inone runner with a sacrifice fly, tyingthe game at 3–3.

Then, Matthew B. Harrington ’08stepped up to the plate for his first at-bat of the season, with runners onfirst and second and two outs. He hita weak line drive up the middle thatfell, driving in the winning run andmaking him an unlikely hero.

Defensively, MIT’s bullpen tookover from Turner in the fourthinning. Inhan Kang ’05, Joseph P.Yurko ’08, and closer Cliff A.Roscow ’05 combined to shut down

the Bears for the rest of the game,allowing only one hit.

The one Coast Guard hit came inthe seventh but was quickly erasedby a 5–4–3 double play that put torest any thought of a rally by theBears.

With Saturday’s wins, MIT isnow 11–6 and 4–1 in the New Eng-land Women’s and Men’s AthleticConference, tied for first in the losscolumn. When asked about winningthe conference championship, Bar-low said, “That’s always our goal,but until we beat Wheaton and Bab-son, it’s theirs to win. Togetherthey’ve won the [last] eight years.”

MIT has home games today andtomorrow, both at 3:30 p.m. onBriggs Field.

By Alisha SchorTEAM MEMBER

After the intended outdoor seasonopener at Tufts was rained out theprevious week, the MIT women’s

track and field teamtested out their abilitiesfor the first time lastSaturday at the Engi-neer’s Cup at MIT.The competition saw

strong efforts from MIT’s runners,jumpers, and throwers, who beat theEngineers from Worcester Polytech-nic Institute (WPI) and RensselearPolytechnic Institute (RPI).

Competition opened with thehammer throw at noon, in whichevery MIT competitor recorded a per-sonal best, earning MIT 18 out of the22 points possible per event.

“Our throwing team did excellentyesterday. I know [Head Coach PaulSlovenski] was proud to be ahead byso much right from the first event,”Kay D. Furman ’07 said.

In the distance events, MIT sweptthe scoring places in the 3000 metersteeplechase and the 5000 meters,allowing the other schools only threepoints in the 1500 meters. Many fieldevents posted similarly positiveresults, including a number of topthree finishes, which reflected contin-uation or improvement from theindoor season.

WPI and RPI appeared to havemore ability in the sprint events thanthey did in other categories, but

MIT’s Engineers still managed tograb a number of scoring places. Tri-captain Meredith N. Silberstein ’05shaved nearly a half of a second offof her old 100-meter best and dippedunder 13 seconds for the first time,taking second place in 12.73 seconds.Her time was only four hundreths ofa second away from MIT’s varsityrecord. Middle distance runnerJacqueline J. Greene ’07 posted animpressive 62.30 seconds in the 400-meter dash, showing that she will bea valuable asset to MIT’s 1600-meterrelay.

Outdoor track generally suffersfrom a fairly short team scoring sea-son, and there are only three weeksleft to prepare for the NEWMACchampionship meet. However, thestrong individual performances in theEngineer’s cup gave a good indica-tion of MIT’s potential at the confer-ence meet. While the Engineers arestill not favorites to win the eight-team competition, they have astronger chance than ever to topplethe consistently dominant WheatonCollege, which has been the onlywinner of the women’s track champi-onship since the conception of theconference.

Next week, the Lady Engineerswill travel to Colby College inMaine.

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Baseball Team Comes From Behind for Double Win

Women’s Track and Field Team Wins Engineer’s Cup

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Christine Fanchiang ’07 takes a vault during the Engineer’s Cup.

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Gwendolyn B. Johnson ’08 leads the women’s 5000-meter race dur-ing the Engineer’s Cup.

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Zachary J. Traina ’05 hands off the baton to Brian C. Anderson G during the 4x400-meter relay of theEngineer’s Cup, held last Saturday, April 9, at Steinbrenner Stadium. The meet welcomed both men’sand women’s teams from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. BothMIT teams placed first in the event.

Tuesday, April 12

Varsity Baseball vs. BabsonCollege

Briggs Field, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 13

Varsity Baseball vs. PlymouthState University

Briggs Field, 3:30 p.m.

Varsity Men’s Tennis vs. ClarkUniversity

du Pont Tennis Courts/JBCarr Tennis Bubble, 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 14

Varsity Women’s Lacrosse vs.Endicott College

Jack Barry Field, 6 p.m.

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