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Iyad Obeid '97 and Steven Niemczyk G have a man-to-man talk at Late Night with Sigma Kappaheld Friday night in Kresge Auditorium.

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of thought" on Ve t's part, saidDirector of Student Financial AidStanley G. Hudson. Vest has beensoliciting a lot of input from people.However, there's been "no commu-nication about what the next stepsare going to be."

The Office of the Vice Presidentfor Administration supervises theAdmissions Office, the Bursar'sOffice, the Registrar's Office, theOffice of Student Financial Aid, theOffice of Career Services andPreprofessional Advising, theAthletics Department, the MedicalDepartment, and the Office of"Sponsored Programs.

Currently, Director of"

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. The death of Vice President forAdministration James 1. Culliton inJune left a void at the vice presiden-tiallevel. President Charles M. Vestis in charge of selecting a replace-ment, but it is unclear how theresponsibilities of the vice presidentmay change, said Senior VicePresident William R. Dickson '56.

"1 have no idea what's happen-ing," said Nancy M. Crosby, admin-istrative assistant for the office ofthe vice president for administra-tion. Vest said he would contact theoffice before making a publicannouncement, but "no decisionshave been made as of yet," she said.

"I know there's been a great deal

By David D. HsuNEWS EDITOR '

Vest StillOn Replace e 0Former VP Cullito

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Greek Week, Page 12

INSIDE• With echoes of SHPC,administrators meet todiscuss Institute's plansfor housing. Page 6

• Police Log.

• MIT grads' onlinegrocery stores offerfresh and inexpensiveproducts. Page 8

Week packed with FSILG eventsToday a "Wing It" chicken

wing-eating contest will take placeon the steps of the Student Center atnoon. The event involves teams oftwo tackling plates of chickenwings for a prize, which will bepresented on Saturday night. Extrawings will be present to draw inactive and daring audience mem-bers. .

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Greek Week kicked off its fes-tivities yesterqay with last night'sshowing of the ever-popular AnimalHouse, a movie about fraternitylife.

Sponsored by the InterfraternityCouncil, Greek Week intends "topromote Greek life on campus andto get students involved in produc-tive activities," said eal H.Dorow, adviser to fraternities,sororities, and independent livinggroups.

With a variety of activities rang-ing from the educational to thesocial, the events bring a numberchanges this year. The emphasis inevents has moved away from alco-hol, said Greek Week Co-ChairWaleed H. Anbar '99.

But for the first time this year,alcohol will actually be present atthe Greek Week Charity Ball onSaturday night. It is going to be sig-nificantly more limited at Thursdaynight's Progressive Dinners, anElections, Page 15

ore re ponsibility for educationThe increasing number of credit courses offered during lAP resulted

from the calendar change proposed in 1993 by fonner Chair of FacultyRobert L. Jaffe, said Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic AffairsMary Z. Enterline.

There was a huge debate over whether lAP should be extended fromits length the time of three weeks to its present length of four weeks,

By Winnie Chol

are Darrell M. Drake '00, DanielleA. Hinton '00, and Ricci H. Rivera'00.

''I'm running for vice presidentbecause I'd like to promote unityand create a community that willembrace differences," Hinton said."I feel that it is easiest to do thisform a leadership position."

The candidates for treasurer areGillian M. Deutch '00, and ShobhaD. Williamson '00.

"I'm interested in becoming trea-surer because I've held this positionbefore and I really enjoyed it,"Deutch said. "I'd like to getinvolved in any aspect of the studentgovernment here."

The candidates for secretary areJui-Chen Chang '00, Puja Gupta'00, and Reshma Patil '00.

"In the month that I've beenhere, it seems to me that there is alot of potential for improvementhere at MIT," Chang said.

With the increase ~n the number of credit cour es offered duringIndependent Activities Period, there has been a rising concern that MITstudents' annual break in January is becoming more .and more academi-'caUy oriented. .

lAP - originally desi~ed as a way for students to take less stressfuland more interesting classes between the fall and spring semester - hasfor some departments become a time to squeeze in undergraduate classes.

Some departments have chosen to offer some.required classes duringlAP and only lAP, meaning that students in those departments will beobliged to stay at the Institute for at least one January during their under-graduate years to complete their degree requirements.

The Department of Physics requires students to take either ClassicalMechanics Il (8.21) or Advanced Project Laboratory (8.122) white theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering requires Mechanical EngineeringTools (2.670), all of which are offered exclu ively in January.

fall were very close, with threeoffices being decided on a margin ofless than 10 votes.

¥eting - which will run frommidnight on Thursday to midnighton Sunday - is once again beingconducted electronically on Athena.Freshmen can choose to read candi-dates platforms and vote by typing"add ua" and then "vote" at theAthena prompt. Election results willbe available by next Tuesday.

Six run for presidentThe candidates for President are

Brandy A. Karl '00, Lars C. Oleson'00, Marianna S. Parker '00, MarkC. Phillip '00, Sandra C. Sandoval'00, and Zhelinrentice L. Scott '00.

"I'm running for presidentbecause I'd like to be [as] involvedas possible," Sandoval said.

"I hear that the class presidentshere at MIT are basically figure-heads, and I'd definitely like tochange that," Phillip said.

The candidates for vice president

Class~s over ~ Center Increasingly Around Academics

1NDRANATH NEOGY-TH£ TECHProgram Administrator of Undergraduate Academic AffairsMarshall Hughes

By Shawdee EshghlSTAFF REPORTER

Despite a 20 percent decrease inthe total number of candidates, thisyear's freshman class elections offera much broader field of candidatesthan elections in the past few years.

The candidates this year arespread out over all six electedoffices. This has not been the case inpast years, -when there have been alarge number of freshmen running.for president and few running forother offices.

There are six candidates forpresident, three for vice president,two for treasurer, and three for sec-retary. There are two teams of twostudents each running for socialchair and one team running uncon-tested for publicity chair.

"The fact that fewer people arerunning for each position shouldmake the contests more spread out,"said Undergraduate AssociationPresident Richard Y. Lee '97. Theelections for the Class of 1999 last

Frosh Run for All Class Positions Greek Week Focuses onIn Departure from Past Trends ~~~l, Q mm~~~!!h!!'l~~~

"Progressive Orun " in previousyears by some.

"It has been in the pa t," Anbarsaid. "We're trying to move awayfrom that."

In general, alcohol at all eventswill be kept to the most "minimalpresence as possible," Anbar said.Only those 2] and older will be ableto cross into the bar at the GreekWeek ball, for example.

Greek Week is focusing its ener-gy on community service, Anbarsaid. "Basically, the fact that wehave organizations like FSILGs hereat MIT means that we should giveback something to M IT and thecommunity."

Greek Week events are typicallyattended by mostly FSILG mem-bers. But the hope is that non-FSILG members of the MlT com-munity will a]so take part, Anbarsaid.

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& ATIONBritish Police Seize: 10 -Tons

IRA Explosives in RaidSIs

LOS A GELES TIMESWASHI GTO

Japan Asserts Claim to Islands,Turns Back Ships of Protesters

A former federal drug agent said Monday that while stationed inEI alvador in the mid-1980 he came acro evidence that membersof the CIA-backed rebel force in icaragua were muggling cocaineinto the United tate for profit.

Celerino Ca tillo III, a former Drug Enforcement Admini trationagent, aid at a news conference he sent reports to his agency aboutContra drug flights in 1985 and 1986, but that tho e report wereburied by the DEA.

The House Intelligence Committee and the CIA's in pector gen-eral have begun inquiries into recent newspaper reports that suchflights were part of a drug pipeline from Colombian drug cartels toblack neighborhoods in Southern California. In a eries of storieslast month, the San Jo e Mercury ews said cocaine was distrib-uted through a San Francisco drug ring, with proceeds supportingContra forces at war with icaragua's left-wing Sandinista govern-ment.

CIA director John M. Deutch wrote Rep. Maxine Waters (0-Cali f.), earlier this month that an internal inquiry several years agoshowed "the agency neither participated in nor condoned drug traf-ficking by Contra forces." But Deutch said the inspector generalwould open a new investigation into the charges.

Annenia's President DeclaresVictory in Controversial Vote

SPECIAL TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMESYEREVA • ARME fA

Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan declared victory in hisbid for another five-year term Monday, riding rough over large oppo-sition protest and observers' complaints of irregularitie in Sunday'selection.

"It's a brilliant victory," Ter-Petrosyan declared in a ramblingspeech televi ed to his supporter .

Official but incomplete returns gave the incumbent 57 percent ofthe vote to 37 percent for Vazgen Manukyan, his former prime minis-ter and nearest rival. It appeared that two-thirds of the votes had beencounted by Monday night but officials could not say for sure.

Manukyan claimed widespread fraud and declared himself thewinner with as much as 60 percent of the vote. "Our country hasmany faults. But we will fight to the end," he told one of a series ofrallies that ended with a march to Parliament by 30,000 peoplechanting "President Manukyan!" The crowd generally was calmbut some demon trators tore down Ter-Petrosyan campaignposters.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, whichmonitored the election, is expected to declare Tuesday whether it wasfree and fair.

By Fred BarbashTHE WASHINGTON POST

LO DO

Police eized about 10 tons ofexplosives in dawn raids on suspect-ed Iri h Republican Army hideoutMonday, during which they arrestedfive men and fatally shot another inWest London.

Authorities said they believe theseizures prevented "imminent"attacks of a "significant" scale, not-ing that the quantity of explosivestaken Monday was six times largerthan that which the IRA used todevastate Manchester's centralshopping area in June.

It was the third major police haulof what were believed to be IRAbombs and bomb-making materialssince the terrorist organization,based in orthern Ireland, ended anl8-month cease-fire in February byexploding a powerful bomb inLondon's Docklands office andapartment complex.

The West London raid was thefirst of the series to involve gunfire.Police, acting under Britain's strictrules of pretrial secrecy, did not dis-close details of the shooting, whichtook place outside a guest house inthe Hammersmith section ofLondon - just west of the centralcity - or the name of the dead man.

Despite the string of raids, lawenforcement sources said they couldnot be confident that they have dis-abled seriously the destructivecapacity of the well-organized para-military group, which operates inindependent cells across the British

mainland and in orthern Ireland."I have no doubt that today's

operation has frustrated an attempt"by the IRA to "carry out significantand imminent attacks on the main-land with the possibility, indeed theprobability, of grave loss of life,serious damage and disruption tomainland cities," Sir Paul Condon,chief of the Metropolitan Police,told a news conference.

Most of the seized materials -including fertilizer explosives andthe chemical explosive Semtex -were taken during a raid on a ware-house storage facility in NorthLondon. Police also recovered threeKalashnikov rifles, two handguns,and trucks and other vehicles thatthey said likely would have beenused to deliver the bombs.

Police provided no details aboutpossible targets.

During the past two decades, theIRA has set off hundreds of bombs,wreaking billions of dollars in prop-erty damage as part of its campaignto force Britain to relinquish controlof Northern Ireland.

The illegal organization declareda cessation of hostili~ies on August31, 1995 and was soon joined byterrorist organizations fromNorthern Ireland's Protestant "loy-alist" community, which favors con-tinued British rule in the province.

The IRA abruptly reversedcourse in February, declaring itsimpatience with the British responseto the cease-fire. As a result, SinnFein has been excluded from multi-party talks which have resumed in

Belfast under the chairmanship offormer U.S. Senate Majority LeaderGeorge Mitchell. Those discussions- involving both Catholic andProtestant parties - are designed tolead to a permanent settlement ofthe sectarian strife that has claimedmore than 3,000 lives in the past 25years. They have yet to achieve sub-stantive progress, however.

Since February, the IRA has setoff two significant explosions inEngland (in Manchester and at theDocklands in London), detonatedseveral smaller devices and had sev-eral others foiled by mistakes ofexecution. This summer, an IRAunit was blamed for blowing up ahotel in Enniskillen in NorthernIreland.

But the organization has largelyavoided bombings in the province,for fear, observers believe, of alien-ating some of its own supportersand prompting the Protestant terror-ist organizations to reinstate theirown bombing campaigns, whichthey have resisted so far.

Gerry Adams, leader of SinnFein, did not dispute police claimsthat they had thwarted a major IRAbombing campaign, and heexpressed regret for the death of theman shot by police.

One of those arrested in the raidswas an employee of BritishAirways, the airline confirmed lateMonday, stressing that it had no rea-son to believe the man's activitieswere directed at the country's pre-mier national and international aircarrier.

Yeltsin's Health Renews StruggleTHE WASHINGTON POST

MOSCOW

President Boris Yeltsin' s heart illness, which his doctors haverevealed to be a more serious condition than was previously known,has fueled a fresh and increasingly intense struggle among leadingpoliticians who would like to ucceed him.

Although Yeltsin may survive bypass surgery and return as thevigorou leader who danced and rallied his way through last year'spre idential campaign, his rivals have begun behaving as ifhis days inpower are numbered. They seem to be preparing for a re-run of theleadership struggle that was seemingly settled only two and a halfmonths ago, when Yeltsin won a second four-year term.

The Ru sian constitution provides for a new election within threemonths if the president suffers a "sustained inability due to health todischarge his powers."

Zyuganov told Reuters Monday that hiding Yeltsin's conditiondays before the vote "amounts to falsification. The elections werenot fair." Asked if he wanted Yeltsin to resign, Zyuganov said,"Yes."

Yegor Gaidar, the reformist economist who served as prime min-ister under Yeltsin, said Monday that Yeltsin's illness "adds anunpleasant element of uncertainty to the current political and eco-nomic situation."

WEATHERWelcome to Autumn!

By Mlshelle MichaelsWHDH- TVIINTELLICAST

After ew England's first frost since the end of last May, anotherrainmaker will head our way by tonight but will quickly exit the areaearly tomorrow morning with little in the way of total rainfall.

By tomorrow afternoon the skies should average out to be partlysunny, and that trend should continue for the rest of the week. In thelong range, there are hints of a weekend warm up. Thursday night weare keeping our fingers crossed for clear skies, as there will be a totallunar eclipse entering totality around 10: 19 p.m. and lasting forroughly an hour. Saturn will be visible and at its brightest all year justunder the moon.

Today: Sunshine gives to afternoon clouds. High 60-67°F(16-1 9°C).

Tonight: Cloudy skies. Some showers. Low 48-55°F (9-1 3°C).Wednesday: Early clouds and shower, partly sunny in the after-

noon and evening. High mid 60s (18°C).

By Maggie Farleyand Rone TempestLOS ANGELES TIMES

HO GKONG

Japan on Monday asserted itsclaim to a chain of disputed islandsby blocking a flotilla of Taiwan andHong Kong demonstrators who triedto land on the stony outposts toplant flags of Taiwan and thePeople's Republic of China.

According to reporters aboardthe seven small vessels containinganti-Japanese activists, the demon-strators were turned back byJapanese coast guard craft beforethey could land on the tiny, unin-habited islands located 100 milesnortheast of Taiwan.

Japan, China and Taiwan allclaim the rocky archipelago,known in Japanese as the SenkakuIslands and in Chinese as theDiaoyutai. A lighthouse put upthere by Japanese ultranationalistsin July has sparked anti-Japanesedemonstrations in Taiwan andHong Kong and has emerged as abeacon for Chinese nationalistsaround the world.

Albert Ho, a Hong Kong legisla-tor aboard a ship turned away by theJapanese, said before the trip thatthe protesters hoped to force ashowdown between the Chinese andJapanese governments.

"This trip is planned to escalatethe matter to a higher level, so thatboth governments can't afford toignore it," he told Hong Kong tele-vision reporters as he boarded a 60-foot ship in Taiwan this pastSunday.

Chinese officials say thatForeign Minister Qian Qichen willaddress the issue with his Japanesecounterpart, Yukihiko Ikeda,Tuesday at the U.N. GeneralAssembly in New York.

Despite both governments'attempts to downplay the conflict -their first direct territorial clash

since World War II - popular sen-timent remains high in China, HongKong and Taiwan against perceivedJapanese militarism.

Determined to create a con-frontation, Hong Kong andTaiwanese activists have planned aseries of attempts to tear down theJapanese lighthouse and replacethe Japanese flag with a Chineseone.

A rusting tanker carrying anothergroup of Hong Kong protesters isexpected to reach the islands later inthe week; two fresh waves ofChinese patriots will follow in thenext two weeks, including 40paroled Taiwanese convicts vowingto sacrifice their lives. Japanese offi-cials had already turned away threeboats before Monday's landingattempt.

One Hong Kong man preparingto leave on the boat that will arrivelater in the week said he wouldrather not die for the cause but itwas important to face the Japanesegroup's challenge. "We are going toshow the world how angry we are,"said Angus Chan, 28. "We want tofight for our island."

Just over 100 years since Chinalost the islands to Japan, and 65years after Japan invaded northernChina, Chinese all over Asia took tot e streets to vent their rage at aJapan that has only recently apolo-gized for long-denied wartimeatrocities.

To mark the war anniversary,which was commemorated in HongKong on Sept. 15, 12,000 peoplemarched, chanting anti-Japaneseslogans, even storming Japanesedepartment stores.

In Shenyang, China, where thefirst Japanese invasions occurred,.citizens fell silent while a sirenwailed on the Sept. 18 anniversary.In Beijing, nearly 100 guards sur-rounded the Japanese Embassy forthe day. On Sunday, as the ships

prepared to sail from Taiwan'ssouthern port of Chi lung, 15,000supporters paraded in Taipei, someflogging an effigy of the Japaneseprime minister.

"We've been fighting Japanesemilitarism for a long time," said AuPak Kuen, 49, a Hong Kong teacherwho first protested the Japanesepossession of the disputed islands in1971, when the United States hand-ed them back to Japan along withOkinawa. "We have to settle thisissue before the wartime generationvanishes and the new generationforgets."

The issue of who owns theislands - further fueled by suspect-ed oil reserves beneath them - hascreated an unlikely coalition ofChinese in Hong Kong, Taiwan,China and the United States; theirusual political divisions have beensuperseded by their shared anti-Japanese sentiment.

In Hong Kong, protesters whohad burned the five-starred Chineseflags at a Tiananmen Square mas-sacre memorial gathering on June 4,were waving them last week inpatriotic fury.

One prominent democracyactivist Who had picketed China'sde facto embassy hundreds of times,was welcomed inside for ~!Ie firsttime when he came to present apetition about the islands.

But after an initial flurry of criti-cal newspaper articles and a strongofficial protest earlier this monthwhen Japanese right wing activistsrepaired the makeshift lighthouse,Beijing has urged restraint.

While anti-Japanese demonstra-tions raged in Hong Kong andTaiwan, the mainland Chinese gov-ernment denied requests from stu-dent and other groups' to stage pub-lic protests. Security has remainedespecially heavy in the past weekaround the Japanese Embassy inBeijing. •

Gunmen Shoot, Kill 21 WorshippersDuring Services at Pakistani Mosque

THE WASHINGTON POST

Private Sector Contract AngersAmerican Postal Workers Union

C Suggests TIghter RestrictionsOn cc to Computer Information

WASHI GTON

The Federal Trade Commission has suggested that Congresstighten the restrictions on who can obtain information like SocialSecurity numbers and prior addresses from consumer creditbureaus.

The move follows an outpouring of consumer concern last weekover reports that anyone with a credit card and a computer could easi-ly track down such details about people through various online ser-vice. With such information. fraud artists have opened credit lines inothers' names. run up thousands of dollars of charges and wreckedorne consumers' credit historie .

The Fair Credit Reporting Act limits who can receive informationconcerning individuals' credit-worthiness. But FTC Chairman RobertPitofsky noted in a Sept. 20 letter to Sen. Richard Bryan (D- ev.),enior Democrat on the Banking Committee's financial institutionubcommittee. no provision of the law" pecifically prohibits the

release of non-credit-related consumer identifying information" likeSocial Security number .

In June. database giant Lexis- exis briefly made such informationwidely available. a decision that sparked a wave of consumer protestson the Internet. Other organizations include such con umer identifica-tion information in electronic databases that are sold to groupsincluding law firms and the media. The Washington Post, forinstance. ubscribes to several such databases.

THE WASHINGTO POST

WASHI GTO

When you call the U.S. Postal Service's toll-free telephone num-ber to ask about Zip codes or the location of the nearest post office,the person providing the information may not be a postal worker.

And that has the nation's largest postal union furious. Union offi-cials are vowing to fight the federal agency's announced plans to givea growing number of such jobs to private industry.

Last week. the 365.000-member American Postal Workers Unionfaced its first challenge under Postmaster General Marvin T.Runyon's new program to "contract out" postal chores to the privatesector. The agency announced that it has signed a two-year, 65.7million contract with a Denver firm to operate a 24-hour postal infor-mation telephone line for six western states.

Teletech Facilities Management Inc. will hire about 1.200 full-and part-time workers to answer what postal officials describe a"routine postal questions" for customers in the West under the con-tract. It is the first of six regional information service centers theagency plans to open within the next 18 months.

Beginning in mid-December. the Denver center will offeraround-the-clock information to callers from Alaska. Hawaii,California. Nevada. Oregon and Washington over an 800 telephonenumber.

Postal officials compared the service to that offered by banks, air-lines and credit card companies and said it was another service thatpostal customers wanted.

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men invaded the mosque and show-ered the worshippers with subma-chine-gun fire. The gunmen. said tonumber four. managed to escape.

All of the victims were Sunnis,the majority denomination inPakistan. According to hospital offi-cials. many of the slain worshipperswere students. ages 10 to 16. fromthe religious school next to themosque. At least 33 people werewounded in the fusillade. and thedeath toll was expected to rise.

Th'e matting where the Sunnishad been been praying was soakedwith blood. The dead, their facescovered with cloths. were wheeledaway in handcarts.

There was no immediate claimof responsibility. but authorities saidthey believed the attack was for themurder of the Shiite leader inBawahalpur the previous day.

ties de cribed their effort to meetthe new requirement as chaotic.proclaiming the level of confusionthe worst me in 25 years of socialwelfare reform.

California first announced lastweek that it would begin cutting offnon-citizens. but by week' s end hadbacked off in the face of a new fed-eral directive suggesting theirefforts may have been premature.

Early Monday. county officialbegan stacking new food tampapplications from non-citizens ineparate piles. awaiting word from

their superiors on how to handlethem.

Susan Miller. a sistant districtmanager of the Orange County.California. social services agency,said "We take the application ...except we don't approve any of thenew applications until further train-ing sessions. We don't have anyidea of what the change are."

tions between militants of the tworival branches of Islam in a countryfounded nearly a half-century agoso that the subcontinent's Muslimswould have a state of their own.

Elsewhere in Pakistan, in thetown of Larkana. ancestral home ofthe family of Prime MinisterBenazir Bhutto, police battled fol-lowers of her estranged brother andpolitical rival Murtaza, who wasslain by police in Karachi on Fridayin still murky circumstances.

Some commentators predictedMurtaza Bhutto's death would fur-ther erode the mandate of his sister.whose leadership of Pakistan since1993 has seen a sharp downturn inthe economy and increasing law-lessness in much ofthe country.

Witnesses said early morningprayers had just started at Multan'sMasjid AI-Khair when the armed

the bill over the next six year .Cutback of other benefits to immi-grant ccount for mo t of the rest.

tates could 10 e miJlions of dol-lars if they fail to implement theprovi ion accurately and on time.The Agriculture Department impos-e strict financial penaltie on tatesthat pa s out food tamp to peoplewho are actually in ligible. so accu-racy is critical. But under the newlaw. figuring out who qualifiesbecomes much more complicated:

on-citizen legal immigrants canreceive food stamps, for example. ifthey are new refugees. veterans orlegal residents who have worked 10years in the United States withoutreceiving any federal means-testedbenefits.

Sorting through these changeseemed to be proving the most diffi-

cult in California, which has 40 per-cent of the nation's immigrants.Officials in several California coun-

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The fir t provisions of the newfederal welfare law took effectMonday. requiring tates to begindenying food tamp to non-citizenin the initial pha e of a proce thatwill ultimately trip benefits fromhalf a miJIion immigrant .

Effort to enforce the new lawcame amid delays. confusion and. inat least one tate. administrativechaos. as caseworkers and othersinvolved in the welfare bureaucracytruggled first to decipher and then

to implement the required changes.The food stamp provisions of the

law. which have received far lessattention than other sections of thewelfare reform. are key to the suc-cess of the entire measure. They areexpected to provide half of theexpected 54 billion in savings from

By John-Thor DahlburgLOS ANGELES TIMES

NEW DELHI

Rivalry between two Muslimsects in Pakistan erupted again inmurderous violence on Monday asmasked gunmen opened fire on wor-shippers at a Sunni mosque. slaying21 people - many of them boysfrom a religious school - as theyprayed.

The blood bath in Multan. a cityin the eastern province of Punjab.came one day after the killing of aleader of the minority Shiite sect ina town 60 miles to the south.

Infuriated by the attack on theirsanctuary, Sunnis in Multan came outon the streets to stone Shiite neigh-borhoods, shout anti-Shiite slogans,and block roads with burning tires.

The back-to-back incidents high-lighted the increasingly hostile rela-

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cOu id ccount: Student group bring bankaccount out of the closet. But do the groups havemoney to deposit?

Charles River: Man-made Beantown strait teemswith microorganisms. Does this mean more UROPs forthe Department of Biology?

u.s. ews ranking : ~ubious formulae dupe.... Cambridge colleges. Our condolences to Harvard.

by The Tech editorial board

Plea e, ir, may I have anotherconmyear?

ui ding 7 Cafe: Gourmet food make for newdean' office hangout. Cu hy!

At a uick ta .ons: Information y terns finallyaccommodates the ever-sought "quickie." erd pridereache all time high.

ChairmanDaniel C. teven on '97

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If Aramark Stays, Better Cook for Yourself

Tr vi rritt: Dean of Charm ays goodbye.Building 7 neckware was never 0 creative.

long-departed unified humanities "core" sub-jects of the 1960s reflected a better sense of"systematic fields of study" than do the vari-ous HASS-Distribution subjects of today -only that there was some advantage then inhaving freshmen throughout the residentialsystem reading and discussing the samehumanistic texts at the same time, just as theyfocused in common on their assignments incalculus, physics, and chemistry.

Travis R. MerrittDean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Because of a production error, thefinal line of a story ["UAA Dean SearchBegins," Sept. 20] was omitted. Thefinal paragraph, about Dean ofUndergraduate Academic Affairs TravisR. Merritt's comments about the re-engineering process, should have read:

In the mean time, the process itself is"drawing people from the office" toactually participate in re-engineering,Merritt said. ''That's sometimes vexing."

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also had the convenience of the MIT mealcard, they would only become even more suc-cessful. MIT should consider options like pro-viding free meal card readers to LaVerde'sand Toscanini's as an interim measure while itmakes up its mind. Surely a giant nationalcorporation like Aramark isn't scared of com-peting with two local establishments?

Students need to be active in pushing forchange in the MIT food situation. Rather thanwhining about the prices that Lobdell chargesor how terrible the food is, try going toLaVerde's or the trucks for lunch, or maybepicking up your morning caffeine at Tosci's.Although you won't be able to use your mealcard, you'll have a wider range of options,freshly prepared food, and friendly, personalservice. By giving them your business, you'llhelp them remain an option for MIT students.You'll also be sending a message to Aramark:While the MIT administration can't seem todecide what they think, you already have.

Bui ing 20: After years of promises, here's hopingthat the beloved birthplace of radar will finally be takenin the direction of our arrow.

For one thing, I would never characterize"most classes" in humanities, social sciences,and the arts as "little more than glorified bullsessions." My point was simply that, becausemany HASS subjects are relatively light onsustained accountability (via exams, quizzes,and other graded exercises) in comparisonwith their counterparts in scientific and techni-cal fields, many MIT students are less likelyto pursue them rigorously. Thus the referenceto ''playing hardball in a hardball league."

For another thing, I do not imagine that the

replacements for Aramark. Evidently thesefolks don't eat at Lobdell enough.

The quality of campus dining is central tostudents on campus. Few sections of campusaffairs touch on so many members of the MITpopulation on a daily basis. According to thestudent life survey conducted last year, themajority of MIT students would favor a

change in food ser-vice providers. Todelay the considera-tion of such changefor years - when thevast majority of stu-dents demand it now- is unforgivable.

The issue of foodservices is particularlycritical because of therelative isolation MIThas from outside foodestablishments.Compare the area

immediate to MIT to the areas around BostonUniversity or Harvard University and you'llunderstand why students so commonly end upeating at Lobdell despite hating the food andprices there. Relatively few alternatives exist.

MIT needs to look toward alternatives toAramark's monopoly over on-campus foodservices. Competition would not only increasethe diversity of food available and drop prices;it would also come with benefits like a greaterrange of dining hours and more responsivemanagement in the smaller establishments.

Establishments like LaVerde's and themany food trucks around campus are alreadyproving that students want an alternative toAramark and that they will gladly patronizesuch alternatives. If such independent outlets

Theyfeel no externalobligations to meet the

deOdline to request bidsfromreplacementsfor Aramark.Evidently thesefolks dan f

eat at Lobdell enough.

HASS Courses Are Not'Bull Sessions'

Lest my valued colleagues who teachHumanities, Arts, and ocial Sciences subjectsconclude that I regard them as a pack of fools,I mu t correct the caricature of my views inlast Friday's feature piece about me ["MerrittReflects on a Decade in Dean's Office," Sept.20], particularly under the subhead "Nostalgiafor the humanities core."

Column by Thomas R. KarloCONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Better get your pots and pans out and prac-tice cooking for yourself. It looks like MIT isgoing to extend the contract with food serviceprovider Aramark for yet another year whilethe dining review group tries to get its acttogether. At the current rate, it doesn't 10 klike many of the stu- 'dents currently here at ----- .... -----------MIT will still bearound when changearrives to campus din-ing options, if suchchange ever doesarrive.

I don't blameAramark for continu-ing to serve us thesame food at inflatedprices as they have forthe last five years.They're a business,and their goal is to make money. It's too badthey can't seem to do that at MIT in a consis-tent manner. I guess trying to sell food to stu-dents here is a bit easier than in some of theprisons they service. Bet that's where they gotthe idea for mandatory meal plans - youdon't see Cinderella'S Pizza delivering to theCambridge jail much, do you?

The real fault lies with the dining reviewgroup. By failing to even reach a point wherethey could start negotiations with Aramark andother food services corporations, they have leftMIT with no choice but to continue to extendAramark's contract. And they're not particu-larly concerned about this. In interviews,they've stated that they feel no external obliga-tions to meet the deadline to request bids from

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Nearby Urban Centers Need'More Concentrated Housing

Now that I live inSomerville, Irecognize that

the idea of Boston as awalkahle city is actually a

grand delusion invented bytourism boosters and

propagated among captivecollege campus residents.

Column b.y Anders HoveEXECUTIYE EDITOR

When I was a freshman, I believed Iwould never need a car in Bo ton. Cars aregood for travel and excursions, I thought, but

~ Boston is walkable and ha numerous attrac-tive ma s tran it options. Cars are expensiveto maintain, insure, and even park. Wouldn'tI always be able to find omeplace to livethat would make po session of a car unnec-e ary? Four years later, the an wer for me isno.

ow that I live in Somerville, I recognizethat the idea of Bostonas a walkable city isactually a grand delu-sion invented bytourism boosters andpropagated among cap-tive college campusresidents. True, manyBostonians and Canta-bridgians find theirtowns walkable, andthat's great. Yet walka-ble or subway-accessi-ble towns contain lessthan 30 percent of themetropolitan area'spopulation. That's asizeable fraction, to besure - probably better than most other citiesin the country. But it's not enough.

There are two problems with Boston'saccessibility. First, people living in accessibleareas may need to visit or work in inaccessibleareas. Second, the available housing stock inaccessible areas is very small. As many recentMIT graduates will tell you, it's difficult if notimpossible to get a good, cheap apartmentnearby these days. So even those who work inattractive, accessible areas (like MIT) may notbe able to live there.

Given the Boston area's current housingoptions, of course, many people reasonablychoose to purchase the car and move furtherout. In many cases, that means suburbia andoffice parks. While those places are comfort-able and convenient for those who can affordto Hve or work -there, suburbs and officeparks also represent a style of living that isless social, less cultural, more private, andmore disjoint from the life of the rest of thecity. Boston is ringed with places that arefundamentally hostile to pedestrians or busriders.

There are a couple of possible (ifgrandiose) solutions to the above problems.From the bureaucratic perspective, the mostobvious is the extension of the MassachusettsBay Transportation Authority. MIT is alreadytalking with the state government aboutreplacing the MBT A railroad tracks nearVassar Street with a ring-shaped fifth subwayline connecting Charlestown, Cambridge, andSouth Boston. Such a ring might cut trans-portation time but would not go very fartoward connecting currently inaccessibleareas north and south of Boston. At the same

time, a larger ring is undoubtedly a budget-buster.

The second, more difficult solution is toalter the city landscape itself. Cambridge andSomerville are already two of the mo t dense-ly populated cities in the country, yet there isstill an excess demand for housing. The hous-ing supply, of course, wa artificially reducedby rent control; now that it's gone, developersshould move in.

But Cambridge and Boston need more thannew housing units. Current resident want topreserve the historic and cultural feel of the

places they inhabit,while planners want tomake new spaces liv-able. These goalsoften don't mesh withthe profit-seekingbehavior of develop-ers. It is far simplerfor a developer to justbuild in Waltham.

I believe the bestsolution is to promotehousing developmentin certain high-densityzones. Commercialareas in Alewife andKendall Square havelittle complementing

residential development (earning them "edgecity" designations in Jim Garreau's book ofthe same name). Cambridge should providelarge tax incentives for housing developmentnear these and other current MBT A stops.

Fortunately, MIT and Cambridge arealready working to promote'housing develop-ment in both University Park and in the EastCambridge-Kendall Square areas. By helpingdevelopers put up new, livable units in theseareas, MIT would be promoting a number ofgoals: First, there is the possibility that MITlease some units for the use of graduate stu-dents. Second, some of the latent demand forhousing would be satisfied, probably in anaesthetically and culturally acceptable way.Third, the current mass transit system wouldbecome more viable as more of the popula-tion liv,es and works in subway-accessiblespaces.

The difficulty with planning politics, Iassume, is that cities evolve at such a slowpace that it may take decades for residents anddevelopers to reap the benefits of today's cost-ly projects. The substantial risks involved indeveloping already urbanized spaces are alsodifficult to bear.

In spite of these difficulties, I believe thatMIT, Cambridge, and Somerville have amplejustification for ardently promoting housingdevelopment in targeted zones like EastCambridge and other MBT A-servicedregions. MIT's planning processes may stillbe horribly non-inclusive. Yet our public andprivate leaders still deserve praise for openingup the attractive prospect of a revivedCambridge urban area.

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Student involvement to come laterStudent input in the process has

been limited to debriefing sessionsthat the group has given to graduatestudents after the meetings. Noundergraduates have been involved. 4

Kaynor said that student inputwould come later in focus groups andin meetings with student groups.

The Graduate Student Councilmet with the Planning Office on Sept.11 at the GSC's behest to get anupdate on the current housing situa-tion.

The GSC asked for the meeting todetermine "what was going on withgraduate housing, what their planswere, and what we could to to helpthem out," said Jennifer A. SullivanG; co~chair of the GSC Housing.commIttee.

"I'd say it was useful to both par-ties," Sullivan said. "We got a senseof what they were trying to do."

Undergraduates have yet to bepolled on the subject, Kaynor said.The group has' not been approachedby the Undergraduate Association,"although I imagine they're interest-ed," Kaynor said.

"We're not trying to bring this toclosure quickly," Kaynor said. "It'snot this particular group [of adminis-trators] that's going to decide whatthe questions" are to be addressed by 4the focus groups.

The group can use its findings asan initial step to figure what othersthink, Kaynor said. "We would cer-tainly ask [student groups] what theywanted to know."

House to a planned refurbi hing ofBaker Hou e. The main focus was ondetermining exactly how to gatherstudent opinion on the changes,Kaynor aid.

While analysis of last year's sur-vey of undergraduate is proceeding,additional information needs to begathered on the attitudes of tudentsin specific houses, he said.

Some things are known "anecdo-tally, but we don't have any harddata," Kaynor said. "We expect thatpeople like Senior House now that ithas been renovated, but we have nohard data."

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Group will not be SHPCThe creation of an administrative

task force to examine issues in hous-ing renewed fears among some thatthe Strategic Housing PlanningCommittee was being re-created.

SHPC presented a controversial tproposal two years ago to close EastCampus and Senior House and moveundergraduates to west campus.Students were not consulted aboutthe proposals, and their anger andorganized reaction to the plan pre-vented the move from taking place.

"Nobody wants [SHPC] repeat-ed," Kaynor said. "This is not acabal" that will incorporate the ideasof SHPC, he said.

"Based on history, that's a legiti-mate worry," Kaynor said. But "Idon't see anything like that at this~point, and it won't happen if we dowhat we say we')] do."

"The effort here has been to startwith the information gathering"process and propose some prelimi-nary questions for consideration,Kaynor said.

Those questions will be answeredlater on by student services re-engi-neering teams like the housing andresidential life teams .

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rs eet to Discussange Ho ing Plans

dministrator review plansThe'meeting tried to bring admin-

istrators up to speed on the issuesfacing MIT's housing program.Graduate housing was near the topof the list.

Despite recent attempts toincrease the number of units avail-able, MIT is still able to house only30 percent of its graduates, almost1,300 beds shy of its goal of housinghalf of its students.

There is a "tremendous demandfor graduate housing, more now thanin the past eight years," Maguiresaid. Increasing enrollment in gradu-ate programs at MIT and a tighterCambridge housing market since thedisappearance of rent control alsocontributed to the change.

Plans to address the shortagewere discussed, including one thatwould help guarantee occupancy fora new apartment complex nearKendall Square. The oft-discussedplan to build housing in UniversityPark also was brought up, Kaynorsaid.

Undergraduate housing proved tobe less of a hot topic, but plans arestill in motion, ranging from thissummer's renovation of Senior

Provo t, the Planning Office, theGraduate chool, and the Office ofUndergraduate Education and

tudent Affair .There were no students at the

meeting, and there are no plan tohave any at next week's meeting.

Kaynor called the meetings a"briefing session," a time to makesure that aJl involved parties areworking from the same set of fact .The facts presented "aimed to beba eline information" for further dis-cus ions, said Dean for Student LifeMargaret R. Bate .

The goal was to "bring everybodyto the same page - where we areand where we're going," saidLawrence E. Maguire, who is thedirector of HFS.

"This is not a committee that willact," Bates said. The meetings areonly "an information session," shesaid.

By Dan McGuireNEWS EDITOR

Administrators are in theproce s of determining the currenttatus of IT's housing plans in

preparation for larger future meet-fn~ with students.

The group met a week and ahalf ago will be meeting again nextweek.

Beginning late last spring,enior Vice President William R.

Dickson '56 a ked that "all of theoffice that have anything to dowith housing" meet and discu sMIT' housing situation, saidA sociate Director of Planning,Robert K. Kaynor.

everal issues, including thehousing hortage that MIT faces forboth its undergraduate and graduatestudents, were at the top of the listfor discus ion.

The meeting included represen-tatives from the Department ofHou ing and Food Services, theOffice of Residence and CampusActivities, the Office of the

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The SFC evolved one more timeto its present state on the Web. Onthe Internet, the FC has allowedshopping to become faster, easier,and more efficient, said Vice-President Chon Vo '83.

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Re-engineering also affectedAlthough re-engineering is not

looking at the vice presidential levelitself, student services re-engineer-ing is examining some departmentsthat fall under vice presidents.

The Office of Student FinancialAid, the Bursar's Office, and theRegistrar's Office are all beingclosely reviewed by student servicesre-engineering. These offices all fallunder the Office of the VicePresident for Administration.

"It's completely up in the air.about how we will reorganize,"Hudson said.

In addition to his responsibilitiesas vice president, Culliton, along withDean for Undergraduate EducationRosalind H. Williams, also served asa co-sponsor of the student servicesre-engineering effort.

Since the teams have moved intothe implementation stage, his deathwill not affect the progress of re-engineering, Dickson said.

However, some do feel thatCulliton's death has represented a •substantial loss to the re-engineering ..process. "I've missed him terribly asa co-sponsor," WilJiams said.

No arrangements have beenmade for another co-sponsor.

"Its been a real gap in theprocess of re-engineering,"Williams said. "Everyone has beenaware of it and has been trying tofill in to the best oftheir ability."

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dministration shuffling possibleThe Office of the Vice President

for Administration was created in1994 as a result of the death of then-Vice President Constantine B.Simonides '57. Rice and Barbara G.Stowe, director of foundation rela-tions and developments system,were promoted to the vice presiden-tial level while Vice PresidentsGlenn P. Strehle '58 and Cullitongained new responsibilities.

It is not known whether or notthere would be a similar reshufflingat the vice presidential level.

"WilJ they put a person in placethat has those same responsibilities[as CulJiton]? I doubt it," Dicksonsaid. "I think that the responsibili-ties that Mr. Culliton had were par-tially because of the untimely deathof Simonides."

With the new re-eilgineeringlook of MIT, Vest has an opportuni-ty to look at the vice presidentialoffices, Dickson said.

"There's lots of possibilities,"Dickson said. Day to day operating

- functions like Physical Plant, whichis currently under Dickson, are like-ly to stay in one area, he said.Housing and dining issues may becombined with the Dean's Office, orthey may be put in one vice presi-dential office in order to better servethe students.

"You could go down the list ofvice presidents and think about how

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Throughout the week, FSILGswill compete through , Jar Wars," afundraiser held in Lobby 10. TheFSILG who e jar contains the mostwins the event. The winning FSILGwill donate half of the accumula-tions to the charity of its choice, andthe rest will go to the SpecialOlympics.

"Everyone seems to be eager tosee how Greek Week turns outbecause there are many more plansin the works than last year:' Anbarsaid. "And success in the differ-ences that have been made toGreek Week can be attributed tothe guidance of older members inIFC."

"That's what makes things betterevery year, and hopefully, it'll con-tinue in the future," Anbar said.

The week culminates inSaturday night's Greek WeekCharity Ball, a dance open to theMIT community. Admission costs$5 at the door and $4 in advancefrom a booth that is set up thisweek in Lobby 10. The event,which is taking place in Morss Hallin Walker Memorial, will run from9 p.m. to midnight.

ing place on Thursday .. IndividualFSILGs will host dinners at theirhouse , where diners are treated tofinger foods, conversation, and anatmosphere reminiscent ofResidence and Orientation Week,Anbar aid.

Unlike past dinners, this yearinvolve great organization withpre-planned groups that will gofrom house to house. People willdivide up into groups and start witha sorority before filling their stom-achs at various houses.

on-FSILG members are notincluded in those pre-plannedgroups. But they are "welcome tocome to any houses," Anbar said.

Community service plays a roleThe Order of Omega Honorary

Fraternity is sponsoring GreekWeek's newest addition: a commu-nity service event on Saturday.

All students are welcome to earna free lunch by donating some timeto one of the six different activitiesdirected to help the Cambridge andBoston community.

Groups will convene at theStudent Center at II a.m. to go tothe Boston Food Bank, a women'scrisis s1)elter,and a number of other

Greek Week, from Page I

The event wa moved to theafternoon from the evening this yearto attract a greater audience, Anbaraid.

Tonight' event include "Checkinto a Winning Life: How to UseAlcohol Responsibly," a lecture byBob Anastas, founder and formerexecutive director of StudentsAgainst Drunk Driving.

Anastas will present "timely andimportant alcohol is ues," said PhiGamma Delta Community ServiceChair Charles H. Yoo '97. Fiji issponsoring the talk as part of thefraternity's punishment for "a prob-lem that we had at a party" withalcohol, Y00 said.

The event seemed particularlyconvenient to hold during GreekWeek, Y00 said. A local distributorof Anheuser-Busch is paying for thetalk, which will be taking place in26-100.

Tomorrow marks the Strat's Ratconcert featuring Zed Bacchus andother bands from the local area. Theconcert is open to everyone and isfree of charge at Lobdell FoodCourt.

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Candidates share concernsOne of the common themes

mentioned by the candidates wasimproving the food situation oncampus.

"I need to learn more about the'UA before I know how things work,but I would like to do something toimprove the food at MIT," Changsaid.

Several candidates also men-tioned class unity in their platforms.The Freshman Leadership Programand the Interfraternity Councilretreat "reinforced to me that theMIT population is very divided, andI'd like to try and change that,"Qasba said.

Almost three-quarters of the can-didates participated in the FLP, aeadership program for freshmen

that took-place right before the startof Residence and Orientation Week.

"FLP gave me the opportunity tomeet more people coming into MIT,which gave me more confidence in

"I have four years of experienceas a class secretary," PatH aid. "Itwas something that I enjoyed andwould like to continue."

The candidates for social chairare the teams of Elsie Huang '00and Aron K. Qasba '00; andMichele S. Micheletti '00 andNicole Spooner '00.

"I'm really interested in gettingour class unified from the start. Mypartner and I have several newideas, including a Spades tourna-ment and maybe a dating game,"Micheletti said.

"I've heard some negative thingsabout the UA, and I want to work tomake it more useful," Qasba said.

The team of Jesse K. Baker '00and Stephanie E. Chen '00 is run-ning uncontested for publicity chair.

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POLICE LOGThe following incident were reported to the Campus Police

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Sept. 12: Bldg. 48, VCR stolen, 250; McCormick Hall, TVNCRstolen, 300; Bldg. E51, 1) laptop tolen, $3000; 2) backpack stolenand later recovered minus 80; Rockwell Cage gym bag stolen andlater recovered minus 16; report of July larceny of checks at SigmaAlpha Epsilon.

Sept. 13: East Campus, complaint of noise on third-floor loungeof east parallel; Bldg. 5, report of pornographic pictures hanging onwall; Bldg. 37, cash stolen, $100; Hayward lot, hit and run damage tovehicle; Joseph M. Bals, of 465 Common Street, Lawrence, arrestedfor trespassing.

Sept. 14: ew House, noise complaint; Tang Residence Hall,noise complaint; intoxicated student transported from Cinderella's.

Sept. IS: Bldg. 31, window and steam pipe broken; StudentCenter, wallet and contents plu $50 cash stolen from backpack whileperson was asleep; MacGregor House, harassing phone calls; EastAnnex lot, c'ar broken into and radio stolen, $1,000; riot at 84 .Massachusetts Avenue, Jerome Black, of Callaway Street, Baltimore,Maryland, arrested for disorderly conduct; Ames Street, report of per-sons throwing bottles from a brown van; LaVerde's Market, personwith cut finger transported to Mount Auburn Hospital for treatment.

Sept. 16: New House, malicious destruction to car tires; Bldg. 68,credit card stolen and over $500 charged; Bldg. E25, suspicious per~son; Bldg. 4, camera equipment and wedding gifts stolen, $900;Burton-Conner House, student falls, possible broken leg.

Sept. 17: Bldg. E52 CD/cassette player stolen, $150; SeniorHouse, report of fire alarm, cause determined to be water flow meter,declared safe; Senior House, report of fire alarm, same water flow tmeter problem, declared safe again; Baker House, suspicious personin lobby; Albany lot, person observed breaking gate.

Sept. 18: Bldg. E38, annoying mail; Bldg. 16, Nicholson Lee, of240 Albany Street, arrested for trespassing; Student Center plaza, cel~lular phone left on plaza steps later discovered stolen, $150; 120Massachusetts Avenue, Mehereteab Abreham, of 812 MemorialDrive, arrested for disorderly conduct as a result of a domestic distur-bance; report from room on ground floor of East Campus of a handcoming through window, thing in question later found to be asquirrel.

INSTITUTE DINING REVIEW

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Clas e like the extended ver ionof Phy ics I (8.01L) and the com-bined ver ion of Calculus I and II(18.0lA and 18.02A) - the end of ~which can be taken during lAP -can provide more options for stu-dents to choose their best-suitedcia space.

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"It is' good for tudents to con-centrate on doing labs and researchduring a focused time period thanduring regular terms," said June L.Matthews PhO '62, the academicofficer of the physics department.

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The new classes will helpstrengthen the undergraduate cur- .riculum and make MIT physicsmajors more competitive withphysics majors from other topschools like Harvard, Princeton, andStanford, she said.

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Enterline said. The faculty voted toapprove the increase and al 0agreed that each department couldoffer one of it intensive requiredclasses during lAP.

With lAP extended to fourweek , some departments hope toplace more respon ibility for acade-mics during lAP, Enterline aid.

But the aim i not to increase theactual load of academic subjects bytransforming it to a compressedsemester; rather, it is to encouragestudents to tay for at least one outof four lAPs, she said.

"There may be a trend for lAPbecoming more academics-orientedin the future," said UndergraduateAcademic Affairs ProgramAdministrator Marshall Hughes."We are trying to have morehumanities class offerings to take abalance between science and engi- -neering classes."

There is always a demand forenough non-academic options, too,Marshall said. "We're trying to finda happy balance between the two ofthem," he said

Classes allow for some flexibilityThe arrangement does