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A dancer flirts with the musicians In Gamelan Galak Tlka's latest pertonnaAuditorium last Saturday.

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Lee aids in CEG revivalThe CEG is publi hed by the

e pen e," aid E oy G, a form reditor. Moy pointed to "lack oftaff, difficulty coordinating acro

academic department , and la k offinancial upport" a rea on forthe CEG dying in 1996." The guidebegan e periencing problem in thefall of 1994, leading to its eventualab ence in 1996.

The CEG wa not publi hed la tpring becau e "it wa ju t too much

work for a few tudent who werefull-time tudent," said As ociateDean of Undergraduate Educationand tudent Affairs Margaret .Ender.

I uing a web-ba ed ver ion ofthe guide obviate the co t of pro-ducing thou ands of paper copieand has aided in the guide's return.

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olume 117, umber 26

By Stuart JacksonSTAFF REPORTER

The pring 1997 CourseEvaluation Guide i currently avail-able on the World Wide Web. Apaper ver ion of the guide will beavailable before Regi tration Day inthe fall. The guide has not beenavailable ince since the fall of1995.

The online CEG can be found athttp://web.mit.edu/cegI.Itincludeevaluation of course, lecturer,and teaching a i tants dating fromfall 1994 to fall 1996 in order tomake up for the mis ed erne terwhen the guide did not publi h.

In addition, the guide which.evaluates pring '97 classe wlll beproduced over the summer. "TheCEG is most certainly here to stay,"said Christopher D. Beland, an edi-tor for the guide.

The guides from 1991 to 1994were produced at "great personal

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funding."If we do it thi way, there are

fewer tudent demand on appropri-ated funds" which are di tributed bythe In titute apart from any directAlumni donation, Williams said.

tudent can serve a excellentfund-rai er when dealing withalumni and corporation.

Currently, the In titute receiveabout $125 million dollars per yearin alumni upport. Much of thatfunding is re tricted to scholar hipand Undergraduate ResearchOpportunities Program funding,among other thing .

"What Iwould like to do i get thegeneral tudent concerns higher onthe Ii t" of alumni prioritie ,William aid." ampus life i part ofeducation here. It de erve upport."

By Douglas E. HeimburgerASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Dean of Undergraduate EducationRo alind H. William di cus ed planto increase tudent involvement infund-raising and in the Dean' Officeat the Undergraduate A ociationCouncil meeting last night.

One of the key functions of thenew Dean's Office i to furtherdevelop fund-raising abilitie oncampus, William aid.

In the pa t, tudent were notheavily involved with the AlumniOffice and the Office of ResourceDevelopment, which coordinatefund-raising on campu . As part ofthe new Dean's Office, student willplaya more direct role in fund-rai -ing, William said.

" 0 many of our alumni thinkfirst not of their academic experi-ence but of their out-of-cla' roomexperience," she aid. Involving tu-dents in fund-rai ing could increa ealumni support for tudent group

Fund-raising to DirectlyBenefit StUde t Gro-.-..-.:..

MIT Medical Receives Highest Honor With Three Year Accreditation

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JCAHO in October and ovember1996.

"We are extremely plea ed tohave achieved thi distinction," saidMIT Medical Director ArthurWeinberg. MIT Medical was citedfor it convenience and excellentcare, he aid.

JCAHO i the nation' olde tand largest health care accrediting

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This is the la t scheduledissue of The Tech for thespring emester. ummerj sues will be published onJune 6 (Commencement),June 25 and July 23. TheTech will publish daily dur-ing Residence andOrientation Week beginningAugu t 2 I and will resumeregular Tue day/Friday publi-cation in eptember.

La t month, the JointCommi sion on Accreditation ofHealthcare Organization awardedthe MIT Medical Department thehighest level of accreditation in itclass.

Accreditation with commenda-tion was awarded to MIT MedicalfeJlowing an on- ite survey of theMedical Center conducted by

By Carina FungAS OCIATE NEWS EDITOR

DAVID TARIN-THE TECH

The Medical Center's convenient location at the East end of campus helped It attain accreditation withco nelatlon last I'nonth. • , • • ,..,. , • , • •

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ion on the que tion of Chechnya'independence until the year 200 1.

In recent month , ten ion in theregion have increa ed with the kid-napping of a dozen journali ts inChechnya and two bombing intrain tation in outhern Rus ia thatkilled four and wounded 23. Eachide blame the other for attempting

to de tabilize the truce.Ma khadov, a former oviet

colonel who led the Chechen troopin the war again t Ru sia, hasbecome a voice of moderation aspresident. By traveling to theKremlin and meeting with Yeltsinto ign the peace accord, he waable to demon trate that his trategyof pursuing peace is working.

He told reporter the treaty willallow Chechnya and Ru sia to coop-erate in combating extremist onboth side who are trying to showthat the Chechen government i notin command of the mostly Muslimrepublic.

"From now on we, the Chechenauthorities, the Chechen president,will be demonstrating the efficiencyof our power to the whole worid,"Maskhadov said. "There will be noplace for terrorists and kidnappersin Chechnya."

While Chechnya will continue toseek international recognition as anindependent nation, the treaty andcooperative agreements signed bythe two sides later in the daydemonstrate the republic's contin-ued economic dependence onRussia.

The treaty itself is short and sim-ple - only 63 words in Russian -and it appears to be sufficientlyamoiguous that both sides can inter-pret it favorably.

Yelt in in hi traditional heep kinh t, greed: "Today we ha hownto 11 the world that th peaceproce h materializ d."

The m ting to ign the ac orda th first time a Chechen pre i-

dent ha m t ith Yelt in, whorecently aid the war in Chechnyawas the bigge t mi take of hi pre i-d ncy. In a ymbolic conces ion tothe Chechen , YeJt in referred to thearea a 'the Republic of Ichkeria,"the name preE rred by the epa-rati ts.

For more than two centurie , theu lim people of the orth

Cauca u region fought intermit-tently with Ru ia, until the moun-tainou area wa annexed in 1859by the Ru ian empire.

During orld War II, ovietdictator Josef tal in accu ed theChechen of coJJaborating with the

azis and deported the entire popu-lation to Central Asia, where theyremained for more than a decadebefore being allowed to returnhome.

Following the collapse of theSoviet Union in 1991, the tinyrepublic in isted it was an indepen-dent state and refu ed to join theRussian Federation that urroundsit. In 1994, Ru ia accusedChechnya of harboring terrori tsand Yeltsin sent in troops to crushthe independence movement.

After 21 months, much ofChechnya was de troyed and amany a 80,000 people were dead,but Russia wa unable to win thewar. With Yeltsin incapacitated by aheart ailment, his then-securitychief, Alexander Lebed, negotiatedan agreement in Augu t that haltedthe fighting but postponed a creel-

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of Ruh hny ign d petre tyonday decl ring n end to th p-ti t w r in Ch hny and pledg-

ing to b ndon the u e of force inttling their di put .

fter igning th p ce ccord atremlin ceremony, Ru ian

Pre ident Bori . Yelt in andChechen Pr ident A I n

h dov declared that the treatyend . four centuri of armed con-flict and will lead to cooperation inhalting a recent wave of terrori m in

hechnya and Ru ia.The brief greement did not

re olve the pi otal que tion ofhether Chechnya i an indepen-

dent nation or remain a part ofRu ia. But tacitly acknowledgingChechnya' goal of ece ion, thetreaty provide that Ru sia andChe hnya will maintain relation inaccordance with the "norms ofinternational law."

Th treaty open the way for thefreeing of pri oner of war by bothide and for renewed economic tie

between Ru ia and Chechnya. Ital 0 strengthen Maskhadov' handa he deal with Chechen extremi tswho have ought to further the inde-pendence movement through vio-lence.

, We have igned a peace treatyof hi toric dimen ion , putting a fuJJstop to 400 year of history,"Yeltsin aid after signing the treaty."With the help of [other] agree-ments, we will advance our relationsin the economy, trade and otherphere .'

Ma khadov, standing beside

White House AskS High CoUrtTo Protect Whitewater Notes

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Italy' c nter-left government, truggling to reform the welfaret te and qu !ify for Europe n monet ry union, got a troubling

reminder from voter onday of it depend n on minority partyof dieh rd and t oppo ed to deep cut in oci I pending.

unday' runoff ele tion for 77 mayor nd five provincial lead-er completed the fir t te t of voter upport for Prime ini terRomano Prodi' government inc it took office in pril 1996 andmade Italy' entry into th ingle- urrency club it top priority.

Return ond y ugge ted a draw b tween Prodi' Olive Treecoalition and the right-wing oppo ition Freedom Jli nce, ach win-ning in four of the bigge t cHie up for grab .

But outcome in ilan and Turin, twin indu trial center of thenorth, under cored the maJl Refounded Communi t Party' ability topell the difference.

Turin' mildly lefti t mayor, Valentino Ca tellani, had fini hed farbehind hi Freedom Allian e rival in fir t round voting April 27, buthe won re-election by Ie than a I percent margin unday after seek-ing and winning the Refounded Communi t ' endor ement.

The Olive Tree candidate in ilan, Ido FumagalJi, refu ed tocourt the hard-left party and 10 t to Gabriele Ibertini of the Freedom

lliance in a race between bu ine smen to manage ltaly's financialcapital. The winner got 53 percent of the vote.

The Refounded Communi t had won percent of the fir t-roundvote in ilan and 10 percent in Turin, prompting party leader Fau toBertinorti to warn that Olive Tree candidate there faced "suicide" inthe runoffs without hi ble ing. Bertinotti aid unday's returnproved his party i indi pen able to the ruling coalition.

Jan. 26, 1996, the' day HillaryClinton appeared before.a federalgrand jury to testify about the mys-terious reappearance of the billingrecords in the White House resi-dence. Both meetings were attendedby private lawyers for the first lady.

Starr argued that the integrity ofthe criminal justice process over-rides any administration need forconfidentiality in conversations.The8th Circuit agreed, rejecting the .assertion of an attorney-client privi-lege and saying "disclosure" shouldbe favored over "concealment." Theappeals court spumed an argumentthat the notes should .be protectedbecause the lawyers took them inthe process of preparing a client forlegal proceedings - known as the"work product doctrine" -because, the court said, the noteswere not prepared "in anticipationof litigation.'~

The 8th Circuit relied in part onthe 1974 case of United States vs.Nixon, in which the Supreme Courtrejected Richard Nixon's assertionof an executive privilege andordered Watergate tapes turned overto a special prosecutor.

Lawyers for the White Housesay the appeals court was readingthe Nixon case too broadly, andthey cont~nd they want only toensure that government lawyers areafforded the same privilege aslawyers in private practice - tocommunicate in confidence withclients.

Starr has noted the White Housealready has produced numerous setsof notes taken by White Houseattorneys in interviews of WhiteHouse employees, including formerWhite House counsel Bernard

ussbaum and Margaret Williams,chief of taff.to the fir t.Jady •.....

continuing Whitewater investigationby Starr, who is expected to file hisresponse with the Supreme Court byMay 29.

. A resolution by the justicescould affect parts of the Whitewaterprobe and, more broadly, determinewhether conversations between gov-ernment lawyers and agency offi-cials are hielded from grand juryinvestigations.

"It would be markedly more dif-ficult for government officials toobtain the candid and informedlegal a sistance necessary to theperformance of their functions," ifthe lower court opinion stands,wrote Andrew L. Frey, a privatelawyer hired by the White House todefend its position before the highcourt.

The Supreme Court is likely toannounce by the end of Junewhether it will hear the case or letthe lower court ruling stand. If thejustices were to take the dispute, itlikely would not be heard until nextfall and a rulipg might not comeuntil sometime in 1998.

Starr is seeking a set of notesmade July 11, 1995, during a meet-ing involving Hillary Clinton, herpersonal lawyer and two WhiteHouse attorneys. They discussedStarr's investigation into the han-dling of documents in White Houselawyer Vincent Foster' office afterhis death. The notes were taken byMiriam emetz, associate counselto the pre ident. The meetingoccurred a few weeks before aWhite Hou e aide testified shefound long-subpoenaed Rose LawFirm bilJing records in the resi-dence.

The econd set of notes wastaken by former pecial WhiteHou e coun el J ne herburne on

By Joan BiskupicTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHI GTO

Lawyers for the White HouseMonday a ked the Supreme Courtto intervene to protect note attor-ney took in conver ations with fir tlady Hillary Rodham Clinton relat-ing to a failed Arkansa real e tateventure now under inve tigation byindependent coun el Kenneth W.

tarr.If the note mu t be urrendered,

White Hou e attorney ay, it wouldviolate historic notion of attorney-client privilege and" ubstantiaJlyimpair" the ability of all federalagencie to obtain sound legaladvice, particularly in the face ofindependent coun el investigations.

The White House appealed anopinion by the 8th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals last month order-ing the administration to turn overthe notes relating to the Clintons'involvement in the Whitewater landdeal.

The divided three-judge panelsaid the u ual attorney-client privi-lege did not extend to governmentlawyers' notes when sought by agrand jury. The appeals courtemphasized that public interestwould be "ill served by recognitionof a governmental attorney-clientprivilege ... in criminal proceedingsinquiring into the action of publicofficials."

Although tarr ha assertedHillary Clinton is not a "client" ofthe White House lawyers, the largerque tion ~ and the one pre ented tothe Supreme Court - is whether agovernmental attorney-client privi-lege would exi t in the context ofgrand juries, irrespective of whoclaim to be a "client."

The case i a byproduct of the

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Re earcher have pinpointed the preci e brain damage that resultin Fragile X yndrome, the mo t common genetic cau e of mentalr tardation. The finding could ultimately lead to a way to correct thegenetic defect, cienti t ay.

William Greenough, a profe or of p ychology at the University ofJlJinoi , found that the protein mi ing in people with Fragile X

yndrome i nece ary for brain cell to communioate with one another.pecificaJJy, the protein i crucial for normal chemical functioning

at ynap e , the junction where brain cell meet and exchange ig-nal . Without thi protein, people m y not be able to proc informa-tion correctly, Greenough aid.

The study wa publi hed in thi month's Proceeding of theational Academy of cience.

By Gerard RoeSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

Currently, there i an intere ting, if rather me y, weather pattern.A y tem with a double center i approaching from the we t, andthere i a fast moving and powerful rain-bearing system coming upfrom the outh. The weather for Tue day and early Wednesday willbe dictated by the confluence of the e sy tern . Combined, they addup to a rather rainy period. The majority of the rain from the southernsystem will fall off-shore, but we will likely catch the we tern edgeof it during the afternoon bringing moderate rain over the area start-ing in the south and preading northwe twards. Rain should move outof the area by Wednesday morning leaving a mi of sun and clouds,then some clearing behind the departing y terns. Thursday looks etfor partly cloudy weather and warming temperatures. In the outlook,there is a chance of cloud and rain retumin on Friday to dampenthe week's end.

Today: Cloudy with a chance of howers in the morning. Rainduring the afternoon, and winds out of the south. There is also achance of thunderstorms across the region during the afternoon. High64°F (20°C).

Tonight: Continuing likelihood of precipitation, diminishingtowards morning. Low 46°F (9°C).

edne day: Any remaining precipitation moving out of the areaduring the morning. Becoming partly cloudy. High 66°F (2 1°C). Low45°F (8°C).

Thur day: Some sun hine. High close to 70°F (24°C). Lowaround 45°F (8°C).

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Hubble pace Te escope Identifiesew Black Hole and Exploding Star

LOS A GELES TIMES

Le th n thr e month after tronaut in tailed a battery of newhardware and cientific in trument , the Hubble pace Telescope haalready di covered a new bla k hole. It ha al 0 revealed the violenceof tar birth and detailed the death throe of an exploding tar.

A A officials and project a tronomers gathered Monday at theGoddard pace Flight enter to deliver a progre report on the refur-bished orbiting ob ervatory.

Most everything is working just fine, Weiler said.Hubble' S125 million pace Tele cope Imaging pectrograph, or

STIS - not yet midway through it po t-in tallation checkout - hasgathered conclusive evidence that an enormous black hole lurk at thecenter of a galaxy caJled M 4, 50 million light year away in the con-steJlation Virgo. ,

Black holes are objects 0 mas ive that nothing nearby can e capetheir gravity, not even light. That make them impossible to seedirectly, and black holes eluded astronomers for decades. Hubble, bymeasuring the enormous speeds of tars spiraling into the narrow coreof a galaxy caJled M87, detected the first supermas ive black hole in1994.

STIS scientist Richard F. Green said the smaJler one in M84 has amass 300 million to a billion times that of the sun. earby stars arefalling into its grip a speeds up to I million miles an hour, somethingonly the presence of a supermassive black hole could explain.

GREE BELT. MD.THE BALTIMORE SUN

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ft r ek-Iong in pection tour of orth Korea, a team ofU ..food r Ii f e p rt aid Monday they found the country in a state of'n r f: mine" but aw no evidence of tarvation deaths, cannibali mor military food rampage reported by refugee and other travelers inA ia' mo t ecretive t te.

Tun yat, leader of the U.. orld Food Program team that leftorth Kore on unday after tra eling acro the country by train and

in pe ting port and ho pital , de cribed the situation a 'famine in10 motion."

'Thi i not a ca like you ee in omalia or udan," Myat saidin a pr conference here. 'Thi i not a de ert. There are tree and

t r. Th r i no war, no large di placemen of people."The U. . team' ob ervation do not match some portrayal of

hard hip and tarvation related by ethnic Korean hine e and orthorean refugee who ha e flooded into hine e ~order citie in

recent month. orne r fugees aid they witne ed hundred of tar-tion d ath. ther reported rogue orth Korean army units roam-

ing th country ide and tealing food at gunpoint.Th torte are fueled by the ecreti e nature of orth Korea's

i olationi t regime which Ilow foreign i itor , including the U. .team, only under tri t uper ision. 0 reporter have been allow.edacce to the area aid to be mo t affect d by food hortage .

'We aw no ca e of the military taking food away from civilian ,"Myat aid, 'And frankly I would find that difficult to believe."

and Drug Admini tration and theEnvironmental Protection Agency,all of which share juri diction overfood afety and regulation.

Congre must approve themoney to implement the program apart of the budget for the federal fis-cal year that starts Oct. 1.

Food safety has taken on higherpriority around the world in thewake of recent outbreaks traced toan array of products from beef tolettuce to berries.

In an episode last year, forinstance, dozens of children andadults in several states and Canadabecame sick - and one Coloradotoddler died - after exposure todeadly E. coli 0157: H7 bacteriafrom unpasteurized apple juice man-ufactured by Odwalla, Inc., a com-pany based in Half Moon Bay onthe Northern California coast.

will attempt to develop new mea-ures to prevent food-borne iIlnes e

from egg products and produce,which in the past have proven par-ticularly difficult to detect and con-trol. •

It also includes steps to increasethe numtrer of seafood inspectorsand improve the monitoring ofimported foods.

"When children reach for a pieceof food, parents deserve to havepeace of mind:' said Vice PresidentAl Gore, who aI)nounced the pro-posed $43.2 million program to anaudience that included victims ofrecent food-borne disease outbreaks.

The program, meant to build onexisting safety procedures, was firstannounced in January by President'Clinton. It was drafted by thedepartments of Health and HumanServices and Agriculture, the Food

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det rmined to blow up the fed ralbuilding in Okl horn City that hcon id r d dri ing the tru k p k dwith plo i e through the frontdoor on a uicid mi ion, accordingto a form r rmy buddy, who al 0

id he .ca ed th ite ithc eigh.

ichael J. Fortier, 2 , te tifyingin chilling detail before a f deraljury h re, aid th t when h rai edconcern about innocent go ern-ment worker being killed in abomb attack, cVeigh, 29, told himtheir deaths would be ju tifiedbecause they were part of the evilempire."

Fortier provided the court withthe cleare t' picture 0 far of

cVeigh's alleged moti e andpI n for carrying out the deadlie t

By Marlene Clrnonsand Martha GrovesLOS A GELES TIMES

WASHI GTO

The Clinton administration onMonday announced new steps to

; .trengthen the safety of the UnitedStates' food supply, hoping to avoidepisodes such as the recent exposureof school c~ildren to frozen straw ..berries contaminated with thehepatitis A virus.

Perhaps most significantly, thenew program will attempt to fillexisting gaps'in the food protectionsystem that have been the source ofmost of the recent problems.

For example, the initiativeincludes a plan' to extend govern-ment inspection practices now usedfor meat, seafood and poultry to themanufacture of fruit and vegetablejuices. Separately, federal agencies

.1fIGraduate Student Councilm Walker Memorial, 5G-220 • 253-2195 8 gsc-requestOmit.edu • www.mit.edulactivities/gsc

Summer is almost here!~Calendar

~ MAY

Buy your tickets early!

Awards Convocation, 3pm in 10-250

Activities Meeting*

Housing & Community Affairs Mtg*

Last Friday Social of the term! *

Extracurricular Activitiesand Athletics Meeting*

Institute Committee interviews(sign up wI gsc-vice-president@mit)

Fall Orientation Committee Mtg *

'~JUNE

* at 5:30pm in .Room 50-220.All graduate students are welcome. Food is provided.

·06 Commencement

·04 General Council Meeting *

:05 Graduate Ring Daysat Kendall Coop; also June 6

Montreal Jazz FestivalJune 27,28, and 29

More information can be obtained at ourweb site, www.mit.edulactivitieslgsc

We know school hasnIt ended yet,but it's time for GSC summer activities.

Tickets go on sale sta~ing 14 May at 10am.

Tue day' tory, "MITComputer Compete to Crac DEEncryption." the article incorrectly saidthat the Data Encryption tandard wascreated by R A Laboratorie . DE wasactually implemented in 1977 by the

ational Bureau of tandard and theational ecurity Agency.

Because of an editing error. theport horts article on Friday

[" thlete Earn any End of YearHonors"] omitted.mention of ea1ani

akamura '00 qualifying for the CAADivision III national championships inwomen's tenni. akamura is ranked10th in the nation and third in the East.

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who rode the southern trails. While many cow-boys did work for large ranching interests.there were many sma))er concerns as well. Bigdrives were less impor-tant than tending theherd on a long-termbasis. In some waysthese cowboys lived thesad, solitary existenceepitomized byHollywood. What weretheir values? Not daring-ness or adventurousness; : ::j '.

the cowboy was paid to @ ~ - ...:~ll~f~keep the herd safe, and '~I~J .f~ ~i~i~death was so near at hand there could havebeen no thrill in seeking additional risk. Toprotect the herd, cowboys needed good judg~ment, prudence, skiIJ, and experience. To thisday, the highest compliment that can be paidby an old-timer is, "You used good judgment."

Why prudence and judgment? Unlike theircattleman bosses, cowboys were not happy-go-lucky profiteers - the pay was too low.I;m sure cowboys were variously motivated,but I .do know two prevalent motivations formany cowboys were a love of the way of lifeand a sense of duty. An old story I heard illus-trates this. .

Once a novice cattleman complained tosome friends that the cowboys in his employ-

Yuan- in Liu '97

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People tory isquoted,isrepre ented aes

[Editor's note: The Tech received a copyof this letter addressed to People magazine.]

any people at MIT - including me -were up et by the article about me in Peoplemagazine' '50 mo t beautiful people" i ue.

The word u ed in the article were takencompletely out of context. In fact, the editoractually took phra e from several entenceand made up other word on hi' own. A are ult, I am incorrectly quoted as ayingthing like "MIT i a wasteland when it cometo beauty" and "it' not hard to be the prettiestwoman when there are no other womenaround." The e words are offensive to thewhole MIT community and e peciaUy to MITwomen who have fought long and hard andwith success to change the representation of,

limited to East Coast intellectuals. As aMontanan, I should know. The purpose of thiscolumn, however, is not merely to shatter astereotype that hits close to home. I mean todemonstrate that cowboys epitomized a pOsi~tive American value that was disappearingeven in their own heyday: duty and dedicationto others. The new, macho image of the soli~tary, self-absorbed cowboy is a more a projec~tion of all that is bad in modern Amencansociety.

Cowboys reigned supreme during the eraof the open range, between 1865 and 1890.Some cowboys during this period were associ-ated with the great cattle drives. These cow~boys were the antithesis of the current cowboytereotypes: They worked close together in

great roving communitie of cattle, cowhands,and trail-bosse . Under the close supervisionof their uperior, most of these men weresimple hirelings - workers doing the dailybidding of profiteering rancher and big citycattle barons. While the great cattle trails ofth'e Old West extended into Montana, thebigge t drive connected Texas to Kansa .

The cowboy of the orth were a bit differ-ent than the young toughs

nderstarids Real Cowboy Lifea

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In her column la t Friday ["Where HaveAll the Cowboys GoneT' May 9], tacey E.

Blau '9 tells u that the faculty and staffof the Laboratory for Computer

cience are the cowboys of ourtime. ot only do some of themlook like cowboy , she writes, but

they exhibit a cowboyish"attitude."

And whatattitudes,

pray tell, does thi Long I landsuburbanite Blau attribute to cow-boy? Daring, independence,

competence, adventurou ne s,and a native sen e of right and

wrong.Wrong-headed viewabout cowboys and

their disappearingway of life aren t

Column by Anders HoveCOLUM 1ST

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I agre d to p rti ip te in thi inter iRob rt J. Ragno '99 b u e I hoped it would h Ip ch ng the

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nece ary annually "for recurringcosts per evaluation. The e co t donot include taff payroll and the co tof producing the guide itself," aidthe report. Beland aid that "theprinted ver ion of the guide will.also carry paid adverti ement ."

The guide will only be availablewithin MIT. Beland said that "since

Undergraduate Association, withextensive cooperation from MITdepartments and the Office of

ndergraduate Education andtudent Affairs. Reviving the guide

was the main campaign promise ofUndergraduate AssociationPresident Richard Y. Lee '97. "Theguide finally received the supportand attention it needed from indi-viduals such as Richard Lee," Moysaid.

Enders was asked to look intoreviving the CEG because "facultyand staff are as interested in theresult as students," she said.

The CEG Discovery Team, acommittee made up of faculty, staff,and students, has issued a reportaimed at changing the method bywhich the CEG is published. Therecommendations of the committeeare designed to insure that the CEGwill be published every semesterand will fulfill its purpose.

"The basic mission of the stu-dent guide has been to provide fel-ow undergraduates with informa-

tion about subjects and faculty,information that might be useful indeciding what subjects to take andwhich instructors to choose," saidthe CEG Discovery Team's Teacherand Subject Evaluation DiscoveryReport.

According to the report, the CEGDiscovery Team hopes to "design asmooth and consistent process thatwill guarantee an evaluation everysemester, and will not be an undueburden for any participating group."

CEG, from Page I

Report delegates responsibilitiesThe report recommends a clear

distinction between responsibilitiesof the administration and those ofthe VA. "The Institute is re-engi-neering the way evaluations aregiven," Beland said.

According to the report, printingthe forms, distributing them to the

epartments, gathering the results,and distributing them will now bethe responsibility of the administra-tion. Students will edit and publishthe material.

Under the previous policy, theCEG "was an entity run by studentswith some Institute funding,"Enders said. Currently, the Office ofUndergraduate Education andStudent Affairs handles the subjectevaluations, outsources them fordata analysi , and then gives thedata to the students to be publishedin the guide.

The report ca))s on the In tituteto fund the CEG each year. It esti-mates that $17,000 will be neces-sary for initial implementation ofthe software to be used in thefuture. A further $3,000 will be

turing itself, recruiting student inputis "rnes y because you don't havean organization in place," Williamssaid.

Still, the unique situation .-place gives students an opportum 'to involve themselves in determin-ing the future of the Dean's Office.The Office is currently developing anew "student cabinet" consisting ofmembers of the VA and othergroups to advise the office on howto better serve the needs of stu-dents.

Students already have the oppor-tunity to express themselves in sev-eral ways, Williams said

For example, students tradition-ally have the ability to serve on fac-ulty committees which do much ofthe work of the Institute, she said.

Students are also involved onother temporary committees, suchas the search committees currentlyin place to locate a new Registrarand Dean of Admissions. In suchcommittees, students are expectedto contribute their opinions on thelong-term direction of the office,Williams said.

More recently, students had theability to communicate their opin-ions on student affairs to theVisiting Committee, which con-venes every two years to evaluatethe Dean's Office.

In addition, students have hadthe opportunity to participate in theTask Force on Student Life andLearning, which is formulating thelong-term plans of the Institute as awhole .

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It~ so easy to help your , " fivehows of volunteer timeconununi~ when you think . per week the standard ofabout it. giving in America.

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specific group can work with alum-ni to recruit funding for their specif-ic group, William said. The BlackTheatre Guild, for example, hasworked with Black alumni to gainadditional funding for it activities.

Some members of the VACouncil que tioned the propriety offund-raising for specific groups.Allowing groups to raise funds mayskew funding towards large estab-lished groups and make creatingnew groups more difficult, said extHouse representative to the VAJeremy D. Sher '99.

"Fund-raising is an extremelywell-coordinated and well lookedover activity," said Williams. "Thisis not going to happen in a sloppyway," and the various fund-raisingoffices will ensure that as much ofthe funding as possible is unrestrict-ed.

Still, having students assist infund-raising should eventually leadto an increase in the total amount ofalumni and corporation giving, shesaid.

ean's Office HopesTo Utilize StudentsUA, from Page 1

Students to have role in OfficeThe ew Dean's Office is cur-

rently considering how to betterinvolve students in decision-makingprocesses in the future, Williamssaid.

"I don't have the answers, andI'd love to hear from [students],"she said.

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Chernicoff '97. 'It a like we wereall there taking each troke iththem,» he aid.

In the end, Princ ton, ho waranked econd and w la t year'lightweight champion, fini hed fir t

in a peedy tim of 5:54. 0, fo -lowed by ixth-ranked Cornell in5:56.0. IT finished only.2 ec-ond behind Cornell in 5:56.2, andColumbia took fourth in 5:57.

In the Grand Final, IT againfaced Princeton and Corne)), inaddition to Yale Univer ity,Harvard University, and DartmouthCollege, the top three finisher fromthe other morning heat.

The final was once again anaggressive, tough race. Harvarddeveloped an early lead which theyheld throughout the race. De pitethe 10 s to Yale earlier in the day,Harvard fini hed fir t in a time of5:55.20. Yale finished second in5:58.8 while Princeton took third in6:02.8.

MIT finished fourth in a time of6:08.9, folJowed by Corne)) in6:09.8, and Dartmouth in 6: 11.60.Although the team did not medal,they met their season goal of enter-ing the Grand Final. In additioQ.they beat Columbia, Cornell, anDartmouth, teams which had defeat-ed them earlier in the season.

It was a vast improvement overlast year's performance where MJTfinished 11th out of the 11 partici-pating crews. As the team lifted theboat out of the water, spectators,some who were there to supporttheir competitors, spontaneouslybegan to clap loudly and congratu-late the team on their performance.

The second varsity boat finishedfourth in their Petite Final, to fini h10th overall. They finished in a timeof 6:29.6 to best Georgetown's timeof6:31.7.

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The lightweight var ity boat,from bow to tern, wa made up ofKri Kendall'9 , Dan Frisk '99,Erik Bal ley G, Paul Oppold '99,Jean-Paul Folch '97, Chri Liu'9,Torrey Radcliffe '97, Garrett hook'97 (stroke), and Joe Irineo '98(cox wain), fini hed third in theirmorning final to advance to thegrand final in the afternoon. Theboat had been ranked eventh enter-ing the competition.

The team faced PrincetonUniver ity, Columbia Univer ity,Corne)) Univer ity, GeorgetownUniver ity, and the U.. avalAcademy in their morning heat. ForCornell, Columbia, and MIT therace wa a rematch from earlier inthe ea on.

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Off the start, MIT wa in thelead pack along with Princeton,Corne)), and Columbia. By thehalfway mark Princeton was slightlyahead of all crews, with MIT in sec-ond, Cornell in third, and Columbiafourth. In the final 500 meters,Cornell made a drive which justbarely inched them ahead ofMIT.

Columbia also made a strongsprint in the final 250 meters of the2,000 meter course, so that at the fin-ish line no one was sure who finishedthird. The times for the top four fin-ishers were within 2.2 seconds.

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