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dence and campus activities, stu-dents will be given preference cardsand instructions on how to inputtheir selections into the computerwhen they come to the R/O Center.After marking theirrpreferences onthe cards, the students enter theirrankings into a computer.

Eisenmann said this is a slightchange from last year, when stu-dents weren't given cards at all. Thechange will hopefully minimize theamount of time spent at the comput-ers thinking of rankings, he said.Last year, some students wereforced to wait an hour or more toregister their preferences. "This willbe good for us, and good for themtoo," Eisenmann said.

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today,incoming students will be makingmaking their dormitory selectionpreferences in the Residence andOrientation Center.

For the second year in a row,students will be able to make theirselections via a bank of computersset up in the R/O Center in the Stu-dent Center, rather than filling outpreference cards by hand as in pastyears.

Students will enter their dormito-ry preferences into the computer. Acomputerized matching system thenattempts to provide the best avail-able selections for all students.

According Andrew M. Elsen-mann '75, assistant dean for resi- YUEH

Both freshmen and upperclassmen frolic in the moonwalk at East Campus's Carnival.Housing, Page 7

By Deena DisraellySTAFFREPORTER

"Rush is hectic, like New Yorkrestaurants or Chinatown," said onefreshman who said that he wouldprobably not join a fraternity.

Song-Joon Park '97 and Sung-Jun Woo '97 signed out of a frater-nity and went to the Student Centerto decide which dormitories to visit."If we join a fraternity, we have tobe friendly with all the brothers,"Park said, "but in the dorm, we canchoose who we want to be friendswith."

Many freshmen chose to wander

around the Student Center or visitElsewhere. "Some people just don'tlike the atmosphere, the pressure,and the stress. Some people justcome to relax for a while," saidEdward C. Slottow '96, an Else-where staffer.

Break from telephone callsOne freshman said that he went

to Elsewhere because fraternitymembers "have been calling a lot,and I really didn't want to answertoday; I'm just taking a break."

"If I walk back to the dorms, Iknow there are going to be [fraterni-ty] people inviting me in," saidPeter K. Lee '97. Lee relaxed inElsewhere before attending theBoston Tour yesterday.

Adam W. Meyerson '97, whoalso visited Elsewhere, came to MIT"first because of academics and sec-ond because of the activities. I did

As living groups begin to extendbids, a number of freshmen havefound themselves so overwhelmedby the activities of Residence andOrientation Week that they havetaken to hiding from living groups.

While some have used the Else-where lounge to escape, many fresh-men have simply stopped signinginto their temporary housing, mak-ing it difficult for living groups tocontact them.

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which the rush chair at Lambda ChiAlpha described as "a drop off."

Alan S. Liu '94, Sigma AlIphaEpsilon rush chair, was also pleasedwith the turnout. "We have a fewmore people than last year," he said.

Many rush chairs said it was dif-ficult to be precise about whethermore or less people had visited theirfraternities this year. There was ageneral sense that fewer peoplewere participating in rush, but morepeople were interested in joiningfraternities, they said.

"We're not getting as many peo-ple through as usual, but they aremuch more interesting," said DanielJ. Dunn '94, rush chair at AlphaDelta Phi. "We like them a !tt."

The rush chair at Epsilor Theta,Adrian P. Childs '94, agreed. "I

Bids from ratern.,itis car be:accepted after 8 a.m. this morning,and after a weekend of rushing,most fraternities expect to initiateabout as many members as theyhave in the past.

An informal survey of fraternityrush chairs indicated that the protestoutside Phi Beta Epsilon and theanti-fraternity posters hung on cam-pus have had no discernable effecton rush.

"Rush is going great," said Jef-frey K. Ma '94, rush chair at DeltaUpsilon. "There are a lot of greatfreshmen at MIT this year. it'sprobably the best class I've seen atMIT."

Several of the fraternities sur-veyed felt that rush was actuallygoing better than it had last year,Hiding, Page 6 Rush, Page 7

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leaders were "very excited and verygood," she said. "They did a veryamazing job this year."

Chitaley, meanwhile, wasresponsible for overall planning,including arranging audio and videoequipment, room reservations, bud-geting, and expense accounting. Hedescribed his job by saying,"There's the means, and then there'sthe end. I was one of the peoplewhose job was getting the means tothe end."

As overall R/O coordinator, Reulis responsible for helping commit-tees to work well with each other."Everybody wants to help out tomake the entire R/O week to work,"she said.

Coordinators call R/O a successThe success of R/O so far was

"definitely a combination of thepeople and the organization," Reulsaid. "It's a function of experience.... We did have more experience onthis committee than the last commit-tee."

"For us the biggest thing wasgetting the information" to incom-ing students, such as safety andinformation about where to live andthe academic orientation afterwards,she said.

The coordinators noted the highturnout so far at R/O events. Trans-fer and international activities werewell attended, and Wednesday'sCasino Night attracted over 250 stu-dents, Chitaley said.

And "we of course wanted thefreshmen to have fun," Reul said,adding that by Friday, freshmenwere already starting to talk tofreshmen and upperclassmen theyhad met at MOYA.

There were about the same num-ber of R/O activities as last year,with the exception of a few moreevents for transfer students. It washectic, but "they'd be bored if itweren't," Reul said.

In the process of training R/Ocounselors to be good resources for

At least as busy as this year'sincoming students are the upper-class volu,,tcCrs who are runningResidence and Orientation Week.Heading the committee that plannedthis year's R/O Week are ChairCrystal K. Reul '94, Personnel andPublicity Manager Ginger J. Hanson'94, and Logistics Manager Raa-

jnish A. Chitaley '95."R/O is the only time where we

can get the freshmen together, equipthem with the information theyneed, and send them out there withthe best chances they have to suc-ceed at MIT," Chitaley said.

In addition to their overallresponsibilities, Reul, Hanson, andChitaley also divided up the differ-ent R/O committees.

For example, Hanson workedwith Project Move Off YourAssumptions committee, organizingMOYA leader training sessions,which. related to her job as-person-nel manager. Most of the MOY .

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Auffiorty to PalHoffman Israel and the Palestinians. MonthsroNPOsr of extremely difficult negotiations

JERUSALEM would then follow before Palestin-Minister Yitzhak Rabin ian rule could become a reality in;e Monday that the Israeli the Gaz.a Strip and Jericho.prove transferring author- Such vital questions as howatinians for governing the Israel's army and military govern-upied Gaza Strip and the ment will disengage from the areastown of Jericho as a first and how the Palestinians will Goved self-rule, Israeli offi- ern themselves will have to be ham-Sunday. mered out. There is also the issue ofan has emerged from the future status of the 3,000 Jewish!omacy between Foreign settlers living in the Gaza Strip. Thehimon Peres and a senior council of Jewish settlers in thethe Palestine Liberation West Bank and Gaza Sunday called

an, While a series of bur- the move "treason."ns, if approved by Israel A major impediment to the suc-lestinians, the Gaza-Jeri- cess of the Gaza-Jericho idea may be

i could become the most opposition from Hamas, the IslamicMiddle East peace agree- Resistance Movement, which has: the 1979 Camp David violently rejected the peace talkstween Israel and Egypt. with Israel, From a base in the Gazae last several days, enthu- Strip, Hamas has become the secondhe new proposal has been most powerful Palestinian move-mounting among both ment in the territories, and it mayl and Israeli leaders, and strike at the PLO and Israel if itw round of Israeli-Arab appears that bArafat is about to be; due t oeginFTuesday in 'handed an exclusive pow wCr base.

Dn, spokesmen on both Eventually, the self-rule in Gazaday sounded euphoric. and Jericho would be expanded to've that during the next other West Bank areas, but Israelwe will be witnessing a would retain control over externalId historic change, which borders and Jewish settlements,es have not expected in a Israeli officials said. The autonomy," said PLO official Yass- idea is to be temporary, lasting fiveibbo. years while subsequent negotiationsmajor breakthrough and focus on a perrnanent settlement, ashistoric moment in the envisioned in the Camp David

p between the Palestini- Accords. Many of the same issuese Jewish nation after 100 were on the table in the two years of-onflict, of bloodshed, talks that followed the Madrid con-violence," Israeli Health ference, which opened the current

aim Ramon said. peace process in October 1991, butier, other sources cau- the negotiations went nowhere.at a complex series of Nonetheless, the latest secrets must occur befbre an talks appeared to trigger a new waveement is reached on a set of momentum here. Some Israelion principles between officials predicted that the statement

Moscow

Western economists, hard-line Communists and others have warnedfor two years that capitalism would cost millions of Russians theirjobsas droves of inefficient businesses were forced into bankruptcy.

As visits to unemployment centers and statistics here attests jobless-ness on a massive scale is one misery Russia has been spared so far.

But the absence of mass unemployment is a mixed blessing. Theproblem, say many economists, is that jobs are being sustained artifi-cially by easy credit and cheap loans to businesses by Russia's Cern-tral Bank.

It remains unclear whether Yeltsin is willing to take the next stepand risk the political consequences of soaring unemployment whilefighting with parliament over the reforms. Nor is it certain how theRussian people, already hurt by higher prices and shrinking buyingpower, would react to a wave of layoffs after nearly eight decades ofpractically guaranteed employment.

Support Inrreasing for PerotLOS ANGELES TIMIES

of common principles could becompleted and signed in Washing-ton by the end of this week, andIsraeli television predicted Sundaynight that after the signing, the PLOwould announce the end of armedstruggle against Israel.

In the Gaza Strip, Palestinianswere searching for a suitable housefor PLO President Yasser Arafat,such as the building known as Gov-ernor's Palace, overlooking theMediterranean, that was used byEgypt's governor in Gaza beforei067 and is now used by the IsraeliBorder Police as a sports facility.

Meanwhile, Israeli radio saidIsrael and the PLO might agree onmutual recognition after 30 years ofhostility. If the deal eventually isimplemented, Israeli officials saidthey believed Arafat might formallycall an end to the intifada, the uprisingthat began in December 1987 againstIsraeli rule in the occupied territories.

But Israel's opposition partiesare Learinp- up for a battle.Binyamin Begin, a Likud memberof parliament, said the Rabin gov-ernment has put Gaza and Jericho"on the giveaway table as a freegift" and "the idea is to transferthose parts of our homeland todirect control of the PLO."

On the Palestinian side, hard-lin-ers also were critical. Farouk Kad-doumi, head of the PLO's politicaldepartment, said in Amman that thePLO is "seriously studying suspend-ing the talks because Israel does notintend to withdraw from one inch ofthe occupied territories." But otherssaid Arafat appeared to be stronglycommitted to pressing forward withthe Gaza-Jericho idea, which thePLO Executive Commitee approvedover the weekend.

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"We're losing our government" Michael Xirinachs, an impeccablydressed elderly man, wanrs the group in an impassioned speech thatelicits loud applause. "We don't have any time to waste. This is urgent."

In Michigan, Connecticut, Arkansas, Florida, California, Virginiaand many other states, groups of Perot followers are adopting by-iaws, electing officers, and plotting strategy. Their goal is to form aself-commissioned citizens' army dedicated to ridding American pol-itics of what they see as the seeds of its destruction: the arrogance ofIn iiumhber-nyvP r%,Av+; ardrlh-k nPMtoleranse ofthe federal deficit.

Perot and United We Stand America have been embarrassed byrecent reports of turmoil within the organization. Several formermembers have gone on national television to accuse Perot of beingdictatorial and trying to control all aspects of the organization fromhis office in Dallas. Indeed, internal bickering has sapped the group'sstrength in several states, such as Wisconsin and Illinois.

Yet, despite the many problems inherent in building a nationwidegrass-roots organization with diverse membership, there is ample evi-dence that United We Stand is growling steadily and becoming betterorganized under the supervision of Perot-paid directors in 38 states.

In fact, the group is so strong in some places that political analystsare predicting it could assist in unseating a few incumbent membersof Congress in the 1994 elections or undermining President Clinton'sbid to win congressional approval of the North American Free TradeAgreement.

Haitia Sanedons Unusual SuccessTHfE WA4SWfNGTOV POST

WASHINGTON

The selection last week of a new prime minister for Haiti and therestoration of legitimate government there represented a rare develop-ment in recent diplomatic history: Economic sanctions worked,

Invoked frequently in: the past 20 years as an instrument of inter-national pressure on disfavored regimes, economic sanctions havehardly ever had the direct, swift and apparently effective impact theyhad on Haiti.

Less than three months elapsed between the United Nations Secu-rity Council vote to impose an oil embargo and trade restrictions onthe military regime of Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras and Friday's unanimousdecision to suspend the sanctions because Cedras has agreed to resignand let elected President Sean Bertrand Aristide return to office.

Far more common have been economic and trade sanctions thatremain in place for months or years with little perceptible impact ontheir targets.

WYE~ATHEREmily Threatens Southern New

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there is one thing unique aboutEmily, it may be the respect coastalresidents and vacationers are givingti.

'Especially with the scare ofHurricane Andrew, everyone hastheir eyes open this year," said Deb-bie Reed, an emergency manage-ment aide for New Hanover County,which includes Wilmington, N.C.

On the Outer Banks, there was anoticeable lack of bluster about thestorm. Some vacationers, perhapsanxious to avoid the traffic jams ofa forced evacuation, packed up theirbeach chairs and hit the road. "It'snot a big panic to leave, but thereare people canceling their reserva-tions and cutting short their vaca-tions," said Russell Chaplain, ownerof the Castaways Ocean Front Inn inAvon on Hatteras Island.

Should anyoerl forget, a line fiourfeet up the lobby walls of Ocracoke's

92-year-old Island Inn marks Hurri-cane Gloria's tremendous surge ofwater in 1976. Before the evacuationorder, Island Inn manager ClaudiaTouhey said, "Most people are notreally worried about Emily." But sheadded: "We're not stupid about it;we're not going to wait for a Hurmi-cane Andrew to come through."

North Carolina emergency offi-cials said their biggest concernswere the population centers ofWilmington and Morehead City andthe barrier islands, linked only byferries or two-lane bridges to themainland.

At 3 p.m. Sunday, Em ily wasabout 420 miles southeast of CapeHatteras, generating thunderstorms200 miles from its eye. Federal fore-casters said they expected it to gainstrength Monday and to turn west-ward, steered by a high-pressureridge to the north.

Hurricane Emily moved steadilycloser to the East Coast Sunday, andfederal forecasters issued a hurri-cane watch for a 460-mile stretch ofcoastline from near Charleston,S.C., northeast to the Maryland-Delaware border.

At 5 p.m. Sunday, the NationalHurricane Center said the stormappeared most likely to hit NorthCarolina Tuesday morning nearCape Hatteras and Morehead City.But Jerry Jarrell, the center's deputydirector, said Emily easily couldchoose several other paths, includinga northward route away from land.

Jarrell said forecasters will prob-ably issue a hurricane warning Mon-day morning, predicting hurricane-fo~rce winds for the affected areawithin 24 hours. Sunday night, HydeCounty officials ordered 2,500 peo-ple, mostly vacationers, to evacuateNorth Carolina's Ocracoke Island. A2-hour ferry ride is the only way toget from that island to the mainland.

Officials for Dare County, whichtakes in most of the Outer Banks,warned residents and vacationers toprepare for an evacuation orderMonday morning.

Emily does not have nearly theforce of either Hurricane Hugo,which caused 27 deaths inCharleston in 1989, or HurricaneAndrew, which a year ago becamethe nation's most costly natural dis-aster. Meteorologists predict Emily'swinds will be between 96 and I110mph when the storm makes landfall.Andrew reportedly had sustainedwinds of 145 mph with 175 mphgusts. Hugo's winds hit 135 mph.

Still, with the memory of boththose storms fresh, few hurricaneveterans Sunday were underestimat-inig Emily'ss ponfi.Al d'anger.,lf,

As of 5 p.m. yesterday afternoon, hurricane watches were in effectfrom Cape Romain, S.C. northward to Fenwick Island, Del. and forthe lower portion of the Chesapeake Bay. During the day yesterday,Emily developed a more northward component to her track, and con-sequently portions of the Mid Atlantic states stand the most threat-ened by this hurricane. Emily remains a fairly minimal hurricane withwinds of 80 mph (128 kph), but forecasters still expect her to intensi-fy before making landfall early Tuesday on the coast of North Caroli-na. The storm is then expect to track to tie north, then northeast -crossing over eastern Long Island and perhaps easternmost southernNew England during the afternoon on Wednesday.

Our weather until then will be dominated by a high pressure ridgewhich will crest over the area today and move offshore tonight andtornmorow. Winds will be fairly light today and that should allowcooling afternoon sea breezes to occur. Once the high is offshorewarm, muggy weather will return.

Today: Partly cloudy and mild. High around 80°F (27°(C).Tonight: Partly to mostly cloudy with areas of fog developing.

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who appear before the justices. Butthe package, which is published bythe nonprofit New Press of NewYork, does not please the court.

The court's public informationofficer, Toni House, said Friday thatthe justices expect to take actionwithin the next two weeks. Shewould not elaborate. The court'soptions range from dropping thematter or issuing a strong publicadmonition to suing Irons ongrounds that he broke the terns ofthe Archives arrangement.

House said the justices are dis-turbed that Irons promised he woulduse the tapes only for his privatework and then turned them into acommercial venture. The six-tapeset. which costs $75, is being mar-keted mostly to schools.

None of the justices has com-mented publicly on the project.

Irons, in a telephone interview,contended that the statement hesigned at the Archives did not con-stitute a valid contract. Because thetapes are public, he said, constitu-tionally they cannot be subject tosuch restrictions. While otherlawyers agree that the tapes are pub-lic, some believe that the restrictionshould not have been ignored.

Irons contends that in 1955,when audiotaping of oral argumentsbefore the court began, thein-ChiefJustice Earl Warren envisioned openaccess to the tapes by the public andfor any purpose.

The current flap recalls the con-troversy last May when Chief Jus-tice William H. Rehnquist rebukedthe Library of Congress for makingpublic the files of the late JusticeThurgood Marshall. The Washing-ton Post and other newspapers pub-lished stories from the private con-ference papers about the court'sinner workings.

Rehnquist urged the Library ofCongress to close the Marshall files,and he warned that other justicesmight not give their papers to thelibrary. But despite protests by thecourt and Marshall's family, whosaid the library wrongly interpretedthe late justice's wishes, the filesremained open. Since then, no jus-tice who had previously agreed todonate papers has withdrawn orchanged the agreement, Library ofCongress spokeswoman Jill Brettsaid Friday.

While distribution of the oral-argument tapes and release of theMarshall papers arose from different

situations - and the tapes, unlikethe conference papers of Marshall,always had been in the publicdomain - both reflect an interest inhow the court works,

"With the increased public focuson the confirmation process and onthe court as a national player ...there has been a gradual strippingaway of the court's mystique," saidLaurence H. Tribe, a professor atHarvard Law School.

"Any objection that the courtwould have to the widest possibleavailability of the tapes is unjusti-fied," said Tribe, whose oral argu-ments are included irn the Irons pro-ject.

"We are not talking about secretsand leaks. These are clearly publicdocuments," Tribe said. "Whyaccess should be limited to the fewwho are lucky enough to sit in hecourtroom is beyond me."

The court has refused to allowradio or television broadcasts of itspublic proceedings.

But another Harvard law profes-sor, Charles Fried, whose views aremore in line with the conservativecourt majority, dismissed the tapesas "pure entertainment value."

"The court is concerned about

the difference between legitimatepublicity and anything that encour-ages grandstanding" by lawyerswho appear before the court, saidFried, a solicitor general in the Rea-gan administration.

Tribe and Fried agreed, however,that the situation raises a legitimatequestion of whether Irons violatedan express agreement that he wouldnot distribute the tapes. The state-mnent Irons signed said he would usethe tapes "for private research andteaching purposes only" and that heagreed "not to reproduce or allow tobe reproduced for any purposes anyportion of such audiotape."

The restrictions at the NationalArchives began in 1986 and appar-ently arose from a media controver-sy more than 10 years ago. AfterCBS correspondent Fred Grahamplayed part of the tapes from the1971 Pentagon Papers case in a tele-visionl report, then-Chief JusticeWarren E. Burger pressed theArchives to require people who usethe tapes to promise to use themonly for private research. (In thePentagon Papers case, the courtallowed newspaper publication ofclassified government documents onU.S. involvement in Vietnam.)

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For the second time this year, theSupreme Court is agitated over therelease of court materials that allowthe public a rare glimpse into aninstitution wedded to secrecy anddecorum.

The justices are considering'legal remedies" to Peter Irons's

imminent distribution of a tape-aBd-bool set of oral arguments in 23famous cases at the court-includ-ing Roe vs. Wade, which madeabortion legal; New York Times vis.United States, the Pentagon Paperscase; and Loving vs. Virginia,which struck down a state ban oninterracial marriage.

'The one-hour oral argumentshave been recorded by the SupremeCourt since 1955, and the tapes areopen to the public at the NationalArchives. But before Irons, a lawyerand political science professor at theUniversity of California at SanDiego, copied the tapes, he signed astatement saying he would use themonly for his private work.

Irons's package of edited tapes istitled "May It Please The Court .. . "

-the customary opening of lawyers

By Kim MurphyLOSANGELES TIMES

Croats, though the Spanish unitannounced At would maintain a per-manent military presence on boththe Croat and Muslim sides of thecity in an attempt to halt the fighting.

The deadly game of tit-for-tat thathas turned much of the city into rub-ble, sandbag piles and burned skele-tons of buildings continued unabated,three days after the cease-fi-re thaeOpened the way for the UnitedNations to enter Mostar on Thursday.

Near one ruined building, agroup of Croat soldiers sat playingcards in the dappled afternoon light,

cheerfully unmindful of the frontline just 50 meters away. There,despite the half-hearted cease-fire,Muslims and Croats were enthusias-tically exchanging anti-aircraft andsmall-arms fire, punctuated by thethud and boom of an occasionalmortar round. Screeching NATOpatrol planes played harmony.

As a group of people approacheddown an alley, the Croat soldiersthrew down their cards, rose andscreamed a warning: "Snipers!" Oneof the soldiers lunged at the manheading the group, which had wan-

dered into the deadly path of asniper's nest. Three people had diedin the alley in the past two days.

Tears of fury welled in the oldsoldier's eyes as he chastised theunwary approacher. His hand sud-denly went for his gun, and itseemed he would shoot the manwho had allowed a Muslim sniper achance to kill him. The other sol-diers wrestled him away. One of themen who died was the soldier'sfriend, and his son fell to anothersniper's bullet, they explained.

Then the card game began again.

Croat military leaders tended togrin when asked if this is what acease-fire is like. Incoming rounds,fired from the Muslim area of east-ern Mostar, they described as"provocations." The much more fre-quent boom of outgoing artilleryfrom Croat lines was calledResponse to provocations."

Here, in the heart of what Bosn-ian Croats hope to make their capitalcity, there was derision for the Gene-va peace plan's proposal to turn war-ring Mostar into a united city admin-istered by the European Community.

MOSTAR, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

A day before Bosnia's warringfactions were to meet in Geneva toaccept or reject a plan for ending 17months of civil war, there did notappear Sunday to be much enthusi-asm for peace in this city Ethat is one ofthe main flash points of the conflict.

Spanish peacekeeping troopsremained trapped for the fourthstraight night on the east side ofMostar. Muslims were holding themhostage for protection from the

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freshmen hide from fraternities inthe dorms, but there is nothing wecan do about it," said Chad E. Tru-jillo '95, Tau Epsilon Phi rush chair.

"Earlier we had a freshman thatwe were trying to trace who wassigned out to Boston at another fra-ternity. I doubt he was signed out toBoston; I think they were just tryingto hide him," Adam D. Cunningham'94, Phi Kappa Sigma rush chair.

Ben M. Serridge '95, Chi Phirush chair, attributed the problemsin locating freshmen to Clearing-house. "Freshmen in the dormnns arevery hard to find because dormsdon't check them in or out or carewhat room they are in. The ones atfraternities we don't have any prob-lem with. Fraternities face IFC finesif they don't keep track of the fresh-men and dorms don't," Serridgesaid.

Some ILGs said they were nothaving problems locating freshmen.Malia Crawford '96, rush chair atFenway House, said that althoughFenway does trace freshmen, mem-bers try not to pressure them and donot have problems finding them.

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said Patrick A. Cazeau '92."Through Clearinghouse andthrough our own sources, we'vebeen on top of things, and peoplehave been around."

"We have been pretty successfulfinding a lot of our freshman," LingTong '96, a Nu Delta resident.

Pika Rush Chair Sanjay S. Vakil'94 said, "We haven't had peopledisappearing that we are trying tofind."

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not come here to find a residence."Several male freshmen visited

Elsewhere on Sunday to get awayfrom rush, Slottow said. Manywomen came by after PanhellenicRush was over on Friday night, headded.

Woo said that he would like tolive in a dorm because he wouldhave "more privacy.... In a frater-nity, you know people really well,but it's more open than in dorms."

Visiting sorority rush rooms"was more like a chore than some-thing enjoyable.... I haven't beenhaving fun during rush," said onefemale freshman.

"I wish I had more time todecide, it weren't so high-pressured.It would be nice to live in a dormfirst semester and then pledge a fra-ternity," Meyerson said.

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Most of the rush chairs polledhad noticed no ill effects from thepestering campaign lead by the AdHoc Committee for an InformedRush. "I haven't been able to pin-point any effect," Ma said.

Tau Epsilon Phi Rush ChairChad A. Trujillo '93, however, saidTEP went out of its way to demon-strate that it did not treat pledgesdifferent than brothers.

TEP hung posters explaining thatit did not haze or treat women poor-Iy. Another poster told freshmenthat no broad generalization wastrue and that they should think fobrthemselves.

"It seems like the freshmen areasking lots more questions aboutrush. The freshmnan are being morewary this year than in previousyears," Trujillo said. "It's goodthough. It's important that they askquestions."

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Rush, from Page I about pledging periods or other fra-ternity obligations. "The freshmanthat we are rushing haven't reallysaid anything," he said.

Some probiems aroseThe problems that some fraterni-

ties had were mostly logistical innature. Phi Kappa Theta had troublegetting its events listed in The DailyConfusion and had fewer peoplethan normal visit on Friday and Sat-urday. The fraternity expects a suc-cessful rush anyway, its rush chairsaid.

A few fraternities said they hadtrouble corntacting Clearinghouse onFriday night. Clearinghouse tracksthe location of all freshmen whenthey sign in and out of fraternitiesand dormitories. Fraternities callevery hour to report the status offreshmen who visit.

Clearinghouse "was having trou-ble getting calls through. It was tak-ing an hour to get an answer. Thatwas really hectic for everyone ingeneral," Liu said.

Trujillo also noted that thephones were busy for 35 or 40 min-utes at Clearinghouse.

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staffer said everything was runningsmoothly now.

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Housing, from Page I limit. After the results of the firstround are announced, students whoreceive assignments will be expect-ed to move in by Tuesday night.

The number of students remain-ing to be processed in the secondround will depend upon the successof iLGs today, Eisenmann said.Because the placement of freshmenin dormitories and the acceptance ofpledges happen concurrently, spacesin the dormitories open up betweenTuesday and Wednesday, he added.

The second round results assignall remaining freshmen to dormitoryrooms, with those students expectedto move Wednesday evening.

The new mechanism of enteringrankings by computer was initiallyimplemented to save R/O workersfrom having to enter the preferences ·into the computers by hand.

"It went very well last year inthat one of the goals of the algo-rithm is to optimize happiness," saidEisenmann. "We try not to assignpeople to their top choices whenpossible. Although slightly fewerpeople get their first choice, morepeople get there second and thirdchoices."

Last year, 97.5 percent of thefreshman were placed in one of theirfirst three dormitory preferences.

The matching system is done intwo rounds, with the results of thefirst and second rounds beingreleased on Tuesday at 5 p.m. andon Wednesday at 5 p.m. respective-ly.

Eisenmann said that the firstround will begin by determining thenumber of spaces available, assum-ing a maximum crowding level of165 students. The matching systemwill try to make assignments forfreshmen who have not alreadypledged an independent living groupwithout exceeding the crowding

Coordinators, from Page 1 early,. because R/O always comestoo soon too fast."

Academic orientation upcomingSince R/O Week extends until

next;weekend, "every year itbecomesmore important to empha-size that it's not 'dead week,' " Chi-taley said. Academic orientation isimportant because freshmen mustfigure out what to do this year-especially with the new biologyrequirement - and over the nextfour years, he said.

Freshmen will attend an academ-ic preview on Tuesday and the fullorientation on Wednesday. Thisincludes Meet the Profs and theAcademic Convocation.

"We really pushed hard, with thethanks of the provost, to get faculty,staff," and administration to attendBreakfast with the Profs Wednes-day, Chitaley said. He added thatlast year there were not enough fac-ulty attending, and some of themtalked among themselves or werelate.

freshmen, the upperclassmen alsolearned a lot.

"It was amazing to see peoplegrow very quickly from cluelessfrosh" to knowledgeable upperclass-men, Hanson said.

The coordinators also tried toprovide leadership opportunities forworkers within their committees sothat they can be more experiencedfor next year, Reul said.

But new people also bring newideas and a fresh perspective, shesaid.

"I really enjoy this kind of work,where you get to start off planningand thinking about what to accom-plish," Reul said. "You see whatyou are working for actually hap-pen. ... Every day you go into workit's something new."

The coordinators are also docu-menting their work from this year,Reut said. Chitaley suggested thatnext year's coordinators "read ourreports, and get started quickly

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5:05p: pika. Hurry, hurry, hurry to the pizza baror Jenn will get all of the artichoke hearts! pika492-6983*

5:12p: Burton-Conner. This may be your lastchance for free FOOD!!!!-*

5:18p: Fenway House. "57-Year-Old Elvis Mar-ries Mississippi Waitress." Really. Just AskDotty. Dramatic Readings from the WeeklyWorld News. 437-1043.*

5:30p: Spanish House. Buenas Tardes! Readyfor some great Onental cuisine? Great! Meeton the second floor of House 4 of New Houseand join Spanish House for a trip down toChinatown.'

,:,. ;,. n,.Di-,, hng', need dinner Aecause i'm hungry ard dinner will take away thehunger.. Come have pizza at pika (otherwiseknown as zza).. It's yummy, you can put yourown toppings on it, ft s fun...wheet'

5:32p: pika. Just a brief clarification, pizza isotherwise known as zza, pika is not. Not thatpika is 'not' in some meta logical way, I justmean pika is not otherwise known as zza, noris it foremost known as zza, or indeed everyknown as zza. Maybe I should say that onlypizza is ever known as zza...*

5:48p: Fenway Rlouse. Space Aliens try tosteal the Weekly World News out of our hands.Come help us shoo them away· 437-1043.'

5:55p: Epsilon Theta. DING! Dinner in fiveminutes . .'

6:00p: ZBT. The Red Sox take on the Rangefs.Love them or hate them, come to Fenway towatch them with us. rides: call Rick 232-3257,232-3258.

6:00p: Delta Upsilon. Our cook, George, makeshis famous Steamship Roast Dinner.

6:00p- Epsilon Theta. DINNER IS SERVED.Stir-fried goodies and lots of rice. Call 3-8888for a ride.

6:00p: WILG. Take a break from the actionand join us for a scumptious homemade pizzadinner"

6:00p: K1;. Orange Chicken and Sidoin Tips withRice and Sauted Vegetables*

6:00p: Phi Delta Theta. Chinatown Dinner-Take the MBTA with us into Chinatown and havea meal at the Golden Dragon, courtesy of us.This will be one of the better Chinese Dinnersyou will ever eat in Boston!

6.00p: Chi Phi. Hungry? How about some Mexi-can food? Come to Chl Phi andenjoyourchef'smouth-watering fajidas and Spanish rice. Andtop it off with some friendly dinnertime banterwith the brothers and their friends."

6'00p. Student House. Drop by the house forsome free food. 247-0506 'Nuf said.'

6.02p: Burton-Conner. One more chance fordinner at the Burton BBQ Pits....'

6:06p: pika. We warned you that the artichokehearts would be gone... Don't worry. there isstill a huge selection of toppings so that you cancreate the pizza of your dreams... Match thatwith a homemade crust and you simply can't gowrong! pizza bar at pika 492-6983'

6-13p- Fenway House. Come play Twister withus. Call for a writhe. 437-1043.'

6:22p: TEO. ITALIAN DINNER. A world-classmeal prepared by our master chef knownacross the country as 'Diane.' After dinner, wewill be heading to the North End for the bestcannolis that Boston has to offer.**

6:30p: Pi Lam. Don't you wish it was Thanksgiv-ing every day? It is at Pi Lam! Turkey, stuffing,and all the trimmings. Call 267-ROCK for aride."

6:30p. Chi Phi. Missed dinner? Don't miss adelicious dessert of Dutch apple pie!"

6 31 p: pika. If you had been here at 6, you couldhave had 2 pizzas by now! and believe you me,they would have tasted great! pizza bar at pika'492-6983'

6.36p' Fenway House. Dinner wrth the FenwayHouse Demons' Loud Santanic Music playedforwards, deviled eggs. devil's food cake, andthe Casserole from Hell; Call for a ride acrossthe Styx, ask for Charon. 437-1043.^

7:00p: fhi. Dog Tracks.7 00p- WILG. The movie marathon is just getting

started' Come see Benny and Joon with us!'7'00p' pika Legos are fun to eatl Legos are fun

to build houses with! Legos are fun to makelittle cars with that go vroooml Legos are jollyand neat (and they aren't really fun to eat (thatwas just put In so the entry would rhyme thoughrt really doesn't (at least not every line))) (pika492-6983'

7:01 p: pika. ) (I forgot that in the last entry)'7.02p. pika. The cook is valiantly attempting to

defend the pizza topping from marauding nib-blers who have no intention of building pizzas.Take up arms in the great battle! Or just dropby for dinner at pika. Call for a ride- 492-6983'

7:15p' pika Legos, what can you do with them? Imean, they're just all these Iffle blocks with littlepbs on top and little indentations In the bottombut they don't stick together magnetically and

you can't type on them so I don't know whatto do...but Noah does ...You see Noah is anarchitecture major, so you might say he knowswhere n's at when it comes to building thingswith egos...as long as he doens't try to put re-bar in the leges (we keep teling him not to)...atany rate, come build fun things with Noah (orLegos as the case me be), it'll be wacky, it'll be

fun...call pika at 492-6983 and our lego mobilewill come and pick you up...'

7:30p: pika. be creative. make noah nervous byplaying with his lego. listen to classical musicand discuss architecture. lego at pika!! yay'!!

7:32p: pika. you can put anything on your pizzaEXCEPT Noah's logo. 492-6983'

7:59p: pika. Last call at the pizza bar. Throwtogether a last minute masterpiece to much be-fore the party! 492-6983*

8:00p: Epsilon Theta. COOKIE BAKING.Chocolate chips, peanut butter, lots of sugar.Maybe we'll try pretzels, too! Call 3-8888 for aride.-

8:00p: Baker House. A long time ago in Juras-sic Park, Indiana, Batman began his five-year

mission to seek out the one-armed six-fingeredmurderer of Helen Kimball and Inigo Montoya'sfather so that he could retrieve the magic applewith which he could free the beautiful princessfrom the alien mother queen and thus receivethe kiss which would transform him from ahideous beast into a wonderful blue genie, leav-ing him free to enjoy the BAKER MOVIE FEST.Cool Movies. Free food. And they all livedhappily ever after.'

8:00p: Chl Phi. Come round out your day with atour of Chl Phi's historic mansion, or cool downwith the brothers as they check out the morehappening places in Boston.

8:00p: K,;. Come over to SKULLHOUSE andenjoy pizza and movies in our newly refurbishedMusic Room. Call for a ride: 536-3683."

8:17p: Fenway House. Bored? Come take in amovie. Still quite a few left. 437-1043.'

8:22p: TEN. We're in search of cannolis that willbring tears to your eyes in the North End, oneof the best ethnic neighborhoods in Boston."'

8:30p: Senior House. Bonfires asusuaL..conspire with us... Yet more inter-esting movies being shown...'

8:30p: pika. It's 8:30 on 8/30, if you don't knowwhy that's cool...come to pika and find out thatwe don't know why it's cool either*

9:00p: Delta Upsilon. DU Message Party'9:00p: Theta Chi. "-PARTY!*- That's rightl

Tonight is our first open party of the year andit's .onna be a cool time, so Come One, ComeAll, 'Come By for a Great Blowout!*

9:00p: Epsilon Theta. STAR TREK. Enjoy yourfreshly-baked treats (with lots of milk and applecider) while watching everyone's favorite pro-gram in our own 'unique' way (haven't you al-ways wanted to make tun of Wesley Crusher?7).Carl 3-888 for a ride.'

9:00p: WILG. The movie marathon is in full swing!Join us for Truly, Madly, De'?y, and fresh, hotpopcorn! Call 253-6799 or 354-1 263 for a nde.*

9:00p: Pi Lam. All the Boston schools are back insession, so it's time to party! Come to our Backto Boston Party, nine til ???? Call 267-ROCKfor a ride."

9:00p: pika. Strobe lights (well no), loud mu-sic (sort of), lots of people (maybe), pika (492-6983).*

9:o0p: >KY_ It's the first party of the vear. The fa-mous SKULLHOUSE Graffiti Party! Bring yourR/O shirt and all of your friends you want towrite on. Call for a ride: 536-3683.-

9:00p: Student House. It's Classic Black-and-White Film Night at Student House! Coneover and seesome great movies from the dayswhen everything on earth was in shades of grey.Call 247-0o06.'

9.01p: pika. Actually, X wel be quite fun, comejoin us...'

9:02p: Epsilon Theta. We regret to inform youthat the individuals making fun of Star Trek havebeen sacked.'

9:06p: Epsilon Theta. The individuals whosacked the individuals making fun of StarTrek have been sacked. We regret theinconvenience'

9:15p: 3 ,Fenway House. Things go wild! 437-1 .

10:00p: Epsilon Theta. EVENING CROQUET.Join the 2.5th Annual Croquet Game for theControl of the Universe. We don't know therules, either. Call 3-8888 for a ride.'

10:22p: TEOP. Come to TEP for Hot Cocoa. Co-coa, cookies and other goodies to give you asugar high thao shud '-o you u, ,'1ha Ace,,-ties Mdway. It's a tradition (No! Not tuition!)-

10:38p: Fenway House. They grow and growand grow. Come meet our shrimp chips. 437-1W43.*

11:0OI: WILG. Yep -we're still in the living roomwatching movios. Come see the classic ro-mance - Casablanca! We'll be munching ondelicious leftovers to help curb that midnighthunger.'

11:32p: Student House. Master the ancient artof the Bongo Board. 247-0506.'

11:41 p: Fenway House. Come count the bd.,ldesin a paintbrush. 437-1043.-

12.01a: Fenway House. Monday has beenfound. The numbers aren't running. All is well.Call for a ride. 437-1043.-

2:11a: Fenway House. Son of Oobleck. 437-1043.'

ActivitiesAll day: Choralladres. La! Chorallades singing

the way it was meant to be. Auditions r-Sat.'All day: Science Fition Society. The largest

pubhic science fiction library in the Known Uni-verse will be open most of the hours betweennoon. and midnight today. Come by W20-473(Student Center). relax, and read a good book.We're not fans, we just read the suff.'

All day: WMBR 88.1 FM. 88.1 FM the cooleststation in the Charles River basin!;

6:00p: Hillel. Kosher Dinner. Israeli/AMddle East-em style food. Fee, reserve by 11 AM.'

Notices

All day: Elsewhere 24 hours Reading RoomElsewhere lounge is open! Escape fronm thewhirlwind of Rush, the eye of the storm isElsewhere.*

8:00a: - Midnight La Sala de Puerto RicoR/O Center Open Call 253-2500 for 24-hourinformation.-

9.00a: 9:00 am -4:00 pm R/O Center DormitoryPreference Selection Indicate your permanenthousing choices at the R/O Center. This yearhousing choices will be input through a bank ofcomputers. When y0L arrve, have your hous-ing choice preferences ready for input and bnngyour roommates. Note that you will need tomake your owvn selections.

2:00p: Tours. - 5'00 pm Meet on Student Cen-ter Steps Science Museum You're not a trueMIT student until you make an offcial trip to theMuseum of Sclence! Bring your MIT ID to guar-antee free admission. (Rain location- Meet byStudent Center information desk.)'

6:00p: Tours - 9:00 pm Meet on Student CenterSteps Seafood Tour Come and eat an authen-tic New England seafood dinner where the fishwere caught that morning. Bring money. (Rainlocation: ,,meet by Student Center .f,,atondesk.)'

8.00p: Sexual Identity. sponsors Queer Else-where. 14E-304 until2 am. Come play with ourcrayons. We can't even draw staight.'

10:00p: - Midnight Kresge Oval Movie NightIt's time for a break from residence selection.Come watch The Dark Crystal and chill out withyour fellow frosh. (Rain location' Lobdell)'

AnnouncementTHURSDAY, September 2ndThere Will be a Mandatory program for al/ Fresh.men at 5PM in Kresge. Stay tuned for more infor-mation.

In case of emergency. dial 100 from any MITphone. Other important numbers:Campus Police: 253-1212Med Center Emergency: 253-1311R/O Center 253-2500UAA: 253-6772Nighttine: 253-8800

The Daily ConfusionEditors: Lana Luoma, Celia Huey

NOTE: A single asterisk (') following a listing in-dicates a coed or female Iving .roup. A doubleasterisk (--) indicates an activIyto which womenare cordially invited.

1:06p: Epsilon Theta. The Epsilon Theta Lectureand Workshop Series presents "The Searchfor the Thirty-Pound Five-Dimensional ToroidalHallucinogenic Long-Winded Psychic CelestialVegetarian Ham" with the Astounding ParseidWatchers.'

1:08p: Fenway House. Are you a conformist or anon-conformist? Do you color inside the lines?Coloring books and crayons at Fenway. Wehave 437-1043 fabulous colors.'

1:10p: WILG. Be a child again! Come visitBoston's Childran's Museum with us! Bringalong your MIT id!'

1:13p: Next House. Last chance to get a freemeal at Next....Don't miss out!'

1:17p: Random Hall. Have you ever seen Bostonfrom the top of the Hancock Building? Aaron isgoing to, and he needs company'

1:22p: TEe. Come visit the Science Museum withour famous In-house rocket scientists. None ofthem have ever had a failed launch, and noneof them have ever lost a probe."

1:30p: WILG. Tired of looking at the cement? Feelthe cool breeze and watch the grass blow in afield this aftemoord! For a ride call 253-6799 or354-1263.'

1:30p: Chi Phi. Before MIT tries to teach you howboring science can be, come join the brotherson a trip to the Museum of Science and checkout all the coo, exhibits.*-

1:30p: pika. Do you enjoy finding things, specificthings like a hole in the wall not general thingslike world peace and happiness or anything likethat. If you do, come to the pika ScavengerHunt at pika. Where else? The first item to findis a phone... the number to dial on that phoneis 492-6983 and then finding pika will be easy.°

1:31p: Fenway House. Ivory soap works bothraw and cooked. It's just a itle better cooked,that's all. 437-1043.'

1:39p: Fenway House. Wow! What else can wenuke? 437-1043.*

1:40p: WILG. Where are all the trees? Why in theArboretum of course. Take a trip and get outof the city to relax!*

1:50p: WlLG. Haven't had a chance to see allof Boston's snes yet? Go for a walk on theFreedom Trail with us! You'll be introduced tohistorical Boston in a casual manner.'

2.00p: Senior House. REGRESS!!! Kinder-garden in the Courtyard: Relive your child-hood.. fingerpaint, blow bubbles, sculpt clayand playdough, express some creativity for achangeft! four colrtyrd as your c_~nva- . ourminds your solozpsistic reflections...'

2:00p: fiji. Go-Carl Racing.2:00p: WILG. Want to see life on the other end

of town? Come explore Harvard Square wnthus!*

2.00p: Baker House. It's time for the As-Far-Back-As-We-Can-Remember-th Annual BakerHouse Barbecue and Volleyball Gala!!! Comeget some fantastic outdoorcuisine and play vol-leyball to your heart's content. How can the~combine a barbecue with volleyball, you say.Well, Um not really allowed to say, but I can tellou that if you don't come, you'll only be able to

gear the explosions.'2.00p: pika. Come learn about pika at our scav-

enger hunts It's folklore, tnvia and lots of need-less pikan in/orrnation... Question ,1.: 'Whatfraternity was pika once affiliated with? [that'sa tough one'] call pika: 492-6983'

2:02p: pike. Hey, why aren't you at pika? Wehave lots of neat pika myths that may or maynot be true... find out for yourself'

2:06p: Fenway House. When I think of FenwayHouse, I imagine cold mountain streams andbreezes, or is that a York Peppermint Patty?Nevermind.'

2.09p: Next House. Turned in your prefer-ence card already? No problem! Escapethe doldrums and play frisbee, volleyball. card,Monopoly, etc, etc..-..at Next!'

2.10p: WILG Shop-a-holicsalert! We're headingto Filene's Basement to dig up some SUPERbargains!'

2:15p: pika. Ahh, a Picasso, a Monet, a Yveslanguay...are all these paintings at pika? Nah,but we know where to find them. Call 492-6983 to come along as we search for the lostmasters...'

2:16p: Burton-Conner. We've just started ourlast movie... Don't miss out on our big screenTV ...

2.20p: WILG. Go to the heart of Boston for somedelicious desse rtl We're headed to Mike's Pas-tries to pig out!'

2.30p: Senior House. Lasagna lunch, infiniteramen, and there's still food to BBQ..-

2.30p: WILG. See Boston from new heights!We're headedtothe top of the Prudential Build-ing for a beautiful view of Boston! Don't forgetyour MIT id!'

2:30p: Next House. Calling all Musicophiles!!!Come test the stings on our newly refurbushedSteinway Baby Grand piano. Open to all!'

2:30p: pika. Where can vou find lots of greatpaintings, Greek sculpture, Eqyptian Mummies,and Modem Art? Well, the MFA of course...Call492-6983 now and you'll get here in time to joinus as we voyage to the Museum of Fine Arts...'

2:40p WILG. Want to get out without going toofar? Head next door to the MIT Museum withus! Bring along your MIT id.-

2:45p: p'ka. The Museum of Fine Arts containsonly fine arts, no course arts or sort of grainyarts are allowed.-Call 492-6983 and we'll tellyou more-

2'56p: Burton-Conner. Watch our gourmet chefflip burgers.'

3.00p. Chi Phi. Come to Chi Phi and join thebrothers In a friendly game of ultimate, soccer,basketball, or whatever suits your fancy.

3.00p: pika Well, we're finally leaving for theMFA T tokens in hand ready to set out on avoyage that will carry us not very far In an actual,sort of, geographical sense, but will carry usvery far in a kind of mental joumey to far offplaces and times as we view great works of artby lots of famous artists (too numerous to name~nithes short entry).. pika. 492-6983'

300p. Epsilon Theta. CANDLE MAKING. Tallones, short ones, red ones, blue ones. . . Call3-8888 for a ride.'

3 00p. WILG. Revert to your chl;dhood! Stop byfor some milk and cookies & relaxation!'

3:04p. Fenway House. Come meet the Prt Helpus paint the lollycolumn. 437-1043.'

3:15p: Next House. Still Looking? Westill have TOURS. GAMES, MUSIC, SIMP-SONS ..... come on down!.

3:17p: Random Hall. Cool off with some de-licious ice cream in the Random Hall houselounge.'

3.22p: TEO. FAO Schwartz. If you like hearing'Welcome to our world of toys' over and overagain until your spleen is ruptured, come withus. You'll see stuffed animals that cost morethan your average motorcycle and truckloadsof other toys. 262-5090. *'

4:00p: pika. Come make your mouth shrivel upand bum horribly! We have buttloads of sourcandy!'

4:01p: Fenway House. Our magic 8-ball neverlies. Our pet rat Schredinger always lies. Mr.Sun is always shining. Some things neverchange. 437-1 043.'

4:01p: pika. Dooooooe weeeeeee, our mouthslook funny!! Come see and eat sour candy! callfor a ride: pika 492-6983'

4:15p: Epsilon Theta. YES! TIBET! TIBET! J.SBach meets Rand McNally in Ernst Toch's Geo-graphical Fugue. Alan directs a lively rehearsaland performance.'

4:16p: Student House. Money isn't everything,but it sure helps. If the cost of living at MITseems overwhelming, there is an altemative:Student House. Give us a call at 247-0506.'

10:45a: pika. see... this is what you do... you takea bunch of oatmeal - that good for you bran-ystuff (but that's not important right now) - anddump sugar -that nasty bad for your teeth stuff(but that's not important right now) on it. thenmake it a gooey, crispy creme brullee mess!excellent food at pika! 492-6983*

1 1:00a: Zi. Canoe down the wild rapids of theUpper Charles River. The water is actuallyclean up there!

1 t:00a: OKO. Come throw some frisbees andchuck some footballs during our picnic excur-sion to Blue Hills. Plenty of food and sports togo around. 437-7795

11:00a: Delta Upsilon. Trip to beautiful Crane'sBeach.

11:00a: Burton-Conner. FOOD!!! Come BarBQwith us!'

11:00a: WILG. We're still chillin'! Stop by for agame of cards, or just to chat!'

11:00a: Pi Lam. Take a trip to Lake Cochituate forswimming, frisbee, maybe some football, whoknows? We'll cook some burgers and dogs forlunch. Call 267-ROCK for a ride.*"

11:00a: Next House. Come visit and ask our DJsto playyour favourite jungle tune on our housestereo!

11:00a: Sigma Chi. Sigma Chi Road Rally. Wedon't know where we're going, but getting thereis always something to remember.

11:00a: Russian House. Come join us atthe New House Brunch, followed by a privatephoto session with Danielle. No silly, that's thephotographer!'

11:00a: Phi Delta Theta. BEACH TRIP- Bring abeach towel and some sunblock, because we regoing to Crane's Beach, where the water is al-ways at least a balmy 64 degrees. It's fun toride some of the East Coast's waves, and whenyou're tired of that, eat some hamburgers andplay some volleyball.

11:00a: German House. Potential GermanHouse members should definitely plan to at-tend this event. We'll have food, of course -simply give your waiter or wartress your order,and we'l serve it up, piping hot!'

11:00a: (DK,. Tired of the heat? Wanna cooloff? Then come on over lo SKULLHOUSE fora good old water ballon fight. Call for a nde:536-3683.**

11:00a: East Campus. Dim Sum. Come andenjoy our rendition of this traditional Chinesebrunch. It's not fnord Chinatown, but it's fnordfree!'

1:01a: Burton-Conner. Popcorn, soda,movies, and relaxation ....'...

11 01a: German House. Wir koennen miteinan-der ein bisschen Deutsch sprechen, wenn dubei uns fruestuecken moechtest. Alle, die sicham Deutschen Haus interessieren, sollen daseir. Es wird vwel zum Essen geben!°

11:06a: Number Six. WALDEN POND Swimand sun at historic Waldon Pond. In case ofrain, join us for the aquarium.'

11:08a: Fenway House. Elvis is alive and well inthe back stairs 437-1043 '

11 :14a: Epsilon Theta. Become Chuck's nextwarning sound! Sample the amazing library ofsounds on his Mac.'

11:17a: PRan,"n Hall. Help us make pizza forlunch. You can have your choice of toppings.'

11:21 a: Epsilon Theta. Stupid Wes tricks. In-finitely better than the Macintosh version.'

11:22a: TEO. Singing Sands Beach. It just sortof squeaks. Come marvel at sea wonders likekelp and salt. Relax, there's no medical wasteson this beach. We'll give you a suit if you don'thave one. 262-5090.g

11:45a: Fenway House. Lunch lameness! Re-men and frozen pasta. Eat it up! 437-1043. °

11:58a: WILG. SUSHI making!! Come join us forlunch as you learn how to make sushi! We'llalso have tempura around to munch on!'

11:58a: pika. breakfast/brunch is almost over'but you can help us torch a bit more oatmeal ifyou dare! pikapikapika 492-6983*

12:00p: ZBT. Cruise to lovely George's Islandwith us. On the island there will be plenty offood, sports, and milling around. For rides callRick at 232-3257 or 232-3258.-'

12:00p: Epsilon Theta. LUNCH ON THEBOSTON COMMON. Fried chicken, veggies,and salad Afterward, we'll feed the birds andmaybe fly kites. Ultimate fnsbee and juggling,too! Call 3-8888 for a ride.'

t2:00p: fiji. Beach Trip.12:00p: Next House. MORE BBQ!!' We're hav-

ing a smorgasbord lunch at Next. Bring alongan appetrte!'

12:0Op: KY:. 'South of the Border' - Beef andChicken Fajtas°

12:00p: Chi Phi. Enjoy some tasty Americancuisine at Chi Phi: S'zzhing hot dogs and ham-burgers, cooked on the gnll. It doesn't get anybetter than this..."

12:00p: Student House. Come over to StudentHouse for a delectable lunch prepared by Sar-wat. Call 247-0506.'

12-00p: East Campus. Leftovers. There's prob-ably some Dim Sum left over too, but if you'reonly hanging around here for the food .... *

12:12p: Pi Lam. Have lunch and then shoot somepool at a famous Boston billiard parlor. Call267-ROCK for a ride.

12.17p: Random Hall. The accidentally on pur-pose water balloon fight begins in UniversityPark, rain or shine!"

12-18p' AErl. Alpha Epsilon Pi is heading outto the famous Boston Common for a picnic andsome relaxation. You've made rt this far, youdeserve a break. 247-3170"-

12:30p Theta Chi. We're road tapping to BlueH,-Is for a cookout lunch and a laid back after-noon. Come along and hang out.

12 30p' plka It's clash of the titans meetsJames Bond..It's Robin Hood meets Sneak-ers It's the Jane Fonda Workout meetsRambo .no ..It's Capture the Flag ..call pika at492-6983 to join in the fun.'

12 32p. Burton-Conner. On the menu today:Quite an assortment Come see for yourself.

12'40p Fenway House Splin realhties' Standinside the world' A trip to the Mappanum. 437-1043 for a nde '

2'45p pika 'ile Arboretum is a place wvth lotsof trees Add two flags and some happy golucky folk wrth a penchant for captunng themand you're playing Capture the Flag. Call 492-6983 to join in the action...'

12'59p' WILG Want to see some of Boston'ssites? We have taps leaving WILG every 10minutes all aftemoonl Check the rest of theDaily Confusion for specific times and places,or give us a call and we'll fill you in on the detailslFor more info call 253-679 or 354-1263 -

1:00p: WILG. Like science? (_Hope so sinceyou're at MIT!) Take a trip to Boston's amaz-ing Science Museum! Bnng along your MIT Idfor admittance to the museum '

1:00p: MacGregor. The Final BBQ - Eat ham-burgers and hotdogs before turning in yourhousing preference cards.'

1:00p: Russian House. WATERFIGHT1 Comeblow off some steam at the Russian House Wa-tertight in our courtyard! Ammunition provided '

1:00p: pika. Come and play pika's excitingversion of 'Capture the Flag' amongth 25species of Maple leaves (the national symbol ofCanada) at the ahnold Ahbohetum with noah!hup ho! yup hup! 492-6983

°

1:00p: (IKE. Just wanna kick back and relax?Come out to Walden Pond wih the Brothersand Friends of SKULLHOUSE. Lay down ire thegrass, walk around the pond that inspired poets,and enjoy the beauty. Call for a ride: 536-3683."

1:05p: W1LG. Slow down the pace of your life!Come hang out and play games with us thisafternoon in a mellow atmosphere.'

THE DAILY CONFUSIONTHE TECH

Monday, August 30, 1993The Daily ConfusionResidence

All day: Epsilon Theta. Come swing in the parkacross the street (not to be confused with thepark down the street or the park with the DuckPond). Call 734-9211 or MIT extension 3-8888for a ride,*

All day: WILG. Is the rush of rush wearingyou down? Come chill out wrth us today -we have some relaxing activities planned, anddon't mind just hanging out! You can still gethouse tours, too! Call 253-6799 or 354-1263for a ride.*

All day: Next House. It's your last day to checkout the dorms...dorlt leave us out!!! JungleMadness all day!!!! Tours, Volleyball, Simp-sons, Music, FOOD ....... See you there!'

All day: Chi Phi. Come tour our historic Back Baymansion, meet the brothers, and enjoy somerelaxing conversation and fun."'

All day: pika. Let me tell you the story ofthe Murph...You see, long ago...no, on secondthought, it's too long. But if you come to pikatoday (or anyday) we'll tell you the story, of the

Murph in great lovwnglycrafted detail (it's alltrue,we swear It). Or, you could just hyme by andplay with our tlny treasures, or our pika blocks,or our devil sticks, or any other random toys

you find laying around. Or, not to be bemoan-ing the obvious, but you just come hang out inthe Murph (in a bathtub). It's all great, a's ailfun, it's all pika. Call 492-6983 and we'll comeget you...even if you're in Madagascar (well,Madagascar might be a bit far...)*

5:30a: Student House. The Student HouseAccu-Weather Forecast: Fair. Lows 55 to 65.Highs 80 to 85. (If you think that's kindof vague,well, you're right, but this was written four daysago so give me a break!)'

7:00a: KE. Made to Order 'Around The World'Breakfast'

7:00a: pika. ooooh..... ahhhhhhh! Derek is light-ing oatmeal! what a cool (no pun intended)breakfast! at pika 4926983'

7:01a: Fenway House. We're still asleep. Whyaren't you?*

7:30a: Student House. Go fora refreshing morn-ing run on the Esplanade with Bnan and Dave.Call 247-0506 '

7:55a: Epsilon Theta. FIRST BELL! Breakfast infive minutes.*

8:00a: Epsilon Theta. BREAKFAST. Watch Wesstart his day with cereal, orange juice, pan-cakes, AND hash browns! Call 3-8888 for aride.'

8:00a: Phi Delta Theta. PANCAKEBREAKFAST- Just in case you haven'thad enough pancakes this weekend, drop by

for a stack of flapjacks smothered in deliciousfruit c compotes. Bacon and eggs are servedon the side.

8:00a' Chi Phi Need a jolt this morning? Comeover to Chi Phi for some donuts and coffee,then stick around for a real breakfast...*

8:06a' pika. are you still asleep? sheesh! we'recaramelizing sugar on oatmeal... too cool. lotsof fresh frui to cover this treat as well... wow!'

8:30a: McCormick. Breakfast at McCormick tohelp you through these days of partying andfree food.*

8:57a: WILG. Create-a-Crepe Breakfast Party!Fresh crepes wrth a heap of fillings! There ssomething for everyone!'

8:59a: Fenway House. Green eggs and ham.Eat them up, Yum! 437-1043.'

8.59a: Spanish House. Buenos Dias! Rush isstarting to wind down, but I'm sure you appetitehasn't! Wake up to another delicious break-fast prepared by the world renowned SpanishHouse chefs. We'll be on the first floor of House3 in New House.'

9:00a: Nu Delta. Relaxed breakfast at the house.9:00a: fiji Hot Breakfast.9:00a: Next House. Get ready for your final day

of the hunt with fresh Croissants and frue.'9:00a: MacGregor. Breakfast at MacGregor.

Come see what we look like in the moming.'9:00a: Chi Phi. Come to Chi Phi and enjoy a

scrumptious breakfast of Ham, Eggs, and HashBrowns."*

9:00a: ODKC. You have to be hungry for breakfast,so come on over to SKULLHOUSE and enjoybreakfast made to order by our alumni. Call fora nde: 536-3683. *

9.00a: Student House Come over to StudentHouse for yet another delicious free breakfast.On today's menu: pancakes! Call 247-0506 fora ride.'

9:06a: Number Six. HOT/COLD BREAK-FAST Freshly baked sticky buns, fruit, bagels,muffins,...'

9:12a: Pi Lam. Breakfast. Mmmmm...Breakfast .."

9'12a- pike oatmeal and frut and fruit and oat-meal and frun yumbo columbo! derek willmake you tme neatest treat for breakfast you'veever had' pka 492-6983-

9:18a: AErl Once again, gourmet breakfast atAEPi. 247-3170"

9:22a. 'E(P. Have d your way at TER Our im-ported French short order chefs will cook upomelettes, french toast, flapjacks, eggs, orwhatever yourheart desires Sacre Bleu!"

9:28a: Epsilon Theta Fnsbee in the park Playwrth Phil, or wnh Dianne and Corbin's dog,Munro '

9'30a. WILG Tired of eating and ready for someexercise? Work out with housemember Hillary-our own certified AEROBICS instructore'

9-58a' WILG Go on a jaunt to the TreasuredLegacy! It's an Af-Am store with a large se-lection of art posters, kente cloth, jewelry andbooks We'll be back in time for lunch and theOME open house '

9.59a: WILG Come relax at WILGI We'll be hang-mg out playing Pictionary and playing ping-pongon the back deck -

10 00a Nu Delta T-p to Crane's Beach10 00a Epsilon Theta THETACIZE! Come loin

our own unique aerobic ritual. Fun to participateor watch' Call 3-8888 for a nde '

10 00a McCormick. Be adventurous and take acruise to GEORGE'S ISLAND with the womenof McvormKCki (Men, you are welcome too;)"

10:00a' East Campus. Dim Sum Come andenjoy our rendition of this traditional Chinesebrunch. It's not Chinatown. but a's free!'

10:01a Burton-Conner. Doing anything? We'restill watching movies.*

10.15a' WILG. Want to learn to make frendshipbracelets or to crochet? We'll give you a handin a relaxed atmosphere.'

10-17a' Next House THE SIMPSONS FEST Isunderway.. chill out wnth us at Next. ..'

10-22a' TEe. For those of you who are uD, avisit to the Mapanum It's a large walk-in glassmodel of the world at the Chnstian Science Cen-ter. None of us belong to this church, but 4's anamazing tour-"

10:25a' La Malson Franaise N'oubliez pas!Only five minutes until the Mandatory Brunch...'

10:30a: La Malson Frangalse MANDATORYBRUNCH: If you are interested in living inFrench House, you MUST attend this manda-tory brunch. It's in our lounge on the fifth floor ofNew House 6. We'll be explaining what FrenchHouse is hke and what we expect of housemembers. If you can't make d, be sure to stopby some time today, or call Jon Shoemaker atx5-7682.'

10:31 a: Fenway House. Come lean on Paul andwhine. Call for a ride. 437-1043.*

10:35a. La Maison Fran:aise. Thinking aboutliving in French House? Then hurry over to ourmandatory brunch, for more free food and someimportant information about living in FrenchHouse!'