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and Phi Kappa Sigma member IddoGilon '98. The only change is thatpreviously, only the IFC would issuea fine if dry rush rule were broken.

ow the national headquarters ofPDT and S would step in if an inci-dent were to arise, he said.

In terms of rush, the new policymay be a letdown even for casualdrinker, yet it will probably attractseveral people who would not other-wise consider living in fraternitiesbecause of the negative stereotypes

the writing requirement, theCommittee on the WritingRequirement found that "writingand speaking are becoming moreimportant in the lives of scientists •and engineers," Hodges said.

However, MIT is not contribut-ing enough to the improvement ofthose skills. A random sampling ofMIT juniors found that 15 to 20 per-cent enter MlT with deficient writ-ing abilities, Hodges said. By junioryear, 25 to 30 percent have inade-quate writing skills de pite havingpassed the Phase I writing require-ment, he said.

The committee also found thatthere was no correlation betweenwriting skills and grade point aver-age, Hodges said. This "emphasizesthat the present culture at MITclearly does not reward studentsworking to improve their writingabilities," the committee's reportsaid.

The committee was unable todevise a specific model, Hodgessaid. Experiments would need to beconducted to determine what works,he said.

The experimental programswould include communication-intensive freshman seminars,Humanities, Arts, and SocialSciences subjects, and practicaattached to both engineering andscience subjects, Hodges said.

After the faculty passes the reso-lution, a special subcommittee of

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The viruses affect all computer platforms that runMicrosoft Word, infecting both PC-compatible andMacintosh computers. Although the possibility ofsuch viruses being written was first noted byresearchers in 1989, the first time such a virus wereseen "in the wild" was in 1995, when the WordMacro Virus Concept was discovered.

acro viru particularl neakyMacro viruse are seen as particularly problemat-

ic by security expert because they are transmittedinside documents, rather than applications. "Whileusers rarely share [programs] or boot from diskette,a large part of their job involves the exchange of datafiles," according to a 1996 report by the ationalComputer Security Association.

The increasing power of macro languages in pro-

By David D. HsuEDITOR IN CHIEF

President' Council meeting.

a ct on ru hand ociallifeManley said that fraternitie

which go alcohol-free may nolonger attract member "who con-ider alcohol to be the mo t impor-

tant aspect of college life," but thesefraternities will now attract moremembers "who think academics aremore important."

MIT currently has a dry rush poli-cy, and therefore this new policyhould have no large effect on rush,

said Interfraternity Council Pre ident

A motion that would recognizethe need for a communicationrequirement was introduced at themonthly faculty meeting onWednesday.

The proposal results from workdone by the Committee on theWriting Requirement in examiningthe Institute's current writingrequirement.

)'he faculty motion, which wasproposed by Chair of the FacultyLawrence S. Bacow '72, will be upfor a vote in the faculty meeting onApril 16.

The proposal serves two purpos-es, said Dean for UndergraduateCurriculum Kip V. Hodges PhD'82, chair of the committee.

"First, the faculty admit formallythat we have a problem" with thewriting requirement, Hodges said.Secondly, such a resolution wouldshow that the faculty recognize thatthe problem needs to be addressed.

The proposal would not committhe faculty to any specific plan,Hodges said.

However, the resolution wouldcall on the faculty to "direct theCommittee on the UndergraduateProgram to conduct a series of exper-iments and pilot programs to informthe final design of a new communica-tion requirement," the proposal said.

Committee identifies problemsThrough their work looking at

At Meeting, FacultyDiscuss Writing Skills

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Microsoft Word Macro VirusesInfect Campus Computers

By Thomas R. KarIoEXECunYE EDITOR

Viruses that infect Microsoft Word documentsare affecting MIT computer users in increasing num-bers, according to Gerald I. Isaacson, MIT's datasecurity manager.

The viruses depend on the increasingly powerfulmacro language included in software such asMicrosoft Word and Excel. These programs allowoperations such as copying, del ng, and editingfiles to be perfonned without user interaction.

Incidents of the virus infecting computers havecome from many different departments. "I getapproximately one to two calls a day" requestingassistance dealing with the virus, Isaacson said. "Themacro viruse spread very, very rapidly."

"Macro viruses are not really new, but there'sreally been a tremendous increase in the past year,"Isaacson said.

By Carina FungSTAFF REPORTER

Two national fraternitie , PhiDelta Theta and Sigma u, havedecided to ban alcohol in chapterhouses. The fraternities are planningto sign a joint agreement this monthto make their chapters alcohol-freeby 2000.

Officials from the two fraterni-ties, which both have local chapterat MIT, aid that too often, the fra-tefllity experience is defined byalcohol. They also stated that localchapter not following the mandatewill be in danger of 10 ing theircharters.

The general counsel for PDT,Robert Manley, said that when uni-versities allowed alcohol in dormi-tories in the 1960s, "alcohol rose toa new level of prominence in thefraternities, in part to compete withthe dormitories." He added thatalcohol has become, in many frater-nity chapters, "too much of a goodthing."

The alcohol-free policy wasintroduced to the MIT fraternitycommunity by Assistant Dean forResidence and Campus ActivitiesNeal H. Dorow, who also serves asadviser to fraternities, sororities, andindependent living groups. Dorowpresented the issue at a meeting lastnight with the InterfraternityExecutive Council. The policy wasalso discussed at last night's regular

students who decide to attend MIT,was predicted by Behnke to be 56percent. This number is higher thanthe yields in previous years.

This is another result of earlyadmittance programs, Behnke said.MIT admitted 525 students underthe early action program this year,more than usual. This trend ofgreater numbers of early admitswas common at most of MIT's com- .petitor colleges., he said.

Statistics on m'ean SAT, classranle, and other categories were notavailable as of last night.

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Predicted yield slightly higherThis year's yield, the number of

Office is trying to increase femaleadmissions to MIT. "Applicationsfrom women increased dramaticallyin the past three or four years,"Behnke said. However, "for a pri-marily engineering school, 40 per-cent is quite spectacular," he said.

The number of ti"nderrepresentedminorities in the applicant poolremained about constant at 18 per-cent. .

The number of international stu-dents admitted this year was downto 105 from 1 15 last year. MITenforces a quota on the number ofinternational students it accepts andlowered the number this year afterexceeding the quota last year~Behnke said. .

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The combined brass cho~r, consisting of the MIT BrassEnsemble and the Brass Quintet and conducted by LawrenceIsaacson, closes the Tuesday night concert at KresgeAuditorium with "Mars" from The Planets by Gustav Hol.st.

Volume 117, umber 21

By Frank DabekASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Around 1,900 Offered AdmissionTo Next Year's Freshinan Class

Approximately 1,900 acceptanceletters were mailed to potentialmembers of the Class of 2001Wednesday, launching the admis-sions process into its final stage.

A lower number of women, 41percent, was admitted this yearwhen compared with the previoustwo years. The total number of

. applications was also less this yearthan last, but more students are pre-dicted to Keept their offers thisyear, said Dean of AdmissionsMichael C. Behnke. Further, statis-tics were incomplete as of last night.

Roughly 24 percent' of applicantsweFe accepted this year, nearlyequivalent to last year when 1,894applications were accepted.

The number of applications wasdown this year from last year's totalof 8,023. The number of applica-tions was lower at nearly every IvyLeague college, Behnke said.

This decrease can be attributedto the proliferation of binding early'decision programs, Behnke said."We'll have to look into what theeffect of [ arly decision] is,"Behnke said.

Early decision programs requirestudents to attend their first choiceschool if admitted early. This maycause students to apply to fewer col-leges, Behnke said.

Female admissions downOf the prospective students in

the applicant pool this year, 41 per-cent are female. That statistic isdown from last ye~r's total of.43percent and the record 45 percent

. total two years ago.Behnke said that the Admissions

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tury.Those plans are regarded with

great suspicion and fear in Moscow.As Yeltsin himself has made clear,in a rare agreement with the hard-liners who oppose him on just abouteverything else, Russia regards

ATO's enlargement as an attemptto diminish it and its influence in theworld.

Months of negotiation inMoscow, Europe and Washingtonhave yet to produce a documentdefining a new relationship betweenNATO and Russia that is acceptableto both sides. While Russia haseffectively abandoned its fight toprevent NATO expansion, it hassought to inhibit e alliance.Russian officials hav ought writ-ten assurances that nuclear weaponsand foreign.troops won't be sta-tioned on the territory of newNATO members. They also want avote, if not a veto, for Russia onmajor NATO decisions.

The two sides remain far aparton those fundamental issues. U.S.and NATO officials have said thenew alliance is not like the old andis ready to consider Russia a con-structive partner.

But they also have said that aformal commitment that limitsNATO's operational options orgives Russia more than a seat at thetable is out of the question.

Clinton is expected to try to pla-cate Yeltsin by offering strong sup-port for Russia's inclusion in otherinternational forums, such as the G-7 group of industrial nations and theWorld Trade Organization. But suchinducements are largely seen asconsolation prizes, at best, inMoscow.

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'Europe and the whole world,"Yelt in aid upon arrival in

elsinki, 'are depending on us notto destroy friendship built upbetween America and Ru sia overthe years."

Clinton said he wa "encour-aged" by the change in Yeltsin'stone, which has been especiallycombative about ATO and theWest in recent days.

On a personal level, the twopre idents, who have developed awarm relationship over 10 previousmeetings, sought to avoid theappearance of ill will. After theirsmoked salmon and reindeer dinnerhosted by Finnish President MarttiAhtisaari, aides to both leadersdescribed the first day's atmos-phere as optimistic and downrightjolly.

The 66-year-old Yelt in, newlyactive after 10 months of illness anda major heart operation, teasedClinton, his junior by 16 years, forarriving in a wheelchair. The U.S.president, recovering from kneesurgery, suffered the indignity ofdescending from Air Force One byhydraulic lift - in a catering con-tainer - to the red carpet laid out atthe Helsinki airport.

Jokes aside, however, the twoleaders face some of the most diffi-cult questions since the collapse ofthe Soviet Union in 1991, when thenew U.S.-Russian relationship wasruled more by confusion and eupho-ria than rival strategic interests.

At the urging of the UnitedStates, NATO is expected to extendits reach eastward !o encompasssome newly independent countriesthat were in the orbit of the formerSoviet Union for much of. this cen-

By Su n 5 chsNEWSDAY

One limped. The other didn't.But the ummit that opened here

Thur day was not what it seemed.Despite the contrast in appear-

ances - Bill Clinton on crutcheand Boris Yeltsin seemingly in thepink of health - the fir t meeting ina year between the U.S. and Russianpresidents may only serve to un er-line Russia's sense of impotence onthe international stage as it watchesits former enemies bond with its for-mer allies.

The planned expansion ofATO, widely interpreted in

Moscow as a Western attempt toisolate and exclude Russia fromEurope, tops the summit agenda andhas dominated the presummit par-ring between the Kremlin and'theWhite House.

Yeltsin's spokesman, SergeiYestrzhembsky, for example, saidthe West would be making its"bigge t strategic mistake" since theend of the Cold War by inviting, asexpected, three former East bloccountries - Hungary, Poland andthe Czech Republic - to join

ATO.On the other side, Secretary of

State Madeleine Albright took asimilarly tough line. She dismissedthe Russian tough talk as presummit"rhetoric" and emphasized thatNATO expansion eastward wouldtake place regardless of Russia'sobjections.

As their subordinates dueled,both Clinton and Yeltsin expressedhope that their difference's onN ATO would not lead fo a newfreeze in U.S.-Russian relations.

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In a sharp rebuke to peaker ewt Gingrich and the Republicanleadership, the House on Thursday rejected a re olution that wouldhave provided millions of dollars for an inve tigation of campaignfund-raising abuses.

By a vote of 213 to 210, the House refu ed to consider the 170million resolution, the basic legislation needed to fund the chamber'normal 'operations.

A proposed 50 percent increase for the investigating committeeheaded by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., was the mo t contentious item inthe resolution, ensuring a solid wall of Democratic opposition.

The key votes to block the funding re olution were cast by IIGOP conservatives dismayed because it included increases in com-mittee budgets.

The dissenters insi ted that their votes did not imply disapprovalof the campaign fund-raising inve tigation led by Burton, the subjectof recent news reports that he improperly pressured a lobbyist to raisemoney for him. Burton has denied any wrongdoing.

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House Votes to BanLate-Tenn Abortion Procedure

GJIROKASTER. ALBA IA

Here in the hometown of Albania's new prime minister, armedmen had been having a field day emptying the central bank of itsmoney - the salaries of ho pital employees, teachers and state work-ers - and shooting into the air to ward off the curious.

On Thursday, police finally stationed an armored van in front ofthe ransacked building, ending - at least for the day - the lootingthat had gone on the three previous days.

In slate-roof homes on the medieval streets that wind up from thebank, residents huddled around living room tables, avoided going outat night and shared the latest stories of dire happenings.

"Criminals," said a religious worker as gunfire popped all around."The criminal fraternity is in charge here."

Gjirokaster, about 90 miles south of Tirana, was the last city insouthern Albania to be swept up in a chaotic national insurrection that ispart political, part lawlessness. It remains tense and shows that the con-flict in southern Albania, and in much of the country, is far from settled.

That picture contrasts with efforts by the new multiparty govern-ment to demonstrate that normalcy is returning to the capital, Tirana.

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process, and these are created by theIsraeli actions," the Arab diplomatsaid.

"There's no joy in thinking ofmeasures against Israel," the diplo-mat said. But he added, "What canyou do? We are trying to show himthere are red lines."

Meeting here last June a fewweeks after Netanyahu's election,leaders of the Arab states threatenedto freeze normalization if Israel didnot abide by the principle ofexchC;lnging captured land for peacecommitments that had guided nego-tiations with Netanyahu's LaborParty predecessors.

But Mubarak and .or an's KingHussein, in particular, urged theirfellow Arabs to give Netanyahu 'achance. They have since'described aseries of disappointments culminat-ing in Netanyahu's decision to goahead with the East JeI1Wllem hous-ing project.

The issue is especially sensitivebecause it bears on the future ofJerusalem, which is holy to bothMuslims and Jews and is claimed byboth sides as their natural capital.Palestinians assert - with backingfrom the international community- that the future of Jerusalemshould not be decided until "finalstatus" talks called for in the peaceaccord signed by Israel and thePalestine Liberation Organization in1993.

In response to the Arab reaction,Netanyahu has proposed a newapproach to the peace process thatwould involve sitting down now tonegotiate all the outstanding issues,including Jerusalem, rather thancarrying out .(urther West Bankwithdrawals of Israeli forces instages as was agreed in the 1993accord.

Thursday, telling reporters in astatement aimed at Israel, "Don'tunderestimate Arab intelligence anddon't play games with us."

He added, "We cannot bedece.ived with any shining andsugar-coated promises ... the weightof which we know."

It remains to be seen whetherthe Arab states will match theirtough words with action.Notwithstanding the depth of publicanger toward Israel, and Netanyahuin particular, Arab leaders havelimited room to maneuver in theface of Israel's overwhelming mili-

.tary superiority. That has left themwith little recourse but to threaten afreeze on normalization of relationswith Israel, a card that Egypt andothers have so far been reluctant toplay.

"It's not that the governmentsdon't have options, but they are allcommitted to the peace process, sowhatever they do will be in thatframework," said a senior Arabdiplomat who spoke on condition ofanonymity .. "No one's talking aboutmilitary action against the Israelis,not because it;s not possible butbecause it's not in the mind-set ofthe Arab countries, so they are lim-ited by that."

At the same time, Mubarak inparticular is acutely sensitive topublic opinion .. Western diplomatsdo not rule out the possibility thatEgypt could respond with toughmeasures, up to and including thedowngrading of diplomatic relationswith Israel or even closing its borderwith the Jewish state.

"I can tell you for sure, .the Arabresponse will be tangible, and I cantell you for sure the direction we aregoing ... will have extremely nega-tive implications for the peace

Arab Leaders Plan ResponseTo Israel's West Bank ProjectBy John LancasterTHE WA~HINGTON POST

CAIRO, EGYPT

In an atmosphere of frustrationand mounting despair, Arab statesscrambled Thursday to organize adiplomatic response to Israel's con-struction of a vast housing develop-ment for Jews in traditionally ArabEast Jerusalem, which they say hasbrought the Middle East to the brinkof catastrophe.

Most of the activity took placehere at the palace of the Egyptian

. president, Hosni Mubarak, who metwith Lebanese Prime Minister RafiqHariri and Syrian Foreign MinisterFarouk Chaara before sitting downto dinner Thursday evening withPalestinian leader Vasser Arafat.Dore Gold, an adviser to IsraeliPrime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu '76, also paid a visit toCairo in an apparent effort to fore-stall unwelcome diplomatic initia-tives on the pat:! of Israel's Arabnegotiating partners.

The diplomatic thrust and parryunderscored the mood of crisis thathas gripped Egypt and other moder-ate Arab states since bulldozers thisweek began clearing land for 6,500Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, a.housing project that Arabs say willsolidify Jewish control over territorythat rightfully belongs to thePalestinians.

The normally low-key Mubarakwarned Wednesday that the peaceprocess is at its lowest ebb in twodecades and he predicted a "new eraof violence" if etanyabu does notcancel the construction on a hilltopknown to Arabs as J bal AbuGheneim and to Israelis as HarHoma.

Mubarak's foreign minister, AmrMoussa, sounded a similar theme

Today: Mostly sunny start. Clouding up by afternoon.Rain/mixed precipitation developing during the afternoon. Winds outof the northwest. High 43°F (6°C).

Tonight: Light to moderate rain continuing. Low 35°F (2°C).Saturday: Any early showers clearing then fair but breezy. High

47°F (8C). Low 25°F (-4°C).Sunday: Mostly clear. High in the mid 40s (about 7°C). low

around 25°F (-4°C).

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In a vote-that was emotionally wrenching for many members, theHouse Thursday approved a measure banning a specific late-termabortion procedure with enough support to override an expected vetoby President Clinton.

The 295-136 vote came after more than two hours of debate inwhich supporters of the ban likened the procedure to infanticide,described it in graphic detail many times on the House floor andaccus d abortion-rights advocates of misleading statements about hefrequency and circumstances of the procedure.

"There is no constitutional right to commit this barbarity," saidRep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., chairman of the House JudiciaryCommittee.

Opponents argued that politicians have no place in deciding aquestion that should be between a woman and her physician.

Current maps show a weak cyclone- responsible for Thursdayevening's rain exiting east out of the area, meaning mostly sunnyearly morning skies. Another small system is trucking along rightbehind it however, which will bring overcast skies during the after-noon and rain mixed perhaps with some wet snow developing duringthe afternoon and evening beginning in the west. The showers lookset to continue through to early Saturday morning but should notinfluence travel plans unduly except for patchy road ice in colderareas on Saturday morning. Warming up to the more seasonablehigher 40s is in prospect for Saturday. Sunday is set fair with clearskies locally and with maybe a light dusting of new snow over theWhite Mountains. .

Spring Break travelIn the national outlook, most of the country i~ looking pretty calm.

The main exceptions will be on the eastern seaboard - where theprecipiation affecting us will also extend down most of theAppalachians during Friday night, and moderate to heavy rain mov-ing through the Florida pennisula and the lower southern states; clear-ing by Saturday.

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NEWSDAY

By Gerard Roe•STAFF METEOROLOGIST

WASHINGTOTHE WASHINGTON POST

Human Genome cience Inc. of Rockville Md. this week com-pleted an 1J J million stock offering, selling 3 million shares at 37each to raise money to conduct it first two human drug trials anddevelop new robotic re earch techniques.

The company's chief executive officer, William Haseltine, wouldnot say which diseases the company hopes to target. The first trialwill begin this year, he said, and the second in 1998.

HGS is deciphering the genetic codes of humans and microorgan-isms with the aim of developing tests and drug to detect, prevent andtreat various diseases. The company has aid its researcher havebeen studying six proteins for possible development into new drugs.

The trials I ill test two of these six. They will be the first steps ofmany needed to prove to Food and Drug Administration regulatorsthat the HGS is deciphering genetic codes with the aim of developingtests and drugs to detect, prevent and treat various diseases.proteinare safe and effective therapeutic drugs.

The trials also will be among the first to te t chemicals against adisease based on information gathered from the human genetic code.

rhe tests underscore HGS's determination to develop drugs exclu-sively owned by the company. HGS has depended on funding fromits corporate partner, pbarmaeeutical giant SmithKline BeechamPLC, to' develop much of its information on genes. The two proteinsto be tested in initial trials are among the six that HGS has exclusiverights to develop into drugs based on knowledge from its own genebank.

Human Genome SciencesPlans Human Drug Tests

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In oblique but relatively transparent terms, Federal ReserveChairman Alan Greenspan sent his strongest signal to date Thursdayth t th Fed i on the verge of boosting interest rate .

With underlying indicators raising new concerns that the expand-ing economy could no longer fend off inflationary pressures,Greenspan' comments to the congressional Joint EconomicCommittee spun Wall treet into turmoil.

Green pan, in the view of many analysts, has been itching to raiserates for orne time. Gary Schlos berg, a senior economist at WellsCapital Management of San Franci co, said the chairman's latest tes-timony " ounded lIke a dress rehearsal for a post-tightening pressconference."

The Fed' policy-making Federal Open Market Committee willhave an opportunity to raise rate when it meets next Tuesday. Thefederal funds rate, which is the interest that banks charge each otheron overnight loans, is 5.25 percent, and an increa e to 5.5 percent, alikely target, would ripple throughout the financial community andboost all market-driven short-term rates.

In his regularly scheduled te timony to the Joint EconomicCommittee, Green pan said the U.S. economic performance had been"quite favorable." But, in a warning of inflationary pre sures, he said:, Demand has been growing quite strongly in recent months."

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Greenspan Gives Strong SignalteHike

to court in inston- alem,here they won a court order tem-

porarily blocking Liggett fromrelea ing document covered byother ompanie' attorney-clientprivilege.

Liggett immedi tely relea ed ahandful of documents that it deter-mined were not covered by attor-ney-client privilege to the attorneygeneral, and sent the thousands ofpages of protected documents tocourt around the country hearingthe state suit .

If a judge determines that thedocuments how that the papersshow that crimes or fraud hadoccurred, the legal protections forthose paper 'could b broken.

Attorney General Mike Moore ofMis issippi wa confident that the

orth Carolina injunction would notprevent the release of documents tocourts in other state - "that dogwon't hunt," he joked.

little like bu ting a street drug dealerto get at the Colombian drug cartel. '

'I beli ve'thi is the beginning ofthe end of this con piracy of lieand deception," aid rizonaAttorney General Grant Woods at alate afternoon news conferencewhere the agr emerit wasannounced. ' omeone is finallytelling the truth."

Breaking for the econd timewith the tobacco indu try' decades-long united front, Lig ett alsoagreed to beef up the warning labelson its products and pay 25 percentof pretax profits to the states for thenext 25 years. The money would beused to help pay for the costs oftreating smokers' health problemsand for anti-smoking programs,which is what the original lawsuitshad sought.

Before the deal was even signed,the other major tobacco compan'iesdenounced the agreement and raced

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By John Schwartzand Saundra TorryTHE WASHI 'OTO POST

22The smalle t of the nation'

major tobacco companies ettled 22state lawsuits Thursday by admit-ting that smoking cau e cancer andother disease , that nicotine isaddictive and that the industry tar-gets underage smokers - conces-

, 'ons that could have repercu sionsfor the entire industry.

Liggett Group Inc. also agreed torelea e thousands of pages of inter-nal document that could providedamaging evidence in lawsuits stillpending again t other cigarette mak-ers and to provide Liggett employ- .ees to te tify as witnesses in thosecases.

Minnesota ttorney GeneralHubert H. Hu Hirey III comparedthe Liggett actio to "turning state'sevidence," and explained, "this is a

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Zaire Reportedly Profiting bySelling Arms to Angolan RebelsBy James Rupert after 19 years of almost unbroken troops clashed here with soldiersTHEWASHINGTONPOST civil war. U ITA, led by Jonas loyal to a Mobutu aide over a train-

KI SHASA.ZAIRE Savimbi, has spent the last year load of ammunition, sources said,Although Zaire is at war and demobilizing its fighters and surren- Last month, the Angolan govern-

neighboring Angola is struggling to dering its weapons, though the gov- ment retaliated for the shipments to( reserve peace, close relatives and ernment has accused it of retaining UNITA by seriding troops to help

aides of Zairian President Mobutu its strongest forces, and efforts to the Zairian rebels, diplomats andSese Seko have been smuggling form a unity government repeatedly U.N. sources have said.hundreds of tons of weapons to for- have fallen short of their goal. The Mobutu camp's arms trad-mer rebels in Angola for huge prof- For months, Mobutu's aides ing "has been a serious destabilizingits, according to Zairians, foreign have been purchasing loads of factor" throughout central Africa, adiplomats and intelligence reports. weapons fo~ UNITA on internation- Western diplomat here said. The

The Mobutu camp's rearmament al arms markets, while Zairian army arms traffic is directed by at leastof Angola's UNITA movement is commanders have complained • five of Mobutu's closest securitycontributing to Zaire's military col- openly that the government is giv- aides, including a son, and at leastlapse in the face of a five-month-old ing it few weap~ns and supplies to one Western intelligence servicerebellion~ Zai ian.sJ~l'\ dietomats, fight rebelsjn the east who are seek- . concludes that Mqbutu gets a share.said, and has increased the likeli- ing to O"~~tMobutu. The army chief '.ofthe profits, anotfle('dlplomat said.hood of civil war in Angola. of staff, Gen .. Mahele Lieko, told The arms smuggling to UNIT A

The National Union for the Total reporters Wednesday that the gov- is part of a practice by Mobutu andIndependence of Angola, or emment should let the army take his family "of selling guns any-UNIT A, and the Angolan govern- over arms purchases and distribu- where they can make a buck," thement signed a peace accord iri 1994 tion. Receptly, some of Mahele's Western diplomat said.

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Letters 1b The Editor

Alberto J. Herrera '97Maha M. Yahya GMona M. Fawaz G

on behalf of membe ' f Lucha andthe Lebane Club at MIT

Furthermore, the logic of chwarz's argu-ment e tablishe a ystem of ethics and ju -tice through which territorial annexation islegitimized by the oral authority of colonialconquest. From this perspective, arbitrationthrough the international community is dele-gitimized. Laws sanctioned by the United

ations - whose purpo e is "to save suc-ceeding generations from the scourge of war... to e tablish conditions under which justiceand respect ... under sources of internationallaw can be maintained" ~ are considerednull and void. Through this logic, we canonly ask, what have we learned from a centu-ry characterized by unspeakable violence? Itis unfortunate that Schwarz, while decryingthe loss of human life (25,000 Lebanesekilled), still accepts the principles whichmake it possible.

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should not stifle science, and that's that.I really have to wonder what political

dilemmas Mr. Clinton thinks cloning willcook up. I suppose the average high schoolstudent on the other side of that bridge to the21 st century will be packing a concealedcloning kit. Teenage pregnancy will bereplaced by the far more disparaging teenage (cloning outburst. Could there be statutory .cloning? Cloning by a minor? PerhapsHouston will become the. new capital fordrive-by clonings. Better roll up your window,it's a clone-eat-clone world out there.

Will welfare reform have to .include provi-sions for illicit clones? Should health insur-ance cover cloning costs? Will the militaryhave to expand its policy to "don't ask, don'tclone"? Or maybe it's just the suggestion of aparade of Newt Gingriches popping out by thedozen that puts the butterflies in the presiden-

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are more centralized in the locations of facili-ties, especially when compared with the phys-ical size of MIT. In fact some, places have apolicy to not schedule classes during lunchhours. Similar arrangements are made forbreakfast and dinner.

Complicating matters further, MIT doesnot have 'mandatory meal plans. I do not knowof a university with a succ~ssful dining ser-vice that does not require some kind of amandatory meal plan. Generally, a meal planis paid for along with tuition and reservessome number of meals per week at a partic~lar site on campus. Regardless of whether ornot the student attends the meal, the money isnot reimbursed. This assures the food serviceorganization will have a fixed minimum rev-enue for any particular meal, i der to basecosts. People paying cash for a al only addto this minimum revenue. On e other hand,the eating patterns at MIT are quite erratic,with no guaranteed base revenue for any par-ticular meal.

Here are just some costs that food ~erviceat MIT has-that a restaurant does not. First,

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lence in Lebanon, Omri chwarz '97["I rael' Presence in Lebanon ot Illegal,"March 18] derive moral authority and legiti-macy from 19th century imperialism. Bydrawing a parallel between the SouthLebane e experience and the Seminole Warsand the Mexican Ces ion, chwarz equates'contemporary Israel with what many considertoday a the barbaric age of American civi-lization. Indeed, this was a time when African-Americans were still enslaved and when

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cloning issue claim "ethic" as its war cry. Itscritics hypothesize a sadistic world of humancrop, engineered super-armies, andFrankenstein's monsters. I say, "Wake up andsmell the D A." It'll be plenty of time beforethe first clone-o-matics go on sale at the localdrugstore. We're probably not yet in a posi-tion to get worked up. Sure, cloning may stillprove dangerous in the hands of a few' twistedsorts, but so is sawdust in the wrong hands,and you don't see us shutting down the logmills do you?

Regulating the use and application ofpotentially hazardous techniques is responsi-ble and rational. That's why we have groupslike the Environmental Protection Agency andthe Food and Drug Administration. Quashingthe development of such techniques, however,is not quite so desirable. Where would 0.1.Simpson be, for example, without the land-mark PCR technology that proved that he was... oh, bad example. My point is: government

has to struggle to ke'ep costs down, it is oftena slow and bureaucratic landlord.

All non-student workers that work over 20hours per week must be affiliated with thelocal hotel food service union. This meansAramark must pay extraordinary wages. Forexample, a pot scrubber gets over $10 an hourand a cook over $13. Plus, Aramark paysalmost two dollars an hour on top of this forunion benefits. Obviously, Aramark wouldprefer student employees, paying them wellabove MIT minimum wage. Ideally, this hasthe solution that MIT students seek employ-ment with Aramark. Unfortunately, most stu-dents neither wish to be employed in a foodservice job, nor are reliable during peak classload times during the semester. Aramark con-

. tinues to seek student employment, but under-stands that the main concern of all studentsare their classes.

.Furthermore, these labor costs are exacer-bated by the need for a 'distribution of diningfacilities throughout the campus during a widerange of hours. For each hour a facility is keptfunctional, the amount of labor obviouslyrises. All universities of which I have someknowledge have fewer hours of operation and

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bo I 10 ingOf Po}' .c ; notOn my way home from clas , I pas ed by the

Fi hbowl Athena cluster and noticed the ign onthe window saying, cleverly," 0 long andthanks for all the fish." I felt a pang of sorrow atthat and realized that although I have been think-ing I will wake up and find that it was all just acruel joke, the Fi hbowl will really be gone forgood by the time I get b k from pring Break.

I was di appointed that the re pon e to pleato keep the Fi hbowl was that the deci ionshave come too far to be changed now. It makeme wonder why I didn't hear about the planuntil it was too late for them to be changed. Ioften hear people pondering why MIT stUdentsare so apathetic about change. I think theFishbowl' de truction i a perfect illustrationof why; to IT, change mean getting rid of thegood, old thing in favor of unnece ary, newthings. Change at MIT is about politics, notabout the tudents and what we want or need.

Chri ta R. Ansbergs '98

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People just can't accept change. It's assimple as that. From the time of the earlyastronomers, tormented for their claims of

heliocentricity, to therecent headlines of IanWilmut, whose break-through cloningresearch reached anuntimely halt, pioneersof knowledge havebeen continually stifledby a stubborn andunreceptive public.President Clinton'sannouncement of a

moratorium on human cloning is yet anotherexample of such mental inertia. Sadly, peopleare like pencils, the more you push them, theduller they become.

Not unlike many pa t debates, the recent

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All of the recent commentary has led me tothe conclusion that the community is not verywell informed on the worki~gs of dining ser-vices at MIT and of food service in general. Isay this with the knowledge that not very longago I was very critical of Aramark. In fact Ihave never and will probably never have ameal plan. There are several issues that makeit difficult for food services to function effec-tively.

In order for Aramark to get access to din-ing facilities, MIT must make them available.As it is, MIT is pressed for space, andrequests to create new facilities are furtherscrutinized because it is expensive to convertbuilding space into the facilities necessary tostore, prepare, and serve food. Furthermore, afood service contractor is bound to MIT bytight restrictions. The physical 'Structures, aswell as much of the. hardware of the facilitiesbelongs to MIT, and Aramark must gothrough MIT for any repairs. Thus, in orderfor Aramark Dining Services to get an oven,chipped wall, or refrigerator repaired, it mustbe authori~ed by MIT. Again, because MIT

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Guest column by Alo C. Basu,Edson T. Miyamoto, Pallavl NUka,Pamela Prasarttongosoth, Alan L.Shlhadeh, and Joaquin S. Terrones

Last week, the A ian Pacific AmericanCaucus and the Committee for ocial Ju ticeput a po ter up in Lobby 7 that po ed the ques-tion: Is The Tech promoting anti-Asian stereo-type ? We used a strip of the comic "RhinoMan" from March 7 and a World and ationtory to ilJustrate what wa meant by "anti-sIan stereotype" ["Empire State Gunman

Acted Out of Rage," Feb. 25]. Our aim was toget people to debate the i sue.

The column by Stacey E. Blau '98["Poster's Claims About The Tech Are illy,"March 14] made clear that she did not under-stand what the poster was pointing out. Raciststereotypes are so prevalent that most peoplehave become inured to them.

We did not di agree that the story about theman who shot se en people at the Empire StateBuilding was ne sworthy. Also, we do not nec-essarily think that pointing out the gunman'snational origin is racist, particularly if it is rou-tine to do so in reports of shooting sprees; e.g.,

'Today U.. po tal orker of Belgian originop ned fire, killing nine co-work rs." W leaveit as an open qu tion 0 The Tech and its re d-ers whether thi i routin or wh th r iU moreoften pointed out wh n the p rpetrator i a per-on of color. e u pect that the gunman'

national origin a an i ue only because TheWashington Post writer harbored raci t enti-ments with regard to Pale tinian people.

Ev n more di turbing to us was th entencefollowing the one that identified the gunman'snationality: ' Because of hi nationality, the inci-dent provoked initial peculation that the ... terri-fying shooting ... might b rooted in the national-i tic zealotry and terrori m that i a frequentoffshoot of Middle Eastern political rivalrie ."Blau finds nothing objectionable in th sweepingphrase ''the terrori m that i a frequent offi hootof Middle Ea tern political rivalries." Perhapthis is because raci t assumption are 0 d eplyingrained in the main tream pre that people donot notice them any more. The fact that a wholeregion of the globe can be 0 tidily indicted with-out any factual grounding and without 0 much

AlS a raised eyebrow by Blau, the other Tech taff,

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Science of Cloning No Different from Past Advances in Gene~icsHusain, from Page 4

tial stomach.The prospect of focally and specifically

manipulating the forces of life is profound if( .ot breathtaking. We, as the self-proclaimed

molders and shapers of this planet, now facethe opportunity to apply these skills at ourown discretion, to our pets, to our livestock,and perhaps even to ourselves. Cloning mayallow us to weed out genetic disease, enhancedesirahle traits, even deliver made-to-orderprogeny.

But wait, are these feats so new? A centuryago Gregor Mendel showed us the predictivecapacity of selective breeding. In modern

times, everything from long- tern roses todairy cattle benefit from this knowledge. Moremilk production, tastier meat, brighter reds,and sweeter smells, owe thanks to such breed-ing. These tactics are common practice andwidely accepted.

But in principle, selectively mating twoanimals is as egregious as selectively cloningone of them. Either way, you are meddlingwith a natural phenomenon, altering it to suityour purposes. Somehow, though I am told,forcing two showcase cats to copulate is moreeth'ical than duplicating 'one in a petri dish ..Ethically, I don't see much of a difference.

I think I mentIoned that people are stub-,born. Unfortunately, they are also often pretty

stupid. Ask the average Joe or Jane what theirfeelings are about recombinant D A tech-niques, and most people are okay. Regardles ,such techniques have been in full-force use inthousands of labs for a few decades now.They are responsible for myriad syntheticdrugs such as in ulin and growth hormone, aswell as countless studie that have led to treat-ments for cancer, AIDS, and a host of otherscientific advances. Wilmut's cloning researchis only an expansion on the same idea. So whythe big fuss? Becaus Joe or Jane realizes nei-ther the beauty nor the power of religating -avector plasmid. Cloning, however, is the stuffof cartoons and big-time movies. Joe and Janes~ddenly understand, to the dismay of the rest

of us.I su~pose the everest di appointment is

when Joe and Jane are Professor Jane andProfessor Joe. Many researchers in the scien-tific community are equally hesitant, when itcomes to the acceptance of cloning technolo-gy. I gues the days of men dying over theirconvictions are over, but I had at least hopedfor a reasonable fight. I'm an equal opportuni-ty fellow, so I don't consider stupidresearchers any less stupid than their non-aca-demic peers. I just hope that the leaders in ourcommunity of science are stable enough totrust themselves with risky research.Otherwi e, I think I'll be turning in my labcoat.

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Aramark ha to replace its dinnerware abouttwice a year. The co ts of this gets into six fig-ure and forced etworks to go from glatumbler to paper cup . Aramark al 0 has topay around 50,000 a year for cash regi tersthat provide the Department of Housing andFood ervices with MIT Card transactions.Aramark has suggested point-of-salemachines, but nothing has come from thi .

The community doe n't realize that IT,not Aramark, operate the IT Card facilities.MIT has just asked Aramark to take care ofsome of the clerical work involved in chang-ing student meal plans becau e of the conve-nience of the Aramark office. Aram ark agreedbecause it i beneficial to them to make mealplan change convenient and efficient. Thisha nothing to do with what organizations canaccess MIT Card facilities.

In its editorial ["Dining Process MustMove to Bidding," Feb. 4], The Tech erro-neously states Aramark was keeping out com-petition by not allowing third parties access toMIT Card facilities. Domino's Pizza acceptsthe MIT Card and is probably making a

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People of color are often depicted in waysthat are offen ive. The fact that the e imageare widely accepted doe not detract from thefact that they are racist. For year in cartoons,black people were drawn with literally blackskin, bugged out eye , and thick lips that over-whelmed their faces. Racist imagery andstereotypes dehumanize individuals and createan atmosphere where oppression is not onlypermissible and understandable but alsoencouraged and nece sary.

By raising these issues, we are taking powerback over how we are depicted in the Q'leWe were not trying to be victims; we are usingpolitical dialogue to overcome victimization.Racist images and ideas exist in the mediabecause racism exists in society at large.Reasonable people don't have to wait to seesomeone beaten, raped, or killed before werespond.

It is not a waste of time to work toward anend to prejudice and discrimination.Stereotypes have a real effect on how peopleinteract with one another,~llegislation that ispassed, and on who bec 's the victim of ahate crime. We did not dream up these issues

."out of thin air." Rather, they were in print inMIT's oldest and largest newspaper.

Basu, from Page 5

and many who commented on the po ter speaksto the depth of their prejudice.

We know that the article was taken fromThe Washington Post, but The Tech isaccountable for every word that it prints. Bydefinition, editors of all newspapers routinelymake decisions about what to print, what toomit, what needs to be cut and what should bereworded. Whether because of negligence orignorance, and regardless of who wrote it, theresult here was that The Tech printed a racistarticle.

The other image on the poster, which welabeled "chinky caricature," came from thecomic strip "Rhino Man." The particular draw-ing to which we were referring harkens back toimage of the Yellow Peril that have been pre-ent in this culture for decades in the forms of

Fu Manchu, Dr. 0, World War II anti-Japanese propaganda, etc. While we under-stand the concept of comic license and under-stand that comic strip characters seldom lookrealistic, the Rhino Man cartoon draws fromracist visions of what Japanese people actuaHylook like: the "slanted" eyes, the wide, yellowface, the Fu Manchu mustache, etc.

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killing off of it. LaVerde' Market was askedif they wanted to et up a contract for the MITCard but declined.

Then there are the exorbitant wages andunion benefits. Due to some voices in thecommunity, Aramark has kept Itza Pizza openfrom 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Becau e a minimum oftwo people are required to keep this facilityopen, this service has lost money, with little orno exceptions, every night. Yet, the facilitycannot be closed during off hour becauseorne ector of the community want pizza at

the Student Center at night.I am quite di appointed that The Tech

would not gain an understanding of the issuesbefore forming an opinion as expre sed in itseditorial. Aramark is doing as well a manage-ment job as any company could, given theobstacles. Aramark still has much to do, first ingetting student involvement so the communitywill be educated and give feedback, and thenimplementing a ystem where this involve-ment yields greater community satisfaction ata lower cost. My opinion is that Aramark isbeginning to accomplish this, and another con-tractor, at best, would take several years just toreach the position Aramark is in now.

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Ben Folds: Theup andcoming hero of roc~piano

bidding war, and hopefully they won't screwit up. If they let the boys keep doing whatthey've been doing, screwing up will bealmost impossible.

Ben should be the posterchild for pianolessons. If you played once and quit, maybeyou'll be inspired to try again. And if not, atleast you can hear what rock piano is sup-posed to sound like.

their "matte finish" catche the ear just right.Ben's voice i n't perfect, either. and tend tobe either "love it or hate it." In context, I don'tthink there's much question.

A year ago almost nobody had heard o.fBen Folds Five. Today, still not many peoplehave heard of Ben Folds Five. But that'sabout to change. Sony has gotten themselves apiece of the "next big thing" in a classic label

Right out of that relatively d pre ing song issome banter from the band and then a rock-and-rolle que screamed count-off leading to, ong for the Dumped," which turns lightlyless touching as Ben creams, "Give me mymoney back, you bitch." Don't worry'-Ben's luck has improved since he recentlygot married. .

"Cigarette" is a great Folds solo number,and teven's Last ight in Town" featuresthe Klezmatics (clarinets are all too rare onrock and roll albums), Ben on the melodica(like a harmonica except with a keyboardinstead of lots of little hole ); and anotherinexplicable plot without further explanation(easily found at http://www.bjJweb.com).

As with their first album, they choose toopen big and end mellow. 'Evaporated" is"about loss" and leaves you waiting for theirnext record.

Putting out albums is only half the act,though, as they've been touring with Jewel,solo touring, and will be opening for CountingCrows for the next few weeks before hittingthe clubs. There's no Boston date yet, butthere will be if there's any justice in theworld. The show is incredible, as Folds kicksthe crap out of his piano by pounding it, jump-ing on it, walking over it, and generally abus-ing it while having a great time with the audi-ence.

The band prides itself on not being cool.There are too many shiny bands out there, and

By Joel RosenbergSTAFF REPORTER

en Folds makes Billy Joel look like alounge act. With all of the gimmicksthat bands go for these days, the gui-tarless piano-bass-drums trio Ben

Folds Five (it sounds cooler than Ben FoldThree, according to the band) wins as themost original and most entertaining. You'venever heard a piano sound like this, as Folds'drqmming tr~ining comes through in thecatchy tunes he bangs out on his baby grand.

Reminiscent of 80s pop, it has a definitely90 feel and lyrics'that should be officialsongs of MIT. The opening track "One AngryDwarf and 200 Jemn Faces" on their sopho-more album, ever and Ever Amen, tells itall - "Now I'm big and important/One angrydwarf and 200 solemn faces are you/If youreally want to see me check the papers and theTVlLooks who's telling who what to do/Kissmy ass~ goodbye." As Folds says, "It's arevenge anthem." Perfect.

The whole album is great, and while not acomplete departure from their self-titled first.release, the songs are more introspective andrestrained, telling stories of people you stilldon't know (much like the first album), but ina more subtle kind of way. The track "Brick"describes complications in a relationship in

I <: he style "that's what happened, and itsucks," instead of the more traditional "mylife sucks because that's what happened."

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- Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan

"Wave goodbye to the Invisible hand of classical economics.Through .computer simulation, Axtell and Epstein have revealedthe dynamic and often Irrational nature of the economy." - Wired

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Ust Visual Arts Center20 Ames St., Cambridge. Through March29: Sat., Sun., Tues.-Thurs., noon-6p.m.; Fri., noo0-8 p.m. Admission: free.Information: 253-4680.Joseph Kosuth: Redefining the Context ofArt: 1968-1997. Works by this renownedConceptual artist.The Shape of Breath. Works by thisSeattle.based artist. Explores themetaphorical properties of materials.Port: Navigating Digital Culture. Exhibitionof collaborative, performative art projectstaking place over the Internet.

Hart Nautical Gallery55 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge.Mon.-Sun., 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Admission:free. Information: 253-4444. •Ships for Victory: American Shipbuilding'sFinest Hour. Historic photographs andartifacts explore the shipbuilding pro-grams of World War II, the vital andunprecedented contribution of women tothese programs, and MIl's pivotal role inthe shipbuilding effort. Ongoing.Ship Models. Rare models illustrate theevolution of ship design from the 16th to20th centu~ies. Ongoing.

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CarmenBoston Ballet, 19 Clarendon St., Boston.Through March 23. Admission: $12.50-$67. Information: 931-ARTS. Based onProsper Merimee's novel, Carmen is atragic tale of fatal attraction. In 19th cen-tury Seville, the lusty Carmen seduces anaive Army corporal, Don Jose, newlyassigned to the village fortress. Joseaband'ons his career, his financee, andeven his dying mother for the love of thissultry gypsy, But soon she spurns him infavor of the toreador Escamillo. Crazedwith jealOUSY, Jose begs Carmen to returnto him, but her taunting declaration ofindependence results in tragedy. As thesultry Carmen sings in the famousHabanera, 'Love is a rebellious bird thatno one can tame."

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technical evolution and highlights works seniors and college students, $8; agesby the world's foremost holographers. 17 and under, free; Wed. after 4 p.m.,Ongoing. voluntary contribution; Thurs.-Fri., after 5Math in 3D. Mortoo C, Bradley's mathe- p.m., $2 discount. Information: 267.matlcal sculptures inspire inventors of all 9300.ages to create their own structures in the Face and Figure In Contemporary Art.adjacent Mathspace activity center. Survey of the variety and complexity ofOngoing. contemporary approaches to the theme ofMIT Half of Hacks. Chronicling MIl's rich the humafl figure. Through March.hacking tradition, this exhibition features Dressing Up: Children's Fashionshistoric photographs and a collection of 1720-1920. Explores the relationshipartifacts. Ongoing. between children's and adults' fashionsUght Sculptures. Vivid interactive plasma in the past couple of centuries. More thansculptures by Center for Advanced Visual 40 costumes, predominantly from theStudies alumnus Bill Parker. Ongoing. museum's permanent collec ion, are on

view along with accessories, toys, dolls,furniture, and paintings. Through March23.The Art of John Biggers: View from theUpper Room. Exhibit of the black artist'sdrawings, prints, paintings, and sculp-tures. Through April 20.Beyond the Screen: Chinese Fumiture ofthe 16th and 17th Centuries. The exhibitaims not only to explore the beauty ofChinese art forms, but also to carry theviewer into the physical surroundings oftheir time. Through May 18.This Is the Modem World: Furnishings ofthe 20th Century. The exhibit relates thelook of objects intended for everyday useto the creative vision of the artist-makeror designer, and the demands of technol-ogy, function, cost, and the needs anddesires of the potential buyer or user.Through September.

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Boston Public UbraryCopley Square, Boston. Admission: free.Information: 536-5400 ext. 212.Father of the Bride. March 24, 6 p.mFather's Little Dividend. March 31, 6 p.m.

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WhalesMuseum of Science, Science Park,Cambridge. Through April 30. Admission:$7.50; seniors and ages 3-14, $5.50(Tues., bargain nights for all shows 7p.m. and later, $5; seniors and ages3-14, $3). Information: 723-2500. Filmfollows the life cycles and travels of blue,humpback, and right whales fromArgentin"a to Alaska.

Boston Rim Video Foundation1126 Boylston St., Suite 201, Boston.March 27, 6 p.m. Admission: $15 mem-bers, $20 non-members. Information:536-1540. Michael Jitlov, independentfilm-maker and special effects wizard, willscreen selections from his work andunveil the secrets of special effects. Mr.Jitlov, who ghost-starred as the entiretroop of Avenging Spirits in Paramount'smega-hit Ghost, is currently in Boston,post-producing his latest independentwork, The Hiking Viking, Mike is a four-time Academy Award nominee and winnerof the much harder.to-get President'sAcademy Award from the Academy ofScience Fiction and Fantasy Films.

Opening TheatermAlice: An Improv Tabloid OdysseyActors Workshop, 40 Boylston St.,Boston. Starting March 21, through April12, 8 p.m. Admission: $10 if reserved inadvance; '$12 at door; $2 discount forstudents. Information: 887-2336. A foray

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LIte MIl ".", of KIng It*ILa Sa a de Puerto Rico, Student Center, 84 Massachusetts Ave.,Camb . March 21, and 22. Admission: students and seniors, 55;gene lic,57. Information: ensemble@mit.edu. The ShakespeareEnsemble presents The Life and Death of King John, a history notoften played. A middle;>eriod work, this play combines dramatic con-flicts with nagging questions of succession, loyalty, and kingly rights.Direction by visiting lecturer and drama coach Tina Packer ofShak are and Co.

MitlulsKiilian Hall, 160 Memorial Dr., Cambridge. March 21, 8 p.m.Admission: 515, 512, 510; 52 with MIT 10. Information: 258-7971.Bharati Nanavati, khyal singer, accompanied by Sunil Baneljee, tabla.The music of Bade GhuJarn Ali Khan is passed on to the youngergeneration.

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Jeffrey I. Schiller '79 listens to John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for Grateful Dead, as Barlow describes how the government Is Ignorant of tech-nological Issues In front of a packed 6-120 audience on Tuesday.

By Jennifer LaneCONTRlCUn G EDITOR

An eclectic crowd, cryptographyhacker and ocietal critic like,gathered in 6-120 Tu day night todi cus security on the Internet withJohn Perry Barlow, co-founder ofthe Electronic Frontier Foundationand fonner Iyrici t for the GratefulDead, and Jerry I. chiller '79, net-work manager for InformationSystems.

Professor of ElectricalEngineering and Computer ScienceRonald L. Rivest moderated the dis-cussion entitled, "Internet RightsVersus Internet Security," pon-sored by the Technology andCulture Forum at MIT.

Rivest first remarked that heJ would have preferred the di cu ionto be entitled Internet rights andInternet security. Indeed, Barlowand Schiller would speak little Gftrading rights for security, but ratherof how to int te the two.

Schiller ke first and drew onexperiences with e-mail he regularlyreceives at postmaster@mit.edu. theaddress to reach e-mail systemadministrators. to entertain the audi-ence and supplement his more seri-ous qualifications such as managerof MIT's campus computer net orkand author of MIT's Kerberosauthentication system.

Barlowon pam, PGP, and EmacsIn reference to a conversation

chiller began earlier, a questionwas posed to Barlow over spam-ming, the practice of sending largeamounts of unwanted e-mail, oftento attempt to sell' or solicit some-thing.

Barlow's response came quickly."Spamming is like heavy cocaineuse. It's self-regulating. When youdo it enough, you realize it isn'tvery good." Once spammers see thattheir returns are not very high, thepractice will cease to be lucrative,Barlow said. "The' market will takecare of spammers."

When asked why Pretty GoodPrivacy, a public/private key securi-ty system developed by PhilZimmennan, was not in more wide-spread use, Barlow noted that user-friendly mail ystems like Eudorastill do not interface well with PGP."Everyone who put together a userinterface for PGP is a completenerd," he said.

Later', Patrick J. Lopresti G,pointed out that users who utilizeEmacs to read and send mail cantake advantage of an "excellent"user interface to PGP that he devel-o~ed. Barlow's response wa that"anyone who u es Emacs has acompletely different idea of anexcellent user interface."

need to flow through the pipe , hesai<J.Additionally, local governmentis funded through ea ily-definedmeans of sales or property tax.

The federal government, on theother hand, is dependent on incometaxe which are harder to track,Barlow aid. Banks, once the trustedthird party used to keep record ofincome, may fall by the.wayside. Atthat point, income tax may becomevoluntary, he said.

':Boundaries on the map areincreasingly irrelevant," Barlowsaid." ow the body can be easilydivorced from an offensive action."This will pose a serious jurisdictionproblem for governments, becausethe authorities "don't know wherethe body is or even if there is one."

When asked if the governmentmay have any legitimate concerns inregulating cyber pace, Schiller said,':As soon a you buy the argumentthat there is a legitimate interest,you have lost."

Barlow agreed; contending thatthe government was overcompen-sating for a danger that i not pre-en( They are "trying to prevent

any po sible bad thing that mighthappen," he aid. They begin to"advocate a balance that wouldskew things toward totalitarian con-trol:' he said.

than they do now," Barlow said.What Barlow proceeded to advo-

cate was a frontier system wherepeople can rely on ethics and cultureto be their common police: a societywhere people ~ork their differencesout one-on-one. Thi is exactly whatis happening on the Internet, and ithas been able to sustain magnani-mous growth, he said.

Not only must we address thequestions of how much security wewant, how we want to get it, andwho we want to be secure again t,'but we must be ready to adapt torapidly changing institutions, hesaid

Federal government will fallIn response to a question over

whether the government will foreverremain too incompetent to interferein Internet communication , Barlowadmitted he did not think that gov-ernment was going to simply vani h.

Rather, only the federal govern-ment was doomed, Barlow said.There will "always be local govern-ment, because that is where thebody lives." Streets need to beplowed and tarred, and water still

Large in titutions will collapse"We are at the end of an eco-

nomic era and at the beginning of atime when everything you know iwrong and many current in titutionsno longer make sense," Barlow aid.

Cu tom and trade, for instance,are still meAsured by things that thecustoms department can place astamp on. It is no wonder, then, thatthe .United States will begin to fallshort in trade, Barlow aid. "We arenot in the stuff busine s any more."

Big companie will al 0 beforced to change dramatically,Barlow said.

"The multinational corporationis as doomed as the nation-state," hesaid. Ba ically, it doe not pay to bea large company unless you are pro-ducing goods, Barlow aid. Largesize is a disadvantage to an infonna-tion organization, the wave of thefuture, he said.

Large corporations often fail tounder tand the Internet concept, hesaid. The EFF was working a fewyears ago to stop the widespread useof the buzzword phrase "informa-tion superhighway."

However, Barlow soon realizedthat this was a fruitless endeavor.The outcome did not matter, aslarge corporations would soon beunable to productively use the

. Internet. "If you hear someone u ingthe term 'information superhigh-way,' you can be certain he's a partof some large, doomed organiza-tion," he said.

mu t recognize that the technicalarchitecture is politics," he said."The Internet treats censorship as amalfunction and routes around it."

As the Internet grows, all of ournotions of privacy, government,communication, and life in generalare about to significantly change, hesaid. "I think that we are at theprecipice of a completely differentkind of human," Barlow said.

Although he acknowledged thatsociety was a long way from reach-ing the goal, he remarked briefly on~the concept of people connecteddirectly though neural synapses."The very nature of privacy couldchange dramatically," he said.

Barlow advocates frontier societyBarlow grew up in rural

Wyoming, where "everyone knowseverything about everyone, eventhings that aren't true," he said.Inquiring about Barlow at theWrangler Cafe would probablyresult in a stream of information,much of which Barlow wasn't evenaware of, he said.

However, there is a built-inmechanism in the community forplacing his actions in context.People won't be as alanneo by hisactions as they would be of astranger's. "I may be a weirdo, butI'm their weirdo."

On the Internet, people leave adata trail that can reveal a lot aboutthem. We're "going to have to getu ed to an environment where peo-

, pie are going to know a lot more

Barlow fields audience questionsSchiller then yielded the floor to

Barlow, a former Wyoming cattlerancher, who spent the entrreevening clad in purple sungrasses.Barlow promptly declared himself"dedicated "to the e'limination ofbroadcast media" and solicitedquestions from the audience. ~

Initial questions focused on thegovernment's role in-Internet securi-ty.

The U.S. government poses littlepractical threat to Internet commu-'nications, Barlow said. "They are socompletely anti-clueful. ... They arenot able to do very much."

Barlow contended that the gov-ernment, through key escrow, want-ed nothing more than the powerthey have in a conventional tele-phone -wiretap. Government offi-cials, however, dId not know thedifference between a ~iretap andthe proposed centralized access toany cyberspace communication atany time, Barlow said. They are "sotechnologically incompetent'thatthey are innocent of the evils theypropose."

Besides, "in an anti- overeignenvironment like cyberspace, you

safe," he aid.It is here that the government

could take an active role in enforcingsecurity standards for public safety,much like seat belts in automobiles."Without the government to set therules, we have the market. The mar-ket is clueless," Schiller said.

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Associate Director of the Laboratory for Computer Science Ronald L Rivest, moderator of Tuesday'S"Internet Rights Versus Internet Security" discussion In 6-120, selects a question from the audience.

Schiller emphasizes securityUltimately, Schiller said, it is

':important that we have a way toproteef our privacy from those whowould think otherwise." But,"would you tear out all the payphones. in the world just to makesure people cannot make anony-mous phone calls?"

The Internet has some importantevolutionary steps to overcomebefore it is treated like other media,he said. "We're in a funny state ofthe evolution of the Internet. ... Ithas gone from the communicationmedia of compu ers to the commu-nication media of people, but social-ly and politically, we haven't gottenthere yet."

Defining free speech is a wholeseparate issue. The Internet needs toevolve into "a communicationsmedium where if someone sayssomething you don't like, it's eitherillegal and the authorities are con-tacted, or it's not illegal and life isjust tough."

.' The key party that has been leftout of the Internet explosion is thegovernment, Schiller said. Withtheir interest in a key escrow systemwhereby.the government wouldhave the ability to break anyencrypted message, the "UnitedStates government has completelydiscredited itself:' SchiUer said.

While almost everyone is inter-ested in security, they expect it issomething that can just be tacked onto a project, he said. 0 one is will-ing "to sacrifice whiz-bang to get

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affiliated with fraternities. Binge-drinking is defined by having five ormore drinks in one sitting at leastonce in the two-week period beforethe urvey was done,

reports that living in a fraternityhouse i by f: r the tronge t indica-tor of binge-drinking in college. Thetudy found th t 86 percent of fra-

ternity re idents are bing -drinker ,compared to 45 percent of men not

fre chapter. We encourage the egroup to continue their effort aw beli v it ill b a po itive lead-er hip force on campu .

Another study compl ted by thHarvard chool of Public Health

Study cites fraternity claimsA recent study by Harris and

Harris 'of Kentucky, Inc., an insur-ance brokerage house, confirms thatalcohol remains a major contributorto insurance claims against fraterni-ties.

Harris and Harris studied morethan 700 claims filed against frater-nities between 1987 and 1995 andfound that the majority of claimsfell into several categories, in whichalcohol was found to be a-eontribut-ing factor to a large majority ofthese claims.

According.to the study, 95 per-cent of the falls from roof cases, 94percent of fights, 93 percent of sex-ual abuse incidents, and 87 percentof automopile accidents reportedlyinvolved alcohol. Other categoriesof claims involving .alcohol includehazing and slips and falls. Harrisand Harris also found that underagedrinking was involved in 61 percentof claims filed against fraternities.Of the alcohol-related claims in thestudy completed by Harris andHarris, 88 percent led to a fatality,while 8.1 percent resulted in paraly-sis.

Harris and Harris reported thatthe "numbers clearly indicate thatfraternities and alcohol mixed toform a volatile exposure. Alcoholseems to be the primary catalyst forfraternity claims." Harris and Harrisalso commended national 'fraterni-ties which were piloting substance-

mined that after ome chapter w ntalcohol-free, member' grade pointaverage increased. Dorow believethat an alcohol-free policy will defi-nitely affect fraternity member'GPAs, since studies have hownthat students with higher GPA al 0

con ume les alcohol, he said.At MIT, the average GPA of fra-

ternity member, 4.1, i about theame a that of dormitory re ident ,

Gilon said. ."I believe the only fraternity

hou e who e GPA would changeare those which do not currently u ealcohol responsibly," Ardila said.

Despite GP A issues, 'this deci-sion was definitely economically-driven and mainly due to liabilityissues" and costs which national fra-ternities must contend with whenalcohol-related incidents occur atlocal chapters, Gilon said.

"In order for PDT and to stayin busines and to maintain them:.selves as national fraternitie , theyhad to adopt uch a policy," Dorowsaid.

Ardila thinks that the problemof alcohol on college campuses isgetting out of hand nationwide. "Weget news of alcohol-related acci-dents very often, particularly taking'place in fraternities all across thenation. This not only affects the par-ticular fraternities involved, itaffects the whole fraternity system,"he said.

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Using anti-virus software helpsfoil the majority of attacks, "Ninety-nine percent of the time, [virusinfection] is avoidable," Isaacsonsaid.

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GPAs rise after alcohol bannedThe natio v l fr~ternities deter-

attached to them, aid President ofFrederico Ardila '98. The policy

"wouldn't be good or bad for us dur-ing rush; it would just be different."

"I believe that thi deci ion willhave its greatest effect on th socialaspect of fraternity life," Gilon aid.He sugge ts that non-fraternitymembers think about what wouldhappen if dormitories adopted alco-hol-free policies. Dorow issued aimilar query.

Ardila does not think that nation-al fraternities should force theirchapter homes to be completelyalcohol-free, he said. "I do think itis appropriate for the nationals torequire each chapter to have a spe-cific plan on how to use alcoholresponsibly," he said.

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igma u prepares 0 comply"Sigma eQational fraternity

takes pride i 'ng a leader when itcomes to ri k reduction," Ardilasaid. SN has been considering alco-hol-free chapter housing on a broadscale since 1994, he said.

Alcohol is not really very impor-tant in the MIT chapter of SN,Ardila said. More than half of housemembers drink very little or not atall, and there is no heavy drinking inthe house, he said. SN has takenseveral steps towards guaranteeingresponsible use of alcohol.

"Our house has several dryareas, and most of our social events

t' ' are dry," Ardila said. Parties withalcohol at SN are closed and noheavy drinking ~akes place, he said.

There were mixed reactions tothis policy change from SN mem-bers at MIT. Several members feltthat this decision may be the bestaction at this point, while most feelthat being a c~apter that uses alco-hol responsibly, the national frater-nity should not make the decisionfor them, Ardila said.

Manley also expected other fra-ternities to follow their lead. Gilonsaid that he has a nagging feelingthat if the alcohol-free program issuccessfully implemented by PDTand SN, other fraternities will adoptsimilar programs.

Ardila said that SN has morethan 30 chapters currently pursuingthe alcohol~free initiative, and all

.seem very happy with the results."If this turns out to be successful,

( 'other national fraternities might alsofollow their lead:"'

.According to The Boston Globe,Phi Delta Theta is based in Oxford,Ohio and has 180 chapters with7,500 members. Sigma Nu has 210chapters with 9,000 members and isbased in Richmond, Va.

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e ma ter' degree proposedAlso at the meeting, Director of

the Center for Tran portationStudie Yo i Sheffi PhD '77 pro-posed a master of engineeringdegree in logi tics. Logi ticsinvolve tudying how to movegOods over time and space. The fac-ulty will vote on the degree at itsApril meeting.

Professor of ElectricalEngineering and Computer ScienceMartin F. Schlecht '77 and Williamupdated the faculty on tudent ser-vices re-engineering.

Current accomplishments includean enhanced Online StudentInfonnation Services and the StudentServices Center, Schlecht said.

The reorganization of the Dean'sOffice also helped speed up studentservices re-engineering, Williamssaid.

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Marilyn Vogel '98 (.24) backs up Maddy Burke '99 as shedrives to the net. Burile scored three goal and Vogel two inMil' 20-7 victory over Plymouth State College at Jack BarryReid on Wednesday.

~.tWriting ,,'S. Logisties

and engineering ubjects. Head of the Writing Program AlanProfe or of Literature David P. Lightman, and Chair of CUP

Thorburn aid his first re pon e to Charle tewart Ill, 0 the responsi-the propo al w ' great applause." bility hould be di tributedHowever, there were a few prob- With re pect to tougheninglerns. admi ions standards, Williams said

The proposal equate writing and that MIT' verbal SAT core differspeaking, he said "The two activi- little from tho e of Ivy Leagueties are not identical." school . MIT need to look at

AI 0, since 15 to 20 percent of improving those skill, he saidstudents are admitted with deficientwriting skills, MIT should eitheroffer remedial writing classes ortoughen admis ion, he said. MITwould never stand for a deficiencyin computational kill.

Lastly, Thorburn said that theproposal itself should be well writ-ten. He suggested rewording ornephrases including changing ''receivepractice, instruction, and feedback"to "receive instruction" since onecannot "receive practice."

Hodges said t~at the proposalwas written by Bacow, and sinceBacow went to MIT, it shows howthe writing requirement needs revi-sion.

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Education and Student Affairs.Arthur C. Smith said he was unsurethat the Institute and students couldcommit resources to communicationwithout hurting other aspects ofMIT.

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the Committee on theUndergraduate Program will designand implement these experiments,Hodge said. This initiative haalready received S200,OOO in fund-ing from the National Scienc(}Foundation.

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Moroney won the advancedfoxtrot/tango and took second placein the advanced waltz/quickstep.Goncalves and Yumiko Osawa tooksecond in the advancedfoxtrot/tango.

The team is looking forward tohosting the next competition of theseason at the DuPont CenterGymnasium on Saturday, April 5.This inaugural event is ~xpected ~attract over 300 competitors fro15 colleges and universities.

ahead by 15, 2~. the 1 hot Plymouth tate man-Plymouth tate then made a aged to take at goal.

erie of good play to lide one into Coach Cheryl Silva aid he awthe net with two minute left in play some "really good thing from theto bring the core up to 20-7. team" and said the game was a greatHowever, the game was already start for them. She aid he wawon. As the final 10 econds wound "happy with the passing game thedown the re t of the team on the team played" and how they playedsideline cOWlted down the seconds together as a team throughout theto their 20-7 victory. game.

Excellent performance were put - The team will be headingin from Sadowski, who made 8 of Florida over Spring Preak to train1t hots on goal and a free po ition and to play Skidmore College andgoal, Vogel, Maddy Burke '99, and the State University of ew YorkConnie Sadowski '99. In addition to College at Fredonia. Their nextthese players, excellent goaJtending home game is on Saturday, April 5,from Anne Lee '99 was a factor in at 1 p.m. again t Wellesleythe team' victory. Lee saved 11 of College.

COURTESY OF MD JUILROOJ.! DANCE TEAM

Alex Wang G and Uncia Kim '97 dance the Jive at the UniversityNetwork Northeast Regional Competition on rch 2 at theWonderland Ballroom In Revere.

Jennifer Hammock '98 won thebeginner waltz and beginner foxtrot.Rich Finlay and Anne Moroney '82won the advanced waltz/foxtrot andtango. Finlay and Moroney alsoswept the four-dance openwaltz/tango/foxtrot/Viennese waltzevent.

Two days of competition endedwith the international standard cate-gory. Li and Hong won the beginner

. waltz, while Li and Hammock wonthe beginner quickstep. Finlay and

Sadow i, who ran down a clearfield to core another goal with12:42 left in the game to bring thecore to 17-6.. The team played smartly

throughout the half and pas ed verywell to dominate Plymouth State.

With about five minutes left inplay, MIT found itself in control ofthe ball but was kept behind the netby unusually trong defensive playfrom Plymouth State. The Engineerspatiently held the ball behind thenet, until Vogel slipped the ball pastthe Plymouth State goalie to bringthe core to 19-6. Sadow ki soonhad the ball again and scored theEngineers' final goal to put them .

The ballroom dance team contin-ued its strong performance this yearwith numerous top~three individualplacings as well as great teamresults at the sixth annual University

etwork ortheast RegionalCompetition. The competition,sponsored by the MassachusettsAmateur Ballroom DancersAssociation, was held March 2 and3 at the Wonderland Ballroom inRevere.

The American rhythm categorystarted off the first day of competi-tion. Feng Li '97 and GeetaSankappanavar '97 continued theirdomination of the beginner swingby taking first place. They placedfirst in beginner cha-cha and third inbeginner rumba. Jorge Barrera '.99and Stephanie Hong '98 took thirdin beginner swing.

The next category was interna-tional Latin. Barrera and Hong wonthe beginner jive. Li andSankappanavar won beginner rumbaand placed second in beginner jive.

Steven Casey G and SuzanneGoh swept the advanced Latin, win-ning both the cha~cha/rumba andsamba/jive events. Jorge GoncalvesG and Ling Liau took second placein the same events.

The day ended with the teamcompetitions. MIT fielded fourteams for the American style com-petition and three teams for theinternational style competiti~n. MITteams placed both second and thirdin the American style, and an MITteam placed second in theInternational style. Both times, theteam lost to Harvard University,whose members include currentamateur national champions.

The competition continued onSunday, beginning' with theAmerican smooth category. Li and

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Ballroom Dance TeamFinisheS WellAt Unwersity Regional Compe don

record for points cored. TheEngineer defeated BrownUniversity and Rhode IslandCollege by coring a 177.625.

The victory .over Brown was thefirst in the history of the programover a Division I opponent. LeeKnight '00 also et an MIT recordin the all.:around competition with a37.125. Knight's score was one offive team coring records set in themeet.

The team will compete in theational Collegiate Gymnastics

Association Championships thiscoming weekend at the Universityof Wisconsin at LaCrosse.

Women hoopsters honoredMIT basketball players were

recently honored by the ewEngland Women's 8 Conference.Guard Sarah Davis '97 was namedto the EW 8 aU-conference team.Davis, who averaged over 12 pointsand five assists each game, is thefirst MIT player selected to the teamsince the 1990 season.

Heather Lukacs ' 00 was namedthe conference's rookie of the year.Lukacs averaged over a dozenpoint and added neady ninerebounds each contest. In addition,Davis was selected to play in the

ew England Women's BasketbaJJAssociation Senior All-Star Gamewhich was held SWlday at BrandeisUniversity.

Men's teoni start season stronglyThe men's tennis team has started

the spring portion of its season with abang by defeating two Division Iopponents in its frrst two matches.The' Engineers took 5-2 decisionsfrom both the University ofVel'lllootand from Boston College. Overall forthe year, the Engineers have com-piled a 7-1 record

game to d ny Plymouth tate anoth-er goal until th final minute of thegame.

At the ame time the Engineersteadily continued to expand their

lead. ith 23:08 left in the gameTracy Sadow ki '99 cored a goaloff a free po ition hot to bring the

. core up to l~.About 10 minute later with

13:24 left in the game, arilynVogel '98 skillfuJJy worked her waythrough the Plymouth defen e tocore another goal to put MIT up

16-6. The ball was brought to thecenter of the field for the draw.

The Engineers succe fully tookthe balt, and it wa pa ed to

The list of MIT' national cham-pion grew with John Wallberg Gwinning the 35-lbs. weight throw atthe CAA Division III IndoorTrack and Field Championships at

the Univer ity ofWisconsin atOshkosh.Wallberg threwthe weight 59 feet3 1/2 inches to

win the title by 2 feet I 1 inches. It isthe third time Wallberg has earnedAll-America honors in the event.

Pistol capture sectionalThe MIT pistol team recently

captured the IntercollegiateSectionals, outdistancing the CoastGuard Academy and the MerchantMarine Academy.

Myong-Sin Yi '98 was the indi-vidual champion at the sectionals. Yiwas also named to the 13-memberUnited States Shooting NationalDevelopment team, which isdesigned to give training and matchexperience to potential elite shooters.

Women's gymna tic beat BrownThe women's gymnastics team

finished its regular season in stylerecently by shattering "the team

The women' lacro e teambegan its ea on with a deci ive20-7 victory over Plymouth tateCollege Wednesday night on JackBarty Field in their first home gameof the year.

The Engineers played martly asa team to take an early lead in thegame. The team had earned a 13-5lead by halftime and continuallyworked to widen the marginthroughout the econd half.

Early in the econd half,Plymouth State cored a goal tobring the score to 13-6. However,MIT played a much more controll d

thletes earn all-di trict honorThree MIT fall sports athletes

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