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Course ati fy requirementsOf the 798 tudents who did not

pass the FEE, 215 received a gradeof "not acceptable with subject rec-ommended". Those students wereadvised to take one of the introduc-tory writing classes, however mostof those classes have historicallybeen oversubscribed.

"Part of the problem in phaseone classes is that a number of thosespaces are taken by juniors andseniors who have not passed Phaseone," Perelman said.

The other option to students forpassing Phase One is to submit afive page or longer paper from anyclass or UROP activity as proof ofwriting ability. However, that optionmay pose problems for procrastina-tors.

tudents who postpone submit-ting their Phase One paper until fallterm of their sophomore year, thedeadline for submissions, have

harsher grading ystem put intoplace two years ago. The revisedgrading system was designed to"send messages to the students thatthey need to be more aggressive andtake a leader hip role in improvingtheir writing skills at MIT," saidKip V. Hodges, then-chair of the

ommittee on the WritingRequirement, at the time.

After the new grading systemwas put into place the passing ratefor the Essay Evaluation plummetedfrom 48 percent in 1994 to 17 per-cent in 1995.

Some 91 students bypassed theessay evaluation by satisfying thePhase One largely throughadvanced placement credit,Perelman said. tudents whoreceived a five on the AdvancedPlacement Language andComposition Test were creditedwith completion of the Phase Oneof the Institute Writing require-ment.

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Alex D. Sindt '99 and Stephanie Sharo '99 from DanceTroupe perform at the Activities Midway Tuesday evening.

Re ult from the two mandatoryfreshman exams, the FreshmanEssay Evaluation and the Pre-Calculus Math Diagnostic, werereleased yesterday, revealingmarked improvement in some areasand regression in others.

The number of freshmen whoreceived a score of adequate on themath diagnostic test jumped sevenpercent while the number of fresh-men who passed the essay evalua-tion fell by three percent.

164 of the 962 freshman whotook the essay evaluation, about 17percent of the class, received a scorehigh enough to pass Phase One ofthe Institute Writing Requirement,said Coordinator of the WritingRequirement Leslie C. Perelman.Last year, 20 percent of studentstaking the exam passed.

The low passing rate is due to a

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this electronics store known for itslow prices and high selection isclosing its doors this fall as part ofa bankruptcy reorganization of itsparent company, MontgomeryWard.

Lechmere is currently offering15 percent off all its items as part ofits liq..uidation sale. According to astore worker, the store is only sell-ing its current stock, which meansthat some items may already be soldout.

Lechmere offers halogen lampsfor $21.99 as well as other electron-ics, computer, and office equipment.Lechmere also has a small selectionof furniture and bedding.

The Lechmere nearest to campusis located at the CambridgeSideGalleria.

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to a dormitory that was their fourth# First Total Ranks of those assignedchoice or below that year.

This year, only six students Dorm Choice Assigned 1st 2nd 3rd 4threceived their fourth choice dormi- McCormick100 63 62 1tory, and no one received any dor-mitory lower than the fourth choice, MacGregor118 76 74 2Bernard said. Burton 108 97 82 14 1RCA will try to accommodatethose who received their fourth Senior 33 33 20 8 4 1choice dormitory, Bernard said. Baker 60 70 56 14They are "people that we'd reallywant to work with" to move to a Random 17 20 9 8 2 1higher preference house if neces-sary, he said. Bexley 13 17 10 7Crowding higher than expected Next 68 121 68 53

The number of crowded rooms New 21 44 19 23 2in dormitories is now expected to be EC 37 107 37 46 20 4higher than previously thought,Bernard said. Language 42 28 28While 120 crowds were predict-ed at the start of the lottery on Dormitories are ranked from most to least subscrib.ed. Language houses operate

under a separate selection system. These figures do not include students whoSunday, almost 150 crowds are now requested that they be grouped with other freshmen.

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Cheap Buys Can MakeRoom Seem Like Home

LechmereLong a Cambridge institution,

By Douglas E. Heimburgerand Dan McGuireSTAFF REPORTERS

As the long Labor Day week-end approaches, many studentswill fan out across the Boston areato purchase desks, lamps, and rugsto give their new rooms a morecomfortable and less institutionalfeel. The area around MIT has anumber of stores to help fulfill stu-dents' needs. Here are some goodstarting places for students inter-ested in buying furniture in theBoston area.

In addition, the Residence andOrientation Week Committee willbe sponsoring a "Shop for YourRoom Tour" which will depart fromthe Student Center steps at 2:00p.m. Sunday afternoon.

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Linda E. Kiley '99 shows a shark tracking boat to Daniel Vlaslc '01 at the Academic Expo held Inthe Johnson Athletics Center yesterday afternoon.

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New System Improves Dorm Lottery ResultsBy Douglas E. HeimburgerASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Freshman housing lottery resultsreleased yesterday afternoon showthat a significantly higher number ofstudents were assigned to one oftheir top three choices than in previ-ous years.

This year 99.3 percent of fresh-men were assigned to one of theirtop three choices, compared to 93p((rcent last year and 90 percent in1995, said Philip M. Bernard, pro-gram director for residential life inthe Office of Residence and CampusActivities.

The results are the "most suc-cessful we've had," Bernard said.He attributed the success to a newoptimization scheme written byEliot S. Levitt '89 that maximizedthe number of students assigned toone of their top three choicesinstead of only to their top choice.

Only 69 percent of freshmenwere assigned to their first choicedormitory, compared to 76 percent ayear ago. The change is due to theoptimization process, Bernard said.'.'More people get their secondchoices," he said.

In 1995, 67 percent of freshmenreceived t~eir first choice dormitory.However, 76 students were assigned

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Ty on Foods said in a statement,"The secretary never was asked byTyson for any special treatment, andnone was ever offered or received.We deplore the independent coun-sel's apparent view that acts of com-mon hospitality - consisting of acouple of meals and a football game- can rise to the level of criminalconduct in the absence of anyattempt by our company to exploitits non-existent special relationshipwith Mr. Espy."

The grand jury found that Espytried to cover his tracks by payingba~k the companies that had paidhis way to various events. Thegrand jury also concluded that thetiming of his reimbursements wassuspicious, coming days after pub-lished reports about his conduct orthe appointment of the independentcounsel to investigate his accep-tance of the gifts.

"Public service is a public trust,"the grand jury said in its indictmentof Espy, adding that as agriculturesecretary, a Cabinet-level position,Espy owed the public "honest ser-vices" that were "free from dishon-esty, deceit, official misconduct,willful omission and fraud."

On Jan. 5, 1993, President-electClinton announced that Espy, aDemocratic congressman fromMississippi, was his choice to runthe Agriculture Department. Soonafter that, the grand jury said, Espyengaged in a pattern of corruptionthat touched on virtually everyaspect of his job.

nature of the value of the things hetook, he had hi hand out all thetime," independent coun el DonaldC. maltz aid in an interview.

Attorney Reid H. Weingarten,who repre ent Espy, coffed at thecharge ." ever has 0 much beenmade of so little," he said. "In aneffort to j usti fy three years andcounties million spent on thiinve tigation, the special prosecutorhas stretched criminal statutesbeyond recognition and taken triv-ial, per onal and entirely benignactivities and attempted to distortthem into criminal acts. Theseeffort will ultimately proveunavailing, and we look forward togoing to court and restoring MikeEspy's good name."

Espy' indictment is the climaxof a nearly three-year investigationby Smaltz, who has overseen sever-al criminal and civil prosecutionsagainst companies and officialsinvolved in providing the gifts. Sofar, three corporations and four indi-viduals have been convicted in theinvestigation, which has focusedmainly on offenses involving giftsto Espy and contributions to theunsuccessful congressional cam-paign of Espy's brother, Henry.There also have been some acquit-tals and charges have been dis-missed against Henry Espy. Mprethan $4.5 million in criminal finesand civil settlements have beenagreed to by various companies.

According to the indictment,Espy accepted gifts from Sun'-Diamond Growers of California;Tyson Foods Inc. of Arkansas;Oglethorpe Power Corp. of Georgia;Smith Barney Inc., the New Yorkinvestment firm; the EOP Group

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Former agriculture secretaryMike Espy was indicted Wedne dayon charge that he openly andaggre ively olicited 35,458worth of gifts from companies hewa supposed to be regulating, vir-tually from the day PresidentClinton picked him for the job.

E py, 43, who served as agricul-ture ecretary from January 1993until December 1994, was chargedwith accepting illegal gratuities forhim elf, hi girlfriend and his rela-tives, and with violating the MeatInspection Act of 1907, which pro-hibits Agriculture Department I

employee from taking anything ofvalue from companies they are sup-posed to regulate.

In the 39-count indictment, thegrand jury aid Espy carried out thescheme by committing mail andwire fraud, and by lying to thedepartment' inspector general, theFBI and the White House when hewas questioned about his activities.He also wa accu ed of tamperingwith a witness by ordering a low-level employee to alter travel itiner-arie that had been requested by theinspector general.

The grand jury said E py accept-ed a variety of gifts, from luggage,crystal bowls and artwork to meals,airfare and tickets to sportingevents.

He allegedly accepted the giftswithout reporting them, as required,on annual federal financial disclo-sure forms, and allegedly tried tocover up his ~cceptance of the gra-tuities.

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Miffed by Wa hington' welcome to two high-ranking defector,orth Korea abruptly pulled out of mi ile proliferation talk ched-

uled for Wedne day, tailing U.. effort to per uade the Communi tregime to curb it ann sale to rogue state uch a Iran.

Li Gun, Pyongyang' deputy U. . repre entative, aid in a tate-ment: "The U.. offer of shelter to the criminal eriously damagedthe climate, preventing our government from re uming the talks."

orth Korea' Central ew gency said the defector, orthKorea' amba ador to Egypt and hi diplomat brother, were about tobe accu ed of embezzlement. It ugge ted that they ought refuge inthe United tate to avoid pro ecution. .

White Hou e poke man Barry Toiv aid orth Korea' decisionto recall its delegation from the ew York talks was "not unexpect-ed" following the high-profile defection .

U. . official anticipate that the breakdown will be temporary.Although they admit there is no way to read the intentions of KimJong II's secretive regime, they say orth Korea ha little to gainfrom breaking off the talks permanently.

An angry Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hli himotoWednesday described the newe t problem in the nation's troublednuclear energy program, a long-standing radiation leak from corrodedstorage drums, as "unbelievable."

The tate-run agency that operate Japan's nuclear program admit-ted Tuesday that radiation had leaked from some of the 2,000 drumsof radioactive wa te tored in Tokai, a village north of Tokyo.Although some water urrounding the underground drum had morethan 10,000 times the allowable level of radiation, government offi-cial said Wednesday that the local water upply is safe.

"It' unbelievable that (the nuclear agency) has neglected a warn-ing" made after a 1982 inspection, Ha himoto said. Critics said theleak had been going on at least since 1982.

The incident is the late t in a serie of accidents involving thetate-run nuclear agency known as Donen. uclear power accounts

for one-third of Japan's electricity, and the national government hasbeen trying to win public upport to build more reactors to expand theenergy source. But recent revelations of sloppy nuclear power plantmanagement and coverups of accident have enraged an increasinglyhostile public.

The Japanese public and government are extremely sensitiveabout radiation and nuclear safety. Yet despite its profound historicalaversion to nuclear weapons and nuclear power, the government hasbeen determined to make the country self-sufficient in energy produc- .tion and no longer dependent on foreign oil.

California Court Rules forAge-Discriminated Employees

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In a victory for older workers, the California Supreme Court ruledWednesday that employees who are discriminated against on theba is of age have the same legal rights a victims of race al)d genderbias.

The 6-1 ruling opens another avenue for older workers to bringdiscrimination complaints 'when they are fired or demoted and sends astrong message that the state has a fundamental interest in preventingage discrimination in the workplace.

"With this ruling, age discrimination is put on a similar footingwith race and gender," said Antonio Lawson, who representedAltadena resident Joan Stevenson in the case.

At the age of 60, Stevenson lost a secretarial job she had held for30 years. Because of what she called poor legal advice, she failed tofile a complaint with a state agency alleging age discrimination, anadministrative step that a lower court held was required before a law-suit could be filed.

The court's ruling now makes it possible for victims to proceeddirectly to the courts. "I am sure there are many people in my situa-tion," Stevenson said Wednesday.

WEATHERPicnic Panic?

By Gerard RoeSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

Due to a rather sluggish upper level flow, we are going to be expe-riencing the effects of a messy, multi-centered low pressure systemfor the most of today. In the Labor Day outlook a ridge of high pres-sure is set to take hold over the East Coast keeping any inclementweather at bay over the holiday weekend, and bringing in lots of sun-shine. In the short term, however, clouds will be the rule. It looks asthough we will escape all but scattered light rain in the morning, butthere is a good chance of a thunderstorm in the area especiallytowards evening as a weak cold front comes through the area anddestabilizes the air above us. All of which makes the GSC picnic inKillian Court this lunchtime a somewhat risky proposition, but heck,the food is free.

Th'ursday: Overcast. Chance of a shower throughout the day,more likely towards evening. Light winds generally out of the south.High 74°F (26°C).

Thursday night: Showers likely. Low 63°F (19°C).Friday: Clearing during the morning. Becoming partly sunny.

High 74°F (26°C). Low 59°F (17°C).

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DUGE NJIVE. BOS lA-HERZEGOVINA

A crowd loyal to embattledPresident Biljana Plavsic seized acritical television transmitter on aremote hilltop Wednesday but wasdriven out by other police answer-ing to war-crimes suspect RadovanKaradzic.

As Plavsic struggles to wrestpower from her hard-line rivals,control of the airwaves is essential.In a country where broadcast propa-ganda started and sustained threeand a half years of war, whoeverholds state media holds nearlyunbreakable authority.

Plavsic's people have occupiedone of five transmitters in theBosnian Serb half of the country,which they claim reaches roughly50 percent of the population. Thattransmitter is located near Plavsic'sheadquarters city, Banja Luka,where for three days journalistsloyal to her have been broadcastingtheir own newscast in place of theusual Karadzic-controlled transmis-sion.

On Wednesday, they moved totake another. The tense and, attimes, violent showdown over thetransmission tower here, above thenorth-central city of Doboj, wasapparently the first exchange of hos-tile gunfire by Bosnian Serbs in adeepening crisis that is steadilysplitting the Republika Srpksa.

It also marked a foray byPlavsic's supporters into territorywhere Karadzic' s forces appear toremain firmly in charge.

Led by Milovan Stankovic, aformer army officer and the ownerof Doboj's only opposition newspa-per, about 30 men and womenseized the transmitter and disarmed

11 policemen stationed at the instal-lation to protect it. Stankovic saidseveral.of the police were sympa-thetic to their cause, easing thetakeover.

Technicians immediatelyswitched the frequencies so that theBanja Luka signal was beamed intothousands of homes in the Dobojarea, preempting the signal frpmKaradzic's stronghold of Pale.

Armed men described byStankovic as members of a pro-Karadzic paramilitary squad knownas The Black Arm soon arrived andopened fire over the heads of thecivilians, Stankovic said. They alsobeat up the chief technician. Butoutnumbered and seeing that someof the civilians also had guns, theyretreated, Stankovic said.

Several hours later, Stankovic'sgroup'lounged under a wild peartree alongside the transmitter andtoasted their victory with cognac."People are just fed up," said VujoBlagojevic, a police criminologistwho said he was fired last yearwhen he refused to join Karadzic' sruling political party.

"We just want a normal life,"said Dragoljub Radulovic, a socialworker. "We want an end to the fearand use of force ... and the isolationof our people."

Two American helicopter gun-ships from the NATO peacekeepingforce in Bosnia circled overhead,but no troops appeared on theground. An. unarmed team of U.N.police monitors was in the area,which is part of the U.S.-controlledsector of Bosnia, but also kept itsdistance.

Suddenly, Bosnian Serb policewith megaphones began shoutingfrom the bottom of the hill.Reinforcements had arrived and

were surrounding the group.Tense negotiations followed.

This time, Stankovic's people wereoutnumbered. They surrendered thetransmitter and retreated to a nearbychurch.

Several dozen police loyal toKaradzic, many with their pistolscocked, then emerged from theforests ringing the hill, accompaniedby men in plainclothes, apparentlysecret police, armed with guns,hand-held radios and baseball bats.

Two of the policemen were car-rying automatic rifles, which arebanned under the peace accords thatended Bosnia's war in December1995.

Even some of the police weredisheartened'to see Serb pittedagainst Serb. One turned to his com-rade, shaking his head: "Brother,our whole fight (in the war) wasuseless. Look at this. It's all fallingapart."

The lack of NATO interventionin the transmitter incident mayreflect a new reticence to becometoo involved in an internecinepower struggle. Plavsic has receivedstrong support from the Westdespite her own war-mongering pastbecause she is seen as cooperativein executing the peace accords.

At the church where his grouphad retreated, Stankovic was circum-spect. Although defeated for now, hesaid, his side had made its point.

"The war started in the heads ofpeople, and it must'be broken In theheads of people," he said. "That canonly happen if electronic and printmedia are independent."

Back at the transmitter, a shoutof euphoria went up. Karadzic' smen had reconfigured the frequ~n-cies, and Pale television was againon the air.

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The Pocomoke River on the Eastern Shore between Maryland andVirginia suffered a second fish kill Tuesday as an estimated 2,000fish died near the spot where 10,000 or more fish died earlier thismonth, Virginia officials said.

Tuesday's fish deaths took place in Virginia waters across theriver's mouth from Maryland waters where the toxic microbePfiesteria piscicida was active during a four-day fish kill less thanthree weeks ago, said Jack Travelstead, chief of fisheries manage-ment for the Virginia Marine Resources Commission.

Virginia state workers took water and fish samples that will besent to laboratories and analyzed for the presence of Pfiesteria,Travelstead said. He said most of the fish dying Tuesday bore sores, asymptom seen in previous attacks by Pfiesteria.

The fish deaths in Maryland earlier this month marked the firsttime Pfiesteria was found active during a fish kill in the ChesapeakeBay or its tributaries. Maryland officials said the deaths Aug. 6-9 onthe Pocomoke marked the first major fish kill in eight years in thatstate's portion of the bay and its tributaries.

Pfiesteria emits toxins that can inflict skin problems at low levels.At higher concentrations, the toxins overwhelm fish, paralyzing theirnervous systems and suffocating them. The microbe swims towardthe stricken fish and feeds upon them.

Travelstead said the fish dying Tuesday were mainly menhaden,an oily species known to incite attack by Pfiesteria.

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The Food and Drug Administration announced plans Tuesday torequire warning labels on unpasteurized fruit and vegetable juiceand take other steps to reduce the risk of disease from microbe in thedrinks.

The proposal comes in the wake of recent outbreaks, includingone last fall that was linked to unpasteurized apple juice; one childdied and 66 people became sick in three western states and Canada inthat incident.

The new regulations are part of a general program within theClinton administration to upgrade food safety following similar dis-ease clusters in recent years linked to hamburger and imported fruit.

In Tuesday's announcement, the FDA said it would issue one pro-posallater this year requiring a thorough juice afety program similarto that implemented for other foods. That system, known as HazardAnalysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) safety programs,examines possible sources of contamination and tries to minimizerisk at each point; it also requires inspection and thorough record-keeping to track outbreaks.

The agency said it also probably would issue a rule requiringwarning labels on fresh apple juice products until the HACCP plan isin effect. The label requirement then could be rescinded by theagency.

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Israeli authorities lifted their 28-day siege of BethlehemWednesday in a significant easing of the harsh regime of economicsanctions and border closings imposed on Palestinians since two ter-rorists killed themselves and 14 other people in a bombing at aJerusalem market on July 30.

About 4 p.m. Wednesday, Israeli soldiers shoved aside barricadesblocking entrances to the fabled West Bank city, where Palestinianresentment of the blockade has erupted into serious rioting and haraised fears of renewed clashes between Israeli soldiers andPalestinian security forces.

Israeli authorities continue to prevent tens of thou ands ofPalestinians from traveling to their jobs in Israel, however, and theyhave not retreated from demands that Palestinian leader YasserArafat do more to rein in terrorists operating from areas under hiscontrol.

Still, Wednesday's move was important because Bethlehem wasthe last West Bank city subject to a full blockade by I raeli ecurityforces. In the immediate aftermath of the Jerusalem bombing, IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply restricted the movementof goods and people throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, butmost such blockades have since been lifted in the West Bank.

A center fuel tank blown up by TW A Flight 800 investigatorsshows damage patterns unlike anything found on the fuel tank of thedowned plane, according to early te t results - a development thatcould finally rule out the possibility that any explosive chargedestroyed the plane, sources said.

ince last spring, officials had said they were close to eliminatingthe bomb and mi sile theories that had long dominated speculationabout the crash's cause. But FBI investigators have been reluctant tobe definitive, saying they wanted to reanalyze the wreckage and awaitthe result of more te ts.

The te t results, from several detonations of a Boeing 747 tank inBruntingthorpe, England, last month, brought investigators one stepclo er to dropping the idea of a small, "shaped charge" placed on ornear the Flight 00 tank - the only possibility left of a bombbecause of the lack of other evidence.

Five other theories of ignition remain, including a dud missile orother object piercing the plane's skin and four mechanical scenarios:a static charge within the tank, a faulty scavenge pump, corroded fuelprobes and damaged wiring in the right wing.

Investigators have determined that the blast originated in the near-ly empty 12,890-gallon tank, igniting fuel air vapors in an explosionthat tore the plane apart, killing all 230 people aboard. The actualignition source remains a mystery.

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tough to determine what a fair valueof any currency is," Coulter said."But I'd say the peso is slightlyovervalued."

But the peso's defenders say itsstrength merely reflects growinginternational confidence inMexico's economy, especially sincethe orderly July 6 elections. Theupshot: stronger foreign demand forMexican currency to build factories,open stores and buy Mexican stocksand bonds.

The strength of Mexico's recov-ery was highlighted by second-quar-ter figures released last week show-ing the economy had grown astartling 8.8 percent compare withlast year, a rebound boosted byrenewed consumer spending.

"The peso is much stronger thanwhat anyone expected, but there aregood reasons:' said Oscar Vera,chief economist at DeutscheMorgan Grenfell in Mexico City."We're in a virtuous cycle in whicha stable economy attracts more capi-tal, which reinforces the peso'sstrength:' he said.

ing."Th ban does not affe t private

corporation or other non-govern-ment group , nor doe it apply tofederal affirmative action programsor tate program needed to main-tain eligibility for federal aid.

But potentially, enforcement ofthe ban could quickly cut a widepath through many public sectoraffirmative action programs rangingfrom police department efforts toincrease the number of black andHispanic officers in their ranks torecruitment drives for women fire-fighters. In contracting, many gov-ernment agencies will be forced toabandon long-standing practicesaimed at awarding bids to minorityor women-owned businesses.

While the measure has overcomeseveral key legal hurdles, state andlocal governments are far from sort-ing out how they will obey the newlaw. And some county officials saidthat in a practical sense, bureaucrat-ic procedures will delay enforce-ment even if the Supreme Courtdoes not intervene.

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to the dollar, virtually the samelevel it was at in December of 1995.

For the peso to be in perfect syncwith the dollar, 'it would have weak-ened at a rate roughly equal toMexico's inflation, leaving theexchange' rate' at more than nine tothe dollar by now. That's theexchange rate that some economists,including MIT's Rudy Dornbusch,were predicting last year.

"Mexico is gradually comingback to a situation where you have asignificantly overvalued peso,"warned Gary Hutbauer, director ofstudies at the Council on ForeignRelations in New York.

Also concerned about the peso isBank of America Chairman DavidCoulter, who on a visit hereMonday said the peso is too strongand that the government should takesteps over the next 18 months toensure that the overvaluationdoesn't continue.

"I used to run the bank's curren-cy trading room, and it wa always

law from going into effect, cl aringthe way for it to take effectThursday.

The American ivil LibertieUnion plans to appeal to the

upreme Court in a la t-ditchattempt to halt the law. However,the high court rarely grant emer-gency reque ts to postpone theeffects of a new law or to otherwi eintervene in a case before a hearingon i~ merits.

This mean that in theory, atleast, government agencies from thebiggest state offices in Sacramentodown to the smallest local water andsewer districts have to immediatelybegin dismantling affirmative actionprograms that are in conflict withthe voter-approved ban.

'Called Proposition 209, or theCalifornia Civil Rights Initiative,the law requires that the state "notdiscriminate against, or grant prefer-ential treatment to, any individual orgroup on the basis or race, sex,color, ethnicity or national origin inthe operation of public employment,public education or public contract-

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Mexico's' feso Becoming Stronger,Fostet,ing.Fears of High' Inflation

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After nearly a year-long battle inthe court , California can now beginimplementing a controversial newlaw that eliminates race and e asfactor in a variety of state pro-grams, from hiring to education andcontracting. The measure make thisstate the fir t in the country to abol-i h affirmative action programs, amove that has captured the interestof public officials nationwide in theface of growing pre sure to scrap orlimit racial preferences. Campaignsfor similar bans are underway ineveral other states.

A coalition of civil rights groupsfought the initiative in various fed-eral courts, arguing that the lawabolished only programs that bene-fited women and minorities whilekeeping preferences for those whosought them on such grounds asage, disability or veteran status.

But on Tuesday, the 9th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals denied thegroup's latest attempt to prevent the

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Is the Mexican economic recov-ery, especially the. strengtheningpeso, too much of a good thi'ng?

, ') That, ironically, is the subject qfmuch debate these days in Mexico,where the stronger peso has someeconomists fingering their worrybeads.

They point to the peso's risingvalue against the dollar on currencyexchanges, despite Mexican infla-tion totaling 30 percent over the last18 months. They fear that couldreignite a Mexican frenzy forimported goods similar to one thathelped torpedo the economy in1994.

Fueling those fears was the newslast week that Mexico ran a monthlytrade deficit in July, the first sinceJanuary 1995. Although a mere $20million, the imbalance showed thatfor the first time since the crisis,Mexican consumers and businessesare buying more foreign goods andservices than the economy is export-

Engineers Behind Mars MissionUnveil New Deep Space ProbeBy Robert Lee Hotz "These new missions will require with greater thrust and for longerLOS ANGELES TIMES new technologies that have not been periods than other spacecraft.

PASADENA, CALIF. tried yet:' said chief mission engi- "The ion propulsion unit is cer-As Pathfinder scientists this neer Marc Rayman. "No one wants tainly the flagship technology:'

week continue to rove the rock gar- to be first because no wants to take Rayman said. "It allows fast anddens of Mars by remote control, the the risk. The New Millennium pro- flexible access to the solar system."JPL engineers who put together that gram is stepping up to take the risk Although the engine's initial thrustsuccessful mission already are so that no one else has to." is slow, it steadily builds speed.assembling a probe set to leave The DSI space probe is sched- "Ultimately it will travel much moreEarth for deep space next summer uled to be launched next July from quickly."- a lihowcase for a dozen new the Kennedy Space Center in In its assembly bay Wednesday,technologies, including the first Florida for a two-year tour of the the new spacecraft under construc-flight test of an unusual propulsion solar system's suburbs, scooting tion was surrounded by technicianssystem never tried outside the pages past an asteroid named McAuliffe in in white caps and gowns, festoonedof science fiction. January 1999, dipping near Mars in with butterflies of red warning tape

The engineers of the $139 mil- April 2000 and then flying past the and draped with snakes of yellowlion Deep Space 1 mission showed Comet West-Kohoutek-Ikemura the and black caution ribbon. Strippedoff their handiwork Wednesday: a follo'wing June. of its wings of solar panels andcompact canister of circuit boards, With one probe active on Mars linked to diagnostic probes andantennae, imaging devices, and fuel and a second enroute, the DSI craft racks of power buses, it looked liketanks quickly taking shape in the is the latest sign of the renewed a vacuum cleaner in intensive care.cavernous eight-story clean room at vigor of the U.S. unmanned space Despite its prepossessing appear-the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in exploration program, National ance, the spacecraft is based on tech-Pasadena. Aeronautics and Space nology so new that "the ink is still

As the first of NASA's New Administration officials said. wet on the engineering drawings:',r J Millennium missions, the DS 1 Perhaps the riskiest - and most one spacecraft worker boasted.

probe is designed to lay the techno- promising - new technology is the The basic components of thelogical foundations for the next gen- ion propulsion system that will gen- probe arrived at JPL at the begin-eration of space exploration mis- tly push the DS 1 probe up to speeds ning of August and the craft must besions, JPL engineers said. It offers well beyond anything a convention- ready for its flight tests by latenew' techniques for powering probes al chemical rocket can achieve. October. It is scheduled to bebetween the planets, communicating Riding on streams of charged shipped to the launch site in April,with Earth, photographing the sights xenon ions 10 times faster than the where it will be mated to the Deltaof space, and navigating without burning gases of chemical rockets, rocket that will lift it clear of Earthhuman assistance. :1 the probe can operate on less fuel in July.

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group. We were expo ed to different ideawhich could easily park contorver y. Thicould be traumtizing and hocking to tho ewho have never been placed in that ituationbefore.

Wu is right in a sense. good hienie-write helped us 100 en up and get to knoweach other. But it wa n't through any sadi ticgame or roof-raising incident forced upon usby the counsellors that allowed us to bond.And it isn't any shared emotional trauma thatkeeps u so invigorated about the program. Itwas the experience of finally being treated asadults, and discussing real i sues that exist intoday's society. FLP was an enlighteningexperience for everyone involved.

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1b The EditorWe di covere that if people feel at ea e

around one another, barriers can come down,and friend hip can b used as a tool of in pira-tion and upport. It' through our friend thatwe can feed and nourish ideas for succe . Itruly feel that one main purpo e ofFLP was tohelp build that upport ystem so that ourcl scan flouri h during our year at MIT. Welearned that diver ity is ju t a flavoring ingre-dient. We need to come together, look throughkin color, gender, religion, or exual identity,

and realize that as a whole we can be so muchmore powerful and amazing.

The only trauma I can imagine that Wuwas trying to address in his letter may be thatof honesty. For the fir t time, many studentsopened up both to themselves and to the

one of tho eo-called "eJiti t"Fre hman Leader hip Program participant, Ihave read with great intere t the column andletter in The Tech over the la t everal days.They filled me first with anger, then awe, andnow most recently disbelief that one of ourvery own ha n't a clue as to what happenedduring FLP. ow, I understand that everyonepercieve the same event in a different man-ner. But thi afternoon, a a group of us at inthe grass in front of Kre ge Auditorium andread out loud today' letters on FLP, I think itwa quite unanimous that we felt as thoughthe letter by Jimmy Wu '01 ["FLP BondingActivities Brought Frosh Together," August26] did not correctly portray what happenedduring FLP.

FLP wa definitly a program in which tolearn. Whether it be about yourself, aboutyour gender, your race, or about someoneelse' identity, FLP explored all the culturaldifferences which reside among humans. Itoften became fru trating at times to listen toa group of minorities or to a group from onecertain gender explain which sterotypes theyheld, or why they treated certain "types" ofpeople the way they did. And I am suretho e ame groups became annoyed orshocked as we tried to explain to them feel-ings we experience as women, or a personwith European descent. But I don't quite feelas though any of us went through "emotionaltrauma" as a result. "Raising the Roof' didnot ease any pain, or see us through our"hazing." In fact, there wa never once anyevent which could constitute as hazing dur-ing the entire week at FLP. Too-de-tahswere merely an ice-breaking game to help usfeel more compfortable among our peers.Even this simple little dance taught us thatit's more healthy and progressive to laughand have fun with your peers, and/or co-workers.

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Column by Anders HoveOPINION EDITOR

"They might as well close the patentoffice; now everything has been invented." Sosaid my grandmother when the neighbors pur-

chased the town's firstself-starting automo-bile. That was back inthe 1930s.

I'm inclined toagree. Aside from theDobsonian telescopemount, I can't think ofa single thing worth

%=:/-s'J.'" having invented. after~.,Zi~"::~~1930. I'm convinced

gl~j~i" :t'::; '!/jl~ that the real advancesin productivity since the Great Depressionhave taken place not because of technologicalchange, but due to more efficient use and allo-cation of known technologies and resources.

Leave it to a graduate student to prove mypoint. David Dotson, a master's degree candi-date at New Mexico State University at LasCruces, has this year discovered that a hereto-fore disused national resource has enormouspotential as an agricultural fertilizer. Thematerial in question is a fibrous fleece derivedfrom the abrasion of linen and other fabrics.

In other words, lint.The human race has been struggling with

lint for years. It collects in the most ridiculousplaces. Lint collects on bodies, under beds, in

sock drawers, on the carpet, and in the drain.Our keys are forever getting mired in fluff-filled pockets. Some people with Pocket LintSyndrome appear to have a socially-unaccept-able chronic itching problem. For this reasonand others, most people deem lint a nuisance.

Some people have more of a lint problemof others. International Garment Processors(IGP), a company that stonewashes jeans,throws away 70 cubic yards of lint everyweek. And that's just a small part ofAmerica's daily lint production. Imaginehow much cotton is going to waste everyyear due to lint disposal? Wouldn't it bebetter for the world if that matter couldbe used for something?

Now it appears it can. And mindyou, lint is noordinary fertiliz-er. In hisexperiments,graduate stu-dent Dotson spread lintover ground that would other-wise be sterile, and in some caseseven toxic. The result was an astoundingincrease in grass growth. .

Scientists and industrialists see this as evi-dence that industrial lint waste will now beput to good use aiding reclamation efforts. Butimagine what will happen when lint recyclingreaches the environmental home front.Suddenly, each morning, many will be con-

fronted with a nagging question: You're notplanning on throwing that belly-button lintaway, are you?

And picture the lawns and gardens in'yourneighborhood spruced up with a nice layer oflint. Stonewash for vegetables, dryer lint forshrubs, shower-drain scum for general grassgrowing.

Some of us will undoubtedly recognize ourown erstwhile fleece deposits.

People will be seen scrutinizing, \their yards, looking for evi-

dence that Levis decay fasterthan Wranglers, or proof

that someone is overwash-ing their favorite L.L.Bean shirt.

Among householdsdominated by polyesterand rayon, lint supplies

will run low. Children will besent running to neighbors' hous-

es: "My mother asks, could you pos-sibly spare a couple pounds of lint?"

More charitable sorts may drop 'off excess lintat the local Salvation Army. .

As you can see, we are about to enter abrave new world of futuristic living. Allthanks to lint, a substance most of us haveknown about for years. It just goes to showthat the best things in life aren't invented orearned, they just collect in your undergar-ments.

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ds SpiritualityGuest column by Phil arfuta

I'd like to applaud the column by taceyE. Blau '9 ["Religous Groups Can Often BeDivi ive, Aug. 27]. There are many athei t ,agno tic, humanist, Jews, Mu lims,Pagan , and other religiou group here at

IT.The campu i a hodgepodge of ideas,

backgrounds and belief: , jostling around inthis little environment we call home for mostof the year. Many of these group are exces-sively underrepre ented, and do not get nearlyas much space or publicity a Chri tianity. Forexample, I know there are many Indian stu-dents enrolled at MIT, but I find an alarmingpaucity of literature pertaining to Hinduism orJainism.

I enjoy soakin.,g up ideas other than myown, gleaning bits of useful wisdom from

, each. However, I resent indiscriminate bom-bardment to the nth degree. In the packet I

rerei ed from the ociation of tudentAcitivite at my home addre s, there werephone number , office location , people toreach and e-mail addre for dozen of reli-giou group , 90 percent of which were proba-bly Chri tian. I thought to my elf, If I reallywanted to get in olved, it couldn't b difficultat all."

Adverti ing exce ively doe eem to bea problem here, and I offer a solution: keepall the religiou denomination' groups in apecific pamphlet Ii ting every religion, who

to contact, and how to get more information.(l have seen one such piece of literatureoffered.) It is a bit ick when one has towade through 1,000 letters aying the exactsame thing, with minor differences only amember of the groups would care about.

On the other hand, I applaud the Christiansat MIT for making a firm declaration of theirexistance. Indeed, there is a popular paranoidbelief that the word 'science," upon having

the letter rearranged and int rpreted syrnboli-caly, spells out "Death of God." At MITwhere rational, anitary thought takes place,one might actually a sume that there aren'tany eriollS, practicing religiou folk around;the group aforementioned are simply tryingto refute that ignorant misconception. Kudosto them.

As far a "clumping together," a Blau putit, people quite naturally seek out those of likeminds, and venture forth infrequently toimport thoughts that might bri tie their feath-er a bit. The Association of tudentActivities religious groups are not leachewaiting to pounce upon naive MIT moronswith accessable wallet (with the exception ofa few, I'm sure). Rather, they offer a feelingof fellowship that other group can't provide.Call it a security blanket, or call it a bond, butto each hi own.

I myself can't say I have found many whoshare my idea , as I am actually a atani t,

but recognizing the dearth, often venture outto meet many of the people in Christian,Buddhist, Islamic, and Pagan faiths, in orderto oak up other ideas, as I am secure in myown belief: . I actually find, despite their ide-ology being contradictory to mine, that theyare often unpretensious, non-belligerant, andexude a sense ofhappin~ss few people enjoy.

o while the administrators of these groupsmight actually be fishing the waters for con-stituents, the individual rarely proselytize,and want nothing more than chat. Be sure torealize the difference.

Lastly, the sucessful search for people likeyou is one of the .more rewarding of humanexperiences, and should not be ignored. Butexclusivism will never be my policy, for bylimiting your friends on the basis of any crite-ria you limit only yourself. One should seeklike minds, but not fear those that seemstrange at first; what wa once scary to manyof u , is now beautiful.

As MIT .Closes More Doors, Our Campus Loses its Open FeelColumn by Stacey E. Blau That's an unfortunate move. promoters like Chief of Camp~s Police Anne everyone with a card: But it's not hard toOPINION EDITOR Access to an increasing number of build- P. Glavin make fantastic claims on its behalf. imagine this fir t big step in access re tric-

One of the best things about MIT is its ings, particularly on the eastern end of cam- The fact is that these card readers exi t tion leading to re trictions that graduallyopen campus. If you're a new student you pus, is restricted by card readers. The readers largely to make the powers that be feel better begin to keep more and more people out.

. may not have thought much about'thllt fact, or were in tailed about two years ago as a part of about the job they're doing to increase cam- Once the card reader are in place uch. even noticed it, unless a pilot plan to improve campus security. As pus security. If they really believed that these restrictions would be as simple as some

maybe you went on an far a anyone is concerned, however, card card readers were crucial, they'd care enough mall changes by a bureaucrat in the MITOrange Tour or have readers are a permanent fixture on those build- to make the readers work and they wouldn't Card office.spent time wandering ing, and we can expect them on more and allow entrances next to the reader to be left The end of MIT's open campus would bethrough MIT's build- more entrances. wide open. a pretty ad thing for the Institute. MIT's openings late at night. No one can doubt that a massive and close- Something pretty obvious to anyone who campus is representative of the freedom peo-

Most people don't to bulletproof security system on campus knows their way around the MIT campu even pIe find here - things people come to appre-think much about would reduce crime (at least the crime its a little, or a thief who cares enough to find ciate only after living on campus for someMIT's open campus meant to cut down on - thefts by outsiders). out, is that even if the Building 56 and time. Like the freedom to opt out of a mealpolicy immediately, at But the card reader system represents no such Building 66 card reader entrances were kept plan. Or the fact that there's no limit on theleast not at first. It's solution. 'secure, anyone can simply travel a little fur- number of cla ses you can take after your

one of those things that you kind of come to Its current implementation, for one thing, ther (say, to the Infinite Corridor) to find an fre~hman year. And the fact that nobodyappreciate over time when you see its bene- is absolutely pathetic. The card reader on one open entrance to buildings. But then the only enforces the state law on underage drinking.fits. It's convenient if you like to hack or of the entrances to Building 66 isn't working real way to achieve security is to seal off These freedoms are an important part ofeven just take long walks around buildings. It half the time, and even when it is, an adjacent every building entrance. MIT's philosophy.allows students and activities to work in door to the building is often open. At night, if That, of course, is the plan. The effect this There are few restrictions on where youheavily-trafficked areas like the Student you enter the connection between Building 56 card reader pilot plan has on crime doesn't can go at MIT, and most of us like that fact.Center at any hour almost every day of the and 66 from the north side (that is, coming really matter. If crime goes down, then peo- But at the same time, we all know that

. year. An open campus policy also makes from Building 20), you'll probably notice that pIe can make the argument that the card read- there's a trade-off there when it comes toclassrooms available to students for use at the loading dock' right next to the door is ers are doing their job. If crime goes up or security. We have people trespassing, andnight to do problem sets or invite friends to wide open and lit, practically inviting people doesn't change significantly, then the need we have thefts; just look at the police log.watch movies. . to come inside. The loading dock entrance for card reader security should be all the more But the process of moving toward a closed

Unfortunately, MIT's open campus also takes you right into the ground floor of evident. campus is h'appening before our eyes, andallows trespassers and potential thieves to Building 56. And the cost we have to pay is a campus MIT has to ask itself now if that's what wewalk in off streets and into buildings. In Of course, from the perspective of pro mot- that is no longer open. Sure, the people who want. I'd guess that Glavin and other securi-recent years MIT has been slowly but quite ing an open campus, I don't mind that these are allowed to get in to places will have their ty promoters would say yes. But the rest ofsurely tightening its control of buildings, mak- buildings are as open as ever. But it is telling MIT Cards programmed to let them it, and us, who don't want to see MIT locked up,ing MIT less and less of an open campus. that things remain the same while MIT Card probably most buildings will still be open to say no.

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hired the Pro idence law firm ofCorrente, Brill, and Kusinitz toinvestigate his death. Lam, a firstyear graduate tudent in the chem-istry department, died in February.'Lam was found unconscious on thefloor of his laboratory and died twodays later at Massachusetts GeneralHospital.

A fmal coroner's report has yetto be released, frustrating attemptsto determine the cau e of death.Harvard's Environmental Health

_and Safety division investigation ofthe death said that 'there appearedto be no chemicals or other hazardsthat were in use at the time," saidthe EHS director Hugh Joseph

. Griffin.Tests indicated that Lam's body

contained sodium azide, a com-pound that he used in his experi-ments. Professor of OrganicChemistry Elias J. Corey, whotaught Lam, said that such a conclu-sion, if confrrmed, would be "verystrange" because the compoundwould have to be ingested to enterthe bloodstream.

Corey said that the had heardsuggestions that Lam might havsuffered a stroke. "A deep downmedical problem is the only expla-nation that makes sense to me," hesaid.

Friends of Lam said that he was"e.xtremely kind and gentle."

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Eight month ago DartmouthCollege derecognized Beta Theta Pi,citing violations of an earlier agree-

_ment prohibiting the use of alcoholand chasing and attacking a memberof another fraternity.

The Beta house has been vacantsince December. It is slated to re-open during the winter after renova-tion being done now are complet-ed.

everal months ago the Betaalumni corporation invited severalparties, including Dartmouth, tolease the house. A Beta spokesmanpreviously told The Dartmouth thatthe Beta corporation decided tolease the house because maintainingthe house had become a financialdrain.

Lee Pelton, the dean of the col-lege, said that Dartmouth hadoffered to lease the house but thatthe offer had been rejected. Peltonsaid in December that if the Betacorporation offered to sell thehouse, the College would attempt tobuy it.

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John Hopkin University tu-dent Rob rt Harwood Jr. wa en-

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in the shooting death of fellow tu-dent Rex Chao.

Hi defen e attorney read a letterto the court in which Harwoodexpre sed remor e for killing hi"dear friend." Harwood, who wasvaledictorian of his high schoolclass and received a scholarship toattend Hopkins, will be eligible forparole in 20 years.

hao and Harwood were friendsuntil hao met uzanne Hubbard,who played the flute in theUniversity's orchestra. Harwoodwas reportedly upset by the relation-hip.

To try to prevent Chao frombecoming the president of theCollege Republicans, Harwood cir-culated a pamphlet accusing him ofusing drugs and committing exualassault. The club dismissed thecharges and elected Chao.

After the meeting, Harwood fol-lowed Chao to a grove of trees. Hepulled out a .handgun and shotChao in the back of the head. Hethen flipped Chao over with hisfoot and fIred another shot into hischest.

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As of 6:30 p.m. yesterday, onlythree requests for house changeshad been received by RCA com-pared with several dozen a year ago,Bernard said.

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Others weren't as happy. "I IiMacGregor, but I got Burton-ConTle'instead," said Wai Kit Kah '01.

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choice for every lot available in thedormitory. In the least requesteddorm, Ea t Campu ,0.35 tudentrequested the dormitory for everyslot open.

Only four dormitories were over-subscribed this year compared withfive last year.

Over the last few year , demandfor ingle-sex McCormick Hall hadwindled. This year 100 studentsranked it first, compared to 225 twoyears ago. The total number offemale in the freshmen class hasnot changed significantly during thistime.

Lottery runs smoothlyEven with the change to the new

optimization scheme, the lotteryprogram ran extremely smoothly,Bernard said.

Beginning at around 8:30 a.m.yesterday, the program was run about10 times, with different parameters"to get the best results possible."

Initially, some freshmen werebeing assigned to their fifth choicedormitories, but this was eliminatedby changing the numbers passed tothe program, Bernard said.

Almost all freshmen receivinglottery assignments were placed

. through the lottery, including those'seeking assignments with a room-mate and those with medical con-cerns. "We try to make very fewmanual changes," Bernard said.

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rent residents of particular-dormito-ries have no say in the process. "It'sa pure lottery," Bernard said.

Once the lottery had completedrunning, it was transferred back intothe froshpref program on Athenaand' released at approximately 4:30p.m., said Andy Oakland, a pro-

- grammer for Information Systemswho coordinates the running of thelottery on Athena.

Unlike other Athena-based lot-teries, the housing lottery programalso e-mails the results to freshmen.The goal of the response system was"to make it as easy as possible tb gettheir assignments," Oakland said.

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acGregor, cCormick favoritesThe traditionally oversubscribed

dormitories McCormick Hall andMacGregor House were again themost overcrowded dormitories thiyear.

This year, 1.59 students request-ed McCormick Hall as their first

expected due to a slow ru h at fra-ternities, ororitie, and independentliving groups.

Ru h is "a little slow," said ealH. Dorow, assi tant dean forResidence and Campus Activitiesand advi or to F ILGs.

"I'm till optimistic that we'll bein the range where we want to bewhen Ru h i over," Dorow said.Rush will conclude tomorrow.evening, he said.

If the number of crowded roomsstays at 150, many singles in Ea tCampus will be doubles, and dou-

, bles in Baker Hou e, ew Houseand ext House will be triples.

However, Bernard expects thelevel of crowding to decrease some-what following the end of the lottery."I'm sure there are people who playtheir bid," he said. They're waitingfor the results of the lottery, he said.

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ter performance of this year' fre h-men may have been the ab en ofa time taken statistic, which mayhave encouraged pa t year ' te t-taker to rush through the examina-tion neglecting accuracy, Enderaid.

" tudents didn't g t the impres-ion they were being clocked,"

Ender aid.In addition, the phy i problem

given to last year' class at the endof the diagnostic a a pilot projectfor a physics examination weretaken out.

'That could have taken some ofthe pre UTeoff orne of the studentas well," Enders said.

Students who do poorly wereadvised to attend Math Review

ights starting September 3, Enderssaid.

Students who score lower than55 on the math diagnostic are alsoadvised to register for 8.0 I L, theversion of Physics I that extendsthrough the Independent ActivitiesPeriod, Enders aid.

Students who know now thatthey might benefit from taking thelonger version 8.01 are encouragedto enroll in 8.01 L now instead ofswitching from 8.01 to 8.01 L laterin the term, said George S. F.Stephans, research scientist and theinstructor for 8.01 L.

The first few weeks of thecourse are spent reinforcing basicconcepts from math and physics,Stephans said. Those who switchinto 8.01 L later on miss the lectureson these important concepts,Stephans said.

Students who opt to take 8.01 Lget credit for 8.0 I. The course doesnot appear differently on their tran-scripts, Stephans said.

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ometime run into problems. Theirold profe or may be on leave,Perelman aid, making it difficult tocontact them.

"It' educationally much moreappropriate and much more u efulto [submit papers] right now,"Perelman said.

In addition to the e options, MIT.' ~Iso offers courses during

Independent Activities Period thathelp students satisfy the require-ment. Six unit courses designedspecifically to allow students to passthe Phase One requirement may al 0

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significantly on the math diagnostic.A total of 800 students, 75 percentof the incoming class, passed theexam, up from last year's figure of719 students, or 68 percent of theclass, said Associate Dean ofUndergraduate Academic AffairsPeggy S. Enders. Both classe had1060 freshmen. The average scoreon the test also rose this year, goingfrom 76 to 80, she said. "Studentsdid better this year than last year,"she said.

Most students who scored inade-quately got fewer than 70 points outof 100, Enders said. However, a few

r tudents who scored a 70 or betterwere determined to have performedinadequately because they showedweakness on two separate sectionsof the test. A score lower than 15out of the 25 possible on a certainsection triggered an indication ofweakness in that subject, Enderssaid.

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The store 'offers a 10 percent dis-count to students who present theStudent Advantage card. CircuitCity Express is also adding comput-ers, which are normally only avail-able at full-service Circuit Citystores, to its inventory.

Circuit City Express,CambridgeSide Galleria,Cambridge (252-0022). A free shut-tle departs from Kendall Squareseveral. times an hour, call 621-8666 for a schedule. Ope'; Mondaythrough Friday, J 0 a.m. to 9:30p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.,and.sunday 11 a.m. to 7p.m.

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