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National Marrow Donor Databasecontains very few donors from theseethnicities; minority leukemiapatients hoping for a bone marrowtransplants are, as a result, at a dis-advantage.

The drive's organizers encour-age as many people in the aboveethnicity groups as possible to par-ticipate: "We are hoping to getmaybe one hundred minority stu-dents signed up" said Daniel Kwon'02, one of Li's roommates fresh-man year.

The drive is funded in part bythe Cammy Lee Leukemia Founda-tion, which is sponsoring the minor-ity testing. Only a small portion offunding will be used to test cau-casians. According to Kwon, "non-minority students who are interestedin donating should bring 'theirminority friends" to increase their

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By Aurora SchmidtS7ifFF REPOR7ER

Richard P. Simmons, a memberof the class of 1953 has pledged $20million for the construction of thenew undergraduate residence.

Simmons and his wife Dorothydecided to make the donationbecause they believe that MIT mustgive more importance to the issuesof the quality of life for undergradu-ates.

Mr. and Mrs. Simmons hope tohelp improve the support systemsfor students. He said, "MIT studentsare intense, competitive andextremely bright. They need oppor-tunities to interact socially on cam-pus and meet faculty outside theclassroom. The new dormitoryshould be an important first step inthat direction."

Campus reaction enthusiasticJennifer A. Frank '00, president

of the Dormitory Council, is alsohappy to hear of the Simmonsdonation. "It's really encouragingto hear that there are people thatthink student life is importantbeyond the scope of just acade-mics," Frallk said. Simmons' ges-

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Minority Donors SoughtFor Bone Marrow DriveBy Sonali MukherjeeSTAFF REPORTER

A letter written by David X. Li'02 which appealed for help fromthe Institute community was pre-

sented,Deatu¥e appropriately.11 l I I enough, at-------- the HMITCares" rally on October 30th. Li,who sufferes from a form ofLeukemia, entreated the campus toparticipate in a bone marrow drivethat would add more marrow donorsto the national and international reg-istries and possibly help him orother cancer patients.

The bone marrow drive will beheld on Friday, November 19, 1999in the Bush Room (l0-105) from 10a.m. to 4 p.m. This drive is aimedtowards finding minority donors,such as Asians and Pacific Islanders,African-Americans, Latinos, NativeAmericans, and mixed races. The

Michael V. Trupiano '00, presi-dent of the IFC said that the councilagreed to yield coritrol of the case tothe dean's office at their request.

Bates said that the dean's officedecided to hear the case because the

in finishing the semester.

Investigation handled by deansThe investigation and sanctions

relating to this incident were han-dled by a dean's office panel ratherthan by the Interfraternity Council.

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SAE lost the dormitory Iisence for 484 Beacon Street in October.

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reorganization at SAE, and he saidthat the "local alumni have controlof the chapter" in deciding to reor-ganize.

Those expelled upperclassmenwill be provided with housing onthe same terms as other MIT upper-classmen but are unlikely to receiveassignments because there isn'tenough capacity to guarantee themrooms in dormitories.

Second board hearing todayMIT's announcement was made

in preparation for today's hearingbefore the licensing board. OnOctober 28, the board suspendedSAE's license at 484 Beacon streetand announced that they wouldinvestigate the fraternity's licenseat 480.

Bates'said MIT's action willhave an impact on the board but didnot speculate on which direction itmight push the body. When MITfailed to recognize Phi GammaDelta after the death of Scott S.Krueger' 01, t~e board revokedFiji's dormitory license.

If SAE is able to maintain a resi-dence license the deans' rulingleaves open the possibility that a"new relationship between SAE andMIT might be established, but notearlier than fall 2001."

Such a relationship wouldrequire resolving details such as thefinancial relationship between MITand SAE, but Bates said that MIT'sfirst priority is to meet "its regulato-ry obligations" and'to assist students

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Arjun Narayanswamy '03 advances against an opponent from Boston University in a men's sabredual during a New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference tournament held Saturday after-noon in Johnson Athletic Center.

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SAE's hearing before the BostonLicensing Board today may be amere formality - MIT yesterdaywithdrew recognition of the embat-

'i tIed fraternity, effectively ending itspresence on campus.

The action of a dean's officepanel against Sigma Alpha Epsilon

t comes in response to a Septemberincident in which an underageWellesley student was allegedlyserved alcohol at the fraternity's

.1 house.As a result of the ruling SAE

may no longer house freshmen;.t' those currently living at the house

will be moved into Institute hous-ing, according to Margaret R. Bates,dean of students.

In addition to action taken by thedeans, the fraternity's local alumniboard has reorganized the chapteraround the pledge class, expellingall members of the fraternity cur-rently living in the house.

The fraternity's representative,'. Carl K. King '65, had promised a

membership review at the. house'slast appearance qefore the board onOct. 27. King said in a statement

., . released yesterday that the alumniof the chapter voted "not only not toreinstate the upperclassmen, but to

(t ask each and every one of them tovacate the chapter house at his earli-est convenience."

Manager of Media Relations at ."I SAE National, Benjamin Lewis,

said that he was not aware of the

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and remorse that' we have reviewedour own actions and decisions in theface of the assault on Srebrenica,"Secretary General Kofi Annanwrites in the report. "Through error,misjudgment and an inability to rec-ognize the scope of evil confrontingus, we failed to do our part to savethe people ,of Srebrenica from theSerb campaign of mass murder."

The ISS-page report provides achilling play-by-play. On July 6,1995, as Bosnian Serb forces begantheir assault on the town, seniorU.N. commanders rejected appealsfrom the Dutch peacekeepers forNATO air support. The U.N.'s local ~officer also refused to releaseweapons to the Bosnian Muslims todefend themselves.

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UNSCOM, which was charged withrooting out and destroying Iraq'sprograms to develop nuclear, chem-ical and biological weapons.'"Saddam's decision to expel the'inspectors followed a series of con-frontations over giving them access....to sensitive government SItes andled to several days of U.S. cruisemissile attacks. _

Under the so-called Anglo-.-Dutch proposal favored by theClinton administration, Iraq wouldhave to permit the return of aninspection team and demonstrate its «.,willingness to disarm before sanc-tions could be suspended., Russia,by contrast, had argu'ed 'for afar ...more lenient standard that essential-ly would have suspended the sanc-tions as soon as inspectionsresumed ...

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"Srebremca was the greatest col-lective failure of the West since the1930s," Richard C. Holbrooke, theU.S. ambassador to United Nations.and the architect of the DaytonPeace Accords that ended theBosnian war, said in an i'nterview."I'm very pleased the U.N. is mak-~ing an effort to come to terms withone of the great disgraces of theinternational system." , .,

The report, however, says theblame is not the, United Natipns'alone. It says the IS-nation U.N.'Security Counci I was the chieParchitect of policies toward Bosniathat were doomed to fail. .

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A fter concessions from theUnited States, however, France inrecent weeks has signaled its will-ingness to accept the American-backed proposal. Originally floatedby Britain and the Netherlands, theplan envisions susp,ending - butnot lifting - sanctions after anunspecified period of Iraqi compli-ance. The Security Council wouldhave to vote to continue the suspen-sion every 100 days, so the UnitedStates would be able to reimposesanctions unilaterally by vetoing acontinued suspension.

U.S. officials say they expectRussia to follow France's leadrather than risk being isolated on thecouncil. China traditionally has fo!-lowed Russia's guidance on mattersrelating to Iraq.

"We've broken through theshell," said a senior StateDepartment official in discussingthe negotiations, which resumeTuesday in New York among thefive permanent council members.The official acknowledged that suc-cess is not yet assured. Nor is itclear that the resolution would be .accepted by Saddam, who thus farhas refused to allow the resumption

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Nearly a year after Iraqi leaderSaddam Hussein ejected interna-tional arms inspectors from hiscountry, members of the U.N.Security Council are nearing agree-ment on a resolution 'that could leadto the resumption of inspectionsaimed at preventing Baghdad fromacquiring illegal weapons, U.S. andallied offiCials said Monday.

The Clinton administration hasbeen trying for months to find a for-mula under which Saddam wouldallow inspectors to return to Iraq. Ifthe Iraqis cooperate with the inspec-tors, the Security Council thenwould suspend the nine-year-oldtrade sanctions that have shatteredthe Iraqi economy and barred thecountry from using its oil revenuesto purchase anything other thanfood and humanitarian supplies.

Russia and France had pushedcompeting proposals that would bemore lenient in interpreting Iraq'sdisarmament obligations under thecease-fire that ended the 1991Persian Gulf War. As permanentmembers of the U.N. SecurityCouncil - along with the UnitedStates, Britain and China - Russia

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Accepting a measure of blamefor the deaths of thousands ofBosnian Muslims, the UnitedNations Monday issued a long-awaited report that says U.N. offi-cials appeased and unwittingly abet-ted Serb forces who overran thetown of Srebrenica and massacredmany of its residents in July 1995.

The extraordinary admissionresults from an internal in~estiga-tion, based on U.N. archives andinterviews with more than 100 offi-cials, into the fall of Srebrenica,which the United Nations haddeclared a "safe area" and placedunder the protection of ISO Dutchpeacekeeping troops.

"It was with the deepest regret

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WASHINqTON

The Supreme Court reentered the conflict over prayer in schoolfor the first time in eight years by announcing Monday that it wouldrule on whether students may lead prayers over the public addresssystem at football games.

Since 1962, when the high court first banned organized prayer inthe classroom, the topic of religion in public schools has stirred politi-cal passion on both sides. Disputes over invocations at football gameshave been building in various parts of the country, and Monday theSupreme Court agreed to hear a Texas school district's appeal of afederal court ruling declaring such prayers unconstitutional. .

Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Republican presidential front-run-ner, and officials in eight other states have pressed the high court tooverturn the ruling.

Gena Foster, 34, was racing to pick up her daughter at an after-school program; Shirley Henson, 40, was on her way home. Butwhen the two cars came to a stop at a traffic light on the darkenedexit ramp, Foster jumped out and started toward the immaculateblack sport-utility vehicle idling behind her. The cars had been play-'ing cat-and-mouse for the last four miles.

Inside the Toyota 4-Runner, Henson reached into the console nextto the seat, where she kept a .38-caliber revolver and a cell phone. AsFoster approached her door, Henson lowered the window abouthalfway and reached for the revolver. She fired a single shot, strikingFoster in the left cheek. Foster crumpled to the pavement, bloodgushing from her face, dying. Hensen spent the night in the countyjail charged with murder. Out on $SO,OOObond, she awaits a Dec. Icourt hearing.

But while the Nov. 8 killing was unprecedented in the upper-mid-dle-class community of Alabaster - consistently ranked as the safestplace in Alabama - authorities say it shouldn't come as such a sur-prise. The county's explosive growth has turned a 20-mile commuteto downtown Birmingham into a roughly hour-long ordeal of stop-and-go traffic, and guns are easily accessible.

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Bush's Competitors Gaining GroundIn GOP Presidential Race

Today: Windy and chilly. Persistent 20 mph southwesterly winds. Partlyto mostly cloudy skies. High of only 40°F ,(4°C).Tonight: More of the same. Low of 27°F (-3°C).Wednesday: Windy and chilly. Same persistent winds. Skies clearing inthe morning. High of 41°F (SOC). Low around freezing.Thursday: Eventual slowing of the winds. Slow warming. Mostly clearskies. High in the upper 40s (8-10°C). Low in mid 30s (I-3°C).Friday and Beyond: Warming back to normal temperatures - high inlow SOs (I 0-12°C), low in the upper 30s (2-4°C).

CLEMSON, S.C.

After months of leading the GOP field by a margin so large thathe could barely see his closest competitor, George W. Bush is con-fronting an intensified challenge from his two principal remainingrivals.

From one side, Arizona Sen. John McCain has surged in the criti-cal first primary state of New Hampshire - to the point where someanalysts believe he could pass Bush in the polls by the time Bushdebates his opponents for the first time Dec. 2. From the other, SteveForbes on Monday launched a long-awaited television advertisingcampaign - which, while notable for not attacking Bush, does aimto help Forbes peel away conservative votes from the Texas gover~nor.

These new pressures come after more than a month in whichBush, though campaigning steadily, has kept a relatively low profile.He offered only a single policy speech that attracted little attention,skipped two debates in New Hampshire and stumbled in a confronta-tional interview with a Boston television reporter.

LOS ANGELES TIMES

By Greg LawsonSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

The synoptic picture for New England is dominated by a large, healthylow pressure system centered over northern Maine, both at the surface andaloft. If the lows at different levels are viewed as separate entities, they aresaid to be "locked" - held stationary because neither is in a position to helpmove the other along. But regardless of how you choose to interpret it, thecolumnar structure will be slow to move out of the region, meaning that cur-rent conditions will be persistent. Winds go counter-clockwise ("cyclonical-ly" in the Northern Hemisphere) around a low pressure center. This meansthat the low is bringing in air from over the ocean, thr"ough the CanadianMaritimes and Quebec, eventually down to us. Expect strong, chilly, south-westerly winds. Because of the fetch over the ocean, the air will be some-what moist as well. This "wrap-around" moisture will bring most of easternCanada and even New Hampshire cloudy skies and possible snow showers.We should remain flurry-free while enjoying only partly cloudy skies.

Once the low is finally pushed off to sea, a large high pressure systemwill take its place. Though the skies will be less cloudy, the chilly winds

, will remain. Look for a return to more seasonal temperatures by Friday.

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Turkey Urged to Improve Rights

.Sino-U.S. Relations ExpectedTo Become Hot Campaign Item

Supporters of China's entry intothe World Trade Organization on~onday predicted congressionalapproval next year, but opponents ofthe deal vowed an all-out fight, vir-tually ensuring that Sino-U.S. rela-'~ons will become an issue in nextyear's presidential and some con-gressional campaigns., One indication, just hours afterthe announcement in Beijing of anagreement between U.S. andChinese negotiators: Gary Bauer

• ':..nd Steve Forbes, two contendersfor the Republican presidentialnomination, rene~ed their disap-proval of letting China in the WTO.1 Joining them, John Sweeney,president of the AFL-CIO~ called"the fevered rush to admit China to.tpe WTO a grave mistake" and saidorganized labor "will fight it."

President Clinton kicked off afive-day visit to Turkey on Mondayhy prodding this key NATO ally toimprove its record in three areas thathave received considerable criticismfrom the United States and Europe:

"as record on human rights, its rela:..tions with Greece and its treatmentof its Kurdish minority.

; '\ Clinton, addressing the Turkishparliament,' leavened his commentsby acknowledging Turkey hasimproved its human rights recordcmd stressing his support for itsapplication to .join ,the EuropeanUnion. The IS-nation EU, which~as opposed .the application largely.;)''because. of l'urkey's p60~r stipp6iT'for human :,:i&otS; '{sexp'ected :to r

grant' c'andidate membership .status't+1 Turkey'-afnext month's'summit. .. ,

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NEWSDAY

Reaching a major milestone in the science of human genetics, aninternational consortium of researchers has determined the sequenceof an entire human chromosome, the first to be finished under themassive Human Genome Project.

The much-anticipated feat paves the way for similar announce-ments in the months to come as research centers around the worldattempt to sequence the entire human genetic blueprint, including 3billion base pairs of DNA, by the year 2003. A completed blueprinl,scientists say, will provide critical information in diagnosing, treat-ing, and ultimately curing a wide range of genetic-based diseases.

Chromosome 22 - which includes genes implicated in leukemia,breast cancer and mental retardation, among others - is the first fin-ished section of that blueprint, experts say.

"I would say that it's a milestone in the knowledge of ourselves,"said Adam Felsenfeld, a staff scientist at the National l-{umanGenome Research Institute in Bethesda, Md. "It's the first indicationthat a chromosome can be assembled, and that we can understand ourhuman inheritance."

The achievement will be formally presented at news conferencesscheduled in Washington and London on Dec. I, and in a major sci-en t i fi c j 0 urn a I the foil 0 win g day, accor din g to B ruc e Roe, aUniversity of Oklahoma researcher who led the American effort.

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International Effort SequencesFirst Human Chromosome, 22

Police Chase Bystanders Have NoPath for Recourse, Against Injury

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Motorists and bystanders who are injured or killed because ofreckless high-speed police chases cannot sue the police for their dam-ages, under a ruling the Supreme Court let stand o'n Monday.

The justices turned away appeals from four Southern Cal iforniaaccident victims who were badly injured when they were struck bycars fleeing the police.

They claimed the police were reckless for pursuing cars at highspeed through the Los Angeles area, and therefore, should be held atleast partly responsible for their injuries. The court was told thatroughly 300 Americans die each year as a result of high~speed policepursuits, about as many as who die in police shootings.

But the California Legislature, and now the federal courts, haveclosed the door to claims for accident victims.

Gabriel Torres, a road repair worker, was returning home in theearly morning hours along the I-tollywood Freeway when he wasstruck by a car traveling 130 miles per hour. The vehicle was beingchased by California Highway Patrol officers, but the driver escaped.

Torres was thrown from his car and suffered multiple injuries. Hewas blinded in one eye and has had numerous operations to recon-struct his nose and cheek bones.

In the second accident, Noni Onossian, a former fashion -model,I was struck ,by a c~r fleeing police at 70 mph in \yest Hollywood. She

and her husband and another relative we're all badly injured.Under California law, the police are shielded from lawsuits grow-

ing out of police chases or the operation of emergency vehicles.

and Iran. Despite Clinton's humanrights remarks, Turkish officialsseemed pleased to host the coun-try's longest visit ever by a U.S.president.

Human rights groups say dissi-dents and journalists continue to beintimidated and tortured by policeand officials in Turkey. In its mostrecent report on human rights, theState Department said that "extraju-dicial killings, including deaths indetention from the excessive use offorce, 'mystery killings,' and disap-pearances continued" despite a 1998pledge by the Turkish governmentfor improvements.

Pr.esident Suleyman Oemirel,who met with Clinton before thespeech and later hosted a:state.din- ,n~r for him,:'acknowleogedJhaf tor-.ture remains a problem. "There istorture," Demirel told reporters."But torture is not state 'policy ....We are doing everything we can tomake sure that there is not torture."

work for its ratification, includingGM and the Business Roundtable.

"If the agreement is one thatAmerican business can support, andif China reaches agreement with theother WTO members, the U.S.chamber will launch a major lobby-ing campaign" to back the agree-ment, said Thomas J. Donohue,president of the U.S. Chamber ofCommerce.

The issue is not likely to figuremuch in the Democratic contest forthat party's presidential nomination,since both Vice President Al Goreand former Sen. Bill Bradley sup-port free trade.

Not so on the GOP side. Thematter could prove nettlesome forTexas Gov. George W. Bush andSen. John S. McCain of Arizona.Both support free trade. But at atime when each is courting partyconservatives, backing the WTOagreement may not sit well.

. Such odd-couple alliancesnotwithstanding, Congress is widelyexpected to endorse the 'agreement.

"I'm predicting it right now: Wewill succeed," said Rep. DavidDreier (D-Calif.) an influentialWTO champion who chairs theHouse Rules Committee.

House Majority Leader DickArmey (R-Texas) said he wanted toreview the agreement in detail, butadded that China's membership inthe WTO would represent "signifi-cant progress for both nations."Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott,R-Miss., took a slightly more guard-ed stance, saying he wanted toreserve judgment.

But Dreier had no doubt aboutthe outcome in Congress."Republicans have traditionallystood for free ttade," he said.

A number of corporations andbusiness alliances endorsed theagreement and said they would

progress in deepening democracy athome," Clinton said in a speech inthe Grand National Assembly."There is still far more to be done torealize the promise of the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights." Hesaid he looks forward to a "brighterfuture" for Turkey and its neighborsin which "women are treated with

'equal respect" and there is "a grow-ing respect for human rights."

Clinton met with Turkish offi-cials on the first full day of a IO-daytrip to southern Europe that will alsotake him to Greece, Italy, Bulgaria,Macedonia and Kosovo. Later thisweek, he goes to Istanbul for a 54-nation security conference that isexpected"to be attended by Russian'President:Boris V,eltsin as .well as I

senior'European leaders," His .stop'jin -Anl<::irar!s'aimed at:'

demonstrating 'U:S: support for thisstaunchly secular Muslim country, avital U.S. ally bordered on its south-ern and e~stern flanks by SYTia, Iraq

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Jane Maduram andGayani Tillekeratne

"ARGH! 15 DAYS LEFf!" ;"Tomorrow morning, around 3 a.m., should

you happen to walk around the first floor ofEast Campus, this is what you will hear.Should you happen to live there, you knowthat this is not an isolated incident, but, rather,an ongoing ritual of questionable purpose.Why?

At MIT, time as we knew it has no rele-vance. Old landmarks of time, such as defin-ing a day by the rising and setting of the sun,are trivialized by the fact that we now get upat noon and sleep at 5 a.m. Days flow intoeach other and out again with no concreteseparation to distinguish them. Once, a longtime ago, we defined seasons by the week inwhich we crammed for fi na Is, but in aschool where every exam feels like a final,we should have gone through 10 seasons bynow. Time, of course, in the normal sense,goes on. Watches tick and alarm clocks ring,

Before MIT we could take holdof an afternoon and claim it

wholly as our own) but now wefind ourselves trying to chase

morsels of time and losing.

Living in aNon-time

Zone

but the actual meaning of such words ashour, second, and minute have been distort-ed.

Before MIT we could take hold of an after-noon and claim it wholly as our own, but nowwe find ourselves trying to chase morsels oftime and losing. For example, last Saturday,our friends and we were doing problem sets inThe Coffeehouse when one of us suddenlylooked at the clock. She gasped, and pointed,so we all turned around. To our horror, werealized that we had spent the whole Saturdayon problem sets and that there were only 2minutes of Saturday left. "Party!" one of usscreamed. "Party before it's too late!" Wethrew down our books and endeavored to finda way to party for two minutes before Sundaycame. One of us gave up. And slept.

Before, we had more than enough time tospare. We could, as it were, afford to leavethe Play-doh of time in their little boxes. Wecould allot whole boxes to things like sleep-ing, eating, and playing. Now, we find thatwe need one-sixteenth of a box for this or thatproblem set, but we also need the same one-sixteenth of the box to studying for the nextday's exam. Time simply won't fit into ourboxes, or our concrete landmarks, or ourproblem sets, for that matter. The one-six-teenth of the box that we predicted our prob-lem set would take soon expands to takingtwo boxes. We are forced to take time out ofthe boxes we put it into, face the week as awhole, and do everything together. Time,comes out of its little yellow Play-doh boxes,and the colors blend. We live life.

Physics by itself, we think, is boring, andpartying, by definition at least, should beinteresting, so we blend them. To staycoherent at 4 a.m. while doing 8.0 I problemsets, we laugh at our caffeine jitters, laughout ways to torture physics teachers, andthen laugh some more. A friend of ours [theone who slept] said, "We like the way youguys laugh all the time. Why?" We respond-ed, "It's better than crying."

So we decided that in honor of life, wewould invent our own concrete landmark ofa day. Every morning, at 3 a.m., one of us[the one who is more awake] stands up infront of our door, which has a countdown ofdays until finals. Wringing her hands andgroaning, she lists the problem sets, exams,and other obstacles we had to survive, exor-cizing the demons, as it were, of that day.We place our collective feelings from theday on the number, and the narrator says,"This morning, there were n days. Now,there are n-l days." Screaming in a primalrelease of frustration, accomplishment, hap-piness, and hatred, we obliterate the num-ber.

Come. Scream with us.Jane Maduram and Gayani Til/ekeratne

are members oj the class oj 2003.

jects, within spitting distance of a decayingschool system?

Everywhere, horizon-searchers neglectwhat lies at their feet. Some think that theonly remedy is a renewed attention to imme-diate details - a crackdown on the present, ifyou will. The authors 'of Fixing BrokenWindows, a book on policing immediatelyadopted as dogma by Rudy Giuliani, posit that"broken windows breed disorder" - the 'wayto tackling large, out-of-control problems likerampant crime is to respond to every smalldisturbance, every broken window, with what-ever it takes to make sure there are no morebroken windows.

It's a neat freak's delight - everythingand everyone in his place. The small thingsattended to, the large things thus made possi-ble. It's a bit extreme. It's not quite what Imean.

Yes, the small should be taken care of,just not necessarily with overwhelmingfo'rce. MIT, which claps its hands sodelightedly anticipating groundbreaking forBill Gates's building, should certainly havea campus bereft of fogged-up windows andblinky lifts. Fascist emergency-responseteams are not needed; a reasonable, pragmat-ic mindset is. The sorts of problems I havein mind are the ones anyone with a few min-utes and a few dollars should be able tosolve.

I prefer the example of the New Yorksubway. In the 1980s, New York CityTransit inaugurated a new graffiti-controlmeasure -any car found to have graffitiwould be removed from service, c1ean~d,and put back on the rails within 24 hours .The result was dramatic. In 1985, the sub-way was a rolling hodgepodge of paint; in1995, and continuing today, graffiti can't befound anywhere. Whether you like graffitior not is not the point - the point is that thesubway decided on a policy and then impJ.e-mented an effective, reasonable means toimplement it.

.Can't MIT do the same thing? Can't wethink about raising $1.5 billion at the sametime as we think about how we might finallybe able to grow a lawn in the East Campuscourtyard? In a world of big plans, it's all tooeasy to ignore the day-to-day small plans;that's how we get potholes and burnt-outlightbulbs and broken door locks. But this isMIT. We can figure it out.

OPINION

Tackling slnall) sin1plisticproblen1swhile ignoring themajor challenges facing the

area !'vill not make Boston andsurrounding communities more

affordqble and more livable.

This could be worse. "Walk This 'Way"may be a doomed, misguided program, but atleast its heart is in the right place. A few signshere and there is very much preferable to aGuiliani-style crackdown on any pedestrianstepping off the curb a. mere nanosecondbefore the signal flashes "Walk".

The same cannot be said for the secondprogram announced by the city making head-lines last week. This second effort is a viciouscrackdown - and college students are clearlyin the city's crosshairs. ,

Boston recently received' a grant from theGovernor's Highway Safety.Bureau andannounced the money .would be used to targetalcohol use among college students inAllston-Brighton. The grant, part of the ZeroTolerance Policy on underage drinking in thatneighborhood, will be used to operate an addi-

punch cards don't have perpetually hissi,ngventilation systems. (Is it any wonder thatonly a couple of decades after first being built,NE43 's companion building is being totallygutted and refurbished?)

The Student Center, half in sunlight andhalf in shade during the day, has a single ther-mostat. The sunny side gets too much heat;the shady side, never enough ..

The Tang Hall bathrooms are windy,despite their placement in the building's core. '

Kresge Oval has a huge gash. It appearedsuddenly and w~thout warning.

Badminton and volleyball players have inthe past been blinded'by Rockwell Cage'sinadequately-curtained windows.

Birds fly around within Walker. One notedpundit has hypothesized the presence of birdfeces in and among Walker's acclaimed lunchofferings.

Can we trust MIT with its big plans -overhauling housing, a capital campaign, newconstruction on Vassar Street east and w~st-::-when it displays such an inability to masterthe mundane?

In fairness, MIT is not the only institutionto be plagued by ridiculously low-level diffi-culties. NASA has had great trouble 'with itsfleet of space shuttles; every now and then abatch of wires is found defective or a drill bitis detected in an engine, necessitating a costlyand embarrassing delay in the already-glaciallaunch schedule.

Amtrak this summer unvei led a swankynew advertising campaign for Acela, its newhigh-speed train between Boston, New York,and Washington. It's a campaign without aproduct, though - Acela's delayed, at leastuntil the spring. The new train sets, costingwho knows how many millions, were builtfour inches too wide ..

Even in our area ,there are a multiplicityof cases where big plans and grand ideassomehow manage to eclipse the crumblingniches that must be intact to form a coherent,'orderly society. The city of CambridgegreediJy lays plans for new developmentwhile doing nothing about low- and moder-ate-income residents being squeezed out byskyrocketing rents. The MBTA.is busydesigning two entirely new transit lines whileMaverick Station, on the Blue Line, collaps-es further into the East Boston sand. Andneed I mention the billions of dollars beingfunnelled into Boston's redevelopment pro-

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.Fixing Broken WindowsMIT Plagued by Minor, Easily Solve~ ~roblems

Boston's Pedestrian InitiativesCity Focuses on' Small) Simple Problems)Afraid to Tackle Big Issues

----------------- momentous priority, the city of Boston could tiona I patrol car, help bar owners with theMichael 1. Ring instead target the maniacal motorists who seizure of fake IDs, and place more undercov-

place pedestrians in danger. Or the city might er officers in package stores.even wish to consider insuring that all pedes- This is quite a little witchhunt. The citytrian crossing signals work, and standardize opens its purses. for prosecution, not educa-their operation. Some signals require pedestri- tion. Police officers, not alcohol counselors,ans to press the walk button. Some display are the hired guns. Indeed, the capture of poorinstructions in synchronization with the auto- souls seems to please the city, the arrest fig-mobile signals. Some just don't work. If the ures (over 150 last year and 31 since latecity of Boston chose one system, followed it, October alone) have become an end in them-and paid attention to its maintenance, perhaps selves. Alcohol abuse in the neighborhoodsome pedestrians would be more willing to may not be down, but arrests and prosecutionfollow the walk signals. are up, and that apparently is enough to keep

the city happy.Of course this program is exceedingly

unfair to students, who will'now have to toler-ate an even more pervasive Big Brother intheir personal affairs. But these actions arehardly unexpected. (A quick aside: do youthink student turnout in Allston-Brighton washeavy in this month's election?)

Aside from the targeting of students, thiswar against underage drinking is hardly themost efficient use of law enforcementresources. Alcohol-related crimes such. asdrunk driving pose significant public safetythreats, but the mere possession of alcohol by~omeone who is less than 21 years of age isnot one of these threats. Even jaywalkingseems a more serious crime.

Instead of worrying about these picayunedetails, local cities should be paying moreattention to greater issues. The region criesout for new grand visions and leadership.Tackling small, simplistic problems whileignoring the major challenges facing thearea will not make Boston and surroundingcommunities more affordable and more liv-able.

As new city councils are soon inauguratedin Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and otherarea communities, newly-elected leadersshould remember that now is the time to bebrave and bold and gather the courage to tack-le weighty political issues. Great visions andgreat ideas make great leaders, but those whoadvance small solutions are completely for-gettable.

IV

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Although local communities are riding thecrest of an amazing economic expansion,

~here are still many problems which demandaction from local governments. In fact, someof these problems are the by-products of the,roaring economy itself. Important issues suchas affordable housing and land managementmust 'be addressed so that area cities areaffordable and livable.

" Unfortunately, local governments seemunwilling to devote themselves to these largeissues. Both affordable housing and open

. ,space preservation require thought, planning,'and careful consideration. Instead, govern-ments throw out meaningless initiatives whichdo little to improve the quality of-life for area

....residents - but also require little expenditureof effort or political capital.

The city of Boston's actions'in the pastweek are a prime example of this narrowthinking. Instead of addressing major local

. issues such as the affordable housing crisis,Boston city government turned its attention to.

.Jhe trivial matters of jaywalking and und~ragealcohol use ..

Last week, the city announced a programcleverly entitled "Walk This Way," designed

. lo deter jaywalking and other forms of deviantpedestrian behavior. The program's launchincluded the .placing of humorous signsreminding pedestrians of the dangers of

r &eviant crossing behavior in twelve of thecity's most hazardous intersections. The kick-off event, covered heavily in the local media

Jast week, prominently featured MayorThomas Menino as a cheerleader for the cam-paign.

One problem with the program, besides its, '-Biversionof the attention of city leaders from

important to trivial matters, is that the pro-gram will almost assuredly be a colossal fail-

f pre. Think you can change ~ bunch of jay-walking Bostonians' attitudes with a few cutesigns? Think again. -

If pedestrian safety were suddenly a

Eric J: Plosky

As a famous fictional Scottish engin~eronce asserted, "The more' they overthink the

;'plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."Nothing better illustrates the jury-rigged

world we I~e in, the comic juxtaposition oftwenty-first century technology and nine-

.leenth-century construction methods, than therecent incident on Mass. Ave. A stalwart workcrew laying spiffy fiber-optic cables acciden-

I Jally slashed through the lines that control the77-84 crosswalk traffic light, thereby imperil-ing the lives of hundreds of twitchy-footedstudents.

Does this surprise any of us?Is it at all unusual even in the MIT cyber-

milieu that elemental physical clumsiness -1ank incompetence, from the, worst perspec-tive - is as' proudly present as ever? Do weexpect mathematical perfection, a construc-tion job flawlessly executed, whenever bull-

~rlozers happen to appear on campus? Ofcourse not. But we know from experience.

Alumnus Kenan Sahin ' 63 two weeks agodonated $100 million to an institution thatlcan't simultaneously 'operat~ both of itsStudent Center elevators ..

That can't fix the embarrassing dripping<,problem displayed by the garish, self-congrat-

ulatory concrete 'M' arch next to the MediaLab.

That is content with a pockmarked,"patched-up, orange-cone-punctuated AmherstAlley.

That has aliowed several of its dorms todeteriora'te to the point of failing fire-safety

.,standards.That is planning to build a gargantuan new

Stata Center, but put the balsa-and-plastic,model on public display for only one day,going as far as to sequester it in a room withfrosted windows between presentations to big-wigs and mucky-mucks.

.' MIT has a distinctly checkered history -and "checkered" would be viewed by many asa charitable description - when it comes toconstruction ..

• The windows in Building 34, right by the6.00 I lab, always seem to have condensationon the inside ..

.. Building NE43, in Tech Square onBroadway, was designed to look like a punchcard, right down to its sealed windows - but

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and commercial support, the only missingaspect was a method by which they coul~communicate. )

With these words as inspiration and theencouragement of their Entrepreneurship Labinstructor Kenneth P. Morse, th~ students.,worked over the summer to develop e-MIT.The group has now expanded to about 35 stu-dents who work on every aspect of the site,gaining valuable business experience. Lam'cites this involvement as another benefit of thesite. "One of the skills that people look foramong the student body is management skills,;which is not something you get a lot of practi-cal'experiences in."

The e-MIT site acts to unite the manyentrepreneurship groups on campus, includ-ing the $50K Competition and the Entrepre-neurship Center. "We didn't want to createanything that had already been done. We didnot want to replicate them but promotithem, and to connect people who areinvolved in the related groups," said Lam. I

across campus, it will also become a resourcefor the world when the site is launched to thepublic on December 4, 1999. The focus wiIIbe primarily on Cambridge, and the greaterNew England area. This connection with out-side, regional sources is especially importantconsidering that Massachusetts, after Califor-nia, has the highest number of MIT relatedjobs (125,000) and sales ($16.7 billion).

The site was envisioned by a several Sloanstudents enrolled in Entrepreneurship Lab(15.399) last spring, including Lam, Ting, andRami Habal G. The group was scheduled toprese.nt their (unrelated) class project to theBoard of Directors of the Entrepren-eurshipCenter. They arrived early, walking in on adiscussion on how to encourage entrepreneur-ship at MIT. Lam recounts "Ultimately BillPorter raised his hand and said 'All these ideasare great, but you have everything here.'"Porter, founder of E *Trade, suggested thatsince the MIT community includes scientISts,business students, experienced entrepreneurs,

E....MIT PUBliC RELATIONS

From left to right, students involved with e-MIT, Ann F. Cho G (Co-Director of Public Relations), KathrynA. Cosgrove G (Director of Content), Pan Ida Chinsupakul G (Marketing), Julian C•.Tlng G (Co-Founder~Director of Human Resources) speak to sponsor BIII.Porter, Founder of E*Trade •.

leukemia patient will more blood testing beneeded to decide if the donor is a precise match."Becoming registered doesn't mean you willbecome a donor necessarily," said Kristofek.

Once a precise match is confirmed, thedonor is informed about all the steps of theprocess, which include an extraction of fivepercent of total marrow from the donor'ship. The donor is also at liberty to refuse tocontinue the process at any point, becausethe entire donation process is completelyanonymous in relation to the patients. Onlyuntil one year after the actual transplant willthe donor and the recipient be allowed tomake contact.

Supporters say the pros of the actualsurgery greatly outweigh the cons. Donationcarries no financial burden for the donorbecause the patient's insurance covers thesurgery and the hospital stay, which is mini-'mal. Physically, all the donor feels isa bit ofsoreness after the procedure. The marrow usu-ally regenerates within a few weeks.

The result of the procedure for the recipi-ent is a chance to beat cancer. But the battleagainst the disease is by no means easy - theodds of an anonymous donor matching a ume-lated recipient are 1 in 20,000.

MIT has contributed much to Cambridgeand Boston through their community serviceprograms - This drive reaches beyond theconfines of these two cities and affects theentire nation, and possibly the entire worldwhile still possibly benefiting a member of theMIT community.

Create your Own EmploymentEntrepreneurs at MIT found e-:Mlt web portal.

Katie Jeffreys contributedto the reporting of this story.

By Katie JeffreysFEATURES EDITOR

This article is second ina series about findingemployment. Future articleswill include recruiting andinterviewing techniques.

Everyone knows thatMIT students are creative,intelligent and hardworking,three qualities which allowgraduates to be successfulentrepreneurs.

A new web portal, callede-MIT <httpJ/e-mit.mit.edul>,will assist young entrepre-neurs and start-ups in learn-ing and commun{catingabout entrepreneurship. Thesite, developed and main-tained by MIT students, willbe launched officially to theMIT community this week.Julian C. Ting G, a Co-Founder of e-MIT cites thesuccessful innovation thatcan occur "if you get anengineering or science stu-dent together with a busi-ness student with the sameinterest. If we could facili-tate that, it would make MITa much richer place."

The site's job posting section offers stu-dents of all academic disciplines the opportu-nity to find employment in new ventures. Thesite also offers many resources to help entre-preneurial minded individuals, including linksto other web sites, a digested list of recentarticles of interest, and a calendar of eventsaround the MIT and Boston communities. Inaddition, the site provides a bulletin boardstyle discussion section allowing young entre-preneurs to ask questions of experienced busi-nesspeople. "It is a resource for students toallow them to see not only what is going on,but also to see what jobs are out there." said .Co-Founder David Lam G.

The e-MlT site will also act as a facilitatorfor social events which will allow students tointeract and network on a personal level."Over time, MIT has developed many centersof excellence. Not much effort has been takenin bridging the gap between different depart-ments in the institute," said Lam.

Not only does e-MIT represent relations

"No, actually Idon't. I think there isa lot of responsibilityon the girl that gotsick. She went therewith the knowledgeof what kind of partythere would be."

Vishal Kapu '01

"Yes, if only sothey can get apart-ments in Cambridgeand have fun partieswith kegs, like at areal college."Timothy P Nolan '01

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"No. They are justpaying for the sins ofeveryone else. Whenit's all said and done,it's MIT's fault. Yougotta look at what dri-ves people to this sortof behavior."

Jerry Carr '00

"I don't think the administrationwould be so harsh on students trying tohave a little fun. Especially here at MITsince aIot of us need to enjoy our timehere more."

"N 0, they shouldn't be disbanded. Imean, I don't see what the big deal is,Trisig does that every weekend."

Vibhav S. Rangarajan '02

"I think the administration shouldleave the fraternities alone. I think that'Chuck' is a poor sport because they did-n't put him on their guest list."

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"No, things likethat happen all overthe country. Justbecause MIT is underextra scrutiny fromthe media, theyshouldn't crack downon the fraternties."

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The whole idea of becoming a bone mar-row donor may seem vague and frightening,but it "is a very simple process. Becomingregistered takes ten minutes out of your day:'said Grant W Kristofek '02, Li's other fresh-man year roommate.

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, what it represents, only afield for plain, honest work, we shallnevertheless be sure that the efforts we make are steppingstones tofuller attainment helping us all to the higher andnobler uses of our lives.

E. Gray ,54 were also Tech staffers. The paper originally consisted ofonly two columns and used paper half the size of the tabloid size paperThe Tech uses today.

On November 16, 1981 a centennial issue was published chroniclingthe history of MIT since the founding of The Tech. It noted the cyclicalpatt~~~JN~ at MIT - "~h e l~titive nature of MIT events is not0i'~~~'.tO\l.' dent populatlo ch turns over every four years. The

-, length y an ty of the work give students littleto ga' specfiy on xperiences at the Institute." Somessues .,owed from 1 were sports, quality of food, and

the fraterni m, all issues which continue to beMIT today. ~".7~!lmportant events discussed included

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On November 16, 1881, the first issue of The Tech was published. Atthe time, it was only the second newspaper ever started at the Institute,and since then, has been the only one for a majority of its existence. TheTech is also MIT's oldest organized stu ctivity. In the .ssue, theeditors wrote that the purpose of the s to "promQ 15 ofthe s~dents of the Inst~tute, an~&. friendly Klcdiifi amonbreakmg down the ancl~nt ~atp.err and deRattihent," astated that "It will open an avenue fo xpressio blic ogqygn,and will aim, in every possible way, all in to '!fir oftheir young manhood and young worn . It is hop illkeep the interests of the Institute beD graduates,them the memory 'of their Alma Mate

The first effort at creating a cam12 years after the founding of MIT,However, the paper did not last long1874. Froin then'on no attempt ~ ...,... ~,. -ceeded in producing a first issue until e ec in 1881. 1 .'st issuewas organized mostly by H. Ward Leonard, class of 1883. While he didlittle writing, he was responsible for advertising, and therefore for mak-ing the paper financially possible. The first managing board consisted of15 men, including Arthur D. Little, class of 1885, founder of the well-known consulting 'firm. Institute Presidents James R. Killian '26 and Paul

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Monday's Events

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. - Negotiating Terms of Employment. Learn about how to negoti-ate terms of employment, including compensation, with Professor Bob McKersie andLinda Stantial of the Sloan Career Development Office. Admission O. E25-117. Spon-sor: Sloan Undergraduate Management Association.8:00 p.m. - UA Council Meeting. Discuss the Institute's important issues and makeeffective change. W20-400. Sponsor: Undergraduate Association.4:00 p.m.- Smart Field Emission Arrays and Applications to Displays, Prof. Akin-tunde Aklnwande, M.I.T., EECS, MTL.Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. Open .More info: Call Prof. Peter Elias at 253-4193. Email elias@theory.lcs.mit.edu. Rm34-Edgerton Hall, 34-101.4:00 p.m. - The strategy of BJ's Wholesale Club, Mr. Herb Zarkln, BJ's WholesaleClub.Mr. Herb Zarkin, chairman of BJ's Wholesale Club, will come to MIT and give atalk about his company's strategy. Open. More info: Call xudong Gao, Iisa breede, at253.3721. Em?tl xgao@mit.edu. Rm E51-395.

Tuesday's Events

Open. More info: Call Lynne Levine at 253-0133. Emailllevine@mit.edu. Web:http://web.mit.edu/ssp/. Rm E38-615.12:10 p.m. - Evolution of the Lamont ENSO Forecast Model, Dake Chen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Open. More info: Call Markus Jochum at 3-2322. Emailmarkus@ocean.mit.edu. Web: http://www.mit.edu/-mjochum/sack.html. Rm 54-915.4:00 p.rT:\.'-:Some Practical Mathematical Tools for Computational Quantum Chern- .Istry, Yvon Maday, Laboratolre A.S.C.I.-C.N.R.S., Unlverslte Paris Sud. Open. M.oreinfo: Call Professor A.T. Patera at 253-8122. Email patera@mit.edu. Web:http://web.mit.edujsmaj. Rm 4-237.4:15 p.m. - Kazhdan-Lusztlg Polynomials and 321-Hexagon Avoiding Permuta-t~ons, Gregory Warrington, Harvard University. Refreshments will be served at 3:30PM in Room 2-349. Open. More info: Call Professor Sara Billey at 253-6544. Email.sara@math.mit.edu. Web: http://www-math.mit.eduj-combin. Rm 2-338.6:00 p.m.- Remote Sensing of Estuarine Outflow Plumes with an Airborne Imaging..Radar, Dr~David J. Mclaughlin, Northeastern Universlty.This lecture is part of the ,'.,November meeting of the Boston Chapter of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing' "Society. Open. More info: Call John Kerekes at 781-981-0805. Emailkerekes@ll.mit.edu. Rm 34-401B.

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12:00 p.m. - MIT Chapel Concert. The Alexey Shabalin String Trio. Admission O. MIl,Chapel. Sponsor: Office of the Arts.12:00 -1:00 p.m. - The Real Scoop,about MBA Admissions. Rnd out the realscoop about MBA admissions from Meg Manderson, Associate Director of the SloanMBA Admissions Office. Admission O. E51-376. Sponsor: Sloan Undergraduate Man-agement Association.7:00 - 9:00 p.m. - Close Encounters Across Cultures Rim Series: "Clando". Jean-Marie Teno's 1993 "Clando" is a cross cultural confusion which takes place inCameroon. Visiting Prof. Odile Cazenave will introduce the film. Discussion andrefreshments will follow. Admission O. Rm 4-237. Sponsor: Office of the Arts.7:00 - 9:00 p.m. - Close Encounters Across Cultures Rim Series: Clando. Jean-Marie Teno's 1993 "Clando" is a cross cultural confusion which takes place inCameroon. Visiting Prof. Odile Cazenave will introduce the film. Discussion 'andrefreshments will follow. 4-237. Sponsor: Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies.7:00 p.m. - poetry@mlt: Michael Gizzi. Sponsored by the Program in Writing andHumanistic Studies and Literature faculty. Admission O. Rm 6-120. Sponsor: Officeof the Arts.8:00 p.m. - Evlta. Musical Theatre Guild's production of the Andrew LloydWebber/Tim Rice masterpiece. $9; $8 MIT faculty and staff, senior citizens,' otherstudents; $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Admission 6.00. Sala de Puerto Rico. Spon-.sor: Office of the Arts. ,12:00 p.m. - Job Flexibility, Kathy Simons and Valerie Chu, Family Resource Center ¥ ~4,and Personnel Department. Open. More info: Call Family Resource Center at 253-1592. Email frc@mit.edu. Web: http://web.mit.edu/personnel/www/frc/. Rm 16-151:3:00 p.m. - Experiences In Interactive Expression, TBAVisiting artists who use digitalmedia and interactivity or audience partiCipation in their work, will focus in depth on onepiece', with a quick overview of his/her work, followed by discussion. Open. More info: -Web: http://cavs.mit.edu/seminarjmas879/interact.html. MIT Museum Bldg, 390.4:00 p.m. - Flames, Sound and Vortices - A Damaging Combination, Professor AnnP. Dowling, Cambridge University. Minta Martin Lecture, 4pm, Rm 34-101. Refresh-ments in 34-101 lobby at 3:30 p.m. More info: x3-3511, . Open. More info: Call Car-olyn Fialkowski at 253-3511. Email cski@rilit.edu. Rm 34-101.4:00 p.m. - Networks as Links Between Operatlons'Research and other Disciplines,Ann Nagurney, John F. Smith Memorial Professor, UMass Amherst.Refreshments tofollow in RoofTl E40-106. Open. More info: Call ~ndy Armacost at 253-7412. Emailarmacost@m!t.edu. Web: http://web.mit.edu/orcjwww. Rm E40-298.

Friday's Events

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Bon,e Marrow Drive. Bone Marrow Drive for MIT StudentDavid X. Li Targeting Minority students, faculty, and staff Friday, November 19th10 AM - 4 PM MIT Bush Room (Bldg 10, Room 10-105). MIT Bush R,oom (10-105).Sponsor:. Bone Marrow Drive: .6:00 p.m. - W.P. Carey Case Competition. Submit a case study analysis and win a150$ dinner certificate to the Top 'of the Hub! Go to http://suma.mit.edu for more'information and to register. Admission. O. 4-231. Sponsor: Sloan Undergraduate Man- .agement Association ..7:00 p.m. - Never Been Kissed. Once nerdy" Josie Grossie" (Drew Barrymore) is now25 and a copy editor at the Chicago Sun times" Her'first story - go "undercover" backto high school for the scoop on today's youth. Ad!Tlission 250. 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.7:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. - MIT An/me Club Showing. 7:00 Slayers Next 20 - 22 (sub-titled); 8:45 The Heroic Legend of Arislan: Parts 5 and 6; 11:00 Yu Yu Hakusho 11 -12 (subtitled). Free! Stop by anytime and bring your friends. E51-345. Sponsor:Anime Club, MIT.7:30 p.m. - Bullltt (1.968). Lt. Frank Bullitt (Steven McQueen) is a professional but.unorthodox detective assigned to protect a star witness. When the witness is killed,Frank must keep the death a secret to catch the killers. Admission 2.50. 10-250.Sponsor: LSC.•8:00 p.m. - MIT Concert Choir. Willfam Cutter, director. Mozart's Vesperae deDominica, K.321; Poulen~'s Gloria. Admission $5. Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor:Office of the Arts.8:00 p.m. - Evlta. Musical Theatre Guild's production of the Andrew LloydWebber/Tim Rice masterpiece. $9; $8 MIT faculty arid staff, senior citizens, otherstudents; $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Admission 6.00. Sala de Puerto Rico. Spon-sor: Office of the Arts.8:00 p.m. - Dance Troupe Fall 'Concert. All student choreographed works in varietyof dance styles, including modern, ballet, tap, jazz & funk. $5j$6 students inadvance/at the door; $6/$7 non-students in advance/at the door. Admission 5.00.Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Office of the Arts ..9:00 p.m. - Potluck Performance Art Party. AKA show+tell. Bring video, poetry, slides,anything to read, show, perform and/or consume. N52-115. Sponsor: Office of the Arts.10:00 p.m. - Never Been Kissed. Once nerdy "Josie Grossie" (Drew Barrymore) is now25 and a copy editor at the Chicago Sun times. Her first story - go "undercover" backto high school for the scoop on today's youth. Admission 2.50. 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

Wednesday's Events

7:00 - 10:00 p.m. - Screening and An Evening with the Directors of "Un sang d'en-,ere" & "Black, Blanc, Beur: parlons-en/". Films followed by discussion.led by VisitingAssoc Prof Odile Cazenave. Admission O. Rm 4-237. Sponsor: Office of the Arts.7:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Chi Alpha Campus Meeting. Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship willbe sponsoring a series on the book of Revelation at our weekly meeting. There willbe time for worship and fellowship as we study the Bible. PDR 3, Student Center.Sponsor: Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship ..10:00 p.m. - UA Committee on Housing Be Orientation Meeting. Save the residencesystem. Design the new dorm. Improve Orientation. All this is little more than anhour. Come join one of the Institute's most influential student committees. W20-401. Sponsor: Undergraduate Association.2:30 p.m. (1 hour 15 minutes) - Preparing for a Baby, Betsy Ross, L1CSW, A2ZPsychotherapy.Preregistration is required. Open. More info: Call Family ResourceCenter at 253-1592. Email frc@mit.edu. Web:http://web.mit.edu/personnel/www/frc/. Rm 16-151.2:30 p.m. - Instability of Viscous and Buoyant Miscible Fluids In Confined Geome-tries, Professor Salin Dominique, Unlverslte Paris VI. Refreshments will be servedat 3:30 PM in Room 2-349. Open. More info: Call Professor John Bush at 253-4387.Email bush@math.mit.edu. Rm 2-338."4:00 p.m. - Semiconductor Industry Productivity: Shrinks, 300mm Wafers, or Sys-tem on a Chip, Bob Helms, Texas Instruments. Refreshments in Room 34-101 at3:30 p.m. Open. More info: Call Debroah Hodges-Pabon at 253-5264. Emaildebb@mtl.mit.edu. Web: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/. Rm 34-101.4:00 p.m. - Fair, Ecclent University Admissions and Extensions, Michel Balinski,Laboratolre d Econometrle, Ecole Polytechnlque, Paris. Refreshments to follow inroom E40-106. Open. More info: Call Danielle Bonaventura at 253-3601. Email dani-bon@mit.edu. Rm E40-106.4:15 p.m.- Design of Non-axisymmetric Turbomachlnery, Dr. Tom Hynes, WhittleLaboratory, Cambridge University. Refreshments 4:15p.m. Lecture 4:30p.m. Open.More info: Call Lori Martinez at 253-2481. Email dragonl@mit.edu. Rm 31-161.4:15 p.m. - Eigenvalues, Elgenvectors, and Graph Partitioning, Shang-Hua Teng,Department of Computer Science, Unlv. of illinois at Urbana-Champalgn.Refresh-ments will be served at 3:45 PM in Room 2-349. Open. More info: Call Michael Bren-ner at 253-3661. Email brenner@math.mit.edu. Web: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/faIl99. Rm 2-105.4:30 p.m.- Islamic Fundamentalism and the Ara~lsraeli Peace Process, AhmadMoussalll, Professor of Political Science, American University of Belrut.This is apresentation of the Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar. Open. More info: CallJulianne Stilwell at 253-8961. Email stilwell@mit.edu. Rm E51-095.6:30 p.m.- Meeting the Challenge to Grow Center City America, Harvey Gantt,Martin Luther King, Jr., Visiting Professor. Lecture sponsored by the Department ofArchitecture and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Open. More info:Call Anne Simunovic at 253-4412. Email annesim@mit.edu. Rm 10-250.6:30 p.m.- Meeting the Challenge to Grow Center City America, Harvey Gantt,architect/former mayor, Charlotte, NC. Dept of Architecture lecture. Open. Moreinfo: Call Dept of Architecture at 253-7791. Rm 10-250.7:00 p.m. - Cults@MIT?, Steve Hassan, Freedom of Mind Foundation.Are therecults at MIT? Are students at risk? You be the judge! Cult awareness educator SteveHassan will inform the MIT community about destructive cults and how to avoidthem. Open. More info: Email mitaah-officers@mit.edu. Web:http://www.mit.edu/-mitaah/. Rm 54-100.8:00 p.m. - Sports Nutrition, Leah Dlagle and Beth Emery, Office of Campus Din-ing. Snacks and refreshments will be served. Closed. More info: Call Van Chu at258-0691. Email deepblue@mit.edu. Web:http://web.mit.edu/arc/tnb/tuesdays.html. Baker Dining.

5:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Opening Reception: Dean's Galiery. Theresa Dietrich: "BostonArchitecture Collages." Xeroxed 'photos of the basic forms of Boston architecturecombined with mixed media. Exhibit runs Nov 17-Jan 21, 2000. Admission O. Dean'sGallery E52-466. Sponsor: Office of the Arts.7:00 p.m. - An Evening with James Gleick~ James Gleick is the author of Genius:The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Chaos. He will be reading from anddiscussing his latest book, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything. 10-250. Sponsor: LSC.7:00 p.m. - authors@mit: Michael Lewis: "The New New Thing: A Silicon ValleyStory". In this work, Lewis finds the world's most important technology entrepreneur inJim Clark, who is about to create his 3rd billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics,then Netscape & now Healtheon. Admission O. Rm 3~101. Sponsor: Office of the Arts.11:00 a.m.- Antimonide-Based Mid-IR Semiconductor Lasers, Hong Chol, MIT, Lin-coln Laboratory. On November 3, on this Date .only, Lecture will be held in 36-428(RLE Conference Room). Open. More info: Call Erich Ippen at 253-8504. Emailippen@mit.edu. Rm ~4-Grier Room B, 34-401.12:00 p.m. - The Technology and Policy of Warhead Dismantlement, Dr. GeoffreyForden, Congressional Budget Office. Bag lunch, refreshments will be provided .

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been given in large chunks to stu-dent groups," Berk said.

Selection ProcessThis year is the first that Spring

Weekend organizers have polled thestudent body to ask what musiciansto invite to spring weekend.

The poll asks students to rank avariety of musical genres in order ofpreference, allowing students tohave a direct impact on which typesof music are performed during theweekend. The organizers hope thatpolling will result in a concert thatcaters to the tastes of a larger por-tion of MIl' students, said Dormito-ry Council President Jennifer A.Frank '00.

There is also a possibility thatthis year's Spring Weekend willincorporate more than one concert,said Frank and Heimburger.

Frank Dabek and Karen Robin-son contributed (0 the reporting ofthis story.

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Last year Busta Rhymes and the Flipmo Squad entertained audi-ences during the Spring Weekend Concert. Students will be polledthis year to help choose performers.

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better planned."

A New Funding ModelTraditionally, the President,

Chancellor, and Provost have had acombined $80,000 to distribute tovarious groups. These administra-tors no longer distribute money tostudent groups directly - half ofthis money now goes to the deansand half to student groups.

The $30,000 given to the SpringWeekend planning committeewould be drawn from the $40,000allocated to stu~ent groups.

In the past, organizers of SpringWeekend have applied for LargeEvent Funding, a conglomerate fundof UA and GSC monies. SpringWeekend has been awarded largeevent funding each year for the pastseveral years.

This year, the funding will bedistributed in one large chunk ratherthan in a series of smaller alloca-tions. "Never ~efoL~has funding ..

By Dana LevineASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The Undergraduate AssociationCouncil recently passed a bill whichwould drastically reorganize theplanning of Spring Weekend.

The bill, proposed by Jennifer C.Berk '01 and passed urranimouslyby the UA council, creates a com-mittee which is responsible for theplanning of Spring weekend.

This committee will receive$30,000 in funding from the UAand Graduate Student Council. Thecommittee would consist of repre-sentatives from the UA, the GSC,the Interfraternity Council, theAssociation of Student Activities,th"e Campus Activities ComplexProgram Board, The Tech, LectureSeries Committees, and the Interna-tional Students' Association.

"The planning process is beingoverhauled this year," said organiz-er Douglas E. Heimburger '00.Heimburger said this year's Week-end will be "better organized and

2000 and take approximately twoyears .

Plans also include constructionof a storm drain that will run alongMass. Ave. from Douglas Street toMemorial Drive. According toCity Engineer Owen O'Riordan,storm drain construction is plannedto start in January 2000 and lastapproximately nine months.

In the meantime, constructioncrews have undertaken severalsmaller projects, including somecommunications and water mainwork, to be finished by the time thestorm drain project begins.

Detailed plans have yet to bereleased for the storm drain, surfaceenhancement projects, andLafayette Square Park project haveyet to be released. Community andbusiness meetings are scheduled forthe next several weeks to discussspecific issues such as traffic man-agement issues and constructionspecifics;

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MASSIVE CONGESTION- Construction workers have been laying fiber optic cables along MassachusettsAvenue in recent days.

By David BaileySTAFF REPORTER

.... Patches of construction onMassachusetts Avenue near MIl'will continue for the next severalyears, as" the City of CambridgeDepartment of Public Works exe-cutes several improvement projects.

The projects are mainly between" MIT and Lafayette Square, around

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A surface enhancement projectwill change the face of Mass. Aveextending northward from MIl' toDouglas Street. Bike lanes begin-ning at Memorial Drive will beadded as well, and will connect toexisting lanes on Mass. Ave whichextend northwestward beyond Dou-

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Simmons wishes there had beenmore "Institute-driven" programsto help people make adjustments.He lived with people ranging frombattle-hardened WWII veterans andfresh graduates of elite highschools.

"There were no house proctors,no mentors. It wasn't a very pleas-ant experience," said Mr. Sim-mons.

The now 68-year-old alumnusserved for many years as CEO andpresident of Allegheny Ludlem, inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, beforeretiring this October. Simmonsstill serves as chair of the board.

Simmons, a trustee of MIT, hasalso given money to the his class's40th Reunion Gift and to thedepartment of Chemistry Renova-tion Campaign as well as establish-ing a scholarship fund and a profes-sorship in metal processing andmanufacturing.

for students to enjoy. The corridorswill be made wider than those ofmost dorms. An in-residence din-ing hall will also hopefully add tothe social and supportive aspects ofthe dorm,

The dormitory has been in dis-cussion and plans since the summerof 1998. It is planned to be finishedby Fall of 200 I, just in time for theimminent changes in housing sys-tems. Ground is scheduled to bebroken this winter. .

Simmons grateful to MITSimmons attributes much of his

success to his experiences as a stu-dent at MIT. In a letter to PresidentCharles M. Vest he said, "I doubtthat I would be anywhere near aswell off as I am today if it weren'tfor MIT. Was it tough? No question.Was it worthwhile? Absolutely.MIT teaches you how to think andsolve problems. It also teaches youto be humble. At MIT, you find outthere are lot of people smarter thanyou are. Those aren't bad lessonsfor life."

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