Volume 114, Number 8 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, February 22, 1994

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budgetary context and the variousinputs considered," Vest said.

At Wednesday's faculty meet-ing, two professors proposed thatthe entire faculty discuss the wayWrighton reached his decision at theMarch meeting.

Faculty Chair Robert L. Jaffehopes that the faculty committeewill be ready to give a recommenda-tion at that meeting and provide aframework for debate.

Jaffe and Vest both said that thecontroversy generated among thefaculty warranted an investigationof the facts of the incident. "Withinthe mainstream of the faculty, thosewho have read the pamphlet areeager to find out what the facts are,"Jaffe said.

Vest said, "Unfortunately, wewill need to make more such deci-sions in the future as we bring the

budget into balance. Given this needand the level of discussion in thecommunity, I thought it was anopportune time to have a facultygroup assess the process."

Jaffe agreed that a review of thecurrent process is in order. "MIT isvery bad at closing things down," hesaid. "We have to learn how to dothat better."

Lechtman disputes decisionLechtman charges that Wrighton

decided at the outset of his CMRAEreview that it should be closed, andthat he rigged the decision-makingProcess to support his decision.

In a letter to Wrighton, Lecht-man wrote, "[Wrighton's] lack ofcandor and collegiality in this deci-sion-making process corrupted the

This week, President Charles M.Vest will appoint a faculty commit-tee to review the decision to closethe Center for Materials Research inArchaeology and Ethnology.

Provost Mark S. Wrightondecided to close the center in June1993. That decision prompted Pro-fessor of Materials Science andEngineering Heather N. Lechtman,the director of the center, to write apamphlet sharply criticizing hisdecision.

Lechtman could not be reachedbecause she is on leave this semes-ter.

The committee will consist ofthree or four faculty members."Basically, they will be asked toexamine the process by which thedecision was made, including the

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By Hyun Soo KimNVEWS EDITOR

chief of Counterpoint, said that itwas in Counterpoint's "best interestto say 'no comment.' "

Martin has also filed a suitagainst Lefkowitz, a professor ofGreek and Latin, for an article shewrote in the September/October1993 issue of Measure, publishedby the University Centers for Ratio-nal Alternatives.

Martin would not specify hisobjections, but again said, "It is alibelous article and damages myreputation."

However, Martin wrote in abroadside, a distributed statement,that Lefkowitz alleged in her Mea-sure article that he called a Welles-ley student "a white, fucking bitch"and that "the young woman felldown as a result of his onslaught,and Martin bent over to continue hisrage at her." This incident of allegedverbal harassment is the same onereferred to in the Counterpoint arti-cle.

Alleged verbal harassmentThe incident occurred on Oct.

30, 1991. Martin was participating

in a Shakespeare reading in theClaflin dormitory living room atWellesley. He went downstairs togo to the restroom, and was return-ing upstairs when he was questionedby Michelle Plantec. She asked himif a residence staff worker wasaccompanying him; guests are sup-posed to be escorted when travelinginside the Wellesley dormitories.

According to an interview withMartin and Plantec in the May 1993issue of The Galenstone, a Welles-ley publication, Plantec said, "Istopped him and said, 'Excuse' me,sir, who are you with?' He looked atme and said, 'What do you mean?' Isaid 'What Wellesley student areyou with?' and at that point heexploded and called me a fuckingbitch, a racist, and a bigot, amongother things. ... After all this, hewent back into his meeting and saidthe only reason I had stopped himwas because he was black.' "

Martin, in the same interview,agrees that there was an angryexchange, but denies that he used

By Daniel C. StevensonASSOCIA TE NEWS EDITOR

Massachusetts Committee AgainstDiscrimination after she was repeat-edly denied tenure by MIT. A hear-ing was held in December, 1993,after MCAD investigators reviewedthe complaint, and Kalonji decidedto sue MIT, according to Altman.

Altman expects MIT to releasethe discovery information within 90days. He will then decide on wit-nesses and prepare for the trial."Probably a year from now there

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Gretchen Kalonji '80, a formerprofessor in material science andengineering who was denied tenurein 1991, is suing MIT for reinstate-ment as a full professor and $1 mil-lion in damages on the basis of sex-ual discrimination.

"Kalonji was denied tenure atMIT because she is a woman,"wrote Kalonji's attorney, MichaelAltman, in a complaint and jurydemand filed in U.S. District Courton Jan. 14. Kalonji was deniedtenure "despite thie fact that she is asqualified or more qualified than menwho have been tenured by herdepartment in recent years," thecomplaint said.

The suit identifies MIT and Mer-ton C. Flemings, head of the Depart-ment of Materials Science and Engi-neering, as defendants. Flemingswas unavailabe for comment. Deanof Engineering Joel Moses said hewas not able to comment about thecase because it was in court.

In June, 1991, Kalonji filed adiscrimination complaint with the

Tony Martin, a professor atWellesley College, has filed libelsuits against the MIT-Wellesleypublication Counterpoint andWellesley Professor Mary R.Lefkowitz.

Martin, a professor of AfricanaStudies, started the process of serv-ing a suit last December for an arti-cle written by Avik S. Roy '93 inthe September 1993 issue of Coun-terpoint. The article discusses a1991 incident in which a Wellesleystudent accused Martin of allegedverbal harassment.

Martin said his "lawyer is in theprocess of doing whatever has to bedone. [The suit] is against a specificarticle, the author, and the magazineitself for publishing the article."

Martin would not elaborate onwhat specifically he found libelousin the article. "It's in the process ofbeing litigated, so I can't say," hesaid. "But I found the articlelibelous and damaging to my repu-tation."

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iA *J-. 91rbitr ationllskills, the most important of which are listen-ing skills," Jansen said. "We spent a lot oftime listening to one another and learningabout .rselves.... Through -actin., each ofthe different roles in the mediation process(party, mediator, and observer) I gained valu-able insight at every angle."

The IAP class "focused on problem solv-ing instead of deciding who's right andwrongg" HIsu said.

"I think this is one of the best thingsthat's happened to MIT in a long time," Nisaid. There is the potential to do good andallow people to learn from the process, shesaid.

Rowe added that mediation is a good wayto stretch one's working comfort zones, "tobe able to mediate a really tense situation ...with a peer... is one of the best ways to edu-cate oneself' about how to interact in soci-ety.

"Negotiation is a basic skill that you haveto use all the time," Hsu said.

However, some disputes should not bemediated. "Cases of a criminal nature shouldbe taken to a more formal level," said media-tor Eckart W. Jansen G.

"By trying mediation, students do notlose any other options they may have. Theymay at any point opt to follow other routes,seek other forums, to process complaints,"said Co-coordinator Carol Orme-Johnson."Formal mediation through mediation@mitis designed to compliment, not replace, theinformal mediation that goes on all the timeon campus, through friends or graduate resi-dent tutors or faculty intervening to helpresolve disputes around them."

Orme-Johnson emphasized that media-tion@mit arbitrates "only disputes betweenstudents."

"It's nice to have peers work with peerswith conflicts," added Susan Allen.

A system still in progressMediation@mit has been in the works for

the past two years. The organizers wanted to

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"keep alive the idea that ... you can resolvedisputes at the lowest level" before bringingthe case to Committee on Discipline orUeans, said Aaary E. Ni, mediator and Assis-tant Dean of Residence and Campus Activi-ties.

The program developed as part of theharassment policies and procedures outlinedin Dealing with Harassment at MIT. TheGuide has evolved over the past 20 years;"it's a system still in progress," Rowe said.

According to Orme-Johnson, this pro-gram was modeled after the one at the Uni-versity of Massachusetts-Amherst, one of theoldest in the country. It features two personmediation teams to follow a particularmodel, with the two people representing dif-ferent races, religions, and gender.

There are 27 trained mediators in the pro-gram, with 19 who completed their trainingover IAP, according to Orme-Johnson. Mem-bers include staff, undergraduate and gradu-ate students.

"Mediation training teaches a variety of

Students have a new option for resolvingtheir disputes - mediation@mit - which isboth unofficial and confidential.

Mediation works on the "basic assump-tion that people are good and that peoplewant to work out their own problems in goodfaith," said student mediator Albert L. Hsu

The conflicting parties settle their owndifferences, with the help of a pair of media-tors. The process is purely voluntary, and"any party can leave at any time for any rea-son," said mediator Mary P. Rowe, specialassistant to the president.

Unlike formal grievance procedures, norecords of the dispute are kept. The partieswork out a mutual agreement, put it in writ-ing, and enforce the solution themselves.

Mediation may be particularly useful forsome cases of injury by means of speech,which can be resolved without formal media-tion, Rowe said.

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Heavy Gunsnated by U.N. officers as weaponscontainment sites. Eighteen other

IA-HERZEGOVINA Serb-held areas around Sarajevo areartillery pieces known to still host heavy weaponsluare mile of covered by the NATO ultimatumop have been but described by Rose as under U.N.. Protection control. At least six others wereler the control brought to U.N. attention Mondayirtin and his after NATO aerial reconnaissance

flights over the exclusion zone,mortars and bringing to 32 the total of knownflanks of this Serb gun emplacements with U.N.

west of Sara- supervision that is equal or less thanarrels trained that at Osjek.. Not one has French public-affairs officerslantled by the who arranged a brief and heavilyhere. And all Serb-controlled visit to the Osjeky reach of the gun emplacements Mondayels, who out- appeared chagrined at the sight of-odd men at the hillside batteries that are virtual-

ly unchanged despite the Northguns within a Atlantic Treaty Organization's;lusion zone much-heralded ultimatum.capital were The local Serb commander, Col.withdrawn or Vladimir Radojic, held up the U.N.-rces by 1 a.m. arranged press visit until nightfall,ily one of the then forbade journalists to photo-Ad at this offi- graph fhe wearyr, limiting the 1-

enter" is even minute tour to talks with the newlyWs' sight. arrived deployment of Martin's pla-owitzer actu- toon of the 2nd Company ofsandbagged Britain's Coldstream Guards.

ed to a Bosn- "The weapons are under our pro-and parked tectiorn and containment over about

hill from the a square kilometer," Martin repliednpment. when asked if his men had unequiv-Osjek and at ocal control over the guns. Thei depots make actual area placed under Martin'shave papered control Saturday was larger than the: of a NATO square kilometer he estimated: Justitarizing the those Serb gun emplacements visi-by declaring ble from the roadside extended)se enough to more than a mile.

The British troops had not beend Osjek slope asked to inspect, relocate or renderwithin the 12- inoperable any of the weapons onficially desig- their assigned terrain, said Martin,

JOHANNESBURG

South Africa's multiparty negotiating forum, reconvening for thefirst time in three months, approved a series of changes in the newinterim constitution Monday, but did so without the participation ofthe parties the changes were intended to appease.

The amendments would give regions more powers, provide forseparate ballots for the regional and national elections on April 26-28, and require the next parliament to appoint a council that will con-sider proposals for the creation of an ethnic state for Afrikaners,white descendants of mostly Dutch settlers.

The changes, expected to be approved by Parliament next week,are designed to draw members of the Freedom Alliance, an anti-elec-tion group of white right-wing and black homeland parties, into thedemocratic process. The alliance boycotted MFonday's session, andsaid the changes did not grant sufficient regional powers or guaranteethe creation of an Afrikaner state.

Back-channel negotiations continue among the government, theAfrican National Congress and all members of the alliance - theInkatha Freedom Party, the Afrikaner Volksfront and the homelandgovernment of Bophuthatswana. Sources close to the talks were opti-mistic only about the prospect of bringing Bophuthatswana into theelection.

Meantime, police reported the bloodiest weekend of the year inthe province of Natal, where the rivalry between the ANC andInkatha always has been the most intense. At least 42 people havebeen killed there since Friday - including six people who were shotas they were proceeding toward an Inkatha rally outside of Pietmar-itzburg, police said.

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who could not say how many of theguns were still ready for firingbecause Radojic had yet to tell him.

Asked if he could guarantee thatthe weapons could never be retakenby the Serb rebels whose homes andfront-line positions surround thenew U.N. encampment, Martinreplied, "I don't think that wouldhappen at the moment, because ourrelations with them are good. Theywant peace as much as anyone elsewants peace."

The U.N. commander for Bosn-ian-based forces, British Lt. Gen.Michael Rose, has boasted that hisformula for defining compliancewith the ultimatum has broughtabout peace, as what was once adaily ration of hundreds of artilleryshells blasted at Sarajevo hasrecently ceased.

But the 380,000 people stilltrapped in the Bosnian capital fearthe end of bombardment may havecome at the price of an indefinitearmed standoff and long-term hin-drances to their free movement, asthey remain surrounded by armedSerbian forces.

Many also fear that the U.N.mission will tire of the costly, labor-intensive weapons-monitoring oper-ation that seems largely to be a cha-rade and will eventually abandonthe so-called collection sites likeOsjek and allow rebel forces toresume their siege.

Western leaders had called forpunitive air strikes in the event thatany heavy weaponry remained with-in a 12-mile radius of Sarajevo as ofI a.m. Monday. But the appeals forforceful intervention have dissipatedamid U.N. claims that the ultimatumhas qualitatively eased the risks

-confronting Sarajevo.

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Eighteen heavy arscattered across a sqrugged, snowy ridgetsdeemed by the U.NForce to be firmly undof 2nd Lt. Spike MiBritish platoon.

Yet some of thehowitzers on the steepmountain village northjevo still have their bon the Bosnian capitalbeen inspected or disrUJ.N. forces assignedare clearly within easygun-slinging Serb rebnumber Martin's 20least 3-1.

Although all heavyU.N.-designated excaround the Bosniansupposed to have beensurrendered to U.N. foilMonday local time, on18 said tn he monitore

cial U.N. "collection cawithin the British troop

The sole 105mm hally pulled out of itsbattery has been hitch(ian Serb army truckabout 100 yards downBritons' roadside encai

As conditions at (least 31 other weaponsclear, U.N. officials 1over Serbian defianceultimatum for demi!hills ringing Sarajevothe status quo to be clcconformance.

The vast and ruggedis one of eight places \mile exclusion zone of!

WASHINGTON

Administration plans to cut costs and red tape by reducing thenumber of federal supervisors and managers in $49,000 to $90,000annual pay range could set back - and maybe derail - another pro-gram to increase the number of women and minorities in the Grade13 through 1 5 jobs.

The administration is set to cut many of those jobs to reduce theratio of supervisors to employees. Many positions in the Washingtonarea also are in danger because of another White House goal: Toreduce headquarters operations. Most headquarters jobs are here, andmore than 115,000 people - almost a third of the total federal work-force in the region - are GS 13s, 14s or 1 Ss.

Administration officials point with pride to a 200 percent increasein the number of women at the GS 13 through 14 grade levels overthe past decade. Many were hired or promoted within the last fewyears. But while there are more women than ever at the middle andupper management ranks, most are relative newcomers compared totheir male colleagues.

Men at those grade levels tend to be older, have more federal ser-vice and are more likely to have veterans preference. Seniority andveterans preference are key protections when agencies undergoreductions-in-force (RIFs).

Unless Congress gives the White House the tools to persuadesenior civil servants to take regular or early retirement, most federalagencies will be forced to RIF to meet several sets of targets set bythe administration. One is an overall cut of 252,000 federal jobs -about 13 percent of the white collar workforce - by 1999. About1 18,000 of the cuts are supposed to take place by Sept. 30.

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protected aesthetics from its begin-ning" in 1936, Cherrick said."Police have enforced the ordinanceagainst commercial signs that say,'Siding going up,' and against onesthat say 'Happy Birthday.' "

Judges traditionally have givenpolitical speech, such as Gilleo'santi-war protest, the greatest protec-tion under the Constitution. ButSupreme Court precedent on the dif-ferent levels of protection for non-commercial speech ("Save theWhales") and commercial speech("Eat at Joe's") is murky. A rulingin the case could help clarify howfar governments may go in regulat-ing both commercial and noncom-mercial speech.

Relying on the general rule thatnoncommercial speech has greaterconstitutional coverage, lowercourts in the Gilleo case concludedthat Ladue was impermissiblyfavoring commercial speech (suchas real estate signs) over politicalspeech.

Ladue's sign ordinance generallyprohibits all signs within its 8{square miles. Exemptions areincluded for real estate signs, roadand safety hazard signs, healthinspection signs, public transporta-tion markers and commercial signsin commercially zoned or industrialdistricts.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals said, "Ladue has not shownthat the prohibited signs cause moreaesthetic, safety and property valueproblems than the permitted signs."

"The city is just as lovely as itwas before I put the sign up," Gilleosaid during an interview at her colo-nial-style house. Gilleo, who worksfor an organization that retrains

defense-industry contractors, grewup in the St. Louis area and afterliving in other parts of the countryreturned to the area four years ago.

The city ordinance in effectwhen the litigation began wasamended slightly during the courseof proceedings. (It still was found tobe unconstitutional.) Gilleo, whoreplaced the original yard sign withan 8 {-by- I1 -inch one in a second-floor window, was cited under thenew ordinance for that sign. It said,"For Peace in the Gulf."

Under previous Supreme Courtcases, when a city ordinance effec-tively targets the content of a partic-ular kind of speech, the city must beable to show that the law serves a"compelling interest," such as pub-lic health or welfare, and the ordi-nance must be narrowly drawn toachieve that end. Lower courts saidLadue failed that test.

But city lawyer Cherrick told thejustices in his brief that the cityinterest in aesthetics, privacy, safetyand the preservation of real estatevalues is overriding. "Without itssign ordinance," he said, "Laduewould suffer from the proliferationof signs and resulting visual blightthat exist in some of Ladue's neigh-boring cities."

Cherrick said the sign ban doesnot threaten a person's freedom ofspeech because alternative modes ofexpression are available: for exam-ple, letters, flyers, telephone calls,bumper stickers, newspaper adver-tisements and speeches.

Gilleo said the yard sign was anunparalleled "quick, inexpensiveresponse" to sentiment that theUnited States was about to becomeinvolved in a war.

LADUE, MO.

In December 1990, as a U.S.-ledclash with Iraq appeared imminent,Margaret Gilleo put up an anti-warsign at her house in this fashionablesuburb of St. Louis.

The Persian Gulf War came andwent. A fight in Ladue over that 2-by-3-foot yard sign only escalated.

This week, what began as a localdispute over a city's sign prohibi-tion becomes a major First Amend-ment test at the Supreme Court.Ladue prohibits its residents fromerecting political and social signs attheir homes.

The case, to be heard by justiceson Wednesday, casts free speechproponents against a municipality'sdesire to control visual blight.Advertisers, publishers and freespeech activists have sided withGilleo, as has the U.S. solicitor gen-eral. Numerous governmental orga-nizations and seven states, includingMaryland, are with Ladue, sayingstrong anti-sign laws are necessaryto protect the scenic beauty andsafety of their jurisdictions.

"I've been protesting war sinceVietnam," said Gilleo, who paid $4to a church group for the sign thatsaid, "Say No to War in the PersianGulf, Call Congress Now." Gilleosaid she had heard of other peoplebeing asked by police to removesigns. "And they just grumbled. Butthis issue was so important to me"that she decided to sue the city.

"It's not the message," insistedJordan B. Cherrick, lawyer for thecity. "It's the medium."

Ladue officials think signs areugly. "Ladue has comprehensively

BEIING

Wang Wanxing, 44, a veteran Chinese political dissident, wasconfined in a police-run psychiatric hospital after staging a one-mandemonstration in Tiananmen Square in 1992. His wife said she nowfears for his life.

Without a trial or independent medical examination, his wife,Wang Junying, said, the police have detained Wang to treat him for"political paranoia."

Wang Wanxing has smuggled letters out of the Ankang Hospitalfor the criminally insane complaining that doctors are forcibly admin-istering drugs to him daily and "trying all the time to destroy mybody and spirit."

His case is one of more than 1,000 documented in a report on peo-ple imprisoned in China for their political or religious views. Chinadenies it holds political prisoners.

The report was issued during the weekend by Asia Watch, a NewYork-based organization that monitors human-rights violations. Itstates that 1993 was the worst period for political arrests and trials inChina since mid-1990 in the aftermath of the June 4, 1989, crack-down on China's democracy movement.

Asia Watch accused China of using political prisoners as bargain-ing chips, to be released for political effect. Western governments, itsaid, interpret the releases as evidence of human rights improvementsand ignore thousands of prisoners who have not benefited from inter-national attention.

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By Paul FarhiTDE WASHNGTON POST

their bills rise, as cable providersfound loopholes that enabled themto raise some prices. Among otherthings, the rules allowed operatorswhose program prices were belowgovernment-mandated "bench-marks" to raise their prices up to acertain level to offset their reduc-tions in equipment prices.

The 7 percent reduction that willbe announced today could have amore comprehensive effect onprices, said a congressional source,because cable companies have noother ways to offset the rollback byraising other prices.

Rather than a blanket order, theFCC will adjust its benchmarks, themaximum price that cable operatorscan charge for each channel of pro-gramming. Because nearly all cablecompanies are at the benchmarks,virtually everyone will have to dropdown 7 percent.

The FCC prices cover "basic"program packages, which includelocal broadcast stations, and"expanded basic" packages, which

include popular cable-only channelssuch as MTV and CNN. They donot affect premium services such asHBO or pay-per-view.

Prices vary throughout the11,000 cable systems in the UnitedStates, but a 7 percent reduction ona $20 monthly bill would amount asavings of $1.40. Sources said FCCChairman Reed Hundt pressed forlarger reductions than the 7 percentor more apparently agreed to, butwas forced to compromise by com-missioners James Quello andAndrew Barrett, the lone Republi-can among the three commissioners.

The FCC's new cut is seen bypolitical observers as an acknowl-edgment that its first attempt did notresult in the widespread reductionsthat Congress had in wheln itpassed a new cable TV law in thefall of 1992.

Reconsideration of the cablerules was proposed by Hundt, a prepschool classmate of Vice PresidentGore who was appointed FCCchairman in late November.

WASHINGTON

Federal regulators will ordercable television companies toreduce their rates by at least 7 per-cent Tuesday, sources said Monday,in the government's second attemptin 10 months to lower prices for thenation's 58 million cable house-holds.

The Federal CommunicationsCommission, whose original rulesrequiring price cuts last year createdconfusion and drew criticism, willannounce the new reductions at ameeting Tuesday.

Last April, the FCC adoptedrules to reduce cable programmingcharges up to 10 percent or more,and forced reductions in equipmentprices as well. The reductions weresupposed to lower the monthly billsof two-thirds of all subscribers andsave as much as $1.5 billion a year.

Instead, the FCC found in a pre-liminary survey last fall that one-third of all cable customers saw

By James GerstenzangLOS ANGELES TIMES

There is agreement within theadministration on the need to con-front Japan but uncertainty overhow to do it and whether the get-tough approach will have thedesired effect, senior administra-tion trade and economic officialssay.

Complicating matters are con-cerns within the administration thatany display of a disunity will sendmisleading signals to Asia, where,the United States is engaged-on suchsensitive military and politicalissues as opposition to the develop-ment of nuclear weapons in NorthKorea and insistence on respect forhuman rights in China.

Other administration officialsinsist that they do indeed have acarefully mapped strategy but arekeeping it secret to put the Japaneseoff balance. They promise to beginunveiling a series of steps soon -possibly as early as this week - intheir effort to keep the pressure onJapan to reduce its $60 biilion-a-year trade surplus with the UnitedStates.

"The goals are clear, the strategyis clear and the tactics .have beenconsistent," U.S. Trade Representa-tive Mickey Kantor said in an inter-view. "I don't think there is anydoubt about what the administrationwants to accomplish."

WASHINGTON

Despite President Clinton'stough talk about Japan's trade poli-cy, the administration appears tolack both a grand strategy and aday-by-day game plan for pryingopen Japan's markets, according togovernment sources and tradeexperts.

In the aftermath of the unsuc-cessful talks.-Feb. I 1 between Clin-ton and Japanese Prime MinisterMorihiro Hosokawa, a senior U.S.official admitted privately a weeklater: "We've been trying to figureout what to do next."

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WORLD & NATION

Federal Regulators to Order7 Percent Cut in Cable Rates

Gephardt Bill SetsThade 'GoaIs' for NAFTA

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BAL HARBOUR, FLA.

House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., in an effort toput teeth into enforcement of the North American Free Trade Agree-ment, said Monday he would introduce legislation to impose goalsand timetables orn U.S. trading partners to ensure they meet labor andenvironmental standards.

Gephardt said the bill would give the United States confidencethat its trading partners were making progress toward meeting theircommitments.

Although the legislation would apply to all trading partners, theclear target of Monday's announcement was Mexico and the sideagreements it negotiated with the United States on labor and environ-mental standards as part of NAFTA. Labor and environmental groupshave complained the agreements were largely unenforceable.

The legislation would amend U.S. trade law but not changeNAFTA, which created a free-trade zone with Mexico and Canada.

Introduction of the trade amendment could serve two purposes,one economic and the other political. It would provide a potentialmechanism for punishing low-wage importers that violate interna-tional labor standards that might unfairly underprice U.S. producers.At the same time, it would offer an opportunity for congressionalDemocrats who voted for NAFTA to try and make amends with orga-nized labor, wnhicn is threatening to withhold support to anyone whosupported the agreement.

It was not clear whether the White House would support theGephardt proposal, which was announced at Monday's meeting ofthe AFL-CIO executive council. But presidential senior counselor,George Stephanopoulos, appearing here, said that while he had notseen the specific proposal, President Clinton has supported the inclu-sion of workers' rights as part of the global trade pact called the Gen-eral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Stephanopoulos commented onthe Gephardt proposal after meeting with the executive council.

Some Strains of PneumoniaClose to Being Incurable

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The world is just one antibiotic away from having incurable bacte-rial pneumonia, according to a leading antibiotic researcher.

Some of the bacteria that cause pneumonia have acquired resis-tance against nearly all the available antibiotic drugs, transformingthemselves into "what we must call a new species," Dr. AlexanderTomasz told scientists gathered here for the annual meeting of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science.

"We have been living in an era when if you got sick, there wasalways a pill to take," the Rockefeller University scientist said Friday."And we are approaching an era when that will no longer be true."

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But now, all over the world there are mutant strains of bacteriathat are resistant to every antibiotic except vancomycin.

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Tough Foreign Policy Effective in BosniaIIColumn by Daniel C. Stevenson

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At 7 p.m. on Sunday, the NATO-imposeddeadline for the withdrawal of Serbian gunsfrom around Sarajevo passed without commo-tion. Since Friday, the Serbs had been scram-bling to comply with the NATO demands,showing a novel interest in peace. NATO andthe United Nations recognized what they sawas good intentions by the Serbs, and havepledged, for the time being, not to carry outthe threatened air strikes

The apparent success of the latest peaceinitiative has shown two things: that a dead-line for withdrawal backed up by a visiblethreat of force can be successful, and that ittakes a tragic and widely publicized loss ofinnocent lives to sway western foreign policy.

NATO imposed the deadline on Feb. 11,giving the Serbs exactly 10 days to removetheir heavy artillery from around Sarajevo andabide by a cease-fire. Unlike previousdemands and requests, the NATO ultimatumwas forceful, had a specific deadline, and wasbacked up by threats of strong retribution.American and other NATO forces preparedfor fighting while the major western leadersspoke strongly about enforcing the deadline.NATO jets overflew Sarajevo, and militaryofficials talked about preparations for bomb-ing, sending a very clear message to the Serbsthat at least this time, compliance was neces-sary.

By acting tough and promising strong,swift retribution for non-compliance with theultimatum, the nations of NATO were able tosave countless lives and set a precedent forstopping the conflict in Bosnia, a precedentthat can and must be extended to Mostar,Srebenica, and elsewhere. Now that Sarajevois temporarily safe, care should be taken toensure the security of other regions in the war-torn country, especially with reports of theSerbs redeploying the guns that used to sur-round Sarajevo to other besieged areas.

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tor that convinces them to choose MIT over other universities.Eighty percent of students hold a UROP during their academiccareers. Moreover, research experience gives MIT graduates anedge over other college graduates when applying to graduateschools or searching for jobs.

In addition, some students use UROPs as work-studyemployment. If only credit or volunteer UROPs are available,these students may be denied a part of the MIT experience.Those who need to work for money may turn away from theUROP program altogether, hurting the students as well as MIT.

The administration should be lauded for its efforts to saveUROP, but Provost Wrighton alone will probably not be able toconvince the government to grant an exemption.

A coordinated effort by the students and affiliates of MITmust be made to make the government aware of the educationalvalue of the UROP program. A change in policy regarding thewaiver of overhead costs associated with UROP may have sub-stantial results, possibly affecting more than meets the eye.

It is ip to us, the MIT community as a whole. to take actionby convincing the government of the importance of sustainingthe current UROP program.

Starting July 1, the cost of the Undergraduate ResearchOpportunity Program will more than double because of newfederal regulations regarding overhead costs. The UROP pro-gram is an integral and important part of an MIT undergraduateeducation, and any reduction in UROP represents a considerablecause of alarm for all present and future MIT undergraduates.

With the change in regulations, the Institute will no longerbe able to waive the overhead costs of research - along with

employee benefit costs - for

Editof^al LJUROP salaries. Overhead costs,which were waived last year on

about $4.5 million in UROP salaries, include physical plant ser-vices, and library and administrative work.

With higher costs, fewer professors will be able to hireundergraduates. There will be more competition for the limitedfunds available, and qualified and capable students will beturned away from research positions. Professors could decidethat undergraduates are too expensive to hire at all, reducing thennPprhunities f¢r CtdelntsC tno nrti'inante in resaPrch.

For many students, the UROP program has great education-al value. The opportunity to do cutting-edge research as under-graduates attracts many students to MIT. For some, it is the fac-

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harassment."i did not ask that question. The question I

did ask was very specific. I asked each pan-elist to "give an example of speech, language,sentences, or phrases that should not be pun-ished." Notice that I never used the words"illegal" or "acceptable." Furthermore, I didnot even use the word "harassment" in my

question.There is no such thing as "acceptable

harassment." I respectfully request that Thewelts apolglogiz for noUt only lifttlIq-uutin g tie,but for misquoting me in such a way as tosuggest that I, a black man, believe that thereis such thing as "acceptable harassment."

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ries of President Clinton and others aboutAmerican troops getting bogged down in anunpopular conflict were unfounded. Even ifNATO had gone to war against the Serbs, itwould have been with "surgical" air strikes,not with a costly ground war. Fortunately, bymaking a visible display of force, NATO wasable to avoid actually effectuating their threats.

It is disturbing, however, that the recentthreats by NATO and the United Nations wereobviously prompted by the gruesome (andwidely publicized) massacre of over 60 Sara-jevans when a Serb shell destroyed a busymarketplace just over two weeks ago.

The marketplace massacre represented nogreat change in the war in Sarajevo - shellshad fallen before that day, and shells contin-ued to fall afterwards. Snipers still shot atpeople walking in the city. But what the mas-sacre did change was the perception of thewestern public, which in turn swayed andinfluenced the opinions of western leaders.

The marketplace massacre, carefully andsensationally packaged by the news media,brought the conflict close to home again,showing in a very graphic and wrenchingmanner the daily reality of a war that has gone

on for almost two years with little or no west-ern intervention. It is unfortunate that 60 peo-ple had to die to provide the catalyst (and theexcuse) for a major change in American andNATO policy. In the last two weeks, westernleaders have continued to talk tough aboutBosnia, but for once, they seem to be enforc-ing their words with real action.

President Clinton has said that "NATOwon't look the other way any more" and thatthe cease-fire and exclusion zone in Sarajevowill be enforced. "Never again" has beenpromised before, but those have been empty,unfulfilled promises that have only worsenedthe situation in the war-torn country. Now,however, Clinton and other leaders have donemore than talk tough - they have actedtough. They have demonstrated an interest inforceful imposition of ultimatums, a policythat needs to be continued and extended toother areas of Bosnia. It is unfortunate thatimages such as the Feb. 14 Newsweek covershowing a Bosnian woman's bleeding facehad to prompt the change in policy, but thepolicy has been changed, and must be contin-ually reinforced to avoid prolonging the suf-fering of the Bosnians and end the war.

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sleeping with whom or who wants to be sleep-ing with whom. Admittedly while two of thecharacters are played by Winona Ryder andEthan Hawke, this might still make for aworthwhile viewing experience. But sex is notwhat this movie is about. It is about the strug-gle to find your voice, to find out what isimportant to you. This is no easy task for amember of a generation in the shadow of thebaby boomers.

The movie opens with Lelaina (WinonaRyder) giving her valedictory address to hercollege class. She asks her fellow graduateswhat her generation will do with wreckage ofthe greed driven 80's. "The answer," she says,"is simple." She pauses and looks down at hernotecards. Her face registers alarm and she

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cally. Finally, after sev-eral painful minutes ofpanicky shuffling, shesays in a waveringvoice, "I don't know."

Eta ^ With this crisis over,Lelaina is free and readyto boidiy enter the realworld. She has fears

- about her future, but sheis hopeful and drivenWhat she wants is tomake documentaries, soshe interns on a morningtalk show called "GoodMorning Grant" while

ke star in Reality using her free time toBaby Boomers. document the lives of

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her friends. This would seem to be a decentopportunity for Lelaina to find someone tohelp her learn about television.

Unfortunately, all the people in the posi-tion to be mentors in this movie are too self-absorbed to do so. In one scene, Lelaina is atthe talk show studio editing her documentarywhen her boss, Grant, walks in. He looks thepart of the wise, benevolent grandfather. Hehas the distinguished gray hair and, at leastwhile on camera, the friendly smile. But hegruffly rebuffs Leiaina's attempts to get himto review her work. When she tries to givehim extra background information about oneof his guests, he just snarls at her and says,"Just give me the questions." And so we seebehind the facade. Grant is just there to lookgrandfatherly for the camera and so, Lelainadiscovers, she is on her own.

Amidst her distress about work, she meetsMichael (Ben Stiller) who is a television exec-utive for an MTV-like network. Their awk-ward first date was wonderfully acted by bothRyder and Stiller. It is sure to make yousquirm as well as laugh. When they later sit inMichael's convertible sipping slurpies andtalking, you know that this isn't love but it'salright.

Lelaina's new relationship with Michaelforces, hr best friend, Trey, (Ethan Hawke),i to

begin recognizing his love for Lelaina.Hawke's performance is wonderfully subtle.Through all Troy's bravado, we can see himfor who he really is, someone who is desper-ately afraid to go after what matters to him.He is constantly making jokes to avoid havingto really say anything, and there are moments

n grun sel"Would?"), but was greeted less enthusiasti-cally by critics who felt that guitarist JerryCantrell's and vocalist Layne Staley's musicwas a bit too weighty and self-indulgent.

There is no such problem with their thirdrelease, an EP entitled Jar of Flies. This

;seven-song set captures the same lyrical mes-sage and angst of previous albums, but in amuch more subdued setting. Sharply contrast-ing with slabs of neo-grunge-metal from theirother albums, songs like "I Stay Away" and"No Excuses" are executed with a morerelaxed, natural, and less visceral feel.

But this doesn't mean that this group ismaking an acoustic-based retreat or is coast-ing on in-between album filler. It is moodmusic, blending Staley's distinctive, throatybaritone with the usual guitar, bass, and drumsand the wistful baroque feel from a supportingcast of violini-s ThC lyris, as usual, are filledwith disgust, fear, and longing ("Hands are

between the laughter that we can see theanguish this causes him. At one point,Michael accuses him of being a jester andmakes some convoluted reference to theJester's skull which Hamlet ponders. But Troyis not really the jester. He is Hamlet. He con-stantly steps to the edge of action only toquickly pull back.

Lelaina also must decide what she wants.Michael is responsible and fun, but from theirscenes together it is plain that they don't haveany deep connection. With Troy on the otherhand, Lelaina really has something to lose.This conflict could easily have turned into theformula of responsible boring guy vs. sexybad boy, but it didn't. For Lelaina to make adecision, she has to decide what is importantto her and what she really has with each ofthese men.

Of course, this movie is a comedy and afunny one. The best thing about Troy's con-stant joking is that his lines are good andHawke delivers them well. When Lelainareturns from her first date with Michael, Troybegins taunting her about it, calling Michael ayuppie. When Lelaina protests, saying "He'snot a Yuppie," Troy quips, "He's the reasonCliff Notes were invented." Later in themovie, Lelaina has a hilarious low pointwhere she runs up a phone bill of hundreds ofdollars to the psychic friends network. Thevulnerability Winona shows us in Lelainaallows us to laugh at her and feel for hersimultaneously. The wonderful performancesand insightful writing by Helen Childress anddirecting by Ben Stiller make this a veryentertaining movie.

bruised.../Drained and blue/l bleed foryou/You think it's funny, well/You're drown-ing in it too" from "No Excuses"), but withoutStaley screaming the refrains, the songsbecome miles more personal and poignant.Even "Whale and Wasp," an instrumental, fitsseamlessly with the other songs on the album.

In fact, this may be Alice in Chains' bestpiece of work to date. Unlike U2's Zooropa,which alienated some listeners by trying to betoo avant-garde, Jar of Flies is instantlyaccessible to popular listening, or - dare Isay - a radio-ready format. Still steeped inconfusion and angst, Alice in Chains may notwin over a whole new audience from the poprealm. But with this album, Alice in Chains isready to take a harder look at the musicalmovement and marketing strategy called"grunge" that spawned them, confront it, andgo on to explore the edges of rock, alternative,or whatever they like.

Of course, the whole grunge movementwas a myth. And a letdown of the fickle worldof pop music was inevitable: no longer blessedwith a song with pop/rock crossover explo-siveness (e.g., Nirvana's "Smells Like TeenSpirit" or Pearl Jam's "Alive") the two mostpopular grunge acts failed to resonate withtheir pop audience to the degree that madetheir previous albums so surprising. Both Nir-vana and Pearl Jam owe much of their successto a primary crossover into the singles charts,but are now focusing their efforts toward alargely rock/alternative audience.

Alice in Chains is no exception to theabove formula. Slowly (but not quietly), theyearned respect with Facelift (1990), and thenupped the ante with an album heavily steepedin drug/heroin motifs with Dirt (1992). Therelative heaviness of material contained intheir sophomore effort did not faze record-buyers (producing the hits "Rooster" and

runge is out. A friend of minerevealed this to me last June in a citynot far from Seattle, Washington,grunge capital of the world. For' me,

his preemptive statement seemed to tarnishthe follow-up albums of Pearl Jam, Nirvana,and other "grunge" acts before they were evenreleased late last year. For a while, it seemedthat record companies took the grunge hypeseriously and then tried to exploit it for all itwas worth. Like punk rock in the late 70s,grunge was supposed to shake up the musicindustry and create a resurgence of hard-hit-ting guitar-based rock in the pop charts.

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Martin and Lefkowitz haveengaged in some academic disputesin the past Martin said, "In the lastcouple of years, she has written arti-cles referring to me or to somedebates with my students. Somearticles were critical, some werenot. ... I think she has some dis-agreements about some things Iteach about early African influencein early world civilization."

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Xalonji, from Page 1 Kalonji's lawsuit also cites sev-eral exarnhl-Q of discriminatorrv

behavior. "Flemings effectivelydiverted Kalonji's research forapproximately three years frombasic research that would further herpath to tenure, to applied researchfor a company that had donatedmoney to MIT." Additionally, thedepartment "did not provide Kalonjiwith lab space and support duringthe early stages of her career."

For the tenure decision, "'Flem-ings solicited comments and letters,and particularly encouraged nega-tive comments, from people whowere not listed by Professor Kalonjiin her tenure application," the com-plaint said.

Case historyKalonji, who received both her

bachelor and doctorate degrees fromMIT, was hired by MIT as an assis-tant professor in the Department ofMaterials Science and Engineeringin 1982. In 1986, she was promotedto associate professor.

"In December, 1988, the depart-ment voted to recommend to thedean formerr Dean of EngineeringGcrald L. Wilson] against grantingtenure to Kalonji, despite the factthat her qualifications were and aresuperior to those of other compara-ble males in the department," thecomplaint said.

"In April of 1989, 1 filed a griev-ance with MIT's Dean of Engineer-ing after my department voted not torecommend me for tenure," Kalonjisaid in the MCAD complaint. Forthe next two years, Wilson and twocommittees he appointed consideredwhether Kalonji had been treatedunfairly by her department in thetenure decision.

According to the lawsuit, thefirst committee concluded that the

tenure decision had been "unaccept-abl- unfair." The committee alsofound that the departmental environ-nient is "less supportive of women"than men and "tends to disfavor thecareer development of women."

A second committee, however,recommended to Wilson that Kalon-ji not be awarded tenure. The sec-ond committee "applied a higherand different standard to Kalonjithan had been applied to compara-ble maies," the lawsuit said, and it",relied upon information discrimi-natorily gathered by the depart-ment.V1

Wilson informed Kalonji on Jan.15, 1991, that she would not begranted tenure. Kalonji subsequent-ly asked President Charles M. Vestto review the decision, and on June11, 1991, was informed by ProvostMark S. Wrighton that MIT wouldnot further review her tenure denial.

Kalonj.i left MIT in August 1990and is currently a professor at theUniversity of Washington in Seattle.

will be a trial," Altman said.Altman said he expected Kalonji

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"Kalonji's denial of tenure ispart of a long pattern and practice ofdiscrimination against women bythe department and by MIT," wroteAltman in the Jan. 14 complaint.

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-I"The atmosphere and the treat-jment of women faculty duringJKalonji's seven-plus years in the' department was hostile and discrim-,inatory toward women," the com-| plaint said.

N Nicole Herbots, a former profes-sor in the department, said that "one!of the main crises about being awoman in the department was beinginvisible." Herbots described a",conscious attitude present in mostof the faculty" that systematicallyexcluded women and minorities.

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Much of the criticism Lechtmandirects at Wrighton in her pamphlet,"An Institute in Ruins," focuses ona 7-member committee Wrightonestablished to review the center'swork.

According to Lechtman,Wrighton "overbore the recommen-dations that were contrary to hispredisposition." The committee hadreported favorably on work done atthe CMRAE and had recommendedcreating a small graduate program,Lechtman said.

In an interview last week,Wrighton defended the reviewprocess. "It wasn't a process thatwas secretive or only executed with-,n the con.f.rnes of this vGer. harnd-some office. It was a process thatinvolved a lot of input and a lot ofinformal input," he said.

Wrighton agreed that the reviewcommittee had reported favorablyon the work done by Lechtman andher colleagues at seven other areainstitutions.

The review committee's findings"led me to conclude that such anactivity is appropriate for MIT, thatsome good contributions had beenmade in the past; but that futureexcellence would hinge on beingmore than subcritical in terms ofsize; and that a graduate programwas essential to realizing excel-lience," Wrighton said.

Graduate program not feasibleThe group that reviewed the

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CMRAE, from Page 1 none," Wrighton said. To supportthe CRMAE would mean notdoingsomething else, he said.

The CMRAE's continuedreliance on Institute general fundswas also a problem, he explained.The center was founded in 1977, buthas not established outside supportfor its research budget.

"Why can't the center have sus-taining support from a foundation orfrom a federal agency?" Wrightonasked. "If there are a lot people thatsupport [CMRAE], one of the ques-tions I have to ask is ... 'Where'sthe money? "

MIT has relatively little unre-stricted money in its budget,Wrighton said. Most research isfunded by outside grants. Salariesand financial aid require a lot ofmoney, and most endowmentincome is earmarked for particular

Academic renewal neededBecause there is so little unre-

stricted funding available, "we needregular reallocation for academicrenewal," Wrighton said.

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lyrepic Performersam impressed with Jansen's deter- is the entire world.mruination and perserverance. On Saturday, the United States

It was interesting to see that ski team's medal-winning rampagealmost everyone in the Viking Ship continued when Picabo Street cap-Hall, even the Norwegian fans and tured a silver in the Women'sJansen's fellow competitors, wanted Downhill, further silencing the crit-to see him win. Although he will ics. Not bad for someone who likesleave Lillehammer without a medal to arrive at the site minutes beforein his strongest event, his win in the her scheduled start. Incidentally, she1,000 seems to be a combination of almost came late to the final trainingthe right things comining together at run. She jumped into her skis andthe same time. All of the fanfare he straight on to the course, and endedreceived was truly well-deserved. up with the fastest time of the field,

Although Jansen didn't break despite a few mistakes. Street alsodown in tears like many gold medal- stands in second place after the firstists, the medal ceremony was a half of the alpine combined event.memorable moment for all who On the men's side, Kyle Ras-were watching. After the ceremony, mussen and Moe are second andhe had a chance to lace his skates third, respectively, going into theback on, to take a victory lap. slalom portion of the Men's Alpine

The media's treatment of his vic- Combined.tory might be a little bit too much. In the nordic combined, whoYes, it is true that his minute and would have thought that 17-year oldfifteen seconds on the ice will trans- Todd Lodwick of the United Stateslate into big bucks for him. I have would finish fifth after the first day?already heard many radio inter- Despite finishing 13th, he vows aviews, and sec ill 1the hype givli wits ill 199S. If e'orks had and

about him on television. Look for get experience, it could happen.his picture on the box of Wheaties Despite grabbing only sevensome time in the near future. medals so far, the United States

One more thing about Jansen: he team as a whole seems to be doingsaid that when he took to the ice, he pretty well. There were top-ten fin-thought nothing about winning the ishes in all three luge events and inrace. He just told himself to go out the figure skating pairs and men'sand skate as well as he could. Even competition.when he slipped, he did not panic.The result seemed to suggest that he Besides the competition...skated up to his abilities. Perhaps I made a difficult decision puntthe best things happen when you the LSC showing of Cool Runningsdon't really expect them to. and Thelma and Louise in order to

keep up with the action; I guess I'llExciting weekend action have to rent the movie on videotape.

On Saturday, speed skater Bon- Watching the Games, and trying tonie Blair won the women's 500- catch all the action was still enjoy-meter, becoming the first individual able.- male or female - to win gold What was not too enjoyable, per-medals in the same event in three haps leaving something to beconsecutive Winter Olympics. With desired, was CBS's coverage of thefour, she tied for the most gold Olympic Games. Many peoplemedals won by a woman. agreed with me that there were too

If she wins the 1,000-meter com- many features and too little of thepetition, she will match the five gold actual competition. A little bit ofmedals that United States speed that "Up close and personal" stuff isskater Eric Heiden won in 1980. good to see, but CBS just overdid it.Her feat would be impressive, but I really don't care to know all theHeiden did it in only one Olympics. stories of Dan Jansen's life and all

~~~~~~... ~the disappointments. I have heardJohann Olav Koss completed a all of those stories before. I just

distance sweep by capturing the want to see him skate!10,000-meter event, to add to his In the early going, CBS did not5,000- and 1,500-meter gold medals handle the time difference too well. I-and he achieved world records in believe that someone from theall of them. He smashed his own Boston Globe pointed out that CBSworld record in the 10,000 by really balked with announcingalmost 14 seconds. These two feats Tommy Moe's victory on the firstare simply awesome. day of competition. I remember that

Despite being an incredible ath- morning, when the commentator,lete, Koss's win probably had some- whose name I do not remember, saidthing to do with having the support "Here are the results of the men'sand inspiration of the home crowd. I downhill. If you do not want to knowwonder if American athletes will do the results yet, then look away."the same in Atlanta in 1996. For most of us, the next Games

A few days before, when Koss will be held in the same time zonewon the 1,500, there was something as our own. I hope that, for the pur-neat that CBS showed, in the little poses of entertainment, the bigcoverage that was given. After events will be scheduled duringAmerican David Tamburrino prime time.crossed the line and looked up at the Well, that's what I have to sayscoreboard, he raised his arms in tri- about the first week of the Games.umph. He did so because he had set Expect just as much to happen ina personal record, despite ending up Week 2, including the possible22nd, five seconds behind Koss's finale of the Nancy Kerrigan- Tonyatime. That moment seemed to be a Harding drama. And do Katerinawonderful demonstration of the Witt and the pair of Jane Torvill andhuman spirit. Pleasing oneself is Christopher Dean still have whatprobably many times more impor- brought them to Olympic glory intant than pleasing the crowd, even if the past? Stay tuned ...

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Olympics, from Page 16 four runs. He was doing quite wellon the third run, but then lost con-trol and wiped out at close to 80miles per hour. Luckily, he was notphysically hurt, but he still had tocontemplate what could have been.

There was probably no one whoexperienced defeat as badly asspeed skater Dan Jansen, in hisfourth and final Olympics. Jansenhad always experienced frustrationin the Olympics, particularly in hisforte, the 500-meter race: fourth bya hundredth of a second in 1984;falling hours after learning of thedeath of his sister in 1988; andfourth in 1992. Ironically, he wasthe undisputed favorite, having wonvirtually everything else. In the 500-meter event, he not only had theworld record, but was the onlyhuman in history to have officiallyskated the distance in less than 36seconds.

In these games, Jansen startedoff well, but slipped on the last turnand lost enough time to lose therace. He finished in eighth place,only 35 hundredths of a secondbehind the winner. The Olympicjinx seemed to continue.

It is fairly easy for anyone toimagine the kind of frustration thatathletes like these had to endure.Everything falls with a minormishap, mistake, or miscalculation.The athletes must wonder if what alltheir work will ever pay off.

American skiing silences criticsCongratulations to United States

skiing team for its fine perfor-mances, against the odds that themedia set against them. Majorsports publications everywhere,including Sports Illustrated, criti-cized their performances and gavethe Americans an outside shot at amedal at best. On the first day,

media-dubbed long shot TommyMoe turned in the race of his life toestablish himself as the champion.So maybe he is an exception.

Dianne Roffe-Steinrotter madethem think again, by matching thefeat in the women's super giantslalom. The next day, Moe gavehimself a nice birthday present bycapturing a silver medal in themen's super G.

Kudos to the American lugersfor providing the United States' bestOlympic performances in history, inthe men's singles and doubles. Eventhough Kennedy wiped out, reign-ing world champion Wendal Suck-ow took over and finished in fifthplace. Even more impressive werethe two American doubles teams,who captured fourth and fifth place.

While things are improving forAmerican lugers, the world mightsee an end to the dominance of whatwas the Soviet ice hockey team. TheRussians - mostly made up of theold Soviet team - were shut out forthe first time in history by Finland,5-0, and they lost to Germany lateron. Many Russians have chosen theglamour and money of the NationalHockey League. They might be ableto pull off the gold, but things won'tbe the same in the future.

In late-breaking news, NHLplayers might be allowed to com-pete in the Olympics in 1998. Couldthere be another "Dream Team,"like the United States basketballteam of 1992?

Jansen finally medals at OlympicsDan Jansen was able to make up

for all his frustrations by winningthe 1,000-meter event. In addition towinning the gold, he crossed the fin-ish line in a world record time,despite two slips. CBS overdid thedrama involved with the event, but I

cost a top placing, if it doesn't keepthe athlete from finishing at all. Thisis even true in events where time isnot the deciding factor, like figureskating. It's interesting how a life-time of training can go in a verysmall moment of time. Sometimesbig surprises can result. At Lille-hammer, they did.

The agony of defeatIn the first few days of action,

the agony of defeat was so clearlydisplayed. There are many ways oflosing as a few athletes demonstrat-ed: 1) you do not start, 2) you do riotfinish, 3) you finish, but way behindwhat everyone had expected.

Can you imagine training for alifetime to get to the Olympics, justto have your equipment fail? Likeany other competitor, men's alpineskier Franz Heinzer of Switzerlandprepared himself to start both physi-cally and mentally. But right afterhe tripped the wand that activatedthe timer, his ski binding broke,causing his right ski to detach fromhis boot. Luckily, he stopped him-self before reaching the steep part ofthe course. As one commentatorpointed out on Pat O'Brien's latenight show, in such a situation, thereisn't much you can do exceptexpress your anger. That he did, byrepeatedly swinging one of his polesat the snow. It was quite an unfortu-nate event for "Franz the Fourth," ashe was nicknamed for his frequentfinishes in that position. This time,he was a serious contender for amedal.

American Duncan Kennedy methis fate in the luge. In his thirdOlympic Games, Kennedy was aserious medal contender, and heplaced fourth after the second of

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Hockey, from Page 16 still an opportunity to come back inthe last ten minutes of the game; afive-minute major penalty onSpringfield and a two-minute minorpenalty on MIT gave the Engineers atotal three-minute power play peri-od. However, not only did MIT failto score, but also allowed Spring-field to score got a short-handed goalto put the game out of reach.

As a result, Springfield is fourth,and MIT is fifth. If the Engineerswin against SCSU, they will makethe ECHA. However, the game shallbe difficult to win since SCSU leadsthe ECHA.

mance against Bryant by having 39shots on goal to Springfield's 33,but goalie Simmons saved 29 shotsto Springfield's 37.

At the end of the first period, thescore was 2-1 in Springfield'sfavor. Nicholas Pearce '94 shot agoal with assists from Daryl Hem-ingway '94 and Tetsu Inada '97. Inthe second period, MIT tied thegame with a goal from Lloyd John-ston G from Pearce.

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By Thomas KettlerSTAFF REPORTER

The MIT men's basketball teamlost to Babson Saturday in a gamethat was closer than the 95-81 scorewould indicate. The game made theEngineers 7-16 overall and 3-7 inthe Constitution Athletic Confer-ence. With the loss, MIT shall beforced to play on the road in theCAC tournament.

In the first 10 minutes of thegame, neither team had a rally byshooting baskets effectively from thefloor. After that, MIT had a mini run

Robinson

which resulted in a 46-38 lead with1:49 left in the half. This would endup being the largest lead that theEngineers would have for the game.After that, Babson converted somefield goal opportunities, and the halfended with MIT ahead 48-43.

The Engineers shot a reasonable41 percent from the floor, but theBeavers shot a far better 48 percent.MIT did shoot better at the line, 83to 67 percent.

Individually, starting forward JoeC. Levesque '95 led the team in scor-ing with 14 while reserve center

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got its final lead at 66-64 with a Individually, MIT could not stopHeffernan field goal. The final tie Kingsley's 30 points, complementedoccurred when reserve forward John by reserve Glenn Witkoski's 21.N. Fluker '96 made a semi-dunk to This strongly countered MIT's moretie the game at 72-72 with 7:40 left. balanced scoring which resulted inBabson responded with a 9-1 run four players in double figures. Hef-capped by Rory Gardner's field goal feman led with 18, while Levesquein. The closest the Engineers would had 15, Whalen 13 and startingget was 83-77 with three minutes guard Nikki L. Caruthers '95 11.left in the game. However, Babson Porter led the team in rebounds withtook advantage of the late free 13 while Whalen contributed 11.throws after the Engineers fouled Heffernan lead in blocked shotsthe Beavers to stop the clock. with five.

Shooting from the floor and "We lost it in the second half. Atturnovers ultimately determined the the 14 minute mark [six minutes leftgame. Babson continued to shoot in the second half], we let themwell and finished at 49 percent score, penetrate the lane, and nonewhile MIT only shot 39 percent. of my guards could stop #10The Engineers committed seven [Michael Kingsley]," head coachmore turnovers than the Beavers, 21 Leo Osgood commented. Kingsleyto 14. And while MIT shot 78 per- had "18 for the first half [and] 39 incent at the line versus Babson's 73 the game ... If not for our benchpercent, the Engineers only went to [Heffernan and Terry Rivers '95], itthe line 18 times to the Beavers' 40. would have been a 20 point game."

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Mark E. Heffeman '95 added 12.The other starting forward Tim M.Porter '96 led the team in reboundswith nine while starting center KeithE. Whalen '96 added seven. Howev-er, MIT could not contain Babson'sleading scorer, guard Michael Kings-ley who already had 18 at the half.

The Beavers continued wherethey left off with a 14-5 run in thefirst five minutes to lead 57-53. Theshot of the game with 15:10 leftoccurred when Babson's BryantRichards blew a dunk attempt. Fivelead changes and two ties later, MIT

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Track, from Page 16 Munklewitz '95 dropped back fur-ther during his 1600, but passedseveral runners in the last lap tobring home a fifth-place finish.

The 4x400 relay team was giventhe disadvantage of competing inthe slow heat, but the quartet ofMason, Targino, Ngwenya, andCorcoran won the heat easily andmanaged to beat a team in the fastsection to finish sixth.

Dan Helgesen finished his leg ofthe 4x800 relay in seventh place,and ,'when Gerry Corona 9- 7 wasunable to improve on this position,it looked as though the Engineersmight not score. But Hardy ran astrong third leg and handed off toCasadonte in fifth place. Casadontewas quickly caught by two otherrunners, but outsprinted one of themto the finish line to take sixth place.

Meanwhile, on the infield, MorioAlexander '96 leapt his way to afourth-place finish in the long jump.Hung Hoang '96 competed in thelong jump finals, where he finishedseventh. Over at the shot put, thingswere not going well for the Engi-neers, as Wallberg's put of 41'83/4" was not good enough to makethe finals.

The Engineers gave themselvessome breathing room in the triplejump, as Andy Ugarov '95, whowas nursing an injured foot, andAlexander took third and fourthplace, respectively. Elliot Hui '94finished 1 1th.

In the high jump, Ugarov wasone of four competitors to clear 6'61/4", and the only one to clear onhis first try. When all four missed at6' 8 1/4", Ugarov was given the vic-tory; teammate James Kirtley '94finished in a fifth-place tie.

The last event of the day to fin-ish was the pole vault. During thewarmups, a vaulter from Brandeisslipped, vaulted into one of the stan-dards, and landed heavily off themat. Several running events weredelayed as the unfortunate vaulterwas taken away in an ambulance; itwas later reported that he broke hiscollarbone. The MIT fans weregiven a similar scare during thecompetition when Paul Ogaganmissed the pit on a vault; he landed

on his feet and luckily was notinjured. In yet another strangeoccurrence, a Coast Guard competi-tor also managed to escape injurywhen his pole snapped in two whilehe was in mid-vault. At the end ofthe day, Matt Robinson '94 foundhimself in a duel with sophomoreDrew Orsinger of Coast Guard.Both vaulters cleared 14'6", then 15feet, then 15'6". They moved thebar to 16'2 1/4", the facility record,and Robinson cleared the bar on hissecond attept. Orsinge-r cruld rot,rr

giving Robinson an unprecedentedfourth straight N.E. Div. III champi-onship in the pole vault, and givingMIT enough points to clinch thethird-place trophy.

This weekend several team'members will be competing in theNEIAAA championships at BostonUniversity, against competitionfrom all New England schools (alldivisions). The national champi-onships, which Robinson and Wall-berg have qualified for, will be heldMarch 11 and 12 at the Universityof Wisconsin at Oshkosh.

finished seventh in the finals. RobCasadonte '94 and Kimathi Hardy'97 did not make the finals.

In the 55-meter hurdles, ColinPage '95 and Paul Ogagan '97 bothmade the finals outright, and EdCho '94 tied a competitor for thelast spot. The trio did not fare sowell in the finals, though, as onlyPage scored in 6th place; Ogaganfinished eighth and Cho ninth. Thewinner in the hurdles, Blake 'Nvakof Coast Guard, set a new meetrecord at 7.61 seconds, breaking therecord of 7.69 set by MIT's SeanGarrett '88.

At this point, however, thingsbegan to look up for the team. Thefield in the 1,500-meter run con-tained three of the top 10 milers inDivision III - Charles Kurtz ofWilliams, Pat Sullivan of Bates, andEthan Crain '95 of MIT. Thesethree ran away from the rest of thefield and dueled for the victory inthe final lap. Crain pulled awayfrom Sullivan in the home stretch,but Kurtz was coming up strong.But suddenly Kurtz stumbled tryingto change lanes, and Crain crossedthe finish line unchallenged forMIT's first victory of the day.

Arnold Seto '96 found himselfleading the 3,000 early on, but couldnot hold his lead and dropped backto finish seventh. Crain, meanwhile,having moved up from the back ofthe pack, again found himself in asprint to the finish with Kurtz. Thistime, however, Ethan could not holdoff his rival, and had to settle forsecond place by a half-step. In the5,000, Jesse Darley '95 ran with thelead pack, which lapped the rest ofthe field. Darley couldn't outrun thepack, though, and finished fourth.Josh Feldman '97 broke from anoth-er pack with a few laps left, finish-ing seventh; Carlos Duran '94 camein eleventh.

In the distance medley relay,Schell ran a strong 800-meter andhanded off to Kevin Knoedler '94 insecond place. Knoedler held thisplace through a 400 and gave thebaton to Pratt, who dropped back tothird place during his 1200. Karl

By Mark P. HurstTEAM MEMBER

Epee was dominated by first placefinisher Keith Lichten '95 and sec-ond place finisher Kris Giesing '94.Each fenced a spectacular finalsround, heating opponents that theyhad not beaten all season.

In the sabre individuals, teamcaptain Mark Hurst '94 took firstplace, finishing the day undefeatedwith a perfect 15-0 record.

This weekend the MIT fencingteam hosts the oldest collegiatechampionship in any sport: theIntercollegiate Fencing AssociationChampionships. Older than theNCAA itself, this year marks the100th anniversary of the champi-onship. The MIT community cancatch the action in Johnson AthleticCenter on Saturday and Sunday.

The men's varsity fencing teamtraveled to Brown University onSaturday to compete in the NewEngland Intercollegiate FencingChampionships. The top two MITfencers in each weapon competedagainst opponents from suchschools as Brown, Boston Universi-ty, Boston College, Bates, Universi-ty of New Hampshire, and Universi-ty of Massachusetts.

MIT took third place out of the13 schools competing and was sepa-rated from first place by only 4bouts (out of 60 or so that it fencedin the team round).

In the individual finals, threeMIT fencers garnered top finishes.

SPORTS

Engineers Fall to Babson in Final Home Game

Facility Record at Regionals

Hsiung, Yip BarelyMiss Coxswain Finals

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in her field. Behind Black were Elizabeth Sebern '97 (9:37.90) in55th, and Victoria Parson '94 (9:38.20) in 57th. The Engineers field-ed 10 representatives for the competition.

In the open men's division, MIT had 18 members competing.Godard Abel G provided the best result for MIT, placing 53rd, with atime of 7:52.80. He was followed by Toby Ayer '96 (7:58.60), andAdam Cotner '96 (7:59.10), who placed 74th and 79th, respectively,in a field of 252 entrants.

In the coxswain men's event, Jason Yip '95 barely missed makingthe finals placing ninth with a time of 9:37.40. Yip captured the lastspot for the final round of eight and had a time of 9:34.50 in the pre-liminary heat.

Sherry Hsiung '95 took ninth place in the coxswain women'sevent with a time of 11:21.80. Hsiung missed the qualifying for thefinals by a little less than 15 seconds.

The Engineers had one representative in the lightweight women'scompetition. Renata Pomponi G placed 27th in the qualifying heat,covering the course in a time of 1 :03.80.

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Bryant, SpringfieldCheck Engineers

By Thomas KettlerSTAFF REPORTER __.

The men's hockey team lost to Bryant College Wednesday nightby a score of 2-1. They also lost at Springfield College Saturdaynight by a score of 4-2. The losses made the team 5-10-3 overall and2-3-3 in the Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association. The Engineersmust now win against Southern Connecticut to make the ECHA play-offs which will be held on Feb. 26 and 27 here at MIT at the JohnsonAthletics Center.

In the first period, Lloyd P. M. Johnston G scored the Engineers'only goal early in the game. It came seven minutes into the game on arebound with an assist to Stepnen J. Schleuter '96. In spite of thegoal, the first period foreshadowed the rest of the game as Bryantkept the puck effectively in the MIT zone for most of the period andhad many more shots on goal.

At the beginning of the second period, the partisan Engineercrowd asked for David H. Spielvogel '95 and Tetsu Inada '97 to beon the ice but their calls fell on deaf cars. Bryant continued to attackbut were again stopped by the MIT goalie John Simmons '95.

In the third period, the fortunes of the Engineers stopped. Bryanttied the game with two minutes in the period on a goal by RollieWoodcock. Five minutes later, Paul Dube scored the winning goal forBryant. With one minute left, MIT pulled the goalie to get anotherskater on the ice but the move didn't help as they couldn't score.

In the end, Bryant had many more shots on goal, and MIT hadtrouble defending its goal. The engineers also had four power playopportunities but failed to convert any of them.

Head coach Joe Quinn commented that it was a "very importantgame for us. If we won, we would be in the playoffs. Now must winour next two games. At spots, played OK, [but it] wasn't a teameffort expected for such an important game."

He continued about the opposing team. "Bryant did what it need-ed to. It covered extremely tight. [MIT] didn't have sniper goals thatcome from rebounds. [Bryant] played according to Discipline."

The 4-2 score versus Springfield didn't accurately reflect thecloseness of the game. Also, the Engineers exceeded their perfor-

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TTPCOMINGTC HOME, EVENTS

Tuesday, Feb. 22Women's Ice Hockey vs. Harvard Business School, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 23Women's Gymnastics vs. Northeastern University, 7 p.m.

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team. David Barron of ConnecticutCollege won with a toss of 58' 13/4".

MIT fared well in the short dis-tance running events, but the topplaces eluded most of the teammembers here. Jay Chiang '94turned in a sixth-place finish in the55-meter dash finals with a demonictime of 6.66 seconds. Surprisingly,though, Matt Sandholm '96 did notmake the finals, as he and teammateBrian Pendleton '94 were outrun bya few too many competitors.

In the trials of the 200-meter,Sandholm sprinted to a third placefinish in his heat to easily make thefin-As. But in the finals, Sandholmunluckily drew lane seven; theBates track has only six lanes, withthe seventh lane defined by the out-side of lane six. This turned out tohave been strategically planned byCoach Taylor, who was attemptingto take advantage of the wider turn

offered by the outside lane. He musthave known something everybodyelse didn't, because Sandholmstunned the crowd by winning therace from the "phantom lane" in astellar time of 22.80 seconds.

Dan Corcoran '94 took advan-tage of an error by the meet officialsto reach the 400-meter run finals,where he placed seventh. In the500-meter, Edgar Ngwenya '96,Marcelo Targino '96, Chris Schell'96, and Elliott Mason '94 ranstrong races but did not qualify forthe finals. Ed Patron '95 was onpace to qualify for the finals in the800-meter, but injured himself inthe final turn and finished out of therunning. Jerry Pratt '94, the top seedin the 1,000-meter, was beaten byteammate Dan Helgesen '97 in thetrials, but still made the finals,where he finished fourth. Helgesen

LEWISTON, MAINE

Top athletes in track and fieldgathered at Bates College Saturdayafternoon for the New EnglandDivision III Chanmpionship. CoachHalston Taylor and 33 members ofthe men's track team competedwell, but settled for the third-placetrophy out of 19 schools.

The Engineers earned 76 points,well ahead of fourth-place Tufts(54.5 points), but far behind but farbehind Coast Guard (111 points)and repeat champion Williams,which set a new meet with 160.5points.

Things looked bad for mostteams before the day even started.Williams began Saturday's competi-tion with 11 points on the strengthof two places in Friday night's pen-tathlon, including a new meet recordset by senior Todd Ducharme. MITdid not have an entry in the pen-tathlon, and thus went into the dayeleven points down.

The first event, the 351b. weightthrow, featured John Wallberg '96for the Engineers. Wallberg, whowith a throw of 54' 7" has alreadyqualified for the National champi-onships, only managed a throw of49' 8" in his flight, but still madethe finals easily. Unfortunately,Wallberg was not able to improveon his throw in the finals and placedseventh, which did not score for the

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in Lillehammer:By tradition, each of the delega-

tions dress as closely as they can totheir "national outfit." (If you'rewondering if the team from Bermu-da came out in shorts, the answer is,"No.") Someone pointed out to methat the United States costume -cowboy hats - was not representa-tive of the clothing of the Ameri-cans. Indeed, with all our diversity,what can be considered as the repre-sentative "American" clothing? ...

These Games, like all others,kicked off with the Opening Cere-mony. Like every Olympics, Lille-hammer organizers sought to dosomething different for the openingceremonies. Until a few games ago,the customary Olympic Flame light-ing ceremony was to have someonerun up to the basin with a torch, andmanually ignite the fuel. InAlbertville, we saw the fire travel up

a line, into the bowl. In Barcelona,a skilled archer lit the flame with aflaming arrow. In Lillehammer, thetrend continued as torch-bearersskied for miles, using a means oftransportation their ancestors hadinvented ages ago. Once the torchreached the venue, one brave soulwould ski off a jump with it andpass it off to the next carrier.

I would have liked to see himlight the flame while in flight, but Iunderstand why it didn't happen.But I was impressed that the skiersuccessfully executed the jump infront of mrillirons, if not billions, ofviewers worldwide. Interestingly,the person who made the jump wasnot the person originally designatedto carry the torch. He completed fif-teen practice jumps in a row, butwiped out on his sixteenth, the daybefore the Opening Ceremony. Hewasn't seriously harmed, but his

replacement stole the glory whichwas supposed to be his.

CBS and International OlympicCommittee President Juan AntonioSamaranch commented about Sara-jevo, the site of the 1984 WinterOlympics. It is ironic that a city,that once held an event that symbol-ized world peace and unity, is nowin shambles due to war, they said.All of the venues are virtuallydestroyed, including the stadium,where 200 doves once flew out of.According to reports, the wood thatmade up the bleachers, are nowsaved to construct coffins. After theemotional speech, Samaranchdeclared the seventh edition of theWinter Olympic Games officiallyopen.

The first two things that I foundinteresting about these Games werethe time difference between Norwayand Boston, and the nature of

almost all of the sporting events.The time in Norway is about sixhours ahead, meaning that somemonumental, and not-so-monumen-tal, occurrences took place while Iwas sleeping. I found it quitestrange to wake up to the news thatan American had won a medal,before I even knew that the eventwould be taking place that day. Thisdifference also affected CBS's cov-erage of the Games, which I will saymore about later.

The second subject I find fasci-nating is that most winter sports area true test, not only of perfection,but also of rising to the occasion todeliver that perfection. In many ofthe events, the margin between vic-tory and defeat are decided by hun-dredths, sometimes thousandths, ofa second. One small mistake can

In case you missed it, the XVIIthWinter Olympic Games in Lille-hammer began two Saturdays ago. I

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past few Olympic Games, bothWinter and Summer, capturing hun-dreds of hours of history of video-tape, many of which I have not everviewed again. Because of changesmade by the IOC, the OlympicFever I caught from Albertviile andBarcelona returned sooner thanusual.

Thanks to modern technologyand my love of the Olympics, Imanaged to catch a good deal of theevents that happened. The 16 dayswere filled with the thrill of victoryand the agony of defeat. Here arethe thoughts that I had on the games Olympics, Page 14

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unusual for those who are unfamil-iar to rowing. The athletes competeon ergometers and monitored theirstatus, along with the enthusiasticspectators, by using a computer dis-play of times and a simulation of thepositions.

The rowers could gain only anidea of how they were doing com-pared to the rest of the field, bylooking up at a screen in front ofthem. They were essentially racingagainst the clock. Each race tookplace over a simulated distance of2,500 meters.

MIT had a number of representa-tives competing in the event withtheir best result coming from LizBradley '83. Bradley, who was onthe United States Olympic team in1988, won the Master Women'sevent - for competitors between 30and 39 years old.

The next best result from MITcame from Hartley Rogers, profes-sor of mathematics. Rogers placedseventh in the Veteran 'B' Men's

competition - for competitors over60 years of age, with a time handi-cap based on age - with a time of 8minutes 57.20 seconds.

Rogers had placed fourth out ofthe entire field in the preliminaryheat, posting a time of 8:44.00.Rogers previously won the Veteran'B' competition at the C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprints six consecutive timesbetween 1982 and 1987.

In the open women's competi-tion, Maria Bradnin of Swedencruised ahead of the field and brokethe world indoor record, coming inwith a time of 8: 13.60.

In the open men's finals, world-and C.R.A.S.H.-B..-record holderMatthias Siejkowski won his thirdstraight title, finishing in 7:23.10, tobeat Jean Rolland by a little morethan six seconds.

Among the women, Sarah Black'97 was MIT's top performer, post-ing a time of 9:28.80 finishing 44th

The weather on Sunday made fora beautiful day of rowing, and someworld records in rowing fell thatafternoon. However, the rowing didnot take place on the Charles River,but instead, in Rockwell Cage.

Several students, alumni, andfaculty members of MIT werejoined by competitors from acrossthe nation and around the world forthe Charles River All-Star lasBeens (C.R.A.S.H.-B.) Sprints,which featured the World IndoorRowing Championships as the mainevent. Scores of people of all agescame to participate.

While the Open/Internation com-petition consisted primarily of colle-giate athletes, the field featured pastand future Olympians from placesas far away as China and Russia.The field even included a GoldMedalist from the 1964 OlympicGames.

The races at this event look quite

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Rowers from all over the nation participate In the C.R.A.S.H.-B.Sprints competition held at Rockwell Cage on Sunday.C.R.A.S.H.-B., Page 15

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Rowers, CoxswainsParticpateIn World Indoor Championships