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and the spring term will begin onthe first Tuesday in February. Examperiods will run tfom Monday toFriday in both semesters.

Role of IAP debatedJaffe argued that the new calen-

dar is essentially as long as the cal-endar committee's original proposalbecause it adds teaching days during!AP in. one of Sosr years.

"The academic content of IAPwould be increased significantly.This would have the effect of allow-ing departments to have studentsspend at least one intense IAP dur-ing their four academic years here,"Jaffe said.

Increased flexibility and reducedpressure were the primary motiva-tions behind the changes in IAP,Jaffe said. "There is no increase inthe size of departmental programs,so hopefully [moving a class toIAP] will reduce the pressure onstudents," he said.

According to Jaffe, departmentsare given the option of offering aclass only during IAP because of thedifficulty of developing two ver-sions of a course - one for a regu-lar semester and one for ISP. Elimi-nating the need for a departnent to

The faculty voted last Wednes-day to extend the Institute calendaryear, passing a version of the Insti-tute Calendar Committee's recom-mendations revised by Professor ofPhysics Robert L. Jaffe.

The new calendar will extend thelength of each semester to 65 classdays In m-ost years, a.d len.5gthenIndependent Activities Period to afull four weeks. The faculty alsointends to allow departments tooffer a single required course onlyduring IAP.

The calendar, passed by an 83-13vote, is a compromise between thecurrent calendar and the calendarcommittee's original proposal,which called for a 67-day semesterand would have shortened the sum-mer by two weeks.

The length of the summer vaca-tion remains largely the same underthe new calendar because it does notextend the semester into weeks thatare currently part of the vacation.Instead it eliminates vacation daysat the beginning of the first week offall classes and at the end of the lastweek of the spring term.

Beginning in the 1994-95 acade-mic year, the fall term will begin onthe first Wednesday after Labor Day

ment of the Sloan Building, she said.Glavin refused to give the names

of the officers who responded to thescene, the Physical Plant workerwho alerted the police, or the namesof any other potential witnesses.

"Since the case will go to court, Idon't want to discuss who the offi-cers are who were at the scene, orhow many witnesses we have,"Glavin said.

"When we got to the scene,"Glavin said, "wc found five studentswho were essentially in the processof stealing approximately $20,000worth of computer equipment," shesaid.

"We arrested one student imme-diately at the scene and have subse-

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tools,"' Glavin said.Their cases will be heard in the

Cambridge court system in lateAugust, said Dean for StudentAffairs Arthur C. Smith.

'"We are also requesting internaldisciplinary action" within MIT,G!avin said.

"These people will be triedthrough the normal court process.They have broken state laws -breaking and entering, destructionof property - these are all statelaws," Glavin added.

Friday morning break-in"On May 21 at 3:48 a.m., we

received a call from Physical Plant,"Glavir said. "A supervisor hadnoticed some suspicious activity bythe computer cluster" in the base-

Calendar, Page 8Early last Friday, Campus Police

caught five MIT students allegedlyin the process of stealing $20,000worth of computer equipment froma computer facility in the basementof 'L e Alfred P. S!o-r. Building(Building E52), said Campus PoliceChief Anne P. Glavin.

According to the police report,the five students are Christopher B.Anderson G. John D. MacKenzie'93, Christopher B. Council '94,John K. Dorton Santiago '94, andJose E. Ledesma'94.

Each is charged with "breakingand entering in the nighttime withintent to commit a felony, wantondestruction of $250 worth of proper-ty, and possession of burglarious

By Karen KaplanNEWS EDITOR

Five years ago, the Federal Com-munications Commission invitedproposals for a national standard forHDTV, which is expected to changethe face of television the way colorTV did when it was introduced inthe 1950's. Only four systems.including one proposed by MIT,

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window in Phi Beta Epsilon onMarch 13. However, the committee"did not have enough evidence toimplicate the students who had beencharged," according to Dean forStudent Affairs Arthur C. Smith.

"I'm happy those people wereacquitted - I knew we were inno-cent," said Andrew T. J. Luan '93,PBE president.

COD Chair Nelson Y.-S. Kiangwas out of the country and could notbe reached for comment.

Smith said "there is nothingmore to investigate" on the questionof who made the remarks. "It still ispossible that an individual maycome forward" to claim responsibil-ity for the shouts, he said.

Smith said he is "talking to[PB3E] about what its responsibilitiesare and what might happen in the

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President Clinton announced Thursday he will extend China'sfavored trade status for another year but will condition future exten-sions on human rights progress.

At the same time, Clinton declined to link two other issues withrenewal of China's trading privileges. He said U.S. concerns aboutChirna's trade practices and foreign arms sales would be negotiatedseparately with Beijing.

The steps represent a retreat from Clinton's pledges during thepresidential campaign, when he endorsed legislation that would tierenewal of China's most favored nation (MFN) status to its behavioron human rights, arms sales and trade witl the United States. Clintonhad accused President Bush of ignoring China's human rights recordwhen Bush vetoed such legislation last year.

After months of review and unsuccessful diplomatic efforts to pressChina for cooperation, Clinton altered his approach. During a televised"town meeting" at the Whi:e House Thursday, he said the twin goals ofsupporting market reform in China and ensuring a significant share ofChinese trade for American business influenced his decision.

"But I want to make it clear to them that there has to be someprogress on human rights," he added, making specific reference toChina's use of prison labor. "Our trade disputes and our disputesabout arms sales, I'm going to take out of this issue and negotiatewith them directly."

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homosexual."Why can't he just tell me why?

What terrible thing did my son do tohim that led him to kill my son?"Hajdys said during a recess.

Helvey's courtroom apology wasthe first time since pretrial hearingsbegan in February that Helvey hadshown any emotion.

When Hajdys described her sor-row in testimony Tuesday, Helveyavoided looking at her by keepinghis head facing down, seeminglyvriting notes.

Defense attorneys showed thejury nearly two hours of videotapedinterviews from Helvey's neighborsand friends in Fredericktown, Mo.,where he spent most of his youth.Many of them described Helvey,who was born in Eloise, Mich., as"closer than a brother." One oldgirlfriend said the family dog "neverbarked at Terry."

It was part of a defense attemptto portray Helvey as a youth whohad overcome child abuse and abroken home to become a model cit-izen but who murdered Schindlerunder the influence of alcohol andsteroids.

The prosecutor countered with awitness given immunity from prose-cution who testified that he andHelvey had set Helvey's 1984Chrysler afire just two monthsbefore the murder in a scheme tocollect insurance money as Helveywas about to sail for Japan.

death.During Helvey's testimony,

Navy Lt. Jacques Smith, a defenseattorney, asked him directly, "Didyou attack Schindler because he washomosexual?"

"No, I didn't. I did not attackhim because he was homosexual,"Helvey replied.

The apology contrasted sharplywith testimony Tuesday by KennonF. Privette, a Navy investigator. Hetold the jury of Helvey's admissionto the slaying of Schindler duringinterrogation the day after the mur-der in a public toilet in Sasebo,Japan, last Oct. 27.

"He said he hated homosexuals.He was disgusted by them," Privettesaid. On killing Schindler, Privettequoted Helvey as saying: "I don'tregret it. I'd do it again .... Hedeserved it."

Wednesday, Helvey offered nodirect explanation of why he killedSchindlcr, 22, a gay man who wasawaiting discharge from the Navy.Nor did he disclose any details ofwhat led up to the killing except tosay that he and two other sailorsfrom the amphibious assault shipBelleau Wood had purchased twolarge bottles of whiskey, a bottle ofschnapps, a bottle of vodka, orangejuice and a six-pack of beer andwent drinking in a park.

Helvey said he had metSchindler before but did not explainhow he knew his shipmate was a

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YOKOSUKA, JAPAN

A sailor who killed a gay ship-mate was sentenced Thursday to lifeimprisonment after tearfully apolo-gizing to the victim's mother andinsisting he did not brutally beat herson to death because he was homo-sexual.

A jury of eight Navy and Marineofficers imposed the sentence onAirman Apprentice Terry M.Helvey, 21, after deliberating onlythree hours.

Helvey showed no emotion assentence was passed. The victim'smother, Dorothy Hajdys, said sim-ply: "Thank you."

Wednesday, before the jurystarted its debate, Helvey facedHajdys, the mother of Seaman AllenR. Schindler, 22, of ChicagoHeights, Ill., and said, "'l accept fullresponsibility for mv actions ... Iwish your son were back. If I couldredo this mess, I would ....

"What happened that night washorrible. But I am not a horrible per-son. I put my life in your hands," headded, sobbing.

Helvey, 21, made the plea in anattempt to persuade the jury toreduce his punishment. Under acourt-approved bargain in exchangefor his pleading guilty to "inflictinggreat bodily harm," the maximumpenalty is lifetime imprisonment.Under the original charge, it was

MOSCOW

Russia's Constitutional Court dealt a sharp blow to PresidentBoris N. Yeltsin Thursday by upholding the conservative-run Parlia-ment's vote to strip him of control over state-owned television andnews agencies. But whether the court's verdict actually means any-thing in the confusing turmoil of today's Russian politics became thetopic of immediate debate.

The Itar-Tass news agency, the Russian information Agency andRussian Television - the affected media - kept operating as before.Yeitsin's information czar, Mikhail Poltoranin, defiantly mocked thecourt as a "political tool" of the Congress of People's Deputies,which wholeheartedly opposes Yeltsin.

A more alarmist view came from the Izvestia newspaper, itself thetarget of an unsuccessful takeover bid by Parliament. The paperdeclared that Thursday's ruling spells the end of "the time ofephemeral openness, of semi-freedom of speech" in Russian media.

Ironically, the Constitutional Court had ruled in favor of Izvestia'sindependence last week.

The Congress also voted to shut down Poltoranin's Federal Infor-mation Center, which Yeltsin created to orchestrate a nationwide pro-paganda campaign for his reforms, the new constitution he wants forRussia and a pro-Yeltsin vote in April's referendum.

Mexico Offers $5 Million RewardFor Cardinal Killers

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By William J. Eatonand David LauterLOS ANGELES TIMES

Clinton worked the phones lateinto the day Wednesday to gain sup-port for his budget plan.

White House officials concededprivately that failure to pass thebudget bill in the House woulddeliver a devastating blow to anadministration already staggeringfrom a series of self-inflictedwounds.

"We realize the whole presiden-cy is on the line now," said Rep.Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y. "Thispresidency is going to be made orbroken in the next couple of weeks,and I want to make certain it's notbroken in the House of Representa-tives."

White House officials used lessdramatic language in public butacknowledged privately that thevote is critical.

"We're finally starting to climbout of the toilet, and we've got ourfingers up to the rim," one seniorWhite House aide said.

Winning, on the other hand,could mark the beginning of anotherof Clinton's much-vaunted come-backs - or so his aides hope.

The bill in question would enactClinton's budget plan, which isaimed at reducing the size of thefederal deficit by $496 billion overthe next five years. It would raisetaxes by a net $250 billion duringthat period- one of the largestincreases in U.S. history - andreduce spending for mandatory ben-efits and other direct-spending pro-grams by a net $87 billion.

Most of the political controversyover the bill has come from Clin-ton's proposed new energy tax,which would hit middle-class tax-payers. The tax would cost roughlyS 17 per month for an average familyonce it is fully in place, according to,Treasury estimates.

Although some Hlouse Democ-rats have called for a delay in thevotle White Htouse officials repeat-clMy ruled out any such talk, arguingthat a drelay would merely make

Clinton look weaker and would noLin the end, rally any extra votes.

"We'd just get killed all week-end," one Clinton adviser said.

By the time he left his office fordinner Wednesday, Clinton hadcalled some two dozen House mem-bers, aides said, adding that theyexpected him to call still more dur-ing the evening.

Clinton met Wednesday morningwith members of the CongressionalBlack Caucus, some of whom havethreatened to vote against the bud-get because it would cut benefit pro-grams too deeply.

"Until it's done, there's a littlebit of a problem everywhere,"White }louse communicationsdirector George Stephanopoulossaid. "It's all about balancing."

Administration vote counterssaid earlier Wednesday that of the256 Democrats in the House. some20 were certain to vote against thebudget. Another 30 to 40 were con-sidered wavering - including manyHouse freshmen, who have not yethad to cast such a difficult vote.

Because two House seats arevacant, a majority in the chamber iscurrently 217 votes.

In the search for votes, Clintonwent so far as to call at least threemoderate Republicans asking forsupport. The effort seemed in vain.Rep. Christopher Shays of Con-necticut, one of the Republicanscalled by Clinton, predicted HouseRepublicans would be unanimous inopposing the budget, and mostDemocratic vote counters agreed.

In addition to reducing spendingfor mandatory benefits, the budgetbill would freeze spending on otherprograms, thereby forcing a 5 102billion reduction in outlays fordefense, foreign aid and domesticspending.

The remainder of the deficitreduction would be accomplishedby lower interest rates leading tolower payments on the nationaldebt.

WASHINGTON

House leaders and conservativeDemocrats reached agreement earlyThursday on a new proceduredesigned to curtail spending, raisinghopes for passage of President Clin-ton's $496 billion deficit reductionpackage in a major congressionalshowdown only hours away.

An elated Speaker Thomas S.Foley, joined by Rep. Charles W.Stenholm, D-Texas, and Rep. Timo-thy J. Penny, D-Minn., announcedthe agreement after days of negotia-tions.

"This is a very positive develop-ment," Foley said.

The outcome was expected tohelp pass the troubled bill by pick-ing up crucial votes of waveringDemocrats when the massive bill toraise taxes and trim spending comesto a vote later Thursday.

Foley said the agreement "doesbuild momentum" toward gatheringthe votes Democrats will need.

"This is a major, significantchange regarding the budgetprocess," Stenholm said.

Penny, another top conservative,said, "We'll do what we can to getthe votes" to pass the deficit-reduc-tion bill.

The agreement does not guaranteethat spending will be restrained, but itdoes put pressure on the presidentand lawmakers to do so. Under themechanism, spending targets wouldbe set each year for Social Security,Medicare and the rest of the govem-ment's rapidly expanding benefit pro-grams, which together account forhalf of the federal budget.

If the target is exceeded, tileprcsident would have to proposepaying for the excess with taxincreases, spending cuts or both --or with borrowing, which drives tipthe deficit. Congress would tile,,have to vote on his proposal, or onCof its own, officials said.

GUADALAJARA, MEXICO

The Mexican government Wednesday offered an unprecedentedS5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of some ofMexico's top drug traffickers, including those allegedly responsiblefor the murders of a Roman Catholic cardinal and six other people.

The killings at Guadalajara's international airport Monday were atremendous embarrassment to President Carios Salinas de Gortari,who only recently renewed Mexico's diplomatic relations with theVatican. The incident has unleashed a wave of criticism against theadministration for failing to control Mexican mafias.

Deputy Attorney General Antonio Garcia Torres announced thereward at a press conference here and released sketches and descrip-tions of four of Mexico's mafia chiefs. One high-ranking official saidthe offer was "a call to society" for help.

"We know they move in and out of that area," said the official,who asked not to be identified. "People must see them. We want totry to get information to capture them."

Cardina! Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, his driver and five otherpeople died in the airport parking lot Monday afternoon during whatofficials say was an attempt by one group of traffickers to assassinateleaders of a rival organization.

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The debate seemed more fitting for a convention of electronicsengineers: Should the microscopic lines that make up a video imagechange in unison as they simulate motion, or is it enough if onlyevery other line changes at a time?

But the setting was a Capitol Hill hearing room, where lawmakerswere evaluating a private-sector drive to give the United States thenew video technology known as high-definition television.

Monday, four rival groups of HDTV developers announced theyhad joined forces. But at the hearing Thursday before the House sub-committee on telecommunications, a computer-industry representa-tive and a researcher argued that the new consortium's proposeddesign is flawed, based on how the screen lines would interact.

"We're making a decision we'll have to live with for 50 years,"said Nicholas Negroponte, head of the Media Lab at MIT.

The debate over picture technology stems from the fact that TVand computers are incompatible. Without special adaptive equipment,you can't use a television as a computer monitor, or see a TV showon a computer screen.

Computer screens, meant for close-up use, employ a "progres-sive" system of scanning. Each line is updated at once. That helps tocreate a non-shimmering screen, on which text can be read for longperiods with ease.

HDTV is commonly seen as a key device for the informationhighway and a predicted merger of TV sets and computers. A personcould use one unit to watch a football game, type a letter, balance thecheckbook or tap into a distant database.

Jury Deliberations Begin in RetrialOf Suspended Miani Police Officer

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Byy James GierstenzangLOS ANGELES TIMES

s tial campaign.Perot has purchased a half-hour

WASNGTTON Of network television time on Sun-rnment has day evening as part of his public?ensive and crusade to defeat the agreement.)ying cam- Meanwhile, in Canada - wheren this coun- the agreement is widely opposed -ssage of the Prime Minister Brian Mulroney onIts with the 'IThursday used his strong majorityada, a non- in Parliament to ram ratificationion reported through the House of Commons.

The agreement now goes to the)bbying for Canadian Senate, which also is con-Free Trade trolled by Mulroney's Progressivecrutfiny, the Conservatives.

ering estaEb- Mexico's U.S. effort to ensurecounter bil- approval by the U.S. Congress hasoss Perot's cost more than the previous threeement. largest foreign lobbying campaignsit concern" combined - one each by Southd campaign Korea, Japan and Kuwait - in thea Democra- past quarter-century, according toVhite House the Center for Public Integrity, anPresident organization partly funded by labor

ing a rapid- unions that conducted a lengthyar to that study of Justice Department records.n presiden- Since 1989 Mexico has spent $25

million in seeking the support ofpoliticians and the American publicfor NAFITA and is likely to spend asmuch as $10 million more as the issuecomes to a vote in Congress later thisyear, the center found. The 1993 fig-aex is similar to an estimate offered byMexico's ambassador to the UnitedStates, Jorge Montano, in a recentinterview with the Los Angeles Times.

The study presents a look at howthe money is being spent and por-trays a concerted effort to sign upformer U.S. government officials topresent Mexico's case. In addition,it found that others who havepressed in the past for approval ofthe treaty are now members of theClinton admninistration.

While the director of the study,Charles Lewis, said that the lobby-ing campaign breaks no laws, itdoes highlight the extent to whichthe agreement's proponents aregoing to gain approval in what bothsides concede will be a very closecontest.

The Mexican goverunleashed the most expelaborate foreign lobbpaign ever undertaken ittry, hoping to ensure pastrade agreement it wanUnited States and Cantprofit research organizatiThursday.

And as Mexico's lothe North American FiAgreement came under sWhite House was consid!ishing a special unit to clionaire industrialist Rcefforts to defeat the agree

"There is significanabout Perot's anticipatedto defeat the agreement,tic source close to the Msaid, He said aidestoClinton were contemplatresponse effort similemployed by the Clintor

ORLANDO. FLA.

Jury deliberations began late Thursday in the racially chargedmanslaughter retrial of William Lozano, a suspended police officer,while Miami held its breath and leaders there appealed for calm.

Roy Black, Lozano's lawyer, ended his defense by reading apoem about the life of a police officer. Lozano, charged with reck-lessly killing two black men, wept quietly, dabbing his eyes with awhite handkerchief.

Lozano, a Colombian native, is accused in the deaths of two menfleeing police on a motorcycle Jan. 16, 1989, the Martin Luther KingJr. holiday. The driver was shot, and the passenger died in the ensu-ing crash. Their deaths sparked three nights of looting, gu;nfire alndviolence in Miami.

"No one wants to believe that Williamn Lozano went out and killedthese people," prosecutor John Hogan told jurors. "But I submit that'swhat happened."

Dade County Circuit Judge W. Thomas Spencer ordered a four-hour delay in announcing a verdict after Gov. Lawton Chiles, D, saidWednesday that police and National Guard troops first must be inplace in Miami. The delaying tactic would be similar to that lastmonth in Los Angeles where a jury trying four police officers fin-ished deliberating in mid-afternoon but a judge withheld the verdictuntil the next morning.

Terrost Bombing Kills Five,Destroys 17th CentuLy Art

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Boban and virtually all of the750,000 Bosnian Croats he claimsto represent insist that the govern-ment in Sarajevo now speaks onlyfor Bosnia's Muslims, who are thelargest of the republic's three majorethnic groups but have been herdedinto a handful of shell-shatteredurban ghettos covering far less than10 percent of republic land.

Boban's scathing remarks towardBosnian President Alija Izetbegovicand other Muslim officials seemedto confirm a thorough collapse of theCroat-Muslim alliance formed at thestart of the war, when Serbian rebelstrained their guns on the other twoethnic groups in defiance of theirvote for independence.

Top Serbian and Croatian officialshave met periodically for the past twoyears in what Western diplomatsbelieve has been a series of attemptsto resolve their disputes by dividingBosnia between them so that eachwould have an expanded, enrichedand more easily defended new state.

Boban a year ago traveled to theAustrian city of Graz for a clandes-tine meeting with Bosnian Serbleader Radovan Karadzic, and thepresidents of Serbia and Croatia arereported by their advisers to have

discussed a Bosnian carve-up aslong as two years ago.

A top aide to Karadzic effective-ly confirmed a Serb-Croat divisionplan when asked about it earlier thismonth.

"The Croats wanted it this way,"said Slavisa Rakovic, the BosnianSerb publicity chief in the rebelstronghold of Pale.

Rakovic described the Croats asmore suitable partners in negotia-tions to restore peace to Bosniabecause, he said, they hold the "bal-ance of power."

Boban's chief media adviser,Slobodan Lovrenovic, likewisedescribed the Serbs as a more credi-ble force to contend with.

"Serb forces are there and they aregoing to stay there," he said of thevast Bosnian territory the rebelsoccupy. "You have to be realistic ....Serbs are ready to make a peace planbased on the situation on the ground."

Suspicions of a Serb-Croat plotto carve up Bosnia were rekindledjust last week when the BosnianSerb commander, Gen. RatkoMladic, and Boban's military chief-tain, Gen. Milivoje Petkovic, signeda cease-fire that effectively acceptedthe territorial status quo.

GRUDE, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Encouraged by the BosnianSerbs' purported independence andWestern reluctance to preserve therepublic, the Bosnian Croat leadersaid Thursday that he has no choicebut to create and protect his ownseparate state.

Self-styled Croat president MateBoban has adopted a ruthless prag-matism in laying claim to mostBosnian territory not yet under Ser-bian rebel control and abandoningthe Muslim allies he blames for los-ing the rest of the republic.

Although Boban denied in aninterview any formal deal with theSerbs to divide Bosnia, he acknowl-edged that the original adversaries inthe bloody Balkans conflict have late-ly refrained from fighting each otherand have more in common in theirvisions of the future than with theMuslims they are both now fighting.

"Everyone now has his own gov-ernment, temporarily, on the freedterritory he controls," Boban said ofthe Bosnian Serb, Muslim and Croatleaders. "Otherwise, there would bechaos. If you are left alone, youhave to take care of yourself."

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ROME

A terrorist bomb that killed five people outside Florence'srenowned Uffizi Palace early Thursday destroyed several minor l7thcentury works of Italian art, damaged some works by renowned artistsbut left the museum's most famous paintings and sculptures unhanrmed.

Italy's interior minister promptly called the bombing the work of"Mafia terrorism" at a time when Italian authorities are waging theirmost successful campaign ever against organized crime.

The bomb, planted in a parked car that had been stolen hours ear-lier, dug a crater 10 feet wide and 6 feet deep between the 16th centu-ry Uffizi Palace and an agricultural archive across the street. Policesaid they had a description of a man who walked away from the carshortly before the blast.

The explosion demolished a nearby four-story archive building,killing its custodian, her husband, her 8-year-old daughter and her 9-month-old baby. Police found an additional body, that of a 22-year-old architecture student who lived across an alley from the Uffizi'sheavily damaged west wing. About 30 people were injured.

The Uffizi was less severely damaged than the archive, althoughmost of its windows were blown out by the force of the blast. Themuseum houses Italy's most precious art collection, including SandroBotticelli's "Birth of Venus," Leonardo da Vinci's "Adoration of theMagi" and Michelangelo's "Doni Tondo," his only completed oilpainting. Also in the collection is the "Medici Venus," a 2,000-year-old marble sculpture that had been in the collection of Florence's rul-ing Medici family.

A Straight-A Recovery for GradLOS ANGELES TIMES

tions with Washington.But these days, he said, "Japanese

businesses have begun to lose moneyon their investments in the U.S."

And Tokyo has concluded that ifthe Clinton administration imposessanctions, Japan should respond notas if it has lost its best friend butwith calm resolve, either by filing acomplaint with the Geneva-basedGeneral Agreement on Tariffs andTrade or by imposing sanctions ofits own against American exports.

Once both sides had actedagainst the other, they might find itpolitically easier to return to thenegotiating table and reach a settle-ment, the official said.

The officials voiced some sym-pathy for the U.S. frustration withTokyo's stubbornly high trade sur-plus and the difficulties foreignfirms face in cracking the Japanesemarket.

"We recognize the need tolaunch some initiatives," one offi-cial said. "And we will do so-with measures to increase trans-parency (of government regulations)and increase competitive conditionsin the Japanese market."

By Paul BlusteinTHE WASHINGTON POST

over the next several months.Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi

Miyazawa and other officials havewarned that Tokyo will resist theapproach apparently favored by theadministration, in which Japan wouldincrease its imports by agreeing to setgovernment-mandated targets.

"Managed-trade approaches willbe precluded," the document statesin setting forth the underlying prin-ciples Japan feels must be under-stood at the outset of the talks. "Inthis regard, no discussions will bemade for the purpose of setting anumerical target" for imports ofspecific products or the reduction ofJapan's huge trade surplus.

With striking bravado, the For-eign Ministry officials said they fearU.S. trade sanctions against Japan-ese products significantly less thanthey used to.

One senior official said that inthe past, Japan has bent to U.S.trade demands for two reasonsbecause "Japanese business wasmaking money in the U.S. market,"and because Japan's political estab-lishment placed enormous impor-tance on maintaining friendly rela-

Here is what Japanese govern-ment officials will say at their firstmajor trade negotiations with theClinton administration: There canbe "no discussions" of the U.S.side's central demand that Tokyoachieve specific targets for theimportation of foreign products.

That is the message of an inter-nal Japanese government document,which stakes out a tough openingposition for talks on creating a new"framework" for resolving U.S.-Japan trade problems.

Foreign Ministry officials, whofurnished the document Thursdaynight to a small group of Americanreporters, said it represents the con-sensus within the government ofwhat Japan must say at the negotia-tions, which are scheduled to beginearly next month in Washington.

The government documentshows that Japanese negotiatorsintend to take an uncompromisingposition at the outset, raising theprospect that U.S.-Japan relationswill become particularly strained

LOS ANGELES

The valedictorian at Thursday night's Los Angeles City Collegecommencement ceremony will speak from experience when he urgeshis 550 classmates to look with optimism to the future.

Former cocaine addict William Alexander Jr. is happy to forgetabout the past.

"It's a miracle I'm here, actually," says the man who emergedfrom a series of rehabilitation centers to become a straight-A student."I could never imagine this. Never."

On Tuesday, Alexander was among 23 psychology students whocompleted an unusual Alcohol/Drug Studies program at the VermontAvenue campus. It turned out he wasn't the only one who had livedthe curriculum - not just read about it in textbooks.

Classmate Paul Foucher, arrested more than 100QO times on drug-related charges, now is headed for the University of California,Berkeley. Iinda Young, a practicing alcoholic four years ago, is Uni-versity of California, Los Angeles bound.

WORLD & NATION

Mexico Employing ExtensiveLobbying Crusade for NAFTA

Bosnian Croat Leader Pans toCreate, Protect His Own State

Japan to Take Tough OpeningStance in Tade Talks Wit U.S.

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Hanging in the balance of the court pro-ceedings surrounding the September murderof Yngve K. Raustein '94 is a second life, onethreatened by Tom Reilly, the MiddlesexCountry district attorney, as he attempts to tryShon McHugh as an adult rather than a juve-nile. Since the October 1993 night that Shon,a 16-year-old boy, was arrested for allegedlybludgeoning Raustein to death on MemorialDrive, the push has been on to see that Shonspends the rest of his life in jail.

In a fit of public posturing the morningafter the murder, Reilly announced his inten-tion to try Shon as an adult and released thealleged perpetrator's name. (Reilly's SuffolkCounty counterpart apparently doesn't do

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stalking. Wrighton's comments and stanceagain substantially reduce confidence inMIT's ability to formulate, implement, andpractice a credible sexual harassment policyand set of procedures.

We also deplore Tewhey's efforts to claimthat he is the real victim of sexual harassmentand present himself as a harmed person inneed of protection ("fears continued harass-ment"). From the reports, it seems clear thatTewhey was the perpetrator, not the victim.To cite the discomfitures to him inherent inthe process of redressing his abuse of others,as harassment, is a gross manipulation andfurther traumatizing to the individuals he vic-timized.

We urge the Institute to implement a credi-ble harassment policy and procedures, to cen-tralize the process of receiving and resolvingsexual harassment cases in order to avoid thesituation outlined above, and to create a sys-tem whereby victims of harassment may havetheir claims quickly and honorably addressedand resolved.

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Office. While Wrighton may only know ofone complaint, we know there were othersfiled with Dean for Student Affairs ArthurSmith, the Personnel Office, and CampusPolice. Wrighton's evident lack of knowledgeonly points out the problems inherent in amulti-access system and demonstrates theneed to centralize the process of addressingsexual harassment complaints.

We also strongly deplore the attacks onNolan and ask that she be given whatever sup-ports and relief are possible. It is very disturb-ing that the provost felt compelled to defendTewhey, rather than support Nolan, with hisstatement, "He [Tewhey] felt the time hadcome to resign... I agreed with his assessmentand accepted his resignation without any pre-judgement on the harassment allegationsinvolved in the court order." This statementveils the reality of Tewhey's known harass-ment, evidenced by Nolan's need to useMIT's system to acquire a cease-and-desistorder which ultimately proved ineffective. Itis a further distortion on the part of Wrightonto suggest that this specific case of harassmentwas reducible to a contest between two peo-ple, rather than associated with a larger pat-tern of power abuse by Tewhey, which is thedefining characteristic of harassment and

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PRODUCTION STAFFthe blame for such a tragedy. Unfortunately,Reilly would rather see two people die thanjust one. Let's pretend for a minute that Shonis guilty. Here's what this transfer hearingmeans: Convicted as an adult for murderingRaustein, Shon faces the rest of his life behindthe bars of an adult prison, with adult murder-ers and rapists obstruciing his view. No doubthe will be a victim of those rapists himself.And Reilly would say, "Serves him right."

But if Shon's attorney succeeds in demon-strating the appropriateness of a juvenilecharge, Shon will probably face about 20years' time, and will be in a juvenile facility- clearly a kinder, gentler place - until he isat least 21, and possibly 23, years old. He will

business the same way; when a teenager waskilled in an Orange Line station in Boston lastweek, the names of the teens arrested in theincident were withheld from the media.)

Granted, if you're looking through Web-ster's to find the best word to describeRaustein's murder, bludgeoning certainly fitsthe bill. The crime was a gross example ofsome of America's worst problems: teenagedelinquency, lack of respect for human life,the crumbling of strong working class fami-lies. (Is the term family values in Webster'syet?) While we don't yet know the details ofwhether Shon was drunk, high, or insane atthe time of the incident, Reilly's attempt tostick it to Shon certainly appeals to the venge-ful side of human nature.

At some point, society has to take some of

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Wrighton CommentsOn Tewhey Distort

Truth, Attack NolanWe deplore the comment made by Provost

Mark S. Wrighton, "Only one complaint wasfiled against former Associate Dean James R.Tewhey during his tenure here and that waswithout merit." ["Tewhey Complaint WasWithout Merit," Apr. 27] This comment com-pletely erases the complaint made by eightmembers of Tewhey's staff last spring.Wrighton's comment also erases the corn-plaint brought forward by staff memberKatherine M. Nolan. Unsuccessful in usingMIT's system to stop Tewhey's harassment(she acquired a cease-and-desist order throughMIT Campus Police against Tewhey on Feb-ruary 22), Nolan was evidently forced to takefurther action outside the system and obtain arestraining order on April 9th from the New-ton District Court against former DeanT ewhey because of his continued harassment.

Such misinformation and distortion report-ed on the front page of MIT's student newspa-per only compounds the problems emanatingfrom the Residence and Campus Activities

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First things first.If any seniors should happen to read this

before Commencement begins, here's thedeal; nobody really wants to listen to MexicanPresident Salinas blab on, right? So let's makeit fun. Every time Salinas says the words"North American Free Trade Agrcement," wedo the wave. We'll do it in the order they'llseat us to give degrees, which, if I understandthis correctly, means that the responsibility forstarting the wave falls on the shoulders of theCourse IV senior whose name comes first inthe alphabet. That's you, Rukiye Devres ofIstanbul, Turkey! Remember, Rukiye, on thecue "North American Free Trade Agreement,"stand up, throw your hands in the air, and startthe wave!

Good, that's out of the way.Looking back, I consider my education at

MIT a total failure. This is because I camehere wanting to learn one thing; how to con-vert all of my Talking Heads tapes to CDswithout buying the albums all over again. Istill don't know how to do this; if MIT were alate-night TV offer, I could demand mymoney back.

But there was a redeeming feature thatwould keep me from making a claim on mymoney-back guarantee.

For three years, from halfway through myfirst year at MIT until my graduation last F6eruary, I had the singular privilege of writingfor The Tech's opinion page. This meant a lotof things.

It meant that opinions of mine - opinionsno more significant than the opinions of anyoneelse, except people who write for The Thistle- were printed in glorious type on page 4 or

page S of The Tech. It meant that telling peoplemy full name often caused them to look at mefor a second and ask, with expressions rangingfrom repulsion to awe, "Are you the Bill jack-son who writes for 7he Tech?"

And it meant that. for the two years I wasopinion editor, I had a unique degree ofunderstanding for the feelings of Tech readers.I read all of the letters received by The Tech,and selected and edited many of them for pub-lication. Those that I didn't were taken care ofby my excellent co-editors, Prabhat Mehtaand especially Matt Hersch, a fine, funny guyyou'll now deservedly find at the top of TheTech's mast (that's the big tall column at theleft end Of page 4).

Being opinion editor meant editing with asmuch detachment as possible letters rangingfrom well-written ones I agreed with to piecesof crap I didn't.

It also gave me a chance to read the crankletters. The best of the cranks was HenryRatliff, who bombed us with regular contribu-tions about once a week from his home basesomewhere in Texas. Early Ratliff was ram-bling, rather boring prose, but I grew to lovelate-period Ratliff, when he geared his type-writer up to create poetry the likes of whichthe world has never seen. Now, despite my

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then serve the balance of his sentence in anadult jail, perhaps not one of maximum secu-rity, as an older man less vulnerable to the evilinfluences present there and one who has hadthe opportunity to face up to his deeds amonghis peers and professionals trained to helpjuveniles.

For Shon to be tried as a juvenile, his attor-ney must demonstrate several things -among them, Shonl's ability to be rehabilitatedand his good performance while in detention.

According to his lawyer, Shon is doing justfine.. He had nlever had any significant run-inswith the law before (one time, as a youngster,he was picked up for giving a guy a couple ofscratches with his bicycle, somehow), and hisgrades have been exemplary while in deten-tionl.

There can be only one reason why Reillywould be interested in destroying another life:politics. The district attorney is an electedofficial, and the incident took place about amonth before the November elections. Go fig-ure. it looks good for Reilly to be tough oncrime, but his job is to ensure that justice pre-vails. Is it really just to disregard a second lifein a fit of vengeance?

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By1 Bll JacksonTRAPPED IN A MAN'S BODY

one-time admonition that "I'll never$#@%ing print Ratliff," I would like to usesome of my final column space to reprint theRatliff classic "Jesus," which represents someof his finest work.

JESUS

his churchpurifies earth

of hatredwar-anger

caffeine-gamblejunk food

cancerous coaloil-nuke

sperm swarmingeating trees

intoxicat-ing sprees

I got to read this stuff every week-forfree! - and there were others where Henrycame fromr For all the pleasure he's given me,I figure the least I can do is print one of hismasterpieces. He stopped writing us late lastyear. I'll miss ya, Henry.

But besides the fun of reading, editing, andwrtilng, iriy experilence at Tile T -r a gave me achance to meet some of the nicest people atMIT, a group that works much harder thanthey should to produce a sadly under-appreci-ated newspaper at a school where there is nojournalism school and only a smattering ofhumanities majors of any type. I want to thanka few of these people. And after three yearsit's my right, damrmmit, so skip the next para-graph of in-jokes if you can't take it.

To Debby, who was quite the chairman,inventing the non-gavel gavel, and Lois, whofollowed with definite style. To Josh, whosenickname is unprintibue in a hardily paper, and

who probably has done more for The Techthan anyone in at least a few decades, maybemore. To Jeremy, one of the few people capa-ble of out-spending Josh and Reuven. ToDoug, who lived the nightmare of sharing mybrain with Arun, and Marie, who may be theonly person I will ever know who respondscivilly and positively to the question, "Canyou do any tricks with your breasts?" ToJoanna, who is lame, and Karen, who is fromCalifornia, which is pretty much the samething. To Reuven, who I thought was withoutquestion the most amazing editor in chief ofall time, until Brian came in and, unbeliev-ably, matched Reuven's achievement for afull year. If only the Yankees had a one-twopunch like them on their pitching staff. Andfinally, to Kathy, because meeting her tnrougnthe paper allows rne, in retrospect, to justifyall the time I spent at The Tech. To all ofthem, thanks and good luck in all you do.

I know I've omitted people, and they have

my thanks and apologies. Lack of space andgood jokes about some people prevent mefrom mentioning everyone I've knownthrough the paper.

And to the Tech readership: If you're oneof those who has hated everything I've writ-ten, thanks. It means a lot to me that anything-I could scribble out might provoke both thenasty attacks and thoughtful letters that havebeen written to The Tech concerning mycolumns over the past few years.

And if you're one of those who has toldme over the past few years that you've likedsomething I wrote, thanks to you too. I wrotebecause it was fun and knowing that I madepeople laugh along the way is pretty great.

Sometimes it seemed that MIT was trying-in and out of the classroom - to teach ushow to think. And at other times it seemedthat MIT was trying to teach us what to think.Maybe this is just a product of being on a col-lege campus in the nineties, with so-called"political correctness" raging. SO I'm proud ofeverything I've written, because I believe Imanaged to think about issues, both seriousand silly, for three years.

Finally, I want to say to all those I've dis-agreed with that if I believed they were think-ing, as opposed to parroting something out-lined by political orthodoxy, then I hadrespect for them. We need more thinking peo-ple at MIT, even if they are thinking people Ipersonally disagree with.

That's it. Have a good life, everybody.Bill Jackson '93 will never write a silly

autobiographical Blurb like this again. Hewill not miss it.

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Do the Wave - and Say Goodbye Don't I4TMcHugh asAn AdultHartmann, from Page 4

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MIIT Hopeful for AppealIn Overlap Antitrust Case

By Karen KaplanNEWS EDGOR

President Charles M. Vest and attorneys for MIT are hopeful that

a September ruling that MIT violated antitrust laws when it discussed

financial aid awards with members of the Ivy overlap Group will be

reversed on appeal next month.

MIT was acting as a charity and not a business when it met with

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offered to admitted students, and therefore antitrust laws do not

apply, MIT's attorneys plan to argue to a panel of three judges who

will convene in Philadelphia on June 22 to hear the appeal.

In September, U.S. District Court Judge Louis C. Bechtle ruled

that MIT violated the Sherman Antitrust Act when it met with the

eight Ivy League colleges and discussed the financial aid packages

that would be offered to high school seniors admitted to more than

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Court. Salinas will deliver his

address after an invocation by Rabbi

Daniel Shevitz and other speakers.

Salinas played a key role in formu-

lating the North American Free

Trade Agreemenlt linking Mexico,

the United States, and Canada.

Following Salinas' speech,

Anand Mehta G. outgoing president

of the Graduate Student Courncil,

will salute MIT on behalf of the

graduate student body. Class of

1993 President Reshma P. Patel '93

will then present the senior class gift

to President Vest, who will then

give the charge.

Vest will present diplomas to

students receiving bachelor of sci-

ence degrees, some of whom will

also receive master of science

degrees. Provost Mark S. Wrighton

will hand out advanced degrees.

Students will approach the stage in

two lines, with their names

announced in an alternating pattern.

Following the commencement

ceremony, Vest will host a reception

for graduates, their guests, and

members of the 50th reunion Class

of 1943 and the With reunion Class

of 1968 at several locations in or

near McDermott Court.

In the event of severe weather,

graduating students, faculty, and

other participants will attend a cere-

mony in Rockwell Cage. Because

of space limitations, relatives and

other guests will not be able to

attend this backup program. Closed-

circuit television coverage of the

ceremony will be available in

10-250, Lobby 7. and other loca-

tions. Last year was the first time in

14 years that a commencement cere-

mony had to be moved indoors due

to severe weather.

Students receiving doctoral

degrees were hooded yesterday at a

special ceremony in Rockwell Cage.

Departmnents and their representa-

tives assisted school deans in hood-

ing the degree recipients.

About 30 graduating cadets and

midshipmen in MIT's Army, Air

Force, and Navy Reserve Officer

Training Corps units will be com-

missioned on the deck of the USS

Constitution at 5 p.m. today. Navy

Vice Admiral Richard C. Macke

will speak.

Harvard-educated economist

In announcing the selection of

Salinas as commencement speaker,

Vest said, "As a world leader, and

as president of our great neighbor-

ing nation to the south, his experi-

ences and views on issues that will

be of critical concern to the genera-

tion of professionals just beginning

their careers are most suitable for

this occasion."

The 44-year-old Salinas is cur-

rently in the third year of his six-

year term. He studied at the National

Autonomous University of Mexico

before coming to Harvard Universi-

ty, where he received a master's

degree in public administration in

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mencement.

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Mexican President Carlos Sali-

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mony. MIT President Charles M.

Vest will deliver the charge to the

graduates, and MIT Corporation

Chairman Paul E. Gray '54 will pre-

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quently arrested the other four,"Giavin added.

The student who was arrested atthe scene, whose name was not dis-closed, was arraigned that night. Hishearing will be sometime in lateAugust, Smith said.

"Charges were brought againstthe other four on Tuesday," Smithadded. "I don't know the date fortheir hearing, but my guess is that itwill probably be sometime in lateAugust as well."

The Institute is also consideringwhat action to take against theaccused students. MacKenzie, asenior, "will not graduate," Ran-do'lph said. "A hearing was madeabout that a few days ago."

"Institute policy is that if a seri-ous disciplinary matter is under con-sideration, then a degree will bewithheld, Smith added.

A decision on whether the otherfour students will be allowed to con-

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teach a class during the semesterwould allow it to devote more timeto IAP, he said.

Faculty members who spoke atthe meeting gave the new IAP poli-cy mixed reviews, but the majorityseemed to agree with Hale V. BradtPhD '6 1, professor of physics.

"I would imagine that focusingon one subject for a month could beone of th.e most productive, funtimes of a career,' Bradt said.

Critics of the proposal said thatrequiring students to pursue intensestudies during IAP would greatlyincrease the pace and pressure of theacademic year.

Associate Prolcssor of HispanicStudies Elizabeth J. Garrells, amember of the Institute CalendarCommittee, said, "Students who arein majors with required courses dur-ing IAP, one out of their four under-graduate years would have a relent-less experience where pace andpressure was exacerbated."

"This is of central importance tothe students. Of course, one of theways you increase pace and pres-sure is to eliminate those breaksbetween semesters," Garrells con-tinued. Garrells did not support therevised calendar proposal.

Professor of Electrical Engineer-ing Alvin W. Drake '57 supportedthe proposal while expressing theconcern about the use of IAP. "Ithink that the free extension ofcourses into IAP is probably a terri-ble idea," he said.

The actual motion passed by thefaculty made no mention of the useof IAP for required coursework.Instead, approval of courses offeredduring FAP will be handled by thefaculty's IAP Policy Committee andCommittee on Curricula.

The chair of the IAP PolicyCormittee, Professor of UrbanStudies and Planning LawrenceBacow, endorsed the proposal onbehalf of the committee. "For anumber of years, we have tried toincrease the number of credit-bear-

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tinue study at MIT will be madeafter their hearings in court, nan;-dolph said.

Cluster contained Macs, PCsAnne L. Drazen, director of the

Sloan computer facility, refused todescribe the security of the clusteror if additional security measureswill be taken to secure the comput-ers.

"I really do not want to talk tothe press. It would violate the secu-rity of my labs if the MIT communi-ty found out that my labs exist andwhat they are about," Drazen said.

Oliver Chow '93, who uses thefacility, said, "The computer clusterthere has PCs, Macs - Quadras,Classics, IIsi's, Mac II's, IBMPS/2's, and older AT&T machines.There are a lot of computers there,about 30-40 Mfacs and 20-30 PCs."

"The facility is used by under-graduates and Sloan MBA students.It is accessed by a code that is madeknown to Sloan people, and the

Sloan building is kept open all..ight," Cheow said. nomnut ncluster are secured down to thedesks and "I would say that proba-bly the computers are alarmed - itseems like there is a cord that if youcut it, an alarm would go off,"Chow said.

Smith would not discuss whetherany of the accused students haveprevious criminal records. But lastNovember, then-Dean for Residenceand Campus Activities James R.Tewhey asked six MacGregor resi-dents to leave the dormitory to pre-vent the recurrence of a variety of"inappropriate behaviors" includingharassment, intimidation, harassingphone calls, and throwing eggs andwater balloons. These six studentsincluded Council, Ledesna, andDorton Santiago.

In December, Tewhey ruled thatLedesma and Dorton Santiago mustmove out of MacGregor. Councilwas given a warning but wasallowed to stay in the dormitory.

ing classes during IAP," he said."We think there are creative ways touse TAP so that it reduces pace andpressure."

Others criticized calendarA handful of faculty members

present spoke against the new calen-dar.

John V. Guttag, professor ofcomputer science and engineer ng,speaking for himself and Barbara H.Liskov, professor of computer sci-ence and engineering, said, "Wedisagree with the basic premise thatthe length of the academic calendarshould be increased. We also objectto moving work into IAP."

"I'm quite confident that ifoffered an extra three class days,[professors] will not spread out thematerial over three more lectures,but increase the amount of materialtaught. The current calendar is supe-rior even to the "Jaffe calendar],"Guttag said.

Professor of Psychology StevenPinker said that MIT students alreadycover substantially more materialthan students at other institutions.The new calendar "is a significantreduction in the quaiity of iife."

Vernon M. Ingram, professor ofbiology. offered much broader com-ment on the problems of the calen-dar. He congratulated Jaffe forimproving the calendar proposal.but expressed concern about "end-of-semester crunch."

"I wonder whether there aren'tsome other alternative ways of deal-ing with the end-of-semester cnnchwithin [the Jaffe calendar]. WhatI'm suggesting is an academic cal-endar whereby half the large under-graduates classes begin in Januaryand end in April, finals and all, andthe other half begin in February andend in May," Ingram said.

"This kind of overlappingscheme, which still requires onlyone registration day, would go along way towards eliminating theend-of-semester crunch," Ingramcontinued. There was no discussionof Ingram's idea at the meeting.

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example of this is that MIT gave

raises this year. "We want to contin-

ue to attract and retain the highest

quality people ... and to do that we

need to offer competitive salaries,"

he said.

Wrighton cited several other

large, policy-driven expenses,

including MIT's commitment to

maintaining need-blind admissions

and slow growth in tuition, as con-

tributors to the increased deficit.'We've moderated the growth in

tuition, which is the one income

stream we have direct control over,"

he said.

The Institute's total operating

budget is expected to incerase from

$1. I1I billion to S1. 13 billion in

fiscal year 1994, according to

Wrighton's letter.

As part of the effort to reduce

the operating gap, expenses in acad-

emic areas were cut by about $1.6

million. Because of indirect cost

billing, these cuts result in only a

$1.2 million net savings. For thesame reason, nearly $4 million in

reductions in the support areas

result In only $1.6 million in net

savings.

In his letter, Wrighton said

described the effect of the reduc-

tions in the ac-demic areas as '"lost

flexibility." Departmental resources

allocated to unfilled faculty posi-

tions were reduced, and 15 faculty

openings were eliminated. No cur-

rent faculty were affected by these

changes, though, and Wrighton

stressed that students would not feel

the cuts. "Some students may have

to plan ahead a bit more to ensure

that their classes are available" at

the right times, he said.

Eight positions in the library sys-

tem were eliminated, Wrighton said.

Those staff members were offered

other positions within the system, he

added.

Within the support areas, about

20 people will be laid off during fis-

cal year 1994, which begins July 1,

Wrighton said. Though layof's

occur regularly as research grants

dry up and projects are completed,

Wrighton said these positions are

being eliminated as part of the buds

get-trimming process. "The Institute

will aid those individuals affected in

finding placement opportunities," he

said.

An additional 20 unfilled posi-

tions in the support areas will be

eliminated. Wrighton stressed that

most of the necessary reductions in

staffing have been achieved through

attrition, however.

A change in the distribution of

income from one group of endow-

ment accounts will save an addition-

al S2 million, Wrighton said. Some

of the income from what are known

as Pool C accounts will be directed

to general Institute funds. Research

groups and faculty members holding

these accounts will immediately feel

this change as reduced buying

power and flexibility.

The Urndergrauduatic Recac

Opportunities Program will be

affected by this change, but

Wrighton expressed hope that that

this could be turned to the Institute's

advantage. "We may be able to

focus some of our fundraising

efforts by demonstrating a need [in

UROP]... it's a high-profile activi-

ty," he said.

Wrighton stressed that the Insti-

tute still has much to do to eliminate

the operating gap- He plans to con-

tinue to ask department heads to

reduce their budgets by 2 percent

each year

Even these reductions will not be

enough to close the gap. however.

Other, more specific cuts will also

be necessary, he said. Many areas

are currently being reviewed by the

four budget reduction task forces

appointed early this year, including

the interdepartmental mail system

and MIT publications.

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lity than was inherent to them as a

living group [for the incident]. Since

the verdict is iaai it really happened,

they should be sanctioned."

Smith stressed that his handling

of the incident is not over. "We're

proceeding to try to sort out some of

the larger problems of which this

incident is a piece, and that process

will continue through the summer

anid tll,he said.

Mblilton said the BSU plans to

"keep pressure on the administration

throughout the summer to see that

the whole thing doesn't die."

future." He would not say whether

any action would be taken against

the fraternity as a whole.

Luan said he hopes any further

investigation of the incident is 'just

and will follow due process."

Smith has also met with the stu-

dents who filed that complaint. At

the May 14 meeting, about I00 stu-

dents gathered outside Smith's

office in a rally organized by the

Black Student Union. "The purpose

was to make [Smith] aware of the

feelings we as black people have in

regard to the incident.... Every

black person on this campus was

offended by the comments made,

and we wanted ISmith] to know

that," explained Rondell L. Milton

'93, a forner co-chair af the BSU.

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provided an exemplary level of photography,news, and design. The 1993 edition carfies onthis grand tradition; it is a little blemished butin the end, shines as clearly as the chapel moaton a summer day.

slide into the black hole of the binding. It's apicky point, but an important o:ne given thatTechnique is meant not just as a record of1992, but also as a work of art.

As yearbooks go, Technique has always

piece together the events of the past year, andblack-and-whites fill in the holes. The time-line photos are well-chosen and give a clearsummary of 1992, from Toni Morrison's elec-trifying Abramowitz lecture, to Aerosmith'sfunding of the Corporal Politics exhibit, to thefinal, chilling image of a young woman, herback to the camera, walking in the open spacebetween Walker Memorial and Building 14. Acopy of The Tech bearing the headline "Stu-dent Slain on Memorial Drive," with a grimphoto of Yngve Raustein '94, tumbles in thewind along the concrete.

The "Life in Hell" section is particularlygood this year, and features essays from fivestudents and four professors. Perhaps the mostpoignant entry is an anonymous two para-graphs about the mixed elation and repulsionfelt in receiving a brass rat. "It blows my mind

to think I have two years left," writes theauthor. "'I'm half done. I feel so old, yet I'mso young."

This section contains more candids thanthe earlier part of the book, and scores withWen's magnified print of a woman's scream,Barnhart's man rubbing George Eastman'snose (does anyone still do that?), and anotherWen photo, this one of a woman and heracoustic guitar, closely cropped so that onlyher torso frames the instrumenlt.

Sports photos, though not my cup of tea,are generally composed well and show lots ofaction. The activities pictures are more innov-ative, as in a shot by lvana Markovic '93 ofthree jugglers shot from the ground up, and aphoto of a rock-cl-imber suspended from anoutcrop, shot by POR. (POR's Rilly name doesnot appear in the credits, but I have my doubtsas to his or her existence, given that the photoon the previous page is credited to HRHI1-iov Technique's gorilla rnascot.8

Now for the criticism, and it is twofold.First, imany photos are printed too dark. Tech-nique has sacrificed levels of gray in favor ofhigh contrast, but even the best-composedphoto won't survive if too much of it is black,and not enough white.

Second, photos, like fine wines, need tobreathe. I understand that Technique has liter-ally thousands of photos from which tochoose, but better to let a few good ones slipthan to crowd too many too close. Why foulrphotos butting together over the page 26-27spread, with the Technicolor oranges of page26 forced to battle the brilliant yellow andblue of page 27? Another spread, pages 22and 23, shows that a one-pica (1/6 of an inch)border is simply inadequate between photos ofthis size and quality. With only a two-picagutter running between the pages, the photos

successful yearbook provides aunique balance between photographyand feature journalism, chroniclingthe events of the past year with witty

[rases and moving images. Posed photos ofniors sporting plastic grins must mesh seanm-ssly with color shots of the landscape, theassroom, and the lacrosse team.

This year's Technique comes close to:hieving that balance, but ultimately falls at short. Not a lot, mind you - there's morean enough written and pictorial informationthe 1993 volume to satisfy - but in enough

nail and significant ways that, if fixed, coulding it much closer to perfection.First, let me applaud the long list of things

at are right about Technique. The first twognatures are printed on a heavyd glossy stockat brings vibrancy to the duotones and four-lor photos. Technique always cultivates the:st photographers on campus, and this year'sodel is no exception. Page three showcases aloody photograph by Benson Wen '93 of aoman, starkly dressed in black and white,-r face half-averted from the camera, herAdy leaning against the dusty rails of an old

on gate. Matthew D. Bamhart '94 capturesght shadowy birds roosting on an abandonedinoe, stranded mid-water.

The color photos are as well-composed asie black and whites. My favorites are a lus-ious picture of Boston at night by editortephen S. Hau '94 - a neon blue and fuch-ia sky breathes new life into what is other-,isc a standard shot; and a close-up by

I'l ermelstein '94 af autumn leavesedecked with dew, a single leaf at the centerie color of a Red Delicious apple. The photo.in on a full page, would lose its impact atny smaller size.

Curiously, there are no images of MIT inie wintertime within the artsy first two signa-ires (unless the sun glinting off the Charlesliver shots on pages 26 and 27 is really icylare). MIT acquires a certain beauty in thenow- as well as a certain extra gloom inhe beige concrete of the formidable main,ulding - and given Technique's ability to-ake shots of the same parts of Boston andampus look different almost every time, theyurely could have done the same to the snow.

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Sunlight streams through the "stained glass" window of Lobby 7's Cathedral of OurLady the All-Night Tool. The hack appeared in Lobby 7 on Halloween, and hosted areal wedding at 1.2:01 am on the morning of November A.

The MIT Symnphony Orchestra hasnever sounded better. This wasn't justas good as an average night at theBSO. This was as powerfully engag-

ing and enlightening as a professional orches-tra at its best.

Hindemith's music is not easy to play. RutDavid Epstein got the complex textures ofThree Pieces for String Orchestra from Op.44 just right. There's a penetratingly purestring sound at the heart of this music, and itcame through disarmingly. If the first piecewas doleful, the second was darker yet, withexcellent, disciplined bowing powerfully pro-

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done in collaboration with the brass ensemble,and they were in splendid form. Brass crese-cendi were nicely shaped, powerfully project-ed, and deeply penetrating. In addition toagile, colorful playing on brass, organistSusan Armstrong played with much spirit.The concert choir had its moments in this evo-cation of the storm, its wild qualities emergingfrom the singing. For too much of the piece,however, they sounded oppressed by the sheerdifficulty of their music.

This problem continued into Stravinsly'sLes Noces, but there were sufficient goodpoints to this performance to make it of inter-est. Soprano Margaret O'Keefe was terrific,and mezzo Mary Westbrook-Geha's dark-toned voice lent spirit to the performance. Thestrong solo performances seemed to help thewomen choristers come together, and theycale together in harmony. The women choirmembers sang with lyricism and capturedmany elements of the spirit of the piece. Manyof the interchanges between women soloistsand choristers were very successful, too.

Before complaining about the men, itwould be fair to point out that their task wasless glamorous and -some would say -more difficult. The women got all the besttunes, while the men played more of a confin-uo role, and a horribly tough one, too. ThisSad,' the ue;A ii v^8o.th ~lgZsdand, while soloist Richard Clement did addcolor, baritone Mark Aliapoulios did at timessound on the sleepy side, as did the malemembers of the Concert Choir as a whole.One can only admire the audacity of JohnOliver for dragging his concert choir acrosssuch perilous territory, but suggest that nexttime round he might select at least one pieceon the program pitched at his singers' abilityrange, so as to enable them to shine.

Symphony, from Page I I ished, yet earefree and wholly delectable.

The flowing, lyrical delivery of the open-ing of Brahms' Symphony No. 4 spoke ofmore good things to come. The clarity ofplaying was at its most valuable here, the cli-mactic ending of the first movement extraordi-nary and gripping. From the gently flows ofthe Andante moderato tIhouEgh the splendor ofthe Allegro giocoso (marred just a tad by afew brief moments where some players ranahead of the pack) to,-the excitement of theconclusion, this was a performance of illumi-nation and depth. And this was an evening toremember, displaying MIT at its creative best

ducing a plethora of subtle effects. There weresome minute problems holding everythingtogether at the opening of the third piece, butthey were quickly dispelled, leading to aresplendent conclusion.

What a splendid contrast to go from Hin-demith to Bernstein - and dance episodes -from On The Town at that. Epstein's bandpacked a good rhythm, with lots of color andoomph from the brass, humor circulatingamong the winds, and smiles to be had two-a-penny from each and every string. This wasBernstein to a tee - every second suave, pol-

The music's atonal, so if it sounds goowe're doing something wrong," said amember of the concert choir ofWednesday's program in Kresge

Auditorium. I beg to differ. there was somewonderfully evocative music on offer. A moresalient complaint was that the music was toohard. True, it was hard, and the concert choirdid at times sound under strain. Many of thosewho initially joined the choir to participate inthis performance dropped out, finding the taskof attacking music of such complexity toomuch for them to take. Under the illuminationof John Oliver's tutelage this repertory musthave nonetheless made for a rich learningexperience, even if the end result was lessthan professional.

Bright Sheng's Two Folk Songs fromChinhai simply didn't make it. This piecereceived the least rehearsal time, and itshowed. The music sounded as if it could beworiunldeil'-y chilaiacwteu l v11 Gvin p--perlcy baitthe diffused sounds of confusion emanatingfrom the stage suggested that as far as theconcert choir was concerned, they might aswell have been singing in Chinese.

In fact, they were singing in Chinese, andperhaps having them attempt to master bothChinese and Russian for one program wasunrealistic.

Proud Music of the Storm by NormanDello Joio fared better. For one thing, it was The MIT Symaphony Orchestra performed at Kresge Au-Itsoriurn on May S.

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laced method is used in traditionaltelevision sets to insure uniformnn pic-ture brightness, but Lim says it is anoutdated method for insuring picturequality.

The four research groups haveagreed to use six scanning formats,five of which were proposed byMIT and utilize a progressive tech-nique. The sixth format is based oninterlaced scanning technology, andMIT objects to it.

"Interlaced scan transmission isbased on the old way of doingthings, and really has no place in thenew television system standard,"Lim said. "MIT will continue towork towards the elimination of thatscanning format," which he says isresponsible or the bulk of the sys-tem's technical problems.

The six proposed formats are ofvarying levels of quality, allowingsome programs, such as televisionmovies, to be broadcast with thehighest resolution, while other pro-

grams, such as afternoon reruns,could use a lower quality format atless cost to the broadcaster.

Lima suspects that the interlacedformat was included in the proposalbecause "television manufacturers,like Philips and Thomson, haveinvested a great deal of money inthe technology for that kind of for-mat. That's in the interest of thosecompanies. We are interested in thenation's interests, and that sixthtransmission format has got to go."

In all written agreements on thematter, MIT scientists have includeda footnote expressing their objectionto the interlaced format. Lim pre-dicted that even if the interlaced for-mat were included in the final sys-tem proposal to the FCC, it wouldbe eliminated by federal regulators."My guess is that when the FCClooks at it from our country'snational interest point of view, the

we will have a better system thanany one single system. If we hadcontinued on the path of competi-tion, there would have been a signif-icant delay" in bringing the technol-ogy to the market, Lim said.

Federal regulators, who hadencouraged but not forced thealliance, also hailed the decision tocooperate on the system's design,saying the agreement eliminatedtechnical disagreements and legalwrangling that could potentiallyhave lasted for years. Now, highdefinition television could be widelyavailable as early as 1995.

In all four of the final proposals,television 'signals are transmitted inthe same digital language used bycomputers. This allows for crisperpictures than today's televisions,which use the less precise techniqueof transmitting signals through elec-tromagnetic waves that are analo-gous to light and sound waves. Inaddition to increased picture clarity,

HDTV's advantages includesmoother motion, a better aspectratio, and a sound system of com-pact disc quality,

The incorporation of digital tech-nology also means that high defini-tion television will be able to inter-act with computers to provide avariety of services.

Scanning format disputedMost aspects of the final design

have been agreed upon, but onetechnical disagreement has surfacedregarding scanning format, Limsaid. There are two ways to scan apicture. The "progressive" scanningtechnique uses an electron gun toscan each row of pixels on the tele-vision screen from top to bottom 60times each second. The "interlaced"scanning method scans all odd-num-bered rows and then completes thepicture by scanning the even-num-bered rows, repeating this process30 times each second. The inter-

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have withstood years of rigoroustesting. The FCC encouraged thedesigners of these systems to coop-erate on developing one standardthat would incorporate the best fea-tures of all four, said Jae S. Lim '74,a professor of electrical engineeringand computer science who heads theMIT research group that developedone HDTV system.

In addition to MIT, the finalistsincluded proposals made by GeneralInstrument Corporation; ZenithElectronics and the American Tele-phone and Telegraph Company; andthe Advanced Television ResearchConsortium, which includes compa-nies such as Philips Electronics,Thomson Consumer Electronics,NBC and the David SarnoffResearch Center.

"By working together, we'recombining the best components ofall the systems," Lim said. "I think HDTV, Page S15

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Four weeks after the deadline for accepting or declining admission to MIT, 980 of the 2,120 studentsadmitted to the Class of 1997 have decided to enroll here in the fall. Another 100 students are expected toaccept offers of admission to MIT. Most of the delay in these students' decisions is due to financial consider-ations facing the incoming freshmen.

"The main thing affecting admissions at MIT is the combination of a continuing poor economy and adeclining interest in engineering as a career," said Director of Admissions Michael C. Behnke. The decline ininterest was reflected in the nationwide pre-Scholastic Aptitude Test questionnaires administered to theincoming Class of 1997, he said.

Although the percentage of admitted students eligible for aid remained about the same, there was "anincredible increase in the number of appeals" to the financial aid packages MIT offered, according to StanleyG. Hudson, director of student financial aid.

Hudson added that the average need of students was about 6 percent higher than last year. But this was onpar with the targeted increase, based on inflation and MIT's budget deficit.

Hudson said that although MIT is "committed to meeting the full needs of the class, "it is still difficult forthe Institute to compete against other top schools which may offer merit scholarships. "It's a heavier decisionfor students to make," he said.

Although the deadline for accepting or declining admission to MIT was May 1, 45 admitted students havebee. given extensions until their financial aid packages are settled, Behnke said. Extensions were given to

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overlap, from Page 7 courts. "We're optimistic. The high-er up we go, the more optimistic weget," he said.

Vest agreed: "I am optimisticthat we ultimately will prevail inthis case. The higher one goes in theappellate process, the more likelythe court is to examine the socialpolicy implications of the case."

Gass said Bechtle applied stan-dard antitrust principles to this casewithout addressing the larger ques-tion of whether those laws wereapplicable to financial aid transac-tions. In contrast, appellate courtjudges are more willing to "reallyroll up their sleeves and dig intowhat the real purpose of the statuteis," and this should be to MIT'sadvantage, he said.

Three briefs were filed on MIT'sbehalf for the appeal, Gass said.One is signed by the AmericanCouncil on Education, the AmericanNegro College Fund, and other edu-cational groups. Another was filedby a number of minority associa-tions, and supports the OverlapGroup meetings because they allowcolleges to remain accessible tounderprivileged students.

A third brief was filed by agroup of charitable foundationsheaded by members of the Rocke-feller family, which might be sub-ject to antitrust laws if the appellatecourt upholds Bechtle's decision."The theme of that brief is in tryingto apply the Sherman Act to [finan-cial aid], the government is reallymisconstruing the function of edu-cational institutions in society,"Gass said.

No independent briefs were filedon behalf of the Justice Department.

if MIT' loses this appeal, Vestsaid he would definitely considerappealing again to the SupremeCourt. "It is very important to standup for the principles and implemen-tation of need-based financial aidand the independence of universities

from unreasonable governmentinterference," he said.

Vest said the legal costs of thesuit have been "substantial," but didnot give a specific figure.

Suit is now two years oldThe suit was announced in May

1991 by then-Attorney GeneralRichard Thornburgh and originallyincluded the eight Ivy Leagueschools as well as MIT. The IvyLeague schools signed a consentdecree, agreeing not to continueOverlap meetings but admitting noliability. MIT refused to settle andwas the only defendant in last year'strial.

"The issues in the appeal will bethe same issues that have been alivein this case since the beginning -that is, whether the Sherman Act, a

statute which was designed to regu-late commercial activity driven byprofit motives, can be applied toessentially charitable activities, likedeciding how much charity moneyto allocate to students based onneed," Gass said.

Nonrmally, each side has 15 min-utes to argue its case in an appeal,but MIT's lawyers have requested30 minutes for each side to allowfor a more complete hearing of allthe issues in the case. Lawyers forthe government have backed thisproposal, but the court has notdecided whether to accept it.

In the trial, Bechtle ruled that theOverlap Group's financial aid deci-sions constituted price-fixing andwere therefore illegal, regardless ofwhether they raised prices for stu-dents or increased revenues for

MIT."Few aspects of higher education

are more commercial thlan the pricecharged to students," Bechtle wrotein a 49-page decision. The OverlapGroup meetings "interfered with thenatural functioning of the market-place by eliminating students' abili-ty to consider price differenceswhen choosing a school," and theeconomic impact on students was'not germane to the resolution ofthis case," he wrote.

In the trial, MIT's lawyersargued that Overlap meetingsallowed member schools to main-tain need-blind admissions. Withoutan agreement not to offer merit-based scholarships, schools wouldengage in bidding wars over partic-ular students, leaving less moneyavailable for students with demon-

one Overlap school."The Justice Department view of

higher education as an industry con-spiring to offer discounts to unmeri-torious students is simply wrong,"'Vest said this week. "We are dis-bursing charitable funds to assist thestudents who most need financialhelp. All of our students are merito-rious."

Michael Gass, an attorney withPalmer and Dodge, the Boston lawfirm representing MIT, estimatedthat a decision on the appeal wouldbe announced this September.

David Seidman, who is repre-senting the government in theappeal, refused to comment on thecase. Spokesmen from the JusticeDepartment did not return repeatedphone calls.

Better chance in higher courtsGass said MIT's prospects will

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tion on issues such as campus safetyas his foremost achievement. Thecouncil has also made a push towardgreater exposure to its constituentsby offering more activities and ser-vices to benefit graduate students,he said.

He also said that though gradu-ate students are more departmental-ly focused than undergraduates,there were nevertheless issues com-mon to all of them which the GSCcould emphasize.

Graduate students are under-served by the administration incomparison to undergraduates, saidMehta, but the GSC has "made theadministration realize that graduatestudents' needs need to beaddressed." He recalled that therecently approved change to theInstitute calendar was first proposedin the Committee on UndergraduatePolicy and the GSC only found outabout it through the UndergraduateAssociation. He quoted Robert J.Silbey, chairman of the InstituteCalendar Committee, as saying "wedidn't worry about graduate stu-dents... we didn't even think aboutthem," when formulating thechanges.

The "mark of Anand's tenure"has been laying the groundwork forthe establishment of an effectivestudent lobbying group, said Gittins,who is the outgoing secretary. liesaid the most pressing need was toget more students involved, and thecouncil's success in doing this willbe the way to judge next year's GSCleadership. He observed that only asmall number of the Council's seatsare filled and some departments arenot even represented. Gittins alsostressed the importance of maintain-ing graduate student representationon Institute committees.

year terms by the council, which ismade up of departmental, livinggroup, and at-large representatives.Each department is represented byone member for every one hundredgraduate students, with a minimumof two and a maximum of five rep-resentatives per department. Eachliving group selects one representa-tive, and there are five positionsheld at-large.

The GSC also maintains severalcommittees whose mernmbers are notnecessarily council representativesand fills graduate student appoint-ments to Institute committees.

New officers look aheadRrown hopes to involve more

people in student government nextyear. He also hopes the GSC will"continue to be a strong advocatefor graduate students, not only forspecial interest groups."

An important role for the GSC isto "create a community" where stu-dents can work, said Gittins. "Peo-ple are here to do research, [andthey] should be able to do that with-out interference." He said thisshould be done through a code ofconduct which reflects a "basic con-cern for others." He advocated-more open" policies and proce-d-ures and avoJIdog E Tvitrytwsr fn

"pockets of people... who will scrapwith others." He hoped to avoid the"unnecessarily adversarial" attitudewhich he said had plagued the GSCin previous years. Gittins wanted tobe open to all concerns and invitedstudents to bring their concerns tothe GSC.

Mehta reflects on past yearMehta expressed satisfaction

with his term of office and citedeffective work with the administra-

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The proportion of females fellslightly, from 37 percent to 36 per-cent. The class is broken by race asfollows: one percent Native Ameri-can, two percent Puerto Rican, fivepercent African-American, six per-cent Mexican-American, two per-cent of other Spanish descent, thirtypercent Asian, and 45 percent whiteor no-entry. Also, eight percent willbe international students, whoserace is not reported.

and demographics of the incomingclass have already taken shape. Theaddition of another 100 studentswill not greatly affect the currentcalculations, according to Behnke.

The average Scholastic AptitudeTest Math score increased from lastyear's 738 out of 800 to 742 for theincoming class. The SAT Verbalaverage fell from 624 out of 800 to617. The average of both MathAchievement test scores was 750out of 800, down from 752 last year.

Among students whose highschools provided a class ranking, 32percent ranked number one, down

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first round match to the Universityof California at San Diego 0-9, andthen were beaten in their next match3-6 by St. Thomas college. Thewomen rallied in their final match todefeat Smith College 6-3 and endthe season with a 14-7 record.

Men's tennisMIT tennis players Alan Wal-

pole '93 and Jay Muelhoefer '94returned from the recent NationalCollegiate Athletic AssociationDivision III Championships afterreceiving All-America recognitionfor their play. Walpole and Muel-hoefer advanced to the semifinalround of the tournament, where theylost to a tandem from ClaremontCollege by a score of 6-3, 6-4. TheClaremont team was seeded third inthe tournament, while Walpole andMuelhoefer had been the top seed.

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and set an MIT record in the discuswith a throw of 127 feet 7 inches.

SoftballMIT softball centerfielder Jen

McMurray '93 has been named tothe GTE College Sports InformnationDirectors of America Academic All-District second team. McMurray hit.355 for the Engineers and is a mate-rials science and engineering major.

CrewMIT Director of Crew Stu

Schmill has been named as coach ofthe United States entry in the 14thMaccabiah Games, to be held July7-9 on the Sea of Galilee in Israel.

Men's track and fieldThree MIT track and field ath-

letes have qualified for the NCAADivision III championships, whichwill be held beginning Wednesdayat Baldwin-Wallace College. MikePiepergerdes '93 will compete inthe 1500 meter run, while team-mates Matt Robinson '94 and JohnWallberg '96 will be among theentrants in the field events. Robin-son will compete in the pole vaultand Wallberg will compete in thehammer throw.

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son '93, swimming; Thomas Kle-mas '93, volleyball; Julie Lyren '93,gymnastics; Brian Meade '93,swimming; Jay Muelhoefer'94, ten-nis; Sara Ontiveros '93, fencing;Michael Piepergerdes '93, indoortrack & field; Matthew Robinson'94, indoor track & field, outdoortrack & field; Robert Rockwell '93,swimming; Matthew Trevithick G,squash; Alan Walpole '93, tennis.

member Keith H. Lichten '95, teamcaptain Mark P. Hurst '94, and teamalumnus Joseph Harrington G willpresent a threat to the Olympic pow-erhouses in the Division I competi-tion. Epeeist Lichten qualified fornationals by winning a silver medalat the 1993 Junior Olympics. Hurstand Harrington qualified at theNorth Atlantic Sectional Champi-onships on May 8th and 9th; Hurstwon the sabre event and Harringtonplaced fourth in the epee. Hurst andLiehten look forward to returning tothe MIT fencing room next fall tolead the team to its best year inrecent history.

BaseballMIT baseball coach Fran

O'Brien has been named the NewEngland Intercollegiate BaseballAssociation Division III Coach ofthe Year. O'Brien. in his 25th sea-

sported an 8-2 record as MIT's toppitcher, while Somerville was theteam's leading hitter, with a .375average. MIT is also well represent-ed on thie Constitution Athletic Con-ference (CAC) 1993 All-ConferenceTeam. Hinteregger, Somerville, andJeff Olsen '94 were first team selec-tions, and first baseman Brian Chris-tensen '94 was named to the secondteam. Olsen played centerfield andhit .414 in conference play. Chris-tensen hit .346 in the conference.

SailingThe MIT sailing teams enter the

spring 1993 national championshipsby being nationally ranked by Sail-ing World magazine. The women'ssquad is the sixth ranked team in thecountry, while the men's team hasearned a ranking of 19.

Women's track and field

Three MIT water polo playershave been named to the AmericanWater Polo Coaches Association All-

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NEWS All-Conference TeamsTwo more athletes have been

named to the New EnglandWomen's 8 (NEW8) All-Confer-ence teams. Susie Ward G was cho-sen from the lacrosse team. Ward, aco-captain, played center and talliednine goals and eight assists inNEW8 play. Softball player ColeenKaiser '94 was also selected. Shewas the team's top pitcher (1.75

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Lyren was named the Eastern Col-lege Athletic Conference (ECAC)Division III Gymnast of the Weekand she is the first MIT women'sgymnast to ever qualify for theDivision II national championship.

Lyren capped her career bybeing named the National CollegiateGymnastics Association Outstand-ing Senior Gymnast after earningtwo All-_America citations in thisyear's Division III national champi-onships. Lyren has also been select-ed as the Division III Honda Awardnominee in gymnastics. She willcompete with ten other Division IIIwomen's athletes for the award,given to the outstanding collegiatewomen's athlete in the country.

The Pewter Bowl Award isgiven to the female senior who hasshown the highest qualities of inspi-ration and leadership in contributingto women's athletics. Skier KateBergeron '93 and sailor PaulaLewin'93 were named co-winners.

Bergeron is a four-year mostvaluable player on the women'steam and a three-time captain.Coach Dave Michael says about hisnordic star, "Her attitudes towardthe sport are exemplary, and herleadership has affected not only herteammates but also most rival com-petitors." A four-time All-Eastselection by the Eastern Intercolle-giate Ski Association, Bergeron wasthe EISA's Division II champion inboth classical and freestyle crosscountry events in 1992 and 1993.

Lewin is a world class sailor,having competed for her nativeBermuda in the women's single-handed class in both the Pan AmGames in Cuba and in the BarcelonaOlympics. She was the captain ofthe 1992-93 women's team and also

Awards, from Page 20 competed with the co-educationalvarsity squad. She has won numer-ous championships and has beennamed one of the top ten collegiateskippers in the country and the co-skipper of the year in New England.

The Varsity Club Awards, to theoutstanding freshmen athletes of theyear, went to two men and awoman. Kamilah Alexander '96 ofthe women's volleyball teambecame a major force in New Eng-land in only her first year. Alexan-der led the Engineers in kills, hittingpercentage, and blocks. She was aNew England Women's 8 Confer-ence all-star and Rookie of theYear. She also earned first team All-New England honors and wasnamed the New England VolleyballCoaches Rookie of the Year afterending the season as the top blockerin the region.

John Wallberg '96 is a three-sport athlete who has put his nameall over the MIT record books.Wallberg broke 23-year-old fresh-man records in the 35 lbs. weightthrow indoors and in the hammerthrow outdoors. He was the leadingscorer on the outdoor squad. Wall-berg was also a starting defensivelineman on the football team.

Keith Whalen '96 is the leadingfreshman scorer in the 93-year his-

tory of MIT men's basketball.Whalen, a center, poured in 389points in a season in which he wasnamed ECAC Division III Rookieof the Week, selected to the ECACWeekly Honor Roll, earned threeConstitution Athletic Conference(CAC) player of the week citations,selected to the CAC first team All-Conference squad, and named theteam most valuable player.

For the second consecutive year,David Steel G of the men's basket-ball team was awarded the BurtonR. Anderson Award as the intercol-legiate manager of the year. Headcoach Leo Osgood says, "David wasthe student leader who held ourteam together behind the scenesduring a very difficult year. Davidhas been an advisor, confidant, tutorand friend to all the players in theprogram. He has truly become anintegral member of the men's bas-ketball family and an outstandingmanager."

The Straight "T" award is thehighest award given for athletic per-formance at MIT. Criteria for theaward vary by individual sport, andthis year 14 athletes earned theStraight "T". The winners are:James Bandy '93, swimming; Kath-leen Bergeron '93, skiing; ManishBhatia '93, tennis; Chad Gunnlaugs-

Division II's top ranked doublesteam after winning the Rolex Divi-.sion III National Championship inthe fall.

Walpole's teammate ManishBhatia '93 was awarded the Admi-ral Edward L. Cochrane Award asthe male senior who has shown thehighest qualities of humility, ieader-ship, and inspiration in intercolle-giate athletics. In his four-yearcareer, Bhatia never played lowerthan #2 singles and was a New Eng-land champion in both singles anddoubles. He earned All-Americastatus in 1992. Men's varsity tenniscoach Jeff Hamilton says of Bhatia,"Despite all of his awards, Manishremains focused on the team's per-formance and accomplishments. Heclearly places the team's welfareabove his own. He is blessed withleadership skills and shares his tal-ents unreservedly with his team-mates."

Not to be outdone by the men,Seema Jayachandran '93 of thewomen's tennis team won thefemale version of the MalcomKispert Award as the top femalesenior scholar/athlete. Jayachan-dran, who is majoring in electricalengineering, compiled a perfect 5.0grade point average while earningfour letters as a member of thewomen's team. She and her dou-bles partner reached the semifinalsof the New England Division IIlChampionships this season. Jay-achandran, who was named anIntercollegiate Tennis AssociationScholar/Athlete, is the winner of aMarshall Scholarship and will studyin Oxford, England this fall.

For the first time in the history ofthe award, the male winner of theKispert Award also has a perfect5.0. Electrical engineering majorRoddy Tranum '93 is the top widereceiver in the history of MIT foot-ball. He holds nearly every Institutepass receiving record and is the firstEngineer to be named to the EasternCollege Athletic Conference All-Star team. Tranum's awardsinclude a National Football Founda-tion and Hall of Fame Scholar Ath-lete Award and an NCAA Postgrad-uate Scholarship. In June he willenter the MIT Leaders for Manufac-turing program.

Gymnast Julie Lyren '93 was thewinner of the Betsy SchumackerAward, given to a female under-graduate for excellence in intercol-legiate athletics. Lyren broke Insti-tute records in the all-around andthe balance beam and has tied theMIT record in the floor exercise.Twice during the 1993 season,

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earned run average) and leading hit- Fencing son, led the Engineers to a best-ever MIT women's track and fieldter (.333) in conference play. Three MIT fencers have quali- 22-1 1 record. By being selected, weight throwers Jenn Boyle '96 and

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The MIT women's tennis team onships. Held in Fort Myers, Flori- held Monday June 7 at Fenway Eastern College Athletic Conferencefinished in eleventh place in last da, in June, the championships will Park. Peter Hinteregger '93 and Ian Division III Championships. Boyleweek's NCAA Division III National feature the talents of the U.S. Somerville '93 were each named to won the shot put with a throw of 37Championships at Carleton College Olympic team, which competed in the All-New England team. Hin- feet. Ratliff placed fourth in thatin Minnesota. The Engineers lost a Barcelona last summer. MIT varsity teregger, a second team selection, event, but earned a third pace finish

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top playoff scorer Doug Gilmouroutperforming the Kings' WayneGretzky by two points in theplayoffs. It'll be tough for awhile, since the Kings' aren't theobscure novelty they once were,but look for the Maple Leafs tosqueeze by and return to StanleyCup contention after a 26-yearabsence.

The Leafs have the advan-tage, and the season's final con-tests in this Canadian sport andnational pastime may well befought by the rivals of old, pit-ting fans in English and FrenchCanada's biggest cities againsteach other as their favoritesagain vie for nockey supremacy.This is one battle the Habs cancount on winning.

Of course, talent also hassomething to do with this predic-tion. Canadiens goalie PatrickRoy is playing very well,arguably better than when hewon the Conn Smythe trophy in1986. Offensively, Brian Bel-lows, Vincent Damphousse, andKiArk N'Luller are a real t'i'reat,more so than the lead forwardsof either Toronto or L.A. (Gret-zky and Jari Kurri are still good,but all that smog must have dent-ed their style -- they just don'thave the magic they used to.)Granted, the Canadiens' offenseis not the smooth scoringmachine the Oilers had in the'SOs. but coupled with a sturdydefense, it gets the job donequite well. It looks like the Bru-ins' favorite tormentors will pullit off this year. Montreal in sixgames.

Column by Vipul ShulshanNIGHTEDiOR

The NMontreal Canadiens arepoised to win the Stanley Cupafter edging out the New YorkIslanders in Game Five of theWales Conference finals to wilthe series 4-1. They now have afull week's rest before having toplay for the Stanley Cup againsteither the Toronto Maple Leafsor the Los Angeles Kings, whoare playing with fragments of the1980s Edmonton Oiler All-Starpowerhouse and whose greatestscore was buying The Great One(with the help of lots of doughand a local buxom playmate).

The team that's won moreCups than any other in theleague is on fire after sweepingaside the Buffalo Sabres, beatingthe Quebec Nordiques in sixganes, and losing only once inthe best-of-seven series againstthe Islanders. The Islanders haveobviously taken a plunge sincethe Mike Bossy glory days, buthave still done better than mostwould have believed after theloss of Pierre Turgeon. Someisolated pockets of local wisdomheld hiph hones for the likes ofthe Pittsburgh Penguins, butthese predictions fell by the way-side as the Canadiens rose froma less tnan impressive season towin the Wales trophy.

Unlike Montreal's smoothascent to the Wales throne, bothCamnpbell Conference contendershave had tough roads to the final,and now they are engaged in across-continental duel that maywell go a full seven games.Toronto has the better team, with

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By John MorrellTE.4A/ MEMBER

MIT hosted the National Colle-giate Cycling Championships May22 and 23. The 250 cyclists fromacross the country came to Cam-bridge to compete in three eventsunder ideal weather conditions forthe coveted "Stars and Stripes'national championship jerseys.

The riders, representing 32teams and 10 conferences, are thefinalists from the conference quaiifi-cation competitions, which began in

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The New York Knickerbockerswill win the NBA championship.This may not be the biggest surprisein the world, but after having pub-licly embarrassed myself with thatBills pick several months ago, Ithink I better take the safe route thistime. There are several reasons why1993 will be a good one for Riley'sKnicks.

To begin with, only fbotball'sAFC is worse than the WesternConference when it comes to lameconferences in professional leagues.Phoenix, which appears to be thefavored team in the West, took a fullfive games to beat the Los AngelesLakers, and Game Five even wentinto overtime. A surprise Seattle - d � = -- -I

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bover ¢ye!s$si bear down upon the finish line during the National Collegiate Cycling Championships.Right: A lone cyclist rounds a comer near Harvard Square.,

claim points (called premes) givento the race leader at the end of spec-ified laps. Lying in 12ti place, just 2points behind rival UniversityofMassachusetts at Amherst goinginto this final event, the MIT racersrode aggressively in search of everypossible point. In the women's race,Carlson scored twice in the premesand took 6th in the final sprint,which was won by Janeil Parks.Abe Stroock, in only his second sea-son of collegiate racing, scored oncein the preme sprints and also took6th in the final sprint of the men'srace. The aggressive riding paid offas MIT moved to 9th in the teamcompetition, edging out the Univer-sity of Massachusetts by threepoints.

The newly crowned Dr. KjirsteCarlson (she defended her thesis onFriday, the day before the champi-onships started) used her criteriumperformance to solidify her positionand finish third overall in thewomen's individual competition,while Stroock's criteriure perfor-mance moved him to 12th overall inthe men's individual competition.Carlson's performance caps an out-standing collegiate cycling careerthat includes two Eastern CollegiateConference individual champi-onships and many victories through-out the last three seasons. Thewomen's individual title went toJanelle Parks while Sunne Pollarttook second. Tylor Hamilton used avictory in the criterium to overtakeJeffWinkler and capture the men'sindividual title. The performancesof Hamilton and Pollart led the Uni-versity of Colorado to its 4th nation-al team title, followed by the Uni-versity of California at Davis insecond and the University of Cali-fornia at Santa Barbara in third.

February for those fortunate enoughto live in warm climates. KjirsteCarlson PhD '93 led the MITCycling Team to its best-ever teamfinish of 9th place while she tookthird in the wormen's individualcompetition.

Saturday's road race event washeld on a hilly 7.2 mile circuit inArlington, Belmont, and Lexington.Each lap concluded with three shortbut very steep hills just before thefinish line. Carlson, Jill Sherwood'95, Christine Sai-Halasz '95, and

Karon Maelean G were among the101 women lined up to start theseven-lap race.

Aggressive racing and an earlycrash took several riders, includingSherwood, out of the race on thefirst lap. With the University of Col-orado working hard to force thepace on the climbs, the size of thefield slowly decreased over the nextfew laps. The critical move came onthe fifth lap, when a group of sevenriders, including Carlson, brokeaway from the rest of the field. Themove forced the field to split intothree groups as riders tried to catchthe group in front of them.

On the last lap, the 10 racers inthe front group began jockeying forposition for the final uphill sprint tothe finish. Carlson began her sprintfirst and used her power to take thirdbehind Janell Parks of the Universityof New Mexico and Sunne Pollart ofthe University of Colorado.

In the 72-mile men's race, earlybreakaway attempts kept the 140riders on their toes, with some of theriders being dropped by the fasttempo. On the third lap, a break-away led by Jeff Winkler of Univer-sity of Califonia at San Diegoquickly established a 40-secondlead. On the fifth lap, Winklerdropped his breakaway companionsand quickly built his lead over thefield to three minutes despitenumerous attempts to close the gapby riders in the field.

Winkler showed that his 7-minute margin of victory in theWest Coast Collegiate Champi-onships was no fluke by cruising toa 3-minute victory and a nationalchampionship jersey. Tylor Hamil-ton, a Massachusetts resident ridingfor the University of Colorado,attacked with two laps to go in therace and held on to claim second.

He was followed by a largebunch containing most of the 45other riders left in the race, includ-ing Paul Neaiey G, whose 36thplace finish was MIT's highest. Gar-ret Ito G and Rich Pawlowicz fin-ished just behind the main pack.John Morrell G and Abec Stroock'95 failed to finish due to mechani-cal problems.

After a short night's rest, the rid-ers were up early on Sunday mornc-ing for a team time trial which fol-lowed a difficult 15 mile coursethrough Concord, Carlisle and Bed-ford.

Stanford dominated the women'sevent and thus finished the seasonwith an undefeated record in teamtrial events. The University of Cali-fornia at Davis led the rest of theteams to take second, 1 minute and12 seconds behind Stanford. Daviswas followed closely by CalPoly/San Luis Obispo, the Universi-ty of Colorado, and MIT.

This 5th place finish was the bestever by the MIT women's team inthe national championships. In themen's event, the University of Cali-fornia at Santa Barbara continued itsseason-long domination but was fol-lowed closely by the University ofColorado. MIT put together its bestteam race of the season, taking O10th,one second behind Cal Poly/SanLuis Obispo and one second in frontof the University of California atSan Diego.

Sunday afternoon's criteriumrace in Harvard Square was the finalevent of the championships. Thou-sands of spectators lined the 1-kilo-meter course to watch the women's30-mile race and the men's 40-milerace. Both races saw fast-pacedaction as riders continually attempt-ed to break away from the pack and

frustrated. Jordan is not used to hav-ing the spotlight removed from himand placed on, of all people, theman guarding him, John Starks. Jor-dan's anger was apparent yesterdaywhen he all but threatened to gundown Knicks guard Greg Anthonyfor daring to touch his royal person.After talking up a stormrn about howwonderful he and his team is, Jor-dan has been reduced to vitriolicattacks on the Knicks' "dirty play."All of this is symptomatic of Chica-go's inability to cope with the morephysical Knicks.

Furthermore, Ewing is playing athis best, and he has dominated theBulls inside the paint. In the lastgame, he had as many rebounds as

appearance will be even more favor-able to the East, as Seattle centerSam Perkins is simply not bigenough to play at that position in theNBA. Ewing will dominate the mid-dle, and Seattle's outside is notgood enough to compensate. True,the Sonics beat the Jazz, but onlyincompetent Neanderthals like MikeDuffy and Andy Heitner (and Mor-mons, maybe) thought Utah couldwin.

Thus, the question is not whetheror not the Knicks can beat whoeverwins the West, but whether or notthey can top the Bulls. I do not thinkthis will be terribly difficult. Mostimportantly, I am going to Colum-bia next year, and New York is abetter city than Chicago. Also, theBulls are down 2-0, and they are Hamoudl, Page 19

C clists Comoete in National Championsh ips

ResultsIndividual Women.....................................................Points1. Janell Parks, University of New Mexico.......................1042. Sunne Pollart, University of Colorado ........................... 803. Kjirste Carlson, MIT ..................................... .............. 684. Bobbie Mischler, University of Washington ................... 565. Karen Steiner, California Polytechnic Institute-SLO .......50

individual Men ......................................................... Points1. Tyler Harnilton, University of Colorado ........................ 1692. Jeff Winkler, UC-San Diego ...................................... 1653. Adam Laurent, UC-Santa Barbara ............................. 1554. Ben Bourne, UC-Davis .. ............................. 1365. Greg Swinand, University of Massachusetts ................. 94

Teams ........................................ Points1. University of Colorado .........................................-......5192. UC-Davis .................. 3 .................. ....................... 3333. UC-Santa Barbara .................................................... 28 94. UC-Berkeley ........................................................... 2675. University of New Mexico .................................. ........ 2506. Stanford University ...................................................2457. Indiana University.......................................................2218. UC-San Diego ..........................................................2199. MIT ............................................... 18510. University of Massachusetts-Amherst ..................... 18211. California Polytechnic Institute-San Luis Obispo ....... 17412. University of Washington .............................. ...... 15613. Pennsylvania State Ulniversity-University Park ...........13414. Cornell University ... .................o ig.............11815. Texas A&M ............. ..................................... .66

Knicks Will Be NBA Champions Outstanding AthletesRecognized at BanquetBy Roger CrosleyDIRECTOR OF SPORTS INFORMA TION

At the recently held Seventh Annual Celebration of AthleticExcellence banquet, MIT athletes from all sports were recognized forexceptional athletic performance over the past school year. Leadingthe charge was the tennis team, which picked up three of the convo-cation's major awards. Alan Walpole '93 won the Howard JohnsonAward as the male senior athlete of the year, and he also picked up aStraight "T" for qualifying as an individual for the NCAA DivisionIII national championship in both singles and doubles. During the1992-93 academic year, Walpole compiled a singles record of 11-2and was 14-0 in doubles with partner Jay Muelhoefer '94. Walpole,an All-America in both 1992 and 1993, was ranked as highly as 13thin the nation in Division I11 in singles, and he and Muelhoefer were

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