By Arushi deFonseka

Representatives from theorganizations involved in theCamfield Estates-MIT CreatingCommunity connections projectmet last Wednesday at CamfieldEstates to celebrate its inception.The major goal of this project is tobring computer technology toresidents in low incomecommunities in order to bridge thegap of the “digital divide” whichPresident Bill Clinton recently citedas the “key civil rights issue of the21st century.”

As stated by Juan Evereteze ofthe U.S. Department of Housing and

Urban Development, “This (project)is to bridge this gap so thateveryone will have the tools tomove forward.”

Richard L. O’Bryant G, a Ph.D.student at MIT’s Department ofUrban Studies and Planning, hasbeen working for the past two yearson this project with Randal D.Pinkett, a research assistant atMIT’s Media Laboratory. Thisproject doesn’t seek to address theissue of the “digital divide” bymerely providing residents withaccess to computers.

“It is not enough to give themaccess because this will just makethem consumers. We want the

residents to be creators andproducers of information,”O’Bryant said.

Wayne Williams, president ofWilliams Consulting Services, acompany leading the trainingprogram for residents, said onWednesday that “in five to ten yearswhen we look at the Internet, wewant a portion of it to be from theresidents of this program.”YouthBuild Boston is also involvedin training and support in thisprogram.

About fifty percent of Camfield’sresidents are participating in thisproject. Paulette Ford, the presidentof the Camfield Tenant’sAssociation, said that “just the factthat the kids will have access to [thecomputers] will change theirperception of the world.” Indeed,this project is expected to helpresidents empower themselves andprovide for more opportunities botheconomically and socially.

In order to participate in theprogram, residents had to take atwo-hour survey to help determinethe best way to integrate the Internetinto the residents’ lives. “We arestudying, through this project, theeffects of this technology and if itwill allow for increased socialconnections within the community.Our hypothesis is that it will,”Randall Picket said.

At the moment, participatingresidents are in an eight-weektraining program which began in thebeginning of September. At the endof the training program, residentswill have to pass a test to

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Richard O. Bryant, a Ph.D. student in the department of urbanstudies and planning, speaks to an audience of Camfield tenantsabout his plans to bridge the “digital divide.”

By Rima ArnaoutNEWS EDITOR

Less than one week after MITannounced a $6 million settlementwith Robert J. and Darlene Kruegerto avoid a lawsuit over the death oftheir son Scott S. Krueger ’01, theKruegers announced that they willsue the Phi Gamma Delta fraternityand individuals involved in thealcohol incident that led to theirson’s death.

The Kruegers are seeking bothcompensatory damages fornegligence and punitive damagesfor gross negligence andrecklessness in the wrongful deathof their son.

“There’s no question that ScottKrueger had some responsibility forhis own death, but there’s also noquestion that he has paid the price.MIT has stepped forward and paidthe price for its role, and now it’stime for the fraternity to pay theprice for its role,” said theKruegers’ attorney Bradley M.Henry.

The suit “is against the fraternity

of Phi Gamma Delta, Inc.” thenational fraternity. “Also includedare the local house corporation, theMalcom Cotton Brown Corporation,[an entity] organized and existingunder Massachusetts law,” Henrysaid.

Also named are former Fijimembers Jonathan P. Loflin ’99,former president of Fiji; CharlesHee Yoo ’98, the former pledgetrainer; Kevin E. McDonald ’00,Krueger’s fraternity “big brother.”Others named for their capacities asformer officers of MIT’s Fijichapter are Daniel A. Hermann ’99,Athanasios Dimitri Dousis ’99,Edward A. Gordon ’99 and RichardH. Conway ’99.

The statute of limitations to file alawsuit concerning Krueger’s deathends today. Other claims anddefendants can still be added to theexisting lawsuit, but it’s not typical,Henry said. According to the termsof their settlement with MIT, theKruegers may not add MIT or

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Anti-Pfizer protestors march down Memorial Drive Tuesday. The mostly subdued event calledattention to a variety of “globalization” issues centering on Pfizer’s AIDS drug pricing in theGlobal South. See photos and story, page 17.

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Kruegers AnnounceLawsuit Against FijiFormer Brothers Named as Defendants

By Eun Lee andPius A. Uzamere II

Institute Professor and notedpolitical dissident Noam Chomskygave a talk on Tuesday entitled“IMF and World Bank: Tools of theNeoliberal Onslaught” sponsored bythe Social Justice Cooperative.

This talk was given on whatpolitical activists call S26, theinternational day of action againstthe International Monetary Fund(IMF) and the World Bank.

Chomsky provided insight intothe emerging internationaleconomic order as a result ofglobalization. “The internationaleconomy is dimly understood,”Chomsky told the audience. 26-100was full as usual, with latecomerswatching on a live video feedoutside.

Chomsky gave several examplesto support his claim that the WorldBank and the IMF continue to makeerroneous predictions abouteconomic situations. He even pokedfun at the tendency theorganizations have for writing newtheorems without empirical data.“Every crisis spawns new models,”Chomsky quipped.

However, Chomsky was quick toclarify his criticisms of the IMF andWorld Bank, citing the problem notas the failure of predictions, but aspredictions made with “highconfidence” and then implementedin economic policies. Chomsky

likened this practice to “hitting asystem you don’t understand with asledgehammer …. It’s bound tocause damage.”

Chomsky explained the“neoliberal onslaught” ofglobalization brought about by theIMF and World Bank through theresultant shift of power away fromgovernments and towards markets.He said that the “virtual Senate” ofcorporate special interests causes aconflict of interest between businessand social welfare.

“International order has beendesigned for capital, not people,”Chomsky said. Chomsky referred toa “dual constituency” of voters andspeculators, arguing that thisundermines democracy. Thesituation, Chomsky continued, isone that causes “moment-by-moment referenda on public policy”whereby the speculators controlpolicy with their capital.

Chomsky pointed out that thesystem of globalization widens thegap between the rich and the poorbecause the agreements themselvesare made strictly for and betweenthe rich. This chasm lies not onlybetween individuals, but betweenrich and poor countries as well.

His arguments were backed byeye-opening figures of the socialindicators and unaccounted effectsof the global economy, calledexternalities.

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By Keith B. Richburg and David HoffmanTHE WASHINGTON POST

PARIS

With the Yugoslav oppositionclaiming victory in Sunday’s presi-dential election, European govern-ments appear to be moving rapidlyto try to recognize that claim andbegin considering how to reintegrateYugoslavia into their fold — allwhile President Slobodan Milosevicremains in power, vowing to con-duct a runoff election.

France, which holds the rotatingpresidency of the European Union,has been out front, formally askingEuropean officials to begin workingon a detailed plan for lifting sanc-tions against Yugoslavia evenbefore the situation in Belgrade is

fully resolved. The goal appears tobe twofold: letting Yugoslavs seethe immediate economic benefitsthat await them once Milosevic isgone, while increasing pressure onMilosevic to go, and go soon.

Yugoslavia’s Federal ElectionCommission declared oppositioncandidate Vojislav Kostunica thevictor by 10 percentage points butscheduled a runoff ballot on Oct. 8because, it said, neither candidatereceived a majority of Sunday’svote. The opposition claims Kostu-nica won outright with 52.54 per-cent of the ballots cast.

On Wednesday, French Presi-dent Jacques Chirac called for a“change of attitude” towardYugoslavia. And Romano Prodi,president of the European Commis-

sion, the EU executive body, saidthe EU is working on plans to beginrebuilding Yugoslavia’s batteredinfrastructure.

But if the goal is public pressure,France received little support Thurs-day from Moscow, where ForeignMinister Igor Ivanov said Russiahas no intention of trying to forceMilosevic to step aside.

“Russia will not exert pressureon anyone in Yugoslavia,” Ivanovwas quoted saying after a meetingbetween French Foreign MinisterHubert Vedrine and Russian Presi-dent Vladimir Putin. “It is a purelydomestic Yugoslav affair.” Reflect-ing a more cautious approach onsanctions, Clinton endorsed liftingof the measures as soon as a democ-ratic government takes power.

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Likud Leader’s Visit Sparks ViolenceNEWSDAY

JERUSALEM

Israeli police fired rubber-coated bullets at Palestinian stone-throwers early Thursday morning after Ariel Sharon, the leader ofIsrael’s hardline opposition, led a group from his Likud party on arare visit to the city’s most bitterly contested religious site.

The visit to the esplanade known by Jews as the Temple Mountand by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary erupted in violence shortlyafter Sharon left the platform area. About a dozen Palestinians wereinjured and several Israeli soldiers were also hurt. Later in the day,about 200 youths in the Palestinian-controlled city of Ramallah, inthe West Bank, threw stones at Israeli soldiers, who shot back withrubber-coated steel bullets. The Palestinians suffered more injuries.

Sharon’s decision to visit the holy site — the third most sacred inIslam and that history says was the site of the Jewish temples —came at a time of political sensitivity because the future sovereigntyof the large platform area has become the greatest sticking pointbetween the Palestinian and Israeli peace negotiators.

Although Israel polices the area, it is visited by many more Mus-lims than Jews. Muslims believe that Mohammed ascended to heavenfrom the site of one of the mosques there, and so they view visitsfrom Jews to be an aggressive intrusion.

Denmark Decides to Say No to EuroTHE WASHINGTON POST

COPENHAGEN

Denmark’s proudly independent voters decided Thursday to stayout of the European common currency, rejecting membership in thenew euro by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent in a nationwide ref-erendum that drew 90 percent of the electorate to the polls.

Denmark’s “no” is a blow to the euro, which has been losingvalue for months. Still, the immediate market impact will probably bemild, because most traders had expected the result. The politicalimplications could be greater, however, slowing the momentumtoward centralized power within the European Union.

A key leader of the “no” campaign here, Pia Kjaersgaard, of thenationalist Danish People’s Party, said Thursday that the vote wasmainly a rejection of European integration. “There has been anexpress train racing toward a United States of Europe,” she said.“The people of Denmark have put the brakes on that train.”

Finance Minister Mogens Lykketoft, a supporter of euro member-ship, offered a similar assessment. “You can’t push Danes around.There is a general animosity in Europe toward the EU bureaucratsissuing all these regulations, and that is particularly strong in Den-mark,” Lykketoft said.

Bush, Gore Spar on Economic PlansTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON

Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush engagedin a long-distance duel over economic plans Thursday, sharpeningtheir arguments for their first debate next week against the backdropof a robust economy with some uncertainty on the horizon.

While neither candidate offered new proposals, the speeches high-lighted the challenges each man faces in the campaign’s remainingweeks. The strong economy under President Clinton’s watch has bol-stered the vice president’s election chances, and so Gore has stressedhe would continue Clinton’s fiscal policies. Bush, needing to separateGore from that record, sought to portray the vice president as a closetliberal who would destroy the boom.

Gore, addressing the Brookings Institution shortly after the gov-ernment announced the economy grew rapidly amid low inflation inthe spring, said the prosperity and record budget surpluses offered aunique opportunity “to create the America of our ideals.” He reiterat-ed he would eliminate the national debt, boost spending for educationand health care and offer modest tax relief.

FDA Approves ControversialEuropean Pill for AbortionsBy Marc KaufmanTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON

The controversial abortion drugRU-486 won long-sought approvalfrom the federal government Thurs-day for sale in the United States,launching what both opponents andadvocates agree will be a new era inthe nation’s rancorous abortiondebate.

The Food and Drug Administra-tion decision for the first time givesAmerican women an alternative to asurgical abortion: a pill that will bewidely available and allow womento abort a pregnancy in the privacyof their own homes.

The drug is expected to be avail-able within a month and cost aboutthe same as a standard abortion. Itwill be administered first at clinicsthat have received special training,but eventually by any doctor whocan ensure that a standard abortionwill be available in the rareinstances that the pill fails.

As a result, the pill is expected tofundamentally transform the abor-tion experience for millions ofAmerican women. Instead of facingthe prospect of a potentially hostileenvironment outside a clinic, theycould abort their pregnancies much

more discreetly, much earlier, andwith what many women describe asa greater sense of control.

The announcement was immedi-ately hailed by abortion supportersas a breakthrough for Americanwomen and condemned by abortionopponents as a travesty for endan-gering human life.

Gloria Feldt, president ofPlanned Parenthood of America,called the approval “an historicmoment, comparable to the arrivalof the birth control bill forty yearsago.” Kate Michelman of theNational Abortion and ReproductiveRights League called it a “milestoneon the long road to women’s repro-ductive freedom and equality in thiscountry.”

But Laura Echevarria, spokes-person of the National Right to LifeCommittee, said approval wouldmark an unfortunate turning pointfor the country. “In the past, theFDA has approved drugs to savelives and prolong lives,” she said.“Now they are approving a drugdesigned to take human life.”

The decision quickly becamepart of the presidential campaign.Vice President Al Gore said the“decision is not about politics, butthe health and safety of American

women and a woman’s fundamentalright to choose.” Texas Gov.George W. Bush called it “wrong,”and said he feared it would makeabortions “more and more commonrather than more and more rare.”

Republican leaders have madeclear they want to overturn the deci-sion, and House Republican Confer-ence Chairman J.C. Watts, Jr. (R.-Okla.), said Thursday that “a newadministration, I am certain, withmoral leadership and a commitmentto the family will reverse this Clin-ton-Gore decision.”

President Clinton criticized aspolitical the Republican attack onThursday’s decision. “This adminis-tration treated that issue as purelyone of science and medicine,” hesaid. “And the decision to be madeunder our law is whether the drugshould be approved by the FDA ongrounds of safety.”

The intense feelings about thepill were manifested in two aspectsof Thursday’s decision. FDA Com-missioner Jane Henney said theagency for the first time did notpublish the names of the expertswho reviewed RU 486 for theagency. In addition, it broke prece-dent by not publishing the name orlocation of the manufacturer.

Milosevic Calls For New VoteFollowing Opposition Victory

Very Quiet WeatherBy Bill RamstromSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

This weekend will be very pleasant and tranquil. Temperatures will holdin the upper 60s each day, and drop to the upper 40s each night. We shouldexpect full sun each day of the weekend. A large high pressure system cov-ers the eastern two-thirds of the country, keeping skies clear and tempera-tures seasonal for a large region.

In the tropics, Hurricanes Isaac and Joyce, and tropical depression #15are all currently observed. As of 5 p.m. last night, Isaac was a category 4hurricane, with winds of 140 mph, located 690 miles ESE of Bermuda. It isan impressive storm, with a very symmetric shape and clearly visible eye.Fortunately, Isaac is expected to remain far out to sea and not affect anyland masses. Joyce is a developing storm, located far to the east of theWindward Islands, with winds of 85 mph. It is expected to head towardthese islands, and then pass into the Caribbean Sea over the next few days.Finally, tropical depression #15 has just formed in the western Caribbean,and may strengthen to hurricane level over the weekend. This storm couldeventually pose a threat to the U.S. Gulf Coast if it indeed develops.

Weekend Outlook

Today: Cool but sunny. High 62ºF (17ºC).Tonight: Clear and crisp. Low 46ºF (8ºC).Saturday: Sunny and a bit warmer. High 67ºF (20ºC).Sunday: Continued sunny. High 69ºF (20ºC).Outlook for Monday: Sunny and dry. High 71ºF (21ºC).

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Court Rules Suharto Too IllTo Stand Trial for Corruption

LOS ANGELES TIMESJAKARTA, INDONESIA

In a major setback for Indonesia’s democracy movement, a courtruled Thursday that former dictator Suharto is too ill to stand trial oncorruption allegations and dismissed all charges against him.

After hearing hours of testimony from an independent medicalteam, the panel of five judges concluded that the 79-year-old Suhartohad suffered such extensive brain damage from a series of strokesthat his trial could not go forward.

The judges’ rejected a request from prosecutors that the formerruler be tried in absentia and ordered him freed from house arrest.Attorney General Marzuki Darusman said prosecutors will appeal thedecision to the nation’s Supreme Court.

Anti-Suharto protesters, who had earlier set fire to a bus carryingpro-Suharto demonstrators, responded to the ruling by throwing stonesand Molotov cocktails. One Suharto supporter reportedly was killed.Police fired tear gas and warning shots to break up the crowd, whichcontinued protesting near Suharto’s house long into the evening.

Officials fear the court decision could spark continuing unrestamong student demonstrators, whose protests in 1998 helped bringdown Suharto after more than three decades of authoritarian rule.

Dr. Zakaria, head of the court-appointed medical team that exam-ined Suharto for 10 hours Saturday, told the judges that the formerdictator can no longer “understand complex ideas.”

Federal Government Will UrgePeople to Delay Getting Flu Shots

THE WASHINGTON POST

Hoping to prevent a potentially deadly shortage of flu shots this win-ter, the federal government has contracted with a private company toproduce as many as nine million extra doses of the lifesaving vaccineand will recommend that millions of people delay getting their shots sothose who need them most can get them as they become available.

Those measures should be adequate to fend off a national shortagethis winter, a federal advisory committee concluded Thursday. Butbecause manufacturers are having production problems, there won’tbe enough vaccine doses available in the next month or two foreveryone who might normally get the shots this early in the season,federal health officials said.

So the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)on Oct. 6 will formally recommend to health professionals that fallvaccination efforts focus primarily on people older than 64, thechronically ill and health-care providers, who are at greatest risk ofsuccumbing to the viral disease or spreading it to others.

Workplace, community and other mass vaccination programsshould be delayed by at least a month beyond their usual Octoberstarting dates, officials said. And healthy individuals — includingthose ages 50 to 64, who were initially slated to be included in thisyear’s general “high risk” category — should hold off getting vacci-nated until November or December, according to recommendationsapproved Thursday by the CDC’s advisory committee on immuniza-tion practices.

Without Solution to Oil Prices,OPEC Finishes Summit

LOS ANGELES TIMESCARACAS, VENEZUELA

Concluding their first summit in 25 years on a conciliatory note,leaders of the world’s major oil-exporting nations called Thursday fora new dialogue with Western consuming countries to find ways toend oil-price gyrations that have drained Americans’ wallets and setoff angry protests in Europe.

Heads of state from the 11-member Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries, led by Venezuela’s feisty president HugoChavez, stridently asserted their right to a fair price for their oil andcriticized consumer countries’ high taxes on oil products.

But OPEC’s presidents, sheiks and princes also agreed that themarket volatility of the last two years has hurt producers as well asconsumers. Saudi Arabia made a conciliatory pledge to ensure marketneeds for oil are met, saying it is concerned that high prices couldundermine world economic growth.

The OPEC appeal for dialogue with Western leaders — as soon asa November energy conference in Saudi Arabia — marked a shiftfrom the embargoes and confrontations of the 1970s toward a questfor common ground. Venezuelan Oil Minister Ali Rodriguez called ita historic maturing of attitudes on both sides.

Nevertheless, it was far from clear whether such a debate couldachieve concrete results, not to mention whether Western leaderswould even take part in talks that OPEC believes should go farbeyond the cost of oil.

Presidential Campaign SpendingEvens Out for Candidates

THE WASHINGTON POSTWASHINGTON

Outside groups led by the AFL-CIO and Handgun Controlpumped $3.6 million into television ads backing Al Gore’s presiden-tial campaign over the last three months, compared with $334,505spent by groups supporting GOP nominee George W. Bush, a studyreleased Wednesday found.

But total spending on the race remains fairly even, according tothe report compiled by the University of Wisconsin and New YorkUniversity Law School, because Bush and the Republican Party haveoutspent Gore and the Democratic Party. Since June 1, the Bush cam-paign, the Republican National Committee and GOP-friendly interestgroups have spent $38 million, compared with $39.1 million on theDemocratic side.

For the week ended Sept. 20, the Bush campaign and the GOPspent $4.2 million, compared with $2.9 million for Gore and theDemocrats. But outside groups evened the playing field, spending$1.2 million for Gore compared with $17,227 for Bush.

Hollywood Admits MarketingViolent Movies to Young KidsBy Faye FioreLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON

Admitting to “competitive zeal”in marketing violent movies to chil-dren, eight film executives offeredvarying acts of contrition to a Sen-ate committee Wednesday but weredivided over whether to end thepractice.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)pointedly asked each of the filmleaders lined up at a witness tablebefore him: “Will you or will younot market movies rated R to chil-dren under 17?”

Only four — the Walt DisneyCo., Dreamworks SKG, Fox andWarner Bros. — answered unequiv-ocally “no,” underscoring the com-plexity of reining in an industry thatno longer speaks with one voice.

The equivocation by Universal,Paramount, Sony and MGM trou-bled McCain and other members ofthe Senate Commerce Committee.They put the studios on notice thatthe result could be more scrutiny bythe Federal Trade Commission,

which reported earlier this monththat the entertainment industrydeliberately targets children andteenagers with advertising for R-rated films, as well as using them infocus groups to test such movies.

“Some segments of the industryhave made more progress than oth-ers,” McCain said. “The FTC willcontinue monitoring what goes onand we will be working with theFTC. … The future of your businesslies in your hands.”

The roughly two-hour hearingwas largely devoid of theatrics, withMcCain eliminating the openingstatements often used by senators toscold recalcitrant corporate chiefs orgovernment bureaucrats. Anobscure Senate rule limited thelength of all hearings Wednesday,so McCain devoted the availabletwo hours to hear from the filmexecutives.

Reading from prepared state-ments, they pledged to curtail atleast and to stop at best advertisingadult-rated movies to schools, 4-HClubs and other youth groups, as

well as on television shows, web-sites and in magazines with primaryaudiences under age 17.

They also agreed to expand theirrating systems to help parents betterevaluate films, with Warner Bros.planning to add the designations Lfor profane language, S for sex andV for violence. And all the execu-tives said that their studios hadstopped using children in focusgroups for R-rated films, unlessaccompanied by adults.

The involvement of children insuch market research was one of themost notable findings in the recentFTC study and new details emergedfrom a news story based on confi-dential studio documents turnedover to the agency as part of itsinquiry. According to a New YorkTimes story cited by McCain duringthe hearing, the documents showedthat MGM/United Artists had testedcommercials for the horror film“Disturbing Behavior” on childrenas young as 12, while using children9 to 11 to research ideas for anotherhorror movie.

By Norman Kempsterand Sebastian RotellaLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON

Peruvian President Alberto Fuji-mori took a hastily arranged trip tothe U.S. capital Thursday to appealfor international support for histroubled regime and his plan toremain in office until new electionsare held next year.

With accusations that the mili-tary is planning a coup swirlingback home in Lima, Fujimori con-ferred with Cesar Gaviria, secretary-general of the Organization ofAmerican States. He was scheduledto meet with U.S. Secretary of StateMadeleine Albright Friday.

After months of ignoring U.S.and OAS criticism for securing aconstitutionally dubious third termas president amid accusations ofelectoral fraud, Fujimori has said heis ready to relinquish power.Stunned by a bribery scandalinvolving his former intelligencechief, Fujimori announced Sept. 16that he will step down after newelections next year in which he willnot be a candidate.

U.S. and OAS officials said theyhope to dampen talk of a militarytakeover in Peru and are backingFujimori’s plan to relinquish power

next year. But it is not clear whetherFujimori will be able to maintain hisincreasingly shaky grip on power,no matter how much outside diplo-matic assistance he receives.

A delegation of OAS officialsseeking to broker a restoration ofdemocracy has been in Lima, thePeruvian capital, since before thepresident’s surprise call for newelections. The OAS is a regionalorganization that includes allnations in the Western Hemisphere,although Cuba’s membership hasbeen suspended.

State Department spokesmanPhilip T. Reeker said Thursday thatAlbright and other administrationofficials will tell Fujimori thatWashington supports “a peaceful,democratic and constitutional transi-tion of power” as well as “the con-tinuation of that OAS dialogue.”

Fujimori is “suddenly become anOAS convert,” said another StateDepartment official, who asked notto be identified, probably becausethe reference to the Peruvianleader’s earlier defiance of the OAScould be seen as undiplomatic.

Fujimori’s autocratic regimecrumbled after Vladimiro Mon-tesinos — the head of Peru’s fearedNational Intelligence Service, orSIN, and once the major power

behind the presidency — was video-taped apparently bribing an opposi-tion member of Peru’s Congress.Fujimori fired Montesinos andordered his organization disbanded.On Sunday, the former intelligencechief fled to Panama, which reluc-tantly gave him temporary refugewith U.S. encouragement.

The departure of Montesinosdiminished his power, but did notobliterate it. His allies still fill manysensitive posts in Fujimori’s govern-ment, especially in the military.

Peruvian leaders and foreigndiplomats worry that Montesinos istrying to destabilize the governmentfrom his Panamanian exile withwhat survives of an intelligenceapparatus that long-controlled themilitary, justice system, media andlegislators. It is hard to be surewhere Montesinos’ influence endsand paranoia begins, but there areconcrete signs of a campaignagainst the Peruvian president.

Nonetheless, Fujimori’s trip toWashington was seen as a calculat-ed statement of self-confidence.Peruvian observers believe that dur-ing the meetings with U.S. andLatin American diplomats he willdiscuss plans for reforming democ-ratic institutions in preparation forthe new elections.

Judge Throws Out Parts of U.S. SuitSeeking Damages From Big TobaccoBy Eric Lichtblauand Alissa J. RubinLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON

In a partial victory for the tobac-co industry, a federal judge onThursday threw out portions of aU.S. government lawsuit seeking tocollect billions of dollars in reim-bursement from cigarette makers forpublic health care funds spent on illsmokers.

The ruling leaves intact anotherpart of the massive lawsuit thataccuses the tobacco industry ofengaging in a 45-year pattern ofracketeering through its fraudulentmarketing practices.

Federal officials — though dis-appointed in the overall decision —said they are pleased they still willbe able to go to trial on that part oftheir claim.

U.S. District Judge GladysKessler said in her ruling that “it issimply inconceivable” that aftermore than three decades of inactionthe federal government can now

hold the tobacco industry liable forup to $20 billion a year in medicalcosts for smokers.

Tobacco industry officialssavored that portion of the ruling,saying they believe it could lessenthe government’s chances of obtain-ing big monetary damages in a law-suit that President Clintonannounced to much fanfare in his1999 State of the Union address.

Philip Morris Cos., the leaddefendant among 11 industry com-panies sued by the government,called the ruling “a big step in theright direction.”

Observers characterized the rul-ing as at least a partial win for thetobacco industry, but were not quiteas confident about the final outcome.

“The bottom line,” said MaryAronson, an independent tobaccoindustry analyst, is that federal offi-cials “have fewer claims, fewerpieces of ammunition, but that does-n’t mean they still can’t make a sig-nificant recovery.”

Tobacco analyst Martin Feldman

of Salomon Smith Barney agreedthat dismissal of the two medicalcost recovery claims was good forthe industry, but noted that theRICO claims left intact by the judge“essentially represent the largestaspect of the government’s claim.”

The U.S. Justice Department,which is litigating the case, hadwanted to show in part that thetobacco industry should have torepay the federal government for allthe money spent on smoking-relatedillnesses over the years. Lawyersargued that two arcane federal laws— the 1962 Medical Care RecoveryAct and the Medicare SecondaryPayer provisions amended in 1980— gave the government the authori-ty to collect for its medical outlays.

“Smoking has cost taxpayershundreds of billions of dollars underMedicare and other programs,”Clinton said in announcing his sur-prise plans to pursue the lawsuit lastyear, following a landmark $246billion settlement between thetobacco industry and the states.

Fujimori Requests InternationalSupport for Peruvian Government

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tion, especially when compared with mostother college newspapers with which I amfamiliar. But never have I been emotionallyaffected by something I read in its pages.

Until last Friday.Last Friday, a lot of people were angered by

an article entitled “The Cult Factor.” Theywere angry (as was I) because the author vehe-mently and viciously — and without anyapparent provocation or justification —attacked their very way of life. The authorridiculed ideals that are passionately believedin and fiercely defended by almost half of thisschool.

Based on what? Based on “facts” thatrange from out-of-context to blatantly false.

I am not angry anymore. I am saddened,and I feel disappointed.

Because if the author of “The Cult Factor”feels the way she does, then others do too.

Prejudices and stereotypes such as theseare engendered by ignorance and closed-mindedness, and are sustained and nourishedby rancorous responses. Immature retorts onlyexacerbate the problem.

In the words of Dr. Theodore Geisel:

UNLESS someone like youcares a whole awful lot,nothing is going to get better.It’s not.

I want to break free of this pattern. Ratherthan getting angry, I want to try showing peo-ple what fraternities are all about. I thereforeoffer to the author — and anyone who sharesher views — a humble and sincere invitation.Please contact me. Visit my house and meetmy brothers. Maybe you will change yourmind, maybe you won’t.

I do not join groups easily. I take loyaltyvery seriously, and I do not pledge it withoutgreat caution and extensive thought.

At least give us a chance to show you whywe pledged.

David Reinharth ’03Sigma Nu

Crusade for CthulhuNot ‘Neo-Pagan’

I’m writing in response to your picture onthe front of the September 26 edition of TheTech — in particular, the caption. As an offi-cer of the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, Iwould like to call your attention to the factthat we are not, nor have we ever been, a“neo-pagan group.” We are a social group,existing purely to enjoy our common love ofthe mythos written by H.P. Lovecraft, and tointroduce others to his works. Our rituals arepurely used as social gatherings, in order toget people together for some pyrotechnics,some food, and to very publicly announceour presence on campus.

The Campus Crusade for Cthulhu is madeup of a very diverse group of people, many ofwhom embrace “mainstream” religions. Weare Catholic, Jewish, Protestants of manydenominations, and, yes, we can even countPagans and Wiccans among our number. Weare not an alternative to “mainstream” reli-gious groups any more than the The Tech is.

Jessica Fry ’03Antiquary, Campus Crusade for Cthulhu

More OnBikes Not Bombs

Thanks for covering the Car-Free Dayactivities in Boston [“For a Day, Cyclists Rulethe Streets,” Sep. 22]. I would just add thatBikes Not Bombs (BNB) is located in Rox-bury, not Cambridge. This location is impor-tant, as one of the goals of the Bikes NotBombs Bicycle Recycling and Youth TrainingCenter is to provide opportunities for disad-

vantaged teens. BNB offers leadership pro-grams, employment and training (now coordi-nated with a local high school as an electivecourse), bicycle safety classes, and an Earn-A-Bike program. And, due to the low turnout ofgirls in some programs, BNB now also runsprograms exclusively for younger girls.

As the name says, Bikes Not Bombs alsospeaks out against the social and environmen-tal costs of militarism and increasing globalmotorization. BNB has sent over 18,500 bikesto Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, and theDominican Republic. They have also workedto bring training and equipment, enacted pro-grams which have created new jobs, andworked generally to improve social and eco-nomic conditions in these countries.

Jacob B. Schwartz G

Support for BerensonThank you for your well-written and infor-

mative article on the case of former MIT stu-dent Lori Berenson. If I may offer one smallcorrection: Lori was arrested by plainclothesPeruvian police officers as she rode a publicbus. She was not, as written in The Tech,“arrested after an all-night shootout with law-enforcement authorities” [“Five Years Later,Berenson Awaits Civilian Trial,” Sep. 26].

Lori continues to be held prisoner by thecorrupt and discredited regime of Alberto Fuji-mori. Although she has not been informed ofthe charges against her, Fujimori has alreadypublicly stated that her upcoming “civiliantrial” will result in a 20-year prison sentence.

The Clinton administration pulled out thestops to help Fujimori’s erstwhile intelligencechief, Vladimiro Montesinos, to leave Perubefore he could be subjected to criminalcharges. It is essential that public pressure bemaintained on the president and congress tosecure the immediate release of an innocentwoman who has been subjected to five yearsof isolation and brutality.

Peter ColeBoston chapter, Committee to

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Guest ColumnMarissa Raymond

In September of 1999 I woke up and sud-denly realized that I had no freedom, hardlyany time to study, and no friends outside ofthe community I had all too intentionallyjoined. Getting out of bed that morningafter two hours of rest, I was sleep-deprived,I hadn’t eaten in 24 hours, and my once-con-fident personality had been shattered by mynew surroundings.

There was no denying i t . In thosemoments I was questioning the soundness ofmy own judgment. The symptoms were soclear: a lack of sleep, malnutrition, an over-packed schedule. For those of you who havenot yet guessed the truth, I will admit mysituation. It was on that chilly Septembermorning that I came to terms with the factthat I am an MIT student.

All right, maybe I’m being a bit over-dra-matic, but it worked so well to attract atten-tion to another recent Tech column that Icouldn’t resist employing the same strategyhere. In the September 22, 2000 edition ofThe Tech, Veena Thomas wrote an articleentitled “The Cult Factor: When the Urge toBelong Becomes Too Strong.” There aretwo basic arguments in Thomas’s articlewhich are misrepresentations or exaggera-tions of the truth.

First, Thomas details her knowledge ofpsychology by describing the effects of cogni-tive dissonance. However, she fails to pointout the psychological benefits of the supportsystem that FSILG students receive duringand after college. Moreover, the cognitive dis-sonance which Thomas describes is commonin most MIT students. On many days in myfirst year at the Institute I have found myselfin a “state of having two attitudes which arenot consistent with each other.” For example,“I’m sick of 8.01 — I want to sleep!” and “I

never want to take 8.01 again. Forget sleep!Hand me my problem set!”

In order to reduce or reconcile the effectsof cognitive dissonance, Thomas suggeststhat members of cults turn to recruiting newmembers. I, like dozens of other MIT stu-dents, have worked with the MIT admissionsoffice to recruit potential students. Is MIT acult? To use Thomas’s words, “The similari-ties are striking.” However, how many stu-

dents at MIT would consider it a cult? By theover-generalized, one-sided arguments pre-sented in “The Cult Factor,” this is the onlypossible conclusion.

The second misrepresentation in “The CultFactor” is Thomas’s portrayal of the Greeksystem. At this point I would like to take theopportunity to explicitly state that I am in noway Greek-affiliated. What I am is Greek-edu-cated. I spent this weekend with fifty of themost active members of the MIT community,attending the IFC Leadership Retreat. I will bethe first to admit that I was nervous about rep-resenting the only non-Greek student group onthe retreat. Contrary to my fears, this experi-ence served to extinguish all of the residualstereotypes that I was holding onto about fra-ternities and sororities. It gave me the opportu-

nity to learn about their rich traditions, senseof community, and support for one another.

After having conversations with over halfof the houses in the IFC, I failed to find a housewhich includes requiring someone to carry abrick in his backpack or scrub the floor with atoothbrush in their new member program.

The sorority members on the retreat toldme that their pledge programs require a one-tofour-hour commitment per week. I didn’t hearanything from current members or pledgesabout “endless meetings for pledges, manda-tory activities, and clean-ups designed to takeaway much of the pledges’ time.” In addition,none of the hazing tactics in “The Cult Fac-tor” are employed by MIT sororities. The firstexample of “sleep and nutrient deprivation”takes place at other schools, as the articlestates. The second example, of “pledges wear-ing strange outfits and ordered to make foolsof themselves in the Student Center,” is anoth-er example of the misrepresentations through-out the article. These pledges were actuallyaffiliated with Wellesley societies which arenot national Greek organizations.

Every Greek representative I spoke to thisweekend told me about how much they careabout the other members of their chapter,including their pledges. They have fun; theybond over their traditions; they do not wantto endanger their organizations by endanger-ing their members.

So now I will urge everyone to do thehard thing: to step outside of the box andseek friends outside of your segment of theMIT population. The only way to combatthese stereotypes is to get to know your fel-low students.

At the end of her article Thomas asks asimple question, “What makes something acult? You decide.” I have decided. I havechosen to be educated, to be informed, and toavoid judgment without knowledge.

Marissa Raymond ’03 is a member of theWomen’s Independent Living Group.

Guest ColumnDamien Brosnan

Throughout my three years here at MIT, Ihave been involved in many different activi-ties that have benefited both myself and thecommunity to which I belong. The Under-graduate Association, crew, track and field,and now the Interfraternity Council and ClassCouncil have been avery large part of mylife and my educationalexperience here. I alsohappen to be a memberof a fraternity.

My identity on cam-pus is invariably tied tomy Greek affiliation,and why shouldn’t itbe? I am proud of myfraternity and what itdoes for me and my fel-low brothers. I am alsoproud of the things thatmy fraternity accom-plishes on campus,largely through the leadership positions thatmy fellow brothers get involved in. We makea positive difference on this campus, and thesame can be said about at least a few membersof every FSILG on campus.

I believe in the principles of my fraternityand try to live by them in my daily actions. Ishow truth in my convictions and the actions Itake for the student body, courage in my abili-ty to take on new challenges, faith in mybrothers and friends that they will help mewhen I need it, and power from the knowl-edge that I can make a difference in the livesof the people within the FSILG community.

In a column written in The Tech last week,the author attempted to describe this way ofliving life as being formed from certain cult-like behaviors and rituals that caused me tojoin my fraternity and get involved in it, andalso alleged that the reason we fall into suchbehavioral patterns has to do with psychologi-cal tactics used on us in our innocent MITyouth. This whole argument is straight-outridiculous, both from the loosely analyticalbasis on which it stands as well as from aplain old common-sense perspective. How so?I’m glad you asked.

First off, the columnist asks, “Why theprevalence of new members in the fraternities

and sororities?” That is a good question toask. The answer is that the MIT student bodyis diverse and the choice that we afford fresh-men (at least until 2002) enables them tochoose a living option where they believethey will fit in best, whether that be a dormi-tory or an FSILG. The columnist basicallyinsults the entire concept of freshman choiceby saying that freshmen don’t have a choice,and that we as upperclassmen never had any

choice, due to theimplementation ofthese psychologicalcult tactics. That issomething that I can-not possibly agree toas being the truth, andI hope that you won’tfind many people thatwould.

The analytical con-clusions drawn frominvoking the teachingsof 9.00 are equally inerror. At one point inthe argument, the factthat psychological

studies show that those who endure hardship inorder to join a group show more loyalty to saidgroup than those that don’t is brought into playas a supporting point of the existence of psy-chological tactics akin to cult behavior. Ibelieve that it is this very fact that speaks to thestrength of our Greek organizations and themembers within it.

When I first came here to MIT, I waslooking for a place to live where I wouldhave an image carvedout for me and some-thing to lose my ownidentity in for its owngreater good. Basi-cally, I was veryinsecure. But I could-n’t find that any-where in any fraterni-ty because being amember of any groupI was interested inmeant undergoingsacrifices of at leastsome of my time aswell as a willingness to challenge my beliefsand see if they go along with those of myfuture brothers. I basically was forced tobecome my own person and create my own

identity to be considered a worthwhile mem-ber of any house.

We don’t want sycophants in our system,nor people with no idea of who they are. Con-trary to what the columnist would have youbelieve, we hold ourselves to a higher stan-dard of membership than that. ProfessorPinker must be quite disappointed at the mis-use of his teachings. There’s also the com-mon-sense interpretation of these facts thatsay that the more you invest yourself intosomething, the more personally responsibleyou feel for it and the more loyalty you willhave for that group.

You have to earn the right to be in a frater-nity or sorority here. Membership is a privi-lege that is to be earned constantly through allof the years that you belong to the group, andprivileges require work to attain them.

The list of flawed points in the article goeson and on (such as the use of, at best, second-hand information from other schools given tothe columnist by people whose lives are prob-ably more like the columnists than the Greeksthey speak of), so I will stop here and issuemy own challenge to everyone. I urge you todo a really hard thing: evaluate yourselves.Instead of wondering whether or not you willlose your identity and become a mindless sec-ond-class zombie or something like that, takea look at yourselves and ask, “Do I have whatit takes to be a productive member of a groupthat is greater than the sum of its parts? Am Istrong enough as an individual to know thatabout myself?”

I think the answer might inspire you andhelp you realize that you are worthy of such

an endeavor. Thenagain, the answer mightdepress you, and possi-bly make you bittertowards a system thatyou don’t deserve. Butthen again, what do Iknow: I might be noth-ing more than just abrain-washed cockyfratboy with nothingbut rushing freshmenand “proper frat partyetiquette” on his mind.

What makes some-one an individual? You decide.

Damien A. Brosnan ’01 is a member ofDelta Tau Delta and Interfraternity CouncilPresident.

Being Greek at MITFraternity, Sorority Membership an ‘Earned Right’

Getting to Know the GreeksFraternities, Sororities Not as Portrayed in ‘Cult Factor’

Guest ColumnJason Kelly

I recently read Steven Millman’s guest col-umn “Alcohol, Health, and Discipline” in theSeptember 19th issue of The Tech. Millmanstates that the The Tech’s editorial had“missed the mark broadly” in suggesting thatthe Institute needed to take greater measuresto assure students that they need not fear retri-bution when seeking medical help for anotherstudent.

Fortunately, I read this article on the sameday as I passed out this year’s “Facts aboutAlcohol” card, issued to each freshman.MIT’s policy to encourage students to get aidfor friends in need is clearly evident by thetext of the card:

“MIT is committed to enforcing all statelaws regarding the consumption, purchase,and serving of alcoholic beverages. Studentsfound to be in violation of these laws and/orrelated MIT policies are subject to discipli-nary action.”

I think I would have trouble finding a bet-ter way to encourage students not to seek aid.I am interested to know how Millman feelsthat a student could deduce that “no one atMIT has ever been in trouble for seekingmedical attention required by another stu-dent” from the contents of this card, whichevery student is encouraged to carry at alltimes — it even comes with a discount to thecoffeehouse.

Rather than address emergency situationsand encourage students to do the right thing, itis MIT’s policy to use fear to prevent studentsfrom getting into a situation in which medicalhelp is needed. This is highlighted in Mill-man’s column, in which he states, “Studentsat MIT must understand that the penalty theywill face increases dramatically with each baddecision they make.” The idea that bad deci-sions are punished rather than good decisionsencouraged seems to be the policy of theCommittee on Discipline and the MIT admin-istration as a whole.

This is a very frightening state of affairs.It is easy to simply state that people must

be responsible for their actions and reap whatthey sow; however, the situation becomes abit more complicated when a person’s life ison the line. Millman said in his column that“the answer is not to make breaking the law aconsequence-free action.” I agree with Mill-man on this point, but I do not see how seek-ing medical aid for a fellow student is break-ing the law. If the administration is sointerested in “enforcing all state laws regard-ing the consumption, serving, and purchase ofalcoholic beverages,” then they should do sobefore it becomes a medical emergency. Thecampus police need not be doing detectivework while trying to resuscitate an uncon-scious student.

This is merely the tip of the iceberg. Theactions of the Cambridge License Commis-son against Next House and several of theCambridge-side fraternities have made itabundantly clear that seeking medical atten-tion is not only punishable but could possiblyresult in the loss of the right to live in yourhome. An analysis of how the CLC is wildlyoverstepping its boundaries on its personalcrusade would take the rest of this paper, so Iwill simply leave you with the unsettlingfeeling that the places which most fear call-ing for help are the ones where the largemajority of MIT’s alcohol-related socialevents occur.

What can be done? MIT must decide whatits policy is going to be. Either the administra-tion will come forward and encourage stu-dents to seek medical aid by making it a deci-sion-free process, or they will step back andtake the hard line against campus drinkingwith anyone seeking help “subject to discipli-nary action.” However, the current situation,in which the administration claims that therewill be no penalty but advertises just theopposite, puts students in a state of confusionwhich leads to deliberation before calling foraid, if a call is made at all.

I encourage the administration to comeforward and address the issue with a clear pol-icy. If it is to step back and let the law handlethe safety of its students, then so be it. It is myhope, however, that MIT will play a proactiverole in protecting the health of its students,and make calling for help a decision that is nodecision at all.

Jason Kelly is a member of the Class of2003.

Alcohol,Health,

And Fear

The MIT student bodyis diverse and the choice thatwe afford freshmen enables

them to choose a living optionwhere they believe they will fit

in best,whether that be adormitory or an FSILG.

Membership is a privilegethat is to be earned constantlythrough all of the years that

you belong to the group,and privileges require work

to attain them.

After having conversations with over half of the housesin the IFC, I failed to find a

house which includes requiringsomeone to carry a brick in hisbackpack or scrub the floor with

a toothbrush …

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Kris Schnee

In a translucent box in the art exhibit, yousee what appears to be an albino rabbit. But itis no ordinary rabbit: when the lights go offand a faint UV blacklight turns on, Alba the“GFP Bunny” glows green. A gene based onthe fluorescence gene found in jellyfish wasadded to the rabbit’s genome and now makesits entire body glow.

GFP Bunny is a project created by Chicagoartist Eduardo Kac and a group of scientists atthe French National Institute of AgronomicResearch. Originally intending to make abreed of glowing dogs (a project now on hold),Kac made his rabbit not as something simplyto be put on display in a cage, but to be takenhome by his family and adopted as a pet.Unfortunately, the French lab’s director has sofar refused to let Kac keep Alba as planned.

Kac is part of a recent wave of hobbyistsexploring the new frontier of genetics fromthe fresh perspective of the arts. It is easy tobe caught up in scientific, ethical, and politi-cal debates over the development and properuse of technology, and its effects on society— but while everyone else was talking,someone seemingly outside the field hastaken up the tools to do something harmless,absurd, and cool.

Defending the seriousness of the ongoingscientific debate, Harvard Professor MarkHauser said, “In a sense, this rabbit is notany sil l ier than a Chihuahua,” anotherhuman creation.

Kac has long worked with advanced tech-nology as an artistic medium. In the 1980s heused holograms; in 1996 he put a robotic birdin an enclosure with real ones and let viewerscontrol its head and see through its eyes. In1999 he inserted a gene into bacteria carry-ing a Morse-code rendition of the Biblicalverse granting mankind “dominion” overlife, and irradiated the bacteria to mutate themessage. Now, his hobbyist colleagues haveput together entire exhibits of life as art, fea-turing exhibits like a painting made of col-ored bacteria and a computer “Human RaceMachine” which lets visitors see what theywould look like as a member of another eth-nic group. One such gallery, “Mass MoCA,”has opened up in western Massachusetts.

Alba the rabbit is being held by the labora-tory partly because of protests from animal-rights activists, who say that Alba may be“suffering” (do fireflies suffer?) and that shecould have unpredictable and dangerouseffects on the environment. Such argumentsbegin to sound pretty strange when applied toAlba — less like legitimate arguments like“This corn kills butterflies” than like a knee-jerk fear reaction to anything strange.

Imagine that, in the near future, someonecreates a unicorn, perhaps a white horse withnarwhal genes. Will animal rights activists orGreenpeace put a stop to it, expressing con-cern that the creature’s, ah, horniness willharm the horse population at large?

To some extent we’re seeing this samereaction even to engineered species with obvi-ous benefit to the world, like plants that growbiodegradable plastic without petroleum andsuper-nutritious golden rice. These plants areuseful but possibly risky, while Alba is uselessbut harmless. If it will take a product which isboth useful and totally risk-free to make thepublic accept genetic technology, then thebiotech industry is in for a rough century.

Kac does not mind the brouhaha over hiswork; he expected it. He defines the GFPBunny project, his work of art, to consist ofboth the actual rabbit and the debate it gener-ates. He is not just producing art, but challeng-ing our society with it in a way that no finger-painted canvas can match. In a catalogue ofKac’s work, Gerfried Stocker wrote that “if wego on from the representation and simulationof life to the creation and shaping of life, thenthis is an area from which art cannot abstain.”

If artists venture into the new medium oflife itself, so will our culture. Early projectslike GFP Bunny and the Human RaceMachine are experiments which can help usget comfortable with our necessary future roleas stewards of life. They will hopefully giveus a greater appreciation for life’s complexity,in ways that are exciting and entertaining.

Arthur Caplan, a professor at Penn, said ofAlba: “This is a reminder of how some of themost controversial and far-reaching changeswill have nothing to do with medicine …[Genetics] is going to profoundly change ourphilosophy, our society, our culture.” Thework of Kac and other scientific hobbyists isonly the beginning.

But Is It Art?

Guest ColumnJyoti Tibrewala

It’s now almost three weeks into the term,and the results of the freshmen elections areout. I have to admit, some of the postersinside 77 Mass. Ave. were quite interesting.However, there are many aspects of the elec-tion process which closely resembled those ofa popularity contest.

Let us begin the investigation by analyzingthe timing of the elections. The process beganshortly before classes started. At that time,there were still a good deal of freshmen whodidn’t know too many of their fellow class-mates. My initial reaction was that this wouldreduce the popularity-contest aspect of theelection: if the majority of people do not knowanyone, they are less likely to vote for a par-ticular candidate solely because they knowhim or her.

How, then, do your fellow freshmen get toknow you and why you’re running? Most ofthe time, this is done through advertisementsand speeches. There were plenty of postersand signs, but how many students, while trav-eling down the Infinite Corridor to get to aclass, will take a minute to stop and read one?Running between classes, I can often be seenreading notes or eating a meal on the run;friends have often called me up later to saythey saw me and called to me, but that I didnot respond.

This leaves speeches as the only way tobecome familiar with a candidate’s stance onthe issues. However, there were no speeches.Voters, therefore, had little opportunity to findout what the candidates were about.

I won’t discount the Meet the CandidatesStudy Break. No doubt this was intended totake the place of having students all gather tolisten to speeches. The idea behind the studybreak was a good one — don’t get me wrong.What better way to woo students than to offerfree food and a break from MIT? But givingcandidates thirty seconds to address an audi-ence is not a productive means of relaying

one’s aspirations as a class officer.Furthermore, there must be a great many

freshmen who did not attend the study break. Ihad originally intended to go to the studybreak, because I wanted badly to be able tomake an informed choice come voting day.But I couldn’t for the simple reason that I hadto study.

It has been observed that students are gen-erally the most academically motivated at thebeginning of the term; in high school, ourteachers used to paraphrase this by telling usthat our grades would be high at the begin-ning of the semester but would drop slightlyas time passed because, if you start at the top,there’s nowhere to go but down. Or youcould look at it this way: if you performedpoorly on the first problem set, the grade wasquite a shock and perhaps a number youwould never like to see with your nameagain; so, you would be more motivated onthe second problem set.

On another note, I ran into a few of thefreshmen candidates the night of and the dayafter the study break, and at least oneinformed me that she did not attend the Meetthe Candidates Study Break. Even consideringthis piece of evidence alone, there must havebeen a good portion of the voting freshmanclass who also did not make an appearance.

Thus the freshman elections were, inessence, a popularity contest. In keeping withmost elections, voter turnout was low; nodoubt a lot of freshmen were poorly informedof voting dates and paper balloting times andlocations. But if candidates weren’t all over-flowing with enthusiasm, one can’t reallyblame student voters for their lack of interest.Many of those students who did vote in theelections chose people whom they knew;many will openly admit to doing so. And peo-ple will continue to do so until the procedureis revamped, and contact between candidatesand voters, as well as interest in student elec-tions — on the part of both candidates andvoters — can be established.

Jyoti Tibrewala is a member of the Classof 2004.

Freshman Elections ReformWhen Students Don’t Know Each Other,

Elections Turn into Popularity Contests

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O N T H E S C R E E N— B Y T H E T E C H A R T S S T A F F —

The following movies are playing this week-end at local theaters. The Tech suggests using<http://www.boston.com> for a complete list-ing of times and locations.

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Alice et Martin (★★ 1⁄2)A simple, yet poignant love story. The

screenplay, however, is far outdone by thecinematography. Numerous images andscenes stand out, thanks to the careful direc-tion of André Téchiné, making this film arefreshing break from the usual empty sum-mer blockbuster. — Lianne Habinek

Almost Famous (★★★ 1⁄2)Almost Famous is the semi-autobiographi-

cal film of writer and director CameronCrowe’s life as a 16 year-old Rolling Stonejournalist. He follows around a band for fourdays and, in a bewildering, humorous, anddidactic experience, understands the mantra ofsex, drugs, and rock and roll. — DevdootMajumdar

The Art of War (★★ )Wesley Snipes is a special agent for the

United Nations trying to negotiate a tradeagreement from behind the scenes with hi-tech espionage and explosives. The film’s plotis completely implausible and the actionsequences are poorly lifted from The Matrix.— Erik Blankinship

Bait (★★ 1⁄2)In this enjoyable comedy, Jamie Foxx stars

as a small-time thief used by the police as baitto catch a killer. Although the plot is too pre-dictable to be interesting, Foxx’s outstandingperformance, combined with good cinematog-raphy, makes up for the lack of originality ofthe story. If you want to have a good time,take this bait and go see the movie. It will def-initely make you laugh. — Bogdan Fedeles

Bring it On (★★★ )One of the better movies of the summer

merely because of its amusing banter andexaggerated characters. Stupid jokes and pre-dictable conflicts are delivered throughout thefilm, but Bring It On doesn’t lose its cheer.Kirsten Dunst plays the captain of the Toros, acheerleading squad that goes head-to-head

with members of a Compton squad,which includes the members fromR&B group Blaque. The one-linersand catty attitudes are let loose indirector Peyton Reed’s silver-screenendeavor. — Solar Olugebefola

The Cell (★★ )While this film is full of amazing

visual images, it seems the sole pur-pose of such digital effects is to divertthe audience’s attention from the factthat The Cell is completely lacking inthe story department. The acting, also,is sub-par. If you must see it, go onlyto treat your eyes, and leave yourbrain at home. — Rebecca Loh

Chuck and Buck (★★★ )A heart-felt look at an uneven

friendship, severely underscored byBuck’s case of arrested developmentand Chuck’s resulting embarrassmentof Buck. At times sad, amusing andshocking, this is a cleverly writtenand fondly watchable indie flick, ifyou can get past the low-budgetgrainy film texture. — Karen Feigen-baum

Girl on the Bridge (★★★ 1⁄2)An enchanting film that is never boring.

Director Patrice Laconte emphasizes the visu-al and the actor-audience relationship to con-vey the story of two very different people whononetheless form the perfect match. — LH

Nurse Betty (★★ )Renee Zellweger stars in this film as the

neurotic Nurse Betty, a small-town soap operaaficionado traumatized into an alternate per-sonality. Obsessed and dedicated, she seeksout soap opera star Dr. David Ravell, playedby actor George McCord (Greg Kinnear), onA Reason to Love under the misconceptionthat he is her ex-fiancee. Along the way, she isfollowed by two hit men played by MorganFreeman and Chris Rock, and, as this illogicalbut humorous story continues, it stumblessomewhere between humorous originality andperplexing irrationality. — Ryan Klimczak

Psycho Beach Party (★★ 1⁄2)A mildly amusing film that spoofs the

mindless beach party films of the 60s. LaurenAmbrose enthusiastically plays a multi-per-

sonality beach bunny, who hangs with color-ful beach bums, only to find them being mur-dered. The satire includes dance showdowns,blue-screen surfing effects, loud bathing suits,and a surfer who speaks in rhyme.—LH

Requiem For a Dream (★★ 1⁄2)Requiem for a Dream, directed and co-

written by Darren Aronofsky (thewriter/director of Pi), employs an intensevisual style to describe the personal hells offour drug-addicted characters and their inter-connected spirals into madness and depravity.Aronofsky has overstepped his ability as afilmmaker in his sophomore effort, and for allthe flashy pyrotechnics, Requiem falls flat onan unfocused plot and mediocre acting. Vis-cerally, however, Requiem is as satisfying, ifnot more so, than Pi. If you liked Pi, Requiemis a must see. If you didn’t, don’t bother. —Jed Horne

Urbania (★★★ )Urbania tells the story of Charlie, a man

introduced as having suffered a tragic loss andintent on regaining normalcy in his life. Char-

lie stumbles through the hyper-realityof New York City, voyeuristicallyobsessed with “urban legends” —peculiar vignettes which, the filmargues, help us cope with reality’scapriciousness. These tales become ametaphor for Charlie’s own experienceand provide a backdrop for his neuroticobsession with an ex-lover and the pos-sibility of a redemptive relationshipwith a homophobic acquaintance.Urbania confronts some interestingissues about sexuality, revenge, andlove, but its choice of a homosexualfocus, while downplayed, makes it eas-ily dismissed as a member of a genre offilms that is hokey at best, even ifUrbania itself is an exception. — JH

Urban Legands: Final Cut (★ )A disappointing sequel to the origi-

nal Urban Legends movie, this filmprovides an unorthodox approach to itsforerunner as film student Amy May-field (Jennifer Morrison) directs herthesis film on a murderer who kills peo-ple based on urban legends. At thesame time, a psychopath is killing hercrew in the same format as her movie,leading Mayfield on an unexpected —

and confusing — trail to unmask the killerbefore she too becomes an urban legend.Directed by John Ottman, Urban Legends II:Final Cut proves to be a cheesy and overdoneaddition to the teen-horror genre. — RK

The Way of the Gun (★★ 1⁄2)Written and directed by Christopher

McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects screenwriter),this crime thriller starts and ends with a bang,staging thrilling, superbly choreographed gunbattles. However, the middle drags with end-less expository sequences that all look andsound alike. Also, Ryan Phillippe is no KevinSpacey. —Vladimir Zelevinsky

What Lies Beneath (★★ 1⁄2)You may think you already know the story

from the trailer: there’s a woman who lookslike Michelle Pfeiffer haunting a house. Butwhat follows the painfully slow beginning is asomewhat suspenseful thriller with a surpris-ingly creative ending. Obviously, you can’trely on the trailers: you’d have to go to thetheaters to find out what lies beneath the sur-face of this movie. — KF

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ClubsAXIS13 Landsdowne St., 617-262-2437

Mondays: Static. Gay, casualdress. $5, 18+.

Thursdays: Chrome/Skybar. Pro-gressive house, soul, disco;dress code. $10, 19+; $8,21+.

Fridays: Spin Cycle. Progressivehouse, 80's. $12, 19+; $10,21+.

Avalon15 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2424

Thursdays: International Night.Eurohouse. $10, 19+.

Fridays: Avaland. House. $15,19+.

Saturdays: Downtown. Modernhouse, club classics, and Top40 hits. $15, 21+.

Sundays: Gay Night with Axis.Three different dance floors fea-turing hardcore house and tech-no. $10, 21+.

ManRay21 Brookline St., Cambridge, 617-864-0400

Wednesdays: Curses. Goth. Appro-priate dress required. $5, 19+;$3, 21+.

Thursdays: Campus . Populartunes + House. Gay, casualdress. $10, 19+; $7, 21+.

Fridays: Fantasy Factory (First andthird Friday of the month. Fea-tures kinky fetishes and indus-trial music.) Hell Night (everysecond Friday. 19+. IncludesGoth music.) Ooze (the last Fri-day of the month.) $10, 21+.reduced prices for those wear-ing fetish gear.

Saturdays: Liquid. Disco/house +New Wave. $12, 19+; $8, 21+.

Popular MusicAXISNext: 423-NEXT, 617-262-243713 Lansdowne St.

Sep. 29: Queens of the StoneAge.

Oct. 22: At the Drive-In.Oct. 25: Virtuoso. Local hip-hop

artists. Featuring Iyadonna &Clinton Sparks, 7L & Esoteric,Skitzofreniks, Shuman, Reks,Elliot Ness, and Ray Barboza.

Avalon15 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2424

Sep. 30: Great Big Sea.Oct. 3: Joan Osborne.Oct. 4: Okayplayer Tour, Featuring

The Roots, Talib Kweli, DeadPrez, Slum Village, Bahamadia,Jaguar, Dice Raw and Jazzyfat-nasties.

Oct. 6: Paul Weller.Oct. 7: Splashdown.Oct. 7: The Push Stars.Oct. 13: The Samples.Oct. 18: BT, $15.Oct. 19: Moby.Oct. 20: Soulive.Oct. 21: Shaggy.Oct. 22: The Beautiful South.Oct. 24: The Gregg Allman Band.Oct. 25: Hootie & the Blowfish.Oct. 26: BBMak.Oct. 28: Elliot Smith.Oct. 29: Miguel Migs, Kid Koala,

P-Love, Slum Village, Bahama-dia.

Nov. 4: Sammy Hagar.Nov. 5: 311.Nov. 7: Rancid.Nov. 18: They Might Be Giants.Nov. 28: The Saw Doctors.

Berklee Performance CenterBerklee College of Music1140 Boylston St.Free student recitals and facultyconcerts, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. someweekdays. For info. on these con-certs, call the Performance Infor-mation Line at 747-8820.

Oct. 1: Marisa Monte.Oct. 7: Irakere.Oct. 14: Fourplay.Oct. 15: Sandra Bernhard.Oct. 17: Emmylou Harris.Oct. 21: George Winston.Oct. 25: Yiannis Parios.Oct. 26: Keb Mo.Oct. 27: Sonny Rollins.Oct. 28: Klezmer ConservatoryBand.Noc. 10: Whispers.Nov. 18: Plena Libre.

Club Passim47 Palmer St, Cambridge, 618-

492-7679.

Call for schedule.

The Lizard Lounge1667 Mass Ave., 617-547-0759.

21+

Wednesdays: Baby Ray.Thursdays: Club d'Elf.

The Middle EastTicketmaster: 931-2000.Ticket prices vary. Call 354-8238for more info.

Sep. 29: New Wet Kojak.Sep. 30: Sector 9.Oct. 1: Les Savy Fav.Oct. 6: Sayhitolisa.Oct. 7: Superzero.Oct. 9: Waxwings with PotentialGetaway Driver.Oct. 10: Victory At Sea.Oct. 12: Hovercraft with openingact Kinski.Oct. 13: Barbero with openingacts Throttle, Bottom and CrackTorch.Oct. 13: The Original P.

Oct. 15: Bitch and Animal withopening act Mehan Toohey.Oct. 18: Coldcut.

Orpheum TheatreTicketmaster: 931-2000

Oct. 25: Omara Poruondo. A vocal-ist presented by The BuenaVista Social Club. With guestBarbarito Torres, one of Cuba'sgreatest lute players.

Oct. 26, 27: Ani DiFranco.

Sanders Theatre617-496-222245 Quincy St., 02138

Oct. 6: Holly Near And CrisWilliamson.

Oct. 14: WOFA-Drum and Dance ofGuinea.

Nov. 1: The Whirling Dervishes.Nov. 10: Natalie MacMaster.Nov. 25: Capitol Steps.

T.T. the Bear's Place10 Brookline St, Cambridge, 617-492-BEAR

Sep. 29: Wheat.Sep. 30: AM Stereo.Oct. 7: Mike Watt.

Tsongas Arena (Lowell, MA)Ticketmaster: 931-2000.

Oct. 5: Stone Temple Pilots, SoldOut.Nov. 21: Deftones, $24.50.

Jazz MusicRegattabarConcertix: 876-77771 Bennett St.., Cambridge 02138,617-662-5000

Sep. 29-30: Charles Lloyd Quar-

tet.Oct. 4: Patricia Barber Trio.Oct. 5-7: Benny Green-Russell

Malone-Ray Brown Trio.Oct. 10: Mark Kross Five-Piece

Trio.Oct. 11: Donal Fox Trio. Local

pianist's program, "ExploringBach and Monk," mixes worksby jazz and classical com-posers.

Oct. 12: Patrice Williamson Group.Oct. 13: Mili Bermejo & Claudio

Ragazzi.Oct. 14: Bruce Katz Band.

Scullers Jazz Club

Sep. 29-Oct. 1: Nancy Wilson.Nov. 29: Nelson Rangell.

Classical MusicBoston Symphony OrchestraTickets: 266-1492.Performances at Symphony Hall,Boston, MA unless otherwisenoted.

Sep. 28-30, Oct. 3: Beethoven,Missa Solemnis. Seiji Ozawa, con-ductor; Emiko Suga, soprano;Anna Larsson, mezzo-soprano;Kurt Streit, tenor; Williard White,bass; Tanglewood Festival Cho-rus, John Oliver, conductor.

Chameleon Arts Ensemble

Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. at the First andSecond Church, 66 MarlboroughStreet in Boston's Back Bay(Arlington Stop on the Green Line):The Chameleon Arts Ensemble ofBoston presents chamber musicby Samuel Barber, Alban Berg,Terr Riley, Maurice Ravel, andDmitri Shostakovich. With Mary

Ann McCormick, mezzo-soprano.Tickets $28, $20, $14, discountsavailable for students andseniors. For tickets or more infor-mation, call 617-427-8200 or visit<http://www.chameleonarts.org>.

Dracula: The Music and Film

Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Philip Glassand the Kronos Quartet performlive music to a presentation of the1931 classic film starring BelaLugosi. At the Orpheum Theater (1Hamilton Pl., Boston). Tickets$50, $35, and $25. Call 876-4275 to order.

TheaterSide ManThrough Oct. 14, Wed.-Thu. at7:30 p.m., Fri.-Sat. at 8 p.m., Sat.at 4 p.m., Sun. at 3 p.m.; Oct. 11at 2 p.m.: Warren Leight's SideMan, winner of the 1999 TonyAward for Best Play. At the LyricStage, 140 Clarendon St., Boston(Arlington T Stop on the GreenLine). Directed by Spiro Veloudos.Tickets $36-$24. For ticket infor-mation, call 617-437-7172.

The Water EngineThrough Oct. 1 Wed.-Sat. at 7:30p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m. at theTremont Theater (246 TremontSt., Boston, 617-292-4740. PetBrick Productions, now in its sec-ond year, begins their 2000-2001season with a work by DavidMamet. The Water Engine is anexciting early piece of Mamet'soriginally written as a radio playfor NPR. Radio technology plays alarge role in the play and Pet BrickProductions has recreated a radiostudio complete with a Foleysound effects artist. Although the

technology is 1930's, it has manybrillian commentaries to make onthe roles of science and scientistin our daily lives. Tickets for TheWater Engine are $20 for adultsand $16 for students/seniors.Tickets are available throughMajesTix at (617) 824-8000 oronline at <www.maj.org>, and atall BosTix locations.

Seussical

Through Sep. 30: The pre-Broad-way tryout of the show marketedas a "re-imagining of Dr. Seuss,"Seussical brings together many ofthe characters (29 in all) from Dr.Seuss including Gertrude McFuzzand The Cat in the Hat who nar-rates. Music and Lyrics by LynnAhrens and Stephen Flaherty, thesame team who wrote the scoreto the acclaimed shows Once onThis Island and Ragtime and themovie musical Anastasia. At theColonial Theatre (106 BoylstonSt., Boston). Tickets $74-$23.75.For tickets call Ticketmaster at931-2787.

Comedy ConnectionMon.-Wed. at 8 p.m.; Thurs. 8:30p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 8 p.m., 10:15p.m.; Sun. 7 p.m. The oldest com-edy club in Boston showcases big-name, national comedians onweekends and up-and-cominglocal talent during the week. At245 Quincy Market Place, FaneuilHall, Upper Rotunda, Boston.Admission $10-$8 (weekendprices vary). Call 248-9700 formore information and a completeschedule.

Sat. Sep. 29, 8 p.m. and 10:15p.m., Sun. Sep. 30, 7 p.m., Mon.Oct. 1, 7 p.m.: David Chapelle of"Half Baked" and "Blue Streak".

Sun. Oct. 8, 22, 29 at 9:15 p.m.:Black Comedy Explosion, hostedby Jonathan Gates.

Sat. Oct. 13, 8 p.m. and 10:15p.m., Sun. Oct. 14, 10:30 p.m.,Mon. Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: TommyDavidson of "Booty Call" and"Woo".

Sat. Oct. 20, 8 p.m. and 10:15p.m., Sun. Oct. 21, 7 p.m., DomIrrera Comedy Central's "Off-sides" and Showtime's "Off -Sides".

Sat. Oct. 27, 8 p.m. and 10:15p.m., Sun. Oct. 28, 7 p.m.: JimBreuer of "Saturday Night Live"and "Half Baked".

Blue Man GroupCharles Playhouse, 74 WarrentonStreet, Boston, indefinitely. Cur-tain is at 8 p.m. on Wednesdayand Thursday, at 7 and 10 p.m.on Friday and Saturday, and at 3and 6 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets$35 to $45. Call 426-6912 fortickets and information on how tosee the show for free by ushering.

Shear MadnessCharles Playhouse Stage II, 74Warrenton Street, Boston (426-5225), indefinitely. Curtain is at 8p.m. Tuesday through Friday, at6:30 and 9:30 p.m. on Saturday,and at 3 and 7:30 p.m. on Sun-day. Tickets $30-34.

ExhibitsInstitute of Contemporary Art 955 Boylston St., Boston, 02115,(617) 266-5152 (Hynes Conven-tion Center T-stop). Features awide variety of contemporary con-ceptual art with shows whichemphasize artists from outsidethe United States. Admission $6adults, $4 students and seniors,free to children under 12 andmembers. Admission free onThursday evenings. Wheelchairaccessible.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Muse-um280 The Fenway, Boston. (566-1401), Tues.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Admission $10 ($11 on week-ends), $7 for seniors, $5 for stu-dents with ID ($3 on Wed.), freefor children under 18. The muse-um, built in the style of a 15th-century Venetian palace, housesmore than 2500 art objects, withemphasis on Italian Renaissanceand 17th-century Dutch works.Among the highlights are works byRembrandt, Botticelli, Raphael,Titian, and Whistler. Guided toursgiven Fridays at 2:30 p.m.

Museum of Fine Arts465 Huntington Ave., Boston.(267-9300), Mon.–Tues., 10a.m.–4:45 p.m.; Wed., 10a.m.–9:45 p.m.; Thurs.–Fri., 10a.m.–5 p.m.; Sat.–Sun., 10a.m.–5:45 p.m. West Wing openThurs.–Fri. until 9:45 p.m. Admis-sion free with MIT ID, otherwise$10, $8 for students and seniors,children under 17 free; $2 after 5p.m. Thurs.–Fri., free Wed. after 4p.m.Mon.–Fri.: introductory walksthrough all collections begin at10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.;“Asian, Egyptian, and ClassicalWalks” begin at 11:30 a.m.;“American Painting and DecorativeArts Walks” begin at 12:30 p.m.;“European Painting and Decora-tive Arts Walks” begin at 2:30p.m.; Introductory tours are alsooffered Sat. at 11 a.m. and 1:30p.m.Permanent Gallery Installations:“Late Gothic Gallery,” featuring arestored 15th-century stainedglass window from HamptonCourt, 14th- and 15th-centurystone, alabaster, and polychromewood sculptures from France andthe Netherlands; “Mummy MaskGallery,” a newly renovated Egypt-ian gallery, features primitivemasks dating from as far back as2500 B.C.; “European DecorativeArts from 1950 to the Present”;“John Singer Sargent: Studies forMFA and Boston Public LibraryMurals.”Gallery lectures are free withmuseum admission.

Museum of Our National Heritage33 Marrett Rd., Lexington, 02421.(781-861-6559). Mon.-Sat. 10a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 12 p.m.-5 p.m.Admission and parking free.<http://www.mnh.org>

Museum of ScienceScience Park, Boston. (723-2500), Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 9a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.-5p.m. Admission free with MIT ID,otherwise $9, $7 for children 3-14and seniors.The Museum features the theaterof electricity (with indoor thunder-and-lightning shows daily) andmore than 600 hands-on exhibits.Ongoing: “Discovery Center”;“Investigate! A See-For-YourselfExhibit”; “Science in the Park:Playing with Forces and Motion”;“Seeing Is Deceiving.”Ongoing: “Everest: Roof of theWorld”; “Living on the Edge.”Admission to Omni, laser, andplanetarium shows is $7.50,$5.50 for children and seniors.Now showing: “Laser DepecheMode,” Sun., 8 p.m.; “Laser Off-spring,” Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m.;“Laser Rush,” Sun., 9:15; “LaserBeastie Boys,” Thurs.-Sat., 9:15p.m.; “Laser Floyd’s Wall,” Fri.-Sat., 10:30 p.m.; “Friday NightStargazing,” Fri., 8:30 p.m.; “Wel-come to the Universe,” daily;“Quest for Contact: Are WeAlone?” daily.

Commonwealth Museum220 Morrissey Blvd., Boston,02125. Located across from theJFK Library. Hours: M-F 9-5, S 9-3.Admission is Free. For more info.or to arrange a tour, call 617-727-9268.

Other Events Two Wheel DealThrough Sep. 29. Photographicexhibition by Tom McCarthy ofmotorcycles, with works since1980. Daily 9-5 p.m.; call forweekend hours. At the New Eng-land School of Photography, 537Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA02215. Call 617-437-1868 formore info.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum andBailey

Oct. 13-22. "The Greatest Showon Earth" is returning to the Fleet-Center. Fun for the whole family!$37 (VIP), $25, $16, and $11.Call Ticketmaster 931-2000.

The Four Seasons

Sep. 29-Oct. 8: ChristopherWheeldon's world premiere pro-duction is complemented byDaniel Pelzig's "Resurrection." Atthe Wang Center,270 Termont St.,Boston (Boylston T Stop on theGreen Line). For ticket informa-tion, call 1-800-447-7400. Tickets$73-$12.50. For more informationvisit <www.boston.com/boston-ballet/>.

Film FestivalsAt the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, 02115. For tickets andmore information, call 369-3770.Tickets for each showing are $7,$6 MFA members, seniors, stu-dents, unless otherwise noted.

Art of Film FestivalOct. 19 at 6 p.m.: Charlotte (dir.Frans Weisz, TheNetherlands/Germany, 1980, 90min.). Three elements ofSalomon's life come together inthis powerful f i lm: the youngSalomon's love for her inspira-tional voice teacher Alfred Wolf-sohn (Derek Jacobi), her strugglesto understand the tragic legacy ofsuicide on the maternal side ofher family, and the evolution ofher work as an artist. "Charlotteconveys the anxiety and despair ofthe times, and one woman's hero-ic attempts at self-liberation-theextent of the strength of an indi-vidual against the overpoweringtide of history" (San FranciscoJewish Film Festival).

On The TownA weekly guide to the arts in Boston

September 29 – October 5Compiled by Fred Choi

Send submissions to ott@the-tech.mit.edu or by interdepartmental mail to “On The Town,” The Tech, W20-483.

KIMBERLY BUTLER

Ani DiFranco performs at the Orpheum Theatre October 26th and 27th. Call Ticketmas-ter at (617) 931–2000 for tickets.

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6:00 a.m. - 5:59 a.m. – Here and Away. Exhibition of photographs and artwork created by staff members of Tech-nique, the MIT yearbook. Contributors include MIT students and recent alumni, each of whom presents two works:one with a theme of MIT, student life, or the Boston area and the other with a topic outside of the Institute. free.Room: Wiesner Student Art Gallery (2nd floor Student Ctr). Sponsor: Technique Yearbook. 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Mary A. Harman: Breaking the Mold. A series of images using multiple print processesto explore issues of women’s individuality and saneness. free. Room: Rm E52-466 . Sponsor: Sloan School ofManagement.10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. – The Eladio Dieste Symposia: Scientific Innovation in Structure and Construction withTraditional Materials. (Also in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Sept 26-27). Principal sponsors: Ministry of Public Works,Republic of Uruguay; Graham Foundation, Chicago; Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation; MIT Arthur H. ScheinMemorial Lecture Fund; MIT Pietro Belluschi Lecture Fund; Rafael ViÒoly Architects. There is a fee for the sympo-sium, but the Belluschi Lecture (Sept 30) is free and open to the public. Contact Anne Rhodes. Room: KresgeAuditorium. Sponsor: Department of Architecture. 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. – The Eladio Dieste Symposia: Scientific Innovation in Structure and Construction withTraditional Materials. (Also in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Sept 26-27). Principal sponsors: Ministry of Public Works,Republic of Uruguay; Graham Foundation, Chicago; Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation; MIT Arthur H. ScheinMemorial Lecture Fund; MIT Pietro Belluschi Lecture Fund; Rafael ViÒoly Architects. There is a fee for the sympo-sium, but the Belluschi Lecture (Sept 30) is free and open to the public. Contact Anne Rhodes. Room: KresgeAuditorium. Sponsor: Department of Architecture. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Flashes of Inspiration: The Work of Harold Edgerton. An interactive exhibition celebrat-ing the life and work of MIT legend Harold . $5; $2 students/seniors; $1 children 5-18; free with MIT ID. Room:MIT Museum, N52 2nd floor. Sponsor: MIT Museum. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. – BrioQuery Quick Start. Learn how to download, install, and set up BrioQuery on yourdesktop. Learn how to download and process a standard report. An overview of the features and capabilities ofBrioQuery will be given. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. 12:10 p.m. – GABLES Monthly Lunch. GABLES is the Gay, Bisex ual, and Lesbian Employees and Supportersgroup. Each month, on the last working day, we gather to enjoy lunch and the company of our colleagues andfriends. Occasionally there are discussions of topical interest, however the focus of this event is social. The orga-nization also works to advance the interests of GBLT employees at MIT. The lunches are open to anyone in thewider MIT community interested in our work. We have often welcomed guests from other universities and. 0.00.Room: To be announced. Sponsor: GABLES. 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. – Professor Richard Lyon: “Product Sound Quality: Making Products that Sound Good”.Department of Mechanical EngineeringM.I.T. free. Room: 3-133, Refreshments following in 1-114. Sponsor: MESeminar Series. 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. – “Novel light-based imaging techniques applied to heterogeneously catalyzed reac-tions”. speaker: Jochem Lauterbach, Department of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University. free. Room: 66-110. Sponsor: Chemical Engineering. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – TBA. free. Room: Rm 54-915. Sponsor: MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars. 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. – Grobner geometry of formulae for Schubert polynomials. free. Room: Room 2-338. Spon-sor: Combinatorics Seminar. Department of Mathematics.5:00 p.m. – Arts Grant Deadline. Deadline for 2000-2001 funding, available to all curent members of the MITcommunity. free. Sponsor: Council for the Arts at MIT.5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. – Event Planning Workshop. This workshop is offered to anyone in the MIT community whoneeds help navigating through the Event Registration Process. We will also offer some helpful event planningideas and tips. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Student Activities Staff. 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. – MITSFS weekly ‘meetings’. While these are, technically, meetings, it is nigh-forbidden toconduct Real Business at them, as they’re really social events. Imaginary Business, however, is allowed. Usuallya dinner trip follows. free. Room: MITSFS Library, W20-473. Sponsor: Science Fiction Society, MIT. 7:30 p.m. – Dr. Strangelove . One of Stanley Kubrick’s most influential films, U.S. Air Force General Jack Rippergoes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the com-munists are conspiring to pollute the “precious bodily fluids” of the American people. The U.S. president meetswith his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trig-ger a “Doomsday Device” which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Will the bombers be stopped intime, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world? $2.50. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: LSC. 8:00 p.m. – Highlights from Musicals at MIT. Nine MIT affiliates present 18 selected scenes from hit Broadwayshows. Directed by Caroline McEnnis ‘03 and Cemocan S. Yesil ‘03; vocal director Anne Rhodes (sr office asst,Dept of Architecture), musical director Katherine Bryant. free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater ArtsSection.

Saturday, September 30

6:00 a.m. - 5:59 a.m. – Here and Away. Exhibition of photographs and artwork created by staff members of Tech-nique, the MIT yearbook. Contributors include MIT students and recent alumni, each of whom presents two works:one with a theme of MIT, student life, or the Boston area and the other with a topic outside of the Institute. free.Room: Wiesner Student Art Gallery (2nd floor Student Ctr). Sponsor: Technique Yearbook. 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. – The Eladio Dieste Symposia: Scientific Innovation in Structure and Construction withTraditional Materials. (Also in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Sept 26-27). Principal sponsors: Ministry of Public Works,Republic of Uruguay; Graham Foundation, Chicago; Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation; MIT Arthur H. ScheinMemorial Lecture Fund; MIT Pietro Belluschi Lecture Fund; Rafael ViÒoly Architects. There is a fee for the sympo-sium, but the Belluschi Lecture (Sept 30) is free and open to the public. Contact Anne Rhodes. Room: Kresge

Auditorium. Sponsor: Department of Architecture. 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Flashes of Inspiration: The Work of Harold Edgerton. An interactive exhibition celebrat-ing the life and work of MIT legend Harold (. $5; $2 students/seniors; $1 children 5-18; free with MIT ID. Room:MIT Museum. Sponsor: MIT Museum. 4:45 p.m. – Pietro Belluschi Lecture. Eight in a series of annual lectures. Belluschi was head of MITís School ofArchitecture and Planning from 1951-1965. The modernist architect began his career with a series of elegantlysimple structures in the Pacific Northwest and went on to include such urban skyscrapers as the Pan Am Buildingin New York City and the Bank of America in San Francisco. His Equitable (now Commonwealth) Building in down-town Portland, Oregon is considered the first curtain-wall structure of glass to be built in the US. free. Room: Kres-ge Auditorium. Sponsor: Department of Architecture. 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. – A Dhrupad Concert by the Gundecha Brothers. Dhrupad is accepted to be the oldestexisting form of North Indian classical music. The Dhrupad tradition, a major heritage of Indian culture, has its ori-gins linked to the recitation of Sama Veda, the sacred Sanskrit text. Dhrupad is the oldest vocal and instrumentalstyle, and the form from which the extant Indian classical music originated. The continuity of Dhrupad, a contem-plative and meditative form, has been sustained by traditions of devotional music and worship. The nature ofDhrupad music is spiritual: seeking not to entertain, but to induce sublime feelings of contemplation and peace inthe listener. Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha are one of India’s leading exponents of the Dhrupad style ofmusic among the younger generation and are the most active performers of this style both within India and in theinternational concert circuit. They learned the Dhrupad vocal style under the renowned Dhrupad vocalist Ustad(Maestro) Zia Fariduddin Dagar and also with Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, the distinguished performer of RudraVeena. All proceeds from this concert go to fund grass roots development efforts in India. $13 advance purchase($15 at the gate)$10 students. Room: MIT, 2-190. Sponsor: AID-Boston.

Sunday, October 1

6:00 a.m. - 5:59 a.m. – Here and Away. Exhibition of photographs and artwork created by staff members of Tech-nique, the MIT yearbook. Contributors include MIT students and recent alumni, each of whom presents two works:one with a theme of MIT, student life, or the Boston area and the other with a topic outside of the Institute. free.Room: Wiesner Student Art Gallery (2nd floor Student Ctr). Sponsor: Technique Yearbook. 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Flashes of Inspiration: The Work of Harold Edgerton. An interactive exhibition celebrat-ing the life and work of MIT legend Harold (. $5; $2 students/seniors; $1 children 5-18; free with MIT ID. Room:MIT Museum. Sponsor: MIT Museum. 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Karaoke Outing!. We are trying to start a karaoke group at MIT! Join us on our first outingto a karaoke vendor! We will sing songs and celebrate the entertainment that is karaoke! Please RSVP withjimmbswu@mit.edu. Pay your own way. Room: Kendall Square T-stop. Sponsor: Counterpoint. Jimmy Wu’01.4:00 p.m. – MITHAS Concert. Maharajapuram Ramachandran, Carnatic vocal. With Mullaivasal Chandramouli,violin and Kumbakonam Ganesh, mridangam. Presented by MITHAS (MIT Heritage of South Asia). $15; $12 stu-dents/srs/MITHAS/NE Hindu Temple members. Room: Wong Auditorium. Sponsor: MITHAS.6:00 p.m. 00 a.m. – Tech Songs, 1903. Institute Archives and Special Collections: Object of the Month illustrateshow MIT students of 100 years ago found a common bond and an outlet for frustration in songs about undergrad-uate life. free. Room: Hallway exhibit case across from Rm 14N-118. Sponsor: Institute Archives and Special Col-lections.

Monday, October 2

6:00 a.m. - 5:59 a.m. – Here and Away. Exhibition of photographs and artwork created by staff members of Tech-nique, the MIT yearbook. Contributors include MIT students and recent alumni, each of whom presents two works:one with a theme of MIT, student life, or the Boston area and the other with a topic outside of the Institute. free.Room: Wiesner Student Art Gallery (2nd floor Student Ctr). Sponsor: Technique Yearbook. 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Mary A. Harman: Breaking the Mold. A series of images using multiple print processesto explore issues of women’s individuality and saneness. free. Room: Rm E52-466 . Sponsor: Sloan School ofManagement.9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Peace Through Humor: Visions of Peace from the Hands of Children. Exhibition of paint-ings, hosted by MIT Hillel. Curated by Maureen Kushner. free. Room: W11, Religious Activities Ctr, 40 Amherst St.Sponsor: Hillel, MIT. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. – Business Speed DSL. Harvard Net will present BusinessSpeed DSL, Digital SubscriberLine, which uses existing telephone lines to provide fast and cost efficient access to the internet. Representativesfrom Harvard Net will be on hand to answer questions about the benefits of using BusinessSpeed DSL. free.Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – “A new variational characterization of three-dimensional space forms”. free. Room:Room 2-146. Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar. MIT - Department of Mathematics.4:00 p.m. – “Getting Published: Q & A with an Acquisitions Editor {Bring your own Qs}”. free. Room: E38-615.Sponsor: Center for International Studies. 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. – Ecosystems as Complex Adaptive Systems. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM inRoom 2-290. free. Room: Room 2-105. Sponsor: Real World Colloquium. Department of Mathematics.5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. – Resume/CV Writing Workshop. This event is co-sponsored by Texas Instruments and theOffice of Career Services and Pre-Professional Advising. It will teach the fundamentals of creating resumes andCVs. Time will also be spent critiquing resumes. free. Room: 1-134. Sponsor: National Society of Black Engineers. 6:00 p.m. 00 a.m. – Tech Songs, 1903. Institute Archives and Special Collections: Object of the Month illustrateshow MIT students of 100 years ago found a common bond and an outlet for frustration in songs about undergrad-uate life. free. Room: Hallway exhibit case across from Rm 14N-118. Sponsor: Institute Archives and Special Col-lections.

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By W. S. Wang

A rally against Pfizer Tues-day began with speeches at theStratton Student Center and cul-minated in a march to the com-pany’s Discovery TechnologyCenter at 620 Memorial Drive.

“Drop the Debts. Drop thePrices. Don’t Be a Part of theAIDS Crisis!” was the crowd’sbattle cry. The protest date wasmeant to coincide with themeeting of the InternationalMonetary Fund and the WorldBank in Prague.

Many protesters carriedsigns, some with grim statisticsabout the AIDS crisis in Africaand others decrying Pfizer’sgreed. One standout was a largepropped up monster represent-ing the evil of the IMF and theWorld Bank hovering overmuch of the world.

As the crowd marched toPfizer under the watchful eyesof police officers, chants of“Hey, hey, ho, ho, corporategreed has got to go” and “TheAIDS crisis/ Who do we thank/The IMF and the World Bank!”were mingled with the echoesof “Solidarity Forever” and theoccasional honking of car hornsfrom supporters.

The Boston-based Jobs forJustice, part of the Boston Glob-al Action Network, togetherwith BankBusters and otherorganizations decided to focuson Pfizer, one of the largestpharmaceutical companies inthe world. They have chargedthat Pfizer has used its patent onFluconazole, a life-extendingdrug for AIDS patients, tomonopolize the market and keep

the prices up to $18 per pill. The company reportedly has

worked to block African coun-tries’ efforts to get around highprices by developing generic ver-sions of drugs. Although Pfizerjustifies its actions by claimingthat it has intellectual propertyrights upheld by the World TradeOrganization, it was later foundby the United Nations that theWTO’s rules are “contradictoryto human rights.”

Jonathan Caine, a biologistattending the protest, said that“Pfizer’s behavior today is nodifferent than other majorthefts of national resourcesin history.” He pointed toPfizer’s “theft of genes”as publicly fundedresearch that has resultedin economic monopoly.

Ken Johnson, anotherprotester who said he haswitnessed first-hand thesevere problem withAIDS in Africa, warnsof “a ghost continent ifdrastic actions are nottaken.” He urged theactivists to “overcometheir cynicism withthe American govern-ment and not overlookthe ballot box.”

Andrea Lee ofthe Greater BostonNOW called thisentire movementagainst big businessand the World Bank“a common struggle”because “these inter-national economicconglomerates aregreat deterrents tothe struggle to end

women’s poverty and violenceagainst women.”

Another speaker represent-ing the senior communitypainted a bleak picture ofseniors in America, saying that“the elderly have to decidebetween food, rent, or medi-cine because of the greed ofpharmaceutical companies likePfizer.” He said that seniorsoften have to make trips toCanada for much cheaper med-icine because of the powerfulmonopolies within the states.

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By Tony Kim

Over the past three weekends,the Boston Police Department hasarrested over 80 college studentsfrom Boston University and BostonCollege in the Allston-Brightonarea. The BPD’s crackdowntargeted underage drinking, usingfake identification, and purchasingalcohol for minors.

Twenty-seven students werearrested on the weekend ofSeptember 9-10, and 54 during theweekend of September 16-17. Mostincidents occurred at local bars,liquor stores and parties wherestudents under 21 were found inpossession of alcohol.

The latest crackdown by theBoston Police Department and thelocal universities is “nothing new,”said BU Spokesman Colin D. Riley.Since 1997, the first few weeks ofeach school year have beencharacterized by similar waves ofstudent arrests. Referring to theBPD’s role, he said that “going backto October ’97, Captain Evansoutlined his zero tolerance policy.”

This zero tolerance policy isoutlined to all students in the areavia flyers and orientation meetingswhich explain that underagedrinking will not be tolerated. It hasbeen enforced over the past fewyears with extra cruisers patrollingthe Allston-Brighton area on theweekends during the first fewmonths of the term.

This increased vigilance fromthe BPD and University officials isattributed to several reasons. John

B. Dunn, spokesman for BostonCollege, said the crackdown is“clearly in the wake of the ScottKrueger incident.”

Riley said that “students [should]have the same expectations oncampus and off campus.”

Arrests tied with housingproblems?

From the perspective ofresidents, housing itself has becomethe main issue. Paul Berkeley,president of the Allston CivicAssociation and resident of the area,said that, although he lives closer toHarvard than BC or BU, theneighborhood “doesn’t haveproblems with Harvard students”because most of them live oncampus.

“Most of the responsibility goesback to the institution … thestudents are free to do anything. Theatmosphere [off-campus]encourages them. On campus, theirbehavior would be moreconforming,” Berkeley said.

With students comprising aboutone-third of the population in theAllston-Brighton area, residents canoften be overwhelmed. It is difficultto find parking, and housing priceshave gone up significantly becauseof demand.

The impact has been noticeable toresidents. One particular example isAshford Street. Five years ago, fiveof the ten residential houses wereoccupied by students and the otherfive by individual owners. Today,nine houses are occupied by studentsand one by an individual owner.

Both BU and BC are planning onbuilding new housing on campus.At the request of the BostonRedevelopment Authority, BC isplanning to build housing for 800more students over the next fiveyears. BU opened a dorm earlierthis September on the CharlesRiver, and according to The BostonHerald leads local colleges in the

number of dorm beds with 9,614.The housing situations at BC and

BU are somewhat different to thatof MIT. Although MIT does havemany students living off-campus,off-campus MIT living groups aremuch more closely linked to theInstitute than the apartments held bystudents at BC and BU. The numberof MIT students living off-campus

is also negligible compared to thenumbers in the Allston-Brightonarea.

Although the communitiessurrounding MIT have madecomplaints regarding theirneighbors (predominantly noise),those problems have been resolvedbetween the particular living groupand the community member.

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ERIKA BROWN—THE TECH

Several students and administrators gathered Wednesday night for the first MIT StochasticDinner, dedicated to building bridges between different facets of the campus community.

One example provided was thesituation when rich countries likethe United States, that have moresophisticated technology due toresearch and development, floodforeign markets. This oftendevastates the working, producingpopulation of these countries, whichChomsky attributed to much of thesocial unrest in Third Worldcountries.

On the domestic side, Chomskysaid that the United States today issuffering from the results of“globalization.” According to hisdata, poverty, debt, and volatilityhave increased in the United Stateswhile international trade, laborrights, and the average middle classincome have all decreased.

Chomsky refuted trends used tolaud the current “fairy tale” UnitedStates economy. For instance,pundits often use the apparentprosperity of the stock market asevidence of a robust economy.However, Chomsky cited thestatistic that one percent of the U.S.population owns fifty percent of thestock, while eighty percent of thepopulation owns four percent ofstock. The economy, Chomsky said,“is a fairy tale for the rich.”

Throughout his lecture,Chomsky often made his pointswith a wry sense of humor. Anexample of this was hisinterpretations of some commonlyused economic buzzwords such as“labor market flexibility.”Chomsky defined it as “notknowing whether you’ll have a jobtomorrow” and therefore beingready to switch jobs at any moment.Chomsky attributed Chairman ofthe Federal Reserve Board AlanGreenspan with emphasizing thatthis “flexibility” is good and theWorld Bank with stating thatincreasing it is “essential.”

Following the talk, Chomskyanswered questions that weremostly geared towards the effect oftechnological advances on theglobal economy.

Among the concerns of themembers of the audience were thefuture of the commercialization of

the Internet, corporate patenting ofthe human genome, and whatactions to take against human rightsviolations around the world.

A brief melée occurred when adisgruntled audience member roseand shouted at Chomsky, accusinghim of being a “Joe McCarthy,”referring to the 1950’s Senatorwhose anti-Communist paranoiasparked political censorship andblacklisting of those suspected to beCommunists. This comparison wasmade after Chomsky interrupted aman who recited a prewritten speechunder the guise of asking a question.The heckler was removed,screaming and flailing, from 26-100.

Despite this bizarre turn ofevents, Chomsky encouraged theaudience to voice their concerns inorder to bring about change.

“It depends on what the publicdecides to do, but it will not happeneasily,” Chomsky said.

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Institute Professor Noam A. Chomsky addressed a receptiveaudience in an overflowing 26-100 lecture hall this past Tuesday.

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BORIS KOZINSKY

Prof. Lorna Gibson, Prof. Caroline Ross, Elizabeth Lian ‘94 of Andersen Consulting, MonicaStrauss of Massachusetts General Hospital, Kelle Condra of Ford Motor Company, and IreneHodor of Exxon–Mobil, discuss their experiences and goals as engineers at the 23rd Annual MITSociety of Women Engineers Career Fair Banquet on Thursday.

members of the MIT administration

Suit to hold Fiji accountableAlthough a criminal suit is no

longer possible and the Kruegersrecently received a large settlementfrom MIT, Henry says there is stillsomething to be gained by the civilsuit.

“MIT stepped forward whenconfronted with significant evidenceof MIT’s role in Scott’s death,”Henry said. “The fraternities ran ….They think that what they can do issimply disbandthemselves and avoidcriminal liability.”

Individuals werenamed as defendantsin the suit in order tosue the disbandedlocal chapter of Fiji,which is anu n i n c o r p o r a t e dassociation.

“When you needto sue anunincorporated association, thereare different ways to do it …. One isto name different fair and adequaterepresentatives” of the association.“The local chapter disbanded” soonafter the incident.

The question arises as to theextent of the individuals’involvement in Scott Krueger’sdeath, and whether they are thescapegoats of a court systemlooking to place blame, Henry said.

“As for Loflin, Yoo, andMcDonald, there’s really noquestion at all that they must facethe consequences of their actions,”Henry said. “Certainly we think thatit is fair and just when those incharge [of the party at which

Krueger died] and who planned partof it and supported it … when thatresults in someone’s death,” he said.

“As to the remaining individuals,they were officers of that fraternity,and with that comes a certainresponsibility,” Henry said. “Itwould have been fair to name everyindividual in the fraternity [in thelawsuit], because that is one way tosue an organization underMassachusetts law.”

A settlement seems unlikelyAlthough 90 percent of civil

cases are resolved before trial, “theKruegers certainlyintend to take thecase to trial,” Henrysaid. “There has beenno indication yet thatthe defendants wantto settle,” Henry said.

Now that the suithas been filed, theindividuals involvedwill be served withthe complaint. Thiscan take anywhere

from one week to 90 days. Next, ifthe case goes to trial, there would bea formal investigation period inwhich both parties would gatherinformation.

“It’s likely that MIT will besubpoenaed as a witness,” Henrysaid, “and perhaps other individualsat MIT.” Therefore, although MIThas settled with the Kruegers, it willcontinue to be associated with thecurrent suit by the media.

“MIT’s role can’t be entirely overuntil the whole thing is over … [Thenegative attention MIT will receivenow is] exponentially less than if ithad proceeded against MIT, and MITno longer faces the possibility ofpunitive damages,” Henry said.

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“It’s likely thatMIT will be

subpoenaed as awitness.”

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demonstrate their knowledge ofmaintenance and applications of acomputer. Residents attend ninetyminute classes twice a week. Theseclasses meet Monday throughThursday and on Saturday atvarious times in order toaccommodate everyone’s schedules.The instructors are all volunteers.

“We want to build both thephysical and the intellectualinfrastructure. By November, thecomputers should be in theirhomes,” O’Bryant said.

Several organizations aresupporting this project, includingthe U.S. Department of Housing andUrban Development, the W. K.

Kellogg Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, RCN Telecom Services,Microsoft Corporation, andYouthBuild Boston.

Hewlett-Packard donated thecomputers that will soon be in theresidents’ homes and RCN TelecomServices is providing the Internetconnections.

“In the United States, 45 millionpeople are connected to the Internet.Out of this, ten to fifteen percenthave a fast connection. TheCamfield residents will beconnected through a fiber opticnetwork that is on the property,thereby having the best services andfastest technology in the country,”said John McGeough, of RCNTelecom Services.

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pushing the score to 12-0 in favorof MIT. An outside run to Moked-dem for the successful two-pointconversion was the pushed theBeaver lead to 14.

Curry strikes back, jumps aheadFaced with the two-touchdown

deficit, Curry finally came to lifeon their next possession, driving58 yards in 7 plays for their firstscore. Giannetti redeemed himselffor his fumble with a 24-yardtouchdown catch on an out-and-uproute that took advantage of MIT’sman-to-man coverage. After thefirst of many stops by theirdefense, Curry received the ballback, and at 13:09 of the secondquarter Giannetti struck again, thistime for a 36-yard touchdown run.

Upon knotting the score, Curry

then struck quickly to take a two-touchdown lead before halftime.With 8:12 remaining the Colonelsput together a 10-play drive thatended in their third touchdown. TheTech defense had stalled the driveat the 5-yard line with 4:04 left inthe half to force a field goalattempt, but a roughing-the-kickercall on the play gave the Colonelsfour more downs at cracking theend zone. Two plays later they cap-italized on a 1-yard run to forgeahead 21-14. On the very next MITseries, Colonel cornerback ChrisLeBlanc recovered a fumble byTech quarterback Philip M.Deutsch ’04 and returned it 33yards for another touchdown, giv-ing Curry a 28-14 lead at halftime.

Offensive woes continue for MITIn the second half the Beavers

stepped up their offensive intensity

but fared no better against a fired-up Colonel defense. The Colonelscontinued to stuff the MIT optionattack, holding them to 24 netyards rushing on 36 attempts forthe day. Quarterback Michael J.Harvey ’04 maintained his focuswell despite enduring some hardhits from the Curry defense. Underconstant heavy pressure from theColonels’ big defensive line, Har-vey completed 5 of his 17 passingattempts for 33 yards and one inter-ception. Highlighting how toughthe entire Curry defensive unitplayed was the fact that theBeavers did not earn their first firstdown of the game until 1:39 of thethird quarter.

On defense, MIT’s showingwas lackluster, especially whencompared to its first two games.Missed tackles and overran playswere abundant. Nowhere were

such mistakes more evident thanthe second of Curry’s touchdownruns, a 54-yarder at 6:46 of thethird quarter to give his team analmost insurmountable 35-14lead. Curry swept right and cutback left, weaving through trafficand leaving several defendersgrasping air as he raced into theend zone. Curry also added to histotal a late fourth-quarter touch-down run of 6 yards to completethe Colonels’ scoring.

Nevertheless, the Beavers’ sub-standard defensive performance asa team still resulted in some note-worthy individual showings. Line-backer Brent M. Schreiber ’03fought through two separate dur-ing-game injuries to finish with 9tackles. Nose tackle Eugene F.Mehr ’01 garnered 8 tackles,including 3 hard-hitting stopsbehind the line of scrimmage.

Linebacker Brian L. Licata ’01played solidly, registering 7 tack-les for the day. And finally, inaddition to his early interception,Hoying wound up with 7 tacklesand 1 tackle-for-loss. Such effortsexemplified the resilience of theentire Beaver football team on anotherwise humbling afternoon.

Injury Report: Fidelholtz, LeftShoulder Nerve Injury, out; Bat-tocchi, Fracture Right RingFinger, out; Kemp, Right Ham-strings Strain, questionable;Marti, Left Shoulder Contu-sion, probable; Richardson,Left Ankle Sprain, probable;Loreto, Right High HamstringStrain, probable.

The MIT squad looks to end its losing skid at home tomorrowagainst UMass-Dartmouth (2-1, 2-0 NEFC Boyd). A traditionallystrong program, the Corsairs have already shown improvement overlast season’s dismal performance in which they finished 3-7, includinga 2-6 mark in conference play. UMD also carries extra motivation intotomorrow’s contest: they were victims of a 30-29 overtime home defeatat the hands of the Beavers last year. That game, which the Corsairs led29-0 at halftime, was the biggest comeback in MIT school history.

On offense, UMass-Dartmouth has started the 2000 season in torridfashion, averaging a whopping 45 points in their first three games. TheCorsairs run a one-back, four-receiver offense that spreads out defensesto create large gaps for the quarterback to hit his receivers. UMDsenior quarterback Matt McLaughlin has done plenty of that, averaging204.3 passing yards per game.

McLaughlin’s favorite target is receiver Shane Harris, who has 10catches for 202 yards on the season. The lone setback is sophomoreFrank Meranda, who rushed for 127 yards and 4 touchdowns on 21 car-ries last week against UMass-Boston, earning himself a spot on theNEFC Weekly Honor Roll.

Defensively, the Corsairs have improved, allowing just 6 points inthe past two weeks. In last week’s 65-6 blowout of Maine Maritime,UMD held their opponents to just 65 yard rushing. The leader of thedefense is senior defensive lineman Matt Souza, who is an excellentrun stopper up front. Linebacker Chris Jones is a good hitter, andsenior cornerback Manny Santo has three interceptions on the year.

Although vastly improved, the 2000 version of UMD still appearsvulnerable to a young but improving Beaver team. For MIT to end itslosing ways, its defense must exercise more discipline and confidence,especially in their secondary coverage. The weather and home-fieldadvantage may prove helpful to the Beavers in slowing down the Cor-sairs’ high-flying passing game.

In addition, the Beaver offense must get much more out of theirfirst-down situations in order to give the coaches more play-callingflexibility, which in turn will keep the talented UMD defensive playersguessing. Finally, calling to mind their thrilling comeback victory ofyesteryear, the Beavers must continue to execute their assignmentsshould they happen to find themselves behind on the scoreboard.

MIT Will Face Umass-Dartmouth Next

Curry Storms Back to Beat MITFootball, from Page 32

founder of the Golden Set.With the ominous weather of Sun-

day, Colby came to MIT with highhopes of a victory only to leave emptyhanded. The doubles matches were alittle tougher than in the past, but thewomen of MIT showed no signs ofslowing down. Both Koskelin andDavis and Hall and Rayej pulled out8-6 victories, with Hsing and Tien fir-ing to an 8-4 victory. In singles,Koskelin dropped her first set 6-1only to come back with a vengence,winning the next two sets 7-5 and 6-2.Rayej and Davis both showed nomercy with 6-2, 6-1 and 6-1, 6-1 vic-tories. Tien went into three sets,emerging the winner 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.Hall and Pai both put in great effortsdespite their losses, 2-6, 5-7 and 5-7,6-4, 6-7(3). Hsing pulled out a quick6-4, 6-1 victory with Cheng losing herset in a tough match, 2-6, 2-6.

As Tuesday rolled around, thetennis bubble prepped itself upwith a good cleaning that led to notonly wet courts outside due to therain, but wet courts with a funkysmell on the inside due to thecleaning. After the courts weresparkling fresh, Wellesley joinedMIT on the courts for what provedto be MITs toughest match yet.

Doubles started a bit slowly, withKoskelin and Davis pulling away

with an 8-3 victory and Hall andRayej inching away 8-6. Hsing andTien suffered their first loss of theseason 4-8. Entering the singles withonly a one point lead over Wellesley,the women of MIT knew they wouldhave to fight hard for the next threepoints needed for a MIT victory.Koskelin responded by soundly beat-ing her opponent 6-2, 6-0. Rayej thenwon the first set easily 6-2, only tostop in the second set as her oppo-nent retired due to physical reasons.Davis faced a tough three-set match,dropping her first set 6-2 but rallyingback to win her second set 6-2. Afterlong rallies of smart plays, Davis losta close third set 7-5. Tien and Hallboth emerged victorious 6-4, 6-2 and6-1, 6-2 which secured the MIT vic-tory. Hsing lost at sixth singles 6-1,6-1, as well as did Jennifer Leedespite a strong comeback towardsthe end of the match.

As the women’s tennis teamheads off into the second half oftheir season , their hopes are as highas their spirits for a repeat of theNEWMAC conference title. Thisweekend, the team heads toWilliams College for the Rolex Invi-tational. They then play Brandeisand Tufts away next week. To all thesupporters and fans of tennis, jumpin your cars, bring your signs andyour screams to help propel MITtennis into another great season.

Women’s Tennis EdgesPast Wellesley CollegeTennis, from Page 32

UPCOMING HOME EVENTSSaturday, September 30

Football vs. UMass–Dartmouth, 1:30 p.m.Women’s soccer vs. Springfield College, 10:30 a.m.Men’s soccer, Alumni game, 2:00 p.m.

Sunday, October 1Water polo, MIT Invitational, 9:00 a.m.

Tuesday, October 3Women’s soccer vs. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, October 4Men’s soccer vs. Brandeis University, 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 5Women’s soccer vs. Westfield State College, 4:00 p.m.

By Alvie LoretoSTAFF REPORTER

After having their own Homecom-ing show stolen by the Curry Collegefootball team in 1999, MIT sought

revenge this past Satur-day at the Colonels’annual Homecomingcelebration. Like anuninvited celebrity,the Beavers made an

unwelcome but glamorous entranceinto the party. In the end, though,shock was replaced by jubilationamong the Curry faithful, as themoves of their fleet-footed freshmanrunning back rudely shoved theiryoung, upstart opponents off thedance floor.

The Beavers stunned the Colonelswith two big opening-quarter plays toproduce an early 14-0 lead, but theirmagic ran out as Curry stormed backin front and eventually pulled awayfor a 42-14 victory, their third win inthree weeks. Colonel newcomerMoses Curry was a thorn in Tech’sside, dancing, spinning, and jukinghis way to 112 yards on only 18 car-ries. Curry’s effort also producedthree touchdowns and earned him aplace on the New England FootballConference Weekly Honor Roll. Theloss dropped MIT to 0-3 (0-2 NEFCBoyd), while Curry improved to 3-1(2-0 NEFC Boyd).

Beavers jump to early leadFor the second straight week

MIT started off with a bang, thistime behind the strength of a stellaropening kickoff return by Kevin R.Richardson ’01. Richardson fieldedthe ball at the MIT 3 and startedupfield veering left before slippinguntouched through a rapidly closinghole at the 21-yard line. Behind anexcellent two-man block from RyanB. Whitaker ‘03, Richardson cutright, racing past the Coloneldefenders and down the home side-line before being forced out ofbounds at the Curry 2. The 95-yardkickoff return set up a 2-yard touch-down run by Kamal H. Mokeddem’01, but the extra point attemptfailed to leave the score at 6-0.

The first two Curry possessionsresulted in a total of -9 yards for thehome team, including an intercep-tion by Tech free safety Brian D.Hoying ’03. Although MIT couldnot make much on their subsequentoffensive drives, an excellent puntfrom Kevin M. Ferguson ’02 wasdowned at the Curry 6-yard line,pinning the Colonels deep in theirown territory.

From there the MIT defensemoved the Colonels backward,pressuring Curry running backTony Giannetti into a fumble on hisown goal line. The fumble wasrecovered by Beaver strong safetyJang S. Kim ’01 in the end zone,

FootballFalls ToCurry

PEDRO L. ARRACHEA—THE TECH

Ian K. Ybarra ’04 bats at Saturday’s home game against theUniversity of Massachusetts. MIT won 7-5.

SPORTSPage 32 THE TECH September 29, 2000

By Paul DillTEAM COACH

After losing their first match of thetournament 3-2 to a strong WesleyanCollege team, MIT put together a

string of wins that sawthem win the consola-tion bracket of theirown Invitational Tour-nament last weekend.

Against Wesleyan,MIT was up two games to one andahead 13-10 in the fourth when acontroversial call went against theEngineers. Wesleyan took advantageof the momentum swing and tookthe 4th and then the 5th game to winthe match. Middle hitters KellyMartens ’03 and Lauren Frick ’03 ledMIT with 13 and 12 kills respectively.

The next match against SmithCollege saw another battle comedown to the wire with MIT finallywinning 3-2 (15-6, 9-15, 15-4, 11-15, 18-16). It was Martens againwho led the hitters with 17 killswhile defensive specialist SaujinYi ’01 led the team with 15 digsand Barb Schultze ’02 added 6 ser-vice aces.

The win over Smith Collegelooked to have come with a price asleading hitter Martens sustained aninjury during the match that wouldkeep her out of the next matchagainst Gordon College. WithMartens out of the lineup, MITdropped the first two games 5-15, 6-15. However, the team rallied andstarted to find their groove with thenew lineup and managed to win thenext three games 15-8, 16-14, 15-11to take the match 3-2.

This avenged an early season lossto Gordon and gave coach Paul Dillhis 100th victory as head coach ofMIT. MIT then won another match,this time against Eastern ConnecticutState Univ. and more easily: 3-0 (15-7,15-10, 15-13). This game saw thereturn of Martens, who had 17 kills,while setter Christina Almodovar ‘02dished out 39 assists, and ParisaHabibi ’02 added 8 digs.

This victory put the Engineersin the finals of the consolationbracket against Trinity College.After splitting the first two games,the third game saw Martens againleave the match with an injury.Before they knew it , MIT wasbehind 3-12, and then 6-13 Onceagain, however, the Engineers cametogether as Schultze stepped backto the service line to serve 9 straightpoints to win the game 15-13. MITthen took the next game behind thehitting of Amy Mok ’02 and NydiaClayton ’04 to take the match 3-1(15-5, 12-15, 15-13, 15-11).

On Tuesday night, MIT thentravelled to WPI to put theirunbeaten conference record on theline. After handling the first twogames easily 15-11, 15-0, MITstumbled a bit losing the next twogames 7-15, 14-16. They werefinally able to squeak out the win inthe fifth game, winning 15-13.Almodovar led the team with 53assists while Mok had 18 kills.

This win put MIT at 4-0 in theNEWMAC conference and 10-3overall. The Engineers will playSpringfield College this TuesdayOctober 3rd at 7 p.m. in DuPont Gym.

By Ann HsingTEAM MEMBER

With four more victories under itsbelt, the women’s tennis team extend-ed its flawless record to 7-0. Clark,

Springfield, Colby, andWellesley all proved nomatch for the deter-mined women of thecourts. Despite variableweather conditions and

pouring rain, the team rallied andfought hard through each match.

“This young team is gainingvaluable match experience withevery match they play. It’s excel-lent that whether we do well or not

people are learning and gettingthings out of these experiences,”said Coach Carol Matsuzaki.

The first of four wins began atClark, where the MIT women walkedaway with an 8-1 victory. KellyKoskelin ’02 and Victoria Davis ’04cleaned off their opponents 8-1, asJessica Hall ’02 and Shima Rayej ’04knocked away Clark 8-4. AnnHsing ’02 and Caroline Tien ’04 alsowon at third doubles 8-0.

In singles, Koskelin fought hardher first set, but eventually lost thematch. Rayej and Tien both onlygave up one game total to their oppo-nents, as Hall breezed through 6-2,6-4. Antimony L. Gerhardt ’04 smiledher way through a 6-1, 6-1 victory asHsing sweated through a three-set vic-tory 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. Yi-Ning Cheng ’02also shut down her opponent 8-1.

Leaving the barbed wired courtsof Clark, MIT packed their bags onceagain for Springfield last Saturday.Finishing the entire match in a littleover two hours, the MIT womenplayed solid, smart tennis that Spring-field could not handle. Sweeping alldoubles once again, the teams ofKoskelin and Davis and Hall andRayej both pulled out 8-2 victories,and Hsing and Tien won 8-0.

Singles ran in the same fashionwith Koskelin blasting her opponentout of the water 6-1, 6-1. Rayejshowed the same toughness with hervictory of 6-2, 6-1, and Daviscruised to a clean 6-3, 6-1 victory.Tien won 6-1, 6-4 victory, and Halland Ruby J. Pai ’04 gave up nogames to their opponents.

The special play of the day wasHall’s first set, otherwise known as aGolden Set. Somewhere hidden inthe deep jungles of tennis mythologylies the legend of playing a match inwhich the opponent wins no pointswhatsoever in the set. Only hearingof such stories, Hall stepped up thechallenge, as she emerged the

Tennis Team ContinuesTo Dominate Opponents

MIT Volleyball EarnsConsolation in TourneyCoach Dill Records 100th Victory at MIT

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