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By Angela Uaco and to teach people how to learn,"he said. "In the old system, therecitation classes were not uniform[in teaching quality]. They were notwell-attended, and the faculty wasnot as actively involved as they arenow," he said.

Despite this attitude, not all fac-ulty have responded so positively tothe changes. Professor Walter H. G.Lewin, who has taught 8.01 forthree of the past four years, said thatthe old format "was usually well-received."

Lewin views the format of 8.01as having been "changed for thesake of changing. Why fix some-thing that ain't broke?" he said.

Still, the change is not without

The newly restructured Physics I(8.01) has received mixed reviewsfrom students, while Professor ofPhysics Wit Busza, coordinator ofthe new program, calls the format "asuccess."

"I like 8.01 better than my otherclasses," said Katherine Shih '98, astudent in the class.

However, the sentiment is by nomeans universal. "I'hings vary toomuch from section to section,"Olivia H. Song '98 said. "Some pro-fessors of 8.01 have better teachingskills then others."

The new format places moreemphasis on "self-study," Buszasaid. The goals of the new formatare to "teach the materials of 8.01

A soldier looks back at the assembled crowd as his company marches down CommonwealthAvenue during this year's Veteran's Day parade on Friday.

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By Daniel C. StevensonNEWS EDITOR

redesign of roads, Owu said. "Wehave a responsibility to ensure thatall the community's needs areaddressed," he said.

About 25 people attended theopen meeting held in room 3-133yesterday afternoon. The meetingincluded a video about the success-ful municipal cycling system inDelft, a city in the Netherlands, anda irviCw v. r'ievIu uIy1iC ianc

plans.

Plans call for three lanesThe Planning Office is consider-

ing two options for adding bicyclelanes to Massachusetts Avenue,Owu said. Both proposals reducethe lanes of vehicle traffic fromfour lanes to three lanes betweenMemorial Drive and LafayetteSquare, which is near the fire sta-tion, he said.

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ing lanes; the other has only oneparking lane and wider bicyclelanes.

The current 15-foot wide side-walks would be maintained"because pedestrians are importantand our first priority," Owu said.The sidewalk space includes 5 feetof planting space, he said.

The three lanes of traffic would

be 11 feet wide, and each parkinglane would be 7 feet wide, Owusaid. In the single parking lane pro-posal, the bicycle lane is 8 feet, 6inches wide, including a 3-footverge strip. The bicycle lanes in thetwo-parking lane proposal are 6feet, 6 inches wide, with verge stripsof 2 feet, 6 inches.

The verge strips form a bufferzone ,Vctwcrn parked cars andcyclists and make it difficult for abicycle to collide with an open cardoor, Owu said.

The crosswalk at 77 Massachu-setts Ave. is a high traffic area forboth pedestrians and vehicles, Owusaid. About 14,500 pedestrians crossthe street between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.on weekdays, he said.

Each day, an average of 26,500cars and trucks traverse the cross-walk, at travel speeds of 35 milespnPr hnlr OChwu said. nlerino the npen

hour between 5 and 6 p.m., an aver-age of 150 bicycles cross the streetor ride past the crosswalk at speedsaround 20 mph, he said.

Other plans call for reducing thewidth of vehicle lanes on the Har-vard Bridge from 11 feet to 10 feet,6 inches and increasing the bicycle

Officials from the PlanningOffice presented proposals foradding bicycle lanes to Massachu-setts Avenue at a meeting yesterdayafternoon. Space for the new laneswould come from removing one ofthe four vehicle lanes and possiblyone of the two parking lanes.

S.irctor f Dannin,,g 0. RobertSimha MCP '57 and Associate Plan-ning Officer Michael K. Owu '86also presented redesign proposals forthe intersections of MassachusettsAvenue and Memorial Drive, VassarStreet, and Albany Street.

The office will communicatefinal proposals to the city of Cam-bridge within the next few weeks intime to influence the city's construc-tion plans, Owu said. Constructionon Massachusetts Avenue, managedby the MalssaS'husett- Hitghwlxay

Department, is scheduled to begin inthe spring of 1996, he said.

While MIT "can't really affect"the city's final decision, the Institutecan "suggest and convey our con-cerns," Owu said.

Simha and Owu organized themeting "+" let the MIT community

nowv that M!T ;i concerned aboutall movements" regarding the

By Don LaceySTAFF REPORTER

pus President Parag Gupta '96,share Porter's opinion of the list. "Isubscribed to this list to be moreaware of what is going on aroundcampus," Gupta said. "The morepeople that are aware of any crimes

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will be, and the safer MIT will be."That sentiment was echoed by

David F. Lockwood '96, who saidthat while he doesn't have anystrong feelings on the issue, he feelsthat it "can't hurt for people toknow more about what's happeningon campus because if they're moreinformed, crime ought to decrease."

Dana L. Kirsch '97, a resident ofthe Women's Independent LivingGroup, said that because of WILG'slocation "we'rP realV conncerned

about crime, and we will probablybenefit from having access to thelist."

Kirsch has not subscribed to thelist because she already receivespolice bulletins through anothermailing list.

While most reaction has been

Late last month, the CampusPolice started a electronic mail listdesigned to keep members of theMIT community informed aboutc rilei v- ,ampus.

According to Sgt. Cheryl Voss-mer, the list was created to respondto "the increased number of peoplerequesting to be notified when wesend out a crime prevention bulletinvia e-mail." The list, is simply"another avenue" for notifying peo-ple about crime, she said.

In general, students believe thatthe list is a good way to keep peopleinformed about campus crime.

One of the bulletin's 82 currentsubhscribers is Kenneth M. Porter'96, the Safe Walk administrator,who said that while he has notreceived any information throughthe list yet, he feels that it is defi-nitely a good idea.

"If the Campus Police sends outinformation on a timely basis, thenthe mailing list should be a veryuseful resource," Porter said.

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Gov't OpposeDismiss LaBy Sarah Y. KeightleyEDITOR IN CHIEF

The federal governmentresponded late last month to pre-trial motions made by lawyers forDavid M. LaMacchia '95 in earlyOctober, opposing the motion todismiss the case.

In response, LaMacchia's coun-sel filed a reply brief on Nov. 4,according to Joy Fallon, aspokesperson for the U.S. Attor-ney's Office, which is prosecutingthe case against LaMacchia.

LaMacchia was indicted onApril 7 on a charge of conspiracy tocommit wire fraud for using twoWU.l stanLL s i .-;he St.de.nt. CenterAthena cluster to "permit and facili-tate, on an international scale, theillegal copying and distribution of

TEC~ copyrighted software," the indict-ree ment said.

Using a server running on the

two workstations, Internet userscould exchange copyrighted soft-ware, such as Microsoft Excel andWordperfect. Losses of the piratedsoftware are expected to exceed $1million, according to a statementfrom the U.S. Attorney's Office lastspring.

The defense motion to dismissthe case based its arguments on an

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The Eurostar high-speed train completed its first commercialjour-ney through the tunnel under the English Channel on Monday - ahitch-free trip to Paris in just under three hours and arriving threeminutes early.

Later, a similar train departed London's Waterloo Station to carryits fare-paying passengers through the Channel Tunnel and on toBrussels, Belgium. And the first train from Paris to London arrived atWaterloo on Monday morning - also on time.

The new service will be twice a day in both directions at first, andgradually increase to several trips daily between London and Parisand London and Brussels.

Aboard the first 794-seat France-bound train, high-ranking offi-cials breathed a collective sigh of relief as they debarked at Paris'Gare du Nord: The first official journey for ordinary passengerswas not plagued with the stoppages that delayed earlier previewtrips.

There had been some concern that the train would be late when itlost five minutes navigating the congested South London commuterroutes. But it made up the time on the high-speed section of track inFrance.

The train, with engineers Robert Priston, 34, and Lionel Steven-son, 36, at the throttle, entered the Channel Tunnel at 9:40 a.m. andemerged in France 20 minutes later.

The long-delayed multibillion dollar project was one of the engi-neering feats of contemporary times and permits passengers to ridenon-stop in three hours from the center of London to central stationsin Paris and Brussels.

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The new Republican leadership of Congress took the first stepstoward an uneasy revolution Monday, with the House team promisinga "transformation not only a transition" to a "new order" in Washing-ton.

And while pledging to guarantee full participation by the Demo-cratic minority, they vowed to keep the House in session seven daysa week if that's what it takes to pass their "contract with America,"a slate of legislative goals, in the first 100 days of the new Con-gress.

Meanwhile, Speaker-in-waiting Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and pre-sumptive Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., met for the firsttime since last Tuesday's elections and sought to put a tranquil faceon what is widely expected to be a complex and fragile relationship.Though there was nothing but smiles for reporters Monday, they areabout to embark on a struggle to see who will be the most powerfulmember of Congress: Dole, the elder moderate legislator, or Gin-grich, the New Republican revolutionary.

The promise of a new order was most clearly sounded by theRepublican captains designated by Gingrich to direct the disassemblyof the Democratic system that has governed the House for 40 years.

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grounds of the U.S. Embassy here,pleading for "the world's onlysuperpower" to help end Indonesia'srepressive rule over their territory.

At a news conference, Clinton- who looked as if he had finallycaught up on his sleep after histranspacific flight Saturday -offered a spirited defense of hishuman rights record.

"The United States, perhapsmore than any other country in theworld, consistently and regularlyraises human rights issues," he said.In his meeting Monday morningwith Chinese President JiangZemin, he said, "We made itabsolutely clear that in order for theUnited States' relationship withChina to fully flower, there had tobe progress on all fronts."

"Growth means people are betteroff, and that in turn means theybegin independently seeking demo-cratic rights," said W. Bowman Cut-ter, a top Clinton economic aide,adding that "it is still absolutely theintention of the United States toraise these (human rights) issues" intalks with other countries.

Nevertheless, the administrationhas found itself hard-pressed tocounter accusations that it is placingmercantile considerations ahead ofmoral ones. Human RightsWatch/Asia, an advocacy group,charged Monday in a report that"commercial diplomacy" in theAsia-Pacific region is increasinglypushing human rights concerns tothe sidelines."

Clinton's entourage has providedample evidence of the administra-tion's eagerness to make cash regis-ters ring for U.S. goods in fast-growing markets regardless of thetype of government in charge.

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Brown, who attended signing cere-monies in Beijing last August fornearly $5 billion worth of businessfor U.S.-based companies, is plan-ning to trumpet the signing of somelucrative Indonesian contracts forAmerican firms on Wednesday. Oneof these deals ranks as perhaps thelargest in history a $34 billionagreement for Exxon Corp. todevelop a huge natural gas field.

"In a series of meetings withIndonesian ministers I will supportAmerican bids on Indonesian con-tracts," Brown said in a speech Sun-day.

Even Secretary of State WarrenChristopher has scheduled a visit toan AT&T manufacturing plant inWest Java on Tuesday.

But while the administration'szest for boosting U.S. businessinterests may undermine its claimsof being concerned about humanrights, many independent analystsagree that browbeating the Asianson the issue is unwise, and thatencouraging economic growthoffers the best hope.

They cite examples such asSouth Korea and Taiwan, both for-merly autocratic countries thatdemocratized in recent years afterattaining solid middle-income sta-tus.

"I'm not saying it's inevitable,but there's massive evidence" thatgrowth nurtures democracy, saidDonald K. Emmerson, a Universityof Wisconsin political scientistattending the APEC meeting. "I cer-tainly have more faith in the evolu-tionary power of economic growththan in the ability of the president of the United States using a club topush democracy down the throats ofitese countries."

JAKARTA, INDONESIA

President Clinton found himselfin the awkward position Monday oftrying to advance a major trade ini-tiative with some of the world'smost authoritarian regimes withoutappearing callous about humanrights.

Clinton, who came to a summitof Asian and Pacific nations hereboasting that his mission would pro-mote U.S. exports in the world'sfastest-growing region, was forcedto confront the human rights ques-tion following widely publicizeddemonstrations by protesters favor-ing independence for the Indone-sian-occupied territory of EastTimor.

The controversy is threatening todivert attention from the trip's cen-terpiece, scheduled for unveilingTuesday - a declaration by the 18members of the Asia-Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation forum (APEC)pledging to establish free trade inthe region by the early decades ofthe next century.

Administration officials arguedthat the free-trade proposal willboost human rights in countriessuch as Indonesia and China byspurring economic growth and help-ing to build a democracy-mindedmiddle class. They first made thosepoints last spring when Clintondecided to sever the link betweenChina's human-rights policies andits preferential trade status with theUnited States.

But the new message was hard toconvey amid television broadcastsshowing rioters battling police inDili, East Timor's capital city, andTimorese students harriicaded on the

By Dan BalzTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON

government would turn responsibli-ty for Aid To Families with Depen-dent Children, food stamps and theWomen, Infants and Children pro-ornm .oer to the st+tes and. would*.. t-. W an w ~..assume the state's share of Medic-aid.

That would give states, amongother things, the freedom to reformthe welfare program as they see fit,without having to seek waivers fromWashington for changes that deviatefrom federal standards.

But the House Republicans'"Contract With America" calls forCongress to enact specific reformsin welfare. These include requiringstates to move welfare recipients offthe rolls after two years, denial ofbenefits to women under 18 whohave children out of wedlock andnot providing additional benefits towelfare mothers who have morechildren.

The thrust of the GOP contractplan is to give states more responsi-bility and the reforms it calls for arecommon in welfare reform experi-ments underway in the states. ButGerald Miller, who heads the Michi-gan Department of Social Services,said Monday he preferred to seeWashington enact limited reformsand give the states greater latitude tosolve the problems themselves. "Wehave to be careful about how pre-scriptive we are (in Washington),"he said.

Some of this debate is a matterof degree, not a dramatic differencein philosophy among Republicans.Republican governors have been theinnovators on domestic policy with-in the GOP in large part becauseRepublicans in Washington, evenduring the Reagan and Bush presi-

dencies, did not control the legisla-tive machinery.

Now that Republicans havepower, some GOP leaders fear theremay be a tendency to centralize con-servative power within Congress.

Republicans want to enact a newcrime bill to replace the bill signedlast summer by President Clinton.Among the proposals in the HouseGOP contract is to set mandatoryminimum sentences for drug crimesor violent crimes that involve a gun.But some conservatives argue thatcrime is a state and local responsib-lity and that those governmentsshould determine sentencing.

On education, Alexander arguedMonday that Washington should notdictate, as it does now, everythingfrom what the world history class-room standard should be or what thelocal weapons policy of a schoolshould be. He said the response tolast week's electoral upheavalshould be, literally and figuratively,to "send Washington home."

Alexander hosted the EmpowerAmerica session to highlight his"cut their pay and send them home"prescription for the Congress.

One speaker was Phil Burgess,who heads the Center for the NewWest in Denver. Burgess is a Demo-crat, but what he had to say aboutredistributing power away fromWashington is being embraced by

agencies would operate more effec-tively if they were moved outside ofWashington. The AgricultureDepartment, for example, could bemoved to Des Moines or KansasCity; the Energy Department to Dal-las; Interior to Denver and Treasuryto New York. . . .

WASHINGTON

No one banged down the door to hire Rick Grafmeyer last yearwhen he decided to quit as minority tax counsel of the Senate FinanceCommittee. In a town dominated by Democrats at every level, a for-mer Republican congressional aide was in as much demand as a trav-el agent in a prison yard.

What a difference an election makes. Only hours after the Repub-lican sweep of Congress last week, Grafmeyer got his first feelerfrom a Washington law-lobbying shop. By week's end, two morefirms offerred to bring him in as a full partner.

For all the talk of sweeping political change, there is oneimmutable requisite of Washington: access to the lords of CapitolHill. With Democrats calling the shots for most of the century's sec-ond half, lobbying firms came to rely on one-time legislative andcampaign aides of powerhouses with names like Rostenkowski, Din-geli and Byrd, who brought with them a guaranteed entree to theirformer bosses in exchange for lucrative private sector salaries.

WEATHER

Barely a week after their elec-toral landslide. Republicans arebeginning to refine their revolution.

With House speaker-to-be NewtGingrich, R-Ga., and others in theHouse moving swiftly to develop alegislative agenda for the 104thCongress, a debate is brewing with-in the party over whether Republi-cans should enact conservative poli-cies in Washington or turn backpower to states and cities and letofficials there take action.

On issues ranging from welfarereform to education and crime,Republicans may find competingvoices within their party over howthey can most faithfully carry outthe mandate from voters. They alsoare weighing the importance ofmoving quickly to bring aboutchanges voters want against thedanger of trying to undo in a matterof months programs it took Democ-rats generations to put into place.

There is widespread agreementamong Republicans that the federalgovernment is too big and too pow-erful. But the tensions over whetherto lead the revolution from Wash-ington or let state and local govern-ments take much of the lead wereevident Monday at a conferencesponsored by the conservativeEmpower America.

There, Sen. Nancy LandonKassebaum, R-Kan., the likelychairwoman of the- Senate Educa-tion and Labor Committee, outlineda proposal for state and federal gov-ernments to swap authority for vari-ous welfare and health care pro-grams. Under her plan, the federal

The picture is fairly settled at the start of the week with aboveaverage weather expected. A cold front associated with a low pres-sure centred in northern Ontario will push on through the region onTuesday. Relative humidities suggest that the associated rain will fallto the north and west of us. As the week progresses a high pressuresystem will establish itself over the whole country. Winds will befrom the north or northwest, and we should see a little bit more of thesun. In the extended forecast, as the high pressure moves on its way.ea.t the c.hank for shoes. picks up again at ,the weekend.

Today: Mostly cloudy clearing a little by the afternoon. Windslight at about 10 mph (6 kph). High may reach a very pleasant68°F (20°C).

Tonight: Clearer. Low 40°F (4°C).Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Northerly winds. High 51°F (10°C).

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By Julia PrestonTHE WASHINGTON POST

morning with U.S. AmbassadorMadeleine K. Albright in her func-tion as this month's Security Coun-cil president, to hand her a formalnotice of Baghdad's decision Thurs-day to acknowledge Kuwait's sover-eignty and to accept a U.N.-drawnborder between the two countries.Iraq thus completed the last steprequired by the United Nations fol-lowing the 1991 Persian Gulf Warfor renouncing its claims to the oil-rich emirate, which Iraqi PresidentSaddam Hussein had long assertedwas Iraq's "19th province."

A severe U.N. ban on most com-merce with Iraq, imposed in 1990after Saddam invaded Kuwait, hasblocked Baghdad from earning $15billion a year from its petroleum, byIraqi estimates, and left its economyin a shambles.

Albright reiterated Washington'sview that the Council should notconsider easing the sanctions untilIraq has shown its commitment to

peace by complying over a long,open-ended period with the letterand spirit of the full range of theU.N. resolutions, including thosethat do not directly govern the eco-nomic sanctions.

Russian delegate Sergei Lavrovsaid the Council should establish asix-month testing period and thenlift the oil embargo if Iraq has com-plied consistently with the one reso-lution that refers to the sanctions.Saddam was persuaded to recognizeKuwait by Russian Foreign MinisterAndrei Kozyrev, as part of a strate-gy to end the sanctions against theArab nation, which owes Moscow$4 billion in unpaid arms debts.France, another veto-bearing perma-nent member, agrees with Russia.

Albright displayed 12 satellitephotographs showing sites whereshe said Saddam is lavishly renovat-ing or building 30 palaces for him-self and his close relatives and fol-lowers

UNITED NATIONS

The Security Council renewedstiff commercial sanctions againstBaghdad Monday after a debate thataccentuated differences amongCouncil powers over how long thetrade embargo should continue.

In spite of Iraq's decision lastweek to recognize Kuwait, the 15-nation Security Council concludedin a regularly scheduled 60-dayreview of the sanctions that it is notyet time to lift them. Council mem-bers agreed that Iraq's concessionon Kuwait had come too late for thisreview.

Because of conflicting viewsamong permanent members, primar-ily the United States and Russia, theCouncil could not agree on a publicstatement about its reasons formaintaining the sanctions.

Iraqi Deputy Prime MinisterTariq Aziz met briefly Monday

By Patrick Lee should continue to improve.A slowdown would be more bad

news for Bill Clinton, who has triedwith little success to win credit forthe recent economic growth.Instead, the administration may finditself being blamed for economicsluggishness just in time for the1996 election.

A forecast released last Thursdayby Blue Chip Economic Indicatorsof Sedona, Ariz., sees the nation-wide economy slowing to a 2.7 per-cent growth rate in 1995 from arevised 3.8 percent rate in 1994 -the strongest since 1988. ·

Other forecasts vary, but mostsay that expansion of the U.S. econ-omy will slow to between 2.5 per-cent and 3 percent by 1995 from thegenerally expected range of 3.5 per-cent to 4 percent in 1994. And a fur-ther slowdown is forecast for 1996.

If the Federal Reserve Boardsucceeds in keeping a lid on infla-tion, prices should rise between 3.0

percent and 3.5 percent in 1995, abit faster than expected for 1994 butbelow a feared 5 percent or more ifthings get out of hand.

For now, there are ample signsthat the economy is very strong andpressures are building for consumerprices to rise:

-Manufacturers are operating atnear the 85 percent capacity rate.

-- Business investment in areassuch as computers and informationprocessing equipment has beenbooming for the last year and is cer-tain to cool.

-The nation's unemploymentrate dipped to 5.8 percent in Octo-ber from 5.9 percent the monthbefore. Hourly wages rose at theirfastest pace in 11 years.

-Interest rates continue toclimb: the Federal Home LoanMortgage Corp. reported last weekthat rates for 30-year fixed-ratemortgages reached 9.05 percent,their highest levels since 1991.

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The good economic news justkeeps coming: inflation remainsunder control, growth is solid andthe nation's unemployment rate is ata four-year low.

Yet as the Republicans take con-trol of Congress, empowered by apublic frustrated over a decliningstandard of living and government'sinability to do anything about it,there are signs that the 3-year-oldeconomic expansion is nearing itspeak.

The bad news for the revitalizedGOP: At worst, the nation could gofrom strong growth and low infla-tion to a world in which consumers

'have less money to spend and arepaying double-digit rates on fixed-payment mortgages.

At the very least, the economy'srecent growth rate will likely slackin the next year, economists agree,though output and employment

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Committee MeetingThursday November 17th, 1994

5:30 P.M. GSC Lounge 50-222 Walker MemorialMany other topics will be covered

All Graduate Students are invited to all our meetings. All are held at 5:30pm in 50-222 and dinner is served.

WORLD & NATION

Security Council Renews SanctionsDespite Baghdad's Concessions

Yeltsin Tells Mlilitary to PrepareFor Toughening U.S. Policy

LOSANGELES TIMES

MOSCOW

President Boris N. Yeltsin warned his top military officers onMonday to steel themselves for "a certain toughening" in U.S. for-eign and military policy toward Russia in the wake of Republicanmid-term election gains.

In his first public reaction to the new conservative wave in U.S.politics, Yeltsin also told a conference of Russian Army officers hehad realized that "it's necessary to work out relations with the Repub-licans, to even out our relations with the U.S."

Yeltsin enjoys a hearty friendship with President Clinton but hasdone little to cultivate support among the Republicans who will nowdominate Congress.

He told the hundreds of officers attending the annual militaryplanning meeting that he wanted to avoid a mistake like the oldKremlin made when it ignored the Republicans during the Carterpresidency and paid the price when Ronald Reagan won the 1980election.

* "Then the victory of the Republicans and lack of contacts withthem led to an acceleration of the arms race and aggravation of rela-tions between the superpowers," Yeltsin said, according to Russianreporters who were allowed to attend the conference. "This must notbe permitted today."

Tropical Storm Gordon SlamsInto Southern Florida

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Blustery winds and driving rain lashed much of Florida Mondayas Tropical Storm Gordon canceled school for 9,200 children in theKeys, diverted the space shuttle to California and recalled for manythe horror of Hurricane Andrew two years ago.

Before bearing down on Florida, the late-season cyclone wasblamed for at least 100 deaths in the Caribbean, where heavy rainscaused flooding and mudslides in Haiti, the Dominican Republic andJamaica.

With sustained winds of about 50 mph, Gordon did not threatenFlorida with widespread disaster. But howling gusts of up to 65 mphbent palm trees to the ground, rocked vehicles stalled on floodedstreets and pushed tides far above normal.

As the diffuse center of Gordon headed west through the FloridaStraits and across the heart of the Florida Keys late Monday, forecast-ers hoisted tropical storm warnings for most of South Florida, fromPalm Beach to Fort Myers.

Early Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy pulled nine crew-men and a dog from a 180-foot Haitian freighter foundering in 20-foot seas east of Key Largo. The sailors were airlifted from the JunoExpress by two helicopters and ferried ashore, according to a CoastGuard spokesman.

The storm forced the shuttle Atlantis from its scheduled landing atthe Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral to an alternate site atEdwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert.

Economy May Stall in Coming Months

Leadershi p WorkshopDecember Ski Trip

Spring Formal

PRE-SYMPHONY SOCIALJoin other Graduate Students attending the

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ERRATUMAn article in last Tuesday's issue,

"Chomsky, Shahak Discuss JewishFundamentalism" [Nov. 8], misquotedscholar Israel Shahak as saying thatPalestinians account for 70 percent ofIsraeli citizens. The correct figure is 17percent.

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essentially unchanged, by groups on the left(the assignment of the Nazis to the right isitself attributable to people on the left, but thatis a different issue).

Shahak uses it as a generic pejorative infull recognition of the emotional overtones itwill evoke. As a survivor of the Nazi period,he should have a much better understandingof what Nazis really are than he has exhibited.

Yale M. Zussman '74

California'sProposition 187 Shows

Hate and FearAs Mexicans we have followed closely the

events leading to the approval last Tuesday ofProposition 187 in the state of California.

While we recognize the right of the citi-zens of any country to decide on their lawsand forms of government, and the right of allcountries to control their borders, we wish toexpress our opinion on some aspects of theproposed legislation and the political cam-paign surrounding it that we find disturbing.

Proposition 187 has been called by its sup-porters the "Save Our State" proposition. Theimplication in the text of the proposition, andin the statements made to support it, is thatillegal immigrants are largely to blame for theeconomic hardship and social unrest that havemarked California's recent past.

This is simply false. The great majority ofthem work hard at simple jobs for less thanminimumn-wage pay. Their labor provides thepeople in California with valuable goods andservices at lower prices than would be possi-ble otherwise.

The great majority of them commit noother crime than to ignore the border in theirpursuit of a chance out of poverty. For thischance they leave behind their heritage andare denied the right to be full members of thesociety in which they live.

In the best case, they suffer the disdain oftheir neighbors and, in the worst, become thevictims of crimes of hate. These people with-out a voice have been made by Proposition1 .87 th... scapegoat fVr thie problems of Calivor-nia, to the political benefit of those who seemto be unwilling or unable to deal constructive-ly with the issues facing the state.

One of the means chosen by the writers ofProposition 187 to "protect" the citizens ofCalifornia from this "menace" is to preventillegal immigrants from receiving state-fundededucation and non-emergency health care.The proposed law requires any state agencyproviding these services to deny them to any-one whom they "reasonably suspect" to be inthe country illegally. It requires the schools toverify the immigration status not oniy of thestudents, but also of their parents orguardians.

ing systematic errors in the approach takenthat evening.

First, Israel Shahak engages routinely inanachronism, asserting that something canhappen when it is not yet possible. Let me citethe example he used of the non-democraticnature of Jewish communal governance in17th century Poland. Since there were nofunctioning democratic governments any-where at that time, the theoretical bases fordemocracy were just being put into place; it ishardly surprising that a minority communitydidn't have one. Yet Shahak regards this fail-ure as permanently damning, a curious notionfor someone so thoroughly secular.

Second, both Chomsky and Shahak extrap-olate from the localized to the general withoutbothering to determine whether these leapsmake any sense. For Chomsky, the fact thatthe United States has subsidized some dicta-tors is enough to prove that anyone whoreceives a subsidy from the United Statesmust be a dictator.

Shahak makes the same leap when heasserts that Israel has become a theocracybecause some Jewish religious laws havebecome laws of the state. These claims are ofa type with an argument offered in a studentpaper years ago that sought to demonstratethat all people are gorillas because a picture ofa gorilla was included in the freshman picturebook.

Third, Shahak's fixation on a bill passedby the Israeli Parliament that bans the importof non-kosher meat indicates that he doesn'tunderstand how democracy, in whose namehe claims to speak, actually works. This lawwas not imposed by the rabbinate on the restof the state. It is the result of log-rolling, atime-honored practice in any legislative body.Shahak sees it as a violation of democraticvalues, but it was produced by the normalworkings of democracy.

For him, as for Chomsky, "democracy" iswhen his desired outcome prevails. In thename of democracy, they reserve the right todenounce people for having values differentfrom theirs. This is a very strange notionindeed.

There are also some matters of fact. Forexample, most American aid to Israel wasdesigned to help defray the costs of redeploy-ing the Israeli military out of the Sinai, an out-come we desired for our own reasons.

The amount pales in comparison to whatwe spend on NATO, which serves Americaninterests in Western Europe in a similar fash-ion. As proven in the Gulf War, U.S. militaryplans for the region are not based, as Chom-sky would have it. on having Israel act as the"local cops on the beat."

Shahak's claim that Israel treats Palestini-ans the way C'r-istians itreaie Jews in Europeis simply not true. Whether he knows this ornot is another matter.

Palestinians have fared better under Israelioccupation than they did when they wereruled by Jordan (life expectancy is way up).They have been treated better than Islamicsociety treats dhimmis, the status Islamassigns to Jews and Christians under Islamicrule, and it is generally agreed that-dhimmisusually fared better than Jews in ChristianEurope.

Lastly there is Shahak's claim about Jewsas Nazis. Use of the term "Nazi" by Shahakand others has devalued this term so muchthat it has ceased to mean what it meant 50years ago. People on the left these days aretoo quick to label their opponents "Nazis;" inreality many Nazi values have been adopted,

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Chomsky-ShahakStory Ignores

Opposition's ViewsThe article on Noam Chomsky and Israel

Shahak ["Chomsky, Shahak Discuss JewishFundamentalism," Nov. 8] mentions strongopposition to their views, but fails to indicateor outline any such differing views.

Chomsky and Shahak seem to selectivelyignore much of the history of the conflict inthe Middle East. Implying that Israel does notgive Palestinians equal rights because they arenot Jews is as silly as suggesting that Israelfought against Arab armies because they werenot Jewish.

The reality is that Israel first took over theterritories because the situation had becomeintolerable. Every few years Israel would beforced to defend itself against a number ofmuch larger Arab armies, with the premisethat if the Arabs win Israel is annihilated,while if Israel wins the international commu-nity steps in and stops the fighting as soon asIsrael has demonstrated the ability to defenditself. Therefore Israel clearly warned at leastKing Hussein of Jordan that if he attackedagain, he would lose territory.

Before 1967, the Palestinians in the territo-ries had never had decent rights. Their rightsand those of other Arab citizens were routine-ly trampled, but the international communitywas unable to monitor these actions closelybecause of the non-democratic Arab govern-ments.

When Israel took over, it decided to buildhousing and economic infrastructure in theterritories, which to a certain extent it did. Butthe Palestinians from the start opposed anyIsraeli involvement, in increasingly violentways. Those who report on human rightsabuses in the territories often seem to forgethow deadly a rock to the head can be. That isnot to say that all previous Israeli govern-ments were concerned about Palestinianrights, or that no human rights violations haveever occurred.

Let us hope that the peacemakers on bothoiluOs calln o.t/iwI VL i Llu' v h WIr iltV LLtlUC LUv

blame one side or the other for the unfortunatehistory of the situation.

Rennan Bar-Kana G

Chomsky, Shahak, andStory All Wrong

On IsraelIt is unfortunate that the reporter lacked

the necessary background to properly under-stand oant report the latest episode, i.. th.eChomsky-Shahak road show ["Chomsky,Shahak Discuss Jewish Fundamentalism,"Nov. 8].

Let me cite two simple examples: Noteven Shahak would claim, as the article does,that "Palestinians account for 70 percent ofIsraeli citizens"; the real number is around 17percent.

Also, Jewish fundamentalists, those whobelieve in an unchanging and unchangeablefaith, believe that a Jewish state cannot comeinto existence until it is established by theMessiah. They avoid any relationship with theIsraeli government. Thus, the notion that Jew-ish fundamentalists run the country is anabsurdity.

With a more appropriate background, thereporter might also have identified the follow- I

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The United States has a long tradition ofchampioning the respect of human rightsthroughout the world. Is not access to educa-tion and health care a fundamental humanright?

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Letters, from Page 4 lay ahead for both our nations if we let differ-ences aside and build constructively fromcommon ground. This is why today we joinmany others in lending our voices to ourmigrant brothers and sisters.

We. ask the people of the United States tostop destructive measures like Proposition187, and to preserve an environment of col-laboration and mutual respect between ourtwo countries.

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400,000 children out of school, and over amillion people with no preventive medicine),but the denial of the human dignity of themigrant workers that it writes into law.

Proposition 187 goes one step further andestablishes a system of required notification tothe INS of any person that has requested apublic service and is under "reasonable suspi-cion" of being in the country illegally. It cre-ates a police state in which teachers and doc-tors are required by law not to serve everyonein their community but to be on the lookoutfor "reasonable suspects."

Measures like this can only further polar-ize a society already suffering the conse-quences of serious racial and ethnic tension.

Xenophobic measures like this, speciallywhen aimed at our compatriots, hurt usdeeply. After all, what is meant by the phrase"reasonable suspect?" It seems many Califor-nians have forgotten the origins of their stateand long history of Hispanic inhabitants inthat land.

For all these reasons we were shocked lastTuesday when the people of California lettheir disenchantment become a cry of hate andfear.

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THE MIKADOMIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players.La Sala de Puerto Rico.Nov. 10-12, 17-19. 8 p.m.; Nov. 13, 2 p.m.

By Teresa EsserSTAFF REPORTER

French horn. The choir sang with enthusiamthroughout the entire performance.

Excellent individual performances werealso delivered by the senior members of thecast, including Michael McGuire (as the lordPooh-Bah), Cara Foss, and Walt Howe. In all,the cast and crew gave life and spirit to theoriginal work by Gilbert and Sullivan, bring-ing a slice of history to the modern theater.

musical is excellent. It was funny, colorful,and cute. Furthermore, the costumes are gor-geous. Steven Peeler conducted his orchestrawith fastidious precision, from the waveringsolos of the opening scenes to the triumphantgrand finale. The quality of the playing wasexcellent also, with outstanding individualperformances by Kurt Uenala on bass andAaron Cohen '96 and Chad Musser '97 on

The plot relies on the fact that all of thecharacters are bound by obligation to followthe strict rales of their society, possessing asmuch freedom of movement as a Japanesemarionette. The play's humor relies upon thefact that true love will triumph over all obsta-cles, even the seemingly insurmountabledecree of the Mikado of Japan.

From an entertainment perspective, thet is obvious to any politically correct20th-century theatre-goer that The Mika-do is the product of another era. In the19th-century England of Sir W.S. Gilbert

and Arthur Sullivan, no one would have bat-ted an eyelash at the play's subtle criticism ofJapanese culture. Today, however, a trip toThe Mikado makes one stop and think.Although the play is skillfully written, itslines are full of tiny jibes that walk the fineline between a humorous acknowledgment ofcultural differences and a racist slam at allthings Japanese.

To be fair, the play does call itself a paro-dy, and as such was meant to provide ahumorous look at stereotypes. It goes out ofits way to poke fun at everyone it can think of,from the conductor of the G & S orchestra"who just now has lost his place" to "the criticwho writes film reviews that give away theplot." According to the light-hearted logic ofthe Mikado, all of these societal offendersshould be beheaded.

The play revolves around a God-like Mika-do (Walt Howe), an emperor who has decreedthat flirting is a capital offense, punishable bydecapitation. The citizens of the Town ofTitipu rebel against this decree by bestowingthe rank of "Lord High Executioner" upon thetown flirt. This effectively frees Titipu fromthe mandate, for before anyone else is to beslain, the executioner must decapitate himself.

Into this melee comes the wandering min-strel Nanki-Poo (Cade Murray '96), who isrunning away from his impending marriagewith Katisha (Cara Foss), an elderly ogre.Nanki-Poo would really like to marry theschoolgirl Yum-Yum (Karin Lin '95), and shewould like to marry him, but duty impels herto marry instead the Lord High Executioner. MIT's Gilbert and Sullivan Players performed The Mikado this weekend in the La Sala de Puerto Rico.

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Neil Jordan's Vampire probes life, immortalityture although through some neat specialeffects, his appearance improves greatly.

Cruise's turbo-charged portrayal of Lestatprovides us with the thrills and humor neededto keep from sinking under the weight ofLouis' despair. While Louis denies his mur-derous nature, Lestat revels in it. He killsmore than he needs for survival, savoring theexperience. Having broken free of all moralrestraint, he takes his victims with sensualityand brutality. Louis, on the other hand, is pos-sessed of a conscience and tries to subsist onrats and other animals rather than kill. Whenhe loses control and drains one of his servants,he is overwhelmed by regret.

The story is an update of the traditionalvampire myth. Bram Stoker's Dracula is pri-marily a cautionary tale about the dangers ofour own animal (i.e. sexual) nature. While thistheme was timely in the Victorian Era, it haslost some resonance in 1994. Here the sensu-ality of the vampire is preserved, but the pri-mary lure of the vampire is the possibility ofat once escaping death and the pain of living.The vampire has gained victory over deathand becomes its emissary. It is his own will toexist that drives him to kill, to become a mon-ster.

Louis ultimately fails in his attempt to dothis. His attachment to life is always weak.His life is a torment, and so it remains afterhis transformation except now his torment hasbeen extended. He has not escaped the pain ofdeath and that pain surrounds him. Louisbecomes so expert at wearing a pained expres-

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TilE WHO'S TOMMYDirected by Des McAnuff.Music by Pete Townshend.Book and Lyrics by Pete Townshendand Des AMcAnuff.Wang Center, Nov. 9-20.

By Kai Tao

!T!rommy triumphantly returned to Boston: "- last Wednesday,-opening to a sellout

X crowd at the Wang Center. Unlike lasta year's production at the Colonial The-

ater, which was plagued with technical prob-lems and computer crashes, the Wang Cen-ter's larger stage helped ease the complicated

Levenson, who are the innocent four-year-oldTommy, and ten-year-old Tommy respective-ly. Miss Levenson, at only eight years of age,demonstrates both cuteness and talent, givingrise to a promising career ahead, while herbrother Brett amazed everyone with his abilityto be picked up and "thrown" about from castmember to cast member as if he was a bounc-ing ball.

The adult Tommy, played by Steve Isaacs,lacked the raw power of Roger Daltrey, whoseportrayal in Ken Russell's movie version ofTomnmv. defined in many ways the angers andemotions of the Woodstock Generation,

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIREDirected by Neil Jordan.Written by Anne Rice, based on her novel.Starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Ban-deras, Stephen Rea, and Christian Slater.Loews Cheri.

By Gretchen KootSTAFF REPORTER

t many points, Interview with theVampire risks drowning in the gloomthat pervades it, but just enoughcomic relief keeps it afloat. This faith-

ful adaptation of Anne Rice's novel puts theaudience into the mind and world of vampires.Told from the point of view of the vampireprotagonist Louis, the movie brings the view-er into the lives of the monsters rather thantheir victims. We are made to identify withLouis and to help us do so, he is portrayed asemotional and sensitive. We are told that he isa vampire with a human soul.

The movie opens with the beginning of theinterview. Brad Pitt, looking radiantly beauti-ful as Louis, pours out his tale of horror andloss to a reporter played by Christian Slater.Louis' tale is unrelenting in its dismal sorrow.His story begins in a hopeless state of mourn-ing after the death of his wife and infantdaughter, and we watch him dutifully crouchby their tombstones. As the narration tells us,he has already ceased to live. After the charis-matic vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise) enters hislife, transforming him into a blood-suckingcreature of the night, Louis' character remainsvirtually unchanged. The sorrow of his fami-lies death is soon replaced by fresh sorrows.He is still the same tragic, melancholy crea-

L--Lestat (Tom Cruise) and Louis (Brad Pitt) star in Intervlew With The Vampire, basedon the novel by Anne Rice,

traumatized by the experience. As his motherand father struggle to find a means to curehim, Tommy gets abused by both his UncleErnie, and his Cousin Kevin, who unwittinglyintroduces him to pinball. Through the pin-ball machine, Tommy discovers his hiddentalent as he gains both fame and fortune, inbreaking the records for the highest pinballscores.

Miraculously, Tommy becomes cured, ashe gains "rock star" status. Eventually,Tommy is overwhelmed by all this fame andfortune, and turns his back against his fans.longingly to return to a normal life.

The traumatized young Tommy is playedby siblings Rachel Beth Levenson, and Brett

production requirements.What appeared to be seamless scene

changes involved 27 slide projectors illumi-nating a 30-foot wide screen, 13 personalcomputers used to control video projections,and over 20 tons of scenery and equipment.With rocking songs such as "Pinball Wizard"and "I'm Free," the speakers overwhelmedthe audience with a pounding, thunderousbass.

Based on Pete. Townshend's-famous 25-year-old rock opera, Tommy tells the story ofTommy Walker, a young boy growing up inPost-World War II England. Upon seeing hisfather kill his mother's lover, Tommybecomes dumb, blind, and mute, irreversibly

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Directed by Roland Emmerich.Written by Dean Devlinand Roland Emmerich.Starring Kurt Russell, James Spader,and Jaye Davidson.Loews Cheri.

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the other side. Now roll Return of the Jedi,except replace the Ewoks with sand-blownEgyptians, and replace the forest with adesert. The natives speak in an annoying for-eign language that no viewer, no matter howdiverse, will be able to understand: hence thesubtitles. Listen, if I want to sit through subti-

ties, I'll go see a quality film. This ain't it.For now, let's return to Jedi. The bad

guys arrive, and it's just like the Empire,except Darth Vader turns out to be the guyfrom The Crying Game with lots of eye shad-ow. And he's riding in a flying pyramid. It'sas if Ed Wood directed the Indiana Jonesseries. Anyway, swallow that and you're setfor the rest of the movie: A typical Holly-wood fight between the good guys and theevil empire.

But enough about the plot. Here are thejuicy details, the superlatives of the movie.Most Disgusting Part: The numerous so-dumb-they're-cute scenes apparently equatingthe natives' ignorance with stupidity. MostDistinguishing Plot Point: Hard to believe, butthe hero does not sleep with the heroine whenshe offers herself to him (not the first time,anyway). Most Cholesterol-Ridden Technolo-gy: The bad guy's elevator, which is apparent-ly powered by a column of flying onion rings.Most Unrealistic Plot Point (tough choice!):Under pressure, Jackson explains that he canbarely understand the planet's native tongue:Three minutes later, he's Hemingwaying hisway through the language with phrases like"existentialism is evocative of the inner tor-ment of our souls, no?"

Stargate wasn't the worst movie I haveever seen, just the most disjointed. The major-ity of the scenes simply do not make anymeaningful contribution to the plot. Visuallythe scenes are appealing, but the script isanother matter. You know you're in troublewhen the most common phrase in a movie is"Hayaabujjububbashupah!"

how to open a door to a distant planet by dial-ing the right number (conveniently, seven dig-its) on what is basically a huge rotary-dialphone from ancient Egypt.

The portal opens, and Jackson joins abunch of Army grunts, with a brooding KurtRussell as the officer in charge, in stepping to

I know how this movie was made. I can pic-ture the scenario: The writers were all sit-ting around a whiteboard throwing outplot ideas. "Nuclear bombs!", "Flying

pyramids!", "Subtitles!", "Transvestites!"Suddenly the head writer stood up, an excitedgleam in his eye. "I just got the wackiestidea," he announced. "Those are all fabulousideas. Let's use all of them!" And so they did.

Stargate, directed by Roland Emmerich, isone of the strangest, most ill-conceivedmovies I have seen since, well, since the lasttime I paid good money for a pile of Holly-wood hype. The previews looked cool (don'tthey always?) - a distant planet, lots ofaction, good special effects. The movie livedup to the previews on those counts, but Inaively assumed that it would have some sem-blance of a plot to tie it all together. I waswrong.

Here's the rundown. Daniel Jackson(James Spader) is an expert on ancient civi-lizations who is brought to Colorado to inves-tigate a collection of artifacts which are beingstored at a secret military base hidden inside amountain. (And this is before the plot leavesplanet Earth.) Anyway, Jackson figures out

Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell) and Daniel Jackson (James Spader) work together to unrav-el the mystery of an ancient portal that leads into another world in the scieace-flc-tion/fantasy film Stargate.

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the new Santa until "something should happento him."

Not only does Allenfeel a moral obligationto deliver toys, his body undergoes a miracu-lous transformation on its own, changing himfrom a fit businessman to an obese, geriatricelf. Alien's hair turns white, his beard growsuncontrollably, and he sprouts a gigantic potbelly. He also develops an irrational cravingfor cookies, milk, and hot fudge sundaes.

The movie scores high in its examinationof the way adults view children's imagina-tions. The central character, Charlie (EricLloyd), is torn between his mother's warningthat a belief in Santa Claus would remove himfrom reality and his father's living proof thatSanta Claus existed. Charlie's mother Laura(Wendy Crewson) is backed up by her psychi-atrist boyfriend Neil (Judge Reinhold) and theentire Chicago police force. Tim Alien is sup-ported by child sympathizers, Cornet the rein-deer, and a slew of scrappy elves.

The two sides eventually face off in athrilling action-movie sleigh-chase that makeschildren scream and adults grind their teeth.The special squadron of' green iiight-suited"elves with attitude" is almost too much totake, especially when they saw through ironbars with their super-strength magical tinsel.

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v Nightma ed. As in the Friday the Thirteenth movies,the producers got carried away with the Fred-dy persona in a series that verged increasing-ly on self-parody rather than ingenuity. (Istopped watching after installment numberfour.) With the last movie, dishonestly enti-tled Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, itseemed about time to lay the whole conceptto rest.

But the creator, Wes Craven, decided oth-erwise. His latest film, Wes Craven's NewNightmare, is not so much a recapitulationrather than a re-exploration of old themes. Itexplores the horror movie genre fromCraven's point of view, or a facsimile thereof:the real world.

We enter the world of real-life film actressHeather Langenkamp, who played "Nancy" infirst and third Nightmare on Elm Street films,and learn that she has experienced a recurringseries of nightmares - strangely coincidentalfor the 10th anniversary of the first film. She'smarried to Chase (David Newsom), a specialeffects expert, and has a young son namedDylan (Miko Hughes), but she's not at ease

WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMAREWritten and Directed by Wes Craven.Starring Robert Englund, Heather Lan-genkamp, Mike Hughes, David Newsom,and John Saxon.Loews Cinema 57.

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he eerie refrain-that begins with "One,two, Freddy's coming for you" isfamiliar to most people who wereraised on horror films of the 1980s. Of

course, this is taken from A Nightmare on ElmStreet, which shocked and intrigued teenageaudiences when it was released 10 years ago.Its notion of a supernatural villain attackinginnocents through their dreams was an updat-ed version of the boogeyman, a figment ofevery child's nightmares. The villain was ahorribly burned social outcast named FreddyKrueger who slashed his victims to death witha claw of blades on his right hand. Freddyquickly became a horror-movie staple, and afranchise was bom.

Five ::equels and two TV series later, theFreddy K-rueger myth seemed to be exhaust- Nightmare, Page 11

I THE SA.NTA CLAUSEDirected by John Pasquin.\ Written by Leo Benvenuti and Steven Rudnick.Starring Tim 4Alien. Judge Reinhold, WendyCrewson, David Krumholtz, and Peter BoyleLoews Copley Place.

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' I hen Tim Alien walks out of hisl 'i&BmShouse on Christmas Eve "to see

what is the matter," the last thinghe expects to find is Santa Claus

and eight tiny reindeer. The appearance ofFather Christmas surprises him so much thathe begins a vocal protest in his front yard.Unfortunately, this protest causes Santa to slipoff the roof and fall down dead in a pile ofsnow.

When Alien walks over to investigate thered-suited carcass, he finds a business card inthe front pocket which states that "If anythingshould happen to Santa Claus," the readershould "put on the red suit, get in the sleigh,and start delivering presents."

"-fat the . card doesn't say is that whoeverputs on the suit and climbs in the sleigh auto-matically becomes the next Santa Claus. TheSanta Clause in this legal contract is that thecondition is irreversible. Whoever slips on thefake fur long johns is magically obliged to be

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Tom Allen stars as Scott Calvin, who is transformed into the new Santa in The SantaSanta Clause, Page 11 Clause.

Tommy molds rock opera into sheer pleasuresame story could effectively be produced as a"Broadway-type" musical. After all, the Whowas a rock and roll band known for theirpounding chords and bass notes.

With no mistake, the musical Tommy is arock and roll performance of the highest cal-iber. Musical director Wendy Bobbitt ablyconducted the band, which featured the talentsof guitarist Scott Totten and former Rod

Stewart/David Bowie drummer Alan Childs.Despite the Wang's notoriety for pooracoustics, the energy and sound of the band,coupled with the giant television screens ,made the performance viewable from anydirection.

I highly recommend this musical for any-one who wants to lose oneself into a whirl-wind of music and imagery for a few hours.

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whereas Tommy's oppressors, the drunken..nc.e Ernie, pla.e by StepheCn Anderson,and Cousin Eddie, played by Michael Arnold,were quite comedic, making the audience for-get that they were the "bad guys."

As a fan of the original Tommy performedby the Who, I was quite doubtful that the

sion that he seldom drops it. Lestat, on theother hand, revels in his triumph over death.In one scene, he takes a shriveled corpse in hisarms and dances with it, remarking, "There'slife in the old gal yet." Clearly death has nomeaning for him, and it is this freedom whichis fascinating.

The sets, costumes and special effects areall fabulous. They transport the viewer to theswamps of New Orleans, the catacombs ofParis, and the streets of San Francisco andacross two centuries. The gore is mostlyrestricted to copious amounts of spilt bloodand a few dried out corpses but is also unnerv-ingly convincing. All of the special effects areseamless although a scene in which the childClaudia's hair is abruptly given a permanentin the course of her vampiric transformationmade most of the audience laugh at a moment

J which should have been horrific.

Overali the movie, nlKe the bouk, is a xu1xescape from daily life, and allows us to roamthe fantastic world of the vampire. DirectorNeil Jordan, best known for directing TheCrying Game, does well to remain faithful toRice's story and give emotional weight to thegruesome accounts on the screen.

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BULLETS OVER BROAIDWAYfWritten and directed by Woody Allen .

Starring John Cusack, Jack Warden, ChazzPalminteri, Joe Viterelli, Jennifer Tilly, RobReiner, Dianne Wiest, and Tracey Ullman.Loews Janus.

By Carrie E. PerlmanSTAFF REPORMER

his mouth and continually repeats "Don't sayanything, don't say anything."

Shaync is peuaded to sng his originalscript for each of these characters. Cusack isgood in the role of Shayne , but this characterin not as fun as either Cheech or Sinclair.

Santo Loquasto, Alien's set designer formany years, has once again transformed NewYork in this period film. The 1920s depictedhere is very stylized. All violence occurs offscreen while mellow jazz plays in the back-ground.

This is unmistakably a Woody Alien film.It contains many similarities to his past filmsand also displays his unending creativity inthis juxtaposition of the theater world and theMafia.

(Chazz Palminteri) who causes most of theproblems. After initially objecting wheneverShayne tries to cut down O!i.e's lines,Cheech eventually begins to demonstrate areal knack for plot construction and dialogue.Once recovered from the shock of receivingconstructive criticism from a thug, Shaynebegins to rely on Cheech's help. Palminteri iswonderful as this unscrupulous gangster withhidden talent.

The other star amongst the cast is Wiest asthe eccentric, over-the-hill actress who getsShayne to see the script her way and rewrite itto make her character just a little less frumpy.Some of the film's funniest scenes take placewhen Shayne and Sinclair are alone together.Shayne, the supposedly verbose playwright,cannot speak as Sinclair places her hand over

bution of artistic talent and the difficulty ofmaintaining purity in art. These are importantissues to Alien, which he addresses withhumor bult does not mock.

It is the story of the budding playwrightDavid Shayne, played by John Cusack, whocan only produce his latest work with thefinancial support of the Mafia. The mobsterNick Valenti (Joe Viterelli) is willing to putup all the money if his girlfriend, Olive Neal(Jennifer Tilly), currently a dancer in the cho-nrus line of a speakeasy, can have one of thelead roles. Needless to say, Olive cannot act.After assembling the cast of the play, includ-ing the famous actress Helen Sinclair (DianeWiest), rehearsals begin.

There is some tension amongst cast mem-bers but it is Olive's bodyguard Cheech

Nightmare, from Page 9 time action on the screen.Wes Craven's New Nightmare doesn't

fully address the notion of the horror film associal catharsis or as cheap thrill. It does,however, counterpose a new viewing framefor horror to its audience, presenting a worldin which the ubiquitous earthquakes manifestfears that are out of our control, a crumbling,twisted landscape that adequately reflectsmankind's deepest subliminal fears.

Wes Craven's last film The People Underthe Stairs (1991), poked fun at class differ-ences in a typically grotesque context, but ina rather toothless way. His new film isn'tlikely to win over anyone to his brand of hor-ror, but it gives the viewer a sense of nostal-gia for supernatural storytelling, with a gen-uine scare or two thrown in for goodmeasure.

Nightmare on Elm Street film are set back bypersonal doubts about the project. Her dreamseither come true (not a good thing) or con-vince her that she's temporarily slipping intodementia.

When it's clear that her son is havingnightmares as well, she consults with her co-stars from the first film (including RobertEnglund, the actor who plays Freddy). Shefinally meets.with Craven at his home aboutthe new script that he's working on: It seemsthat every line he types on his word processorsomehow becomes real. Thus Craven explainsit to Langenkamp that his story has becomereality, and that the eternal concept of evil thathas been contained in Freddy wants to"escape" into the real world. But first, thereal-world Freddy must confront the real-world Nancy (Heather) as a gateway to our

world.The film is a clever evocation of the audi-

ence's expectations of what a horror filmshould deliver to its audience, but I encoun-tered some restraint on Craven's part through-out the film. The story takes a while to getstarted from its humble suspense devices to afull-fledged ride through the director's fanta-sy/horror amalgam.

Craven's style is not quite as self-referen-tial as Federico Fellini's 8'/2, but it he has thesame flair for introspection: The act of ques-tioning the relevance of the horror film to

/society as a whole, as well as to the success ofthose associated with the production, is anoble gesture. At some point, of course,Craven relents to formula, but even this issubverted when Heather finds a copy of thescript of the film and reads along to the real-

with her surroundings.Her nightmares vaguely, and later specifi-

cally, recall the Freddy Krueger character inthe films. She gets phone calls from someonewho talks in a Freddy-like rasp, and hernerves are set on edge by a string of damagingearthquakes in Los Angeles. She also noticesthe behavior of Dylan, which increasinglybecomes more emotionally detached and zom-bie-like. Assorted clips of the first ,Nightmareon Elm Street film appear for no apparent rea-son on the living room television. In short,things are pretty strange for a film operating in"'the real world."

Heather's plans to consider a movie offerat New Line Cinema associated with WesCraven for - you guessed it - another

Trek-like "Beam me up" tricks to avoid cap-ture, but when the police force tries to usetheir squad cars to respond to kidnappingcharges the neighborhood children are unitedin their moral indignation. The movie seemsto say: Adults are bad; rationality is bad; onlychildren understand the way things really are.

This film was obviously made for children

between the ages of one and 11. Although theacting is mediocre, the special effects are first-rate, and the underlying message that "believ-ing is seeing" is appropriate for the Christmasseason. So, if you must see this movie, take ayoung child with you.

Mary Obelnicki '98 contributed to thisreview.

Santa Clause, from Page 9 However, at that very moment, his own elvesare hard at work designing a vertical takeofffor the sleigh and installing brand new, state-of-the-art hot cocoa dispensers.

It seems that Alien's version of SantaClarus appreciates technology if his side is incontrol of it, but not when it is in the hands of"rational adults." His elf squad uses Star

The Santa Clause contradicts itself morethan once in the area of technology. On theone hand, Tim Alien's Santa Claus characterprotests when his toy company brings out itsnew line of "Panzer-Tank Santas," saying thatthe camouflage tanks go against tradition.

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Allen explores old themes in Bullets over Bmadway

W oody Alien's latest film, BulletsOver Broadway, is a terrific andlight-hearted portrait of a play-wright struggling to resist the

commercialism of show business during theRoaring '20s.

As Alien has often done in his best films,he intertwines comedy with more serious dra-matic themes. He examines the unequal distri-

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lane from 3 feet, 6 inches to 4 feet,Owu said.

Another part of the proposal is toinstall a traffic signal at the Massa-chusetts Avenue and MemorialDrive intersection, Owu said. Inaddition, the Massachusetts Avenuebicycle lanes would be connectedwith the Dudley White Bike Path onMemorial Drive, he said.

Parking near the intersections ofMassachusetts Avenue with VassarStreet and Albany Street would beeliminated to provide left and right

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tee endorsed the two city proposalsand also discussed bikeways onVassar Street, Putnam Street,Albany Street, and inside campus.

The Planning Office voicedopposition to a Cambridge bicyclelane proposal over the summerbecause the city's plan "has not yetaddressed the question of pedestriansafety; potential conflicts betweenthe bus stop and the cycleway; sig-nage, clarity, and instruction forbicyclists; and other ways of mak-ing it clear where various peoplehave rights of way," Simha said in aJuly interview.

turn lanes, and new signs would beinstalled. The plan also calls forconnecting the MassachusettsAvenue bicycle lanes to two-waylanes on Vassar Street.

At the beginning of the meeting,Owu reviewed the work done bythree local committees. In 1991, theMMayor's Bicycle Committeeplarined a city-wide network ofbicycle paths. The Cambridge Bicy-cle Committee proposed aCrosstown Bikeway from theBoston University Bridge to theMinuteman Bike Trail in Alewife.

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assistants, and Thursday nightrials are there to help in cascannot receive enough helptheir professors," Buzsa added

Some students also compthat the study guide was haread.

"The study guide is meant tsummary and there's alwaystextbook for the course," Buzsa

"There's not enough timweek to get in-depth with aproblems," said Kim M. Levis

For some, the perceivedconstraint often means studenthave time to learn how to solvelems. "That's a legitimate critiBusza said. and [professors] tryaway from that as much as posBuzsa said. "The Monday leare meant to present a global iof the concepts to the studentsnot just the problems, he said.

"We know that 8.01 is an itant part of the MIT experiencwe want to make it a great eence," Buzsa added.

Lewin, on the other handthe newV system as a means toindividual professors to getinvolved." Students will bfrom the new system if "thprofessors improve on their s

weekly lectures given by Busza."I'm a big fan of this class," Shih

said;. "I like the personal attention inthe small'recitation; it really helps."

The Thursday review sectionsare.also well-received by the stu-dents. "They really help to clearthings up before the [weekly]quizzes," which replace traditionalproblem sets in the new format,Shih added.

'Problem sets are meant to be alearning tool, not a test tool," Buszasaid. "People should not be doingproblems just for the grades. Thenew format encourages students tohelp'each other."

Students also like the fact thatthe answers to practice problems arei;,cldd, in the stl!dvy g!icle.

Not all students are pleased

Some students are disturbed thatthe- grading and teaching variesfrom class to class.

- However, "the grades are adjust-ed for the ability and grading of pro-fessors, as well as fbr the ability ofthe class," Buzsa said.

The grades of students in differ-ent'sections are equated to accountfor the disparity caused by differ-ences in teaching styles and grading.Despite this system, the course isnot graded on a curve. "I don'tbelieve in curves, and I want every-one to do well. Everyone can do

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potential advantages, he said. If stu-dents benefit from the new system,their approval will be reflected intheir ratings of the course in nextterm's Coutrse Evaluation Guide. Ifthey rated the course higher, he said,only then will the change be shownto have been worth it.

This is the first term that the newformat is being used. The system,which consists of one full-sized lec-ture and three smaller recitationseach week, replaces the traditionalthree lecture, two recitation systemthat has been used in years past.

According to a recent class sur-vey conducted by 8.01 professors,of all the students taking 8.01, morethan half gave the class seven orabove on a scale of ten; and 15 per-cent of the students gave 8.01 a fullscore of ten. "I've never seen stu-dents so attentive in a class," Buzsasaid. "Based on the survey, I say theclass is a success."

Students like personal attentionSome students find the small

classes - about i16 students each --and the Monday in-class demonstra-tions to be very helpful. "The pro-fessors and teaching assistants aretrying their best to help people dowell," Shirley Hung '98 said.

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In the response late last monthsthe government opposed thedefense's use of the 1985 SupremeCourt decision, Dowling v. UnitedStates in the motion to dismiss. Thegovernment disagreed with thedefense's interpretation of theDowling decision, according to theresponse.

The Dowling case involved theunauthorized production and distrib-ution of record albums containingcopyrighted material.

In the original dismissal motion,the defense wrote that the Dowlingdecision "held that criminal prose-cutions for alleged copyrightinfringement must be brought, if atall, under the Copyright Act, andcannot be brought under statutesenacted by Congress to prohibitinterstate theft and fraud pursuant toits interstate commerce power."

The government disagreed withthis interpretation of Dowling, andheld that the Copyright Act "doesnot preclude enforcement of theconspiracy and wire fraud statutes,"according to the response.

In the response, the governmentpresented other cases where thehigh court "refused to vacate wirefraud convictions premised on copy-right violations," such as the 1986case of Carpenter v. United States.

However, according to the recentdefense reply, the reason for the dif-ferent court rulings was because"the property interest in Dowlingwas copyrighted material, while theproperty in Curpernier was DoR-copyrighted business proprietaryinformation."

"It was the unique nature ofcopyrighted intellectual propertythat dictated the different results,"the defense added.

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LaMacchia with violating the feder-al wire fraud law, which prohibitsthe'use of the telephone system toperpetrate frauds, because hisallegedly fraudulent conduct wascommitted on telephone lines viamodems, Silverglate said.

The pre-trial motion contends

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incorrect use of the wire fraud lawand on constitutional infrigementsof LaMacchia's rights, said HarveyA. Silverglate, one of LaMacchia'sattorneys.

The defense also filed a motionto suppress evidence.

Oral arguments on the twomotions will be made this Friday at2 p.m. before Judge Richard Steamsin U.S. District Court at the federal

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However, at least one studentfeels that the new service will ulti-mately lead to an increase in crimeon campus.

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Deborah Cheng "My receipts are buried some-where in my room," said Janelle V.Brown '98.

Most criticism dealt with theservice at the Coop. Shihyu Wang'98 said that there were long linesfor people waiting to get therefund. The Coop should havemade the process more efficient,she said.

Other students complained thatthe event was not well-publicized.

Murphy felt that the Coop wassuccessful in announcing their pro-motion. Banners were hung aroundthe stores in Kendall and HarvardSquare. In addition, notices wereplaced in local student newspapers,and fliers announcing the rebatewere distributed with every Cooppurchase.

A few students felt that the Coopmight have raised its prices to coun-teract the refund.

"I bought a book for a class overthe summer and when I compared[the price I paid forJ it with the peo-ple who bought it this fall, [theCoopl had jacked up the price bylike 10 bucks," said Angel R. Mar-tinez 595. As a result, "the rebatewas a joke."

Murphy denied that thne Coop hadtaken any such action. "The refundprogram we decided on was donewell after we bought the books andhad them on the shelves," he said.

In fact, Coop employees hadchecked prices at other bookstores,Murphy said. "In all cases, we wereselling at the same price or lessbefore the refundd" he said.

Another criticism involved theunavailability of certain books dur-ing the specified shopping period.

"We wanted to give as long aperiod" as possible for purchasing

books, Murphy said. "Certainly, bythe middle-of October, everyoneshould've gotten their books."

Moreover, he said that the Coopwas not necessarily responsible forlate arrivals. "It depends on the cir-cumstances," he added. "If the pro-fessor orders the books [only] twoweeks before,classes start, then wecan't guarantee that they'll be on theshelves in time."

Despite these reservations, moststudents who did get their refundwere generally satisfied.

"It's better than getting nothing,like [we did] last year," saidMichael Y. Liu '97.

Murphy said that the refund wasmainly a marketing strategy aimedat getting students to return to theCoop. For this reason, refund plan-ners set aside a full one-and-a-half

months for students to purchasetheir textbooks, he said.

A similar promotion was enactedduring the 1992 spring semester, butwas less successful. At that time,Murphy said, the Coop was experi-menting with the promotion andprovided a shorter shopping period.The shorter timescale was at leastpartly responsible for that refund'stepid success, he said.

Approximately half of the MITstudents who purchased textbooksfor the fall term at the Coop atKendall Square returned betweenOct. 17 and 31 to take advantage ofa 10 percent textbook refund offer,said Coop President Jeremiah P.Murphy.

Murphy called the refund suc-cessful, although he would not dis-close exact statistics on how manypeople made use of the offer. MoreMIT students than Harvard studentstook advantage of this refund, hesaid.

The refund on textbooks wasoffered in place of a rebate on allgeneral purchases, as the Coop hasdone in years past, Murphy said.Purchasers were required to bringtextbook sales receipts with them tothe Coop to take part in the refund,he said.

Murphy did not indicate whethera promotion similar to this term'swould go into effect for next term,but said that the decision would bemade in December. However, hedid say that Coop officials wouldconsider it strongly because of itsrecent success.

While Murphy was pleased thatmany people took advantage of therefund - students got back a totalof several hundred thousand dollars- he also wondered why more peo-ple did not get involved.

Drawbacks to refund offer

Of the students who did not goback for the refund, most either for-got about the promotion or did notfeel that it was worth looking forreceipts and making the trip back toKendall.

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He made a poor start of ithough, dropping two positions irthe first turn. Van Duyne, on th-other hand, was flying, quicklh-pulling away from the field.

The racers in the second, thirdand fourth (Bernarden) positions rarnose to tail. The third place ca:made an ill-advised attempt to overtake at turn 10, a fast downhill right-hander. The car tangled with thesecond place car and Bernarden narrowly avoided collecting the two bxsteering to the inside. So as the:crossed the start/finish line at theend of the first lap, MIT was running one-two with Van Duyne leading Bernarden by a couple ca-lengths, and Bernarden holding zsimilar lead over the third-place car=

The excitement began to build a-Bernarden steadily closed on the-leader. The performance of VarDuyne's tires was steadily deterio-rating and Bernarden soon hactucked himself directly behind VarDuyne on the main straight as thetwo started the i3th lap. He was-able to use the draft to pull along-side and then overtake Van Duyneon the inside as they went into turr1. Surprisingly, Van Duyne did no-fade away into the distance, but wasable to keep within two to three ca_lengths of Bernarden.

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By Julian VerdejoTEAM MEMBER

The Tech Sports-Car Club fin-ished the 1994 racing season withan unprecedented first and secondplace finish at the New HampshireInternational Speedway, locatedoutside the town of Loudon, onSunday, Oct. 30.

The team's two Formula Vee's(Volkswagen), which compete inSports Car Club of America-sanc-tioned events in the New EnglandRegion, were the class of the fieldright from the start of morning prac-tice. Ed Bernarden '84 drove theteam's original car, and Ed VanDuyne, co-founder of the club andDraper Lab affiliate, drove theteam's home-built racer.

Qualifying positions are deter-mined by taking the best lap timeduring a timed practice session. VanDuyne set a blistering pace right fromthe first lap of practice, completingthe 1.7-mile road course a full twoseconds faster than the nearest com-petitor. His lap times improved witheach successive circuit, eventuallyclaiming pole position with a time ofI minute, 18.2 seconds.

Bernarden, with an equallyimpressive performance, qualified insecond place with a time of 1:18.6.The morning session was not withoutproblems, though. In the closing laps,Van Duyne dropped off the pacewhen he suddenly lost third gear.Luckily, some minor adjustments tothe gear linkage were all that wasnecessary to fix the situation.

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The Sloan A intramural soccerteam successfully defended its A-league soccer championship lastweek with a 3-0 victory over PhiSigma Kappa in the finals of theleague playoffs.

Phi Sigma Kappa, runners-up inthe B-league championships lastyear, played admirably but werebridesmaids once again as Sloan, aperennial A-league powerhouse,dominated the game with excellentpassing and ball-control skills.

Sloan, the number one seed,advanced easily through the tourna-ment, beating Alpha Tau Omega1-0 in the semifinals on a late goalby team captain Axel Nielsen G.Meanwhile, the Ith-seeded PSKteam, with a 2-4 record, concludedan improbable run to the finals witha 1-0 victory over Sigma AlphaEpsilon in double overtime.

The winning goal was scored byPunn Puapong '97, just minutes

: before the game was to go to a- shootout. PSK advanced to the

finals hoping to avenge a 2-0 loss toSloan earlier in the season.

In the championship game,Sloan controlled the offense fromthe very start, and its patience andpersistence paid off early, as Fausti-no Alvarez G scored on a header offa crossing pass from Pedro Assael Gin the ninth minute of the game.

After the goal, Phi Sigma Kappacame scrambling back, with strongattacks and physical play, butdespite some impressive individual

efforts, most of their passes seemedto be directed to no one, and oftenled to Sloan counterattacks.

One of these counterattacks ledto Sloan's second goal, at the 20-minute mark, as Taka Nakagawa Gplaced a long shot in the far uppercorner of the goal. The first halfended with Sloan leading, 2-0.

The PSK team went all-out inthe second half, in an attempt toclose the gap, and looked for awhile as if they might take controlof the game. However, the Sloandefense handled every attack, andthe Phi Sigs, undermanned due toinjuries, eventually tired, and Sloanbegan counterattacking again.

The third goal came in the 45thminute, when Nielsen took the ballon a run across the mouth of thegoal, and shot into the far corner,past the diving PSK goalkeeper. PhiSig continued to attack for the rest ofthe game, but to no avail, and Sloancelebrated another championship.

PSK captain Matt McLeod '95was proud of his team despite theloss. "We made a great run throughthe playoffs, and our finals lossdoesn't diminish that," McLeod said."It's difficult to play a team of thatquality, as battered as we were" withonly 12 players able to play, he said.

Nielsen, the Sloan captain, saidthat his team's toughest game wasthe one against ATO. "But [this]was a good game," Nielsen wasquick to add. "Excellent referees,"he said, referring to the quality ofofficiating that is sometimes absentin intramural contests.

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By Usa Collins, Drew Mutch,Jeff Brock, and Ken AmanoTEAM MEMBERS

country. Elaine Heal '95 withKusurnoto '97, and Adam London'95 with Anna Michel '98 finishedin a strong fourth place.

On Sunday, Oct. 16, HarvardUniversity hosted the Wood Tro-phy, an event named after JackWood, the founder of sailing atMIT. The Wood consists of fourdivisions: two varsity, one juniorvarsity, and a freshman division.

De Couto with Collins,Vjekoslav Svilan '95 with PatriciaSchmidt '96, Jeffrey Brock '97 withCarolynn Bischoff '98, and DavidHellmuth '98 with Christina Chu'98 played the light winds to finishfourth overall.

The same day MIT hosted afreshman invitational in TechDinghies. Out of a field of 16schools, Efe Cakarel '98 with Bren-dan Donovan '98 and JuanRodriguez '98 with Marissa Martin'98 finished eighth.

MIT hosted the Women's Sin-glehanded North American Champi-onships Oct. 21-23. Sixteen finalistsfrom the seven regions across thecountry traveled to MIT for threedays of racing in a full round robinof 16 races. Among the finalists wasDanielle Ames '96.

In an extremely competitiveregatta, St. Mary's Danielle Bren-nan, the runner-up for the WorldChampionships, won a tie-breaker

to take the overall victory, aheadKatie McDowell and Laura Dunn ofTufts University. Ames finishedninth overall.

On Saturday, Oct. 22, Harvardhosted the Oberg Trophy for theGreater Boston Championships. TheOberg has three divisions rotatingbetween two different types ofboats. Shifty and light northeasterlywinds plagued the eight races ineach division. De Couto withCollins, Brock with Bischoff, andNestor with Wong adjusted to theconditions to finish fifth overall.

On Sunday, Oct. 23, Hellmuthwith Chu, and Marcoline withCollins traveled to the Salem StateInvitational. There, gusty and shiftywinds made the course extremelyunpredictable. After six races, MITfinished fifth.

Victories at Cape Cod OpenOn Sunday, Oct. 23 Jeffrey

Brock '97 with Bischoff, and Mutchwith Kusumoto won the Cape CodOpen held at Massachusetts Mar-itime Academy. MIT handilydefeated nine schools includingTufts, ranked number one in thenation. After eight races in light andshifty winds Brock and Bischoff, inthe A division, were 11 points aheadof their nearest competitors, RogerWilliams College, and took theoverall low point score for the regat-ta with a consistent 18 points. In the

B division, Mutch and Kusumotoalso won their division, with astrong final set after some closecompetition.

In the last weekend of October,MIT's freshman sailing team con-sisting of Hellmuth with Chu in theA division, and Mutch with NedPatterson '98 in the B Division,both narrowly missed qualifying forthe Atlantic Coast Championships.

Racing in the New EnglandFreshman Championships for theNickerson trophy, they sailed wellin the challenging winds on MysticLake. After Saturday, five teamswere within a few points of qualify-ing. MIT improved on Sunday tofinish a close seventh overall. Withthe top six schools going on to theAtlantic Coast Champs, MIT wasonly 11 points out of 174 behind thelast qualifier.

That same weekend, MIT hostedthe Schell Trophy, the largest regat-ta of the year. Seventeen schoolscompeted in a full two days of rac-ing. De Couto with Collins, andBrock with Bischoff sailed in thehighly competitive fleet. Saturdaywas characterized by strong breezeswhile Sunday saw lighter gustierwind, which made for a grueling 17races. Both divisions sailed wellafter a few false starts, giving MIT agood showing in one of the toughestregattas of the year.

On Oct. 30, Adam London '95

with Anna Michel '98, and Nestorwith Cakarel traveled to Massachu-setts Maritime. After eight races inheavy wind, MIT finished fifth over-all, out of nine schools.

On the final weekend of the sea-son, Nov. 5-6, Ames with Heal,Brock with Bischoff, Schmidt withKusumoto and Mutch with HeatherCampbell '95 headed down river toHarvard/Radcliffe for the MikeHorn Trophy. A total of 12 schoolssailed in the combined womens/var-sity event. After 12 races inextremely unpredictable conditions,the team came out with a fifth-placefinish.

On Sunday, Nov. 6, Nestor withWong, and Hellmuth with Martinand Ken Amano '98 defeated a 16-school fleet during the BrandeisBowl Regatta. Brandeis hosted theregatta at MIT's sailing pavilion inTech Dinghies. In light shiftywinds, familiarity with the boats andthe river aided the Engineers in uti-lizing their skills to outsail the com-petition in four trying races.

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With several victories and aplethora of strong finishes under itsbelt, the MIT Varsity Sailing Teamsailed its last regatta of the seasonlast weekend. Finishing with aneasy win, the team had an excellentfall. With prospects for an even bet-ter spring season, the team is look-ing forward with high expectations.Here are some highlights from thefall season.

On Oct. 15-16 the U.S. CoastGuard Academy hosted the NewEngland Sloop Championships.Drew Mutch '98 with JonasSylvester '96 and Frank Marcoline'95 competed in the 15-school fleet.Sailing against some of the bestsailors in the country (six teamswere skippered by All-Americans)the Engineers improved all weekendto end up a respectable eighth over-all.

On Oct. 15, Boston Universityhosted the BU Trophy, which field-ed 14 schools. Doug De Couto '97with Lisa Collins '97, and DanielNestor '96 with Stacey Wong '98battled shifty unpredictable winds tofinish sixth. BU successfullydefended its title.

Also on that day MIT hosted theSmith Trophy. Twenty-five schoolscompeting made for the largest fieldof competitors of any regatta in the

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Nazario said, "It was a goodgame; much closer than the scoreidiclaied. It's disappointing to end acareer on a loss, but I'm glad that Ihad the opportunity to play on thisteam."

Tournament leaders includedLau (9 goals on 14 attempts, 6steals, 2 assists), Pfautz (7 goals in 9attempts, 2 steals, 2 assists), Bran-denburger (4 goals in 6 attempts, 3steals, I assist) and Fitch (22 blocks,4 steals).

MIT-finished its season with arecord of 6-10, with sixth placehonors in the Eastern Water PoloAssociation's North division (alldivisions), and 2nd place in EastCoast Division III teams.

Coach John Benedick said, "Thiswas a very successful season inmany ways and most certainly aseason to build from for next year.We were very fortunate to haveEvan and Javier as captains."

Next year, the team will missthis year's seniors who will be lostto graduation. Co-captain All-Amer-ican Javier Nazario '95 providedexcellent leadership for the team aswell as contributing his offensivetalents. Pfautz, who led the team inshooting percentage, will be missedfor his breakaway speed and coun-terattack ability.

Pearson led the team in 2 pointgoals and was second in scoring. Hedisplayed his value both as a 2-meter set and as an outside shooter.The team will also feel the loss ofBrandenburger, who returned thisyear after a year off to fill the fourthspot in the two meter rotation andbecome a valuable part of the frontcourt offense.

Returning next year will begoalies Co-captain Wies and Fitch,along with starters Ben Soule '96,Lau (1994 scoring and assist. leader)and Zachary Lee. In addition, thetalents of Sean Carpenter '96, PaulTan '97, Mark Lebovitz '98, McIn-tyre, and lefty Eugene Lee '98 willform a good foundation on which tobase another great season.

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.~ ~Cellar-dweller Hibernian showedflashes of past championship form,while MIT showed little energy forthe task at hand. MIT now mustwait until next April to try again forthe title.

4 ~ Early on MIT actually looked asthough it might get away with theI title. Rodrigo "Romario" Capaz Gburst through in pursuit of an-inci-

S sive Pavel "Wally" Volfbeyn Gi' header, but a solid shot on goal was-I foiled by the Hibernian keeper's--'. desperation sprawl. Soon after, Josh

"C'mon ref' Elliot G and Harry "theHammer" Bingham G combined tomake space deep on the right, butthe resulting cross sailed harmlesslythrough the opposing goal area.

That was to be the story of theafternoon for MIT sorties to thefore: promising, but never quiteenough to get the job done.

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the very end of the race. Bernardenplayed it safe on the last lap, slow-ing his pace slightly. Van Duynehowever, turned on the pressure andquickly reduced -the lead to a carlength. As Bemarden negotiated thelast few turns before the finish line,Van Duyne. managed to pull undirectly behind. As the result of alast desperate attempt on the finalturn leading onto the main straight-away, Van Duyne lost control andspun around. Luckily, he kept theengine alive and was still able tocross the line in second place.

Ed Van Duyne's second placefinish in the race clinched secondplace in the New England RegionChampionship. The car he drove wasdesigned and built from scratch by theteam, mostly undergraduates. over aperiod of four years. The car madeits racing debut only this spring, andits early success has the teanm veryexcited about next year's prospects.

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The defense labored mightily tomake zero goals stand up for at leastone point, and in regular play theywere successful. But a set play inwhich the full Hibernian squad wasinside the MIT goal box proved.toomuch to resist. Keeper Bobby PaderaG was excellent as always, scooping,snatching, punching, and parryingcountless balls, but with the crowd-Infront of him, he could not even see theterminal shot until it was past him.

The dynamic duo of Bobby Orr-like offensive defensemen MalcomQuinn G and Steffen Ernst G turnedin their usual excellent perfor-mances, and the vocal-quiet leader-ship pair Jose "also call me Carl"Robles G and Russell Allgor G. wereback in full force (shaking off,respectively, the effects of kneeproblems and a recent honeymoon).However the whole squad failed topull together as they had donethroughout this successful season.

Thus the team says yet again"wait 'til next year", although. thisteam also arrives at season's end witha lot of good memories: Second placeoverall, a bunch of goals reminiscentof recent events in Haiti, JeromeGherchanoc's G parties (as well ashis goals), and most of all, the plas-tering of archrival Lexington 50.

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ners continued to gain on the oppo-sition.

Neither a tough fourth mile northe windy conditions could slow theteam down, as the Engineers cruisedin to a second place team showingat the meet.

Individually, Crain and Darleyfinished third and fourth respective-ly out of a field of over 200, whileHelgesen, Seto and Feldman fin-ished 21st, 25th, and 26th. Thisgave the Engineers 79 points, wellahead of third-place Brandeis Uni-versity, which scored 164. WilliamsCollege scored 33 points to win themeet.

This will be the Engineers' firsttrip to nationals in over four years.Running tfor MIT at nationals willbe Crain, Darley, Helgesen, Seto,Feldman, along with Mark Feld-meier '96 and Tye Schlegelmilch'98. At nationals the team will strivefor a top five team finish, whileCrain and Darley will both fight forthe individual honors.

Last Saturday the men's crosscountry team conquered a tough 5-mile course at the University ofSouthern Maine, and earned theright to represent New England inthe 1994 National Collegiate Athlet-ic Association Division III CrossCountry Championships.

The team placed second over 30other schools and will attend thisyear's cross-country nationals atLehigh University on Saturday.MIT ran an intelligent race from thestart.

Ethan Crain '95 and Jesse Dar-ley '95 took the early lead, while therest of the team ran a conservativefirst mile. The team's patience paidoff as Arnold Seto '96, Dan Helge-sen '97, and Josh Feldman '97passed 30 people during the secondmile.

By the end of the third mile,MIT just about secured its nationalberth as Crain and Darley stayed inthe lead pack, while the other run-

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Center Tetsu Inada '97 breaks by a Daniel Webster College defender during Wednesday's 14-1victory in men's ice hockey.

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changing conditions of the Charlesbut used them to their advantage.By looking for, and taking advan-tage of occasional gusts of wind, theEngineers flew past nationally-ranked racers from Tufts, BostonUniversity and Harvard University.Clean tacks and extensive knowl-edge of both the river and the boatsenabled MIT to sail at peak perfor-mance.

MIT led the regatta with a scoreof 29, followed by Tufts with 35,and Salem State College with 37.BU finished fourth with 45 whileHarvard ended with 62, in seventhplace.

This final regatta for the varsityteam prematurely ended during thefifth set of races due to a total lackof wind. However, MiT had alreadyhandily won and was also leading inthe final race.

By Jonathan ShinglesTEAM MEMBER

The beating continued as captain Rob Souza '95 putaway his first, assisted by Shingles. At 19:35, Inadascored his second, on assists from Shingles andYurkewych.

The third period saw more domination by theEngineers as Inada completed the hat trick on assistsfrom Shingles and Yurkewych. At 9:02 Shinglesnotched his second on an assist from Yurkewych.Finally to close out MIT scoring, Schlueter scoredon assists from Johnston and Dave Spielvogel '95.

The outcome of the game was in little doubt afterthe first intermission. The front trio of Inada,Yurkewych, and Shingles humiliated the Springfielddefense as they accounted for eight of the 10 MITgoals. In the nets captain John Simmons '95 playedsolidly for the Engineers, holding Springfield to fourgoals through the halfway point of the third period.

Goaltender Chuck Yoo '97 finished the gameonly allowing one goal. Despite the short squad ofonly 13 players, MIT played exceptionally hard andits efforts paid off.

The varsity sailing team soundlydefeated a 16-school field includingnumber one ranked Tufts Universi-ty, during the Brandeis Bowl Regat-ta on Sunday, Nov. 6.

The race was hosted by BrandeisUniversity at the MIT Sailing Pavil-ion and was sailed in TechDinghies.

Led by Dan Nestor '96 withStacey Wong '98 in the A divisionand Dave Hellmuth '98 with Maris-sa Martin '98 and Ken Amano '98in the B division, the MIT sailorsswept the competition by utilizingtheir strong sailing skills as well astheir familiarity with the CharlesRiver.

In light shifty winds that oscillat-ed from southeast to northeast, MITsailors were not only alert to the

On Saturday, Nov. 5, the men's hockey teamtraveled to Springfield College to play its first leaguegame. With a short squad, MIT was unsure of thegame's prospects, but in the end a sound 10-5 victo-ry was the outcome.

MIT dominated the game after the first intermis-sion. At the end of the first period MIT was down2-0. However, 46 seconds into the second periodLloyd Johnston G scored, with assists from MattYurkewych '98 and Tetsu Inada '97.

One minute later Yurkewych scored his first goalof the game, assisted by Steven Schlueter '96 andJonathan Shingles '96. At 2:25 into the period,Yurkewych scored again, on an unassisted short-handed goal, to place MIT up by one. After Spring-field tied the game at 3-3, Inada scored an.unassistedgoal at 5:1 1 to regain the lead for MIT.

At 6:49 Shingles scored his first of the game,assisted by Inada, on a breakaway power-play goal.

By Matthew Lau, Robert Mclintyre,and Zachary LeeTEAM MEMBERS

tie the game at 1-1. Later in the quarter, Branden-burger, not wanting to be outdone by his teammate,scored after getting his defender ejected. MIT contin-ued in this fashion, drawing a total of 12 ejectionsduring the game.

Robert Mclntyre '98 said, "We came in andplayed good water polo. They came in and playeddirty. Consequently they spent a lot more time in thepenalty box."

Even with Amherst's play, MIT came away witha convincing 9-5 victory, supported three convinc-ing counterattack goals by Pfautz, and the nearlyinvincible blocking of goalies Evan Wies '96 (12blocks), and S. Brian Fitch '96 (9 blocks, 3 steals).Both Fitch and Wies displayed incredible defensiveabilities throughout the tournament.

Johns Hopkins beats MIT, 23-6MIT returned to the pool on Sunday for the

championship game against Johns Hopkins. Lastyear, when the Engineers placed third at the Div. IIItournament, they fell to Hopkins in the semifinalgame. This year, the two met again in the finals.

Hopkins opened an early 2-0 lead on a quickso,,4 _:^;^* ELK C ac 4ge a__;_4 Al EL_ _ :._ALt~V' --IIj OltJL V11 tll 3I Yl I t, aiUl t1in11 3Iv t~cII CU Its

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By Gene Van BurenTEAM MEMBER

serving and defense fell apart quick-ly. However, Parry Husbands Gcame alive on the right side attackin the second game to help MIT to a4-11, 11-6 split.

Tech's level of play rose againstthe pool's best team, the Universityof New Hampshire. A strong show-ing in the middle from Kent Soren-son G kept MIT close but it was notenough in the 7-11, 9-1 1 loss.

To advance to the play-offs, theEngineers needed to win bothgames against Tufts. Sorenson wasunable to play and the absence of astrong middle attack was evident asMIT struggled to an 11-8, 8-11draw.

The decent showing from MITimpressed other teams, said player-coach Evan Sherbrooke G. The clubexpects to have an even strongerperformance on Nov. 19 at a Bostoncollege itournecy.

Last weekend, the men's water polo team trav-eled to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,Maryland for the Division III East Coast Tourna-ment.

Also participating in the tournament wereAmherst College, the United States MerchantMarine Academy, and Johns Hopkins. MIT arrivedlooking to improve on last year's third place finish.

MIT's first game of the weekend was against theMerchant Marine Academy. On Tech's first posses-sion, Jonathan Pfautz '95 set the tone for the gameby firing a shot which glanced off goalies head andinto the net.

Pfautz said. "I was just looking to put it past him.I didn't realize he was going to dive that direction."

MIT continued to brutalize Merchant Marinegoalies, with 27 shots on goal. Tech eventuallyemerged victorious, 16-11.

The top scorers for the game were Pfautz andMatthew Lau '97, both with four goals, followed byDavid Brandenburger '95 and Zachary Lee '98, who

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Next, MIT came up against Amherst College,who had also defeated Merchant Marine, 12-10 inovertime. Amherst led off the game with a quickgoal, but MIT quickly recovered. On the next poses-sion, Lee confounded his defender, who soon fouledhim in front of the goal.

Lee was awarded a penalty shot, which he used to

With the elimination of juniorvarsity volleyball programs thisyear, a new club has formed to rep-resent MIT in the New EnglandCollegiate Volleyball League. TheIntercollegiate Volleyball Clubbegan' practicing early last monthfor the league's spring season.

Preparation for the spring alsoincludes competing in some pre-sea-son tournaments. MIT was one of10 schools to appear in the first ofthese held Saturday, Nov. 5, atBoston University.

The day began for the MIT IVCwith an easy 1 1-4, 11-1 win againstWesleyan University. Good servingfrom John Lee '96 and Koji Asari'96 finished off the two games.

Host BU was MIT's second tar-get. Asari's serving brought Techvfoui points i.nd anil iary lead, bui

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