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Committee on the UndergraduateProgram. Professor Kenneth R.Manning, chair of the CFYP, saidthe committee will discuss itswork in the following two weeksat open student forums.

Manning cited the desirabilityof a more flexible first-year pro-gram as well as abuses of the pre-sent second-term pass/no-creditsystem as reasons for adoptingthe commitee's plan.

Undergraduate AssociationPresident Jonathan Katz '90, whois also a member of the CFYP,said that while he acknowledgesproblems in second-term pass/fail, he believes it should be kept.The character of the materialfreshmen learn and the mannerin which it is taught may be re-sponsible for the alleged abusesof the system, he contended.

Katz also argued that the newcredit/no-credit option would beunder-utilized, as upperclassmenwould be reluctant to use it fortheir departmental courses.

The draft also advocates thatstudents not be expected to cornm-

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plete all of their core science sub-jects during their first year. Thereport specifically recommends,however, that the mathematics re-quirement, two science core sub-jects, and two HASS subjects becompleted during the first year.

By Irene KuoThe Committee on the First-

Year Program is considering re-placing second-term freshmanpass/fail grading with a new sys-tem that would allow students totake at most one credit/no-creditsubject per semester starting inthe second term of theirfreshman year.

The recommendation appearsin a draft of a report the commit-tee has been presenting to the

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Maguire hypothesized thatsummer rents had been histori-cally lower because the housingsystem was underutilized duringthat period. But now facilities"are starting to get strained," hesaid. The Housing Office is nowhaving difficulty finding space forall students and conference atten-dees who desire summer housing,and it is "trying to get out ofthe subsidy business," Maguireexplained.

Maguire and Seagren both feltthat the higher rents were morein line with the costs incurredduring the summer months.

Saegren noted that the Hous-ing Office has been "keepingrates diwn," wit ~ncreases of2.8 percent, 2.1 percent, and 2.2percent over the last three years.

The UA Council will discussthe rent increase at their April 14meeting.

Director of Financial AidLeonard V. Gallagher was un-available to comment on how theincrease might affect his office.

Photo courtesy MIT News OfficeKenneth R. Manning

Mark D. Virtue/The TechUAP Jonathan Katz '90.

Major adjustment accomplishedduring first semester

The CFYP draft states that"for most freshmen the majoradjustment to MIT is accom-plished during the first semester,and many of the initial problemsof transition and adjustment havedecreased."

But Katz, who wrote a dissentto the committee's report, arguedthat most freshmen need twoterms to make the transition intolife at MIT - the first term tomake the academic adjustmentand the second term to completethe emotional adjustment.

The CFYP draft alleges thatsome students express frustrationwith second term pass/fail be-cause they want a transition to a

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Dram arrives

By Andrew L. FishThe MIT Housing Office is in-

creasing summer rents by anaverage of 42 percent in under-graduate dormitories. The in-creases, which range from 26.6percent for Bexley Hall to 52 per-cent for Random Hall, wereneeded because of increased oper-ating expenses, mainly relating tothe operation of MvIT's new teie-phone system [see related story],according to Carl A. Seagren,budget officer of the HousingOffice.

The new phone system willcost the Housing Office an addi-tional $300,000 a year, Seagrensaid. If the additional revenuewas generated solely during theacademic year, rents would havebeen increased by 9 percent (in-stead they went up only 3.7percent).

But "no one has looked atsummer rents in years," ex-plained Lawrence E. Maguire, di-rector of Housing and Food Ser-vices. The additional summerrent 'would not subsidize rentsduring the year; on the contrary,rent during the academic yearhad been subsidizing the lowersummer rates, Maguire ex-plained. He noted that the sumn-mer was almost "a third term."

The Housing Office set the newsummer rents at 2/3 of termrents, a policy which has beenused in graduate dormitories forseveral years, Seagren said. Sum-mer rents will stay at this newlevel in the future, Seagren said.

Even though the phone systemwill not be operational until-latein the summer, the rents wereraised now because of "how [theincrease] fits into the fiscal year,"

Duff said the team had' an "in-creased feeling of confidence"after the successful half-mileflights yesterday. Assembly of thethree planes after travel was com-pleted in "far from ideal condi-tions," he said, but the teamtook advantage of the unusuallygood weather for the tests.

If the team completes theirplanned 74-mile flight over theAegean Sea, they will surpass the22.5-mile point-to-point human-powered flight record set in 1979over the English Channel, as wellas their own 36.4-mile distancerecord set at Edwards Air ForceBase in California' last January.

The date for the actual flightattempt between the islands ofCrete and Santorini will dependon weather conditions, projectmanager John S. Langford '79told the MIT News Office. Duffsaid yesterday that high windswere expected today and condi-tions might not be suitable for aflight during the weekend.

The team is working on a day-to-day basis, according to Duff,and decisions will be made eachnight on whether to attempt therun the next day. The flight couldbe made any time between nowand mid-May, according to Lang-ford, though the weather -will betoo hot to make the five- to six-hour flight after that.

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By Michael GojerThe Daedalus Project hnuman-

powered flight team made sixoverland test flights yesterday inHeraklion, Greece, projectspokesman Brian Duff reportedby telephone yesterday after-noon. The 35 members of theproject's Greek operations phasewere all assembled in Heraklionon the island of Crete by the startof this week.

By Sanjay ManandharMIT's new telephone switching

system - which will boast ex-panded features and an increasednumber of lines- will complete-ly replace the present one by theweekend of August 12, accordingto Director of Telecommunica-tions Systems Morton Berlan.

New services on the AT&T5ESS system may include stream-lined call forwarding, optionaluse of a centralized message cen-ter for Institute extensions, andcall waiting.

Fourteen thousand Institutelines will be implemented on thesystem, with 9,000 analog linesand 5,000 digital links. In addi-tion, the system will route 3,000dormitory lines.

Berlan said the $22 millionproject - on which work was he-gun in the spring of 1986 - hasoverrun its budget by only tenpercent.

By June I the Institute will getthe telephones, and by mid-Julythe 5ESS will be used within thecampus. The present Centrex sys-tem will still be used to commu-nicate outside of MIT until Au-gust 12, when the 5ESS will beconnected to the Boston trunklines and the cutover will be com-plete. Installation of telephonesin the dormitories will be doneduring the summer contingentupon occupancy.

Berlan said fiber-optic cableshave already been laid and twist-ed wire pairs for the local area

networks (LANs) within build-ings are near completion. Resto-ration of the roads and Institutegrounds has started as well.

New system expands features

With the new network, multi-ple conversations and data can betransmitted simultaneously alongthe same wire. On digital phones,data can be transferred without amodem. Data can also be trans-ferred to analog phones via amodem pool.

Director of Project AthenaSteven R. Lerman '72 said thatthe 5ESS will "open new oppor-tunities." The fiber-optic cablingallows remote buildings aroundthe campus to be easily connect-

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By Gaurav RewariDirector of Admissions - Mi-

chael C. Behnke attributed therecord number of minority accep-tances this year to intense target-ing efforts on highly qualified mi-norities.

Also, the admission rates forminorities and women were sig-nificantly higher than for the.^>.,1, w,, ..WL,1 T~~4_+~class as a wasule. 1 II. ·-. e per-cent of minority applicants to theClass of 1992 were admitted,compared with a 24 percent ad-mission rate overall and a 37 per-cent rate for women applicants,according to figures released bythe Admissions Office.

Behnke explained that womenand minority applicants are moresucessful because they seem to be"self-selected." Because womenreceive little encouragement inhigh school to pursue technicalstudies, he explained, their appli-cant pool is weeded out some-what and only the more confidentstudents actually apply.

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seem to be less "narrowly-focused." Behnke indicated, andso have a higher probability ofcharacteristics the AdmissionsOffice is looking for.

Behnke said self-selection ef-fects are also present in minorityadmissions, although affirmativeaction plays a role. He said theInstitute tries to admit as manyof the qualified underrepresentedminority students as possible.Thus while they are subjected tothe same criteria for admissions,underrepresented minorities are"removed to some extent fromthe competition" with other stu-dents.

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Summner Dormitory RentsHouse 1987 1988 Percent

Rent Rent ChangeBaker House $550 $752 36.770Bexley Hall 590 747 26.7Burton-Conner 5960 868 47.1East Campus 560 780 39.3MacGregor House 590 868 47.1McCormick Hall 590 868 47.1Random Hall 435 661 52.0Senior House 540 763 41.3West Campus Houses 690 942 36.5500 Memorial Drive 590 868 47.1

New telephone systemclose to comnpletion

Behnake comments on studentsadmitted to the Class of 1992

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Moreover, the report arguesthat the pass/fail system puts abarrier between the first twoyears, preventing students fromspacing subjects into theirsophomore year.

According to the draft, thecontinuity of the freshman sup-port system makes the second se-mester the best time for studentsto go off pass/fail.

The draft also noted that re-moving second term pass/failgrading would end the awkwardproblem of hidden grades, whichare used in a non-uniformmanner throughout the Institute.

Freshmen currently overload

Some freshmen "overload" un-der the present system in order toget as many subjects as posiblecompleted under pass/fail, thereport states, and thus end upputting too little effort into fun-damental subjects. Manning citedstatistics from the Registrar thatindicate course load is highestduring a student's second termand drops steadily afterwards.

Manning also maintained thatinvolvement in extracurricular ac-tivities should not overshadowcoursework - in response to theStudent Committee on Educa-tional Policy's January report,which argued that pass/fail en-courages freshmen to participatein extracurricular activities.

performance in the same wayfreshman pass/fail does, Man-ning reasoned, because creditwould mean a grade of "C" orbetter, as opposed to "D" orbetter.

Katz argued that the credit/no-credit system would be limited inuse. Students probably would nottake a departmental requirementon credit/no-credit, he reasoned,because of concern about gradu-ate school and jobs. Under thepresent junior/senior pass/failsystem, most of the people whoparticipate are seniors. There is alot of pressure on upperclassmennot to use pass/fail, he noted.

Moreover, Katz said the pro-posed system would have limitedbenefits. It is only a "cosmeticfix" to the problem of upperclass-men's limited ability to'explore,he said.

Katz said the report "is verygood at emphasizing explorationof academic interests, but [that]it fails to see that more time isneeded for personal growth anddevelopment."

"The environment here isrich," Manning said, "and wehope students will explore it,"Manning said. "The thrust of theexploration is academic. Itdoesn't preclude exploration ofother activities but we don't wantstudents to use activities as an ex-cuse for not doing well in theirsubjects."

The committee's proposed sys-tem would still allow students toexplore other activities, Manningargued, but it would reduce thedanger of students doing averageor poorly in three or four sub-jects, as opposed to only one ortwo.

"Students must be held respon-sible for something," he said."They should not be able to ex-plore at the risk of doing poorlyin all subjects. The credit/nocredit system helps concentratetheir good performance and stillallows them to test their limits."

Credit/no-credit option wouldextend over seven terms

The committee's proposed sys-tem would allow "at most onecredit/no-credit subject per term,to a maximum of seven." Atmost one subject could be usedto satisfy the HASS requirement,one to satisfy the science coreand science distribution require-ments, and one to satisfy a de-partmental requirement,according to the draft.

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Afghan peace agreement advancesPakistan, which represents Afghan rebels in UN-medi-

ated talks on Afghanistan, says it is ready to sign anagreement to end the fighting. Pakistan's acting foreignminister said yesterday he hopes for progress soon, andthe Soviet news agency Tass quoted Soviet Foreign Minis-ter 'duard .2rdn-.wvd..a.ze as syg that, ,V f. the ta lkOfail, the Soviets might still withdraw their troops from Af-ghanistan.

US officials said that, if the Soviets keep supporting theAfghan regime after they pull out their troops, the UnitedStates and Pakistan will keep supporting the rebels.

Armenian unrest continuesArmeniails threatened to continue a general strike para-

lyzing the main city of a disputed southern region untilthe Soviet government agrees to make the region part ofArmenia, Soviet newspapers reported Wednesday.

For the first time, an official Soviet newspaper used theword "strike" to describe what had previously been re-ferred to as truancy or absenteeism in Stepanakert, thecentral city of Azerbaijn's Nagorno-Karabakh region. TheSoviet press generally uses the word "strike" to describelabor unrest in the West. All but essential services werereported shut down in Stepanakert, a city of more than33,000 people.

Angolan'rebels call for talksUS-backed rebels in Angola have called for peace talks

with the African country's Marxist government. This fol-lows reports that the government is willing to offer amnes-ty to the guerrillas if the United States and South Africahalt all support for the insurgents.

PLO calls for riotsduring Shultz visit

Secretary of State George P. Shultz PhD '49 wiil leavefor Israel on Sunday - and the PLO is calling for Arabsto riot during the visit. A leaflet signed by the PLO urgesArabs on Israeli-occupied lands to block the US peaceplan Shultz is promoting.

Iraq offers temporary cease-fireIraq said yesterday that it will stop missile attacks on

Iranian cities for three days, as a gesture of courtesy toTurkey's prime minister, who will visit Iraq today. Tur-key's semi-official news agency Anatolia quoted Iran's am-bassador as saying his nation may go along with the limit-ed cease-fire. However, Iraq said it fired three missiles intoIran ten hours before the truce was to begin.

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israel's UN ambassador quitsBenjamin Netanyaju, Israel's ambassador to the United

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Meese resists pressure to resignAttorney General Edwin P. Meese is standing firm in

the face of more calls for his resignation. He said yester-day that the Justice Department is running smoothly andhas yet to answer questions on the resignations of two topaides who reportedly thought the criminal investigation ofMeese is making the department look bad.

Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) met with Meese yester-day to express "deep concern" on behalf of Congressabout problems at the Justice Department. The meetingsignals growing bipartisan concern over Meese's ability torun the departnment while he is the focus of a criminalinvestigation. After the meeting with Thurmond, Meesesaid he'll answer questions in a few days about this week'sresignations.

Counsel urges jail term for NofzigerIndependent counsel James McKay is recommending

that former White House adviser Lyn Nofziger be sent toprison. In court papers, McKay accused Nofziger ofshowing no remorse since being convicted of illegally lob-bying the White House. And he noted that Nofzigerlikened the offense to 'running a stop sign." McKay said aprison term would show former and present governmentemployees and the general public that Congress is seriousabout enforcing the Ethics in Government Act.

Teamsters, industry reach agreementThe Teamsters Union and the trucking industry have

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FBI cracks major heroin ringThe Federal Bureau of Investigation said yesterday it

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The Coast Guard has seized an abandoned fishing boatwith more than 3700 pounds of cocaine, according to offi-cials in Miami. They said yesterday that it's the second-largest haul the Coast Guard has ever made. A CoastGuard officer said the cocaine was spread around the deckof the abandoned boat, and spotted - within sight of theMiami skyline.

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to extend amnestyThe House Judiciary Committee has voted yesterday to

extend the amnesty program for illegal aliens throughNov. 30, despite the Justice Departmenlt's opposition to anextension. Thie measure now goes to the full House,where considerable opposition is expected. The programwas scheduled to expire on May 4.

Reagan may campaign early for BushThe White House said yesterday that President Reagan

may campaign for Vice President George Bush prior tothe GOP convention in August. That statement indicatesReagan is ending his official neutrality in the presidentialrace. Bush's string of primary victories have forced theothier Republican presidential candidates, except Pat Rob-ertson, to drop from the running.

Gore goes on attackAfter criticizing Jesse Jackson on Wednesday, Albert

Gore had a few select words for the other Democraticpresidential frontrunner, Michael Dukakis. Gore took is-sue with Dukakis yesterday, accusing him of being "afraidto say a single word about . . . Jacksona." Gore - in thirdplace in the delegate count - also defended his criticismof Jackson for lacking experience, and for meetintg in thepast with PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Cuban PremierFidel Castro.

Dukakis pushes in Wisconsin primaryGov. Michael S. Dukakis attacked the administration

yesterday in Milwaukee, WI, saying it has "walked awayfrom the American Dream" by helping the rich at the ex-pense of working people. Dukakis' remarks come fivedays before the Wisconsin primary. Polls suggest Dukakisis in a dead heat with Jesse Jackson, who has been mak-ing a strong pitch to the state's blue-collar workers.

Pulitzer Prizes announcedThere is a vindication of sorts for writer 'Toni Morrison

in the announcement of the Pulitzer Prizes yesterday. Hernovel Beloved won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Be-loved had previously failed to win two other prestigiousawards, prompting 48 prominent black writers to sign astatement deploring Morrison's lack of recognition.

Among newspapers, The Miami Herald and The WallStreet Journal led with two prizes each. Richard Rhodes'The Making of the Atomic Bomb won the prize in generalnon-fiction. Driving Miss Daisy won the drama award forAlfred Uhry, and David Herbert Donald took the prize inbiography with Look Homeward: A Life of ThomasWoolfe.

in ail, Pulitzer Prizes in 21 categories were announcedyesterday.

Swaggart to returndespite church ban

A spokesman for Jimmy Swaggart has announced thatSwaggart would return to the pulpit in May. That wouldviolate a one-year ban on Swaggart's return imposed bythe Assemblies of God - the church body to whichSwaggart belongs - on Wednesday.

Swaggart is quoted as saying that before he decided togo back to preaching fellow evangelist Oral Roberts freedhim of demons. A third preacher said in an interview yes-terday that Swaggart told recently how he had undergoneextensive prayer and counseling with Roberts. Swaggartreportedly says that Roberts freed him of "dernons withlong fingernails" digging into his body. Compiled by Niraj S. Desai

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sense in the vast gap of growingdepression lying in between.

Dukakis will be hard pressedto explain his role in the sup-posed "Massachusetts Miracle,"a white collar "miracle" whichGeorge Bush will be quick topoint out, albeit in differentterms, was made possible care ofRonald Reagan's multi-billiondollar corporate welfare program(i.e. Star Wars and the armsbuild-up).

If, I thought, there is a personwho can articulate these issuesand appeal to the millions ofAmericans who've been left farbehind in our supposed economicboom, then that person can winthe Presidency of the UnitedStates.

Finally, I thought of the glaringlack in charismatic, gut-level ap-peal that both George Bush andMichael Dukakis share. Whentimes get tougher, as Reagan hasproven, people turn to leadersthat strike their imagination andgive them hope. Bush has an im-age of a whining rich kid and aDukakis speech requires moreNo-Doze than Mondale's, butJesse Jackson lights a fire in thehearts of every audience he playsto.

As Mark Siegel of the Demo-cratic National Committee re-cently said, neither Bush nor Du-kakis can ever have a strongappeal for Americans who sweat.

"Yes," I said to the carload ofrailway workers as I stepped offthe train, "I think Jesse doeshave a chance!"

Jesse's recent landslide victoryin Michigan, his growing lead inthe polls and popular votes overDukakis, and his consistentlystrong showing in every primary,are proving that the hopes ofthose railway workers just mightbecome reality.

Jesse Jackson has the potentialto attract millions of the disillu-sioned and disemployed peoplewho make up a large part of theSO percent who don't traditional-iy vote in this country. The rich,white elite who control theDemocratic Party have not hadthe united support of the workingclass urban and rural poor sinceRoosevelt.

These are the people who, inWestern Europe, form the masssupport for Labor Parties andwho help create the 90 percentvoter turn-outs that are common-place there.

Jackson is well on the way tocreating a true labor-based partyin this country, and along theway, he might just pick up the USPresidency.

The week before Super DuperTuesday I was wading my wayonto the Red Line at Park Street,through all the subway zombies,when a raucous crowd of burlyrailway workers clamored in be-hind me. They looked like carica-tures of the "American Blue Col-lar Worker" - big, white,wearing Levi's, flannel work-shirts, and corduroy engineer'scaps, and loudly joking amongthemselves.

As the subway- started to roll, Inoticed that i was surrounded bythese towering macho types. Icringed a bit deeper inside mywool overcoat, nervously think-ing my long hair, red-starred be-ret, and political buttons mightattract their collective wrath.

The biggest of them, who hadto crouch to avoid banging hishead on the ceiling, lookedstraight at me, pointed to myJackson '88 pin, and said in abone-rattling baritone, "Soyou're a Jesse Jackson fan, eh!?"

"Uh, yeah. . .I am," I blurtedout, as twenty pairs of blue eyesturned in my direction. Oh shit, Ithought, are these guys fromSouth Boston?

The big man raised his massivehand high and smacked mesquare on the shoulder.

"Well, all right!" he shouted,"So are we!!"

His approval was echoed loud-ly by his fellow workers. Onlythen did I notice every one ofthese guys wore a similar Jacksonpin on their hats or their coats.

The "red-neck" Archie Bunkerstereotype of the American bluecollar worker shattered beforemy eyes.

"We've just come from theState House," the big man said,"that Dukakis won't give us thetime of day. We've been on strike

for months and the only manwho gives a shit is Jesse."

"Yeah," another piped in, "Jes-se's been with us all the way!"

Then another one asked me,almost pleadingly, "So you thinkhe's got a chance?"

Until that moment, I honestlybelieved that Jesse Jackson didn'thave a prayer's chance of break-ing into America's white powerelite. But as I looked around thepacked subway and saw the ear-nestness and hope in these men'seyes, I started to believe it waspossible.

I thought of the toll that eightyears of Reaganism has taken onthis nation. I thought of the rap-idly growing gap between thepoor and the rich, the thousandsof homeless, the millions of un-employed, the factory shutdownsand the farm closeouts.

I thought of the many hard-fought battles that were won forcivil rights and women's rights inthe '60s that were being struckdown, one by one, by Reagan'striple-K judges and the Jim Crowlaws.

I thought of the millions ofAmericans who have had a post-Watergate glimpse into the darkcaverns of secrecy in the base-ment of the White House: thelies, the deceit, the drug deals,the Swiss bank accounts, thearms shipments and the payoffs.

I thought of the eight years ofmassive military funding in Cen-tral America: a multi-billion dol-lar bank roll for more murderand misery that has consistentlyfailed to achieve even the deviousgoals for which it was intended.

I thought of the weakness ofthe Dukakis message, a messagewith strong Yuppie appeal thatapplies well to Silicon Valley Eastand West but that makes little

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rather than on the basis of yourintellectual powers. Are youlaughing?

Or put yourself in the seat ofthe member of a racial minoritywho had struggled through an in-ferior high school system in apoor part of the country to final-ly make it to MIT, only to be toldthat he or she was there to fill aquota, not because of his or herbrains. Or sit in the place of awoman already finding it toughenough to cope in the male-dominated environment of MIT,now being shown a stereotypedpicture of MIT women as air-heads. Are you still having fun?

The raucous laughter of thosewho clearly were having fun atthe Chorallaries concert suggeststhat we have some deep problemsat MIT. They are hard to removein a society dominated by peopleproficient at narrow technicalskills, but not used to reflectingon the wider social problems thatsurround them and lamentablyunschooled in the lessons of his-tory. It is time, however, formore people on this campus toface up to those problems, to tryto surface those beliefs they may- often subconsciously - holdthat may be hurtful to others andto try to cast them off.

Walk in that other person'smoccasins. U-se a little imagina-tion. And, although the Chora-laries concert and Grove's lettersuggest that it is a long way off,maybe the day will come when wecan all laugh together.

In his letter ["Chorallariesmade fun of absurd stereotypes,"Mar. 29], Allen Grove uses a bliz-zard of sarcasm and innuendo -tried and true techniques used todefame people in the absence ofany factual evidence - to defendthe Chorallaries' choice of "hu-mor" at their "Bad Taste Con-cert." The "humnor" includedjokes at the expense of racialminorities, women, and the phys-ically handicapped, but Grovesays that the jokes were "ludi-crous" and that "the MIT com-munity is mature enough to sepa-rate the absurd from actualdiscrimination."

Grove appears to understandthe word "humor" on the basisof its dictionary definition. Un-fortunately, however, few wordsor concepts can be understoodindependently of the social con-text in which they are set. Thesupposedly "ludicrous" stereo-types of the Chorallaries humordo not come randomly out ofthin air, but reflect pre-existingprejudices in society. The jokesserve to focus and reinforce thosebigoted beliefs.

Jokes about unqualified minor-ities being given preferentialtreatment in admissions decisionsare humorous only to people whobelieve that minorities are lesslikely to be qualified than thewhite, male majority, and thatsuch allegedly unfair decisionsare actually made.

Jokes about "Jewish AmericanPrincesses" are not independentof centuries of anti-Semitism, butit is typical of people who makesuch jokes to deny the relevanceof the history of prejudice thatforms the basis of their barbs.

Jokes about women being lessintelligent than men only exist atMIT because beliefs about the in-tellectual inferiority of womenare held by some members of theInstitute's male-dominatedsociety.

If Grove has any doubt aboutthis, he should consult thismonth's issue of The GraduateStudent News, which provides ex-tensive coverage of the problemswomen face at MIT, and citesspecific examples of male studentprejudices against their female

colleagues.One alumna is quoted as say-

ing "I feel I have to overcompen-sate, be much more assertive notto be put down, to be taken ser-iously." A joke of the genre fa-vored by the Chorallaries is givenas an example of offensive hu-mor. The editorial written byJong-On Hahm G is headlined"Bias and Discrimination HurtWomen at MIT" and states that"In general, if a woman's qualifi-cations ate not incredible, she isfaced with the attitude that she isthere to fill a quota."

No less than thirteen MIT wo-men's organizations are listed inthe Graduate Student News, evi-dence that women face specialproblems at MIT. The perpetra-tors of these problems may joinGrove in finding jokes abouttheir victims just good, innocentfun. But the people they laugh atare not so readily amused.

The Chorallaries humor re-flects a tradition in which theprivileged majority poke fun atdisadvantaged minorities; it is atradition that has always found iteasier to make scapegoats out ofthe weakest members of society,rather than look among theirown number for the cause of so-cial ills. If you're denied some-thing, it's easy to say it's the faultof a black or a woman.

I did not, however, as Grove somisleadingly implies, suggest thatMIT is a campus of "Nazi wom-en haters." I was careful, in con-trast, to state that the Chorallar-ies were "- probably unaware,as so many MIT students are -sowing the seeds of further ethnicintolerance." Much discrimina-tion is subtle, below the surface,and based on a set of commonly-accepted prejudicial cultural as-sumptions of which the holdersof such beliefs may not even beaware.

The problem is often one of alack of imagination. Try the fol-lowing thought experiment. Putyourself in the wheelchair of ahandicapped student, and imag-ine how difficult it is to get to 10-250 in the first place. Now listento a "joke" which implies thatyou were admitted to MIT be-cause people felt sorry for you,

CorporationTo the Editor:

The front page of your March8 issue displays a picture cap-tioned "Protesters stop a memberof the MIT Corporation..." Iam the Corporation member pic-tured and want to record mycomment about the circum-stances of the picture.

When I arrived at the Presi-dent's house for a Corporationmeeting on March 4, the protest-ers were on the sidewalk. I wasacquainted with one of the stu-dent protesters and we exchangedgreetings. The picture was takenwhen I stopped to ask what mes-sage the protesters were carrying

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nmemiberand they were responding. At notime was I impeded from enteringthe President's house.

I have observed that studentinvolvement in protest actionshas evoked a widely shared ethoswithin the MIT community ofstudents, faculty, staff adminis-tration and trustees. I would de-scribe it as a conviction that therights of individuals, respect forthe integrity of community mem-bers and the thrust of MIT forgrowing excellence must all besustained. Balancing these some-times conflicting values is concep-tually difficult -and emotionallywearing for all involved parties intimes of stress.

As a trustee I share these val-ues and strive to be informedabout how they come into playwhen there is significant dissen-sion among our communitymembers. If called upon to act inmy trustee capacity, relative toany such dissension, I want myactions to reflect my convictions.Talking with student protesterson March 4 to learn their viewswas the event pictured, not aCorporation member being"stopped" from his intendeddestination.

Joe F. Moore '52

To the Editor:After reading Allen W. Grove's

unfair letter ["Chorallaries madefun of absurd stereotypes," Mar.29] which went as far as to ac-cuse Jonathan Richmond of big-otry, I felt compelled to write andthank Richmond for his articleon the "Bad Taste Concert." Un-fortunately, I wasn't at the conr-cert to judge for myself, but fromhis description, I find it hard tobelieve that the Chorallaries' in-

tention was to make fun of thepeople who believe in racial/sexist/anti-handicapped stereo-types. And, I note, Grove didn'tdisagree with Richmond's de-scription.

Thank you for printing Rich-moncd's article; we need more likeit (though we don't need moresuch events to write about) oncampus.

Caroline Huang G

To the Editor:The recent increase in comput-

er thefts has raised the awarenessto the need to report "suspi-cious" people transporting com-puter equipment on campus. Thisis a good trend. However, lastWednesday someone saw mem-bers members of Project Athenastaff moving some equipment. Henotified the Campus Police andthen confronted the staff mem-bers demanding to see some iden-tification.

The first step, notifying theCampus Police, was the rightthing to do. The second step,confronting the individuals was

not a good idea. In general, it isa bad idea to confront potentialthieves, for one could get hurt!This is the task that belongs totrained officers of the CampusPolice. I therefore ask membersof the community to NOT con-front people they see movingequipment. Continue to notifythe Campus Police. Project Athe-na Staff transporting equipmentare prepared to identify them-selves if stopped by the CampusPolice.

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ern style of classical ballet, which was de-veloped and mastered by Balanchine.Andris Liepa and Nina Ananiashvili per-formed magnificently here, too, leavingthe viewer wanting more.

Many of the dancers, however, appearedas if thiey had not warmed up. There weremore than the usual number of hops, par-ticularly coming out of pirouettes. Thisleft one at the edge of one's seat wonder-ing when one of them would land on theirface.

Luckily none of them did and, as thedancers warmed up, the greatness ofBolshoi shone through. Alla Artiushkinaand Vitaly Artiushkin danced a very sensu-al adagio from Spartaculs. Inna Petrovashowed herself to be an exquisite and deli-cate dancer with excellent technique,though without the attack of Annaniash-vili. With these young dancers, the direc-tor, Yuri Gregorovich has managed to revi-talize the Bolshoi after the void that was

left behind such dancers as Maya Pliset-skaya, Yekaterina Maxirnova and VladimirVassiliev.

The solo piece that left everybody gasp-ing was Hopak. Igor Yurlov leaped as if hewas going to the moon. In contrast VictorBarykin in Les Sylphides barely pointedhis toes or straightened his knees inarabesques.

The second half of the program fea-tured Carmen Suite with Maya Pliset-skaya, a modern ballet by Soviet stan-dards, and one which is very dear toPlisetskatya. But, even though the piecewas specifically choreographed for Pliset-skaya by the Cuban, Alberto Alonso, itdoes not make use of her extraordinarilyexpressive arms and upper body.

The fact that Plisetskaya can dance atthe age of 62 is a source of hope and ex-citement for all dancers. Her spirit allows

one to overlook all the technical flaws. Shecan still perform on pointe shoes and hasan extremely pliable back. Her once re-markably high leaps with back bendswhich are world famous are no longerthere. But only a few dancers could leap assuch at the mere age of 26.

Viktor Barykin as Jos6 in the CarmenSuite danced with great passion and tech-nical excellence worthy of the Bolshoi.Sergei Radchenko as the Toreador had amagnificient gait as a spanish bull fighter,but his leaps brought to mind the image ofa jumping elephant. The quality of themale dancers apppeared to be more vari-able than the women, as with most balletcompanies.

Piisetskaya of course received the stand-ing ovation an artist of her quality, cour-age and spirit deserves. May she dance foranother twenty years!

stunning showwords, particularly in the selections byBrahms.

Norman sings with great expression andconfidence. While her voice is able to a-chieve the full range of dynamic levels,Norman's powerful, emotional passageswere considerably more impressive thanher softer, more gentle ones, which lackedexpressiveness and energy.

The final set of works by Debussy wereperhaps the most captivating of the eve-ning. Mandoline was sung with playfulnessand clarity; Lia's Recitative and Air fromL'Enfant Prodigue was done with amazingdrama and strength.

On stage, Norman has a rnagestic, be-wildering presence. However, at times hergesturing was awkward and appeared to bevery contrived, making it more difficult toappreciate her glorious, powerful voice.Nevertheless, following the scheduled pro-gram in response to an enthusiastic stand-ing ovation, Norman performed severalencores, ending with a fantastic gospelrendition of He's Got the Whole World inHis Hands.

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HE PROGRAM BEGAN with Diver-tissements, a collection of nineshort pieces. In these, AndrisLiepa showed himself to be a vir-

tuoso dancer - he was strong and flexiblewith flawless technique. His leaps werehigh and appeared effortless and his turnswere a delight to watch, not only becausehe did multiple pirouettes, but because hisbody position was perfect. His long timepartner, just turned 25, Nina Ananiashvili,is herself a virtuoso dancer of great beau-ty. She too exhibited strength and flexibil-ity and perfect classical lines. She did mul-tiple turns, the likes of which I have onlyseen coming from by Natalia Makarova.

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JESSYE NORMANWith Geoffrey Parsons, pianoSymphony Hall, March 18

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ORLD RENOWNED SOPRANO'Jessye Norman presented astunning performance to anappreciative audience in

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Their entirely lunatic premise is the onlything that allows one to make sense out ofthe diverse mix of music and onstage slap-stick. Perhaps, however, there is no needto make sense of it all. The evening startswith a brass fanfare, slowly moving to-ward a developing European folk theme,then into a hard bopping tenor sax solo byAndre Goudbeek, back to theme and intoa fiery crescendo, which ends in absolutesilence. Then came the next selection.

Then came, in fact, the entire evening.It was filled with rapid fire and unantici-pated changes in tempo and mood. Onecomposition finds the Collective sittingabout the stage in Arab headgear, parody-ing the theme music from a thousand spy-thriller movies set in the Far East. Anotherfinds them all dressed in berets and darksunglasses, living in their own little coffee-house on stage, replete with a cloud ofcigarette smoke and barstools. In the sameinstant, however, the Collective is bothpoking fun and paying homage to the Bopand Cool jazz traditions.

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the music they are playing. You find your-self laughing at the band goofing aroundon the side of the large stage, only to no-tice you've forgotten the rhythm sectionand the tenor saxophonist, Peter Barkema,who is blowing an inspiring hard bop solo.And he continues. More antics. Baguettesfor drumsticks? -Sure. The solo continuesundistracted and unabated. The alto re-turns for another solo. Breuker steps outof the crowd & plays a solo. Each of themis so technically competent and artisticallyinspired that it doesn't become tiring. Onthe contrary, each successive solo onlyadds to the excitement.

The performance of the artists musciallyis juxtaposed in an odd way with these in-tertwined comedic theatrics. There is avery strange and heady mix of emotion asyou sit in awe of the string bass and drum-mer. They are going deeply into a swingingsolo; the bassist finds a phrase which heturns differently each time he restates it.But this musicianship is only a clever ployto draw your attention from the trombon-ists off-stage. They suddenly return in fullleotard and slipper, ready to perform somemutant acrobatics routine.

Effortlessly, the bassist switches gearsand the band steps forward to move into atune from a vaudeville act. Once again,the collective has left you sitting in yourseat with your mouth open, trying to catchup with what just happened.

Only after hearing one more masterfulsolo, laughing once again at another out-rageous spoof, listening to a disonant imn-provised chrous coalesce wonderfully to aclose, do you realize that a marathon per-formance of two and a half hours hasgone by nonstop. It is that blend of hu-mor, virtuosity, and improvisational prow-ess that made Wednesday evening with theWillema Breuker Kollektief an evening ofdistinctive jazz music, and most of all,great fun.

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ALICIA DE LARROCHAThe celebrated pianist Alicia De LErrocha will serenade Boston music audiences in aSymphony Hall recital. The program features works by Mendelssohn: Songs WithoutWords; Capriccio in A minor, Op. 33, No. 1; and the Variations serieuses in D minor,Op. 54. Mompou's Impressiones intimas and the Humoresque (Op. 20) of Schumannround out the program.

Symphony Hall, April 8 at 8pm. MITprice: $5.

PRO ARTE CHAMBER ORCHESTRALeonard Share will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, "The Emperor",in a guest appearance with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, underthe baton of Raymond Harvey. Also on the program: Mozart's Overture to "DonGiovanni", "The Bull on the Roof" by Maiihaud, ana the world premiere of EricChasalow's "Leaping to Conclusions". A "Meet-the-Composer" lecture, free to allticket-holders, will be held one hour before the concert.

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SINFONOVA CHAMBER ORCHESTRAThe Boston debut of Tchaikovsky Competition Award Winner David Buechner, and thepremiere of three Boston-area composers' works are featured in Sinfonova's firstSymphony Hall performance. The string orchestra, joined by a full woodwind sectionfor this special concert, will play Dreaming by Takehiko Gokita, Inverness by PeterKelley, and Overture Fantasia by Marc Rossi. Buechner will also give the BostonPremiere of William Thomas McKinley's Piano Concerto No. 2 "The O'Leary", inaddition to performing Alan Hovhaness' Meditation on Orpheus.

Symphony Hall, April 11 at 8pm. MIT price: $3.

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Moreover, Duff said that sup-port from the Greeks "has beenabsolutely incredible." The Greekgovernment transported the air-craft team members and will pro-vide full logistical and naval sup-port during thbe .lElt, accor.di,to the News Office.

The Greek operations are thethird phase in the project, fol-lowing the flight testing and pilottraining program that was con-ducted at Edwards Air ForceBase over the last five months.

Only one of the five pilots willfly the aircraft, but a team was

selected so that one athlete canbe at peak condition at all times.In the News Office interviewLangford said that more thanone flight might be attempted ifnecessary.

The pilot team includes Kanel-los Kanellopolous, of Palras,Greece, a member of the GreekOlympic Cycling Team and 14-time national bicycling championof Greece; Greg Zack, of Lexing-ton, KY; Eric Schmidt, of Boul-der, CO; Glenn Tremml, whoholds the world absolute distancerecord for hum^an^pweed ...gh.tand Frank Scioscia, a member ofthe US National Cycling Team.

Duff said that, if the team hadknown how good the weather wasgoing to be yesterday, therewould have been strong pressureto attempt the flight. But as itwas, he said, they were very satis-fied with the six flight tests.

knots and temperatures under70°F along the entire route,"Langford explained in a NewsOffice interview, saying the flightwould probably start at dawnwhen conditions are calm andcool. "The team is prepared towait for several weeks for suit-able conditions to occur, but werealize that they may never hap-pen. In that case, we would haveto try again next year."

The design and construction ofthe pedal-driven planes is largelythe work of students, facultymembers, and alumni from Mfl.The Smithsonian Institution, YaleUniversity, and the NationalAeronautics and Space Adminis-tration have also contributed tothe project, according to theNews Office.

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itlh the voice -ail sysiem ii ispossible to send one message to agroup of people by creating a dis-tribution list. Indicator lamps ondigital phones and stutter dialtones on analog ones will tell aclient when he has voice mail.

theOn the digital phones buttonscan be programmed to forwardcalls automatically. Moreover, avisual display on the call receiv-er's phone shows the number ofthe extension that originated thecall and the extension fromwhich it was forwarded.

Call waiting feature, by whicha caller can be placed on hold ifa second call arrives, is so far tobe provided only to the Institutephones. Berlan added that he was"seriously considering providingit to the dorms for no extraCoSAL."

The Institute phones will becharged message units for callsoutside MIT, while the dormi-tories will be charged residentialrates (no message units) by NewEngland Telephone.

"MCI is the long-distance car-rier because they gave us the bestrates," Berlan said. "However, astudent is free to choose anothercarrier by dialing the 950 prefix,"he added. For multiple occupancyrooms, each occupant is given anauthorization number and is,therefore, charged individuallyby the long-distance carrier.

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The Minority Introduction toEngineering and Science Program- a six week summer programfor minority high school juniorsand seniors - continues to bevery successful, Behnke said,with the quality of students goingup each year. He said the prosb-lem now seems to be that MITESdoes not have the capacity for allthose students whom MIT wouldgladly accept as freshmen.

This year also saw a recordnumber of applications from in-ternational students, althoughthere is an overall limit of 6-8percent on international accep-tances.

There were a large number ofapplicants from Greece, whichBehnke attributed to the wide-spread interest sparked off by theDaedalus project. He said that aleading secondary school inGreece had written to the admis-sions office to "warn them thatthis was the most incredible ap-plicant pool that they had everhad."

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The new rating system that hasbeen employed by the admissionsoffice in the last two years has en-tailed more work but its resultshave been "very rewarding"Behnke said. He said the newsystem, which involves three sep-arate ratings rather than only oneas before, ensures a clearer pic-ture of the applicant.

In addition, there is a fourthrating which uses a computer-driven system to summarize testscores and grades. Behnke saidthere are still unsolved problemsin this area however, due to thesuperior quality of the applicantpool and the number of factorswhich must be considered. Forinstance, a student who gets a 'B'is viewed differently if his schoolwas very demanding.

Behnke said the application in-terviews are most importantwhen the student does not comefrom a college-oriented familyand school background, or whenhis application "lacks in sophisti-cation." Although the interview isnot given a separate rating,Behnke said it supplies a lot ofinformation that application ma-terial may not supply.

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Walt Rostow, former deputyspecial assistant to the presidentfor national security affairs, willspeak on "How Many Miles WeTraveled: The US and the SovietUnion 25 Years After the NuclearTest Ban Treaty" Monday, April11 at 10:30 am in the Easy Balco-ny of the Boston UniversityGeorge Sherman Union, 775Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.For more information, call 353-2240.

"Language Planning in Mo-zambique" will be the topic ofdiscussion at a seminar featuringJose Mateus Katupa of EdouardoMondlane University. The talkwill be held on Monday, April 11from 12:15 to 1:30 pm in Room416 of the African Studies Cen-ter, 270 Bay State Road, Boston.For more information, call 353-3673.

Tuesday, Apr. 12Eugene McCarthy, Author,

former US Senator, and 1976Presidential Candidate will speakon Tuesday, April 12 at 7 pm atThe Fens, Simmons College, 300The Fenway, Boston. For moreinformation, call 738-2124.

A lecture on "Atomism andHolism in the Vienna Circle Phi-losophy of Science" will be heldon Tuesday, April 12 at 8 pm inthe George Sherman Union Ter-race Lounge, 775 CommonwealthAvenue, Boston. The speaker willbe Rudolf Haller of the Universi-ty of Graz. For more informa-tion, call 353-2604.

Wednesday, Apr. 13"South Africa: A Black Acti-

vist's View," will be the topic of alecture conducted by Saths Coo-per, former Executive Officer ofthe Black People's Convention inSouth Africa and former Presi-dent of Azapo, an African politi-cal group, on April 13 at 3:30pm. The program will be held atSimmons College, 300 The Fen-way, Boston, in Room C101. Forinformation, call 738-2124.

Thursday, Apr. 14Desalegn Rahmato of the Insti-

tute of Development Research atAddis Ababa University willspeak on "Peasant Response toDrought and Famine in Wallo"from 5-6:30 pm in Room 416 ofthe African Studies Center, 270Bay State Road, Boston. Formore information, call 353-3673.

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"Tora's Dream of Spring"9 willbe shown at 7:30 pm in MITRoom 10-250. This movie issponsored by the MIT-Japan Sci-ence and Technology Program.For more information, call 253-3142.

Puerto Rican Awareness Week,sponsored by the Student Centerfor Educational Reserach andAdvocacy, will be held on April6-16 and will feature a variety ofprograms, all free and open tothe public. For more informationon these events, call 545-0341.

Friday, Apr. 8Michael Lipton, Institute De-

velopment Studies at Sussex andInternational Food Policy Reser-ach Institute will speak on "NewSeeds, Poor People: The Impactof Technological Change in FoodCrops on the Poor." This is abuffet-luncheon meeting from 12-2 pm in MIT Room 6-321. Reser-vations are required. For reserva-tions or information, call 253-8765.

Sunday, Apr. 10Voices of Dignity: Poets Shar-

on Olds, Etheridge Knight, andRobert Bly will read from theirwork fnr the fourth annul2"Voices of Dignity" benefit forOxfam America which will beheld at Sanders Theater, Cam-bridge, on Sunday, April 10 at 7pm. Tickets cost $6 in advance or$8 at the door. For more infor-mation, call 482-1211.

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Eugene Opsasnick '88 distin-guished himself by being the firstMIT rifle shooter in four years toattend the NCAA champion-ships. Selection of competitorsfor the NCAA's is based onscores shot in sectional matchesfied at stich uis ac u zs z A z'ir.a-

Opsasnick fired a 380 (out of400) in air rifle to place amongthe top 37 air rifle competitors inthe nation, securing himself apoint at the division I champion-ships in Lexington, VA.

Here at MIT, Opsasnick waschosen MVP for the year. He ledthe team both as a spirited cap-tain and a fine shooter, havingthe best average in air rifle andthe second best average in small-bore rifle.

Opsasnick captained an out-standing team this season. MIT'stop four, Chandra Bendix '90,Anna Trujillo '88, Terry Wong'88, and Opsasnick, smashed theschool air rifle record and camewithin three points of breakingthe; MIT smallbore record at theMid Atlantic Conference Cham-pionships.

MIT entered the MAC champi-onships ceded sixth, but overtookClarkson Military College andchief rival Kings College to gainfourth. Army took first place fol-lowed by Navy and St. John's.MIT was the only nonscholarshipteam to shoot in the champion-ships.(Editor's note: Gail V Benson isa member of the MIT RifleTeam.)

Photo courtesy M!T Rifle TeamEugene Opsasnick '88 will attend the 1988 NCAA riflechampionships.

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