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Tuesday, April 25, 2000

Student OppositionHalts Death of 'Dot'By Kevin R. LangNEWS EDITOR

After students protested inMcDermott Court yesterday, Presi-dent Charles M. Vest and theDepartment of Facilities have tenta-tively agreed to save the "Dot."

Facilities had announced overthe weekend that temporary facultyoffices (TFOs) would be built on thelawn between the Green Buildingand Walker Memorial to accommo-date renovations to Building 18. Theoffices would be in place for at leastthree years.

In an e-mail message sent outMonday morning, Vest announcedthat the construction would bedelayed after he received complaintsfrom a number of students.

"The fact is that we have anurban campus and such informalspace is in short supply," Vest said."The McDermott Court work willbe held up temporarily for one lastreview of options." .

After meeting with students yes-terday, Facilities revised their initialproposal.

"What we're looking at is asomewhat modified plan that wouldprovide more grass space," saidFacilities Director Victoria V. Siri-anni. Facilities will hold a secondmeeting Wednesday morning with ,students and the architect, contrac-tor, d h mistry de nent. .

Facilities Communications Man-ager Ruth T. Davis said Facilitieswill be "putting the TFOs on thealready paved part of McDermott."

Originally, construction was

scheduled to begin this summer,Davis said, but the Building Com-mittee, which includes Vest, decid-ed to put the TFOs up before theend of term.

Meeting with students productiveDavis was pleased with the

results of yesterday's meeting. "Ithought it was great that the studentsexpressed their concerns about los-ing green space on campus," Davissaid.

However, she also noted thatcampus modifications could becomemore common in the near future. -"People have to realize that over thenext few years there is going to be alot of construction on campus,"Davis said. "People are going to beinconvenienced. "

Vest acknowledged that "it is afact that -as we undertake badlyneeded improvements in our cam-pus we are going to have to livewith considerable disruption."

To avoid future conflicts withstudents over such projects, Facili-ties is looking to hire a second com-munications coordinator to handlecommunity relations, among otherthings. "We're working on a com-munications strategy for the wholecapital projects effort," Davis said."We will definitely be looking forstudent input."

Other locations consideredSirianni stressed that Facilities

had attempted to find other options

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Cambridge, _Massachusetts 02139

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Students planted signs on McDermott court as part of their protest of administration plans to removethe grassy area known as the "Dot" in favor of temporary faculty offices.

'Dot' 'Plans Incite Student ProtestBy Mike HallASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Incensed students camped out ona sodden McDermott Court earlyyesterday morning, disgusted withthe lack of communication from theadministration over plans to buildover their beloved turf.

Senior House resident GeetaDayal '01 organized the protest overthe weekend to prevent constructionearly Monday morning. Work wasto begin on temporary facilities forBuilding 18 faculty and staff, who

.Economist Leaves for PrincetonBy Matthew PalmerASSOCIA TE NEWS EDITOR

Renowned economics Professor Paul R. Krug-man PhD '77 will leave MIT to become a professorat Princeton University next fall.

Economics Department Head Olivier J. Blan-chard ' 41 confirmed that Krugman will leave theInstitute, but he will remain at MIT until the end of

Paul R. Krugman PhD '77

the academic year."He's one of the most brilliant economists alive,"

Blanchard said. "Of course he will be missed."Krugman, a Ford International Professor of Eco-

nomics, had served as a visiting professor at Prince-ton during the first term of this year.

Krugman accomplished author, award winnerKrugman is the author or editor of 16 books and

over 200 articles, mainly on the topics of internation-al trade and finance. His works include PeddlingProsperity and Pop Internationalism.

He is widely known for helping to found the"new trade theory" of international commerce. Thework earned Krugman the John Bates Clark Medalin 1991. The award is given by the American Eco-nomic Association every two years to an exceptionaleconomist under 40.

Krugman also writes a weekly opinion columnfor The New York Times, and his articles haveappeared in Fortune and Slate magazines.

After receiving his PhD from MIT in 1977, Krug-man worked at Yale and Stanford, as well as theInstitute.

On leave from MIT, Krugman worked in theWhite House as a member of the Council of Eco-nomic Advisors in 1982-1983.

Economi'c views controversialThe New York Times, which has referred to Krug-

man as "a shoo-in for a future Nobel Prize," outlined

Krugman, Page 19

will be displaced by renovations thissummer. The construction is expect-ed to last three years.

By the end of the day, organizershad over 500 signatures on a peti-tion drafted by Payal P. Parekh G,and they reached a tentative agree-ment to preserve the "Dot," as it iscommonly known. -

Dayal said that protests will notresume today, since Department ofFacilities Communications ManagerRuth T. Davis said via e-mail thatno construction workers will be pre-

sent at the Dot.

Admin silence draws greatest ireAnand D. Sarwate '01, one of

six students called to meet with rep-resentatives from Facilities, saidthat the lack of communication "isthe underlying reason for the anger.The ot-i ~ a con enient pretext forairing these grievances."

"I expected there to be aresponse from the administration,

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Residence Midway DrawsSmall Spring Rush CrowdBy Shantonu SenTECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR

The Interfraternity Council hadhoped that last Friday's residencemidway would be a sort of grandopening for spring rush. Instead,low turnout marked an ominousbeginning to what will become animportant feature of FSILG recruit-ment in 2002.

Only two or three freshmencame to the midway, according toKipp L. Whittaker '02, Phi KappaTheta's rush chair. Whittaker hadexpected upwards of fifty attendees.

"N ext year we will be doingmore individualized recruiting ...and not depending on the midway asmuch," Whittaker said.

Jonathan Sheffi '03, one of thefew freshmen to attend the event,said that he had heard about themidway from posters in, the InfiniteCorridor and from friends in frater-nities. However, Sheffi's presencewas mostly social, as he "had nointention of re-entering the fraterni-ty system' at this time," afterdepledging from a fraternity earlierthis year.

Weather, publicity hurt eventDakus S. Gunn 'OI,-the IFC's

membership recruitment chair,

attributed the poor attendance of themidway to "advertising problems,rain, and it being a Friday night. Alot of people got turned off by therain."

Overall, Gunn said he was "verypleased. There was not great turnout,but at the same time, it was good toget the freshmen and sophomores inthe fraternities involved, and famil-iar with the idea of spring rush."

Still, Gunn thought the eventshowed the MIT administration thatthe IFC was serious about springrush. He plans to compile reportsfrom the FSILGs that participatedand submit them to the IFC, Chan-cellor Lawrence S. Bacow '72, andthe 2002 committee.

Spring rush is expected tobecome increasingly important toFSILGs with the onset of the 2002housing decision and the end of atraditional fall rush. Gunn expectsmuch greater participation next yearand stabilization within five to sixyears, hopefully at the same levelsas present fall rushes.

Spring rush continues this weekSpring rush will continue this

week, with a number of FSILGs

Spring Rush, Page 17

The Undergraduate Associationtabled a motion to implementdirect elections of councillors.

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Comics OPINION

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World & Nation 2Opinion 4Features 7Sports 20

Eric J. Plosky compares PBS'"Antiques Roadshow" and ABC's"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

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State Department Faces Shake UpIn ake of Security Breac

LOS ANGELES TlMESWASHlNGTO

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ordered a shake-up inthe way her department protects national secrets Monday followingthe disappearance of a laptop computer loaded with classified infor-mation from a supposedly secure conference room.

"Like several other recent serious lapses in security, this is inex-cusable and intolerable," Albright said of the loss of the computer,which contained classified information about weapons proliferationand other matters. "Such failures put our nation's secrets at risk. Theyalso damage the department's reputation."

Albright ordered all of the department's supervisory personnel toconduct a thorough review of security procedures this week andcalled on all employees to attend annual refresher courses on safe-guarding sensitive material.

She also resolved a simmering bureaucratic turf fight by declaringthat the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, mainly a law enforcementorganization, should have primary responsibility 1'0' &ity, ratherthan the department's in-house intelligence analysts.

u.S. Foundations to Give $100M ToPromising African Universities

THE WASHINGTON POSTNEW YORK

Four of the nation's most well-endowed foundations announced ajoint $100 million investment Monday to help reform and revitalizehigher education in select African countries in the largest-ever coor-dinated U.S. philanthropic effort on the continent.

Leaders of the Carnegie Corporation - along with the John D.and Catherine T. MacArthur, the Rockefeller and the Ford founda-tions - said they will coordinate with one another as well as withAfrican educational leaders to focus grants that will strengthen uni-versities that already have shown creative promise in their efforts toreform and expand.

The new thrust is designed to support higher education in coun-tries where economic and political decentralization efforts are under-way and to help expand the pool of Africans equipped to cope, withthe continent's many pressures, including the illV epidemic, thefragility of democracy and the speed of the global economy that haslargely passed Africa by.

Police, Protesters PreparingFor Democratic Convention

LOS ANGELES TIMESLOS ANGELES

With images of the disruptive protests during meetings of theWorld Trade Organization in Seattle and World Bank in Washington,D.C., still fresh in their minds, law enforcement authorities in LosAngeles are quietly launching a full-scale mobilization in preparationfor this summer's Democratic Convention.

Local and national activists, too, are mobilizing for what some aredubbing "the Battle of Los Angeles," emboldened by their successesin winning international media attention while disrupting the eco-nomic summits on both coasts.

Both sides say they hope peace will prevail when Democraticleaders meet Aug. 14-17 at Staples Center to nominate AI Gore as theparty's standard-bearer in the November presidential election.

But, just in case, both sides also are preparing for the worst.The Los Angeles Police Department, the FBI, the Secret Service

and a host of other local, state and federal law enforcement agencieshave been working together for months to forge a cohesive responseplan in case protests get out of hand.

April 25, 2000

LD & ATION.After Elian Gonzalez Raid,

ep blicans Seek AnswersBy Richard T. CooperLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTO

Impassioned calls for congres-sional investigations and a storm ofprotest broke over Washington onEaster Sunday, following the raid byfederal agents that reunited youngElian Gonzalez with his father.

Critics, predominantly Republi-cans, accused the Clinton adminis-tration and SWAT team agents ofthe Immigration and Naturalization

-' ioe eftusing excessive force andacting without court approval. Somecharged the Clinton administrationwith spurning human rights andkowtowing to Fidel Castro by help-ing Juan Miguel Gonzalez take hisboy back to Cuba.

And Elian's Miami relatives car-ried their high-profile crusade toWashington, demanding renewedaccess to their former charge. "Letme see this boy. I know this boyneeds to see me, too," said Marisle-ysis Gonzalez, a cousin who helpedcare for Elian in Miami.

She even suggested that a pub-lished photograph showing the 6-year-old smiling happily in hisfather's arms was a fake - a chargerejected by government officials andothers who saw Elian here with his

father.Government officials fired salvos

in return. They charged Elian' sMiami relatives with negotiating inbad faith, said that force was usedonly when all else had failed, andaccused Republican critics of "Mon-day-morning quarterbacking at itsworst," in the words of DeputyAttorney General Eric Holder.

All available evidence Sundayindicated that the reuniting of Elianwith his father, infant brother andstepmother seemed to be proceedingamicably. The family is expected tospend several days in seclusion atAndrews Air Force Base in subur-ban Washington before relocating tothe Wye Plantation conference cen-ter on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay,site of 1998 Mideast peace talks.

The few visitors who wereallowed inside the sheltered quiet ofwhat appears to be a small house onthe grounds of the air base reportedthat Elian was playing happily,snuggling into his father's lap andeven comforting his baby brotherwhen he cried.

The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell,former secretary-general of theNational Council of Churches andan adviser to Juan Miguel Gonzalez,said of EIian: "He had his arms

around his father, there was realaffection there that cannot be manu-factured. It was affection born ofmany, many years of caring."

"I'm a grandmother of sevenchildren," Campbell said, "and Isaw this little boy with his father forover 2 1/2 hours ... it's the way inwhich he comfortably crawls up onhis father's lap, puts his armsaround him, calls him Papa."

In Miami, quiet was restoredafter demonstrators protestingElian's removal from Little Havanahad roamed the streets Saturday,setting fires, throwing rocks andbottles and clashing with police.More than 350 were arrested.

And in Havana, Castro calledSaturday "a day. of glory for ourpeople," and praised U.S. officialsfor reuniting Elian and his father.

But Holder expressed discomfortat finding himself on the same sideof an issue as Castro. "All that FidelCastro stands for is abhorrent to me.The decision, quite frankly, thatJuan Miguel Gonzalez is makinghere is a different one than I wouldmake, I suspect, for my child. But itis his right to raise his boy where hewants to, and that is all we were try-ing to do."

Government, States May AskCourt to Break Up MicrQ~oftBy James V. GrimaldiTHE WASHINGTON POST

The Justice Department and 19states are leaning toward asking acourt to split Microsoft Corp. intotwo or three separate companies in aplan designed to end the softwaregiant's monopoly in the U.S. com-puter industry, people familiar withthe discussions said over the week-end.

The drafting of a breakup planmarks a dramatic moment in thetwo-year lawsuit and only the firsttime since the 1974 antitrust lawsuit .against AT&T Corp. that the federalgovernment has considered such adrastic proposal for a corporate law-breaker.

Microsoft has vowed to appealthe April 3 verdict that it broke fed-

era 1 antitrust law and Sunday aspokesman said a breakup remedywould go too far.

"There is nothing in the case thatwas brought that would merit suchan unfounded remedy and one thatis not in the interest of the industryor of consumers,'; Microsoftspokesman Greg Shaw said. "It isdifficult to know what's being float-ed as a trial balloon and what issomething that all the parties willagree upon."

Under a Justice Department planbeing shared with states and indus-try executives, Microsoft would beforced to split off the Windowsoperating system from the rest ofthe company, sources said. TheWindows company would be per-mitted to include functions that per-

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mit browsing of the Internet.Microsoft then would be forced

to spin off a second company thatsells its software applications; suchas a word processor and the Excelspreadsheet programs. That compa-ny also might get parts of the com-pany that make the Internet browser,the software used to access theWorld Wide Web, sources said.

If Microsoft is divided into threecompanies, sources said, the thirdwould be an Internet company thatwould get the browser and theMicrosoft Network, which is theInternet service provider and Web.portal that competes with AmericaOnline Inc. and other companies.

A breakup could tear down thebarrier to competitors entering intocompetition with Windows.

Making Split DeciSionsGreg LawsonSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

April thus far has proven to be anomalously wet. It's already rainedmore than an inch in excess of what we typically expect for the entiremonth. It is clear that the dominant weather patterns have changed lately,accounting for the recent spell of grey, dreary weather. Explaining thechange is more difficult than just noting it. For some reason we've entereda split-jet regime where the jet stream has split into two weakened jets flow-ing past an upper-level di-pole, that is a low and a high in very close prox-imity. The di-pole blocks the typical flow as it effectually tries to "swimupstream." This slows the upper-level steering winds which usually blowsurface storms out to sea rather quickly, leaving us with slowly propagating,albeit weak, disturbances which are free to dump rain on us. However, theother consequence of a split jet is that storms are less likely to be steered upthe east coast. A large storm over the Mid-Atlantic states which would usu-ally certainly deliver us rain, is just going to toe the line with New Englandover the next couple days. It is likely that we won't be strongly threatened,but one cannot rule out chances for showers. Expect a 30 to 40 percentchance of showers over the next several days with temperatures remainingclose to what they have been: highs in upper 40's and lows in the upper 30's

Today: Partly cloudy and cool. Northerly winds of moderate strength.High of 49°F (9°C).

Tonight: Cloudy and chilly. Northeasterly breeze. Low of 38°F (3°C)Wednesday: Overcast and cool. Chances of showers. Northeasterly

winds increasing in speed. High on only 43°F (6°C). Low of40°F (4°C).

Thursday: Partly cloudy. Breezy. Chances of showers continue. Highin low 50's (10 to 12°C). Low in the mid 40's (6 to 8°C).

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CaIifomia's 'Blanket Primary'Considered by Supreme CourtBy Joan BiskupicTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTO

Supreme Court justices voicedconcerns Monday that a new Cali-fornia primary law that allows vot-eTSto cast ballots across party linesmight trample political parties'rights to choose their nominees.

The robust session focused on· "blanket" primaries', the system in

California and three other states that• Iets voters choose among all parties

for each office on an election ballot.For example, voters can choose aDemocratic nominee for president, a'Republican nominee for governor,and a Libertarian one for lieutenantgovernor.:

An eventual ruling also couldaffect about 20 states that hold so-called open primaries. Under thatsystem, voters can decide on elec-tion day which primary they will

vote in.Inlast February's Michigan

GOP primary, Arizona Sen. JohnMcCain defeated Texas Gov.George Bush with the support ofDemocrats and independents.McCain, who supports California'sblanket primary law, is among themany politicians and politicalgroups who have weighed in with"friend of the court" briefs in theclosely watched case.

"The very essence of the party'sFirst Amendment right," JusticeSandra Day 0 'Connor said Mon-day, "is to define its own messageand decide its own candidates."

Under the California scheme,asserted Justice Antonin Scaliavot-ers have "absolutely no commitmentto a political party, not even for aday." When California special assis-tant attorney general Thomas Gedesaid voters want their candidates to

be ' more representative" of a broad-er spectrum of the electorate Scaliadeclared: "That's democracy carriedto the extreme."

The case pits a state's interest in.boosting turnout and offering votersmore choices against political par-ties' ability to choose their nomi-nees. Californians approved theblanket primary in a 1996 ballotmeasure with nearly 60 percent ofthe vote, and it took effect in 1998.Only three other states - Alaska,Louisiana and Washington - holdsuch primaries.

The state's Democratic Party,Republican Party, Libertarian Partyand Peace and Freedom Party chal-lenged the system as-ment of their First Amendment free-dom to associate. They claimedcrossover voting permits outsidersto elect a party's nominee and deter-mine its ideology.

U~N.~.Charges U.S. Action BlocksNuclear Disarmament ProgressBy Colum Lynch

· THE WASHINGTON POSTNEW YORK

After years of championinginternational attempts to halt thespread of nuclear weapons, theUnited States found itself on thedefensive Monday as a broadalliance of arms control advocates,senior U.N. officials and diplomatsfrom non-nuclear countries chargedthat Washington is blockingprogress toward disarmament.

Delegates at a U.N. conferencereviewing compliance with theNuclear Non-Proliferation Treatysaid the United States and the fourother declared nuclear powers ~Russia, Britain, France and China- have not lived up to their obliga-tion to reduce and eventually elimi-nate their nuclear arsenals.

Under the 30-year-old treaty,182 countries that did not possessatomic weapons agreed to abandonany ambition to build them. Inreturn, the five acknowledgednuclear powers agreed not to sharenuclear weapons technology withnon-nuclear states and promised totake steps toward disarmament.Only four countries - India, Pak-istan, Israel and Cuba - have notsigned the treaty.

Washington was accused ofbacksliding on its obligations byfailing to ratify the ComprehensiveTest Ban Treaty, which the Senatedefeated last year; refurbishing oldnuclear weapons; keeping a "warreserve" of plutonium triggers fromdismantled warheads; and recom-mitting itself to maintain a nuclearbalance of terror.

U.N. Secretary General KofiAnnan also warned that a U.S. effortto build a National Missile Defensesystem would jeopardize the 1972Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty withRussia and "could wen lead to anew arms race."

"Some 30,000 nuclear weaponsremain in the arsenals of the nuclearpowers, with thousands still on hair-trigger alert," Annan said in anopening address to the conference,which is held every five years. "Wehave witnessed the reaffirmation ofthe nuclear weapons doctrines of allthe nuclear-weapons states."

Secretary of State Madeleine K.Albright defended the U.S. record, .saying America has dismantledabout 60 percent of its Cold Warnuclear arsenal and will seek furtherreductions in new talks with Russia.

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Gunmen Take Foreign TouristsHostage Off Malaysian Coast

THE WASHINGTON POSTJAKARTA, JNDONESIA

Masked gunmen abducted 20 people, most of them foreigntourists, from a resort island off Malaysia's Borneo coast and spiritedthem away on fishing boats in a bizarre kidnapping that authoritiessaid Monday could be connected to an Islamic insurgency in thesouthern Philippines.

Malaysian Defense Minister Najib Razak said that an air and seasearch operation located the boats carrying the captive tourists Mon-day night, 24 hours after the abduction, and that the hostages appar-ently had not been harmed. His Philippine counterpart, Orlando Mer-cado, said the gunmen and their hostages appeared to be sailing forthe southern Philippines, the scene of a secessionist guerrilla war, andthat the Philippine Navy will coordinate with the Malaysian Navy totry to intercept the boats and free the captives.

The half-dozen attackers, who were armed with.AK-47 assaultrifles and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, burst into the restau-rant of a resort on Malaysia's Sipadan Island on Sunday night, takingcash and jewelry from the hostages before forcing them to swim totwo fishing boats anchored offshore, Malaysian Police Inspector Gen-

•e ~o.ri~ Mai told reporters.Two'Americans-were part of the tourist group - composed most-

ly of scuba divers - but they escaped and hid in nearby woods as theothers were herded to the boats and carried away into the night on theCelebes Sea. Malaysian officials said the hostages included nineMalaysians, three Germans, two Frenchmen, two South Africans, twoFinns, one Lebanese and one Filipino.

InRace for House, SomeChallengers Outraise Incumbents

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A surprising number of challengers in House races have collectedsubstantial sums of money, upsetting the conventional wisdom thatonly incumbents can attract significant interest from contributorsearly on during a congressional campaign.

In what is already the costliest House contest in the nation, Cali-fornia state Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat, has raised $1.9 millionand has nearly as much cash as his opponent, GOP Rep. James E.Rogan. Trying to regain his old New Jersey House seat, formerRepublican representative Dick Zimmer has collected nearly $1 mil-lion, including thousands from political action committees that tradi-tionally focus on incumbents.

The fundraising success of challengers' and of candidates vying.. for seats where there is no incumbent seeking reelection - known as

open seats - is a striking feature of this hotly competitive campaignyear, particularly for Democrats. All told, 20 Democratic challengersor candidates seeking open seats have raised at least $500,000 so far,compared with three at this point in the 1998 elections, according tocampaign disclosure reports filed this month. Sixteen nonincumbentDemocrats each has more than $400,000 cash on hand, comparedwith one in 1998.

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March 25, 2000

10The (Dot' Safe ... For Now

When students gathered on McDennott Court early yester- of long-term planning: those who remember Building 20 knowday morning to protest constructionon the grassy east campus MIT's record with "temporary" buildings. More importantly,area known as the "Dot," they not only preserved a valuable the move shows how little administrators understand the lives ofpiece of campus green space, but also scored a long-overduevic- the students they are charged with serving. Decisions like this

tory in their fight to represent stu- one show the ever-present need for administrators to interactEditorial dent interests to the administration. with the student body in some more meaningful, productiveThe organizers of the protest, forum than Institute Committees and focus groups.

especially Geeta Dayal '01, deserve the thanks of the entire stu- Student leaders are also to blame for making necessary her-dent body for saving the Dot and reminding the administration culean efforts such as yesterday's protest - several were awarethat student voices must be heard in decisionsthat affect student of this decision long before students found out through widelylife. distributed e-mail messages, and they should have taken the ini-

President Charles M. Vest also deserves commendation for tiative to block construction, or at least to alert the student body.wisely reconsidering the decision to replace the Dot with tem- It's important for our elected student leaders to take strongporary faculty offices (TFOs). The Tech hopes that the decision stands on controversial issues early on: when they act as juniorto restrict TFO construction to the paved areas of McDennott administrators, contributing to campus closed-mouthedness,Court endures for the entire duration of the temporary. project. we're all in trouble. .In addition, Vest's personal appearance at the protest demon- Admittedly, the location of Building 18makes the Facilitiess~s· of ope s and communication that should Department's job of findingadjacent space for chemistry facultyalways exist between administrators and students. more difficult,but certainly a better solution could have been

However, Director of Facilities Victoria Sirianni exercised found if an intelligentplanning process had been used, withexceedingly poor judgment in electing to raze the Dot in the enough time and preparation to consult the student body andfirst place. The decision demonstrates, once again, an utter lack then to collaborativelydevise the best possible overall solution.

Letter To The EditorMcDermott CourtMust Be Preserved

The Tech received a copy of this letter,addressed to Department of Facilities Com-munications Manager Ruth T. Davis.

The grassy circle of McDermott Court isone of the nicest areas on campus. Duringwarm weather, dozens of students congregatethere for lunch. It's a popular spot for volley-ball games, Ultimate, and canine frisbee. Sur-rounded on all sides by concrete and steel, thegrassy area is one of the' few pleasant spotsremaining on the east side of campus, and is avital center of social and sports activity forpeople who live and work in the area.

The area is important for the Institute, aswell; it hosts pavilions during graduation andreunion, and is the site of the annual Ven-dor's Fair. On Friday, I received an e-mailfrom you, announcing that the courtyard'slawn would be stripped this Monday to makeway for temporary structures to house tem-porary faculty offices. I object strongly toboth this action and to your method ofannouncing it.

Green space at MIT, particularly on theeast side of campus, is far too scarce to bedestroyed senselessly. Pleasant spots on cam-

pus need to be preserved, even if other optionsare more expensive.

If destroying the court was an unavoidableconsequence of campus improvement (as,arguably, the removal of the parkland nearEast Garage for Building 20 constructionwas), I wouldn't be writing this. But the alter-native solution to the lack of office space is soeasy! Simply rent out office space in theKendall Square area. Yes, it's expensive, butso is a new building. Yes, office space is in.high demand, but large amounts of new officespace have been built in the last year, witheven more under construction. Yes, KendallSquare is a bit far from Building 18 (whoseprofessors, I infer, are to be moved), butCourse XII, my department, has been splitbetween Buildings 54 and E34 forever, so Ihave little sympathy:

If the offices must be built on campus, whycan't they be put on the plaza between Build-ings 18 and 54, which is already bricked over,rather than in the grass? Or perhaps you couldbuild in the parking area near E32-E34, offer-ing incentives to those who give up their park-ing spots? Even better, why not wait until theStata Center is completed in 2002, whenyou'll have tons of extra space, before reno-vating Building 18?

Your actions as "Communications Manag-

er" for Facilities have been unwise at best,Machiavellian at worst. Most of the people oncampus received no warning that the area was

. to be destroyed; I suppose those of us whowork in the Green Building must be gratefulfor your message, but with only a weekend'swarning, there's little we can do about it now.You say you'll publish an article about thedestruction in next Wednesday's Tech Talk.What good is that? The news will be printedplainly in shredded turf and ravaged dirt onthe face of the Circle by then. You haveapparently made no attempt to ask the com-munity their opinion on the issue. You andyour superiors are either deliberately prevent-ing the MIT community from helping to makedecisions about their living and workingspace, or you are neglecting your duty to keepthe community informed. '. .. '

ram sending this to The Tech, fully awcttethat The Tech is printed on Tuesday, whileyou're sending in the bulldozers on Monday.Perhaps my message will be a hollowreminder of yet another incident of institution-al short-sightedness and inconsideration. Orperhaps, if the earthmovers don't arrive, it'lldemonstrate that the administration does listento the people it serves. The choice is up to youand your superiors.

Jason C. Goodman G

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Like Thieves in the NightMass. House Guts Clean Government Laws as Members Drink and Doze

Michael 1. Ring

Massachusetts state government is onceagain embroiled in scandal in the wake of aBoston Herald story detailing a night of drink- ,ing and partying on Beacon Hill, as the Houseof Representatives sat in an all-night sessionconsidering the state budget.

The newspaper described an atmosphere ofdebauchery and revelry on Beacon Hill thatnight. as members retired to committee officesto drink and party or fell asleep at their desksin the House chamber. One member spon-sored a beer and wine tasting. Another isrumored to have had his leg shaven after hefell asleep. Members chanted "Toga!" as onerepresentative gave an emotional speech on agun-control amendment. And an abuse theHerald terms as "phantom voting" appears tohave been widespread as court officers voted

, for members who were asleep or absent fromthe chamber.

The drunken spree, continuing well intothe wee hours of the morning, was absolute-ly inappropriate, and the unprofessionalbehavior of the representatives involvedshould give all Bay Staters pause. Con-stituents are owed an apology'by the legisla-tors involved. Representatives, knowing fullwell the recent scandals surrounding BigDig management and Lieutenant GovernorJane Swift's personal use of state resources,should be acting with extreme cautiontoproject an image of state government as hon-est and trustworthy. Clearly, they havefailed.

But beyond the headlines about partyingand pranks, even more serious breaches of thepublic trust have emerged from this year'sbudget process. The flap over phantom voting,as well as the' insertion of sweeping amend-ments designed to Undercut the state's clean-elections and lobbying laws, demonstrate theclear need to change the way by which theHouse conducts its business. And the respon-sibility to make those changes must fallsquarely at the feet of Speaker ThomasFinneran, - whose authoritarian leadershipstyle is 'c1~~Jly hampering debate in theHouse.

An Unknown individual cast unauthorizedvotes in the name of Representative KevinMurphy after the representative had left theState,House early Friday morning to catch aflight to South Carolina. Anecdotal evidenceindicates that unauthorized votes were cast inthe names of several ?ther sleepin~ or absent

representatives. House policy rightly limitsproxy voting to an extreme set of circum-stances. Only members who have physicaldisabilities, or members who are serving asacting speaker and must remain at the ros-trum, may vote by proxy as prescribed in theHouse rules.

However, Finneran conceded last weekhe allows court officers to vote for memberswho are in meetings during roll calls. Thespeaker, after an' angry,initial response to theHerald stories, decided to probe the proxyallegations after learning of the votes cast inMurphy's absence. This investigation mustconsider the wide berth with which Finneranallows proxy' voting. It is hardly burdensometo ask members to leave a meeting for amoment to cast a vote themselves - ourfederal representatives in Washington do soall the time. Voting for one's constituents isthe ultimate duty of our representatives, andthis sham of proxy voting, which is so obvi-ously open to tainting and corruption, mustbe stopped. '

Finneran will also probe whether to end'all-night sessions on the budget. But Houserules already prohibit debate after 10 p.m.,and one Finneran dissenter, liberal Democrat-ic Representative Christopher Hodgkins,noted it was' Finneran who allowed the 10p.m. rule to be suspended in the first place.

And then there is the matter of changes tothe state's elections and ethics laws. Theshameful votes preceded by little debate to gutthese good-government statutes are an exam-ple of government at its worst, and Finneran,and his lieutenants should be' ashamed of theiractions. '

The Clean Elections law, passed over-whelmingly by voters as a referendum in.November 1998, sets up a system of publicfunding of candidates who agree to strictspending limits. House and Senate leaders,however, have dragged their feet on its imple-mentation for the past year and a half, and theHouse's action would require the law be sus-pended until the House and"Senate couldstudy its fiscal implications.- a move effec-tively killing the law and sustaining the statusquo of rampant, uncontrolled campaignspending in Massachusetts. This gem wasattached to the budget on a voice vote withbarely any debate.

Also quietly slipped into the budget is aprovision that would soften the state's strictlobbyist regulations. Under this rider a lob-byist could hide certain costs, includingsome dinners with members of the Legisla-

ture. The necessity of the current regulationsis shown by the case of ex-speaker CharlesFlaherty, whose cozy relations with lobby-ists cost him his job and earned him a courtconviction. There is real reason to fearrepeal of these provisions would return theHouse to the old days of easy lobbyistaccess to legislation.

Since becoming speaker after Flaherty'sresignation, Finneran has ruled the Housewith an iron fist, having little tolerance fordissent. While he is certainly entitled to usehis position to advance his own causes,Finneran must ensure he is doing so in a fairand just manner. Attaching riders to the bud-get late at night, when most representativesare barely (if even) awake, and allowing littledebate on amendments that would squelchstrong reform laws, is not government in goodfaith. ............ , j "

But ultimately, he rank-and-.fm usemembers are at fault as well for their unwill-ingness to challenge Finneran's autocraticstyle. Over the past several years both liberalDemocrats and Republicans have grown rest-less with Finneran's leadership but seemunwilling to challenge the speaker. Republi-cans, whose votes actually elevated Finneranto the position of speaker over a liberal Demo-crat, are afraid to challenge Finneran sincethey know the next speaker would probablybe more liberal. Liberal Democrats, mean-while, are afraid to speak out for fear ofwatching Finneran and his lieutenants killtheir pet projects.

And there, apparently, is the drive todrink. As one House Democrat told the Her-ald, "There certainly was no reason for any-one to remain sober, because there was noth-ing for us to contribute." Finneran andCompany were calling all the shots, andvoices of debate and dissent were to be left at,the door.

The House is now left with two options ifit is to regain credibility with the voters.Either Finneran himself apologizes for thismonth's debacle and places new rules orenforces existing rules barring late-night ses-sions, limiting proxy voting, and guaranteeingdebate and<roll-callvotes on serious matters,or dissenters in both parties reach across ideo-logical differences and make these changesfor the speaker.

In any case, it is high time the Massachu-setts House stopped acting like thieves in thenight, with members trashing the laws which

. ensure their proper conduct and behaviorwhile their constituents are sound asleep.

Over-the-Counter Herbal HazardsVeena Thomas

Brave New World, written in 1932 byAldous Huxley, provided readers a shockingportrayal of a future in,which all babies come'.from test tubes, free love prevails, and citizensare bred according to letter-graded castes.Though almost 70 years old, certain aspects of

.the book ring startlingly true now.The government in Brave New World kept

the population artificially happy and compla-cent by the use of soma, a mind-altering drug.It was given to people in reward for excellent

- service to the government, and allowed themto go on a "soma holiday." As someone toldthe protagonist of Brave New World, BernardMarx, "Glum, Marx, glum what you need is agram of soma. Take a holiday from realitywhenever you like, and come back without somuch as a headache or a mythology." Thegovernment hypnotized citizens froin birthinto believing such sayings a "One cubiccentimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments," and"A gram is better than a damn." Little tabletsof soma provided a pleasant; mindless escapefrom the real world, and kept society compla-cent and docile. At any sign of unhappiness,people instinctively took a little soma, andescaped their troubles.

Frightening, isn't it? The use of a govern-ment-sanctioned, mood-altering drug keeps anentire population of people artificially, chemi-cally happy. People are urged to never feelunhappy, and to quickly remedy the situationby the use of other substances.

Modem psychiatric medicine prescribesdrugs such as Prozac to those people whofeel down or depressed due to chemicalimbalances in their brain. Prozac is an exam-ple of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor(SSRI), meaning it works by blocking thereuptake of serotonin in the synaptic cleftsafter it has been released. This allows sero-tonin to remain present longer after the firingof neurons, producing an effectively greater

concentration of serotonin. For people withnaturally low levels of serotonin, which oftenresults in depression or feelings of despair,drugs like Prozac prove to be the solution tolet them lead a normal, happier life. Avail-able by prescription only, Prozac should onlybe used in those cases where it is medicallynecessary.

But what about the rest of us, who havenormal levels of serotonin but still aren't sat-isfied with the ups and downs of daily life?For those people, the latest industry craze isSt. John's Wort, touted as a natural, herbalway to lift your mood. The pretty little yellowflowers on the St. John's Wort plant seeminnocent enough. In reality, however, St.John's Wort acts as a mild SSRI, like a gentlerform of Prozac.

You'd think that a mild form of Prozacwould be heavily regulated by the govern-ment to prevent excess and potentiallyunsafe usage. However, exactly the oppositeholds true. No regulation of St. John's Wortexists. The Food and Drug Administrationcannot regulate what it deems as "herbalsupplements." Therefore, no safe dosage hasbeen established, the claims of St. John'sWort have not been officially tested, andmanufacturers and distributors of St. John'sWort are free to do as they please, make out-rageous claims, and sell dosages as large asthey wish.

Since when does being "herbal" makesomething safe? Once the drug Ecstasy wasbanned, another commercially available drug'called "Herbal Ecstacy" [sic] was heralded asits substitute. The "natural" ingredients inHerbal Ecstacy and its wide availability leadmany to believe in the safety of the drug.However, nothing could be farther from thetruth. The drug, while containing plant-derived substances, is far more dangerousthan your garden variety mint sprigs. It hasbeen cited in the death of at least one person,and is responsible for adverse effects in hun-dreds of other people. Yet the FDA cannot

<regulate it, because it still qualifies as an"herbal supplement."

People need to stop believing that any-thing "natural" is completely safe to usecasually, and they need to use a bit more cau-tion before consuming herbal products. Oth-erwise, the social repercussions can bedownright scary.

Consider the Fresh Samantha line of bev-erages, which believes in using only naturalingredients in their juices. "We' believe thatFresh Samantha Juices must bring joy andhealth to the human body and soul," readsthe propaganda on their website,http://wwwfreshsamantha.com. Perhapsthat's why they created "Oh, Happy Day," amixture of apple juice, bananas, blackberries,and blueberries. Oh, and St. John's Wort,0.05 grams per serving. The label on the'back of the bottle explains that they formu-lated the drink because people in Maineseemed so down in the wintertime and theywanted to make something to cheer them up.Somehow slipping mind-altering substancesjnto their drinks doesn't seem to be the wayto go.

What if, Oh, Happy Day contained 0.05grams of Prozac per serving? Imagine thefuror and controversy it would cause. Whynot so with St. John's Wort, if both sub-stances have the same effect? One bottle ofOh, Happy Day contains two servings, for atotal of 0.1 grams of St. .John's Wort per bot-tle. So then are ten bottles of Oh, Happy Daybetter than a damn? If "one cubic centimetercures ten gloomy sentiments," can one bottleof Oh, Happy Day cure a single gloomy sen-timent?

Mind-altering substances, herbal or not,should not be allowed to run rampant in ourfood and drink. Otherwise we enter into thekind of society predicted by Huxley nearly 70years ago, except that people drink a littleFresh Samantha now and then instead of somato escape from reality. It's a scary new world,indeed.

Staving Off'Roadshow'

ScandalEric 1. Plosky

Most of us have heard stories of the luckyguy. who found an original, mint-conditionG.I. Joe in his attic (or of the poor schmuckwhose mother unwittingly threw out a 1952Mickey Mantle baseball card). It's exciting tothink that thousands of dollars may lurk some-where in our piles of old crap.

Enter "Antiques Roadshow."As is well known by now, the popular PBS

series travels the country with a passel ofantiques appraisers in tow, evaluating on thespot trinkets ranging from Tiffany jewelry toancient Chinese pottery. There's a certain levelof excitement in watching a bow-tied expertdescribe in detail the history of some knick-knack, some significant entertainment inwatching a frowsy Midwesterner leaning overthe table, waiting to hear the final analysis.Will the alleged Steiff teddy bear turn out to bethe real thing, or a cheap knock-off? Is it wortha hundred dollars?A thousand?Ten thousand?

One famous segment involved a rather non-descript sword brought onto the show in 1997.The owner claimedto haveused it, in his youth,to slice watermelons. Appraiser George Junoexcitedlydeclaredthe sword a remarkableCivilWar find worth $35,000, and instructed thebewilderedowner to handle it in the futureonlywhile wearing white gloves. This was classic"Roadshow" - an unassuming piece of rust,brought in by an owner who figured ''What thehell; guess I'll see if this is worth anything,"turns out to be a portableBrinks truck.

Trouble is, that quintessential segment wasfaked. The Boston Herald recently investigat-ed; turns out, the appraiser had orchestrated

Bang goes the myth of((Roadshou/'? Is an orchestrated

appraisal tantamount to the"Eoenty One" game-show

scandal of the 195Os?

the entire appraisal. This wasn't Joe Q. Publicstumbling onto an attic goldmine; this was ascheme by a businessman to cook up somefree publicity for himself.

Bang goes the myth of "Roadshow"? Is theJuno incident tantamount to the "TwentyOne" game-show scandal of the 1950s,whichrevealed that contestants had been prepped inadvance?

It seems valid to compare "Roadshow" togame shows; both depend upon the notion thatviewers can see themselves in the chair, ulti-mately walking away with vast quantities ofcash. In many ways, "Roadshow" is evenmore appealing than ABC's hit Regis Philbinshow, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" -though "Millionaire's" questions are mostlymoronic, it still seems inaccessible to viewerswho may nonetheless watch an episode of"Roadshow" and then eye the family heirloomin the china cabinet.

When the curtain is unexpectedly drawnback, and the magic-making proved false,there would seem little reason to continuewatching the show. Motivated to keep its hitalive, and prodded by an embarrassed sponsor,the Public Broadcasting Service soon movedto declare the sword incident an anomaly;PBSsevered its contact with appraiser Juno, andwent as far as to edit his appearances out ofvideotapes and reruns. "[Weare] committed toprotecting the reputation of 'Antiques Road-show' and maintaining the trust of viewers,public TV stations and funders," said PeterMcGhee, an executive at Boston-based stationWGBH, which produces "Roadshow."

Can we believe him? Just last week, theHerald reported that WGBH had pulledanother segment; this one, due to be airedsoon, involved a 17th-century Milanese hel-met supposedly worth $250,000. A general"Roadshow" crackdown is now underway tomake sure that the Grover Cleveland corre-spondence and cast-iron 1890s penny banksbrought on the show really are hidden trea-sures, not publicity stunts.

I hope PBS is able to pull "Roadshow" fromscandal quicksand.After all, I'm only watchingto see if any of myoid crap might be worththousands. If some rube from Dullsvillecan trotout a dusty old chair that turns out to be worthten grand, there's hope in all our attics.

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April 25, 2000 THE TECH Page7

FEATURESOperation Smile

Program Offers a Normal Life for ChildrenBorn with Congenital Deformities'

By Anirban Nayak

What if you were born with cleft lips andlived in a society where people with suchdeformities are considered a curse?

That was the predicament faced by aLiberian girl. When she was born harelipped,neighbors feared that she might bring bad luckand suggested that she be abandoned in thejungles. Mercifully, her family did not heedthe suggestion.

"Such cases are common in the developingworld," said plastic surgeon Lawrence Kurtz-man, while addressing a group of MIT pre-medical students during the IndependentActivities Period.

In many developing countries where super-stitions abound, people with congenital defor-mities are often stigmatized, and expensivereconstructive surgery is usually not availableto them.

Then, in 1982, Operation Smile (OS) cameand brought some hopeto the afflicted. Thisorganization, based inNorfolk, Virginia,enabled a team of plas-tic surgeons, anesthesi-ologists, pediatricians,opthalmoiogists, den-tists, and nurses, to visitdeveloping countriesand perform medicaltreatments, includingreconstructive surgery,at no. charge to thepatients.

Dr. Kurtzman hasbeen involved with ossince 1986. He has been on 15 medical mis-

, sions thus far in places such as the Philip-pines, Vietnam, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya,Columbia, and Nicaragua. For the last sixyears, Kurtzman has served as OS teamleader, performing hundreds of surgeries onchildren with deformities. These operationshave enabled many young people to come outof seclusion, attend school, and lead morenormal lives. .

. Kurtzman's team visits the developingworld usually once or twice a year for abouttwo weeks at a time. The team members workhard, putting in 14-hour days and performingsome 150 surgeries. Usually they correct cleft

lips and palates and graft skin onto burn vic-tims. However, during some of his visits,Kurtzman has also rectified syndactyl(webbed) fingers, removed obtrusive tumorsfrom people's faces, and rebuilt facial partsdestroyed by diseases.

Sometimes a person's deformities are sosevere that he will need several complicated'operations. One such case involved a teenageboy from the Philippines.

''His entire nose and upper lip were eatenaway by a combination of infection and mal-nutrition," said Kurtzman. The boy was flownto the US to undergo extensive reconstructivesurgery.

"He went back to the Philippines [and]became kind of a hero in his community.Since then he has gotten married, has had chil-dren, and has become one of our biggestadvocates in ~hat country. It was really excit-ing to see such a dramatic change in his life,"added Kurtzman.

The good workthat the OS team doesin developing coun-tries is not limited tosurgery. One of itsjobs is dispellingnative superstitions oncongenital deformi-ties. In addition, itmust often educatethe locals on nutritionand dental hygiene.Furthermore, Kurtz-man's team frequentlyfinds itself teachinglocal doctors andnurses various 'operat-

ing techniques and procedures so that they cancontinue to help patients after the OS teamdeparts.

While in the developing world, the OS sur-geons work under conditions that are far fromideal. Accustomed to working in the best offacilities in the US and with the latest technol-ogy, this team must adapt to working in over-crowded hospitals with poor ventilation and 'equipment. In fact, once during a blackout,Kurtzman had to perform surgery with the aidof flashlights right in the hospital hallway.

Moreover, 'the equipment with which theOS surgeons have to operate is often recycled.This is because many hospitals in developing ,

"Here [in US hospitals]everything is disposable I

. everything is thrownawa~ What we throw

away in ~ day here, they'l!use it there for months. II

- Lawrence Kurtzman

-THE TECHDr. Lawrence Kurtzman of Operation Smile.

countries lack the funds for new supplies."Here [in US hospitals] everything is dis-

posable, everything is thrown away. What wethrowaway in a day here, they'll use it therefor months," maintained Kurtzman. In one Fil-ipino hospital, for example, used disposablegloves are washed, repaired, sterilized, andreused.

What is more frustrating to the team thanthe adverse working conditions is that it can-not operate on, everyone who seeks its help.There simply isn't enough manpower or timeto accommodate everyone during a two-weekstay.

Despite the obstacles, Kurtzman loves vis-iting and working in the developing world. Hesaid, "It's just so interesting to go to thesecountries, not from a medical standpoint, butfrom a humanitarian standpoint and from apsychosocial standpoint - just to meet peopleand see what the rest ofthe world's like."

Kurtzman added that the people in devel-oping countries are some of the friendliest andthat they tend to be very creative with limitedresources. He also maintained, "Beinginvolved with Operation Smile has been oneof the most rewarding experiences in my life."

Operation Smile is a charitable organiza-tion that depends primarily on corporatesponsorships. For more information or to getinvolved, contact its Boston chapter at 951-1162. '

This Week in MIT HistoryOn April 30, 1991 the Saferide shuttle van service began. The

Tech ran the following story describing th'e new pr, . Sincethen, Saferide has expanded to uttles covCambridg~ .

Beginning next Mon. be primarily responsible for pro, in marked police cruisers.

That day marks the debut ofRide," which will offer membersnight between campus, perimeterliving groups.

"We're starting this as a pilot'92; co-chair of the UndergradCommittee, which proposed

, expected the shuttle service . gl essful."The 12-passenger van will cover territory similar to what is

n 6 p.m. and 3 a.m. SundayThursday to Saturday, Singerice is 253-2997.

y the Department of Housingrovo t' ffice will bear opera-

1 e,' according to Provostpected costs for the first

ovide radio equipment and

"We hope it's used," Wrighton said."The cost per ride is better when it'sused."

Glavin said the van will take someload off the Campus Police officers."With the other things they had to do,they just couldn't keep up," she said Theofficers will continue 'to provide escortservice outside the hours of shuttle oper-ation.

If the shuttle is as successful asSinger hopes, more vans will be pur-chased, she said. Set routes and timeswill be arranged as well. Until then, MITstudents, faculty and staff can enjoy on-call service, she added.

The shuttle service had been delayedrepeatedly over recent months by compli-cations in the hiring procedures for dri-vers and trouble finding vans of the cor-rect size. The safety committee stipulatedlast year that drivers not have a criminalrecord of any kind,. said Judith L.Yanowitz '91, co-chair of t.he commit-tee.

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By Aaron D. MihalikASSOCIATE FEATURES EDITOR

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Since its start onNovember 1, 1978,Nightline has beenproviding the commu-nity with listening andinformation servicesthrough their hotline.From 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.,two nightline staffersare waiting to takecalls from the- MITcommunity.

Nightline receivestwo types of calls -."information" callsand "listening" or"counseling" calls.While the number ofcalls varies throughoutthe year, typicallyNightline receives lO-15 information callsand "maybe 2" seriouscalls a night, said aNightline student coor-dinator, who preferredto remain anonymous.Serious calls rangefrom "students beingstressed out" to callsthat deal with "seriousissues - as serious assuicide," the coordina-tor said.

"There is a hugerange of reasons thatpeople might call up,"said Kimberly G.McGlothin, the prima-ry advisor for Night-line and the Assistant Dean of Counselingand Support Services. People can call up totalk about a number of topics including"depression, academic stress, [or] difficultieswith relationships," said McGlothin. Or"anything that might be giving a person diffi-culty."

If a caller is seeking counseling, Night-line provides them with an anonymous andconfidential place to talk. Also, Nightline iscompletely student staffed. "We recognizethat we are not professionals," said the coor-dinator. But we "try to talk the personthrough the situation ... and we do our bestto understand what the person is goingthrough."

People can also call Nightline to ask forinformation. "It can be anything [like] thephone number of some other resource on cam-pus," said McGlothin.

Anonymity and secrecyNightline continues to keep its reputation

as a very secret organization. Over the years,Nightline has moved locations and changed itsphone number several times to retain its secre-cy. The reason why Nightline remains secre-tive is "not because we want to be a secretorganization," said the' coordinator, butbecause "anonymity is crucial to the work weare doing."

The identity of the Nightline listeners isprotected and kept private. This privacy "addsto the sense of safety and anonymity on bothends," said McGlothin. Having the identity ofthe listeners kept private is for listeners' pro-tection. Nightline is available to people out-side of the MIT community. "One of the con-cerns '" is the safety and the comfort of the

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ight ine Provides Confidentiality, AnonymityNightllne, from Page 7 training has been established and running well ders or any number of things," said you want to talk to somebody." Nightline is a

for quite some time," said cGlothin. "The McGlothin. resource for many people ''who might not beactual training is run by the students." sure yet if they are ready to go and get some

Most of the training is done through role- Do ightline is advised kind of help," said McGlothin.playing exercises. After recording a mock ses- Nightline receives support from the Dean's They "might have an easier time callingsion, an experienced listener critiques the office and the Mental Health Department. and talking to someone anonymously." Also,trainees and teaches them "how to listen ... in Although Nightline has a large pool of faculty Nightline listeners are students and thisa way that [Nightline] feels is helpful and and mental health professionals to draw from, "offers a perspective ... that is different fromappropriate," said the coordinator. it remains very much a student organization. going and talking to a professional," said

Additionally, the trainee is provided with The individuals who advise Nightline are McGlothin.information on "different issues and differ- members of the MIT faculty or the Mentalent approaches to taking calls," said the Health Department. ''They've always had thosecoordinator. The initial training is "a combi- people as resources," said McGlothin "But thenation of reading the information ... and philosophy of Nightline is, and always haspracticing taking calls in the mock setup." been, that it's very much student run."The other main component of the training is McGlothin said that she does not involveto learn how to search for information for a herself in many of Nightline's operations, butcaller. serves "as a back up and to provide supervi-

However, the training does not end there. sion," and to "meet with the coordinators ...Listeners attended weekly meetings with an to go over issues that have come up."advisor and several other Nightline listeners to "All of the decisions are made by stu-review topics. These advisors include profes- dents," said the coordinator. Except for somesors around T and prof; si ' the advice and financial support, "everything isMental Heal Department. t MIT Medical. student run and student staffed."These sessions provide listeners with a placeto talk about a difficult call. "I can tell [thegroup] about my call," said the coordinator.And the members of the session can ''tell mewhat I could have done better."

Also, listeners have to participate in twohalf-day training seminars during a semester.During these sessions a speaker will come todiscuss a particular issue that Nightlinereceives calls about. For instance, a speakermight be an expert in "suicide, eating disor-

staffers," said McGlothin. ot publishingNightline's location and the identity of the lis-teners is important to retain that security, saidMcGlothin.

Also, the listener does' not know the identi-ty of the caller. During the advent of Automat-ic umber Identification (caller ill), Nightlinewrote a number of letters to The Tech, stress-ing that their phones are not. equipped withthis feature. "Our phones are unable to give usany information regarding a caller's identity,"read a letter published in 1989.

A Nightline member ''will never talk aboutsomething that happens in a call outside ofNightline," said the coordinator. ''No recordsare kept, and nothing will ever leave Night-line."

Several weeks of trainingA Nightline listener is required to com-

plete a substantial amount of training beforehe or she is allowed to receive calls. Also, allNightline listeners are required to periodical-ly attended workshops to review and learnnew skills. Generally, the initial training lastsfor several weeks and is "pretty intensive,"said McGlothin. The training is "broad ...[and] it covers a lot of types of differentissues."

The more experienced staffers teach theinitial training period. The experiencedstaffers consult with the Mental Health profes-sionals before training new staffers. "The

Why igbtline is neededNightline is one of the many resources that

students can use if they are need of any typeof mental health service. Although studentscan turn to Counseling and Support Servicesor the Medical Department for support,"Nightline is unique in that is it anonymousand confidential," said McGlothin.

Also, ''Nightline is something that you canimmediately pick up the phone and decide that

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Then they set up a face-to-face interviewwith some of the staffers and advisors. Theinterview is a "fairly lengthy interviewprocess," said McGlothin. People who areselected as listeners find it a ''very cool way tohelp the MIT community," said the coordina-tor. Also, Nightline listeners volunteer theirtime - they do not get paid.

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of CouncillorsBy Dana LevineASSOCJATE 'EWS EDITOR

'02, would have replaced the currentmodel of councillor election with astandardized system overseen by theUA. The current ystem allows eachdorm and the Interfraternity Councilto elect their representatives througha method of their own choice.

The motion failed by an 8-7-5vote, but was eventually tabled forthe next VA council meeting.

Rezek drew a hi torical compari-son to the 18th amendment, whichswitched selection of U.S. Senatorsfrom the state legislatures to popularvote. "I think that proportional vot-ing has a track record for represent-ing what people really think," hesaid.

Chuang believes that making thetiming of elections uniform "will

get more people to vote."Rezek said the bill failed

because 'there was a lot of confu-sion around it." Discussion of themotion led to a number of amend-ments, including one which wouldhave split the nine IFC representa-tives into five elected by FSILGmembers and four selected by theIFC Council.

While the bill originally pro-posed popular election of IFC repre-sentatives by FSILG members, theIFC has traditionally appointed itsmembers and was reluctant to giveup this power.

"The thing that you have toremember is that they are not IFCcouncillors. They are councillorsrepresenting residential ,fSILGs,"said UA President Matthew L.McGann '00. "The IFC has jurisdic-tion over the residential and non-residential ILG system and theirinput will be important."

McGann is hopeful that the billcan be revised over the next fewweeks to become a viable piece oflegislation. "I hope that we can makesome compromises and be able tosolve the problems that the UA coun-cil currently has," McGann said

The Undergraduate Associationdefeated legislation at last night'sCouncil meeting which would haveallowed for the direct election ofUA Councillors.

The bill, co-authored by Christo-pher R. Rezek '99 and newly-elect-ed Vice President Mendel Chuang

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Petition, ProtestersPreserve McDennottProtest, from Page 1

but I didn't expect them to be soclueless [about student concerns],"Sarwate said.

The 11:00 a.m. meeting betweenDepartment of Facilities representa-tives and student protest leaders ledto a tentative agreement to move thetemporary offices to a paved area ofthe courtyard, thus preserving theDot.

Dayal also was critical of theadministration response, saying thatshe felt Vest "gave [the protesters]the runaround" when he arrived tospeak with protesters early Mondaymorning.

, Andrew G. BroQ~ G, a ~duateresid~;r U or at ggmo'lj. (;u§e, wasexuberant after seeing the grassrootssupport for keeping the Dot, addingthat the protest "is part of a largermalaise that students expound oncampus."

Senior House resident Donna T.Wroblewski '00 said that she cameto protest because she was "sick ofMIT students taking it up the ass:'adding that she believes MIT has along way to go in restoring its credi-bility with students and the commu-nity.

Outgoing Undergraduate Associ-ation President Matthew L. McGann'00 was more conciliatory in hisview of the administration's con-duct, saying that he was "pleasedthat the administration, after makingan initial blunder in not communi-cating with the MIT community, isstepping back to look at the iss~e."

Protests last day and nightStudents actually began gather-

ing on McDermott Court Sundaynight, when residents of East Cam-pus pitched a tent on the Dot andcamped out overnight to preventearly-morning construction.

About 50 protesters had gatheredon the Dot by 6:00 a.m. to continuethe effort, armed with posters andT-shirts created during the night.Originally, the protest was intendedto keep construction crews from .tearing up the grass, but work hadbeen called off beforehand.

Students kept the protest alivethroughout the day, urging passers-by to join the fight. Supporters out-side the student body included

.Course 12 faculty, whose GreenBuilding offices overlook the Dot,and staff members at WalkerMemorial,

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Lack of Direct Communication Fratemdies ContinueFrom Facilities Irks Students Hosting Rush Events

Spring Rush, from Page 1 Theta Xi's spring rush was targetedprimarily at getting underclassmeninterested so that they could rush inthe fall.

Other fraternities, such as AlphaEpsilon Pi, chose not to participatein the IFC spring rush. AEPi has noplans for recruitment on its own thisspring, according to AEPi RushChair Jordan S. Adler '01.

that did not involve tearing up thelawn.

"We've considered a number ofalternatives over the last six months,"Sirianni said. "This is an enormouslydifficult project to do." McDennottcourt was selected because of itsproximity to Building 18. Students informed at last minute

"We're displacing the faculty," . The first major announcement ofSirianni said. "We're trying to keep the construction was an e-mailall of the labs intact." Office space Davis sent to an administrativewill be converted to laboratory mailing list last Friday.space as needed, and offices will be "Ruth Davis notified the commu-relocated to the TFOs. nity over the administrative query

"The idea is to create office on Friday, and it was in anticipationspace adjacent to the building and of people being out there and know-have a' covered walkway into the ing that th .. e .building,", Sirianni. said. "It will be run in ec a, irianni sal .

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close to their labs."Sirianni acknowledged that stu-

dents and faculty would be adverse-ly affected by the project. 'It's veryproblematic," she said. "We under-stand this is going to be a real toughone for the community for a longtime. It's very disruptive."

However, the story about theMcDermott construction was notplanned until this Wednesday, afterwork was scheduled to begin.

Davis' announcement said that"on this coming Monday, April 24th,the circle in McDennott Court ... willhave its sail removed in preparationfor the temporary faculty offices thatwill be placed there in early May.These 'TFOs' will remain there forthe three-year period that the build-

. ing will be under construction."Sirianni said that the project

involved "the complete renovationof that building" and that three yearswould be necessary because thebuilding will remain two-thirdsoccupied. Construction is scheduledto begin late this summer.

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Young MIT Team Scores Surprising Upsetsthree were in their debut tomnamentappearance, and five in their secondcompetition. While MIT foughtvaliantly, Harvard's more experi-enced club prevailed.

By Yu-Im Lohand Andrew CampbellTEAM MEMBERS

Just two weeks after its intercol-legiate debut, the MIT Kendo Clubwas at it again, this time on the

home court of DuPont against theHarvard-RadcliffeKendo Club thispast Saturday. Theprize was the

Himeno Cup, named in honor of thededicated instructor of both clubs,Junji Himeno, who is presently avisiting scholar at Harvard's Reis-chauer Institute and is a highlyranked 7-dan master of the art ofkendo.

Anxious to make this inauguraltournament a success, both clubs puttheir best foot forward in the firstever kendo contest held at MIT. Theevent saw eighteen Harvard kendoplayers compete against ten MITplayers. Of the 10 MIT kendoists,

The ev"nt was honored by thepresence of Professor Shige:ruMiyagawa at MIT, who will betJi~'MIT KendoCluh's facultyadvisot'.

Fighting beginsThe fITSt match set the tone for

the competition. Cyrus Eyster '98,in his first time in bogu (armor),fought Harvard sempo Tara McAl-lister in a disciplined yet spiritedperformance. A major upsetoccurred in the second match whenMIT's Hani U. Shakeel, graduatestudent in Technology & Policy,won his match, striking two surprise"men" (head) points in only his sec-ond time training in "bogu," theprotective body armor necessary foradvanced training.

In another highlight, one of theladies of MIT's Kendo club, fresh-

'man Chin- Yan Wong scored anupset point against her much larger,more powerful male opponent, thusillustrating how technique and spiritprevails over brute force in Kendo.

Harvard's combined scoreensured that the first MITKC vs.HRKC Himeno Cup would travelup Mass Ave. this year, but if Sat-

ROSHAN BALlGA-THE TECH

Andrew Campbell G, 5empal of the MIT Kendo Club, competes against a Harvard Kendo Club memberin Saturday's Hlmeno Cup toumament In Dupont.urday night's show was anything ring, where pairs of kendoists try toto go by, it will not remain North hit as many points as possible onfor long. their opponents. Each sparring

"match" lasts for a few minutes,after which kendoists rotate partners.The aim of jigeiko is to gain fightingexperience, practice wazas (tech-niques) and improve endurance.

The event serves as a model of

good relations between Harvard andMIT at a student level and was fol-lowed by a social gathering andfeast. The event further cementedthe close ties between the two clubs.The Harvard club has been instru-mental in aiding the year-old MITKendo Club through generous dona-tions of equipment and time.

Free sparring for funAfter the formalities were over,

more fun was had by all when ahalf-hour session of ''jigeiko'' round-ed up the even.t. Jigeiko is free spar-

Men's Lacrosse Snips Babson So'1Victory Over Rival Babson Aw~ds Engineers Pilgrim League Playoff BerthBy Justin M. VerdirameTEAM MEMBER

UPCOMING HOME EVENTOn Tuesday, come watch the Men's Lacrosse

. team take on Wheaton College on the turf at 4:00p.m. The Beavers plan to improve their 2-1 confer-ence record by winning today.

MIT's Rich Weber '02 gave Babsonan extra man opportunity, too. MITpicked up its level of play and shut-down Babson's extra man unit forthe fifth time of the day to keep thegame tied at 7. After Otis beat Toyeon a roll dodge, Otis had a one-on-one with the goalie. Otis had Verdi-rame beat with the high fake, but theshot hit Verdirame in the foot.

MIT took the lead for the finaltime of the day with just over fiveminutes left in the game. RickChang beat hisdefensemanand fed theball to VanHorne in frontof the creaseas the slidecame. VanHorne madethe most spec-tacular shot ofthe season. Ashe dove, heput a laser intothe upper cor-ner past DeFina on the off-stick side.

The men's lacrosse team kept itsplayoff hopes alive with an exciting8-7 victory over Babson this Satur-

day on the turf.Long stick middieChris Wilmer '02made a game-sav-ing strip with 4 sec-onds left to preservethe victory. The

Engineers moved to 6-3 and 2-1 inconference standing. The offensewas led by attackman Matt VanHome '02, who had 3 goals and fourassists on the day. The defense wasled by Charles A. Toye '00, wholimited Babson's leading scorer BradOtis to one goal and two assists.

MIT starts game strongFive minutes into the game, MIT

opened the scoring with goals byattackman Rick Chang '01 and mid-fielder Kurtis McKenney '01, just25 seconds apart. Midfielder/attack-man Eli Weinberg '02 got his onlygoal of the day when he beat All-American defenseman BrianFitzgerald and put the ball pastgoalie Paul DeFina. Babson wasable to answer with two goals onfeeds to the crease. MIT extendedthe lead to 4-2 when Van Home fedfellow attackman Pascal Rettig '01for a goal with just 18 secondsremaining in the first. ..

Babson tied the game at 3-3early in the second quarter whenScott Hoffman swept to his rightand stuck it past MIT goalie JustinVerdirame '00. Kurtis McKenney'ssecond goal of the day with 10:03remaining put the Engineers in thelead again. Babson Brad Otis scoredhis only goal of the day to make thescore 5-4 MIT at the half

AL. Central Division IsCleveland's Crown Again·By Rory PheifferSPORTS COLUMNIST

way togo.Tigers are another team that has

constantly been using the "rebuild-ing" excuse as their reason for theirwoes. Their problem is that much oftheir talent which has been groom-ing was traded away in order to tryand be competitive. Trading sixplayers for Juan Gonzalez was moreof a fan attraction move by theTigers management than a gamewinner. He has yet to accept theTigers astronomical contract offer ofaround $140 million dollars for eightyears. If Gonzalez does indeed leavethe Tigers after this year, Detroitmanagement will. look like fools,and worse yet, so will the team.

Kansas City RoyalsThey have a young, cohesive

team. Last year, the Royals sur-prised everybody by winning 64games with a team' full of a bunch ofno-names, but seeing how mostwere expecting a season with over100 losses, 97 losses came as apleasant surprise.

Today we have the discussion ofthe American League Central,which will provide a very competi-

tive race.Column Unfortu-III nately for

the fans,the only tight race the Central pre-sents is between second and fifthplace, where last year only 12games separated these two places(22 games separated the first andsecond place team). Not much willchange this year in that regard.

The Cleveland Indians will onceagain' run away with the divisioncrown. The Indians have the bestbatting line-up in either league top tobottom. The lead-off with KennyLofton (note Lofton is out withinjury until June), follow with OmarVizquel, then Roberto Alomar,Manny Ramirez, Jim Thome, RichieSexson, David Justice, Travis Fry-man, and finish with Sandy Alomar.Ifthat line-up doesn't strike fear intoan opposing pitcher, I can't think ofanother line-up in baseball todaythat could. Cleveland also has a verycredible starting staff, starting thelikes of lefty Chuck Finley, BartoloColon, Charles Nagy, and DaveBurba. These four guys have shownthat they can be very effective pitch-ers, and they will each rack up theirfair share of wins this season.

The key to this win wasour teamwork. Everyone

was contributing onoffense and the team

defense was exceptional.- Pete Jenkins

Final minute of playIn the final play, Babson moved

the ball around trying to get a goodscoring opportunity, but the defensegave them no openings. With 20 sec-onds remaining, Babson finally tooka crank shot from 15 yards. that wentwide of the goal. The shot must havecaught the Babson attack off guardbecause they did not back it up, andMIT won possession of the ball.

Verdirame threw a long clearingpass in the direction of Chang, but itwas intercepted. Babson called atimeout with eight seconds remain-ing and the ball at the midfield lineto set up the final play. Babson mid-fielder Chris Darmon started withthe ball and was covered by MIT'sWilmer. Darmon tried to beatWilmet on a sweep to his right butWilmer's speed was too much.Wilmer's wrap check put the ball onthe ground with four seconds left,and time ran out before Babsoncould pick up the ball.

Offensively, MIT got contribu-tions from different sources thanusual including two goals from Kur-tis McKenney and two assists from

Chicago White SoxThe White Sox, who last year

took the honor of being the best ofthe rest. Look for them to do soagain this year, beating out the Roy-als, Tigers, and Twins in that order.The Chisox' s Magglio Ordonez wasperhaps the American League'sbiggest surprise, leading his team inhome runs (30), RBIs (117), andtotal bases (318). If the Big HurtFrank Thomas can keep his battingaverage above .300 find find hispower stroke again, these two willbe a great one-two combo: I look forthe White Sox to continue to over-achieve just enough to edge out theRoyals for second place in the divi-sion. '

MIT defense preserves victoryMIT opened the third quarter

with two Van Horne goals andseemingly took control of the game.Babson scored with just 22 secondsleft in the third quarter and gainedsome momentum heading into thefourth quarter.

Babson scored its second goal ofthe quarter with 8:31 remaining totie the game. A slash on the play by

Minnesota Twins & Detroit TigersThe Twins have taken the word

"rebuilding" to a whole new level.Minnesota is loaded with youngprospects, who are starting to form acohesive unit. They are waiting toprove that they can bring the Twinsback to the glory days of Puckett,Gaetti, and Hrbek. They have a long