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ALookAtDiningSystemsMandatory PlansNothing New at MITBy Jennifer KrishnanNEWSEDlTOR

As students discuss recent diningproposals, they may wonder how theInstitute could seriously considermaking campus dining mandatory.But for residents of some dormito-ries, the MIT meal plan was manda-tory until less than 10 years ago.

The newly expanded CampusDining Board, which has beeninstructed to come up with a viabledining plan, is not the first group toreceive that charge.

Interim Chair of the CampusDining Board Kirk D. Kolenbrandersaid that MIT has been revising itsdining system for years.

"The status quo is really quitebroken," he said, adding that hedoesn't know anyone who doesn'tthink the current dining system hasa great deal of room for improve-ment.

Dining mandatory until 1993In 1993, residents of the four

dormitories with residential dininghalls - Baker House, MacgregorHouse, McCormick Hall, and NextHouse - were required to purchasea meal plan of at least $530 persemester. Aramark was operating

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Amado G. Dehoyos '04 carves a Iack-o-tantem on the Student Center steps Wednesday afternoon.The event was sponsored by the Junior Interfraternity Council, who donated proceeds from pump-kin sales to the American Red Cross.

CAC Installs New MIT Card LocksBy Harold FoxSTAFF REPORTER

After numerous delays, studentgroup offices on the fourth floor ofthe Student Center are finally beingmade more secure by the installa-tion of new card locks.

New locks were initiallypromised by the Campus ActivitiesComplex more than a year ago, afterseveral student groups sufferedbreak-ins. A safe was stolen fromthe Technique office. The CACoriginally planned to replace the oldkey locks with new ones, but the

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R2D2 makes another appearance as a hack, this time inLobby 10.

Association of Student Activitiespetitioned the CAC to offer combi-nation locks and card readersinstead.

Card readers are more securebecause, unlike keys, the cards can-not be easily copied. In addition, if akey is lost or stolen, the lock and allkeys must be changed to ensurefuture security. With ill cards, thelost or stolen card can simply beremoved from the system.

First locks had glitchesThe promise of new locks was

delayed in part because the first ven-dor chosen by MIT did not havecard readers that could be cus-tomized to work with the MIT card.CAe did not discover the problemuntil after trying to install them onthe fourth floor.

Once this problem was resolvedwith the selection of Ingersoll-RandLocknetics card locks, the first unitwas installed at the Alpha PhiOmega office.

"The first time they put it on was

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Slow Finger Hurts MITStudent on 'Millionaire'By Eun J. LeeASSOCiATE NEWS EDITOR

Have you ever watched thosemillion dollar television gameshows and thought "how do they

pick theidiot tobe ont hisshow?" Iwas once

a member of the television viewingpublic that went aghast at the stu-pidity of contestants on gameshows. That is, until I became oneof those idiots.

Thi past weekend, I was one ofthe ten finalists on the ABC televisionshow Who Wants to be a Millionaire.I wa one of the ten people intro-duced at the beginning of the show,who must race to win the fastest fin-ger question (putting four things inorder) to get into the "hot seat." Youare probably wondering how I did.

I'm sorry, but officially I am notuppo ed to reveal the results of my

show. All I have to say i that I hadthe chance of a lifetime to how my

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stuff on national television and tocounter the stupidity of all thosepeople before me that I had soloathed in the comfort of my livingroom. Although my mind was will-ing, my finger were low and weak.

Cutting class not all badI am still not sure how I even got

to be on the show. The progressionof events till puzzles me because ithappened in a whirlwind thatpanned about two weeks from start

to finish. On the morning of Friday,October 12, I heard on the radio thatthere were auditions in Boston forthe game show Who Wants to be aMillionaire. I entertained thethought of going to the auditions inthe back of my mind a I rushed tocla s, but I didn't think that I wouldseriously go.

I have to admit, though that Ifound orne perverse ati faction informulating hypothetical conver a-tion I might have with Regi . Forexample, the other day I was watch-

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The eatherToday: Mostly cloudy, 69°F (21°C)

Tonight: Mo tly cloudy, 53°F (l20C)Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, 67°F (19°C)

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Friday, ovember 2, 2001

CACToAnnouncePlans ForLoungeBy Maral ShamlooSTAFF REPORTER

The Campus Activities Com-plex, its student advisory board, andthe MIT Real Estate Office willissue a plan next week for the Tran-sitions space on the first floor of theStratton tudent Center. The plancomes after a year of attempts tofind a permanent use for the space.

CAC Director Phillip J. Walshsaid that the main objective of thenew plan will be to formalize thetemporary ad-hoc style of thelounge to create a space for the ben-efit of students, probably trying toearn some financial returns byincorporating retail kiosks.

Walsh said that no actions havebeen taken in the past year to beauti-fy the space because serious invest-ment can come only with a perma-nent plan. "I do not considerspending money on a temporary plana good stewardship of the Institute'sbudget - to which students aremajor contributors - consideringthat furnishi g a room that large isnot inexpensive at all," he said.

"I like the lounge as it is. It is avery convenient place to come to eator to have meetings," said Vimal M.Bhalodia '04. "I don't think differ-ent furniture would make that muchof a difference."

orne students believe, however,that the plain appearance of theroom does not encourage use.

"I have used the lounge once. Itlooks very dull and plain to me. Ilike the idea of having a lounge onthe first floor but I also think betterfurniture might encourage me to useit more," said igel A. Drego G.

One option that may appear in theplan is to set up kiosks that housesu tainable and self contained busi-nes es that would generate revenue.

To canini' may become a kio kIn particular, negotiations are in

to move Toscanini's to a kiosk.Although Walsh declined to give

details on these negotiations untilthey are finalized, he noted that ten-ants need and objectives are beingconsidered and MIT has a very pos-itive opinion towards Toscanini'spresence as they are one of themost succe ful retailers on campus.

Gus Rancatore Toscanini's man-ager, was not available for comment.

Walsh aid that prospective usesfor these kio ks might include retailof women's health and beauty prod-ucts, international press and maga-zines, or food.

Changes part of larger planThese changes all fall under a

more general plan to convert the

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WORLD & NATIONHop fnlRe eding

THE WASHlNGTO, POST

Increasingly optimistic health officials in a hington Thursdayshrank the univer e of pri ate-sector workers who should take stepto thwart anthra and prepared to curtail the hour of the cityscreening and antibiotic op ration at D.C. General Hospital.

With no new 10 al ca e of inhalation or skin anthrax ill more thana wee and no report of a tinted letter in more than two, the city'health director, Ivan C.. alks sugge t d that the ashington areawas "on the downside" of a cri is that began with the opening of anenvelope Oct. 15 on Capitol Hill.

Test result for some facilitie are till unknown, however. Andjust Thursday, the federal Food and Drug dmini tration announcedthat anthrax spore had been found in four of it five ontgomeryCounty, d., mailroom, forcing a many a 120 worker to begintaking antibiotic and prompting all five of the mailrooms to clo e.

Tests for anthrax in the Patent and Trademar Office in Cry talCity, Va., have turned up three po ibly contaminated ites in mailingareas, according to an advisory sent to employees Thursday. ddi-tional testing will be neces ary to determine whether anthrax porewere pre ent, the e-mail said. In the meantime, the agency aid itbulk: mail handlers should begin taking antibiotics.

ghan Tri al Leade Launchesprising Agains Taliban in South

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A prominent Afghan tribal leader has begun the first known armeduprising against the Taliban in southern Afghani tan ince the U .. -led air strike campaign began, fighting off a Taliban attack Thursdayand claiming to control part of a southern province, according to hisfamily and media reports.

Hamid Karzai, an influential figure from the leading ethnic Pash-tun tribe, said he survived a Taliban attack on a meeting of tribalelder he convened in Uruzgan province, and that his force captured12 Taliban soldiers in the skirmish.

Karzai, who's close to Afghanistan's exiled former kingMohammed Zahir hah, returned to Afghanistan last month to pro-mote a national gathering aimed at forming a broad coalition govern-ment to replace the ruling Taliban, according to his brother, QayumKarzai.

Although any rebellion led by Karzai would seem to be in itsinfancy, its onset would be welcomed by U.S. officials, who havebeen anxious for the Taliban to come under attack in the Pashtunheartland where th hardline Islamic militia is strongest.

Jordanian Indicted for PerjuryMter Denying He Knew Hijackers

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A Jordanian man suspected of having ties to the Sept. 11 hijackerswas indicted on perjury charges Thursday for denying to a ew Yorkgrand jury that he knew Khalid al- idhar one of the five menalleged to have era hed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Penta-gon.

Osama Awadallah, 21 a student at Grossmont College in the SanDiego suburb of El Cajon, knew three of the su pected hijackers whopent much of last year living in that area - awaf al-Hazmi, Hani

Hanjour and al- idhar, according to authorities.In testimony before a grand jury Oct. 10 and Oct. 15, he denied

knowing al-Midhar even after prosecutors confronted him with acopy of his own journal in which he mentioned al-Midhar. Awadallahacknowledged writing the passages in his journal but said the refer-ence to al- idhar was not in his handwriting.

WEATHERUnexpected Heat

By Dana LevineEDITOR IN CHIEF

There is considerable evidence floating around via the web andword of mouth that implies it is possible for a per on to burst intoflames for no apparent reason. pontaneous human combustion as itis called, was invented in the year 1763, when the Frenchman JonasDupont published a collection of' tudies" on HC, appropriatelyentitled De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis. Apparently,Dupont was inspired to write this book after he encountered a case inwhich a man was acquitted of the murder of his wife after convincingthe court that she had been killed by spontaneous combustion. Sincethis time several authors have written about SHC, most notablyCharles Dickens in hi novel Bleak House.

De pite the fact that HC is a great way to scare the pants off yourkid brother or sister, there is no definitive evidence that it exi ts.

ccording to The keptic's Dictionary<httpi/Zskepdic.com/shc.html> the possibility of HC is remote atbe t. "If the deceased had recently eaten an enormous amount of haythat was infe ted with bacteria, enough heat might be generated toignite the hay, but not much beside the gut and intestines wouldprobably bum." It might be kind of warm and rainy thi weekend.

eekend Outlook:Toda ': Mo tJy cloudy, 69°P (21°C)Tonight: ostly cloudy, 53°F (12°C)

turda : Partly cloudy 6 OF(19°C)unda ': Partly cloudy, 5 OF(14°C)

Intelligence Agencies WarnCalifornia of Bridge ThreatsBy Gail GibsonTHE BALTlMORE SUN

CALIFORNIA

alifornia Gov. Gray Da i onThur day ordered ational Guardsoldiers po ted on the tate s fouroaring suspen ion bridge , includ-

ing an Francis o's Golden GateBridge, after he said authoritierecei ed 'credible e idence" thatthe bridges could be terrori t targetsover the ne t everal days.

The tightened ecurity aroundorne of California's most famous

landmark ga e a tark specificityto the repeated terrori t alerts i suedaero the United State by federaland local official in recent weekswarnings that had unnerved manypeople preci ely because of theirvaguene s.

In California, the alert is ued byDavis wa chilling in its detail .The governor aid that informationfrom everallaw enforcement agen-cies including the FBI, indicatedthat terrorist could be planningrush-hour attacks on the state's sus-pen ion bridges ometime betweenFriday and next Wednesday.

It was unclear, though, how realthe threat might be. The FBI'swarning, dated Wednesday andreleased Thursday night by Justice

Departm nt official aid the infor-mation wa un orroborated and thatthe bureau wa 'attempting to eri-fy the alidity of thi report."

Ju ti e Department spoke -woman indy Tucker aid authori-tie didn't con ider the informationto be as credible a the intelligencethat prompted Attorney GeneralJohn D. hcroft onday to issue abroad, nationwide warning thatpeople hould be alert for possibleterrorist attacks over the next week.

A heroft said officials had credi-ble information that possibleattacks were being planned but nodetails about the timing, the targetsor the method.

The FBI warning is ued twodays later to officials in severalWestern states, including Califor-nia, aid "unspecified groups weretargeting suspension bridges on theWest Coast,' and that six incidentswere possible during rush hour dur-ing the six-day period.

" 0 further information aboutthis alleged attack is known at thistime," the FBI alert said. "The FBIis attempting to verify the validityof this report. Recipients will beupdated as events warrant."

Davis responded to the warningby ordering increased security at

the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge ,both in an Francisco; the VincentThoma Bridge at the Port of LosAngele and the Coronado Bridgein an Diego.

He also decided to go public,telling the state's residents aboutthe threat.

"We are bound and determinedto protect Californians," Davis saidat a Los Angeles news conference,which had been scheduled toannounce the selection of a statesecurity adviser for terrorismissues.

"The best preparation is to letterrorists know: We know whatyou're up to, we're ready for you,"Davis said.

The governor said added protec-tions for the four suspensionbridges would come from agenciesranging from the U.S. Coast Guardto the state highway patrol. He saidhe had ordered an unspecifiednumber of ational Guard soldiersto be stationed at each end of thebridges.

California Highway Patrol Com-missioner D.O. "Spike" Helmicksaid officers would not restrict traf-fic, including truck traffic, on anyof the bridges or close the GoldenGate bridge off to pedestrians.

Tests Confinn Anthrax in MailAt U.S. Embassy in LithuaniaBy John DaniszewskiLOS ANGELES TlMES

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Employees of the u.s. Embassyin Lithuania will be given precau-tionary antibiotics after a laboratoryconfirmed Thursday that at least oneof the embassy's mail pouche hadbeen contaminated with anthrax, anembassy spokesman said.

Tests on the empty mailbagcame back positive, the first provencase of anthrax contamination fromthe United States being spread toEurope. But no embassy employeesin the Lithuanian capital Vilnius,have exhibited signs of contractingany form of the disease, thespokesman said.

'We are 100 percent sure that weare dealing with anthrax here," saidStanislovas Tarbunas, deputy direc-tor of the Lithuanian Public HealthCenter, who called the finding by itslaboratory "extremely alarming."

Tarbuna ruled out any mistake."In recent days, we have examined54 mail items sent to various recipi-

ents containing different kinds ofpowder," he said. "But this is thefirst time we discovered the genuineanthrax agents."

Embassy spokesman MichaelBoyle said five empty mailbagsreceived at the embas y betweenOct. 11 and Oct. 24 were given tothe laboratory for testing last weekbecause of the announcement thatState Department mail-handlingfacilities in Washington and Ster-ling, Va., where they originated,were contaminated with anthrax.

Preliminary tests Wednesdayindicated that two of the bags inVilnius contained anthrax traces,and on Thursday it was confmnedthat at least one of those had testedpositive for the anthrax bacillus, hesaid.

Boyle said the bag was part ofthe so-called "diplomatic pouch," aecure system of distributing mail to

U.S. diplomats worldwide that isseparate from the general mail ser-vice. Such shipments were suspend-ed by the State Department on Oct.

24.The bags that reached Vilnius

were handled by commercial carri-ers for part of the way but wouldhave remained sealed until theyreached the embassy, Boyle said. Atthe embassy, the bags were opened,and the letters and packages insidewere distributed before the order tocheck recently sent mailbags forpossible contamination.

Three embassy employeesinvolved in mail-handling alreadybegan antibiotics treatment as a pre-caution last week. Now that thepresence of anthrax has beenproved, antibiotics will be offered toall of the approximately 120embassy staff on a voluntary basis,Boyle said.

"From what we are instructedand what I have read, fortunately,anthrax can be treated," he said,stressing that no one has displayedany sign of illness thus far.

Vilnius was the second U.S.Diplomatic mission, after Peru, todiscover traces of the disease.

Bill Pushes Military RecruitmentProposed Bill GivesMilitary Access toStudent RollsBy Richard Lee ColvinLOS A GELES TIMES

U.S. high schools would berequired to help military recruitersby turning over the names andaddresses of their student under afederal bill that has drawn fire fromeducators and privacy advocates.

About one-third of schoolsnationwide restrict recruiter' accessto that information or to their cam-puses, according to the DefenseDepartment. If the provision isapproved by Congress and signedby Pre ident Bush, school districtsthat fail to comply could face sub-tantiallosses of federal aid.

orne opponents of the bill ay itconflicts with privacy law which

prohibits the release of informationabout students without parental per-mission. Others are philosophicallyopposed to fueling the military'smission or object to it ban on open-ly gay and lesbian soldiers.

"It's not about being anti-mili-tary, it s about being pro-democracyand civil rights," said Marc Abrams,a Portland, Ore., school board mem-ber who championed a ban on mili-tary recruiting at Portland schools asa protest against what he con idersthe Armed Forces' anti-homo exualpolicies. Tension between privacyadvocates and military recruitersisn t new but it has been aggravatedby the war on terrorism.

That effort has boosted supportfor the military in Congress andel ewhere, some say at the expen eof privacy rights. The recruitmentmeasure this week won bipartisansupport in a committee working ona federal education-reform bill.

"I see no reason whatsoever,especially now with the war on ter-rorism, that any school should closeoff campuses (to) recruiting," saidRep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-Calif). "All they are doing is com-ing on to recruit people. It's a nobleprofession, and at time like this wesure turn to the military for help."

Rep. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)pushed for the amendment to theElementary and Secondary Educa-tion Act, which is being worked onby a joint committee of the Houseand enate. The bill, which alreadyhas passed both houses of Congre sin different forms, al 0 contains thetudent te ting and school account-

ability policies advocated by Bush."To better than 50 percent of ourgraduating seniors, the military mayoffer them the only chance to get acollege education and it's a shamethat they would not get informationabout that," Isakson aid.

Bush Campaigns to StrengthenBiological Weapons AgreementBy James GerstenzangLOS ANGELES TIMES

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Declaring that the threat posedby germ warfare and terrorism "isreal and extremely dangerous,"President Bu h opened a campaignThursday to strengthen and expandthe provisions of a 1972 treaty ban-ning biological weapons.

His proposal would extend manyof the treaty's terms to the criminallevel, taking the treaty from a gov-ernment-to-government pact regu-lating actions by countries to onealso encompassing the behavior ofindividuals.

The Biological and ToxinWeapons Convention, which 144nations have ratified, bans the devel-opment, production and possessionof all biological weapons. But "thesource of biological weapons hasnot been eradicated," PresidentBush said. "Instead, the threat isgrowing."

In a statement seemingly linkingthe outbreak of anthrax cases in theUnited States to the terrorist hijack-

fig , Bush added: "ince ept. 11,Am rica and others have been con-fronted by the evils the e weaponcan inflict. Thi threat is real andextremely dangerou . Rogue tatesand terrorists posse s these weaponsand are willing to use them."

While Bush and some senioradministration officials have aidthat they would not be surprised ifOsama bin Laden, who they say isre ponsible for the Sept. 11 attacks,has also had a hand in the spread ofanthrax, the FBI and the CIA saythey have found nothing that con-nects the leader of the al-Qaida ter-rorist network to the germs.

The president proposed that the144 treaty participants enact "strictcriminal legislation" prohibitingbiological warfare activities, bringthe United Nations into investiga-tions of suspicious outbreaks orallegations of biological weaponsuse, and establish a code of ethicalconduct to guide the work of biosci-entists.

His measure would also committhe signatories to improving interna-

tiona] efforts at controlling disea eand enhancing procedures to speedresponse team to sites of diseaseoutbreaks. It would also e tablishmechanism in each country tooversee the security and geneticengineering of pathogenic organ-isms.

Signatorie to the treaty arecheduled to meet in Geneva for

three weeks beginning ov. 19.Treaty review e sions are held reg-ularly every five years.

If accepted by the other nations,the admini tration's plan wouldredefine the pact to take into consid-eration global geopolitical change ,such as the increased fear of bioter-rorism, that have occurred over thepast three decades. But it would not,Bush conceded offer "a completesolution to the use of pathogens andbiotechnology for evil purposes."

Although given sudden timeli-ness by the terrorist attack and themysterious spread of anthrax, thepresident's announcement reflectsthe latest twist in a seven-year effortto modernize the treaty.

Indonesian President. Urges HaltTo U.S. Bombing of MghanistanBy Richard C. PaddockLOS ANGELES TIMES

JAKARTA, INDONE lA

Indonesia President MegawatiSukarnoputri, reflecting growingdiscontent among Muslims with theU.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan,called Thursday for a cease-fire anda negotiated end to the conflict.

Megawati, whose country hasthe world's largest Muslim popula-tion, endorsed the U.S. war on ter-rorism before the bombing began.But she said protracted airstrikesand the killing of Afghan civilianscould undermine international sup-port for the campaign.

"Prolonged military action is notonly counterproductive but also canweaken the global coalition's jointeffort to combat terrorism," she saidin a speech before Indonesia's 700-member People's ConsultativeAssembly. "We appeal for a human-itarian pause."

Megawati also called on theUnited States to offer proof thatOsama bin Laden was responsiblefor the Sept. 11 attacks on NewYork and the Pentagon. The Bushadministration contends that binLaden was behind the hijackingsand that he is hiding in Afghanistanunder the protection of the Talibanregime.

Megawati said the United Statesshould pursue suspected terroristsby judicial means, not military ones.

"Those found to be involved interror activities should be heldresponsible and taken to court," shesaid. "It is an obligation of everyparty to help find and show to theworld the convincing evidence ofconnection of any elements alleged-ly involved in these irresponsibleactions before taking measures tocombat terrorism."

Megawati's comments appearedto contradict her support for theUnited States when she met withPresident Bush in Washington onSept. 19.

At the time, she called theattacks "the worst atrocity ... in thehistory of civilization" and noddedbefore television cameras as Bushdiscussed the many ways in whichnations could contribute to the anti-terror campaign.

After the United States beganbombing Afghanistan on Oct. 7,however, Megawati became moremindful of political concerns athome.

Fundamentalist Muslims beganstaging anti-American protests inJakarta, the Indonesian capital.Extremist Islamic groups threatenedto expel or even kill Americans if

the bombing continued.Some rival politicians sided with

the fundamentalists, threatening tocreate further instability in the tur-bulent country.

Even Vice President HamzahHaz joined in, saying that thedestruction of the World Trade Cen-ter would "cleanse the sins" of theUnited States.

In October, Megawati began tobacktrack on her commitment toBush, saying that bombing a sover-eign state in the guise of attackingterrorists was unacceptable.

In her speech Thursday,Megawati didn't cite the UnitedStates or Afghanistan by name butdiscussed them in the context ofwhat she called "the tragedy ofSept. 11."

She criticized those who commitacts of terror to bring about politicalchange and noted the potentiallydevastating effect the trade centerattack could have on the globaleconomy and Indonesia.

"International terrorism commit-ted by whomever and for whateverreason is clearly unacceptable toall," she said. "It has also resulted ina widespread fear and might lead tothe adverse impact on economicactivities we are counting on forhuman prosperity."

Mail Quarantine Plagues GovernmentAnthrax OutbreaksDisrupt WashingtonPostal ServiceBy Elizabeth ShogrenLOS ANGELES TIMES

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At the Labor Department, whereincoming mail has been disruptedfor 10 days, dozens of enforcementcases are jeopardized because thetiming on legal deadlines is setwhen a litigant mails a document.

At the passport office, applica-tions for passports have not beenopened, so applicants' foreign tripscould be in peril.

And at the Capitol congression-al staffers charged with reading con-stituents' mail have been dispatchedto district and state office since nomail is coming to Capitol Hill.

The mountain of mail that hasbeen sequestered from agencie andCongress because of the anthraxscare represents thousands ofattempts by Americans to eek theservices of their government.

Greater dependence on phones,

faxes, express mail and e-mail hasfilled in many of the gaps, but thecutoff of postal service has compli-cated government operations fromthe Department of Veterans Affairsto the Patent and Trademark Office.

At least 30 tons of mail has beentrucked to Lima, Ohio, where a pri-vate company will irradiate it to kilJany anthrax bacteria with machinessuch as the ones used to decontami-nate meat. It will be shipped back toWashington, where FBI agents andpostal inspectors will analyze it forclues about the anthrax cases.

Meanwhile Labor Departmentofficials have been reaching out tojudge and the other parties to iden-tify what documents might beamong the millions of pieces beingheld - and whether legal deadlinescan be extended until the paperworkcan be refiled.

"It has forced u to do a lot oflegwork," said tuart Royspoke man for the department.

The Wa hington bureau of theU.S. pa sport office, which receivemail from two facilities wherepo tal workers have contractedanthrax, has topped opening mail.

"It's obviously inconvenient,"said State Department spokesmanRichard Boucher. 'We are workingwith the Postal Service and others totry to get this back up and runningas soon as possible."

For Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) the lack of mail added to theconfusion of being locked out of heroffice in the Hart Senate OfficeBuilding, which is still being testedfor anthrax. Boxer usually gets5 000 to 10,000 letters a week.

"It' another link to folks backhome," said David Sandretti, thesenator's spokesman. "We are stillgetting phone calls and e-mail. Butwhen someone its down at akitchen table and writes a letter andlicks a stamp - that's a powerfulme sage to an elected official. Whenit' gone, it' missed, no questionabout it."

Con tituent mail isn't the onlything congre sional offices are miss-ing. The scheduler for Rep. Randy"Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif) hashad the new respon ibility of chas-ing down bills that are among thequarantined mail, according to hisspokeswoman Harmony Allen.

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.8. to hange ood Pack t ColorTo Avoid Confusion with Bombs

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The Pentagon announced Thur day it would change the color ofairdropped food packets from yellow to blue after United ations andhuman rights groups said they might be confused with the yellowcanisters of unexploded bomblets from cluster bombs dropped inAfghanistan.

"It is unfortunate that the cluster bomb - the unexploded ones- are the arne color as the food packet ," aid Gen. Richard Myers,chairman of the Joint Chiefs of taff. He said both the packets andthe bomblets were yellow 0 they would be easily vi ible.

"Unfortunately they get used to running to yellow," he said, not-ing the possibility that Afghan civilians might mistake a bomblet fora food packet. He aid he did not know how long it would take tochange the food packet color. "That, obviously, will take some time,"he said. "because there are many in the pipeline."

But Human Rights Watch said the Pentagon should stop droppingthe cluster bombs, which it aid posed a particular hazard to civiliansregardless of the color of the food packets. Because these weaponsspread bomblets over such wide areas and because the bomb1ets fre-quently fail to explode on impact, Human Rights Watch said, they"cause unacceptable civilian casualties both during and after con-flict."

Hopkins Expert to OverseeU.S. Public Health Preparedness

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Dr. Donald A Henderson, founder of the Johns Hopkins Centerfor Civilian Biodefense Studies, was named Thursday to oversee thefederal government's response to public health emergencies, includ-ing the recent anthrax attacks.

His appointment as director of the newly created Office of PublicHealth Preparedness was announced Thursday by Health and HumanServices Secretary Tommy G. Thompson.

"Dr. Henderson brings a lifetime of preparation for the demandsof this job, and we are fortunate to have him join the department on afull-time basis," Thompson said.

Henderson, who is 73, directed the World Health Organization'ssuccessful campaign to eradicate smallpox from 1966 to 1977 andlater served as dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene andPublic Health.

Henderson has directed the Johns Hopkins biodefense center forfour years, working to raise awareness of the medical and publichealth threats posed by bioterrorism, Dr. Tara O'Toole, who hasserved as deputy director of the center, will immediately replace Hen-derson as director.

In addition to his new position, Henderson will continue to head anational advisory council on public health pr paredness, a post towhich he was recently appointed.

Panel Urges CreationOf Vaccine Facility

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A federal commission recommended Thur day that the govern-ment create a facility to develop and produce vaccines to combatbioterrorism.

The panel, headed by Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, said a nationallaboratory is vital to respond to a massive biological attack.

"The private sector is unlikely to be the answer to some of themore difficult vaccine issues" said the bipartisan panel, which wasappointed by Congress in 1999. "Direct government ownership orsponsor hip is likely to be the only reasonable answer for producingvaccines for certain bio-organisms - anthrax and smallpox being atthe top of the list."

This summer, the Defen e Department estimated that it wouldcost 1.56 billion to build a vaccine plant and run it for 25 years.

Only one company produces anthrax vaccine, but its factory hasnot been able to ship any doses for three years because of productionproblems. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to inspectthe factory soon, and BioPort Corp. could resume shipment bymonth's end.

Federal officials have awarded a contract to another company,Acambis, to produce 54million doses of smallpox vaccine.

The Health and Human Services Department is in the process ofselecting other companie to produce 250 million more doses by nextyear. HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said his department hadwhittled its list to four candidates, and those companies must submitdetailed proposals by Monday.

Civil Service Employees May Wm4.6 Percent Pay Increase

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Congress has taken a giant step toward providing an average 4.6percent pay increa e for the civil service next year.

For federal employees, who have been roiled by the ept. 11 ter-rorist attacks and an expanding number of anthrax cases, the pay raiseprovides a dash of good cheer.

A 4.6 percent rai e, in ballpark terms, would be worth $3,025 tofederal employees who earn 65, 02 - the average civil servicealary in the Washington area. Exact pay number will be released

near year's end, after the Bush administration calculates city-by-cityraises that take into account locality pay" formulas.

House and Senate negotiators agreed to the 4.6 percent averageraise last wee. In a 399 to 85 vote Wednesday, the House approvedthe raise Wednesday as part of the fiscal 2002 Treasury Department,Po tal ervice and general government operations appropriations bill.

fter the enate signs off on the bill, it will go to President Bush forhis signature.

ovember 2, 200 1

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On page 18 of Tuesday's issue, a captionmisidentified the subject of a photograph.The speaker at Monday night's Under-graduate Association meeting was Deanfor Undergraduate Education Robert P.Redwine, not Dean Robert Randolph.

sible. In practical terms, this means killing theleaders of AI Queda and destroying the Tal-iban government that ha supported and madepossible the war that the Islamic fascists arewaging against us.

Miss mith's naive suggestion that theUnited States rely on international or foreignjudicial sy terns to defend us ignores com-pletely the role of the Taliban (and perhapsother foreign powers) in sponsoring theseattacks, as well as the fact that reliance onlegal process to re pond to past attacks (Kho-bar towers, WTC 1993, USS Cole) has onlyencouraged our enemies to bring the war toour shores. Does Miss mith have any doubtthat AI Queda would light off a nuclear devicein Manhattan (or D.C., or San Francisco ormaybe even Cambridge) if and when theyobtain one? Does she really think that a five-year negotiation with the Taliban over theterms on which bin Laden might be turnedover to a court in Malaysia would do anythingto prevent that?

Ultimately, Miss Smith eems to be com-plaining that the United tates is ruthles inwaging war. There is orne truth to this. In

World War II, the United States killed some900,000 Japanese civilians, including over80,000 in one raid on Tokyo. I don't know theexact number of German civilians who werekilled, but it was comparable. I guess AlQueda and the Taliban should have thought ofthis before they committed an act of waragainst the United States. We didn't seek thiswar, but I for one hope that the Governmentwill do whatever it takes to win it.

Douglas B. Levene '73

As a an alumnus, I read Aimee Smith'scolumn of October 26 ["U.S. Genocide: TheMirror Loom Large"] with a mixture of dis-may and amu ement. First, the humor: I amglad to see that tudents today are as childish-ly and even foolishly idealistic as we were. Iwould not want to go back to read some of thethings I wrote in 1970.

As for the dismay, I fear that Miss Smithha let her anti-American ideology blind herto the facts. The heart of her argument is herclaim that the United States is "taking ... inno-cent lives to make a point," a policy which he"abhor[s]." I, too, would abhor such a policy,and so would President Bush. Killing inno-cents just to publicize one's point of view isreprehensible - as we learned on eptember11, one man's terrorist is ... another man'sterrorist. However, killing in self-defense isjustifiable by any measure. Here, the point ofthis war is to protect all of us - includingMiss Smith - by destroying the foreign ene-mies who attacked us on September 11 andwho have announced in no uncertain termtheir intent to kill as many Americans as po -

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The War Thus FarMicha 1Borucke

America's ew War on Terrori m" is noteven two months old, and the extent of thedamage i not clear to the American public.

till, what little information has trickledthrough the wire has di turbed me. ot thatany of what I have to say stray from the cur-rent patterns of war. On the contrary, the peo-ple suffering now have always uffered duringwar, the people benefitting now have alwaysbenefitted- from war, and the people being liedto now have always been lied to during war.

Twenty-five straight days of U .. attackshave crippled an already disabled country. Wehave already hit International Red Cross ta-tions in Afghanistan, not once, but twice.Seems that big red cross on top of the build-ing wasn't a clear enough indication of ahumanitarian operation.

Maybe it was.The U.S. food drops have made us feel all

warm and cozy knowing that we may begoing after terrorists, but not innocent civil-ians. It's reported that the drops, which arenowhere near enough for the population, havealready hit and killed civilians. In addition,children have mistaken cluster bombs for foodpackages, both having been painted yellow.Meanwhile, the bombings have driven awaythe food relief agencies that the populationdepends upon for survival. If the bombingscontinue for another couple weeks, it's likelythat 7 million people - flesh and blood,remember - will starve to death. We're drop-ping landmines on the second most heavilymined nation in the world while at the sametime, we're restricting food from millions ofstarving people.

Oh, and the friends we're making acrossthe globe. Despite all the rhetoric about havingso many nations support the war effort, thepopular sentiment in several Muslim nationshas been resoundingly against the attacks onAfghanistan. Thousands have demonstratedagainst the attacks; a few have died protesting.Surely, war is a great peacemaker.

Now we are working with the NorthernAlliance rebels to overthrow the Taliban. TheUnited States would be doing such a noblething by ousting that corrupt government. Butdidn't we help put the Taliban into power? Of.course I wasn't there, but I seem to rememberreading something about the United Statesbacking the Mujahardeen out of which sprang

the Taliban. If they' e been corrupt for allthe e years, why i it now that we decide topoint out their terrible abuses of power? Doesthe suffering of the Afghani people for thepa t twenty years really matter when it does-n't suit our need? And what kind of trackrecord does the orthern Alliance have? Arewe uppo ed to as ume it is better than theTaliban just because our government i alliedwith them? Who are we to determine the gov-ernment of another nation anyway?

Those are some of the questions I have'been thinking about. Here are some more:How many dead Afghanis will it take toavenge the deaths from the World TradeCenter? Four hundred? ix thousand? Howmany children in Afghanistan will starve orget blown up before the horror of war reach-es us? One million? We're already well onour way to that number in Iraq. But I guess

Just as an exercise withabsolutely no practical value) let'sask ourselves) who is benefitingfrom this war? ![history holdstrue) the people that should bebenefitting arefew and have

a great deal ofpower.

we're not really after Iraqi children, we'reafter Saddam. And we're not really afterAfghani children; we're after bin Laden. Thechildren - collateral damage - will justhave to understand, I guess. Meanwhile, nineyears after an attack on Iraq, Saddam is stillin power. Likewise, a month and a half ofdecimating Afghanistan, and bin Laden isstill alive by all accounts. We don't evenknow where the man is. But bombs makegood press don't they? When and if we dofind bin Laden, will that justify the deathscaused by the United States?

Just as an exercise with absolutely no prac-tical value, let's ask ourselves who is benefit-ting from this war? Surely, the majority of thepeople in Afghanistan aren't benefiting toomuch. Are you better off because we'redestroying another country? Do you have a

sense of security; do you feel more free, moredemocratic? Is your financial situation lookingbetter now that we're at war? ot too manypeople I know have had their en e of self-worth improved by the war. If hi tory holdstrue, the people that hould be benefitting arefew, and ha e a great deal of power.

Indeed that i e actly what is happening.Lockheed-Martin recently secured a 200 bil-lion contract for 3,000 new planes. Given thatthis huge deal was in the works prior to theterrorist attacks it till speaks of the profiteer-ing of the defense sector during times of war.While the economy goes southward andunemployment reaches dizzying heights, wecan take comfort in the fact that the "defense"sector will have a good showing in the thirdquarter. Or maybe, just maybe, with the long,drawn-out war that is being promised, ourscan become a permanent war economy - justlike the one president of General Electric haddreamed of so long ago.

We can't forget about the benefits reapedby Bush, though. Bush's approval rating hasgone up considerably since the war began,with the bulk of that increase coming fromliberals (I'm assuming). To throw one's sup-port behind leader who are fighting for thecommon interest, and even to forgive pastgrievances of those leaders in times of crisisis natural, almost. One would have to assume

, that these deserving leaders have any notionof what the common interest is; For the pastten months, the Bush administration hasshown time and again that they do not. Butthe nationalism and patriotism is stirred up inthe media, showing only one opinion, oneoption: that of complete support for Bushand for the war.

All the while, we at MIT go on like noth-ing has ever happened. While our governmenttears apart a country far off in the distance, wecontinue with classes, problem sets, and laun-dry. We confine our involvement to a simpleglance at the television, or maybe even con-ducting research that will eventually be usedin war. Are we that isolated that we don'tcare? Will we continue thinking that ourDOD-funded research won't be used for war?Will we just not think about it at all? That'swhat the people who will gain from a pro-longed war want: your overt approval, youractive participation, or your complete apathy.Either way, the rich get richer, and everyoneelse becomes afraid, repressed, emaciated orgets killed.

The Second Amendment, ReaffirmedMatt Craighead

A recent court decision - watched intent-ly by groups of all persuasions but largelyignored in the media - has permanentlyreshaped the battle over the Second Amend-ment. In short, the question debated by a fed-eral appeals court in Us. vs. Emerson was:does the Second Amendment protect the rightof individuals to bear arms?

For years, anti-gun activists used the con-troversial and unclear 1939 Supreme Courtdecision U.S. vs. Miller to argue that theamendment only protects the right of states toempower individuals to bear arms for the pur-pose of a state militia.

The people at Handgun Control, Inc., andelsewhere treated the Second Amendment as anoutdated relic of a different time. They misrep-resented supporters of the right to bear arms aslunatics who want to arm everyone and hisbrother with assault rifles; they pointed to radi-cal right-wing militias who talked about the"black helicopters" of the United ations. Thestraw man of a society "armed to the teeth"haunted the pro-gun movement to no end.

ow, the dynamics have changed. The rightto bear arms is back with a vengeance.

ew scholarship on the Founding Fathershas demonstrated that they really did intend onwide pread gun ownership, not only for huntingor self-defense against criminals or even foreigninvaders, but also to protect against a potentiallyoppre sive federal government. The FoundingFathers were themselves revolutionaries, afterall. Today, they would look like right-wing nut-ca es, clamoring for limited government withstrictly enumerated powers (oh, the humanity!).

Yale law professor John Lott, author of thebook More Guns, Less Crime, and criminolo-gist Gary Kleck have kicked off additionaldebate . KJeck ha been putting together tatis-tics about how often guns are u ed in self-defense - and the number are in the millionsevery year. The only rea on we think otherwi e,KJeck uggests is that guns are usually not firedwhen used in self-defense, and that the mediararely reports uch incidents, while endlesslyhyping mass shooting like Columbine.

Lott has studied the effects of "concealed-carry" laws. These laws require that everyapplicant for a concealed-carry permit whomeets certain conditions (age, firearms training,no' criminal record, etc.) be granted one. (Manylocalities allow these permits on special request,but they are rarely granted, so the law ensuresthat they will be widely available.) Lott hasfound, in comparing states with and withoutconcealed-carry laws, that these laws deter vio-lent crime. They reduce murder, and theyreduce public mass murder considerably(because the murderers are at such great riskthemselves). They also have none of the nega-tive side effects critics allege they might have.

But all this is small game compared to Us.vs. Emerson - which is, in fact, a bona fidedisaster for the anti-gun movement. Thespecifics of the particular case are largelyirrelevant; a man sued on Second Amendmentgrounds that his domestic-abuse record couldnot be used to restrict his right to bear arms.The federal appeals court rejected that argu-ment, and probably reasonably so, but thatwas the least important contention. Emersonargued the individual-rights position on theSecond Amendment, and the Clinton JusticeDepartment argued the states' rights (or statemilitia) position. Both pro- and anti-gungroups filed numerous legal briefs on the mat-ter. When all the evidence was scrutinized,both the original trial judge and the federalappeals court ruled that the individual-rightsposition was correct, discarding all claims thatthe Second Amendment does not protect anindividual right to bear arm .

The argument is imple. The Secondmendment read , ' A well regulated Militia,

being nece sary to the ecurity of a free Statethe right of the people to keep and bear Arms,hall not be infringed." This grammar is archa-

ic, but the structure is simple. The first clause(about the militia) i simply a modifier a justifi-cation for the main clause. That i , one of theprimary reasons for the right is 0 that thenation will have a militia. Indeed, U. . CodeTitle 10, ection 311 still state that "the militiaof the United tate consi ts of all able-bodiedmales at least 17 year of age ... and under 45years of age ... who are .'. citizens of the

Unites States." I am - as are many of youreaders - a member of "the unorganized mili-tia" under federal law. But the main clause itselfstill remains unqualified; the right is not contin-gent on the existence of the militia.

The next claim of the Justice Departmentwas that "the right of the people" describe acollective, not individual, right. Yet this contra-dicts the univer ally acknowledged interpreta-tions of the First and Fourth Amendments,where the same phrase denotes an individualright. The structure of the Bill of Rights alsosuggests otherwise. All but the last two amend-ments list the fundamental individual rights; andthe only amendment that refers to states' rightsis the Tenth. (The Tenth merely clarifie that thelist of enumerated powers in the Constitution isan upper bound on the powers of the federalgovernment, not a lower bound.)

if all this wasn't enough, the Clinton Jus-tice Department is now defunct. John Ashcroftruns the Bush Justice Department, and he hasexplicitly stated that he holds an individual-rights view of the Second Amendment. So thecase is unlikely to be appealed.

The court did not set forth a detailed stan-dard on what types of gun regulations arepermissible; but the implication of the deci-sion is that the standard is extremely high,just as it i for the First Amendment. That is,there is to be a presumption that gun regula-tions are generally invalid, and that the bur-den of proof is squarely on those who assertthat guns must be regulated.

This threatens to question many of the guncontrol laws on the books. How can state justi-fy denying handgun to law-abiding adult ?How can they justify a system of licensing thatgoes beyond simple background checks? Howcan they justify laws forbidding citizens fromhaving concealed weapons? The answer, Ibelieve, is that they cannot.

In the meantime, for those of us who recog-nize that gun ownership i an es ential liberty ofany free society, a new door has opened. Thecourts have affirmed what we already knew,that our po ition is the righteous one. Our ban-ner is the Constitution; our rallying cry, the Billof Righ . Let our enemies tremble at our new-found might.

Patriotism orProfiteering?

Dan Tortorice

On Wednesday, October 24, the BayerDrug Corporation agreed to ell its anthrax-fighting antibiotic, Cipro, to the United tatesgovernment for 95 cents a tablet. This pricewas about one-half the price of 1.75 it nor-mally charges. Bayer announced it was sacri-ficing economic gain for the sake of thenation, and Tommy Thompson, Secretary ofHealth and Human Services, caJled this a"good deal" for the government.

ometime I hate being an economist. Iwould love to see this as Bayer sacrificing prof-its for people. But as an economi t, I know thatthis behavior is consistent with profit maximiza-tion, and there is much reason to believe thatBayer is just pursuing its own in erests.

It's a fact well-known to economists thatwhen you have a monopoly - Bayer is the soleproducer of an FDA-approved Anthrax drug -the price the monopoly will charge for its prod-uct is proportional to how sensitive demand forits product is to the price of the product. Forexample, if the amount of product I am willingto buy doesn't change with price, then Bayerwill want to charge me a very large price inorder to maximize its profits. On the other hand,if I'm very sensitive to price changes, thenBayer will charge a lower price to maximizetheir profits, because if their price is too high, Iwon't want to buy much ofthe product.

When the government decided to buy abunch of Cipro, demand for Cipro became awhole lot more sensitive to price. Before theanthrax scare, Cipro was used to treat, accord-ing to the New York Times article that reportedon Bayer s decision, "critically ill patients inhospital intensive care units." If you're a patientwho 'is critically ill, your demand isn't going tovary much with the price. But when the govern-ment starts to buy Cipro, there's a new type ofconsumer in the market, one whose demand isbased on events that may happen in the future.In this case, the demand is much less urgent,and the quantity demanded can vary, dependingon price. More importantly, there are non-FDAapproved drugs, Levaquin, produced by John-son and Johnson, -ad Tequin, produced byBri tel-Myers Squibb, that can also be used totreat anthrax. Since these drugs are not availableto the general public, the general public'sdemand for Bayer's drug is fairly fixed. Butsince these drugs can become available to thegovernment, who can give them FDA approval,the government's demand for Bayer's drugs ismuch more sensitive to the price.

There is much evidence to support the factthat Bayer is making a huge profit off its sale to

. the government. In countries where Bayer'spatent has expired, factories make a generic ver-sion of Cipro that sell for 20 cents. So it can'tco t these factories more than 20 cents to makethe drug. And while some will argue thatBayer's co ts are higher because they need tomeet government regulations, their costs areactually lower because they probably have moreefficient production processe than factories incountries with no drug standards. I hardlybelieve that Bayer's costs of production can bemuch more than 20 cents a pill, and since theyare selling 100 million pills to the government,that's a profit of 80 million dollars for Bayer.

orne may argue that Bayer has a right toprofit off its drugs since it is the group that didthe research and development to make the drugin the first place. And they may be right. Mypoint here is not to condemn Bayer for lookingout for its own interests, but to point out thatthey are not giving America a good deal. Theyare not flag-waving patriotic citizens of Ameri-ca, but a company maximizing its profit.

One more thing along these lines must besaid. It i not necessary for Bayer to make aprofit off its ale to the government in order toupport re earch and development. When Bayer

decided to research how to make an antibioticthat was effective against airborne bacteria(such a anthrax), it based its decision on theprofits it could expect to make off the drug.Since this ale to the government is an unex-pected event (hopefully), it shouldn't haveentered into Bayer's decision-making process.In other words, Bayer would still have devel-oped the drug if it knew that there was going tobe a huge U.S. demand for the drug and that theUnited States would not allow them to chargeabove cost when they sold the drug to the gov-ernment. Bayer' current profiteering is not thenecessary reward for re earch and developmentthat normal drug sale are.

It's times like these that make me hate beingan economist. I'd love to sit back in blis fulignorance, thinking of Bayer as a corporationwith a ocial conscience, doing its patrioticduty, but economics tell me that this behavior isjust what we would expect from a profiteer.

ovember 2, 200 1Page6 THE

THE ARTSFit REVIEW

TheCardGuyRicky Jay and ~tan " ystify arketTheater

'Waking Life'AD ea ofa FiimB Joyce LeeSTAFF WRiTER

Director: Richard LinklaterWriter: Richard LinklaterStarring: Wiley Wiggin, Ethan Hawke, JulieDelpyRated: R

By Bence 01 eczkySTAFF WRiTER

had thi really weird dream a few nightsago. I'm ure you want to hear about it, 0

I'll ju t tell you anyway. 0 I foundmyself with ome friends in a den ely

packed, tiflingly hot theater about to eeWaking Life. Then the movie started. Funnything ... if I wanted to write a review of thefilm I saw in my dream it would probably goomething like this ...

iley iggin (Dazed and Confused)star in director Richard Linklater's (BeforeSunri e, Dazed and Confused) urreali ticbuffet of a film que tioning the nature of con-ciou ne . eemingly aimle in sequence

and intriguing in ub tance the film meandersfrom one anonymou character to anotherwhile stopping to gather the gist of each dia-logue (or monologue).

The ucces ion of character range fromranting philo ophers to friends chatting overcoffee. The connection between thesevignettes and Wiggins' per ona does notbecome established until halfway through thefilm - and even his actual state of existence. isuncertain throughout the entire film. He can-not decide whether or not he is "awake." Hebegins to que tion hi agency within the worldhe thinks he exists in. Sound confusing yet?

As di orienting as Waking Life is, it willnot change your life. The conversations,though intriguing, feel like they could havebeen packaged by an inspired, intellectual

TV (is this an oxymoron?), posse sing justthe right amount of extemporaneous manner-

Ricky Jay and his 52 AssistantThe Market TheaterThrough November 24,2001

David Jewell and Caveh Zahedi (right) in Waking Ufe.here is something magical about ee-ing a performer at the top of his tradeup close and per onal, haring hiskill with you. An athlete, a dancer, a

painter, or even a car mechanic can trike uswith awe - as can, of course, a magician.Ricky Jay, one of the world' mo t famousleight-of-hand artists, is in town with hi one-man show for a month-long run at the newlyinaugurated arket Theatre in Harvard

quare, and his performance is an astoundingshowcase of skill and artistry.

Directed by the famou playwright andfilm director David amet, Ricky Jay and his52 Assistants is more than just a magic how,it's at once a comedy night, a poetry reading,and piece of theater. t the center of the expe-rience i Ricky Jay's card trick, some ofwhich he explains most of which he doe n't.

deck of cards in hi hands certainly go along way, but to fill the evening he intermin-

results is a sumptuous visual feast - almostas if you had awakened in a world colored byshifting oil pastels. Illustrations often comple-ment the dialogue, serving to clarify specificphilosophical points, but also revealing theambiguous pictorial basis of communication.During the course of their speeches, somecharacters change color and/or shape, render-ing both speech and speaker fascinating andfleeting. The sheer effect of the undulatingmedium lingers with the viewer long after thetheoretical details fade.

If you enjoy being challenged by a film'smedium as well as narrative, go try thismovie. Better yet, go with a group and thentalk about it afterwards. Even after you ver-bally paint yourself into a comer trying to pindown that hilarious concept of the "holymoment" or effectively kill the ideas of con-sciousness and dreaming with redundant over-discussion, you'll still appreciate the wash ofmeandering philosophy, of optical evanes-cence, and of possibility.

Then you can tell me whether or not I real-ly watched the film - or if it was all a dream.Fred Choi, Winnie Yang, and Austin Wangcontributed to this review.

isms to be di armingly cool. For example, thefilm' too-quotable tagIine queries "Are weJeep-walking through our waking state or

wake-walking through our dreams?"Most of the characters gush about some

aspect of pop-philosophy, but several refresh-ingly original characters evoke laughter, emo-tion, and curiosity. Linklater's informalapproach makes many of these philosophicalconcept more acee sible for his audience -much like that edgy introduction to philoso-phy course you've always wanted to take.

Playing in limited engagements across thenation, Waking Life will end up further self-selecting its audience. Linklater creates anuncompromising narrative and style thatmakes the first 30 minutes hard to stomach (inmore ways than one). Several people walkedout of the movie when we went to see it -which makes me curious as to what theyexpected in the first place. The trailer gives agood sense of what to expect, and offers theviewer a tantalizing taste of the best part ofthe film - the incredible medium.

Using new technology called rotoscoping,the film was shot and then painted over withadded animation in some sections. What

Takemitsu, Dutilleux, and BeethovenBoston Symphony Orchestra & Ozawa Deliver Quality Performance

these transitions. Third, Ozawa effectivelyemployed the soloists in working with the restof the orchestra. There was harmony on thisfront, and it made for a pleasant rendition ofthe piece.

Dutilleux's The Shadows of Time wascomposed in five parts. The first move-ment, "Les Heures," was technically diffi-cult and probably the most successful of thefive. The emotionally charged piece incor-porated significant brass syncopation andfour children singing at the front of thestage. The other sections, such as the"Vagues de lumiere" and "Dominantebleue," also exhibited Ozawa's skillin coordinating the complexitiesof harmonizing the vari ous .parts, but was less successfulin doing so than the first two If

movements. The four chiI-·1.dren who performed for onlya brief time seemed more adisplay item than musical inno-,vation, and their soothing voices (IiIcould have been incorporated into i

the pieces more extensively. They'seemed to be getting bored and antsy .for the minutes on end when theywere not doing anything on stage.

The final piece, Beethoven's ThirdSymphony in E-flat, Opus 55, Eroicawas clearly the most successful ofthe night. ot that I have a predilec-tion towards the traditional, butthe Beethoven was clearly anexample where Ozawa's forteof accentuating subtle indi-vidual parts came through.He began the piece withoutconducting from a manu-script as the piece forms partof the B O's standard reper-toire. onetheless, with thewhole score memorized, he .began the 'Allegro conbrio" with an impas ionedintroduction and goodeparation of tones in

the various parts. Theprofundity and clarityof voice within each

orchestral part was apparent.As Ozawa engaged in waving acrobatics

with his baton, the unity and focus of theorchestra was powerful. Like a surgeon dis-secting the heart from the pericardium, Ozawaended his concert just as skillfully as he beganit. The standing ovation that ensued was a tes-tament to another successful performance. Itis unfortunate that this should be one of hislast concerts in Boston, but alas, plane ticketsto Vienna aren't so bad right now.

This weekend's BSO concertfeatures Ives, Mozart,Kurtdg, and Schubert with conductor Federico

Cortese. Ozawa will return to SymphonyHall for a Beethoven and Bartok

concert in the second week ofDecember.

By Scott LeeSTAFF WRJTER

Boston Symphony OrchestraSymphony HallFriday, October 26, 2001

n his last season with the with the BostonSymphony Orchestra, conductor SeijiOzawa gave another outstanding farewellconcert. At 66, Ozawa has had a prolific

28 year career with the BSO during which hehas won many awards and had various partsof Symphony Hall renamed after himself.

With the appointment of James Levine asthe new usic Director Designate (effective

eptember 2002), this concert provided one ofthe last glimpses of Ozawa in ymphony Hall.

hi tenure at the Vienna State Opera beginsnext year, Ozawa will shift more of his attentionto opera and Ie to orche tral pieces. As such,'it was a rare opportunity to see a magnificentconductor give his final rendition of Takemit-su s Dream/Window, Dutilleux s Shadows ofTime, and Beethoven' Third Symphony in E-flat.

The orman V. and Ellen B. BallouMemorial concert, a it was termed, filledsymphony hall to capacity, although it wasonly mid-day. onetheless, there was excite-ment in the air, in anticipation of what arenowned master would do in one of his lastconcerts.

As the lights dimmed, the petite man withan uncouth mass of gray hair emerged frombehind the flutes. Received by a rousing ova-tion, he began his fir t piece.

Takemitsu's Dream/Window, a modernpiece which was composed in 1985, has avariety of post-modern and impressioni tinfluences. Ozawa decided to accentuate thesefeature through a variety of maneuvers. Fir t,the eating arrangement placed the principalflute in the concertmaster seat a well asshifting many violins to the oppo ite ectionof the floor. This very atypical arrangementfurther accentuated the ten ion brought aboutthe dis onance exhibited throughout the piece.

econd, the piece began like Debussy andended like Bartok. In between, the lyricalstyle compo ed on di onant chords was suc-cessful becau e Ozawa killfully balanced

MARKET THEATERRenowned card magician Ricky Jaybrings his act to Boston.

gles his trickeries with anecdotes and storiesabout men who have gone before him, show-ing us their favorite number . He does it witho much affection and wry humor that it's

hard not to smile all the way through the twohour how.

He reads poetry, all linked to his magictrade, with empathy and sophistication, givingthe evening an unlikely literary quality., Every profession is a conspiracy againstlaity' he quotes George Bernard Shaw, andthose words have never rung so true. It's espe-cially grueling for someone who has lost a lotof money at the card table to see the ease withwhich he deals whatever cards he want .

His skillful handling of the cards is notrestricted to tricks. He also does some ratherathletic maneuvers throwing his faithfulassistants (read: cards) into a watermelon, andboomeranging them into the air, then cutting .them in half on their way bac with a pair ofgiant scissors. It's the kind of light entertain-ment that we so sorely need in troubled timeslike these, and even though Ricky Jay doesnot allow children (under 17) into the audi-ence, it's exactly the childlike spirit he evokesin his audience that makes the productionwork so well.

The show, which ha also been shown onthe HBO network, requires intimacy, and theredecorated dining room that i the arketTheatre is a very fitting venue. But the seatsare not reserved and the ightlines for someof the back row are compromi ed, so it paysto how up early.

The how run until the 24th of ovemberand tic et are 50, with tudent rush ticketseUing for 10 one hour prior to each perf or-

mane . The Theater i located in Harvardquare above the Grendel Restaurant.

~Conductor Seiji Ozawa led theBSO last weekend; his nextconcert is in early December.

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INIERVIEW FILM REVIEW**

A UVrdwith the Devil Chilled to the 'Bones'Snoop Doggs Reprisal as a Full Fledged ActorHandsome Devil Shares Though~ on Music, Life

ogy that can be heard on any of his albums, suchas "It's a dog eat dog world brotha." Howeverthe plot managed to shine through the weak act-ing. Unlike the past dozen horror films, Boneswas actually unpredictable and original.

And let be honest folks, most of us don'tgo to see horror films for the great acting orwell-developed plot anyways. Our objective isto be scared by watching obscene amounts ofblood and gore. And here is where Bones suc-ceeds. The visual effects of this movie, com-plete with maggots, talking heads, and a man-eating dog, is what leaves moviegoers feelingsatisfied or at least nauseous.

In short, expect to have fun; don't expectthis one to be nominated for an Oscar.

By Devdoot MajumdarARTS EDITOR

neighborhood and poor neighborhood . Youknow, probably 90% of human beings arejackasses. I remember hearing the same slamabout Zach from Rage Against achine ...he's from Irvine! But you know, in every way,he's got every right to be pissed off as any-body in the ghetto or any white trash dude.The place where you live doesn't give youany reason to be pi sed off - it's the people.

By Ashley Robinson

JjJtera summer of touring with Lit, theOrange County-based Hand orneDevil is again on tour and coming to

oston on Sunday. Danny Walker,lead singer and guitarist, took a little time outto talk to The Tech from "just outside a club inGrand Rapids, MI." The band's members areDanny Walker, guitari t Billie Stevens, drum-mer Keith Morgan, and bassi t DarrenRoberts.

The Tech: What does the latest album meanto you guys musically?

Danny Walker: Youknow it's just the style ofmusic that we've alwaysenjoyed playing. Ideally, aclash between AC/DCmeets Handsome Deviltype of thing. Somethingwith some guts but at thesame time telling some sto-ries. Defmitely stuff that'sfun to play life and hassome beef to it.

Directed by Ernest R. DickersonWritten by Adam Simon and Tim MetcalfeStarring Snoop Doggy Dogg, Pam Grier,Michael T. Weiss, and Cliffton PowellRatedR

ow we have seen it all. It tarted withthe slew of teenage-slasher horrorfilms, followed by the parodies of theteenage-sla her horror films. ow

Hollywood has derived a new formula for thisyear's scary flick: Horror meets noop-Doggin director Ernest Dickerson's Bones.

A if the ghetto i n't scary enough, thimovie is set in a dilapidated neighborhood,which was once Jimmy Bones' (SnoopDoggy Dogg) stomping grounds back in theday. Any aficionado of Snoop can appreciatethe 70's-pimp-style of hi character. Com-plete with a perm, fly threads, and a deuceand a quarter, Jimmy was the pillar of hiscommunity before being murdered by a cor-rupt cop (Michael T. Weiss) who wanted tointroduce crack cocaine into the neighbor-hood. Betrayed by his close t friends, includ-ing his girlfriend Pearl (pam Grier), Jimmy'sgho t haunts his once luscious brown tone.

The past unfolds in a eries of flashbacks,as a group of middle-class kids buy Jimmy'sold brownstone in an attempt to convert itinto a nightclub. They inadvertently releaseJimmy's ghost, which returns to human formvia the hunger of the kid's stray red-eyeddog, ironically named Bones. On the prowlagain Jimmy Bones is in search of vengeancefor those who betrayed him.

True, Snoop Dogg has absolutely no bu i-ness on the silver screen, and true the supportingcast failed to support him ... Despite this, Bonessomehow still provides entertainment. It is obvi-ous, by the limited role Snoop actually played,that the director was aware of their star's lack oftalent. Most of his lines consisted of the pimpol-

TT: You guys are signed to a big label, so Iwas wondering if you had any horror storiesfrom the dark underbelly of corporate music?

DW: [Laughter] Ohit's a very evil busine s,man. I could tell you, butsomebody would proba-bly kill me. BMG is amuch more reputablecompany than a lot of themajors out there. They'vebeen around the longest.Wait, hey is MIT, is thatlike a Musician's Insti-tute?

TT: Oh hell no, it'sthe Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology.

D W: I thought it was. I thought it was astraight; it wasn't ju t a school with just amusic thing, like Berklee.

TT: I've noticed youguys are really into playinglive. What's the live Handsome Devil experi-ence made of?

D W: Well we want to make sure we'reworking - we're not competitive guys, butwe want to make sure that we're out there atthe top of our game in terms of putting out ashow. Basically, if we're not completelydrained when it's over, then we've failed. Ifpeople say, "Oh they sucked, but boy theykicked ass" I'd be happy." I just think it's agood practice to give people a good show.

TT: Could you ever see yourself get cozywith Carson Daly?

DW: You know, I hope not. I hope to Godwe don't end up having to stroke that far. Infact, I don't think we're of that fiber wherethey'd throw us into that spot. I guess youhave to be flexible in this business. But mostradio stations have a list of rules - Hand-some Devil's rules - don't let them drink,and don't let them swear too much. Obvious-ly we were set up to be that type of thing. Idon't know Carson, so I don't have him.

TT: Wildest thing you've ever done at theend of a show?

D W: At the end of a show ... it's hard tosay. Probably in Savannah, Georgia, we hadsome trouble. We were playing with Puddleof Mud and Saliva, it was some radio eventdown there. We go on the show, and somepromoter wanted us to get off before we haddone our last song, tried to cut us off. But weweren't going to have it, so I continued tointroduce the song and the promoters weretrying to kill the monitor feed on stage so theband can't hear anything. I ignored it, and wedid two more songs without any monitors,fighting off people on the sides of the stage,giving us the hook.

SHANE HARVEY

Snoop Dogg (Jimmy Bones) stars in thelatest horror-thriller (since JeepersCreepers), Bones.

FILM REVIEW* When he captures these thirteen pecial gho ',a gateway opensup that combines heaven and hell, and even combine the past,present, and future.

Cyrus (the ghost collector) die, and leaves his mansion to hispoor brother Arthur (Tony halhoud), who promptly mo e inwith his family. What they don't understand is that the wholehouse is made of the special glas , and Latin inscriptions can befound on e ery single pane. Although Kathy Kriticos (ShannonElizabeth) had a small role in the movie, the movie might havebeen much better if he had a more involved role. I can't think ofanyone who doe n't belie e that hannon Elizabeth is a greatactress. (Anyone remember American Pie and American Pie 2? )

Embeth Davidtz plays Kalina, a woman who e busine s dealwith releasing spirits. Kalina, the archetypal horror genre hero-ine, attempts to release the ghosts in the house. Rafkin (MatthewLillard) i a psychic who can feel ghosts pre ence, but he canonly see them through the special Oakleys.

Thi movie basically follow the arne routine of other horrorfilms: the mystery, the suspense, the loud music. The only differ-ence between this and others is that other horror flicks are quiteconvincing in what they are trying to achie e, and they do a goodjob at it. This movie doesn t define its characters well enoughdoesn't define the plot well enough, and doesn't use the actorsand actre es abilities to their fulle t. hannon Elizabeth shouldhave been used to orne appreciable level. Maybe she shouldhave taken her shirt off like he did in American Pie. At lea t thatwould be interesting and would pique orne interest in thecrowd. Bottom tine - do not waste 9 to ee thi: wa te of amovie.

A Ghastly MistakeDont. WorryAbout Mmng This OneBy Patrick HerefordSl"AFF WRITER

Directed by Steve BeckWritten by Neal Marshall Stevens and Richard D 'OvidioStarring Tony Shalhoub; Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, andShannon ElizabethRatedR

IT: How was the tour with Lit over the sum-mer?

DW: It was great. I enjoyed it a lot. Notonly was it like going out with friends, butthose guys have actually done it for quite awhile. You know, part of me felt bad aboutkicking ass on it all across the country.[Laughter] But at the same time, we love themand we're a different thing from them.They're a great band and they put on a goodshow, and it made us think, "okay, we've gotto try to make ours way better than that."

Thirteen Ghosts is one of those movies that slippedthrough the cracks of the movie industry. ot only d.i.ditslip through the cracks, but it actualJy made it to full pro-duction. It is more than likely going to be one of the

biggest disappointments of the year.The story revolves around one family, the Kriticos. Cyru

Kriticos (R Murray Abraham) captures ghosts in his spare time.To capture ghosts, he inscribe some Latin spells on glass -containment cells - which are made to be easy to peek into. Ofcourse, you have to use a special pair of Oakley sunglasses to eethe ghosts. These cells are engraved with spells, which preventthe ghost from ever leaving his cell. Cyrus is trying to capturethirteen different ghosts for one reason - to rule the world.

TT: The new album, Love and Kisses fromthe Underground, seems pretty complete.How long has it been in the making?

D W: Some of these songs have been in themaking for a couple of years. Some of themwere very current. ''Back in Action" was actual-ly one of the more recent ones. Some of themwere written at the last hour, and some of themlike "Making Money" and "Everything" and"Sorry Charlie" might have been older.

TT: 0 offense here, but you're fromOrange Country - the ultimate suburb. What'sout there that even gets you pissed at the worldand creates an album like Love and Kisses?

D W: Well you know there's people inOrange County. And the songs are about peo-ple, everywhere. There are idiots in rich

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Axis13 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2437Sundays: See Avalon below.Mondays: Static. Gay, casual

dress. $5, 18+.Thursdays: Chrome/Skybar. Pro-

gressive house, soul, disco;dress code.$10,19+; 8,21+.

Fridays: Spin Cycle. Prog. house,80s. 12, 19+; $10,21+.

Avalon15 Lansdowne sr., 617-262-2424Sundays: Gay Night (with Axis on

long weekends). Featuring hard-core house and techno. $10,21+.

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

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

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

arma Club9 Lansdowne St., 617-421-9595Sundays: "Current dance

favorites" by guest DJs. Covervaries.

Tuesdays: Phatt Tuesdays. WithBill's bar, modern dance music.$10.

Wednesdays: STP. Gay-friendly,house. $15, 21 .

Thursdays: Groove Factor. House.Fridays: Pure. Drum and bass,

guest OJ. $15, 19+.Saturdays: Elements of Life. Inter-

national House. $15.

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

Wednesdays: Curses. Goth.Appropriate dress required. $5,19+; $3, 21+.

Thursdays: Campus. Populartunes + House. Gay, casualdress. $10, 19+; $8, 21+.

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

Saturdays: Liquid. Disco/hse. +ew Wave.$15,19+; $10, 21+.

Popular U IAxis13 Lansdowne St., 617-262-2437Next: 423- EXT

ov. 8: Alien Ant Farm.ov. 9: Social Distortion.

Nov. 10: Damian Marley.Nov. 11: Suicide Machines.Nov. 17: AFI.Nov. 24: Rogging Molly, Bouncing

Souls.

Avalon15 Lansdowne si.. 617-262-2424

Nov. 2: Jim Breuer Heavy MetalComedy Tour.

Nov. 3: Midnight Oil.ov. 5: Femi Kuti.

Nov. 6: Stereolab.Nov. 8: Better Than Ezra.Nov. 9: Iggy Pop.Nov. 10: Tantric.Nov. 12: Sisters for Hip-Hop and

Soul Tour.Nov. 12: India. Arie.

ov. 14: Slayer.ov. 16: Saves the Day.

Nov. 17: S ephen Malkmus andthe Jicks.

Nov. 20: Echo and the Bunnymenand Psychedelic Furs.

Berk/ee Perfonnance CenterBerklee College of Music1140 Boylston St.Free student recitals and facultyconcerts, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.some weekdays. For info onthese concerts, call the Perfor-mance Information line at 747-8820.Nov. 3: Miriam Makeba.

ov. 4: Glory Bound!.Nov. 11: Cesaria Evora.Nov. 14: Suzanne Vega.

ov. 16: Whispers.

Club Passim47 Palmer St, Cambridge, 617-

492-7679Tuesdays: Open ic at 8 p.m.(sign up at 7:30). 5.Nov. 2: Andrew Kerr, attNathanson.

ov. 3: Christopher Williams CDRelease.Nov. 5: The Barra MacNeils'.Nov. 8: ark EreHi.

ov. 9: erissa & Katryna Nields.ov. 10: Cliff Eberhardt.ov. 11: The Mammals.

A vveekly guide to the arts in BostonNovember 2 B

Compiled by Fred ChoiSend subm sslons to ott@the-tech.mlt.edu or by Interdepartmental mail to "On The Town," The Tech, W2G-483.

The Middle East

MTV presents Alien Ant Farm, Pressure 4-5, and Apex Theory next Thursday night at Axis; $10.RAFF STRATHMANN

Central Square, 354-8238Ticketmaster: 931-2787.

ov. 2: Granola Funk Express.Nov. 2: Les Savy Fav, !!!.Nov. 3: Joe Clay, Ragin Teens,

the Cracktones, the Racketeer-scave Ca.

Nov. 3: The Lyres,downbeat 5,Brett Rosenberg Problem, theNines.

Nov. 4: Fugu, ark Robinson.Nov. 4: Victory at Sea, Fing Fang

Foon.Nov. 5: Burning Airlines, New End

Original, aht.ov. 6-7: Dan Bern.ov. 8: Preston School of Indus-try, the Shins, the Standard.

ov. 11: Rahzel.Nov. 12: Sweep the Leg

Johnny,ivory Coast,dead Mead-ow.

Nov. 15: The Noise Conspiracy,the Hives.

Nov. 17: The Real Kids, JohnSurette & the Deniros, DaveAaronoff & T.

Nov. 19: Tomahawk.

Orpheum Theatre1 Hamilton PI., Boston, 617-679-0810Ticketmaster: 931-2787

ov. 3: Comics Come Home.ov. 6: Natalie Merchant.

Sanders Theatre45 Quincy St., 02138, 617-496-

2222

Nov. 17: Folk Concert With CrisWilliamson.

Nov. 24: Capitol Steps.Nov. 14: Cake.Nov. 15: Isley Brothers, Ronnie

Spector.Nov. 16-17: Jack Johnson.Nov. 18: Ricardo Montaner.Nov. 20: Queensryche.

Jazz U IeRegattabarConcertix: 876-77771 Bennett si., Cambridge 02138,617-662-5000Call for schedule.

Sculfers Jazz ClubDoubleTree Guest Suites, 400

Soldiers Field Rd., Boston,617-562-4111

Nov. 2-3: Walter Beasley.Nov. 6: Steve Tyrell.Nov. 7: John Patitucci Quartet.Nov. 8: Jane 8unnett & The Spir-

i s of Havana.ov. 9-10: Mose Allison.ov. 13: Avishai Cohen & TheInternational Vamp Band.

FleetCenterTicketmaster: 931-2787.

ov. 24: Bob Dylan.ov. 25: Pavarotti.

Classical MusicBoston Symphony OrchestraTickets: 266-1492.Performances at Symphony Hall,301 Massachusetts Ave., Boston,unless otherwise noted. For MITstudents. visit<web. mit. edu/arts/generaIjBSO.html> .tor more information onhow to get tickets.

Nov. 3 at 8 p.m., ov. 2 at 1:30p.m. Ives: Ragtime Dances;Mozart: Piano Concerto No.9 in E-flat, K. 271; Kurtag: Grsbstein furStephan, Op. 15, Schubert: Sym-phony no. 4 in C minor, D. 417,"Tragic". Pre-concert talk, given byJohn Daviero, Boston University,one hour prior to concert in Sym-phony Hall. Tickets: $80-$25.

ov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. (rehearsal),Nov. 15, 17, 20 at 8 p.m., ov. 16at 1:30 p.m. Wagner: Overture toDas Liebesverbot; Schoenberg:Suite in G for Strings; Shostakovich:Symphony o. 13 in B-ftat minor,Op. 113; Babi Yar, for bass, men'schorus and orchestra. GennadyRozhdestvensky, conductor; sergeiAJeksashkin, bass; Men of the Tan-g1ewood Festival Chorus, John Oliv-er, conductor. Pre-concert talk givenby Harlow Robinson, ortheasternUniversity, an hour prior to the per-formance in Symphony Hall. Free toperformance ticket holders.

TheaterOld Times

Through ov. 3, Fri. and Sat. at 8p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m.: Criticallyhailed as Harold Pinter's mostimportant play, this intense andfascinating drama delves into thelives of three people, illuminatingunspoken doubts, intimate ten-sions, and sensual desires whichrise between them like spectres.Presented by the Theatre Coopera-tive at the Elizabeth Peabody HouseTheatre, 277 Broadway, Somerville,MA 02145. For ticket reservationsand more info., call 617-625-1300or visit <www.farm.netj-daak/tc>.

Stompov. 13 through ov. 23 (Tue.-Fri.

at 8 p.m. e cept for Wed. ov. 14at 7 p.m., and Sat ov. 17 5 and9 p.m., and Sun. ov. 18 2 and 7p.m.), at the i1bur Theatre (246Tremont St., Boston, 617-423-4008. Take the Green Une to Boyl-ston). The ational Tour of the now-famous fun (and loud) percussive,rhythmic comedy performance hitsBoston. Tickets $50-$23. Visit

<ticketmaster.com> for tickets.

The Baker's WifeNov. 15, 16 at the John HancockHall. Concert performance ofStephen Schwartz's show. Featur-ing Judy Kuhn (Chess, SunsetBlvd.) as Genevieve, and MichaelKreutz as the baker. These perfor-mances will be accompanied bythe full orchestration (onstage) andwill include a staged reading direct-ed by Rick Lombardo of Boston'sNew Rep Theatre. Musical directionby Michael Joseph. Tickets areavailable through Ticketmaster(617-931-2787). Visit <www.musi-oetscnwenr.com /ttie-bekers-wife.htm> for more information.

Comedy ConnectionMon.-Wed. at 8 p.m.; Thurs. 8:30p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 8 p.m., 10:15p.m.; Sun. 7 p.m. The oldest come-dy club in Boston showcases big-name, national comedians onweekends and up-and-coming localtalent during the week. At 245Quincy Market Place, Faneuil Hall,Upper Rotunda, Boston. Admission$10-$8 (weekend prices vary). Call248-9700 for more informationand a complete schedule.

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

ExhibitsIsabella Stewart Gardner Muse-um280 The Fenway, Boston. (566-1401), Tues.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Admission $10 ($11 on week-ends), $7 for seniors, $5 for stu-dents with 10 ($3 on Wed.), freefor children under 18. The muse-um, built in the style of a 15th-century Venetian palace, housesmore than 2,500 art objects, withemphasis on Italian Renaissanceand 17th-century Dutch works.Among the highlights are worksby Rembrandt, Botticelli, Raphael,Titian, and Whistler. Guided toursgiven Fridays at 2:30 p.m.

Museum of Fine Arts465 Huntington A e., Boston. (267-9300), Mon.-Tues., 10 a.m.-4:45p.m.; Wed., 10 a.m.-9:45 p.m.;Thurs.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.;Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. WestWing open Thurs.-Fri. until 9:45p.m. Admission free with IT 10,otherwise $10, $8 for students and

seniors, children under 17 free; $2after 5 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., free Wed.after 4 p.m.

Mon.-Fri.: introductory walksthrough all collections begin at10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; "Asian,Egyptian, and Classical Walks'begin at 11:30 a.m.; "AmericanPainting and Decorative ArtsWalks' begin at 12:30 p.m.;"European Painting and DecorativeArts Walks' begin at 2:30 p.m.;Introductory tours are also offeredSat. at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Permanent Gallery Installations:"Late Gothic Gallery,' featuring arestored 15th-century stainedglass window from HamptonCourt, 14th- and 15th-centurystone, alabaster, and poly-chrome wood sculptures fromFrance and the Netherlands;"Mummy Mask Gallery,' a newlyrenovated Egyptian gallery, fea-tures primitive masks datingfrom as far back as 2500 B.C.;"European Decorative Arts from1950 to the Present"; "JohnSinger Sargent: Studies for MFAand Boston Public libraryMurals." Gallery lectures are freewith museum admission.

Museum of ScienceScience Park, Boston. (72~25OO),Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 9 a.m.-9p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.·5 p.m.Admission free with MIT 10, other-wise $9, $7 for children 3-14 andseniors.

The Museum features the theaterof electricity (With indoor thunder-and-lightning shows daily) andmore than 600 hands-on exhibits.Ongoing: "Discovery Center";"Investigate! A See-For-YourselfExhibit"; • Science in the Park:Playing wi h Forces and Motion";"Seeing Is Deceiving."Ongoing: "Friday Night Stargaz-ing: Fri., 8:30 p.m.; "Welcometo the Universe," daily; "Questfor Contact: Are We Alone?"

Other

daily. Admission to Omni, laser,and planetarium shows is 7.50,$5.50 for children and seniors.Current Laser Light shows: LaserBeastie Boys, Laser Ragefest 3,Laser Pink Floyd: Dark Side,Laser Aerosmith.

Best of British TV AdsAt the Remis Auditorium Muse-um of Fine Arts, Boston, 02115.For tickets and more information,call 369-3770. Tickets $8, $7MFA members, seniors, stu-dents.

British Gold Medal Winners of thePast 25 Years: Part 2 on Nov. 3at 2:15 p.m. Each film approx. 90min. This collection of the past25 years of award-winning Britishtelevision ads reveals the Britishto be true masters of the art ofselling. Part 1 covers the years1976-1989. Part 2 is 1989-2001.

British Advertising RIms of 2000:ov. 3 at 4:10 p.m. Approx. 100

min. A collection of last year'saward winning British televisionads.

The Films of Frederick WisemanThe Museum of Fine Arts offers acomplete retrospective of Wise-man's 31 documentaries, everySaturday, through April 14, 2002.At the Remis Auditorium Museumof Fine Arts, Boston, 02115unless otherwise noted. For tick-ets and more information, call369-3770. Tickets are $8, $7MFA members, seniors, students.Nov. 17 at 10:30 a.m.:Manoevre (1979, 115 min.)Every fall NATO conductsmanoeuvres in Western Europe.One purpose of these war gamesis to test how quickly and effec-tively U.S. reinforcements cancome to the aid of NATO forcesstationed in Europe. Manoevrefollows an infantry tank companyfrom the U.S. through the vari-ous stages of the training exer-cise in West Germany; the defen-sive and offensive tactics, andthe hypothetical wins and lossesare seen from the point of viewof a company fighting a simulat-ed, conventional, non-nuclearground and air war.

Iranian Cinema: New Directors,New DirectionsNov. 2-11: The Harvard FilmArchive presents a selection ofIranian films. The best first filmawards won at prestigious interna-tional film festivals last year forsuch works as A Time for DrunkenHorses, Djomeh, The Day IBecame a Woman, and Daughtersof the Sun are testament to Iran'sstatus as an important reservoirof fresh filmmaking talent in con-temporary world cinema. Curatedby film professor Jamsheed Akra-mi.

The festival includes screeningsof Divorce Iranian Style (Nov. 10at 7 p.m. and Nov. 12 at 9 p.m.,Dir. by Kim Longinotto and ZibaMir-Hosseini, UK/Iran 1998, 80min. Farsi with English subtitles)and One More Day (Yek RoozBishtar) (Nov. 9 at 7 p.m., Nov.14 at 9:45 p.m., Dir. by BabakPayami, Iran 2000, 75 min. Farsiwith English subtitles). In DivorceIranian Style the stories of threestrong-willed women unfold in asmall Tehran courtroom as theyemploy reason, charm, pleas forsympathy, anger, and even a dis-arming wit to win what they eachdesperately need - a divorce. InOne More Day Payami examinesthe quiet, undeclared relationshipthat gradually develops between aman and a woman who see eachother every morning at a bus stop.

All festival films will be screenedat Harvard Film Archive, located atthe lower level of the CarpenterCenter for the Visual Arts, 24QUincy St. Cambridge. Tickets $7,$5 students, seniors. Tickets maybe purchased at the Harvard BoxOffice, located at: Holyoke CenterArcade, 1350 MassachusettsAve., Cambridge, Mass. For ticket-ing info. call 617-496-2222 orTTY: 617-495-1642. Visit«www.neivsratttmsrcnive.org» fora complete schedule or call 617-495-4700.

MammaMlalThrough ov. 3, at the Colonial Theater (106 Boylston

St) through ticketmaster.com. The threadbare plot of thelatest Brltish import (built around classic hits by ABBA)is: Young bride Sophie wants her dad to give her away.

But her spunky mom - an ex-nightctub disco singernamed Donna - doesn't know who he is. So Sophie

secretly invites three of mom's old boyfriends (her pos-sible dads) to her wedding. At first, it's a complete dis-

aster. But Donna and her old backup-singer buddiessave the day and transform the island into an ABBA-

accompanied silver lami adventure that includes scuba-diver dancers, grooms in bridal gowns and choruses in

neon shower caps. An engagingly clever sing-alongsatire of itself, Mamma Mia! makes you move, chuckle,

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Sponsor: Academic Resource Center,UROP.9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Fall UROP Deadline (Supervisor Pay, Credit & Volunteer Proposals). All fall2001 UROP proposals and signed coversheets for Supervisor Pay, Credit or Volunteer projects mustbe submitted to the UROP Office in Room 7-104 by 5PM today, November 2,2001 .. free. Room: 7-104. Sponsor: Academic Resource Center, UROP.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - FileMaker Pro User Group. The MIT FileMaker User Group (fmug) wasformed for people at MIT, from beginners to experts, who are using or interested in learning to use-FileMaker(r) Pro database software and related products. After several years of dormancy, the grouphas been revived to acknowledge lncreaslnguse of FileMaker products on campus and to help theuser community transition to RleMaker 5 .. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: InformationSystems.2:00 p.m. - "La Memoire Algerienne de la France.". Talk in French by novelist Leila Sabbar. In con-nection with this talk, "Memoires d'lmmigres" will be screened on Oct 31 at 7pm in Rm 4-231.Sponsored by MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies in theirseries "The Language of PowerjThe Power of Language.". free. Room: Rm 4-237. Sponsor: ForeignLanguages & Literatures, Women's Studies Program, Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies.3:00 p.m: - 4:00 p.m. - Mechanical Engineering Seminar. free. Room: 3-133. Sponsor: ME Semi-nar Series.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Catalysis from First Principles. Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics,Technical University of Denmark. free. Room: 66-110. Sponsor: Chemical Engineering.4:00 p.m. - "Mapping the Earth from Space" . The Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium pre-sents this special lecture which will cover the orbital mechanics of map construction and missionhighlights. Informal dinner will be served .. free. Room: Marlar Lounge, Bldg. 37, Room 252. Spon-sor: AeroAstro.4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Catalan Paths and Quasi-Symmetric Functions. Refreshments will beserved at 3:30 PM in room 2-349 .. free. Room: Room 2-338. Sponsor: Combinatorics Seminar.Department of Mathematics.6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Shared Faith in Christ. Catholic and Protestant students in the GraduateChristian Fellowship and the Tech Catholic Communitywill share about their personal faith in Jesus Christ. Afterwards, we will have a roundtablediscussion over dinner in an effort to gain increased understanding about our respective faiths. Thedinner is free and funded by the GSC.. free. Room: Student Center - Mezzanine Lounge. Sponsor:Graduate Christian Fellowship.7:00 p.m. - MIT Anime Club Weekly Screening. Trigun: Dual! (eps 9-10); feature TBA. Most screen-ings are subtitled in English. Japanese animation is a unique visual artform for all ages .. free.Room: Rm 6-120. Sponsor: MIT Anime Club.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Falun Gong Exercise workshop. The Falun Gong exercise is an easy andeffective way to relieve stress and improve physical and mental health. Millions of people in over 40countries practice these 5 sets of gentle movements .. free. Room: 1-242. Sponsor: Falun DafaClub.8:00 p.m. - As You Like ItT Shakespeare Ensemble production directed by Tom Garvey, musicdirector Chris Eastburn. $8, $6 students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: ShakespeareEnsemble.8:00 p.m. - Petersen Quartet. Haydn's Quartet in Bb Major, Op. 76/4 "Sunrise"; Schulhoff's 5Pieces for String Quartet and Beethoven's Quartet in Eb Major, Op. 127 .. free. Room: Kresge Audi-torium. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section.8:00 p.m. - MIT Guest Artist Concert. Petersen Quartet (Berlin). Conrad Muck, violin; Daniel Bell,violin; Friedemann Weigle, viola; Jonas Krejci, cello. Haydn's Quartet in Bb Major, Op, 76/4 "Sun-rise;" Schulhoff's 5 Pieces for String Quartet; Beethoven's Quartet in Eb Major, Op. 127. 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Saturday November 3

8:00 p.m. - As You Uke It.. Shakespeare Ensemble production directed by Tom Garvey, music direc-tor Chris Eastburn. $8, $6 students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: Shakespeare Ensemble.8:00 p.m. - Chorallaries Concert. MIT's only coed, all-MIT, secular, non-jazz a cappella group .. free.Room: Rm 10-250. Sponsor: Chorallaries of MIT.8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Travel to strange, new classrooms; meet inter-esting, unusual people; and kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up; guns provided. free. Room:Building 36, First Floor. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, MIT.9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. - Theta Playstation2. Playstation2 is an evening full of video games, dane-

ing, and raffles. This year we are adding a variety of new games to the event, in hopes of attractinga more diverse crowd, All proceeds will go to our national philanthropy, Court-Appointed Social Advo-cates, a nonprofit organization which helps abused and neglected children in the court system ..$5/$6 at the door. Room: Lobdell. Sponsor: Kappa Alpha Theta.

Sunday, November 4

1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Ballroom Dancing Workshops. Beginner ballroom dance steps will betaught. There will also be a new focus on developing techniques as well. Open to everyone. Noexperiences necessary. No partners required .. Visit our website for pricings. Room: Visit our websitefor venues. Sponsor: Ballroom Dance Club.5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - screening of DOING TIME DOING VIPASSANA. Winner of the Golden Spireaward at the 1998 San Francisco International Film festival and winner of a 1998 NCCD PASSAward of the American National Council on Crime and Delinquency. This extraordinary documentarytakes viewers into India's largest prison - known as one of the toughest in the world - and shows thedramatic change brought about by the introduction of Vipassanameditation.This is the story of astrong woman named Kiran Bedi, the former Inspector General of Prisons in New Delhi. It tells howshe strove to transform the notorious Tihar Prison, once a hellhole of crime, and turn it into anoasis of peace. It is a story of an ancient meditation technique, Vipassana, which helps people totake control of their lives and channel them towards their own good and the good of others. Butmost of all it is the story of the prison inmates who underwent profound change, and who realizedthat incarceration is not the end but possibly the beginning of a new life. free. Room: 6-120. Spon-sor: Sangam.

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12:00 a.m. - CCRR Grants Application Deadline. Monthly deadline for CCRR grant proposals. free.Sponsor: Committee on Campus Race Relations.10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - lincoln Lab Benefits Fair. The annual open enrollment periods for employ-ees benefits and for Medicare Supplemental Plan members will take place the East Atrium at lin-coln Lab .. Room: Lincoln Lab (East Atrium). Sponsor: Lincoln Benefits Office.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - PowerPoint Quick Start. PowerPoint makes it easy to jazz up your presen-tations. Get an introduction to what PowerPoint can do. Rnd out how to create slide shows. Learnhow to use drawing tools, graphics, and create handouts .. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor:Information Systems.12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Strong Women presented by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D .. Hear Miriam E. Nel-son, Ph.D., speak at a lecture on Monday, November 5, from 12 noon to lpm in Wong Auditorium,Tang Center, E51, sponsored by the MIT Women's League, Health Education at MIT, and theDepartment of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation. A question and answer period, fromlpm to 1:30pm, will follow the formal presentation. Dr. Nelson is the Director of the Center of Physi-cal Fitness, and Associate Professor of Nutrition at the School of Nutrition Science and Policy atTufts. She is also Associate Chief of the Human Nutrition, Exercise, Physiology, and Sarcopenia Lab-oratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts. She is a Fellowof the American College of Sports Medicine, a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College, and the author ofa monthly column for Prevention magazine .. free. Room: Wong Auditorium at the Tang Center, E51.Sponsor: MIT Medical, MIT Women's League, Department of Athletics.3:00 p.m. - Memorial Service for Michael L. Dertouzos. A Memorial Service for Michael L. Der-touzos, Tibco Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Director, Lab for Com-puter Science, MIT will be held in Kresge Auditorium on the campus of MIT. A reception,immediatelyfollowing the service will be held in McCormick Hall.. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Informa-tion Center.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - "Singular Yamabe metrics, explosion for superprocesses, and thinness.".free. Room: MIT Room 2-143. Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar. Department of Mathematics.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Continuum Seminar Series: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Fric-tional Behavior of Adsorbed Layers. Exact analytic results and experiments in ultra-high vacuumshow that there is no static friction between clean crystalline surfaces unless they are commensu-rate, i.e. share a common period, or the surfaces interact so strongly that they can reconstruct theinterface. Neither of these conditions applies between most macroscopic surfaces around us, yetall exhibit static friction. On the other hand, no surface exposed to ambient air is clean. Typically alayer of air borne hydrocarbon and water molecules are adsorbed to these surfaces. With moleculardynamics simulations we found that these adsorbed molecules can rearrange to lock surfacestogether and produce a finite yield stress that rises linearly with the pressure. Our simulations ofkinetic friction at constant velocity showed similar linear scaling with pressure. We also found a log-arithmic dependence of kinetic friction coefficient on the sliding velocity. We show that the frictionrose logarithmically with velocity as in many experimental systems. This was shown to result fromthermally activated motion of adsorbed atoms out of nearly unstable configuration. Our resultsestablish a close relationship between the low velocity kinetic friction and the static friction .. Room:3-370. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept.4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - STS Colloquium. "The Postwar Suburbanization of American Physics". free.Sponsor: STS.7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - "Safe Sex" Jeopardy. Test your knowledge about "safe sex," and learnsomething new! This game is played like traditional Jeopardy, except the contestants will be yourfriends .. free. Room: Talbot Lounge, East Campus. Sponsor: Learning Strategies.8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. - Monday Night Football at the Ear. Watching football at the Ear makesDennis Miller a little more tolerable. The Thirsty Ear Pub is located in the Ashdown House base-ment. Enter through the courtyard. Hours: Monday: 8 pm - 12 am, Tuesday - Thursday: 7 pm - 1 am,Friday: 4 pm - 1 am, Must be over 21. Proper ID required. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Spon-sor: The Thirsty Ear Pub.

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reader unli e the on-line card read-ers at MIT donn , which have a ded-icated wire link to the erver at theCard Office. The new card readerconnect to a local database whi hmu t be reprogrammed e ery time atudent gets a new ill card.

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ing an old Kung Fu, the LegendContinue epi ode (why do I get thefeeling that I am incriminatingmy elf by telling thi anecdote?)and Regi made a cameo appear-ance. I just kept thinking to my elf"man, Regis you've come a long

ay since then."After my last class, I was talking

to orne friends, and somehow thetopic of the auditions came up. At thelast minute, we decided to go just forfim. My friend Kavitha and I literallyran to the Park Plaza hotel down-town, where the auditionswere being held.

When we got there, aline had already formedan hour before the nextaudition. After waitingon the sidewalk, we werelet in, but I don't thinkthat I realized the mad-ness that would soon ensue. In hind-sight, I have to say that the entireprocess which led me to my 15 min-utes of fame was, to put it nicely,very sketchy.

I have realized that nothing inshow business is what it appears.Including game shows.

The audition was composed ofthree parts: a 12 minute, 35 questionmultiple choice test, a written appli-cation, and a short interview withthe producers of the show. I am notsure what it was about my auditionfile that made me stand out amongthe others.

What they told us at the audi-tions was that if they liked us, wewould be put into an audition pool

from whi h they pick contestant tob on the how.

After we took the test, we all hadto wait in this room while they werecoring the re ult . To pa s the time,

the producer gave out t-shirts topeople who went up to perform cer-tain talents in front of everyone.There were several MIT tudents inthis group, and one of them went upand recited pi to 100 digits.

All I remember is that everyonewa screaming out "how do weknow if you re right??" while hewas concentrating on dividing thecircumference of his head over its

but I figured that I could get out of ito I said that I would go. eedle s to

say, I was elated and preoccupied theentire week with organizing travelarrangements, my phone-a-friendlist, and fini hing my problem sets (adistant third).

I left for ew York la t undaymorning, the show taped on on-day, and I was back to school onTuesday. It was my first time ever in

ew York City, but I didn't reallyhave much time to explore. Theentire experience was serendipitous.When people congratulated me forbeing on the how, I felt weird

because I hadn't reallydone anything to deserveit. It was just all random.I felt bad because when Imet the other contestantsthat were going to be onmy show, they had allwaited months or yearsto be called to appear on

diameter, or however that works(this guy was obviously course 18,and God knows what thoughtprocesses go through their heads).

The funny part of this story,though, is that the producers hadthis utter look of confusion on theirfaces the entire time, and right afterhe sat down, one of them gets upand asks "okay ... Can anyone do aBritney Spears impression?"

Two Mondays ago (October 22)after a long day of classes, I had amessage from a stranger waiting onmy answering machine. When Icalled him back, he said that I waschosen to be a finalist on the showthat would be taped the followingMonday. I had a 7.012 test that day,

the show.

The day of reckoningThe day of the taping, all the

contestants and their companionsleft at 6:45 a.m. for ABC tudios.There were two shows taping onthat day, and mine did not begintaping until that afternoon at 4 p.m.Don't ask me why we had to leavethat early, or what we did the entiretime before the show, because I'mstill not sure. The entire day was ablur. All I remember is that they hadto escort us to the bathroom everycouple of hours, and we weren'tallowed to have any newspapers,cameras, cell phones, or playingcards with us. So essentially, all the

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eet Regis Philbin

"Ididn ~win amillion dollars,

but ... Idon ~have aclue what I woulddo with a million

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contestants were sequestered in aroom with nacks and drinks, whichwouldn't have been so bad if wecould have gone to the bathroom.

t 10:00 a.m., we went to the etof the show and were given a talk bythe show's lawyer, who went overthe rules with us. We were alsoallowed to practice the fastest fingerquestion and to go over what wewere expected to do during the show.

The fastest finger process wasnot as ea y as it might appear ontelevision. It wasn't the questionsthemselve that were hard so mucha punching them in correctly.There was no lock on the letterkeys, so if you slipped, the same let-ter could bepunched in multi-ple times, mess-ing up youranswer.

Al 0, if youdid not hit thekeys straight on,they did not showup. After the fourletters werepunched in, youhad to push an"ok" key to stopthe clock. It waskind of confusing because the key-pad had the four answer choices instraight line, but on the screen, theanswers were arranged in a squarepattern. Florida ballots, millionairestyle.

The set was very small and did-n't look at all what it looks like ontelevi ion; in fact it was sort of dis-appointing. Once again, I was over-whelmed by the sketchiness factor.

They spent a good 30 minutes dur-ing rehearsal showing everyone the, right and wrong' ways to get intothe hotseat. Apparently, the chair istop heavy and very un table, so a lotof people have been very close tofalling out of it.

An hour before our show wastaped, we went to get dressed andget our hair and makeup done. Theshow took about an hour and a halfto tape, and after it was over I wasrelieved to finally be able to freelygo to the restroom. All in all, it wasa good experience. I got to meetRegis (who is also very different inperson from what he might seemlike on television), and I got a free

trip to ew YorkCity. If you are curi-ous as to the outcomeof the show, it airs onJanuary 3, 2002. Ididn't win a milliondollars, but I thinkthe whole experiencemade me realize thatI don't have a cluewhat I would do witha million dollars.

Though it probablysounds cheesy, butreally money isn't

everything, and I am not that disap-pointed that I came home emptyhanded. As all the excitement frommy fifteen minutes of fame dies downand my life returns to its normalcrawl back at MIT, I am beginning toappreciate the wealth of friends andfamily that love and support methrough my mundane moments, andwho have always known that I amworth a million bucks.

I have to say that the entire processwhich led me to my 15minutes offame

was, toput it nicely, very sketchy.

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CIS Hosts Forum on ColombiaForum Part of Series Addressing .S. Involvement in WorldAffairsBy A. S. WangSTAFF REPORTER

E perts on foreign poli y fromaround the country gathered at

T' Center for International tud-ies' second forum held on onday,

to di cuFeature Colombia'songoing

civil ar and the intervention of theUnited tate government.

The goal of the forum wa "not tooffer only a pe imistic diagnosis butal 0 to help pro ide pos ible solu-tion to the problem in Colombia,'said Profe or of Political cienceChappell La on. He and Profe orof Politi al cience tephen anEvera moderated the two-part eventthat began with an introduction toColombia' history then exploredU. . policy toward the affair.

, This is exactly what we want-ed," said Law on after the forum. ' Ithink it was a great opportunity tolearn about the ituation from theleading e .perts in the field. It wacontroversial, yet effective,"

"In welcoming its 50th anniver-sary the CIS is renewing its goal tobe an educational resource for MITstudent as well a the greaterBoston area to rai e awareness onunder-covered political issues. Ithink thi eries is helping us do thatvery well,' aid event organizer

my Tarr director of public pro-grams for the CI .

"Thi was a fantastic look intothe U policy a well as the currentsituation regarding Colombia. Thedistribution of representation wasgreat," aid Angela S. Bassa '03.

Paneli ts anal ze rea on for warPanelist Jonathan Hartlyn from

the University of orth CarolinaChapel Hill identified five causes ofthe Colombian conflict. "Colombiahas always been a weak state withlittle military intervention ... it has atradition of extreme partisanship ofconservatism versus liberalism, witha weak left," he said. "In the lasthalf of the 20th century, Colombiawas fru trated by failed reformattempts, causing dramatic socioe-conomic changes. This combinedwith only moderate economic con-trol caused evere and prolongedrecessions in Colombia." Hartlynconcluded that the influence of pow-erful guerrilla groups and drug traf-ficking became catalysts forColombia political instability.

Today about one in every 37Colombian is displaced by war, withchildren constituting about 65 per-cent of the country's displaced popu-lation. Most vulnerable to disease,malnutrition and trauma, they arealso among the chief perpetrators ofviolence - some have been conscript-ed to the ranks of guerrillas and para-militarie as early as the age of nine.

. has intere t in Colombia11 panelist agreed that the

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One of the paneli ts, Micha Ihifter program director of the

Democratic Go ernance Program atthe Inter- merican Dialogue, id,'There i a lot at stake and a lot ofintere t U has on the problems of

olombia.'hifter aid that '[t]he U needs

to have a good partner in fightingdrug trafficking. There i a widerse urity problem of pillover vio-lence into neighboring countrie ...The human right is ue is clearly inthe S intere t a well" Shifter a1 0

cited social and economic reasons forinvolvement, like ecuring cof-

fee, emerald, and other naturalresource upplie ,a well as the largeColombian-American population.

He said, 'Clearly, now, theColombians have not been able toeffectively respond to the currentcrisis ... [Colombian pre ident] Pas-trana has yet to fashion any coherentpolicy and ha not rallied any solidsupport."

Panelist Cynthia Am on, anexpert in Latin American Studies atthe Woodrow Wilson Center for

"Drug trafficking ismerely a manifestatianoftke presence of muchdeeper problems thatexist in Colombia. "- Cynthia Arnson

Scholars, tressed that future U.S.-Colombia relations have yet to bemolded, depending on the outcomeof the upcoming Colombian presi-dential election. "If [Horacio] Serpawins the election ... the U.S. policytoward Colombia will be deter-mined very much by what he does.It is currently ranked 7th in supplierof oil for the United States, so thereis a significant investment inColumbia by U.S. businesses."

Arnson also said that "Drug traf-ficking is merely a manifestation ofthe presence of much deeper prob-lems that exist in Colombia."

Factions in conflictThe conflict in Columbia has

developed three distinct factions."The narcotics trade has changedthe situation from a bipolar warbetween guerrillas and the state tobecome a multi-polar war betweenthe guerrillas, the paramilitary andthe state," since the 1980's, saidMark Chernick, a visiting professorfrom Georgetown University and apanelist in the discus ion.

"The major [propagator] of vio-lence are the guerrilla groups, withthe FARC [Revolutionary ArmedForces of Colombia] being the main

play r" Hartlyn aid. Originatingfrom pea ant elf defen e initiative,the F R operate in 40-60% ofcountry' municipality. "They traf-fie co oa and extort wealthy Colom-bians for fund ," Hartlyn aid.

Hartlyn also described the threatof the EL another Guerrillagroup, which originated as radical-ized students inspired by the Cubanrevolutionarie . "[They are] now at3500 trong also relying on kidnap-ping and extortion for revenue,"Hartlyn aid.

To protect themselve from theviolence of the guerrillas wealthyColombians including drug traffick-ers and landowners have come torely on paramilitary forces for pro-tection, the United elf-DefenseForces of Colombia (AUC) beingthe most prominent.

"Unfortunately, these forces arebelieved to be a form of solution bymany wealthy Colombians, sincethey have been effective againstguerrillas despite their horrifichuman rights record," Hartlyn said.

Prospects for peaceIn evaluating the future U.S.

policies, the experts on the panelagreed that the US needs to focusmore on peace building in Colombiainstead of anti-drug trafficking.

"What will be the cost of peace?The cost of peace is very high butpossible," Hartlyn said. "If the Unit-ed States were committed, and if wewere willing to pay a large downpayment now, the results would go along way." Hartlyn said thatalthough people tend to be suspiciousof U.S. forces, the United Statesneeds to display some credibility.

Lawson was not so optimisticabout the possibility for peace. "Inthe 80's there was a greater possibili-ty for political reform than today.The paramilitary was less violent,and the guerrilla less powerful. I amalso skeptical that the society's elitesare supportive of reforms to movemoney into the tax and legal sys-tems," he said. He concluded thatwith the three major players notenthusiastic to change, a U.S. negoti-ated peace would be far from likely.

Chernick believes that withinternational involvement, peaceand reform are possible. "The guer-rillas can get more out of a negotia-tion table than the battlefield. Theyhave grown as much as they aregoing to grow ... Peace is possible,but the international communityneeds to be involved."

The third CIS Forum is sched-uled to be held in February on thetopic of China-U.S. relations."There will probably be a muchgreater amount of interest on thistopic at MIT," said Van Evera, "1think we are getting used to the ideaof political forums at MIT, fromtoday's audience, I have seen someterrific questions and very thought-ful input."

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Kresge, Firehouse Polling Sites Past Dining BoardsFor Cambridge City Elections Had limited ImpadBy Christine R. FrySTAFF REPORTER

Cambridge voters will elect citycouncilor , school committee mem-bers, and will decide the fate of theCommunity Preservation Act thiscoming Tuesday.

Th re are ] 9 candidates this yearrunning for nine city ouncil eatsincluding ven incumbent coun-cilors running for re-election. Thecity is run by a city manager, a posi-tion that i not cho en by the citi-zens.

MIT Residence Ward PrecinctVoting Locations in Cambridge

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ambridge has a ''weak mayor"system of government, meaning thatthe city i run by the city managerand the city council. The mayor icho en from among the city coun-cilor , by the council, and mostlykeeps order at city council meetingand serves as a leader of the city.

The school committee is incharge of the management and bud-get of the Cambridge city school .It consists of seven members, six ofwhom are elected by the voters. Theseventh member, and chair of thecommittee, is the mayor. There areten candidates for the six open seats.

There is only one question on theballot this year. The voters will beasked to decide whether the Com-munity Pre ervation Act (CPA) is agood thing for Cambridge. If theCP A is passed, the state wouldmatch funds provided by Cambridgeto help protect natural spaces (parks,playgrounds, etc.), produce afford-able housing, and save historic sitesin Cambridge.

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Other hot issues this campaigninclude lowering the voting age to16, increasing MBTA service inCambridge, and making MemorialDrive safer for pedestrians.

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these four dining halls at a loss ofabout 500,000 per year.

To cut these los es, the adminis-tration decided to change the declin-ing balance requirement to a planthat would include five commons-style meals per week. It was notwell received.

Opposition to the new plan waso strong, in fact, that just two

months later, the Institute reversedthe decision. Instead, dining halls inMcCormick and Macgregor wereclosed, and the meal plan becamecompletely optional for all students.

Implementation did not go exact-ly according to plan, however.When the time came in 1999 to ignthe two contracts for the two zonesthat had been established, the Insti-tute hired Aramark for both. Fourdifferent companies were still inter-ested at the end of the year-long bidprocess, Walsh said.

Walsh explained that Aramarkhad been selected because MIT hadbeen going through a "transitionaryperiod" at the time and Aramarkwas familiar.

He added that the contractsigned in 1999 was not simply arenewal of the old contract, and thatMIT s relationship with Aramarkhas since changed.

In the past, "every expen e [incampus dining] was MIT's," Walshsaid. ow "Aramark's losses are notnecessarily projected [directly] onthe Institute."

Walsh added that recently, Ara-mark has been "more attentive to

details" than it hasbeen in the past.

Regarding thedining system,

'The status quo isreally quite

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Chancellor PhillipL. Clay PhD '75 hasgiven the CampusDining Board untilthe end of ovemberto come up with aviable alternativeplan.

If the board failsto come up with anacceptable solution,

the administration will probablyimplement one of Dining DirectorRichard D. Berlin Ill's recommen-dations, which all feature mandatorymeal plans.

Kolenbrander and Clay both saidthey are onfident that the boardwill be able to craft an appropriatemodel for campus dining.

"We're making excellentprogress," Kolenbrander said. Hesaid that the board is on course tohave a recommendation in the nextfew weeks.

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established in 1995, when the Com-mittee on Student Affairs called foran intensive review of the state ofcampus dining. Members solicitedstudent input and setout to craft an idealsystem of campusdining.

A draft reportissued by the Insti-tute Dining Reviewdetailed several pro-posals for new sys-tem of dining, includ-ing various planswith mandatory com-ponents. Again, theidea of a mandatorymeal plan was notwell received.

In the end, the Institute DiningReview report did not recommend amandatory meal plan (due to "nega-tive response"), though it did call fora meal plan that "would offer pack-ages of meals at significant savingsover the regular a la carte prices."

The report also called for thedivision of dining service at MITinto zones, to break up the Ararnarkmonopoly and stimulate competition.

The central" administrationagreed to implement the recommen-dations made in the report.

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uarterfinals Tennis Team Barnso emifinal Round TT;,.to·ry ;n· NEWMA·· .. C

however mith auld prove to be a " t1J. II.more formidable foe a the Engi-neers found them elve in yetanother five game epic battle.

T took the 1 t and 3rd gameand mith the nd and 4th game .The deciding game a T jumpout to an 11- lead but mithclawed their way back to 14-14.

The Engineer hawed incredi-ble re 01 e as they fought off threematch points before Lauren E. Frick'03 blocked the fmal point to winthe match 19-17. Thi wa a trueteam effort a Candace Jantzen-

ar on '05 and Ii e Chou '05played pivotal role in the victory.

MIT pushed their re ord to 29-7on the eason and have nowadvanced to the emi-final of theconference tournament where theywill face pringfield College tonightat pringfield.

D fea sBy Paul DillTEAM COACH

.ill i eGam o danemih ollegback to win the second game 0-23. However, T relaxed againand lost the econd game 2 -30.The Engineer finally took chargein the fourth game behind the erv-ing of Amy ok 02, who tiedan record by erving 19traight point. IT won thi

game 30-12.IT took an early lead in the

fifth and deciding game only to letit lip a ay before finally closing itout 1 -16.

ydia layton'O led theoffen e with 20 ill, while okand Barbara J. chultze '02anchored the defense with 17 and 1dig re pectively.

In the quarterfinals of theC conference tournament thi

pa t Tue day, IT hosted mithallege who MIT had beaten earli-

er in the ea on, 3-0. This time,

The IT women's volleyballteam won both their matche thipa t week, one of which wa the

quarterfinal match forthe E con-ference tournament.

On aturday theEngineers faced con-ference foe Bab on

allege in their last regular sea onmatch of the ea on. nfortunately,

IT played without kill leaderKelly . artens '03 who suffereda eason ending knee injury in theteam' previous match. In additionBab on tarted the match like ateam pas e sed a they knew nomatter hat, thi would be their lastmatch of the eason.

Caught off guard, IT fell inthe :fir t game 24-30 before coming

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the remaining 7 school .IT onfidently wept the top

fi e ingle pot. Winning on the:fir t court, Koo defeated Springfield,Wellesley and Mount Holyoke with-out 10 ing more than three gamesper match.

Rayej faced tough competitionespecially in her semifinal and finals3-set matches, but ultimatelystepped up to the challenge and wonher flight.

Egloff defeated a tough Welles-ley opponent in the finals.

Tien defeated her four oppo-nents two of whom she had previ-ously lost to in the main season, towin her flight.

Hall continuously attacked fromthe baseline and used her fine tunedfootwork to win at the :fifth singlesspot.

Similarly, MIT won at the num-ber two and number three doublesspots. Koo and Egloff defeatedMount Holyoke 8-5 in the quarterfi-nals, but gave up a close matchagainst Wellesley in the semifinals.

Hsing and Rayej used their con-trolled offense to win the numbertwo doubles title.

Hall and Tien plowed throughfour very tough opponents to obtainthe number three NEWMAC dou-bles titles. They were down 0-4 intheir finals match against MountHolyoke, but stepped it up a notchto ultimately win 8-5.

The team is very satisfied withtheir end of season fmish and areawaiting the start of the Spring sea-son in February.

Women's Rugby SquadDefeats Wheaton, 25-15Comes from Behind to Break Long Losing Streak

applied fast pressure to the Wheatonback line, causing numerousturnovers. Li also had several strongruns down the middle of the pitch,allowing Tech to advance fartowards their try line.

Rookie wing Jenny Hu '05caused a key turnover, interceptinga pass and running the ball up thefield to set up a try for Gilbert.

After three consecutive MITtries, Wheaton caught MIT off-guard and made a quick try off apenalty. MIT quickly counteredwith another one of their own tries,staying in the lead.

Rookie hooker Julie L. Goss '05stole the majority of Wheaton'sserums, allowing eightman KristinR. Brodie '03 to start a series ofrolling mauls that quickly advanceddown the field.

The Tech forwards were quick atrecycling the ball back into play,allowing several forward runs downthe field, including one from rookieprop Vanessa K. Selbst '05 thatbrought the ball within feet of thetry line, allowing Gilbert to makeanother try.

Support arrived quickly at eachbreakdown, especially from veteransecond rows, Leah K. Premo '04and Emily C. Vincent '04. Vincentwas also a key player in lineouts,stealing several Wheaton balls.

Women's Rugby played their lastgame of the season against Brandeisat 11 a.m. on Saturday, at DalyField. MIT lost to Brandeis, 20-10.

IT omen' Tenni team fin-i hed their ea on with a 9-0 winagainst WPI last eek, e tabli hing

them elve once againa ew EnglandWomen and en'

thleti Conferencechampions.

MIT quickly weptthrough double , with Lari a M.Egloff '04 and Jes ica Hall 02 win-ning -1, Ann H ing '02 and ShimaRayej '02 swooping through -0,and Jaclyn E. Cichon '02 and RubyJ. Pai '02 emerging ictorious at 8-O.

Single was wiftly finished in asimilar fashion with Rayej aggres-ively putting her opponent away

with a 6-1, 6-2 victory ..Egloff used her offensive game

to win 6-1, 6-3.Caroline Tien '04 easily blasted

through WPI with a score of 6-1, 6-O.Hall won 6-0, 6-0.

Cichon showed that her patientaggression pays off with a 6-1, 6-0win and Pai also emerged victoriouswith a 6-0, 6-0 victory.

MIT takes top spots at NEWMACThis past weekend, the team

members competed in the NEW-MAC Individual Flighted Tourna-ment where they showed off all ofthe work that they have accom-plished during their fall season.They ultimately finished with 38points, and Wellesley trailed waybehind with 26 points, followed by

By Catherine FooTEAM CAPTAIN

In the last home game of the sea-son, the Women's Rugby Teamdefeated Wheaton College 25-15,

and broke a losing

T streak. that has lastedmultiple seasons.

For a team ofmostly rookies, it wasappropriate that the

scoring was dominated by new play-ers: four tries for fullback DanielleM. Gilbert '05 and one breakawaytry for flanker Olivia Leitermann'OS, with multiple assists byscrumbalfSarah L. Daigh '03.

Shortly after kickoff, Wheatonscored the first try of the game, butMIT came back strong, with quickrolling mauls and strong rucks.Tech advanced the ball into the tryzone several times, where the ballwas held up by the Wheaton pack.

Although the rest of the gamewas played on the attacking side,the score at halftime was still 5-0,Wheaton.

Right after the halftime whistle,a Wheaton penalty allowed MIT torestart play 10 meters from their tryline. Prop Emmajane M. Poulton'03 took the penalty into theWheaton pack, setting the tone forthe second half.

MIT dominated the rest of thegame, displaying an aggression thathas been missing in previous games.On defense, a rookie back line, ledby veteran. flyhalf Vanessa Li '02,

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Women's llltimate Club Earns MrJ'Equestrian TeamFirst at Williams Tournament Kicks Off FaU Season

Four Members Ride in Stonewell TournamentMIT Defeats Twelve Other Teams, Bests Williams in Final MatchBy Kathy Dobson ing an inexperienced but very styl- MIT once again faced Yale. MIT sTEAM MEMBER ish mith team. Using their zone defense pro ed to be too much for

The MIT women' club ultimate defense for much of the econd half Yale as MIT had 11.5 blocks for theteam captured their second straight MIT ended the game with only one 12 points played in the game.Purple Valley Tournament Champi- goal scored against against them, Cordelia E. rockett G had a

T onship crown at 13-1. stellar performance with threeWilliam College last Leading the zone defense, Polly blocks, one goal thrown and oneweekend. MIT went Allen G, Meryl R. del Rosario 'OS, goal caught. Del Ro aria also turnedundefeated the entire and Christine B. Dobson '03 played on the defense with two blocks forweekend, besting 12 well together in the cup. the game. MIT took the game 9-3.other regional college MIT played their fmal game of The final pitted MIT against host

teams, including defending regional the day against local rival Harvard Williams College, who had defeatedchampion Brown University and Univer ity. Playing with only one Cornell in the other semifinal.host Williams College. substitute, MIT managed to keep Despite being the first seed in the

MIT started the tournament with Harvard out of the endzone. MIT tournament, Williams proved to bepool play on Saturday. The day beat Harvard 9-0. no match for the feisty Engineers.began with a young but competent Finishing first in their pool, MIT Kathleen L. Dobson '03 threwteam from Yale University. MIT started the second day facing five goals, caught three and had 3.5appeared sluggish in the first half Brown, who had gone 2-1 the day blocks. Nancy Y. Sun '04 had twoswapping points with Yale for the before. Brown proved to be the blocks, two point-blocks, threefirst few minutes. most challenging game of the tour- goals thrown and one goal caught.

However, after 4 half-time nament. Shuang You '05 also contributedsprints, MIT perked up taking the Lori A. Eich '03 and Angela with intense man-to-man defense.game 11-6. Shalini Agarwal G Tong 'OS, both of whom had been MIT captured the game, and theproved to be the defensive key for absent on Saturday, showed their title, with a 13-3 win over Williams.MIT with 2 blocks and close man- stuff early as Eich threw for 3 goals The Women's Ultimate teamto-man coverage. and Tong caught 5 goals while mak- will look bring home another tour-

Jessica A. Howe G also con- ing 2 blocks. Christine Dobson nament title next weekend. Theytributed, making an essential defen- caught six goals, threw one, and had will travel to Brown Univer ity forsive sky block early in the second one block. MIT came away with the their Huck-a-Hunk of Burnin'half. win, 13-9. Pumpkin tournament November 3

The second game had MIT play- Advancing on to the semifinals, and 4.

By Jenny LeeTEAM MEMBER

Last aturday the MIT equestri-ans headed down to Windcrest Farmin Hebron, CT for the first competi-

tion of the fall season,hosted by StonehillCollege. Four mem-ber of the team bat-tled the wind andchilly temperatures to

participate in this intercollegiateevent featuring competitors fromsuch schools as Harvard, BostonUniversity, and Welle ley.

After pointing up from the inter-mediate division last spring, JennyLee '02 made her debut in the opencategory over fences riding a 16.0hand dark bay mare named Amber.

Kathryn A. Luke '04 placed fifthin her open over fences class ridingthe same horse.

In the alumni division, Hilary .Chapman G rode a 15.0 hand chest-nut gelding named Joey over fencesand won third place.

The flat phase of the competitiontook place in the afternoon underovercast and dry skies. Chapmanonce again took third in the alumnidivision riding Snake, a 16.3 hand

bay gelding.Lee rode against a highly com-

petitive field in the open flat divi-sion on a 16 hand gray geldingnamed Storm.

Luke, riding a 16 hand chestnutgelding named I aac, faced equallystiff competition in her open flatclass and pinned fourth.

Ida Ortiz '04, competing for onlyher second time, rode well in thewalk-trot division on Irish, a 16.2hand dark bay mare, and placedfifth.

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" ........ LI.""-J Fo h'By Yuval MazorTEAM .'.'EMBER

For the fourth year in a row theMIT en's Cro Country teamdominated the C champi-

on hip. fter a strongregular season, theEngineer entered thechampionship part ofthe year ranked 13thin the country and

fourth in ew England.In previous year , MIT had

never been challenged at the NEW-C champion hip, and thi year's

team wanted to keep that streaalive.

The lead pack went out fa t withDaniel R. Feldman '02 right in thethick of it. As Feldman led the lead-ers to a 4:46 first mile the re t ofthe team ran a more conservativetart. onetheless by the econd

mile, it was clear that MIT was run-ning well, as ean olan '03 hadjoined Feldman in the lead, and

ean 1. ontgomery G had movedinto 6th place. ore importantly,MIT had their remaining four varsi-ty runners in the top 20, and wereclearly in the lead.

MIT continued to assert itselfover the remaining three miles, asFeldman and olan opened up a 30-second lead on ontgomery, whowas comfortably in third place bythe fourth mile.

eanwhile, MIT had three morerunners clo ing on the top ten, withAlbert S. Liu '03 leading the way ineighth. Very little changed in thelast mile, as MIT finished 1-2-3, Liuin 8th, and ark L. trau ' 0 1,who was racing for just the second

e Englan .ill13

time since undergoing urgeryrounded out the coring in ninth.Benjamin . chmeckpeper '05 andBrian . Ander on'O finished 11thand 21 t, respecti ely, a IT hadeven runners finish before any

other team' five.T' sub-varsity had an equally

commanding day. Knowing that thiswa the last race of their career , thegraduating class ran aggressiverace , hoping to leave on a goodnote. Ian R. Raphael '02 and Jef-frey J. Billing G ran together for thela t four miles, with Raphael edgingBilling at the line and both finishedin 27:26. For Raphael it wa thefir t time under 2 minute, whileBilling had hi faste t time in threeyears.

Yuval azor '02 just missed thebarrier, running a 28:00 and fini h-ing in 44th.

In all, IT had 13 runner inbefore any other teams seven, andall 17 runner had ea on be ts. Bythe time the result were announced,it wa clear that IT had met itshigh expectations. ith a low scoreof 23, IT ea ily defended theirtitle holding off Coast Guard (68)and pringfield (92).

MIT's top six finishers werenamed to the All-Conference Team.

Individually, Feldman wasnamed EW AC Runner of theYear for the third consecutive year,and chmeckpeper was named

EWMAC Freshmen of the Year.With the ew England Divi ion-IllMeetonly two weeks away, MIT isfinally beginning to reach its poten-tial, and should be in contention fora trip to ationals.

SPORTSBy Sarah PerlmutterTEAM CO-CAPTAI

ith the in IT ended theregular ea on in third place in theconference with a 6-3 record.

down 12-1La t ednesday, IT ho ted

ixth eed WPI in their quarterfinalgame of the C tournament.

eeking revenge for an earlierea on loss, T came out hard and

drew first blood 10 minute in whenzechao . Tam '02 dribbled pa t

three defenders on the left ide andslid a hard hot past the goalie onthe near po t.

WPI was able to take advantageof a momentary lapse in the MITdefense, and put one in before theend of the half.

Realizing that their eason wouldbe over if they didn't win, MITcame out fired up in the second half.Tech truck again, as Tam scoredher second goal of the game off a

onica F. Morrison '04 throw-in.Up 2-1, MIT kept the pressure

on, but was unable to put any morepast the strong WPI keeper.

With in piring play throughoutthe half as well as excellent teamdefending, MIT was able to hold thelead this time and take a 2-1 victory.

The victory was the 13th on theseason for Tech, and broke therecord for wins in a season.

MIT loses in NEWMAC SemifinalOn Saturday, MIT traveled to

Wheaton to take on second seedSpringfield College in a semifinalmatch.

Looking for retribution after anearly season loss, MIT came outfocused, and gained an early leadwhen Morrison buried a penaltyshot.

Tech was able to hold on to the

o ember 2,2001

1-0 lead at halftime but wereunable to stop the pringfieldoffen e which netted two goals inthe second half to take a 2~1 victory.

MIT down WPI in EC CFortunately the Engineers' sea-

son was not over, a they wererewarded with a fourth seed in theECAC tournament. MIT hostedWPI for the third time this seasonon a cold Wednesday afternoon.

MIT came out firing and wasable to convert on an Evan J. Pruitt'05 comer kick. Morrison headed itacross, and Chan knocked it in forthe first goal.

Early in the second half, WPIscored to knot the game at one.Knowing they were the superiorEngineers, MIT started to pick upthe play, and got two quick goals onheaders from Mendelowitz. A head-er by Kelli A. Griffin '03 assistedthe first, and the second came off aJoanna M. Natsios '05 corner kick.

MIT wasn't done yet, as SarahK. Perlmutter '02 blasted a shot intothe upper left comer from a pass bySheila E. Saroglou '03 fifteen min-utes later.

WPI put one more in before thefinal whistle, bringing the final scoreto 4-2.

MIT moves on to the semifinalmatch on Saturday to play the win-ner of Wednesday's Keene State vs.Anna Maria match.

Three :MIT players were recentlynamed to the NEWMAC All-Con-ference team, as Griffm, Morrison,and co-captain Clinton were electedto the squad. Coach Melissa Hartwas awarded with Coach of theYear honors for leading the team tothird in the conference, the highestfinish ever for MIT.

Football Team arrowly Loses Final Game to WNEC, 28-21By Thomas Kilpatricka d Spencer CrossTEAM MEMBERS

The Western ew England Col-lege football team entered aturday'matchup with MIT with a 2-4 record,

but with one of theEFC's best running

backs: arvin Langley.MIT was coming off acomeback miss againstWorcester State last

week, where the Beavers cored 29straight points against the nation's21st ranked team.

This contest proved to be just asexciting as last week's, despite thelesser stature ofWNEC's program.

In the seniors' final game, MITreceived stellar performances fromathletes of all classes. Captain RobertR Owsley '02 broke the century mark

again with 116 receiving yards and 2touchdowns on 6 catches.

The running game finally gotgoing again, too, as freshmen tail-backs Temitope O. onuyi '05 andKale D. Me aney '05 rushed for 154and 102 yards.

The offensive line of seniors Fer-nando Ceballos 02 and Keith V. Bat-tocchi '02, junior Bradford . Lassey'03, sophomores Keith G. Reed '04and Justin . elson '02, and fresh-men Matthew J. Krueger '05 andChristopher 1. Russell 'OS, opened bigholes all day.

Captain Thomas J. Hynes '02 ledthe defensive effort with lltacldeand a sack. Hynes, a defensive end,finished the season as the Beavers'leading tackle.

Jerimy R. Arnold '03 led the teamwith eight unassisted tackles. Defen-

AARO D. MiHALIK-THE TECH(17) Michael J. Harvey 04, (42) B.rian D. Hoying '03, and (58) Lars

• Gronning 03 tackle WNEe's KyJe Lezette during the footballgame on Saturday.

The women' occ r teamimproved its record to 14-5 withthree impressive victorie and one

10 s in the pa t twoeeks.

IT began theweek ranked tenth inthe ew EnglandDivi ion III poll , but

hoped to improve on that with a fewquality victorie .

On aturday the 20th, T trav-eled to Wellesley ollege to take onthe Blue on a pectacular fall day.The game tarted with excellentplay on both side of the field, andthe game remained scorele s at half-time.

That all changed in the econdhalf though as Welle ley got on theboard first. Ten minutes later, theMIT offense got going, as Lydia A.Helliwell 05 converted a RebeccaE. Clinton 03 comer kick for thefir t Tech goal.

A short time later after a lengthycramble in front of the Wellesley

net, Shirley Chan '04 finally bootedthe ball into the back of the net toput MIT ahead 2-1.

Despite sound play from theentire defen e and keeper ConnieYang '03, Wellesley was able toscore one more goal before the endof regulation, and the game wentinto sudden death overtime knottedat two.

Feeling that the momentum wason their ide,:MIT kept relentlesslyattacking the Wellesley net. Fiveminutes into overtime, Sarah E.Mendelowitz 03 blasted a shot fromthe right side of the net past thekeeper giving MIT their:fir t victoryover Wellesley in everal years.

sive backs Brian D. Hoying '03 andCorey D. Carter '03 both contributed10 tackles.

True to the theme of MIT gamesthroughout the season, a sloppy firsthalfleft the Beavers in a hole to climbout of. MIT had five unforced fum-ble in the game, all of which wererecovered. Langley rushed for threetouchdowns in the first half to putWNEC ahead, 21-7.

MIT stormed back in the secondhalf, scoring on its first drive on apass from Philip M. Deutsch '04 toOwsley. The key play was a 33-yardrun by Me aney.

MIT scored again at the end of thethird quarter on a six yard rush by

onuyi. The key play on that drivewas 59-yard rush, also by Sonuyi.

In the fourth quarter both defensescontrolled the tempo as neither teamsustained a drive. The Beavers hadpossession with 1: 12 left whenWNEC's John Piascik returned aninterception to the MIT 4-yard line,where he was hauled down by :MITcaptain Kip . Johann-Berkel '02.Unfortunately, Langley cored hisfourth touchdown on the very nextplay putting the Beavers down 28-21.

But the game was not over. Only1:06 remained on the clock, but a 25-yard rush by Me aney, and pacompletions to Thomas 1. Kilpatrick'05 and Ow ley brought the Beaversto the C 3-yard line with 22 ec-onds. On the next play, Deutsch threwa pass to wide receiver Gregory

elson '02, who was pushed in theback by his defender. WNEC inter-cepted the pass and the game wasover. MIT feU to 1-8.

De pite a disappointing year, theBeaver seniors provided exemplaryleadership. Contributing seniors notyet named include captain Brian C.Alvarez '02, Yo hitaka akani hi02 and kicker Kevin . Ferguson'02, who holds the MIT career recordfor extra points, with 52.

AARO D. MIHALIK-THE TECHTailback Temitope O. Sonuyi '05 rushes for 154 yards during the foot-ball game against WHEC on Saturday.