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Njoroge,BasuWmRhodesBy Richa MaheshwariSTAFF REPORTER

MIT tudents Sanjay Basu '02and Paul K. joroge G have beenidentified as Rhodes cholars forthe year 2002.

After four days of exhaustinginterviews and pretentious cocktailparties, Basu was told he was one ofthe four Rhodes Scholars from the

ortheast region, and one of 32from the nation. He plans to studyDevelopmental Studie at OxfordUniversity, where the RhodesScholarship will cover his tuitionand grant him a living stipend.

Basu applied for the RhodesScholarship program throughMassachusetts, rather than his homestate, Illinois, so he could interviewcloser to MIT. joroge, a graduatestudent in the Department ofElectrical Engineering andComputer Science, is a RhodesScholar for Kenya, his home coun-try. He could not be reached forcomment.

The last round of interviewsoccurred at the Boston UniversityCastle, where Basu was asked ques-tions that ranged from describing apolitical situation across the borderof Pakistan and Afghanistan to theproduct of24 and 36.

"They try to tear down yourphilosophies so you have to be ableto stand up for yourself very well.Since this was originally for peoplewanting to go into political office, alot of the criterion is being able topresent yourself in that way," Basusaid. He added that he felt "awk-ward and strange" throughout thecocktail parties.

To help him prepare for this, past

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AMY L. WONG-THE TECH

A "Shrek" snowman stands alone on the first day of snow of the year on Kresge Oval last Saturday.

Difava Steps inAfter Time at LoganBy Qian Wang

John Difava reported for duty atMIT nearly two months late. The newMIT Campus Police Chief, Difavawas originally scheduled to arrive in.early October, but due to the events ofSeptember 11, he was asked to tem-porarily oversee security at Logan air-port.

Difava did not think his delayedarrival will hinder his ability to getinto his job here at MIT. "I don't feelat all that I'm penalized. We takeassignments based on previous expe-rience and I have had 28 years ofpolicing experience, so I feel com-pletely confident," Difava said.

The new chief also believes hisexperience at Logan airport hastaught him numerous things that hecan bring to the MIT campus." ecurity is proportional to the sur-rounding environment, but there are

basic principle that are the same, andI feel that I have learned my experi-ence at Logan," he said.

Force to focu on serviceDifava replaces Anne P. Glavin,

who was the Chief of MIT CampusPolice for 13 years before being madeDirector of Public Safety last year.According to Isaac Colbert, the Deanfor Graduate tudents, MIT' needshave been changing and the changingcampus call a different approach topolicing the area.

When Glavin came into po itionin the late 1980s, the MIT campushad many ''urban ills," such as prob-lems concerning drugs violence andother crimes, Colbert aid. "[Glavin's]force responded to tho e needs, butMIT's needs are changing," Colbertsaid.

He said the current campusdemands a more service-oriented

Panhel Chooses New Executive Officers,Living Groups Get Ready for Spring RushBy Jeffrey GreenbaumSTAFF REPORTER

The Panhellenic Association andthe Living Group Council seek tospread their individual names asRecruitment 2002 approaches.

As of tomorrow, the Panhellenicsororities will secede from theInterfraternity Council. The mem-bers of the newly elected Panhelexecutive board and council thushope to spread Panhel's name andhelp develop a Panhel culture inde-pendent of the IFC, outgoingPanhel President Annie K. Wang'02 said.

Likewise, the LGC will ho t

LGC-wide rush events in order tospread the image of the independentliving groups. "There are a lot ofsimilarities between the LGC hous-e ," said Kenneth A. Mitton '02, anLGC Representative from Pika.

Panhel elect new officersIn its most recent hou e elec-

tions, Alpha Epsilon Phi selectedaomi A. Schmelzer '03 as

Panhel's next president.Panhellenic executive members

are not" elected by the outgoingPanhellenic Association. In tead,each sorority rotate the office, towhich it can elect one of it sister.

Each of the five sororities thus has asi ter serving as an executive offi-cers, elected by her individualorority and not the Panhellenic

Association.During her presidency,

chmelzer foresees that she will bedealing with the separation ofPanhel from the InterfraternityCouncil and Recruitment 2002.

On Wednesday, the Panhellenicsororities will officially secede fromthe IFC. As a result, "we will wantto try to get our own name outthere," chmelzer aid.

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police force rather than a force con-centrated on enforcement. "After adecade of dealing ith crime, it's notan issue we have to be overly vigilantabout now," said Colbert.

Stephen D. Immerman, Director

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Studentsan Trips

Fo BreakBy Christine R. FrySTAFF REPORTER

ow that the weather hasbecome more wintry, MIT studentshave begun to anticipate the holiday

break.D t While most11ea ure are looking

forward towhat may seem like a mundanebreak: sleeping, forgetting aboutschoolwork, and enjoying time athome with family and friend , sometudent , however, have more exotic

plans to break the monotony ofdaily clas es.

Home is traditionally wheremost people travel for the holidays,but families occasionally decide toforego familiar surroundings toexplore new places.

Jamaica, Vegas among destina-tions

"I'm just going [to Jamaica] withmy family. We're going for vacation.Ju t to get away" aid Prachi Jain'05. Jain is Jooking forward to lyingon the beach in the sun as an e capefrom the cold weather at home.

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)0 'ATHAN WANG-THE TECH

Benita Santiago and grandson Omar Valedon celebrate "thebest day of our Christmas" on Saturday in a toy drive spon-sored by the Class Councils of 2004 and 2005. The eventwas part of the Giving Tree, sponsored by the Public ServiceCenter and the Panhellenic Association.

Comic This will be the final i ue of TheTech for 2001. We will re urnepublication on January 9,2002continuing every Wedne dathrough IAP.

World & ation 2Opinion 4Arts 6Event Calendar 14port 19

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EWSDArKABUL. AFGHA ITA .

In the 19 0 , a the nited tate wa working to overthrow theoviet-backed communi t go ernrnent here, the fghan commu-

ni t struck back by arre ting fghan who worked at the U. .Emba sy. They jailed about 10 emba y employees, said Ghulam-

akhi Ahmadzai the chief ecurity official of the emba y'Afghan taff.

'They entenced me becau e they aid I wa a CI agent,"recaIJed Ahmadzai, a quiet, dapper man who aid he is ' about 5year old. othing i very exact in fghani tan."

hmadzai pent nine years in jail - and wa more than oncebeaten for his choice of employer, he aid, before being freed in1992.

Thi fall, ashington again campaigned to overthrow an fghanregime, and the emba sy' fghan taffer again were caught in themiddle. In the pa t two month , they have been threatened, and theembas y attacked and burned by pro-Taliban rioter.

THE WASHI GTO POST

In less than two months, Congre s has ordered, all checked bagat U .. airports must be screened for explosives.

That's a tall order, but one way to meet it, federal officials say isto step up the practice of matching every bag that goe into the bellyof a plane to a pas enger on board.

Airlines hi tori cally have resi ted baggage-matching, which theydo on international flights, because of the complexity of the airliney tem and the heer volume of luggage. They fear delays, especially

on connecting flights. But it's one of the few options available to theairline and the government if they are to meet Congress' new man-date that all checked luggage - 1.4 billion bags a year - bescreened for explosives by Jan. 1 .

The deadline is among the most conspicuous examples of howdifficult it will be to establish from scratch a brand-new federalagency that will have tens of thou ands of employees and will bere ponsible for standardizing security at 420 airports and coordinat-ing ecurity among air, land and sea travel.

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Federal law enforcement officials have broken up a large illegalimmigrant smuggling ring that u ed a Los Angele -based bus compa-ny to transport immigrant from U.S. cities near the Mexican borderto locations around the Western part of the country, Attorney GeneralJohn D. Ashcroft announced onday.

Thirty-two people were indicted in 'Operation Great Basin,"including the president and other corporate officers of Golden tateTransportation, a regional bus company, and six alleged smugglers,Ashcroft said. They were charged with "transporting and harboringillegal aliens for profit," he said.

"We will not tolerate violation of our borders," Ashcroft toldreporters onday. "Operation Great Basin serves as a warning ....U .. law enforcement is ready to find you ... and pro ecute you. '

o one answered the telephone at Golden State's headquarters.The company is partially owned by istema Internacional de Trans-porte de Autobuse Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of GreyhoundLines Inc., said Lynn Brown, a pokeswoman for Greyhound.

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ecurity - from other threat , noteach other. Thus the numbers do notneces arily ha e to match, theenior official said.

The Bush admini trationannounced last month that the Unit-ed tate will cut its nuclear ar enalfrom under 6,000 warhead tobetween 1,700 and 2 200, whilePutin aid during his Washingtonvisit in ovember that Russia willcut its ar enal by about two-thirds.

Powell had hoped to get a pre-cise number on this trip, but Ivanovsaid Rus ia wa not ready to revealits final number - and might not beuntil Bush visits next summer.

But Powell aid the two sides arenow "very close."

The senior U.. official accom-panying Powell aid later that theUnited tates now has a "muchclearer picture of where Russia willend up on offensive weapons, howto deal with transparency and howto codify" an agreement on cuttingtheir respective nuclear arsenals.

o agreement appears near onthe ABM treaty, however, as bothside had hoped. Ivanov said Russiastill considers it "the key element ofthe entire treaty system of providingor ensuring strategic stability in theworld."

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accord that would codify reductionsin their nuclear ar enal by theroughly two-thirds that they havebeen di cus ing for more than threeyear.

Both of our presidents havecharged u . .. to find ways to for-malize thi agreement - and to tryto get the work concluded in timefor when they meet in 0 cow,"Powell told a news conference withIvanov.

But the new accord will differfrom pa t arms pact because thepremise is transparency, or exchang-ing information and providingacce s, rather than matching num-bers that would guar ntee mutualdeterrence - or mutual de truction.

"Full transparency can be a sub-stitute for the volurninou arms con-trol agreements that we've had inthe past," said a enior tate Depart-ment official traveling with Powell."Thi irItroduce a new approach toarm control.

"It' an approach that say wedon't have to have exactly the samenumber or have an agreement basedon the ability of each one to kill theother."

Both nations would insteadmaintain the level of nuclearweapons needed to ensure their own

drug charge, police in Napa Countysearched his residence and foundbomb-making material and otherevidence linking him to arson andsabotage attacks aimed at an elec-tric utility company. Indicted infederal court, Knights argued thatthe evidence could not be usedagainst him because the search hadviolated his constitutional right tobe free of unreasonable policeintrusion.

La t year, the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the9th Circuit agreed with him, sayingthe probation order he signedshould be construed to cover onlysearche related to supervising hisprobation, not inve tigations of newcrimes.

But Monday, in a unanimousopinion written by Chief Justice

William Rehnquist, the justicesnoted that the probation order clear-ly gave broad search authority to"any" law enforcement officer, andthat Knights accordingly was enti-tled to a lower expectation of priva-cy than other citizens have.

"Just as other punishments forcriminal convictions curtail anoffender's freedoms, a court granti-ng probation may impose reasonableconditions that deprive the offenderof some freedoms enjoyed by law-abidirIg citizens," Rehnquist wrote.

Supporters of Knights's positionhad argued that California's prac-tice is followed almost nowhereelse in the country and that itexposes innocent people who mighthappen to be living in or visiting aprobationer's home to warrantlesssearches.

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PlayirIg off their deepening part-ner hip, the United tate and Ru -ia announced on day that they

hope to formalize an agreement ontrategic weapons cut , signaling a

new approach to arm control, at aummit between Pre ident Bush and

Pre ident Vladimir V. Putin ne tyear.

After talks between ecretary oftate Colin L. Powell and Putin at

the Kremlin, Rus ia al 0 said thatongoing and fundamental differ-ences over the 1972 Antiballistic

i ile Treaty may not get resolved.But Russian Foreign Minister Igor

. Ivanoval 0 indicated that a U ..decision to walk out of the historicaccord, the cornerstone of modernarms agreements may not provokea repri al by 0 cow.

Both development reflect a in-gle theme: that the new tru tbetween the former superpowerrivals no longer require bothnations to take the exact same tepsat the arne time, make the samecuts or remairI at precisely the samearms level.

The nations are seeking either aformal treaty or a more informal

By Charles LaneTHE WASHfNGTON POST

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The upreme Court ruled Mon-day that authorities in Californianeed not obtain a warrant beforesearching the homes of certaincriminals who have been releasedon probation, a decision thatstrengthens the hand of lawenforcement officials in the nation'slargest state and could encourageother states to adopt its practice .

At is ue in the case of U. ,vs.Knights, o. 00-1260, were Cali-fornia rules under which judgeoften require convicted criminals tosign a document consenting to war-rantless searches as a condition ofbeing entenced to probation.

fter Mark James Knights wasplaced on probation in 199 on a

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White ouse P ans to ReleaseVideotape of Osama bin Laden

Peru Fears ReemergenceOfViolen Rebels

THE WASHINGTO POSTSANTA LUCIA, PERU

In the mountains around this jungle town recently weaned from ane onomy based on illegal drug traffic, the tirrings of a dormant guer-rilla organization are raising fears that terrorism is regaining afoothold in Peru's countryside.

A column of rebel from the Shining Path, a radical Maoist move-ment that terrorized Peru in the 1980 and early 1990s, assauJted thearmy barrac in nearby uevo Progreso in June after harassingneighboring towns for several wee . Although no one was killed, theattack coincided with what police officials here said has been a spikein drug cultivation in these eastern forests and a surge in guerrillaactivity, including a hining Path ambush in August about 200 milessouth of here in which four police officers were killed.

In the last few months, the hining Path has also begun operationsin Peru's cities. Last month, the Interior Ministry announced that ithad thwarted a Shining Path plan to attack the U. . Embassy in Lima.

By Walter PincusTHE WASHlNGTO POST

ing to one offi ialment of the tapthe transcript.

On the tape, bin Laden prai esGod that both tower collap edwh n h had e pected more limitedde truction, a ording to officialwho ha e een the tape or read atranscript.

the group i on the floor eat-ing from bowl and being servedfrom silver trays, bin Laden jokesthat his own pre s aide, ulaimanabu Ghaith, had no ad ance knowl-edge of the attacks and rushed to tellhim when new reports first came in.

Bin Laden also tells the group heknew Mohamed tta was in chargeof the hijacking group and that someof the "brother " who conducted the

peration did not kno the nature ofthe work they were tas ed to do,a cordin to the official. Bin Ladenay on the dinner tape 'They were

only told at the time they boardedthe plane : th official aid.

President Bush said the portionsof the tape he aw reinforced hi willto pnrsu bin Laden's al-Qaida net-

or. For tho e who ee this tape,they'll realize that not only i heguilty of incredible murder, he hasno conscience and no soul, that herepresent the worst of civilization."

Intelligence officials, whorecently obtained the tape in a pri-vate home in Jalalabad, havechec edit ith e pert and lastweek told the White House theyconsidered it authentic.

The White House plans to releasea tape of 0 ama bin Laden dis ussingthe World Trade enter attac laterthis week and i tudying whetherubtitle should be added to translate

from Arabic 0 as to avoid chargesthat the soundtrack was doctored,senior administration officials aid.

The 40-minute videotape, inwhich the bin Laden di cussed hisadvance knowledge and responsibil-ity for the attacks, was made by anamateur hoping to document an al-Qaida dinner last month honoringan older mullah, officials said. Thetape's sound "is spotty and garbledand one part is taped over:' accord-

Lockyer Sets StandardsFor Microsoft's Foes

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Lawsuit Filed Asking to RemoveCivil Rights Commission Member

Just as its lengthy and expensive legal troubles appear to be end-ing, Microsoft Corp. is encountering fierce opposition from anunlikely source in settling its landmark antitrust case: CaliforniaAttorney General Bill Lockyer.

A populist politician first and a lawyer second, Lockyer hasemerged as the new standard-bearer for Microsoft's enemies in gov-ernment, and he has come out firing.

Criticizing the Justice Department's pending settlement as tooweak, Lockyer said, "Maybe we need to create a 12-step program fortheir executives, where they start each morning saying, '1 am amonopolist, I am a monopolist, 1 am a monopoli t.' "

Of Microsoft's tentative settlement of more than 100 consumercla s-action lawsuits, which pledges software and other products topoor schools, Lockyer said, "It's a little like Big Tobacco beingfound guilty of selling cigarettes to minors, and the remedy is forthem to agree to give them free cigarettes."

His rhetoric signals that he is unlikely to be satisfied with a slight-ly sweetened ettlement overture.

Add to the mix Lockyer's political know-how and ambitions forhigher office, and the evidence sugge ts Microso won't be free of its3-year-old antitrust case for years to come.

Microsoft's defenders accuse Lockyer of doing the bidding of thecompany's big California competitors, including Oracle Corp. andSun Microsystems Inc.

Democrats in voting not to recog-nize Kirsanow. They did 0 over thevigorous protests of two Republi-can and an independent who favorhis appointment.

Afterward, Berry said her votehad le s to do with Kirsanow thanwith preserving the commission'sindependence from the whims of thepresident. evertheless, Kirsanow'spresence would likely split the board,which now has a Democrat-leaningmajority.

Wilson's attorney, Leon Fried-man, said his client should serve untilJanuary 2006 and would fight thesuit. 'We're happy to have an oppor-tunity to present our case," saidFriedman, a professor of constitution-al law at Hofstra University.

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Higginbotham, who died in Decem-ber 1998.

The uit requests that the judgedeclare that "Kir anow is now, andhas been, since the date of hisappointment" by President Bu h onDecember 6, "a member of the com-mission." It further asserts that "Wil-son is no longer entitled or empow-ered to serve as a member of thecommission ince ov. 29,2001."

The lawsuit was dropped in anight box of the U.S. District Court inthe District of Columbia Friday aftera raucous commission meeting thatKirsanow attended, knowing that thepanel's chairwoman, Mary FrancesBerry, would refuse to seat him.

At the meeting, Berry and Wil-son, both independents, joined three

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Justice Department lawyers havefiled a federal lawsuit asking a judgeto remove a member from the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights so that aBush administration appointee canreplace her on a board that tiltstoward Democrats.

The appointee, Peter . Kir-sanow, a Cleveland labor lawyer, wasalso named as one of the plaintiffsagainst commissioner Victoria Wil-son, who is clinging to her seatdespite the White House's contentionthat her term expired at the end ofNovember. Wilson was appointed tothe commission by President BillClinton to fill in for Judge A. Leon

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Letters TOThe EditorOne Last

Breath For NEAmore innocuous sign of the erosion of intellecti the current trend of mangling the English lan-guage in public forums and calling this truthand honest character (after all, such a tacticelected this president).

The NEA and the CPB have their flaws, likeall (repeat: all) governmental programs. otevery American will be perpetually satisfied bythe intentions of a few hundred legislators andelected officials. But flippant and arrogant com-ments such as the one made by Mr. Craigheadrepresent further just how little value mostAmericans place on our national artists, whoquietly truggle financially and emotionally sothat this country might not be totally dominatedby the spectres of war and violence, hatred andbloodshed.

But perhaps that is what Mr. Craighead, andothers who share hi belief, would like to seehappen. He is welcome to such a society, butCongress's last whispers of some upport to itsown citizens who inspire and create for a livingshould not go down without a fight.

Bill WhitneyStaff

article "Fences Can Stop Sheep, But otHumans" [Dec. 7] are, I feel obligated to offeran alternative interpretation of the statementthat is conspicuously absent from both thearticle and the caption. At least some of TheTech's staff members must be aware thatAdvanced Cell Technologies, a company innearby Worcester, MA, recently announcedthat it had created the first cloned humanembryos. Some of them might also rememberDolly, the first sheep that was cloned in 1997.I don't mean to underestimate the monumentalimportance of the construction on AmherstAlley and its progress, but it seems that it's atleast possible, and certainly worth mentioning,that whoever wrote the message was express-ing his or her disapproval of human cloning.

Dan Riordan '02

I understand that we live in a generation, andspecifically in a year, in which the ocietal valueof concepts like creative expre ion and effec-tive learning is roundly rejected in public.

After all, goes the unspoken logic, theseaspects of our humanity don't contribute to thecapitali t bottom line, so how could they possi-bly be valuable? Reasoning such as this i whathas contributed to a neglected and bankruptnational educational system, and a generation ofyouth with no effective or encouraged way toexpress themselves other than through violentmean , and no cau es to fight for other thantho e which involve bigotry or attacks on othermembers of the human race. Even given all thithough, I was rather shocked to read attCraighead's column of Dec. 7 ["GettingPriorities traight"] in which he offers a justifi-able critique of the current administration'sspending habits and budgetary ignorance.

raighead mentions as one remedy the cut-ting of funds to the ational Endowment for theArts and the Corporation for PublicBroadcasting, calling them "silly governmentalprograms" that are "easy to laugh at." With alldue respect (or perhaps not), I would put forththe radical notion that positive cultural pro-grams have but one last breath in our society,and in our government's set of priorities. One

ErrataIn an article that ran on page 1 of

last Friday'S issue [Board DelaysRuling on Tech Appeal, December 7],

oulaymane Kachani's name wasspelled incorrectly. On page I of thesame issue, Pey-Hua Hwang's namewas also misspelled. The Tech regretsthese errors.

anager: Rachel Johnson '02;nager: Ja mine Richards '02;

'03,Laws Can

Stop Sheep...A insightful and newsworthy as the recent

photograph of a con truction sign with thephrase "We Are ot heep!" and the ensuing

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IsThere an 'It' in Your Future?Eric 1. Plo ky

fter a year of hype, It could have beenanything from a perpetual-motion machine toan Orga matron. But when inventor DeanKamen hisked It wrap off la t e on, Good Morning America," It was revealed tobe a scooter.

ooter?Kamen an Edison-like figure who has

invented medical gadgets and a stair-climbingwheelchair dubbed "Fred," isn't a how-man or media smoothie. He' a geek whohas come up with a new toy. While zippingaround on an It - sorry, on a egwayHuman Transporter - during the 'Gsegment, Kamen couldn't help beaming.The bottom line: he thinks that It's all that.

lso known as 'Ginger" (Fred's part-ner), Kamen's scooter - er egwayHuman Transporter - i e sentially a two-wheeled device which a rider tand onand scoots about. Flat-out, It can do about12 miles an hour for about 12 mile. It'small, easy and safe to ride, and uses little

electricity. The Postal Service, the ationalPark Service, and some big corporationsare already fiddling with early indu trial-strength Its; the consumer model will hitstores next year with a tag of about $3,000.

The only big question now is, wiJI Itchange the world? Early sneak-peekers,such as Intel's Andy Grove and Amazon'sJeff Bezos, seemed to think so. Apple'sSteve Jobs even opined that future citieswould be designed around It. Kamen him-self seems to have a Grand Vision of It inwhich commuters dash about cities, transitstations, and airports, warehouse workersflit between buildings, and delivery people Itup and down the block, everyone saving hoursin the process. Curiously, It seems intended toreplace neither cars nor bicycles - It's beingtouted, rather unusually, as an alternative towalking. Kamen and Co. say It's designed foruse on sidewalks, not on streets. Indeed, It hasbeen certified by the federal OccupationalSafety and Health Administration as some-thing akin to a wheelchair. Imagine the side-walks filling up with It riders hurtling past at

12 mph. ouldn t that change the urban land-cape?

It' ery clever, tyli h and attracti e lit-tle gadget and it' likely to find a useful nichein urban transportation" I was told I t weekby iUiam J. itchell Dean of the chool ofArchite ture and Planning, uthor of ity ofBit and e-topia. 'Howe r major change intran portation mode and patterns depend atleast a mu h on ffecti e trategie for creat-ing nece sary infr tru ture on a large ca Ie(with the automobile for e ample, parking

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already ban bicycle and don't want motorizedvehicles on the idewal . Is there a olution?

ound like it may work better in the suburbswhere the sidewalks aren't 0 crowded.'

But if we re going to try to get suburbanitesout of their cars, houldn't we really try to getthem to e ercise in tead, by walking or bicy-

ling? orne e pert predict that in a fewyear , half of the American adult popula-tion could be classified clinically obese;urely the car-dependent suburban archi-

tecture of the U. . is one cau e of thisgreat fattening. And if you won't burn anymore calories tanding on an It than sit-ting in a Ford xecutioner, well, sure, par-ticulate emis ions may go down, but cho-lesterolle el will till be climbing.

I suspect that It will be more success-ful among its commercial and industrialcu tomer : letter and package carriers,park ranger , factory workers, and thatort. Eventually the military will start fid-

dling with I and one can easily imaginea brigade of troops rolling at 12 mph intobattle. ot the It-mounted infantry!" ourenemie will shriek. Ultimately on find-ing a niche in commerce or industry, Itmay tum out to be one of those innova-tions largely invisible to the consumer,like the wastewater treatment plant or orthe fiber-optic cable - we won teachhave to deal with It on a daily basis, butwe'll all still be better off.

In any ca e, Kamen and his cronies,despite the release of It, still seem to betinkering. There is buzz about a Stirling

engine-powered It, a thought that no doubtsets Course 2 hearts afire. If Kamen has fig-ured out how to work with a Stirling, maybe Itcould be more than we now realize. He proba-bly hasn't registered domain names like mys-tirlingscooter.com for nothing.

Still, I agree with Dean Mitchell - evenin current form It is a pretty cool gadget. Andregardles of Its impracticalities, I'm rightwith Councilor Davis when she asks, "Whencan we try one out?"

Quan's Kitchen's Distasteful ServiceVivekRao

"Quan's Kitchen." To most MIT students,those two words conjure up images of chickenvegetable fried noodles and scallion pancakes.For me, however, it is a restaurant that betraysthe good faith of its customers, and will do any-thing to make a buck.

For those of you unfamiliar with Quan'sKitchen, it is a restaurant located onCommonwealth Avenue that specializes inChinese cuisine. While there are tables wherepeople can eat, the majority of the store's busi-ness comes in the form oftake-out and deliveryorders, a large number ofwhich are placed by localcollege students. TheQuan's menu is verydiverse, with nearly 200items, and the restaurantcannot be faulted in thatregard. Dishes range fromstandard Chinese appetiz-ers such as spring rolls andboneless spareribs to a number of varied beef,poultry, and pork dishes. Prices, though notcheap by college student standards, are reason-able, with a majority of meals falling in the sixto ten dollar range. Clearly, with its vast menuand affordable prices, Quan's has the potentialto be a top ordering option. Unfortunately, shod-dy service, which can give a bad taste to eventhe best cooked meals, will surely be the restau-rant's downfall.

Though I have only lived in the Cambridgearea for a little over three months, I orderedfood from Quans a dozen times or so - ye ,Aramark food is that bad - before I realizedthe error of my ways. One di turbing theme Ifound during that time was a consistent over-charging on the part of the restaurant's accoun-tants. Like a gas station attendant who pumpsthose extra three or four times just to round yourprice up, Quan s, I have found, will often addthirty cents to one dish get the ta lightlywrong, and add up the bill to read higher than ithould be. The net result is that customers fre-

quently find themselve paying just a bit morethan they should be; not enough, mind you, forit to be worth making a complaint to the re tau-rant but enough that it can get irritating, andcertainly enough for Quan's to gradually make a

lots, freeways, gas stations, etc.) as they do onavailability of new types of vehicles. It isn'tclear to me that there' a way to put the infra-structure for this vehicle in place on a suffi-cient scale, at a sufficiently rapid pace, for itto have a significant impact in the near-termfuture. That's the big challenge."

That seemed to make sense, so I checked inwith Cambridge City Councilor HenriettaDavis, who is usually at the forefront ofmunicipal transportation issues. Would early-

little more money.I am not saying for certain that Quan's pur-

posely overcharged me on multiple occasions,but I would find it hard to believe that they sim-ply made arithmetic errors, over and over andover again. Even if I were to give them the ben-efit of the doubt that these glitches were simplythe result of human error and not intentionalgreed - something which I am not exactlyprepared to do - there is still a trend of over-charging that can be very frustrating to the cus-tomer.

Yet thi transgression pales in compari onwith the restaurant's greatest offense: the poor

About 30 minutes later, the delivery had still notarrived.A Quans Kitchen employee called myroom and said, (God knows who really ate the

noodles. -what goes around comes around.'

attitude of the employees who answer the phonefor all delivery orders. Among the most impor-tant aspects of any eatery - or any business,for that matter - is good customer ervice, andthat is where Quan's falls far short. It would beunfair of me to generalize my criticism of theQuan's staff, but I will say that on many occa-sions, I have found the employees to be rude,uninformative, and sometimes downright mean.To illustrate this, let me give a couple of anec-dotes.

On the first occasion, I placed an order, andwas told that the food would arrive in about 30minutes. I waited about an hour before callingagain and asking where the food was. Told thatthe food was already on its way, I waited again,only to call again about 20 minutes later. Thistime, the employee, who apparently recognizedmy voice from the previous time, apparentlydecided that it was I who was in the wrongtelling me that I didn't need to call and that itwould get there soon. Rather than making aneffort to re olve the ituation, she basically toldme to just wait and keep my mouth hut untilthey felt it was fit and proper to deliver my food.Eventually, after another moderate wait thefood arrived.

Then, about a month ago I ordered from

Quan's for the last time. Having failed to learnfrom previous experiences, I opted for scallionpancakes, while my friend chose pork chowmein with crispy noodles. urprisingly, the foodarrived rather promptly. However, my friendnoticed that her pork chow mein had not comewith the crunchy noodles, which are usually in asmall, separate packet

Logically I called the restaurant, politely toldthem the situation, and requested that they dropoff some crunchy noodles to solve the problem.

At first, the employee assumed that I hadbarely looked in the bag, and she asked me tocheck again. I hardly thought that was unrea-sonable, so I looked some more, until I wasabsolutely positive there were no noodle . Itwasthen, however, that she took on a more vigilanttone. Repeatedly, for about five minutes, shetold me to look again, aying that she was urethat they were there. Whenever I replied theywere not there, she would ask me to look again.

After a solid waste of time, she finally easedup and said the driver would deliver the noodlesas soon as possible. If only the story endedthere. About 30 minutes later, the noodle tillhad not arrived when the same employee calledmy room. My roommate answered the phone.While you may assume that she had called toexplain the cau e of the delay, she insteadlaunched into what may only be deemed atirade. The exact words sound almost comical.

"God knows who really ate the noodles ' hesaid. ''What goes around come around." As myroommate listened in stunned disbelief, I decid-ed that enough is enough. A restaurant that is sostingy that they will assault a customer's integri-ty and accuse him of deceit and lying instead ofgiving up a few cents worth of noodles willnever have my business.

It seems that Quan s Kitchen, or at very leasta few of the employees who work there, haveyet to understand one of the chief principles ofgood busine : trust between the customer andthe store. If Quan' refuses to trust me when Isay that I have not received my noodle , then Irefuse to believe them when they claim to servefood promptly, at li ted prices and with goodservice.

While many of you may have had nothingbut good experiences with the re taurant Iwould only caution you that you should not besurpri ed if you get cheated, lied to or evenyelled at or in ulted by a Quan ' Kitchenemployee.

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AbominableSnow; Man

Philip Burrowes

now wafted through the air Saturdayevening, leaving a light blanket to greetCantabridgians upon the next sunrise. Days ofunseasonably warm weather had come to anend, as if intended to coincide with the lastweek of classes. 0 doubt some welcomedthi change, having eagerly anticipated anexplicit reemergence of the annual Winter

onderland. Others unaccustomed to "tem-perate" climates would have experienced theirfirst contact with the phenomenal singularityof snow crystals. Many would even hope for agreater spectacle than the one before them,unaware that the sterility they viewed was themost benign form of a both useless and dan-gerous affront by ature against Man.

Rain is clearly a necessary part of life.Without it, there are eventually no crops, letalone anything in which to dissolve alreadyharvested camomile. 0 we put up with(maybe even enjoy) being soaked or drivingslowly, knowing that it is the price to pay forlife. Ice, however aggravates all the disadvan-tages of rain while diminishing its benefits;along with being soaked one is cold, and thesolvency of solid water is much less than thatof the liquid. After all, what is snow but lessheralded hail?

Hail is obviously a danger. Pedestrians,even when bundled up, may need hours torecover from mere minutes in a hailstorm.Vehicles have drastically limited maneuver-ability on the slick roads. When combinedwith low visibility and the general ignoranceof most drivers, traffic becomes all the moredangerous. or are those waiting the weatherout from the confines of their homes, safe, asany outside emergency services they dependon are slowed. Those without homes are theworst off of all, often simply left to awaitwhite death.

Why, then, all this talk of letting it snow?othing is truly more fun about throwing

snowballs and building snowmen than a trip tothe beach that is rendered impossible by snow(e pecially once one accounts for the relativepotential to do either over a certain period oftime), so the hedonistic argument is untenable.It restricts human life more than it could everopen up new possibilities; other animals arewise enough to choose migration or hiberna-tion rather than brave treacherously snowy ter-rain.

Those people that do derive any gain fromthe snowy succubus are little more thanwolves in sheep's' clothing. Like the iberiantiger or polar bear, the shovels- for-hire andsnowed-in Wellesley tudents use the snow tocamouflage their true intentions. In the end,they either leave their market spent, or exhaustthemselve beforehand.

More dangerously, some are led to believethey are benefitting from snow when in factthey would be better off without it. Aside fromthe recreational activities which are generallyinferior ub titutes for events requiring highertemperatures, there are those deluded intobelieving ice is indeed the optimal conditionfor action. Ice hockey, bottled water derivedfrom snowcaps, and "conventional" expecta-tion of Yuletide are especially misguided cre-ations. These all place themselves in moreprecarious positions by relying so deeply andso irrationally on weather conditions whenother options exist. What of the less expensivefield hockey, good old fashioned Gatorade,and the fact that Chri tmas' pastoral backdropdoesn't at all mesh with winter?

Apologies are in order to those for whomsnow is truly a novel sight. Surely the notionof frozen water manifesting itself in a crys-talline white form i a flight of fancy.Whatever joy taken from witnessing such anotherwise fantastic occurrence is to be rel-ished from a merely philosophical standpoint.To those who have lived their entire lives withnow, do not let its current mundanity miscon-

strue the e words as jest. Imagine insteadbeing thrust for the first time into monsoonrains and you will understand that you havenot een every mannerism of water. Yet eventhose, in all their destructive power can beutilized by human ingenuity to our advantage.

Even the aesthetic argument for snow -which is subjective - can be countered sim-ply by noting that it' hard to eep anythingwhite clean. Pity those who will catch theirfir t sight of snow as brown sludge on a streetcomer. That sets aside the naturally harmfulvisual characteristics it gains when of a largequantity, such as the way it redistributes lightor ob cure depth. In the end, snow simply hasno distinctly beneficial component.

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THE ARTS001

Dan e AnzoJini conduc the IT SymphonAuditorium.

CO CERT EVIEW

Time Travel, MITSO StyleTrip Th vugh odem. Classical, and Romantic

By Pey- ua HangSTAFF WRfTER

MIT tymphony OrchestraKre ge AuditoriumSaturday, December 8, 2001

he MIT 0 concert on aturday in ahalf filled Kre ge auditorium, featuredmusic which ranged from modern toclassical to romantic. It opened with a

modern piece called Jubal, by Peter Child. Itwas a relatively short piece, but it was execut-ed with enthu iasm. everal points in the pieceseemed a bit disjointed, and the ending seemedrather abrupt. However, this feeling of beingleft hanging without proper resolution at theend might have been the intention of the mod-ern piece. It was greeted with great applause atits conclusion and Child made his way to thefront of the auditorium, shook DirectorAnzolini's hand, and acknowledged both theorche tra and audience with a smile.

fter this foray into modern classical musicMozart's Hom Concerto No. 4 in E-jlat major,K. 495 balanced out the first half of the concert.Jean Rife, an IT lecturer, was the soloist.Technically speaking, the piece played well,however, it lacked some of the lightnes andfrivolity necessary to truly capture the spirit ofMozart. Rife also had some rather impres ivetrill ; however, some of the other notes seemeda tad bit brassy sounding for the context. Whenthe piece concluded, Rife left the stage twiceand returned for a total of three bow .

After the intermission, IT 0 witchedtime periods again and played two pieces byBrahms. For the first piece, the MIT ConcertChoir joined MITSO in a performance ofBrahms' Shicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Opus

54. This piece evoked contrasting sections ofpeace and tension. The conc1u ion wa particu-larly well done, however the piece tended to berather top heavy. By top heavy, I mean that ithad overpowering volume from in trumentwith high notes uch as the violins and fluteswhile the lower instruments such as the basand cello that hould have provided groundingfor the piece were not given proper attention.

The concert concluded with Brahms' Sym-phony No.3 in F, Opus 90. This piece wasal 0 technically olid, but didn't bring out thedark overtone pre ent in Brahms. any ofthe secondary melodies that are intrinsic to thecomplex melodies were buried in the swell ofthe fir t violins. The first and second move-ment contrasted well with each other intempo, but neither seemed to carry muchweight in the mood. The playing seemedrather contrived and lacking in emotionalpower. Emotion, however definitely wasexhibited in the third movement, which wasthe definite highlight of the piece. It began inthe lower register of all the instruments andbuilt to a powerful climax with timpani at fullthrottle and the string players all moving tothe intensity of the music. The fourth move-ment, "Allegro," could have been even moreexciting; however, it lacked the properdynamic contrast was played a bit under-tempo and wa therefore rather anticlimactic.

Throughout the concert, there were manynice ensemble moments scattered amongst thetutti ections and the choice of music featureda nice variety of styles. Thus, for a collegeorche tra where most if not all the membersare not mu ic majors, the performance madefor a pleasant albeit not life-altering eveningof orchestral music.

Infectious EnthusiasmThe 0 0 P od Perform Emotional A Capella

he Cro Product MIT' Coo tian acappella group gave a highly enjoyableand oftentim mo ing performance toa re ponsi e crowd in an overflowing 6-

120 thi pa t wee end. The Cro s Product 'inging was impre ively full, e pre ive, and

right on key, but more importantly, their energyand enthusi m were inf tious and their hon-e ty and incerity were touching and muchappreciated.

The concert began with performance byBrown' group With One oice (which alsoinclude tudent from Rhode I land choolof De ign). The group performed their fir tfive songs with energy and high-qualityinging, and even performed two additionalong halfway through the Cro Products'

program.However, when the TO Products began,

it was clear that the audience was ready forthem. The group na igated a range of ongorne up tempo and orne low ballad . In

general, the oloi ts were a little overshad-owed by the group despite the presence ofmicrophone . This problem had more to dowith the balance of the group and the projec-tion of the oloist rather than lack of singingability. Highlights definitely included thecatchy song "The Victim" (by Cass Midgleyand originally performed by the AcappellaVocal Band), which featured soloist ChrisTsai '05 and minimalist but not distractingchoreography that was both clever and effec-tive. ongs like "This World" (by Caedmon sCall) with soloists Ben unes G and andyZhang '03 and" ot Perfect" (by Church ofRhythm) with soloists Lawrence Hsin '02 andCarolyn Chen '02 were particularly memo-rable because of both the quality of the per-formances and the incerity that shonethrough. The song "Glory, Honor, Power"

(by ichael Pritzl) with oloi ts Joyce Lin01 and Daniel endel '05 w a great end-

ing to the concert. Lin's voice wa strongand her pre ence nicely captured the meaningbehind the ong. Lin al 0 shone in her direc-tion of the group through most of the ongteering the group through the sometimes

rapid hift of each song. It was impressivethat even in trickier songs like' Glory, Honor,Power" the group s en emble, rhythm, andintonation never faltered. The ong also fea-tured trong vocal percu ion, mo t notice-ably from arah hin '04.

Like other a cappella groups, the CrossProducts also included skits between someong . Along with the familiar but still hilari-

ou demon tration of what a mathematicalcro s product is (with people a vectors), thegroup al 0 included the skit "In an AlternateCro Products Universe." In the skit, thegroup humorously illu trated the pressures oftrying to be like others, and we see whatmight happen if the group tried to enlist theaid of a famous choreographer (played beau-tifully by Shin). The final cene had the audi-ence rolling with laughter in the overcrowd-ed ai les. A more serious skit came near theend of the program, to a recording of theong "He" by Jars of Clay. The skit showed

different groups of people whose relation-ships are marred by anger and impatience,but who are brought back together throughtheir relationship with Christ. The skit wasmoving and its message was clear and well-illustrated.

Accompanied by more than a few cries foran encore, the Cross Products completed theirnine-song winter concert to enthusiasticapplause. The Cross Products, one of thesmaller a cappella groups on campus, demon-strated that they are a multi-talented group,putting together a high-quality performancethat was both emotional and entertaining.

JASON LaPENTA-THE TECH

Brown University's With One Voice, above, opened for the Cross Products last Satur-day night in 6-120.

Urinetown: The MusicalThs,That Really Is the TitleBy Fred ChoiSTAFF WRfTER

Directed by John RandoWritten by Greg KotisMusic and Lyric by Mark HollmannHenry Miller Theatre 124 W 43rd St, New York,NY 10036 (Between Broadway and 6th Ave)Tickets on sale through 4/28/02, 85-$35.Visit <urinetown.com> or <telecharge.com>$25 rush tickets sold at box office.

rinetown: The Musical is an entertain-ing show which is competent, butrelies too heavily on familiar gags.There are many rea ons why the show

drags, but the main reason is that even at itsbest Urinetown is little more than a very well-produced and directed college parody sketchstretched thin to fill two hours. The show'spremises, laid out in the first twenty minutesquickly become stale, and ultimately it is thestandout performances from the cast thatave Urinetown and makes it a worthwhile, if

not a knockout evening.The plot of Urinetown is fairly straightfor-

ward. The scene is a city in a parallel universe

in the mid 1900's in which the majority of thecitizens' dreary low-class existence is com-pounded by a water shortage, which has lead tothe institution of pay-per-use public bathroomsand the jailing of unsanitary offenders. UrineGood Company i the Evil Corporation thatruns the e bathrooms and theCEO Caldwell B. Cladwelldaughter, Hope, falls in lovewith Bobby trong, the leaderof the long overdue revolution.Chaos ensues.

The plot is erviceable, butthe how could definitely haveused tightening. The showincludes elf-referentialhumour in which the charac-ters Lock tock a corruptpolicemen, and Little ally, agirl in the city, make comments about theabsurd title of the show or the predictability ofthe "hero" and the "heroine' falling in love.This extra padding, along with ' naughty pottyhumour,' fail to get much out of it intendedmileage. Likewise the ocial commentaryabout a society "with an unsustainable way of

life' feels groundlessly smug, and the satiricalreferences to the musical theater genre andother specific hows, while oftentimes enter-taining, are only condiments to an otherwisefairly bland show. In addition Kotis and Hol-land make it difficult to feel any sympathytowards their one-dimensional characters,including the ludicrously ditzy heroine or thealmo t equally cluele s hero.

By far the strongest selling point of Urine-town is its fantastic ensemble. Jeff cCarthy iswonderfully over the top as officer Lockstock,and Hunter Foster as Bobby trong and JenniferLaura Thomp on as Hope Cladwell give whole-

hearted performances totheir roles, with Thomp-som particularly strong inher hilarious gospel per-formance of "I ee aRiver.' John Callum rev-els in the evilness of Cald-well B. Cladwell, as does

ancy Opel in a Tony-worthy performance asPenelope Pennywise, themanager of one of thebathrooms. Opel is a vocal

and acting powerhouse and provides the perfectamount of feigned eriou ness in uch beauti-fully screamed line as "Get that head out of thecloud ,Bobby trong! You get it out of theclouds." Her performance in "It' a Privilege toPee" is unquestionably a show: topper and oneof the highlights of the evening.

The recording of Urinetown reveals thatthe jazzy score off-stage is as enjoyable as inthe theater. The show aptly draws on variedsources including as soul, classic movie musi-cals, and Jewish folk music in ' What is Urine-town?", although occasionally it stoops tocheap shots, such as Lockstock' lounge-y,saxophone accompanied solo line at the endof "What is Urinetown?" Their lyrics tend tobe unremarkable (such as "Bobby,thinkl/You're standing on the brinkl/You'll bearrested sonlPerhaps as soon as noon," fromthe Act One Finale), but for the subject matternot much more i required. A few of Hollmanand Koti 's songs ri e to a higher levelbeyond mere competency, as in the clever"Don't Be the Bunny," which includes vari-ous scenarios depicting the demise of innocentrabbits, with the memorable images "Good-bye, Bunny-Boo/Hello, Rabbit tew!" and"With a mallet and orne clippers/Y ou findout: new bunny slippers! '

Urinetown is an enjoyable musical,although not' must-see" theater. It is quitedisappointing that Bat Boy, which also openedthis pa t season, clo ed only recently Off-Broadway. Both show feature similarlytongue-in-cheek humour, but Bat Boy, basedon a recurring supermarket tabloid character,had a far more humorous clever and curious-ly moving plot and core. If you re in ewYork Urinetown might be worth checkingout, but here' hoping that a national tour ofBat Boy will turn up soon.

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz (left) star in the psychological thriller, Vanilla Sky.

By Devdoot MajumdarARTS EDITOR

Director Cameron Crowe (JerryMaguire, Almost Famous) and actorTom Cruise took time out to talk toThe Tech about their latest venture,

Vanilla Sky. Throughout the interview, Cruisefound it in his heart to flip the cassettes inthose recorders that clicked off.

What was the single defining moment thatyou think captures the essence of Vanilla Sky?

Cameron Crowe: There was one momentthat we sort of found as we were shooting. Iwent to visit a friend of mine and saw that hehad papers spread out all over his house, and

placed for the audience all the clues are inthere, and when you see the picture again it'sa film that can mean more, or something dif-ferent, the next time you see it. Thosemoments of "what is casual sex?" is there thatpromise? Yes, you can walk away from hav-ing a sexual experience with someone, butyou're physically walking away, but yet emo-tionally ... it's there. What happened? Wasthere a promise made?

CC: To me, it's just stories around a camp-fire. I sort of think of it as a bunch of peoplelate at night sitting around a campfire. Oneguy says, "A kid is a young journalist, and himother won't let him listen to rock and roll,"and that's one story. And then the next guy

goes, "A guy has anightmare that he'salone in TimesSquare." And youknow, it's all differ-ent ways of telling astory. This is aslightly different onethan the last one, andI think I learned a lot

about new musical instruments creatively thatI'll never forget. To work with Tom, you geteverything. You get all the benefits of a char-acter, and all the benefits of a per on that canrepresent love, and it's just a joy.

And Rainman kind of kicked my ass becauseBarry Levinson is so good at creating a worldof characters where every little twitch matters.

he was trying to read while standing up, and Ithought, "How great if David Aames, whenhe's an indoor-bound guy, would have allthese memos' spread out, and he would just bewalking, gaining strength as he's looking atthese words." You [to Cruise] had thatbathrobe, and you were just kind of shufflingthrough all these memos, and then later youdid that voiceover and you said, "People willread again." It gets me. I love his voiceoverstuff, it's one of my favorite things. It beganin Jerry Maguire, and we were able to use itagain. It's somebody talking right to ... oneperson, not to everybody.

Tom Cruise: And when Cameron getsexcited about something, we do it over, andover, and over again [laughs]. There'smoments on the set where we can't help it,you get lost in it. You're on the Crowe ride, soyou're just like, "Yeah, I can do it, I can doit."

Was thi. film a departure from past filmsfor both of you?

TC: Fir t of all I never thought that I'd beable to do what I'm doing. I did Taps, LosingIt, and I realized, "You know what? Here I amin this place. I don't know what's going tohappen but I'm going to do the things thatinterest me and learn,"-and I learn fromevery film that I've made.

I've alway tried to do something that I feltwas a challenge to me. I've never taken forgranted the opportunities I've had, and thegifts that I've been given by many people. Sothis kind of picture, it is out of bounds. It theubject matter that I'm intere ted in, that I

love talking about with ameron: the effectof pop culture on society, what i casual se ,what is love. It s a film that gi e you a popculture thrill ride yet there's all those otherelements involved. Cameron has these jewel

Cameron, you have a reputation to upholdwith regard to the soundtracks of your films.Tefl u about the importance of music to this

film.CC: We played a lot of that music while

we were making it. And that's when themovie starts to get a feel and that starts in thewriting. And tho e bands, particularly Radio-head - we listened to Kid A constantly -especially here in ew York. And I still thinkof it constantly walking the treet. And thenthere wa igur Ros from Iceland. I couldn'tfind the right piece of music to end the moviewith. I went to see igur Ross in LA and theyplayed the ong, it's called the" othing

ong." Music and film make such a great mar-riage when it works. We usually have a lot offun in the editing room. Tom would come andvisit, and we'd ju t try different music. Andwhen it works, you ju t have to step away andgo ''Whoa! ow, can we just get the music?"And then it begins the process of asking for it.

Why do you think a remake of Abre LosOjos was merited?

TC: I've been offered a lot of film to buyand remake and I never have because I felt itwa too connected with the culture of thatplace whatever country it wa front. But thiswas a univer aJ story that wa till open-ended that till felt like it needed anotherchapter to be told. And I think that we ee itand when lejandro saw it he was amazed.The fir t thing he aid to Cameron wa , "1 feellike we are two brothers asking the samequestion, but we have different an wer ."

I think that it Open Your Eyes is erymuch an Alejandro Amenabar picture, andthi is very much a Cameron Crowe picture.His voice is in it, and you see the dialoguebetween pictures. When you look hi tori callyat films that have done this, they're neverapproached in this way. It's a rema e, asopposed to a cover and an artist will be view-ing it with his own characters and his ownquestions. And for me, omeone who lovesmovies, I was fascinated to see what it wasgoing to be like, and I felt that obviously thecharacters that Cameron was going to bring tothe table were very special.

What about Tom Cruise as an actor madeyou want him for this role?

CC: We were definitely looking for some-thing that we could do together, and we bothloved Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). It'just a great movie and a great jumping-offpoint for asking questions in a different way.I'm not a fan of movies where omething hap-pens physically and the whole movie i aboutthe affliction. ometimes they're good but it'hard to get past the affliction into the story.This one, it just felt like part of the characterand he play it that way. It's a guy whosejourney includes the effects of an accident.But a you know, people in real life have beenthrough that - they work very hard to howyou who they are in ide, and ometimes itonly happens when they're forced to showyou what's inside. And that's how we playedit. If you ee the movie again you start to goright past whatever physical affliction is pre-sent, and you see what s going on in the per-son, and that' a great thing. That's why Imade the movie.

Cameron, how do you get your femaleleads to play such unique and realistic char-acters?

CC: Kate [Hudson of Almost Famous] andPenelope both have this great ability to makeyou feel like you were watching them live awhole life, or ay a whole huge speech, butreally they were saying nothing, and you'rejust watching their face. And that's the coole tthing of all, and a lot of actor don't get char-acter that allow them to say that ilently. 0

it's so much fun to ju t play mu ic and Jetactors have a chance like that, because theygive you gifts like you wouldn't believe.

Do you think you could have made this filmin your first days as a director or do you thinkit required some evolution?

CC: Well we loved making a romanticcomedy for ure and it' not like I was look-ing for a more serious thing. Thi just camealong. It was a movie that we couldn't toptalking about, and it became the genre that itis, which is no genre, or many genres. I con-nected to orne stuff that happened when Iwa a little guy reading Ray Bradbury. I lovedthose interior kind of quasi-science fiction sto-ries, and we just found our elves there, and

loved where we were.

In many ways, the film is a critical look atthe effects of pop culture. What do you feel itay. about the subject?

TC: For me, this i a pop culture ride. Youlook at the music that was chosen, the charac-ters, Times quare. The iconography of thepicture is pop culture. I don't think that it crit-icizes it. It's just a look in on it. It's just acomment on something that's in our ownlive. You can't disassociate your elf from it.It just is. And Cameron knows pop culture, hereally understands that, and ha looked at itfrom the in ide out for his whole life.

CC: One of the cool things is that, proba-bly more than Tom even know, he representspop culture, too. Ju t in term of the way peo-ple have related to his work so much. It's awild bea t, trying to make a timely movieabout pop culture (laughter].

Spielberg says before he makes a movie,he looks at 4 films - he looks at eventh

arnurai, The earches, It s a Wonderful Life,and It's A Wonderful Life?

CC: ooner or later, I watch the Apartmentagain. ometime it's Local Hero for just the

Those moments of "what iscasual sex?" 1 there that

promise? Yes,you can walkaway from having a sexualexperience with someone,

but you're physically walk-ing away, but yet emotional-

ly ... it' there. What hap-pened? Was there a promise

made?

beauty of character that speak in a certainway. When we were making the movie, Rain-man was on TV. I came home and watchedthe it. And Rainman kind of kicked my abecause Barry Levinson is so good at creatinga world of characters where every little twitchmatters. Everything counts - people watcheverything. In the arne way, in this movieevery little frame i packed with stuff ande erything the characters say doe matter. 0

any movie that you watch for inspirationwould hopefully remind you that the audienceis always li tening, and always watching. 0

don't quander the opportunity. Two hour ilike a great opportunity to program your ownradio tation to play music that people arereally going to hear, and to get into the richesof character.

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Oceans 11yle ot 'ub lance

By Amy eadowsSfAFF WRITER

Directed by Steven oderbergh1960 Story by George Clayton Johnson andJack Golden Russell1960 Screenplay by Harry Brown and CharleLedererScreenplay by Ted Griffin IIIStarring George Clooney, att Damon, ndyGarcia, Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts.

merging from jail in hi tuxedo, DannyOcean (George Clooney) i a man on ami sion. Like the Blue Brother,Ocean is "getting the band back

together.' few hours after his release, he iin an tlantic City ca ino recruiting hi oldfriend Frank Catton (Bernie ac), a man witha hi tory so bad that he had to change hisname to Ramon to get a job in a casino.

Ocean's next stop is his old friend RustyRyan (Brad Pitt). Rusty has been out of thecon-man bu ine since Ocean's lock-up fouryears earlier. ow, he teaches poker to obnox-iou and dim-witted teenage idols. Dawson'sCreek Joshua Jackson has a great bit part hereas himself. Throwing down 500 in a game ofpoker he comments, "It' only pocket change,right?"

After he a sembles the rest of his expertcrew of eleven members plus financial backerRuben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould), Ocean ets offto do the impossible: rob three La Vegasca inos. To make things more complicated,the three casinos - The irage, GGrand, and The Bellagio - are all owned bythe ruthless Harry Benedict (Andy Garcia)who happens to be dating Ocean's ex-wifeTe s (Julia Roberts).

Ocean and Ru ty are always impeccablydre ed. The rest of the character also havetheir own calm, cool demeanor and style. Thepoint here is that Ocean's 11 challenges thestandard conceptions of good guys and badguys.

The colors of the cenes are breathle lystriking. The fountains outside of The Bella-gio play a central role in the view of Las

ega . The night sky is a deep purple andblue, while the inside of the casino is a glitzygold. Because the movie showed only a fewcasinos and never the entire strip, the movieseemed like a commercial for The Bellagio.The original Ocean's 11 has as much to dowith the mystique of Las Vegas as the hei titself. After all the reason the Rat Pack-Frank inatra, Dean artin, and ammyDavis, Jr.-made the original was 0 theycould hang out in Las Vegas.

The new version of the film barely resem-bles the older version. It is more of a fairytale, while the original had a gritty reality toit. However, this version has its witty, funnymoment and is eminently entertainingbecause you are rooting for the bad guys.

Despite the star-spangled cast, oder-bergh' remake still lacks gusto. Just as Rustyexplains to Linus att Damon) that when hecons someone, he has to fade out of memoryonce he leaves, Ocean's 11 quickly fades outof memory. Because it has no drama andweak characters, the film has little to distin-guish itself from the hundreds of othermovies.

Ocean's 11 is a sleek and stylishly pack-aged movie, ready for mass con umption.However, it lac substance behind the tyle.

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By Brian M. louxASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra may not be familiar to many,but almost everyone has at least once heard their bitChristmas Eve: Sarajevo on a rock radio station or in asports stadium. Combining driving rock with classical

music like Beethoven and Carol of the Bells, they have created aunique sound all their own. The orchestra was ultimately the ere-ation of Robert Kinkel (who now is a producer for the tour) andfriends growing off of the success of their collaboration on

avatage's rock opera Dead Winter Dead. Kinkel was able tospeak to The Tech about this year's tour and the orchestra's ori-gins.

The Tech: There have been reports from some radio stations thatavatage and Metallica have worked with the Orchestra in the past.

Robert Kinkel: 0, not Metallica. But AI Petrelli, who's beentaking up the West Coast Tour this season was in Megadeth for awhile and also Alice Cooper.

TT: Why did yon decide to split the two tours into east andwe t?

RK.: We re touring our Christmas show, and there are only somany days between Thanksgiving and ew Year's Day and we hado many requests from cine to have us come and play that the only

way v e could viably do it was to split the band down the middle.

TT: You had enough people fOT that?RK: Yeah we ve had a lot of people over the course of the 3 CDs

that it' been easy to find people of top quality. These are the bestplayers I've ever worked with. The two tours are equal as far amusicianship and singers. We made sure to have some originalsingers on both tours.

IT: Are there special logistical requirements for the guitaristsand the singers when they perform with the orchestral?

RK: ot really. At all times we have 21 people on stage: a fullrock band (2 guitarists, 2 keyboards, and base drums), an 8 piecestring section 6 singers and a narrator plus a light show designedby Brian Harley who works with KISS and other bands. For the firsthalf weperfonn the first CD (Christmas Eve and other Stories)which is a Rock Opera. It combines Rock and Roll. ClassicalMusic, Orchestral Music, Theatrical Music and even some R and Bas weU. For the first half you're though the stories emotional jour-ney, which is more theatrical. Then in the second half there is a tra-ditional rock show.

IT: How is the story from Christmas Eve and Other Storiestold?

RJ(: On the CD pullout there is poetry in between each song.That is what is being read. We have Tim Cain who is reading it,with music behind him as he reads. He is an amazing storyteller.

IT: Has the T 0 done any other CDs besides the two Christmasone?

RK: We have three. Christmas Eve is first, The Christmas Attici second, and our third is called Beethoven's Last Night. It's ourfirst non-holiday release. In the second half of the show we drawfrom the econd and third CDs

TT: Yon worked with Savatage in their opera Dead WinterDead. Did they perform that alone or with an orchestra?

RJ(: With Savatage you don't do too much live orchestral musiclike in TSO. I've been working with Savatage since 1986 with theirHall of the Mountain King record. That is how the three of us (gui-tarists) met. I was brought in as a keyboard player to do orchestralstuff for them.

IT: Did the work there influence you to create the TSO?RK: Well, it grew out of that. (Exec Producer and Savatage

producer) Paul 0 eil and I started writing together in the early

90·s. Paul and (Savatage's) Jon Oliva have been writing togetherfor a long time. Iwas brought in to add another musical directionto the group. We have written a broadway play Romanov: WhenKings must Whisper. It's something where you aren't resttic~edto a rock band where you have only 1 or 2 singers. Like the.TSO,'it became another outlet for another side OrOUT mUsicality" ¥dwe are always able to find the right singer foreach role, frQ~bands we know or broadwayshows or auditions.

IT: Is that where the physics backgrouhd came in. "RK.: Yeab (nervously). The physics actuaUyalwaJs int~rested

me so it was just kiada fun. Nowadays Llike to read Science Timesfor fun. While Iwas at Columbia Ijust had an opportunity to workat Record Plant and I realized then that was what Twanted to do, soI left the masters program.

IT: What is Record Plant?RK: It was a major production studio in New York at the time.

It's not there anymore. I remember the first day I walked in andCindy Lauper was doing her debut album, Joan lett was down thehall, J. Giles Band was doing"Freeze Framer upstairs, and,.TomPetty walked through. Within six months of being there 1was outrecording my favorite band, The Who.

IT: Did the inspiration of the music with TSO come from TheWho and Tommy?

RK: Well, it came from everywhere. It was definitely part of thelist but also part of that were the classical composers, especially. theRussian composers. I also grew up l~ning to progressive rock andtraditional rock and those influenced me 100. We an have a tot todraw from; it's not like there is one source we can credit.

IT: How do you draw from two somewhat different musicalstyles?

RK: Well, there in the metal world and the progressive rockworld there is a lot of crossover. In the high level of musicianshippeople always will tum to the classics in a lot of ways. It's not thathard to incorporate. Melody is melody.

IT: How do you deal with classic music purists?RK: To be honest, we haven't gotten too much ofthat. Last year

when we were touring, we're asked to all sign a 12 year old's vio-lin. Most people who do it think the performances are wonderful. Iwas talking to the director of the Opera House in Detroit last week-end. He thought [our use of classical composers] was amazing, andthat's from a director of an Opera House. From my experiences, itis very well received all around.

IT: What does the orchestra do in the other seasons?RK: Right now we are working on putting together a tour of

Beethoven's last night this spring. A lot of the time is also spend onnew writing. We are working on compiling the Romanov: WhenKings Must Whisper CD as well as a third Christmas CD, TheChristmas CD. We are also developing a much lighter CD calledRunning with Passions of Fairy tales that will fOT emphasize the sto-rytelling aspect of our past works. The story aspect bas become sortof our trademark.

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra will perform in Boston the 14thand J5th at the Orpheum Theater.

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Performing before a packed audience Saturday night in 10-250, Chris Vu '04, delivers a stirring rendition of Usher's "U Remind Me,' arranged by Dave Kong G. The MITLogs Winter Concert opened with the Middleburry Mamajamas and Yale's Proof of the Pudding.

Decemb r ] 1 2001 THE ARTS

VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Dragon Warrior VIISeventh Time Not the Charm

world, the characters are 2D spriteson a 3D world that can be rotated toyour liking. The problem is that thesprites are scaled horribly. I'm surethat this was acceptable 5 years ago,but this is simply unacceptablenowadays. Xenogears and Breath ofFire 3 were published at least twoyears before this, and they handledsp ites a lot better. Luckily, theenemy sprites you face during battlelook a lot better and are loaded withanimation. If only they kept it up forthe rest of the game.

Perhaps my problem with thisgame is "been there, done that." DragonWarrior I was revolutionary in its earlydays, but the RPG genre grew with time, andhas added new features to the basic combatsystem. Final Fanta y IV added a time ys-tern so that fast characters could move moreoften. Breath of Fire added a Master systemso you could adjust your stats when youlevel up. But Dragon Warrior hasn'tchanged much since its original incarnation.That means you could buy a previous ver-sion (like the portable Dragon Warrior IIIfor the Game Boy Color) and you won'tnotice a large difference between part IIIand part VII. Why buy another copy of thegame you've already played?

By Chad SerrantSTAFF WRITER

Unlike the first few Dragon Warriorgames, Dragon Warrior VII is story and battledriven. The first island has no monsters on it,and you have to go through several storyevents before you can get to another island.Once you arrive on the new island, you cantravel to the nearby town, which has somekind of problem. You solve the problem(either by fighting the evil monster or examin-ing the right areas), and then return to yourhomeland and find clues to the next world.

The battle system has not changed much.The battle is turn-based, and the characterscan attack or cast spells. Even the perspec-tive is the same first-person view it has beensince Dragon Warrior I. I wa hoping forsomething a little new, perhaps a third-per-son view or maybe a time based system.This system was okay for Dragon Warrior I,but this is part VII. You think they wouldhave changed something in seven ties.

We could argue about whether the battlesystem needs to be changed, but the graphicsdefinitely need an improvement. In the over-

Published by Enixfor the Sony Playstation$44.95Rated Tfor Teen

As I finished Dragon Warrior III forthe Game Boy Color, I realized thatEnix would publish a game fromtheir famous Dragon Warrior series

for the Playstation. My opinion of the newincarnation: it seems a little dated.

The Dragon Warrior series hasn'tchanged much throughout the years, and thestory is still very lighthearted. The maincharacter is a fisherman's son (who looks aheck of a lot like Nintendo's Link), wholives on the only island in this world with thespoiled mayor's daughter, Maribel, and thebrave yet simpleminded prince Kiefer. Hediscovers an old temple that leads to otherislands, and learns that his mission is to savethe islands from disaster. As he saves eachisland from disaster, it appears in his world.

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Betty Parris, played by Jola Hertz '04, awakens, delirious from illness, and starts accusing Salem women of witchcraft in theMIT Community Players' production of Arthur Miller's Crucible. The show plays again this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at8 p.m. in Little Kresge.

The music is very light. It fits the "let'swander around solving lots of mysteries"approach that I like. othing is too serious,and the music has been of better quality thanthe previous Dragon Warrior games. Many ofthem are redone versions of previous DragonWarrior music, like the main menu song andthe save game song. The sound effects arealso light, and are appropriate with the setting.

Besides the music, everything else aboutthe game seem old and dated. There are nonew innovative features to this game exceptthe simple 3D implementation. If you want totaste the Dragon Warrior series, try part III forthe Game Boy Color, and hope that Enix triessomething new for part VIII.

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Schmelzer decided to run forpre ident becau e she "was gettingreally excited about the e change .'As president, she aid she will helpdevelop the Panhellenic communitywhile establishing it name on cam-pus.

In addition chmelzer wantedto share her excitement for ister-hood with Panhel, which he viewsa a larger version of isterhoodthan her indi idual orority.' Theidea of si terhood i something thatI really love ... and would like tohare," chmelzer said.

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include u ie Lee '05 (KappaAlpha Theta) as the Vice Pre identof Programming, ara Pierce '03( igma Kappa) a Vice Pre ident ofRecruitment, Joanne Chang '03(Alpha Chi Omega) as VicePresident of dministration, andSarah E. Poulsen '04 ( lpha Phi)Vice President of Finance &Records.

'We have a great e ecutiveboard, 'Wang aid.' They are such adynamic group, between their expe-riences, enthusiasm, leadership andinitiative, that they are going torock."

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During their peeche , 'they [theCabinet member ] hit on every nee-e ary a peer,' said ang. I don'tthink that there i anything that theycannot handle."

ang aid he as excited that'after 15 year, [the ororitie] areon their own two feet."

G to conduct pring ru bThe Living Group Council will

host a Kickoff for LGC pring ru hon Friday, January 25 in KillianCourt.

The LG houses want to pooltogether their re ource to help con-

tribute to a more ucce ful ru h foreach hou e, .tton said.

, We are looking to get our nameout by showing people what we areabout," said Pika Ru h Chair arabR. Gottfried '04.

The LGC has already introduc dthe notion of an LG ru h on cam-pu with it ice kating e ent that itcosponsored with the Cia of 2005la t weekend. It will al 0 pon or atudy break on Thur day evening in

Baker House' dining hall.The LG voted to ho t the e

preliminary event a an organiza-tion because' there are a lot of im-ilaritie between the LGC hou e :Mitton said.

The LG will continue it ru hduring the Independent ctivitiePeriod until the beginning of cla s-e . Ray Vichot '04, of FenwayHouse, aid that lAP is a more con-venient time than during the acade-mic term for the LGC to conduct itrush.

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ERIKA L. BRO/V, -THE TECHNorm Augustine, former President and CEO of Lockheed-Martin Corporation, entertains a packed house at the Medialab's Brunei Lecture, "Simple Systems and Other Myths,"last Friday. The humorous talk, based on nine "Augustine'sLaws," focused on the complexity of systems engineeringconcepts in the aerospace industry and elsewhere.

the war on terrorism continuesin fghani tan th ar on officeme e continue at the Tech underthe continued diploma y of hairmanand e retary of tate Jordan

1\ Yo * Rubin."The Pre ident fully upport

hairman Rubin in ontinuing thiimportant battle,' aid White Hou ePre ecretary ri Flei cher.

tepping up to the position of EditorIn Chief and ttorney General wasKevin R. Lang replacing outgoingEditor Dana . Levin. any withinth Tech were initially keptical ofLang, calling him a leftover fromCold War IT reporting but havebeen plea antly urpri ed by histough new meeting and drinkingability.

Outgoing Bu ine Manager andHead of the Joint Chiefs of taffHuanne Thomas gave her full sup-port for Rachel John on, whopledged a swift re ponse to the Cokemachine problems, but warned that along-term solution could take time.

eanwhile, at the Department ofProduction Joel Corbo emphasizedthe importance of fighting for dead-line even as outgoing Central ArtsIntelligence head Devdoot

ajumdar encouraged fifteen arts-story issues that go to press at 5 a.m.Central Operations Manager Ja mineRichards declined to comment.

In a usual development, two agingofficials, nnie S. Choi from theCentral Arts Intelligence and RimaA. Arnaout from the ational ewsCollection Agency, opted to move tosenior but meaningless positions atthe Agency for Contributions fromFogies. Administration officialsemphasize that the ACG will be a bet-ter, less meaningless place with Choiand Amaout. Amaout, who leaves herposition as CA director, will notbe replaced soon.

Administration officials, whoasked not to be named, have indicatedthat the CAl will now be headed bysophomore Senator Dan Robey (1-MA) and longtime news collectionofficial Sandra Chung. Hopes arehigh that their desk will be rescuedfrom under a pile of promotionalmaterials soon.

Other intelligence agencies haveremained stable. At the PhotographicIntelligence Agency, Senior Analysts

athan Collins and Wendy Gu willstay on for the time being.

The CA, without a formal

a i tant director, Jenniferi hnan and two a ociate direc-

tors, un ee and Brian Loux.In a tartling hakeup at the

D partment of Production, formeristant ight Director Ian Lai

returned, though it could not be deter-mined whether he wa aware of hisformer post. sked whether he hadformerly held the position Lai aid,"I think 0... .' Jo Forsythe, a cur-rent s i tant ight Director forDeadlines and Beating , will continuein her po t.

eanwhile, in the spin rooms ofthe West Wing, current Pre

ecretaries/Talking Head JyotiTibrewala and Kri chnee will alsocontinue in their posts. Their opinionon office cleanline wa not clear,but their de k is u ually clean.Opinionated Ming-Tai Huh, no con-nection to the Talking Head post, willbe ranking Technocrat, so at least thecomputer will be clean, or 0 hopeRubin and Corbo.

The new cleanliness movementwill also see new press liason yeMoab. he will be joined by formerJoint Chief: Head Huanne Thomas.Former Managing Secretary ofDefen e & Production Eric J.Cholankeril now moves to SeniorWhite House Coke-Machine-Water-Mess Advisor.

In a bizarre scene Saturday,Former Assistant ight DirectorAndrew Mamo was being groomedfor ationa1 ecurity Ombusmanwhen he discovered he could then nolonger work at the Department ofProduction and hence declined.Following that, Central ArtsIntelligence Director Majumdar nom-inated Thomas for the post. It was notclear at press time why.

Meanwhile, a hawkish NationalSecurity Advisory Board was elected,including recently certified GeniusJonathan Ricbmond. Other mem-bers include: Media IntelligenceOfficer V. Micbael Bove, WhiteHouse Counsel Robert Malchman,

ew York News Collection DirectorBarry Surman, Former WashingtonBureau Breakfast Buyer AndersHove, Slacker Saul Blumenthal,Indexing Professor Paul Schindler,Left-Wing Analyst Joel Rosenberg,longtime Imagery Intelligence OfficerB.D. Colen, former CAl official VladZelevinsky, and generic FederalAgent Eric J. Plosky. All pledged todo what they could to help in thecleanliness effort.

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MITDepartment ofFACILITIES

CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION UPDATEMemorial Drive Traffic SignalsCold planing of Memorial Drive around the Endicott and WadsworthStreet intersections will take place during regular daytime hours duringthe week of December 10-14. This will involve grinding of existingpavement. Noise and dust directly adjacent to the construction willresult.NStar Transmission Line projectNStar is installing a 115 kv transmission line along Memorial Drive fromPleasant Street (near Howard Johnson's) to the Longfellow Bridge. Thiswork is now underway and will continue through the winter. Lanerestrictions may cause traffic delays.Media Lab ExpansionDemolition of Building E20 is complete. Demolition of E10 and the existingloading dock continues, generating noise, dust, odor, and vibrations.Jersey barriers are in place to protect pedestrians from street traffic.Demolition will be discontinued for study and exam week, December 13-21.Dreyfus Chemistry BuildingContinuing work on the facade of the building will cause vibrations.Moving of offices and labs will cause some disruptions for Building 18occupants. Areas south and west of the building may be fenced off toaccommodate staging requirements.Vassar 51. UtilitiesConstruction will begin on drain line starting at Mass. Ave. and continu-ing to the Stata Center. Two lanes of traffic will remain, although parkingalong this route may be restricted. This work will continue through thewinter.

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Along with the first snow of the year came a bench perched atop two giant snowballs on Killiancourt. While the snow did not come in especially large amounts, MIT students took full advan-tage of it, making snowmen and having snowball fights Saturday night.

The Tech and Tech Media Group Congratulate

Sanjay Basu2002 Rhodes Scholar

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8:30 a.m, ·8:45 a.m. - om Prayer. BrIef time of IJf3)er lor peace and justK:e. AU are come. free. Room: MIT Chapel. Sponsor. Protestant Student Community,Tech CatholIC Communrty, EpiSCOpal Mlnrstry at LEM11:00 a.m •. 3:00 p.m, - Japanese Tea CeIemony Lessons. The Japanese Tea ceremony Lessons take place on Tuesdays at McCormICk Hall (320 Memonal Orne).Come anybme between 11 AM.· 3 P.M. The fee is $3 for students, $5 for others. New students are welcome at any time dunng the semester. Each student ""II receiveIndIVIdual InstruetJon based on Ills or her lew' of expenence. The best way to am the ceremony IS to attend lessons on a regular basis. If you are Interested, you are...elcome to coserve a class and to speak With Mrs. Wada abOUt the lessons .• $3 for students, 5 for others. Room: McCormick Hall. Sponsor: spooses&partners@mlt,MIT Women's League.12:00 p.m. ·1:00 p.m. - WIndows 2000 Quick Start. Th,s session demonstrates the new features and functJonahties of Windows 2000 tor the desktop user .. free.Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: InformatIOn Systems.12:00 p.m .• 1:00 p.rn, - Telephone and Volc:e I Quick Start. If you are new to IT or want to learn more about the features on your telephone and \IOice mall, thiSclass is Just what you need. Instructors "," I explaon features whICh WIll help you get the most out of these useful tools and talk about the most common probIerTl6 andwhere to go for help. Attendees ""II learn "'hat features are available on different phones and classes of service. 'll:lu Will also be able to try features on telephones onthe classroom .. free Room: E19-732. Sponsor: InformatIOn Systems.12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Beyond inertia: A Fresh Look at Motion and Mec:hanlcs In the 17th Century. Dlboer Institute Lunchtime CollOQUium. free. Room: E56-1oo.Sponsor; Dlbner Institute.12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Sept :Ii and Aftennath: The 0lIemma of Recoostruction: Lessons from BerlIn's Inner city and its 1.999 master plan. Part of an ongoingsenes of seminars on "september 11 and Aftermath" sponsored by the Department of Architecture .. free. Room: 7-431 (AVT). Sponsor: Department of Architecture.4:00 p.m .. 5:00 p.m. - 0ptlmaI Local Function EstImatIan with finite Sample Accuracy Boonds and Applications to ural Networks and Machine Leamk1g.Refreshments Will be ser'o'ed at 3:30 PM in Room 2·349. free Room: Room 2·338 Sponsor: StatIStIcs seminar. Department of MathematICS4:00 p.m .• 5:00 p.m. - UDS CoIIoqium SerIes. Back From Infinity Fin e Length Analysis and OptimIZatIOn of LOPe Codes. It 's by now well understood how to designLO G cocIes wtllCh approachthe capacity of vanous channels. In many cases though one is Interested In fairly short block lengths and stnngent brt/block error reqUirements. In thIS regime thestandard approach of densitye\'OlutlOn has little to contribute to the deSign problem. In thiS tal I Will Introduce a new approach to the A ITE length analYsIs of LOPe codes. Although thIS newanalysis is motovated by the BEC, It IS becomIng more and more apparent that can also be a valuable tOOl in the more general setting. I will also diSCUSS the manyopen problems In thiS area. 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - GTl SemInar. "Recent Developments In Computational Auld DynamICS at General EleCtrIC Company". free. Room:31·161. Sponsor: Gas TlIIbtne laboratory.4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - "TBA". Organizers: M. Hopkins, R. Melrose, H. Miller and I.M. SInger. free. Room: 2-131. Sponsor. Topology and AnalYsis of Mamfolds WithCorners. Department of MathematICS.5:00 p.m .. 7:00 p.m. - Quarter Century Club HolIday Gathertr1g. Annual Holiday GatherIng for members of the MIT Quarter century Club .. free. Room: La Sala dePuerto RICO, Stratton Student Center. Sponsor: Community serw:es Office.7:00 p.m. - IT Chamber Music Society Conc:erls. free. Room: KIllian Hall. Sponsor: MusIC and Theater Arts section.7:00 p.m .• 1:00 a.m. - Ladles 19Irt at the Ear. Every Tuesday IS Ladies ight at The Thirsty Ear Pub, with special Tuesdayonly beverage offenngs. The Thirsty Ear PubIS located In the Ashdown House basement. Enter through the courtyard. Hours: Monday: 8 p.m. - 12 am, Tuesday· Thursday: 7 p.m. - 1 am, Friday: 4 p.m .• 1 am.Must be over 21. Proper 10 reqUIred .. No CO'Ief for the ladieS (or the guys). Room; The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: The Thirsty Ear Pub.

WedMSday, December 12

8:30 a.m. ·8:45 am. - Momirlg Prayer. Brief time of IJf3)er for peace and JustK:e. All are "'elcome .. free. Room: MIT Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Student Community,Tech Catholic Community, Episcopal MinIStry at LEM.9:00 a.m. ·6:00 p.m. - Copyright Request 0eadIIne for course material for Spring 2002. The MIT Copy Technology Centers deadline for sWffiitting copyright requestforms for course matenal IS Dec. 10, 2001 for material that will be used In course readers for the Spring 2002 semester. If you need additional time to submitcopynght requests please contacl the copynght admInistrator at 258-5275 .. free. Room: MIT Copy Technology centers. Sponsor: Copy TechnoIogf centers .12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - king Web Sites and Software AccessIble to Persons with DlsabiIItie • (fOrmerly Web and Software Accessibility Quick Start) This QuickStart should be of specJallnterest to all members of the MIT community who dewlop, purchase, or maintain software, web sites, or weDbased serVICeS. Leam aboutthe new MIT policy and guidelines for lfiSUnng accessibility to online onformatlOfl and serVICes for people With dIsabilities. This session will show examples of accessibleand InacceSSible deSIgn, and cover HTML codIng techniques and tools that can help make your site or application ADA- compliant (i.e., In conformance with theAmencans with DIsabilities Act and Similar regulations) .. free. Room; N42 Demo center. Sponsor: Information Systems.12:00 p.m. ·3:00 p.m. - Craft Fair. free. Room: Bldg. 5, 4th floor, outside the Dome Cafe. Sponsor: Department of Architecture.12:10 p.m .• 1:00 p.m. - Physical Oceanography Sack lunch 5emInar. free. Room: 54-915. Sponsor: PhysIcal Oceanography.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - "Feelings and EmotIons·. EVIdence from affective Judgments, spatlalleaming, somatovisceral response, and brain imaging (event-related brainpotentJals, fMRI) are revteWed to address the questJon of how feelings and emotions are constructed .. free. Room: El5-070, Bartos Theatre, MIT Media Laboratory,refreshments at 2:45. Sponsor: Affective Computing. MIT Media Laboratory.4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - spouses&partnetSOmit Holiday party. celebrate the end of another great semester together. Spouses and children are welcome. Please bringa sweet or savory snack to share •. free. Room: West Dining Room, Ashdown House. Sponsor: spouses&partners@mit.5:00 p.m. - IT Chamber uslc Society Concerts. free. Room: KIllian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section.7:00 p.m. - In Tanaka: Solo Dance. In COfljunction with the Ust Visual Arts Center's "YES YOKO OND" exhibition, Butoh dancer Min Tanaka creates uniquemovements to Yoko Ooo's muSIC, followed by Q and A sesslOO. Originating in Japan, Butoh is a contemporary avant-garde dance form which combines dance, theater,improvisation and influences of Japanese traditional performing arts with German Ellpressionist dance and performance art to create a unique performing art form thatis both controversial and urWersal in Its expression. Special gallery hours: open until 8;3Opm .. free. Room: Lobby outside Ust Visual Arts Ctr (E15). Sponsor: UstVISUal Arts Center.7;00 p.m. - IT Chamber Ic Soclety Conc:erls. free. Room: KIllian Hall. Sponsor. Music and Theater Arts Section.7:00 p.m. ·9:00 p.m. - IT 0IlfectIvlst Club J:e<*aI ~ The MIT Objectivist Cloo's general meetings. We discuss topics in philosophy and how theY relate todifferent aspects of our world today. This term, we will atso be hailing weeklY study sessions, probably in episternol<Jgf, the philosophy of knowledge .. free. Room: 10-280 (OCt. 3), 4-144 (OCt. H)-Dec. 12). Sponsor: MIT Objectivist Club.7:30 p.m. - 's Ice Hockey Franklin PIerce. free. Room: Johnson Ice Rink. Sponsor: Department of Athletics.7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Renaissance DancIl1g. There are many forms of Renaissance Dancing that we practice. From Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country.We dance them all with flair and fun. Dress is common street clothing. experience necessary; instruction is provided. tree. Room; W20 (Sala or 407 or 491).Sponsor. Society for Creatrve Anachronism.8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. - FI m SemInar. Each IALM Mollie seminar examines one intemationallT1O'iie: a foreign IT1O'iie or a IT1O'iie made by an AmericanIndependent producer. Each educational screening is preceded by an introduction and followed by a small discussion. All MOVIES HAVE ENGUSH SUBTITLES. Detailsare announced on the IFilm web page at http://www.miledu/-ifilm .. free. Room: 4-231. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, International Film Club.8:00 p.m. - R Buffet: "20,000 Leagues Into The Bucket Show.". Last day of classes improv shoN. Ellie Boyle will lead Roadkill Buffet on a dangerous missionto the depths of human consciousness, wtlich will be represetrt.ed by two buCkets of water on stage .. free. Room: Rm 35-225. Sponsor: Roadkill Buffet

Thur.sday, December 13

PE Lottery. lAP. The Physical Education lottery for lAP closes on Dec. 13th at lpml Also the MIT Athletics card is required for all norH;tudents .. varies. Room:Students; goto WebSIS, IIIon-students:goto W32·125. Sponsor: Physical Education, lAP.8:30 a.m .• 8:45 a.m. - ~ Prayer. Brief time of IJf3)ef for peace and justice. All are welcome .. free. Room: IT Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Student Community,Tech CatholIC Community, Episcopal InlStry at LEM.9:00 am. - 6:00 p.m. - CopyrIght Request 0eadIIne for course material for Spring 2002. The MIT Copy Technology Centers deadline for submitting copyright requestforms for course material is Dec. 10, 2001 for material that will be used in course readers for the Spring 2002 semester. If you need additional time to submitcopyright requests please contacl the copynght admimstrator at 258-5275 •. free. Room; MIT Copy Technology Centers. Sponsor: Copy Technology centers .12:00 p.m .• 1:00 p.m. - Java llsef Group. A meeting of MIT staff members who develop Java software .. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - OECD Intematlonal Futures Program PresentatIon: "ShapIng TransfonnatIon--haoge and the Role of PulliN: Policy In the 21st Century".The aims of this presentatx>n are twofold: 1) to assess the prospect that Oller the next few decades, in many parts of the world, there could be changes on a scalesimilar to those that characterized the transition from agricultural to industrial society; and 2) to consider wtlat might be done to ensure that such significant societalchanges coincide with people's hopes for the future. The "Expo 2OOO/0ECD Forum for the Future' series provided evidence that such breaks in soci<>ecooomicstructure and functioning are plausible and might, Under certain conditions, be considered desirable by some. The conferences established that there are trends thatcould, possibly, tum into a walle of powerful, mutually contJngent and supportive changes capable of significantly trarlSforming almost every aspect of daily life withintwo generations. Along this path there are likely to be many opportunities to realize some of humanity's long-standing goals, from extending the practical application ofbasiC human rigtrt.s to imprOVIng sustatnabtlity in Its broadest social and ecological terms. Such a path will also provoke changes in the nature, degree, and perceptionsof many different risks, from new toots that might escape control to social conflicts that could burst into violence. Policy is wtlat will make the difference, both forcreating the conditions conducive to such a transrt.ion and to ensuring that opportunities are grasped and risks minimized .. free. Room: E51·145. Sponsor: Laboratoryfor Energy and the Enwonment.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - EJement Handfs.{)n Workshop. Is welrbased training for me? Spend an hour in an instructor-Jed workshop. Learn how to get started usingwelrbased training, explore what is offered and ask questions. For more Information about wet>based training at MIT, see http://web.mit.edujisjtrainingjWtlt . free.Room; wa9-125. Sponsor: Information Systems.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - T.SA.. tree. Room: 54-915. Sponsor. MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars.4:15 p.m. - M.1. T. Physics Colloquium • Big world of small neutrinos. free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor. Physics Department.

7:00 p.m. - Ghost Wori<!, LSC Presents Ghost WoI1d. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor. lSC.8:00 p.m .• 11:00 p.m. - The Crucible. Arthur Miller's famous retellong of the Salem Itch Tnals. $6 MIT and Wellesley students; $8 Facu /Staff, senior Citizens, andother Students; $10 General admiSSlOfl. Room: Kresge lrttle Theater. Sponsor' IT Community Players.8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. -IFiIm 0Yle SemInat. Each IALM MovIe semmar examones one International mOYle: a foreign rTlOIIie or a movie made by an Amencanindependent producer. Each educabooal screening IS preceded by an mtroducbon and followed by a small diSCUSSion. All MOVIES HAVE ENGUSH SUBTITLES Detailsare announced on the 'Film web page at http://www.mlt.edu/-lfilm .. free. Room: 4·231. Sponsor: Graduate Student Counctl, Intematlonal Film Cloo.10:00 p.m, - Ghost World. lSC Presents Ghost World. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: lSC.

Friday, December 14

12:00 p.rn, - 1:00 p.m, -lllIoQuery Quick Start. Leam how to download, Install, and set up BtiOQuery on your desktop. Learn how to download and process a standardreport. An o_view of the features and capabilitIes of BrioQuery Will be given .. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Informaboo Systems.5:00 p.m. - Ust Foundation fellowship Program ppllcatlon Dead! 118. (rescheduled date)The ust FoundatlOfl Fellowship Program annually awards up to $5,000 to two undergraduate students to support a year's work on a project in the performing, VIsual, orliterary arts. The fellowlups are available to students of color who are citizens or permanent residents of the US .. tree. Sponsor: Office of the Arts.7:00 p.rn, ·9:00 p.m. - Falun Gong Exen:1se workshop. The Falun Gong exercise is an easy and effecbw way to relieve stress and Improve physical and mentalhealth. Millions of people in over 40 countnes practJce these 5 sets of gentle movements .. free. Room: 1·242. Sponsor: Falun Oafa Club.7:00 p.m. - Rat Race. LSC Presents Rat Race. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: lSC.8:00 p.m .• 11:00 p.m. - The Cnlclble. Arthur Miller's famous retelling of the Salem Witch Tnals. $6 MIT and Wellesley students; $8 Facuity/Staff, senior Citizens, andother Students; S10 General admIssion. Room: Kresge lrt.tIe Theater. Sponsor: MIT Community Players.8:00 p.m. - IT festival Jazz Ensemble: "A tribute to Thelonlous Sphere on'. Fredenck Hams, music director. Magali Souriau, guest composer and pianist.Premieres by Sounau, Alan Nechushlan, and Raka...skJ. Other works by Hal Crook and Charles Mingus .. S3 at the door. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Music andTheater Arts section.9:00 p.m. - Potluck Perlom1ance Art Party. At<A show+tell. Bnng video, poetry, slides, anything to read, show, perform and/or consume. If you bring something toperform or consume, you get in for free.. 4 donaboo requested for selected chantY. Room: N52-115. Sponsor: MIT Electronic Research Society.10:00 p.m. - Rat Race. LSC Presents Rat Race. $3. Room: 26-100. Sponsor: LSC.

Sunday, December 16

3:00 p.m. - MIT Women's Cho<ale Annual Holiday Concert. Music includes selections by Bach and Bertioz and from Handel's "Messiah: Berger's "A Child's Book ofBeasts," and Randall Thompson's ·A1leluia." Children accompanred by adults are welcome. Reception follows .. free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: MIT Women's Chorale.

Monday, December 17

8:30 a.m. ·8:45 a.m. - Momlng Prayer. Brief time of prayer for peace and jUstICe. All are welcome .. free. Room: MIT Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Student Community,Tech Catholic Community, Episcopal Ministry at LEM.12:00 p.m .• 1:30 p.m. - Mac Tech Partners. Join with MacintoSh users who - officially or otherwise - help others within their departments make more productive useof computers .. free. Room: N42 Demo center. Sponsor: Information Systems.4:00 p.m .. 5:00 p.m. - DIfferential Geometry seminar· TBA. free. Room: MIT Room 2·143. Sponsor: Differential Geometry seminar. Department of Mathematics.8:00 p.m .• 12:00 a.m. - Monday Ight Football at the Ear. Watching football at the Ear makes Dennis Miller a little more tolerable. Tonight St. Louis vs. New Orleans.The Thirsty Ear Pub is located in the Ashdown House basement. Enter through the courtyard. Hours: Monday: p.m. - 12 am, Tuesday - Thursday: 7 p.m .• 1 am, Friday:4 p.m .• 1 am. Must be over 21. Proper 10 required .. Free. Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: The Thirsty Ear Pub.

Tuesday, Decembet 18

8:30 am .. 8:45 a.m. - Momlng Prayer. Brief time of prayer for peace and justice. All are welcome .. free. Room: MIT Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Student Community,Tech Catholic Community, Episcopal Ministry at LEM.

11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Japanese Tea Ceremony Lessons. The Japanese Tea ceremony Lessons take place on Tuesdays at McCormick Hall (320 Memorial Drive).Come anytime between 11 A.M. - 3 P.M. The fee is $3 for students, $5 for others. New students are welcome at any time during the semester. Each student will receiveindividual instruction based on his or her level of experience. The best way to leam the ceremony is to attend lessons on a regular basis. If you are interested, you arewelcome to ooserve a class and to speak with Mrs. Wilda about the lessons .. $3 for students, $5 for others. Room: McCormick Hall. Sponsor: spouses&partners@mit,MIT Women's League.12:00 p.m .. 2:00 p.m. - Wind ng the Coil: An Interpretative and Exploratory Study of 19th Century Electrical Experimenting. Dibner Institute Lunchtime Colloquium.free. Room: E56-1oo. Sponsor: Dibner Institute.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - MN:rosoft Word User Group. The MIT Microsoft User Group (WUG) is for people at MIT, from beginners to experts, whoare using or interestedin Ieaming to use Microsoft Word word processing software .. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.7:00 p.m. -1:00 a.m. -ladles Night at the Ear. Every Tuesday is Ladies Night at The Thirsty Ear Pub, with special TuesdaY<>n1y beverage offerings. The Thirsty Ear Pubis located in the Ashdown House basement Enter through the courtyard. Hours: Monday: 8 p.m .• 12 am, Tuesday· Thursday: 7 p.m. - 1 am, Friday: 4 p.m. - 1 am.Must be over 21. Proper 10 required .. No cover for the ladies (or the guys). Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: The Thirsty Ear Pub.

Wednesday, December 19

8:30 a.m. - 8;45 a.m. - Momlng Prayer. Brief time of prayer for peace and justice. All are welcome .. free. Room: MIT Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Student Community,Tech Catholic Community, Episcopal Ministry at LEM.12:00 p.m. ·1:30 p.m. - OvervIew Of Purchaslng On The Web Quick Start. This demo integrates all aspects of using SAPweb for purchasing including requisitioningexternal vendors, internal providers and preferred partners. In this session we will introduce the SAPweb requisitioning form, the new online catalogs and purchasingprocedures for buying from preferred partner vendors, including Office Depot, VWR,BOC Gases and ECX. We will demonstrate how the new online ordering systeminterfaces with SAPweb and we will talk about how this new process differs from the ECAT purchasing process .. free. Room: N42 Demo center. Sponsor: InformationSystems.12:10 p.m .• 1:00 p.m. - "f't1ysicaI o.:-.ography Sack lunch SemInar. free. Room: 54-915. Sponsor: Physical Oceanography.3:30 p.m. - MIT Faculty MeetIng. free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Facuity Chair.7:30 p.m.· 9:30 p.m. - Renaissance Dancing. There are many forms of Renaissance Oancing that we practice. From Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country.We dance them all with flair and fun. Dress is common street clothing. No experience necessary; instruction is provided. free. Room: W20 (Sala or 407 or 491).Sponsor: Society for Creatrve Anachronism.8:00 p.m .. 10:30 p.m. - IFIIm MovIe SemInar. Each IALM Movie seminar examines one international movie: a foreign movie or a movie made by an Americanindependent producer. Each educational screening is preceded by an introduction and followed by a small discussion. All MOVIES HAVE ENGUSH SUBTITLES. Detailsare announced on the IFilm web page a http://www.miledu/-ifilm .. free. Room: 4-231. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, Intemational Rim Club.

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. - Morning Prayer. Brief time of IJf3)er for peace and justice. All are welcome .. free. Room: MIT Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Student Community,Tech Catholic Community, Episcopal Ministry at LEM.12:00 p.m .• 1:00 p.m. - Filemaker Pro Quick start. This class introduces users to the FileMaker environment and its functions using an existing database as a model.. free. Room: 42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. - IFiIm MOYle Seminar. Each IALM Movie seminar examines one intemational movie: a foreign movie or a movie made by an Americanindependent producer. Each educational screening is preceded by an introduction and followed by a small discussion. All MOVIES HAVE ENGUSH SUBTITLES. Detailsare announced on the IFilm web page at http://www.miledu/-ifilm .. free. Room: 4-231. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, Intemational Film Club.

Friday, December 21

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. - Morning Prayer. Brief time of prayer for peace and justice. All are welcome .. free. Room: MIT Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Student Community,Tech Catholic Community, Episcopal Ministry at LEM.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - OrIentatIon to Computing at MIT. This seminar provides basic, non-technical information about the MIT computing environment. . free. Room:N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Falun Gong Exercise won<shop. The Falun Gong exercise is an easy and effective way to relieve stress and improve physical and mentalhealth. Millions of people in over 40 countries practice these 5 sets of gentle movements .. free. Room: 1·242. Sponsor: Falun Dafa Club.

Saturday, December 22

8:00 p.m .• U:oo p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Travel to strange, new classrooms; meet interesting, unusual people; and kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up;guns provided .. free. Room; Building 36, First Aoor. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, MIT.

Monday, December 24

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - WINPartners. he WinPartners is a group of Windows workstation users and administrators who havebanded together to support each other in the use of Windows. WinPartners Share their experiences, ask and answer questions, solveproolems, discuss hot topics, and warn each other of pitfalls. Any Windows user at any level of expertise and experience is welcometo join the group and attend meetings .. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.4:00 p.m.· 5:00 p.m. - DIfferential Geometry Seminar· TBA. free. Room: MIT Room 2·143. Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar.Department of Mathematics.6:00 p.m. - U:59 p.m. Christmas EveThe evening before your favorite day of the year. Unless you're JewiSh or Muslim, in which case it's the evening before Tuesday,December 25. At least you get to go see a movie tomorrow.

Tuesday, December 25

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United Trauma Relief, MURJAmong Basu's Many ProjectsRhodes, from Page 1

Rhodes cholar Pardi abeti con-ducted mock interviews for IT scandidates. Basu, however foundthe actual interview to be moreintimidating.

"I wa urpri ed when I foundout. I wasn't expecting it given thequality of the candidate competingfor the award, 'Basu aid.

Ba u' accompli hment praisedIt isn't like Basu to brag about

himself. Lucky for him others willdo it for him.

'He i an in titution builderwhile he remains modest and unas-suming," said Lawrence Vale,Associate Profes or and A sociateHead of the Department of UrbanStudies and Planning and advi or toRhode Scholar candidates.

As a second term freshman, hefounded and edited the MITUndergraduate Research Journal(MURJ), a publication that allowsstudents to write about science andethics. The University of California,

Berkeley, and the aliforniaIn titute of Technology ( alTech)have ub equently adapted thi for-mat for cience writing. Ba u hawritten and published re earch onthe relation hip betwe n epidemiol-ogy and poverty and on lzheimer'sdisease.

Ba u' intere t in developmentwa influenced by In tituteProfessor oam A. homsky'sspeech on Kosovo during his fre h-man year.

"That peech angered me on thetate of world affairs,' Ba u said.

Thus his self-entitled career in"saving the world" began.

UTR one of Ba u' projectLa t year, Basu started an entire-

ly tudent-based organization devot-ed to humanitarian aid for globalproblems, called United TraumaRelief (UTR). Every month, operat-ing from his dorm room, Sanjaymails out approximately 16,000doses of AIDS drugs to serve de -perate patients in Haiti andTanzania.

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In the last year UTR also assist-ed in relief for Afghan refugees,earthquake victim udane efamine victims and sweatshop work-er .to di a ter relief for Afghanrefugees,

" anjay s be t quality is hishumility in all he i doing," said

inod Rao '02 a member ofUTR."The very nature of the group,United Trauma Reli f, indicatethat he i working hard for the ser-vice of others. I am amazed byhow much e have been able toaccomplish under his guidance."

"I'm really glad that someonewho e achievement have so muchto do with helping other was cho-sen for this honor, and I think hereally deserves it," Julia R. de Kadt,'02 said.

Ba u' commitment to the com-munity is evident in more way thanone. He worked with rural AIDSpatients on the Burmese border, vol-unteers at a soup ki tchen everymonth, and will teach a class onAID during this year's IndependentActivities Period (lAP).

"In a decade of assisting Rhodesand Marshall candidates from MIT,I have never met anyone more likelyto make a palpable difference in theworld than Sanjay Basu," Vale said.

Emma Brunskill, an MIT gradu-ate student, won a RhodesScholarship in 2000. Susanna B.Mireau '00, who, like Basu,majored in Brain and CognitiveSciences, won a RhodesScholarship, in 1999. Both are cur-rently at Oxford University.

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of Enterpri e ervice agreed withColbert. He said that there are manyissu that the new chief, Difa willneed to deal with wh n he com intoposition. 'The campu i growingand changing, 0 the new admini tra-tion will ha e to addr a number ofissu . Ihope there will be no part ofthe campu police that Difava willnot 100 at and review," Immermansaid.

Difava aid he wants to concen-trate on 'customer ervice" and tomake the police force more ac i-ble to everyone. ''1 want the police tofocus on erving the tudents and fa -ulty, [becoming] more user-friendlyhe said.

Iavi riticized b offiThere have been complaint by

tudents again t the police forceunder Glavin. Ebraheem I. Fontaine'02, who wa on the committee thatselected the top four candidate forthe new chief of police aid that he

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h heard criticism from om policeoffice about lavin dministrati etyle.

, he didn't lead b e ample hesaid. " h kind of led the police forcelik a boot camp drill ergeant.'

Fontaine aid he ha also heardthe poli e complain that they werenot f eling encouragement from theadmini tration. lot of patrol offi-cers don t fe I upport from h r. he

ant creating a friendly environ-ment,' he explained.

any officer have been 0 er-wor ed ccording to Fontaine."[Glavin] goo 0 erboard with detail-ing cop to tudent event.

ometime ther 'll be three people toev ry cop" Fontaine aid. Immermanal 0 said that orne offi ers ha e beeno erworked, pecially with the cur-rent constru tion going on. 'Officersare working overtime and the train ishowing " he id,

hi f n to kno officerlthough Difava wa once in

charge of a large force as the olonelof the assachusetts tate Police, hesaid that he i very good at workingwith smaller group and will be effec-tive on the MlT campus. 'I have beenin charge of rnaller divi ions beforeand I think I am better with the smallgroup because I like one-on-one con-tact with people," Difava e plained.

Difava wants to get to know everymember of the Campus Police forceon a personal level. He has arranged aeries of meeting so he can become

more familiar with everyone.Immerman believes that Difava

will be able to addre the e i suesand to detail police in the most effec-tive way possible. "He wilJ need tolook at how police are deployed andrethink how we detail police toevents," Immerman said.

orne officers also feel that theydo not get enough say in how to han-dle certain situations, Colbert said." orne police want to be able to u e

th ir own judgment followinga pre cription' he aid. olbertbelie es that Dif a will et pecificguidelin s for officers 0 they know

hat to do in ariou situation'Difa will be more clear with what

hi expectation for [the poli e offi-cer ) behavior are and what limits totheir judgment he think e it"Colbert said.

Difa agree that a police chiefcan make the mistake of being tooauthoritative and not Ii ten to hiforce. "Police chief: often make themi take of completely etting the toneand aying, 'Thi i the ay thinghave to be. However the top downapproach might not alv ay be thebest way to deal with things' he said.He plans to li ten to the sugge tionsof hi force 0 he an better deal withthe problems.

tudent di ati tied with GlavinColbert also aid that orne tu-

dents had i sue with the police forceunder Glavin. " tudent weren't toohappy about some police interactionthey had,' he aid. However, he aidthat uch problems e isted becau ethe police force under Glavin watrained to concentrate on enforcementrather than service.

It is difficult to make a police offi-cer who i orientated towards crimefocus on service, olbert said. "If youhave cop who are concentrated ongetting the bad guys, you have toassume that in orne of them do nothave the broad range of abilitie todeal appropriately with others inevery ituation," he said.

Difava want to al 0 be availableto the students. "I want to be the mostvisible guy on campus. I'll go wher-ever I'm asked to go and I'll even tryto go to place where I'm not invit-ed," he joked.

Glavin' professionalism praisedBoth Colbert and Immerman said

that Glavin has done an incredible job

.th the police force but that th reare areas in whi h the new admini -tration can improve upon. Gla inadded enormou profe ionalism tothe staff. Anyone in her kind 0 po i-tion for 1 years will ha e challenges.

ot e eryone i going to agree all thetime and that can cause orne prob-lems. It is alway good totbink aboutnew leaders 0 they can bring in newperspectives," Immerman aid.

cording to Colbert, Glavin hasmade numerous contribution to thepoli e force. he brought greaterawarene to the police force that weneeded to be more y tematic withour ecurity needs. he al 0 enhancedour relationship with outside ecurityagen ie uch a the FBI," hee plained.

Colbert, Immerman and Fontainean said Difava will be able to lead thepolice force in a direction that will beable to ervice the new MIT campusbetter. 'The police took on a moreauthoritative enforcement attitudewhen Glavin came in. ow Difavawill take the force in a different direc-tion" Colbert aid.

Tho e who have met Difava havecomplete confidence in his abilities."He brought remarkable change tothe tate police. Everyone admiresand respects him," Immerman said.

Dna a to review MIT securityDifava aid he thinks that acting

chief John E. Driscoll, who has beenleading the campus police force andthe MIT police officers, has done agreat job at dealing with securityissues.

A special task force was set up todeal with MIT security afterSeptember 11. A 17-page report oninitial recommendations for campussecurity such as regulating traffic pat-terns and the lockdowns of certainbuildings was released this yesterday.Difava attended a security meeting toreview and discuss the proposals inthe report.

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Student Arrested After ChaseBy Brian louxASSOCIATE EWS EDITOR

ew York tate Police arre tedMIT tudent Tiffany L. Bo tick '02after a 30 minute car cha e early

aturday morning. The chase beganafter he allegedly kipped a tollbooth, reported The Record ofBergen ounty, ew Jersey, and on-tinued into Rutherford, ew Jersey ata dead end on Rutherford Avenue.

The Record also reported that theofficers aid Bostick was drivingerratically and once during the chasetried to swerve into one of the policecars. According to The Record, afterthe arrest Bo tick told the police thatshe didn't stop her car because hehad been concerned about beingalone late at night in a secluded areaurrounded by officer .

of 11 p.m. yesterday, Bostickwas being held in Bergen CountyJail, where she ha been chargedwith reckless endangerment. She isdescribed as "a fugitive from the jus-tice from the State of ew York" by aBergen County Police Officer whodeclined to give his name. She isawaiting a court hearing for extradi-tion from the ew Jersey jail to ewYork, and will probably be in jail "fora couple of days," he said.

Bostick is not currently allowedto receive incoming phone calls.

Other students afraid of policeMIT students familiar with ew

SkierPreparesForIAPHoliday Plans, from Page 1

"I'm from Minnesota. It's proba-bly going to be cold there," Jainsaid.

However, the holidays aren't allabout relaxation. Rahul Agrawal '03is turning 21 years old over thebreak.

"I'm going to Vegas. I'm turning21 in about a week so my familywants to take me out there," he said.

Chang She '05 is eagerlyawait-ing his trip overseas.

"I'm going to Hong Kong. I'mgoing to visit my uncle," he said.This is She's first trip to Hong Kongso he's looking forward to "touringHong Kong, [and] going to randomplaces."

Visits with friends plannedAnother favorite aspect of winter

break is seeing out old friends.Camilo R. Guaqueta '03, fromColombia, and his friends fromhome are going to the tourist town,Cartagena, to see off another friendwho is joining the Colombian Navy.Guaqueta and his friends decidednot to let their friend leave alone.

"We're all going to see him offthere," Guaqueta said.

Hooria Komal '04 is not going toher native Pakistan for the holidays.Instead, she is considering a trip toEngland.

"I might be going to the [UnitedKingdom]," Komal said. If she goes,she will visit friends in Manchester.Komal says that she's been toLondon before, but "I've never beento Manchester."

Students gear up for lAPAlthough students are looking

forward to a much needed break,some are also excited aboutIndependent Activities Period.Marissa L. Yates '03 is excited aboutreturning for Varsity ordic skiteam practice. The recent unseason-ably warm weather has preventedthe team from hitting the slopes.

"I'm coming back during lAP toski. I skied competitively in highschool. We race against Clarkson,Cornell, Army and other smallteams," Yates said.

or and e Je ey police offi ecan relate to the r on that Bo tictated for not topping. 0 tly ew

York/ ew Jer ey op are ju tannoying, but orne r them,' aidAndrea L. Fanucci '04 a native tothe area.' y mom felt the arne wayas [Bo tick] did when she once waspulled over in my town around I a.m.It actually turned out that cop walater convicted for exually abusingminor and landed 30 years inpri on."

Tho e who know Bo tick weresurpri ed to hear th news. arab A.Farrar '02, a member of theUndergraduate As ociation FinanceBoard, on which Bostick serves, saidthat she was heavily involved in e -eral tudent groups. "When we gothrough allocations and appeal atFinboard, he i aware about what isgoing on with almo t all of thegroups,' Farrar said. " he is a veryactive per on. At Finboard she [is]very nice and respon ible." FellowFinboard member Amy hi '04agreed with Farrar.

Police give safety tipsWhile per onal safety is impor-

tant on the road, Police OfficerClifford Connolly of the BostonPolice said, there should be no needto drive away. If approached by anunmarked car with a blue light andyou are suspicious, top and open thewindow just enough so that the offi-

crean talk to you, he aid. You cank to ee hi badge if he ha not

hown it to you and his picture ill ifyou are till not sure that he i anofficer.

till, the ituation may be unnerv-ing and intimidating depending onthe time of day and area. If the situa-tion i not comfortable, Connollyay that you can a k the officer to

e cort you to a local police station orto a marked car. If the officer refuseto do thi , he added that you candrive yourself to the police tationand explain the problem your elf.

'We are not advocating drivingaway," he aid, "just making urethatthe person i a true officer."

Indeed, there have been incidentsin the past where criminal haveimper onated police officers inunmarked cars on state highways.

onnolly advi es one to call 911if one feels that the per on is not areal trooper. Police have the technol-ogy nowadays to immediately checkwhere police uni are, and they canverify the person who pulled youover as valid or not.

onnolly added that a marked carwith a full uniform and badge shouldbe enough of a clear tatement that itis an officer of the law. "You can stillask to ee the officer' illwhen he orshe approaches your car. If youdecide to drive away" he said, ''youbetter have a very good reason as towhy.'

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on 0 C nb FifthCTL Tournament

By Christina ParkTEAM CO-CAPTAIN

The MIT port Taekwondo Clubsent a 27 member team to Philadel-phia, Pennsylvania for the Ivy orth-

east Collegiate Taek-wondo League( TL) tournamenthosted by the Universi-ty of Penn ylvania.After a long day of

competition, MIT continued to makeits mark, placing fifth overall.

The tournament, which took placeon Saturday, December 1st beganwith forms competition. Though noteveryone placed, many member ofthe team received score in the topthird of their division, showing sig-nificant improvement since the lasttournament at Cornell University.Chri tina S. Park '02 placed secondin the women's black belt division.

Margaret H. Cho '04 and BaochiT. guyen G tied for second placeand repeated their form for the judgesfor a tie-breaker. Cho prevailed, andthey nearly swept the women'sgreen/blue belt division as they had atCorneJl, taking the silver and bronzerespectively.

Andrew T. Vue '03 added to themedal count in the men's green/bluebelt division, tying for third place andwinning the tiebreaker. otably, Parkand Vue performed ITF (Internation-al Taekwondo Federation) forms,indicative of the Sport TaekwondoClub's integration of both ITF andWTF (World Taekwondo Federation)tyle forms into their curriculum.

After a brief break, sparring beganwith the black belt teams, featuringco-captain Chinedum O. 0 uji G inhis last 11., tournament after eightyears in the League. Osuji teamed upwith Christopher K. Wilmer '02 tocreate a two man team. Althoughthey lacked a middleweight, they eas-ily advanced into the quarterfinalswith a definite win over YU.Wilmer did not win his next matchagainst Penn, but he became moreaggre sive as the match progres ed,moving his opponent out of the ringseveral times. Although he was stillinjured from his recent performanceat the World Taekwondo Champi-on hip (the highe t level of Tae -wondo competition in the world),

o uji effortle ly sailed through bothhi matche, winning both withoutonce having been scored upon. As hegraduates, the team will mi s hispresence as a teammate, coach cap-tain, and friend.

The women' black belt 1 team(Alice . Chau '04, Tiffany . Kana-ga '04, Park) faced Cornell A2 in thefir round. Park easily defeated theirheavyweight, etting the tone for herteammate . Though this was Kana-ga' :first tournament in the black beltdivision in WTF Taekwondo, shestepped up to the challenge and wona close match in the middleweightdivision with the consistent thuds ofher back leg turning kick on heropponent's hogu. Cornell forfeitedtheir lightweight match and MITadvanced to the semi-finals, wherethey lost to Penn 2-1, finishing theday in third place.

Though all the men's andwomen's color belt teams foughthard the competition was just toostiff and they had tough first roundbracketing. All four men's teams andtwo women's teams were eliminatedin the :first round, though many indi-viduals learned how to block to thehead properly by the end of the day.

The MVPs of the day were in themen's white/yellow belt team (Alex

. Park G, Vladislav Y. Gabovich G,Colin E. Champ '03), who broughthome the gold. Though there wasorne questionable refereeing in their

quarterfinal match, they emerged vic-torious over Cornell, Yale, , andPenn. Despite an injury to his instep,Alex Park finished all four of his fourrounds with energy. Champ heightand flexibility were unmatched as heresponded to every attack with a headkick. Having attended the last tourna-ment, Gabovich anchored his teamwith his experience, knocking Yaleinto the head table with a powerfulsidekick. The team as a wholeshowed 0 much heart and positiveattitudes throughout the day, makingall of their coaches proud.

This tournament finished a sue-ce ful fall season for the port Taek-wondo Club, now only a little over ayear old. The team will resume train-ing over lAP for their next TLtournament at Princeton University in

arch.

Women's Track Finishes MeetAs Second Place Team of Three

JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH

Goalkeeper Matt Van Home '02 reaches for the save in the Men's Hockey 6-3 victory againstCentral Connecticut State Wednesday.

By Adeline KuoTEAM CO-CAPTAl

In a clo e meet again t the Uni-versity of outhern ain and

pringfield College the T omenbegan their regular ea-on with a win overpringfield and a 10

to outhern aine.IT scored 55 point

to put it elf threepoints ahead of pringfield ollegeand came in even point behindU

Despite the 10 to U , everalteam member had outstanding per-fonnances during the meet. The MITtrack and field performer of the daywa gozi . Eze '05. Eze ea ilybreezed pa t her opponent in the40D-meter dash and narrowly mi eda :firstplace full h. In the triple jumpEze rounded out the MIT 2-3-4 :finishwith a personal record of 32' 1 1/2".Anchoring both the 4x200-meter and4x400-meter relays, Eze took thebaton and increa ed MIT's lead onthe third place opponent to :fini h ec-ond in both relays.

The track performer of the daywa artha W. Buckley 04. Buckleyran her first ever 5000-meter run inIndoor Track Having only those helapped to run with, Buckley won therace in an out tanding E AC-quali-fying time of 18:47.21.

The field performer of the daywas alini Gupta '05. In the triplejump, Gupta not only bettered herown Rookie Record, but also cap-tured the Varsity Record with a 35' 11/4" hop, skip, and jump.

printers Adeline L. Kuo '02 andhauntel L. Poul on '05 scored

points for MIT. Kuo finished third inthe 55-meter dash with a dive to thefinish, while Poulson captured an out-standing win in the 200-meter dash.

Chinwe yenke '04 scored forMIT in both the 55-meter hurdles andtriple jump, taking third in bothevents.

iddle distance extraordinaireJulia C. E pel '05 finished fourth inthe 800-meter run and second in the1500-meter run. Espel posted a ewEngland Division TIl qualifying timein the 1500-meter with a 5:04.52.

In the infield, the pole vaultersonce again got MIT off to a goodstart. Vanessa Li '02 won the eventwith an All- ew England qualifyingvault of 10' 0". Catherine . Tweedie'04 took third with a jump of 9' 6".High jumper Emily chwartz '05 fin-ished second with a ew England

STANLEY HU-THE TECH

Didi Eze '05 springs into the air to place 4th overall with a32'01.50" triple jump. In their first scoring meet of the season, thewomen's track and field team placed second among three teams,defeating Springfield College but losing to the University of South-ern Maine.Division III qualifying height of 5'0".

In the throwing cage, PrincessImoukhuede '02 and Akua Asa-

wuku '03 contributed 13 of MIT's55 points. Irnoukhuede won both theweight throw and the shot put, whileA a-Awuku set a remarkable person-

al record of 44'0" in the weight throwto capture second place.

To finish the day, the 4x800msquad consisting of Patricia M.McAndrew '03, Jennifer A. Gaugler'OS, Mealani K. akamura G, andShirleen X. Poon 'OS, gave their besteffort to finish in third place.

UPCOMING HOME EVENTSWedne day, December 12

Men's Ice Hockey vs. Franklin Pierce, 7:30 p.m.