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ens purblic awareness of tlhe issue, it will not result in any major changes in the regulation of MITI laboratories, according to MbIT spokesmnan Ronald PE. Suduiko. In the past animalh research at MIT has been monitored by an animal care and use committee which includes a "good cross- section of representaPtives,") Suduiko said. The committee conducts a monthly review of an- imal research proposals and facil- ities. And since it is federally funded, MIT has always been subject to annual federal and state inspections, Sulduiko added. The unanimous approval of the council's ordinance one June 26 ended a process that began in Mvlay 1987 wrhen thie council banned certain animal research procedures comnmonlyy practiced in the city's 13 researclh i~nstitu- tions. The Draize test, used mainly in the testing of cosmet- ics, was banned as was the LD50, in which grouaps of animals are poisoned without anesthbesia until half of thaem die. T~his movse "markeds~ the first time any research procedure had (Please turn to paige 2) IIBPP4srslslrrrPII··-C I CBIPI - I -- --- ··c_ -_- -- L-L -- - 4 · -- - 'I - - -Il·----Y I~~Pr~ --------- L ---- q a -u~~~pl -Cs - - I - - - -- ,~- a 1 ---- - ''~~~~~~~~~~~~ . I , I, ' - , -. . . .. . III·I· IC ' . ... ~n . .. By Pbrabhat Maehta Standardized test scores for the entering Class of 1993 were gen- erally higher than those for stu- dents admitted last year, accord- ing to data provided by the Admissions Offi~e. The mean score on the Scho- lastic Aptitude TFest math section for entering students rose from 722 for the Class of 1992 to 735 for this year's incoming fresh- men. Verbal 'scores on the SAT rose from 618 to 621. Perforrmance on other stan- dardized tests also improved. The mean msath score on the Amaeri- can College TFest for the incoming freshman class was 33, and the compdosite score was 30. These figures were up from last year's, according Elizabeth Johnson of the A8dmissions Office. "Wre certainly were more aware that some faculty thought that scores should be higher," John- son noted. She acknowledged that this influenced the judlgment of admissions personnel this year but added that no explicit policy changes had been implemented. "'Last year was an aberration" because scores were not weighed as heanvily as usual, Jolhnson said. Partially as a response to con- cerns by faculty members over changing admissions standards and declining student perfor- maance, the Clommnittee on Uinder- graduate Admissions and Finan-- cial Aid released a report in May suggesting that the Admissions Office place greater emphasis on grades -and8 test scores in amathe- matics and science and that "non-academic I. credentials] be considered ffiostly as a means of distinguishing among individuals of comparable academic ability." Little chlange in number of wovsmen and Irminor~itiies Currently, 1071 students are expected to enter as freshmen. Actual enrollment, however, will probably drop by about 20 stu- dents in what is known. as the 64summer melt," Johnson said. Some students decide over the summer fo~r "economic and other reasons" that they cannot attend MIT ine the fall, she explained. Of the 1071 presently expected to enroll, 359 are women. This figure, which is 33.5 percent of the class, remains essentially un- changed from last year, and about four percent shy of the Class of 1990's record-high per- centage. The percentage of wom- en was maintained despite a pledge by Director of Admissions Michael Behnke last year to ad- daress the lack of progress in admitting women. The percentage of underreipre- sented minorities declined from last year's record high of 17.3 percent to 14.5 percent this year. This decline of over 16 percent, however, still represents an in- crease ov~er previous years. The Admissions Office expanded mni- nority recruitment efforts begin- ning with the Class of 1992, when a full-time staff~ member was hired to work on.attracting minorities. This year's percentage of students accepted who were underre~presented minorities was the second highest ever, with last year being the only year with a higher percentage. The 155 underrepresented mi- norities expected to enroll include 4 Native Americans, 22 Puerto Ricans, 80 blacks, and 49 Maexi- can AmericaPns. The rest of the class consists of 21 other Hispan- ic Americans, 256 Asian Anmeri- cans, 563 whites, and 76 interna- tional students. Applications this year dropped by 10 percent, but the quality of the applicant pool increased, ac- cording to Behnke. All Ivy League schools this year except Princeton also experienced a de- cline in the number of applicants, Jonathan Richmond/The Tech One of many puppets caught parading outside thee Student Center on July 9 during the convention of Puppeteers of America, h~eld at MI~T. ~-'- 1- ;qIeege, ofF Health-. Sci- encei". fli~%~riRM "jr, an anagp-~se ment, has so, tar att-rac't'd 12 new students. The Sloan School of M 'anagement drew 30. majors, one less than last year. The Schaool of Humaanities and _Rv Annabeqbslle -Bosyd TIhe School · If Engineering at- tracted 66.3 percent of those mem~nbers of the Class of 1992 who declared majors.,last May, according to the ]Registrar's cunr- rent count. The figure re~presents a small increatse from 1988 whenn 61.9 percent of declared majors were in engineering. O~ne hundred thirty o~f the 982 outgoinag freshmen have yet to choose a department. Students are not required to designate majors until the end of the sophomore year. T~he percentage of students en- tering the Department of Eliectri- call Engineering and Compiaer Science rose slightly over last year, ending a three year down- ward trenld ine enrolUlament. Of those students who chose depart- mnents, 233 (27.3 percent) de- clared majors in EECS. Last year, 24.3 perce~nt of the fresh- man class chose that major. Just three years ago, 313 percent of the freshman class declapred Course VI.. More freshmen declaredl maz- jors in ]EECS than in the second and third place departments - mechanical engineering and aero- nautics and astronautics - com- bined. Mechanical engineering shrowed a slight rise from the last year, awhile aeronautics and astro- nautics extperienced a small dip in its sh~are of the class. Chemical engineering attracted 56i majors, conmpared to 46 last year. Nuclear engineering and material science and engineering each experienced modest de- creases in their perceentages of the outgoing freshman class. Civil engineering showed a substantial 40) percent drop in its share. About 22.5 percent of the Class of 1992 whao picked depart- ments -chose to major in the Schaool of Science - a moderate decrease from last yveai''s 25.2 percent. The school has so far at- tracted 192 new stud~ents. Among the science departments that have shown declining strength are :-physics, math, biology, and earthr, atmnospheric and plahetary science~s. Only- chemistry S'fi;vira an in-crease iif enrblhnent.. The numaber -of students center- ing the Schnool of ACrchlitecture and Planning dropped to 25 from last year's 44. The Department of Cognitive Science, which is in thee - So.CW s 'cilmce. xegistered .. a Arops in, its percentage of, majors - to, 3.2 percent from last year's 4.4 percent. Political science showed a markced increase in new enroll- menrt. but economics had a sharp decline. 'By Linda D'Angelol The Cambridge City Council set a nationwide precedent last moonth when it approved an ord~i- naanrce regulating animal experi- mentation in all universities and private institutions in Camabridge, according to Ken Russell, as-,;, tant director of a lob·'-· group, the Cam ' · ;' .. /' f o;R c , p; i,, ib, ' _ esearch. I his represents the "first time that any legislature has decided that ani- mal research needs greater regulation," Russell said.. Although the ordlinance height- ownailings ting ILGs who felt "something was taken away from them," Gerber said. But other ILL~s were "moving in the direction" of the ODSA guidelines independently, andl were not opposed to ODSA ovrersight, An IFC~ advertisemeent in The Tech [June 5] protesting the classification of a photograph of a man with two bikini-clad women from a rush book as sex- ist did not represent the views of the entire IFC, Gerbter said.. But Gerber said the I[FC was most concerned with the restric- tion on tihe number of surrimer mailings. He explained that in the past ILGs had sent: several items to incoming students, in- clluding rush books, party invita, tions, and followup letters. The IFC did not know how the mnail- ing restriction would affect rush, he noted,,.hough it could result in more telephone contact with freshman. But Gerber empha- sized -that the IFC. had fo~ughtn against the policy' and'was still (Please turnt to page 2) - , ODSA restricts surnrer B~y Andrew 1L. Fishn cannot be "selling their houses The Office of the Dean for on the basis of alcohol," said As- Student Affairs placed new re- sistant Dear. for Student Affairs strictions on mailings from Inde- Mary Z. Enterfine. This rule bans pendent Living Groups and stu- the practice of some I[LGs of ad- dent activities to incoming vertising house bars in rush freshmen. The restrictions books, among other things. prompted complaints from some Enterfinle said this policy was student activities and the: Inter- biased on the advice of lawyers, Fraternity Council. since incoming students are be- Staff of~the Undergraduate Ac- low the legal drinking age in ademic Support Office decided Massachusetts. that incoming students were re- The ODSA also continued a ceiving too many mailings from ban on racist and sexist material student groups - as many as 90 which has existed for many in some cases according to years, Enterline said. R~esidence;/Orientation Coordlina- IFC President Anthony N. tor Elizabeth M. Ling '90. As a Gerber '90 said that some living result, the ODSA-limited fiater- groups' felt the'ODSA had been i nities to one` summer · mailing, "a little picky", in enforcing the prohibited summer mailin~gs from restrictions this year . ]He said I dormitories and academic depart- -- somc1·e houses were forced to re-I ments, abnd-bnly allowed activities print~ books because, they d~id not to submit items for a single, genm- receive approval, eral mailing, rather than sending ' n prior years', ILGs had -been material directly to freshmen. permitted to place almost any- In addition, the ODSA restrict- thing in summer mailings, Gerber ed the depiction of alcohol in said. But the ODSA: has been summqer 'mailings. Frdternities, more stringent this. year, upset- Filrm version of Charlesa Dickenas' Littl~e Dorritj six hours long and still incomplete. Page 7. New Bo Snd is ~~ and serious. Papge 1 1. Test scores higher for Cllass of 1 993 Nurnber of engineering rnajors up front last year uarnbridge first city to regulapte anirnal researchp Class of 1-992 majors by school U4ndesignat~ed ArPchitecture ,,~~~ ,,,,~ ~~~ Engineering S c i e n c e , ///.. Wdhita' Management N' Humanaities

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Page 1: Test scores higher for of 1 993 - The Techtech.mit.edu/V109/PDF/V109-N29.pdf · ment, has so, tar att-rac't'd 12 new students. The Sloan School of M 'anagement drew 30. majors, one

ens purblic awareness of tlhe issue,it will not result in any majorchanges in the regulation of MITIlaboratories, according to MbITspokesmnan Ronald PE. Suduiko.

In the past animalh research atMIT has been monitored by ananimal care and use committeewhich includes a "good cross-section of representaPtives,")Suduiko said. The committeeconducts a monthly review of an-imal research proposals and facil-ities. And since it is federallyfunded, MIT has always beensubject to annual federal andstate inspections, Sulduiko added.

The unanimous approval ofthe council's ordinance one June26 ended a process that began inMvlay 1987 wrhen thie councilbanned certain animal researchprocedures comnmonlyy practicedin the city's 13 researclh i~nstitu-tions. The Draize test, usedmainly in the testing of cosmet-ics, was banned as was the LD50,in which grouaps of animals arepoisoned without anesthbesia untilhalf of thaem die.

T~his movse "markeds~ the firsttime any research procedure had

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By Pbrabhat MaehtaStandardized test scores for the

entering Class of 1993 were gen-erally higher than those for stu-dents admitted last year, accord-ing to data provided by theAdmissions Offi~e.

The mean score on the Scho-lastic Aptitude TFest math sectionfor entering students rose from722 for the Class of 1992 to 735for this year's incoming fresh-men. Verbal 'scores on the SATrose from 618 to 621.

Perforrmance on other stan-dardized tests also improved. Themean msath score on the Amaeri-can College TFest for the incomingfreshman class was 33, and thecompdosite score was 30. Thesefigures were up from last year's,according Elizabeth Johnson ofthe A8dmissions Office.

"Wre certainly were more awarethat some faculty thought thatscores should be higher," John-son noted. She acknowledgedthat this influenced the judlgmentof admissions personnel this yearbut added that no explicit policychanges had been implemented.

"'Last year was an aberration"because scores were not weighedas heanvily as usual, Jolhnson said.Partially as a response to con-cerns by faculty members overchanging admissions standards

and declining student perfor-maance, the Clommnittee on Uinder-graduate Admissions and Finan--cial Aid released a report in Maysuggesting that the AdmissionsOffice place greater emphasis ongrades -and8 test scores in amathe-matics and science and that"non-academic I. credentials] beconsidered ffiostly as a means ofdistinguishing among individualsof comparable academic ability."

Little chlange in numberof wovsmen and Irminor~itiies

Currently, 1071 students areexpected to enter as freshmen.Actual enrollment, however, willprobably drop by about 20 stu-dents in what is known. as the64summer melt," Johnson said.Some students decide over thesummer fo~r "economic and otherreasons" that they cannot attendMIT ine the fall, she explained.

Of the 1071 presently expectedto enroll, 359 are women. Thisfigure, which is 33.5 percent ofthe class, remains essentially un-changed from last year, andabout four percent shy of theClass of 1990's record-high per-centage. The percentage of wom-en was maintained despite apledge by Director of AdmissionsMichael Behnke last year to ad-daress the lack of progress in

admitting women.The percentage of underreipre-

sented minorities declined fromlast year's record high of 17.3percent to 14.5 percent this year.This decline of over 16 percent,however, still represents an in-crease ov~er previous years. TheAdmissions Office expanded mni-nority recruitment efforts begin-ning with the Class of 1992,when a full-time staff~ memberwas hired to work on.attractingminorities. This year's percentageof students accepted who wereunderre~presented minorities wasthe second highest ever, with lastyear being the only year with ahigher percentage.

The 155 underrepresented mi-norities expected to enroll include4 Native Americans, 22 PuertoRicans, 80 blacks, and 49 Maexi-can AmericaPns. The rest of theclass consists of 21 other Hispan-ic Americans, 256 Asian Anmeri-cans, 563 whites, and 76 interna-tional students.

Applications this year droppedby 10 percent, but the quality ofthe applicant pool increased, ac-cording to Behnke. All IvyLeague schools this year exceptPrinceton also experienced a de-cline in the number of applicants,

Jonathan Richmond/The TechOne of many puppets caught parading outside theeStudent Center on July 9 during the convention ofPuppeteers of America, h~eld at MI~T.

~-'- 1- ;qIeege, ofF Health-. Sci-encei". fli~%~riRM "jr, an anagp-~se

ment, has so, tar att-rac't'd 12 newstudents. The Sloan School ofM 'anagement drew 30. majors,one less than last year.

The Schaool of Humaanities and

_Rv Annabeqbslle -BosydTIhe School ·If Engineering at-

tracted 66.3 percent of thosemem~nbers of the Class of 1992who declared majors.,last May,according to the ]Registrar's cunr-rent count. The figure re~presentsa small increatse from 1988 whenn61.9 percent of declared majorswere in engineering.

O~ne hundred thirty o~f the 982outgoinag freshmen have yet tochoose a department. Studentsare not required to designatemajors until the end of thesophomore year.

T~he percentage of students en-tering the Department of Eliectri-call Engineering and CompiaerScience rose slightly over lastyear, ending a three year down-ward trenld ine enrolUlament. Ofthose students who chose depart-mnents, 233 (27.3 percent) de-clared majors in EECS. Lastyear, 24.3 perce~nt of the fresh-man class chose that major. Justthree years ago, 313 percent of thefreshman class declapred CourseVI..

More freshmen declaredl maz-jors in ]EECS than in the secondand third place departments -mechanical engineering and aero-nautics and astronautics - com-bined. Mechanical engineeringshrowed a slight rise from the lastyear, awhile aeronautics and astro-nautics extperienced a small dip inits sh~are of the class.

Chemical engineering attracted56i majors, conmpared to 46 lastyear. Nuclear engineering andmaterial science and engineeringeach experienced modest de-creases in their perceentages of theoutgoing freshman class. Civilengineering showed a substantial40) percent drop in its share.

About 22.5 percent of theClass of 1992 whao picked depart-ments -chose to major in theSchaool of Science - a moderatedecrease from last yveai''s 25.2percent. The school has so far at-tracted 192 new stud~ents. Amongthe science departments that haveshown declining strength are

:-physics, math, biology, and

earthr, atmnospheric and plahetaryscience~s. Only- chemistry S'fi;viraan in-crease iif enrblhnent..

The numaber -of students center-ing the Schnool of ACrchlitectureand Planning dropped to 25 fromlast year's 44. The Department ofCognitive Science, which is in thee

-So.CW s 'cilmce. xegistered ..a Aropsin, its percentage of, majors - to,3.2 percent from last year's 4.4percent. Political science showeda markced increase in new enroll-menrt. but economics had a sharpdecline.

'By Linda D'AngelolThe Cambridge City Council

set a nationwide precedent lastmoonth when it approved an ord~i-naanrce regulating animal experi-mentation in all universities andprivate institutions in Camabridge,according to Ken Russell, as-,;,tant director of a lob·'-·group, the Cam ' ·;' .. /'

f o;R c , p; i,, ib, ' _ esearch. I hisrepresents the "first time that anylegislature has decided that ani-mal research needs greaterregulation," Russell said..

Although the ordlinance height-

ownailingsting ILGs who felt "somethingwas taken away from them,"Gerber said. But other ILL~s were"moving in the direction" of theODSA guidelines independently,andl were not opposed to ODSAovrersight, An IFC~ advertisemeentin The Tech [June 5] protestingthe classification of a photographof a man with two bikini-cladwomen from a rush book as sex-ist did not represent the views ofthe entire IFC, Gerbter said..

But Gerber said the I[FC wasmost concerned with the restric-tion on tihe number of surrimermailings. He explained that inthe past ILGs had sent: severalitems to incoming students, in-clluding rush books, party invita,tions, and followup letters. TheIFC did not know how the mnail-ing restriction would affect rush,he noted,,.hough it could resultin more telephone contact withfreshman. But Gerber empha-sized -that the IFC. had fo~ughtnagainst the policy' and'was still

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ODSA restricts surnrerB~y Andrew 1L. Fishn cannot be "selling their houses

The Office of the Dean for on the basis of alcohol," said As-Student Affairs placed new re- sistant Dear. for Student Affairsstrictions on mailings from Inde- Mary Z. Enterfine. This rule banspendent Living Groups and stu- the practice of some I[LGs of ad-dent activities to incoming vertising house bars in rushfreshmen. The restrictions books, among other things.prompted complaints from some Enterfinle said this policy wasstudent activities and the: Inter- biased on the advice of lawyers,Fraternity Council. since incoming students are be-

Staff of~the Undergraduate Ac- low the legal drinking age inademic Support Office decided Massachusetts.that incoming students were re- The ODSA also continued aceiving too many mailings from ban on racist and sexist materialstudent groups - as many as 90 which has existed for many in some cases according to years, Enterline said.R~esidence;/Orientation Coordlina- IFC President Anthony N. tor Elizabeth M. Ling '90. As a Gerber '90 said that some livingresult, the ODSA-limited fiater- groups' felt the'ODSA had been inities to one` summer ·mailing, "a little picky", in enforcing the prohibited summer mailin~gs from restrictions this year . ]He said Idormitories and academic depart- --somc1·e houses were forced to re-Iments, abnd-bnly allowed activities print~ books because, they d~id not to submit items for a single, genm- receive approval,eral mailing, rather than sending ' n prior years', ILGs had -been material directly to freshmen. permitted to place almost any-

In addition, the ODSA restrict- thing in summer mailings, Gerbered the depiction of alcohol in said. But the ODSA: has beensummqer 'mailings. Frdternities, more stringent this. year, upset-

Filrm version of CharlesaDickenas' Littl~e Dorritj sixhours long and stillincomplete. Page 7.

New Bo Snd is ~~ andserious. Papge 1 1.

Test scores higher for Cllass of 1 993

Nurnber of engineering rnajors up front last year

uarnbridge first city toregulapte anirnal researchp

Class of 1-992 majors by schoolU4ndesignat~ed ArPchitecture

,,~~~ ,,,,~ ~~~ Engineering

S c i e n c e , ///..

Wdhita'

Management N'

Humanaities

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nuclear-powered submarine off the Norwegian coast. AForeign Ministry spokesman said yesterday the fact thatthe Soviet Union said there was never a.fire on the sub-marine is beside the point. He said when there is a prob-lem with a nuclear submarine, Norway wants to beinformed.

Poland sets up Vatican tiesPoland tooks another step toward reform yesterday -

establishing diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Thepredominantly Catholic nation is the first Warsaw Pactcountry to set up official ties with the Vatican. The offi-cially atheist government cut relations with the Churchwhen it came to power in 1945.

Administration forecastscompliance with Gramm-Rsudman

The Bush Administration is predicting the Gramm-Rudman limits will be met in fiscal year 1990. Sources saythe budget office tomorrow will project a deficit of justover $105 billion, not including the sale of federal assetsthat would lower the figure even further to $99 billion.Both figures are well within Gramm-Rudman limits thatwould trigger automatic cuts across the board.

Dissident NFL owners meetThe NFL owners who blocked the confirmation of New

Orleans Saits executive Jim Finks as the next leaguecommissioner met last night in suburban Chicago. Theywere planning to consider a plan calling for three mem-bers of their group to meet today with three members ofthe league's selection committee. The selection committeenominated Finks to succeed~the retiring Pete Rtozelle, butI1I of the owners block4ed 'co:nfirmation- because, of6 pp-osition to the selection process. --The:-owners or~iginaffy goftheirdto- announce their plans

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-vantage of the oppoftiunity to continue the search for anew commissioner.

Kent. Tekculve retiresKent Tekulve has retired after 16,seasons as a major

league reliever. Tekulve spent over eleven of those seasonswith Pittsburgh, and wonl a World Series title with the Pi-rates in i979. He'd been struggling while throwing for theCincinnati Reds this season. Tekulve holds the majorleague record for appearances by a reliever - 1050games. Horyt Wilhelm holds the record for appearancesby a pitcher -1070.

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UJS offers payments forvictims of downed airliner

The State Department said the United States is offeringpayments to the families of relatives killed when a USNavy cruiser shot down an Iraniian airliner over the Per-sian Gulf last year. The plan calls for the United States topay up to $250,()00 per victim, most of whom were Irani-ans. But a State Department spokesman said Iran mustfirst find an "appropriate intermediary" to disburse thefunds.

Local officials protest aid cutCity and town officials from across Massachusetts tooks

part in a State House rally yesterday against Gov. MichaelDukcakis' veto of local aid. They said their communitiescould not take a cut of $100 million for fire, police, andschool department budgets. But Dukakis told an after-noon news conference he had no choice -the money isjust not there. Mayors, selectmen, anid town managerscame to the State House steps to oppose the move. New-ton Mayor Ted Mann said the problem involves the quali-ty of life. He said under Proposition 21/, the cities andtowns must rely on state aid -there is no other place forcommunities to turn.

Last week Dukakis cut $210 million from the budgetfor fiscal 1990. Under state law, he cannot sign the budgetuntil it is in balance.

Stealth flight termed successThe two-hour maiden flight of the B-2 Stealth Bomber

appeared flawless to people watching from the ground -and the pilots in the air said that's just about what it was.Test pilot Richard Couch told reporters after yesterday'sflight in Southern California that the B-2 is a "very nim-ble" aircraft. And one other thing, he said flying it was"a lot of fun."

Congress may have another description in mind -suchas "too costly" -when it comes to the $500 million air-craft. The Ho~use Republican whip, Ne~wt Gingrich ofGeorgia, said there is still a great deal of reluctance tospend that much money. And'Democratic House SpeakerThomas S. Foley said it is an uphill fight for the bomber.Last week, the House Armed Services Committee voted toreduce spending for the aircraft.

Most mine strikersreturn to work

Most of the tens-of thousands o~f miners staing.-wildcat_strike's- over thie'-last- several. week s' have: 'reportedly hreaeda call from union leaders to return :io work. But mininrs inWhest Virginia are still off the job. Meanwhile, UnitedMine Worker. President,:,Richard Trumka and the -head ofthe Pittston Coal Cmayare. due to meet today at thebehest of a federal judge. The wildcat strikes werespawned by a walkout at Pittston.

Oil leaks force car recallFederal safety officials are urging owners of over -500

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SPORTS STA4FFAssociate Sports Editor: Shawn Mastrian '91; Staff: Harold A.Stern '87, Anh Thu Vo '89, Manish Bapna '931, Adam Braff '91,Emil Dabora '91, Kevin T. Hwang '91.

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Your article on the MIT Com-mencement noted the sympathiesexpressed by MIT President PaulE. Gray for the recently slainTiananmen Square protesters["China news dominates gradua-tion," June 27]. However, yourarticle failed to note the obvioushypocrisy of Gray's remarks.

Gray spoke of the Chinesedemonstrators' noble goal of avoice in their -own governance,but no such voice is allowed atMIT. Gray made his address toan outdoor ceremony at which allnewspaper and literature distribu-tion had been banned. In 1969,as associate provost, Gray sup-ported an injunction banning therights of student antiwar activiststo free speech, freedom to gather,freedom to protest, and the rightto advocate protest on the MITcampus. Only last year, he andProvost John M. Deutch elimi-nated an entire academic depart-ment without consultation byeither students, alumni or faculty.

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MIT President Paul E. Grayclaims that no one is hurt by theschool's practice of selling "facili-tated access" to, government re-search results through its Indus-trial Liason Program. The publicstill gets, the research it pays for,Gray argues, so why should wecare if MIT makes a few millionextra selling the same'informationr to the Jpanan q?

The -hole in Gray's argument isthat research papers at MIT leaveout the information one wouldneed to use the research results.Refflecting an ideology that "sci-ence is neutral," MIT publica-

tions usually omit as irrelevantthe context of the work or theintended application.

Through the ILP, corporate cli-ents may purchase the time of aprofessor who will provide themissing contextual pieces. Butthe high access fees of the ILPexclude many companies, and la-bor unions are denied member-ship even it' they are willing topay.

Rather than using their knobt-edge to educate students orstrengthen US economic security,MIT professors are too often

busy flying overseas or giving de-mos to foreign visitors, earning"ILP points." The most promi-nent goal in the IL;P missionstatement is "cto increase MIT'stotal income for corporations in-cluding research sponsorship,gifts, Liason Programr fees."

How can Gray argue that this:srogram serves the public? The1LI; is a prime example of the ex-propriation of public resourcesfor private gain. -

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Only one thing failed to please, and Iperhaps here show my prejudice againstBach played on the piano. The programbegan with the three preludes and fuguesfrom the Well Tempered Clavier, Vol. 1.

To succeed they need to be played withbounce and resilience: to my ears theysounded heavy and mushy.

The concert really took off, nonetheless,with a group of Brahms Ballades, Op. 10.

Goodman showed a keen understandingfor their rhythm, bringing out the liltingqualities of No. 2, the animated side ofNo. 3 and evoking a sense of calm andnicely-balanced proportions to No. 6.

The Brahms Op. 79 Rhapsody followed.Strongly articulated, the performance alsoshowed Goodman's sympathy for thepoetry of the work.

But if Goodman's Brahms was beguil-ing, his Chopin -he played five Etudes- was dazzling. There were a few moa-ments when he faltered, but they could besafely ignored given the sparkle and over-all panache of his playing, which was notonly in the virtuoso tradition, but showedan understanding for the deeper musicalconcerns of the music. There are momentsamidst the brilliance of Chopin's musicwhich demand reflectiveness and warmth.Many pianists, eager simply to show off,brush them off. Goodman found them and

exposed them.To complete the program Goodman im-

provised on themes suggested by the audi-ence. His treatment of the "Jeopardy"theme was deadbeat, jazzy and very clever.His variations on Prokofiev's LieutenantKij6 were fluent and witty, his stfirm unddrang approach to "Loch Lomond" bring-ing an appropriately Scottish Highlanddarkness to the theme. Yes, there was adrone in the left hand as well!

Someone asked for "Over the Rain-bow," and the audience received a compul-sory - but forgivable -dose of hard-core schmaltz. "Yellow Submarine," wasnext selected over Mozart, and Mr. Good-man was only saved from getting a goodpanning in revenge from this critic by end-ing his concert with some hilarious Mo-zartian variations on "Maple Leaf Rag." Itwas anl enjoyable afternoon, and gavemuch pleasure to all.

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Piano recital.Killian Hall, Atly 9.

By JONATHAN RICHMOND

AN GOODMAN, musician extaor-dinaire, piano concerto -soloist,previously symphony orchestra

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LITTLE DORsRITDirected and adapted for the screenby Christine Edzard.Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.Starring Sarah Pickering, Derek Jacobi,and Sir Alec Guinness.Plays through Thursday at the SomervilleTheater in Davis Square.

film, the task of' properly filmihng LittleDorrt seems almost impossible indeed.

Undaunted, British director ChristineEdzard decided to bring the novel to thescreen, the first adaptation attemptedsince the 1930s. Her film is highly ambi-tious but not entirely successful. One ele-ment in her favor is that Dickens tends toconvey ideas through meticulous descrip-tion and narrative action, which are rela-tively easier to bring to film than thanphilosophical discussions of the typefound in, say, the novels of Milan Kundera('The Unbearable Lightness of Being). Un-fortunately, Edzard has left out much ofDickens' novel. She has also reduced thescreentime given to several important sup-porting characters; keeping track of themis difficult unless one is familiar with thenovel ahead of time.

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doesn Atsatisfychological realism that so powerfully fu-eled Ingmar- Bergman's Scenes from aMarriage (1973).

Given the film's overall flatness, twosubplots that address some political andlegal issues don't help the film very much.Cinematicallyspeaking, the film does havesome interesting moments. For example,the film both begins and ends with someserenely disturbing black-and-white shotsof flat sheets of water. The main title se-quence is also notable for the intriguinganimated line sketchings that flash on thescreen. The acting ranges from average toto good, although the performances canhardly be described as inspired.

As with all films, it's entirely possiblethat some filmgoers will identify suffi-ciently enough with Anna-that the filmwill work for'them. If anything, though,such filmgoers will identify with the factthat Anna's relationship with her husbandis breaking down rather than the dreamsthat ostensibly cause their relationship tounravel. Introducing dreams into a filmabout human relationships seems to havebeen, in the particular context of this film,i,, mistake. At best, this film can be calledan experiment that failed. One can onlypraise Panayotopoulos for his willingnessto take some risks. At the same time, how-ever, one cannot overlook the unsatisfyingnature of the film that ends-up on screen.

L IKE MANY OTHER NATIONAL cine- nowhe~re -for the surrounding story of (1979) or Ordinary People (1980). And onemas, the Greek film industry is Anna's relationship with her husband can forget about finding the intense psy

plagued by limited audiences thatmake it difficult for Greek-

language films to be profitable at the boxoffice. Nevertheless, Greece has been ableto produce some film directors of note,and Nikos Panayotopoulos is one of them.Unfortunately, his noteworthiness would _i be difficult to defend in the light of hisnewest film, The Womann Who D)reamed,which is inostly flat and unsatisfying. ir

In Panayotopoulos' own words, the film /^.; 3 w #-is about a "woman [who] dreams contin-ually and tells her husband about herdreams. The presence of the dreams shapt-ters their relationship, and only a lie canrestore it. The film [is] seen as a dreamand life [is] seen as a film. The conventionof the cinema meets that of fife!" Assum-ing that Panayotopoulos' claim is morethan a mere publicity department plati- s . ntude, it would be difficult to describe his , l -

premise as anything other than fascinating 3 and full of potential..

Unfortunately, the film fizzes out. Iffilm is seen as a dream, and life is see aa film, then to complete the syllogism onemight conclude 'that life can be seen as a Anna's husband (Yannis Bezos) comforts Anna (M\yrto Paraschi) afterdream (via the medium of film). That line she has a disturbing dream in Nikos Panayotopoulo~s' The Womanof thought leads directly to the type of Who Dreamed.

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Editor's note: The Womanl Who Dreamedwill be preceded at 6 pm by The Idlers ofthe Fertile Valley, which was made byNikos Panayotopoulos in 1978. The filmhas been compared by some critics to thegreat Luis Bunuel classic, The Externinat-ing Angel.

more recent Bond films. The heroinesaren't complete window dressing, but theyaren't exactly the type of role models thatfeminists would praise either. All of thisresults in a thoroughly schizoid (somewould say muddled) film. Undoubtedly,

--the best way to watch this filmm is to-gUspat the death-defying stunts, laugh at thefunny parts, and look away during thegruesome parts.

Afterwards, though, the most strikingthing about the film is the fact that theproducers changed the title of the filmfrom License Revoked to Licence to Kill.They were afraid that Americans would betoo dumb to understand the meaning ofrevoked. As for the British spelling oflicense in the final title, the producers fig-ured that most Americans wouldn't noticethe difference. It's hard to know'whetherto laugh, cry, or grit one's teeth at thisnews.

Maybe there's some grand metaphor tobe found in the fact that the film evokesprecisely the same reaction. Somehow,though, it doesn't seem worth all the wor-ry. After all, as it is written in the endcredits, 'ames Bond will return."

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ICENCE TO KILL stars TimothyDalton as a renegade secret agentbent on revenge in this newest re-cycling of the mnostly stale James

Bond formula. Dalton, who is a classicallytrained actor, gives a better performancethan Sean Connery or Ronger Moore everdid. That's why this is the most seriousand violent Bond in years - the film actu-ally has a little bit of depth, along withseveral gruesome deaths. Does that makethe best Bond flick in years? Maybe. HasJames Bond turned into George Smiley?Not bloody likely.

The story still has plenty of chic and so-phistication (not to mention the requisitelighter moments) that characterized the

- from the frwee edges. Indeed, significantportions of the frane are oftentimes blackor considerably darkened. There are fewfacial close-ups, and the editing exists onlyto hide seams when the camera shifts itspoint of view.

The one great virtue of the film is thatthe performances by Sir Alec Guinness asLittle Dorrit's father and Derek Jacobi asArthur Clennam are impeccable. There isno doubt on this score: this is an actors'film, in the way that few American filmsare. The acting by the other highly accomtplished actors (some members of the castmade their acting debut decades ago) - aswell as Sarah Pickering's acting, whiomakes her feature filn debut as LittleDorrit -is what actually parries this film.They are what make the six hours pass bymuch more quickly. And in the final anal-ysis, their performances are what makethis film a trying but rewardingexperience.

(The above is an expanded v rsion of a re-view that ran in these pages last Septemberwhen the film played in the Boston PFYImAestival.}

Part 2 that the narrative continues-onwardfrom the end of Part 1.

Edzard's adaptation has two primarycharacteristics, one bad and one good.First, Edzard has eliminated or softenedthe excessively polemical moments ofDickens novel. That is to Edzard's credit.However, she consequently has also toneddown many of the political elements thatreflected Dickens' motivation for writingthe novel in the first place. Dickens' fatherwas -a prisoner in the Marshalsea prisonduring Dickens' childhood, and Dickens'himself lived in the Marshalsea for a fewmonths with his father. Those months leftan indelible impact on young Dickens, andhis novel directly reflects that impact. InE'dzard's film version, the political ele-ments are all too often shortchanged,especially in Little Dorrit's story.

'What adds to the film's difficulty is thatthe film is about as uncinematic as anyfilm could possibly be.- Virtually everyshot is a static one: the camera remains af-fixed in one position and only pans to fol-low the short movements of the actors.The camerawork is not very notable, asmost of the action is centered well away

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novel ahead of time.For all its limitations,' there is no doubt

Part 1 is called Nobody's Fault and tellsthe story of Arthur Clernnam (DerekJacobi), who in modern terms can only be'described as a loser. He was thoroughlydominated by his mother as a child; as anadult, he finds his childhood sweetheart tobe a lazy and overweight widow, and heends up in the Marshalsea debtors' prisonafter his financial ruin. But Clennamdoesn't seem to realize that no one wouldtake advantage of him if he showed morebackbone; he's convinced his misfortunesare "nobody's fault.'

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Senior gymnast Eric Reifsch-neider has been named the win-ner of an NCAA PostgraduateSckolarship awarded for com-bined academic and athletic ex-cellence. A four-year letter win-ner, Reifschneider also finishedhis MIT career with a perfect 5.0grade point average in physicsand mathematics. The seventh

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Reifschneider's scholarship wasone of only six which wereawarded to male athletes in Divi-sions II and III -who competed insports other than football or bas-ketball (which presented theirown postgraduate scholarshipsseparately). A total of 100 schol-arships were handed out toNCAA athletes in all sports onall levels of competition.

Kelly nam~ed coachof the year again

Track coach Gordon Kelly wasrecently named New England Di-vision III Indoor Coach of theYear by the New England Inter-collegiate Track Coaches' Associ-ation. Kelly, whose teams havenot lost a dual or triangular meetsince April 1983, won the awardfor the third consecutive seasonon the indoor circuit. It was hisninth Coach of the Year award inhis tenure at the Institute.

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Seniors Kai-Yee Ho and BrianBrown were ranked 23rd in men'sdoubles, and Ho was the 40th-rated singles player. The team ofHo and Brown made it to Kala-mazoo College for the DivisionIII Championships, where theysuffered a first-round defeat. Hoalso was a first-round victim inthe singles Championships. FionaTan '90 earned the number 47position in women's listings.

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