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chool in everal categorieincluding chool reputation, finan-cial and faculty re ource , studentretention, and alumni ati faction.

Like la t year, MIT tied withHarvard and tanford for be t acad-emic reputation in the annual rank-ing. The In titute came in fourth intud nt electivity, but only 16th in

alumni ati faction.MIT tied with tanford a the

top-rated engineering school, fol-lowed by the alifomia Institute ofTe hnology and arnegie Mellonand omell Univer itie in the U.S.N w ranking.

Ranked by di cipline, MITcame in fir t in aero pace, chemi-cal, electrical, and mechanicalengineering. It al 0 placed fir t inboth material and computer sci-ence, but ranked fourth in civi Iengineering and fifth in both bio-

us.NewIT ranked fifth in thi

u.. w World R pori urveyof the nation' be t 011 ge , downfrom fourth place la t y ar.

The In titute al placed well ina ational R arch ouncil tudyrelea d Tue day.

Harvard University again toppedthe U. . N ~ annual ranking, whilePrinceton and Yale Un er itie tiedfor econd. tanford Univer ityranked fourth, edging out MIT by atenth of a percentage point in over-all score.

"I believe that we did ry wellin the u.s. N ws undergraduate ur-vey," Provo t Joel Mo e PhD '57aid. "Although we placed below

Stanford it was only by 0.1 point,which is in the noi e in my opin-ion."

The overall core i a weightedavera~e of U.S. N ws' ratings. of

By Ramy A. Arn outE UTlVE EDITOR

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The Kendall Square Cinema, located at One Kendall SquJlre In Cambridge, opens today as host ofthe Boston Film Festival.

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By Stacey E. BlauNEWS EDITOR

The In titute will move aheadwith plan to out ource parkingfacilitie and the afe Ride erviceto a private company, in additi n toin tituting a new yearly parking fee,aid enior Vice Pre ident William

R. Dick n' 56.MIT will pr ba Iy n begin

contract n gotiation with tandardParking Inc., a company thatalready operate parking ystem ineveral large citie .

Beginning in January, parkers atMIT will have to pay 300 a year toretain a parking pace at MIT.

MIT needed to engage an out-ide company becau e of "the thou-and of detail " involved in run-

ning MIT' tran portation ervicesparticularly with the volume ofpaperwork that will accompany thenew parking fee, Dick n aid.. "The primary que tion i whocan do it better," aid Director ofSpecial ervice tephen D. Immer-man, who work in Dick on'

Driver panicked "Hermawan's 1995 BMW M3

was .traveling eastbound on Memor-ial Drive at about 50 mph, accord-ing to tate Police. The po ted limitis 30 mph.

Hermawan, who had at lea t 400feet of visibility coming around acurve, noticed four to five pede tri-an cro ing the treet and panicked,State Police aid.

Hermawan's car cro ed threelane before striking han, andtopped 215 feet later.

Damage to the car was e timatedat 2,000.

about any wrongdoing on the partKappa Sigma, said eal H. Dorow,assi tant dean and advi er to frater-nitie, ororitie, and independentliving group .

Dorow aid he wa not ure ifalcohol was served at the party, or ifChan drank alcohol at the party.

If alcohol was erved to Chan,Kappa Sigma would be inve tigatedand could be in trouble, aid A oci-ate Dean for Residence and ampuActivities Margaret A. Jablon ki.

A Bo ton University ophomoreis still hospitalized in critical condi-tion one week after being truck andthrown 107 feet by a speeding car asshe left a Kappa Sigma party.

Win e Chan, 19, wa hit at 1:50a.m. last Saturday as she crossedMemorial Drive. She i in the inten-sive care unit at as achu etts Gen-ral Hospital.\ The driver of the car, KurniaHermawan also 19 and al 0 a BUstudent, wa cited for peeding andoperatin-g to endanger.

The car truck Chan at the 360block of Memorial Driv~, nearTheta Delta Chi.

Kappa igma President JoshuaV. Bennet 96 declined to commenton whether alcohol wa erved atthe party, or if Chan, who is underthe legal drinking age a servedalcohol.

Several tudent who attendedthe party aid that alcohol waindeed rved.

"We don't have enough informa-tion to warrant an inve tigation"

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already profe rs at orthea tern during theday, Finn said.

Bruce D. Wedloc '5, direct r of the Lo -ell In titute ch I and a I cturer in the th

r Department of Electrical ngine ring andComputer ience, e pre sed mi giving about

IT deci ion to I t go of the h 1."I think it' been a v ry ucc ful opera-

tion, and I m obviou Iy di ppoint d t itclo after having built it up 0 er th I t 22Y "he said.

Th deci ion to clo th hool at IT was"mi guided' 001 k said." righton left aIe y of a lot of angry people" he said.

..It obviou Iy won't be th ame thing. Id n't want to und negati e, but rtheastemi n't IT,' Wedloc id.

Lo ell call d orthea tern "a onderfulfit" in an article in The orth astern Voice. Hdeclined to comm nt to The Tech.

oveto

o •Th deci ion to move the Lo ell hool to

ortheastern came after nearly nine month ofuJation and di u ion about the fate of

hool following righton deci ion toit.

The mo e i "a fantastic ynergy. I'm veryexcited about it n Finn said. any of thej tors who t h night cI at LI are

hool program under the ne Lowell nameBaer id. The cia e will have much of thesame curriculum and many of the same in true-

the current to ell bool, Baer said.A orthea tern employee will be nt to

wort with the current Lo ell admini tration inOctober or ovember in order to mooth thetran ilion id ortheastem hool ofEngineering Technology Director harleFinn PhD 71.

to ell bool cl will begin at orth-tern n t fall, he id.

The Lo ell In ti te School ibecome part of orthe tern nivcoming summer, 0 ProvBaersaid.

The Lowell School, bicb h providedevening technical in ruction to communityresiden at IT for 92 y led toc July 1, 1996 under -cutting deci-

ion made by former Pro t arrighton.The hool jom NOI'thellStelm

10fEngi ring Technology at that time.The final con~t trail ferring LIS to orth-

e tern a ign d on Tue ay by John A.uny the president of ortheastcm, and John

Lo en, the Ie of the Lowell]n 'tute(an educational funding group), and the grand-

of i founder.The new chool will incorporate all of

orthe tern' e isting t hnological night-

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back may have prompted the su -den rever al by the Bosnian Serbleader hip, which had refused toremove heavy weapons from Saraje-vo unless the Bosnian governmentagreed to a countrywide cea e-firepatrolled by ATO forces.

"(Optional add end)Under the threat of ATO

airstrikes, the Bosnian Serbspromi ed once before, in February1994, to withdraw their heavyweapons, and they have a majorcredibility problem because they no,:.only failed to carry out thei~jpromise but several months agostepped up the armed siege aroundSar~jevo. Underlining the serious-

. ness of their intentions, the latest

. offer w~s 'signed by military com-mander Ratko Mladic, politicalleader Radovan Karadzic, and twoother Bosnian Serb leaders and wit-nessed by Milosevic and

President Momir Bulatovic of'"another part of the former-Yugoslavia, Montenegro, U.N. offi-cials said.

Besides offering to remove mostheavy weapons, the Serbs said theywould allow the besieged SarajevoairpOrt to open to all air traffic with-in 24 hours of a signed agreement,with its operation under U.N. con-trol. And they agreed to open allroads in and out of Sarajevo to U.N.and humanitarian aid vehicles -but not civilian traffic.

They set as a condition that theBosnian' army's small stock 0 /heavy weapons in Sarajevo must beidentifi,ed and placed under interna-tional supervi ion. Bosnian officialssaid that would not present spedalproblems to their government.

WithdrawSarajevo

Bo nian erb came under renewedmilitary pre ure by ground forcesin north we tern Bo nia. The Bosn-ian army and it Bo nian Croatallie aid their troops continuedadvancing along everal frontstoward Banja Luka, the bigge t

erb-held city, with orne 140,000inhabitant. Wedne day, the com-bined government forces announcedthe capture of the trategic town ofDonji Vakuf and Jajce in anadvance that captured more than700 quare mile of territory in lessthan four day and sent up to 50,000civilian fleeing toward Banja Luka.

Thursday, the Bosnian Army VCorp ba ed in Bihac announced ithad entered the Serb-held city ofBo an ki Petrovac.

ATO' 2-week-old bombingcampaign has targeted Bo nian Serbarmy command and communica-tions facilities, fuel depots, ammuni-tion dump air defense, and vehiclerepair plants and has clearly hurt theonce mighty Bosnian Serb army.Other than in Donji Vakuf, wherethe Bo nian government said it hadsurrounded 6,000 Serb troops, therewas little sign of serious resistance.

The possible breakthrough inea ing the Sarajevo siege left manyquestions concerning a broaderpeace ettlement.

Holbrooke last week announcedan agreement on principles to divideBosnia roughly 50-50 along ethniclines between the Mu lim-Croatfederation and the Serbs. At thetime, the Serbs held orne 70 per-cent of the territory, but lhe govern-ment's lightning offen ive may havecut that to a Iittle a 60 percent.

Official ay the military et-

By oy GutmanEWSDAY

ZAGREB. CROATIA

TO temporarily halted thebombing of Bo nian erb militarytarget Thur day after erb leaderspledged in writing to a U.. envoyto ithdraw 'tank and their bigge tartillery piece from around araje-vo, U. . ource aid.

Richard Holbrooke, an a j tantecretary of tate, called the offer aign of progre and traveled to

Mo tar to deliver it to Bosnian Pre -ident Alija Izetbegovic after fir thowing it to roatian Pre id nt

Franjo Tudjman.But the plari, drafted in Belgrade

by erbian leader 10bodan'Milo e-vic, would remov only 50 percentto 70 percent of the erb' artillerypiece, a U. . official said. And itwould not completely lift the 3 {-year iege of arajevo.

he pledge thu fell hort of ajoint demand by the United ationsand ATO for unconditionalremoval of all 300 heavy weaponsthat now threaten arajevo. "It doesnot eem to be ufficient," aid a

ATO official in Bru els, Bel-gium. "Maybe the Bo nian erbare putting omething on the table,but they will have a fallback posi-tion." He aid TO "i not so des-perate that it ha to take any offer."

ATO' po ition wa that "we wanta total pullout. We didn't ee thi interm of erb gun bein g left in idethe e clu ion zone," poke manJamie hea said. ATO i expectedto decide on the plan, perhaps aoon a Friday.

Holbrooke' talk withIzetbegovic went into the night them

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For people infected with the AIDmo t widely prescribed drug for the di se, i Ie effective than analternative drug or than treatment that combine AZT with either oftwo other ID drug, a new government tudy ha found.

The tudy, involving almo t 2,500 patient who e immune y-tern had been moderately damaged by the viru , i likely to changethe current recommendation that doctor treating ID patientshould turn fir t to AZT, which wa the first drug approved to treat

the infection, aid Anthony . Fauci, director of the ational In tituteof Ilergy and Infectiou Di ea e .

"I think it' going to have an important effect on practice," aidFauci.

Fauci id the tudy also i ignificant because it i the fir t tudyto how that in people with early .HIV infection, a drug or combina-tion of drug can improve urvivalor low progre ion to AID

H GTO

Hou Republican learle offered a blueprint Thursday for keep-ing edicare olvent by teadily increa ing out-of-poc et co t forbeneficiarie and tting /ere new limits on go ernment paymentsto doctors and ho pital .

The mo t affluent elderly - individu I ith income of at lea t75,000 and couple with more than 150,000 - would be forced to

bear a hefty increa e in their monthly premium . For the re t, the typ-ical edicare recipient ould pay about 90 a month by 2002 for thein urance that covers doctors' bill , compared with 6.10 now.

In. an attempt to avoid antagonizing elderly voter, Republicanwent el ewhere for the bulk of the total ving - 270 billion overthe next even years - to re cu edicare and help balance the fi d-eral budget.

They id they expected ub tantial ving a million of per nmoved into health maintenance organization and other form ofmanaged care.

But they propo cd no direct incentive or pre ure on recipent towitch from vi iting the doctor of their choice to enrolling in health

plan that would limit their choice. Contrary to e pectation , they didnot propo e to add to the elderly' hare of payment to doctor.

The bigge t hare of aving would come from a trict y tern ofannual, government- et. :eiling on Medicare p ¥ment to ho pital ,doctor, home health care agencie and laboratorie . If pendingexceeded the goal in any year, the government would cut payment tohealth care providers in the following year.

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owRu sian police on Thursday deemed a grenade attack again t the

American Embas y an act ofterrori m and tepped up ecurity duringa diplomatic fence-mending vi it by U.. Deputy ecretary of tate

trobe Talbott.Kremlin outrage over TO air trike again t erb rebel in

Bo nia-Herzegovina had inflicted eriou train on U.. -Ru ian rela-tion , and the current atmo phere of acrimony ha been linked byorne politician and ob erver to Wednesday' rocket-propelled

grenade bla t at the em bas y. A Ru ian envoy declined to aywhether he thought the round fired at the emba y a day earli r waconnected with recent ten ion between the two nation .

o group ha claimed r pon ibility fo the attack in which noone was injured, but the 0 cow di trict pro ecutor' office opened acriminal inve tigation into what it wa cIa ifying a a terrori t ct.

By arek Zebro klSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

A cold high pre' ure y tem will lowly move over our area thiweekend, bringing lot of parkling un hine and bone-dry north-we terly wind for Friday. thi y tern cre t overhead Fridaynight, e pect calm and near-fro condition in the colder alley ofcentral and northern ew England. Light sea breeze and high thincloud will appear later on aturdaya the high move over the Gulfof aine toward the aritime, thu allowing m moi ture to oursouth and we t to approach.u by later unday bringing ith it athreat of hower .

eanwhile the tropic remain very active with yet anotherAtlantic hurricane, Marilyn, located near the i land of Dominica ye -terday afternoon. Hurricane watche and warning are up again forPuerto Rico and the Virgin I land . With top wind e ceeding 0mph (130 kph) in gu t , Marilyn i Ie inten e and much mailerhurricane then Lui , which caused a lot of de truction in the ar-ribean ju t last week. However, with orne indication of weakersteering currents over the southwe tern tlantic and arilyn con-tinuing north we terly track, the Bahama may be threatened by earlynext week and there is i\ chance of arilyn affecting the U.. main-land a well.

Toda : Sunny, windy and cool. High 66°F (19°C) with gustynorth we terly wind .

Tonight: Clear with slowly dimini hing wind . Low 47°F ( °C)in town, but in high 308 to low 40 (3-S0C) to our we t and north

aturday: Mostly sunny with light on hore wind. High 64°F(18°C).

unday: Some un early with increasing cloudine throughoutthe day. Warmer, with high in the 10w'16s{21-23°C).

By Janet HookLV A GELES TIMES

Taking another politically per-ilou tep in their march toward abalanced budget H.ou Republi-can have decided to pu h for pa -age of ignificant ta in r a that

would hit both moneyed bu ineintere t and low-income workingfamilie.

The ta hike bill drafted byWay and can ommittee hair-man Bill rcher R-Te a wouldrai e orne 0 billion over evenyear by eliminating ta break foran array of corporate intere t -including the movie indu try phar-maceutical manufacturers and in ur-ance companie .

hr addition it would generate20 billion 0 er the ame period by

impo ing ne re triction on theEarned Income Ta r dit whichwa de igned to pull working fami-lie out of po erty.

The propo ed increa e ifappro ed w uld b linked to a 2 5billion pac ge of ta reductionthat are con idered the centerpieceof GOP ta policy. Tho e in turn

. would become part of a far-reachingpackage of deficit-reduction mea-ure e pected to move through

Congr thi fall.Likely crie of prote t from

movie mogul in urance agen andother who tand to 10 ub tantialtax advantage under rcher' legis-lation could add to the .difficulty ofpa ing the. GOP budget packagewhich already contain politicallyexplo ive propo al to curb thegrowth of edicare, cut farm ub i-die and la h pending acro abroad range of federal program .

The Center on Budget and Poli-

cy Prioritie a Wa hington-ba edre earch group, noted that the 30billion reduction in bu ine taxsub idie would pale in compari onto the busine tax break thatwould remain on the book and thenew one that Republican haveincluded in their 245 billion taxrelief package.

Indeed orne of the proceedsfrom cutting busine tax breaks,derided by orne critic a "corpo-rate welfare" would go back toother bu ine e. The reher billwould e tend veral ta break thatare about to e pire, including onefor re earch and ae elopmente penditure that i important' tomany bu ine e.

orne Republican acknowl-. edged that they hope rcher effort

to scale back or eliminate more thantwo dozen bu ine ta break willhelp in ulate the GOP from growingcritici m - from acro the politicalpectrum - that it i not doing

enough to fulfilJ i promi to elimi-nate inappropriate bu ine ub idtat the me time it reduce pendingon i tance program for the poor ..

One of the bigg t and m t con-tro er ial ta break that Archerwould eliminate i a credit enjoyedby U. . c mpanie operating in Puer-to Rico and other .. territorie .Archer pro a IO-year phase-outof the credit, which primarily benefitspharma utical c mpani . The drugmake are e pected to lobby hard topr rYe the tax break.

Holly ood ould be hit by apropo I to tighten up rule govern-ing the ay film producers and oth-er in the entertainment indu trywrite off ex pen e. pecial rulenow allow film makers to write offexpen e more rapidly than other

industrie , ba ed on projections 0the income their films will makeover time. Archer's bill wouldrequire additional forms of-incometo be counted in those projections,according to a ource familiar withthe plan, who aid that the changewould rai e about 300 million inrevenue over even years.

Another big-ticket item, which islikely to meet heavy oppositionfrom thou and of insurance agentsaround the country, would end animportant ta advantage for corpo-rate-owned life in urance policie .The Archer proposal would rai eabout 5 billion over even years byending a deduction that make itprofitable for companie that takeout life in urance on th ir workerand borrow again t the policie .

orne of the proposals run afoulof Republican con tituent inter-e t . Rep. ancy L. John on R-Conn. who e home tate i heavilydependent on the in urance indu -try said th t the propo I on corpo-rate-owned life in urance i "a realbody blow.' he said that he would,try to ea e it effect during com-mittee debate.

The working poor would be hitby reher' propo ed limit on theEarned Income Tax redit which.cut the ta burden of hou eholdearning up to about 27 000 a year- a program that Republican tra-ditionally have prai ed becau e itre ard wor ./

rcher' plan would reduce theannual income limit on eligibility forthe credit to about 23 600 and di -qualify en~rely workers without chil-dren. Archer aid that the changeare "de igned to cut fat while pro-tecting the benefi of orking fami-lie who need help the m t"

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Judge in Oklahoma BombingCase Refuses to Step Down

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In a blow to both the pro ecution and defen e, a federal judgeignored pre ure and refu ed to tep down in the trial of Oklahoma

ity bombing u pec Timothy J. McVeigh and Terry L. ichol.U.S. District Judge Wayne E. Alley also ordered the trial to begin

May 17 at the federal courthou e in Lawton, Okla. - a deci ionbound to plea e federal pro ecutors who want to keep it in Oklahoma,but one the defen e found d eply di turbing.

Alley, a former Army brigadier general who was appointed to thefederal court 10 years ago by Pre ident Reagan, di mi cd allegationfrom defen e attorney and government lawyer that he and the othereven federal judge here had a conflict of intere 1.

In an unu ual tand of olidarity, the defen e and prosecutioncited the heavy damage that the bombing of the Alfred P. MurrahFederal Building cau ed to the U.. Oi trict ourthou e acro thetreet, a well a the fact that many of the federal workers killed in

the explo ion were friend and relative of courthou e employee .But, . aid Alley, "I have no knowledge of facts di puted in thi

ca e. And I do not harbor and have never exhibited bia or prejudiceagain t" McVeigh or ichol.

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LOS A GF.LES nMES

previou Iy that h fired at one of themen running to the cabin.

To orne government criticRuby Ridge ha become a symbolof law enforcement exce e.

But Monroe eemed to peak forhis colleague when he op ned hite timony challenging the label of"trained killer" given to th teamlast week by Randy Weaver'lawyer Gerry pence. "We aretrained to ave live ," Monroe said,noting that ongre commendedthe unit for it re cue of ho tagewithout firing a hot at the 1991Talladega, Ala., federal pri on riot.

"Th trained killer accu ation iunfair to all dedicated agent and tothe widow of U. . Mar hal WilliamDegan" Monroe aid.

didn't only becau e Horiuchi firedfirst.

Horiuchi invoked hi FifthAmendment protection again t elf-incrimination Tuesday after the en-ate Judiciary subcommittee on ter-rorism refu ed to give him limitedimmunity from prosecution.

The Senate panel i trying todetermine what took place at RubyRidge on Aug. 21-22, 1992, whendeputy U.S. mar hals eeking toarrest Weaver led to a confrontationin which deputy marshal William E.Degan and Weaver's 14-year-oldson, Sammy, were killed. The FBI'hostage rescue team then wa calledin, and Weaver's wife, Vicki, tand-ing behind a cabin door, wa killedby a shot that Horiuchi has te tified

WA HI ar IN

BI snipers Thur day defendedtheir actions at the 1992 Ruby Ridgesiege where a white separatist's

i e was killed, contending thatanger to an FBI ob ervation heli-

copter from armed men outside theseparatist's cabin justified openingfire.

But skeptical senators ques-tioned whether permi sive shoot-to-kill orders and exaggerated informa-tion about the threat of RandyWeaver led to an overreaction.

. Dale R. Monroe, the partner ofhostage rescue team leader Lon

oriuchi - who fired the fatal shot- said he was preparing to fire but

By Ronald J. OstrowLOS ANGELES TIMES

pow rful rthquak illed tleast one person, injured dozen andd maged hundred of horn in

j em e i 0 Thursday aft r ithit 190 mile uth ast of th e i-ean capital - where it cau panicbut little damage nearly 10 Y tothe day after a ma ive quake 13 -aged the city.

Official in the thr town 10-e t to the epicenter in th mountain-ou tate of Guerrero report dexten ive damage to the region'homes, mo t of th m one- toryadobe tructure. In the town ofOmetepec, which lies clo t to theepicenter, an official aid one man

killed when he was cru hed

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Article Missed MITPress Bookstore

September 15, 1W

Many MIT Pre s books are textbooks used atthe Institute and other area schools.

Jeremy GraingerBookstore Manager, MIT Press Bookstore

MIT Watering "Takes NAccount Of Drought

I have noticed that MIT has been wateringall its grass with disturbing regularity thesepast few weeks. This would all be well andgood if Massachusetts weren't currently suf-fering a "drought. It has rained once in theperiod since Aug. 24, and that rain did notamount to much. It seems that MIT could doit small part by watering its grass every other,day, or even every fourth day. If everybodydoes their own part we can all get through thistemporary drought with a little more ease. Alittle brown grass never hurt anyone.

Jeremy L. Warner'9 .'

I wa di mayed to find Friday's article["Coop Alternative Offer Discount," Sept. 8]made no mention of MIT's own bookstore,the MIT Pres Book tore.

Located on campu in Building E38 (theSuffolk Building), and across the treet fromthe Harvard Cooperative Society at Kendall

quare, the M IT Press Bookstore carrieseverything published by the MIT Press. Weal 0 have a good election of book by MIT-affiliated authors and related publicationsfrom other publishers.

We offer discounts to the MIT communityin the fonn of coupons which are regularlyfound in campu publications.

Every erne ter, numerous students availthem elves of these di counts in purchasingbooks for cia ses and their own reading.

I would like to expre my appreciation toThe Tech for including 0 many entrie of"Jim' Journal" in recent i ue. The Techobviou Iy under tands the intricacies of fineart.

There i nothing more ati fying for ahard-working MIT tudent than to fini h cia -e and. it down to read seven wonderfullyinane comic to take his or her mind off therigors of cholarship. I would only wonder ifperhap more entries of "Jim's Journal"should be included. Are even comic on 28page enough? Why don't you put "Jim'Journal" on the front page, or in the World &

ation ection? I'm ure you could find orneactual printed text to cut and make room forJim and his thought .

Chri topher E. Bachmann '99

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This Sunday the annual Central quare World' Fair will bring mu ic, dance, andfood c10 e to the Institute. Between MIT and Harvard, Main Street and Rounder Recordswill border this virtual tage of multi-culturalism. There, mu ic group of styles rangingfrom alternative and funk to Latin and country sugge t the diversity of the huge event.

Cambridge has always celebrated its diversity with the World' Fair, and Sunday willbe no exception when ounds from adjacent treets blend together with the planned fe -tivitie . Beyond Main Street' almo t unfair draw, including the legendary David Murray,Pearl Street and orfolk Street will build upon the afternoon's eclectic texture withCaribbean and Go pel music.

A big attraction will definitely be the Cambridge-spawned low-rock trio Morphine at3 p.m on the Main Street stage. Replacing guitar with saxophone, the group stretches thelimitations of its odd setup with rippling range and energy - Morphine is e peciallyfamou for its live show. With their in pirations in rock-noir and most recent album yesMorphine should attract a huge crowd.

Meanwhile, vi itors may wander onto Brookline Street, which will feature severaldance companies, including the icola Hawkin Dance Company and Anna Myer. Somemay even invade the Children's Stage, have their faces painted, and cavort with clowns.Undoubtedly, the World's Fair will recreate the regular commotion of Central Square.

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THE GSLEEPDirected by Howard HawksWritten by WilJiam Faulkner, Leigh Brackett.and Jules Furthman; based on the novel byRaymond Chandler.Starring Humphrey Bogart and LaurenBacall.LSC Classics Friday.10-250. 7:30 p.m.

By Stephen BrophySTAFF REPORTER

SC starts off its fall Classics seriestonight with The Big Sleep (1946), oneof the Hollywood studio movies thatcreated the archetypal Humphrey Bog-

art persona. Starting with The Maltese Falconin 1941, Bogart constructed a character ofexperience who seems cynical and trusts noone, but proves to be motivated by a highlymoral code when the chips are down. Thischaracter type achieved its apotheosis inCasablanca (1942), but in the character ofThe Big Sleep's Philip Marlowe, Bogartproved that this portrayal could still compelour attention.

Philip Marlowe first came to life in thenovels of Raymond Chandler, an Americanmystery writers who elevated crime fictionfrom its pulp origins to a more highly literateplane. Their protagonists inhabit a corrupturban underworld dominated by powerfulcriminals. They usually work alone, dependon their wits to solve puzzles, and exposeevil-doers as much as on their physicalstrength and endurance to survive the assaultsof their adversaries. Offered bribes as fre-quently as threats to stop their investigations,these characters seem to fit into their milieu

all too well. But they ultimately chooseactions which lead to the re-establishment of amoral order. You will notice that several dif-ferent people offer to pay Marlowe's fee inthe course of his investigation in The BigSleep.

Compared to earlier detective movies likeThe Maltese Falcon, director Howard Hawkscreated a darker, more violent, and dangerousworld for his protagonist: Working from ascreenplay by William Faulkner, Leigh Brack-ett, and Jules Furthman, Hawks did little toclarify the convoluted ambiguities of t p

novel.Instead he emphasized the thick atmos-

phere of lies and deception Philip Marlowemust cut through to solve the mysteries thatconfront him. You will experience in thismovie a lot of rain and fog. the physical corre-lates of the miasma of mistrust that threatensto drown Marlowe.

The Big Sleep offers one major variationfrom the standard private eye formula. PhiljQMarlowe is not alone again at the end ofmovie, but in love with his client's daugh er.played by Lauren Bacall in her second pairingwith Bogart after Hawks' To Have and HaveNot. The erotic energy between these t ~stars, married soon after their first encounter.still creates sparks almost fifty years later.

Don't worry if the plot doesn't seem tomake a whole lot of sense to you. It's not theplot that's important. The pleasure of thismovie lies in the witty interplay between char-acters, the excellence of the black and whitecinematography, and the generally high levelof acting - even in tiny roles. Watch for adialog between Bogart and Bacall about ra -horses. You'll wonder how they ever manato get it past the censors.

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** UnzippedThis documentary trace several months in

the life of fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.Deva tated after a disastrous pre entation ofhis pring, 1994 collection, he begins anewfor his next collection ~n the fall. Along theway, he recounts hi many inspirations: hismother and Mary Tyler Moore have obviouslyshaped Mizrahi's sense of fashion as well ashis flamboyant personality. But too much ofthe film seems over-eager - encounte~ withworld-renowned fashion models and a media-blitz urrounding Mizrahi's fall ~ollectioneem staged, and the grainy black-and-white

photography i an understated, but mixed,visual blessing. Such films play better on PBSthan in a movie theater. -Audrey Wu. SonyNickelodeon.

** nder iegeUnder Siege is poorly written film that

relies on violence rather than substance to beentertaining. Steven Seagal i Casey Ryback,an ex- avy SEAL who is masquerading as acook on the USS Mis ouri when a gang ofhijacker (led by Tommy Lee Jones and GaryBu ey) take over the hip. Ryback must sin-gle-handedly eliminate all the bad guys andsave the day, which mean he courts the ship,coming up with new and creative way toeliminate the enemy. The martial artssequences are impre ive and Tommy LeeJones delivers a powerful performance as thema termind terrorist, but the bad writing evi-denced in the incredibly weak female role andthe lack of any interesting plot twists nearlysinks the film. LSC, Sunday.

**** KidKids is a blunt ugly horror film whose.

mo t frightening feature is that it is entirelybelievable. The film is not about Hollywood,or even Beverly Hills 90210; instead it isabout un pectacular ew York City youthswho show less than marginal respect for theirparents and want nothing more than to be leftto wander the streets and hang out with theirfriends. Events in Kids do not take placebehind screens or under "blankets; rather, thecamera is placed so close to the actors that itliterally invades their personal space. And theviewer winds up squirming in his or her ownchair, unwilling to watch the evil perpetratedagain t innocents, yet driven to watch in .theblind hope that somehow the horror will bemitigated. -Teresa Esser. Sony Janus.

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*** FrenchKiFrench Kiss is an very good movie

with a strong cast and well-craftedhumor. Kate (Meg Ryan) chases herfickle fiance harlie (Timothy Hutton)to Paris to win him back from a beau-tiful French worn n (Susan Anbeh).On the plane trip, he encounters amysteriou Frenchman named Luc(Kevin Kline), who immediately curesher fear of flying. Luc, however, is notall that he appears to be. He offer tohelp Kate win back her fiance on Iy sohe can recover a necklace which hehas hidden in her bag. As Luc chal-lenges Kate to rethink her life, shegradually becomes less fearful and

. more confident - even the man whoabandoned her hardly recognizes herafter a reunion. Luc' growth inintegrity parallels Kate's growth incapability. Both Kline and Ryan areveteran performers who executepunch lines flawlessly. -JimmyWong. LSC. Friday.

With Hackman as the hawki h commanderand Wa hington a th ideali tic lieutenant,the remainder of the plot detail effortle Iyfall into place; however the film i 0 kill-fully done, you don't mind being hownthe e ituation again when you're enjoyingthe ride. -SD: LSC, Friday .

*** D pradoFormer indie-whiz-kid-turned-Hollywood-

darling Robert Rodriguez deliver the goodsin thi tongue-in-cheek rewrite of SergioLeone and Sam Peckinpah we tern . Armedwith a budget a thou and time greater thanhis debut featur EI Mariachi, Rodriguez ca tAntonio Banderas a a brooding man with noname who slay entire bars of ho tile charac-ters in earch of a Mexican drug lord (Joaquimde Almeida) who killed hi woman andmaimed hi hand in the first film. Objectively,the story i weak and offers little preten e for

Rodriguez' bloody, over-the-topaction scene. But in spite of the film's100 e ends and rough plot edge , thesupporting performers ( teve Bu ce-mi, heech Marin, and alma Hayekas Banderas' love intere t) are memo-rable, if not charming. Time will tell ifwe have another Quentin Tarantino inour mid t. - D. Sony Cheri.

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*** CrimsonTideTony Scott's latest action film (produced

by the Simp on-Bruckheimer team behindhis earlier Top Gun and Days of Thunder)stars Denzel Washington and Gene Hackmanas a pair of feuding commander on theV.S.S. Alabama, a submarine poised todeliver nuclear warheads to a Russian reb Iswho seize a missile ba e and pUt the worldon the brink of World War Ill. Predictably,in the tradition of submarine films like TheHunt for Red October, the suspense factor isvery high: The main characters are po i-tioned for a face;"off concerning a order tolaunch the missiles and an incomplete 'me -sage which could ,possibly revoke the order.

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primarily from the perspective of farm ani-mals who converse in English. The pig isnamed Babe, and once he begins life on arural fann, he finds he must overcome humanand animal prejudice'with his charm andresourcefulness, lest he end up the main -course for Christmas dinner. It's a familiarfable, one whose moral could be "Don't judgea book by its cov<:r." The best thing about thefilm is the impressive use of animatronics forthe talking animals: Moreover, the film winspoints by recapitulating social themes like

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Although adults will enjoy the film,Babe is more of a kids' movie. -SD.Sony Fresh Pond.

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reminds one more of Lethal Weaponthan Rob Roy. A Scottish commoner:William Wallace (Mel Gibson) returnsto his native land after an education incontinental Europe with his uncle. Hisdomestic bliss with a childhood sweet:heart. is shattered when British lordskill his beloved wife; in response,Wallace leads friends and clansmen in

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Material cience and ngineeringJohn B. Vander ande, currentlyacting dean of th choo\.

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from graduate ,the chool of Engi-neering mu t make the curriculummore practical, Vander ande aid.The e a pect include leader hip,teamwork, and a deep r apprecia-tion of finance, law, and manage-ment.

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The engineering contingent ofthe committee includ Profe or ofAeronautics and A tronauticEdward F. Crawley '76, AssociateProfessor of Electrical Engineeringand Computer cience Je us A. DelAlamo, Profe sor of Materials Sci-ence and Engineering Merton .Flemings '51, Professor of Mechan-ical Engineering Woodie C. FlowerPhD '73, Professor of Software ci-ence and Engineering Barbara H.Liskov, Professor of ChemicalEngineering Gregory J. McRae,Professor of Civil and Environmen-tal Engineering and Director of thePierce Laboratory Fred Moaven-zadeh, Professor' of Ocean Engi-neering Michael S. TriantafyllouScD '77, Associate Professor ofBiomedical Engineering JacquelynC. Yanch.

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Funding, education change seen• The new dean should be a leaderat both the undergraduat and grad-uate level and have a vision for the

, future. Moses said.As government research funding

becomes more uncertain, the deanof engineering must find a balanceof government and industrialsources of funding, said Professor of

future of the School of Engineeringand possible dean candidate, Ker-

. rebrock said.The dean appointment will likely

be made this semester after Mo ediscusses the recommendation withPresident Charles M. Vest, Mo esaid.

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"We have worked with Colbert along time and are familiar withhim," aid Pre ident of the GraduateStudent Council Barbara J. SouterG. Colbert is "very competent andextremely qualified," but "we arefrustrated that they haven't cho en apermanent dean to repre ent" gradu-ate tudents, outer aid. "Havingthe office turn over often i very dis-ruptive," she added.

"It is clear that the office needs astrong advocate for graduate tu-dent needs," said Roger G. Ker-mode G, former GSC pre ident anda member of the earch committee.Because MlT is so decentralized, adean is needed "to give voice toi sues that transcend all depart-ment - is ue uch a hou ing,student-advi or relationships, andfunding."

The dean ihould also "under-stand' that graduate students facedifferent problems than undergradu-ates" Kermode said.

Although Colbert ha never beena member of the MIT faculty, he"does not see thi a much of ani u" becau e he ha "mad contri-butions elsewhere." Colb rt haerved in variou admini trative

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filled by the start of fall term," Col-bert said. Instead, a week beforePerkins left, Colbert was asked byVest to assume the post of actingdean, Colbert said.

Colbert said that the transitionperiod is going smoothly. His longworking relationship with Perkins asassociate dean and his familiaritywith the office helped him deal witha hurried transition, Colbert said.

"I am confident that we can lookforward to a tough but good semes-ter," Colbert said. "There is a lot onthe agenda to deal with," he said.

Colbert said he would considerassuming the permanent position ofdean of the graduate school.

provost will select a candidate Tan-nenbaum said. '

The list was submitted with areport that included conclu ions andinsights into problems with graduateeducation at MIT, Tannenbaumsaid. The report also con ideredopportunities and challenges for thefuture dean, he said.

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Associate Dean of the GraduateSchool Isaac M. Colbert assumedthe post of acting dean on Sept. I,and will likely hold the post for the

inder of the term.resident Charles M. Vest and

Provost Joel Moses PhD '57 haveyet to act on -the August recommen-dations of a search committee tochoose a replacement for Frank E.Perkins '55, who announced lastDecember he would step down.

Along with recommending achoice for dean, the committee's jobwas to look at the function of theGraduate School in serving theneeds of graduate students, said Pro-fessor Steven R. Tannenbaum '58

air of the committee.)Because of time constraints, the

committee conducted only an inter-nal search, Tannenbaum said. Thegroup began by assembling a list ofnames, soliciting suggestions fromdepartment heads and deans.

In August, the group submitted afinal list of candidates to the provostfrom which the president and

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a host of biological disciplines -tops in the nation.

MIT ranked in the top two orthree in engineering fields and eco-nomics, but only fifth in chemistry.Recently, however, the U.S. Newannual ranking of graduate schoreleased in March, rated MIT'sgraduate program in chemistry no. I["U.S. News Ranks Sloan SchoolFirst," March 10]..

"In the NRC survey we also didvery well," Moses said. "We surelywould have wanted more no. Irankings, but our overall results areoutstanding. As before, the differ-ences at the top are often minus-cule," he said.

In the 22 fields in which MIT .was were rated, and in the twmajor categories of faculty qualiand teaching effectiveness, MIT'programs were rated in the topthree in 34 out of 44 possibilities,Moses said. "This is by far thehighest such score in the country,"Moses said.

"I believe that this survey, whichlike all surveys must indeed betaken with a grain of salt, sho. 'once again that MIT is extremelstrong, and almost uniformly so."

medical and environmental engi-neering.

The survey rated the Institute'sSloan School of Management thenation's third-be t business schoolbehind the Univer ity of Californiaat Berkeley's Haas School and theUniversity of Pennsylvania's Whar-ton School. Sloan took top honors inquantitative analysis and operationsmanagement and second place inmanagement of information sys-tems.

The U.S. News ranking did notexplicitly compare undergraduateprograms in fields other than busi-ne s and engineering.

Federal study rates grad programsIn an unrelated rating, the results

of an exhaustive congressionalstudy of graduate programs,released Tuesday, ranked manyMIT departments among the top oneor two in the nation. The study isthe first of its kind in 13 years.

The four-year study, which wasdone by the independent NationalResearch Council at Congress'request, placed MIT's graduate pro-gram in linguistics - together with

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Beretta a ked Star Market to continue the service.

o trip to tar each aturdayThe free shuttle tart its first run at 10 a.m. and

it second at 1 I a.m., and arrives at Star Marketabout 25 minute after each departure from MIT,according to a flyer about the huttle.

Thi route i much shorter than last year' , sincethis tar Market is one-third the distance from MIT.

Allowing for at least one hour for shopping, thehuttle will leave from Star Market to return to MIT

at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., re pectively.The pick-up top are: (in order) the northwest cor-

ner of Albany Street and Ma achusett Avenue,Building E40, Senior Hou e, A hdown Hou e, Burton-Conner House, and Tang Hall. Students hould flag thehuttle - a yellow school bu - to be picked up.

Shopper may reque t to be dropped off at anyre idence hall on the return trip.

La t year, about 90 percent of the riders boardedat Tang, Coram said. But "we hope to publicize thehuttle better on the east ide this year," he said.

The GSC may also add a weekday run, based onstudent demand, Coram said. A survey about thehuttle can be acces ed via the World-Wide Web at

http://www.mit.edu:8001/activitie /gsc/HCA/gro-cery _shuttle.html.

The huttle will be funded by either the Star Mar-ket Corporation or the Star Market on Mt. AuburnSt., Beretta said.

Dissati fied with the selection of soda at the Mac-Gregor Hou e Convenience Store? Unwilling to lug20 pound of rice back from Central quare?

Starting tomorrow, and continuing every atur-day of the em ester, the Graduate Student Council-sponsored Grocery Shuttle will run between the MITcampu and the full- ervice Star Market on t.Auburn Street in Cambridge.

LaVerde' Market in the Student Center is "toosmall, e pecially for graduate families,'~ said KarenBeretta, huttle coordinator and wife of Robert K.Beretta G.

The bus can hold about 60 people and their gro-ceries, said Geoffrey J. Coram G, co-chair of theGSC Housing and Community Affairs Committee.

A total of 1,400 people rode the grocery huttlela t year, averaging ju t under 35 per week, Coramaid.

The shuttle will run on a trial ba is for the firsttwo weeks to show. Star Market that there is enoughinterest, Beretta said. "If anybody thinks they mayuse this, ever ... get on the bus the first couple ofweeks," she said.

The shuttle, which in began in Aprii, 1994, origi-nally brought shoppers to a Star Market in Medford,which was owned by Frank LaVerde, who also ownsLaVerde's Market in the Student Center.

When the Medford store closed this summer,

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office. An outside company withspecial ized expertise is betterequipped to handle some aspects ofMIT's transportation ervices, hesaid.

The changes will enable MIT tosave money, Dickson said. "We'renot out to make money on this, justto recoup the money MIT spendsand break even," he said. "Peoplewho park at MIT should participatein defraying the costs," he said.

Decision expends political capitalThe idea of retaining an outside

company is one that has been dis-cussed for several years, Dicksonsaid.

A major study in the mid-1980sconcluded that MIT should chargefor parking at MIT to offset costs.But up until now, no one was will-ing to "expend the political capital"needed to make the decision, hesaid.

The new parking fee may beunpopular, but with rising operatingcosts, MIT thought it appropriate tocharge more than its current $20-a-year administrative fee to coverpaperwork in issuing parking tick-ers.

Since the new parking fee willgo into effect midway through theacademic year, the fee charged tocover a parking space starting inJanuary until next September willbe $150, Dickson said. Beginning

next September, the full $300 feewill be charged for the entire yearuntil the following September.

A new computer system willmost likely be set up and severalpeople may be hired to administerthe new system, Dickson said.

The Campus Police will continueto be responsible for security forMIT parking lots and Safe Ride,Dickson said.

Safe- Ride decisio!,l upsets driversChief of Police Anne P. Glavin

informed the nine parking lot atten-dants, two parking clerks, and 14Safe Ride drivers last week aboutthe decision to engage a privatecompany, Dickson said.

MIT "will try to ensure that they

will be offered positions with thenew provider," Dickson said.

But several Safe Ride drivershad misgivings about the change.

"Of course I am upset," said oneSafe Ride driver who declined togive his name. The decision to out-source "was something that cametoo quickly," he said. "I have noidea what will happen to my job,"he said.

"I know I probably won't beworking. That's life," said anotherSafe Ride driver who also would notgive his name. "They want to savemoney," he said. "Why would theypay us $] 0 an hour plus when theycan pay someone else $7?," he said.Safe Ride drivers are consideredpart-time employees but receive

full-time employee benefits.Broad future changes neededThe decision to outsource is real-

ly "a piece of the larger pioture ofhow we manage transportation atMIT," Immerman said.

"It is entirely likely that MIT'sservices will have to grow," achanges will accompany the growt "Immerman said.

lmmerman says that in the future, MIT might consider several differ.

ent plans to control surmountin 'parking problems. Various ideas~ranging from subsidizing masstransportation to building a rail linearound the campus, might be con-sidered to ease growing parkingproblems that MIT faces, Immer-man said.

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She added that the price of attendingwill probably go up as well.

"I can understand the concernsof the city council," Finn aid. "Ihave a uroo them, through the MITprovost, that we will make' everypossible effort to make an outreachto Cambridge residents and to thestudents currently in the program,"he said.

Finn noted that the school'slocation at Northeastern will only beabout a mile away from the MITcampus. He also mentioned the pos-sibility of creating pecial cholar-ships for the Lowell School to bemade available solely to Cambridgeresidents.

Baer said that he expects theschool to retain the majority of itscurrent students.

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a g Teams Begins easonWith New England Regattas

the afternoon, enough breeze appeared to race fivraces in each of the two divisions. PatriciaSchmidt '96, Yako Kusumoto '97, Jennifer A. Kelly'99, and Carolynn E. Bischoff '98 secured a 7th.place overall finish for MIT out Of 12 teams.

On Sunday, Douglas S. DeCouto '97, sailingwith Lisa M. Collin '97, and ilfredo I. San'96, sailing with John E. Patterson '98, travelled tothe Massachusetts Maritime Academy. DeCoutokippered multiple first-place finishes in heavy

winds, and was only five points out of firs placeoverall in hi division. MIT finished fourth out ofnine teams.

Also on Sunday, Schmidt and Christina Chu '98competed in a women's LaSer Radial invitational.

This upcoming weekend, MIT sailors will eml'l!fiM'pete at Brown University, the University of NewHampshire, MIT, and BU. At BU, the Engineers wi)

, be competing for the Hatch Brown Trophy. Brown.an inductee of the BU Athletic Hall of Fame and lheCollege Sailing Hall of Fame, is an MIT "women'team coach and the sailing master of the MIT Sam ...Pavilion.

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The M IT sailing team opened their season thispast weekend, competing in several regattas around

ew England. Variable winds characterized the firstweekend of the Engineers' season. After only threeday of practice, IT sailors traveled to three regat-tas and competed in two more home events on Satur-day aod uoday.

Women's Captain Danielle Ames '96 with crewJuan L. Rodriguez '97, and Men's Captain Daniel B.

estor '96 with cr w Mark A. Sapirie '96, travelledto Dartmouth College to compete in the CaptainHurst ~owl, where MIT finished a disappointing12th out of 17. The Hurst Bowl i an intersectionalregatta, with teams from both the ew England and

iddle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Associations.Light wind on Saturday allowed for only four races,but an intense 25-knot breeze on Sunday allowed for16 more races.

Wind was scarce on Saturday in Boston as well.The women's team waited out the morning at theMJT Sailing Pavilion for thq Mann Labs Regatta. In

SPORTSeto and Parkin fini hing clo ely

behind. Jo hua D. Feldman '97 andJames W. Berry '99 led the nextpack of runners, followed by fresh-men Matthew B. Deb ki '99 andLeifSeed '99.

MIT had six runners under 27, minutes, more than at any other

time during the la t two seasons.The fre hman class had more run-ner in the top ten than any otherclass.

Coach Halston Taylor said hewas "pleased with most all aspectsof the race." He added that,although the team did not work welltogether, he particularly liked thelevel of concentration shown.

ext week; the Beavers wi IIdefend the Engineer's Cup at homeagainst RPI and WPI. The weekafter that they will face ew Eng-land rivals Tufts, Bates and Bentley.Last year, the team placed 1Qth atthe NCAA Division III champi-on hip.

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Cross Co try .OpeStrong against Alumni

The cross country team openedtheir season Saturday with a trongfinish -again t their alumni.

The team took nine of the top tenplaces in Saturday's eight kilometerrace in Franklin Park. However,MIT fini hed with a score of 18point , as the alumni finished withan estimated score of 45. The sumof the top five finishers determinethe team final score.

Perfect running conditions and afast course led t,o fast times by near-ly every team member. AIl-Ameri-can Ethan A. Crain '96 won the raceunchallenged, setting a new cour erecord with a time of25:53.

Daniel S. Helgesen '97, ArnoldH. Seto '96 and Michael A. Parkin'99 were in constant battle withalumnus James G. Garcia '80 fornearly the entire race. Helgesennipped Garcia at the fini h line, with

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Last is baseball. Baseball linesdon't have spreads, but are basedon the odds that a favored teamwill win a game. The lines are usu-ally listed'in the day's pitchingmatchups, and the odds are printednext to the favored team. A typicalline might look like this: Boston6-7 New York This means It.Boston is favored to win, and theodds are 6-7. These numbers don'talways have a lot to do with howlikely the team is to win; rathethey are the suggested payoff onwinning bet. The line 6-7 is read"six for seven': - it means t~at forevery $7 you bet on the Sox, youwould get $6 in payoff (as well as

our original stake back) if Bostonwon. For the underdog, the line isexactly the opposite; for every $6bet on ,the Y~n.kees, you wouldreceive $7 if they won.

"Inquiring Minds," our crack ana-lysts attempt to explain Las Vegasbetting 'Jines, which are regularlyincluded in newspapers for baseball,basketball, football, and even hock-ey. We'll start with football andbasketball, since they are the easiestto explain. Most lines list a favorite,a spread, and an underdog. Thefavorite and the underdog are, obvi-ously, the teams involved in thegame. The spread is how manymore points the favored team isexpected to score than the underdog.Many of the spreads include half-points; this is to prevent tics, whichcan lead to some ugly argumentswhen money is involved. However,whenever half-, points are not pre-sent, th,e bettor loses a tie.

An example: say Michigan isfavored by 6 1/2 points againstBoston College this weekend. Ifxouwere to bet on BC, you would notnecessarily be betting that theywould win, but that they would"loseby less than 6 1/2 points. After thegame, simply add 6 1/2 points to ..Be's score; if this gives them morepoints than Michigan, you win thebet. A person betting on Michiganwould win their bet if the Wolver-ines won by seven points or more. ,

Some football games (usuallyNFL 'games) also include anover/under score, which is the totalnumber of points expected to bescored in the game. The over/underline also usually include~ half-points. For example, if theover/under line for the New Eng-land - San Francisco game is 411/2 points, a person betting on theover would win if the two teams

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superteam? Well, maybe it won't'happen right away. Prime Time gotbonked on the elbow by an AllenWatson pitch during a' gameagainst the Cardinals (the St. LouisCardinals, not the Arizona Cardi-nals) and is listed as day-to-day.As far as Deion' s football statusgoes, well, it's kind of hard to.make interceptions when yourelbow is bigger thall the ball...Don t get those playoff tickets justyet, Sox fans; in case you haven'tnoticed, Boston's magic numberfor clinching the AL East hasn'tchanged in a week, and the Yan-kees are threatening to pull withinten games of first place. Yes, yes,it's still a ten-game lead, .and theodds of the Sux - sorry, the Sox- falling out of the playoffs arefairly slim, but a late-season tail-spin does not bode well for a teamthat 'went 20-2 during one stretchlast month. If the Red Sox can'tturn it around soon, the Yankeesmight actually have a better shot atthe World Series, and nobodywants that... Over in the NL West,Colorado and Los Angeles contin-ue to make the on Iy pennant racein the league exciting; at lastcheck, the Rock ies had movedback into first place, a game aheadof the Dodgers. Since neither teamseems likely to collapse at thispoint, the second-place team in theWest will probably take the wild-card pot, which means that Col-orado will make the playoffs in itsthird sea on of existence.

The Batter's BoRemember up in the FL sec-

tion, when we said Deion Sanderswas about to make the Cowboys a

to market themselves, and thus whathe is doing is good for football.However, until the league actuallydoes allow each team to handle itsown marketing, and in~orporatesbetter rev'enue-sharing procedures,what Jones is doing is creating anall-star team that no one can hope tobeat, and lining his own pockets inthe process. Wake up, Jerry. Yourbackroom dealings may be good foryour own team, but they make therest of the NFL more or less irrele-vant, and that is bad for football.

Hoops UpdateMark this date on your calen- .

dars, folks: September 12, 1995.This is the date when common sensefinally prevailed in the NBA. OnTuesday, the players' union votedoverwhelmingly against decertifica-tion, and with the union intact andthe owners' lockout ending, the wayis clear for the season to begin ontime. There's till not much elsehappening around the league,though, so the basketball ection isstill pretty small. Fear not, loyalreader , when the new ea on starts,EA Sports will be there to cover it.

FL ReportUnless you live in a cave, you

probably know by now that the Dal-Ia Cowboys signed free agent cor-nerback Deion Sanders, officiallymaking them better than any twoteams in the league. The Jerry JonesJuggernaut gave Deion $12 millionup front, leaving a lot of teams won-dering how to compete with Dalla 'marketing power. We wonder howother teams will keep up, too. Onepos ible solution is to put a leash onJone , who is blatantly defying NFLmarketing regulations by signinghuge advertising contracts with

ike and Pepsi. (the league has acontract with Coca-Cola). Joneclaims that the league can makemore money by allowing the teams

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