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STANLEY HU-THE TECH

Members of the USRowing team don shirts remembering the heroes of the September 11 terroristattacks. They won their seventh straight Head of the Charles title in the Men's Championship Eight.

By Rima ArnaoutNEWS AND FEATURES DiRECTOR

MIT has announced the creationof a new Associate Dean for Alco-hol Education and CommunityDevelopment in response to sugges-tions by working groups on improv-ing alcohol policy on campus.

Daniel A. Trujillo, AlcoholCoordinator for the State Universityof New York, will fill the positioneffective January 1. He will reportdirectly to Dean for Student LifeLarry G. Benedict, reviving the

work of the Alcohol WorkingGroup and coordinating acrossmany Institute and student groups.

Trujillo said that his job is to"listen, collaborate with people, andput something in practice that willbe accepted and welcomed by allmembers of the community."

"We were looking very muchfor the kind of person who would fitthe climate of MIT right now," saidDirector of Organizational Perfor-mance and Human Resources LauraCapone, who chaired the search

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Polaroid Goes Bankrupt;Plans to Sell Existing AssetsEconomy and Digital Competition Explain Low .SalesBy Sandra M. ChungASSOCiATE ARTS EDiTOR

The Cambridge-based PolaroidCorporation obtained bankruptcyprotection in the United StatesBankruptcy Court in Wilmington,Delaware on October 12.

Last June, Polaroid announcedthat it would lay off 2,000 employees,approximately a quarter of its 8,000-member global workforce. In Sep-tember, the company reduced healthbenefits for some of its workers.

Polaroid intends to continuemaking and shipping its productswhile it restructures its businessoperations and finances and search-es for buyers for all or parts of thecompany. Declining profits andgrowing debt resulting from theincreasing popularity of digital cam-eras and the nationwide economicslump. have forced the company toredesign its operations and paredown employment.

Polaroid's founder, Edwin H.Land, dropped out of Harvard Uni-versity in 1926 to develop commer-cial applications for light polariza-tion. In 1937 he formed theBoston-based Polaroid corporation

committee for the new dean.

ew dean to tackle range of issuesAs Associate Dean, Trujillo will

coordinate interaction betweenmany MIT offices, not only foralcohol education but also for othercommunity issue like mentalhealth.

One aspect Benedict stressedwas that Trujillo was "not just analcohol dean. That's why the com-munity development piece is part ofthe title."

Dining Board SeeksOptional Meal Plan

Following rna sive student oppo-sition to proposed mandatory diningplans, the Campus Dining ReviewBoard will draft an alternative planbased on wider student involvement.

The Board ho ted a town meet-ing on October 11, at which Chan-cellor Phillip L. Clay PhD '75 out-Iined plans for expanding theCampus Dining Review Board tostart a brand new dining plan withmore student and community input.

"Chancellor Clay told the audi-ence that he had set aside the fiveplans originally put forward thatincluded mandatory participation,"said Kirk D. Kolenbrander chair-man of the Dining Board and spe-cial assistant to the president andchancellor.

At this meeting "the Campus

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which specialized in the use ofpolarization technology in suchitems as glasses, lamps, ski goggles,and windows. In 1939 the corpora-tion moved from Boston to Cam-bridge.

Land drove creation ofUROPLand held the title of Visiting

Institute Professor from 1956 untilhis death in 1991. In 1957, Land'sfamous "Generation of Greatness"speech for the Arthur D. Littlechemistry lecture helped to inspirethe creation of UROP.

"I believe each incoming fresh-man must be started at once on hiown research project if we are to pre-serve his secret dream of greatnessand make it come true," Land said.

In 1968 Land established a trustfund and dedicated its income to edu-cational development at MIT. Thefund paid for the development of theUROP program, established 1969.

Land s influence and support ofundergraduate research also lives onin the Eloranta UndergraduateResearch Fellow hip. The fellow-

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Dining Board accepted as a goal tocome up with a dining plan that didnot require participation," Kolen-brander said. He said he believes theBoard can still improve campus din-ing without requiring participationin a meal plan.

e board relie on tudentThe decision to expand the board

to include student members resultedfrom public outcry following thefive new meal plan proposals draft-ed by the Office of Campu Dining.

"To say that the community was-n't thrilled with them would beputting it mildly," said Laura Capone,director of organizational perfor-mance and human resources withOffice of the Dean for Student Life.

Capone is helping to organize

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Work on Simmons Hall is pro-gressing on two fronts, as contrac-tors race to fini h the concrete struc-ture before winter and students try.to resolve residential life questions.

As casting of the ninth floor fin-ishes today and form work begins onthe tenth and final floor Constructionof Simmons Hall nears a major mile-stone. Chief Engineer Jim Whalen ofDaniel O'Connell's Sons, the con-tractor for Simmons Hall, said thatall concrete work, including the roof,should be completed by Thanksgiv-ing. The building is currently oneweek behind the original schedule.

While weather wa generallygood over the summer, "We lostabout a week of work because ofhot weather," Whalen said: Temper-atures were occasionally too high tocast concrete.

Cold temperatures would al 0

make concrete pouring difficult, andWhalen said the contractors hope toget the building weather-tight asoon as possible to prevent further

delays from rain and snow. "Rainreally bothers the job," Whalen said.

However, the building has longhad a weather-tight temporary sealon the sixth floor, which has allowedwork to continue on the lower floors.Contractors are currently working onheating, ventilation plumbing, andelectrical work on the basementthrough the third floor.

Founder' Group eek inputtudent members of the im-

Trujillo Named Dean for Alcohol Education New Dorm"This is a position that's going Rta .

to cut acros all of our living nnznggroups," Benedict said. "It's not ,just fraternity oriented but Institute- ••wide." Trujillo will also work with B.....ldingthe Graduate Student Council. UII

Trujillo will work with Residen-tial Life and Student Life Programs Con 'nue«staff, Campus Police, MIT Medical lit ~staff, the Dormitory Council, andother groups across campus, Bene- By E. Zachary Berrydiet said. His respon ibilities will S_T._'AF_r_RE_P_O_R_TE_R _

NATHA OLLIN THE TECH

Yoko Ono and Fluxus scholar Jon Hendricks play chess atOno's 1997 "Play It By Trust" last Friday at the Ust VisualArts Center. "YES Yoko Ono," on which Hendricks consulted,features Ono's work from the 1960s to present.

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OPINION

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Sanjay Basu discusses the nega-tive impact of the U.S. aid cam-paign in Afghanistan.

Comics

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October 23,2001

WORLD & NATIONuspected as Cause

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ryEW'DA} o o a. . w rplane continued to pound T lib n front-lm fighter(a the bombin . mpaign m fzh 111 n mo r d mo It

thud week with a new empha i :helpin orthem thane troopad ance toward the capital and other ke cines.

The United tates onginally wanted the orthem lliance to holdoff on attacking Kabul until diplomat orked out who \ ould rule

fghanistan if the Taliban fell. But ecreary of t te Colin Powellon unday appeared to welcome a orthem lJiance dvance towardKabul. Defen e ecretary Donald Rum ft>1 ugge ted that air trikearound Kabul and el ewhere were de rgneo to help th orth m

lliance move forward.Even with U.. help from the e, it remain nclear hether the

orthem Alliance can take he e two citie . Fighting has gone backand forth around azar-e- harif for day without ignificant orth-em Alliance gain in part becau e they are outnumbered there by theTaliban aid Gen. Richard Myer , Joint Chief: chairman.

The hift to targeting Taliban troop po ition carne just two dayafter the United tates launched its first ground action insideAfghani tan, a raid by parachute-borne Army Ranger and other pe-cial forces troop on a T liban command center u ed by leader ul-lah ohammed Omar and an irfield out ide Kandahar, another T 1-iban tronghold.

howed orne anthra , aid Dr. en-neth orit ugu, the deputy urgeongeneral.

"We were taking it ne step at atime to determine what in fact eought to be doing as far a tracingback," Morit ugu aid.

Dr. Ivan lks, chief health ffi-er for ashington, said health ffi-

cial wai d ntil "the evidencechain indica ed that there wasanthrax pre ent in the facility."

Postma ter General John Potterannounced that the Po tal Serviceplan to "sanitize" mail, possiblywith equipment that emits ultravio-let rays and which i now used onmeat and medi a upplie. ThePostal Service also is planning torevise its procedure of cleaning sort-ing machines by blowing out thedust.

It was not clear how the anthrax,which is not contagious, infected thepostal employees. The two postalemployees who have been con-firmed with inhalation anthrax arebeing treated at area hospitals.

Ridge said "it was probably thearne letter" that caused the known

. anthrax case among postal employ-ees - an apparent reference to themail sent to Daschle - but added,"I can't say for sure."

red last week in the office of en-ate Majority Leader Tom a chle.

"There' been a 1 t f concerntoday not just fr m th ayor, butfrom everybody that erhap theCDC would have bee i er to haveb exten i e en ironmental te t-in and indi .dual wabbing arlier"

t the po tal c nter, s id Williamesman I'ony Bull c , referring

to th .. Center for Di ease Con-trol and Prevention

fter anthrax a ound la tonday in a letter that a Da ch e

aide pened thousand of congre -ional employee and' many mem-

ber of on re ere tested with1 0 and given a 10-day up-

ply of antibiotics. early 2,200po tal employees were te ted un-day and Monday and gi en antibi-otics.

But Bullock said, "If the sameresponse had occurred there, maybewe would have less incidents today.. .. Everybody should have the samelevel of treatment and response."

Federal officials defended there pon e, aying they quickly te teda po t office from where theanthrax-laced letter wa deliveredtoDaschle and initially found noanthrax spores. But a couple of daysago final te t from the post office

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Two po t worker in a a h-ington facihty that handled an

1 thra - ,H",C etter ha die an 1

two other employee 'th reemainedho pitali z d for the anthrax i eas ,l ficial ai

. Their death are likely due toanthra ,'Tom Ridge, federal direc-tor of Homeland e urit , aid

onday while awaiting final te tre ult on the t 0 dead, ho ename were not di cIo ed.

Another 3 eople in he Wa h-mgton area, mo t 1 hom ork tthe arne po tal proce ing facilityhave hown ymptom of anthraxand are being clo ely monitored andtreated by health officials.

The late t outbreak brings thenumber of confirmed anthrax infec-tions nationwide to nine thoughofficials aid that number was likelyto ri e as te t result are reported inthe next day.

It al 0 brought criticism fromWashington Mayor AnthonyWilliam that federal health officialswere not vigilant enough in te ting

o tal employee and buildings afteran anthrax-laced letter was discov-

Proposal on Bioterror CriticizedTHE WASHl GTON POST

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Public health official from around the country Monday criticizeda inadequate the Bu h admini tration' propo al for improving thenation' ability to re pond to bioterrori m.

The administration has propo ed pending 300 million for localand tate hospitals, laboratorie and health departments from a 1.5billion emergency budget being ent to Congres . The bulk of themoney will be spent to tockpile a range of antibiotics uch a Cipro,and 300 million dose of mallpox vaccine.

Han Ro enfield, dean of the ailman chool of Public Health.atColumbia University, aid he expects a contingent of academic lead-ers to lobby Congre for much more than Thompson' 1.5 billion.

He aid the government ha no choice but to tockpile smallpoxvaccine in the event of an attack. 'But there are a whole bunch ofother thing we need," he aid. "The 300 million doe n't begin to doall those other things."

Sinn Fein Calls for Annisticemembers said it was unlikely thatAdams and McGuinness wouldhave made the transatlanticannouncements without prior agree-ment from the IRA to begin disarm-ing. In 1997, when Adams andMcGuinness declared that they hadurged the gunmen to call a cease-fire, the IRA did so the next day.

Nonetheless, Protestant leadersresponded to the announcement cau-tiously, aware of how many timesthe peace process has come apartsince the signing of the 1998 GoodFriday accord.

"We have been at pains to statethat words are not enough - wewant to see action," said MichaelMcGimpsey, a leading member ofthe pro-British Ulster UnionistParty. "However, it would bebegrudging of me not to state thatthere are promising parts in thisstatement that may be heralding fur-ther steps."

"We have put to the IRA theview that if it could make a ground-breaking move on the arms issue,thi cou d save the peace processfrom collapse and transform the sit-uation," Adams aid.

He called on the British govern-. ment and Protestant political parties

to respond with "generosity andvision" to what is clearly a difficultdecision for the IRA. Without men-tioning dissidents opposed to thepeace process Adams appealed toIrish republicans to remain unitedbehind Sinn Fein and the IRA.

"It is a time for clear heads andbrave hearts," Adams said.

orthern Ireland, a Britishprovince, has been divided fordecades between "unionists," most-ly Protestants, who favor continuedassociation with Britain, and"republicans," or Roman Catholics,who want to be part of Ireland.

British officials and Sinn Fein

Adams Hopes to EndArmed Iris Conflict,Save Peace Process

Bush Putin Differ on MissilesTHE WASHl cto POST

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Despite their declaration of progres toward an agreement on mis-ile defense and arms reductions President Bush and Ru sian Pre i-

dent Vladimir Putin remain eparated by eriou differences that havebarely eased in two months of negotiation a enior Bush administra-tion aid onday.

Bush and Putin di cu sed mi ile defense and arms control issuesin hanghai on unday at the annual economic summit of Asian andPacific nation . They were reported to have discussed a proposalunder which Rus ia might accept a U.S. missile defense program inexchange for deep cuts in offensive nuclear weapons on both sides.

The admini tration is waiting for the Defense Department to com-plete a tudy before offering specific cuts. "This is what the Russianswant to talk about" the administration official aid, describing it asone reason why there has been no progress."

The United tates will make its offer to oscow before Bush andPutin meet ov. 12-14 in Washington and at Bush' ranch in Craw-ford, Texas the official said, but cautioned that a definitive pactbefore the ovember meeting "is close to impossible.'

By Marjorie MillerLOS ANGELES TIMES

LO DO T

In a historic bid to end NorthernIreland's armed conflict of threedecades, Sinn Fein President GerryAdams called on the Irish Republi-can Army on Monday to give up itsguns to save the Good Friday peaceprocess.

Adams issued the call to partyactivists in Belfast as Sinn Feinnegotiator Martin McGuinnessdelivered the message to Irish-American supporters in ew York- choreographed steps by theIRA's political wing apparentlydesigned to prepare their base fordisarmament.

WEATHERSituation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Tuesday, October 23, 2001Sunny Boston?

By Elren GutierrezSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

For the next few days, Boston will be in and out of possibility of show-ers, as surface lows continue to pass to our north. Only the tail-end of thelow may hit Boston, leading to only 40% chance of rain for tonight. Thelow passing north, will bring cooler air from the Midwest instead of theusual pattern that brings cold air from Canada. These lows that originatefrom the Northwestern United States move parallel with the Canadian bor-der, and leave the South clear and sunny.

For those people who like the New England foliage, last week was thepeak for color. Before the heavy rains of November enter the area, go out toareas north of Boston to :find some great views of foliage.

ExteDded ForecastTuesday: Mostly sunny. High 64"F (18·C).Tonight: Possible showers around later evening. Low SS'F (I3·C).WedDesday: Partly cloudy and breezy. High in the upper 60's F.Dunday: Partly cloudy and windy. High in the upper 60's F.

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Rumsfeld Expresses ConcernOver Last Week's Press LeaksBy Vernon Loeband Bradley GrahamTHE WASHINGTON POST

WA HlNGTO

Defense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld expre sed consternationMonday with recent pre s reports onthe presence of U.S. special forcesin Afghanistan and .said defenseofficials who leaked the informationhad violated federal criminal lawand put soldiers' lives at risk.

Rumsfeld said a close hold oninformation is justified by the natureof the conflict in Afghanistan, whereU.S. forces are fighting against aruling government militia, the Tal-iban, and a shadowy terrorist orga-nization, al-Qaida, that do not pre-sent conventional military targets.In such a war, the success of U.S.attacks is dependent upon surprise.

"It is not in our country's interestto let them know when, how or evenwhy we are conducting certain oper-ations," Rumsfeld said, adding thatthe release of such information "wasa violation of federal criminal lawand something that was totally (in)

disregard for the live of the peopleinvolved in that operation."

With special operations justbeginning on the ground inAfghanistan, Rumsfeld' s sternwarning to his employees seemedalmost certain to further chill rela-tions between the Pentagon and themedia even as information is beingmore closely held than in recentU.S. military conflicts.

Rumsfeld's focus on press leaksat the beginning of his regular newsbriefing placed new and vividemphasis on a theme he first struckSept. 12, the day after terroristattacks against the World TradeCenter and the Pentagon. At thattime, Rumsfeld said a defense offi-cial willing to leak information issomeone willing to violate the lawand "frustrate our efforts to trackdown and deal with terrorists."

His comments Monday weredirected at an article published Fri-day in The Washington Post thatsaid small numbers of U.S. specialforces were on the ground inAfghanistan. The article said noth-

ing about raids by U. . ArmyRangers and other Special Forcesthat began later Friday, althoughreports by CB and NBC broadcastFriday night revealed that thoseoperations were underway.

Rum feld said the reports did notjeopardize live: "All returned safe-ly," he said But Rumsfeld aid hewas "floored" that defense officialshad provided classified informationabout the presence of special forcesin Afghani tan.

Asked whether he planned tosearch for the leaker, Rurnsfeld saidhe didn't have time, but added: "Ihope that the people who were para-chuting in don't.find the person."

The Washington Post has a long-standing policy of not publishingmaterial it believes would jeopar-dize operational security or put sol-diers' lives at risk. As a matter ofpractice, the Post reviews potential-.ly sensitive material with adminis-tration officials and over the pastmonth has not published specificdetails cited by officials as endan-gering national security.

Israel Spurns America, IncreasesFighting in Palestinian Territory

on the Israeli army to exercise"greater discipline and restraint"

'and deplored the killing of "numer-Despite a U.S. demand for ous innocent civilians" whose

immediate withdrawal.and an end to deaths are "unacceptable."the killing of civilians, Israeli forces Reeker also called on Arafat todug deeper into Palestinian territory halt "violence and terror and bringMonday and waged fresh battles in to justice the terrorists whoseBethlehem as violence spilled actions are betraying Palestinianacross the West Bank and to interests." .Lebanon. Israel is demanding the arrest

The spiraling violence threatens and extradition of the killers ofto undermine the Bush administra- Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevition's efforts to muster Arab support and says its invasion of the Westfor its war on terrorism. Israel's Bank is meant to force Arafat tobroadest military campaign against comply.the Palestinians in many years also But Palestinian militants rebelled

~ is placing severe strains on both Monday at Arafat's orders to holdIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel fire and at his decision to arrest sev-Sharon's government and Arafat's eral members of a radical faction,Palestinian Authority. the Popu1ar Front for the Liberation

Israel launched the unprecedent- of Palestine. "The Palestinianed operations in the aftermath of the Authority is trying to destroy us, butassassination of a Cabinet minister it is the Palestinian Authority thatby a radical Palestinian faction. - will be destroyed," Khader abu

Reflecting Washington's concern Abbara, a PFLP leader in the hard-that the escalation here will hurt hit town of Bethlehem, vowed in aU.S. interests elsewhere, the U.S .. broadcast on Bethlehem 2000State Department issued an unusual- Radio.ly strong statement demanding Abu Abbara's threat reflects the

. Israel withdraw its forces from political risks and potential scliismsPalestinian-ruled areas "immediate- within Palestinian factions if Arafatly" and halt future incursions. presses ahead with a crackdown on

In addition, department people seen as terrorists by Israelspokesman Philip T. Reeker called but freedom fighters by many Pales-

By Tracy WilkinsonLOS ANGELES TIMES

JERUSALEM

tinians.Sharon, meanwhile, had to fend

off a possible mutiny from the cen-ter-left Labor Party, his principalpartner in the governing coalition.Following a heated debate, theparty's parliamentary leadershiplaid out the terms under which itwould bolt the coalition.

If Israel does not withdraw fromthe newly reoccupied parts of theWest Bank, or if it becomes clearthat the goal of the military opera-tion is to crush the PalestinianAuthority, the Labor Party will quit,a party official said.

Shimon Peres, foreign ministerand head of the party, said in Wash-ington, D.C. that Labor shouldremain in the government. ButYossi Beilin, Peres' onetime pro-tege and an architect of the land-mark 1993 Oslo peace accords thathave been all but annulled, saidLabor was making a historic mis-take.

Israeli media and political dis-course for two days has been full ofthe Lebanon analogy. It was Sharonwho led Israel's 1982 invasion ofLebanon, promising that it wou1d bea short and limited mission to pushback Palestinian guerrillas: Israeltroops remained in Lebanon untillast year.

Afghan Opposition. Groups Will MeetIn Istanbul to Plan Taliban TakeoverBy Marc KaufmanTHE WASHiNGTON POST

Afghan opposition groups willmeet this week in Turkey to makefinal plans for a national gatheringto form a government that couldreplace the Taliban, according toAfghan participants and their Turk-ish hosts.

Repre entatives from the North-ern Alliance, exiled Afghan KingMohammed Zahir Shah, and otheranti- Taliban groups' will meet 'fortwo days in Istanbul to decide whereand when they will hold, the tradi-tional gathering, called a loya jirga,and which Afghan leaders willmake up its ruling council. Thechoice of Turkey as the meeting sitereflected the country's growing rolein the international debate onAfghanistan's future.

Opposition leaders hope the loyajirga itself can be held insideAfghanistan, despite the risk of Tal-iban attack. Turkish officials, whoearlier said they were willing tosend troops to Afghanistan as part

of an international military force,said their government will also talkto the Afghans about whether theTurkish military might help securethe loya jirga.

The United States is awaiting theformation of a political alternativeto the Taliban. The U.S., like manyAfghans, fears the Taliban's col-lapse could lead to the return of thelawlessness and ethnic fighting thatfollowed the 1992' fall of the Soviet-backed Afghan government.

Hundreds of Afghans from.inside and outside the country areexpected to attend the loya jirga.Haron Amin, a spokesman for the

orthern Alliance in Washington,said the meeting, expected to beginWednesday, will name 120 of themto the ruling Supreme Council.'There will also be debate aboutwhere the loya jirga might be held,under what conditions, and howsecurity can be provided," Aminsaid.

Rival Afghan opposition groupsfound common ground after the

Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when itbecame clear the United Stateswould be targeting the Taliban in itseffort to capture Osama bin Laden. 'The Northern Alliance agreed lastmonth to join the loya jirga initiallyproposed by the former king, andthe groups have been negotiatingover how many representatives eachwill have. The current plan is for aruling council with 50 people fromthe king's group, 50 from the orth-'em Alliance, and 20 from still unde-cided other .

The Turkish government hassought to present itself as an impar-tial Islamic force that could take aleading role in bringing peace toAfghanistan. It has a strong mili-tary, and is the only Muslim nationin ATO. But Turkey's role as anhonest broker could be made moredifficult by its history of ethnic andcultural ties to various leaders in the

ortbern Alliance."We consider it a major develop-

ment that the meeting will takeplace in Turkey," Bayar said.'

Finns Work to SpeedIdentification of Microbes

EWSDAY

Biotechnology companie aero s the United tates are involved ina wide array of efforts to defuse bioterrorism by quickly identifyingat the scene the agents used in an attack.

One device newly in use by the federal government and scheduledfor broader public use by the end of the year allows for on-the-spotD A fingerprinting of organisms used in bioterrorism.

The device, which looks like a car battery, is capable of perform-ing one of molecular biology's gold standard tests: polymerase chainreaction, or PCR. This form of biological analysis is used by labs toproduce accurate D A fingerprints of criminal su peets. And withsimilar accuracy, PCR can provide the D A fmgerprints of killermicrobes, scientists say.

Manufactured by Cepheid Inc., in unnyvale, Calif., the portableD A analyzer was developed with the aid of a $5 million grant fromthe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, bestknown as the early developer of the Internet.

Cepheid officials would not confirm yesterday whether several ofthe devices have been taken to the war theater in Afghanistan forquick microbial analy is in the event troops are attacked by biologicalweapons.

"I can only say the system has been made available and is in thehands of various government agencies," said Cepheid spokeswomanYvonne Blaxter. People who use the device need no more than abasic background in high school biology. Another device onCepheid's drawing board would not require even that much educa-tion.

Iraq Seeks Anthrax TestsOn 1\vo Letters

THE WASHINGTON POST

Iraqi diplomats in ew York and Washington have asked Ameri-can authorities to test two letters containing white powder for conta-mination with anthrax spores, U.S. and Iraqi officials say.

U.S. diplomats said they suspect the Iraqi government is the targetof a hoax but that federal and local law enforcement authoritieshaven't provided a definitive explanation of what was in the letters.

A U.S. official said the U.S. mission to the United ations expect-ed to receive an official response from the New York Police Depart-ment on the results of its tests as early as Tuesday.

A State Department official, saying he was unaware of the anthraxconcerns at the Iraqi interest section in Washington, referred calls tothe FBI. Calls to the FBI press offices in ew York and Washingtonon Monday night were not returned.

The episode provided an unusual twist in the ongoing anthraxscare. Some observers, citing Iraq's weaponization of anthrax in thelate 1980s, have suggested Baghdad may be a source of anthraxspores in letters to media and government officials in Washington,

ew York and Florida. But there is no evidence Iraq obtained thestrains of anthrax bacteria found recently in the United States, and theFBI has said it has found no link among the letters, Iraq and the Sept.11 terrorist attacks.

Congress Moves CloserTo Anti-Terror Bill

LOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTO

Answering President Bush's call for new tools to fight terror-ism, Congress is moving to help U.S. authorities choke off the flowof illicit money through domestic and international financial sys-tems.

The money laundering legislation on the verge of approval thisweek enjoys overwhelming bipartisan support in the House and theSenate. J,

And banking industry lobbyists, who quietly had expres ed con-cern about the impact on their privacy-conscious customers, might beready to acquiesce to new rules.

If so, that is good news for the Bush adrnini tration as it tacklethe exceptionally complex challenge of detecting, blocking and seiz-ing money that finances global terrorist networks such as the al-Qaida .group believed to be respon ible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the Unit-ed States.

The administration's point man on money laundering, JimmyGurule, undersecretary for enforcement at the Treasury Department,pleaded for help Monday at a conference on the subject in Arlington,Va., organized by the American Bankers A ociation and AmericanBar A sociation.

Gurule said the legislation before Congre s if enacted, would rep-resent the most ignificant milestone in the fight against money laun-dering since it was made a federal crime in 1986.

Embryo Found in Dinosaur EggTHE WASHiNGTON POST

A orth Carolina State University graduate student has discov-ered the nearly hatched remains of a dinosaur embryo inside an eggfound 30 years ago by three high chool studen in Alabama.

Scientists at the time were unable to figure out what was insidethe egg, and it languished at Auburn University nnti orth Carolina

tate's Jame Lamb borrowed it for a research ~ ()ject and noticedthree tiny leg bones through an aperture that had been cut in the egg.

Using a technique called computed tomography, he scanned the eggand found that it contained fossilized yolk as well as the remains ofwhat he described as the 3-miUion-year-old embryo of aLophorhothon, a duck-billed dinosaur that lived in prehistoric Alabama.

Discus ing his findirigs at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologyearly this month, Lamb suggested the egg yolk may provide newinsights into the ancient creature's diet: 'We know this guy was avegetarian," Lamb said. "But it's possible that isotopes will tell us ifhis mother ate ferns conifer or hardwood vegetation."

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The Wrong Way To Break Bread

The Geneva onvention, adopted duringa conference of nation in 1949, set outguidelines to protect the victim of war.

mong the convention i the rule thathumanitarian action mu t be neutral, indepen-dent and impartial - in otherwords that humanitarianactor should be freefrom political influ-ence and should aidvictims of war in amanner proportionalto' those victims' needs.

President Bush's 'bombs andbread" campaign, combining mili-tary missions with food drops toAfghani civilians, is a clear violationof these accords. And the problem ofmixing military might and humanitari-an aid i not merely one of principle. Asmost aid workers know, aid delivery that isnot clearly separated from military cam-paigns can be claimed to be part of the wareffort. When this occurs, even aid workersfrom other agencies become the victims ofwar themselves, targeted for their perceivedpolitical orientation. The numerousattack.son United Nations offices. in Quetta, Pak-istan, are a clear consequence of this- fact;those perceiving the United Nations workersas operatives of the locally unpopular airstrikes have attacked workers who attemptedto help the local situation. If history predictsthe future, then these attacks will likelybroaden to workers from other humanitarianaid groups as well. In Somalia, the mixing ofmilitary action with humanitarian aid result-ed in the complete freezing of humanitarianorganization operations.

Americans who listen to this reasoningoften scratch their heads. Isn't it best, theyask, to at least bring some food to Afghanis,even if it's dropped from military aircraft?

Those of us who work on humanitarianaid issues and have tracked the U.S. fooddrops have a clear answer to this ques-tion. The U.S. food drops, wehave found, are not ahumanitarian operation.As Austen Davis, an aiddirector with theNobel PeacePrize-winninggroup Doctors

Without Borders put it, 'It is an action that iso minor in relation to the need , and so poor-

ly targeted, that it is highly unlikely that anyneedy people would have

received any of thefood." In other words,the "bread" portion of

the "bombs and bread" campaign seemsremarkably stale; the operation seems intenton winning international approval rather thanhumanitarian efficacy.

Over the past week, it also become quiteclear that the drops are doing more harm thangood. Because military aircraft have beenused to drop the supplies, aid workers on theground have not known whether the planesover. their heads would release missiles orfood. In fear, they have evacuated their posts,leaving the most effective humanitarian oper-ations without staff. Truckers who drive onroutes under these planes have been toofrightened to carry food into the country.While dozens of groups once provided effec-tive aid to locals, the actions of the U.S. mili-tary have hampered almost all of the humani-tarian work in Afghanistan, and the U.S.

military food drops are. too poorly targeted

and of too littlequantity to com-pensate.

President Bush'sannouncement thatmedicine was alsobeing provided in

the dropped aid pack-ages brings to light

more serious problems.If they are not properly

administered, the medica-

tion included can ea ily be quite harmful totho e who inge t them. In fact, when malnour-i hed persons take medications haphazardly,the results can be lethal.

But even these concerns eemed to pale incomparison to the news many aid agenciesreceived early this week from the humanitarian

group Oxfam Inter-national. Oxfamreported that manyof the air dropwere likely to be

taking place overhea vi ly-minedterritory. Because

of pa t conflicts,Afghanistan'scountryside is lit-

tered with anti-per-sonnel mines and the

yellow food packets droppedby the U. . - containing

raisin , beans, pasta, peanut butter and bread -fall from 30,000 feet without a parachute.

Each package i about the weight of ahousehold brick, and can land on people (assome did in Iraq) or on mines, present inheavy concentration in all but three of theprovinces in which packages are beingdropped.

The drops can also lure hungry Afghanisinto heavily mined territory. The U.S. mili-tary admits that it does not know wherethese mines are located, and without inde-pendent monitoring it will be impossible toestimate any toll thi sad feature of the fooddrops will have. As drought worsens inAfghanistan,' and as scurvy, malnutrition,and cholera break out, it becomes intenselyclear that the manner in which food is deliv-ered to Afghanistan must change. If aiddrops must be used, then the planes drop-ping them should be clearly marked a civil-ian aircraft, preferably those operated by theWorld Food Program. Internally di placedpersons, not only refugees, should be afford-ed better opportunities to receive propercare, and only a willingne s of the U.S. mili-tary to cooperate with non-governmental aidgroups to allow the re-entry of humanitarianworkers into Afghanistan can restore hope tothose Afghanis who may not make itthrough the winter.

Sanjay Basu '02 is student director ofUnited Trauma Relief, an MIT-based humani-tarian aid organization working as part of theAfghanistan program of the UN High Com-missioner of Refugees.

The Sound of SilenceBy Roy Esaki

There's a lot of noise in this world: peoplechattering, construction pounding, commer-cials blaring, babies crying, students crying.Some of it is useful, such as the beeping of themicrowave that tells us that our burrito iswarm; others, like the ubiquitous wailing ofcar alarms, aren't. There's lot of noise frompeople, too: noise about things like Fourierseries, the dangers of white powders, and howsociety really oughtto function. Silence,at times, seems woe-fully underappreci-ated, consideringhow rare and goldenit is.

Silence as themere lack of noise iswonderful in its ownright. Without anyuncontrollable dis-tractions that clutterthe air and ourminds, the world isclearer and more refined. There are timeswhen white noise or background Mozartmight be preferable to a sterile, libraryesquestillness. But complete silence is so rarelyencountered that like a perfectly cloudlessstarlit sky, it would be a waste to not bask andcommune with the soundless moment.

There's also the power of artistic ilence:

the anxious silence before a triumphant sym-phonic finale, the silent slow-motion anima-tion and the hushed crowd as- the ball soarstowards the goal, a duel scene in a Westernwith a single tumbleweed blown by an inaudi-ble breeze, the unspoken response to "Doctor,will she be all right?" or the unfinished lastwords of a dying lover. The silence is heardmore than anything else in the emotional cli-max of the moment that can only be createdby a perfectly crafted quiet.

It's for this reason that eloquent speakers

VVhat else but a silent coyeyebrow raise across a dinner table could mean

nothing) or everything) depending on how you chooseto see things. uShh - don't say anything/) she says)and you continue the silent) penetrating gaze; silence

doesn't get much more beautiful than that.

and everyday communicator use the potencyof silence in communication. There are theponderous pauses in Roosevelt's "Day ofInfamy" speech, which bred gravity and deter-mination in the hearts of listeners. Thenthere's the frighteningly patient silence ateacher u es to make unruly student feeluncomfortable. There's the awkward silence

the counselor uses to force the patient to con-tinue talking. And, of course, there's the silenttreatment the most energy-efficient way tomake a point.

It can help you to be silent at times, aswell. We're expected by society, and eventu-ally ourselves, to have answers for every-thing, to have an assertive opinion on all mat-ters and to be active talkers and producers.But sometimes we aren't able to come upwith answers aren't qualified or informedenough to have a valuable opinion, or shouldbe better listeners than talkers. Such situa-tions call for silence. A contemplative silenceis much more valuable than talking (or evenwriting columns) for the sake of it when onedoesn't have anything to say. ilence lets uscollect our thoughts, be more mindful of thethoughts of others, and saves our breath forwhen we really need it.

Above all, silence lets you create your ownreality, or share one with someone else. It s aconcept encapsulated by wordless communi-cation; it's based on your assumptions aboutwhat their facial and body gestures mean, andyou are free to perceive it as you wish withoutthe cumbersome interference of language tomar the pristine conceptual image you'veformed. What else but a silent coy eyebrowrai ed across a dinner table could mean noth-ing, or everything, depending on how youchoose to see things? "Shh - don't ay any-thing," she says, and you continue the silent,penetrating gaze. ilence doesn't get muchmore beautiful than that.

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One recent aturday morning I was sittingin a charming little cafe on High Street in thetown of Oxford as a rare ray of sun poked outaround one of the beautiful medieval towershere and into the big front window of the cafe.Munching on omelettes and toast with me wasa group of about six other American graduatestudents. Most of the people with me have onlybeen here a few weeks, so we were discussingour initial impre ions of the workload here.

'I'm actually a little bit concerned," I toldthem. 'I feel like I'm not doing work. I'mconcerned I won't learn enough and then I'llflunk the exams next year."

One of my friends, a tanford graduate,laughed out loud. "Well, you're not at MITanymore, Jason, 'she aid. "You're going tobe fine."

Everyone laughed.I absolutely love being a graduate student at

Oxford, but a certain ense of powerful nostal-gia popped up when Iheard my friend say that.

When talking about what other universityin the world can you explain so much by justaying "Well, you're at MIT," or "Well,

you're not at IT anymore," or "This isMlT," or for that matter, "This isn't MlT,?" Iheard those sorts of comments time after timewhen I \'yas a student at MIT, and still hearthem even now, when I'm an ocean away.

The reason why those comments havemeaning to me and to just about everyone elsewho hears them is that MIT is unique. Otheruniversities are more beautiful. Other univer-sitie have produced more U.S. Presidents -

What I think is particularly-special about MIT is how theImtim~alwa~sffmswchpin

during times of significantnational and global distress.Thathappened during World War II)and I'm certain it will happen

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er, well, at least one U .. President.But no other university in the world com-

bines such hard-working students, faculty, andstaff with a culture that is 0 geared towardsinnovation. 'MIT is a special place. Andalthough I knew it before my graduation la tJune leaving Cambridge has just re-enforcedfor me just how special MIT is.

What I think is particularly special aboutMIT is how the In titute always seems to chipin during times of significant national andglobal distress. That happened when thedevelopment of radar at MIT in the 1940shelped turn the tide of World War II againstthe azis.

And I'm certain that a similar effort willsurface now that the specter of terrorismfaces our nation and the world. The threatsthat face us are insidious and powerful.Threats to transportation infrastructure, thechance that powerful pathogen like anthraxand smallpox could be let loose, and the pub-lic hysteria that terrorists crave - the list isas long as it is frightening.

But this list is one that we can neutralize.s an American, as a citizen of the world, I

leep better knowing that bright, committed,hard-working people at MIT and elsewhereare working on confronting these tremen-dous threats.

I've lived learned, and worked with youall for four years. My faith is embedded inyour thoughtfulness, your endless capacityfor hard work, and your extraordinary intel-lects. Civil engineers biologists, computerscientists, political scientists, historians ofscience and so many others at MIT havesuch u eful, unique skills for this ongoingstruggle against terrorism.

On the day of my graduation, I wrote onthis page that our generation of young peopledon't seem to face challenges commensuratewith the challenges that our parents andgrandparents faced. Watching planes fly intothe World Trade enter and seeing the devas-tation at the Pentagon made me eat my words.

ow as we face our new challenges, Ihope - indeed, I know - that IT peoplewill be at the forefront. Those people of aninstitution that I know is so unique and sospecial have a duty to respond. And I knowthey will.

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12:00 p.m .. 2:00 p.m. - ute and Death of Naturalist Kinds. Dibner Institute Lunchtime Colloquium. free. Room: E56-100. Sponsor: Dibner Institute.12:00 p.m .• 1:00 p.m. - Microsoft Word User Group. The MIT Microsoft User Group (WUG) is for people at MIT, from beginners to experts, whoare using or inter-ested in learning to use Microsoft Word word processing software .. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems. .12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.rn. - Yes Yoko 0"", First major US retrospective of works by Yoko Ono, one of the early participants in the intemational Fluvus movement. Thisexhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to the present with films, videos, artist's books, installations and instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroeand Jon Hendricks for the Japan Society GaUery .. free. Room: Ust Visual Arts Center (£15). Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center.2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Wave-driven currents and vortex dynamics on barred beaches. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM in Room 2-349. free. Room:Room 2-338. Sponsor: Physical Mathematics Seminar. Department of Mathematics.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m ... MTL VLSI seminar Series. Low Power Circuits and Technology for Wireless Digital Systems. free. Room: 34-101. Sponsor: MTL VLSI Semi-nar.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m ... Seminar: Elastic and E1astoplastlc Response of Random Composites. We study elastic and elastoplastic responses 'of unidirectional fiber-matrix composites. The fibers are of circular cylinder shape, aligned in the axial direction, and arranged randomly, with no overlap, in the transverse plane. In partie-utar, we focus on the effects of scale of observation and boundary conditions on the overall elastic moduli and instantaneous elastoplastlc moduli of such compos-ites. We conduct this analysis numerically at the mesoscale level by considering finite "windows of observation." We subject these regions fo several differentboundary conditions: displacement-controlled, traction,controlled, periodic, and mixed to evaluate the mesoscale moduli. We cover a range of stiffness ratios fromcomposites with very soft inclusions (approximating holes) to those with very stiff inclusions (approaching rigid fibers). This investigation provides insight on the sizeof the Representative Volume Element for such composites. We also include results for periodic composites. Extensions to micro polar elasticity (prediction of cou-ple stress moduli and characteristic lengths) are also briefly discussed .. free ..Room: 1-350. Sponsor: Engineering & Environmental Mechanics Group.4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - GTl Seminar. The Quiet Supersonic Platform Challenge: Designing for Low Sonic Boom. free. Room: 31-161. Sponsor: Gas Turbine Labora-wry. -4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m ... TBA. Organizers: M. Hopkins, R. Melrose, H. Miller and I.M. Singer. free. Room: 2-131. Sponsor: Topology and AnalySis of Manifolds withComers. Department of Mathematics.6:00 p.m ... auhtors@mit- Artifacts: An Atchaeologlst's Year In Silicon Valley. CHRISTINE FINN ARTIFACTS: An ArChaeologist's Year in Silicon ValleySiJicon Valley,a small place with few identifiable geologic or geographic features. has achieved a mythical reputation in a very short time. The modem material culture of the val-ley may be driven by technology, but it also encompasses architecture, transportation, food, clothing, entertainment, intercultural exchanges, and rituals. Combininga reporter's instinct for a good interview with traditional archaeological training, Christine Finn brings the perspectives of the past and the future to the story of Sili-con Valley's present material culture. Dr. Christine A. Finn is a journalist and a Research Associate in the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, UK.Artifacts is ouonsheo by The MIT Press, 2001.. free. Room: "MIT E25-111, 45 Carleton St., Cambridge. Sponsor: The MIT Press Bookstore. MIT Libraries.6:30 p.m. - Peripheral Vision. Architecture by Brian MacKay-Lyons, architect, Halifax, Nova Scotia .. free. Room: Rm 10-250. Sponsor: Department of Architecture.7:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m, - Ladies Night at the Ear. Every Tuesday is Ladies Night at The Thirsty Ear Pub, with special Iuesdeyomy beverage offerings. The Thirsty EarPub is located in the Ashdown House basement. Enter through the courtyard. Hours: Monday: 8 p.m. - 12 am, Tuesday - Thursday: 7 p.m .• 1 am, Friday: 4 p.m. - 1am, Must be over 21. Proper 10 required .. No cover for the ladies (or the guys). Room: The Thirsty Ear Pub. Sponsor: The Thirsty Ear Pub.7:00 p.m.-- 8:30 p.m. - Check It Out. The Check It Out program is meant to educate young women about the Importance of taking care of our bodies. The objectiveof this program is to develop an awareness of the need to regularly practice breast self-examinations.The panel consists of a doctor from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a nurse from MIT medical, and a breast cancer survivor.The women will receive a packet of information about breast self-examination, exercise, nutrition, smoking and your health, and resource/hotnne numbers .. free.Room: 6-120. Sponsor: Alpha Epsilon Phi, Hillel, MIT, Women's Studies Program. WILG, Hadassah, MIT Medical. .7:00 p.m. - Breast Health Awareness. Program will include a physician speaking about nutrition and general health items, a video about doing a breast exam, anda survillOr of breast cancer will give a question and answer session .. free. Room: 6-120. Sponsor: Hillel. MIT, Undergraduate Association, Women's Studies Pro-gram. MIT Medical, AEPhi, WILG, Beth Israeil Deaconess Medical Center.

Wednesday, October 24

7:30 a.m. ·9:30 a.m. - Breakfast Video Conference with PAZER. It began with the Pfizer innovation that led to mass-produoed penicillin. Since then, there'snever been a year in which we didn't achieve a new level of growth. Why? It's simple: we hire the best and brightest and give them the support, resources and toolsto succeed. Our people work on the cutting edge of the health care industry, continuously introducing new waves of innovative products. But that's just part of thestory. Come find out more!. free. Room: 9-338. Sponsor: MIT Japan Program.11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Optics. Organic Ught Emitting Devices: Harnessing Energetic Disorder or a Brighter Future. free. Room: 34-401B (Grier Room). Spon-sor: Optics.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Filemaker Pro Quick Start. This class introduces users to the FileMaker environment and its functions 'using an existing database as amodel. . free. Room: N42 Demo Center. Sponsor: Information Systems.12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Yes Yoko 0"", First major US retrospective of works by Yoko Ono, one of the early participants in the international Ruvus movement. Thisexhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to the present with films, videos, artist's books, installations and instructional pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroe

and Jon Hendricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free. Room: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center.12:10 p.m. - 1:00 p.rn. - ·Physlcal OCeanography Sack lunch seminar. free. Room: 54-915. Sponsor: Physical Oceanography.2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - spouses&partners@mit· Fall Foliage Trip. A park ranger will guide us through the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. We learn about the his-tory and the trees of the park as well as admire the beautiful fall colorsl Meet in front of the MIT Coop in Kendall Square at 2:30 P.M. We will take the T ($1 . oneway) to the Forest Hills Station on the Orange Une and walk to the park .. free. Room: MIT Coop (Kendall Square). Sponsor: spouses&partnerS@mit. MIT Medical.5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Democratizing Risk Assessment. Dr. Shrader-Frechette is Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences andEnvironmental Sciences, University of Notre Dame.Using waste-disposal and deforestation cases, she will discuss how particular methodological strategies disenfranchise the public .. free. Room: E51-151. Sponsor:STS, Society for Risk Analysis/New England.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - MIT Objectivist Club general meeting. The MIT Objectivist Club's general meetings. We discuss topics In philosophy and how they relate todifferent aspects of our world today. This term, will also be haVing weekly study sessions, probably in epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge .. free. Room:.10-260 (Oct. 3), 4-144 (Oct. 10-Dec. 12). Sponsor: MIT Objectivist Club. 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Renaissance Dancing. There are many forms of RenaissanceDancing that we practice. From Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country. We dance them all with flair and fun. Dress is common street clothing. No expen-ence necessary; instruction is provided. free. Room: W20 (Sala or 407 or 491). Sponsor: Society for Creative Anachronism.8:00 p.m. -10:30 p.m. -IFilm Movie Seminar. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, InternatIOnal Film Club.

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9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - IT Partners Conference. The IT Partners program sponsors an informative conference approximately a month after the start of each semes-ter. The goal of this mini-conference is to help the IT support providers on campus come up-to-speed on the latest issues - and solutions - .nvolved in bringinginformation technology to MIT. The conferences are for IT Partners members only. To apply for membership, please see our website. free. Room: W89. Sponsor:Information Systems.12:00 p.m. - MIT Chapel Concert. Late 17th, early 18th c. Italian sonatas of Castello, Vivaldi, Corelli and Bach. STEFANO BAGLIANO, recorder, received a diplomafrom the Conservatory Pollini of Padua and specialized with Frans Bruggen, Kees Boeke, Walter Van Hauwe and Pedro Memelsdorff. Currently he is the artisticdirector of the International Festival of Chamber Music of Genoa and Savona.CLAUDIO ASTRONIO. harpsichord, organ, graduated with full marks in Organ performance and Composition at the Conservatorio C. Monteverdi (Bolzano, Italy) and,later, "cum laude" receiving an honorable mention in harpsichord at the Conservatorio G.B Martini (Bologna) under the guidance of Annaberta Conti. He currentlyteaches organ at the European Academy of Ancient Music as well as harpsichord and ensemble music at the Antonio Vivaldi Institute of Music in Bollano and is afounding member and artistic director of the Musica Antiqua Association in Bolzano .. free. Room: MIT Chapel. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section.12:00 p.m .• 1:30 p.m. - Support Staff Ice Cream Social. Come jotn your friends and associates at the Support Staff Ice Cream Social - sponsored by the WorkingGroup on Support Staff Issues, MemberShip Committee .. free. Room: Bush Room, 10-105. Sponsor: Working Group on Support Staff Issues .12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Web Publishers User Group. The purpose of the Web Publishers User Group is to: provide a forum for information and support among itsmembers help members improve their knowledge of electronic publishing, and their expertise in its technology and standards further MIT's business goals of edu-cation, research by the appropriate use of electronic information. free. Room: N42 Demo Center. S nsor: Information SyStems.12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Yes Yoko 0"", First major US retrospective of works by Yoko Ono, one of the early participants In the International Ruvus movement. Thisexhibition surveys her career from the 1960s to the present with films, videos, artist's books, installations and instructional Pieces. Organized by Alexandra Munroeand Jon Hendricks for the Japan Society Gallery .. free. Room: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center.3:00 p.m. - Men's Soccer vs. Gordon College. free. Room: Steinbrenner. Sponsor: Department of Athletics.4:00 p.m .• 5:00 p.rn. - Baroclinlc Instability. free. Room: 54-915. Sponsor: MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars.4:15 p.m .• 5:15 p.m. - Primal Integer Programming. ORC Fall seminar series. seminar followed by reception in E4o-106 .. free. R : E56-270. Sponsor: Opera-tions Research Center.4:15 p.m. - M.I.T. Phys~s Colloquium. The Cosmic Infrared BackgroUnd and SIRTF. free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: PhySics Department.5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Teen Activism on the Web. This Forum will combine scholarly perspectives on teen culture on the Web WIth front-line accounts by youthactivists about how they have deployed the resources of new media .. free. Room: Bartos Theater, Media Lab. Sponsor: Communicattons Forum.5:30 p.m. - "Mary Miss Object lessons". Talk by Daniel Abrahmson.. free. Room: Rm :>133. Sponsor: History Theory Criticism Forum, Department of Architecture.7:00 p.m. - "The Greatest Sorrow: TImes of Joy Recalled In Wretchedness - South Asian Uterature and Communal Violence'. Talk by Amitav Ghosh, Calcutta-born author of "The Circle of Reason," "The Shadow Lines," "In an Antique Land," "Dancing in Cambodia" and 'The Calcutta Chromosome." His most recent book,"The Glass Palace," was published in 2000. He has received many literary awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Prix M~icis Etranger. He currentlyteaches writing, literature, and film at Queens College in the City University of NY .. free. Room: Rm 4-163. Sponsor: Foreign Languages and Literatures, Cerlter forBilingual/Bicultural Studies at MIT .7:30 p.m. - "The Family Game". In Japanese with English subtitles.Winner of the Best Picture Award in Japan. The Family Game examines traditional values of the middle class under the strain of modem culture.*" Refreshment will be served after the show. free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: MIT Japan Program. FLL.8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. - IFilm Movie Seminar. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, Intemational Film Club.8:00 p.m. - Anythlng Goes. Musical Theatre Guild hits the high seas with the Cole Porter musical.. $9, $8 MIT community/other students/seniors, $6 MIT /Welles-ley students. Room: Sala de Puerto Rico. Sponsor: Musical Theatre Guild, MIT.

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THE ARTSco eERY REVIEW

October 23 2001

lfJices Over VenueCappella Group 0ng to Packed La ala Lobdell

By Sandra . ChungASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

S turday night's a cappella concertal ay a popular Family ee ndevent wa nearly derailed by logi ti-cal prohl ms thi year. The tudent-

organized e ent, v hich exceeded Kre geauditorium' seating capacity last year filledLa ala del Puerto Rico twice over. orethan 45 minutes before the p.m. how, theline out ide La ala extended across the ec-ond floor of the tudent enter and Joopedback around the central tairc e. T entyminute after the how wa uppo ed tobegin, audience member were pilling outinto the aisle and on the floor or perching onradiators around the perimet r of the room.Due to the fire hazard that thi presented,Campu Police arrived and ordered everyonewithout a chair to leave.

group, gave enthu ia tic performances of ThKry s "He Won't Let You Go,' Chur h ofRhythm' , ot Perfect," and d Talk' , incI et ou.' Their entry in the kit categorywa an T version of aturday ight Li e, elebrity Jeopardy skit, featuring ary

Poppins, Yoda, and Keanu Reeve , a well athe appropriate reference to the Star War.movie and The Matrix.

Re onance, IT' newest a cappellagroup, tarted with Ray Charle Hit theRoad, Jack.' oloi t Daniel D. Lowrey 02and ara Jo Elice G acted out the ong'lyric , to great audience re pon e. The groupran into orne problem with "Du t in the

ind,' which pu hed the tempo too high forthe opranos to keep up. oloi t David .R.Zych'O over tepped the bounds of the maleinging range with hi fal etto on avage Gar-

den ' The Animal ong.'T chiya, the In titute ' only Je i h a

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DanielD. Lowrey '02 and Sara Jo Elice G of Resonance sing "Hit the Road Jack."Resonance and the Logs were joined by the Chorallaries, Cross Products, Techiya,Muses and loons for the GBIS Parent's Weekend A Cappella Concert.

ditional in trument consisting of a ram'shorn that is blown like, well, a horn. Adecidedly ethnic version of "Blue Moon"

elicited chuck-ling from theaudience,especially par-ents. Cam-bridge-MITInstitute stu-dent Daniel J.Abramson sbaritone pipesstood out onthe elegant"Erev She}Shoshanim"("Evel1ing ofRoses") and inhis solo on theupbeat"BashanaHaba'a"(" ext Year").

The Loga-rhythms' high-energy perfor-mance andirreverentbrand of humorcapped off thenight. The all-

male group hammed it up with costumes andquirky poses on "Superlogs." Cowboy Karl

The Logarhythms tout themselves as "'Superlogs" in Saturday night's concert in La Sala del Puerto Rico.

The student performer re cued theevening for their fans by throwing together asecond show in Lobdell. The audience, whichincluded family member who had flownthousand of miles to see their children per-form, waited patiently for the extra how to bearranged, until the concert started nearly fortyminutes after it wa originally scheduled tobegin.

Bad planning aside the show it elf was atreat. The IT elle ley Toons kicked offthe how with Vertical Horizon's "You're AGod," with oloist Charles R. Floyd '03, andDido's ' n You Want," featuring eelimaTeerdhala '04. Wellesley student CeciliaLam '03 lent her soulful alto voice to the

010 on 'You Gotta Be." The one hit of one-hit wonder Des'ree was the highlight of theToons et. In addition to their vocal talents,the Toons exhibited their wacky senses ofhumor in a hilarious, Halloween-themedsketch based on the cooby Doo cartoonseries.

The all-female Muses extended the one-hitwonder vein with a solid 010 by Toni J. Fer-reira '04 on atalie Imbruglia' "Torn."Because of the similarity between the groupmembers' vocal ranges, harmonies on theDixie Chicks wi tful Cowboy Take Me

way" lacked energy and clarity, a cornmonproblem for all-female singing ensembles.The uses strutted their tuff on a kitschy,feminized version of haggy's 'It Wasn't

e," then pulled them elves together for, hange in y Life" by John Pagano. oloist

ina Heinrich s voice started weakly, butquickly gained confidence and edge to top the

use et.Bo . Kim '04 of the Chorol1arie took a

break from singing soprano to solo on ToriArno "1000 Oceans." ira E. Wilczek '03brought the house down on erosmith' s''What It Take,' throwing a little scat singinginto her gritty, all-out solo. The Chorollaries'last number blended' Flood" by Jar of layand Bon Jovi's 'It's y Life" into a mixtureof acou tic Christian and eightie poplrockthat wor urprisingly well. Ro s 1. Runniono held up the Bon Jovi portion while Geoff. Becker'O and Arny L. chon heck '03

ang the 'Flood" duet.The Cro product, a Chri tian a cappella

Contrary to popular belief, Canada has producedorne good rock band . Our Lady Peace, Stab-

bing Westward, the Barenaked Ladies - the listgoes on and on. ow one more band can be

added to this growing list: Default. The Vancouver,British Columbia natives' debut album, The Fallout,deliver straight-forward rock that is refreshing andpowerful.

The first track, "Sick & Tired," opens the albumwith a bur t of energy that lingers until the last track.'Deny, , the song that first launched Default's successall over the Canadian airwaves, is a powerful mix ofsofter, ballad-like music and aggressive rock. It is a win- _ning formula that is employed in other songs, includingthe current single, "Wasting My Time." "Slow MeDown" does nothing of the sort, and the momentum con-tinues to build. Default changes gears a little with 'OneLate ight,' the quintessential power ballad. The albumis charged with an energy that the group manages tomaintain from beginning to end, even in the slowertracks.

Dallas Smith's vocal performance fits each song per-fectly, and Jeremy Hera's guitar-work is innovativeenough to prevent Default from sounding like everyother album that is out today. In any rock band, the gui-tarist can make OT break the band, and Hora's playingconsistently keeps the band on the track. Danny Craig TVT Records' Default released a new album, The Fallout.(drums) and Dave Benedict (bass) complete Default'sfoundation of their no-nonsense rock.

The Fallout was produced by Rick Parasher, a Seattle nativewho helped make an album in the early 90's by the name of Tenwith a group of guys who called themselves Pearl Jam,

The problem? While Default certainly stands head and shoul-ders above many emerging new band, rock radio already has adeluge of husky, baritone-voiced rock bands, such as Staind,Lifehou e, and ickelback. Default is good enough to find aplace in the spectrum. but are they good enough to tay there? It

cappella group, introduced themselves byintroducing the audience to the shofar, a tra-

MUSIC REVIEW

DefaultFalling in PlmJeBy Ricky Rivera

A. Erdmann '02 wooed lassoed hearts withhis solo on the Coldplay hit "Yellow." TheLogs' skit was an outrageous montage ofsend-ups of television shows, including theJerry Springer show and various DiscoveryChannel nature programs. The finale was aneffectively choreographed R&B hit, "URemind Me." Chris D. Vu ~04 sang a smash-fig solo on the Usher song, backed up in alead trio by Collins P. Ward '03 and David S.KongG.

Overcrowding was not the only detractorfrom the experience. La Sala is a small, rec-tangular Toom, and the stage was centeredalongside one of the longer walls, treating theprivileged center section to a great view butrobbing two-thirds of the audience of visualand acoustic clarity. The performers on thetiny stage were shoved up against a half-dozen microphones, which were so close as toover-amplify the backup and drown out thesoloists.

The performers took all these issues instride, some groups attempting to compensateby pushing their background singers as far asthey could go. They even poked fun at theovercrowding situation with an impromptuskit halfway through the show. The variety ofattitudes, humor, and music attested to thediversity of religious, comedic, and musicaltastes on campus: Tne nearly disastrous over-crowding and cancellation threats gave way tofun-filled, enthusiastic performances for fami-ly and friends.

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is quite possible that they are.A few years ago rock was proclaimed dead. Now that it has

revived itself, bands like Default will be the blood supply thatkeeps it alive. They are simply four guys who like to rock, andthey do not worry about image or pretense. As a result, The Fall-out is an album of rock music and it tands proudly on its owntwo feet amidst an array of would-be imitators. Ultimately andmore importantly, Default's debut relea e is simply good musicthat i worth a listen.

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MITSO Greatly Improved in !ears First ConcertMITSO, from Page 10

and Scarlatti.Individual olos were played very well

e pecially the solo cello part in the ' ara-bande et Double," where the li tener couldactually hear the characteristic rhythm of thesarabande through the contemporary style.The first movement, "Homenaje a GirolamoFre cobaldi," contain an amazing moment:a forte bra s flourish that abruptly disap-pears, leaving the violins playing a pianissi-mo chord; this effect is reminiscent of amoment in Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet,only this' time without the luxury of tonality.

ext was Notturno, a lush, romantic piecethat the Italian composer Giuseppe Martucciorchestrated from a solo piano piece of his,which MITSO, led again by the warm play-ing in the strings, realized wonderfully.

The final piece on the first half has some-what of an identity crisis. Titled SoireesMusicales (French for "Musical Evenings"),it is a five-movement piece by the Englishcomposer Benjamin Britten based on musicby the Gioacchino Rossini, an Italian com-poser. In .stark contrast to the Gandini, thispiece fell almost too easily into the ears, withthe frivolity of light Italian music and theblandness of mediocre British music almosttoo much for the forces on stage to overcomewith a good performance. The musiciansdelivered an acceptable rendering of theuninteresting piece, from the stodgy "March"through the peaceful "Canzonetta," the jovial"Tirolese," and the jazzy "Bolero," to thedance-like "Tarantella."

After the intermission, the main coursewas served, though after reading the programnotes to Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin, onlya cold-hearted soul could still be hungry forfood. Originally a pantomime but played herein its usual concert form, the MiraculousMandarin is a prime example of programmat-ic music, as the music tells not whatever storyis conjured up in the listener's mind but ratherthe specific one written in the program notes.

A trio of bandits captures a girl and forcesher to lure innocent customers into a brothel,where they are robbed and beaten. After twopoor men enter and are thrown out, the third:

unlucky cu tomer, a mandarin, arrive. Hefall in love with the girl and the banditattempt to kill him. But the mandarin evadesthree kinds of death: by smothering, by tab-bing and by hanging; when the girl feels pityfor him and the two embrace the immortalityuddenly leave the mandarin, as he dies in

her arms.If the entire e ening featured a MIT 0

immen ely improved over last year' version- which it did - then the performance ofthis suite by Bartok was the reason why. Thecoordination between the brass and the restof the orchestra was sharp, and the orchestra

a a whole was able to achieve huge dynamiccontrast excelJently. The 010 clarinet play-ing of Michael R. Heiman '05 merit men-tion due not simply to the length and numberof solos he played but also to their high qual-ity in terms of technique and musicianship.

The concert concluded with Igor travin-sky' Fireworks, a hort piece with a histori-cal significance far beyond its musical one.According to the expertly written programnotes, the famous ballet impresario ergeDiaghilev, who commi sionedtravin ky towrite The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite ofSpring, was introduced to the composer and

his music at the premiere of Fireworks. Thepiece, though short and exciting, seemed nei-ther here nor there after the Bartok; a some-what loppy performance didn't exactly helpfinish the program off with a bang, either.

Anzolini is to be lauded for his skills inconstructing a program of excellent varietyand perfect length, as well as bringing outextraordinary playing by the members of theorche tra. And lauded he was, along with therest of MITSO, by a large, appreciativecrowd which even threw a few bravos hisway after the performance of The MiraculousMandarin.

TIMOTHY SUEN-THE TECH

Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir sang everything from African folk spirituals to contemporary jazz. The San Fran-elsco-based group performed Sunday afternoon in Kresge -Auditorium.

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Duel ng G ts,ED Q.Bach, & theMiraculous Mandarineekend Cone by Chamber Chorus ind E semble Percussion Ensemble, Festival Jazz Ensemble, MITSO

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hi weekend, all of T' major p r-forming ensembles offered their fir tprogram of the ea on. The e perfor-mance which om Ide ith fil-

ly ee end had different themes. Fn a 'concert, featuring the hamber horn the

ind En emble the Percu ion En ernble,and the Fe ti al Jazz En emb e, lin edtogether fifteen piece under the theme ofhurnorou music, bile arurdav's perfor-man of mo t1 20th centur mu ic by

IT focu ed on Barto ' suite; TheMiraculou Mandarin.

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appeal, for tho e 0 us ho 'U ee treme work-related stres , th moti nalrelea e of letting out a good laugh iunequalled by almo t an other cti i .

Bill utter, the director of th Chamberhoru and Fred Harri , the director of theind En ernb le and the e tival Jazz

En emble, conceived an entire program ofhumorous mu ic - written b eriou com-po er - for parent eekend; judging bythe ize of the crowd the IT community iin dire need of orne humor.

e program tarte ith the hamberhoru which 0 r our hort work .

Keeping with the humorou theme, ea hmember adorned his or her u ual concertattire ith something humorou - e ery-thing from feather boa to ungla e; evenCutter went out on a limb, wearing a white t-shirt under hi tuxedo jac et.

The fir t work, a madrigal by Kurt eillcalled "Ho, Billy, a! " featured si mem-bers of the group a oloi ts. The men fol-lowed with two pirate ong b Peter

chickele, a mu icologi t who, when hewrite parodie of e i ting mu ic, doe 0

under the p eudonym of P.D.Q. Bach, animaginary character he fondly call Baeh'1a t and least on. Th pirate ong wereeriou mu ic, though, n th men pulled

off the proper character to come off ound-ing li e pirates.

I the pirate ong required haracter,then what followed required ten time morechara ter, and it was provided. The omen'schoru ung a comic duet for two cat writ-ten by the Italian opera compo er Gioacchi-no Rossini. The only word in the ong wa"meow," which was thrown bac and forthbetween the two halve of the horu. Thesinger pronounced the word in every po ]-ble way, contorting their mouth gro slyachieve the "ow" part of it.

The hamber Choru concluded theirportion of th program with P.D.Q. Bach's, Bonnie La he melleth," a parod

Bonnie La h mileth " The per-former chieved umo 1 then ingmg tocom em nt the numor III tb mu c yac t' unexpecre ~ a es all rawingth audien e' attention to the cceleration

rallentando. .

Dante Anzolini conducts the MIT Symphony Orchestra in last Saturday's program.

Peter Schickele's Monochrome Ill. Contraryto the suggestion of the title, the piece actu-ally had more than one color, though the tim-bre of the ensemble was pretty constantthroughout. The solo part was played withextreme fluidity; the piece seemed to be nei-ther humorous nor extremely profound,though.

All the profundity in the world came ooz-ing out of the next piece, Alleluia, by Ran-dall Thompson. A choral work arranged forwind en emble, Alleluia was offered as amemorial to the victims of the SeptemberlIth tragedy, as the theme of humorousmu ic had been chosen before the events ofthat fateful day.

The real humor followed, with insurancealesman and influential American composer

Charles Ives' Variations on "America." Thefamiliar patriotic tune had been turnedupside-down by Ives, who wrote the varia-tions as a piano piece when he was 17 yearsold. An organist at his church, the mischevi- .ou Ives would try to slip in the weird har-monies from his composition into the Sundayservice. 'With all the sections fully warmedup the Wind Ensemble played this pieceexcellently.

If the program was supposed to emulatean evening at a comedy club, all that hasbeen described is the tuff that warms up thecrowd and the next work, by P.D.Q. Bach, isthe main act. The fourth movement, "Rondo

ucho Grando," was heard from the GrandSerenade for an Awful Lot oj Winds and Per-cussion. The piece started with three drawnout drumroll and cymbal crashes; after thethird cymbal crash, the cymbal players -perfectly out of rhythm - threw his cymbalup in the air and let it fall to the ground in alarge crash. The piece only got funnier asdopey tune after dopey tune was heard, some

of them originals, andothers based on equallydopey popular Americantunes.

Perhap the first halfcould have been more suc-cessful had it ended' withthe P.D.Q. Bach erenaderather than what followed,which was Dvorak'sSlavonic Dance, o.Unlike P.D.Q. Bach's ser-enade, which till oundgreat with not all the partsplayed perfectly due to itshumor, the Dvorak sere-nade requires a level ofrefinement beyond whatthe wind en ernble playerscould muster up after allthat had preceded it.

onetheless, after a hakystart, the player gelledtogether to rovide a con-vincing finish.TIMOTHYSUE -THE TE H

The Chamber Chorus, directed by Bill Cutter, started off the evening of humorous music with the satiricalMo, Sill ,01 The Chamber Chorus was joined by the MIT Wind Ensemble. Wind Symphony, and Festival

Jazz Ensemble for the 2001 Family Weekend Concert held in Kresge Auditorium on Friday night.

Festival Jazz Ensemble

Having had enough of the humor theme,the Festival Jazz Ensemble played three "nor-mal" pieces after the intermission. The firstwas a bebop tune by Charlie Parker calledMoose the Mooche. It opened with a basssolo that set the mood for the rest of the song.With the support of the rhythm section, theensemble was tight throughout the piece;many adventurous solos abounded, too.

A ballad followed, by Ear Brent and MattDennis, called Angel Eyes. The sweet, melo-dious alto saxophone paying of ChrisRakowski '02 was featured throughout thesong, as he offered both a heartfelt interpreta-tion of the head and a well-developed,extended solo.

The concert closed with a favorite tune bythe great pianist and composer TheloniousMonk, called Straight, No Chaser. After atextbook rendering of the head, the audienceheard the' second duel of the night - the firstbeing between two cats -, this time betweentwo trumpets. ate Fitzgerald '02 followedwith a drum solo of his own, which finishedat half the tempo it had started. The slowertempo was kept as all the players seemed tobe playing whatever they felt like, all at thesame time; the effect was a cacophonous oneof overlapping solos.

Though the Parker tun elicited the mostapplause and cheering from the audience, andwas probably FJE's best performance pieceof the evening, the Monk tune was certainlystretched to its limits, and the creativity paidoff.

MlTSOOn the heels of Friday's successful

"evening of humorous music by serious com-posers" featuring the Chamber Chorus, theWind Ensemble, the Percu ion Ensemble,and the Jazz Ensemble, IT offered aprogram for the MIT community and the vi -iting families on aturday ni gh at KresgeAuditorium.

The concert began with the Prelude to ActOne from Verdi' La Traviata. Right fromthe fir t notes, played weetly by the violinsand conducted inten ely a a ways - with-out core - by Music irector DanteAnzolini, the li tener kne the could relaxand enjoy the how, as th uali of whatwas to come would undoubtedly be high. Ofpecial note wa a cello ection 010 near the

end of the prelude, played nobly over anobbligato part e ecuted gracefully by theen rmou violin tion.

A five-movement piece followed - thefirst of two to be heard - by the rgen-tinean compo er Gerardo Gandini, called E

ara, or "And it will be." hough he piecewas coherent in that it had a compositionaltyle -mostly atonal - that Gandini

adhered to throughout each movement was areferen t a di lerent c mpo e' from theBaroque era, such a . rescobaldl Rameau

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and taff the Dining Board, as wellas run community feedback meet-ings regarding where the diningplan is headed. "I think the board iswell on their way to meeting theirgoal, , Capone said.

The new board contains two stu-dent from the Undergraduate so-ciation, two from the DormitoryCouncil, two from the Graduate Stu-dent Council, and one from theInterfraternity Council. .

'There is now heavy studentinvolvement," said Richard D.Berlin ill, director of campus dining.

Board ha 45 da s to de ign planSince the October 11 meeting,

the Campus Dining Board has mettwice. At the board's first meeting,Dean for Student Life Larry G.Benedict reviewed the tasks givento the tudent-Ied group. He saidthat the group had 45 day in whichto design a new sustainable diningsystem addressing goals uch asnutrition, flexibility, choice, andsensitivity to pre-established diningcommunities, such as languagehouses.

Kolenbrander .said that if a newplan could be not decided upon, theadministration would most likelyresort to a mandatory meal plansuch as those proposed in Berlin'soriginal report.

Goals stated at recent meetingThe most recent meeting devel-

oped the drafting of the Board'svision statement, described byCapone as "a set of operationalgoals" for MIT's dining plan.

The Board used an amended ver-sion of a statement drafted byVikash K. Mansinghka '04 whichfeatured the three main goals of par-

ticipant satisfaction, ystem-widefinancial accountability and vendorfinancial accountability.

The portion regarding financialaccountability states that unreason-able financial contributions cannotbe made by MIT, and vendor mustbe accountable for their own profitsand 10 ses. According to the visionstatement, this requires a significantnumber of vendors who are willingto participate. The plan is an aboutface from the present plan, in whichAramark is the sole provider oncampus.

The Dining Board amended theplan to include provisions for pro-tecting the communities pre ent inthe current dining system.

"There was great consensus onthe vision statement, but we neededto integrate them to one draft,"

apone said.

andatory plan not dead etOver the weekend there was dis-

cussion on campus as to whether themandatory plans were dropped, fol-lowing an e-mail sent by DiningBoard member Michael . Mulva-nia '03 as a summary to other IFCmember.

'Some students took the e-mail toimply that Chancellor Clay haddecided to drop the mandatory mealplan altogether, but Mulvania laterclarified his e-mail and said thatnothing had been finalized.

Bradley T. Ito '02 said that"there have been no promisesmade" regarding a non-mandatorydining plan. However, he noted thatClay is looking to the Board foranother viable plan, and Kolenbran-der is optimistic about developingan optional meal plan.

"There are currently no propos-als on or off the table," Benedictsaid.

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government, interior decorating, androom election poli yare among theprimary on ideration for ,the

ponge ommittee.'Thing ar wide open, , Roberts

id. e're working on getting tu-dent to generate option.' im-mon Hall i intended to build atrong ense of community and fea-

life i ue for immon Hall.' Ti making a t p in th right direc-tion in getting tudent input,"Dubnsingh aid.

Others, however, e pre eddoubt that the meeting would haveany real impact on re idential life at

immon Hall. '1 think that thenature of the dorm isn't really goingto be affected by the decisions madein thiscommittee but rather by thepeople who actually live there," saidMargaret H. Cho '04. ' 1 don't knowhow much of an impact thi willreally have."

mons Hall Founder Group held aninformational meeting last Tue day,informally known the' ponge

omrnittee.' The name deri efrom a de cription of the buildingby architect teven Holl.

handful of intere ted tudentattended Tuesday' meeting led byFounder' Group member Jeffrey .Robert '02. The meeting primarilyerved to introduce many topic

which need to be re olved in futuremeetings. Computer-generatedimage of the room and commonarea were also on di play.

orne students at the meetingexpre ed intere t in living in im-mons becau e it will offer a largenumber of single , and becau e itgives groups of friend the chanceto live together, "If all of my friendsand 1 could move together into thenew dorm, we could all live togeth-er," said Jacqueline M. Dubri ingh04. "I'm just hoping that, being a

junior and moving in there, 1 willget a ingle. Otherwi e 1 won'tmove in."

(I think that the natureo]the dorm isn't really going

to be qffected... ))Margaret H. Cho )04

Dorm delay decision due soonDespite what Whalen called an

"extreme chedule" from the onsetof construction, Simmon Hall cur-rently has only a one or two weekwindow between the cheduledcompletion date and the date stu-dents would need to move in. MITwill decide before the end of thesemester whether tudents will betemporarily housed in the new grad-uate dorm at 70 Pacific Street.

Ke';;inR, Lang contributed to thereporting of this story,

ture unique policies from other cam-pu re idence and the pongeCommittee meetings will help hapedecisions-on the e topics in themonth to come.

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were atisfied that MIT is lettingstudent debate many of the student

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Trujillo to Begin Job with Study of Student Culturetion, like the ability to forge con-sensus and involve the right peoplein decision-making.

The search firm turned up fivecandidates who met with Benedict.Two, including Trujillo, were invit-ed back for a full day of interviewswith the search committee, Under-graduate Association and Graduate

tudent Council representatives, andstaff from RL LP and MIT Medical.

tudents preferred Trujillo to theother finalist, Capone said, and Tru-jillo's broad approach to studentsuccess "made him a winner" toCapone.

"In his interview [Trujillo] did-n't mention alcohol. What he talkedabout was student success," Caponesaid. "I could see that the kind ofthings he does would be helpful forour community."

about dangerous drinking and relat-ed i sues.

A later lcohol working groupsupported the creation of the posi-tion, according to Benedict, but, asCapone explained, the group'swork was upended last year inanticipation of the new dean. Theworking group had come to a pointwhen the new dean's input wouldbe needed to proceed further,Capone said.

Trujillo cho en after long earebMIT hired a professional recruit-

ment firm to earch for potentialcandidates, but the first three final-ists elected in the spring weredeemed unsuitable for MIT. Thefirm was then given a behavioralcompetency model outlining theskills and qualities MIT required inan associate dean for alcohol educa-

Working group led to po itionTrujillo focu ed on MIT' potentialto be proactive in dealing with alco-hol i ues.' MIT i going into animportant next pha e" with tudentdevelopment i ues, Trujillo aid., tep that are being taken by peo-ple there right now. I hope to be apart of that. '

Trujillo feels that overcomingthe stigma of having problems willbe important to helping students."When you're working in a settingof excellence like thi , one of thething that makes it even more of achallenge is when you talk about

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dents make very smart decisionswhen it comes to alcohol, so we'renot trying to demonize drinkers,"Trujillo said. "All we're reallydoing is promoting the health that'salready among the students."

Trujillo, from Page 1

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SPORTS

An armada of rowers passes the Western Avenue Bridge as it makes its way down the Charles River.

MIT Crews Fare Well inHead of the Charles RegattaBy Brian RichterTEAM MEMBER

MIT s four rowing squads faredwell in this weekend's Head of theCharles Regatta. Each of thesquads-heavyweight men, light-weight women, lightweight men, andopen weight women-bested its per-formance relative to last year's field.

The heavyweight men foundthemselves in front of the pack inthe Championship Four event. Thelightweight women moved up sever-al place to become the fourth colle-giate finisher in their event. Thelightweight men fmished one placein front of league rival Georgetown,which IT lost to last fall in theevent. And the open weight womenfinished several places higher in theClub Eight event than la t year.

STANLEY HU-THE TECHMIT Professor of MathematicsHartley Rogers continues hislong-running tradition of racingin the Veteran Singles division.

Hea eight en' ar ityThe heavyweight men's entry in

the Championship Four- icholaK. bercrombie '03 stroke) JoshuaG. Kubit '03, Collin P. Ward '03,Brian K. Richter '02, and Jonathan

L. Berkow '03' (cox}-did not knowwhat to expect coming into thiweekends race. Although they hadwon the Head of the Ohio regattatwo wee earlier in Pittsburgh, theteam faced a typically strong Headof the Charles field. This year thecompetition- featured boats from fi ecountries, including u tralia andteams from all of the top orthAmerican collegiate crew .

Because MIT had not entered theChampion hip Four in previousyears, the boat started towards theback of the pack, behind Yale. TheBeavers kept a tight margin on theElis through the first half of thecourse, although they lost a littleground in the last half of the courseto finish in 17: 11.

The Beavers placed sixth amongcollegiate crews and thirteenth over-all, managing to beat cross-townand league rivals, ortheastern andBoston University. The Beaversbeat other league rivals yracuseand Rutgers as well.

Ligbtweight omen' arsiComing off of a very successful

season last spring the lightweightwomen had high expectations forthi year's Head. They raced wellon unday, finishing 8th with a timeof 18 :02, almo t a minute fasterthan their performance last year.

gainst the other colleges the teamfini hed fourth behind Wisconsin,Radcliffe, and Emory. The teamwas very excited to :finish in front ofPrinceton, who won the ationalChampionship last June.

The lightweight made up themo t time in the last mile. 'Wemanaged to really pick up secondcoming around the I 0 degree turnbefore Elliot Bridge," said coxswain

irupama . Rao '04.'Bottom line, it felt great and

now we are all hungry for more inthe spring," said Lesley D. Frame'04.

-Racing in MIT's women's light-weight boat were coxswain irupa-

Laughter '02, William J. Arora '03,Michael T. Donohue '03, Skip Dise'03, Zachery A. Lavalley '03, and

andi S. Lin '03.MIT shaved over forty seconds

and posted times of 16:29 and 16:53to :finish in the middle of the field ofnearly 70 competitors.

From Bow to Stern, their boatconsisted of Jeffrey Greenbaum '04,

STANLEY HU-THE TECH

The MIT Varsity Ughtweight women's eight powers its way to an 8th place finish. Pictured, from left toright: Njrupama S. Rao '04 (coxswain), Megan l. Galbraith G, Hillary K. Rolls '02, Aditi Garg '03, Chan-dra J. Claycamp '03, Sarah K. Venson '03, Lesley D. Frame '04, Emily M. Craparo '02, Julie E. Zeskind G.

rna S. Rao '04, Megan L. GalbraithG, Hillary K. Rolls '02, Aditi Garg'03 Chandra J. Claycamp 03Sarah K. Yens on '03, Lesley D.Frame '04, Emily M. Craparo '02,and Julie E. Zeskind G.

. Lightweight en's ar ityThe Varsity Boat raced in the

Championship Lightweight Eightevent on unday and, despite a rag-ing headwind, posted one of theirfastest times of the year with a15:37.

Their lineup consisted of EamonF. Walsh '03, Eric A. Dauler '02

odari . itchinava '02 Mark D.

off their time from last year, and fin-ished in 12th place in a fiercelycompetitive field that was full ofcurrent and former national teamrowers from around the world.

Openweigbt WomenMIT's Heavyweight women fin-

ished ] 9th in a time of 18: 13 in theClub Eights event on Saturday, upsixteen places from their 35th.placetime last year.

Other CrewsThe heavyweight men' and

lightweight men's N boats raced inthe Club Eight division on Saturday,

Harvard lightweights show ·offtheir post-race attire.

Aadel A. Chaudhuri '04, Atif Z.Qadir '04, Jeffrey T. Loh '03, IsaacM. Dinner '02, Michael P. Farry'04, John C.-Ho '02, Luke Schulen-berger '02, and Shana L. Diez '02.

. "We had an amazing sprint at theend our race when we rowed rightthrough the Rowing Club Eight andmanaged to pull off a record time,"saidHo.

MIT also entered aMen's Youth(Freshmen Eight) and a Women's'Youth (Freshmen Eight). Both ofthese crews got to test their speedfor the first time against other majorcollegiate crews.

Also featured in the regatta wereseveral MIT alumni and some boatsfrom the graduate student loanCrew.

otably, MIT alum and USational Team seuller Steve Tuck-

er finished second in the Champi-onship Single event ahead of theGerman scuJler and behind theOlympic bronze medalist from Aus-tralia.

MIT's Heavyweight and Light-weight Men next compete at theTail of the Charles Regatta on

ovember 17, where they hope tocapitalize on their work thi fall and

.over the summer.Hillary Rolls and Mike Donohue

contributed to the reporting of thistory.