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While the final draft was not circulated until yesterday, many of the changes had been di cussed and voted upon by the UA Council at earlier meetings. ""m very afraid that the post- ponement of the new constitution means that we'll waste another semester of the UA on administra- tive business," said new UA Presi- By Daniel C. Stevenson EDITOR IN CHIEF Buckley Amendment, DoE states that educational records of students should remain confidential. But in his 1992 Student Press Law Center v. Alexander decision, U.S. District Judge Stanley Harris made it clear that the Buckley Amendment could not be used to justify denial of access to campus crime infonnation. Questions about Campus Police's compliance with the law arose following the 1992 theft of an Undergraduate Association election ballot box. The theft, which took place before the amendment had In a meeting more like a barroom brawl than an organized legislative se ion, the Undergraduate Associa- tion Council last night overwhelm- ingly rejected a constitution that would have implemented changes across the entire organization. Instead, the Council passed an amendment to the current constitu- tion that reduces the size of the body by half, one of the flagship provi- sions of the defeated constitution [ ee sidebar, page II]. The new constitution was not passed because "there was too much administrative business" to process at the meeting, said former UAC By Christopher l. Failing ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR As a result of a 1992 clarification of a Department of Education priva- cy act, the Campus Police are now required to release the names of stu- dents they arrest. Historically, the Campus Police have blacked out the names of stu- dents it has arrested, said Chief Anne P. Glavin. "We were con- cerned not only [with] having to comply with the log law, but also with federal law," she said. Under that law, known as the Number of Summer DROPs Down 60% ""Summer funding declines dramatically -By David D. Hsu something that's finite," Shoap said. NEWS EDITOR The amount Qf funding from outside r' The number of Undergraduate sources like the National Science Research Opportunities Program Foundation is also still not definite, projects could drop by 60 percent she said. compared with last summer, accord- Departments like biology are ing to the UROP Office. finding UROP funding scarce. The decrease, which in large part "We're trying our best to find sup- results from changes last year in the port for as many students as we federal rules that govern UROP, can," said Professor of Biology wi)) be felt both by projects funded Gene M. Brown, UROP coordinator by sponsored research money and for the department. "Unfortunately, by the UROP Office. there' isn't enough money to go The UROP Office has denied around." f 'rect summer funding to more than Professor of Electrical Engineer- 90 of the approximately 250 stu- ing and Computer Science Richard dents who submitted proposals by D. Thornton, EECS UROP coordi- the April 12 funding dea~line, said nator, also expects the number of Debbie H. Shoap, UROP staff asso- summer UROPs to "be down signif- ciate. The total amount requested icantly," although numbers have not was more than double the summer yet been taHied. UROP stipend budget, she said. UROP is receiving donations By contrast, last summer over from alumni, but "the money 900 students held paying UROPs, received all went into [UROP's] about 600 of whom were funded endowment, and we can't touch it," completely from sponsored research Shoap said. funds. The UROP Office has suggest- Approximately 200 students last ed that students lacking full fund- summer were funded with a combi- ing pursue a part-time UROP. Stu- nation of UROP and sponsored dents could then either seek research funds. Last year's govern- another part-time UROP or other ment regulations change restricts employment. r. UROP from matching its own .. funds with faculty funds in this Increase in UROPs (or credit way. Some departments experienced The UROP Office has not yet an increase in for-credit UROPs for released actual figures on this sum- mer's budget. "It's ever varying, not UROP, Page 13 .INSIDE Committee Evaluates Walker's Role and Use Plans Include a Variety of Structural and Functional Improvements • Proposed UA Constitu- tion changes. Page 11 MITSO'sRequiem full of heart. ~Page8 • Englishman an excit- ing story of dirt. Page 8 • Butt 1hunpet blows hard but well with Enema. Page 9 '.~-------' By Stacey E. Blau NEWS EDITOR The Walker Memorial Strategic Planning Committee is currently developing a "program concept to determine ... the mission" of Walk- er Memorial, said Director of the Campus Activities Complex Phillip 1. Walsh, chair of the committee. The plan will examine both the physical repairs needed and a restructuring of the inter- nal space for more efficient and diverse use, said Amy T. Mackay '97, the student repre en- tative of East Campus and Senior Hou e. Suggestions have included propo al for a wellness and fitness center, a performing arts center, a grad'uate student center, a cultural center, and an international center, Walsh said. The final plan may incorporate one or more of these recommendations, he said. Walker still needs "major reconstruction" to repair structural problems, meet safety codes, and comply with the Americans with Disabili- ties Act of 1990, Mackay said. Plan for this' summer include replacing the elevator, con- verting a torage room into a handicap-acce i- ble re troom, and repairing acce ramps on the third floor, Wal h said. Walker has already undergone several reno- vations over the past year. The third-floor gym- nasium, which was closed and repaired last year because of structural problems, was sand- ed and refinished last summer. The gymnasi- um, which serves as a testing room during the week, is open for basketball and volleyball on Friday nights and weekend . Pritchett Snack Bar on the second floor of Walker reopened this past fall following exten- sive renovations. Pritchett boa ts a 50 diner and a late-night convenience store. The committee plans to continue its work Walker, Page t 3

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Volume 115, Number 24 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, May 9, 1995

CPs Now Obey Information Laws

UACsize halved by later amendment

UA Council RejectsNew Constitution

Police log includes namesThe Tech currently publishes the

weekly campus police log, which

been clarified, resulted in the dis-covery by The Tech that the CampusPolice might in fact not have beenabiding by this law.

The Campus Police have beenrequired by Massachusetts state lawto maintain a log of names andaddres es of people they arrestaccessible by the public since 1980.

UA, Page II

Police, Page 10

floor leader and now UA TreasurerRussell S. Light '98. Several elec-tion decisions had to be approved,as we)) as the Finance Board budgetrecommendations.

"Ba ically, people didn't knowwhat [the new constitution] was,"Light said. While the final draft wasnot circulated until yesterday, manyof the changes had been di cussedand voted upon by the UA Councilat earlier meetings.

""m very afraid that the post-ponement of the new constitutionmeans that we'll waste anothersemester of the UA on administra-tive business," said new UA Presi-

By Daniel C. StevensonEDITOR IN CHIEF

Buckley Amendment, DoE statesthat educational records of studentsshould remain confidential. But inhis 1992 Student Press Law Centerv. Alexander decision, U.S. DistrictJudge Stanley Harris made it clearthat the Buckley Amendment couldnot be used to justify denial ofaccess to campus crime infonnation.

Questions about CampusPolice's compliance with the lawarose following the 1992 theft of anUndergraduate Association electionballot box. The theft, which tookplace before the amendment had

In a meeting more like a barroombrawl than an organized legislativese ion, the Undergraduate Associa-tion Council last night overwhelm-ingly rejected a constitution thatwould have implemented changesacross the entire organization.

Instead, the Council passed anamendment to the current constitu-tion that reduces the size of the bodyby half, one of the flagship provi-sions of the defeated constitution[ ee sidebar, page II].

The new constitution was notpassed because "there was too muchadministrative business" to processat the meeting, said former UAC

By Christopher l. FailingASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

As a result of a 1992 clarificationof a Department of Education priva-cy act, the Campus Police are nowrequired to release the names of stu-dents they arrest.

Historically, the Campus Policehave blacked out the names of stu-dents it has arrested, said ChiefAnne P. Glavin. "We were con-cerned not only [with] having tocomply with the log law, but alsowith federal law," she said.

Under that law, known as the

Number of SummerDROPs Down 60%

""Summer funding declines dramatically-By David D. Hsu something that's finite," Shoap said.

NEWS EDITOR The amount Qf funding from outsider' The number of Undergraduate sources like the National Science

Research Opportunities Program Foundation is also still not definite,projects could drop by 60 percent she said.compared with last summer, accord- Departments like biology areing to the UROP Office. finding UROP funding scarce.

The decrease, which in large part "We're trying our best to find sup-results from changes last year in the port for as many students as wefederal rules that govern UROP, can," said Professor of Biologywi)) be felt both by projects funded Gene M. Brown, UROP coordinatorby sponsored research money and for the department. "Unfortunately,by the UROP Office. there' isn't enough money to go

The UROP Office has denied around."f 'rect summer funding to more than Professor of Electrical Engineer-90 of the approximately 250 stu- ing and Computer Science Richarddents who submitted proposals by D. Thornton, EECS UROP coordi-the April 12 funding dea~line, said nator, also expects the number ofDebbie H. Shoap, UROP staff asso- summer UROPs to "be down signif-ciate. The total amount requested icantly," although numbers have notwas more than double the summer yet been taHied.UROP stipend budget, she said. UROP is receiving donations

By contrast, last summer over from alumni, but "the money900 students held paying UROPs, received all went into [UROP's]about 600 of whom were funded endowment, and we can't touch it,"completely from sponsored research Shoap said.funds. The UROP Office has suggest-

Approximately 200 students last ed that students lacking full fund-summer were funded with a combi- ing pursue a part-time UROP. Stu-nation of UROP and sponsored dents could then either seekresearch funds. Last year's govern- another part-time UROP or otherment regulations change restricts employment.r . UROP from matching its own

.. funds with faculty funds in this Increase in UROPs (or creditway. Some departments experienced

The UROP Office has not yet an increase in for-credit UROPs forreleased actual figures on this sum-mer's budget. "It's ever varying, not UROP, Page 13

.INSIDE Committee Evaluates Walker's Role and UsePlans Include a Variety of Structural and Functional Improvements• Proposed UA Constitu-

tion changes. Page 11

• MITSO'sRequiem fullof heart. ~Page8

• Englishman an excit-ing story of dirt. Page 8

• Butt 1hunpet blowshard but well withEnema. Page 9'.~-------'

By Stacey E. BlauNEWS EDITOR

The Walker Memorial Strategic PlanningCommittee is currently developing a "programconcept to determine ... the mission" of Walk-er Memorial, said Director of the CampusActivities Complex Phillip 1. Walsh, chair ofthe committee.

The plan will examine both the physicalrepairs needed and a restructuring of the inter-nal space for more efficient and diverse use,said Amy T. Mackay '97, the student repre en-tative of East Campus and Senior Hou e.

Suggestions have included propo al for a

wellness and fitness center, a performing artscenter, a grad'uate student center, a culturalcenter, and an international center, Walsh said.The final plan may incorporate one or more ofthese recommendations, he said.

Walker still needs "major reconstruction" torepair structural problems, meet safety codes,and comply with the Americans with Disabili-ties Act of 1990, Mackay said. Plan for this'summer include replacing the elevator, con-verting a torage room into a handicap-acce i-ble re troom, and repairing acce ramps on thethird floor, Wal h said.

Walker has already undergone several reno-

vations over the past year. The third-floor gym-nasium, which was closed and repaired lastyear because of structural problems, was sand-ed and refinished last summer. The gymnasi-um, which serves as a testing room during theweek, is open for basketball and volleyball onFriday nights and weekend .

Pritchett Snack Bar on the second floor ofWalker reopened this past fall following exten-sive renovations. Pritchett boa ts a 50 dinerand a late-night convenience store.

The committee plans to continue its work

Walker, Page t 3

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didn't serve in combat for their "all-consuming effort" toward the Aliivictory.

"Millions were heroes here onthe home front," he said. "TheybuHt the planes, the ships, the tanks,the trucks that carried the Alliedarmies into battle. They bought vic-tory bonds to pay for the war. Theycollected scarp metal for weapons,worn-out rubber for tires, leftoverfat for explosives and they planted20 million victory gardens to helpfeed the nation."

Clinton also paid special tributeto the peoples of Great Britain anthe former Soviet Union.

He said that Americans were noteager to enter the war, but "werestirred by the extraordillary courageof the British, all alone and carrying

.liberty's flickering torch intoEurope's darkening night. Pushedby their passion for freedom, prod-ded by. th~ wise leadership of Presi-dent Roosevelt, and provoked, final-ly, by the infamy at Pearl Harbor,Americans went to war."

Clinton - who after his speechflew to Moscow to participate in__Russia's commemoration of V-Eday and to hold meetings with Russ-ian President Boris Yeltsin - alsonoted the terrible toll the war tookon the Soviet people. .

When news of the war's endreached Moscow, he said, millionsof people rushed into the streets in acelebratory frenzy, search lights Islashed the night darkness and a.~1,OOO-gunsalute shook the country:.:=r'side., "'But their joy was dutled by the

pain of their nation's unique' sacrf:-~fice, for one out of every eight Sovi- .et citizens was killed in World WarII: 27 million people," Clinton said,his voice lowering for emphasis."At almost every table in every(Russian) home there was an emptyplace."

storage firm and found "silver bouil-lon and gold bouillon," as well as

. tools, camouflage gear, pipes,pantyhose ,and masks. ,

"Could your ex-husband haverobbed a bank?" she was asked onthe program:

"I don't think so," she replied.- Padilla said the package with theletters and the keys also containedstock certificates, bonds and a lifeinsurance. policy. Neither she nor aPadilla family spokesman could be ...reached for comment Monday, but ...she has said she expects to be calledto testify before a federal grand jurymeeting at Tinker Air Force Baseoutside Oklahoma City this week.

During the interview, Padillasaid that she recently learned thather and Nichols' 12-year-old son,Josh, told -the FBI his father taughthim how to make bombs from popbottles. "I was shocked, very sur-prised," she said. '

In asse sing the evidence againstTerry Nichols, 40, FBI experts arealso examining blue paint chipsfound at a state park where theythink the bomb may have beenstored in a rental truck. They arecomparing them with paint from ablue pickup truck owned by Nichols.

Little has surfaced to link olderbrother James ichols, 41, to thebombing. He is being held withoutbond in Michigan but i ~heduledfor a preliminary hearing on Friday.

"He seems way out at hperimeter at best," one law enforce-ment official said

''There's an awful lot ofstuff pointing to his .(Terry Nichols's) beinginvolved."

-law enforcementofficial

In an interview Monday night onthe syndicat~d TV program "Ameri-can Journal," Nichols's ex-wife,Lana Padilla, said he gave her apackage last November withinstructions not to open it unless hefailed to return .in 60 days. He saidhe told her he was leaving the coun-try for a visit to the Philippines,where his current wife is from.

Padilla, a Las Vegas business-woman who was married to Nichols'for 10 years, said she opened thepackage the next morning and founda letter addressed to her, another

ovation by a respectful group of vet-erans, military officials and active-duty representatives from everybranch of the armed services.

He listed the achievements andcontributions of many seated in thereviewing stands at Sommerall Fieldon this Army base outside Washin'g-ton: Robert Katayama, a privatewith the Japane e American 442ndRegimental Combat Team thatbroke through the Gothic Line inItaly after five months of ferociousassault; Anna Connelly Wilson, anur e in the Iranian desert; AbbenMaGuire, a avy demolition expertwho landed on Omaha Beach;George Ellers, a seaman on CoastGuard boat that protected themovement of supplies across theAtlantic Ocean; Joseph Kahoe, alieutenant ~ith the all-AfricanAmerican 761 st tank battalion dur-ing the 'Battle of the Bulge; andfinally, the Rev. Francis Sampson,an Army chaplain who parachutedinto ormandy and Holland. '

"In their bravery and that of alltheir brothers and sisters in arms,America found the will to defeat theforces of fascism," Clinton said inhis 16-minute speech. "And today,we the sons and daughters of theirsacrifice, say thank you and welldone." .

Clinton referred to today'sthreats from international conflictsand domestic terrorism by notingthat there was one thing even thecourageous World War II veteranscould not do: "banish the forces ofdarkness from the future: We con-front them now in different fonnsall around the world, ano painfuUy;here at home." . .

Btit, he said, the World War IIgeneration "taught us the mostimportant lesson: that we can pre-vai lover the forces of darkness, thatwe must prevail."

During his remarks, Clinton alsoacknowledged Americans who

C Leads FQrt MeyerCommemoration ofV-E DayBy Sam Fulwood IIIWS ANGELES nMES

By George Lardner Jr.and Pierre ThomasTl/E WASI/INGTON POST

WASHINGTO

Federal authorities are consider-ing charging Terry Lynn Nichols, aclose friend of Oklahoma Citybombing suspect Timothy JamesMcVeigh, with direct involvementin last month's terrorist act.

ichols is being held in Kansasas a material witness in the case, butso far has been accused only of con-spiring with McVeigh and Nichols'solder brother; James, to build explo-sives at their farm in Michigan' overthe la t several years.

The April 19 explosion at theAlfred P. Murrah Federal Buildingkilled 176 people, and a nurse waskilled by falling debris during therescue effort.

"There's an awful lot of stuffpointing to his (Terry ichols's)being involved," one law enforce-ment official aid Monday. Evi-dence includes a receipt fo~ a ton ofammonium nitrate that was found atTerry ichol' Herington, Kan., addressed to McVeigh and keys to ahome with one of McVeigh's fin- Las Vegas storage unit.gerprint on it. According to a partial transcript

FBI lab experts have been com- provided by publicist for "Ameri-paring bit of blue plastic recovered can Journal," she said the letter tofrom the bodies of some of the vic- her contained in tructions on how totim with blue plastic drums found distribute hi as et if he died. Theat ichols' home. A second law letter to McVeigh stated in part:enforcement official aid Monday "You're on your own. Go for it! ...that the result were likely to be that As far as heat, none that 1 know."the fragments are "consistent" with Padilla aid she never delivered thethe plastic drums, but nothing more letter to McVeigh, but did ins'pectconclusive. _ the comp.artment at a Las Vegas

ARLI GTO • VA.

President Clinton, in V-E Dayccremonie at Arlington Cemeteryand nearby Fort Mye'r Monday,prai ed every Allied World War IIveteran as "a hero who carried thebanner of justice into the battle forfreedom."

As the flags flying under a cloud-less, azure sky at Fort Myer snapped, Clinton offered reverent words forthose he called "freedom's war-riors" - whose blood and livesforced azi Germany's militaryleaders to surrender in the earlymorning hours of May 7 in a smallschoolhouse in France. Thearmistice took effect May 8, 1945,triggering street celebrations onboth. ides oLthe Atlantic Ocean.

"We come today 50 years laterto recall their triumph, to remembertheir sacrifice and to rededicate our-selves to the ideals for which theyfought and for which so many ofthem died," Clinton said, after beingintroduced by retired Air Force Cot.Frederick B. McIntosh, who flew104 missions during the war, includ-ing dive-bomb raids on D-Day."Because of all you did, we live in amoment of hope, in a nation atpeace."

Clinton, as commander-in-chiefof the U.S. armed forces, began theday of memorials with a stop at theTomb of the Unknowns in thenational military cemetery here. Tothe rumble of a military drum rolland the bursts of a 21-gun salute,Clinton walked stiffly as he placed alarge wreath 'agalnst the white, mar-ble tombs. A bugler played'taps andClinton, who did not serve in thearmed forces, saluted by placing hisright hand over his heart.

Before speaking at Fort Myer,the president, who has had rockyrelations with the military in thepast, was greeted with a standing

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Authorities Consider Charging."Nichols inOklahomanombing J

ORLD & NATION

Clinton-Yeltsin Summit PointsTo Future of U.S.-Russia Relations

LOS A GELES TIMES

PARIS

A grinning Jacques Chirac, the French president-elect, acceptedcongratulations from world leaders and chatted easily with outgoingPresident Francois Mitterrand during V-E Day festivities here Monday.

But, when the celebrations were over, Chirac began the task ofputting together his new government, due to take over sometime nextweek, certain in the knowledge that his presidential honeymoon maybe one of the shortest in French history.

Chirac's victory over Lionel Jospin, a Socialist, by a margin of about53 percent to 47 percent, has for the first time in 21 years put the conser-vative descendants of Charles de Gaulle in power in both the law-mak-ing ational Assembly and the presidency, creating both a formidableforce for change and a charged atmosphere for social upheaval.

For the con ervatives' political opponents on the left, who includemajor trade unions and advocates for the homeless and jobless, theonly avenue for protest until legislative elections in 1998 will be inthe streets, where a crisis of confidence in the new government couldbe born.

And, leaders of tho e groups say, that is just where they will be ifChirac doesn't soon deliver on his vague promises fo increase salariesin industrie where the economic recovery has begun, and, at thesame time, reduce unemployment, which now stands at 12.3 percent,the highest of any leading industrialized nation.

MO cowCold War summitry had one clear goal: to lessen the chances of

global thermonuclear war.In the early years of Ru sian democracy, U.S.-Russian summit

aimed to support Russian reform and cement the U.S.-Russian part-nership.

ow, as Pre ident Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsinprepare to meet here this week, the goals are as murky as the futureof U.S.-Russian relations. The two powers, while certainly n'ot ColdWar-style enemie , seem to be operating on entirely different wave-lengths, responding to domestic political pressure that pull bothaway from common language and toward confrontation over a host ofniggling and not-so-niggling issues.

Russia and the United States continue to share many basic inter-e t on the world scene, analysts here said, and their differences -unlike in Cold War days - are not world-threatening. But both coun-tries have shed the euphoria of their pOst-Soviet embrace without aclear sense of what comes next.

"The rules of the game for Russian-American relations are reallyill-defined," said Michael McFaul, an expert on Russian politics atthe Carnegie Moscow Center. "The Russians don't understand theAmericans' intentions, the Americans don't understand the Russians'intentions, and both sides are doing a pretty bad job of communicat-ing them."

EWYORK

An intense U.S. and allied campaign to win the permanent exten-sion of a global treaty meant to halt the spread of nuclear arms inearing a major victory at the United ations this week, according toU.S. and diplomatic officials.

A comfortable majority of the 178 nations that have signed thenuclear on-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are on record as supportingit indefinite extension, and some U.S. officials ay it may even beapproved by consensus before the month-long U. . review confer-ence ends on Friday.

About 20 nations - including the five declared nuclear powersand some highly vocal developing nations - are engaged in fervent,la t-minute negotiations on a document sponsored by South Africathat official say is widely expected to provide the basis for such acon ensu vote.

The South African proposal would endorse the treaty's exten ionwhile also ordering more inten ive, periodic review of di armamentteps taken by the major nuclear powers - the United States, Britain,

France, Ru ia and China. It would also identify some new disarma-ment measures to be taken by the e countrie .

THE WASHI GTON POST

May's Highs and LowsBy Chris E. Forest

THE WASHINGTON POST

. u.s., Allies May Wm

WEATHER

Chirac Celebrates Election Wm

A high pres ure ridge will keep skies clear for most of Tuesdaywhile diminishing winds can let temperatures rise inland. For MITand Boston though, a sea breeze circulation appears likely keepingtemperatures cool and the warmth to our west. Looking further out tothe midwest, the low pressure system laden with disa ters will brin'grain to the east coast by Wednesday morning and to Mas achusetts bynoon. Possible showers will linger through Wednesday night as thesystem diminishes and moves on slowly. Chances for shower contin-ue to exist into Thursday.

Today: Expect clear sunny skies with scattered clouds developingin the afternoon and a possible ea breeze. High 62°F (17°C).

Tonight: Warmer but clouding over until morning. Low 49°F(9°C).

edne day: Warm with clouds in the morning. Rain howerslikely in the afternoon and evening. High 58°F (14°C). 'Low 50°F(IO°C).

Thursday: Cloudy with chance for showers early then clearing.High 60°F (16°C). Low 46°F (9°C).

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WS ANGELES TIMESLOS ANGELES

More than three months after promising juror that D A testresult would connect 0.1. Simpson to a pair of bloody homicides,prosecutors began the ta k Monday of presenting that crucial evi-dence, opening the most important phase of their case with a briefseminar on genetics.

Dr. Robin Cotton, director of the nation's largest private DNAlaboratory, began her testimony by delivering a basic primer on howDNA works, peppering her lecture with a series of metaphors intend-ed to illuminate the scientifically dense topic. At various points, Cot-ton compared D A to an alphabet, a thread, a zipper, a pair of inter-woven ribbons, a chapter in the genetic book that is the chromosomeand a blueprint for human development similar to the plans for erect-ing a building.

"If we make the assumption that a blueprint contains all the infor-mation for how to build your house," she said, "the analogy is thatDNA contains all the information on how to build you," .

Though she did not describe any results of DNA tests performed byher laboratory in this case, prosecutors say tho e results will reveal atrail of blood linking Simp on to the murder scene - showing thatblood with some of his genetic characteristics was at the scene and thatblood apparently from both victims, Ronald Lyle Goldman and NicoleBrown Simpson, was found inside his car and at his Brentwood estate.

Simpson has pleaded not guilty to the June 12, 1994, killings, andhis legal team is prepared to mount an aggressive challenge to theDNA evidence.

Looking directly at jurors and speaking in a soft, clear voice, Cot-ton illustrated her testimony Monday with neatly drawn charts onsheets of butcher-block paper. She told juror that degradation ofDNA samples never would cause a sample to falsely point to a sus-pect, a notion that defense attorneys have hinted at for week .

Senate Republicans Scale BackProduct Liability Legislation

Prosecutors in Simpson CaseIntroduce DNA Evidence

WS ANGELES TIMESWASHI GTON

Senate Republican leaders, chastened by dissent within their ownparty over a bill to overhaul product liability statutes, on Mondayagreed to a compromise measure that would substantially scale backan ambitious first draft of the reform legislation.

The new proposal, hammered out by Senate Majority Leader Bob. Dole, R-Kan., Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., and Democrat John D.

Rockefeller IV, O-W.Va., would limit the punitive awards that juriescould give plaintiffs in product liability lawsuits to two times theircompensatory damages, or $250,000, whichever is greater. .

At the same time, it would give judges discretion to hand out larg-er awards, although in such cases, a defendant would be entitled toreceive a new trial.

Finally, in cases where small businesses are defendants, the com-promise bill would limit punitive damages to twice compensatorydamages or $250,000, whichever is lesser, giving judges no discre-tion. The measure, which Rockefeller predicted would win "verybroad support," is to be voted on Tuesday.

tiona) terrorism and its efforts toobtain materials and assistance crit-ical to the development of nuclearweapons."

In addition, 'U.S. officials .said,the administration is protestingIran's progress in developing chem-ical weapons and its acquisition oftechnology 'that would allow it tomanufacture its own medium-range,surface-to-surface Scud missileswithin two years.

"There was no precipitatingevent that led to the sanctions deci-sion. lt was the product of a patternof worrying behavior," a key U.S.official' Said. Like other officialswho spoke about Iran, he asked thathis name not be used.

Iran has denied charges that ithas trained Palestinian suicidebombers.

according to Japane e indu try fig-ures.

The administration's grievanceagainst Japan would rely on a rela-tively obscure provision in WTOrules known as the "nullificationand impairment" clause. It wouldargue that anti-competitive featllresof Japan's dome tic market essen-tially have "nullified" the benefits ofthe tariff reductions Japan promisedas the price of admission into theglobal trade body.

If WTO arbiters concur with theU.S. asse sment - and many inter-national trade experts predicted theymight - it would be a considerableembarrassment for Japan. Such adecision would enable the UnitedStates to inflict harsh trade penaltieson Japan without fear of internation-al condemnation and could set aprecedent for similar complaintsagainst restrictive trade practices inother Japanese industri~s.

ers bomb-making - and religion.If true, the charges would repre-

sent the first time that Iran has been'directly linked to specific attacks byextremists attempting to thwart theSeptember 1993 agreement betweenIsrael and the Palestine LiberationOrganization on Palestinian self-government.

And even if not, the Clintonadministration's conviction that thecharges are valid helps explain whyPresident Clinton, who has beenbranding Iran a "paymaster to ter-rorists," signed an executive orderlast .week banning all -U.S .. tradewith and investment in Iran.

The White House said theaction was taken to "underscoreour opposition to the actions andpolicies of the government of Iran,particularly its support of intern a-

Tokyo think twice about taking theircomplaints about U.S. sanctions totheWTO.

U.S. Trade Repre entative Mick-ey Kantor, who broke off negotia-tions with Japanese ,Trade MinisterRyutaro Hashimoto in Canada lastweek after five days of haggling, isexpected to announce within thenext two days which Japaneseimports the administration will tar-

-get for billions Qf dollars in punitivetari ts. .

Japanese-made luxury cars,minivans and auto parts lead the listof products earmarked for sanctions,according to administration offi-cials, who concede that - if consid-ered in isolation - unilateral tariffson those items would violate WTOrules.

Last year, Japan exported about200,000 luxury cars, each costing$35,000 or more, out of totalexports of 1.64 million vehicles,

u.s. Claims Iran Trained Suicideombers to lfinder Peace Process

By Clay ChandlerTHE WASHINGTON POST

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The Clinton administration ispreparing to take a broad complaintagainst Japan to the World Trade. ganization, alleging that excess-gulation and collusion among big

Japanese car markers discriminatesagainst the sale of foreign-madeautos and auto parts.

The administration is readyingthe charge as a counter to possibleaction by Japan, which haspromised to haul the United Statesbefore the Geneva-based trade panelshould Washington impose sanc-tions on Japanese imports in aneffort to open the Japanese automarket.

Administration officials hopeat, at a minimum, the prospect of

a highly visible WTO inquiry intoJapan's restrictive economic struc-tures would make negotiators in

By Robin WrightLOS ANGELES TIMES

US Plans to Take Japan to wroAs Trade Controversy Continues'

WASHINGTON

Over the last six months, Iranhas escalated its campaign to sab<>-'tage the Middle East peace processby training Palestinian suicidebombers who have been increasing-ly successful in kilJing Israelitroops, senior U.S. officials say.

The two suicide bombers whocarried out an attack that killed 22

. Israelis on Jan. 22 had returned. cently from training in Iran, theofficials said. After their deaths theIr~nian government made payments

~ to the families of both men, the otri-.cials added.

Other Islamic' militants reported-ly have been trained in Lebanon andSudan with the help of Iranian fundsand personnel. Their instruction cov- .

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UA Constitutional Debacle Is New Low

Students Should Support the CEG Elves

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laugh. We wonder how such bubble-deficientstudents ever passed their SATs. And wewonder if it's all worth the effort. . _~

Is it ironic that some of the same studentswho feel it's nuisance to fill in all those formsare the same people who turn'to the Guideevery semester looking for advice?

In reality, the CEG threatens to fold everyfew years because of lack of interest andbecause of the enormous academic and emo-tional drain of such responsibility. The lasttime was Nov, 1993, when every editor and-every experienced person quit and washed

, their hands of the entire matter.I think we have recovered significantly

since then, but it is the responsibility of theentire student body to make sure that this onepublication be assured to continue. Whetheryou volunteer to help on the Guide or just goto class in the next few weeks to fill out thecomment forms, you will be helping theGuide just a little bit more. ~

Eva Moy, a senior. in Mechanical Engi-neering, will graduate this June, despite hav-ing devoted her life and sanity to the CEG.

takes, but on making them worse. We would like to know whyleaders of the UA did not learn to follow the correct processafter ~heir first scandal. MIT undergraduates deserve more fromtheir leaders.

The previous constitution was written by people who knewthat their successors might try to make rash changes. They wise- :ly fonnulated protections, checks, and balances to keep the con-stitution coherent and viable. But no protection is effective ifthe officers choose to simply run roughshod over the rules.Thankfully, the UAC recognized this yesterday and demandedthat the rules be followed.

Furthennore, by their own admission, council memberswaltzed into yesterday's meeting without having seen the text ofthe new constitution. Rarely has MIT witness~d so great animpropriety as the suspension of UA rules to replace an old con-stitution with a new document sight unseen. No matter how .important the changes, there is time to make them.according tothe rules and with proper consideration.

The constitution is the fundamental document of studentgovernment. To change it in such a r~ckless, injudici9US, and timmature manner is a disgrace that should not be allowed tohappen.

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review teaching at MIT, to make professorsresponsible for their actions and to praise thosewho perform well. We also answer to the fac-ulty and the departments because of ethicaland financial obligations. Each of those 30departments expects the CEG to come runningto their every need. But there are only 10of uswho do this momentous task. We try our hard-est to do things right the first time. Sometimes

~we mess up, and sometimes we have to say, nowe simply have no more of ourselves to give.

Can you imagine going into Graphic Artsby yourself at 8 a.m. and making 1,000copies?Can you imagine running around campus allday with little luggage carts of envelopes? Wethe elves of the CEG don't enjoy doing thesetasks, but we believe that they are an importantpart ofthe overall review of teachingat MIT.

When some professor asks the class if itwants to fill out the forms .and everybodyanswers no, when some smart aleck draws lit-tle stick figures on the bubble forms, whensomebody chooses to use red pen instead ofNo.2 pencil, when the response rate for mostclasses is ~own around 30 percent we try to

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The leadership of the Undergraduate Association hasreached a new low in its brazen manipulation of its own rules.

Yesterday's unsuccessful attempt. EditorilLl to replace the UA constitution hasfurther broken leaders' trust with

the tudent body. The action would be laughable ifit wasn't soheinous a violation of their own con titution.

The motion that was used to replace the constitution read:uResolved, that the Undergraduate Association Council. .. makeamendments to the UA Constitution without regard to provi-sions of the previous Constitution." Any reasonable person,regardless of their background, can see that this is simplysmoke-and-mirror phraseology being used to hide a flagrantviolation of the rules.

What is even more frightening is that this is not the firsttime the UA has played with the rules. In the middle of the pastelection, to the consternation of The Tech and the candidates,they abruptly changed the dates and requirements. Thankfully,in the resulting furor, the Judicial Review Board stayed theaction and the UA president vetoed it. .

But it seems that the UA cronies (including non-studentJason Solinsky '94) are intent not only on repeating their mis-

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Column by Eva May .STAFF REPORTER

Once upon a time there was a old shoe-maker who worked very hard but stillremained very poor. One night, he carefullylaid out the strips of leather on his work benchand went to bed. The next morning, he awokewith great surprise to find a completed pair ofshoes. How did that happen, he wondered. Sothe shoemaker stayed up one night and sawthat there were little elves who took pity onhim and made the shoes at night.

Every semester, students around the Insti-tute fill out bubble and written comment forms,in praise and complaint of their professors.These forms travel from about 350 classes inthe 30 departments (including each division ofCourse 21, Science, Technology, and Societyand the program in Media Arts and Sciences)to a mysterious office, known to them only asW2Q-403.There the forms are magicaJlytrans-formed into the 200-plus page Course ~valua-tion Guide. Who are these anonymous elveswho take on such an odious task?

First and foremost, the CEG is a way to

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Tech Cartoon Erred: King Favored Affirmative ActionGuest Column by Jonathan D. Taylor

In the May 2 is ue of The Tech. there wasa cartoon depicting Martin Luther King deliv-ering his famous "I Have a Dream" speech[Opinion. May 2]. The cartoon ended with asolemn-looking man saying, "Amen," holdinga report entitled "affirmative action." It is notmy aim here to discu the merits and draw-

acks of affirmative action. Suffice it to saythat periodic reviews of public policy arehealthy in a democracy. and affirmativeaction, like any other policy, should beassessed to make sure its actual and intendedeffects coincide. What I do want to point out- to the contrary of what was implied in thecartoon - is that Martin Luther King favoredaffirmative action.

Consider the Jan. 1965 Playboy interviewwith King. King was asked about a $50 bil-lion program of low interest housing andbusiness loans, medical care, and other itemsthat he and other civil rights leaders wereproposing. He hoped this program wouldachieve. in his words, a "genuine and dra-matic transformation ... in the conditions of

egro life in America." One component ofthis program wa imilar to a provision inthe GI Bill of Right for those returningfrom World War II. According to King. ex-GIs received" pecial point to place themahead in competition for civil service job ."These special points created an environmentthat "encourage[d] preferential empJoy-IJ)ent." liere are some excerpts from theinterview.

"Question: Do you feel it's fair to request amulti-billion-dollar program of preferentialtreatment for the egro, or for any otherminority group?

"King: I do indeed ... Within common law.we have ample precedents for special com-pensatory programs. which are regarded assettlements. American Indians are still beingpaid for. land In a settlement manner. Is nottwo centuries of labor. which helped to buildthis country, a real commodity?

"Question: If a nationwide program ofpreferential employment for Negroes were tobe adopted, how would you propose toassuage the resentment of whites who alreadyfeel that their jobs are being jeopardized by

the influx of egroes resulting from desegre-gation? .

• King: We must develop a federal programof public works, retraining and jobs for all -so that none. white or black. will have cause .to feel threatened. At the present time, thou-sands of job a week are di appearing in thewake of automation and other production effi-ciency techniques. Black and white. we willall be harmed unless something grand andimaginative is done. The unemployed, pover-ty- tricken white man must be made to realizethat he is in the very same boat with the

egro. Together. they could exert massivepressure on the government to get jobs for all.Together. they could form a grand alliance.Together. they could merge all people for thegood of all."

Take. as another example. King's descrip-tion of Operation Breadbasket. an operationhe developed with the goal of "securing ...more and better jobs for the Negro people."The following is an excerpt from King's 1967Where Do We Gofrom Here?

"Operation Breadbasket is carried outmainly by clergymen. First, a team of minis-

ters calls on the management of a business inthe community to request basic facts on thecompany's total number of employees. thenumber of egro employees, the departmentor job classification in which all are located.and the salary ranges for each category. Theteam then returns to the steering 'committee toevaluate the data and to make a recommenda-tion concerning the number of new andupgraded jobs that should be requested. Thedecision on the number of jobs requested isusually based on population figures. Forinstance, if a city has a 30 percent egro pop-ulation. ttfen it is logical to assume thatNegroes should have at least 30 percent of thejobs in any particular company, and jobs inall categories rather than only in menialareas. as the case almost always happens tobe."

.{ think it is fair to say that King saw noinconsistency between his dream of a "color-blind" America and his .remedies for the"color-conscious" one. Opponents of Affirma-tive Action are being dishonest when theysugge t otherwise.

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Letters 1b TheEditor"More Is Better"

Oversimplifies theImmigration Issue

The letter by Christopher P. Hanson '80["Immigrants Do Create Job ,n ~lY 5] pointsout that studies have shown immigrants create. bs for the economy. He then makes the error

xtrapo}ating these results into the illegalimmigrant issue - that if some immigrationis good, a lot of immigration must be better.

If we were to plot the economic effect ofimmigrants versus number of immigrantsadmitted each year, we would find (as thestlidies have shown) that in small numbersthey produce a net benefit to the economy.Say we were to admit 100 million immigrantsthis year - it would throw our economicinfrastructure into chaos. Connect these twopoints and somewhere in between there is apoint where additional immigration starts to

become bad for the economy.The que tion is not whether immigration i

good or bad - it can be both. The questionsare: At what point does immigration becomebad? Are we able to determine thi point accu-rately enough to make good immigration poli-cy? Can we do so in an unbiased manner?Have we exceeded thi point? And if so, towhat lengths should we go to discourageimmigration beyond this point (i.e., illegalimmigration)?

I dQn't know the answers to the e ques-tions. But pointing to studies that how ourcurrent limited immigration creates jobs over-simplifies the issue.

John H. Kim G

MITSO Review DoesThe Tech a DisserviceI recently came across the review of the

concert given by the MIT Symphony Orches-

tra on March 10 ["MIT Symphony disappointsin group supporting role," March 14]. I hope itis not too late to request someone other thanThomas Chen to review the orchestra. He dida real di ervice to the credibility of The Techin writing hi last review.

If Chen believes that the violin ections"sound like someone taking a rake and drag-ging it over a chalkboard," then why does hebother going to the concerts? Actually, Iwould like to ask jf he really went to this con-cert. Contrary to his snobbish, derogatorycomments, the string played in tune and withgood tone. The or:chestra played well as anensemble. Granted, there were mistake ; thisis an amateur orche tra, composed mo tly ofvery busy tudent. These mistake aside, theTchaikovsky was very well received by theaudience.

Strangers approached mem bers of theorchestra after the concert to prai e the perfor-mance of the Tchaikovsky. Professional mu i-cians told [Conductor David] Ep tein that it

was a remarkably fine performance. If the per-formance was truly as horrible as Chen wouldlead one to believe, then why would audiencemember say such things?

In addition to writing statements that vergeon libel, Chen writes laughably bad prose. Hisdescription of the Tchaikovsky seems to comefrom liner notes, and extremely poor ones atthat. There are technical flaws as well. Heuses tautologies, such as "a popular favorite."I have never heard of an unpopular favorite."Bassoon" is pelled, as one can see, with notone "s," but two. Someone using such superi-or tones in his writing ought to take care thatthe writing itself is impeccable.

I realize that this review was an individ-ual's opinion, but Chen seems to have hisobjective reviewing abilities clouded by preju-dices. In the interest of fair reporting, TheTech should end someone else to the perfor-mance of the German Requiem. Chen doesnot seem up to the task.

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.artfelt Requiem;

THE ARTSson's voice projectedboldness worthy tocompete with theintensity of the cho-rus. Yet the interplaybetween Colton andthe chorus wa muchless accommodatingsuch that even herfirm high rangeseemed unable toleash in her partners.

As the perform-ers expressed it, theRequiem seemed toembody omethingof light that passesthrough darkness.Sweetly innocentsopranos shuttledaudiences to realmsoutside death andpain. The resurrec-tion during the sixthmovement, in whichthe climax queries,"[Grave, where isthy victory]?"stretched into amagisterial fuguethat h d Ii ht on RICHFLETCHER-THET£h she .g f Conductor John Oliver (center) and soloists Ken Goodson and Kendra Colton stand for applause following Fr

t e e.x ortatlOns 0 day night's performance of Eln deutches Requiem, In Kresge Audltorlum.The performance featured the MITprevtlOGuS d mllove- symphony orchestra, MIT Concert Choir, and MIT Chamber Chorus members.men s. ra ua y, anincreasing sense of revelation blossomed usually forecast disaster. Even through the fully aware of the difficulties beforehanfrom the grim march of the second move- rust, one could taste their ardor. Even if their Nearing, this conclusion, they closed backment. sense of the music's arch was often truncated, upon that initial inspiration between two dia-

The MITSO and Concert Choir themselves no mistakes fazed the musicians and their metrics of sadness and joy. The final chordsseemed to extend from these dichotomies - drive. briefly hushed the audience, and followingfrom the cramped stage, they scattered bits of At end of the piece, the performers was zealous applause - a most deservinglight in spite of the technical concerns that seemed to have taken an exhilarating journey, consolation.

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don't think the MIT Symphony Orche trapretend to be a finely-oiled machine. Con-tinuou Iy gravitating toward some of themost difficult music fathomable, they and

the M IT Concert Choir seem to run on purecourage and love for the music they choose.

During Friday night's performance ofBrahms' Ein deutsches Requiem (A GermanRequiem), Op. 45, the MITSO and ConcertChoir proved that there is mu ical life with-out flawless technique. Though no paragonof profes ionalism, the ensemble somehowsang and played their hearts to admirableheights.

As a meditation on the living and the dead,the Requiem exists on a spirillJal plane farabove the notes themselves. Friday's perfor-mance under the direction of John Oliverfeverishly expre sed the elusive joys trappedwithin layers of mourning. After a solemnopening, the chorus entered with an etherealsound, emanating a sort of glorious vigor.And a brilliant fugues that erve to culminatepassion neared, the players simply couldn'tretain their excitement.

Other instances of brimming zeal seemedalso to drown out soloist Kendra Colton(soprano) and Kenneth Goodson '89 (bari-tone) during movements five and six. Good-

Mil PRESENTSTHE BRAHMS' REQUIEMIT Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus &the MIT Symphony Orchestra.John Oliver, conductor.Soloists: Kendra Colton. soprano;Kenneth Goodson '89, baritone.Kresge Auditorium.Friday, May 5 at 8p.m.

By Craig K. ChangASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

reached the 993 foot mark and a great deal ~hard physical labor is washed downhill. Thisevent is taken particularly harshly by thelocal shell-shocked "Johnny," who tlashe ~..,back to the muddy trenches of World War I.(It is hard to imagine a more dramatic way toillustrate the damaging effects of a little rain.)

The Englishman is an excellent film,although it does leave some questions unan-swered. For starters: Where are all the localwomen? If all of the village's young men areaway fighting the Germans, then why arethere so many able-bodied men left in thetown? Women are all but nonexistent in thefilm. Although wives are shown carrying 0.;

. alongside their husbands, only one femacharacter is given a personality. Even then,Miss Elizabeth (Tara Fitzgerald) does notappear until the end, when her flirtatious per::fIlsonality is called upon to provide a reason forAnson to stick around another day. But evenwith this gender bias, The Englishman pro-vides a pleasing portrait of a provincial pocketof Welsh patriarchy.

example, the camera pans across the faces ofeveryone present, firmly establishing theirlocal importance. The narrator too is influen-tial in lending the film a nostalgic touch.When the camera zeroes in on one person inparticular, the narrator will utter a few linesabout the person. In this way viewers areintroduced to the bartender, the preacher, therailroad ticket-taker, the blacksmith, the neu-rological war casualty, and the village's iden-tical "teched" idiots. Every bucketfull of dirtis important, the film seems to say, and everycarrier is playing a crucial role in the estab-lishment of Fillan Garoo as an official moun-tain.

A comical sub-plot develops around thevillagers' attempts to keep the English map-makers in town until the hill has reached itscritical level. The villagers do everythingthey can think of, from slashing tires and dis-sasembling Anson's automobile to feigningignorance about the existence of outboundtrains. Another plot tw.ist comes from Mother

ature. Rain sets in just as Fillan Garoo has

Although the locals are excited by theprospect of eeing their tiny town on one ofHer Majesty's official maps, they become out-raged when Anson announces that theirbeloved Fillan Garoo is but a 984-foot hil!.According to the official geological rules, amountain must measure at least one thousandfeet. The scrappy villagers thus take it uponthemselves to correct mother nature's "error"by hauling sixteen feet of dirt up the hill inwooden buckets.

The amazing thing about The Englishmanis that although the plot is incredibly simple,viewers are nonetheless drawn in. DirectorChristopher Monger goes out of his way tocapture the villagers' indignation at the Eng-lishmen's official demotion of their preciouspile of dirt. "The Germans have taken ourlads," the narrator proclaims, "and now theEngli h have taken our mountain. Is nothingsacred?"

The film's strength stems from its abilityto turn nearly every male villager into a char-acter in his own right. In the local pub, for

Written and directed by Christopher Monger.Starring Hugh Grant. Tara Fitzgerald.and Calm Meaney.Sony Nickelodeon.Opens Friday.

By Teresa EsserSTAFF REPORTER

A canning plot prevails over dirt in The EnglishmanTHE E GLISHMAN WHO WENT UPA HILL BUT CAME DOWNA MOUNTAIN

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hillbut Came Down a Mountain providesan excellent look at provincial life inWales during World War I. While the

town's young men are out digging trenches inFrance and Belgium, their fathers spend theirtime drinking beer in the local pub and mak-ing bets about the height of their local moun-tain. Enter Anson (Hugh Grant), an English-man whose duty it is to assist a topographer(Colm Meaney) in mapping Wales's mostprominent geological features.

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Ballet's reworking of Taming of the Shrew s cceedssound of the harp ichord. Other choreogra-phers eeking distinctly different ideas in bal-let soon recognized the richness of Scarlatti'ssonatas - thus came Harlequin for President(1936), La Reja {I959), and Scarlatti (1979).In 1969, Kurt-Heinz Stolze composed varia-tions on themes from Scarlatti to develop anindependent orchestral arrangement, whichalso included the long-neglected harpsichord.The final re ult is an orchestral form of cham-ber music in the Baroque style - as strange

yet most delightful a musical feast for the earsas the delicate dancing is for the eyes.

o doubt that Pollyana Ribeiro (Kather-ine) and Patrick Armand (Petruchio) deservemuch praise for the success of this ballet. Theskill with which Ribeiro personifies the tem-peramental Katherine, as well as her abrupttransformation, is remarkable even by Broad-way standards. Armand deserves equal appre-ciation both for his acting and for his dancingtechnique, which makes the toughest moves

, seem effortless. Otherdancers will take turns asKatherine and Petruchio- all worth seeing,though this coming Fri-day and Sunday BostonBallet will host WilliamMarie, and I especiallysuggest watching himwith Larissa Pono-marenko. Paul Thrussell,Robert Wallace and Vic-tor Plotnikov will alsoappear as Petruchio, whileJennifer Gelfand andAdriana Suarez will alsostar a Katherine.

Taming of the Shrew isa suitable choice forBoston Ballet for the lastproduction of quite a suc-cessful and productiveseason, which includedboth classical and modemworks: Giselle, The Nut-cracker, Coppelia, the"American Festival", andnow, Taming of theShrew. And next seasonpromises to be .evenwealthier, as it wi IIinclude Happily EverAfter, Tales of the Arabi-an Nights, A MidsummerNight's Dream, TheSleeping Beauty, and fol-lowing their tradition ofcreating entirely newrepertoire, Hot & Cool.

It is not quite for sure,though, whether anyoneof these will be able torepeat the success ofTaming of the Shrew.Performances run on Iyuntil May 21, so reserveyour ticket now and feelShakespeare's words

.. through this dazzling andPatrick Annand (Petruchlo) and Adriana Suarez (Katherine) star In the Boston elegant display of danc-Ballet production of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. ing.

Although the story line of hake peare'soriginal comedy is quite intricate, the simplic-ity of the ballet and the natural flow of thedancing it elf is quite remarkable. What isreally amazing i that choreographer JonCranko remain almost completely faithful tothe literary ver ion of Taming of the Shrew,and unifies body motion and dancing to ub-stitute for the mi ing words. What has comeout is a "comedy in two acts", with the only

. real difference being that the actors aredancers. It seems thatCranko possesses an out-standing ability and incli-'nation to translate proseinto vivid movement. Heenjoys making the ballet"speak" to the audience,and considers introductoryprogram notes to beunnecessary guides to theplot. "It must be because 1have the theater in myblood," he once said. "Ialways want people to'enjoy themselves." Natu-rally, then, Taming of theShrew is not your classicalNutcracker or Swan Lake,which are based on fairytales and mesmerize theaudience not with theirstory lines but with splen-did dancing. Rather,Cranko's choreography isa delightful cOInpromisebetween acting and vividdancing - closer to pan-tomime than to either.

The music of Tamingof the Shrew is also atypi-cal of Tchaikovsky'sromantic tunes. The musicheard in the ballet isderived from the early18th-century composi-tions of Domenico Scar-latti. Apparently, hisBaroque Age melodieswere not rendered suitablefor the spirit of a balletthroughout the Romantic .Era, until 1917, when 23of Vincenzo Tommasini'sarrangements of Scarlat-ti's sonatas were used forthe Ballets Russes produc-tion of The Good-Humored Ladies. The useof this 18th-century musicproved quite daring andoriginal, particularly the

By Hur KoserSTAFF REPoRTER

Taming of the Shrew is Boston Ballet'slatest masterpie<;e. It is created with allthe action, humor, and expressivenessof Shakespeare's original comic mas-

terpiece, combined with the elegance of clas-sical ballet. Reminiscent of this season's Cop-peJia in its plot and characters, this ballet alsosets out to tell a similar tale - a tale abouttrue love.

Bianca, the daughter of the well-to-doBaptista, has three suitors: Hortensius,Gremio, and Lucrentio, all of whom serenadeher in the beginning of Act One. Biancaexplains to the suitors that her father will notconsent to a marriage before Katherine, Bap-tista's free-thinking daughter, has found asuitable husband. Unfortunately, Katherinehas no suitors, since she is notorious for herquick temper and sharp tongue - both ofwhich stem from unceasing comparison to heryounger sister's beauty and sweet disposition.

The three suitors enlist the penniless Petru-chio, whom they meet in a tavern, to pursueKatherine's hand in marriage. Excited by theprospect of marrying a wealthy girl, Petruchio

~, follows them to Baptista's 'house. 'While theyounger sister comes to see that Lucrentio isthe most admirable of the three scheming suit-ors, Petruchio has begun to woo Katherine.

~ She first takes Petruchio's advances as mock-eryand thus takes offense; but once she seesthat he is persistent, Katherine believes hisintentions are true, and they decide to marry.

Nevertheless;the marriage turns out to bea nightmare for Katherine. In Act Two, we seethe newlywed couple after a tumultuous wed-ding ceremony: Katherine is furious at Petru-chio's behavior, and defies her husband atevery turn. In response, Petruchio proves to beeven more stubborn than Katherine herself; hesets out to "tame" her and refuses to let hereat. She in turn refuses to go to bed with him,

I • ~nd spends the nig\1t 911 the kJtchen floor. Bythe following day, Katherine pretends to givein to be able to eat, and in doing so, she dis-covers that her husband is actually kinder,more full of life and love than she thought.Contrasting with the apparent "match"between Lucrentio and Bianca, the pairing ofPetruchio and Katherine shows that things arenot always what they appear to be in mattersof heart .

TAMING OF THE SHREWBoston Ballet.Choreographed by John Cranko.Directed by Bruce Marks.Music conducted by Jonathan McPhee.At the Wang Center through May 21.

Butt Trumpet produced Primitive Enema,their first big release, in two days. They havean album coming out in a few months - theyplan to take their time on it and produce it in aweek.

As a guiding principle, lead singer BiancaButthole says she wi hes people would "takethe cork out and live a little." With a mottolike that, what can she do but succeed?

Butt Trumpet may be reached at [email protected] via the internet.

silly to begin with.New songs included "Fi h Taco,~' a song

about a cross-dre sing pro titute; "Diarrhea:' aversion of the popular elementary school song;"I Want to be on Epitaph," a ong ridiculingthe MTV musical program of that name; and'" Hate You," a song about Bianca's ex-hus-band. Butt Trumpet closed their performanceat Strawberries with an impressive acousticversion of "I Hate You," whose electric ver-sion was too raw and indecipherable.

.,Butt Trumpet delivers electric and acoustic EnemaBunTRUMPET involved less raw

noise; also, thelyrics in most songswere actually dis-cernible. In bothperformances, ButtTrumpet played

By Rob Wagner songs from Prim i-STAFF REPORTER tive Enema as well

The band Butt Trumpet formed four as new ones, whichyears ago in Los Angeles. In the punk- they hope to releaserock style of the Sex Pistols, Butt in a new albumTrumpet is a hilarious anti-grunge soon.

band. Their latest album, Primitive Enema, Songshas one track entirely devoted to killing hip- Primitive Enemapies, and one devoted to the current "police . included the popu-

~- state." lar "I'm Ugly and IButt Trumpet consists of Bianca Butthole, Don't Know Why,'

lead singer and occasional bassist, Blare N. which gets radioBitch, lead guitar and backing vocals, Sharon airplay in Boston;Needles, bass, backing vocals, and occasional "I've Been so Madlead vocals, and Jerry Geronimo, who plays Lately," by far theirthe drums and cymbals. The lead singer on best song, in whichPrimitive Enema, Thorn Bone, quit the band Bianca .vents herbecause, according to group members, "he anger; and "Funeralcouldn't hang." Crashing Tonite," a

Butt Trumpet performed as the opening act rather humorousfor Sam Black Church at Avalon on Friday. song .about rum-How they became associated with a horrible bling with a funeralband like Sam Black Church is beyond com- party to steal theprehension. That day also happened to be body. Other stand-Bianca Butthole's birthday. As part of the out tracks include Though the sound reaches back to the Sex Pistols, Butt Trumpet maintains Its own comic/social Identity.show, men in goofy masks and underwear. "Pink Gun," aboutbrought a cake on to the stage and sang to her. a fifteen year old seeking revenge with a gun;

Butt Trumpet played again on Saturday at "Dead Dogs," whose subject matter is obvi-Strawberries Records in Kenmore Square. OtiS; and "I Left My Flannel in Seattle," whichThey played acoustic versions of songs from derides grunge. Showing their hate for grungethe previous night. Band members jokingly at Strawberries, they caned for anyone wear-

?~bu~d:::~V;~:butttrumpet ~~~~a:;e~~~Unplugged." dance a sillyThis acoustic performance 'Jy far outshined dance for them. At Avalon, Butt TrumpettheIr l~tric performance from the previous closed their performance with an unimpres-,night. It highlighted their musical talents and sively noisy version of "Dead Dogs," which is

. Primitive Enema.~, Chrysalis/EMf Records.

Concert at Avalon; Friday, May 5 at 6p.m.Appearance at Strawberries Records inKenmore Square, Boston; Saturday, May 6.

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If the complaint is settled inter-nally, then there is no public recordof the incident, Glavin said. Howev-er if the complainant wishes to presscharges, .a complaint is initiated incourts of the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, she said. -;

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"The community needs to knowwhat is going on, but the identitiesof [victims] is not critical," Glavinsaid. Most of the arre ts on campusdo not involve members of the MITcommunity, and arrests involvingstudents are even more scarce, shesaid.

When asked about The Tech'sMay 2 publication of the name of astudent who was arrested, Glavinsaid, "Under the circumstances Idon't think that it was the best thingto do. I wish the name had not beenpublished."

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UA Rejects Constitution, Votes to Shrink CouncilUA, from Page I cials, and other participants mixed provi ion wa the only uch mea- The debate over the new consti- to the UA and not turn people off,"

Proposed UAConstitution ChangesCurrent Constibdion Defeated Constibdion

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he said.

Implicit electronic voting proposedOne of the most significant pro-

po als in the new constitution is aprocedure for UAC electronic vot-ing. According to the defeated con-stitution, the UAC Floor Leadercould send a motion deemed byExeccomm to be uncontroversialand "likely to pass the council by alarge motion" to councillors viaelectronic mail. If less than five UAmembers register an objection with-in seven academic days, the motionwould pas .

The UAC's work la t year wasbogged down with technical amend-ments, according to Light. ..It wasnot necessary to let them lay on thetable for two weeks" as required bythe cur:rent constitution, Light said.

"We're trying to prevent the UAfrom wasting time as it has in thepast," Muh said. Electronic votingwould resolve issues "which other-wise would waste time at UA coun-cil meetings," she said; issues"which nobody would really have aproblem with."

VA G would be eliminatedAside from the change in size of

the"UAC and the advent of electron-ic voting, other major changes pro-posed in the defeated constitutionfocused on a reassessment of theseparation of governmental powers.

"For purposes of determining representation, eachdormitory with fewer than 250 residents shall be entitledto one representative, each dormitory with more than 250residents shall be entitled to two representatives, eachClass Council shall be entitled to two representatives, allundergraduates not in a Class Council shall be entitled totwo representatives, and the Interfraternity Council shallbe entitled to a number of representatives proportional tothe number of representatives from the dormitories andthe number of members of the IFC ... "

Excerpt of VAAmendment

tution was dominated by the ques-tion of clas council representation.

• Cia s council is very importantbecause of the amount of interactionthat we have with our cla smates,"said Cia of 1996 Pre identMatthew J. Turner '96, who is infavor of a strong clas council pres-ence on the UAC. "We do eventswhere the entire class is invited."

Students voice opinions to theirclass officers, who are natural con-duits of student input to the UACouncil. To reduce the class councilrepresentation on the UAC by a fac-tor of four "is ridiculou ," Turnersaid. "'t almost turns the UA into anexclusive group."

A major rea on for reducing theclass council presence wa represen-tatives' poor attendance at recentUAC meetings. "This year has beenthe worst year for class council par-ticipatioJl in UA Council," Turnersaid. However, "that has somethingto do with the way the UA wentabout doing things this year," hesaid.

People were "discouraged aboutcoming" and "wasting their time sit-ting through a meeting that wasn'tdoing anything," Turner said. Sever-al years ago, UAC meetings wererun well, were short, and were"effective in geUing things done,"he said.

"This is absolutely sad that peo-ple argue over one or two represen-tatives," Sankaran said. The UACshould "encourage people to come

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ure passed by the council as anamendment to the current constitu-tion.

Dormitory repre entation wouldhave been reduced to two represen-tative for each dorm with morethan 250 residents and one represen-tative for dorms with 250 or fewerresidents. Interfraternity councilrepresentation would be in line withdormitory representation.

The class council contingent -currently consisting of the four classofficers - would have beenreduced to one repre entative perclass. The text was modified toincrease'the number to two repre-sentatives per cia s, and then pas edas an amendment to the current con-stitution.

UAPvoting member; otherwise, same composition

meetings may be closed to specific UACouncifmembers

position eliminated, different offices responsible forarchives

5 members

decisions may be overruled by 3/4 of UAC'ouncil

1 or 2 representatives per dormitory. 1representative for each class council

any two absences per term result in removal,impeachment in the case of the UAPor UAVPmust meet at least once every 30 days

Council size. dominates debateOne major change introduced in

the new constitution was the down-sizing of the VA Council by a factorof two. A modified version of this

per onal attacks with politicalrhetoric about the future of the UA.

"This is why people get totallyfrustrated with the UA," said outgo-ing VA President Vijay P. Sankaran'96. "Undergraduates don't reallycare about this stuff:' he sid. "Thisis just a waste of time."

At the close of the meeting, Muhwas sworn in as the new VAP,along with new UA Vice PresidentErik S. Balsley '96. Light is the newVA Treasurer, and Ashwin Viswa-nathan '98 is the new floor leader.

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Abbreviations: UA (Undergraduate Association), UA President (UAP), UA Vice President (UAVP), UA Treasurer (UAT), UA secretaryGeneral (UASG), UA Council (UAC),

UASecretary General: secretary for UACouncil,Executive Committee; historian

UACoundJbetween 1and 3 representatives per dormitory4 representatives for each class council

two consecutive, or three-total absenses per termresult in censure

strict requirements on meeting frequency: at least 10days between meetings, at least 2 per month

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Amendments

voting members: UAVP,UACouncil Floor Leader andVice Chair, and 4 UACouncil membersnonvoting members: UAP,UASG,UAT;others

meetings open to all UACouncil members, may beclosed to public.

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dent Carrie R. Muh '96, who was infavor of passing the new constitu-tion. "I was really hoping to get alot of active programs out of the VAnext semester." "

Muh plans to continue work andpush for adoption of a new constitu-tion in the fall.

Many councillors and officersere dismayed by the imbroglio.

"This meeting left a bad taste in themouths of the officers who werehere," said iennifer K. Johnson'98, Burton-Conner house repre-sentative. "This' was almost a'brawl," she said. "This is fun kedup, messed up."

In a qiscussion that was heated attimes, council members, UA offi-

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There are many things at MIT that we like to take for granted. The even'tual spring thaw andfirst warm day spent lounging on the Kresge Oval, an available Athena terminal on the nightbefore a term paper is due, the high green and gray walls of the Infinite Corridor, standingstrong and solid against the stresses of time. These things,give us solace. They give us Iwarmth and security amidst social turmoil and academic anxiety. At first somewhat strange ~and foreboding, they are the things that come to make MIT our home away from"home. Theybecome fixtures in our lives, both passive witnesses of and active participants in the progresswe make as we strive to become more complet~ and enlightened human beings.

Yet sometimes, we know, thes,efixtures must take leave .qf us. These things we like to take forgranted, for the sake of their own need to grow and change, they must part our company.And when they do, we owe it to say a proper good:bye ...

So we say to you Fr. Bernard J. Campbell; thank you,' simply, for being a fixture in our lives.For nine years you were not only our priest,.but you were our teacher, our advisor, ourfriend. You were a voice of sanity in the murmur of MIT madness. You were a beacon ofhope, pointing us towards a greater aspiration~ a greater cause, and a greater love to which wecould devote our personal and professional lives. You have fed us, healed us, and understoodus. You have felt our joy, and have shared our pain. You have forever affecteq our lives,adding new dimension and depth to our intellects, prodding us along through our sometimesfrightening journeys to achieve spiritual grace. Thank you, Father, thank you. For youryears of service, for your years of friendship. You will be missed.

Please come and celebrate our Farewell Mass and Breakfastin honor of Fr. Bernard J. Campbell, MIT Catholic Chaplain

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said. "People hadn't seen them pre-sented in one big format" and werereluctant to vote on the package sosoon, she said.

The VA Council ExecutiveCommittee will meet over the sum-mer to iron out any wrinkles andeliminate any bugs and loopholes inthe document, Muh said.

One goal in the fall will be to"make the proposed constitutionmore publicly available," Balsleysaid. Balsley said he hopes peopleconcerned with the future of the VAwill speak with him and Muh.

"We hope this won't affect theVA in the future," Muh said. "I'mcommitted to passing something thatwill make the VA more effective."

The rejected motion to adopt thenew constitution at the same meet-ing it was introduced was itself inviolation of the current constitution.To circumvent that, VA Councilpassed a special amendment to thecurrent constitution allowing theVAC to vote on a new constitutionat that specific meeting.

Shang-Un Chuang and Ven-katesh Satish contributed to "thereporting of this story.

er," Muh said. However, "the UAPis the person who gets all the flak,upport, and blame for the legisla-

tive items which are passed," shesaid. "We felt that person shouldhave some legi lative power."

Another departure from the sepa-ration of executive, legi lative, andjudicial powers is shown in pro-posed changes to the judicial reviewboard, the judicial organization ofthe VA concerned with interpretingthe governing documents andresolving disputes between bodiesof the UA.

Judboard decisions, currentlyonly able to be Qverturned by a con-stitutional amendment, would beable to be overturned. by a three-fourths vote of the UAC.

The size of the board would beexpanded from three to five mem-bers; in part, because of past prob-lems with members leaving, Muhsaid.

Muh said he plan to continuework on the new constitution andhave omething for the UAC to acton first thing in the fall. The ideas inthe proposed constitution have all

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The office of VA Secretary Gen-eral would have been eliminated bythe new document. The VASG'sprimary re pon ibilities concernkeeping records of meetings andacting as historian.

"The DASG wa a useless posi-tion that did nothing," Muh said.The council already has a secretary,and archival duties would be dele-gated to the various VA offices.

The frequency of VAC meet-ings, strictly reg lated under thecurrent constitution, would have"been Ie s restricted in the new docu-ment. Currently, the council mustmeet no more than two times permonth but with a minimum of 10days between meetings.

The new constitution would haverequired the VAC to meet at leastonce every 30 days, but put no max-imum limits on the frequency.

The UAP currently has no voteon VAC or Execcomm; in the docu-ment, the VAP would be a votingmember of both.

"As it stands now, the presidenthas no legislative power what oev-. .

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the spring term. However, spring DROP statistics have not been final-ized because the total number of for-credit DROPs is not yet known,Shoap said.

The Department of'Mechanical Engineering saw a jump 'in thenumber of students with credit DROPs from 33 to 55, according tothe department." Because of limited funding, th€; Department of Biology no longer

offers paid DROPs during the fall and spring semesters. However,"we've had greater participation this term than any other term,"Brown said. .

The decreased funding "hasn't affected us that much," Brownsaid. One reason is that biology students can apply focredit DROPsthat can be used toward their departmental laboratory requirement, hesaid.

Term biology UROPs'will continue to be offered on a credit-onlybasis. "I don't think there will be any changes," Brown said.

VROP funding will still be tight in the fall. "You can expect fore fall term tha~ it will prob,,~ly be necessary for more students tor'lsider doing UROP for credit," Shoap said. .

Some Depts. ExpectMore Credit DROPs

Editor's note: As of May 2, the names and addresses of peoplea"ested by the Campus Police are being included in the Police Log.

The following incidents were reported to the Campus Policebetween April 28 and May 4:

April 28: Bldg. 35, wallet stolen in Bldg. 37 discarded in dump-ster minus $30; Bldg. E15, backpack and contents stolen, $50; Bldg.E40, Apple Powerbook stolen, $3,000; Bldg. E52, pocketbook stolen,$ 100; Kresge Auditorium, cash stolen from a briefcase, $ 110;

uPont Gymnasium, backpack stolen, $ I00.April 29: Bldg. 7, sculpture and posters stolen, $400.April 30: Windsor Lot, car broken into and radio stolen; Bldg. 45

Lot, 1990 Toyota stolen; Ashdown, harassment; Bldg. E25, DavidReynolds (no residence) arrested for trespassing; W st Garage,m.9torcycle storage area broken into. .

May 1: Bldg. 18, book bag and contents stolen, value unknown;Bldg. 20A, pocketbook stolen, $25; Bldg. 3, slide projector tQlen,$100; Bldg. 7, cash stolen from a wallet, $110; West Garage, motor-cycle stolen, recovered in Somerville; DuPont Gymnasium men'slocker room, $35 stolen; Amherst Street, side view mirrors stolenfrom a Toyota.

" May 2: East Garage, spoiler stolen from an Acura; Bldg. E15,leather bag stolen, $100; Bldg. 39, nylon bag and contents stolen,unknown value; Bldg. E38, T pass stolen, $30; Burton-Conner

ouse, credit card stolen; Bldg. 3l?, wallet stolen, $30 cash and $460check.

May 3: Bldg. WW 15, stamps stolen, $640; Bldg. 11, two chairsstolen, $200; Student Center, I) Rajai Mahmd, of 20 River Street,Cambridge, arrested for shoplifting 2) Steven Pezzone, of ShaddockShelter, Jamaica Plain, arrested for receiving stolen property; Bldg.E40, wallet stolen and recovered in Kendall Square; Bldg. 13 com-pound, attempted larcen"y of a bicycle.

May 4: Ashdown House, room broken into, nothing missing.

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"This is a very long-range pro-ject we're involved in," Walsh said.After the plan is completed, thereview process could take anotherfive to 10 years. The actual imple-

"tation would cost "in the mil-ons," he said.

The plan "is by no means aquick fix;' Walsh said. "We want todo this in a thoughtful manner."

The Walker Memorial commit-tee inc udes representatives from thefacul , CAC, Office ~f Residenceand Campus Activities, Departmentof Housing and Food Services,Planning Office, Physical Plant, eastcampus dormitories, the GraduateS dent Council, UndergraduateAssociaho ~ and the Walker com-

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started for MIT by setting yet another personalbe 1. Shectman, Ellefson, and Cooper followedwith nice sets. Lobban finished up the event,winging a difficult routine similar to that of

the finalists in the event, with the exception ofan excellent dismount, which was renderedimpo ible by injuries.

On the still rings, after Brian Clarkson '97,Phillippe, and Lobban performed, Cooper andLazerwith, delivered with scores 7.55 and 8.45.Ellefson finished off the event and the meet bycoring an 8.35.

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On the floor exerci e, Van threw an excel-lent routine and scored a 7.9. Ellefson followedby scoring an 8.2. Cooper finished off theround with another clean routine, earning an8.65.

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Golombek threw handsprings for goodscores. Andy McCraith '98 and Ellef: on fol-lowed, also throwing excellent hand prings.Cooper finished off the event with an almostperfectly stuck handspring full, earning himan 8.5.

The team likewise got off to a strongbeginning on the parallel bars. Golombek andVan began the event for the team, both scor-ing personal bests. Scott Lazerwith '95 hit hisbest routine of the season, but was g~ven a

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Brunelli'sPit£hingLifts MITOVerCurrythe first inning. But the Engineerswere able to put together athree-hit, two-run rally in thefourth. Duane Stevens '98 andNicky Botra each laced RBI sin-gles to tie the game at 2.

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SPORTS

Despite the tough scoring ofjudges at the national level, the MITteam again managed to break itsfive-man team record, bringing thepoint total to 216 under the old scor- 1>..ing rules. Rob Cooper '97 placed11th in all-around competition,. followed closely by Chris Ellefson '95in 12th. Van Van '97 had an excel-lent meet, setting personal bests 0

the four events he competed in .•David Golombek '98 also had agood meet, setting two personalbests.

MIT got off to a strong start inthe meet on the va ult. Art Shect-man '95, Geoff Phillippe '95, and __

out scored. Swirbalus, Darwin Her- 'nandez singled to score Anderson.

The Rams took the lead in thesixth with DeBenedictis scoring ona Swirbalus' single. Nunez laterscored on a groundout by Anderson.

"I thought we did a very goodjob," O'Brien said. "We ended ",plosing the game on a bloop to right -field. [MIT pitcher Dan Whitalec'97] jammed [Swirbalus] andinstead of a pop up to the first "-'.baseman, it's the game-winninghit."

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Win over CurryThe losses follow a hard-played

win against Curry College at BriggsField on Thursday. Behind a spec-tacular pitching effort by SteveBrunelli '96 pushed its record up to7-18 for the season with the 6-4win. Brunelli went the full nineinnings, striking out 13 and allow-ing just six hits.

Curry College struck first, goingup 2-0 in the top of the secondinning. After Brunelli issued.back-to-back walks to load the.> ')bases with one out, LF Ed Hagerty. ."_stroked a base hit, bringing in tworuns. Brunelli was then able to pre-vent any further damage by retiringthe next two batters on a strikeoutand a lazy pop out to first base.

Curry College pitcher CarlBussey seemed to be in a rhythmin the early innings, at one pointretiring seven straight batters aftergiving up a single to Katz '95 in

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ond passed ball of the inning scoredSwirbalus.

MIT scored its final run in thebottom half of the seventh. Secondbaseman Craig Zim'merman '96opened with a walk. Pinch hitterJason Mueller '95 followed withanother walk, and Rivas singled toload the bases. Mejia's sacrifice flyscored Zimmerman, but a strikeoutand a pop-up ended the game shortof an MIT win.

The Rams led the Engineers inhits, 10 to six. MIT helped Suffolkby making three errors, three wildpitches and two pa~sed balls.

"They're an outstanding hittingteam," said Head Coach Fran.O'Brien of the Rams. "An outstand-ing fastball hitting team."

Engineers fall short againIn the second match, the Engi-

neers did not do much better asthree-hit pitching by Suffolk'sSteve Loud and Dennis Luti alongwith an inconsistent strike zone bythe plate umpire hurt MIT in the4-2 loss.

MIT got its only lead for the dayin the first inning by scoring both ofits runs. With one out, CF StephenVetere '97 singled. 38 Andrew Katz'96 then doubled, scoring Vetere. Awild pitch advanced Katz to thirdwho then scored on Lepard'sgroundout.

The Rams tied the score in thefifth. Swirbalus walked to lead theinning. Chris Anderson then sin-gled. Suffolk sacrificed both runnersto second and third. After a ground-

Baseball Loses Final Home GamesBy Thomas Kettlerand Farhan ZaidiSTAFF REPORTERS

The baseball' team finished itshome season on a somber note Sat-urday afternoon by losing both dou-bleheader games to the Suffolk Uni-versity Rams, 6-2 and 4-2. Theselosses made the team 7-21 overalland 3-9 in the Eastern CollegiateAthletic Conference.

The first game started quicklyas both teams scored in the firstinning. The Engineers tied thescore in the bo.ttom half when rightfielder Baldemar Mejia '98 led offwith a single. After one out, headvanced to second on a grounderand scored on a triple by DH RobLepard '95.

Suffolk scored two more runs inthe second. After one out, MikeDeBenedictis singled. After that,Ramon Nunez singled and bothscored on Chris Anderson's triple.

Neither team scored runs untilthe sixth when the Rams got threeinsurance runs .. Then, Mark Kelle-her singled and advanced to secondon a passed ball by Engineer catcherEdward Kohler '95. He scored onDeBenedictis' double, withDeBenedictis' advancing to third ona grounder to the second basemenfor the first out.

After a strikeout, MIT couldhave avoided any more bloodlettingon Marc Swirbalus' grounder to theshortstop. But DeBenedictis scoredand Swirbalus went to third whenHeriberto Rivas '97 threw the ballinto right field. The Engineers' sec-

Freshmen collideThe freshmen lost to a strong

Wisconsin crew, but easily beatDartmouth. The race started withthe excitement of a collision. Thewind, which had strengthenedthrough the day, had become a sig-nificant factor by 11 a.m. Justbefore the start a gust blew theboats pff course. Within fivestrokes MIT and Wisconsin collid-ed: The referee recalled the raceand ran it again.

In the second attempt, Wisconsinjumped out to an early lead. WhileM IT and Dartmouth both madecharges, Wisconsin easily held offto win tl& race. At 500 meters, MIThad a half-length lead over Dart-mouth; after 1000, MIT had brokenfree of Dartmouth and held theiropen water lead to the finish line.MIT's time was 6:37.6, 4.8 secondsover Dartmouth and 12.1 secondsbehind Wisconsin.

"I thought there were some goodparts ofthat race, but there are sti II alot of technical issues to be workedout," said freshman coach StuSchmill '86.

The second freshmen raced Dart-mouth's second freshman and theMIT third lightweight freshmen; theheavyweight boat lost to Dartmouthby 32 seconds and beat the light-weight boat.

changed repeatedly, with the leadcrew never more than two seatsahead of the last.

From the 700-meter mark to themidpoint at the Harvard Bridge,Wisconsin began to pull away fromthe other two boats. At that point,MIT made a big push. It was notenough to catch Wisconsin, but wasenough to take a three-seat advan-tage over Dartmouth.

Over the remainder of the race,MIT stretched its lead to as manyas five seats. Dartmouth made adetermined charge with 200 metersleft, and pulled almost even. But inan exciting finale, MIT stoppedDartmouth's move and crossed theline at 6: 15.2, 1.9 seconds overDartmouth and 6.5 behind Wiscon-sin.

The victory has a significanteffect on the second boat's seedingat the Eastern Sprints. MIT wiJI beranked above Dartmouth and thecrews below it. With the second-place finish they become part of thenext highest tier of competitors, andwill have a much stronger chance ofadvancing to the finals.

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Quashnett Valley, but the coone closed to schools in the country were there toheavy rain. IT coach Jack Bany wu able e compete, as well as club teams fromthe cup by securing starting times at ew SeaIuy, around the country. Notable teamsjust a few miles down the road. at the meet included UCLA, Ari-

The weather so bad that there ere no other zona State, William and Mary's,golfers out on the course when the teams arrived. and the Air Force Academy. Indi-Despite protests, the coaches sent the play on viduals such as Steve McCainthe first and tenth teesoftbeGreen coursc. (UCLA) from the US National

The medali t of the tournament was Brian Team and Sinaisty Nuez (MiamiSchuler '96, who fired an even-par 35 on the front Dade) from the Cuban Nationalnine. Schuler held on to hiS lead with a 40 on the Team highlighted the meet with

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The varsity heavyweight crewsuffered a disappointing loss toDartmouth and Wisconsin on Satur-day in the Cochrane Cup. MIT hasnot won the race for several years,and many had hoped that even ifthis was not the year, that at leastMIT would be in the thick of therace.

But they were not. The race wasrowed in a gusty cro swind thatstrengthened through the day. Whileall boats were roughly even comingoff the start, with MIT holding aslight edge, Dartmouth and Wiscon-sin very quickly pulled even andbegan to pull away from MIT.

M IT rowed farthest from theother two teams. Through the first500 meters of the race, Dartmouthand Wisconsin were neck and neckand right next to each other, whileMIT was falling behind, and in alane more than 35 feet away fromthe other crews.

The distance proved to be aproblem. "It's difficult to maintainintensity when you lose all contactwith the other crews," said eerajGupta G, last year's varsitycoxswain. "Dartmouth and Wiscon-sin were just feeding off eachother's energy, while our boat hadto motivate itself. Even so, theyshould have raced it a lot better."

M IT continued to fall awaythrough the rest of the race. Theymounted a charge over the last 500meters, but they had fallen so farback that they were never a threat.

Meanwhile Wisconsin took thelead and extended it from 500 to1500 meters. At one point, they hada lead of seven seats. The last 500,however, belonged to Dartmouthand its sprint: Dartmouth's eightrepeatedly took up the stroke ratingand roared through Wisconsin totake a six-seat lead over the finishline with a time of 6: 10.2.

Wisconsin finished with 6: 12.5;MIT with 6:22.1.

"I was quite disappointed," saidCoach Gordon Hamilton. "I thinkwe came to this race pretty flat, andit showed."

JV fares betterThe second boat's race was far

more exciting, and met with a sig-nificantly better result. While Wis-consin handily won the race, MITcame out ahead of Dartmouth.

Off the start, all boats were even.They scrapped their way throughthe first 700 meters without anyoneable to gain an advantage. The lead

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