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Wednesday, August 28, 1996

Core Blitz, Academic Expo HelpFreshmen Choose Classes, Majors

BidsExtended Target

BleilAccepted

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Chemistry (3.091) and Principles ofChemical Science (5.11). Freshmencan take either class to fulfill the'chemistry requirement.

Sadoway and Silbey will helpthem sort out which class willappeal to them and help them makean informed decision, Sadowaysaid. "It's really difficult to makeour points in such a short time," butat least freshmen will get a chanceto see the professors, he said.

"The students get to see me andProfessor Silbey live and in color,"Sadoway said. "It's as much howwe say as what we say."

Also speaking will be Professorof Physics Wit Busza, who teachesPhysics I (8.01). Busza will "brieflyexplain what introductory physicsis, why it's a requirement, what var-ious options exist, and give the stu-dents some advice on what to

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A. Huning '98, a member of the aca-demics subcommittee of the RIOCommittee. Core Blitz is set up in alecture-style format with professorstalking about class options as well asdistributing handouts, she said.

The freshmen will also receivesome information about how to bud-get their time, reminding them thatthey have more than just academiccommitments, HWling said Studentswill even get a little information aboutnon-core classes like Humanities,Arts, and Social Sciences, OrganicChemistry (5.12), and DifferentialEquations (18.03), HWling said.

Professors will be talking forabout eight minutes about each coresubject.

Professor of Materials Scienceand Engineering Donald R.Sadoway and Professor ofChemistry Robert J. Silbey will betalking about the differencesbetween Introduction to Solid-State

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Core Blitz explains core optionsCore Blitz, a program to intro-

duce freshmen to the core classoptions, will be held today from10:45 to II :45 a.m. in KresgeAuditorium.

"The Core Blitz is an opportunityfor the freshmen to find out aboutthe different core courses," said Bree

Fraternities ReportNo Clearinghouse inDorms Hurts Rush

Now that most students havechosen where they want to live,freshmen, like it or not, will have tostart thinking about academics.

Several Residence andOrientation Week programs areavailable to help freshmen choosenot only classes but even whatmajor they wil1 be looking at.

Core Blitz, Academic Expo, andFreshmen Meet the Professors wil1give new students their first taste ofacadem1c life.

By David D. HsuNEWS EDITOR

As rush heads toward its home-stretch, many fraternities and inde-pendent living groups report that"rush, while not a disaster, has beenrelatively slow and difficult this year.

Some feel that there was a greatdeal of cross-rushing among frater-nities. "It's been very competitivethis year, especially with the lowpercentage of males-coming in,"said Han B. Chou '97, rush chair forPhi Gamma Delta. Still, Fiji exceed-ed their target of 11 and received13 accepted bids.

Sigma Nu Rush Chair Andy N.Plumb '97 said that the decrease inthe number of men has "complicat-ed things."

"Rush isn't as lucrative as peo-ple have thought," Plumb said.

Grant Y. Smith '97, rush chair ofAlpha Delta Phi agreed. "We've hada fantastic rush this year, but it wasin some ways more competitive thisyear with many guys cross-rushingwith other fraternities."

By Jean K. LeeSTAFF REPORTER

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By Frank Dabek

INDRANATH NEOGY-THE TECH,

The PI Lambda Phi fraternity house suffered fire and waterdamage to the top two floors and roof late Monday night.

A successful rush at the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity ended on a sournote when a fire broke out on the roof of the house at 450 Beacon St.last night.

No one was injured in the fire, but the damage to the house hasforced residents of the top two floors into temporary housing atAshdown House. .

The fire was reported at 11:38 p.m. on Monday night, said Chiefof Campus Police Anne P. Glavin. The initial report stated that thefire had been spread by the wind from papers that were being burnedon the roof, but Marcus 1. Ottaviano '97, president of PLP, deniedthat anything was being burned ..He reported the burning paper to theCPs because he had "been given misinformation," he said. Ottavianowould not speculate further on the cause of the fire.

Both sources agreed that those present attempted to put out thefire with extinguishers but were unsuccessful, after which the BostonFire Department was called and the house evacuated.

Most of the house members were celebrating downstairs. the clos-ing of the house for rush when some "saw that the roof was on fire,"Ottaviano said. After t e fire could not be extinguished the residents"got the hell out," he said. Ottaviano added that the fire departmentwas "really helpful" and "sympathetic."

Damage appears to be limited to the roof and the third and fourthfloors of the building, which were rendered unhabitable. Ottavianosaid that a hole had been scorched through the roof and that the thirdand fourth floors suffered water damage from the water used to putthe fire out, although residents refused reporters and photographersaccess to those areas of the house.

Lotteries for, lIASS-D, PE Classes Begin on Athena• Gordon S. Brown '31dies at 81. Page 6

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probably remain so this year. Thoseclasses are Writing and Reading theEssay (21 W735), Harmony andCounterpoint I (21 M30 1), andIntroduction to Psychology (9.00),she said.

Davis said that 21 W735 wouldlikely be even more oversubscribedthis year than in years past becausethere will only be one section of the

dinator of the HASS office. The lot-tery was established to avoid thehassle of in-class lotteries during thefirst week of classes, Davis said.

In the time the online lottery hasfunctioned, about 90 to 93 percentof students have gotten their firstchoice class, Davis said. Of the 78HASS-D classes offered, only a feware oversubscribed, she said.

Davis said that the classes thatare traditionally oversubscribed will

The changes were implementedto make all the lotteries more uni-form and to make things easier forfreshmen who have not figured outhow to use their e-mail yet, Oaklandsaid. Other than the changes in thedisplay method, the lottery pro-grams are the same as last year, hesaid.

The HASS-D lottery is operatingcompletely online for the sixthsemester, said Bette K. Davis, coor-

By Brett AltschulSTAFF REPORTER

Students may now enter separatelotteries to select their physical edu-cation and Humanities, Arts, andSocial Sciences Distribution classes.

This year, the lotteries havestopped sending e-mail with theresults, said Andy Oakland, a pro-grammer for Information Systems.To get their results, students shouldnm the lottery program again, he said.

Augu t 28, 1996

wilJ be complete," a Pentagon offi-cial said.

The issue of ATO's furtherengagement in Bosnia is highlypolitical because of Clinton's pledgeto have the 20,000 U.S. troops hesent to implement the Daytonaccord home in one year. At hisnews conference, Frowick said hebelieves the most reasonable timefor the municipal elections would benext spring and suggested NATO'scontinued presence would helpfacilitate the vote.

But after a telephone. conserva-tion with U.S. officials inWashington, Frowick backtracked,saying perhaps the voting could beheld in midwinter - a proposal sev-eral long-serving Western officialsin Bosnia described as doubtfulgiven the snowbound passes, icyroads and foggy skies that wouldimperil the movement of thousandsof voters and banoting supplies.

Many Western officials haveargued conditions here defy holding"free and fair" elections as mandat-ed by the Dayton accord.

Bosnia's media are for the mostpart state-controJled. There is stillno freedom of assembly. Freespeech is often fonowed by policebeatings. Candidates have beenjailed, threatened and hounded offthe banot by armed toughs workingfor Muslim, Serb or Croat national-ist parties.

In a recent statement SorenJessen-Petersen, the U.N. HighCommissioner for Refugees' specialenvoy to Bosnia, predicted the elec-tions "wilJ produce hard-line win-ners and xenophobic nationalistscommitted to the maintenance ofhostile, homogeneous statelets."

al have not been made public, butleaks to the Russian press suggest itwould put off by as much as fiveyears the central question of the 20-month-old war: whether Chechnya

.would be granted fuJJ independencefrom Moscow, as rebel forces want,or be offered semiautonomous sta-tus while remaining part of Russia

Interfax, quoting unnamedsources, said the plan specifies thatduring a transition period of up tofive years, both sides would preparefor a congress of all Chechen partiesat which a final decision on theregion's political status would bemade. There also have been propos-als for a Chechen referendum on thequestion of independence-againafter a cooling-off period that couldlast several years.

A number of critics, includingZavgayev, have attacked the blue-print as iJlegal under the Russianconstitution, which prohibits fullsovereignty for any of Russia's 89constituent territories, of whichChechnya is one. .

Interfax said the negotiators hadfailed to agree on the issue ofwhether Chechnya would have itsown armed forces and, if so,.whether they would report toMoscow or to a separate Chechencommand in Grozny. Officialswould not comment on the Interfaxreport.

Russian commanders in Groznyalso continue to insist that theChechen guerriHas must withdrawfrom the city along with Russiantroops - whose pu))out was dictat-ed by terms of last week's cease-fire. But the reality is that theChechens, who seized most of thecity in an offensive that began Aug.6, are an entrenched, confidentfighting force.

short to restore stability to Bo nia."We're trying to do too much in

too short a time," said Frowick, whois the chief of the Bosnia office ofthe Organization for Security andCooperation in Europe (OSCE), themultinational body supervising theelections.

Frowick's decision appeared torepresent a compromise betweenWestern officials who say Bosnia isnot ready for any voting and theU.S. government position that elec-tions must occur regardless of con-ditions. U.S. officials readilyacknowledge in private conversa-tions that they are pushing for theelections because they fear anybacktracking in Bosnia could affectClinton's reelection campaign.

"The United States supports thisdecision," Assistant Secretary ofState John Kornblum said inWashington. "We think, in fact, it'sa very clear and decisive step ... todemonstrate that there are clearrules for holding these elections andthat violation of them - in the let-ter, or in this case their spirit - wiJlnot be tolerated." He said Frowick'sdecision was mandated by evidenceof "fairly clear and massive registra-tion irregularities, particularly onthe Serb side."

About 5,000 U.S. Army troopsin Germany are being trained to besent to Bosnia to help protect theplanned pu))out of most U.S. peace-keepers in December. Tuesday,Pentagon spokesmen left open thepossibility this "covering" forcemight remain in Bosnia next year.

"There's been no extension ofthe (NATO force's) mandate pastDec. 20 ... but I cannot confirm adate when this 'covering' mission

establishing a political counter-weight to the guerrilla leadership.Doku Zavgayev, bitter at havingbeen excluded by Lebed from thepeace process, charged that thesecurity chief was turning Chechnyainto a "preserve of terrorists" andcanying out "a state coup" there.

Lebed has characterizedzavgayev as a liar whose authorityends at the perimeter of the heavilyfortified Russian military base onthe outskirts of Grozny, the rebel-held Chechen capital.

StiJJ, Lebed has been as much atarget of denunciation as the draftsettlement he brokered in five trips.to Chechnya over the last 15 days.He is politicaJJy vulnerable to criti-cism in part because his boss,President Boris Yeltsin, has offeredonly lukewarm support for thepeace proposal - that came after hepublicly criticized Lebed's negotiat-ing efforts. Yeltsin has also pointed-ly refused to meet with Lebed sincehe invested him with a vaguelydefined authority to deal with theChechen crisis on August 10.

Rather than consenting to meetwith Lebed Tuesday, YeItsinbrusquely ordered him to submit adetailed written report on the planby 5 p.m. Only after reviewing thereport would the Russian leaderdecide whether to grant Lebed anaudience, Yeltsin' s press servicesaid.

Yeltsin is on an extended vaca-tion at a government resort 60 milesfrom Moscow, and analysts believehe has intentionally distanced him-self from the peace plan - in partbecause he may resent Lebed's pub-licity-grabbing style and in part todeflect criticism from himself incase the plan collapses.

Details of the settlement propos-

s ·an VoteFra Forceso ats to Delay Election

By John PomfretTHE WASHINGTO POST

SARAJEVO, BOS IA

The American diplomat oversee-ing Bosnia's coming electionsannounced today that baJloting formunicipal posts will be delayedbecause of widespread electoralfraud - meaning that peacekeepingforces might have to remain in placelonger than planned.

Presidential and parliamentaryelections wiIJ take place as plannedon Sept. 14. Western military offi-cers said the decision to postponethe municipal balloting, which hadalso been scheduled for Sept. 14,increases pres ure for a significantnumber of U.S. troops serving in

ATO's Bosnia peacekeeping forceto remain deployed in Bosnia pastthe one-year deadline set byPresident Clinton in a pledge toCongress last winter.

Although their presence likelywould be in another framework, theofficials predicted, the troops wiIJ beneeded to help police the municipalvoting when it is held. This, theyadded, could be sometime aroundMay 1997, after Bosnia's harsh win-ter.

The U.S. diplomat, RobertFrowick, said at a packed news con-ference that his decision to postponeelections in Bosnia's 109 municipal-ities was prompted by "a wide-spread abuse of rules and regula-tions," particularly by the BosnianSerbs, that "d~storted" the electoralprocess.

In a later interview, Frowickreferred to the municipal electionsas a "sn~e pit" and acknowledgedthe year-long timetable set by lastfall's Dayton peace agreement is too

Opponents Say Lebed's PlanFor Peace May Kill FederationBy Lee HockstaderTHE WASHINGTON POST

MOSCOW

Opponents af a delicate Chechenpeace plan broke red by national'security chief Alexander Lebedintensified their attacks on the dealTuesday, arguing that it could leadto the independence of Chechnyafrom Moscow and the ultimatebreak-up of Russia

The criticism grew more heatedeven as demoralized and defeatedRussian troops in the rebellioussouthern region were being with-drawn from battle lines under acease-fire Lebed negotiated withChechen separatist commanders lastweek. So far, the truce has largelyheld, despite scattered hostile inci-dents.

The thrust of the assault onLebed is that he has overstepped hisauthority by agreeing to a compro-mise peace settlement with an iJle-gal guerrilJa group. Barely con-cealed in the criticism is anationalistic subtext that any dealwith the Chechen rebels that leavesthem in substantial control of theregion is a humiliation for Moscowand must not be permitted.

"Lebed is playing dangerousgames with Chechnya' s sovereign-ty, which is totaJJy unacceptable,"Sergei Baboon, a nationalist legisla-tor who is deputy chairman of thelower house of parliament, told theInterfax news agency. TheCommunists, who make up thelargest bloc in parliament, have alsoexpressed concern that Lebed isplotting the secession of Chechnyafrom Russia.

But perhaps the most stridentattack came from the man theKremlin installed as puppet leaderof C~echnya last year in hopes of

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.

Gov. Pete Wilson Tuesday took his first step to implement federalwelfare reform in California, ordering state agencies to stop provid-ing public services for illegal immigrants except lower education,emergency health care and incarceration - the most costly programsto the state.

Many of Wilson's cuts directed at California's nearly 2 millionillegal immigrants are the same as those approved by voters twoyears ago with the passage of Proposition 187. So far, however, thechanges have beeQ bloc;ked by a federal judge.

Now, Wilson says the way has been cleared anew by federal wel-fare reform signed last week by President Clinton.

Attorneys representing immigrants said they are studying the gov-ernor's order, and that the issue may land back in court again.

But this time, Wilson officials wiJl contend that they are imple-menting federal law, not changing the state's.

"Today, California takes a step forward in reforming a welfaresystem so that it once again encourages personal responsibility andno longer rewards those who break the law by entering the countryillegally," Wilson said at a news conference in his Cainet room,where he signed an executive order to implement his directive.

Wilson's order wi)) trigger the requirement that aJl applicants forstate services must now prove their citizenship for eligibility.

Wilson's order Tuesday directs state agencies to search their juris-dictions for any additional programs in which illegal immigrantsmight participate.

THE WASHINGTON POST

California to Start Welfare Reform

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By Gerard RoeSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

Fugitive American Financier VescoGets I3-Year Sentence in Cuba

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After hundreds of reports of bad reaction , including 17 deaths,the U.S. Food and Drug Admini tration i moving toward controllingsale and distribution of herbal products containing ephedrine adver-tised as giving a "natural high."

During a two-day meeting that began Tuesday in Washington,D.C., the agency's Food Advisory Committee is reviewing scientificdata related to adverse health ev"nts, including deaths, linked toherbal supplements containing thl,; timulant ephedrine.

The main target of FDA action is an alkaloid compound calledephedrine. It is included under variou names in some herbal prod-uct and over-the-coun Jrugs. Because it is officially viewed as afood supplement, ephedrine use has been es entially unregulated bythe FDA. In some case, ephedrine-containing potions are promotedas aphrodesiac , energy boosters or even legal substitutes for illicitdrugs.

Until recently, ephedrine-containing products were easily avail-able, even to youngsters through convenience and health stores. Butnow 21 states have moved to restrict sales, or at least require warninglabels.

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Clearer Skies to Prevail

SA SALVADOR

American financier Robert Vesco, one of the most wanted U.S.fugitives, was sentenced to 13 years in a Cuban prison Monday foreconomic crimes against the government of Fidel Castro.

The announcement was made by the official Cuban media inHavana. Vesco's Cuban wife, Lidia Alfonsa Llauger, was sentencedto nine years in prison for helping Vesco. She is being held at themaximum security Villa Marista prison.

Vesco, 60, who could have received a 20-year sentence, spentyears on the run from U.S. authorities before settling in Cuba in1983, where he lived regaJly until running afoul of the Castro govern-ment in recent years.

Wanted in the United States on charges of stealing $224 millionfrom a mutual fund, Vesco also has been indicted on drug-traffickingcharges. He settled first in Costa Rica, then Nicaragua and theBahamas before landing in Cuba - which has repeatedly refusedU.S. extradition requests.

The case against Vesco in Cuba centered on a scheme to developand market a miracle drug, known as TX, that is supposed to be acure for cancer, AIDS and the common cold. When he was arrestedin May 1995, Vesco was charged with trying to develop and marketthe drug behind the backs of Cuban officials. There is no known sci-entific evidence to back up the claims ofTX's healing powers.

During his detention, Vesco denied he was a U.S. citizen, sayinghe had taken out Italian citizenship instead. He refused U.S. consularvisits but did see Italian diplomats.

The rather unsettled picture continues in the near term. A low-pressure drifting lazily up the coast is causing showers and thunder-storms, the western edge of which we will see this morning. As thejet stream digs east a little, though, the cyclone will be pushed off tosea, with clearer skies and warmer air from the west set to makeThursday rather pleasant.

Wedne day: Light showers clearing up by mid-morning.Otherwise cool and cloudy, then some clearing in the afternoon.Continued on-shore winds, becoming northeasterly. High 72°F(22°C).

Wedn day night: Partly cloudy. Low 63 OF(l7°C).Thursday: A very nice day. Mostly sunny and warmer winds

from the west becoming southerly. High 80°F (27°C). Low 60°F(16°C).

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Hawaiians May Ask United StateS.To Return Islands in Referendum

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A top official said Tuesday that the recent assassination of aTiJ'uana prosecutor appeared to be linked to disgruntled p'olife'h~ho, • ~ ':.11'were fired in an anti-corruption purge - not to a conspl,J;acy. thatclaimed the life of a presidential candidate. r I,

Prosecutor Jesus Romero Magana was fatally shot outside hIShome in Tijuana on Aug. 17. No one has been charged.'But tl1ekilling rekindled a national furor over whether someone was killingoff people who had investigated the 1994 murde~ ofpresidentiai heir-apparent Luis Donaldo Colosio. ' I • ,'" 4 ~.

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Attorney GFneral Anto~io p?zallo has s ~0....glX i~uied, that, theo-ry. On Tuesday:he ~o!p fo"eWl C9:'J sponden, ?d{~ lt~V1~ro:' .Qeath,instead, app.eared tq be tie' 0 th~ r~ent firing qf 1l1ore than '100 fed-eral polic~ ~,:_:more than 15 percent of the fon;e -.:- who are suspected

, ' . ' , • . tof corruption. .' . I .

"We have some information .... t,h~tHiis,pc::rsonhad' reC(eiveij.som~threats" before his death, Lozano said of Romero. Asked Who wasreported making the threats, he answered, "people <> in~r' ,aliceth " I.{ I . •ere. (' "

Twenty-nine members of the federal judicial police in Tijmina lostjobs in this month's purge, intended to clean up the nation's biggestanti-drug-trafficking force, officials have said.

PLACENTIA. CALIF,

The 19-year-old son ot: a school board member who espouses con-servative family value positions was arraigned Tuesday on charges hemanufactured methamphetamine with five other men in the garage ofthe board member's home.

Jason Stuart Brooks, son of Cathy Ann Brooks, a trustee of thePlacentia-Yorba Linda Unified school district in Orange County, wasreleased on'ilis own recognizance after pleading not guilty !o chargesof manufaettJring a controlled substance and possessing a controlledsubstance. : ' . ., :'[The o~cer] noti~e<;ithe. gar~g~ li~~t.onra~d ~9ic~s ~~in~~g fromInSide," saId Placentia pohce Investigator Conhrie t.oonus: "Hepeeked through a small hole in the garage door and S'aw'six malesinside, passing a container with liquid that was bubbling, and inhalingfumes from the container." A second, clear container cotltiined awhite substance, Loomis said. •

One of the more conservative and outspoken members of thePlacentia- Yorba Linda Unified school board, Cathy Ann Brooksopposed a failed 1995 initiative to increase the sales tax to help pullthe county out of bankruptcy. She supports back-to-basics'tt!achingprograms and family values. ' ;

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One of the intriguing questions after the sentencing of formerSouth Korea President Chun Doo Hwan to death and his successorRoh Tae Woo to a long term in prison was 'how China's officialmedia would treat the story, given the obviOlis 'p.af~11elsbetween theKorean case and the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.

Both Koreans were convicted on charges of treason in the 1980army massacre in the city of Kwangju of more than 200 pro-democ-racy demonstrators. In 1989, after China's Premier Li Peng declaredmartial law, People's Liberation Army troops opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing. '

Some Chinese dissidents and prominent academics have ca'il6d fora'reassessment'of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident, branded bythe government as a "counter revolutionary rebellion."

Despite the similarities of the two cases, the Chinese mediaplayed the story fairly straight.

The mass audience China Central Television evening news, whichreaches a potential audience of 800 million, aired a brief account ofthe sentencing, with footage of Chun being led into court. '

The influential People's Daily newspaper, official mouthpiece ofthe Communist Party, ran a surprisingly colorful account of the sen-tencing on its i~ternationaJ news pages under a headline,declaring it a"historic verdict."

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MEXICO CITY

China's Media Plays StraightOn Story of Sentencing in Korea

GM to Offer Electric Car in Fall

,Son of Family V81ues crnsa4erCharged with MaRtlfa:ctiU.irig,. t , gs

Official Disputes Conspiracy TheoryOf Tijuana Prose~utor's ~~~th,

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MILFORD, MICH,

Saturn Corp. will begin marketing General Motors' cutting-edgeelectric vehicle in Southern California and Arizona in early

ovember, and officials expect initial consumer demand to outstripsupply.

Already Saturn has received more than 1,000 inquiries from con-sumers interested in purchasing the GM EY1, the first all-new elec-tric vehicle to be marketed in the United States since the early 1900s,company officials said Tuesday. About 300 of those are consideredfirm prospects.

"We may have a situation where we will have more demand thansupply," said Joe Kennedy, vice president of sales, service and mar-keting for Saturn, in a news briefing at GM's Milford ProvingGrounds.

GM already is producing the tear-drop shaped two-seat EY 1 at theLansing Craft Centre. Officials would not say how many vehicleshave been built or provide a yearly sales projection for the sporty,1997 model.

When the sleek, zippy EYI goes on the market, GM will becomethe first auto maker to offer an electric vehicle built from the groundup to consumers in modern times. Honda will introduce a new four-seat electric vehicle next year with a more advanced battery. Ford,Chrysler, Nissan and Toyota all are developing electric vehicles con-verted from gas-powered chassis, but these models will only be soldto commercial fleets initially.

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This group declared the Republicof Hawaii in 1894. The islands wereannexed as a U.S. territory fouryears later. In 1959, given thechoice of remaining a territory orbecoming a state. Hawaiians votedoverwhelmingly for the latter andHawaii became the 50th state.

In 1993, on the 100th anniver-sary of the overthrow, then-Gov.John D. Waihee III (D) and the firstgovernor of Hawaiian ancestry,raised the Hawaiian flag over thestate capitol. That same year,Congress passed and PresidentClinton signed a resolution apolo-gizing to Hawaiians for the over-throw.

Gov. Benjamin 1. Cayetano (D),a second-generation FilipinoAmerican, said he is all forHawaiians pursuing sovereignty.But it must be "a kind of sovereign-ty which is acceptable to the non-Hawaiians, as well as the UnitedStates government."

Cayetano said the sovereigntymovement's lack of clarity hasmade some people nervous.

at negotiations at the WyePlantation in Maryland beforeNetanyahu defeated Peres in elec-tions last May. . "

The major Syrian military move-ments involve units based inLebanon, where at least 35,000Syrian troops have controlled thebulk of the country since 1976.

Tuesday, according to officialswith access to Israeli and foreignintelligence reports, Syria continuedto ,shift the tanks and supportingvehicles of an armored brigade frompositions east of Beirut - atBhamdun and Dahr al Baydar, alongthe main highway linking theLebanese and Syrian capitals - tothe southern Bekaa Yalley, close toIsrael.

In a more serious development,two of the three regiments of the14th Syrian Special Forces Divisionhave peen Withdrawn from Lebanonto take up positions on the Syrianside of Mount Hermon. That peak,now home to an Israeli intelligencecomplex, is the highest and moststrategic point on the Golan plateau.

Israeli military intelligenceassessments are cautiously confidentthus far that the Syrian moves are"largely defensive" in character,according to one official.

option. The cross is on his shoul-ders," he concluded.

Much of the convention's secondday was given over to speakers rep-resenting the party's liberal wing. Inaddition to Jackson, they includedformer ew York Gov. MarioCuomo and abortion rights activistKate Michelman.

As these voices of a philosophythat Clinton has largely rejectedwere given the convention platform,White House officials announcednew multi-billion-dollar programsaimed at assuaging their concernsand their constituencies.

At the same time, in the conven-tion's two final days, party leaderswill shift the focus to issues andspeakers that underscore the presi-dent's top-priority effort to appealto moderates and the middle class.

At a stop in Wyandotte, Mich.,on his four-day train journey toChicago, Clinton announced a $1.75billion program to improve readingskills among schoolchildren. Laterin the day, aides outlined a $3.4 bil-lion program of aid to cities.

were forcibly taken more than 100years ago. The mail-in ballot, resultsof which could be announced nextweek, asked one question, inEnglish and Hawaiian: "Shall theHawaiian people elect delegates topropose a native Hawaiian govern-ment?"

The idea, organizers say, is notto decide now what form sovereign-ty should take, but whetherHawaiians want fo p\lrsue it.Proposals range from completeindependence td a land deal inwhich the (descendants ofPolynesian islantle s Who arrived inHawaii 1,000 years or more' agowould get all or some of the 1.75million acres, almost half the state,they say was stolen when the lastHawaiian monarch was overthrown.

On Jan. 17, 1893, 13 white busi-nessmen backed by three companiesof U.S. Marines forced theHawaiian queen, Lili 'uokalani, fromher throne, seized crown lands andended Hawaii's independence. Thebusinessmen, mostly American,wanted sugar tariffs lifted.

a low-level proxy war in the Israeli-controlled portion of southernLebanon, where Hezbollah guerril-las operating from Syrian-controlledterritory battle Israeli troops and theIsraeli-sponsored South LebanonArmy. Israeli and Syrian forces,however, have taken pains to avoiddirect conflict.

Apart from marking a new lowin their dialogue, the implied men-ace of the new deployments, togeth-er with the likelihood of CQunter-measures by Israel, carry a logic oftheir own that is worrisome toIsraeli officials and foreign diplo-mats here. •

Although they were cautious intheir appraisals, several said theyfeared that the two sides couldstumble into an escalation that nei-ther intends.

Beneath the growing tension isPrime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu's rejection of any Israeliwithdrawal from the Golan Heights,which Israel captured from Syria inthe 1967 Middle East war.

In recent contacts that weremediated by the United States,Netanyahu notified Syria that hedoes not feel bound by a set of nineinformal understandings reached byIsraeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres...

"In 1968, the tension within ourparty was over warfare. In 1996, it'swelfare," Jackson said. "Last week,over the objections of manyDemocratic Party leaders, and theopposition of millions ofAmericans, Franklin Roosevelt'ssix-decade guarantee of support forwomen and children was aban-doned. On this issue, many of usdiffer with the president."

Jackson said although Clinton'sre-election may seem unpalatablebecause of his concessions on bene-fits for the poor, it is necessary todefend against worse evils from theRepublican Congress.

"Sometimes," Jackson said, "youhave to play good defense beforeyou get back on offense. PresidentClinton has been our first line ofdefense against the Newt Gingrich-Contract on America-right-wingassault on our elderly, our students,our civil 'rights. We must re-electthe president and take back theCongress, and stop the right-wingtrain in its track."

"In 1996, Bill Clinton is our best

You can't turn back the hands oftime, says Billy Pa, a Waikiki surf-ing instructor. But sometimes, whenhe looks up at Diamond Head,across the sweep of sand freckledwith tourists, he wishes he could.

He talks about how Hawaiiansare sometimes shunned in their ownhome. "A lo~ of my people are notwelcome 'in W'aik"ilb," h'e'said:"Some of the hotels, th¥ restaurants,the bars; they see' a Hawaiian kidcome around, they think, 'Watchout. There's gonna be trouble .... j

It's ridiculous." ,He resents the hotels, the traffic

jams, the multinationals buildinggolf courses and shopping malls.

So Pa voted "ae," or yes, in astate-funded referendum this month.Only people of Hawaiian ancestry,who make up one-fifth of Hawaii's1.2 million residents, could partici-pate. The governor-appointed sover-eignty elections commission saysthat is because the nativeHawaiians' land and sovereignty

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CHICAGO

Touching on a fissure thatdivides their party, leading liberalDemocrats, including the ReverendJesse Jackson, expressed disdainTuesday for President Clinton'scompromise with Republicans onwelfare reform but told delegates tothe national convention they mustfight for Clinton's re-election.

Jackson, echoing recent com-ments from other liberals gatheredhere for Clinton's renomination,offered the president a tepidendorsement but spared him thekind of harsh criticism that wouldhave roiled the celebration of partyunity or embarrassed Clinton in ahighly visible campaign forum.

"The last time we gathered inChicago," the preacher, activist andtwo-time presidential candidate saidin prepared remarks, "high windsripped our tent apart. We could notbridge the gap. We lost to Nixon bythe margin of our despair.

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Syrian Military Movements nearIsraeli Border Prompt Concerns

JERUSALEM

A series of Syrian troop move-ments along Israel's northern bor-der, dismissed at first as insignifi-cant or routine, has generatedgrowing unease here amid the deep-est diplomatic impasse since the twonations began peace talks in 1991.

The Syrian initiatives, whichinclude stepped-up military exercis-

."es ap<;lr~p'ositiol}il}g <~r.subs~~mtialcombat units near the' Israeli border,follow an exchange of veiled andnot-so-veiled threats this monthbetween the Jerusalem andDamascus governments.

No immediate risk of conflict isseen by Arab, Israeli or Americananalysts, and there has been no deci-sive shift in the balance of forcesalong the confrontation line on theGolan Heights.

But although divided on whetherthe Syrian moves are intended asself-defense or saber-rattling,experts in and out of governmentdescribed them as the first signifi-cant manipulation of military forcessince the two adversaries agreed tomeet face to face at the MadridConference five years ago.

Israel and Syria have long fought

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ed.a Wrong to Indict Jewelldon't really understand, however, that beingan unarrested suspect means practically noth-ing. In this case, people were so eager to haveomeone to blame that a mere suspect became

virtually equivalent to a convicted killer.Eagerness brings me to my last concern.

There can be little argument that news events,along with many other things in daily life,reach our homes much faster today than everbefore. When it comes to collecting evidenceand forming judicial arguments in majorcrimes, though, things must proceed slowerthan today's computer-age pace. The problemis, all the people operating at this pace arecoming to expect to instantly have a conclu-sion to the events after the crime. The judicialprocess can not - and I say should not -keep up. Patience does not need to become alost art.

So, what bearing does my diatIibe have onthose of us here at MIT? Yes, it does have aconnection; MIT is a hectic place. There is alot going on, and there are a lot of people. It'seasy to get mindlessly caught up in whateveryou are doing with your days here, be it yourclasses, your social life, or your other activi-ties. We hopefully won't be having any pipebombs exploding anytime soon, but chancesare, something not so positive (whether it real-ly is a big deal or just seems like it to you)will happen to you sometime this year.

When it does, jqst remember the threethings that I hope you will get out of this.When something bad happens, don't expect toalways get a quick fix; be thorough in yoursolution. Understand that just because you'vebeen told that someone or something might bethe cause of your problem, don't jump to con-clusions; determine things for yourself.Finally, just because you don't like someoneor the way that person does things doesn'tmean the person is capable of doing all sortsof bad things to you; consider people by theirtotal character, not just some of their views,and use that as a guide to predicting theiractions.

being a loony cop equaled being an assumedmurderer.

Another problem highlighted by theseevents is what seems to be a lack of realunderstanding of how our judicial system isintended to work. Richard Jewell was at worsta suspect, nothing more. He was not arrested,he was not indicted, he was not tried, he wasnot found guilty. At the suspect stage, I arguethat Jewell's name should never have evenbeen mentioned to the public. The FBI, how-ever, has a knack for "leaking" this kind ofinformation.

In my view, the way the judicial systemneeds to be understood is that arrest meansserious suspicion, and indictment meansenough suspicion for a trial, but no more thanthat. I can understand - though not usuallyapprove of - many people making up theirminds as early as the point where an indict-ment is issued. It seems too many people

the rest and accepted' it all with little real evi-dence. It was so easy to do becau e Jewellwas omeone who did not have a recordwhich much of society approved, andarguably, rightly so.

I think many went too far, however. Itseems that the trend this situation highlights isa willingness to quickly assume that one typeof fault in a person means that person couldbe capable of any other kind of crime. In thiscase, there were no sh~des of disapproval;

People were so eager to havesomeone to blame that amere suspect became

virtually equivalent to aconvicted killer.

Monday, Barbara Jewell, mother ofRichard Jewell, made a plea to PresidentClinton to clear her son's name with regard tothe Olympic Park bombing. You rememberRichard Jewell, don't you? Briefly con idereda hero in the aga of the Olympic Park bomb-ing, his image was quickly turned into that ofa disturbed, villainous bomber. In my home-town of Atlanta, the coverage was especiallyfierce. The newspaper ran pages of storiesabout every detail of the hero now quicklyassumed to be a phony. Today, it appears thatJewell will never be charged with any wrong-doing. I think that this affair provides a goodopportunity to illustrate what I find to be somemildly disturbing trends in American societytoday.

Don't get me wrong; Richard Jewell wasno perfect angel. His past record in securityand law enforcement was not that of an EagleScout. At his previous security job at northernGeorgia's Piedmont College, he was knownby some to be overzealous and on a powertrip. He even ran into trouble by impersonat-ing an officer in the Atlanta area. Before hisPiedmont College job, when he actually was apolice deputy in a northern Georgia county, hecrashed a patrol car while drag racing withanother police officer.

This less-than-spotless-record, however,relates to one of my points of concern. Yes,Jewell was not perfect, but I found it a stretchto instantly treat him virtually as the anti-Christ himself, as many did. Maybe I couldsee him forcing kids to keep their shoes whileplaying in the park fountain, but planting abomb? If anything, Jewell wanted control, notdeath and fake heroism. The reason thatJewell even became a suspect, however, wasbecause the president of Piedmont Collegedidn't like him or his record. The president ofthe college suggested to the 'FBI that Jewellshould be thoroughly scrutinized. That's all ittook. Many in the press and society filled' in

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"The rush's gone exceedinglywell for u . I'm very happy aboutthis year's pledge class," said LeeD. Frankenfield '98, rush chair forDelta Kappa Epsilon.

According to Chi Phi Rush ChairWatson Chotimongkol '97, CP ru hclosed on Monday. "We knew we'dreach our usual target number thisyear, but it was a pleasant surpriseto receive all accepted bids soearly," he said.

Chotimongkol said that he feltthe freshmen were more informedof the rush process this year. "Theywere more aware than I was when Iwas a freshman, and they knewwhat questions to ask."

Lambda Chi Alpha already mettheir goal of 13 as well. "Rush wentvery well this year," said WilliamA. Goodwin '97, president of LCA."It's about the same as last year."

"Everything went pretty well,but not much different from lastyear," said Brian P. Bilello '97, rushchair of Delta Upsilon.

the house come together with alum-ni staying to help with the cleanupand freshmen becoming involved,Ottaviano said.

The fraternity "handled [the fire]pretty effectively," said Carlos M~Covarrubias G, a former resident. Thehouse should "be back in the swing ofthings by this weekend," he said.

The incident "brought aboutbrotherhood" and was actually goodin that way, said Paul Oj'anen 'OO~ arecent pledge.

Ottaviano is "proud of {the] fra-ternity," he said. "We did nothingwrong ... this is a chance to shine."

The Boston Fire Departmentwould not comment on the firebecause they do not yet have areport on the incident.,

online last year, Director of PhysicalEducation Gordon V. Kelly waspositive about'it this year. "Therewas more to be gained than lost" bygoing online, he said. "It was a stepahead, not back."

Kel1y said that the first PE lot-tery of the school year is always thebiggest. "We've got all the fresh-men who dive right in," he said. Hepredicted that about 90 percent of'the 89 courses offered would befilled to capacity.

The results of the lottery willprobably be available by around6:00 p.m. next Wednesday, the daythe lottery closes, Oakland said. Theresults are guaranteed to be ready bymidnight, he said.

Students may run the PE lotteryby typing "add pelott" and then"xphedu &" from an Athena termi-nal.

Rush goes well for someHowever, despite these prob-

lems, many feel that rush has been

Residence and Orientation WeekCenter or by sending e-mail. Thecomputerized Clearinghouse trackingsystem was present independent livinggroup but not at dormitories this year.

"It' kind of obnoxious j~ how thedorms have been treating us," Burt said.

"I don't really under tand whatdorms have against the fraternityrush," he aid. If fraternities wereasked to help out dormitories withClearinghouse, "we'd do it forthem," he said.

Lajos Molnar '97, StudentHouse rush chair, said that it wasdifficult to reach freshmen this year."You just can't reach them," hesaid. "I don't even know if they everget the messages."

The new message system "madethings a lot harder for us," saidMargaret D. Harbaugh '98, rushchair of pika.

Still some find rush lukewarm."It's not going very well, but it's notgoing bad at all," Molnar said.

Campus Activities will "make what-ever arrangements are needed on atemporary basis," said AssociateDean for RCA Andrew M.Eisenmann '75. The majority ofupperclassmen have been moved toAshdown House, which is normallyreserved for graduate students.Freshmen, however, have been relo-cated into temporary undergraduatehousing.

There should be only "slightadditional crowding" as a result ofthe displaced students, Eisenmannsaid. RCA "can accommodatethem:' Eisenmann said. He predictedthat "not too much hardship" wouldresult from the fire and that its effectswould be strictly temporary.

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to exercise this option should notenter the lottery and should contactthe HASS office, she said.

The HASS-D lottery may beactivated be typing "add hass-d"and then "xenroll &" from anAthena terminal. The same com-mand will display students' assign-ments after the lottery is complete.

The HASS-D lottery runs untilnoon of next Tuesday, which isRegistration Day. The results shouldbe ready by 6:00 p.m. of that day,and will definitely be out by mid-.night, Oakland. said.

PE classes likely to be filledThe PE lottery, which was acti-

vated last week, runs until noonnext Wednesday. This is the secondyear the lottery has been run online.

Although he expressed mixedfeelings when the lottery moved

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Other ay that the rush proce sha been slower this year. "Ru h'sbeen pretty slow," said Jay P.Muchnij '97, ru h chair for EpsilonTheta. "There weren't as manyfreshmen coming to visit fraternityhouse a the previou years." Evenso, ET reached their target of 5accepted bids.

"There seems to be a lot of cross-rushing," said Zeta Beta Tau RushChair William P. Chernicoff '97. "Idon't think we expected it to be thisdifficult. It's not going great."

"We haven't done as well as wewould have liked," said Zeta Psirush chair Jeffrey Hu '98. "Rush hasgotten a little bit harder."

Lack of Clearinghouse hurt rushDavid B. Burt '97, rush chair of

Theta Delta Chi said that the dormi-tories' ineffective replacement forthe Clearinghouse system sloweddown the rush 'process.

This year FSILG members couldonly reach freshmen at dormitories byleaving paper messages at the

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In addition, electrical power waslost on the upper floors, though itshould be restored by Wednesday,Ottaviano said. The damage was"not something that can't be over-come:' Ottaviano said.

The house is currently waitingfor insurance estimates on the dam-age and hopes to re-open the dam-aged floors before classes begin,Ottaviano said.

Residents move to AshdownMost of the residents who have

been displaced by the fire have beenmoved into temporary campus hous-ing or are staying with. friends.

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course this year, while there havebeen three in the past.

Davis said that she expected 9.00to remain heavily oversubscribed,even though the popular lecturerJeremy M. Wolfe PhD '81 is nolonger teaching the course.Professor of Brain and CognitiveSciences Steven Pinker, who is nowteaching the course, is an interna-tionally known scholar and a verydynamic person, Davis said.

"We're still allocating almost350 spots in that course," she said."That makes it the largest HASS-Dcourse offered."

Davis emphasized that studentswho do not receive their first choicein the lottery are automatically enti-tled to a spot in the course the nexttime it is offered. Students wishing

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Brown died of complications re ulting from cancer. He was 81.Brown, who served a dean of the School of Engineering from

1959 to 196 , was renowned for his work in automatic feedback-con-trol sy terns, computer technology, and the numerical control ofmachine tools. During World War II, he worked to develop automaticfire control and aiming system for guns used by the U.S. military.

"Gordon Brown influenced the directions of engineering educa-tion in the past 50 years more than any other single person," saidProfessor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Paul L.Penfield Jr. ScD '60, chair of the Department ofEEC .

In 1940, Brown founded the Servomechanism Laboratory at MITwhere work was done that led to the development in the late I940s ofthe first major digital computer, Whirlwind. After the World War II,the Whirlwind computer became part of the Lincoln Laboratory andits development of the SAGE system of air defense for orthAmerica.

The field of sy tern dynamics, which grew out of feedback con-cepts pioneered in the Servomechanisms Laboratory, deals with thefeedback dynamics of social and natural as well as physical systems.

Brown puts computer in education

Brown positioned himself as a leader in the modernization ofengineering education later in his life. .

In a local school district in Tucson where he lived during hisretirement, Brown began the movement to put computers in educa-tion, the work that he would become famous for in his later years. Hestarted by loaning software to an eighth-grade teacher of biology in alocal junior high school to demonstrate how feedback concepts couldenter the classroom.

Brown then negotiated with Apple Computer, Inc., for a gift of$100,000 worth of computers for the same teacher's classroom. Hethen brought in the school principal and superintendent.

It was the first time that the teachers had seen 12- to 14-year-oldstudents ask at the end of the class if they could stay after school orcome in early to continue their projects.

Brown was an innovator in education during his time at MIT aswell. As head of the Department of EECS in the early 1950s, Brownlaunched a program to restructure and revise the entire electricalengineering curriculum. He worked to base teaching more firmly infundamental sciences like physics and mathematics.

Later, when he became dean of the School of Engineering, Brownextended to other engineering departments the same principles of cur-riculum revision and pushed toward interdisciplinary research.

Brown, who served as chair of the faculty in 1951 and 1952,retired in 1974.

Brown was born in 1907 in Australia and at the age of 18 graduat-ed from what was then known as Workingman's College, now theRoyal Melbourne Technical College, with three diplomas - inmechanical, electrical, and civil engineering.

He entered MIT as a junior in 1929 on the strength of his collegecredits and received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineer-ing in 1931. As a graduate student, he served as a research assistantand received a master of science degree in 1934 and doctorate of sci:-ence in 1938.

Brown was appointed an assistant professor in 1939, associateprofessor in 1941, full professor in 1946, and Institute Professor in1973.

Brown and his wife, Jean Alfred Brown of Tucson, would haveobserved their 61 st wedding anniversary on the day of his death.Brown also leaves a daughter, Sydney B. DeVore of Tucson, a son,

an ey A. Brown '65, and two grandchildren, Samuel C. DeVoreand Laurel I. DeVore.

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Professors program will take placetomorrow from I to 2 p.m. in theBush Room (10-105).

The professors will not be repre-senting their departments, just them-selves, Huning said. The faculty, alot of them being freshmen advisers,will talk about~life at MIT and nottheir research. It is a chance to talkto professors about more than justacademics.

One program that will be miss-ing this year is the FreshmanExplorations. The Explorationswere tours and seminars that intro-duced freshmen to various topics.from how admissions worked towhat the Plasma Fusion Centerdoes.

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choose given their background andpreparation," he said.

"Eight minutes doesn't give memuch flexibility," Busza said. Whilethe Core Blitz is kept short to avoidboring the freshman audience, "per-

.sonally I would li~e a little moretime, and it would be a little moreuseful for the students."

Professor of Mathematics ArthurP. Mattuck will help freshmenchoose which calculus classes totake. Last year, there were problemswith students switching betweencalculus classes 18.01 and 18.0IA"Mattuck said.

Almost everybody who switchedlate invariably failed, Mattuck said.This year there will be rules forswitching between the classes.

• cademic Expo showcases majorsThe Academic Expo will be held

in Johnson Athletics Center from12:30 to 2:00 p.m. Each departmentand special programs like Women'sStudies will be set up in 'a formatsimilar to the Activities Midway,Huning said.

Freshmen can pick up literatureabout the departments, Huning said.The Academic Expo is not focusedon freshman classes, but rather onmajor selection.

For example, the Department oferonautics and Astronautics will

have professors and students avail-able to talk about the department,said Assistant Professor James K.Kuchar '90.

The department will also have anumber of demonstrations, Kucharsaid. Among them is an F-14Tomcat flight simulator and a heli-copter control system where stu-dents can pilot a model helicopter.

The Department of Chemistrywill have instructors and informa-tion for chemistry classes on hand,

id Administrative Assistant Peter. F1oY9 ' 87. They hope to both

"introduce the new freshman to thechemistry d8partment" and "tomake them familiar with the coursesthat are offered."

The Department of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Sciencewill have a professor and a dozenstudents there, said AdministratorAnne M. Hunter. "They'll have aton of handouts, and they'll beoffering lots of advice."

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lllediln (2 wds.)60 Part of APB61 The quality of

being the best62 Maiden nallle

designation63 Printshop worlters

Notices

RIO Prei Night! Join other Christiansat MIT for a time of praise, worship, andfelJowship .•

9:000: Chinese Students Club.CSClKSA RIO Dance Euphorial Place :Lobdell.

9:000: United Christian F Iowshlr.. Tripto Toscis after UCRO Praise NiW' . Meet10-250. Soonsored ~ InterVarSityChristian Fellowship.

9:00p: S~unkers' Club. There aren'tmany ~ral staircases on ca~s, butwe'll shOw you one of them alOf.l9 withsome other quirky locations In the 'Tute.Meet outside the "MIT chapel and wearcomfortable clothes and good shoes .•

9:()()P: Hansort. Hansort No-AHIMgNfght: Let's slngl Meet on the 1st flOorof the Student Center at 9pm.*

11 :59p: The CoffeeHouse. Play ~on our hand-crafted, monopoly table.

8:091:>:Raw PenlDeCtives. It's finally over,the last night of Queer Elsewhere 1shere ...• soo* ... So then Ithought, "Hey!Madonna is a babe." What better way tohonor our favortie materiatgirl then t)yhosti~ a Madonna-fest? c-ome join usfor videos, music, and snacks in llerhonor. 'Course, y<?ucan always justcome and relax with ournow-reachln.g-critical-mass assortmentof art suoolies and board games.Woo-hOOf (a queer-positive event, still in14E-3Q4).

In case of emergel)CY, dial 100 from anyMIT phone. Other i~rtant numbers:CarTlP-us Police: 253.1212Mad Center Emergency: 253.1311RIO Center: 253-ZSOOUAA: 253-6n2NlghtJine: 253-8800Datta Psi or St. Anthony Hall: please seeNo.6

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.c)on (2 wets.)19 Donkey20Ad'-21 State publicly22 Klink or Sanders

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~ Edward Julius Collegiate CW83-13

infinitely-extenslble vocalist, come by tomake some choral jazz-noise at 4:00pmin 4-156.*

4:00p: Tech Jazz Singers. Been singingIn a chorus, but haven't done much jazz?Been playing a jazz instrument but you'recurious aboUt a choir? Or are you a jazzchorus veteran? Drop by our vocal jamsession, we'lIleam a tune or two andwe'll be !;Jettin' in the groove, feelin' thebum, SWlngin' it cJowri ..• All voice partswelcome, this is not an auditionl Room4-156.*

4:00p: The CoffeeHouse. Check out thecoffeehousel A section of our floor is of apseudo-Q-bert ~. We also havegreat food and coffee and other stuff.

4:3Op: Hillel. BARBEOUE in AshdownHouse! Experience the social side ofHillel, as we cook hamburgers (veggleoption) and play games. FREE for aliiRain location: Hmel Main Dining Room .•

5:1ap: Lutheran-Eplscopal Ministry. Allare welcome at the firstLutheran-Episcopal Ministry service ofthe fall term. Come for worship at5:10pm in the MIT Chapel and s~fordinner afterwards at 6: 15pm in B .W-11. There will be fancy food a goodcompany. Please join us,.

5:3Op: Chinese Christian Fellowship.CSF/CCF Sushi-Dumpling Night. Comehang out and have some hand-madedumplings and Chinese style sushi.Location: Next House Country Kitchen.

7:00p: Amnesty International. The MITchapter of Amnesty internationalinvites people who want to make adifference to an eveni~ of socialactivism. We will meet In room 1-132.Activi~es will incl~ writing letter'S andwatching a short video on human rights.Free refreshments will be offered. Forfurther Information, contact Sunil(sunil1 Omit.edu, x5-1198).

7:00p: HKSS. Dinner with the CantoneseCommunity at MIT. Please contactHubert Chen <hkssmitOmit.edu> for theexact meeting place and time. *

7:00p: The CoffeeHouse. Live music atthe coffeehousel.

8:00p: Joint Christian RO. Come to10-250 for the annual United Christian

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metaphysics7 Secular8 Theta's neighbor9 Scrabble piece

10 Associatefamiliarly

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contradict13 Mr. Guinness14 Morally low18 TwoMusicians22 "- thy bread

upon the waters.24 Egyptian president25 Give a speech26 Collapsible27 COllIbines. as

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- live girl"29 "- Got Nobody"30 Taboos33 - out a 1iving37 "007" fn_. e.g.

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I~va laffiP:agel .rock anI 492-6983 for ande ...anytlme ...

1:17a: Fenway House. haze theupperclassmen!/! it's nearing your lastchance to do sol 437-1043.

Activities

All day: Chorallaries. So you missed us atthe Activities Midwav last night, but youstill want to audition? Hey'l Not aproblem! Sign-ups are stili going on! CallStacy at x58972.*

5:47a: Assassins' Guild. Let me guess,you forgol to sign up for AlienConspira~, didn't you? .sigh. mumble:•... dam kids these days ...• Well, we'llgive you One last Chance. It you stillwant to play Alien Conspiracy onThursday at 9 pm on the first floor ofbuilding 36 but f0"90t to sign up, sendemall to roads@mlt.edu .*

8:308: Association of TaiwaneseStudents. ATS CHINESE MOVIEMARATHON (freeadmission/drinks/snacks)

Host: Associationof Taiwanese Students

Meeting Plact: Outside Burton ConnorDormitoryDescriptions: A series of the most popularChinese movies including both recent onesand all-time favorites, shown at BurtonConnor 1st floor lounge with freedrinks/snacks. Meet the members andofficers of ATS and let them share with youwhat ATS and our culture is all about!For inquiries, please contact: Kenny

Chang, Publicity Chair and summerofficer of ATS (call 225-6517 or email"tetrion@mit.edu").

12:()()P: Hillel. Join us for a trip to theOMNI THEATER in the Museum ofScience. Meet at Hillel at noon .•

3:00p: Chinese Student's Club. CSCOpen House Meet the CSC Officers atthe CSC Library, 4th Floor StudentCenter. Yummy food and great companywill be provided!.

3:3Op: Tech Jazz Singers. Start warmingup your voice for your introduction tovocal jazz at MIT. It you're a bass Ibaritone I tenor I alto I mezzo I soprano I

12:03p: Fenway House. Calling empaths,you know where you're wanted.437-1043.

12:21p: pika. how odd that the only stuffleft to do is eat. ..the end must be neartmore food. lunchtime! leftovers? ickytuna casserole? puffed rice?nooooooo ... come on over and dine Withus! 492-6983, for a ride .•

1:08p: Fenway Hou e. Picnic In the Fens.Hang out in America's only Urban PublicSwamp. 437-1043.*

l:llp: pika. see cambridge culture.<smirk> it's all quite laughable! anafternoon harvard square outing! and ifyou're really determined, a tour of fJIIeryt-stop between pika and kalamazoo!492-6983 to ride on a harley.*

1: 13p: Fenway House. All telekinetics inthe room, please raise our hands.437-1043 .•

2:14p: Fenway House. All precognitiveson campus: You already know what todo and what number to call .•

2:15p: Fenway House. Come visit yourfriends who got rejected from MIT! Fieldtrip to Brandeis! Help friends of thehouse move in and build a loft.437-1043 .•

3:47p: Fenway House. being gratuitousfor the sake of sheer grosity. 437-1043.

5:05p: pika. can't go to the athleticsmidwayan an empty stomach! spaQhettiand Qarlic bread that will throw you Intoorbitr we love garlic. oddly, we also lovevampires. isn't it ironic? 492-6983 for aride to pika in our hearse. yearse .•

5: 16p: Fenway House. come taunt thebitter rush chair! 437-1043 and prepareyour best insults.

6:01 p: Fenway House. Dinnert Probablya stir-fry, but we can't decide, so you candecide for us. 437-1043.*

8:08p: pika. just because you need to beout of y'our temp housing tomorrowdoesn t mean you can't dance tonightlemily will be demonstrating her gracefulnegative space dancing, alicia will behippy dancing jerry out of his grave, andif we're all lucky they'll be a glimpse ofbelly dancing abdomenl all to the glow of

NAVEEN YALAMANCHI

The Society for Creative Anachronism fights In full armor at the Activities Midway last night.

GREGORY F. KUHNEN

Th American Jlu Jltsu group performs at their display at yesterday's Activities Midway.

Residence

All day: Epsilon Theta. Contribute yourown conspiracy theory to the pool. Anew theory fJIIery hour. Heateddiscussions led by leading experts in thefield. Call 734-9211 or MIT extension3-8888 for a ride .•

All day: ~ . HOUSE TOURS WITH SIGMANU

All day: Fenway House. Still tie-dying.437-fnordl043.*

All day: ew House. In-House Rush(5pm-2am) All incoming freshmenassigned to New House should come byto participate in in-house rush .•

All day: Student House. Visit StudentHouse, the earliest co-op JiVing group atMIT! We are the cheapest, too! Fordirections or information, call 247-0506or 247-8172!.

8:08a: p ka. bagels, bagels, bagels! allday long! what better way to spend awednesday then eating bagels?!? withcream cheese, with butter, withmargarine, with jam, dry. toasted, burnt,sliced in half lengthwise, sliced in halfwidthwise. the choices! 492-6983 .•

9:ooa: Student House. Come and eatBreakfast at Student Housel Call247-0506 or 247-8172 for directionsl.

9:48a: Fenway House. Donuts haveholes. So do socks. Inhalefructose/sucrose with us .•

10:32a: Fenway House. When I think atFenway, Ithink of fresh mountainstreams and cool breezes- 00, sorry,that's a York Peppermint Patty. NfJllermind .•

11: 11a: pika. every college student needsa halogen lamp! and the ideal place toacquire one? lechmere! cambridgesideouting with graham - he'll guide youthrough the overwhelming task ofdodging through a mall unscathed andreturning with a fine new light to illumineyour new room! 492-6983 remains thenumber. not many more opportunities tocall and gel a ride ... pretty soon YOU'llbedependent on saferide - takeadvantage!.

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