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Housemasters meet on protestsSenior House Housemasters

Henry and Cynthia Jenkins attend-ed anoth~r impromptu meetingwith Baker, Redwine, and Deanfor Student Life Larry G. Benedicton Monday morning ..

During the meeting, Benedictand Baker discussed the right ofthe students to protest, HenryJenkins later wrote in an e-mail todormitory mailing lists

"Clearly 0 MIT is the kind ofplace where the right to protest ispart of our community," Bakersaid in an interview.

"The central concerns are notwith the protest per se but withwhen, where, and how it is con-ducted," Jenkins wrote.

"They stated that they would

mail sent to various dormitorymailing lists Monday morning.

Young declined to comment.

Protest prompts meetingEast Campus' residence mid-

way space was not revoked, afteran emergency meeting immediate-ly after the PlayFair and before theResidence Midway Sunday night.

The meeting included midwaycoordinators Sherri E. Davidoff'03, Grace R. Kessenich '03, andTyler J. Bronder '03 as well asAssociate Dean for Student LifeBarbara A. Baker, Residential LifeAssociate' Anthony E. Gray PhD'01, and Assistant Dean of Resi-dential Programs Katherine G.O'Dair.

Baker said she and the otheradministrators used the meeting toexpress their feeling of betrayalbecause, in their view, an agree-ment reached with student leadersin the Residential System Imple-mentation Team had unraveled.

. In an, open letter to freshmen,published in The Tech Sunday,Dormcon wrote that it "will notlimit the times at which dorms canhold events - even if they conflictwith other scheduled Orientationsessions."

"} was very disappointed thatsome of the agreements that hadbeen reached in the RSIT teamprocess, as I understood them,were not honored," Baker said.

But Kessenich, who was amember of the RSIT, registereddispleasure with the way Rush hasunfolded this year. The protestsweren't "a personal attack againstany people,':' she said. "It's aboutthe way Orientati~n was sched-ouled. Since the beginning we keptsaying, 'We need more time for.dorm events,' and they said no ordidn't listen." .

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By Sandra M. ChungCIIA IRMA N

Tempers flared after membersof East Campus and Senior Houseprotested a scheduled Orientation

. event on Sunday, and the dormito-ry's presence at that day's resi-dence midway was briefly imper-iled.

The clashes have revealed deepfissures between students and theMIT administrators responsible for.Orientation, who say they feelbetrayed by the unraveling ofagreements with student leaders.

The students, meanwhile,expressed frustration with anadministration they perceive astrying to eviscerate rush.

Senior House President DanielE. McAnulty '04 said that Assis-tant Dean of New Student Pro-grams Elizabeth C. Young becameupset after he and other protestershanded 'out flyers at Sunday'sPlayFair asking freshmen, "[Alreyou a fucking baby? [T]h~n whatthe hell are you doing at a play-fair?"

According to McAnulty, Youngthen threatened to revoke EastCampus' space at the Residence

_ Midway: McAnulty described theincident in a widely-circulated e-

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campus dining locations."We've been asking for it for

fourteen, fifteen years," saidLaVerde's manager Marc Semon."As pleased as we are, the students

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Freshinen Meet FSILGs at Rush MidwayBy Brla~ LcJux' Independent Living Groups. "[The freshmen] have nothingNEWS EDITOR " Despite initia! worry that the . else to do ... and everyone heard

Freshmen swarmed the first three FSILGs would spark little interest abput ,it during the [Welcome Din-floors of the Student Center last this year, the building was mobbed. ner]," said Amy R. Lam '06.night while attending the Welcome "I came to see wh'at the fraternities In addition to a.midway with 32Dinner Post-Party sponsored by were like and to meet the people," ,MIT's Fraternities, Sororities, and said Timothy C. Davenport '06.

AARON D. MIHAliK-THE TECHJeremy A. Conrad '06 provides Andrew W. Houston '05 and Christopher C. Simeone '05 of Phi DeltaTheta with his personal Information at Tuesday. night's FSILG-sponsored Welcome Dinner Post-Party.Fraternities collected Information from freshmen In order to Inform them abo~ future rush events.

Quantum Books and the .MITPress Bookstore have joined theTechCASH program, an improvedversion of last year's meal cardsystem. LaVerde's Market beganaccepting TechCASH near the endof last semester, along with all

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NATHAN COLUN~THE TECHRebecca A. Kurnlk '03 makes a purchase 'at LaVerde's Market using her MIT card. Quantum Book~ andthe MIT Press Bookstore have also joined the TechCASH system. "

The MIT card is gaining in'acceptance among local business-es, but restaurants and the MITCoop will not soon be joining theirranks ..

By Nathan CollinsEXECUTIVE EDITOR

Quantum,. MIT Press Accept Card EOProtest DisplaysFissures OverRush

By Eun J. Lee:FEATURES EDITOR

Three-out of four freshmen whotook this year's Freshman' EssayEvaluation received passinggrades, up from 59 percent. lastyear.

In addition to t~e MIT fresh-men who took the test, studentsfrom several othe,r colleges tookthe online essay evaluation' thisyear, as the' result of a project 0sponsored by the MIT -MicrosoftiCampus Alliance.

."There's significant nationalinterest in the online system devel-oped here, be~ause it is a highlyeffective way for colleges to evalu-'ate incoming students online," saidLeslie C. Perelman, director ofwriting across the. curriculum andprincipal 'investigator for theiCampus p~oject.

Three of four freshmen pass FEE.In total, 592 ()f the 816 fresh-

men who took the FEE, or 73 per':'

PassRateOnFEEHitJJ30f4

A rape victim discusses sexualabuse and rape prevention withmembers of the Class of 2006.

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Comics

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OPINIONAndrew C. Thomas and Allison C.Lewis discuss dating prospects

, for freshmen at MIT.

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early tw~nties, is being groomed ashis father's successor because of thesymbolism offered' by the idea of a,.dynasty. A-rid while the sources Saidthat Saad,hasn~tLassumed a'formalposition; (be ihas:;ipOlcasinglycbeedcommlmicating. with opera'tivesworldwide in order to burnish hisstanding with them ..

Dozens of other al-Qaida fight-ers, and possibly.more, are alsostaying in a 'c1uster of hotels inMashhad, in northeaStern Iran nearthe borders with TurkmenistaIi and'Mghanistan, and in guesthouses inZabol, aJ>out400 miles farther southon the Iranian-Afghan border, thesoUrces said.

The report from these sourcessupported the Bush administration'slong-standing assertion that Iran -or at least hard-liners iit the conserv-

-ative clerical line of authority thatcontrols the army and intelligence'services :- is harboring al-Qaidafi~ters.

with Bandar, insisted he has madeno decisions about how to proceedagainst Hussein, White House PressSecretary Ari Fleischer said.

But, Fleischer added, "The presi-dent made very clear again that hebelieves that Saddarn Hussein is amenace to 'world peace, a menace toregional peace."

Cheney, in an address Mondayto veterans in Nashville, said.on1y apre-emptive strike against Iraqcould prevent it from acquiringnuclear weapons "fairly soon." Healso argued that ousting Husseincould, bring more stabiJity to theMiddle. East and 'enhance the

. chances of peace between Israel andthe Palestinians. \

Cheney's comments were wide-ly seen as' an administrationresponse to skepticism some law~makers and former foreign policyofficials have expressed about thewisdom of military action againstHussein.

, Also,' some' Bush supportershave complained .that the adminis-tration needed to make a moreforce~tl c~e ~or such a policy.'

With Osama bin Laden and hissecond-in-command, AymanZawahiri, in hidirig, the sourcessaid~ and with the death of the for-meri militar.y'chief,vMuhammadAte£, the two have {.

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Fiscal Budget Experts PredictLarger Deficit Than Expected

U.N. Officials CallTaliban Probe Difficult

LOS ANGELES TIMESKABUL. AFGHANISTAN

Zambian. Government Refuses U.S.Donations of Gene-Altered Corn

Nation's High School Graduates Score,Slightly Higher on SAT Math.Section

By,Rebecca Trounson ference. slightly. Males outs cored femalesLOSANGELESTIMES ' The College Board, which owns by 39 points on the combined ver-

The high school graduating class. the SAT,- announced .in June that" it . bal ~nd math' portions of the SAT,of 2002 scored slightly higher .in will add a writing test to ,the exam down from 42 points last year.!path but lower in verbal skills than beginning in March 2005. The move Math scores accounted for most oflast year's class on the SAT, the was propelled in part by the Univer- the difference, as' in previousCollege Board reported Tuesday. ' sity of California, the SAT's biggest years.

College Board Pre&ident Gaston client, which had threatened to scrap Critics said the persistent gapCaperton applauded students for the test in favor of developin'g Qne should raise questions about theth~ir improved math performance; of its own. fairness of the test, which is used byrioting that the average score rose 2 Students don't read as much or the majority of the nation's top col:pomts this year, to 516 - its highest as deeply ip high school as they leges and universities as a criterionlevel since 1969. He attributed the' used to, several educators said. for admis~ion. ,gain to students taking more rigor- "What we have now is ,a,population "It'just galls me that a test thatous math courses. that is very responsive to imagery PlJrports to predict how students

But scores on the verbal part of 0 but losing its 'capacity to use and will perform in college 'continues tothe high-stakes test taken by 1.3 respond to words," said Carol show that women do worse evenmillion high school'students have Mllske-Dukes, a University of though they do so much better installed in recent years, and dipped 2 Southern California English profes- college," said Paul Kanarek, whopoints this year t

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Warning Signs

The (Carefully Rehearsed Bad Pick-up Line.' While I'm sure .the

majority ofpeople don't take thisseriously -' - at least,for the sake ofcommon sense, I hope they don't-it can be a sneaky way of Winning

cutout of Prince in a purple jumpsuit (it didn'tquite belong in the center of his room) and hesaid Marilyn had a thing for Prince.

I spent an evening with Hans, Fernando,Elmer, Patrick, and Abdul, discussing and play-ing jazz in their frat house basement. I thoughtthey were cool until Elmer, who wore his hair

in tiny beaded braids,insisted Miles Daviswas God. The guys

. had formed a group toworship him, calledthe Jazz Purists, anddid I want to joiri,because if so, I had tolearn some essentialchords. I told themsorry, but no.

I met a guy namedSue, a stereotypicalMIT dork with a pock-et protector, who h~dmemorized the first500 digits of pi. Hebought me lunch andtold me all about thechemical (almost mag-

ical!) makeup of silly putty. You know, it'sreally a wonderful thing it bounces like rubber,is water-resistant, and shatters like glass whenit's hit by a sledgehammer. Sue demonstratedthis for me.

In the gym one morning, a bronzed, greasyguy in a purple wife-beater introduced himselfas "Tony the Tiger," and showed me his leop-ard skin boxers . .He asked me to dinner, butinstead of picking me up at 6 p.m., he calledand said he needed to take a nap. He hadstrained his entire body (fingers, toes, and all)from the workout that morning .

,Butch wore a navy bowtie and spoke four-teen different languages (including several rare

. African ones), all at once. I thought he wasfunny (and cute, with red, curly hair) but hehardly spoke a word of English until he pinchedmy arm and said, "Does that hurt?" I still have abruise ..

Otto arrived at my door dressed in a tuxedoand said, "Hi darling. Nice hair, but pink is defi-.nitely not your color." At dinner. he said I wasJust like his mom and insisted I pay, becauseshe always does ..

Jasper picked me up in a red convertible,. handed me a rose, and took me shopping. Hewore Georgio Armani sunglasses, a gold chainaround his neck, leather boots, and a long pony-tail down his back. He enjoyed the shoppingmore than I did (and I didn't think that was pos-sible) .

Just when I'd lost all hope, I ran into Bill ina bar off campus. He was wearing an ironedPolo shirt, and khakis, and he had gel in hishair. He leaned against a wall, tilted his headforward, and said to me, "Sweetie, when youwalked in, the whole room lit up." He offeredme a drink and asked what bra size I wear.

I think I'm in love with him now .

In the gym one morning, abronzed, greasy guy in a purplewife-beater introduced himself as(TOny the Tiger,' and shouJed nlehi~ leopard skin boxers. He asked

me to dinner, but instead ofpicking me up at 6p.m., he calledand said he needed to take a nap.

Allison C. Lewis

Hey Mom,Well, I'm here at MIT. I've moved into my

room, bought my books, and met lots of inter-esting new people. Guys mostly. I know youtold me to watch outfor them not to getinvolved with anyjerks. But what's sowrong with datingjerks anyway?

Because I've abouthad it looking for a"nice MIT boy" todate. It's rea~ly quite ashame that, aroundhere, "nice" and "non-jerky". is synonymouswith "weird."

Brett, the first guyI met, had a hamstercollection and hateddogs. He said, ''Thereare two kinds of peo-ple in the world.Those who prefer more peanut butter and thosewho prefer more jelly. Which one are you?" Isaid "jelly" and he told me I wasn't his type.

Would I like to meethis roommate?

Thirteen Ways the. Pick-Up LineWins

Brandon,wearing a

business suit,II .r' i;/JI;~,q}i,e,t;z,ed mY,

" .. haIid hard, andintroduced him-

self as a "Libertari-an-Fascist-Nazi." Isaid, isn't thatredundant? So heexplained eachword to me. After

showing me his gun collec-tion, he asked me to marry him (he thought I'dmake the perfect wife) and live with him in theutopia he will one day build, with only beautifulpeople and purebred dogs.

Rico, the guy next door, had a tattoo of anangel (named Elvira) on his neck and a collec-tion of nunchucks, hatchets, and Marilyn Man-

. ~on posters. I asked him about the cardboard

. say that this pursuit is any lessstrong than at some other times of year - ingeneral, it's just so much more entertainingto watch it in action. I hope that the-freshmangirl popuiationwill take this baptism by firein'stride and come away from it with a littleexperience ..:..-and an improved understand-ing of seasonal male tendencies'.

friends, or has turned it into his personalBible. I know I can't blame people for beingsuperficial - I'm equally guilty of it fre-quently enough - but I look upon anyonewith skepticism who makes this choicebased on a black and white picture and two

randomly choseninterests.

The " 15 I."Come to think of it,the act of gettinggirls drunk - andquickly - withspiked drinks(thanks to the won-ders of Jamaicanrum and grain alco-hol)' is far toodespicable for theaverage horny guy- and occasionallywades into murkylegal waters. In noway do I .wish toassociate this

behavior with the general population. (Youall know who you are, anyway.)

Gwyneth Paltrow was recently quoted assaying that, in the pursuit of women, (Ameri-can) men go for the female jugu-lar. I'm always amazed by the per-sistence of the maleupperclassman populationin the hunLNot to

Andrew C. Thomas

I always look forward to the beginning ofthe school year with mixed feelings. Apart.from :the impending agony of new classesand expenses,there's always amix of intere~tingexperiences thateach student-feelson returning to theriver's edge.

The experiencemost evident tome, however, is

- shared by manymale upperclass-

, men. Freshmeat,,f~esh~an fever, , . '.. ,." .fplse, trust, much likegIve It any name .:' 'o,......... r, I 'h" .'\."., d'you wish --:- in the/~:' .:',.!'r J 'a ungryp~ppy og.,'end, the idea is the -. ~ . >same. The opportu- ---~---~---------nity of anew, largegroup of girls arriving on campus is - par-don the possibly misogynist pun ..:....-too muchstimulation for ,many men. This time cancause them to act crazier - and "more devi--ously - than if they simply had spring fever.

.Fortunately, there are several warningsigns of this condition that girls can watch

. for ..The "Sketchy Gu"yLean." Watch for this

technique at parties and gatherings: The manplaces his forearm flat again,st a nearby wall,leans. against it and tilts his he.ad slightly for-ward. With this position, taller guys' then

, appear 'to hover over their targets. Theeffect, so I'm told, can be both enticing andcreepy at the same time. Do NOT confuse'this for a state of mild inebriation,unless you detect that subtle, tell-tale hint of alcohol on his breath -

.' or he miss'es the wall entirely andfalls over ..

The "Carefully Rehearsed Bad Pick-upLine." While I'm sure the majority ofpeople -don't take this seriously ~ at.least, for the sake of common sense, Ihope they don't - it can be a sneakyway of w~nning false trust, much like .a hungry puppy dog. While it mightpot wiB~~omplete ti:u~t - in fact, adoubt it ever would ~ it can often dis- .arm a person and open -them up to thereal sludge. :rhankfully, its success islimited - I -know only a limited few

_' girls whow0!lld hold their beautiful bod-.ies against this particular specimen.

The '''Dog-Eared Facebook." Whilethis sign camiot usually be detectedimmediately, it certainly is a tell-talesign. of a predator. A Freshman Facebook inthe possession of an upperclassman usually./means either that they haven't' movedbeyond a kindergarten need for a book withpictures, or they're trying to get in the' meat

, market through the back door. A facebookthat looks like it's gone .through a good deal.of use s~ggests either that he's sharing with

_Will Yao Continue to Wow?Anyone who has been. al!ticipating the .

forthcoming World Basketball Championshipshas no doubt heard what NBA Defensive Play-

. er of the Year Ben Wallace haS promised to doto China's 7' 5" Yao Ming: "beat him up prettybad." Why, exactly, Yao is receiving suchenmity from a soon-to-be peer is not so 'wellknown. Claiming to provide a "Welcome tothe league, welcome to our country," as Wal-lace did, is not. a satisfactory reason. First ofall, the Worlds will be played under FIB A(think FIFA, .but basketball), not NBAt rules.Secondly, while the games are being played inthe United States, this tournament has been .historically -overlooked by Americans, who

. choose to: believe the NBA Finals are 'worldchampionships in and of themselves. Nor doany of the'lother. "obvious" explanations ofjealo~sy, jingpisll), or merely juvenile jockantics suffice. Incoming students should notethat:'so~~ '~fth~greatest ani~ositY againstthem can'result of their own good intentions.

Let us first get the red herring of racism -which most people would rather not discuss -out of the way. One might imagine thatbecause Wallace did not threaten Brazil's NeneHilario - before Hilario withdrew from theWorlds - he is employing smite double stan-dard. Hilario is. younger .than Yao and perhaps .even.less ''proven'' through the American sYs-tem, but unlike Yao he fits the stereotypicalbaIler image. Ben Wallace, like any other

Philip Burroweshuman being, mayor may not be a racist, but it numbers, and if he does have an immediateis highly unlikely that his words were dictated impact it.may be to the detriment of his futuresolely by racial animosity. If that were true, with the team (ask any Rookies of the Yearwhy no comments on Denver's Mengke Bateer since Elton Brand/Steve Francis).or Dallas' Wang Zhizhi? Maybe Wallace is one Tim'Duncan was born outside of the coun-of those sophisticated racists, and distinguishes try (sort of; no offense to anyone else whoBateer's MongQ!ian and Wang's Beijing births, hails from St. Croix) and became star playerfrom the more cos- . upon entrance into themopolitan 'image of. ------- .... -------- NBA, but he is one ofYao's Shanghai home. - those freaks who actu-Perhaps tJtey're not The reason Wallace had to prove ally goes to college,just big enough targets h . h' h h l d and for four years atfor Wallac.e, but that at - lS wort lS t_at e p aye that. Wallace too didleast shows us there is Division II basketball at Vir-. his time, but was actu-another element. ally not drafted before

Neither Bateer nor .ginia Union,_ a resume which joining the then-Wash-Wang were espeCially d' h fi bi ington Bullets. Hehyped within the Unit- . oesn t compare t at avora y to might be accused ofed States, exc'ept for Yao'sfive years o+prolfssional rational jealousy; Yaothe collective attention -J . -Jr:. is "unproven" againstthey received along basketball. and international the rigors of Americanwith Yao as the competition,. yet he is"Walking Great Wall" compt;tition. eagerly anticipated,at Sydney. Media cov- while Wallace had toerage and internal prove his worth. Itexpectations do not a would be easy to com-player make, however (ask Harold Minor). pare Wallace's cynicism with former Chicago

, Those with the greatest potential 3!e often the Bull Scottie Pippen's disdain for highly covet-ones who are given the longest "free ride" of ed Croat Toni Kukoc, who was being lured bydevelopment time (ask any high schooler post- the Chicago management with the promise ofKobe Bryant). Unlike the foreign-born big a hefty contract while Pippen was beingmen of the past, such as Patrick Ewing and "underpaid." J"ike Wallace, Pippen and team-Yao's supposed idol Hakeem Olajuwon, Yao mate Michael Jordan promised to shut downenters the league at a time where it's almost Kukoc during the 1992 Olympics to wakecommon place for rookies to post minimal Jerry Krause and company from their dream-

land, embarrassing their eventual teammate.Of course, the reason Wallace had to prove

his worth is that he played Division II basket-ball at Virginia Union, a resume which doesn'tcompare that favorably to Yao's five years ofprofessional basketball and international com-petition. Money is no real object either, asrookie contracts are now heavily limited (iron-ically thanks in part to another 7-foot-plus for-eigner, Shawn Bradley), and Yao will have to

. pay a lot of money through taxes to the PRCand his former team. Jay (nee Jason) Williams,Wallace's USA teammate, would seem themore likely candidate for envy, as he waspassed up for Yao in the NBA Draft. Never-theless it wasWilIiams who gushed over Yaoafter a recent US-China exhibition, saying,"He blew away my expectations with the wayhe played."

Well, then what could possibly explainWallace's comments? Simple: Yao asked forit. Instead of shying from the speculation, hehas promised to try. and "conquer" ShaquilleO'Neal, claims to enjoy attention because itmakes him feel like he's "still in China," andafter a collision with Wallace in the exhibition,hoped "it didn't hurt him much." (Wallaceadmitted that Yao, "was a whole lot better thanI thought he was.") This is in mark contrast toWang, who quietly endures all the ribbing hegets from teammates and commeI!tators. Aslong as Yao's performance can keep up withhis mouth, he should be alright. Let him be alesson to any new hotshots on campus shouldhe fail. .

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StudentsAttendLectureOnRa, peBy Brian LouxNEWS EDITOR

Members of the Class of 2006attended a lecture yesterday morn-ing on the topic of sexual abuseand rape prevention, and later'par-ticipated in breakout discussionsessions with their Orientationleaders.

Katie Koestner", a victim 'ofacquaintance rap,e her freshmanyear at the College of William aiidMary, spent much of the lecture

. recalling the events preceding thesexual assault by her first collegeboyfriend. "Did you ever think-thatsomeone's favorite thing would berecalling the worst night of herlife?" she asked the audience.

After complaining ~to campusauthorities, ,she said a dean issueda one-semester restraining orderand expressed hope that the couplewould get back together. ,

"I am satisfied for two rea-sons," she' said, "One, that dean' is -

. now fired, and two, the deans ofyour sc4001 care enough aboutyour safety to bring me here."',

Throughout the talk, Koestn'erhighlighted many of the responsesfrom interviews with college stu-rl:entsshe met over the years. "Onegirl told me she always says noeven when she.does it because shedoesn't want to seem like a slut.I'd ask she change the definition ofslut before she changes the defmi-tion of no." , "

Near the end of the discussion,she a

Tables were also arranged'inside the Kresge Auditoriumlobby with brochures about rapeprevention and local hotline num-bers mainly provided by theBoston Area Rape Crisis Centerand MIT Medical.

Koestner also spoke at Orienta-tion 200 I' s discussion on rape.

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not object if students wanted tohand OJ.ltflyers to students attend-ing events as long as they did so inan orderly fashion and did not dis-rupt the event proper," he wrote.

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Leaders apprehensive on changesEast Campus Rush Chair Emily

E. Cofer '03 said that this year'sturnout for East Campus Rush.events was markedly lower thanlast year's. She 'expressed concern

Protests lost on freshmen that some protest activities may.The upperclassmen's passionate have turned off freshmen who

concerns about the evisceration of might otherwise consider EastRush seem lost on their target Campus.audience of freshmen. Other dormitory leaders said ,

Nadeem A. Mazen '06 said, "I they' have seen- freshmen' commitsaw the shark~ but 1 didn't know earlier to housing 'and explorewhat it was for." . - fewer options, in part because of

"If they thought. anyth~ng' about the' increased 'vohiJrte ~df'informa-'it,' it was that it was Just a 'part of tion"dissemiri~t~d'ovef'tne"summercollege life," said Tara R. Diduch' via printeo 'and 6lectTo'niB housing'06 of her classmates and the Play- guides. ' .Fair protest. Kessenich and Bronder both

Shannon E. Turner '06 said of noted satisfying turnouts at theirthe East Campus anti-manoatory respective dormitories' events,campaign, "I think it's kind of though they s.~id -a larger-than-silly; it's kind of extreme:~ . usual proportIon of the turnout

,Redwine said that confusion consisted of freshmen who had, among freshmen over the meaning already decided on their housing. -

of the protests was not surprising. " "A lot of freshmen wen~ appre-"I think the freshmen haven't par- hensive about moving .across cam-ticipated in some' of the history," pus," Bronder said.

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Coop Balks at Four, Percent Commission on MIT Cardcard has been streamlined. Previ-ously, students filled out forms tomake payments, and those pay-ments were handled through MITStudent Account Services. Withthe new system, students and theirparents can make paymentson .the MIT card Web site,.

Students are not able to with-draw money from their accounts."When we set up the program, wedidn't want to make it like a [bankcard]," McDonald said. "We justwant to make it easy to use."

Other businesses may soonbegin to accept the card, he added,including Kendall Drug.in KendallSquare and a dry cleaner.

TechCASH has added featuresThe TechCASH system has

some additional benefits comparedto the old meal card system. Apartfrom the new businesses partici-pating in the program, the proce-dure for adding money to an MIT

TechCASH allows students andparents to make deposits fromcredit cards, necessitating the largeMIT commission, McDonald said.

Powell said that he wanted stu-dents "to think of [the Coop] as aresource," and as such wanted to

, join the TechCASH system. But"it's probably not going to be[available to students] this semes-ter," he said.

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"had some concerns about" MIT'scommission, but will continuenegotiating with the card office,said Coop General Manager AllanPowell.

Tbe TechCASH commissionrate is more than what the Cooppays for credit cards or the Har-vard University "Crimson Cash"system, for which Harvard takes a2.1 percent commission, he said.

Unlike. the Harvard system,

Rolfe was not concerned aboutthe four percent commission."Compared to the convenience .,.it's small," he said.

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card for a long time," said LSCChairman Alex Rolfe G. But the'card reader system required toaccept TechCASH c'osts about$1,500, McDonald said, in addi-tion to the cost of a dedicated tele-phone line..

The Student Activities Officemay allocate money to help pay fora student-group card reader,McDonald said, and "we will try'tospread the cost of the terminalaround" by sharing the machineamong several groups.

"1 suspect there 'are lots ofgroups who, like the theatergroups, would like to sell tickets onthe card," Rolfe .said, but LSC hasnot yet discussed.in detail sharingthe system with other groups.

.Getting LSC on the TechCASHsystem will take at least a month,the time required to acquire andinstall the necessary hardware. "Iwould guess a'realistic time frameis between November and [theIndependent Activities Period]" inJanuary, Rolfe said.

~E provides r~alistic situationThe' online FEE is unlike other

online' assessment tools because it_provides students with a more real-

istic situation in which to write,Perelman said.

The evaluation process spansthe cours~ of a week between reg-istration and essay submission.Students mus,t write two essays

..answering questions based ,on tworeading ,passages. Th~y are giventhree days to read the passages andanother ~hree days to write theiressays after the questions are post-ed online. -

"I like how they give you so'many' days to write, your essays,"Luczynska said.

"The system is still growingand evolving~" Perelman said. Hesays that the system may eventual-ly be expanded to cover tests inother academic fields.

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are more pleased.'" ,LaVerde's previous effo~ts to

begin acceptance of the card werestymied by LaVerde's former com-petitor Aramark, said John M.McDonald, the assistant director ofenterprise services.

For similar reasons, new restau-rants are unlikely to be added tothe. card system in the near future,he saia. "We've kind of made anagreement with Campus Dining"not to recruit new restaurants inthe near future, McDonald said.

Lower commissions also played,a role in LaVerde's'acceptance."When Frank LaVerde was [origi-nally] approached, the percentagewas much too high," Semon said.MIT now charges a fee of four per-cent of each purchase to use thesystem. ,-

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system will iJ.1creaseby ~ore thanten by next summer, and thirty by

cent, received. passing scores, 2004,Perelm~ said.meaning 'that they m!ly take anyCommunication Intensive Humani- Feed,b~ck important part of FEEties, Arts, or Social Science course Freshmeil received comments

. (CI-H) during.their freshman year. : and f~edback on their essay sub-One hundred ninety-four stu- missions along with their grades.

dents received the score of "Writ- 'l'Students get substantive feed-ing Subject Required.'~ Each of back on their writing," Perelmanthese, st~dents must succe~sfully .said. "It's the comments that makecomplete a Coriununication Inten- it a real educational experience." .~ive HASS•.Writini (CI-HW) sub- 11 t.w~f1~Y~r~~OJFf~~r~\f.i~;~YI~~'6-1ject during their firStyear.. most stUdents saId they valued-die .

Thirty international students ~ feedback specific to their essays.. 'earned'scores of "English as a Sec- "What was nice about theond Language Subject Required." onlin~ format .was that you gotThese students must successfully comments on specific sentenc'es or-complete the class Expository - .details .on your essays tq help ~ithWriting for Bilingual Students your writing," said Marta M.

'. (2lF.222) .during their freshman Luczynska '06, who passed theyear. ' test.

The passing rate is up moder-' Even students who did not passately from the 59 percent with last the exa~ were positive about theyear's FEE, and.dnistically higher experience. "The t:esults 'of myth~n the typical 20 petrcent ,oJ FEE'were. demoralizing,' but tliey

. freshmen passing'the FEE in prior were honest," said William A.years. This is the second year of Reichert' '06. "I'm actually glad Ithe new CommUnications Require-. have to take the writing course,ment and an e~sier FEE, but unlik~ because I don't really know how tostUdents passing the older Writing write well. I guess I've ~een ableRequirement FEE, students receiv- to slip through the system untiling a passing grade on this year's . now.~ 'FEE must still take a Communica-

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Students who received, a scoreof five on either 'of ,the two

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Other coUeges use FEE systemThis was the fifth year that the

FEE has been offered online. Theconsortium of universities usingthe online' essay evaluation servicethis year, includes tbe 'CaliforniaInstitute of Technology, the Uni-versity ,of Cincinnati, LouisianaState University, and DePaul U~i-,versity. -

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event~ located onthe third floor con':'ference rooIns of the Student Cen-ter, had less security. and less strin-gent rules ..

"T~is is more about having apresence'than recruiting," said Pan-hellenic 'Kssociation Rush' Chair;Sara Pierce '03.

No letters were worn 'by mem-bers. "Our recruitment is' nol untilFebruary .... we will .work .onrecruiting starting around October,"she said ..

"Sororities seem to be morecohesive than' the fraternities," saidDarlene E. Ferranti '06.

-"I'm surprised they're shovedinto this small corner," she said ..Panhel was given two of the private .

. dining rooms on the third floor of.the student .center. "It's like theydon't want 'Panhel to be here," Fer-ranti said.

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booths, one for each of the fraterni-ties and independent living groups,the evening also. included non-mid-way activities' such as dancing, akaraoke machine; and the most pop-ulated booth of the night, a Sodexhodessert and ice cream bar. "Ofcourse I also came for the freefood," Davenport said.

Midway similar to previous years'Fraternities and mdependent liv-

ing groups were given rectangularspaces in La Sala de Puerto Rico toconstruct booths similar to those ofprevious years' midways. '

"We were given this time to tryto expose the freshmen to what ourcommunity' is, and to also 'try "to -throw them a good party," saidAssociate Interfraternity CouncilRush Chair Jonathan S. Hartofilis'04, who was in charge of orgarnz-ing the event.

Security was increased dramati-cally from earlier residence mid-ways. "We wanted to preserve theway that Midway used to be inJohnson [Athletic Facility],"Hartofilis said. ''To do that, we want

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