Volume 114, Number 16 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, March 29, 1994 L~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_~~~~ ..... .. ~.. Lev el nea IDo I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LI -- -- a -- _I __ IBPC I -pa II1 ae IrP--ru -ml - ---- - -- ----__, _-- -·I - Ia ---- - -- -- s---- --- ---- -c- -- I--, -- ra---·----- ,,I., - -- -- · _ ----- --- ---- ------- A leaking petroleum storage tank near Huntington Hall may have con- taminated the air in at least one room in the dormitory. Air sampling tests revealed above normal levels of benzene, a toxic compound in petroleum. The tank, located at a gas station abutting Huntington, was found to be leaking in 1991 and has since been removed. However, the petro- leum may have contaminated the air and ground water nearby. MIT leases over 50 rooms in Huntington from the Massachusetts College of Art, which in turn is rent- inor the entire hnildicno frntm ite owner, Wentworth Institute of Technology. The state recently asked Went- worth to conduct the air sampling tests, according to Felice Janel of the Wentworth Safety Office. The The Weather Today: Rain, sleet, 40°F (4°C) . Tonight: Flumries, cool, 29°F (-2°C) Tomorrow: Showers, 40°F (4°C) Details, Page 2 By Daniel C. Stevenson ASSOCIA TE NEWS EDITOR air tests measured the levels of 36 volatile compounds, including four commonly associated with gasoline benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene. Two rooms were tested, one on the first floor, and another on the second floor of the dormitory. Above normal levels of benzene were found in the television room on the first floor, according to Janel. The affected room will be closed off and the television will be relo- cated, according to Associate Dean for Residence and Campus Activi- ties Andrew M. Eisenmann '75 in a March 24 letter to MIT residents at Huntington. In addition, an envirmnnfntia! site assessment showed that "there could be some gasoline contamina- tion of the ground water" near Hunt- ington, Janel said. Huntington, Page 14 By Eric Richard CONTRIBUTING EDITOR made. "No one has come to us to say that this incident happened," Glavin said. Glavin said that the Campus Police is in the process of investigating the March 15 assault. No suspect identified "We believe that we have identi- fied the individual responsible," Glavin said. But "the hard part is that the victim cannot positively identify the suspect," she added. The Campus Police has received information identifying the assailant's vehicle, Glavin said. "We suspect [the person] had an idea of where he was going," Glavin said. "It isn't clear how [the individ- ual] got in the Media Lab," but it seems that he simply walked in, she added. In addition, no other individuals w..r. mvunu w.o co,,uu ientiy the assailant. "We've turned over every stone that we have," Glavin said. Incident raises safety questions "We've sent out warnings to people about the incident and warned them not to confront suspi- cious individuals," said Lauren H. Gallant, administrative officer at the Media Lab. "Our primary concern ... is that we don't want individuals running into confrontations like this fellow did," Glavin said. "Sometimes, despite the best laid plans it is diffi- cult" to keep people out, she said. "If you see somebody who looks suspicious to you, call us immedi- ately," Glavin said. These incidents have prompted Nicholas P. Negroponte '66, direc- tor of the Media Lab, to address the issue of security in the Media Lab. "As a number of you know, we are experiencing more and more crime at the Media Lab," Negro- ponte said in an electronic message posted to the media lab. "During the nine years ... of occupancy of the Wiesner Building, we have been blessed with a high degree of safety and with an absolute minimum of theft." Negroponte proposed additions to the Media Lab's security system, but he concluded, "In the final analysis, the only way we can com- bat this problem is to keep our col- lective attention high, have our eyes and ears open, and be alert and ready to help." On March 15, an individual pos- ing as a janitor assaulted an employ- ee of the Media Laboratory when asked for identification. -· According to a Campus Police report, a Media Lab staff member confronted the individual about a bulge under his jacket. The individ- ual then struck the staff member in the face and fled the premises. The bulge was a laptop comput- er, an Apple Macintosh Powerbook belonging to Technical Services, according to an electronic mail mes- sage from Gregory L. Tucker, research engineer at the Media Lab. The Powerbook was the only item reported stolen, according to Chief of Campus Police Anne P. Glavin. I ie sttal 1i1i iLcr was r./t rl i- ously hurt in the attack, Tucker said. There has also been a separate report of a person following a Media Lab employee into an eleva- tor after hours and gaining access to the upper floors, according to Tucker. However, no formal complaint of the second incident has been By Ramy A. Amaout ASSCOCA TE NEWS EDITOR time for the end of the summer, according to UROP guidelines. The UROP office will also give prefer- ence to students who work full-time rather than part-time. However, beginning July 1, wages paid out. of sponsored research funds will be subject to employee benefit costs of about 40 percent. This sum will then be sub- jected to overhead expenses of over 50 percent, thereby doubling UROP costs, McGavern said. These costs were waived last year for about 2,500 UROP students wrho ea.'ed nearly $5 r;illion- last year, according to McGavem. Over- head costs include physical plant and administrative services, a itU employee benefit costs, include health plans and vacation time. Though employers usually ear- mark a portion of their employees' salaries for employee benefits, the situation is different for UROP stu- dents. Students will "contribute to In a departure from the old Undergraduate Research Opportuni- ties Program application process, summer proposals will be accepted over a three-week period from April 1-22, according to the summer UROP guidelines. With this change, "there is no advantage to being first - that's what we're trying to eliminate," said UROP Director Norma McGavern. Instead, the UROP approval com- mittee will focus on variety, she 1a"u. V W -wand sfTo 1m a said. "We want proposals from a wide range of areas," she said. As of July 1, the Institute will no longer be able to waive overhead and employee benefit costs on UROP student wages. The new poli- cy, a result of new federal guide- lines, will effectively make UROP students twice as expensive to hire as before, according to McGavem. Wages earned through the end of June will not incur these costs, so students should save their vacation UROP, Page 14 By Vipul Bhushan SENIOR EDITOR feels he can also identify with foreign stu- dents' concerns. Kermodq praised the many activities spon- sored by the GSC, but said there was a need to increase student involvement. Students become involved with the GSC through two channels, he said. Some experience or per- ceive problems, and see the GSC as a vehicle for solving them. Others are involved in plan- ning and participating in activities. Kermode also recognizes the problems of the increasing cost of hiring Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program students and graduate research assistants. Stan J. Reiss G lauded the abundance of GSC-sponsored social activities, but said they needs-to increase their academic focus, per- haps including providing advice to incoming students and those writing theses, as well as sponsoring speakers. Reiss would also like to increase the GSC's .presence with the academic depart- ments and to "make it beneficial, to depart- The Graduate Student Council will elect new officers at its next full council meeting on April 5. There are currently two candidates each for President nnd Vice President, and one each for Treasurer and Secretary. -The GSC full council is composed of the four officers and representatives from each degree granting program and each living group. Any graduate student may run for office, and nominations remain open until the election takes place. Christopher M. Gittins G, the current vice president, spoke highly of the candidates. They are all experienced people who seem committed to graduate student concerns, he said. President Roger G. Kermode G cited his current work as a chairman of the Activities Commit- tee and his past involvement in undergraduate student government as qualifying him to be GSC president. Coming from Australia, he VIPUL BHUSHAN-THE TECH GSC officer candidates Joseph J. Bambenek G, Roger G. Kermode G, Patrick S. Wojdowski G, Susan L. Iprs G, Stan J. Reiss G, and Assef A. Zobian G GSC, Page 16 .. I I .. . I I . I . .. I. MIT9s Oldest and Largest Newspaper t1:; t1 r 11I i~B~aimu Wet weather made for slippery driving, causing this traffic mishap Bldg. 1. None of the car's occupants were injured in the incident; fortunate. Employee Attacked at Media Lab UROP Introduces /y~~~~yf?~~ J^BVufSS/ Vvsk JL~~ ~ WCI-/JLSMf/e''y^MwM9Ci Six Announce GS Cand. iacies
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A leaking petroleum storage tanknear Huntington Hall may have con-taminated the air in at least oneroom in the dormitory. Air samplingtests revealed above normal levelsof benzene, a toxic compound inpetroleum.
The tank, located at a gas stationabutting Huntington, was found tobe leaking in 1991 and has sincebeen removed. However, the petro-leum may have contaminated the airand ground water nearby.
MIT leases over 50 rooms inHuntington from the MassachusettsCollege of Art, which in turn is rent-inor the entire hnildicno frntm ite
owner, Wentworth Institute ofTechnology.
The state recently asked Went-worth to conduct the air samplingtests, according to Felice Janel ofthe Wentworth Safety Office. The
air tests measured the levels of 36volatile compounds, including fourcommonly associated with gasoline
benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene,and xylene.
Two rooms were tested, one onthe first floor, and another on thesecond floor of the dormitory.Above normal levels of benzenewere found in the television roomon the first floor, according to Janel.
The affected room will be closedoff and the television will be relo-cated, according to Associate Deanfor Residence and Campus Activi-ties Andrew M. Eisenmann '75 in aMarch 24 letter to MIT residents atHuntington.
In addition, an envirmnnfntia!
site assessment showed that "therecould be some gasoline contamina-tion of the ground water" near Hunt-ington, Janel said.
Huntington, Page 14
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made. "No one has come to us tosay that this incident happened,"Glavin said. Glavin said that theCampus Police is in the process ofinvestigating the March 15 assault.
No suspect identified"We believe that we have identi-
fied the individual responsible,"Glavin said. But "the hard part isthat the victim cannot positivelyidentify the suspect," she added.
The Campus Police has receivedinformation identifying theassailant's vehicle, Glavin said.
"We suspect [the person] had anidea of where he was going," Glavinsaid. "It isn't clear how [the individ-ual] got in the Media Lab," but itseems that he simply walked in, sheadded.
In addition, no other individualsw..r. mvunu w.o co,,uu ientiy theassailant. "We've turned over everystone that we have," Glavin said.
Incident raises safety questions"We've sent out warnings to
people about the incident andwarned them not to confront suspi-cious individuals," said Lauren H.Gallant, administrative officer at the
Media Lab."Our primary concern ... is that
we don't want individuals runninginto confrontations like this fellowdid," Glavin said. "Sometimes,despite the best laid plans it is diffi-cult" to keep people out, she said.
"If you see somebody who lookssuspicious to you, call us immedi-ately," Glavin said.
These incidents have promptedNicholas P. Negroponte '66, direc-tor of the Media Lab, to address theissue of security in the Media Lab.
"As a number of you know, weare experiencing more and morecrime at the Media Lab," Negro-ponte said in an electronic messageposted to the media lab. "During thenine years ... of occupancy of theWiesner Building, we have beenblessed with a high degree of safetyand with an absolute minimum oftheft."
Negroponte proposed additionsto the Media Lab's security system,but he concluded, "In the finalanalysis, the only way we can com-bat this problem is to keep our col-lective attention high, have our eyesand ears open, and be alert andready to help."
On March 15, an individual pos-ing as a janitor assaulted an employ-ee of the Media Laboratory whenasked for identification. - ·
According to a Campus Policereport, a Media Lab staff memberconfronted the individual about abulge under his jacket. The individ-ual then struck the staff member inthe face and fled the premises.
The bulge was a laptop comput-er, an Apple Macintosh Powerbookbelonging to Technical Services,according to an electronic mail mes-sage from Gregory L. Tucker,research engineer at the Media Lab.
The Powerbook was the onlyitem reported stolen, according toChief of Campus Police Anne P.Glavin.
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ously hurt in the attack, Tucker said.There has also been a separate
report of a person following aMedia Lab employee into an eleva-tor after hours and gaining access tothe upper floors, according toTucker.
However, no formal complaintof the second incident has been
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time for the end of the summer,according to UROP guidelines. TheUROP office will also give prefer-ence to students who work full-timerather than part-time.
However, beginning July 1,wages paid out. of sponsoredresearch funds will be subject toemployee benefit costs of about 40percent. This sum will then be sub-jected to overhead expenses of over50 percent, thereby doubling UROPcosts, McGavern said.
These costs were waived lastyear for about 2,500 UROP studentswrho ea.'ed nearly $5 r;illion- lastyear, according to McGavem. Over-head costs include physical plantand administrative services, a itUemployee benefit costs, includehealth plans and vacation time.
Though employers usually ear-mark a portion of their employees'salaries for employee benefits, thesituation is different for UROP stu-dents. Students will "contribute to
In a departure from the oldUndergraduate Research Opportuni-ties Program application process,summer proposals will be acceptedover a three-week period from April1-22, according to the summerUROP guidelines.
With this change, "there is noadvantage to being first - that'swhat we're trying to eliminate," saidUROP Director Norma McGavern.Instead, the UROP approval com-mittee will focus on variety, she
1a"u. V W -wand sfTo 1m asaid. "We want proposals from awide range of areas," she said.
As of July 1, the Institute will nolonger be able to waive overheadand employee benefit costs onUROP student wages. The new poli-cy, a result of new federal guide-lines, will effectively make UROPstudents twice as expensive to hireas before, according to McGavem.
Wages earned through the end ofJune will not incur these costs, sostudents should save their vacation UROP, Page 14
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feels he can also identify with foreign stu-dents' concerns.
Kermodq praised the many activities spon-sored by the GSC, but said there was a needto increase student involvement. Studentsbecome involved with the GSC through twochannels, he said. Some experience or per-ceive problems, and see the GSC as a vehiclefor solving them. Others are involved in plan-ning and participating in activities.
Kermode also recognizes the problems ofthe increasing cost of hiring UndergraduateResearch Opportunities Program students andgraduate research assistants.
Stan J. Reiss G lauded the abundance ofGSC-sponsored social activities, but said theyneeds-to increase their academic focus, per-haps including providing advice to incomingstudents and those writing theses, as well assponsoring speakers.
Reiss would also like to increase theGSC's .presence with the academic depart-ments and to "make it beneficial, to depart-
The Graduate Student Council will electnew officers at its next full council meetingon April 5. There are currently two candidateseach for President nnd Vice President, andone each for Treasurer and Secretary.
-The GSC full council is composed of thefour officers and representatives from eachdegree granting program and each livinggroup. Any graduate student may run foroffice, and nominations remain open until theelection takes place.
Christopher M. Gittins G, the current vicepresident, spoke highly of the candidates.They are all experienced people who seemcommitted to graduate student concerns, hesaid.
PresidentRoger G. Kermode G cited his current
work as a chairman of the Activities Commit-tee and his past involvement in undergraduatestudent government as qualifying him to beGSC president. Coming from Australia, he
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Following the passage of the cyclone, clearing skies and chillyweather will continue. A weak disturbance will pass the area late onWednesday and may trigger a few rain or snow showers.
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precipitation and below normal temperatures.
Today: Cloudy with mixed rain, sleet, and snow, turning to allsnow during the afternoon. High near 40°F (4°C). Winds north-northeast 10-20 mph (16-32 kph).
Tonight: Cloudy with snow tapering to flurries, then partialclearing. Cool. lw 29°F (-2°C). Winds becoming north-northwest10-15 mph (16-24 kph).
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One by one, party chiefs, government ministers and potential can-didates parade in and out of the presidential mansion, stoic and mute.Throngs of reporters staked out nearby jostle for a sliver of informa-tion, a name. But, as the ritual of consultations continued Monday,the veil of secrecy did not lift.
Five days have passed since the assassination of Mexico's proba-ble next president, and the ruling party is struggling to name a replace-ment. The delay in choosing a new candidate has exposed serious riftsin the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and highlightsonce again its autocratic, increasingly criticized way of doing things.
Depending on the choice he makes, President Carlos Salinas deGortari is faced with a virtual mutiny among party members, fromeither old-guard hard-liners or reform-minded progressives.
The assassination last week of Luis Donaldo Colosio shook Mexi-co's ruling party to the core and has incited a bitter power strugglethat seems certain to leave the PRI bruised and fractured.
Emesto Zedillo, who was Colosio's campaign manager, is rumoredto be the front-runner because he is close to Salinas and could becounted on to continue Salinas' free-market econrnomic policies.
Party Chairman Fernando Ortiz Arana appears to have the back-ing of many traditional party stalwarts who have been waging a cam-paign to boost him and to block Zedillo.
Arabs Hold Off Lifting IsraelBoycott in Wake of Massacre
LOS ANGELES TIMES
There was a leftist team ready totake power. We were facing anuncertain future, moving toward a(totalitarian) regime."
Berlusconi made clear that heexpected President Oscar LuigiScalfaro to ask him to form a gov-ernment. "We will know how to runa good government for all Italians,guaranteeing freedom for all," hesaid.
Running with the neo-fascistNational Alliance and the secession-ist Northern League, Berlusconipromised Italians more jobs andlower taxes under a governmentwed to free-market economics, con-servative Christian values, con-trolled immigration and law andorder.
Gianfranco Fini, leader of theNational Alliance, easily won elec-tionr to Parliament Monday, as didUmberto Bossi, founder of theLeague. Although both were alignedwith Berlusconi for the election,Bossi insists that he will have noth-ing to do with the neo-fascists. Nei-ther will he docilely follow Berius-coni's lead.
"Berlusconi thinks we are his.We're not," Bossi said early Tuesday.
For the left, Monday's returnswere one more cruel blow in analways-a-bridesmaid search forpower. Since World War II, ItalianCommunists - now social democ-ratic and renamed the Party of theDemocratic Left - had always fin-ished second to the ChristianDemocrats. Monday, when theChristian Democrats slumped, theex-Communists and allied partiesrunning as Progressives finishedsecond to Berlusconi's new right.
Southern
ting about 16 percent - less thanhalf their traditional vote.
Final returns later Tuesday willshow the extent of Berlusconi's vic-tory, which, one of his three nation-wide television channels reported,may include an absolute majority inthe Senate.
Berlusconi, 57, not only headedthe national campaign of his new"Forza Italia," or Go, Italy move-ment but also ran as a candidate,easily winning a seat in the Cham-ber of Deputies from central Rome.
His allies also prospered in anelection under new winner-take-allrules in which 80 percent of candi-dates were running for the first time.Among them, movie director FrancoZeffirelli won a Senate seat in Cata-nia, Sicily. In Naples, AlessandraMussolini, granddaughter of formerdictator Benito Mussolini, was re-elected to the lower house as candi-date of a neo-fascist party alliedwith Berlusconi.
"The right has won," glumlyreported the Rome newspaper LaRepubbilica, a bulwark of Bc lus-coni foes who argued that he hadjoined politics principally toadvance business interests thatinclude the country's largest adver-tising agency, a chain of supermar-kets and Milan - Italy's championprofessional soccer team.
A self-made man who onceworked as a singer on cruise ships,Berlusconi campaigned in Cold Warterms, portraying himself as a cru-sader against communism. EarlyTuesday, in what amounted to a vic-tory speech, he told reporters fromhis TV networks that "a few monthsago we started with great fear.
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Two months after his debut as apolitician, media billionaire SilvioBerlusconi led right-wing forcesMonday to an unprecedented victo-ry in Italian national elections,emerging as the front-runner tobecome prime minister.
In elections termed the most crit-ical in more than four decades for acountry convulsed by longstandinggovernment corruption, Berlus-coni's restive, three-party alliancetrounced traditionally dominant cen-trist parties and outdistanced once-favored leftists running as a move-ment of Progressives.
For Italy, installation of a right-wing government would meanmoves toward a streamlined bureau-cracy, intensified free-market eco-nomics with attendant labor unrestand, perhaps, evolution toward abipolar - left-right - universe.The rightist government could bedestabilized by internal squabbles,but italy's democratic institutionsare not at issue and neither are itscommitments to NATO or the Euro-pean Union.
Projections before dawn Tues-day gave the right substantial plural-ities in both the Chamber ofDeputies and the Italian Senate.Berlusconi's alliance had about 46percent nationwide for the Chamberand 40 percent or so for the Senate.
Next in both chambers were theleftists, led by the former ItalianCommunist Party, with 34 percentor so. Centrist parties, which havecontrolled all 52 Italian govern-ments since World War II, were get-
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The massacre of about 30 Palestinians by a Jewish settler inHebron has set back the timetable for a possible lifting of the Arabboycott against the Israelis, even as the Arab League finds itselfincreasingly divided over whether to consider Israel a friend or foe,officials said Monday.
Foreign ministers of the Arab world, still fractured by the woundsleft by Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, found themselves at their101st regular session unable even to agree on who represents a com-mon enemy of the Arabs - though Israel got barely a mentionamong possible threats to Arab security.
The conclusion of two days of meetings with no new resolutionsadopted on the Arab boycott, Arab security, or even the issue of aproposed Arab court of justice reflects the extent to which the Arabworld remains unsettled by the Persian Gulf war and the uncertaintyabout how to deal with prospects of a general peace with Israel.
"Relations with Israel have really changed substantially, and wecannot speak about Israel using the same language we used to use inthe past," said Nagui Ghatrify, spokesman for the foreign ministry ofEgypt, which has urged its Arab neighbors to move toward peacefulrelations with the Jewish state.
Oil prices dropped sharply on world markets Monday, and someindustry analysts predicted further declines could be in store afterthe Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries failed to reduceproduction.
The disarray in oil markets was good news for consumers, whocan anticipate relatively low gasoline prices at least until summer,when demand increases with the vacation driving season. But the fallin crude prices triggered a dive in stock prices for oil companies, andfor firms in the oil drilling and equipment business.
The price of crude oil for May delivery on the New York Mercan-tile Exchange closed at $14.08 a barrel Monday, down $1.05. Someoil industry watchers said they thought the price could fall to $10 or$12 a barrel, before rising again later in the year.
OPEC ended a two-day meeting in Geneva by retaining the cur-rent 24.52 million barrels-a-day ceiling on production for anothernine months. According to news service reports, efforts to lower theceiling fell apart because of resistance by Saudi Arabia, the world'slargest oil exporter.
WEATHERChilly times ahead.
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Methodist church when the lightsflickered and went out during thesinging of a hymn. Soon after, roar-ing wind and splintering glass sentparishioners diving under red-car-peted pews.
One man died outside the churchin a vehicle. Another 20 were killedinside the church, including six chil-dren aged 2 to 12 who were takenwith the others to a nearby tempo-rary morgue at a national guardfacility. At least 80 members of theGoshen church were injured.
The storm moved on to northGeorgia, where 18 persons werekilled. In the Henderson Mountainarea north of Atlanta, nine died inPickens County, including six fami-ly members who had gatheredtogether in a double-wide trailer andwere killed when their home wasthrown 30 yards away from itsmoorings.
Later, in Charlotte, N.C., a publichousing project called BoulevardHomes was "pretty well destroyed"by a tornado, but none of the resi-dents was killed, according to Mick-ey Casey of Charlotte Police Depart-ment. Two persons, however, died inNorth Carolina - one an elderlyman in Charlotte who had gone outto get his laundry from a backyardline and was struck by lightning.
Georgia Gov. Zell Miller (D)declared 12 counties disaster areas,and Alabama Gov. Jim Folsom Jr.(D) also toured disaster-strickencommunities and was expected tocall for federal aid.
Miller said 'he had no estimatefor damage yet, but said it wouldeasily run into the millions. Disasterrelief experts said it would take afew days to return power andphones to the hardest hit areas,though it will be months or yearsbefore the homes are rebuilt
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day, though none was reported tohave touched down.
The storms roiled through astretch of the South known as torna-do alley. They continued a pattern,charted as far back as the 1600s,that is typical for the Southeast inthe early spring.
As the storm barreled out of Mis-sissippi and crossed Alabama, theBirmingham weather office issued21 severe thunder storm warningsfor various counties, one flash floodwarning and 27 tornado warnings.
At 5:45 a.m. (CST) Sunday, theforecast office in Birminghamissued a statement that severe condi-tions were developing. At 10:27a.m. (CST), the office issued its firstwarning of an actual tornado, pin-pointed with the aid of a powerfulnew Doppler radar system.
The hardest hit region was thehill county of northeast Alabama,within a 20-mile radius of BradfordPoole's farm.
The sirens started ringing atAnniston Army Depot about a half-hour before the first killer tornadostruck. The depot maintains an elab-orate warning system because it hasa quantity of chemical-warfare"nerve agents" awaiting incinerationin a series of above-ground concretebunkers. No chemicals werereleased, but the sirens did warn res-idents in a 9-mile area of theimpending twisters.
The tornado's funnel toucheddown on Goshen United MethodistChurch near Piedmont about 11:30a.m. (CST), blowing out windows,collapsing the roof and walls on apew of children in bright Easter out-fits, and killing - among others -the 4-year-old daughter of Rev.Kelly Clem. Survivors said they hadno warning.
About 130 people were in the
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A cold wind blew across the rav-aged hilltops of Alabama Mondayas Bradford Poole, an unshavenfarmer, surveyed his world: his 100-year-old farm house gutted; hisdaughter's trailer exploded; hisson's new home scattered across thehighway.
"And we were the lucky ones,"Poole said.
His family lost three of itshomes, but escaped without death orinjury as Sunday's storm systemripped across the area. Poole's sonshad lain face down in the basementof one house, "and they swore theycould feel that twister trying to suckthem out," Poole said.
Sunday saw one of the worst tor-nado rampages to run through theSouth in years, a day when hail thesize of marbles fell in Mississippi,funnel clouds destroyed churches inAlabama and brilliant, violent light-ning blazed across the Georgia skies.
Before it was all over late in theday, at least 45 people were dead-crushed by debris churned up by thetwisters, struck by lightning ordrowned by the flood waters borneof the torrential rains that followedthe tornadoes. Hundreds more were
At the storm's peak, some150,000 customers around theregion were without power in theCarolinas, Tennessee, Alabama andGeorgia. Most of the power will berestored by daybreak Wednesday,utility officials said.
About 35 tornadoes were report-ed in the region on Sunday, andthunderstorms and cold heavy rainscontinued today, raising rivers andcausing widespread flooding. Sever-al funnel clouds were spotted Mon-
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Some analysts are hoping this isno more than a long-awaited correc-
NEW YORK tion, a short-term decline in an oth-continu- erwise rising market that helps toy peak, a keep speculative fervor in check.treet ana- But if this slide marks the start,rs that a of a long, sustained decline in stockong-term prices - a full-fledged bear marketY. - it would be bad for the economy,the pes- for federal regulators and for Presi-reasons dent Clinton, who has largelyw of the enjoyed the benefits of rising stockinterest prices.
ations, a A rising stock market can boostd money the economy by making Americans,orldwide feel prosperous and more willing to
spend.when it Richard McCabe, chief marketthe Dow analyst for Merrill Lynch & Co., hasas fallen told .the firm's clients to expect aincluding market decline of 15 to 25 percent.other 12 Pessimism is spreading on Wallfallen as Street at a time when the economyrket corn- is expanding and corporate profits, smaller are improving, which normallyrcent. would make traders bullish.
But many analysts believe stockprices still are high relative to prof-its and dividends paid to investors.
Dividends would have to improvesignificantly to justify current stockprices, according to Ned Davis, headof Ned Davis Research Inc.
Another cause of worry to sometraders is that big professionalinvestors have been taking profitson days when stock prices advanceand are buying less aggressivelywhen prices fall.
"There is no conviction," saysJohn Bumett, a senior stock traderat Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, abrokerage based in New York City."And that is normally associatedwith bear markets."
That is why Burnett and othersthink the market is primed to fallfurther. "Uncertainty leads to sell-ing," he said. Burnett said hebelieves the chances that this is abear market rather than a correctionare 50-50.
With the stock marketing to fall from its Januarygrowing number of Wall Stlysts are warning customemajor correction, if not a 1hmarket decline, is underway
Those who have joinedsimists' camp say theabound for their dim vievmarket. They cite risingrates, inflationary expectsslowdown of mutual fundpouring into stocks, and wpolitical uncertainties.
Since late January,neared the 4,000 mark, tJones industrial average h2216 points, or 5.4 percent, i120 points last week and artoday. Other indexes havewell. The Nasdaq stock marposite index, which trackscompanies, is off about 4 pe
'By Paul TaylorTHE WASHINGTON POST
They will discuss steps to con-trol violence and ensure fairness inSouth Africa's first democratic eiec-tion next month - as well asInkatha's objections to the new con-stitution under which the ballotingis to be held and Zwelithini'sdemand for Zulu sovereignty.
Monday's battles began afterabout 10,000 heavily armed Zulusmarched in protest against the elec-tion. The Zulus - supporters ofInkatha - clashed with backers ofthe ANC, which is expected to gaina landslide victory in the vote. Itwas the first time in the blood-stained history of the apartheid erathat such a battle had taken place indowntown Johannesburg.
Until roughly a year ago, thegovernment and Inkatha were alliedagainst the ANC. But as the ANCand government have grown closernegotiating the final stages of SouthAfrica's transition to democracy,Inkatha has felt itself spumed and
become an election spoiler.Political and economic turf wars
between the ANC and Inkatha arethe major cause of the political vio-lence that has claimed 20,000 livesin South Africa over the pastdecade. Each party Monday accusedthe other of instigating Monday'skillings, and berated police for notdoing enough to prevent them.
Police confirmed 18 deaths, butunofficial reports suggested the tollcould be twice that high, with up to400 wounded, in Monday's battles.The bulk of the dead were shot inthe streets of Johannesburg's con-crete and glass financial district.Horrified pedestrians sprawledbehind. parked cars and office work-ers dived under desks or away fromwindows.
The shootouts caused chaos,leaving journalists and other wit-nesses uncertain where the firstshots had come from or what hadtriggered them.
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Rival black groups killed atleast 18 people in a gun battle indowntown Johannesburg Monday,jolting South Africa's delicatepolitical transformation - andapparently triggering new efforts atreconciliation.
Gunmen supporting the InkathaFreedom Party and the AfricanNational Congress battled for hoursin the canyons between the city'sgleaming skyscrapers, scatteringlunch-time crowds and woundinghundreds of people.
Shortly afterward,the govern-ment announced that a first-ever,four-way meeting would be heldlater this week among PresidentFrederik W. de Klerk, ANC Presi-dent Nelson Mandela, Inkatha Presi-dent Mangosuthu Buthelezi andButhelezi's ally, the Zulu tribal king,Goodwill Zwelithini.
Nominations willalso be acceptedfrom the floor atthe meeting.To vote, youmust be aDepartmentRepresentativeor a HousingRepresentative.Contact the GSCfor details.
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Analysts Warn of Bear Market Parent Company FilesFor Sale of United Airlines
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United Airlines' parent company set in motion the sale of majoritycontrol to its employees Monday by filing documents with the Securi-ties and Exchange Commission.
Investment bankers have valued the package at $170 to $173 ashare. UAL Corp. stock closed Monday at $133.25, up $1.75.
For each share they now hold, shareholders would receive one-half a share of new United stock, $25.80 in cash, one share of pre-ferred stock with a value of $31.10 and an initial dividend rate of10.25 percent and unsecured debentures due in 2004 and 2014,according to the filings. The unsecured debentures, each with a prin-cipal amount of $15.55, carry initial interest rates of 9.00 percent and9.70 percent.
Once the deal is completed, members of the Air Line Pilots Asso-ciation, the International Association of Machinists and the compa-ny's nonunion employees will control at least 53 percent of United,under an employee stock ownership plan.
Nine of the 12 members of a new United board also were namedMonday, reflecting a balance of interests between the pilots andmachinists. Wall Street analysts have said they expect shareholders toapprove the deal when they finally vote, probably in May.
Eugene lonesco, Theater of theAbsurd' Playwright, Dies at 81
LOS ANGELES TrIES
Eugene lonesco, the Romanian-born playwright who was consid-ered the godfather of the Theater of the Absurd and wrote the genre'sbest-known work, "The Rhinoceros," died Monday. He was 81.
Ionesco, who had recently suffered from bronchitis, died in hisParis home during a post-lunch nap, his wife, Rodika, said. For manyyears, he had had arthrosis, a disease of joint deterioration.
An allegory protesting totalitarianism, "Rhinoceros" involvestownsfolk in a French village on a quiet Sunday morning who hearthat a rhinoceros is charging through the streets. Illustrating that ordi-nary people find it difficult to resist the extraordinary, all the charac-ters - except the publisher's clerk, played in America by Wallacheventually turn into rhinoceroses.
Born in Slatina, Romania, lonesco spent his early childhood inParis. He then returned to Romania until his colleagues' bow to Hitlerprompted him to flee permanently to France. Eventually he became aFrench citizen.
lonesco worked as a professor of French in Romania, and then fora publishing house when he moved to France. When lonesco decidedto transform his views on the absurdity of life into plays, his wifehelped supported them by working in a lawyer's office.
Although critics were initially unimpressed when lonesco's firstplay, "The Bald Soprano," premiered May 11, 1950, word of mouthprompted a surge in ticket sales. lonesco was so encouraged he decidedto devote all his time to writing plays as fast as he could turn them out.
Ionesco said he became a writer because literature seemed thesurest path out of "abhorrent anonymity."
Among the trappings of fame he eventually achieved were entryinto the respected Academie Francaise in 1970, the Ingersoll Founda-tion's annual T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing in 1985, and acommendation from the Los Angeles Theater Alliance in 1983.
Johannesburg Battles Kill 18,Jolt Politicians to Reconciliation
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Group, Random Hall, etc. The student leadersof Safe Walk understood this and agreed withour viewpoint on this matter. We would cer-tainly all agree it is unfortunate, but it is thesafest way to conduct this service for every-one's sake.
Your statement that I "will not acknowl-edge that there is a problem with the currentsituation regarding safe transportation toEdgerton House" is not accurate. First, thereis safe transportation to Edgerton House.Edgerton is a scheduled Safe Ride stop. Iagree that Safe Ride does not meet everyone'sexpectations for speedy service. It is notspeedy, for it is a victim of its own success.Safe Ride was "born" for a variety of reasonsincluding: To take the pressure off CampusPolice cruiser escorts (we simply could nothandle the volume without 20-minute waits).We had never served the student living groupsin Boston, and everyone wanted faster service.Safe Ride started with one van, grew to twovans, and then grew to four vans. Eachincrease doubled the ridership. We now againhave the problem of vans filling up too fast.
As to the issue of where Safe Ride shouldgo, a student group worked with us on thatissue to select stops. They also created thetime schedule so that students can better pre-dict when Safe Ride will arrive (although avariety of factors, most beyond our control,still cause the schedule to run behind attimes). We continue to have the problem wehave always had: students continually want toadd stops to the system but also want fast ser-vice. These are reasonable wishes, but thereality is that the present structure of SafeRide simply can't handle both desires.
Is this the right system? Probably not inthe long run, but neither are there unlimitedfunds for this service. A fast, full-fledged busservice meeting all the desired needs would bevery expensive. A formal committee haslooked into that issue already.
Your belief that students should be able togo to Campus Police and ask "a cop" for anescort to on campus locations across thetracks, on the surface is reasonable. In fact westill do escorts in cruisers all over campus andbeyond, but we have to limit them so as not torevert back to duplicating Safe Ride.
As to lighting, Massachusetts Avenue isone of the better lit perimeter areas; it is notperfect, but much of it is city property.
Lighting around Edgerton was upgraded ayear or so ago -- we will check and see if theAlbany Street side is sufficient or still a prob-lem.
I am not unsympathetic to your concerns,but the solutions are not quite as simple as onemight think. The Safe Walk leadership will beclosely tracking requests for Safe Walk Theservice has only been in existence for twonights, and no understanding of the demandson the system can be drawn for at least amonth. I will be meeting with its student lead-ers then.
Nobody feels more strongly about campussafety and security than I do, but we have towork together in a constructive fashion.
Anne GlavinCampus Police Chief
New House SeeksReliable Key-cards
The Tech received a copy of this letteraddressed to Lawrence Maguire, director ofthe Office of Housing and Food Services:
New House residents have been complain-ing to the New House government about acouple aspects of the new key-card system.
First, although we appreciate the safetyissues, it seems rather awkward to have no wayof unlocking the courtyard doors from outside.
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In past years, the courtyards have been used fornumerous sports and social activities, which arenow hampered by the fact that the doors can nolonger be opened from the outside, not evenwith the key-cards. In the winter, this discour-ages people from using the courtyards entirely.In the summer, we fear that people will leavethe doors open. No doubt some will accidental-ly remain open and "undesirables" will wanderin from the streets as they have in the past. Fur-thermore, should anyone be accidentallytrapped in a courtyard, their only options wouldbe to climb the wall onto Memorial Drive (afeat not all residents can manage) or to poundon a door until someone lets them in. If thisbecomes a common occurrence, students mightlet in "undesirables" by accident, mistakingthem for residents trapped outside. Given thisproblem we would suggest that key-cards beinstalled on the court-yards, or that the DRAkey locks be reinstalled.
Second, as New House is the only dorm tohouse Independent Living Groups, we arefaced with a unique dilemma. These ILGs con-sist of both New House residents and non-resi-dent members. Under the new key-card system,non-resident members cannot gain access to thedorm without the help of another individual, beit the front desk, night watch, or CampusPolice. We question whether the real intent ofthe key-card system is to protect residents fromfellow MIT students rather than from unwel-come outsiders. Since the ILGs give these non-resideni members the right to visit tuhe IL, LGs at
any time of day or night, we feel the key-cardsshould give them access to the dorm.
Furthermore, the front door unlockingmechanism seems to be unreliable. On severaloccasions the door has refused to unlock bothfrom outside with the card reader and frominside with the buzzer. Some residents fearthat these difficulties could occur late at nightor at other times when a person isn't there topush the door open. Recent power cuts oncampus have also raised the question of thereliability of the system should the dormitorylose power. Although we realize that technol-ogy is often susceptible to trouble, we wantthe system operate as reliably as possible, andwonder if there aren't more steps which canrbe taken to guard against these troubles.
Diana Bancila '95New House President
Eric Richard '95New House Vice Presidelnt
Jonathan Walton '94Nevw House 7Treasurer
Bad Winter StressesPhysical Plant
As the Director of Physical Plant, I cannothelp but comment on Stephanie A. Jenrette'sarticle ["Snowplows Irk East Campus Resi-dents," March 15] concerning snow removalin the East Campus. While I strongly embraceJenrette's freedom to express her opinion andcriticize basic services, I cannot help but beoffended by her tone and lack of objectivity. Iam equally disturbed that The Tech wouldprint what clearly appears to be a humorlessand offensive "bashing." At MIT there shouldbe no room for bashing of any kind, be itracial, gender, or intellectual.
We have just experienced the worst winterin history, certainly in terms of snowfall. Dur-ing the entire winter the Institute remainedopen and operating as usual. This placed atremendous burden on our service workers tokeep pathways, roadways, garages, etc., clearenough for students, faculty, and staff to get towork or school and to get around campus. Thefact that Jenrette raised about "metal scraping
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SafeWalk NotAdequate for Edgerton
The Tech received a copy of this letteraddressed to Chief of Campus Police Anne P.Glavin:
I called Safe Walk on March 16 around10:45 p.m. for an escort from my office, El 5,to my dormitory, Edgerton House. Along theway, the knowledgeable and friendly SafeWalk pair explained that they could only takeme to 77 Massachusetts Ave. to wait for SafeRide. They told me that the Chief of CampusPolice, Anne Glavin, had declared that the 5minute walk from 77 Mass. to Edgerton is"too unsafe for Safe Walk." ContradictingSafe Walk's good-intentioned flyers and elec-tronic mail that boast complete on-campuscoverage, Edgerton House and all parts ofcampus "on the wrong side of the railroadtracks" have been excluded.
Since then I have exchanged e-mail withChief Glavin. Her responses have been fast,courteous, and informative. Despite my sug-gestions and the suggestions of other EdgertonResidents, Chief Glavin will not acknowledgethat there is a problem with the current situa-tion regarding safe transportation to EdgertonHouse.
The letters I have received from Edgertonresidents show there is a problem, even byChief Glavin's standards (a 20-minute trip onSafe Ride is the limit of reasonability). Every-one I've discussed this issue with agrees thatSafe Ride has improved since last year andthat Safe Walk is a well-intentioned program.Nevertheless, there is not sufficient safe trans-portation to Edgerton.
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Glavin RespondsTo SafeWalk ConcernsThe Tech received a copy of this letter
addressed to Jill Kliger G:I feel 1 must further address some of your
conclusions as to what you think the CampusPolice think about this issue, especially since
you are mistaken in some areas.First, you should be aware that the Campus
Police (myself and two of my staff) trained
the Safe Walk students (all 50) for this pro-
ject. The training was reviewed and approved
by its student leadership - including theissue of boundaries relating to the geographi-cal areas that Safe Walk would cover.
What did we tell them? We said that the
boundaries should be the main campus (bor-
dered by Memorial Drive, Vassar Street,Audrey Street, and Wadsworth Street). We setthese boundaries because this is consistentwith our crime prevention philosophy which
we have preached for years to the MIT com-
munity. It is a sad fact, but it is unsafe to walk
the campus perimeter and city streets after
dark, particularly late at night. Safe Walkoperates during peak hours of risk: 10 p.m. to
3 a.m. The later the hour, the more isolated
the streets and the higher the risk of criminalvictimization.
If we preach this to the community then
we would be remiss to expect a group of stu-
dents to walk in the very areas we are caution-
ing against. Safe Walk students have no pub-
lic safety responsibility (nor should they).
They are not police and should not attempt to
act as police or anything that looks like a
police or security person. That is not their job.We never signaled out Edgerton as you
imply. We did set general geographic bound-
aries knowing that Safe Ride serviced acade-mic buildings and residences outside theboundaries, i.e., all of Albany Street, MITproperty, the Women's Independent Living
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concrete" must mean that we were successful.Though she derides this fact, many othersapplaud it. Physical Plant workers were notplotting to irritate East Campus residents. Onthe contrary, they worked throughout thenight and into the morning hours to ensurethat the Institute could remain open. Therewere at least five nights this past winter whenthese individuals never went home, butworked throughout the night and the entirenext day.
Removing snow on campus is a well-defined process with clear priorities that werecontinually met throughout this past winter. Iencourage anyone to meet with me or RobertHagerty, manager of Grounds Services, toreview it. Most importantly I would havehoped that Jenrette's complaints would havecome to our attention early on. We could thenhave addressed them in a reasonable fashionand shared information as to why things aredone in a certain way.
has only 44 employees and operates only oneshift. Add to this the fact that a snow stormcan start at any time, and you begin to under-stand why it is so difficult to satisfy everyone.
The Grounds Services Department regretsany inconveniences you may have encoun-tered this winter, but our efforts were directedto keeping the Institute open and operatingand providing safe conditions for the commu-nity and visitors to our campus.
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There must always be room for construc-tiveI Ciiticisx ill this academic setting. As adepartment we welcome it. However as direc-tor of this department I neither welcome norcondone what I see as a lack of respect forservice workers whose intentions and actionswere truly heroic in many instances. I havespoken with a number of them. They are con-fused and offended, and they have a right tobe.
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Grounds ServicesProvides Safe Conditions
The winter of 1994 is special in everyone'smind. While the sound of back-up alarms andplow blades clearing snow and ice can be dis-turbing, they are both necessary for the snowremoval process and providing safe conditionsfor the community. During a snow storm, the
mission of the Grounds Services Departmentis to keep parking areas, roadways, and waik-ways open for the entire community. Duringthis process the Medical Department, CampusPolice, handicapped ramps, emergency tele-phones, fire hydrants, parking areas, and themain buildings are the first areas to be openedup. While these areas are being cleared, weopen general access areas, walkways, stairs,and adjoining city areas if we know they willnot be cleared.
Once the campus is opened up, there is anongoing process of making sure emergencyareas and handicapped ramps are kept clear.
After a storm we begin the process ofpushing back snow to make room if anotherstorm should develop. At this point, if goodweather continues, we begin to haul snowpiles away. Areas that are critical to keepingthe Institute operating are done first. Then webegin clearing drains and removing snowfrom parking lots and garage roofs.
The campus encompasses over 150 acres,and is surrounded by city. Grounds Services
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poser, Paul Dickinson, currently a graduatestudent at Northwestern University, wrote thiswonderful and expansive symphony at the ageof 19.
Alan Pierson '96 conducted the perfor-mance in the Bernstein tradition, and was asmuch a visual delight to the audience as aleader to the performers. His passionate physi-cal expression drew out the many contrastingfeelings of the piece, and he communicated toboth the audience and the performers the fullgambit of emotions present in this excellentwork.
Even where the band struggled with thetechnical demands of this challenging andmassive piece, particularly in the third move-ment's double fugue, Pierson's panache cap-tured the spirit of the work: haunting andmelancholy at one moment, boisterous andlight by the next.
The Band performed exceedingly well inthe thrilling and furious second movement,which featured some excellent performancesfrom the percussion section, and Pierson man-aged to keep the excitement and energyclimbing until the last note. I felt that his per-formance of the Symphony was the finestmoment of the program; judging from theaudience's response, I was not alone in thisassessment.
The second half of the concert opened withthe Mass, a textless five-movement setting ofthe full Mass Ordinary by Adrian Childs '94.
The composition was a fascinating combina-tion of ideas gleaned from the composer'sstudy of the Medieval Mass, and his use ofcompositional techniques of 20th centurymusic.
In this sophisticated work, Childs achieveda variety of effective textures, especially thecontrast between passages which featured sev-eral solo players and sections for the entireensemble. Childs ingeniously found ways tosubtly weave the opening "Kyrie" themethroughout all five movements. Althoughsome of the solo players lacked polish, theband performed well here under the compos-er's baton.
For a finale, the Band performed "ThreeSussex Sketches," by Jeffrey Bishop. Thispiece was the least intelligently composed ofthe works on the program. The orchestrationoften seemed ineffective and hashed together.As in the first piece, the band was unable toeffectively handle some of the most difficultwriting. However, with its use of familiartunes and special effects involving off-stageplayers and unusua instriUments sv'ounds, it
served as a rousing finish to a truly excellentconcert.
This performance demonstrates the wealthof musical talent present at MIT, and it is tothe credit of Director John Corley that he haschosen to provide an atmosphere where thistalent can flourish.
in an obviously non-intuitive way. Such chal-lenging and non-idiomatic writing wasresponsible for several moments of bad into-nation from the band during its performanceof Canto II.
The Concert Band then performed Preludefor Euphonium and Band, a two-movementpiece by Professor Jack Jarret, another localarea composer from the Berklee College ofMusic. Jarret conducted this performancehimself. While his baton technique was oftenstiff. he held the band firmly in control. Theplayers seemed to play for him with a level ofcare and discipline unequaled elsewhere onthe program. Both movements were light,tonal, and more than any other piece on theprogram, immediately enjoyable.
The euphonium solo was played quite wellby Wayne Baumgartner '96. The piece fea-tures very lyrical writing for the euphonium ina range far higher than that which is standardfor the instrument. Baumgartner handled thechallenge of this uncharacteristically high pas-sage work easily, and made the euphonium,often a cumbersome instrument, sound melod-ic and graceful in its highest register. Even so,he sometimes seemed unable to overcomethese technical challenges to play the solo partwith the warmth, expression, and attention tophrasing it demanded.
The final piece before intermission was theSymphonyfor Wind Instruments, a 30-minute-long work in its Boston premiere. The cornm-
he word "band" conjures up an imageof mediocre musicians playing march-es and other simplistic music not wor-thy of serious musical consideration.
The Concert Band's performance on March11, however, makes a fine exception to thisstereotype. The band performed an excitingcollection of intellectually and musically chal-lenging contemporary works for wind ensem-ble. Indeed, the selections did not include asingle piece of music that might be regardedas simplistic.
All but one of the composers was presentat the performance, and two of them conduct-ed their own pieces. This concert was alsonotable for featuring talented students in keyroles, a service that few college music groupsare so willing to pay to the members of theirown musical communities.
The program opened with Canto III, apiece by Professor John Bavicchi '44, a facul-ty member at the Berklee College of Musicand long time associate of the Concert Band.The work was interesting, but difficult to fol-low on a first listening. Like so many works ofcontemporary music, it included occasionalpassages which were written and orchestrated
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f you look in Webster's Dictionary, youwill find the following entry:garnelan Vgam-e-,lan\ n. [Jav] 1: aJavanese instrument resembling the xylo-
phone 2: a flute, string, and percussion orches-tra of southeast Asia.
Most people would find that to be an ade-quate explanation. This would be a pity, for inreality, this definition is far from complete. Agamelan is an orchestra, and more. With the
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Let's start with this second part of the orig-inal definition, which says that a gamelan isan orchestra. It is native to Indonesia, and
' includes several key instruments: two gongs,20 metallophones, two drummers, a beatkeep-er, and a dancer (optional). In order to under-stand what part each instrument plays in thisorchestra, however, you have to understandsome of the ground rules - the structure ofthe music, to be exact.
t ' This is where the definition of a gamelanrequires some expansion. The music played ina gamelan is quite different from most formsof Western music. For one thing, Westernmusic tends to be linear and highly rigid instructure. A piano sonata, for example, con-sists of a primary theme (exposition), a devel-opment group where the theme is brokendown and expanded upon, a restatement of the
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typical rock/pop song will have a verse sec-tion, a bridge, a chorus, a solo section, and thechorus all over again. What is important isthat the order is not easily changed in either ofthese pieces; this is not the case with thegamelan.
The music played by a gamelan is cyclical.It is much like a palindrome: it can be playedbackwards or forwards and still sound thesame. This is because each piece is balanced;the melody or theme that begins the piece willalso be the melody that ends the composition.Any idea that is played in an earlier part of thepiece will be repeated during a later portion.Repetition is a very important part of thismusical form, much more so than in Westernmusic. This repetition comes in cycles that aredelineated by the gongs. Much as the risingand setting of the sun mark the start and theend of a day, so the gongs mark when a themewill be played or repeated, depending uponwhere the ensemble is during the course of apiece.
The metallophones are much like xylo-phones, only they are all set to different regis-ters and are tuned in pentatonic scales. Thelower metallophones provide the core melody,while the higher ones play parts that revolvearound this central theme. The highest twometallophones have their own special rela-tionship; their melodies often interlock, witheach playing alternating notes. In this waythese two instruments may sound like just oneinstrument, played twice as fast.
This arrangement of the metallophonespoints to another chief characteristic of game-
lan music: stratification. Each instrument hasits own patttenl to play, but some instrumentsare more important than others. In this case,the metallophones in the lower registers takeprecedent over their higher tuned counter-parts.
The drums take this idea of stratificationone step further. Their playing affects the vol-ume level of the ensemble. If they speed up,the gamelan must get louder; if they slowdown, then the ensemble must get softer. Fur-thermore, if the drummer stops, so must theorchestra. Thus the metallophone players mustpay very close attention to the drummer; oth-erwise the gamelan may get out of control. Intheory, the dnrummers provide a link betweenthe metallophones and the dancer, who onlyappears in some pieces.
One instrument that is always present,however, is the beatkeeper. His role is vital tothe gamelan, for he,. even more than thegongs, keeps the tempo. No matter how fast,slow, loud, or soft the orchestra gets, he mustkeep the beat constant. He is like the atomicclocks against which all other clocks are set;everyone includin\g the drummers must payattention to his pattern. A good beatkeeper isabsolutely essential to the group. If he fails,the whole ensemble will not only fall intochaos, but will grind to a halt - and withfrightening swiftness.
At last, we come to the dancer. The prima-ry responsibility of the dancer is to serve as aliaison between the group and the audience.He often tries to provoke his audience torespond to him. This behavior often takes theform of a play, generally based on a well
known story or fairy tale. However, this fablemay be warped or altered to include currentevents, extra details, or even jokes, all for theentertainment of the audience.
Furthermore, the audience is not limited tosimply watching the performance. When thegamelan performs, it is usually done outdoors,in an informal atmosphere, so the audiencemay bring food and drink, bask in the sun,laugh at the dancer's inside jokes, or conversewith fellow listeners - a truly enjoyableexperience.
Thus, through the dancer's role we can seethe one final distinction between Westernmusic and gamelan music. In the West, mostmusical performances are non-interactive; theaudience is expected to be passive and toremain silent until the concert has ended. Forexample, in a piano recital, the audience doesnothing but look at the pianist until he is fin-ished. Any other action, such as eating orlaughing, is considered rude and inappropri-ate.
This then is a more complete descriptionof a gamelan, but words cannot explain thepower of this orchestra and its performances.To fully understand the gamelan and itsmusic, you must go to a concert and experi-ence everything for yourself. MIT pow has itsown gamelan named Galak Tika - one ofonly a handful of such groups outside ofIndonesian -- led by Professor ;iporyn. Thisensemble was formed only three years ago,and their next concert will be at 8 p.m. onMarch 30 in Wellesley's Jewitt Center. Checkthem out!
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After the breakout, things go a little bitdownhill. The culmination of Rocco's efforts,the bombing of the 66th Academy Awards, isexecuted with too much finesse and glitz andcomes up short with the sight gags, eventuallyresorting to Drebin crashing the festivitieswith physical disaster and a heavy reliance onbathroom humor. Probably most disappoint-ing is that Fred Ward, a normally superbactor, is wasted in his flat role as Rocco. Theother disappointments were George Kennedyand O.J. Simpson as Drebin's inept partners atPolice Squad: Simpson, whose sadisticallyfunny brushes with accidental death in thefirst two films provided additional amusement,walks around cluelessly and humorlessly(aside from the first sequence). Both actorswere simply given too little to work with inthis sequel and probably just came back forthe money.
However, if you like your comedies unso-phisticated, and if you are a fan of the series,Naked Gun 331/3 won't disappoint. The sheernumber of sight gags and cameo appearances(including "Weird Al" Yankovic, in his third"Naked Gun" role), along with th" e appeal ofNielsen, makes for an equally good (andmindless) effort. Just don't forget to checkyour brain at the door.
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On December 8, 1950, on the way back from a humanitarian trip toEgypt, Everett Moore Baker, then Dean of Students at MIT, died whenhis plane crashed onto the desert. During his tenure at the Institute hemade such impact on undergraduate life that the students of MIT wantedto keep the memory of his name, his work, and his spirit alive, so thatgenerations of students who had never had to opportunity to meet thisman could remember his contributions to improving life at MIT.
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UROP, from Page 1 UROPers will get too expensive tomp-!,ly, and it ,,! hb cheoapr for
the Media Lab to employ only post-docs," he said.
"The latest decision to burdenUROP salaries with overhead andbenefit costs will have far-reachingand very unpleasant consequencesfor both students and faculty alike,"said Professor Walter H. Lewin, in aletter to the Faculty Newsletter.
He said overhead and employeebenefit costs will cause the cost ofeach of his UROP students to jumpfrom about $6,000 to about $14,000.
"I can no longer justify in my grantstho hirino nf nn ilnderorrarhllte s$hl-
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would be equivalent (financially) toabout one graduate student, yet onegraduate student in general producesmuch more science," Lewin said."The result, therefore, will be that Iwill no longer employ UROP stu-dents nor will I have senior thesisstudents." In the past, Lewin hasemployed three UROP studentseach term.
"Our own UROP funds will be
affected," McGavern said. She fearsthat under the new measures. theUROP office will not be able tomaintain current UROP funding lev-els. The ability of the UROP officeto help fund students will be affect-ed by how supervising faculty reactto the new rules, McGavem said.
"What are the faculty going todo? Are they going to encouragetheir students to work more duringJune" while costs are still low, or"are they going to ask [the] UROP[office] to cover the cost?" askedMcGavern. "Are the faculty going
to give up [hiring undergraduates]?We don't know;" she said. "Howmuch of all this we can cover withour funds is hard to say."
The UROP office will still favorstudents continuing a spring UROPand students with a responsibleUROP track record. Faculty enthu-siasm and willingness to help fundstudents, support from the depart-ment UROP coordinator, and clear,convincing proposals will also beconsidered, according to the UROPoffice guidelines.
employee benefits, but they don'tget employee benefits," McGavernsaid.
Students, faculty dismayedBoth students and faculty agree
that the new policy will have seriousnegative effects.
"It will kill the UROP program,"said Sami M. Shalabi '97, whoholds a UROP at the Media Labora-tory. "In a meeting last week at theMedia Lab, they mentioned that
**** ATTENTION 1994 MEDICAL SCHOOL APPLICANTS****
The Office of Career Services and Preprofessional Advising will beholding a meeting on the "Application Process" for those ofyou who are applying to medical school this year. It will be heldon:
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Huntington, from Page I results of the tests were presented ata mandatory residents' meeting onMarch 23, during MI'T's springbreak.
In his letter, Eisenmann said thatMIcCffrey -pologized for schedul-
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"We [MIT] first heard about [thetesting] this past Tuesday after-noon," Eisenmann said. "it did takea long time for the information toget to MIT."
"Honestly, we don't knowwhat's going on," said Huntingtonresident and Undergraduate Associ-ate Vice President Anne S. Tsao'94. Some Huntington residents"just don't understand the impact ofall of this," Tsao said.
While there have been healthproblems, it is "too hard to say ifthese health issues are related" tothe air contamination, Tsao said.Possible side effects of the contami-nation include dryness of the eyesand throat and sinus problems, shesaid.
"I see the problem as somethingthat needs to be looked at. We onlydid one sample, so we have to dosome additional sampling to see ifthat is a valid number," Janel said.Wentworth plans to test five addi-tional locations today, she said.
Environmental Medical ServicesDirector Charles E. Billings said hisoffice is analyzing further tests per-formed by MIT last Thursday. Theywill determine the level of contami-nation and decide on "the next logi-cal course of action" in consultationwith the housing office, MIT admin-istrators, and students, Billings said.
Eisenmann said that MIT wouldbe "more aware of this kind of thingas a potential concern" when buyingor leasing dormitory space in thefuture.
High benzene levels
A benzene concentration of onepart per billion was found in thetested television room. The Massa-chusetts allowable ambient limit forbenzene is 0.04 parts per billion,according to Janel. The concentra-tions of the other chemicals werewithin the limits.
However, the allowable ambientlimit for benzene is based on a life-time exposure - 24 hours a day,365 days a year, for 70 years, Janelsaid. "For workers who mightencounter benzene on the job, theallowable exposure level for 40hours is one part per million," Janelsaid, which might reflect a moreaccurate allowable exposure levelfor students.
The allowable level for workers,.. ,.;c ;is 1.000 44 h;ighr than thelevels found at Huntington, is "notexpected to produce any negativehealth effects in workers," Janelsaid.
However, Janel assured residentsthat the ground water contaminationwill not affect residents' drinkingwater, which comes from the Quab-bin Reservoir in western Massachu-setts.
Huntington residents firstlearned of the contamination issueon March 16 in a memorandumfrom Paul McCalffrey, vice presi-dent of student affairs at MCA. The
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"Your Friend""WI l S T rusiy ?Four years ago a group of ambitious RSanford undergrads set out to prove they could do anything th y set their minds to. They startedTrilogy and assembled a team of the most talented, creative and dedicated people they knew. Together they developed a softwareproduct that is revolutionizing the way high technology companies do business.
Trilogy, now headquartered in Austin, TX., was also chosen as one of Fortune's 25 Coolest Companies in 1993. And we're lookingfor people who will help us stay that way!
This is where you (and the money) come in.
Stop and think of the greatest people you know: the person in your study group who always had the answer before anyone else, theperson on your I.M. team who never "dropped the ball," the person who already has ten Job offers...
Then take action! Sendlfax/e-mail a copy of your friend's resume along with a letter telling us why your friend is destined to beTrilogy's next superstar to Christine D'Angelo at the addresses below. If we hire that person based on your introduction we'll sendyou $1000. No strings attached.
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DevelopmentDoes your friend dread the thought of spending the next 12 months writing code to reposition icons on a toolbar? Would your friendbe eager to take on the responsibility of owning a critical piece of a "bleeding" edge software product? Trilogy's Development Teamis an eclectic group, made up of college drop-outs, PhD's, and everything else in between. They work long, intense hours to solveproblems that no one has figured out.
ConsultingDoes your friend make complex logic puzzles seem like dot-to-dots? Trilogy's Consulting Team builds mission-critical softwaresystems that obsolete hundred million dollar projects of the Fortune 500. They consult powerful corporate executives on how tochange the way they do business and use the latest object-oriented, client-server technologies to make it happen overnight.
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