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By Jeremy HyltonCHAIRMAN

126.7 percent, according to Comp-troller Philip J. Keohan. The extracosts must be paid by the professorsponsoring the UROP or by theUROP office, effectively doublingthe cost of hiring.

A survey of a few researcherswho hire UROP students showedthat they intended to hire about halfas many UROP students if the costdoubles, according to Travis R.Merritt, associate dean for under-graduate academic affairs.

The overhead changes will pri-marily affect departments and labo-ratories that receive outside researchgrants. Sponsored research projectspaid about $3.6 million for UROPsalaries, according to Keohan.

The Institute has not decidedhow to deal with the new expenses.

The Undergraduate Associationwill hold a forum on Monday nightto answer questions about how theUndergraduate Research Opportuni-ties Program will cope with newgovernment regulations that couldeffectively double the cost of theprogram.

Provost Mark S. Wrighton willbe the featured speaker at the forum,to be held at 7:45 p.m. in TwentyChimneys in the Student Center.

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rau Ccosts ,,11 U.vr olal,,es. Gov-emrnment regulations that take effecton July 1 will end the policy ofwaiving those costs.

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Yang said. The idea is to make asmany people as happy as possible,Centurino said.

Large groups have their ownclout and ties to the administration,Centurino said. But ASA tries to beaccessible to other groups as well,he said. Some groups have beenlooking for rooms since the early1980s, he added.

Activities protest allocationsStudent groups may file com-

plaints to ASA concerning their ten-tative room assignments by the Feb.14 deadline.

The Chinese Students Club, anactivity in danger of losing its room,was surprised because it has over200 members, making it one of thelarger student groups, said CSCPresident Beth L. Chen '94.

Chen said the classification doesnot seem just, and she did notunderstand the factors on whichASA based their decision. All of theCSC books are located in one room;

"I 'elt like our room- was prettyimportant," Chen said.

Ranjini Srikantiah '95, a presi-dent of The Society for WomenEngineers, said SWE also submitteda protest form. She believes thatSWE was recategorized because itdid not realize that activities occu-pying existing space needed toresubmit an application.

Andrew Q. Kraft '95, presidentof the Musical Theater Guild, saidthey will not protest the loss of theirroom because he feels the ASA isdoing its job fairly. Kraft said, it isgood that the ASA is examininghow groups use their space, becausemany inactive groups have receivedspaces in the past.

Office Space Allocation PolicyAccording to the Office Space

Allocation Policy passed in Novem-ber, student groups seeking newoffice space have until the end ofthe fall term to apply for rooms.

The ASA board classifies all

groups - with and without space- into one of three categories. Theboard then either allows groups toretain their rooms, asks them torelocate, or reassigns their spaces.

Many factors contribute todeciding this classification. Thelevel of member participation, fre-quency of meetings, usage of space,and willingness to share space withothers are some factors that deter-mine group classification.

Groups may protest the decisionby submitting a one-page reportdescribing their classification griev-ances. Afterwards, representativesfrom the group meet with the Boardand the Office of the Dean forUndergraduate Education and Stu-dent Affairs.

The Board members then voteagain and must agree to a catego-rization by a two-thirds margin. Ifthe Board fails to reach a decisionafter three votes, the Dean's officerepresentation then decides the cate-gorization.

In March, the Association ofStudent Activities will finalize itsplan to re-allocate office space forstudent activities.

The ASA categorizes activitiesinto two classes, said Scott D. Cen-turino '94, ASA treasurer. There areapproximately 200 class one activi-ties and 80 class two activities; tech-nically, the ASA Executive Boardcan only assign rooms to class oneactivities, he said.

Kenneth Yang '95, an ASABoard member, assured that allgroups who currently have a roomwill have a room next year. In manycases, they may actually "be movedto better rooms," Yang said. Only afew groups lost space this yearbecause there were few petitions, headded.

The board makes decisions inde-pendently of whether groups cur-rently occupy rooms so that nogroup holds an unfair advantage,

Twenty-five sophomores andjuniors were recently named ElyBurchard Scholars for 1994.

The Burchard Scholars Programis sponsored by the School ofHumanities and Social Sciences andbrings together faculty and under-graduates in a series of monthly din-ners.

The program attempts to create a"more intense community of under-graduates who have a commitmentto the humanities, arts, and socialsciences," said Phillip S- Khoury,dean of the SHSS and cofounder ofthe program.

"We try to offer students a dis-course that we think is very impor-tant to their education," Khourysaid. The program allows studentsto discover "how rich the humani-ties, arts, and social sciences are atMIT, and how diverse and interest-ing they are," he said.

"I think it will be good for me toget a broader understanding of allthe areas of the humanities andsocial sciences," said 1994 Bur-

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Forum to AddressUROP Overhead

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Marl Casserberg '94 charges towards the hoop during the first half of MT's 75-74 loss toWorcester Polytechnic' Institute last night. WP! 'Wnthe game on a free throw with no timeremaining on the game clock.

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25 NamedBurchardScholarBy Eric RichardCONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Random Hall Votes No8rp endin on Alcohol

By A. Arif Husain

] 'iV *< 9e.^ Sil|............. , X Residents of Random Hall recently passed a motion to stop spendingI :: ::r: :-x !',::~$3g/~:J!4. - : iz;. :.}i. - ........:' P..:"i" ". -part of the house tax on alcoholic beverages for house activities. The

motion, approved by a 21-9 vote, has sparked controversy among resi-dents. according to House President Erika K. Schutte '95.

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|'"''" , ,- J. Young '96 proposed another motion to stop the spending on alcohol,· ",::·-'~rr ', '~ :, X a _ instead of just a spending limit.

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After more than a year and a half of legal maneuvering and scien-tific controversy, the National Institutes of Health decided yesterdayto give up its effort to obtain patents on thousands of pieces of humanDNA discovered by federal gene-hunters.

In so doing it effectively surrendered any profits that might haveaccrued from the discoveries.

The decision marks a major turning point in an acrimonious debateover the legal and ethical merits of patenting fragments of geneticmaterial, no matter how valuable they may prove to be. Patent holdersget exclusive rights to the uLse of their discovery for 17 years.

In a few cases so far, rights to newly discovered genes have trans-lated into highly profitable diagnostic tests or medicines, such as theblood-clotting factor for hemophiliacs.

Opponents of such patents have argued that biomedical researchwould be stymied if such fundamental pieces of life were subject tomonopoly ownership.

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est civilian death toll in the city in asingle incident since the war began.Rose said both both sides hadagreed to place their heavy weaponsunder U.N. control, halt all attacksand allow the United Nations tointersperse troops between the war-ring sides, If it succeeds, the accordcould obviate any need for airstrikes, Rose said.

Meanwhile, Bosnia's Muslim-led govenment agreed to Serbdemands yesterday for establish-ment of a U.N. commission toinvestigate who was responsible forfiring the mortar shell that devastat-ed the Sarajevo market. The agree-ment allowed the desultory Bosnianpeace talks to resume in Genevaagainst the backdrop of the NATOairstrike ultimatum, and with seniorU.S. diplomatic officials in atten-dance for the first mtime.

It was that deadly mortar attackthat galvanized NATO into demand-ing the Serbs withdraw their heavyweapons from around the city andapparently that also lead the Serbs toconclude the Sarajevo ceas-fireWednesday in hopes of forestallingsuch a move by the Western allies.Many U.N. and Western governmantofficials have blamed the Serbs forthe mortar attack, but the Serbs havedenied responsibility and claimed theMulirns themselves had fired thefatal shell in order to win sympathyfor their cause in the West.

At Gvero's headquarters, mean-while, the general seemd determinednot to bow to give in to any Westernpresssure to weaken his positionaround the Bosnian capital. "We cannever accept any kind of ultima-tum," he told reporters, making clearthat if the West chose to strike, theSerbs would use all means available- even the lives of the hundreds ofWestern aid workers in Bosnia -tofight back.

Earlie, Mile Gvero, deputy com-mander of the Bosnian Serb mili-tary, rejected the NATO ultimatumto pull back his artillery fromaround Sarajevo and warned that hisforces would use international-aidworkers as human shields againstany Western air attack on Serb posi-tions.

"Any decision we make will notbe less civilized than the one madeby your countries," Gen. MileGvero told Western reporters at hismountain redoubt 45 miles east ofSarajevo. "If these countries bombus, then their people will remainwith us," said Gvero, whose power-ful assemblage of tanks, artilleryand heavy mortars has been pound-ing Sarajevo since the three-sidedBosnian war broke out 22 monthsago.

Gvero, who had agreed to theU.N.-brokered truce around the cityon Wednesday, issued his defiantdeclaration as 240 French U.N.troops were taking up positionsbetween Serb and Muslim lines aspart of that truce agreement, but histhreats left uncertain whether thataccord, or any such local agreement,can be now be implemented.

Nevertheless, while Serb sniperspeered from windows in shell-shat-tered buildings, British Lt. Gen.Michael Rose, commander of U.N.forces in Bosnia, began initiatingterms of the truce by positioningU.N. buffer forces at the Bridge ofBrotherhood and Unity over Saraje-vo's Miljacka River, an ironically-named crossing that has been thescene of bitter battles throughout thewar and is one of the six front-linesites around Sarajevo where U.N.troops will be deployed.

Rose engineered the cease-firefollowing a mortar attack on anopen-air market in Sarajevo Satur-day that killed 68 people, the high-

By John PomfretTHE WASHINGTON POST

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA

At least two artillery blastsrocked downtown Sarajevo late yes-terday, just hours after the BosnianSerb military rejected a NATO ulti-matum to pull back their heavyweapons from around the beseigedBosnian capital or face airtstrikes.

It was unclear last night which ofBosnia's warring factions had firedthe shells, which slammed into thecity less than 12 hours after Serbmilitia forces and Sarajevo's SlavicMuslim-led defenders had agreed toa U.N.-sponsored cease-fire aroundthe city. But initial reports fromU.N. officials played down the sig-nificance of the barrage and sug-gested that it was not sufficient totrigger retaliatory airstrikes underprovisions of NATO's Wednesdayultimatum.

According to reports reachingNew York from U.N. observers inSarajevo, two artillery shells "ofunknown origin" were fired into anarea of the city where no civilianslive. Muslim batteries respondedquickly with two artillery roundsand later with five mortar shells.There were no immediate reports ofcasualties on either side.

In Washington, administrationofficials said that early intelligenceinformation on the bombardmentwas inconclusive, with conflictingreports on whether artillery shellingor small arms fire had occurred. TheNATO allies warned Wednesdaythat airstrikes would be launchedagainst Serb artillery batteries ifthey were found responsible for newshelling of civilian targets in Saraje-vo. The alliance also said it wouldbomb Serb heavy weapons if theywere not pulled back at least 12miles from the city center by Feb.21.

The American College of Surgeons yesterday endorsed the con-cept of a government-run health insurance system similar to the onein Canada.

The single-payer approach is simpler, more workable administra-tively and appears to be the best health plan for preserving a patient'schoice of doctors, the surgeons' chairman, David G. Murray, testifiedbefore the Hou-se Education and Labor Committee.

The unexpected endorsement of a government-financed plan bythe 52,000-member surgeons' group came as the health care politicaldebate became both more intense and Balkanized.

Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole, R-Kan., speaking to theConservative Political Action Conference, attacked leading Democra-tic health proposals as denying Americans "true choice."

Dole sought to prevent bipartisan momentum from building for apossible compromise between President Clinton, whose 1,364-pagebill promises universal health insurance financed largely by employ-er-paid premiums, and Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn, whose more mod-est plan shuns the employer payments.

Meanwhile, Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking via satellite to aconference at the University of North Carolina in Raleigh, said, "Wearen't going to tinker at the edges and brush off our hands" to takecredit for reforming the health care system. "The history (of reform)has been one of missed opportunities because special interest groupshave been just too powerful to overcome. ... This time we will makehistory."

AT&T to Cut Up to 15,000 PositionsTHE WASHINGTON POST

AT&T, the nation's largest long-distance carrier, yesterdayannounced plans to eliminate 14,000 to 15,000 jobs over the next twoyears.

AT&T's plan, designed to save the company at least $900 milliona year, is the latest example of the massive downsizing underway inthe communications industry. Communications companies eliminated44,314 jobs in January alone, compared with 50,000 jobs for all of1993, according to the outplacement firm of Challenger, Gray &Christmas Inc.

"We're in a very competitive business. It's going to get morecompetitive before long. What this does is gives us the opportunity tobuild a more cost-competitive base from which we can grow," saidAlex J. Mandl, AT&T senior vice president.

An AT&T spokesman said the company will try to find other jobsfor displaced employees, so it is unclear how many people will belaid off.

AT&T, which has 309,000 employees worldwide, including256,000 in the United States, said job cuts will occur in the Commu-nications Services Group, which provides long-distance services tobusiness and consumers. About 8,000 management jobs will be elim-inated, including some in the headquarters staff.

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By John Goodrichand Michael C. MorganSTAFF METEOROLOGISTS

By Boyce RensbergerTHE I:WASHINGTON POST

Jack Gibbons, the White Housescience advisor, said the budget

WASHINGTON request reflects the administration'smarked by intent to encourage science and

n scientists technology as "investments" thatrs emerged will ultimately pay off in new prod-this week. ucts and services that create jobsposed 1995 and benefit the economy.Congress to To that end, the science budget'sh and devel- biggest increase in proportionalry R&D, by terms - 78 percent - would go toy $2 billion the National Institute of Standardsthis year. and Technology, raising its fundingest would to $874 million. Much of thea year ago increase is to help industry developbudget was new technologies.

cal year the Rep. George E. Brown, D-Cal.,5 billion on chairman of the House committeed engineer- on science, space and technology,to$71.1bil- noted the increases in dollarwould rise to amounts but complained that as aAs in past percentage of Gross Domestic Prod-i half those uct, science spending in 1995 would

lian purpos- be less than in any year since 1958.NIH director Harold Varmus

vernment's said he was pleased with the 4.7)f civilian percent increase for his agency buteven larger leaders of the biomedical researchtages. The community had been pushing forhealth, which nearly twice as much - an 8.9 per-cal research cent boost.iould go up "That's what we feel would be8 million to needed to eliminate the tremendousures in this backlog of meritorius research pro-support of posals that are currently not beingide amounts funded," said Frank Fitch, a Univer--ation.) The sity of Chicago immunologist whoation, which is president of the Federation ofcal research American Societies of Experimentalet a 9.6 per- Biology, an umbrella group repre-budget for senting most of the nation's bio-4 million to medical scientists.

Fitch said the larger increase

would have allowed NIH to fund 30percent of the grant requests itreceives - a success rate that mostresearchers say would be accept-able. Currently NIH funds about 24percent and as a result it cannotfund many high quality researchprojects.

Further reducing the amount ofmoney NIH has to spend on basicscience, - Fitch said, was "moreearmarking than we would like tosee."

For example, nearly 40 percentof the increase the president's bud-get asks for NIH would be focusedon certain "priority areas." Thelargest boost would be a 28 percentincrease (to $383 million) for breastcancer research and programs inbreast cancer prevention, treatmentand rehabilitation. AIDS researchwould get a 6 percent increase, rais-ing the total to $1.4 billion. Of thatincrease, according to NIH figures,90 percent would go to basic sci-ence relevant to understanding thedi,.sease. . T ll "mi noriy health inlitia-tive" would go up 18 percent, to $65million.

The Clinton budget makes noprogress in the administration's stat-ed goal of bringing military andcivilian research to dollar parity by1998. About $2.1 billion of the mili-tary science budget, however, is forso-called dual use technologies.This is research that has both mili-tary and civilian applictions, such ascomputer science. Though fundedby 'he Pentagon, much of thisresearch is unclassified work doneat universities.

In a budget otherwisecuts and caps, Americaand research engineercomparative winnersPresident Clinton's prolspending plan asks the Iboost support of researchopment, including milita2.8 percent - or nearlymore than is to be spent 1

The budget requereverse the situation ofwhen the federal sciencecut. During the last fiscgovernment spent $72.5all forms of science aning. That figure was cut tlion for this year. It w<$73 billion next year.years, a little less thantotals would go for civiles.

If approved, the golargest supporters oresearch would enjoy cboosts - in percentNational Institutes of Hesupports most biomedicdone by universities, w4.7 percent, rising $S50reach $1I billion. (Figtstory are for direct sresearch and do not inclubudgeted for administrNational Science Foundasupports most nonmedicat universities, would gecent raise, pushing itsgrants to scientists $194reach $2.2 billion.

It will be mostly cloudy during the next few days as moisturemoves in fiom the Atlantic. Easterly winds could produce some lightsnow or flurries this afternoon. Then cloudiness associated with acenter of low pressure should be affecting the area tonight, with theheaviest snow just reaching Boston tonight. Snow should taper toflurries Saturday. Any precipitation during the afternoon on Saturdayshould occur as light, wet snow or flurries. Easterly winds shouldwarm up to more seasonable temperatures on Saturday. Cloudinessshould prevail through most of Sunday.

Today: Cloudy with light snow. Winds northeast 5-10 mph (8-16kph). High around 27°F (-3°C).

Tonight: Mostly cloudy with snow likely. Accumulating at least6 inches (15 cm) by Saturday morning. Winds east 10-20 mph (16-32 kph). Low 23°F (-5°C).

Saturday: Snow tapering to flurries then cloudy. Winds east 10-15 mph ( 16-24 kph). High 35°F (2°C).

Saturday night: Cloudy. Some periods of mixed precipitation orsnow. Winds east 5-10 mph (8-16 kph). Low 27°F (-3°C).

Sunday: Cloudy with some chance of light, wet snow, flurries orrain. High 28-32°F (-2 to OOC).

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Senate Approves MassiveSouthern California Quake Aid

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The Senate overwhelmingly approved a record $8.6 billion forSouthern California earthquake relief yesterday and sent the aid billto conference with the House for final congressional passage, whichis expected Friday.

Prodded by California Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein andBarbara Boxer, the Senate ended a lengthy debate over how the gov-ernment would pay for the aid and voted 85-10 to approve the mea-sure.

"The clock is ticking and the people are needful," Feinsteindeclared at one point.

Swift action is essential to put the emergency measure on Presi-dent Clinton's desk before lawmakers depart this weekend for a 10-day midwinter recess. Clinton's signature on the law would keep fed-eral funds flowing to Southern California as the region recovers fromthe Jan. 17 quake that killed 61 people.

After the vote, the two California senators voiced gratitude. "Thisputs us on the road to recovery," Feinstein said.

Senate and House negotiators were scheduled to meet early Fridayto reconcile more than 125 differences between the Senate and Houseversions of the bill. But they were expected to agree quickly on finallanguage and to ratify it later Friday.

House Offers Federal Employees$25K Buyouts to Avoid Layoffs

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By Dan BalzTHE WASHINGTON POST

A federal district judge dealt theterm limits movement a sharp set-back Thursday, ruling that the stateof Washington's new law limitingcongressional terms is unconstitu-tional.

The Washington measure,approved as a ballot initiative byWashington voters in 1992, wouldlimit House members to three two-year terms over 12 years and mem-bers of the Senate to two six-yearterms over 18 years.

Known as Initiative 573, the newlaw is similar to initiatives approvedin 14 other states since 1990 as partof a grass-roots rebellion againstpolitical incumbents.

The Washington case has beenclosely watched by both sides of theterm limits fight as the first step inresolving whether the Constitutionwould bar the voters from imposingsuch limits on incumbents.

Among those who challengedthe measure in court was HouseSpeaker Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash.,who would have to retire in 1998 ifthe law is upheld.

U.S. District Judge William L.Dwyer, in a broad ruling, said theWashington term limits initiative

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was unconstitutional because itwrongly attempted to add qualifica-tions for congressional candidatesbeyond those stipulated in the Con-stitution - age, citizenship and res-idency in the state represented.

"A state may not diminish itsvoters' constitutional freedom ofchoice by making would-be candi-dates for Congress ineligible on thebasis of incumbency or history ofcongressional service," Dwyerwrote.

The judge also said the measureviolated the First and 14th Amend-ments to the Constitution, describ-ing the term limits initiative asimposing "unduly restrictive" ballotaccess requirements on incumbentcandidates and inimical to the "free-dom of association" guaranteed bythe First Amendment.

He said the term limits initiative"is aimed not at achieving order andfairness in the process (of elections)but at preventing a disfavored groupof candidates from being elected atall."

In a cautious and carefully word-ed statement, Foley said the deci-sion "provdes an important frame-wnrk fnr the resolution of ione of th emost important constitutional ques-tions of the decade." But he stopped

short of claiming victory, notingonly that a final ruling from theSupreme Court "would be in thebest interests of the voters of thestate of Washington and of thenation."

Term limits advocates, whiledisappointed by the breadth of theruling, said they were not surprisedby the basic decision. But theyvowed to carry the case to theSupreme Court and said the lowercourt defeat would help energizetheir supporters in the states. Dwyerdid not address the issue of termlimits on candidates for state office.

In a statement issued by theTerm Limits Legal Institute, formerattorney general Griffin Bell, whoargued the case in favor of theWashington measure, calledDwyer's ruling the "historic firststep to the United States SupremeCourt," where he said he was confi-dent the proponents could prevail.

Cleta Deatherage Mitchell,director of the Term Limits LegalInsititute, said Thursday's ruling,while preliminary, could hinderefforts in other states to put termlimits initiatives on the ballot this

, D..- ,I- AAA A<t, rL_ _jyeard. LJuL o11t auucu, I Alc tCleTilimits) committees will go ahead,the citizens will go ahead."

The House decided yesterday to allow federal agencies to offeremployee buyouts of up to $25,000 to speed the government's down-sizing and avoid layoffs caused by budget constraints.

Under the bipartisan compromise approved yesterday by a 391 to17 vote, the bill would mandate a work-force reduction of 252,000

jobs and would ensure that federal workers do not take the bonus andthen quickly return to government service.

"We feel it critically important to get the work-force reductionslocked into law as soon as possible," Rep. Timothy J. Penny, D-Minn., said. "We feel it entirely appropriate that these work-forcereductions be tied to this buyout legislation because the buyout legis-lation makes it possible to achieve roughly 40,000 personnel in work-force reductions in each of the next six years."

The Clinton administration, as part of its "reinventing govern-ment" initiative, first sought buyout authority last year. But the billstalled when Congressional Budget Office estimates showed thatworkers taking retirement early would cost the government an extra$519 million over the next five years.

Under the bill, agencies could offer federal employees who volun-tarily resign or take early retirement a bonus amounting to $25,000 ornormal severance pay, whichever was less.

Clinton Administration FreesAirwaves for Commercial Use

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surface, it would seem that (Israel)has signed a treaty of surrenderwhich does not even hint at securi-ty," said Rehavam Ze'evi, head ofthe rightist Moledet party. "Theygave Arafat the honor that hedemanded and thus abandoned thestate's security in an irresponsiblemanner."

The text of the agreement madepublic yesterday indicates that bothsides gave ground, though the Pales-tinians took the biggest bite of con-cessions by accepting Israeli controlof Jewish settlements in Gaza, ulti-mate Israeli control of border cross-ings and limited control of religiousand tourism sites outside of Jericho.

On the other hand, Israel agreedto a Palestinian presence and thedisplay of the Palestinian flag atinternational border terminals,agreed to end humiliating searchesof incoming Palestinians in mostcases and gave Palestinians afoothold in the lucrative tourist mar-ket on the Dead Sea.

By Kim MurphyLOSANGELES TIMES

ed for some concrete results."Without a doubt, the Palestini-

CAIRO, EGYPT ans see this as a big step forward.>ned yester- But in the meantime, this will not dont on Pales- anything for them. As long as theist a month Israeli army patrols the streets andation Orga- alleyways of the (refugee) camps insser Arafat Gaza, as long as there are prisonersn bringing and wounded and roadblocks andlowly esca- unemployment, from the Palestinian

perspective, nothing has changed,"> sides ini- Suffian Abu Zaida, a PLO activistveral of the in the Gaza Strip, told Israel's Armyvented the Radio.thdrawal in The response from hard-liners onWest Bank both sides was quick. Near Gaza,Prime Min- Islamic militants claimed they kid-edicted "it napped and killed an Israeli policeonth, if not officer, and authorities confirmedfull agree- they found a bloodstained car in theits reaiiza- area of the alleged attack belonging

to a former border police officer.Strip, there Israel's right wing condemnedd optimism the preliminary accord, which theyve w atched described as a sellout to the Pales-e faltering tinians that will pave the way formonths wait- more Israeli concessions. "On the

Israeli officials cauticday that a final agreemertinian self-rule is at leaaway, as Palestine Libernization Chairman Yasflew to Jordan to begiother Arabs aboard the slating peace process.

A day after the twotialed agreements on seakey issues that have prebeginning of Israeli witthe Gaza Strip and the'town of Jericho, Israeli Iister Yitzhak Rabin prwill be at least another mmore, until we reach atnent, before we begintion."

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The Clinton administration freed up a slice of the nation's air-waves yesterday for new commercial communications technologiesand proposed that an even bigger chunk of government-controlledairwaves be relinquished for future commercial use.

The changes, which could begin as early as this summer and con-tinue into the next decade,could help the government raise billions ofdollars by nearly doubling the proportion of the airwaves it couldmake available to businesses for wireless phone, data, video trans-mission and other telecommunications services.

Such mobile communications services represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the $300 billion telecommunications industry.Telephone and computer engineers, among others, are rushing todevelop products that will allow users to send and receive faxes,voice, video and other information from devices as portable andunobtrusive as a wrist watch.

The freeing up of airwaves was proposed after the Coast Guard,Department of Energy and other government agencies agreed - aftera year of bitter negotiations - to relinquish control over 200 mega-hertz of valuable radio frequency.

Macy's Withdraws ControverialBy Verne GayNEWSDA Y

much to me"), and her self-enforced silence ("I don't like tonot be able to say anything to any-body.")

Despite the "exclusives," the TVindustry Thursday was swirling withspeculation over how the interviewscame about and what sort of condi-tions were demanded of both newsoperations in exchange for the inter-views.

According to some industrysources, "Inside Edition" was saidto have paid as much as $700,000for its two-part interview, which isto air Friday and Monday. Othertabloid shows, "Hard Copy" and "ACurrent Affair," also were believedto have made major financial bids tointerview Harding.

Sources confirmed Thursdaythat "Inside Edition" paid to getHarding, but there were widelyvarying estimates on how much,ranging from a high of $800,000 toa low of $100,000. The recordamount paid for a TV interviewwas set in 1977, when David Frostpaid $600,000 for an extensiveinterview with former President

Nixon.John Tomlin, executive producer

of "Inside Edition," would not dis-cuss how the show got the inter-views, or whether the show paid forthem.

But tabloid-show sources con-firmed Thursday that Harding'slegal team had demanded cash inexchange for interviews. A call toHarding's attorney, Robert Weaver,was not returned.

CBS News said it did not pay forits interview with the skater, eventhough there was widespread specu-lation ithat the network hadpromised the skater financial sup-port in other areas, such as payingfor the rights to her life story, whichwould be used as a basis for a TVmovie.

Andrew Heyward, executiveproducer of "Eye to Eye With Con-nie Chung," called the reports"absolutely false. There were noquid pro quos, no conditions, noprivileges, no perks, no movie deal,no book deal, no limo, or any otherconsideration." He added, "This is atribute to Connie's persistence."

After weeks of being battered inthe media, Tonya Harding finallycame out swinging Thursday night.

In an interview with ConnieChung that aired on the L2S Newsprogram "Eye to Eye," she defendedher right to compete in the WinterOlympics and vigorously deniedhaving any prior knowledge of theattack on skating rival Nancy Kerri-gan.

In response to a question fromChung about whether she deservedto go to the Olympics, Hardingreplied that "I've worked 20 yearsfor it," she said. "It's my dream andI think I deserve it."

The syndicated tabloid TVshow "Inside Edition" also begins awide-ranging two-part interviewFriday that has been billed as a"personal" chat with the skater.Among other things, Harding talksabout her weight ("the hardestthing is when people put you downfor your weight"), her need formoney ("sure money is a big thingbut it really doesn't matter that

Michaela Cooper was browsing at the R.H. Macy & Co. depart-ment store at Pentagon City in a Virginia suburb last Friday when shestumbled across something that she said left her in "shocked disbe-lief."

Cooper, who is African-American, said the glass display cases atthe store contained such disturbing items as a "Mammy" cookie jar, aceramic figure of a black man with a white woman sitting on his kneeand liquor bottles that depicted dark-skinned men tap-dancing.

She was furious, as were other customers and Macy's employeeswho saw the exhibit of black historical memorabilia and collectibles.Macy's had organized the display as part of a Black History monthdisplay intended to honor black Americans -- hut many saw itinstead as a painful reminder of the country's Jim Cro. past.

Shocked at the strongly negative response, Macy's hurriedlyremoved the exhibit, banishing all traces of it to a back room by Fri-day evening, less than 24 hours after it went up.

Macy's officials apologized for their failure to include explanato-ry materials. "Those pieces were displayed without proper signage,and people didn't understand what the artifacts and memorabilia weredoing in the cases," said Macy's spokeswoman Gloria Kreisman.

She said that Macy's intention was to create a display that wouldhighlight the rich history of black Americans, and that no offense hadbeen intended. "Our motivation was of the highest level," she said.

Macy's does not plan to restore the exhibit, substituting a displayof antique photographs of black Americans, playbills and concertprograms.

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Israeli Officials Say PalestinianSelf-Rule At Least a Month Away

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The Foundling ReviewToo Venomous

I take _rear offnse: at the unnecessarilyrtegative and insulting review, of the MITGilbert and Sullivan Players' production ofmy operetta. The Founding,. which was writ-ten by Jonathan Richmond ["Student-writtenFoundiing yearns for editing," Feb. 4]. 1would be sadly remiss if I did not respond to iton behalf of my colleagues and friends. Aiarge number of people made extraordinary'efforts in producing this show. On that basisalone, even if the production were as miser-able as he wouid have his readers believe. itwould deserve better treatment than the

Letters To The Editorpounding he gave it.

This is not to say that The Foundling is aflawless masterpiece. Some of Richmond'scriticisms, if the venom were removed, havemerit.

I don't pretend, either, that the perfor-mance is spotless. The performers are studentsand amateurs, and they do sometimes misin-terpret a line or play out of tune. And I amperfectly aware of every gesture of mine onthe podium that doesn't work. Still. the pro-duction isn't that bad, especially, if one con-siders - as a reviewer for The Tech should -that this company has mounted a very large,totally unfamiliar show in a very short time ina very inconvenient performing space. Thereis enough good singing, playing, and acting to

go around; judged by an appropriate standard,this show holds its own among any of thestage productions that i have seen at MIT inrecent years.

I was told that Richmond is personallyattached to the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.Perhaps this is why he feels entitled to slamthe authors and performers of an originalwork that comes out of that tradition. If this isthe case, then I suggest that he not coverfuture MIT GS&P productions. As a reviewer,he is entitled to his opinions, but he should beresponsible enough to keep his emotions sepa-rate from his critical faculties, at least in print.There is simply no call for the arrogant rude-ness displayed in his review.

Robert J. Weingart

Pollard Deserves Commutation by ClintonBy Matt NeimarkCOL U:'f."'IST

Eight years ago, Jonathan Pollard pleadedguilty to providing classified intelligenceinformation to Israel. Since then, he has beenserving a life imprisonment term for thisoffense. Unfortunately, even though Pollard isclearly guilty of the crime for which he ischarged, there are circumstances concerningthe handling of his trial which warrant a com-mutation of his sentence.

First of all, the recipient of the classifiedinformation. Israel, is an ally to the UnitedStates. While legally this does not lessen theseverity of Pollard's transgression, it shouldhave made it easier for him to have received aplea-bargain for pleading guilty to the offense.

Indeed, a written plea-bargain was offeredto him by the government prosecutors. It statedthat when arguing for sentencing, the prosecu-tors would 'restrain its prosecutorial rhetoric"to the "facts and circumstances" of the crime.This meant that they would waive their right topromote any opinions on the morality of thecrime or the severity of its damage. This is asignificant limitation on the prosecution's abil-ity to counteract the defense's ability toexpound on any existing extenuating circum-stances during the sentencing deliberations.

The plea-bargain also stated that the prose-cutors would "not recommend the maximumpenalty of life imprisonment." The prosecu-tors also promised to state during the sentenc-ing deliberations that Pollard's cooperationhad been "of considerable value to theenforcement of the espionage laws."

All three of these promises in the plea-bar-gain were broken by the government prosecu-tors. During sentencing deliberations. theychallenged Pollard's motives and desire tocooperate. They argued that such cooperationwas so half-hearted and lacking as to warrant amaximum sentence. They even accused Pollardof treason, a crime clearly defined by the con-stitution as fighting for the enemies of one'scountry during wartime. It was so definedbecause colonial England could accuse anyonewho disagreed with the King of treason andthereby execute them. The government prose-cutors. in effect, falsely accused Pollard inorder to secure the maximum punishment.

However, perhaps most unfair during Pol-lard's sentencing procedure was a letter sent tothe sentencing judge from then secretary ofdefense Caspar Weinberger. Weinberger,known for his anti-Israel stance and policy,said that Pollard had done more damage to U.S.intelligence than any other person in history.

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This sort of activity is. to say the least,highly inappropriate. It amounts to secret tes-timony which could not be rebutted or cross-examined by Pollard's attorneys. But it is aisogrossly unfair because damage assessmentsare to this day classified and the general pub-lic has no way of determining the truth ofWeinberger's statement.

The fact remains that Pollard is the onlyperson in U.S. history to have served as muchprison time as he has already served for pro-viding intelligence to ally. People who havegotten life sentences for espionage in the pastgave intelligence to our enemies. He is anative American citizen who was not trainedin espionage by the Israelis, but who providedintelligence to them because he felt that theyneeded it to protect themselves from hostileneighbors and because he felt that they wereentitled under a treaty, to information the Unit-ed States was hiding.

Pollard did commit a wrong and diddeserve to be punished, but that punishmenthas already been served. Commutation of hissentence by President Clinton would counterthe injustices served to him during the Reaganadministration and would also greatlyimprove relations between the United Statesand Israel.

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God. An unexpected rhyme, "Sam discoveredhe wasn't covered," describes an uncle's sud-den loss of his shoe store in a way that evokesa wry smile, and makes us wonder if this verybelievable episode is not another scene takenmore from imagination than from life.

Keyser wanted his poem to be accessible,and he has achieved that. With few exccp-tions, the meanings here are not hidden. Whenhis mother says she does not remember whenshe died because she had things on her mind,we laugh. When in a story from his childhoodshe kisses him on the cheek and whispers inhis ear, we shudder.

It is amazing that these poems, written dis-cretely and interspersed with others notincluded here, should come together to formso cohesive a whole. Through a successiol- ofstories remembered or retold they vividlydescribe many lives, focusing on the one thatwill not let itself be forgotten. Even deathdoes not daunt the author's mother, untilalmost accidentally he finds the key to herdeepest sorrow, which also releases him fromhis imprisonment in her image. The momentis so final, it seems like Keyser might neverwrite another line of poetry - his ghosts havebeen put to rest.

father's grave for one of these talks, the voicethat answers is hers. She critiques his life, offersfrank and insulting ideas for improvement, andmakes acrid quips that leave little uncertaintyabout the hard life she must have suffered.

Keyscr's language echoes this unwaveringwoman's straightforwardness. The onlyrhymes are internal and unforced, the metereasy and not strict. Shocking or florid vocabu-lary is absent; Keyser lets detail dictate theemotion of his pieces without resorting togimmicks. He had no intention of publishingwhen he wrote these lines, and that attitudetranslates into literary honesty. We see theauthor and his family as he sees them, not ashe would have us see them.

The nicture he paints is disturbing, asfamilial roles shift and change. Women try toform intimacies with their sons to smooth thepain of loss. Insanity, wavering like every-thing else between the realms of real and sur-real, frosts their world with icy tension; rarelyare situations hostile, but the potential alwaysexists for the impossible to happen.

And yet this poem is far from humorless.Keyser's sister, "dead in her eighteenthmonth," visits one day to tell him she is aJehovah's WvVitness and ask if he has found

ing them, turning them into characters in aunreal play. And between these, Keyser sits inthe cemetery talking to his mother in languageso genuine; it is hard to categorize these con-versations as anything but real.

The tone of the entire book is detached,like intellectual storytelling, further blurringthe distinctions we would usually makebetween life and death, real and unreal. It pre-sents the philosophy that all the characters andsituations exist together in some undefinedstate, and it is only our perception of theworld that changes. Kcyser himself, whenasked which of the images were real andwhich fabricated, said he was no longer sure.

He tells his stories in sentences wrappedaround lines, creating stanzas tlhat become,irregular paragraphs. Left in unstructured freeverse, we would not question the fantasticalnature of a woman on the roof, dressed in achicken suit, pretending to lay eggs. But thesimple added formality of capital letters andpunctuation marks lends this image and otherslike it half of a shadow, the outline of three-dimensional form.

In many cases, the dead seem more alivethan the living. The author's mother haunts herson so thoroughly that when he goes to his

RAISING THE DEADPoetry by Associate Provost for Institute LifeSamuelJ. Keyser.Garden Street Press.

By Ann AmesARTS EDITOR

T he verses in this volume are trappedsomewhere between reality and fanta-sy, between poetry and prose. Theybegin with a curious sense of morbid

humor; sitting on a wall in a graveyard, theauthor reads the want ads from a newspaper tohis dead mother. That first page opens d tinywisndoirw into the loneliness. the bitterness tocome, but its wit steals a little of the bite,intriguing the reader, leaving him whollyunprepared for the powerful tales that follow.

This is Associate Provost Samuel J.Keyser's first published book of poetry.Keyser refers to it as a single entity, "thispoem," though it is comprised of 38 individ-ual poems written over the past three years.Some tell of episodes from his life or from thelives of family members. Others describeimages of a strange world that w!'eaves itselfaround each of the people in the book, animat-

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An Evening of Asian PerformancePresentations include performances by Game-lan Galak Tika, MIT's gamelan troupe andstudent musicians and dancers joined byNyoman Catra and Desak Made Suarti Laks-mi from Indonesia. Also, a clarinet piece com-posed and performed by Associate Professor

,Evan Zip7^ryn. rDirectedl by Ron Jenkins.Sponsored by Emerson College, PerformingArts Division.Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Emerson Majestic Theater(221 Tremont St.), Tickets $10/$7, $8/$5 stu-dents.Information: 578-8780 or 876-8207.

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on high technology in both materials and tech-nique.Jan. 21 through March 4Weekdays 9-SInformation: 253-4444

e****Hart Nautical Gallery:Course 13, 1893-1993: From NavalArchitecture to Ocean EngineeringExhibition includes historic photos, models,and computer graphics, and highlights a sam-pling of current research including that per-formed by the department for Bill Koch's '62successful America's Cup campaign withAmerica3.(Ongoing)

Boston Fisheries 1900-1920Photographs documenting Boston's T Wharfarea.Weekdays 9-855 Massachusetts Ave.Information: 253-5942

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Maria Fernanda Cardoso: RecentSculptureColornbian artist Maria Fernanda Cardosocreates elegant, Minimalist-inspired sculpturefrom materials exotic to a North Americanaudience and addresses cross-cultural commu-nication, particularly as it relates to the pre-sentation and interpretation of art, as well as

Exhibits the often-charged relationships between mWathSpaceExhibit - I- -humans and other species. . Hands-on exploration of geometry is the'. .Jan. 15 through March 27 theme as visitors tinker with math playthings.

Paintings by David Bakalar Tues., Thurs., Fri. 12-6; Wed. 12-8; (Ongoing)unded in the sciences, with Weekends 1-5; closed holidays Tues.-Fri. 9-5, Sat.-Sun. 1-5es in physics from Harvard 20 Ames St 265 Mfassachusetts Ave.tallurgy from MIT, Bakalar's Information: 253-4680 Requested donation: $2.rks are created with emphasis , In'nformation: 2534444

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Strobe Alley:Optical AlchemyFull-color fluorescent photographs of coralsand anemones by Charles H. Mazel SM '76, aresearch engineer in the Department of OceanEngineering, taken at night during underwaterdives. Matched pairs of images offer a com-parison between the subject under "normal"reflected-light photography and under illumi-nation with ultraviolet light.(Ongoing)information: 253-4444

MIT Museum:Thomas Jefferson and the Design ofMonticelloThe MIT Museum celebrates the 250thanniversary of Jefferson's birth with anunprecedented exhibition documenting thedesign evolution of Monticello. The show fea-tures more than 30 of Jefferson's originaldrawings and manuscripts along with archivalprints, rare books, and artifacts from publicand private collections.Feb. 10 through April 24.

The Works of Charles H. WoodburyAfter several years on tour, this major retro-spective of the oils, watercolors, etchings, anddrawings of artist/teacher Charles H. Wood-bury returns to the MIT Museum.

Crazy After Calculus: Humor at MITThe history of MIT "hacks."

Doc Edgerton: Stopping TimePhotographs, instruments and memorabiliadocumenting the invention and use of thestrobe light by the late Harold E. EdgertonScD '27.

Holography: Types and ApplicationsScientific, medical, technical, and artisticimaging drawn from the work of the SpatialImaging Group at the Media Lab.

Light Sculptures by Bill Parker '74Vivid interactive light sculptures, each withits own personality and set of moods.

Math in 3D: Geometric Sculptures by Mor-ton G. Bradley Jr.Colorful revolving sculptures based on mathe-matical formulae.

Alumni New Music ConcertAuros, Group for New Music performs worksby Harbison, Child, Tower, Roxbury, andHosken. Funded by the Council for the Arts atMIT.Feb. 12, 8 p.m. Killian Hall.

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*** Ace Ventura: Pet DetectiveThough this silly movie is merely a vehicle

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***1/2 Faraway, So CloseDirector Wim Wenders takes another look

at the angels of his 1987 masterpiece Wings ofDesire. Angels are not supposed to intervenedirectly in the lives of humans, but Cassiel(Otto Sander) breaks that rule and becomeshuman. Wenders follows Cassiel's adjustmentto his new life, and builds a complicated plotinvolving gun runners, trapeze a..ists, and acrew of angels-become-humans. The plot issomething of a mess, but Wender's brilliantvisual style and Sander's bravuro performance

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Screen, from Page 8 (Robin Williams) will do anything to see hiskids again. His plot involves becoming awoman. As Mrs. Doubtfire, he manages toturn around his life and the lives of others.Williams' hilarious performance and a fewtouching scenes make up for a dismal begin-ning and much run-of-the-mill slapstick. -CKC. Loews Cheri

***'/2 OrlandoTilda Swinton's curious, angular beauty

makes her a perfect cast as Orlando, an Eliz-abethan courtier who never ages and wakesup one morning to discover that he hasbecome a woman. Bestowed everlastingyouth by Queen Elizabeth (a delightfullycampy Quentin Crisp), Orlando survives abroken heart, insults to his poetry, a stint asambassador in a war-torn Arab country,dreadfully boring salon conversation, andeven a final assault on her home and propertyrights, which as a woman, she must relin-quish. Based on the Virginia WooiF novel oFthe same name, Orlando is a frank, wittylook at the differences not only in the waysociety treats men and women, but ultimate-ly, at the differences between the sexes. LSCFriday

direction, mistaking stilted sentiment for rawemotion. Still, the performances of Hanks,Washington, and a fine supporting cast carrythe film to a near-triumphant conclusion. --SD. Loews Cheri

**** Schindler's ListDirector Steven Spielberg triumphs in this

historical drama about O-skar Schindler(Liam Neeson), who was responsible for sav-ing the lives of more than a thousand Jewsduring the Holocaust. Shot almost entirely inblack and white, the film takes you to thePoland of the late 30s and early 40s. Neesonis great, carefully portraying the slow changefrom a man who only cares about money toone who cares only about saving lives. BenKingsley perfectly plays Itzhak Stern,Schindler's Jewish accountant who cunning-ly sidesteps Nazi officials. Ralph Fiennesportrays the unswervingly-loyal AmonGoeth, the Commandant of the Nazi laborramn. Through Fiennes the audience is ableto witness the hatred, brutality, and wide-,spread death. Overall the movie is incrediblypowerful, and brings to light one of the dark-est periods of human history. -PM. LoewsNickelodeon

»** The Pelican BriefJulia Roberts is a law student who has cre-

ated a legal brief which details her ideas onwho recently murdered two Supreme Courtjustices and how it relates to the president.Denzel Washington is a reporter for the Wash-ington Herald whom Roberts contacts whenher lover and his friend are killed after theysee the brief. Roberts is near perfect, and playthe stressed and paranoid student to the hilt.Washington is convincing - playing thedetermined reported who will stop at nothingto get a story. The strength of the film is inhow it is able to carefully develop its plot andkeep the audience's attention until contents ofthe brief are revealed at the very end.Patrick Mahoney. Loews Copley Place

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these grumpy old men, whose childish anticsdelight and inspire all who have ever thoughtof getting even. -Ann Ames. Loews Danvers

**** In the Name of the FatherDaniel Day-Lewis offers a riveting por-

trayal of a young man named Gerry Conlonwho is convicted, along with friends and fami-ly, of an IRA bombing of a British pub in1974. The film addresses the grave injusticethat the British government dealt the Conlons,but it uses the relationship in prison betweenGerry and his father Guiseppe (an excellentPete Postlethwaite) to carry the film's mes-sage of hope and redemption. Director JimSheridan's pro-lrish bias provides an effectiveretaliation against England's tendency tomake Ireland a scapegoat for the IRA'sactions. And Emma Thompson gives a solidperformance as the lawyer who struggles tobring freedom to the Conlons. Quite simply, itranks as one of the best films of 1993. -ScottDeskin. Loews Copley

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In addition to providing an intel-lectual community, the program,which is also called MIT's under-graduate Society of Fellows, pro-vides new social ties, Khoury said.

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At each of the monthly meetings,a member of the MIT faculty speaksabout his field. "Truly eminentspeakers in the MIT faculty are reg-ular speakers in the program,"Khoury said. "In addition, we try todiversify [the topics].... We are try-ing to appeal to the range of studentinterests."

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Several award recipients notedthat the program will offer them abreak from the hard sciences and anopportunity to engage in interestingconversations.

Burchard Scholar Melissa S.Rones '95, a biology major,described the program as a "reallyinteresting opportunity to talk withfaculty and students in a more infor-mal setting than the classroom." Sheadded, "It should allow me to shareexperiences and to get a chance tohave a more intensive humanities-based program."

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hoped to negotiate with the Officeof Naval Research, which auditsMIT overhead expenses, to get aspecial exemption for UROP. Butthe working group thinks that anexemption is unlikely.

"There was a great deal of timespent in negotiating [the new regu-lations]. It doesn't seem like some-thing people would want to open upand negotiate again," McGavernsaid. Congress and several federalagencies began designing the newregulations during the Bush Admin-istration.

Merritt said the working groupmust work without assuming anychanges will be forthcoming. Still,"There isn't any single solution tothis. There have to be all kinds ofefforts made to try to get a changein the [regulations] and ... exploringwhether [they] can be reinterpretedor rcapplied." Yferllrt said.

The working group does not seeany easy solutions, though. "Thisisn't an instant-results problem.Short of $50 million in endowment,there is no easy answer," Chitaleysaid.

One solution would be reallocat-ing MIT's unrestricted budget fundsto cover UROP overhead costs. But,as Wrighton explained, giving moremoney to UROP is not a realisticsolution, because it would mean tak-ing money away from other areas ofthe academic budget.

Lobbying campaignThe UA forum on Monday night

is intended to be an information ses-sion for students and faculty. "Fromthat point on we'll try to coordinatea lobbying campaign," said UAPresident Hans C. Godfrey '93.

Chitaley said that students mightbe able to convince the governmentto change the regulations. "The timefor community involvement ishere," he said.

"If the [Office of Managementand Budget] or ONR hears from stu-dents about something that reallymatters to them, it probably couldn'tdo any harm," McGavern said.

Earlier this month, Wrighton creat-ed a working group to develop aplan to cope with the new regula-tions.

Institute remains committedWrighton and members of the

group emphasized that the Instituteremains committed to UROP. "Ithink UROP will remain an impor-tant and essential component of theMIT undergraduate experience,"Wrighton said.

Merritt, a member of the work-ing group, agreed that UROP "hasbecome the most powerful and dis-tinctively MIT-like element in theuluergraduuate euucauiional experi-ence, which puts students and facul-ty into some kind of contact witheach other on a personal basis."

The working group, headed byJames L. Elliot, professor of earth,atmospheric, and planetary sciences.It will provide Wrighton with itsconclusions by May 1, according toUROP Director Norma G. McGav-cm.

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Fewer proposals acceptedI The UROP office accepted fewer.proposals for salaried spring semes-Lter UROPs this year, in an effort tosave more money for summeriUROPs, McGavern said. "The win-|dow of opportunity for proposalsbwas about 24 hours," she said.| Wrighton said he sees the future|of summer UROPs, which involve|more salaries than term-timeiUROPs, as the biggest problem. ButiMcGavem hopes this summer will,be "as normal as possible."

"Summer work in UROP is aPeriod of intense involvement in1,esearch," too important to be cut in

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dorm and motions that have beenbrought to the Executive Committeeare supposed to be publicized. Forthe most part, they have been publi-cized in the past through posters onentrance doors in the dorm," Schuttesaid.

Several residents also com-plained that the issue should havebeen left for the already-scheduledbudget meeting, instead of lastweek's election meeting. Further-more, the motion was raisedtowards the end of the meeting,after many people, including thenewly-elected social committeechair, left.

Social chair Dean L. Franck '95,who attended the meeting but leftbefore the motion was presented,plans to run the parties exactly thesame as they have been run, withalcohol purchased privately.

Since the motion only pertains tohouse funding of alcohol, studentsare free to bring their own supply.

"I am not happy with the out-come personally," Schutte said, "butas president I will accept the deci-sion of the house."

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of the motion, said. "In my opinionthe majority here are for not buyingalcohol."

Schutte presented Young'smotion at a house election meetinglast week because of the prior dis-cussion about a spending cap. Also,she hoped to resolve the issuebefore the budget meeting nextweek.

"I figured that the spending capwas a more dominant issue thancompletely doing away with spend-ing on alcohol," Schutte said.

After 30 minutes of debate onYoung's motion, his motion waspassed without any amendments.

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By Thomas Kettlerand !:ania| WanogSTAFF REPORTERS _

On Tuesday night, the weatheroutside was cold, and so was theinside of Rockwell Cage. The men'sbasketball team played cold too,ending up with a 83-53 embarrass-ment to nationally-ranked TuftsUniversity.

The team's record has nowdropped to 6-13. While the Engi-neers were able to break an away-game losing streak on Saturday witha win over the Wentworth Instituteof Technology, they now have athree-game home losing streak.

MIT played the game without theservices of starting point guardNikki Caruthers '95, who was stillrecovering from an injury.Caruthers's absence caused coachLeo Osgood to make some changesin the line-up; Tim Porter '96 moved1r' ... .I ..... a-d - .... ,3 A ., L, .......II II iUl w'arj. u tv ,uatu ,, r/"LIIUr vo

Waldburg '97 came off the bench totake Porter's usual spot, and shoot-ing guard Randy Hyun '95 assumedthe role of point guard.

Even with the changes, MITmanaged to keep the game closethrough most of the first half ofplay. Although the Jumbos racedout to a 4-0 lead, forward JoeLevesque '95 responded by scoringthe first five points for MIT.

With 18:31 minutes left, hecanned a three-point field goal, andthen sank a jumper from the freethrow line a little more than aminute later. Yet another field goalby Levesque helped put MIT in thelead, 9-8. Unfortunately, this turnedout to be its only lead. The Jumbosquickly responded with a bucket,which an Engineer foul turned intothree points.

Tufts exploded soon after to gen-erate an 18-7 run, bringing thescore to 29-16 at 3:57 before thehalf. The Jumbos took advantage oferrors by MIT to pick up pointsquickly. With three seconds left inthe half, Tufts junior guard ChrisMcMahon scored his 1,000th point,causing some excitement among theTufts fans, and the players headedto the lockers with a 43-27 lead.

Second half is downhillDuring the second half of play,

the game went downhill. The Engi-neers continued to be cold; theyturned the ball over and had troubleputting the ball through the hoop.

The Tufts team seemed like awell-oiled scoring machine, addingpoints on almost every possession.The MIT machine, despite havingtwo mechanical engineers, lookedlike it would need many more tofunction properly.

After the game, Osgood com-mented, "In the second half thestory was written in the first fiveminutes. We had six turnovers inthe first three minutes."

With about seven minutes left inthe game, the Tufts coach sat hisentire starting lineup down, and letbench player take the floor. TheEngineers started scoring, but notenough to even come close. With2:47 left in the game, Tufts earnedalmost twice as many points asE MIT, 82-2.

In the last two-and-a-half min-utes of play, Hyun, who had troubleshooting all night, made two three-pointers in less than 45 seconds.The Engineers took many shots,both from outside and near the bas-ket, but simply could not score.

For the game, three MIT playersscored in double figures. Levesqueled the team with 15, followed byPorter with 11, and Hyun with 10.Whalen shot unusually poorly, hit-ting only I of 14 from the field, butled the team in rebounding with 12boards.

The team made only 30 percentof its field goal attempts, along with29 percent shooting from the three-point line. The Engineers were ableto convert 87 percent of shots fromthe free throw line, including perfectshooting in the second half.

One problem was that they werenot able to make many trips to theline; the Engineers were allowed

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battle of the boards, as Tufts outre-bounded them, 53-41.

On his team's performance,Osgood said, "We started makingmental mistakes, and they startedcapitalizing on our mistakes. We justtook ourselves right out of thegame."

He attributed the loss to manyerrors and the inability to score.Outside factors that have kept theteam members from playing theirbest include illnesses and the frigidenvironment of Rockwell Cage.

While not a direct factor,Osgood said that the absence ofCaruthers has made the team missthe defense, spirit, and leadershipthat he usually provides. Caruthersis almost recovered and might seesome playing time at the nextgame.

Blowout at WentworthOn Saturday MIT downed WIT

98-63 in an away game.For the game, the Engineers shot

an incredible 55 percent for thegame while limiting the Leopards to27 percent. The statistic included a42 percent performance frombeyond the three-point line.

But the team reverted to formfrom the free throw line, shooting63 percent. It also dominated onrebounds, grabbing 70 boards toWentworth's 48. Finally, the Engi-neers demonstrated teamwork with30 assists for the game, the most forthe season by far.

MIT took the lead halfway intothe first half. After Kenny O'Brienof the Wentworth Leopards made athree-pointer at 3:25, the Leopardstook an 8-7 Wentworth lead. TheEngineers responded with a 10-0run that kept the Leopards scorelessfor almost seven minutes.

Wentworth countered with a 8-0run of its own that ended with 10minutes left in the half, when TomJaneczek made a field goal to makethe score 19-16 that would be thesmallest MIT lead for the rest of thegame.

After Janeczek's basket, forwardJoe Levesque '95 answered with athree-pointer that started a 9-0 run.MIT went on a 14-0 run late in thehalf to enter halftime with a 53-27lead.

The Engineers shot reasonablywell from the floor in the first half,averaging 49 percent but moreimportantly, keeping the Leopards

to a poor 23 percent. MIT also shotWeY;II .I-I L11i 11116, aV'erLgiig i J

percent, much better than what theteam had done all year.

In the second half, the Engineerscontinued to play well-while theLeopards still could not shoot fromthe floor.

The only remaining question forthe game was, "Would MIT break100?" When Levesque made a bas-ket off a fastbreak with five minutesleft, the Engineers led 92-46, makingthe magic score seem quite possible.

With MIT's largest lead of thegame, head coach Leo Osgoodremoved the starters to allow thejunior varsity players some playingtime. Bill Winston '97 scored theEngineers final points with two min-utes left to give MIT a 98-53 lead.

Wentworth closed out the scor-

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Men, from Page 13 scored 17. Reserve center MarkHeffernan '95 led the team inrebounds with 14, while Levesquehad 12 boards.

Levesque led the team in assistswith seven while guard Randy Hyun'95 followed, with six. Finally, onthe defense, Heffernan had threeblocks and Whalen made threesteals.

By Catherine RocchioWOMEN'S GYMNASTICS COACH

twist and received an 8.5, whileSheila Rocchio '97 performed ahandspring double front that she justmissed landing, to end up with ascore of 8.65.

Despite the absence of Chiaren-za's amazing uneven bars routine,the event went well. Co-captainsStephanie DeWeese '95 and BethChen '94 had their season's bestperformances for scores of 6.2 and6.75, respectively, while Carmelhad a few problems with her half-twisting mount yet finished upstrongly for a score of 6.55. Sollodand Rocchio both faltered on land-ing their one-and-a-half somersaultdismounts but received solid scoresof 7.55 and 8.! 5, resnrctively .

The performance on the balancebeam was the highlight for Chen,who missed a three-quarter twistingjump but landed everything elseperfectly for a score of 7.45. Sollodand Rocchio both turned in amazingno-fall routines, with Rocchio land-

ing her backhandspring back-layoutsolidly, for scores of 8.45 and 8.675,respectively.

The floor exercise was MIT'sbest showing of the evening, asCornwell danced her way energeti-cally to a 7.35, and Carmel had herseason's best routine with high tum-bling for a 7.7. DeWeese combinedexcellent poise with grace andpower for a score of 8.25, whileSollod showed off her layout full-twist and flexibility for a score of8.7. Rocchio over-rotated her dou-ble back in her first tumbling runbut finished up radiantly for a scoreof 8.85.

Sollod's and Rocchio's all-arroAndX corer<<s Af 332 or- 2A 14 <

respectively, put them in an excel-lent position, along with teammateChiarenza, to qualify for the Divi-sion III National Championships inMarch. In the meantime, MIT willhost Brown University tomorrow inDu Pont Gymnasium at 1:00 p.m.

ing with a 10-0 run ending with afield goal by Tim Reilly with onesecond left in the game to give a 98-63 final score.

Three starters scored in doublefigures. Guard Tim Porter '96 andLevesque tied for the lead with 21while center Keith Whalen '96

The MIT women's gymnasticsteam competed for the first time inMIT history against the UMass-Amherst, a nationally-ranked Divi-sion I team. Considering that theEngineers were missing the supportof their top all-rounder TasiChiarenza '97 due to a hand injury,the team did well against such aformidable opponent. UMass-Amherst won the overall meet witha score of 187.6 points, to MIT's152.425.

Vaulting went very well for theMIT team as Kim Cornmwell '94 andErica Cannel '96 stuck their hand-snring vaults for scores of 7.25 and7.5, respectively. Competing for thefirst time in 1994 after returningfrom an extended home stay inRome, Valentina Sequi '97 landed abeautiful half-twist on, half-twist offfor a score of 7.75. Janet Sollod '96stuck a gorgeous handspring full-

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Doane led the team with 19points, while Casserberg contributed15 and Ratliff 10.

10. Casserberg led the team inrebounds with 10 boards, whileRatliff added eight.

Jenn Boyle '96 tied with Doanefor the team lead in assists withthree. Doane also made four steals.

In the game against WNEC, the

Argue, from Page 16 Menudo's College Football Report

With college football's national let-ter of intent signing period under-way, we have enlisted the servicesof the college football guru, knownin these circles as Menudo, to listhis Top 5 recruiting classes to date:

1. Tennessee. The old saying,"They don't rebuild, they reload," isappropriate with all five of theseteams. In the Volunteers case, theylost Heath Shuler to hardship, butpicked up Peyton Manning (QB,6'5", 200 Ibs.), son of NFL QBArchie. Additionally, they signedAll Americans Marcus Nash (WR,6'3", 190) and Jarvis Reado (OL,6'6", 287). Although they lost Ahn-dre Patterson (TE, 6'4", 248) toAlcorn State, the signing of thesethree players will ensure some highscoring games down in Knoxvillefor the years to come.

2. Ohio State. The Buckeyeswere able to replace Big Daddy(Dan Wilkinson) and OffensiveTackle Alan Kline with All Ameri-cans Orlando Pace (DL, 6'8", 295 )and Eric Gohlistin (OL, 6'5", 305).Picking up All State performersWinfield Garnett (DL, 6'6", 330)and Dan Gibbons (DL, 6'4", 300),and Marcus Spriggs (OL, 6'4", 290)will make leftovers a word of thepast out in Columbus.

3. Florida State. They picked uptwo outstanding defensive players inAll Americans Lamont Green (LB,6'3", 228) and Robert Hammond(DB, 6'3", 185). Although they onlysigned a couple of big horses for theO and D lines, they did land speed-ster Magic Benton (WR, 6', 170)out of Miami.

4. Michigan. Despite signingonly one All, American, RasheedSimmons (LB, 6'6", 240), theWolves added a lot of speed at thereceiver spot in order to relievesome pressure off of Tyrone Wheat-ley. Chris Singletary (LB, 6'3".222) and Sam Sword (LB, 6'4",240) will help keep Michigan'sdefense strong for the near future.

5. Southern Cal. John Robinsonis doing a fine job of turning theonce proud Trojan football programback onto the right track. WithRobinson reinstalling the groundattack that made USC famous, hewas able to land All AmericanDeion Washington (RB, 5' 10", 180)of Dallas Kimball. Additionally, hepicked up All American DarrellRussell (DL, 6'6", 305) to replaceWillie McGinest.

Menudo points out that Miamiwas unable to sign the top playersfrom their own backyard, as Michi-gan, USC, and even Kentucky raid-ed not only Florida, but the city ofMiami as well, for some top talent.Also, the SWC did not sign either ofthe All Americans from Dallas,

something unheard of in the past.This further exemplifies the fall ofthe conference, especially withA&M on probation next year.

Simson's Top 41. North Carolina2. Arkansas3. Louisville4. Duke

Let's Argue Fan Top 5Mark I. Randall '94 sends us this

week's list, with the category "Bas-ketball teams with the baggiestshorts":

1. Arkansas2. University of Michigan3. Georgia Tech4. UMass5. Missouri

Where Are They Now?Former LA Rams: Vince Ferrag-

amo, Jack Youngblood, Jim Young-blood, John Cox, Preston Dennard,Merlin Olsen, Cullen Bryant,"Hacksaw" Reynolds, Cliff Harris,Nolan Cromwell. and John Cappil-letti.

Mondongo's Hueso de la SemanaMondongo is so proud that many

of his loyal readers have been keep-ing their keen eyes open for bone-head plays everywhere, that he cedesthe presentation of this week's awardto one of the faithful Dongitos.

Brian Pendleton reports: "Whilewatching the Mobil InvitationalIndoor track competition at GeorgeMason University on Sunday, I wit-nessed a candidate for the boneheadplay of the week. Her name is SuziHamilton, an American long dis-tance runner. While competing inthe mile race on an indoor track, shemiscounted the laps, which is eightlaps for a mile indoors, and sprintedin finishing her seventh lap. Shethought the race was over, but shehad one more lap to go. She endedup dropping out of the race.

"They count out the laps as yourun and ring the bell at the start ofthe final lap. 'Laps to go' is postedright at the finish line. (She claimedthey posted '1 lap to go' as she fin-ished her sixth lap.) This is why theguys at ESPN are boneheads: AsHamilton sprinted toward andcrossed the finish line, they dis-played her 'winning time' whichwas under 4 minutes, near the men'sworld record time for the indoormile."

Race For FutilityMavs: 5-42; 'Wolves: 1-4 ver-

sus MavsThis week's race is a photo fin-

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will take: Kenny Anderson (Nets),Joe Dumars (Detroit), Scottie Pippen(Bulls), 'Zo Mourning (Hornets),and Shaq. True we placed 'Zo at thenumber 4 spot, but this is where heshould be. Toughest omissions:'Nique, Starks, Patrick , DC, Price,and Rice.

From the left coast, our teamwould be: Kevin Johnson (Suns),Mitch Richmond (Kings), SirCharles (Suns), Shawn Kemp (Son-ics), and Hakeem Olajuwan (Rock-ets). People coming off of thebench: The Worm, Stockton, Mail-man, The Admiral, Manning , andMullin. ...

You Heard it Here FirstSir Vix is predicting a Slam

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East Connecticut State University, and Worcester PolytechnicInstitute, 1 p.m.

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Argue, from Page 14 due to hit (no pun intended) thestands next week.

Rumblings from Around the 'TuteFrom Bo Light, '96: "Interesting

theory on the Harding case, exceptthat she and Gillooly (what anunfortunate name, no doubt theButtafuoco of 1994) have beendivorced for over a year. ... I per-sonally think that Tonya did lie toprotect Jeff, and now that she nolonger supports him, he's trying tocover his ass. Evidence to supportthis theory: When Shawn Eckardtwas arrested, he originally toldauthorities (several times) thatTonya Harding had nothing to dowith it. Now, of course, his storyhas changed, too, no doubt to helpout his high school buddy Gillooly.

"Also, Connie Chung inter-viewed Gillooiy's lawyer right afterJeff made his big confession, and Ihave never seen someone so defen-sive in my life. Connie's first ques-

tion was, 'Couldn't this be easilyinterpreted as Jeff trying to savehims-?' She didn't quite finish hersentence because the lawyerlaunched into his denial just a bitahead of schedule.

"Anyway, that's my theory, butit doesn't matter; she'll get kickedoff the team anyway because therest of the world sees her as beingabout as innocent as Lorena Bobbitt.The irony here is that Bobbitt(another unfortunate name, whydon't people named Smith evermake the news?) was acquitted.Well, that's my two cent's worth....Talk to y'all later."

Despite the Steelers' first rounddeparture from the playoffs, Ed Cho'94 sent us the following: "Answer:The Rose Bowl. The PittsburghSteelers are still the greatest teamever. You guys are great, and yourarticle is a wonderful section in theheralded Tech. Keep up the enter-taining work. Thanks fellas."

All-Star break, or to lose to thatteam four times, including three athome? The Wolves get the nodhere, mainly because they haveChristian "Boy Toy" Laettner.

Trivia Question of the WeekGoing into this season, Dean

Smith was first among Division Iactive coaches (10 years as a D-1head coach minimum) with 24.19wins per year. Who was secondwith 24.18? Send answers, com-ments, and your top 10 selectionsfor "Greatest Moments in Curling"to sports@the-tech.riit.edu. Answerto last week's question: The OrangeBowl, which housed Super BowlsII, III, V, X, and XIII. New Orleans,has hosted the most with seven.Kud os io Jay Coulson '94 who gotit right. He wins an autographedcopy of the Tonya Harding "HowTo Find the Perfect Mate" book,

2 Graduate Student Awardr-s at $7,000 each, and2 Undergraduate Student Awards at $5,000 each.Swimming, from Page 16 was 155-62 in favor of Amherst.

Engineers look aheadDespite the losses, the Engineers

were happy with their meet perfor-mances. Both the men's and thewomen's have teams started totaper this week in preparation forthe New England Championshipslater this month. The men's teamends its dual meet season this Sat-urday, in a home meet against Bow-doin College scheduled at I p.m. atthe MIT Alumni Pool. "We're look-ing for some fast swimming andexpect to end the season with aclose, competitive meet, and a pos-sible victory against Bowdoin,"Achtem said.

freestyle in a winning time of 58.47seconds, and she also placed secondin the 200-yard freestyle. In the200-yard individual medley, HollyGoo '95 was a runner-up (2:19.17).Goo was outtouched in the 500-yardfreestyle and finished second(5:29.07), just 0.14 seconds behindwinner Stefanie DuffofAmherst.

In the 100-yard backstroke,Christine Harada '94 was second(1:09.11). Diver Debbie Gustafson'95 also placed second in the 3-meter diving with a score of 242.55points, just 1.775 points short of firstplace. Gustafson was third in the I-meter diving event. The final score

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The prizes will be awarded to students in anydepartment at MIT on the basis of a competi-tive evaluation of proposals by a PrizeCommittee.

Application deadline date:March 18, 1994

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Hope all of our fans did not freeze backin Boston while we were on assignment cov-ering the Pro Bowl in Honolulu. Althoughthe sand fleas were biting at our ankles, toquote Jeff Spicoli in saying that there were alot of "tasty waves and cool Buds" would beaccurate in describing the week. One ques-tion did pop up while your humble scribeswere bronzing on the white sand beaches ofthe 5-0: How do the Lords of the Gridironselect the cheerleaders who go to the ProBowl? We had some criteria in mind, but ifanyone has more official knowledge, dropus a line. ...

Just when the college basketball junkiethought he had everything, ESPN once againtells us that this not so. ESPN has teamed upwith Raycom and the Division I-A AthleticDirectors Association to bring us the GreatEight Basketball tourney on Nov. 29 and 30.The tourney will pit the final eight teamsfrom this yearns NCAA action in a two-dayfest out at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Eachteam will play one game, with pairingsdecided by random drawings. (Teams willnot, however, play teams they will face later

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On the track, the Engineers didnot win any running events, butmanaged a few top-five finishes.Colin Page '95 provided the topresult for MIT, placing third in the55-meter high hurdles, with a timeof 8.16 seconds. At a longer dis-tance, Ethan Crain '95 matchedPage's feat, with a third place finishin the 5,000-meter run, posting atime of 14 minutes 57.53 seconds.Jesse Darley '95 came in rightbehind Crain for fourth place, with atime of i5:06.80. Both Crain andDarley ran their best times of theseason at the meet. The two alsojoined Christopher Schell '96 andKevin Knoedler '94 for the distancemedley relay, and set a season besttime while finishing fourth, with atime of 10:34.90.

Coach Halston Taylor was quitepleased with his team's overallresults of the meet, which includedpersonal best efforts by more than20 members, along with numerousseason bests. However, his primaryfocus for the moment is the QuadCup championship. MIT is undefeat-ed in Quad Cup competition, as wellas fellow participant Williams Col-lege. The two powers will meetface-to-face tomorrow at JohnsonAthletic Center to determine thechampion. The Engineers have lostto Williams in their last two meet-ings, and they aim to rectify the situ-ation.

The men's track team turned inan excellent performance last week-end at the Greater Boston IndoorClassic, held at Harvard University.In a meet that featured many out-standing individual performances,MIT finished fourth as a team,behind Boston University, Harvard,and Northeastern University. MIThad the best placing among DivisionIII schools, easily outdistancingTufts University and Brandeis Uni-versity. In doing so, MIT even fin-ished ahead of Division I BostonCollege.

The most noteworthy perfor-mances were in the field events, ledby Andy Ugarov '95, who won thetriple jump with a leap of 44'3-1/4",and placed second in the high jump,clearing a height of 6'6". JamesKirtley '94 finished right behindUgarov in the high jump, clearing6'4" for third place.

In the pole vault, although the15'1" effort by Matt Robinson '94was more than a foot below hisrecord-breaking personal best, hestill managed to take second place.Paul Ogagan '97 came in third, set-ting a season best vault of 13'6-1/4". Among the throwing events,John Wallberg '96 provided the bestperformance, capturing fourth placein the 35-pound weight throw, witha hurl of 50'9-1/2".

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By Ognen J. NastovSTAFF REPORTER

crushed Mark McDermott ofAmherst with a winning time of1:59.81, his season's best. In addi-tion, Brian Dye '96 won the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:21.01. RandyYang '97, the third place finisher inthe same event, qualified for theregional conference championships.

The men's team performed wellin both freestyle sprint events. MattLau '97, Greg Maud '97, and Sher-rif Ibrahim '96 placed second, third,and fourth in both the 50-yard andthe 100-yard freestyles. In the 200-yard freestyle, Christian Hamer '94and David Chatwin '97 placed sec-ond and third. Chatwin also quali-

fied for the regional conferencechampionships in the 50-yard back-stroke. Joe Kurtz '96 was a runner-up in the 200-yard butterfly(2:08.90), which was won by LairdAdamson of Amherst College. Themen's meet ended with a score of1 54-69 for Amherst.

Women encounter similar resultThe women's meet proceeded in

a similar fashion - with only a sin-gle victory but a number of secondplace finishes. Hilary Price '97 easi-ly triumphed in the 100-yard

By Thomas KettlerSTAFFREPORTER

Wheaton cruised to the league vic-tory.

Overall, MIT shot only 40 per-cent from the floor while allowingWheaton to shoot 54 percent. TheEngineers had their best day fromthe free throw line, averaging 70percent, but the effort was notenough.

In individual scoring, KristinRatliff '95 led the team in scoringwith 18 points. Also scoring in dou-ble figures were Mari Casserberg'94 with 17 points, Sarah Davis '97with 13, and C.J. Doane '95 with

Despite a number of strongswims, the men's and women'sswimming and diving teams weredefeated by Amherst College atAmherst last Saturday.

"! think we did extremely well,considering the intensity of ourrecent training," said head coachJohn Benedick. "There were a num-ber of close races, but our oppo-nents simply had more swimmersand depth."

The men's team carried victoriesin two events. In the 200-yard back-stroke, tri-captain Ted Achtem '95

Last week, the women's basket-ball team lost two games on theroad, first to Wheaton Thursday bya score of 104-70, and to WesternNew England College Saturday,76-64. The games left the women'steam 6-11 overall and 0-4 in theNew England Women's 8 Confer-ence.

Against Wheaton, MIT wasn't inthe game through the first half,falling asymptotically far behind,63-37 at halftime. Although theEngineers played better defense inthe second half, it was too late asSwimming, Page 15 Women, Page 14

in the season.) Teams are guaranteed$100,000 plus expenses and a donation tothe school's Challenging Athletes' Mindsfor Personal Success program. With a dou-bleheader each day, the tourney will merelymake the average hoop fan salivate andmake the serious hoop fan lose his ...

Two thumbs up to His Aimess for sign-ing with the Chicago White Sox in anattempt to play major league baseball, fol-lowing perhaps the greatest NBA career inhistory. If Jordan is able to play in themajors without having played organizedbaseball since high school, Senor Nike willcertainly extend his lead as the World'sGreatest Athlete. Two thumbs down,though, to those sports writers who are tak-ing shots at Jordan, claiming he will neversucceed and that he is making a mockery ofthe game. First of all, baseball is in such asorry state these days (wild card playoffteams, Tim Belcher making $3.4 million, ateam from Canada winning the last twoWorld Series, Marge Schott an owner, etc.)that there really is nothing left to make amockery of. Second, these writers shouldadmire and lionize someone who is willingto put everything on the line to take a shot ata dream. Jordan's statement that he is not

afraid to fail, but can't accept not tryingshould be broadcast to children everywhere.Just because some tubby typist pulls a grointrying to play pick-up hoops and beer leaguesoftball in the same weekend doesn't meanthat Jordan should not at least try to playball....

Although your humble scribes were notgifted enough to be able to write for the Artssection of The Tech, it is safe for us to saythat the movie Caddy Shack is a classic.This being the case, PGA Tour Commis-sioner Deane Beman should lighten up in hiscriticism of Bill Murray for Murray's anticsat the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golftournament. Murray is always hilarious, andit's not as if golf is such a thrilling spectatorsport that Murray is detracting from theexciting action. Besides, how can anyonetake shots at "a cinderella story. ..."

With the Winter Olympics beginning thisweekend, it's always interesting to walk intoa bar during the Olympics and hear patronsarguing about some obscure sport that theyknow nothing about, except what theannouncers have just told them. Particularlyinteresting to these Olympics is that the FijiIslands, American Samoa, and Trinidad andTobago are all sending participants to Lille-

hammer. Trinidad joins an experiencedJamaican squad, energized no doubt by theDisney flick Cool Runnings, in representingthe Caribbean. It is hard to understand whythese teams would do this. With the frigidweather in Norway, your humble scribeswould gladly trade our two-week assign-ment in Lillehammer for two weeks of palmtrees and rum punch down in Port-Au-Prince ....

Another sad story from the dismal South-west Conference: Texas Tech fans engagedin a shouting and pushing match with TexasA&M Coach Tony Barone and the Aggieplayers -following A&M's 89-88 victoryover the Red Raiders last Saturday. After anexchange of pleasantries, a Tech fan wasknocked unconscious by a crushing righthook from Aggie forward Joe Wilbert. Thereport is that it was the best hit in the SWCthis season, football included. Ouch....

The Let's Argue NBA All Star ballot isin. Before listing our selections, we mustinform the readers that our selections arebased on who would comprise our team ifwe were to play a single game for all themarbles, not on popularity. In the East, we

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Amherst Drowns MIT TeamsIn Swimming and Diving