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course and will meet four hours aweek, under the guidance of a"facilitator." Reflecting the goalsof last summer's Project Inter-phase, these sessions will encour-age individual participation andskills in oral -presentation.
"The job of the facilitator isnot to tutor, but to get studentsto motivate one another, Cherystressed. "He should not solve alltheir questions, and should be-come less and less in' charge asthe term progresses."
Participants may also enroll intwo other seminars offered inconjunction with the program.Students in the Expository Writ-ing (21.730) seminar must havecompleted the writing componentof Project Interphase, for theywill work on an essay that wasassigned to them in the summer.A mathematics seminar (18.091)will help students taking CalculusI master the subject and can besubstituted for the XL mathstudy group.
Student leaders are still tryingto obtain facilitators for subjectslike Principles of Chemical Sci-ence (5.11) and Introduction toSolid-State Chemistry (3.091).
Program attributed tomajor "collaboration"
In June, about 50 students helda demonstration on the steps -of77 Massachusetts Ave. to protest
--proposed changes 'in ProjectInterphase. The speed with whichthe-decision was made and the ap-
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By Irene C. KuoSmall study groups in math-
and physics, six units of credit, alecture series entitled "You CanBe a Success at MIT; -and a rec-ommended credit limit of 54units are among the offerings ofa new freshman program admin-istered by the Office of MinorityEducation.
The goal of Program XL,which developed in the wake ofstrong student protest last Juneagainst plans to make ProjectInterphase a combined sumnmerand fall educational program, isto "ensure -academic excellence,"according to the OME brochure.Yonald Chery G. assistant to thedirector of Program XL, stressedthat the program, is "for studentswho want to be proficient."
Unlike the proposed fall con-tinuation of Project Interphase,Program XL is voluntary andopen to all freshmen, though if itis oversubscribed, priority will goto Interphasers and other under-represented minority students.The program can accommodate60 students; thus far, 48 studentshave registered, 23 of whom areInterpkasers.
Participants, are encouraged totake no more than 54 units, ofwhich six will come from XL. Inadditioin to attending regular lec-tures and recitations, they willbecome involved; in study-groupsessions. These will have ftvevto-,six, studenits who have- registeredfor- the same calculus-.or-physic's
parent lack of student input, were.among their major concerns. - ;
"[lThe program put forth by- the administration] had tighter restrictions; Program XL has -fewer, and it complements every- i .M.thing that exists at the Institute," .I-id *Chery added. "It takes advantage :_-Aof campus resources, so that stu-_i i_dents will be hearing talks on topics ranging from nutrition to_ study skills to the meaning of an _
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tations will be taught by teachingassistants from each participatingdepartment.
The first semester will consistlargely of an amalgamation ofconcepts from 3.091 and 5.1 1with some strands of biology in-serted, according to Silbey."When we talk about molecularstructure, this will lead to an un-derstanding of the structure ofproteins; when we talk about'therm-iyxmc d ld-eactio-n
rates, this leads to enzyme miet-ics, for example, " he explained.
The amount of biology dis-cussed in the course will gradual-ly increase, and the spring termclass, SP02, whill largely focus onthe biology of the cell.
The Schools of Engineeringand Science initially conceived ofan integrated two-term sequenceas a way to incorporate biologyinto the science core. The pilot-class, which was debated by thefaculty last spring, was met byobjections from members of eachof the three departments. Somefaculty felt the subject wouldpresent only a watered-down sur-vey of the three subjects withoutexamining enough topics in-depth. At Aprii's faculty meetingmembers of both the biology andchemistry departments said theyplanned to come up with theirown alternatives to SPOL.
According to Chemistry De-partment head Mark Wrighton,while this two-semester coursepresents a challenge to its teach-ing staff, the staff will be able tomeet that challenge. "The threedepartments will be regularlymonitoring feedback form SPOIfaculty and students to evaluate
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By Aileen LeeThis fall an experimental
course integrating the principlesof chemistry, material science andbiology is being offered for thefirst -time. Proposed by theScience-Engineering WorkingGroup last spring, this pilot sub-ject is the first step by the facultyto incorporate biology into theInstitute science requirement.
The class, Chemistry, MaterialsScience, and Biology (SPOI), isthe first part of a two-semestersequence, and will be taught byprofessors from the three depart-ments involved - Robert J.Silbey (Chemistry), Ronald M.Latanision (Materials Science andEngineering), and -Vernon M.Ingram (Biology). There will bethree lectures per week, and reci-
to 300 new users at this time lastyear. Athena began registrationactivities earlier than usual thisyear, during Residence/Orienta-tion week, in anticipation of thelarge numbers.
Athena officials expect thatadding computers to existingpublic clusters and the develop-ment of departmental and privateclusters will ease the load. Moreworkstations will also be installedin MIT faculty offices.
"We're trying to cram moreworkstations into public spaces,"Orcutt said. The largest publiccluster expansion is taking placein the Student Center, Orcusttnoted. Twenty-one Digital Equip-ment Corporation Vax Station31 00's have already been de-ployed there, and 21 IBM RT'swill be completely installed bythe week of Sept. 25.
A new Athena cluster in Build-ing 6, will be available to stu-dents next week. There are 14DEC VS 2's there now, and tenmore will be installed by nextweek. Another new cluster will be
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By Andrea LambertiProject Athena expanded sev-
eral public clusters at the end ofthe summer and will continue toadd private and departmentalclusters 'throughout the fali, ac-cording to Athena ExecutiveDirector Ronald L. Orcutt.
Athena was at capacity by theend of last year, Orcutt said,making an expansion necessaryfor this year. Because all gradu-ate students can have Athena ac-counts this year, Project Athenaanticipated the largest number ofnew users this semester. Beforethis semester, about one third ofgraduate students had accounts.
As of last Friday, approximate-ly 1300 new users had registeredfor accounts, compared with 200
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1. Ross For many of these organiza- at MIT is helping MITl botshmen have ex- tions, Sorenson has become their- retain old friends inl the coinin the newly- "main contact at MIT,' accord- nity and to win new ones. Fo
r Public Service ing to An~tonia Burke of the ample, Cambridge School V(D, to Public Ser- Cambridge School Voluteers. teers, a Cambridge-b.;Virginia Soren- To better assess student interest education project, has been ii;vas formed last in volunteer work, the center istence for 23 years and thro.er to match up took a survey of MIT undergrad- out its existence has alwaysAd in volunteer uates last May. The results of strong ties with MIT. For local' volunteer that survey gave the Center four bridge School Volunteers,of their labor. special areas of foculs: unlderpriv- (Please turn to page 2)imen signed on1 ileged youth, hunger and holne- , _t the last week's lessness, health and medical =1 and about 300 issues, and education. -d an interest in Linking together the other H >Ohr the, freshman service agencies on campus, the package. center2s operational committeeA_self as providing includes representatives from Al- i _ Hdents' efforts?" pha, Phi Omega, TechnologyOver the past Community Association and Tau A d MX a-cumulated a list Beta Pi.-Howiever, the resources e}F
100 norn-profit offered by the -center are not for 8t
ons in the Cam-' -organizations alone. One of the-_ " h have openings center's jobs last year was to find 1|f..! trough the cen- funding for interns in public ser- S tt ,-mpts to connect vice so that the remuneration_ l,cial interests, to could compare with that..offered _ ch shetos-blagcmpanies --. Lerothodi-Lapule Leeuw/The
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pressed interestformed Center foiat MIT, accordingvice Coordinator son. The center vNovember in ord(students interestedwork with theIagencies in need (
Eight-two freshwith the center atActivities Midwayfreshmen expressethe center throug,summer mailing I
"'I think of myssupport for ' stu(Sorenson said-.year, she has accof approximatelyservice organizati(bridge area whictfor volunteers. TIter, Sorenson atte,students~ with spethe grioup-swhi(same -interests.
long, hecticBy Neil J. Ross
Residence/Orientation Week isover, and the staff in the Officefor the Dean for Student Affairscould be forgiven for releasing a
isigh of relief. With events rangingfrom presentations and speeches
Eto social functions, R/O weekifor freshmen was designed to
make newcomers to MIT feel atIhome, whether their own home is
in Massachusetts, another stateor abroad.; "We were anxious that thefreshmen were comfortable heren
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Work for this year's R/O be-ganl as far back as January whenthe 55 strong R/O committee-at-large was recruited,. with somerepresentatives coming from theInterFraternity Conference andthe Dormitory Council. Howevrer,preparations really -tooks off inJuly and August. Together %rithstudent R/O workers there were-ab~out-190-student helpers (ex-cluding rush and individualhouse activities helpers) involved-a Tech
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"The main-beneficiaries of the[dial-up] improvements will begraduate students and faculty,,Orcutt said.-Facullty members willhave the. option -of - dialing theirownl office workstation, ratherthan sharing the common Pooldial-in service.
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(Continued from page 1)the course's ability to cover thematerial thoroughly and effi-ciently," he said.
"XOver 100 students have indi-cated an interest in SPOI, givingus a good number to work with,"he added. Professors HartleyRogers and Hermann Haus ScD'54, who represent the committeeformed by the deans of scienceand engineering, will also be sit-ting in on the class to monitor itsorganization and 'effectiveness.
"Because of the complexity ofSP01's logistics, we are aniousto see how the students respondto its ability to teach the materi-al," Wrighton added. "We hopethat the students complete thecourse with the feeling that theygot what they expected, and thatthey are confident they have hada good experience."
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located in Building 14N, withnine VS 2000's. It will be openwithin one or two weeks. ae
Project Athena has encourMalethe formation of departmenaclusters because of the difficultyin obtaining new space for publicclusters. "Since we don't haveany more spaces, we've gone tothe departments" to find spacefor a "non-trivial" number ofworkstations, Orcutt said.
If a department has space forat least six workstations, ProjectAthena will install a departmen-tal cluster. Each department willbe able to decide who has accessto its clusters, Orcutt said.
Early requests for departmen-tal clusters came from the De-partment of Electrical Engineer-ing and Computer Science andthe Department of Chemical En-gineering. Their clusters and fac-ulty office workstations havealready been deployed.
The dial-in service for remoteusers will also be expanded inabout one month. Its present ca-pacity is only about 22 lines, andthe electrical current is not satis-factory, Orcutt said. After theinitial improvements, there will
(C~ontinued from page 1)center has given them additionalpublicity and exposure amongthe student community, Burkesaid. Sorenson's inside knowledgeof MIT has enabled them toreach a much wider student audi-ence, and as a result they haveseen no less than a 200 percentincrease in volunteer numbersfrom A{IT for their high schooltutoring program, according toBurke.
Another organization whichhas been helped by the center isthe Salvation Army, whichreported that, simply as a re-sult of the Public Service Midwayrun by the center last Spring,they recruited 25 new studentvolunteers.
Yet another success story forthe center is Tutoring Plus, a 25-year-old community a-ge'ncy
which, like Cambridge SchoolVolunteers, has always had strongties with MIT. Last year a totalof 233 MIT student volunteershelped them, mainly on largeprojects.
Looking to the fixture, the cen-ter plans a Public Service Day oOct. 14, which will provide an-other opportunity for interestedstudents to be matched up with avolunteer organization.
(Continued from page 1)in the planning and execution ofthe events.
Amon~g the 25 R/O sub-committees was the book com-mittee which handled the fresh-man book night, and whose workbegan especially early so that theentering class could be suppliedwith copies of 'the appropriatebook. In the previous two yearsin which the book night has beenrunning, the books have beenT:he lA~fchine Jn the Garden ?afd-
ents' Weekend to take account of
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ed to have 1061 members. A total
of 1161 students, including trans-
ferring upperclassmen, registered
with the R/O clearing house.
"It went very smoothly," saidone member of staff at theODSA4. One freshman, Eric Hank-wiiz '93, concluded "It was a lotof fun and really gave me a senseof home."
Beloved. The book night thisyear focused on the issue ofhomeless families ine Americawith the book Rachel and herChildren by Jonathan Kozol.
The decline in numbers forParents' Weekend (visible by theshorter lines at the President's re-
-ception for parents) has been at-tributed to the recent introduc--tion of the Family Weekend in'October, and administrators areconsidering restructuring the Par-
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Friday.: Overcast, damp, and raw throughout Fridaywith periods of rain, drizzle, and areas of fog.Heavy soakin~g downpours in_ parts of theG:reater Boston area. High 70'F (21 IC).
Friday night: Clouds and fog will linger.Temperatures dropping to as low as 60°F (16°C).
Sdturoday: Cool and cloudy, chance for another rainstorm.
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Pierce postpones panel testimonyEmbattled former Housing Secretary Samuel Pierce will
not be testifying today on Capitol Hill. Late this after-noon, Pierce abruptly canceled plans to appear before aHouse panel investigating scandals at the agency. Pierce,who served in the Reagan Cabinet for eight years, said hedid not have time to prepare for the hearings. In a state-ment, Pierce said "common courtesy" should permit hima delay.
Democrats clash overdrug program funding
Senate and House Democrats are not seeing eye-to-eyeon funding -a Democratic-backed drug program. SenatorRobert Byrd (DOWN) has proposed adding more than $2billion to the nearly $8 billion that President Bush wants.Byrd suggests across-the-board funding cuots to pay forthe boost. But Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) says the-de-fense budget should be cut, sparing hard--pressed domesticprograms.
Ten kllOed in maine disasterA methane gas explosion Wednesday morning set off a
deadly fire in a western Kentucky coal mine. Ten minerswere killed and three were injured in the mine near Wheatcroft, police said. Mayor Larry Cowan, a minerIhimself, said people in his town have always known thiscould happen but "it's always supposed to be someone.else." The incident is the nation's deadliest coal minedisaster in five years.
Shooting spree kills 7Louisville Mayor Jerry AbramsonI said the scene of yes-
terday's mass murder "looks like a battle zone." As policeIdescribe it, Joseph Wesbecker walked into a printing plantwith an AK-47 assault rifle and killed seven people beforetaking his own life. Authorities said Wesbecker was adisgruntled employee.
Vincent electedbaseball commissioner
Fay Vincent was elected baseball commissioner to re-place the late Bart Giamatti, who died of a heart attackless than two 'weeks ago. The 51-year-old former motionpicture executive, who had been deputy commissioner un-der Giamatti, will serve the balance of Giamatti's termthrough April 1, 1994. Shortly after his election Wednes-day', Vincent said that this year's World Series will bededicated to Giamatti.
Vincent began his career as a securities lawyer, workedbriefly for the Securities and Exchange Commissian,spent nearly ten years as chief executive officer of Colum-bia Pictures Industries, and most recently headed base-ball's negotiations with Pete Rose.
Some owners had expressed thoughts of turning else-where for -a new commissioner, but the consensuls-was thatthere could be no delay because collective bargaining ne-gotiations with the Major tLeague Baseball Players Associ-ation start after the World Series. Vincent is baseball'seighth commissioner.
Patriots owner rejectsfootball gambling
New England Patriots head Patrickc Sullivan said thestate should stay oult of the football gambling business.This came in response to a p'Ian to legalize football bet-ting which-would~brnag the state an estimated $50 milliona year. But, Sullivan said, this added revenue would costthe National Football League its integrity.
Japan bans ivory importsJapan has responded to concerns about what the ivory
trade is doing to Africa's elephant population by banningivory imports, at least until the end of the year. Japan isthe world's leading consumer of ivory. The United States,Britain, France and W~est Germany have already bannedivory imports.
US official meets OrtegaFor the first time in nearly five years, the United States
had high-level contacts with Nicaragua. The State Depart-ment said an assistant secretary of state met with Presi-dent Daniel Ortega over the weekend. However, a depart-ment spokeswoman said the United States will not resumea dialogue with the Sandanistas until Ortega's governmentnegotiates directly and seriously with the Nicaraguan op-position. The United States is pressing the Sandanistas togive the opposition a fair chance in the national electionsin February.
immigration comes under fireThe Bush Administration has come under fire for its
plans to restrict to 50,000 the number of Soviet refugeesallowed to enter the United States next year. Many ofthose fleeing are expected to be Jews. Yesterday, the ad-ministration backed off on part of its tough immigrationstance. Attorney General Dickc Thornlburgh has ordered areevaluation of all refugee applications filed by Sovietemigres now in Rome.
Dole backs food aid to PolandSenate GOP leader Robert Dole said yesterday a deci-
sion to double food aid to Poland is "a good investmentin democracy." Dole recently returned from a visit toPoland. Yesterday, President Bush announced the UnitedStates would send $100 million worth of food to thefinancially troubled East Bloc nation next year.
C~ape Town march largestin South Africa's history
The white mayor of Cape Town, South Africa, joinedArchbishop Desmond Tutu and other black activists in ahuge march to protest police brutality Wednesday, repre-senting the biggest anti-government march ever permittedin that country. Such demonstrations are usually out-lawed, but the white minority government agreed to letthe march through Cape Town go on and police did notinterfere.
El Salvador talks openThe government of El Salvador has opened another
round of peace talks with Marxist rebels, although bothsides have said they do not expect any quick agreement toend the Salvadoran civil war. Three previous attempts tonegotiate peace ended in deadlock. The rebels have calledfor a cease-fire to begin in mid-November but, they said,it must be accompanied by reforms such as an end topolitical repression and prosecution of human rightsviolations.
C:hemical weaponis agreement closeAdministration. officials said Wednesday that the Unit-
ed States and the Soviet Union are close to a major agree-ment on chemical weapons. Under the pact the super-powers would exchange information about their stockpilesof those weapons and conduct short-notice inspections ofweapons plants. Officials said the goal is to announce thedeal when Secretary of State James Baker meets with hisSoviet counterpart in Wyoming next week.
Mot her Teresa's condition worsensMother Teresa's doctors said yesterday the Nobel Peace
Prize winner has developed chest pains and a high fever, aweek after a heart attack. A cardiologist said the 79-year-old nun, who is known for her work with India's poor,has had some form of second heart attack. He said she isrestingi and--that-doctors--are monforing her heartbeat.
East German mnigrationwestward continues
Many East Germans apparently figure they had betterget out while the getting's good. They have been pouringinto Hungary, whose liberal Communist leaders are lettingthem 'move on to the *kest. But there has been-talk thatthe open door to the West might slam shut soon - and sothe flow of refugees has increased. Austria's InteriorMinistry said they have been coming over the border atabout 100 per hour.
-US charges Soviet anti-SemitismWhile the Soviet government is allowing more Jews to
emigrate, the United States charges that anti-Semnitism ison the rise in the Soviet Union. A State Department re-port presented to Congress yesterday says anti-Semitismhas flourished in the lower levels of the Soviet governmentunder the policy of glasnost.
Rubes By Leigh Rubin
on finances, ex-member saysA former PTL board member said founder Jim Bakker
gave the board rosy reports, not the bad news about theTV ministry's financial problems, before Bakker quit in1987. And Rev. Don George said he was concerned aboutwhy the ministry never stopped its pitches for more mon-ey. George quit over the fund-raising issue. He testifiedyesterday in Charlotte, NC, in Bakker's federal fraudtrial. Prosecutors say Bakker skimmed millions from theministry to finance his own high living.
MX missile test failsIt was supposed to be an MX missile ready for war -
with the exception of dummy warheads. But yesterday theICBM had to be destroyed shortly after launch from aCalifornia Air Force base. An Air Force spokesman saidexperts are trying to deter-mine what went wrong in thefirst operational test of the MX. system.
-Witness warns of drugthreat to US officals
Colombian cocaine cartel defector Diego ViafaraSalinas warned Wednesday that top US officials, includ-ing Presidzent Bush, could be targets of drug lords' hitsquads. Salinas, who spent six years with a narco-paramilitary group and is now under federal protection,told a Senate subcommittee that the Colombian drugkingpins have plenty of contacts in the United States.
Koop urges tobacco restrictionSurgeon General C. Everett Koop told a House panel
Wednesday that there is no-logical reason for the doublestandard in controlling tobacco and alcohol sales. Hetook aim at cigarette vending machines, saying that chil-dren are not allowed to buy alcohol, so they should notbe allowed access to cigarettes and other addictive sub-stances. Koop, who has conducted a tough anti-smokingcampaign during his tenure, retires later this month.
Retail sales on riseThe Commerce Department says high-gear car business
has been helping to keep retail sales rolling. Overall salesrose by seven-tenths of one percent -a moderate amount- last month. The government said auto dealers werebusy because of end-of-model-year sales, and consumers'expectation that 1990 models would cost more.
Sloppiness foils crooked copA Pennsylvania police officer facing criminal charges
has learned that neatness counts. Williamsport patrolmanThomas Bruno was arrested for stealing $140 from a wal-let stored as evidence -and then altering a document tocover up the theft. Authorities allege the document was sosloppy that it looked like something Bruno might havetyped.
According to statistics, only a smallpercentage of the millions of packagesmailed during the holidays are delayed.
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It is crucial that such an ac-counting take place, because ofVietnam's withdrawal and theprospect o~f the Khmer Rouge re-turriing to power. They are con-tinuing their genocide in theregions they still control.
After Adolf Hitler, it wasvowed that such atrocities wouldnever again be allowed to occur.We must nsow renew that vow,and set an example for humanrights abusers to let them knowthat they will be punished.
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quire each flyer posted to bear asymbol indicating the group isparticipating in the program.(Each poster would not need sep-arate approval, reducing the ad-ministrative overhead and cost toMIT.) Third, require each flyer tohave a "'to be removed by" dateon it. Flyers whose date haspassed,, or whose date is morethan a week from -the present,would be removed by that day'sdesignated removal group. Final-ly, place a mnaximum on the num-ber of flyers per group perboard, either one flyer per boardor four posters per building.
Groups violating these ruleswould lose postering privileges
and could then be fined accord-ing to the policy currently beingconsidered.
Current pestering takes placebecause it is an effective way toreach students who would nottake the time to read a dailyevents board in Lobby 7. Ratherthan eliminating the practice,which would hurt small groupswhile having less impact on moreestablished groups -who havedesignated space along the Infi-nite Corridor - I believe thatMIT would best serve the com-munity by givting all groups equalopportunity to this 'valuablepublicity resource.
Andrew M. Greene '91
As president of a studentgroup that relies on posting flyersfor much of its publicity, I wouldlike to offer some thoughts -onthe new poster policy ["Groupworks to devise new pesteringpolicy," Sept. 12].
The Tech's article cites a spaceplanner for Physical Plant as say-ing that the present' number ofbulletin boards is "adequate.' Itook a walk down the InfiniteCorridor and counted the num-ber of bulletin boards. I don'tknow what happened to theboard that I remember at theBuilding 4 intersection, but Icouldn't find a single board thatwas not designated for a specificactivity. I suspect that few wouldfind no space to be "adequate"space
It seemed to me from your ar-ticle that MIT's main objectionsto postering are the time involvedin removal of posters and thedamage to the paint that postertape causes. I believe the follow-ing proposal would solve 'bothproblems.
Place bulletin boards on anylarge, uncovered wall. Keep theseboards "undesignated." Allowany group to -post on theseboards, provided they adhere tocertain guidelines.
First, require every groupwhich wishes to participate to doposter-removal duty twice a term.This would reduce MIT's removalcost almost entirely. Second, re-
(Editor's note: The Tech re-ceived a copy of thie fiollowingletter, addressed t o SecretaryGeneral Javier Perez de Cuellarof the United Nations.)
During their rule of Cambodiafrom 1975 to 1979, the KhmerRouge slaughtered two or threemillion inhabitants -over one-fourth of Cambodia's total popu-lation! I request that the UnitedNations investigate the extent ofthe atrocities committed by theKhmer Rouge, and put the lead-ers on trial for cries against hu-manity. Those convicted shouldthen be either executed orsentenced to long prison terms.
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T'he use of Institute corridors for postering, a time-tested way ofgetting information out on campuses for no more than the cost ofthumb tacks, is acceptable at MIT. The Institute should not try toregulate it.
Other ways to reduce'the. cost of cleaning up the corridorsshould certainly be sought. Providing more bulletin board spacewould provide one incentive to posterers to keep away from morevulnerable wall spaces. There may be a case, also, for removingposters less often, since they tend to spring up again as soon asthey come down. Targeting cleanups for times when the Institutemust look especially good might be one path to follow.
The case for regulation crumbles under the problem of enforce-ment. How can fines be collected from the many student groupswith little or no money? And would it be fair to fine studentsgiven that it would be impossible to collect penalties from theplethora of commercial interests whose flyers are continually plas-tered to Institute walls? Some groups might also try playing practi-cal jokes on their opponents by putting up posters in their namesto try to get them penalized. How could the Institute prove whohad really put a poster up?
While the new student/administration group on postering mightcome up with some useful advertising alternatives -the proposedcalendars and daily events boardz for example -pestering will re-main one of the most effective means of communicating with theMIT community. Posters may not beautify the corridors, but theyare a sign of an active campus.
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By Shawn MastrianThe MIT men's soccer team
began its season Wednesday witha 4-0 loss to Harvard University.The Crimson, a Division I team,used superior ball handling andsharp passing to pressure the En-gineers' defense and score twicein each half.
The MIT defenders did well inresisting the Harvard attack atthe start of the game. No shotswere taken by either team untilthe 24:05 mark when a Crimsonattacker rolled a weak shot to-wards the net. This was savedeasily by goaltender John Olsen'91. Harvard had had a numberof previous opportunities toscore, but a spirited Tech defensekept them at bay.
The Crimson broke the dead-lock at the 28:43 mark when a re-directed corner kick found theback of the net.
The Engineers finally got theirfirst shot on goal'about a minutelater, but for the rest of thegame, their scoring opportunitieswere few and far between. Never-theless, MIT kept their quickeropponents at bay. A slide tackleby Nabil Istafanous '90 thwartedone excellent scoring opportunity,and Olsen stopped a few shots
otherwise destined to score.Despite these efforts and those
of the rest of the team, Harvardmanaged to break through foranother goal just before the half.A Crimson forward brokethrough the defense and slippedan impossible-angle shot into thegoal.
Shortly after intermission,sharp passing led to another Har-vard goal. The Crimson workedthe ball in towards the goal andscored as one of the attackersgolfed a shot into the upper leftcorner of the net.
The notoriously slow gamepicked up a little as WillieScruggs '92 earned himself ayellow-card at the 63:54 mark.Words were exchanged, but playresumed without incident.
Harvard iced the game with afinal goal at 82:22.
Head Coach Walter Alessipraised his team's effort, statingthat Harvard definitely had thefaster team. He noted that therewere a few "breakdowns," butattributed some of that to thefact that three to four key playershad just come off injured reserveafter missing the pre-season.Overall, Alessi had a positiveoutlook for the team' future.
Mark Bailey '91- closes in on his opponent and goes afer the ball. Ken Church/The Tech
The Shields, which are muchlarger (30 feet) sailed much long-er courses and were faced withvariable currents that proved tobe the deciding factor in most, ifnot all, the races. More thanonce, the MIT sailors were pre-pared to drop anchor in theShields to prevent themselvesfrom losing ground in the strongcurrent. At times the winddropped to nothing and, the onlyexcitement was the occasionalsighting of a seal or two.
In the Laser A division, DaleHinman '90 finished fourth outof twelve sailors, while WilGorgen '91 placed third in B divi-sion. Their combined finishes re-sulted in a third place finish in
the lasers for MIT.In the 420 Division, MIT sailed
to an overall tie fob fourth placewith Boston University. KyleWelch '90 and Warren Wu '90saled A division, while MikeBowers '92 and Mike Leary '91sailed to an impressive secondplace finish in the strong Bdivision.
On the Shields course, MIToutsailed five other schools tocapture top honors. The crew ofDrew Freides '90, Andreas Lewin591, Scott Davies '91, and BillHall '91 were tied for the lead af-ter the first day of the regatta butwere able to win the two races onSunday to clinch their division.
(Drew Freides '90 is captain ofthe varsity sailing team.)
By Drew FreidesThe MIT varsity sailing team
began its 1989-90 season with asolid performance this past week-end at the Bag-A-Deuce Regatta.The regatta, held at Maine Mari-time Academy in Castine, ME,featured five different divisions- two laser, two 420, and oneShields division.
The winds for the series werevery light and shifty, with astrong current playing havoc onthe fleet throughout. The din-ghies (420's and lasers) sailed, forthe most part, in a uniform cur-rent with either one side of thecourse or the. other paying off,due to the small lengths of theirraces.
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