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Red ox game.Fernald had been officiall de-

ignated as a chool for retarded chil-dren, although orne of the re identsat the time of the experiment werenot retarded.

Following the decla ification offederal record on po t-war radia-tion experiment in 1993 a tateta k force inve tigating po twarradiation exp rim nt throughoutMa achu ett found children atFernald were u ed in experimentwithout the informed con ent ofparent . A cia action uit again tMIT and Quaker at wa filed byfonner tudents in December 1995.

IT to pa mo t in ettlementA tatement i ued following the

ttlement aid that the money willcome primarily from MIT.

"I look on it a th tuition of 20tudent " aid Vice Pre ident for

Re earch and Dean for raduateducation, 1. David Lit ter PhD 65,

who inve tigated MIT involve-ment in the Fernald e periment andpre ented his finding to the tateta k force in 1994. The In titute isnot in ured for uch a liability 0 themoney for the ttlement will comedirectly from In titute fund , Lit teraid.

The amount of money going toeach indi idual ubject to the exper-

1940 and 1950 as part of an out ofcourt ettlement. Th stud nt weref d breakfa t c real laced withminut amount of radioactiv ironand caJcium tracer. hildren wereencouraged to take part in the test-ing with promi e of gifts or trip to

Another ignificant admini trative d velop-ment of this year was th lAP guide mo e tthe world wide web, Hughes aid. In thi form,it i mu h ea ier to earch for activities andpost updates. urrent lAP information can. befound at http://web.mit.eduliap/www/iap9 '/.

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MIT and Qua er Oat o.agreed 1 t w ek to pay 1.85 mil-lion to children at the Walter E.Fernald tate chool who were ub-jects of nutrition studie during the

MIT to Pay Victims $.1.85 onInFernald adiatio ettleme t

Credit cour e encroachEven though Charm

chool may have disap-peared momentarily, lAPhas found a niche in theMlT curriculum, and theMIT community seems tobe happy with it, Hughessaid. However, its reputa-tion as a time for e plocingof extracurricular activitie arshall Hughesto round out a student's education may belowly fading.

ince its inception, there has been a teadyincrease in the number of credit cour esoffered during lAP.

There has al 0 been concern about theincreasing number of of required classeoffered only during I P. Both MechanicalEngineering and Phy i require major to takecertain classe that are onJy offered during lAP.

Hughes agree with the e tudent concerns.The twelve unit credit limit prevents tudentsfrom 0 erworking them el e during I ,hesaid. It al 0 erves to prev nt th faculty fromrequiring too many credit course during IAP.

"I ould have liked to have een morehumanities cIa se offered,' arshan aid.Thi would better aid in rounding out aneducation, be said.

organizer this year.; "Charm school was a

good idea," said CatherineM. Bamben kG. "Theytaught you things that youdon't normally learn in acIa sroom," she said.

Even harm School'national reputation failed toearn it a backer. The eventwas covered by newsdepartments around theworld, said Maitreya J.Dunham '99. once dida egment covering theevent.

Lack of re oarce kill activiThe closing of charm school can be traced

at least in part to the many transitional prob-lems created by Reengineering at MIT saidProgram Administrator of UndergraduateAcademic Affairs Mar hall Hughe . The officewhich coordinates lAP bas been acutely affect-ed a a result. "We've become so under-staffed," he said.

Organizing charm school last year was anoverwhelming effort Hughes said. The under-taffed IAP office and the lack of student orga-

nizers were main factors in the closing ofCharm choo], he said.

"If a student had stepped forward and vol-unteered to organize charm chool then therewould be a chann choo] thi year," Mar haUsaid.

Once an lAP Tradition, Charm School Fades Away

tuden mi harm cboolDisappointed tudent were urprised to

hear that there would be no charm school thisyear.

any tudents complained that they did noteven know that charm school needed a student

By Eric SitSTAFF REPORTER

The MlT community will need to searchelsewhere to discover charm and grace, asMIT's charm school drops off the list of activi-ties bein~ offered during this year'sIndependent Activities Period.

Charm School wa a fun and lightheartedpart of the January term. It provided a fun wayfor students to ask some serious etiquette ques-tions, polish their social skill, and have a bit offun. Students could go from booth to booth andearn a charm coupon for each Ie son completed- 6 subjects would yield a bachelor's degree,eight a master's, and twelve a PhD in charm.

Former Dean for Undergraduate AcademicAffairs Travi R. Merritt founded the school in1993 because be was tired of hearing the gener-alization that MIT people can't function social-ly. Merritt has since retired and could not bereached for comment.

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ed laboratory space until a new labis built, said Seed, who acknowl-edged that one reason he wasannouncing his intentions was tohelp attract venture capital. He saidthey hadn't decided 'whether tocharge for the first efforts.

Mark Sauer, chief of reproduc-tive endocrinology at Columbia-Pre byterian Medical Center in ewYork, aid he was concerned aboutSeed' plan. "There's little questionthat it can be done. The question is,hould it be done and, if so, under

what conditions? It's hard' to thinkof a clinical scenario that's warrant-ed other than doing it for the sensa-tional value."

Joe B. Massey, co-director ofReproductive Biology As ociates, afertility clinic in Atlanta, aid "itwould be a disservice to our field"to clone a per on.

o doctors have tated. publiclytheir willingness to cooperate withSeed, although Hasson said hemight be willing if Seed gotapproval from an ethics reviewboard.

In any case even that level ofreview is unusual, said LoriAndrews, a professor of law andbioethic at Chicago-Kent Collegeof Law who has criticized the fertili-ty industry's lack of regulation.Andrews aid he would not be sur-prised if Seed tried to followthrough on hi plan. "He has a histo-ry of applying animal reproductivetechniques to humans," he said.But she said there were many rea-ons to oppose it.

Seed said he would move hisoperation overseas if Congress orthe Food and Drug Administration- which has said it believe it hasthe power to regulate cloning -tries to impede hi work.

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tion i becoming p rticularly wom- a u pen ion of I F a i tan eorne, but th y id th f ult Ii much mor likely, be au e Jakarta

mainly ith the J kart regime- for w f: iling to fulfill promi e to runf: iling to follow through on pledge a budget urplu nd balking tto re tructure the nation' onomy cutting pending on politically pop-th t re mad in exch ng for the ular item that the IMF ie abailout. inefficient, uch a ga oline ub i-

Clinton admini tr tion official, die.who have b en hea ily in 01 ed in I F nd ., official are anx-de igning the I F packages, hold iou to re tore tability in Indone i ,imilar view , although they refu ed partly b cause of the impact an eco-

to be quoted Tue day. nomic collap e there would have onWe would like to ee the nior the economie of it neighbors and

leader hip in Indone ia tand up and p rtly b au e the archipelago ha abe counted on the reform ," a enior hi tory of bloody conflict betweenI F official aid. "I think the mar- the u lim majority and the mallket are a king them elve the que - ethnic Chinese minority that con-tion of ju t how much the enior trol the bulk of the wealth.Indone i n leader hip i committed 'lndone ia could move from ato this program, and particularly to financial crisi to a political cri is toth m jor reform mea ure that an ethnic pogrom," aid David Hale,

ffect the family" of Indone ian an economist at Zurich KemperPre ident uharto. A number of , Inve tment in Chicago. "This thing

uharto' relative own or control i till ery eriou ."giant companie that would 10 e collap e of the Indonesian re -lucrative ubsidie and benefit if cue wouldn't nece arily raise thethe I F' pre cription were fol- ame ri k of an international finan-lowed faithfully. cial cri is that IMF and U.S. offi-

One po ible outcom i that the cial have feared in the SouthIMF, which disbur d 3 billion in Korean ca e.loan to Indone ia in ovember, Indone ia holds substantial cur-will refu e to approve a econd rency re erves, according to IMFin tallment of 3 billion that i officials, and much of the 60 bil-cheduled to be advanced in mid- lion that it owes to major foreign

arch following a review of financial institution i owed by pri-Indone ia' performance. vate conglomerates and companies

Government ource stres ed rather than banks. Many of themthat a deci ion i far from being have reportedly gone into virtualmade, but the enior IMF official default to foreign creditors because,aid, "It will be a key moment for a the rupiah tumble, they become

all of us - not ju t the Indone ian, less able to pay debt owed in dol-but for all of us trying to think lar. But pursuing bankruptcythrough how to deal with thi itua- claims in the nation's courts is noto-tion succes fully." riously difficult, 0 many lenders

Analy ts said the budget have refrained from pres ing theunveiled Tue day by Suharto made matter, at lea t for the time being.

it po ed unacceptable medical ri ksand raised dee Iy troubling ethicalque tion .

Cloning. is an experimentalmethod for replicating adult animalthat wa made famous last yearwhen cienti t in cotland u ed itto make Dolly the heep, the fir tcloned mammal:

In human, the method wouldtart with a ingle cell - any cell

may do - taken from the adult whowant to be cloned. U ing an electri-cal jolt cientist would fuse thegene from that cell with a speciallytreated donor egg cell who e owngene had been removed. That cellwould be allowed to grow into anembryo in the laboratory. Theembryo would be implanted into thewomb of a urrogate mother, whereit would develop into a per ongenetically identical to the originaldonor.

eed first announced hi inten-tion at a Dec. 5 ympo ium onreproductive technologie inChicago. "I've got the team togeth-er," he aid then to a vi ibly uncom-fortable audience.

Tuesday, in a telephone inter-view, he said that his preparationshad i'nce progre sed "from 50 per-cent complete to 90 percent com-plete ' with the a emblage of ever-al phy icians - whom he would notname - willing to work with him.He said the group had selected fourcouples from an initial pool of sixthat had volunteered to be cloned.

Three of the couples have oneinfertile partner each, eed aid, andthe "fir t choice" couple is com-prised of a man and woman who areboth infertile. "The only way theycan transmit any of their genes i bycloning,' he aid.

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The 43 biJlion international re -cue pI n for Indone ia' economy iin danger of coming un tuck, gov-ernment offici I and private ana-Iy t am d Tue day, a the iannation' currency plunged torecord low and it governmentnnounced a budget that failed to

meet target et by cr ditor .Indone ia' trouble are the lat-

t ign that si' financial cri i iwor ening despite more than 100billion in international bailout thathave been mu tered by theInternational Monetary Fund foreveral of the region' once-pro-

perou economie.The currenci of Indone ia,

Thailand, Malay ia and thePhilippines have hit new low oneach tr ding day of the new year.

nd Tue d y the Indone i n rupiah- which 10 t 56 percent of it valueagain t the dollar la t year - fellthe furthe t, dropping 15 percent.

The relentle s turmoil in ianmarket is inten ifying worrie thatthe IMF-Ied re cue are failing torever e the region' lide towardeconomic and political chaos. outhKorea' 57 billion bailout, thebigge t ever, had to be trengthenedtwo week ago becau e capital wacontinuing to flee the country, forc-ing the IMF and the world' richestcountries to speed loan to Seoulahead of chedule. The free-fall ofthe rupiah i rai ing the pro pectthat Indone ia's re cue package wlllal 0 have to be supplemented oraltered in orne ignificant way.

I F official acknowledgedTue day that the Indonesian situa-

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A Chicago cienti t ay he haa embled a team of doctor that iprepared to clone a human beingbefore Congre ha a chance to banthe procedure, and that eight peoplehave already volunteered to becloned.

The cienti t, G. Richard eed, ia PhD phy ici t who ha beeninvolved in fertility re earch sincethe early 1970 but currently ha nouniver ity or re earch laboratoryaffiliation. everal people familiarwith eed aid that he i known forhi eccentric view and doubted hewould follow through with hi plan.But other said eed ha the techni-cal and entrepreneurial experti e -and philo ophical commitment toradical cience - to accompli h thefeat.

"Richard i a brilliant man,' aidHarrith Ha on, chairman of ob tet-ric and gynecology at theUniver ity of Chicago' Wei

emorial Ho pital, who has workedwith eed. "He i a little crazy butwe all have to be a little crazy to getto that level. And if anyone canmake [human cloning] happen itwould be omeone like Richard

eed. 'eed appear to be the first ci-

entist to tate plainly that he haboth the mean and the intention toclone a human being. PresidentClinton la t year banned the u e offederal money to conduct humancloning e periJIlent , and hareque ted that privately fundedenterpri es adhere to a voluntaryban on human cloning.

A nationa bioethics commis ionlast year recommended thatCongres enact a law that wouldmake human cloning illegal, aying

In the budget he will relea e next month, Pre ident Clinton planto pend $10 billion from the national ettlement of legal claimagain t the tobacco indu try.

The only trick: The settlement ha not actually been ettled.By including the money in the budget even before tobacco legi la-

tion i crafted, the White Hou e i taking a calculated rlsk that pres-sure will increa e on the Republican-led Congre s to pa the com-prehensive multibillion-dollar package - or rl k taking the politicalheat in the fall mid-term elections if it does not.

"There' a good pro pect we will get a national tobacco ettle-ment," 'aid Rahm Emanuel, Clinton's enior advi er. Yet even athey eek to turn up the heat on lawmaker, orne White Hou e aidesacknowledge they have put more at stake for the pre ident. With hisbudget now counting on the money, they believe, Clinton mu t makethe tobacco i sue a high priority for the upcoming congre ional e-ion.

The fi cal 1999 budget the admini tration will send Congres inearly February a ume that the federal government will collect 10billion from whatever legi lation ultimately i pa ed, whether it bein the form of exci e taxe or "voluntary payment" from cigarettemanufacturers. The admini tration' budget will outline how themoney hould be pent - mo t1y to tobacco-related initiative previ-ou Iy envi ioned by negotiator, uch a increa ed regulatoryenforcement, anti- moking campaign and biomedical re earch.

Warning that orth Korea could run out of food by April, theUnited ation World Food Program appealed to the world Tue dayfor $37 million in emergency aid to avert wide pread tar ation andmalnutrition in the i olated communi t country.

In making its largest-ever appeal for help the Rom -based WFPaid It need 657,972 metrlc ton of food to di trlbute to 7.5 million

people in the month ahead. Durlng 1997, the FP gave food aid to4.7 million orth Korean . The total orth Korean population iabout 23.2 million.

"We got through la t year by the skin of our teeth and managed toavert a major di aster," Katherine Bertini, the WFP e ecutive direc-tor, told a new conference in London. 'The international communityha been very generou , and we are calling on it to be more generouto prevent food hortage from becoming a famine."

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Republi an Party leader Tu day b g n full- Ie dri e to killpropo ed party re olution th t would prohibit giving finan i I upportto any andidate who oppo e a ban on a controver i I lat -termabortion pro edure th t opponent call "partial birth" bortion.

In a tatement ent to all 165 member of th Republic n tlon ICommittee 10 d ys before the party i e pc ted to debate the propo -al at it inter meeting, R chairman Jim ichol on aid: 'Theque tion before u i whether we hould e tabli h a litmu te t. Thean w r to that que tion i no. It' a lippery lope that only rYe todivide our great nation I party."

Three former R C chairmen, Richard . Bond, Haley B rbourand Frank 1. Fahrenkopf, lined up behind ichol on. I think thiwould be incredibly de tructive to the Republican Party hould itpa ," Bond aid.

Tim Lamb rt, a Republican ational Committeeman from Texas,ha propo ed the re olution that ppe r certain to dominate proceed-ing at the R C meeting in Indian Well, Calif. and to revive the plitbetween the con ervative populi t and country club wing that haplagued the party for party for 20 year .

Lambert would e tabli h aRC policy that no money or in-kindsupport could go to "any candidate or nominee of thi party whooppo e measure to end o-called partlal-birth bortion."

He aid Tue day rejecting hi propo al becau e it create a litmute t fail to recognize the eriou ness of a procedure that he aidamount to "infanticide .... There are orne thing 0 bad that w can'tupport them."

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The next few days will be a generally miserable start to the newyear, offset partially perhaps by temperature that will be about tendegrees warmer than normal. A large low pre ure trough at middleand upper levels sitting over the center of the country ha preadrecord warmth over the eastern US. The trough is gr ually begin-ning to move away northea twards, but it slow progre wlll bringunsettled conditions for the rest of the week. The omnipresent cloudand ocean winds wlll keep temperature almost constant around themid-40s.

Today: Fog clearing, then drizzle and shower. Winds weak andvariable. High 47°F (8°C).

Tonight: Rain likely. Low 44°F (7°C).Thursday: More rain, slowing towards day's end. High 46°F

(8°C), Low 43°F (6°C).Friday: Even more rain. High and low in the 40s (5 to 9°C).

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Lea ue fr e-a nt market beckoning, two tar uban ba eball playersand fi e ompanion Tue day appeared headed to entral America ina deal brok red by a uban Ameri an ongre man from Miami.

icaraguan Pre ident Arnoldo Aleman informed the Bahama thathe had agreed to grant temporary vi a to the uban for "humanitar-ian rea on "the icaraguan Emba y here aid. The deal repre entthe newe t attempt to allow the entire roup to e cape deportationback to uba, rather than ju t the three who la t week were grantedpern1i ion to enter the Unit d tate.

The vi a , valid for up to three months, al 0 will give the defec-tor a afe ha en while agent for the ballplayer work out re idencyarrangement with the government of 0 ta Ri a, congre ionalource aid.

The deal, ha tily patched together Tue day with the help of Rep.Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., came a the Bahama ordered the twoplayer to leave the country by Wedne day. The player, pitcherOrlando Hernandez and catcher Alberto Hernandez, who i no rela-tion, were granted "humanitarian parole" by the tate Department lastweek along with oris 80. ch, the pitcher' girlfriend. That tatuallows them to enter the United tate and eek eventual penn anentre idence here. 80 ch took up the offer and flew to Miami onMonday.

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ting more people on the Titani ,"aid en. Phil Gramm, R-Te a ,

chairman of the Finan eommittee' ubcommittee on

health.But the more circum pect

re pon e of enate FinanceCommittee hairman William V.Roth Jr., R-Del., ugge ted that thepolitical popularity of the plan in anelection year may make it difficultfor the Republican to di mi it outof hand. Roth aid only that Clintonhad highlighted an important healthcare i sue and that he is eager to eemore detail .

Admini tration official contendthat the new propo a/ would not addignificantly to Medicare' co t

becau e the new enrollee wouldpay premium that would covertheir co ts over time.

required to pay a premium of rough-ly 300 a month, and for those whoinvoluntarily 10 e their job the tabwould be 400. In part becau e ofthe co ts, the admini tration e ti-

. mates that only about 300,000 of themillion who would be eligible willactually take advantage of the offer.

A eparate component of theproposal would target people whoretired early but were left unin uredwhen employers reneged on promi -es to provide them health insurance.

Prominent Republicans andmany bu ine s leaders immediatelycriticized Tuesday' Medicare ini-tiative as fiscally imprudent at atime when the long-term olvencyof the entire Medicare ystem i injeopardy.

"When your mother is on theT.itanic and it' sinking, your fir tpreoccupation ought not to be get-

Rep. onny Bono, R- lif., the ygoing h If of th onny ndCher inging duo ho e olved intoan acti i t mayor nd re p tedcongre m n, killed in thimountain re ort onday afternoonwhen he lammed into a tt e afterkiing off an intermedi te lop for

a 010 run through the pin .Bono' wift death - a coro-

ner' report aid h died immediat -Iy of ma i e blunt trauma -re embled the ac ident that kil edMichael Kenn dy, the 39-year-oldon of the late en. Robert F.

Kennedy as he played football withfamily member on Dec. 31 alongan intermediate-level slope inA pen, 010.

Douglas County heriff RonPierini said Tue day that Bono, anavid and experienced skier, died

Pre ident Clinton Tuesday pro-posed the large t ex pan ion of

1 Medicare in a quarter century, offer-ing early retirees at age 62 and dis-placed workers a young a 55 theopportunity to buy coverage underthe government's health care pro-gram for the elderJy.

The plan, which must beapproved by Congre s, is designedto make health insurance availableto millions of potential retirees age62 up to 65 and another 700,000dislocated workers 55 and olderwho either can't afford or lackacce to comprehensive healthcare.

In order to receive the Medicarebenefits, the early retiree would be

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Pushing the Limits of Science and TechnologyTimes be t eHer? In Hove' own word, "tomo t American ,bit are thing that come inorange juice. ' There i no rea on why ub-tantive publications concerning technology

and ociety must be e oteric and under tand-able by only the technical elite found atin titution like MIT.

Hove' column would have been anenlightening and worthwhile read if he hadprovided thought-provoking and intelligentcritici m of egroponte' unconventionalidea regarding the future. Rather than pro-vide scientific evidence which challenged theman' prediction of innovation like paper-thin, flexible, lightweight, waterproof elec-tronic di play , or philo ophical crupleswhich attacked hi predilection towards a dig-itaJJy-enhanced ociety, Hove in tead tookhallow pot- hot at i olated entence penned

by egroponte.As an example, Hove cho e to facetiou -

ly mock the quote" ations today are thewrong size" by attributing it to be antipathytowards cartographer. Hove should haveinstead critiqued the meaning behind

egroponte's word, which are a predictionthat global digital network will generatecommunitie which defy phy ical bound-arie and that telecommuting will eliminatethe need for people to function in citie andother product of the industrial age. Manypundit ha e already debated the likeliho dof thi phenomenon and it po itive and neg-ative ramification. Hove, on the other hand,flout egroponte en e of humor but doenot even attempt a tete-a-tete with hibelief: .

How utterly ironic that Hove, after criticiz-ing egroponte' tyle but not hi idea cho eto end hi column with the tatement that fluffby any other name i till fluff.

Jonathan Daks i a graduat stud nt inMedia Art and ci nee.

In his 1995 book)i ital) e ropont u es anxample from tar War toplain holographic video) and

u a ki lift analogy to explainthe conapt of bandwidth ...There is no reason whyubstantiv publications

concernln technology andociety mu t be esoteric and

und r tandable by only thetechnical lite found atinstitutions like MIT

Gue t ColumnJohn Daks

In hi column in the la t i ue of The Tech[ egroponte' acky Columns Embarra sMIT," Dec. 9, 1997], Ander Hove G criti-cize Profe or of Media Technology

i hol P. egroponte. Ho e' column con-demn egroponte' e ay in Wired maga-zin a " oofy,'" fluff," and 'total in anity,"yet he fail to critique or even tate any of

groponte' belief: regarding the future oftechnology and ociety. In tead, Hove choo -e to in ult egroponte's idio yncratic styleof writing and mo k e cerpts of his monthlycolumn out of context.

Admitt dIy, egroponte wntmg areunu u I and off-beat. He often intertwinehi kno Ide of American pop ulture, for-

i n ultur nd Internet ulture, butalway ith a point in mind. In hi 1995book, Bing Digital, egroponte u e ane mpl from tar War to explain holo-graphic video, and u e a ki lift analogy to

plain the concept of bandwidth. A ar. ult h i able to write about te hnology ina manner which appeal to both the readerof 'Dilbert" and the r ader of"Doone bury. 'How I e ould a bookwhi h e pi in AD L (A ymmetri alDi ital ubs riber Lop) technology, di -cu e the merit and drawba k of fiberver u twi ted pair and de ribe the originof word like "pixel" become a w York

The Media LAb is a hotbed for.new and inter~ting ideas.

The lab encouragesengineers to think

freely about how touse their skills to build a

beruft.eialsystem.Just because a system does notseem to begood for society does

not mean it should not bepursued.

doe the Media Lab do for the In titute com-munity as a whole?" Let me an wer: TheMedia Lab i a hotbed for new and intere t-ing idea. The lab encourages engineer tothink freely about how to u e their kill tobuild a beneficial y tern. Ju t becau e a y-tern doe not eem to be good for ocietydoe not mean it hould not be pur ued.

on ider the ca e of Dolly, the genetically-cloned heep. Genetic cloning i controver-ial, but doe that mean that no one hould

look into the cience behind it? It i for oci-ety to debate whether it i good to cloneheep, or whether to rig everyone with a

computer for that matter.MIT tudent should not di mi Media

Lab UROPs a "cushy." In my UROP Ilearned about how to expand my mind, toconstantly try different thing and ask "Whatin" que tions. I have been given free reign toexplore many different way of building andde igning my project. At the Media Lab, myide are not hot down right away. In tead,the lab empower me to how that they canwork - I can and do influence the directionof projects. I have been given a lot of respon-ibility for en uring that the project I'm

involved in get done.Before MIT student condemn the Media

Lab or a k that it be split from MIT, theyy tern to help the blind i fluff or u ele s should fir t take an hone t look at what the

re earch. Media Lab stand for and what it doe .Tactile wearables represent ju toneexample of a project that i beneficial to tereotype are the bullet of the unknowing.ociety. Even the more controver ial or In howing only a minute fraction of whateemingly u ele project do in fact have a the Media Lab i about, the columns by

real benefit; they push the limit of techno 10- Hove, Heimburger and Alt chul have donegy and bring idea for new y tern and way inju tice to all tho e who tire, weat, andof doing thing. orne team are doing work to do good thing for the world at theremarkable thing with peech and pattern Media Lab.recogmtlon. Sevgi Ertan is a member oj the lass oj

I his column }{eimbur&-er .asks,:' hl\J .. 199 . .. _ ., .. .

'military is interested in using tactile wearablefor pilot-orientation problem and night oper~ations. When the donor came last October tolook at the projects, many other useful ideafor tactile communications came up. By theend of the spring term we hope to have aworking blind navigati n ystem built. I don'tthink anyone could argue that trying to build a

Leaving home the econd time iharder than lea ing th fir t tim. 0 I di

ered after my twovacation in C liforniduring the int rbreak. omehow thbutterfl ie in on 'tomach fly a littl bit

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I believe there are three typeof language in the world: tho ethat are poken, tho e that arewritten, and tho e that are felt.And while poken language can bebe put into written languag andvice ver a, the language offeeling, though universal,can rarely be tran lated toeither. Thu it is hard toexplain why 1 feel theway I do.

Perhap the first timeI left home I had a mi -ion to e plore a new fron-

tier: to ee how an ea t coa tcity like Boston compared toCalifornia, to ee how the architec-tural style differed, how much louderor softer the fan cheered for their bas-ketball and football teams, or how muchmore citizens participated in city elections.Thi exploratory bent wasn't there the econdtime I left home. ot to mention that I al 0

knew what I wa missing by the second time Ireturned home.

"Sweet memQries are the paradise of themind," read the mes age in a fortune cookie Ipicked up at dinner not too long ago aftercoming back to Cambridge. Rarely are fortunecookie very accurate or timely in their state-ments. The previous one I received employeda slightly incisive tone, reading, "Everyonethinks you are the be t." In contra t, this mes-sage really hit it home. In my paradise, I goflower to flower through he garden as pright-Iy butterfly, picking and stowing them awayin memory's basket.

The fortune cookie I cracked open remind-ed me of an Ernest Dowson poem I once readas a child and committed to memory:

Vitae Summae Brevis Spem Nos Vetat'

Guest ColumnSevgi Ertan

In the Dec. 9, 1997 issue of The Tech,Brett Altschul '99 ["Other-worldly Media LabDoesn't Amount to Much"], Douglas E.Heimburger '00 ["Smok and Mirrors"], andAnders Hove G [CO egroponte' s WackyColumns Embarra s MIT'] all seem to cometo the same conclusion about the MediaLaboratory: that it is nothing but fluff andcontributes nothing to the MIT community. Idisagree with thi conclusion. Rather than talkin generalities as the opinion writers have,however, I would like to offer my personalexperience as testimony.

Last summer I wa looking for a UROP.I'd heard a lot about the Media Lab. Most of itwas negative and aid the lab had done littlereal research. I sought out and obtained aMedia Lab UROP just to see what it was likeand I discovered that it was not at all like whatI had heard about.

The Media Lab doe not do much conven-tional research into fundamental physicalprinciples. Instead it pushe the limits of exist-ing technology. There were orne projects thatdid seem a bit wacky to me at fir t, and Icould not see the point in pursuing them. Forexample, I don't buy the idea that givingeveryone a little televi ion screen and wear-able computer worn con tantly like a watchwould be a positive thing. The high profile,wacky projects attract intere t becau e of theireccentricity. Many project are not like this,though, and are u eful.

I am mostly familiar with my own group,o I will only comment on our work. I work in

the Perceptual Computing division with tactilewearable. y work pecifically focu e ondeveloping tactile communication schemethat could be u ed for blind navigation. The

Directed by Sleven Spielberg.Written by David Franzoni.tarring Morgan Freeman, Djimon Hounsou,

Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey,and Nigel Hawthorne

link between m rican id ology nd hi tory,i imultaneou Iy engro ing, hocking, ndbli fully non-ob iou (unlike orne r c ntmovi , uch Ro ewood, that tried toe plore the ame topic ). ting i cell nt

ro the board ith the po ible ceptionbeing organ Freeman, ho ha one pro-found cene early in the movie, but practicallydi appear after that.

Technical a pect are imilarly well pol-i hed: John William provide a ingularlynon- illi m ian (read: ubtle) core, editingi top-not h, and cinematography i a unu u-al a it i effective.

o t unexpected for me wa the majorcomic element: the Afri an' truggle tounder tand the alien orld. Their arca ticcomment to each other are frequently funny,nd Anthony Hopkins somehow manage to

make hi John Quincy Adam (who came outfrom retirement to be the lave' legal advi-or) to be imultaneou Iy heroic, enile, and

comical.Oh ye , "Ami t d" i pan ish for

"Friend hip". Life create all the be t plot .

ence: there re long leg I p eche , multipI- albeit entertaining - courtroom c ne ,

nd compI metaphor (mo t of hich arept nd in pired, nd v n tho e that don't

work, like th omp ri on of the frican'plight to that of J u, pro ide enough materi-al for orne arr ting im ge ). Thi i trongmateri 1, but the emotional imp ct often feeldiluted.

Ami tad i 1 0 not good a fle hingout the character th t we hould feel ympa-thetic for. By the end of chindler's Lisl allthe Je i h characters were clearly definedand di tinct character . I till remember morethan a dozen of them, although I haven'teen the movie for three year . I aw Amistad

three hour ago and already I the characterare beginning to blend together. Thi i e pe-cially the ca e with the slave, which don'teem to have been well di tingui hed, with

the important e cejHion of OJ imonHounsou's Cinque.

While the e Ie en the impact of the movieomewhat, Amistad remain an e cellent piece

of work. There's an extended fla hback in thevery middle of the movie, when Cinquerelate the whole mechani m of lave trade,that i brutally effective - I e pect to havenightmare of it in the day to come.

The story it elf, which in. the end u e theAmi tad ca e a a pringboard to ponder the

h. toryfo h.

th t f; II omewhat hort of hi 1993 dr mahindler's Li I.Let' get the probl m out of the way

fir t, ince they are ea y to pot and Ii 1.The film tart with a cinematically electri-fying equ nee d picting the lave rebellionon board of the mi tad, but after thateem to wander aimle Iy for the next half

hour or 0 while trying to find it tone.Eventually Amistad decide to become acia ical courtroom drama. It i compelling,but it certainly doe not rank among thebe t (it' mighty hard to top Twelve AngryMen). In addition the move put Amistadquarely in the middle of thi overused

genre turf, a trap that chindler's List man-aged to avoid.

chindler' List e celled a a piece of apowerfully vi cer I narrative and wa fullyen aging emotionally. Amistad. on the otherhand, i much more of an intellectual experi-

n I 32, the frican lave aboard of thehip La Amislad break their chains, mur-

der their captor, and ail back and forthacro the tlantic for two month before

landing on the coa t of Conne ticut, wherethey are captured. They immediately b comethe cent r of a tempe tuou legal, moral, andphilo ophical truggle. The tate want to trythem for murder; the pani h monarchy wantthem returned (the Amislad was a pani hhip); the people who captured the lave

claim alvage right; and two of the urvivingcrew want their property re tored to them. Theen uing legal battle draw in lawyer, aboli-tioni t , slavery advocate ,head of tate fromthe United tate and pain, and, mo t impor-tantly, the frican them elve. teven

pielberg take thi p IIbinding tory andmake it into an excellent movie, although one

Spielberg tu to alate t tria -of life epic

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Speed, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, shows at LSC Friday night at 7 and 10 p.m. In 26-100, and again Sundaynight at 7 p.m.

and a half minutes long. He recited MoosesCome Walking, a poem he wrote about howthe creatures are moving into his we ternMa achu ett homestead, and how happy hewa to find out that moo es i correct. Andhi encore cover of teve Goodman's TheCity of New Orleans brought a tear to theeye.

Talking about Woodstock as a first handparticipant, discussing memory lapses fromthe drugs, and porting long hair and a goatee,Arlo remains a vintage hippie, a title he ismost proud of it. "I'm not real smart," he toldthe audience. Anyone who saw him singingand telling stories without missing a beat orpausing a moment would most likely disagree,and would certainly testify to the life Arlo stillhas left in him.

Arlo often blurred the line between hisinging and hi tory telling. He explained"The Motorcycle ong" a a moment-of-truth vi ion he aw wntten acro s the sky inthe split econd following an accident he hadon his bike. "Ring-Around-A-Ro y Rag," hee plained, wa in pired by a heavily intoxi-cated trip to the park with hi friends."Alice' Re taurant" was impeccably done,and had additional material describing howhe ha first hand knowledge that ixonowned an opened copy of Alice's Restaurant,and that the original version was eighteen

be t Bob Dylan impre sion he could. extday Arlo wa called into the "Big Office,"where a bunch of uits were itting around alarge wooden table with a lone audio ca etteon it.

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o Arlo went and gave the tape to Dylan'people. few day later he got a call fromBob him elf, who aid," rIo, when myrecord come out will you do a promo forme?"

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" rlo Guthrie? I thought he wa dead."That' how Arlo introduced him elf at the

House of Blues last December during hithree-night stay in Cambridge. By the end ofthe night, he had proven he wa mo t certainlystill living.

For tho e unfamiliar with rIo, hi careerwa launched in 1967 when the then 20-year-old folk singer relea ed what wa to becomehi ignature song," lice's Re taurant

a acre," in which he cut on mall town lawenforcement and Vietnam, two topic that thepublic appreciated, e pecially in Guthrie'sunique tory telling style.

That tyle, with flawless timing and ju tenough humor, ha kept them coming formore ever ince. La t ummer Arlo emceedthe Further Fe tival, a Grateful Dead tributeconcert, and when he returned to Bo ton la tmonth, he hadn't mi ed a beat.

Backed by hi son on ynthe izer, rlopent a few hour entertaining the packed

crowd on guitar, harmonica, keyboard, andeven a bit of ukulele toward the end. But itwa the torie about hi life were what madethe how truly compelling and richly enter-taining.

In one tory he de cribed how he hadbeen doing orne charity work a few yearago, making round in a ho pital with hisguitar and a friend. At one point, hi frienda ked one of the patient if there wa any-thing he could do for him; he aid he hadalway been a fan of Arlo Guthrie and wouldreally like to meet him. After telling thepatient to clo e hi eye. he nearly died whenhe opened them to find rlo tanding beforehim.

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guy became enraged, tormed out, and leftArlo to do it himself. Stepping up to the chal-lenge, he put on the headphone and did the

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Radiation e po ure 1 el 10The work primarily invol ed

inge tion of radioactive iron andcal ium tracer with farina and oat-meal. A third e periment al 0

involved the injection of minuteamount of radioactive calcium.

Although children were expo edto radiation, all level of expo urewere lower than the tandard u edthe time a well a today's moretringent guideline .

The highe t expo ure for anyingle youth involved in the xperi-

mentation wa 330 millirem , Iethan the yearly background radia-tion in Denver.

"MIT's position all along hasbeen that none of these" experi-ments involved a large enough doseof radiation to harm ubjects, Lit teraid. However he regretted thatroper procedure for consent werelot followed, Litster said.

Institute. apologizes early in caseAfter reading accounts of radia-

.tion experiments by MIT in TheBoston Globe, Pre ident Charles M.Vest apologized for the Institute'sinvolvement in those experiments.

Plaintiffs however still harborresentment about what was done tothem 50 years ago. "The fact of thematter i that they used these kids asguinea pigs," Mattchen said. Theactions of the re earchers "violate

uremberg" and "rules of decentsociety," he said. "They were bla-

ituation ," Bat aid, dding th t itwa important to maintain con i -tency between the incident . 'ha e our pr liminary in e tiga-tion ... but we need to bring thingtogeth r."

Di cu ion about the futuralcohol policie of th In titute willlikely begin again ithin the ne tweek, Bate aid.

P in e tig te medic I in id ntWhen there i e idence of ill -

gal underage drinking, uch a i.the in ident at Theta Chi and

igma Phi Epsilon, the CampuPoli e ometime work with theDean' Office in determiningwhether to file criminal charge orto deal with the matt r through

IT' internal di ciplinary y tern,Glavin aid. 'It' not etched instone."

When the tudent involved in.theig Ep incident wa transported to

the edical Center, the CampuPolice conducted an investigationbecau e of evidence that" omethingabove and beyond the [need for]medical tran port" wa involved inthe incident.

Only a few police departmentsoperate their own ambulance ser-vice, a the Campu Police do, butmo t police departments regularlyend cruisers to check for illegal

activity when an ambulance i entto a location for medical rea on ,Glavin aid.

"If we get a medical call th.omeone had overdosed on drug

and we respond and find a wilddrug party on campus we'd obvi-ously deal with that medical emer-gency," Glavin said, "but we're stilldealing with illegal activity andthen we have to conduct an investi-gation."

However, uch checks may notbe made public knowledge, "Wework hard to protect an individual'sname. We've certainly done that,"Glavin aid.

wh th r Kru ger drank oluntarilyor if he w forc d to drink duringhazing incident.

The grand jury has been meetingine early ovember. Ho ever the

jury m y not meet every day nde n b called back to he r additionale idence a time goe by, aid

uffolk Univer ity Law Profe orarc P rlin.

o h rg in oth r incidenteanwhile, the Bo ton Police

and the uffolk CountyPro ecutor' Office ha e decidednot to pro ecute anyone in the othertwo incident of underage drinkingat M IT fratemitie during the fallsemester.

There are no investigations intoeither" the incident at igma PhiEp ilon in early December or theincident at Theta Chi in ovember,aid David Falcone, a poke person

for Di trict Attorney Ralph Martin."There' nothing turned over to thioffice" by the Bo ton Police, headded.

The 80 ton Police ha conducted"no inve tigation into the e inci-dent," aid arah Witherell, apoke per on for the Bo ton Police

department.The ampu Police have fin-

i hed their internal investigationinto the matter, aid Chief Anne P.Glavin who declined to commenton what action MIT will take.

Officials in the Office of theDean for tudent andUndergraduate Education wereunable to provide any informationon the statu of the overall inve ti-gation of the incidents.

"Both students and administra-tors have been in and out" as a

.result of final exams and the holidaybreak, causing the inve tigation toslow, said Dean for Student LifeMargaret R. Bates.

"Over the next week or so we'llbe looking at [the incident] careful-ly and also how to re pond to the

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'G n r lIy [re ident ] were lit-tle bit urpri ed but no one' tooup et or ngry about it," aid

ichelle Girvan '99, -entry chair." orne people re ctually lookingforward to having tw'o new p oplein the entry." -entry plan to u eit' ' lea t-u ed entry to hou e it newfre hmen.

tigation ontinueeanwhile, a uffolk County

grand jury continues it inve tiga-tion into the alcohol-induced deathof Krueger at Fiji in eptember .

Last month, Appeals CourtJudge Mel Greenberg threw out anorder requiring Fiji trea urer Daniel

. A. Hermann '99 to turn over the fra-ternity's financial record datingback to 1990.

Hermann' attorney, Alan M.piro, argued uccessfully that

Hermann wa not obligated to turnover the records becau e of hiconstitutional protection again telf-incrimination. Hermann wa

not a pccitic target of the probe,aid uffolk County As i tant

District Attorney PamelaWech ler.

At an earlier court hearing,Wech ler said it wa unclear

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