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With Its many accessible computing resources, Mil was namedmost wired school by Yahoo Internet Ufe.

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acce to 'onlin gaming, chat , anddate" a well a holding themedmulti-u er domain se ion.

Perhap more urprising thanMIT winning fir t place wa third-place Emer on, a liberal art col-lege, be ting many engineeringschools. Emer on boasted a highrate of tudent computer owner hipand a lot of ociallnternet usage.

But what really set Emersonapart was its high rate of Internetuse in academics, the magazinesaid. Seventy percent of cour e uti-lized Web resources in teaching,and more than half allow tudents toacce information online.

On the other hand, tan ford suf-fered in the ranking because of lowreported use of the Internet by cia s-es. Le than five percent of cia esreported to use Web resources at all.

Complete survey results can befound at http://www.zdnet.com-

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Cambridge,

th ranking.The urvey put too much empha-

si on having cour e-oriented WorldWide Web page, which mayormay not be u eful, and too littleempha i on access to the Internet,said Harvard Dean Harry R. Lewiin The Harvard Crimson.

The survey addres ed 35 factorsdivided into four categories: tudentservice ,hardware and wiring, acad-emics, and ocial po ibilitie.

Part of the reason that M ITscored high was that 80 percent ofstudent owned their own comput-er . In addition, it had a 1-1 "port topillow" ratio, meaning that therewas an ethernet port for every resi-dent student. MIT also offeredunlimited Web access, automatic e-mail accounts, space on a Web serv-er to house home pages, access tolibraries, and online homework.

In addition, MIT wa praised forits online registr~tion system and

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All tho e hour spent by MITstudent logged on finally paid off.Yahoo Internet Lift magazine rankedMIT fir t among the nation's mo twired colleges in it May i sue.

orthwestern University,Emerson College, Ren elaerPolytechnic In titute, and DartmouthCollege rounded out the top five.

Harvard University finished64th, the California Institute ofTechnology placed 25th, andStanford Univer ity came in 84th.

"We are pleasantly surprised bythe ranking," said Director ofAcademic Computing Vijay Kumar."As a general tatement, it can't befar from the truth." However, "wedon't know about the accuracy ofthe data."

Displeased with their low rank-ing, computing officials at Harvardhave also questioned the validity of

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Weinberg to ReceiveTop Science Honor

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By May K. TseASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Last week, s.everal MIT facultymembers were recognized for theirscientific contributions. OnWednesday~ Professor of BiologyRobert A. Weinberg '64 was namedas one of nine recipients of theprestigious National Medal ofScience.

In addition, three professorswere elected to the National

. Academy of Science.Weinberg is the 19th National

Medal of Science winner from MIT.Robert 1. Birgeneau, dean of the

School of Science, said that themedal recognized people for long-term discoveries, as opposed to theNobel Prize, which recognizes onlya specific contribution. "The

:ational Medal of Science is for an

interval over one's career ratherthan one contribution. The obelPrize is usually for one great discov.ery."

Weinberg said that he was sur-prised to be named as a recipient ofthe medal. "I hadn't the vaguestidea that they were thinking of mein this context," Weinberg said, "Ididn't conceive of it; it's justbeyond my imagination."

Weinberg is a n<?ted cancerresearcher and has spent 15 yearsst~dying the origin of cancer. Healso led the way toward the discov-ery of the retinoblastoma gene. "It'sa rare tumor of the eye, but bystudying it, one can learn aboutmany different kinds of tumors," hesaid.

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By Dan McGuireNEWSED1TOR

The Undergraduate Associationis gearing up for the third LoganAirport Shuttle at the end of the.school year. This spring's shuttle,which will run from Wednesday,May 21 to Saturday, May 24, isintended to be a real test of the air-port shuttle concept, said Dedric A.Carter '98, UA president.

In previous years, ridership fig-ures were tainted by technical issuesand publicity problems, making itdifficult to figure out whether theairport shuttle, as a concept, wasworkable. "Last time, we did theLogan shuttle as kind of a lastminute thing," he said. "We tried topublicize, and it didn't get outthere." Nevertheless, "I was reallyplease{f. ... We got a decent

turnout."Thi year, however, little is

being left to chance. "This spring,we decided to do it right," he said."We're trying to get as many peopleto ride it as possible. At the end ofthe spring, we're going to takeanother look at it. '.'

This year, the UA wants to get"hard and fast statistics" and bringthem before the UA Council todebate the merits of the shuttle, hesaid.

More shuttle stops addedIn order to get those stati tics,

the UA is working hard to promotethe Logan Airport Shuttle and ischanging it to make it more conve-nient. The shuttle will run everyhour and a half between 6:00 a.m.and 4:30 p.m. from the Wednesday

of finals week to the Saturday afterfinal . The huttle ha expanded thenumber of stop it will make. It willnow stop at East Campus,McCormick Hall, and between NextHouse and ew House. Last fall,the shuttle only stopped atMcCormick.

A Boston stop was consideredand then rejected, Carter said. "Wewere hoping to get a stop in Boston,but we could not come up with astop that was fair, equitable, andlegal as far as traffic was con-cerned."

Time also played a role in thedecision not to stop in Boston, saidNatalie Tal ~99, Burton-ConnerHouse's UA representative. "Wewanted to have the shuttle run every

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machines over the Internet. Verserhas agreed to share $4,000 of the$10,000 prize to the individualwhose machine finds the actualkey.

MIT machines tested over 6 mil-lion million keys Sunday, putting itin fifth place behind the University

By Frank DabekASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Students and faculty at MIT arebecoming increasingly active in anInternet-wide effort to break the56-bit Data Encryption Standardalgorithm, an encryption methodcommonly used by the governmentand the private sector to protectsensitive information. RSALaboratories is offering $10,000 tothe first person who obtains thecorrect key.

MIT computers are working withcomputers from hundreds of otheruniversities and businesses across thenation in several brute-force attemptsto crack the encryption system,which was created by RSA. The net-works of computers are trying eachof the 72,057,594,037,927,936 possi-ble keys to find a match.

An informal rivalry has alsodeveloped, as'different univer itiesattempt to determine who can testthe mo t keys each day.

As of Sunday, 226 machines inthe mit.edu domain were contribut-ing to one effort, organized byRocke Verser at http://wwwfrii-.com/-rcv/deschall.htm, to link

GABOR CSANYI-THE TECH

The new group MITCAN, dedicated to presenting the traditional music and dance of Africa, willperform In Kresge Auditorium on Thursday at 8 p.m.

that the American jury system,despite a massive amount of public-ity, is still willing to listen to theevidence, follow the law, and thatsmoking is a matter of choice," saidPaul Crist of Cleveland's Jones,Day, Reavis & Pogue, who earlierprevailed in similar cases inTennessee and Illinois.

. In his closing argument, Cri tasserted that Connor had madevoluntary decision to smoke ndaware of the possible risks - anargument that has proved most uc-cessful for the cigarette injury inpersonal injury lawsuits.

Daniel Donahue, RJR's sen orvice president and deputy gen ralcounsel, said the verdict sho ~dthat "jurors understand that erisks of the use of this pr aucthave been well-known for d cades,if not centur~es," and t t "oursociety has made the licy deci-sion that against the ackdrop ofthose known risks,hese are prod-ucts which peop~e ought to beallowed the opportunity to pur-chase."

Two of the plaintiffs' lawyersand oth r tobacco foes, includingJohn arrison, chief executive ofthe merican Lung Association,sai they saw the verdict as a tem-po ry setback. They also stressedtll t the massive suits filed by thestat attorneys general. that lead tothe current settlement neg tiationsare based on different legal th ...oriesthan those in the Connor case.

"Don't forget, I lost my first twoasbestos cases and you know whathappened after that," said Ronald L.Motley of Charleston, S.c., refer-ring to the fact that he had subse-quently WDn numerous multimil-lion-dollar verdicts against asbestoscompanies.

. . Row were fre dafter TeaRanger arranged the reI a ofanother Republic of Texa member,Robert cheidt, who had beenpicked up by local deputie thatmorning on mi demeanor weaponcharge.

But what cLaren and hi groupmo t wanted, they in i fed, was forofficial to agree to a referendum onthe i ue of whether Te a houldbe part of the United tates. TheRepublic of Te as movement isbased on a di puted claim thatTexas, then an independent country,wa illegally annexed into theUnion in 1845 by a joint resolutionof Congress rather than a treaty.

Terry O'Rourke, McLaren's, Houston-based attorney, said his

client believes he gained some mea-sure of victory with 8 provision inthe "international ceC\se-fire agree-ment" that would allow McLaren toargue his case in U.S. District Courtin Washington.

McLaren, 43, and his common-law wife, Evelyn, 50, along withfive other people, were indictedMonday on federal charges of con-spiracy, bank fraud, mail fraud, andaiding and abetting. The names ofthe five others were not releasedbecause they are not yet in custody,the Associated Press reported. Thecharges are in connection with thegroup's issuance of more than $i.8billion in bogus Republic of Texasfinancial documents that were usedto pay bills.

The state charges alone againstMcLaren could net him 99 years inprison. The federal charges carry amaximum penalty of 725 years inprison and $24.25 million in fines.

ed immediat Iy after th dogs wentto work about .m., a ording toJo chweikhard 0, a DPpoke woman. everal of the dog

ran traight to a bu h within a mile'di tance from the group' headquar-ter and gave the alert ignal, heaid. The two men, apparently hid-

ing together in a bunker near thebu h, fired at the dog , woundingone eriously in the che t and hittinganother in the foreleg. Another dogapparently i mi sing, Moss said.Their human handler were wearingbulletproof vest .

Then, hortly before 2 p.m., hesaid, there was more gunfire as thedog again homed in on their target."Once the suspects tarted hooting... the helicopter crew overhead andthe earchers shot back," she said,adding it was unclear who had firedthe fatal shot.

Moss said the two men, whocontrary to earlier reports hadremained together, were dressed incamouflage clothing. They wereequipped with several high-pow-ered weapons, including a .30-30deer rifle, a semiautomatic mili-tary-style rifle and a 9mm hand-gun.

Of the two, only Keyes hadcharges pending against him. Hewas wanted on state charges oforganized crimina activity and kid-napping in connection with theApril 27 kidnapping that sparkedthe standoff. Acting on apparentorders from McLaren, he and Greggand Karen Paulson, a married cou-ple who belonged to the group, shottheir way into a neighborhood cou-ple's home, holding them as "pris-oners of waf' for 12 hours. Joe and

tobacco indul;itry" and will encour-age settlement, said Gary Black ofSanford C. Bernstein & Co., one pfthe nation's leading tobacco ana-lysts who had followed progress ofthe case closely.

"It helps settlement immensely,"said Black, because if Connor'sheirs had won a big punitive dam-age award, it would have been"almost politically impossible forthe anti-tobacco crowd to bless"any settlem.ent in which the indus-try was given any immunity fromfuture liability, a demand industrylawyers have been making iit nego-tiations.

Similar sentiments were made bya Boston law professor who is ashostile to the tobacco industry asBlack is sympathetic. "I think theverdict is obviously going to be use-ful as a way of selling whatever thenegotiators agree. to," said RichardDaynard, co-director of the TobaccoProducts Liability Project atNortheastern University. "If it cameout the other way, the negotiatorswould have had a hard time sellinganything."

Two RJR lawyers hailed the ver-dict in the case which had beenclosely watched, in part because oneof the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs,Woody Wilner, had won a $750,000product liability judgment againstBrown & Williamson TobaccoCorp. in Jacksonville last August,on behalf of smoker Grady Carter,who had lung cancer.

That verdict is on appeal and sofar the tobacco industry has yet topayout a dime in damages in morethan three decades of litigation.Reynolds also won another productliability case in Indiana in the inter-im.

"I think that this again tells us

One of two Republic of Texamember who fled into the moun-tain after refu ing to urrenderalong with hi comrade aturdaydied in a gun battle Monday withtate police.

Official aid police and earchdog had cornered the econd man,who is also pre umed armed, but asof Monday evening he wa till atlarge.

The identity of the dead man wasnot immediately released. RichardF. Keye III, 21, and Mike Matson,4 ,had lipped away from thegroup's isolated headquarter inWest Texas on aturday afternoona Texa Ranger were settling thela t details of a urrender agreementwith leader Richard McLaren andthree other to end the week-longtandoff. Authorities, who were

focu ed on negotiations withMcLaren, said they watched themen flee and decided at that sensi-tive moment to let them go.

It wa not until Monday, howev-er, that official felt safe enough toallow about 30 bloodhounds fromthe Texas Department of CriminalJu tice with their handlers to beginno ing through the rugged terrain.On unday, Mike Cox, aspokesman for the TexasDepartment of Public Safety,described the group's headquartersand surrounding area as an armedfortress with a dozen gasolinetanks, as many as 60 pipe bombs,eight stocked bunkers and numer-ous tripwires.

Monday's developments unfold-

By Henry WeinsteinLOS ANGELES TIMES

In Major Victory for Tobacco,R.J. Reynolds Wms Lawsuit

In a major victory for the tobac-co industry, a jury in Jacksonville,Fla., on .Monday found R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Co. not liable forthe lung-cancer death of JeanConnor, a lifelong smoker.

The six member jury - whichincluded a smoker and three for-mer smokers - concluded thatcigarettes manufactured by RJR,the nation's second largest ciga-rette company, were not "unrea-sonably dangerous and defective"and did not cause the death ofConnor, who died two years ago atage 49.

Reynolds' win came after astring of bad news for the $50 bil-lion-a-year industry, includingnumerous leaks of damaging docu-ments, mounting litigation againstthe industry and a landmark courtdecision by a orth Carolina federalcourt judge that the Food and DrugAdministration has the right to regu-late tobacco.

The victory also came as nego-tiators for the industry and represen-

.tatives of 25 state attorneys generalresumed talks in Dallas Monday,aimed at settling massive lawsuits inwhich states are seeking compensa-tion for money expended treatingsick smokers.

Most analysts said theJacksonville case came at an impor-tant moment for the industry andwas likely to increase the prospectsof a negotiated settlement.

In addition, tobacco stocks shotup after the verdict was announced.RJR abisco Holdings soared 3 1/8to close at 32 5/8 and Philip Morris,the nation's largest cigarette maker,skyrocketed 4 1/8 to 44 1/8.

"It's a fabulous day for the

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Same Old, Same OldBy Gerard RoeSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

Rally in tocks Pushes Dow,Other Indexes to Record Highs

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Talks between orth and outh Korean Red Cro official brokeoff Monday without agreement on the amount of food aid or condi-tion for delivering it from the outh to the hungry orth.

The two sides could meet again within 10 day ,negotiator aid.But for now they are deadlocked over three outh Korean propo als:that food package be identified a gift from the outh, that outhKoreans be allowed into the orth to monitor di tribution and thathipments move directly to the orth overland through the town of

Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on the 1953 cease-fire line.The talk here are unu ual becau e they are the fir t direct talks in

five year between orth and South Korean Red Cro official.Diplomat are watching the talk clo ely for indications of how des-perate orth Korea is for food a i tance and how orth Korean offi-cial might deal with outh Koreans generally as the United tatesand China attempt to pu h the two sides into direct peace talk in

ew York. orth Korea has said it will join the talk only if itreceives guarantee of food aid and an ea ing of trade sanctions. Aenior orth Korean official who recently defected to the South

warned that the orth Korean leader hip is ready to go to war withthe South if it doe not receive a sistance.

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The stock market soared to a record high Monday in a broad-based rally that surprised skeptics who just a month ago thought thetime had come for a long-dreaded, sustained downturn.

More than six years after it began, the bull market, a mea ured bythe Dow Jones industrial average, proved it still has a solid kick. TheDow shot up 143.29 points to c10 eat 7214.49.

Broader market averages al 0 enjoyed healthy gains for the day,which were all the more impressive coming on the heels of the week-long move up last week.

The Dow is up more than 7 percent in the past six days of trading,and the technology-rich asdaq composite index zoomed up 10.1percent over the same period.

"People had been waiting for a dip, for an opportunity to buy, butthey ju t aren't getting one," said James J. Maguire Jr., a specialist onthe floor of the ew York Stock Exchange who was swamped with"buy" orders in the final hour of trading.

The newfound enthusiasm for stocks was fueled by last week'sbenign inflation news, the balanced-budget agreement, the prospectof a cut in the capital-gains tax rate, the dramatic shrinkage in thisyear's federal deficit and solid first-quarter earnings.

The train of semi-weekly storms we have had for the last severalweeks shows no sign of abating yet, and the pattern is a familiar one:With a storm intensifying along the U.S.-Canadian border, there issome redevelopment at the coast, and the cold front swinging bybrings in precipitation.

Tuesday shows morning showers spreading in from the West,accompanied by strong southerly winds ahead of the cold front. Withan unstable atmosphere and good lifting associated with the system,we should see some isolated thunderstorms pushing through the areaduring the afternoon. Most of the rain will peter out during the night,leaving a cloudy start to Wednesday. The sun will try to peek outagain from behind the clouds during the rest of the day and most ofThursday, but yet another cyclone is looking to make its presence feltin the outlook, spreading rain again across the region on Friday.

Today: Morning showers with moderate to strong winds from thesouth. Chance of afternoon thunderstorms. Winds switching round towesterly after the passage of the front in the evening. High 57°F (14°C).

Tonight: Rain clearing from the west. Low 43°F (6°C).Wednesday: A mix of sun and clouds with winds out of the north-

west. Some scattered showers possible especially to the north as themoisture wraps around the storm. High 56°F (13°C). Low 43°F (6°C).

Thur day: Some sun early, then clouds later. High around 60°F(16°C). Low around 45°F (7°C).

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Budget Plan Sounds Impressive,Lacks Specifics on -Many Issues

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Oakland Schools Report DropsReference to 'Ebonies'

Butterflies Navigate by the SunIn making its astonishing, 2,400-mile seasonal trek acros orth

America, the monarch butterfly apparently practices a kill that ]l1anyweekend boaters and pilots can only wish they had: the ability to usethe sun as a compass.

Scientists demonstrated the insect's pecial talent in a studyreported in the M~y 1 issue of the journal ature. But to navigateproperly, the researcher say, the butterfly's own internal clock alsomust be on the correct setting.

University of Arizona biologist Sandra Perez and two colleagueskept butterflies in darkness for six hours to disorient them. Then thescientists released the monarchs to ee if the conflict between thesun's position and their biological clocks would cause confusion.

It did. The butterflies - their internal timing off by six hours -aligned their bodies with the afternoon sun and flew west-northwest,instead of their normal south-southwest migration route.

"The monarch butterfly thu joins the small group of species forwhich a sun compass orientation mechanism has been demonstratedexperimentally," Perez said. Researchers still don't know exactlyhow the butterflies do this.

Even more impressive is the insect's ability to stay on course dur-ing overcast days, Perez said.

The Oakland schools task force that six months ago declared thepeech patterns of orne black students a separate language has i sued

a new report that doe not use the term "ebonic ."The new document, to be presented to the Oakland Board of

Education on Wedne day, omits pa t suggestions that teachers betrain d to peak black English and that the school district considerapplying for federal bilingual education funds for black tudents.

What it doe propo e is a comprehen ive but conventional seriesof moves to improve the educational achievement of the black major-ity in the 52,000-student district.

"I think they're trying to avoid being a media spectacle again,"said Jean Quan, the president of the Oakland Board of Education.

But she aid the district is not backing down from its originalintent of helping improve tudent achievement by recognizing lin-guistic differences. ,

'Our kid don't speak tandard English and we want to respect theculture they bring from home and want to u e it to help them speakstandard Engli h," Quan said. "Whatever you call it, many of ourchildren from our poore t neighborhoods don't speak standardEngli h."

The resolution adopted in December directed OaklandSuperintendent Carolyn Getridge to work with the task force to comeup with policie and programs to improve the performance of blackstudents. That proce ,in turn, gave the task force the opportunity totone down its rhetoric.

Getridge's cover letter on the new recommendation states that "itis the combination of rigorous, high quality educational programs,family and community support and consistent monitoring and evalua-tion that will make significant and mea urable improvements in theachievement of African American students."

WS ANGELES TIMES

The source said that outhAfrican official are working out thefinal detail of an agreement inwhich Mobutu will leave officees entiaJly in exchange for a pledgeby Kabila' rebel to enter Kin ha apeacefully.

The outh African government,whi~h ha been deeply involved intrying to settles Zaire's seven-month-old conflict, ha played downthe imminence of Mobutu' depar-ture because South AfricanPre ident el on Mandela "is verydeliberately addressing the is ue ofMobutu's dignity," the source aid.

Monday' developments came aday after Kabila met with Mobutuon a outh African navy ve sel fortheir first face-to-face talks since therebellion began last Octotler.

It was unclear whether theevolving agreement for Mobutu tostep down arose from Sunday'snegotiations.

called "teaching hospital" will becut. Yet because these researchinstitutions are typically located inurban areas and treat large numbersof uninsured, analysts say howmuch they get squeezed could ulti-mately affect the patients they serve.

Budget negotiators also agreedto expaqd health care for about 5million poor children, at a cost ofabout $17 billion over five years.What they left unclear was how theprogram would be adminis'tered andwho would qualify.

t f the program is set up as an"entitlement," basic federal benefitswould be guaranteed andWashington would outline eligibili-ty standards. If lawmakers decide to'give money to the states to devisetheir own plans, it would be up toeach state capital to decide what ser-vices are covered and for whom.

to hand over power peacefully tome," Kabila added. "But if he doenot, my force are ready" to enterKin hasa in the ne t two or threeday."

The U .. amba ador to theUnited ation, Bill Richard on,met Monda with Kabila inLuburnbashi to try to en ure what hecalled "a oft landing" as the rebel 'entrance into the city appear immi-nent.

Here in the capital, a sourcefamiliar with negotiation betweenKabila and the president aidMobutu i expected to leave officewithin a week and allow Kabila toenter Kinshasa to form a tran itionalgovernment.

"Mobutu is probably in the sin-gle digits in terms of the number ofdays he'll remain in power," thesource said. "There will be a transi-tional government, and it's going tobe led by Kabila."

Rother, chief lobbyist for theAmerican Association of RetiredPersons. "They have not agreed tosome of the underlying policies,which will havejust as much impacton consumers as the numbers."

Although the negotiators agreedto require Medicare recipients topay higher premiums - $4.50 moreeach month than they otherwi~ewould have faced by the year 2002- that is only a small fraction ofthe changes proposed to the pro-gram.

Most of the savings aimed at thefederal health care program for theelderly will come from cutting pay-ments to providers, mainly hospitalsand health care plans.

But which types of hospitals willbe cut and by how much is still upi~ the air. Negotiators didn't spellout, for example, to what degree' so-

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By Judith HavemannTHE WASHINGTON POST

The fiscal plan laid out by" Congress and the president to bal-

ance the nation's books may soundimpressive. But now comes the hardpart of figuring out precisely how toachieve the savings that negotiatorscJaim to have made.

That job will fall to lawmakers,- theit staffers and the White House

as they begin scouring federal pro-grams looking for ways to carry outthe broad goals set forth in the bud-get accord. Until that happens, ana-lysts say, it is impossible to say withce'rtainly what impact the budgetcuts wiJJ ha've on the .elderly, thepoor, immigrants and others it issure to affect.

"What they have agreed to isonly the budget numbers," said John

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Zairian rebel leader LaurentKabila said Monday that hi forcecould be in thi capital city in thenext "two or three day " and werealready within 35 miles ofKinshasa' airport.

Kabila, whose rebel alliancecontrols about three-fourth of thi

, .,va t central African country, saidthat if President Mobutu Sese Sekoagreed to step down before therebels reach Kinshasa, he wouldguarantee the president's afety,along with that of his family, newsservice reported from the southeastZairian city of Lubumbashi.

But if Mobutu, whose 31-yearrule has been marked by corruptionand repression, does not resign, "wewill have to chase him away inhumiliation," he said.

"I once again appeal to Mobutu

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End to Ihn~ngMonopoly Is WelcomeLa t week, the food rvic working group announc d it IT or out ide vendor will have to re-equip and refumi h

pr Iiminary recomm ndation for the futur of dining at IT. kitchen and dining room that have lain fallow for years.Th group propo ed breaking up the dining monopoly curr ntly In all likelihood, it will take a while for the dining hall to

E',JljetolV'fjenl held by ramark. Th t ntative plan tart turning a profit. And if Baker Hou ' tudent-run diningU/f! I flU! will allow every dining hall on cam- hall i any predictor, the dining hall may never b out of the red.

pu - including ev rallong-dor- Aramark' difficulty in making Baker Dining self- ufficient willmant dormitory dining hall - to be reopened under th control prove a warning flag to pro pective bidders. It i quite po ibleof a eparate.out ide bidder. In addition, other facilitie , ranging that no large company will bid to take over dormitory diningfrom LaVerde' arket to the food truck to Au Bon Pain in hall , maybe forcing MIT to pay a well-known contractor toKendall quare may b come eligible to accept the MIT Card.' oversee the dormitorie - maybe Aramark. MIT might al 0 end

The e propo al could tran late into very welcome change, up offering pro pective bidder fir t dib on more profitableand they open up the way to a far better dining y tern. De pite areas, like Lobdell Food Court, to sweeten the pot - a ituationrepeated argument that only a monopoly can take advantage of that could lead back to a virtual monopoly.economie of cale and te t new concept, ix years with There are al 0 dormitory- pecific que tion . For example,Aramark has hown that a dining monopoly cannot effectively many MacGregor re ident have grown accu tomed to'erve tudent . The new competitive y tern will allow multiple MacGregor Convenience, one of the few popular Aramark

companie to bid for contract and then compete with each other enterpri e . Because of pace constraints, reopeningto attract cu tomers. The re ult will be nimble and aggres ive MacGregor' dining hall might force the convenience tore tocontractor who can adapt rapidly to tudents' need. The expan- close. If mo t MacGregor re idents would rather have the con-ion of the MIT Card to local re tauraitt i another excellent venience store and a choice has to be made, the convenience

idea that can benefit both MIT tudent and tho e bu ines es. tore hould tay.Reopening clo ed dormitory dining hall i a trickier propo- All of the e i ues will require some hard choices about

ition, and one which hould be carefully considered by the whether the convenience and community spirit fostered by dor-In titute before opening the hall to out ide bidder. Residents. mitory dining i worth the economic burden. The tentative planof McCormick Hall, Burton-Conner Hou e, and MacGregor doe not con ider these fiscal matters, which they could openHou e were ju t1y up et when their dining hall were closed the door for substantial changes to the plan later on.several year ago. But while the convenience of donnitory din- - The dining group's report laudably reflects a long process ofing for re ident i indi putable, reopening donnitory dining working with tudents and listening to their ideas. However, thehalls for bu ine s might not be economically fea ible. report ha the worrying tendency of being all things to all people.

The central i ue i what matter more to MIT students and While that may not be bad for a first draft: orne things will prob-the admini tration - community or co t. It i well known that ably have to be cut. Dissolving the monopoly has l?een a longreopening the donnitory dining halls will require that some time coming, and such a move will serve students well.group inve t ignificant amount of capital in the donnitories. Dormitory dining, however, deserves further scrutiny.

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from the Student Financial Aid Office con-gratulating me as a recipient of a HaeblerScholarship. aturally, I was honored by theaward and excited about receiving much-needed aid for my education. As I read more,however, I was disappointed to learn that thescholarship was being used to reduce'my MITgrant. The so-called scholarship reduced nei-ther my current contribution to tuition nor myrapidly accumulating loans.

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would al 0 be good mentors, teachers, andcommunity leaders. And MIT does have suchpeople, just as we did 50 years ago. That wedo, it seem ,is more by fortuitous coincidencethan by intent. In spite of the Lewis report'srecommendation, nothing has been done torecruit a "super-faculty" of people who "findtime for the nonprofe sional civic and culturalintere ts which characterize the ideal teacher."

Why haven't things changed? By per-ceived necessity, the tenure system is still runby MIT's school and departments.Department themselves face the overwhelm-ing con traint of supporting themselves finan-cially. The fundamental que tion for a depart-ment is whether a candidate can contribute tothe department's re earch output, not its edu-cational output. Where education and qualityre earch coincide, fine. But so often goodteachers and community leaders are passedover for those who, in the end, will contributefar Ie s to the quality of an MIT educationthan they will to the immediate financialneed of their department.

The problem with tenure are so systemicand pervasive than nothing short of a corp-plete overhaul will cure them. The stakes maybe high, but the potentiai gains to the qualityof an MIT education may be immense.

pIe from getting a shower a they walk underit, but I have yet to see someone working toflx the problem. During thi time however, allthe curved glass on. the first floor of the MediaLab has somehow managed to have beenreplaced.

As I look at it there are many possible rea-sons for the drip. It is possibly orne MediaLab experiment, though I think this fallssomewhat outside their field of inquiry. Or thedrip is coming from a pool of water on top thearch. Or there's a pipe going through the arch.Now if this is the case, what the hell is thepoint of pumping water up the arch only tohave it come back down?

Anyway, all of these problems appear tobe somewhat fixable. My concern is why theleaking just hasn't been fixed. Iwill be gradu-ating in June and my relatives will be comingto watch. Now what will they get at the end oftheir over $100,000 investment? A chance tosee me graduate and to get dripped on byleaky infrastructure.

I'm sure that will make an impression. Iwould like to show them the whole campus,but perhaps we'.l1 bypass the arch if it is stilldripping. I would much rather show themsome less attractive parts of campus that arenot broken rather than show them brokengateways.

Besides being an unattractive problem, it'shazardous as well. I really don't want to seemy relatives injured if they slip in the puddleunder the arch. I just hope that in the fourweeks before Commencement the drip isfixed. If not, I've got some spackle and a

Icaulk gun ready. Somebody's got to fix thisthing.

Erik S. Balsley is a graduate student in theDepartment oj Urban Studies and Planning. Ifyou had time to read this column, you've gottime to write a chapter oj his thesis. Erik isgoing to Japan next year, so you can be sportseditor next term, too. Offers can be sent tobalsley@the-tech.mit.edu.

world pumping up interest in their work, juniorfaculty must admini ter and conduct theirre earch and write it up for publication.

While orne teaching experience is consid-ered mandatory, the quality of the candidate'teaching play a peripheral role in hi or herconsideration. While the importance of teach-ing certainly varie by department, it is a oftenthe ca e th t teaching can play only a negativerol in a candidate' election. In other words,bad tea hing can indeed hurt a candidate, butthe difference between average and exception-al teachin may pa s entirely unnoticed.

Given this pro e , it i not surprising thatteaching and community involvement u uallyfall by the way ide. MIT' Lewi Committeerecognized thi in 1949 when it rote,"Institute tandards of profe ional compe-tence are so high that the out tanding special-ist who are ought for faculty po t mu twork exceedingly hard to maintain andenhance their tanding among their profe -sional colleague in the highly profes ionalworld. eces arily they have little time forother interests. In many ways the e ituationare the root of the problem of general educa-tion at the Institute."

The Lewis Committee was optimistic thattop-notch researchers could be found who

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Ah, the signs of spring. The chirping birds,blossoming trees, warm breezes, and thesounds of Physical Plant working busily to tryto hide the fact our campus is made of over 90percent impervious material. So as prepara-

. tions for Commencement continue, I hope t1)atthe time is used to help correct a pretty visiblephysical problem - the leaking arch by theMedia Laboratory.

You know what I'm talking about. As youwalk. from the Medical Center toward themain campus there's that big arch to the rightof the Media Lab. Reading from left to right,using a corner of the building, the arch spellsout MIT. Isn't that just damn swell.

To my understanding, when that part o'feast campus was constructed in the 1980s, itwas the result of a planning process that triedimprove the experience of campus as youmoved from the Kendall Square T station. Thefirm I worked at this past summer helpedwrite a piece of this - the Northeast campusmaster plan.

The arch is something called a gatewayamenity. The theory goes something like this- you see the arch, you walk through thearch, you've entered MIT. The problem is thatsince the beginnin'g it has been leaking. Theone thing that is supposed to say welcome toMIT is dripping upon passers-by. Welcome toMIT.

MIT, unlike many other campuses, isopen, meaning that we do not have gates andfences surrounding our academic buildings.For schools with these gates, they indicatearrival points. The arch is our attempt to cre-ate a similar amenity. The dripping is akin tohaving these other institutional gates rustedshut. It just looks bad.

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OPINIO

Its Badly Broken Tenure Processau- it allow the el ction committe to mini-mally d termine how well candidate'sr e r h ill m h with the r earch currentlybeing done by th faculty.

The job talk i geared toward the re earchintere ts of the faculty. It i aid that teachingexperience look good, and certainly a candi-date' p r onal pre entation play a role in theproce , but the e are econdary con ideration .The role a pro pe tive faculty member mightplay in the community i completely ignored.

Once hired, junior faculty member have afew year to how their tuff before going upfor tenure. This is a critical time in the organi-zation' recruitment proce . The new mem-ber has committed him elf or her elf to thein titution but i not fully accepted within itrank . The new member will thu look forcue a to what behavior will lead to promo-tion. There is al 0 the opportunity for juniorfaculty to explore their community and theirfields of study - to hone their teaching kill ,become involved on campu , and to interactwith students and colleagues.

The current tenure process essentially pre-cludes the period of study and exploration byplacing extremely high demands on the juniorfaculty member's time. By far the most impor-tant consider tion i the quality of the candi-date's research. One measure of quality, ofcourse, is quantity - the more papers andbooks the better. Another measure of quality iscitation. Is the author's work being cited in thecurrent Iitprature? Is the candidate's workwidely discussed within the field? The e thingstake time. When they're not flying around the

and helps to encourage them to explore thesciences.

This idea was echoed by observers fromboth MIT and Cambridge. Paul Parravano,assistant for community relations, labeled theExpo one of the proudest moments of theyear. Melanie Barron, the coordinator of sci-ence for Cambridge public schools, character-ized the Expo as a physical expression of thepartnership. between Cambridge and MIT.

The MIT students are the people who real-ly made the Expo possible. Most of these stu-dents are repeat-volunteers. Sandberg men-tioned that most have been to the Expo inyears past, or participate in LINKs, or are fel-lows for the Public Service Center. I talked toa few of the volunteers as well. Tim B.McAnaney '98 was the logistics team coordi-nator and had participated in the past twoyears' Expos. Why does he volunteer? Justbecause it's fun and.a good way to help.Another-student, Juliet C. Midgley '98, was afirst-time volunteer. friend asked her tohelp, and she found it a rewarding experience.

Who can truly attest to .the great job thatthese students have done? The Cambridgecommunity. Two students from the Peabodyschool, Siobhan O'Sullivan and VanessaWinfield, were really excited when they foundout that they were selected to come to theExp.o. Once they were here, they said that theMIT students were really encouraging.Another grollP of students from the Fitzgeraldschool appreciated the hard work that wentinto the tours.

The adults - those who probably mostinn~ence MIT's place in Cambridge - alsorealized the hard work that went into and thebenefits that come o'ut of this. A scienceteacher from Peabody, Grant Avery, notedthat'MIT volunteers' openness, friendliness,and willingness to participate with Cambridgestudents has been truly amazing.

All the volunteers did a great job, andmany people from many places definitely didnotice.

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MIT Shou dOverColumn by Anders HoveCOLUM 1ST

Of all the factor affecting what educationpeople receive when they go to olleg, thtenure system rank among the mo t ecretive

and in idiou . Thetenure proce , hiddenthough it may be, playthe paramount rol indetermining the char-acter of MIT's fa ultyand, by exten ion, thenature of the educa-tional product tudentreceive her . In pite ofit critical importance,the tenure y tern ha

remained untouched by critical discu sioneither by tudent or administrator .

The tenure y tern i badly broken. It ibroken in that it doe not go far enough towarddelivering the educational product demandedby students. othing. copld do more toimprove the character of an MIT educationthan to totally rethink the way we recruit, pro-mote, and grant tenure to pro pective faculty.

The road toward tenure begins in earnestwith thethiring of junior faculty. The primarymethod for recruiting junior faculty is the jobtalk: A candidate flies into town for a coupleof days, gives a presentation of his or herresearch, fields some questions, and hobnobswith departmental bigwig . After a day or twoof superficial contact tht: ~ ndidate jets off tothe next school for,m.~ (the same.

The job talk s~f e f ) e ,p~i.~ary function

-MIT/Cambridge Science Expo.Proves a Tremendous Success

, Column by Abigail Mleko VargusCOLUMNIST

On Wednesday, April 30, MIT's PublicService Center sponsored tbe MIT/Cambridge.Science Expo. The Expo is a science fair for

I the seventh and eightll graders of 12 localschools. The kids get to display their experi-ments for MIT volunteer advisors and go ontours of MIT labs. The Public Service Centercharacterizes the Expo as the culminatingevent for the center, tying together all of theirprograms. (

.I want to applaud all who took part inthis event. Because of the many MIT stu-dents who volunteered their afternoon, thereare many students whQ benefited. This yearwas the fifth annual Expo and the biggestone yet. There were more than 180Cambridge students; last year about 100 stu-dents came. There were so m~ny MIT .volun-teers that the students were always busy.The event was aided by several scienceteachers from the schools. Additionally, anumber of local businesses made the event.

"possible, providing T-shirts, Tosci's certifi-cates, and pizza.

It's easiest to start off applauding the "bigpeople." These are people like Emily B.Sandberg, assistant dean and director of thePublic Service Center. However, when Ispoke with her, she made sure to emphasizethat it is the student participation that makesthis event what it is. The Public S.erviceCenter is a two-person office, and this eventwas largely organized by the two studentcoordinators, Shonna Yin '97 and Michael M.Bryzek '98'.

The two students began work for )he Expoin January and managed to double the partici-pation from last year. I spoke with both of thecoordinators toward the end of the Expo.While they looked tired, tl!.ey.also looked sat-isfied. Both noted that the Expo was importantbecause of its function to strengthen MIT-Cambridge relations. Yin commented that theExpo gives them a sense of what MIT is like

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of lIJinoi at Urbana-Champaign,Oregon tate Univ rsity,Penn ylvania tate University, andCarnegie- ell on Univer ity. MITpeaked at third place la t week.

At the current rate at which keyare being checked, it i estimatedthat the code will be broken inapproximately 27 weeks. However,because the number of machineparticipating has been growingrapidly - doubling every eight toII day - the key may be foundmuch sooner.

thena resource may be u edlame M. Kretchmar '99, chair-

man of the tudent InformationProce ing Board, aid th t IPBwa • thinking about in talling acli nt" to allow tudents to run theclient while they were logged in ifthey wi h d.

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Kretchmar aid that IPB hadnot re olved which effort to join.Ver er's effort i only one of everalplans to break the key. IPB i look-ing at an effort ba ed on an algo-rithm developed at MIT, Kretc~mar

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In order to regi ter, tudentsneed to leave some basic informa-tion on the server. "All you reallyneed [to enter] is a name, an e-mailaddress, a day, and time," Ho said

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Students will also be able to seewho is signed up for each bus andsee what buses are full. "If you wantto coordinate with somebody else,you can see where that personsigned up," Ho said.

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Despite a solid performance by the Infield, like this catch by second baseman Nlkhll Batra '98, .backed up by first baseman Joel Morales '99, MIT lost 1-0 to the Suffolk University Rams In thefirst game of Saturday's doubleheader at Briggs Field. MIT lost the second game 5-1.

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Jeff Holly G passes the ball from the scrum In the MIT rugby team's 20-0 victory over Boston Gentlemen rugby club on Saturday.

There was talk of overtime, andan already very phy ical game gotmore inten e. Finally, Wu, on a pa sfrom tifelman, skated up the leftide, beat the defen e and shot. The

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tifelman nailed the game shutwith a power-play goal with fourecond to go, and the Engineers

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for the Engineers was tough. Theteam had already played threegame in two days and faced OSU-A again. A tired MIT team lost toOSU-A 5-0.

However, far from being dis-hearttened, the Engineer had funand enjoyed playing with eachother in their last game. It was anexciting conclusion to a great sea-.son.

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The MIT omen's hockey team at theheld at Ohio State University.

The women's hockey team com-peted in the ational ClubChampion hip held at Ohio tateUniver ity from April 18 to 20. TheEngineers played excellently andmade it to the emifinals, beatingthe University of Michigan and anOhio tate team.

The team competing were MIT,OSU~A, 0 U-B, Michigan, aintCloud College, and orth CountryCommunity College. CCC wenton to win the title.

The Engineers began the tourna-ment with a 10-0 hutout againstOSU-B. Esther Jesurum G led MJTin scoring with a hat trick. RaquelRomano G and Tory Herman Gboth had playmakers. TheEngineers began to dominate thegame early on when Abigail Vargus'97 cored with 12:46 in the firstperiod.

They kept up the pace in the firstand second periods, scoring fourgoals in each one. During the regu-lar sea on, the Engineer have haddifficulty capitalizing on powerplays, but this game, two of theirfirst period goals were scored whilein a power play.

Thi initial game served to bol-ster the team' confidence as theyapproached their second game, thistime with OSU-A, the better of theOhio State team .

The 0 U-A game ended in ahard-fought 5-2 defeat for theEngineers. The OSU-A team playeda fast and rough game, and the shotson goal were weighted in theirfavor.

However, the Engineers beganfighting back from an 0-2 deficitafter a rocky first period. Jill Depto,97 scored the first goal of the sec-ond period on an assist from CynaraWuG.

The Engineers gave up two moregoals before Kalpana Mani '99,assisted by Chri tina Gerhke '99,skated up the ice and scored MIT'ssecond and final goal of the game.This defeat made it neces ary forthe Engineers to win a game againstMichigan in order to make it to thesemifinals.

Engineers top WolverinesThe Michigan game was by far

the most exciting game of the tour~nament for the Engineers, with thefinal core 4-2 in MIT's favor. MITtook the lead late in the first periodon a power-play goal by LisaStifelman G, assisted by Depto andAllison Mackay G.

Michigan went on to score twogoals in less than five minutes totake a 2- I lead. But 30 secondsafter Michigan's last goal, Jesurum,assisted by Romano, scored to tie itup. The second period and most ofthe third did not relieve the tensionat all - there was no scoring oneither side.

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