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Volume 122, Number 25 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, May 10, 2002

JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH

Microprocessor Control Lab (6.115) Professor Steven B. Leebholds the Big Screw. Leeb won the annual Alpha Phi OmegaInstitute Screw Competition, which raised $1997.71 for thePine.Street Inn. Leeb collected over $800 in donations, beat-ing President Charles M. Vest In second place with over $300In donations and Chancellor Phillip M. Clay PhD '75 in thirdwith over $200 in donations.

By Jennifer DeBoerSTAFF REPORTER

"Three ... two ... one ...GOOO!" shouts a boisterous, sus-pendered M.C.

"Spank that monkey weeeeeee,"he calls to the contestant who fervent-ly jerks her controls back and forth,swinging the PV~ pipe as the pointson the massive s~reen add up.

Opposite her, another bespecta-cled driver launches his quick littlemachine into a scoring bin and sitsback.

"No!" she shouts and the boylaughs and raises his hands in victory.Next to him, a green beaver waveshis hands as his eyes shine an LEDred.

The quarter-final round of theannual 2.007 contest has been decid-ed.

By Jennifer DeBoerand Brian LouxSTAFF REPORTERS

Representatives from the Associ-ation of Student Activities, Dormito-ry Council, Graduate Student Coun-cil, Undergraduate Administration,The Tech, Technique, and Alpha PhiOmega met Sunday to formulate alist of requirements for the new MITbanking system that will forciblyreplace outside bank accounts cur-rently operated by student groups.

The groups hope to gain morefeedback and organize their requestsbefore speaking with the StudentFinances Office of Residential Lifeand Student Life Programs and theTreasurer's Office. Other studentgroups are working either indepen-dently or with ASA to voice theiropinions to RLSLP.

All groups agreed that improvedonline access, quicker turn-aroundtime for transactions, and extendedbusiness hours were necessary tomatch the flexibility of outside bankaccounts. Students also called forclearer accQW1tstatements, a..writtenagreement ensuring freedom and fullcontrol over accounts for studentgroups, and a yearly review processin which students can give feedbackto accounting management.

"We're not yet sure how manyservices they can actually provide,"said GSC President Sanith Wijens-inghe. "Whether or not they will beable to give us the services theypromise by the date they've setdepends on how seriously they takethe job they have."

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Accounts move prompts meetingThe announcement of the change

was made by MIT Treasurer Allan

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MIT career spanned 25 yearsCohen began teaching at MIT in 1977. Students

and faculty cited both his generosity and seriousnessof purpose when working with Cohen. Dawn Perl-ner '0 I recalled one occasion where Cohen com-posed on demand. "I'll never forget the time Profes-

Last year; a 60~h birthday concert was held atMIT in Cohen's honor. The Killian Hall concertdrew students and faculty from MIT and Brandeisas well as local musicians and critics. Cohen attend-ed in a wheelchair due to his illness.

Richard Buell reviewed the concert for theBoston Globe. "Forgive the stereotype, but universi-ty professors aren't supposed to compose music likethis," he said. "The piano quartet was a continuationof Shostakovich's music; the piano sonata, a big-scaled vigorous. enterprise."

Anzollnl, Page 16

Timing is everythingIn music, timing is everything;

no famous conductors can afford tohave bad timing on the podium. Yet,off the stage, it seems like Anzoli-ni's timing is somewhat askew. An

Anzolini is to spend the bulk ofhis paid leave from MIT at the NewEngland Conservatory of Music asthe director of the orchestral pro-gram.

2.007, Page 20

Slocum shouts. Another round elimi-nates another hopeful hunk of metal.

One of his graduate students,Sean J. Montgomery, lines up the

Edward Cohen

Cohen lauded for compositionsCohen received many awards and commissions

for his works, from the Massachusetts Council forthe Arts, the MIT Council for the Arts, TanglewoodMusic Center and Brandeis University. His clarinetquintet was released on the CRI label.

Edward Cohen, composer, performer and seniorlecturer in music, died at the age of 61 on April 27,following a long illness.

Trained in classical music, Cohen was inspired.by Jazz and committed to composing to new music.He composed pieces for everything from solo

. instTuments to orchestras, in addition to two operas.

. His most recent opera, "The Bridal Night," pre-miered .in January and was performed by the Col-lage-New Music Ensemble in Boston.

"He was a great musician and a wonderfulteacher," said Professor of Music Ellen Harris,director of the music and theater arts section at MIT.

By Jeremy BaskinASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

Tomorrow, the MIT SymphonyOrchestra will play its final concertof the season. Such an occasion

would notFeature usually be________ an espe-cially -newsworthy event, but thisconcert will mark the last perfor-mance that music director DanteAnzolini will give with the ensem-ble .before taking a year-long sab-batical. .

He sings and shouts at the audiencewith the voice of an auctioneer,encouraging them to accompany hisstrange machine sound effects.

"More power Mr. Scott! I can't doit Captain. I lost my battery. Time!"

Anzolini Leaving MITSO-For NEe on Sabbatical

AMY WONG-THE TECH

_ Professor Alexander H. Slocum '82 presents the 2.007 trophy towinner Martin C. Jonikas '04.

Winner predicted early on"Martin Jonikas. That guy's going

to win. He's the winner," says specta-tor Darien B. Crane '03. Crane, whopredicted the soon-to-be winnerbefore Wednesday's finals evenbegan, knows Jonikas from his Uni-fied Engineering class', which Jonikastook last year as a freshman.

Yearly contest challenges students The quarter-finals, which nowEvery year since 1970, students in have just finished, saw Martin C.

2.007 have walked into class on the Jonikas '04 achieve the first (and last)first day and been presented with a six-digit score, with over 110,000challenge - to create a machine that, points .under strict guidelines, will outper- "I was very confident about myform everyone else's in the class. machine," Jonikas said. "I tested itTuesday's and Wednesday's matches about thirty times."were. the culmination of a semester Early on, 2.007 host and lecturerspent designing, building, and testing Professor Alexander H. Slocum '82these ten-pout)d re~ote-controlled "figured either Martin" or one othermacliiD€t .. ~ . ~ ' classmate would win.

~isxe~i con~""Schwing," ..redeffiied ..llie playing-field by allow- Spo~~Qrs contribute pnzesing two distinct meth&ts of ~oring. ~~; ~~This.course is about tradition,"Stud~~tS-;~ere asked,~o:push 'stieet- :Sl~cum'announces to the audience.

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Comics

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NEWSLost brass rats are found, and anMIT professor wins a NationalMedal of Science.

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World & Nation 2Opinion ~ 4On the Screen 7Events Calendar 12

May 10,2002

West Bank operation, occupyingsome for several weeks, but stayedout of Palestinian-controlled areas ofGaza.

The strip is the stronghold ofIslamic militant organizations thathave carried out suicide bombings,but Palestinian attackers sent fromhere rarely penetrate the heavilypatrolled fence that separates Gazafrom Israel. Last month, securityofficials argued that Gaza was rela-tively contained and that the armywould pay too high a price in casual-ties if it mounted a massive groundoperation.

But those constraints appear tohave been swept away by the Rishonbombing, the deadliest attack byPalestinians since the army's WestBank operation.

Israeli Foreign Minister ShimonPeres said the coming operationwould be "functional, not territorial,"a "pinpointed" targeting of militantgroups rather than an occupation ofterritory.

But a worried Palestinian Author-ity, desperate to stave off anothercrippling blow to its infrastructure,arrested 16 Hamas members in Gazaafter Arafat condemned the Rishonbombing in a televised Arabic state-ment as a terrorist act.

the fact that it occurred on VictoryDay, when Russians celebrate thedefeat of Nazi Germany 57 yearsago. Nearly six decades after thewar's end, the holiday is still one ofthe most revered dates on the Russ-jan calendar.

Putin, who apparently learned ofthe attack as he watched thousandsof elite Russian troops marchthrough Red Square this morning,said Russia would treat its newenemy as it did the Nazis andrecalled the Soviet Union's WorldWar ITslogan: "Kill the viper."

"Today is the most cherished hol-iday for our people. Even on such aday, bandits without any emotion arekilling innocent people, includingchildren," he told a crowd gatherednear the Kremlin for the celebration.

was a member of the militant move-ment Hamas and came from Gaza ..But a spokesman for the Islamicorganization said he did not knowwho carried out the attack.

"I don't know who did it, but weexpect that angry Palestinians will domore such attacks," said Ismail abuShanab in an interview with the LosAngeles Times. Ramas issued noformal claim of responsibility for theattack.

Abu Shanab mildly criticized thebombing, which he called "this act ofresistance," noting that "maybe thisis a critical time and maybe it is bet-ter not to do it at this time." Hamashas carried out more suicide attackson Israelis than any other Palestiniangroup since fighting erupted in Sep-tember 2000. There have been a totalof about 60 attacks, many of them inthe heart of Israeli cities.

The organization says it wants todestroy the 1993 Oslo peace accordsbetween Israel and the Palestiniansand to eliminate the Jewish state. Butit does not want to be blamed fortriggering either Israel's knockoutblow to the already weakened Pales-tinian Authority or the expulsion ofPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

The army swept iilto six of theWest Banks eight major cities in the

Authorities said the bomb packed6 to 1"1pounds of TNt, metal balls,plates and screws and was probablyremote-controlled.

It was the worst such attack inRussia since Sept. 13, 1999, whenexplosives hidden in sugar sacks in aMoscow apartment building killed119 people.

President Vladimir Putin blamedthe bombing on "scum who holdnothing sacred."

Officials in Kaspiisk suggestedthe obvious suspects were Islamicmilitants from neighboring Chech-nya, roughly 100 miles west.Chechen separatists, aided by bandsof foreign fighters, stage regularattacks against the Russian militarythere.

That suspicion was bolstered by

MOSCOW

By Mary Curtiusl.OS ANGELES TIMES

Parade Attack Near ChechnyaKills 36, Including 13 ChildrenBy Sharon LaFraniereTHE WASHINGTON POST

GAZACITY

Israeli tanks and troops movedclose to the Gaza Strip on Thursday,and state-run media said an attackwas irnrninent in retaliation for a sui-cide bombing Tuesday that killed 15Israelis.

Gazans sent their children toschool and went to work, but alsolaid in stores of food, fearing the sortof siege on their towns, villages andrefugee camps that the Israeli armyimposed in the West Bank during theinvasion launched March 29. Thearmy issued call-ups to an unknownnumber of reserve soldiers, normallya sign that a large-scale operation isin the offing.

After nightfall, street traffic inGaza City was light, but restaurantswere open. At a popular beach hotel,groups of men gathered to smokewater pipes and argue politics on abalcony overlooking the sea.

"What are we supposed to do,head for the bunkers?" shruggedZiad abu Amer, a Gazan representa-tive to the Palestinian legislature.

Israeli security sources believethat the man who blew himself upTuesday night at a snooker club inthe Israeli town of Rishon Le Zion

Thirty-six people, including 13children, died Thursday morningwhen a bomb ripped through a mili-tary parade in a town near thevolatile region of Chechnya, insouthwest Russia. Local authoritiessaid more than ISO people wereinjured.

Black smoke billowed down themain street of Kaspiisk, a CaspianSea port of 12,000, after the blasttore a hole in the sidewalk just as amilitary band marched by en route toa wreath-laying ceremony at thelocal cemetery. Video footageshowed children darting between therows of band members, pretending tomarch with them.

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WORLD & NATIONIsraeli Attack on Gaza S1ripLikely After Suicide Bombing

Enron Auditors WarnedAbout Accounting

Mailbox Bomb Suspect PlottedTo Make a 'Smiley Face'

l.OS ANGEl.ES TIMES

Accused pipe bomber Luke J. Helder may have had a strategy inhis selection of mailboxes, if his remarks to a sheriffs deputy shortlyafter his arrest are to be taken seriously.

Helder said his choice of targets, when plotted on a map, woulddepict a "smiley face," the ubiquitous symbol of happiness popular-ized during the 1970s.

Helder, who is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court Fridayin Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was arrested Tuesday on a northern Nevadafreeway after his father alerted the FBI that his son might have plant-ed the pipe bombs found in mailboxes in five states.

Six of the bombs exploded, each one causing an injury, none life-threatening.

Helder admitted to planting 18 bombs, 10 of which were not set todetonate, according to FBI agents. Another six bombs were discov-ered in his vehicle. When stopped, Helder held a shotgun to his headbefore throwing it out his car's window and surrendering.

CIA Fired Missile inAttempt to KillFactional Leader with Al-Qaida TIes

LOS ANGEl.ES TIMES

An Arthur Andersen partner testified Wednesday that he waswarned about Enron Corp.'s accounting methods by Enron Vice Pres-ident Sherron S. Watkins, and that he relayed those concerns to hisfirm's Enron team. -

Andersen partner James Hecker told a federal jury here that hereceived the call from Watkins, a former colleague at Andersen, Aug.20. Hecker said Watkins confided her increasing uncertainty over thepropriety of Enron's methods of accounting for off-the-books part-nerships managed by her supervisor, Enron chief financial officerAndrew S. Fastow:

Hecker was not involved with the Enron audit but said he relayedWatkins' concerns to several Andersen partners in the Houston officewho were.

Hecker, the first Andersen executive to testify in the trial, took thestand as prosecutors sought to prove that Andersen feared a Securitiesand Exchange Commission probe of Enron and shredded documentsto obstruct the inquiry. A conviction on the obstruction charge couldprompt the SEC to prohibit Andersen from auditing public compa-nies, dealing a devastating blow to the 89-year-old firm.

TliE II'ASfflNGTON POST

The CIA fired a missile from an unmanned Predator aircraft overAfghanistan Monday in an unsuccessful attempt to kill a factionalleader who's vowed to attack U.S. service personnel and oust theinterim Afghan government of Hamid Karzai, according to adminis-tration sources.

The targeting of a meeting of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his topaides outside Kabul was based on information he was plotting attacksagainst Americans, officials said.

Hekmatyar is a Pashtun who as leader of a hard-line Islamic party,Islamist Hezb-e-Islami, has frequently changed loyalties over the past20 years. Anti-Americanism has been one of his few long-lastingpositions, sources said. U.S. officials and Afghanistan's interim lead-ership allege Hekmatyar has ties to al-Qaida.

The CIA missile strike against Hekmatyar represented an escala-tion in a confrontation that's been brewing for the past two monthsbetween the United States and Hekmatyar.

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WEATHERThe Right Coast

By Robert KortySTAFF .HETEOROLOGIST

The comedian Lewis Black once quipped that the best job in the world isto be the weatherperson in San Diego. Having just returned from a confer-ence there, I see his point; the five day forecast called for sunshine and mildweather all week. In truth, though, forecasting weather on the west coast canbe a difficult job. While we in New England benefit from a continent full ofweather observations to our west, scant data are available from the PacificOcean either to meteorologists or to the weather models that forecast theevolution of the atmospheric flow. Weather models generally forecast sys-tems over the eastern United States well a few days ahead of their develop-ment, though local shifts in wind, such as a sea breeze, still complicate theforecast, especiaJJy during spring.

A front pushed offshore last night, sweeping the cloudy weather of yes-terday out to sea. Today will be sunny, warm, and windy as a tight pressuregradient will keep westerly winds strong through this evening. Saturday willbe pleasant also, but a weak area of low pressure will bring the threat of rainback to southern New England on Sunday.

Extended ForecastToday: Mostly sunny and warm. High n.F (22.C). West winds IS mph.Tonight: Clear, low 44.F (TC).Saturday: Mostly sunny, high 68.F (20.C).Saturday night: Cloudy with rain showers. Low 40.F (4.C).Sunday: Cloudy and cool with scattered showers. High 55"F (12.C).

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Governor of Maryland OrdersMoratorium on Death Penalty

New System for Tracking StudentsOnly Months Away From INS UseBy Cheryl W. Thompson up with (students), and obviously the eral government can take to keepTHE WASHINGTON POST schools were not cooperating. But closer tabs on international students

WASHINGTON the bulk of the problem was the sys- studying in the United States," saidA new system that will allow the tem itself was antiquated," a Justice Terry Hartle, senior vice president of

Immigration and Naturalization Ser- Department official said Thursday. the American Council on Education,vice to track approximately 1 mil- "You can't push a million students which represents 1,800 public andlion foreign students will be up and through a paper system and expect private colleges and universities.running in the next several months, to get accuracy." A 1996 immigration reform lawJustice Department sources said The system is designed to pro- required the INS to upgrade theThursday. \ vide up-to-date information on non- system by which it keeps track of

The start-up of the Internet-based immigrant foreign students, such as the 1 million foreign studentssystem, after years of criticism from name changes and new dropouts, an studying in the United States at anylawmakers of the INS's antiquated official said. Each school will have time. The system must be in placetracl~ing methods, is seen by officials 24 hours to input changes. by January.as'a significant step toward monitor- Schools now maintain paper Pressure to get the system up anding foreign studentS and beefing up records on foreign students; the running has increased since the Sept.the country's anti-terror safeguards. records are not kept in a centralloca- 11 terrorist attacks on New York andThe system is scheduled to be opera- tion and are not provided to the INS 'Washington. Hani Hanjour, one oftional by July 1. unless the agency r~quests them. the 19 hijackers, used a student visa

The INS was "supposed to keep "It is the single best step the fed- to enter the United States.

May 10,2002

By Henry WeinsteinLOS ANGELES TIMES

Maryland Gov. Parris Glenden-ing on Thursday declared a morato-rium on executions in the state,pending completion and review ofa study on whether there has beenracial bias in how the death penaltyhas been applied there.

Glendening, a Democrat, saidhe expected the moratorium to lastfor about a year.

Maryland is 'now the second ofthe 38 states with capital punish-ment laws to ip1pose a moratorium,following the lead of Illinois Gov.George Ryan, who halted execu-.tions in 2000, after 13 death rowinmates had been exonerated there,including one who had ordered his

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last meal.Legislation to impose a death-

penalty moratorium is now pendingin nine other states. In addition, 72cities, from San Francisco toNashville, Tenn., have passed reso-lutions supporting execution mora-toriums.

Glendening ordered the morato-rium as he granted a stay of execu-tion to a man who was scheduled tobe killed by lethal injection nextweek for murdering a woman at aCatonsville shopping mall in 1991.

The governor said he was grant-ing Wesley E. Baker a stay becausethe state-funded study by the Uni-versity of Maryland is expected tobe completed in September andthere's a "critical need to be

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absolutely sure the process is fairand just." Glendening added thathe would "stay all other cases thatcome before me until the comple-tion of the study - an examinationof 6,000 criminal cases where pros-ecutors could have sought the deathpenalty - and its reviews by theLegislature. "

Glendening reiterated his gener-al support for the death penalty,saying that "there are certaincrimes so brutal and so vile thatthey call for society to impose theultimate punishment." However,the governor emphasized, "reason-able questions have been raised inMaryland and across the countryabout the application of the deathpenalty."

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Senators Clear Way to Grant BushFast-Track Trade Authority

LOS ANGELES TIME-'SWASHINGTON

Democratic and Republican negotiators announced Thursday thatthey had cleared obstacles to Senate passage of a bill granting Presi-dent Bush greater authority to negotiate international trade agree-ments.

Central to the agreement is a package of expanded benefits -including a 70 percent federal health insurance subsidy - for quali-fied workers who lose jobs in domestic industries hurt by foreigncompetition.

Republicans also agreed to roughly double the number of workerseligible for the program known as "trade adjustment assistance."Overall, the worker-aid provisions would cost $10 billion to $12 bil-lion over 10 years.

In exchange for those Gap concessions, Democratic negotiatorsagreed to drop demands for a costly federal subsidy of retirementbenefits for steelworkers and certain restrictions on Mexican truckingon the United States.

The accord was reached by Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., CharlesE. Grassley, R-Iowa, Phil Gramm, R-Texas, and John B. Breaux, D-La., and had the blessing of the Senate majority and minority leaders.Senators also said the White House was pleased with the progress.

"We have an agreement," Baucus told reporters. He called theworker-assistance provisions "a huge improvement over current law."

Students' History KnowledgeLacking, Test Finds

THE WASHINGTON POSTWASHINGTON

Nearly six in 10 of the nation's high school seniors lack even abasic knowledge of American history, a finding virtually unchangedfrom seven years earlier, according to results released Thursday froma widely respected national test.

The results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress(NAEP), often referred to as the nation's report card, were moreencouraging for fourth- and eighth-graders, who showed modestgains in their knowledge of U.S. history. But even with theirimprovement, just 67 percent of fourth-graders and 64 percent ofeighth-graders demonstrated basic knowledge of U.S. history. Mean-while, fewer than one in five students in both grades were deemedproficient in the subject.

The exam, administered last year to a nationally representativesample of 29,000 students, found that many students knew neither thebasic facts of American history nor understood their importance.

"What this report card is telling us is that too many of our publicschool children are still struggling in this critical core subject area,"said Education Secretary Roderick Paige.

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Letters 10 The Editor

ChairmanRima Amaout '02

Editor in ChiefKevin R. Lang ,02

Business ManagerRachel Johnson '02

Managing EditorJoel C. Corbo '04

Executive EditorJordan Rubin '02

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News Editors: Jennifer Krishnan '04, Eun 1. Lee'04. Brian Loux '04: Associate Editors: Keith J.Winslein '03, Christine R. Fry '05; Staff:lIarold Fox G, Vijay Shilpiekandula G, NaveenSunkavally G, Dan Cho '02, Dana Levine '02,llelana Kadyszewski '03, Jeffrey Greenbaum'04. Vicky IIsu '04, Richa Maheshwari '04,Flora Amwayi '05, Vincent Chen '05, JenniferDeBoer '05, Aaron Du '05, Sam Hwang '05,Tom Kilpatrick '05, Amerson Lin '05, Jing-Helen Tang '05. Qian Wang '05: J\leteor-ologists: Robert Korty G, Greg Lawson G,Nikki Privc G. William Ramstrom G, Michael J.Ring G, Efren Gutierrez '03.

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Editors: Ian Lai '02, Joy Forsythe '04: AssociateEditors: Anju Kanumalla '03, Andrew Mamo'04. Shefali Oza '04, David Carpenter '05: Staff:Gayani Tillekeratne '03, Eric Tung '04, HangyulChung '05, Jennifer Fang '05, James Harvey '05,Nicholas R. Hoff '05, Jean Lu '05, Mandy Yeung'05, Ed Hill, Nur Aida Abdul Rahim.

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Editors: Kris Schnee '02, Jyoti R. Tibrewala '04:Associate Editor: Roy Esaki '04: Columnists:Daniel L. Tortorice '02, Philip Burrowes '04,Akshay Patil '04, Stephanie W. Wang '04: Staff:Basil Enwegbara G, Michael Borucke '0 I, MattCraighead '02, Christen M. Gray '04, KenNesmith '04. Andrew C. Thomas '04, Tao Vue'04. Vivek Rao '05, Maral Shamloo, Khoon TeeTan.

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Staff: Robert Aronstam '02, Adeline Kuo '02.Rory PheitTer '02 .

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Editors: Nathan Collins G. Wendy Gu '03:Associate Editor: Jonathan Wang '05; Staff:Erika Brown G. James Camp G, KrzysztofGajos G. Wan Yusof Wan Morshidi G,Michelle Povinelli G, Samudra Vijay G, StanleyHu '00, Kailas Narendran '01, Aaron D. Miha-lik '02, Matthew Mishrikey '02, Yi Xie '02,Roshan Baliga '03, Scott Johnston '03, Ekateri-na Ossikine '03, Pedro L. Arrechea '04, MiguelA. Calles '04, Brian Hemond '04, Dalton Cheng'05, Annie Ding 'OS, Roger Li '05, f..fichael Lin'05. Timothy Suen '05. Amy L. Wong 'OS, E-wonYoon 'OS, Jason LaPenta.

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Advertising Manager: Aye Moah 'OS; Staff:Kedra Newsom '02, I'luanne T. Thomas '02,Dashonn Graves '03, Joey Plum '03.

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Drug Your WorkersIn Dan Tortorice's column from May 3

["Fair Labor Standards For Some"], heinsists on once again insulting the reader'sintelligence with his distanced "I'm an econ-omist, you're not" opinion writing. Tortoriceis wrapping a conservative argument in athin sheen of condescension which doesn'tsurvive scrutiny. At least he could be honestabout his anti-worker views. When Tortoriceuses his "investment bank example," heclaims that if you are not getting the mostprofit you possibly can using your capital,you are actually losing money because thatmaximum profit is not yours! Never mind thefact that you may be making 15 percent on

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your investment, but if you aren't making 17percent when it is possible to do so, you arelosing money!

Example: My theoretical sweatshop oper-ates in my basement making wallets forexport. While doing some entrepreneurial soulsearching, I make a small list of ways to oper-ate my business to maximize profit.

1. I could give my workers a living wage.2, I could keep the status quo of modem dayworkplaces, and ignore living wage considera-tions. 3. I could force my employees to work12-hour shifts, with regular beatings andmandatory amphetamine use to keep produc-tivity up and morale high. 4. I could just stealthe damned wallets and sell them myself, cut-ting the worker out of the equation entirely.

Admittedly, options three and four areabusive and immoral (not to mention exagger-ated), but quite profitable. We who support aliving wage believe not giving your workerenough money to survive when they work foryou full time is immoral and not an option forthe entrepreneur, just like options three andfour are not even considered reasonable choic-es by modem employers.

Those who need living wage laws areforced to endure 50 to 80 hours of hard andoften unhealthy labor only to be rewardedwith a poverty level income, To claim that nothaving a living wage is ultimately better forthese people is appalling.

Marc Rios '04

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Senior Editor: Eric J. Cholankeril '02: Con-tributing Editor: Annie S. Choi.

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Chomsky's lnimoralDivestiture Petition

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Oh, Rats! 'lAck if Community, at Ring Delivery Dis~ppointed More,Than lAck if an Actual Ring

Ironically, the biggest Classoj 2004 bondi,!g activitythroughout this has been

attacking the RingCommittee. Does the Ring

Committee deserve to betarred and Jeathere4for theproblems we've seen soJar?

There is no intellectually or morally defensiblecasefor singling out IsraelJor divestiture, and

I challenge Chomsky to debate me on themorality oj this seledive attack against an

American ally that is defending itself- and theworld - against terrorism that targets dvilians.

Dan Tortorice

an error in society's understanding of whyhumans have rights. It seems that people arecontent with John Stuart Mill's argument, fromUtilitarianism, when they consider what gives ahuman being rights. They contend that humansuffering is bad, and our rights come from thefact that violating those rights make humanssuffer. This reasoning leads some to be wary ofeating animals. They argue that animals toosuffer and therefore also should have rights.

Despite the intuitive nature of this argument,it has clear shortcomings. Take the example ofan individual who is unable to feel pain. Imag-ine he has no family or friends, so his deathwould not cause the suffering of anyone. In fact,maybe it would make his next door neighbor abit happier. Would we be violating his rights ifwe killed him? I imagine any conscionable indi-vidual would say yes. Even though he is ahuman incapable of suffering, he still has rights.This makes me want to look beyond human suf-fering as the source of human rights.

Now at this point one may object that weshould look at a broader definition of suffering.Maybe the person isn't capable of physical suf-fering, but clearly he will be happier alive thandead, so we can't really kill him. But this argu-ment has a flaw. How do we know someone ishappier alive then dead? At times people havebelieved they would be happier dead than alive.Since we don't know what death really is, atheory of rights based on individual happinesswould seem to be on shaky ground.

Now let's think about another example.'Imagine we have our person who can't suffer,a puppy, and that German guy from Die Hard.The German guy tells you he will detonate abomb in a subway unless you either (A) killthe non-suffering man or (B) torture thepuppy. What should you choose to do? Hope-,fully you will choose to torture the puppy. Butthis isn't the solution that minimizes suffer-ing. (I imagine a puppy suffers when 'you tor-ture it, though I have not actually done somyself.) The bottom line is, rights do notcome from the ability to experience pleasureand pain. Something else gives us our rights.

What is that something? I would like tosuggest that this something is our capacity tobe moral. Unlike animals we are capable ofunderstanding right ilnd wrong and choosingto do one or the other. .

If we believe that a human's choosing to dogood, is good, then it is good for us to enableothers to do good. And what must we give peo-ple for them to be able to do what is good?They need life; dead people can't do anything,never mind do good. They need freedom; peo-ple who can't choose can not choose to dogood. They need education, to know what oneshould do. We have the moral obligation toprovide these things to others. And these oblig-ations are the origin of what we call rights.

This is why we should not automaticallyextend the rights of humans to animals. Theyare not moral creatures and we do not havethe same obligations to them'that we havetowards our fellow man. Now don't suggestwe all go out and kick dogs; I'd be a villain todo so. What I'm suggesting is that humans areunique beings and should be treated as such.

If releasing medical recordsviolates animals' privacy rights,

houl does putting them in agiant Ccigeso humans can stareat them not violate their rights?

In one of last week's odder news items, theSmithsonian's National Zoo refused a request torelease the medical records of Ryma, a giraffethat recently died. What made this refusal sobizarre was one of the justifications: the zoodirector said. releasing the records would violatethe giraffe's right to privacy and intrude into thezookeeper-patient relationship. This reasoningseemS absurd. If releasing medical records vio-lates animals' privacy rights, how does puttingthem in a giant cage so hum_ans can stare atthem and say, "Wow mommy, that giraffe hassuch a long rieck," or, "Mommy, I think thathyena is killing the other hyena," not violatetheir right to privacy? How does having a Webcam in their cages - you can view the zoo'stwo pandas and its elephant Shanti on the zoo'sWeb site - not violate their privacy rights?

But I'm not writing to argue whether ani-mals have privacy rights. I'm writing to correct

one for being angry and seeing them as alegitimate target for mudslinging if they vol-unteered for the job.

These socia:! problems still come from alack of a sense, of 'community.Painful experiences are the mainway that any kind of bonding, hap-

pens on campus, and it's usual-ly on a smaller scale - Aero-Astro's Unified and Biology's

7.02 Infro Lab are both wellknown for it. But the lack

of group social activitydoesn't help either.While the ring deliv-ery had advertiseddancing, 'it wasn't

able to happen in theatmosphere of the museum.

Monte Carlo Nights, the first 2004 class for-mal, was postponed and deformalized. The

. lack of a great event like the Odyssey Ballthis year only hurts,community spirit, mean-ing that the only class-wide bonding opportu-nities are these' overblown spats about milderissues that can usually be resolyed simply bywaiting, resulting in a general increase in ten-sion all around. One can only. assume that thisis what has led to people's lack of pride inour class as a whole, and though I can onlytheorize, in others aboye and below as well.

On Tuesday the class was notified that therings had been located and were being rushdelivered, hopefully making appearances onfingers everywhere by Friday. If I'd thoughtabout it in advance, I might have had my ratsized so that it could fit, as Akshay Patil sug-gests, upon my middle finger. ["A Boy andHis Rat," May 7] It would certainly make anappropriate statement, since anger seems tobe the best bonding force our student bodyhas at this time. But I've seen enough badblood for one year. The sun is shining, thesemester is almost over, and here at thehalfway point in my undergraduate career,I'd rather bond with my classmates by play-ing a nice friendly game of softball than byarguing balls and strikes.

state for Israel, only to have to back downupon being confronted with the evidence. Healso tried to dispute the fact that he hadauthorized an essay he had written indefense of Robert Faurisson to be used asthe forward to Faurisson's book about Holo-caust denial, but again had to back down.Chomsky took the position that he had nointerest in "revisionist" literature beforeFaurisson had written the book. When con-fronted by Robert Nozick, a distinguishedphilosophy professor who recalled dis-cussing revisionist literature with him wellbefore the Faurisson book, Chomsky firstberated Nozick for disclosing a private con-versation and then he shoved him contemp-tuously in front of numerous witnesses.

This then is the man who is leading the~ampaign for divesture against Israel. He isjoined in this ignoble effort by some whowould take the money now invested in theMideast's only democracy and have it sent toIraq, Libya, Syria, Cuba, the PalestinianAuthority, and others who support andfinance terrorism. He is also joined' by a mot-ley assortment of knee-jerk anti-Zionists,rabid Anti-Americans, radical leftists (theSpartacist League), people with little knowl-edge of the history of the Arab-Israeli dis-pute, and even some of Chomsky's formerstudents who now teach in Israel.

There is no intellectually or morally defen-sible case for singling out Israel for divesti-ture, and I challenge Chomsky to debate meon the morality of this selective attack againstan American ally that is defending itself -and the world - against terrorism that targetscivilians. Universities invest in a wide array ofcompanies that have operations in countriesthat systematically violate the human rights ofmillions of people. Nor are these countriesdefending themselves against those whowould destroy them and target their civilians.Yet this petition focused only on the JewishState, to the exclusion of all others, includingthose which, by any reasonable standard, areamong the worst violators of human rights.This is bigotry pure and simple, and those

, ~ho signed the petition should be ashamed ofthemselves and shamed by others.

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frank-furter Professor of Law at Harvard University.

it would make clear what I think the vastmajority of Israelis believe: it has no interestin retaining the territories for any reason otherthan protection from attack."

Chomsky rejected my proposal out ofhand. He characterized it as a mere return tothe "colonialist status quo." Only the disman-tling of the colonialist Jewish state would sat-isfy the PLO, and only the creation of a secu-lar, binational Palestine in "all of Palestine"would satisfy Chomsky.

My next encounter with Chomsky revolved

in pairs or small groups, and took those'groups from line to line like rats in a maze.

Ironically, the biggest bonding activitythroughout this has been attacking the ringcommittee. Many have taken the opportu-nity to vent their frustrations over the deba-cle to the nearest possible scapegoats.However, it's not like this is thefirst major upset that the sopho-more student bO,dy hasseen to this point overthe ring. The, now-pastincident over the gen-der of the ring mascots gave plen-ty of room to cloud the issuewith political haze. Accusa-tions of misogyny,favoritism and (I use the termloosely) corruption flew about freely.However, the incident did motivate a gooddeal of discussion among the student body. '

Does the Ring Committee deserve to betarred an9 feathered forthe problems we've seenso far? I have no realright to complain, sincelike much of the class Ididn't volunteer my timeor sanity to the commit-tee. It wasn't 'their faultthat my ring didn't makeit to the Science Muse-um - some of us won- 'dered if Jostens wouldbe stupid enough to labelthe delivery with thewords "gold," "rings,"or even "Jostens," any ofwhich would encouragean act of theft. However,it is fair to suggest that

one of the troubles with taking responsibilityfor the design, premiere and delivery of theclass ring is, simply, the responsibility. WhileI applaud the efforts of the entire RingCommin handling both the routine and unexpectedevents of the entire ordeal - on a volunteerbasis, no less - I cannot honestly blame any-

around his writing an introduction to a book byan anti-Semite named Robert Faurisson whodenied that the Holocaust took place, thatHitler's gas chambers existed, that the diary ofAnne Frank was authentic, and that there weredeath camps in Nazi occupied Europe. Heclaimed that the "massive lie" about genocidewas a deliberate concoction initiated by"American Zionists" "and that "the Jews"were responsible for World War II. Chomskydescribed these and other conclusions as "find-ings" and said that they were based on "exten:-sive historical research." He also wrote that "Isee no anti-Semitic implication in the denial ofthe existence in gas chambers or even in thedenial of the Holocaust." He said he saw "nohint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's

, work," including his claim that "the Jews"were responsible for World War II. He wrotean introduction to one of Faurisson's bookwhich was used to market his anti-Semitic lies.

In a subs-;qu~nt debate at the Har~ardMedical School, Chomsky initially deniedhaving advocated a Lebanon-style binational

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Guest ColumnAlan M. Dershowitz

Who is Noam Chomsky and why is heseeking to compel universities to divest fromcorporations that have ties to Israel? I haveknown Noam Chomsky for more than thirtyyears. I have debated him on numerous occa-sions, and I have written extensively about hiszealous anti-Zionism and his flirtations withneo-Nazi revisionism and Holocaust denial. Iwas not surprised there-fore to learn that he is theinspiration behind thefoolish and immoral cam-paign for divestiture.

I first debated Chom-sky in 1973, severalweeks after the Yom Kip-pur War. Chomsky's pro-posal at that time wasconsistent with the PLOparty line. He wanted toabolish the state of Israel,and to substitute a "secu-lar, binational state,"based on the model ofbinational "brotherhood" that then prevailedin Lebanon. Chomsky repeatedly pointed toLebanon, where Christians and Musli!lls"lived side by side," sharing power in peaceand harmony. This was just a few years beforeLebanon imploded in fratricidal disaster.

This is what I said about Chomsky's hare-brained scheme in our 1973 debate: "Puttingaside the motivations behind such a proposalwhen it is made by the Palestinian organiza-tions, why do not conside,rations of self-deter-mination and community control favor twoseparate states: one Jewish and one Arab?Isn't it better for people of common back-ground to control their own life, culture, anddestiny (if they so choose), than to bringtogether in an artificial way people who haveshown no ability to live united in peace. I con-fess to not understanding the logic of the pro-posal, even assuming its goo~ will."

My counterproposal.was;that .~'Israel~hould declare, in principle, its willingness togive up the captured territories in return for afirm assurance of lasting peace. By doing so,

Since I have the misfortune of having alast name beginning with a letter between "P"and "Z," like much of the rest of the Class of2004 I was unable to don my brass rat on Sun-day evening. I could not yet wear this proud 'symbol of the Institute like many of my fellowclassmates. I could not thrust ~my hand up inthe air with others and make the Captain Plan-et reference I had been holding back for solong in anticipation of that day. And I could-n't go home and spend an inordinate amountof time in front of freshmen making littleadjustments to and admirations of my newhunk of gold.

That isn't to say that I didn't enjoymyself at the event. For many of us it was amuch needed break from work in a hectictime of year. It was also a chance, for me atleast, to genuinely catch up with friends Ihadn't seen in a longtime, rather than simply

/ waving' hello in the Infi-nite. However, there wasplenty to be unhappyabout as well, includinga non-alcoholic cash bar- ridiculous, consider-ing that the food was freeand the drinks ludicrous-ly overpriced - and ageneral sense of disorderin lineups and gather-ings. But what struck memost was 'the lack ofcommunity.

The ring delivery, likethe premiere before it,was promoted as a classbonding activity. This, of course, assumes we 'had any real cohesion to start with. Becausethe event was mostly a collection of lines -for Omnimax movie tickets, rings, food and,inevitably, complaints - there was littleopportunity for any meaningful large-scale

, physical gathering. People ended up sticking

Divesting From Peace

Are the Ivies at Risk?OPINIONPage 6 THE TECH

Basil Enwegbara

There is today a growing debate about thefuture of education - that is, whether dis-tance education will replace current residen-tial learning. The debate has become sointense that it is drawing the attention of presi-dents of some of the leading centers of learn-ing like MIT. Recently, President Vest madehis own thoughts public. In one of the classesI participated in recently, distance educationwas also one of the dominating arguments.And this was driven by my nonresidentialclassmates, participating from NASA andFord Motor Company. The argument couldnot even be avoided in the MIT class ofRebecca Henderson, a leading expert in tech-nology strategy. As the debate becomes moreand more intense, so does the confusion.

Although there is no doubt that given thegrowing impact of digital machines, the Inter-net, and the World Wide Web as the newinstructional revolution, distance educationhas come to stay. At least it could serve thegrowing needs of those who cannot afford thetime or the means to reach the geographiclocation of their university of choice. A care-ful examination of the realities on the ground,however, will convince us why distance edu-cation still has a long way to go, and could notbe seen even in the near future as a seriousthreat to the present residential education sys-tem.

First, without residence, the student is con-strained by low access to the magic of theclassroom. Here the classroom learning maxi-mizes the student's learning capability as heor she looks up to fellow students for competi-tion and comparison.

Second, without residential education, stu-dents tend to lack access to the vital educationof on-campus extracurricular activities,including physical education and social andcultural interaction. It is certain that most stu-dents with interests in public life tend to buildand reinforce such a life career and leadership

Guest ColumnRami Sabet Mangoubi

The petition demanding that Harvard andMIT divest from Israel as well as companiesinvolved with Israel until it fulfills four partic-ular demands is unjust and hurts peace efforts.

The first demand requires Israel to be incompliance with United Nations Resolution242 that notes the inadmissibility of the acqui-sition of territory by war, and which calls forwithdrawal of Israeli armed forces from occu-pied territories.

Resolution 242 is intentionally worded soas to allow for various interpretations as to theextent of required Israeli withdrawal. Israelagreed at Taba to extensive withdrawal.Regrettably, Yasser Arafat rejected the Tabaproposals, without presenting any of his own.He opted instead for violence.

Further, not even total withdrawal satisfiesArab governments. Israel withdrew fromLebanon totally, as the United Nations certi-fied. Following the withdrawal, Syria, muchto the chagrin of many Lebanese, enabledHizbullah to set up a large network of militarybases along the border, and encouragedattacks on Israel from Lebanon. In one inci-dent, terrorists crossed the U.N.-certified bor-ders, targeted a passenger bus, and murderedsix Israeli civilians. Hizbullah is publiclycommitted to the destruction of the Jewishstate. Yet the petition does not demand thatMIT divest from Lebanon and Syria, or fromcompanies doing business with them, untilattacks from Lebanon stop, now that totalwithdrawal is complete.

The second demand requires that Israel be"in compliance with the United Nations Com-mittee Against Torture 200 I Report."

This item singles out Israel. The abhorrentpractice of torture and mistreatment ofdetainees is pervasive. The U.S. has beenaccused of torturing one of its citizens, JohnWalker, before he was brought home fromAfghanistan. Egypt uses torture on a routinebasis against the regime's opponents, beforeexecuting them. Cutting off the hands ofalleged thieves and flogging prisoners are actsof torture that are legal in Saudi Arabia, andcarried out in public squares. Yet the petitiondoes not demand that MIT divest from Egyptand Saudi Arabia and from companies doingbusiness with them, such as the oil giants.

The third demand states that "Israel ceasesbuilding new settlements, and vacates existingsettlements, in the Occupied Territories."

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak wanted

as they become transformed by the cleansingforces on campus. Participating in numerouscampus student associations is one of themedia that help students discover their talents.This way, the school plays the role of a fami-Iy, a community, where everyone hasimmense opportunities to interact freely, andopenly question the things they believe are theills of the society, as well as support issuesthat appeal to a better society. It is mostly

If it is tnle that educationis a civilizingJorce that

could be used to build andirnprove togetherness andcultural ernpowerment,

then residential educationis the most reinftrcing and

invigoratingpart of civilization.

through residential education that students caneasily come together to champion socialchange.

Third, if it is true that education is a civi-lizing force that could be used to build andimprove togetherness and cultural empower-ment, then residential education is the mostreinforcing and invigorating part of civiliza-tion. Group interaction in a classroom envi-ronment - discussions, problem solving, andbrainstorming, for example - occur more inface-to-face mode. This produces a positiveoutcome resulting from the intellectual syner-gy, as a student shares new ideas and experi-ences from other students in class, in thelibrary, in the common room, in the associa-tion meeting, etc. in a nonlinear way. Ofcourse, this goes a long way to expose stu-

to sign a final agreement suggested by Clinton ,Iand supported by Mubarak at Taba. The pro-posal deals with the settlement issue, andArafat's advisors wanted their leader to sign aswell. Arafat refused. Mubarak stated in a TVinterview that had Clinton not left office, p'eacethanks to Taba would be here. This item on thepetition encourages rejecters and hurts thechances of recovering that peace.

The fourth and final item on the petitionrequires Israel to "acknowledge in principlethe applicability of United Nations Resolution194 with respect to the rights of refugees, andaccepts that refugees should either be allowedto return to their former lands or else be com-pensated for their losses."

Israel is willing to offer compensation tothe refugees, and former President Clintonoffered tens of billions of dollars for Arabrefugees. Arafat refused. He wanted enoughrefugees to settle in Israel so as to cause ademographic imbalance that would negate theU.N. resolution declaring Israel a Jewish state.

Regrettably, this petition item is inherentlyprejudiced; Resolution 194 refers only to Arabrefugees from Israel without even acknowl-edging the existence of Jewish refugees fromArab countries, let alone their suffering andright to COrnpensation for belongings.Throughout the ~ges Jews in Arab countriesand Iran have suffered massacres (e.g., Grana-da, 1066, Demnat, 1875, Cairo, I940s), expul-sions (e.g., Kairawan, 10 16), destruction ofsynagogues (e.g., Baghdad, 14th century,Tripolitania, 1897), and forced conversion(e.g., Mashad, 19th century). According to theColumbia History of the World, theologiansand demagogues in the Arab world "producedan anti-Jewish literature that was informed bya hatred of Jews and Judaism that in no wayfalls short of its Christian counterpart." Inaddition, Arab intellectuals embraced the anti-Semitism of 19th century Europe. During the20th century, Nazi propaganda spread, andmassacres took place. For instance, in June of1941, during the pro-Nazi rule of Rashid Aliin Iraq, 175 Jews were killed and about 900houses destroyed. After the U.N. allowedJews to have a state, hostility intensified fur-ther. About 900,000 Jews living under Arabrule fled, mostly to Israel. Most lost theirproperty. Those who stayed behind continuedto suffer. The Egyptian government, the coun-try's main employer, stopped hiring Jews inthe 1950s. Jewish students in Arab publicschools had to recite anti-Jewish poems infront of their teachers and classmates, andwere beaten on a regular basis. When Sad damHussein came to power in the late 1960s, he

dents to other cultures and social realities toenhance their leanling experience. In fact,when students each bring their analytical per-specti ves into the classroom and share theirmultiple perspectives in a group interactivesession, the group environment can triggernew patterns of understanding built on thefoundation of shared emotions and individualperspective.

Also, as the educators, faculty and admin-istrators frequently interact with the student,not only do they easily become mentors to thestudent but also they tend to use their privi-leged positions to continuously help the stu-dent redefine his or her identity. Students alsogo through new processes of identity negotia-tion with their professors, administrators, andpeers. This process of negotiating identity cannever be fully controlled by forces outsideresidential education. Within these interper-sonal spaces where identities are constantlynegotiated, residential students, faculty andadministrators tend to generate power thatchallenges structures of social and moralinequity. Distance education, therefore, notonly tends to weaken these forces. of identitynegotiation, but it also tends to generate allforms of distractions from friends, familymembers, and community groups with greatsocial and economic intervening forces.

Finally, for those learning processes thatare research intensive, the availability oflibraries and laboratories must not be tradedfor virtual learning that tends to constrain easyaccess to these vital educational facilities.Take ~e student that must continuously moni-tor his or her laboratory experimentation forexample. In order to maximize the benefits ofsuch activities, such a student must also be aresidential student. Or if not, how could thestudent conduct his or her multiple library-based research work? Students involved inmultilayered research activities are better edu-cated when they are close to a multilayeredlibrary and laboratories, and can continuouslyaccess these specialized educational tools toguarantee success.

celeJ>rated by.hanging about t~n Jews;>'along:with' a few opponents; i~Baglfdid's'iiiairi.~ 'square. In the late sixties~ Egyptian 'authorities -incarcerated adult Jewish males in the notori-'ous Camps of Abu Zaabal, and later Tura. Forseveral months, their families did not knowwhere they were. They experienced, torture,and some of the younger ones- were sexuallymolested. For several years, the authoritiesdemanded conversion from Judaism inexchange for release from Tura. Only one per-son ch9se that option. Later, Israel and the,U.S. were able to 'free them by bribingEgypt's former President Nasser. Today, Arabstates are almost totally' clean of Jews. Themedia, often falsely accused of being underheavy Jewish influence, almost never showedinterest. The U.N. never investigated. TheU.N. spends huge ~ums supporting Arabrefugees incarcerated by Arab governments 'inrefugee camps, and not one penny went toJewish refugees.

Jews originating from Arab countries com-prise almost half of Israel's population. Withsuch history, how can any prime ministeraccede to this morally selective demand in thepetition while looking straight at the eyes ofthese citizens? Should the petition not askHarvard and MIT to .divest from Arab coun-tries and companies doing business with themuntil their governments compensate Jews whofled their countries? Instead, the petitionerstarget the country that gave them refuge.

That four Israelis or so are supportive ofthe petition makes it no less unjust and one-sided. When a group is embattled and inces-santly attacked, the image can feed back tosome of its members. For example, during the1980s some high-profile women worked hardto defeat the Equal Rights Amendment(ERA). Does that imply those opponents ofthe ERA support women's rights? Otherexamples of the same phenomenon exist.

Divestment from Israel is unjust sinceIsrael accepted an offer_at Taba that Arafat'sadvisors '?lanted him to sign too, but Arafatrefused. The petition motivates Arab hardlin-ers to become more unreasonably demanding.The petition does not even ask MlT to divestfrom companies doing business with SaudiArabia until it stops rewarding with thousandsof dollars mothers and fathers who send theirchildren on suicide missions; nor does it callfor divestment from Egypt and Saudi Arabia,countries whose intolerant educational systemproduces Sept. 11 terrorists.

Rami Mangoubi '78 was an undergraduatein mechanical engineering and a graduatestudent in aeronautics and astronautiCs.

May 10,2002

Propaganda-At TheTeach-In

Guest ColumnJoshua Furman

To all the members of the MIT and Harvardcommunities calling for divestment from Israel:

While it is refreshing to see the beginning ofa dialogue between people with opposing viewson the Arab-Israeli conflict, it often times'seemsthat true discussion is sorely lacking. I am refer-ring particularly to the May 6 teach-in at MIT.The Web site states that you "attempt to bring into the open acritical discussion of Israeli human rights abus-es against Palestinians." How can you claimthat the teach-in was an open critical dis~ussionwhile only presenting a single monolithic view-point? Any scholarly or academic endeavorstarts with an engagement with all the facts,objectively evaluating them until a conclusion isreached. The teach-in however presented a sin-gle side of the coin; hardly an open discussionand hardly worthy of the academic reputationthat MIT, Harvard and their faculty bring tosuch a discussion. I know, based on those repu-tations, that one-sided research is not acceptablein the classroom or the lab, why then is itacceptable here? Would you publish a paperthat did not present or at least acknowledge theopposing view and that refused to engage theopposition objectively? What is the worth ofsuch a publication? Certainly i,t cannot beclaimed to be scholarly. Do the signatories wishto preclude any discussion on the issues andrather indoctrinate the masses in their singularpoint of view? If so, fine, but why not state thatexplicitly rather than disingenuously claimingthat the teach-in is an open forum? That attitudewould seem, however, to run con~_l~o ~eopen, liberal, academic a~osp~~~.c: of.th~ ,}llli-versities involved and. directly, Icontradicts theclaim of an open critical disc~~o~:" , , -

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8:00 p.m. - Playwrights-in-Performance. 3 original student-written plays directed by AssociateProvost for the Arts Alan Brody. "A Day in the Life of Brian~ by senior Dan Tortorice (economies),"M.L.~ by senior Carolyn Chen (architecture), "Homecoming~ by David Ngo. Free. Room: KresgeRehearsal Rm B. Sponsor: Theater Arts Section.8:00 p.m. - Logarhythms Spring Concert. MIT's oldest and only all-male a capella ensemble.With guest groups: Tufts Jackson Jills and Dartmouth Decibels. Free. Room: Rm 10-250. Spon-sor: Logarhythms, MIT.8:00 p.m. - "sing forevermore." Anne Rhodes (senior office assistant, Architecture) in a solovoice recital of classical, jau and experimental music of the 20th Century. Works by Olivier Mes-siaen, David Foxe '03 (MIT Course IV), Klokie Grossfeld, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, BartHoward, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Milton Babbit and John Cage. Funded in part bythe Council for the Arts at MIT. Possible funding by the MIT Department of Architecture (pending).Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Council for the Arts at MIT.8:00 p.m. - The Dining Room. MIT Community Players production of play by MIT Professor Emeri-tus A.R. Gurney. Directed by Megan Bell. $10, $8 other students, MIT faculty/staff/senior citi-zens, $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: MIT Community Players.

Monday, May 13

9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Media In Transition 2: globalization and convergence. International con-ference at MIT runs three days, May 10-12. Conference features over 100 scholars and artistscovering a wide range of issues related to globalization and convergence of media. Film, TV,jour-nalism, the Internet and more are covered from a variety of intemational perspectives. free - reg-ister at conference Web site at http://cms.mit.edu/comf/mit2. Room: all conference eventstake place in E51 except for tele-journeys exhibit in list Visual Arts Center. Sponsor: Office of theArts, Communications Forum, Comparative Media Studies. This conference is sponsored by theMIT Program in Comparative Media Studies in cooperation with List Visual Arts Center and sup-port from the Office of the Arts and MIT.Communications Forum.12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Hillel's Mother's Day BBQ. Bring your Mom -or your friends - and cele-brate mother's day with a FREEBBQ! Free. Room: Kresge BBQ Pits. Sponsor: Hillel, MIT.2:00 p.m. - The Dining Room. MIT Community Players production of play by MIT Professor Emeri-tus A.R. Gurney. Directed by Megan Bell. $10, $8 other students, MIT faculty/staff/senior citi-zens, $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: MIT Community Players.5:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi-nated by Professor Marcus Thompson, is comprised of students selected by audition to studyand perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater ArtsSection.7:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi-nated by Professor Marcus Thompson, is comprised of students selected by audition to studyand perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater ArtsSection.

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - New Approaches In Neuroscience Symposium. The McGovern Institutefor Brain Research at MIT is sponsoring a two-day Symposium entitled "New Approaches in Neu-roscience~, featuring 16 distinguished speakers from the U.S. and Europe. The symposium takesplace May 13-14 and is open to the scientific community. Admission is Free. The four sessionsare: Novel Avenues for Electrophysiology, Genes in Neuroscience, Imaging the Brain: BeyondBOLDand Neural Stem Cells and Repair. Free. Room: Wong Auditorium, Bldg. E51. Sponsor:McGovern Inst.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - TSM (ADSM) Backup Software Quick Start. Leam how to download,install, and configure TSM (formerly ADSM), a program for backing up your files to a secure serverover the network. Discuss your TSM questions with technical staff. Room: N42 Demo. Sponsor:Information Systems.•12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Working Group Recycling Committee Meeting. Committee Meeting ofWorking Group Recycling (WGR)task force. Open to all interested faculty, staff and students whowould like to help improve recycling at MIT. Free. Room: Adler Conference Room 39-327. Spon-sor: Working Group on Support Staff Issues.1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Web Publishing Overview. A prerequisite for the Web Publishing: Basicscourse, this three-hour lecture/demonstration session gives an overview of the electronic pub-lishing process as it works at MIT, focusing on: how to code files using HTML tags (HTML, theHyperTextMarkup Language, is the standard for publishing on the web) how to upload files to theAthena system for delivery through MIT's primary web server, web.mit.edu. Special attention ispaid to issues affecting web sites at MIT (MITnet rules of use, Athena file conventions, specialservices available on web.mit.edu, etc.). Room: N42 Demo. Sponsor: Information Systems.3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Adobe Systems Design/Publishing Solutions - Free Seminar. Mike Rich-man from Adobe's New York City office will take attendees on a 2-hour tour of the new OS X Pho-toshop 7 with tie-ins to Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat. Also with Mike will be Kevin McGrathwith Adobe Systems - Education Sales Group. Door Prizes: Several cool Adobe products andother stuff! Free. Room: 3-270. Enter through 77 Mass. Ave. Sponsor: Information Systems.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - "Inflnlte-dimenslonal bundles and differential forms." Free. Room: 4-159. Sponsor: Differential Geometry Seminar. Department of Mathematics.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - 2002 AWARDS CONVOCATION.MIT Awards Convocation. Reception willfollow ceremony. Free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Residential Life and Student Life Programs.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Mechanics Seminar: "Inducekharge Electro-osmosls: Theory andMicrofluldic Applications." [Joint work with Todd Squires (Department of Physics, Harvard Univer-sity).] Refreshments will be served. Room: 5-234. Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering Dept.5:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi-nated by Professor Marcus Thompson, is comprised of students selected by audition to studyand perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater ArtsSection. /5:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. - The Resilient City Colloquium: Trauma, Recovery and Remembrance.MIl's Resilient City project was conceived in response to the terrorist attacks that destroyed NewYork's World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The colloquium will examine critically how cities inthe past have endured traumatic episodes, and prevailed to establish new order out of chaosand devastation. Weekly lecture series. Free. Room: Room 10-485. Sponsor: Department ofUrban Studies and Planning.7:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi-nated by Professor Marcus Thompson, is comprised of students selected by audition to studyand perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater ArtsSection.7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - New Thoughts on Interpreting "Copenhagen". Symposium in associ-ation with the play "Copenhagen~ in Boston Colonial Theatre, May 7-May 19. Panel discus-sion about Michael Frayn's award winning play. Moderated by Prof Alan Brody, MIT AssociateProvost for the Arts. Each panelist will speak individually, then among themselves, followedby Q&A with audience. Participants: Laszlo Tisza, MIT Professor of Physics, Emeritus ("Per-sonal Reminiscences of Bohr and Heisenberg") Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics, Emeri-tus, Harvard ("What We Learn from the Newly Released Bohr Documents") Jochen Heisen-berg, Professor of Physics, University of New Hampshire ("Two Heisenbergs, Frayn's and MyFather") Mariette Hartley, actor who portrays Margrethe Bohr in the play Hank Stratton, actorwho portrays Werner Heisenberg in the play. Free. Room: Wong A~ditorium. (E51). Sponsor:Office of the Arts. Goethe-Institut.8:30 p.m. -10:00 p.m. - Sigma XI Lecture. "Computational Capacity of the Universe." Free.Room: Sala de Puerto Rico. Sponsor: Ceramics/Materials Science.

Events Calendar appears in each issue of The Tech and features events for members of the Mil community. TheTech makes no guarantees as to the accuracy of this information, and The Tech shall not be held liable for any loss-es, including, but not limited to, damages resulting from attendance of an event.Contact information for all events is available from the Events Calendar web page.

*Page12 TheTech lCHDJ (tIHIJ (C)(5JEvents Calendar12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - MIT Events Calendar: Learn to Post Your Events Online. See how easyit is to post your MIT event online using the wonderful MIT Events Calendar. Room: N42 Demo.Sponsor: Information Systems.1:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. - Media in Transition 2: globalization and convergence. International con-ference at MIT runs three days, May 10-12. Conference features over 100 scholars and artistscovering a wide range of issues related to globalization and convergence of media. Film, TV,jour-nalism, the Internet and more are covered from a variety of international perspectives. Free- reg-ister at http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2. Room: All conference events take place in E51 except fortele-journeys exhibit in List Visual Arts Center. Sponsor: Office of the Arts, CommunicationsForum, Comparative Media Studies. This conference is sponsored by the MIT Program in Compar-ative Media Studies in cooperation with List Visual Arts Center and support from the Office of theArts and MIT Communications Forum.2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Mechanical Engineering Seminar. "MEMS System Research: Water-Pow-ered Bio Assay, Micro Wankel Engines and Disk Drive Actuators.~ Free. Room: 3-133. Sponsor:ME Seminar Series.3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Nanocomposites. The Warren K. Lewis Lecture in Chemical Engineering-Part of the Chemical Engineering Departments 2002 Spring Seminar Series. Free. Room: 66-110. Sponsor: Chemical Engineering.4:00 p.m. - MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. The Chamber Music Society, coordi-nated by Professor Marcus Thompson. is comprised of students selected by audition to studyand perform chamber music literature. Free. Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater ArtsSection.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Insight or Invention? The need for collaboration in the development ofhigh technology. Inaugural Charles L. Miller Annual Lecture. Free. Room: 6-120. Sponsor: Engi-neering Systems Division, Civil and Environmental Engineering. Cambridge-MIT Institute.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - PSFCSeminar. Edge Turbulence Imaging in Alcator C-Mod and NSTX.Free. Room: NW17-218. Sponsor: Plasma Science and Fusion Center.6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Integrating Faith and Work. Prof. Ron Ballinger (Nuclear Engineering &Materials Science) will speak about the relationship between our faith and the work that we do.We will also have a worship time and go out to dinner afterwards. Free. Room: Student Center,Twenty Chimneys. Sponsor: Graduate Christian Fellowship.6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Boston Celtics Playoff Party. Whether you've never seen a game beforeor are a huge fan, come watch the playoff on our big TV. Enjoy FREEsnacks and desserts. Meetnew people from MIT and Wellesley. Free. Room: Student Center, First Roor. Sponsor: ClubZ.7:00 p.m. - MIT Anime Club Weekly Screening. "Porco Rosso~ and TBA. Most screenings aresubtitled in English. The MIT Anime Club is a non-profit MIT student organization dedicated toincreasing the awareness of Japanese animation (anime) on campus. Free. Room: Rm 6-120.Sponsor: MIT Anime Club.7:00 p.m. - "Mediacracy" in the Americas: The News Media & the Legitimacy of Governments.How was the 2000 US presidential election decided in Florida? Danny Schechter (who hasworked at CNN, ABC, WBCN, WGBH, and now runs mediachannel.org) will show his new docu-mentary film "Counting on Democracy,~ about the role played by the news media on Election Dayand in the recounts that followed. He will also discuss the peculiar behavior of US and Venezue-lan news media during the recent coup in Caracas. Free. Room: MIT 3-133. Sponsor: MIT West-ern Hemisphere Project.8:00 p.m. - The Dining Room. MIT Community Players production of play by MIT Professor Emeri-tus A.R. Gurney. Directed by Megan Bell. $10, $8 other students, MIT faculty/staff/senior citi-zens, $6 MIT/Wellesley students. Room: Kresge Little Theater. Sponsor: MIT Community Players.8:00 p.m. - Resonance of MIT Spring Concert. MIT's newest secular, coed a cappella groupwith guest group: The Dartmouth Subtleties. Free. Room: Rm 54-100. Sponsor: Resonance ofMIT A Capella Group.8:00 p.m. - Playwrights-in-Performance. 3 original student-written plays directed by AssociateProvost for the Arts Alan Brody. "A Day in the Life of Brian~ by senior Dan Tortorice (economics),"M.L." by senior Carolyn Chen (architecture), "Homecoming~ by David Ngo. Free. Room: KresgeRehearsal Rm B. Sponsor: Theater Arts Section.8:00 p.m. - "The Musical World of Joe Lovano." (MIT American Music Series-March 2-May10). MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director with Special guest, Blue NoteRecording Artist, Joe Lovano. A world-renowned jau saxophonist and recording artist, Joe Lovanois one of the most versatile jazz musicians working today. Mr. Lovano will be featured alone, in aduo playing for the first time with special guest pianist Ran Blake (chair, Contemporary Improvisa-tion; Associate Chair of Improvisation, New England Conservatory of Music), in a trio, sax sextet(world premiere piece by MIT Lecturer Mark Harvey), in a nonet, and finally with the entire MITFestival Jazz Ensemble. Music to be performed includes Lovano's own compositions such as"Flights of Fancy" and "Sanctuary Park~, new nonet arrangements of Tadd Dameron's music byWillie Smith, "Sue's Changes~ by Charles Mingus, and others. Special Guest: pianist Ran Blake7:15pm-pre-concert talk by Lovano. $5 at the door. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Musicand Theater Arts Section.

Friday, May 10

9:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. - Media in Transition 2: globalization and convergence. International con-ference at MIT runs three days, May 10-12. Conference features over 100 scholars and artistscovering a wide range of issues related to globalization and convergence of media. Film, TV,jour-nalism, the Internet and more are covered from a variety of intemational perspectives. Free- reg-ister at conference Web site at http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2. Room: Wong Auditorium, E51.Sponsor: Communications Forum, Comparative Media Studies. This conference is sponsored bythe MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies in cooperation with List Visual Arts Center andsupport from the Office of the Arts and MIT Communications Forum.U:OO a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Tele-journeys panel discussion. Panel with participating artists. Pre-sented by the List Visual Arts Center as part of its tele-journeys exhibition (see May 2-July 7) inconjunction with "Media-in-Transition: Globalization and Convergence" organized by MIT's Com-parative Media Studies Program. Free. Room: Wong Auditorium (MIT Tang Center Bldg E51).Sponsor: List Visual Arts Center.5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Opening Reception- Tele-Journeys: Artists from the Rijksakamedlevan Beeldende Kunsten. Organized by MIT Professor and internationally recognized artistJoan Jonas and List Visual Arts Center Director Jane Farver. Artists include: Carlos Amorales,Mark Bain, Yael Bartana, Michael Blum, Runa Islam, Jill Magid, Sebastian Diaz Morales,Fiona Tan and others. Jonas has followed the careers of these artists since they trained Rijk-sakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, where she also teaches. The Rijk-sakadamie, a global think tank and laboratory for the culture of the new millennium, has along tradition as a global art program for the world's most promising professional artists.There, they join in discussion, generating new visions for the future of world culture, whilebringing with them the specifities of their countries of origin. Jonas is interested in theseartists who are from different parts of the world, because, she says, their work, "althoughmade in a western European context, addresses issues of identity and gender in an art worldthat is now global at the same time that it is local. So I find it very interesting that youngartists working with different languages simultaneously are using information that has sifteddown through past 35 years involving performance art, conceptual art, and all forms ofmedia. ~ Exhibit on view May 2-June 30. Free. Room: List Visual Arts Center (E15). Sponsor:List Visual Arts Center.8:00 p.m. - U:OO p.m. - Patrol. Shoot your friends! Travel to strange, new classrooms; meetinteresting, unusual people; and kill them. A team game of shoot-em-up; guns provided. Free.Room: Building 36, First Floor. Sponsor: Assassins' Guild, MIT.

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unclear how large of a problem itwill be. As of now, the number ofuncrowded spaces that are availableis approximately 2,950, while thenumber of spaces that are needed isstill unclear.

"[The number of spaces needed]depends on the size of the freshmanclass, the number of people return-ing from leaves of absence, junioryear abroad, depledging currentfreshman to whom we have guaran-teed spots, and also special consid-erations for medical and counselingsupport," Vallay said. "It is not clearhow many spaces we need."

Vallay said that spaces in thegraduate dorms Ashdown Houseand Sidney-Pacific are still avail-able, and Senior Segue applicationswill be considered if they come in.

"We are still working on someother contingency plans to free up afew more beds here and there," saidDean for Student Life Larry G.Benedict.

Graduate Student Council Presi-dent Sanith Wijesinghe said thatcrowding will still be a problemnext year, despite the progressmade thus far. "Reductions inundergraduate enrollment and/ormore on campus housing optionsare required before overcrowdingceases to be a problem completely,"he said.

However, despite the lower-than-expected numbers for under-graduates moving to graduate hous-ing, Wijesinghe said there wouldstill be a negative impact on gradu-ate students. "Clearly, taking morebeds away from graduate students isgoing to be detrimental," he said."There will be greater pressure oncurrent students to find affordableoff-campus housing."

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Although the Senior Segueattracted only slightly more thanhalf the number of students MIThad hoped for, overcrowding inundergraduate dorms will nonethe-less be reduced next year.

"The worst crowding situationswill be gone next year, such asusing the MacGregor lounges asrooms, and using the New Housedoubles as quads," said DormitoryCouncil President Matthew S. Cain'02. "The singles at [East Campus]will still be used as doubles, but thishas been the case for a while, and itwill still be an improvement."

"We have been able to fix thecrowding situation in the worstcrowds on campus," said Managerof Undergraduate Residential Ser-vices Denise A. Vallay. She saidthat MIT's crowding situationwould still improve despite the lownumbers for the Senior Segue. Only88 undergraduates will move intograduate housing next year, includ-ing sisters from Kappa Alpha Thetawho are moving into Sidney-Pacific,Vallay said.

"Even though it looks like wehave taken only 88 people out of thesystem, that translates into improve-ment in the lives in many more peo-ple - the people who were crowd-ed, and the people people who theywere crowded with," Vallay said."We feel we have made a tremen-dous start and have come a longway towards solving the overcr