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the former site of MIT's famousBuilding 20, a "temporary" spacefor some fifty years.

/"Frank 0.' Gehry, the world-renowned architect of the BilbaoGuggenheim Museum, designed thecomplex of buildings that will housethe Laboratory for Computer Sci-ence, the Artificial Intelligence Lab-oratory, the Laboratory for Informa-tion Decision Systems, and theDepartment of Linguistics and Phi-losophy.

The building's namesake, Ray-mond S. Stata '57, donated $25million to start the project.Microsoft co. founder and chair-man William H. Gates gave $20million to fund a tower of thebuilding bearing his name, andAlexander W. Dreyfoos '54 donat-

By Kevin R. LangNEWS AND FEATURES DIRECTOR

A Middlesex Superior Courtmedical malpractice tribunal yester-day heard a.rguments from bothsides in the suit filed by the parentsof Elizabeth H. Shin '02 againstMIT and numerous administrators,police, and MIT Medical staff.

'The tribunal is expected to rulewithin the next week whether themalpractice claims are likely to suc-ceed, but Shin family attorneyDavid A DeLuca noted that the suitwould not stop regardless of the out-come.

"It's certainly not decisive,"DeLuca said.

Attorneys representing MITMedical mental health doctorsLinda L. Cunningham, Peter Reich,Kristine Girard, Lili Gottfried, andAnthony Van Niel responded toclaims from the plaintiffs that mis-diagnosis and mishandling of Shin'scase ultimately led to her suicide inApril 2000. ,

DeLuca presented three lettersfrom outside mental health expertsthat Shin's parents claim show thatMIT doctors acted negligently andfailed to provide an adequate stan-dard of care. Citing instances whereShin sought care through MIT med-ical approaching the time of herdeath, DeLuca said MIT doctors"failed to address what was a veryclear need at that time."

"The best that MIT could do for

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By Kevin R. LangNEWS AND FEATURES DIRECTOR

Newly arriving freshmen haveundoubtedly heard much about Sim-mons, Hall and its ongoing construc-tion, and many new graduate stu-dents are aware that theSidney-Pacific Street dormitory isopen for business, but these arehardly the only projects on campusright now.

MIT is in the midst of its biggestconstruction' boom since the 1950s.If you have been wondering whatthat crooked mess on Vassar. Streetis, or when the shiny glass buildingnext to the student center will open,read on.

same-day reimbursements."

,Ray and M~ria Stata CenterJutting up from Vassar Street in

every imaginable direction, the Rayand Maria Sta~ Center will stand on

InMIT Construction Boom,Campus Gets NewBuil_

Groups to get petty cash, interestPurinton .also announced an

emergency "petty cash" policy,, under which a student group may

receive up to $200 in cash immedi-ately, freezing its account until theoffice receives receipts accounting

undergraduate resident and currentgraduate resident tutor from EastCampus, said, "I think that this willheighten their awareness and send amessage to the administration that

issued checks on Tuesdays andThUrsdays.

Alvar Saenz Otero, GraduateStudent Council treasurer and for-

,mer Association of Student Activi-ties 'president, worked with the<?fficeon the service enhancements.

"The goal was to make the stu-dent activities office work as muchas possible" like a ~ank, he said."Ideally we would have gotten

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controversial decision to bar studentgroups from holding outside bankaccounts. Topping the list ofchanges is a promise to give studentgroups speedier access to funds intheir accounts.

"If you get your check request inby 1 p.m., you get your check thenex,t day by nomi," said Tracy F.Purinton, assistant dean for studentactivities. Previously, the office only

went inside the PlayFair and that the"Orientation deans start[ ed] tailingus, yelling at us, stealing our inflat-able shark."

Mark C. Feldmeier G, a former

·entation ActiVities Impact Donnitory Rush 1Hbunalwhat's going on is not appreciatedby the students. Hopefully it will IT0a"'~cause some change." nt/I ..t:I

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Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Robert S. Langer SeD '74 addresses the fresh-man class during the President's ConvoCation on Monday. -

By Keith J.:WlnstelnNEWSEDlTOR

The Student Activities Office,which provides banking services to 'student groups and dormitories,announced a series of improvementsyesterday in an_e-mail to studentgroup treasurers.

The changes are part of an effortto make the office's services moreconvenient.~ th~ ,wake of last year's

.. AARON D, MIIIALlK-THE TECH

Craig A. Lebowitz '03 hoses down Daniel J. Katz '03 during Water War II on Kresge Oval. 'West Cam-pus' failed to show up thiS year, so 'Ea,st Campus' fought amongst themselves. '

Student Activiti~sOffice Offers Improved. Semces

MIT's packed schedule of Orien.tation events has had a mixe'dimpact on dormitory rush, witp.some dormitories rebe'ling againstwhat they view as a restrictive offi.cial schedule and others simply see.ing low turnout. "

In a statement. released by the_Dormitory Council in Sunday's issueo£ The Tech, Dormcon said that they.will not prohibit dormitories fromscheduling a rush event at any time.

East Campus and Senior Houseare conducting dormifory rushevents during scheduled Orientationevents and distributing pro-dormito- -ry'rush propaganda during, Orienta.tion events, such as during Sunday's'PlayFair.

In an e-mail written by Daniel E.McAnulty '04 to several publi~ EastCampus and Senior House mailinglist.s, McAnulty said he and others"participated in handing out [the pro.paganda] in front qf Johnston [duringthe PlayFair]. Some of the freshmenthought that we were stupid ... otherfrosh, embarrassed, explained thatthey had been dragged along by theirfriends and that they expected toleave after seeing what it was."

McAilUlty said that he eventually

By Jeffrey GreenbaumSTAFF REPORTER

1be Residence Hall AdjustmentL~ttery closes at 5:00 p.m. today.

Comics OPINIONEric J. Plosky offers his ownbrand of advice for freshmen.

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WORLD & NATIONAugust 27, 2002

In Nod to China, U.S~ToFreezeIslamic Separatist .Gro~p~ts.

Appeals Court Says HearingsCannot Be Closed to Public

WorldCom Executive TriedTo Halt Co-Worker's Questions

LOS ANGELES TIMESWASHINGTON

Beleaguered WorldCom Inc. Controller David Myers tried tomuzzle a co-worker who raised questions about the company's bookswith outside accounting firm Arthur Andersen, according to docu-ments released Monday by a House subcommittee.

Myers sent a threatening e-mail toStevenBrabbs.WorldCom.svicepresident for international controls in London, after Brabbs - allegedlywithout authorization - approached Arthur Andersen about the way inwh~ch millions of dollars in WorldCom expenses were accounted for.

"Do not have any more meetings" with Arthur Andersen, Myerswrote in a Jan. 22 e-mail to Brabbs. "I spoke to AA this morning andhear that you are still talking about asset impairments and facilities. Ido not want to hear an excuse. Just stop. Don't make me ask youagain," Myers wrote.

The e-mail was part of a series of WorldCom documents releasedby the House Financial Services Committee's investigation subcom-mittee, which has been probing questionable accounting practicesthat helped drive the nation's second-largest long-distance carrier tofile for bankruptcy last month.

FBI To Return to Anthrax SceneTHE WASlllNGTON POST

The FBI announced Monday that it will again search the Floridaoffice of American Media Inc., hoping that new techniques willreveal how deadly anthrax spores entered the headquarters of thetabloid publisher last fall.

The new search, which should begin no later than Wednesday,will focus on finding a letter or other method of delivery as well ascollecting additional spores from the Boca Raton office, which hasbeen shuttered and quarantined since it was contaminated withanthrax spores last fall, officials said Monday.

Photo editor Robert Stevens died of anthrax and another AMIemployee, mail room worker Ernesto Blanco, became severely illbut later recovered. Stevens was the first of five people to die inthe series of anthrax attacks last fall.

The FBI searched the mailroom and .workstations of affectedemployees after last fall's attack. It found anthrax spores but no let-ters like the ones that emerged in some of the subsequent anthrax.attacks in New York and Washington. It is not known whether theAMI anthrax was delivered by.mail or in some other fashion.

Banking Executives GiveBrazilHope on Loans

THE WASlllNGTON POST

The troubled international initiative to rescue the Brazilian economygot a shot in the arm Monday as executives of 16 major banks, meetingin the presence of U.S. regulators and Brazilian officials, issued a state-ment voicing their "intention" to maintain credit lines to Brazi1.

The meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York marked animportant effort to shore up the International Monetary Fund's $30billion bailout of Brazil by persuading banks to stop pulling moneyout of the country. Despite the announcement on Aug. 7 that Brazilwould receive the largest loan in IMF history, an outflow of fundsfrom the country has continued, threatening to undermine the U.S.-backed rescue, which is aimed at keeping South America's biggesteconomy from collapse. One of the problems has been the cancelingof credit lines by foreign banks.

Initially at least, the meeting and the statement issued afterwardappeared to produce the desired effect. Brazilian financial marketshave rallied in recent days in part because of the disclosure that themeeting would be held, and Monday the country's main stock indexjumped 4.35 percent.

By Charles LaneTHE WASHINGTON POST

A federal appeals court ruled,Monday that the press and publicmust be allowed to witness immi-gration hearings for suspectsdetained in the Sept. 11 investiga-tion, strongly rebuking the Bushadministration for"its policy of max-irnum secrecy in the war on terror.

A three-judge panel of theCincinnati-based U.S. Court ofAppeals for the 6th Circuit conclud-ed that the news media and ordinarycitizens alike have a constitutional"right of access" to deportation pro-ceedings which was violated by aSept. 21, 2001 Justice Departmentorder closing hearings deemed of"special interest" to the terrorismprobe.

Under' the order, "the ExecutiveBranch seeks to uproot people'slives, outside the public eye, andbehind a closed door," Senior JudgeDamon J. Keith wrote in the opinionfor the court. "Democracies diebehind closed doors. The FirstAmendment, through a free press,protects the people's right to knowthat their government acts 'fairly,lawfully and accurately in deporta-tion proceedings."

The ruling in the case of Michi-

By Henry Chu and Sonni Efron '.LOS ANGELES TIMES

BEIJING

In a political victory forChina's Communist regime, theUnited States has declared it willfreeze the financial assets of ashadowy Islamic group reputedlydedicated to promoting indepen-dence for the northwest Chineseprovince of Xinjiang.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of StateRichard L. Armitage, on a two-dayvisit here, said Monday that theBush administration considers theso-called East Turkestan IslamicMovement a terrorist organizationbecause it carries out attacks oncivilians. China accuses the groupof waging a violent separatist cam-paign in Xinjiang, home to a Tur-

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gan activist Rabih Haddad markedthe' first time since Sept. 11 that amajor component of the Bushadministration's legal approach tothe anti-terror campaign has beendeclared unconstitutional at theappeals coUrt level, which is a stepbelow the Supreme Court.

This ruling is not the last wordon the issue, however. The JusticeDepartment, which had argued thatthere is no right of access to admin-istrative hearings such as those con-ducted by immigration judges, mayappeal the case either to the fullmembership of the 6th Circuit ordirectly to the Supreme Court.

"The Justice Department dis-agrees with the Court's conclusionthat the Department's guidelines fordetermining which proceedingsshould be closed are too broad,"

. said Barbara Comstock, aspokesperson for Attorney GeneralJohn Ashcroft. "The Justice Depart-ment has an obligation to exercise~II available options to disrupt andprevent terrorism within the boundsof the Constitution, ahd will reviewtoday's opinion in light of our dutyto protect the American people."

Department lawyers might waitto shape their full legal strategy.until the Philadelphia-based U.S.

kic-speaking people 1910wn as theUighurs, most of whom are Muslim.

Armitage's announcement cameas a, surprise because until severalmonths ago, Washington, D.C.,explicitly had refused to draw a linkbetween the war it has declared onterrorism and Beijing's attempt tocrush separatist sentiment in theprovince, a large territory rich innatural resources.

In Washington, State .Depart-ment spokesman Richard Bouchersaid that although the United Stateswould freeze the assets of the East .Turkestan Islamic Movement group, .a decision had not been madewhether o~cially to designate it aterrorist organization.

Neither Boucher nor Armitageexplained what specific. information

Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuitdecides a similar c~se pending inthat court.

Under the so-called "Creppymemo," issued by chiefirnmigrationjudge Michael Creppy on Sept. 21,2001, the Justice Department con-siders all immigration. hearingsinvolving terror suspects off-limitsto the pr~ss and public, includingthe detainee's family ..

The mo~t minor disclosure o(information could help- terroristgroups understand how much intel-ligence the government does or doesnot have, underminmg the anti-ter-ror effort, Justice Department offi-cials have ~aid.

But Keith wrote.that the govern--ment had failed to show that secrecywas necessary to protect nationalsecurity in every case.

If the 6th Circuit's approach wereto prevail, current and future depor-

, tation hearings would be presumedopen to outside scrutiny, unless thegovernment could persuade a federalcourt that the proceeding had to becompletely or partially closed. to pro-tect sensitive intelligenc.e.

More than 750 of the 1,200 peo-ple detained in the aftermath ofSept. I 1 were held on immigrationcharges.

had prompted the change in theadministration's thinking.

Other sources said the adminis-tration reportedly has gathered evj-dence from Uighurs captured inAfghanistan. that validates the Chi--nese, assertion that the EastTurkestan Islamic Movement hasconnections to al-Qaida, an.d hascommitted terrorist acts inside andoutside China. These sources said itdecision to place the group ,onAmerica's official "terrorist list"would be forthcoming, perhaps asearly as this week. .

There are reports that the United .States has detained perhaps half adozen Uighur suspects in Guan-tanamo Bay, Cuba, and that the Chi-nese government has been seekingto interrogate them.

Predicting the. WeatherBy Greg LawsonSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

How appropriate that the first forecast of the semester be a difficult one!The synoptic situation is a tricky one. The jet stream, our major weather sys-tem mover, is well to our north, leaving surface highs and lows to head east-ward sluggishly. Late summer and fall often see a large, broad high semi-per-manently settled over the Mid-Atlantic Ocean. It is sometimes called aBermuda high or a blocking high, and New England is currently sandwichedbetween it and another strengthening high over Ontario. The two are battling,leaving a stationary front roughly paralleling the east coast. Instead of the jetstream ushering through full-fledged frontal cyclones (surface lows), the sta-tionary front will allow smaller, weaker disturbances to. travel northeastalong it. The challenge as to whether we'll have rain this week is predictingwhere the stationary front will be and how often and how strong these distur-bances (called short waves) will travel along it. The latest model runs indi-cate our best chances of rain are roughly 50 percent on Thursday.

Regardless of the precipitation, it is evident that the high to our north-west will govern our wind patterns. With the winds spiraling clockwise out-ward from its center, we will soon feel cooler, drier air from the CanadianMaritimes. This should last until the weekend, when the Canadian highfinally dislodges and moves out to sea.

Extended ForecastToday: Very Pleasant. Mostly clear skies. High 72°F (27°C).Tonight: Mostly clear. Light northeasterly winds. Low 60°F (16°C).Wednesday:Cooler with clouds arriving. High 68°F (20°C). Low 58°F

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Bioterrorism Experts Discuss FutureOf United States Public.Health System

Vice President Argues for War,Proomp1ive Strike Against Iraq

White House Lawyers Try to Keep.~asons for Clinton Pardons Quiet• By George Lardner Jr. President himself, and the docu- White House spokesman Scott

THE WASHINGTON POST, ments generated In the process of McClellan said: "The president hasWASHINGTON developing and providing advice to always been entitled to receive 'con-

President' Bush's lawyers are try- him are squarely subject to the priv- fidential advice and candid assess-ing to keep the inside stories of Bill ilege," Assistant Attorney General ments from attorneys in the federalClinton's last-minute pardons secret . Robert D. McCallum Jr. said in an government.~ .. To rele,ase suchwith a claim of execut!ve privilege Aug. 12 memo seeking summary documents would have a chillingthat extends far beyond the.White dismissal of the Judicial Watch effect on the deliberative process."House. case. In the past, even pardon recom-

In pleadings filed in'U.S. District A public interest law firm that mendations sent directly to the pres-Court here this month, including 'has challenged Republican and ident from the Justice Departmentaffidavits from White HouSe Coun- Democratic administrations, Judi- have been routinely made public bysel.~berto Ooniales and Deputy _ cial Watch sued the Justice'Depart- governmerit archivists after the pas-Attorney General LaiTY Thompson, . ment under the Freedom -of Infor- sage of some years. But in responsethe Bush administration is contend- mation Act (FOIA) last year for to other recent requests for histori-

,ing that the privilege covers 'not rc::c~rdsconcerning pardons granted cal files, separate from the Judicialonly advice given to a president or "considered" by Clinton in Janu- Watch suit, the Bush Justice Depaii-

- .about individual pardons, but also ary 2000. The 177 pardons and ment is asserting the same privilegegovernment papers he has never commutations he approved his last to maintain the secrecy of pardonseen and officials he has never day in office kicked up a storm, records as much as 75 years old.talked'to, such as the sentencing especially over the clemency he One set being withheld on instruc-judge in a particular case. bestowed on fugitive financier Marc tions from the Bush White House

In th~ past, executive privilege Rich, a man prominently listed on deals with the clemency grantedhas been recognized for advisers the government's international Marcus Garvey, leader of the back-who operate within the White "lookout" list, and his business part- to-Afr~a movement, who wasHouse. Now Bush's lawyers, in ner, Phlcus Green .. , released from prison in 1927 afteropposing a lawsuit filed by Judicial "It's a bad faith argument," Judi- his convIction for stock fraud.Watch that seekS access to Clinton cial Watch President Tom Fitton Bush has yet to invoke executivepardon records, are saYing it covers .said of the government's position.' privilege in the Judicial Watch case,officials anywhere in the govern- "The courts have already -said that a Justice Department spokeswomanment who are asked for input about executive privilege does not exist, confirmed. In the past, the courtspardon requests. ' outside the White House-. The Bush have said he must do this personal-

The pardon authority is "a core administration is now covering up ly, but the government's pleadingsPresidential power exclusively. for Bill Clinton, ,Marc RicQ and do not indicate whether he intends,entrusted to, and exercised by, the Pinky Green." to do so.

MACAO

For six years, the Starbucks coffeehouse chain has expanded inAsia by selling its coffee to nations of tea drinkers.

Now there's a new challenge.This month, the Seattle-based company opened its first outlet in

one of Asia's few genuine coffee cultures - the former Portuguesecolony of Macao.

"We don'(want to compete directly with the local coffeehouses,"said Pedro Man, president of Starbucks Coffee Asia Pacific Ltd. "Wejust want to be part of the ~cene." That it already is.

Ensconced in an elegant, brightly colored colonial home along theold cobblestone Senado Square that forms the heart of central Macao,the Chinese enclave's newest coffee hangout - corporate flag, greenlogo and all- has generated considerable curiosity.

One day last week, a steady flow of local residents and touristsfrom mainland China warily approached the entrance and' carefullyeyed the invitation offering them to "discover the Starbucks experi-ence."

Many of the curious appeared either too unsure or too shy toenter, but some of the 10 customers sitting at tables inside said theywere already converts.

"It's close to t~e office, and the quality of what you get is good,"attorney Luis Resadas said as he swilled the last of a midmorningespresso. "I'm glad they're here. I'll be back."

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Russian Pleads GuiltyIn Caviar Smuggling Case

TIlE BALTIMORE SUM

For centuries geckos have been revered as one of nature'scoolest climbers. Whether they're skedaddling up smooth glas.s atthree feet a second or dangling from a hotel ceiling by a single toe,there's almost nothing the little lizards can't scale. Greek philoso-pher Aristotle marveled at the gecko's ability to "run up and down atree in any way, even with the head downwards." And for morethan a century the gecko has tormented scientists trying to divinethe secret to its grip.

Now a group of biologists and engineers, who call themselves theGecko Team, has solved the longstanding mystery and created th'efirst artificial adhesive based on the gecko's sticky secret. Theirresearch, published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Acad-emy of Sciences, could lead to everything from exotic new Post-Itnotes to sure-footed space robots capable of climbing Martian cliffs.

The secret to the gecko's grip, it turns out, hinges on one of theanimal world's worst cases of split ends, and a quirky property ofquantum physics known as the van der Waals force.

Geckos have millions of microscopic hairs sprouting from the bot-tom of their feet. The hairs, called setae ("see-tee"), split into asmany as 1,000 tinier hairlets, each capped with a triangular padwhose shape has been likened to a hamburger flipper. These tips,called spatulae, are about the size of a small bacterium.

WASHINGTON

Death Sentence UpheldDespite Lack of Defense

Starbucks. Seeks to EnterMacao's Coffee Culture

LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Scientists Develop AdhesiveBased on Gecko Hairlets

The California Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for a LosAngeles man Monday even though his defense lawyer failed to call asingle witness in the sentencing portion of his trial. .

The state high court decided 5-2 that evidence of the defendant'stragic childhood and abuse in racist Alabama prisons would not havebeen enough to persuade a jury to fix punishment at life instead ofdeath for triple murder.

Records of the trial contain "no indication the jury was inclined tosentence [Jesse James Andrews] to life imprisonment," Justice JaniceRogers Brown wrote for the court.

Justices Joyce L. Kennard and Carlos Moreno dissented, arguingthat a jury might have voted for life had it been told of Andrews' timein brutal and racist penal institutions in the South, including prisonslater found to impose cruel and unusual punishment and juvenilefacilities likened to slave camps.

SAN FRANCISCO

Gourmets beware: That exotic smoky gray delicacy that yourecently spread on a "blini" pancake - perhaps with a dab of sourcream - might have been contraband.

Viktor Tsimbal, a Russian who was the president and owner of theMiami-based Beluga Caviar Inc., pleaded guilty Monday to orches-trating a ring that smuggled large quantities of caviar - more thanRussia's entire annual worldwide export' quota - to the UnitedStates.

Smugglers were paid $500 to carry luggage filled with 50 to 75 1-pound tins of black-market caviar from Poland .to U.S. airports,according to papers filed in U.S. District Court. -

Epicureans pay top dollar - about $100 an ounce - to nibblebeluga roe from Caspian Sea sturgeon, praised for its sublimelysmooth, buttery taste. But the fish species is paying a high price for

. those taste treats, biologists say.Caspian sturgeon are protected under an international treaty that

strictly limits imports and exports of caviar. But Beluga caviar fromCaspian Sea sturgeon is in such peril that the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService has proposed adding it to the endangered species list. Thatwould cease all imports .. "Caspian Sea sturgeon may have been around since the age of

dinosaurs, but/the appetite.of smugglers for profit has the potential toextinguish them from the Earth," said Tom Sansonetti, assistant attor-ney general of the Justice Department's environment and naturalresources division ...

It was in January that PresidentBush signed legislation passed byCongress providing $3 billion forpublic health prepare'dness. By theend of that month, $1.1 billion had

'been awarded to states and majorCities, and 20 percent of that wasmade available immediately .. By. -early June, after state plans for themoney had be~n approved by feder-ill officials, virtually all the state andcity funds had been distributed.

Explaining that federal officialshad a "low threshold for bureaucrat-'ic nonsense," Hauer said they "want-ed to ensure the money was used tobuild a system, not to buy toys."

The funds are being used to ren-ovate laboratories and increase theircapacity, to improve the detection ofbioterror and other infectious dis-ease outbreaks, for health workertraining, bioterror response facilitiesand equipment and the developmentof so-called "surge capacity," mak-ing sure that at least 500 hospitalbeds are available to handle a sud-den influx of bioterror victims.

tion of the world's energy supplies,directly threaten America's friendsthrough9ut the region, and subjectthe United States or any other nationto nuclear blackmail."

Cheney has been hawkish inadministration debates about Iraq,and his remarks Monday were strik-

I ingly firm and explicit. In notabledetail, Cheney listed justificationsfor removing Hussein in what hecalled a "candid appraisal of thefacts." He mentioned Iraqi firing onAmerican and British planes in theno-fly zone imposed after the Per-sian Gulf War; Hussein's efforts to

• assaSsinate former President GeorgeH.W. Bush; the invasions of Iranand Kuwait and the firing of mis-siles at Iran, Saudi Arabia andIsrael; and Hussein's ranking by theState Department as a sponsor ofterrorism for two decades ..

Cheney argued that Hussein hasbroken United Nations agreementsfrom 1991 to end his nuclearweapons program, destroy hischemical and biological weapons,and admit U.N. inspectors ..

served as the Bush administration'sanswer to growing criticism - evenfrom prominent advisers to Presi-dent George H.W. Bush - that ithad failed to make a. detailed andconvincing case for an Americanattack to remove the Iraqi dictator.

While mentioning in passing thatthe administration is considering alloptions and would consult withCongress and allies, Cheney seemedto be ruling out anything short of anattack. He contended that all alter-natives had failed: U.N. agreements,inspectors, international ostracism,even four days of American bomb-ing in 1998., "What he wants is time, and

more time to husband his resourcesto invest in his ongoing chemicaland biological weapons program,and to gain possession of nuclearweapons," Cheney said. "Armedwith an arsenal o~ these weapons ofterror and a seat atop 10 percent ofthe world's oil reserves, SaddamHussein could then be expected toseek domination of the entire Mid-dle East, take control of a great por-

WASHINGTON

most recently, guiding state andlocal responses to the West Nilevirus.

The latest in a series of events "Bioterrot:ism cr~ates enormouselevating the public health .system challenges and risks to the system,"from the distant backwater 'of U.S. Dr. Julie'Gerberding, director of themedicine to a central role in the Centers for Disease Control andnation's defense against terrorism is .- Prevention, said Monday: "If thereunfolding here this week in a cav- is a'silver lining [from the anthraxernous hotel ballroom. attacks], it is that we do have..J

But none of the officials attend- reqewed attention. But we have toing the first meeting of a new advi- make people realize' that it's part ofsory council on public health pre- providing care all the time."paredneSs is gloating about the new Indeed, the formation of therespect - not to mention $3 billion committee - 21 epidemiologists,in federal funding' - they've'gained health school deans and other publicsince last year's anthrax attacks.' healtli experts who report to Tommy

If anything, the potentially over- G. Thompson, secretary of healthwhelming challenge of helping 'to and human services --:::is merely theprepare the nation for a smallpox, Bush administration's latest affirma-botulism, plague, or other bioterror tion of the public health system'sattack energized the council's 21. role in bioterrorism preparedness.members and a. corps of public Jerome M. Hauer, director of thehealth officials to use their new sta- Office of Public Health Prepared-tus and resources also to address ness, itself less than a year old, saidtheir more traditional concerns: con- he knew of "no other time in federaltrolling infectious disease epi- government history when so muchdeIJlics, .immunizing children, and money has g~>Deout so quickly."

By Vicki KemperLOS ANGELES TIMES

By Dana MilbankTHE WASHINGTON POST

CRAWFORD. TEXAS

Vice President Dick Cheneyargued .Monday for a pre-emptiveattack on Iraq's Saddam Hussein,declaring there is "no doubt" the dic-tator has weapons of mass destructionand is preparing to use them againstthe United States and its allies.

The vice president's remarks, toa Veterans of Foreign Wars meetingin Nashville, provided the mostdetailed and passionate case theadministration has made for actiona'gainst Iraq, and it gave tpe issuenew urgency by implying that hos-tilities could not wait long. '

"Deliverable weapons of massdestruction in the hands of a terrornetwork or a murderous dictator, orthe two working together, consti-tutes as grave ,a threat as can be

, imagined;" Cheney said. RepeatingPresident Bush's caution that "timeis not on our side," he added: "Therisks of inaction are 'far greater. than 'the risks. of action," .

Cheney's speech to the veterans

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OPINION

'" n.everthought It would be THIS lonely at the top!"

ErratumYesterday's article on.fuSt-year fresh-

man programs ["Alternative Academic'Programs Offered'1 omitted one option, theMedi.a Arts and Sciences Freshmen Pro-gram, in which students enroll in a specialadvising seminar and two MAS courses,and attend MAS recitations of Physics(8.01) and Introduction to ~olid-StateChemistry (3.091). The program empha-sizes connections between these first-yearcourses and current research at the MITMedia Laboratory. Freshmen interested inthe program can attend the Q&A Sessionand Sign-Up today in E15. More informa-tion on MAS can be found at<~.media.mit.edu/"'.aslfyo.html> .

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The First Step isAdmittingYou Have a Problem

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Eric 1. Plosky

We've all been taught to cooperate, toplay nice, to stay inside the lines if we wantto get things done. "Follow the rules.""Obey the law." "Go through channels."

Yeah, yeah, yeah.With the Class of 2006 beginning to mill

around on campus, now is the perfect time torepeat one of my favorite old chestnuts:Don't listen to any of that crap. From nowon, take the Godfather as your model forgetting things done. Always seize the initia-tive. If you can't bend the rules, break them- sometimes it's the only way to get some-thing done. Don't play word games withyour opponents; crush them. The systemisn't in control; you are .

Look, I realize that if you're a freshman,your head is probably spinning with allthat's going on. (Hey, I remember what it'slike.) But you're an MIT student now.Momentary confusion is no excuse forallowing yourself, for instance, to be suckedinto whatever egregious deal the smilingshills at Fleet Bank are trying to push thisyear. Fortunately, taking control is easy. TheGodfather AttitudeTM Can Be Yours - youneed only keep a few simple precepts inmind.

First, be vocal. If something is botheringyou, complain about it. Loudly. Incompetentor failed attempts at assistance should bereacted to harshly; don't allow yourself to bemollified by half-measures. "Well, at least'they're trying," you might think. So? Ifyou're not actually going to make a differ-ence, forget about it; a difference whichmakes no difference is no difference. Don'tshut up until your concerns are answeredsatisfactorily. (Note that you might have tocompromise a bit on your definition of "sat-isfacto"rily." Compromise is a tactic, not avulnerability.), Be a pragmatist. Figure out what is possi-

ble and then go and get it. Don't chase loftyideals; pursue the practical. Success willencourage you to seek larger and largergoals, and eventually even the lofty might bewithin reach. Start small, paying attention tomatters immediately surrounding you, andyou'll be able to make more of a differencethan the idle dreamer would imagine" possi-ble. You can still 'muse on world affairs andthe karmic nature of the universe, but don'texpect anything to result from such wonder-

. ings. Get down to business.Be shrewd. Figure out who knows what's

going on - in every situation there's alwaysat least one person (not necessarily the per-son in charge) who knows absolutely every-thing -:- and focus your attention. No needto be confrontational or adversarial; in fact,if you're crafty enough, the person on theother end of your problem will suddenlyrealize that he's become your ally.

Be bold. If existing procedures or. organi-zations can't handle what you have in mind,bypass them. Create a whole new way ofdoing thIngs. Start a crusade, as long as youhave the dedication and resources a crediblecrusade requires. Don't fall back on cliches;YOli'll look feeble. Innovate. Put a new spinon an old quark.

Be attentive. If you sense an opening oran op'portunity, grab it. People-watching isalways entertaining and usually rewarding ifyou~re sufficiently perceptive, becauseyou'll soon divine who knows what. Get toknow people's strengths and weaknesses,and determine what they know. Don'tassume that situations will remain forever,helplessly opaque. Look and listen.

Be patient. Get the details, and calmlyscrutinize the fine print. Don't allow your-self to pushed around, pushed into deals,taken advantage of. Know your rights, whatyou're entitled to, and settle for nothing less.Be a commanding presence - in a difficultsituation, speak slowly, be deliberate withyour gestures, and never raise your voice.Take your time. If you have to, raise some-thing, just raise an eyebrow.

. Finally, be irreverent. People who take'themselves too seriously quickly becomeseriously annoying, and have a tendency tofade into obscurity before they have achance to accomplish anything. Keep asense of humor. After all, you may be theGodfather, but this is only MIT, where themotto hidden somewhere on every Brass Ratis IHTFP.

situation. The players, meanwhile, though justi-fied in trying to maintain their favorable posi-tion, must realize that unless the current com-petitive imbalance is addressed, the popularityofbasebaU may be doomed.

A couple of naive solutions have beentossed out there, but neither seems logical.Many people hope that owners and playershammer out some sort of agreement to avoid aw~rk stoppage. Such a solution is narrow-minded, for in order to work out a deal beforeAug. 30, the two sides will have to dodge thecrucial issues facing Major League Baseballand simply work out som~ kind of short-termsolution. The other hope is that if there isindeed a strike, fans will stage a boycott of'their own when the players return to the field,thereby punishing both owners and players andforcing them to realize that the fans' concernsmust be addressed. The problem with that solu-tion is, although there is evidence of gradualdecline in fan attendance and merchandisesales following past work stoppages, there is nohistory of widespread fan boycotts, and to relyon that is foolish ..

Instead, the best hope for baseball fans is along and bitter labor dispute that carries on fora year or so. If both the players and ownersremain s~ubborn and ul!moving, each siderefusing to compromise, then there could possi-bly be a long work stoppage that would extendinto the 2003 season. If that were to happen,then Major League Baseball would no doubtfeel the effects of canceling thousands ofgames, ~nd the two sides would theoreticallyb,e more willing to address the fundamentalissues of the game. Having skewed the entirefinancial spectrum of their sport, owners mustnow pay by canceling an entire season. Thatwould hit their wallets hard, but it would alsobe the only way of forcing the rock solid play-ers' union into legitimate reform of the pillarsof the curre~t setup, specifically revenue shar-ing and a luxury tax. Though a long labor dis-pute_would no doubt hurt the popularity of thegame in the near future, it is the only way ofassuring that professional baseball can remainstrong for decades and centuries to come. It istime for Major League Baseball to cut its lossesand rebuild. '

standards? First of all, stop whining about beingrich, you ungrateful brat. Second of all, if youreally can't stand your family, disown them andstrike off on your own. Be forewarned that yourproblems may be independent of blood; Boyz IIMen's album sales since leaving Motown havemaintained the disappointment felt when Evolu-tion followed II.

Adaptation: Smallville.For Whom: Hopefully Nobody.How: Don't do anything like this show. It

took a silly idea (Superman never made goodtelevision, so why should his apocryphal andambiguous adolescence?), threw in almostcampy villains despite pretending the series was"dark," and then put Metropolis in Kansas, ofall states. There's a reason the comic bookSmallville was in Kansas, people. Nor did theyever make good on the rumored Bruce Waynecameo. Still, people can't get enough of the fakeMatrix effects (i.e., fake Hong Kong wire-

,action), can they? 'Adaptation: Kermit T[he] Frog.For Whom: Dick Clark.How: Some characters are ageless. Literally.

From theinstant theinfantile inter-pretations ofthe Muppets ,appeared in1984's "Mup-pets TakeManhattan, "viewers havebeen treated

. to an unfathomable paradox in which Kermit,that puppet protagonist nonpareil, has coexistedwith himself on the airways at different ages.Recall the episode of Muppet Babies where,although ostensibly a "baby," (but clearly olderthan Robin, his tadpole-of-a-nephew) Kermitalso appears as an adult in one of Gonzo's fan-tasy sequences. ~ost recently, he has appearedasa juvenile in the new "movie" "Kermit'sSwamp Years," which mucks with the alreadyquestionable continuity of the franchise (is hemarried to Miss Piggy or not, and why do theyeat at Denny's?). Anyway, this illumes the pathfor any of us who don't wish to advancethrough abyss just yet, instead remaining a Toys

, "R" Us kid, if you will: be confusing.

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certain cap, causing wealthier teams to thinktwice about spending i~ordinate amounts ofmoney on players' salaries. ~ot surprisingly,the players and owners are miles apart on thisissue, with the union adamant in its objectionsto a luxury tax, while most owners feel it is anecessary component of the financial structure~f the game. At last check, the two sides were.$30-40 million apart in'their proposed luxurytax caps, with the players' proposal affectingonly one team ..

In the end, baseball may very well be "incur-able. The owners' proposals 'are clearly- the' .more logical, and their plans for revenue shar-ing, a luxury tax, and a host of other minorissues would almost certainly improve the stan-dard of the game and inject some enthusiasmand interest into younger fans (as of today,Major League Baseball's fan base is the ol<!estof America's four major professional sports).The players' union, meanwhile, clearly doesnot rate competitive balance as being as impor-tant as salaries on its list of priorities. Unionhead Donald Fehr, who affects his industry asfew other labor chiefs can, appears to lack thelong-term vision nee4ed to preserve interest inthe sport.

Yet at the same time, while the owners arefinally realizing what ~eeds to take place fortheir game to return to national prominence andfend off the charge of booming organizationslike the National Football League_ andNASCAR, they are still the ones responsiblefor the current situation. Had they not exorbi-tantly spent beyond their means, drivingsalaries far beyond reasonable market value,the state of the game would not be so grave asiUs today. Along similar lines, ~t is difficult tojustify blaming the players for simply trying toearn as much money as possible. After all, if aplayer is used to earning $10 million a year,why should he accept a system that could con-ceivably cut that number down to $6-7 million?

The bottom line is that Major League Base-ball is busted. It is not the product it once was,and it no longer commands a dominant share ofthe professional sports industry. While theowners are to blame for driving player salariesand ticket prices to ridiculous levels, they must

, at least be commended for trying to remedy the

Adopting AdaptationsPhilip Burrowes

Augtist 27, 2002

.VivekRao

With yet another Major League Baseballwork stoppage looming on the horizon, theworld of sports is abuzz with frustration, anger,and outrage aimed at both the players and theowners, with fans and media alike furious atthe Possibility of a strike. Yet as the appointedhour draws closer - the union has vowed towalk out on Aug. 30 if a ~ettlement has not yet,been reached - it is becoming apparent to anytrue fan of the game that a strike is' the onlything left that can save the future of baseball.

At the heart of the crisis currently facingour national pastime is the great _dividebetw~nthe "haves" and "have-nots" of Major LeagueBaseball. As long as teams like ~e New YorkYankees and Boston Red Sox can afford to out-spend' their competitors, thereby amassing themost talented rosters, Sl11allmarket teams suchas the Kansas City Royals and MilwaukeeBrewers will continue tQ suffer, and so willinterest in the game. The c,urrent dearth of co~-petitive balance plagues the game far morethan any steroid controversies' or designatedhitter rules ever will .. '

Perhaps baseball fans can take some solacein the fact that current labor negotiations arecentered around narrowing the gap between thesport's rich .and not-quite-so rich. Revenuesharing is no doubt the most obvious solution,as it would force teams to contribute some por-tion of their local earnings to a communal pot,with that money then being distributed amongall the teams.

This ~ould prevent teams with massivelocal media contracts from gaining the. upperhand over their less fortunate counterparts. Thecurrent labor agreement calls for some amountof revenue sharing, but clearly not enough.While both sides of the dispute believe inincreasing revenue sharing, they cannot seemto agree on how much, as players are reluctantt<:>hinder the spending power of the big moneyowners.

The other primary point of contention is theluxury tax, which is essentially an alternatemanifestation of a salary cap. A luxury tax onlygoes into effect on portions of a payroll above a.

South Asian BBC comedy into a "Mexican-American" sitcom suggests that when all elsefails, pretend to be Latino.

One's first year at a new school is more than Adaptation: Halloween: Resurrection.just advancing ~other step, it's a blind leap into For Whom: Someone trying to breathe newan abyss from which one may never escape. To. life into a tried and true concept.escape such impending doom, intrepid scholars How: Throw several Next Best Thingsm~st steel themselves to wage battle anew (Busta Rhymes, Tyra Banks, the Internet) intoagainst the hordes of professors, TAs, and the mix and hope something sticks. Unfortu-"curve-wrecking peer. No matter how heralded, nately, acquiring individual people would behow lauded, how well accomplished they once difficult given the 13th Amendment and all -were, their slate has been wiped clean, and to blame the GOP - but it's a surefire semi-hit ifrest on their laurelslheraldslaccomplishments is you do.therefore tantamount to satisfaction with noth- Adaptation: WWFIWCW.ing. A plan is necessary, not some ad hoc, per- For Whom: Former competitors who mustfunctory push towards a PhD. Why waste time now share the same space.and energy, however, making a new plan when How: Just because that jerk from yourold ones lay ripe for the taking? You just have .Sophomore Spanish class also got into MITto know who you are, where you want to end doesn't mean you have to be great friends.up, and the right place to look. Don't simply pretend he doesn't exist, however;

Take our own Athena system, which recent- mock him mercilessly using all the dirt youly doubled the default stot:age space available to learned about him in high school. Internecinea single account and will eventually change the competition provides an edge to keep you goingpassword to the various clusters around campus. without the threat of truancy officers.Any person who uses computers on a regular Adaptation: Jennifer Love Hewitt! Angiebasis - even those NMC weirdos - should MartineZ ..

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case against MIT and non-medicalfaculty and staff is ongoing,DeLuca said, with depositionscontinuing.

Shin's family filed the lawsuitagainst MIT and its employees onJan. 28 and indicated their intent toseek damages of $27.65 million.The faQ1ily alleges that MITadministrators, medical workers,and campus police officers actedwith gross negligence and failed toprovide adequate care to theirdaughter.

Gottfried saw Shin before suicideWhile Cunningham was Shin's

primary contact' with MIT Medical,Gottfried had contact with her at acritical time, DeLuca said. He citedShin's arrival at MIT Medical onApril 4, 2000, when she appeared"almost delusional," DeLuca said.Gottfried, who was there at the time,met with her for 30 minutes beforerecommending that she continuetreatment with Cunningham.

However, DeLuca said Katz was"extremely critical of Dr. Got-tfried's cursory review of Eliza-beth's condition at that time."DeLuca claimed that Gottfried didnot review her medical records atthat time.

Ryan, also Gottfried's attorney,noted that Gottfried saw Shin on-only one occasion a's a walk-inpatient, that she recommended Shinsee Cunningham on April 6, andthat Gutheil' s report was supportiveof Gottfried's care.

Discovery ongoing in caseThe discovery phase of the,

provide adequate treatment, failureto provide continuity of care, failureto follow up, and failure to take pro-tective measures for Shin's own

, safety. DeLuca called Girard'sactions "inadequate and irresponsi-ble," saying that she diagnosed Shinwith the same "broad brush" sheused to diagnose 'many other stu-dents.

However, John Ryan, Girard'snoted that in Gutheil' s letter, he saidGirard provided care within reason-able standards, and Katz did notcomment at all on the quality ofGirard's care.

"They affirmatively support Dr.Girard," Ryan said. He also note'dthat Girard did not become associatedirector of MIT Medical untilAugust 200 I, making the argumentof administrative responsibilityirrelevant.

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Reich led MIT Medical at timeThe claims against Reich allege

that as the director of MIT Medical,he was in a position to set policiesfor his staff that could have givenShin more aggressive treatment thatmight have prevented her death,DeLuca said. Reich was "in a posi:-tion to provide ,that 'kind of treat-ment policies and procedures," hesaid.

DeLuca also alleged that Reichfailed to follow up on Shin whenshe did' not see a staff psychologistin November of 1999. Shin wasoriginally referred directly to Reich, 'but he sub~equently directed her tothe staff psychologist.

However, Reich's attorney notedthat Katz saw no negligence forReich. He also cited precedents inwhich department heads were notheld liable for the negligence ofdoctors working under them.

Shin's courseload in the spring of2000. Hinchey argued that Shinneeded to be kept involved in MlTbecause she was receiving supportfrom friends and, professionalsthere, but Shin chose not to involveher-parents. She also worked withTemelini to coordinate outside carewith a behavior-therapy group inCambridge, which Hinchey called"a premier program from a patientlike Ms. Shin."

As time progressed towardShin's April 2000 suicide, Hincheysaid, all of the steps were in place tobegin intensive treatment. Shin toldCunningham that she was not suici-dal, and that she was speaking to herparents despite being afraid of dis-appointing them. "The care provid-ed by Dr. Cunningham was appro-priate," Hinchey said.

Cunningham's actions contested, Cunningham, who worked most

closely with Shin, gave her "a ratherthorough evaluation," DeLuca said.However, he presented Wright'sargument that "she failed to takeany appropriate action that wouldhave kept Elizabeth safe." Wrightcited numerous deviations from thestandard of care Shin should haveexpected, including a failure to pro-vide an adequate support systemand discuss the option of. medicalwithdrawal from MIT.

DeLuca also cited Katz's opin-ion that Cunningham failed toappreciate the severity of Shin'scase, and that this failure directlycontributed to her suicide.

However, Edward T. Hinchey,one of Cunningham's attorneys,cited 'counterexamples to many ofDeLuca's arguments. He said thateven though Cunningham was onlya part-time MIT employee workingone day per week as a psychiatrist

, in the medical. department, Shin pre-ferred seeing her on a regular basisrather than another doctor.

In addition, Cunningham sought Girard's'care called 'inadequate'additional help for Shin, through DeLuca said that Wright wasAssociate Dean Arnold R. Hender- particularly critical of Girard, citingson, the head 'of counseling and sup-. "a number of deficiencies" includ-port servi~es at MI:r, to lighten, i ing failure to diagnose, failure to

claimed that Wright and Katz didnot have access to notes fromEleanor Temelini, a social workerwho helped coordinate Shin's carewith Cunningham. The MIT attor-neys claimed that Gutheil did havethese notes, and thus his evaluationof the case was much more favor-able toward MIT.

However, in a rebuttalfollowingthe defendants' dosing statements,DeLuca said that all three doctorshad full access to Temelini's notes.

,"That frankly was a very surprisinginaccuracy," DeLuca said. "We didindeed provide all the records."

Attorneys for the defendantscould not be reached for comment.

-Tribu~al questions Shin's histo'ryThe tribunal comprised a med-

ical doctor, a legal expert, and ajudge. The legal' expert questionedwhether Shin sought treatment overthe summer of 1999, after havingbeen treated 'at MIT that' spring. 'DeLuca said th~tthe Shin familyrelied on MIT Medical doctors'advice~ which did not include a rec-ommendation for additional treat-ment over the summer.

,Regarding Shin's mental healthproblems in high school, allegedlyresulting from her, graduation assalutatorian instead of valedictorian,,DeLuca said "her parents' wereaware that'she was upset aboutthat," but, did not know the extent towhich the incident troubled Shin asshe described it to MIT Medicaldoctors in i999.

Outside experts evaluate<J caseDeLuca's arguments were large-

ly based on letters from doctors Vir-ginia Wright, director of suicideprevention at the University of Vir-ginia; Bernard Katz" a forensic psy-chiatrisf; and Thomas Gutheil, aHarvard Medical School professorof psychiatry ~d expeIt on suicideand psychiatric c¥e. ', i'\.ttorneys for the MIT doctors

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her at a very critical time ... wasprovide her with a telephone consul-tation," he added.

"That is the sad story," DeLucasaid. "Dr. Cunningham, Dr. Got-tfried simply passed her off."

In his closing statement, DeLucaargued that MIT did not make useof an exception in its privacy poli-cies, based on the Family Educa-tional Rights and Privacy Act,allowing parents to ,be notified in

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Many upperclassmen and fresh~men have said that dormitory rushhas turned out to be a chance forupperclassmen and freshmen tomeet rather than for upperclassmento recruit freshmen.

"I think that the dorms are doinga really good job of making it likelast year's rush," Lichter said.

Carly A. Saylor '05 said thatBurton-Conner will not host anyevents that co~flict' with the Orienta-tion events.

Amanda M. Stockton '04, arecruitment chair' for McCormickHall, said that McCormick is not.hosting any events that conflict withOrientation. Stockton said that thisis a chance for McCormick's girls toget oriented with MIT as well asMcCormick. .

Laurie A. Eich '03,. who is the.rush chair for-Baker House, saidthat Baker is not holding many rushevents this year.

'~I think that the majority of thepeople who are living in Baker pre-ferred it first, so I don't think thatthey are going to move out,"'Eichsaid. "Ws disappointing, we don'treally have to do niuch~" -~

Freshmen explore passivelyMany freshmen have said that

they are looking at the other dormi-tories .during dormitory rush, butthat they intend on remaining in'their current assignment. .

Chen Li '06, who'is living atEast Campus, said "it's great ... I'm .going to stay." She said she has vis-.ited Simmons Hall and might visit ..some of the other dormitories. -

Several' commented tiiat theyenjoy the free food, but that theevents are not helping them in thedormitory selection px::ocess., Stephanie Lee '06 said that "I

don't feel like .eafutg.ice cream andother foods will help me decidewhere I :want to live;" However, Leesaid that' these events are fun tohave before classes begin.

Melissa w. Gregson '06 said that"the way that they are doing dormrush is confusing. I just want to set-tle in already." Gregson, nonethe-less. said that "the choice.i~ cool."

Mattenberger said that JIe likes .visiting the other dorms during rush

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before classes begin," Benedict said.Because of the changing Orien-

tation schedule, Benedict said that"we sent out even more informationto the students so that they couldmake a more informed decision.Given that people have better infor-mation, people can make a moreinformed decision, and less peoplewill need to move."

Benedict said that students "havea legitimate point" that the freshmenshould meet the upperclassmen, buthe also said that the process' couldbe sped up given that the dormito-ries send the incoming freshmen somuch material.

For example, incoming freshmenwere asked to complete question-naires to help better assign them totheir rooms. '. Benedict said that "I have hadseveral complaints that many ques-tionnaires were ignored."

Dorm events rather uneventfulDespite Dormcon's advice tq

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Some skip scheduled eventsJosiah B. Rosmarin '06, who did

not attend Monday's President'sConvocation, is currently living atEast Campus. Instead, Rosmarinparticipated in East Campus' Eastvs. WestW~lterWar. '. He Said that "nothing is manda-tory, and I'm living by that."

Jonathan B. Downey '06 also didnot attend the President's Convoca-tion because "J had a lot of stuff todo, such as buying books." In.addi-tion, Downey decided to take a tourof East Campus and realized that"it's a lot cooler than what peoplemake it out to be." - . -

"I'm going to go to the eventsthat I want to go to," he said.

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