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By Josh HartmannCHAIRMAN

A burning elevator motor in the basement of McCormick Hallyesterday afternoon sent smoke billowing up to the fourth floor andforced the evacuation of approximately 60 residents. No one wasinjured.

"It created a lot of smoke," said Bailey E. Hewit, the all-femaledormitory's house manager. "The elevator stopped, and the smokewent up to the fourth floor - it was heaviest on the second floor. Thefire alarm was pulled by a CP and the building was evacuated."

Campus Police and firefighters from the Cambridge FireDepartment responded to the I p.m. alarm, Hewit said. The elevatoris out of service, she said.

No one was in the elevator at the time, and the 60 residents whowere evacuated were left outside for about 30 minutes, Hewit said.

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There's been a lot of publicity about the Elsewhere Lounge, anescape from Residence/Orientation Week on the fifth floor of theStudent Center.

But on the other side of campus is another Elsewhere, calledQueer Elsewhere.

Queer Elsewhere was acted "in response to a heightened level ofhomophobia during rush," said Joseph A. Powers '92, a QueerElsewhere staffer. "We're not just neutral [towards lesbian, bisexual,and gay people], but pro."

It provides a place where gays and lesbians can be proud of theiridentity and talk positively about what living groups can be good liv-ing environments for themn. Powers said. But Kristen K. Nurnmerdon'93 added that she fcels rush is more heterocentric than hornophobic.

The staffers at Queer Elsewhere can also act as a go-betweenbetwecn freshmen and living groups that they may be intcrcsted inrushing. "Freshmen feel they can't say they're gay because of thepressure of rush," Powers said.

Rush "definitely makes you more hornophobic," said C. LindiweEmoungu G. adding that freshmen feel the need to fit in and makenew friends during this time.

There is an extreme pressure by fraternities and sororities duringrush towards heterosexuality and gender roles, Powers said. Withoutinformnation necessary to make an informed housing decision, gaysand lesbians will probably either leave their living group or remaincloseted, according to Johanna L. Hardy '93.

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Rush chairs at many houses, aswell as Neal H. Dorow, advisor tofraternities and independent livinggroups, stressed that the "goal"numbers given to the Office of theDean for Undergraduate Educationand Student Affairs were approxi-mate, and that houses often putdown the number of availablespaces rather than the number thatthey must pledge in order to consid-er it a successful rush.

Rush chairs interviewed lastnight were generally upset by theprospect that pledge numbers mightbe published, saying that the num-bers were confidential. Eric C.Nehrlich '94, rush chair at TauEpsilon Phi, said that publishingthese numbers was similar to "gos-sipping," and refused to commentfurther.

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(Fiji), Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi KappaTheta,' and the Women'sIndependent Living Group - werebelow 50 percent of their goal. Anumber of rush chairs refused toconfirm the statistics, but refused todeny the validity of the data.

These same data showed twoother houses, Delta Psi (Number 6)and Tau Epsilon Phi, were at aboutthe halfway point as of last night.Delta Psi members had originallyset a goal of 15 new members, buttold The Tech last night they wereseeking only nine.

A number of ILGs were alreadyfull by yesterday afternoon, and sev-eral others declared themselvesclosed later in the day. FenwayHouse and Zeta Beta Tau exceededtheir rush goals by one person each,and both continued to be open tonew freshman bids.

Student House, which said that itwas looking for 16 new residentsthis year, had found 10- 12 new resi-dents as of last night, including fivefreshmen.

Independent living groupsappear to be enjoying a moderatelysuccessful rush this year, and by lastnight some houses had at least asmany pledges as they had hoped tofind, according to Clearinghousedata as well as information obtainedby The Tech.

But a large number of houseswere far below expected pledgetotals as of yesterday afternoon.Rush chairs at most of-these livinggroups remained optimistic that theywould approach.their goals, howev-er, saying that they were waiting tohear from a number of freshmen.Many added that while fewer fresh-men had visited their houses thisyear, the freshmen were of "higherquality" than those in previousyears.

According to Clearinghouse data/from yesterday afternoon, after overone full day of pledging, somehouses -- Alpha Delta Phi, DeltaKatppa Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta Rush, Page 7

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"bring everybody to a commonbase," Witt said. "Students whodidn't have chemistry shouldn'thave to be penalized. They have towork a little bit harder, but tradi-tionally ... the students who didn'thave chemistry do, in average, atleast as well, if not even better thanthe students who did have chem-istry."

In addition to teaching the theoryof topics such as atomic structures,crystal structures, and reactions ofsolids with the environment, Wittwill also spend the last 5 to 10 min-utes of each class introducing differ-ent applications of the theory.

Some topics he wants to stressinclude magnetic materials, super-conductors, infrared systems, silicon

systems, polymers, new develop-ments in processing, and high tem-perature systems.

Witt said he wants to show "therelevance of the theory in daily life,in research, and in technology, tomake chemistry relevant in the eyesof those who don't see it."

"One of the things I would liketo do is to make better use of theAthena network. Athena can help uscommunicate bettor.'

Athena will be used to help inthree-dimensional visualization incrystallography, as well as withhomework assignments, lecturesummaries, grades, and the classschedule. They are also "in the

In a week, freshmen will be fac-ing their first lectures at MIT. Themajority will be taking the requiredfreshman core courses in mathemat-ics and the sciences. Meet the someof the professors who teach theseclasses:

3.091Introduction to Solid State

Chemistry, 3.091, "is fundamentallya chemistry course. We stress thechemistry of the solid state," saidProfessor of Material Scicnce andEngineering August F. Witt. Wittwill teach the course the fall semes-ter.

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF.

Having crashed through their final budget deadline this side ofElection Day, state lawmakers remained in the Capitol Tuesday pasttheir scheduled adjournment in an attempt to finish a package of fis-cal bills and finally get California's long budget crisis behind them.

Assembly Democrats appeared ready to give Gov. Pete Wilsonmost of what he has demanded on education spending, with only theterms of their surrender left to be negotiated.

The Democrats' last hope for significantly denting Wilson'sdemands faded early Tuesday morning when the governor promptlyvetoed a Democrat-backed education bill that reached his desk justafter midnight. Although that measure contained almost all of aSenate-passed bill Wilson supported, he said that he could not sign itbecause it lacked a provision to suspend the state's constitutionalguarantee for'school funding in the event that the education budget isstruck down by the courts.

As lawmakers gathered for late-afternoon floor sessions, stateTreasurer Kathleen Brown was redeeming IOUs with money bor-rowed from the state employees pension fund.

Controller Gray Davis, meanwhile, prepared to churn out thou-sands of checks to vendors who have been providing goods and ser-vices to the state without reimbursement since July 1. Davis said thathe would begin paying the $3 billion in overdue bills as soon asWilson signs a budget. The first payments would be made with IO~suntil the treasurer can borrow money to ease the state's cash crunch.

Wilson on Tuesday met in his office with the Republican mem-bers of the Senate and Assembly to plot strategy for the evening. Healso reviewed the $57.6 billion spending plan on his desk, looking foritems he might trim with his line-item veto. Wilson has vowed not tosign the budget until the Legislature sends him the entire package ofbills needed to make it balance.

Bush Clealos Way for SaleOf Warplanes to Taiwan

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By William R. LongLOS ANGELES TIMES

ment. Collor's support in the Senatealso is dwindling. Marco Maciel,the government leader in the Senate,announced his resignation from thatposition Tuesday morning.

In the afternoon, leaders of theOrder of Brazilian Lawyersmarched from their headquarters tothe Congress building, followed bya throng of anti-Collor demonstra-tors. They all crowded into the fronthall of the building for the sched-uled presentation of the impeach-ment request. The ceremony wasinterrupted by shouting and scuf-fling as hundreds of people pressedagainst one another in the swelter-ing hall.

Marcello Lavenere Machado,chairman of the association, said theimpeachment request was beingmade "in the name of all citizens ofthe nation."

The document says that the pres-ident and his relatives "receivedlarge quantities of money, as well asother goods, with no indication ofthe illicit origin of those advan-tages." It adds that the money" came from a criminal organizationfor exploiting prestige and traffick-ing in influence, controlled by PauloCesar Cavalcante Farias."

Farias is a businessman andCollor's former campaign fund-rais-er. A report issued last week by a

congressional investigative commit-tee accused Farias of using collect-ing millions of dollars in bribesfrom companies doing business withthe government.

The report was deliveredTuesday to the attorney general'soffice, which is reported to bepreparing criminal charges againstCollor.

Collor has repeatedly denied anywrongdoing and has vowed that hewill not resign.

"I'm not a man for resigning,"he said in a television interviewbroadcast late Monday. "I'm not aman for running away from a fight."

Collor said that he erred by trust-ing people he should not have trust-ed, including Farias.

Pinheiro, the chairman of thelower house, told reporters that thecommission will have 10 days tostudy the impeachment request.Then Collor will have 20 days torespond before a final vote of thefull house.

If Collor's allies and opponentscooperate to streamline the process,it could be shortened to less than amonth, Pinheiro said. If they do not,"it will be a painful process andprobably will take longer," he said.

BRASILIA, BRAZIL

A formal request for impeach-ment, submitted by Brazil's pressand bar associations in a tumultuousceremony Tuesday, started the legalprocess that could suspend PresidentFernando Collor de Mello fromoffice by the end of the month andeventually lead to his ouster.

In a packed congressional hall,just across the street from the presi-dential palace, the president of thebar association read proposed arti-cles of impeachment accusingCollor of dishonestly receiving illic-it funds.

Ibsen Pinheiro, chairman of thelower house of Congress, acceptedthe request and told reporters laterthat he hoped to bring the matter toa final vote in the house by the endof the month. If it passes by a two-thirds majority, Collor wouldbecome the first president of LatinAmerica's biggest country to beimpeached.

He would then be suspended for180 days and tried by the Senate. Iffound guilty by the Senate, hewould be ousted from the presiden-cy.

Informal polls of the lowerhouse this week indicate that a two-thirds majority now favors impeach-WASIHII NGTON

Overturning a decade of U.S. policy toward China, President Bushhas decided to clear the way for the sale of American F- 1 6 warplanesto Taiwan to counteract Beijing's growing military powecr, adminis-tration sources and congressional officials said Tuesday.

The president is expected to make an official announcementWednesday during a trip to Texas. While White House officialsTuesday would not officially confirm the decision to sell the jet fight-ers, they did acknowledge that Bush would stop in the Fort Wortharea Wednesday and would meet with workers at General Dynamics,the company that produces the F- I6s.

A spokesman for Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said Tuesdaynight that the senator "has been reliably informed" that Bush willmake public his approval for the sale of F-16s to Taiwan during hiscampaign swing in Texas.

The F^16 salc will mark an important victory for Taiwan and adefeat for China on an issue on which both governments have beenmaneuvering since the early 1980s. Bush's decision will also appar-ently be a significant setback for France, which has been hoping tosell its own warplanes to Taiwan to help salvage French defenseindustries,

Asked how the Bush administration will explain its decision toBeijing, one U.S. official quipped, "It's like the old one where youhave to kick your kid in the fanny and say, 'This hurts mne more thanit hurts you.' "

The administration's decision demonstrates the close interactionbetween foreign policy and presidential politics. In late July, GeneralDynamics said it was planning to lay off 5,800 of the 20,000 workersat its plant in Fort Worth over the next two years. Texas Gov. AnnRichards, a Democrat, quickly and publicly blamed the loss of jobson Bush's opposition to the sale of jet fighters to Taiwan.

Only a few days later, the president, during another campaign tripto Texas, told reporters there that he wuas reconsidering the longstand-ing U.S. prohibition against allowing Taiwan to buy advancedAmerican warplanes. - .l~

Ten years ago, in an agreement which then-Vice President Bushhelped to negotiate, the United States signed a joint communiquewith China's Communist government, agreeing to restrict U.S. armssales to Taiwan and eventually to phase them out. The deal wasworked out at a time when Taiwan was seeking to persuade theReagan administration to let it buy F-16s.

American officials now argue that the military balance betweenChina and Taiwan has been fundamentally changed by Beijing'srecent purchases of Russian Sukhoi 27 warplanes, which areadvanced jet fighters with a range of more than 2,400 miles.

Fair wvveathrer ContinuesBy Michael MorganSTAF F METEOROLOGIST_ _ _ _

NASSAU, BAHAMAS

The first hint of trouble is at thetiny airport on Eleuthera, the mostnortheastern of the Family Islandsof the Bahamas. A small plane isperched upside down, wheels to thesky.

Then come the surreal images inthe little settlement of Current -children's clothes hanging in thetrees, not to dry, but tossed by awave that topped a 30-foot ridgebetween Current and the AtlanticOcean; 'a- car nose'deep in -treebranches and sludge, and a row ofcoffee jars that stands even thoughthe cupboard and house that con-tained it is not in sight.

It was on the small Caribbeanisl'and, population 10,000, thatHurricane Andrew first came callingabout 5 p.m. EDT Aug. 23, andnorth Eleuthera took considerablepunishment. Nassau, the capital; andnearby Freeport were almost unaf-fiected.

Only 10 percent of Current's fewhundred houses are standing, therest reduced to piles of timber andshattered glass so familiar in Floridaand Louisiana, Andrew's subse-quent targets.

The hurricane's main weapon onEleuthera was not wind or rain butthe sea. Residents said Monday thatAndrew sucked water three milesfrom shore, then blew it back againin a mighty wall of water. U.S.weather forecasters confirmed thatAndrew hit Eleuthera with at leastan 1 8-foot tidal surge but said windspeeds could not be clocked for lackof anemometers.

On Eleuthera as in thle UnitedStates, early warning about the hur-ricane held down the death toll,authorities said. The dead included awoman who drowned because sherefused to seek refuge in her attic,and a man, 90, who suffered a heartattack before the stormn arrived.

Although everyone in Currentsurvived, there is sufferi ng. Theisland's only road -known, in areminder of the Bahamas' Britishcolonial past, as the Queen'sHighway -is impassable to mostvehicles, parts of it under three feetof water.

High pressure crests over the region today and moves off to oursoutheast on Thursday. An approaching disturbance from theMidwest will increase our chances for measureable precipitation lateThursday.

Today: Mostly sunny and mild. High 75°F (24°C), cooling to theupper 60's (20'C) along the coast as a feeble see breeze develops.

Tonight: Clear. Low 60'F (16'C).Tuesday: Increasing clouds and milder. Showers arriving toward

sunset. High 79°F (26°C).Friday: Variably cloudy with showers. High around 77°F (25°C).

Low in the low 60's (17°C)

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Florida Property Owners to CollectAbout $7.3 Billion in Insurance

By Albert B.. CrenshawTHSE WASHINGTON POST

Property owners in Florida will collect some $7.3 billion in insur-ance as a result of damage inflicted by hurricane Andrew, making thestorm the most costly natural disaster in U.S. history, industry offi-cials said Tuesday.

And those figures cover only Florida and only privately insuredlosses. Damage to public property _ roads, bridges, schools and fed-eral facilities such as Homestead Air Force Base _ is not included,nor are losses from Louisiana.

Preliminary estimates put overall damage in Florida at $15 billionto $20 billion.

"The dollar amount of. these numbers is truly staggering andgrowing by the hour," said Florida Insurance Commissioner TomGallagher.

Andrew packed winds of more than 160 mph when it crashedacross the southern tip of Florida before heading across the Gulf ofMexico and into Louisiana. It leveled towns, ruined 85,000 homesand leR thousands of other homes temporarily unusable.

"It looks like Hiroshima out there," said Bill Davis of theInsurance Information Institute, a trade group that helped in assessingdamages.

Insurance industry officials say their adjusters report that theyhave never seen such devastation on so wide a scale. Company repre-sentatives often cannot find the property they have insured becausestreet signs, addresses and sometimes even the property itself havevanished.

"And if by some chance they are able to hook up with the insured(property owner), and they give him a check, there's no bank to cashit. And if somehow they get cash, there's no store" to spend it in, saidMarc H. Rosenberg of the Insurance Information Institute.

"The damage was unprecedented in the United States. -The worstI've ever seen," Paul Landers, a veteran claims specialist for StateFarm Insurance, told the Reuter news agency.

The $7.3 billion in insured losses dwarfs $4.2 billion paid out byinsurers for Hurricane Hugo, which crashed through South Carolina,North Carolina and Virginia in 1989. The only other disaster to top$1 billion in recent times was last year's Oakland, Caiif., fire, whichcost insurers $1.2 billion.

Andrew would even top the damage caused by the great SanFrancisco earthquake and fire in 1906, which, according to the insur-ance industry, would have cost $5.1 billion in today's dollars.

In all, some 700,000 insurance claims are expected in Florida as aresult of Andrew.

Insurers hastened to reassure policyholders that the industry hasenough money to pay claims, and that it will be able to so withoutdisturbing financial markets.

Property insurance companies' assets are "very liquid,"Rosenberg noted, and although insurers are handing out initial checksof $500 to as much as $5,000 to devastated homeowners, most of themoney will be paid out over the coming weeks and months as claimsare settled, damage repaired and homes rebuilt.

Insurers are also concerned that contractors, repairmen and suppli-ers will attempt to gouge homeowners who need repairs or in manycases the entire reconstruction of their house.

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By Blaine HardenTHE WASHINGTON POST

city garbage truck was foundslumped behind the wheel on astreet near the building, killed by asniper's bullet. The newspaper dis-tributors who once carriedOslobodzenje to all parts of the cityno longer come-to work. All 700newsstands that once sold the paperhave been blown up or shattered bybullets.

Since no one else is willing to doit, Oslobodzenje - which meansLiberation -is delivered and soldby the journalists who write and editit. They toss bundles of papers intothe trunks and back seats of theirown bullet-riddled cars and sellthem on the streets.

The war has been almost as hardon the.journalists who put out thepaper as on the building that housesit. A reporter named Kj asifSmajlovic was killed last April bySerb gunmen in his bureau office inthe east Bosnian city of Zvornik.His body was last seen being.dragged by the heels down a flightof stairs.

A photographer, Salko Hondo,

was killed in midsummer by a mor-tar shell that landed in centralSarajevo while he was taking pic-tures of residents drawing waterfrom a public tap. Two otherreporters disappeared a short whilelater when Serb militia forces over-ran the northwest Bosnian town ofDoboj. Many Oslobodzenjereporters based outside Sarajevohave stopped writing, apparently outof fear that their copy could costthem their lives.

Like many of Sarajevo's prewarinstitutions, Oslobodzenje's news-room was a place where members ofBosnia's three major communalgroups - Slavic Muslims, Serbsand Croats - worked together andliked it that way. The diversity inthe newsroom mirrored the diversityof the republic as a whole.

It was a good newspaper, winnerof the Yugoslav Newspaper of theYear award in 1989. Before the war,it took an independent editorial linethat denounced the factional politicsof Serb, Croat and Muslim national-ists. It even won a landmark lawsuit

that struck down an attempt by thethree groups to apportion senior edi-torial positions at the paper on thebasis of communal identification.

For this reason and because thepaper's views influenced so manypeople in Bosnia, Oslobodzenje hadbeen a favorite whipping boy for allthree nationalist groups. But oncethe war started, it was the heavilyarmed Serbs who shifted theirattacks from rhetoric to high explo-sives.

Still, that did not alterOslobodzcnje's editorial support foran independent multicultural Bosniain which Serbs, Muslims and Croatscould live together in harmony. Ithas often disagreed publicly withthe Muslim-led Bosnian govern-ment, and it continued its longstand-ing practice of printing in both theCyrillic script used by Serbs and theLatin script used by Croats andMuslims, alternating its pagesbetween the two.

The daily appearance of thepaper confounds the political philos-ophy of militant Bosnian Serb

leader Radovan Karadzic, whoclaims that Serbs can no longer livein peace with Muslims and Croats.The siege of Sarajevo was launchedby Karadzic's militia forces suppos-edly to save Serbs here from theirnon-Serb neighbors, even thoughSerbs and non-Serbs had livedpeacefully here side by side for cen-turies.

"Why do they hate us? Becausewe symbolize a Bosnia that they sayis impossible," said KemalKurspahic, who is on leave from hisposition as Oslobodzenje's cditor-in-chief. "We Still have 30 percentSerbs (roughly the prewar percent-age of Serbs in Bosnia) with by-lines in the paper every day. Theyreally hate us for that."

Kurspahic's right leg was shat-tered in a car accident while he wason his way to the office. As is com-mon in this gun-shy town, the carwas traveling at 90 miles an hour toelude snipers; it collided with apolice car.

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA

Through five months of nearlycontinuous bombardment, the onlyconsumer item available every dayin this suffering city has been thenewspaper Oslobodzenje. The staffnow edits the paper in an atom-bomb shelter.

Above ground, most of the twinnine-story glass and steel towers ofwhat was one of Bosnia's finestoffice complexes has been melted.into a black glob by four major fires.All the fires were started by artilleryshells, which continue each day topummel the ruins.

What used to be the ground-floornewsroom now lies directly underthe guns of powerful Serb national-ist forces ringing the city. Usingweapons ranging from tank cannonto night-vision sniper rifles, Serbmilitiamen fire round-the-clock at arange of I00 yards at whoever andwhatever comes and goes from thenewspaper office. .

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Clifford's lawyers have arguedthat he is too ill to survive a trial inNew York, away from his doctorsand his home, but say he wants thechance to clear his name before hedies by standing trial inWashington. Clifford and Altmanface separate but parallel chargesfrom New York state and federalgrand Juries.

While the Justice Departmentopened the door to the possibilitythat Clifford could be found unableto stand trial in any jurisdiction, itsaid Clifford should not be allowedto choose the site for his trial basedon his health.

New York prosecutors agreed."Clifford cannot argue that he iswell enough to be tried inWashington, but too ill to go to trialin New York," said John W.Moscow, assistant district attorneyin New York.

Federal and state prosecutors

have been at loggerheads for morethan a month over which would gofirst, but Tuesday they agreed tohold the first trial in New York.

If a federal trial occurred first,Clifford and Altman could not betried on the broader state chargesbecause of New York's doublejeopardy law, the authorities agreed.

A New York judge Tuesday setJan. 4 as the trial date for Cliffordand Altman on state charges thatthey lied to bank regulators aboutthe illegal ownership of FirstAmerican Bankshares Inc. ofWashington by the Bank of Creditand Commerce International.

In federal court filings inWashington, the Justice Departmentasked U.S. District Judge Joyceliens Grecn to allow a trial on simi-lar charges in Washington to bedelayed until after the New Yorktrial takes place.

The department said it would

seriously consider dropping itscharges if Clifford and Altman aretried first on state charges. Thedep rtment concluded, "It is unlike-ly that the defendants will be triedin both federal and state courtregardless which case proceedsfirst."

In assessing Clifford's ability tostand trial, Del Negro reviewedinformation from medical tests onClifford and correspondencebetween two of Clifford's doctors.

He said he agreed with thosedoctors that the only appropriatetreatment for Clifford would becoronary artery bypass surgery toimprove blood flow to Clifford'sheart.

He said, "I estimate that it isprobable that the patient would suf-fer a (heart attack) as a direct resultof undergoing trial." And in thatevent, Clifford "would stand agreater than 50 percent chance of

dying."Charles A. Stillman, the New

York attorney for Clifford, declinedto comment on Clifford's health.Clifford's attorneys have not filed amotion asking that the chargesagainst him be dismissed because ofhis health, and New York courtsalso would have to rule on thatissue.

The 12-count state indictmentbrought against the two former topofficials of First American chargedClifford and Altman jointly withfraud, conspiracy and acceptingbribes. Altman was charged alonewith al additional six counts involv-ing making false written statements.

The threc-count federal indict-ment charged the two jointly withconspiracy and charged Altmnanalone with concealing facts fromregulators. Green will decide thefinal trial date after a Sept. 10 hear-ing in federal court in Washington.

By Sharon WalshTHE WYASHINGTON POST

A heart specialist who reviewedmedical records of Washingtonattorney Clark M. Clifford for theJustice Department has concludedthat Clifford probably would suffera fatal heart attack if he stands trialin the BCCI case.

The Justice Department said thatif a court-appointed physician con-firmed that opinion, the governmentwould take that "heavily intoaccount" in deciding whether to trythe 85-year-old former secretary ofdefense.

The opinion on Clifford's heartcondition, offered by Fairfax cardi-ol-ogist Albert A. Del Negro, wassubmitted Tuesday by the JusticeDepartment in court filings focusedon the question of where Cliffordand his law partner, Robert A.Altman, should stand trial.

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MIT Women Not Ugly Perhaps they are in need of a new lens and yes, they are all attractive.prescriptions. As a senior reflecting upon the If these men choose to hold on to such

We hear enough about the constricting

effect of fraternities 01 their members, but lit- female friends I've made here, the following delusions, alienating themselves from women

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Europeans Should Wait On Rush Towards UnitSColumn by Matthew H. HerschOPINION EI)ITOR

one of the Europeanthe rest. Consideringry of unhappy togethnow they want to un

But they do. ATreaty, European n;glued together intofighting economic ur

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say in France, "Being one of twelve isstronger than being alone."

But that's good enough reason. Bondingenemies together doesn't always build friend-ships, and it doesn't always breed success.Taking a bunch of national leaders with dif-ferent ideas and forcing them to create a com-mon foreign policy doesn't always create apolicy everyone believes in. In history, thegroups that have united the best have alwaysbeen the ones that had the most in comnmon inthe first place.

People have this notion that in the futureeveryone will be politically united - at least,that's how it is portrayed on Star Trek.Sometimes we hope for this imagined futureso much that we rush it. It's clear, forinstance, that Europeans like their national.characters too much to want to do away withthem - their unification efforts seem betterspent on figuring out how to keep thosenational characters and still not kill eachother.

I like Europe. Europeans do funny things.Europe is everything that America is onlymore intense.

Sometimes this is good - Europe hasmore than its fair share of cutting edge poli-tics, culture, and science. But it also meansthat when Europe goes astray, it goes reallyastray, and civiliza-tion is pushed to thelimits of survival. Europe is the onlyEurope is a prime world where two (example of whathappens when you males cmn hate et

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ach other for They are searching forsomething no Europeandictator was ever able toachieve. But it isn't

turning out that way. In France now, especial-ly, farmers, fascists, communists, and otherEuropean political staples are coming out talk-ing about the danger of more immigrants, orhigher unemployment, or inflation, or sellingout the national government to foreigners.

The opposition to unification is too ran-

dom, too uncoordinated, to be based on anyreal fear or risk. It is a reflexive reaction to the

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put together a lot of d reasons.people in one place rai efor 2,000 years anddon't give them extra land to settle.

If the U.S. thinks it has ethnic troubles, itshould take a look at Europe. Europe hasNazis. Well, the U.S. has Nazis too, but inEurope, they vote. In Europe, they set theirmigrant workers on fire. Europe is the onlyplace in the world where two caucasian malescan hate each other for racial reasons.

Europe is what America could become if itdoesn't mellow out.

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arrested civilization on the planet today.Europe is the only place on earth where a

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killed each other.This is quite an amazing feat, and even

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Professors, from Page I percent of whom are senior facultyin the department, have varyingbiases toward a different aspect ofmaterials science, according to Witt.The students have the opportunity toswitch recitation sections to matchinterests with the instructor, headded.

5.11In 5.1 1, Principles of Chemical

Science, students study molecular

chemistry, the "shapes and proper-ties of molecules, individuallyrather than in bulk," said Robert W.Field, professor of chemistry, one ofthe class' two instructors next term.Field will teach the first half of thesemester, while Richard R. Schrock,professor of chemistry, will teachthe remainder.

"I view [chemistry] not as a col-lection of memorized facts, but as alanguage or a way of predicting the

wide range of chemical behavior,"Field said. "I constantly try to chal-lenge the students to think about it- to take the concepts apart and putthem back together, [and] to carrythese ideas to everyday life."

There will be three review lcc-tures on the first three Sundays ofthe term, according to Field. "Thiswill be a chance to bring studentswho start out being intimidated bythe pace of the course into the main-stream," he added.

Special topics such as polymersand organic chemistry will also beintroduced at the end, Schrockadded.

Both Schrock and Field will pro-vide outline-style notes. To keepstudents involved in the lectures,Schrock said that he plans to givedemonstrations during class andmore creative problem sets.

On the other hand, teachingassistants "play the crucial role,because they're the ones that meetwith the students, presenting whatthe students really need rather thanwhat [Schrock] and I think theyneed," Field said. Schrock addedthat TAs are required to attendevery lecture.

8.018.01, Physics 1, is the study of

Newtonian mechanics, but "we gooff on lots of tangents," saidProfessor of Physics Walter H. G.Lewin, who, along with Professor ofPhysics Michael S. Feld, will teachthe course this fall. "Wherever Ican, I try to make themi see part oftheir own worlds in a way that theyhad never looked at that world," headded.

"My goal is to get. the studentsextremely excited, and to makethem fall in love with physics, eventhose who think they hate physics,'Lewin said.

Lewin tries to confront the stu-dents with their daily life experi-ences, "making the theory come tolife. For example, instead of drop-ping a metal sphere, you can dropan apple. Now, you think that's aminor thing, but they can use thatsame apple at home." In anotherexperiment, he used his own bloodin demonstrating a centrifuge.

Recitations arc used to answerquestions and to go over homnework.Four or five out of about 22 of therecitation sections will be taught bygraduate students.

Though he could not give manydetails, Lewin said that there proba-

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18.0118.01, called Calculus, is a basic

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Friedman said he has an "orga-nized, but casual, teaching style.One of the goals of a large lecture,besides imparting material, is main-taining interest. ... But that is anattempt to counteract the basic prob-lem, which is that at MIT we haveto cover a lot of material in a shortamount of time."

The 18.01 syllabus is set up in an"Ieffort to coordinate it with thephysics," Friedman said. For exam-ple, differentiation of trigonometricfunctions may be covered earlierthan in a strictly calculus course, headded.

A special feature of 18.01 is thetutored exam, where students whofail an exam may be tutored, afterwhich they take a second exam,according to Friedman. If they passthe second exam, they will receivethe minimum passing grade of theclass for that exam. "I think it's agood system. ... It's nice to havethat kind of flexibility, an escapevalve, available," lie added.

Students who move faster thanthe pace of the class may also taketutored exams early, with highestpossible scores of 100 percent, hesaid.

Recitations are sometimes anextention of lecture, but most of thetime are used to clarify the home-work, according to Friedman.Recitation instructors assign gradesto the freshmen, but Friedman saidhe prefers to make up problem setsand exams himself.

"When I'm not doing mathemnat-ics, which is most of the time, I'man avid chamber music fanatic,"Friedman grinned. In addition toplaying the piano with chambermusic groups, he is also a masterchef.

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