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Volume 116, Number 40 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, September 10, 1996

;':.~ Walker Memorial, the site of a shooting of a Northeastern University student last December, has been• banned as a site for large, late-night events because of security concerns.

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already been considered' UROPs.This past spring, undergraduatesworking for the ComputingHelpdesk began to receive pay as aUROP.

Seth A. Perlman '97, an RCC forBexley Hall, explained that in manyrespects, the work remains the sameas in the past, aside from the newfiling of formal DROP proposalseach tenn and the submission evalu-ations of their UROP work at theend of the term.

The deadline for UROP proposalsubmissions is this Friday for directfunding; for volunteer, credit, or

Pilot program permanentAdministrators were content

wit~ the results of the pilot partyprogram and made the decision tocontinue it indefinitely.

The "pilot program is no longera pilot" Bates aid. "We were verypleased with the pilot program."

other locations which are more easi-ly secured like the Student Center.

However, a series of events forthe Sloan School of Managementthat has been granted an exception.

Even though the Sloan eventsdraw more than 250 people, becausethere are cultural pre entations andfaculty attend, providing whatGlavin called "adult supervision,"the parties were allowed to be heldat Walker.

"Almost all of the schedulingproblems have been resolved," saidDean for Student Life Margaret R.Bates. Four or five events, however,could not be accommodated.Among these is a dance inDecember organized by Gays,Lesbians, Transgenders, and Friendsat MIT.

employees. Employee benefitsinclud~ costs like health and educa-tional benefits, which DROP work-ers do not receive.

Last year, an additional 39 per-cent was charged to departments inaddition to wages for regularemployee benefits. For DROPs, therate is only 6.5 percent. __

Since graduate students can notbe UROP workers, graduate RCCswill be paid as MIT employees onan hourly basis, said ResidentialComputing Supervisor Thomas J.Lane 1r.

Although undergraduate consul-tants have only recently been reclas-sified as UROPs. other undergradu-ate students working for IS have

A decision to make permanentlast spring's pilot program govern-ing all large, late-night parties willmean that all such event will con-tinue to be reviewed on a individualbasis and that there will be an out-right ban on parties at WalkerMemorial.

The pilot plan - which permit-ted large parties on a case-by-casebasis only - was implemented inthe spring following the shooting ofa Northeastern University student ata party at Walker last December.

Walker was banned as a placefor large, late-night events becauseit is "a ,very, very difficult fa~ility tosecure," said Chief of CampusPolice Anne P. Glavin. Securing allof its entrances and exits wouldrequire "a small army," she said.

"There is a limit to our peopleresources," Glavin said. Such dutywould leave CPs "stretched far toothin."

About 32 events were scheduledfor orss Hall at Walker, saidAssociate Dean for Residence andCampus Activities Margaret A.Jablonski. About 25 were moved to

By Frank DabekSTAFF REPORTER

Pilot party PlanImplemented onA Permanent BasisWalker Banned as Site for Large Events

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MAIJA ALANIZ-THE TECH

Joseph King '00 and David Garrison '97 tackle Massachusetts Maritime Academy receiver InSaturday's scrimmage. Mil won 13-9.

Beginning this fall, undergradu-ates working for InformationSystems as residential computingconsultants will be paid through theUndergraduate Research Oppor-tunities Program on an hourlybasis.

The change will mean that RCCswill now have to complete and sub-mit the UROP proposals required Qfall UROP students and will nolonger be paid a flat weekly salary.The nature of the RCC job itself isnot changing.

DROP workers are given a spe-cial employee benefit rate makingthem less costly to hire than nonnal

Graphic Ar unprofitablePreviously, Graphic Art

By Kyle YoungSTAFF REPORTER

Immerman said. "Some of thosefolks would likely apply for thosepositions" with Copy Technology,he said.

Resnet Consultants to Be Paid as'UROP Students;' Hourly Pay to Begin

CASPAR , Pag~ 14

The re-engineering co-cur-ricular design team will beholding a erie of open meet-ings to receive communityfeedback on their plans tomake changes to the manage-ment of student activities. Thefir t meeting will take placetoday from noon to I p.m. inthe main 'dining room of theReligiou Activities Center.

Subsequent meetings willtake place tomorrow night from6 to 7 p.m. in room 5-134; nextWedne day, Sept.- 18, fromnoon to I p.m. in the ReligiousActivities Center; and next.Thursday. Sept 19. from 6 to 7pm. in room 5-134.

homeless shelter where he hasworked ever since.

In that time, Poor has seen CAS-PAR expand from a pair of overbur-dened trailers to the large, clean,functional building it occupies today.MIT built the $1.9-million AlbanyStreet building as part of a propertydeal with Cambridge in 1993, rescu-ing CASPAR from the trailers thathad housed it since 1979.

looked into changing publication ser-vices in the same manner that re-engi-neering teams examined the Office ofLaboratory Supplies and decided tooutsource its functions to independentseveral lippliers last year.

The Quick Copy Centers, like theone ,located in the basement ofBuilding 11, will not be closed.''They were originally going to closeus down," said Quick Copy CenterSupervisor Steven M. Dimond. "Wehad to process a proposal and givereasons why we should exist."

The publications services groupdecided to outsource graphic artsservices to several suppliers."Millions of dollars in volume werebeing 0l:ltsourced anyway,"Immennan said.

About 20 people have been laidoff because of these changes,

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they ledPoor to volunteer in 1985 at the

By Jean K. LeeSTAFF REPORTER

As a result of re-engineering,various functions have been cutfrom Graphic Arts Service, whichin a new fonn will. continue t9 pro-vide limited copy and media ser-vices at MIT.

The main Graphic Arts Center,located in Building N42, closeddown Sept. 1, leaving the other twosmaller branches in room 11-004 andE52-045 to take-over its services.

The closing of Graphic Arts -which is now called the CopyTechnology Center - has beenunder discussion for four or fiveyears, said Director of SpecialServices Stephen D. Immennan.

The issue "migrated into re-engi-neering," lIiunennan said. The publi-cations services re-engineering team

His name couldn't be more per- 'fect.

Win Poor, director of theCambridge and Somerville Programfor Alcoholism and Dru~ AbuseRehabilitation, seems to have beendestined to serve society's less for-tunate memberS.

Ten years at MIT prepares somepeople forengineer-ing or sci-entific

Many Graphic Arts Semces Cut;Quick Copy Centers Continue

By Noemi L Giszpenc

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WORLD & NATION

THE WASHINGTON POST

House Panel to StudyFederal Union Activities

Beach Property .Not MadeTo'Sun1ve Hurricanes

WASHINGTON

Should taxpayers be forced to pay salaries of dozens, maybe hun-dreds, of federal workers who seldom, if ever, spend time doing thejobs for which they were hired?

Should coworkers (at no extra pay) do the work left by a col-league who - in his union capacity - takes off to negotiate a con-tract, handle a grievance or have lunch with the head of the agency?If this happens a lot, should that absentee employee even be on thepayroll?

Put another way:Isn't it, in fact, highly cost-effective to pay a few people their

salaries to ensure that labor relations run smoothly in the nation'sbiggest business?

Is is fair to force unions, which must represent non-members, tomake up salary lost when an employee representative takes time offto help a non-member in trouble? Oftentimes the most anti-unionworker - when in trouble - finds the union is the only place to gofor justice.

The above is an oversimplified background to Wednesday'sHouse Civil Service subcommittee hearing. The subject: "OfficialTime." Unions have been summoned to explain how much time andmoney their members are getting from the taxpayers to conduct unionbusiness rather than do their assigned jobs.

•By contrast, Monday administra-tion officials were vague on wherethe money for the anti-terrorismprogram would come from, saying itcould be hashed out as part of largerbudget negotiations. One possiblesource, they suggested, is theiocrease in defense spending pro-moted by Republican congressionalleaders.

The terrorism plan amounts to asmorgasbord of different ideasaddressing different issues, somenew and others already aired andeven rejected previously.

The airline portion, which would tcost $429.4 million, embraces the 'tactics advanced 'by a commissionheaded by Vice President Gore,including the purchase of sophisti-cated devices intended to ,screenchecked baggage for explosives atmajor airports and other detectors

\ that would take samples from carry-on items, such as laptop computersor ceIJular telephones.

As part of this plan, domestic .. flights will not be allowed to takeoff if a passenger checks l.\lggagebut does not bQard the airplane, a ~policy now used only on interna- ~tional fl.ights.

Another $667.4 miJIion wouldbe used to better shield federal facil-ities against terrorist attacks andprovide more resources for lawenforcement agencies. .

Among other things, the legisla-tion would pay for everything fromproviding larger buffer zonesaround laboratories at the Centersfor Disease Control to installingmore metal detectors' at FBI field ,offices around .the,country tq _hiring ,;mor~ gu rsis '~t. th~ SmithsopiaI\ I r .~

Institution museums. .r . .

Iraq, it could also serve to reinforcethe president's image as a toughcommander-in-chief.

On Capitol Hill, some Repub-lican leaders were skeptical, sayingthe administration has not even yettaken full advantage of the $1 bil-lion anti-terrorism law he signed inApril.

"While Congress will certainlywork with the presiden~ to providefunding for anti-terrorism efforts,"said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah,chairman of the Senate judiciaryCommittee, "it is important to notethat we have d'one so already. . ..The administration would be wise toutilize the resources Congress hasalready provided before it requestsadditional funding."

House Appropriations Commit-tee Chairman Bob Livingston, R-La., expressed irritation that theadministration suddenly dropped anew spending program on Congressso late in the budget process withoutidentifying how to pay for it.

Congress hopes to adjourn byOct. 4 and already is trying to dealwith a supplemental request formoney to fight wildfires inWestern states and a likely reqqestfor disaster aid for East Coaststates dealing with damage fromHurricane Fran. :

As it approaches the election, theWhite House has made a point ofpz:ooducingoffsetting spending cutsor revenue increases every time ithas offered any new proposal. Thatway, aides believed, Clinton couldmaintain the moral high groundover Republican challenger BobDole, who has yet to say how he'would payl for his $550 billi<mtax-cutting proposal.

By Peter BakerTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHrNGTON

President Clinton cobbledtogether a series of anti-terrorismstrategies to beef up security at air-ports and federal installationsMonday and issued an election-yearchallenge to Congress to pass the$1.1 bi)Jjon package before law-makers leave town to campaign forreelection.

The plan incorpora es andexpands on an air safety initiativefirst announced last week thatrequires tighter screening of passen-gers and luggage on domesticflights: In addition, it caBs for fundsto upgrade security at military basesand diplomatic missions overseas aswell as in federal buildings inWashington; improve training forU.S. soldiers; and expand lawenforcement units that fight terror-ists.

"We need all these laws and weneed them now, before Congre.ssrecesses for the year," Clinton saidin an Oval Office meeting where heaccepted the airline report from apresidential commission. "Terror-ists don't wait and neither shouldwe."

The spending package is intend-ed to address escalating public con-cern o.verAmeri~an security in theface of ~everal deadly incidents inthe last 18 months, from the bomb-ing of a federal building inOklahoma City, to the attack onU.S. forces stationed in SaudiArabia, to the still-unexplaineddowning of Trans World AirlinesFlight 800 near New York in July.Coming the week after Clintonauthorized missile strikes against

President Calls on CongressTo Pass Airport Security Bill

Vowing Silence- on Whitewater,Susan McDougal Reports to Jail

ame Running MatePerot likely toTHE WASHINGTON POST

DETROIT

Ross Perot Monday said to tune in Tuesday for the announcementof his running mate.

Like any good television personality, Perot plugged his next 30-minute program - scheduled Tuesday at 7 p.m. on CB~ - bypromising "a real exciting announcement" on the show. He gave noclues beyond that.

Perot is conducting his third-party campaign for president largelyvia paid television advertisements, but Monday he finally took ques-tions from someone other than talk-show host Larry King. Theanswers he gave to members of the Economic Club of Detroit on howhe would deal with Social Security and the budget deficit had a famil-iar ring to them - "watch my infomercials."

Perot, who always extols populist views, sounded particularlysour on the political process Monday.

Unlike war, or even mud-wrestling, Perot said, "there are no ethi-cal standards in politics.... Politics is negative, bitter, mean-spiritedand destructive.

"It has deteriorated to the point that the best people in our countrywon't even participate," he said, specifically citing former JointChiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell, retiring Sen. Sam Nunn ofGeorgia and former Oklahoma senator David Boren. Boren, nowpresident of the University of Oklahoma, is one of those whodeclined Perot's invitation to join the ticket.

NEWSD~Y

As residents of North Carolina's blighted barrier islands start toassess the damage wrought by Hurricane Fran, a number of geolo- I

gists and storm specialists are shaking their heads in bemusement,and saying many of the beachfront communities should never havebeen built.

Despite the inspiring beauty of the coast, some island areas are toolow and too thin to withstand the might of a hurricane such as Fran,said Duke University geologist Orrin Pilkey.

"People, when they buy property on the beach, are generally inheat," said Pilkey, co-author of the book "Living With the LongIsland Shore."

"They know there are storms out there, and they know they'regenerally infrequent, and that's all they think about it," Pilkey said.

But on islands such as Topsail Island off North Carolina, whichtook the worst of Fran's wrath, and other beach developments fromLong Island to Florida, hurricanes are an inevitability, said Pilkey,

ordirector of Duke's program for the study of developed shorelines.

WEATHERFran's Legacy

By Gerard RoeSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

The dying remnants of Hurricane Fran have. described a clock-wise loop around us over the last couple of days, explaining her out-skirts which have produced the rather drizzly weather of the past fewdays. A growing southward intrusion of polar air will continue thepressure on Fran to depart. A small cyclone passing through todaywill likely cause some drizzle in the afternoon and.evening, whileunstable air ahead of the cold front may produce some thunder-storm giving locally heavier rainfalls. Wednesday will see someclearer skies and light northeasterly winds. Thursday promisesclouds later in the day as a larger cyclone pushes in from theMidwest. I

Today: Partly cloudy with patchy fog early in the morning. Thenclouding up with rain likely after the middle of the day. An after-noon/evening thunderstorm is possible. Not very enthusiastic windsfrom the southwest. High 82°F (26°C).

Tonight: Some clearing. Low 65°F (19°C).Wednesday: Partly sunny, a cooler northeast wind. A chance of

rain if the cold front staU . High 76°F (23°C). Low 60°F (l5°C).Thur day: Chance of rain toward evening as a low system comes

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By Susan SchmidtTHE WASHINGTON POST

LIITLEROCK

A defiant Susan McDougalreported to jail Monday morningvowing to keep her silence in theface .of prosecutors' questions aboutthe actions of BiJl and HillaryClinton in the Whit water affair.

McDougal, a convicted felonwho is being held in contempt ofcourt for refusing to testify before agrand jury, presented herself toreporters oIJ.the courthouse stepsMonday as a martyr who will not liein exchange for leniency from in~e-pendent counsel Kenneth W. Starr.She spent the day in a holding cellbefore U.S. marshals packed her offto the Pulaski County Jail.

How long McDougal's silencewill last was the question of the day.McDougal and her lawyers haveengaged in a shifting legal and publicrelationsstrategyover the past week.

For the moment, she is resolute."I won't answer their questions,!'

McDougal said Monday. "I don'ttrust them." Starr and his lawyers"have always wanted something onthe Clintons," said McDougal. Shefears she'll be aharged with perjuryif she doesn't tell the grand jurywhat they want to hear, she said.

This stance was something of adeparture from last week, whenMcDougal was saying publicly thatshe found cooperation overturesfrom prosecutors "tempting." Shesaid then that while she didn't knowof anything iltegal one by the.Clintons, they had not been "openand honest" in discussingWhitewater matters.

In the past few days, McDougalhas adopted the harder line againstcooperathm advocated by her-lawyers. She appeared on Lan

King Live Friday night, andMcDougal and lawyer BobbyMcDaniel asserted that Starr was-offering her a no-jail-time deal inexchange for incriminating informa-tion about the Clintons. Thatprompted Starr to issue a statementsaying they were "brazenly trying todeceive the public" about discus-sions with his office and about herlegal rights before the grand jury asa cOJlvictedfelon.

Susan McDougal is set to beginserving a two-year sentence Sept. 30for obtaining a fraudulent $300,000federally backed loan in the mid-1980s. President Chnton, who wasArkansas governor at that time, hasbeen accused of helping arrange thatloan, a charge he has flatly denied.

She's the second former doseLittle Rock friend of the Clintons togo to jail rather th'an provide infor-mation about them sought by Starr~soffice. Former associate attorneygeneral.Webster L. Hubbell, firstlady Hillary Clinton's long-time

. Rose Law Firm partner, is serving atwo-year prison sentence fordefraUding his clients. Prosecutorssaid they were not satisfied that hehad been forthcoming about theClintons and their ties to the failedMadison Guaranty Savings & Loan.

McDougal has said publicly sheknows of nothing iJJegal done byeither of the CJintons, who werepartners in the Whitewater land ven-ture with her and ex-husband JamesB. McDougal, onetime owner ofMadison and now a convicted felonwho is cooperating with Starr.'sinquiry. But her refusal to answerspecific questions about them - tothe point of going to jail - has onlymanaged" to intensify interest inwhat.she might know. !

. MakIng the rounds oJ ,natlOilal

television int~rview shows over thepast week, McDougal. said at worstshe was guilty of 'being' a "frivo-lous" woman who blithely signed,papers her husband put befo're her..'Starr's office Monday was delugedwith caners won over by her seem-ing sincerity and engaging manner.

Some of Susan McDougal's$300,000 loan money ended lip withthe Whitewater Development Corp.,the real estate venture she ownedjointly with the Clintons and her ex-husband.

Starr's office is trying to deter-mine the truth of accusations that

. Clinton, while governor, asked busi-nessman David Hale to make theloan to 'help out James McDougal.Susa~ McDougal told,reporters thatshe was ,_asked- and refused toanswer - what Clinton knew aboutthat loan when she briefly appearedbefore a grand jury last week.

Under the law, she no longer hasa constitutional right to remainsilent about criminal acts for whichshe a1r~ady has been conwicted. Indemanding her testimony, Starr'soffice has granted her immunityfrom further prosecution related tothose activities, but she could stillface peljury.charges if she does notten/the truth.

James McDougal, who faces upto 84 years in prison for his convic-tion on bank fraud and conspiracycharges, is already cooperating withStarr's office. Monday, SusanMcDougal's lawyer, JennifferHoran, said prosecutors have set himup in a Little Rock apartment forweeks of debriefing. SusanMcDougal, who said her ex-husbandhas. urged her to cooperate, claimsMcDouga~ told her he will get his.choice of. mi~imum security pris~ms

•ID which.to serve a reduced.seoten~e. .

WORLD & ATION TU)jNn.IiLJ.£I_ '"1:.... 1.1.'T Page,3

Citing Terrorism, Netanyahu RejectsU.S. Call to Withdraw Hebron Forces

U.N. to Vote on Nuclear Test Ban;Only India, Pakistan to DissentBy John M. GoshkoTHE WASHINGTON POST

UNITED NATIONS

The General Assembly began aspecial meeting Monday that isexpected to end with an overwhelm-ing majority of the U.N.'s 185 mem-ber states voting to support. a world-wide ban on nuclear test blasts.

Despite the shadow cast over theproceedings by opposition fromIndia and Pakistan, both undeclarednuclear powers, delegates pus.hedahead on what many describe as agiant step toward universal nucleardisarmament.

The Indian and Pakistani posi-tions mean the treaty will have onlylimited applicability for at least theimmediate future. But the test banaccord has. the su port of theworld's principal nuclear .powers,and they are expecte~ to respect itonce it is approved, according todelegates and legal experts.

In addition, supporfers of thetreaty believe that a heavy vote forthe treaty will put pressure on Indiato taCitly abide by the ban and even-tually to approve -it. Diplomats herebelieve that at least 120 of the morethan 160 participating countries willvote in favor, possibly on Tuesdayor Wednesday.

India, which has had a clandes-tine nuclear program since 1974,said Monday it will block the pro-posed test-ban treaty from cominginto force by refusing to sign it.India sought to kill the treaty lastmonth by vetoing it in a Geneva dis-armament conference, and it hasbeen kept alive only because itsbackers resorted to the never-before-used tactic of bringing itbefore the General Assembly with-out the approval of the GenevaConference.

In an unexpected further jolt,Pakistan, which had indicated earli-

er it would support the treaty,reversed cour e Monday and said it,too, would not sign as long as itsunfriendly neighbor, India, withheldits signature. Pakistan also is acountry whose approval is neces aryto bring the treaty into force.

But the five principal nuclearpowers - the United States, Russia,Britain, France and China - sup-port the treaty. Israel, which is anundeclared nuclear power like Indiaand Pakistan, also has said it willapprove the pact.

The proposed pact, formallyknown as the ComprehensiveNuclear Test Ban Treaty, ca11s foroutlawing a11nuclear explosions forthe first time ever. If the treaty isapproved, President Clinton isexpected to give it further interna-tional acceptance by signing it onbehalf of the United States when hevisits the United Nations on Sept.24.

Dole Resumes CriticismOf Clinton's Iraq Policy

THE BALTIMORE SUN

ST. PETERSBURG. FLA.

After a one-week hiatus, Bob Dole resumed his attack onPresident Clinton's foreign policy Monday, charging that reports ofcontinued unrest in northern Iraq "raise questions" about the adminis-tration's strategy in the region and threatens to undermine U.S. credi-bility.

In a written statement released through his presidential campaignMonday, Dole questioned whether Clinton's strategy "has advancedU.S. interests in the region." But in campaign appearances in Georgiaand Florida, Dole barely referred to Iraq, instead concentrating ondomestic issues.

Dole, who initially criticized Clinton's "weak leadership" in thePersian Gulf, had supported the president's decision to launch a mis-sile strike against Iraq last Monday after Saddam Hussein's troopsoverran a Kurdish faction in the city of Irbil.

He noted that Iraqi troops do not appear to be withdrawing fromthe north, and that Iraqis connected with a CIA effort to undermineHussein's regime fear reprisals from his secret police.

"In Iraq, as in Bosnia, the Clinton administration should be carefulabout making claims of success that events on the ground may notsubstantiate, and about giving assurances that it is unable or unwill-ing to fulfill, because the credibility of the United States is at stake,"Dole warned.

During a campaign stop in Georgia, Dole made only the briefestof references to Iraq, noting in passing that the "second-guessing"had begun over Clinton's policy. He did not elaborate.

L.A. Federal ReselVe BranchShows Accounting Flaws

LOS ANGELES TIMES

By Michael Dobbsand Peter Baker.THE WASHINGTON POST

between Netanyahu and PalestinianAuthority leader Yasser Arafat.

According to Israeli officials,WASHINGTON Netanyahu resisted U.S. ca11s for a

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin pu11back from Hebron, arguing thatNetanyahu Monday rejected calls by such a step could create an "explo-the Clinton administration to Rull sive" situation in the West BankIsrael! troops out of Arab-populated town that could damage the entireareas of the West Bank town of Middle East peace process. IsraeliHebron, while expressing optimism troops were required to pull backthat a formula will soon be found to from Arab population centers inpermit the resumption of peace talks Hebron by last March, guardingwith Syria. only the 440 or so Jews in the town.

Netanyahu's comments came at After his meeting with Clinton,the end of a day of talks with senior Netanyahu described the Jewishadministration officials in, community in Hebron as the "oldestWashington, including President in the world,", dating back 3,500Clihton 'and Secr'etary 'of 'State I " years. He ~aid he told ChristopherWarren Christopher. U.S. leaders that improving security in !'Ije townused the occasion to urge Israel to' was "not only an Israeli interest butbuild ~n the "psychological break- (also) a Palestinian interest."through" represented by last Israeli officials said that the mainWednesday's first-ever meeting purpose of Monday's round of talks

in Washington was to work on aformula for the resumption of directtalks between Israel and Syria,which were suspended in May fol-lowing bomb attacks in Jersusalemon Israeli buses. .

The new Israeli government isready to resume the talks but isrefusing to commit itself to the land-for-peace formula embraced by for-mer Israeli Prime Minister ShimonPeres.

During the Israeli election cam-paign, Netanyahu repeatedlydenounced the idea of trading awaythe Golan Heights for peace withSyria and said that Israel's security

. would be undermined by givingPalestinians control of most of theWest Bank. The area belonged toSyria until 1967, when it wasseized by Israel during the Six-Daywar.

WASHINGTON

The cash operation at the Los Angeles branch of the FederalReserve Bank - which processes $80 billion of coin and currencyevery year - is riddled with defects in its accounting system, accord-ing to a confidential draft audit by the General Accounting Office.

The audit was launched after the disclosure earlier this year thatthe bank's cash reports had discrepancies of $178 million during athree-month period last year and that the bank's management hadarbitrarily altered the books to make them balance.

"The L.A. bank's inability to precisely summarize currency activi-ty from its cash inventory records raises serious questions about the.integrity of its accounting and internal controls," the GAO reportasserts.

The GAO report amounts to a rare attack on what critics say is animperious institution, resistant to outside oversight and defensive ofits independence. The Federal Reserve is seldom exposed to the pub-lic spotlight, other than for its economic policy decisions in settinginterest rates.

As a result, the Federal Reserve's far-flung banking operationsthat control the flow of currency in the economy have not receivedserious outside scrutiny, despite their huge role in the nation's finan-cial system.

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OPINIONStudent Concerns Should Come First

Planning Ahead Can BringUnforeseeable Difficulties

ChairmanDaniel C. teven on '97

Editor in ChiefStacey E. Blau '98

Bu ine anagerChri tine Chan '98

anaging jitorSaul Blumenthal '98

E ecutive EditorAnders Hove G

NEWS STAFF

Editors: hang-Lin Chuang '98, David D.H u '98, Jenni fer Lane '98, DanMcGuire '99; ssociate Editor: Orli G.Bahcall '99; taff: Eva Moy G, Kyle H.Yung G, James M. Wahl '97, Christopher L.Falling '98, Brett Altschul '99, ShawdeeEshghi '99, Carina Fung '99, Kai-yuhHsiao '99, Yaron Koren '99, Jean K.Lee '99, Fenny Lin '99, Eric Sit '99, May K.Tse '99, Rochelle Tung '99, FrankDabek '00; eteorologist: Michael C.Morgan PhD '95, Gerard Roe G, MarekZebrowski.

PRODUCTION STAFF

Editor: Jen Peltz '98; Associate Editors:Josh Bittker '99, Jason C. Yang '99; Staff:Amy Hsu '94, Laura DePaoli '97, JimmyWong '97, Betty Chang '98, LarryChao '98, Yun-Ju Lee '98, RusseIl S.Light '98, Jeremy J. LiIley '99, ArthurMurakami '99, Sharon Shen '99, BinhTruong '99, Hoi Wong '99, Douglas E.Heimburger '00, Khelga Karsten.

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Editors: Helen Lin '97, Indranath Neogy'98; Associate Editor: Gabor Csanyi G;Staff: Rich Fletcher G, Jonathan Li G,Arifur Rahman G, Jiri Schindler G, BrianVanden Bosch '96, Tiffany Lin '97, AdrianeChapman '98, Ian Chan '00, Gregory F.Kuhnen '00.

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Last friday I went with a group of friendsto view LSC's presentation of Dead ManWalking. About 15 minutes into the movie, Ibegan to remember one of the reasons Ialways hated to go to lecture in that room, 26-100, when I was a freshman. Of all the chairsI find myself using, the seats in 26-100 haveto be some of the most uncomfortable, awk-ward pieces of furniture around.

The worst part is that the situation is notmuch different from most of the other lecturerooms that undergraduates use. Yes, 34-101

Column by Brett AltschulSTAFF REPORTER

Over the summer, I stopped thinking aboutmany of the ongoing problems that are part ofMIT life. The first few days of classes rapidlystarted my mind up again. All the worries thatI could safely ignore for three months justreturned to prominence.

Among the difficulties that has once morerisen to prominence is scheduling. I don'tmean scheduling my classes this semester; Idealt with that quite thoroughly in the spring.My problem is more long-term. I'm alwaystrying to plan my classes as far in advance aspossible. Sometimes, that means several yearsinto graduate school.

Lately, I've been agonizing over a problemwith Relativistic Quantum Field Theory III(8.325). It looks as though I may not be ableto take that class until the spring of 2002,

Simply pu~ there are toomany unknowns tomake

planning thatfar inadvance viable.

which means that it might get in the way ofmy thesis research. Ideally, I could move theclass to 2001 if I take Quantum Theory I(8.321) as an undergraduate:

Of course, taking a class like that mysenior year interferes with the other difficultclasses I have planned. Analysis II (18.101) isrumored to be quite difficult and would beimportant to the pure math major which I'mnow leaning toward. Since Iwant to takeOrganometallic Chemistry (5.44) that tenn aswell, and that's also a graduate course, theworkload may just be too heavy. .

I'm not the only sophomore who spendstime planning for classes after the turn of thecentury. I've discussed the topic with myfriends; some of them have their futures evenmore extensively prescribed than 1 do.However, at some point, this advance prepara-tion becomes both siJ)y and worthless.

I tried to set out a comprehensive schedulefor my entire undergraduate career during lAPlast January. Only a single semester later, I'vetotally abandoned that plan. Then, I thoughtmy secondary area of study (after mathemat-ics) would be chemistry. Now, I've shiftedthat focus to physics, so my entire series ofcourses needed to be revamped.

has those nice new seats - but they're soclose together that people regularly hang theirlegs over the seats in front of them for relieffrom banging their knees into the next row.And 54-100 manages to combine both oldwooden seats and 'cramped rows in one room,providing an especially awkward and painfulexperience.

I'll admit I'm not a compact guy, and Iguess if I were shorter I'd be able to sit moreeasily in closely spaced rows. But that wouldstill mean I'd experience the discomfort of sit-ting in those wooden chairs that, rather thapsupporting you properly, have a seat that piv-

Simply put, there are too many.unknownsto make planning that far in advance viable.While physics may seem more firtnly set inmy future than chemistry was, it's not by anymeans certain. Although rm very gung hoabout mastering all of quantum mechanicsnow, I could decide later that learning theadvanced principles of modern physics justisn't worth my while.

In addition to changes in interests, thereare other more prosaic problems with schedul-ing classes more than a couple of'semestersin advance. Until the time comes for the for-mal scheduling of the next semester, younever know when a class is offered, so avoid-ing conflicts in your long-tenn plans is reallyimpossible. Some of the' courses I wanted totake this fall simply didn!.t fit the timetable.

In the same vein, professors aren't chosenfor classes until the spring of the prior year.Some classes are very dependent upon who isteaching them. For example, Thennodynarriicsand Kinetics (5.60) has a reputation as a veryhard and fairly dull class, but it's a topic I'minterested in learning about. I would haveliked to take the class this semester, but I haveto wait until the spring when the class is beingtaught by Professor of Chemistry Robert J.Silbey, who has won awards for his teachingskill and was a friend of my father's.

The difficulty involved in classes is also amajor issue. Nobody wants to get stuck withseveral killer classes at the same time. Often,it's very hard to tell just how much work agiven course entails. The number of hours

. associated with the class are only a very looseguide. I spent twice as much preparation timeon a 4-0-5 class as on a 3-0-9 class last spring.While some courses, like 5.60, are largeenough to have a well-known reputation,obtaining advance infonnation about some ofthe smaller classes can be nearly impossible.

Obviously, the problems in choosingcourses many years in advance are legion.Interests change, and naturally, plans mustchange with them.'Class schedules and teach-ing assignments remain unknown until rela-tively shortly before a class is offered.Sometimes, you just don't know whether aclass is for you until you've tried it out for acouple of weeks, whatever you may havethought in the past.

I still try to set out possible schedules forfuture years. rm still wondering whether I canfit 8.321 into my senior year, but I no longercount on any plans to hold true in the longrun. I may have already chosen my partner forjunior lab - Experimental Physics I (8.13) -but that doesn't necessarily mean I'll take theclass.

ots back and forth with you as your weightshifts. Anyone who's ever sat in 26-100 andlistened to all the oearings of the seats groan.ing and squeaking during a lecture will relateto this.

Why does MIT, home of some of the bestengineers in the world, force its students touse some of the worst designed chairsaround? Maybe this is where the administra-tion should be working. All I keep hearingabout is how they're going to rework, themail distribution system (that's a column initself, actually), streamline the administra-tion, and cut costs, etc. But what are theydoing to improve student life on a .day to daybasis? All of us spend hundreds of hour~ sit-ting in lecture during our time at MIT; sim-ple changes in our experience there couldmake major impacts on the quality of studentlife at MIT. I

A lot of students don't care about re-engi-neering. They don't feel it will impact theirexperience as a student, and they're probablyright about that. MIT needs to examine howit can impact the daily life of its students andnot just center on redesignin~ the MIT

Why doesMIT,home of someof the best engineers in theworld,force its students to

use some of the worstde~d chairs around?Maybe this is where M1'!'

should be working.

administration. The administration is impor-tant, but its internal function often has littlebearing on tl)e daily experience of the MITstudent. We eat, we go to class, we socialize,and we work. Is re-engineering gojng toaffect this? Can MIT raise its quality of stu-dent life to match that of other top levelinstitutions? .

The solution isn't easy to agree on. MIT'sadministration may well need to be redesignedand reorganized. But MIT should also makean effort to examine how the lives of its stu-dents can be improved if it wants to establishitself as a top U.S. school. We have the acade-mics - there's no question of that. But get-ting a top. reputation and bringing in the topcandidates should not be where things end.Students are people, too, and academics aren'ttheir only concern.

The fact that a recent college ranking byu.s. News and World Report placed DukeUniversity over MIT should wake us up tothis issue. I doubt Duke beat out MIT becauseit had more Nobel Prize winners; or becauseits administration gets its mail dtstributedcheaper than we do. Look in that elusive "stu-dent retention" category for the answer to whywe lost out. Although Duke trailed MIT inevery other category, it ranked 8 schools high-er in retention rate. Why is retention such animportant component of the rankings?'Because it's indicative of tl,1ehappiness andsatisfaction of the school's students.

For MIT to attract a broader and higherquality pool of students, it will have toaddress those areas that it has traditionallyregarded as secondary in importance. Firstamong those should be the quality of studentlife.

V. Michael Bove '83, Robert E. Malch-man '85, Thomas T. Huang '86,Reuven M. Lerner '92, Jeremy Hylton '94,Garlen C. Leung '95.

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so fast that the audience missed many of herwords. Schutze and Werner didn't seem partic-ularly comfortable with each other either.Overall, the characters in Sweeney Todd didn'tseem to gel as an ensemble.

Sweeney Todd was quite obviously a goodeffort, but wasn't cohesive enough. The gen-eral effect worked - the atmosphere was ~uf-ficiently somber and the characters all lookedlike zombies in their makeup and costume.But there wasn;t enough vision. SweeneyTodd is the kind of musical that needs a cleardirection in terms of QOwit will look and feel.Though the mood was macabre from the start,there were too many distractions to create a

.true unifying effect. Some of the characterswere inconsistent in .their expressions andmotions - most were grave and serious whileothers just looked tired.

Sweeney Todd also never effectively con-veyed what compelled the characters to act asthey do. The audience understood SweeneyTodd's emotions, but not his motivations.Why were Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett socontent in their crime? The progression of thetitle character from bitter to insane was weakas well - a distinct contrast was certainlylacking.

Just as Sweeney Todd himself had tragicflaws, this musical itself has its flaws, mainlyin its inconsistency and poor vision. Thoughthe general effect of Sondheim's vision wasconveYyd, some of the intricacies of his dark-est musical were lost in the translation.

plot thickens when Anthony Hope (Carson T.R. Schutze G), a young sailor, discovers andfalls for Johanna, vowing to take her awayfrom the judge. The plot thickens even morewhen an arrogant competitor, Pirelli (DanielP. Kamalic '99), recognizes Sweeney's trueidentity and consequently is slain by the bar-ber. What to do with the body? Simple: Chopit up and bake it into one of Mrs. Lovett'smeat pies~ The story continues on its twistedpath, getting bloodier with every song.

The characters in Sweeney Todd are almostall dark and complicated, and the ,cast wasalmost up to the task. Caveney's performanceas Sweeney Todd himself was most curious,decidedly evil looking and sounding, yetseemingly in a trance most of the time. Finnwas obviously comfortable with her role asMrs. Lovett, though she and Caveney neverseemed comfortable with each other. Maybeit's because he kept staring at the audienceand never at her. .

Alex Chisholm was terrific as Tobias Ragg,the nervous and naive boy who works for Mrs.Lovett. Also good was Irene M. Wilson '98 asthe mysterious beggar woman, probably thebest portrayal of emotion and meaning in theentire production. Schutze as the sailorAnthony was a less consistent portrayal. Hisvoice was beautifully rich and moving, but hisexpressions and movements remained toovacant- and stiff to be convincing, remindingme too much of Keanu Reeves. Werner wasexcellent as Johanna, though at times she sang

By Teresa HuangSTAFF REPORTER

MTG tries Sondheim's dark Sweeny ToddSWEENEY TODDMIT Musical Theater Gui/d.La Sala de Puerto Rico.Directed by Spencer Kjein.Music directed by Bryn Oh '95.Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.Book by Hugh Wheeler.Starring Ryan B. Caveney '96, Mary A. Finn'81, Alex Chisholm, and 1rene M. Wi/son '98.

credibility as a silicon-based life form. Soloshows concern without actually reciprocatingthe love the villagers have for him, mostnotably when he ignores the advances of anamorous teenage girl fr<?m the village (SeidyLopez).

Solo never really takes advantage of it~heavily technol'ogical premise; even the finalbattle amounts to not much more than a w~ll-choreographed kickboxing match. And theone fatal weakness in Solo's otherwise inde-structible armor, pointed out early on, is neverexploited.

But the big flaw in the movie, the onethat really renders it a waste of an evening,is that we are never given an opportunity tocare about the characters or their struggle.The central villains are the nasty militarycommanders, out other than the fact thatthey scowl a lot, what reason do we have tohate them? Solo is, after all, their rightfulproperty. True, they show little regat:d forthe lives of the South American civiliansthey are jeopardizing, but then again, theyrepresent the U.S. government and presum-ably know what they are doing. Wt; arenever made to feel the. pain of the villagersat their hands.

In the end, we are treated to a climacticdeath struggle between one ultra-powerfulmilitary machine and another, with the onlydifference between them one of priorities withwhich they were programmed. Even the futureof the army's android program will remainunaffected by the outcome, all of which forcesthe question: Why should we care who winsthis battle?

. And the answer is, we don't. In the end,Solo is done in because its motivations andplot seem' as machine-generated as its titlecharacter. Marlo Van Peebles Is the ultimate convert weapon In Solo.

Iwonder if Sondheim was drunk when hewrote this musical. He must have been -Sweeney Todd is easily the most dismalstory ever set to music. The Musical

Theater Guild's production of this dark musi-cal succeeded in shocking the audience withits severity, but wasn't consistent in its grave-ness and, seemed to lack vision.

When the musical opens, Sweeney Todd(Ryan B. Caveney G) returns to his town abitter man with a new identity, having spentyears in prison before escaping. Through aconversation with Mrs. Nellie Lovett (MaryA. Finn '81), the local meat pie shopkeeper,Sweeney Todd learns that his wife is dead and)lis daughter Johanna (Allison Werner W '98)'is a prisoner of the deceiving Judge Turpin(Jake Yara '93). With the help of Mrs. Lovett,he concocts a plan to gain revenge against thejudge - open a barber shop above her meatpie shop, invite the judge over for a closeshave, a~d ... the rest you can figure out. The

By Yaron KorenSTAFF REPORTER

SOLODirected by Norberto Barba:Starring Mario Van Peebles, Barry .corbin,Jaime Gomez, and William Sadler.

He's pumped, he's primed, he's readyfor carnage: Meet Solo', the govern-ment's latest weapon in the war on,evil. And get ready for the worst

android movie ever.The film starts out promisingly enough - .

a new ultra-expensive military project, anandroid named Solo (Mario Van Peebles), issent out on his first mission to destroy a rebelgroup in South America that has been terror-izing the locals. There, despite his prepared-ness for the mission, he fails on his, assign-ment because he has been programmed not toendanger the lives of noncombatants. Theevil military brass in charge of the Solo pro-ject headed by Colonel Madden (WilliamSadler), decides this is unacceptable and,against the wishes of Solo's creator, Gen Xhacker Bill Stewart (Adrien Brody) decides todeconstruct Solo and have him repro-grammed. Solo learns of this plot and becauseself-preservation is his prime directive, he isforced to flee the army base in a daringescape sequence. He literally crashes into asmall village in an unnamed South Americancountry, the same one where he had ,earlier'been sent to.

Up until this point, the movie is fairlyawash in the cliches of the genre - the evilmilitary leader - as well as his sidekick, the-bumbling General Haynes (Barry Corbin) ~is an unsmiling, unblinking, short-fusedtyrant, showing perhaps a touch more humani-ty than the android itself. And Solo has aTerminator-like computerized view of theworld, although,in this case, one so primitiveit seems straight put of Windows 95. And, ast androids always do, he' grapples (with littlesuccess) with the concept of humanitythroughout the movie, especially with thetouchy subjec~ of humor. .

Solo, takes an unexpected turn, however,after he meets with t1)e natives. For a weekhe stays with them, and the movie, slowsdown as it shows us the mutual friendshipthat grows between them. Solo teaches themhow 10 defend against the rebels, and theydo. Some of the scenes here in which thevillagers' suspicions are slowly brokendown are touching; in a manipulative kindof way. . '

The military, still set to get its android'back soon realizes that human forces are nomatch for this man of steel and sends out (youguessed it) another android to finally put anend to Solo, this one reprogrammed to lackthe pangs of conscience that Solo was mistak-enly equipped with. In a bizarre decision bythe filmmakers, this second cyborg is an exact,duplicate of Madden. Obviously meant toachieve an ironic doppelganger effect, thisdouble casting technique falls flat becauseSadler plays both with the exact same lack ofhumanity. .

At this point, the film devolves into yourtypical one-on-one duel 'between good and

, evil (think Universal Soldier or TerminatorIl), pitting the second android's ruthless inten-sity against Solo's newfound capacity for cre-ative thought.

The best part of Solo is undoubtedlyPeebles himself, who also helped to producethe film. He is believable and physicallyimposing, a credit-to his months of physicaltraining for the part. He plays the part honest-ly, partly a credit to the screenplay, and man-ages to elicit sympathy without giving up

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the slowdown on the consolidationof student administrative servicesinitiated during the spring of 1995.The Office of the Bursar, studentemployment, student loan, .and stu-dent loan collections offices were allincorporated into one large organi-zation and moved to a new, largerapplication. .

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Yale aid pac~ages delayedChanges in Yale University's

Office of Undergraduate FinancialAid haye left about 35 percent offinancial aid students without pack-ages at the start of the school year,said Jim Tilton, director of Yale'sOffice of Undergraduate FinancialAid.

But the elimination of the bur-sar's and financial aid fines thissemester in the wake of the substan-tial backlog lessened the financialanxiety of many affected students,Tilton said. The financial aid officeinstructed students without pack-ages to pay based on their previousyears' statements. .

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A masked gunman burst into anMCAT examination in SanFrancisco on Saturday shortly after

the start of theafternoon sessionof the six-hourexam. InspectorMichael M,aloneyof the San

Francisco Police Department'sRobbery Division said the youngman, whose age and' identity havenot yet been confirmed, entered thetest room armed with a pellet gunand wearing a ski mask.

The. suspect demanded a copy ofthe exam from the proctor, whogave him a writing sample. The.gunman departed .and returnedshortly thereafter to demand thephysical sciences section, of theexam. The proctor told the gunman.that the sections had been put awayin a box under the desk.

, Maloney said the would-be rob-ber attempted to open the box, lay-ing his gun down on the' proctor'sdesk as he tried to get a better grip.The proctor "saw an opportunity toreduce harm," picked up the gunand moved away from the desk, hesaid.

When the gunman saw this, helunged at the proctor, hitting her andattempting to take away the gun. Atthis point, a custodian entered theroom, and, seeing the proctor withthe gun, mistook her as the threatand struck her over the head with ametal folding chair.

Police then arrived and appre-hended the subject. They have so farhad difficulty identifying the gun--an-: The gunman did-not'reveal hisnanle, telling them only that he wasa high school dropout from Punjab,in northern India. Pending age veri-fication, the suspect is being held atthe Youth Guidance Center in SanFrancisco.

"We' still don't know who thiskid is," said Fred Virgilio, the cen-ter's director. "He said 'he had afriend who took the exam in themorning and did poorly, and he wastrying to invalidate the exam."

"He said he met a girl on thestreet and she asked him to disruptthe test, but he only knew her firstname, and it wasn't found on thetest roster,". said Maloney.

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losing money while the CopyTechnology vendors at MIT werepretty popular, Immerman said. "Itprobably didn't make sense to con-tinue to have our own in-house cen-ter" for the more serious printingjobs, he said.

The new Copy TechnologyCenter has undergone'many physi-cal changes and extended its func-tipns to pr9vide additional servicesthat the main center provided in thepast.

It is now' an independent depart-ment rather than part of the mainGraphic Arts Center. "It's definitelymore hectic now that we're gettingwork that was done'in the main cen-ter with the limits of what we can dohere," Dimond said.

"It's a difficult transition for us- even with the additional ,peopleworking here ---: getting used to thenew services, especially with reno- .vation taking place in the middle ofa busy time of the year," Dimondsaid.

As for the services that the CopyTechnology is providing, there is a:plan to organize a publicationsbureau, within the Institute.

• Members of the MIT community..' could go ~b this bureau for all their

publishing needs, Immerman said.The bureau would then out-

source the service to a number ofspecific outside vendors. BecauseMIT will have an arrangement withthese dozen or so vendors, peoplewill be able to "get a much betterprice," he said. '

However, there would be noobligation for people to use the pub-lishing bureau, and people co,uldstill look to other outside groups to

handle their publishing needs.The idea is still in discussion and

'no definite plans have been made,Dimond said.

Copy service ready for tudentsAmong the many services Copy

Technology provides include classcourse packets distribution, colorprinting, bindery operations, resumereproduction, lamination, computer-to-35mm slide services, self-service'copy production, and other mediaservices.

One-of the new facilities is theXerGx Docutech production pub-lishing system, a copy system usedto copy, store, and edit documentsand other materials. Students canalso rent Macintosh and IBM work-stations for $10 per hour. The centerhas extended its offices and put outa wide range of software, copy, andscanning machines as well. The ser-vice hours have extended toMondays through Fridays from 8a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from 8a.m. to 5 p.m.

Despite the many changes: somestudents report that they have notbeen affected by the renovations. "Ithasn't really made a difference forme," said John C. Powers G "It'sthe.same busy copy center, just witha different name."

Even witp the hectic transitIon,Dimond is ~ptimistic. "We're confi-dent that the Copy TechnologyCenter will not only be a better-organized service, but also an effi-cient and inexpensive service aswell," he said. "I'm excited andthrilled that we've won the opportu-nity to stay and look forward to thenew developments."

Stacey E. Blau contributed to thereporting in this story.

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The RCC team meets weekly to (discuss problems that they encoun-tered during the week. Beginningthis term, the student consultantswill also make pre entations aboutthe different aspects of networkingand protocols. This continued train-ing adds to the initial.trainingrequired of hew consultants.

the hours a consultant worked, eachRCC will be left on the honor sys-tem to report the exact 'hours.Counting hours will be a new taskfor both the tudents and IS, he said.

Currently each undergraduatedormitory has two or three RCCswhile mo t graduate studen dormi-torie have one. The main re ponsi-.bilities of RCCs are to connect resi-dents' personal computers onto theresidential network. RCCs also helpanswer general network questionsand problems that arise.

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one brings in any drugs or alcohol,that none is used in the building,and that disagreements do not flareup into fights. The staff's vigilancemakes such blow-ups rare.

Efforts are made to reduce harmof all sorts. Guests are encouragedto use condoms and 'take advantageof the weekly needle-exchange pro-gram. Many of CASPAR's visitorsare not only HIV -positive but havefull-blown AIDS.

CASPAR-puts its guests in touchwith health facilities, but on anotherlevel, it also helps by letting themget showers and clean clothes andshave - in short, to begin at least tolook like they belong to the main-stream culture from which theyhave dropped out. Some guests evenuse the shelter as a temporary home,where they live as they find jobs, goto work, and finally come back tothe fabric of society.

For a number of years, MIT'sHunger Action Group has helpedPoor and CASPAR with their diffi-cult work by running Food Salvage,taking food which would otherwise ,be thrown out at the end of the dayfrom MIT's cafeterias to the shelter- turning, what makes studentsgroan or screw up their faces during.the day into special treats at night.HAG also participates in Saturday'sBread, runs food drives, and sendsvolunteers to t~e Food Bank. ~ ,

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But Poor's philosophy holdsstrong. "These are not bad people,"he said. ':They are a populationwhose circumstances and problemsare extremely difficult and compli-cated"

That is why Poor believes it isup to the staff to make sure that no

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mended counseling and detoxifica-tion program. Guests who take partin these programs can later bereferred to halfway ~ouses.

Of course, many people stopgoing to counseling after being indetox (or never go at all) and end upback in the shelter before long.

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The CASPAR homeless shelter located on Albany Street provides food and shelter for the homeless.

Goal is to 'reduce harm'Two examination rooms serve

the shelter's optional but recom-

building design that a))ows deskworkers to keep an eye on manyparts of the shelter at once.

Clear sight-lines between thefront desk to the entrance, the com-mon room, the kitchen, the closedcourtyard, the male and femalesober and intoxic~ted dormitoryrooms, and the "quiet room" makefor efficient oversight.

Several other architecturalamenities - including a large laun-dry room, walk-in freezer and walk-in refrigerator, cubbies behind thedesk to. store personal belongings,and a second quiet lounge - helpstaffers serve their guests better.

Welcome to Cambridge and to The Mrr Press Bookstore(or welcome back).Slop by and visit the area's most intriguing bookstore.We feature all the books published by The Mrr Press, as wellas related titles from other publishers, books by Mrrauthors, magazines, great sale books, fantastic bargains on"hurt" MITP books and so much more.

But despite the new surround-ings, CASPAR's guests have notchanged. The shelter houses 72homeless people, usually about 10women and 62 men, who have drugand/or alcohol problems. It does notadmit children, so it refers mothersor families to other shelters.

Food comes from regular dona-tions by MIT and an effort coordi-nated by the Hunger Action Groupas well as from occasional dona-tions from other institutions, fooddrives, and whatever staples theshelter can afford from the BostonFood Bank.

CASPAR gets two-thirds of themoney it needs to buy food and sup-plies and pay its staff from theDepartment of Public Health. Theprograms and grants fill in the restof the shelter's operating budget areprecarious at best - the shelterrecently lost 1,500 from ProjectBread, what had been a sum.

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Working on a shoe tringDespite its small and shrinking

budget, CASPAR carries on with itsprimary mission of saving lives. Theshelter has found ways to stretch thedonations and purchases so that anaverage meal now costs only 17cents.

Although many people are tepidabout volunteering in a shelterwhose guests are more often thannot under the influence, CAS-PAR's staff does find some helpfrom workers referred by thecourts to do community serviceand from some welfare recipientsparticipating in workfare pro-grams.

Nevertheless, with the help of'these workers, CASPAR is able tostay open 24 hours a day with a staffno bigger than it was in the trailerdays. This is due in great part to a

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The report will be releasedsometime' during the fall but "weknew that we needed something inplace for fall," Bates said.

Even though the policy regard-ing parties could be changed by there-engineering report, "unless theyhave the money to do the kind ofrenovations we want" at Walker -like securing doors and windows -it is unlikely that the facility willbecome available for large parties,Bates said.

Student Groups NotConsulted on PolicyFor Parties, Walker

Glavin said that they had "gottena lot of the kinks out of the pro-gram." ,

Administrators "tried to be flexi-ble" when deciding what partieswould be allowed, Glavin said.Bates said that she would try towor~ with groups to re-schedule orredefine their events to prevent can-celation.

In addition, no. more than twoparties requiring metal detectorsmay be held in one night. Eventsthat are large and la~e at night andhave alcohol and non-MIT at themu~ually require metal detectors.Glavin said the limit of two suchparties per night was enforcedbecause of limited manpower andresources.

It "is not clear how much of a'limitation" this would be, Batessaid.

So far, there has not been a nightfor which three groups haverequested a metal-detector event,Jablonski said.

'~.Student input in policy scarceDoug K. Wyatt G, president of

the Association of StudentActivities, was the only student con-sulted in the .decision and said thathe was "asked for input" during theinitial formulation of the p'ilot.

Even so, Wyatt said security was"a trump card they play prettyoften." ., "Some of the restrictions are ... a

bit reacti~nary and unnc«essary ," hesaid.. While the pifot program is-in

place no~, it will be reviewed at theend of each 'teiin, "Ba es .Ilal ~ THe'-plan m;a)(-..also be affected,.by a-, .

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