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Lobdell. Some of the recipes arefrom such regions as Malaysia,Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, andThailand. While the choices are var-ied, Fresh Flavors of Asia servesrice daily with a choice of noodlesor broth on alternating days.

These two main dishes areoffered with two protein options,meat or vegetarian. The meat selec-tions include beef, chicken, pork,and shrimp. In order to accommo-date vegetarians, certain pans are

and only 14percent ranked it good.The old rates were' simply

uncompetitive," said hristineCavanna a business analyst forInformation y terns.

The Graduate Student Councilalso conducted a comparisonbetween MIT's rates and the rates atother universities last year andfound MIT's pricing scale to beunacceptable, said John P. MellorG, then-member of the GHou ing and Community Affairs

ommittee, in an interview lastyear.

The search process was conduct-ed with a great deal of haste; MITbegan negotiating with AT&T,MCI, and Sprint in April, threemonths before the last contract wasdue to expire. 'This was simply thebest deal that we could obtain,'Cavanna said. The new rate struc-ture will last for three years.

tudent dvantage comes to MITAlong with the reduced rates, all

ACUS members will receive atudent Advantage card. Student

Ad antage is a program that enablesstudents to receive discounts frommany national retailers along with a1 percent discount on Amtrak andGreyhound service, according toinformation released by AT&T.

Originally, MIT students werenot going to receive tudentAdvantage cards due to theInstitute's reluctance to give out stu-dent data.

" 0 one at MIT was interested

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implies foods from across the world,includes various stations acrosscampus.

Last year, Pan-Geos was pilotedat Lobdell Food Court, and wascalled Singing Pan at the time,Emery said. That station was movedthis year to Baker House, Emerysaid. "This year was more aggres-sive. We're getting better and fresh-er everyday," said Dave Daniels,operations manager for Aramark.

ew food option are variedFresh Flavors of Asia is located

at both Walker Memorial and

relatively low numbers, becausemost of the current house member-ship will remain next year and thefraternity plans to look for freshmanmembers throughout the fall, he said.

PBE member Dante Roulette '98said he was not disappointed withthis year's results despite a reduc-tion in the number of pledges. "Ithink that we did just as well as lastyear," he said.

"There was no difference in the

By Dudley lammingTAFF REPORTER

tudent will ee reduced long-distance rate thi year a a result of,the renegotiation of AT&T's con-tract with the In titute.

Rates through the AT&Tollege and University ystem are

now at 20 cent per minute forphone calls placed between 8 a.m.and 5 p.m., monday through fridayand nine cents per minute at othertime , down from 15 cents perminute la t year.

Information ystems formed atask force last year to investigaterates and companies in preparationfor the July contract expiration.Extensive surveys conducted by ISrevealed that the 59 percent of MITstudents who use ACUS were dis-satisfied with the system's pricingscale.

Almost half of the students whouse ACUS rated the service poor,

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RITA H. UN-THE TE HErica I. Shelton '99 watches as Lucy Carter prepares her food at Pan-Geos, a new food station InLobdell.

As returning students begin thenew school year, they may noticethat MIT dining services is offeringa selection of new food items. Thechanges are intended to diversifythe traditional cafeteria menu,according to Aramark district man-ager Beth Emery.

The biggest change in MIT din-ing services is the newly trade-marked Pan-Geos. The new optionincludes thirty or forty recipes andemphasizes fresh ingredients. Theidea of Pan-Geos, whose name

MIT Dining Introduces New StationsTo Offer ~ Wider Variety of Cuisine

ties, such as Chi Phi, Phi BetaEpsilon, and Theta Delta Chi, sawtheir numbers drop slightly thisyear.

T e number of students pledgingChi Phi fell to 5 from 13 last year.This "was below what we expectedbut we chose quality over quantity,"said Todd S. Harrison '98, the fra-ternity's rush chair.

"We are very pleased with thegroup we got... I think [rush] was asuccess," Harrison said. Chi Phi willnot be impacted adversely by the

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Pledge yields fall for some housesOn the other hand, some fraterni-

men] were around on Friday andSaturday night," said Zeta Psi RushChair Chris R. Laughman '99, whoalso said he was satisfied with thisyear's rush. .

"There was a lot of enthusiasmfrom work week which carried itselfthrough rush. Every couple of years,everything works perfectly. and youhave the feeling that rush will runwell," Laughman said.

PLP's pledge numbers increasedfrom 7to 12 this year, and ADP sawa rise from 11 pledges last year to16 this time.

G, Ivano Gregoratto '97, MasahiroIshigami '97, Matthew N. Condell'95 and Wandy Sae-Tan '97. Theteam also included Jorge A. Barrera'99, Andy Buttner .99, ChristopherE. Carr '99, Brian B. Graham '99,Stanley R. Hunter '00, Tasos G.Karahalios '91, Kudzaishe G.Takavarasha '97, Tom, and JimmieD. Walker III '99.

Historically, MIT has done well.competitively, placing first in thelast Sunrayce and breaking theworld record in 1989.

Team faced several. obstaclesManta GT, so named for its

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WAN YUSOF WA MORSHIDI-THE TE HKrlstle Tate '01 struggles to gain possession of the ball In a field hockey match againstMiddlebury College last Saturday. MIT lost the game 1-6.

Rush on Par with Predictions, Previous YearBy Steve Um

The host of parties, trips, anddinners that mark rush week 'Paidoff for many fraternities, sororitiesand independent living groups.Most of the houses posted results onpar with those they achieved lastyear.

Several houses saw an increasein pledge numbers this year, includ-ing Zeta Psi, Pi Lambda Phi, andAlpha Delta Phi.

Zeta Psi almost doubled thenumber of pledges it had last year, .with an increase from 12 pledges to21 this year.

"A lot of [brothers and fresh-

By Yvonne Lal

The MIT Solar Electric VehicleTeam car Manta GT raced to secondplace in Sunrayce '97, an intercolle-giate solar vehicle race held on June28th. The ten-day, 1,150-mile racebegan on June 19th at theIndianapolis Speedway and finishedon the 28th in Colorado Springs,Colo.

The team's vehicle finished eigh-teen minutes behind the car run bythe team from California StateUniversity at Los Angeles.

Sunrayce competitors come fromCanada, United States, Mexico, andPuerto Rico. Teams build cars with-in regulatory constraints, which limitthe totall1attery power and solar-celltechnology. Before the competition,all cars must firs~ endure an eight-hour qualifying round.

This preliminary course deter-mines the initial placements of thecars in.the actual race.

All vehicles are then given adaily as well as an overall ranking atthe end of each day.

According to Bonnie W. Tom'99, presiding president of thesolar vehicle team, the Manta GTruns on 1500 Watts. "We have a

. car going on the power needed todry your hair in the morning," shesaid.

A core of Sunrayce 95's winningteam led this year's entry: then-Team President David A. Hampton

, .~MIT Takes Second PlaceInSolar Vehicle Car Race:

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In exchange for a 10-year pri onentence for that con piracy, Sayegh

agreed to tell U.S. officials what heknows about anti-Saudi movementsand Iran's involvement in Gulf di -sident activities. But after he wasextradited, Sayegh repudiated theplea agreement, and opted for a for-mal trial.

With limited evidence, U.S.attorneys have chosen to drop crimi-nal charges, for now at least. Butthat may not mean an end to thecase - or his imminent deportation.

Legal sources said JusticeDepartment officials apparentlyhope the threat of deportation toSaudi Arabia will prompt Sayegh tostart cooperating with U.S. authori-ties, possibly as part of a new pleaagreement.

Saudi Arabia has already notifiedthe Clinton administration that itwill seek formal extradition ofSayegh to face trial for the Khobarbombing, despite the absence of abilateral treaty between the twoallies.

The Justice. Department pledgedthat it will "respond appropriately"if the kingdom meets requirementsfor extradition. If convicted,Sayegh, whose w.ife and childrenare still in Saudi Arabia, could facea death sentence by beheading.

"This is one way of putting pres-sure on the guy to see if he'll comearound to being of assistance tothem," said a legal source close tothe case. .

The Justice Department left openthe possibility of future prosecutionof Sayegh. Its two-page statementpointedly noted that the investiga-tions into both the Khobar Towersbombing and the separate conspira-cy to kill Americans disclosed bySayegh would continue on a "priori-ty basis."

and college loan debt soaring, moreand more students are taking advan-tage of new opportunities to restruc-ture their loans over longer periodsof time or in ways based on whatthey earn after graduation.

Education department officialssaid that often in the past year theyhave received nearly 15,000 appli-cations a month from students toconsolidate loans, a rate nearlytwice what they said they hadexpected when the program began.

But they adamantly reject criti-cism that direct lending is in sham-bles.

"I can understand the frustration,but I thiuk we have to keep it in per-spective," Longanecker. "One rea-son we have this problem is becauseof the great popularity of the pro-gram."

Longanecker said the departmentis disappointed with the cOI\tractor it .hired last year, Electronic DataSystems, which was founded by bil-lionaire Ross. Perot. Longaneckersaid there were start-up problems inprocessing student requests, and thatever since the volume of applica-tions has overwhelmed the system.

Some officials said it had beentaking more than seven months insome cases - an unpaid studentloan falls into default after sixmonths - to process appli tions.

The department has no estimatesyet as to when the loan-consolida-tion program wilI be re-opened. ButLonganecker said he expects it cer-tainly will be before December,which is when the most recent classof colIege graduates are supposed tostart repaying tuition loans.

errotates

about political tability in the oil-rich kingdom.

De pite pre sure from the WhiteHou e and repeated vi its by FBIDirector Louis J. Freeh, the audial 0 have not provided sufficientindependent acce s to other uspectwho alIegedly implicated Sayegh,the sources said.

A statement is ued by SaudiAmba sador Prince Bandar ibnSultan ibn Abdul Aziz late Mondaysaid his government had cooperated"in all aspect of the investigation,"while noting that its own investiga-tion i ongoing. "We do not accuseor absolve anyone of the responsi-bility," the statement said.

But the case also became a legalminefield because of mishandlingby U.S. inve tigators after Sayeghwas captured in Ottawa while shop-ping with a friend, according toFrancis D. Carter, Sayegh's court-

. appointed lawyer.Sayegh, who does not speak

much English, claims the plea bar-gain worked out with U.S. attorneyswas initially brokered with only thehelp of a detention-center interpreterand without legal counsel present.He also says he did not understandhis options or the Americ~J1 judicialsystem, including trial by jury. Inaddition, he was not given a copy ofthe plea agreement until after hewas extradited to Washington.

"This case has been badly bun-gled on all sides," an adQ1inistrationofficial acknowledged Monday.

In the plea bargain worked outwith U.S. officials, Sayegh was infact not named in the Khobar bomb-ing. He was instead charged withconspiracy to commit murder and"international terrorism" related tohis assignment to locate guns for aseparate, unsuccessful. anti-American attack.

offers a range of repayment options. .Direct lending, one of President

Clinton's most important educationinitiatives, has been under fire fromRepublicans and many privatelenders ever since it was created fiveyears ago. There have been severalcampaigns in Congress to ~bolish orseverely limit the program, but itremains largely intact, serving morethan ] ,200 universities. Many col-lege officials say they have beenquite pleased with the program sofar.

But to some Republican leaders,the latest trouble is proof the depart-ment is not up to managing collegeloans at a time when a reeord num-ber of students - at last count,more than 7 million - depend onthem. .

"From the very start of the pro-gram, I doubted the department'sability to become one of the largestbanks in this country," Rep.William F. Goodling, R-Pa., chair-man of the House Committee onEducation and the Workforce, saidlast week. He called the depart-ment's inability to consolidate stu-dent loans quickly and efficiently"irresponsible.;'

"Up to now, they've done apretty good job on this," said TerryHartle, a vice president for theAmerican Council on Education, aWashington group that representsmore than 1,500 universities. "Butwhat we have here is a hugeembarrassment in one of the presi-dent's signature education pro-grams."

With tuition costs at most cam-puses continuing to exceed inflation,

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The Ju tice Department, itsca e weakened by audi Arabia'sfailure to provide sufficient evi-dence or intelligence to U ..inve tigator , moved Monday todi miss terrorism charges againstthe audi di sident uspected ofinvolvement in the 1996 bombingthat killed 19 American airmen in

audi Arabia.At a court hearing scheduled for

Wedne day, U.. attorney will askinstead to have su pect Hani Sayeghdeported, a Ju tice Departmenttatement disclosed. Sayegh, who

was captured in Canada last springand extradited to Washington inJune, had been the most promisin"gindependent lead in the ca e for theFBI and the Pentagon.

Court documents filed earlier inCanada alleged that Sayegh, whoadmits he trained in Iran, was a dri-ver and lookout during the attack onKhobar Towers in eastern SaudiArabia. The collapse of the prosecu-tion case is a major setback andembarrassment for rS, counter-ter-rorism efforts, Clinton administra-tion officials conceded.

The Justice Department did notattempt to place blame for theabrupt change in tactics after sixmonths of maneuvering behind thescenes to build the case. "Since wehave not been able to develop therequisite evidence, it is necessarythat this prosecution be withdrawn,"the statement said. ..

But the shift was forced in largepart because Saudi Arabia has notprovided sufficient evidence to sup-port its claim that Sayegh was a par-ticipant in the second of two attackssince November 1995 that killed 25Americans and triggered questions

WASHINGTON

Education Department HaltsProgram to Restructure ItselfBy Rene SanchezTHE WASHINGTON POST

The Education Department, longmaligned by congressionalRepublicans who say jts manage-ment is a mess, has given criticsnew reason to howl.

The department announced lastweek that it will not accept anymore applications from recent col-lege graduates trying to consolidateor refinance their tuition loans untilthe contractor it hired for the jobclears up an enormous backlog ofthose requests.

There are more than 70,000 col-lege students nationwide whose loanpayments might soon be in limbobecause of the lengthy processingdelays, and the waiting list has beengrowing longer each month. Thedepartment said it had no choice butto suspend the popular programindefinitely in order to begin fixingthe problem. .

"It's a terrible embarrassment,"said David Longanecker, the assis-tant secretary for postsecondaryeducation. "We were falling fartherand farther behind, but by doing thiswe are confident that we'll get ontop ofthe problem soon."

The department faced a similarpredicament last year when morethan 900,000 student aid applica-tions handled by private contractorsit hired were delayed because ofserious management problems. Theincidents raise new questions aboutthe department's ability to manageits direct lending program, whichalIows students to get tuition loansfrom the federal government and

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Activists Hope to HaltLaunch Of Plutonium

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The two lawyers repre enting Paula Corbin Jones in her sexualhara ment uit again t President Clinton officially withdrew fromthe case Monday, citing "fundamental difference of opinion" withher about "the future cour e ofthi litigation."

The move throws the ca e into turmoil, and increases the chancethe president will be forced to stand trial next year on the embarra s-ing charges, ay legal sources on both side .

"There' not going to be a ettlement. Clearly this ca e is going to. trial," predicted one lawyer who i familiar with the case.

Attorneys Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert K. Davis, who have rep-resented Jones at no cost since 1994, filed a motion with a judge inLittle Rock, Ark., seeking permission to quit the case.

They wanted to ettle her suit for a $700,000 payment and avaguely worded statement from Clinton saying the former Arkansasstate worker was a person of good character.

But Jones refused, saying she wanted Clinton to apologize for hisconduct in a Little Rock hotel room six years ago.

"It's never been about money; it's about language," said SusanCarpenter McMillan, a friend and spokeswoman for Jones.

Golden Rule Days

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The main computer aboard the troubled ir pace tat ion ine -plicably broke down again onday, hutting off y tern that auto-matically keep the tation' power-gath ring olar panel properlyaligned with the un.

With the computer down, ir lipped into a low rotation, withit array of long, rectangular olar panel only intermittently c tch-ing the un' ray. Co monaut Anatoly Solovyev and PavelVinogradov and American a tronaut Michael Foale turned off apower-con uming oxygen y tern and began burning olid- tate can-iter that produce oxygen through chemical interaction. The threeal 0 turned off other ystem and worked in semi-darkne to con-erve electricity.

To right the station, the crew fired thru ter rocket to keep thepanel oriented to the sun. There wa no danger to the crew or anythought of abandoning hip, Ru ian officials said. "] think this inothing frightening, although it i unplea ant," aid Valery Udaloy.Mi sion Control chief Vladimir olovyev said he expects the attitudecontrol ystem to be back in operation within two day.

The breakdown was the third computer malfunction aboard Mirthi year, a period marked by numerous mi hap, including a colh-ion with an unmanned cargo ve el, docking malfunctions, an on-

board fire and breakdown in the 0 ygen-generating and cooling ys-tems. ]n July, a member of the previou Ru ian crew accidentallydisconnected a power cable to a computer, throwing the paceshipinto a low tumble imilar to it current pattern.

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By Chris E. ForestSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

Anti-nuclear activists vowed Monday to take non-violent steps,including trying to reach the launch pad for a sitoown, to prevent the

ational Aeronautic and Space Admini tration from lofting anunmanned spacecraft to Saturn soon with 72 pounds of plutoniumaboard.

The activists say A A has been under tating the health ri ks ifthe Cassini spacecraft were to break apart during a rocket explosionat liftoff or were to re-enter the atrno phere during a swing aroundEarth on its seven-year mission.

"They've taken the mo t optimi tic figures they can find," saidMichio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at the City University of ewYork who has studied the ASA risk analysis.

But ASA and Energy Department officials said the mission issafe and called critics' charge unsub tantiated.

Radioactive plutonium provides energy for electricity-generatingdevices on Cassini. Scientists say Saturn is too far from the un toallow practical use of solar power cells.

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A golden rule: if the winds come off the ocean, expect oceanicweather. Being in Cambridge, we sometimes forget that the oceanlies just to our east but today's weather will be a firm reminder.With that in mind, we take a look ahead to this week's weather. Asa high pressure system sits to ollr north, the anticyclonic winds(CCW) around the system are bringing oceanic air onto the easternparts of Massachusetts and with it, the requisite cool and datnp airfor today and this evening. Embedded in this flow, we find possibleshowers or drizzle this afternoon and continuing throughWednesday.

The main weather event, though, will approach on Wednesdaynight and arrive on Thursday as a low-pressure system develops overAppalachia and proceeds towards ew England. Before it arrivesthough, temperatures should rise slightly until significant rain occurssometime between, Wednesday night and Friday depending on thedevelopment of the upper tropospheric flow.

Today: Drizzle and rain, high 67°F (19°C). .Tonight: Continued drizzle, low 58°F (14°C).Wednesday: Partly cloudy with chance of showers, high 72°F

(22°C), low 60°F (16°C).Thursday: Warmer with developing rain, high 75°F (24°C), low

59°F (15°C).

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THE WASHINGTON POST

Former General Insists RussiaLost Portable uclear Bombs

Panel Backs Postmaster in UrgingNegotiating Individual Bulk Rates

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Ale ander Lebed, the former Russian general and presidentialhopeful, has been broadca ting his claim over the past week thatRu ia ha 10 t track of 100 nuclear bombs the size of suitcases.

"A very thorough investigation is necessary," Lebed reiterated toreporters Monday. "The tate of nuclear security in Rus ia poses adanger to the whole world." The general's allegations are roundlydenied by Ru sian official, who contend that all of Ru ia's nuclearweapons are afely under control.

Despite the official denials, Lebed is pursuing his allegationsundeterred. In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" aired Sunday,Lebed aid the uitca e bombs were ideal weapons for terroristsbec,au e they could be armed and detonated by a single person withinhalf an hour.

One of the one-kiloton bombs could kill 100,000 people, he aid.Of 250 uitca e device made by the oviet Union, he said, 100 areunaccounted for.

According to Lebed, the suitcase bomb , mea uring about 23 by16 by inches, were deployed by the Soviet Union in pecialbrigades in orne of the empire's remote region. After the breakup ofthe oviet state, many of the uitcases vani hed in what became inde-pendent republic , where they could fall into the hand of terrorist ,he said.

A panel composed of large commercial mailers recommendedMonday that Congress give the U.S. Po tal Service authority to nego-tiate postage rates with individual bulk mailing companies.

To overcome the high labor costs, the committee said, the agencyshould boost its inve tment in automation and work with employees"to reduce the unit costs of handling and qelivering all classes ofmail."

The committee supported allowing the Postal Service Board ofGovernors, the panel of presidential appointees that oversees theagency, to overrule by a majority vote stamp-price decisions issuedby the independent Postal Rate Commission. Currently, all nine gov-ernor must agree to overrule the commission.

John T. Estes, executive director of the Main Street Coalition forPostal Fairness, a group of newspapers and other mailers, attackedthe report, saying its findings would hurt small mailers.

"We have consistently questioned the appropriatene s of largevolume discounts and a weakened Postal Rate Commission," Estessaid.

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Md., said the deal "strengthensAOL tremendously."

The deal would give AOL,which recently has faced its ownfinancial challenges, much-neededcash to develop new online contentand expand its base of 9 millionsubscribers. Whether the consumer-focused company can maintain tneloyalty of CompuServe customersover the long term is unclear.

Spokesmen for AOL andCompuServe refused to comment onthe matter Sunday night. Executivesat WorldCom did not immediatelyreturn pho~'e calls. TheCompuServe spokesman, SteveConway, said Saturday that thecompany was "in active talks" tosell itself.

•cyi it by Tamraz, who w pu hing

an oil pipeline project near theCaspian ea that admini tration offi-cial opposed. Critics ay thatTamraz u ed hi donations to theDemocrat - at least 177,000-to ide tep White Hou e officialwho oppo ed his project and pitchthe venture directly to the president.

Fowler al 0 as i ted JohnnyChien Chuen Chung - a majordonor who ran a fax machine bu i-ne s in Torrance, Calif. - in ettingup a meeting between formerEnergy Secretary Hazel 0' Learyand a businessman from China,investigators said. A ationalSecurity Council aide had de cribedChung in a 1995 memo a 'a hu -

. tIer" trying to exploit his contactwith the White House.

Hou e, the Int rior Department, theCentral Intelligen e Agency, theEnergy Department and a handful ofother agencie to a si t key contrib-utors, inve tigators said.

Hi advocacy - or' elling ofinfluence," a GOP inve tigatorscall it - ran counter to an internalpolicy prepared by General CounselJoseph andler that forbade "anyD C staff' from "ever contact(ing)an admini tration official on behalfof a donor for any reason."

Investigators said that Fowlerhelped oilman Roger Tamraz attendWhite House functions after receiv-ing "a very trong warning" from anaide that Tamraz could prove to bean embarrassment to the Democrat .

ational Security Council aideshad objected to the White House

its scale and its resource to make itmore focused and efficient in servic-ing the business and professionalmarket," a source said.

AOL would acquire the serviceunder a complex transaction alsoinvolving telecommunications giantWorldCom Inc.

As tentatively structured,World Com would buy CompuServeas part of a $1.2 billion stock swap,then give AOL all the content andsubscribers and $175 million inexchange for AOL's ANS networkservice. AOL executives have saidthat through combined operations,the CompuServe unit could becomeprofitable.

Gary ...Arlen, an independentindustry analyst based in Bethesda,

America Online Inc. reached adeal Sunday night to take over jtsbiggest competitor, the falteringCompuServe Inc. online service thathas 2.6 million customers, sourcesclose to the negotiations said.

Under terms of the deal, which isxpected to be announced Monday,

CompuServe still would exist as aseparate service, but would be fullyoperated by AOL, the sources said.AOL would have a 'combined cus-tomer base of more than 11 millionsubscribers.

Va.-based AOL intends to keepCompuServe's content focused onbusiness and technology issues, thesources said. "AOL is going to use

America Online Purchases RivalNetwork Provider CompnSenreBy Rajlv ChandrasekaranTHE WASHINGTON POST

By Marc LaceyLOSA GELESTIMES

enate investigator intend topre ent evidence Tue day that for-mer Democratic Chairman DonaldL. Fowler flouted an internalDemocratic ational Committeepolicy when he repeatedly lobbiedfederal agencies on behalf of majorcontri butors.

, I The ro ter of donor representedby Fowler include American Indiantribes, a controversial oil financierand a Southern California business-man dismissed by a White Houseaide as "a hu tIer."

Fowler, who is to appear as awitness at Tuesday's Senate hear-ings on campaign fund-raising abu -es, contacted officials in the White

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Chairmanhang-Lin Chuang '9

Editor in hi fJennifer Lane '9

Bu ine anagerCri tian . Gonzalez '99

anaging ditorJa on C. Yang '99

E ecuti e EditorDan McGuire '99

EWSSTAFF

Editors: David D. Hsu '98, Venkateshati h '98, Brett Altschul '99, May K.

Tse '99; ociate Editor: CarinaFung '99, Jean K. Lee '99, FrankDabek '00, Dougla E. Heimburger '00,Zareena Hu ain '00; taff: Eva Moy G,Kyle Young G, Jame M. Wahl '97,Christopher L. Falling '98, oemiGiszpenc '98, Orli G. Bahcall '99, hawdeeEshghi '99, Carina Fung '99, Fenny Lin '99,Eric it '99, harmin Ghaznavi '00, tuartJackson '00, Liz Kram '00, Dudley W.Lamming '00, usan Buchman '0 I;

eteorologist : Michael C. Morgan PhD '95,Chris E. Forest G, Gerard Roe G, MarekZebrow ki.

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Editors: aul Blumenthal '98, RussellLight '98, josh Bittker '99; ssociateEditor: Moksha Ranasinghe '99, Erica .Pfister '00; taff: Belly Chang '98, LarryChao '98, ancy Hsiung '99, BinhTruong '99, Billie Wang '00.

very year, U.. ew orld Report publi he a widelyfollowed ranking 0 the nation' b t universities, and in doingo it hold the e chool ho tage by forcing it p ciou criteria

on ma e of pro pectiv tudent hoping to gain admi ion tothe • be t" in titution.Editorial While IT i u ua))y rankedamong the top handful on thi Ii t,

the y tern u ed by U.. ew empha ize factors that do notreflect the unique nature of the In titute or any oth r top chool.The magazine arbitrarily decide on a et of criteria and thenpre ent it method a an ab olute mea ure by making spurioudi tinction in the importance of different mea ure of educa-tional quality. For in tance, in it ranking thi year, it a igneda weight of 20 percent to a chool' retention rate; thi criterionparticularly hurt cientificaBy-oriented chool , ince they gen-erally had lower retention rate than chool of comparable cal-iber with different empha e . MIT had the ]5th highe t reten-tion rate among national univer itie , but thi factor repre entedit wor t-rated attribute. imilarly, the California In titute ofTechnology wa ranked ninth overall becau e it had a retentionrate of 82 percent, a value ignificantJy lower than that of otherchool in the top ]0 lot . However, it gained the top pot in

financial and faculty re ource , and wa demonstrably hurt bythe high weight given to retention rate.

Another factor that hurt MIT in the standings was a recent-ly contrived tati tic caned "value added." U.S. ews calculatedan expected graduation rate based on te t core and cJas stand-ing and then compared that value to the actual rate. MIT, CalTech, Carnegie Menon Univer ity, and the Georgia Institute ofTechnology a)) had negative values in this category therebylowering their overall ranking . This criterion is especially ludi-crou ince it would reward a school that automatica))y gradu-ate all of it incoming fre hmen.

Overa)}, the methodology employed by the magazine was sci-

entificallyab urd. One of the overall categorie U.. ew used torate chool wa student electivity. In order to create a rating inthi area, it compiled an index for each chool ba ed on the attrib-ute ofthe incoming cla that year, including te t score, highchool cla tanding, acceptance rate, and yield, or the proportion

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hurt the In titute becau e it applicant pool is somewhat elf-elected, making its acceptance rate appear relatively high.

Furthennore, the rankings provide an artificial sense of pre-ci ion, and they create the impre sion that there is a significantdifference between the top few chools. However, the magazinegoe on to group lower ranked schools by tier. It is more likelythat chools in lower tiers differ more from one another thantho e at the very top, which are separated by mere fractions of apoint in the magazine's composite index.

The low ranking of the Institute is not necessarily unde-erved. There may we)) be solid reasons that the Institute should

be ranked lower than some of its Ivy League peers even thoughmany consider it the premiere technical institution. MIT mayfail to give its students as wen-rounded an experience as theIvies ranked above it in the survey. The ranking system itself isflawed beyond repair, and it is indeed shameful that studentsdevoted to scientific reason must submit to such a ridiculouslyconstructed system.

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MIT Still Uninformedon Affirmative Action

Ander Hove

Many MIT students would be surprised tolearn that the In titute's affirmative action pol-icy has been wildly succe ful at attracting thebest women in the country. It ha done 0

without loweringadmission standardor changing the cur-riculum. And yet, MITtudents know little

about MIT's affirma-tive action policy, suc-ce ful or not.

Gary Bass, investi-gating for The NewRepublic, confirms thi

assertion." early every [MIT woman] I inter-viewed aid she thought he'd been held tolower admi sion tandard." This i urpris-ing, becau e in reality women are held to theame high standards as other applicant . Andwhen it comes to academics, MIT women

slightly outperform MIT men, not to men-tion that they are much more likely tocomplete the undergraduate program than

male entrant .What i MIT affirmative action,

and why is it ucce sful? Affirmativeaction here has nothing to do withquotas or different standards.

Affirmative action only comes intoplay during the recruitment process.MIT aggre sively recruit women,underrepre ented minorities, and "aca-demic superstars" starting in grade

school. Because of this recruitment,many qualified women apply to MIT,whereas they often do not apply toother universitie that ignore recruit-ing. Therein lie our succes .

The distinction between aggres iverecruiting and different admi ion stan-

dard seems irople enough to me. Why isthere so much mi information and misunder-standing about MrT affirmative action if thepolicy i so traightforward? Why do under-graduates persist in the belief that admissionsstandards are different when the facts arerepeatedly and blatantly brought before them?I believe there are two explanations.

First, MIT students are recruited frommainstream American society; they hold thesame stereotype about women and minoritiethat other Americans do. Many schools haveused quotas in the past, and anecdotal horrorstories about reverse discrimination are com-monly known. People come to MIT believingthat all affirmative action involves quotas or,barring that, skewed admissions standards.Information to the contrary fails to per uadebecause it simply does not jibe with thestereotypes that are out there.

Although societal perceptions certainlyexist, they cannot explain all of the misinfor-mation about affirmative action. More funda-mentally, the Institute's recruitment processfails to inform students about what type ofeducation they should expect from MIT.Many people at MIT would agree that theInstitute admits the smartest people and triesto give them a technical education. There is anelement of truth to this: students are smart,and the curriculum does concentrate on sci-ence and technology. Yet the MIT facultyconsider that the Institute's mission is to givethe student a general life education, one that isnot constrained to a student's narrow technicalinterests. Passion for academics is part of anMIT education, but not the central part, inspite of what many students believe.

Because of this misconception, studentsare likely to conclude that their peers wereselected based only on their academic recordsor college board scores. MIT tries to admitpeople who have the ability to succeed ocial-ly as well as academically. Achievement atMIT means participation in the community,membership in activities, and the ability tointeract positively with one's peers.

The misunderstanding of affirmative actionat MIT is a widespread phenomenon. To alarge extent, this misunderstanding is anindictment of the education we receive here.The faculty's goal is to provide a broad, over-all education, yet students cannot take fulladvantage of the curriculum outside of acade-mics if they remain unaware of its purpose.As long as students hold such wild miscon-ceptions about race, gender, and the purposeof an MIT education, we cannot call our affir-mative action policy a success.

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tradition." In other words, Judeo-Christiandogma is literally meaningless, but makessense to those afflicted with the set of patholo-gies collectively known as religious faith.

The absurd babble coming from theChristian mystics has absolutely nothing to dowith the problems faced by artificial intelli-gence researchers. These mystics, possessedby faith and suspicious of reason, have noth-ing useful to contribute to the AI endeavorexcept the mindless drivel of religion. Godand Computers has no place in Course VI andis an insult to MIT. This Institute, one of thelast bastions of rational thought, ought toleave the evangelists on the steps of 77Massachusetts Avenue.

Anne Foerst's perverse convolution of AIand Christianity is disturbing, to say the least.Mixing one of mankind's greatest goals withthe myth of the Fall and concepts of sin andestrangement is more than just an attempt toendow AI with Christian meaning. It is anattempt to sully the grand vision of AI itselfand the "hubris" of those who are working toattain that vision. The myth of the Fall (theEdenic myth of Adam and Eve, who fell fromGod's grace upon eating from the tree ofknowledge) is Christianity's declaration ofwar on science. Nietzsche's analysis of thismyth is dead-on: "Science makes godlike - itis all over with priests and gods when manbecomes scientific. The moral is that scienceis forbidden as such; it alone is forbidden.Science is the first sin, the seed of all sin, theoriginal sin. This alone is morality. 'Thoushalt not know' - the rest follows."

If you want further in ights intoChristianity and the secret motives of AIresearchers, Anne Foerst's class has much tooffer you. The real problems of AI, however,will require productive thought and effort tobe overcome. .

J. Ryan Bender is a member of the Class of2000.

Profe or of athematic Gian-Carlo Rotau e can of Coke in hi DifferentialEquation (I .03) la s for the theatric andattention. ' I need some caffeine to keepmy elf going," Rota ays. In addition to theHershey bar he gives out reward duringlecture, the Coke 'i kind of an ct. It' beengoing on for heaven know how long now.'

But the caffeine u e is not much of a habitfor Rota. ' I don't take any caffeine except inthe form of Coke. I don't drink coffee," heay . "I don't think that caffeine is a goodtimulant in general."

When it come down to it the yummy fac-tor i the thing, I think. I drink oke becau e Ilike it. There are lots of different type of sodaand coffee with lots of levels of caffeine, but awhole lot of them seem nothing more than away to prove how much awful or trange-ta t-ing caffeinated junk your mouth and stomachcan take. Particularly the way some peopleconsume caffeine around here come midtermtime, you wouldn't know whether they everre pect the limit of their tongue and stomach..But midterm or no, a far a I'm concerned, acan of Coke is it.

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of- ontrol caffeine habit lik ountain Dewfor oda. When they don't want od , th Y gofor a traight cup of Joe or ometime moree otic option like the caffeine-h avyVietname e varietie of coffe and chocolate-cov red e pre 0 bean . Coke, e pe ially dietCoke (ans ugar), is pretty much the main-tream poor man' caffeine beverage for 4

a.m. problem ets and the like.Caffeine drink erve other purpo es

beyond the mundane role of fuel for late-nightwork. I don't u ually use Coke to keep my elfawake. Pathetic though it may eem, it' ju tkind of fun to drink. More than one per on,however, has ugge ted to me that there maybe other rea on I began drinking Coke thissummer.

My seemingly separate aim beginning atthe end of last term to completely top cur ingcoincided perhaps none too coincidentallywith the tart of my Coke consumption. Thestart and stop, some people said to me,amounted to a zero- urn game for my addic-tions: an exchange of one bad habit for anoth-er. I'm not ure that that's quite true, but evenif it is, the exchange eems worth it.

and solutions Christianity offers forhumankind's daily problems and sufferings."

As far as I know, Christianity has no solu-tion to humankind's daily problems and suf-ferings. Indeed, Christianity caused centuriesof suffering by stifling technological progress.

That point aside, a more salient questionis, why is Christian doctrine relevant to AI atall? The subject description for God andComputers makes no reference to real AIproblems. Perhaps this is because the courseinstructor is a theologian and not an AIresearcher.

Anne Foerst herself is a research fellow atthe Harvard Divinity School and an ordainedLutheran minister. While that may be anunusual background for a position at the MITAI Lab, she has found her niche nevertheless.Using her knowledge of theology, she seeks to"trace out hidden myths within AI." That is,she seeks to uncover the secret motives of AIresearchers, such as "the hubrisic wish to belike God" and the dream of "imitating God'screative powers."

Foerst's analysis pretentiously and pre-sumptuously psychologizes AI researchers.She claims that AI researchers harbor anunspoken wish "to be like God" and imitate"God's creative powers." A warning to all AItypes at MIT: Anne Foerst knows your secretmotives. She knows why you have dreams ofcreating an artificial intelligence: It's becauseyou wish you were the Christian God. Sheunderstands your minds better than you do,and she sees your true intentions through allyour scientific jargon. All rules of evidence,logic and proof are suspended, for Foerst hasspecial access to your subconscious. Sheknows that you are motivated by Christianmythology to do AI.

Fond of discussing Christian myth, Foerstexplains that "these myths and symbols losetheir richness and power when taken literallybut unfold their wisdom within Judeo-Christian

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I drink Coca-Cola, perhap too much atthis point, but it' probably too early in theterm to really tell. I topped drinking Cokewhen I wa 13 and stayed clean for a full

even year, but I start-ed again at the begin-ning of thi ummer. Iwa n't caving into aneed or even goingthrough post-termwithdrawal. It was,after all, late May, andthe tres of the la tweeks of chool wawell behind me.

The reason I decided to start again, at lea tthe rea on in my mind at the time, was that itseemed like it would be fun. Yes, drinkingCoke is a fairly pathetic notion of fun and par-ticularly comic compared to the idea of snort-ing the lower-case variety of the same name.But in the context of a very dull and strainednight, fun it most certainly was.

When I made the decision I was with twofriends, working to finish the layout and paste-up of one of the several booklets that fresh-men received this summer. The work waspretty dull, and at 2 a.m. when I lifted myheavy head up off a table,. the glowing redCoke machine five feet in front of me wasquite a sight to behold. I wasn't especiallythirsty, but it would cost me only 40 cents topick up a nifty little alumim,lm can full ofsweet, caffeinated carmel stuff. The appealbecame pretty clear pretty fast.

The drink has proved more than a novelty.Since that night, I've been drinking a can ortwo a day, and it's. been powerful stuff for aperson like me. The reason I had stopped inthe first place was I thought it hurt my stom-ach. It didn't strike me how strong the cannedstuff was until I had some diluted Coke withice in a cup from a Store 24. I like the taste ofthe diluted stuff better, but I must say thatwith the strafing carbonation and extra caf-feine, the condensed contents of the neat littleCoke can wins hands down.

I'm not sure 'm quite addicted to Cokeyet, but I'd say my level of consumption isapproaching an unhealthy level. I certainlywouldn't be the first person to reach that stageat MIT. But as the term begins, I'm growingquite wary in getting to the point a lot of stu-dents are at come the middle of the term,when caffeine is a necessity to get through anight of work.

It isn't just Coke that's the drug of choicearound here. Most people I know with an out-

TakingGuest Column1. Ryan Bender

There's something new this term in CourseVI: Christianity. The Lord works in mysteri-ous ways and, if Postdoctoral Associate AnneFoerst is correct, he motivates much of thework in the field of artificial intelligence.Foerst's class, entitled God and Computers(6.915), is a new offering with the not-so-innocent intent of exploring the relationshipbetween AI and Christian myth.

Recently, there has been a torrent of debatewithin AI circles over whether God andComputers ought to be offered. The debatebegan with an e-mail from Professor ofElectrical Engineering and Computer ScienceMarvin L. Minsky, one of the founders of Al,to several other AI researchers. Minsky calledthe course an "evangelical enterprise" thatwrongly treats AI as a myth rather than a goal.A heated exchange of e-mail flames ensuedinvolving people both inside and outside AI.The debate concerned the value of God andComputers, its appropriateness for Course VI,and its evangelical intentions. One of Minsky'sstudents, Pushpinder Singh G, even wrote tothe head of the department, Professor ofElectrical Engineering and Computer SciencePaul L. Penfield, imploring him to remove Godand Computers from the curriculum. Penfieldresponded saying that God and Computers is a"welcome addition" to the department's mostlytechnical offerings. He denied that the subjectis an evangelical enterprise, even while headmitted that "the primary religious frameworkof 6.915 will be Judeo-Christian."

Is God and Computers an evangelicalenterprise? Judging by its description in theMIT Bulletin, it certainly appears to be.Students "will analyze the meaning of theChristian symbols of life after death and res-urrection and will show which explanations

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re emblance to a ting ray, beganthe race in third po ition; by th ndof the second day it had charged upto second plac ,lading the thirdplace team from alifornia tateUniver ity at Los Angele by 90seconds.

That afternoon, the MIT teamswitched to a newer, more efficientmotor to beat highway traffic. Itcruised to first place for the ne tthree days. However, at the five-day mark, di aster struck.

GT's lost power," transmitteddriver Gregoratto to the team.

ubsequently, they replaced thecontroller, only to see the motorrefuse to spin.

It was not until after anotherforty minutes that they discoveredthe true problem: a broken wireleading to the motor sensor.Replacing the motor generally con-sumes several hours. However, theteam, now wary of the new engineand determined to keep going,reverted back to the original engin~in twenty minutes.

This rapid work and.the leadthey accumulated during the pastseveral days saved Manta fromcomplete loss. They placed tenth forthe day, but fourth overall.

With the original motor, MantaGT passed nearly half the field' inthe first fifty minutes after thereplacement, and maintained speedwhile climbing the Colorado hills.It then raced to first place for the

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Lobdell is open from 7 a.m. to 7p.m. during the week, but onFridays it closes at 3 p.m.

Networks has added wraps andflatbread pizza to its menu this yearand has also added a new window toview dishes while they are prepared.

Networks is open until 11 p.m.,later than Lobdell. Cappuccino,espresso, and latte are now on themenu. and coffee refills are free.

Wraps have also been introducedat the Refresher Course, a station

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Aramark is hoping to replace thecafeteria atmosphere with one closerto a restaurant style. The short-order cooks working at the cook-to-order stations are trained byAramark chefs with formal culinaryexperience, Emery said.

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dent beyond capacity who requireliving pace increa ed by about 30.

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Bids BidsIndependent Uvlng Group Accepted '97 Accepted '96

Alpha Delta Phi 16 11Alpha Epsilon Pi 10 13Alpha Tau Omega 15 12Beta Theta Pi 12 12Chi Phi 5 13Delta Kappa Epsilon 9 10Delta Psi (No.6 Club) 11 8Delta Tau Delta 13 12Delta Upsilon 11 10Epsilon Theta 4 6Fenway House 2 5Kappa Sigma 15 15lambda Chi Alpha 15 14Nu Delta 8 12Phi Beta Epsilon 7 12Phi Delta Theta 13 14Phi Gamma Delta 12 13Phi Kappa Sigma 6 8Phi Kappa Theta 10 8Phi Sigma Kappa 11 9pika 10 8Pi lambda Phi 12 7Sigma Alpha Epsilon 12 15Sigma Chi 8 8Sigma Nu N/A 5Sigma Phi Epsilon N/A 18Student House 8 8Tau Epsilon Phi -5 11Theta Chi 12 12 iTheta Delta Chi 7 12Theta Xi 6 5Women's Independent living Group 14 13Zeta Beta Tau 12 11Zeta Psi 21 12Total 332 362

Freshman FreshmenDormitory Population Crowded

Baker 80 11Bexley 21 0Burton 107 33East Campus .108 30 ~.MacGregor 80 0McCormick 68. 23New House (and language Houses) 77 14Next House 129 32Random House 21 0Senior House 32 0

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