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Dance Troupe performs In their fall production, Whirlwind, this weekend in Little Kresge Theater.

Head of Fusion Center and VestLead MIT Officials inTotal Pay

Tue day, October 28, 1997

then department heads, deans/ andother supervisors who make recom-mendations for pay increases withinthese guidelines, Strehle said.

The highest paid officials includ-ed the following people: Professorof Electrical Engineering andComputer Science Ronald R. Parkerat $314,674; Director of LincolnLaboratory Walter E. Morrow' 49 at$308,385; Deputy Treasurer andDirector of Investment Alan S.Bufferd at $295,056; formerChairman of the Corporation Paul .E. Gray '54 at $293,783; Strehle at$293,783; and Professor and Co-Director of the Sloan School ofManagement Thomas L. Magnantiat $270,060.

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Salarie set under guidelines"Pay is determined by a process

that begins with approval of guide-lines for pay increases, mostlydefined as percentage increases, foreach category of MIT employees,including faculty, not covered bycollective bargaining agreements,"StreWe said.

The guidelines are establishedunder the Provost's supervision andcoordinated with Human Resources,the MIT Executive Committee, and

allowances.. President Charles M. Vest

earned the second highest pay at$365,877, down $1,667 from lastyear. He had the highest compensa-tion at $298,000, up $13,000 fromlast year.

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By Naveen SunkavallySTAFF REPORTER

Richard J. Thome '66, Head ofthe Plasma Science and FusionCenter in Japan, is once again thehighest paid MIT employee in termsof compensation, benefits, andexpense allowances according toInternal Revenue Service Form 990records for the 1995-96 fiscalyear. Thome earned $449,931,$3:200 higher than his pay the yearbefore. '

However, as Glenn P. Strehle'58, vice president of finance andtreasurer, said, "Professor Thomehas been on an overseas assignmentand his compensation includes ben-efits payments related to housing,etc." Of Thome's pay of $449,931,$305,230 was allotted for expense

ed on Carter's ability to release thedocuments in question. 'Dedric, aspresident of the UA, operates withinthe structure of MIT," Henneberrysaid. Carter "does not, personally,have authority to distribute MITdocuments," he said.

Carter question his authorityCarter said that the ' documents

are under the care of the UA'" andthus 'can be used ... on campuswithin the umbrella of MIT."Outside of MIT, however, Cartersaid that the UA does not have theauthority to release MIT documents.

Kirby, however, said "I can'timagine that the leader of the stu-dent government would not haveaccess" to the documents. He saidthat during his term as UA presidenthe felt free to distribute documentsof the UA as he wished.

Kirby is seeking the documentsin order to make them public, hesaid. "[I] want other schools to learnfrom MIT's lesson," he said. Also,Kirby wants "the MIT communityto learn something about its past,"he said. Any undergraduate shouldhave rights to see these documents,he said.

Kirby said that he did not knowif the documents would have anyrelevance to criminal charges. The"[District Attorney's office] is per-fectly capable of conducting its owninvestigation," he said. Kirby alsonoted that the DA had already sub-poenaed some documents.

Kirby called the documents"very damaging". The documents"show that MIT really knew theexact state of affairs on alcohol oncampus and chose to do nothing,"Kirby said.

Carter, however, said that Kirbymentioned on the day of the proposedexchange that the documents mightinvolve the criminal liability ofMIT.

J. Paul Kirby '92, formerUndergraduate Association presi-dent, has filed a lawsuit against theInstitute, the UA, and Dedric A.Carter '98 in his position as UApresident. In the lawsuit, Kirbyseeks the release of several docu-ments from UA files.

Kirby alleges that shortly afterthe death of Scott S. Krueger '01,around Oct. 3, Carter and he hadagreed to exchange UA documentsrelating to MIT's alcohol pollcybetween 1990 to 1991. During thistime, Kirby chaired a subcommitteeon alcohol policy which produced areport on alcohol. The documents inquestion are notes and memorandaused in the creation of that report.

Carter "reneged on his obligationto provide documents," Kirby said.Kirby brought the lawsuit because"a promise was broken," he said.

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Kirby to publicize documentsCarter acknowledged that he had

agreed to exchange documents withKirby for use in Kirby's personalarchives. When Kirby revealed thathe wished to make the documentspublic outside of MIT, however,Carter refused to rele~se the docu-ments. "I couldn't, in good con-'science, let him walk out of the officewith the documents," Carter said.

Carter said that following hisrefusal of Kirby's request, Kirbyphoned both his lawyer and thehomicide division of the BostonPolice Department.

Thomas R. Henneberry, directorof insurance and legal affairs forMIT, said that the Institute has yetto be served with the suit. Carteralso said that he has yet to beserved. Carter plans to yield toMITs legal counsel for his defense.

Henneberry, however, comment-

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President Charles M. Vestwill hold his fifth town meetingwith the MIT community onFriday, Oct. 31, from noon to 2p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.

The agenda is open to theissues and concerns raised bythe community. Questions maybe raised at the meeting orsent beforehand to town-meeting@mit.edu. Refreshmentswill be provided in the KresgeLobby.

The music center was complete-ly funded by Bradford M. Endicott'49 and his wife Dorothea, bothmembers of the council. "AlanBrody [the associate provost for thearts] found the space," BradfordEndicott said. "At last year's meet-ing, someone mentioned that theroom was looking for funding. Thesize of the project was .small enoughfor us to take it up."

"I'm really happy to see thestereotypical engineer smashed,"said Dorothea Endicott, a cellist,speaking of the large number of artsgroups on campus. "Also, with thisroom, students can now spend timerehearsing, instead of lugginginstruments back and forth."

"As alumni have become suc-cessful, they've discovered the arts.The council is a way for alumni to

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the events during the weekend wasthe dedication of the Endicott WorldMusic Center, located on the groundfloor of Building N42, below theMIT Museum. Prior to the dedica-tion ceremony, council memberswere treated to a tour of the muse-um by artists Felice Frankel,research scientist in the Departmentof Electrical Engineering andComputer Science, and ArthurGanson, whose works are currentlybeing exhibited.

The Endicott dedication ceremo-ny itself featured musical perfor-mances by the MIT Heritage of theArts of South Asia, Gamelan GalakTika, which features Balinese musicand dance, and MITCAN, anAfrican music group. All threeensembles have been using the cen-ter for practice and the storage oftraditional instruments since itscompletion a few months ago.

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Last weekend, the Council forthe Arts at MIT celebrated its 25thanniversary with a plethora of hap-penings to mark the occasion.

The events included a SilverAnniversary ball with a perfor-mance by actress, singer, and artsadministrator Kitty Carlisle Hart,the presentation of council awardsto artists both within and outside ofMIT, and "the dedication of the newEndicott World Music Center.

Members create music centerOne of the more international of

Council helps fund projects"The Council for the Arts at

MIT is composed of friends anda1umni of MIT who wish to bedonors to support the arts at MIT,"said Laura E. Moses, an administra-tive assistant in the Office of theAssociate Provost for the Arts.Members of the council have con-tributed over $18 million to MITperformances, exhibitions, artsfacilities, collections, and co-curric-ular programs.

Due to the council's work, MITstudents can visit the Museum ofFine Arts and certain BostonSymphony Orchestra performancesat no cost. Particular groups andmembers of the MIT communityhave received over $1 million tofund over 1,000 arts projectsthrough a grants program.

By Jennifer ChungSTAFF REPORTER

Council Celebrates 25 Years of Helping Fund Art Initiatives

GABOR CSANYJ-THE TECH

Bradford M. Endicott '49 and his wife Dorothea spoke last Thursdayat the dedication ceremony of the Endicott World Music Center,which was built with the money they donated.

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step to keep the financial y ternviable.

Green pan had warned lastDecember that the markets sufferedfrom "irrational exuberance" buttraders and investors shrugged offhis warning and drove stock priceup to record-high levels.

On Monday, administration offi-cials appealed for calm: "This is amarket that has performed amazing-ly well ... So let's just be ccWmandreasonable," urged White Housespokesman Mike McCurry. Hetermed the plunge "a bare fractionof major breathtaking drops in thepast" and no reason for panic.

"We want everyone to just take adeep breath and think about wherewe are," he said.

The stock market was plummet-ing even as Clinton was delivering aspeech extolling the performance ofthe U.S. economy and the dramaticdecline in the federal budget deficitto $22.6 billion in the last fiscal year- its lowest level in more than twodecades. In addition, the size of thedeficit in relation to the nation'seconomy - 0.3 percent of totaleconomic output - represents alevel lower than that of any othermajQr industrialized country.

Speaking to the DemocraticLeadership Council, Clinton saidthat since he took office in 1993, thedeficit has fallen by "more than 90percent, even before the balanced-budget law saves one red cent."

After the speech, aides informedthe president that the "automatic cir-cuit breaker" that had been designedto slow downward market spiralshad been triggered for the first timesince its introduction followiJ:tg the199'] crash.

for a new generation to come topower in Beijing.

This mixed picture is a domesticpolitical embarrassment for bothClinton and Vice President AI Gore,given that they campaigned for theWhite House in 1992 demanding atough U.S. stance toward China onhuman rights.

Clinton threatened to revokeChina's "most favored nation" tradestatus if Beijing did not respond toU.S. demands on human rights. Butunder pressure from the Americanbusiness community he changed hismind in 1993.

That decision deprived theadministration of a major weaponin human rights disputes andprompted U.S. officials to 'devisetheir curr-ent strategy, which restson convincing the Chinese thatpolitical liberalization is in theirown interest.

When Clinton meets with Jiangthis week, aides said, he will givethe Chinese leader a one-on-oneversion of the argument he made ina speech last week.

"Greater openness is profoundlyin China's own interest. If wel-comed, it will speed economicgrowth, enhance the world influenceof China and stabilize society."

So far, China's Communist lead-ers have rejected most of that mes-sage, opting instead to cement theirparty's hold on power.

As a result, Clinton has comeunder criticism from an unusualcoalition of liberal Democrats andconservative Republicans, fromHouse Democratic Leader RichardA. Gephardt, D-Mo., and Rep.Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to SenateForeign Relations CommitteeChairman Jesse Helms, R-N.C., andRep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif.

ecurities and ExchangeCommi sion, Council of EconomicAdvi er and other departments keptin touch, but more to exchangeinformation than to formulate anydramatic re ponse.

In particular, the White Housefeared that official comments aboutWall treet's gyrations could back-fire and fuel investor anxieties orwould be misunderstood in the heat-ed emotions of the day. By late after-noon, however, after the tock mar-ket's furious retreat had triggered itsearly closing, the administrationdecided a reassuring statement fromthe Trea ury secretary was needed.

"It is important to remember thatthe fundamentals of the United

tates economy are strong and havebeen for the past everal years," saidRubin. "The prospects for continuedgro\V,th - with low inflation andlow unemployment - are strong,"he added.

After the brief statement heabruptly wheeled around andreturned to his office, refusing ques-tions from reporters.

Although Rubin s{(rved as theadministration's point man Monday,Greenspan may ultimately playamore important role. Only the Fed hasthe power to pour billions of dollarsinto the financial system to prop upcash-starved investment companies,banks and other financial institutions.

It was almost exactly 10 yearsago that Greenspan, then new to hisjob, earned much of the credit forreviving the markets after the crashof 1987 by reducing interest ratesand promising to inject cash into thenation's financial system.

Experts believe the Fed onceagain stands ready to take similar

that we believe in, of regular sum-mits, you cannot hold the relation-ship hostage to anyone issue," theWhite House official said.

Jiang, who arrived Monday for aday of rest in the restored Colonial-era city of Williamsburg, Va., didmake one bow to U.S. concerns onhuman rights. China signed a UnitedNations covenant on economic,social and cultural rights, an agree-ment that commits Beijing to seekbetter living standards, workingconditions and trade union rights forits people.

But China decided not to sign asimilar U.N. covenant on civil rightsthat calls for freedom of opinion,peaceful as'sembly and minorityrights.

The a~ministration's di.sappoint-ment in its effort to gain even mod-est concessions on human rightsreflects a central dilemma of U.S.policy toward China.

Clinton and his aides argue thatthe surest way to foster such rightsin China is to increase U.S. coopera-tion with Beijing's authoritarianregime. But in the short run, the evi-dence has been mixed.

Some China. scholars say that aslow process of political reform isunder way.

"The political reforms have, infact, been substantial," argued HarryHarding, a professor at GeorgeWashington University who hasadvised the administration.

But the State Department reportsthat China has intensified its repres-sion of both political dissidents andChristian religious groups.

Harding acknowledged that "thepresent political elite places veryserious limits on political reform."In the long run, he added, significantpolitical change may have to wait

St. Decline,eassures Investors

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In an extraordinary per ona]appeal to nerve-racked investors,Treasury ecretary Robert E. Rubinwalked out onto the step of theTreasury Building Monday anddeclared that "the fundamentals ofthe U. . economy are trong."

Rubin' remarks~ coming morethan an hour after the free-fallingstock market had to be shut down,reflected a reality that the WhiteHouse wa in no mood to stateexplicitly: The government does nothaye a imple antidote to painfuldeclines on Wall treet, such asMonday's dizzying drop of moretoan seven percent of the DowJones' value. .

President Clinton was conspicu-ously silent on the subject, leaving hisspokesman to make only terse com-ments about the "fundamental sound-ness" of the U.S. economy. FederalReserve Chairman Alan Greenspan,whose personal stature was greatlyenhanced by his handling of a 1987market plunge, also refrained frommaking public remarks.

If a market plunge were to con-tinue, Greenspan could face pres-sure to ease interest rates - theapproach he took in 1987 - if forno other reason than to rescue cash-starved financial institutions. Such acourse ~ould be in opposition to theFed's current anti-inflation policy.

"Obviously, the chairman(Greenspan) has been busy today," .said a Fed spokesman, adding, "Wedon't have any comment."

Throughout the wild day, offi-cials at the White House, Treasury,

President Clinton's meetingwith Chinese President Jiang Zeminthis week is likely to produceagreements on Chinese arms salesand other important issues - butnot on human rights, U.S. officialsreluctantly concluded Monday.

In months of negotiationspreparing for Jiang's arrival inWashington Tuesday evening,Clinton administration officials qui-etly urged China to take some visi-ble steps toward defusing the humanrights issue, a sore point in U.S.-China relations since the 1989Tiananmen Square massacre.

U.S. aides particularly hopedthat Jiang might order the release ofChina's two most prominent impris-oned dissidents, democracy advo-cate Wei Jingsheng and studentleader Wang Dan.

But as the meeting approached,it became clear that Beijing wouldnot free the two prisoners inadvance and that a grand gestureduring the sessions also was unlike-ly.

"It's almost harder to do it"while Jiang is here because Chinawants to avoid appearing to bendunder U.S. pressure, a White Houseofficial said.

"Whatever they do, they will doby their own lights."

Clinton still hopes that the twodissidents will be released before hemakes a planned visit to China in1998, officials said.

But Clinton will not make theirfreedom a condition for his trip,because that would make the largerU.S.-China relationship "hostage"to their cases.

"If you believe in the principle

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China, United States UnlikelyTo Agree on Human Rights

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Gene Interaction Increaseslikelihood of Jaundice in Newborns

Taking a break

Despite Guerrilla-Imposed Boycott,Peace Measure Supported

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egotiator for Amtrak and its track maintenance union continuedto talk Monday a Congres prepared to tep in to head off a po ibletrike that could trand hundred of thou and of daily rail commuter

from Boston to the Wa hington metropolitan area.egotiators had been meeting nearly around the clock at the

Transportation Department since Sunday afternoon, but there were noreport of progre late Monday as the union prepared to trike thegovernment-sub idized pas enger service beginning at 12:01 a.m.Wednesday.

Amtrak carries more than 500,000 daily pa engers along theortheast corridor, most of them daily commuter in citie uch as

Bo ton, ew York, Philadelphia and Washington. A trike wouldhave a major impact on the Wa hington metropolitan area, where er-vice would be halted or di rupted on both of the Maryland andVirginia commuter rail line that either operate on Amtrak tracks orgo to Washington' Union tation, which i operated by Amtrak. Thetrike would shut down Amtrak' Metroliner and orthea t Direct

trains from Union Station to ew York City and Bo ton.The union ha been trying to work out local commuter agreements

to minimize the impact of a strike in the ew York City andPhiladelphia area.

Both the Hou e and enate were scheduled to con ider legi lationtoday that would bar the union from triking, but leave the labor di -pute ume olved until well into next year.

By Chris ForestSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

NEWSDAY

One of the more startling outcomes of birth is jaundice in the new-born, which often is of no consequence. Sometime, however, jaun-dice can be serious, even fatal, and as scientists now are finding, canhave deep roots in the genes.

Reporting in Tuesday's issue of the Proceedings of the ationalAcademy of Science, researchers in Israel have homed in on thegenes that lead to a condition called kernicterus. It occurs when thebrain and spinal cord are infiltrated by bilirubin, a yellow-pigmentedub tance produced by the breakdown of hemoglobin, the iron-con-

taining pigment of red blood cells.Dr. Michael Kaplan and his colleagues in the department of meq-

ical genetics at Shaare Zadek Medical Center in Jerusalem found thatan interaction between two genes produced an increased likelihood ofjaundice in which bilirubin breaches the blood brain barrier.

The barrier is a membrane between the circulating blood and thebrain that, like a sieve, allows nutrients in and usually keeps mostharmful substances out. Unfortunately, the blood brain barrier is notalways failsafe.

Deficiency of an enzyme known as G-6-PD, which affects mil-lions worldwide, has long been associated with severe jaundice innewborns. But Kaplan and his team have found that G-6-PD infantsare only at heightened risk for severe jaundice when they also havereduced levels of a second enzyme, called UDPGTl. Both enzymedeficiencies are caused by gene mutations. Alone, each mutation isharmless. Combined, there is an increased risk for potentially fataljaundice.

WEATHER

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA

While a guerrilla-imposed election boycott kept many from thepoll in rural areas, election official said Monday that city dwellershad voted overwhelmingly for a peace referendum to end the nation'sfour-decade-Iong civil war.

Half the country's registered voters - or 10 million people -cast a special green ballot for peace in local elections unday, accord-ing to result released Monday. And the result ha encouraged localleader to pursue their own talks with the rebel , filling the gap left bythe federal government's inability to even begin negotiations.

"The guerrilla are very sensitive to public opinion, and we hopethis will pressure them to enter into di cussions," said Diego Turbay,a member of the leading political family in the Amazon state ofCaqueta. Before the election, Turbay tried unsuccessfully to negotiatedemocratic guarantees with the Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia, this nation's largest guerrilla group known by the Spanishinitials FARC.

"We hope we now will be able to meet with them to di cuss ceasetires, human rights, the surrender of arms and other vital issues," hesaid.

After Saturday's and yesterday's wet weather, we should expect abreak in the routine and have pleasant weather most of the week. Forthe remainder of today, temperatures will remain cool and the windsshould pick up their force by this evening as a low pressure systemcontinues to swirl to our northeast. Tomorrow, we can expect a fewclouds as southwesterly winds bring slightly warmer air into theregion. This trend should continue through Thursday as anothermajor system develops over the middle.of the continent and bringssoutherly winds for the end of the week.

Today: Partly sunny and windy. High: 53°F (] 2°C)Tonight: Windy and partly cloudy. Low: 39°F (4°C)Wednesday: Partly cloudy. High: 58°F (] 4°C). Low: 35°F (2°C)Thursday: Fair and pleasant. High 56°F (13°C). Low 33°F (] °C)

Despite Strong Fundamentals,Hong Kong Stocks Still Fall

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HIV ,Outbreak Among Rural N.Y.Females Linked to Drug Dealer

By Keith B. RichburgTHE WASHINGTON POST

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It w.a another bleak day atExchange Square, Hong Kong'equivalent of Wall treet, where thesecond severe financial downturn inless than' a week swamped localtraders and sent ripples throughmarkets around the world.

Once again, stock prices tum-bled, and while Monday's ix per-cent drop in the Hang Seng Indexwas less precipitous thanThursday's 10-percent slide, thistime ome of the territory's bestknown blue-chip companies wereamong the ca ualties. Hong Kong'sfinancial secretary, Donald Tsang,made another spirited defense of thelocal dollar's peg to the U.S. green-back and vowed that speculatorsbetting against the currency "will beburned." And, market analyzerswere left reelihg, shaking their

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At least nine females in a semi-rural area of western New Yorkstate, including one as young as 13,

I ~ have been infected with the virusthat causes AIDS by a 20-year-oldman who sold drugs to schoolgirlsin exchange for sex even though heknew he had the disease, officialssaid Monday.

"He liked to lurk around theedges of schools or parks, maybewhere kids would be playing bas-ketball, and pick' out young ladieswho may, for one reason or another,be in a risk-taking N'f~~~:'."Chautauqua County HealthCommissioner Richard Berke saidMonday.

The news shocked residents ofChautauqua County, an area that

heads at the sudden downturn thatall but wiped out Friday's evenpercent rebound.

'What a day!" said DavidRobinson, who manage a localhedge fund, sounding weary at theend of a trading e sion that aw hi

. own portfolio plummet. It's ju t 0unpredictable. It' just depressing.It's very, very worri ome what'shappening - it's a signal thatthings are starting to break down inHong Kong. There's a huge amountof volatility and uncertainty."

A market analy t who asked notto be named said Monday's perfor-mance by the Hang Seng - whichdropped more than 688 points, toend the day at 10,475 - was anexample of investor irrationality. Hesaid: "A lot of this denies economicreality, and it becomes a flow-of-funds situation. It's very hard toswim against the tide."

The economic reality is that

until now had only sporadic contactwith the AIDS epjdemic.

The case is "the most seriouspublic health issue in the recentmemory" of the region, Berke said.

School officials were anguished."We had, we thought, a'pretty goodAIDS education program" that wasdesigned to warn children of thedangers, said James Coffman, assis-tant superintendent of schools inJamestown, the largest town .in thecounty.

He added, "young people in gen-eral, they feel they're invincible.They could have all the education inthe world, but they all feel it doesn'taffect them. That's the sadness ofthis."

And officials warned the newscould get worse. Although the manwho allegedly caused the infectionsis now in jail on unrelated charges,

Hong Kong, unlike it Southea tA ian neighbor whose economicdifficultie fueled the stock lide, iih sound financial shape - a pointTsang hammered home in a speechMonday at an international inve t-ment conference. Hong Kong has$80 billion in foreign currencyreserves, no public-sector debt, ahuge budget surplus, low inflationand an unemployment rate of slight-ly more than two percent.

"Four months ago, one chapterof Hong Kong's history closed,"said Tsang, referring to the shift ofterritorial control from Brita\n to

hina. "I can a sure you that thechapter we have now opened is notChapter Eleven."

"Hong Kong is not any otherAsian economy," Tsang declared,vowing that Hong Kong, unlike itsneighbors, had no need to float itcurrency. "We will not change oursystem or our dollar link."

health officials are continuing totrace nearly 100 people in the areawho had sex with him or with hissexual partners.

In addition, they believe that inhis travels across New York sellingdrugs, he may have infected manymore people.

"The worst piece of news is weare probably not the worst-case sce-nario," Berke said._ Similar cases have occurred else-where. Earlier this year, for example,a man in St. Louis, Mo., was shot andkilled by an unknown assailant afterallegedly infecting at least 30 womenwith he virus. But federal officialstermed the current case highly unusu-al because of the youth of the victimsand the seemingly high percentage ofpeople who became infected andbecause it took place in an area whereAIDS remains relatively rare.

Laying bare his frustration with many fellow Democrats,Pre ident Clinton complained that lawmakers who want to limit hispower to negotiate trade agreements are pursuing an "America-lasttrategy" that i rooted in ignorance of the new international econo-

my."For the life of me, I can't figure out why anybody in the wide

world believes it will create job for u to stay out of markets thatother people are in, when we can win the competitive wars," Clintoncomplained.

The pre ident was speaking to a friendly audience - the centristDemocratic Leadership Council, which supports his bid to win "fa t-track" trading authority - but his remark were the bluntest critici mhe has made of other in his party who do not support hi trade views.

The keptic are an apparent majority among congres ionalDemocrat, who e scant support for Clinton's free-trade policy hasimperiled hi pro pects for winning the fast-track vote.

Clinton Monday implicitly acknowledged the uphill nature of hisfight. "I till believe we're going to win it," he aid, "but we have tofight every day till the la t vote i taken."

Moment before he sounded that uncertain note about the tradevote, Clinton was triumphant on another subject: the latest federalbudget deficit number. The fedenil budget deficit for la t fiscal yearwas $22.6 billion, the lowest figure since 1974.

Prosecution Wms Nearly AllPretrial Points in CIASlaying Trial

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A Fairfax, Va., judge cleared the way Monday for the prosecutionto mount its case for capital murder against Mir Aimal Kansi nextweek, rejecting defense efforts to move the trial out of orthernVirginia and throw out key statements and physical evidence.

One more pretrial hearing is scheduled Tuesday in the case of theman charged with killing two people outside CIA headquarters inLangley, Va., in 1993. But Fairfax Circuit Court Judge J. HoweBrown Jr. turned down several of the defense's most serious chal-lenges Monday.

Brown largely put to rest defense efforts to make the FBI's Junecapture of Kansi in his native Pakistan a legal barrier to his trial inthis country, and he ruled a police search of a suitcase owned byKansi that turned up guns and ammunition was constitutional.

.Public Defender Richard C. Goemann had argued that intenselocal news coverage, some of it erroneous, has made it impossible forKansi to get a fair trial in the area. In addition, Goemann said,"Fairfax is an area with a very high percentage of government work-ers and we are talking about CIA employee who were shot. Thatincreases the prejudice against my client."

But Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr. argued thatGoemann had failed to prove potential jurors have already made uptheir minds, and Brown agreed. Brown also found police were justi-fied in searching three suitcases and an apartment where Kansi livedbefore the shootings because Kansi had left the area and his room-mate gave permission for the search.

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Personally, I think that this motion is alsoineffectual, since it says nothing about alco-hol. The death of Scott S. Krueger '01 wassenseless; I grieve for him, his family, and hisfriends. But my personal opinion is that hisdeath had very little to do with living off-cam-pus and much to do with the attitude that get-ting drunk is cool. This attitude is not limitedto fraternities - I believe it is present in alarge cross-section of my generation. Unlessthis attit'ude is addressed and changed,Krueger's death will have been an excuse toreform the housing system, and not a wake-upc 11to the dangers of the misuse of alcohol.

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A Call to ActionThis is a call to action. I hope that everyone

by now knows t1)at the faqulty have passed amotion, to be voted on next month, that asksthe administration to house all freshmen indormitories starting with the Class of 2002.

If such a motion were accepted by theadministration, there are several ways ofimplementi~g this new system. The ideas Ihave heard most often are randomly puttingfreshmen in dorms, therefore eliminating rushaltogether, and reducing the size of the fresh-man class.

It is my belief that these changes are con-sidered to be ideal by some members of thefaculty and administration. It is also my strongbelief that either of these changes wouldaffect every single student at this institution,especially those who live in MIT housing.This is no longer an fraternity, sorority, andindependent living group issue. This is every-one's concern.

I think there are a lot of things wrong withthe current rush system; but in August, I

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At La t)A Productive Dialogueince the faculty meeting where tephan L. Chorover, pro- accommodate the hou ing change. Rather than imply stating

fe or of brain and cognitive cience, moved that all fre hmen that everything i up for di cu ion, the admini tration need tobe hou ed on campu , the dialogue over hou ing on campus ha inform the campu debate by upplying more information aboutexploded into a lively and seriou debate. Indeed, hou ing what option are under eriou consideration.

i ue eem likely to produce at Although undergraduate hou ing ha long been one of theleast a much di cu ion as alcohol mo t contentiou and divi ive i ues on campu , we believe thatu e, which is ostensibly the central the faculty' leader hip on thi j ue i long overdue. For tootopic of debate. We welcome thi long faculty have taken a back eat to admini trators who, able

di cus ion: Change i long overdue, and now i the time to as they may be, have proven incapable of effecting change. A abuild con en us on what should be done. result, we have a housing sy tern that is more an accident of his-

tudent and admini trator alike have been k~enly inter- tory than a product of any purposeful design.e ted in continuing dialogue on the ubject ofhou ing. A . We continue to believe that hou ing all freshmen on cam-forum on the subject organized by the Dean' Office wa pus will be a po itive step toward improving the hou ing systemuncharacteri tically well-attended. Thi increa ed attendance and creating a more unified campus community. The currentmark a dramatic shift from previou forums, which have been system ha led to a divided campus, one in which students formattended by only a handful of tudent government insider. We allegiance to their living group only, and not to the wider acad-hope that the admini tration and the faculty will make further emic community of which they are a part. Housing freshmen oneffort to solicit a wide range of student input. The changes campus will give student a more diverse ocial and academicthat have been propo ed will have a colos al impact on under- experience, and will go a long way toward creating a unifiedgraduate life at MIT, thu the admini tration should leave no MIT community.tone unturned in reaching out to those whose voices have not Housing freshmen on campus is only a first step. No matter

yet been heard. what changes MIT finally makes, faculty need to playa strongerAlthough there has been con iderable discussion, much of role in the campus community, both in terms of leadership, and

the campu -wide debate thu far ha been impeded by a lack of in terms of actually meeting and interacting with students out-accurate, timely information. For example, rumors continue to side the clas room. Paying lip-service to community involve-circulate about a freshman dormitory, despite the fact that ment will not suffice; faculty need to do some serious soul-President Charles M. Vest effectively ruled out that option in searching about what changes they can make in their ownhis press conference on Oct. I. The faculty motion as it stands system in order to promote community involvement.only pecifies that freshmen will live "on campus," and it does The current discussion about MIT's housing system hasnot di cus how residence selection or rush would change. Nor been a refreshing change after years of stagnation. We havehas any decision been made as to whether admissions will be every expectation that it will eventually lead to a better systemreduced or upperclassmen removed from the dormitories to and a stronger, more unified community.

A System That Works1 was greatly disappointed to read that the_

editorial board of The Tech is endorsing thenotion of housing all freshmen on campus["Paving the Way for Radical Change," Oct.17] as proposed by Professor of Brain andCognitive Sciences Stephan L. Chorover atthis month's faculty meeting. As a student-runnew paper, The Tech should realize that astrong undertone in this debate is the beliefthat college freshmen are not mature enoughto make "adult" decisions and understand theconsequences of them. To deny freshmen theright to choose to live off campus would onlyfurther this erroneous mindset.

The primary reason cited for moving fresh-men to campus was to build campus diversityand solidarity as well as closer ties to the fac-ulty. The editorial failed to mention any rea-son why this should be the case. Building thissort of solidarity and communication takeseffort and desire, things that cannot be hadsimply by forcing freshmen into dormitories.

The other reason cited for the endorsementwas that MIT's current system does not giveincoming freshmen enough time to make"wise or informed decisions" about wherethey will live. Compared to other universities,however, MIT's residence selection processstands out in allowing students to learn muchmore about a living group than they couldpossibly have otherwise. ot only can a newstudent explore the physical buildings theymight be living in, but they get to meet theresidents of a living group before they livethere, a luxury only dreamed of at other uni-versities.

The M IT system works, as 6videnced bythe high level of student satisfaction and yes,loyalty to their living groups. Taking awayfreshman choice eliminates the best part of theMIT system without rectifying its deficien-cies. The MIT community should focus itsefforts on making Residence and OrientationWeek more informative for the freshmen,their parents, and the greater community.

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gave up all right to be involved in our deci-ion . All they had left wa the hope that they

had brought us up well and that the guidancethat they had given us over the pa t 18 or soyears would help u make the right choice inthe future.

I wonder how many of u realize the hugere ponsibility we carry with us once we reachcollege - re ponsibility not for anyone else,but for our own lives. Every decision wemake and every step we take i our own. Wehave no one to tell us if we are right, and noone to reprimand us if it is wrong, only our-elve to blame if things go awry. I am sure

quite a few of u do not realize thi fact: Iknow it never truck me until a couple ofweeks ago and I am sure that there are someof u who will maybe never realize it. But thiterm thing have happened at MIT that habrought thi fact to the forefront.

We are all adult on thi campus-maybe not legally, but since we are given thepower to control our own lives, we are cer-tainly playing at being adult. The unques-tionable authority to decide our lives for our-selves, command over every action andthought - that is what we were given. Thedecision to use it the right way or wrong wayis entirely ours. And as long a we recognizethis power we have, any deci ion we makewill be right for us. 0 one else i going tojudge us based on our actions if, ultimately,we alone can deal with them and justifythem.

Your life lies in your hands. Realize that.Think about every decision you make. It willaffect your life and yours alone. Do not dosomething to look cool and to be accepted intothe crowd. Do it because you want to and youbelieve it has an importance or a significancein your life. That is all we need to survivehere and in the world: the ability to recognizethat every decision eventually will affect onlyour lives. Our parents brought us up trying toin till some values in us, trying to teach uright from wrong and eventually ju t trying toshow us how to make our own deci ions. owit is up to u whether we reject or accept theirideal of right and wrong. At least let it be acoherent thinking proces that leads to eachconclusion or decision that we make. Parentswill alway be there to guide u , and peerwill alway be there to offer advice, but therewill no longer be anyone to hold our handalong the path we choose to take. Just our-elves and our self-confidence to make the

right deci ions for our elves. At the end of theday we will have our elves to applaud for theright decisions and our elve to blame for thewrong deci ion . Let' recognize that fact andact on it.

There wa a tranier ofrespon ibility that day.

Maybe some of uswere told about it and

maybe some of us were not)but the day we left

home and liftour parents behind)

we assumed responsibilityfor ourselves.

MakingOur OwnChoice

Most tudent on thi campu are 18 yearold or older. Mo t of u live in Cambridge faraway from campus. Mo t of us have left ourfamily behind at home to venture out toMa achu ett for an education. But on theday we left our parents behind, we did morethan ju t leave home. We took somethingimportant away from them as well: responsi-bility.

There wa a tran fer of responsibility thatday. Maybe some of us were told about it andmaybe some of us were not, but the day weleft home and left our parents behind, wea umed respon ibility for ourselve. 0

longer was omeone el e re ponsible for ouractions or thoughts. 0 longer wa thereomeone to a k for permi ion, no longer was

there anyone to correct u for the mistake wemake. Our parent, while bidding u goodbye,

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the change and offer con tru tive critici m forhow to be t chie e the goal the faculty out-line. In return, the fa ulty must remain stead-fa t in their vi ion to create a better livingen ironment for tudent .

The faculty mu t not ignore that theirmotion will ha e an immediate impact on thecurrent nvironment. To a es thi impact,they mu t Ii ten to tudent. While the facultymay be oting for what happen twenty year(but hopefully ooner) down the line, theymu t aggre ively eek to under tand the real-itie of MIT life, by actively interacting withtudent , instead of hearing about the ideas,

worrie ,hope and fears of students econd-hand from dean or the mall unrepresentativenumber of tudent who sign up to erve onorne out-of-touch committee.

In titute help in olving even the pettie t argu-ments.

orne have aid that randomizing the dor-mitory lottery will improve campu -wide spir-it as students from the dormitorie will grouptogether to find others with imilar interests.The problem is that the workload of clas esalready expand to cover almost all of a stu-dent's time - especially when the student isalso involved in any activity or athletic team.

Even on the weekend, it's nearly impossi-ble to find the time to go out and socialize -especially when it involve going out of mydorm and not just going to the lounge andwatching a movie or playing a game with agroup of 15 or 20 people. The scarce atten-dance at the Undergraduate Association's"campus-wide" parties and events show thateven many well-planned and advertised par-ties on a campus-wide level draw few people.

If housing was randomized, many peoplemight choose to withdraw from socializing atall if they hate their dormitory and don't likethe other social options available to them.More upperclassmen might decide to taketheir chances with a small group in theCambridge housing market. Other may justwithdraw completely to the sanctity of theirsingle.

As a result, students would be even Ie ssocial than they are today, which bodes poorlyfor the Institute and those hiring graduates ofthis plac~. In addition, the safety nets thatattempt to prevent tragedies in the y ternwould be destroyed if everyone was behindclosed doors in a dormitory.

We live in a stres ful campu environment.After classe , it's nice to be able to go homeand socialize, and get away from MIT.Removing the community and the culture ofthe dormitory system in order to promotecampus-wide spirit would be a great mi takeon the part of the administration. While thedorm ystem does have some problems, theselection system is not one of them.

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hen hit par nt don't want th ir childrengoing to hool with poor minority tudents.Thi ha ruined cities and more recentlyplagued outlying uburb .

hy do the In titute commend it elf onthe div r ity of the fre hman cIa ,whentho e fre hmen ine itably egregate them-el e anyway? hy do tudent believe eg-

regation i the only way in which they cana ure their own member hip in a strong com-munity? What happen when the populationbecome 0 di erse that the tudents can nolonger egregate them elve ba ed on the cur-rent distinctions?

The consequence of elf- egregation isgreater than the mere existence of black,white, Chinese, Indian and other ethniccliques, first and third world fraternities, andthe propagation ofstereotypes. WhenMIT tudents go outinto the world theywill have to deal withpeople unlike them-selve - people withdifferent back-grounds and ideasabout the world, peo-ple who don't alwayagree with oneanother nor evenunderstand oneanother.

MIT student willhave to work andinteract with peopleof different race,color, ethnic back-grounds and creed .Their four years atthe Institute do notprepare them for thi ,let alone help them togrow and becomebetter people.

While MIT stu-dents are certainlynot bigoted, the cur-rent housing systemand the choices itforces leads us toclose off our hori-zons and have a one-sided view of theworld.

Students shouldaccept and support

Random, for example, most residents cook inour kitchens and eat in Central Square insteadof on campus. We aren't the quietest place oncampus, either - an open door is almostalways an invitation to strike up a conversa-tion and avoid working for another few min-utes. I've had some of the best conversationsin the common areas and in my room when Ishould have been studying.

The conversation isn't always designed toavoid doing work. People on my floor occa-sionally have "nerd wars" in our kitchen aboutobscure physics or math things. This -doesn'tdisturb me. But I'm sure that discussionsabout the intricacies of Planck's Constant orinterstellar space travel at three in the morningon a Tuesday night could be disturbing to oth-ers.

What would randomizing the housing sys-tem do to Random? It would limit our abilitiesto have a community. People who hate theirhousmg assignment can make life horrible forthe rest of the crowd, either by continuallyand annoyingly enforcing rules like quiethours (which sometimes are a decent thing) orjust by being complete jerks.

.At the same time, many of the dormitorieswould lose the best thing they have going: thepride that their residents have in their livinggroup. I think pride in part comes due to thelottery, and the fact that everyone choosestheir housing a signment by ranking it high ontheir li t. ot only does this increase pride in adormitory, but it increases the pirit of cooper-ation within the members of the living group.I know that I've been a lot more willing to putup with some repair issue that have come upin the dorm simply because J know that Icho e the facility.

Indeed, if the Institute were to chooseroommates, another area of working togetherby choice would vanish. 0 longer could stu-dents blame themselves for potentially badroommate choices and deal with it; they couldnow blame a faceless administrator and enlist

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Almost two weeks ago, several membersof the faculty introduced a proposal to houseall freshmen on campus next fall. This propos-

al could mean the endto some very goodindependent livinggroups. Yet it couldincrease studentinvolvement in theMIT community.

There's one propos-al that is linked to thisone, though, that is so

negative that it outweighs any potential posi-tive effects of the movement on campus: thethought of randomizing the housing of fresh-men within the dormitory system.

If freshmen housing is randomized, letalone housing for upperclassmen, the charac-ters of the 10 Institute-run living groups willbe greatly harmed. The deep sense of commu-nity that most residents have for their dormi-tory will also be lessened significantly, as resi-dents will no longer feel that they made achoice to live there.

Just over a year ago, I chose to rankRandom Hall first on my list of the dormito-ries in the lottery. I was excited to receiveRandom, and I moved into the dorm. I wasable to pick from within the floors of Randomand even pick my roommate.

Such freedoms are not found at other uni-versities. My friends at Harvard received theirroommates' names before arriving on campus,and were able to give out their phone numberand addres to their friends before leaving.Those details ease the transition to collegelife, but the advantages of community far out-weigh the drawbacks of not having a phonenumber or address before arriving at MIT.

Each dormitory here has its own distinctculture apart from the Institute as a whole. At

The faculty have jump d on the tragideath of cott . Krueger '01, and ha e u edit to addre s the lew of problem that re ultfrom the current re idential y t m. Ho ev runfortunate, thi i a nece ary e il.

From among a number of problem thcurrent hou ing y tern create ,th greate tproblem i the elf- egregation that occuralmo t pontaneou Iy when the InterfraternityCouncil ru h chair announ e, Let the ru hbegin." Thi re ults in immaturity amongmany student , many of whom have neverbroadened their horizon by interacting withpeople unlike them elve .

While some call the IFC diver e, whenwas the last time you saw omeone fromSigma Alpha Ep ilon hanging out with hisfriend at Zeta Beta Tau? This elf-segrega-tion promote and reinforce stereotypes. Thestereotype which seem to hold true at M IThave no relevance in the real world.

Women are not immune either. Take alook at the sororitie or the cultural club. Theonly thing that save women from elf- egre-gat ion is the fact that choice for women eg-regating themselves off campus are limited.There is a one-year delay before those whochoose to do so can completely cut them-selves off from people' they deem unlikethemselves.

Some say people will till eek out andbefriend those unlike themselves if they havethe opportunity to do so in activitie , classes,and clubs. Then why are the plethora of ethni-cally-segregated groups the strongest studentactivities on campus?. Even the arguments against randomization

echo bigotry: "What if my roommate is afreak?" somehow translate to making sureyou live with someone of the same socialbackground.

Students need to grow up. We all got inhere because of our good qualities. Is it toomuc~ to ask that you try a little harder to findthose qualities in someone before you give upand set out on the unnatural hunt for all thosewho walk, dress, act, and think like you?Freshmen will find them even if they end upin a dorm they didn't choose.

M IT's self-segregated housing systemdoes not transcend society offering choice andmaintaining diversity, it merely mirrors thedivisions in society at large, like the whiteflight from city school districts that occurs

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he word "miracle," Sopiee thoughthat its good connotations described

well the current situation with Eastsian countries.

He said that the change in ideol-gy was remarkable. "[Before] we

[Malaysia] were prepared to killpeople if they were communist.[Now] for the first time in 150years, nob<?dy is shooting anyoneanymore." He'said that the most tur-bulent region in the past is not theMiddle East but East Asia, whichhas experienced the Korean War,the 'Vietnam War, and countl.essother civil wars.

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" ever before have so manycountries grown so fast," Sopieesaid of the East Asian economies. In1947, the situation for East Asiancountries was hopeless, and Japanhad only 60 percent of the output ofIndia and Pakistan, he said.

According to an Australian fore-cast, the East Asian sector wouldachieve parity by 2000 in terms ofIthe volume of trade with the rest ofthe world, Sopiee said. He showedgraphs that placed the East Asianeconomic block far ahead of the

orth American Free TradeAgreement block and the EuropeanUnion.

Sopiee also said that the "elec-tronic herd" of speculators could notignore the strength and potential ofEast Asian countries, and thatdespite the currency crisis, the herdwill later turn back to invest in EastAsia. Last year, investors made anaverage return of 25.9 percent inMalaysia, while the average world-wide rate of return was only 12 per-cent.

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