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Volume 116, umber 43 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, September 20, 1996

Committee Plans to RevampInstitute Writing Requirement

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President Charles M. Vest and Director of the News OfficeKenneth D. Campbell speak at the Knight ScienceFellowship reception.

By Venkatesh SatlshCONTRIBUTING EDITOR

The Committee on the WritingRequirement will soon present tostudents a preliminary proposal toeliminate the current Phase I andPhase II requirement and replace itwith a system that will place greateremphasis on communication skillsin the undergraduate curriculum.

The proposal would require stu-dents to take a "communication-intensive" class each of their fouryears at the Institute, said Kip V.Hodges PhD '82, chair of theCommittee on the WritingRequirement.

"This initiative to change the

writing requirement is motivated byour belief that MIT at the presenttime does not give our students thewriting and speaking skills neces-sary for professional success," saidProfessor of Science and WritingAlan P. Lightman, a member of theCommittee on the WritingRequirement.

The details of the proposal,which was endorsed by theCommittee on the UndergraduateProgram in May, will be finalizedafter students give their input to theplan this fall, Lightman said.

The finalized plan would thenrequire approval from the faculty totake ~ffect, Lightman said.

It would take approximatelyseven years to completely changethe current system, so current stu-dents would not be affected by theproposal, Lightman said.

This lag time is mainly due tothe sheer number of classes thatneed to be added to the curriculum,the care needed to create specialdepartmental classes, and the timenecessary to hire new instructorswhose ole job would be to help stu-dents improve their writing, he said.

Students would take yearly classes"The culture at MlT is such that

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By Stacey E. BlauEDITOR IN CHIEF

The search for a replacement forDean of Undergraduate AcademicAffairs Travis R. Merritt is under-way, with a recent set of studentforums providing the groundworkfor the selection process.

Merritt will be retiring as of Oct.1, although he will continue to beinvolved in some UAA activities.

The meetings centered primarilyon students' ideas of the roles of theU AA office, although they alsowere intended as a way for studentsto voice suggestions on specific can-didates for Merritt's replacement,said Dean for UndergraduateEducation Rosalind H. WiJliams.

Most students did not make sug-gestions for specific candidates butinstead talked about the qualities thefuture dean should have, said Merritt,who attended one of the meetings.

Williams said that the new deanshould be in place by the start ofnext term. She currently has a list ofabout a dozen people under consid-eration for the position and isspecifically "looking for a facultymember" to fill the post, she said,

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Forums focus on student concernsMany of the meetings focused on

concerns students have about UAAand the areas under its purview.

Williams said that students dis-cussed issues ranging from confu-sion over the mailing freshmenreceive the summer before theycome to MIT to the overall under-graduate academic advising system.

Students also commented on aca-demic orientation during Residenceand Orientation Week, the problemsfreshmen experience finding jobs inthe Undergraduate ResearchOpportunities Program, and the lackof academic credit classes offeredduring Independent Activities Period .

"What they were interested in wasfinding out what we thought of thedean's office and what they did -more what we knew about what theyactually did," said Michael A.

UAADeanSearchProceeds

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"We probably would have had tolayoff' staff had it been the casethat not so many accepted the incen-tives, Rice. The high number ofretirees "makes it less likely that wewould have to be letting go people."

Many faculty members - amaximum of 49 percent - will behired back by their departments towork part-time; Rice said. They willreceive pension as well as a salaryfor their work, she said.

The arrangement will involvehigher costs in the short-term, Ricesaid. It will take somewhere nearbut under 10 years for the Instituteto break even on the costs of theretirement plan.

Rice said that it is important thatfaculty stay on to some extent. "You

ized education in the universe. Sitting over inBuilding 14, we thought we were 'it.' We wererunning our own little college. From the per-spective of Building 7, it's possible to get amore complete picture of what an MIT educa-tion is and can become."

In spite of the broader view, the focus of

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lowering the number of non-acade-mic staff, it was not intended todecrease the number of facultymembers, said Chair of the FacultyLawrence S. Bacow '72.

"We have an aging faculty,"Rice said. "You've got to be able todo the renewal" necessary to keepMIT a fresh and changing academicplace, and turnover in faculty is partof that, she said. "It was a very goodthing for MIT to do."

"The estimates of how manywould elect to take the plan rangedfrom 40 to 80," Bacow said "Therewere some bets among the facultyon how many it would be."

Retirees stave off lay offsThe program's success prevent-

ed the administration from having tomake a tough decision, Rice said.

the mid- 1980s to assist the dean's office withthe new freshman advisory program. Becauseof his prior administrative experience, Merrittsaid he understood "that a lot of what deans dois go to meetings." Neverthele~s, the changeinvolved more than just a different title.

"I didn't know what it would be'like to'view an MIT education from the center ofthings," he said. "MIT is the most decentral-

Over 600 Take Retirement IncentivesBy Brett AltschulSTAFF REPORTER

Over 600 retirees - including79 faculty - who accepted the spe-cial early retirement plan offeredthis spring will have retired official-ly a of Sept. 30.

The retirement plan was offeredto faculty and staff members whoare at least 55 and have worked aminimum of 10 years at MIT. Thebenefits of the plan include a $500per month stipend for peoplebetween 55 and 62 to last until theyturn 65 and can receive SocialSecurity benefits. There is also aseparate one-time pension piece forall retirees equal to roughly one yearof a retiree's salary and to be paidout in annuity, said Vice Presidentfor Human Resources Joan F. Rice.

While the plan was aimed at

By Anders HoveEXECUTIVE EDITOR

Merritt Reflects on a Decade in Dean's Office

Being dean changed vantage pointMerritt left the Department of Humanities in Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Travis R. Merritt.

If you had asked him a couple years agowhen he would leave the dean's office, Dea:nof Undergraduate Academic Affairs Travis R.Merritt would have told you, "when they haveto carry me outta here." As it turns out,Merritt, who will retire this fall at age 62, willbe leaving on foot.

While he will soon plant his feet elsewhere,Merritt has no plans to leave MIT for good."I'm leaving the dean's office in the sense, that1'11 be officially retired from the Institute,"Merritt said. "I'll keep my hand in and keep upand active 'with the dean's office as sort of anunpaid consultant, sticking my l)ose in wherepeople will let me, or invite me."

Merritt changed his retirement plans for anumber of reasons, including MIT's new earlyretirement plan. But the change was largelymotivated by Merritt's desire for what he cans"a more full life."

"I'll spend more time with my family, withmy four daughters who Jive in the Northeast,and my grandchildren. I'm looking forward todoing more of that. I also hope to do morescholarly and creative writing," Merritt said.

During his lO years in UAA, Merritt has putoff most travel plans, including an oft-proposedtrip to the Greek islands. He has also missed afavorite hobby: creating leaded stained glass."If I can get an apartment with room, ] will takethat up again now that I'll have time. ] alwaystold myself! didn't have time before."

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his hands into the real operations ofgovernment," Mandel said.

Sometimes when he tried, theGeneral Assembly blocked him.Once, when Mandel was speaker ofthe House of Delegates, Agnewtried to abolish the state censorshipboard by erasing all funding for it inthe state budget. Mandel and otherlegislative leaders had to educatethe new governor that he couldn'talways do it his way.

The famous Agnew temperflared in the spring of 1968, whenhe lectured leaders of Baltimore'sAfrican American community afterrioting rocked the city in the wakeof Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassi-nation. But the public dressing-down caught Nixon's eye, and aGap ticket was born.

In one of the turnabouts thatkeeps politics interesting, theNixon-Agnew campaign failed tocarry Maryland that fall, asDemocrats used their old standby -walking-around money - to ener-gize black voters for Hubert H.Humphrey. Legend has it thatMandel's money men spent $14 ahead to get out the vote. A jitteryNixon was furious at Agnew onelection night, cussing him out forfailing to carry even hi.';own state.

"The very same people, the.Democrats, who got him elected in'66 defeated him in '68," DeFilipposaid. "The state had 'caught ontohim."

Lee, whose family and career aresteeped in Maryland politics, mar-velled Wednesday at Agnew's lifestory, the swiftness of his successand the certainty of his final dis-grace.

"Lightning kept striking this guywho never had a machine, an orga-nization or a record," Lee said. "Hewas a little hustler out of BaltimoreCounty who made it to the WhiteHouse, with no anchor, no mooring,no core .. Gives politics a badname."

recalled journalist Frank A.DeFilippo, a former Mandel aide."His was a totally different take onthings."

But there was also that otherside, a certain arrogance thatinstalled the sauna and wine cellarin the ex'ecutive mansion and sentthe governor to the golf courseevery Wednesday afternoon.

"He was difficult to like,"DeFilippo said. "He was a relent-lessly middlebrow kind of guy,standoffish. He didn't like towork."

Agnew had a remarkably thinskin when it came to the newsmedia, a testiness that went all theway back to the county executivedays. Oace, a journalist asked thepolitician how it was he stayed socrisp-looking all the time, to whichAgnew replied: "I never cross mylegs or lean back against thechair."

In 1968, after Nixon pluckedhim as his vice-presidential candi-date, Agnew caused a flap when hewalked to rear of paign planeand asked about napping BaltimoreSun reporter Gene Oishi: "What'sthe matter with the fat Jap?"

"He was a petty politician," saidBla~r Lee IV, a Silver Spring devel-oper whose Democrat father becamegovernor after Mandel resigned inhis own scandal. "He had the look.He clearly didn't have the integri-ty."

Agnew wasn't govenlor longenough to leave a deep imprint onstate government-he prepared onlytwo state budgets-and someDemocratic critics still fume at the$30 million shortfall he left his suc-cessor Mandel and the thousands ofMarylanders he ordered trimmedfrom the Medicaid rolls.

Mandel, who was forced to raisethe sales tax in Agnew's aftermath,takes a fairly. generous view, prais-ing his political moderation. "Hedidn't have the opportunity to get

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It was the new politics ofMaryland, the friends of Spiro T.Agnew recalled Wednesday, thatsent the Greek immigrant s son on abreathtaking rise from lowly subur-ban Baltimore to the halls of theWhite House.

And it was the Free State's oldtraditions - the ones involvingenvelopes of ca h conveyed quietlyto public officeholders - thatmarked him for political ruin evenas he began that remarkable climbto power. .

Until his death Tuesday ofleukemia, Agnew maintained hisprincipal residence in California,but to those who knew him best hewas first and last a Marylander, whosummered every year in Ocean Citylike thousands of other beachgoersin the state.

"I think he still considered him-self a Marylander," said former gov-ernor Marvin Mandel, who played adecisive role in Agnew's capturingthe governor's mansion 30 yearsago.

Four years earlier, in 1962, thegods of politics smiled for tbe firsttime on Spiro Theodore Agnew,when a bitterly divided DemocraticParty handed the Republican thekeys to the office of BaltimoreCounty executive.

Then, in 1966, state Democratsdid it again, nominating a guberna-torial candidate many considered sounfit for the office that party leaderslike Mandel defected and quietlyhelped Agnew. It was an importantmoment in the state's political lifeas Agnew - that would be TedAgnew, progressive Republican TedAgnew - showed that suburbangovernment administrators, not justinner-city machine pols, could com-pete statewide.

"His initial mark was that hetook suburban politics big-time,"

Spiro T. Agnew RememberedAs One Plucked from Obscurity

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CIA Director John M. Deutch Thur day traveled to Capitol Hill topersonally assure membef.S of the Congressional Black Caucus thatan independent investigator will pursue allegations that the CIA wasinstrumental in introducing crack cocaine into black communities inthe 19 Os.

The meeting, which lasted nearly an hour, seemed to satisfy mem-ber of the caucus. They said they have been receiving thousands ofphone calls and faxes from their constituents on the issue since it wasraised in a new paper series la t month. •

"His willingness and openness seem to be pointing in the rightdirection," said Rep. Donald M. Payne, D- .1., chairman of the cau-cus, as he emerged from the meeting in hi office with Deutch andabout a dozen caucus member. "But this is just a first step."

Deutch, who has strongly denied the allegations, repeated anearlier, written pledge that the CIA's inspector general would per-form a full investigation and promised the inquiry will receive hifull cooperation and access to agency records, according to caucusmembers.

The black caucus last week called for a congressional investiga-tion after articles appeared in the San Jose Mercury ews. The cau-cus also has asked President Clinton and Attorney General JanetReno to launch probes.

Republicans Prevent DisclosureOf Ethics Report on Gingrich

Lawmakers Assured of Fair ProbeRegarding CIA and Drugs

• WASHINGTON

House Republicans Thursday fended off a Democratic effort toforce disclosure of a preliminary report on alleged ethics violationsby Speaker ewt Gingrich, R-Ga.

The 225-] 79 vote, split largely along party lines, killed a measurethat would have required immediate public disclosure of a specialcounsel's initial findings in a two-year investigation of Gingrich's useof a tax-exempt, non-profit foundation to finance a college course thathe taught in Georgia. Critics and political opponents argued thatGingrich acted improperly by using the money because the coursewas more politically partisan than educational.

While no one expected the measure - offered by Rep. JohnLewis, D-Ga. - to clear the House, Democrats pushed for the rollcall vote to compel Gap incumbents into a vote of support forGingrich, who polls show is unpopular among many voters.

James Cole, the committee's special counsel, last month delivereda preliminary report to the Ethics Committee, which has not beenpublicly released.

House Minority Whip David E. Bonior, D-Mich., said at a newsconference before the vote that Democrats wanted the results of thepartial report revealed before election day on Nov. 5.

House Overrides Veto of BillBanning Late Abortion Procedure

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Oversight Panel Accuses ClintonOf 1ravel Office Fiasco Cover-up •

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WASHINGTON

In a stunning reversal, abortion foes in the House. ofRepresentatives voted Thursday to override President Clinton's vetoof a bill that would outlaw a late-term abortion procedure denouncedby its critics as infanticide.

In a 285-137 vote, House lawmakers rejected arguments that theban would deny women who are experiencing crises pregnanciesaccess to a procedure that could protect their health and future fertili-ty. Opponents said the procedure is grotesque and brings a painfulend to a life.

The measure is unlikely to become law, "however, because theeffort to override must also succeed in the Senate, where musteringthe two-thirds majority required appears far more difficult. SenateMajority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., said the upper chamber willvote on the issue as early as next Thursday but acknowledged that "itwould be hard to override it."

WEATHERFarewell to Summer

By Marek ZebrowskiSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

Astronomically speaking, this will be the last weekend of sum-mer - the fall season begins officially on Monday. Appropriatelyenough, sunny and warm weather will close this week before cool-er and stormier skies return to Boston next week, ushering in thenew season.

A high pressure system positioned overhead on Friday willslowly move to the Southeast, giving us fair skies and pleasantlywarm afternoons. Nights and early mornings will be chilly, espe-cially inland, where winds will be light after dark. Meanwhile, alow over the Maritimes will re-intensify by Saturday, slipping in abackdoor cold front, accompanied by some clouds and cooler tem-peratures in lower east Maine. By Sunday, a large area of badweather stalled over the Midwest for the past few days will progresseastward, spreading showers, followed by steadier rain early nextweek.

Today: Mostly sunny and pleasant. High 76°F (25°C) with mod-erate northwesterly breezes.

Tonight: Clear and cool. Low 56°F (13°C) in town, around 50°F(10°C) inland.

Saturday: Mostly sunny and warmer, with a high near 80°F(27°C). Some clouds to the North, with local sea breezes possible.

Sunday: Clouding up with showers arriving late in the day. Highs65-70°F (19-21 °C), lows near 60°F (16°C).

By Robert L. JacksonLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON

With Democratic members stag-ing a walkout, a Republican-con-trolled House committeeWednesday formally accusedPresident Clinton of directing awidespread coverup of the 1993White House travel office fiasco,including his wife's role in it.

At a stormy sessio~ at whichmembers of the House GovernmentReform and Oversight Committeetried to out-shout one another,Democrats accused the panel'schairman, Rep. William F. ClingerJr., R-Pa., of abusing his power bymaking a politically motivatedattack on the president in the midstof an election campaign.

The committee's report requiresno further governmental action andends the congressional inquiry intothe firings of seven travel officeemployees. But the report isexpected to be studied closely bythe staff of WhitewaterIndependent Counsel Kenneth W.Starr, who is investigating whetherany White House aides gave falsestatements to Congress under oathin an effort to protect first ladyHillary Rodham Clinton in thetravel office case.

With 24 Republicans voting toendorse the report after Democratsstalked out of the hearing room, thecommittee issued a report allegingthat Clinton "engaged in anunprecedented misuse of the execu-

tive power, abuse of executive priv-ilege and obstruction of numerousinvestigations into the traveloffice."

:rhe alleged coverup was intend-ed to conceal from Congress whythe travel office employees wereabruptly fired in May 1993, thereport said.

The committee said travel direc-tor Billy Ray Dale' and his col-leagues were dismissed so thatHarry Thomason, a Hollywood pro-ducer friend of the Clintons, andCatherine Cornelius, a distantcousin of the president, could seek ashare of the government's travelbusiness. The report alleged thatClinton and White Hous~ aidesengaged in "a colossal damage-con-trol effort" - obstructing the com-mittee's two-year inquiry and delay-ing release of key records to hidethe motivation for the travel officep ge.

The president and his aides alsosought to conceal that Mrs. Clintonhad pushed for the firings, atThomason's urging, the report said."White House aides initially ...withheld information about Mrs.Clinton's involvement in the fir-ings," the committee charged.

The first lady has deniedresponsibility for the dismissals.And Mark D. Fabiani, specialWhite House counsel, attacked thereport as "shoddy and unprofes-sional," declaring that "today'sMcCarthy-like charges' by theNewt Gingrich-led Republicans

are" as meaningless as they arepolitical."

Rep. Henry A. Waxman ofCalifornia, the panel's rankingDemocrat, said before leading thewalkout that the report made"unsubstantiated character attacks. .. in a shameful and crassly parti-san smear campaign."

"I don't approve of everythingthe White House did, but where isthe specific evidence of wrongdo-ing?" Waxman asked ..

Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, D-Pa.,charged that Clinger and otherRepublicans were trying to "attainpolitical rather than governmentalobjectives by attacking the characterof the President of the United Stateswith conclusions unsupported byany evidence." ....

Kanjorski said the report isindicative of a highly politicalatmosphere on Capitol Hill thatshould come to an end. "Like hors-es, we should take it out and shootit," Kanjorski said of the GOP-con-trolled Congress.

In calling for approval of thereport, Clinger said it "demonstratesthe failures of the Clinton WhiteHouse to live up to the ethical stan-dards they themselves promised tomaintain."

Washington attorney Robert S.Bennett complained Wednesdaythat Thomason, his client, wasnever given a chance to testifybefore the committee in public torespond to the allegations againsthim.

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Strife inThree-Person PresidencyThreatens Peace' Again inBosnia

, eptember 20, 1996

By Tracy WilkinsonWS ANGELES T1MES

SARAJEVO, BOS IA-HERZEGOVI A

The Bosnian Serb member of ajust-elected three-person presidencyThursday backed away slightly fromhis goal of uniting with Serbia prop-er but tossed up another batch ofobjections that will thwart Bosnia'snew government.

Illu trating the complexity offorming Bosnia' postwar institu-tions, Momcilo Krajisnik rejectedthe idea of sitting with his presiden-tial colleagues in Sarajevo - thecapital under Muslim-Croat controlthat the Bosnian Serbs spent muchof a 3-year war trying to destroy.

Many of Krajisnik's statements,the first since his election, weremuted and careful. But he alsoexhibited a much lower level ofcooperation than portrayed earlier inthe day by Carl Bildt, the interna-tional coordinator of the Bosnianpeace plan.

Bildt said he was confident thathe could persuade the three presi-dents - a Serb, a Muslim and aCroat - to share power and worktogether as a handful of ethnicallymixed government bodies are con-structed here. But already, disagree-ments have emerged over where the

presidency hould meet, how longits chair should serve and even overthe term "government:' which theSerbs reject.

Contradicting the We t's inter-pretation of the U.S.-brokeredDayton, Ohio, accord, Krajisniksaid he believed the chair of thepresidency to which he was electedshould rotate, meaning he and hisMuslim and Croat counterpartswould each be allowed to serve atthe head Jor eight months. In fa~t,the two-year lead post is upposed.to go to the top vote-getter in lastSaturday's election, according tointernational officials in charge ofexecuting the peace plan.

"It is unfathomable that aMuslim who was president for thelast six years should be president forthe next two years," Krajisnik saidat a news conference in the BosnianSerb stronghold of Pale, a ski resortnine mile~ southeast of Sarajevo.

Kraj isnik said he thought thenew presidency ought to governfrom a building put up along theboundary line that divides the Serband Muslim-Croat halves of Bosnia.He offered a much wider definitionof Sarajevo than international medi-ators recognize. His includes Serb-held. suburbs south of the capital.

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"Pale is al 0 Sarajevo," he said."There are so many beautiful placesin 'Sarajevo' where we can meet."

Krajisnik indicated he had givenup, for now, the goal of uniting theBosnian Serb Republic with Serbiaproper. But he said reunification ofthe divided country wa not in thecards. "Re-integration should be ofsomething that was once integrat-ed," he said.

Asked if he were the best manfor the job, Krajisnik said therewere many other more fit candidates"especially one man whose namecannot be mentioned." He wasalluding to indicted war crimes sus-pect Radovan Karadzic, the BosnianSerb leader who is banned frompublic politics but whose influencereigns.

Krajisnik accused the West -implicitly the United States - ofrigging the vote count to give anadvantage to Bosnian Serb opposi-tion candidates, some of whomfared surprisingly well. But he saidhis nationalist Serb DemocraticParty, or SDS, prevailed in the endby winning a legislative majority."God saved the SDS and the

. Serbian people," Krajisnik said."And whoever is against God andthe Serbian people has to lose."

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OPINIONFood Service Must Move Forward

Letters To The Editor

Student Life Group Needs Student Members

La t pring the Department of Hou ing and Food erviceannounced a one-year exten ion of Aramark' food ervice con-tract with MIT. The ju tification offered at the time wa that

r;rdlj-tofV't)-nl HFS wa not prepared to tart theDUtf/ 'fJUI bidding proce . ow, HF has

announced that Aramark' contractwill likely be extended yet another year, making for a cumula-tive two-year exten ion of Aramark' original five-year con-tract. These piecemeal extension have been detrimental to theMIT community and food ervice customer in particular.

Each time HF ha extended the Aramark contract, theyhave offered the explanation that more time wa needed to getthe bidding proces underway. First the vice president of opera-tions had to et up a proce for reviewing contract and over ee-ing food ervice - namely, the na cent dining services reviewgroup. Then there wa the time-con uming proce of actuallygoing out to bid. As it turns out, HFS hasn't even tarted olicit-ing bid for the MIT contract.

In addition to the delays, there ha been e entially no dis-cus ion of what for many is the central i sue of the Aramarkdilemma: competition. Many student believe that MIT shouldat least experiment with allowing multiple vendors into the MITmarket. In tead of fle hing out this idea, however, HFS appears

Be that as it may, I have a feeling thatthere is some sort of "screening" process atThe Tech that detennines which opinion arti-cles make it to print and which articles do not.The Tech do~s reserve the right to edit sub- tmissions, so they must reserve the right toread them, too. And when fruitless articlesend up on an editor's desk, why aren't theycast into the reject pile?

The nature of the articles that a newspaperprints does reflect (or so I think) on the news-paper. A person very well might decidewhether or not to read the next issue basedupon the articles in the previous one.Columns that stink far worse than any studentwho doesn't shower and ones by whinysophomores expressing their dismay at notbeing able to plan classes into the year 2002could be driving readers away from The Tech.

After all, it is those who read a newspaperthat keep it in print.. And so these reflectionsfrom a concerned mind will close on this note:The quality (or lack thereot) of articles in anewspaper reflects on both the author and thenewspaper. For the sake of the readers, let'sall work together on upgrading the quality ofthe stories we write and publish.

John A. Modzelewski '98

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appears, Williams herself. The committee wasconceived and fonned by administrators and ~faculty; it is packed with faculty. Its missionis to address issues of student life, yet none ofthe current members are students.

.By way of example, just have a look at amap of where the committee members cur-rently live. Only one lives in Cambridge. Onethird of the members live in Lexington. Howmany MIT students have ever even been toLexington? As far as student life is concerned,Lexington might as well be Siberia.

Of course many faculty spend a great dealof time on campus. They work in labs, oftenwith students. Sometimes they teach. A hand-ful of them attend faculty meetings or sit on ~Institute committees. When they interact withother faculty they do so as colleagues, sharinginfonnation. When they interact with studentsthey do so as imparters of infonnation. Thereis little dialogue.

to have concentrated it attention on providing better over ightof Aramark' operation.

The fact remains that HF had plenty of time - five fullyears - to et up a proces and go out to bid. During tho e fiveyears, Aramark faced mounting complaint about the quality offood and ervice they provide. Moreover, Aramark ha beenalmost totally unrespon ive to student leaders working toimprove food ervice in dormitorie . HFS lamely allowed thecontract to run out without 0 much as tarting the biddingproce s.

There i a di tinct po ibility that HFS has imply decidedto cave to Aramark propaganda according to which MIT's mar-ket is too small for any contractor to serve well. According tothis view, the complaint people have now would apply equallyto any other food service provider.

At this rate, it seems likely that Aramark will continue tomanage food services at MIT well into the next century. Thissituation could have been avoided if HFS had devoted adequateattention to the problem earlier. There is no good reason whythe bidding process could not have started on time, with studentinput. The dining services group must act now to ensure that weare not Ii tening to an explanation for another one-year exten-sion next year at this time.

"prevent student odor," I could not help butrecall similarly bizarre opinion articles thathave emerged as of late. I recall two opinionarticles by a news staffer at The Tech entitled"Recitations for' Class Should Not BeIgnored" and "Planning Ahead Can BringUnforeseeable Difficulties."

Both of these articles were frighteninglyinane. Writing, like any fOnTIof expression, isa window into one's intellect. That is to say, ifa person expresses something (especially inmass media like The Tech) to the public, thensome mechanism inside of them must haveapproved of the content of the expressionbefore the expression was made. When I poreover the two opinion articles I have referred toabove, the adjective "frightening" seems mostsuitable to describe the mental mechanismthat approved those two articles. I have nodoubts that his position on The Tech as a newsstaffer helped those articles make ink.

The nature of some recently publishedopinion articles makes me wonder if thesearticles reflect poorly on The Tech itself. TheTech does state in its opinion policy thatcolumns "are written by individuals and repre-sent the opinion of the author, not necessarilythat of the newspaper."

from a variety of departments. Although thecommittee may be joined later by two stu-dents, MIT wasted no time in packing the fac-ulty members off on a Cape Cod junket andbull session. Cushy.

I'm willing to admit that the esteemed fac-ulty members chosen to sit on the committeeare a lot savvier than most of their colleagues.I don't know many of the members personal-ly, but I know that some are highly involvedin the community, and that others have a goodrapport with their students. AssociateProfessor of Political Science Charles StewartIII is even housemaster at McConnick Hall.So I can't say this group is completely out oftouch with students. 0 doubt PresidentCharles M. Vest and Williams found thatthese nine people were among the most quali-fied faculty at MIT to study issues related tostudents.

The fact remains, however, that this com-mittee embodies the paternalistic and conde-scending attitudes held by the faculty and, it

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Odor ProblemIs Nationwide

The Tech Should BeMore Selective

Having just read Tuesday's column byThomas R. Karlo '97 entitled "MIT Must Actto Prevent Student Odor," I remembered somegraffiti that I saw in an elevator at StanfordUniver ity.

In one handwriting were the words: "DieCS non-bathers!" Right below that, in anotherhandwriting: "It's my party and I'll stink if Iwant to."

Even at that bastion of beautiful people,sun, and fun, they have the same 'problem'that we do. As a recovering nerd, I feel thatwe should give the non-bathers the space theyneed to be themselves.

After reading the sometimes funny - butmostly bizarre - column by Thomas R. Karlo'97 ["MIT Must Act to Prevent StudentOdor," Sept. 17] on why MIT should act to

The deans' office is at it again. Sometimesit seems that the full-time mission of ourfriends in Building 7 is to set up committeeswith broad missions while allowing onlytoken student involvement.

This time the culprit is Rosalind H.Williams, the new dean for undergraduateeducation. She's spent the last several monthsrecruiting faculty members to pack the taskforce on student life and learning. 0 smalljob, given the blandly-stated mission of thegroup. The mission statement includes the fol-lowing murky projects: to "review and articu-late MIT's educational mission" and to "eval-uate MIT's current educational processes andidentify changes that would enhance or sup-port the educational mission." If someonewanted me to undertake such a project, I'dhead for the hills.

Surprisingly, however, Williams had littledifficulty signing on nine big-name professors

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MIT Must Dump Old WaysAnd Work with Students

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ing the students their partner , MIT has askedthem to just put up with whatever the facultyor administrative department paternalisticallydecide.

It's worth saying that the real reason thiscommittee ha been stacked with faculty hasnothing to do with qualifications or informa-tion and everything to do with standard opera-tional procedure. William and Ve t are facul-ty members and admini trator . They regardwhat happens at meetings of the academiccouncil and faculty a real and e erything elseas peripheral. The institutional symbol andprestige are designed to place value on theirplace in this community. Small wonder thatthey should select from among their owngroup rather than from the community at large.

MIT may lead the world in cience andtechnology. But as long as it clings to the sortof outmoded policy-making norms exempli-fied by the task force on student life and learn-ing, MIT the university remains a19th-century organization.

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Williams does not regard any of this as aproblem. She is sure that, with study, thesefaculty will come to understand student lifeissues. According to a Sept. 11 article in TechTalk entitled "Task Force to Review StudentLife and Learning:' the committee will bechatting with some students right after it getsdone meeting alumni, staff, and variousInstitute committee . How reassuring. Theentire operation smells more like an exercisein anthropology than a serious attempt tobring the community together.

I believe that the Institute would be betterserved by opening up these processes to thewhole community. Faculty members have alot to learn from students; furthermore, stu-dents have a lot to learn about managing theirown lives. It is within the bounds of MIT'seducational mission that the students be askedto work with the faculty in moving this orga-nization into the next century. Instead of mak-

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offices of the M1T Press above thebookstore, Simha said. The officesof the MIT Press will move intoleased space across the street inCambridge Center.

The specifics of this part of theplan are still being worked out. TheDepartment of Linguistics andPhilosophy declined to commentuntil plans become finalized.

Buildings 16 and 56 used tohouse laboratories and offices for theDepartment of Biology. When thenew biology building was finishedand everything in Buildings 16 and56 moved out, a third of the build-ings was left vacant, Joyce said.

The ongoing renovation is thefirst phase in the larger project. Thesecond phase involves moving thepeople in Building 16 into Building56 and making changes in Building16.

"It's been challenging and com-plicated to come up with a modularplan [for these buildings] because ofthe variety of uses involved," Joycesaid.

This set of renovations "willprobably be more disruptive to cam-pus," as access to 26-100 may beaffected, Joyce said. Currently,Beacon Construction Company isplanning a tunnel through the areaso that people may travel there.

Some of the features to be addedduring the projects are a handicap-accessible ramp in the basement 4

connecting Building 8 and Building16, and an elevator to connect thevarious floors of Building 8 andBuilding 16.

The new spaces in the buildingswill consist of classrooms on thefirst floor, as well as laboratoriesand offices on higher floors. •

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current educational processes.The task force is still in its very

early stages, Williams ,said.Considerations like space and staffhave yet to be worked out, althougha number of faculty and administra-tors have been chosen to be part ofthe task force. No students are cur-rently members of the task force. _

Williams said that she has con-sulted Undergraduate AssociationPresident Richard Y. Lee '97 andUA Vice President Dedric A. Carter'98 to get students on the task force.

"The pressure is on students toget the students" on the task forcenow, she said.

"The task force will not get offthe ground until students" are on it,Williams said. "The task force is notcomplete until students are there."

Events geared toward leadersThe events this weekend, aimed

at getting alumni and student lead-ers involved in the task forces, willbegin tonight with a workshop forstudent leaders. The events will betake place from from 7 to 8:30 p.m.in the Tang Center.

There will be various workshopsfor club and class leaders, "educa-tional counselors, reunion gift com-mittee members, and students, saidProject Manager for the AlumniAssociation Theresa J. Lee. I

On Saturday in 10-250, Williamswill moderate a presentation entitled"The Learning Community:Integrating Student Life andLearning at MIT," with members ofthe task force comprising the panelfor the discussion.

The events are geared toward stu-dent leaders, according to Williams.Eleven of the 18 or so students sched-uled to attend are actually freshmen.

Anyone else interested in attend-ing the events should e-mail Lee attjoyce@mit.edu.

Building 56 renovations continueMeanwhile, renovations to

Building 56 are continuing. After thework on Building 56 finishes thisDecember, construction. on Building16 will begin, probably in February.

"Part of the reason for renovat-ing Building 16 and 56 is to housesome of the people from Building20," which is scheduled to be takendown in the spring of 1998, saidDirector of Planning O. RobertSimha MCP '57. Most of the officesin the building are scheduled to bemoved into Building 16 once therenovations there are finished.

Building 20 is being demolishedso that MIT can take it down and"reuse the site more effectively andefficiently," said Nancy Joyce, pro-ject manager for BeaconConstruction Company, which is theoutside contractor for the project.

In addition .to these moves theDepartment of Linguistics andPhilosophy will move into the

Planning on the third floor ofBuilding 7. This included the con-struction of the Frank Stella confer-ence room with Stella's muralLoohoomooloo, which was donatedby Elliot K. Wolk ' 57.

The final phase of the projectcreated new studio space inBuilding 7 and provided exhibitionand social space around the dome atthe top of the building.

"These are excellent old buil -ings. With a little bit of judicioususe we can rehabilitate them andmake them extremely pleasant andfunctional for modem use,"Mitchell said.

The space around the dome wasdesigned to be social space for theschool and is home to the newArchitecture and Planning Cafe.

Part of the project was to makethe. dome visible from the fourthfloor of Building 7. This was done tomake it the "symbolic center of thespace and school," Mitchell said.

By Stacey E. BlauEDITOR IN CHIEF

A series of events starting todayand continuing through the weekendwith alumni and some current' stu-dents will represent the beginningstages of the work of the task forceson student life and learning.

The task forces, an initiative ofDean for Undergraduate EducationRosalind H. Williams, are chargedwith examining closely MIT's edu-cational mission and evaluating its'

Alumni, .Leaders MeetFor New Task Force

ake C anges Around CampusSeptember 20 1996

Building 20 may actually be comingto fruition in only a year and a half.

The renovation of the fourthfloor of Building 7 is the last phaseof the School of Architecture andPlanning's plan to "move theDepartment of Architecture back toits traditional home," said William1. Mitchell, dean of the school archi-tecture and planning.

When Mitchell arrived at MITfour years ago, he found "fragments[of the school] all over the place."He subsequently began work ondeveloping a long-term plan tomove the architecture departmentaway from its location at the time,Buildings 5 I and 52.

"Essentially, we tried to go backto the fundamental logic of thebuildings and get modem servicesinto them," Mitchell said. These ser-vices included better lighting andcomputer workstations for comput-er-aided design, he said.

School was systematically movedThe first phase of the project

involved the renovation of thedean's office.

The second phase focused on theconstruction of studio spaces, facultyoffices, and laboratory space for theBuilding Technology Program on thefourth floors of Buildings 5 and 10.

The third phase targeted the cre-ation new space for the headquartersfor the School of Architecture and

•oand other groups currently occupyaroWld campus.

While renovations in Building 7are done and changes in Building 56come to a close in December, theplans that have been in the worksfor several decades to tear down

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By Erik S. BalsleySTAFF REPORTER

A number of renovations tobuildings around the Institute willmean not only structural changesbut also the shifting around of thespace that a number of departments

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The renovations in Building 56 begun last fall are entering their finalstages. The construction should be finished In December.

ficed, Hodges said.However, "if you are clever in

the way you do this, you won't haveto take away much technical con-tent," Hodges said. "We're not try-ing to subvert the things that MIT isgood at" doing, he said

For example, the practica wouldadd only a few units to a student'sschedule as an attachment to atechnical subject to work on stu-dents' communication skills,Hodges said.

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Fecal bacteria levels in the Charles River peaked at more than12,500 times the safe level for swimming last week, according to anarticle Sunday in The Boston Globe. The outbreak resulted from ablocked sewer line that clogged and then burst, diverting raw sewageand toilet paper into a storm drain, which leads to the river.

The highest co~centration of fecal coliform bacteria was measuredat the comer of Memorial Drive and the Larz Anderson Bridge, an areaoften used by Harvard University and Northeastern University rowingteams. Bacteria levels were 2,500 times the safe level for boating,which is higher than that for swimming.

The break was reported Wednesday of last week by a rower whonoticed a foul smell. The pipe was plugged, and as of last Saturdaysewage was no longer entering the river.

Kate Bowditch of the Charles River Watershed Association, anindependent advocacy group monitoring the situation, said that basedon their sampling, the leak did not affect the area of the river usedfrequently by MIT.

The MIT stretch of the Charles "generally meets state standards forboating during dry weather," Bowditch said. However, even withoutan accident like the rupture last week, "a storm like [Wednesday's]will cause the river to be polluted for the next two days," she said.

The recurring problem occurs because of the old-fashionedCambridge plumbing system that combines storm water with untreat-ed sewage. When storm runoff becomes too great for the system tohandle - as after a heavy rain - certain designated points, knownas combined sewer overflows, permit diluted raw sewage to leak outinto the river. There are 11 such overflows in the MIT area.

MIT Crew Director Stuart Schmill '86 said that the frequent leak-ages have not posed much problem. "It doesn't smell too nice, butunless it's very windy, we don't get splashed that much, so the waterdoesn't pose much of a health problem," Schmill said. "No one hasgotten sick here because of it."

The use of the CSO devices violates the MassachusettsClean WaterAct, Bowditch said. But the EnvironmentalProtection Agency is work-ing closelywith Boston and Cambridge authoritiesto eliminate them.

"It's incredibly expensive," Bowditch said. "It's probably goingto be until 2002 before they have successfully eliminated all CSOs."

Last week's contamination was the fourth major such incidentthis summer, with prior outbreaks observed in Newton and Milford.

Raw Sewage BurstInfects Charles RiverBy A. Arlt HusainOPINION EDITOR

lined by the Committee on theWriting Requirement, he said..

Propo al will offer bal nce"One of things we are very con-

cerned with is that [students] areoverworked. We don't want to justadd another layer of work,"Hodges said.

To accommodate the new writ-ing classes, it would seem thatsome technical content in the cur-riculum would have to be sacri-

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tunities Program projects in the fieldof BME, Kamm said.

Students from all fields of engi-neering and science can join thegroup, Lambeth said. "There was alarge percentage of biology majorspresent at the meeting. They see andunderstand the need to incorporatetechnology to their Ilne of research."

"BME includes such a broadrange of research, from molecularbiology to all others. All majors fitright in," Taneja said.

People are confused about whatBME is, and "one of our goals is toinform people of the possibilitiesthis area of research can offer,"Lambeth said.

got a great technical education, theyfound they were at a 10 s comparedto a lot of their cohorts in their jobsregarding communication kills,"Hodges said.

"If in the long-run you want todo interesting things in science andengineering, you are going to haveto convince other people whatyou're doing is important," saidCUP Chair Charles Stewart Ill,associate professor of political sci-ence.

"It is the power of the languagein grant proposals that get scientistsfunding," Stewart said.

Many humanities subjects cur-rently offered do not give studen~enough feedback on their writingskills, Stewart said. So new subjectswill have to be created or the oldones adjusted to fit the model out-

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Melissa J. Lambeth '97, Hemant Taneja '97, and Isaac George '97founded the Biomedical Engineering Society.

"The goal of the society is togive students a forum to learn aboutwhat BME has to offer them fromprofessionals in the field," Griffith-Cima said.

More than 200 freshmenexpressed interest at the academicand. activities midw~ys duringResidence and Orientation Week,Kamm said.

"The society's goal is mainly toprovide services to students who areinterested in BME as a career,"Kamm said.

BMES will compile studentresumes and send them to compa-nies and will also create a list ofUndergraduate Research Oppor-

Alumni input sways committeeIn conceiving its proposal, the

committee considered responsesfrom alumni regarding their educa-tion and preparation for the work-place, Hodges said.

Alumni "felt that although they

ewWritingWriting, from Page I their opinions about the proposal,

Hodges aid.The first such meeting might be

held in a large auditorium, and sub-sequent ones might be held in spe-cific dormitories or independent liv-ing groups so students couldinteract with committee members inan informal environment, Hodgessaid.

"I am sure there are things wehaven't thought of that the under-graduates can. help us with," hesaid.

September 20, 1996

students put a lot of work andenthusiasm into their major field. Ifit isn't [made] clear that writingskills are important:' then studentswill not improve those skills,Hodges said.

Students could theoretically sat-isfy the yearly communication classrequirement in a number of ways,including taking specialized writingcourses, seminars, or classes in theirdepartment that incorporate "practi-ca," six-unit subjects that integratecommunication skills with the mate-rial in a traditionally technical field,Hodges said.

Members of the committee areplanning to hold a series of informa-tional sessions starting in October at.which students will be able to voice

One year after the creation of theBiomedical Engineering minor, theBiomedical Engineering Societyheld its first meeting last week withabout 70 students in attendance.

BMES, which is part of a nation-al society, was started this springbecause "there are lots of students atMIT interested in [BiomedicalEngineering] and they don't knowthe huge number of resources that

• MIT has," said Isaac George '97,one of the founders of the group."One way to help them is to have astudent club."

Biomedical engineering includesany branch of engineering -including electrical, mechanical,and chemical - that is applied tosolving problems in biology, saidAssociate Professor of ChemicalEngineering Linda G. Griffith-Cima, who is one of the co-chairs ofthe minor. "The field's basic goal isusually a therapeutic one."

Director of the Center for BMEDouglas A. Lauffenburger spokeabout the different research projectsavalIable in the field at the society'sfirst meeting.

BMES will hold its second meet-ing on Oct. 2, with another guestspeaker.

BMES was started this spring byGeorge, Melissa J. Lambeth '97,Hemant Taneja '97, and Hank M.Link '97. The society's faculty advi-sor is Professor of MechanicalEngineering Roger D. KammPhD '77, the associate director of

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about four years ago, but because ofa lack of interest, it faded out ofexistence, Kamm said.

The new minor helped to raiseinterest in the group again, Kammsaid. .

"The way engineering interfaceswith biology is changing, and thereis a huge number of student inter-ested in this field, " Griffith-Cima

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~...proveSeptember 20, 1996

eaching, MaIlII:ers at MITThe system gave freshmen an ideaof the humanities a a sy tematic,organized discipline, like phy ics.

"Like the ile, it had a maincour e to it. That began to fall apart- just as the ile goes into a delta- back in the 1960s. There's noense of what MIT believes an edu-

cated per on ought to know."

cademic RIO shaped by tenureGiven his concern with educa-

tion, it's no surprise that Merritt hasal 0 been an advocaJe of increasingthe importance of academic RIO.Merritt helped develop many of theorientation programs that havebecome symbols of RIO Week. Oneprogram, Project Move Off YourAssumption, or MOY A, wasnamed for Merritt's colleague MoyaL. Verzhbinsky.

"She calls in from time to timeto see if we still do it," said Merritt."The question for me is whether .what we're doing is really excitingand carries novelty, and I don'tthink we really have an answer. Sowe enliven it with running themarathon and Tech Trek. It needs tobe more like dance. There's notenough excitement.

Widely known for Charm SchoolMerritt is perhaps best known on

campus for founding Charm School,a day-long program held duringJAP. The activity actually grew outof a since-disappeared RiO programon sexual issues, "How to Give aWoman an Orgasm."

"The idea was to release some ofthat awareness building from itsRIO confines," Merritt said. "Thething for me is to get studentsengaged in things that are good forthem."

The popularity of Charm Schoolhas led to heavy local and nationalnews coverage, as well as requestsfrom other schools for informationon the program. Merritt, however, ismore concerned with the health ofthe program at MIT.

"There should also be a sus-tained student infrastructure. Weneed a student organization that willsustain it and keep the facultyinvolved," Merritt said.

A. Ramirez '99, has been workinghard to keep Pritchett open full time. \

"We placed more than 50 postersin East Campus, Senior House, andin Walker. We got a total of fourresponses, two from freshmen, andtwo upperclassmen," Saenz Oterosaid. "We didn't poster west campusbecause in past years, we did thatand received no responses. However,I want to make it clear that we willhire anyone, even if they don't knowhow to turn on a grill," he said.

Aramark might take overPritchett's grace period is quick-

ly running out. If students can notfill the more than 15 open positions,there will be no choice but to bringin outsiders for part-time jobs,Saenz Otero said.

Aramark may come in to fin thespots, a possibility that does notplease Saenz Otero. "The entire pointof Pritchett's is that it's student run,"he said. "We don't need Aramark tocome in and ruin the food."

Students are alreaqy displeasedwith the shorter hours. "It was only11 p.m. and everything was closed," ,said John Cho '99, a Senior House 'resident.

Others expressed dismay at thepossibility .that Aramark mightchange Pritchett substantially.

"First they changed Lobdellfrom bad to worse. Now they'regoing to destroy Pritchett's. Prettysoon, I'm going to have to go offcampus, and that's really sad," saidJulie Tsung '99.

"If Aramark comes in, the stu-dents can only blame themselves.We will hire anyone, absolutelyanyone," Saenz Otero said.

be banished from the Institute interms of teaching on a volunteerbasis."

ostalgia for the humanities coreOne of the major difficulties

with the humanities program hasbeen the low level of difficulty,Merritt said. Aside from a fewpapers, he finds, most classes in thefield amount to little more than glo-rified bull sessions. Merritt attribut-es this to the belief among humani-ties faculty that the rest of MIT isalready intense enough for students.Humanities faculty do not providethe sense of their subject as a sys-tematic field of study, he believes.

"The people who teach humani-ties, arts, and social sciences sub-jects have not understood that whenyou're playing in a hardball league,you have to play hardball,'" Merrittsaid. "They..play minister or angelof mercy, so [their subjects] are likea cultural side dish, a respite."

Merritt regrets the disappearanceof the humanities core, a system ofbasic subjects taken by freshmen.

With Lack of Workers,Pritchett Cuts HoursBy Dudley W. lamming

The student-run Pritchett SnackBar located on the second floor ofWalker Memorial has been forcedto reduce hours because of a short-age of workers.

"We're only open about half thetime because we are severely under-staffed," said manager Alvar SaenzOtero '98.

The diner, which has usuallybeen staffed by 30 or more people,has only 15 employees this term.. The chief reason is that notenough students have applied forthe jobs available, Saenz Otero said.

"The problem is that it's the startof the term," Saenz Otero said."Unfortunately, many of the fresh-men don't realize yet that they needmoney. This year's freshman classis just not participating."

Lack of staff brings short hoursThis is the first year in recent

times that Pritchett has had troubleattracting new workers. The prob-lem has been aggravated by thegraduation of an unusually largepercentage of workers and thedeparture of several juniors, SaenzOtero said.

"We lost about 10 seniors, andseveral other students stopped work-ing here for other reasons," he said.

As a result, the Pritchett grill isopen from 6 to 11 p.m. Monday toFriday and from noon to I 1 p.m. onweekends.

The convenience store is stillopen full time until 1 a.m. Mondayto Friday and from noon to 1 a.m.on Saturday and Sunday.

Saenz Otero, along with Daniel

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Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Travis R. Merritt.

in the Department of EfectricalEngineering and Computer Science.

Teaching was one of Merritt'sbiggest concerns when he left theliterature section of the humanitiesdepartment for the dean's office. "Ihave pangs of regret and misgiv-ings" about leaving" literature,Merritt said. "But I'm not going to

have a large contingent" to beginwith, Rice said.

However, the departments thathad more retirees generally hadmore eligible faculty members,Bacow said. The percentage of pro-fessors who retired was reasonablyuniforn1, he said.

"Faculty positions will be filledcarefully by .departments aruischools, u'sing their normal carefulsearch processes over the next sev-eral years," Vest said.

The replacement will take placeover the next five years, with pro-fessorships gradually being filled asthe part-time professors depart per-manently, Bacow said.

Ahmet Isik contributed to thereporting oj this story.

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talked about was thi teachingdevice called a lecture. ow they'vebecome dominant."

While there remain much toimprove about undergraduate edu-cation from the tandpoint ofadministration and faculty, Merrittfeels there is room for progresamong student as well. " tudentsdon't fight back," Merritt said."They're conditioned to think thefaculty are god and that they're toobusy to talk to undergraduates."

Merritt ha beep at the forefrontof several effort f~ improve both thequality of teaching and the format ofclasses. Merritt helped foundConcourse, an alternative freshman-year program, a well as theFreshman Advisory Program. In spiteof the e changes, Merritt is not satis-fied with the freshman experience.

"I'd like to see something doneto shake MIT students out of theirintellectual pas ivity, especially dur-ing freshman year.," Merritt said."There's not enough to write homeabout. The recitation are not smallenough; it's exposition. There's notenough feeling among undergradu-ate that they have a take in theireducation."

Merritt has floated .everal ideasfor correcting these problems,including a "college" of MIT,improved incentives for teaching,and the "very small group move-ment," a proposal for shrinkingcIa s size on the model of tutorials

affected areas, Rice said. "They feelstressed out because there is a lot todo."

But many of the changes beingmade through the re-engineeringprocess are supposed to be cuttingout time-wasting activities, Ricesaid. In the long term, this shouldreduce the inefficiencies of the oldsystem, she said.

Some department more affected"Some departments are impacted

more heavi ly than others," saidPresident Charles M. Vest.

Some other areas around theInstitute, like Physical Plant, wereespecially hard-hit by retirement.Over 150 people from PhysicalPlant are retiring, although "they

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the first half of Merritt's dean'office work had more to do withoperation . He helped run the fre h-man advi ory seminar program,admini ter the IndependentActivities Period, and coordinateResidence and Orientation Week.

RIO wa perhaps the mo tdraining. "RIO took incredible ener-gy - partly working with tudentsand partly hold yourself back so youdon't run roughshod over studentsand impo e your will on them,"Merritt said.

Teaching is hi biggest concernUndergraduate teaching I

Merritt's pas ion. Hi work at thedean's office gradually shifted duringhis tenure to efforts to improve thequality of undergraduate teaching.

In eeking this end, Merritt haworked with the faculty onrede igning the freshman programand trying to reward good teaching.Merritt believes one of the biggestremaining problems has to do withthe lecture format of teaching.

"A lot of teachers and studentsdon't know how to learn collabora-tively. [Many times] it means pass-ing knowledge through a tube to thestudent . That' hard to beatbecause there's a real foundation infact for treating education that way.One of the things that MIT'sfounder William Barton Rogers

Retirement, from Page 1

need some sort of continuity" and atransition, he said.

"Previou ly, the retired profes-sors were given the title of profe soremeritus and senior lecturer if theycontinued teaching," Bacow said."We wanted a way to retain retireesas part of the intellectual communi-ty."

Staff members can not be hiredback in that way, Rice said. "We'repretty much holding that we can'tha ve more than a 50 percentreplacement" for staff, she said.

This will mean to a large extentconsolidation of work in depart-ments. For now, "it feels like morework" for fewer people in many

Only Half of Staff to Be Replaced

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Re-engineering Will Affect Changes in Dean's OfficeUAA, from Page 1

Behr '98, who attended one of theforums.

Behr suggested one ervice theoffice could offer tudents in academ-ic trouble might be "some place withbig flashing red arrow that said, 'Ifyou're in trouble, go here'," he said.

Behr also mentioned the idea ofextending the associate adviser sys-tem that exists freshman year intothe system for upperclassmen.

Replacing Merritt may be toughThere was some discussion of can-

didate at the meeting , but mo tly ina general way, William aid. It wasnot about 'here' the per on whoshould replace Travi '," he aid.

orne tudent did ha e ideas onspecific candidates, though. 'Wethought that the housemasters wouldbe perfect" candidate ,Behr aid.

Finding a replacement forMerritt may prove difficult in thathis position was "defined 0 muchin terms of personality," Williamssaid. Merritt has a number of specialties to program - like the fre h-man advi ory seminars - that havedefined his tenure as dean.

His job require an ability tointeract with student on a numberof levels. "It' really not omethingwhere you place a job de cription"for a replacement, he said.

William aid that he will becon idering whether or not to haveadditional forums for input on theselection process. "The studentforums were really very ucce ful,"Williams said. 'There was a lot ofdiscussion ... a lot of feedback."

Re-engineering to shape UE AThe pa t two year have seen

con iderable turnover in the Office

of Undergraduate Education andStudent Affairs and now UAA,which i a part of UE A. Williamstook office a little over a year agoand Dean for tudent Life MargaretR. Bate arrived just last winter.

The big change do not botherWilliams. "The turnover is nothingunu ual," she said. These are offices"where people start out and go on toother thing ."

The offices will experience ornedegree of re tructuring as a result ofthe re-engineering proces,Williams said. When consideringthe offices' future direction and any

change that may be made, "wedon't want to get ahead of the deci-sion-making process" of re-engi-neering, she said.

"Re-engineering is going to havesome effect on the shape of theoffice," Merritt said. Hopefully, itwill mean changes that centralizemechanical processes and paper-work in the office and allow deans"more time to sit down face-to-facewith students," he said.

In the mean time, the processitself is "drawing people from theoffice" to actually participate in re-engineering, Merritt said. "That's

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The team experienced severalmajor transitions over the summer.The team lost a couple of good play-ers with last year's graduating class.A solid group of new freshman hasjoined, and a basis for future devel-opment is definitely in place.

Coach Jack Barry retired afterhaving been with the team for morethan 20 years. Assistant Coach JoeKuchta temporarily took ~ver theresponsibilities as coach.

At the same time, the team hasbeen lucky to find Bob Hayes as anew assistant coach and presumablyhead coach in the future.

Hayes has played a lot of golf,and at one point he contemplatedgoing pro. He has also had a signifi-cant amount of teaching experience.

holding Wentworth to only threeruns. The Engineers were led at theplate by Baldemar Mejia '97, whohad three hits and three runs battedin and by Morales, who had a three-run homer and four runs batted in.

Eddie Rivas '97, Steve Vetere'97, Pete Gustafson '99, and DavidPiho '00 also joined in on the offen-sive attack. In the second game,pitchers Tyler Pope '99 and JasonSzuminski '00 allowed only fourruns.

The Engineers were led at theplate by Chris Albrecht '00, whohad two hits including a three-runtriple in the bottom of the sixth toput the team ahead for good. NateBurnham '00, Ethan Goetz '00, andJack Gallagher '99 also contributedat the plate. Catcher Paul Collins'98 picked up the slack, catchingboth ends of the doubleheader whileknocking out a few hits.

The Engineers are away thisweekend at Babson College, wherethey will playa twin bill at noontomorrow.

Golf, from Page 16

Golf TeamPlaces 19thAt Dartmouth

After setting the MIT record formost regular season wins last yearwith a 20-12 record, the Engineersstarted off the fall season rightwhere they left off by sweepingWentworth Institute of Technology13-3 in the first game and 7-4 in thesecond.

In the .first game, pitchers' JoelMorales '99 and Randy Graeb-ner '00 combined for 12 strikeouts,

HarriersDisappointIn 7thPlaceCross-Country, from Page 16

Baseball DemolishesWentworth 13-3,7-4

Women's X-ConntryfioUnces RPI, WPIBy Lauren Klatsky place with a time of 19:33. ot farTEAM MEMBER behind was Shue-Fen Tung '00 who

The women's cross country team crossed the finish line after .20:00.began its season last Saturday with a Debbie Won '00 and Robin Evansspectacular performance that earned '99 were the two final corers forthem the coveted Engineers' Cup. MIT in seventh and eighth place

Having lost the title last ear to with times of20:47 and 20:52.Rochester Polytechnic Institute by a The harriers' depth was demon-six-point margin, MIT definitively strated by Eve Phillips '98, Leahavenged their opponent by a score ichols '00, and Tanya Zelevinskyof 23-43. Wocester Polytechnic '99 who rounded out the top eightInstitute placed last in the .tri-meet within the first 12 places.with 69 points. Coach Joe Sousa thought the

The meet took place under sunny team had some outstanding timesskies at Saratoga Springs State Park for such an early part of the season.in upstate New York. After preview- In fact, Eisenberg had a schooling the course before the race, the record on the RPI course.women felt confident they could han- Sousa said that "the team hasdie the flat but challenging terrain. adapted well to the rigors of ourMIT jumped out in front from the training program." With manystart and held onto the lead until the returning veterans and some talent-finish. Janis Eisenberg '98 was the ed newcomers, the women look for-overall winner with a time of 19:08. ward to an impressive season. MIT

MIT's second finisher was travels to the UMass-DartmouthLauren Klatsky '97 who took third Invitational next week.

(42nd, 27: 10), Chris McGuire '00(44th, 27: 12), and team captain DanHelgesen '97 (58th, 27:38), roundedout the team's scoring five.

~ Gabe White '00 from San Diegowas perhaps the most pleasant sur-prise, recording a lifetime best of27:57 for-five miles and finishing asthe team's seventh man after being13th just a week before.

Head Coach Halston Taylorexpressed disappointment in theteam's performance. Having puttogether the most challenging seasonschedule in 15 'years, Taylor felt thatthe team has the talent to succeed atthis higher level of competition.

"Things should improve dramat-~cally in the next two weeks .. If not,rt will be a very long season withthe schedute that we have," Taylorsaid. "I know we have a good team,but they have to develop more pridewhen it comes to letting teams runall over you."

The Engineers will get theirchance to rebound this Saturdaywhen they travel to Lewiston, Mainefor a tri-meet with Bates College andTufts University. Tufts, ranked 23rdin the nation in a pre-seasonDivision III poll, won the AmherstInvitational on Saturday, whilefates finished 9th at Dartmouth.

By Joel Morales_TEAM MEMBER

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Team co-captain Sarah Kringer'97 said she thinks that "the teamshows a lot of promi e." She addedthat the team has a lot of good fre h-men who will add depth to the team.

The match was also the first for tKelle as head coach of thewomen's team. She comes to MITafter coaching the HarvardUniversity and Brown Universityjunior var ity teams.

Keller said that she enjoyscoaching at MIT and finds that herplayers have "pretty good attitudes"toward tennis. They also have a"good perspective on tennis andacademics," she said.

Team beats Tufts 5-4After meeti-ng Skidmore on

Saturday, the team faced a traditionally strong opponent, TuftsUniversity, on Tuesday at home.Once again because of the persistentrain, these games were also playedin the indoor tennis facility.

The team played very well andended up winning the match 5-4.The first doubles team of Nakamuraand Humphrey won their matchearning MIT its first point.

First player Nakamura and sec-ond player Youn once again showedtheir strength and won their matchesin straight sets. Fifth player Kringe,) ~easily beat her Tufts opponent.

Facing tough opponents, bothHumphrey and Ramirez lost theirmatches in straight sets. Althoughshe lost her match, team co-captainLily Koo '97 played three toughsets against her opponent.

The team will have their nexthome match today at 4 p.m. againstColby College.

Cross-Country, Page IS

caught napping in the early goingand found themselves having tofight their way through the largefield of 130 runners, many of whomwere not to be caught.

Mike Parkins '99 led the teamwith his 22nd place finish, clocking26:26 over the hilly five-milecourse. Parkins, the winner of theAlumni Race, worked his way pastat least 40 opponents in the finalthree miles. ");

Arnold Seto G followed quicklyin his wake, taking 28th place, just12 seconds behind. Leif Seed '99

Sixth player eda Ramirez '00,earned MIT its one point by defeat-ing her opponent in straight sets 7-("6-3. The other player on the teamal 0 put in trong efforts against theaggressive Skidmore team. Firstplayer Mealani akamura '00 andecond player MichelJe Y-oun '()() in

particular played well in their fir tmatches for MIT with scores of 6-4,6-1 and 6-4, 6-3 re pectively intheir matches.

akamura was able to hold herown well against Skidmore player -Jamie Levine, who competed in lastyear' CAA Division III ationalChampionship.

Given that the lineups for thedoubles matches were announcedthe aftetnoon of the match, thematches were played well and theplayers were able to hang on toSkidmore for most of them.

"Skidmore is a tough team toplayas a first game," said coachMerilee Keller. In their previous twomatches, Skidmore has beaten theUniversity of Vermont (9-0) andSaint Lawrence University (5-4).

"They're a hard-hitting, aggres-sive team," Keller said. She said shewas pleased with how the MITplayers "hung in there pretty well."

The players also appeared satis-fied despite the loss. "The team isplaying quite well," said team mem-ber Nora Humphrey '98. But "wemay need to. touch up and refine afew things," she added.

Keller expressed similar senti-ments. The team is still "a littlerough at the edges," she said. "If wehad played [Skidmore] at the end ofthe season, we would have beenbetter," she said.

By Thom S. Hunter

The men's cross country teamopened its season with a modestseventh place finish in theDartmouth College Invitational onSaturday.

Division I powers Dartmouth andBoston University finished first andsecond with 50 and 59 points, respevtively, with defending Division IIInational champion Williams Collegetaking third with 91 points. MIT'sscore was a disappointing 185.

The Engineers, who had lookedvery good in the previous week-end's annual Alumni Race; were

Men's Cross Country ,_•Places 7th at Dartmouth

Golf Team Finishes 19thAt Middlebury TournamentBy Morten W. Hoegh pleased everybody with a solid 89.TEAM MEMBER Morten W. Hoegh '98 suffered fr

The varsity golf team opened its a bad cold, and his score did notfall season at Middlebury Co))ege in count. The combined score of 339 .Vermont this past weekend in the after day one put MIT tied in 13thannual Duke Nelson Tournament. place out.The team finished a modest 19th out The weather on Sunday wors-of25 teams. ened slightly but still does not

Middlebury College has its own explain the worse scores producedon-campus course, which was in by the Engineers. Talbot was stillvery good condition. There wer.e the low man with 85, Kim andsome tricky holes, but in general the Henderson both shot 88, butholes were rather short. Grayson ended up with a disap-

The greens were sma)) and not pointing 93. The players had lostelevated and, because of the rain, some of the short touch compared toquite soft. In other words, the con- Saturday, but that does not fulldition of the course invited the describe the difference in perf<players to come up with some low mance.scores. The team score on Sunday was

The big surprise of the touma- 354, producing a total of 693. Thisment was freshman Craig Talbot placed MIT at 19th place overall.'00. On Saturday, in excellent Skidmore Co))ege won the tourna-weather and playing conditions, he ment with an impressive total scoreplayed the par 71 course in 80 of598.strokes. This was we)) above every- The Middlebury tournament wasbody's expectations, and promises slightly disappointing overall butwell for the future. nevertheless ensured the golfers that

Jay Grayson '97, the new team the team has the potential to becaptain, came in with 82, Young E. strong this year.Kim '98 shot 88 and toumament-debutant Dan Henderson '98 Golf, Page ; I

Amherst treet to the J.B. CarrIndoor Tenni Facility.

A women's collegiate tennismatch con ists of three doublematches and six ingles matches.Each match won earns a point. Inorder to win the overall match, ateam must win five of the nine points.

week. Look for the Eagles to soar higher than theFalcons.

I know the Bills looked bad Monday nightagainst the Steelers, but Dallas looked worse.Buffalo will pull out a low scoring game over theCowboys (disclaimer: This is, of course, a matter ofprinciple more than of logical rationale).

In a toss up, I take Detroit over da Bears justbecau e I think Barry Sanders is going to have acrazy game.

I like Minnesota. Unfortunately, Green Bay is ona roll. Take the Packers.

Denver will be led by a heroic John Elwayagainst Kansas City in a battle of undefeated teamsin the AFC West.

ew Orleans will beat Arizona.The Jets were formerly the only team bad enough

to be mistakenly labeled as New Jersey. The Giantscontinue to amaze me. The N.J. Jets are inept. The

.J. Giants are inepter.The Raiders will look downright great against

San Diego.Washington is a surprising team. Watch the

'Skins surprise St. Loius this Sunday.San Francisco, Carolina. Hmmm ...Seattle will barely escape the wrath of. .. Tampa

Bay?Monday Night special: The Colts played a gutsy

game knocking off the Cowboys, and Miami seemedto struggle against the N.J. Jets. I must take theDolphins, however, because of the Jimmy Factor.

Season record: 9-4Author' note: This column is written in good

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Engineer showed the trength onwhich they hope to build throughoutthe eason.

Because of inclement weatheron aturday, the game were movedfrom the tenni courts along

Column by Chris Brocoum

There are few things in my life that I truly regret.My failure to put any money down last week and call9 out of 13 games breaks my heart. Of course, a I

said before, I am a sport manand not a bettor, and I thereforederive my satisfaction simplyfrom the fact that I was right awhole lot more than I was

wrong. I am a modest man, a 9-4 week mcans only,in thc words of Ali, "I am the greatest."

Enough gloating - on to the important stuff, likethe fact that Dallas lost to Indianapolis. Why i it Iget thc feeling that Barry Switzer's relationship withJcrry Jone might be headed down the toilet? I mean,if Washington has a better record than Dallas ...

More important stuff: Pittsburgh blasted Buffalo.Despite being gutted through free agency after. ..urn ... losing the uperbowl, the Steelers are startingto click. Kordell Stewart and Jerome Bettis werelooking good.

The other great surprise of the week (barely a rip-ple compared to Dallas capsizing, but importantnonetheless) was the way Green Bay stomped SanDiego in what had been billed as a close game. Theway Green Bay is playing, the Packers have declaredthemselves the team to beat in the Fe.

Disclaimer: Few things in life ever live up tocxpectations, and therefore all those of you expect-ing anothcr 9-4 week might have to settle for a Iou y8-5. The picks, week four:

ew England with a new-looking Drew Bledsoeand a new-found offense will easily dispatch of thestruggling Jaguar .

Philadelphia looks good, especially with RodneyPeetc and Ricky Waters getting things together last

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