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M IT public service effortBy Prabhat Mehta end of this academic year.

By Thanksgiving, a new office Sorenson -acknowledged thatwill be opened which will coordi- increased participation in cornm-nate public service efforts for the munity service projects will notMIT community, according to come about merely by encourag-Virginia M. Sorenson, future di- ing students to increase the num-rector of the office and current ber of their commitments. Themember of the Public Service PSDG plans to use the office as aDiscussion Group. resource and publicity center to

The PSDG was formed last facilitate the student's search forFebruary by Dean of Student Af- an interesting service activity andfairs Shirley M. McBay to identi- to make those activities "morefy ways that the MIT community appealing."could become involved in public Sorenson, along with a pre-service affairs. dominately student advisory

"We don't even have a name board, and part-time staff mem-[for the office] yet," said Soren- bers will offer information aboutson, who has been involved with on and off-campus service effortsthe public service initiative since run by both MIT groups and out-last February. Currently, the side organizations seekinggroup is still taking an inventory volunteers.of interesti n and involvement in Results from a survey distribut-

ofmunitere ban ey MiIveT stu- ed last year and opinion from in-community service- yMTSu dividual studetincaehtdents, staff and faculty, she dividual stud ents indicate thatadded. students often do not participate

The proposed budget for the in service activities because theyoffice, which has not yet been lack the time to look into thegiven a location, is $65,000. Sor- wide array of serviceenson believes that the budget is organizations.a "modest" yet workable one. Presently, many of these

A set of basic principles outlin- groups operate independentlying goals for the office has been and a student must approach Marcel Torres 91 triesdrafted by the PSDG, which in- them individually to find an in- _c_ __ ticludes approximately 20 students teresting project. Sorenson hopesrepresenting various organiza- that the new office will make it etions and living groups. easier for students to getn Fre

The PSDG will "do everything involved. lBy Miguel C*ntillopossible to honor and preserve The PSDG s also wllg to al- For the first time, students ithe students' sense of their own locate substantial funds into pub- Principles of Chemical Scieninitiative and 'pride of owner- licity aimed at enlightening stu- (5.11) will conduct a series of exship' in their service programs." dents to the numerous erients to full class requireBut the group does intexrd' jt ,--e' p portite-a -avai table.- at-, MIT- ments.--Also,- betweext50 and I0have "evidence of an increased for public service. Other plans to students may be able -to registelevel of student activity" by the increase student interest include for a version of Physics II (8.02

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Provost calls for new R/I comi teeBy Rajesh Raghavan

The Provost's office is forminga new committee to examineways of optimizing the Resi-dence/Orientation Week experi-ence. This committee will be dif-ferent from prior committeessince it is expected to pose con-crete recommendations to theProvost's office by May 1989, ac-cording to Associate Provost S.Jay Keyser. .

The charge for this committeestates that it is being formed"with a strong need for reallycareful, dispassionate view [of R/0]." The committee will look atR/O in a very broad way and seewhat impact it has on the qualityof life and character of the MITcommunity, Keyser said.

Concerns over the benefit ofR/O week originally arose a fewyears ago, Keyser said. Partiallyas a result of his own interest, heestablished an ad hoc committeeto investigate how R/O week isrun at MIT.

In 1986, this committeeevolved into the Allen committee,whose main purpose was to con-duct fact-finding mission, Keysersaid. One of the main findingswas that orientation has becomea much less significant compo-nent in R/O, Thomas J. AllenSM '66, chairman of the commit-tee, said in an interview lastspring.

The committee also determinedthat the residence selection aspecthas come to dominate the week-"finding a bed to sleep in isnow the priority," Allen said lastspring.

The socializing effects of livinggroups was also investigated bythe Allen committee, Keyser said.One finding indicated that menand women come to MIT forsometimes very different reasons.

"What was found is that men

tended to come to MIT for itsreputation, while women likedMIT for the people they methere," Keyser said. Thus activi-ties like Campus Preview, andhow living groups get involved inthe weekend, has a significantimpact on incoming students,Keyser explained.

Difficulties arose in the Allencommittee due to its large sizeand the many living group alle-giances that formed. Thus themission of this new committeewill be to take a very "dispas-sionate" view of R/O, Keyserstressed.

Furthermore, the Provost'scommittee will not limit itself tothe issue of housing, Keyser said.

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Rather it will work on recom-mendations from the Kennedycommittee, which is currently ex-amining the future of indepen-dent living groups as a result ofthe changing demographics atMIT, he added.

According to UndergraduateAssociation President JonathanKatz '90, the UA is thinking ofestablishing its own committee.The UA will primarily look at theissue of housing, but in a broadmanner, Katz said.

"No one before was looking atthe whole thing [R/O]," Katz ex-plained. "Rather they were justlooking at little parts. MIT can-not make changes without mak-ing changes to the whole system."

in the spring that will include ex-perimental work performed withkits outside of class, according toProfessor Emeritus PhillipMorrison, i -

The' Science and : EngineeringWorking- Group and- the Commit-tee on the Undergraduate Pro-gram have endorsed introducingsuch laboratory work into thefreshman core curriculum, said

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FMLN member discusses fate of El SalvadorBy Darrel Tarasewicz

With the massive victory of ElSalvador's nationalist republicanparty ARENA in last March'selections, the United States willhave to reassert and reexamine itsrole in that Central Americancountry, Mercedes Salgado saidyesterday. Salgado, an official USUeliegate mn the 1' Lx; a LutisU L 1

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ARENA was the political partyresponsible for much of the op-pression and death squad activitythat occurred in 1979-80, Salgadoclaimed. The party is made up ofmostly upper-middle class indi-viduals who follow a conserva-tive, right wing ideology, shesaid.

"Many people in the US wereconfused by the results," Salgadosaid. Many Americans could notunderstand why the Salvadoranpeople would bring back to pow-er a party that was responsible

for so much strife eight yearsago, she continued.

But El Slavador's current lead-er, Jose Napoleon Duarte of theChristian Democratic Party, lostmuch support since his electionin 1984. "His party promisedmuch, but did not deliver," Sal-gado said.

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because the Salvadoran peoplefelt that they had no otherchoice, she said. When a Los An-geles Times reporter interviewedvoters waiting in line, they couldnot explain why they were votingfor ARENA, she noted.

"Many of them said they hadto vote for ARENA." But thevoters were not even able toname the candidates of the party,she said. ARENA won over 230of the 260 municipalities.

Since the election, the Chris-tian Democratic Party, which -hasbeen receiving over $1 million inaid each day, has become frag-mented and has steadily lost con-

trol of the country, Salgado said.The United States will have

two priorities in dealing with theARENA party, Salgado said -to attempt to reconstruct theCDP and to negotiate with ARE-NA. The second task may be dif-ficult since ARENA supports res-urrection of the total war policyto eradicate groups like theFMLN, she said.

Whether Dukakis or Bush winsthe election will make no differ-ence to the FMLN, Salgado said."Both candidates have affirmedthat they will continue aid to E1Salvador," she noted.

Furthermore, the United Statesdoes not care what type of gov-ernment exists there just as longas it is not the FMLN, Salgadosaid.

"The more [the Salvadorangovernment] represses, the morewe will struggle," Salgadostressed.

that the students would do mostof the experimenting in their ownroom with the kits, which will beProfessor Robert Silbey, co-chairof the --working. group -'and 5.11lecturer.- -:

Students in 5.11 will receivelab kits and conduct experimentsin recitations. The experimentswill be discussed in lecture,Silbey said.

The kits will contain packets ofchemicals such as hydrogen per-oxide and sodium thiosulfate;plastic cups and straws will besubstituted for glassware. Possi-ble experiments include the"Kitchen Clock Reaction," whichstudies the kinetics of an oxida-tion reaction; the synthesis andisomers of a transition metalcomplex; blueprinting; determin-ing the thermodynamic parame-ters of the solubility of calciumiodate, and the "Adventure of theMissing Precipitate," which ex-amines linked equilibria, accord-ing to Marya Lieberman '89 whodesigned the experiments withSeth Brown '88.

"Chemistry doesn't happen onpaper, you have to be able to playwith things," Lieberman said."You have to be very creative indesigning labs, too. You have tobe able to make projects that areboth interesting and safe."

Most students at MIT are notexposed to lab experience untilsophomore year. "It is very diffi-cult to have lab space. It costs afortune. The brown bag projectsare a compromise between a full-fledged lab and not giving stu-dents any lab experience," Silbeysaid.

Physics experiments planned

Professor John King, whowould teach the proposed versionof 8.02, gave it in trial form thissummer to 48 students attendingProject Interphase. Though thecourse has not been formally ap-proved for the spring term yet,Morrison and King are "hope-ful." Morrison said the idea forthe course was conceived about ayear ago.

King emphasized that the ex-perimental projects would not bewhat are usually called "labs" in

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(Continued from page 1)supplied to all students. Bllt theclass might engage in some groupexperimental experiences: Kingdescribed an incident from theInterphase course in which stu-dents, each with a current meter,linked together in a chain andmeasured current being runthrough themselves and theirclassmates.

"We tried [with the Interphasestudents] to have the experimen-tal work lead the quest and un-derstanding," said Phyllis Morri-son, Professor Morrison's wife.Both Morrisons have been in-volved loosely with the course."The thing that moved you on-ward in the course," she said,"was the experiments."

King was concerned that stu-dents at MIT were getting in-

volved in highly theoretical stud-ies that, without the properbalance, might lead them to dis-regard the value of reality.

"In 1935 MIT was a place withanvils and a very hands-on ap-proach," King noted. "I don'tthink that's the right way toteach, but now the approach is torely on software for everything,say, to computerize a truck'sstops."

In doing so, however, "we' for-get the most important thing isthe truck. You can't purely theo-rize," King said.

"One of the problems is thatstudents view theoreticians as'white collar', while linking ex-perimentalists with 'blue collar.'The world is very intricate andhas a thousand little details thatnobody studies in class."

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(Continued from page 10obtaining funds for' employingstudents in service-related jobsand working with -academic de-partments to design service pro-jects which would offer credit.

Sorenson believes that need foracademic credit and/or moneyfrom time consuming activities,like public service, are two majorproblems preventing MIT stu-dents from becoming moreinvolved.

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tivities which receive money fromthe UA Finance Board. Last year,FinBoard received only $67,300for activities which originally re-quested a total of $212,701.10.

Other colleges already involved

MIT is a member of CampusCompact, a national project forpublic and community servicecreated by a coalition of collegeand university presidents. Ac-cordirng to Sorenson, MIT hasfallen behind many other Com-pact members in improving pub-lic service opportunities forstudents.

Many other universities - in-cluding Yale, Cornell andGeorgetown -- have programswhich enable students to earnmoney from college work-studyby participating in off-campuspublic service. Also, central coor-dinating offices have alreadybeen established in other Com-pact member schools.

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Association President JonathanKatz '90 believed that the publicservice activities at MIT "need tobe coordinated," he also felt that"questions need to raised as towhether the money for the officecould be better used for otherprograms which need funding."

Student activities may becomethe victims a "zero-sum game,"Katz said.

The "other programs" towhich Katz refers include the ac-

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The United Nations peacekeeping forces around theworld are the winners of the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize. TheNobel committee praised the forces for building worldconfidence in the United Nations by keeping a lid on ten-sions in Cyprus, the Middle East, and on the Indian-Pakistani border. The decision was seen by many as anindirect award to UN Secretary-General Javier Perez deCuellar. Perez de Cuellar, who was ineligible for theaward since he was nominated after the Feb. 1 deadline,mediated the cease-fire between Iran and Iraq and helpedin arranging the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The chairman of the Nobel committee in Oslo, Norway,said President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba-chev had been "seriously considered" for the prize. Theofficial indicated that the presidential election may havebeen a factor in passing over the leaders who signed atreaty to eliminate the superpowers' intermediate-rangenuclear missiles.

One killed in hijackingA siege at Brazil's Santa Genoveva Airport ended last

night with the wounding of a hijacker. Officials said po-lice shot and wounded the gunman as he tried to board agetaway plane with a hostage. During the day-long ordeal,the co-piIot of a jetliner - Vasp Flight 375 - was killedand three other crew members were injured. The rest ofthe passengers and crew have been freed unharmed. Thewounded suspect is described by authorities as mentallydisturbed. As they tell it, he was demanding to talk toBrazilian President Jose Sarney about the country's eco-nomic problems.

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Baltirmore mayor urgeslegalizing some drugs

Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke told a House panelyesterday the United States would be better off it it legal-ized some drugs that are now illegal. He said the resultcould be similar to the lifting of Prohibition. Schmokeadmitted there is a chance that more people could becomeaddicted, but he said the current system of drug prohibi-tion has not stopped addiction, and has increased crime.However, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), the committeechairman, opposed Schmoke's idea, which is consideredto have no chance in Congress.

Second child dies inr shootingA second victim of a gunman's rampage at a South

Carolina elementary school has died of her wounds. Te-quila Thomas was a third-grader at Oakland ElementarySchool when James William Wilson allegedly opened fireMonday, reportedly focusing on children who cried.

Tyson soap opera continuesThe latest installment in the Mike Tyson soap opera

comes from his wife, actress Robin Givens. In a televisioninterview to be aired tonight on ABC's "20-20," Givenssaid life with Tyson has been, in her words, "torture . . .pure hell. . . worse than anything I can possibly imag-ine." With Tyson sitting by her side during part of theinterview, Givens described her husband as a manic de-pressive. In the same interview, Tyson said he loves hiswife, but would not stand in her way if she decided toleave him.

South Korea leader tries tocalm anti-America tensions

South Korea's president says the American and Koreanmedia must avoid provoking people in the two countries.Rolh Tae-Woo's comments yesterday came after he wasbriefed on growing anti-American sentiment in his coun-try. Roh defended NBC, which has come under strongcriticism from South Koreans for its coverage of theOlympics.

Ruiz-Conforto wins silverAmerican Tracy Ruiz-Conforto - the winner of the

gold four years ago in Los Angeles - finished second inthe solo synchronized swimming competition yesterday.Ruiz-Conforto won the silver yesterday as Canada's Caro-lyn Waldo won the gold. Mikako Kotani of Japan wasthird.

Free-style wrestler Barry Davis - the winner of the sil-ver in Los Angeles in the 125-pound division - has beeneliminated from the competition in Seoul. The 27-year-oldfrom Cedar Rapids, IA, who finished second in last year'sworld championships, was pinned in a third round matchby a Hungarian.

The Olympic dream of two-time Olympic decathlongold medalist Daley Thompson has ended. The Britishstar finished fourth in the event, which lasted until thelate hours of Friday in Seoul. The 30-year-old was at-tempting to become the first man to win three gold med-als in the event.

Discovery takes-off safelyLate last night, the five astronauts aboard Discovery

were making preparations to release a communicationssatellite into orbit. That was the main order of businessonce the nation's ability to launch the space shuttle hadbeen reestablished after the Challenger disaster of 32months ago.

For a few seconds, the nation had held its collectivebreath as the shuttle, riding atop a 700-foot tail of rocketflames, climbed toward the sky. Thousands of NASAworkers and sightseers cheered and wept at the sight. Butflight controllers at mission control simply stared intentlyat their screens until Discovery safely separated from thesolid rocket boosters. Then, those at the controls brokeinto applause.

It was a defective booster rocket that caused the Chal-lenger explosion, 73 seconds into flight. The redesignedand repeatedly tested boosters that powered yesterday'slaunch appear to have performed well. But the recoveredrockets are to undergo intense examination once they aretowed to shore.

Both candidates on attackOn the campaign trail, both presidential candidates

praised America's triumphant return to space - then gotright back to the business at hand. Democrat Michael Du-kakis, with actor Robert Redford at his side, denouncedGeorge Bush's environmental record. Republican Bushfired back with attacks on Dukakis' record on crime andhis plan to crack down on tax evaders.

The vice-presidential candidates have begun turningtheir attention to next Wednesday's debate in Omaha.Lloyd Bentsen is scheduled to return to Washington todayto begin boning up with top Democratic advisors. RivalDan Quayle will spend the weekend being tutored by Re-publican media consultant Roger Ailes.

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Appropriately, the exercise lastSunday which has been called apolitical debate was staged at"Wake" Forest. Expecting to seethe battle of two Titans, VicePresident Bush and GovernorDukakis, one of whom will bethe next leader of the world'slargest democracy, I was greetedinstead with a display of Lillipu-tian thumb wrestling.

This spectacle combined thedrama of a Love Boat rerun withthe ideological insight of the Na-tional Enquirer. In fact, I amsure that both candidates' legsmust have been shackled to pre-vent their simply floating awaydue to an incredible lack of gra-vitas. Instead of the clarion callof a new forceful 'eader, the can-didates effused tle carrion of thepolitics of pandering.

Yet, like tb: miserly farmerwho searched he pastures for thequarter that his cow ate, I feltcompelled to sift through thedung of Suaday's debate, hopingto find a rlodicum of intelligent,or at leawc original, thought. Al-though no significant thoughtburst forth, the essence of themediocrities inherent in thisyear's campaign were surely pal-pabl,.. The cause of this no-winelection lies in the dichotomy ofthe American Presidency.

The President of the UnitedStates is expected to serve twovastly different roles, roles that

in other Western democracies oreven in large companies are oftenhandled by separate persons. Thefirst of these roles is that of chiefadministrator of the national bu-reaucracy, the head of the gov-ernment. Such a person is ulti-mately in charge of all of thevarious programs administeredby the federal government. InFrance, for instance, this falls inthe realm of the Prime Minister.The chief executive officer of amajor corporation also carriesthese responsibilities.

The other role of the presidentis quite different; it is the role ofhead of state. By head of state, Ido not wish to imply a mere fig-urehead position such as theQueen of England's, although itis important that the head ofstate can fulfill this station. Imean instead something moreakin to the Presidency in Franceor, even more appropriately, theChairman of the Board of a ma-jor corporation. The task in thiscase is to issue the long rangegoals of the nation and most im-portantly, to navigate the countrythrough the troubled waters ofworld affairs.

It appears to me that GovernorDukakis is running for the firstof these roles, that of the chiefexecutive officer. He claims towant to be a "hands on" presi-dent, willing to micro-managethe federal government. I have

yet-to hear any credentials oreven desires of Dukakis for ful-filling the latter role of chairmanof the board. President Reaganwas the epitome of the head ofstate concept of the presidency.In a somewhat imperfect facsimi-le of Reagan, Vice PresidentBush is now seeking to becomethe heir to this chairmanship.

The mediocrity in the electionarises from the overt attempts bythe candidates to cloak their owninadequacies with their oppo-nent's shortcomings. Dukakis hasneither the credentials nor the de-portment required for the headof state role, hence he attacksBush's competence or managerialstyle. Bush, on the other hand, isno match for Dukakis in superin-tendence. From this stems Bush'sbarrages on Dukakis's ideology.The attacks of both candidateshave transformed the electioninto a bickering match worthyonly of ill-behaved five-year-olds.

Unfortunately for the Ameri-can voters, neither of the twocandidates appears to be capableof simultaneously effectuatingthe two disparate functions of thePresidency, that of head of thegovernment and of the head ofstate. But the good news for thevoters is that the role which theGovernor is seeking can be, asDukakis himself has shown, suc-cessfully relegated to the statelevel where the micro-manage-mnent of social and domestic pro-grams can be performed more ef-ficiently. The role of the clerk ofstate needs and should be entirelysubservient to the larger goals ex-pressed by the head of state. Thepresident, if he cannot be boththe head of state and the head ofgovernment, he should be theformer because we already elect50 other men for the latter.

M IT mnustour addictiTo the Editor:

Three of your front page sto-ries today [Sept. 23] appear tome to deal with related aspects ofone problem - addiction. In thepast year I have learned throughexperience with my teenage son'salcohol and drug use and, myown involvement in AI-Anon thatany substance, any behavior, anyrelationship can be addictive. Al-cohol and drugs, obviously, areaddictive, as food and cigarettescan be; sex and aggressive behav-ior, often in combination, can beaddictive, as can worry or pro-crastination or watching TV; andunhealthy relationships in whichone always gives and the otheronly takes can be addictive.

A few days ago I had wantedto write a letter protesting MIT'stolerance of some drug use, as ifa little bit of marijuana or a littlebit of mushrooms is OK. Now Iwant to write a front page article,I want to stand in Lobby 7 andscream at the top of my voice -being a little bit chemically de-pendent is like being a little bitpregnant!

All addictions seem to comefrom an inability or a refusal todeal with feelings. Recovery

This letter, is, in a way, to myfather, Richard LawrenceOdiorne '36, editor of The Techin the thirties when he was a stu-dent at NIIT. He died at 49, leav-ing my mother, my brother age12, my sister 16, and me 21. Hedied of a heart attack brought onby over-work, smoking, andheavy drinking - all socially ac-cepted addictions at the time. Iwish that 12-step programs hadbeen as widely available then asthey are now and I urge studentgroups and administrators atMIT to consider just how addic-tive our society is and how im-portant it is to treat the diseaseas well as the symptoms.

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elections is one of the many re-sponses students can make to therecently enacted lodging licenserestrictions and graduate stipendtaxes. Lawmakers feel they haveno responsibility to a migratorystudent population because alarge majority of students neitherregisters nor votes. Hence, statepoliticians find it very easy toraise state revenue by taxinggraduate stipends. Local repre-sentatives from Boston's BackBay can make life difficult forfraternities in Boston by allowingthe enactment of unreasonableand discriminatory lodging li-cense regulations. Actions suchas these will continue until stu-dents make them too costly forpoliticians by voting them out ofoffice.

Students can be successful po-litically, as demonstrated by theirstrength in the late '60s and early'70s. Once aroused, studentshave been able to lobby againstunfair legislation and to cam-paign for representatives sympa-thetic to their needs. Graduatestudents should send spokesmento state hearings to communicatetheir displeasure about stipendtaxes. All students can have animpact on a state-wide level bycoordinating their actions with,students from other universities.Locally, representatives fromeach fraternity must attend com-munity meetings in the Back Bay.Sending students to meetings andhearings will allow them to beaware of upcoming actions bycommunity organizations. Stu-dents can then develop a pro-active response and form a unit-ed front.

Voting is a critical element inachieving student goals. Electionsin the Back Bay have had a verylow voter turnout, with marginsof victory of less than a hundred.For example, in the most recentprimary election, about 900 peo-ple voted. If all MIT students liv-

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ing in the Back Bay registeredand voted, they could easily in-fluence the outcome of local elec-tions. By registering to vote, stu-dents send a message to theirrepresentatives that they are aviable force within the commu-nity.

The deadline for registering forthe November elections is Octo-ber.ll1. Students living in Cam-bridge can register at CambridgeCity Hall. Boston residents canregister every night from 6 pm to9 pm at the Fire Station (941Boylston Street, across from theHines Auditorium.) There willalso be a special registration onOctober 5 at Sigma Phi Epsilonfraternity, 518 Beacon St., be-tween 10 am and 4 pm. For moreinformation on voter registrationin Boston, call the Suffolk Coun-ty Voter Registration at 725-4635.Proof of permanent residence isrequired.

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Playing in the third singlesslot, Alvord dropped a 7-5, 64match to Wilson. Alvord battledback from a 5-2 deficit in thefirst set before finally losing.

Wellesley's Reardon needed an8-6 tiebreaker win to defeatGioannetti, 6-1, 7-6 in the fourthsingles match.

The final two matches sawMartha Cohen top Chinn, 6-2, 6-1, and Mindy Fountain defeatGupta, 6-1, 6-2.

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Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU

The Engineers rebounded fromtne loss last 'nig.t, iiave.ing toClark University and returningwith a 6-3 victory. Ananthakrish-nan, Alvord, Gioannetti, andChinn won the first four singlesmatches for MIT, then paired upand took the top two doubles.Tan took the night off.

The team's next meet is atMount Holyoke College tomor-row, and their next home matchis Tuesday against Brandeis Uni-versity at 3:30 prm.

DOONESBURY. COPYRIGHT 1986 (1987) G. 8. Trudeau. Reprinted with permission of Universal Press Syndicate. Al rights reserved.

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By Marcia A. SmithThe women's volleyball team

preserved its undefeated recordTuesday night after taking onMount Holyoke College andTufts University. The Engineersdefeated both of their latest vic-tims in straight sets, improvingtheir record to 2-0 in the NewEngland Women's Eight Confer-ence and 10-0 overall.

MIT faced conference opnno-nent Mount Holyoke first, and

quickly defeated them in threesets, 15-2, 15-4, and 15-4. "Hol-yoke is a short team and doesn'thave a tough offense," coachKaryn Altman commented.

MIT started out tough, withaces from Nyla Hendrick '92 andJenny Harris '90. Holyoke had alot of trouble returning the ball,often failing to set up spikes andfeeding MIT free balls. "We hada lot of practirce n our fre bhallpassing, and we've got it down

Ray PowellIThe TechNyla Hendrick '92 returns a volley against Mount Holyokein Tuesday's double-header. MIT swept both games and ex-tended its undefeated streak to 10 games.

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pretty good," said co-captain Ce-cilia Warpinski '90. The Engi-neers, especially Susie Gardner'92, also got a lot of practicespiking.

In the second set, Holyoke im-proved a little, giving longer vol-leys, but still couldn't matchMIT's height and power. Harrisset to Gardner, who spiked it tothe middle of the court for thefirst point of the game. Harrisand co-captain Karen Koyarna'89 took turns setting up Gard-ner, Warpinski and Teri Lowen-stein '89. Warpinski and Lowen-stein closed up the game with twostraight cross-court spikes, fol-lowed by a tip over the block byGardner. "Holyoke was just tooshort to block the ball effective-ly," Lowenstein said.

In the last set, MIT showed nomercy as Harris started out withkiller serves that Holyokecouldn't return. MIT also hadstrong play from Debbie Nunges-ter '90 who consistently blockedHolyoke's spikes and was avail-able for both offense and de-fense. "We made them play atour pace, not theirs," Warpinskisaid. Playing down to anotherteam's level is a thing of the past,Lowenstein added.

In the second match of thenight, MIT played a tougherTufts team, but still won instraight sets, 15-10, 15-9. Thematch was only two out of threesets because previously undefeat-ed Tufts was a non-conferenceopponent.

Once again the Engineerspulled ahead from the start withtough serves by Harris. Theytook nine unanswered points, in-cluding one on a deep cross-court

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Wellesley hands tennisteam first loss of season

By David RothsteinA powerful Wellesley College

squad proved too much for thewomen's tennis team, handingTech its first loss of the seasonTuesday at MIT. The 8-1 lossdropped the team's record to 4-1.

A combination of strength inthe first singles position anddepth allowed Wellesley the lop-sided win, although several setswere close, particularly in thethree doubles matches.

Women's Tennis9/27 Wllesley College 8 ......... IT 19129 MIT 6 ........... Clark University 3

MIT's only win came in thethird doubles slot, as CatherineGioannetti '90 and Amita Gupta'91 paired to defeat Ginger Wil-son and Dawn Mandeville, 6-4,6-3. The win came on aggressive

play by Gioannetti and Gupta asthe two were able to overpowertheir counterparts.

In the first doubles match,Dherra Ananthakrishnan '90 andChristina Alvord '89 lost to Mar-tha Goldberg and Mindy Foun-tain, 7-5, 6-3, while in the seconddoubles match, Fiona Tan '91and Stacey Chinn '89 dropped atough 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) decisionto Karyn Cooper and EileenReardon.

Engineer coach Candy Royersaid that her team was clearlymore competitive in the doublesmatches than in the singles, not-ing that her players have playedtogether longer than the Wellesleyplayers.

Wellesley had a big advantagein the first singles slot in theform of Cooper, a transfer fromDivision I school San Diego StateCollege. Cooper breezed through

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