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Friday, September I, 1995

Essay Exam Pass Rate Plummets; Math Rate RisesBy David D. HsuNEWS EDITOR

Only 17 percent of freshmen.-passed the Freshman Essay Evalua-

.Jtion this year, down from 48 percentlast year.

The' Committee 011 the WritingRequirement decided to raise thepassing score, resulting in the passrate drop, said Coordinator for theWriting Requirement Leslie C.Perelman.

However, 58 percent of fresh-

men passed their Pre-CalculusMathematics Diagnostic, up from49 percent last year. Additionally,students on. average finished themath exam in one-third the time aslast year.

Reaction mixedIt is "very awkward-to have only

17 percent passing the test," saidRonald S. Demon '99, who did notpass the essay evaluation. The pass-ing rate gives the impression that

"this class is not as strong as previ-ous classes," he said. -

The Institute "should have a con-sistent grading system from year toyear," Demon said.

Because the exams come after asummer away from school, fresh-men may not be fully prepared, saidCheryl,M. Howell '99. "It took me awhile to remember what to do,"Howell said. "When you're thrustback into it, you don't know what todo."

In general, the exams were prettystraightforward, Howell said.

The math diagnostic was "a bitmore difficult than the practiceexam," said Demon, who passed thetest. But, "it was pretty fair," hesaid.

Stricter cutoff for essaysIn terms of how students did on

the essay evaluation and the qualityof the essays, "it was the same asother years," Perelman said.

However, only 173 students tak-ing the essay test passed the stricterstandards, Perelman said. Seventy-three percent received "not accept-able" scores, and 9.5 percentreceived "not acceptable - subjectrecommended" scores, he said.

Last year, 48 percent receivedsatisfactory scores, up 9 percentfrom 2 years ago.

Another 53 students passed with

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18.01A, 18.02A run through lAP or spring

Freshmen Can TakeCombined Calculus

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Katln L Shields '99 and Amy B. laverdiere '99 carried clothes from a car Into McCormick Hall,yesterday. Freshmen received their housing asslgnll'8nts Wednesday night and moved to theirnew dormitories yesterday.

By Christopher FailingASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Freshmen will be able to take acombined Calculus I and II this yearas part of changes to the core cur-riculum.

New, shorter versions of Calcu-lus I (18.01) and Calculus II (18.02)have been added, while Introductionto Solid State Chemistry (3.091) hasundergone a substantial revision.

New calculus classesThe introduction of the new Cal-

culus I (18.01 A) along with itscounterpart, Calculus II (18.02A)will allow freshmen to complete asix week version of 18.01. Theremaining eight weeks cover thefirst portion of 18.02, said Joanne E.Jonsson, academic administrator forDepartment of Mathematics. Theremainder of 18.02 can be complet-ed during' either Independent Activi-ties Period or the spring semester.

The purpose of 18.01 A is to pro-vide a quick review of 18.01 for stu-dents who have taken a full year ofcalculus in high school, said Profes-sor of Mathematics Arthur P. Mat-tuck, the instructor for the first sixweekS.

"18.0IA/18.02A will be good fora lot of students with advancedplacement but feel their backgroundis a bit rusty and could benefit froma six week review of calculus,"Mattuek said.

Mathematics Instructor Karen E.Smith will teach the class for thelast eight weeks of the fall. Theinstructor for 18.02A during lAP Ofthe first six weeks in the spring isnot yet known.

Mattuck said that it would be"very unreasonable" for a student tobe enrolled in both 18.01NI8.02A

and 8.01 L but said he assumed8.01 L will not be held at the sametime in lAP.

3.091 revised significantlyIn order to give freshmen the

freedom to chose a chemistry coursewithout concerns about potentialmajors, 3.091 has been broadened toinclude certain topics while main-taining a focus on the solid state,said Professor of Materials Scienceand Engineering Donald R. Sad-oway.

A unit on liquids and solutionshas been added, Sadoway said,which includes acid-base equilibriaand solubility rules.

"These topics have been addedto give the student a complete ker-'nel [of knowledge] about basicchemistry," Sadoway said.

To parallel the new topics, "therehas been a major initiative to bringforth examples from environmental-ly related topics," Sadoway said.

Hope to change requirementsThe issue of reorganizing recom-

mendations and requirements thatrevolve around 3.091 and Principlesof Chemical Science (5.1 I) has notyet been addres ed because it wouldbe premature, Sadoway said.

Traditionally, students taking3.091 choose an engineering major,except for those who plan to bechemical engineers, Sadoway said.

Sadoway said that he expectsthat within MIT, subjects that havealways required 5.11 will begin toalso accept 3.091 as progress ismade with the new course, SadowayS;lid. "I am hoping that medicalschools will recognize 3.091 as anacceptable alternative to 5.11," headded.

INSIDE SAE, Sig Ep quarrelover pledge. Page 8

IFC-sponsored talkexplores men's views onwomen. Page 11

Safety depends onself-defense. Page 13City Days, Page 11

ter Steering Committee Co-Chair John G. Kas-sakian '65, Assistant for Community Relationsin tite President's Office Paul Parravano, and arepresentative of the City of Cambridge; Purin-ton said. Cambridge Mayor Keimeth Reeves,'who is chair of the Cambridge school commit-tee, may also attend City Days, Parravano said.

City Days is a "tremendous collaborativeef~ort between MIT and schools of Cam-bridge," Parravano said. The program is a "ter-rific way for the MIT community to show its

mitories, have volunteered to run activities forthe ~isiting Cambridge students, Purinton said.

City Days offers educational events alongwith sports and crafts, Purinton said. The edu-cational activities focus on the fun that elemen-tary students can have applying what they learnin school, she said.

In one activity, participants will try to pack-age an egg so it will not break after beingdropped, Purinton said. Children will also learnhow to build the most aerodynamically soundpaper airplane she said.

Guest speakers include Public Set;Vice Cen-

City Days Activities Promote OutreachBy 0111 G. B8hc811

Today at Kresge Oval, MIT students willlead 400 fourth through sixth graders from 14Cambridge public schools in the fourth annualCity Days, said Tracy F. Purinton, the event'scoordinator.

The Public Service Center began the CityDays program three years ago in order toencourage new community outreach programs,Purinton said.

Forty groups, including fraternities, sorori-ties, independent living groups, and nine dor-

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WORLD & NATIONSeptember 1, 199

U.S.H9pes Airs~esWillHasten Bosnia Peace Talks-'., .

ew Drug KillS 'Immortal'Cancer Cells in-Lab Test

Indian Minister Killed inBombingWS ANGELES TIMES

EW DELHI. I OIA

In India's highest-level political assassination in four years, BeantSingh, chief minister of Punjab, was killed Thursday when a powerfulbomb exploded as he climbed into his limousine. Twelve others diedin the blast, for which a Sikh separatist group claimed responsibility.

The explosion occurred after Singh, 73, left his second-flooroffice in the civil secretariat in Chandigarh, the city that serves asPunjab's administrative capital. As the chief minister got into his carat about 5:07 p.m., it blew up.

Singh's automobile and two escort vehicles were tom to pieces.At least three commandos attached to the chief minister's securitydetail were killed.

The bomb was so strong it shattered windows \1P to the sixth floorof the lo-story government building and blew away part of the porchin fl'Ont of the VIP entrance.

The elderly official of the ruling Congress (I) party had been Pun-jab's chief minister since February 1992, and, though a Sikh himself,had overseen an effective if ruthless, controversial crackdown onarmed Sikh militancy in the state.

The ability of Singh's killers to breach extraordinarily tight secu-rity and strike at their target with devastating might made officials inother parts of India jittery about the possibility of coordinated attacks.

Feds Indict Leaders of Chicago GangLOS ANGELES TIMES

CHICAGO

Federal authorities moved Thursday to dismantle the leadership ofone of the United States' most highly structured street gangs, .Chica-go's Gangster Disciples - a narcotics powerhouse that allegedlyfinanced a political actilJn committee that has sponsored hug~ down-town rallies and at least two city council candidacies.

Armed \Withindictments from a federal grand jury, police and feder-al agents made arrests throughout the South Side and suburbs, as wellas within the tate prison system. The indictments allege that the gang,using two boards of directors (one inside prison and one outside), laun-dered money from its enormous crack, cocaine, heroin and marijuanaempire through 21st Century for Voices of Total Empowennent.

The PAC has lobbied to get Gangster Disciples leader LarryHoover, who was convicted in 1977 of orderin~ a drug dealer's mur-der, paroled from prison, enlisting prominent Chicagoans such as for-mer mayor Eugene Sawyer in the effort. Hoover, 44, has been sayingin recent years that he is a changed man, devoted to ending violenceamong black youth.

A 50-count indictment accuses him of mastenninding the Gang-ster Disciples' operations over the telephone from his prison cell. Hewas flown early in the day from Dixon, Ill. to Meigs Field here for atransfer 1'0 federal custody.

The indictments, which seek the forfeiture of $10 million in prof-its, reel off a quarter-century's worth of crimes.

Noriega Seeks New Drug TrialTHE WASHINGTON POST

MIAMI

Attorneys for convicted drug trafficker Manuel Antonio Noriegafiled a motion for a new trial Thursday, asserting the U.S. govern-ment entered into a secret agreement with th~ Cali drug cartel tosecure testimony against the fonner Panamanian strongman ..

A former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Noriega called the newallegations of complex dirty dealing "hogwash."

oriega's attorneys maintain this was the bargain: The governmentin 1991 agreed to recommend a reduced sentence for Luis SantacruzEcheverri, the brother of the head of the Cali cartel, who was alreadyserving a 23-year sentence unrelated to the Noriega case. In exchange,the Cali organization would persuade Ricardo BiJonick to testifyagainst oriega in Noriega's 1992'trial.

The motion for a new trial is based on newly unearthedwritten in 199Iby a Miami attorney for the Cali cartel to government attorneys suggest-ing some deal-making between Santacruz and federal prosecutors.

oriega was convicted of aiding the MedeJlin cartel by allowingdeceased Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar to fly cocaine throughPanama, and letting Bilonick and others fly it to the United States.

WEATHERSet Fair for Labor Day

By Gerard RoeSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

A chance of rain continues into early Friday morning ahead of thecold front trundling towards the coast. The front will pass overheadmid-morning, bringing cooler and drier air in behind it, and the blus-tery wind will shift to northwesterly. The lower humidity ofthe-cold-er air mass will save us from rain as a small low pressure trough zipsthrough behind the front. It will, however, muster some clouds, keep-ing temperatures supressed during the day. Friday night will see thesky clearing and temperatures dr~p into the 50s (10-16C). On intothe Labor Day weekend a large high pressure ridge building overmost of the country sets a fine backdrop for the last weekend of sum-mer. The main spoilers to a clear weather pattern across the countryare the po sibiJities of a few afternoon thunderstorms in tpe west andthe remnants of tropical stonn Jerry in southwestern Florida. Showersare also predicted for the Pacific northwest.

Today: Chance of showers early, then partly sanny. Brisk windsof 20 mph (32 kph) from the southwest early then changing to north-westerly. High 80F (27C).

Tonight: Partly cloudy. Winds diminishing. Low 57F (14C).Saturday: Mostly ~'mny. North wind. High 74F (23C). Low

54F (12C).Sunday: Sunny. High 73F (23C). Low 54F (12C).

By Boyce RensbergerTHE WASHINGTON POST

The first test of a possible newapproach to treating cancer hascaused malignant ceils that had beengrowing for decades in a laboratorydi h to lose their "immortality" andto die within weeks.

Many hurdles must be overcometo show whether the process can beturned into a treatment for patients.But the experiments, reported in Fri-day's issue of the journal Science,provide what the researchers call"proof of principle."

The principle was proposed lastyear when scientists announced thatthey had discovered how cancercells escape a normal processbelieved to cause most cells in thebody to grow old and die. Theirresearch suggested that if cancercells could be deprived of theirescape route, th~y would die.

This is what has been achievedin the latest experiments.

"We're making progress," saidCalvin B. Harley, leader of the sci-entific group at Geron Gorp., a'Menlo Park, Calif. biomedicalresearch finn where the studies weredone. "We're on track."

Harley cautioned, however, thatthe particula( way in whicb the can-cer cells were deprived of theirimmortalizing ability in the experi-ments - dosing them with labora-tory-made genes - is not likely tobecome a useful fonn of therapy inthe near future.

Instead, he said, Geron andMemorial-Sloan Kettering CancerCenter in New York have receiv'ed agrant from the National Cancer'Institute jointly to develop a drugthat accomplishes the same goal.

"We have candidates (drugs) thatwe are testing, but they are notready for trial in human beings,"Harley said.

"I think this is a big deal," saidRobert A. Weinberg, a cancerresearcher at the Whitehead Instituteand Massachus~tts Institute of Tech-nology. "This is a significantadvance in one of the two mostexciting areas of research in cancertherapy.'" Weinberg, who was notinvolved with the research, said theother area was angiogenesis, the

By Tracy Wilkinsonws ANGELES TIMES

ZAGREB, CROAtIA

American diplomats are hopingthe ATO air war over Bosnia-Herzegovina will translate into suc-cess at the negotiating table, despiterisks that hardened Serb defianc~could spoil what may many regardas the best chance to end Europe'sbloodiest conflict since World Warn.

"Of course they (air raids)strengthen our hand," Ri~rd Hol-'brooke, the' chief U.S. n'egotiatorand assistant secretary of state, saidThursday.

Although Holbrooke sought toemphasize that the military cam-paign was independent of diplomat-ic efforts, it clearly has transfonnedthe dynamics of the peace process.Until this week, attempts to winconcessions from the Serbs hadnever been backed with significantforce.

Fears that regional power brokerSlobodan Milose ic, the presidentof Serbia, would boycott talks in thewake of the air raids have not mate-rialized. Instead, Milosevic made apoint of having a leisurely lunch and

phenomenon by which cancer cellsinduce blood vessefs to grow into atumor, nourishing it. Researchersare looking for ~ays. to block thatprocess.

Whether a drug to block the anti-aging mechanism of cancer cellscould be both effective and safe isunknown. A key question, accord-ing to Carol W. Greider of the ColdSpring Harbor Laboratory on LongIsland, N.Y., is whether the processused by cancer cells is also impor-tant in normal cells. If 0, blockingit with a drug could harm nonnalparts of the body. Greider said thereis evidence that blood-forming cellsalso use the mechanism.

Greider and colleagues report inthe same issue of Science that theyare studying the process in mice sothey can learn how it functions nor-mally and can test a possible drugtreatment on the animals.

At the centet of all the researchis a natural phenomenon that occurs'every time cells prepare to divide-

. which.most ce))s in the human bodydo many times during a person'slife. -

When the cell duplicates itschromosomes so that each of thetwo daughter cells can have onecomplete set, parts of the tips ofDN A strands are lost, simplybecause of the way the DNA-copy-ing machinery works. The newlymade chromosomes are thus a littleshorter than the ones from whichthey were copied.

This usually causes no problembecause the chromosomes of newlyfertilized embryos have longstretches of what might be caJled .dummy DNA at the t~ps. These aresequences of several thousand DNA'subunits (or bases) that encodenothing. The dummy DNA is theresimply to be lost, a snippet at atime; with every round of ce)) divi-sion.

The dummy DNA is called atelomere. These also act as caps,stabilizing the ends of the chromo-somes - much as bands of metal orplastic keep the tips of shoelacesfrom fraying. Without telomeres,chromosomes lose their stability andmay link together or break into seg-ments that rejoin in abnormal com-

long meetings with HolbrookeWednesday, even as NATOdropped tons of explosives on Milo-sevic's Bosnian Serb brothers. .

There have been other signs ofSerb flexibility in the last 48 hours,including vaguely conciliatory state-ments by some Bosnian Serb lead-ers and an agreement to permitMilosevic to negotiate on behalf ofall Serbs. '

The Serb accord, contained in adocument released in Belgrade, wasreached on the eve of the air strikesand described as a "breakthrough"by U.S. officials,

In Washington, State Depart-ment Spokesman Nicholas Burnshailed the pledge by -Milosevic toorganize a joint Serb negotiatingteam as "an important proceduralbreakthrough for peace."

"But," Bums quickly added, "letthere be no mistake: The road topeace will be long and, difficult. ... "

Here in Zagreb, Holbrookeassessed the Serb accord this way:" p until that piece of paper, wecouldn't sit and talk about the map(of Bosnian territory) or the future.Now we can."

Attacking the Serbs has often

I,binations. These alterations aredetrimental to the ce)) and, eventual-Iy, cause the bodily changes of aging. . .

In most nonnal cells of the body, .bits of telomere D A are lost eachtime a cell divides. When the last ofthe protective sequences is gone,subsequent cycles of cell divisionfail to duplicate genes needed by thecell. The daughter cells becomebadly deranged and may die, Thechief exception are cells of thegonads, which must remain able todivide indefinitely from generationto generation without alteration.

They avoid aging by makingand using a molecular machine'called telomerase. After c.hromo-somes are re'plicated, this com-pound guides the' manufacture ofnew telomere sequences, replacingthose just lost. Telomerase consistsof a protein plus a strand of RNA, amolecule simi'tar to DNA, that'serves as a template to guide theprocess.

Before cancer ce))s have lost theJast ,of their telomeres, they some-how regain telomerase activity andnever again lose the protective DNAend caps. This way, cancer ce))s cango on dividing endlessly - makingnew tumors and spreading - with-out suffering the aging process thatdooms norm'al cells.

Harley and colleagues did theirnew experiments on a widely usedstrain of cancer cells, called HeLa,that have been dividing repeatedlyin laboratory dishes for decades. Todisable the HeLa telomerase, thescientists syntliesized a gene thatwould cause the .cancer ~ells to'make a segment of'RNA with_.agenetic sequence exactly.opposite tothat of the RNA portion of telom-erase. When the researchers put thesynthetic gene in HeLa cells,' thecelts began to die after 23 to 26more division cycles.

Harley said that the samemethod theoretically should work incancer. patients. But there is no I'known way to place the syntheticgene in all the cells of a tumor in abody. Instead, he said, the hOQe is tofind or create a conventional mole-cule that will somehow jam telom-erase's ability to function.

backfired by causing them to dig in.In their view, the international com-.munity has taken the side of theirMuslim enemies, eliminating anyauthority the United Nations orNATO might have.

"At last we have shown ourresolve," said a European diplomat."But it can go too far. The use offorce is not to defeat a people but toget them to the negotiating table.What we need now is a pause to letthe Serbs contemplate their future."

The tJ.S. 'peace initiative standsa better chance now for some of thesame reasons the allies finally'decided they could take decisiveaction now.: The reality on theBalkans battlefield, and in theregion's politics, ,has changed sub-stantially in just the last severalweeks.

"If I were Milosevic, with theproblems I'd had with (BosnianSerb leaders), I would be privatelyrubbing my hands in glee over theair strikes," said a European diplo-mat. "But the flip side is that each

. attack on Serbs makes Milosevic's.own domestic position more diffi-cult. Politically, he has his own backto watch."

Feds Move to Indict Top LeadersOf Politically Strong Chicago Gang

Gas Additive Reduces PollutionBut Fumes Might Cause Dlness

"Iibert University Sues NCAA'Over Right to End Zone Prayer

-'q>tember 1, 1995

By DanIel P. JonesTHE HARTFORD COURANT

When environmental officialsrecently began requiring oil compa-nies to add a sizable concentration ofa chemical to gasoline, most clean-~ advocates welcomed the additiveas way to reduce harmful pollution.

A small group of scientists,though, began sounding a warningthat the chemical - methyl tertiarybutyl ether, or MTBE - was itselfcausing people to get sick, mostlywhen they breathed fumes whilepumping gas.

At first, health authorities whobacked the U.S. Environmental Pr0-tection Agency's mandate to useMTBE were quick to dismiss suchclaims, pointing to several studies

......-.that did not show a problem. But lato-Iy, as the health complaints persist,many of the authorities are grudging-ly taking a harder look at whether thechemical is poisoning people ..

A few scientists - some ofwhom attribute their own healthproblems to MTBE - go so far as toclaim that the use of the chemical in

By J.A. AdandeTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON

In essence, it's about life, Liber-ty and the pursuit of happiness -and whether a prayer uttered on thefootball field is grounds for a 15-yard penalty.

., Liberty University, the Christianschool founded by Rev. Jerry Fal-well, filed a lawsuit against theNational Collegiate Athletic Associ-

.. ation Thursday, challenging theenforcement of sportsmanship' rulesthat include kneeling in prayer inthe end zone among acts that consti-tute unsportsmanlike conduct. Lib-erty cited the 1964 Civil Rights Actand freedom of religion among thegrounds for. its suit.

"It could (set a precedent),depending upon the outcome," Lib-erty Athletic Director Chuck Burchaid. "We're,hopeful that the wholehing will bring enough attention to

the whole situation that it could bere-evaluated and we can avoid along drawn-out legal process and itcan be to the betterment of foot-ball."

The suit was filed by LibertyCoach Sam Rutigliano and four ofhis players. Liberty has requested atemporary restraining order against

" By Judy PasternakLOS ANGELES TIMES

CHICAGO

Federal authorities movedThursday to dismantle the leader-ship of one of the United States'most highly structured street gangs,Chicago's Gangster Disciples - anarcotics powerhouse that allegedlyfinanced a political action commit-tee that has sponsored huge down-town rallies and at least two citycouncil candidacies.

Armed with indictments from a1 federal grand jury, police and feder-

al agents made arrests throughoutthe South Side and suburbs, as wellas within the state prison system.The indictments allege that thegang, using two boards of directors(one inside prison and one outside),laundered money from its enormouscrack, cocaine, heroin and marijua-na empire through 21 st CenturyV.O.T.E. (for Voices of TotalEmpowerment).

The PAC has lobbied to getGangster Disciples leader LarryHoover, who was convicted in 1977

gasoline might be responsible for asharp rise in recent years in the num-ber of asthma sufferers nationwide.

"Thousands of people are beingaffected~ and neither they nor theirdoctors realize it," said Peter M.Joseph, a professor of radiologicphysics at the University of Penn-sylvania Medical Center in Philadel-phia.

Oxy-Busters of Connecticut, anewly formed chapter of a citizens'group opposing the use of MTBE innearly 20 states, attributes a varietyof ailments to the additive, includ-ing nausea, sore throats, skin rashes,eye irritations, neurological prob-lems and lethargy.

MTBE, which is made by com-bining derivatives of natural gas andcrude oil, was added to premium-grade gasolines without any fanfareas an anti-knock ingredient begin-ning in 1982. But the concentrationof MTBE in the fuel was only about3 percent.

Then in 1988, in the first of whatwould be many well-publicizedcleaner-fuels programs, the city of

the regulation, and U.S. DistrictCourt Judge James Turk said hewould issue a ruling Friday. TheDivision I-AA Flames start theirseason Saturday against West Vir-ginia Tech in Lynchburg.

The NCAA - a bureaucraticinstitution whose voluminous andexhaustive rules govern nearlyevery aspect of the athletic pro-grams of more than 800 schools -has been taken to court on numerousoccasions, but a spokeswoman saidthis is believed to be the first time agame-related regulation has beenchallenged.

The NCAA Football Rules Com-mittee recently decided to increaseenforcement of a three-year-old rulethat addresses unsportsmanlike con-duct. That. rule came in response tothe growing trend of players remov-ing helmets to mug for the TV cam-eras, taunting and baiting opponentsand practicing elaborate dance stepsafter scoring touchdowns.

But the committee didn't want toremove all of the enthusiasm fromthe game, so it sought a way to dif-ferentiate between what is sponta-neous celebration .and what is "anydelayed, excessive or prolonged actby which a player attempts to focusattention on upon himself," which

of ordering a drug dealer's murder,paroled from prison, enlistingprominent Chicagoans such as for-mer mayor Eugene Sawyer in theeffort. Hoover, 44, has been sayingin recent years that he is a changedman, devoted to ending violenceamong black youth.

A 50-count indictment accuseshim of masterminding the Gang terDisciples' operations over the tele-phone from his prison cell. He wasflown early in the day from Dixon,Ill. to Meigs Field here for a transferto federal custody.

The indictments, which seek theforfeiture of $10 million in profits,reel off a quarter-century's worth ofcrimes. In addition to Hoover, 38others with nicknames such as"Khadafi," "Trouble" and "Gover-nor Fool" are charged. One of thealleged co-conspirators, SoniaIrwin, is a Chicago police officer.Those indicted range in age from 21to 48.

At a Thursday media conferenceabout the relationship between theGangster Disciples and 21 st Century

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Denver required its use in higherconcentrations to increase oxygencontent and make gasoline burnmore completely, thus reducing car-bon monoxide emissions fromautos. There were complaints there,but nothing like the overwhelmingreaction from motorists in Alaskaand Missoula, Mont., where MTBEwas introduced in 1992 under a fed-eral Clean Air Act mandate. Somany complaints were registeredthat the substance was banned inthose places.

Soon after the clean-air programsbegan, a Centers for Disease Controland Prevention study in Stamford,Conn., where there had been no pub-licly expressed concerns aboutMTBE, found a statistically signifi-cant association between peoplewith seven transitory health com-plaints, such as nausea, headaches,dizziness and burning eyes, and ahigher MTBE blood level.

But that study was not conclu-sive because other factors that mighthave brought about the health com-plaints could not be ruled out.

would be unsportsmanlike conductand a IS-yard penalty (a secondunsportsmanlike conduct call on thesame player results in ejection).They came up with a videotape thathad 150 examples of violations,which included kneeling on theground to pray after a touchdown.

"There was quite a bit of discus-sion about that, obviously, as itbeing a form of religious expressionand perhaps prayer," said VinceDooley, the chairman of the rulescommittee. "We decided in the finalanalysis that that would fall underany delayed action. If that were thecase and we were to allow that tohappen, then in the interest of fair-ness that would have to extend toother forms of religious expressions.Players could contend that otherforms and displays - even dancing- could be a form of religiousexpression."

Burch said the prayers are nei-ther prolonged nor self-congratula-tory.

"We're taking about somethingthat's a very short number of sec-onds," he said. "Somebody drops tothe knee, gives thanks to the Lordand he's going to the sidelines. It'snot something that disrupts the flowof the game."

V.O.T.E., U.S. Attorney James B.Burns said: "They run it."

Representatives of the three-year-old PAC have been consultedby a mayoral candidate, civil rightsgroups and even President Clinton.Two men who had risen to promi-nent rank within the Gangster Disci-ples made it to run-off elections lastspring for Chicago's board of alder-men. Their showing surprised thecity's power structure, althougheach was eventually defeated.

Another local community out-reach group, Save the Children Inc.,was also named in the indictment.The Gangster Disciple forced mem-bers and nonmembers alike "underthreats of violence" to buy tickets toa concert that Save the Children pro-moted, the document say . Save theChildren is run by Hoover's wife,who was not indicted.

The investigation, begun in1989, is continuing, Burns said.Federal prosecutors, narcotics, taxand firearms agents, correctionsofficials and police joined forces forthe probe

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New FDA Reports Says MSGAdditive Is Safe to Eat

WS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON

Pass the mu shu pork, please. A new Food and Drug Administrationreport released Thursday concluded that MSG - the controversial f1a-vor-enhancer often added to Chinese food - is safe to eat, finding thatit causes a mild reaction in only a tiny portion of the population.

The report, prepared by the Federation of American Societies forExperimental Biology, said that there is no scientific evidence thatany "free glutamate," the chemical family to which MSG belongs,causes or aggravates severe disease. However, the report cautionedthat MSG, or monosodium glutamate, could exacerbate problems forpeople with severe asthma.

In connection with the favorable MSG report, the FDA announcedThursday that it will only require foods that contain "significantamounts" of the product to be relabeled as such. It did not give anydetails on which foods will fall under the new MSG guidelines.

Currently, foods must be specifically labeled as containing MSGonly when the chemical itself is added to the product and not when aglutamate is naturally found in foods or in other ingredients containedin the product. MSG - a sodium salt of the amino acid glutamic acidused for building proteins - is found naturally in tomatoes, mush-rooms and Parmesan cheese.

Judge Kills Extradition LawTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON

A federal judge Thursday struck down a I50-year-old extraditionlaw that has allowed Americans accused of committing crimesabroad to be sent to foreign countries to face punishment.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said the law is unconstitu-tional because it violates the separation of powers principle by allow-ing the secretary of state to review legal decisions by judges.

The judge said the law also improperly al lows the secretary ofstate to hide the true motives for extradition decisions - such as pol-itics or foreign policy considerations - by blaming judges and thelaw when it suits the secretary's purposes.

"Under the present statute, the secretary may simply claim that his'hands were tied' because the law did not permit him to perform therequested extradition," the judge wrote in a 32-page opinion.

The ruling was made in a case involving two off-duty Chicagopolice officers accused of kidnapping by Canadian authorities. Thetwo officers allegedly agreed to help another man, Anthony DeSilva,bring his mentally and physically impaired wife Tammy back to theUnited States to prepare for a lawsuit they had filed. The officers, andothers, went to Winnipeg to get her. Canadian authorities, however,stopped them at the border and refused to allow them to take her to theUnited States after her parents alleged that she had been kidnapped.

Shuttle Aide FaultsNAS.Ns Turnover Plan

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A NASA plan to turn space shuttle operations over to a privatecontractor will eliminate vital safety checks and could pose "thebiggest threat to the safety of the shuttle and its crew since the Chal-lenger disaster," a veteran NASA operations manager has charged ina letter to President Clinton.

Jose Garcia, technical assistant to the chief of one of the shuttleengineering divisons at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, wrotethe letter last week, and it was posted by a colleague this week on theInternet computer network.

Garcia said he was concerned that the current system of prelaunchcross checks between pace agencyand contract engineers will be dras-tically changed under a plan by NASA that may "privatize" the shuttle.

"We're not talking about privatizing the cafeteria," Garcia said. "Theway we'll find that we screwed up is when we kill somebody." Garciaadded, "My biggest concern is that, in essence, you are dismantling thebest launch team in the world. We've got a process that works."

NASA officials have said safety will not be compromised as theshuttle management is restructured. The agency announced plans lastweek to replace 85 shuttle contracts - involving 56 different con-tractors - with a single agreement to be administered by a primecontractor. The contractor probably would be selected in about ayear, beginning a process that eventually could lead to turning theshuttle over to private industry.

NewYork Rushes to PrepareAs Death Penalty Takes Effect

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Sometime after midnight Thursday, when New York's deathpenalty goes into effect, a fax should slip out of a machine identify-ing the first candidate to die by lethal injection in the state in nearlytwo decades.

With no way to predict where that first case will come from, orwhen an execution will ultimately take place, the entire criminal justicesystem has rushed to prepare for implementation of the death penalty.

Prosecutors statewide have set up special units. Attorney GeneralDennis Vacco has assembled a capital crimes team. A CapitalDefender Office was created for New York's poor. And the prisonsystem has established procedures for carrying out the actual execu-tion - selecting Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.,near the Canadian border, as the site for death row for men, andGreen Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, Dutchess County,for the death house.

As promised, Gov. George Pataki brought the death penalty backto New York. It was one of the key issues that helped unseat three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo and propel the little-known state senatorfrom Peek kill into the job of chief executive. For 18 years, Cuomoand his predecessor, Hugh Carey, vetoed death-penalty legislation,fueling a debate over capital puni hment that raged in every corner ofthe state's political arena.

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ChairmanScott C. Deskin '96

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Executive EditorRamy A. Arnaout '97

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Editors: Stacey E. Blau '98, Shang-LinChuang '98, David D. Hsu '98; AssociateEditors: A. Arif Husain '97, lfung Lu '97,Christopher L. Falling '98, VenkateshSat ish '98; Staff: Eva Moy G, CharuChaudry '96, Deena Di raelly '96, SamHartman '98, Raymond W Hwang '98, DonLacey '98, Jennifer Lane '98, AngelaLiao '98; Meteorologists: Michael C.Morgan PhD '95, Gerard Roe G, MarekZebrowski.

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Solo piece required of new members.

MIT Concert BandRehears Is: Monday & W~dnesday 8-10pm, Kresge.

First Meeting and Auditions: Wednesday, September 6, 8pm.Bring prepared solo.

MIT Concert ChoirRehearsals: Monday, Thursday, 6-8:30pm, Room 2-190. Auditions:Thursday, September 7, 6pm. Group auditions, no solo required.

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ternity from anywhere' and say thathe wants to pledge," and fraternitymembers will meet the freshmanthere to celebrate with cheering andclapping, Penner said.

"There is a custom of not pieing at other fraternities," said NealH. Dorow, assistant dean and advis-er to fraternities, sororities, andindependent living groups. "gut thefreshman may not have known," hesaid.

Karchem "had been flushed fromSAE," Prest said. "We referred himover to Sig Ep," he said "He pre-froshed in our house, but wethought he would be more comfort-able [at Sig Ep]," Prest said.

"I think he was a little bitter atit," Prest said. "1 don't think it wacompletely random that he decidedto pledge in front of our house. lthink he did it for a reason," hesaid. .

Penner 'said that he does notbelieve that Karcnem decided topledge' in front of the SAE house forany particular reason.

On Wednesday, Dorow met withthe preSIdents and pledge educators""-/of both SAE and Sig Ep.

"We got together with SAE offi-cers and talked it through," Pennersaid. "We equally share the blame,"he said. . ...

"We're not anticipating any pun-ishment" of either fraternities,Dorow said. The "main combatants"were not MIT students, so it wouldbe difficult to punish anyone any-way, he said.

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A Sigma Alpha Epsilon alumnusand Sigma Phi Epsilon alumnuswere involved in an altercation overa new Sig Ep pledge in front of theSAE house late Monday night, saidSAE President Jason Prest '96.

A fight ensued but was quicklyended by both sides, with noinjuries.

Neal P. Karchem '99, who had abid frOrDSig Ep "decided to pledgein front of the SAE house," accord-ing to Sig Ep President David J.Penner '96.

"We came out in front [of theSAE house] and started makingnoise," Penner said.

An SAE member came outsideand asked Sig Ep members to quietdown, Prest said. Sig Ep members"pushed around and grabbed him,"and an SAE alumni "came out andstepped in," Prest said.

"One of their alumni got into ascuffle with one of our alumni,"Penner said.

SAE and Sig Ep members quick-ly separated the two alumniinvolved in the fight, Penner said. 'The fighting lasted "less than 15seconds before it was broken up,"he said.

Neither of the alumni had to betaken to the hospital, and no onewas arrested, Penner said.

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good," she said. "It's important toreal ize that every girl could besomeone's sister." That device madethe performance more real, she said.

Performance received positively"I thought it was a pretty decent

production, for being a one-personproduction," said Grant I. Ho '97."It raised some issues that men doencounter in society" - like homo-sexuality, rape, and sex. "It gave a.good example of what men shouldbe aware of," he said.

"I thought it was good that hecovered a lot of issues, but I thoughtit was bad that he made h~ving sexsound like the norm," Hsieh said."He was trying to make fun of stereo-types, but it sounded like at the sametime, he was perpetuating them."

After the performance, Nawroc-ki, who makes a. living playing inthe rock band Rhythm Activism,explained his motivation for givingthe performance.

"It's tough sometimes to addressquestions about" love, sex, rape, andcommitment, Nawrocki said. Thethree-year-old show -- which hehas presented at almost every majoruniversity and college campus inCanada - gives people a chance to"deal with men's issues we normal-ly don't while we're too busy beingmen," he said.

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Skits delve into ses, rapeAs advertised, the sketches were

always lively, and sometimes mildlyshocking. In one skit, Nawrocki -a.k.a. a Doctor Ruth-esque Mrs.Robinson - gave a front-row malefreshman an interactive lesson inhow to excite a woman to orgasm.

But other skits were deadly seri-ous. At one -point, two charactershad to come to terms with the rapeor abuse of their sisters.

"I think the part about the rapewas done pretty well," said Julie K.Hsieh '97. Nawrocki "was prettyserious about that, and that was

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Talk Explores Sex, WomenPerformances focus o~ better communication in relationshipsBy Ramy Amaou\EXECcnJJlE EDITOR

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Bandstander Norman Nawrockigave a Kresge Auditorium crowd agood time and something to thinkabout last night at his comic-seriousone-man show, "I Don't Understand

en."The performance was sponsored

by the Interfraternity Council as aResidence and Orientation Weekevent for its members, although itwas open to the entire MIT commu-nity.

Nearly 700 freshmen and upper-classmen - about half of them Norman Nawrockiwomen - were on. hand to meetRicky, his girlfriend Nancy, and dread of male dreads - her peri-about a dozen other of Nawrocki's od.characters. In a series of humorousfive-minute sketches, these charac-

n offered men advice on and. plored many different aspects ofmale/female relationships, includingunderstanding women's feelings,how to treat women, and rape.

Communication - the impor-tance of listening to what womensay about love and sex - was aubiquitous theme. In "Nightmareon the Couch" - or, "When the, . Ifriend Gets Serious" - a. )man scared her boyfriend into

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concern and willingness to be help-ful in increasing educational oppor-

. tunities for the children of Cam-bridge," he said.

City Days is particularly impor-tant for freshman, Purinton said."The earlier they realize the impor-

e of community service, there likely' they are to get

involved," she said.Purinton said that many neigh-

ring public school students seeIT as an "untouchable thing," as a

place "where they build bombs."City Days allows these students tovisit MIT for a day and see what thecollege really has to offer, she said.

Parravano said that since MIT isso strong in education, City Daysprovides "an opportunity to sharethe riches MIT has in its talentedstudent body and faculty with teach-ers'and school children."

The Public ..~ervice Centerplanned today's City Days program

a kickoff event for its yearly pro-grams, Purinton said. Many of thecenter's programs, are gearedtowards education, she said.

Interested students are invited tocontinue the connection with theCambridge students throughout theyear, she said.

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Noisemaking Devices, Self-Defense Best for SafetyBy Eva Moy,STAFF REPORTER

From mace and pepper spray toelectric prodders, there is a plethoraof personal safety devices on themarket. But out of all of these, theCampus Police generally recom-mend noise-making devices and

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.THE ARTS-guez' Desperado alas seq e D.BMariachi

DESPERADOWritten and directed by Robert Rodriguez.Starring Antonio Banderas. Joaquim deAlmeida. and Salma Hayek.Sony Cheri.

By Scott DeskinCHAIRMAN

f you haven't yet heard of RobertRodriguez, you should take note of hisfilm Desperado. Ostensibly a sequel to,but reputedly a flashier version of, his

debut feature EI Mariachi, Desperado has'plenty of style and wit to complement thenumerous (and bloody) action sequences.Also worth mentioning is that Rodriguez hasmajor studio support this time, with a budgetroughly one thousand times greater than 1Mariachi's $7,000: In Hollywood terms,though, Desperado is still a hell of a bargain.

It's also a hell of a ride. Told in a loose,comic-book fashion, Desperado is the story ofa guitarist turned gunslinger, known only as

El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), who seeksrevenge on the drug dealers who killed hiswoman and maimed his hand in the first film.His story has taken on a mythical quality inthe years that have passed: In an introductorysegment, a stranger (played by ReservoirDogs' Steve Buscemi) wanders into a bar anddescribes the carnage that EI Mariachi haswrought on a bunch of hostile bar patrons in aneighboring town. The gunslinger's ultimatequarry is the crimelord Bucho (Joaquim deAlmeida), the man behind the gang from thefirst film.

It turns out that Buscemi's character is afriend of El Mariachi, and is helping his causeby trying to inflate his persona. When the gun-slinger heads into the next town, the boys inthe bar are' waiting for him. "We just want tosee what's in the guitar case," says the bar-tender (Cheech Marin, perfectly cast). In notime, the bullets start flying and Rodriguez'squick-cutting camera shots add_to the excite-ment. Our hero escapes to the street, but not

without being tagged in the shoulder, and he'srescued by the beautiful Carolina (SalmaHayek), a bookstore owner and amateur sur-geon. While he faces innumerable enemies on.the outside, he takes orne comfort with hisnewfound love interest.

Tongue-in-cheek humor abounds, butother than the spectacular action scenes, theplot is pretty weak. The most philosophicalstatement in the film is when EI Mariachi saysto Carolina, "It's easier to pull a trigger thanplay guitar; it's easier to destroy than to cre-ate." It's probably wise that Rodriguez didn'ttry to infuse too much solemnity to the gun-slinger's character, although he does seemremor eful for the killer that he has become.More often, he gets caught up in the thrill ofthe moment, like taunting bad guys in theblood-soaked bar ("You missed me!") orthrowing grenades at unsuspecting bad guysin an alley below while making a swift get-away on rooftops.

. It looks as though Banderas has finally

"arrived" at the threshold of mainstream box-office stardom: After supporting roles in TheMambo Kings and Philadelphia, he proves hisworth as a leading man and full-blooded Latinsex symbol. The supporting players aresuperb, especially Buscemi and Marin: eventhe master of neo-noir blood and' guts himself,Quentin Tarantino, has a bit part as a drugpickup man who tells a joke that befits charac-ters from Tarantino's other films. Not that allthe dialogue is incisive or falling-down hilari-ous, but you'll enjoy most of it nonetheless.

The major flaw in this film is the ending,which seemed' to have been tacked on in hasteafter Rodriguez's special effects budget ranout. However, Rodriguez possesses such anundeniable flair for action scenes and comic .pacing that it's tough to hold it against hissophomore effort that much. The violen~eisn't for the faint of heart, but it's cut wienough humor (like Tarantino's Pulp Fiction)that you'll find yourself smiJing most of thetime anyway .

Arnold SChwarzenegger Is Harry Tasker and Jamie Lee Curtis Is Helen Tasker In "True Ues."

** WaterworldFor films with overblown budgets mor

impressive than their special effects, Water-'world is an unqualified success. Nevertheless,if one looks past all the hype and egos sur-rounding the project, Waterworld isn't sobad. Essentially an alternate version of thepost-apocalyptic world in George Miller'sepic The Road Warrior, Waterworld generatesa fair amount of rough-and-tumble excitementwhen it gets going. Waterworld looks like awell-made but expensive flop. Although thespecial effects look nice on the big screen, thefilm probably doesn't lose much of itsgrandeur on video .. -Scott Deskin. Sony ,e'h . .en f

**1I2 TrueLies

This ArnoldSchwarzeneggeraction-adventure-

***1/2 Out-break

Dustin Hoffmanand Rene Russo aregovernment doctorstrying to find the anti-body for a highlyinfectious, absolutelyfatal disease. DonaldSutherland and Mor-gan Freeman round /out the leads as Armyofficers working fromtheir own agenda.Their objectives andmutual interactionsform the plot to thisentertaining suspense-action film. It's mostly'\ plot movie, but whata plot! If you acceptthe opening premise,then everything that _follows is plausi_bl~. Kevin Spacey, Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. in a medical thriller, "Outbreak."As a suspense fIlm,there are lots of crucial moments where Hoff- to Talk About, is change of pace for the 29- comedy casts him as Harry Tasker, a top-man must "do the right thing." SutherJand, as year-old actress. She goes out on a limb as secret government agent w~o b-ides his realthe bad guy, pulls off his role quite well. - Grace, a frazzled thirty-ish wife and mother identity from his wife, Helen (Jamie Lee Cur-Kamal S",amidoss. LSC Tuesday. who leads a fairly dull and unhappy life. tis), who thinks he is a com'Puter salesman.

Director Lasse Hallstrom handles the subject That premise is no less believ~ Ie than any of**1/2 Something to talk about matter with delicacy and poignancy, not let- the other plot twists, which prir.:tarily involveJulia Roberts has come to a turning point ting the characters' actions overwhelm the the efforts of Middle Eastern te crorist of the

in her career. Roberts' late t film, Something characters themselves and'Roberts carries the "Crimson Jihad" (Art Malik) to ho'ld Americafilm with the charm hostage with some nuclear warheads. -.The spe-and earnestness she cial effects are pretty impressive, cOJ;, idering.gives her role. ~ the seamlessness of the final proa ct-Despite a shaky' including som'e nifty scenes with Harriel je~"start and a slick fin- - and exploding bridges - which seems to be'ish, the movie's direct counterpoint to the exotic morphingpositive attributes effects of director James Cameron's Jast effort,outweigh its nega- Terminator 2. But most of the "movie dragstive ones. It's cer- between its main action sequences, especiallytainly not the best some dumb plot involving'an affair betweenmovie to deal with Helen and Simon {Bill Paxton), a man pre-such subject matter, tending to be aspy, The film is partiallybut its,offers a new, redeemed by the easygoing performance offresh perspective Tom Arnold as Harry's sidekick, but most of'on who actually the performances seem force.d. -SO. LSCgets hurt in rela- Friday.tionships. And JfiliaRoberts may haveexpanded her cine-matic range at longlast: Hopefully shewon't have toreturn to any moreobnoxious thrillersto revive her career.-Scott Deskin.Sony Cheri.

against innocents, yetdriven to watch in theblind hope that some-how the horror will bemitigated. TeresaEsser. Sony Nick-elodeon.

****: Excellent***: Good**: Average*: Poor

**** KidsKids is a blunt, ugly horror film whose

most friglltening feature is that it is entirelybelievable. The film is not about Hollywood,or even Beverly Hills 90210; instead it isabout unspectacular New York City youthswho show less than marginal respect for theirparents and want nothing more than to be leftto wander the streets and hang out with theirfriends. Events in Kids do not take placebehind screens or under blankets; rather, thecamera is placed so' close to the actors that itliterally invades their personal space. And theviewer winds up squirming in his or her ownchair, unwilling to watch the evils perpetrated

*** BabeBabe is about a talking pig. The pig can't

talk to humans, mind you: The story is toldprimarily from the perspective of farm ani-mals who converse in English. The pig isnamed Babe, and once he begins life on arural farm, he finds he must overcome humanand animal prejudice with his charm andresourcefulness, lest he end up the maincourse for Christmas dinner. It's a familiarfable, one whose moral.could be "Don't judgea book by its cover." The best thing about thefilm is the impressive use of animatronics forthe talking animals: Moreover, the film winspoints by recapitulating social themes likecommunication and prejudice with a faciletouch that never gets heavy-handed. Althoughadults will enjoy the film, Babe is more of akids' movie. -Scott Deskin. Sony CopleyPlace.

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page16titlesPage 16 THE TECH . THE ARTS -guez' Desperado alas seq e D.B Mariachi DESPERADO By Scott Deskin Arnold SChwarzenegger Is Harry Tasker and Jamie Lee Curtis Is Helen Tasker In "True Ues." e'h . . follows is plausi_bl~. Kevin Spacey, Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. in a medical thriller, "Outbreak." **** Kids

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