Volume 116 >> Issue 65 : Tuesday, December 10, 1996

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News

• UA, GSC To Keep Funding Powers
• Teradyne Executive to Chair MIT Corporation
• Housing Advisory Committee Forms To Look At Mit's Long-Range Needs
• UROP Enrollment Recovers This Term
• Glitches Delay Review of Institute Dining
• Sophomores Choose Course VI in Record Majors
• Gaggle Cops Election of 117th Managing Board
• Three from MIT Named Rhodes, Marshall Scholars
• New Planning Group Begins Latest Housing Project

World and Nation

• Television Programs Divided Into 6 Ambiguous Categories
• U.N. Removes Iraqi Sanctions, Allows Oil Sales for Half Yeart
• News Briefs I
• News Briefs II
• Weather - Finals Throes

Opinion

• Institutional Wisdom Watch

Columns

• LSC Should Stop Kidding Itself About Explicit Films
• Sexual Values Should Not Be Enforced on MIT Community

Letters to the Editor

• GSC Best Able to Fund Graduate Students
• Quashing of CAB Mistaken
• Erotica Is Not Pornography
• Pornography Does Not Have to Be Demeaning
• LSC Pornography Speaks to Issue of Free Choice
• Misread Headline Suggests Creative Plan

Sports

• Women's Hoopsters Play Well to Edge Out Wentworth 62-58
• Men's Basketball Lets One Slip By In 70-57 Home Loss to Wentworth
• Men's Ice Hockey Defrosts to Win Two

Photographs

Tiffany Lin--The Tech
The MIT Concert Choir performs Music of the People, a compilation of various traditional folk songs from around the world, including arrangements from the music of Hungary, Germany, and Tibet.

Arifur Rahman--The Tech
Student make their way through the blustery weather brought on by the season's first significant snowfall.

Off Course - By Hugo

Tiffany Lin--The Tech
William C. Cutter directs the MIT Concert Choir in Friday evening's performance of Music of the People in Kresge Auditorium.

Arifur Rahman--The Tech
Madeleine Hall-Arber, an anthropologist at MIT's Sea Grant Program, displays her collection of jewelry and pottery during the holiday crafts fair last Friday in Lobby 7.

Gabor Csanyi--The Tech
A fireman inspects the control board during Saturday night's fire alarm that evacuated the Student Center a little after midnight.

Jiri Schindler--The Tech
Benjamin C. Matteo '97 demonstrates a prototype of his group's rescue ascending device in yesterday's Elements of Mechanical Design (2.73) presentations held in 34-101.

Jiri Schindler--The Tech
Samuel H. Thibault '00 took advantage of the first snow of the year last Friday to build a snowman for the delight of passers-by.

Tiffany Lin--The Tech
Geoffrey B. Johnson '97 impersonates Elvis in the Logarhythms' holiday concert held Saturday night in 10-250.

Dammed for Life - by Jessica Wu