Volume 117 >> Issue 18 : Friday, April 11, 1997

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News

• Prefrosh to Receive Glimpse of Campus
• Graduate Student Council Elects Geoffrey Coram as Next President
• Gray Gala Provides Fitting Goodbye
• Transition Teams Look to Streamline Dean's Office
• Macintosh FTP Site Will Relocate to LCS

World and Nation

• Federal Gov't to Hire 10,000 From Current Welfare Rolls
• Russia's NATO Security Plans Surprise Western Governments
• China Cautions U.S., Denmark Against Human Rights Criticism
• Federal Court Judge Determines Line-Item Veto Unconstitutional
• Gringrich Suggests Rich, Not Congress, Fund Arts
• World Briefs I
• World Briefs II
• Weather -- Play Ball

Editorials

• +/- System Doesn't Make the Grade

Columns

• Ginsberg's Era Should Not Be Forgotten

Arts

• I've had 10 years to kill since our prom night
• She's a woman's woman
• Chasing Amy's Ben Affleck
• The rocky rise of Kevin Smith
• On The Town
• On The Town - On Campus

Sports

• Softball Starts Off With Solid Victories
• Two Garner Academic All-America Distinctions
• IVC Concludes Season With 2nd Place Finish
• Men's Pistol Tops Civilian Schools for Third in Nation

Photographs

Gabor Csanyi--The Tech
A worker cleans up the tree damage left by last week's snowstorm.

Ahmed Ait-Ghezala--The Tech
The Chorallaries sing farewell to outgoing Chairman of the Corporation Paul E. Gray '54.

Gabor Csanyi--The Tech
Michelle K. McDonough G

Indranath Neogy--The Tech
Yanqing Du G

Long N. Phan--The Tech
Veronique Bugnion G

Martin (John Cusack) returns home for his class reunion to see Debi (Mimi Driver), the girl he stood up on prom night 10 years ago in Grosse Pointe Blank.

Greg Kuhnen--The Tech
The Musical Theater Guild's production of Weird Romance: Two One-Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction opens tonight at 8 p.m. in Little Kresge Theatre.

Jiri Schindler--The Tech
Robin Evans '99 hands the baton to Natalie Smith '00 on their way to winning the 4 x 400 meter relay in Wednesday's track meet at Steinbrenner Stadium. Evans also won the 800 meters in 2:32.2, and Smith won the 400 meters in 1:03.7.

Jiri Schindler--The Tech
Third baseman Annamaria Cherubin '99 fields a ball after a bunt by a Regis College batter, later throwing her out at first base. MIT lost 10-7 in Tuesday's home game.

Comics

dammed for life by Jessica Wu

Rhino Man by Zachary Emig

Off Course by Hugo