Volume 117 >> Issue 51 : Friday, October 17, 1997

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News

• Student, Employee Assaulted Over Columbus Day Weekend
• Faculty Consider Revamping R/O, Housing All Freshmen on Campus
• New Internship Program Pairs Frosh with Alumni
• Coop Members to Receive 3.5 Percent Rebate
• MIT Alumni Win Nobel Prizes In Physics, Economic Sciences

World and Nation

• Infertility Researchers Find Success Using Frozen Eggs
• Poll Demonstrates Americans Are Optimistic About Market
• Siberians Using Smart Card, Russia Remains Cash Society
• Men Reflect Back on Changes A Year After Million Man March
• News Briefs I
• News Briefs II
• Weather: Autumnal Angst

Editorials

• Paving the Way for Radical Change

Columns

• Legalized Murder: The Death Penalty Serves Revenge and Does Nothing to Solve Crime
• Talking Content-Free With Parents
• Until Bias Ends, We Need Affirmative Action

Letters to the Editor

• Zeta Psi Regrets Alcohol Incident
• MIT Knew of Earlier Hazing Problems
• Grad Students Also Are Affected by Ban

Entertainment

• Rhino Man -- By Zach Emig
• Off Course -- By Hugo
• Dammed for Life -- By Jessica
• Noun Poetry -- By Katy-Cat
• Trivia: Fine Print

Arts

• Film Review: Playing God -- Big screen, big failure Q Is David Duchovny the next David Caruso?
• Film Review: The House of Yes -- Proof that money doesn't bring happiness -- or sanity

Sports

• Varsity Heavyweights Crews Dominate N.H. Championship
• Monday Matchup Not Too Promising
• Women Harriers Fail to Beat Wellesley, Place 3rd at Meet
• Sailors Host Rhodes 19 Regattas; In Shifty Winds, Team Places 2nd
• Equestrians Place At Vermont Shows
• Head of the Charles Regatta
• Upcoming Home Events

Photographs

Gabor Csanyi -- The Tech
PILOT SUIT -- Nerd culture teamed up with French fashion design at the Media LaboratoryUs Wearable Computing Fashion show on Wednesday afternoon.

Dennis Yancey -- The Tech
President Charles M. Vest thanks Maurice Katz '41 for his donation, which was used to resurface and light several west campus tennis courts, at Tuesday's dedication of the courts.

Agnes Borszeki -- The Tech
Todd Kamin '00 holds his breath before his ball lands in the 14th hole at Christal Spring golf field, near Haverhill, on Tuesday.

Ajai Bharadwaj -- The Tech
Jill Eich '99 digs out a spike during Tuesday eveningUs game with Mt. Holyoke College. MIT won the match 3-0.

Gabor Csanyi -- The Tech
Three and a half inch diskettes were ubiquitous in the avant-garde designs on display at the Media Laboratory Wearable Computing Fashion Show on Wednesday afternoon.