Volume 117 >> Issue 56 : Tuesday, November 4, 1997

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News

• Students Grieve for Micheletti
• New Committee Will Examine Orientation
• Deutch Expounds on Past Experiences as CIA Head
• Student Concerns dominate town meeting
• Voting Information
• Erratum

World and Nation

• Terry Nichols Trial Begins In Oklahoma Bombing Case
• Iraq Threatens to Shoot Down United Nations U-2 Aircraft
• Supreme Court Decision Favors State's Affirmative Action Ban
• News Briefs I
• News Briefs II
• Weather: Cooling Off

Columns

• The Isolation Years: The Real Campus Division Is Between Generations
• Changing MIT's Value System
• Satisfying Tomorrow's Alumni Today
• Trivia: The Very Spice of Life

Letters to the Editor

• Distorting Contemporary China

Sports

• Equestrian Team Jumps into First

Photographs

Ying Lee
Stephanie A. Miller '98 reads a petition from GAMIT at President Vest's fifth town meeting held in Kresge Auditorium Friday afternoon.

Sharon Shen -- The Tech
Approximately 2,000 people descended on Harvard Yard to protest Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to Harvard on Saturday.

Agnes Borskeki -- The Tech
Gargoyles peered down on students from their perches in the dome of Lobby 7 on Halloween.

Greg Kuhnen -- The Tech
Richard A. Monte '00 passes to Mark S. Ethier '01 in last Saturday's game against the Coast Guard Academy. MIT lost the game 3-0.