Volume 117 >> Issue 64 : Tuesday, December 9, 1997

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News

• Sig Ep Loses Activity Privileges After Latest Alcohol Incident
• Media Lab May Build on E10 Site
• HASS-D Lottery Migrates to WebSIS
• Solar Car Team Launches Fund Raising Campaign
• Practica Use Science Classes to Teach Writing Skills
• Freshman Food Drive Benefits Homeless Community
• Vest Releases Plans for Residence/Orientation
• Gaggle Cops 118th Tech Managing Board Elections
• Police Log

World and Nation

• Investigators Say TWA Crash Not Caused by Criminal Act
• U.S. to Contribute $500 Million To European Atomic Collider
• Amid Controversy, Lawrence To Be Removed from Arlington
• Gore's Visit to Climate Meeting Brings Reaction But Little Action
• News Briefs I
• News Briefs II
• Weather: Messy Week

Editorials

• A Small Step in the Right Direction

Columns

• MIRED: Negroponte's Wacky Columns Embarrass MIT
• Smoke and Mirrors
• Other-worldly Media Lab Doesn't Amount to Much
• Trivia: Epithetics

Letters to the Editor

• Facing The Facts On Alcohol
• The Facts Behind The Grading Experiment

Entertainment

• Rhino Man -- By Zach Emig
• Off Course -- By Hugo
• Dammed for Life -- By J\essica
• Noun Poetry -- By Katy-Cat
• Trivia: Epithetics

Arts

• Theater Review: The Mikado -- What to do when flirting is punishable by death

Sports

• Fencers Face Off at BC Meet
• Athletes of the Week
  • Katie Spayde '99
  • Ivan Aguayo '00
• Brad Gray Garners Honors, Marshall

Photographs

Greg Kuhnen -- The Tech
The Paul Morris Jazz Orchestra concluded an evening of jazz in Kresge Auditorium Sunday night. Other groups at the concert included the Tech Jazz Singers and the MIT Jazz Collective.

Dalie Jimenez -- The Tech
Sara Perry '99 lunges for an attack, but is parried by her opponent from Brown University. MIT won the match 26-6.

Bikui Chen -- The Tech
Dawn Perlner '01, Edward Wu '98, and Yukiko Ueno G (piano) presented Smetena's Piano Trio in G Minor Saturday in Killian Hall.

Greg Kuhnen -- The Tech
Ja Hyun Shin '99 made her premier solo appearance with the MIT Symphony Orchestra on Saturday evening in Kresge Auditorium. The orchestra performed works by Schumann, Barber, and Milhaud.

Ajai Bharadwaj -- The Tech
Christina Estrada '01 drives to the hoop to score against Colby-Sawyer College. MIT lost the game 75-64.

Bikui Chen -- The Tech
The MIT Concert Band held its annual Winter Concert Friday in Kresge Auditorium. A variety of pieces were performed, including several which were originally commissioned by the band.

Greg Kuhnen -- The Tech
Grace Chung performs Doodlin' as a guest soloist in a performance by the Tech Jazz Singers in Kresge Auditorium on Sunday.

Arifur Rahman -- The Tech
Dave Chen G, an MBA student, skims through the cookbook What's Cooking under the Dome, a compilation of recipes by MIT staff and faculty on sale in Lobby 10. Money raised from the book sale will be donated to the MIT women's scholarship fund.

Gabor Csanyi -- The Tech
Eric Traub '99 dances to African drum rhythms at the MITCAN's fall performance and open house at the Endicott Center yesterday.