Volume 118 >> Issue 2 : Friday, February 6, 1998

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News

• MIT Clarifies Alcohol Policies
• Institute to Name MacVicar Fellows
• Coup Enterprises Plans to Undercut The Coop
• Apple Fellow Kicks Off $50K Contest
• Gert-Jan Zwart G
• Police Log

World and Nation

• United States Sends Carrier to Strengthen Gulf Forces
• Clinton May Employ Executive Privilege to Shield Close Aides
• Gingrich Favors Applying Surpluses to Social Security
• Trie Pleads Not Guilty to Charges of Purchasing Political Influence
• World Briefs I
• World Briefs II
• Weather: The Aftermath

Editorials

• New Policy Answers Many Questions

Columns

• Doing the Groundhog Shuffle: MIT Students Scurry Around Looking for Their Shadows and Their Classes
• Sex on Main Street: The Policeman's Duty
• Mastering an Undergrad Program

Letters to the Editor

• Alcohol Policy Too Strict
• Communal Dining Key to Education

Arts

• This Show Is Fantastick
• Not Quite As Good As It Gets
• Great Expectations Are Never Fulfilled
• Total Annihilation: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Big Bertha
• The Vegetarian Gourmet
• Scoop
• On The Town

Sports

• Basketball Extends Streak to 5 With 65-60 Win over Suffolk
• Parkins, Sastry Shine in Men's Track Victory
• Slippery Slopes Scatter Skiers, Many Crash in N.H. Slaloms
• Women's Basketball Opens with WPI Win
• Men's Gymnastics Team Begins Season with Three Tough Losses

Photographs

Ajai Bharadwaj--The Tech
Elizabeth Ellingson '01 swings on the uneven parallel bars on Tuesday in a match against Gustavus Adolphus and Northeastern Universities. MIT took third place.

Kate Mahoney
Jennifer Hammock '98, captain of the Ballroom Dance Team, rests her eyelids during a short lull at the Harvard Invitational Ballroom Dance Competition held this weekend in Watertown.

Kate Mahoney
Feng Li '97 and Wendy Luo G jive at the Harvard Invitational Ballroom dance competition.

Comics

Dammed for Life by Jessica

Off Course by Hugo

Perhaps by Jennifer DiMase

Rhino Man by Zachary Emig