Volume 118 >> Issue 21 : Friday, April 24, 1998

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News

• Clinton to Address Graduates at Commencement
• Course X Senior Year Wins Big Screw
• Redesigned Technology Review Will Shift Focus to Innovation
• MCAT Printing Error Provokes Student Concerns
• Police Log

World and Nation

• GOP Education Bill Passes Senate Despite Veto Threat
• Convicted King Assasin Ray Dies of Liver Failure in Prison
• Investigators Say Hubbell Got $700,000 for Little or No Work
• Controversial Report Gives Gloomy Forecast for Japanese Economy
• DNC, State Parties Exchange Money to Circumvent Contribution Limits
• News Briefs I
• News Briefs II
• Weather: Farewell

Columns

• MIT's Missing Pillars
• Zionism Did Not Destroy Palestine
• Friendships for Sale

Letters to the Editor

• Armenian Genocide Remembered
• Graduate Student Groups Need Funding
• Walker Needs Much Better Lighting
• MIT Needs to Keep Newbury Comics

Arts

• Pirates of Penzance is a funny, lucid production
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood:Production is well cast, but audience votes prevents suspension of disbelief
• Clapton is still the god of rock and blues
• Wild Things is lurid, sleazy, and fun
• On The Town

Sports

• Tanui, Roba Both Win Second Career Boston Marathon Titles
• Men's Lightweight Crew Defeats Dartmouth but Falls to Harvard
• Women's Track Team Dominates Opponents
• Women's Tennis Faces Bruising Series at New England Showcase
• Chemical Engineers Prevail in Octathon with 7-0-1 Record
• Athletes of the Week
• Joel Morales '99
• Tracey Ho '99

Photographs

Timothy Dunn--Technique
Fatuma Roba raced to victory in the women's section of the marathon with a time of 2:23:20.

Gabor Csanyi--The Tech
ILLUSION: A play about love and magic, the Dramashop spring production opened yesterday in LIttle Kresge Theater. Here, Caliso (Fraz Elizondo-Schmelkes G) and Mellibea (Stacy Pruitt '99) are brought to life by a sorcerer.

Agnes Borszeki--The Tech
Members of MIT Hillel mark Yom Hashoah, the International day for the commemoration of the Holocaust, by reading names of Holocaust victims in Lobby 7 yesterday. A huge pile of shoes represents the victims of the Holocaust.

Photo Essay: Pirates of Penzance

Photos by Gabor Csanyi and Dennis Yancey

The Pirates, and their apprentice, Frederic (Michael Goodwin)

Frederic, and his bride Mabel (Mavie Marcos)

The Pirate King (Chris Montgomery) and Frederic

Major-General Stanley (Andrew B. Sweet) and his daughters

The Pirate King and the General

Photo Essay: Illusion

Photos by Gabor Csanyi

Ridiculed Love (Stacey Pruitt, Rob Marcato)

Rejected Love (Ricky Thompkins)

True Love (Franz Elizando-Schmelkes)

Intrigue (The Maid: Rachael Butcher)

Loss (The Father: Jeremy Butler, The Sorcerer: Eddie Kohler)

Chivalry (Ricky Thompkins, Franz Elizondo-Schmelkes)

Loveless (The Father: Michael Oullette)

Prison (Franz Elizondo-Schmelkes)

Comics

Bartholomew Squeak by Solar Olugebefola

Dammed for Life by Jessica

Perhaps by Jennifer DiMase

Rhino Man by Zachary Emig

Off Course by Hugo Ayala