Volume 118 >> Issue 3 : Tuesday, February 10, 1998

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News

• Urban to Step Down As Dean of Sloan School
• Carter Announces New Funding in UA Speech
• Keyser Discusses Hacks, Culture at TBP Lecture
• AIR Editor Shares Scientif Humor
• GSC Meeting Minutes

World and Nation

• U.S. Will Send More Troops to Kuwait to Deal with Iraq
• Lewinsky Scheduled to Appear Before Grand Jury Thursday
• Clinton Will Endorse Tobacco Bill With $1.50 Cigarette Tax
• Pre-Election Denial in Donation Case Shown as False in Report
• World Briefs I
• World Briefs II
• Weather: Glancing Blow

Editorials

• Unify Registration Lotteries

Columns

• "What About the Dardanelles?":A Historical Battle Tells Against Air Strikes on Iraq
• An Appropriate Designation:M.Eng. Students Deserve Their Status as Graduate Students
• Root for The Boys of February

Sports

• Ballroom Dancers Bring Home Several Ribbons from Harvard
• Athletes of the Week
• Victoria Best '99
• Andrew McCraith '98

Photographs

Cornelia Tseng--The Tech
Elaine Chew G performs Chinese and French piano music in "Impressions From the East," a concert held Monday evening in Killian Hall. The accompanying photographic exhibition, which features scenes from Beijing, will be in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery until Feb. 28.

Kevin Simmons--Technique
Robert W. Marcato G, Jeremy S. Lueck '99, and Richard S. Thompkins '98 perform the skit Boston Institute of Rap at the AEPhi Live show on Saturday night.

Mary Jean
Michelle Machacek '98 holds position at the end of her program in the freestyle novice section of the MIT Intercollegiate Figure Skating competition. She placed first in a field of six on Saturday afternoon in Johnson Athletics Center.

Agnes Borszeki
Pianist Bret Silverman and violinist Michael Stevenson play Sonata Op. 13 by Gabriel Fuare in Killian Hall on Saturday afternoon.

Adriane Chapman--The Tech
Lauren Erb '01 and Elizabeth Krams '00 from the Women's Swim Team race Delta Upsilon and Number Six in the inner tube relay. "Race the Women's Swim Team" was held on Sunday as a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.

Courtney Clench--The Tech
Maisha Gray '99 goes for a lay-up in last Thursday's game against Suffolk University in Rockwell Cage. MIT won 73-70.

Ajai Bharadwaj--The Tech
Patrick Dannen '98 makes his winning throw in the shot put on Saturday. MIT won the meet, beating out the local rival Tufts University.

Amy Yen--The Tech
Bryan Glick sings in his defense in the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' production of "Trial by Jury" held in Walker Memorial last weekend.

Comics

Off Course by Hugo

Perhaps by Jennifer DiMase

Dammed for Life by Jessica

Rhino Man by Zachary Emig

Bartholomew Squeak by Solar C. Olugebefola

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