Volume 118 >> Issue 5 : Tuesday, February 17, 1998

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News

• Building Initiatives Strain Fundraising
• U.S.,U.N. Slow to Right Peruvian Wrongs
• MLK Speaker Discusses Affirmative Action Plans
• Issues of Tenure and Gender to Be Discussed in Workshop
• Grad Students Study Technology and Policy in D.C.
• Errata

World and Nation

• Annan Sees Some Progress in Negotiations with Iraqis
• Hopes, Fears Frame Decisions in Competitive Indian Election
• U.S. to Reward States Moving Welfare Recipients into Jobs
• Japanese Approve $238 Billion Financial Stabilization Package
• World Briefs I
• World Briefs II
• Weather: Rain Again

Editorials

• Orientation '98 Fails to Meet Goals

Columns

• Will Administrators Ever Learn?
• Frosh and Frats Suffer Without Information
• Alcohol Policies and Whale Bits

Letters to the Editor

• Housing Should Not Be a Factor in MEng Degree Decision
• MEng Column too Sweeping in its Scope

Sports

• Doering's Second Place Finish Leads Cross Country Ski Team
• Women's Hockey Edges By Trinity After Strong Third Quarter Effort
• Ellefson's Record Performance Buoys Women's Gymnastics
• Fencing Teams Complete Season as Northeast Conference Champs
• Alpine Ski Teams Make STrong Showing at Ascutney Mountain
• Athletes of the Week
• Ravi Sastry '98
• Laurel Smith '00

Photographs

Gabor Csanyi--The Tech
Dora Farkas '98 serves Liz Conners a bite from her Hungarian stew (Lecso), one of the many delicious entries in the 'Kitchen Devils' section of the Cross Cultural Talent Show, held on Friday in MacGregor Dining Hall. For more pictures, see page 14.

Indranath Neogy--The Tech
Christina Gehrke '97 wraps around the Wheaton College net to score MIT's fifth goal on Sunday afternoon. MIT won 6-1.

T. Luke Young--The Tech
Kareem Benjamin G attempts a jump shot in last Thursday's game against Clark University in Rockwell Cage. MIT won 85-81.

Karlene Rosera--The Tech
Allyn Milner (left) and Monir Hossain (right) perform in a concert presented by the MIT Heritage of the Arts of South Asia on Friday night in Killian Hall.

Perhaps by Jennifer DiMase

Bartholemew Squeak by Solar C. Olugebefola

Gabor Csanyi--The Tech
Aaron D. Mazzeo '01 demonstrated his violin virtuoso, and then went on to share the first prize last Friday in MacGregor House.

Off Course by Hugo

Greg Kuhnen--The Tech
Melvin Pullen '98 leaps up to shoot in last Thursday's game against Clark University. MIT won in overtime 85-81.

Gabor Csanyi--The Tech
Damon Lewis '99 performs "Variations On My Favorite Things".

Greg Kuhnen--The Tech
Sara J. Elice '01 demonstrates the use of a condom as part of Keeping Intimacy Safe and Sensual, and event sponsored by Medlinks in the Student Center on Friday afternoon.

Rhino Man by Zachary Emig