Volume 118 >> Issue 50 : Friday, October 16, 1998

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News

• Committee Sets Out to Revamp Freshman Curriculum by 2001
• MIT Graduate Wins Nobel Prize for Hall Effect Theory Advances
• Regatta, Speeches, and Concerts Will Round Out Parents' Weekend Events
• Outdoor Afternoon Concerts Provide Break for Students
• University of Virginia Students Arrested for Murder

World and Nation

• Key Programs Get Increases as Spending Deal is Reached
• Middle East Peace Talks Start With No Signs of Compromise
• Dow Surges 330 Points After Surprise Interest Rate Cut
• Air Transport Association Backs FAA On Call for New Aircraft Insulation
• News Briefs I
• News Briefs II
• Weather: Three in a Row!

Columns

• A Wake-Up Call for American Voters
• Keeping the Open Door Policy
• Worrisome Reactions to a Disturbance

Arts

• Theater Review: Shear Madness
• Concert Review: Henry Rollins
• Restaurant Review: Ankara Cafe

Sports

• MIT Field Hockey Improves to 8-4 With Three Straight Wins
• Lady Engineers Stay Perfect in Conference
• Fall Sports Review

Photographs

Tech file photo
Alexandra Pearlman '00 shoots a goal during a grueling soccer game. The team is currently 3-7-1 and has greatly improved from last season.

Tech File Photo
Outside hitter Mayleen Ting '99 spikes the ball in a scrimmage. The team, steadily improving from last season, is currently ranked fourth in New England.

Michelle Povinelli -- The Tech
Sarat Maharaj, art history professor at Goldsmith's College in London, spoke at the Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art. He lectured about women of the Arab-Islamic World Tuesday in the Bartos Theater.

Paramount
Who knows what Ethan Phillips, who plays Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager, will have to say on Saturday, Oct. 24 at the Holiday Inn in Brookline.

Ajai Bharadwaj -- The Tech
Agneta Cederstrom '99 battles a Brandeis University opponent for the ball. MIT tied 1­1 in double overtime.

928 Ways to Get Hurt

Down with Science

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