Volume 118 >> Issue 62 : Tuesday, December 1, 1998

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News

• Sig Ep Suspended by National After Road Trip Keg Incident
• Study Group Recommends Minor Changes to Financial Aid Policies
• After a Year's Hiatus, Charm School Will Again Grace Institute Corridors
• UA Approves Substance-Free Housing Resolution
• MIT Graduate Inspires Crowd with Life Experience

World and Nation

• Texas Sodomy Arrest Opens Legal Battle for Gay Rights
• Philadelphia Crime Statistics Under Attack by Chief, Reno
• Arctic Researchers Trapped by Blizzard, Still in Contact
• AIDS Might Devastate Southern Africa, a Pair of New Reports Say
• News Briefs I
• News Briefs II
• Weather: A Weather Oddity

Columns

• Settling the Other Holocaust
• Ain't He A Playa
• Fight for Right Not Over Yet

Letters to the Editor

• Parallels Between High-Class Institutions
• Letter for Taiwan's Independence Arrogant
• Asylum for Saddam

Comics

Down with Science

ranDomeland

Damned for Life

Bart Squeek

Photographs

Yi Xie -- The Tech
Actor, author, engineer, model, and all around renaissance man Steven Altes '84 spoke about his various careers in a talk sponsored by the class of 2001.

Thomas E. Murphy -- The Tech
Dr. John Gibbons, science advisor to President Clinton, speaks to students and faculty about the relationships between government, science, and technology yesterday in Wong Auditorium. The lecture was part of the Karl Taylor Compton Lecture series.