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city and surrounding areas and tomeet other freshmen and upper-classmen. It also gives freshmenwho aren't rushing omething funand interesting to do," said ValerieL. Pires '00, also a member of theRIO Committee for tours andevents.

Students went on a tour ofBoston's Back Bay and visited themany stores, art galleries, and cafeson ewbury and Boylston Streets.Freshmen were also able to go shop-ping in Faneuil Hall and the adja-cent Quincy Market. In addition,they got a behind-the-scenes tour ofFenway Park while learning aboutRed Sox history.

Many students attended the infa-mous Boston Duck Tour in whichstudents explored Boston by bothland and water on a historic World

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Farzana Mohamed '98 drives a go-kart during the ISP open house.

"It's been good, it's been flow-ing well," said Van L. Chu '99, amember of the RIO Committee fortours and events.

"The purpose of the tours is toallow freshmen to get to know the

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The RIO Committee has spon-sored many tours to occupy the timeof freshmen and help them explorethe city which surrounds them.

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In between examining variousliving options during Residence andOrientation Week, freshmen havealso had the opportunity, within

By Zareena HussainASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

IVO Tours Introduce Frosh to Boston Sites

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Expo, Page 11 Harvard Square, the flamboyant center of Cambridge life, Is one of the areas freshmen explored during RIO.

By Frank DabekASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Daily Confusion drops eventsSeveral groups said that they

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Living Groups' Pledge ResLikely to Meet Expectations

As rush nears its final days,reports from fraternities and otherindependent living groups indicatethat this year's rush, while notexceptional, is on par with expecta-tions.

"We're on target for the high300s," said Neal H. Dorow, assis-tant dean for Residence and CampusActivities and adviser to fraternities,sororities, and independent livinggroups. "The numbers are compara-ble to previous years which haveaveraged around 375." ReA fore-casted that 375 freshmen wouldmove into FSILGs this year.

Most rush chairs were satisfiedwith the way rush went.

"Several fraternities exceededtheir expectations and are veryhappy with rush," Dorow said.

Jason T. Timpe '99, rush chairfor Theta Chi, said this was an"excellent year."

Alpha Tau Omega also had an"exceptionally good year," said rushchair MattHew T. Kixmoeller '98.

By May K. TseASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Two m.andatory academic eventsfor the freshmen will take placetoday, starting with the Core Blitz at10:45 a.m. in Kresge Auditorium,followed by the Academic Expo at12:30 p.m. in Johnson AthleticsCenter.

The Core Blitz will feature briefpresentations from professors fromvarious departments, regarding dif-ferent classes freshmen can take tofulfill their science core require-ments.

"I wilJ be talking to the freshmenabout the calculus options and thevarious choices they have to make,"said James R. Munkres, professor ofmathematics.

The other speakers includeProfessor of Physics Alan H. Guth'68, Professor of Chemistry RobertJ. Silbey, Associate Professor ofMaterials Science and EngineeringDavid K. Roylance, and Professorof Biology Harvey F. Lodish.Professor of Music and Theater ArtsPeter Child will also give a presen-tation regarding the Humanities,Arts, and Social Sciences require-ment. •

"A lot of freshmen still have

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minority rule. De Klerk became oneof two deputy presidents inMandela's government of unity. Buthe pulled his party out of the coali-tion once South Africa's new con-stitution was approved in May 1996.

De Klerk set out on a crusade toremake the party. But "it was neverclear what he was trying to do," saidLaurie Nathan, executive director ofthe Center for Conflict Resolution atthe University of Cape Town.

"How does he play the role ofnational leader committed to recon-ciliation, and. at the same timeadvance the interests of his politicalparty?"

De Klerk had hoped to broadenhis party's appeal to lure SouthAfricans unhappy with the ANC.When he conceded defeat toMandela in 1994, de Klerk, ever theconsummate politician, vowed thathis party would make another runfor the presidency in 1999. But hisefforts to enlarge the party failed.

Like most other white leaders ofthe apartheid era, de Klerk refusedto apply for amnesty for crimescommitted in the name of whiterule. Last spring, he enraged thecountry's Truth and ReconciliationCommission, the panel created torecord the ordeal of the system'sv.ctims, by blaming torture. andother atrocities on low-ranking offi-cials',

He has maintained that he didnot know about such deeds perpe- .tratcid by police death squads andother security forces.

Analysts said de Klerk's likelysuccessor, due to be picked Sept. 9,is either Hernus Kriel, the WesternCape provincial premier and aleader of the party's right wing, orNP executive director Marthinusvan Schalkwyk.

De Klerk will keep his positionuntil that selection is made and thenplans to work on his autobiography,he said.

gathered documents that do not con-tradict Gore's earlier statements thathe had acted within the law.

At a March news conference,Gore repeatedly asserted there was"no controlling legal authority" thatprohibited him or the president frommaking solicitations on federalproperty. At the time, Gore said hemade fund-raising calls "on a fewoccasions" from his West Wingoffice in December 1995 and thespring of 1996.

The White House subsequentlysaid he made as many as 50 calls toat least 38 different donors.

The new figures include 46direct fund-raising pitches by Gorebetween Nov. 28, 1995 and May 2,1996. In 10 other cases, he tried toreach donors but did not getthrough.

In addition, Gore placed as manyas 37 other calls that a White Houseofficial described as expressions ofappreciation to individuals who hadcommitted to raise money for theClinton-Gore ticket.

The new documents do notreveal exactly how much Gore mayhave raised for the party. But aNovember 1995 memo prepared byDNC officials proposed that Clintonand Gore both make calls in aneffort to raise $1.2 million. Clintonhas said he does not recall makingfund-raising solicitations but mayhave done so.

As for Gore, he only contactedthos supporters who had givenlarge sums - at least $25,000 - tothe Democrats in the past.

South African will not forget therole de Klerk played in effecting amooth transition from our painful

past to the di pensation SouthAfrica enjoy today," he toldreporters.

A statement from Mandela' sAfrican ational Congress called deKlerk's decision a "recognition ofthe obvious reality that the captainsof apartheid cannot easily tran fonnthemselves into co-architects of thenew outh Africa,"

"I think he realized that his timehad come to get out of the politicalrace with honor," said Mark Malan,a senior researcher at the Institutefor Security Studies inJohannesburg, South Africa.

De Klerk's party is in disarraytoday, plagued by political infight-ing that has led to a host of defec-tions by some moderate members.Some observers read his departureas a sign that the P may revert toits traditional hard line.

When de Klerk became presidentin 1989 after having served as amember of Parliament and as educa-tion minister - presiding over aschool system that spent 10 timesmore on white children than onblacks - supporters assumed hewould protect the apartheid regime.Instead, the fonner lawyer shockedthe nation by announcing that whitedomination had to end for SouthAfrica to enjoy real peace.

Within a year, he legalized 60anti-apartheid groups, including theANC, and freed hundreds of politi-cal prisoners. After liberatingMandela, he removed the notoriouslegislative pillars of apartheid andbegan talks on a transition todemocracy, effectively negotiatinghimself out of power.

Mandela's party defeated deKlerk's in a landslide in the 1994national election, the first to includevoting by all races and the one thatmarked the end of 350 years of

agree. The law's fund-raising banwould, however, apply to Quinn.

Quinn, now in private practice,said in a statement that he was mak-ing thank-you calls to supporters,not fund-raising solicitations.

"Under the applicable federalregulations, it is perfectly pennissi-ble to express thanks, as I did, topolitical supporters for theirefforts," Quinn said.

The call sheets he used were pre-pared by the DNC, however, andnoted the amount each call recipienthad pledged to raise or contribute.

The new documents promptedcriticism from GOP Senate investi-gators, who have been frustrated bythe White House's piecemeal pro-duction of records. The SenateGovernmental Affairs Committeewill reconvene its hearings earlynext month, with Gore's fund-rais-ing calls one topic on the agenda.

uThe number of calls keepsgoing up," said Paul Clark,spokesman for the Senate probe. "Itstarted as a few calls.

Now it's approaching 10 callsand some of those were at taxpayerexpense. We can't seem to get astraight answer. The question iswhat we still don't know. It's begin-ning to look like a potentialcoverup."

However, Ginny Terzano,Gore's press secretary, insisted thatthe vice president has been up frontabout the matter ever since the con-troversy over his calling habitsbroke out in March. The latest num-bers, she said, came from recently

By Ann . SimmonLOS A GELES TIMES

F.W, de Kl rk, outh Africa'la t white president and the manwho led the di mantling ofapartheid, resigned as leader of theoppo ition ational Party onTue day and stepped out of thepolitical limelight.

In a surprise announcement, deKlerk, 61, told a packed news con-ference in Cape Town, outhAfrica, that he is retiring becau e "itis in the be t interest of the partyand the country."

Ending a career that pannedalmost a quarter-century, de Klerk- who shared the 1993 ob IPeace Prize with President elsonMandela for his role in bringingdemocracy to South Africa - alsothrew into question the future of theparty that institutionalized racialdiscrimination and nurtured it for 46years.

"This party must continue withnew, fresh ideas, with new, youngleadership which can take us for-ward," he said. "A significant obsta-cle for the National Party is the per-ception that ... it is still linked to aguilt-laden past ... That symbol isremoved now. tt

De Klerk urged his followers tocontinue supporting the NationalParty, or NP, which he said remainsthe only one that can "take care ofyour interests." Under de Klerk, theNational Party had opened its doorsto all races.

It was de Klerk - the scion ofan Afiikaner family - who in 1990Iifted a 30-year-old ban onMandela's African NationalCongress, or ANC, and nine dayslater freed Mandela from prison,where he had served 27 years of alife sentence for sabotage againstthe white-led government.

Mandela, hearing Tuesday'snews, was gracious. "I only hope..-

By Marc LaceyLOS ANGELES TIMES

Documents Indicate AI GoreMade More Fund-Raising Calls

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The number of fund-raising callsmade by Vice President Al Goregrew even higher Tuesday as newlyavailable documents showed thatGore telephoned more than 75donors in 1995 and '96 to encouragethem to support the DemocraticParty.

The records, which were provid-ed to Senate investigators in recentweeks, increase .by several dozenthe number of telephone pitchesmade from Gore's White Houseoffice.

They also show that theDemocratic National Committee, atGore's urging, reimbursed the fed-eral treasury earlier this year for$24.20 to cover the cost of 20 fund-raising calls th&t were not chargedto a campaign credit card account.

The documents also link fonnerWhite House counsel Jack Quinn tothe controversy. Wllile Quinn wasGore's chief of staff, he telephonedat least two dozen donors in 1995,apparently from his White Houseoffice.

Quinn's predeces or as WhiteHouse counsel, Abnor J. Mikva,issued a memo in 1995 warning thatuno fund-raising phone calls or mailmay emanate from the White Houseor any other federal building."

Mikva's memo was an interpre-tation of the Hatch Act, whichWhite House officials contend doesnot apply to Clinton or Gore, a pointon which various legal experts dis-

California ttomey Generalo upports Pot esearc

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u.S. Grants Political AsylumTo Two orth Korean Diplomats

The Clinton admini tration gave political asylum Tuesday toorth Korea's ambas ador to Egypt and his brother, al 0 a diplomat,

setting up a potential intelligence bonanza for Washington and itsallies.

State Department spokesman James P. Rubin announced thedefection of Chang Sung Gil, orth Korea's ambassador to Egypt,and his brother, Chang Sung Ho, who had been part of a trade mis-sion in Paris. The ambassador is the highest-ranking diplomat todefect from the secretive Communist-ruled nation and the mostimportant orth Korean defector ever to seek asylum in the UnitedStates instead of South Korea.

Rubin said asylum was also granted to the ambas ador's wife. Hesaid the defectors are in the United States, but he declined to saywhere or when they might appear in public.

Although Rubin also declined to specify the sort of intelligenceChang ha brought with him, there were news reports that the ambas-sador has important infonnation about orth Korea's missile sales toIran and Syria. As the orth's top diplomat in the Middle East andbefore that a vice foreign minister, Chang almost certainly had accessto the details of North Korea's clandestine missile export program.

WEATHERLabor Day Hopes

By Gerard RoeSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

A A ha 10 t contact with a 50 million Earth-ob ervation atel-lite launched only four days ago. About 6 a.m. Tue day, ground con-troller di covered that the Lewi atellite - placed in orbit 200mile high early aturday morning E tern time - wa pinning outof control at about two revolution per minute, ASA official aid.

0, far the mo t likely cau e i the accidental firing of one of theatellite' thruster. "But that's pure peculation," said amuel L.

Venneri, chieftechnologi t at A A headquarter.Becau e of the rotation, the atellite' solar power generator

apparently were unable to provide ufficient electricity to keep theonboard batteries charged, making communication impos ible. Fourattempt to contact the spacecraft from the mission' Chantilly, Va.,control center were unsucces ful. But officials at A A and TR W

pace & Electronic Group in California, which built the atellite,remained optimistic.

"We have approximately three week to look at what happened,"aid Venneri. "That> plenty of time" to try to get the high-tech

orbiter to re pond and to order it to fire the appropriate thruster tocounter the pin.

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ACRAMENTO. CALIF.

Attorney General Dan Lungr n, the tno t vocal critic ofCalifornia' new medical marijuana law, announced his supportTuesday for a 3 million re earch program intended to settle thedecade -long di pute over the drug' benefits and failings for the ill.

The deci ion by the tate's conservative top lawman to back a billby liberal Democratic tate en. John Va concello unifies two politi-cal opposite who have clashed repeatedly over medical marijuana.

Lungren, a gubernatorial hopeful who boa ts a long hi tory as aanti-drug warrior, decided to back Vasconcellos' bill only after it hadbeen ufficiently modified to ensure that the tate-funded research,slated to be conducted over three years by the University ofCalifornia, would be unas ailablyobjective.

"California needs a definitive study," Lungren said at a new con-ference. "I do not fear the findings of an unbiased research project."

Gov. Pete Wil on, who mu t approve the funding, has expressedqualm . But the biparti an push for re earch in the nation' most pop-ulous tate could mark a sea change in the battle over marijuana asmedicine.

If tudies go forward in California and produce olid results oneway or another, it could have significant ramification for the state'snew medical pot law, Propo ition 215, a well as the nationwidedebate on the drug,

"In many ways Lungren's endorsement today was like ixongoing to China:' aid Dave Fratello, spoke man for the group thatponsored Proposition 215. "Evidence that could lead to federal

(Food and Drug Administration) approval would change the debateon thi fundamentally. But the opponents are gambling that the stud-ies will come out ambivalent, ifnot negative:'

LOS A GELES TIMES

Any overnight showers should have cleared away by morningleaving only residual cloudiness. The next feature on the horizon is amessy low pressure intensifying in Canada, which will create a weakcold front approaching the area on Wednesday evening. This willbring with it largely overcast skies, and there is some chance of pre-cipitation, perhaps even a rumble or two of thunder. This slow mov-ing system will hang around into Thursday, continuing the unsettledweather. The pattern looks set to break however for Friday and oninto the early part of the last weekend of summer.

Wedne day: Partly cloudy in the morning. High touching on80°F (27°C). Moderate wind from the south. Becoming overcast late.

Wednesday night: Cloudy with a chance of a shower. Low65°F (18°C).

Thursday: Cloudy with a good chance of rain during the earlypart'ofthe day. High 75°F (24°C). Low 58°F (14°C).

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Coverdell Joins Helms in OppositionTo Weld as Ambassador to Mexico

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu '76, on his first trip toEast Asia, is in Japan this week offering the region's corporate giantsa "marriage made in economic heaven."

In meetings with Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and leadersof Japanese industry, Netanyabu has been touting what he says is thenews from Israel that is often lost in the blur of daily headlines aboutMiddle East politics and security.

"We are changing the face of Israel to become one of the three orfour leading centers of technology in the world," Netanyahu said in aspeech to foreign correspondents here.

Netanyahu said Israel has seen "explosive growth" in high-techinnovation, in areas such as biotechnology, robotics, laser technologyand computers. He said Israel has 1,000 new start-up companies inhigh technology, second only to the United States.

Now, he said, Israel needs partners to turn its ideas into profits. Sohe is spending the week touring Japan and South Korea to pitchIsraeli know-how.

"Innovation without production and marketing is useless," he said."1 am here to offer a marriage made in economic heaven between theformidable Japanese production and marketing capabilities andIsrael's newfound technological prowess."

BERLINTHE WASHINGTON POST

Netanyahu COurts JapanAs Technology Partner

TOKYO

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Lewis Has No Regrets, Many PlansAfter Competitive Farewell

Scores on the Scholastic Assessment Test, one of the UnitedStates' key barometers of academic fitness for college-bound seniors,show that math achievement is up three points, reaching the highestlevel in 26 years. But results of the verbal test showed no growth -perhaps because high school students today take fewer English cours-es than they did a decade ago.

The nationwide average for exams taken during the last schoolyear was 511 in math and 505 in verbal ability, according to theCollege Board, the private New York-based group that sponsors theannual college entrance exam.

A record 32 percent of students who took the SAT exams wereminorities, the College Board said. That represents a 10-point gainfrom 1987.

The College Board report also showed a wide gap in achievementbetween public and private schools. In California, for instance,parochial students averaged 526 on the verbal portion of the examand 518 on math, while students from other private schools averaged574 on the verbal exam and 582 in math. Those scores were as muchas 84 points higher than the public school averages.

Although girls consistently earn higher high school grades, theirSAT scores continue to lag behind boys', with the gap reaching 36points in math and four points in verbal skjIl.

Cherokee Chief AgreesTo End Tribal Infighting

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SAT Math Scores Are Up,Verbal Scores Remain Constant

THE WASHINGTON POST

After months of vicious tribal infighting, Cherokee Chief Joe Byrdannounced Tuesday that he had signed an agreement with the InteriorDepartment to end the turmoil and to reinstate the law enforcementofficials he had di missed in the middle of an investigation of tribalexpenditure .

Bryd has been under pressure from state and federal officials toresolve the crisis that has all but paralyzed the nation'-g second-largesttribe since February. Within the past six months, Byrd had fired theCherokee Mar hal Service and the tribal prosecutor, and engineeredthe impeachment of the tribe's highest court - which had questionedhis authority and ethics.

With more than $80 million in federal funds annually appropriat-ed to the tribe, the situation quickly caught the attention ofWashington. Interior and Justice Department officials have beenworking intensively in recent days to broker an agreement before thetribe's national holiday this weekend. The three-day celebration com-memorates the reunification of the Cherokee ation in 1939

When the marathon negotiations in Washington stalled lateFriday, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Sen. Don. ickles, R-Okla., placed the blame on Bryd's shoulders. Byrd agreed to return tothe table Monday, and when he arrived back here from Washingtonon Tuesday, after signing the agreement, he called for peace andcooperation.

Carl Lewis took what he called his final bows. Tuesday night asthe curtain fell for perhaps the last time on the most successful trackand field career in history.

Lewis, who has savored more encores than Pavarotti, ran his lastofficial race by anchoring a 4x 100-meter relay "Dream Team" ofDonovan Bailey, Leroy Burrell and Frankie Fredericks to an easyvictory in 38.24 seconds in the climax of the European track and fieldsummer season.

The nine-time Olympic gold medalist will perform once more, athalftime of a University of Houston football game next month, but heinsists Tuesday's race was his farewell to competition.

No other athlete in recent times stood in - and loved - the spot-light as much as Lewis. From the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles toSeoul in 1988 to Barcelona in 1992 to Atlanta in 1996, Lewis usedthe Olympic Games as a personal stage.

"I woke up several times in the middle of the night and said tomyself, 'I can't believe it,' but this is really the end," he said in aninterview before the race as he relaxed in the VIP tribune of Berlin'sOlympic Stadium, where Adolf Hitler once fumed as Jesse Owensshattered the myth of the Aryan superman in the 1936 Olympics.

so Russia can claim a role in theplanned international space station.

"There is nothing tragic there,"Yelt in said during a visit to theRussian city of Saratov. "And theguys, according to American spacespecialists, did a good job. Theythought the station was written off,that it's impossible to carry outexperiments th reo othing of thesort. The station is alive and will bealive."

Vladimir Solovyev, the MissionControl director, said the latestreports of a breakdown in the oxy-gen system were "a completelyincomprehensible uproar." He toldreporters, "to our greatest joy, and Ithink to your deep disappointment,nothing extraordinary has happenedaboard the station."

Meanwhile, Russian officialssaid Tuesday they are still trying torestore more electrical power to Mirfrom the Spektr module's solar pan-els. After the June 25 accident, Mirhas been operating on reduced elec-trical power, which has limited sci-entific experiments.

against Helms.It also undermines the argument

that this is strictly a Helms vendettaagainst Weld, whose moderatesocial policies are anathema to theconservative North Carolinian. Assecretary of the Senate RepublicanConference, Coverdell is a memberof the Senate GOP leadersh,ip.

Coverdell said he met with Weldthree weeks ago and told him that"the confrontational and publicnature of his campaign for this post"displayed a lack of diplomacy. "Assomeone who has been the subjectof Senate confirmation himself, Ibelieve that the process is in someways, fairly or unfairly, an impor-tant test of these abilities."

"If the Foreign Relations com-mittee would give Gov. Weld theopportunity he deserves to answertheir questions in a committee hear-ing, he would amply demonstratehis qualifications for this job," saiddeputy press secretary Barry Toiv."We believe there is a bipartisansupport for a hearing and for his

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status report on Mir was i ued, at 2p.m. EDT, carrying details of theproblem.

Russian officials once againexpre ed surprise and irritation atthe extensive news media coverageof Mir's travails. They had notannounced the oxygen problem pub-licly, and they often have regardedmalfunctions a just another day'swork. There have been hundreds ofsuch small breakdowns over theyears on Mir, which has been occu-pied longer than any other space sta-tion.

"I am sorry to say that thesesmall imperfections are presented aslethally dangerous, tragic events,"deputy flight director Viktor Blagovsaid. "It's not correct."

President Boris Yeltsin alsojumped to the defense of the 11-year-old space station, whose trou-bles have become symbolic ofRussia's quest to remain a globalpower on a shoestring budget. Atthe time it was launched, Mir had apredicted service life of five years,and it is being kept in orbit in part

senior of foreign service officers,not unlike Moscow or Bosnia,"Coverdell said in a statement afterinforming Clinton and Weld of hisviews last week.

Coverdell also joined Helms inquestioning whether Weld, who hassupported medicinal use of marijua-na, is sufficiently committed tofighting drugs. "Whoever serves asambassador to Mexico must also beseen as having an absol~telyunquestioned commitment to thewar on drugs," he said. "I do notthink all of Gov. Weld's publicactions and statements on this issuesquare with that requirement."

Coverdell's statement adds to thealready roiling battle within theGOP over Weld's nomination.Helms has refused to schedule aconfirmation hearing, claimingWeld is soft on drugs. Sen. RichardG. Lugar (Ind.), the panel's second-ranking Republican, has challengedHelms, demanded hearings and atone point suggested he could use hisposition as chairman of the Senate'AgtictlltUre 'Committee to retaliMte

By David HoffmanTHE WASHINGTON POST

MOSCOW

Two balky oxygen generatorsaboard the Mir space station wererepaired late Monday at almost thesame time ASA reported theywere malfunctioning. RussianMission Control officials announcedthe repair Tuesday with more than atouch of annoyance at the intensescrutiny of every mishap aboard thetroubled vessel. The Russian offi-cials said both the primary oxygen -system and the backup system,using solid-fuel "candles" to gener-ate oxygen, are in working order.The announcement Monday fromNASA in Houston that both werebroken had touched off alarms thatyet another serious problem couldbe facing the two Russian cosmo-nauts and American astronaut onboard.

Russian officials said the repairswere completed quickly, by 10:30p.m. Moscow time Mondayevening, or 2:30 p.m. EDT. Thatwas half an hour after NASA's daily

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Damaged Oxygen Ge e atoRepaire on Be eaguere

By Helen DewarTHE WASHINGTON POST

A key Republican member of theSenate Foreign RelationsCommittee on Tuesday joined com-mittee Chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.C., in publicly opposing confir-mation of former MassachusettsGov. William Weld (R) as ambas-sador to Mexico and called onPresident Clinton to withdrawWeld's nomination.

Sen. Paul Coverdell, R-Ga.,chairman of the panel's subcommit-tee for the Western Hemisphere andinternational narcotics, criticizedWeld's "confrontational" fight forthe post, questioned his diplomaticskills and said the job requires"someone with significant experi-ence" in U.S.-Mexican relations,especially in light of Mexico's .prob-lems with drug trafficking.

"It is my opinion that the situa-tion in Mexico has escalated to suchproportions that our ambassadorshould be for the foreseeable future

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.Honse Leader Flunks Agencies'Strategic Plans for ImprovementBy Stephen Barr assessment, the Social Security bonus points to agencies that bestTHE WASHINGTON POST Administration had the dubious dis- explained their performance mea-

WASHINGTON tinction of finishing first with the surement ystems.House Majority Leader Richard highest score, 62 out of a possible His letter drew heavily on GAO

K. Armey, R-Tex., has handed out 105 points. reviews of the agency strategicfailing grades to the top federal The Labor Department was plans, but the agency rankings wereagencies for inadequately meeting awarded the lowest score, at 6.5 drawn up primarily by Republican-the requirements of a new law ,points. The average score was 29.9, led congressional teams.aimed at measuring the performance Armey said. GAO, for example, faulted theof government programs. Armey faulted the agencies for Commerce Department's draft

Draft "strategic plans" prepared failing to provide statutorily strategic plan for failing to linkby federal agencies for the required information, such as mis-' long-term program goals to annualGovernment Performance and sion statem.ents and strategies to performance goals and for not dis-Results Act left out required ele- achieve goals; for paying scant cussing how program evaluationsments and did not address major attention to program duplication were used to establish departmentalmanagement problems, Armey said inside their agencies and across the goals.in a letter explaining his report card. government; and for remaining Commerce programs overlap

The Results Act, signed by silent on management problems pre- those at other agencies, but thePresident Clinton in 1993 as a build- viously identified by the General department did not adequately dis-ing block for his "reinventing gov- Accounting Office and inspectors cuss its shared responsibilities,ernment" initiative, gave the agen- general. GAO said. For instance,cies time to prepare the five-year However, Armey acknowledged Commerce's environmental pro-strategic plans, which are supposed that his comments were based on grams cross over programs at theto be published next month. In theo- draft versions of the strategic plans, Agriculture, Defense, Interior, Statery, the law will force agencies to and he praised agencies for previous and Transportation departments asexplain their goals for major pro- consultations with Congress. He well as the Environmentalgrams, measure their progress and told Raines he hoped the report card Protection Agency.demonstrate what the public gets for would be useful as agencies rewrote Commerce also failed to addressits tax dollars. their drafts for the Sept. 30 deadline. its management challenges, such as

But, as Armey said in his Aug. 7 Armey's report card gives equal the design of the 2000 census, com-letter to Office of Management and weight to 10 evaluation factors, puter modernization at the NationalBudget Director Franklin D. Raines, even though some of the standards Weather Service and escalatingthe report card illustrates "rather are not directly addressed by the costs for an upgrade of labs at thestarkly how far agencies are from Results Act. National Institute of Standards andthe ideaL" Under the co~gressional His scoring method also awarded Technology.

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good-faith effort to do quite that. orne grouptake advantage of the insecurity fre hmen feelduring their first few weeks at college, draw-ing them into huge time commitments andpressuring them under the gui e of promotinga strong religious commitment. These groupshave been known to isolate freshmen and ruintheir lives for a substantial period of time.

The biggest such group to watch out foraround MIT is the Boston Church of Christ, aChristian cult that sends out proselytizers inpairs to recruit heavily at MIT, often illegallyin the Infinite Corridor and, strangely enough,in the East Campus courtyard. There are alsothe Scientologists (a more blatant sort of cult,if only for their obvious silliness), who passout fliers at the 77 Massachusetts Ave. cross-walk about self-improvement and your IQ;what they want in actuality is your money.

If you steer clear of those two groups,you'll probably be okay. But don't think for asecond that just because you're not joining anout-and-out cult doesn't mean you're not nec-essarily joining a group that doesn't put sig-nificant divisions between you and others. I'm -far from a fan of the idiotic and endlessrhetoric around MIT about the need for unity,but it doesn't take much to see where some ofthe dividing lines around here start.Hopefully, you won't need a bad experiencewith religion to show you.

ftepace tell you about themselve and maybe

even try to get you to join. But the as umptionthe Christian sign make is that there's somereason you should be very interested in thefact that there are Chri tians at MIT.

Who would be interested in such a mes-age? Christians, obviously, and possibly orne

other who want desperately to be prosely-tized. Surely the message i not a purely infor-mational one. (Did someone actually doubtthat there were Christians at MIT?) Ostensibly,the sign is directed at all fre hmen, as thoughthey'd all somehow be interested inChristianity. Well, word to the wise; not allfreshmen are Christian. And not all of usappreciatebeing addressed as though we were.

Religion is a erious matter at MIT, oftentaken a little too seriously - and a little toodivisively. It isn't only Christian groups thatare at fault. Many other religious groups (andethnic groups, for that matter) seem to clumptogether in disturbingly large numbers.

The tendency for people to want to be partof a group is natural, particularly when theymight feel lost and unattached during a timelike the start of college. A good, healthy reli-gious group recognizes this reality and triesmake newcomers feel welcome. Many reli-gious groups at and around MIT do their bestto help freshmen adjust.

Not all religious groups, however, make a

Hey, freshmen, there are athei t at MIT.And pagans and uslims and Hindus and

Buddhi t and Jews and a bunch of differentflavors in between.

Of cour e, youcan't miss the slightlydifferent version ofthat slogan directed atfreshmen that' onigns around campus.

The real signs read,"Hey, freshmen, thereare Christian at MIT."Well, well, well.Who'd have thunk it?

When I first aw tho e signs as a fre hmanthree years ago, I wondered what exactly theywere uppo ed to mean to me. So there areChri tian at MIT. Yeah. 0 what? Should I beany more interested in that fact than, say, thefact that there are bird watchers at MlT? Theign was talking to me, I gues ed, since I was a

freshman, but on the other hand, I certainlywasn't Christian, nor was I the least bit inter-ested in becomingone.

I might not have cared at all had it notstruck me that the sign wa different from theother sign put up by activities in the InfiniteCorridor. The other activities with poster

Extropians Flounder on Diversity, ReasonColumn by Sharmln Ghaznavl well-thought-out. At best, the arguments by thought. These are the same elements thatSTAFF REPORTER the Extropians are testament to their myopia compose cultures, and segregation has kept

As much as I hate to add to the controver- and total lack of insight. cultures apart. Creating cultural diversity issy surrounding the MIT Extropians, I felt the First, the Extropians argue for an emphasis crucial to creating diversity of thought.need to write something after reading the e- on diversity of thought instead of emphasis on Interestingly enough, however, the samemail they received and posted on their World cultural and racial diversity. What the individuals who argue for diversity of thoughtWide Web site praising the group's lucidity Extropians fail to realize is that as a conse- also herald the superiority of math andand insight. quence of segregation - both the imposed physics to all other disciplines, referring to

I realized after reading through the e-mails segregation of the past and self segregation of them as "monuments of the human mind."that the strengths of the Extropians arguments the present - diversity of thought is closely While I agree these disciplines are, as theylie in their cogency and eloquence. Their man- linked to cultural diversity. It is no secret that call them, "monuments of the human mind,"ifesto is well written - so well written - that differences in rituals, location, history, and so is every other discipline. A small step outwhat goes virtually unnoticed is that it is not even language give rise to unique bodies of of the paradigm of scientific evaluation is all

that's needed to recognize as much. By plac-ing this emphasis on math and physics, theExtropians inherently support the convergenceof all thought into the framework of mathe-matical and scientific paradigms, contradict-ing their desire for diversity of thought.G~L.l;i~=-- The Extropians also endorse reading acommon literature and listening to the samemusic, among other seemingly conformistsuggestions. How is this supporting diversityof thought? At best, reading the same booksand listening to the same music, provides for alimited range of opinion and thought on thesame books and same music.

After close look at the Extropians' argu-ments, their superficial insightfulness quicklygives way to the fact that they have merelyraised up age old issues at MIT. They havebrought up nothing new and contributed onlytheir not so unique brand of cynicism.

The Extropians argue that freshmen arecapable of reason, and I would agree withthem on this point. But if reason is what theExtropians want freshmen to use, why didn'tthey allow freshmen to consider their MITexperiences in time and come to their ownconclusions? The Extropians instead chose togive freshmen a manifesto full of precon-ceived warnings and ideals to live up to.

The Extropians seem much like parentswho seek to live their lives vicariouslythrough those of their children. Rather thanthe sages they regard themselves as, theExtropians look a lot more like a group of bit-ter individuals seeking to reclaim their earlierMITyears.

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effect of FLP on the MIT community after onlya few days. We did not see a FLP clique splitoff from the class of 2000 after FLP 1996. Whatwe did ee wa these freshmen go into manydifferent living groups and, through connectionswith each other, begin to bring the MIT com-munity cIo er together. That was our main aim.

If you want to know more about the FLPprogram and activities, you should ask partici-pants or check out the FLP World Wide Webpage. Please do not learn about it from peoplewho have not done any research beforedeclaring their opinions.

After reading some of the columns thathave been printed, it eems that I should beashamed to say that the freshmen who attend-ed FLP enjoyed them elves, that they got a lotout of it, that they made a variety of friends.But I am not a harned. We gave every fresh-man this opportunity, and we are workingharder for next year to make ure more fresh-men and counselors go. We are doing the bestwe can. Instead of faulting the program forgiving some fre hmen a very good experi-ence, we should think about ways to give suchan experience to more people.

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munity in their own way - in cience, insport , in tudent government, in their livinggroup ,or as friends - and that in doing whatthey 10 ed, they benefit d the community.

I find it funny that of five day of activi-tie , the one activity that got the mo t notori-ety was one that could not have la ted morethan 10 minutes over the duration of the camp- heinie-writing. But because it eem soimportant to some, I will give it its unde-erved attention.

The goal of heinie-writing was twofold.First, it made people more relaxed and loweredinhibitions. If fre hmen saw that their coun-selor and other fre hmen were not too cool tolook silly, they would be willing to take moreri ks and let their guard down. econd, heinie-writing provided a nece ary contra t withother more eriou activitie and di Cll ionsthat were ignored by columns like Alt chuI' .

FLP participants did build clo e bond afterspending five day together. It may eem natur-al to simply as ume that these bonds would bestronger than those fonned by other fre hmenduring the first three days of RIO. But if irather premature to make judgements on the

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hip" ha been tos ed around quite a bit in threcent dialogue, but no real definition i evergi en. I found it amu ing that the column byBrett Altschul '99 [' Too Many PerpetuateFal e otion About Leader hip," August 25]condemned our kind of leader hip withoutrealizing that the re t of hi arguments up-ported what we achieved. One of the primarygoals of FLP thi year was building strongteams - taking the talents, experience , andideas of each fre hman and allowing them tocontribute to the group.

I believe that a group's potential can be tbe achieved if everyo~e' ideas can be used ,as opposed to a ituation in which only oneperson is heard. We are not creating politiciansat FLP but rather developing engineer , scien-tists, bu ines men, etc., who can work togetherand individually to achieve their potential.

The highest achievement that could beclaimed of the 1996 FLP program was not thatsix participants went on to become Class of2000 officers. The true success was the factthat 85 freshmen became active in their com-

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There has been a lot of di cu ion late-ly about the Fre hmen LeadershipProgram. Unfortunately, mo t of th di-cussion has been sparked by people who.have not been to or talked to anyoneinvolved in the program. Judgementhave been passed without any informa-tion to support them. As the founder ofFLP and a two-year participant, I wouldlike to shed some light on the discus ion.

FLP was, in its most primitive fonn, a con-clusion to a paper I wrote titled "The Effectsof Housing and Orientation on the Quality ofMIT Student Life." I felt that MIT was a self-segregated community and that measuresshould be taken to bridge gaps between differ-ent groups of people. My primary goal there-fore was to build a sense of communityamong MIT students.

I felt that this could be achieved by givingstudents an opportunity to get to know eachother before the pressures of Residence andOrientation Week and the school year set in.When I decided that a longer orientation (pre-rush) period was 'a good way to achieve thisgoal, I began researching other school pro-grams. The evolution of programs around thecountry leans toward longer, more involvedinteraction between members of the freshmanclass.

By interviewing students at MIT andresearching 'MIT's RIO history, ] becameaware of my second goal - for each individ-ual. I wanted to provide students with an ini-tial positive experience that would give e!ichone the confidence and a sense of communitythat would create the foundations for theirnext four years. I feel that MIT freshmen haveworked hard to get. where they are, and we

" should give them a moment to realize their, achievements and potentials before introduc-

ing them to the tunnoil of college life.Now, some concerns have been raised

about the method I used to achieve thesegoals .. I welcome your opinions; I hope thatmany people can take an active role in crelit-ing an MIT community that is right for them.However, it would be tragic if these decisionswere made before the facts were known.

FLP accepted everyone who applied. Weeven tried our -hardest to bring in freshmen'wn~ appl1e'ij' ell' fier the Qeaffiine. 'We arenot the anointed ones, as some have claimed,but simply those who chose to participate. Theapplication process was used to establishinterest and helped us to know the participantsbetter. I feel that the Admissions Office hasalready done our job of bringing visionariesand leaders to MIT. FLf does not try to select

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corner of Ames and Broadway, sellsvery few textbooks. "It's not a largepart of our business," said SheilaCecchi, manager of corporateaccounts and customer service forQuantum Books.

However, they do stock severalelectrical engineering and computerscience textbooks.

Because Quantum orders booksin small quantitie~, they may be ableto offer the book at a lower pricethan The Coop, which must stock alarge quantity, Cecchi said. ,

APO Book ExchangeAlpha Phi Omega, a coed service

fraternity, will once again spomsor abook exchange. There, students mayfind books at lower prices:. The book exchange will be held

Aug. 2 through Aug. 5 from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m.

Press recommended price.

The CoopThe Coop is currently stocking

80 percent of the textbooks neededfor next semester's classes. This is12 perce'nt ahead of where theywere this time last year, said Bob

, I Devine, general manager of TheCoop in Kendall.

The Coop is the contact for themajority of MIT professors andworks closely with professors toensure that textbooks are available."We have a' pretty good workingrelationship," Devine said.

The Coop is "shooting for 10percent" used book sales this year,and they are currently at about 12percent, he said. Last year, TheCoop had only 3 percent used booksales.

Used books are sold at 25 per-cent off the new book price.

Calculus with AnalyticGeometry, used for Calculus (18.01)and Calculus (18.02) is sold at TheCoop for $86.50.

University Physics VolumeOne, for Physics I (8.01) is sellingfor $58, and Volume Two forPhysics II (8.02) will cost students

~ $47.50.The Coop has a 27 percent

markup on textbooks.Students may sell their textbooks

back to the Coop at up to 50 percentof their cost at the end of the semes-ter, Devine said.

The Coop will also run a shuttlebetween living groups and theirstore on Aug. 2, 3, and 4.

MITPressThe MIT Press, located across

the street from The Coop, publishesmany of the textbooks students willuse this semester.

Students willing to look aroundfor textbooks, especially computerscience texts, may be able to find abetter deal at the MIT Press.

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By Jennifer LaneEDITOR IN CHIEF

As frenzied rush grinds to a halt,reality once again will start to sinkin. There'll be classes to register for,and one burdensome and expensivetask that e~ery student must faceseveral times a year - textbookpUrchasing.

While the traditional site for thissemesterly ritual is the MIT Coop,located in Kendall Square, an aspir-ing student could probably findsome textbooks for a lower price, ifthey looked and waited longenough.

For instance, ComputationalStructures, used in ComputationStructures (6.004) sells for $70 atthe Coop and the MIT Press, whileit is going for $58 at QuantumBooks.

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students, making 364 students total,Davis said. Even so, it will almo tcr-tainly be over ubscribed, shesaid.

The HA -D lottery may beactivated be typing "add hass-d" andthen "xenroll &" from an Athenaterminal. The same command willdisplay students' as ignments afterthe lottery is complete.

The deadline for entries is noonon Tuesday, which is RegistrationDay. The results will definitely beavailable by midnight and possiblyearlier.

PE lottery ees few changesThe PE lottery ha not changed

this year in any significant way, saidCandace L. Royer, director of phys-ical education.

The only change in course offer-ings is that there will be no pistol ,classes this quarter, although theywill resume next quarter, she said.

Royer said that some classes aretypically very popular, like sailing,aerobics, tennis, and weight train-ing. Conversely, some activities,like swimming and table tennis,usually have many open slots.

Students may run the PE lotteryby typing "add pelott" and then"xphedu &" from an Athena terminal.

The results of the lottery will beavailable before midnight nextWednesday, the day the lotterycloses.

Although there i a link to thelottery in the current Web I for-mat, it doe not actually run the lot-tery. "Currently, it ju t hows a pagewith instructions for how to run iton Athena," Oakland said.

The actual H SS-D offeringshave not changed significantlysince last year, aid Bette K.Davis, coordinator of the HASSoffice.

Typically, the number of stu-dents that get their first choice is 83to 91 percent of the t0131who enterthe lottery, Davis said. "The vastmajority of of HASS-Ds are notoverenrolled. "

The ame cour es are expectedto be oversubscribed, she said.The e include Writing and Readingthe Essay (21 W735), Harmony andCounterpoint I (21M301), andIntroduction- to Psychology (9.00),Davis said.

Like last year, only one sectionof 21 W735 will be offered. Beforethat, there were three oversub-scribed sections, Davi said. Thisyear, it will be very oversubscribed.

Reaction to the new lecturer for9.00, Professor of Brain and'Cognitive Sciences Steven Pinker,who started last year, seems to havebeen positive, and the class Will stillbe the largest HASS course at MIT"Davis said.

There will be 14 teaching assis-tants, each with two' sections of 13

'We're hoping that we'll have it upand running for the pring term," hesaid.

The whole program will be inte-grated into the preregi trationproce s on the web tudentInformation y tern. tudent willenter the lottery on the Web, and theprogram will automatically prereg-iter them for their first choice,Oakland aid.

"The H -D and PE lotteriesare running e actly the ame:Oakland ~id.

The HA -0 lottery will notend e-mail with the re ults,

Oakland aid. That feature wasremoved la t year after it experi-enced problems.

Oakland id that next erne ter,the lottery hould be availablethrough the World Wide Web.

•By Brett AltschulASSOCIATE EWS EDITOR

tudents may now enter epa-rate lotteries to elect their phy icaleducation and Humanities, Art,and Social cience Distributionc)as es.

The format for the lottery pro-gram i identical to la t year's, aidAndy Oakland, a programmer forInformation y tern .

Freshmen may begin entering the HAS5-D and PE lotteries today on Athena.

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tern was "h~lpful in some cases."Timpe concurred, saying "if youcould contact freshmen [the system]was good."

Christopher L. Williams '98,rush chair for Theta Xi, said that thehouse used only half of its quota onthe messaging system.

Other factors affect rushThe poor weather for Killian

Kick-Off caused a slow early rushfor some groups, but the move toJohnson did not appear to havemany lasting negative effects ..

Dennis E. Okon '99, rush chairo Pi Lambda Phi, said the "rainFriday didn't help at all. Johnsonwasn't the same as Killian Cou(1."

Several fraternities said thatsummer activities helped their rush.Lee D. Frankenfield '98, rush chairfor Delta Kappa Epsilon said thattheir rush "went well" partly due tobeing effective in the summer rushactivities. Kixmoeller said thatsummer activities were helpfulbecause they led to "not such ablind rush."

Noting that rush isn't yet over,Dorow said, "I think there are somepretty nice living groups that aren'tgetting the attention from freshmenthat they deserve." He said thatsome of these houses will continuerushing through the week.

Josh Rittker, Susan Buchman,and Douglas E. Heimburger con-tributed to the reporting of this.story.

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tacted sa.id that the new FreshmanMessaging System was not effectiveas a rush tool.

"I don't think a lot of freshmenknow about the system," Schustersaid. Jefferey C. Munro '99, assis-tant rush chair for Phi Sigma Kappaagreed, saying, "most [freshmen]were uninformed about the system."

Anuj Mohan '98, rush chair forAlpha Delta Phi, said that the sys-

others benefitted from the errors.Fenway House said that this rush

has gone slowly. Christopher D.Beland '00, rush chair for Fenway,said "part of that might have been[because Fenway events were omit-ted from] The Daily Confusion."

Pika rush chair Nathan J.Williams '98 said that'rush went"very well for us." He attributedpart of his success to the fact thatother lLGs that compete with Pikadid not get their events advertised inThe Daily Confusion, he said.

Dorow said that the problemswith The Daily Confusion "didaffect several houses that dependmore on The Daily Confusion."

Members of Student House,some of whose activities were alsodropped, and Fenway House collab-orated to print and distribute anaddendum, said Erin R. Schuster'98 rush chair for Student House.

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each department, the AcademicExpo will also include representa-tives from the various freshmanalternative programs, the BiomedicalEngineering Minor Office, Pre-lawand Pre-medical Advising, theWellesley-MrT Exchange Program,the MIT Libraries, and the UROPOffice, McGann aid.

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MIT Concert BandRehearsals: Monday & Wednesday, 8pm - 10pm, Kresge.

First Meeting: Wednesday, September 3, 8pm.Read through Concert Band literature and group auditions.

MIT Chamber Music'SocietyFirst meeting & auditions: Tuesday, September 2, 7pm, Killian Hall.

Prepared solo required of new members.

MIT M~sic Department AuditionsMIT Brass Ensemble I Brass Quintets

Rehearsals: Tuesday & Thursday, 5pm - 7pm, Killian Hall. A~ditions:Thursday, September 4, 5pm. Prepared solo and sight-reading required.

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MIT Chamber ChorusRehearsals: Monday & Wednesday 11am - 12:30pm, Killian Hall. Auditions:Wednesday, ~eptember 3, 11 am. Prepared solo and sight-reading required.

MIT Festival Jazz EnsembleRehearsals: Sunday, 7pm - 11pm & Wednesday, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Kresge.

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different ays of thinking. If theydon't how up [at the Core Blitz],they'll be the. ones suffering," said

tal lion E. Yang '99, academicResidence and Orientation Weekco-chair.

'This i planned by students,for tudent," aid A ociate Deanof Undergraduate AcademicAffairs Bonnie J. Walters. 'It'sfocused to help freshmen makewi choices."

"The Core Blitz is meant to bekept to a minimum: what they needto know and think about as theyplan their schedules for fall,"Walters aid.

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p.m., Friday concerts at 1:30 p.m.,Wedne day open rehearsal at 7:30p.m., and Thur day open rehear alsat 10:30 a.m.

One caveat is that tickets may beobtained on the day of the concertonly. Tickets may be obtained at theticket booth upon presentation of avalid MIT ID. One per on may get alimit of two tickets with two validIDs. If there are les then 100 ticketavailable on the day of the perfor-mance, tickets will not be offered.Students can call the student infor-mation line for ticket availability at638-9478.

The Counci I of the Arts al 0underwrites MIT's membership atthe Museum of Fine Arts, saidSusan R. Cohen, director of theCouncil of the Arts at MIT.Students can get free admission bypresenting a valid MIT ID, Cohensaid.

Students can also get into theMuseum of Science free of chargewith presentation of their valid MIT10.

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explore Bos.ton during RIO, stillhave many opportunities in the yearahead, some of which are subsidizedby the Council of the Arts at MIT.

One program the council spon-sors is free tickets for students toconcerts given by the BostonSymphony Orchestra at SymphonyHall. During the BSO's season fromSeptember to May, students can gettickets for Thursday concerts at 8

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War II amphibious vehicle. Studentsalso visited the ew EnglandAquarium.

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The Daily Confusion printedhere i missing many event dueto an RIO Committee error.Additional events are listed inan addendum, but this list is nei-ther complete nor accurate.

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