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Fu~sedge IL d-orrnS c:-cit ed a's p robl e n By Brian Rosenberg Overall, things were -fine"'9 Frank J. Leibly III '93, BTP rush Fraternities and independent IFC Rush Chairman kenneth c h a ir'. living groups-cited -lk of access A.. Chestnut -'92 was unavailable tB. sevemrl 1ho6uis-_s" r'ushto freshmen, active rushing by for comment. went as smoothly as, or- even betdormitories -and possible changes Many individual fraternity ter than, most years. Delta Tau in Institute orientation proce- rush chairs felt differently, how- Delta gained 12 new members, dures as reasons for the below- ever. .Freshmen seemed- more in- exactly the number they were average rush many experienced. terested in staying in dorms than looking for. Scott T. Rickard Jr. Several houses called rush, a :suc- they:have been," said Phi' Kappa '92, the fraternity's rush chair, -atcess, however, and a few gar- Sigma Rush Chair Robert M.,Po- tributed his house's success to nered larger classes than they had lansky -'92. He added that PKS 'help from alumnni and "intense expected. had been lotking for -eight fresh- rushing by our brothers." As of last night, fraternities, men, but ' wound· up with only Zeta Psi's rush was also right and ILGs were reporting 314 five pledges. Polansky cted nu- on target at 19-4,£[shmen. One pledges, not including Phi Gam- merous other problems, including member called it 'goodyear ma Delta (Fiji), for which statis- trouble with Clearinghouse and for meeting guys." -g~: tics were not available. apathy at dormitory desks about Although Advisor to Fraterni- signing freshmen in and out. Andrew T. Liu '92, rush chair ties and Independent Living --Many houses felt restrictions for Phi Sigma Kappa, said things Groups Neal H. Dorow refused on the release of freshmen's went "exceptionally well." PSK to comment on this year's rush,, phone numbers hurt their rush got 19 pledges, though they had he told The Tech last year that efforts significantly. After much -been looking for only 13. Liu atbetween 360- and7 3 freshmen^ -efftrf,! N6 Deltafound only. sev tributed his house's Success to the pledge in an average year. en of the nix freshmen theywere motivation of its seniors. 'SeLate last night, 11 houseslooking for, and attributed much niors are the most experienced again, not, including Fiji had of their 'difficulty to the lack of rushers, and if they are motivatbids still outstanding. phone numbers. ed, you can have a really good InterFraternity Conference Beta Theta Pi, which got 5 rush," he said. President Holly L. Simpson '92, more freshmen than the 12 they Fenway House enjoyed unusual felt that- "rush went pretty well." expected, also reported that success this year, with nearly She added, "People 'are con- freshmen disappeared for long twice as'many people coming cerone' t - we Ic :me s

By'Lakshmaa R'ao More than 1000 new graduate students participatedin the orientation activities organized, by the Graduate Student Council this week. In his welcome address to the new graduate students, President Charles M. Vest urged them to "actively participate in the pursuits of the Institute to find solutions to the problems of energy, environment- and global communication that are, facing the world today." Vest spoke at the orientation picnic for all new graduate students held at the Johnson Athletic Center yesterday. The picnic was shifted from its planned site in Killian Court due to inclement weather. "Graduate education provides a unique opportunity to pursue intense solitary scholarship of the

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type that one may never be -engaged in the rest of fone's] life," he added. Speaking at the picnic, Dean of the Graduate School Frank E. Perkins '55 said that "graduate students, with a strength of about 5000, comprise a special group of people in the Institute,· outnumbering the undergraduate population by several hundreds." "Graduate students represent a diversity of background and awide variety of undergraduate experiences. One-third of the graduate students are international students," he added. Perkins told the picnickers that "graduate education at MIT operates in a completely decentralizedl.fashion, with the individual departments and the faculty monitoring the progress of individual students. The graduate school merely provides the guide-

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As the beginning event for the orientation part of Residence/Orientation Week, Provost Mark S. Wrighton answered the question, "What is a provost?" The event began with Wrighton wandering out of the crowd dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and calf-high tennis socks, explaining his manner of dress as a way to mingle with the freshmen. After donning more "academic" clothing, the provost then set about convincing the assembled freshmen that the third definition of Provost was not as correct as the fourth. 16

Books reasonably priced at Coop

By Karen Kaplan A comparison of textbook prices for popular fall-term courses shows that books are slightly more expensive at the Harvard Cooperative Society in Kendall Square than at other nearby bookstores and book exchanges, but that the Coop has the best selection. This fall, the required textbooks for Introduction to Com. . . ~~~~. puters-and Engineering Problem sex acts. One scene shows a con- Solving (1.00) are The C Prodom.being unrolled Ionto an erect gramming Language, second edipeni s . Anotherdemonstrates the tion by Kernigham, and A Book correct use of dental dams while on C::Programming in C-ANSI performing oral sex on a woman. C, second edition, by Kelley.The Jill B. Soley '92 and Aaron T. Kernigham text sells for $33.00 at rurtia--Ph '91 pPr ced -.dir ect- -botlh.-the -Coop-and -at- Quantum Books in Kendall Square. The ed, and narrated the video. "I would like as many people Kelley book-costs $35.25 at the .as possible [to see the video], in Coop and $32.95 at Quantum particular, freshmen," Soley said. Books. Neither is for sale at the "People very often don't know MIT Press Bookstore, also in stuff thy need to know. It's pret- Kendall Square. ty scary. AIDS and chlamydia are As usual, Structure and Intercommon among collegestudents, pretation of Computer Programs and I doni't want: to-see people by Abelson will be used for getting diseases because they're 6.001, which has the same title as the book. The Coop and the MIT not informed.' Curtis is now employed at Press Bookstore are each offering Boeing near Seattle, WA; and the textbook for $50.75. It is not was unavailable for comment. carried by Quantum Books. The Coop is the only bookTwo students who participated store selling Gleitman's Psycholo(Please turn to page 17) gy, third.edition, which will once

Expl~~icit safe sex'video' wllybe- shownr at.BexleyBy Deborah A. Levinson,, Acontroversial safe sex video produced at MIT will be shown to residents of Bexley Hall thi s fall. Truth or Consequence: Safer Sex at MIT explicitly depicts the

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again be used for 9.00 (Introduction to Psychology) this fall. The cost for the newly-revised text is $48.00. Textbooks for standard freshmen classes, Physics 1 (8.01), Calculus 1 (18.01), and Principles of Chemical Science (5.11), are only for sale at the Coop. Ohanian's Physics, Volume 1, second edition, is selling for $37.50 new and for $28.25 used. Calculus With Analytic Geometry by Simmons is on sale for $62.25, and General Chemistry by McQuarrie costs $58.75. The Coop's selection of used books is small. Coop defends pricing policy -- Textbook prices are largely determined by publishing companies, said Martha Sanders, a book buyer for the Coop. She also said that books bought in large quantities are more expensive because when more books are bought, "the publisher expects returns, and returns are expensive to process. Some of the price of a textbook is the publisher's attempt to recover their costs of handling a book multiple times." Sanders also compared cooperative societies, like the Coop, with bookstores at state-run institutions, which she said have dif-

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cooperative runs for the benefit of the members, so we try to make a profit which is shared by all the members," she said. The Coop's prices are in line with textbook prices at Yale, Dartmouth and Brown, she said, but at a state school, "they might lower their prices, or very rarely increase their prices," she said. Over the past year, book prices have increased by an average of eight percent. "That's high, compared to other products, like stationary items," Sanders said. She said the average price of a textbook for allthe textbooks sold at the Coop last term was $36.00. .(Pleaseturn to page 13)

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