News

• Carter Charts Path For Upcoming Year
• $50K Competition Commences With Talk by Ethernet Inventor
• Brody Probes Synergistic Relationships Between Art and Science at Second Tau Beta Pi Dinner
• Procession Marks Beginnings of Mexican Revolution
• Professor Emeritus Donald A. Schon (1931-1997)

World and Nation

• U.S. Absent As 89 Nations Pass Treaty Banning Mines
• Clinton Implores Congress to Address Teen Smoking Issue
• U.S. Foreign Trade Imbalance Widens, Government Reports
• Five Americans Among Twelve Killed in U.N. Helicopter Crash
• Israel Authorizes Jewish Settlers To Keep Foothold in East Jerusalem
• World Briefs I
• World Briefs II
• Weather: Mild, Then Back to Cool

Editorials

• Institutional Wisdom Watch

Columns

• All The Color That's Fit to Print
• Unified Plays By The Rules
• Phasing In a New Writing Requirement

Letters to the Editor

• Classrooms Should Be Open for Students
• Professors Lack Drive to Teach Well

Entertainment

• Rhino Man -- By Zach Emig
• Dammed for Life -- By Jessica Wu
• Noun Poetry -- By Katy-Cat
• Trivia Corner: Last Words

Arts

• Film Review: Look who's just been outed...
• Game Review: Diablo -- More addictive than crack, more fun than exams
• Film Review: Life, love, and death in Los Angeles
• Film Review: 1,000 acres, 3 daughters, lots of trouble

Sports

• Sailors Perform Well During First Weekend in Season
• Eagles Could Have Soared in NFL Except for That Missed Field Goal
• Women's Cross Country Dominates First Meet
• Upcoming Events

Photographs

Rebecca Loh
Elizabeth Sailhamer '99 serves during Wednesday night's game against Springfield College. MIT lost 3-1.

Gabor Csanyi -- The Tech
SCARESTUDENT -- The maintainer of the little vegetable garden on Ames St. over at the west end of campus felt the need for drastic action.

Miodrag Cirkovic
Santiago Calatrava, a famous architect from Zurich, explains how to build an arch at the Architecture Lecture Series on Tuesday in 10-250.

Dennis Yancey
Otniel Nascimento of UMass-Boston runs in as Dante Mazzola, goalkeeper for UMass-Boston, pounds the grass in frustration after letting in MIT's third goal. MIT won Wednesday evening's game 4-3.