MANIPULATING THE MASSES

by Greg Brume

Solution: SLACK

Each of the lines is an anagram of the name of a member of MIT's Board of Chaplains, whose names can be found at http://web.mit.edu/dsl/religious_life.html. These match, in order, the sets of blanks below. The black boxes spell out NEAR CHAPEL FIND NE LOGO.

Rev. Paul Reynolds	catholic (romaN)
Rev. Johanna Kiefner	luthErAn
Rev. Kevin Ford	intervaRsity Christian fellowsHip
Rev. Michael Dean	bAPtist (southern)
Rev. Amy McCreath	EpiscopaL
Dr. Thomas Chapman	church oF jesus chrIst latter-day saiNts
Swami Tyagananda	veDaNta
Rev. Mike Olejarz	assEmbLies Of GOd

Going to the MIT Chapel, solvers may find a poster with the logo shown in the northeast corner of the puzzle page. On that poster are four atomic masses of elements:

32.07	Sulfur (S)
138.91	Lanthanum (La)
12.01	Carbon (C)
39.10	Potassium (K)

The symbols of these elements spell S-La-C-K, or SLACK.