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METS 5 THEY DID IT! I Ic ORIOLES 3 VOLUME 89, No: 37 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1969 FIVE CENTS - , . -. _ I , ,, Area students jam Boston wwins -Ins. Pize m record anti-war tornout Luria Nobel ~prize By Steve Carhart study of bacteria and the viruses When technology moves us Speaker after speaker echoed Professor Salvadbr E. Luria which infect them. He is best beyond curing diseases to alter- these sentiments and the crowd of the Department of Biology known for his work demonstrat- ing human characteristics, Luria O0,000 ON COMM responded enthusiastically. Nix- has been named a co-recipient or ing mutation in viruses which asked, who is to decide what on also came under attack for the 1969 Nobel Prize in Medi- enable them to attack cells they qualities are desirable? Histor- his recent remarks about the cine. could not previously enter. It is ically, he noted, our legal and FOR PEACE RALl nation-wide protest when Luria will share the Prize this sort of mutation which peri- institutional framework for By Greg Bernhardt McGovern chided, "I regret that with Dr. Max Delbruck of Cal- odically produces new, epidemic dealing with such implications of The October 15 Moratori the President has said he will pay tech and Dr. Alfred Hershey of strains of influenza viruses. At technology has lagged behind far exceeded. its organizs no attention to this effort. If he the Carnegie Institution Lab on present Luria is studying the the progress of technology itself. hopes as I00,000 people c holds to that course, he will Long Island for their work in the mechanisms by which DNA is The author of an article in verged on the Boston Comrn learn... that Amrnerican foreign broken down or affected by the current issue of the Nation Wednesday afternoon to dem policy cannot be formed irn de- iruses. on this problem, Luria said that strate their opposition to fiance of the conscience and the This work, Luria said, will th'e National Academy of Sci- Vietnamese war. common sense of the American interface closely with the work ence and the United Nations Easily the largest peace de people." to be dbne by Dr. H.G. Khorana, should establish committees to onstration in Boston's histo The rally on the Common winner of the 1968 Noble Prize deal with these problems. In the the .rally drew mostly yot climaxed the day of anti-War in Medicine who will arrive here end, he said, the solution will people -from Boston area h activity. In Cambridge, next year. Khorana has been come not by limiting research, hundreds working schools and universities. T1 of students .from MIT and Har- on the syntheseis of but by applying the resulting came to hear attacks on Rich vard canvassed the community, nucleotides, the building blocks technology in an intelligent way. Nixon's Vietnam 'policies stopping door to of DNA, and hopes eventually to When asked about his plans door to hand synthesize such men as Senator .Geo out literature and talk to people a gene. for his $25,000 prize, Luria re- McGovern and Boston Unh about the war. Students were In a press conference Thurs- plied, "A number of anti-war sity- professor Howard Zinn. also on almost every street cor- day, Luria said that his work activities will share the prize Speaking before the ral ner along Mass. Ave. "started in a trolley car in Rome with my family and myself." McGovern charged that " The Student Mobilization in 1938" when he spoke to a Luria has been one of the most urgent and responsible Committee headquarters in the professor who was working with most active faculty members in of American citizenship in 1t Student Center reported that be- bacteriophages, the viruses the anti-war cause, and has spo- is to bring all possible press tween 400 and 600 students which affect bacteria. ken out against the war since its to bear on the Administration from MIT participated in the Implications of work beginning. He was one of the order our troops out of Vietn canvassing. Luria spoke at some length prime movers in the faculty re- now (Please turn to page 7) b. Lurla on the need for concern about sponse to the October 15 Mora- _ ~ ~~~1. I the promise and danger inherent torium, and was in charge of in the work being done in his speakers for the Tuesday night e. field, which could eventually en- meeting at Harvard. He is also S~pook cites ,'i able man to alter his own genetic chairman of the Boston Area Nix on flaw structure. Although techniques Faculty Group on Public Issues. of genetic surgery will provide By Peter Peckarsky willing to spend the night lis- "There is an enormous dispro- the fringes of the crowd, "May- enormous breakthroughs in the portion in Special to The Tech tening to ill-prepared remarks. be " one demonstrator our priorities," he wistfully treatment of some diseases, the said, calling for continuing sup- WASHINGTON, October 15 - The early closing touched off remarked; "to the White possibilities Dr. Benjamin Spock for misapplication port of Moratorium activities has dles- the city's first major demonstra- House." The weather was reflec- of such techniques raise serious cribed President Nixon.. as in- tion. Five hundred students ted and a shift away from military wait- in he marchers' bearing: in legal and ethical questions. programs capable of stopping the war dlue ing to hear the speeches staged a marked contrast to Boston's in our spending. to a basic personality flaw. spontaneous sit-down on the Ca- cheerful students, demonstra- The noted anti-war spok:es- pitol steps. Representative James tors in Washington were sombre. man spoke at one of the MoIra- Scheuer addressed the crowd, Will the Moratorium be effec- Galbraith Stone blast War, torium rallies in Washingtton assuring them that Nixon could tive? Or is it, as the radical left Wednesday. George Washingtton not ignore their protests. The insists, whistling in the wind? A Compare Nixon to mnonarch University students heard him go' students dispersed peacefully. source close to the President By Harvey Baker Both on to condemn the Chcago ~8 called for immediate and insisted that Nixon did realize An overflow crowd packed total withdrawal from Vietnam, trial as the vengeance of a police Sombre marchers that he had to get out, and soon. Harvard's Sanders Theatre Tues- state. and insisted that the United The day itself dawned windy A later dispatch will discuss the day night-to hear Moratorium States Washington demonstratic)ns and cold must learn a lessonfrom - the coldest autumn result of Wednesday's Morator- kickoff addresses by I.F. Stone Vietnam and not were not confined to the univ,er- day so far. repeat the The stiff breeze ium, both in political circles and and Harvard professor John Ken- "dangerous imperialist mistakes" sity campuses. 35,000 'peolple carried the speakers' remarks to on the campuses. neth Galbraith. gathered by the Washingt again. Nixon Monument to hear Coretta Kit -I -- seen King widow of-the Reacting to Hubert Hum- late Dr. Mar phrey's Luther King. One-third of recent public call for the support for President joined Mrs. King, The Revere W~iesner raps IX0111 Nixon, Channing Phillips, and the R. policy Stone labeled it "a footnote fo erend Walter Fauntleroy "The only honor there can be Philip Morrison, Judy Schwartz, alone; but there are costs, too, an obituary," and said that this in in confirmed "the march to the White House. in this illegal and immoral war is and Steve Ehrman '71 before the effects on young peoples' suspicions that to be found in ending it quickly, embarking on the march to Bos- hopes and beliefs, and that this most of us have had about Mr. In full view of the West Wir Humphrey Mrs. King lit a large candle. and ending it with honesty, not ton. war stands in denial of so much all along." Addition- Un ally, he noted that Mr. Nixon's the war is ended, the candle w subterfuge," charged Provost Johnson once again ex- that is best in our society." Jerome Wiesner at the Institute pressed his opposition to the war Speaking to own attitudes about protest of burn in a downtown churc "the working the war, Then the 12,000 Convocation early Wednesday in Vietnam; "So I speak today people of MIT," Judy Schwartz, particularly as ex- demonstrate pressed in his "I marched past the Nixon's how afternoon. to say that this war is wrong and a secretary, asked "how many of will not be An overflow crowd in Kresge it must be ended. Along with a us have affected" statement reminded each bearing their own lit tap( thought about how the him plus hundreds more in front of number of college presidents last war effects us? It is our children of Louis XIV's affirmation Surprising several. observe the Sunday, that "L'etat, c'est moi." was the lack Student Center listened to I said that the accumu- who are dying and it is our taxes of black demonstr remarks by Wiesner, lated costs of the The meeting was opened by tors. Apparently, the Studej President Vietnam war which are being raised. Our Howard Johnson, Professor are not Boston University professor Mobilization Committee had d in men and material housing is not being built and __ g~~~as;~;I~ our health services are suffering. Howard Zinn, who introduced cided against a large-scale effo W-91FRE NEWHOWc~e~ the speakers and generally pre- to recruit Negro support.

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