MIT."~~~~~~~. t - I - - MiT .~~ -i~-- Li-- T- '~~~~~~i ' ' Continuous Camb.-. -- News Service Masrsachuseits Since 1881 Friday,vFebruary-23, 1990 Volume 1 10, Number 7 - ...- -- -- -~ SIhrp\;:withdrawal disrupts timetable By NineSS. ESii . man of the MIT Corporation. Phillip A. Sharp's-surprise re- At, Wednesday's faculty meet- Resumring presidential search fusal of the:MIT priesidi~e may -ing, Gray- said he was willing to Before.Tuesday's announce- force the niititute's tthree- top of- continue as president beyond July ment, the Corporation had been ficials to stay'--on at their-posts g 1 if a successor has not been ap- expected at its March meeting to longer than,-they had planed. - proved by then. Gray saidthat discuss and vote on Sharp's On Tuesday, Sharp, nominated Saxon, who had been preparing nomination. Approval of the for president just la'st week, an, to retire, was willing to remain as nominationvwas considered near- nounced that he was withdrawing chairman until Gray was in a po- ly certain. his acceptance of the position be- sition to succeed him. Now the trustees must decide cause he. could, not - bear to give Provost John M. Deutch '61, how to resume the presidential up his research in -molecular _biol-, who- announced his resignation search process,, which was sus- ogy. Sharp is professor .of'biology Ilast month, told 'Gray on Tuesday pended last week after the selec- and director of the C~enter for.i that he also would be willing -to tion of Sharp. Cancer Research. stay in. his present, job until a new' Gray told the faculty meeting Sharp's change of heart could pres'identj came into office and that the Corporation's executive mean the -the Institute will not named the next provost. committee, which had nominated have a replacement for, Presiden-t How events unfold in the com- Sharp for president, held a con- Paul E. Gray '54'r-eady by July~ 1,i ing months is now largely in th~e ference by telephone earlier this when Gray is scheduled -to suc-I hands of the MIT Corporationl, week, just after Sharp reversed ceed Dav id S. Saxon '41 as chair- which will meet on March 2. (Please turn to page 21) A -t~ables activities fee-referendum .By kattherine Shim to student vote until a more de- The Undergraduate Associa- -tailed plan for implementation tion Council last night decided- was developed. Problems remain -againsta-placing a student activi- with the activities fee, council -4ies fee referendum on the March members argued. More time was 14 election ballot, but did pass a needed to determine how tIhe UA proposal emphasizing the basic Finance Board will allocate funds need for-a student activities .Prabhat Mehta/The Tech fee to specific committees; to investi- Professor Phillip A. Shaorp that -would appear. as a "line gate. the exact sources of present item" on tuition and room and funding; and to.specify the pre- board accounts. cise fee to be asked of each stau- -Fink appointed director The decision-to table the refer- - dent, council members felt. endlum effectively kills efforts by A committee consisting of of WVhitehead institute -the aininistration of UA Presi- members of FinBoard, other stu- dent Papl L. Antico '91 to have a dents, and faculty., will be formed By, Reuven M. Lerner tinuq his research in the field of 5...iu~dent- actiidies-fee take- effect.- ;to -look -into-;f-hese- -issues,:.- said genetics. Kildow said, t:with ebhman clam6 9enteing :A~titico. Professor of Biology ,Gerald R. OQne source,-who asked for Ii~the~ all bf 1:991, saiid Antico. in But -the· UAC reaffirmed its Fink was yesterday named the anonymity, said that, Robert A. an- interview. after the meeting. support for the idea of in activi- new'director of the MIT-affiliat- Weinberg '64, a professor of biol- ed- Whitehead Institute for Bio- The UA refused to put the fee - (Please turn to page-22) ogy at MIT, and Nobel laureate medical Research. Harold Varmnus,l a professor at The appointment marks the 'the University. of Califdrnia at culmination of a search process San Francisco, had also been un- that began four months ago, der consideration for the- White- Suspect-arrested aer-ca pus thefts when Nobel laureate and present head -directorship. Whitehead director David Balti- Fink first came to MIT in 1982 more '61 accepted the presidency By AndreaLamberti vardfBridge and arrested him af- 3:40 am as part of the original Whitehead Sunday. morning, Glavin of Rockefeller University A robber-.broke. into Burton ter Brenda S. Zuehlke '91 identi- said. in New faculty. He had previously served House and stole a wallet from Yorkc. an - fied -him as the robber who broke The Campus Police did not en- for 15 years as the American occupied room early ltat According to Whitehead Sunday into her-Burton House room. He counter the suspect at Random Cancer Society professor of ge- morning. Minutes before,',the spokesman Alfred Kildow, the in-- -was arrested on charges of break- Hall, but CPs did find two wal- netics at Cornell University, an truder had'broken into search committee nominated Fink Random ing.and entering, And. robbery. lets there, one belonging to a appointment which was renewed Hall and stolen a wAllet there, to tfe Wlhitehead board of direc- when he came to MIT. ac- Earlier at Random -Hall the in- Random Hall resident, the other cording to Campus Police Chief truder had "kicked in a back tors, which in turn elected him to The awards that -Fink has re- I to a Boston University student. Anne P. Glavin. the position. Kildow added that ceived door" to break into the building, While the officers were at Ran- include the National Acad- Soon after .the the election was easily approved intruder left 'Random Hall resident Heidi J. dom, the Campus Police received emy of Sciences/US Steel Foun- Burton House, a Campus Police by MIT, in part because both dation award in Macuis '90 said. He stole one wal- a phone call of a burglary in 'molecular officer pro- MIT and Whitehead representa- stopped him on the Har- let while he was there, at about gress at Burton House. biology, the medal of the Genet- -- --- r, I I L·l a tives served on the search com- ics Society of America, the Yale The description of the suspect mittee. in the Burton incident was almost .. science and engineering award, Fink, who holds an appoint- and the identical to the suspect Hansen Foundation in the ment on the Whitehead faculty, is Random incident, Glavin said. award for microbiological re- best known for his work with search. The Campus Police Fink- is -an elected member put the "de- yeast, which is considered im'por- scription on- the air," of the National Academy of Sci- she said, tant in fields as diverse as agri- ences and I. and a several officers went over- the American Acade- culture and human genetics. Kil- to Burton House my of Arts and Sciences, and a i; to investigate. dow described Fink as "a pioneer Soon former president of the Genetics afterwards, another MIT in the development of model sys- Campus Police officer Society of America. He was edu- saw "a tems for studying genes and person on the [Harvard] Bridge cated at Amherst College and genetics.' Yale University, that fit the description of the per- and did postdoc- Fink will take over from Balti- toral work at the National Insti- (Please turn to page 20) more on July 1. He plans to con- tutes of Health. MIT professor a candidate for Harvard board By Karen Kaplan- Johnson is one of five nomi- won a seat on the Board of Over- Professor of Political Science nees on the fifth annual HRAAA seers after running on the Willard R. Johnson has been se- slate, which offers an alternative HRAAA slate. lected as a candidate for the Har- to the candidates in opposition to A well-known activist on the vard Board of Overseers on a the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni issue of divestment from South pro-South African divestment Association's official slate of can- Africa, Johnson founded Tran- slate sponsored by the Harvard- didates. Other HRAAA candi- sAfrica, a national anti-apartheid Radcliffe Alumni Against Apart- dates include Donald Woods, a organization, which is "the black heid (HRAAA). journalist who was expelled, from lobby on foreign affairs," he The Board of Overseers- is a South Africa after reporting the said. thirty-member group that advises death of activist Steven Biko; At MIT, he sponsored a faculty the Harvard Corporation, al- Boston City Councillor 'David resolution for divestment from though it has no. voting power on 8condras; Judy Lieberman, assis- South Africa. But despite its pas- Paulo Correia matters of policy. Dr. Wilson Bryan Key informs students at Members of tant professor of medicine at the sage, the MIT Endowment for MIT about the Board are elected by Harvard Tufts the effects of subliminal advertising on the University School of Medi- Divestiture is still working for to- American alumni, and this year's results eine; public. The. Lecture Series Committee sponsored and Ruth J. Simmons, pro- tal divestment at MIT. will be announced on Harvard's vost of Spelman College. Last Wednesday's lecture. See story, page 2. Johnson earned his undergrad- ,. I . I . I , I , . - - Commencement Day. year, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Please turn to page 23) IL , - -' - - I. I I ii PAGE 2 The Tech FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23, 1990 I Diskin to observe Sunday's Nica rarguans: r By Miguel Cantillo UNO is an 11 party coalition also been rumors recently that, troika line more closely than Professor of Anthropology formed by interests that range the Sandinistas will give some Cuba, Fox argued.