Former Toscanini's Employee Charges Officer with Assault
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MlT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Possible showers, 55°F (12°C) Tonight: Clearing, cool, 39°F (4°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Partly sunny, 53°F (11°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 119, Number 21 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 23, 1999 Former Toscanini's Employee Gian-Carlo Rota Charges Officer with Assault By Rima Amaout Bell said. "I do know that my civil putting up a no trespass sign on the ASSOCIA TE NEWS EDITOR liberties are violated." whole building, that they're expect- Theodore Bell, a former employ- Multiple hearings involving Bell ing the general public to go to, Shea ee of Toscanini's Ice Cream, filed and Carey will be held at Cambridge said. "What it does is give them assault and battery charges with the district court in coming weeks. The capricious authority to arrest anyone City of Cambridge against Officer appeal hearing for the assault charges who they don't like the look of," Michael E. Carey of the MIT against Carey will appear before a Shea said. Campus Police earlier this month. judge, and there will be a hearing for Clifton C. Beck, who works at The controversy .between Bell the resisting arrest and trespassing MIT's Humanities Library, said that and the Campus Police arose after an charges filed against Bell. he has spent time at the Coffeehouse incident on March 30 in which Bell without ever being approached by was arrested for trespass in the Trespassing policy unclear the police. "I didn't even know you Stratton Student Center despite hav- Although MIT Policies and had to have an I.D. to be in [the ing an MIT student escort. Although, Procedures lists certain rules for use Coffeehouse]," Beck said. other non-MIT persons were present of event space by non-MIT mem- in the Coffeehouse that night, Bell, bers for performances and confer- CPs defend actions who is African-American, was the ences, there is no clear policy deter- "There's a difference between Gian-Carlo Rota only one arrested. mining the right that non-MIT using that facility to buy coffee and An April 16 hearing at people have to be in the Student using it as a bedroom," said Anne P. Internationally recognized mathematician and beloved professor, Cambridge District Court, however, Center. Glavin, chief of the MIT Campus Gian-Carlo Rota died last weekend, apparently in his sleep. He was ruled that there is insufficient evi- Phillip J. Walsh, director of the Police. 66 years old. dence for the charges against Campus Activities Complex, said Carey and White were unavail- Rota was found Monday afternoon after he failed to arrive in Officer Carey to go to trial. After that while he wasn't familiar with able for comment; Carey has taken Philadelphia Sunday afternoon, where he was to give a three-part lec- the hearing, Bell said that he would the specifics of Bell's arrest, "peo- some time off from work, according ture series at Temple University earlier this week. appeal that ruling. "Because my ple who use the [Student Center] are to Glavin. "We don't generally have The cause of death was ruled as artherosclerotic cardiac disease lawyer wasn't there, they took me people who have business at MIT ... our officers comment on ongoing by the Middlesex County Medical Examiner. as a kid," Bell said. It's hard to give a hard and fast cases ... as far as I know he is on Rota held appointments at MIT as professor both of applied math- Attorney Mark W. Shea had vol- rule" about where in the Student time off," Glavin said. ematics and philosophy, the only MIT professor in history to do so. .; unteered to take the case pro-bono Center non-MIT people are allowed. According to Glavin, the officers He taught several courses in both fields. but had a client's case at the same "You don't have to show a had been patrolling the student cen- As a mathematician, Rota helped lay the foundations for modem time as the hearing. badge to get into the Student ter looking for sleeping people. "The combinatorics and develop the field into a respected discipline within According to Bell, Carey alleged- Center... we don't have card securi- student center is something we rou- mathematics. \ .: ly used unnecessary force when he ty at the Coffeehouse," Walsh said. tinely patrol," Glavin said. "If we arrested Bell, then an employee of When asked whether employees Rota, Page 33 Toscanini's, for trespassing. Bell had of Toscanini's were ever told not to Bell, Page 35 ,, .! been with some of his Toscanini's co- go to other parts of the student cen- workers in the 24 Hour Coffeehouse ter, Toscanini's manager Gus on the third floor and had fallen Rancatore said that "nobody's ever Faculty Discuss Policy, New Degrees asleep in a back room when Carey told us anything about it. A lot of and a fellow CP had found him. our employees are friendly with By Sanjay Basu riculum, and the proposal of a new MIT's Linguistics department " At the hearing, two weeks after MIT students." ASSOCIA TE NEJIIS EDITOR S.B. program in Linguistics, has almost exclusively catered to a Bell's arrest, Carey decided to also Bell's arrest "struck me as outra- Members of the Institute pro- Wednesday at a faculty meeting. graduate audience in the past. file resisting arrest charges against geous," Shea said. "There are other posed major changes to the curricu- Professor Paul A. Lagace of the "But in recent years, we've real- Bell in addition to the existing tres- trespass charges where the people lum and policies of MIT. Some of Department of Aeronautics and ly 'beefed-up' what we offer to passing charge. they arrest for trespass at MIT are these changes regarded the use of Astronautics first announced a vote on undergraduates. Undergraduates are "I wasn't resisting arrest. So he African American. [Campus Police] intermediate grades, revisions to the the motion to approve the internal use showing a strong interest in our had no just cause for harming me," also have that ridiculous policy" of Aeronautics and Astronautics cur- of intermediate grades. The motion, department," said Hall. which called for the inclusion of The department will now offer plus/minus grades in internal reports two undergraduate degrees: the tradi- but not on official student transcripts, tional 'Bachelor of Science in was passed without discussion. Philosophy' (program I), which does Professors Edward Greitzer and not require linguistics classes, and the Steven Hall then announced their new integrated 'Bachelor of Science proposal to revise the undergraduate in Linguistics and Philosophy' program in Aeronautics and (Program II). Astronautics. The professors did not "Students in both tracks will specifically announce what changes have the same core introductory I\ they planned to make, but simply subjects before continuing with one announced to the faculty that a revi- of the two major fields," said Hall. sion process would begin. Undergraduates must complete 180 units beyond GIRs to obtain an S.B. Proposed in Linguistics S.B. A draft of the proposed One of two significant curricu- requirements is posted at http://nim- lum changes proposed at the meet- rod. m it.edu/depts/ archives/facm in/9 ing was the development of a new 90421/9904c.pdf undergraduate degree in Linguistics. Faculty members will vote on Professor Edward Hall of the the proposal during the May faculty Department of Linguistics and meeting. Philosophy explained his justifica- tion for proposing the degree. Course X Creates New PhD "After the Linguistics department At the meeting, Professors Robert ,I merged with the Philosophy depart- ,.,, C. Armstrong and Robert E. Cohen ment several years ago, we decided to of the Department of Chemical begin restructuring one of our major Engineering proposed a new Ph.D. in programs: Language and Mind," said Chemical Engineering Practice. Hall. "We are proposing now that we "We've designed this program to have a jointly administered program prepare graduates for positions of that awards students with a 'Bachelor leadership in industry," said Cohen. of Science in Linguistics and "We've found that many of our doc- \ , Monday marked the 103rd running of the Boston Marathon. See story page 26. .1 Philosophy' instead of just a 'Bachelor of Science in Philosophy' ." Meeting, Page 28 \, .World figure Comics MIT participates in the Cycles skaters per- Survey to see how it measures up World & Nation 2 form in compared to peer institutions. Opinion '.. .4 "Champions Arts 16 ..... on Ice" Sports 36 PagelS Page 6 Page 11 I'"" I •• ' ,. , I . 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