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To Be Wmodifiled Soon Cam B Ridge-Based Group of This Is the Last Issue of the a Catastrophic Accident Occurring by Storm Kauffman Power "Continuous News Service Since 1881" orlr VOLUME 94 NUMBER 26 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1974 FIVE CENTS __ . _ . __ It. Faculty sets plans I' - gor term end errors ·__ o · lBy Mike McNamee and Foreign Study); Victor Starr A special committee to han- (Meteorology); George Valley dle any last-minute problems in (Physics); George Wadsworth end-of-term arrangements has (Mathematics); and Victor Weiss- been appointed, Chairman of the kopf (Institute Professor, former Faculty Professor Elias Gyfto- head of the Physics Department) polous reported at Wednesday's receiving an ovation from the faculty meeting. faculty. Gyftopolous explained to the - Considered a resolution up- 60-some faculty members pre- on the death of Institute Profes- sent that the committee would sor Emeritus Arthur T. Ippen, be empowered to decide cases of and observed a moment of eligibility of students for degrees silence. after the faculty meeting of May - Approved the selections of 29, at which the faculty will the Nominations Committee for vote on June degree recipients. faculty officers and faculty The committee was estab- members of Standing Commit- lished to avoid problems which tees. occurred last year, when several - Considered a repot of the Artist's conception of the exterior of the planned Sports Center which will eventually replace Rockwell students who were found ineli- Committee on Academic Perfor- Cage. This view is across Kresge Plaza from the Chapel. Drawing Courtesy Athletic Department gible for degrees were not noti- mance, passing a motion by fied until Commencement. Fear Smith to amend the Faculty of similar occurences this year Regulations on Advanced Stand- led to faculty considerations, ing Examinations. Sports fund dri ve pCvanned last November, of changes in the - Rejected a motion by By Mike McNamnee fund-raising activities. It's their readily convertable into a end-of-term calendar. Institute Professor Salvador Plans for a fund-raising drive responsibility to draw up the 3000-seat special events center. Gyftopolous announced that Luria to require the committe for "Phase I" of the planned plan - all we have is ideas." According to plans released he had appointed the following regulating the Humanities, Arts, renovation of MIT sports facili- The sports center drive.has by the MIT Planning Office last members of the committee: and Social Sciences requirement ties are "a going concern," acc- the backing of the top MIT spring, the hockey rink/events - Professor Robert Gallagher to write an explanation for its ording to members of the MIT administration. Chairman of the center will also include a one- of Electrical Engineering As- criteria in designating administration. Corporation Howard W. Johnson eighth mile indoor track and a sociate Chairman of the Faculty. distribution subjects under the Clint W. Murchison '44 A told The Tech that he felt that a fieldhouse to eventually replace - Professor Arthur C. Smith terms of the new requirement. Dallas, Texas, businessman and center like this "will provide a Rockwell Cage. of Electrical Engineering, chair- - Heard an interim report member of the MIT Cor- definite asset to the MIT com- No timetable man of the Committee on Aca- from the Ad Hoc Committee on poration, has been appointed to munity," and added that he Director of Athletics Ross demic Performance. Grades. Professor Roy Kaplow, head a funding committee that hoped the campaign would get Smith declined to put any time- - Assistant Dean Jeanne chairman of that commmittee, will try to- raise $4.8 million off the ground during the sum- table on completion of the plan. Richard of the Graduate School. told the faculty that he expected necessary for construction of a mer. "We don't usually like to arn- - Josephine Eisner of the the committee to have a written new hockey rinklevents center The planned renovations (see nounce our plans until we have Registrar's Office. report prepared by early sum- and indoor athletics facility. T7he Tech May 4; i973) will be some money in hand," Smith - James Brady of Student mer, and to report to the faculty Administration officials told The the first part of a three-stage told The Tech "We don't want Accounts. in detail in September. Tech that the committee plan to completely overhaul peopleto think we're starting The meeting was sparsely at- - Discussed proposed re- Murchison will head is almost MIT's West Campus athletic work tomorrow." tended. Only about 60 members visions of the MIT judicial and formed and will probably meet facilities. In this first stage, a A booklet has been prepared of the faculty attended the disciplinary system (see the re- during June to map out the new indoor hockey rink will be to explain the planned reno- meeting, and discussion on most port printed in Wednesday's fund-raising strategy. constructed, which will be Please turn to Page 31 items was desultory and sub- Tech Talk). Formal announcement of the dued. Due to the length of the Instituate's plans will probably be In other business, the faculty: agenda, President Wiesner re- made when the committee has - Applauded retiring mem- cessed the meeting at 5:30prn. its first meeting, according to bers of the faculty, with Pro- The faculty meeting will re- Director of Resource Operations fessors Douglas Adams (ME); sume next Wednesday, May 22, Kenneth S. Brock. "The com- Lynwood Bryant (Humanities); at 3:15, when the faculty will mittee should be locked up and Margaret Freeman (Foreign consider a proposal to create the set within a week," he told The Literatures); William Locke position of "Adjunct Professor." Tech. "But until they meet, (Modern Languages, Libraries, sor." there .will be no formal plans for SE C cr itics dubbed rmnedieval By Norman D. Sandler put it in a class by itself as a However, Kendall and his An official of the US Atomic threat to mankind." associates want to prevent this. Energy Commission (AEC) last Kouts was referring to a The UCS has claimed that week said opponents of nuclear growing number of scientists and nuclear power plants are cur- power must believe nuclear pow- engineers who have asked the rently unsafe. Based upon their of the Photo by Tom Klimowicz er plants are "the work AEC to delay further licensing own technical assessments, the | The upper annualar ring for the MITR-I Icore rests upside down after devil." and construction of nuclear UCS says that the probability of it has been filled with dense concrete. The ring (which measures 96" Speaking at MIT, the official, power plants until their safety a major reactor accident occur- diameter, and about 32"' high) will can be proven to the American outer diameter, 58" inner Director of the AEC Reactor ring is much higher than the support the upper shielding structure over the new core. The holes Safety Division, Dr. Herbert A, public. AEC will publicly admit, and it will provide access to experimental and irradiation facilities. Kouts, told a group of MIT One of those critics is Dr. further insists that the con- nuclear engineers that critics of Henry Kenda:ll. Kendall is on the sequences of such an accident nuclear power take "the faculty of the MIT department would be far worse than official 1MIT reator core curiously medieval view that of Physics, and. is a leading AEC projections. nuclear power power is the spokesman for the Union of Kendall and the UCS have creation of the devil and they Concerned Scientists (UCS), a been studying the probability of to be wmodifiLed soon Cam b ridge-based group of This is the last issue of The a catastrophic accident occurring By Storm Kauffman power. As the MITR-I is primar- scientists who are actively op- at a nuclear power plant in the The MIT Research Reactor ily in the neutron-producing Tech for the 1973-74 aca- posing the AEC's plans to cut demic year. A special Sum- United States, and they have will operate its present core for business and the flux is the normal licensing procedures for concluded that on the basis of the last time on Friday, May 24. number of - neutrons passing mer Issue will be published nuclear power plants. on Friday, August 2, and will the current rate of expansion of For the next four months the through a unit area in a unit Presently, it takes somewhere the AEC's reactor development staff will be engaged in removing time, this represents an increase be sent to all entering stu- between seven and ten years dents and other students who program, the probability is good the present core and replacing it in efficiency. before a nuclear power station for such an accident in the next with a new one scheduled to go The increase in flux will be request it. It will of course be can become operational and distributed on campus. To get few aecades. And Kendall says to power sometime in October. achieved primarily be reducing begin generating electricity to its the accident could result in the The MITR-I has been serving the size of the core, that volume a copy of the summer issue, full capacity. Most of the time is send a self-addressed, deaths of "tens of thousands of as a research facility for the in which all nuclear reactions consumed in lenthy licensing people, with tens of thousands Nuclear Engineering Department occur. This core, a cylinder 20" stamped ($0.20) envelope to hearings and construction. The The Tech, Rm W20-483, of square miles of land and has been producing radio- in diameter and about two feet AEC wants to cut this to five or contaminated" by radioactivity isotopes for hospitals and firms high, produces five megawatts of MIT.
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