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_ ___ _ _ _ Continuous M _MIT News Service C881||Cambridge Since I881 assachusettsMue Volurner 103, Number 21 - 81 V~~dyTuesday,8~~sslr~ar April 26, 1983 ODSA 9A7 crowds in fall By Daniel Crean an attempt to keep dormitory Selecting undergraduates for MIT's undergraduate dormi- spaces open will not be effective available rooms "is going to be tory system will have about 97 in making rooms available for difficult," Sherwood said. The overcrowded rooms next year, ac- residents enrolled in a ninth term Dean's Office may consider the cording to Associate Dean for at MIT, Sherwood said. "If I find availability of rooms in the indi- Student Affairs Robert A. Sher- [an anti-rush] is occuring in a vidual's present dormitory when wood. house, I would not necessarily fill granting requests, he added. The Dean's Office "tentatively" empty rooms in that house with The overcrowding projection plans to- spread the overcrowding ninth-term undergraduates," he does not include 31 "permanent among six dormitories, Sherwood declared. crowds" in Senior House and said. Baker House will have six, Residents in such houses would East Campus, Sherwood said. Burton House 20, East Campus be required to pay the rent lost The dormitories agreed to change 15, McCormick Hall 14, New from not filling all rooms in the the occupancy of some rooms to West Campus Houses 17, and house, he said. make up for beds lost to the in- 500 Memorial Drive 25, he- esti- Undergraduates will not nor- stallation of kitchens, he added. mated. mally be allowed to stay in the i 'Permanent crowd' isn't really The average overcrowded room dormitories after eight terms at a good term for it," said Steven houses about 21/2 students, Sher- MIT, Sherwood-said. Institute Kossar 785, president of Senior wood estimated in August; if his policy is that "students are eligi- House. "We're getting some reno- current projections are accurate, ble [for dormitory rooms] only vations" which will allow the oc- approximately 240 students will for eight terms or until they get cupancy of the rooms to be rede- likely live in overcrowded rooms their bachelor's degree ... at a signated, he explained. this fall. meeting of the house presidents The practice of "ghosting," by The projections are based on and the [Dormitory Council] which students live in rooms offi- an expected freshman class of Chairman this was discussed and cially rented by other students, is 1075 students, 40 transfer stu- it was agreed to continue that po- "an anachronism," Sherwood dents seeking dormitory rooms, licy," he, said. said. Transfer and readmitted stu- and 30 readmitted students, Sher- Undergraduates in a ninth dents did this in the past, he said, wood said. If more than 97 over- term may be allowed to live in but "with the opening of 500 Me- crowded rooms are needed, he empty rooms, if any, to avoid morial Drive two years ago, we continued, the excess will be rent loss, Sherwood said. The In- now guarantee housing for these spread through the dormitory stitute each year receives approxi- students anyway." system. mately forty requests for housing i. "Anti-rush" activities made in from ninth-term undergraduates. Ii,I iI11 `'':X"C"·c····p·-· i d:l ·· ·IjfE:i· ·n; II Club Amherst seeks sorority : x 11 2: :::. III --I--- I ;";·p;i-···;;- .. h;, By Gene Deune presidents and vice presidents of phasized the living group. There ··ncg :.: : I Club Amherst, a group oi 40 the national organizations and are a lot of sororities that do not Tech photo by V. Michael Bove undergraduate women, will this some members from local clhap- have housings and members come Senior House on an uncrowded spring afternoon. week choose a national sorority ters, later participated in an in- together only for meetings." affiliates according to Pamela M. formal question-and-answer ses- The club stresses chapter inde- Gannon '84, vice president of the sion. pendence, Goldfarb said. "We club. The Expansion Committee and didn't want a national organiza- The InterFraternity Conference Club Amherst will make their fi- tion that was going to come in Mocay: Study fee Expansion Committee, Club Am- nal decision based on recommen- and take over everything we had By V. Michael Bove Immerman, assistant dean for herst, and the Office of the Dean dations made by Sherwood and done. We were seeking a national "We need to have a lot of dis- student affairs. for Student Affairs met last week Immerman, Gannon said. who would function on the advi- cussion" about a student activi- A number of students ex- Delta Delta Delta visited MIT sory level to provide some type and yesterday with representa- ties fee. "... I don't think we pressed similar reservations about tives of five national sororities to yesterday. Kappa Kappa Gam- of leadership." know enough about this," said the future of alternative funding discuss the possibility of forming .ma, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Gosdfarb and Kathleen A. Shirley M. McBay, dean for stu- sources, citing examples includ- Phi, and Phi Sigma Sigma visited Harragan '84, president of Club a chapter at MIT. dent affairs, at a meeting of stu- ing a $10,000 grant from the last week. Club Amherst and the Amherst, attended the northeast The representatives began their dents and administrators to dis- deans of the Schools of Engineer- campus visits by meeting with Expansion Committee chose the regional National Panhellenic cuss the report of the MIIT Cor- ing and Science for the Student Robert A. Sherwood, associate five sororities March 12 as being Conference held in early March. poration Visiting Committee on Committee on Educational Poli- most compatible with Club Am- "our purpose' for attending the dean for student affairs, and Ste- Student Affairs. cy's Course Evaluation Guide and ven D. Immerman, assistant dean herst's present wishes. conference was to meet members Officials in the Office of the Institute grants to M IT's radio "One important issue was hou- of national sororities who would for student affairs, before a two- Dean for Student Affairs met station WMBR. hour formal presentation to sing," said Deborah R. Goldfarb provide information. Up to that Thursday wit} student govern- The Visiting Committee re- members of Club Amherst and '83, the club's representative to point, we had only read their li- ment leaders and others who met fused to recommend either pay or the InterFraternity Conference. terature," Goldfarb commented. the Expansion Committee. with the Visiting Committee last academic credit as incentives for The representatives, "We wanted a sorority that ern- The conference served as a fo- including fall to discuss an activities fee for student participation in activities, rum for Ciub Amherst to seek financing student groups, as rec- claiming such a solution for lag- candidates, Gannon said. "We ommended by the committee. ging interest "would lead to an looked at academic standards, "There are a whole lot of other unhealthy level of faculty or emphasis on living groups, racial areas of support" for student ac- [Dean's Office] involvement" in qualifications, and how much tivities "that might go away in activity operation. money they had." light of budget cuts" were such a Faculty involvement in activi- The club is not interested in fee implemented, said Stephen D. (Please (Please turn to page 2) turn to page 2) Reagan plans fin. aid cut By Paul Sheng under a variety of programs. Program alone to relieve the fi- nancial burden of attending col- President Ronald W. Reagan's States no longer need federal support to operate financial aid lege, Reagan's report states. proposed 1984 budget contains programs, the Department of The proposed budget does not major changes in federal financial Education said. provide new funds for the Na- aid for postsecondary education, The Supplemental Educational tional Direct Student Loan pro- including the deletion of the Opportunity Grant is used to gram. Student loans will depend State Student Incentive Grant supplement the Pell Grant. The entirely on the $550 million in re- and the Supplemental Education- program is intended to provide volving funds available from pay- al Opportunity Grant programs. st ue nts w,+h 'he financial aid ments of previous loans. T ne The budget cuts $1 billion necessary to make an unbiased government estimates over $640 from the 1983 budget for student choice between colleges, regard- milion more could be collected aid programs. The administra- less of tuition. The administra- from students who have de- tion's objective, Reagan's propos- tion claims the grant does not faulted in payments. al states, is to consolidate all fed- help truly needy students. Those The budget for the Guaranteed eral financial aid programs into students can use the Pell Grant (Please turn to page 12) one program for grants, loans and work-study. The State Student Incentive Grant was established in 1972 to provide incentives for states to Photo courtesy Miass. Daily Collegian/Jim Powers establish their own grant and MIT professors' salaries Space Lab I astronauts The University of M~lassachusetts Parachute Club had an exhi- bition last- Saturday to promote the new MIT Skydiving Club. scholarship programs. Staies dis- are sixth highest in country. talk about their September tributed over $1 billion last year, Page 2. mission. 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