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'D~~li~o~;-·Eisa~e:,0X-Drop~M :-Ctt;Tbtrr4. +,rD, . iw _ I~~~o __ _ - p He .. I_ Continuous' ii Cambridge News Service tiMassachusetts Since 1881 ·Ws Tuesday/ Noveynnber 2.1, Volume 109,' slumber 52 a BII llP ·LIIW 1161 w ,· 7--Marseek's nevv Physical Plant head I I .. -- .- - tBythgy Sihim I ,, members interviewed said com- -- :,·· -- and Irene C. Kulo i munication skills were more S .A replacement has still not important: :::! been foulnd for the outgoing di- Fj Barrett became head of Physi- :Jr rector of Physical Plant, accord- :·: cal Plant in June 1980, having " ing to Se-nior Vice President ' joined MIT in the early 1960s. William Rt. .Dickcson '54. Dickson considered among Bar- .DEickson gave retirement as the rett's major accomplishments as for Paul F. Barrett's resig-' reason director the initiation of a com- nationl in. August. Barrett had puter management system that several times on the sub- i spoken has not been completely finished, to ject before then, according improved operation of the me- 'I ICkso.S . - : chanical systems of buildings, .-Uhtsi a s'u c ceis.s or-i s found-, and an increased Physical Plant Barrett -will continue t o direct ability to deal with its responsi- Physical Plant's current major bilities with a smaller staff. Dick- said. These projects, Dickcson son credited Barrett for making projects include construction 'of Physical Plant one of the few In- Library addition, the Rotch stitute organizations which has which will be completed in late not let manpower grow back since summer I1990; construction of.the Photo courtesy MIT News Office reductions were made earlier this Senior VP William R. graduate dormitory at 143 Alba- decade. ny St., which will be completed Dickson ' 54 in sp~ring 1990; and work on the new biology building, for which schematic designs, have just been UA FRnBoard sponsors comlpleted and -'whose construction will begins in nine to 12 shuttle to Logan Airport mionths. The selection committee will carefully consider people within By Irene C. Ku'o one bus will always be on MIT, including members- of Phys- The Undergraduate Associa- campus, Lin said. ical Plant, Dickson said. Thirty- tion Finance Board is sponsoring No stops will be made outside five members of the plant havte MIT's first Thanksgiving shuttle independent living groups in Bos- already been asked what qualities service from the dormitories to ton because -of difficulty maneu- they think the next. director Logan Airport on Wednesday, vering around Boston and be- should possess and whether he or according to AFinBoard member cause of anticipated lower she should be from MIT or from Ephraim Lin '90. demand from frater nity mem- outside. Patrors will pay $3 whern they bers, although Lakshmrinarayanaa A list of candidates for the board, 'With priority :for places expets -them to hear about_ ;te Physical-Plant positionvwille.-TeR- going to .,undergraduates. Fin- service. leased next wed.The-new direc- Boaard will absorb the differences tor will definitely be selected by between revenues and the $1600 -FinBoard distributed 2500 sur- Jan. 1, Dickson said. it is paying Dewitt Transporta- veys to dormitories and fraterni- Ideally, the next head of Physi- tion Co. for the service, accord- ties inl order to gauge interest. cal Plan't will have both -a techni- ing to Arvind Lakshminarayana Three hundred students respsond- '92, FinBoard- member. ed, half saying that they were go- Michael Franklin/The Tech cal or engineering background "W'e anticipate a fairly good ing to the airport. Eighty to 90 Tomliison '91 persists despite the WentWorth and administrative and communi- Dave cation skills, Dickson main- response," Lin said. "We expect percent of respondents were will- defense in the season opener. -MIT won 57-47. PbisaBPlemB+BA*BE tained. However, the 35 plant to cover the costs through ticket ing to pay $2 or more for shuttle sales." Shoulld profits be made, service; 50 percent were willing to they will go to a fund for holiday pay at least $5. 'Basically, the shuttles. surveys showved that students -Baltimore ddscusses A-IDS prospects "The shuttle is a Service to Stu- were willing to pay something," dents," Lin added. "We don't ex- Lin said. By ClRiSff Schmidt a vaccine to be developed. The pete to make much money from best animal system for testing a it." The Thanksgivlig shuttle ser- Whitehead Institute' Director -vaccine is the chimpanzee as it Mini-vans with 25-person ca- vice, which was first proposed by David Baltimore '61 spoke at can be infected by human-im- pacitty will pick students up out- last year's FinBoard chairman, length on the-mnany.scientific and mluao-deficiency virus- and yet side McCormick Hall, MacGre- remains an experiment, social issues of AIDS in "'Where -not develop AIDS, according to gor House, and Senior House on Lakshminarayanla stressed. If it is Will It. All End?,'" the last semi- Baltimore. Should more time~be - a first-come, first-serve basis be- successful, the board may spon- nar of the AIDS Context subject spent studying how its immune tween 9 am and 8 pm on Wednes- sor runs during Christmas and (7.00o/s.60J). system works, the chimpanzee da.. lFrom 2 pm until 8 pm, four spring break, he said; shuttles to could become an important tool vans will be in service, leaving New York City an7d. Washington, Asked whether he believed the in AIDS research, he said. DC, during Christmas are other Lisette Lambregts /The Tech MIT every 30 minutes. The Food and Drug Administration Resa4%id R3n~timnrp- J61 schedule will work out such that possibilities. was doing everything it could to 'Baltimore himself has been L.C2v1lJ uuClCti i IV Ir; V I to develop a vaccine and whether studying why the human Immune the testing process should-be as system cannot sustain a fight QsC conducts blood drlve contest long. as it is, Baltimore stood by against the AIDS virus.and what 3FDA procedures, citing the dan- biological factors cause the drop By Annabelle Bloyd tory or fraternity. Normanld provided two possi- gers of releasing an unsafe drug. in intensity at which the, immune IIn'an effort to improve turnout While more graduate students ble reasons for low turnout Since the government is assuming system -fights the virus shortly from the graduate student comn- gave blood fOr this year's drive - among graduate students. First, responsibility, it cannot risk- re- after infection. munity, the Graduate Student held between. Oct. 30 and Nobv 8 since most graduate students do leasing a drug before.complete Council ran a contest to raise - than last year's, the increase. not-live on campus, they do not testing, he said. Citing recent findings by other blood for "he recent Technology was marginal. H-owever, Nol.- researchers,' EIaltimore discussed Community Association blood receive the "goldenrods"s in the iand felt' that the contest was- interdepartmental mail- as do the "'Someone has to. take respon- the direct correlation between age drive. very successful in'raising aware- undergraduates. Second, -gradii- sibility," he stressed, in rebuttal and chance of developing AIDS. Annually, over 15 percent of ness among graduate students5 ate students do not have the same to groups like ACTUP, the-AIDS A. study which' divided people undergraduate students naor-mally and expected that as the contest Coalition to Unleash Power, into age groups of- oe to -1 give blood, while only three per- sense of community which would -continues in future, more gradu- enable them to compete in lonrg- which disprove of the FDA's years of age, 12 to 17, 18 to 35, cent of graduate students do so, ate students will paticipate' in standing contests for their dormi- extensive testing process. and 36 to 70 found that there is a according to Bruce G3. Normand TCA blood drives. significant increase in the rate of G, who publicized the blood Baltimore added that releasing AiDS infections' with- each age.- drive among graduate students, a drug early could not only be group. - - organized the interdepartmental dangerous, but could: also create contest,- and, with the help of a Else sense of optimism.H e Baltimore added that he was graduate administrators, distrib- -alarmed by a recent Thae New uted the "'goldenrods" - rTC mentioned as an example the. Ruth: Rubin sings her way through the life cycle in- that sock Hudson went to York- Tim es article discussing the appointment cards fOr blood do-7 drug performance with theo Klezmer Conservatory Band. Paris to get -before the FDA surge in teenage .girls prostitutingz ncors throughout each gradu- found that it, was less effective themselves in order to buy -crack. ate department: Page 7. - - than older drugs used. He estimated 26 to.30 pe'rcen't of The graduate chemistry depart- these girls will eventually catry, ment won the contest, recruiting i the AIDS, virus, and an even 22 people to donate blood. The As in years past, Baltimore Despite egois,, Terenc. Trent D'Arby produces record years as a personal esti- higher 'percentage, of., the mven department:" received a certificatee gave fiv1e of substance in Neither Fish nor Flesh. Page 9. mate of how-long it might be for involved in this icy~cle. for a keg of beer froift Jamaica EiauXLt -. - -- --- ---- --MMF-1- - I.. I I., - -, laa EIIBldl·BIIP·Ij21-·-1.1;._.: .··.· --? I X . t ,'; ,.8 ' -,' I .* '.t !e * .Am,..'' -,. ,i t "i; 9 1.11._·-, MO" i I I 1.l ." . .' '.. ... 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