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Consider Being an MIT Admissions Counselor IP-·IPI 19b" -LIIIII· I -·II 1ICI - Report: I lit broke rerIt laws By Thomas T. Huang houses on Blanche Street contin- Street 'Tenants Alliance, a group A hearing officer for the city's ues to rage - even after a city protest ing MIT development. Rent Control Board charged in a council vote last January gave TVe board will hear arguments report released earlier this month MIT the go-ahead to develop the concertning the case this Wednes- that MiT broke the law when it 27-acre Simplex land - because day an(d may rule on the case at left three dilapidated houses on Cambridgeport residents believe that tirne. Miine said MIT repre- Blanche Street empty and unin- the houses comprise a last-chance sentati%ves will ask the board to habitable over the past eight "safeguard" against a planned postpotne its vote, as the institute years. luxury hotel and parking garage has beeen - since March 1986 - Vivian Bendix, the hearing of- that would destroy their neigh- petitic>ning to remove those ficer for the case, added that borhood, according to Phil Bar- houses from the rental market. MIT had tried to evict a tenant ber, a member of the Green (P'lease turn to page 15) from a fourth building. She asked that the board bring the case to its general counsel for UA's abilityto manlage criminal prosecution. While Walter L. Milne, assis- activities fee q Liestioned Bff .,t _ i @@ i tant to the chairman of the MIT Bad Annabelle Boyd taken expressly for the funding Corporation, acknowledged yes- Some students are questioning of tha,t activities group. Ebesu terday that MIIT plans to move the extent to which smaller activi- stated 9 that these legal implica- two houses and demolish the ties groups will benefit from the tions iinsure that no student acti- Photo courtesy Jill Wohl rest, he also said that Bendix's Undergraduate Association's pro- vitites group will be ignored or Jan Goldman '89 is skating in the 3000 meter race criminal charges were "absolutely posed $18 student activities fee, mistreaated by FinBoard. today, her first of three in the 1988 Winter Olympics. wrong." according to Mark Kantrowitz Howvever, the majority of Fin- See story page 2. The battle over the shell-like '89, president of the Association Boardi members are also UA __ of Student Activities. councilil members, Kantrowitz ob- Many student groups have servedt, and thus the council Insurance policy troubles IFC houses doubts that the Undergraduate mightr not be in an adequate posi- By Michael Gojer Associate Dean for Student Af- groups with policies lasting 15-18 Association Finance Board can tion to) monitor the FinBoard. A group of 23 independent liv- fairs James R. Tewhey said the months at a stretch. At least one manage with accountability and FineBoard's funding guidelines ing groups is having difficulties safety concerns involved mostly company is presently willing to distribute fairly the $160,000 in are at the center of the dispute, with a blanket insurance policy minor items, and that he could do so, he said. "Gietting insur- funds which would be raised if" accordding to both Kantrowitz for their houses, according to see no reason why the coverage ance from that group ought not the student body approves the and U,A president Manuel A. Ro- Steven P. Margossian '88, Vice- would be discontinued. to be a major problem for next March 9 activities fee referen- drigue:z '89. The questioned Fin- Chairman of the Inter-Fraternity Margossian said that, since he year," Tewhey said. dum, Kantrowitz claimed. Board Lfunding guidelines current- Council. Margossian said the has not yet heard from the insur- Of the 31 independent living FinBoard chairman D)ean S. ly ex ist in the form of an company which holds the policy ance company's inspector, Peter groups at MIT only 23 of them Ebesu '89 said that FinBoard is "unwr ritten policy" established terms ago, according to had threatened to remove the in- Wilcox, he does not expect him have insurance policies under the not only held responsible for its two t surance coverage if it did not see to arrive this week. blanket plan. funding decisions through the Ebesu Council, but Ebe:su stated that the FinBoard evidence of meeting safety code Meanwhile, MIT is shopping The St. Paul Company's threat student-elected UA also legally responsi- fundixng policy has remained un- concerns by today. for a new insurance company to was precipitated by the failure of FinBoard is ble for the default of any MIT writte:-n in order to allow Fin- The houses were given a 30-day take over the plan once the cur- certain houses to bring their loan ( warning on Jan. 23, Margossian rent policy expires. near ,the:.end .. : .(Ple Daksgurn to page 16) student activities group on a 'Please turn to page-I6) said, after an inspector from the of this term, according to Te- St. Paul Insurance Companies, whey. Tewhey said his office was Inc. reported that he saw insuffi- not pleased with the St. Paul Student report finds fresh malaise cient progress on some safety Companies' service, and that he By Thoma TT. Huang must make the first year more that both commends and criti- student government draft re- code problems which were raised was looking for a longer-term A flexible and diverse, and must cizes aspects of the freshman port released last week blames "loosen the stranglehold of re- year. The report focuses on in- by the company in the fall. policy agreement than the nine to impersonal and inflexible classes, search on a faculty member's ca- creasing faculty-student and stu- But Margossian said that he twelve-month plans currently that make reer and chances of promotion to dent-student interaction, improv- felt the insurance company's purchased from St. Paul Com- as well as pressures many faculty members place allow more time to teach, to ing teaching, making the science threat was mostly a tactic to spur panies. their research above teaching, for think, to discuss things with stu- core class system more flexible, the living groups into acting Tewhey said the goal of his of- a "malaise" in the MIT freshman dents." reinvigorating freshman advising, quickly, and he was confident fice is to find a cormpany that will year - a year marked by class- These are but some of the calls and studying the role of living that coverage would continue. be willing to insure the living room apathy and absenteeism. for change in the wide-ranging, groups at MIT. Lerman shuts down file system The Report of the Ad Hoce Stu- sometimes scatter-shot report (Please turn to page 18) dent Committee on the First - -e - DIIR·C911C·- '-Ym which contained nude graphics Year, to be voted on for approval by the Undergraduate Associ- By Michael Gojer personal - but publicly readable ation Council this Thursday, alsso Project Athena Director Steven - filespace of one of the collec- seeks to counter faculty rmembeers R. Lerman '72 shut down a pub- tion's curators, Seth S. Finkel- who have recently faulted thhe lic computer graphics file group stein '85. Athena does not intend freshman year's second-ter m on Athena two weeks ago be- to make any restrictions on the pas,,/.- credit system for causi-ng cause some of the images were use of personal file space, accord- freshmen apathy. "pornographic," in his estima- ing to a letter by Lerman. Many freshmen - faced -wiith tion. Lerman, in a letter to Athe- "After checking the contents of rigid schedules that limit explorra- na staff on Feb. 3,-said that Spe- the [public] locker [the file group tion and taught by seemingly diis- cial Assistant to the President containing the computer images] tant faculty - lose interest in Mary P. Rowe had conveyed stu- and discussing it with some of what they are learning, the repo)rt dent complaints about the pic- the staff," Lerman wrote in his suggests. The Institute, the:n, tures to him. (Please turn to page 18) Of the almost 200 images stored in the file system, whose Four more dormitories slated subjects ranged from Escher pat- to receive condom machines terns and mountain vistas to pic- By Kaushik Bagchi Two machines were installed in tures of Marilyn Monroe, 40 Four dormitories have ex- three dormitories (East Campus, were in subdirectories marked pressed interest in having con- Ashdown House, and 500 Memo- "girls" and "boys" and were of a dom machines installed, in addi- rial Drive) last fall on an experi- pin-up variety. All the images in tion to the three dormitories mental basis. HIagerty has heard the file group were returned to which received machines last fall. "nothing negative" about the ma- access rast week except -e- public MacGregor, New House, Baker, chines since their installation, so those in the "girls" and "boys" and Random Hall have expressed the Institute is moving ahead subdirectories, which remain interest, and are expected to re- with installing machines in other closed. ceive machines by April 1, ac- dormnitories. All of the images in the collec- cording to Robert W Hagerty, Hagerty estimated that about tion can still be accessed however, operations manager of the Hous- 50 condoms are sold each week through the copie s stored in the ing Office. from the six machines. With this number of sales, there is enough justification for their existence, Hagerty said. Concern over the spread of I AIDS was one of the primary -MIT: ucati bn: · motivations behind the instala- :.:.-,,-.. - :. -:..-;.. tion of the machines, which was first proposed last May.
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