Continuous Negws ServiceMI liraomIo Since1881 Cam~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~enbridge Since 1881 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~sl r~~~~~~assachusetts Voslumne 103, Number 79 Friday, February 25, 1983 I 1 _ WI six teans on ballot for UA president, vice president By Ron Norman Inge Gedo '85. letter coordinator. These offices Six teams of candidates for The decision to use preferential will be filled by write-in candi- Undergraduate Association (UA) balloting, Libby said, was based dates, Libby said. President and Vice President have upon the commission's interpreta- Kenneth E. Dumas, David J. submitted petitions to be includ- tion of the UA Election Code, Scrimshaw and Arthur P. ed on the March 9 ballot. Vasen which states, "the candidate ... are running for the Class of 1983 Balloting will be preferential in with the most votes shall be the presidency. Lillian W. Chiang all races with three or more can- winner." The commission's inter- and Richard A. Cowan are run- didates, according to David M. pretation is that the code does ning for the Class of 1984's Libby '85, UA Election Commis- top not state the election will be by office. sion chairman. The Election plurality, Libby said, and the Michael R. Candan and Commission yesterday confirmed Noelle commission made its choice in M. Merritt will vie for the an announcement made by Class Libby the interest of a most representa- of 1985 presidency, at the Feb. 17 General and Samuel Assembly tive election.- M. Gruer (GA) meeting. and Vivienne Lee are Ken neth H . Segel ' 83, UA running for the The presidential Class of 1986 and vice presi- President suggested the decision presidency. dential candidate teams are Shiva for preferrential balloting would, Preferential balloting is a sys- Ayyadurai '85 and Kyung H. "guarantee that whoever is elect- tem whereby voters indicate thei r Koh '85, Charles P. Brown '84 ed has a proper mandate." ordered preferences among all and Katherine M. Adams '84, Candidates for class office also candidates for an off-ice.. These Kenneth J. Freedman '85 and submitted petitions last Friday. preferences are considered if the Jean Kwo '84, Mark A. lecn pnoto Dy umarSi. Valerno Radlauer 'No candidates submitted peti- voter's firstl choice is eliminated Boston University's economics '84 -and Vivian L. Wang '84, I building was seriously da- Sara tions for the positions of Class of fromn consideration by finishing maged by a fire Sunday J. Sprung '84 and Erik Toomre night. 1984 secretary, treasurer, social last among the candidates in any I P Iv LLU - - rr -. ---- _ I '84, and Michael P. Witt '84 and chairperson and publicity/news- round of ballot counting. In counting ballots, first choices are considered, I and if no Hum. distributiocn criteria candidate draws 50 per-cent of the discussed vote, the ballots of the weakest By AI Yen, candidate are redistributed ac- posal is human values, historical Humanities distribution sub- orientation, . display a concern The facuStv- Committee on the cording to the second preference perspectives, and significant jects are currently selected on the for the understanding of human Humanities, Arts and Social Sci- indicated. This process is contin- amounts of writing," said Special basis of three principal criteria, values In their social, historical. ences Requirement should "be Assistant ued until a candidate receives at to the Provost Louis according to the MIT Bulletin. and cultural context and call for abolished and its responsibilities Menand least 50 percent of the votes cast, Ill. Subjects must-be "humanistic in (Please turnt to redistributed among departments, page 18) and is declared the winnler. sections, and the Dean's Office," according- to a memorandum is- m ITw sued- by the School of Human- n . statiocn resumnes ities and Social Scienceslas-t s~f- ~}. 1, - -e, I ... broadcasting month. ~~', A v vA* /W B~B~assasls ~ k, I - "Contradictory criteria for [hu- By Burt S. Kaliski The station has "managed to manities distribution] subjects, MIT's radio station WM\BR live on what MIT has given us," reliance on a committee with (88.1 MHz) returned to the air at Feldman said. "It's cheap to keep changing membership and views midnight Monday after holding a the station on the air." for the enforcement of the crite- staff meeting to appoint a new Some of the station's equip- ria, and inadequate guidance on chief engineer, according to sta- ment is 20 years old, he contin- humanities distribution] subjects tion manager Robert Connolly. ued, and should be replaced with- available to undergraduates and The station went off the air in the next year. their advisors," plague the pre- Feb. 14 after technical staff mem- WMBR has been making sent system, the memorandum bers resigned, newly-elected Gen- hourly on-the-air appeals for do- stated. eral Manager Richard B. Feld- nations, Feldman said. "We are Humanities distribution sub- man '84 said, because the Federal looking into getting large grants jects should be 'of general educa- Communications Commission from foundations which support tional value and be clearly within (FCC) requires WMBR to have a educational radio and corporate or across disciplines in the hu- technical staff. support in the area." manities, arts, or social sciences," 44 'iThe main reason we flipped The station is a non-profit or- according to a proposal written the switch," Connolly said, "was ganization and cannot advertise, by Professor Sylvain Bromberger that we had to have a chief engi- he explained, but it can announce and Janet Romaine, assistant to neer . and there was no one in the names of sponsors. the dean of the School of Hu- the forseeable future to replace" Connolly appointed Sofia manities. the former engineer. Connolly Ames '85 to recruit MIT students "Whiat is missing in this pro- said he appointed Donald F. to work at the station, Feldman Raines '84 chief engineer at the said. The station "is a fun place meeting. to work," he added. "it is the Gary The FCC requires O Hart all class A kind of place you have to come stations to have a chief engineer down to learn about." e%; to keep a log of weekly transmit- "Technical-minded students do in"* ter readings, Feldman said. not want to deal with antique" WMBR became a class A station equipment, Connolly added. The TPech Photo by 'Grant M Johnsson when it began transmitting at 200 station would have to spend PhlOaA -Imite watts, he added. By Will Doherty $40,000 to replace studio equip- ,, "It would be a shame to revert ment, Feldman Presidential hopeful Senator said. G A to 10 watts to make it easier" to The seventy-five Gary W. Hart, D-Colo., declined rejects nove? for people who operate' the station, Connolly attended the meeting a invitation to speak at the annu- donated said. '"We need responsible peo- over $200 to the al "'Spontaneous Tuition Riot" station, Feldman student activity ple to maintain it." noted. scheduled at be held on Kresge fee By Burt S. Kaliski tation raises a lot of Oval at 3pm March 4, according questions: The Undergraduate Associ- how to distribute to Class of '84 President money; do the Richard ation General Assembly decided students A. Cowan '84. know where it goes?" at its -Feb. 17 meeting not to in- The motion to include Riot organizers invited a stu- I Hlart to clude on the March 9 ballot a dent activities SiP.-nn abhrot finan.-QI -- 4 au-to fee referendum on Howard Universitv exng!s Pictulrp thp Incti;ir ta nftnr I reterendum Initlatlng a new fee to the UA election ballot was made by the Reagan administra- made editor amid censorship. dark. fund student government and ac- by Ira M. Summer '83. His mo- tion and his position on restoring tivities. Page 2. Page 1 9. the funds. tion included a comparison of tu- The referendum would have , ition and student activity funding Hart's student campaign coor- read "'We, the Undergraduate As- levels for academic dinator Eric Schwartz years 1970-71 declined sociation ... do hereby endorse and 1982-83. Nationtal Health, The the invitation, saying "the media Men's basketball rallies the idea of a mandatory fee to be "There is no question we need Dream Syndicate, and The would make [the riot] out to 'be against Brandeis. collected from all undergraduate more money," Summer explained. I Lords of Discipline. something like a pissing match Page 23. students in order to finance the "There is no way we between the students and the ad- will get Pages 12 & 13. activities of those organizations more from the Dean's Office." ministration over a tuition hike," in the Association of Student Ac- The Office of the according to Undergraduate As- Dean for tivities.'" Student Affairs, the Outing club asks for Track team runs out sociation President Kenneth motion stat- $10,000 at New H. "Students do not have enough ed, Segel '83. provided $94,000 for student to repay MIT. England finals. knowledge'" of student activities activities twelve The Hart campaign years ago and Page 17. -Page 23. decided to approve the -fee, comm-ffented -$95,364 (Please this year. Tuition in- turn to page 17) David M. Libby'85. "ImFlemen- (Please turn to page 18) 16 i --- -IC-RBIIC d '^nlI-hA'tl1.1 -I-10,1 _| _s- __ ' MM - .'-_ F _ v'l I PI-- PAGE The Tech -FRI-DAY., FEBRUASY /- b,, -1-966- M - , ,wc~~~, .1,~[b c ~a~YLI ~ ~ 2 Howard Univ. president expels A II editor of student nevvspaper IMMEDIATE-- I'. I By Andrea Lang Foster lie Quil, illustrator for The Hill- An estimated 800 students. A student group at Howard top.