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* .:,.I .I I I i I I : I t , ' i ,I F , , 'id ! ,' '4I i I r f ' t . '; i, ' , ' . ' v " , t ,' t v .^ . , · ' I MITs The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Cloudy, cool 56°F (13°C) Tonight: Cloudy, cold 40°F (5°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Sunny, breezy 68°F (20°C) letasBa, Page 2 Volume 1 13, Number 23 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Wednesday, April 23, 1993 g! w _IIF1Tewhey Denies That E 1* _I IUiHe Harassed Nolan By Josh Hartmann Each accused the other of harass- PHOTOWGRAPIfEDITOR ment upon the conclusion of the James R. Tewhey, the former relationship. On April 9, each associate dean for student affairs, obtained a temporary restraining denied harassment charges levelled order preventing contact from the against him by Katherine M. Nolan, other, pending a full hearing, associate director of student finan- "Due to the existence of a court cial aid. order against me, and to the hostile Tewhey, 44, resigned Tuesday work environment created by amid charges and countercharges of harassment by a professional col- harassment and office mismanage- league, I felt my position was unten- ment. Earlier that day, his request able," Tewhey said in a statement for a restraining order against Nolan yesterday. was turned down by a Cambridge "I now know personally how District Court judge. Nolan's damaging and dangerous harass- request for a similar order, lasting ment can be, and I never have and six months, was approved by a never would-engage in activities Newton District Court judge on that could be defined as harass- April 16. ment," Tewhey continued. According to court papers, both In his statement, Tewhey said I__ _ __ _ _, .. --- , Tewhey, who is married, and Nolan, that in March of 1992 he filed a for- SARAH WHEELER--THE TECHII 43, admitted to an 18-month rela- in last night's 2.70 Design Competition, Donald L. Cho '95, the eventual winner, uses his tionship which ended in July 1992. Tewhey, Page 13 machine to pull steel cans up a ramp towards his birn. - IT--- Calenda Proposal Cho is2. 70 AiFePE4V 'tor By Sarah Y. Keightley beaver. Though most students in the This year's project was named NEWYS EDITOR class are sophomores majoring in AIFePETE, in reference to the alu- Debated by Faculty You've undoubtedly seen them mechanical engineering, Cho took minum cans, steel cans, and plastic around the Institute, with white 2.70 the class "just for the fun of it."' bottles that the machines needed to By Jeremy Hylton too much tinkering and microscopic Ford boxes on their shoulders or in The student's machines were collect. EDITOR IN CHIEF changes," Vest said. their arms. For these students, last built entirely out of parts supplied in The contest was played on a flat A handful of faculty members The longer teaching schedule night was the culmination of long kits handed out in class. The final U-shaped table, with bins placed at discussed a proposal to lengthen the also won support from Lester C. weeks spent designing and building machines needed to weigh less than the tips of the U. Each machine academic calendar and start classes Thurow, dean of the Sloan School a machine for this year's Introduc- 4 kilograms and had to fit in a 300 started in front of its bin. The top of before Labor Day at Wednesday's of Management. "I would like to tion to Design (2.70) contest. cubic millimeter space. the field was flat, and it gently slant- faculty meeting. support the idea of extra teaching Before an energized crowd ed to the bottom, which was also The proposal, developed by the time. You just don't get it done in packed into 26-100, about 150 stu- Project AIFePETE flat. There were seven plastic bottles Institute Calendar Committee, was 120 to 125 teaching days," he said. dents competed in last night's final The aim of this year's contest along the top, several aluminum outlined by the committee's chair- Faculty criticism of the plan at rounds of the annual 2.70 Design was for the remote-controlled cans on the slope, and steel cans on man, Professor Robert J. Silbcy, tle sparscly-attended m,.ting .-,,,as Competition. machines to collect "trash" spaced the bottom. head of the department of chem- focused primarily on three areas: the After more than three hours of around the playing field and place In the event of a tie, players istry. way IAP is used, increasing pace competition, Donald L. Cho '93 the items in their own bins for whose trash consisted of the most of The proposed calendar would and pressure, and the shortened emerged as the winner of this year's points. The trash consisted of alu- one type would win, but this was increase the number of teaching summer break. Undergraduate contest. About three-fourths of the minum cans worth two points, plas- never a determining factor in last days in each term to 67 and length- Association President-elect Hans C. 200 students enrolled in 2.70 passed tic bottles worth three points, and night's contest. If both machines en Independent Activities Period to Godfrey '93 and Graduate Student Wednesday's preliminary rounds to steel cans worth five points. The had the. same number and type of 19 class days. Under the new calen- Council President Anand Mehta G compete last night. power for the machines was sup- trash, the machine that was closest dar, classes would start before also spoke out against the proposed Cho, who is actually enrolled in plied by gear motors and pneumatic to the starting area won the round. Labor Day in three of the next seven changes. the aeronautics and astronautics actuators for auxiliary power to con- This rule was used to decide several years and effectively shorten the "I feel concern about anything department, was awarded a trophy trol ramps and arms. Each round sumnmer break by about two weeks. that increases the amount of time made of cans and topped with a lasted 30 seconds. 2.70, Page 12 I - --9 1 I --- r I - -r The primary impetus for the cal- students are under the intense pres- 7 rr - -r ,,- ' ---- ·-- -- endar change was to provide more sure they feel at this place," said teaching days in each semester and Professor of Biology Graham C. to make the terms equally long, Sil- Walker, a former housemaster at bey said. "One of the problems that McCormick Hall. confronted us was that the terms are Walker's concerns were echoed not of equal length. This is some- by Godfrey, who feels "that adding thing we felt caused some problems a week to each term will not benefit for teaching and education in gener- the students and will have a greater al," he said. possibility of hurting them both Silbey formally moved the pro- financially and in terms of pace and posal, which may be voted on at the pressure." May 19 faculty meeting. Other fac- ilty members may introduce their Would strain finances own calendar proposals before the Students discussing the proposal meeting, but that could delay a vote at last week's UA Council meeting of the calendar until September, also expressed concern about finan- according to Professor of Ocean cial pressures. At that meeting, Engineering J. Kim Vandiver, chair UAC member Jason J. Seid '96 esti- of the faculty. mated that undergraduate students would lose between $700 and $1000 Increases teaching days of income because of the shorter and President Charles M. summer. Silbey of Kenya (left) casts each made introductory conm- According to Mehta, graduate Cosnas N'etl9 Vest competitors he increase in students face many of the same a glance back at the ments supporting the in the dust In the Boston days. Both stressed that the financial concerns. He was con- left teaching as he approaches the fin- provides substan- cerned that "the attitude taken Marathon current calendar to take the honors as this tially fewer teaching days than the towards graduate students was not Ish line victor. Jim Knaub (above) at most major research appropriate. Less than half the grad- year's calendars pumps his way to the finish line, winl universities. uate students actually register dur- t¢omet_k0. "What you see before you is the ing the summer for research or the- ning the wheelhalr optimum proposal as they [the committee] saw it. I. hope we can avoid Calendar, Page 9 1. c I -- -1 Y - -- I---- I- --- -- --- i riri,~ar: jq'! III * r Irl I X7'g11 Paize 2 THE TE:CH April 23, 1993 WORLD & NATION W~.. L: C . ... Despite Voter Doubts, Riussia II Cliinton Package MIay Reemnerge Economty Appears to Stabilize LOS ANGELES TIMES MOSCOW Wit a N~ew Name: Jobs Bill As he campaigns for a vote of confidence in Sunday's referen- By Karen Hosler passed it, 301-1l14. House Speaker Thomas S. Foley dum, President Boris N. Yeltsin sounds at times like George Bush THE BALTIMOR SUN "We're going to be consulting of Washington said he was confi- last fall - an embattled leader bearing tidings of economic revival to WASHINGTON with congressional leaders right dent, however, that parts of the plan disbelieving voters. Out of the ruins of President now and over the next few days and would be enacted in other forms, Russia's economic free fall is over, Yeltsin keeps proclaiming. Clinton's economic stimulus pack- try to figure out the best way to get "such as summer jobs, and child Inflation is down.

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