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Continuous CsbigMIT Naews Service Cambridge S~ince 1881 MI Massachusetts Volume 107, Number 12 iB Off_ _ Tuesday, M-arch 17, 1987 L - ~~~~~~~_ 5 I W- a~~~ I avit- i HAaS proposal rea 5; By Katie Schwarz . This year, students can select mended a requirement of four A major change in the Human- from 156 distribution subjects in subjects, one in each of four cate- ities, Arts and Social Sciences re- 22 different fields, although the gories. The School of Humanities i,L quirement will be proposed at to- School of Humanities and Social and Social Sciences decided !.· morrow's faculty meeting after Sciences will remove HUM-D through internal discussions to nearly 2 1/2 years of discussion credit from about one-third of scale the requirement back to by a series of committees. these subjects next fall as an in- three subjects and add the cate- The Committee on the Under- terim reform measure. gory of Mind, Thought and Val- graduate Program will propose A motion endorsing the change ue, Munkres explained. that the humanities distribution will be made jointly at tomor- New proposal is less controversial requirement be changed to three row's faculty meeting by Profes- subjects in three of five categor- sor James Munkres, representing The Maier report generated ies: Cultures and Societies; His- the CUP, and Professor Richard some dissension among human- torical Studies; Literary and Tex- Cartwright, representing the ities faculty, some of whom tual Studies; Mind, Thought and School of Humanities and Social feared they would be forced to The Arts, Mark VirtuelThe Tech Value; Sciences. The faculty will vote on teach general survey classes at the The proposal also specifies that April meeting. expense of advanced subjects in Barry J. Culpepper (, jumps for the ball In a lineout the motion at the about 50 HUM1-D subjects is intended to their own field ["Faculty divided during Saturday's games vs Brandeis University. The The proposal should be offered, divided more Class of over HASS proposal,' Nov. 25, MIT A side and B side both won, 38-6 and 20-0 re- take effect with the or less equally among the five 19861. spectively. -- 1992. ~i141~··I--~---P--- -LC _~-I categories. CUP believes the new proposal even Modifications to Maier proposal can address these concerns, though it is not perfect, accord- Bh g 11se a ts 7 san) rs Tomorrow's proposal is derived to an enclosure with the fac- s.-: ing By Niraj Desai because their papers have not yet Several weeks ago, when 403 from one made last fall by the ad ulty meeting agenda. had not yet completed Thirty-seven seniors will not been graded or because they are seniors hoc Committee on the HASS Rte- "I hope the faculty will en- the situa- graduate this term solely because enrolled in a cooperative writing Phase I, Walters called quirement, chaired by Professor dorse it with enthusiasm," said tion a "crisis." While the number of their failure to satisfy the In- course. Some of these students Pauline Maier, but it is "less of a Dean for Undergraduate Educa- of students unable to graduate is stitute Writing Requirement, ac- may not graduate, solely because: change than originally pro- tion Margaret L.A. MacVicar far below what was originally cording to Bonnie J. Walters, of the writing requirement. posed," Munkres said. '65. MacVicar felt many of the : feared, Walters hoped that this coordinator of the writing re- Many other seniors who have The Maier Committee, com- humanities faculty's objections class would take no- quirement. made no attempt to complete: year's junior posed of faculty from all five had been met, and "the majority page 2) But these students may be al- Phase II of the writing require- (please turn to Schools of the Institute, recorn- of the school is behind it now." lowed to complete the writing re- ment will not graduate either, quirement over the summer with- Walters said. But they had nott RMIT cormplies wvith smoking law out officially registering for planned to graduate in June forr classes, Walters said. reasons other than the require By Paula Maute to cooperate." velop ways to enforce the ordi- The 37 students were among ment, Walters explained. Among The MIT community is cooper- The Cambridge public health nance. all the 107 seniors who had not sub- those reasons were incomplete9e ating with the new Cambridge ordinance bans smoking from includ- Smokers react to ban mitted a Phase II paper or taken theses, failure to take all requiredd no-smoking ordinance that took buildings in Cambridge, Sen- lounges, and rest- other steps to meet the require- courses, and pursuing a seconed effect March 7, according to ing lobbies, "The new ordinance doesn't R. from the ordi- ment as of March 1. After that degree. ior Vice President William rooms. Exempt bother me, as long as they don't are restaurants having a senior could The number of students whc Dickson '56. nance chase mie off campus," said date, the only way resi- havte qualified to graduate -was by have added one of the classeIs Dickson's office,- which revised designated smoking areas, Thomas Ricciardi '87, a smoker in a cooperative writing which satisfy the requirement iis MIT's smoking policy to comply dences (including dormitories), interviewed on a cement bench enrolling occupying which satisfied Phase 11 of quite small, according to updated with the Cambridge ordinance, and small businesses outside of Lobdell. "'I used to class 1500 square feet. writing requirement. class lists released late last week received about a dozen phone less than smoke inside in lobbies ... it's the law is intended to protect The 37 seniors have not regis- In fact, many students havre calls last week, mainly in support "The an inconvenience but not insur- health of the public,' which tered for cooperative classes. dropped those classes from theiir of the new no-smoking policy. the mountable." Smoking has been from emplovees, Dickson With the passing of the March 10 registrations. Some of the seniorrs "Most of the questions includes prohibited in most places on really said. "it's date they have lost their enrolled in writing-related classeIs smokers were, 'Do you campus for a long time, so add my MIT took the ordinance one used chance to qualify for degrees in managed successfully to submiit mean I can't smoke in no major change.... I'm we further and banned smoking smioke, even time for the June I commence- papers to the Writing Requiree- office?'.. Yes, that's what step to going outside to ment Committee by the March 1 mean," Dickson said. in private offices with non- in blizzards,' Ricciardi added. ment. air, "about the only cre- Walters also noted that there deadline. Afterwards, they febit 'Some people, understandably, circulating But the new ordinance will Ll- by the ordinan- students who have not Dree to drop those classes, Wa find it hard," Dickson said, but thing not covered ate a lot of "scofflaws and people are many said. It would be to completed the requirement either ters said. "most people are certainly trying ce," Di;ckson who; hide behind corners" unfair to allow a minority of smoke, Ricciardi predicted. mainly administrators and facul- "I'd just as soon quit anyway," Survey reveals shortfalls of R/O VWeek ty the freedom to smoke, he ex- said a graduate student from the Other schools are also dissatis- fore, Zarzeczny said, comparing plained. School of Architecture. " I've en- By Katie Schwarz fied with the level of faculty par- ratings of different characteristics MlT has not made plans to quit three times already, but it's Residence/Orientation Week is ticipation in orientation, accord- on a survey the day before the force the ordinance, which, ac- hard," he said, crushing out his effective in creating social bonds ing to a telephone survey by Freshman Picnic with another on cording to the Cambridge law, cigarette on the sidewalk. 'For to $100. among new students, but falls Kevin J. Owyang '88 for the Registration Day. MIT students carries a fine from $25 the first three days (of the ordi- see, and short in helping them meet facul- CEUE. Owyang contacted 21 were also perceived as less enthu- 'First we'll look and nance), I cut way back. I had one ty and informing them about schools about their freshman ori- siastic about MIT and less re- hope everyone cooperates.... If little place where I'd hide and academics, according to surveys entations. sponsible on the second survey. you light up, we hope one of smoke," he added. of this year's freshmen. Freshmen rated the academic Differences between men's and your friends will say, 'Hey, you Although no one has told him Students felt R/O was not use- decision-making process less ef- women's attitudes showed up on can't do that.' " If it appears nec- to put a cigarette out yet, the new will de- ful for meeting faculty, reported fective than the housing process, certain questions, Zarzeczny con- essary, the administration {Please turn to page 2) Susan Zarzeczny '87, who ana- Zarzeczny said. They reported re- tinued. The leading response to lyzed the surveys for the Com- lying mainly on the course cata- the question "Whatdo you like mission on Engineering Under- log, upperclassmen, and fresh- most about MIT?" was "people" graduate Education and the man advisors for guidance, she for women, "academics" for Office of the Dean for Student said. They relied least on the men. Affairs. The CEUE requested the Academic Convocation, Aca- Only men mentioned the male/ surveys as part of its study of the dremic Midway, and the booklet female ratio as something they undergraduate culture.

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