Cambri7 I Continuous Cambridge 6Ii. Y 00004L News Service Massachusetts i I Since 1881 - Tuesday, December 4, 1990 . Volume 1 10, Number 55 _d I I__ I _I __ I i t MIT Crime rate tops state Boston area crime rates IRy Jeremy Hylton 47 100- ..,..,,_ 0V--- r MIT has the highest crime rate with fewer than I 0,000 students getting better," she said. C > of any large four-year school in and in cities with more than Glavin described the broad na- so : Massachusetts, according to a re- 500,000 people are most prone to ture of the categories as the pri- 3 E port published in USA Today violence, according to the report. mary problem - with the report. F. yesterday. A total of 823 crimes' Other area schools have- signifi- "Many colleges know the prob- a 60o _ were committed on campus -dur- cantly lower crime rates. Boston lem .. and under-report to O " ing 1989, the report indicates. University had only 763 crimes compensate," Glavin said. The ' Campus Police Chief Anne P. committed, fora crinme index of statistics may also vary from L 40 Glavin downplayed the impor- 26 crimes per 100QQ More crimes school to school because "the X a 'YIB tance of the r-eport. "Many of the were committed at Harvard than school has.aggressive police or incidents reported have nothing at MIT, but its index relative to students report more crimes," the 0 lQ to do with students,' she said. student size'is 68 per 1000. report said. £ E X MIT had a crime index of 82 The four schools with- higher "If you don't pay attention to IC _ crimes per 1000 students, fifth crime rates were-Yale University [qualifiers] before you read the CW 3i highest in the nation. The report (110 crimes per 1000), Georgia statistics you can get a mistaken arvard MIT Boston Univ. was based on the FBI Crime In- ·l Institute of Tchncology (106), (Please urn io page 9) .1I dex. The index measures murder, Stanford University (91), and I rape, aggravated assault, robbery, Dartmouth College (81). With the I burglary, larceny-theft5 and exception of Dartmouth, these motor-vehicle theft. Chinese classes to come in fall I The report schools are nearly the same size only listed colleges with more as MIT. tures Section (FILL) of the De- Perdue was unavailable for than 3000 full- and part-time Glavin felt the report misrepre- By Chris Scbechter Courses in Chinese language, partment of Humanities, said comment. II students. sented MLIT because there was "We have a relatively low rate culture and literature will be of- that although they will "start at a no distinction between crimes modest level . , . ultimately it's a Impetus came from i Of serious crime :for an urban fered at MIT starting next fall. against students and other cam- very ambitious undertaking." She students, faculty campus," Glavin said. More than The full scope of courses that pus-related crimes. The Campus The impetus for the program I 700 of the crimes committed were Police divide theft into three cat- will be available is still unknown, explained that MIT students will burglaries or larcenies and due to the uncertainty of funding be able to take at least Chinese I came from students and faculty egories: residence hall.theft, MIT who saw a "sufficient intellectual only 20 violent crimes were property theft, and personal from at least one source. and II beginning next fall. (fac- community and expertise in the committed. ulty and staff, only) theft. '"It's The Institute will provide suffi- cient funding to support the ini- Because of its experimental na- field of Chinese culture and lan- "MIT's crime picture has not three very distinctive and differ- ture, no full professor will be ap- had enormous upswings or down- tiative for the first three years. guage to initiate the curriculum," ent categories of thefts" Glavin pointed to the program initially. de Courtivron said. swisgs," Glavin- said. She said Meanwhile, Peter Perdue, asso- explained. However, a limited local search The new administration was the, number of violent cinmes has - Only the residence ciate professor of East Asian his- hall thefts for a visiting professor to teach also instrumental in the making been between 17 and 28 for the reiate directly to students, ac- tory, and Isabelle de Courtivron, the courses will begin next week. of this new program, she added. last six to ei~ht-years. cording to Glavin. The other cat- associate professor of foreign The violent crime index is "not languages, will look for external The search committee responsible In order to support the pro- egories deal with theft of Insti- for this task has been created gram without funding from MIT, a high number for a densely pop- tute or faculty funding to continue and enlarge and Staff property. de Courtivron applied for a grant ulated urban area like MIT," "Ina the program. already, and will be given two recent years that problem from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Glavin said. Shols-like -MIT [rosidence hall theft] has been De Courtivron, who heads the months to find a professor, de Foreign Languages and Litera- Courtivron said. (Please turn to page 9) :*' r * Z r *sass#t;m Search committee will have no students By Karen Kaplan Despite intense lobbying by the Graduate Student Council and the Undergraduate Association to have Provost Mark S. Wrighton appoint at least one student to the advisory committee that will assist him in the search for a new i dean of engineering, all eight .. committee members selected on Nov. 20 were professors. In order to gain student input, the advisory committee has scheduled a series of forums in each of the engineering depart- ·-vsb~:~)r~Fs~i~$ai~,,& s" ments. In addition, students and Sean Dougherty/The Tech Andy Silber/The Tech other members of the MIT com- Provost Mark S. Wrighton Archon Fung '90 (far left), Penn Loh '90 and other members of the MIT Initiative for Peace munity have been invited to sub- sory committee was important. marching in Saturday's anti-war rally to Boston Common. Photo essay, page 7. mit written statements "about the Among them were the "educa- School [of Engineering] in gener- tional aspect" for students to see al, the position of dean or specif- how the administration works, 10,000 rally against Mideast war ic individuals" the committee and the idea that since students should consider. They may also are active in research, "their in- '-BvyPrabbat Mebta in Back Bay Boston. The rally's George Bush's intent in the Mid- contact the committee's chair, put is appropriate." An estimated 10s000 people organizers said they only expect- die East. He said he thought Professor Steven R. Lerman, to Hans C. Godfrey '92, chair- turned out for an anti-war dem- ed 4000 to 5000 people to show "iwaris likely because Bush has meet with the committee. man of the UA Committee on onstration which converged on up, but by the time the group ruled out any other possibility." GSC President Michael D. Governance, expressed his "dis- Boston Common Saturday after- marched in-to Boston Common, MIT Initiative focuses Grossberg G called the an- appointment" with Wrighton's noon. The rally, sponsored by the the number had reached 10,000, on awareness nouncement "very depressing. decision. "We feel that students Cambridge-based Emergency Co- according to police estimates. [The administration] makes it have a lot to offer," he said, and aiition for Peace, Justice, and Included among the speakers Closer to campus, the MIT Ini- very discouraging to try and get could not understand "how Non-Intervention in the Middle at the.Common was Daniel Ells- tiative for Peace is focusing on involved," he said. Wrighton could say students have East, attractWd a large number of berg, the former Defense and promoting preemptive measures, Grossberg also found the deci- no perspective." "I don't under- MIT students, who began the day State Department official who re- Loh said. Currently, the group's sion "perplexing" because "there stand where the provost is com- marching from 77 Massachusetts leased the Pentagon Papers in top priority is to raise awareness is so much discussion about MIT ing from,' he continued. Avenue to Copley Square, where of the issue to the MIT commu- putting out students who are 1969. "There is a major differ- (Pleaseturn to page 8) the rally began. ence between now and the Viet- nity and publicize events like Sat- leaders and who understand how Approximately 80 members of narn era," he said. "We are here urday's rally and a teach-in which to work with other people ... mm the MIT community responded now today before the guns have will be held Friday evening in 54- yet they refuse to give them the to a call from the MIT Initiative started." 100. responsibility to make big de- Arthur Rosenbaum for Peace in the. Middle East to Indeed, several of the speakers The group has also put togeth- cisions." passed away on Aug.27, assemble outside Lobby 7 at took -a preemptive tone, high- er a petition calling for end to Wrighton said that "It wasn't a 1990. He was the owner 12:30 pm. According to Penn lighting the need to work rapidly American military action in the decision not to put students on and operator of the Tech Loh '90, a member of Initiative's to diffuse the current crisis diplo- Persian Gulf [the committee]; it was a decision Optical, located in the Ju- steering committee, the MIT matically before Jan.