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Volume 107, Number 23 A Tuesday, May 5, 1987 1A.} _ .. M ET police arrest Rodriguez UAP charged with disorderly conduct at party By Earl C. Yen lice Sergeant Edward D. McNulty talk to students like that." Rodri- ~~9*-~~~~~ ~ManuelRodriguez '89, presi- explained to the judge that MIT guez said he had had two beers _~~ip~~~~ ~dent of the Undergraduate Asso- did not want to press charges and that evening but was not drunk. ciation, was arrested and charged was instead seeking to expunge O'Regan told Rodriguez to r~~~~ ~with disorderly conduct at a the arrest from Rodriguez' re- mind his own business and then Spring Weekend party on Am- cord. turned away, but Rodriguez per- herst Alley late Saturday night. Olivieri said yesterday that he sisted and stepped in front of O'- · ,.~~~~~~Officer Joseph T. Fratto arrested is still investigating his officers' Regan, touching O'Regan's arm, Rodriguez when he "grabbed" conduct at the party and the cir- Olivieri said. I another Campus Police officer cumstances surrounding Rodri- Rodriguez claimed that Fratto, and then refused to leave the al- guez' arrest. who witnessed the exchange from ley, said Campus Police Chief "You shouldn't talk 15 feet away, walked over to him, James Olivieri. This occurred at to students like that" grabbed his arm, and said, 12:15 am, after Campus Police "You're coming with us." As officers had told roughly 500 stu- At midnight, at the scheduled Fratto walked Rodriguez to his dents to disperse at the end of the end of the party, ten Campus Po- patrol car, he asked Rodriguez . _1,adss~r- '4eA,~C Ira-Q-party lice officers with bullhorns told whether he was a student, wheth- Officer Brian O'Regan was also the students to leave the Amherst er he spoke English, and where l_6~~~ | ~~~involved in the incident. Neither Alley site between Burton and he lived. O'Regan nor Fratto could be Baker House. O'Regan an- Rodriguez answered all of Frat- _~a~IL~Lb -mWB~P~ reached for comment yesterday. nounced that students should to's questions, Oliveri said. Rodriguez appeared before leave the party. Phillippe Laffont Rodriguez claimed that the fol- . David M. Watson/The Tech Cambridge District Court yester- '89 responded to O'Regan, "yes, lowing exchange then took place: UAP Manuel Rodriguez '89 day morning, where Campus Po- sir!" in a tone that was "not to- Fratto: "You piece of shit, get tally innocent," Laffont ad- the hell out of here." Deutch seeks longer mitted. Rodriguez: "No. You shouldn't wait for tenure O'Regan noticed that Laffont treat students like this." By Darrel Tarasewicz en years to work with before a the proposal will be up to the was carrying an empty bottle of Fratto: "Oh, really? Then Provost John M. Deutch '61 decision is made, Brown said. Academic Council, which con- whiskey and confiscated it, Oli- you're under arrest." has proposed that the time by "To allow the individual to sists of the President, Provost, vieri said. Fratto ordered Rodriguez to which a junior faculty's tenure have one year to find a new post various vice presidents, and the Laffont claimed that, as O'Re- bend over the back of the car decision must be made be ex- if he is rejected for tenure, the academic deans, Deutch said he gan took the bottle away, he while he handcuffed him, said , tended from seven years to eight. decision is really made in the fall will ask for more faculty input at pushed Laffont and called him Jose A. Godnzalez '89, a friend of The primary goal of the plan is of the sixth year," Brown said. the May meeting and hopes the "numerous obscene names" while Rodriguez who followed Fratto to enable those faculty who are "This really just leaves five years proposal will be accepted by July two friends led Laffont out of the and Rodriguez to the patrol car. involved in experimental science for the scientist to prove him- 1. alley. Gonzalez said that Fratto was un- to have more time to establish selfL" Deutch said he has received ap- Rodriguez, who is a friend of necessarily rough in handcuffing Laffont, was standing their research programs and be- Deutch did not feel the move proximately 30 responses to the a few Rodriguez and pushing him into yards gin to obtain results, Deutch ex- will make the junior faculty who plan, and the responses indicate away from the altercation. the car. plained. are trying to get tenure more in- mixed opinions about the pro- He said he approached O'Regan "He IRodcriguez] wasn't even and told Gene M. Brown, dean of the secure. The purpose of the move fPlease turn to page 18) him, "Sir, you shouldn't - (Please turn to page 20) School of Science and one of the is to achieve the opposite effect, original advocates of-the change, he said. "WVe're not trying to hurt fPAIR calls for m-ore minorifties at fi"IT l agreed that the plan will "primar- their chances [for tenure], rather By Seth A. Gordon more likely ily aid the experimental scientist. improve them." than whites to be tive, he reported. Protesting incidents of racial stopped by the Campus Currently these people need usu- Brown said that the two or Police, McBay declined to comment harassment on campus and call- Francis claimed. "That's not a ally two to three years just to get three years prior to a tenure deci- on Fernandez's statements. ing for increased minority repre- statistical their instrumentation together." sion are very traumatic for most error; that's racism." The role of minorities sentation among students and PAR demanded that MIT es- Consequently, faculty involved faculty. Some people may think faculty, People Against Racism tablish formal grievance proce- Minority students bring a in theoretical research are usually the move would just prolong held a rally Friday afternoon at dures through which students can unique culture and politics to any awarded tenure one or two years their misery an additional year, 77 Massachusetts Avenue. The pursue charges of racial harass- campus they attend, asserted sooner than those involved in ex- he suspected. rally, titled "Minorities Have a ment. It also demanded that MIT Reverend Graylan Ellis-Hagler of perimental science, Brown said. Deutch presented the proposal Right to Be Here," included sixty set its own police review board or the Roxbury Church of United In the tenure process, a re- at the April faculty meeting. students from MIT, Harvard, submit to the authority of the Community. "We are the moral searcher really does not have sev- Even though the final decision on and Boston University. Cambridge Civilian Review force in this society. It has always Frederick J. Foreman G, a Board. been this way." Committee meets authors member of PAR, said that enroll- Fernandez said he spoke about Some minority students feel ments of underrepresented mi- his arrest with Dean for Student pressured to try to prove their of alternate HASS-D plan norities - blacks, Hispanics, Na- Affairs Shirley M. McBay, and equality, but they do not have to, By Katie Schwarz and the mechanism for deciding tive Americans and Puerto showed her the police report. he said. MIT minority students Student and faculty groups op- which courses are HASS-Ds. Ricans - have been declining at McBay told him not to worry have already proven that they can MIT posed to limiting the number of Khoury'sKhour's committee will report over past years. about it and not to be so sensi- (Please turra to page 18) humanities, arts, and social sci- again to the CUP on Monday Although MIT did admit a re- ence distribution subjects are with specific recomendations. cord number of minority under- r bringing their case to the com- This week Khoury plans to at- graduates this year, the financial mittee studying modifications of tend open meetings in several en- aid offered to them was so small Zenon S. Zannetos the HASS proposa. . gineering departments on the that few would actually enroll, Zenon S. Zannetos PhD '59, associate dean for development The Ad Hoc HASS Comrmlit- HASS proposal and engineering Foreman predicted. PAR is seek- at the Sloan School of Management, died last Saturday after a tee, chaired by Associate Profes- urricula ing to eliminate the self-help re- long illness, according to the MIT News Office. He was 59. sor of History Philip S. Khoury, quirement for low income stu- Zannetos was known for his research on oil economics, par- met Friday with the group of nine T p ar the nn dents and to give international ticularly in the area of oil tanker rates. He was a founder and faculty who wrote an alternative proposal prepared by the nine students more support. chief executive officer of Pericomp Corporation of Natick and a proposal, with no limit on the professors is now up to Khoury's The number of minority facul- founder and consultant to Palladian Software, Inc. of Cam- number of HASS-D's.hASS-Ds. ItItowill willtueAvnCKiloeftht group, said Professor of Litera- ty has also declined, Foreman bridge. meet today with students who tureCiblone oAlvintueAvn h C. Kibel, one of the continued. In 1975, MIT had 23 Born in Famagusta, Cyprus, Zannetos came to the United wrote a 22-page report for the minority faculty members; in States in 1949. He received an AB degree in mathematics from Undergraduate Association con- The alternate proposal does 1985, MIT had 14, he said. Over the University of Kansas in 1953. He received an SM in industri- demning the proposal now before not use the five distribution cate- half of the departments at MIT al management and a PhD in economics both from MIT in 1955 the faculty. gories of the proposal before the have not bothered to look for and 1959, respectively. Khoury's committee was dele- faculty. Instead, it would require more minority faculty, said Ron- Zannetos was active in the Greek community and in the gated by the Committee on the one distribution subject in Hu- ald W. Francis G. The depart- Greek Orthodox Church. He served in many capacities, includ- Undergraduate Program to gath- manities, one in Social Sciences, mental committees that are sup- ing regional vice president of the United Hellenic American Col- er opinions and possibly recom- ana a third in any section within posed to try to recruit more lege. mend changes to the HASS dis- HASS except the ones where the minority faculty have not been Zannetos is survived by his wife, Clotilde, and by two sons tribution proposal after last other two were taken. doing so, he explained. and two daughters. month's faculty meeting, when a Kibel and Professor of Germhan Speakers attack harassment vote on the proposal was delayed Claire J. Kramnsch discussed this to this month. .alternate proposal with the Hu- Francis condemned the April 2 The committee made its first manities and Social Science arrest of Stephen Fernandez '87 report to the full CUP yesterday, School Council, of which they by the Campus Police which the IWarren Ki. lMUKldrow G a survey of "the various positions are both members, last Thursday. Cambridge Police agree was un- Warren K. MuldrowG died in an off-campus hospital April and interest groups" with regard The School Council was responsi- justified, he said. Fernandez was 10 after a long battle with cancer. Muldrow is survived by his to the proposal, Khoury said. He ble for turning last year's HASS arrested because he was a politi- wife, Katrina, children, and parents. identified the primary issues sur- committee recommendations into cal activist, he said. Other speak- Formerly of the Health Policy and Management Program and rounding the proposal as its cap the current proposal before the ers said he was arrested because the department of electrical engineering and computer science, of 50 on the number of HASS- faculty. The council will be an- he was a member- of a minority Muldrow lived in Somerville, MA. His parents live in Neptune, D's, its five categories of distribu- other source of input to Khoury's race. NJ. Minorities are 10 to 30 times tion, the role of language study, committee, Kibel noted. IeL-- ---rL-Zls- rra-- --· - - --C---··s---YI --II·--· _ ~PAGE 2 The Tech TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1987 Ciovil itym and dIS()edience in an e FYtVtA ) a Holy Cross. "I want to support something that is im- what we had done, what we should have done, what we portant, and I want to show that there are -peoplewho do should not have donle," according to another Times re- Reporter's Notebook care." porter, Harrison E. Salisbury, who described the affair in By Thomas T. Huang "I've been in about a dozen protests since the 1960s," Without Fear or Favor. LANGLEY, VA -Sciopi Thomas is breathing hard. said Yvonne Logan, ail elderly woman from Connecticut. But Ellsberg, growing disillusioned with the government He's a reporter for the Dayton Daily N~ews. He's a black "This will be my second civil disobedience." and the war, leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New man who received his liberal arts education at the Univer- At 6:20 am, Lisa Fithian, one of the coordinators of York Times in 1971, when he was a $20,000-a-year senior sity of Iowa. Inl the past five years, he has worked for the action, a short, skinny woman, got on top of a van to research associate at the Center for International Studies newspapers in Dallas and St. Louis. But today he finds address the crowd. "'I think we've got their attention," she at MITM. The Pentagon Papers showed that Kennedy and himself in Langley, a suburban town about 20 miles out of yelled through a bullhorn, referring to the CIA employ- Johnson and their administrations had misled the public DC, across the Potomac River. ees, trying to rile up the group. "They are really having concerning their intentions in Vietnam. For the last few days, he's been dogging a groulp of trouble getting to work." With media darlings Amy Carter and Abbie Hoffman Ohioans who on Saturday marched in Washingtonl, DC, To the press, Fithian said, "We need to let the employ- mysteriously missing from the action, The New York with 100,000 demonstrators, protesting Amnerican policy ees know that we are decent, reasonable people who will Times naturally tapped Ellsberg as the leader here. in Central America and South Africa, and who are today, act without violence. There are well over 1000 of us here. The day before the CIA action, in a church in down- Monday, April 27, conducting civil disobedience at the We want to get people to start questioning their involve- town Washington, he gave a short speech to those people headquarters of the Central Intelligenlce Agency. About 60 ment with such an organization as the CIA." who had just undergone civil disobedience training. He people came from Dayton to march on Saturday. About was introduced by Dave Dellinger, an activist of the 1960s sixteen have remained to protlest the CIA's role inl Nicara- "Murderers!" and one of the Chicago Eight. Dellinger said that, in 1967 gua and South Africa. "Go to work, go to hell!" Ellsberg -then a government man -had witnessed a Eight of them are going to risk arrest. "CIA, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide!" march on the Pentagon. It was then that he started think- Sciopi Thomas is out of breath because he has been These are some of the chants the protesters yell at CIA ing about the war and his governmenlt's secrecy in that walkcing back and forth between his group and the police, employees who, with the help of the police, make their war, wm and between the police and The activist leaders of this ac- way through the South gate by foot. They have parked Ellsberg is still up to uncovering secrecy. He told the 1-F audience that, in talking wvith former CIA agent David E tion. In all, there are roughly 1000 to 1500 protesters at their cars in the nearby neighborhoods. F- the three CIA gates. Nearly 600 are risking arrest, while McMichaels, he recently learned that the Reagan adminis- The Fairfax county police gather to form a line along i about 400 supporters stand by to get them out of jail. tration had been heading toward an invasion of Nicara- Fr. both sides of the road entering the CIA headquarters at It At 10 arn, only thirty protesters remain at the CIA's the South gate. Anybody who crosses the line and steps gua this spring, only to have the contra affair interrupt its Third gate, a rather sedate scene. The group leaders have onto the road is subject to arrest. plans. t- been sending demonstrators to the South gate, half a mile At 6:30 am, the police begin to methodically arrest But he claimed that President Reagan still has the in- centive to once again take up these pre-laid plans. Within away, where the "hot action" has been happening. The those protesters who sit in the way of entering traffic. It is 6 police have been arresting activists en masse there. a physical action that will fast become ritual before the weeks, Admiral John PoindexPhiladelphia. With the civil disobedience behind him, his thoughts go now to getting back to work. "Now I have to catch a plane back to Philly to write some proposals for grants to send to groups in South Africa," he says. Here is what happens if you are arrested by the Fairfax county police in a civil disobedience action at the CIA: you are brought to a processing table next to a polices

owned Winnebago van, labeled Mobile Employment Ser- !0 1 - 1:-, ( l. , .§ VA ffi g ff vices Unit. There, you can either choose to accept a piece diminished that he can try scaring them off the road. of paper -a summons to a later court date -and you He slowly puts his foot to the gas. Pho toscourtesy Peter Defazio can walk free right then and there, or you can choose to A woman leaves the group of demonstrators and meets immediately come before a magistrate and risk having to Sciopi Thomas's group from Dayton is trying to decide the truck and kneels down. Against her left shoulder, she spend a night in jail before getting to see the official. whether or not it should leave the Third gate and got ar- raises a wooden cross the size of a man. Nailed to it is the rested at the South gate. figure of Jesus Christ. If you choose not to cooperate -by not giving the po- lice any information about yourself -you will probably It is10:30 am, about four hours after the action start- stay in jail for a few days. ed. Earlier that morning, arriving at Langley at 6 am from If you are arrested by the Federal Protective Service or One man says, "I came here to stay at this gate. You an exit off the George Washington Beltway, one passed the United States Park Police, you are brought to the don't need to be arrested to make a political statement. dirt shoulders and dark forests aned a traffic ;am of CIA Navy Shipyard or Park Police Headquarters in Anacostia, I'm effective here, blockfing the trafficc. If we go, the traffic gets through." employees trying to gain entrance to the North Gate, VA. If you cooperate, youi can pay a finee and leave. If you Their bosses had told them that they should be at work an do not cooperate, you will stay in jail for a few days. "But I just wanna. get arrested and get out of here," hour earlier than usual to avoid the sit-down blockades. counters his companion. In the dark, headlights shone against back license plates. "It's now or never if you want to getarrested at the Occasional protesters on foot would pass the cars, weav- Daniel Ellsberg is a gray-haired activist in a pin-striped South gate," yells one of the activist leaders. ing through the glare, like ghosts. business suit, a native of Chicago and graduate of Har- Two contractors from Southern Maryland Floor Com- The demonstrators gathered at Langley Park, and, un- vard. He is one of the celebrities getting arrested at Lang- pany, Joe Neal and Lymon Rogers, sit in their van, stew- derneath the-goal post of the football field there, in the ley. ing, stuck at the Third gate. Neal says, "All these people growing light and chill of the dewv, they stood holding In high school, he was voted the most likely to make a can do is blame their own government. They shouldn't be their signls and placards that displayed names of men and contribution to humnan progress. If you believe that the allowed to block the access to people who need to go to women dead or disappeared in South Africa. publication of the Pentagon Papers started the ball rolling work. They're talking food out of our mouths.' "Veve been thinking about this for a week now," said on Nixon's pull-out from Vietnam, then maybe Ellsberg's Meanwhile, another contractor, a black guy wearing Mike Mendelson, a computer programmer who works in classmates weren't too far off the prophetic mark. glasses, dressed in an electrician's jumpsuit! approaches a Cambridge. 'I got myself worked up, and I decided to get As a defense analyst, Ellsberg had worked for the Na- reporter and says, "Hey, you know, you remind me of arrested, because I have to stand up for whatI believe in. tional Security Council, the Rand Corporation thinkc tank that kid on Hardcopy, that TV show that comes on Sun- Now I'm pretty calm." in Santa Monica, CA, and the Pentagon. In the late day nights." 'I've decided to work as a supporter, because I've had 1960s, he had taken part in the Department of Defense's Asked what his name is, the electrician replies, "My enough of rhetoric," said another young man, sporting a study on the origins and developments of the conflict in name is Harry P. Ness. Yeah, that's right. Just write that Bono-style haircut and wearing both a Star of David and Vietnam, a study to determine 'how we had gotten in, one down." -. ' I ' , ' i, , . ,- , I , I ~ -,

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4_~~~~~~I I II -"C- -~r~lla~4W~b-~..~"~ ~·~--ra~·IIP~a4~8PPB~·18111~·8~I = Reagan, Nakasone call for smith offers reward for return of POWs; Vietnam criticizes proposal I more economic cooperation Vietnam's official army newspaper denounced on Sun- In a bid to ease trade tensions, President Reagan and day the $1 million reward offered by a group - including Arafat willing to meet Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone pledged Rep. Robert Smith (R-NH)- to anyone who brings an themselves on Saturday to better economic cooperation. Israelis under UN auspices American prisoner of war out of Indochina. Nakasone returned to Japan on Sunday, carrying with Liberation Organization leader Yassir Arafat The newspaper called the move "an ugly political pro- Palestine him President Reagan's pledge to oppose protectionist he is willing to meet with any Israeli leader to vocation" that does nothing to settle questions about said that trade legislation in Congress. Nakasone, in return, said the establishment of a Palestinian-Israeli state. Americans missing in action from tle war in Indochina, discuss that his government is striving to reduce its foreign-trade condition is that the meeting be held under which ended 12 years ago. Arafat's only surplus. of the United Nations. Arafat said the pro- Smith and seven other Republican congressmen an- the auspices Reagan said on Friday that he is optimistic that the came to him from Israeli Cabinet Minister Ezer nounced the million-dollar reward Monday in North posal United States will begin narrowing its trade deficit with NVeizman. Weizman has been Israel's foremost advocate Carolina. The offer is extended to any Vietnamese, Lao- Japan. He also told Nakasone that he hopes to lift sanc- accomodation with the Arabs. tian, or Cambodian who produces a US prisoner from the of tions against $300 million worth of Japanese products "as of Syria, Iraq, and Jordan brought the Middle Vietnam War. Vietnam denies holding any American ser- Leaders soon as possible." close to a breakthrough during a secret vicemen as prisoners. East peace process In Japan, business leaders expressed guarded optimism week, according to Newsweek magazine. The United States says that about 2400 Americans are meeting last at the outcome of the talks. Efut opposition parties and said the talks could provide the missing pieces in unaccounted for and missing in action from the war in Weizman agricultural officials complained that the agreements East peace puzzle, Newsweek reported. Weiz- Indochina. The National Vietnam Veterans' Coalition the Middle reached by the two leaders may harm Japan. man said the leaders discussed their concerns about the claims 400 American servicemen are being held captive. spread of hard-line Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab Chirna claims Soviet-backed council asks for US aid. calls for US office in Hanoi World. Aqulino has imprisoned Afghan president Hatfield against comnmunists Twelve years after the end of the Vietnam War, Sen. reported yesterday Mark Hatfield (R-OR) wants the US government to estab- Philippine President Corazon Aquino accused the Unit- China's official news agency, Xinhua, Karmal has been jailed lish an office in Hanoi. Hatfield has introduced a resolu- ed States yesterday of failing to give her country enough that former Afghan leader Babrak Karmal had served as tion urging President Reagan to take "bold, new steps aid to battle the communist rebellion and to deal with the by the Soviet-backed government. removal a year ago. Xinhua with the government of Vietnam" on the issue of Ameri- threat of new fighting with Moslem guerrillas. President president from 1979 until his was jailed, but said he can prisoners of war and those missing in action. Hatfield wants to boost aid for the Philippines to $150 mil- did not say when or why Karmal Reagan A Soviet offi- a vocal critic of the Vietnam War during the late but there is a push in Congress against foreign mili- had been under house arrest for some time. had been lion, propaganda. 1960s and early 1970s. tary aid in order to reduce the budget deficit, cial denounced the report as imperialist .=--- ------~ep~W~9 _.~- -- ~L~-a IMIN~ I lnouye claims Reagan knew ., I. -- of fundraising for contras Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HA), chairman of the Senate economists fear Senate committee urnansimously committee probing the Iran-contra affair, said on Sunday laew Enagland approves Webster to head CIA that President Reagan knew that money was being raised impact of protectionisst bill to provide arms to Nicaraguan rebels. Appearing on approved by the US House of The choice of former Federal Bureau of Investigation The trade-retaliation bill NBC's "Meet the Press", Inouye said he thinks the presi- 16 of New England's 24 con- Director William Webster to head the Cental Intelligence Representatives, including dent "knew much more than what the White House has some fears in the region where pros- Agency has the unanimous approval of the Senate Intelli- gressmen, has raised intimated." However, Inouye said he has found no evi- sales. Economists say New Eng- gence Committee. The vote came after three days of close perity is tied to overseas dence that Reagan knew about the diversion of money flourishing economy depends.to a large extent on questioning about the FBI's involvement with former Na- land's from Iran arms sales to the contras. foreign markets where such products as comput- Security aide Lt. Col. Oliver North. healthy tional When questioned by reporters, President Reagan said ers and jet aircraft engines are sold. he was aware that private individuals were raising money BU students oppose Conrgressionral investigators say North to help the contras, but he said he knew of no efforts to solicit funds. by Rehnquist Soviet arms within the administration appearance supplied contras with University students said on Sunday that the Reagan ad- Some Boston Congressional investigators claim that protest the appearance of US Chief Justice countries, such as they plan to ministration arranged for communist exchange charges Rehnquist at the school's May 17 comrmence- to the Nicaraguan Reagan, Congress William China and Poland, to sell weapons ment. The students have organized a group called Com- New York Times. The Times overspending contras, according to The of government munity Organized Against Rehnquist. They plan to wear official as saying that former and the Democrats traded charges on quoted an administration President Reagan black armbands at the commencement, and they will pass Oliver North persuaded China to sell responsible for government over- White House aide Sunday over who is out fliers, they said. And, they may hire an airplane to anti-aircraft missiles. said that Congress refuses to exercise the corntras some Soviet-made spending. Reagan pull an anti-Rehnquist banner. The dissident group con- and keeps passing expensive bills I any budget discipline tends that Rehnquist's decision record has leaned against said Reagan submitted Mlr. Potato Head turns 35 But Sen. Bennett Johnson (D-LA) minorities a budget with "phony economic projections" to Congress. Mr. Potato Head celebrated his 35th birthday Saturday night by spending a quiet evening in his Potato Head Box according with Mrs. Potato Head and their 12 children, judge postpones to Hasbro spokesman Wayne Charness. Mlr. Potato Head Federal parts and was born in 1952 as a handful of plastic body trial of Laosouche aides Dr. J ends pro career articles of clothing that were stuck into potatoes. But US District Judge Robert Keeton yesterday postponed plas- Julius Erving, basketball's "Dr. J", played his last pro- soon children began to improvise, sticking the goofy the trial of more than a dozen aides and organizations of glasses, fessional basketball game on Sunday. His Philadelphia tic hat, the mustache, teeth, eyes, nose, tongue, political innovator Lyndon LaRouche. Keeton ruled that ap- were eliminated from the playoffs by the Milwaukee and pipe into other substances, such as beets, turnips, defense attorneys were cut off from their legal documents 76ers Head Bucks. In the fifth and deciding game of their opening- ples, and onions. In an effort to keep Mr. Potato when government agents seized LaRouche's headquarters round NBA playoff series, the Bucks beat the Sixers 102- just that, Hasbro introduced in 1964 a plastic potato- in Leesburg, VA. The judge also moved the trial date for- more 89. Erving closed out his 16-yea} pro career in high style, shaped body to go along with the parts. To date, ward from June 1 to July 8. It is the second delay in the leading all scorers with 24 points. Erving leaves the pro than 50 million of the toys have been sold. case. Ten associates and five groups are charged in an al- game ranking only behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt leged credit-card fraud designed to fund La~ouche's 1984 Chamberlain on the all-time scoring list. presidential bid. I Restaurant owners rap M--l anti-smoking law T-~~ I Some local restaurant owners in Beverly Hills, CA are complaining that they have lost more than half their pa- M.Wore rain is a new anti-smoking ordi- trons. The reason, they say, Today will be much like the previous several up in stores, at public meetings, nance that bans lighting Tuesdays, with miserable weather. Unlike last week, But Beverly Hills Mayor Benjamin and in restaurants. however, we can expect rain, not snow. Periods of any notion of amending the ordinance Stansbury said that rain will be the rule today, and it will not clear out is wishful thinking. until Thursday. There are some indications that we may warm up nicely late in the week, so look Prime interest rate rises to 8 percent forward to that. Many US banks raised their prime interest rate from .- and fog with cold 7 3/4 to 8 percent over the weekend. Analysts attributed the Today: The usual. Rain, drizzle, increase to tighter credit and the. falling value of the dol- Northeast winds and highs near 46° (8 IC) near 42° lar on world markets. Tonight: Light rain, drizzle, and fog. Lows (6 'C). in Goetz trial Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with some leftover t Youth testifies showers or drizzle in the morning. Maybe we will youths shot by New York Troy Canty, one of the four see a peek of sun in the afternoon. Highs in the on Satulrday subway gunman Bernhard Goetz, testified low 50s (10-12 ('IC). frustrated that he never intended to rob Goetz. Canty has Thursday: Mostly sunny and mild, highs 65^70 (18- the defense at every turn, frequently answering questions 21 OC) inland, cooler along the coast. about the 1984 shooting by saying that he can't remem- Forecast by Chris Davis ;·r· is facing attempted murder char-es, said ber. Goetz, who - 3- - - C - -- Is I - I - -C--- the young men were about to L- - I he was justified because Compiled by Robert Adams mug him.

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A- - - - g .- - , - ..~, j . - _~8 PAGE 4 The Tech TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1987 Ip~sa9~4s~ll·~·l~e~sIIM f v fl 0op - - ; 1'- - - opinion - I~~~~~~~0 Column/Mark Kantrowitz Editorials, marked as such and printed in a distinctive for- mat, are the official opinion of The Tech. They are written by the editorial board, which consists of the publisher, editor in Flaws plague HASS reform chief, managing editor, news editors and opinion editors. The education reform move- MacVicar wants the faculty to Does the HASS-D proposal real- Dissents, marked as such and printed in a distinctive format, ment has been mismanaged from vote on the proposal this month ly intellectually broaden an un- are the opinions of the undersigned members of the editorial the start. because she is afraid that the op- dergraduate education? Is forced board choosing to publish their disagreement with the editorial. Consider the current faculty ponents of the proposal will learning the proper way to solve Columns and editorial cartoons are written by individuals and proposal for the HASS-D pro- gather too much support, and the problem? represent the opinion of the author, not necessarily that of the gram. Dean for Undergraduate kill the education reform move- MIT's educational atmosphere newspaper. Education Margaret L. A. Mac- ment. But shouldn't the students is restrictive enough as it is. By Letters to the Editor are welcome. They must be typed double vicar '65 is trying to rush through have that option? limiting choices, the reform will spaced and addressed to The Tech, PO Box 29, MIT Branch, the proposal; because of this, Students tend to avoid discuss- force MIT students to become Cambridge MA 02139, or by interdepartmental mail to Room several mistakes have already ing reforms until they have for- more narrow and lacking in di- W20-483. been made, and many more are mally been proposed as changes versity. Instead, MIT should in- Letters and cartoons must bear the authors' signatures, ad- likely to result. in the curriculum. Now that we crease the options available to the dresses, and phone numbers. Unsigned-letters will not be ac- * Failure to solicit student in- have something concrete to dis- students. This would encourage cepted. No letter or cartoon will be printed anonymously with- put. Students had a very small cuss, the faculty should start diversity by permitting students out express prior approval of The Tech. The Tech reserves the role in developing the proposal planning a colloquium for the to plan coursework that is inter- right to edit or condense letters. Shorter letters will be given right from the start. Only fall and postpone the vote on the esting to them and meaningful to higher priority. We regret we cannot publish all of the letters we through the efforts of former Un- proposal. their personal development. receive. dergraduate Association Presi- ® Second-class status of (Please turn to page 16) __, I _--I ~~~~--~rI -b m ------~~~~~-·~-1CI. dent Bryan R. Moser '87 did the Course XXI. An ideal solution to faculty committees accept a stu- the morale problems in the hu- Column/Scott Sa leska dent member. manities department was pro- The proposal's proponents in- posed by the Marx Committee and Steven D. Penn sist that they provided ample op- last spring. Their report recom- portunities for student input; if mended that a College of the Ruth Perry so, then why were copies of the New Liberal Arts be established. unfairly denied tenure proposal mailed to all the faculty, Such a college would create a Students can add a new data judgment. Program be established, with but not to the students? unique synthesis of science and point to support the MIT axiom In a final ironic twist, just the Perry as its director, and that she It is clear that the administra- engineering with the humanities, that good teaching means no ten- week before she was denied ten- be considered for tenure no later tion does not believe in solicitng and would mean an influx of stu- ure. To the surprise and shock of ure by the Humanities and Social than the 1986-87 school year. student input. Isn't it ironic that dents into the humanities depart- many who knew her to be an out- Sciences- School Council, Perry The administration stated in a immediately after more than 1400 ment. This would balance the standing scholar and teacher, was awarded the coveted Guggen- letter of agreement that "this ap- students signed a petition de- swollen enrollments throughout Ruth Perry, the director of the heim Fellowship. pointment is made in the hope manding an opportunity to com- the school of engineering, and Women's Studies Program and There are at least two other is- and expectation that the Women's ment on the HASS proposal be- enable the HASS faculty to teach senior lecturer in literature and sues pertaining to the Perry case Studies Program will be a success fore the faculty votes on it, MIT more classes in their specialties. women's studies, was denied ten- which raise important questions and that . . . [Perry] will contin- decided to install condom ma- That report, however, was ure on April 16. about why she is being dismissed, ue at MIT for many years." chines in the dormitories without labeled as being "too radical" To students who have been at and about the integrity of the Which brings us to the second consulting students? and a committee was formed "to MIT for several years, this case tenure process at MIT: issue: the fate of the Women's * Failureto allow for the pos- study it," effectively dismissing probably seems like just another e The unusual history of Studies Program. sibility of opposition. The admin- it. example of MIT's low regard for "procedural irregularities," in- Under Perry's directorship, istration was genuinely surprised If the Institute is serious about the importance of teaching. cluding documented gender- MIT Women's Studies has flour- by the student reaction to the HASS reform, then it should In some respects, those stu- based discriminatory practices as- ished, acquiring a reputation HASS-D proposal. They thought consider all proposals, even if dents are probably right. But the sociated with her case; and, around the country for its high that the faculty would approve they involve increased funding Perry case has some extraordi- · The consequences of Perry's academic quality. A year ago, the the proposal in April. for the humanities department. nary twists of its own which dismissal for the MIT Women's program was evaluated by a visit- The students and faculty who * Philosophy behind reform. make it more than just another Studies Program. ing committee of the MIT Cor- signed the petition asked to have The faculty has failed to serious- case of a good teacher being The procedural irregularities poration, and its report states, fired. the vote delayed to May. What ly examine what the presump- were documented by a grievance "The MIT Women's Studies Pro- they were really asking for was tions behind the proposals are. As far as we can tell, Perry's committee chaired by Professor gram is -considered to be of very academic record more time. Apparently many faculty feel is impeccable. Peter Elias '44, after Perry was high quality. .. A large part of Her m MacVicar compounds the error that an MIT education lacks fourth book, published last first considered and turned down the credit for the program must F by only giving the students a structure, coherence and defini- fall by the prestigious University r for tenure by a Literature Section go to Ruth Perry. She has actively i of Chicago month - the month before finals tion. They believe that a broad Press, has received committee in 1981. The Elias recruited the faculty and chal- unanimous - to voice their feelings. She education must be force-fed to critical acclaim. "The committee found that Perry's lenged them to see beyond their should have realized that the fac- students. I disagree. footnotes alone are an educa- case had been prepared and eval- current activities to the develop- tion," wrote ulty meeting would be taking Instead of debating how many a reviewer in the uated in a manner significantly ment of new courses and pro- place during finals week, when HUM-D categories there should Times Higher Education Supple- different from that of a male grams." few students would ment. Letters be able to be, and how many classes in in abundance from member of the literature faculty The important question is, prominent scholars comment on the proposal. Last- each, the faculty should examine in Perry's who had been tenured the pre- what will happen to this program minute, hastily field (18th-century literary thrown together what we do, how we do it, and history vious year. if Perry leaves? Provost John M. forums and women's studies) support do not-help. most importantly, why we do it. this The committee's report con- Deutch '61 has told Women's cluded that these differences Studies students who have spok- Column/Rich Covw "were adverse to Perry's interests en to him about this issue that and might have changed the out- the MIT administration is com- Students' H IASS concerns ignored come of her tenure reviev." mitted to the continued existence I attended imagined Based on this conclusion, the of Women's Studies at MIT, and the forum on the Margaret L.A. MacVi- whether their attendance will be HASS Elias committee nullified the neg- that Perry's dismissal should not changes last Thursday in car '65, dean for undergraduate meaningful would be well served 54-100. ative recommendation given by be construed as a sign of disap- I was astounded. education, saying later that after- to ask some fundamental ques- the Literature Section committee. proval for the Women's Studies As student after student stood noon. "Just relax and hold lots of tions about the "reform" effort. up to An ad hoc committee, formed Program itself. deliver insightful critiques forums," would be President Has MIT actually given serious and after the Elias Committee com- In light of the positive evalua- scathing accusations, the fac- Paul E. Gray's reply, "and the in- consideration to any of the stu- ulty smiled terest pleted its review, unanimously tion of the visiting committee, and watched, occa- will eventually die out." dent suggestions thus far? Is recommended Perry for tenure in however, we find such claims dif- sionally nodding their heads in there an ulterior motive behind the spring of 1982. ficult to believe. In any case, tacit acknowledgement of their Yet another forum is scheduled all this effort to "reform" the At this point, the MIT admin- whatever its intentions may be, complicity. today, with three more tomorrow. curriculum? Does "education re- istration, claiming that it would the administration's "They're on to us, Paul," I Students who are wondering form" actions will --- ------really have anything at all be I1P unwise to tenure Perry in a inevitably be perceived by many IPI L- U I -1--- _ _-1 to do with fixing the education? 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MITCoop at Kendall 3 CambridgeCenter M-Fri 9:15-7pm, Sat 9:15-5:45pm HARVARD C OO PERAT IV E SO C I E T Y L------' ------i _ PAGE 6 The Tech TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1987 [ - - opinlon I Column/Ron Newman r Orange Line closing hurts Roxbury r. i M. The last few days were sup- uled three days of construction, p posed to be a time of glory for starting last Friday morning, to

the Massachusetts Bay Transpor- sever the Orange Line subway's a tation Authority. After hundreds connection to the El and attach u of community meetings, after the the new line in the El's place. ET expenditure of $750 million, after The authority also realigned a 12 years of design and construc- dozen bus routes effective last tion, Boston's antiquated Wash- Saturday, extending many of ington Street elevated line went them from Dudley or Egleston out of service early Friday morn- stations to the new Ruggles Street ing, to be replaced yesterday by station behind Northeastern Uni- the gleaming new Southwest Cor- versity. And it had distributed ridor Orange Line a half mile to reams of publicity announcing the west. that the changes would occur last But to many poor and minor- weekend. Delaying the change- ity residents of Roxbury, Jamaica over could only have further be- Plain, and the South End, last wildered an already confused Friday was a day that will live in public. infamy. Instead of celebrating It's hard to see what the T can this much ballyhood "improve- do to satisfy the aggrieved resi- ment," people throughout the dents of Roxbury. The old Or- community are angrily bemoan- ange Line was the most reliable ing the demise of the Washington line in the MBTA system and had Street El. one of the best on-time records Many discovered only last of any line in the US. It ran week that the T won't run service through the commercial heart of on both the old and new lines si- black Roxbury, Dudley Station, I R9 multaneously, that there will no and also served the important m longer be direct train or bus ser- secondary commercial area of vice to Egelston Square in Rox- Egelston Square. bury, that the T has yet to decide By contrast, the new line large- what will replace the El on Wash- ly bypasses Roxbury, running in- Fe L ington Street, and that they may stead through a a desolate no- I have to pay doubled fares for less mans-land created 20 years ago i frequent, slower connecting bus when hundreds of homes and Harassment victim tells heer story services. businesses were demolished for To the Editor: was prevented from leaving my was so incredibly special to him Hundreds of residents beseiged the now-cancelled I-95 freeway. I have a story to tell. I have own room; I was physically that he could not bear to part an IMBTAh Board of Directors This wasteland is expected to meeting on April 29, demanding been harassed. The Office of the threatened and emotionally from me, he said. His blackmail gradually fill with new businesses Dean blackmailed. worked. He that the T not stop service on the for Student Affairs defines asked me how I and housing, but Roxbury resi- harassment Does this could possibly El until it decides on a plan for as any conduct which seem like a clear case reject him know- dents have little trust that this de- has the of harassment to you? ing how much that permanent replacement transit velopment effect of unreasonably in- It does to would hurt will do anything but terfering with another me, now. But it him? from Dudley to downtown. After displace person's didn't then. At them from their homes. academic or work performance the time I didn't quite understand Maybe he has a 15 years of study, the T has yet to Meanwhile, at deeper prob- many people who MIT. Someone did this to me. that there was a "situation." I lem that was making him do k decide whether to run buses live right next to the old elevated there, or to use Light Rail My academic work suffered: I knew something was amiss; I what he was doing. I don't know. Vehi- line's Dudley and Egelston sta- neglected wasn't 1, cles on a new Green Line branch tions will problem sets and did sure what it was. That shouldn't excuse him from have to catch buses to not attend recitations. I began to The strong knowledge down the middle of Washington the new Orange Line's Ruggles of what harassing me. Whether he knew fail exams. My instructors won- he was doing haunted me that what he was doing was Street. The MBTA's engineers say Street and Jackson Square r sta- dered what was happening. through the day, and wouldn't that it's physically impossible to tions. To add insult to I let wrong, or not, I finally realized I injury, the kept promising to me sleep install a junction between the old MBTA originally planned hand in the at night. It sounds that what he was doing was to next problem set on time. melodramatic, and new Orange Lines; the exist- charge riders 50 cents for these Each doesn't it - called harassment, And it had to week, I thought I would have the "haunted me?" But that is how it ing El, they claim, would have to buses, in addition to the 60 cent stop. I had to start recognizing be lowered several feet between "situation" under control; I rare- felt to me. I came to dread every and putting my own needs first. Orange Line fare. That's a heavy ly did. Dover Station and the new blow time I saw him. I decided to seek help. A to the largely black resi- My tracks. The engineers say that to dents of Roxbury, friends must have won- You must be wondering why I friend advised me to talk with the who earn some dered also. I had lost let this person do this without disrupting service of the lowest incomes contact anywhere near me. housemasters of my dormitory. of any with even the closest of them. I didn't realize that he would take years, and would pro- Americans and who are also be- was the -They immediately gave me sug- duce a dangerous five percent How could I explain why my one with the problem. I kept gestions of what to do. I felt bet- set by rapidly rising housing grades were grade. prices. so low, and that I thinking that I was responsible ter knowing that someone be- needed extra time to study? And for his If the engineers are to be be- At last week's meeting, the T actions; I often received lieved me. They thought that I lieved, then the T couldn't have tried that I didn't have time to go out comments or glances from other should not have to try to stop to allay some of Roxbury's on Saturday delayed closing the El unless it fears by night? people which implied that I was him on mny own; they helped me promising high- My wrists were responsible also delayed opening the new frequency service, by announcing used to push for the "situation." start to solve the problem. line. But this was an unthinkable me against a wall; I was cornered People who do this miss the main My life is not "just fine," even free inbound (but not outbound) between option; the T had already sched- bus fare from Egelston and Dud- my desk and my bed; I point: harassment is unacceptable though the direct harassment has behavior. I should not have had stopped. It is getting better, how- to tolerate it at all. ever. I am trying to catch up in "- " `r I O g An illusion existed. He would my classes and to regain contact often say to me, "I love you. I with my friends. I do not seem as didn't mean to hurt you. I'll nev- preoccupied as I was, they tell Green Card issue shows insensitivity to racism er do this to you again." He me. Although they are glad to To the Editor: promised that every incident have me back, they wonder what The flyer might just as well hold parties with ethnic, sexual would be the last time; I accepted happened to me. Steven J. Ponzio's recent letter have said "South of the Mason- or racial themes. Should MiIT al- his words, ["LUChA every last time he said I still shake when recalling was oversensitive to Dixon line party" and then read low living groups to distribute, in them. poster," May 1] demonstrated Sometimes, he would cry what he did to me, and how long at the botton "Open Bathroom a blind manner, potentially of- and say that he was sorry; he I let it go on. I wish I had under- typical characteristics of someone w/White. Skin." One concludes fensivre flyers? We canl look to claimed that he was such an aw- stood earlier that I didn't have to whose beliefs contribute to rac- that Ponzio is either ingnorant of other universities for an answer ism. ful person for hurting me so. He put up with his behavior. I did go the Green Card identification is- to this problem. On campuses at showed this by asking if I would to the housemasters for help. But In his letter, Ponzio displayed sue or is unable to think well. I the University of California, all give him just one more hug be- sometimes his the best source of help ignorance of racism and urge everyone to get information flyers dealing with issues which fore he left. If I didn't give one is yourself. You have downplayed to recognize the significance of and think things through before can be sensitive to some segment to him, he took one. harassment for what it is and not racism. In discussing passing these char- judgement on an op- of the community are subject to He played on my sympathies, be afraid to do something about acteristics, it is not Ponzio whom pressed group. the approval of an administration making me feel that I had to it. Harassment is, and should be, I wish to be my audience, but all Ponzio states that there is "re- official. "just hold him." He claimed he unacceptable behavior. of us who strive to avoid racist cent oversensitivity by racial and The MIT administration would be miserable without me. I - _ Name withheld upon request behavior. ethnic groups at MIT." This should implement such simple - - -- Ponzio states that the theme of means that the responses given procedures to eliminate this the Zeta Beta Tau party on April by these groups do not warrant problem. The procedures must 25 is not insulting to Mexican- the magnitude or severity of the call for disciplinary action Americans. The cartoon in the problem. The problem here is against groups that do not com- flyer refers to people who must one of racism. Amnerican Indi- ply. show a Green Card to gain access ans were destroyed as a people The brothers of ZBT can ac- to something commonly available because of racism. Millions of at a party. tively support such an idea if Jews were killed simply because they truly want to apologize they were to Mexican-Americans are asked Jewish. At this mo- the Mexican community. The I y/'S for their Green Cards in order to mnent, black South Africans die Mexican community because will prob- prove their legal status, some- of racism. I urge every- ably respect actions more than thing which many other Ameri- one to never forget the utmost letters of apology. I urge all cans take for granted. Black significance and severity of racist members of the MIT community _American South Africans must show pass- events. to actively lobby for such a poli- books in order to prove their sta- I would also like to address the cy. Canc.,rc ocity,'this space donated by The Tech tus as third-class citizens. issue of allowing organizations to Ronald W. Francis G __.... _ 1 ...... I

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rho. Vietnamese camps torture former officers To the Editor: The South Vietnamese civilians EriLk Mar '88 wrote a letter are also suffering under the Com- ["Display unfairly portrays the munist Vietnamese regime. They North Vietnamese," Friday, May have been systematically indoctri- 11 arguing that the North Viet- nated, dog-watched by local namese victors behaved with gen- armed security forces, and re- erosity, and that existing propa- fused their human rights. The ganda campaigns are trying to properties of many families in tell us otherwise. Mar appeared the South were usurped by high to be totally ignorant of the con- ranking officers in the so-called ditions of the South after the fall socialist reform. of Saigon. The removal of furniture in the The re-education camps in the National Library of Saigon to South do not only contain drug- Hanoi is another example of the addicts, prostitutes. But they are reform. The image of the North- used as a means of taking re- ern soldiers, whose mouths were venge against the South govern- cursing American capitalism, but ment officials and military offi- whose hands were seizing the cers. This revenge is being American products as personal Re-educational camps in Vietnam are brutal exercised indiscriminately, against belongings in 1975, never disap- whole classes of people, with pears in my mind. created by tle US occupation, Much mnore can be said about To the Editor: Mar asserted that his facts scarcely a pretense of legality and these camps held captive only the showed the generosity of the the fate of the South Vietnamese I am writing in response to with total disregard of human male military officers of the war. Vietnamese Communists. His after the war. As stated by an Erik Mar's letter ["Display un- captives rights. In these camps, the facts claim that the communist to visit two dif- English writer: the victory for the fairly portrays the North Vietna- I had a chance face brutal physical and mental victors diverted their gasoline communists in South Vietnam mese," May 1]. ferent camps in South Vietnam abuses. Their days consist of from private automobiles. was not the end of Indochina's One year ago, my uncle was re- during my three years living un- forced labor, malnutritioned Bicycles have been the main troubles, but merely a prelude to turned to his home from one of just a der Communist Vietnamese re- meals (in many cases form of transportation for dec- a series of wars and political the so-called '"re-educational boiled mixture of Rour and wa- gime. In these camps, all prison- ades. The few cars in use after struggles that continue to shatter camps." Blinded, crippled and ers had to undergo thought ter), brain-wash torments, and the fall of Saigon were operated the life of the civilian population. non-functional, he died after reform by indoctrinating night brutal punishments for their by the newly established govern- This includes the fighting in four days. At about the same lectures while performing phys- "crimes against the people." ment. The gasoline for the cars Laos, the Khmer Rouge Vietnam time, another uncle of mine died ical labor with empty stomachs Those who show contempt or came from the abandoned mili- Cambodia war, the in another one of such camps. during the day. supported disagreement with the Commu- tary reservoir of the US and war in Thailand, the After eleven years of torturous Moreover, there are some guerilla nlist Party's ideals are beaten and South Vietnam military. China-Vietnam war in 1979, and suffering, the men finally escaped 343,000 South Vietnamese being tortured. And if they do not sur- The display ire the infinite cor- escape of the boat from the control and cruelty of kept in these camps in 1975, and the continuing vive the beating, their body ridor reflects the truth and re- world. I feel the Vietnamese Communists. of those, more than 229,000 are people to the free would be thrown up the camp's minds those who care about the reported to be interned until to- sad and bitter to learn that there They found death. surrounding fences and shot Contrary to Mar's claim that fall of Vietnam on April 30, day, some 12 years after tihe end are naive people who believe that upon. The filed version of their 1975. It is not propaganda nor of the war. Comparing to the the communist victory in Viet- '6re-educational camps in post- death becomes: "shot in escape." war Vietnain contained thou- does it contain faulty and mis- three-year forced labor that nam brings peace and prosperity Day by day, slowly and painfully, sands of drug-addicts, prosti- leading information- World War II POW's -endured, to Vietnamese people. these men approach the, inevita- Tbuan Pham '90 Tien Nguyen C; tutes, and other human debris" ble death. Lthis must- be a mass vengeance.-- - -· ------l-~l"pll"ll~" - --· --

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_ ___ __ _________,,,n··il;urc·s 0.- e 1 1 -,: Inzq-,35 r o e - . Ye~4 - AI>~e< Mae*, _e;<, .' I -- -m.' - _~Z~IB~P~BTUESDAY, MAY 5, 1987 The Tech PAGE 9 -- ~------9I1 PP P YI~S -·I- U ----- P-- -M--IC·---- ______- - - __ __-- __ A R T S --- i - ·- -- -- MIT parties over Spring Weenend with origina1S queeze S;QUEEZE in 1980 after "Argy Bargy" and returned before the audience knew it the band was was a sedate affair with a speech instead of The MIT Spring Weekend Concert. for "'Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti." Seeing him on back on stage. It was another triumph; the an opening act, and featured Suzanne At the New Athletic Center, May 1. stage, it was hard to imagine how they got only thing missing was Elvis Costello sing- Vega, a feminist folk-rock singer with a on without him. He seemed such a typical ing backing vocals. twinkling future ahead of her. By JULIAN WEST Squeeze member, flailing away at the key- Elvis, of course, was up the river giving So what does last Friday's concert say board and grinning at the audience. He another smash performance. about MIT? That we hold on to memories USED TO THINK THAT SQUEEZE was had one or two chances to shine also, such I suppose it has been said that an insti- of the past, or that we want to help a band one of my pet bands. According to as on "Trust Me," one of the new num- tution may be judged by its Spring Week- make a comeback? my theory, no one else remembered bers. Gilson Lavis was in good form, and end; if it has not, I am saying it now. El- I think it says what they have been say- them, but I had fond high school provided a steady tempo on drums. vis, quite the class college act, played ing all year: memories. "'Black Coffee in Bed" came Much of the material dated from the Harvard and Brown, Ivy League schools We know how to throw a party. out about the same time I did, and it was turn of the decade, such as the opening that could afford him. Wellesley's show a must play at all our grad parties. number, "Annie Get Your Gun." A song But Squeeze dropped out of sight and about a rock star made a nice choice for a ~a__a · PI~bB~~------out of mind. I was out of touch in 1985, mood setter, and suggested that Squeeze and never bought "Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti," had cunningly assembled their program. The Tech prou'dly presents... which was supposedly a comeback album. They played a lot of old stuff didn't I liked the title, but rumor had it that the they? Just for the record, there were only "new Squeeze" was not up to the "old two tracks ont the 1982 "Singles" compila- The Tech Performing Arts Series Squeeze". tion which they missed. But there were a As time went by, my copy of "East Side few new songs strategically placed, and Story" was consigned to my shelf. Old these went over well. If people did not A service for the entire MIT community from 7he Tech, memories became tinged with unreality, stop to dance to them, they cheered more in conjunction with and I wondered whether Squeeze wasn't than politely afterwards. the MIT Technology Community Association. something I had dreamed about. The new songs will be released on an al- 1 The announcement that Squeeze - the bum in July. The album is supposedly un- same old Squeeze - was to play Spring titled at this point, but if the parapherna- Weekend dispelled that notion. Out of the lia is any indication, it has something to woodwork came hundreds of Squeeze do with an omnibus. Special reduced-price tickets now available fans. The Student Center Committee sold In any case, the three-week mini-tour of for the following events: 3,000 tickets, mostly to people as happy as New England was designed not to promote I was that Squeeze had pulled themselves the album but to help Squeeze find their together again. footing. By the end of the set, there was I Squeeze promised us "a big, frenzied no doubt of this - rather than slowing I evening" Friday night, and the band deliv- down, it seemed that they had been build- Steven Kanoff, clarinet ered. They went with a very standard ap- ing up all night long to "Is That Love?" The student of American clarinet virtuoso Mitchell Lurie, proach and basic guitar-bass-keyboards in- (which, however, was a little slow) and Steven Kanoff gives one virtuoso recital as part of the Pro strumentation, to nobody's "Pulling Mussels from the Shell." disappointment (although an accordion As the group returned for an encore Musicus series, managed by the Wang Celebrity Series, at 8 pm did appear on stage for a while). with "Cool for Cats," it was clear that on Friday, May 8 in Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street. Chris Difford, who sang lead vocals on these cats had landed on their feet. Free to MIT students. a number of songs, could be accused of The first encore ended with a rendition vocal harshness, bult it is his natural voice. of "BIack Coffee in Bed" of epic duration, Glenn Tilbrook was singing nicely, but preceded by hyperbolic introductions of many could not tell for dancing and sing- the band members and building to a giddy ing along. In any case, most of the best bout of mass audience participation. It songs, such as "Take Me I'm Yours," "An- would have been a fitting end to any con- Tickets will be sold by be Technology Commruznity Association, other Nail in My Heart," and "In Quintes- cert, and we were sated. W20450 in the Student Center. sence" were duets. Then someone - I suppose it was me Keyboardist Jools Holland left the band said "But what about 'Tempted'?" and L · I

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A television set sits atop the tello stores. So he pared down his writing and sings about these matters and how he grand piano in the background. The Red In concert, his older songs - "Green instrumental arrangements with some help personally reacts to them. Sox are playing the Angels. Maybe it is Shirt," "Oliver's Army," "Radio Sweet- just coincidence from T-Bone Burnett and came out with that Costello starts his set heart," "Party Girl" - do not hold up as He knows that he is not a good guy. He with a driving the simple, more personal "King." "(The Angels Wanna Wear well as his newer ones. They seem to call knows that he has done some very hateful My) Red Shoes." for the color and punch that Costello's In the same way, singing now in the things in the past. But he is also surprised band, the Attractions, could have lent to hockey arena, his show careens from wall that there is a woman in his life who loves Ten years ago, he the tapestry. was your usual angry, to wall and threatens to tumble out of him, a woman whom he loves, as well. young man from Great Britain. But his control, at times flowing smoothly upon The new wedding band on his finger gives pop inistincts and thinking-man lyricism In contrast, his songs from the 1986 al- the musical ice. Other times, he picks a weight to these songs. helped him wade his way to the forefront bum "King of America," many moody fight with the audience. Performing "I of the punk movement with songs like and autobiographical, soar when sung Want You," for example, the show embar- "Red Shoes," "Less than Zero," and the solo. They could be played on the street rassingly bogs down as Costello puts on a tender "Alison." His debut album, "My corner or in the local coffeehouse. In maudlin display of crying out to his lover Costello is asking members of the audi- Aim is True," was so dumbfoundingly "Brilliant Mistake," Costello bemoans the (or, on a different level, his listening audi- ence to spin the giant wheel of songs. good, channeling the punk frenzy of that trap he's set for himself in America, "the ence): "I want you, I want you, I want Where it stops, nobody knows. When a day to riffs reminiscent of the Beatles and boulevard of broken dreams," where star- you. ." beam of light falls upon the name of a the Rolling Stones and the Animals. But, dom is "a trick they do with mirrors and song, Costello plays it. The people who in taking on the namesake of a man who with chemicals." He confronts have just spun the wheel sit by the piano, the conflict But perhaps Costello wants the show to had just died from the pills of success and between his listening to this man play as if he were an. desire for fame and his fear of bog down at this point, to show his stardom, Declan Patrick Aloysius Mac- frus- old friend. selling out. tration, to show manus also marred his debut with arro- that he wants to control his obsession, but that the obsession really gance. At times, he can act like a blubbering, Costello has always been a college fa- controls him. Most of his songs, in fact, drunken fool, wailing like a squalid tom- vorite, but it was only with "Armed For- concern control: the control that dirty cat, alone in the midnight alley. For the His voice - his signature - has not ces" and "Trust" that he started gaining politicians use to run a country, the con- most part, though, he acts like a man out changed over the years, always strained, mainstream attention in America. In tack- trol that lovers try to tie around each oth- of time. He's one of the few musicians try- always burning. Sometimes he wails and ling this stardom, he stumbled with his er, the control that the bland pop culture ing to change the music, rather than let- screams - the rocker. Other times, he next three albums, experimenting with holds over the artist. ting the music change him. He's screaming whispers, chokes, sings with surprising large orchestras and more complex ar- In the most moving songs of the evening for help. The words spew out. gentleness - the ballad singer. But his rangements. The critics jumped on him. - "Suit of Lights," "I'11 Wear it Proud------I I ...... Graduating seniors...

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I - A ... I - . . i l ~~~PAGE 12 The Tech TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1987 l S -..AI, RT "Saleelinsh from the Permanent Collec- POPULAR MUSIC tion" continues through June 7 at the Girl's; Night Out with guests The Drive, Wellesley College Museum. No admis- Release, and No Exit perform at the sion charge. Telephone: 235-0320 ( n WV n POPULAR MUJSIC Channel, 25 Neeco Street, Boston. Tick- ext. 205 1. ets: $4.50. Telephone: 451-1905. THEATER *..CRITIC'S CHOICE * ' , * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * *] The Student Center Committee pre-! MIT Dramashop's productions of Sue[ Tom Paxton, one of the foremost singer/ .. + CRITIC'S CHOICE * * *] sents The Dead Milkmen at the Strat's[ Townsend's "Groping for Words" and] "Russia, the Land, the People: Rus- Rat at 9proin Lobdell. Free with[ songwriters in the contemporary folk i "Womberang" continues May 7, 8, sian Painting 1850-1910" continues] MIT or Wellesley ID. music scene, performs at 7:30 pm and and 9 at 8 pm in Kresge Auditorium.[ through June 14 at the Fogg Art Mu-[ 10:00 pm at Nightstage, 823 Main Street, Tickets: $5 general, $4 seniors/stu-[ seum, 31 Quincy Street, Cambridge.[ Cambridge. Tickets: $10. Telephone: dents. -Telephone: 253-2877. Telephone: 495-9400.] November Group and Skin perform in 497%8200. an 18 + ages show at Spit, 13 Lansdowne Street, just across from the entrance to Robin Trower and Radio Rodeo perform The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club "Last of the Mandarins: Chinese Callig- the bleachers at Fenway Park. Telephone: at 8 pm at the Paradise, 967 Comm. presents Mloli~re's "The School for raphy and Painting from the F.Y. Chang 262-2437. Ave.. Boston. Telephone: 254-2052. e Wives" continuing through May 9 at Collection," continues through June 21 t 8 pin at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 at the Suckler Museum, Harvard Univer- Jon Butcher performs at the Channel, 25 si Brattie Street. Cambridge, with a 2 pmn sity, 485 Broadway, Cambridge. Tele- Rods and Cones perform at the Conser- Neeco Street, Boston. Tickets: $8.50 ad- matinee on May 8. Tickets: $5 general, phone: 495-2397. vatory, Boston Marriott. Copley Place, ii $4 seniors/students. Telephone: 495-2668 vance/S9.50 day of show. Telephone: 110 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Tele- or 547-8300. 45!-1905. phone: 236-5800. "Microscapes: The Hidden Art of High I Technology,' 50 dramatic photographs Evan Johns &The H-Bombs, playing a The Harvard-Radcliffe Classical Club focusing on the seldom-seen world of ad- Cave Dogs, Matweeds, Sheiks, members R presenit Sophocles' 'Ajax,' May 7-9 at combination of swamp rock, country, of Face to Face, and Rubber Rodeo per- vanced developments in microelectronics blues, and Tax-Max, perform at 9:30 at 8 pin in the Agassiz Theater, Radcliffe software and lightwave communications, form in a benefit for Treat Her Right at eir Yard, 10 Carden Street, Cambridge. Nightstage, 823 Main Street, Cambridge. the Rat, 528 Commonwealth Avenue in continues at the MIT Museum, 265 Mas- Tickets: $6. Telephone: 497-8200. Telephone: 495-8676. sachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, through Kenmore Square. Telephone: 536-9438. 1I June 27. No admission charge. Tele- 6 phone: 253 4444.. Tools and the May/sis and One People In case you missed them at the SCC ... CRITIC'S CHOICE.** perform at 8 pm at the Paradise, 967 Strat's Rat yesterday, The Dead Milk- I In Harold Pinter's "Old Times," the Commonwealth Avenue, Bosion. Tele- men, Moving Targets, and One Life per- s fragmented memories of a shattered 'Telegenic Charismas," portraiture by phone: 254-2052. form at T.T. the Bear's, 10 Brookline relationship resurface as a married Jeremy Gardiner combining the accuracy 3: and immediacy of the photograph with Street, Cambridge. Telephone: 492-0082. couple are reunited with an old I friend. Continues Wednesdays the subjective interpretation of the paint- Nova Mob and Pixies perform in an JAZZ MUSIC a4L through Saturdays at 8 pm at the New er and sculptor, continues at the MIT 18 + ages record release party it the Rat, Ehrlich Theater, 539Tremont Street, Museum Compton Gallery through 528 Commonwealth Avenue in Kenmore The MIT Concert find Festival Jazz June 27. No admission charge. Tele- Square. Telephone: 536-9438. i Boston, until May 9. Tickets: $10- Bands, with guest bands from area col- III $15. Telephone: 482-6316. phone: 253 444.4.. leges and universities, perform at 8 pm, I Anti-Zeros, Infermution, and Dear John in Kresge Auditorium. Admission: $1. Fine press printers and binders, illustra- perform at T.T. the Bear's, l0 Brookline Telephone: 253-2906 or 253-ARTS. -The King and I," by Rodgers and Ham- tors, calligraphers, and decorated paper Street, Cambridge. Telephone: 492.0082. merstein, continues at the Wheelock makers contribute to "80 Years Later," CLASSICAL MUSIC Family Theatre, 200 The Riverway, Bos- the anniversary exhibit of the Guild of CLASSICAL MUSIC Renowned clarinetist Steven Kanoff of- ton, Fridays at 7:30 and Saturdays & Bookworkers, continuing at the MIT Mistral performs at 12:05 pm in the MIT fers a diverse program of Mozart, Sundays at 3:00, until May 10. Tickets: Museurm through June 27. Telephone: ."Mina Moiseyev" by Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi. chapel as part of the Noon Chapel Se- Brahms, Darius Milhaud, and others, at $6. Telephone: 734-5203. 2532 ~44. ries. No admission charge. Telephone: 8 pmnin Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough · . . . Part of "Russia, the Land, the People: Russian- 253-2906 or 253-ARTS. Street, Boston. Tickets: $5 and $7 [see also reduced-price tickets offered through , , . CRITIC'S CHOICE , *' * "Black an Black," an environmental Painting 1850-1910" at the Fogg until June 14. light installation by Beth Galston explor- The Tech Performing Arts Series]. Tele- Alan Ayckbourn's "The Norman The MIT Chamber Chorus performs phone: 536-2412 or 482-2595. Conquests," a trilogy of plays pre- ing relationships between architecture works by Haydn, Bach, Poulenic, Schein, Dream So Real, Wnig, and In Case of senting a hilarious glimpse into the ec- and nature, continues at the MIT Muse- POPULAR MUSIC and Copland at 8 pmn in the Sala de um through June 27. No admission Jerome perform at TT. the Beards, 10 ~r- .CRITIC'S CHOICE, ~ centricities of the British, continues at .. CRITIC'S CHOICE * * *~ Brookline Street, Cambridge. Telephone: Puerto Rico. No admission charge. Tele- the Lyfic Stage, 54 Charles Street, charge. Telephone: 253 44.44.. Ondekoza, the demon drumming[ Kng Sunny Ad* and his African phone: 253-29D6 or 253-ARTS. Boston, through June 14; Wednesdays 492-0082. / troupe from Sads, Island in Japan,[ through Fridays at 8, Saturdays at Bfts perform at 7 pin and 10 pm at[ perform at 8 pm in Sanders Theater,[ 'Mojotech," by artist and sculptor Betye Nightstage, 823 Main Street, Cam-] CONTEMPORARY MUSIC The Harvard Glee Club sings at 6:30 pm 8:30, and Sundays at 3. Telephone: Scar, continues at the MIT Bakalar Harvard University. Tickets: $10 gen-! bridge. Also being presented May 6. The Empire Brass performs at 8 pm in on the steps of Widener Library,, Har- $5 students. Telephone: 451-] 742-8703. Sculpture Gallery, List Visual Arts Cen- vard Yard. No admission charge. Tele- ter, 20 Ames Street, through June 28. No Tickets: $18. Telephone: 497_8200.] the Boston University Marsh Chapel, 735 jeral,0726. phone: 495-5730. admission charge. Telephone: 253-4400. Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Tick- 'Forbidden Broadway 1987," the newest ets: $5 general. free with BU ID. Tele- updated version of Gerard Allesandrini's phone: 353-3345. The New England Conservatory Honors Classical guitarist Paul Stern performs in "Artistsin the Computer Age," an eclec- hit musical comedy revue, continues in- The MeatPuppets and Big Dipper Brass Quintet performs selections from a recital of Bach Lute Music at 7:30 pax tic selection of works showing the versa- definitely at the Terrace Room of the prform at the Paradise, 967 Com-I CLASSICAL MUSIC Morley, Calvert, Ewald, Bach, and Gab- in the Ropes-Gray Room, 2nd Floor tility and new possibilities of expression Park Plaza Hotel. Tickets: $15-$21.50. monwealth Avenue, Boston. Tele-j , , , CRMITCS CHOICE, , · brieli at 12:30 pm in the Federal Reserve Pound Hall, Harvard Law School, Cam- Telephone: 357-8384. opened by the use of the computer, con- pone: The Boston Clas..qcal Orchestra with Bank of Boston's auditorium, 600 Atlan- bridge. Tickets: $5 and up. Telephone: tinues at the MIT Museum through 254-2052. Harry Ellis Dicklson celebrate spring tic Avenue, across from South Station. 277-4791. July 3 1. No admission charge. Tele- No admission charge. Telephone: 973- "Nunsense," a musical comedy by Dan with three humorous pieces of Haydn phone: *,?.34,!44. 3454 or 973-3368. Gaggin recounting the trials of the Little Begger Man's Day, 411, and Lfife !abe- and Mozart at g pm in Faneuil Hall. Kaji Aso Studio presents its Opera Caba- Sisters of Hoboken, who stage a talent tween perform at T.T. the Bear's, 10 Also presented May 8. Tickets: S12 ret featuring selections from "La Trivia- show in order to raise money to bury "Creative Transformations: Drawings Brookline Street, Cambridge. Telephone: and $18 ($8 seniors and students). The New England Conservatory Depart- ta "and other famous opera afias by Mo- and Pa1intings by Fernando Zobel" con- four of their number who died of botu- 492-0082. Telephone: 426-2387. - ment of Third Stream Studies presents zart, Offenbach, Bizet, and Puccini, at iism and who-arc currently on ice in the tinues through August 9 at the Fogg Mu- "East/West Journeys into Film Music' 8 prn at 40 St. Stephen_ Street, Boston. convent freezer, continues indefinitely at seum, Harvard University, 32 Quincy at 8 pm iu Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsbor- Admission: $7 donation. Tel: 247-1719. Street, Cambridge. Admission: $3.00 Jon Butcher performs at The Livin- the Boston Shakespeare Theatre, 52 St. groom, 273 Promenade Street, Provi- The New England Conservatory presents ough Street, Boston. Also, the Colicglum general, $1.50 seniors/ students. Tele- Botolph Street, Boston. Tickets: $17.50- dence. Telephone: 429-8311 or 401-521- a concert in its Keller Chamber Series at Musicurnpresents a program of 19th phone: 495-2387. 8 pm in the Keller Room, 290 Hunting- A faculty concert featuring clarinetist $25.50. Telephone: 267-5600. 2520. Century Salon Music for guitars, voices, Richard Shaughnessy with music of ton Avenue, Boston. No admission and instruments at 8 pm in Williams charge'. Also, the NEC Symphony Or- Bernstein, Debussy, Milhaud, Persichetti, 'Little Shop of Horrors.' the deliberate- "Marlin Sugar: Recent Works," oil Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. and Poulenc, is presented at 8 prn at the paintings and pencil drawings examining ,,.CRITIC'S CHOICE ¢rr chestra performs at 8 pm in Jordan Hail, No admission charge for either concert. ly seedy musical by Howard Ashman and 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston. Tick- All-Newton Music School, 321 Chestnut Alan Menken, based on Roger Carman's the relationship of indoor and outdoor John Williams !aunchs the 102nd sea- Telephone: 26~2-1120 ext. 257. Street, West Newton. No admission spaces, continues at the MIT Museum, son of the Boston Pops when he Ileads ets: $5 general, $3 seniors/students. Tele- 1960 B-grade horror film, tells the tale of phone. 262-1 120 ext. 257. charge. Telephone: 527-4553. a blood devouring vegetable and the nard 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, the orchestra in its Opening Night DANCE who nurtures it. Continues indefinitely at through August 29. No admission concert at 8 prn in Symphony Hall. . . . CRITIC'S CHOICE, . . FILM & VIDEO the Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton charge. Telephone: 253-4444. The Opening Night program also fea- Concert music of Wes York, featuring Nina Weiner and D1ancers perform in Street, Boston. Tickets: $17.50-$25.50. tures singer Tony Bennett. Perfor- baritone Sanford Sylvan, soprano Nancy the Boston premiere of Weiner's full- The Brattie Theatre presents Francis Ford Telephone: 426-6912. The Museum of Comparative Zoology mances take place nightly, Tues-Sat at Armstrong, pianist Kathleen Supave, length work, "Enclosed Ti;me," at Coppola's "Rumblerish" (1983) at 4:00 & presents the "Songs of the Spring 8 pm and Sunday at 7:30 pm. 'Tele- Marimolin, the Master Singers. and 8 pm at the Northeastern University 8:00 and Nicholas Ray's 'Rebel Without EXHIBITS Warblers" exhibition at 26 Oxford phone: 523-6633. more, is presented at 8 pm in the Edward Alumni Auditorium. Also presented a Cause" (1955), starring James Dean and Natalie Wood, at 5:50 & 9:50. At 40 An exhibition of the works of Edward Street, Cambridge, continuing through Pickman Concert Hall, Lousy Sechsol of May 8 and 9. Tickets: $12.00 and the summer. Admission: $2 general, Music, Fallen and Garden Streets, Cam- $14.50 ($]0.00 and $12.50 seniors/ Brattie Street in Harvard Square. Tick- Brodnay continues through May 8 at the -Cole!," a celebration of the words and ets: $4.75 for the double bill. Telephone: State House, Boston. No admission St.50 students and seniors, 50¢ children. bridge. Tickets: $10 general, $5 seniors/ students). Telephone: 437-2247 or Telephone: 4954473. music of Cole Porter, is presented at students. Telephone: 437-0231. 492-7578. 876-6837. charge. Telephone: 788-0590. 8 pm at the Schneider Mainstage, Welles- ley College. No admission charge. Tele- FILM & VIDEO "Through the Seasons: ]Reflecting phone: 239-2365. , * , CRITIC'S CHOICE , , *: The Brattle Theatre continues its "Crazy *r , , CRITIC'S CHOICE, , , Light,' recent paintings by Katie Sloss, Hearts" series with two films starring The Harvard Film Archive, in associ- continues Tues-Fri. 1-5 pm through THEATER The Boston Ballet presents Tales of ation with Off the Wall Cinema, pre- and directed by Dennis Hopper, "Easy Hans Christian Andersen at the Wang May 15 at Kaji Aso Studio, Gallery Na- FILM St VIDEO ... CRITIC'S CHOICE .* sents Cartoon Propaganda from Rider" (1969) at 4:00 & 8:00 and "The Center for the Performing Arts, 270 ture and Temptation, 40 St. Stephen The Brattie Theatre continues its "Crazy Experimental theater company, The World War II at 7 pmnand 9 pmn.Also Last Movie" (197 1) at 5:50 &9:50. At 40 Tremont Street, Boston. Continues presented May 9 at 7 pmn& 9 pmnand Street, Boston. Telephone: 247-1719. Hearts" film series with another two di- Wooster Group, premieres its most re- Bratile Street in Harvard Square. Tick- rected by Jonathan Demroe, 'Melvin and cent work, 'St. Anthony," opening through May 17. Tickets: $10.50- May t0 at 5:30 pm & 8 pm. At the ets: $4.75 for the double bill. Telephone: $40.50. Telephone: 482-9393. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, -Line A: Recent Works." by Paul Petti- Howard' (1980) at 4:10 & 8 and 'Han- today at 8 pm in MIT's Experimental 876-6837. dle With Care" (1977) at 6 &9:50. At 40 Media Facility, 20 Ames Street. Con- 24 Quincy Street in Harvard Square' grew G, continues through May 21 at the Tickets: $3. Telephone: 495-4700. Weisner Gallery, 2nd floor of the MIT Bratfie Street in Harvard Square. Admis- tinues through May 10. Tickets: $15 FILM & VIDEO Student Center. No admission charge. sion: .$4.75 for the double bill. Tele- general, $7.50 limited number of stu- . . . CRITIC'S CHOICE...* The Brattie Theatre continues its "Crazy phone: 876--6837. Telephone: 253-4003. dent tickets available at the door. The Harvard Film Archive continues Hearts" series with two films starring Telephone: 253-4003. its Wednesday series "Classics of the ~' The Miuseum of Fine Arts concludes its Dennis Hopper, 'Kid Blue (I1973, Jame ltaitan Comecd.v fihin series with 'La ter- The Somerville Theatre presents -Pee Silent Cinemna- with two films by Falway) at 4:00 & 7:50 and "Mad Dog An exhibition of recent works of Edward King Vidor, "The Crowd" (1928) at razza" (1979, Ettore Scola) at 7 pro. McCiuney continues through May 24 at Wee's Big Adventure" at 6:15 & 9:45 pm LECTURES Morgan" (1976, Phfillipe Mora) at 6:00 & Tickets: $3.50 general, $3.00MFA mem- and "Little Shop of Horrors' at 8 pro. 5:30 and 'The Big Parade" 01925) at 9:45. At 40 Brattle Street in Harvard The Museum of the National Center of The Museum of Fine Arts continnes its 8:00. At the Carpenter Center for the bers, seniors, & students. Telephone: Afro-American Artists, 300 Walnut Ave- At 55 Davis Square just by the Davis Tuesday morning lecture series entitled Square. Tickets: $4.75 for the double 267-9300 ext. 306. Square T-stop on the red line. Tele- Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street in Har- bill. Telephone: 876-6837. nue, Roxbury. Admission: $1.25 general, "Face to Face: Looking zt. Portraits," at vard Square. Tickets: $3 for a single 50¢ seniors and children. Telephone: phone: 625-1081. 10:30 am in the MFA Remis Auditorium film, $5 for the double feature. Tele- 442-8614. Various video programs, including "Sin- with "In the Grand Manner:Monarchs phone: 495-4700. The Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church gle Shots. a Video History ofPersonal The Htarvard Film Archrye continues its and Others." The lecture series continues presents "The Big Broadcast of 1937" Evpresston, " "Mediated Narratives," 'Le Corbusier:.Sculpture, Painting, and Tuesday series French Films with Luis May 12with "Families and Friends:- The (1936, Mitchell Letsart) at 8 pro. At 1555 "Focus: Charles Atlas, "and "The British Drawing,*' a centennial exhibition, con- Bunuel's 'That Obscure Object of Desi- Group Portrait," and May 19 with "Self- The Somerville Theatre presents the New Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Ad- Edge.'Video, " are presented as part of tinues through May 24 at the Carpenter re' (1977) at 5:30 and 8 pro. At the Car- Portraits.The Face in the Mirror." Tick- England Premiere of 'Tracks in the mission: $2 contribution. the Institute of Contemporary Art's Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy penter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 ets to individual lectures: $8 general, $7 Snow" {1982), winner of the Golden "British Edge" multi-disciplinary festival Street,in Harvard Square. No admission Quincy, Street, in Harvard Square. Ad- MFA members, seniors, &students. Tele- Lion at the Venice Film Festival, at 6 pm, beginning at 12:15 pm at the ICA The- mission: $3. Telephone: 495-4700. phone: 267-9300 ext. 306. The Museum of Fine Arts continues its charge. Telephone: 495-3251. 8 pro, and 10 pm. Continues through Italian Comedy film series with "Polvere ater, 955 Boylston Street, Boston. Tapes EXHIBITS May 9. At 55 Davis Square just by the di stella" (1973, Alberto Sordi) at 7 pro. are screened every day through June 14. An exhibit of pastel and watercolor land- Kate Millell, feminist critic, novelist, and Davis Square T-stop on the red line. Tickets: $3.50 general, $3.00MF-A mem- Telephone: 266-5152. scape paintings by Gertrude Beals .Works on Paper," by Helen Cohen, author of "Sexual Politics, " "Flying, " Telephone: 625-1081. bers, seniors, and students. Telephone: Bourne continues through May 29, Mon- opens today at the Newtonville Library, and "Sita. " will read from "The Looney 267-9300 ext. 306. EXHIBITS Fri, 10:00 am-4:30 pro, at the Simmons 345 Walnut Street, Continues through Bin Trip" at 7:30 pm at UMass-Boston, EXHIBITS **·CRITIC'S CHOICE** College Trustman Art Gallery, 4th floor. May 29. Telephone: 552-7162. College of Public and Community Ser- '~The British Edge," an exhibition of vice, 250 Stuart Street, Room 222, Bos- Artquest '87, a major national art com- 300 The Fenway. Telephone: 738-2124. petition, opens today at the Art Institute photographic, sculptural, and archi- JAZZ/BLUES MUSIC ton. No admission charge. Telephone: tectural gallery works, all by British 338-5350. of Boston, 700 Beacon Street, Boston. artists, opens today at the Institute of *'A Wider Perspective," an exhibit of The New England Conservatory Reading Continues through August 16. Tele- David Hockney's photo-collages, contin- Big Hand and other combo groups per- phone: 262-1223. MULTI-MEDIA Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston ues at the Clarence Kennedy Gallery, 770 form compositions written by students of "One Electron" by Bill Gangi, an audi- Street, Boston. A film series, video- the Jazz Studies Department at 8 pm in ence participation, multi-media concert, tape & film screenings, musical per- Main Street, Cambridge, through Paula Rhodes, photographs selected May 30. No admission charge. Tele- Brown Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, and -An Offering to the Heatrt" by The formances, a fashion show, and lec- phone: 577-5177. Boston. No admission charge. Tele- from 'An Israel Portfolio," "Paris and Cord, are presented at 8 pm at the Pal- tures are to be held in conjunction Florence Memories," and "Men." opens phone: 262-1120 ext. 257. POPULAR MUSIC ace Road Theater, Mass. College of Art, with the exhibit. Continues through *r * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * *J today at the Newton Free Library, 414 Huntington Avenue Campus. Also pre- June 14. Admission: $3.50 general, $2 "Jerry Pinknay, Illustrator, Personal Vi- CLASSICAL MUSIC In case you missed her at the Welles-j Center Street, Newton Corner. Continues sented May 9. Tickets: $5. Telephone: students with ID, Si seniors & chil- sions" continues through May 31, Tues- The New England Conservatory Reperto- ley Spring Weekend, Suzann~e Vegaj through May 31. Telephone: 552-7145. dren. Telephone. 266-5152. Sun, i-5 pro, at the Museum of the Na- 731-2040. ry Orchestra performs works by Mozart, and Aztec Two Step perform at tional Center of Afro-American Artists, Tchaikovsky, Barber, and Ravel at 8 pm 7:30 pm at the Orpheum Theatre.j LECTURES THEATER 300 Walnut Street, Boston. Tickets: $15.50 for reserved seating.J in Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Author Bill Sargent presents a lecture en- "4 Short Works," featuming "Dreamns Boston. No admission charge. Tele- Telephone: 492-7679. titled 'Boston Harbor, A Resource in phone: 262-1120 ext, 257. (breathe don't breathe) of Romne" by 'The Art That Is Life: the Arts and Transition' as part of the Museum of Marilyn Arsem, "Leiters From Japan" Crafts Movement in America" continues Fine Arts' 'Boston's Waterfront: Hopes POPULAR MUSIC at the Museum of Fine Arts through Figures on a Reach and Loose -fits per- by Victor Young, "Lot's Wife," by Mario and Fears" lectures series at I pm in Re- Paoli, and "The Misuse of Tools" by May 31. A Music from Marlboro Chamber Music form at Spit, 13 Lansdowne Street, just Suicidal Tendencies and Slapshot per- Concert is presented at 8 pm in the Ed- mis Auditorium. Continues May 13 with Dan Lang, open today at 8 pm at Mo- form, in an IS + ages show at 2 pm at the ward Pickman Concert Hall, Lousy across from the entrance to the bleachers 'A New, Waterfront Comes to the Old at Fenway Park. Telephone: 262-2437. bius, 354 Congress Street, Boston. Also Channel. Tickets: $6.50 advance/S7.50 The exhibition of important drawings School of Music, Fallen and Garden Citty." Tickets: $6.50 general, $5.50MFA being presented May 9, 15, and 16. Tick- day of show. Rick Berlin - The Mamie from the late fifteenth to early twentieth Streets, Cambridge. Tickets: $9 general, members, seniors, and~students. Tele- ets: $6. Telephone: 542-7416. with guests The Tribe perform at 8 prn century, entitled "Selected Drawings $6 students. Telephone: 734-8742. Waterworld, The Ran, Parade, Another phone: 267-9300 ext. 306. at the Channel, 25 Neeco Street, Boston. from the Collection,' continues a, the Day, and Inside Outburst perform at the LECTURES Tickets: $3.50 advance/S4.50 day of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2 Pal- Violinist Fudeko Takahashi performs at Charnnel, 25 Neeco Street, Boston. Tick- Cheryl Robertson presents a lecture enti- show. Telephone: 451-1905. ets: $2. Telephone: 451-1905. Simon Froth presents a lecture entitled ace Road, Boston, until June 1. The ex- 6 pm at the Isabella Stewart Gardner tied 'in Quest of Beauty, Simplicity, hibit includes Michelangelo's late -Pieth" Convenience, and Economy" as part of "Packetins lhe Lot: Notes on Art and Museum, 280 The Fenxuay, Boston. Pop," exploring the influence of art Big' Mountain Concert, varied folk and and Raphael's "Papal Procession." Admission: $2 suggested donation. Tele- Chris !saakand Treat Her Right perform the Museum of Fine Arts' 'Arts & Admission: $3 suggested donation. Tele- schools on British pop music, as part of Native American music. is presented at phone: 734-1359 at 8 pm at the Paradise, 967 Comm. Crafts: Inside & Out" lecture series at the Institute of Contemporary Art's 7:30 pin at Old Cambridge Baptist phone: 566-1401. Ave., Boston. Tellephone: 254-2052. 8 pm in Remis Auditorium. Continues May 13 with "Radical, Yet Dedicated to "British Edge" multi-disciplinary festival Church, 1151 Massachusetts Avenue, at 8 pmnat 955 Boylston Street, Boston. Cambridge. Tickets: $10 suggested dona- The W~rkleeReverence Gospel Ensemble the Cause Conservative:-A rts and Crafts 'Recent Aquisitions and Alumnae Gifts" performs at 8:15 pm at the Berklee Per- Kenne Htighland, Big Barn Burning, Tickets: S3.50 general, $2.50 ICA mem- tion, $8 regular contribution, $5 low in- continues through June 7 at the Wellesley Architecture." Tickets: $6.50 general, formance Center, 136 Massachusetts While Heal, and Rain Reign perform at bers, seniors, & students. Telephone: come. $3 children; $1 more at the door. College Museum. No admission charge. $5.50 MFA members, seniors, and stu- Telephone: 547-9230. Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $2 general, St the Rat, 528 Commonwealth Avenue in dents. Telepho'ne: 267-9300 ext. 306. 266-5152. Telephone: 235-0320 ext. 2051. seniors. Telephone: 266-1400. Kenmore Square- Telephone: 536-9438. ssLir·ebdBliaP1(14·s- 4&LI TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1987 TheTech PAGE 13 n 'lpsll V .-------_- - U - L --- - - I u - - -,- - =------I - I "-' ------A R TS -· - -· I------c- --- -I-bn------CIL-·--eCh·SPhP -C-slC-C; - -I------· ullll; I _ y_ _;_ Former Procol Harum guitarist extraor- JAZZ MUSIC dinairc, Robin Trower, with guest Radio POPULAR MUSIC * , * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * Rodeo, performs at The Livingroom, 273 * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * China Crisis performs at The Livin- Promenade Street, Providence. Tele- The Michael Brecker Band and Jack J.D. Souther and Karla Boneff perform groom, 273 Promenade Street, Provi- phone: 429-8311. de Johnette's Special Edition performi wn at The Livingroom, 273 Promenade dence. Telephone: 429-8311. at 7:30 pm at the Berklee Perfor- Street, Providence. Telephone: 429-831 1. mance Center, 136 Massachusetts In case you missed them over Spring CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $13.50 and P'I -1rlk:" Country artist Lyle Lovett performs at Weekend, Down Avenue performs at the $15.50. Telephone: 266-7455. An_~k Percussion Unlimited, the Berklee Col- 7:30 at Nightstage, 823 Main Street, Conservatory, Boston Marriott, Copley -^,_ e* * *~~~~ lege of Music Percussion Ensemble, will Cambridge. Tickets: $8. Tel: 497-8200. Place, 110 Huntington Avenue, Boston. perform a program of works including Telephone: 236-5800. in The Fat City Band, rhythm &blues and Gitta Steiner's "Quartet," David McBri- CLASSICAL MUSIC jazz with rock flavor, performs at 8 pm de's "Quiet," Steve Reich's "Six Miram- and I I pm at Nightstage, 823 Main Trorabnist Lennie Peterson and guitar- Steve Albini, Dredd Foote and the Din, bas," and John Watrous' "Lapstrake," ist Jaekson Schultz lead their ensembles Street, Cambridge. Tickets: $8. Tele- at 8 pm in Wellesley College Jewett The Gerard Cosloy Experience, Lone- in phone: 497-8200. Auditorium. No admission charge. Tele- "Rock Arranging" and "ChordScale some Thurston Moore, Lee Renildo, Madness" at 8:15 pm at the Berklee Per- and The Turbines perform at the phone: 235-0320 ext. 2077. Rat, LECTURES formance Center, 136 Massachusetts 528 Commonwealth Avenue in Kenmore Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $2 general, $1 Square. Telephone: 5369438. Victor Burgin presents a lecture entitled College Singers and Jazz Vocal Summit seniors. Telephone: 266-1400. "Geometry and Objection," examining is presented at 8:15 pm at the Berklee methods artists have used to convey per- Unnatural Axe and Young Fresh Fellows Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts The Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensem- spective in their works, as part of the In- Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $2 general, perform at T.T the Bear's, 10 Brookline Si ble performs music of Guinnini, Chance, Street, Cambridge, Telephone: 492-0082. stitute of Contemporary Art's "British seniors. Telephone: 26-1400. Edge" multi-disciplinary festival at 3 pm Bennett. Sousa, and Bernstein at at 955 Boylston Street, Boston. Tickets: -FILM & VIDEO 7:30 pm in Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsbor- "Catch a Rising Star" hosts a benefit $3.50 general, $2.50 ICA members, sen- ough Street, Boston. No admission concert to support bands who lost their iors, & students. Telephone: 266-5152. * * ~ CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * charge. Telephone: 262-1120 cxt. 257. equipment during the fire at Jack's, fea- 'Ghandi," winner of an Oscar for turing Ass Brebner's Idle ilands and The Best Picture, is presented at 3:30 pmr FILM & VIDEO Secrets, in an all ages show from in the Club Ell, Northeastern Univer- 'Out of Africa" is presented at 5:30 pm sity, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 12 noon to 5 pm at 30 JFK Street in in Room 346 Ell Center, Northeastern Harvard Square. Tickets: $5. Telephone: No admission charge. Tel: 437-4310. University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Bos- 661-9887. CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ton. No admission charge. Telephone: 437-4310. CONTEMPORARY MUSIC The MFIT Brass Ensemble performs at The Brattle Theatre presents a pair in its The MIT Concert Band performs at 3 pm in Kresge Auditorium. No admis- Monday series of Film Noir with "Night 8 pm in Kresge Auditorium. No admis- sion charge. Tel: 253-2906 or 253-ARTS. Has a Thousand Eyes" 1948, John Far- "Petey and Johnny" (1961, Richard Lea- sion charge. Telephone: 253-3210 or 494- row) at 5:20 &8:20 and "D.O.A." (1950, cock, Bill Ray, and others), about anrtex- 5284 or 494-8124. CLASICAL MUSCSICAL Rudolph Mate) at 3:45, 6:50, & 10:00. hood, ex-junky, and ex-con who attempts Soprano Rita Beatie with pianist Terry At 40 Brattle Street in Harvard Square. to cool the fratricidal warfare among the CLASSICAL MUSIC Deeima perform in a program entitled Nina Weiner and Dancers at the Northeastern Tickets: $4.75 for the double bill. Tele- neighborhood youth gangs, is presented * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * "The Afnerican Romantics" featuring University Alumni Auditorium, May 7 thru 9, phone: 876-6837. at 7 pm in the Bartos Theatre, MIT The Boston Pbllarmonic, conducted Boston composers Chadwick, Foote, Weisner Building (E15), 20 Ames Street. by Benjamin Zander, performs Men- Parker, Homer, Beach, and others at POPULAR MUSIC The Harvard Film Archive continues its No admission charge. Sunday series "Film Realities" this week The Harvard Film Archive continues its deissohn's "Violin Concerto" and 8 pm in Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Monday film series 'A4merlcan Classics" World Party performs at The Livin- focusing on Italy with Roberto Rossellin- Bartok's "Concertofor Orchestra" at Street, Boston. No admission charge. with John Huston's 'Treasure of (ihe Si- The Brattle Theatre presents Sergei El- groom, 273 Promenade Street, Provi- i's "Rome, Open City" (1945) at 5:30 pm 8 pm in Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsbor- Telephone: 262-1120 ext. 257. erra Madre" (1947), starring Humphrey senstein's "Ivan the Terrible" Parts I and dence. Telephone: 429-8311. and Luchino Visconti's "La Terra Tre- ough Street, Boston. Also presented Bogart, at 5:30 and 8:00. At the Carpen- 11 (1944and 1946), Part I at 4:15 &7:50 *g * · ¢ ma" (1948) May 10 at 3 pm in Sanders Theater, at 8 pm. At the Carpenter ter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy and Part 11 at 6:05 &9:45. At 40 Brattle The Greater Boston Youth Symphony Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Harvard University. Tickets: S13, $10, Orchestra performs Roger McGuinn, co-founder and prima- Street in Harvard Square..Tickets: $3. Street in Harvard Square. Tickets: $4.75 at 8 pm in the Bos- Street in Harvard Square. Tickets: $3 for and $6, $3 seniors/students. Tele- ton University Concert Hall, 855 Com- ry force behind The Byrds, performs at Telephone: 4954700. for the double bill. Telephone: 876-6837. phone: 536-4001. 9 pm at Nightstage. 823 Main Street, a single film, $5 for the double feature. monwealth Avenue, Boston. No admis- Telephone: 4954700. ·, sion charge. Telephone: 353-3345. Cambridge. Tickets: $10. Telephone: EXHIBITS 497-8200. * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * ,* LECTURES 'Carden of Delights: Tom Petit," an ex- The Harvard Film Archive continues The Longy Early Muskc Ensembles per- hibit of color photography focusing om Violinist Joseph Silverstein and pianist its Tuesday series of French Filmp form music of the 17th century, theater Joe Sample performs at 8pm at the Eliza!~th Murray, whose works are on fruits, vegetables, and the human form, music, music of Schein and Brade, and Veronica Joclhum perform works of Bee- joint exhibition at the Museum of Fine with Jean Cocteau's -La belle et la thoven, Bach, Ysaye, and Brahms at Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Avenue, opens today at the Richards Gallery, bete" (1946, "Beauty and the Beast") lute quartets of Vallet at 8 pm in the Ed- Boston. Telephone: 254-2052. Arts and at the MIT List Visual Art Cen- 8 pm in Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Richards Hail, Northeastern University, at 5:30 and 8:00. Al the Carpenter ward Pickman Concert Hall, Longy ter, will discuss her own development as 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Contin- School of Music, Follen and Garden Street, Chestnut Hill. Tickets: $12. Tele- an artist and the evolution of her paint- Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy phone: 5274553. The Henry Rollins Band and Young ues through June 20. No admission Street in Harvard Square. Tickets: $3. Streets, Cambridge. No admission ings and pastels, at 2 pm in the MFA's charge. Telephone: 437-2249. charge. Telephone: 876-0956. Guns perform in an 18+ ages show at Mabel Louise Riley Seminar Room. Ad- Telephone: 495-4700. Tonu Kalam and Boaz Sharon, two pi- the Rat, 528 Commonwealth Avenue m mission: free tickets are required and are LECTURES DANCE anos perform at 3 pm at the Isabella Kenmore Square. Telephone: 536-9438. available at the box office one hour be- $ , * Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fen- fore the program. Telephone: 267-9300 Dick Hebdige presents a lecture entitled The Somerville Theatre presents "Who'll * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * J * FILM & VIDEO "Of Piracy and Jungloid Roots: Identity The MIT Dance Workshop presents way, Boston. Admission: $2 suggested ext. 291. Stop the Rain" (1978) at 5:30 &9:40 and in the 1990's," examining the construc- 'Cal" (1984) at "Dance Progression" featuring works contribution. Telephone: 734-1359. The Brattle Theatre presents two films 1:45. Continues through directed by Preston Sturges in its "Clas- tion of British identity from the post-war May 14. At 55 Davis Square just by the by students, directed by Beth Soll, at period to the present, as part of the In- 8 pm in the Sala de Puerto Rico. Also sic Hollywood" Sunday series, "Unfailh- * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * Davis Square T-stop on the red hline. The Museum of Fine Arts presents Met- fully Yours" (1948) at 4:00 & 8:00 and Internationally acclaimed Irish poet stitute of Contemporary Art's "Braish Telephone: 625-1081. presented May 10. No admission ropolitan Opera New England Regional Edge" multi-disciplinary festival at 8 pm charge. Telephone: 253-0862. "The Miracle at Morgan's Creek" (1944) Seamus Heney will explore "The Auditions Winners in a concert of oper- at 2:00, 6:00, & 10:00. At 40 Brattle Sound of Poetry" at 8 pm in AlumniI at 955 Boylston Street, Boston. T:ckets: EXHIBITS atic arias and scenes at 3 pm in Remis Street in Harvard Square. Tickets: $4.75 Auditorium, Northeastern University, $3.50 general, $2.50 ICA members, sen- Auditorium. Admission: free tickets are iors, & students. Telephone: 266-5152 "Seniors with Wegman," a group show FiLM & VIDEO for the double bill. Telephone: 876-6837. 360 Huntington Ave., Boston. No ad- of celebrated video artist and photogra- required and are available at the box of- mission charge. Telephone: 338-5350. The Brattle Theatre continues its "Crau fice one hour before the program. Tele- pher William Wegman and graduating Hearts" series with two films starring phone: 267-9300 ex!. 291. Poet Jane Shore, winner ol the Lamont seniors, opens today at the North Hall Dennis Hopper, -Out of the Blue" (1982, * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * Prize, reads from "The Mmute Hand" at Gallery, Mass. College of Art, 621 Hun- Hopper) at 3:50 &8:00 and "The Ameri- The Harvard-Epworth Methodist 8:15 pm at the Cambridge Center for tingion Aenue, Boston. Conlinues can Friend" (1977, Wim Wenders) at Pianist Lucia Rahily gives a Young Per- Church begins a Greta Garbo film se- Adult Education, Blacksmith House, 56 through June8. No admission charge !:30, 5:35, &9:50. At 40 Brattle Street in formers Recital at 1 pm and soprano ries with 'Grand Hotel" (1932, Ed- Brattle Street, Cambridge. 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lo 0 lnio WoVmenrs Studies Program suffers * Is MIT committed to the ex- (CSontinued from page 4) Office to produce a recruitment istence. of women's studies? If or dissolve the MIT Women's videotape demonstrating the not, as the administrations 'ac- Studies Program. quality of teaching available at tions seem to indicate, why.do Furthermore, we fear that MIT, and showing potential they claim otherwise? these actions will in fact lead to women students that there exist We hope concerned members the dissolution of the Women's strong female role models here. of the MIT community will join Studies program. There are no Among the highly rated teachers us in watching this case, in listen- faculty tenured in Womnen's Stud- that the Admissions Office con- ing carefully to the administra- ies. All faculty who currently tacted for help on the project, tion's answers, spoken or im- teach there are based in other said Conley, Perry 'ivas the only plied, and in acting to preserve sections, and thus are.- not re- faculty member willing to give quality education and scholarship quired to teach Women's Studies her time." at MIT. courses. They do so because they Because of their strong con- want to, because of the sense of cerns about the unusual proce- Scott Saleska '86, who received intellectual community and ex- dures in this case, a number of his SB in physics, is a columnist citement that exists there. senior faculty are urging the ad- for The Tech. Steven D. Penn G Without Perry's interdisciplin- ministration to reconsider the is a student in the department of ary knowledge and guiding vi- School Council's decision to dis- physics whose undergraduatehu- ;=L·DIL- -_mz-- sion, the Womnen's Studies faculty miss Perry. Among them are Pro- manities concentration was in 'See? I bltd you thee oadons would keep as from getting AIDS in jail" may well feel that it is not worth fessors Leo Marx in Science, women's studies. their effort to put in the extra Technology, and Society; Susan work for a program to which Carey in Cognitive Science; Ju- MIT has demonstrated so little dith Thomson in Philosophy; HASS refoson has a hidden agenda commitment and support. Frank Solomon in Biology; and (Continuedfrom page 4) dated to reflect major elements of student objections. really interested improving the The end of such a well-known, Senior Lecturer Louis Menand the HASS-D proposal. If some The faculty even chastised the education, it would be appropri- high quality program would be III in Political Science. of the more innovative student students for their interest. Pro- ate for the faculty to withdraw unfortunate -not only for the In additions a number of stu- ideas were approved by the "con- the proposal and generate an en- MIT community, which would be dents, with the support of the fessors Richard Cartwright and solidation committee," MIT Pauline Maier questioned the tirely new plan next year that re- deprived of a great resource. but Undergraduate Association would have to reprint its catalog. fleets student input. also for MIT's growing but still Council, have initiated a petition right and desire of students to be This is Just one example of fragile image as- a place becoming drive which calls for reconsider- so concerned about a proposal how elements of the HASS plan Rich Cowan G. a student in which would '"not affect" them. more hospitable to women. ation of Perry's case by May 14, can be determined not by educa- the department of electrical engi- Perry and the Women's Studies the last day of classes. Yet, the HASS plan is already tional considerations, but to po- neering and computer science, is Progaram have contributed in no For the sake of the Women's affecting students. Before any litical considerations. If MIT is a columnist for The Tech. small measure to this positive im- Studies Program, and MIT as a vote was taken. Dean Ann E age. The Program has demon- whole, we hope the administra- Friedlaender PhD '64 had already strated that even MfIT cans accept tion listens to them. Until Pro- removed HMI-D status from 48 Flexible HASS progrann the intellectual legitimacy and ne- vost Deutch, President Paul E. of 156 classes "in preparation" cessity of the perspective offered Gray '54, or Dean of Humanities for the faculty vote. Despite as- vvill foster creativity by feminist scholarship. The dis- and Social Science Ann F. Fried- surances of a 'grandfather clau- 0 Increase the number of stu- se" for future changes, this year's (Continuedfrom page 4) missal of Perry and the demise of laender PhD '64 responds defini- v Failure to treat students as dent-selected courses in the de- her program - especially at a tively, however, a number of changes will not be covered by partmental program. the clause. Even if future cuts are adults. Many faculty fear that time when MIT is trying vigor- pressing questions remain unan- given freedom of choice, students * Increase the number of free covered, how will students know ously to recruit more women stu- swered: will take a quite restricted pro- elective units. which courses were once HUM- dents -might well have an un- 9 Why has the Humanities gram. But the Admissions Office 0 Institute formal procedures D's? None of these questions desirable impact on this growing and Social Sciences School Coun- claims it is admiting a more di- for pursuing an interdisciplinary were answered. perception. cil, in denying Perry tenure, re- verse class. Surely the freshman degree program. Already, members of the MIST jected the urnanimously positive One would think that last Take an example from Brown Thursday's forum wofld begin to, class makeup has changed in Admissions Office staff -have ex- recommendations of two tenure ways other than just the male-fe- University. Brown has no core explore some of the student alter- pressed concern about Perry's committees (the 1982 and 1986- male ratio. curriculum, and no requirements natives generated since the facul- dismissal. Among those upset 87 committees)? Students with diverse back- other than the departmental de- ty meeting. But the administra- ^^about the Perry case is Angela 0 In the 1982 agreement, the grounds will take a broad selec- gree programs. Students may also tion continued to cling to the Conley, assistant director of ad- administration strongly implied tion of classes. But more impor- take an unlimited number of missions, who said, "fPerry] is that if the Women's Studies Pro- notion that the only pragmatic classes on Pass/No-Credit. There option was the adoption of a tantly, those classes will be extremely supportive of the ad- gram were a success, Perry would is very little abuse of this free- plan almost identical to the origi- meaningful to them. Wrhy not missions process, especially for be tenured. Five years later, there dom, and nearly every student nal. treat us as adults, and allow us black and women students." is no question that the program is the freedom to control the direc- completes a well-balanced pro- MacVicar repeatedly said that Conley explained how Perry an unqualified success, yet Perry tion of our education? gram. the real problem is in the engi- had worked with thle Admissions has been dismissed. Why? Students doing what they are neering school. Therefore, by a Students determined to get a narrow education will manage no interested in are happier and strange leap of logic, passing the matter how many requirements more satisfied with their educa- humanities reforms now will in- are legislated. It should be the re- tional experience. MIT will find it sure that engineering reform is sponsibility of the advisor to su- easier to attract a diverse class if meaningful. Friedlaender repeat- pervise the quality of each under- it allows these students the flexi- Minority groups show support edly tried to cast student alterna- 1 graduate's -program, and to bility their creativity needs. tives as "radical. ensure its breadth. With good ad- i for MIT's Chicano community I think I know why she consid- AMark Kantrowitz '89, a student t' vising, MIT students will be able ered them radical. Yesterday, t, To the Editor: ism. It is a disrespectful state- to design balanced programs. in the department of mathemat- HASS catalogs for Fall 1987 were ics, is Business Manager of The r We would like to express our ment. One must be thoughtful of In particular, MIT should: support to our Chicano brothers the opinions of others, especially handed out which had been up- Tech. f' and sisters of the League of Unit- as to how they want to be treat-

r ed Chicanos at MIT. The MIT ed. Lately, complaints of students community should be a comfort- on campus have been dismissed able atmosphere for all students as being oversenstive and irratio- regardless of race, religion, sex, nal; this reflects a lack of respect i which we will not allow some ele- ,, or sexual preference. "'NEW REPRODUCTIVE LUChA's letter [E"ZBT posters ments on this campus to perpet- offensive to Mexicans," April 28] uate. explained some of the ways that -Courtesy demands that any TECHNOLOGIES: groups of people are made to feel ethnic theme party be conducted dr r unwelcome and inferior. Chi- with the consultation of organi- r SOME SCIENTIFIC & eanos are the descendents of the zations on the campus which re- :i indigenous nations of the South- present that ethnic group. This 9' I · west. It is a shameful practice, should also be the case for theme RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES and no joke, that many of these parties which might be offensive indigenous people are forced to to women. We call for such a Prof. David Housman carry around a "Green Card" policy so that, in the future, etn- and are considered 'aliens" in nic groups or women's groups are Rev. Bernard Campbell a their native land. This is remninis- not offended. Rabbi Daniel R. Shevitz cent of South Africa, where a re- Frederick J. Foreman G

;1 gime of foreigners makes the in- People Against Pacis"I digenous population carry Verrett Mimrs G around 'passbooks," considering Black Graduate them non-citizens in their own Students' Association country. Gillian Brown '88 Caribbean Students Club We are outraged by Stephen I. WEIDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1987 l Ponzio's letter 1"LUChA was Tarry, Hum G oversensitive to poster,' May l]. Students of Color in Planning 7:30 p.m. Despite the Chicano students' Hei-Wei Chan 77 Mass. Ave., M.I.T. Room 8-105 outcry about the offensive poster, East Cost Asian Students Union and despite an apology from Elva Macias Sponsored by M..T. Hillel & Tech Catholic Community ZBT, Ponzio states 'the theme of Wellesley MEZCLA For inform ation clJl 253-2982. the party does not insult Mexi- Laura Perez Harvard RAZA Such a statement makes others Lisa Greber '87 Feel comfortable with their rac- Profemina llY·------·------·--·--·------1.--e -- I - - I II , . ) I , ,. 14

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