Continuous MIT News Service Camabridge Since 1881 |l Massachusetts 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.