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;-·-· t- ·;il·; ··.- ·- ,.:· ·····-;·i; ,::·::- -;, I; ·- Allromw qllp ry AW 7 TODAY MIT's A Record of Oldest and Largest Continuous News Service Newspaper for 107 Years ZiIZI_I·I·I·_lis.1111-·lls L_ _ _ =a-----a----------- --- Vol. CVIII No. 26'- CAMBRIDGE, MASS., FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1988 Free -PAZ-IIC ·-ZIZil --1·13 ·L---p = -;-- I··;LI·;ll---·l--- -- I--- -- HIO DSARIGHTS REVd1S OF FALLPI RUSIIL~~It Pli 1733 TO GRADUATE Action Prompted by Allegations of AT COMMENCEMENT Illegal Drug and Alcohol Use (By Mathews M. Cherian FUTURE OF FRATERNITY IN DOUBT and Seth Gordon) A total of 1733 students (By Earl C. Yen) will walk to the podiums in MIT's 122nd commencement Pi Lambda Phi fraternity will not be permitted exercises today to receive to rush freshmen during Residence/Orientation 1899 degrees. A. Bartlett Giamatti, presi- Week this fall after some fraternity members ad- dent of baseball's National mitted to a variety of alcohol and drug-related Members of the Class of 1986 line up to march to commence- League and former president charges in late April, ment. (Tech file photo) of Yale University, will deliv- according to James R. -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - er the commencement ad- Tewhey, associate dean for student affairs. dress to the graduates and KRAMSG CH LEAVES the close to 8000 relatives InterFraternity Conference * Illegal use of nitrous oxide and guests gathered to ob- Chairman Jeffrey M. Hornstein as part of a pledge party. serve the ceremonies. * Use of alcohol after the LANGUAGE POST Giamatti, an outspoken ad- '89 called the ruling "unfair, harsh, and detrimental to the fraternity's initiation ceremo- vocate for a more traditional. ny. Expresses Discontent with structured curriculum, will be fraternity system in general." speaking at MIT at a time Tewhey, in a letter to the fra- * On-going illegal use and Changes in Curriculum when the Institute has been ternity, said he decided to sus- availability of marijuana and closely scrutinizing its own pend Pi Lambda Phi's rush cocaine by members of the SAYS LANGUAGE TEACHING WILL SUFFER science, engineering, and hu- privileges over the following house. manities curricula. violations: "Pi Lambda Phi has ... cer- (By Michael Gojer) tainly fallen short of the expec- (Continued on page 9) 0 Illegal operation of a cash Professor Claire Kramsch, head of the Foreign bar. tations MIT carries for one of Languages and Literatures (FLL) section, will its approved living groups," Tewhey stated in the letter. resign her post effective June 30. Kramsch said NOBLE REQUESTS Pi Lambda Phi maintained she perceived a "breakdown in communications" that it was unaware that the regarding the role of foreign languages at MIT PRIVACY WAIVER operation of the cash bar was illegal, according to Tewhey's and felt she "could not give any leadership to the Attorney Claims Process was "Rigged;" letter. The fraternity further section anymore." No Good Reason for Confidentiality argued that the use of drugs Kramsch was concerned done in English, but she said (Continued on page 8) that was not at all what lan- about recent changes in the A "REAL SCANDAL" FLL curriculum that have tak- guage teaching was about. Dean of the School of Hu- (By Andrew L. Fish) en place as a result of the revi- FACULTY FAULTS manities and Social Science sions to the Humanities, Arts, Former faculty member David Noble is filing a Ann Friedlaender PhD '64 de- and Social Sciences require- motion this week in Massachusetts Superior ADMINISTRATION ment that were approved by (Continued on page 8) Court this week to lift confidentiality restric- the faculty last May. While ac- tions from documents pertaining to MIT's deci- "Shared Governance" knowledging that the steps be- I Ignored In ABS Closing ing taken were part of an ef- SENIORS ASKED sion to deny the him tenure in 1984. fort to strengthen humanities with breaching his First (By Harold A. Stern) The documents reveal "a ma- overall at MIT, she felt some of Amendment rights by denying jor scandal," according to Da- the changes conflicted with the him tenure on political, not The faculty approved the TO SIGN PLEDGE vid Kairys, Noble's attorney. "I goals of language teaching. academic, grounds. "sense" of a report which haveI never seen a process For example, the new HASS- Coalition wants pledge Noble had been an assistant faulted the procedures fol- riggedI like this," he said. D requirement of 25 pages of professor in the Program in lowed in the closing of the De- to become a part of Noble, now a professor at writing in all distribution Science, Technology, and Soci- partment of Applied Biological commencement ceremony Drexel University, filed a $1.5 courses puts a strain on lan- ety. Kairys asserted that his Sciences and recommended million lawsuit in September guage instruction classes work has "redefined the field" that the Institute formalize the (By Seth Gordon) 1986 charging the Institute which try to maintain a bal- by arguing that society and process used to reorganize and ance between speaking and culture affect technology as terminate a department at writing exercises, Kramsch "The Coalition to Humanize much as technology affects so- their May 18 regular meeting. said. Kramsch said some pro- MIT" is asking graduating sen- ciety and culture. The Committee on Reorgani- fessors had suggested that a BALTIMORE LETTER iors to sign a "pledge of social But "Noble's scholarly work I portion of the writing could be and environmental responsibi- [also] sharply criticized MIT as I (Continued on page 9) lity," and proposing that MIT I REFUTES CHARGES an institution, and [his] public II IVI %- I Llf LI include taking this pledge as I speech criticized MIT's ties part of future commencement I Scientist States His with industry and MIT's im- MIT's defense connections ceremonies. Case; Warns of Danger proper use of publicly-created examined. Page 2. Signing the pledge could be in Gov't Investigation university resources for pri- Paul Gray on scientific an alternative to the tradition vate commercial benefit," ac- illiteracy, Page 5. i cording to the text of his law- of graduates turning around (By David P. Hamilton) MIT scientists discover second their class rings , said Richard suit. genetic code. Page 7. A. Cowan '87, organizer of the Noble won full access to the Student charged with 32 counts I campaign. I A controversy over alleged tenure documents, including for computer thefts. Page 7. In a letter to President Paul scientific fraud is "a harbinger the names of evaluation au- EECS enrollment down among E. Gray '54, the Coalition of threats to scientific commu- thors, last April, but he cannot freshmen. Page 7. called the turning around of nication and scientific free- reveal this information to oth- Three students mugged class rings an "initiation rite dom," David Baltimore '61 ers. The current motion would at gunpoint. Page 11. to legitimize technocratic in- charged in a letter widely dis- remove all restrictions from Environmentalportraitist in MIT sensitivity." A pledge of re- tributed to scientific colleagues the documents. Kairys assert- Museum. Page 16. sponsibility, they claimed, and the press. Baltimore is di- ed that there was "no good Killian Hall recitalsshow off (Continnued on page 7) student works. Pabe 1 Z {~cnt'indwl\ nan nnae1rT~~-.V- - .- I \------ Vvlrt;llil Unl paget 271) WE - -~--,----- 'rYPI1~9F a -- 1~P~a· slBlLR1 ~I~" ~-8s~11~ ~ m~1 MM PAGE 2 The Tech FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1988 Examining John Deutch's Pentagon connections From the late 1970s to the pre- ental ballistics missiles, chemical same subject. 'He has no business being in in the education business," she said. Deutch has also been active warfare and biological defense, Deutch acknowledged that sent, "My guess is that [the Institute] Analysis on Defense Science Board panels and technology base manage- that time period he had alerted moved him to provost as a good By Thomas T. Huang that studied mobile intercontin- ment. the chairmen of the chemistry de- way to get MIT some of the Student activists on this cam- partment and applied biological gravy." John M. Deutch '61 the professor sciences department to available pus call Vera Kistiakowsky, Deutch said that MIT has had "War Provost" because of his fears that Deutch's army contracts for mycotoxin re- of physics, a tradition of officials who have many associations with the Pen- on these Defense Science search. He said he sees nothing work been active in national affairs. tagon. But faculty members are could inappropriate with that action. Board advisory committees He maintained that there was more cautious when it comes to what kind of "I find it questionable," Kistia- distort his vision on nothing inappropriate with his discussing a man who is both the should be conducted at kowsky said, "that the provost is research participation in national policy chief academic officer of MIT sources of re- chairing a [task force] that rec- MIT and what discussions. and an advocate in setting the na- tapped. ommends that [chemical warfare search funding should be He said he knew he had to be tion's military policy. and biological defense] work be careful "not to look for special As provost, Deutch is in charge resumed, and, at the same time, 1983, Deutch favors for MIT" in his capacity of overseeing faculty research, From !982 to encourages people at MIT to ap- (Please turn to page 11) quality of faculty, and undergrad- was active on the Scowcroft ply for [related] funding." dw as~~~--r~~---~~~--sC~~~I~~P - uate curriculum. He is the se- Commission, a group that stud- cond-in-command under Presi- ied the MX missile and conclud- ed that the development of a Departnicat"SOg.