SW Antsaianment Chang$D; Jefferson Airplane Crashes
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.3.3 II ,gab I 0 go mNW 9 4 deaMm II i 11 0 P- - it" 4 0 it" I - -~~I ICW - ~~II IW Spueehes quotedou T Classes canceled By Tom Pipal 4 All classes between 9 am and 1 pm today have been cancelled in order to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King and to allow stu- By Steve Carhart .31 dents to attend special seminars dealing with the problems he at- death Reaction to the tragic tempted to -solve during his lifetime. This action resulted from of Dr. Martin Luthor King came- Sunday afternoon's Inscomm meeting, which was originally intended quickly on the MIT campus as to consider various aspects of student affairs. When discussion the Institute joined the nation f. centered on tile possibility of Inscomm's recommending that all in mourning in a special mem- students skip classes Monday as a tribute to the fallen civil rights orial service held at noon Fri- leader, Dean Kenneth Wadleigh suggested that classes be cancelled day in Kresge. Hastily organ- from 9 to 1 on Tuesday instead. Inscomm then passed a resolution ized Thursday night and Friday recommending that the Institute cancel classes at the suggested morning by an ad hoc group of P time, and Dean Wadleigh and Professor Walter Rosenblith, Chairman faculty, students, and members of the Faculty, announced that'classes would be cancelled. of the administration, the pro- Seminars planned gram consisted principally of From 9 to 11 am, Inscomm will sponsor a panel discussion in readings from Dr. King's writ-hs Kresge entitled "Racism in America." Panel members include Pro- ings. Jerome Lettvin, Professor Salvator Luria, Profsssor Harold Although lack of time limited fessor Isaacs, Professor Philip Morrison, Professor Leonard Fein, and the publicity to hastily posted 3 - Al Silverstone, G. 4 notices, the audiWorium was At 11 am, the topic will shift to the role of MIT in the problem nearly filled. Most of the usual of civil rights. UAP Maria Kivisild '68 will chair a panel consisting noontime stream of people Professor Bernard Frieden,. Robert Tinker, G, Shirley leaving Building 7 filed directly of Associate Professor into Kresge, talking quietly Jackson '68, Professor Leon Trilling, and (tentatively) Roland Greeley, Director of Admissions. The admission of Negroes among themselves until the on the part of the university will be two program began. to MIT and urban concern The speakers specific topics which will be explored. MIT President Howard W. Harvard University is also planning an extensive tribute to Dr. Johnson opened the meeting, King. On Monday, a major rally was held in Harvard Yard. There then the other six read excerpts are no classes today between nine and one, and those scheduled x. from Dr. King's speeches. These for later than one will deal with the problem of racism. (Please turn to page 3) Vol. 88, No. 17 Cambridge, Mass., Tuesday, April 9. 1968 5Cc .3. · .~.... By Carson Agnew Although the flight of AS-502 (Apollo 6) last week has been officially described by NASA as a failure, it was in fact about 75% successful, and the MIT-designed guidance system itself performed so well that it embarrassed the space agency This reporter was at Cape Kennedy for the Thursday launch, and heard General Philips, in SW antsaianment chang$d; charge of the mahned space program at Kennedy Spaceflight Center, term the flight a "fai- Jefferson Airplane crashes Photo by George Flynn lure" on NASA's books because By Bob Dennis Dean Kenneth R. Wadleigh suggests that Tuesday be made a all primary test objects had A flurry of rumors concerning a change in the Saturday afternoon day of mourning for Martin Luther King at Inscomm meeting not been met. One of these entertainment at Spring Weekend has been confirmed. Speaking to Sunday. objectives had been a success- The Tech prior to a Sunday night meeting with social chairmen, ful restart of the S-IVB third Committee Chairman Gordon Logan announced that the Jefferson Fea gripscapi stage from orbit, and that Airplane made a "last-minute cancellation" of their scheduled stage's failure to do so was performance. Troo-ps In Washingmp Barely- the second malfunction of the Plans have been nearly finalized to replace the Airplane with ' day. the Union Gap, a group whose two recent records, "Woman Woman" ' *Mission plan and "Young Girl," both reached the top of the national charts. Cantain Violence Due To Muorder Unusual yet legal By Michael Devorkin like Santo Domingo or some The mission 'as planne The cancellation of the Airplane was due to very unusual, yet Special to The Tech other revolution-torn, capital was very similar to the AS unfortunately legal circumstances, according to Logan. Foilowing Washington, D.C., April 7 filmed for a newscast. Coming 501 (Apollo 4) mission carrie r a verbal agreement with the Airplane's manager, his committee Trucks full of troops rumbling on the heels of the assassina- out last -November 9. Afte forwarded their contract and a deposit on February 7. During the through the streets, smoke over tion of Dr. Martin Luther King, placing the spacecraft in next two months, the committee received publications on the Air- the city, and scattered gunshots the outbreak of looting and parking orbit, the S-IVB wa plane as well as cornmunications concerning sound equipment and make our nation's 'capital seem firebombing near the hotel in to restart in orbit, and injec motel accomodations.Although their contract was not yet signed and which we of Eugene McCarthy's the spacecraft -into a simulate (Please turn to page 2) research staff are temporarily '.3- translunar orbit, with an apoge quartered has sent much of the of 279,000 nautical miles. Thb white population fleeing from orbit was aimed nowhere nea ~requisites the city and brought commerce the actual position of the moor rosk aiversiy to a standstill. .At one point and only the spent stage of th i the automobile exodus became booster was going very fa Physics offers on it. so dense that troops called !tu nities restructured into the city to quell the rioting '-. After the second S-IVB firin By Scott Hartley were unable to enter the troubled the spacecraft was to separate second option Next fall's freshman class will enter the Institute to find the areas. and, controlled by the inertia By Greg Bernhardt most diverse humanities program ever offered here. Professor Richard Beginning next fall, fresh- Strange sign (Please turn to page 2) department announced recently the men will for the first time be Douglas head of the humanities My first knowledge of the titles and general descriptions of five courses, four completely new, able to choose between two assassination came as I-walked all to be offered incoming members of the class of 1972. ·-. eA, :, , - options for meeting the Insti- by Washington's famous cherry The only course to be kept intact is the Greek Tradition-Euro- tute physics requirements. In trees and saw a small sign in addition to the 8.01-8.02 se- pean Tradition series, renamed The Western Tradition: the Classical felt marker which someone had quence, an entirely revamped Heritage-the European Heritage. set up. Weird news in a weird option is being offered. Desig- Replacing the two discontinued courses are the four new ones form can only spawn disbelief, which will investigate indentity and autobiography, language and nated 8.011 and 8.012, the new but the story was confirmed on culture of primitive and modern civilizations, conflict in American sequence has been designed the news media that night. A society, and western religious philosophy. for students who are relatively farmore vivid confirmation came Asked what inspired the changes, Professor Douglas explained certain they will elect a course Friday morning when I contacted that the entire humanities program is now -in a state of evolution, of study which requires only a student at Howard University with new courses being constantly designed and introduced. The one year of physics and for, (Washington' s predominantly decision to institute five course options came last fall and met those students whose back- Negro university) who told me, ground in math or physics is with considerable support from other members of the humanities staff. "I can't help you now-they're poor. rioting outside my dormitory.'-' tszilytoSS~~~-.,. Move extensive To criticisms of present offerings as being too narrow in scope, Massive civil unrest produces The new option will differ Douglas responded. by saying that the so-called "survey course"' a startling .change in normal from 8.G1 and 8.02 in that the of literature has never enjoyed much popularity at the Institute. human relationships. The 5:30 coverage will be more exten- Other changes in the freshman courses may include an increase sive but less mathematically in the amount of writing required. pm curfew -imposed on the city deep. Many students now defer Titles of the new courses are Identity and Autobiography: the turns the park across. from- the hotel from a bright gathering Photo by NASA the first semester of'physics Nineteenth Century-Twentieth Century; Language, Culture, and Community: Primitive Culture and Ancient Civilization-Elizabethan place for couples into a-strangely Saturn Apollo 6 with MIT or take 8.001 for orientation. England and Modern America; and Conflict and Community in Ameri- quiet space through which an guidance equipment awaits The new sequence will allow ca; and God and Logic: the Philosophy of Western Religion. occasional figure runs. Everyone launching. (Please turn to page.2) (Please turn to page 6) / Lab-desige.Sy-ens~/ L~ab~-der~s/i~gn~edsys~~tem s Foro non-scieni~ti~~stI~s~0n-scintstsZ function in Apolo test co (Continued from page 1) o Physlis optioas' ofered o' guidance system, designed for entry point and angle of the spacecraft.