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By Bruce Schwartz anniversary of the CFIA explo- Willard Johnson, one of a hand- As police and FBI continued sion. A woman sought in con- ful of black professors at MIT, their investigation of last Fri- nection with- that attack has whose field is urban studies; and day's bombing of the Hermann never been found. the vacated office of Alan Alt- Building, and physical plant em- Bundy's office was only one shuler, Massachusetts Secretary ployees moved in to repair an of several damaged when a bomb for Transportation and Con- estimated $35,000 damage, a went off about 1:20 am last struction. group calling itself the Proud Friday in a women's rest room Authorities are seeking two Eagle Tribe, a revolutionary wo- on the north side of the- Her- long-haired men and a woman men's collective, claimed credit mann Building's fourth floor. who were seen driving away for the attack. The bomb demolished the rest from the Kendall Square vicinity A two-page typed letter re- room, severely damaged about in a green truck by police re- ceived by The Boston Globe on twenty feet of corridor and ceil- sponding to the bomb alarm. Saturday announced that the ing, and blew the rest room door The FBI, which entered the case bombing's target had been the through a partition across the at its own discretion, is super-, office of William P. Bundy, a hall and into a suite where it vising the investigation. Agents senior research associate at smashed several windows. The have been questioning Hermann MIT's Center for International secretaries' area of the suite was Building workers and users. Studies, and a prominent policy most heavily damaged. The blast MIT officials denied news- advisor to former President also dislodged ceiling tiles over paper reports that FBI officials Lab supports efforts Lyndon Johnson. It was for his about fifty feet of corridor and had beefed up security at MIT role in the Vietnam escalation in the men's room on the floor buildings where government re- that began in 1965 that Bundy below, and knocked some search is done; Vice-President o:f urban researchers had been selected as a target, the chunks out of the building's Constantine Simonides said Sun- Proud Eagle Tribe's By Norman Sandler letter said. ventilation system. No one was day night that the FBI had told The same group claimed cred- -in the building at the time. the administration the reports MIT's Urban Systems Laboratory, while not catching the atten- it one year ago for a bombing at Ironically, Bundy himself is were false. tion of the coimmunity, has already begun functioning in the Harvard's Center for Internation- absent from MIT this term. His MIT has tightened security at newly-renovated Building E40 on the east side of the campus. al Affairs' (CFIA), on October office is being used by a gradu- some buildings in the wake of From the outside the building (circa 1930), across from the Sloan 14, 1970. The CIS-targeted ate student. Other damaged. of- the bombing, 'but officials were and Hermann Buildings, looks like a factory which went out of bombing thus amme on-the fLhtS fices include those of Professor reluctant to divulge specifics for business long ago. fear of rendering the measures Once inside,.however, one is 'ineffective. However, an ID imnmediately caught off guard by check has been reinstituted at the brightly-colored walls and Burtonires face c. aoerc life the Hermann Building, where it the activity.- had been discontinued over the The Lab was initiated in By Bert Halstead ding is brand new, a large num- held to grapple with several summer. 1968, under the direction of The phoenix was a bird ber of services have to be started problems. To begin with, no- The bombing and its after- Professor Charles L. Miller. which, according to ancient from scratch, and due to the body had been authorized to math preoccupied several high Miller was formerly Head of the Egyptian legend, lived for five or diverse backgrounds of the resi- spend money - a budget com- Institute officials last Friday, Civil Engineering Department, six centuries, was consumed in dents of the new Burton House, mittee was organized to propose while most people here went Associate Dean of Engineering, fire, and then rose in youthful there was no agreed-upon house a stopgap budget. This was the about their business apparently and Founding Director of the freshness from its own ashes. government at the start of the first test for the constitutional undisturbed by the news. Much Photogrammetry Lab, Inter- Like the legendary phoenLx, Bur- year. A "temporary coalition theorists, who had various con- of the administrators' time was American Program, and Civil ton HIouse is rising out of the government's composed of lead- flicting ideas on how the house spent in dealing with the press Engineering Systems Lab. He is ashes of its former self. What ing student politicians from the should vote on the committee's and attempting to counter sensa- currently a Professor of Civil problems are encountered by a various groups that make up the recommendations. The next tionalistic reports that appeared Engineering and director of the living group in this situation? new Burton had been handling matter was the establishment of in early editions, especially that Urban Systems Lab. The new Burton is populated those matters which required im- a house government. After somne- of the Record-Arnerican [see The USL is an interdepart- by the residents of the old Bur- mediate attention. The people thing of a showdown between page 51. News Office director mental and interdisciplinary ton ("Burton in Exile," as they from the old Burton are not in the Bu.ron and Random people Bob Byers tried to play down body supporting and assisting in were called - the ones who lived the majority, nor are those who {Please turn to page 7} {Please turn to page 2) a wide scope of urban research in Hamilton House and apart- formerly lived in Random Hall. projects, while staying in the ments in Medford last year), the In addition, there are the background whenever possible. people 'from Random Hall, a individual idealists who see Bur- Archives@@eep faliv This eventually led to a feeling group from McCormick who ton House as a fantastic oppor- that the lab had become inopera- took over one floor, a large tunity to test their ideas. of tive when exactl'y the opposite is number of freshmen, and various constitutional government. A spirit of MIT's past the case. others. couple of house meetings and (Please turn to page 3} Since the interior of the buil- many smaller sessions have been By Drew Jaglorn The processing of new ad- One of the lessons of the ditions imposes heavy pressures inaugural program early this on the small staff of the Ar- month was that MIT is a school chives (Hartley, Bartlett, and with a rich and important past. two assistants), and interferes The prime responsibility for with other archival activities. maintaining the record and spirit The process of adding new of this past rests with the Ins- material to the records adds to titute Archives. the work load: because MIT has The Archives, run by Profes- no real archival program where- sor Neil Hartley and Miss Jen- by material would naturally flow kins are the central collection, from active to inactive to ar- of all material which documents chival status, all material comes past and ongoing life at MIT. from gifts or the task of seeking The files there range from such it out. original material as the letters of And the Archives have the founder William Barton Rogers same budgetary problems com- to complete files of Institute mon to most other departments. publications, the correspondence The $43,000 annual appropria- of departments, administrators, tion must pay for salaries, bind- and faculty committees. Also in- ings, and supplies - there are no eluded are materials bearing on funds with which to purchase student life at MIT - complete materials or such items as file i files of The Tech, VooDoo, and cabinets to keep up with the other student publications are ever-growing collection. The kept there, as are old student tight budget also prohibits the notes and lab reports. Even leaf- addition of more staff members- lets handed out in corridors find who could perform a more sel- a resting place in the Archives. ective discarding of holdings, The largest portion' of the thus economizing on space. Archives comprises all the theses Access students have written 'at MIT. Access to the Archives is lim- They number 34,000 and rest ited to authorized users. The Late-night welders add the finishing toucles to the House prior to the raisingof *edomelastweek. near the papers and other works policies of the Committee on newly re-installed indoor tennis courts behind Baker Photo by David Tenenbraum of MIT's faculty. {Please lurn to page 7) PAGE 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1971 THETECH Tribe claims: boms )'rng rolersi [Continuedfrompage ) - -garbied. (The caller pronounced on the scene as did State Firej the affair; admrninistrators-made the building's name "Harmonn,. ' Marshall Ralph Garrett, whom phone· calls to explain the situa- leading police- and press to be- ordered the damage zone. tion to worried alumni. lieve the woman 'was unfamiliar blocked off until it.could bei Byers awoke The Tech editor ,-with MIT.) At about the same sifted for clues and evidence- Lee Giguere around 3 am to try time, an operator at the Record- Physical plant men, ereted' to get a story out by morning; American - took a similar call plywood barriers in the three] Giguere and managing editor from a woman. The operator corridors leading to the area Tim Kiorpes wrote and typeset notified. Cambridge police and Press and'-photographers were, the story and got it to the fire units, then called MIT, barred untii 2 pm, when a ph{ printer in Lowell before the reachiing Ms. Welch about 1:19. tographer and cameraman weIf presses rolled for the Friday Ms. Welch had meanwhile admitted to shoot pictures for. edition. Later, administrators alerted campus patrol. Nearly pool coverage.. - l praised the paper for getting a twenty minutes pased before Gray 'ssued a,- statement! non-hysteric version · dissemina- authorities b eg an -.to: search the about ?:30- am, saying, "We mra ted to the campus. building, and by then; the bomb at: a loss to explain this wanton To ensure that information. had.exploded. and senseless act, of destructi0~M reached everyone, student lead- A smoke sensor in .the Her- It appears to--have no specific ers, including the press, house mann Building signaled an-alarm target."-' . presidents, and student govern- in E-19 about 1:39; oh the basis The building had been rou.i ment officers were asked to of tfis MIT officials concluded tinely closed and locked at mid., come to a 4:15 pm meeting in that the blast occurred about night. A - night watchmand 9-150, where President Jerome 1:21. Severa l residents of East- checked thie building at 12:25| Wiesner, Vice-President John gate, which adjoins the area, am and found nothing unusual,3 Wynne and other top officials were awakened., A small crowd nor were there any signs thetl gave a rundown' on the days' of them gathered outside as po- building had been broken into, events and took questions. lice went in. Custodians from MIT officials said. Two telephone warnings pre- the adjoiming- Sloan: Building The "bomb- Was described byte- ceded Friday's bombing. A wo- were first onr ,the scene; they Fire-Marshal Garrett as a pipe-- man caller reached MIT switch- described the ,bomb as going bomb' filled- with -gunpowder. board operator Beulah Welch "off with a thump." No outside Apparently, it was concealed }f'J about 1:16 am and 'hurriedly, windows were broken in the- above -the tiles of a drop ceiling! said that a bomb in the Hermann explosion; in the rest toom. The FBI, which il Building woud explode in-ten Shortly after the discovery of took over the investigation Fri.!a Bomb damage in office across from womnen's room (at left in photo minutes; she identified herself as the bombing, Institute officials day- afternoon,: removed pieces of corridor on p. 1) where explosion occurred about 1:20 am Friday. a -member of the "sisters of were notified, by phone.- Byers of.debris and what was apparent. ! Photos were taken Friday-afternoon. Photo by Joe Runct, Boston Globe .--- ," but the last word was and ChancellorPaul Gray arrived !y a timing mechanism to theirs ! _I__ __ _ _ I ______laboratory in Washington forte- analysis over the weekend. '; MIT officials -expressed con-a i ii i I .. cern- over the warning period., Apparently, they said, the bomb ' exploded -before the ten-minute 41 grace period had ended. Had-§ anyone been present, it is un-}i likely they could have beene'va- cuated in-time. At about 3: 15 am, Ms. Welch'H took a call from an MIT exten-1.~- sion. A man with a foreign ac-. cent delivered a bomb tl',eat!] which sounded like "Buildings = 19 [or 991 and 20 are next to, ! go." -Officials considered it a's crank call from someone who, knew of the earlier' explosion,I but took no chances. Buildings, 20, 39 and E-19--were evacuated-e= and searched. They were re-'a opened about 7 am-. The Institute, which wasI= plagued 'by numerous bomb:!V threats last year,' had received none this fall. This was the:= reason- security measures insti-' i tuted last year had been phased"E out. Workers-- at' the Hermann- Building, which houses the Dew-J ey Library in addition to the CIS I and Political Science Depart-, r--nents, were remarkably unshak-,_ #e by the bombing. Except in -- time- damaged areas, business wcent- on almost as 'usual Friday,- cbspite the absence of air condo .f thoning which made parts of the ll building uncomfortably warm.- Few people said they feared repetition of the attack; most considered it "pointless," stu- pid," "a' shame;" Political Sci-- ence head Eugene Skolnikoff re- -marked that "assault from outside often - consolidates a: community." The Center for International-> Studies has a,-history of attack from radicals. The research insti- tute, established in 1951 with: partial' funding from the CIA,'-e has conducted extensive studies-= for the government on commu-i: nism, revolution and interna' . tional communication. Severalg CIS associates, such as BundY,. Walt Rostow, Ithiel de Sola Pool, and Daniel Ellsberg were:: architects .and . advisors of.- Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam poli-- cies. Because.of this, CIS, and its "sister"- nstitution' at Harvard,i the CFIA, were accused by radi-: Lfl~~~~;- t
- Corn l- Major fellowships offered rhit an Carn't in full time graduate studies and Following' '5 the text of a letter signed "Proud Eagle Tribe" received by Four major fellowship pro- deadline is November 29 and the Boston Globe Saturday. The two typewritten pages, claiming credit grams, one American and three awards will be announced March must have completed all require- for the explosion of a bomb in the Hermann Building Friday, are sponsoring work in foreign coun- 15, 1972. Additional informa- ments for the Ph.D. except the headed '%whitenan Can't Win." The Tribe's insignia was superimposed tries, will be offering support for tion and application materials dissertation by the time a fellow- on the first page. graduate work in the 1972-73 are available from the Fellow- ship is activated. The stipends Tonight we, the women of the Proud Eagle Tribe, have bombed the school year. ship Office, National Research and durationi of grants will vary office of William Putnam Bundy, one of the architects of the air war in The National Science Found- Council, 2101 Constitution from area to ar6e. Deadlines are Vietnam. A year ago the Proud Eagle Tribe bombed the Center-for ation is the sponsor of the Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. generally in early November. International Affairs at Harvard because "The Center figures out new while the 20418. Further information and applica- wars in Asia, Latin American program, ways for Pig Nixon to try to destroy people's Areas Fellowship Pro- Foreign areas tions may be obtained from the Middle East, and grooms toads like Henry Kissinger, Foreign America, and the gram, and Delft and Twente The Foreign Areas Fellowship Foreign Study Office. who left the Center to join Nixon's death machine. it was at the Center Program offers fellowships to Holland that the 'strategic hamlet program' was created." Universities in Holland are fin- ancing graduate research in graduate students in the humani- The Delft University of Tech- William P. Bundy, our target for tonight, who' said of the 9uerrila the Twente men can't win this kind of fight," was a foreign countries. ties, social sciences and natural nology and war in Vietnam, "White sciences and the professions. Pre- principle architect of the air war in Vietnam. His-scenario for escalation NSF University of Technology in Hol- to pro- culminated in the bombing of North Vietnam' in 1965. With an The National Science Found- ference will be given land are offering research fellow- topics arrogance that the w bishmient has in abundance, he sat in ation has reopened competition posals for dissertation ships for 1972-73 to. foreign the ar conflict, (the better to prese concerned with cultural, eco- scientific workers and graduate an / fe far removelrrom for 600 graduate fellowships of- hiltobJktivitY!!i}/t'otatly ignored telligence reports, and - fellow- nomic, political; social or students who hold a master's jp steps toward realistic peace tali~,aid fered for 1972-73. The blood! lViythJ*rpe :d awarded for full time scientific aspects of development degree in engineering or science planned ther o r nd o'hi' accompishments he d .igt he ships are study leading to the master's or in Africa, the Middle Fast, Latin and have at least one additional manner _of .n.fait IMP in an acceptable w b oth America and the Caribbean, and year of experience in research or international gtul4>cial at.nt r "friendly. gover l doctoral degree in science, social cer ryfor CnfrIj hty~pfes)9d C~oiress. Uttle effor, spent on sciences, mathematics, or en- East, South and Southeast Asia. who have completed their Ph.D. In the Western Europe program, Work. Applications are due De- figtoh II.ns a~0 ta IhI:n~ that they wer engaged gineering.-The stipend has been be given to pro- cember 1, 1971. ina EaPiflt^