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Cps brin19 Penn, Francis bef ore :OD for assault what was a much *A..xn"s~X~:blr~g -- ~~ r - I By Andfea'L'mbert tified" demonstrators. The and I out of Campus Police Chief Anne P. summary report also lists 12 larger group ... is the most Glavin has filed a formal com- other people involved in the blatant evidence for that," he plaint with the Committee on demonstration. continued. Discipline against two demon- Also, "Glavin alleges that dur- Penn believed the charges were strators, in conjunction with the ing the course of protest activities part of 'a strategy to target the _March 2 demonstration for di- on March 2, 1990, [Penn was] di- people they perceive as leaders vestment from South Africa. rectly responsible for the injuries ... and they're using it as a The demonstration, called by of two MIT police officers," the form of intimidation, believing the Coalition Against Apartheid, Henderson letter continues. that if Ron and I are punished rallied in front of the home of Penn and Francis denied all the enough, .. the demonstrations President Paul E. Gray '54 and in charges and maintained that they and the divestment movement the Alfred P. Sloan Building, and were being singled out as le-aders will be stopped." did not result in any arrests. of the pro-divestment movement. Glavin denied that Francis and In a report dated March 23 "I think this is a case of politi- Penn were accused to set an ex- from Glavin to COD chair Sheila cal harassment," Penn said. "The ample for other demonstrators E. Widnall '60, Steven D. Penn fact that they only charged, Ron (Please turn to page 2) G was charged with assault, and Ronald W. Francis G was charged with assault and assault and bat- tery on a police officer. Widnall "reviewed the com- plaint and decided that a hearing DiMe Undirgrihiii-adX and GradUate Student CoM. is warranted," Assistant Dean for :schemed haw> . a^*di^Xllbqmum on the .ic Student Affairs Arnold R. Hen- ;^wo lvin c iniLi blip ; xt riv for an April 3 letter to derson said in -a¢e..........-, .· .... ·, . Penn. The COD hearing is sched- ..<. Afg.oWI to.Pre Marish kpnaa91,representative uled for May 87 Penn said. °"pa~rs;brXEidiii~· cb><.~~t¢,ppqo~es&~m~egt, Glavin said yesterday that the · ~i~n~ek ~ar,-~~ A' 'r, are, two were charged because they ~~~~q~~~_ ~were "the only ones that [officer Rosie L. Sanders] could identify." p*tsd f~,r'MvtbOf',i~~cccc~~~cc~ia~ l~ i Mos Sanders was injured when ail"*iz O .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'~f_ d~gig>{<$b2Ntid--e"Ah .. r bX-.. ' : v 1 demonstrators occupied an eleva- tor in Building E52 during the demonstration. She is still out on ~ na - .I·~~~~~saitrAifi.i¢e*-thadiA; W .SCPM"Ad vef'i k coult p Paulo Correia/The Tech injury, Glavin said. Steven D. Penn G (left) speaks with Ronald W. Francis G at In Sanders' affidavit in the the Coalition Against Apartheid's protest of the March 2 Campus Polisereport, shenamed - .. i. * . s - . - . @ . .; . .one other demonstrator, Mark A. Cor,9oration meeting. Smith G. and two other "uniden- X.u eat& tgaf ^Xell+X!¢lv .. get.* P-A ' 1*0nWu > Faculty group studies international ties tit aAlprAf endw <0 bier t.<.opitQan gan iin~ sipt thy ^ ..~e~j~lsth'cdl t tl-e; By Brian Rosenberg Deutch said that "critics target S. Khoury, associate dean of the .. ith it fp-vbtl especially con- School of Humanities and Social The newly created Faculty MIT specifically, .albq d{evstof -td.ttAp. d Study Group on the International cerniing numbers of foreign stu- Science; Richard K. Lester of . 4r30·a~ne7>id.m g; 2s0Lor Ansge A'90'exitd 1 Relationships of US Universities dents and visitors and access of PhD '80, associate professor remaks, -after nuclear engineering; Nicholas P. tisp.uMSiy ake qmepo`nin will study the effects of interna- foreign corporations to MIT w~ibthd h qes two v ensa.th. eni "inid- tional activities on MIT and oth- research.' Negroponte '66, director of the er American universities. Foreign access to MIT research Media Laboratory; Jack Ruina, ial'qupsoIs aift 6,e ]heiz 't atie.,~lw s secretary of the faculty; and Ken- Eugene B. Skolnikoff '49, pro- through the Industrial Liaison . Ah~W Iiide `c 'd th'clburi toAZk ~pl;Lce,,btwcen Program (ILP) has been the sub- neth A. Smith '58, associate pro- fessor of political science and 4CIO'a,d. 7 pm, n'450,h £ or 1X`esge Akuditorium'+;..' former director of the Center for ject of controversy during the vost and vice president for International Studies will chair past year. Thomas R. Moebus research. the group. Provost John M. '69, director of ILP, said pro- Is Deutch '61 said in a statement to gram's members "thought [the academic fraud policy News Office that the group faculty study group] was a good M IT changes the would address the problem of cido, is that the new policy is was created because of "growing idea. MIT should take a good By Katherine Shim of MIT's Pol- academic fraud and scientific more formal. confusion and criticism about the look at relations with foreign en- A revised version misconduct. "Basically, the procedure is a international relationships of tities, including corporations." icies and Procedures, a compila- policy, The principle change in the ac- two-step process," she stated. and other leading US re- The House Subcommittee on tion of formal Institute MIT This ademic fraud policy, according to The first part consists of an in- search universities." Deutch, Human Resources and Intergov- will be printed next week. will in- Assistant to the Vice President formal inquiry and examination along with President Paul E. ernmental Affairs, chaired by official policy manual that for Research Charlene M. Pla- of the evidence, Placido said. '54, appointed the members Rep. Theodore S. Weiss (D-NY), clude a revised procedure Gray formal of the group. has been investigating ILP and "The second part involves other public/private partnerships s,~· ~*ua^~s~awrenls~~s~:/~ 8...... ... ~aip~~ B fact finding." The group is expected to sub- since early 1989. Moebus said "'Previously, the informal in- written report suitable for mit a that while the "investigation is quiry did not require written re- discussion in the MIT public ongoing, . there has been A ports. In thme revised policy, for April 1, 1991. not community by no final conclusion." nmal reports and documentation said the group had been Deutch Arnoldo C. Hax, member of that can be reviewed at a later to consider three specific asked the group and deputy dean of the ,~:~·~~sls~i~tra~ i date are required through all questions: Sloan School of Management, at- steps of investigation, whether 1. What are the issues facing tended the group's initial meeting informalexlare or formal," she US universities in considering about a month ago. _ >:+ ~~~~~~~explained. their international involvements? "[The meeting] was informal, Attention has centered on the and we just discussed the impor- Institute policy toward fraud in 2. What are the particular is- elf A~t,5f'_ _ '''''V'>' since a list of tanee of this issue and our own '' $1>f' t ' the laboratories -rues facing MIT? personal views," Hax said. rules and regulations concerning 3. What policy framework Another group member, Rich- .! ^,scientific misconduct was pub- Register on should guide MIT in its interna- ard J. Samuels PhD '80, said, .ished in the Federal IF tional relationships in the future? "MIT is doing the right thing. _%T "-";~;~;~;~;~;~;~~ /X:(:I:,, DAug. 8, 1989, by the Public Are some modifications to cur- We're trying to define to what ex- Health Service, an agency of the rent practice and programs war- tent MIT is a national and inter- Department of Health and Hu- ranted? national institution, and to iden- man Services. These regulations Because MIT is involved in tify and solve problems v^ K ^ [= * would apply to all research sup- many international activities, associated with [that role.]" Sam- ? -;: 'e L~ - - ported by PHS, effective Jan. 1, uels is director of the MIT-Japan .· -- .. .,.._..^rr AXrglr~dS1B*.W~a~Q3IIP~ii~~~ ^_ r· .,A_ - s 11990. Program and an associate profes- ;2MI ,Auch of the research conduct- sor of political science. > w. w ed at MIT is funded by the Na- Other committee members in- tional Institutes of Health, an or- clude Nancy H. Hopkins, profes- ganization under the wing of sor of biology; Eric C. Johnson PHS. '67, director of corporate rela- William Chu/The Tech In a memorandum to all MIT tions; Arthur K. Kerman Shortstop Pillan Thirumalaisamy scoops up a grounder faculty, Associate Provost and PhD '53, director of the Labora- in Sunday's game against Bentley. MIT lost 5-10, Vice President for Research Ken- tory for Nuclear. Science; Philip (Please turn to page 2) L .,. .n,,,, _' an PAGE 2 The Tech TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1990 I~lls- 91.I- L, ir 91- rM 36 Memoral Drive will a - ill d I · -1 I I --- ___ become Building E56 By Eun S. Shin she said. The MIT Sloan School of The space in E56 will be used Management has been allotted for offices, Behmer noted. space in the building at 36 'Some offices are already tempo- Memorial Drive to reduce over- rarily located in building E56," crowding in the Alfred P. Sloan she said, although permanent Building (E52). 36 Memorial space assignments are not yet Drive, soon to be renamed Build- known. ing E56, is expected to accommo- Student enrollment at Sloan re- i date Sloan E offices on one and a mains relatively constant at 200 F half of its four floors.