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Wiesner faces Senate .. .Page 3 TechWComic books . ..Page 5 I-·r __ VO.lUME 91_NUMBRER 12 TUESDAY, MARCH 16. 1971 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FIVE CENTS · v --u-r----~~~-.-. - ----- . , . , - - I -- -- -- -- - - Joint health program SDS confro s 4 11) oo By Harvey Baker - After an hour long rally in admits first students the lobby of Building 7, about By Lee Giguere criteria," and will consider the 25 people marched to the Center The first group of students to admission of an additional ten for International Studies (CIS) become directly involved in the undergraduates into the program to "confront" researchers there Harvard-MIT program in Health for next year. with the claim that their work Sciences and Technology were The 25 have been admitted to was directed against Third World admitted two weeks ago amid a the Harvard Medical School popular revolutions. flurry of charges that the process "over and above the standard was conducted improperly. size of the entering class." Ad- The group, from MITSDS, However, Doctor Irving mission was limited this year first sought out Professor Ithiel London, Director of the Pro- only to students at MIT and de Sola Pool, whom they were gram, explained that the appar- Harvard who had already applied not successful in seeing until ent haste with which the deci- to the Harvard Medical School, nearly an hour.later, but did find sion was made was due in large London explained, because "it Prof. Everett Hagen, the director measure to time constraints im- became physically impossible to of the Center, and Prof. Eugene I posed by medical school admis- review applicants from outside Skolnikoff, head of the Political sions procedures throughout the Harvard and MIT." The second Science Department. country. limitation was added because London admitted that this med school applicants had al- The group arrived at the Cen- year's admission process was not ready been thoroughly evaluated ter shortly after 1 pm and stayed wholely satisfactory, but de- by the school. there in diminishing numbers un- Former government official Carl Ellsberg speaks before Friday clared that next year the process London emphasized that stu- til late in the afternoon. They night's teach-in on the Laotian war. Photo by Roger Goldstein would be handled with greater dents were given an extended charged that the research of I Pool, Prof. Lucian Pye, and Prof. dissemination of information in the CIS received no funds from deliberation. deadline for their decision on .any form was always valuable, Agency, Lincoln Bloomfield was coun- the Central Intelligence Urgency the Joint Program. He added serving no one's interests in par- nor would it accept any, so long This year's urgency, London that "preference for the Joint ter-revolutionary, and later added that Pool was effectively ticular. SDS had charged 'that as such funding was "covert." emphasized, was necessary to Program did not jeopardize their Pool's research, particularly on for "an agent of the U.S. govern- Much of SDS's evidence afford 25 students "an educa- admission to Harvard," although Vietnam,'was profitable to the their claims was drawn from tional opportunity not otherwise he admitted that Medical ment." Pool responded that his re- U.S. government, and had con- material published under the available." A faculty-student School's Director of Admissions to the for- search was information-oriented, tributed significantly Center's auspices or by indivi- committee, he noted, is being had suggested that students who mulation of American policy and that he felt that the operr dual researchers employed by set up to formulate "admissions (Please turn to page 7) there. the CIS. They cited Pool's Viet- The dialogue with Prof. nam work, Pye's The Roots of Hagen was somewhat more sub- Insurgency and Guerilla Com- dued. He said that the center munism ill Malaya, Bloomfield's Teach-in scores war policy Ip~ existed for research only, and Controlling Small Wars, and Pro- fessor Betts' Viet Cong Village By Alex Makowski r that the idea that it pursued any I R_ particular policy to suppress Control, all of which detail from A crowd that numbered 400 WF-- i revolution was "grossly distor- an American perspective the as the night began and gradually I grew to 600 came to Kresge vv ted." In answering questions authors' ideas on the roots and j· revolutions, Friday for a teach-in on the war * directed to him, he asserted that control of popular in Laos. As advertised, the gathering was an attempt to take another Earth Day to censure close look at the facts behind our Asian involvement. Follow- ing an outline of our country's internal combustion economic position, three speak- ers discussed the Laotian cam- By Paul Raber feasible, street closings will be paign from their own special Earth day II will have as its organized, replaced by other viewpoints. main focus one issue: the threat appropriate activities where such No attempt was made to link to the environment posed by the actions do not receive local MIT with the war effort, not did internal combustion engine. support. the speakers try to build support April 19-26 has been desig- 'Topics specifically for the April 24 nated this year as Earth Week, Discussions, speeches, and lit- march on Washington or other with most of thie activity to be erature will concentrate on auto- major peace efforts. A student centered on Wednesday, April mobile and transportation is- from MITSDS did address the 21 -- Earth Day 1971. sues: the need for federal fund- audience both before and after CIS Director Everett Hagen (on left) is queried by Professor of Earth The third week in April was ing of improved mass transit the formal teach-in, urging a and Planetary Sciences William Pinson, Jr. Photo by Joe Kastzi established as an official Earth systems, the problems faced by good turnout for yesterday's ral- The bombing, he explained, results prevented Branframrn from Week as a result of a resolution rail transit in the United States, ly at the Center for International comparing Nixon with George adopted last August by the Na- and the social effects of the began in 1964 when other ef- automobile in the cities. Studies. forts to stop the communist Orwell's tyrannical ruler: "It's tional Governor's Conference. The four speakers represented not so much Big Brother as the Efforts are being made by Sen. In response to claims that Pathet Lao forces were judged environmentalists have been a somewhat unusual collection or ten states- Mad Hatter." Gaylord Nelson and Rep. Paul unworkable. Five insensitive to the problems of of anti-war activists. David men committed the US to the Government rationale McCloskey, Jr., as part of their Deitch, who discussed econom- Ellsberg offered some of the general environmental policy the urban ghetto, an attempt air war; Branfram drew a parallel will be made to tie-in Earth Day ics, writes a financial column for to the 1984 scenario of "auto- government rationale behind the proposals, to have Congress de- activities with the efforts to alle- the Boston Globe; Fred Bran- mated warfare in far-off lands." heavy bombing against civiliam, clare an annual Earth Week. fram was a news correspondent as well as military, targets. Nix- Plans call for a possible "Stop viate the problems of life in the But "the lesson of Laos is that ghetto environment: poverty, with- a three-and-a-half year rec- the air war does not work," on believes the threat of bomb- the Cars Day" on which indivi- ord of service in Laos; Carl since the Pathet Lao control ing will deter the North Viet- duals will be asked to use non- overcrowding, and housing. Ellsberg worked for the govern- more territory now than they namese because air attack jeop- polluting means of transporta- Aside from the concentration ment and advised Henry Kis- did in 1964. These and similar (Please turnl to page 7) tion or stay at home. Where on the automobile, the general singer on Vietnam options; and theme will remain the same as Noam Chomsky, MIT linguistics last year's, the elimination of all professor, has appeared in peace forms of environmental decay. h~~nrlloftsl fi nl~~IJ~vawe nbfjDSla -At MiT . Dave Bulrmaster and ralies across the country and v Af - -AdT r/vaCoplV lws-lEe "rV toured Laos last year. Vincent Darago are currently Air War Reconsideration of proposed Proposals for a new calendar philosophy requests involve attempting to organize an ad hoc A common theme among the changes for next fall's calendar were brought up at February's extensions of graduate programs committee for Earth Day I1. three Laos observers was the tops the agenda for tomorrow faculty meeting. Two alterna- to the undergraduate level. The The MIT group hopes to reserve United States air war. Branfram afternoon's faculty meeting. tives were presented, involving present graduate Department of Kresge Auditorium for inajor described his' own interviews retention or elimination of the Naval Architecture and Marine speakers on environmental prob- with refugees, many of whom Other important business week-long October vacation Engineering wants to change its lenis. It also plans publicity pro- spent five years living under includes discussion of the estab- instituted on an experimehtall namne and offer an undergradu- grams for April 21 like those of bombing attacks onl the Plain of lishment of undergraduate de- hasis for political work this past ate degree. Within the Humani- last year. Jars. Forced to live in caves or grees in both philosophy and faill.

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