Pass/Fail Changes by Tony Zaamparutti the Other for End-Of-Term Reports
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I i Continuous MA_<|MIT I News Service · L Cambridge i Since 1881 MAassachusetts I Volume 102, Number 37 j - Friday, September 17. 1982 I . ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CEP approves f rosh pass/fail Changes By Tony Zaamparutti the other for end-of-term reports. The faculty Committee on The forms, developed by the Un- Educational Policy (CEP) yester- dergraduate Academic Support day endorsed changes in fresh- Office (UASO), include a check- man pass/fail, including sending box system for instructors to rate all freshmen a report of their student performance. "hidden" grades at the end of That system will allow instruc- spring semester. tors to evaluate student work on The full faculty will discuss the homework, class participation, CEP plan at its meeting October examinations, and other categor- 20th. The full faculty must vote ies, by checking off one of a set to enact the proposal before it of boxes marked excellent, good, can take effect. fair, inadequate, and not evaluat- The CEP yesterday passed an ed, according to Taylor. amendment not to instute hidden Before yesterday's meeting, the freshman grades at the end of fall CEP had planned to require hid- 1 semester, as originally planned, den freshman grades both fi according to James Taylor '84. a semesters. student member of the CEP. Un- After debate at SCEP's meet- a1 dergraduate members of the com- ing last Thursday, student mem- mittee proposed the amendment. bers wanted to refrain from the The change will "soften the ef- use of hidden grades. fect [of grades) in the fall term," Taylor said he and Barber pre- salid Steven Barber '84, chairman sented Professor Felix M. H. Vil- of the Student Committee on lars, Chairman- of the Faculty i; Educational Policy (SCEP) and and of the CEP, with a proposal member of the CEP. not to require hidden grades ei- The proposal still requires ther semester, but only to use the freshmen be sent a transcript of new freshman evaluation forms their hidden grades at the end of t o d esc ri be fre s h m a n the spring term. If an instructor performance. gives a hidden grade of D or F at Taylor said he did not expect that time, he will be required to, Villars to allow discussion of the fill out an evaluation form for amendment, since the time for the student, according to Taylor. substantive changes in the pro- Association of Student Services Shuttle Bus The CEP plan calls for~-thP poSal had ended. ' ~ L pass/fail changes to be 'a two- "Professor Villars thought year experiment, to be reviewed about it last night and liked it," in Spring 1985, according to Taylor said yesterday. "He was Finance Board ves o fund Barber. the one who brought it up at the The CEP also recommended meeting. It was close, but it using two new freshman evalua- passed." cnpust sur-le usl projec tion forms, one for mid-term and (Please turn to page 8) By Barry S. Surman bus project will seek ASA recog- Lopez "had no reason ... to The Undergraduate Associ- nition - a prerequisite for Fi-, create a separate organization," Dukakis defeats Kilng; ation (UA) Finance Board voted nance Board funding- separate- said UA Vice President Kenneth Wednesday to provide $8620 in ly, he said. Meltsner '83. Lopez is the UA's loans and a direct grant of $ 1000 special projects coordinator, and Sears wins in GOP AOSS has neither a race to support a campus shuttle bus constitu- several Finance Board members ID system planned by a group called tion nor bylaws, and Lopez re- m By Tony Zamparutti hard-fought fight," questioned why Lopez did not lew said state the Association of Student Ser- fused to make public an outline Former governor Michael S. Senate President William M. pursue the shuttle bus plan vices (AOSS). he drafted for the group's organi- through the student government. Dukakis won the Democratic gu- Bulger (D-South Boston). "I have zation. "The Association of Stu- "I've had no direction from the bernatorial primary Tuesday with another layer of scar tissue to Michael Lopez '83, organizer dent Services does not exist," Lo- UA president and vice presi- 54 percent of the vote, defeating prove it." of the shuttle bus project, told pez told the board, though he demt," Lopez countered. "... I incumbent Edward J. King. At midnight King conceded the the Finance Board that AOSS later said revenue from other put in my own money and my In the Republican race, John election and thanked his cam- will not seek official recognition AOSS projects could be used to own effort." Lopez told the W. Sears easily defeated two oth- paign workers and supporters. from the UA Association of Stu- meet the shuttle bus system's board he has spent $150 in per- er candidates. He won with just (Please turn to page 2) dent Activities (ASA). The shuttle debts. under 50 percent of the vote. sonal funds on the bus project John Lakian pulled 27 percent of thus far. the vote and Andrew H. Card, Jr. (Please turn to page 8r 23 percent. MIT weighs foo0 vendor plan John Kerry won the five-candi- Board approves date race for the Democratic Par- By Daniel Crean subject to some regulation by the MIT community reaction was ty lieutenant governor nomina- MIT is close to approving a Institute. split about evenly injfavor of the repo&rt criticizing tion, besting second-place Evelyn plan which will allow four com- The only remaining obstacles action and against it, according Murphy by- fewer than forty mercial food vendors to operate to implementing the plan, Miller to Olivieri. When some vendors Dean'a Office thousand votes. on campus, according to Howard said, are legal details concerning moved to locations on Ames and By Barry S. Surrman 1 About 1.3 million people voted Miller '63, Executive Assistant to liability and insurance. Amherst Streets, the Institute de- After a unanimous vote to en- in the two primaries, the state's the Vice President for Complaints from the M IT cided not to chase them away, ter a closed session Wednesday largest turnout ever. Close to 1.2 Operations. community led the administra- but chose instead to seek a com- night, the Finance Board ap- million cast ballots in the Demo- Under a plan being considered tion to develop a plan to allow promise solution. proved a report drafted by its cratic Primary, and nearly by Vice President for Operations some of the vendors to continue Campus Police studied the chairman, Charles P. Brown '84, 280,000 voted in the Republican William R. Dickson '56, the ven- operating, said Campus Police campus to identify possible per- for the MIT Corporation Visiting Primary. dors, forced to stop selling food Chief James Olivieri. manent locations for the vendors. Committee on Student Affairs The struggle between King and along Massachusetts Avenue in Campus Police received "nu- While the final places have not "with minor modifications," Dukakis has split the Massachu- May, will be granted permanent merous complaints" about the yet been chosen, areas under con- Brown said. setts Democratic Party. "It was a spaces on MIT property and be streetside vendors, Olivieri said. sideration include spots near The report is sharply critical of The complaints, he said, ranged building 66, the Alumni Pool, the Dean for Student Affairs Shirley from the smell of the vendors' intersection of Ames and Am- M. McBay. It charges student ac- I vans and sanitation problems herst Streets, the M IT power tivities are insufficiently funded they might cause to blocking the plant on Vassar Street, behind and neglected by the Dean's Of- MBTA bus stop and taking pub- Get the latest in World, Satire Wars continues! See building 9, and in the driveway fice and McBay negotiated with lic parking spaces. behind the Student Center. Each the UA in bad faith. National and Campus News. the Comic section - The vendors were also violat- vendor will be responsible for The Visiting Committee will in News Roundup - Page 11. ing a Cambridge city ordinance sanitation in his area, Miller said. examine the newly-formed Resi- Page 3. which requires that street vendors The plan under consideration dence and Campus Activities sec- Read Sports Update and stay in one place for no longer calls for four vendors to be in- tion of the Office of the Dean for Stereo A4M radio comes of don't miss out on this than than ten minutes. Campus cluded. Two of these will sell Student Affairs (ODSA) when it age. Read about it in the weekcend's Intercollegiate Police asked the Cambridge Po- Middle Eastern food, one pizza, meets at MIT November 8-10. Arts Section - Page 7. Tourney's - Page 12. lice to-enforce the ordinance and and one "American food." All Earlier in the meeting, the clear the vendors from Massa- four vendors will be required to board approved an $185 grant to L ~~l~l·IRC1·L~glg-··~ - sPC-CP·-iJ I chusetts Avenue, Olivieri said. (Please turn to page 8) the MIT Marching Band. _ma~aa PAGE 2 The Tech FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1982 e-CL - --`- -B -h _Is--# C4lp-1_Ppb--lgsl C··-P·-I New late payment plan takes effect By Burt Kaliski garding the number of students Over six thousand students charged late fees this term. have enrolled in the new Bursary "I think the payment plan is Payment Plan, agreeing to pay a working well,'' Wagman monthly percentage for late pay- commented. ments rather than a flat fee as in The Bursar's Office and the Of- previous years, according to Bur- frce of Student Financial Services sar Arthur R.