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PDF of This Issue MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Cloudy, rain, 54°F (12°C) Tonight: Rain, 44°F (6°C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Drizzle, 52°F () )0c) Details, Page 2 Volume 115, umber 19 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 21, 1995 ,onner UChicago Head Will Speak At Commencement By Shang-Un Chuang someone who will be be able to give ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR a good, thought-provoking speech Hanna H. Gray, president emeri- that will play a tremendous role in us of the University of Chicago, influencing the emotions of students s been chosen as the the Com- on that very special day," Islam mencement speaker for the June 9 said. ceremonies. "The speaker should have the Gray, a distinguished history students think about what they have scholar, is a former provost at Yale. gained in the four years of college University and a former dean at and what they are moving forward Northwestern University. to," Islam said. A Commencement Committee The announcement comes Ie s was created in October to recom- than eight weeks before Commence- mend speaker choices to President ment, one of the latest announce- harles M. Vest, according to Class ments in the last several years. The of 1995 PresIdent Mehran Islam last two announcements came '95, a member of the committee. before mid-February. The committee also included aduate Student Council President Former Yale provost Roger G. Kermode G and adminis- Gray was president of the Uni- trators in the president's Office, versity of Chicago from 1978 to Islam said. 1993. Vest may choose from the list of She taught history at the Univer- candidates prepared by the commit- sity of Chicago from 1961 to 1972 tee, or make his own independent focusing on the history of human- choice, Islam said. ism, political and historical thought, Gray is only the third woman to and politics in the Renaissance and speak at Commencement since the the Reformation. She is now the nstitute began inviting guest speak- Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished , s in 1982; Katherine Graham, Service Professor of History in the chairman of. the Washington Post university's Department of History. Company was the speaker that year. Gray received her, Bachelor of JIMMY WONG - THE TECH "The basic philosophy behind A firefighter puts out the fire at the Cambridge Tire warehouse on Vassar Street. The fire occurre choosing a speaker is choosing Gray, Page 18 at 1p.m. on Monday. -Faculty Discuss Grade Experiment SAETakes By Sarah Y. Kelghtley At the start of the meeting, the faculty and 59 percent, or 168, preferred the Prefrosh NEWS EDITOR members that were present unanimou Iy plu /minus system, while 11 percent, or 30, The faculty discussed several subjects at its approved the minor program in biomedical called it unacceptable. A smaller number, 16 meeting Wednesday, including the three-year engineering. percent, preferred the AB, BC system, while 12 By Mistake r intermediate grades proposal, unanimous percent, called this unacceptable. approval of the minor program in biomedical Intermediate grades There was "strikingly low support for the engineering, and the presentation of the Killian Most of the discussion at the meeting current system," Wilson said. Twenty-five per- By Shang-lin Chuang Faculty Achievement Award. focused on the intermediate grades experiment. cent, or 70 faculty members, called it the pre- ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Also, the placement of the September Mon- After a vote, about 25 to 30 faculty members ferred option, while 5 percent, or 13, found it to The safety and whereabouts of a day class holiday and the motion to eliminate approved of the plan, while about 15 voted be unacceptable. prospective student were uncertain the current freshman evaluation system were against it. Some did not vote. The intermediate grades experiment will for about 12 hours during the April discussed. President Charles M. Vest briefly Before the vote was taken, Chair of the Fac- take effect from September 1995 to August 6-8 Campus Preview weekend, talked about the transition period in finding a ulty Robert L. Jaffe said that though the Com- 1998, Wilson explained. The plus/minus modi- after Sigma Alpha Epsilon made replacement for Provost Mark S. Wrighton. mittee on the Undergraduate Program "has the fiers would appear on all internal grade reports, arrangements to host and pick up a Near the end of the meeting, the Killian authority to do this without the vote of the fac- but not on transcripts that are sent out. Grade visiting student without notifying Committee gave its report, announcing Profes- ulty, I felt it would be reasonable to ask for a point averages would still be ba ed on the cur- the weekend's coordinators, accord- sor of Physics Daniel. Kleppner as this year's vote of the faculty." rent grading system. ing to Assistant Director of Admis- Killian award winner. He received a standing The CUP largely, but does not unanimous- The experiment "provides many of the ben- sions Lisa J. Oliveira. ovation. ly, support the experiment, Jaffe said. efits of intermediate grades," such a giving During the half day after the stu- This award celebrates the professional As part of the di cussion of the proposal, feedback to students, advisers, and depart- dent's arrival, his mother, the Cam- accomplishments of a full-time professor, and Chair of the Committee on Academic Perfor- ments, Wilson said. "The econd rationale is pus Police, Massport Authority, the recipient holds the title for one year, pre- mance igel H. M. Wil on PhD '70 pre ented that it will provide information to the whole State Police at Logan Airport, and senting one or more lectures to the MIT com- the pros and cons of intermediate grades, a MIT community on the impact of one possible Leo Osgood, associate dean and munity. well as the results of a faculty survey conduct- form of intermediate grades." director of the office of minority Kleppner said that he was "somewhat ed last month. education, were all called and noti- bewildered, but very grateful and very happy." About one-third of the faculty responded, FaCUlty, Page 19 fied in attempts to locate the pre- frosh, Oliveira aid. SAE had arranged to host the prefrosh on behalf of athletic Will recruiting. Souter Be New GSCPresident; "As far as I know, it was only a simple misunderstanding," aid football coach Dwight E. Smith. .To Focus on Housing, Dean Search "I gave oe Batidas' name to the captains. [SAE] called him on By David D. Hsu and trea urer. undergraduate dormitory. The GSC behalf of MIT and thought he had ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR The new officers wilt take office must "make sure graduate issues arc been cleared, but it turns out that the Barbara J. Souter G, newly at the May 3 general meeting. represented" in future housing people from admissions had made elected president of the Graduate "I think one of the mo t impor- is ues, Souter said. other arrangement," mith aid. Student Council, sees graduate tant issue that we're working on is "Graduate student should have The Campus Preview staff locat- housing and the earches for new the housing issue," said Souter, who a large input" on the location of the ed Batida after a young woman deans as the most pre ing issues is also the president of the earth, new graduate dormitory, said Wein- reported that she and Batida had for the GSC. atmospheric, and planetary sciences stein, who is al 0 the current presi- been driven from the airport to cam- Souter was selected a the coun- graduate student advi ory commit- dent of the Chemical Engineering pu by two football players. The ei I' s next pre ident at its A pri I I2 tee. Graduate Student Council. staff then called several fraternitie , meeting. Patrick S. Wojdowski G This January, graduate student Weinstein hopes to repre ent stu- Oliveira said. was elected vice president, and at Ashdown Hou e faced a Strategic dents' views, since "I'll be able to When SAE was contacted, rush Randy D. Wein tein'G and Gregory Housing Planning Committee pro- E. ~en G were named eere a,y f po al,to co er ~ lJdow t an GSC, Page 18 ,f.-1 t •• , t I Prefrosh Page I • If' II• ,f I 1f t j ;. r'l t •• ' •• ~' ... • • .'l. - . ': • '.'.' I t Page 2 THE TECH April 21, 1995 ~. WORLD & NATION Saudi Arabia Blocks U.S. Efforts After To Seize Terrorist Sought by FBI Day Blast, Oklahoma LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTO City Reflects OR. Destruction Saudi Arabia thwarted American efforts two week ago to seize a man authoritie believe is one of the world's most wanted terrorist, U.S. officials said Thursday. By Jesse Katz people were killed. In both cities, what sounded like another one, The man they had hoped to arrest had been hunted for a decade and Uanne Hart the faces of buildings were sheared perhaps an echo. , for his reputed roles in the 1983 car-bombing that killed 241 U.S. er- WS ANGELES TIMES off. A)) of central Oklahoma City "Boom, boom, and the earth vicemen in Lebanon and for a 1985 Trans World Airline hijacking OKLAHOMA CITY was under curfew, and national shook," he said. in which one American died. A thundering, half-ton car bomb guardsmen patrolled the streets like Johnson went home, turned on FBI officials were secretly sent overseas to prepare to take cus- blew' away nearly half of a nine- Beirut militia. his TV, saw what had happened and tody of the u pect, a leader of the militant Muslim group Hezbollah, story federal building Wednesday in The terror here began at 9:04 drove to the scene.
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