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He had been act- manities department, following East, and is the co-editor of ing dean of the school since last the denial of tenure to Associate Tribes and State Formation in year, and associate dean of the Professor of Psychology Jeremy the Middle East, which was pub- school since 1987. M. Wolfe PhD '81 in 1990. Wolfe lished in 1990. His most recent An advisory committee headed acted as coordinator for the Pro- work studies the impact of war by Professor of Political Science gram in Psychology in the De- on societies in the 20th century Suzanne D. Berger nominated partment of Brain and Cognitive Middle East. Khoury for the permanent- ap- Sciences. He has since been hired pointment. Provost Mark S. at Harvard University, and will Wrightonsaid the committee had continue to teach his always-over- ; -Gusppl - enthusiastically endorsed Khoury subscribed Introduction to Psy- for the position. chology (9.00) class at MIT in the Khoury was out of the country, fall. -:-. VipuO BhushanfThe Tech and could not be reached for While acting dean, Khoury has This hew g-aduates naps a Shot of- the:provostafter receiv-. comment. also presided over a large in- . ing.his.degree.- - : He is-perhaps best known crease in the number of students among undergraduates for the taking HASS minors on their' de- -lectures on the-eMiddle East :he grees. Nearly 200 members of the - z;*awatiton-speEaw gave last semiester during the gulf Class of !992 chose to-study a war. Khours research focuses- minor, up from 55 in the Class of on the political and social history 1989. str"esses ' honesty of the Middle East. Khoury also participated in the Many of the issues and trends Faculty Study Group in Interna- By Marie E. V. Coppola falsification of data by- former Khoury will face during his ten- tional Relations, whose report, and Deborah A. Levinson MIT researcher Thereza Imanishi- ure as dean surfaced while he was published in late May, urged MhIT National Science Foundation Kari, whose work was supervised acting dean. For example, many to continue its international ties Director Walter E. Massey de- and signed off by Baltimore. Humanities, Arts and Social in spite of rising concerns about scribed "science, and engineering · Scientists Uuphold the highest Sciences-Distribution (HASS-D) foreign competition with US Tech file photo research [as] the uncompromising standards -of integrity," Massey classes were oversubscribed last technology. Humanities and. Social Sci- pursuit, of truth" at MIT's 125th .(Plese turn to _page-9) term, resulting in lotteries and Khoury, 41, received his bache- ences Dean Phillip S. Khoury Cormmencement- exercises on June 3 at which 1773.people re-a d o n l ceived-degrees under sunny skies. denlpl -a/ ds guilty to arson, assault charges _In-- a series ,of apparent refer- - - - :. -. ences tod'th~, sur.- "- By-~trovers;Yl-yAndrea Lambertl- every room in the suite except is expected to recommend, but the armed assault charges, she -- roundmg.i: :paper.9.5coautiiored r, ,?iStev.yen:.: B :ae.L92.pleaded ;.Baden's.room. ,woudd-not gie any details of it. said, If sentenced -to. Concord by N6lel laureateand' former guilty to charges of burning Biden did not return Phore Assistant District Attorney Cri- prison, Baden would be eligible Whitehead Institute Diector-Da- a dwelling and fie. -counts of calls made over the past few spin Birnbaum will likely recom- for parole after two years. vid-- Balimorie :-'6; Massey. said armed assault withintent to con- days: mend a 20-year sentence at the In response to the arson that "thel whole edifice-of science mit murder on Friday, Junrie 7 Baden had pleaded not guilty Massachusetts Correctional Insti- charge, Birnbaum said she would and engineering research is built in Middlesex Superior Court. He to the charges in February, when tution in Concord in response to (Please turn to page 10) upon honesty." will be sentenced Aug. 2t. the case moved from district "Few things. are more damag- ' The charges had been filed in court to superior court.- Cam- eb apl IPr------ -e-dpl I-- -, ing to theresearch enterprise. connection.with a fire Jan. 18 in bridge District Court, where Ba- than falsehioods - be they the re-: the "kosher suite," where Baden den was first arraigned, does not EdWard B. Hontz Jr. suit of error, self-deceptions slop- lived, in Burton-Conner House. have jurisdiction over the charges Edward B. Hontz Jr. '92 died on June 4 after falling from the piness and'haste, or, in the worst Baden admitted to police inves-. against him. ' _ roof of Building 66. The death is believed to be a suicide, case, dishonesty," Moassey said. tigators Jan. 18 that he set the Defense attorney Eric Levine though no note or other formal indication has been uncovered [The texts of Massey's speech fire early that morning, using would not say why Baden by police, said Associate Dean for Student Affairs Robert M. and President Charles M. Vest's gasoline bought the day- before. changed his plea. "I do know Randolph. the reasons, but I can't disclose charge 'to' the 'graduatesappear He had become a suspect soon Hontz, 21, was found shortly before 10 pm by a passing on page2.] - - after the fire, according to the them," he said. - student. His body lay between Buildings 56 and 65. He was Massey's remars- came after police report, because the "poir - Levine did say that he would pronounced dead at the scene by the Mddlesex County medical a recent National Institutes of mark"of the gasoline existed on recommend a less severe sentence examiner. The following week, on June 12, he was buried in Health investigation into possible the hallway carpet in front of for Baden than what the state Arlington National Cemetery, VA. Randolph, who heads Student Assistance Services, said that Friedlman, named while he did not have any details about Hontz's condition im- Institute professor mediately prior to death, there existed "some indication that By Andrea Lamberti Professor of Management Henry fessor should be - a fine educa- was depressed." and Joanna E. Stone' D. Jacoby, who was faculty chair tor, a caring human being, a A computer-science major, Hontz was described as "really Professor of-Physics Jerome I. at the time of the appointment.- great researcher and he has friendly," "very relaxed" and "extremdely intelligent" by his fra- Friedman, who -shared the 1990 "I feel very honored," Fried- very broad interests." ternity brother, Zeta Beta Tau Vice President Eric A. Lehman Nobel Prize in physics, has been man said. "I understand faculty Friedman shared the 1990 No- :'92. He was also interested in mathematics, Lehman added, and named Institute professor. had a lot of input; one feels: bel Prize- in physics with MIT enjoyed playing ultimate frisbee in his leisure time. The. announcement was made especially pleased when one is Plhysics Professor Henry W. Ken- Hontz had been living in ZBT's Brookline house for the sum- by President Charles M. Vest, judged in that manner by one's dall-PhD '55 and'-Richard E. mer, though-he had lived in Senior House last spring and Provost Markl S. Wrighton and colleagues." Taylor -of the Stanford Linear planned to move back there in the fall. He spent last fall Friedman said that being Accelerator -Center. The prize studying mathematics in Hungary. named Institute professor will was awarded:f f6r', theiffresearch He is survived by his parents, Edward Sr., a captain in the US not, change his activities-signifi- done from the late 1960s to 1973 Navy, and Jacquelyn, both of whom live in San Pedro, CA, and cantly. "I hope to continue teach-i at, the Stanford, Linear Accelera- two sisters, Jennifer and Grethen. ing and researching the way I've tor Center in California; their been doing it." experiments centered on the scat- "It's more a sense of the recog- tering of electrons-by protons; I .nition that it affrds.... It's an deuterons (a proton bound to a .'- notfitleappointment; from that -neutron)and-l.heavier nuclei.-- Douglas P. Rodger point of-view I am very pleased." This research gave the first Douglas P. Rodger '93, a 20-year-old electrical engineering ::-.. The-title of lstgte professor :"clear evidence for charged, point- major from Harvard, MA, died June 20 from carbon monoxide ''is -bestowed on a faculty member like substructures - quarks - poisoning while in his garage at home. Rodger was working on ito aclmowledge-outstanding lead- inside these massive particles. his car at the time. His death has been declared an accident. ership, accomplishment and ser- The interpretation of their data "Doug was extremely personable," said his fraternity brother, ;-vice in the scholarly, educational gave strong support to the quark Theta Xi Treasurer Matthew S. Warren '93. "He was very easy- ' and generalintellectual life of the model and provided the experi- going ..