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,I- Ml~~~~~~~s 4 Am ~~~~~~~~~~~~The Weather Oldesand Largest FE JLl1]GToday:Cloudy, late rain, 52°F (I I 1C) New~~~paper AIRY.~16 Deals Pap 2 Volume II12, Number 22 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 24, 1992 Wolf Clams arasmen By Sarah Y. Keightley The suit mentions a few inci- their colleagues in the Literature ASSOCIA TE NEWS EDITOR dents in which Wolff claims other Section, including professors David Professor of Literature Cynthia members of the literature faculty Thorbumn and Stephen J. Tapscott. G. Wolff filed a lawsuit against MIT have retaliated against her for her Wolff claims that the administration on April 7, charging that the opposition to granting certain junior failed to act when she reported these Institute breached its obligations as faculty tenure. One incident alleged- incidents. an employer by allowing a "hostile ly took place in 1981, when Wolff work environment" to continue. voted to deny tenure to Ruth Perry, Wrighton creates committee The official complaint states that .who, has since been granted tenure Wolff spoke to then-Provost Wolff is suing because of "the and i s currently head of the John M. Deutch '61 about problems Institute's wrongfu acquiescence in Women's Studies Program. In the with several personnel cases. She and perpelpation of a persistent'and suit, Wolff alleges that Perry is now alleges that the cases "were not continuing pattern of professional, excluding her from the Women's being judged on professional crite- political, and sexual harassment Studies Program. ria," that section meetings were towards [her] in the workplace." The suit also alleges that when unprofessional, and that Professor When contacted yesterday, Wolff voted to deny tenure to anoth- Theoharis C. Theoharis had told her Wolff would not comment on the er junior faculty member in 1988, he was being sexually harassed by case. Her lawyer could not be she and another female professor reached. were verbally abused by some of Wolff, Page 7 MalVAQ" UW7;nc "nwllna" 1u oul Tv*' W to UUItlU UL Becomes Second Math Professor to Be Honored in It~vYears X, ""A, r By Brian Rosenbr accomplishment, according to a com pletely definitive theory onqtshe_ `` ED17OR IN C@HIEF Guggenheim Foundation press nature of the shadow region," he Professor of Mathematics release. This year's fellows were continued. Richard B. Melrose became one of chosen from 3,162 applicants and Guillemin said Melrose has also this year's 149 Guggenheim were awarded a total of $3,925,000. won the Bocher Prize, given every Fellows earlier this month. Melrose This is the 68th year the foundation four years by the American was granted the award for his work has awarded the fellowships.. on the analysis and geometry of Candidates for a Guggenheim Guggenheim, Page 7 manifolds with corners. must be nominated to one of several The average amount of the fel- advisory panels, who then make rec- lowshlips was $26,400, but only ommendations to the foundation's individual fellowship winners can Committee of Selection. Three peo- release the amount of their award, ple, including Guillemin, nominated GSC Elects Mlehta, CujIibert according to the John Simon Melrose. Foundation applications By Eva Moy Ciacci G. outgoing president. He foster some kind of collective initia- Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. are reviewed by leaders in the appli- ASSOCIA TE NFlVS ED)ITOR added that many members would tives among them," Ciacci said. The Melrose is on leave in the cant's field, Gurl said. The Graduate Student Council rather concentrate on specific comn- council includes representatives Australian state of Tasmania this elected Anand Mehta G and David mittees, which are "much more flex- from each academic department, in semester and could not be reached Nature of shadows S. Cuthbert G president and vice- ible." The officers "have to be for comment. Guillemin explained that president last Thursday. There was involved in everything at the same GSC, Page 7 "He's one of the few Melrose's work was significant not time in the council's meeting to time and nothing in particular." Tasmanians to make big splash on because it makes "physical optics elect a secretary or treasurer. "I didn't get the feeling that the world scene. The only other one mathematically vigorous." Melrose Mebta and Cuthbert were the nobody [wanted) to do anything," that I know of is Errol Flynn," said has focused on the nature of shad- only -students to run for the two top Mehta said. He agreed that some Victor W. Guillemin, chair of the ows. "In geometric optics, if you positions. Both ran for president, people "feared of how much time pure mathematics committee, of start a light beam from somewhere, and after Mehta won, Cuthbert ran being president would involve." which Melrose is a part. Guillernin and then put an obstacle in its path', unopposed for vice-president. The duties of the president and mTonii Morrison delivers said Melrose was notified of the the light beam hits the obstacle. In Several graduate students were vice president will be changed at the award via electronic mail. geometric optics theory, the light nominated, but most declined to next meeting. A secretary and trea- a powerful speech. "I was pretty confident [that beam never gets behind the obsta- run. "A lot of people just cannot surer will also be elected. Page 11 Melrose would win a fellowship] cle. It's completely black behind the pledge to give the kind of time that The GSC serves mostly as an because he's awfulily good. ... The' obstacle, and bright everywhere the offices require," explained Furio advocate for graduate students, "to Guggenheim is not only a competi- else," Guillemin said. o On the Town, your tion among scientists, it's a compe- "SFrom real life, though, we weekly guide to the arts. tition across the board, against know that this story is not correct, artists, novelists, painters, you name that you see a shadow if you stand Page 14 it. We were very pl eased," behind the obstacle. What was miss- EDITOR'S NOTE Guillemin said. ing until [Melrose's] work was a mMen's track defeats Guggenheim Fellows are chosen completely rigorous mathematical In an effort to become more sensitive to pressing environmental on the basis of unusually distin- explanation of the nature of the concerns, and in celebration of Earth Day 1992, The Tech will be WPI) RPI in the rain. guished achievement in the past and shadow. Melrose's most famous printed on recycled newsprint, beginning with today's issue. Page 19 exceptional promise for future piece of mathematical work is a i F st la. -- I "I L -- - '' I - I I m = I P -I I Illa I I - IC I IR 9BCPa "' g~~~~~~~~~~~~l K- RZ>*edZ X giggly w he £ A~~~~*~6untsystem" to thie adminsn#~ion to . ak,6 inemy nlbasssem`n rich ARtA keeps any profit AW AVEF''<>;r '+''H</v.Fou st8am1¢ ms Watson, deermina~ti he added.,' and is also responnsible for any losses suf- .I 40*0randim chair ofareoofWthe vmt~igw~o'.^ Didwn's memo recommends that the fered. Mpux ~~to~~~<..*mu>w rc e v apr14'pjV lnstifiite'~cmcto aconclusion by late ne "As chair of thrte committee, I feel some- vicsp,$en+*ji~~tt *thwtnvR.^ d^lT Mf^.havet46 b~-alf. what defeated thatt we couldn't find a solu- 1. oiif - bookd+ .T re ne to'book The Douse Dining Committe was creat- tion to resolve the ieconomic problems of the . v- . *v~~~~~tXwsiai-*< i d to solve th;,prdbldni posed by.,* dining dining halls, butwe have good information e Sir, Ib -sSak~e asarteHeuser o , igv>i Howe. .a~eo thond dministi ktion is in a better position V- I.1 It, wilsumeta, report. Te. 14= 4 rm~ext ubnH.w.hich tomakc a decision1than when the conmmitt ee .tr~~~~~w~~~sP V <.v;~~~~~~~ aebuI'*~kton+ttevedaiS 8ek.4we$0Q0ON and S750,0, 'started. You loopse to find a solution, but S bif, id i~~~~~~~~~~~~~eDyer f~~~-i-iteac oft'lastAt iyes 'MIT hoe to .mTaybe ifyoufii the problem, someone else +*n*^it~~s~u .p1h&e hote facilities .undor~the Kqfpanewaftndfel* on," Watson said. - r . s--- -- -- I--- I __ I I .- . - - . ... Page 2 THE TECH Apnrl 24, 1992 WORLD & NTION 6.1 Quake Hits Southernr Calffornia, Serbian President Mlosevic LOSANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck a broad area of Southern California on Wednesday night, rocking high-rise office buildings in Approvea uce Agreement downtown Los Angeles for several seconds and sending out strong By Blaine Harden kered peace agreements have meant Bosnia's Serbs,. who make up about shock waves that were felt from Las Vegas, Nev., to San D~iego. W7E WASHINGTON POF little without the backing of the 31 percent of the republic's 4.4 mil- Seismologists from the California Institute of Technology and the * ~~~BELGRADE army and the enthusiastic support of lion population. Nearly all these .U.S. Geological Survey said the tremblor was centered nine miles Serbian President Slobodan Milos~evic. gains have come at the expense of east of Desert Hot Springs, Calif., on an unnamed north-south fault Milosevic, who has been singled out The Serbian president, a hard- Bosnia's poorly armed Slavic five miles northeast of the San Andreas Fault. by the United States as the chief line Marxist and strident Serb Muslims, who comprise 44 percent The quake jostled Southern California with a sustained rolling agent behind the bloody civil war in nationalist, has been accused by of the population. In most encoun- motion, temporarily knocking out telephone service from Riverside neighboring Bosnia-Hercegovina, Westernl governments of grossly ters with advancing Serb forces, east to the Arizona border.