Hallelnged Hanfrda Sq . Rezoning
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- · '--·· ·- *.i·' 9': .. .J···: ,?I,- ..,.·:··"..;-'·' ··j:li"·-,; It -I' . I , I . e ; I t . - o~ntinuous, :·~· ~aa~dl MITe News ervice - Cambridge gi , Since.1881 - . j § 11 - AL: 0] l |. MssachusettsM as I I. V61ume 99. Number 2 Friday, February 9, 1979 o 1979 The Tech' I - _ -_' I I--·r ,p·-- ---·I I -Plb·llppll-·e I I ----- IP II LI- I ·C- II - ... Hanfrda sq . rezoning . I D ' raurarw r·r ~ \r I84 ii n cDhallelnged By Eric Starkmaln Cambridge their right to the equal A proposal to limit high-rise protection of the laws." Normally development in Harvard Square ( two-thirds majority-is sufficient which was. defeated two weeks to pass a rezoning ordinance. ago received new life Monday On January 22, the council night when Cambridge City voted 6 to 2 (there was one Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser abstention) in favor of Preusser's I challenged the constitutionality of ordinance limiting to 110 feet the a state law requiring .a three- height of new buildings in Har- fourths majority council vote to vard Square. Harvard University, pass a rezoning ordinance, oppos- which owns more that 20 percent sed by Harvard University. of the property in the Harvard Preusser's motion, before the Square 'area, opposed the or- Cambridge City Council, argued dinance making a seventh affir- that the state law requiring a m;ltive vote necessary. three-fourths vote to pass a rezon- ing ordinance that is opposed by Preusser's motion said the or- an owner of 20 percent or more of dinance was actually passed the land in an area is uncon- because a two-thirds majority was In the next issue, The Tech will look at the Red Line expansion beyond Harvard Square and the slitutional under the bo4th amend- all that Was required. changes which will lake place at the Harvard Square Station. nment "in that it denies certain in- (Please turn to page 3) LI L a .CL-- -- . - _--- q --· -_dl IL -- d -f-- _ habitants of the City of I Exension-of pass/fail gets heavy support -By Tom Curtis English, students are also supporting other changes "Any upperclassman should have the option of in current educational policy. About 60 percent of SCEP Fall °78 Student Survey taking any number of electives pass/fail." Nearly 80 the respondents believe only the newest grade should percent of the undergraduates agree with this state- be recorded on external transcripts when a course A condensed version of the SC:EP questionnaire ment according to preliminary results of a survey by has been taken more than once. Currently all grades Students were asked to check whether they favor or the Student Committee on Education Policy for a course are on the transcript. However, most oppose the following policy changes: (SCEP). studdnts' are not agreeing with a proposal not to in- 1. New grade only on trankscript On the 897 questionnaires so far tabulated, ex- clude F's, I's, T's, O's, OX's, S's, and SA's on any ex- 2. Option to delete grades on transcript ternal tranSripts. tending pass/fail is receiving morr saDpprt tthtan -3.,1B3,C£DP only on transcript other proposed change. If owever, a similar proposal ing supported by 60 percent of the studellts, to allow pass/fail for all courses is being opposed by 5. Elective pass/fail 70 percent of the the students. Permanent status for the Experimental Study' 6. Self-paced 8.01 and 8.02 Students are also supporting some form of a Group (ESG) was supported on half of the already 7. Establish freshman English requirement freshman English requirement by a margin of 465 to tabulated questionaires. Fifteen percent of the 8. Abolish first term calculus requirement 413. On the question of the current General Institute questionnaires were left blank on this question, in- 9. Abolish second term calculus requirement Requirements, most students are supporting the cur- dicationg that many students may be unfamiliar with IO. Abolish chemistry/biology requirement rent requiremennts. Only 20 percent of the students ESG. I1. Abolish first term physics requirement agree that 8.02 should be dropped as a General In- The survey was done last fall. Approximately 300 12. Abolish second term physics requirement questioraaires have yet to be counted. Jonathon i stitute Requirement. There is even less support for 1 3. Permanent status for ESG 'dropping other requirements. Hakala '81, Chairman of SCEP, says the final tally In addition to elective pass/fail and freshman should be available sometime next week. Preliminary Results ACTUAL COUNTS PERCPENTAGES Favor Oppose No Favor Oppose No Commuting students opinion opinion 1) 552 332 13 61.5 37.0 1.5 2) 515 344 38 57.4 38.4 4.2 experience a different Institute 3) 360 482 55 40.1 53.7 6.1 4) -265s 625 7 29.S 69.7 0.8 By Steven Schwartz the campus occurs because of the regularly be found at the 5) 706 163 28 78.7 18.2 3.1 Eight hundred students cdm- commuting distance, according to organization's building at 311 60.6 34.7 4.7 mute to M IT daily from off- 6) 544 311a 42 .Ruoff. It is for this reason that the Memorial Drive. Joe Kulik '79, a campus. These students have a 7) 465 413 19 51 . 46.0 2.1 NRSA exists. It is a "home away Koslindale resident adnd president lifestyle many campus residents 8) 30 84, 23 3.3 94.1 2.6 from home for the commuting of the NKSA, sees it "as a place know- little about. 9) 87 781 29 9.7 87.1 3.2 students," according to the 1978 to hang out ... very often to eat "It just didn't seem to make 10) 118 767 12 13.2 85.5 1.3 Undergraduate Residerne Book. my lunch during the year." The sense to move on campus" for 43 808 46 4.8 90.1 5.1 The NRSA serves many dif- building has a full kitchen for 11) Tim Bliamptis '79, vice-president ferent purposes for its members. members use. It also has a study 12) 190 695 12 21.2 77.5 1.3 of the Non-Resident Student As- Twenty to .thirty people can (Please turn to page 2) 13) 461 309 127 51.4 34.4 r4.2 sociaton (NRSA). Bliamptis lives a Irro· Iqi -IP -14Dg·F--N I IP-qbl IIIlICaQI lIIIl at home in Lexington and com- -mutes to the Institute by car dai- ly, as he has done since freshman Golonists of newv fraternity year. "I originally -wanted to live I on campus, but got used to com- still searching for housing muting" he says. The strong support for pass/ Although the pre-Broadway fail for any unrestrictive elec- play Staggers deals with an un- F-or some students, there are By Richard Salz of Health Services to one facility tives shown in a recent SCEP original theme, Bruce Dern i~i many advantages to living offs Contrary to prevalent rumor, on VassaS Street is not finalized poll should not be surprising; and Lois Nettleton give per- I campus. Many commuters agree Zeta Psi, MIT's newest fraternity, and may not even occur. Rather, iI, the pass/fail option has formances that make the that a substantial amount of will not be moving into the infir- Zeta Psi has soine specific places numerous advantages over the production compelling. money can be saved by living at mary building, accordirg to Joe in mind in the Back Bay area. ·current system. Page 4. Page 8. home or sharing an apartment Chapman '79, InterFraternity .,Their national assured them with friends. Carl Ruoff'79, who Conference (IFC) President. they would movre as soon as they I lives in a Cambridge-apartment had enough members for a In an interview with Thle Techa, "If they- offered it, I'd take it, says: 'The advantage of being a MIT'sr Research, De~velop- charter," said Barbara Hill Marion Leighton of Rounder ment, and Technical but the building isn't available. I -- comtuter is that you can get '79, '1FC Vice-Chairman and a- i, Records talks of the business A s6s, the Institute doesn't want us away from the Institute every Employee's Union (RDTEU) member of the expansion com- th-ere," commented Jim day." side of the recording industry. recently ratified a new contract mittee. the committee has been Page 7. with the Institute, Page X1 Showalter '82, a member of the . There are-aso certain problems mreeting with the pledges and their Zeta Psi pledge class. Showalter inherent in commuting. Time ;advisor. Ken Dill, a graduate stu- mentioned the comrplications must be devoted to traveling also deint in the Sloan School of I. - The swim team hopes to of being an or-campus fraternity. betweenAthe Institute and home. The .-Bton Shakespeare's Management. Among other production of Measure for avenge three years of losses A certain amount of planning is $.Zeta Psi is looking for more t iangs, they've been advising the I Measuie, is an unusually this weekend ;then the esxendial; bwlks and papers efti at imedtiale housing,* said colonists about housing, rushing, lighi}2aithed one. Pi4 S. Amherst Lord Jeffs visit MIT. home cannot be simply picked up Chlapman, noting thiat the plan to and provoding -Lhem with sample- Par 16 at lunchtnme. vacate the infirmaryy building- by constitutions. 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