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--- - -- __ _ _ ____1__11___1__1__1___ I_ I TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1972 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FIVE CENTS Z,DFI IN M K. E4 L I I I - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- ~~S~10- ,Ice cx i's.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-t-R O"', By Alex Makowski Three days of SDS/UJAG can- vassing and leafletting to oppose a visit by social psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner climaxed with his appearance here Friday afternoon' before an overflow crowd of 600 im 26-100. Under the apprehensire gaze of all of MIT's top administra- tors and four Campus Patrolmen the Comnell professor presented his prepared statement on day care. SDS members and sympa- thizers had occupied seats near : the frong and peppered Bronfen- M Bi~ g .--Phoay David- * * 'Penne5nbazum brenner with questions thsough- Dr. Urie Bronfenbrerner (left) faces a questioner after his talk on out the talk. I The SIDE has taken exception ,hild care Friday in 26-1 (li SDS/UAG -had repeatedly attacked ~_ _,;?i P f. a- t - Photo by David Tennenbaum to Bronfenbrener's allegedly 3ronfenbrenner's views during the previous week. campaign against Dr. Urie Bronltenbren- racist views on Negro child de- SDS climnaxed a week-long him in 26-100 Friday. vellopment, charging that state- ner's views on child care by "conlfronting" 61X F- 19 c^ lalza mnents from such experts "'at- Among those present were (left) Presideint Jerome Wiesner, Vice- tempt to give racism an aura of President Kenneth Wadleigh, and (right) Vice-President John Wynne. child development. The aca- alost1E@td academic and scientific respecta- after the address. President and Hity." Early leaflets threatened Jerome Wiesner told The Tech dem'ician has been to Washing- " to prevent Bronfenbrenner that although "some students ton to testify before Congres- from speaking," but by Thurs- are obviously not aware of what sional committees on the legisla- the By Lee Giguere Communications between day aftemnoon plans had been academic freedom means," the tion before the House this past The Inter-Fralermity Confers houses is als seen as important inade to3 force Bronfenbrenner whole afternoon had gone better session, telling the legislators -nce (IFC) last Tuesday night, by Traver. The IFC, he said, toa set aside his prepared discus- than might have been expected. that President Nixon's proposals elected Stu Traver '73 (SAE). should publicize issues and prob- sion and debate the SDS memn- But the SDS felt Satisfied that would be a disaster, aggravating Showman, to succeed Harwell lems that are common to the bers. they had exposed Bronfenbren- further a serious problem. Bron- rbasher'72 (PKA). fraternities, e.g. debt collection. Aware of the SiDS opposition, ner as a hypocritical member of fenbrenner maintains that child Traver, who had previously. He foresaw meetings between the Psychology Department, an academic elite that caters to care in this country has wor- been chaiarm of the Purchasing houses facing common prob- which together with the Educa- Washmingtn. sened over the past few years by Wanagers' Committee (PMC) em- lems, or between one house and tion Research Center had invited The crowd's reaction to the isolating young children from phasized that the critical prob- others that have already had to Bronfenbrenner, and the admin- exchange between Bronfenbren- natural family and neighborhood Lem facing the IFC in the coming deal with the pro)blems the first istration decided to go ahead ner and the SDS was mixed. -influences. His proposal is a year would be to get more peo- is facing. Traver predicted two with- the scheduled appearance- Perhaps a hundred applauded system of child care centers and ple working for it. If enough forms these meetings could take: The talk was moved to 26-1(00 enthusiastically at every SDS elementary schools more closely iolunteers can't be recruited, 1) meetings of house presidents, when 'the crowd in the Buish sally, while an equal number intertwined with the chId's fa- and Traver was pessimistic on 2) larger mneetigs with members R3oomn sweated to nearly 200 well cheered the professor and mem- miliar environment. An impor- this p lhni, bae loeisaw the possi- fromn several -houses invited. before Bronfenlbrenner was due bers of the audience who rose to tant element is the involvement bility of paying people to do Before the election, out going to arrive. Near the Building Ten defend his right to speak. Rarely of non-professionals - "we vlerical work for the Conference. Chairman Harwell Thrasher lobby a command post of sorts could a speaker from either side don't want to move further in special- Also elected that evening made a few comments about the was established as a center for draw enthusiasm from the entire the direction of having wvere: Lewis Jester '72 (DU) preceding year (comments which administration and Campus crowd . ists care for our children." Vice-Chairman; Mark Oakes '73 he later -elaborated for The Patrol control. Bronfenbrenner had planned SDS objected to remarks Bronfenbrenner included in a DEE), treasurer; Ken Green '74 (Please turn to page 7) Both sides cliamed victory to present his views on day care discussing PGD), secretary; Steve A1t- 1967 magazine article For ,huler '73 (ZBT), Rush Chair- Negro child development. two alan; Frank Sauk '74 (T Q, PMhC exarnple, one passage cites a line of Chairman; and Stan Roth '75 B~aan re cS ou~n as.hooai research sources and 'TX), Warehouse Chairman. argument to conclude that "in in Preceding the election, many cases, the Negro child to the nature of that explosion. is, anid Rhrasher reported that work is By Norman Sandier procedure for such events, and the integrated classroom be, irltellectually being done to set up a system A series of unrelated events firemen arrived-on the scene in The Sloan Building was freed continues to For thA fraterniies to collect bad last Thursday evening led MIT full force by I0 pm. of any added security or safety retarded, unable to concentrate, lebts by having MITL hold up and Cambridge fire authorities At that time confusion was at precautions by Friday, when the unmotivated by learn." The left- iegstration material or diplo- to believe there may have been an ultimate maximum, as many alleged explosion was to have ists insisted that Bronfenbren- nas. He emphasized that some an explosion in the Sloan Build- people were connecting the fire taken place, and the Patrol ex- ner's hypotheses were unscienti- ;round rules would have to be ing (jE52). Investigation led to departmzent presence with the plained that they viewed the fic and lacking in any valid eariTer bomb threat. No one was supporting evidence. set up before the Institute would the conclusion that no explosion threat as "a routine hoax." agree to aid the houses; in partic- actually occurred. certain of what had happened, llar, he noted that this proce- The MIT Campus Patrol re- flncuding Cambridge firemen, lure would be reserved -as a last. ported that a call was received at one of whom replied that he ouiC ig says peace resort. the Sloan School of Maanagement ssupposed there's a fire" when Mauery Goodman '72 (PKA), computer facility in the base- asked what had occurred. Dutgoing treasurer, reported that ment of E52 at 8:31 pm Thurs- Another complete search of never socety $ oa the IFC's assets, as of three day, and the anonymous caller the building was made by fire- weeks ago were a total of had said, "There is a bomb in men, who found no evidence of BY Bert Halstead peace - peace between nations. $9,271, with $3,560 of that in the building which will go off in either a fire or explosion. The Dr. Kenneth Bnoulding last Then comes internal or civil accounts receivable and $4,365 24 hours." search concluded at 10:30, when Friday chided- society for never peace. The third kind of "peace" in warehouse inventory- From voice descriptions, the secuxity precautions were lifted. having geared its resources to- is the so-called "positive peace," InR an interview with The caller was said to be male, and ^ Inaterestngly, the initial re- wards peace as an ultimate ob- which seems to Boulding to be Tech, Traver discussed some of Was laughing and giggling. There port Fromn thle E40 occupant was jectivte. almost synonymous with "tihe his goals fr the Conference- was reportedly laughing and corroborated by several other The Boulding criticism was abolition of all evil" such as ! There are only two functions gigginag in the background also, witnesses in the building at the expressed during his lecture, injustice and poverty- He warled "really worth doing," Traver ex- which later led to one Campus tine, all of whom made similar "Peace As An Attainable Goal," against the danger of extending Patrolman's comment that it was statements concerning the explBo- the most recent talk of the MIT the meaning of "peace" so i plained, ush anud the PM<C. His fi primary concern is to get those '4a false bomb threat." Strangely sionI that was heard and the Lecture Series on World Peace. broadly- two 'set up and going." enough, the statement was made flames seen at the top of E52. lBoulding, the author of sever- He thhen went on to explain i The key problemns, he said, before a search was made. After furrther investigation, al books such as The Econo8Mic3 why he is optimistic about the I Patrolrm en theorized that the fI are people and motley. The via- Following the cal, the builld- of Peace and Peace and the War prospects for international peace I bility of the IFr, he felt, "night ing was imnmediately evacuated explosion heard at E40 was actu- Industry, stated that in the past in particular.