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.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Inside: "Continuous News Service CJAC Criteria . · P.Page 3 Letters to The Tech . .. Page 4 Since 1881 I " Entertainmenlt . .. Page 5 ! Sports . Page 8 - c VOLUME XCI NUMBER 2 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1971 MIT, ('AMBRID)GE, MA SSA('iUt SETTS FIVE ('ENTS I 1 _ I __ _ Rally protests Laotian war MIT, blacks near I By Walter Middlebrook " informal settlement A group of 30 to 40 persons yesterday afternoon heard hlis gathered in the lobby of Build- 'Ir~A ' -- By Alex Makowski IF.. - .... The MTI administration is report of discussions with the ing 7 Friday afternoon protes- .W. ,u-E· - near an informal judicial settle- students chargned. but details of ting the latest actions of the US the imeeting were not released. in SE Asia. During_the 45 ,^r .- e^ _~ll ~',OT ment with the 28 black students i- tt--~~~ charged> I_with ''being present Apparently several of the stu- minutes of the rally, speakers of' svtv^*::~~~~~ X without^ right" at the Faculty dents involved are interested in SDS and -the University Action Club sit-in last Novemrber. more clarification andl discussion Group also charged MIT with Negotiations have been pro- of thile proposal. contributing to the cause of the ceeding for several weeks now, Both sides in this iudicial war. and a special mediation panel matter have stressed working out After the rally, a group of 20 has already drawn up terms ac- their differences in ain atmios- demonstraters set out to the ceptable to the administration. phIere free from tenision or out- office of Provost Jerome Wiesner The 28 students have not yet side pressure.. BSU and adminis- to present theii grievances and l formally agreed to the proposed tration spokesmen have repeat- demands. Because of Wiesner's disposition. edly refused to force a public absence the demonstrators were The specifics of the settle- clash over the Faculty Club in- not allowed admittance to his ment, The Techlearned, involve cident; early SDS efforts to whip office. ; placing the students on "ad- up student reaction against the According to the speakers, monished" status for two semes- administration failed to attract the reason for this latest attack support. on US policy in Asia was the fromI the "exploitation" of SE When the speakers had finish- ters. The finding would remain a alleged recent invasion of Laos Asia. Cited as examples of MIT's ed, about 20 demonstrators set part of the students' records After the twenty-eight blacks, by allied forces. It was also contributionI to the war effort out to confront the administra- until graduation, when it would mostly freshmen and sopho- claimed that during the last wereI the Draper Labs, which are tion, in an effort to find out be deleted. mores, were charged, it was week "25,000 Vietnamese mer- designingI helicopters for use in why MIT carries on these pro- Counsel for the students has widely assumed that there would cenaries and 9000 US ground theI war, and MITs ROTC pro- grams. After a chanting march already agreed to the settlement be a full Discipline Committee troops crossed the border into Igrams. (Please turn to page 6) terms. The Discipline Committee hearing on the matter, similar to Laos; escalating the war." Ac- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~trs Th Dicpln Commtte the ones that were held for cording to the Progressive Labor members of Rosa Luxemburg Party, "this action has been SDS last year which resulted in quite evidePrnt from television pic- D-Labs save moon anin seven students being expelled tures transmitted from Laos from the Institute. showing US ground troops By Joe Kashi and ied for descent, and the MIT begin the ride down to the For the last several weeks, which .had been there for Alex Makowski experts had three hours to devel- moon's surface might have trig- counsel for the twenty-eight de- weeks." Metropolitan newspapers op a method to restore faultless gered the abort mechanism. fendants have been meeting with During the rally, speakers ac- around the country Saturday operation. ,, Administration officials and cused MlT of making a contribu- hailed a team of Draper Labs In an interview withThe Tech Lab engineers credited Don members of the Discipline Com- tion to the war. It was pointed engineers for saving the Apollo D-Labs engineers made light of Eyles, a 1966 Boston University mittee, trying to work out a out that members of the MIT moon landing. mass media "sensationalism" mathematics major, with devel- settlement agreeable to both Corporation are directors of Electronics problems cropped while explaining the details of a oping a retnedy. Eyles recom- sides. A special mediating panel companies which are profiting up as the lunar spacecraft read- malfunction that could have mended overlapping the. orbit was set up by the Discipline thrown -the module back into and descent programs to mislead Committee to hear the dispute lunar orbit just as the capsule the guidance computer about and make recommendations as began its descent. what stage of flight the capsule to its settlement. The panel con- Referendum proposes Midnight Friday was in. This abort switch bypass sisted of Dean for Student Af- Near midnight Friday night necessitated in-flight keyboard fairs J. Daniel Nyhart, Prof. an abort switch sporadically corrections for the spacecraft's Thomas Sheridan, chairman of shorted and lighted an abort on-board computer and manual the Discipline Committee, An- abolition of GA, UAP light on the module instrument starting and throttling of the thony Lassiter '73, and Andy By Lee Giguere noted, and' has "little continu- panel. The spaceshi p computer is braking engines. Astronauts Alan Mermell '72. [Mermell is an un- This March's UAP ballot is to ity."' Further, he argued that programmed to ignore signals Shephard and Edgar Mitchell dergraduate member of the Dis- include a referendum to abolish since the GA was "never held while the craft is in orbit, but made the changes and pulled off cipline Committee and Lassiter the General Assembly and the' responsible for implementing its firing the braking rockets to post of UAP. ideas, -most of them were of (Please turn to page 3) (Please turn to page 2) The referendum would insti- little value." The idea of a Stu- tute regular meetings, probably dent Body President, Pipal twice each semester, of frater- added, carries connotations nity and dormitory presidents which aren't really included in LSC plans sexuality series and establish a five-man execu- the job. tive board that would coordinate Duties By Peter Materna sored by LSC along with the libertarian speaker and debator, A series of six lectures on student activities. The proposed structure Dean for Student Affairs and the will debate an opponent not yet According to Tom Pipal, who would carry out the principle "Human Sexuality" and a num- Student Committee on Sex Edu- chosen. has been working on the propo- roles now 'filled by the current ber of other lectures on indivi- cation, will be given on Wednes- LSC's objectives are to pre'- sal over January with UAP Greg government: putting students on dual topics are being planned by day nights starting February 17 sent a movie series that would Chisholm '73, anrd two fresh- faculty committees, and serving the Lecture Series Committee and ending March 24. Speakers entertain the MIT community men, the president's meeting as an integrating group for pro- for this semester, in addition to for the lectures will be Dr. Alan and obtain funds to finance a would serve exclusively to "dis- ject oriented people, while elimi- the regular weekend movies. Guttmacher; Harriet Pilpel, At- lecture program thatis socially, The six sex lectures, co-spon- torney at Law; Margaret Mead, scientifically and politically cuss" issues, but would have no (Please turn to page 7) legislative role as does the pre- PhD.; Dr. Irving Cushner; Dr. stimulating. Organizationally, it sent GA. Allen Barnes; and a sixth, as yet is composed of a General Com- The proposal, Pipal ex- unselected speaker. mittee composed of about 100 plained, had provisions for equal CJAC makes public Following the sex lectures members of the student body numerical "representation" for John W. Gardner, former Health, which meets once a month to dormitory residents. The execu- Education and Welfare Secre- make decisions of major impor- tive board would be empowered presidentital criteria tary, will explain his national tance, and the Executive com- to elect its own chairman. people's lobby, "Common mittee, composed of 10 yearly By Curtis' Reeves president of any college or uni- Cause." Other speakers during elected officers. Subcommittees At its January 27 meeting, versity should excel. March will be Phillip Luce, for- Movie schedule The ancillary structures of the Corporation Joifit Advisory Preceding the discussion of mer New Left leader, currently a LSC has not yet decided on the present student government Committee released the criteria criteria, Jerrold Grochow G, prominent member of Young its movie schedule for the entire would remain as they are now, that it has been using during its gave a short discourse on Cam- Americans for Freedom and semester, but those selected for reporting to the-executive board search for the next president of paign GM; Campaign GM is com- well-known college speaker; and the next few weekends are "the instead of the GA. The board,. MIT, and received an update on posed of holders of siall num- Grace Thorpe, daughter of ath- Wild Bunch" (February 12); Pipal explained; would be able MIT's concerns with 'General bers (often less than ten) of GM lete Jim Thorpe, a leader of the "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" to veto --the Nominations Com- Motors prior to that company's stock.

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