MIT withdraws AEPi recognition By Linda D'Angelo tion if that was a sufficient brothers had prepared a resolu- and Annabelle Boyd kernel to assure that the house tion calling for the expulsion of MIT will no longer recognize would be a satisfactory ILG." AEPi from the IFC to be present- l the national organization of The alleged reason behind the ing at the Wednesday meeting. Alpha Epsilon Pi as an indepen- national's reorganization efforts This measure was later found un- dent living group, Associate was the chapter's violations of necessary, since the chapter had Dean for Student Affairs James the Fraternity Insurance Purchas- become "inactive," according to R. Tewhey confirmed yesterday. ing Group risk management poli- IFC President Miles Arnone '91. As a result, freshmen will no cy. But fraternity members have Once a chapter loses all its mem- longer be able to reside there. charged the national with attempt- bers, the "inactive" status is The decision echoes a unanimous ing to re-colonize the chapter as a automatically conferred, Arnone recommendation to President Jewish fraternity. explained. Paul E. Gray '54 passed by the The FIPG is a "collection of If, in the future, MIT students Interfraternity Council at a national fraternities who pool wish to re-establish an AEPi meeting Wednesday night. their resources to buy liability in- chapter at MIT, they will have to The action is in response to the surance at competitive rates" present a request to the IFC. The reorganization of the MIT chap- with the understanding that their council will then take a vote, and ter by the national organization, chapters will follow a risk man- if favorable, the MIT chapter will which is Jewish. After a series of agement policy, Advisor to Fra- be put on a six-month, proba- individual interviews at the begin- ternities and Independent Living tionary membership in the IFC ning of the term, the national Groups Neal H. Dorow explained. without vote. At the end of this Tech file photo discharged 45 of the 55 MIT Mu The policy includes provisions for period, the IFC will vote on Associate Dean for Student IFC President Miles Amone '91 Tau chapter members. alcohol and drugs, hazing, sexual whether to recognize the chapter Affairs James R. Tewhey The 10 members invited to re- abuse, education and safety. as a full voting member. 7 - LI -- I II s el I main in the fraternity have since Richard P. Wong '91, an IFC declined the offer, leaving AEPi cabinet officer and former AEPi Discharged brothers look IFC votes to change Greek Week to form new fraternity national with no MIT brothers. vice president who was invited by The Interfraternity Council has decided to limit funding for The national's abrupt discharge the national to remain in the Both those members who were its fall Greek Week to $1000, converting it into a "Greek of the majority of its members house, felt the decision to with- discharged and those who de- Weekend." The council felt Greek Week was contributing to a was a major factor in the deci- draw recognition was the appro- clined an invitation to remain in negative image of fraternities and losing too much money. sion to withdraw Institute recog- priate response. "AEPi is inher- the house, plan to start their own By a vote 28-0, with one abstention, the members of the nition, according to Gray. "Even ently discriminatory and does not fraternity, Delta Pi. According to council voted Wednesday night to scale down the October events if all 10 [of the invited members] deserve a place on this campus," discharged brother and DPi orga- had said they would come back he said. nizer Sean R. Findlay '90, this is to a weekend of athletic activities and community service. A [to AEPi], one would still ques- Many of the former AEPi a "golden opportunity for the Greek ball, which would be open to the entire student body, discharged AEPi members to be might also be part of the new events. able to form a frat from the Greek Week, which lasted five days (Wednesday-Sunday), Gray to allow shanties ground up based on what we be- used to consist of parties and athletic events. It had been revived lieve in ... unity, mutual re- just three years ago, according to Sara F. Bottfeld '91, a former spect, diversity. We've been IFC social chair. in apartheid protests kicked out because we believe IFC President Miles Arnone '91 felt the shift from a week of :, f that you shouldn't base your parties to a weekend of activities and service reflects changes in rush on race, religion, ethnic persuasion. attitudes among members of independent living groups. Delta Pi has no national affili- "We are changing. We are trying to emphasize other activities ation. "We're a local, indepen- than [big parties]," Arnone said. "There are a lot of other dent organization, starting from activities that should receive emphasis." the ground up," Findlay explained. The council also voted on Wednesday to change the name of According to IFC Vice Presi- the social chair position to activities chair to recognize the shift dent Dawn L. Mitzner '91, "the in emphasis of IFC-sponsored activities. IFC executive committee is meet- Losses over the last two years also prompted the restructur- ing with former AEPi members ing. Greek Week lost over $6000 two years ago and $2000 last on Wednesday as if they were a year. "Participation has been pretty low in the past few years," totally new fraternity." The coun- Arnone said. cil should vote on recognizing the new fraternity at its April 25 The members of IFC include fraternities and other indepen- meeting, she said. dent living groups as well as the three sororities. (Please turn to page 15) L11 111 - - u r I ----.Y I __ II ACSR hears views on divestment ~~~~~~~~~ANW By Andrea Lamberti MIT community from President formerly the Sullivan Principles, Speakers at an open hearing of Paul E. Gray '54. list basic requirements for equal the Advisory Committee on Share- The most extreme recommen- opportunity employment in com- Chip Buchanan/The Tech holder Responsibility (ACSR) dation the ACSR has made to panies operating in South Africa. Professor Melvin H. King addresses Tuesday's Coalition They Against Apartheid rally. Wednesday night overwhelmingly date is "to get out of companies are now known as the supported the view that MIT who do not get a high grade ac- Statement of Principles because -a ~ By Niraj S. Desai would be taken away at the end should divest its holdings in com- cording to the Sullivan Princi- the Rev. Leon Sullivan, author of President Paul E. Gray '54 on of the day,'" Gray said in press panies that do business in South ples," Weedon said at the the principles, withdrew his sup- Tuesday agreed in principle to release from the MIT News Africa. hearing. port for them in 1987 due to allow the Coalition Against Office. The hearing in 10-250 allowed The Statement of Principles, (Please turn to page 13) Apartheid to erect a pro-divest- The coalition's attempt on members of the MIT community ment shanty provided the CAA Monday to bring a lightweight, to present their views on MIT's removes it the same day. portable shanty onto a lawn adja- investments and South Africa. The promise came during a cent to the Student Center was Twenty-two people spoke en- I n'.. two-and-a-half hour meeting thwarted by Campus Police offi- couraging MIT to act, through between Gray and 14 coalition --cers, who dismantled the struc- divestment and other means, to members arranged to ease cam- ture and hauled it off in individual end the current political situation pus tensions following 32 arrests sections. in South Africa. In support of at CAA rallies on Friday and On Friday, the coalition built a their arguments, they cited per- Monday. heavy, wooden shanty on the Stu- sonal experience in South Africa, "I agreed that a portable shan- dent Center lawn. After four the symbolic value of divesting, ty would be acceptable, one that hours of discussions between the MIT's campus discrimination CAA and administrators, the policy, and moral reasons. I Campus Police and Physical The ACSR is "charged with I Plant workers moved in to arrest making a recommendation to the I- the protesters and destroy the executive committee" of the MIT i shack. Corporation, said Committee Gray said he wanted to talk Chair D. Reid Weedon Jr. '41. MIT committee studies with others at MlT and elsewhere The committee will convey state- ROTC. Page 2. before deciding on whether to ments and concerns heard at the allow a long-term shanty. hearing to the Corporation's * * * * * * CAA member Ronald W. Fran- executive committee later this cis G said he Andrea Lamberti/The Tech '114, Deception deals with did not know if the spring. i ;,-,,7j coalition would try to erect The executive committee is re- Christine M. Coffey '93 (right) speaks at Wednesday's open iI Philip Roth's favorite II I another shanty in future. sponsible for policy on the issue meeting of the MIT Advisory Committee on Shareholder theme. Page 9. I The CAA has attempted to of investments and South Africa, Responsibility. D. Reid Weedon Jr. '41 (center) and Glenn P. i aI IP- - ~ p . I . 1 (Please turn to page 15) according to an open letter to the Strehle '58 (left) are members of the committee. I
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BOOKS FOR ALLI AND MOREI Committee studies ROTC 14th ALARL4B "Cambridge"ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR THE SHRINERS' AUDITORIUM WILMINGTON, MA By Irene C. Kuo 'MIT and people in the mili- Senior Vice President William Exit 39 off 1-93 Just 17 Miles lorth of Boston The issue of sexual orientation tary will have to work together R. Dickson '56, member of the to Saturday April 21, 1990 presidential committee, later con- 12 noon - 6 pm. remains the biggest area of con- change it. Personally, I do not Sunday, April 22, 1990 12 noon -5 pm firmed flict between MIT and Depart- believe that MIT will not achieve that the issue of sexual Admission: I day $3.00 Bothdays $5.00 ment of Defense policy, accord- anything by throwing ROTC off orientation would be discussed at ing to the chair of an ad hoc campus [because] there are plenty its next meeting. A Portion of the Ticket Sales will Benefit Massachusetts committee that spent a year of schools which would like to & Rhode Island Uteracy Programs LORIBB Committee stresses dialogue For lnfornation Call: (508) 58-6566 1 investigating MIT's relationship have a ROTC program," he said. AlU coats and cases mxt be checked. D) with the Reserve Officers' Train- "'We should not leave the train- The ad hoc committee, ap- 50c off ether tiket prcle wlh thik ad
ing Corps. ing of officers to institutions pointed by Dean of Undergradu- - I s L I - I - - - I - i The committee recommended that practice homophobia," he ate Education Margaret L. A. in its October 1989 report that continued, MacVicar '65, discovered that the the Institute take "every reason- Professor J. Kim Vandiver SM vast majority of officers in the able step" to convince the mili- '75 of the Department of Ocean United States today come from 1990-91 Academic Year tary services to accept non- Engineering, chair of the ad hoc ROTC programs and not military discrimination policies based on committee, speculated that the academies. sexual preference. plight of Robert L. Bettiker '90, A majority of the committee GLOBAL ECOLOGY At the time, a minority felt a Navy ROTC student who was subscribed to the view that Integrating Nature and Society that if MIT could not convince asked to repay three year's worth "ROTC is a unique American in- the DOD to change the policy of tuition after he revealed he stitution that is the envy of most within five to seven years, MIT was gay, would spearhead dia- democracies," and that most Itinerary: England, India, Malaysia, should consider kicking ROTC logue between MIT and ROTC countries do not come close to off campus, while others were on discrimination on the basis of matching the educational level of Philippines, New Zealand, Mexico, USA convinced that the need for the sexual orientation. American military officers. (Santa Fe, Washington D.C., Boston) program was so "compelling" Although the ad hoc commit- Furthermore, the majority re- that it should stay even if the tee no longer meets, "it would be garded ROTC as an opportunity • Live with families in each country - form life- conflict were not resolved. unanimous [in its opinion] that for the university to influence the long contracts military. A minority, however, be- These recommendations were Bettiker not be asked to repay," Ia * Travel and study with exceptional faculty led by lieved ROTC was an instrument passed to a presidential commit- Vandiver said. "His review board Edward Goldsmith, Dr. Brian Goodwina, Dr. Mae- tee on MIT-ROTC relations which made that recommendation, but of the military. will devise methods to deal with the Secretary of the Navy did not The committee summarized Won Ho and resident experts them. agree. There is no evidence that that since local ROTC command- O Visit centers of environmental research and ers could not unilaterally Because the military benefits Bettiker was hiding anything. change activism from MIT-trained leaders, Asso- There are no grounds for govern- DOD policy, the interests of MIT ciate Dean for Student Affairs ment to recoup." students would be best served by • Small group of 30 students Robert M. Randolph, a member "Fortunately, the committee an "atmosphere of direct, open 0 32 credit hours/transcript issued by Bard College of the presidential committee, wrote its report before Bettiker and honest communication." • IHP founded in'1958 said that MIT was in a position came forward with his case," For MIT-controlled offices or to influence the military by pre- Vandiver continued. "We had the programs to unilaterally take dis- Catalog and applicationnow avatlablefrom: scribing a change in ROTC poli- benefit of a year's worth of a criminatory action against ROTC cy, but he did not think MIT time. In a crisis situation, you programs because of differences The International Honors Program should force ROTC off campus. have to respond overnight." over policies would 'undermine 19 Braddock Park the spirit of cooperation that Boston, MA 02116 helped MIT mold ROTC policies (617) 267-8612 77, COM 0"' , in the past.' - ~~~~~~~L- I~~~~~~~~~ - '------.ii zoatu ~ s I I- 1,2: t fbg1rtheh Se'fi The Student Center Committee presents.". I V..0Women' Ti'ni' v. Btbay','''t' -Sr- I
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Ti'f11 r I Lr LIi'JIm Gobie assaults off-duty cop Stephen Gobie, a male prostitute at the center of ethics allegations against Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), pleaded innocent yesterday to drug and assault charges. Gobie was Racial violence in Teaneck arrested Wednesday after an off-duty police officer in Estonian Parliament rebels Teaneck, NJ, experienced a day of confrontation, inju- Washington, DC, Karen Zibrat, saw a car being driven The Estonian Parliament reportedly declared service in ry and looting after police tried to disperse people at a erratically that nearly struck her car and another vehicle. the Soviet Army illegal and is calling on President Mikhail peaceful candlelight vigil to protest a black teenager's Gobie got out, jumped on the roof of her car and S. Gorbachev to begin immediate talks on the Baltic re- slaying by a white qfficer. Police had said the teenager broke through the sunroof. He fell inside the car and public's independence. was armed, but his friends denied it. A county prosecutor struggled there with Zibrat. Gobie did not speak during Estonia's new law on conscription says "service by resi- said a grand jury will look into the case but the governor's his four-minute court appearance. His attorney asked for dents of Estonia in the USSR armed forces is legally ille- office has made no decision on requests for a special a jury trial in the case. gitimate" and will act to do away with criminal penalties prosecutor. Gobie gained notoriety last year when he claimed he for draft dodgers. This move, accompanied by a strident had been operating a prostitution service out of Frank's letter to Gorbachev, stepped up the push for independence Puerto Rican community Capitol Hill apartment. Frank admitted he paid Gobie for in the small republic of 1.6 million residents. Estonia sex, but has denied any knowledge of the prostitution ser- made clear it intends to follow neighboring Lithuania unearths buried treasure vice. in seceding from the Soviet Union, but will do so more Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have converged quietly. on Vega Baja - a Puerto Rican community rife with re- Bush diagnosed with glaucoma When Lithuania passed a similar measure last month, ports about an unearthed treasure. According to the re- President Bush was diagnosed with "an early glauco- the Kremlin rejected its legality and ordered the army to ports, residents of the beach town have gone on a spend- ma" in his left eye after a routine physical given yesterday detain deserters anyway. Military authorities raided two ing binge, after finding drums packed with cash that may at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. The president said it Lithuanian hospitals where deserters had taken refuge, have been buried by drug traffickers. Both the residents has not affected his vision. It will be treated with eye and beat men in the first reported violence after Lithua- and the FBI were tight-lipped about the reports. One local drops. Otherwise, the president is in excellent health. nia's declaration of independence. A similar fear may be tabloid quoted a federal estimate that the drums may have The White House released a copy of the first couple's present in Estonia. been filled with $20 million. joint 1989 return, and it showed that President Bush and his wife Barbara had an income of more than $456,000 last year. The couple paid more than $101,000 in taxes. East Germany eager for reunification East Germany has positioned itself for unification with NASA to attempt launch West Germany. The new East German parliament ap-. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration I proved the government of conservative Lothar De Mai- said it will try again to launch the space shuttle Discovery ziere and embraced his agenda for a quick reunification. Boston man held in shooting with the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope on April 25. The lawmakers also took care of two issues that could The date is based on the decision to remove and replace a have slowed reunification: they agreed to merge currencies A 20-year-old Boston man is being held without bail in faulty power unit on the shuttle, and to recharge the tele- with the West by July, and stipulated that Germany has connection with the shooting of his girlfriend. Gary Som- scope's batteries. mers pleaded innocent to murder yesterday in Roxbury no claim on lands that are now part of Poland. The new parliament also apologized for-Nazi atrocities District Court. He was charged with shooting 18-year-old Charlene Hudson in the head on Wednesday. The woman Pulitzer Prize winners announced against Jews and promised to make reparations.. The. law- died at Brigham and Women's Hospital early yesterday. The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday. In the makers also apologized to Czechoslovakia for East Ger- Sommers was identified as the father of one of the journalism category, The San Jose Mercury News and The many's participation in the 1968 Soviet invasion of woman's two- children. A neighbor told police he saw Tribune of Oakland won awards for their coverage, of last Prague: Sommers fleeing from the residence. He was arrested a October's earthquake, in northern 'C-alifornia In h arts short time later. Witnesses told police they had heard the category, playwright August Wilson captured his, second couple fighting Tuesday night. Police said the couple's six- Pulitzer for drama for his work The Piano Lesson. month-old son was asleep in bed next to his mother. The A University of New Hampshire professor, Charles Si- Iraqi pipe seized' child was not injured. mic, won the poetry prize for his work The World Doesn't A 131-foot long steel tube- seized by British customs End which is a series of humorous anecdotal poems. Os- officers before it could be shipped to Iraq, could be used car Hijuelos won the prize for fiction with his book titled to build a gun that could send nuclear or chemical weap- Dukakis presents new plan The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. The book is a ons hundreds of miles, military experts said. Both Iraq Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has proposed giving cities and mournful melody of events distorted by nostalgia and and the British manufacturer denied this. Two weeks ago, towns the option of raising additional revenue without go- loss. customs officials reported seizing American-made parts ing to voters first. The proposal included a measure to set for atomic bomb triggers that were headed for Iraq. the yearly two-and-a-half tax limit at the inflation rate. It would allow communities to adopt excise taxes on meals, Former West Virginia parking, and admissions. governor to plead guilty Dukakis said the bill creates more options for local Federal authorities said yesterday that West Virginia's Greenpeace accuses plant government to generate revenue. He said it adopts a pre- former governor, Arch Moore, agreed to plead guilty to of contaminating water dictable revenue sharing policy so that cities and towns charges of extortion, mail fraud, tax fraud, and obstruc- Greenpeace accused a British company of contaminat- can plan their budgets in advance. tion to justice. The charges stem from his 1984 campaign, ing drinking water used by blacks in South Africa. The The measure would guarantee that the state will allo- his third term in office, and his unsuccessful re-election group charged that wastes are improperly handled at a cate 26 percent of state taxes to local aid by 1992. It bid in 1988. Moore will face up to 36 years in prison and Thor Chemical Mercury Reclamation Plant. Thor denied would exempt new debt service for long-term capital pro- fines up to $1.2 million. the allegation that the plant pollutes the river used by the jects from the levy limit and would change the auto excise Kwazulu homeland. Greenpeace also said the New Jersey- tax depreciation schedule so that taxpayers would pay based American Cyanamid is one of the largest users of more in the first years. Greyhound to increase service the plant. This plan was based on recommendations from a task Greyhound said it plans to add another 100,000 route force headed by Shawmut Bank President John Hamill. miles to its service, bringing it to almost three-quarters of Hamill said it is time to return decisions on municipal ser- the miles it covered before the strike. Union officials vices to the local officials and town meeting members claimed the service is nowhere near that amount. Rubes By Leigh Rubin who know what is best for their communities. Citizens for Limited Taxation head Barbara Anderson Tuna canners to stop using nets said she doubts the bill will work. She said the last thing To the praise of environmentalists, three US tuna can- the legislature needs to deal with is proposition two-and- ners said they will no longer buy or sell tuna that are a-half. Anderson's group gained passage of proposition caught with dolphins in nets. The actions were announced two-and-a-half in 1980. by companies that sell the "Starkist," "Bumnble Bee," and The group has a ballot petition pending that would roll "Chicken of the Sea" brands. back recent tax increases and said that the governor's bill The new dolphin-free policy was criticized by the Amer- would add fuel to her referendum. ican Tunaboat Association. The group said the policy is merely a political response that threatens to destroy the US tuna fleet, reduce tuna stock and do little to help save College students dolphin lives. protest education cuts Thousands of college students from across the state ral- lied at the Statehouse yesterday protesting cuts in higher N a education. About 5000 students chanted "no more cuts" and "save our schools." They were angered over reduced class offerings, increased class sizes, reduced library hours and increased student costs. Chilliness continues. .
Education tax possible Friday: Generous amount of sunshine with a few Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francis Bellotti clouds. Temperatures ranging from 48-521F may propose a special tax to pay for higher teacher sala- Friday night: Mostly clear but chilly with a low of ries. Camnpaign spokesman Mark Roosevelt said yesterday 360 F (20 C). that Bellotti will elaborate on his proposals in the coming Saturday: Sunshine in the morning, becoming weeks. Roosevelt made his comments after previewing his increasingly cloudy in the afternoon with a high latest commercial, which describes how he "stood up" to of 56 0F (13 'C). Chance of rain at night. the teachers' union by endorsing competency tests and Sunday: Chance of rain. longer school days. The commercial said Bellotti believes Forecast by Acu-Weather Forecast "teachers deserve more money but must also accept more How the Wright brothers really cdid it. HowtheWright rothersreallydid it.ComccoenbyaJoaiAbbot Cormpiled by Joan Abbottt
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JUSTW ANTED t For a student who has seen a number of contro- lowed to sit in the faculty meetings where pass/fail was decided. TO KNOW WERE. versial issues arise on this campus, the divestment Sometimes we who consider ourselves moderates 7M!NKING ABOUT issue stands out as one that has provoked very little CoU. MIKPAIL. become complacent intelligent action on the part of MIT administra- and even justify such actions - the students were too radical, too confrontational; p tors. Other issues, like pass/fail, IAP, freshman they should have worked within the system. '~~~~~ housing, ARA, ROTC, HASS reforms, and the But such rationalizations leave us more conservative and proposed calendar changes saw varying degrees of less able faculty-student and administration-student to effect change after every round of confrontation. cooperation and respect. The arrest of students last Student leaders, faculty, Friday leaves me wondering what to expect next and administration from administrators who cannot seem to handle should take a strong stand against the recent arrest
confrontation. of demonstrators on the grounds of our Student Center. The When students are assaulted by Campus Police as Undergraduate Association and the faculty could in the Faculty Club protest, or arrested - after a pass resolutions, but such resolutions 20-minute ultimatum -for peacefully and non-vio- would be inherently weak as they would have to ap- lently protesting, something is lacking in the type of peal to everyone and not be "too radical" to pass. mutual respect necessary for a productive student- It is up to individuals on the faculty committees, 8jQljW-40S si~ e 90 NDR£VhLtvWJRWL administration relationship. within student government, within student activities
JI _ b -I _ *· W n - I There is always a rationale -"they built an 'ille- and at every level of administration to assert that gal structure' "-to justify the crackdowns on students, and in fact all members of the MIT com- what I could term the "radical element" on campus. munity, deserve the right to express their views in a But when does the "radical element" become the peaceful, non-violent way. This should be a campus general student body? Protests in the 1970s saw governed by the free and mutually considerate ex- Camlbridge Police storming the Student Center, lob- change of ideas, not by the fear of arrest. bing tear gas canisters at McCormick and chasing the MIT president off Kresge Oval. Only through Dave Atkins '90, a double major in political sci- care ful planning and silent protest were students al- ence and management, is a columnistfor The Tech. Volume 110, Number 19 Friday, April 11, 1990 -- LL·I L a I -Ldll_ Chairman ...... Deborah A. Levinson '91 Editor in Chief ...... Prabhat Mehta '91 Business Manager ...... Russell Wilcox '91 Managing Editor ...... Marie E. V. Coppola '90 6
Executive Editor ...... Linda D'Angelo '90 w w News Editors ...... Annabelle Boyd '90 Andrea Lamberti '91 Reuven M. Lerner '92 Night Editor ...... aniel A. Sidney G Opinion Editor ...... Michael J. Franklin '88 Sports Editor ...... Shawn Mastrian '91 Arts Editor ...... Peter E. Dunn G Photography Editor ...... Kristine AuYeung '91 Contributing Editors ...... Jonathan Richmond G Niraj S. Desai '90 Irene C. Kuo '90 Lisette W. M. Lambregts '90 ILois Eaton '92 Advertising Manager ...... Mark E. Haseltine '92 Production Manager ...... Ezra Peisach '89 Senior Editor ...... Genevieve C. Sparagna '90
NEWS STAFF Associate News Editors: Neil J. Ross G. Joanna Stone '92, Brian Rosenberg '93, Katherine Shim '93; Staff: Joan Abbott '90, Anita Hsiung '90, Miguel Cantillo '91, Adnan Lawai '91, Chitra K. Raman '91, Gaurav Rewari '91, Eun S. Shin '91, Aileen Lee '92, Adam Chen '93, Karen Kaplan '93, Shannon Mohr '93, Michael Schlamp '93, Cliff Schmidt '93; Meteorologists: Robert X. Black G. Robert J. Conzemius G. Michael C. Morgan G. Greg Bettinger '91, Yeh-Kai Tung '93. 16 * , - ---- · b~r~---, I II a -- rI PRODUCTION STAFF Associate Night Editors: Kristine J. Cordella '91, David Maltz '93; Staff: David E. Borison '91, Lawrence H. Kaye '91, Sunitha Gutta '93, Jonathon Weiss '93, Aaron M. Woolsey '93. i-He OPINION STAFF Pawan Sinha G. Karl Dishaw '89, Andrew L. Fish '89, Dave Quality Atkins '90, Michael Gojer '90, Adam Braff '91, Bill Jackson '93. of life not a valid basis for abortion
SPORTS STAFF It appears Vanessa Layne '93 should drop out of school. On of abortion is fundamentally op- Michael J. Garrison G. Harold A. Stern '87, David Rothstein '91. ["Abortion critic would be more the contrary, Donahue's educa- posed to this vision of humanity. ARTS STAFF credible if he acted on his be- tion will enable himto support a Abortion advocates are willing to Staff: Frank Gillett G. Mark Roberts G. Manavendra K. Thakur liefs," April 101 has missed the future family and work to create make a trade-off between a hu- '87, Michelle P. Perry '89, Jigna Desai '90, Elizabeth Williams point of James P. Donahue '91's a world in which there will be no man life and one or more other letter ["Society '90,Paula Cuccurullo '91, David Stern '91, Alfred Armendariz morally responsi- such thing as "an unwanted criteria. Some may truly think '92, Sande Chen '92, Alejandro Solis '92, Kevin Frisch '93. ble for care of unwanted chil- person." that human life is dispensable; dren, " April 31 PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF as well as the The vision guiding the creation others may resign themselves to main point of Associate Photography Editors: David H. Oliver '91, Sean Dou- the right-to-life of such a world is also the moti- abortion as the most pragmatic movement. gherty '93, Douglas D. Kelier '93; Staff: William Chu G. Frank Donahue was trying vation of the right-to-life move- solution, giving up on getting to answer Espinosa G. Andy Silber G. Ken Church '90, Mark D. Virtue '90, the allegation of abor- ment and the fundamental way in human beings to care for each Sarath Krishnaswamy '91, Georgina A. Maldonado '91, Mauricio tion advocates that pro-lifers do which pro-lifers differ form ad- other. It is a vision without Roman '91, Marc Wisnudel '91, Jonathan Kossuth '92, Lerothodi- not care about the lives of those vocates of abortion. The pro-life responsibility. Lapula Leeuw '92, Paulo Corriea '93, Michelle Greene '93, Wey who would otherwise be aborted. ethic is that each human being Lead '93, Matthew Warren '93, Jeremy Yung '93; Darkroom is When abortion is supported on Rather than Manager: Ken Church '90. list the many organi- intrinsically valuable simply by the contention that the child will zations and individuals who pro- the virtue of being a human per- not have "quality of life," this is FEATURES STAFF vide support (financial, educa- son. This means that no human an abdication of responsibility. It Christopher R. Doerr G. John Thompson '90, Taro Ohkawa '91, tion, emotional, etc.) to women being can be devalued or dis- is saying Chris M. Montgomery that one sees a potential '93. in crisis pregnancies and their pensed with on the basis of race, need in the life on another, that
BUSINESS STAFF children, Donahue chose to de- gender, intelligence, "productive- the other should not be forced to
Delinquent Accounts Manager: Jadene Burgess '93; Advertising scribe one particularly beautiful ness," stage of development, or live without that need fulfilled, Accounts Manager: Shanwei Chen '92; Staff: Ben Tao '93. example of human solidarity. the judgment of anyone else con-,- and therefore the other should I I It is difficult to understand cerning the "quality" of that not live at all. Precisely what is PRODUCTION STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE how Layne managed to read this human being's life. missing from this argument is re- Night Editors: ...... Peter E. Dunn G as abdication of responsibility on sponsibility, the responsibility to- the part David Maltz '93 of Donahue himself. The This is a high ideal to live by help provide for the need in Associate Night Editor: ...... Kristine J. Cordella '91 conviction that we all have re- and no one is claiming to have whatever way one can. Staff: V. Michael Bove '83, Daniel A. Sidney G. Deborah A. sponsibility (to differing degrees) Levinson '91, Jonathon Weiss '93. reached its perfection; individuals If the fundamental right to life for each other's welfare can be and societies must constantly does not inhere in the person lived out in a myriad of ways. struggle to put it into practice. then there are no "rights" prop- Some pro-lifers work in soup The The Tech (ISSN 0148-9607) is published on Tuesdays and Fridays during the academic ideal recognizes not only a erly so called. There are only year (except kitchens during MIT vacations), Wednesdays during January, and monthly during or care for elderly neigh- right to life but a corresponding privileges granted by those with the summer for $17.00 per year Third Class by The Tech, Room W20-483, 84 bors Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-0901. Third Class postage paid at living alone or take in un- responsibility to contribute to the power. This is what the abortion Boston, MA. Non-Profit Org. Permit No. 59720. POSTMASTER: Please send all wed mothers and their children address changes to our mailing address: The Tech, PO Box 29, MIT Branch, quality of life of those around us advocates' argument boils down Cambridge, MA 02139-0901. Telephone: (617) 253-1541. FAX: 1617)258-8226. or dedicate themselves more to according to each one's opportu- to: Might is right. That is not the Advertising subscription, and typesetting rates available. Entire contents (3 1990 The Tech. The Tech is a member of the Associated Press. Printed by Charles River educating others.' It does not fol- nities and capacity. kind of world in which I would Publishing, Inc. low from pro-life convictions, as It is evident that the "ethic" of like to live.
la-- ~ . - i, II i 1..,I ~~ ~ Layne seems to think, that one those who favor the availability Ann Brach G L _ _-1_~ ~ -13 1 I d 5a r I r _ II FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1990 The Tech PAGE 5 _ - -- I -- --
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Non-violent protest best method to end apartheid (Editor's note: The Tech re- dents, should look for effective cause of the company's ties in And so on. out that these events were caused ceived a copy of this letter ad- ways to impose economic sanc- South Africa. As it turns out, MIT is eligible directly by the reprehensible ac- dressed to the MIT Coalition tions against South Africa. One of the coalition's leaflets for third level sanctions, because tions of the Metropolitan District Against Apartheid.) I have divided economic sanc- lists 51 companies that conduct it buys products from and invests Commission Police and MIT I was very moved by The tions into three levels, from the business in South Africa. This is in companies eligible for second Campus Police. Tech's account of what happened most direct to the more indirect a good starting point. One level sanctions. If one were to im- The random and violent ha- during the demonstrations last ones. should not drink Coke or Pepsi, pose third level sanctions on all rassment of protesters, and of a Friday and last M-onday. You or buy personal computers from of those individuals and corpora- Tech photographer in particular, have made me think a great deal First Level Sanctions. No stu- IBM or Hewlett-Packard, or cars tions that are eligible for them, fueled the passions of the crowd, during the last two days, and I dent should buy from or sell to from Ford or General Motors, or one would in fact, find it very and could have easily led to trag- would like to share some of these South Africa. No student should purchase gas from Exxon, Shell, difficult to survive in our modern ic results. Perhaps this is all we thoughts with you. lend money to the South African Chevron, or Texaco. One should society. It is hard enough to im- can expect from our "peace offi- I did not attend either the Fri- government. I do not think any refuse, to buy textbooks pub- pose second level sanctions on all cers." We certainly hope not. day or the Monday rallies. I MIT student does any of the lished by John Wiley & Sons, or those who deserve them. I would Our purpose in writing this let- would first like to tell those who things I just mentioned. Howev- buy anything at Sears. One encourage all students to concen- ter, however, is to remind fellow demonstrated peacefully and en- er, some of our parents or rela- should give up one's American trate on these second level sanc- protesters that we have the moral gaged in civil disobedience while tives may actually be responsible Express or Citibank Visa/Master- tions first, before demanding high ground on this issue, and no fighting, non-violently, for a for making similar decisions in card credit cards. If sick, one again that MIT divest. degree of harassment or intimida- cause in which you believe, that I the companies for which they should not use medicines pro- I reiterate my respect for the tion can change that. We feel that hold you in the highest respect. I work. Talking to these parents or duced by Shering-Plough or members of the Coalition we have a responsibility to com- also think that ending apartheid relatives would be the first step. Pfizer. As I said, each time any Against Apartheid. The divest- port ourselves in a non-violent in South Africa is a very noble Second Level Sanctions. No of these decisions is made, one ment rallies were very effective in manner, and to keep in mind the cause. It is hard to believe that student should buy anything should write a letter to the com- reminding me that apartheid still goal of the struggle, namely to such a racist regime can still exist from, or sell anything to, or do pany explaining that one is refus- exists. I think it also reminded us pressure the MIT administration as we approach the end of the any business with an individual ing to buy its products because of that the right to have peaceful into divesting from companies 20th century. To those of you (if or corporation that does not irm- the company's doing business in demonstrations cannot be taken with holdings in South Africa. any) who acted violently during pose first level sanctions on South Africa. for granted. I'm sure the "God- Many protesters were swept the demonstrations, I want to say South Africa. This, by itself, Third Level Sanctions. Eco- dess of Liberty" erected in Beij- away in a maelstrom of emotions that I deplore any act of vio- would not be effective, unless a nomic sanctions should be im- ing last summer was considered in response to the despicable ac- lence, regardless of who commits statement is made to the compa- posed upon those individuals or by the Chinese government also tions of the police officers, but it. ny or individual upon which the corporations that refuse to im- an "unauthorized structure." We we must remember that mob vio- I attended the rally on Tues- student imposes sanctions. It is pose second level sanctions. should fight to demonstrate and lence does not serve our noble day, and I read with great interest not enough to refuse to buy It is very hard to find an indi- while doing so, remember that purpose of freedom or all South all the information that was Coca-Cola products. One must vidual or corporation who would there are many countries around Africans. We have made a com- handed out during the rally. -I send a letter to the Coca-Cola not be eligible for third level the world in which not only ar- mitment to attend future rallies urge you to continue fighting Co. every time one does not sanctions. For example, one rest, but also imprisonment and as long as our presence will con- against apartheid, but I encour- drink Coke because they do busi- should not fly with an airline that torture are probable outcomes of tribute to that goal. We have also age you to do so in an effective ness in South Africa. One should buys its planes from Boeing. One a peaceful rally. made a commitment to try to re- way. not work for any of the compa- should not visit restaurants where Alejandro Cano-Ruiz '91 main true to the principles of According to one of your leaf- nies that do business with South Coca-Cola is served. One should non-violence that were the cor- lets, the leaders of the African Africa either. Again, this by itself not work in any company that We would like to express our nerstone of the civil rights move- National Congress have called would not be effective. So one uses IBM, Hewlett-Packard or concern over some of the events ment of the 1950s and '60s. We for economic sanctions as an ef- should interview with these com- Digital computers. One should that transpired during the anti- hope that all concerned members fective way to put pressure on the panies anyway, and if offered a not pay for copies made with Xe- apartheid rally on April 9. From of the MIT community will share government in Pretoria to end its position then refuse to accept it, rox machines. One should refuse our perspective in the crowd, the in these commitments. institutionalized racist practices. telling the company that one is to buy food harvested with trac- rally came dangerously close to Arya Akmal G Therefore I think that we, as stu- not accepting the position be- tors produced by Caterpillar. an all-out riot. We must point Jonathan Pasternak '90 I I ''--- ' - L ------I P MINTZ, LEVIN, COHN, FERRIS, GLOVSKYAND POPEO, P.C. II. ~I UN VERSI Y BOSTO)N LEGAL ANALYST PROGRAM S U Mn ME R T E R M Boston University Summer Term offers over 425 undergraduate and graduate courses - during the day and in the evening. Session I begins May 22; Session II begins July 3. Registration for both sessions begins April 17,1990. Call 617/353-6000 today, or mail or fax the coupon below. In the traditionof investment banks and consulting firms, ...... 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And On Skyclad records wider span than that between psychedelia this Victorian novel went to college and THE QUINCINX and rockabilly, running from Lesley Gore read too much Umberto Eco, judging by to Link Wray, with nods to more obscure the maps, charts, Latin epigrams, and Written by CharlesPalliser. sources like Ennio Morricone's spaghetti- even typographic ornaments that encode BallantineBooks. Western themes, the Zombies, and the clues of a sort through the 788 pages. 788 pages, $25. Easybeats (and a very close listen will dis- Oh, yes, 788 pages. Publishing-company close what might be Cramps and Dead publicity offices simply melt trying to fig- By V. MICHAEL BOVE Boys riffs). However, what most character- ure out what to say about this book, de- TWO BRITISH IMPORT, both recall- izes Uncle Willy is that it's a clean synthe- scribing Palliser as "a graduate of Oxford ing earlier times, have occupied sis, not a pastiche; this is no self-conscious ... [who] has spent the last 12 years scru- my leisure hours of late. When Dukes of Stratosphear ""guess we ought to pulously researching period detail...." not reading Charles Palliser's do one that sounds like Floyd now" re- Apparently sheer scholarly bulk has an cliff-hanging neo-Victorian mystery about cording. Thus, "Jealousy" isn't a Monkees aesthetic all its own, as Palliser introduces an English youth who seems to be the vic- rip-off, though the Monkees might have the reader to thousands of minutely- tim of an unbelievably widespread and hei- done a rather fair job with it. 'Lie Detec- observed characters, and rolls off thesis, nous conspiracy - or maybe even two tor," which the Milkshakes turned into a quality descriptions of everything from conspiracies - to rob him of his inheri- Lennon anti-tribute, is here played for t | nura~osAR· CORAM SPIPIS J L1 turnpikce-tollbooth architecture to 19th- tance and perhaps his life, I have been straight blooze-crunge. century dishwasshing techniques. listening to remarkable neo-60s female Released two dozen years earlier, Uncle few top-40 singles, would have contributed But having got all that off my chest, I vocals and fWhole guitar by The Delmonas . Willy would probably have generated a cuts to several numbers of the Nuggets se- have to say that I enjoyed The Quincunax The term "psyche-billy" has been coined ries, and would today be getting exactly thoroughly. To pick this book up is to sur- to describe the everything-old-is-new-again- the same degree of airplay on WMBR; renlder to its control, to neglect social and niche occupied by the The Delmonas, Such is its perfection. professional obligations for a few weeks, along with their friends the Little Caesars It would be hard to be as sanguine to ignore one's partner at breakfast in or- 'IS "e,~ (of "Bo Diddlius" fame) and the Milk- about the prospects for Charles Palliser's der to sneak in a few more pages. It's not shakes (whose dislike for John Lennon is The Quincunx, were it published in the even required that the reader be one of exceeded in violence only by the Resi- last century. Mind you, it has all the right those who (as George F. Will once ob- dents'). In the present case, this term influences, and it's rather fun to watch served) dislike all modern conveniences ex- seems particularly apt only for the song Walter Scott in a stylistic slugfest with cept electric light, and tolerate that only "Farmer John," which recalls the Seeds at Dickens and James (and at least once, because it enables reading Victorian novels their seediest with the addition of some Laurence Sterne), but there is enough in bed. Don't worry about the incessant charmingly dissolute girl-group singing. modern moral grayness here to befuddle use of coincidence as a plot device, and Through headphones, one can just hear the most progressive Victorian. Not mere- just let it all drag you away. Like the the Guinness bottles clinking off to one ly the rich (or the poor, depending on Delmonas. And that is an aesthetic all its side. which Victorian novels one prefers) are Own. r ------' I' ------I------This Weekend's IFRIDAY CLASSIC FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Movites From . . I ..kw -0~ - I. crI-y I lAcea1 cA,,vmw of II ROBIN -- s I - · . evil_,-I AprilTeMIT Lecture 13-5 Series Commmtee 19 HOOD Errol tIvnn , _ _ l ~ -, 4 ,FIF - For movie descriptions, cal the 7:3MO 10-250 7&10 in26 W-IOO ] 7 & 9:30 ina261Q LSC IINOVELI 25848881 6:30 & 9:30 in 26-100 . I 16. - a - I- I --- - - I U I - --- I -I - I- IL- IDI I------I - -IL------I------e__ R- - -- -· ------^------9 -1 MIT - ACM Undergraduate Computer Science Conference The seven papers which will be presented and distributed Wednesday, April 18, 1990 at the conference are: 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. 0 "Fault Tolerant Design for Multistage Routing Networks" by 8th Floor Playroom, Andre DeHon m"MITeX: A Work in Progress" by Andrew Mar CGrenne Tech Square NE 43 • "A User Interface Server for the X Toolkit and the Motif Wid- gets">by Barry Jaspan This second MIT ACM. Undergraduate Computer Science Conference will recognize and display quality research done by I "Before C4 Try GLASS" by Michael de la Maza MIT undergraduates. Papers covering topics generally relating s "The MIDAS System: A Machine-Independent Framework to Computer Science were submitted by MIT undergraduates. for the Automatic Derivation and Application of Machine The goal of this conference is to assemble undergraduates Specific Optimizations" by Nate Osgood in a forum which: * "An Ideal Future for Information Automation" by * Expands the realm of undergraduate education to issues Michael B. Parker outside classes o "Switch Statement Optimization for the 80X86' by * Encourages communication of technical ideas among a Ellen Spertus peer group Prizes will be awarded to the top papers and the overall mAllows undergraduates to present their work in a formal best presentation. setting For more information contact: mProvides undergraduates with experience in writing and pre- Robert French. Conference Chairman senting papers 290 Massachusetts Avenue Each undergraduate presentation will be a half-hour Cambridge, MA 02139 in length. (617) 225-9133 Special thanks to MIT, EECS, ACM and Microsoft for rfrench athena.miteedu. sponsoring this event. L ,,, _, ., ._ ... i I _e'II Ir - 1 91 I ~ '1I - I · C I FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1990 The Tech PAGE 9 _ - - -' l ;l I Jo ,I , '' , .. A R IT- S I -' - ' Deception a clever book, but only minor in importance DECEPTION Written by Philip Roth. beginning of the novel and continues to its . . : I.. ' Simon and Schuster. end. 208 pages, $18.95. The conversations are intelligent and in- __.n teresting: They deal with sex, politics, Jews, and people. Roth has the talent of _s By MARK WEBSTER I making sexual descriptions seem explicit ECEPTION, the title of Philip without going into details. The lovers talk Roth's newest novel, is also a before, during, and after sex. The remanin- description of the framework of der of the conversations are with women Dthe novel. The conversations in from Philips past and one is with a man the novel deal with deception in various who accuses Philip of cheating with forms and the novel itself is a sort. of de- his wife. The theme of deception runs ception. In fashioning this framework, throughout these conversations. Wives de- Roth treats a favorite theme. ceive their husbands, lovers deceive one The work that made Roth famous, Port- another, and they all deceive themselves. noy's Complaint, also changed the nature The deceptions of everyday life. abound: of Roth's writing. For Complaint and his Marriages are happy, anti-Semitism does prior works, Roth, like most authors, not exist in civilized society, love is forever. drew from personal experience for fiction- Towards the end of the book, Philip has al inspiration. But with the publication of a conversation with his wife, who so far that best-seller, with its highly personalized has not appeared. The wife has found the .I , , I rid descriptions of a strongly sexual Jewish notebook in which he has recorded these C,, i I.-r male, there was widespread -speculation conversations. She tearfully confronts him that Roth based the character of Portnoy with this evidence of his infidelity. He pro- on himself. tests his innocence and says that these con- The Jewish community was outraged at versations, and the mistress who appears the unflattering portrait of Jewish family in them, are fictions, mental exercises -to life that Roth painted. These experiences occupy a novelist's idle time. caused Roth to become strongly concerned -Even after she is convinced, she resents with the relationship between author, char- his creation of the perfect woman for him- acter, and reader. While denying that he self -a woman who, though nonexistent, writes autobiographical fiction, he has cre- is competition by the fact that she is Phil- ated characters like Nathan Zuckerman, ip's ideal woman. The deception is re- an alter-ego who, in Zuckerman Unbound, vealed not as Philip deceiving his wife but writes a blockbuster hit novel that sounds as Roth -deceiving the reader. However, in much like Portnoy's Complaint. Zucker- a kcind of postscript, Philip has one final man is pilloried by the Jewish community, conversation with the fictitious mistress, and his sexual habits are questioned. Roth years after the affair, in which the implica- has played with this authorial mythmaking tion is made that a character in one of S S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.S...,.im...... ;. >S S*f -V , in other works, but never so much as in Philip's books is based on this woman. A his latest novel. fiction based on a fiction. Roth has basi- Deception consists almost solely of con- cally set us Up. He takes advantage of the versations which occur between a writer tendency to associate his characters with named Philip, who has written of a char- himself and uses it as a plot device. acter named Zuckerman, and various Roth writes well, his conversations en- women. One of these women is Philip's tertain and intrigue the casual reader. The mistress. She visits him illicitly in a small clever framework is diverting but in a a n flat in London. She is married and often novel sort of way; it's an exercise in writ- : speaks to Philip-of the difficulties with her ing. 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A "managed world" in 226 pages, $19.95. able. McKibben tries to give a sense of the Our cars, our houses, plastics, and pesti- which human beings control the climate, magnitude of the risk we take as we fiddle cides are as much a part of the world we genetics, and ecology is the most probable with the controls of "spaceship Earth" (an know as are the trees, waters, and hills solution short of ecological catastrophe. By EVA REGNIER expression McKibben uses and an idea that we live among. McKibben sets forth McKibben values nature for its own sake; THE MESSAGE OF The End of whose implications he should have plainly that the human race will need to this result appeals neither to him nor to Nature justifies its ominous title: discussed). decide between our material world - the reader. According to Bill McKibben, McKibben's incisive discussion of the houses, cars, clothes - and the natural true nature, which was indepen- components of the environmental crisis is world. "One world or the other will have The ending is rather optimistic, consid- dent of human influence, has been re- broad but detailed, and illustrated bril- to change." McKibben envisions a "hum- ering that McKibben does not describe in placed by an artificial nature in whose liantly in terms both human and scientific. bler world" where our material excesses any detail how we will go from our current processes human beings play a part. He presents problems on a human level, will seem absurd. In this world, he thinks, situation of continued and increasing envi- This concept may not seem frightening measuring the biosphere in units of the human beings could take a less dominant ronmental destruction to either of his two but McKibben points out that the changes distance to his mailbox, and lists possible relation to nature, and nature might once possible worlds. The book does not pre- we have made, and are continuing to consequences of environmental degrada- again establish itself as independent, sent a doomsday picture - nor does it make, in the chemistry of our atmosphere tion ranging from floods and famine down constant. present real solutions. Instead, the book are not the kind of environmental changes to worsening asthma and hay fever. Even While this vision is fascinating and com- exposes the nature of the environmental we have experienced in the past. We can- those with a very good understanding of forting, McKibben himself does not seem crisis and leaves the reader with a lot to not escape them by fleeing to the woods. environmental problems will be fascinated to think it is likely. He recognizes that hu- think about. 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Through The administration claims its -He added that "it is the South "When these leaders tell us a sponsorships he will help Tutoring holdings in companies involved African constitution that has that these investments in South a 10 Habitat for Humanity Plus and The League of American with South Africa total $84 mil- been keeping us away from our Africa give aid and comfort to a 10 Help the MdIT student chapter of Habi - Wheelmen Bicyclists' Education and lion. The Coalition Against rights. [Companies with opera- the South African government, a Legal Foundation. If your group is Apartheid, using an alternate tions in South Africa] pay taxes and that we ought to divest, I'm a tat for Humanity build housing on a April 17th and 28th. For more infor- looking for a fund-raising project or assessment scheme, says MIT's to the South African govern- inclined to believe them," he P mation please contact: Bob Scherer you would like to make a contribu- holdings are worth $289 million. ment. By working in South Afri- said. a tion, contact Denls Mustafa at rm. a at 3-2991 or Mike Toole at 3-9736. Christine M. Coffey '93 argued ca they directly support this ra- Paradise urged MIT not to for- 35-312B, Laboratory for Information that MIT's definition of involve- cial allocation of funding in get the moral grounds for divest- and Decision Systems, 253-2156. ment in South' Africa was too South Africa." ment or other action against the Mass. General Hospital Make checks payable to Pedal For narrow. Operations are not the South African government. He b Individuals are needed to give 3 hrs. A very strong message K, Power/Tutoring Plus. only [way] of supporting" the asserted that divestment is a mor- Of service per week. This is an on- a South African government, she Gillian P. Hart, senior lecturer al action as well as an economic a going comittment for a total of 50 said. in the Departmeht of of Urban one. "If the moral side is ig- a hours of service. Contact: Cathy Cambridge YWCA Distribution agreements and li- Studies and Planning, claimed nored, it communicates a mes- Woodman at 726-8540. censing and trade agreements are that "divestment is not first and sage to the world -that money The YWCA is a non-profit organiza- ways companies stay involved in foremost an economic act.... is all that matters, he said. tion that serves the community, espe- South Africa that do not get reg- [It is] an unequivocal statement David R. Afshartous G at- Walks for Hunger cially women, with low-cost housing, istered under MIT's assessment, of a disassociation" with a sys- tempted to explain the structure Join the MIT Hunger Action Groulp programming and a homeless family she said. tem that "denies basic human and function of the South Afri- and 250,000 other walkers on May 6 shelter. Help is needed cleaning the rights." can military. "The military may in the nation's largest walkathon. Get conference room on April 14th and Speakers argue for divestment Hart said that part of the be viewed as the guardian of the your waltking papers (and T-shirts!) at 21st in preparation for their Annual Coffey encouraged M1IT to "long and difficult and compli- apartheid" government, he said. the booth in Lobby l0 April 23- Meeting. Contact: Linda Sheets at "take action as a whole body; [it] cated" process of dismantling The military in South Africa in- May 4. Contact: David at xS-6433. 491-6050. a a can't continue to support apart- apartheid "is going to entail cludes the police as well as the a 0I heid with its name and money. It white South Africans relinquish- armed forces, and these branches a Compiled by the MIT Public Service a to Elizabeth Peabody House a must take responsibility for its ing" their power. "tact in tandem" to maintain the a Center, rn. 3-123, x3-0742. a a This social settlement house provides or own actions and divest." "An act like divestment con- system, he said. a a child care programs and social serv- Susan M. Minter G spoke at veys a very strong message to Afshartous added that the a or p ices for teenagers and minority a the hearing to "refute three [of white South Africans," who are business of producing arms "'em- lo a women. They need a filing cabinet, the main] arguments" used the force behind "the most un- ploys 100,000 people, many of to bookcase and office chairs. If you or against divestment. The first one, equal system in the world today," whom are black." Blacks are a 0 your group have any donations or PSCr "an institution or university is said Hart, who grew up in South therefore working to support the P fundraising effort ideas, contact: Ju- MASSACHUSETrS IN9TlnOP. O MEMSOI.OOY not the right place to implement Africa and has studied its industry that manufactures the a a lie Yeh at 623-5510. or formulate policy," Minter economy. tools of their own oppression, he a Public Service Center countered with "it isn't only our Religious Counselor Scott Par- said. 9-0 -9aa -a 9 2 2 2-9 2 a 2 ae 8_ a a a2 a aa o right [to demonstrate and speak ------~~~~~~~------out against apartheid]; it is our moral obligation" to do so. The second argument common- ly used against divestment is that "it's a misguided policy; it is only going to hurt the blacks," Minter said. To counter that statement, Minter recalled her six-week visit to South Africa, when she was "taken illegally into areas whites aren't supposed to see: Soweto, Crossroads, and the shantytown outside Capetown.' Minter said, "Every day, peo- ple were putting their lives on the line" in order to maintain apart- heid. "I think it is hypocritical for us to be worrying about saving lives," she said. The third argument Minter re- futed was that "sanctions will not work." The Anti-Apartheid act of 1986 "has made a tremendous impact," she claimed. "'It is ex- actly those sanctions that have brought Nelson Mandela out of prison and de Klerk to the negotiating table." Leerothodi-Lapula Leeuw '92, a South African citizen, recount- ed "a personal account" of trying to get a job in South Africa as a trainee in a "company that f~iFO... {':''0...... claimed to be using" the State- ment of Principles. The manager of the company told ]Leeuw axld other blacks working there that they were i~~c:''~A -ra"r am wiwt:pplp hired "to increase the number of Xitouetn::: .n8SZ :::..I: :.x··interes.. blacks in management" posi- tions. The manager knew that an existing law prevented blacks from taking a certification exam Oi:-s t.C ..1A.T;you , -,, {N necessary to assume managerial kby.t·~·'j~~k p.`:;:at1~ :-:::o ·: · responsibilities, Leeuw said. 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Br 066L 'El ll~dV ',\AVC]I qialj aqjL tl 3E)d _ | ~ a l " 1, I1 .. - FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1990 The Tech PAGE 15 ~- Gray will allow removable shanties Ilr - - - la I · r------ sl - (Continued from page 1) sue of divestment and the right of one arrested on Friday -were I build a shanty to symbolize its students to protest. There was no arrested by Campus Police on solidarity with South African visible police presence at the Monday near the Student Cenlter blacks and to protest MIT's in- rally. after the foiled attempt to bring a vestments in companies doing Three of thiose arrested, portable shanty onto the lawn._ business in South Africa. Kenneth S. Chestnut Jr. '92, They each were charged with as- _ Steven B. Chanin G. and Cynthia sault and battery on a police tF i 1! Tense situation seen R. Evanko '92, gave accounts of The Tuesday morning meeting their arrests. Chestnut and After the Monday demonstra-Ad it was arranged the previous night Chanin claimed the police had tion moved to the president's - ; t A _- when coalition members contact- been particularly rough in arrest- house, Metropolitan DistrictHi_ ed Gray about discussing the situ- ing them, and appealed for wit- Commission Police arrested an _ __ ation, which had become pro- nesses to come forward to testify MIT lecturer, a Tech photogra- ; !> _ ;l __ ,,S, , _ gressively bitter during the two on their behalf. pher, and a non-MIT person. All 7::!*n_! - _ tX J days of protest. Associate Pro- But Chanin told the crowd that were charged with disorderly con- ja, ,jr1I! 1!l _ $t I;~~~w4~tt.E vost Samuel J. Keyser, Faculty it should not place most of the duct. The lecturer and the non-_ _ Chair Henry D. Jacoby, and blame on the shoulders of the po- MIT per-son were also accused of l Associate Dean for Student Af- lice. "The police, a lot of them, assault and battery, while the lec- fairs Jamnes R. Tewhey also at- weren't happy about what they turer and the photographer were tended the meeting. had to do, " he said. charged also with failure to obey Gray said the central concern Rather, the administration a police officer. Sean M. Dougherty/The Tech was the increasing level of con- should be held accountable for Gray said at the Tuesday meet- Lynn Robertson of the Rape Crisis Center of Cam- flict and the risk of people get- arresting its own students, ing that he would not act to have bridge and members of the MIT faculty lead Tuesday's ting hurt. "The goal of all of us Chanin said. 'We have to do the charges against arrested forum on date rape. present was to reduce the level of something to prevent the admin- students dismissed. 8 confrontation," he said. istration from thinking it can use CAA members told Gray that violence to [intimidate us]."' i his administration had reacted vi- Evanko rejected the idea that M IT wvithdrawvs A EPi us recognition Ii olently to peaceful demonstra- the students brought arrest upon tions and that the police had used themselves by refusing to obey {Continuedfi~rom page 1) chapter at New York University, AEPi have spoken with represen- unnecessary force. police orders. "I am not going to "It may very well happen that which was suspended by the na- tatives from the national. David According to Francis, Gray give up my freedom of speech the IFC votes to recognize tional organization last week, is E. Borison '91 and Steven H. agreed that actions taken by the just because Paul Gray does not [I)Pil," said Arnone. currently being reorganized. Baden '92 have contacted Jewish Metropolitan District Commis- want to hear us, " she said. .But it may be years before "The only other claim of reli- students by word of mouth to re- sion Police at the Monday rally Kig, Johnson back students Delta Pi can find housing. Ac- gious discrimination" leveled cruit prospective members for the after it had moved to the presi- cording to Tewhey, the first prior- against the national was at fraternity. dent's house were "dumb," but Adjunct Professor of Urban ity of the Housing Office is to Rhode Island University, Dunn Dunn denied any involvement he declined to fault the behavior Studies Melvin H. King, a well- provide funds for housing the so- said. The "affirmative action of- on the part of the national to re- of the Campus Police near the known political activist, offered rorities. "We would have to com- fice at the school, investigated cruit new members. Dunn said Student Center. those arrested during the protests plete that project before we these claims and found AEPi in- the national had not planned to "Basically [Gray] said he want- a "real heart-felt thank you."S would agree to provide funds for nocent of any wrongdoings, he hold a meeting until the Institute ed to get all the information" be- The administration reacted as another all-male housing unit," added. decided on AEPi's future. fore passing judgment on the -it did because the campus pro- he said. Tewhey stated that religious Arnone, however, claimed that Campus Police actions, Francis divestment movement "is a very "We haven't given up hope of discrimination- did not appear to the national had planned to hold said. He added that the students real reminder of their corrupt getting our new fraternity be a factor in the national's reor- a meeting with representatives of were disappointed by this re- policy and their betrayal of the housed, but we're in the dorms ganization efforts. "I have not area chapters and Jewish students sponse, "We were looking to get people of South Africa," King now,' Findlay said. seen conclusive proof that it on campus. Blorison and Baden him to take swift action on said. Most of the 45 discharged was," he said. did hold a meeting last night, but particular officers 'that we He called on other members of brothers have been absorbed into But currently several Jewish representatives of the fraternity thought lost control at the the faculty to intervene on1 the the dormitory system, Tewhey students interested in joining did not attend. demonstrations ." students' behalf. It is important said. According to the News Office that faculty come forward and release, Gray did agree to order say that building a shanty, involv- Claims of religious "a little inotio'nal'and physical ing oneself in political protest, is ~ discri-minaftion addressed distances' between the Campus part of the educational process, Members of the MIT chapter Police, and demonstrators, but he said. of AEPi have charged that reli- blamed CAA tactics in part for "What is education if not- gious discrimination was the creating an atmosphere of [spreading] peace and justice to main reason the national organi- confrontation. all parts of this planet?" King zation disbanded their fraternity. We,.the~ ~ ~ ~ ~~Wtl tntmt.anfferesenting, he 36 He singled out for criticism a asked. When each brother was inter- pro-divestment demonstration Professor of Political Science viewed by the national, Wong ex- .vnm idenid lt~rus odemnn the reorganitimn under- during the March 2 meeting of Willard R. Johnson, who has plained, they were -asked about takeiby~the Alpha Bp gon Pi Fratitrnty, Inc.ta MIT,` February the MIT Corporation. Student long been active in favor of di- "issues relating to the religious 199."We. do neotdistute ihe'validity or seiousness of die& cot~ demonstrators infringed on the vestment and disinvestment, also composition of each individual" holrelated chaiges bioroght agaist the former, Mu, Tau chapter right of others to move freely at spoke at Tuesday's rally. and not about FIPG violations. Of, AtEP' But we, find abhorrent the ,reckless and'inisciminate nature of,AEPi's effors Xxorganitecatrsbebiv that rally, Gray claimed. Students He said that "MIT is very A brief prepared by the house's have a right to express and argue thick-headed.... We've learned ad hoc legal committee was sub- thit the cloi-ed-indiness and,,ue~tonable motives with which their views and to demonstrate, very little over the years institu- mitted to the Civil Liberties tbe~reornizatibn was a'ppr'oo*'d by AEPi national re'presen- but there are limits to those tionally." MIT "'won't get it, but Union of Massachusetts, charg- atfi'V should not be tXlbrated. on the MIT campus. rights, he said. there is a wider world" that will, ing that "the basis for -people be- .We urge President Paul E. Gray 54 to Sae'strong action to CAA members pressed Gray at he added. ing asked to leave was religious protest this arbitrary treatmient of MIT student's. 1 order that the Tuesday meeting to act on "Part of the value of [demon- discrimination," Wong said. The AIEPi be denjed future opportunities to needlessly mistreat MIT three specific complaints: under- strating and protesting] is to cap- CLUM has decided not to take students and staf4 we recommend thyt the Institute withdrw it cover police attendance at CAA ture the attention of the wider the suit under consideration. r~ecognition of Ail as Instituteapprovedhousing Jfor fireshmnen. meetings, harassment of photog- world, " as well as MIT's , These charges of religious dis- raphers at demonstrations, and Johnson said. crimination are "false," accord- I------1-`-·11 - 9-- --- Il the tearing down of flyers by. po- He encouraged the demonstra- ing to AEKi Supreme Governor lice. Gray said he did not know tors to continue their activities, Sidney Dunn. "That was not the A9Erra the validity of the allegations, but saying, "The victory is not lost if motivation" for the reorganiza- ta agre~ed that, if true, the actions this instituition doiesn't tin t~he tion, he said. Tuesday's stories on the anti-apartheid protests contained sev- were inappropriate. right thing." Instead, it was the chapter's eral errors in the names and affiliations of students arrested. The students also asked Gray Arrests total 32 ~repeated violation of FIPG risk Khondkar I. Ahmed G. Michael D. Balkwill G. and Penn S.b to set up a Campus Police review management policy which Loh '90 were incorrectly listed as having no affiliation -with board composed of students, fac- Twenty-six students were ar- prompted the reorganization ef- MIT. Ahmed was also incorrectly named "Ahmedh Iftekhar," ulty and administrators. Gray re- rested on Friday after they re- forts, he said. "The policies were and Loh was incorrectly named "'Lott Penn."S sponded that there was already a fused to move a shanty they had being violated even when they These corrections indicate all 26 of the protesters arrested Fri- procedure for dealing with com- built on the lawn between the were on probation,", Dunn noted. day were students. plaints against police -officers, Student Center and Massachu- In response to the claims of In addition, Faris M. Sayegh G was incorrectly listed as hav- but CAA members believed the setts Avenue. All were charged chapter members that the inter- ing been charged only with trespass after notice. He was also w procedure was inappropriate. with trespass after notice and dis- views conducted during the reor- charged with disturbing the peace. Getting "the police to police turbing the peace. One was also ganization process focused more themselves ... [is] an invalid charged with assault and battery on religious attitudes than on way of making the police on a police officer. FIPG safety policies, Dunn said EARTH DAY WEEK, MIT and BOSTON accountable," Francis said. The 26 were arraigned on that '610 basic questions were Gray will be meeting again this Monday morning. According to asked that dealt with being in WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 morning with students to discuss Campus Police Chief Anne P. Tree on Mass Ave-eight feet in diameter, from anient forests of the Northwest United AEPi." These questions, which States. The Ancient Forest Rescue Expedition (AFRE) will give a presentation at 2:30 pm the underlying issues of South Glavin, five students pleaded not are asked of all brothers under- in room 9-150 to discuss the purpose of their tree. 95% of the pre-colonial rainforests are Africa and MIT's investment guilty in Middlesex County Court going the reorganization process, being destroyed in our own country have been destroyed. This particular tree was cut by policy. but admitted to sufficient facts to address "attitudes of being in a Japanese logging company in the United States. The AFRE wants to show the rest of us warrant the judge to continue what resoures; we are losing. Arrests recounted AEPi, not religious preference." COLLOQUIUM! their cases without finding until Dunn noted that the restruc- Green: A Colloquium, on the Planet, MI'rs Colloquiurn in Kresge at 5.15. Bill McKibben, After meeting with Gray,, the July 27, when they will tell the author of The End of Nature and 7bd Flanigan of the Rocky Mountain Institute will discuss turing of the MIT chapter "was the Earth's current condition, why it is in trouble, and what we can do to help. Presentations CAA continued its campaign to court whether they wish to pay not unusual." The national orga- and questions will be followed by dinner discussions with faculty, staff and students in living i:i force MIT to divest its holdings $200 court costs or work 50 nization has reorganized seven groups. in Sauth Africa-related compa- hours of supervised community THURSDAY, APRIL 19 chapters in the past year. At Workshop on environmentally-conscious careers with ITed Flanigan of the Rocky Mountain I nies. The coalition held a Tues- service. The cases of the 21 oth- Brooklyn College no one -was. Institute anld Davrid Marks, head of the Department of Civil Engineering. 10:00 am to 12 day afternoon rally attended by ers, who simply pleaded not taken back into the fraternity_-af- noon in the Bush Room. about 150 on the Student Center guilty, were continued until April FRIDAY, APRIL 20 ter reorganization and at Cor'nell. M IT I:C O- FAIR: A CE LEB RATION OF THE EARTH lawn. 30, with a trial anticipated in 12 noon to 6:00 pm on Kresge oval (inlside if it rains). 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