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Continuous | r > i s1 IT News Service e Cambridge Since 1881 Mfassachusetts I I Volume 102, Number 38 ~ L---l I~b ~B~C~ -~ -d~B~~IB~~ATuesday. September 21, 1982 Volume 38. 102 Nube L t B 111 111 1 LI U II -·IL IIPLI II sslLI - ds a L- I I _ IC - --- - - ldffil lk f lg to get s ri Iggradsn By Tony Zamparutti "The transmission of unofficial The Committee on Education- grades.to anyone for any purpose al Policy (CEP) will release to- is contrary to the intention and morrow its recommendations for spirit of the pass/fail system," the changes in the freshman pass/fail 1972 report claimed. system, including a requirement "A major way of addressing that freshmen be given hidden concerns raised by the pass/no grades for the spring term. credit system is to improve the ef- The faculty will discuss, and fectiventess of the student-advisor possibly take a vote on, the CEP relationship and to give students plan at its October 22 meeting. and advisors accurate, and time- The changes will take effect ly, information for making edu- -immediately upon faculty ap- cational decisions," the new EP proval," the CEP report states. report states. "Internal grades would be given Requiring hidden grades spring beginning with the end of the semester would provide better in- 1982-83 spring term." formation on student perfor- i' The changes will be experimen- mance to freshmen and their ad- ,, tal, expiring after spring 1985, ac- visors, according to the CEP re- -· i cording to the report. At that port. 5· :.II..··: ':''· ;':·r·i .":·:. · ' ;·- ··j·-..,,:ii time. the CEP may recommend The CEP decided not to rec- :.4c -·· " ---- - -- - - ---- . I- - -I~b .- . ., .II~·I permanent changes to the pass/ ommend changes in the freshman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.. ;. .;-:; .:· - fail system. load limit, but to emphasize that Tech photo by Laurie Goldman The report recommends a four subjects and a seminar con- number of procedural changes in stitute a normal freshman load. The Angry Young Bees performed on the steps of the Student Center last Friday afternoon. -L- ·L·BYL L·IILsl II I sl b-- -sL------l -LJ - the freshman evaluation system, including. new freshman evalua- tion forms and new policies to encourage students and instruc- EEIS to retowate building fwVLSI researd tors to complete the forms. By Sam Cable cuitry in smaller integrated cir- its overhead charges for research continuing current research on The freshman pass/fail system Construction of new facilities cuits. Using' VLSI, over 100,000 in the new facilities to help pay manufacturing processes and ma- was intended to relieve the anxi- in building 39 for development of elements'- transistors, resistors, for the renovations. terials, Adler said. ety and pressure felt by freshmen, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integra- and the like - can be placed on There is not enough money Due to the complexity Of inte- engender a more mature educa- tion) will begin in the spring, ac- a quarter-inch square silicon presently available for buying grated circuits, design can be a tional motivation in students, cording to Richard B. Adler, as- chip, Adler explained. equipment, Adler said, but he major problem. Adler likened the and give freshmen more freedom sociate head of the Department Present facilities at MIT for in- hopes he will be able to raise designing an integrated circuit to to choose courses, according to' of Electrical Engineering and tegrated circuit design and fabri- enough money to buy new equip- preparing "a map of the United the 1972 report off tie Committees ''Conputer Science (EECS). ' c~idii are limited, according to ment and-is also'expecting dona- States containing details of each on Evaluation of Freshman Per- '"We have enough funds Adler. "We have not been able to tions of new equipment from alleyway ... It's not clear that formanc-e (CEFP), which re- pledged between industry and address what it takes to make a manufacturers. The facilities, he the way industry has broken up viewed the initial four-year pass/ government so that MIT is pre- whole chip from a fabrication said, will be ready no sooner the job is the best way. It's hard fail experiment. pared to go ahead on the build- point of view," he said. than early 1984, so funds for for industry to work on that "While many aspects of the ing and we are doing so," Adler Adler divided the cost of the equipment are not needed right question," he said. current Pass/No Credit system said. "If we had more [money] it new VLSI facilities into three ma- away. The VLSI facilities will involve are valued by students and Ficull- would be easier, but MIIT is satis- jor areas: renovating building 39 Adler hopes to meet operation- students, but their major impact ty . we have fallen short of [lits] fied that we have enough . ." and relocating its occupants, pur- al costs through a yearly subsidy will not be on undergraduate earlier goals,"' the CEP report VLSI research is concerned chasing new equipment for the of $1 million from industry and work, Adler said. They will, how- states. with putting more computer cir- laboratories, and meeting oper- half a million dollars each year in ever, make EECS laboratory fTa- LII a - I IPLI ---- · -- a, I ------ =h -- -I- --- ational expenses. gifts. The balance, he feels, can cilities in building 13 available Adler estimated renovation be raised from research overhead. expressly for undergraduates. The costs at $l5 million, equipment "We now have $300,000 a year building 13 facilities are presently costs at $6 million, and oper- pledged for the next two or three serving undergraduate, graduate, ational costs at $3 million each years,' he said. "We don't need and advanced research work. year. -the whole million right away." "One chip can have a complex- MIT is relying heavily on gov- Research in the new VLSI fa- ity level of a whole spacecraft,' ernment funds for the VLSI pro- cilities will involve studying the Adler said. "We feel it's our job ject, Adler said. The Institute re- entire process of designing and to be sure that students are edu- ceived- permission from the manufacturing integrated circuits, cated to deal with that kind of Federal government to increase designing "unusual" circuits, and sitbution." Student activities file reports for ODSA.Visiting Co,plmittcee By Jake Tinio The Visiting Committee will chairman Javan Pattin '83. The Corporation Visiting examine the relationship of the EThke Tevch's report did not ad- Committee on Student Affairs, Office of the Dean for Student I dress the newspaper's relationship one of 28 specialized committees Affairs (ODSA) to student activi- to the Dean's Office. "We report- Tech pnoto by Winston Smith meeting regularly to review ties. Dean for Student Affairs ed only the' status and goals of MIT soccer was defeated last Wednesday MIT's academic and other de- Shirley M. McBay by Harvard. Shown asked several the organization," explained Ivan partments, I here is MIT Captain John English (#18). will convene Novem- student groups to file reports for Fong '83, chairman of' 1he Tech. mum e IPI e. I ---- IF-- - --- - I I ber 7-9. the Visiting Committee. "The rnanaging board felt it The Dean's Office originally more appropriate to address is- lres C 0 Sasked five large student activities sues facing the Visiting Commit- Discipline Commn hea ira %,W; 9-VS -The Lecture Series Committee tee on the editorial pages of the (LSC), the Inter-Fraternity Con- newspaper.' By Thomas Huang The Office of the Dean for graduate students, holds hearings ference (IFC), the Student Center The Visiting Committee's meet- "The Committee on Discipline Student Affairs (ODSA) handles to decide complaint cases. A stu- Committee (SCC, the Under- ing will include an overview of is not like a court of law. It tries most major complaints between dent can contact the COD direct- graduate Association Finance student activities' organizational to avoid technicalities by merely students, Halfman said. The ly, Haalfman said, by writing the Board, and The Tch - to file re- structures, their influence on the reviewing the context of a case Dean's Office tries to get the par- committee's chairman, Associate ports. ODSA has since asked sev- "MIT undergraduate educational and then making a reasonable ties involved in a complaint to Professor Chryssostomo Chrys- eral other groups to report as experience," and the ODSA's role Judgement," said Associate Dean reach a compromise. It also has sostomidis. Decisions are made well. in student activities, according to [or Student Affairs Robert L. the right to put any student on by general consensus after a one- The IFC's report points out the the ODSA agenda. There will be Halfran '44. informal probation, if clear evi- hour hearing and 30 to 60 min- need for more faculty and admin- an open forum with students, The Committee on Discipline dence calls for such action. Final- utes of discussion, according to istrative involvement in student and the visit will conclude with (COD), a standing committee of ly, Halfrnan said, -ODSA can act Halfman. There are, however, no activities, according to IFC chair- an "executive session ... to dis- the facuity, exists to. "consider as a link between a dissatisfied specific regulations for decision- man Arthur Vasen '83. The re- cuss observations and recommen- such cases of alleged misconduct student and the Committee on making, Halfrnan noted. port has been submitted to dations." dIs shall be brought to its atten- Discipline. In nine cases out of ten, the ac- McBay, Vasen said. Corporation visiting commit- tion hy the Dean for Student Af- The Committee on Discipline cused has already agreed to hav- LSC sent a draft of its report tees meet every 12 to 18 months, falirs."according to the Rules of' (COD), which consists of faculty ing done something wrong, Half- containing a few "procedural but some meet as infrequently as I1()Flle lt members, undergraduate and I(Please turn to- pagec - 2) - I complaints" to McBay, said LSC (Please turn to page 2) M MI PAGE 2 The Tech TUESDAY.

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