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|Friday, April 20, 1990 Adi iVolume 110, Number 20 1,.. 11.,. I I I ,r~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ eu ch basts ROTCIpo 0icy By Annabelle Boyd ROTC programs." In a letter addressed to Secre- Voicing his concern that tary of Defense Dickc Cheney, the military's discriminatory poli- Provost John M. Deutch '61 cy makes it easier for the "minor- denounced the Reserve Officers' ity of students and faculty who Training Corp's policy of barring oppose any connection between homosexuals as "wrong and the university and the DOD" to shortsighted.' This is the stron- advance a "generally anti-mili- gest statement concerning ROTC tary position," Deutch encour- yet issued by an MIT official. aged Cheney to give greater "The policy discriminates consideration to the difficult situ- against students on the basis of ation ROTC's discriminatory pol- sexual orientation, in contradic- icy created for universities. "A tion to the policy of MIT, and faculty member cannot be ex- rdany other universities," Deutch pected to support an activity on1 wrote. campus that is in direct contra- Urging Cheney to work to "re- diction to the principles of the verse this discriminatory policy"- university," he wrote. in the samne manner the Depart- D~eutch also encouraged Che- ment of Defense "reversed prior ney to recognize that "the issue r . A nd . s- discriminatory policies against of homosexual participation in John M. Deutci '6 1 W-b-, I,t\ ,- --1- -- blacks aid" womne-n', 6"ubuch, ROTC and the military generally ed that "significant latitude" be Chip Buchanan/The Tech warned that if the DOD does nlot will become a vehicle for those given to local ROTC unlits to de- Bill Mcllibben speaks at the Green Colloquirn in change its policy "many universi- who are dedicated critics of the termine if repayment of scholar- Krese Aditorium. ties will be forced to end their nation's defense establishment ship funds should be required of and of the historical relationship cadets and midshipmen who are ^ Bd9* ~~~~between the DOD and the na- dismissed from the program for ;s a raXH; e AS; tion's leading universities." their avowed homosexuality. As Facut deniounce To help ease the immediate an example of one such case, By Niraj S. Desai than using police power to deal 1serving and participating in a dis- "friction"' between ROTC and Deutch cited the Navy's recent The faculty at its Wednesday with the protests, the administra- -cussion. But -he-found that his universities, Deutch recommend- (Prlease turn to page 17) meeting recommended that those tion ought to have tried to begin presence, and the presence of arrested at pro-divestment rallies a dialogue with the students. other faculty members, was irrel- on April 6 and 9 not be prosecut- Several also believed that facul- evant. The actions of the admin- r Text of Deutch's letter to Cheney criminal ty members should have had a istration and police "prevented ed and that anly resulting am writing to you to express the concern of MIT about the records be expunged. greater opportunity to mediate the opportunity for any dia- I ROTC policy not to accept gay or lesbian students into its pro- In a motion passed 25-13, face between demonstrators and the logue,"' Parsons said. grams and to require avowed homosexuals to disenroll and pay administration. President Paul E. Gray '54 re- Assistant Professor John Par- sponded that he was willing to back scholarship funds. This policy discriminates against students on the basis of sex- sons said he attended a demon- talk with students, but that he ual orientation, in contradiction to the policy of MIT and many stration near the president's would not do so in the context of other universities. I believe the ROTC policy to be wrong and house on April 9 in hopes of ob- (Prlease trn to pag-e 14) shortsighted. Individuals should be accepted into the military service without regard to sexual preference, subject only to the same expectation of responsible personal conduct that applies to UA plans special vote heterosexual individuals. I believe that the DOD should reverse this discriminatory policy just as it has reversed prior discrimi- on divest ent, ROTC natory policies against blacks and women. However, my main purpose in writing to you is to point out By Linda D'Angelo he said. the risk that this policy poses for continuation of ROTC on the and Dave Watt The referendum will coincide campuses of many of the leading US colleges and universities. The Undergraduate Associa- with the distribution of fall regis- The contradiction between the university's principle of nondis- tion Council last night voted tration material, ensuring that all crimination against individuals on the basis of sexual orienta- to hold a special referendum on continuing students will be in tion, and the presence of an ROTC that does discriminate, can- May 7 and 8 addressing divest- Lobby 10 at some time during not exist on the campuses indefinitely. Many universities will ment, student protests, and the the two-day period. The May withdraw from the ROTC program. Reserve Offic-ers' Training Corps date will also allow the UJA time In my judgment, ROTC should remain on1 university campus- policy of discrimination against to plan over the summer. Paul E. Gray '54 es for three reasons. First, it provides an important source of homosexuals. The only polling place for the financial support for students. For example, at MIT we current- ulty members also called on the The "idea behind this referen- referendum will be Lobby 10. ly have 220 MIT students enrolled in Air Force, Navy and Army administration to reimburse ar- dum is to really find out what The referendum conlsists of ROTC units. These students receive, in aggregate, $3.3 million rested students for court costs students feel," according to IJA two questions to which students annually to support their studies. If these students did not re- and legal expenses. President Manish Bapna '91. Be- may answer yes or no, and one ceive support from ROTC, it would be necessary for both MIT Supporters of the motion cause the events which prompted statement with which students and the student to find alternative sources of support. Second, I called the 32 arrests at the dem- these questions have been "quite may agree or disagree. Each of believe universities should continue ROTC for those students onstrations sponsored by the Co- sudden," the UA "wants to gath- the three parts also contains a who wish to pursue a military career: This is not an insignifi- alition Against Apartheid unnec- er information about student 4i no opinlion"^ option. cant number of MIT undergraduate students. Finally, and per- essary. They argued that, rather opinion before we take a stance," (Please turn to page 15) haps most importantly, the ROTC program provides a continu- ing source of educated and motivated officers for the nation's defense establishment. grad .ousing policy adopted I believe that most faculty members are not opposed to By Dave Watt students to remain in the build-i should be given priority for ROTC. But a faculty member cannot be expected to support an Significant changes in MIT's ings for a maximum of two years onl-campuls housing," Dickson activity on campus that is in direct contradiction to the princi- housing policy for graduate stu- only. quoted from the abstract of the ples of the university. It is particularly unfortunate that the mi- dents were finalized yesterday by The new policy [see box, page results of the HCA survey, writ- nority of stud'ents and faculty who oppose any connection be- MIT Vice President William R. 2] will create a total -of 900 beds ten by Julia J. Vlail G, the FICA tween the university and the DOD can use this issue to advance Dickson '56. for incoming graduate students. committee chairperson. a generally anti-military position. Thus, one unfortunate conse- The Tang Hall apartments will LThe plan will be fully implement- Although Vail agreed that quence of this policy is to increase hostility to the DOD on be furnished, and new residents ed in approximately three years housing incoming students university campuses. will be admitted only on one after current students have should be the first priority, she What might be done? First, I urge you to reconsider the poli- year non-renewable leases. A *moved oult. reiterated her support for the cy barring homosexuals from participating in ROTC. Second, I two-lottery system of allocating ;The Housinlg Office will try Graduate Studenlt Counil';sS alter- believe that the present policy can be administered in a manner rooms will be instituted at Ash- not to put the new graduate stul- nate proposal, which was passed that minimizes potential friction. For example, if a cadet is dis- down House, Greens Hall, and dents without tenured leases in by consensus in the HCA com- missed from ROTC for being an avowed homosexual, signifi- the new apartment complex at with other students who have ten- mittee and by a nearly unani- cant latitude should be given to local ROTC units to determine 143 Albany Street, while the mar- ured leases, according to Hous- mous vote of the GSC last if repayment of scholarship funds should be required. In several ried student apartments at East- ing and Food Services Director November. cases, including that of USN Cadet Robert L. Betticker here at i gate and Westgate will permit Lawrence E. Maguire. MIT, the recommendation of the local unit not to require pay- In a letter to be sent to all Tang residents permitted ment was not followed at higher echelons. Such action, which I i graduate students, Dickson justi- to stay during renovations understand has occurred in other ROTC cases elsewhere, can be fies the new policy based on1 the The renovation of Tang Hall's expected to increase friction in an already difficullt situation. results of a survey of graduate top five floors will begin June 1s Beyond the question of principle, you should also be con- students conducted by the Grad- according to Michael S. Mills, cerned that the issue of homosexual participation in ROTC and MIT Colloquium focuses uate Student Council Housing MIT general manager for hous- the military generally will become a vehicle for those who are on environment. Page 2. and Community Affairs commit- ing and renovations. According dedicated critics of the nation's defense establishment and the tee during February 1989. to Mills, the carpeting and kitch- historical relationship between the DOD and the nation's lead- "The most compelling result of en appliances will be replaced, ing universities. I hope that you will devote some consideration Earth Day events planned this survey is that a clear major- and bathrooms and showers will to this matter, which I view as potentially quite serious. Of in Cambridge and ity (82.4 percent) of graduate stu- be regroulted if necessary. course, I am prepared to assist you in any way you might find dents feel that first-year students useful. ____ I (Please turn to page 2) m PAGE 2 The Tech FRIDAY APRIL 20, 1990 _I r I 1 _I· I ql II' I rl- Earth Day events planned for Sunday ly By Neil J. Ross al, global and local issues will be dren's "earth wishes" collected b) covered. Britt Howe. Ireen This Sunday is National Earth Among the more basic issues One of the speakers at MIT;'Is Day. Conceived as a revival of represented will be recycling, Wednesday colloquium, Bil1- it v /An MIT Colloquium on the Planet the landmark 1970 Earth Day, while the larger concerns will McKibben, author of The End o which helped to create the atmo- range from global warming to Nature, will give the keynote ad- sphere in which the Environmen- the destruction of forests. dress, and Cambridge Mayor Al tal Protection Agency was The Cambridge events will run ice Wolf will attend the event. formed and in which the Clean between 10 am and 2 pm along Unusual exhibits at the evenit Speakers urge global Air and Clean Water Acts were the banks of the Charles between will include a 20-foot tall statuee passed, Sunday's events are in- JFK Street and Western Avenue of recycled Cambridge plastic en tended to help heighten public near Harvard. Like the afternoon titled "Trash Goddess" by Cam- environmental vision awareness of environmental events in Boston on the espla- bridge artist Jenifer Moore, andd By Prabhat Mebta a reference to the controversial issues. nade, the Cambridge events will a 10-foot video screen runningg Major changes in the way hu- greenhouse effect theory of glob- While Earth Day 1970 was include a variety of music, in- footage of the environment b!y mans interact with and view their al warming. So far, humans have speaking to an environmentally cluding a Japanese folk singer Cathy Davis. environment will have to take "adapted nature to meet our naive public, this week's events who is an advocate of the cause The Cambridge events will bee place in the coming years of envi- needs," he added. can afford to confront the public of the survivors of Hiroshima part of an environmental week- ronmental crisis, declared the Humans have two choices now, with more of the complexities of and Nagasaki. There will be over end, as the University of Massa speakers of Wednesday evening's he said: continue attempting to environmental issues. With the 20 "roving performers" including chusetts, Harbor Campus, will bee Institute Colloquium on the conquer the forces of nature, or local Cambridge events involving magicians, Jugglers, dancers and holding an environmental day ora planet. use technology to reduce human 42 environmental groups, nation- clowns, and also displays of chil- Saturday. The colloquium's topic reflects environmental impact. _ -- II-II -I · II a growing international preserva- The first stance would yield tion movement, and occurred disastrous consequences, McKib- during a week of environmental ben felt. Man has no choice but events ending with this Sunday's to put limits on his growth. Earth Day celebrations. McKibbena felt that scientists Ted Flanigan of the Rocky were the key to this conservation Mountain Institute and writer movement, for they would be de- Bill McKibben -warned a near ca- pended upon for the necessary pacity crowd at Kresge Auditori- technological innovations which um of the dangers of limitless would allow man to maintain a technological and population high standard of living without growth. In addition, they both wrecking his environment. "Sci- concurred on the need for tech- ence and scientists are our he- nological progress to focus on roes," he said. limiting man's effect on Earth Flanigan discussed the technol- rather than on expanding his ogies which need to be imple- ability to dominate it. mented to turn back the destruc- "We've managed [for the first tion of the planet's ecology. time? to alter the entirety of our Using currently available prod- environment," said McKibben in (Please turn to page 15)

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Donaghey, who signed the If current residents choose let- The contents of the letter "dis- ter sent to Tang's residents, said to remain in their rooms, they gusted" Gautam Nayar G. the he would be willing to grant PS)iTENS $ will likely be somewhat inconven- president of the Tang Hall Resi- exceptions to individuals who r ienced r by the renovations, Mills dents Association. In response to wished to remain in their current Exclusively At said. "Obviously we are hoping the letter, Nayar said, "I don't rooms, but emphasized the prob- a that they will not do so," he MlT COOP AT KENDALL think it was fair on [the Housing 3 CAMBRIDGECENTER lems they might face. Ir added. -+915-7 THOR TL 8.30 . Office's] part. I think they are "They might be without their SAT 915545 t A letter outlining the options playing dirty." Nayar said that the bathroom or kitchen for one or L ---- C ---- LI -- -·- r for Tang Hall's residents during s ----- I Tang Hall Residents Association two days. We'll be replacing the the renovations was posted on may put up a poster in Tang in- carpeting in all of the rooms, the doors of all of apartments on L forming people that F they have the putting in new kitchen appli- F =- Monday. The letter did not offer option of staying if they r wish. ances, replacing sinks.... I t residents the option of r remaining Kenneth Donaghey, the acting think the renovations will incon- in their current apartments, in house manager for Tang Hall, venience them." WATSON COME HERE! spite of previous promises by the denied that students had been Magulre and Mills felt the in- Housing Office that such an op- misled about whether they would convenience to students would be tion would be available. Mills IV CALLING be permitted to stay in their less severe than Donaghey had conceded in an interview that rooms. "I don't think we were predicted. "If push comes to Tang residents are permitted to trying to hide anything from shove, we will not shove," said HE FOR remain in their current rooms, S&S them," he said in a phone con- Maguire in a recent interview. Maguire also emphasized the H Ing policy for .gIau.1 .._ .esI ,s need for a '"soft landing" for res- TAKEOUT, Housing policy for graeduate students idents during each stage of the renovation process. What a marvelous invention! (The followin is a summary of the implications of the new In explaining why the option Now anyone can say hello to graduate housing policy.) to remain in their current apart- AS&S Takeout. And say good- Tang Hall (unfurnished apartments, coed, 404 beds) - 100l ments was absent from the letter bye to dull food. Just imagine percent for incoming students, less than l tenured positions to sent to the residents, Mills ex- how good a Gourmet Boursin provide continuity. Top five floors to be remodeled and fur- plained, "There are going to be Burger would taste. Or Pasta nished starting June 1. Will be 'entirely furnished by. 1993. inconveniences, but it is going to Primavera. Be inspired by Asdow" House (furnished, dormitory, coeds '420 beds) be livable, it is going to be ac- Scallops Praoinciale, or our Two lotteries one to get into the house before arriving at ceptable," savory Baby Back Ribs. Indulge MIT, and anothier at the end of the first year of residency to According to Mills, during the yourself with Baby Watson stay-with tenure. Sixty percent of the future residents.-wil be renovations in an occupied apart- cheesecake. Whatever you continuing students with tenure, and 40 percent new'students, ment, "The water will be shut off wish. The entire S&S Menu is who will have to go through a second lottery to receive a for one day or two days from 8 atyour tenured room. fingertips. Inportions am to 4 pm; the cooking facilities that made the S&S famous. Green Hall, (furnished dormitory, women only, 46 beds) - might be down during the day; And affordably priced. So Two lotteries. Fifty percent tenured continuing students, 50 per the shower will be down during whether forone or 21, call cent new graduate students, the day, but we will put down S&S Tak eout and discover Eastgate (unfurnished apartments, married students, 197 duct tape so people can shower apartments) just how good takeout can be. -Two years residency permitted. No extensions or . . . [replacing I kitchen cabinets tenure after two years. would require people to take out Westgate (unfurnished apartments, married students, 209 all of their stuff. ... " apartments) -Same as Eastgate. . The new graduate student 143 Albany Street (new unfurnished, apartments, 191 beds) - apartment building at 143 Alba- Two lotteries. Fifty percent tenured continuing w students, 50 per- ny Street is scheduled to be open cent -WI new graduate students. .+. ^ for occupancy on June 1, accord- Sif~ All current resdr fadgdut ouses will be rda- ing to Mills. The Housing Office Take Out * Catering ered. The lottery for incoming students will, be held Mk I'S' has posted a copy of the floor The date for, the lottery for 'continuing students has, hot yeit bin' plan for 143 Albany in the A Great Find Since 1919. decided,~but is tentatively"planned for I; 1*yl'J" lobby of Tang Hall, according to Sources: MIT Housing Office,, MIT Vice President 4riffiam R., Nayar, to create an incentive Bre~ast, Lunch, Dinner. Mon.-Sat.7:00am- 12-:00dd, Sun.8:00am -I I1:00PM huma Square, 1334Cambridge St., Cwmbridge, 354777, FAX: 354-8924. Dickson for Tang residents to move into Albany. L - I II---- i 191 'II ~ ,a ~-LL71'7 ~~ " _ IC P FRIDAY APRIL 20, 1990 The Tech PAGE 3 _M I

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Mexico protests US drug arrests Mexico's president said his government is taking part with the United States in the battle against drugs, but that Couple accused of negligence Lithuanians might withdraw it will not put up with illegal arrests or kidnappings of Mexicans. Mexican authorities want to know how a Mexi- The judge at the manslaughter trial of a Christian bid for independence Science couple continues to question potential jurors There's a report that Lithuanian leaders may be ready can doctor got to Texas, where he was arrested in the murder of a US drug agent. The doctor's lawyer says about their religious and medical affiliations. Judge to temporarily give up their bid for independence from he Sandra Hamlin -was kidnapped. is attempting to seat a panel that will the Soviet Union. The British Broadcasting Corporation preside over the trial of Davie and Ginger Twitchell. quoted Lithuanian sources for the report. Their television They are accused of failing to seek medical attention program "Newsnight" reported Lithuanian leaders may for their two-year-old son who died of a bowel obstruc- offer to drop their claim of independence, in exchange for tion in 1986. The Twitchells maintain they followed their a definite timetable leading to independence within two East German premier predicts religious beliefs and sought a cure through spiritual years. quick unification healing. The report follows attempts by the Soviet Union to sti- By summer, says East Germany's prime minister, there Yesterday, Hamlin questioned possible jurors one by fle the independence movement by cutting off oil and gas could be one Germany in all but politics. Lothar De one. She asked them if they or any family members were I-- supplies to the Baltic republic. Lithuania apparently tried Maiziere told his parliament yesterday that East and West employed by a church or a doctor, or if they had received make the Soviet government feel the pinch as well, by cut- Germany could merge their economies and social institu- religious or medical instruction outside of schools. She ting the energy supplies of Soviet military bases and fac- tions in eight also asked if they doubted that it was possible to treat I weeks. But he said things have to be set up tories first. so that relatively wealthy West Germans do not make East illnesses with prayer alone, focusing on their attitudes to- Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev appears to be Germans feel like poor relations. ward treating illness with prayer rather than conventional playing both "good cop" and "bad cop" in his dealings medical attention. with two other Baltic republics that have made moves to- ward independence. Meeting yesterday with leaders of Latvia and Estonia, he is said to have offered concessions to keep them in the Soviet fold - and threats in the event that they try to secede. Drug may fight AIDS President Bush said there are limits to US patience on I A Yale researcher announced yesterday that a vaccine Lithuania, but. he refused to say when or how me might created by a pharmaceutical company appears to protect respond. Court to decide on human immune cells from the AIDS virus when the cells I are implanted in mice. But Dr. Francis Black cautions that Bush upset with hostage-takers KKK mask legality it may not that it may not work with people. Nonetheless, President Bush said yesterday that the United States has Whether or not Ku Klux Klansmen can wear masks and Black calls the experiment an important step toward find- been disappointed before in its expectations that hostages hoods in public is before a court in Georgia, where state ing a vaccine to prevent infection by AIDS. in Lebanon would be released. Bush added that the Unit- law prohibits them. A Klansman who staged a one-man ed States will not meet the demands of kidnappers. protest against the law by wearing a mask and being ar- His comments came after the Islamic Jihad for the Lib- rested told a court yesterday that it is a free speech issue, eration of Palestine sent word that they would postpone and that Klan members need to conceal their identities to Oklahoma teachers return to work the release of a hostage because the US government had protect themselves from retaliation. Black and Jewish The Oklahoma teachers' strike appears to be over. State not sent John Kelly, a top State Department official,, to groups told the court that the anti-mask law has helped lawmakers yesterday evening broke a deadlock on school Syria. Bush explained that he would not send Kelly be- reduce Klan violence. The judge said he will rule in about financing that would raise teachers' salaries. The strike, cause the "US does not knuckle under to demands.' Trhe a month. which began Monday, affected over 300,000 students. group has also renewed threats to Attack jetliners and air- ports used to transport thousands of Soviet Jewish immi- Ipeb; gran~ts to Israel. Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa would not Mayor rides bicycle to mark Shuttle almost ready for liftoff provide details, but he said his government is exerting in- Earth Day celebration National Aeronautics and Space Administration has completed recharging the Hubble Space Telescope's bat- fluence to secure a hostage release by Sunday. The mayor of Portland, OR, often rides his bicycle to teries, and everything appears to be on track for Tuesday work. Yesterday, he had a lot of company; about 300 oth- morning's scheduled launch. Air Force weather officers er bicyclists. There Nicaragua prepares for change were anti-automobile efforts on both say there's an 80 percent chance of favorable weather for coasts as a prelude to Sunday's Earth Day celebration. In liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery. Officials of the incoming government in Nicaragua are New York, no cars were allowed on 42nd Street during the hailing a cease-fire agreement for ending thle fighting miid-day hours. between the Sandanistas. and the US-backed contras. The head of the transition team for president-elect Violeta Lorenzo loses control of Eastern Chamorro said yesterday that the pack concludes the Now that a federal bankruptcy judge has taken control peace process that started with the elections. Marcos trial reveals extravagance of Eastern Airlines away from Frank Lorenzo, Eastern's Under the agreement, the contras are to begin laying Fifty-five dollars for hamburgers and fish fillets at striking machinists are hoping to negotiate a back-to- down their weapons next week and to disband by June 10. McDonalds? That is among the smaller expenditures work agreement. Union leaders said that workers may The cease-fire, which began at noon yesterday, will be ver- Imelda Marcos is said to have made during visits to New have to make some big concessions before returning to ified by United Nations forces and Nicaraguan Catholic York, according to documents at her fraud trial. The for- their jobs. A special trustee was given control of the com- Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo. mer first lady of the Philippines is also said to have spent pany on Wednesday, in part due to the large debts Eastern The accords appeared to end a tense standoff among millions on jewelry and art, and $13,000 in one day in had accumulated. tl,r the Sandanista government, Chamorro's incoming admin- Bloomingdale's. istration, and the contras that had threatened to derail the transfer of power in Nicaragua. The Sandanistas say the Infant pillows deemed unsafe rebel forces should begin disbanding on Wednesday, the House debates military spending The Consumer Product Safety Commission has a sim- day the Chamorro government is inaugurated. The reduced tensions in Europe are reflected in a 1991 ple message about some infant pillows: Do not buy them, budget bill that is up for a vote in the Hlouse Budget and do not use them. Small, foam bead-filled pillows Committee. The Democrats' $1.2 trillion package includes have been linked to the deaths of 19 infants since 1987. Rubes By Leigh Rubin an $11.5 billion cut in military spending. It would shift $6 The pillows are so soft that babies who lie face-down on -- --I- -,_ , ,,w billion to domestic programs such as child care, highway I f them can suffocate. The CPSC said manufacturers are A construction and anti-drug efforts. It also calls for nearly recalling more than 600,000 of the pillows. I $20 billion in new taxes and user fees.

i il:I Cocaine hulrts war on drugs, alcohol I I1i! Federal health researchers said yesterday that nearly -A F half the decade-long goals against drug and alcohol abuse n~~~~~ have been met, but others have not because of the spread of cocaine. The National Centers for Disease Control said Rainy Saturday, sunny Sunday the share of Americans using cocaine at least once a week A southwesterly flow will keep temperatures nearly doubled in the late 80's, to 10!/2 percent. warm for another day before a cold front passes through Friday night and Saturday, bringing rain. The front will move quickly and skies will clear Saturday night, leaving sunny, cooler weather for Sunday.

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I beginning late. Low 48°F (9°C). Rose pleads guilty in tax case Saturday: Cloudy with showers. High 59°F (15'C). He has been kicked out of baseball for gambling, and Continued strong southwest winds 20-25 mph now he could end up in jail. Documents disclosed yester- (32-40 kph). Clearing Saturday night with low day in a Cincinnati court show that former baseball star 43 °F (6°C). Pete Rose has agreed to plead guilty to two felony counts Sunday: Clear and cooler. High 55°F (13'C). of filing false tax returns - specifically, not reporting in- Forecast by Yeh-Kai Tung i L come from souvenir sales and autograph signings. The of- L g I--- I I ---- e II Where peanut brittle comes from. fenses carry a possible total of six years in prison. Compiled by Reuvren M. Lerner PAGE 4 The Tech FRIDAY APRIL 20, 1990 I i 1I I " I--I s

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I-r----, I I - I - I --r We must remember Holocaust Column by Michael Franklin I Six million is a difficult number to comprehend, munity centers, cemetery chapels and similar build- yet many people will try this Sunday, Holocaust ings were torched . . . at least 30,000 Jewish men- Remembrance Day. Not to understand why it hap- were arrested and thrown into concentration pened, or how, but rather to protect and preserve camps." the memory of those who died and the circum- The list of atrocities goes on and on and on. stances of their deaths. It is easy in the United Poland, home of the six major concentration camps States to forget the devastation of the Second World - Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobi- War; this country was spared from the horrors of bor and Treblinka - helped in the murder of an both bombing and Hitler's "answer" to the age-old estimated 3.5 million Jews (anid 1.5 million non- "Jewish Question." And Europe has largely rebuilt Jews). Of all the European countries overrun by or - the signs of war and death have mostly disap- allied to Hitler, it was only Denmark that made a peared or have been hidden by rebuilding. concerted effort and saved the vast majority of its To partly understand the great loss inflicted by Jewish population. And the Allies denied escape for the Nazis, and to understand why this day is to be most refugees by limiting immigration when the remembered, one must merely view the evidence need was most desperate. present throughout Central Europe. It is clear that It must be remembered that the extermination of Hitler's vision of a Europe without Jews was nearly six million Jews was not a side-effect of the war but realized. In Hungary, the Germans were able to ex- one of the primary goals of National Socialism, a terminate all Jews in the countryside, but were pre- well-planned effort by Hitler to obliterate every vented from reaching Budapest by the efforts of the trace of Jews in Europe. No other people - not the Hungarian government, and later by the arrival of -, -- I I - _--- I·rll I r I- i Slavs, the gypsies or any other - were condemned the Russian army. to die; no other group was so consumed by the en- Along a street outside the center of the city there thusiastic and vitriolic hatred of Hitler and the stands a monument to Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish German population. diplomat. Why honor a foreign diplomat with a For Hitler, Jews were the most important enemy, simple monument of a statue and some rocks? Wal- the poisoner of the German people and the force lenberg was one of those very few individuals brave behind all of Germany's economic problems. He enough to risk personal danger to help Jews escape stopped at nothing to achieve his goal of complete Volume 1 10, Number 20 Friday, April 20, 1990 the horror of Hitler and the apathy of the citizens. elimination of this enemy, even diverting trains - Using the powers of his position, he was able to essential for the war effort - to carry hordes of Chairman ...... Deborah A. Levinson '91 save the lives of over 80,000 Jews, before being cap- Jews to their deaths in concentration camps. Editor in Chief ...... Prabhat MAehta '91 tured and arrested by the Russians. The Holocaust must be remembered as a unique Business Manager ...... Russell Wilcox '91 No such figure as Wallenberg existed in Austria. atrocity, distinct from any other. To compare the Managing Editor ...... Marie E. V. Coppola '90 In Vienna, one synagogue exists to serve the needs Holocaust with Hiroshima, for example, denies and Executive Editor ...... Linda D'Angelo '90 of the Jewish community of roughly 6000. It stands hides the historic role of German and Christian along a street forbidden to cars, guarded by two anti-Semitism that lead to and helped implement News Editors ...... Annabelle Boyd '90 Austrian police with machine guns. Three cameras Hitler's mad Andrea Lamberti '91 theories. Furthermore, such a compari- watch the approaches to the synagogue and two son implies that Americans are no worse than the Reuven M. Lerner '92 heavy sliding doors protect the main entrance. Night Editor ...... aniel A. Sidney G Nazis, and that Hitler was no worse than Truman. Opinion Editor ...... Michael J. Franklin '88 These measures are not re- _Lucy Dawidowicz in The Sports Editor ...... Shawn Mastrian '91 quired for day-to-day prob- Holocaust and the Histori- Arts Editor ...... Peter E. Dunn G lems, but rather to protect >>~B~~ A _ ans, writes that another im- Photography Editor ...... Kristine AuYeung '91 against the occasional - plication is that "Nazi Ger- Contributing Editors ...... Jonathan Richmond G but expected - flare-up of many committed no worse .* ~~~~~~~~~~~NirajS. Desai '90 anti-Semitism or terrorism. crimes than other states and * ~~~~~~~~~~~~IreneC. Kuo '90 Now it is the Austrian was not unique among na- Lisette W. M. Lambregts '90 government that provides Lois Eaton '92 tions as a perpetrator of Advertising Manager ...... Mark E. Haseltine '92 protection to the Jewish evil deeds... differences Production Manager ...... Ezra Peisach '89 community. But in March, between democracy and to- Senior Editor ...... ;enevieve C. Sparagna '90 1938 this government al- talitarianism become unim- lowed the Germans to an- m~~ilP~iii~ L~s> portant. No distinction is NEWS STAFF nex their country. In No- made ... between murder- Associate News Editors: Neil J. Ross G. Joanna Stone '92, Brian vember, they actively aided ing six million Jews and, Rosenberg '93, Katherine Shim '93; Staff: Joan Abbott '90, the German SS and SA ar- for instance, bomnbing Anita Hsiung '90, Miguel Cantillo '91, Adnan Lawai '91, Chitra resting Jews, and burnings Dresden." ' K. Raman '91, Gaurav Rewari '91, Eun S. Shin '91, Aileen Lee over 5000 businesses and 93 This is not to belittle the '92, Adam Chen '93, Karen Kaplan '93, Shannon Mohr '93, synagogues. Over the next horrors of Hiroshima or Michael Schlamp '93, Cliff Schmidt '93; Meteorologists: Robert seven years, it helped in the X. Black G, Robert J. Conzemius G. Michael C. Morgan G. Greg any other atrocity, but in- destruction of the vast ma- A Holocaust victim stead to assert their distinct Bettinger '91, Yeh-Kai Tung '93. M jority of the 200,000 Austrian Jews. circumstances. Each has its own tales of death and PRODUCTION STAFF 9 A quick tour of the Central Cemetery finds that survival, its heros and villains, the people who re- ;F Associate Night Editors: Kristine J. Cordella '91, David Maltz m the Christian section is fairly well kept, with grass member, and those who forget. Each is the result of m '93; Staff: David E. Borison '91, Lawrence H. Kaye '91, Sunitha trimmed and new flowers near many of the older, as situations and actions which cannot simply be Gutta '93, Jonathon Weiss '93, Aaron M. Woolsey '93. well as the newer graves. Yet the Jewish section is mI lumped together in a statement on the evil of man- 2 OPINION STAFF overgrown with grass. Worn stones tilt crazily and kind. Each must stand alone as a monument to Pawan Sinha G. Karl Dishaw '89, Andrew L. Fish '89, Dave the Hebrew text is worn into greater incomprehensi- those who suffered and a sharp reminder to those Atkins '90, Michael Gojer '90, Adam Braff '91, Bill Jackson '93. bility. No, the graves were not desecrated, but sim- who stood by passively. SPORTS STA4FF ply untended by their families, families which had While the Holocaust is unique in history, anti- Michael J. Garrison G. Harold A. Stern '87, David Rothstein '91. been slaughtered by the Nazis. Semitism continues to haunt society. Jews returning ARTS STAFF Czechoslovak Jews suffered as well in the "final home after their liberation from the death camps Staff: Frank Gillett G, Mark Roberts G. Manavendra K. Thakur solution." Before the War, 180,000 Jews lived in often were met by their neighbors who had taken '87, Michelle P. Perry '89, Jigna Desai '90, Elizabeth Williams Czechoslovakia. Now, a mere 5000 are spread their houses, refused to return them, and in many '90, Paula Cuccurullo '91, David Stern '91, Alfred Armendariz throughout the country. The community in Prague places murdered these survivors of the Nazis. More '92, Sande Chen '92, Alejandro Solis '92, Kevin Frisch '93. had begun in the 11th century, and grew large recently, the opening of socialist societies in Central PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF enough to support five synagogues. These buildings Europe has released pent-up nationalism and anti- Associate Photography Editors: David H. Oliver '91, Sean Dou- did survive the terror of the Nazis, yet all but one Semitism. Jews hurry to leave Russia, not for any gherty '93, Douglas D. Keller '93; Staff: William Chu G. Frank have been turned into museums run by the state, great desire to settle in Israel, but because they fear Espinosa G. Andy Silber G, Ken Church '90, Mark D. Virtue '90, mute testimony to the fact that after 900 years, for their lives in their own country. Sarath Krishnaswarny '91, Georgina A. Maldonado '91, Mauricio there are simply no more Jews in Prague beyond a The Soviet government has done little to con- Roman '91, Marc Wisnudel '91, Jonathan Kossuth '92, Lerothodi- few old men and women. Peter Davison, in the Mqay strain Pamyat ('Memorv"), a strongly nationalistic Lapula Leeuw '92, Paulo Corriea '93, Michelle Greene '93, Wey issue of The Atlantic, comments on the lifelessness group spouting anti-Semitic slogans which blame Lead '93, Matthew Warren '93, Jeremy Yung '93; Darkroom of the old Jewish quarter noting that "only in one Manager: Ken Church '90. Jews for the evils of the country and forever threat- building, where the heartbreaking drawings and en violence. Intellectuals are again rallying to the FEATURES STAFF writings of Jewish children from the concentration cause, citing the Protocols f the Elders of Zion, a Christopher R. Doerr G. John Thompson '90, Taro Ohkawa '91, camp at Terezin are displayed, does life linger on." long-discredited fabrication about a Jewish conspir- Chris M. Montgomery '93. Surprisingly, part of the Berlin synagogue re- acy to dominate the world. And the growth of neo- BUSINESS STAFF mains standing, despite the fire during Kristallnacht Nazis in the Northwest, and the graffiti sprayed Delinquent Accounts Manager: Jadene Burgess '93; Advertising in Nov. 1938 and subsequent bombings of Berlin by over Wellesley last November indicate that anti- Accounts Manager: Shanwei Chen '92; Staff: Ben Tao '93. the Allies in 1943. But like many buildings in East Semitism is alive in the United States. Berlin, it remains pockmarked with bullet holes, On Sunday, remember the Holocaust as the real- unchanged in the 45 years since the end of the war. PRODUCTION STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE ization of longstanding anti-Semitism, a horror de- The towers remain toppled, and the building is Night Editors: ...... Daniel A. Sidney G signed by one man - and supported by a nation - Associate Night Editor: ...... Kristine J. Cordella '91 swathed in green netting supported by a rusting to completely annihilate the "mortal enemies," the Staff: Peter E. Dunn G. Halvard K. Birkeland '89, Kristine scaffolding skeleton. Jews. Remember that so-called civilized societies AuYeung '91, David Maltz '93, Jonathon Weiss '93, Jeremy KristallIacht is the German name for the pogrom stood by as their citizens were doomed to gas cham- Hylton '94. that occurred on Nov. 10, 1938. The name mocks bers. Remember that anti-Semitism continues to its victims, memorializing the broken windows of rear its ugly head across the world. 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" It's not chain long enough to reach it, can you, with our lives. For the uninitiated, the show is based on for everyone. boy? s the video submissions of the audience. * Mags Harries' Secret Home Videos: 0 Steve Garvey's Home Videos: "And Bill Jackson '93, a Tech columnist, has Each week, several categories of videos, Garbled, but viewers will be able to make that's Ralph and Amy and James and a growing fear that more people are read- recorded by the home camcorders of view- out the frightening line "And when I have Susie and Tommy and Barbie and Steve Jr. ing the jokes in the biographical blurbs ers, are played back along with an added all their hair, they will be mine!" and Debbie and Bob. Those are my chil- than the columns themselves. soundtrack and ostensibly funny commen- 9 Russia's Funniest Home Videos: The tary by the host, Bob Saget. soundtrack talks about the advances of The categories include videos of chil- glasnost as you watch wacky images of dren, videos of (humorous) accidents, and people waiting for soap and meat. prepared video satires. At the end of the 9 Harvard's Wittiest Home Videos: show the studio audience votes onI the best Mummy. Daddy. The Yacht. The Hamp- video of the week. The creator of that vid- tons. The best damn codfishing in the eo is awarded $10,000. world. To captu~re moments like these, it's Being the most popular show on televi- worth hiring that cameraman. sion means that the show will be imitated, * Miss Daisy's Most Private Home Vid- undoubtedly. NBC President Brandon Tar- eos: "Not only is he a fine driver, but he tikoff has already joked at a press confer- has just the nicest tush." ence that he won't even discuss how many a The Funniest Home Videos of Practical rip-offs of America's Home Videos he has Jokes Pulled on Paul Gray: As a retire- already been shown. ment gag on Paul, his friends gather in his To prepare the reader for the inevitable, home one evening and produce forged here is a list of future home video-type "evidence" that he is gay. They then pro- shows being prepared for our airwaves. duce a forged Institute resolution saying that MIT presidents cannot be homosex- * The MIT Campus Police's Funniest uals and that he owes back salary since Home Videos: One of the officers arrives 1980. Just as Gray is near tears and about home to find that his young son1 has built to reverse his stand on ROTC discrimina- a shanty out of legos in the middle of the tion, they let him off the hook. What a kitchen. Hilarity (and gunplay) ensues. gas. * America's Schoolroom Home Videos: o Deborah Norville's Truest Home Vid- "4No, Jenny, Sirhan Sirhan-is not the name eos: Doesn't have a very good chance of of Bon Jovi's opening band." getting on1 the air. All you see is Deborah * Dan Quayle's Funniest H~ome Videos: looking in a mirror, chanting "I'm gonna He usually leaves the lens cap on, and he get that b----'s job.... I'm gonna get that can never remember which is the "record" b----'s job. . . . Looks a little old. button and which is the "stops' button, e The Boston Red Sox Home Videos: but on the rare occasions when he gets it Giggle as prominent Sox drop household right, you'll be treated to an inside glimpse objects and have trouble throwing the of the vice president's office, known as the garbage all the way to the curb. Romper Room to close advisors. o Nermal's Funniest Home Videos: * A mericd's Scariest Home Yisdeos: Sure, Laugo -along with Nx~ u *n;t e- Daddy probably could've snatched-Junior mal's" frustration as he realizes. he's the away before that oncoming train killed only cartoon character in ~heTech with- him, but hey, if nobody's holding the out hands (so he cannot masturbate). camera, you can't winl the $10,000 prize . E Mike Dukakis' Most Pathetic Home e Bart Simpson's Funniest H~ome Videos: Videos: Booo-ring. NWe watch Mike at- Yes, now you too can catch Homer and tempt to balance his personal checking Marge in the act. The question is, do you account and fail ... and fail .. and really want to watch a repeat of the act fail.... How a butterfly influences the presidential search Column by James Williams

The tiny breeze in your face that you do This search committee dismays me. Are frothy, not inclined to address details, greatly values science and engineering, and not feel is the wind of change sweeping they looking for a person to serve as a flighty; you know, like a butterfly. To be he greatly respects science and engineering through the MIT administration. Is there a faculty member or a president? I believe, blunt, his critics say he is Less Thorough. educators. He is global in his views and butterfly in California flapping its wings when considering candidates, they are Well, this is the pedantic chatter of little collegial in his approach. He has a nation- and thereby creating currents which would presently inclined to count publications, politicians. (What they don't say is that he al and international identity that exceeds determine the leadership that will pilot assess Nobel Prize prospects, or perhaps is smidgen too liberal for the neo right- that of any (incoming) president in the his- MIT toward the 21st century? seek an economist's economist. (Paul Sa- wingers.) If they want someone to tend to tory of MIT. (Just think, the committee The Butterfly Effect (originally pro- muelson is the only economist who knows everyday nuts and bolts, hire an adminis- members won't have to go around re- posed -by our emeritus colleague Edward everything, but he's retired.) Number of trative mechanic. The issue is not the sponding to the question "Lester who?") N. Lorenz SM '43) is a whimsical extrapo- publications and prospects for prizes are management of an ice-cream parlor in He is already a leader. lation from the theory of chaos which attractive qualities in anyone, but what is Central Square but the leadership of a asserts that some dynamic systems are so their controlling relevance in a prospective world-renowned institution, polarized Unless this search committee is in a fog, complex that no imaginable variable is MIT president? around engineering and the sciences with they're probably focusing on insiders at external to them. The theory asserts that it I fear the committee will unload another peerage throughout the humanities and this point. Is there a self-respecting outsid- may be reasoned that the fluttering of a surprising and surprised nominee with a arts. Generals delegate missions to colo- er, worthy of consideration, who would butterfly's wings in Pasadena could have rich sauce of academic cant, designed to nels and majors who pass along details to test his or her mettle in these muddy pred- a major effect on Cambridge's weather cat reality and designed-to convince us captains and lieutenants for sergeants to ator-infested waters? Let's face it, it would I weeks later. that they have selected the savior. We're implement. take a neophyte six months simply to find Is the behavior of the MIT presidential big boys and girls; there's no need to gravy MIT's national and international roles the fourth floor of Building 11. Any new- search committee an affirmation of the our hamburger to disguise it as filet could shrink or expand significantly as a comer is likely to be put on a leash, led Butterfly Effect? I have been wondering mignion. result of this committee's choices. If the around by the nose by the current admin- recently why the committee doesn't resist Is Lester Thurow perfect? No way. Do main focus of the US consciousness during istration, and told whom to select as pro- its fluttering urges, ignore third-order you know any perfect leadlers? Have you the 1930s was overcoming the depression, vost, dean for this and dean for that. No noise, do the right thing (God bless ever heard of any perfect leaders (exclud- the 1940s defeating the Axis, the 1950s one who is or desires to be president of Spike Lee) and nominate Dean Lester C. ing American mythology of course)? As a containing communism and improving the MIT is free, and an outsider would be Thurow to become the 15th President of community, we should be mature enough standard of living, the 1960s embracing least free. the Institute. I've never met Lester to stop pretending to require such non- technology and civil struggles, the 1970s Thurow; therefore, it may be concluded sense. Still, if Thurow has half the vision, recognizing global limitations and social Perhaps the search committee will now that in the eyes of the MIT administration competence and compassion I think he needs, and the 1980s economic competi- be constrained by the law of the conserva- there is, at least, one thing that's in his has, he's likely to surpass the "achieve- tion and the declining debt-based standard tion of collective constitutional compensa- favor. ments' of the present waning regime - of living; then the 1990s should be about tion - I know of no such law but there Those who think that the MIT presiden- a regime during which we've witnessed, addressing our deficits: trade (internation- could be such a principle - which states cy is primarily an intellectual academic among other things, a dictatorial corpo- al competitiveness), federal (public and that each flash of committee darkness role are applying 19th century thinking to rate management style, the barbaric physi- corporate infrastructure, savings and in- must be balanced by a flash of committee a 21st century task. Visionary, charismatic, cal attacking of our academic progeny as vestment) and people (education, quality light. Perhaps they will recognize that articulate, global perspective, influential, they peacefully protested at home (which of life and pluralism). The relationship be- sometimes opportunity does not arrive strategist, and yes, intelligence are words is just what this campus is), and the deci- tween a great university and the engaging with a bang, but with a breeze; the breeze which should come to mind in considering mation of the MIT black faculty (despite of these deficits is perceived by no candi- in their faces which they have not yet felt, the potential leader of a world-class mod- those dubious minority faculty numbers date better than Lester Thurow. the breeze of The Butterfly. ern academic institution. L. T. (perfect ini- which it publishes). He is a visionary, enthusiastically articu- tials for a linebacker) more than anyone at The rap on Lester Thurow is that he will late in the presentation of his perspectives James Williams '67 is a professor in the MIT is that person. never win the Nobel Prize,.-that he is on issues and solutions to problems. He Department of Mechanical Engineering. PAGE 6 The Tech FRIDAY APRIL 20, 1990 1 III 'r · I _

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I = I g bl P II1 = a I-I -- - ' ' - - r, Divestment not necessarily the answer I am presently a graduate stu- that divestment is the course using IBM computers, stop rid- dent at MIT and am very dis- of action that the outside world ing in all GM vehicles.... The turbed and confused by the re- should take, I am unclear as list is nearly endless. I would ad- cent events concerning the to whether the ANC actually rep- mire any person who could do all divestment of MIT's holdings in resents the majority opinion of this because I am not that strong. businesses having connections in black South Africans. Furthermore, to selectively boy- South Africa. Even though I do This doubt stems from the ex- cott only one or a few companies feel that divestment does have a istence of other black political would be unfair. positive impact towards the even- groups which have held views dif- Maybe an appropriate role that tual end to apartheid, I still have ferent than that of the ANC in we as students could take is to a couple of misgivings. Specifi- the past. Furthermore, would the collect food, clothing, and educa- cally, do the majority of South majority of black South Africans tional supplies for black South Africans feel that divestment is agree that divestment is the pri- Africans. If this is not already I, the best way for the outside mary and most important action being done at MIT, I would invite I world to accelerate the disman- that foreigners should take in the CAA or others in the MIT tling of the apartheid system? aiding their efforts? I simply do ..ArW` miP community to organize such an Secondly, am I in the position not know. effort. This may be the best Ow gy 1l 1'1I El to criticize MIT's divestment Secondly, am I in the position way to take both a moral stance A CLWU FM A NEW PiYUX policies? to criticize MIT's policies? I regarding the apartheid issue As an undergraduate at the think not. I was not coerced to while also affecting some positive University of California, Berke- attend MIT to pursue my gradu- change for the disadvantaged and ley, in 1985, I protested the Uni- ate study, and I can freely go oppressed majority in that trou- versity of California's investment elsewhere. In addition, even bled nation. - -r . '' . .,Ire .,, .a,,, , ., policies. These protests, I feel, though I am a student here, and Vasan Venugopalan G had a significant impact on the receive no funds from the Insti- Gray recommends change to decision by the Regents of the tute, my relationship with MIT is University of California to divest analogous to that between a com- Gallery theft its assets from companies doing pany and its consumers. I pay discriminatory ROTC policy business in or with South Africa. MIT money, and in return I get (Editor's note: The Tech re- with policies that discriminate on At that time, my views were access to professors, libraries, deters artists ceived a-copy ofr this letter ad- the grounds of sexual preference. focused. I thought that divest- and an education leading to a On the night of April 12 a dressed to UndergraduateAssoci- We are making such efforts. ment was efficient in achieving degree. color photograph of ours was ation President Manish Bapna MIT's position on these matters the goal of accelerating the dis- However, for me to protest stolen from a locked display case 191.) is contained in the statements mantling of the apartheid system. MIT's position on financial hold- in the Student Center's Wiesner Both the Provost and I are from MacVicar, which appeared I also felt that it was morally jus- ings in companies having connec- Art Gallery. This picture was part troubled by the contradiction be- in recent issues of The Tech tified and in the best interest of tions in South Africa would be, of an exhibit of our photographs tween MIT's policy of non-dis- [March 23] and Tech Talk, and the majority of South Africans. in my opinion, similar to going which ran from April 2-14. crimination and the Reserve Offi- the other from the provost, John Furthermore, since I was a resi- out, buying a can of Coca-Cola, Having spent several hundred cers' Training Corps' policy of M. Deutch '61, in a letter to dent and taxpayer in the state of and then trying to dictate to the (mostly enjoyable) hours prepar- discrimination on the basis of the secretary of defense, Dick California, I felt I had a right Coca-Cola Corporation who they ing this exhibit, we found this sexual preference, and we believe Cheney [see front page]. and an obligation to make my should do business with. Further- theft very disheartening. We were that this ROTC policy should I believe that the military ser- views heard regarding the finan- more, if I was receiving funds honestly quite shocked that change. Indeed, that contradic- vices not only should but will cial administration of this state from MIT to subsidize my educa- someone would venture to force- tion was one, though not the change their policies regarding institution. - tion? costs would my stance be fully remove a work on display in only,. reason for Dean Margaret sexual preference, because the ..Five ye4rsh4ave past-.ad I am even -weaker in accepting this the gallery. Thefts of this kind L. A. MacYicar '65's appointing continuation of ROTC programs now at MIT. I enjoyed reading "tainted" money? Would it then will greatly discourage student an ad hoc faculty committee last at leading colleges and universi- the recent letter by the Coalition be appropriate for me to tell the artists from displaying their work year to review the relationship ties will be greatly influenced by Against Apartheid ["Gray's mes- MIT administration what to do in the gallery for fear of losing between MIT and ROTC. this question. Clearly, this will sage on divestment clashes with with its money? the fruits of many hours' labor. Among the recommendations of not happen overnight, but we will Mandela's," April 101, which So what should I do? Should I This would indeed be a sad state the ad hoc committee was that continue to work on this issue, served to further educate me on boycott products of companies of affairs for the only student art MIT should endeavor to convince and I think we will see a change. the issue. Even though Nelson doing business with or in South gallery on campus. the military services to do away Paul E. Gray '54 Mandela and the African Nation- Africa? I don't think I can turn Christopher B. Moore '90 President al Congress are of the opinion in my Citicorp credit card, stop Anastassios E. Petropoulos '91 Students were not violent during protests ,, · ,,,1 I-Y-·---Clp-I- I Letters -and cartoons mlut bear the ulthnarq qivnatlurpq Kenneth A. Ellis '93's sugges- As for Alan M. Steele '93's fying the arrested students in the Amp_rrr^ Xvvs YVUC Lt&X V 6Lv dS1ro will not tion ["Unruly mob should not accusation of students attacking Cambridge police station - in and One s. Unsigneddadd-e letlers affect divestment," April 13] to police ["Unruly mob should not fact many seemed to be in a good be accepted.-No Ier of cartoon wsH be protea aoony- transfer to another school is rath- affect divestment," April 13], I mood. If the police are so weak mOusW w tft Strss pair approval of The Techr The er silly. As protesters of injustice, have to say that the accusation is that they feel assaulted by a Tcuh rsel es the- geto edst'pir apprsova oef ethes ShoTe we feel obliged to stay where we unjustified. I was participating in group of peaceful protesters they be- yiven Bray.-willl We sehlet we cannot are and try to implement changes the rally (in fact I was arrested!), do not deserve to hold their jobs there, instead of tucking our tails and I did not see anyone attack- - imagine how they would feel prece1?$ F'the letq4¢ we Ax..i} between our legs and retreating ing the police. The police were dealing with violent criminals. like a slinking jackal. I earnestly pushing and pulling students, Khondkar Iftekhar Ahmed G NA hope Ellis will one day overcome shouting to intimidate them his fears and grasp reality boldly and employing other forms of instead of evading it. Also, to violence. Student House: 20 years of coed living him humane administrations are It is absurd to think that the As someone concerned about of separate wings or alternate when currently the Campus Po- "soft and weak" and obviously police were assaulted, when three the equality and fair treatment of floors. lice often will not provide escorts repressive ones worthy of high to four policemen manhandled all individuals, I am frustrated However, the fact that MIT across the Harvard Bridge for appraisal. I seriously doubt his and dragged individual students that there is so little attention women students do live in MIT- women students returning to moral convictions and hope that from inside and around the shan- given to some of the positive affiliated living groups in Bos- their living groups late at night? eventually he will condemn acts ty. None of the policemen seemed changes, few though they may ton, not only at Student House, MIT Student House has pro- of repression instead of attesting to be hurt when they were identi- be, that have occurred at MIT. In but also at Fenway House and vided a precedent-setting example them. particular, I would like to point Epsilon Theta, seems to have of egalitarianism. MIT should 1- ,,- J- , 1 I. .. I I out that this school year marks been forgotten by the MIT com- support such values with more the 20th anniversary of the dar- munity. The issues of women stu- immediate action than the nebu- ing adventure in coeducational dents residing across the river lous promise of a shuttle service living that began at MIT Studenat and possible difficulties related to be installed in the future. House. to this situation are being treated Won-Suk Cho '90 MIT Student House is an inde- as novel ideas. pendent cooperative for finan- I quote from The Tech ["'Alpha AEPi held cially needy MIT students. This Phi closer to obtaining house," four-story town house, located Jan. 31] regarding the procure- near Kenmore Square, is affiliat- ment of a house in Kenmore no meeting ed with, but not subsidized by, Square by an MIT sorority: "An- I would like to correct your MIT. In 1969, the students of the other issue that goes along with assertion in last Friday's article house, with the consent of the sorority housing is that of stu- on Alpha Epsilon Pi ["MIT with- MIT Student House Corporation dent security. Because it is dan- draws AEPi recognition," April (a group of alumni who own the gerous, especially for women, to 13] that Steven H. Baden '92 and building), decided to extend the walk across the Harvard Bridge I held a meeting for prospective benefits of the house to financial- and into Boston alone at night, AEPi members. This is not cor- ly needy women students at MIT. MIT is more seriously consider- rect. A few of my friends came Thus, it became one of the first ing plans for some type of shuttle by to ask me about what was go- coed college living groups in the service." But there have been ing on. We spoke for about 15 nation, and the first in the great- MIT women students living in minutes. Perhaps someone inter- er Boston area to house males Boston for over 20 years. preted this as an "official" meet- and female students under the Is MIT really willing to imple- ing; however, this was not the same roof without the imposition ment a system of shuttle buses, case. David Borison '91 · -r d II I I - u I I I br -- - C II -- I I--- I ------7 C--- -T--i--* Q

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JAZZ MUSIC The Handel & Haydn Society performs As Is, William Hoffman's exploration of The Opera Company of Boston performs Mark Haney and Tbe Aardvark Jazz works by Merulo, Gabrielli, and Monte- the relationship between two homosexual Puccini's Madamo Butterfly at 8 pm at ki "ic Orchestra performs in an MIT Faculty verdi at 8 pm in Old South Church, 645 men, is presented by the Boston Univer- the Opera House, 539 Washington Street, Concert at 8 pm in Kresge Auditorium. Boylston Street, Boston. Tickets: S12.50 sity Stage Troupe at 8 pm in the Man- Boston. Also presented Sunday, April 29 Compiled by Peter Dunn No admission charge. Tel: 253-2906. general, $5 student/senior rush. Tele- ville Auditorium, 640 Commonwealth at 3 pm. Telephone: 720-3434. phone: 266-3605. Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $5. Telephone: 739-2117. The Somerville Theatre presents The * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Best of the Festival of Animation at 7:00 The Gary Burton Reunion Group The Boston University Concert Band Ozawa conducting, performs works by & 9:30 at 55 Davis Square, Somerville, (with Pat Metheny, Mitch Forman, performs works by Sousa, Grainger, The Keeper, Lori Rosner's play set in a Stravinsky, Mahler, and Beethoven at just by the Davis Square T-stop on the Marc Johnson, and Peter Serskine) Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, Ken- doctor's waiting room, and Lucky Para- 8 pm in Symphony Hall, corner of Hun- CONTEMPORARY MUSIC red line [see review this issue]. Continues performs at 7:30 & 9:30 at the nan, Chaminade, Albeniz, and Ives at noia, James Doherty's examination of tington and Massachusetts Avenues, Bos- through April 29 with screenings Mon- Charles Hotel Ballroom, One Bennett 8 pm in the Tsai Performance Center, two artists searching for ways to survive ton. Tickets: $17 to $45. Tel: 266-1492. * * r CRITICS' CHOICE * * * day & Tuesday at 7:30, Wednesday- in the 20th century, are presented at Van Morrison performs at 7:30 at the Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. No Saturday at 7:00 & 9:30, Sunday at 7:00, Tickets: S21.50. Telephone: 876-7777. admission charge. Telephone: 353-3345. 8 pm at The Performance Place, 277 Marimolin, the violin-marimba duo, per- Orpheum, Hamilton Place, Boston. with matinees Saturday at 4:00 and Sun- Broadway, Somerville. Also presented forms works by Simon Bainbridge, Telephone: 482-0650. day at 2:00. Tickets: $5.50 advance/ DANCE April 21. Tickets: $8. Tel: 623-5510. Thomas Oboe Lee, Gunther Schuller, Al- The Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, lejandro $6.50 day of show. Telephone: 625-5700. * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * Vinao, and Pauline Oliveros at Mick Goodrick, Paul Motian Quartet Jack, or the Submission, lonesco's come- 8 pm in Jordan Hall, New England Treat Her Right, Laurie Sargent, Bad Freedman and Coleman, Pooh Kaye, Con- The Coolidge performs at 9 pm & 11 pm at the Regat- dy, is presented at 8 pm at the Emerson servatory, 30 Gainsborough Street Art Ensemble, Dharma Bums, and Daisy Corner presents The Wiz- and JulieWest perform as part of at Chain perform at the Channel, 25 Necco ard of Speed and Time (1989, Mike Jitt- tabar, Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Studio Theater, 69 Brimmer Street, Bos- Huntington Avenue, Boston. Tickets: Harvard Square, Cambridge. Also Dance Umbrella's Boslon/Montreal ton. Also presented April 21 at 2 Street, near South Station in downtown lov) at 11:00 am & 12:45, The Imported pre- Exchange at 8 pm pm & $10 general, $8 seniors and students. sented Saturday, April 21. Tickets: $10 at the Joy of Move- 8 pm. Tickets: $2. Telephone: 578-8785. Boston. Admission: $6.75/$7.75. Tele- Bridegroom (1989, Pamela Berger) at ment Center, 536 Massachusetts Ave- Telephone: 527-1330. and SVl. Telephone: 661-5000. phone: 451-1905. 3:45 & 5:30 and Camille Claudel (1989, nue, Cambridge. Also presented Bruno Pianist Nyutten) at 10:00 at 290 Harvard April 21 at 8 pm and April 22 at Nicolas Constantinidis performs Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline. Also works by J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Cho- * * l CRITICS' CHOICE * * * * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * 2 pm. Tickets: 512. Tel: 492-7578. presented April 21 and 22, with Wizard Jazz vocalist Diane Schuur performs pin, Hadzidakis, Schoenberg, and Liszt 'Tribe, The Lemmings, and Daisy at 8 pm in the Edward at 11:00 am, Bridegroom at 5:30 &7:15, at 8 pm & 10 pm at Nightstage, 823 Pickman Concert Chain perform at T.T. the Bears, 10 and Camille CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Hall, at 9:00. Tel: 734-2500. Main Street, Cambridge, just north of Concert Dance Company of Boston per- Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Brookline Street, Cambridge, just The Harvard Din & Tonics and The Street, Cambridge. MIT. Tickets: $20. Tel: 497-8200. forms at 8 pm at Sargent Dance Theater, Wellesley Tupelos Tickets: $7 general, north of MIT. Telephone: 492-0082. The grattle Theatre continues its week- are presented in a ben- $4 seniors and students. Tel: 266S0628. One University Road, Boston. Also pre- efit concert by Wellesley College end-series Amnes- with Lolits (1962, Stanley Ku- sented April 21 at 8 pm and April 22 at ty International at 8 pm in Houghton THEATER Dogzillh, Gang Starr Posse, Zug Zug, brick) at 2:10 &7:00 and Reflections in a Kitaro performs at 8:30 at the Wang 3 pm. Tickets: $12. Telephone: 661-0237. Memorial Chapel, Wellesley College, and Crushkill perform at the Rat, 528 Golden Eye (1967, John Huston) at 4:55 Center, 270 Tremont Street, Boston. Wellesley. Admission: $5. * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * Commonwealth Avenue, Kenmore & 10:00 at 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Tickets: $22.50 and $25. Tel: 931-2000. The Boston Conservatory Dance Theater Iolanthe, by Gilbert and Sullivan, is Square, Boston. Telephone: 247-8309. Square, Cambridge. Also presented Sat- performs works by Kathryn Posin, Mar- The Stompers, Gigolo Aunts, Garr presented by the MIT Gilbert and Sul- urday, April 21. Tickets: The Harvey Diamond Quartet performs cus Schulkind, S5 general, $3 Ed Desoto, Clara Ramo- Lange &The Big Rig, Sin-a-men Gypsy, livan Players at 8 prn in MIT room The Chills and Blake Babies perform at seniors and children (good for the double at the Willow Jazz Club, 699 Broadway, na, and Sam Kurkjian at 8 pm in The and Clockwork perform 54-100. Also presented April 22 & 27- Ball at the Channel, 8 pm at the Paradise, 967 Common- feature). Telephone: 876-6837. Square, Somerville. Also presented Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 He- 25 Necco Street, near South Station in 29 at 8 pm and April 22 &29 at wealth Avenue, Boston. Tel: 254-2052. Saturday, April 21. Telephone: 623-9874. menway Street, Boston. Also presented downtown Boston. Admission: S4.75/ 2 pm. Tickets: $8 general, $7 MIT The French Library in Boston continues April 21 at 8 pm and April 22 at 3 pm. $5.75. Telephone: 451-1905. community, S6 seniors and students, Renegade and Sound Wave perform in its series of Forms of the Feminine in CLASSICAL MUSIC Tickets: $7 general, $4 seniors and stu- $5 MIT students. Telephone: 395-0154. an 18 + ages show at 10 pm at Axis, 13 Contemporary French Film with Je tu 11 Cantata at Noon Concert, John Harbi- dents. Telephone: 536-6340. Barrence Whitfield &The Savages, Bat- Lansdowne Street, elle (1974, Chantalle Akerman, Belgium) Boston, near Ken- son conducting, presents Bach's Cantata tle Cole, and Rebeeea Lulu perform at Lulu, based on the plays of Franz Weder- more Square. Telephone: 262-2437.. at 8 pm at 53 Marlborough Street, Bos- BWV 161 at 12:05 in Killian Hall, MIT THEATER T.T. the Bears, 10 Brookline Street, kind with music by Alan Berg, is pre- ton. Also presented Saturday, April 21. Hayden Memnorial Library Building 14. Cambridge, just north of MIT. Tele- Admission: S4 general, $3 Library mem- Anything Goes, Cole Porter's musical, is sented by Harvard University's Lowell Del Amit i and Agi Pop perform in an No admission charge. Tel: 253-2906. phone: 492-0082. House Opera at 8 pm at Agassiz Theater, 18+ ages show at 7 pmn at Axis, 13 bers. Telephone: 266-4351. presented by the MIT Musical Theater Guild Harvard University, Cambridge. Also Lansdowne Street, Boston, near Ken- The Boston Horn at 8pm in the Sala de Puerto Quartet performs Rico, MIT Student Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure presented April 25-27. Tickets: $7 gener- more Square. Telephone: 262-2437. The Institute of Contemporary Art con- works by Tcherepnin, Schubert, Center. Also present- Douglas ed April perform at 7 pm at Axis, 13 Lansdowne al, $5 students ($25/$12.50 opening tinues its series Cine Argentino with Hill, Mitushin, Jan Bach, 21-22 and 26-28. Tickets: $7 Telernann, and general, $6 MIT Street, Boston, near Kenmore Square. night). The Band That Time Forgot performs at Time for, Revenge (1981, Adolfo Arisar- Tippett in an MIT Affiliated Artist faculty and staff, $5 se- Con- niors and students, $4 MIT Telephone: 262-2437. Johnny D's, 17 Holland Street, Davis ain) at 7:00 and Tangos: The Exile of cert at 8 pmn in Killian Hall, students. FILM St VIDEO MIT Hay- Telephone: 253-6294. Square, Somerville, near the Davis Gardel (1985, Fernando Solanas) at 9:15 den Memorial Library Building 14. No The Zulus, Hell Toupee, Inky Spoon, The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- Square T-stop on the red line. Tele- at 955 Boylston Street, Boston. Tickets: admission charge. Telephone: 253-2906. and Bob Evans perform sents Bye Bye Birdie is presented by Baker at the Rat, 528 The Bear (1989, Jean-Jacques An- phone: 776-9667. $5 general, $4 ICA members, seniors, Commonwealth Avenue, Kenmore Square, naud) at 7:00 & 9:30 in 26-100. Admis- and students. Telephone: 266-5152. House Productions in Baker Dining * * * CRITICS' Boston. Telephone: 247-8309. sion: $1.50. Telephone: 258-8881. Lambs Bread performs at the Western CHOICE * * r Hall. Also presented April 21 and 22. The Juillisrd String Quartet Telephone: Front, 343 Western Avenue, Cambridge. The Cambridge Center for Adult Educa- performs 225-7182. Bobby Radcliff and Nioe Below Zero The Harvard Film Archive continues its Telephone:- 492-7772. tion continues its film series Fantastic the fifth concert in the cycle of Bee- perform at Johnny D's, 17 Holland weekend series thoven string Netherlondscapes: 85 Journeys in Time and Space with Time quartets at 8 pm in Jor- * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * Street, Davis Square, Somerville, near dan Hall, New England Conservatory, Years of Dutch Filmmaking with A After Time (1979, Nicholas Meyer) at B-Movie, The Play, Tom Wood's the Davis Square T-stop on the red line. Strange Love Affair (1985, Eric de FILM & VIDEO 7 pm & 9 pm at 56 Brattle Street, Cam- 30 Gainsborough Street at Hunting- Telephone: 776-9667. The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- ton Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $20 comedy about a struggling movie di- Kuyper & Paul Verstraeten) at 7 pm and bridge. Tickets: S3.50. Tel: 547-6789. and rector completing sents Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress $22. Telephone: 536-2412. a retelling of Oedi- Capercaillie performs at 8 pm at the New Return to Oegstgeest (1987, Theo van pus Rex called Joanna and Eddy, Gogh) at 9 pm at 7:30 in 54-100 and Harlem Nights at The Museum of Fine England Life Hall, 225 Clarendon Street, at the Carpenter Center Arts continues its opens today at the Wilbur Theatre, for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, 7:00 & 10:00 in 26-100. Admission: film series Dangerous Boston. Tickets: $13.50 advance, $15 day Loves with The The Boston Symphony 246 Tremont Street, Boston. Contin- Harvard Square, Cambridge. Admission: $1.50. Telephone: 258-8881. Summer of Miss Forbes (1988, Jaime Orchestra, Seiji of show. Telephone: 325-0968. Ozawa conducting, performs works by ues through May 20 with perfor- $3 general, $2 seniors and children, $5/ Humberto Hermosillo, Mexico) at 6 pm Hearts Can Be United (A Ballad Album The MIT Japan Program presents The Stravinsky, Bach/Stokowski, and Bee- mances Tuesday-Saturday at 8 pm $4 for the double feature. Telephone: & 8 pm in Remis Auditorium, MFA, 465 and matinees Thursday & Saturday at of Martha's Vineyard), by Dillon Bustin, 495-4700. Fall Guly at 7:30 in 10-250. Admission: Huntington thoven at 2 pm in Symphony Hall, cor- Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $5 ner of 2 pm and Sunday at 3 pm. Tickets: is presented at 8 pm at the First Church $2 donation. Telephone: 253-2839. general, Huntington and Massachusetts $4.50 MFA members, seniors, Avenues, $27.50 to $37.50. Telephone: 423-4008. in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Gar- The Institute of Contemporary Art con- and students. Boston. Tickets: $17 to $45. Telephone: 267-9300. Telephone: 266-1492. den Street, Cambridge. Admission: $8. tinues its series Cine Argentirno with The * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * Telephone: 776-1366. Party's Over (1960, Leopoldo Torre Nils- The Coolidge Corner presents The The Harvard Film Archive presents Re- World Without End, Holly Hughes' CLASSICAL MUSIC son) at 7:00 and Evita: Listen If You XXII International Tourn~e of Ani- cent Films by Miklos Jancso with Season Boston Musics Viva performs works by semi-autobiographical tale about coming Want The Wellesley College Choir performs in To (1984, Eduardo Mignona) at mation at 5:30, 7:45, & 10:00 at 290 of Monsters (1987, Hungary) at 7 pm Chou Wen-chung, Earl Kim, Jay Alan of age in the Midwest, is presented at 9:15 at 955 Boylston Street, Boston. Harvard and Budapest Music (1982, Italy) & Pres- Yim, Chinary Ung, Toru Takemitsu, and 8 pm in the Longwood Theater, Massa- a Sophomore Parents Weekend concert Street, Coolidge Corner, at Tickets: $5 general, $4 ICA members, se- Brookline. Continues indefinitely ence (1986, Hungary) at 9 pm at the Car- Qu Xiasong at 8 pm in Alumni Auditori- chusetts College of Art, 364 Brookline 3 pm in Houghton Memorial Chapel, with Wellesley College, niors, and students. Telephone: 266-5152. Saturday & Sunday matinees penter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 um, Northeastern University, Huntington Avenue, Boston. Also presented Satur- Wellesley. No admis- at 1:10 sion charge. & 3:20. Telephone: 734-2500. Quincy Street, Harvard Square, Cam- Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $10. Tele- day, April 21. Tickets: $5. Telephone: Telephone: 235-0320 (Please turn to page 11) bridge. Admission: $5. Tel: 495-4700. phone: 353-0556. 731-2040. ·. ext. 2028.

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JAZZ MUSIC FILM & VIDEO JAZZ MUSIC Fun House Mirror, Dori Appel's comedy The Boston University Jazz Lab Band * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * Ben Schwendener, solo piano, and en- of two sisters in their 30s faced with dis- and the Jazz Composers Alliance Orches- The Harvard Film Archive continues semble performs third stream music in a torted perceptions of childhood and each tra perform at 8 pm in the Tsai Perfor- its Monday film series Three French Longy Jazz Department Concert at 8 pm other, continues through April 29 at the A Japan Festival, featuring a traditional in the Edward Pickman Concert Hall, Back Alley Theater, 1253 Cambridge Japanese tea house, demonstrations of mance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave- Directors with Jean-Luc Godard's ON CAMPUS calligraphy and sumi painting, Japanese nue, Boston. Tickets: $10 general, $7.50 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (Two Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Inman Square, Cambridge. Per- The Traditional Arts and Architecture of Street, Cambridge. No admission charge. formances are Thursday-Sunday at San'a, Y.A.R., contemporary artistic ex- mime comedy, Haiku and Renga read- seniors. Telephone: 353-3345. or Three Things I Know About Her, 8 pm. Tickets: $12. Telephone: 491-8166. pressions of women in the ancient walled ings, and origami, is presented from 1966) at 5:30 & 8:00 at the Carpenter Telephone: 876-0956. 2 pm to 6 pm at Kaji Aso Studio, 40 FILM & VIDEO Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy EXHIBITS city of San'a, Yemen Arab Republic, The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Kiss Me Kate, the Cole Porter musical, continues through April 20 in the Archi- St. Stephen Street, Boston. Admission: Michael Phillips: Recent Works, continu- continues through April 29 at the Spin- S4 donation. Telephone: 247-1719. sents The Blues Brothers at 6:30 & 9:30 Admission: $3 general, $2 seniors and tecture Gallery, 4th floor, MIT Build- ing his expanding inquiry of fusing the gold Theater, Brandeis University, Wal- ing 7. No admission charge. Telephone: in 26-100. Admission: $1.50. Telephone: children. Telephone: 495-4700. inner space of existentialism with the im- CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 258-8881. tham. Performances are April 20-21 and 253-7494. age bearing values of humanism, opens 27-28 at 8 pm, April 22 at 7 pm, * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * The Brattle Theatre continues its Sunday The Brattle Theatre continues its Mon- today at the Gallery Schmallery, 443 Al- April 25 &26 at 10 am, and April 29 at Radically Recycled Cameras, Chicago- Arlo Guthrie, Phoebe Snow, Tom film series Jack Nicholson Mania with day series of Film Noir with The Strange bany Street Suite #401, Boston. Contin- 3 pm. Tickets: $7 to $10. Telephone: based artist Jon Cook's exhibit of cam- Rush, Livingston Taylor, The Del One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Love of Martha Ivers (1946, Lewis Mile- ues through May 11 with gallery hours 736-3400. eras and photographs; Paper Architec- Fuegos, Treat Her Right, and others Milos Foreman) at 1:45 & 7:00 and The stone) at 3:30 & 7:50 and Undercumrnt Tuesday-Friday 12-7. Tel: 426-4188. ture from the Soviet Union, works by perform as part of Music for the Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) at 4:15 (1946, Vincent Minnelli) at 5:40 & 10:00 The Lost Boys, by Allan Knee, continues contemporary Soviet architects of Earth from 1:30 to 6:00 at the MDC & 9:30 at 40 Brattle Street, Harvard at 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, through April 25 as a presentation of the schemes which were never intended to be Hatch Memorial Shell on the Espla- Square, Cambridge. Tickets: $5 general, Cambridge. Tickets: $5 general, $3 se- American Repertory Theater New Stage built, commenting on the stagnation of nade in Boston. No admission charge. $3 seniors and children (good for the niors and children (good for the double Series at the Hasty Pudding Theater, 12 architecture during the Khrushchev and Telephone: 542-6333. double feature). Telephone: 876-6837. feature). Telephone: 8776-6837. Charlotte's Web, the dramatization of Holyoke Street, Cambridge. Perfor- Brezhnev years; and Rebecca Purdum: E. B. White's story of the unwavering mances are April 13-15, 18-19, 22, and Paintings, works by the New York artist The Harvard Film Archive continues its who paints large canvases with hter fin- Karen Akiers performs works by Brel, weekend series Netherlandscapes: The Institute of Contemporary Art con- friendship between a spider and a pig, 25 at 8 pm. Tickets: $16 to $29. Tele- Gershwin, and 85 gertips, continue through April 22 at the Porter at 4 pm at the Years of Drtch Filmmaking with The tinues its series Cine Argentino with The continues through May 13 at the Whee- phone: 547-8300. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massa- Boys of War (1984, Bebe Kamin) at 7:00 List Visual Arts Center, MIT Wiesner Eye Above the Well (1988, Johan van der lock Family Theatre, 180 The Riverway, chusetts Avenue, Boston. Tickets: $22 and Lost Republic II (1986, Miguel Pe- Boston, near the Fenway T-stop on the Building E15. Gallery hours are week- and $24. Telephone: 266-7455. Keuken) at 4 pm and Return to Oegst- * * * CRITICS' CHOICE so * * days 12-6 and weekends 1-5. Telephone: geest (1987, Theo van Gogh) at 7 pm at rez) at 9:15 at 955 Boylston Street, Bos- green line. Performances are Friday at ton. Tickets: $5 general, $4 ICA mem- Les Misreables, the musical adapta- 253-4680. Murphy's Law, Swizz, and Eye for an the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 7:30 and Saturday & Sunday at 3:00. tion of the Victor Hugo epic, contin- 24 Quincy Street, Harvard Square, Cam- bers, seniors, and students. Telephone: Tickets: $7. Telephone: 734-5203. From the Ecole to Tech: Desire Despra- Eye perform in an all ages show at Axis, 266-5152. ues through May 26 at the Shubert 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston, near Ken- bridge. Admission: $3 general, $2 seniors Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, Boston. delle, His Colleagues and Students con- more Square. Telephone: 262-2437. and children, $5/$4 for the double fea- The Dangerous Way to Cook, an evening Performances are Friday-Sunday at tinues through June 10 at the MIT Muse- ture. Telephone: 495 4700. of improvised theater, continues through 8 pm and a matinee Sunday at 2 pm. um, 265 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Tenebri.. and Men of C*y perform at April 28 at the New Ehrlich Theatre, 539 Tickets: $25 to $50 general, $16 stu- Museum hours are Tuesday-Friday 9-5 Johnny D's, 17 Holland Street, Davis The Harvard-Epworth Church presents a Tremont Street, Boston. Performances dents. Telephone: 426-4520. and Saturday-Sunday 10-4. Admission: Square, Somerville, near the Davis John Ford triple feature, The Growler are Thursday-Saturday at 8 pmn.Tickets: $2 requested donation, free to MIT com- CONTEMPORARY MUSIC * * * Square T-stop on the red line. Tele- Story (1957), Rookie of the Year (1955), $10. Telephone: 482-6316. munity. Telephone: 253-4444. I phone: 77s9667. and Flasbing Spikes (1962), at 8 pm at The Mighty Lemon Drops, Caterwaul, and Vow of Silence perform at 8 pm in * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * Richard Bertman: Architect and Sculp- 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, just north Mummensehanz, the Swiss mask-mime CLASSICAL MUSIC of Harvard Square, Cambridge. Admis- an }8 + ages show at Citi Club, 15 Lans- Don Juain in Hell, by George Bernard tor, works by the eminent Boston archi- * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * sion: S3 contribution. Tel: 354-0837. downe Street, Boston, near Kenmore Shaw, continues through April 22 as a troupe, performs through April 29 at tect, continues through July 29 at the the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Square. Tickets: $13.50 advance/$14.50 presentation of the Winter Company at MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave- day of show. Telephone: 931-2000. Street, Boston. Performances are Musicum, The Harvard Glee Club, The Institute of Contemporary Art con- the Leland Center, 541 Tremont Street, nue, Cambridge. Museum hours are tinues its series Cine Argentino with Boston. Performances are Thursday- Tuesday-Saturday at 8 pm and mati- Tuesday-Friday 9-5 and Saturday- and The Radeliffe CBoral Society per- Vinnie Moore, Hard Licks, Xplicit, nees Saturday at 2 pm & Sunday at form Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at Alone or in Bad Company (1988, Silvia Weapon, and Crystal perform in an IS8+ Sunday at 8:15. Tickets: $12. Telephone: Sunday 12-4. Admission: $2 requested Chanvillard & Laura Bua) & Missing 423-2966. 3 pm. Tickets: $20 to $28. Telephone: donation, free to MIT community. Tele- 3 pm in Sanders Theatre, Quincy and ages show at the Channel, 25 Necco 426-9366. Kirkland Streets, Cambridge. Tickets: Persons (1989, Andres Di Tella) at 7:00 Street, near South Station in downtown phone: 253-4440. and Summer Skin (1961, Leopoldo Torre $10, $12, $15 general, $5, $6, 57 stu- Boston. Admission: $5.75/$6.75. Tele- OFF CAMPUS dents. Telephone: 495-5730. Nilsson) at 9:15 at 955 Boylston Street, phone: 451-1905. Educating Rita, Willy Russell's tender Boston. Tickets: $5 general, S4 ICA love story of an English tutor and a Road to Nirvana, Arthur Kopit's funny The Berkshire AMountai n Bloys perform at working-class girl, continues through fable of two luckless producers searching * * 4 CRITICS' CHOICE * * t members, seniors, and students. Tele- Monet in the '90s: The Series Paint- The New England Conservatory Youth phone: 266-5152. Johnny D's, 17 Holland Street, Davis May 20 at the New Repertory Theatre, for the Golden Calf, is presented Philharmonic performs works by Foss, Square, Somerville, near the Davis 54 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands, April 20-21, and 26-28 at 8 pm by the ings continues through April 29 at the Stravinsky, and Rachmaninoff at 7:30 in Square T-stop on the red line. Tele- American Repertory Theatre's New Stage Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Hunting- near the Highlands T-stop on the 'D" ton Avenue, Boston. Tel: 267-9300. Sanders Theater, Harvard University, phone: 776-9667. green line. Performances are Thursday & Series at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, 12 Quincy and Kirkland Streets, Cam- Friday at 8:00, Saturday at 5:00 &i8:30, Holyoke Street, Harvard Square, Cam- bridge. Tickets: $8 general, $6 students. FILM & VIDEO and Sunday at 3:00 &7:30. Tickets: S12 bridge. Tickets: $16 to $29. Telephone: Telephone: 969-9077. CLASSICAL MUSIC The Harvard Film Archive continues its 547-8300. The Boston Conservatory Orchestra per- Tuesday film series The Transformation to $17. Telephone: 332-1646. forms works by Bartok, Liszt, and Dvo- of Melodrama with Letter from an Un- * * * CRITICS' CHOICE * * * The Second Street Hotel, Lydia Sargent's rak at 8 pm in the Boston Conservatory known Woman (1948, Max Ophuls) at Get Any Guy Through Psychic Mind Heretix at the Paradise on April 26. Pianist Agustin Anlevas performs feminist adventure about nine women Indigo Girls at the Orpheum on April 28 works by Chopin at 3 pm at the Theater, 31 Hemenway Street, Boston. 5:30 & 8:00 at the Carpenter Center for Control or Your Money Back, written No admission charge. Tel: 536-6340. the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Har- who take over an abandoned hotel, con- and 29. Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, and directed by Cherie Bennett, contin- tinues through May 19 at the Newbury vard Square, Camnbridge. Admission: $3 ues through April Dead Milkmen at the Orpheum on Boston. Admission: $5 general, $2.50 Pianist KatbrywSerio performs works by 21 at the Act I Arena Street Theater, 565 Boylston Street, BAos- May I and 2. Boston Ballet, with mem- seniors and students. Tel: 566-1401. Mozart, Chopin, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, general, $2 seniors and children. Tele- Theatre, Framingham State College, Fra- phone: 495-4700- ton. Performances are Thursday-Satur- bers of the Kirov and Bolshoi Ballets, Busoni, and Bacewicz in a Longy Faculty mingham. Performances are Thursday to day at 8 pm. Tickets: $8. Telephone: perform Swan Lake at the Warig Center, Artists Series concert at 8 pm in the Ed- Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 2 pm. 262-7779. May 3 to 20. The Cramps at the Channel Emmanuel Music, Craig Smith conduct- ***CRITICS' CHOICE*** Tickets: $11 to $16 general, $8.50 to ing, presents Concert 16 in its ward Pickman Concert Hall, Longy on May 4 and 5. Cowboy Junkies at the Bach Can- School of Music, The Brattle Theatre continues its $13.50 seniors and students. Telephone: tata Series with Cantata N~o. 42 at 27 Garden Street, Berklee Performance Center on -May 4. Cambridge. No admission charge. Tele- Tuesday film series Painters and Oth- 508-820-9885. * * n CRITICS' CHOICE * * * 12 noon at Emmanuel Church, 15 New- Taking Steps, Alan Ayckbourn's far- Michelle Shocked & the Captain Swing phone: 876-0956. er Artists with a jazz musician double Hand, P&I Dog Pondering, and John bury Street, Boston. No admission feature, Let's cical look at a group of off-beat char- Get Lost (1988, Bruce The Gospel According to Omaha, Libby Wesley Harding at the Opera House on charge. Telephone: 536-3356. EXH BITS Weber) featuring Chet Baker at 3:45 acters in a Victorian house that was e * * * Jacobs' drama dealing with the struggle May 5. Bobby McFerrin's Vloicestra at Minr Cantor: Running Freeze, an instal- & 7:45 and Slraight No Chaser (1989, once a brothel, continues through of an emotionally powerful woman and a the Opera House, May 17 to 19. Art Organist Kimnberly Marshall performs lation of sculpture and drawings, opens Chaflotte Zwerin) featuring Thelon- May 27 at the Lyric Stage Theatre, 54 works by Frescobaldi, Bertoldo, Bach, today at the Northeastern University Art sensual young man for control of a con- Charles Street, Beacon Hill, Boston. Blakney at Nightstage on May 18. Tanita ious Monk, at 6:00 & 10:00 at 40 fused girl, continues Tikaram at the Paradise on May 20. Buxtehude, Bruna, de Cabezon, and da Gallery, Second Floor, Dodge Library, Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cam- through April 2; at Performances are Wednesday-Friday the Paramount Penthouse Theatre, 58 Robin Trower at the Paradise on Conceigao at S:30 in Adolphus Busch 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Contin- bridge. Tickets: $5 general, $3 seniors at 8:00, Saturday at 5:00 & 8:30, and Hall, 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge. ues through May 31 with gallery hours Berkeley Street, Boston. Performances Sunday at 3:00. Tickets: $13.50 to May 25. 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Best of Festival of Animation reopens the Somerville

THE BEST OF Although most of the pieces are very ety. The animals, with their British ac- that will give you lots to talk and laugh THE FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION well done, some deserve special mention. cents, are also excellently cute. about afterwards. No doubt many will At the Somerville Theatre. Second Class Mail by Alison Snowdon The Best of the Fest is a fun evening want a repeat performance. April 13^29. (England) is an amusing short of an elder- ly British woman looking for a mate, By ELIZABETH WILLIAMS which she finds in a rubber, inflatable man. In Feet of Song, Erica Russell, also THIS YEAR'S Best of the Fest of England, sets animated dancers in syn- opened in the newly refurbished copated motion with music in a beautifully Somerville Theatre. The program rhythmic piece. From the sick joke side offers a rich mosaic of animation comes Bill Plympton's One of Those Days. styles from both the United States and The piece is about the protagonist's bad abroad. In addition, during intermission day - from dropping his toast on the on weekend showings, animators Bill floor butter side down to cutting off his Plympton (April 13-15) and Mark Lougee. nose shaving. The twist is the way the au- (April 20-22) are speaking about their dience sees it-animated from the suffer- work and answering questions from the ing person's point of view. audience. The program of 16 animated shorts is In the second half of the program well put together. The great variety in the there's the fascinating Bartakiad by 01- pieces - from classic Betty Boop and drich Haberie of Czechoslovakia - a por- Superman to a short by Will "California trait of the surrealistically dreary existence Raisin" Vinton -is the strong point of of a man in his society. Lea Press on the production. Among the mediums uti- Limbs by Chris Miller (United States) lized are clay, pencil illustration, and type- pokes fun at the American replace-it men- written print. Themes vary from elaborate tality. Adorable and amusing is Creature storylines to nonsense syllables swirling on Comforts by Nick Park of Great Britain. screen with an accompanying voice singing His claymation short of animals in the zoo them (Primiti Too Taa by Ed Ackerman being interviewed on how they like their and Colin Morton (Canada)). lifestyle is a pointed comment on our soci- r-eature Comforts (Nick Park, Great Britain) Public Enemy 's Fear of a Black Planet has got a brand newfunk

'6I'm Black and I'm Proud" may well have PE is at their best, however, with straight- dirt./America took her, reshaped her - inspired the whole album. PE has taken ahead funk-hip-hop like "Welcome to the raped her./No! It never made the paper." Brown's funk, transformed it into their Terrordome." Sexism has long been a part of the black own, making themselves the rightful heirs PE seems to have strived for the moral liberation movement, as well as much rap By DAVID STERN to the "Godfather of Soul." and political high ground on Fear. While music. PE has certainly taken a new atti- T'S HIP TO LIKE Public Enemy. Critics What else can one say about the music? Niggers With Attitudes talk about killing tude since 'Sophisticated Bitch" of two are proudly demonstrating their hip- It's loud, repetitive, powerful. Many songs cops, PE refutes their "hatred is becoming albums ago. ness by saying how innovative and are in the same style as "Fight the Power," hip" image [Newsweek, March 191: "All I Unfortunately, PE loses some credibility brilliant PE is. With that in mind, I popularized in Spike Lee's Do the Right want is peace and love on this planet/Ain't in "Welcome to the Terrordome," when would still say that Fear of a Black Planet Thing. There is more variety on this al- how that God planned it?" they talk about a previous controversy is an incredibly ambitious, monumental al- bum, though. "Pollywanacraka" is slow PE knocks racism and prejudice among involving anti-Semitic statements by PE buum. PE's message has now become PE's and soulful, "Burn Hollywood Burn' has both blacks and whites. They defend inter- member Professor Grif, which resulted in mission. The rhythms are more insistent. a tense disco beat, and there is some fake- racial marriage, and attack sexism: "They some uproar, and a temporary breakup of What was once merely repetitive is now reggae and some neo-psychedelic noise. disrespected mama, and treated her like PE: "Crucifixion ain't no fiction/So-called rhythmic drone. The production is no chosen, frozen/Apology made to whoever longer done in a basement with a couple pleases./Still they got me like Jesus." PE of turntables. The lyrics as well have be- denies any anti-Semitic intent of the lyrics, come more sophisticated, and more politi- but it would be expected that a group that cal: "Every brother ain't a brother 'cause aspires to be politically sophisticated of color/Just as well to be undercover." should avoid such inferences. The album has an overwhelming urgen- Fear does have its weak moments. "911 cy to it. "Welcome to the Terrordome," in Is a Joke" - which somehow among all particular, is a classic, perhaps one of the the great tunes receives radio airplay - best singles of the last 20 years. features a soft beat and the weaker of the The lyrics seem to have an irresistible two rappers, Flavor Flavy on lead vocals. bite to them. There is a certain pleasure There are some other boring moments, but derived from such blunt commentary overall the 63-minute album has enough as "Elvis was a hero to most/But he outstanding tracks to make it a mas- never meant s--- to me/Was a straight out terpiece. racist, the sucker was simple and plain/ "White liberals like yourself have diffi- Motherf--- him and John Wayne." culty understanding that ChuckD repre- "PE's got a brand new funk" announces sents the frustrations of the majority of Chuck D near the beginning of the album, black youth today."- caller to talk-shaow and he's not bragging. James Brown's host, from the cut "Incident at 66.6 FM"

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"Colored People Zora Neal Hurston Would Not Like" is an U ~~~~Kreisler's Variations on a theme by Corelli, Debussy's Sonata for violin and a~ ries featured Sam Cornish, poet ~~~piano, Beethoven's Violin sonata No. 7, Lutoslawski's Partita, and Sarasate's 0-$ autobiographical prose piece in which a 28 and teacher of Afro-American (X) ~~~Carmnen Fantasy. A Bank of Boston Celebrity Series Event. CO literature and creative writing at Emerson black boy and girl in a college library get IrJ Symphony Hall, April 27 at 8 pm. (XD College., Ruth Whitman of the MIT Writ- to know each other among books and card 0/ MIT price: $6. $x ing Program, a one-time teacher of Cor- catalogs. "Crosswords" addresses the ef- nish, gave the introduction. To echo both fect of the red scare on intellectuals and CI SINFONOVA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Whitman's introduction and the remarks writers. OVI Pre-eminent Soviet pianist Vladimir Krainev joins SinfoNova in a Solidarity OX of critics, Cornish is a poet who writes Mixed in with his new work were selec- X10 Concert! Program includes Schnittke's Concerto for Piano and Strings, Komitas' QxO tions from his collected works. "My 4( Armenian Folk Songs and Dances, Dvorak's Serenade for Strings, and 60 about the black experience honestly, sim- XI Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1. o ply, and powerfully. brother is Home-made" introduced the au- dience to his brother who was bigger and A> Jordan Hall, April 28 at 8 pm. tBX Many of the pieces Cornish read were if MIT price: $6. from a work in progress in which the life tougher than he was. His brother was of an autobiographically-based black poet more into the street scene, and "to prove a a) JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET ?5 is followed from his birth in 1935 to the point grew darker than most." A) ~~~The final program a the six-concert Beethoven cycle will include Qulartet in CIO) present. The work, which has been funded Cornish acknowledged his love of black % ~~~B-fat Major, Quartet in F minor, "Serioso, " and Quartet in F Major. A Bank of by a grant from the Massachusetts Council music and his desire to include it in his An ~~Boston Celebrity Series Event.v for the Arts, contains both prose and work. Scattered throughout the evening at Jordan Hall, May 4 at 8 pmn poetry, and Cornish read some of both. were comments about the musicians of MIT price: $6. At~ The amusing "Horseface" introduces each of the periods his works covered. His BULGARIAN STATE FEMALE VOCAL CHOIRev* - as~~~~~~~I an extremely dark black girl the young memories of Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong enlivened his de- PO When their recording of "Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares" was released in 1988, ii Cornish knew in school at a time when C~~~~O~~this virtuoso chorus earned an instant, international following. The renowned s. being so black was grounds enough to be scriptions of the atmosphere in which his 4e Kronos Quartet will join with the Choir as special guest artists. , considered ugly; years later their paths poems are set. He also read two tributes: Symphony Hall, May 5 at 8 pm..Iin the Student Center. Office hourspostedon the door. 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(Continued from page 1) "Force ought to be the last re- the additional spring term exam The Committee on Nomina- sort," she said. days by eliminating the two-day tions made its report nominating a demonstration. From his expe- Graduate Student Council vacation following Independent professors for membership on 14 rience with previous protests, he President Michael J. Warwick G Activities Period and reducing faculty committees. The report said he had decided long ago that read a resolution passed by the the President's Day vacation to included the nomination of J. "I was not going to participate in GSC on Tuesday decrying the one day. Kim Vandiver SM '75, professor discussions that had to be con- "4unilateral, autocratic decision to of June thru September, 1990 Other business ocean engineering, to be the ducted through a bullhorn." arrest the CAA protesters" and next chair of the faculty. If elect- Non-stop service! Mix 'N Match! Critics of the arrests also the "harsh and violent actions The faculty heard a motion ed, Vandiver would be chair-elect Immediate Canfinnations! sought to have the faculty urge enacted on MIT students by the that would provide for member- during 1990-91 and would serve GATEWAY BRITAIN IPARIS the administration to create campus police." ship on the MIT faculty of the as chair during 1991-93. New York $129-$259 $199-$279 a Standing Advisory Panel on athletic faculty in special, new Positions will be voted on next Gray opposes Boston $159-$249 $219-4289 Demonstrations, composed of categories: assistant professor/ month. i administration, faculty and stu- dismissing charges Each way based on round trip. Departure taxes and fees coach, associate professor/coach, Associate Professor of Chemis- (S11 Eastbound and up to $20 Westboundlnot included. dents. The panel would partici- Gray said he would not act to and associate professor/senior try Stephen L. Buchwald Participating carriers are British Caldonian. and was Trans Continental Airlines. See Tour Participant Contract pate in setting policies regarding have charges against those arrest- coach. The motion is a prelude to presented with the Harold E. for Details. demonstrations, be consulted in ed dismissed. eliminating tenured positions in Edgerton Faculty Achievement FORMA GROUP.. times of crisis, and monitor po- Four years ago when eight stu- the department and instituting a Award at Wednesday's meeting. EARNA Oft lice action and other participants' dents were arrested by Campus new review process. The award honors junior faculty FREE TRIP! _ involvement in major political Police for building a shanty on The motion will be voted on at members for excellence in re- 1-800 34-8360 American Tryvei demonstrations on campus. Kresge Oval, MIT sought to have next month's faculty meeting. search and teaching. A vote on the motion calling 1-800-522M2M Sesices Ins the charges dismissed. Gray not- * I . , _a for the advisory panel was post- ed that the judge in the case re- ponled until the May faculty fused, saying that it would hurt meeting in order to allow for the integrity of the criminal jus- HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL greater discussion. tice system if a party could in- Administration actions voke the judicial process -by OBSERV 'ANCE meet criticism ordering arrests -and then re- fuse to accept the result -by Gray, in recounting the events asking for dismissal. of the past two weeks, blamed Having ordered the arrests, Coalition Against Apartheid MIT has a responsibility to fol- members for adopting a confron- low through, Gray said. He ar- tational stance. gued that, in the normal court Those who believe MIT should process, those arrested would be divest its holdings in companies offered the opportunity to have doing business in South Africa the charges dropped in exchange have a right to speak out, Gray for community service or pay- -o said. But, after a decision has ment of fines. been made, to continue to object Parsons suggested that what in the ways the CAA has is unac- the judge was saying four years ceptable, he continued. ago was that MIT invoked the There is a "line where disagree- judicial process poorly - that Sunday, April 22 1990 ment with a decision becomes co- it should not have involved the ercion. . .. There is a big differ- court system in the case in the 7:00 p~m. ence between being heard and first place. He argued that MIT M.I.T. Chapel having one's way," Gray said. had again ordered unnecessary He cited the actions of CAA arrests and ought to correct its members at the April 6 and 9 ral- mistake by moving for dismissal A joint program Of MIT illel, tHillel Council Generations Program, Lutheran-Episcopal Ministry lies as well as onle during the of charges. at MIT, Tech Catholic Communib. arJ MIT Baptist Cmps Minitries March 2 Corporation meeting as Calendar examples of behavior aimed at changes approved for information eal# MIT Hillel at #2535-282 provoking a confrontation. Also at Wednesday's faculty II , -I - -- , - -I , · I Parsons disputed Gray's asser- -- I- -- - - i meeting, the faculty voted 41-6 to L - -- - tion that the students initiated approve a motion proposed at the confrontation. The adminis- last month's meeting to extend tration had decided well before the final examination period of April 6 not to allow students to both terms to five days. 1,[ -I I. - ' I R1 erect a pro-divestment shanty on The motion was made in re- the Student Center lawn. Onlce sponse to the marked increase in With VGAiWdec, The that decision was made, a con- the number of finals given each 14brlds frontation was inevitable, he term. Students presently have lit- Number One 286 Laptop PC* said. tle breathing space between finals Professor Jonathan A. King and many find that the times of Never LookedBeferI also attacked the idea that the their exams conflict, Professor students' actions constituted co- 1 William M. Siebert '46, one of A m __ I _. E I I _ P d ercion. He argued that the ad- -- m 0 - " K, W.,flA .iWJ - [-- the motion's backers, argued. 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-- I i -- ir' -- - i - i Uolloquium speakers O urge c Mange in viewv (Continued from page 2) Both McKibben and Flanigan Attention Graduate Students ! ucts such -as fluorescent light also stressed ways in which peo- bulbs instead of standard incan- ple could conserve which do not descent bulbs, low flushing toi- involve technology. lets, and smaller shower heads, Flanigan said it will be impor- There aHe positions available for graduate students to serve on lhuman- resour-ce consumption tant for people to begin "to eat could be reduced by as much as lower on the food chain," or in the following Institute Committees during the 1990-91 year: 75 percent, he concluded. other words to eat less meat. Such devices might initially Meat preparation expires enor- seem undesirable because they mous amounts of energy and wa- Committee on Discipline typically cost more than stan- ter, he said. Faculty Policy Committee dard, less efficient ones, he ac- McKibben said simple changes knowledged. But he argued that such as reducing dependency on Committee on Graduate School Policy the payback in terms of saved en- automobiles in favor of bicycles Committee on the Library System ergy costs is substantial. would contribute substantially to As an example, Flanigan point- reducing pollution. Committee on Student Affairs ed out that a fluorescent bulb, Another important goal for the Corporation Joint Advisory Committee which costs about 10 times as future was population control, much as an incandescent one, which they felt will become one Committee on Assessment on Biohazards, lasts about 10 times as long. of the most important issues in Athletic Board Purchasing such energy saving the near future. equipment therefore constitutes Commencement Committee an investment, he said. And the Community Service Fund Board investment not only benefits the Philosophical change, global vision consumer but also society. Committee on Copyrights and Patents Flanigan felt part of the reason Both speakers felt changes in Equal Opportunity Committee why people have not adopted ef- attitudes towards conservation Committee on Foreign Scholarships ficient technologies is that that will only come about as a result the government continues to sup- of dramatic changes in societal IAP Policy Committee port traditional resource con- values. 'We face a deep philo- Committee on International Institutional Commitments sumption. sophical problem," McKibben As an example, he noted how said. He felt people will have to Medical Consumers' Advisory Council the government's aid - primarily learn to accept the importance Prelaw Advisory Council through naval escort - in trans- of preserving nature for its own porting oil from the Middle East sake. Committee on Radiation Protectioia[ makes the real cost of a barrel of If man is continually the focus Committee on Safety foreign oil $300. Since the gov- of all concerns on Earth, then he ernment's costs are not translated will continue to attempt to domi- Committee on Toxic Chemicals to the market, the government ef- nate it. This utilitarian attitude Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects fectively subsidizes the oil indus- would only lead to environmental try at the expense of conservation disaster, McKibben believed. Committee on the Visual Arts efforts, FlaniganB asserted. "I fear a world where we con- Women's Advisory Board The government's support of trol everything," he said. "It's ar- nuclear power also prevents con- rogant as hell to think we can Advisory on Women Students' Interests servation efforts, he said. He take down everything." Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility countered the popular belief that An ethic of efficiency, based nuclear energy will provide a on a renewed spiritualism, must Ad Hoc Committee on Family and Work clean energy substitute for fossil now arise, Flanigan said. This Association of Student Activities Executive Committee fuels. In fact, Flanigan said he ethic, he added, would have to would shut down all nuclear reac- replace the current materialism tors in the United States if he pervasive in society If you are interested in serving on any one of these had the choice. The efficiency ethic would also Nuclear energy, he argued, is incorporate a new global vision committees, please stop by the Graduate Student Council office far from clean. The waste pro- with respect to conservation. 50-222 between 1:30 and 5:00 weekdays to get a nominations duced from nuclear power lasts Without world cooperation, for generations, and no one has which Flanigan called a "global form. If you are Cugsently gn one of---these committeesg you yet devised an acceptable disposal patriotism," the actions of an in- moust _re-Uapl Interviews will be. held from 5:30 to 8:30 PM method. dividual nation would be useless. on Monday, The government should focus McKibben credited scientists April 30 and Tuesday,, May 1. If you have any on exploiting renewable energy with taking a lead on global is- questions, please call the GSC at 253-2195. sources including hydroelectric sues. "Scientists have provided an power, but especially solar power, unprecedented global vision," he he said. said. I- I -- L i I APRIL 20, 1990 M _ PAGE 16 The Tech FRIDAY -" - I - - - I

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·;····· ·I··) ··· 7-- Deutch writes to Cheney ` ;·· ''· .·: '· '· '" ' (Continued from page 1) Army ROTC for forcing Wash- an important step forward in the ' dismissal of Robert L. Bettiker ington University student James effort to pressure the Defense 0 N '90, who has been asked to repay M. Holobaugh to repay $25,000 Department to change its .. N D ST scholarship benefits by the secre- in scholarship money after being policies. tary of the Navy against the ad- expelled from the program. "I think it is important for a vice of local ROTC officials. Shortly afterward, a total of 35 number of things. MIT is added APRIL IS In an interview yesterday, representatives sent a similar let- to the list of institutions of high- Deutch stated that his main moti- ter to military officials concern- er education speaking out against LAZARE DIAMOND MONTH vation in writing Cheney was his ing Bettiker and Harvard gradu- this policy," said William R. concern over "the discrepancies ate David E. Carney, who was Rubenstein of the American Civil AT LONGS between MIT's policy of non- also asked to refund money after Liberties Union's lesbian and gay discrimination and the DOD being removed from the ROTC rights project. "MIT is a very discrimination against homo- program because of his sexual well-known institution and the sexuals." orientation. one that perhaps does the most "I believe that ROTC is impor- Bettiker praised Deutch's deci- business with the military." tant for this campus, for students sion. "It is one more positive President Paul E. Gray '54, in and for the country. I don't want thing for the movement. I am a letter to Undergraduate Associ- to see this matter lead to a loss of surprised at how fast things are ation President Manish Bapna ROTC at MIT. Yet at the same moving," he said. '91, expressed his support for time, a university in full support According to Bettiker's com- Deutch. a of non-discrimination cannot en- manding officer, US Navy Cap- "Both the Provost and I are dorse a group which discrimi- tain Robert W. Sherer, Deutch's troubled by the contradiction be- nates, no matter how beneficial letter "is an appropriate letter ad- tween MIT's policy of non-dis- the consequences of that associa- dressed to exactly the right level. crimination and the ROTC policy tion," he said. There has been so much going on of discrimination on the basis of FEATURING -7 Deutch re-asserted his belief in this past year, addressed to the sexual preference, and we believe 1 that "MIT must act together on individual ROTC units, which the that this ROTC policy should I I1 this issue, not as a single faction have no power to change the pol- change," he wrote. A BRILLIANT DEVELOPMENT of the campus against the other icy. Finally, a senior official has faction." gone to the top where the policy IN LASER TECHNOLOGY. "I thinkc that this is an occa- can be changed. I'm pleased to Every Lazare Diamond has a unique laser inscription on its sion where the MIT community see it." circumference. This inscription is invisible to the naked eye, but has to see itself as a united entity Carney, who is currently study- when viewed under 10 power magnification, it reveals immediate in a conflict between itself anld ing -at Oxford University, also proof of ownership. Come in today for an enlightening the military. Our university and praised the tenor of Deutch's let- demonstration. other universities are trying to ter, saying that it sent an impor- * 10 month interest free financing work in a steady manner with the tant message to top military * Lifetime Warranty against chipping from Lazare (Lazare and DOD to get them to change their officials, The Harvard Crimson Long's will recut your diamond to ideal proportions if it gets discriminatory policy," he said. reported Tuesday. chipped as long as you own it) Deutch, an associate of Che- Professor of Literature David * Long's 2 year warranty against loss (Long's guarantees all of ney's, has been a member of the M. Halperin, a founding member its diamonds for 2 years against loss out of its mountings) Defense Science Board since of Defeat Discrimination at MIT, * Free 18K and platinum mounting 1975, aned has considerable clout views the letter as "a strong and 9 Free silver ring box in defense circles. unambiguous statement of prin- ° Every Lazare diamond is cut to ideal proportions He has served the Reagan, ciple." Enormous inventory in all stores Carter, Ford, Johnson and Ken- According to Halperin, nedy administrations as a mem- DDMIT, which is sponsoring a Lazare Diamondls. Setting the standardfor brilliance™' ber of the White House Science proposal to remove ROTC from Council (1985-89); the President's campus if the military's discrimi- Commission on Strategic Forces natory policy is not changed (1983); the President's Nuclear within the next few years, "'wel- Boston's Diamond Ejxperts Safety Oversight Committee comes the letter, and recognizes $;z44~~I (1980-81). its value because it comes from a In addition, Deutch'served,-as- Defense-lDepartment insider." Strattoncountil Student Nanr C ete THOMAS LONG COMPANY an undersecretary in the D~epart- "Because of his close relations MiT^Wv"J il BOSTON, 40 SUMMER STREET, (617) 426-800 ment of Energy (1979-1980); di- with the DOD, Deutch has en- il SOUTH SHORE PLAZA * BURLINGTON MALL * NORTHSHORE SHOPPING CENTER rector of ehergy--research in the abled MIT to take a leadership 2252555 And our new location, 420 Boylston Street at The Berkeley L - -L .1 " I- I - -- i DOE (1977-1979); member-of the role in doing something about - -- I-- '''' -I Army Scientific Advisory Panel ROTC policy. And that makes (1975-1977); and staff member in me proud to be part of MIT," the Office of the Secretary of De- Halperin said. STUDENT TICKETS fense (1961-1965). Halperin believed that the let- Overwhelming support ter allowed "no backing away for Dentch's letter from the obvious contradiction between MIT policy and ROTC.'9 Deutch's letter comes in the "The burden of action has now wake of three highly publicized been placed on those people who cases in which the Pentagonl, want to keep ROTC at MIT. It is overriding local ROTC board no longer enough to say ROTC recommendations, demanded re- should be here without a change payment from cadets after they in policy,"' he said. admitted they were gay. According to the Crimson, ad- Last month, 24 US representa- vocates of gay and lesbian legal tives issued a letter criticizing rights said they saw the letter as

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iac e ea usports a Track defeats four, moves toward championship

400 6'-2") and Scannell (400 meters, By David Rothstein victory over the Worcester and fending national indoor 49.99). John Tewskbury '92 took Outdoor Track vs. The track and field team's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutes meter champion, and sophomore Makcatiani is thirds in the high hurdles (16.07) quest for an outdoor national Saturday at the Steinbrenner Mike Piepergerdes. Rensselaer and the and the intermediate hurdles championship continues to take track. nursing a sore muscle, was in the (1:00.73), and fourth in the triple Polytechnic Institute on definition as they handily dis- Running without top sprinter only running he did boy for track jump (42'-10"). Senior Sean Kel- posed of four teams (in two tri- Boniface Makatiani '90 in the role of an errand and Worcester to run ley was second in the 5000 meters angular meets) over the past week second meet, MIT nevertheless officials. He is expected G Polytechnic Institute again when the Engineers travel (15:11.71) and Ted Manning and a half. Added incentive to took 10 of 17 first places in indi- at the Steinbrenner track, tomorrow for the put up a strong fight in the 1500 win the outdoor title - after vidual events and won both re- to "Ahorcester April 14, 1990 meters, finishing third in 4:09.61. placing second at the indoor lays. Senior standout Bill Singh- Holy Cross Invitational. who is one of the One more face to look for will championships in March - came ose captured three firsts, winning Piepergerdes, Hammer - 1, Clarke, MIT, 170'-3"; 2, be that of 400-meter man Cooke, 153'-5"; 3, Hanlon, WPI, a week ago, as head coach Gor- the long jump at 22 feet, 7 inches top Division III middlerdistance Shank. MIT, as a freshman. 4, Masalksy, MIT, 152'-2". the runners in the nation but who who ran briefly 152'-6"; don Kelly announced that this with the wind at his back, High jump - 1, Washington, MIT, 6- suffers from inconsistency, chose The junior ran a comfortable season would be his last. pole vault at 14'-0," and the 2"; 2, Ouimet, WPI, 6'-2"; 3 (tie), 51.25 to take second in the 400 In an interview yesterday, Kelly, 400-meter intermediate in a not to run this season for person- Ciaciio, RPI and Bogan, MIT, 6'-0". meters on only three weeks of 14'-0"; who has directed the track pro- speedy 54.12 seconds, running al reasons. Pole vault - 1, Singhose, MIT. training, and should improve sig- 2, Spada, RPI, 13'-6"; 3, Moose, the race virtually alone. Singhose While Piepergerdes' absence gram for the past 28 years, MIT, 12'-6"; 4, Wing, WPI, 12'-6". will hurt MIT's chances at the na- nificantly by the end of the said that the combined hours of also ran the third leg of the 400- Discus - 1, Shank, MIT, 142'-9"; 2, season. Clarke, MIT, 131'-1"; 3, Ouimet, On a down note, MIT was WPI, 122'-7"; 4, DeMatteo, RPI, swept in the steeplechase, 800 122'-4". .meters, and javelin. Javelin - 1, Malone, WPI, 180'-7"; 2, DeMatteo, RPI, 172'-6"; 3, Fillion, WPI, 171'-8"; 4, Dingley, WPI, 166'- Golf takes 4". Long jump - 1, Singhose, MIT, 22'-7"; 2, Daly, WPI, 21'-6"; 3, Jack, MIT, second in 21'-41/2"; 4, Dugas, RPI, 20'-8". Triple jump - 1, Prskah-Asante, MIT, 44'-6%2"; 2, Davis, MIT, 43'-93/4; 3, tournament Daly, WPI, 43'-6%/2'; 4, Tewksbury, By Brent Beadling MIT, 42'-10". - 1, Thibert, WPI, 46'-%/"; 2, varsity golf team turned Shot put The Gross, RPI, 45'-51%2"; 3, Clarke, MIT, in their best performance in the 42'-10"; 4, Goodfellow, WPI, 41'-8". Greater Boston League Golf 100 meters - 1, Dunzo, MIT, 11.76; 2, Tournament in many years with a Kelly, WPI, 12.10; 3, Dugas, RPI, 12.13; 4, Lundin, WPI, 12.23. place finish. second 110 meter high hurdles - 1, O'Con- This Greater Boston is the only nell, WPI, 15.99; 2, Sprague, WPI, collegiate tournament in the 16.02; 3, Tewksbury, MIT, 16.07; 4, United States in which 36 holes Davis, MIT, 16.25. 200 meters - 1, Dunzo, MIT, 22.79; 2, day. Not only are played in one Lundin, WPI, 23.50; 3, Kelly, WPI, 04%. was the format demanding, but 23.72; 4, Luehrs, RPI, 23.81. 0:~~~~~~~~1S*~rain and cold weather further 400 moters - 1, Scannell, MIT, 49.99; added to the stress. 2, Cooke, MIT, 51.25; 3, Benham, 4, Goldson, RPI, 51.99. up well and though WPI, 51.91; MIT held 400 meter intermediate hurdles - 1, they could not catch the strong Singhose, MIT, 54.12; 2, Oconnell, William ChulThe Tech Boston College team, succeeded WPI, 58.97; 3, Tewksbury, MIT, in nosing out Harvard by two 1:00.73; 4, Mowry, RPI, 1:01.34. attempts 14'9" in Saturday's meet against RPI and WPI.- 800 meters - 1, Hltwicker, RPI, Bill Singhose '90 second place. Excel- strokes for 1:58.00; 2, Gilbert, RPI, 1:59.27; 3, tional championship meet, two lent 18-hole rounds were turned Spina, RPI, 2:01.45; 4, Dolan, WPI, relay, joining Mark Dunzo coaching and his role as director meter 2:32.44. Engineers who competed in.last in by sophomores Thomas Shea, of physical education have lately 191, Kevin Scannell '92 and an- 1500 meters - 1, Blakeley, RPI, year's outdoor season but passed Sadruddin Hilal, and Wataru Ya- '91 in a time 4:06.39; 2, Minosh, RPI, 4:07.67; 3, proven to be burdensome. His chor Garrett Moose magouchi with scores of 81, 82, up the indoor season are back, Manning, MIT, 4:09.61; 4, Garcia, commitments to the P. E. depart- of 43.58. and should figure in the hunt for and 84, respectively. Good overall 4:10.27. ment, said Kelly, prevented him Dunzo had a busy day as well, a title crown. performances by freshmen Trey 5000 meters - 1, Minosh, RPI, from "focusing in on track" and winning the 100 meters (11.76) 15:05.80; 2, Kelly, MIT, 15:11.71; 3, Triple-jumper Kwaku Prakah- Valdez and Erik Norton (with (22.79), run- Hackett, RPI, 15:5B.01; 4, Donly, took time away from his family. and the 200 meters also helped contribute to Asante '90 won his event with a 172's) RPI, 15:59.57. Coaching, however, is only a ning both into a strong head- leap. Second to Prakah- the Engineers' strong showing. Steeplechase - 1, Cummings, WPI, also ran the first leg 44'-61/2' nine-month job, and does not wind. He WPI, 9:52.2; Asante was Kelly Davis '92, with Final Standings: 9:51.0; 2, Berthiaume, pay as well as the 11-month staff for both relay teams, joining Joe 3, MNowry, WPI, 10:03.0; 4, Conroy, a 43'-93/4" leap. Davis also took Boston College 819 and Steve RPI, 10:27.5. position, conceded Kelly, who Kowalski '90, Moose 855 fourth in the high hurdles MIT 400 meter relay - 1, MIT (Dunzo, plans to retire from the P. E. de- Cooke 791 for a modest 3:26.4, a (16.25). Harvard 857 Scannell, Singhose, Moose), 43.58; partment in eight years. Kelly did win by only two-tenths of a sec- Prakah-Asante and Davis are Northeastern 861 2, RPI, 44.48; 3, WPI, 44.95. ond over RPI in the 1600 meter not rule out returning to coach- Tufts 87 1 1600 meter reby - 1, MIT (Dunzo, certain to improve on these 2, ing in some capacity after his relay. Kowalski, Moose, Cooke), 3:26.4; performances as the season Brandeis 910 Junior John-Paul Clarke RPI, 3:26.6; 3, WPI, 3:43.0. retirement. Boston University DNP progresses. 2, WPI, 58; 3, RPI, 52%2. Assistant coach Halston Tay- placed in three events, winning 1, MIT, 921/2; Other winners Saturday were (Brent Beadling '90 is captain lor, who is also head coach of the hammer throw (170'-3"), tak- - '' Tom Washington '91 (high jump, of the varsity golf team.) sr ,--9 Is the cross-country team, will next ing second in the discus (131'-1") year inherit the head position and placing third in the shot put of MIT's most successful sports (42'-10"), while teammate Eric program. Shank '90 won the discus (142'- Rugby faces tough competition in Japan The Engineers opened their 9") and took second in the ham- outdoor season with a 127-51-24 mer (153'-5"). trouncing of Bates and Bowdoin Missing among the regular By Cliff Federspiell and followed with a 921/2-58--52Y/2 faces were Makatiani, the de- The men's rugby team recently Bs~~~~~aE completed its fourth overseas _ tour in the last six years. They ,, ~~~~ds , A s s' axs ha' e were hosted by Waseda Universi- I ty, the defending Japanese Colle- ti Oy,, giate National Rugby champions. -S td,. II1 MIT played four matches while a close 11-8 in Japan. They lost .,, :, 105>3C~"` "1 N e.ngaand'\Mrt- decision to a corporate team j lt5 ·- · ; - .eni Cham Oonshtpsi through from IBM Japan, suffereda a w w >-M of<> a~- ifrv --· shutout at the hands of the KeiO "" 2. .rrura(a vexunday) University All-Stars, defeated the i "· 1+oOVMenticta~ossev WNS^ Yokota Air Force Base 14-3, and lost to Waseda, 30-6. The tour TBA ^ U-~jtqit~: . ass Haryerd `and marked the first time that a US college athletic team had visited 'WiV Japan for a rugby competition.

Since the team has returned to - i.'%""'''''v'"' ' , t i C ., a r, a22,X the U~nited States, it has compet- ed in three matches. Still weary I from their tour, the Engineers f, t:.° tv ^-.+-w dropped their first game to Ig tWO~~~~~~~~~~ic:: II TBA- Amoskeag, 26-13. Since then, the team h~as rebounded with a 12-10 e:xs 2a :;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~v.defeat of Harvard and a 12-11 win over Vassar. MlT's B team BE. ^~,--oA . : fn * . also defeated Vassar, 8-7. =

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