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Continuous jgMIT News Service Uarn>id Since 1881 · ~ ~assachuesetts M" Volume 104, Number 23 Tuesday, May 8, 1984 i - -- v -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -·I P1 I -- --- pgr I- - Graym lT will not replace federal aid to non-re91strants By Harold A. Stern will be adequate help, when there Second in a series won't be," Gray said. MIT will not replace the feder- "I hope that he is wrong," al aid withheld from those stu- Reynolds responded. "We met dents who fail to register for the with the American Friends Ser- draft, according to President vice Community, and they gave Paul E. Gray '54. us tentative approval - their A group of students discussed programs are successful at Bran- the issue with Gray when the deis and Brown, and we expect Solotnon Amendment took effect that it will work here." last July, said Craig Reynolds '84, Several faculty members have a member of that group. The stu- expressed interest in making do- nations to the scholarship fund, Tech photo by P. Paul Hsu dents asked that MIT replace the A path of primroses replaces the "nerd path" in Kresge Oval. lost aid with Institute funds. Reynolds said. II1 IICI -C-- II L IP ' -- _ - I I IBDIIC IC-- ____ _ II - 1111 1 -·- The group argued that the Once MIT established its policy amendment, although it forbids of withholding aid from the non- the dispersing of federal Title IV registrants, said Gray, the ques- State looks for waste disposal site funds to non-registrants, says tion of whether the money origi- nated from MIT or from an By Kevin D. Hurst But dangers due to soil erosion trash that are now classified as nothing about giving other aid to outside scholarship fund lost its Last in a series or radioactive seepage into the radioactive but lose radioactivity students. water table forced closing of after a short time would reduce "We wanted a way to replace relevance. "The source [of the A crisis in radioactive waste sorne LLR sites in recent years. the volume significantly, he said. the lost money," Reynolds said. aid] is of secondary importance, disposal will force MIT and Mas- "The environmental community Most of the LLR waste is pro- "We have talked with President and ought not to be a consider- sachusetts to explore methods to is very loath to accept shallow duced in research labs in such Gray, and we were informed that ation," he said. reduce and dispose of low-level land disposal," said Marvin M. fields as biology, chemistry, earth it was against MIT's policy to re- William R. Dickson '56, senior radioactive trash. Miller, principal research scientist sciences, metallurgy, and cancer place the federal aid. vice president, said the Institute's Research in hundreds of MfIT in the Energy Lab. "Hydrogeo- research. Masse said much of this Gray told them if MIT were to refusal to either directly or indi- rectly aid the non-registrants does I laboratories will be jeopardized, logy is just too complicated to research would be shut down if a give non-registrants money, according to Francis X. Masse, satisfy environmental concerns disposal site is not available at "there might be the perception not imply the administration radiation protection officer at about this method." the 1986 deadline. that other students who complied agrees with the Solomon Amend- MIT. Another method is to inciner- "It's a competitive market. If with the regulations might be ment. "1984 is a year of critical deci- ate some of the trash. "The [the California Institute of Tech- short-changed," Reynolds said. "MIT's opposition has no sions, " he said. Massachusetts amount of radioactive material nologyl can do things that we Gray said, "That is not just a bearing over whether or not we faces a 1986 congressional dead- that escapes up the [furnace smo- can't; they will get the govern- perception, but a reality. We are feel this is proper legislation - it line to find a place to dump its kestack] is so small that by the ment contracts. That's the bot- allocating eight million dollars of is quite clear that we do not," radioactive garbage. "In tom the past time it comes back to the ground line," Masse commented. general Institute funds to supple- said Dickson. "This whole case the state has wasted too much itvis very dilute," California is building he said., its own dis- ment aid for undergraduates. will be heard before the Supreme time on less important issues." Because the waste costs $300 posal site, he said. Any increase in demand for Insti- Court, and ruled on before the The alternatives for disposing per drum to ship and process, a Massachusetts state govern- tute funds amounts to an de- end of June - if stricken, the of low-level radioactive (LLR) rate likely to rise mernt has been negotiating with sharply in the crease in other available aid." whole question becomes moot." waste are limited. Burying the next few years. MIT muist contin- other New England states to cre- Those "who are obeying the Gray agreed: waste in shallow trenches is the "I regard the ue to reduce shipped waste by ate a regional disposal site, but law will either see their tuition Solomon Amendment as a bad simplest solution. This approach segregating the trash carefully at each state is unwilling to house rise or their average financial aid piece of legislation, because it is used by al three existing U.S. the source, Masse said. the site, Miller said. "A governor decreased, if only by a little bit," makes colleges the enforcers. It disposal sites. [who proposes to host the pro- Deregulating some types of he continued. couples draft enforcement with jectl would be almost committing Gray said he does not believe education - I am opposed to it. the establishment of the scholar- suicide," he said. However, we have no choice but Frosh pick noajors Since Massachusetts is not suit- ship fund will necessarily help the to obey the law." able for conventional trench dis- non-registrants; he doubts the students will be able to raise a MIT is not alone in refusing to By Arvind Kumar Professor Arthur C. Smith, posal of waste, it may resort to aid the non-registrants, Gray With 877 out of 1073 freshmen chairman of the faculty and a trench disposal with underground significant amount of money. claimed. "Only Yale University, major forms tallied, one-third in- professor in the Department of "engineered barriers" that shield "I cannot imagine that the do- to the best of my knowledge, has dicate a major in the Department Electrical Engineering and Com- the water table from radioactive nations will cover the expected [given money to non-regis- of Electrical Engineering and puter Science, said the number contamination, Miller said. need. This scholarship fund will trantsl," Gray said. Computer Science (Course VI), choosing to major in Course VI create the expectation that there is "mildly encouraging." according to Peggy Richardson, Smith said he had thought over executive officer of the Under- 400 students would enroll in the AFROTC head says corps is graduate Academic Support Of- department, but he now expects fice. the number to be "more like As of last Friday, 197 freshmen 350." not an aid or grant program listed a major in electrical engi- If Course VI enrollment ex- By Diana bean-Aaron eryone the same." change to majors the Navy might neering (VI-I) and 90 listed com- ceeds 350, he said, some action MIT students who hold Air Seven of the 17 upperclassmen need . Our scholarship awards pu'ter science (VI-3), Richardson for future admits might need to Force and Army Reserve Officers'- who hold Army ROTC scholar- are not broken down by course," said. (Please turn to page 2) Training Corps scholarships are ships are enrolled McClure said. -- I-. - -~-- I-·ICIII-"-·31·r -r ·--· · in Course VI, r - restricted to certain areas of including five in the co-operative Hetland emphasized that study, according to the two pro- program VI-A, according to Lt. ROTC is not a grant or aid pro- Intended Majors of Class of '87 gram directors. Colonel James P. Hassett of gram. The Air Force "attempts to Total number of freshman is 1073. Number of compiled responses is 877 Air Force ROTC scholarship Army ROTC. make the best use of the tax- School of Architecture awards are 'contracts to major in Army ROTC scholarships payers' money ... We're not go- & Planni 1'4 a specific field," said Colonel Joel specify whether the cadet is to ing to buy something we don't Archtecture- I \ S. Hetland of Air Force ROTC. need," he said. Urban Studies- 1 major in engineering, physical About 190 MIT students hold sciences, or social sciences, but Attrition in the Air Force Sloan School of AFROTC scholarships. not the specific field, said Has- ROTC is about 40 percent at Managerent - 17 Hetland said the scholarships sett. MIT, compared to 23 percent na- School of Humanities < \ E.E-197 "are awarded based on changing Scholarships have been restrict- tionwide, Hetland said. After the & Social Science - 18 predictions of what fields the Air ed to these general areas over the end of freshman year, students Cog. Sc - 7E Force will need people in four past few years, because the Army are committed to remain in the Econ -9 ScShool of En eering - 575 Poli. ScI - years down the line., wants to increase the technical program and complete four years HumanlaQes- X | lUnndesignate at MechE - SI "This year is strong in electri- expertise of its officer corps, he (Please turn to page 2) cal engineering, and next year added.