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Continuous 6sL< MIT News Service g Cambridge Since 1881 *Massachusetts Volume 102, Number 36 Ax _ Tuesday. September 14, 1982 - - - - - : ~~~~~ IIII-· ---Bpl- h---' _,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ·-~~~~~PP dl - -~~~~~~~~~~- __ ~~~~~~~ 9b I I I D -~~~~~~~~~~~~~·C IQI~~~~~~~~-~~~------·--s 9~~~~~~~~~~~~ IP s nab suspect in Iela Avei A ggings By Laura Farhie The youth stole $40 dollars cash and Jakse T-rnio and a $125 watch from Ralston. A youth will go on trial Sep- Ralston later said he would tember 21 for allegedly robbing have fled, but he had hurt his an- three MIT students and attempt- kle a week before. ing to rob a fourth on the Har- A Burton House resident said vard Bridge during early morning a youth on a bicycle approached hours last week, according to him at 12:40 am Monday and MIT Campus Police Sergeant talked aimlessly. The youth then Anne P. Glavin. claimed he had a gun and de- Soon after the latest incident, manded the student's wallet. Campus Police captured a youth The youth took the wallet but Tech photo by Gerard Weatherby whom all four students later returned it upon finding it empty. "He reached for a necklace, Tom Hastings G attempts to kick the extra point kick out of Vincent Martinelli's '85 hold after identified as their assailant. In each reported incident a but I wasn't wearing a necklace. I Dave Peakes '84 first half touchdown in action-against Stonehill Saturday. He then went for my watch ... I 6,--- -eRI---------- p--_-_ _I = __ CI - _-__-I _- R II - - youth approached a lone MIT student walking on the Harvard was ... resisting him, so he Bridge sidewalk toward Boston, pulled his supposed gun hand out Shgtle b evcet tr according to Campus Police. The of his pocket., the student youth began a conversation with claimed. "Then I realized he By John J. Ying long time, so all we got are posi- two buses will operate instead of each victim and then claimed to didn't have a gun. I told him so, A shuttle bus system, traveling tive responses." one, Lopez said. have a 38-caliber gun. and he left." To break even, the system will At 1:15 that morning, a youth around the MIT campus and to The MIT administration con- The assailant never showed a have to-carry at least 1000 people stole two dollars and a $60 watch the fraternities in Boston, will be- sidered starting a shuttle bus sys- weapon, but demanded victims' a day, Lopez said, out of its ca- from a member of Sigma Chi fra- F-in October 18, according to Mi- tem in 1966, but abandoned the wallets and watches. The four pacity of 1500. ternitV, according to Clavin. chael Lopez '83, a board member victims reported the crimes to The bus route will consist of idea for lack of funding, accord- Three hours later, a youth at- of the Association of Student ing to a study done by the Trans- Campus Police, who notified three loops, starting from Kresge tempted to rob Alan Stoddard Services, a new student group portation Lab class, 1.102, on the Metropolitan District Commis- Auditorium, following Amherst '85, a member of DU. Stoddard planning the system. feasibility of an MIT shuttle. sion (MDC) Police and Boston Street along the west campus knew of the incident Saturday William Carroll, Inc., will op- Most Boston-area colleges oper- Police. dormitories and stopping at 77 morning involving Ralston and erate the shuttle buses. The Asso- ate shuttle buses, according to The students noted none of the ciation for Student Services is Massachusetts Avenue. The bus fled from the assailant. Stoddard will then cross the Harvard the report. cars crossing the bridge stopped notified Campus Police, who ap- still trying to arrange an $8000 durin- the robberies. loan for the bus company's first Bridge, follow Beacon Street and The Association of Student prehended a- youth at 4:30am on payment, due October 18, ac- Bay State Road, stop at the Services will present its constitu- The first victim was assaulted the corner of Massachusetts Ave- cording to Lopez. "We are trying MBTA station in Kenmore tion to the VA's Association of .at 1:30 am Saturday, September nue and Albany Street. [the Undergraduate Association- _Square,.and return to 77 Mass.a- Student Activities (A$A) for ap- 4. The other three incidents oc- The youth lives at a halfway .(UA3 Finance Board], the Stu- chusetts Avenue. Finally, the bus proval on September 23. The curred between 12:30 am and house, and is now being-held in dent Center Committee (SCC), will go to the MBTA station in constitution will 'almost certain- 4:30 am Monday, September 6, juvenile detention, Glavin said. the Interfraternity Conference Kendall Square and return to ly be passed," Lopez said. Glavin said. The suspect is. a past offender (I C), and individual Kresge Auditorium. During peak The group is also plans a credit On Saturday a youth jogged on the MIT campus, according fraternities." riding hours - from 8 am to 10 card service and a ski-week up to Brian Ralston'86, a pledge to Campus Police Chief James The Association is not yet offi- am and from 3 prn to 6 pm - project. of Delta Upsilon (DU) fraternity. Ofivieri. cially recognized by the UA. The bus system will operate Monday through Friday during the school term from 8 AM to 11 Iongre soverrides Reagan spendng veto PM, according to Lopez. Lopez stressed the shuttle bus By Barry S. Surman day - exactly the two-thirds spending decisions. The President an end to Reagans domination of plan -in his unsuccessful bid for Both houses of the US Con- margin needed - to enact the claimed the bill was a "budget the Congress. the UA presidency in March. gress voted to override President bill over Reagan's veto, following buster," though it was almost $2 Passes for the bus cost four Reagan's veto Of a $14.1 billion Thursday's 301-117 vote to over- billion less than his proposal. The appropriations bill, now dollars for a ten-ride ticket, or supplemental spending bill last ride the veto in the House of law, includes $217 million in Reagan said he was "terribly, week, handing the President his Representatives. grants for college students, $6.1 $16 for an semester-long pass. terribly hurt" by the override, Single-ride plastic tokens are first major Congressional defeat. billion in military and civilian "The members of Congress and threatened more vetoes. Con- planned but presently unavail- The spending bill includes ad- pay, $148 million for education have been home," said Senator gress, he said, will "get a chance able, Lopez said. ditional appropriations for stu- of disadvantaged children, $350 Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR). "They to do that every time they send The bus system's budget for dent aid, education for the handi- million in aid to Caribbean coun- heard their constituents." an appropriation down that is this term is $16,100, according to cap.ped, foreign aid, military tries, $435 million for arms and over the budget. I'm going to Lopez. "We are just hoping to spending, and jobs for older While some Republicans said veto it again." defense programs, $5 billion in break even in a year. Everyone Americans. Congress overrode the President's farm subsidies, $112 million for has been waiting for this for a The Senate voted 60-30 Satur- veto primarily because elections Eighty-one Republican Repre- Medicaid, $115 million for the s ir-9 I --------- - - are approaching, many members sentatives and 21 Republican Internal Revenue Service, $33 I of both parties viewed Reagan's Senators voted to override the million for the Coast Guard, and defeat as an assertion that Con- President's veto. Democratic $211 million in subsidies for jobs o -.f~~~~~~~~~~.:;·:··:· At:·rgress holds the power to make strategists hope the defeat signals for the elderly. f'St,$..~~~~~i .'.-,~.' '.1J: ' "' .s..s. {....2. .. a__ ... .... .. ~ Union seeks to stop Coop B%0e Wsv?,f,,Rt~~~E~i',@;"!.;-,.,~.· ,,, , , By Tony Zamparutti The Coop "has unlawfully in- it would give the employees a fair The union trying to organize terfered with the employees' exer- shake," Laughlin added. employees at the Harvard Coop- cise of a free choice for or against erative Society has petitioned the a bargaining representative," Ad- "We are going to continue to National Labor Relations Board ministrative Law Judge Lowell work with the people," and the (NLRB) to- stop Thursday's un- Goerlich stated in his decision. union will petition for another ionization vote. Goerlich set Thursday, Septem- election in the near future, he The soonest another unioniza- ber 16 as the date for a new un- added. tion vote could be held would be ionization election. James Argeros, Harvard Coop- six months from now. The high turnover of Coop em- erative Society general manager, On March 26, 1981, Coop em- said yesterday he had not yet of- ployees voted 273 to 156 not to ployees since the last unioniza- tion election, the unfair labor ficially heard of the union with- join Local 1445 of the United drawal from Thursday's election. Food and Commercial Workers practices committed by the Coop I nternational Uniono. The union in that election, and the short Argeros said Coop practices challenged the election results be- time to organize for the new elec- during the 1981 election were fore the National Labor Rela- tion reduced the union's chances fair. tions Board (N LR B). for a victory, John Laughlin, a The NLRB judge, he contend- Last March an NLRB judge union official and former Coop ed, gave the Coop a choice be- Tech photo by Gerard Weatherby worker, said.