Recount Changes '86 Race Annually, Gallagher Explained
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Eastman Kodak gifts ture source of personnel. ,'are tied to the cost of tuition- "The corporation gifts are the their scholarships stay at about smallest part of our total finan- three-fourths of that cost. But cial aid package," he continued. most company scholarships are "The largest source of aid is en- not tied." dowed scholarship funds." MIT will have to spend $4 mil- MIT alumni and other individ- lion to $5 million of its operating uals contribute to scholarship en- funds for financial aid this year, dowment funds, Gallagher said. Gallagher said. Individuals gave MIT $30 million Corporations gave MIT ap- for scholarships last year. proximately $500,000 for scholar- "The third source is made up Tech photo by Grant W. Johnson ships last year, according to Gal- of awards that students receive Assistant Professor David L. Akin '74 plans an experiment for the space shuttle. See story on lagher. Bendix gave MIT $25,000 directly from outside agencies, page 2. __ _- this year. "That figure is consid- like the National Merit Scholar- Ibl. p·b--r -·Q·II·--YU - _q _ __ _ ___ R·PS - --_ ---- -_ -- ered large." ship," Gallagher said. These Each corporation involved awards add up to $1 million a gives MIT an average of $5000 year, he noted. Recount changes '86 race annually, Gallagher explained. Students in the armed forces' Corporations include Proctor reserve officers training corps that time a recount would not af- treasurer. The team of Gabrielle and Gamble, General M otors, programs receive $800,000 a year, By Byurt S. Kaliski the races. "I really Hecht and Lauren E. Singer beat fect any of Bendix, and K~odakc.- Gallagher estimated. Mary Kate Bayalis'86 defeated didn't think" there would be a Jennifer L. Snopkowski by 254 Companies often restrict the Scholarships total $8 million, Alka Jain '86 by seven votes in a change, he said Sunday. "'I votes to 200 for social chairmen, including $900,000 in Pell grants recount of Class of 1986 ballots thought it was a random error." and Toi A. Beveridge, also run- use of their scholarships, accord- last weekend to become secre- "I had assumed the first count- . ning unopposed, became the pub- ing to Gallagher. "They some- and $1 million in Supplementary tary elect of her class, according ing was correct," Bayalis com- licity/newsletter coordinator with times specify that the money Educational Opportunity Grants, to David M. Libby '85, Under- mented. "I didn't think 20 votes 349 votes. should go to students in a certain Gallagher said. graduate Association election made a difference - I had been D commissioner. told I lost by 25 votes." "The person counting ballots "Sloppy counting" gave Jain i[last week] did not count as care- thirty additional votes last week, Army recruitsat MIT despite gay bias fully asW w-e-ad'hoap`ed," 'Libby Libby said.- "I -really-don't know . ;. , A... , ^ , , ;. K;., , j. A;. where the votes came from." Lib- said. M-ore than 100 students at cruit] for non-military jobs," ac- by did not think fraud was in- By Diana ben-Aaron Bayalis won by a vote of 226 Bates College in Lewiston. cording to Weatherall. The MIT to 219. The initial count showed volved, he added. Although about half a dozen Maine, held a sit-in earlier this administration should address the Jain winning by a vote of 249 to The final ballot count showed law schools, including those at 22t. freshmen cast 495 votes. Vivienne Harvard, Yale and Boston Col- month at the school's Alumni problem more directly, he said. "It was Just a mistake," Jain 1Lee defeated Samuel M. Gruer lege, banned US armed forces re- House to protest discrimination "If MIT has a policy on this is- said. "It was too bad it hap- by a vote of 322 to 146 to win the cruiters because the Army dis- against gays by military recruit- sue, I am not aware of it," said pened. I guess my race was close presidency. Suzanne C. Dunbar criminates against homosexuals, ers. Philip Crawford, president of Special Assistant to the Provost and any discrepancy affected it." -beat Sharon A. Israel by 44 votes the policy "hasn't triggered any the Bates Gay-Straight Alliance Louis Menand III. There was a 20 vote discrep-- for vice president. problem" at MIT, according to which organized the sit-in, told Gays at MIT stated this week, ancy in the Class of 1986 ballots, Eric L. Clayberg, unopposed, director of career planning and The Boston Glohe the group will '"We sympathize with the stu- Libby said Thursday. He said at gathered 368 of the votes for placement Robert K. Weatherall. continue to campaign until "no dents at Bates College who feel gay on campus is discriminated that recruiters who discriminate against." against lesbians and gay men The Army invoked the Defense should not be permitted to use nyMIT to woman I"00 00 Authorization Act of 1973 at campus facilities. Yale Law School in May 1982. "We think that M IT should jury awarded national Students of the City of December. The The act prohibits colleges from have the same policy for discrimi- By Jak6e Tinio New York, the corporation which Moskowitz $7 million in dam- Norina Moskowitz, a former using Department of Defense natory recruiters that it would owned her dormitory. She also ages, Byers said, of which MIT graduate student at Columbia funds if the institution bans mili- filed suits against MIT and Burns would pay $3 million. Burns Se- have for organizations or agen- University, will receive $500,000 tary recruiters. cies which discrminate against from MIT's insurance carrier for International Security Systems - curity and the Association of In- the company in charge of her ternational Students would each MIT requires each organization blacks, women, or any other damages resulting from an as- wishing to recruit at the Institute group that the present MIT non- sault by her ex-boyfriend, Shek dormitory's security - Valentine pay $2 million. said. MIT reached an out-of-court to submit an information form discrimination policy covers." Kwan Tsang SM '78, according attesting that it "considers candi- Gays at MIT is considering to Kimball Valentine Jr., MIT in- The civil trial began in King's settlement of $500,000 during the dates for all opportunities with- further action to guarantee re- legal administration County Supreme Court in Brook- trial, and thus the jury's decision surance and out regard to race, creed, color, cruiters at the Institute will not officer. lyn Oct. 1, 19827 ending in early (Please turn to page 3) national origin, sex, age, handi- discriminate on the basis of sex- The Institute made the settle- orientation." ual orientation, according to An- ment with no admission of the cap, or sexual Military recruiters are required thony Della Fera '84, the group's n egligence charged by MUr renevvs mnemrneslhip Moskowitz, according to Robert to sign the form, Weatherall said, president. M. Byers, director of the MIT and they have never deliberately The American Council on News Office. "MIT denies the at Miuseurm of Sgence failed to comply with the rule. "I Education last September inter- charges utterly," he declared. By Wei-Chung Hu cost. don't think we should mnake it a preted a proposed revision of the Tsang had admitted himself to MIT has renewed its sponsor- The program grants free ad- problem," he commented. Defense Authorization Act as the MIT infirmary for psychiatric ship of a free admission program mission to the Museum of Sci- The Defense Department op- exempting institutions that bar evaluation before the assault and for its students at the Boston ence for all people with either poses recruiting homosexuals for all recruiters - not just military was released a few days later, Museum of Science, according to M IT or Lowell Institute identifi- combat positions, but "mnilitary - whose actions are inconsistent Valentine said. Tsang then went John G. Strang '83, coordinator cation. Michael A. Isnardi G. recruiters are mostly here [to re- with the institution's policies. to New York City and on April of the project for the MIT chap- former president of the group, 2, 1978, confronted Moskowitz in ter of Tau Beta Pi national engi- and lecturer John A. Tucker, the her dormitory room and threw neering honor society. group's advisor, started the pro- ,,. acid in her face. 'Last vear was the first vear ject lest year. I F o r I A X \ X To0kow-itz charged three de- that Tau Beta Pi sponsored this About 350 students visited the fendants with negligence and ac- project, and it cost about $7500,' museum each month last year.