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Court delays d[ uction; will hear Zigmont ease By Steve Carhart A court-ordered stay of induction gave Dr. Michael Zigmond, Research Associate in Nutrition and Food Sciene and the first member of the MIT community to attempt to. refase induction, an opportunity to take his case to court. Zigmrnond was to have been inducted Friday. Roger Wertheirmer, a Harvard philosophy tutor who was to refuse induction with Zigmond, was also. denied that op- portunity as the Army physician who examined him determined that he was 4-F due to a dislocatable shoulder. Although he had already received his stay, Zigmond was advised by his attorneys to go to the induction center anyway, along with Wertheimer and about 350 demonstrators supporting their cause. :;5ru X'S,_·; X Among the demonstrators were a large number of MIT students and 'yl, sP:c /ii31 faculty who had left the campus at 7 am to be present when the ix?; *C..( two resistors refused induction. Zigmond's stay proved to be an k' · effective weapon against induction, as security officers would not '9 rv5:rndc Q even let him enter the induction center. V· ·:t- The morning's activities were summarized at a well-attended rally held at noon Friday in front of the Student Center. The rally Ii offered a surprise of its won, as a few spectators in the front rows zee "Hcec ·- were violently attacked by a man who threatened to kill the "come ,, ·"S ·- ·,m·· .w·x* munist bastards." He wrestled one of the spectators to the ground Yoi. 88,, o. 27, and was trying to choke him until Lt. Olivieri of the Campus Patrol Vol.___ 88,_ No. 27 gCambridge. Mtass Tuesday May 14, 1968 5¢ _ _ _ _ I _ _ _4 1 P __ ___ and several other spectators managed to subdue him. I Chomsky After the opening excitement, Professor Noam Chomsky comment- I iamcm ed on the inability of thle judiciary to make a judgment concerning fi0$i; the legality of the war and the role of the university in changing Personal 2attin the current distribution of power in the nation. Following Chomsky By Carson Agnew leadership or social effective- Sarah Lawrence or Bennington." was Rabbi Maurice Zigmond, Michael Zigmond's father and a re- One of the -two principal ness. The admissions office, Coeds were also found to have ligious counselor at Harvard. indicators used as a basis -for however, still uses PR as one significantly higher College Michael Zigmond then spoke briefly, but turned the microphone admission to MIT has been of its criteria in accepting Board scores on the SAT Math over to Wertheimner when the latter returned from the base. Wlerth- called "noise" in a report applicants, and Verbal tests and on the eimer reported that he had "no tale of moral courage," and that he released to the faculty last Scholastic Index the English Composition had been treated well at the base. He reported that he had (some- week. The other measure used by Achievement test, compared how) passed the Army intelligence test ant the Army medical test, The report, entitled A Guide the Admissions Office is the with students at Wellesley. but when they saw his medical record, which included a disloca- to the Freshman Year, was Scholastic Index (SI), now de- Mah Perforemance table shoulder, they decided he was unfit for duty. He noted that written by George Valley, fined as the. probability that an Some other results: good they did not ask him whether it had been recently dislocated (it Undergraduate Planning Profes- applicant will attain a 3,3 performance on the CEEB Math hadn't), nor did he tell them. The comnmanding officer's last words sor, and his assistant Wayne Freshman year (the limit was Achievement tests or the MIT to him as he left the base were, "Good bye, Mr. Wertheimer;, see Stuart during the last two and 3.2 for the Classes of '70 and placement test given during youtin the next war." one-half years. It is the result '69, and 3.0 for previous class- Freshman Weekend indicates Professor Jerome Lettvin was the final faculty speaker, he de- of analysis of many different es). Valley found that, in that the student will do well nounced the division of conscription into many little steps which statistics, and deals primarily general, this predictor wasn't in physics and/or chemisty, gradually work the student into the "system," with the Classes of 1968, 1969, too bad as long as it was high. but doesn't say much about In an interview with The Tech, Zigmond said that his case will and 1970. SI was useless, however, math. In fact, 'students who be heard this week in the Circuit Court. Because his case is based PR questioned when it was tried as an indica- advance-place mathematics do on the contention that his punitive reclassification has denied him The statistic called into tor of which Freshmenf needed better through all their Fresh- constitutional rights, Zigmond believes that his plea may go to question by the report is thle to defer taking a course, or to man science courses. the Supreme Court. "Personal Rating," which the be placed in a remedial section. Admissions Office assigns to In fact, the only good predic- each applicant for admission. tors of performance in a course Found at Wetllesley It is a number between 5 and 10 are the quiz grades, and so the which is supposed to measure report recommends a thorough the motivation. and the social re-evaluation of a Fresliman's effectiveness of the applicant.* position after his first set of The Tech cracks 'reat art thef To quote the report: "there quizzes. is little relationship between ,Know College? By Reid Ashe sculpture made the trip back to tedly one of disgust, let us as- PR (Personal Rating) and per- Other sections of the report What is believed to be the MIT in the trunk of Lima's girl- sure you that it is a piece of sonality .... For the great ma- debunk other favorite myths $9,500 piece of modern sculpture friend's car with negligible over- "art" valued at $9500. jority of the students, no values about MIT students in general, which was stolen last week from hang. It is part of a total mnonstro- at all can be observed in the and Freshmen in particular. Kresge Plaza was recovered on Roof top art show sity passed off as "sculpture" Personal Rating-it. is almost For example, the Classes of the Wellesley campus Sunday After the work was stolen last (sic) by Mark DiSuvero and Prof- pare noise." (italics from the '69 and '70 were given a test night by a daring team of The week, the MIT Campus Patrol essor Wayne Anderson (sic), report.) asking them to catagorize their Tech staff members. After receiv- made a diligent search of the Chairman of the Faculty Commit- Valley's group tried to test personal philosophy about col- ing an anonymous tip "Terrible campus, but to no avail. The tee on Visual Arts at MI.T.. in the effectiveness of PR against lege in four ways, which may Tony" Lima '69, "Gorgeous' sculpture apparently spent its open defience of the better jud- several other presumed mea- be summarized as Financial George" Flynn '69, "Raunchy first week of liberation on the gemnnt of our senses. It was sures of motivation and social (to get a good job), Academic ,Reid" Ashe '70, and "Pavel" roof of the Phi Beta Epsilon stolen arier this "month from the effectiveness. Items such as (likes to study), Social, and Ambiozele '69, rushed to the house, which was reached through "Park Plae" exhibition currently lecture attendance and. the Rebellious. The overall distri- scene and triumphantly brought the adjoining Delta Kappa Epsi- on display at MJ.,T. length of essays written on the butions between these on 2is the stolen scaipase to The Tech lon house. Unfortnately ,an Ad Hoc Stu- applications form were. fosLhd campus most nearly match the office- It is rummrrd that Editor- At about 2:00 am Sunday the dent Committee on Environment not to be correlated with die profiles df Know College and Driver Lima set speed records on which saw fit to remove the rest PR. A small correlation was Whitman College-both small sculpture was removed from the found between people with liberal arts colleges with con- the trips to and from Wellesley's PBE roof, apparently to Welles- of'the junk from its temporary high PR and those who re- nec ti ons to engineering sohools. Alumnae parking lot. ley. Later in the day came the resting place has been wrongly The sculpture, part of the con- accused of this theft and has been ceived Compton awards, but MIT coeds, dealt with as a tip-off call. in general the -reports shows separate group, "are very dif- troversial Park Place exhibit When the sculpture was re- subject to a good deal of criti- that PR has no significance on ferent from those going to consists of a six-foot piece of covered, a note was found at- cism instead of being lauded. I-beam with a large block of wood tached to it which read: As we do not wish to implicate attached to one end. Wrapped a- · Mayr1, 198 them in any manner, we wish to Johnon nmes -chukfma round the block of wood is a very Tos Whom it May Concern: return this piece of "sculpture". bald size 4.20x15 tubleess Fire- Although youre first reaction Please treat it with care that stone Deluxe Champion tire.

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