Continuous a.- f t:IT M | News Service - Cambridge Since 1881 Massachusetts
Volume 103, Number 1 - . - X- A Tuesday, February 1, 1983
LSC d rops show; no uzDeep ThroatI By John J. Yling two projectionists and the case Under pressure from several against them was thrown out of groups, the Lecture Series Com- district court. mittee (LSC) decided to substi- LSC received a petition with 59 tute "Star Wars" for "Deep signatures from students and Throat" as the registration day members of the MIT community movie last night. stating, "We ... demand that a "We want to emphasize that movie which portrays a degrad- we don't plan to discontinue hav- ing image of women and an in- ing traditional registration day dustry which profits by it not be movies," said Leo J. DaCosta given the benfit'of MIT facilities '83, chairman of LSC, "but today and funds. We demand that you we wanted to avoid a direct con- refrain fom showing this.mo- frontation. We want to protect vie." Tech photo by Omar S. Valerio our right to show traditional reg- Several women's groups threat- istration day movies in the fu- ened to picket and to demonstate Several students protest the canesellation of the registration day movie, "Deep Throat," in front of ture. WE felt that we might jeop- at the showing of the movie. Kresge Auditorium last night. ardize this right by forcing MIT "We have received many more S to make an instant decision. To- complaints about not showing MIT rejecIts loan program day was a tactical retreat." the movie than about showing it. By Sam Cable but will not participate because tion fee for students, participat- received maybe half a dozen LSC's immediate concern was We MIT has decided not to par- of its terms, according to Bursar ing institutions are required to that the showing of "D)eep. calls - tops - against the mo- ticipate in an educational loan Arthur R. Wagman. contribute 340 for every $1000 vie," DaCosta said. Throat" might be illegal in hMas- program sponsored by the M as- The Institute was initially en- loaned, and the loans are dis- sachusetts. The US Supreme Declining to predict what sachusetts College Student Loan thusiastic about the program, be- counted to pay for MCSLA's op- MIT's decision would have been Court ruled in the early 1970's Authority ( MCSLA), according lieving it would make money crating costs, he said. A student if LSC had decided to show that states could set "community to Director of Student Financial available at low interest rates, borrowing $1000 would receive standards" for pornographic ma- "Deep Throat," Mary P. Rowe, Aid Leonard V. Gallagher '54. Wagman said. The interest rate only $935, he noted. assistant to the President, terials. Massachusetts passed a special This decision wiii not result in On the loans will be 11.25%, Participating institutions would noted, "In the past, when Milly vague anti-obscenity law that a shortage of loans to students MCSLA announced. be required to adhere to MCSLA Dresselhaus wrote a letter, when might include the movie. and their families, Gallagher MCSLA changed the program, guidelines in making loans; these women's groups wrote letters, In May of 1980, two Harvard said. Wagman said, producing a plan guidelines are much more strin- students were arrested for show- when President Gray wrote a let- The program was not as satis- under which the MICSLA would gent than Institute regulations, ter asking LSC to reconsider ing "Deep Throat" to raise funds factory as other sources of cap- buy loans from participating col- Wagman said. for their dormitory, Quincy showing registration day movies, ital, he said. "This is not some- leges. "We would make the loans, Had MIT participated in the from and when they continued to show House, because two women thing we have foolishly turned then the MCSLA would buy the program, it would have probably the house objected to the movie them, no action was taken." our backs on. We felt that there paper from us. This was about used the funds to replace the Par- "We appreciate the responsible and called the police. Alan were better deals elsewhere." 180 degrees from the way we ent Loan Program, 'Wagman said. action LSC has taken in this mat- Dershowitz, a professor -at Har- MIT agrees with the philos- envisioned the program," Wag- The MCSLA program will fund vard Law School, defended the (Please turn to page 13) ophy behind the loan program man said. MIT financial adminis- only up to 75% of educational ----.c-·------5 ---II~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1-·I - '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~a~~~~~BBI-- - -v I: '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~·-· l~~~~~~~~~~~lrp~~~~~~~~~pl~~~ trators originally thought the costs, he said, while the Parent program would lend money to Loan Program has no such re- the Institute to lend to students striction. and their families. he said. The repayment period for the Another major problem with MCSLA loans is 15 years, com- the program was its cost, Wag- pared to 7 years for the Parent man said. There is a $30 applica- (Please turn lo page 13J lDea n Is ()ff lee sonsEde'N plaratotosodup Hanfiurus h By Joel Gluck will recommend that the policy Residents of dormitories with be changed." Sherwood was not empty rooms would pay higher specific about which dorms rent under a proposal presently would be most affected by such a before the Dean's Office. policy change. Each dormitory would be re- Bexley Hall, Random Hall and
i: r quired to cover the costs of its Senior House were the only three z(; ·· :·". =li, i- empty rooms; presently, the cost undersubscribed dormitories this is distributed over the entire dor- i· *' year. i·. ; ...-- ·-' ·.·-1· : ·· · :· -· -' ·I` :-`': ` .SPb ·a""~- c X ;-r · · sa. ; . x·"`··.. :-: mitory system, according to Rob- -1, Although the policy change. is ert A. Sherwood, associate dean still under consideration, there al- :·· :· s for student affairs. ready have been reactions. "I've ·····.. .· .·.. -·U. The reason for the proposed gotten a sense that people are
-··:-· ·- t -·- ···- -· change, according to Sherwood, now more warmly receiving new is that certain dormitories have residents," Sherwood said. ·*:*·:i`i i"' been deliberately dissuading stu- dents from choosing them every Tech photo by Ed Benardon year by using such tactics as "an- Student contemplates schedule in duPont Gymnasium yesterday. ti-rush" and giving students mis- B LB - - - I -- I -u - - --· ------L -I CI ------I------.0 information concerning available rooms. "These dorms make their UA invlteo Reagaln to tuition riot environment less attractive to stu- Survey of college dents." student leaders reveals some decided. As an example of anti-rush, By Burt S. Kaliski be held to 5%, or one percent un- problems. Page 2. "Prohibitive tuition is robbing der the inflation rate, or we will At a meeting Sunday night, the Sherwood noted an ir~cident oc- many Americans of [their] educa- riot." Committee decided to send out a curring during Registration/Ori- How can you win $5.00 tional right. Many of us at MIT Members of the self-styled Tu- flyer two weeks before the riot, entation Week. '"The members of of ice cream? Enter The wonder whether we will be here ition Riot Committee of the UA including statements from Har- a certain dorm held a rather bi- next term," stated a letter sent and UA President Kenneth Segel vard University, Tufts University, zarre party involving drugs. ... Tech's tuition contest! from the Undergraduate Associ- '83 invited Reagan to attend the and Brandeis University concern- They created as offensive an at- For details, see Page 2. ation (UA) to President Ronald annual tuition riot. "Your atten- ing tuition at those schools, ac- mosphere as they could." W. Reagan last week. dance will be for the good-of this cording to Richard Cowan '84, Sherwood suspects various mo- Catch a glimpse of indoor "We, the students of the Mas- country," stated the letter, "since president of the junior class. tives for such behavior on the sports at MIT. Page 8. sachusetts Institute of Technol- it will focus attention on the The Committee is working part of the dormitories. "Stu- dents don't like crowded dorms. ogy, fed up with exorbitant tu- plight of our nation's students." with Halt Increased Tuition, a Buried and borrowed group formed by the student gov- . .. They can have single rooms." ition increases, are demanding The Committee also asked records finally get reviewed. that the MIT administration hold Reagan to set up a bipartisan ernment at the University of Another especially strong mo- Page 9. down the tuition level for the panel to investigate the need for Pennsylvania in November. The tive for anti-rush behavior, ac- coming year," the letter stated. federal aid to students. group sent questionnaires to stu- cording to Sherwood, is the prac- In December, the Committee The riot will be held March 4 dent governments at Ivy League tice of "ghosting," in which non- The MIT Track team sent a letter to MIT President on the steps of the Julius A. colleges and MIT. students are illegally housed in went down in a close one. Paul E. Gray '54, other members Stratton Student Center and on The Committee distributed six Institute dorms. For the whole story, see of the administration, and stu- Kresge Oval, and after a speech hundred posters yesterday at reg- "I'm hoping that it won't have Page 16. dent organizations demanding by a guest speaker, it will move istration and at the registration to happen," said Sherwood, "but that "the.1983-4 tuition increase to Gray's office, the Committee day movie. if they continue this behavior, I I ' - - ·--snaaa ·lllxa slrsCna ···a ?: _ lW PAGE 2 The. Tech TUESDAY, FEBRU'ARY 1, 1983 L_ I re C- L -- I ----- _ I I -e :i!4;%
i AidI cuts worrya-~~~~~~ students By Burt S. Kaliski replied to NOCR. "What we say tioned if they accepted the stereo- A survey by the National On- doesn't matter." type of college students as "car- I Campus Report (NOCR) in No- eer-focused and self-centered" in Unemployment was the top -the poll: one-third of the student vembe'r showed that federal fi- concern of twenty-seven percent , · nancial aid cuts and unemploy- government leaders and almost s of the newspaper editors, while half of the editors agreed. ment are the top two national percent of the student '.r seventeen The third largest national ii; problems faced by college student called it their ii government leaders problem was the economy, listed .i leaders this year. top national concern. by ten percent of government :· Students cited apathy as the Past concerns such as the envi- leaders and seventeen percent of number one campus problem for ronment, energy development, editors, according to the poll. the 'fourth consecutive year, ac- and social program cuts were not -i cording to the NOCR. The need listed this year, according to the Nuclear proliferation, ranked fourth, was cited by six percent ii for better campus facilities was survey. Only one student, it said, 1 of the presidents and sixteen per- ··i, the second highest problem. listed the Social Security crisis as ::: cent of the editors. the number one national prob- .h: NOCR sent questionnaires to Other problems listed were the 1200 student government presi- lem. dents and college newspaper edi- NOCR also asked those ques- (Please turn to page 13) tors. Twenty-six percent of those polled - 176 presidents and 133 editors - responded to the sur-
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