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City to Inves Arrests At Newv.s Service I - . ' ' .d Since 1a88i '7 a Vume !07. N u mber '?3 - b "a*. ,, _ _ . _ _ _ City to inves arrests at e n I mly Arrested allege questions brutality by Cambridge vCarnpus Police legality of CP's role By Michael Gojer and Katie Schwarz By Thomas T. Huarng Demonstrators who were ar- A lawyer working for the city government is investigating whether rested last Friday on MIT's Sim- or not MIT strayed from a state law when it ordered its Campus Po- plex site claim that the MIT lice to arrest ten people on the Simplex development site, City Council Campus Police acted "brutally" member Alfred Vellucci told The Tech. The council voted last night to during the action, while the Cam- appoint Russell Higley, city solicitor, to conduct the investigation. bridge City Police Chief told a The MIT Campus Police. arrested the demonstrators early Friday Boston newspaper that the site morning when they refused to leave the premises. They had occupied could have been cleared without the stretch of land at the corner of Blanche and Green Streets since arrests. mid-October, protesting the conditions of the homeless in Cambridge. Campus Police Captain Anne MIT may not have had the legal right to use its own police, Vellucci P. Glavin said Friday that she saw said, because the Simplex site is part of a real estate development pro- no evidence of brutality during ject and not on campus. He also said that it was unclear whether or the arrests. not MIT had full ownership of that land. All of the homeless and sup- Allan S. Bufferd, MIT's deputy treasurer, said late last night that porters interviewed insisted that the Institute has full ownership of the development site, but could not they had not expected to be ar- comment on Vellucci's other claims. rested and had intended to leave The state law that provides Campus Police with police powers is the site peacefully. limited in scope, according to City Councillor David E. Sullivan '74. Meanwhile, the MIT official He said that the language remains ambiguous as to whether the Cam- who oversaw the eviction of resi- pus Police could make off-campus arrests, but he added that, accord- dents from "Tent City" offered ing to the city manager, MIT's lawyers had decided that the Campus Police did have such a power. two possible dates yesterday for Mark D. Virtue/The Tech discussions with the homeless Vellucci - along with fellow city councillors Frank Duehay and Al- About 100 people, protesting the removal of the homeless ice Wolf - criticized MIT's actions at a protest in Lobby 7 yesterday. group and their advocates, ac- off the Simplex site, gathered yesterday in Lobby 7. cording to Daniel J. Glenn G, a The councillors called the arrests "outrageous" and "reprehensible," Tent City supporter. The discus- particularly in face of a unanimous City Council resolution that asked sions would focus on the Tent Activists used homeless (Please turn to page 16) City group's proposal for con- verting the disputed Blanche for their owNn agenda !council:C urges M IT to drop charges Street houses into community lived on MIT-owned property for . for the homeless, BY Paula Maute . housing one month and who refused to according to Glenn. Analysis The Cambridge City :Coun:- rector. of the Cambrdge' Wo leave - was brought on by op- ' Questions surround arrests By Katie Schwarz portunistic activists who used the -lastc1-i .night. censured M:Tfor .. men's Commiss.on, :recalid; and Thomas T. Huang street people to publicize their e -;v~e~ictig ;>th~e h.~Sv-.ome fro.-. t h a i o fiA The belongings collected dur- In its decision to remove the ideas for aiding the homeless. ing the arrests Friday were emp- homeless from "Tent City," MIT The activists wanted to push I-:.t':ith'd.raw :1! .carges. her belongingswhn a:.Ca- tied from storage trucks yester- employed what one source called their own agenda for solving the day afternoon onto the ground a "legal device" - that of police problems of the homeless and and into puddles along the for- arrests - to get out of a sticky shaping the character of the Sim- .- -e-a.meetingatt d .dby:w¢erdagged y tei and mer Tent City site, according to city politics. situation involving plex development - including ove.. '-0 Ca ridge r"esidnt a etacross he'lot. What Steven Penn G, another of the This situation - involving a the occupation of empty, aban- (Please turn to page 16) outragda: citdty cou 0McillorsIsaw was a p- ie ro-Hih " group of demonstrators who doned houses on Blanche Street. s'erai TntCity: S-.. sad......- arose when several -hea:Srd ----------- I -- - --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Confusion ThCo6.ncipa. a ..:re - poterss lle t . e M:...:T... different interest groups in- C;a nee .-lati folice::secd ng.an in . ;:G cluding MIT, the homeless, the aryforce. n evicting the .ot o te - ; iCous -Pls City Council, the Simplex Steer- . nees fro a -siJte-on MT's powe to ares.eoleo the- ing Committee, the social work- SimporySimplesproperty.Te-. ~~~~~plex.. - -.. -- uncil ers and student activists - inter- .n.:';N.''cy ....' "-- : i executive"" ' d....i ''I"I.....A. -ur t pae I..... acted but failed to come to terms (Please turn to page 17) Contract dispute delaysdi- . UA store ': · ~~~~~~~~~~~ : .... '~~''Byi Darrel Tarasewicz That hesitance led to an inci- ity the it was getting from its role ""~ aE~~~i~~S~~~A .':"~ two-week delay in the open- dent involving Rodriguez and an in the store, according to Julie ing of the Undergraduate Associ- MIT undergraduate on the Coop M. Kim '90, a student member of ation convenience store in- the Board of Directors. Christine A. the board. "At the meeting we Student Center has resulted from Chu '88, one of three MIT un- came to the consensus that being the Harvard Cooperative Socie- dergraduates on the board, said the vendor for the UA store ty's hesitance in signing a con- that Rodriguez approached her might not be in the Coop's best tract as a supplier, according to on Oct. 24 in an effort to. secure interests," Kim said. Georgina A. MaldonadolThe Tech UA President Manuel Rodriguez the Coop's agreement to be sup- However, at a subsequent It's time to sleep for the fourteen geese that live be- '89. Rodriguez said he hopes the plier to the store. meeting, the Coop decided it tween the crew house and the BU bridge, store will open next Monday. Rodriguez warned her that, "If would retain its role as vendor to you don't cooperate 'With me, I'll the UA store. make life very difficult for you on "The pullout of the Coop be- Democratic candidates campaign for NH primary this campus," Chu claimed. Ac- came an issue because the student cording to Chu, Rodriguez also directors wanted to make it an is- Gephardt maintains hope threatened to ". write a letter sue," Rodriguez said. "I wanted Candidates attack Reagan's to The Tech that will make [the to make it clear that it was uneth- policies in weekend debate despite unfavorable polls Coop] look so bad." ical for the Coop to pull out at The incident came four days that point," he added. By Thomas T. Huang By Paula Maute after the Coop Board had dis- Rodriguez said that he would GOFFSTOWN, NH - The six Democratic presi- Democratic presidential candidate Richard Ge- cussed pulling out of its agree- have been very vocal if the Coop barbs at the that he is a viable candidate de- dential candidates traded political phardt maintained ment with the UA. The Coop was decided to pull out. "I wouldn't Saturday but recent polls showing him in fourth place in Democratic state convention here last spite concerned about the bad public- (Please turn to page 18) concentrated most of their attacks on the current New Hampshire. Gephardt, a Congressman from administration in anticipation of the New Hamp- Missouri, spoke at Harvard's Kennedy School of ·;: shire primary on Feb. 16 and the election next No- Government on Nov. 19. ;? vember. Gephardt was interviewed by former NBC report- ..·,. Meeting with approximately 1000 state delegates er Marvin Kalb and discussed his views on the undecided - Democratic primary, international trade, abortion, - about one-third of whom remain Interview with a contra turned Sandinista. Page 2. at local St. Anselm's College, the candidates said contra funding, the Iran-contra affair, the electoral -- * * the Reagan White House has failed to care for process, and the economy. The interview was part ! * I those citizens who are less well off than others. of a series of public interviews of Democratic and babylon and on is Squeeze's danceable comeback i Republican presidential candidates at the Kennedy They described the vital problems they believe the album. Page 13. administration has caused and School. left unremedied - including the Gephardt currently trails be- budget deficit, a weakened educa- e e / g AJAR hind three Democratic candidates Major new Harbison work premiered. Page 14. tion system, and. a polluted envi- ~lO Ain New Hampshire, according to ronment. I a recent poll of New Hampshire While most delegates saved I ______ ~voters by Cambridge Reports for MIT libraries rank 39th among US colleges. Page 15. (Please turn to page 193) (Please turn to page 19) L - Imrl I -·o- --sr -· -- ' I ------ -cu _. __ -- m il 11 MM PAGE 2 The Tech TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1987 1z t A- 9 contras 9- Kid napped Sandinista describes life with f r- Q: Please continue with your story after your training in We escaped with three backpacks filled with ammuni- i Reporter's Notebook Honduras.
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