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. ,lt\1 , .- o. ''~. "'"> ' "' ·:s .· .. A ~, . v . S N| o","'",.'''''". 'C-.' ntinuous in | l,,Ao,',,,.Q1,,,a,,,,,,,t,,.~~'"~e >ew·s $ervice " ; w .AQI'+.-Si"nce 1881J -10), Number 56 l l·I- =hl· lII Ill M1 ll: C -' ^-D-eutc-h named Inst.0 professor By Joanna Stone Deutch would not say for cer- John M. Deutch '61, former tain if he had declined Harvard's MIT provost, has been named In- offer. "My belief is that I will be stitute professor. The announce- a scholar at MIT for some time," ment came from President he said. Deutch remarked that Charles M. Vest, Provost Mark things may change in the future S. Wrighton and Faculty Chair and that he could not comment Henry D. Jacoby. on the tenure offer at Harvard. "I'm enormously pleased and However, he said that now, as honored," Deutch said in an in- Institute professor, he is "happily terview yesterday. "This is the doing what I've said I've wanted third best thing that's happened to do all along: teach and do re- to me at MIT," he added, ex- search in chemistry and public plaining that the first was being policy." admitted as a student to MIT and Albert Gold, associate dean of the second was being hired as a the Division of Applied Sciences professor. at Harvard, said he was not The title of Institute professor aware whether Deutch had made Vipul Bhushan/The Tech is bestowed on a faculty member a decision concerning the tenured Miles Arnone '91 deflects one of many scoring attempts by Tufts during last night's to acknowledge outstanding lead- position within his department. game. The Beavers lost, 6-3. Their loss to Tufts was their first at home. ership, accomplishment, and ser- He did say he would be disap- , . , · ,. -· r ,, "8 I .. I , vice in the scholarly, educational pointed if Deutch decided not to and general intellectual life of the take Harvard's offer. Institute or wider academic com- "I have been very impressed, Report raises concerns munity. Deutch's appointment along with the rest of the faculty, brings the current total of Insti- by his credentials. [If he does de- Some question implications for free speech tute professors to nine, in addi- cline the professorship] I would tionn to Edwin H. Land, a visiting By Andrea Lamberti sections: policy, education and concerns about the harassment feel a loss of a potentially very Institute professor. valuable colleague," Gold said. Discussion of the The Report prevention, and procedures," the report in a letter to Faculty Chair report states. Henry D. Jacoby, said the re- Deutch's appointment comes at Before serving as MlIT provost, of the MIT Committee on Sexual a time when his decision of Parts of the community have port's treatment of free speech Deutch held the position of dean Harassment, released in October, whether or not to accept Har- of the School of Science from already responded to the report and due process for those ac- has included both praise for the vard's offer of a tenured position by implementing workshops and cused of sexual harassment 1982 to 1985, and was head of committee for addressing the is- in its Division of Applied Sci- sue and- concern about the re- discussions. And in mid-October, "proved worrisome." the Department of Chemistry in ences remains uncertain. Jacoby 1976 and 1977. port's treatment of freedom of former Provost John M. Deutch The revised policy includes a said Deutch's selection as Insti- From October 1977 to March speech and due process. '61, who convened the committee definition of harassment. "Ha- ii and charged it with strengthening rassment is any conduct, verbal tute professor was by no means 1980, Deutch took a leave from Most agree harassment has be- an attempt on MIIT's part to keep w come an increasingly important the former policy on sexual ha- or physical, on or off- campus, MIT to work at the US Depart- I rassmhent in November 1989, sug- which has the intentor effect of Deutch from going to Harvard. ment of Energy, first as director issue with the fisin'g _pierent "The nomination process be- of women on campus and the gested that several of the re- unreasonably interfering with an of the Office of Energy Research view that the nlumber and severity port's recommendations be made individual's or group's education- gan last March. At that time from 1977 to 1979, as acting of incidents of harassment have permanent. al or work performance at MIT the possibility [of Deutch's ap- assistant secretary for energy pointment to the Harvard facul- technology from January to June increased. However, several mem- He recommended that the poli- or which creates an intimidating, tyl was not known, or rather I 1979, and then as undersecretary bers of the community have cy go into the formal Policies hostile or offensive educational, don't believe it was known by in the Department of Energy raised questions about what they and Proceduresbook, that statis- work or living environment," the view as the harassment commit- tics be kept, that Keyser compile report states. anyone," Jacoby said. from August to March 1980. Jacoby interprets Deutch's ac- He served as a member of the tee's disregard for freedom of a formal list of mediators, and It also states that, in punishing for those that-the new definition of sexual someone for sexual harassment, ceptance of the Institute profes- President's Nuclear Safety Over- speech and due process sorship as a decision to stay at accused of sexual harassment. harassment be incorporated into that sanctions may be applied sight Committee from 1980 to MIT. "I assumed it meant that he 1981 and the President's Com- The report includes a revised the basic rules and regulations 01up to and including termination has said no to other opportuni- mission on Strategic Forces from Institute policy on harassment, for approved MIT living groups. of employment or student which the Faculty Policy Com- He also requested that discus- status." ties." However, he added, "I 1983 to 1984. This past August, don't know what he'll do in the mittee and the Academic Council sions be initiated on campus, and Based on the definition, President George Bush appointed future." (Please turn to page 2 have already passed, according that the procedures for education Thomson said in the letter that to Asssociate Provost Samuel J. and prevention of harassment be an intent to offend is not re- Keyser, chair of the committee. disseminated throughout campus. quired to convict someone of harassment. "it is enough to trigger The remainder of the eight- Some feel policy may consists of recom- the possibility of the imposition page report constrain free speech mendations for decreasing, if not of sanctions that an instance of eliminating, sexual harassment at At the faculty meeting Nov. 28, speech have the 'effect of unrea- MIT. 'The committee recommen- Professor of Philosophy Judith sonable interfering' with some- dations fall into three major J. Thomson, who first expressed one's performance at MIT, or that it 'creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive ... envi- Environment laws ronment.' " And based on the definition of sexual harassment for MIT- limit parking spaces approved living groups, part of By Joanna Stone "We were hoping to get a total which reads, "Sexual harassment Recent regulations may further exemption for employee parking includes but is not limited to ... increase the already great short- lots," said Sarah J. Eusden, as- sexist remarks, slogans and age of parking spaces at MIT. sistant for government and com- behavior that demean persons "The biggest problem is that munity relations in the presi- based on their gender or sexual people feel they have to commute dent's office. Instead, the cur- preference...." Thomson said because there isn't adequate pub- rent ordinance exempts operating any remark that might be con- lic transportation," said Lydia S. employee parking and gives "spe- strued as sexist, "whatever its Snover, senior planning officer cial consideration' to future em- intention, and whatever the con- for Institute research. text,... therefore opens the Tech file photo ployee parking. John M. Deutch '61 And while the number of com- (Please turn to page 11) (Please turn to page 2) muters is on the rise, the number of available spaces may be fro- zen. Currently, there are a total Gould pronnotes the entity theory of evolution of about 5000 spaces to serve the By Brian Rosenberg reached capacity. Room 26-100 The first class, which he called Tendency theories, Gould said, MIT community of over 16,000. Why are people here? This was eventually filled as well. tendency theories, are being re- were supported by an incorrect And the 1974 Environmental one of the questions addressed by Gould began by characterizing placed by entity theories, he said. view of what he called "evolu- Protection Agency Clean Air Act Stephen Jay Gould, professor of the origin of humanity as "the re- He explained that tendency tionary topology." Evolution restricts the Institute to provid- paleontology at Harvard Univer- sult of a series of highly contin- theories view the development of tends to be portrayed as ladders ing parking to only one-in-three sity, at a Tuesday-afternoon lec- gent events that would not hap- human consciousness as the re- rather than bushes, he said. "All commuters. ture on human evolution. pen again if we could rewind the sult of "a predictable tendency, textbook illustrations of evolu- And this past Monday, Cam- The lecture, sponsored by the tape" of human evolution.

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