In This Issue · Streaking & Watergate . p.4 "Continuous News Service Finaid ....... .p4 Since 1881" iigrPI' monday ........ p. 5 / An'~~~~~~~~AI la Davenport .... .pp. 6-7 iPh Arts ........ p.9 _. TT..- - TII'T.1--- - _I------_---I- - --- - - -_-- . - s -____ __ VOLUME 94 NUMBER 9 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1974 FIVE CENTS 'ree@nsGens glgrve XQMIT $2m-ipzrnmssioz ill sn By Mike McNamee post-doctoral staff members; "These programs all have the President Jerome B. Wiesner 2) Establishing a program common denominator," Martin this week announced the presen- for' mid-career rotation, stated, "of moving new people, tation of $2 million in gifts to allowing persons to address and therefore new ideas, into the the Institute by Cecil H. and Ida educational questions relating work of the Division." New uses M. Green, long-time benefactors to their specialty for a period for the money, Martin added, of MIT. of time; and will be found as DSRE and its The gifts, in the form of two work progressed. "This first en- seperate grants of $1- million 3) Setting up a program of dowment will allow us to move each, will be used to help distinguished faculty .asso- with more dispatch on some support the new Division for ciates to visit the Division and programs that we have been Study and Research in Edu- provide input for shaping its wanting to go forward on." cation, and for the establishment future growth. of fellowships aimed expressly at female graduate students. The grant for the DSRE will Front door nameplates be used to help establish several new programs in the Division, which was created this year to stolen fromrn fraternities sponsor interdisciplinary re- By Bill Cohklin "This sounds like something search in teaching and educa- -At least ' twelve MIT fra- some BU fraternities pulled tion. The endowment is the first ternities have been vandalized in about five or six years ago," he to be established for the new the past week. commented. "They had a sort of division, according to its direc- Since last Friday night, the a challenge to see how many tor, Professor of Mathematics front door nameplates of at least they could get." William T. Martin. twelve houses (see picture) have Members of Beta Theta Pi, Financial assistance for been stolen, and a thirteenth one of the fraternities hit, saw entering women graduate stu- attempt was apparently made. three adult males, possibly col- dents will be the first goal of the Captain James Oliveri of lege students, running away P.a. Ida M. Green Fellowships, ac- Campus Patrol said that only from their house after an ap- cording to Dean Irwin Sizer of one house, Sigma Nu, had con- parent attempt to take their the MIT Graduate School. tacted him. (Please turn to page 8} ·.· "There is a very grave need to do ·: . · ie something for graduate women Prof. Myron Wiener of Political Science ' '"i ~" ' :' _ S,:(::",~ 7~: ;~,,4~%,~!'..~ Photo by David Tenenbaum students," Sizer told The Tech. : i:- " These fellowships will help us to compete for the best women applicants." ;- ·:··BR Wiener is app ointed Wiesner, in seperate state- ·;···· ments relating to the two gifts, I'm4 E cited them as "an exceedingly generous expression of con- head of PoliSci dept fidence in this new venture By Mike Mdamee [DSRE]," and "the latest in. a Professor Myron Wiener of Political Science will be appointed long series of major leadership head of that department, to take effect July 1, 1974. contributions Mr. and Mrs. Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Harold Green have made to MIT." Three programs, planned Hanham announced Tuesday that he would recomrnmend Wiener to The DSRE, Martin told The .--NI.-Illl - r the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation to fill the post Tech, is planning to use the ::: vacated by Professor Eugene Skolnikoff in October. contribution from the Greens The announcement, made in a letter addressed to faculty for three specific programs im- members in the department, specified that Wiener's appointment mediately: The Tech received this photo anonymously late Thursday, with the would be for a three-year period with possibility of renewal. This, 1) Establishing two lec- following caption typed on the back: "Fraternity signs, anyone? HIanham stated would probably become policy of the department in tureships in education for (Not pictured: PiKA, DKE, No. 6)." the future as part of an"intemal reorganization designed to share the administrative load more equitably among the faculty." Sources in the department gtrea ming:a new inltercollegi-cte sport? told The Tech that "no one else By Nonnrman D. Sandler toward the end of the week, with streaking incidents having taken was seriously considered for the For years, people have been exposing themselves in dark place at St. Louis University, several smaller colleges in the area, and post" of department head during doorways, exhibiting themselves on the beaches and stripping their even at the Patricia Stevens School of Modelling. the five-month-long selecting clothes to protest a variety of issues. In the warm climate of the California, streaking and other similar process. Hanham stated in his However, "au natural" is finally in, with the acceptance of activities have been occurring in scattered locations for about a year. letter that it was "plain that .streaking as a national collegiate pastime. What began a month ago as One student at Stanford told The Tech that streaking is on the Myron Wiener's appointment isolated cases on several campuses in different parts of the country increase there, although there have been no mass streaks. However, would be received with general has now grown into a major intercollegiate competition across the that doesn't mean that Stanford students are not interested in acclaim." nation. breaking streaking records. One group plans to set a new record for Skolnikoff, when contacted The Baker House Streaking Society, formned by Charlie Bruno the nation's longest streak, by going from Pale Alto to San Jose, a by The Tech, stated that he was '74, launched MIT into the streaking compeition distance of about 11 miles. "very pleased" at Wiener's up- last Sunday, when exactly at midnight 15 male Stanford streakers are also reportedly gearing coming appointment. The for- members of the organization ran from Baker, up for a streak through a popular sex education mer department head, who also around Kresge Auditorium, and back to Baker, in course, which is set to begin at the start of the heads the Center for Inter- slightly less than two minutes. next term on April 1st. Some 2500 are- resistered national Studies in the Political Since the midnight streak of the Baker House for the course and several groups say they will be Science Department, stepped 15, there have been two streaks through 26-10Q, the first to streak through the class. down last fall to devote more one while an 8.02 lecture was in progress and the College administrators and local authorities time to research and his work at other while Prof. Hans Lukas Teuber was lecturing have not quite decided how to handle the CIS. his 9.60 class Tuesday evening. streaking situation. In St. Louis, two young men Emphasis on Public Service The National Scene streaked through a police station. The officers on "The most important thing in On the basis of reports filed with The Tech -4-d TI duty laughed as the pair ran through the office. the department in the next few from around the nation, it is apparent that In New Haven, Conn., three Yale students years will be curricular develop- streaking is quickly taking hold as the greatest streaked up Broadway during rush hour last Friday ment," Wiener told The Tech. thing since goldfish - another activity which was - behind another student in a track suit who was A d ministrative reorganization quite popular at MIT. carrying a torch. The three nude runners were would also be considered when The accepted national streaking record until the brought before the university's executive com- the Executive Officer, Associate middle of this week was held by students at North mittee and were officially reprimanded for Professor Harvey Sapolsky steps Carolina State University, where some 208 stu- damaging the image of Yale. down from that post in June, dents ran around in the buff. HESowever, the Meanwhile, MIT officials have issued no Wiener added. JUniversity of Missouri at Columbia was the first opinion on streaking, except to warn streakers that The prospective department school to top the 208 record on Tuesday night, they may be subject to prosecution if they leave head stated that he saw the when an estimated 600 students streaked together MIT property. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs department as serving three in the Missouri college town. Kenneth Browning said there have been few real "basic constituencies": its owen The streaking epidemic spread west last week, problems .with the Baker House Streaking Society, graduate students; its own as the activity took hold at Missouri and a number although he warned that students involved in undergraduate majors; and "the of other midwest schools. One student in St. Louis MIT streaker wwithi slide rule. future midnight streaking sessions should be aware majority of MIT students who reported that the activity was growing stronger Photoo bPy Tom Klimorwacz of the possible consequences. (Please turn to page 2) PAGE 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1974 THE TECH '-"-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~m..... Wieerapoinrent t n - . - - 2 ,- - - I - . I a Police Blotter is a weekly compilation of Campus Patrol activities on and off the MIT caminus. I ---- - --- --- --- . Items for the Blotter are selected by the Patrol.