Mlrs The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Periodic rain, 47°F (8°C) Tonight: Cloudy, rain, 40'F (4°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Cloudy, 50'F (10°C) Stahl' Detals, Page 2 Volume 1I12, Number 21 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 17, 1992 Dining Committee Recommends By Reuven M. Lerner Hall, and Next House, which have and dinners served in the other two NEWtS ED17OR lost between $500,000 and houses." MacGregor and Next Unable to- find a way to make $750,000 for each of the last five House would serve continental dormitory dining halls economically years. MIT is looking to institute the breakfasts, he added. viable, the House Dining profit-and-loss system in these din- The committee, which was asked Committee has recommended that ing halls. Under the profit-and-loss to propose a solution by April 10, the Institute maintain the'status quo system, which is already in place at will conclude its activities next until the campus dining situation Morss flail in Walker Memorial and week. Rather than propose a solu- can be evaluated completely. at Lobdell Court, ARA keeps the tion, the group will give its data to Senior Vice President William profits made by a facility, but the the administration in the hopes that R. Dickson '56, who charged the company is also responsible for any a decision can be made during the committee and will make the ulti- losses. summer or fall. Such a decision, mate decision regarding the dining "I would be sorry myself if they Watson said, would take effect in halls, is expected to make a formnal kept it just as it is. I would prefer it the fall of 1993. announcement sometime today. if they kept it the way it was the "My feeling is that they're hav- The proposal is the committee's previous year,' said William R. ing a hard time getting anything that fourth in the last two weeks. The Watson, Baker housemaster and people are really happy with," said proposalswere designed to find a chairman of the House Dining Kenway Louie '93, president of solution to the problem posed by the Committee. "That would mean that Baker. "Anything that they can do dining halls in Bakler House, there would be lunch and dinner MacGregor House, McCormick served at Baker and McCormick, Dinlrn Page 7 UA Accuses 54of Ba -tBoxlft By Katherine Shim Lobby 7 ballot box during the UA Police] have finished investigating NEWS EDITOR elections. the theft, but since police reports are The five students named to be confidential, [Dean for g lF^-X0~~+>,,2,^, Aft i,! <,,:'r ~The Undergraduate Association brought before the ODUESA are Undergraduate Education and Jeremy H. Brown '94, Ross A. Student Affairs Arthur C.] Smith is *~~~~~~~~~~~g.~~~~~~~O c ,I of the Dean for Lippert '93, Valerie J. Ohm '93, the only one who gets the names of A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ud>ergraduate Eucation and Ralph A. Santos '92, and Peter S. those implicated. The UA has no Yesley '92. power to investigate the matter L $ ' -+ m E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~for five studen~tstch~ated with cohrin- The UJAC reserved "the right to independently. We have to take tyicin the Ma rch I11 theft of the recommend to the ODUESA any their word for It. There is no inves- appropriate sanctions" to be levied tigative body on this board." against the five students implicated Outgoing UA Vice President J. in the theft. Paul Kirby '92 said, "This bill is Three representatives, to include just to call for a hearing -no Election Commissioner Raajnish A. municipal action will be taken." Chitaley '95 and two other members Chitaley said, "The dean's office of the UA to be appointed by the needs for someone to be a victim. president, will be sent to the hear- As a Council, we will send three By Alice N. Gilchrist oeing analyzed-by a conference ings. According to the bill passed people to represent all of us and be SJAFF REPORTER committee. These bills could affect Wednesday, these representatives the victim. I'd like to stress that one Stanley G. Hudson, associate all Title IV federal aid programs, will have the power "to be present ballot box alone costs over $800." director of the Student Financial including Pell Grants, Supplemental at all functions requiring the pres- James R. Tewhey, who was Aid Office, will replace Leonard V. Educational Opportunity Grants, ence of the [UJA], to call witnesses scheduled to address the UAC on Gallagher as director of the SFAO Supplementary Loans for Students, on behalf of the [UA], to examine the theft, failed to attend the meet- on July 1, according to an MIT Parent Loans to Undergraduate and cross-examine witnesses, and to ing. press release. Students, and Stafford and Perkins have access to evidence relevant to" In other business, Chitaley was Hudson said his administration Loans. The laws may be in effect by the ballot box theft. elected floor leader. Hans C. will focus on "how we can better next fall, said Hudson. The bill further stipulated that Godfrey '93, Kirby, and Sahansha none of the three representatives be Mulherji '95 were confirmed as serve the financial needs of parents The new laws would be "pretty a UA member who was a candidate members of the UA Judicial Review and students," and he emphasized constraining," but they would not his commitment to "need-blind in the elections. Board. 'Scompletely box in" the financial admissions and to a need-based When asked by a council mem- Also, the UAC passed legislation financial aid" system. aid office, Hudson said. Citing his ber if the list of five students impli- redefining its Executive Committee, James J. Culliton, vice president 13 years of experience with the cated in the theft is complete and amended the bylaws of the Finance for financial operations, said SFAO, Hudson promised he would accurate, Chitaley said, "The situa- Board, and provided mechanisms to Hudson's "credentials and experi- be using his "experience with stu- Stanley G. Hudson tion is a delicate one. The [Campus appropriate unallocated funds. ence in financial aid make him the dents and parents and applying it to perfect candidate" for the position. .. policy decision-making." Hudson has been working in the Culliton said Hudson was chosen SFAO since 1978, first as an associ- because he is "an outstanding pro- - is-cLxs Get he itute Phone ate director and later as an executive fessional in his field who will follow irles officer, according to the release. in the footsteps of Gallagher." Hudson said he will not be mak- Gallagher said that during his By Kahy Sun and Wellesley College, Delaney said. ing any changes in financial aid administration there has been a con- ISTAFF REPORTER Alpha Phi is currently the only living group com- except those imposed on him by the tinuing "process of trying to get the MIT Telecommunications Systems is considering pletely connected to SESS. federal government. Institute to understand a need-based expanding the Institute's digital telephone system to Some IL~s, including the Women's Independent According to Hudson, financial aid program." He said his include all independent living groups. lThe cost of each Living Group, pika, and Fenway House, have a main Congressional bills numbered work could be "characterized as telephone hook-up will range between $500 and $700, line that is connected to the 5ESS system, through SI1 150 and HR3553 are currently holding the fort," after Jack H. to be paid by each living group desiring the service, which calls are transferred to other telephones in the Frailey, currently the director of the according lo Telecommunications Systems Manager house. Office of Registration and Student Peter J. Delaney. News of the possible expansion generated a mixed response among membes of various living groups. Financial Services, stepped down. Placing the entire MIT community on the digital Peter XC. Verprauskus '94 of Alpha Tau Omega According to Gallagher, the telephone system, called the 5th-Generation Electronic INSIDE Switching System, would make tracking and solving said, "it sounds great. I don't like our phone system. most significant changes in the problems easier, centralize all telephone calls to one We have three main lines and it becomes pretty hectic SFAO during the last 25 years were switchboard, and increase the speed of call forwarding at times." Heidi W. Shih '95 of pika said that tele- mZBT-plans to open an "1active participation in federal withini a living group, Delaney said. phones in her living group "were not really a problem annex this fall. Page7 financial aid programs, need-based The expansion is being considered so "all students as itis." admissions, and affirmative action can have the same access to the same services," Edward Hwang '95, a resident of Nu Delta, said, * On The Town, your for minority students." These Delaney said. "tIn a fraternity, there really isn't a need for personal changes occurred early in Features of complete hook-up to SESS include tele- phones. Our system works pretty well as is." guide to the arts, Gallagher's career, when he worked phones in each room, easy access to Athena, call wait- 5ESS was installed in November 1988. The 5ESS under Frailey. ing, the ability to receive, forward, and transfer calls system is a fully digital switch operation with pnriate returnes Page8 Gallagher said he is resigning within MIT, a different ring for calls within and out- branch exchange applications. It is supplied with I because of "strong personal rea- side of MIT, and diret dial, lines to affiliated institu- MIT's own personal switch and is a non-profit system, * ArtsFriday Page10 sons." He and his wife plan to do tions such'as the Woods Hole Oceanogaphic Institute Delaney said.