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m I.-51"k.: -11 Verdict to be appealed; CPs reject leniency By Andrea Lamberti In a trial without jury, Jenniifer already been filed. I The only person charged with Y. C. Huang '90 was founnd Huang was given a 10-day sus- a felony during a Coalition guilty of assault and battery 1by pended sentence in a correctional Against Apartheid demonstration means of a dangerous weapeon institution for the assault charge, on April 6 was convicted Friday and of disturbing the peace, b)ut and fined a total of $175 for U-i v at the Middlesex County was found not guilty of trespasss- disturbing the peace. Courthouse. ing after notice. An appeal has At the demonstration in front of-the Julius A. Stratton Student B Center last year - during which Institute hosts NAMES CAA members erected a pro- divestment shanty to symbolize Project memorial quilt the plight of blacks in South Af- l rican shanty towns - Huang was ) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Li ~ir~t~F~Y~~· -- 1· ~ rCI ~.R,· the last of 26 protesters removed from the shanty. Campus Police officer Lucy M. Figueiredo charged that as she 1^was placing Huang in the van, wuang kicked her in the chest Douglas D. Keller/The Tech angbruised her. nueto her inju- Once again Transparent Horizons has become the butt ry, Figueiredho was off work fior of a practical joke. This time, the pranksters chose to three and a half weeks under the turn Transparent Horizons into "Magnetic Horizons" care of a physician, according to by encircling the sculpture with 3/4-inch magnetic Campus Police lieutenant tape. Other pranks in the past have included painting (PleaseCampus Purnitoturn to page lieutenantIthe 2) sculpture and even removing parts of it. Phi Sigma Kappa abolishes pledging By Briann Rosenberg the bids, they are initiated as rush policy differs from the In an effort to eliminate haz- brothers. norm, the national chapter has ing, the Grand Council of Phi The new members have full approved of the local's program. Sigma Kappa Fraternity voted re- voting rights and privileges even Recker, who said he was "famil- cently to abolish its pledge pro- before they are initiated. Also, iar" with the short rush at MIT, gram. Under this plan, new they must attend a series of 25 commented, "If the members [of brothers are initiated five days lectures on such topics as schol- a PSK chapter] need some time Christian S. Marx/The Tech after accepting a bid from a arship, career planning, and alco- beyond the formal rush period to President Paul E. Gray '54 and wife Priscilla view the AIDS chapter of PSK. These brothers hol and substance abuse. get to know the new members, quilt,-afteri.ooening ceremonies for the exhibit, last Friday. are then given the same rights Although the MIT chapter's (Please turn to page 15) and privileges as any other By Katheine Shim was $22,860. member. The International AIDS According to Phillip J. Walsh, Tom Recker, executive vice New-rules for grad housing Memorial Quilt of the -NAMES director of campus activities, the president of PSK national, said Project of Boston was displayed NAMES Project first approached there were 10 reported incidents result in many empty rooms in the Howard Johnson Athletic the Institute about displaying the of hazing last year. "They varied Center ice "more students arriving very ear- rink from Sept. 21 to quilt in the spring. in severity, but all of them were By Lakshmana Rao 23. ly and finding suitable housing After the MIT Facilities Use wrong," he said. "Our concern There has been an unprece- The quilt is made up off-campus." of panels Committee approved the request, was both to eliminate hazing and dented increase in the number of contributed in memory Olof C. Hellman G, chairman of people representatives from the MIT to enhance the undergraduate ex- vacant spots for on-campus grad- who have died of AIDS, and of housing and community af- is a Museum, Physical Plant, and the perience ." uate student housing this year. testimony to fairs for the Graduate Student the AIDS epidemic. offices of the president, provost The MIT chapter of PSK is us- According to Linda L. Patton, Council, disagreed with Patton's The NAMES Project is a non- and senior vice president met to ing a modified version of the manager of housing services, profit, all-volunteer group based put together a formal proposal to about 50 spaces in Ashdown assessment. He said the housing in San Francisco that organizes Grand Chapter's "brotherhood office was eager to fill the spaces the NAMES Project. program," which is a standard House are currently unoccupied. the display of the quilt. This was in the new graduate dormitory at "The overwhelming response program for inducting new mem- There were only 15 vacant spaces the second time that 143 Albany St., and in the pro- the quilt was was, 'Yes, let's try to get this to bers into the fraternity. at the same time last year. displayed in Massachusetts. cess created many vacancies at MIT,' " said Kathryn W. Lom- During rush, freshmen and While about 80 students turned Total attendance for the week- Ashdown. bardi, executive assistant to the transfer students are given offers up for the Ashdown lottery in end numbered 19,700 visitors and president. "The feeling was that previous years, only six people Almost all of the spots in Al- 500 volunteers. The total amount to live in PSK's house until they bany St. are now filled by single it is important to have the quilt are formally given bids later in applied for spaces this fall, Pat- raised from donations and sales ton said. She attributed this graduate students, despite the (Please turn to page 2) the year. Five days after accepting to fact that rents there are gen- erally higher than those in other dormitories. Hellman criticized the entire graduate housing process. "No clear priorities are set forth in implementing even the stated pol- icies, and the policies are conve- niently changed to achieve differ- ent goals at the time of implementation," he said. Under a new housing policy announced last spring, graduate students are admitted into on- campus housing by lottery. Those who win the lottery are offered a one-year contract to live in Insti- tute housing. They must then sur- vive a second lottery to get a con- tract to remain in the graduate residences. All students who applied for housing in Ashdown before Sep. 15 were given untenured spots there, but students who applied after that date were given tenured spots, according to Ashdown Housemaster Vernon M. Ingram, a professor of biology. "This differential tenuring of students hampers the participa- tion of new graduate students in the community life of Ashdown," Ingram said. The implementation of the new Morgan Conn/The Tech -housing policy has virtually elim- An MIT panel in the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in Johnson Athietic Center over the weekend. (Please turn to page 15) 1, 1 'I,, I -... , L.t . I · - ·I- . I .I I * - . I . - , . i I I I I I . i I . a I * * . I %X PAGE 2 The Tech TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1990 I 'I I - I ·- 1II I I r r - Huang found guilty of assault, disturbingthe a, e- would have effectively eliminated : - :-; -sx -> or question.... The injury (Continuedfrom page 1) Protester James J. Winebrake could the felony conviction - for the -other demonstrators not have occurred inadvertently." Edward D. McNulty. G, the only other witness called assault charge. Before giving. the During her testimony, Huang by the defense, testified that he For the charge of trespassing state's recommendation, the judge said there was not evi- though, At- the- same dembristration, asserted that any contact between did see Huang's foot 'Brush the Pickett conferred with McNulty one student' was arrested on the her and the police officers was arm of the officers," but that he dene beyond a reasonable doubt and- found Huang not guilty. and then announced that the pros- charge of trespass after notice, incidental, resulting from the of- did not see any other movement ecution opposed a continuance and 24 others were arrested for Huang testified she did not hear ficers "pushing her in" the van. of Huang's leg or foot. Wine- without a finding. trespass after notice and- disturb- the order to dismantle brake was also arrested during the shanty, "The Commonwealth would ing the peace. the demonstration, but walked given by Senior Vice President William R. Dickson '56 over a seek a guilty [finding, with a sen- . At the time, the protesters with police into the van. tence of 10 days), suspended for were offered a deal: -If they The assistant district attorney bullhorn, because she was inside the shanty, "chanting and sing- one year," in addition to finding would pay a court fee of $200, or handling the case, Andy Pickett, her guilty for disturbing the serve SO hours of community ser- ing" with other CAA members. emphasized that Winebrake did peace with a fine of $100, Pickett vice, the charges would be Jackie Church, one of Huang's not resist the police and walked said. dropped. into the van. This contrasted the lawyers, said the defense filed an appeal for a jury trial immediately McNulty said yesterday that he Four international students ac- way Huang entered the van, be- did not agree to the continuance cepted the offer. The cases of the cause she had passively resisted after Friday's verdict. Under the Massachusetts judi- finding "because of the injury to remaining students were later dis- the arrest by becoming "limp," the officer," although Campus missed, with court costs.