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ir ^15 :KIL CO1F I+** KK-.HIYES 144-118 *F-' TAL FMIT Continuous News Service . ovisasachiusetts Since 1881 FTuesday,:~ March. 6,; 1990 Volume 110, Number 10 - C~osrprtnomeets amidrst-prtest Gray, Saxon to re ain calaldul_ torsr MiTM foun Oct. until- S-- - -cessor -isfound I RV I - - -.- -s -rqw- RPXZV,, ~·~`.' . 1"YIxWP· IyPmF 13M . UJ I 1LIV· . u· t1ict left the Corporation with the By Andrea Lumberti The MIT Corporation decided choice between beginning the Odil Prabhst Mebta < ^Q; last Triday to resume the presi- presidential search anew or re- About 40,demon'strators-led by - - 4 dential search process, -and suming from where it left off. the MIT Coalition-Against agreed to extend the terms of The Corporation's action Apartheid last Friday took their President Paul E. Gray '54 and means that a new president could call for divestment to-the Alfred Corporation Chairman David S. be named at the Corporation's P. Sloan Building (Building E52), Saxon '41 until a successor to June meeting, although that but failed to gain-enntry to the the Gray is found. seems unlikely. In a statement re- sixth-floor- Faculty 'Club; where: The announcement means that leased yesterday, Saxon said that members of the MIT Corpora-- the Corporation and faculty the search would resume "with tion wier holding a lunhieon. search committees, which sus- due deliberation and without any To the rhythms of-African-' pended operations last month, deadline." The search committees drums and anti-apartheid chants, will soon restart their review of met Friday afternoon to discuss a the demonstrators reached Sloan presidential candidates. timetable for continuing the at approximately 1-:30 pm after a Before Professor Phillip A. search. day-long series of protests and Sharp, the committees' original Professor Eugene B. Skolni- marches whih beaa-7 am- choice to be the next president, koff '49, a. member of the faculty with a ."wake up, call" to- Presi-, pulled out of the running two committee, said yesterday that it dent Paul E. Gray '54 at his -111- weeks ago, the Corporation had was "much to early to tell" if the Memorial Drive home. beaen expected at its Friday meet- search would be complete by Five- Campus Police officers ing to approve his nomination. June. He added that "the goal were treated and released for -mi-, Sharp would then have replaced here is to get the best possible nor injuries. No students. -werear- Gray on July 1, while Gray person for the job . there is rested. would have taken over-from. no reason -to jump at anything." The Sloan demonstration Paulo Correia/The Tech Saxon. According to Walter L. Milne, reached a climax we prx-Students,.protest for divestment in front of the President's Sharp's decision to withdraw assistant to the- chairman of the (Pleae-to {urxtge gg huse at7 am -on Friday. disrupted that plan, however, and Corporat~ion, this is the first time Cor~~g~~gwati:>e:-hofatoe -*u+ in the recent-history of the Insti- tute that the Corporation has ex- hike of 7.6 percent tended the term of a president. r s I rrsllll Iua New candidates are RVByMiguel Caufillo percenit of our students are on fi- Tfie VMIT Corporation an- nancial aid. The average need also being considered nouneed last :-iriday an increase met -last year was $13,0.,- We're Tuition and:self help since 1983-84 Some faculty .members have of 7.1 percent in tuition, room, spending $9 million on financial voiced concern that any new 18000 and board rates, rais.in th. total aid.?'"' - ' '''''' nominee produced by the existing !, cost to ndear:- diate`duo attend ,The self-hlp lvel, the-amount lsooo-~~ I BTu~H~n·.- search ,committees would be con- ing MIT next year to $20,700. of .money :eacli student is expect- z l llEelIf help sidered a "second choice" and The $036ir ificireasd is'' slig htly ed:: to provide. through loans or 140DO ----------- not as good a president as they more than last- year's $1295 porice work, was increased by $400 to a might have liked. Onie said, hike. Tuition alone will rise 7.6 total of $5700. Vice President' 12000 - "You've got to think about percent,. from- $14, 500 to Constantine B. Simonides be- 1Q0000 how . anyone who is picked $15,600. Lzast year's increase was lieved that , this increase would out now" will be publicly labeled 8.3 percent. n6t impair MIT's competitiveness as second best. -Vice President-of Financial Op- vis a vIs similar-universities. 'The Perhaps in response to these erations James j. tulliton' said self-help level 'was kept at $4900 criticisms, the committees have that this figure varies each year.. for four. years, -while the compet- decided to reconsider old candi- 60DO4000 --i "The [original] -number, we' had ing schools have-increased their' 2000 dates as well as look at new ones, for next year was 8.3. percent, but figure. The -gap that existed be-. with "no presumption of a closed eventually President Gray decided fore has been ~closing, " hi! said. list," according to Skolnikoff. to give a bit of relief, reducing it Undergraduate Association. 'Saxon's statement also ad- by $100" he added. Culliton ac- President Paul L. Antico.'91 ar- 83-84 84-85 85-86 86-8i 87-88 88-89 89-90 90-91 dressed this issue, saying that knowledged that the tuition in- gued that the increase in -self-help "nrew names have been proposed crease was above expected infla- would a'shut MIT's competitive- Tech graphic by Prabhat Mehta in the past two weeks." tion, but argued that the -tuition ness" and that. the,,.different levels (Please turn to page 2) price indicator has been -onithe of aid "Complicated the system."- i I I ---- IR - k - -- L lrdlI I - - I 1 I I - -- - - 1 top edge of inflation. -Simonides did not believe- that. One of-the just-ifications Culli- -the increased costs would dete r -M:IT -ftrats and BU dorms discuss-problems ton gave for the increase-was that.. students from' coming to. MIT,. -in' By Brian Rosenberg BU police, who have jurisdiction addressed during the meeting. "tuition traditionally 'pays only' part because the, Institute -has a Representatives- of -15 Back Bay in the area.. MIT- students sug- "Complaints often centered for a fraction of the cost of edu- special program to lower the self- fraternities', and, -the Interfrater- gested that a better first step around a BU student who would cation. If you look at it,* that ac-, help level- of those who need the' hity Council met with .Boston would be to call the fraternity it- get involved in destructive behav- tually what's happening. Sixty (Continued from page 20) University admnninistrators^Xi':.-eF~b. self or the MIT police. ior-while drunk, and when ques- 21 to discuss the fraternities' con- "BU police have sheriff's pow- tioned, said they'd been drinking -duct. The. Feb. 21 meeting result- ers [in the 'Back Bayl] which at an MIT- fraternity. It's easy for Rieferenda wllHI awess opinion ed in several decisions which may ,.Means they can enter without a them to say that rather than *affect Back Bay-social activities.-." search warrant, which they've of- blame one of their friends, and -onon presidetiald 'n.,R seac, R1 weelI The meeting was in response to ten-done in a-forceful manner," there's never any proof," Arnone complaints by BU students and Arnone said. "It was my impres- said. By Brian Rosenberg tation -Wreek. deans of excessive noise and un- sion they were going to be at the Ariel Warszawski '90, chair of Three referenda approved by The first question asks, "Do derage drinking at MIT fraternity meeting, but they didn't show the IFC Judicial Committee, said the Undergraduate Association you-believe that the committees parties.' A memorandum by As- up," he added. "A violation on the scale of not Council-will appear on the UA responsible for choosing the next sociate Dean for Student Affairs The BU police were not avail- carding or serving minors who election ballots on March 14. The president of MIT'were too secre- James R. Tewhey said other alle- able for comment. aren't stamped will almost cer- referenda deal with student in- tive about the. process and candi- gations against the fraternities Campus Police Chief Anne P. tainly result in a court appear- volvement -in the presidential dates?" The second reads, "Do ranged from "serious injuries Glavin said, "It's beneficial for ance. Jud(omm is stressing, search azndpossible ill effects of you believe that students should, suffered by members and party MIT students if calls come to us. stronger enforcement because the flushing during Residence/Orien- have had more control over the guests to Lodging House License When we. investigate a call, we Dean's Office has given the IFC . search for the, next president of violations registered with the often find that the MIT fraterni- greater self-policing power. Inci- - MI-T? " G . Boston Licensing Board." ty is dead quiet, and that the call- dents where underage drinking . --Stacy A. -Segal '90, who intro- !"The main focus of the meet- er made a mistake." was reported used to go to the duced the referenda to' the UA ing was opening new lines of As a result of this suggestion, Dean's Office, but will now go to Council, said, "'A lot of students communication," .said Miles Ar- the phone numbers of MIT fra- JudComm." have felt that they haven't been A Red Line train- burns none.'91, president of the IFC.