Continuous MIT News Service g Cambridge |Since 18819| Massachusetts Volume 102. Number 6 L ~ I ~ AII~ L Gi\ Jls~h- -[_s ~ Tuesd Februaryay. 23, 1982 Ad.ewsions policy may change By Stuart Gitlow Richardson noted that "It's a Wesleyan University has an- Facing the prospect of drastic scary time. Aid is starting to take nounced that it will end aid-blind cuts in student financial aid a large chunk of 'free cash' away admissions in the 1982-83 school sources funded by the Federal from the Institute." Options for year. The new policy will utilize a government, Director of Admis- alleviating this problem include first-choice admitted list whose sios Peter Richardson 48 is con- raising tuition, releasing faculty subjects are selected on the basis I cerned that MIT will be forced to members, and eliminating aid- of merit. If more than ten percent change its current aid-blind ad- blind admissions. 'I'm not happy of the university's budget would missions policy. with any of those," added be needed for financial aid, stu- For the past 15 years, MIT has Richardson. dents on the waiting list who do admitted undergraduates without Leonard Gallagher '54, Direc- not require aid will replace stu- taking account of their financial tor of Student Financial Aid, dents at the bottom of the first- need, and has promised to ensure said, "As we put together projec- choice list who do.require finan- sufficient financial aid for all stu- tions for the next few years, if we cial assistance. dents. use a worst-case example for the The proposed Federal budget "I feel like the gal tied to the Federal budget, MIT will not be for 1983 cuts student aid by 60 railroad tracks,'' said prepared to react fast enough to percent: the budget would Richardson. "I can hear the train substitute enough for all the eliminate Supplemental coming. I can hear the hoofbeats money that would be lost." Educational Opportunity Grants, of the hero. I don't know which Gallagher noted that MIT and reduce National Direct Stu- will get here first. The horse can could replace lost Federal student dent Loans and State Student hero can fall, but aid funds "until we discover that Incentive Grants. The Pell Grant Tech photo by Ray Henry break a leg; the nothing can stop the train." [the requirements] are too great." program would be allotted $1.4 Physicist Freeman Dyson spoke before an overflow audience in 10- Many of the Institute ad- billion rather than the current 250 yesterday on the aftermath of global war. ministrators consider an "ad- $2.28 billion. Under the proposed mit/deny policy" as a possible budget, graduate students would alternative to the present policy, be denied access to Guaranteed according to Gallagher. Students Student Loans, and eligibility Dyson dlimaw war would be admitted without con- rules for undergraduate students By Tony Zamparutti Los Alamos research center dur- Scientists can be seduced by the sidering their financial need, but would be tightened significantly.. '"Why has war always been so ing World War I. "fight for freedom" to work un- the Financial Aid Office would Richardson continued, "M IT damnably attractive, and what "The two world wars begin to der military powers and to create not guarantee that MIT would doesn't know what it's going to can be done about it?" Freeman look more and more alike: the new weapons. Oppenheimer, who meet their financial need. He do- it will solve the problem, but Dyson, a member of the beginning was young men going was director of the Los Alamos noted that Cornell University has I don't know how. There's no Princeton Institute for Advanced out to fight for freedom in noble laboratories for the Manhattan followed such a policy in the past. question about next year's class, Studies, attempted to answer self-sacrifice, the end was a Project that developed the first "Philosophically, we are op- but the following year's policy is these questions in his Karl Taylor technological bloodbath,"said atomic weapons, agreed to place posed to need-conscious admis- not yet known. Sooner or later, Compton lecture Monday after- Dyson. his work under direct military sions and would prefer the ad- [the Institute] will be forced into noon. Both wars began in an idealistic supervision. He emphasized in mit/deny policy if it is necessary," making a decision." added Gallagher. Dyson delivered his talk on the fervor -and ended-in a reali-zation (Please turnM page 3)- subject "Fighting for Freedom of the power of military weapons against the Technologies of over men. "At Hiroshima, the d JON Death," to an audience that new technologies of death made Idu,.o. dfac. e I packed 10-250. Dyson described heroism" superfluous, he D~river Ile avr the goals and aftermaths of the declared. The technologies are two world wars, concentrating on still present, said Dyson, most By Barry S. Surman scene of the accident, said for hypothermia, Bander said, but describing the career of J. Robert notably in the form of tactical Less than two days after his car Chambers' car was parked on never regained consciousness. Oppenheimer, who directed the nuclear weapons. crashed through a fence and into Memorial Drive before it left the The cause of Chambers' death the Charles River, Chauncey road. has not yet been released. Dr. Chambers, 66, of Roxbury, died Two Cambridge firemen and George G. Katsas, Suffolk .at the Massachusetts General an M DC policeman pulled County Medical Examiner, will (CrayFar and Ien on,Hospital in Boston, Sunday Chambers from his submerged issue a report on Chambers' morning. car at about 9:15am, after a tow autopsy. Wh~~~~~~~~mk~ml iffll AM,= According to the Metropolitan truck lifted the vehicle to near Chambers was a reservations District Comnmission (M DC) surface level. Earlier rescue at- agent for Heritage Travel of Police, Chambers was attempting tempts by joggers Sheila Mc- Cambridge. Prior to taking the By Kenneth Snow committee publicly denounced to park his car on eastbound Carthy and Michael Gavin G. position there, Chambers worked Presidential Science Adviser Presidential policies. WHSC will Memorial 'Drive, just east of and by another MDC officer were as a social worker and an alcohol Dr. George A. Keyworth 11 ap- report only to Keyworth; Senior House, when he lost con- unsuccessful. rehabilitation counselor in pointed MIT President Paul E. Keyworth said last summer trol of the vehicle, which jumped Martin Bander, Director of the Boston. Gray `54 and Professor Arthur K. that good judgement is hard to the curb, broke through the heavy Massachusetts General Hospital McCarthy and Gavin were Kerman '53 to the White House find among scientists because metal fence, and dropped into the News Office, said Chambers ar- taken to Massachusetts General Science Council (WHSC) last "our profession is one of the few river at the Charles River Yacht rived at the hospital unconscious, Hospital where they were treated week. where arrogance has been con- Club at 8:50am Friday. with no pulse and no blood pres- for exposure and released. Gray and Kerman are among doned, if not nurtured." He also Malcolm Scott, a witness at the sure. He was revived and treated 14 Amnerican scientists and said he hoped to form a second engineers named to the panel, panel of about 100 scientists in k which was created February 17 to the future. VW advise the President on major WHSC will hold its first technological issues. The Council meeting next month, and is ex- will be chaired by Solomon J. a Buchsbaum, Executive Vice Presi- pected to meet about six times dent of Bell Laboratories. year. Kerman, Director of MIT's Gray noted that "Keyworth is creating a new mode of advising." Center for Theoretical Physics, In forming W`14SC, the Reagan said, "By advising, we will help Administration rejected sugges- them [the Administration] make tions to reactivate the President's their decisions on a realistic scien- Science Advisory Committee (P- tific basis." Both Gray and SAC) which reported directly to Kerman are optimistic about the the President. PSAC was formed possibilities the Council will make in 1957 by President Dwight D. available, but both refused to Eisenhower and was abolished by comment on any of the specific President Richard M. Nixon in workings of WHSC until the ac- 1977 after some members of the (Please turn to page 5) IProposed 1983 federal budget includes 60% decrease in students' financial Due to a scoring error, the aid. Page 7. winner of the New England Division lIl track cham- pionships has not been Intruder nabbed in Baker, I dsclared.Pige 16. House by Campus Police. Page 5. Chambers car was pulled from the Charles River Friday morning. -- ------- a h __ _ ~PAGE 2 THE TECH TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 198:32 Pro ra mn-g Priacy Wlorld Savings Supremacy Polish government. proposes union curbs, Party meets -The Polish government announced Sunday a proposed trade-union reorganization which would prohibit unions from political organiza- tion and from organization by territorial units. The proposal is to be publically discussed before the passage of a trade union bill. The Polish Central Committee of the Communist Party is scheduled to meet today and tomorrow, the first time it has done so since martial law was im- posed. Portillo urges peace talks. for Central America -Mexican President Lopez Portillo delivered a speach in Nicaragua Sunday call- ing for detente in Central America. He warned that this might be the last opportunity to avoid a conflagration in the area. He called for negotiations aimed at peace in El Salvador and improved relations between the US and both Nicaragua and Cuba.