.- · \.··-· · -.·..· o-. ··.., ·· ,. Ir no/idays( f4. KnappI MIT r" \ CContinuous Cambridge News Service Massachusetts | - 1 Since 1881 Tuesday, December 11- 1990 · ' A_A Volume 110, Number 57 - -OI blC-slll -CB-, I IL·- Early admits up by 340en Test scores down; minorities total 40 percent Decisions for early and By Joey Marquez accepted early are deferred to the regular applicants the same As of today, MIT has accepted spring, and can still be admitted. 543 of 1283 early applicants to The method of accepting early "A fair number of applicants are the Class of 1995, an increase of action applicants is no different deferi ed, yet get in in the 139 from last year. Yet the in- from the way the Admissions spring," Johnson said. crease is not due to an increase in Office makes decisions in the In making decisions for both the number of applicants apply- spring, Johnson said. The appli- early and regular action appli- ing early action, according to cants accepted as of today were cants, the committee examines Elizabeth S. Johnson, associate in no way at an advantage to reg- three categories that group appli- director of admissions. ular decision applicants, she add- cants' accomplishments: academ- The increase in acceptances ed. The only advantage is that ic style, personal style, and per- was simply due to the caliber of the accepted students know early sonal accomplishments. early action applicants, she said. in the application process that The Admissions Office defines Douglas D. KellerlThe Tech Many of the applicants, had they they have been accepted to MIT. The MiIT Festival Jazz Band performs its Christmas academic style as academic applied regular decision, would Most applicants who are not (Please turn to page 2) Concert in Kresge Saturday night. The band recently clearly have been accepted, she released its first album on compact disc. added. Approximately the same -a · I -I · I · ·- · I lrl number of students applied for Recycling begins early action last year. The number may change soon, No MIT reservists Johnson said, because some deci- sions are still pending due to in- despite city trouble complete application Folders. By Jeremy Hylton facto head of the student pro- in the Persian Gulf Of the accepted students, 364 A student recycling program gram Suniti Kumar '91. The pro- By (Chris Schechter Rice said. "MIT doesn't keep any (67 percent) are male, up from began dropping off trash at a gram also takes trash to the Bos- The Persian Gulf crisis has so personal records on its faculty." 279 (69 percent) last year. One Cambridge recycling center last ton Food Co-op. far had a limited impact on mem- She has not received any requests hundred seventy-nine women Saturday. But Cambridge does The program picks up trash bers of the NI1T community in for leaves of absence related to were accepted, up from 125 last not want MIT's trash, city offi- from 14 living groups on the sec- the reserves. No faculty or staff the current crisis. year. Of the 543 accepted stu- cials said. ond and fourth Saturday of each reservists have been called to The number and status of MIT dents, 40 percent are minority The trash produced by city res- month. It is staffed by a group of duty, according to Joan F Rice, ROTC graduates who may be in students, including five Native idents is more than the recycling about 40 student volunteers and director 'of personnel, and the the Persian Gulf was not avail- Americans, 152 Asian Ameri- center can handle, without the some members of the Undergrad- Reserve Officers' Training Corps able from the ROTC branches cans, six Puerto Ricans, 27 addition of MIT trash, said Lisa uate Association. has not undergone any signifi- on campus. Current students in African Americans, 16 Mexican C. Peterson, assistant to the city The city of Cambridge opened cant changes in response to the ROTC do not face deploymient in Americans, and 1I Hispanic manager. "We have not marketed the recycling center to reduce the crisis. the gulf. Americans. M]IT also accepted it to students. It's not an audi- amount of solid waste the' city -The only noticeable effect of Rice said she is not anticipat- six international students from ence we were particularly looking collects. "The purpose [of the the gulf crisis on the ROTC pro- ing a large number of personnel Mexico and Canada. for," she said. recycling program] is to reduce gram has been a shift in funds to depart for the Middle East, The average Scholastic Apti- The student program will func- the amount of overall municipal- from ROTC to regular military a situation that would be reme- tude Test score and class ranking tion only until the MIT Depart- ly collected solid waste by sepa- units, according to Cmdr. John died on campus by temporary of those accepted dropped slight- ment of Housing and Food Ser- rating out those items that are B. Watkins of Navy ROTC. appointments of faculty mem- ly this year. The percentage of vices can develop a campus-wide recyclable," Peterson said. The personnel office did not bers and staff shifts within accepted students ranking in the program for recycling, said de (Please turn to page 19) have statistics on the number of departments. top 10 percent of their class IILI- BL I_ I -- · I- reservists who might be called to "The student body will not dropped from 99 percent last serve in the Midldle East. The even notice the difference if any year to 95 percent this year. In exact number of faculty and staff such situation would occur," said addition, the mean Scholastic in the reser ve forces is unknown, Myles P. Crowley, administrative Aptitude Test verbal score Rice said. assistant in the News Office. dropped from 658 to 646, while "We have no way of finding Officers must first undergo a the mean SAT math score fell out who may be concerned," (Please turn to page 17) from 754 to 748. 21 Glavin: understaffing not unusual she said. "It is not unusual for [a MIT police similar to patrol zone] to be unfilled, or for other area universities Feature two routes to be assigned to one officer, or for a cruiser to spend MIT's police force is compara- more time than usual in [an1 un- ble in size to police forces at oth- By Brian Rosenberg filled] area." er campuses in the area. Glavin It is "not unusual" for MIT "The decision of which route said there are 56 sworn officers police patrols to be unlderstaffed, to understaff is made by the on the force. In comparison, the according to Campus Police crime prevention unit, which Boston University police have 50 Chief Anne P. Glavin. When this compiles our crime statistics," officers, while Harvard Univer- happens, part of the MIT cam- Glavin said. "They make an a sity has 65, according to the pus may be patrolled less than recommendation based on recent chiefs of those departments. normal, she said. crime trends on campus," she Northeastern University, whose Vipul BhushanlThe Tech According to Glavin, the MIT explained. police force is part of the Office Charles T. Benson '90 of the Logarhythms moves to campus is divided into six zones Under fully staffed conditions, of Public Safety, has approxi- the voices of his fellow Logs in Saturday's Christmas patrolled on foot and two pa- each patrol car travels around ei- mately 50 sworn officers, but Concert. trolled by car. Each zone is pa- ther the east or the west half of also hires an outside contractor I· _ _, ---- -- 111 1-_ IL - I - trolled by a single officer, she the campus, with Massachusetts to "patrol the exterior of some -, -sP -UU I aI I - a I Ir I -I lag~~~~~ said. Avenue serving as the dividing residence halls," according to The eight officers required to fine. James Ferrier, Northeastern's as- Freshman housing patrol MIT are not always avail- The Campus Police are cur- sociate director for public safety. able, Glavin said. 'The staffing rently setting up a system of Some universities in the area, recommendations on hold [of patrols] does not take into ac- crime prevention coordinators in including Boston University,, have By Kai-Teh Tao count vacations or sick leave," the academic departments, Gla- minimum manning policies which No action will be taken next year on the recommendations of vin said. The main purpose of set a lower limit to the number of last fall's Freshman Housing Committee report, according to the coordinators is to get more active officers at any time. Provost Mark S. Wrighton and Associate Provost Samuel J. information about crime preven- "We have a limit of four offi- Keyser. The report recommended that all freshmen live in dor- tion out to the community. cers during the week and five on mitories on campus, and that rush for independent living "We've been planning some- the weekend," said Steven M. groups be deferred to the spring term. thing like this for some time, and Devlin, chief of police at BU. In "Presently there are no plans to act on the reconnr.endations the new federal legislation just the event of a shortfall, the BU put forth by the Freshman Housing Committee for the upcom- got us off the ground," Glavin police will call on officers from ing year," Wrighton said. said, referring to a recently other shifts, he said. A second report of some kind may come out next spring, af- passed bill requiring universities Harvard University has a mini- ter more research on the report's recommendations is conduct- to distribute crime information.