MIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Continuous 'Cambridge News Service hnessachusetts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Since1881 TUesdayj April-1,1;:1198-9. ~ ~ IL~r vLeLbdSolume 109, Number 17 IlaYS-9 d I)--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1. II- - I I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Wm for o fce uaftara e By David P. Hamalilton` student ac~tivities fail to spend T~he' Undergraduate Associa-- their entire allocation. tion -has spent at least $17,000 Last yrear, Hendricks and then- improving its Student Center of- Finboard chtairman Dean S. fices-since last Mjay, according to Ebesu '89 revised the policies uan- estimates provided by former UAA der which F;inbo~ard distributes President Jonath~an Katz '90 and $67,000 from the Offi~ce of thee Financial Board Chairman Dar-T Dean for Studdent Aff~airs to a va- I ian C. Hendricks '89. riety of student activities. The improvements have includ- Prior to the reform, Fi~inboard eda a network; of Macintosh com- allocated more money to studaent activities than it possessed, Hen- dricks said. The old policy was intended to match activity claims writh the actual amount of money I available to Finboard, he con- tinued.. - ---- 15 jL% ,1,, ,,11% ,, Because this method led to ac- ~~j.-·· came from a variety of sources. For instance, the computer net- and Ebesu ecided torestrict Fin-s work was partially paid for by a adEeudcddt etitFn $300 lstgrnt aay romthe board allocations to the money AssciaerovstforEdcaton actually handed over by the Kern Church/The Tech Asoit rvs o dcto DSA. At the same time, they~ Spring sunlight streams through the uncovered bridge deck of the unffinished half of Reserve, a discretionary fund un- anoceththeivtbl i the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. der the control of A8ssociate Pro- surpus unds would be availtable NM -sgL- ILgLIIBII. ·LIL- IIdIIIIIl I vost S. Jay~Keyser. The entire to all student activities as "capi- movh~~"Off& coatof theFinboardfurnitur tal request" money. Institute to"rele~ase nevv patent p ulicy was covered by an addfuritional l tdetatviisas"ai B&y Reuven M. Lerner three years." H~e believed that by -en aplictio pr $2000 grant from~a-similar fund Capital requests are 'haandled sures, or pab entppliatio p0- last fall. much like ordinary allocations: The MIalT Technology Licenmsing focusing on the public dissemnina- paosals, were submitted to the Kazas rvdd$70fran activity must make a reqluest Office will release its new "Guide tion of new technology, rather TLO last yeajT.Of those, she con- the computers from the Bush for a specific purpose and have it to the Ownership, Distribution, thanr only on income, MIIT will tinued, 120 were filed with the fud iceinr rs ud approved by Finboard. Hen- and Commercial Development of help the public, new companies, United Statess sPatent Office. She frmte15swihi dii-dricks said in late M~arch that the MdIT Technology" -within two and itself at the same time. As an added that NqIT spends between tered by the UA President. UA had received about $65,000 weeks., according to Vice Presi- example, he said that 92 compa- , one and fivi,e years negotiating in capital reqluests, and was "en- dent for Researl-.h Kenneth A. nies ]licensed patents from MBIT in with the Pate-nt Office about each Capital funds also used eting bu L40 wrh Smith '58. Smitih said that tlhe re- 19888, up firom 17 in 1985. He ex- patent, meaniing that the number The remaining expenditures I-l added that of the 60 or so pon will recomnmenrd cha~nges in plained that technology willl of patents gn-anted can vary gre-at- were covered by UA capital re- student activities on carnpus, 20 attitudes toward patent licensing, reach the public faster, by-letting ly~from yearlto yearAs anexamn- quests, which~consist of surplus to 25 had made capital requests. most of which are "alreaPdy in more comapanies license patents-,- ttqrni tbi'pag&2) `~ Finboard ney-jileft over when ~ ~ · t rg- eff~ect ." and 'that while MITT might profit Thde TLO guide's; introduction from licensing agreeineents, 'nibri- says tha~t "this policy will define ey is not its p~rime concerIn. He 'Ann-IT -Prc~~i~i~ers- Cill 1 y U 11Neve-of -tnaru Bly Praabbiat Mehlta choie for women. -You~ can't not onlyy~the. ownership, distr~ibu- adcded thrat the TLO staff haas the u~nborn. "If there's any A few hours jbefore busloadss forget a whole segment of the hu-- tion, and comm~nercializationf conmpletely chabnged over the last choice to be made~c,its the choice of MIT students headed for man race," said Kelly~Jeffrerson, of three," Robinm Kurtzmana a rights associated with the tech-- three years to refl~ect this attitude- Washington Saturrdayl evening to a member of the Mo~assachIusetts member of MPassachusetets Citi- nology in thae form.~of intellectual change. participate in the Sunday march Feminists for 3Life. zens for Life~, said. The three he property, but will also define pol- Lita Nelsern, associate director for women's rights, memibers of Jefferson rebuatted critics who refe~rred tfo were the mothaer, the icies and probcedure wh~ich govern of the Technology Licensing Of- MIT Pro-Life protested outside call pro-life advocates "an~ti- father and the unborn child. use and distribution of the tech- fice, said that MIT made $3 mil- the Student Center against thee women." "Wae're fighting the Kurtzman calaled the legalization nology in its tangible form." lion in cashi anad equity last year key issue in the maarch - movement that's lying to wom-~ of abortion "thke worst atrocity The report also states that from patent licensing. She ex- abortion - en," shne said. "Women are being since the end of the civil rights whereas "free exchange: of infor- plainedi that when a comhpany The speakers at the rally all daeceived,"' because "abortion is a- movement ." miation among scholars"' is an cannot pay patent roya'Ities, MITT called themselves supporters of lie," she claimed. "When they tell Chris Papineau '90, assistant "essential" part of M2IT, patent li- sometimes accepts stock instead. women's rights, but they made you that [an9 unborn child] is not vice-president of Pro-Life, said, censing is "subordinate to educa-- According to Nelsen, only 10 the distinction that abortion,. to a person, they're lying to you," "WEe are here because... two tion and research." percent of last year's profits came them, was an issue about the life she explained. million defenseless children can't Smith said the report "'reflects from such equity. of an unborn human being rather Jeff~erson also attacked claims speak for thermselves." whnat we've learned in the last: Nelfsen said that 280 disclo- than. a matter of freedom of thait anti-ab~ortion laws would-de- Even though the speakers all stroy the lives of women who claimed to support women's U00,ftu teAME diletails newv expe-dltions would be forced to have unwant- rights, Papineau denounced the Fo~r 40 years, the world-rek- expedition is in its third year. By ed children. "Our· concern for Equal Rights Afmendmnent, saying nowned oceanographer has its end, the study is expected to life~is at the very moment they that it: infringed ulpon the rights Feature workied to preserve clean~water yield -25 one-hour films and a destroy life," she said. "No one of the unborn. "We do not sup- and-;air '"for the ]people who find numnber of bsooks. Cou~steau pre- has the right to kill another per- port the ]Eqlual Rights Amtend- By Joanna9 Stone life in air and water."' He Ibelieves sented one of htis films, entitled son," she added. m~ent because it gives women the Jacques Cousteau came to that a new kind of science, "eco- Ivater of thre Wind. T~he other speakers allso right to kill their children,' he MiIT last Thursday for thme birth- sociology"' - a m'ixture of ecolo- (Please turn to page 2) brought up the idea of rights of (Pleease turna to p~age 2) ii -L~~~~~~~~~~~~~I -I--- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ YL----..--~~~~~-~~~~~U · U-n ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.e -b. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~ ---------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---~~~~~~~~~~~- -~ ~~~~ d~ay of his friend Harold9 E. gy and sociology, will eventually "CDoc" Edgerton '27, Institute develop from such concerns. professor emneritus and father of At the talk, his fourth at MIT,, the electronic fllash. Ironically, Cousteau spoke primarily about the Lecture Series Committee or- the, environment. In particular, dered no flashes at a talk Cous- he cilted the 'development of thee tea;u gave to students that evening' double sail, which, he said, is far in .Kresge. more efficienrt than the standlard canvas sail for sea vessels. T~he double sail was developed at a time of toil shortages, but oil prices have since -come down sharply. Some now question the sernsibility of -using the dfouble sail. Cousteau asked the audience to coirsider thne other side of the question: shouldn't we save as much of d~ur precious resources as possible and ~hcur the least eln- vironmenatal riskt thaot we can? The rest of the talk focused on "Rediscovery of the- W~orld,' an expedition in which Cous'teau is currently involved. Thee~expedi- tion is studying the influence w~a- ter has on' the people of 'the Christopher J. Andrejws/Tfhe Tech I Kyle G. Peltonen]The Tech, world. "TwNenty/ lpvesick maaidens" surround poet Reginald Bunthorne (Roblert D~e Vivo) in the -1 I -'-Jacques ·Coust·Pau- The five-year "'Rediscovery"' MI~T Gilbertr and Sulilivan Players' musical fttien6-, See stofy tp. 7. PAGE 2 The T1'ech TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1989 --- -SI-·ILL·L-I~SIm UA office upgradew-costs $1 7,000 (Continuedfrom page 1) and $2000 for the Finboard of- hard disk drives, three Imagew- Estimates of UA spending fice furniture came from capital riter printers, and one laser, print- requests submitted by the UA." er.