Happy National Mathematics Awareness Week Continuous MIT News Service Cambridge Since 1881 Massachusetts Volume 106, Number 19 Tuesday, April 15, 1986 a··· I -- - -r -se I US jets alttack Libyan cities II By Harold A. Stern ing to President Ronald Reagan. Khadafy to the TWA bombing . The United States launched a that killed four Americans, military air attack on Libya at 7 See text of Reagan's speech, page 13. Speakes said. pm EST last night in retaliation One US fighter involved in the for recent attacks of terrorism The United States has "direct, attack was unaccounted for, ac- that can be tied to Libyan leader precise, irrefutable" evidence cording to Defense Secretary Ca- Moammar Khadafy, announced linking Libya to the recent bomb- spar Weinberger. There are no in- White House spokesman Larry ing of a West Berlin nightclub, dications that Libyan fire downed Speakes. Reagan said. Speakes said that the jet, he claimed. Strikes were aimed at Tripoli, the US had "highly reliable" evi- Libyan state claimed that three the Libyan capital, and the city dence Khadafy was also planning US fighters were shot down, and of Benghazi, Speakes reported. future attacks against American that the crews were killed after "Terrorist facilities and military interests in ten countries. There is the planes crashed. assets" were the targets, accord no conclusive evidence linking Libyan radio reported that the US jets struck Khadafy's home I- ' J and headquarters. Some of Kha- dafy's relatives were injured in the attack, the report added. The French Foreign Ministry said the French embassy in Trip- oli was hit in the bombing raid. A Ministry spokesman said the embassy was hit but no one was . injured. He gave no information t on the extent of the damage. Tech photo by Jerry Broda c * hte n A~~~~r o ce F-111* * ts~~~Tech photo by Jerry Broda w aEighteenAir Force F-I1 jets Starting pitcher Paul Soltys '86 fires during Saturday's I-t were launched from Great Britain for use in the air strike, the Pen 4-3 victory over Coast Guard. MIT lost the second for use(Please in the turn air tostrike, page the 13) Pen- gamegm offtedul-edr20 the double-header 2-0. Lack(Please turn of-dialogue to pagialogue13)led led too shanityshnty arrests tion of the apartheid struggle. Rosen '88 said at a faculty meet- Analysis The first official word the coali- ing. tion received that the administra- Had other MIT groups - such By Andrew L. Fish tion planned to remove the shan- as the faculty - been involved in A lack of communication ties after the 13th came at 6:30 the decision-making process, al- among students, faculty and ad- am the following morning, when ternatives might have surfaced i ministration resulted in the ar- physical plant workers arrived which could have have prevented rests of eight students on Kresge with crowbars. Senior Vice Presi- the Mar. 14 confrontation. The Student apologizes in Oval March- 14. "Alexandra dent William R. Dickson '56 ad- administration might have decid- Township" did serve as a forum mitted that "a judgment had ed to use the threat of internal gay harassment case for discussion - discussion been made not to discuss the re- discipline instead of arrest; the By David P. Hamilton and slid them under Wong's door. among the administration, and moval with the students." students might have understood The victim of harassment and Wong described the burned discusssion among the student Rather than explaining the rea- that the shanties could not re- I attempted arson at East Campus, cartoons as dealing with gay and body. The lines of communica- sons for the shanties' removal, main forever, and not interfered ,Wilson Wong '87, considers the lesbian themes, particularly in- tion never were able to cross Dickson informed the students with their removal. case "more or less closed," he group stereotypes and gay and Massachusetts Avenue. that they had five minutes to Even the administration's deci- said yesterday. lesbian romantic ideals. He called Before construction of the leave or they would face arrest. sion to drop charges against the The vandal turned himself in to them "completely non-offensive" shanties, neither the MIT admin- The students saw this as an un- shanty dwellers on April 1 was the East Campus housemaster, and mentioned that they had re- istration nor the Coalition just action, and attempted to made without consulting the stu- Professor Daniel N. Osherson, mained on his door for three Against Apartheid attempted to block it. "Someone had to pro- dents, who learned of the deci- soon after the incident, according months prior to the incident. open discussion concerning the tect the students' right to pro- sion at the April 3 faculty meet- to Robert A. Sherwood, associate Wong was asleep when the car- necessity for a permit. This left test," coalition member Alex B. (Please turn to page 2) dean for student affairs. toons were set on fire, but a both protesters and MIT in a The event took place on Feb. 9 friend sleeping on the floor of his state of limbo; the coalition had Anthropologist talks on impact between 3:30 and 6 am, when a room noticed four-inch high no permission for the use of the student walking down the hall flames from the burning car- oval, but the administration had of reproductive technology not acted to stop their protest. apparently took offense at several toons. His friend doused the car- tions, Rapp told the audience of The administration's deadline By Katie Schwarz cartoons on Wong's door, Wong toons in the sink, Wong said. about 50. But individual reac- for removal of the shanties - Women's decisions to use or said. The student took a marker Wong called the Campus Police not to use emerging technologies tions depend on "variations in from the door and scrawled ob- when he awoke the next day. Mar. 13 - was a condition in a what particular families exper- permit which the coalition had of reproduction force them to ex- scene and homophobic messages The guilty student claimed that ience as too stressful or too unac- not asked for or agreed to re- amine and articulate their values on the door and surrounding he was intoxicated after returning ceptable." spect. concerning children, said feminist hallway, Wong continued. ["East from a party and that he commit- scholar Rayna Rapp at a Tech- All cultures have definitions of Campus resident victim of arson ted the harassment as a result of The coalition had likewise not an acceptable or unacceptable discussed with the administration nology and Culture Seminar yes- attempt," The Tech, Feb. 14.] intoxication, Wong said. child, she said; the development their decision to keep the shanties terday. The vandal then broke Wong's Sherwood said that he con- of prenatal screening techniques up indefinitely as a focus for on- Rapp, an anthropologist at marker into pieces, ripped down ducted the disciplinary hearing makes it necessary for parents to campus education and organiza- New York's New School for So- several cartoons, ignited them (Please turn to page 2) cial Research, described her stud- articulate their "personal defini- ies of people's reactions to am- tion of an acceptable defect." Ministry, Face to Face will play Spring Weekend niocentesis in a talk titled "Moral For example, Rapp said, one By Michael J. Garrison the band, whose latest single is arranged the double engagement Pioneers: Women, Men and Fe- woman chose to carry her The bands Ministry and Face "Over the Shoulder," as "early as an inducement to bring the tuses on a Frontier of Reproduc- Down's syndrome child to term To Face will perform at the annu- punk." Their style is not as "sug- band back to the East Coast, tive Technology." She discussed after learning about the disease al Spring Weekend concert, the ary" as their earlier work but Brush said. women's decisions whether to un- and deciding that she was capable Student Center Committee an- "not screaming," she said. dergo the test and what to do of raising the child. "Reproduc- nounced this week. Face To Face is a Boston group Ministry will be costing SCC when a genetic defect is found. tive choices are far more than in- SCC hopes the concert - which Brush said was "more of a about $8000, Roman said, and The majority of women who dividual," she stressed, because scheduled for the New Athletic co-band than a warm-up band." Face To Face will be $3000. SCC discover through amniocentesis they are conditioned by family, Center on May 2 - will be well The performers of "10-9-8 [I'm has made up 3000 tickets. SCC, that they are carrying a fetus race and class. attended, said Barbara A. Ro- always counting down]" have a which spends revenue from the with a genetic disease have abor- (Please turn to page 14) man '89, assistant Spring Week- different style from Ministry and coffeehouse and pinball room on end concert coordinator. "We are have also released a new album, entertainment for students, really hoping it can sell out," she Roman added. doesn't plan the concert with the __ l _ said. These bands were not SCC's intention of making money, Ministry was very successful at first choices, Brush and Roman Brush said. Recent SCC Spring a the local nightclub The Channel agreed. Many of the bands they Weekend concerts have had a net What's that smiley face with the sunglasses? Local band when they played there recently, had considered either had played cost of several thousand dollars.