_· __ I _ __ VOLUME 92 NaUMBER 52 -MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, I972 FIVE· _ CENTS ':-=ii iMIT aaibed $4 mIilllcn - i :' new1 research cete¢ By Paul Schindler Cancer Institute will be used for out the staff. All the new Center Dr. Salvador Luria, Sedgwick renovations and operating costs. members will get joint appoint- professor . of Biology, Nobel The $1.8 million from MIT will ments, at both the department prize winner, Institute professor, be used primarily for renovation they specialize in (such depart- and lrig-time political activist work, and, according to MIT ments as nutrition and chemistry wil! head a-. new Center for Corporation Chairman Howard will probably be represented, in Cancer Research at MIT. Johnson, will be raised as a addition to biology) and the The Center will receive at special part of the Institute's Center. least $4.4 million from the Na- development effort. Johnson told The Tech that the Center "Wt- will need much more tional Cancer Institute, and $1.8 than the grants we now have in million from the Institute. It will will represent an "important set of new objectives" for MIT. order to get going," Luria stated. be located in four floors of E18 At least $500,000 in research (the Ford Building) which will told The Tech that he grants will be needed annually, he remadelledl startina in _J3anu- Luria Photo by ShFetaon Lowengtha ..... ......... .. .A. expects the level of student par- as the grants promised to date Professor Salvador Luria is congratulated by .resident Jerome ary. Occupancy is expected by ticipation, both graduate and will only cover basic equipment Wiesner after public announcement of Luria's grant from the the fall of 1973. undergraduate, to be "about the and part of the faculty salaries. National Cancer Institute. - The money from the National same as in the rest of the Insti- Luria contended that a long tute," with provision made in term program will be needed, the operating budget for ten saying thiat, "Despite the con- graduate student research associ- cepts and research tools that 25 Zz Wi'es '>9 ates, and lab space available for years of cancer research have By Lee Giguere utilization could bring in addi- by studying during the summer, undergraduates on a spade and -developed, cancer research is not A year-round academic calen- tional revenue of between 11/3 there would have to be an ad- supervision available basis ready for a crash-program ap- dar may be in the offing for and 3/4 million dollars, "depen- justment of their financial aid (similar to the current basis in proach." This will result in a MIT. ding upon the split in occupancy allowance to offset the loss of the Biology department, he combined focus by the Center, The possibility of a switch between. regular students and summer income. stated). He said there will even- on both research and training. from MIT's predominantly Sep- special. program participants" Mere administrative and tually be some subjects offered tember to June schedule with an \according to a working paper physical plant efficiency are not by Center members. The Center will approach a upgrading of summer activities Wadleigh circulated in October). dictating the consideration of a number of research problems at was disussed-by both the Aca- In other areas, though, the new calendar; Wadleigh em- Luria noted that the Center the molecular biology level, and demic Council and the Comnmit- situation could be very different. phasized that the experience of will- result in eleven new faculty will be divided into four major tee on Educational Policy last in In fact, Wadleigh emphasized other institutions where the shift members coming to MIT by the areas: virus research, cell spring 1972. According to Vice that it would cost MIT money as was made for such reasons indi- fall of 1975, with one or two biology, immunology and cell President Kenneth R. Wadleigh it began the switch -- "risk current staff members rounding development. the discussion was prompted by money" will be needed, he pre- an "intensive study of summer dicted, to finance the sort of operations," including the im- programs which might make pact on Physical Plant and summer operation attractive to jrLIer arred@4 zzi CO~tO Housing and Dining, undertaken A delegation of scientists of the Scientific and Technical The group therefore has limited students and faculty. Association Presidium and the energy, and tries to avoid eve- by the Analytic Studies Group. Perhaps one of the most from The Republic of China are no-w in Boston to -'s 4: Peking Municipal Bureau of iinhg engagements. They are con- Wadleigh, who is serving as a troublesome and expensive hin- ous educational and research Science and Technology. The centrating on their primary pur- focal point in the administration drances to summer operation lies other members of the delegation for discussion of the year-round MIT's institutions here. pose for making the trip: visiting with the fact much of The group of twelve scientists are Wen-yu Chang, a specialist in institutions and looking for areas concept, has talked with more physicai- plant is not air- high energy physics, Jen-yuan than 75 Faclulty members about arrived at Logan Airport on of scientific endeavor in which conditioned. None of MIT's stu- Saturday and were welcomed by Ch'ien, one of China's leading future worthwhile exchanges year-round operation, and in ad- dent living areas and 55% of its the chairman of MIT's physics polymer scientists, Shih-ch'uan might be made. As of press time dition, has visited the campuses classrooms are not air- department, Dr. Victor F. Weiss- Hu, a member of the Chinese of several other universities- -conditioned. - a fact which on Monday, there was no plan kopf and the provost of MIT, Academy of Sciences' Institutes for the Chinese delegation to which have made the move to could greatly reduce the attrac- Dr. Walter A. Rosenblithe Weiss- of Biochemistry in Shanghai, Fu- meet either students or the stu- year-round operation. He has tiveness of a summer at MIT. In kopf has been designated the sheng Li, currently the Deputy addition, he also notes that dent press during their tour of already met with the Graduate group's Boston area host. of the External Equipment MIT today (the group saw Har- Student Council (GSC) and will many of the older laboratories Laboratory of the Institute of and faculty offices are not air- Harvard also had representatives vard yesterday). soon be visiting with under- in the airport greeting group, Computing Technology of the The group has had some free graduate groups to hear their -conditioned. including Harvey Brooks, dean Chinese Academy of Sciences, time: they were given Saturday views on the question. Last Finally, Wadleigh predicted Chao-hsiang Hsu, secretary of that the increase in student en- of engineering and applied off to rest. Sunday, they were week, he discussed some of his science and Jerome Cohen.of the the delegation, and four Chinese taken on a bus tour of Boston, findings with The Tech. rollment and shift in patterns of interpreters. time at MIT which year-round Harvard Law School. Cambridge, Lexington, Concord The only area where Wadleigh The visiting group was headed -and the LINAC at Middleton. was able to identify clear-cut- operation implies would require by Dr. Shih-chang .Pei, Director According to Joel Orlen, On Sunday night, the financial gains from year-round additional financial aid re- sources. For example, if some of the Institute of Biophysics, assistant to the Provost, the Communist Chinese visitors were operation was in the category of Chinese Academy of Sciences. the guests of honor at a joint Housing and Dining. Currently, students chose to take advantage group of scientists has been on a of the calendar change to com- His most recent paper, published busy travel schedule for some reception sponsored by MIT, these facilities are under-utiflzed Harvard, and the American during the summer; full summer plete their degrees in three years, in 1965, was on the significance time. They have already been in of bionics. Europe, and have some travelling Academy of Arts and Sciences at The deputy head of the Dele- left to do after their visit to 1I1 Memorial Drive (the Presi- gation is Chieh-fu Pai, member Boston before they return home. dent's House). G L aia, aii I _ _ __ ___L_____ ___ __ _____ _ By Mike McNsamee ance of reappointment is Due to budget cuts in the possible." Humanities Department, part of The firings came as a surprise, an Institute-wide budget cut (see as the senior faculty bf the story, page 4), the Literature section was not notified of the Section has terminated the con- need to dismiss a minimum of tracts of five junior faculty three junior faculty members mermbers. until the evening of November '29, giving them less than 48 Assistant Professor Mike hours to decide who to fire. The Miller, Lecturer Barbara Sirota, firings were a result of a 3.3% and Instructors Janet Horowitz, budget cut in the Department of Peter' Herman, and Ruth Perry Humanities and uncertainty received identical letters from about the future of the experi- Department Head Richard M. mental freshman programs, Douglas last Friday (December 1 which will be up for review is MIT's deadline for notifying before the CEP this spring. The faculty about reappointment).' programs pay part of the salaries They were told,. "the terms of of five members of the your current appointment, Humanities faculty who work in ending on June 30, 1973, have them.