PI / Iff'rT· 1 01 MIi TMr'DX I'rA TOlr-, ..--- - - ..,.. ¥(LumJL, Uil' 1L T UESDAY. OCTOBER 19 1Q71 MIT rCA MRRTnil: MAAqe A rT TlOPt,- FIEF r'iTl ..........- - - - d :,'.s.,%=, aI. ,Zat1...'l,,t rL L., I I -I r I v.. *.r. ,.I a -- _ . _.... Women's collective claimas role in Hermann bombing By Bruce Schwartz anniversary of the CFIA explo- Willard Johnson, one of a hand- As police and FBI continued sion. A woman sought in con- ful of black professors at MIT, their investigation of last Fri- nection with- that attack has whose field is urban studies; and day's bombing of the Hermann never been found. the vacated office of Alan Alt- Building, and physical plant em- Bundy's office was only one shuler, Massachusetts Secretary ployees moved in to repair an of several damaged when a bomb for Transportation and Con- estimated $35,000 damage, a went off about 1:20 am last struction. group calling itself the Proud Friday in a women's rest room Authorities are seeking two Eagle Tribe, a revolutionary wo- on the north side of the- Her- long-haired men and a woman men's collective, claimed credit mann Building's fourth floor. who were seen driving away for the attack. The bomb demolished the rest from the Kendall Square vicinity A two-page typed letter re- room, severely damaged about in a green truck by police re- ceived by The Boston Globe on twenty feet of corridor and ceil- sponding to the bomb alarm. Saturday announced that the ing, and blew the rest room door The FBI, which entered the case bombing's target had been the through a partition across the at its own discretion, is super-, office of William P. Bundy, a hall and into a suite where it vising the investigation. Agents senior research associate at smashed several windows. The have been questioning Hermann MIT's Center for International secretaries' area of the suite was Building workers and users. Studies, and a prominent policy most heavily damaged. The blast MIT officials denied news- advisor to former President also dislodged ceiling tiles over paper reports that FBI officials Lab supports efforts Lyndon Johnson. It was for his about fifty feet of corridor and had beefed up security at MIT role in the Vietnam escalation in the men's room on the floor buildings where government re- that began in 1965 that Bundy below, and knocked some search is done; Vice-President o:f urban researchers had been selected as a target, the chunks out of the building's Constantine Simonides said Sun- Proud Eagle Tribe's By Norman Sandler letter said. ventilation system. No one was day night that the FBI had told The same group claimed cred- -in the building at the time. the administration the reports MIT's Urban Systems Laboratory, while not catching the atten- it one year ago for a bombing at Ironically, Bundy himself is were false. tion of the coimmunity, has already begun functioning in the Harvard's Center for Internation- absent from MIT this term. His MIT has tightened security at newly-renovated Building E40 on the east side of the campus. al Affairs' (CFIA), on October office is being used by a gradu- some buildings in the wake of From the outside the building (circa 1930), across from the Sloan 14, 1970. The CIS-targeted ate student. Other damaged. of- the bombing, 'but officials were and Hermann Buildings, looks like a factory which went out of bombing thus amme on-the fLhtS fices include those of Professor reluctant to divulge specifics for business long ago. fear of rendering the measures Once inside,.however, one is 'ineffective. However, an ID imnmediately caught off guard by check has been reinstituted at the brightly-colored walls and Burtonires face c. aoerc life the Hermann Building, where it the activity.- had been discontinued over the The Lab was initiated in By Bert Halstead ding is brand new, a large num- held to grapple with several summer. 1968, under the direction of The phoenix was a bird ber of services have to be started problems. To begin with, no- The bombing and its after- Professor Charles L. Miller. which, according to ancient from scratch, and due to the body had been authorized to math preoccupied several high Miller was formerly Head of the Egyptian legend, lived for five or diverse backgrounds of the resi- spend money - a budget com- Institute officials last Friday, Civil Engineering Department, six centuries, was consumed in dents of the new Burton House, mittee was organized to propose while most people here went Associate Dean of Engineering, fire, and then rose in youthful there was no agreed-upon house a stopgap budget. This was the about their business apparently and Founding Director of the freshness from its own ashes. government at the start of the first test for the constitutional undisturbed by the news. Much Photogrammetry Lab, Inter- Like the legendary phoenLx, Bur- year. A "temporary coalition theorists, who had various con- of the administrators' time was American Program, and Civil ton HIouse is rising out of the government's composed of lead- flicting ideas on how the house spent in dealing with the press Engineering Systems Lab. He is ashes of its former self. What ing student politicians from the should vote on the committee's and attempting to counter sensa- currently a Professor of Civil problems are encountered by a various groups that make up the recommendations. The next tionalistic reports that appeared Engineering and director of the living group in this situation? new Burton had been handling matter was the establishment of in early editions, especially that Urban Systems Lab. The new Burton is populated those matters which required im- a house government. After somne- of the Record-Arnerican [see The USL is an interdepart- by the residents of the old Bur- mediate attention. The people thing of a showdown between page 51. News Office director mental and interdisciplinary ton ("Burton in Exile," as they from the old Burton are not in the Bu.ron and Random people Bob Byers tried to play down body supporting and assisting in were called - the ones who lived the majority, nor are those who {Please turn to page 7} {Please turn to page 2) a wide scope of urban research in Hamilton House and apart- formerly lived in Random Hall. projects, while staying in the ments in Medford last year), the In addition, there are the background whenever possible. people 'from Random Hall, a individual idealists who see Bur- Archives@@eep faliv This eventually led to a feeling group from McCormick who ton House as a fantastic oppor- that the lab had become inopera- took over one floor, a large tunity to test their ideas. of tive when exactl'y the opposite is number of freshmen, and various constitutional government. A spirit of MIT's past the case. others. couple of house meetings and (Please turn to page 3} Since the interior of the buil- many smaller sessions have been By Drew Jaglorn The processing of new ad- One of the lessons of the ditions imposes heavy pressures inaugural program early this on the small staff of the Ar- month was that MIT is a school chives (Hartley, Bartlett, and with a rich and important past. two assistants), and interferes The prime responsibility for with other archival activities. maintaining the record and spirit The process of adding new of this past rests with the Ins- material to the records adds to titute Archives. the work load: because MIT has The Archives, run by Profes- no real archival program where- sor Neil Hartley and Miss Jen- by material would naturally flow kins are the central collection, from active to inactive to ar- of all material which documents chival status, all material comes past and ongoing life at MIT. from gifts or the task of seeking The files there range from such it out. original material as the letters of And the Archives have the founder William Barton Rogers same budgetary problems com- to complete files of Institute mon to most other departments. publications, the correspondence The $43,000 annual appropria- of departments, administrators, tion must pay for salaries, bind- and faculty committees. Also in- ings, and supplies - there are no eluded are materials bearing on funds with which to purchase student life at MIT - complete materials or such items as file i files of The Tech, VooDoo, and cabinets to keep up with the other student publications are ever-growing collection. The kept there, as are old student tight budget also prohibits the notes and lab reports. Even leaf- addition of more staff members- lets handed out in corridors find who could perform a more sel- a resting place in the Archives. ective discarding of holdings, The largest portion' of the thus economizing on space. Archives comprises all the theses Access students have written 'at MIT. Access to the Archives is lim- They number 34,000 and rest ited to authorized users. The Late-night welders add the finishing toucles to the House prior to the raisingof *edomelastweek. near the papers and other works policies of the Committee on newly re-installed indoor tennis courts behind Baker Photo by David Tenenbraum of MIT's faculty. {Please lurn to page 7) PAGE 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1971 THETECH Tribe claims: boms )'rng rolersi [Continuedfrompage ) - -garbied. (The caller pronounced on the scene as did State Firej the affair; admrninistrators-made the building's name "Harmonn,. ' Marshall Ralph Garrett, whom phone· calls to explain the situa- leading police- and press to be- ordered the damage zone.