MIT's The Weather 01 est and Largest Today: Sunny, pleasant, 43°F (6°C) Tonight: Clear, chilly, 28°F (-2°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, 44°F (70C) Details, Page 2 • , .' "', ,,<,'" t ~+'/ , ..... ' ~ (:.:;, ~~""... :~~:.. o Dorms to Get New.Housemasters By Shang-Un Chuang tion, Hammond said. ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Professor of Mechanical Engi- The housemaster positions at neering Derek Rowell, the current both Senior House and New House New House housemaster, has not will be open this 'fall, according to officially announced his intention to Margaret A Jablonski, associate leave, but the position is already dean for residence and campus being considered by Random Hall activities. Housemaster Halston W. Taylor, The cUJ:rent Senior House house- according to New House President master, Assistant Professor of Eric R. Richard '95. Chemical Engineering Paula T. Along with the housemaster Hammond PhD '84,.told Senior opening,. four of fhe nine house House residents last week that she tutors at New House wi'll also be would be leaving the position after leaving, Richard said. serving for two years. "I've gotten to know and truly Students can nominate candidates apprec.iate the spirit of the stUdents A letter has already been sent to , ,at Senior House, and I will definite- 'the tenured 'faculty announcing ly miss them," Hammond said. openings in the housemaster posi- "Unfortunately, as a junior faculty, tions, Jablonski said. The positions it is not ideal for me to try to meet can be filled by any interested 'he needs of the house and race for tenured faculty members, she said. tenure on the tenure clock." Tenured faculty members may Thus far, Associate Professor of also be nominated by residents for Literature Henry Jenkins and Asso- the position, Jablonski said. Nomi- ciate Professor of Electrical Engi- nations will remain open for the • SHARON N. YOUNG PONG - THE TECH neering and Computer Science next several weeks. Nicole A. Wainwright '95 receives a heartw..arming serenade from the Logarhythms on Valentine's Munther A. Dahleh have indicated Day in her class Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology. interest in the Senior House posi- Housemasters, Page 19 .'Faculty Discuss Grading Changes, UAA Office Opens New Grie-vance olicies, .Har e Scholarship Center to. By Daniel C. Stevenson grades proposals. the closing of the Center for Materi- EDI7tJR IN CHIEF About 15 percent of the under- als Research in Arch,eology and Aid Students' Searches Discussion and debate of faculty graduate population -responded to a Ethnology (CMRAE), the faculty gri~vance procedures took up most CAP survey in the fall term, with requested that the Faculty Policy By Ramy A. Arnaout when trying to find scholarship and of Wednesday's faculty ineeting, about one half favoring a change in Committee "reassess the Institute's EXECUTIVE EDITOR award information, said Antonio reminisce'nt of the debate that domi- • the grading system, Wilson said. grievance procedures, and report In an effort to aid students in the Morales-Pena '95. "This way, they nated faculty meetings last spring. '(he majority of those students pre- back to the faculty its conclusion search for grants and scholarships, know there is a center" they can . The meeting began with the pre- ferred a system of letter grades com- about whetherthey need revision." the Undergraduate Academic visit to get that information, he said. sentation of a report 011 student dis- bined with pluses and minuses, as The faculty also asked the FPC Affairs Office unveiled the new "It could be us~ful," said Jung- ,;' ,ipline cases in th~ last academic opposed to intermediate grades, in May to consider the procedures Scholarship, Fellowship, Grant, and yoon Choi '98, who learned of the ..,year [see story, p. 12]. such as AB and Be. leading up to the closing of Award Center earlier this week. center through the freshman Yellow Also at the meeting, Professor of A brief discussion followed Wil- . CMRAE. Located in 7-104, the center was Flash bulletin. "It's nice to know Linguistics and Philosophy Samuel son's presentation, with the majority According to a report presented designed to give students a first you can go somewhere and that they . Jay Keyser reported that a su.i-veyof of speakers endorsing a change to at the meeting by Chair of the Fac- place to look for information on are organized about" having the faculty and staff showed incidences the plus/minus system. Professor of ulty Robert L. Jaffe, "the FPC has competitions and scholarships, said information available. of harassment were steadily declin- Electrical Engineering and Comput- concluded that current processes for Ida G. Faber, a st-aff assistant in the Bette K. Davis, coordinator of ing. Keyser gave results from 'his er Science Alvin W. Drake 'ScD '57 .resolving faculty complaints, while Office of Undergraduate Education the School of Humanities, Arts, and annual survey, which included said that MIT is often a "praise-free not perfect, are generally well suited and Student Affairs and the center's Social Sciences, said that such a 2,730 faculty and staffmembers .. zone," and it is important that stu- to our culture which values shared administrator. e center is "especially needed for Following the discussion of the dents are liberally rewarded for their governance and collegiality" The center is "not meant to co- undergraduates .... It's definitely a grievanc~ procedures, Professor efforts. However, the FPC did recom- opt what other people do," said good idea to have a central place Nigel H. M. Wilson PhD '70 updat- mend that the administration make Travis R. Merritt, dean for under- where students can get that kind of ed the faculty on the Committee on Changes recommended graduate academic affairs. Instead, information. " Academic Performance's study of Last May, amid controversy over Faculty, Page 19 it will complement the Office of The idea for the center was Career Services and Preprofe sional "born out of a survey three years Advising, the Graduate School, ago-asking how [the UAAO] pro- department offices, and other exist- moted [its] resources to students," ing sources of scholarship and Faber said. award information, he said. "MIT student are certainly as By keeping in close contact with cap,able as any students in the coun- other campus information sources, try," Faber sa'd. "We want to see Faber hopes the 'center will be able them equally represented when to point students in the right direc- scholarships are awarded." tion to find what they are looking for. Students visiting the center ';\'ill be asked to describe their scholar- ship and award interests on a profile form, Faber said. The center will use this feedback to get information about students' specific interests. In .this way, "it will be student-direct- ed," she said. Students "will also be offered counseling for interviews" that scholarships and awards may require, Faber said. Office staff will be available. to help tudents fine- tune application es ays. tudents welcome center The idea of a new scholarship and award center has been well received by both students and facul- ty. "It' a great idea because stu- dents are basically di oriented"~ Page 2 THE TECH February 17t 192»" WORLD & NATION Progress Made in Baseb~ Strike THE BALTIMORE SU GOP Bill to ~hailge Defense, ORLA DO. FLA, Major League Baseball Player A soc.iation director Donald Fehr briefed the players Thursday on the progress of the negotiations and Passes discu sed all the scenarios under which the union would call off the Foreign.Policy .House six-month-old strike. By Art Pine policy. • nationwide anti-ballistic mi'ssile He said definitively - apparently for the fir t time - that the LOS ANGELES TIMES "We're trying to send a pretty defense system a soon as practica players would go back to work if the ational Labor Relations Board WASHI GTO clear signal," Gingrich said at a cer- but only after the system has been f;rced the owners to restore the terms of the previous labor agree- The House approved Republi- emony intended to mark passage of fully tested and after the Pentagon ment. can-spon ored legislation Thursday yet another provision in the IO-point has paid to improve overall readi- The players also have said they would agree to binding arbitra- designed to prod the Clinton admin- "Contract With America," on which ness levels in the armed services. tion, either immediately or after a presidential fact-finding commis- istration to change course on several House Republicans ran in the • Call on the a<;tministration to sion examines the game for ~ year, and would call off the strike if defen e and foreign policies b\lt ovember election. speed the entry of Pol.and, Hungary, Congress lifts baseball' antitrust exemption. only after Democrat succ((eded in Rep. Floyd D. Spence, R-S.C., Slovakia and the Czech Republic Of course, the owners almost certainly would lock out the players weakening some. of its most contro- chairman of the House National into NATO but without the specific if they called off the strike before there is a negotiated settlement. versial provisions. Security Committee, and Rep. Ben- fast-track timetable that Republi- "We want to go back and play," Los Angeles Dodger center field- The legislation, part of the jamin A. Gilman, R-N.Y., chairman cans earlier had sought to impose. er Brett Butler said. "We'll go back under the '94 rules. We'll- take Hou e GOP's "Contract With of the House International Affairs The measure also would set up .binding arbitration. We'll try our luck with the LRB or in court. America," was intended to restrict Committee, said that their panels an independent commission to We'll do just about anything to get back on the field, but they (the Clinton' ability to deploy Ameri- would recommend more specific review current d fen e policies.