MIT :U Cam'bridge 0 ^ Massachusetts--, Friday, May 4719-,-, -, _ I I I-lr I ' -L II ·- s-l L - - M-IT limits_ _ NSF_ fellows By Dave Watt MIT-would prefer the students national competition. Fellows are _ <'v Dean of the Graduate School to take positions as research or given a stipend of $12,700 per _ b. db ; t. Frank E. Perkins '55 recently an- teaching assistants to make up year, while the university they at-_ ._,; - af {,, . l nounced restrictions on the num- for the cost of the program. But tend is given a cost of education _ 1>, ._) ber of National Science Founda- NSF resgulations forbid universi- allowance of $6000. MIT had tion Graduate Fellows permitted ties from requiring participants 208 NSF fellows attending during r to begin attending MIT this fall. to take-on such Jobs while they 1989-90, according to an internal MIT schools and departments- are hold the fellowship. memorandum from Perkins. 3i * - i, scrambling to find the additional Requiring fellows to become Perkins conceded 'that MIT's l funds to support their NSF RAs or. TAs would solve the position on the fellowships is fellows. funding problem, because their "playing hardball" with the NSF i eAl| Approximately half of 20 pro- tuition could then be paid out in hopes of making the founda- spective mechanical engineering of employee benefits funds, ex- tion increase its cost of education a C fi _; :- r students have beer told that they plained Perkins. He added that allowance. He added that MIT _e-l_ I _% may not bring their fellowships the students might then receive instituted the quota because the r? r to MIT, according tQ department an additional stipend as compen- NSF refused to increase the 'cost chair David N. Wormley '62. sation for being required to take of education allowance or to al- Jig+ w i 'The School of Science will at- the position. low MIT to require even a part- Ad . c tempt to minimize the impact on The NSF annually awards ap- time RA or TA position. Sean Dougherty/The Tech z incoming NSF fellows, but may proximately 1000, three-year fel- Charlie Choi '92 celebrates victory in 2.70 yesterday. r of a (Please turn to page I1) Photo essay page 15. have to turn people away in the lowships based on the results - i future unless there is a policy change somewhere, according to L dean Gene M. Brown. "We will I certainly have to turn someone AEPI holds interviews, elects officers r. r- away, unless NSF.. or central admiristration at MIT changes it By Andrew L. Fish fraternity, in which 45 of the' bers continue to assert that the To Arnone, this was just an- mind. We're trying to negotiate Founding fathers of the new chapter's 55 members were dis- new chapter is aiming its recruit- other example of AEPi saying [support for NSF fellows,, but we Alpha Epsilon Pi chapter at MIT, charged. Of the 10 members in- ing efforts at Jewish students and "one thing and [doingl another." can't make any-guarantees." in conjunction with the fraterni- vited back by the national, Rich is very secretive about the recruit- "l don't care what they do," The NSF fellowship program ty's national organization, inter- is the only one to remain in the ment process. Arnone said. "I know how contributes $6000 to MIT as, a viewed prospective members and fraternity. Although AEPi promised they're going about things." "cost of education allowance," elected officers at meetings Tukes- Due to the actions of the na- Arnone that he could observe the with the rest of the $20,800 day and Wednesday night. Robert tional, and amid charges that the interview process, the fraternity 12-month tuition supplied by the A. Rich '90, DavidE. 'Borison reorganization was an effort to opted to interview members with- New officers elected Institute. '91 and Steven H. Baden '92 will make the MIT chapter more Jew- out informing him. Borison said At the Wednesday meeting at r Arnone be- According to Perkins; this bal- be responsible for selecting mem- ish, MIT followed the lead of the he decided to exclude the Copley Marriott, Borison was ance is currently paid for out bers for the snew chapter. Interfraternity Council and with- cause the IFC president had spo- elected master and Baden was of the Institute Genera Fund. The recruitm-ent-'-efforts follow drew recognition of AEPi as an ken against the new fraternity elected lieutenant master. The The new restrictions stem from a the- reorganization earlier this independent living group several at an earlier rush meeting. But other officers are: Scribe David year of the previous MIT chapter weeks ago. after Arnone apologized Tuesday a decision not to pay -more than J. Goldstone G. and Member-at- I Borlsoh said he changed -$2.9 million from the fund each by the national organization IFC.President Miles Arnone night, large Seth C. Grandeau '91. An- year to support NSF fellows. of AEPi, a historically Jewish '91 and discharged AEPI mem- his mind. 'drew G. Tainiter '91, who was J elected 'treasurer, later declined the position. Ten undergraduates and one i Gra-y,A N C repress,n a ive graduate student attended the elections meeting. In addition, issue five other undergraduates have debate on divestment expressed interest in joining the By Frabhat Mehta Gray '54, who articulated the that divestment would have no fraternity, but were unable to at- Lindiwe Mabuza, chief repre- MIT ahlti-divestment position. effect on companies doing busi- tend the meetings, Baden said. sentative of the African National "The question of apartheid ness in South Africa. "There is To his knowledge, all of the Congress to the United States, is not an academic question," no evidence that divestment af- students interested in joining challenged the position of the' Mabuza told a standing room fects disinvestment," he said. were Jewish, Baden said. But "no MIT administration on the issue only crowd of over 400 in 10-2S0. Gray's remarks, though admit- one that has been interviewed has of divestment at Wednaesday's Un- 'There is no choice except for tedly personal, supported the been asked not be involved," he dergraduate Association colloqui- liberation." position of the Executive Com- added. F um. Her comments were aimed Her remarks came in response mittee of the MIT Corporation, The new "founding fathers," specifically at President Paul E. to those of Gray, who argued which has final say on the divest- the charter members of the new ment issue. Gray serves as chair chapter, would be initiated into Er of that committee. the fraternity by the end of the ·3 semester, Borison said. IIIp The moral argument William Chu/The Tech ·T i' AEPi Lieutenant Master (Please turn to page 2) -s Gray opened the debate with a Steven H. Baden '92 detailed study of the reasons and d consequences of divestment. '' ·-3 - There must first be a moral di- s t mension which impels an institu- ·- tion to divest. But according to Gray, the moral argument itself ¢s Xbtvntbwin tre-:-; comes into question. The notion .< A X:i;'~E~cte announced adweek, that it that US companies in South Afri- vill-' A d d wn'sjtorAe f tbv expiratisn 'of its lease this ca aid and abet the repressive re- A>4-at^Ua9N'' .S -'.jute ', ,' inO1, rn, <, ,W 3~ pPeiet egime is an "oversimplification," A -3 Z-inde ¢ i teX.prompted Coop Presient. he felt. -1Jarrir`A; .~eios .XO-akie, thtRecomendation -to the Coop lMany companies which do Wbard of, i Stois; he'said-The decison toAclse was a difficult business in South Africa, Gray Mone bemause af-^¢ steosf xntnBudon eralItIo sales,, profits argued, do benefit by providing and rebates 66 -rpm'ers hi the past, -Argems added.; employment, education and AcCoidin &J Ml~ton P. Bown, the, Coop's chairman d-the housing opportunities. These boaid, countinyipg,operido-' of the downtown store under such companies are the ones which ad- m ov¢N~etnig.overhead, ivo~ld -ituredia'tely inpact, al Coop here to the Statement of Princi- mnemlbers jy forclg. t bdviinn g i rwifesj ples, the only ones in which MIT The ihinu~t C gi reat~ hats been declining in re- invests. cent year's 16e rebate hatsdrSed fromn 9,5 perceS three years The Statement of Principles, ,ago,tb.this ,yawt'seven perdent.' established by the Reverend Leon hi addit p- ibent Increases, Argeros has attributed the re- Sullivan more than a decade ago, bAt'drop' to. the' additional sources of-greater expenses: pay- defines a set of principles for T4,ll taxefs, and, helth, and welfare inurAbce. Together, these equal employment opportunities feeas havse more *tan, A~ched Ibee Coqpt increase in sales, he for companies in South Africa. c~laimed,, - . The principles were later repudi- . > kgresd: no -tiat the retail businesshsbcm n ated by Sullivan, who felt little creasinlr DIgan rumentoyrso progress had been made by South wt~h¢.&A*.me Gettm,¢write-oME of -undepreciatd assets Africa in ending apartheid. Zdepense inkdvedii.he. c[ksng, the board foresees no Many US corporations in r~blempacton ts fer operations. Chip Buchanan/The Tech South Africa, Gray noted, also . A lsm~pw~yeeibfH thie downtown stoney loated on I Feder- President Paul E. Gray '54 fforeground aMnd Lindiwe provide essential products such as aI ,S~ + eaorbed by the comp ny's~ other sLix stores, Mabuza, chief representative of the ANC in the United medicines. Currently, MIT claims States, took part in the Undergraduate Association's collo- W,..;..' ,,' ..-is ',,ill'an*y _ quium on divestment-on Wednesday in 10-250.