Female Applicants Male Applicants '67 Grad houaming policy 1-987' BW r revoked 1988 By Harold A. Stern chance of getting housing. At housing problei has been in- A controversial housing policy that time, MIT was able to house creasingly mentioned by accepted which set aside "untenured" only 18 percent of first-year grad- graduate applicants who declined rooms for first-year graduate stu- uate students. The policy - to attend MIT. Approximately 14 dents has been cancelled by the which was to be phased in over a percent of accepted applicants Office of Housing and Food Ser- three-year period - called for who turned down MIT's offer of vices before the one-year leases MIT to reserve 115 places for in- admission in 1986 said the hous- of the affected students expired. coming graduate students the ing situation was a negative fac- In a letter sent out to all unten- first year. Eventually 400 one- tor in their decision, according to Applied Accepted Enrolled ured residents of Eastgate, West- year assignments would be made. a GSC letter to Dean of the gate, and Tang Hall, the Housing Giving housing to students Total Applicants Graduate School Frank E. Per- Office stated that "All assign- who are new to the Boston area kins '55. One of ten MIT gradu- ments made to campus housing would be of "tremendous bene.- ate students would have been dis- which were previously designated fit," then-GSC President Norman suaded from coming had they untenured have automatically G. Wereley said last year. The (Please turn to page 19) ,_ 3 been changed to tenured ones." 9 - HIad the policy remained in ef- M IT spends $ 10,00 - fect, untenured residents would have been forced to move out of their apartments by August 31. to send book to frosh the class of 1992, spend- 1 009 X By Annabelle Bcoyd tipns for cO The Housing Office decided to revoke the policy after consulting A copy of Beloved, the Pulit- ing an estimated $10,000, accord- El-- zer Prize winning nove:1 by Toni ing to R/O Committee member Appiied with the Associate Dean for Stu- Applied Accepted Enrolled Accepted Enrolled Morrison, has been home Curt Jones '89. -rap I -PT c '-L9 1-9__ --- C -- F I dent Affairs James R. Tewhey matiled and GSC President Jeffrey A. to each incoming freshtmen, con- Some had considered the Number of minorities to Meredith, said Linda L. Patton, tinuing a practice stearted last UASO's experiment with The manager of housing services. year when the Undergraiduate Ac- Machine in the Garden a failure, They viewed the policy as "too ademic Support Office in affili- as few freshmen actually read the enroll is record ation with the student IResidence/ book over the summer. Travis R. By Irene C.in Kuo fall to work on recruiting minorities. difficuit to administer," she ex- plained, attributing the cancella- Orientaltion Committeee mailed Merritt, associate dean for stu- A record number of under- Funds were also granted to mi- Professor Leo Marrx's The dent affairs, acknowledged that represented minority students will nority students to travel to their tion to the "increased stress" on all involved. Machine in the Gaarden to "few freshmen demonstrated inti- be enrolling this fall, according home communities to meet inter- freshmen. mate knowledge of the themes to Michael C. Behnke, director ested students. Moreover, minor- The Graduate Student Council had proposed the policy last year Since Beloved hlas no)t yet been written about by Professor Marx of the Office of Admissions. ity applicants this year received issued in paperback, t.he UASO during the freshman book But the percentage of incoming more direct mail than in previous in an attempt to give incoming graduate students a greater went to great expense tco purchase discussion session last year." women continued to fall from (Please turn to page 17) over a thousand hardlback edi- But Merritt went on to say that the record set two years ago, --- ra ----- -_ - IIMlI _ , ·-·9iT··P· -5·I-N I -·"I he considered the experiment suc- Behnke' said. cessful. "We did generate some Applications to MIT rose one great discussion on the theme of percent to a record 7436. Twenty- technology, but the book'did not five percent of the applicants grip the freshmen as we had were admitii,:-the.same propor- hoped.',. tion as last year. Beloved was :chosen because it Applications from minorities is `/exciting and thought-provok- rose from 514 to 548, and the (Please turn to page 19) number admitted rose from 232 to 291. The number enrolling Groups look rose 33 percent from 132 to 175, of which there are 11 Native at the (COD By David P. Hamilton Americans, 21 Puerto Ricans, 88 Two Institute bodies are pre- blacks, and 55 Mexican- paring reports examining the pol- Americans. icy and procedures of the Com- Behnke attributed these in- mittee on Discipline. Dean for creases to expanded recruitment Student Affairs Shirley M. efforts. This past year, another McBay has commissioned a draft full-time staff member was hired memorandum examining the role of the COD and its relationship Council keeps with the Office of the Dean for Student Affairs, while a subcom- unrevised mittee of the Faculty Policy Com- mittee composed of Associate porn policy Provost, S. Jay Keyser and Profes- sor J. Kim Vandiver PhD '75 has By Andrew L. Fish been charged with studying the Despite the recommendations operation of the COD and mak- of the Committee on Discipline, ing recommendations for the Academic Council has not improvement. acted on a Faculty Policy Com- So far, the subcommittee has mittee report suggesting revisions only conducted interviews with to the MIT Policy Statement on an eye to defining the problems Sexually Explicit Films. Although Simson Garfinkel/Th ie Tech facing the COD, Keyser said. the COD refused to enforce the The fourth of July fireworks lights up the Cambridge skyline. "The system did not work well policy last year, the council last year," he admitted. "Some apparently intends to retain it. Chomsky wins Kyoto Prize for linguistics weork cases were held over a year, while "There was a significant differ- others caused quite a fuss." ence of opinion" in the Academic By Andrew L. Fish this field - cognitive science and The other 1988 award twinners Foremost among the latter Council about the report, accord- Institute Professor Noam A. particularly linguistics - has were John McCarthy of Sanfordi cases was the COD hearing on ing to Associate Provost S. Jay Chomsky was awarded the Kyoto achieved significantly significant University, who won the award in the Institute's Policy Statement Prize in basic sciences for his pio- results so that it has become a Keyser, a member of the council. advanced technology 7for his on Sexually Explicit Films, which "At the moment there are no neering work in the field of lin- significant component of the sci- work in artificial intelligeence, and overturned the pornography poli- plans to bring it up again - it guistics. The prizes, which carry ences. This bodes well for the fu- Paul Thieme of the UniNversity of cy formulated by the ODSA in could just die," he said. a $350,000 award, are awarded ture of this field." Tubingen in West Germtany, who 1984 and approved by the Aca- by by the Inamori Foundation of won the creative arts a The pornography policy suf- Chomsky is also renowned for award. for demic Council in 1986. The COD fered a resounding defeat last Japan in three categories - the his work in classical Indiian fiter- (Please turn to page 17) basic sciences, advanced technol- his controversial left-wing politi- ature. November when the Committee cal activities and writings, which on Discipline refused to punish ogy, and the creative arts. Chomsky is widely regarded as have frequently been critical of Adam Dershowitz '89 for show- US foreign policy. ing the sexually-explicit film the leader of the generative r school of linguistics, which views He will receive the award in - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deep Throat on the Spring 1987 November in Kyoto, Japan. Registration Day. The COD ruled language as a particular manifes- that the policy was "an excessive tation of man's mind. Chomsky's Chomsky is the third MIT fac- 1988 Commencement Address of A. Bartlett Giamatti. restraint on freedom of expres- work holds that the similarities ulty member to win the four- Page 2. sion" and "inappropriate for encountered in widely divergent year-old Kyoto Prize. Professor, MIT." The decision received at- languages are the result of basic Emeritus, Claude E. Shannon tention from Nat Hentoff in the similarities in the intellectual PhD '40 won the award in 1984 Graduate students reaction to elimination of untenured Washington Post and Harvard makeup of humans. His views for his work in information the- housing. Page 19. Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, have had a strong influence on ory and Institute Professor, Adam's uncle, who wrote in his both psychology and philosophy. Emeritus, Morris Cohen '33 won Chomsky told the Boston (Please turn to page 17) the award last year for his contri- Much Ado About Nothing found lacking. Page 9. Globe, "I'm very pleased that butions to metallurgical science. ! - -·r-·- --11011 II··-CI--C 3 11 ------- - -- ----- I _~ PAGE 2 The Tech TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1988 ;. .__...._.,, Commencement address of A. Bartlett Giamatti (Editor'snote: The following is wrote an open letter to The New from Milton to his parents in the of Collier's, and a telephone that weight the size of a basketball the text of the charge to the grad- York Times Book Review quot- Yale library.