I ·rp aa ... ARCO'211 ICQA "rD rTT. 7rA A TT A tn"1 _ _______ .a .. _.. __. VOLUME 92 NUI.VIL IrKl% n) -I utJ IAY, FKIL 4 1Y97 MIT. CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUI.RETT. FIVE CENTS d ..... ..- 7 ..I I. A v .. I aJ d d LtS dXgSg )I wa,AyO d The MIT Urban Legal Services islature, and other public in- positions will be stringent, and n Project (ULSP) has announced terest law groups t in the Boston Director of the Planning Board, id plans for placing students in area. Neil Cohen, speculates that the law-related fieldwork positions long selection 0'Ie In commenting on the future process will be a for the coming summer months, combined effort, between the tt having secured of the pre-law group and the a grant from the success ULSP Planning Board, advisors, b National Science of the summer project, Foundation. members of the group's Planning and agencies offering Vplace- .e The grant, totalling some ments. Once :e Board have stated that students students are ratified $17,000, was awarded to the by all factions of the selection is pre-law group selected for the summer place- as a "student ments process, they will have to attend 27 originated studY," a new NSF will range in skills and qualificatioris. Hopefully, some a week-Lorng orientation period grant awarded for studies in pure at the beginning of the summer and social' sciences. Of approxi- will be "totally unfamiliar with the legal to acquaint them with a general mately nine applications from profession, while others overview will already of the field of law, as groups at MIT only two, includ- have had experience' well as familiarizing all students ing the ULSP, were awarded the in the type of placements the with the fundamentals group will provide." of their tS SOS fellowships for the summer. specific areas. Money from the grant will go The ULSP hopes to be able to Applications for tile summer to provide stipends for pre-law -place as many as 15 to 25 placements will be available at 51~ students working with various' students in the legal placements the MIT Urban Action Office, local, state, an. federal govern- for the summer, with stipends and all applications must be mental and legal agencies coming from the NSF grant as returned by April 15 to insure throughout the summer. Stu- well -as from other sources that the selection process and all dents will be placed its tams, currently being investigated. final arrangements may be made each of which will work in a Competition for the available before the end of the year. different area of law, including environmental, criminal, hous- ing, etc. 'c6dovern, Humphrey The ULSP was formed one year ago by a group of MIT and Wellesley students, and has been successful in placing pre-law lead emo Pef uls students in fieldwork positions By Peter Peekarsky burning issue in the Badger throughout the '71-'72 academic Milwaukee, Wis. The voters of State. The high . rate of year, following a very successful Wisconsin will turn out in unemployment in Wisconsin pilot project last summer involv- unpredecented numbers for the probably concerns the voters ing six participants. Thus far, for Presidential primary balloting most but the candidates have the second- term of the current today. been able to do little except academic year, 21 MIT under- Already, past records for the denounce President Nixon's graduates have been placed in number of absentee ballots cast policies and promise to do positions at community have been broken. In many areas Photo by Dave Tenenbaum legal aid better. societies, the Massachusetts Leg- of the state, more absentee The relative organizational ballots were cast on the first day strength of the candidates may on which absentee voting was prove to be the deciding factor allowed than had been cast in in the campaign. By far, . lah prazi aX$irsra previous elections. McGovern has the best campaign The race has occupied the organization in the state. The recently created execution Harvard- of coherent and inte- of Biophysics David Waugh and attention of the entire state for Humphrey and Muskie have MIT Program in Health Sciences grated research efforts. Our Dr. Edwin Salzmnan. the two weeks since the Florida ) good organizations, but they and Technology experience has received its with the biomaterials The second sector of the primary. cannot compete with first significant research funcding research program indicates that program concentrates on large On Easter Sunday, Senators McGovern's on a state-wide in the form of a five million they -are quite ready to join molecules, natural and artificial II Hubert Humphrey and Edmund basis. Apparently, the dollar, five year grant from the programs in which they have a membranes, and the dynamics of Muskie and Mayor John' Lindsay org a nizations of Wallace, National Heart and Lung Insti- collective responsibility.". cells, particularly those of blood. toured the Milwaukee County Jacksonr and Lindsay were never tute (NHL). The project will be Mann chaired the Steering Biophysicist Dr. S_ Roy Caplan I 1 Zoo and the Mitchell Park organized well. a multidisciplinary program for Committee which organized and and Dr. Alvin Essig will work Conservatory. At the zoo, In addition to the research into the above innovation and proposed the program to the with MIT physicists Dr. M. Humphrey's' train stopped on a candidates who have campaigned application of biomedical mate- National Institutes of Health, of Howard Lee and Professor H. slight incline returning to the rials. in the state, the names of which the NHL is a division. He Eugene Stanley in the study of station. Humphrey jumped off Representati've Dlrector of the Harvard-MIT -Shirley expects that the effort will the transport mechanisms of and started pushing it uphill. He Chisholm, Representative Patsy Program Irving London, M.D. become the leader locally 'and synthetic membranes and bio- was immediately asked: and Professor of Mink, Representative Wilbur Biology at MPIT, nationally in the research on logical tissues. Thermal phe- '"Senator, does this mean the Enoted this biomaterials-centered Mills, Senator Vance Hartke, natural biological materials and nomena will be studied at both Humphrey express has run out former Senator Eugene research effort would hopefully synthetic substitutes. the micro and macroscopic levels of steam?" be the prototype of the kind of McCarthy, and Los Angeles The researchers participating by. MIT's Professor of Mechani- Shortly after this, Humphrey Mayor Sam multidisciplinary research that cal Yorty will appear on in the program represent nu- Engineering Ernest Cravalho met Lindsay. When the two the ballot. These candidates are the Program will develop in rmerous disciplines including vari- and Dr. Padmaker Lee, a profes- entourages split apart, Lindsay several sectors of health science. expected to draw little, if any, ous medical specialities, engi- sor of experimental medicine in continued his aloof manner of popular support. Robert Mann, Germeshausen neering, physics, biology, and the Department of Mechanical campaigning and toured the zoo, Professor and Professor McG overn's organization of Me- biophysics. Their interests range Engineering, and Dr. H. signing a few autographs and demonstrated its skill . by chanical Engineering at RMIT, will from basic research through the Frederick Bowman, Executive followed by a few curious be arranging for shuttle buses to the administrator of the application of findings to actual Officer of the Biomaterial Pro- onlookers. In marked contrast, take bionmaterials endeavor. University of Wisconsin He is well health services and cover many gram. The freezing and thawing Humphrey shook the hands of students to cast absentee ballots l qualified, being a noted author-. areas of biomaterials science as of human blood will be investi- ,everyon6 in sight during his tour before they leave X,I ity on the research and for vacation. It develop- organized into four major cate- gated in detail by Dr. Charles of the zoo and the conservatory. is expected that a large ment of protheses and other aids gories. Huggins and by Cravalho. Dr. No voter preference sample percentage of these votes will go for the handicappted, especially The first area deals with the John, Burke and Professox has been conducted in for McGovern. amputees and the blind. investigation of synthetic materi- Ioannis V. Yannas, a specialist Wisconsin, but the Oliver Quayle In the, Republican primary, Initially, the program will als that can remain in long-term in polymer .engineering from Organization and the Public Representatives John Ashbrook invove -the collaboration of contact with flowing blood with- MIT, will cooperate in the study Broadcasting System have taken and Paul McCloskey will appear some thirty-three- investigators out incurring the hazard of of collagen and gelatin compos- non-scientific telephone polls. on the ballot along with President from MIT and Harvard -on altering blood composition or ites in the hopes of providing a The results of the last of these, Nixon. Nixon is expected to fifteen separate projects. These causing coagulation. The devel- substitute for skin during wound which was completed on March easily capture all delegates to'the projects evolved from a series of opment of sensitive analysis for healing. 26, . are: McGovern 23%, Republican National seminars held during the past the detection of vital -blood .Research into how the motion Humphrey 18%, Muskie 13%, Convention. two years under the auspices of components is under the direc- of blood particles influences the Governor George Wallace 12%, On Sunday, the MiZwaukee the Harvard-MIT Program. These tion of Dr. Edgar Haber while transfer of chemicals within Senator Henry Jackson . 1%, Joutrnal, the only state-wide seminars were given for engi- the study of a technique to blood and to the blood-confin- Lindsay 1% and others and paper, charged in a front page neers, physical scientists, medi- promote the production of natu- ing membranes will be under- undecided 22%.