I I Special Commencement Issue lu're "'Continuous News Service Since 1881". Graduazting! See page 3. I r ~tI , -I 1 'l1 - - - --. .---- -- - - - VULUME 95, NUMBER 27 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1975 .. ._ . Ua to.! et, e res in -ceirernoni s to a r More than 1300 seniors and the Dean. of the recipient's graduate students will receive School reads his name. Doctoral degrees from MIT President recipients will receive hoods at Jerome B. Wiesner at the Insti- the same time from Dean of the, tute's 109th annual commence- Graduate School Irwin Sizer and ment ceremony today. Chairman of the Faculty Profes- Wiesner, who will also give sor Elias Gyftopoulos. the commencement address to A record number -of women the students and their parents - more than 150 - will receive and guests, will present about degrees today, almost half again 1450 degrees in the 2-hour cere- as many as were awarded degrees mony, which begins at 10:30am last year. Two of the female in Rockwell Cage. degree recipients will be seated Howard W. Johnson, Chair- on the stage at the front of the man of the Corporation and Cage as permanent officers of former president of MIT, will the Class of 1975..- Ilene S. preside over the commencement. Gordon, class vice-president, and More than 4000 students, Jennifer Gordon, class secretary- parents, faculty, alumni and treasurer. guests are expected- to attend. Other officers on the stage Marching to the sound of the will include Class of 1975 Mar- MIT Concert Band, directed by shal Jim Moody, and Graduate Humanities Instructor John D. Student Council President Corley, the graduates will lead Spyridon Armenis, representing an academic procession into the graduate students. Class of 1975 Rockwell Cage at 10:30, fol- President Anita Horton will not lowed by former Governor of be at the ceremonies, as she is in Puerto Rico Luis Ferre '24, out- Europe. going president of the Alumni Graduates and their guests Association and Grand Marshal will be honored at an informal of the commencement exercises. reception on -Kresge Oval after Representative of the Corpor- the commencement ceremonies. ation, faculty members, and Administration officials and fac- "Imik jr m m Guests of Honor, including Cam- ulty members will be present to z 2 Awmqm bridge Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, meet with graduates, and re- .r Ualt ina es IT %,%resentable will follow Ferre into the Cage. freshments will be served. A Li Johnson will open the ceremony strolling band will provide enter- By Mike McNamee been busier than the graduating Larry Pickard, Grounds Man- prior to an invocation by Rabbi tainment, courtesy of the Class Painting. Cleaning. Mowing. seniors and graduate students in ager in Physical Plant. Pickard Mel Gottlieb, Wiesner's address, of 1975. Washing windows, setting up preparing for comrnrrencement, it who -- like most Plant personnel and the presentation of degrees. For -eighteen students, com- tents, chairs, stages, flower pots, has to have been MIT's Physical and managers - had to be Each degree recipient, follow- mencement activities have al- curtains. Praying for good Plant workers. reached "in the field" last week, ing MIT's tradition, will receive ready. begun, as Reserve Officer weather. Doing their usual work Preparing the grounds and said the holiday had meant put- his degree from Wiesner, while (Please turn to page 5) - and more ... If anyone has buildings of MIT for an on- ting several men on overtime to slaught of thousands of guests get the necessary work done in during one of the most hectic time for today's events. .. Cornraeernencerent Alu nla Eve'ts - I weeks of the year is an annual Pickard's crews are responsible Commencement Exercises - Today Tech Night at the Pops - Thursday task for Physical Plant, yet it for two things with regards to 9:30am - Rockwell Cage opened for admission 7:30pm - Buses start to leave from Massachu- never seems to be quite the same commencement and Alumni Day of audience. setts Avenue entrance for Symphony Hall. from year to year. This year was - "sprucing up" the grounds so 10:00 - Robing begins: graduates in duPont 8:30-10:30 - Tech Night at the Pops at no exception. that they will look nice for the Center Gymnasium, Stage guests in duPont Symphony Hall. "The real problem this year visitors, and fixing up the grounds so that they will survive i Athletic Building. Alumni Day - Friday was the vacation we had (Memo- 10:30 - Academic Procession enters Rockwell 8:00am-12:30pm - Alumni Registration - rial Day) last Monday," said (Please turn to page 5) Cage, -led by graduates. Graduates will be Kresge Auditorium Lobby. i followed by Chief Marshal Governor Luis A. 9:15-11:30 - Morning program in Kresge: i I Ferre '24, representatives of the MIT Cor- "Discovery and Finding the Solutions of a71-time I Societal Problems," a panel discussion mod- Wi iesner o II poration, members of the faculty, and Guests of Honor. erated by Provost Walter A. Rosenblith. 10:51 - National Anthem, led by Chairman of Panelists are: Professor of Immunology i the Corporation Howard W. Johnson. Herman N. Eisen: Professor Frank Press, of pesss ures, growth head of the Department of Earth and Planet- 10:53 - Opening of commencement cere- Class.of 1975 ary Sciences; Professor or Urban Studies In October, 1971, one month after the graduating i monies by Johnson, and invocation by came to -MIT, Jerome B. Wiesner was inauguratedPresident of MIT. Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, MIT Jewish Chaplain. Donald A. Schon; Institute Professor Robert IA been marked by an N. Solow; and Professor Myron Tribus, The first four years of his presidency have 10:56 - Address by President Jerome B. increasingly tight budget, and pressures on MIT from a number of I director. of the Center for Advanced Engi- I Wiesner. fronts; yet, as Wiesner is quick to point out, there are a number of 3 neering Studies. 11: I0 - Presentation of degrees begins. Bache- exciting and innovative areas in which MIT has progressed despite I 11:30-12:15 - Class gifts presentation: Gifts lor degrees are presented first, followed by the pressures. ,I will be presented to the Institute by the Master degrees, Engineer degrees, Doctor of In this interview with The Tech Editor-in-ChiefMike McNamee. Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Classes of 1925, 1940, and 1950. Wiesner, I Wiesner looks back on the first four years of his presidency and will be Each degree recipient will be presented his Johnson, and other MIT officials discusses the Institute's potential fuiure role in the world. I diploma by Wiesner, and his name will be present to accept the gifts. d The Tech: Broadly, how would emphasis on understanding sys- i4 read by the Dean of his School. Doctoral 12:30-1:30 - Box lunch on Kresge Mall. recipients will be hooded by Dean of the - "Visual Happening," a multi-media dis- you say MIT has changed during tems, particularly systems that involve people; social-technical I Graduate School Irwin Sizer and Chairman play prepared by Otto Piene, Director of the the first four years of your of the Faculty Professor Elias Gyftopoulos. Center for Advanced Visual Studies; the administration? systems, like health delivery 12:10pm - Closing exercises by Johnson. New England Dinosaur Dance Company; JBW: I'm not sure that it systems; the continuing effort to e understand how to bring the i Academic Recession, led by Guests of Honor Paul Earl; and the Annex Players, will be really has changed as a con- human individual concerns into i in reverse order of procession. held on Kresge Oval. sequence of my presidency. I 12:30 - Exercises will be concluded. 1:45-2:15 - Memorial Services in the Chapel. believe that there have been a the considerations when one is Reception for Graduates and Tributes will be paid to alumni whose deaths number of shifts, changes occur- involved with large technology. Their Guests - Today were reported in the last year. ing at MIT during the last couple That's not easy; I mean, we talk 12:45pm - Faculty and administrators will be 2:30-4:45 - Afternoon program: 22 different of decades which have been con-' about it a lot, but I'd say we're present at an informal reception on Kresge session swill be offered by departments and tinued - and perhaps empha- far from understanding how to Plaza for graduates and their guests. Sand- centers at a number of locations throughout sized, the greater effort to un- do much about it. I think all of iches and refreshments will be served. A the Institute. Locations and times will be derstand the interaction of tech- these questions were already "strolling ragtime band" has been provided posted in Kresge Auditorium Lobby. nology and society; the contin- here as was the large MIT effort by the Senior Class to entertain at the 5:00-6:30 - Centennial Reception in Sala de uing, in fact, growing, emphasis to discover how to teach more reception. Puerto Rico in the Student Center. on natural resources, on protect- effectively. I mean both the ing the' environment; growing (Please turn to page 8) 51- ----·. =fi----- 4en I·clsa l*4C- -3·By- - -pl--____ -·-pl-- ---s --s---d--C-·-·U--*··--- ·31 L i' * 'W IIINIr 9 Q7R; TWFETECH--- RAutM~f [: 2f) IVIlolrKl~nK~nA i fr ,JIL -, . , I,, 'eI sIJ Dritends,tetente pe oE iI Russian-sailors find Despite the press of final exams and preparations for sum- mer, the MIT'community found time during- the .last week of classes to-welcome the crews of two Soviet Russian destroyers with a.