Continuous MITI; News Service '; Cambridge Since 1881Since10 Ni;:*31 1It- Massachusetts Volume 104, Number 43 Friday, October 5, 1984 Construction goes I4 on despite strike By Diana ben-Aaron rector of the MIT Safety Office. The Building 39 Integrated "We will satisfy all the Environ- Circuit Fabrication Facility will mental Protection Agency (EPA), open on schedule despite a four- Masschusetts Department of En- week sheet metal workers' strike, vironmental Quality Control Anthony Colozzi, Integrated Cir- (DEQE), and Occupational Safe- cuit Fabrication Facility Manager, ty and Health Administration said last month. Colozzi is re- (OSHA) requirements for haz- sponsible for the design and con- ardous substances," Fresina said. struction of the building, which "We've taken some special pre- will be devoted to research into cautions, and we think they are the manufacture of devices using state-of-the-art, with poisonous Very Large Scale Integration gases," Fresina said. The labora- (VLSI). tories will be thoroughly ventilat- People are scheduled to begin ed, and levels of poisonous gases moving into offices on the sec- in the area will be monitored ond, fourth, fifth and sixth floors using computers, he said. December 1, Colozzi said. Be- There are no codes specifically cause extensive ventilation will be governing work with poisonous needed to maintain cleanliness gases, he noted. "The Semicon- and safety in the laboratories, the ductor Safety Association puts rest of the building will not open out guidelines," he said, but ad- until later this winter, he ex- herence to them is not required. plained. EPA and DEQE impose stan- The fifth floor research labs dards for toxic wastes, including Tech file photo will be completed between Jan. 7 regulations on atmospheric emis- The Building 39 VLSI labs will open this winter on schedule. and Jan. 20, and the rest of the sion levels, sewage pre-treatment, second and fourth floor labs will and holding tanks for waste sol- be phased in next March, assum- vents, Fresina said. OSHA codes Delegates frornm central America ing no further delays, Colozzi regulate the limits for exposure continued. to some materials, but there are spoke at M IT, Harvard last week The union of sheet metal work- no special standards for the semi- ers has been on strike since early conductor industry. "They don't By Greg Makoff in the centers of political and of paramilitary death squads, he September and voted last night care whether you're handling Delegates from four Central economic decision-making," ac- said. whether or not to continue the benzene for shipbuilding or tele- American universities gathered in cording to a federation state- Juan Manuel Quesada, presi- strike, Colozzi said. "If the strike communications or semiconduc- Cambridge last week to address ment. dent of the student federation at ends this week. .. we have to tors, you have to handle it a cer- the repression and conflict they The delegation stressed the im- the National-University of Costa work out a way people can move tain way," he commented. perceive in their home countries. portance of this role in societies Rica, said Guatemalan delegates into the offices in December," he Connectivity with other Insti- MIT and Harvard University that have few channels to develop were arrested when they returned explained. The main problem will tute buildings will be restored on hosted the Federation of Central independent analyses. to their country after a recent be assembling the heating system, the third floor only. "They did American Universities, which Students and faculty members meeting of the federation. They he commented. away with connectivity because held discussions at the MIT De- have become targets of repression have Ilot been seen since, he said. "The air handlers might not be of cleanliness. We have to main- partment of Political Science because many dissent to what Local military action is not the working [because the sheet metal tain a Class Ten clean room. The Thursday and the John E Kenne- they see as unjust economic and delegation's only concern. It also workers would not be available to building will be all one unit," dy School of Government Friday social structures, according to the expressed its fear of direct US install them]. In that case [resear- Collozzi said. Only the second night. statement. The situation is most military involvement in El Salva- chers]could not produce hazard- and fourth floors had previously The delegation included rectors serious in El Salvador and Guate- dor and Nicaragua - likely to ous products until the air han- been connected with adjacent -presidents elected by students mala, the delegates said. originate from bases in Hondu- dlers were finished," he buildings. and faculty - from the national Forty student leaders have dis- ras, they charged. explained. Ten professors from the De- universities of Guatemala and El appeared this year, said Eduardo Expansion of the military con- If the strike continues, the con- partment of Electrical Engineer- Salvador, and student representa- Meyer Maldonado, rector of the struction schedule may be further ing and Computer Science will flict could draw Costa Rica and tives from Nicaragua and Costa Guatemalan National University. Guatemala into the confrontation affected, Colozzi said. work in the VLSI labs. Prof. Di- Rica. Miguel Angel Parada, rector of Basic safety precautions will be- mitri Antondiadis will direct the and engulf the entire region in The universities' roles are more El Salvador's National University, war, according to the delegates. taken and access to the building facility, and Prof. Paul Penfield than academic; they propose so- recounted the army's occupation will be permitted only on the will direct the Microsystems lutions to Central American of his campus in June of 1980. The delegation said it hopes third floor as a safety measure, Technoloy Laboratory on the sec- problems and strive to "be heard Between 27 and 50 students were this trip will encourage American universities to play a more active according to John M. Fresina, di- ond floor. killed, he said. The Salvador campus remained role in promoting peace in the re- 1 5 MIT students live at Wellesley closed until last May. It sustained gion. over $26 million in damage dur- The delegates also supported By Brian E. Simmons chose the students from a pool of MnIT this year. "I haven't heard ing the occupation, Parada said. the Contadora process, an at- The Wellesley College-MIT 45 applicants. The committee se- about any problems that the Many students must now sit on tempt led by Mexico, Panama, in Residence Exchange accepted 15 lected the 30 students by ranking Wellesley women participating the floor unless they bring their Venezuela, and Colombia to find the residence exchange are having MIT students this year. Thirteen the top fifteen candidates from own chairs, he continued. a diplomatic formula to reduce men and two women make up the each school. at MIT," she said. Teachers held classes off cam- tension in Central America. of the students did not Each school holds an orienta- fourth group of MIT students to Two pus during the four years, Parada Approximately 15 students and live on the Wellesley campus follow through with their appli- tion meeting for the students in- said. Over 6000 of the universi- faculty members attended the since the program was reinstated cations. The waiting list consisted volved in the exchange. "I think ty's 30,000 students attended the MIT presentation, and close to it's important to hold an orienta- in 1981. of five Wellesiey students this classes in secret, since teachers 100 people were present at the Mary Z. Enterline, manager of year. "MIT didn't construct a tion meeting for the Wellesley and students were prime targets Harvard forum. the MIT half of the program, waiting list for MIT students who women to help them get ac- said the two schools had a resi- wanted to live at Wellesley," En- quainted with the lifestyle here at dence exchange in the early terline said. MIT," Enterline said. "I try to 1970s, but it was discontinued in The program is running make sure that they know what 1972 because of a lack of housing smoothly, Enterline said. "It's- they are getting into. space at MIT. "The housing ex- still early in the year, but we ha- "A lot of things here at MIT change resumed when the [dor- ven't had any problems with the are decentralized," Enterline mitory] at 500 Memorial Drive exchange this year." said. "Wellesley students involved was completed," she said. Dorothy Moeller, head of the in the exchange have to figure out Two subcommittees of the Wel- program at Wellesley, said 13 what they need here, and where lesley-MIT Joint Committee Wellesley women are living at to get it." Moeller includes MIT students in the. orientation for transfers she holds each year. "At the be- ginning of the term, it seems that the MIT men are sometimes over- 1 whelmed to be the only man in a class full of women, but they Husker Du explodes the hardcore myth. Page 12. quickly get used to this fact." "One former student told me A menu of great escapes for the long weekend. Page the hardest thing for him was 13. walking into the dining room All * *1( * * alone and being the only man Baroque bacchanalia in Beantown. Page 15. there," Moeller said. "But it ap- pears that MIT women who live Tech photo by Jonathan Cohen Water polo inches ahead in invitational. Page 23. here at Wellesley enjoy being in Mary Z. 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