VOLUME 95, NUMBER 26 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1975

ZSeiert:e Saudi contract lostI ue to MIT overpro ection

By Michael GarryErgo, the student newspaper

that had been threatened witheviction, has been permitted toremain in its office on the fourthfloor of the Student Center.

Since last October, the Asso-ciation of' Stiideint Activities(ASA), which is in charge ofallocating space for student acti-vities in certain sections of theStudent Center and WalkerMemorial, has 'been consideringgiving Ergo's .office space toanother activity in response tocomplaints that there were notenough MIT students workingfor Ergo and that the newspaperwas only being published on asporadic basis.

However, during the past se-veral months, Ergo has beenjoined by several additional MITstudents and has been regularlypublished once a week, convin-cing the ASA executive commit-tee that it deserves to continueto occupy its Student Center

office, according to ASA Presi-dent Forrest Krutter '75.

The ASA has also completedmeting out office space to otheistudent activities and informedthem of its decision in a lettersent out yesterday. Krutter saidthat the -executive committeeprovided space for all activitiesrequesting it, with the exceptionof the Division of AcademicProjects, which he described as"not an activity, but an admini-strative monstrosity."

The group is appealing theASA's decision to a special ap-peals board consisting ofKrutter, Assistant Dean for Stu-dent Affairs Jon Hartshorne,UAP Lee Allen '76, and mem-bers of the Graduate StudentCouncil.

Associate Dean for StudentAffairs Robert Holden mustapprove the ASA's allotment ofoffice space before it can be-come official.

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By Mike McNameeMIT's attempts to "over-

protect" itself against possiblepolitical ramifications of a re-search contract with SaudiArabia led to Saudi refusal tosign that contract last week,according, to an MIT facultymember involved in the negotia-tion

The "sole issue" in the Saudirefusal to accept an MIT offer toconduct research on develop-ment in that country waswhether the contract might havebeen used to pressure MIT intoembarassing the Saudi govern-ment, Professor of Civil Engi-neering William W. Seifert toldThe Tech.

Seifert returned from ArabiaWednesday to report to MITadministrators on Saudi refusalto sign a $1.7 million, 3-yearresearch agreement for MITresearch into water resourcesand electrical power needs forSaudi urban development.Seifert, who originally proposedsuch research two years ago, wasa chief MIT negotiator in thetalks with the Arabs.

'"The real question all along,"Seifert said, "was whether somegroup of people might pressure

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Exchange innovations dueBy Gerald Radack

In the seven years since itsinception, the MIT-Wellesley Ex-change has grown from an exper-imental program involving ahandful of students into an ac-cepted supplement to the acade-mic offerings of each institution.

Now the political sciencedepartments at MIT and Welles-ley have announced a new exper-iment which! will involveteaching MIT and Wellesley poli-tical science courses alternatingeach week between the two cam-puses.

Like the Wellesley Exchangeitself, the political science ex-change is intended to "sup-plement the academic opportu-nities" available to students, ac-cording to Professor of PoliticalScience Jeffrey Pressman.

Pressman called the two Wel-lesley and two 'MIT subjectsbeing taught as part of thisprogram "truly joint classes,"and said the departments arehoping to have as close to aone-to-one ratio of MIT studentsto Wellesley students as possible.

People often complain'-of the45 to 55 minute bus ride neces-sary to get from one campus to

the other in order to takecourses there. Pressman said thepolitical science departmentshave tried to solve this problemby scheduling the courses to

'meet once a week. Since thecourses alternate between thetwo campuses, he noted a parti-cipant will have to go to the

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Imbalances citedWhen the Exchange was

started seven years ago, admini-strators predicted that Wellesleystudents would take science andengineering courses at MIT, and

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me or MIT into sending people color, national origin, religion oito Arabia who might not be sex."acceptable to the Saudis." This letter, which Prince

Saudi policy on visas for Mohammed termed "threat-foreign visitors, which requires ening, deeply affronted thespecial consideration for Jewish Prince," Seifert said. 'There arevisitors and visitors who support many things that an Arab willthe State of Israel, has been a agree to in person, but which heprimary concern for MIT offi- will not accept in writing. Thecials throughout the talks. letter was too much for the

This concern led MIT to insist Prince to accept," he said.on an unusual contract clause, "Hindsight says we over-giving either party the right to stressed our concerns," Jamescancel the contract with 60 days Bruce, Associate Dean of thenotice to the other party. This School of Engineering, ex-4clause was to be used if a plained. 'The Prince, we think,"systematic" Saudi policy of was aware of our bind on theexclusion of MIT researchers discrimination issue, and under-developed, Seifert said. stoead completely what we had

The immediate cause of the to say. Spelling out explicitlyrefusal to sign was a result of offended him, and that seems tothis clause. In a letter to Prince be why he cancelled."Mohammed ibn Faisal, chairman Bruce said the strong wordingof the Saudi group, President in the contract and letter hadJerome B. Wiesner stated that been aimed at reassuring theMIT would terminate the con- MIT community that the Insti-tract if such a systematic exclu- tute's actions were proper. "Asion developed, adding, "MIT number of people thought wecannot legally continue in any should be very explicit so MITactivity which has associated -people would not misunderstandwith it discrimination against our position on this," he siad.any individual on the basis of Seifert, for one, felt that thecharacteristics such as race, (Please turn to page 3)

Night phone cutback

protested bystudentsBy Stephen Blatt

MIT's decision to close downswitchboard service in the earlymorning hours effective June 30,has brought widespread com-plaints from students.

The cutback in service, whichwill primarily affect dormitoryresidents, also elicited criticismfrom many students including aresolution condemning the movefrom Baker House at a meetingthere earlier this week.

"Why does the Institute al-ways turn to us when they want

-to save money?" one studenttold The Tech. Many feel thatthe projected $23,000 savingsthat will result from closing theswitchboard is meaningless com-pared to the Institute's multi-million dollar deficit.

At a briefing for dormitoryofficers last Friday, MortonBerlan, head of the Office ofTelecommunications, explainedthat telephone service frommidnight to 7:30 - when theincoming service will be cut off- is monopolized by persons

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calling iito the dormline system,which has always been a satelliteof the main MIT telephonesystem. 'The dormline systemhas to stand on its own twofeet" financially, Berlan said.

Two operators will be leavingon July 1, which will permitoperator shift schedules to berearranged to eliminate the mid-night to 7:30am shift withoutlaying off any permanent em-ployees, Berlan said, adding thatthis will result in a savings of$23,000.

"This is not a decision cast instone," Berlan noted. "We aretrying to be flexible. What willbe happening on July 1, 1975may. not be the same as whathappens on July 1, 1976."

According to Berlan, thedecision to close down theswitchboard at midnight, ratherthan at a later time, was madebecause midnight is the startingtime of the more expensive nightshift, and because the KendallSquare subway station closes at1 2 :30am, which means, headded, that- operators would beunable to get home if the shiftstarted any later.

An alternative to the cut.suggested by students at thehearing, was that students behired as operators. Berlan re-sponded by saying that studentsare not dependable enough.

Another suggestion was thatthe switchboard be kept open atcertain times, such as weekendsand Residence/OrientationWeek. Berlan, however, assertedthat if the service were keptopen only during R/O Week,then "someone would call duringthat time and find the switch-board open and when he calledthree months later and only gota recording, he would be upset."

Students have pointed outthat at many other colleges,students operate the switch-

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"'Continuous News ServiceSince 1881"

"We know how to dealwith the NSF, but Arabsare quite different."

- News Analysis, page 3

Thiis is-the last regularissue of The Tech for the1974-75 academic year. ASpecial Commencement Issuewill be published June 2, andwill be distributed on campusand to all regular subscribers.The Annual Summer Issuewill be published August 1,and will be distributed oncampus, to regular subscri-bers, and to incoming fresh-men. Any person wishing toreceive a copy of the SummerIssue by mail should send astamped, self-addressed enve-lope to The Tech, RoomW20483 or PO Box 29, MITBranch, Cambridge, beforeJuly 15.

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(Continued from page 1)MIT students would take hu-manities courses at Wellesley.

Although MIT students doindeed take liberal arts coursesat Wellesley, Wellesley studentsalso take humanities and liberalarts courses at MIT, according toJane Sauer, MIT's Welleslby Ex-change Coordinator.

Sauer listed the most popularareas for Wellesley students ashumanities, psychiatry, politicalscience, and architecture.

Professor of MathematicsKenneth Hoffman, chairman ofthe MIT Faculty committeewhich oversees the Wellesley Ex-change, said that "students parti-cipate in both directions for thechange in environment - theurban one here and the peacefulone at Wellesley," and to takesubjects that are not offered attheir own institution.

"hIn the past, there was afeeling that there were socialreasons," Hoffman noted, "but Idon't have that sense at themoment."

This term there were 120MIT students taking Wellesleycourses and 305 Wellesley stu-dents taking MIT courses, accor-ding to Dorothy Moeller, Welles-ley's exchange coordinator.Moeller said that the number ofrequirements for MITff students,and the fact that they are "al-ways busy" and do not thinkthey have the time for a one-hour bus ride or for takingcourses _unrelated to their majors"tend to defeat us in- trying toget a balance in students."

Sauer agreed that many MITstudents consider taking Welles-ley courses "a luxury they can'tafford."

Police Blotter is a compilation prepared by Campus Patrol to [report crimes occufing in the MIT community. j

allow the machine to be proper-ly secured and provide a reason-able degree of security. Bikesleft around the campus unse-cured present an invitation forlarceny. -

Use of Nitrous Oxide GasThe Campus Patrol is investi-

gating the use of Nitrous Oxide(Laughing Gas) at parties held inDorms. The improper use of thisgas could be injurious to thehealth and in some cases provefatal. The storing ofnitrousoxide cylinders in domitories isin violation of the InstituteHousing Regulations.

Alert Officer - - ! lCaptures Two Thieves ( ~ c

A lone Patrol Officer cap-.%tured two suspected autothieves, both convicted felons, inthe Westgate I parking lot earlyMonday morning, - as theyworked beneath the dashboardof a parked car. Beyond cap-turing the pair, the Officersiezed a quantity of narcotics inthe possession of one of them,and recovered the car in whichthey had been riding, which hadbeen reported stolen earlier inthe evening in Providence, RI. Itwas subsequently determinedthat both suspects have recordsas convicted felons, one havingbeen twice convicted of nar-cotics offenses, the other havingbeen convicted of armed -rob-bery. Both were arraigned Tues-.day in the District Court.

Larcenies from officesThe Campus Patrol has been

investigating an unusual numberof larcenies from offices - eitherpocketbooks left unattended fora few minutes or calculators leftexposed. Members of the com-munity will assist in a crimeprevention program by keepingpersonal property under theircontrol at all times. An officedoor was found open by thepatrol.officers during the nightand three typewriters had to besecured until a defective lockcould be repaired. Do not leaveoffice equipment that can beeasily carried away.

BicyclesThe advent of the good

weather increases the percentageof bicycle thefts on the campus.The safest area to leave a bicycleis the bike compourid behindBuilding 13 which is attendedduring the day. The bike racks

The Lecture Seriesmittee is offering a $25for information leading

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A trial has been scheduled forlames Mattie, the former MITand Boston University CampusPatrolman who was arrestedearly in March and charged withreceiving goods apparentlystolen from MIT's duPontGymnasium. The trial is sched-uled to begin June 4 in Brock-ton.

Brockton police had heldMattie after his arrest, but havesince released him on bail. Atotal of 15 charges have beenbrought against Mattie, includingadditional charges of receivingstolen goods.

Hired by the MIT CampusPatrol in 1971, Mattie, 33, wasdischarged by the Patrol Jan. 27for improper conduct.

identification of the person orpersons responsible for settingoff a "stink-bomb" Sundayevening in 26-100 during the'first showing of the LSC movie"Bedazzled." The first showingwas relocated in 10-250 and asecond showing was held in theStudent Center.

the center and provides inmateswith a forum for complaining toprison officials. In addition, Mrs.Raffel takes part in the programto prepare inmates for the jobinterview.

- Getting the Information Cen-ter into operation has involvedsome planning and a lot of trialand error. The center has gonethrough periods . with prisonadministrators who were lessthan enthusiastic about the pro-gram, but now seems-to be wellsupported by prison officials.

One of the problems atConcord is that the inmates areyoung and most of them haverelatively lighit sentences so theyare seen as being less in need ofschooling and vocational trainingthan their counterparts at high-security prisons. "We were toldthe squeey wheel gets all theoil," one inmate said.

The people in the Informnna-tion Center are hoping to ex-pand their job-oriented, programto help: fill the educationalvacuum currently existing. "I'dlike to see some kind of hook-upwith MIT, a phone line to acomputer where both job andeducational. information wouldbe available," an inmate in thecenter saie..

By Robert FeronMembers of the Lincoln Lab-

oratory are participating in anew program at Concord StatePrison aimed at providing greatercontact between Concord in-mates and the outside world.

The program, known as theInformation Center, has receivedfinancial support from the MITCommunity Service Fund.

The Information Center wassarted as a "sJob Bank" givinginmates a chance to lookthrough job listings and provid-ing a telephone for contactingprospective employers. Thishelps to give inmates an ideaof what sort of jobs they cantry to obtain after they arereleased from prison. A $2000grant from the Community Ser-vice Fund pays for telephoneexpenses.

Also aided by Concord-arearesidents, who help inmatesmaintain contact with the near-by community, the oenter isprimarily operated by long-terminmates who lend it stability andwho provide valuable.advice tothe young, short-term inmateswho make up the majority ofthe prison population.

In addition to receiving news-paper and job listings, the centerhas published an informationbooklet about the prison andhelps straighten out misleadingrumors, which pervade any pri-son and can lead to unwarranteddiscontent and sometimes vio-lence.

The center also teaches in-mates the nature of a jobinterview, telling them what aninterviewer expects and what aninterview is like. Practice inter-view sessions are held and are

considered one of the primaryactivities of the center.

Although in the past mem-bers of the M1T community havedone volunteer work at theprison, tutoring inmates andparticipating in an electronicsprogram, only a handful are pre-sently active in the prison.

One such person, Jack Raffel,a trustee of the CommunityService Fund and a member ofLincoln Laboratory, played arole in getting funds for thecenter. He spoke favorably ofthe center to The 7ech butcomplained that certain educa-tional programs found in otherprisons have not yet beenadopted by Concord. "Why is itthat Norfolk has always had acollege program and Concordhasn't?" he asked. "A number ofmen here are obviously collegematerial, but there just isn'tadequate preparation here."

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Overseas troublesBy Mike McNamee

Five years of.work - devel-oping- contacts, making pro-posals, travel to and from SaudiArabia - ended-in disappoint-

.ment last week for ProfessorWilliam W. Seifert of CivilEngineering when a Saudi princerefused to sign the researchcontract Seifert had libored'solong over.

He was "absolutely com-pletely bowled over," he said,sitting in his MIT office reflec-ting on the failure -of 'thenegotiations -literally at'thelast minute. The Saudis had beenin complete agreement with thecontract, it had been ready forsignatures - and then they.refused, taking affront at MIT'sinsistence on safeguards againstvisa discrimination.

"I'm not interested in thepolitical aspects," he said. "Itwas the exact kind of technicaljob that offers good researchopportunities, ·good thesis workfor students.

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;ahead?"repressive government whichpracticed widespread torture."

MIT, despite many studiesand reports dealing with politicalproblems, has never resolved thequestion of how institutionalactivities are judged on politicalgrounds. As Associate Dean ofEnglineering James Bruce said,"Faculty views differ from 'any"one do any research he wants,' allthe way to 'do work only for"good guys" in the world.'There's no answer to thatproblem."

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siderations on research has beena contested issue at, MIT since:the anti-wax movement firstattacked MIT and its SpecialLaboratories for conductingmilitary research. But concernover political questions in a-variety of programs has becomeincreasingly important as twoMIT programs involving workfor foreign governments havetouched off controversy in re-cent months.

In the Saudi case, the politi-cal' questions involved MIT'sinsistence that Saudis. not sys-tematically discriminate againstJewish or Zionist researchers-or, at the very least, MIT fearsthat the --Institute might beforced into an embarassing posi-tion on the discrimination issue.In the case of the Iranian nuclearengineering program, the politi-cal questions involved the natureof MIT's contract partner, theIranian government - whether,as some opponents said, MITwanted to be connected with a

(Continued from page 1)degree of specificty was notnecessary. "I think we couldhave handled pressures that wefaced internally without prob-lems. We tried to overprotectourselves."

"... the deal is dead."Neither Seifert nor Bruce

expressed optimism on possiblereopening of negotiations withthe Saudis. The administration isawaiting Prince Mohammed's re-ply to Weisner, in which thePrince is expected to formallyrefuse the contract before takingany further action. That reply isexpected in about a week.

"Reports seem to indicatethat the Prince indicated thedeal is dead - quite definitely,"Bruce said. "But we have notgotten a direct response yet, anda communication with thePrince to assure him that wewere not setting up a plot in thecontract is being considered.Everything is up in the air."

Seifert, however, said hethought it would be difficult torepair the rift. "You can't takeback what you said, and thePrince saw that letter as expres-sing MIT's true views," he said.

·"It's possible that MIT could do

something to say that it didn'tquite mean what was in theletter, but it would be difficult.That letter was not hastilywritten, and the Prince took itvery seriously."

Other program unaffectedThere currently is only one

other joint MIT-Saudi program,a multi-university advisory com-mittee that works with the Saudigovernment on developmentmatters. Seifert, who is a mem-ber of the committee, said heexpected the failure of theresearch contract to have littleeffect on that activity.

But poltica/research ques-tions are not the only onesraised by the foreign programs.One problem noted by Seifert -a problem which, he says,accounts largely for the failureof the Saudi contract - is thecultural barrier faced by MITfaculty when they deal withforeign officials on such pro-grams.

"MIT as an institution is notvery experienced, in dealing withforeigners on such programs,"Seifert explained. 'We knowhow to deal with the NSF, butArabs are quite different."Greater understanding of Arab.culture, he said, might have keptMIT from sending the letterwhich angered PrinceMohammed ibn Faisal and madehim cancel the contract.

Finally, MIT - and especiallythe faculty committee appointedlast week to study internationalcommitments - is going to facethe very basic question, towhom does MIT "belong?" Is ita national resource of the U.S, aninternational institution andthus a resource of the world, orwhat? That question may be thehardest to grapple with.

The Saudi negotiations, Brucesaid, "were educational - forthem and for us." MIT's educa-tion on these matters might wellexpand rapidly in the years tocome, as more and more coun-tries turn to the Institute for aidin solving the technical, social,and economic problems theyface.

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and nowhere have they grown as quickly as they have in Iran.MIT has already signed two contracts with Iran - the NuclearEngineering progam in which MIT will train up to 54 Iranianstudents over the next three years, and the Imperial Organizationfor Social Services contract, in which the Institute will advise onthe development of a technical-education school in Iran. Threeother contacts with Iran are also under consideration ini:

·Oceanography - The MIT Departments of Ocean Engineeringand Earth and Planetary Sciences have submitted '"verypreliminary"' proposals for a joint program in oceanographicresearch and development of Iranian resources in that field. Theprogram, according to Sloan School Dean William Pounds, wasproposed by MIT alumniin the Iranian government. The Iranianshave taken the MIT proposal, along with several others received,to a US-State Department committee which is working ondeveloping US/lran cooperation. MIT is awaiting the results ofthat committee's deliberations.

Energy Reseach - Another "very preliminary" proposal forsponsorship of research at the Energy Laboratory has beensubmitted to the Iranians. Although the administration stressedthe uncertainty of the discussions with Iran at this point, theamount of research being considered is said to range up to $5million over several years - a big help to the Laboratory, whichreportedly has had difficulty finding funding ($7.5 million fromthe MIT Leadership Campaign is earmarked for Energy Labendowment).

Faculty Exchanges - MIT is considering cooperation withAryamehr University in Tehran, Iran, to help that school developits engineering programs. Officials-of Aryamnehr, including JheChancellor, have visited MIT in recent months, and MIT hasproposed several suggestions for that program.

Why so many programs with Iran? As Pounds explained, "Wehave many contacts with Iran - many of our alumni are ther,some of them being very influential people." Also, he said, Iran'srecent oil wealth, and its decision to use that wealth for nationaldevelopment, have "created a need for MIT services - and theability to pay for them."

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fourth floor of the Student Cen-ter, I was glad to see that, forthe fist time in three years here,there was seldom a lack of issuesor events or happenings to gracethe pages of The Tech thisspring. There has even beensome decent debate on the issuesthat have arisen, and as an editorI was glad to see'how manypeople were willing to expressthemselves in print this semester.

On the balance, it seems thatwe were both right. MIT wasn'tgoing to hell in a handbasket;but neither was this a ordinarysemester. There was enough

By Michael McNamee"Don't worry," the older-

and-wiser-hand told me aboutmid-way through the springsemester, at the "height" of theIran debate when it seemed thatthe Institute was coming apart atthe seams. "The roof hasn'tcaved in yet, and things arereally just about normal - parfor the course."

He was right, after a fashion.The sky wasn't falling, and itstill hasn't. MIT hasn't beenforced to lock up its doors andclose up shop. People are stillgoing about their business as if

action on campus to make things.lively,-without actually being ofsuch importance that MI'r'speaceful existence hung in thebalance. The long gap betweenprotesting students in the Deans'Office or pamphleteers in Build-ing 10, and embarkation on thedecline and fall of an institutionwas never bridged, despite myfeeling sometimes that if MITkept going the way it was, itwouldn't be long for the world- at least not in its presentform.

Why this feeling of doom anddespair? I know ! wasn't theonly person to feel it manypeople, students, and others who-I know and 'respect expressedgloomy feelings about what washappening at MIT this semester.There was, in many of the eventsof the term, elements that madethem pause and wonder, "What'sgoing to become of this place?"

great urgency. The long view iseasy to talk about, but the mat-ter foremost in mind tends towipe things out, or at least tocolor everything else with itsown questions and perceptions.Maybe only student journalistsget really badly bitten, butit affects just about anyoneinterested in the issues to someextent.

The effect thisimmecdiacy hason coverage of events didn'treally hit home until I read oldcolumns: 'There might well beanother era of confrontation in--the near future ... " 'The facul-ty seems ready to let the reac-tionaires among them to driveMIT back to the state it was inthe. mid-1960s: a professionalschool for... robots.. ." Noneof this actually came true (al-though in my own defense I'llsay it looked close for a while);the problem is, what effect did

there was never an increase infreshman enrollment or consi-deration of compulsory Com-mons or an Iran deal or a gradesdebate or a new committeedoing privacy or internationalcommitments or grade reform.Last classes are this week, andfinals next wet-k, just like everyother year. MIT as usual.

But on the other hand; it hasbeen one unusual semester. It'ssafe to say that there hasn't beena semester like it since spring,1972, when the last of the greatriots hit this campus. Watchingfrom a newsman's perch on the

To the Editor:,Mr. Thomas Spisak is of

course entitled to his view ofTWelfth Night, and his produc-tion of it would no doubt befascinatingly different from theone he reviewed in The Techmore than two weeks after itslast performance, But there are afew things about the Shake-speare Ensemble's Twelffth 'Vightthat he seems to midunderstand.

First, our interpretation ofSir Andrew Aguecheek is tradi-tional. Andrew is not a "flamingfag" or even a smouldering one.He stands in a long line ofBritish aristocrats rendered sowitless by generations of, in-breeding that the question of sex

of any kind hardly arises. As theRestoration dandy he becomes avery familiar type in Britishdrama: fop, not "fag" -thoughmodern audiences sometimesconfuse the two.

Second, the ShakespeareEnsemble was founded to cele-brate Shakespeare, not to "[mprove" on him. No-one in thegroup would be so rash as tosuggest otherwise. But there isno such thing as A "pure" textof Shakespeare. Editors anddirectors since the 17th centuryhave, for various reasons, all hadto settle for slightly differentversions of a Shakespeare play,and 'anyone familiar withTwelfth Night can assure Mr.

Spisak that our text was conser-vatively Shakespearean. If Mr.Spisak was aware of minor dis-crepancies between our text andhis, while he was watching theplay, I'd be happy to discussthem with him,

Third, the Wellesley Shake-speare Society is not devoted tothe extensive performance ofShakespeare's plays as the MITShakespeare Ensemble is. Thetwo groups are different in pur-pose and scope. Two of ourmembers are Wellesley students,and Mr. Spisak might like tocompare notes with them.

Finally, I wish to be disso-ciated from Mr. Spisak's viewthat MIT is the "home of thePhilistines."

Murray BiggsProfessor of Humanities

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campus and sent home if thiswithholding was the order of theday. You would butcher yoursacred cow of academic freedomhere to "save" it in Iran. "Wehad-to destroy the city to saveit."

Like other social virtues andliberties, academic freedom car-ries with it risk. One risk istrusting the good intentions ofthose who seek to share yourknowledge. Is this risk unaccept-able to MIT? If opponents to theIranian agreement do convincethe administration that it is,fine. I can live with it and I willstand in line to aei: screened asto how dangerous I am. But atleast call a spade a spade andadmit that true academic free-dom would be sacrificed becausethe risk would be too high.

Ted ZimmermanNuclear Engineering

May 2, 1975

To the Editor:Despite the demlise of the

annual Kaleidoscope rockconcert-beer blast that was tofeature the James MontgomeryBand, I would like to thank UAPSteve Wallman for putting somuch work and enthusiasm insalvaging what could be salvagedfrom the entire situation. Incancelling the concert, the UAsaved itself, and the future ofconcerts as far as we are con-cerned. Steve started the Con-cert Committee, hopefully, as apermanent entity in the UA topossibly start organizing campusconcerts on a regular basis byhaving 'a small group of peoplewho could learn by its experi-ence to hold concerts as a stan-dard item in the student enter-tainment agenda. I am awfullyglad Steve helped establish us asan organized committee to orga-nize this much needed type ofentertainment. With Steve's initi-ative in mind, I would like toappeal to the student commu-

nity to support the idea of cam-pus concerts by getting morepeople involved in the commu-nity on a permanent basis. Wecurrently are composed of threesophomores and one graduatingsenior and I need notemphasizethat four people cannot possibly.handle affairs of this size duringthe term. WVe would like to haveat least 3-5 more members toestablish ourselves as a perma-nent committee and amidst allthe controversy concerning con-certs these days, all I can say isthat we need more members.

We have several possible dateslined up for Kresge Auditoriumnext year and I certainly hope toput them to use. But, in orderfor this to materialize, we needsome feedback from the commu-nity. I would appreciate anycomments, questions, interestdirected to me personally beforethe term ends so that we canplan a successful year.

Phuong D. Trinh '77UA Concert Committee

The cause for all this, I think,is the immediacy and closenessof the issues as they arise. It's aproblem endemic to the newsbusiness - the tendency to getso close to an issue or an areathat you can see nothing but theproblems it causes, the questionsthat arise in its wake, the ramifi-cations of its minutest detail.Try fiiring a four-page section onan issue like grading or Iransometime; see how easy it is toslide into a mode in which no-thing matters but the effectsthat plus/minus grades will haveon medical school applic2ants . .

The same lack of perspectiveoccurs when an administrationor student politician activist orfaculty member suddenly findshimself confronted with a seem-ingly all-encompassing matter of

this have?How do you avoid losing the

perspective needed to look atissues on a long time-line, topresent the balance and avoidcrisis-covering everything? It'sone of the greatest problems ofjournalism - giving coverageto "the 97 percent of the popu-lace which doesn't commitcrimes or at least doesn't getcaught on that day . . ." At MIT,it's a problem that has to bebalanced off agains '-he over-whelming al ' . zems toblanket every qLestion thatdoesn't directly concern ,cade-mics. No one - not-the 5-ofes-sional journalists, not the poli-ticians, not even the master-minds (sic) of The Tech - hasbeen able to figure out theanswer. All we · ay is - we'lltry.

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letters to The Tech 1Kendall Square Comments Miss

as much as Mr. Ross, "some ofthe people" of Cambridge. Mrs.Graham says:

'"The site should be used fortechnology-related firms whichcould give Cambridge residentsthe kind of upward mobilitythey need. To be ready for theresearch and development firmsthat might be attracted to Ken-dall Square, Cambridge shouldset up an intensive job trainingprogram. The city must train itscitizens to be ready with theskills necessary, to enter thesenew companies and have achance of moving up."

Mr. Ross doesn't mentionMrs. Graham and her view. And,indeed, in his comments onresentments, he cites by nameonly Councillor Alfred Vellucci.According to Ross, Mr. Vellucci,who more than any other coun-cillor represents the workingpeople of East Cambridge, hasmade a political career of pub-licly resenting Harvard and MIT.

Yet the fact is that Mr.Vellucci voted for the Neighbor-hood Plan that MIT, amongothers, endorses and which Mr.Ross decries.

Mr. Ross also charges that ifthe Neighborhood Plan is devel-oped ". . . taxes would be drivenup because the extra city ser-vices would cost more than thebuildings would bring in intaxes." If that is so, then thecouncillors who voted for theplan ought to be impeached orrecalled or shot by someonewith better aim than Mr. Ross.

The fact is that the Cam-bridge Planning Department, fol-lowing generally accepted proce-dures, made careful cost-benefitanalyses of several different pro-posals that emerged for thedevelopment of Kendall Square.And in these analyses the Neigh-borhood Plan was shown to pro-vide the largest net tax return.

There is more one could writeabout Mr. Ross's letter. But theessential point, I do- believe, isthat he shot rat-a-tat-tat fromthe hip. And missed MikeMcNamee by a mile. He alsomissed, by a least as much, thegreat potential benefit for Cam-bridge inherent in the Neighbor-hood Plan for Kendall Square.

Walter L. MilneSpecial Assistantto the President

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more. Not so. The right todetermine who is qualified forgraduate education at MIT re-mains with the department con-cemed by policy. Professor

-Hansen told the March 14 publicmeeting that the Nuclear Engi-neering Department received andused the right to select whichstudents would come to MIT.

The budget of the Depart-ment will jump sharply up when60 to 70 first year sources donot simil'arly jump up. It is onlyfair to the other students inNuclear Engineering that theIranians pay the actual cost perstudent rather than the usualtuition rate.

Four, MIT is contracting withagencies or governments asagainst individual students foreducational services. Nothingnew or threatening here. It hasbeen done before. Moreover, thisis merely a different administra-tive way of fulfilling MIT's basicpurpose.

The above shows that reason-able, moral men could decidethat there is not enough reasonto say no to Iran in the light ofMIT's,'basic purpose.

You need to consider theeffects of using any of the abovereasons to say no to Iran. To citethe high cost being charged aswrong would allow a govern-ment or other agency to crowdindividual applicants out ofnormal departmental admissionswith that agency's alreadyfinanced applicants. To cite thespecial agreement with someagency for educational purposeswould put any financial supportof any international student byhis own government in a taintedlight. To cite possible lower ad-missions standards would effec-tively demand that all graduageadmissions be run by a centraloffice at MIT, as the individualdepartments cannot be trusted.

To cite the subject matter totaught as dangerous just plainignores the true character of, thepresent international availabilityof, and the sole consideration ofpeaceful uses contained in thissubject metter. Finally, to citethe people to be taught asdangerous people would bringon the greatest change yet in thebasic nature of MIT. With-holding knowledge or educationdue to political considerationswould be new policy and ifapplied consistently, would havefar-reaching effects. Such with-holding is not alone. It is fromthe same family as politicalcoverup and classified academicresearch, two practices the MITcommunity has already foundrepugnant. Certainly many inter-national students now herewould have to be deleted from

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An Open Letterto the MIT Chaplaincy:

You ask for a clear answer."Why does MI.T choose toeducate Iranians in Nuclear Engi-neering?" Go further. Why doesMIT choose to educate anybodyin any academic discipline? Whydoes MIT choose to continue toexist at all?

The founding and underlyingpurpose of the Institute suppliesthe clear answer. William BartonRogers and those who havefollowed him have held theconviction that the gaining andpassing on of scientific andapplied knowledge is a service to,society, from the local to theinternational level.

It is not a matter of giving aclear answer beyond the abovefor a yes decision to the Iranianagreement. It is a matter ofgiving a clear answer or reasonfor a no decision. Educating theIranians is not a departure frompolicy; it is continuing in theunderlying purpose of the Insti-tute. Refusal to educate themwould be the departure frompolicy and purpose that wouldrequire a clear reason. It appearsthat the administration feelsnone of the reasons that havebeen given for a no decision areenough to depart from MIT'spresent purpose.

Consider the reasons for a nodecision that have been offered.One, the knowledge taught inthe Nuclear Engineering Depart-ment is dangerous knowledge. Itcould be used to build bombs.To claim this paints a falsepicture of the Nuclear Engi-neering curriculum. Absolutelynothing is taught about' bombengineering. Only some ,eneralphysical concepts (reactivity. cri-.ticality, prompt criticacality,and critical mass) that mightrelate to bomb physics aretaught and these are necessary tosafely design nuclear powerplants. All the material taughthas been widely shared in theinternational scientific and engi-neering communities for manyyears, dating back to PresidentEisenhower's "Atoms for Peace"initiative in 1953.

Two, the people MIT willeducate are dangerous people orwill work for dangerous people.If you believe this, then youmust admit that there must betalot of dangerous people beingeducated at MIT now. If theadministration accepts this asreason enough to say no to Iran,consistency would demand thatall future applicants to MITshould pass judgment on all theworld's political systems and notaccept anybody from a politi-cally unsatisfactory system.

Three, inferior applicants arebuying educations by paying

the Editor:.Benjamin. Ross's letter-last

riday (May 9th), criticizingIke McNamee's piece (Mayad) on -the universities andambridge, fell. rather wide ofie mark, and rightly and justly

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As the Institute's communityffairs officer, F have for someime followed Mr. McNamee'seports on the local scene withnote interest than most. Andvhile I have by no means alwaysgreed with his views, i haveNonetheless found:his observa-:ions on Cambridge and upon:he MIT-Cambn' dg e relationshipalways factual and well--easoned.

I cannot say the same for Mr.Ross's comments - nor for hisviews on1 Kendaill Square, towhich he devotes most of hisletter.

The redevelopment of Ken-dall Square has been an issue ofgreat concern to residents ofCambridge, and to MIT, for along time. It now appears that aplan of development may beundertaken that will provide asymbiotic mix of land uses; asubstantial tax return to thecity; a good number of jobs overa broad spectrum of categories;the most flexible marketingopportunities; and the potentialfor' creating a highly attractiveand humane environment inKendall Square.

Mr. Ross describes this plan,adopted by the Cambridge CityCouncil, as -consisting of "build-ing offices and luxury apart-ments in Kendall Square, as MITwants."

The fact is that this plan,called: the Neighborhood Plan,was endorsed not only by MITbut my many groups, both fromEast Cambridge and from otherparts of the city. And the fact isthat the plan consists of manymore components - commer-cial, retail, light industry, hotel,and technical space - than Mr.Ross's selectivity would suggest.This diversity is one of itsstrongest features.

What Mr. Ross is saying hewants in Kendall Square are thefactories that once were there sothat Cambridge people can onceagain have "the better-paid fac-tory work heads of familiesneed."

The fact is that Mr. Ross islooking backward, and Mr.McNamee is exactly right in hischaracterization of the long-term.

employment trends in this areaaway from manufacturingtoward the research, technical,and service sectors.

In his eagerness to rebut Mr.McNamee and to promote. bluecollar factories in KendallSquare, Mr. Ross says;

"Yes, there are blue collarworkers in Cambridge and, yes, alot of them are unemnployed.(Who do you think steals cars onMemorial Drive?)"

This statement could be dis-missed as simply silly exceptthat it really does say blue collarworkers in Cambridge are steal-ing cars from Memorial Drive. Acanard. These cars and othersstolen around the Institute aretaken mostly by juveniles andused mostly for joy rides. Thefacts are... well, get them fromyour local Campus Patrol.

There are, of course, bluecollar workers in Cambridge.According to City data, about20o of all Cambridge residentsin the work force are in thiscategory. This statistic also sug-gests, and it is so, that theresident work force of Cam-bridge is very diversified; andthat Cambridge should seek,therefore, to attract a broadspectrum of jobs in new businessand industry. And this is exactlythe kind of employment themajority of the Council is seek-ing to attract to Kendall Square.

For all this, the fact is thatthe single largest component(800,000 sq. ft.) in the KendallSquare Neighborhood PLan,which the Council adopted, isdevoted to technical space andlight industry, the very thing Mr.Ross says he wants and which heomits from his description of theNeighborhood Plan.

Mr Ross takes some care "toassure Mr. McNamee that thepeople of Cambridge" resentHarvard and MIT. Well, some do,and some don't. And some ofthem is us. What the indigenousblue collar people do resent-and this is an observation, not avalue judgment - is that breedof highly educated young peoplewho insist upon telling them"'what is good for them in thiscity."

It is interesting to contrastthe plea of Mr. Ross for "betterpaid factory work" with theview of Councillor SaundraGraham, who is the only mem-ber of the Council from theblack minority community andwho presumably knows, at least

To the Editor:I was shocked and disap-

pointed to read Mr. Riemnez''Mideast Propaganda Reply' (TheTech May 9). Instead of bleingresponsible and objetive as apresident of the MIT Israeli club,he knowingly mentioned a falsi-fied interview with Mr. Ghorbal,the Egyptian ambassador to theUN, which was a savage andcheap campaign to discredit theEgyptian sincere effort for peacein the Middle East.

This alleged interview nevertook place and its was a fabrica-tion of an extremist newspaperwhich ceased publication asmentioned by The Tech editor.Although this was a known fact,this false interview was wired allover the world by the Jewishnews agency and inflammableheadlines were published bynearly every Jewish newspaper.After falling in the trap andpublishing the fabricated inter-

view the British ManchesterGuardian apologized for publish-ing it, describing it as a piece ofblack propoganda. Mr. JosephKraft, a syndicated columnist, inan article entitled'The Defama-tion of Mr. Ghorbal' describedthis campaign as cruel and sad.

In spite of Mr. Riemrnez' fullknowledge of these facts (hewas even advised, as I was toldby a Jewish MIT student, not topublish such lies) he went ahead'to publish the story in anattempt to discredit Mr.Ammar's letter to The Tech.(April 29).

It looks very strange that.during the current time whenEgyptian as well as some Israelileaders try their best to achievepeaceful coesistence, some irres-ponsible persons keep trying topromote hatred and misunder-standing.

Mamdouh Salama GMay 13, 1975

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By David 1. KatzThe MIT varsity heavyweight

crew finished second at theEastern Sprints last Sunday. Thiswas its best sprint finish .since1950, when MIT won the varsityheavyweight race. Seeded fourthby the coaches of the easterncrews, the Engineers upsetCornell and Wisconsinl the sec-ond and third seeds, respec-tive ly.

The junior varsity, seededsecond to Harvard, had a poorrace and finished sixth. Thefreshmen, in the petite finals,could not seem to row well inthe second half of the race andfinished eleventh.

The varsity showed a greatdeal of power in the morningheats as they beat Cornell by a

length even though the Big Redeight overstroked the Engineersby four strokes per minute. Inthe other heats, Harvard seemedto have trouble against Rutgers,and Northeastern was almostbeaten out by BU.

In the finals, the Engineers-came off the line slowly. Theyhad problems with the balanceof the boat and quickly went alength down to Harvard. At thethousand-meter mark, cox MikeNewman '76 called the stroke uptwo for a power twenty. Theboat charged past the Badgersand began to move on Harvard.The Crimson were equal to thischallenge as they brought thestroke up to 39 to hold off theEngineers.

The final margin of three

yearsseconds was four less than theCrimson's lead two weeks earlierin the race for the ComptonCup. The margin over Wisconsinwas 4.5 seconds, reversing theresult from last week's loss inthe Cochrane Cup regatta.

The JV morning heat was arematch against Northeastern.The Engineers led most of theway but decided to save someenergy for the afternoon's finalsas they let the Huskies inch pastthem in the last 300 meters.

Coming off the line in thegrand finals, they were even withHarvard for the first 1200meters. Cornell, again over-stroking the competition, had alength lead. At this point, boththe-Crimson and the Engineersbegan to drive on Cornell. Fourstrokes into the drive, theEngineers caught a crab thatstopped the boat dead in thewater. The Tech JVs were neverable to get back together andfinished behind the other fivecrews.

The Tech frosh were foiled intheir heat by Rutgers andHarvard. The Engineers, downby a length after the first 500meters, hung on for the nextthousand meters and then triedto blast through Rutgers in theclosing stages of the race. Theywere able to pick up only half alength and were closed out ofthe grand finals.

Women nBy Chris Tracey

(Chris Tracey '76 is thewomen's crew manager.)

The MIT women's varsitycrew placed ninth in a field of15 at the Eastern Association ofWomen's Rowing CollegesSprints on Lake Beseck inConnecticut last Sunday.

The JV boat finished seventhout of eight.

Both crews ran into difficul-

Although Sigma Alpha Epsilon's second baseman could not tag outthe LCA runner on this play in Saturday's I M A-league playoff game,SAE did almost everything else right, upsetting the Green 7-5.However, on Sunday, Metallurgy pounded the upstart SAE team,23-19, and will face Baker's Baboons in tomorrow's title game.

ties in their morning qualifyingheats. The JV, rowing in the firstheat of the day, was slowedconsiderably when the numberthree rower caught a crab about16 strokes into the race and losther -oar. She was unable torecover it until the race officialstopped the boat with less than500 meters to go. The boatpicked up some lost ground, butnot enough to make it into the

final heat.The varsity, seeded sixth,

shared its morning heat with thefirst and- seventh seeded boats,Yale and Wisconsin. Theseedings turned out to be inac-curate, with Wisconsin eventual-ly -finishing second only toRadcliffe in the final heat. AsJoanie Pendleton '76, rowing inthe three-seat put it, "We rowed

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Single-handed sailing can be either relaxing (above) or frust(below). MIT's sailors were more frustrated than relaxec!weekend as -the men placed well down in the Monotype Tregatta and the men's aind women's teams compined for thirdIn the Co-Ed Invitational_

By Chris Donnelly(Chris Donnelly '77 is a

member of the varsity sailingteam.)

:<;~:;- The varsity sailing team com-pleted its spring season last

'~-: weekend with the men's andwomen's teams combining to

Ace place third in a Co-ed Invita--·. tional. Additionally, two indivi-

duals from the men's team sailedXi X in the Monotype Trophy on the

:-~:ui { Charles River.X A majority of the sailing over

the past weekend was related too the New England Intercollegiate

rating Sailing Association Single-d this Handed Championship. Elimina-Irophy tions previously postponed dueplace to high winds were held on

Friday at several locations.

Onlt heat of the eliminationswas held up the river at Harvard,the top two finishers qualifyingfor the finals automaticallywhile third and fourth spotsadvanced to the semi-finals.Sailing Interclubs (light din-ghies), Bill Critch '77 sailed verywell in the moderate to heaxrwind, placing second overall.Critch finished ahead of RogerAltrueder, eventual winner ofthe finals. Wally Corwin '78missed qualifying by one spot,placing fifth in the large fleet.Bill Gooch. '78 also failed toqualify.

In another heat at Tufts,Chris Donnelly '77 and JohnStahr '78 failed to qualify,finishing sixth and seventh re-

spectively. The six races weresailed in Larks rigged only with amainsail.

The semifinals were held onSaturday morning at MIT. Boththe semifinals and the finalswere sailed in Force Fivesprovided by Alcort. These high-performance boats were de-signed specifically to be sailedby one person. The boats per-form well upwind and planeeasily off the wind. However,breakdown problems developedwith the tillers and hiking sticks.

George Todd '76, havingqualified for the semifinals lastmonth, hoped to finish in thetop four to qualify for the finals.The racing in the morning wasmarked by a line squall whichcaused all competitors to capsizeat least once in one of the races.Todd had several fast races, twofirsts and a second. but missed

.qualifying by two points.MIT had two representatives

in the finals: Critch and GarySmith '78 who hadl; qualifiedearlier in the season. At stakewas the Monotype Trophy:and atrip to the Nationals for the topthree finishers.

Competition throughout theregatta was extremely closebetween the fourteen' sailors.Going into the final race fourindividuals were tied for thefinal qualifying spot for theNationals. At the conclusion of

c the final race, Altrueder of Tuftshad nipped schoolmate McLeary

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