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Friday, November 19, 1976

Volume 96, Number 47

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Professor of Chemical Engineering Robert C. Reid '54 has been named recipient of the Warren K. -Leis Award for Contributions to Chemical Engineering Education by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE). The award - named for the first head of the MIT Department of Cliemical Engineering - will be presented during the AlChE annual meeting which begins Nov. 28 in Chicago. m

The Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission is currently holding hearings to resolve a dispute between the University of Massachusetts and the Graduate Student Employees Union there over whether the graduate students are employees with collective bargaining rights. The dispute began in May when the Union petitioned the Commission seeking to represent graduate student teaching and research assistants. The University's Board of Trustees has maintained that the students are not employees. Bsl·

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The Admissions Office encourages all MIT students to visit their former high schools. Teachers and counselors welcome the opportunity to catch up with former students and get a sense of how their teaching fits into the scheme of things, an'd high schools seniors and juniors are hungry for information about "college." -

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The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation' Award will be made to current sophomores intent on a career in the public service. The awards will be for $5,000 and may be renewed -up to four academic years. One MlT student will be nominated by the President of the Institute. Interested students may get further information from Dr. Louis IMenand 11, Room 4246. The nomination deadline from MEF is Dec. 15.

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Jim Dine Prints: 1970-1976 will be on view in the Hayden Gallery from Nov. 20 through Dec. 18 with a public opening tonight from 5 to 7pm. Jim Dine London, a film on the artist by Michael Blackwood, I will be shown in Roomn 54-100 -on Wednesday, Dec. I at 7:30pm and 8:30pm. -pl----------------

By GlennlBrownstein Although a serious budget problem has limited the extent of its program, the Mario Umana Harbor School of Science and Technology, MIT's "magnet" school in the Boston Phase 11 desegregation plan, opened on schedile for the fall term. Community opposition to turning East Boston High into the "magnet" facility set off-the chain of events that has led to the funding shortage at the new school. A May 1976 Federal District Court order, attempting to solve the community roadblock, placed the new school, intended for grades 7-12, in the then underconstruction Barnes Middle School building, designed for grades 6-8. The judicial decision, however, made no provision for a budget increase for the school, forcing the Harbor School to begin a four and soon to be sixyear technical high school program with only a middle school budget. MIT, the Wentworth Institute of Technology, and the Massachusetts Port Authority, the Harbor School's partners in the "magnet" plan, have spent nearly a year designing the school's technology-intensive curriculum, but the money shortage has caused cutbacks in its implementation. Dr. Stanley Russell, MlT's project coordinator for the East I

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Mario Umana Harbor School opens on time despite budgetary Boston school, explained some of the problems the school faces. "The [small] budget has hurt us in two areas: facilities and staff. In the first area, we have a library without books, an aviation program where students are making paper airplanes because there's no other equipment, and a computer science program without computers." Russell further noted that theBoston School Department's "formula" system for assigning faculty, which yields a specific number of teachers based on the number of students enrolled, was insufficient for the Harbor School because of the nature of its program. "By the formula, we get enough

of Science & Technology in East Boston, MIT's "magnet- SCHOOL d ifficulties. the Htrbor teachers to run a regular this fall. In addition, innovative an features School for program, but it's not enough program teaching mathematics the technical studies we offer as profesphysics MIT by designed we well. As a result, the teachers Natapoff. Alan sor have heave to teach computer Although the budget is tight, science subjects as well as the parents have expressed many math they were hired for," he exwith the school, satisfaction great plained. said. Roye Despite the budget difficulties, The problem, according to over fifty M IT students and Russell, is that "a lot of kids are faculty members have been workwondering about the promises ing closely with the new school they were given about the and the community, both as program. It'll be a long time teachers and program coorbefore we'll get all the equipment dinators. we need, but I think our problems Five MIT student interns spent will be solved with cooperation this summer in planning for the from the city and state school school's opening, screening departnments. It's just a matter of faculty and selecting student how long it takes-nobody's got tutors. Two, Milton Roye '78 and the money right now." Deborah Cohen '78, are interning -

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By David Koretz Over one hundred students went without food for twentyfour hours and hundreds more sampled vegetarian fare in the dining halls to highlight a weeklong program intended to call attention to the conditions of the world poor. The effort was organized by Oxfam-America, a division of a relief and development agency founded in Great Britain in 1942. The MIT Fast for a World Harvest was coordinated by Joan Conway, a graduate student in nutrition. Conway explained that the fast was intended to make students conscious of the food crisis in Third World countries by causing them to experience hunger, ironly on a small scale. Students were asked to fast from 6pm Wednesday until 6pm Thursday and donate to OxfamAmerica the estimated cost of the meals missed. Eight people had signed up to fast by Wednesday afternoon, and ''somewhere between twenty

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House and various fraternities were to add their money afterwards. "The average donation is about two or three dollars,'' Conway noted. Another option, intended for people who felt that they couldn't fast, was the vegetarian meals ofifered by the dining service on Thursday. Lunch incl uded a spinach quiche, and the dinner offering was a cheese and walnut ball in becharnel sauce. Conway also encouragred people to "take a friend to lunch; that is, donate the cost of their lunchl.' She added that, "Any donations are welcom e. We had hoped to reach $300 here, and I guess we

might make it." The final event of the fundraising schedule is a benefit concert for a world harvest tonight at 8pm, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. Donation is $2.50, with the proceeds also going to OxfarnAmerica. On Tuesday, Oxfam-America representative Bill Mitchell '69 spoke to a small gathering of interested students about the agency and its policies. He explained that Oxfam was founded in 1942 as the Ox ford Famine Relief Committee to aid

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Greek refugees. After the war the organization turned from relief towards development projects, and now concentrates almost entirely on 'funding self-help development programs. Mitchell emphasized that "Oxfam does not carry out programs on behalf of others. Our job is to support the efforts of local people who are working towards social and economic change through their own initiative and in their own way." He also stressed that "long-term development efforts that become self-sustaining over

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time* are given top priority. Oxfam-America was started as an offshoot of the British agency in 1970. There are three other Oxfams-in Canada, Australia, and Belgigum. The American agency, one of the smallest, now has a budget of over $750,000, with an overhead of only 17 per cent. Mitchell also noted that Oxfam now funds projects in such places as Bangla Desh, Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia. "We help the very poorest of the poor, who are often overlooked by other agencies," he said.

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tial; wealth redistributtion through By Jim Eisen tax reform and guaranrteed annual The American people should income, and an end I to racism, make Jimmy Carter miserable for sexism, chauvinism, and age disthe next four years unless he crimination through broad inmeets their demands for changes stitutional changes. in the nation's policies, Rep. Dellums. the repre-sentative of Ronald Dellums (D-Calif.) told a and Oaklar id called on Berkeley Harvard audience Sunday night. too oversee an President-elect the In a talk sponsored by Citizens te across the debat national open, for Participation in Political Ac)ught on the tho political of range tion, the black Congressman atAmerica. He A confronting issues tacked American foreign and asing size of increa the questioned domestic policy for."niggerizing" Pentagon the for budget the (oppressing) broad segments of Virg ginia" - as in rathole 'that the population of the United eployment of de forward the as well States and the world. Korea, and Japan, in troops US Exhorting the audience to help is which becoming NATO, turn the direction of American he mecho anisnm' 'useless a policy towards humanism, the a are "We adding, observed, self-described idealist, democratic to ability o our in nation third-rate socialist, and "Don Quixote" of sustain life". "the UJS supported Capitol Hill suggested that the the wrong side in An gola [the side bottom line of foreign policy of South Africa];aas it has in should be "who are you willing to ;almost every other sttruggle in the kill and who are you willing to die history of the cou untry. . not .for?" democracies, but ti in-plated dicDellums stressed domestic tators.'" priorities such as a universal right "We should not be the police to free health care, reduced crime officer of the world,," he asserted and pollution, employment, and advocating a world role of agent opportunity to reach one's poten-

for peace and disarmament. Dellums identified two current trends that frighten him: ; level of technology "that renders the First Amendment of the Constitution null and void," including privalcy guarantees, and the abihit) of' a small group of leaders to make secret policies that affect the destinies of nations. Questioning the comprtabilitV of dernocracy and secrecy, Dellurns remarked that the rial sex scandal in Washington is that the American people Lind Congress had been "screwed"' by the intelligence community. Commenting on the recent Presidential

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was "pleased that the nation Salt fit to send Gerald R. ford back to Michigan. . a man of mediocre intellect who lacked vision. I swallowed heard and voted f'oCarters though we have fIundamental disagreements." t1i argued. "Knowledge abut the dangf,ers of the i m p eri }.l Presidency should lead us to reject that notion. . .we should not approach Carter Lis a king."

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Wallet Theft in Sala the attending A student Midnight Movie in the Sala de Puerto Rtico SatUrday evening discovered her wallet missing fromn her handbag when she left about two hours later. The victim has no idea who might have stolen the wallet, which contained personal papers and about $10 cash.

ing broke up the attempts to steal two cars being conducted at the same time by two men in the 48 lot. The pair was chased some distance but managed to escape in the area of the Sterritt Lumber

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