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VOLUME 89, No. 43 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1969 - FIVE CENTS

Rally, sibt-inprotest war research

(Ed. note: The following statement, approved by Provost Jerome Wiesner, wasread by Associate Provost Paul Gray at his noon press conference yesterday.)

The administration will not act against the demonstration as longas it is peaceful, nonobstructive, and nonviolent. If it becomesobstructive [defined as "prohibiting normal functioning"] thedemonstration in the administration building will be regarded as abreach of discipline. MIT students will be up for disciplinary review.Non-MIT students will be charged with trespassing. The boiling pointof the administration is expected to be high. If it becomes violent,Cambridge police will be called in immediately, because of the smallnumber of men on the Campus Patrol. It is possible in somecircumstances that MIT students will be arrested for trespassing[circumstances not given]. The temporary restraining order iscurrently in effect.

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SACC - NAC RALLYBEGINS -AFTERNOONRESEARCH PROTEST

By Robert ElkinA capacity crowd filled Krcs-

ge auditorium yesterday after-noon to listen to NAC andSACC speakers denounce US im-perialism and defense related re-search at MIT and to announcetactics agreed upon at meetingsthe previous night.

Prof. John McDermitt of theHumanities Department beganthe speeches with a descriptionof US world domination. Hecalled the US the "major en-emy" of peace and advancementin the world today.

Calling MIT the "Pentagon onthe Charles," Ira Rubenzahl at-tacked DOD funded projects car-ried out by the university. Thelist included MIRV, ABM, MTI,CAM, ComCoe, Helicopter sta-bilization, and InternationalCommunism. He said that "itsounds like 1984 and I think itis."

Jonathan Kabat, the mainspeaker at the rally, describedMIT as the "mother and father"of the MIRV. He expounded thetactics of SACC stating that"we've got to beat the strongestpower structure in the world."Though SACC is not a memberof the NAC, Kabat explainedthat it supports the demands ofthe organization. SACC also"supports the NLF and its strug-gle for liberation in Vietnam."

Kabat attacked the press forits "purposeful distortion" andobscuring of the issues. He des-cribed how he and members ofthe administration were invitedto present their positions onWGBH-TV, but the televisionstation decided to cancel theshow when the administrationrefused to send a representative.Thus, the issues of SACC andNAC were not "brought beforethe American people."

When members of the pressattempted to take pictures ofthe proceedings. Kabat ex-

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Cancellationcan result

By Steve KaiserCertain demands of both

SACC and NAC include the ces-sation of certain controversialcontracts, such as MIRV, Com-comrn, CAM and others. In re-sponse, the Institute has assertedthat MIT "must keep its com-mitments" on work for which ithas contracted. The issue ofkeeping commitments goes be-yond direct policy and publicityimplications: important multi-million dollar economic factorsmust also be included.

In a study completed by Ro-bert Sullivan, a prime lawyer forMIT, the legal implications ofany contract default were ana-lyzed and the following sum-

mary conclusions were offered:I. Thle Institute has no legal right

to terminate unilaterally its existingresearch and development contractswith governmental agencies.

2,That if the Institute chooses toterminate such contract unilaterallyit would be subtjec to a claim for

French, Professor Halfman, andCaptain James Olivieri of thecampus patrol with a walkie-talkie.

President Johnson was atsome undisclosed location, pos-sibly 1-214, the School of En-gineering conference room, towhich several administratorswere traced.

Though the action was called"obstructive", students wholooked like demonstrators hadno trouble passing through. Pro-vost Jerome Wiesner and' Vice-President Vincent Fulmer madeattempts to get to their offices,but stopped when met by resis-tance.

A MACEingTwo forceful attempts to

penetrate the sit-in were made.The first, around 2 lm, was aYAF member, according to NACmarshalls. When resisted, hepulled a can of MACE from hispocket, sprayed a demonstrator,and broke through. For severalminutes after that people in thehall were coughing.

At 3 pm student KennethMcNulty G insisted on his rightto traverse the corridor. He wasblocked by demonstrators andcalled "pig".

Professors who attempted togo through were vilified as weremembers of' the "pig press".NAC has become extremely hos-tile to the press for alleged dis-tortion of the news and fortaking photographs when notasked to. Demonstrators both atthe sit-in and later in the rotun-da (Building 7) attempted toblock cameras, touching offheated arguments with pressmen. One said, "What do youhave to hide?" Demonstratorsreplied that photos would beused in any court action thatmight be taken against them.

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Following a Kresge rally some300 members of NAC set up anobstructive sit-in in the corridoroutside the -administration of-fices on second floor of Building3 to demand the end to sevenwar-related research projects.

They occupied the hall aboutthree hours, leaving around 4:30pm. NLF flags, singing, chantingand shouting filled the hall, at-tracting many bystanders.

The offices were locked. andempty. No attempts were madeto remove a group of membersof the administration, facultyand press clustered outside thePresident's office. This group in-cluded Vice-President Wadleigh,Assistant to the President Con-stanine Simonides, Professor

Members of the Women's Liberation Movement lead students at theSACC-NAC rally in Kresge auditorium yesterday afternoon in around of "'M IT, PH D, MON EY." Photo by Harold Federow

By Bob DennisAt an evening press confer-

ence yesterday, Associate Pro-vost Paul E. Gray asserted thatthose students involved in thesit-in outside the President's Of-fice will be subject to academicdisciplinary review.-

Although he emphasized thatmany of the persons there wereobservers, Gray was unspecific asto what means will be used toidentify the students involved.He emphasized that the mem-bers of the student and facultyadvisory groups at the scenewere not there as spies. In addi-tion to disciplinary review forthe MIT students involved, theInstitute will seek to identify the'non-MIT people involved and todetermine whatever actions a-gainst them might be possible. Itwas Gray's opinion that "veryfew of those at the sit-in wereMIT students.

Gray reported that PresidentJohnson "was alive and well"and had declared that he "hasnever administered so hard in hislife." Gray stressed, however,that the NAC was "sadly mis-taken" if they believe that theyhindered the administrative op-

erations of the Institute. He ex-plained that occupation of realestate does not mean obstruc-tion of operations.

Apparently referring to Prof.Louis Kampf, Gray said that heobserved one faculty memberparticipating in the sit-in but wasunsure as to what action mightbe taken against him. Earlier, itwas reported that a group offaculty was seeking to censurefaculty members participating in

the demonstrations.Constantine B. Simonides,

Assistant to the President, re-ported that there would probab-ly be a special fauclty meetingthis afternoon.

It was reported that an Insti-tute secretary had been macedoutside Vice-President Ruina'soffice around 2:15 pm by astudent who was apparentlyseeking to use the gas against thedemonstrators.

Professor Lincoln Bloomfield,head of the arms control projectat the Center, saw the Tuesdayconfrontation as two sets ofquite different perceptions, dif-fering primarily over tactics, ofthe same problems. However,"the issues raised will remain,and the MIT community mustmake a concerted effort to solvethem."

Interviews with personel ofthe Center for International Stu-dies yesterday revealed a cau-tious note of optimism amongthe senior faculty and staff.

Dean Robert Bishop of theSchool of Humanities and SocialScience stated that he didn'texpect any further action byNAC at the CIS despite constantrumors of a NAC mill-in at theCenter.

He said that the Administra-tion was extremely reluctant tocall the police in on Tuesday,and that even if the protestorshad occupied the building, thepolice would not have beencalled unless actual physicaldamage occurred.

The mood today was calmdespite some fear that the Cen-ter was closed on Tuesday toreduce the chance of non-MITstudents precipitating violence,However, several secretaries saidthat they were asked to work till11 am, then were sent home.

The Administration, accord-ing to Bishop, put a very highpriority on avoiding violence,and felt that if "closing downthe Center for a day is a way ofavoiding violence, then we'reready to do it; but, we're not-ready to close down every day."

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' Bulletin.There will be a faculty meeting today

at 2:30 pm in Kresge Auditorium.

David Botstein, Assistant Professor of Biology,canvass of the CIS yesterday.

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CIS staff calm, ptimisticHe also said that he and many

other senior staff of the CISwere very eager for students tocome in and discuss these pro-blems, but that the shoutingmust die down before substan-tive discussions could take place.He pointed to the Center meet-ing on Monday involving staff,students, and faculty

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damages by the United States Go-vernment.

3. The amount of damages forwhich the Institute might be liablewould include the cost to the govern-mental agency of comnpleting thecontracts through a different source.

In addition, penalties of up totriple damages could be imposedon MIT. However, if the con-tracts were terminated by theNavy, in the case of Poseidon-MIRV, there would be no penal-ties.

The response of the critics ofMIRV, CAM, etc. is that theeconomic cost to MIT is minimalor insignificant compared to thesocial value of terminating theseprojects. However, there is aminority of radicals who feelthat it is military research proj-ects whose contracts are ter-minated or defaulted.

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Hampered by the absence oftwo-thirds of its members, the.General Assembly Wednesdaynight refused to vote on all butone motion, shelving considera-tion of major proposals.

Delegates overwhelminglyapproved a call to professors toavoid scheduling quizzes, papers,or problems sets for November13, 14, and 17, the weekdaysaround the march on Washing-ton. "Students should have free-dom of conscience," argued onerepresentative, "to demonstrate.They should not be penalizedfor missing class."

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gates present supported the mo-tion, and Krzywicki admittedthat part one 4was lifted from anMIT Corporation resolution, theAssembly decided to allow timefor canvassing constituents.Overriding protests that actionon this crucial issue should bedelayed no longer, the Assemblyvoted to table.

Plainclothesmen hustle self-styled Polish freedom fighter JosephMlot-Mroz into a waiting patrol car. Mlot-Mroz was parading aroundwith a sign and singing songs in the Kresge lobby when the CampusPatrol asked him to leave. Whenhe refused, they dragged him awayand turned him over to the CamrnbridgePolice. Charges will not bepressed.

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Success stories like this arenot unusual at Ford Motor Com-.pany. If you have a Masters De-gree in Business Administration,you'll find opportunities to "growand to learn" in Financial Man-agement, Operations Research,Product Planning and Marketing.

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MORATORIUM NEXTON PROTEST AGENDA

The Moratorium and Mobili-zationprotests will be the nextfocus of attention this comingweekend.

There is one office in the EastLounge of the Student Centercoordinating activities for bothgroups. It is manned by "allconcerned-type people" whichinclude faculty, wives, staff, andstudents according to Mrs. Eden,Professor Murray Eden's wife.

November 13 is the first dayof the protest. Scheduled forthat day is canvassing in Wards 1and 2 in Cambridge.

On Friday local action willcenter on helping- at a low-costhousing project in Roxbury.

Friday's Washington action isthe March Against Death. This isa single file march from Arling-ton Cemetery to the WhiteHouse. There is to be onemnarcher for each Americankilled in Vietnam.

The Boston contingent is tomnarch from 4 am to 6 am Fridaymorning.

On November 15, there willbe a- 9 am rally on the Mall at3rd Street. From there the de-monstrators are supposed tomarch to the Ellipse and hold a2 pm rally. At the present mo-ment there is no permit for thatmarch. The New Mobilization'sWashington office is optimisticabout the permit as they claimthat it is standard procedure inWashington not to issue anypermits until the day before amarch.

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However, the press was notcompletely innocent. At the sit-in, for example, they insisted onstanding, and blocking the viewof everyone else. They oftenwere interested in sensationalismor making the demonstration in-to a "zoo," as one student calledit. They seemed not to careabout the issues involved, andwere singularly indifferent to thehows and whys of war researchand the other issues polarizingthe campus.

Members of NAC and SACC begin march from Kresge to theadministration offices, There the two groups seperated. SACC wentcanvassing while NAC staged a sit-in. . Photo by Gary DeBardi

By Harvey BakerThe obstructive demonstra-

tion outside the administrationoffices split in two about 2:30'pm as SACC members left tobegin canvassing the Institute.

Several dozen "affinitygroups" formed, consisting ofabout 3-7 members each, whomade plans to talk to any and allpassersby in the hallways, toenter classes in progress, andspeak to workers in the variousmachine shops in the basement.

The largest and possibly mostboisterous group was led by JonKabat. They stormed into the"Information Center", estab-lished in the Bush Room ofBuilding 10, and began to talk tothe people, mostly students,manning the desk there, and toldthem the information they weregiving out was of the sterilevariety, bereft of political signifi-cance. They did not support thepopular movement, only trans-lated it in an empty way for thepress.

The overall plan of SACC wasto get out into the Institute as awhole and try to seek outpeople, and "set the recordstraight" about the events of thelast week.

While this canvassing was pro-c e e d i n g, representatives ofNewsreel, the radical film docu-mentary company, were showingmovies in the lobby of Building7, upon an improvised screen.

Several hundred people seatedthemselves in the lobby andwatched the screenings whichwere interrupted from time totime by SACC speakers, ex-plaining their stand behind theNational Liberation Front.

Many onlookers had sup-posed SACC would be "neutral"in their outlook on the VietnamWar, and expressed this senti-ment to various speakers.SACC's response, however, wasarticulated by Kabat, who ex-plained that as far as he wasconcerned, the NLF was an ally, -and the business establishmentand bigwigs in his country werethe enemy.

When asked to respond to thecharge that the NLF flag and thechants of "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh"and "Viva Che" would antagon-ize those very people whosesupport SACC hoped to get, hereplied that while he was not insympathy with everything thatthe NLF did, he saw theirstruggle as a successful one ofdefeating an oppressive govern-ment aided by an imperialist ally(the US).

At the conclusion of canvas-sing, the SACC members re-turned to report some gains viathe "rapping" route, and somesupport for their rally to con-sider their next moves in theweek-long battle against -,ar re-search.

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press uncameras,- and a statement wasissued by the NAC that when acamera appeared, they wouldfirst ask that it be put away, andif it was not, they would seize it.Several members of the pressreceived this welcome.

At the'rallies, marchers werelargely hostile to the press, duein part to the institute's injunc-tion, arid the fear of the demon-strators that those individualsnamed in the injunction wouldbe caught on film and beamednationwide.

lwelcome SACC seeks supportOutsideBy Harvey Baker

Members of the establishmentpress have'had a hard time atMIT this week trying to coverthe hectic events of NovemberAction and simultaneously 'main-tarn their cool. -

Most of the major magazinesand newspapers in the area hadrepresentatives or reporters here,but on the whole they wereunprepared for their welcome.

As of Tuesday, the StudentCenter was put off limits to

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Committed to action at last!Here we make our stand. Strangeyet, though, if this is revolutionwhy expose yourself naked,defenseless to the might wrathof the facist juggernaut? And ifnot revolution why say it is?Simple answer must build themovement NOW and that meansshow the world what pigs theyare.Prove they are pigs; goadthem into proving it. They willnot be uncooperative, for-if notpig there is at least a little bit oflow beast in them. They are onlyhuman.

And whodoubts, as the rainfalls and the insurrectionistsmarch and cheer and sing andshout and build to fever pitch, asBig Brother speaks and facelesshardnosed men make photo-graphs for files hidden in Minis-tries of Justice (in my headZappa & Mothers are singing"Who are the brain police?"), asa fight breaks out to attempt tobreak picket, as the gentle (sure,they are all honorable) men ofMIT attempt to save the situa-tion in its dying moments, as allthis fine madness unreels whocan doubt that the blue meanieswon't enjoy their work?

They are -here, this is it, I'mgonna get busted first timescared shitless billy club (Idream cracked skull) and heyI'm across the street dammit thedemonstrators are retreating I'm

press! (So?) move along "I'mmoving I'm moving " clear outand then the stick: in the ribs, inthe gut,on the back (thanks notthe head; they're restrainedtoday) breathless but running.Must see, must learn, knowunderstand. ("There's a book inthis somewhere." Indeed, it willtake one to explain this incred-ible happening, here, where theysaid it couldn't happen.)

So these--are pigs en masse.Shouting also slogans, numerals,some laughing, enjoying the rout(though somne have a bad taste intheir mouths and say so; perhapsthey have longhaired sons.) Theylook like SS; they are uniforms.Weathermen at - least haveobvious faces, contra ERGO.But they scare me, are intendedto. The workers in the streetscheer them, curse the marchers,curse me. They know (and now Itoo) we are all brothers underthe hair; they force us to be.

And later, reeling, aching,nervously apprehending thefuture, the fear creeps back, nowthat the adrenalin has ebbed. ATV image now to me is real: rowof blue, neat files of pain,marching down the Gunsmokestreet at .ME! And the fearadresses me, points to the bluebattalions, unveils another, fur-ther image, that of a bootstamping on a naked humanface, -and says: "This is yourfuture."

I cringe. And now the ques-tion will come to me in thecoming nights, destroying sleep:better to flee, or must I somedaystand and fight. Maybe forwhat's right, but darkly perhaps,for survival.

Scene: black sky painted overby invisible hand; world washedin Institute gray. Matches mymood. Walking around in theupside down world is gettingtiring since it requires allnightattention. Sleep is the .first vie-tim of the November Action.

Fear. Walks around hauntingthe buildings, hides in the shado-wer recesses of everyone's mind.Push it back and it penetratesyour block, creeps around theedges to clamp tiny little pincerson your guts. No matter whereyou stood on the issues, thoughtreduced and polarized aroundone thing in the cold-and dampof the Nov Five morning - theimage of the cop and his stickand his gas and his guns and theinsensate rage that might bringthem down upon you. In otherwords, most of the crowd sittingin the Sala was a wee bit wor-ried.

This, now, must be the timeto harden in your faith, to burydoubts and nagging ideologicaldiscrepancies, to face the wrathof the state with good con-science that in us we tnrst andour cause it is just. For revolu-tion, after all, is a serious bus-iness, it is not a tea party or aparlor game; it is blood and painand bodies and no one will standthat unless he is firmed in hisbelief.

Anyway, when it is over, andthe sacrifice is made, you will bemore secure in your belief.Washed in blood maybe your

By Harvey BakerMr. Nixon's speech Monday

night, like so many of his pre-vious ones, addresses itself toemotion rather than logic.

Again he appeals to "TheSilent Majority", asking them todrown out the voices of the poormisdirected minority and sup-port him all the way down theline, when clearly this support isnot merited.

This is simply another mani-festation of Mr. Nixon's cry of"Trust me!" Well, it's not goodenough. The electorate trustedhim to end the war when hetook office in January, believinghe had "a secret plan to end thewar," which he could not revealfor fear of endangering itssuccess. Clearly, there is no suchplan.

What Nixon really wants is tohave everybody just stop criti-cizing him, and leave politicalmatters and policy questions tohis Administration alone. Amer-ica should return to being whathe calIs "a do-it-yourself-nation," as long as he is the onlyone to "do it.'"The fact is thatthe American people have aright, indeed an obligation, tocriticize the President, and notto let him pull off emotion-filled, smiling, "down to earth"hoaxes like that of Mondaynight.

The only logical way Nixoncan convince the people of theworld that he is sincere in his"squest for peace" is to declarean American cease-fire. If Amer-ican troops were ordered not tofire unless fired upon, then theburden of prolonging the warwould clearly rest upon theshoulders of Hanoi. If Nixoninsists upon playing God, how-ever, and on making value judge-ments as to the relative sincerityof Hanoi's intentions, he will get

only war, and more war, andmore. and more.

The President said last nightthat he has a plan worked outwith the_ South Vietnamese forthe withdrawal of all American,ground combat forces. What isthis plan, and when can weanticipate -.the return of ourtroops? Nixon's answer: "I havenot and do not intend to an-nounce the timetable for ourprogram." Again: "Trust me."Papa Nixon knows best. Well,dammit, he doesn't. Just becausehe is ".privy" to some informa-tion that most Americans arenot, he does not have the rightto dictate the future of themillions of Americans withwhom he has no contact orcommunication. Included in thiscategory are almost all Amer-icane sf A.a.f, ooo

In short, Nixon should letmore Americans into the de-cision making process by lis-tening for once to that segmentof the people whose advice hasnever bee.. tried. the Peace-niks", the "impudent snobs",and the "effete corps of intellec-tuals". For his reasoning as ofthe moment is so logically un-sound, so unlikely to producepeace, and so calculated only toacheive a little mass support,that all he can possibly acheive ismore war, and more, and more,and more....

COMCOM defendedTo the Editor:

The obviously isncere andwell-intentioned letter . fromMichael Hurst about the Centerfor International Studies refersto the COMCOM project in away that makes it clear he isuninformed about it.Certainlyhedid not come to me for informa-tion. He first talks about the"'good' (objective scientificanalysis of problem areas in theworld arena" aspect of it and the"'bad' (partisan political objec-tivism)" aspect of the Project. Iam not fully able to decipher themeaning of those obscure phra-ses, however, if they imply thatthe Project has a partisan politi-cal position then they are flatlywrong.

The COMCOM Project isabout the communication sys-tems of the communist coun-tries. Dramatic changes haveoccurred as a result of thegrowth of radio, television, pub-lications, and other mass mediathere. Like any scientific study,this one seeks the facts; Thesefacts interest many people, in-cluding both the U.S. govern-ment and also the mass mediapersonnel and governments in

communist countries. I have lec-tured in Eastern Europe aboutsome of the results. I have re-ceived visitors from communistgovernments and mass mediaorganizations interested in ourresearch. There have been com-munist publications using andtaking note of our results. Thesame is also true for anti-com-munist organizations engaged incommunication to the commun-ist countries, such as RadioLiberty and USIA. The scientificresults of the research are avail-able for all parties to use.

If Mr. Hurst had bothered tointerview me before jumping toconclusions he might havelearned about some of the fasci-nating and important changesgoing on in some of the com-munist countries as a result ofthe growth of mass media. Thereare well over 20,000,000 tele-vision sets in the Soviet Uniontoday. Half the population hasaccess to world news via short-wave. In the Stalinist era it wasless than 2%. There is, therefore,no Iron Curtain left. So theSoviet media themselves mustnow take account of the factthat their audience knows aboutall major world events instead of

trying to pretend that they hadnot happened.

If Mr. Hurst had bothered totalk to me he would also havelearned that the COMCOM Pro-ject is already finished. Hewould also have learned that Iundertook the project becauseof my own academic interests.

My personal interest in thesubject matter of internationalcommunuications is its inipor-tanct in resolving internationalcrises and preventing war. Thehot line which served so usefullyto prevent war in the Cuban Mis-sie Crisis was an invention ofsocial scientists. In some futurecrisis having an understanding ofwhat infornmation is entering thethinking of each side may beequally important in preventingwar.

Perhaps Mr. Hurst regards it aspartisan to'be interested in factsabout communication. Themnedia people in the communistcountries don't; they are just asinterested as am I. In any case, itis a legitimate initerest. It is notacceptable in an academic corn-munity to have a censorshipsystem of the kind that Mr.Hurst proposes to decide

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(Continued fronm page 4)whether these are facts that I oranyone else may be interestedin.

The non-facts that are cur-rently being thrown aroundwithout inquiring or checking're-garding, for example, theCOMCOM Project or CambridgeProject, get picked up and re-peated third hand until peoplebegin to believe them. I wouldurge-anyone who is interested inthe facts about what I am doingto get in touch with me. I wouldbe glad to make all results of theCOMCOM studies available.

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was refused entrance to thePlacement Office because I waswearing a button-"No MIRV."I arrived there to research gradu-ate school catalogs as the SDSdemonstration against GE re-cruiters was ending. At the doorI was told the office was closedto all except those who had in-terviews. After stating my busi-ness and giving assurance that Iwas not one of the demonstra-tors, I was told by the person incharge, a Placement Office admi-

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Kenneth Sills '70Briefly said...

To the Editor:As a former Smithie, I feel

compelled to express my dismaytowards footnote. No. 85 in theTuesday, November 4 issue ofThe Tech . Though I'm sure thecomment was made primarily injest, I nevertheless feel that it isno more -justified to lump allSmithies together as being likeJulie Nixon than it would be tosay that all Techmen are just likeMike Albert.

Nancy Liebman, '71

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claimed that "we will wait forthe press to stop disrupting themeeting" and addressing himselfto the press, he said, "I amafraid gentlemen if you crossstate lines, you will be introuble."

Kabat then explained that af-ter the meeting, SACC and NACwould march to MIT. He ex-plained that SACC would nottake part in NAC's planned ob-structive sit-in in the halls of theadministration building. Instead,they would break up into small-er groups and "constructivelyand cerebrally talk" to people.When he announced that theywould go and talk to the work-ers, someone in the audience

shouted "They won't believeyour lies."

A highlight Qf the meetingwas a show of slides by OwenFranken depicting the events ofthe preceeding day at the I-Labs.Slides repeatedly showed the po-lice standing in formation,charging the demonstrators andcarrying rifles and tear gas guns.A soundtrack accompanying theslides included the Beatles' song,."Piggies."

During the middle of the ral-ly, several members of the Wo-men's Liberation Movement ledthe audience in singing move-ment songs. They sang a parodyof "Come oh ye Faithful" andto the tune of Mickey Mouse,they sang the MIT Ph.D. MO-NEY song.

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NAC adopted a stand of nottalking to "pig press".

ArgumentsNumerous arguments be-

tween professors and chantingdemonstrators broke out, butthere was no violence. One pro-fessor attempted to argue thatviolence was senseless; he wascalled a "pig liberal" and bom-barded with revolutionary slo-gans including Mao's "powergrows from the barrel of a gun"from a group of armed-linkeddemonstrators.

NAC marshals announcedthey felt little probability of abust as many began to speculateon it. They noted that bystand-ers would be in the way, andthat MIT would not want themhurt. Just in case, however, theyissued instructions for everyoneto disperse by walking awayfrom the direction cops wouldcome and spreading out throughthe Institute, leaving by variousexits.

A xeroxed statement fromPaul Gray's noon press con-ference was circulated and readby George Katsiaficas, stating

from you or from the White House.Now, more than ever, we need your help to continue working for peace.

The President gave us nothing but the same tired words.We haven't heard from you yet.

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that in the event of an obstruc-tive sit-in the Institute wouldconsider disciplinary actionagainst MIT students and tres-pass charges against outsiders.

Wiesner statementA growing mood of gaity was

shattered at 3:30 pm when Wies-ner assisted by Karen Wattel '70attempted to read another state-ment over a bullhorn. The of-ficial text: "I ask you' to permitpassage. This is a request."

He attempted to read it againfrom two other points in thecorridor. Each time he touchedoff a chorus of shouts and defi-ant chants such as "Fuck you,Big Brother."

About 25 minutes later, Wad-leigh told the head of the NACmarshals that people present

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were now subject to the dis-ciplinary action and chargesmentioned in the Gray state-ment. As this took place, NACannounced they were waiting forSACC to return from their can-vassing for a daylight march pastthe I-Labs. The march did nottake place.

At 4:30 pm NAC leaders de-cided it was time to go. Theyasked the crowd to rise andmove to the lobby of Building 7,where films were still beingshown by NEWSREEL, the radi-cal film group, members of theNAC. The crowd went there,some to return to the StudentCenter, others to remain andwatch the films, and-talk poli-tics.

ges expirein student center roomns

By Ted LichtensteinNAC was displaced from the

Sala de Puerto Rico last nightdue to rehearsals of the MITConcert Band and Orchestra af-ter the reservation of the roomhad run out at noon.

Before yesterday the StudentCenter rooms were reserved for aYAF debate in the Sala, theband and orchestra rehearsals inthe Lobdell Dining Room, and a.small Urban Studies program inthe Mezzanine Lounge.

The YAF debate was cancel-led, however, and SCC decidedto move the band and orchestrainto the Sala to save the fivemanhours required to set upLobdell. This decision was madein view of the apparent smallNAC support.

As of yesterday morning itappeared that the number ofNAC followers had dropped toabout sixty. After the noon ral-

ly, the number of demonstratorshad grown considerably, andSCC decided to put NAC in theMezzanine Lounge. This solu-tion, they felt, would be satisfac-tory for the NAC 7 pm meeting.

However SCC was caught un-prepared when NAC wanted tocome to the Student Center at4:45 pm in large numbers. Bythis time the band rehearsal wasset up in the Sala and the Mez-zanine Lounge had not beenreadied for NAC.

Hasty efforts were made toprepare Lobdell. It turned outthat the Mezzanine Lounge wasnot needed and was returned tothe Urban Studies program.

The original decision to grantStudent Center facilities to NACwas based on the fact- that notknowing what action NACwould take the committee hadno right to deny their request.

Johnson praises policefor activities at l-lab

President Howard Johnson,who has been incommunicadomost of the time this week, paida visit Tlfursday morning to theCambridge Tactical Police forcewhcih "engaged in [the Wednes-day J action in front of theInstrumentation Laboratory,"according to a release from theOffice of Public Relations.

Accompanied by CambridgeCity Manager James L. Sullivan,Johnson addressed the TPF at itstemporary quarters in the Har-rington School gymnasium inEast Cambridge. The school hasbeen used as sleeping quartersand mustering" point since theNovember Action crisis began.

Johnson told the police:"I came here today to tell

you how deeply grateful MIT isfor the patience, restraint, andprofessional discipline shown byall of you yesterday morning.When tensions are high, it takescourage to be calm. I am surethe citizens of Cambridge areproud of you. I know we are.

Johnson also thanked the lea-ders of government of the city-of Cambridge, singling out Man-ager Sullivan for special thanks.

He personally thanked Chiefof Police James F. Reagan andother leaders of the police forceinvolved in the I-Lab action.

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loudest TechBy Pete Close

He doesn't wear skirts, andhe's not what you call pretty.But the unequivocal lung powerthat faithfully encourages MIT'sathletes, no matter what thesport, is Tech's Number C)necheerleader, Ben Wilson. Benneeds no introduction to Techsportsreaders. The blond string-bean from Richmond, Virginiahas "run" rampage through allof MIT's track distance marks,indoors and outdoors, during hiscollege athletic sport career. 'Un-fortunately for both Ben andMIT cross country, Wilson hasbeen sidelined by a reoccurringfoot injury this season. On'thebright side, Ben is a five-yearstudent and will be eligible forvarsity cross country in 1970.

At MIT, basketball is theschool's biggest drawing spec-tator sport. Excepting crew andwrestling, .few other sports atMIT consistently play beforemany fans. But on a week dayafternoon during the tranquilityof a MIT soccer game, playerand passersby alike are figura-tively shaken out of their skinby a never-to-be-forgotten singu-lar shrill of Ben Wilson.

Even last year when he wasbusily training himself at hisspecialty on the track, Wilsonwould be screaming encourage-ment to Tech's baseball,lacrosse, tennis, and the beforementioned soccer squads.

On a typical MIT wintersports Saturday, Tech's track,swimming, wrestling, basketball,squash, fencing, rifle, pistol,gymnastics, and hockey teamsconceivably could all be engagedin home contests. You'd thinkafter tripling in the 1000, mile,and two-mile, (and winningtoo!!!) that you would be tiredor. something. But not old sportsfan Ben. He's everywhere-yelling at frat brother Walt Priceto pin his opponent, or scream-ing at Steve Chamberlain to passoff. Woe be to the fan thatbelittles a Tech athlete's effortwhilst he be in the audible rangeof Ben Wilson.

Ben carries his enthusiasm forMIT athletes even further. Aspresident of the Varsity Club,MIT's undergraduate lettermen'sorganization, Ben has been lob-bying for more sports involve-ment.

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lished a 2-3-4-5 by the secondmark. McComb and Bernardcollided, and McComb withdrewfrom the race just toinsure thevictory. As he hit the dock,there were cheers from the direc-tion of the flashlights on theriver as the rest of the teampulled the winning punch for thefinal time.

The Staake Trophy, whichalso took place this weekend, isanother team race event, but forsquads of three crews. The Techcrews got off to a slow start atCoast Guard with a loss to Har-vard in the first march. However,as the day wore on, the Engi-neers found the combinationand won the rest of theirmatches while Harvard andCoast Guard battled to stay outof the loss column. At the endof Saturday's 13 races, MIT ledthe series with a 6-1 record toHarvard and Coast Guard's 4-3.UConn trailed with 0-7.

Sunday's forecast was for rainand breezes over 25 knots.Winds of this sort proved to theliking of all but one of l'ech'sskippers, who found himselfswimming at the reach mark ofthe first race of the day. Evenwith this mishap, Tech edgedCoast Guard with Dana Petten-gill in first and Nesbeda third.

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Photo by Gary Ezzell

By Ray KwasnickThe Head of the Charles

Regatta held two weeks ago sawfew successes for MIT's officialteams. However, the perform-ance of Paul Wilson, Tech's froshheavyweight coach in winninghis third straight single scullchampionship, was a bright spot.

Paul has been rowing for over11 years, and he has been coach-ing for three. He was first intro-duced to the sport as a freshmanat Exeter. In his senior yearthere he was on the first teamwhich won the annual race atWorcester for the schoolboychampionship.

From Exeter, Paul went toHarvard where he was captain ofthe frosh heavyweight team, acrew which was undefeatedthrough the regular season andwent on to win their division atHenley during the summer. Butin his sophomore year herealized that at six feet and 170pounds he was three inches and35 pounds below average for theCrimson varsity, so he joined hisdorm's IM team instead. Fortun-ately, Eliot dorm had an excel-lent coach who was well-versedin the radical new techniques ofthe West Germans. Consequent-ly, the team developed well andtraveled to Henley in '64 and '65winning once and losing in thesemifinals the other time.

Paul spent the rest of thesummer of '65 in Switzerlandstudying sculling under Dr. ErnstGanz who coached the thirdplace entrant in the '68 Olym-pics. Paul had taken up scullingfor the dorm in '64, but this washis first real instruction in it.Although he and Ganz had somebasic disagreements over tech-nique and training, Paul measur-ably improved over the summer.

After graduation Paul spent ayear at Cambridge University inEngland. After some differencesof opinion, Paul quit the Blueteam which has an annual rivalrywith Oxford. This outragedquite a few people, but Paul got

his revenge when he bega ncoaching the Trinity Collegeteam. After a year of trainingunder Paul's interpretation ofthe West German method, theteam went from ninth placeamong the colleges to first. TheTrinity team then became thefirst college team in 100 years todefeat the University Blue team.

He then began training hardfor the '68 Olympics, but hejustwasn't ready as he finishedfourth in the trials. He thenteamed up with Bob Arlett forthe doubles, but they came insecond by two seconds.

This year Paul was ready forthe Nationals, but he made themistake of overtraining. Hepeaked a week before the race.He placed third in both thesingles and doubles while notrowing very well.

Paul finds coaching at MITvery rewarding despite the diffi-culties the heavyweights have.They basically suffer from thesame handicap he has-lack ofsize. There just aren't that manybig athletes at MIT, and in crew,size and strength are more im-portant than finesse. Thus lastyear's frosh heavies, who by theend of last spring had nearlyperfect technique, just couldn'twin against teams that maybeweren't quite as good butaveraged 30 pounds heavier.However, this disadvantage iswhat makes the victories thatmuch sweeter.

Paul sees some big improve-ments for his crews this spring.For one thing, he has over 20people to work with this year asopposed to just over 10 lastyear. Furthermore, he actuallyhas a few big guys this year aswell as several enthusiasts whoactually feel a sensual pleasure inthe feel of a shell surging under-neath them with each stroke.Although he isn't predicting anamazing turnaround in resultsthis year, there should beseveral more of those sweet vic-tories for this squad.

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tages of being an Intramural manager at MIT. Despite these,there are enough masochists at MIT so that every intra-mural sport has its scapegoat. For about half of theseventeen IM managerial jobs, one candidate runs unop- 'posed and is consequently elected by white ballot. As for

.,: the other half of the positions, these jobs are unwanted atthe time they are offered and intramural president BobDresser, or one of his associates, seeks out somewhatcompetent people to fill the positions. It usually takes aconsiderable amount of persuasion to con a guy into doing ....something he knows he'll regret. ::::::::

Why then do people volunteer to -become intramural .:mamagers? For some the answer is simple. IM cross-country ::..manager Ben Wilson simply likes "the power of firing thegun". On a more serious vein, most IM managers enjoy the .:"apparent" power of controlling an intramural sport. Since :..:all managers enjoy a dictatorial rein over their sport (with :-.:.an appeal board which rarely rules against an IM manager'sdecision), they find themselves in a position to scheduleteams as they so desire. For example: house A has a fairly ^

::.. strong basketball team and could possibly make theplayoffs except for the fact that house B has a really strongteam and could conceivably defeat team A and reach the

.... playoffs. If the IM basketball manager is from house A, he ...could easily put team A in league Al and put team B in,league B2. Before the abolishment of intramural points and

'.:... teh All-Sports Trophy, this was a common practice and~i!i thus the so-called "jock" houses on campus were overrepre-

sented on the IM council. One of the consequences of the :-':-'Z j removal of IM points then has been the removal of a purely "'""

selfish motice for becoming an intramural manager.*.~i~ii But no one-really expects an IM manager to be able to

single-handedly run an intramural sport such as basketball -:..:.or softball. Accordingly each manager has been allowed toappoint at his discretion assistant managers. In the past,

....... assistant managers were usually freshmen from the house of... the IM manager, and having been an assistant manager, it

-. :.-'became quite easy to move to the position of full manager::'.:.. the following season. Thus, the jock houses were easily able :

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managers of-more than one IM sport. It was not uncommonfor the IM cross-country manager to serve as IM trackmanager, especially since both sports were one day affairs

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.::: effort.The "apparent" power of serving on the IM council and

being an IM manager has declined considerably with theremoval of IM points. Thus the job of manager has lost

:-:. considerable status in the past year. But with the increase in .:.:IM sports on campus, a s6lution must be found if IM sportsare to continue as they have done in the past. The major '."problem the IM council faces is the lack of publicity bothin the council and in the job it does. This is primarily the

'% fault of athletic chairmen of the dormitories and fraterni-ties, who, with rare exception, fail to keep their housesinformed of the opportunities available in intramuralsports. Many freshmen would be interested in serving as an . .'.

:.... assistant IM manager if they became aware of the job :::.*:..i .openings. At the last IM council meeting, for example, not

a single freshman was present, a direct reflection on the ......workof the athletic chairmen.

:..:.:.: Besides finding IM managers competent freshmen to :'::'assist them, the council should concern itself with the

....: possibility of having the athletic department hire people!:,.i~ (even students part-time) to do the "hack work" involvediiji in running a sport. Mailing and addressing letters should notii-] .be the mob of the manager. And if no one wants to work!Ai for the athletic department, then have the department pay'"" the managers, thereby creating a considerable reward in

managering and consequently drawing more competentii:! people into the arena. It seems paradoxical that the : --.... department will pay for the basketball refs and softball -.::....ii. umps for their services, and then turn around and not pay .i....

... the manager who spends considerably more time in the .:,::::-:: sport. It seems apparent that a problem does exist within ..:'..:. the IM council, and if adequate steps are not taken soon,.... the future of IM sports at MIT may be questionable.

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slots, led by Chip Kinball '72 insixth, Bobby Myers '72 inseventh and Craig Lewis '72 ineighth. Pat Sullivan `72 finishedeleventh to displace threeBrandeis and two BU opponents.In the last two miles BobbyMyers made up two places toovertake teammate Craig Lewis.

This victory gives the varsitya respectable 5-5 slate for theseason. However, these figuresalone cannot give an accurate

-account of the team's success offailurs. Three of its losses wereby two-point margins. For muchof the season the squad ranwithout either of its co-captains,Ben Wilson '70 and Larry Petro'70.

BU nips froshThe freshmen did not fare as

well as their varsity counter-parts. In a dual meet, the frosh

harriers were nipped by BostonUniversity, 26-29. John Kauf-mhn took individual honors overBU's Massaquori. Their respec-tive times were 16:39 and17:02. Kaufman started out be-hind the leaders as is his style.He did' not challenge Massaquoriuntil the race was half over.F~rom ' then on it was Kaufman'srace. Greg Myers finished thirdat 17:19. In 'the final half mileTerry Blumer passed two BUrunners, but he was overtakenby one in' the home stretch.Blumer was sixth. Jim Foranbroke into the scoring by finish-ing ninth, fourth for the Engi-neers. Bill DeCampli roundedout the tally in tenth place.

On Monday both squads willbe competing against a strongfield entered in the New EnglandCross Country Championships.

By Buzz MoylanLast Tuesday on the rain-

drenched tbrf of Franklin Park,MIT took on the harriers fromBrandeis and BU in the lasttriangular meet of the season.Despite the extremely slowcourse, the Engineers emergedvictorious; the final score: MIT27, Brandeis 47, BU 51.

Goldhor secondIn the varsity competition, a

quick freshman from Brandeisnamed Gary Lyons "stole" thevictory. He clocked 26:23. RichGoldhor '72 placed second in27:04. His time reflects the pre-vailing course conditions. EricDarling '70, running close toGoldhor throughout the race,was third at 27:15. BU andBrandeis copped the next twopositions. A string of Techmenoccupied the following three

The Tech kickers completelydominated the first five minutesof play, but for all the pressurethey couldn't put the ball intothe yawning goal mouth. Tuftsfinally recovered from its initialstupor and put two goals on theboard in the first period.

One of the goals typified thefrustration the Engineers havefelt all season. Goalie TomAiden '72 made a spectacular

save on a point blank shot.However, as he attempted tohurl the ball out of danger, itslipped out of his grasp androlled in for a Tufts' score.

Play was fairly-even in thesecond and third periods, butTufts scored a goal in each toincrease the margin to 4-0.Meanwhile Tech was still missingopportunities to jump back intothe contest.

The tide turned in the lastiquarter. With about five minutesgone, Gerry Maskiewicz '71imanoeuvred the ball down theright sideline before setting DavePeterson '71 up in front of thegoal with a good crossing pass.As Peterson shot, one of theTufts defenders leveled.him, andTech was awarded a penaltyshot., Steve Young '70 lined aone-hopper past the divingJumbo goalie to make the score4-1.

Six minutes and a few missedchances- later, Maskiewicz wasgiven a comer kick. He turned itinto a beautiful six feet highshot which Young promptlyheaded in to draw the Engineersto within two.

Sensing a chance for amiraculous comeback, theTechmen didn't let up. In thelast ten minutes of the game, theball left the Tufts end of thefield only twice. One time TonyReish '72 just missed with a shot'that bounced off the right post.Ken Stone '72 had three or fourchances to head in goodcenteing passes, but he couldn'tconvert.

The win gave Tufts a 3-1mark in the GBL while droppingMIT's mark to 2-2. Therefore,Tufts ties Boston University forthe championship while theEngineers finish third.

By Ray KwasnickThe varsity soccer team

sloshed through three periods ofsoccer Wednesday beforerallying and just falling short ofvictory and a share of theGreater Boston Leaguechampionship. Tufts withstoodthe final Tech surge to claim the4-2 triumph. The loss droppedthe Engineers' overall record to3-8.

Sophomore Ken Stone boots ball past charging enemy detensennanand Tech fullback Val Livada '70. The Engineers dropped GBL titlecontest to Tufts on Wednesday by a 4-2 count. Photo by Craig Davis

The sun had gone down, butthe Fowle Trophy finals werenot yet complete. So, althoughunable to see a thing, four boatseach from Coast Guard and Techwent back out on the river to astarting line marked by a boatwith flashlights at each end. Lessthan half an hour later, TomBergen, Bob Berliner '70, andco-captain Steve Miligan finished1-2-3 and wiped out the Cadetsto win the New England TeamRacing Championship.

Eight crews had gathered onthe Charles Saturday morning tobegin a round-robin quarter finalseries. When the crews moved tothe semi-finals round Sundaymorining, Harvard led with a 7-0record, having been the onlyteam to beat MIT (6-1). Thosetwo were the only teams to beatURI (5-2), while Coast Guard(4-3) had lost to all of the above.Harvard and MIT had beenfavored heavilI by all participat-ing oracles.

Co-captains Dave McComband Miligan led the chargeagainst URI and brought theTech team home to victory inthe first twocpntests. With onlyone more victory necessary togain the finals, the Tech squadtook a short breather as

McComb fouled in a do-or-dieeffort at the finish. But the lastrace was all MIT, and McComband Berliner teamed up to de-molish the lead URI boat in a1-2 finish. It was characteristicof the Tech supremacy in thefirst half of the meet.

In the other half of the meet,however, Harvard fouled out ofthree races to give Coast Guard,the dark horse of the regatta, itsticket to the final match. Somuch time had been consumedthat it was nearly 4 pm beforethe Tech and Coast Guard crewssquared off against each other.Tom Bernard, the CG captainshowed the way around the en-tire course, although McCombfinally broke free just before thefinish.

McComb and Bernard thentook each other on with theresults being reversed. Berlinerhelped round off the. winning1-2 combination for MIT onceagain. In the third race, as thesun set, Tech managed to losespots 2-3-4 and the race to CG.- In race four, the old 1-2

punch was back, as the coursegrew totally black. So the scenewas set for the climactic Flash-light Race, in which Tech estab-

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