Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Seniors Girr TO CoMPLETE Lossy 10 MEMmoRrIAL. The | Class of 1982 will use its Senior gift to add the names of those members of the MIT community who died in the Korean and Vietnam Wars to the War Memo- rial in Lobby 10. According to Charlie Frankel, Class President, the completion of the War Memo- rial is not a glorification of war, rather, “It should serve as a reminder to everyone that war is a real thing where people lose their lives.” CONGRESS CONTINUES TO DEBATE STUDENT AID Cuts. The House Appropriations Committee votes to provide $300 million more to the Guaranteed Student Loan Program than what President Reagan has sought. In addition, work study funds are ex- pected to decline by 24%. | April 10, 1982 — SAE sponsors the SAELOR Party in DuPont gym featuring the Stompers. About 1500 attended the party, the proceeds of which go to muscular dystrophy. April 12, 1982 — Phyllis Schlafly, Chairman of STOP ERA, and Karen DeCrow, debate the Equal Rights Amendment before a packed audience in Kresge Auditorium. Schlafly asserted that ERA lacks popular support, citing state referenda in which ERA has been defeated. DeCrow countered that polls show that the vast majority of voters sup- port ERA even if their legislators do not. Outside, an organization calling itself “Ladies Against Wom- en held a demonstration. April 13, 1982 — MIT PLans HarvarD TAKEOVER. An article appears in the UA News seeking “a Pro- vincial Governor to run Harvard correctly.” Two MIT students win Truman Scholarships. Mark Templer 84 and James T. Taylor 84 won these $5000 annual awards for people with a demonstrated interest in public service. 27

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Cambridge Voters Override Proposition 24%. A proposal from the Association of Student Activities Executive Committee to tax student groups charg- ing admission for movies was attacked at an open | forum. The proposed ASA motion was criticized by members of the Lecture Series Committee and other student activities who chided the proposal as neither researched nor thought out. At its next meeting, the ASA Executive Committee voted unanimously to reject the proposal. April 14, 1982 — Chuck Jones spoke to a crowd of 800 at Kresge Auditorium. He presented 13 car- toons dating from 1942 to 1961 and called the audi- ence the “most appreciative’ that he had ever spoken to. April 15, 1982 — While women will be allowed to live in New House II (Ballard) and on additional floors in Next House, MacGregor House will not go coed next year. April 16-18, 1982 — To CELEBRATE A CENTURY OF FRATERNITIES AT MIT, Sigma Chi and the Inter- fraternity Conference sponsor a dinner at Sigma Chi for house members and alumni on Friday, a centennial banquet and ball on Saturday, and an open charter meeting and birthday celebration on Sunday. The IFC Centennial Ball, which was open ul a to the entire community, was held at the Grand Ball Room of the Sheraton Hotel. About 500 people, including alumni, attended the ball. April 20, 1982 — PauLa VAN LarE 84 CREATES AN ATTACK SQUADRON TO TAKE Harvarb. The squadron attacks and claims Harvard. From the Harvard Crimson the next day: MIT Junior Kenneth H. Segel, president of the MIT Undergraduate Association, said yester- day giving Harvard colony status will be no problem, explaining that “basically everything can be reduced to an engineering problem.” He added, “Well probably let you move up to province status if youre good. ” Harvard Dean of Students Archie C. Epps yes- terday expressed surprise at the MIT takeover, saying I didn't realize that they learned any- thing about American government at MIT.” Harvard's current Student Assembly Chairman Natasha Pearl 83, when informed that her powers had been unsurped, dismissed MIT's gesture of munificence, saying her own un- funded government doesn't “want their sympa- thy, just their cash or-personal checks. ” 29