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MIT Lego chair

Description: MIT professor Seymour Papert is appointed to Lego chair in learning. He hails computer as lively teaching tool in elementary grades. Children automate Legos structure with Logo programming.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1989

MIT and homeless people

Description: Homeless people evicted from tent city on MIT property want to be beneficiaries of development on that site in form of affordable housing units (more than are planned). “No trespassing” sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/23/1987

MIT astronomy lab

Description: MIT astronomy lab environs. Racks of big reels of computer data. LED display on Heathkit unit. Students at keyboards with CRT monitors. Plotter printer. Equations on chalkboard. Shelves of round disk packs with clear plastic covers; student removes one from drive. Oscilloscope. Computer commands being typed out on printer. Handwritten charts on wall. Observations notebooks titled “Worldwide X-ray burst watch.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1978

MIT professor James Williams

Description: Carmen Fields reports that Dr. James Williams, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will fast each Wednesday in April outside of the office of the president of MIT. Williams is protesting the lack of diversity among the faculty at MIT. There are fourteen African Americans in a faculty of 900 professors. Interview with Williams, who talks about the role of professors as role models and the need for a diverse faculty. He says that he is trying to encourage minority students to fight for change. Interview with MIT spokesperson Ken Campbell, who talks about the university administration's efforts to hire more minority faculty. This edition of the Ten O'Clock News also included the following item: Meg Vaillancourt reports on the annual Black/Jewish Seder supper
0:59:01: Visual: Footage of Dr. James Williams (professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) being interviewed. Williams says that his mother inspired his current protest actions. Williams talks about his mother as a sensitive and caring person. Carmen Fields reports that Williams will fast and work outside of the office of the president of MIT. V: Shots of the door of the president's office; of Williams working at a table near the door. Footage of Williams being interviewed. Williams says that minority students must act; that minority students must not be discouraged by institutional intransigence. Williams says that minority students must act decisively to effect change. Shot of Williams working at the table outside of the president's office. Fields reports that Williams is an MIT graduate; that Williams is dissatisfied with the lack of African American faculty at the school. Fields notes that there are fourteen African American faculty members in a faculty of 900 professors. V: Shot of a building on the MIT campus. Shot of Williams speaking to a group of students of color. Fields reports that Williams believes that African American students and all students need African American role models. V: Footage of Williams being interviewed. Williams says that he is trying to be a role model for minority students through his protest. Williams says that professors are role models even if they do not want to be. Williams says that professor can choose what kinds of role models to be. Fields reports that MIT believes that Williams has reason to protest. V: Footage of Ken Campbell (MIT spokesperson) being interviewed. Campbell says that the university agrees with Williams; that there are too few minority faculty members. Campbell says that two more African American faculty members have been hired since Dr. Charles Vest (president, MIT) became president of the university. Campbell says that the school needs to make more progress. Fields reports that Williams believes that protest is still necessary. V: Footage of Williams being interviewed. Williams says that people must still act in the face of slow-moving institutions. Williams says that people must not give up in defeat.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/03/1991

MacArthur Grants

Description: Callie Crossley reports on three local recipients of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Crossley notes that mathematician David Mumford, community organizer Muriel Snowden, and MIT professor Eric Lander are three of the thirty-two national winners of the Fellowships. Interview with Mumford about his work in mathematics. Crossley reviews Snowden's community activism. Interview with Snowden about her community work and her future plans. Crossley's interview includes photos of Snowden and footage of Snowden with colleagues. Interview with Lander about his work. mapping the generic patterns of certain hereditary diseases. Crossley's report includes footage of Lander and MIT graduate students in his laboratory.
1:00:07: Visual: Footage of David Mumford (mathematician) solving a problem on a blackboard in a classroom. Callie Crossley reports that Mumford uses mathematics and computers to explain vision. V: Footage of Mumford being interviewed by Crossley in his office. Mumford talks about the complex calculations which underly vision. Mumford says that computers can be used to advance scientific understanding of the role of these calculations. Shot of a print of an abstract design, held of Mumford's lap; of Mumford speaking to Crossley. Crossley reports that Mumford is one of 32 national and 3 local winners of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; that recipients s are chosen by an anonymous committee. V: Shot of another print of an abstract design held by Mumford. Footage of Mumford saying that he received the news of the Fellowship on his birthday. Footage of Mumford sitting in front of a computer. He talks about the abstract design which is taking shape on the screen. Shot of the design on screen. Crossley reports that MacArthur Fellows receive a monetary grant over a five-year period; that Mumford won $305,000. V: Footage of Mumford saying that the money from the Fellowship will allow him the flexibility to explore new areas in his work. Footage of Muriel Snowden (community organizer) talking about her work with young people. Snowden sits at a table with a small group. Crossley reports that Snowden has been a community organizer in Boston for 35 years. V: Footage of Snowden saying that she does not like to think of herself as retired; that the money from the MacArthur award will give her a "new beginning." Shots of black and white photos of Muriel and Otto Snowden; of Muriel Snowden with city officials; of Snowden with John F. Kennedy (former US President). Crossley reports that Muriel Snowden founded Freedom House in Roxbury with her husband Otto in 1949; that Snowden has advocated city programs to eradicate racial bias; that Snowden has pushed for greater educational opportunities for minority youth. V: Footage of Snowden saying that her husband and colleagues share much of the credit for her work; that she wants those people to share in the honor of being awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. Shots of Snowden sitting at a table with a small group of people. Crossley reports that Snowden will use her $375,000 award to travel and to write a book about desegregation in Boston. Crossley reports that there was an air of subdued excitement at the Whitehead Institute at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); that Eric Lander (MIT) is the fourth Whitehead Institute employee to win a MacArthur Fellowship. Crossley notes that Lander and his team of MIT graduate students have created a computer program to map the genetic patterns of certain hereditary diseases. V: Shot of the Whitehead Institute; of Eric Lander in his laboratory; of two MIT graduate students who work with Lander. Footage of Lander working in the laboratory. Lander takes fluid from a bottle with a pipette. Crossley notes that Lander is a mathematician and an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School. V: Footage of Lander being interviewed by Crossley. Lander talks about studying families with genetic diseases to track down the causes of these diseases. Lander says that he has strayed from the study of mathematics in recent years. Lander talks about trying to track down and analyze data about genetic diseases. Crossley notes that Lander will put his award of $205,000 in the bank for future use. V: Shot of Lander talking to a graduate student. Crossley notes that MacArthur Fellowships have been called "genius awards." V: Footage of Lander saying that the awards should not be called "genius awards."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/16/1987

Mass. Avenue bridge

Description: Driving across Mass. Avenue (aka Harvard) bridge toward Cambridge. One lane barricaded. Joggers on sidewalk. Close-ups of structural members. Flashing traffic arrow. ‘No trucks’ road sign. Cars on Memorial Drive. Sailboats on Charles River.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/17/1983

McGovern at Harvard Law School

Description: Seven Harvard Law School professors endorse George McGovern for president. Richard Parker introduces McGovern who speaks to small audience about his candidacy and the invasion of Grenada. Duncan Kennedy, David Kennedy, Elizabeth Bartholet, Daniel Tarullo, Lewis Sargentich, Gerald Frug.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/06/1983

Meir Kahane

Description: Rabbi Meir Kahane of Israeli Knesset speaks at BU and Harvard amid protest. Zionism. Exterior of BU Hillel House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1986

Middlesex Courthouse

Description: Middlesex County Courthouse in East Cambridge. Exterior of the high-rise building with jail on top six floors. Plywood Ranch in Lechmere Square in foreground.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/01/1977

Murals in Cambridge

Description: Saginaw Avenue on Cambridge Somerville line near Elm Street behind Porter Square shopping center. Mural on back of Star Market on Davenport Street. Mural on brick side of Inman Square fire station. Entrance to The Proposition improvisation theater with silhouettes mural. Mural of horse-drawn wagon. Rowboat mural in Central Square. Colorful totem-like painted bricks. Cartoonish musicians painted on brick wall. Large stylized mural of Victorian house near Orson Welles Cinema. Interview with woman at Cambridge Arts Council about placement of public murals and environmental art installations; how they match artists' proposals with community interests.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1979