Hosken's complaint--outlined in an 11-point, three-page letter to the HEW--focuses on applications she made in 1970 and 1971 for appointment to the Design School Faculty as a member of the Architecture Department.
HIROSHIMA DAY...
About 225 antiwar protestors were arrested at a non-violent sit-in at Hanscom Field, an Air Force research and development center in Bedford, on the 26th anniversary of Hiroshima Day, August 6. The action, organized by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, was one of two antiwar demonstrations scheduled. The Greater Boston Peace Action coalition staged a candlelight parade following a rally on the Boston Common that night. The lightly-attended rally was conveniently over just as the 12,000 people attending the Rod Stewart Summerthing Concert were pouring onto downtown streets. Still, the candlelight parade had barely 1000 participants at its height.
HOSPITAL CONTROVERSY...
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Med School's "teaching hospital" in Roxbury, agreed in early August to take legal responsibility for the state's only out-of-hospital renal dialysis unit.
The 20-bed unit--the Babcock Artificial Kidney Center, in Brookline--was founded and is still directed by two Brigham staff members, Dr. Constantine L. Hampers and Dr. Edward B. Hager. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health had insisted that it would license out-of-hospital dialysis units only through non-profit-making hospitals. Accordingly, it did not approve the application for licensing which the Babcock Center made last October independently of Brigham. The department did allow the center to stay in operation, however.
Attorneys for Brigham and Babcock drafted a plan whereby the hospital would assume responsibility for the center. The draft, with minor changes, was accepted by the Health Department on August 5.
VIETNAM LAWYERS...
Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, petitioned President Nixon on August 13 to release three Air Force enlisted men imprisoned in Vietnam for refusing to carry weapons. Acting as president of the Lawyers Military Defense Committee--a group formed last year to give free legal representation to servicemen in Vietnam--Nesson asked the President to defer the three men's sentences during appeal of their convictions.
The LMDC charged that the three men are being subjected to "unwarranted harshness" and contended that they will have served out their six-month sentences before appeal proceedings are completed. The men were found guilty of refusing to bear arms when they claimed conscientious objection status last February.
A motion filed later by the LMDC in Federal District Court--seeking an injunction against censorship of literature being brought to the men at the Longbinh stockade--was denied out-of-hand by Judge W. Arthur Garrity.
MORE GRAND JURIES...
Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, was subpoenaed by a Boston Grand Jury in late August as part of a further investigation of the Pentagon papers leak. Popkin testified on August 19, but refused to answer any questions