Pranksters' Fate Rests with MIT

Harvard will not press criminal charges against the eight Tech students who plotted to blow the letters "M-I-T" out of the Stadium turf during the Yale game. As a result, the fate of the culprits rests solely in the hands of an MIT faculty committee that will probably announce its decision today.

W. Henry Johnston, HAA publicity chief, said last night that "we will act as we expect MIT would act if the pranksters had been Harvard students. MIT has the privilege of doing as it wishes."