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------------..., T~E TEC~ Today CAlifORNiA ~ropDay Is Volume LXXVIII Number 20 Friday, March 4, 1977 Eight Pages Outsiders and IHC Approves Saga Food The Honor Code: Is Ignorance Contract For Another Year Really Bliss? by Kevin Drum The IHC voted to approve Saga Food Service's bid for another by Kevin Drum year of hockey pucks at their meeting on Wednesd y. The Saga bid and Henry Fuhrmann amounted to an increase of about 25c a day. However, there were no The Board of Control has, competing bids. for several years, maintained that Off-Campus Housing the honor code does not apply At the same time, proposals to off-campus companies that for off-campus housing were Better Tech·JPL operate at Caltech. This ruling discussed and tentative plans applies to operations such as were formed. The basic proposal Relations Sought Saga Food Service, the Book as outlined two weeks ago, is to by Brian Hill store, the telephone company, have off-campus alleys that One of the many legacies of off-campus construction compa would function as much as the Harold Brown era is a report nies, and any other private possible like the regular on entitled "A Study of Relations enterprise operating within the campus alleys. The discussions between the Jet Propulsion Lab Caltech community. However, Wednesday were aimed primarily oratory and the Campus of the the application of the honor at determining·· exactly which California Institute of Technolo code to such companies con "Easter Goat" by Jack Zajac, one of the sculptures on exhibit at the BaxterGaliery buildings would be used for these gy." Behind that long-winded stitutes a gray area in most title is an earnest desire to peopl's minds, as evidenced by Ba~vtpr Art Gallery Reanens ~f~~~~:dU~Oal~r~~ ~~;~~Je~~~~~ improve CaItech-JPL relations. the responses to our honor code :1\ I II, 't'l Chester apartments exclUSIvely One of the most interesting poll last month. There was T. 1,J Au n V u·., upperclassman. Also, four frame reccomendations concerns stu moderate disagreement in the dent employment at JPL. answers to the questions con ~~~~~~IY r;:~;~se~~a~l/~:e~se~~ ,Otiay ,ler une 1 ear nlaLUS In the past, campus employees cerning off-campus companies. In by Herny Fuhrmann Caltech students (led by Peter About eight to ten people will have represented less than 10% fact, the closest split was in After a long hiatus, the Baxter Lew and Madeline Shea) and occupy each frame house. Lloyd of the Laboratory's work force. response to a question about Art Gallery has reopened. A local faculty was particularly encour· House agreed to take one of the This is due to a variety of food service. group, the Pasadena Art Alliance, aging, as over $3000 was raised off-campus alleys while the rest inhibitory forces such as the Despite the ruling of the BOC, in conjunction with Caltech, will in support of Baxter. Such of the houses were noncommital. heavy class load of most CaItech it must be remembered that the premiere its first exhibit, "Art enthusiastic response was instru- New IHC students, the distance between spirit of the honor code-the Alliance Collects," tonight from mental in convincing the Art The new IHC is now fully spirit of honesty and fairness--is JPL and Tech, and other minor 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. According to Alliance to come to Caltech. formed following the Ricketts difficulties. The Ad HOc Study supposed to charactarize all guest curator Barbara Berman, The Art Alliance House elections last Thursday. Group on JPL/Campus Inter actions of a member of this the exhibit wili feature works of The Alliance is a non-profit The new IRC has two sophomore actoions believes that a higher community. So, in this third several "mainstream artists" of corporation whose membership presidents, Page's Werner Pyka student employee figure will installment of our honor code the last fifteen to twenty years, of 175 women endeavors to and Blacker's Jack Kohn. The benefit both the Laboratory and series, we will examine the along with works of earlier support the arts in southern rest of the presidents are juniors. the Institute. They, therfore, relationship, if it exists, between 20th-century masters. California. Founded in 1955, the They are: Bruce Baker of suggest a five year work-study the honor code and Saga Dood Baxter Art GaUery-1976 Alliance was originally associated Fleming, Eric Eichorn of Dab- program which would culminate Service (a private enterprise) and Last fall the members of the with the Pasadena Art Museumm ney, Mike Aziz of Ruddock, in a B.S. degree in five years or Ph ysical Plant (a semi Alliance voted to put its efforts which later became the Pasadena Steve Schafer of Lloyd, and Ray and M.S. in two. autonomous brancl} of CaItech). behind the dormant Baxter Art Museum of Modern Art. During Morris of Ricketts. The IHC Bureacratic Coma Saga Food Service Gallery here at Caltech. Without this twenty-year association, the Chairman is Eric Kaler, from The idea is currently under financial support, Baxter would Continued on Page Three Ruddock. Continued on Page Five Jerry Curtis, the Saga repre have ceased to function. The sentative in charge of food Alliance, fearing that Pasadena service here, says that his com would lose a "vital contribution Week In Review -------, pany and its employees do to the arts," thus acted to .----------The follow a code of ethics, but they prevent the gallery's decline. Governor Jerry Brown met by Kevin Drum Timothy Redfern a former FBI are here, as outsiders, to make a The problems with Baxter with a group of farmers, the international publicity they informant, said that he broke profit. However, he does not began last spring, when an legislators, and water experts to generate. into the house of a Colorado seem to be aware that an honor exhausted and understandably discuss plans for completing the congresswoman last year under code exists here and refers to it disappointed David Smith re state Water Project. Brown is President Carter asked orders from the FBI. The FBI only vaguely, as if it were simply signed as director of the gallery. trying to reach a consensus plan Congress to create a new denied the charge. an idealized code of behaviour Smith faced the giant task of within 60 days on the $2-4 department of Energy to bring which the Techis exploring. "Of billion plan which would meet "immediate order" to the new preseting six good exhibits each Uganda's Idi Amin called a course we would not take California's water needs through chaotic energy policy in the year while working with very few meeting of all Americans living advantage of anyone here," said· the year 2000. U.S. The plan, which would resources-his part-time staff was in Uganda, casting doubts on Curtis, after being told the consolidate the Federal Energy small, money was scarce (Smith the fate of the 240 Americans. wording of the honor code, but The House voted 295 to 85 Administration and the Energy himself worked without pay), Then, two days later, Amin he obviously does not know and much of the Caltech commu to approve a public works bill Researh and Development announced that Americans in exactly what this honor code that will create, according to its Agency, was received well by nity, especially the students, Uganda were free to go any thing is all about. proponents, 600,000 jobs. It Congress, which showed an seemed at that time to be where they wished, inside or On the other hand, do was the first specific piece of apparent willingness to carry disinteresed. The then-imminent outside the country. Amin's Techers take advantage of Saga? demise of the gallery sparked Carter's $31 billion economic out the plan. switch came after several One definite manifestation of the many crys of outgage from plan to pass through the House. Americans in Uganda said that Continued on Page Three around campus. The reaction. of King Hussein of Jordan they saw nothing ominous in The State Public Utilities denied charges that he received Amin's call for the meeting. Commission lifted its ban on CIA money for his own person According to Bob Astles, using natural gas to heat al benefit, saying that the Amin's top civilian advisor, swimming pools in order to checks were made out to him their only complaint with the maintain credibility, according because that is customary in Americans is that there are not to a PUC spokesman. The PUC dealing with Arab States. enough of them, Astles said Science fiction convention cancelled Page 7 said that the order itself was Hussein's comments came in that they were thinking of ways largely symbolic since it was response to a story in The to recruit American technicians A study of existential philosophy Page 6 WashingtOl' Post which said lUlenforceable in practice, and and teachers. The entire affair that the CIA had secretly paid that it was repealed partly was just one more of Amin's Rock reviews the Steve Pope Band and Cooper and Hussein millions of dollars until because they will have to ask un predictable incidents which Dodge Page 4 President Carter recently cut Californians to make other he apparently causes just for sacrifices in the near future. off the payments. the publicity. Page Two THE CALIFORNIA TECH Friday, March 4, 1977 I~ letters to the Tech Parr!~I!~~oste! Dr. LaBelle three incumbents (who are run time and interest limited. Perhaps I ning again).