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I I An . _ _ g I Overflow of Coeds a mm,.------II I MIT- pre McCormick plans. aRne By Chuck Kolb t Selma, President Stratton has opportunities and special respon- Alabama may seem a an- long way from the Massachusetts nounced that construction of a sibility to contribute to the edu- Institute of Technology, \~~~~~X - F; ~ ' ->L A;t second residence for women at cation of women in our modern but some- '~~~~~~r MIT will begin this summer and world." time this Saturday as many as 45 S~fe.,'1''"'. .'_ ^-: 9 members be completed for occupancy As a result of the planned new of the MIT faculty may by be taking part in demonstrations September, 1967. construction, MIT will admit about The new residence will house 50 women next fall, more thanimbetween Selma and Alabama's 110 students, double the number admitted be- capital at Montgomery. and will be financed That number by Mrs. Stanley McCormick who fore the opening of McCormick of the MIT faculty also dedicated Stanley McCormick Hall in 1963. Professor Roland B. members have indicated to the Greeley, Directorof Admissions, Reverend John A. Russell, Metho- Ifall in 1963. dist and Baptist chaplain The proposed residence will lie said that he hoped to m o v e at MIT, east of McCormick Hall, near towards admitting 75 freshman that they are ready to travel to Memorial Drive but facing Am- women over the next few years. Alabama on 24-hours' notice to herst Street and the MlT Chapel. A few temporary measures will support demonstrations for Negro The two residences will be con- be necessary to house women voter registration. The de-onstra- nected. e while the new dormitory is under tions in Selma and Montgomery construction. In McCormick are under the direction of Dr. Approval of the new eight- story Hall, Martin Luther King. residence affirms the position which houses 108 women, and Rev. Russell, who returned Fri- Photo by Stephen Teicher taken by - President Stratton at which is filled almost to capacity Civil rights demonstrators cross Harvard Bridge Sunday on with undergraduates, large corner day from a three-day stay in Sel- the dedication of McCormick, ma, feels that present plans indi- their way to Boston Common rally. Rally was called to protest when he spoke of MIT's "unique double rooms will be converted to discrimination against negro voters in Selma. triples. cate the long resisted march from and to highlight Selma to In addition, some women will be Montgomery will take area racial problems and inequalities. Reorganization housed in one of the nearby place between tomorrow and Sat- of AC urday. It is planned that only a because of state police interven- Rev. Russell used these two brownstone row houses on Me- tion or other reasons, the MIT deaths as the reason why he did approved by Inscomm morial Drive. small number of marchers will participate at a given time and group will shift its plans to meet not solicit undergraduate or grad- Activities Council received ap- The main floor of the new dor- that most .of the demonstrators the new situation. Dr. King's group uate students to make the journey proval of its new constitution and mitory will-' provide a large will be centered in Montgomery hopes to obtain a federal injunc- to Alabama. He stated, "I think by-laws Saturday, March 13, at library, a house dining room and to greet the marchers when they tion barring the state police from the two deaths in the Selma situa- the Inscomm meeting. kitchen, and a seminar room. A arrive Saturday. interfering with the proposed tion indicate that the price of civil Under the new constitution, the finished basement will include The MIT professors would fly march. If all goes according to rights in Alabama has gone up. structure of the council will re- study rooms, music practice and from Boston to Montgomery Fri- plans demonstrators should be We don't want anyone to be able main essentially the same as be- listening rooms, and art studio, day in a chartered plane to be able to start the walk from Selma to brand our protests as those of fore. The major difference will be hobby shop and a game room. on hand to show their personal to Montgomery tomorrow. - overeager youths." the election of a 7-member Activi- The eighth floor penthouse will concern about discrimination in Two deaths have thus far re- College students, however, have ties Executive Board, which will offer a view of the Charles River Alabama. suited from the Selma demonstra- played a very major and vital part be vested with virtually all the and nearby campus. If the march fails to take place tions, that of the Reverend James in the recent demonstrations in powers of the Council. Reeb, a Boston minister, who was Boston, according to Rev. Russell. The 13 permanent Council mem- beaten to death last week by a Both the sit-in at the Federal white gang; and that of Jimmy Building Friday night and Satur- bers will be those of the old AC, Jackson, a young with the exception of Finance Alabama negro, day, and the Common Rally held Board and who was shot in a night demon- Sunday were largely supported by the Athletic Associa- stration tion. There will be an undeter- two weeks ago. area students. mined number of rotating menm- bers. The Activities Council will re- Six Tech students chosen tain its seat on the Executive Council of Insconmn. Woodrow Wilson Fellows Lecture by Townes Six MIT seniors were named and fixed fees for the first year Friday, February 12, as winners. at the graduate school of their begins annual series of Graduate Fellowships from the choice, plus $1,800 for living ex- planned by Sigma Woodrow Wilson National Fellow- penses. Xi ship Foundation, the largest This year 361 colleges through- Dr. Charles H. Townes, Provost, private source of support for out the nation are represented by will speak on 'Raman-Brillouin advanced liberal arts work in the Fellowship winners, 23 of them for Scattering- the interaction be- Vol. 85, No. 6 Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday, Mar. 17, 1965 5c United State the fir.t timc. tween intense laser beams and The students are Alan S. Fried- Others honred mechanical motion,' Wednesday, man, XVIH; Edwin C. Kamp- The Foundation also accorded March 24 at 8:00 pm in Kresge 'God and Golem, inc.' mann XIV; Edward M. Miller, honorable mention to 1,242 stu- Auditorium. XIV; John R. Murray, VIII; dents. The majority of these are The lecture is being sponsored Anthony Pappas, XIV; and Gerald expected to receive alternate by the MIT chapter of Sigma Xi, 'Wiener's book honored A. Zaritsky, XXL. awards from other sources, Sir a national honorary research so- Hugh stated. "We circulate their 'God and Golem, Inc.,' by the perative responding with a truly These students were among ciety. Tickets for the lecture will 1,395 throughout the country to names widely among the graduate be available at no cost to mem- late Institute Professor Norbert mature sense of responsibility. schools of the United States and Wiener, received one of the five Because Norbert Wiener had receive the fellowships, which bers of the MIT community and seen marked the twentieth anniversary Canada expressly for that pur. may be obtained at the Kresge annual National Book Awards as this problem in its ethical dimen- pose," he added. being one of "the most distin- sions and opened the windows of the Woodrow Wilson National ticket office. to Fellowship Foundation. They Awarded honorable mention guished books written by Ameri- a glimpse of the religious implica- from MIT were Thomas M. An- The Towne's lecture is the first can citizens and were chosen from over 11,000 of a planned published in the tions of this confrontation of man trim, XXI; Stephen B. Deutsch, annual series of United States in 1964." faculty-nominated applicants. lectures, sponsored by Sigma Xi and his most sophisticated ma- VIII; Peter M. Harvey, V; George Declaring as the winner in the chines, the jury ... deems "God Teachers tsout A. Herzlinger, VIII; Stephen A. and featuring outstanding techni- The fellowships are designed to cal speakers. Science, Philosophy and Religion and Golem, Inc." worthy of the Schutz, VIII; Richard W. Sullivan, category 'God And Golem: A award." recruit new college teachers, "The XVIII; Bruce D. Sunstein, XXI; The MIT chapter of Sigma Xi Comment on Certain Points where In the acceptance competition alerted thousands of K. Endre Toth, VII; Frank J. has approximately 900 members, speech for undergraduates Cybernetics Impinges on Religion' MIT, Jerome Wiesner, Dean of to the critical Weigert, V; and Stephen L. Wil- mncstly faculty members, staff, (an MIT Press publication), the need for college teachers," com- and the School of Science, said: "Pro- liams, XVIIIL advanced graduate students; judges stated that "In every mented Sir Hugh Taylor, Presi- Last year it as headed by Professor Isadore fessor Wiener's interests spanned 35 Woodrow Wilson sphere of human activity, and not mathematics, science, engineer- dent of the Foundation. Fellows used their award to at- Amdur cf the chemistry depart- merely in the field of atomic Recipients of Woodrow Wilson ment. ing, and human affairs; and in tend the First year of graduate 'war games,' the machines that each he made an important con- fellowships will receive tuition school here. Sigma Xi has initiated the an- think and learn, and, even more tribution by exploiting the under- nual lecture as a service to un- amazingly reproduce themselves, standing of the communication dergraduate and graduate stu- have placed man, probably more and dents, as control process which his pio- well as to other acutely and agonizingly than ever neering work provided. It was ilfop Singers, Chuc Berry interested community members. before, face to face with the im- precisely in his ability to perceive the universality of the concepts will highlight Spring Weefen with which he worked that his Five MIT professors awarded most important contribution lay." Spring Weekend '65 will start afternoon will be devoted to the Dr. Wiener was one of the Friday evening, April 23, with a Lpark's amusements, rides, forests Sloain fellowships for reserch world's ranking semi-formal dance at the Hotel and trails. Since the park will .. mathematical an- be alysts Bradford. Music for the Friday open Five MIT professors have been awarded fellowships, (to be used and had studied philosophy only to MIT, ride tickets will with Royce, Antayana, and Ber- night affair will be provided by be sold on a discount basis. for unrestricted basic research,) from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. trand Russell. In 1919 he joined the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. Saturday night the action will The professors are Dr. Glenn A. Berchtold, associate professor of Saturday afternoon the scene Chemistry; the MIT Department of Mathe- shift'to the park's Casino where Dr. Paul G. Federbush, assistant professor of physics; matics where will shift to Canobie Lake Park in Chuck Berry will provide the main Dr. James L. Kinsey, he served until his assistant professor of Chemistry; Drs. James death in Stockholm in March, Salem, New Hampshire for an attraction. Bobby Comstock and R. Munkre; and W. Gilbert Strang, associate professors of mathe- open air concert featuring the the Counts will also matics. 1964. He was awarded the Nation- perform. al Medal of Science in 1964 for Rooftop Singers. The rest of the The Casino, which is larger than Dr. Munkres, whose field is topology, will be on leave at the Uni- I I I I I ' I I the Hampton versity of California at Berkeley, his contributions to mathematics, Beach Casino, used investigating the relationship be- engineering and biological scienc- last year, is situated at the edge tween combinatorial and differentiable structures on manifolds. es. Among r INDEX of the park near the lake. Dr. his numerous other Berchtold is engaged in research concerning studies of light- writings have been two unusual The next issue of The Tech Weekend tickets will cost catalyzed reactions of organic $14.00 compounds which contain sulfur. autobiographies, 'Ex-Prodigy' and will appear Tuesday, March 23. and will be sold to living groups Dr. Federbush MIT '55, will use his Fellowship to investigate 'I am a Mathematician.' until April 14. Due to the limited the applications of the theory of several complex variables to certain College World ...... 8 The other recipients of the $1000 Editoria ls ...... 4 number of tickets available they Problems arising in quantum field theory. National Book Awards were the Entertainment ...... 6-7 will be sold on a basis proportional Dr. Kinsey will continue his present studies of atomic and mole- late Theodore Roethke for "The Footnotes ...... 4 to the number requested by each cular collisions' Dr. Strang, MIT '55, will study theoretical aspects Far Field;" Saul Bellow for "Her- Inside Inscomm ...... 4 living group. of the solution of partial differential equations by finite difference zog;" Letters ...... 4 Louis Fischer for "The Life Peanuts Formal invitations will be avail- methods. He will be living in England and Sweden for part of the of Lenin;" and ...... 4 time. Eleanor Clark for Sports ...... 9-i 2 able to ticket holders March 17 in "The Oysters of Locmariaquer." the I= I Lobby of 'Building 10. I (N 4) University education varies | Dutch Cleaners ll|YELLOW L CAB SERVICE I (a 233 Massachusetts Ave. AD Opposite NeccoALLCABS RADIO EQUIPPED purposes fhroughout woad TRowobridge 6-5662 a s t The role of the student can be communications. A representative Quality - Service Di MIT X2303 - o broken down into two broad to the administration is elected by I I_! Fp areas. Within the university, the the studefnt body as are represen- r, , problem is one of interrelation- tatives to the college faculties (de- I student and partments). Students can and do Im ships among faculty, F I administration. Outside the uni- lobby for changes in university effective only E versity, the question becomes the policy which are ts extent to which the student should when students are unified. play an active part in national strongest and most One of the - happenings of a political or social responsible of student govern- >2 nature. Before discussing the is- ments is that at the Free Uni- sues and any factors that might versity of Berlin. Here a "mayor" make the United States unique in is elected over a "village". of L the world, it is interesting to about 650 students and serves for Zz make a survey of the activities of a year, full-time, without sirmul- Lu students in other countries. These itaneously registering for courses. descriptions are the result of per- Typical projects undertaken by sonal conversations with fellow the students through the leader- delegates to the International Con- ship of the mayor include raising ference of Students at Cornell funds to erect new buildings or I University. finding the money and persokm&e In the decentralized umiversity to start new courses which are - system of India, students are ac- desired. In addition, students have u tively and enthusiastically engag- a veto over both the admission of I ed in issues of national politics. students and 'the selection of fac- These may take the form of sym- ulty members. pathy strikes to draw attention to British students attempt to a particular problem or to sup- solve problems of discipline and port a specific viewpoint. They social activities. Seldom do the are generally thought to be symp- issues cf national politics inter- tomatic of a situaition which hon- est students as a whole, except estly needs improvement. Seldom for occasional recommendations would a local student issue (food, made to Parliament. Within the tuition, etc.) merit full-scale sup- university, however, students of- port of college students. Within ten win struggles with the aca- the university, the students strug- demic council. There is a tenden- gle with the problem of commun- cy for the power of student gov- ications since there are no school ernment to increase despite what newspapers. Formalized links be- was interestingly referred to as tween students and faculty mem- the "normal" problem of apathy. bers and between students and Activities of students in the administrative officials provide Philippines are often run with the only means of obtaining stu- funds raised by the students them- dent inputs, explaining university selves. Within the university, politics, and discussing problems these activities include seminars of mutual interest. and welfare programs, physical Little effort is devoted to activ- education classes and national ities outside the university in Co- contests in music and debating. lumbia. Student government pri- Student opinion is solicited and marily serves the function of (Please turn to -page- 5) · If your roommate says the Bell Systemi helpbedinve-nt - hi-fi, stereo and talking movies,
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multi-channel disc--the basis of today's stereo- In the course of their studies of the nature study of sound ever undertaken by anyone. phonic industry. of sound, Bell System scientists have been To capture sound for study, Bell Telephone by- able to make significant contributions to all Laboratories developed the first electronic re- Nevertheless, these contributions were three forms of entertainment. corder for phonograph discs. For the first products bf the real effort, which was to make telephone service better. We are proud, of You might say that it was because the dis- time, performers recorded into microphones. course, that they helped build and improve coveries were there to be discovered by the Then, in 1925, Bell Labs perfected an elec- whole industries. first explorers to come down the trail. tronic system that synchronized sound and But we're prouder of the sound qualities in When the century was still young, we real- action on movie film. The talkies were born. the telephone of today. ized that if the telephone were to come up To get better sound reproduction, they to its potential, the nature of sound had to started experimenting in 1933 with ways to If you'd like to do business or engineering be much better understood than it was then. separate high and low frequencies to prevent work you're really proud of, we'd like to talk This led to the largest, most comprehensive distortion. The result was a single-groove, to you. Bell System American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and Associated Companies --I r I Kappa Nu pledges Morrisson lecture today +o include Wins Rumford Prize m --! hold meeting today of present Vietnam Crisis AAASr analysis . ~dl ib I. . 1 w _ NA Iu honor!s Prof. Collins C) The second meeting of the -new Philip Morrisson, professor of in the New York Times on Feb- physics, will speak on "Boston ruary 16, and which was signed Dr. Samuel C. Collins, Profes- of Tennessee, using hydrated cal- ledge class of Eta Kappa Nu, Faculties and the Vietnam Crisis" by over 400 Boston area faculty sor Emeritus of Mechanical En- cium chloride as a cooling agent. he Electrical Engineering Honor- today at 5:00 pm in room 2-390. members, urged the President to gineering, has been -awarded the The Collins Helium Cryostat wa ry Society, will take place to- A member of BAFGOPI (Boston negotiate a settlement in Vietnam. Rumford Prize of the American in reality the grand culmination ay at 5:00 p.m. in Room 3-370. Area Faculty Group on Public Is- At this lecture, Professor Mor- Academy of Arts and Sciences. cf a number of significant and ,t the first meeting, which was sues), Professor Morrisson was risson will state his views on the The prize, which honors out- far-reaching developments in e- mz eld Wednesday, March 10, com- one of the authors of the Open Let- war in Vietnam and will discuss standing contributors to the sci- frigerating devices. 0 nittees were set up for this the effectiveness of faculty state- ences of heart and light, was pre- In addition to his work on the erm's activities of Eta Kappa ter to President Johnson on Viet- ments opposing the continuation sented at a meeting of the acad- Cryostat, the Doctor has recent- nam. This letter, which appeared of the war. emy held in Brookline, Massachu- ly devoted his undivided attention mI - _ -I-CL-PI----P- -_ _1 __ _ -__ -- - P·ll ! The lecture is sponsored by the setts, last Wednesday. Committee' Opposing War in Viet- Dr. Collins, of Democrat, Ken- to a new pump-oxygenator, alias FOR DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY nam, a student and faculty group. tucky, was honored for his in- a heart-lung machine, for use in vention of the Collins Helium open-heart surgery. %a~~~'~~'B"~~P~~g~~""~~~%ase"· ~ IV Cryostat and his pioneer work in u""AVIDSON JEEYNELERS low temperature research. Built in 1946, the Cryostat provided the Hillel Foundation -< of Kenmore Square very first reliable, relatively in- HAVE set for Kresge w GuaranteedRepair Service I expensive and adequate supply of O I liquid helium, the coldest fluid program 518 Commonwealth Ave. CO 7-0017 PATIENCE~ known to all mankind. Physicists Naomi Aleh-Leaf and the Fes- I took interest in this Invention be- cause of the cool phenomena oc- tival Dance Company will pre- .I curring at such low temporatures. sent a program of Biblical and CD Molecules move dreadfully slow- Near Eastern dances at MIT's O) ly; liquid helium, in total despair, Kresge Auditorium Sunday, March -~~~~~~~~~~~~~m A - I m lcces its resistance to flowing, 21 at 8 pm, under the auspices and, w¢lrsct cf all, scme metals cf the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foun- ______mm___ O LD______SPICE______I ______Icze their electrical .resistace. dation. Dr. Collins built his first home- Miss Aleh-Leaf, who has a fine IImade refrigerator following his international reputation, has freshman year at the University planned a sltriking program coin- t I bining Biblical, Festival, and Is- ,I I e) I !j AP-i 71pt SKI EQUIPMENT raeli Old Country dances. The Large Variety authenticity of the costumes and These great perfomers are the lowest priced Tennis & Squash Shop the use of native music creates 67A Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge a sensitive portrayal of the cul- models at our One-Stop Shopping Center (Opp. Lowell House) ture and beauty of traditional Ju- . I TR 6.5417 i daism through the ages.
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