Week IP Free reasonable Live In That Will _.AU Infamy LXXXII California; Friday, December 12, 1980 Number II Caltech Enters Twentieth Century Phone Age By Eric H. Eichorn Some sort of improvement Plant; Bill Wong, admin- Cal tech's aging and was necessitated bv the fact istrative services supervisor; overloaded telephone system, that the current 2600 campus and Jo Wilson, telephone with its step-by-step switching extensions are used up, and clerk. relays and cord-in-hole switch­ two new buildings are under The new switching equip­ board, is being replaced by a construction. Since the current ment will be brought up at ap­ solid-state Custom Dimension long-distance system is inade­ proxima tely 8:00 pm, Friday, 2000 system. A plethora of quate, and direct inward dial­ December 19. At that time all space-age bells and whistles ing has long been desired, the conversations in progress will (detailed below) are included, decision was made to get a new be terminated, the dial tone but the most notable improve­ system rather than expanding will acquire a hi gher pitch, the ment will be the capability for the old one. The changeover is Institute swit chboard number direct dialing campus phones bei ng supervised by Robert will cha nge from 795-6811 to from off campus. Fort, director of Phys ical 356-6811, direct inward dial­ ing to unrestricted phones will ~ g be enabled, all extension o numbers will change (most ac­ !i DNA Recombined cording to a simple algorithm), ~ a nd all extensions will be enabled for Touch Tone dial­ '"~ for Fun and Profit ~ ing. By Monday morning, Undergraduate Laboratories, on the eve of its remodeling, December 22, 70'70 of the rotary dial telephone sets will to hold a massive sale of various objets d'chimie. A group by Tracy Furutani t:ollce,rne'd undergrads helped advertise the bargains with ban· be replaced by Touch Tone plastered on the side of the building (above). A group of holi­ Spectacular new methods in hard-to-find proteins. He sets, with the rest replaced by "" shoppers pondering the great selection (below). recombinant DNA research began with some background early Ja nuary. were revealed by Dr. Norman in molecular biology; namely, Most extensions will retain Davidson, professor of the DNA molecule is the the same last three digits they chemistry, in his Watson Series blueprint off of which working have now, with leading I lecture Wednesday. copies, in the guise of RNA, becoming 4, and leading 2 Accompanied by a huge ar- are- made. The RNA, in turn, becoming 6. Some new exten­ ray of color slides, he covered go to the ribosomes where the sions will be created with how companies like Genetech proteins encoded within them leading 3. To dial an make money by producing are finally manufactured out of unrestricted extension from all the random amino acids outside the Caltech phone floating around in the system , one dials '356' followed cytoplasm. by the ex.ension. For example, Josten's Until ten years ago, the current California Tech ex­ ' molecular biologists had only tension is 2153. This changes to the electron microscope to see extension 6153, and can be the workings of the cell. Now, dialed from outside as Screws however, there are many 356-6153. Simple, right? To techniques, such as gel elec­ call a restricted extension or an trophoresis and the use of unknown extension from out­ Up restriction enzymes, to break side, one dials 356 - 6811 and up long strands of DNA into interacts with the operator. By Doug MacKenzie shorter, more usable strands. O ne temporary exception to As you may have noticed, In fact, many of the less the above renumbering the Big T is not out yet this lengthy DNA molecules can be algorithm is the student year, even though it arrived synthesized in the lab. houses. They are being tem­ ~ during the first week of classes. Dr. Davidson's main topic, porarily assigned restricted ex­ ~ That's because it's gone again. though, was on the use of tensions bearing no relation to ~ U's been sent back to Josten's bacteria to clone a protein; this their current numbers. In 1I because the company did such was the gist of the recombinant January they will be changed ~ a bad job of publishing it. DNA revolution. In this pro­ to unrestricted extensions based ~ The problem was' that the cess, a specific portion of a o n thei r current numbers. ~ printing and graphics were . CONTiNUEd lONTiNUEd poorly done in many spots ON PAGE 7 while the contrast was bad in ON PAGE 8 several of the pictures. One Dialing Changes Eulogy for section, which was intended to have the same style throughout, had three different Function Old New styles because J osten's used three different people to do it. Switchboard 795-6811 356-6811 - a Friend ' These mistakes mean that the '1218/ 80, . 10:25 pm. John John Lennon was a well­ publisher will have to replace Campus Ext. lxyz 4xyz Lennon is dead. His body is known singer and writer. eight to ten pages. Even though Campus Ext. 2xyz 6xyz \II'Obably not yet cold, but I read the Playboy inter­ Josten's did such a bad job this Inward dialing 356 ext. !llrough the miracle of modern view with John Lennon and time, ASCIT is going to use Outward dialing(213) 6,7,8,or 9 9 I already Yoko Ono Saturday night, two them again next year. This is 8 all about his death. He nights ago. I felt like I'd had a mainly becausse they have Direct long distance 3 Was shot in the back, at least long talk with him. At first I agreed to do some expensive Operator long distance 53 or 55 o brice, outside his apartment on thought this was the reason color work next year for free Emergency 50 5000 IIIe upper side of west Manhat­ that the news of his murder hit and also absorb the cost of this JPL 57 77 The police said the man CONTiNUEd year's errors. The entire correc­ Paging 54 74 shot him was a well­ tion is going to cost them ON PAGE 4 Biology Dictation 51 71 li!l''''.~''' "screwball". about $1000. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• .,•~ .............•..•.....•••...•.......•.....................• EDITORIAL •~ A Conversation Between a COMMENT AR\T Caltech Student and His Advisor FAUSTUS But have they[the planets) all one motion, both situ et tempore? Draft registration has voluntary servitude without register, th e law could not MEPHOSTOPHILIS returned. In case some of you due process of law." Need enforced. have been too busy or too more be said? It is al so helpful to cOln si(ja All move from east to west in four and twenty apathetic to nOlice, President Above necessit y and law, the situation from a hi hours, upon the poles of the world, but differ In Carter has decreed that those however, is the simple fac t that perspective. During the their motions upon the poles of the zodiac. persons who have committed 18-year-old males are human nam War, for every 1000 FAUSTUS the cri me of being born males beings. No government has the pie who fail ed to regi ster, These slender questions Wagner can decide! in the year 1962 shall register right to order a human bei ng to I was ever convicted . That for the draft this January. fight. No government even has person out of a thousand Hath Mephostophilis no greater skill? Who Don't do it! the right to order a human be- invari ably an activist or knows not the double motion of the planets? The draft is unnecessary, ing to register to fight. Any one else wi th a talent These are freshmen's suppositions. But tell me, unconsti tutional, and a viola- such government is a violator trouble-makin g. In hath every sphere a dominion or intelligentia? tion of human rights. It is no of basic human rights. those who did register and MEPHOSTOPHILIS secret that if Ih e United States Enough of theory. There is refused induction, ever fought a war (note: war, no practi cal reason to register more significant or()o(lrttOn Ay. not "police action") the war ef- for the d raft either. The were convicted. FAUSTUS fort wo uld consist of th e chances of a non-registeree be­ who did register and How many heavens, or spheres, are there? pushing of small red buttons ing caught are slim and rapidly induction , a very MEPHOSTOPHILIS and would result in the an- approaching none. Last July, proportion came Nine: the seven planets, the firmament, and the nihilation of all parties in volv- of the 4 million men who were bags looking like ed. The only use for a large to have registered, at least 8 eggs. Where do the odds lie? empyreal heaven. suppl y of personnel is that of percent did not. Of that 8 per­ Your decision to register FAUSTUS marching into some small cent , exactly 0 persons have not to register is your vote. But is there not coelum igneum? et cristallinum? country for the purpose of been arrested for failing to draft can only be MEPHOSTOPHILIS bashing some peasant brains. register. The U.S. government through a vote of no No Faustus, they be but fables. All in good fun, of course . adm itted before regi stration fidence. Consider your The 14th amendment to the bega n in July that if more than carefull y. FAUSTUS Consti tutio n prohibits "in- about 2 percent fail ed to Resolve me then in this one question: why are not conjunctions, oppositions, aspects, eclipses, ****************************** ,...-------- all at one time, but in some years we have more, in some less? 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