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Oporters rallfy vigil for soldier ends d Ma rch t:O_B U By Dean Roller Pfc. Raymond Kroll, AWOL the US Army, was removed by Federal Wifly planned, sparsely attended agents Saturday morning from his sanctuary at Boston University Marsh Chapel. iafront of the Student Center Approximately 100 federal agents, followed by another 50 Boston police, j attempted to demonstrate . converged on the Chapel at 5:30 am and removed Kroll without resorting to overt ssupport for AWOL Pfc. Ray violence. BUs Marsh Chapel. This action climaxed a week of anxiety for Kroll and hundreds of students l student group who !anned the from MIT,BU, Harvard,and Radcliffe, who had kept an around the clock vigil at sid that their main o 'jective was the Chapel since sanctuary was granted to Private Kroll October 1. Discussion had gtpeople here think'alg about the I been going on at the Chapel since Thursday afternoon centering primarily on what of sanctuary." They said that they . tactics were to be used in the event of Kroll's apprehension by the proper ,ainthat a situation like that at authorities. "Nonviolent obstruction" was eventually adopted as the method of aSbound to happen at other .. -. best assisting Kroll. Tenseness and joy ses inthe Boston area. Tengseness andl joy rChomsky speakis- .... _ , Throughout Thursday and days that followed, the prevalent mood in the audience averaging about 100 k Chapel seemed to be a juxtaposition of tenseness and anticipation over the events listened5ns to the various speakers 'r[ L , to come, and one of joy over the size and effectiveness of the demonstration. An open microphone was kept noon until about 12f40. The rally on the floor of the Chapel a good deal of the time to .jld allow [been planned to begin at 11:30, for open discussion of several matters of dispute. Musical groups appeared infrequently. ispostponed until noon in order The demonstration within the Chapel ~ttact people from the "noon was well organized. Phone numbers were posted above the lectern informing students where to call in the event of arrest. MIT students were advised to call the Campus Patrol, whose standard practice is to provide bail for any MIT student who is arrested. Campus Patrol, however, stated that because of the political overtones le organizers of the rally spoke inherent in the action at hand, all such matters would first have to be cleared eporaneouslyuntil 12:15 when , '4' through the office of Dean Holden, Associate Dean of Student Affairs. Demonstrators were also told iorChomsky finally arrived. He -, to call the New England Resistance in the event of arrest. The e.I of the formation of a ( latter group guaranteed free legal ; assistance but could not mnity spirit" which might in 44'P'.. promise bail fees. end the necessity for islolated -- - "'",> Zinn speaks Friday, the group at Marsh was joined by dualsto make solitary stands -"-' "' students from the MIT demonstration. They were greeted 3 oppressive authority. Such a enthusiastically and a discussion followed narrated by B.U. Professor of History, I~Ofcommunity, he said, was being 8 Nub 3 Howard Zinn. Friday evening several films Pleuse turn to page 12) . Tuesday, October shown, including one showing student-police encounters at the Arlington I -ot..ruocol 88,o -5, NUMber 34._ 8, 1968 , Five Cents Street Church where sanctuary had been granted to a previous draft protestor. In addition a film "Columbia Revolt" was shown; however, this time the crowd was deeply disturbed. Feds arrive as At 5:30 am Sunday morning several dozen federal agents came out of cars IJohnswnts, 'spedcid: LOO with government plate parked across from the Chapel and entered en masse. They k "to utu're appeared to be extremely well organized as they fell into formation immediately upon their entrance. Over their local public address system a call was heard: "This is the F.Bol. - you have 15 seconds to clear the aisle or be removed." important continigency 'for all this Again. a direct quotation is in order: This awoke' most of the congregation and many members who were blocking the entrance t progress. Q-oting from the text, ".. "Ours must remain a community to Text of speech on Page 2 that the stairs leading to Private Kroll's location. A member of the Resistance assumed reason will -prevail in ending the where, above all', learning is the the microphone at the lectern advising demonstrators of I0- war, and that effective progress will outcome of experience. It is important, what was happening and By Tony Lima told them to avoid panic, sit or lie passively and remove finally be made in ending the deep too, that. we extend this all jewelry, glasses, and esident Howard Johnson's report climate to all ties. No brutality schisms and the disparity of in our community,.to include facuilty, e corporation Friday had. many Brutality was not noted although several people complained opportunity that exist between the staff, and employees, as well as of injuries 1ications. .Perhaps the' most sustained because of use of violent measures by the agents. The federal races." The realization that, before the students. I believe that an attitude authorities sting one was that the speech was of seemed to be well-informed of Kroll's whereabouts money can be spent elsewhere, it must adaptability and. a continuing, as they proceeded upstairs to ted toward the issues of the day, the choir loft.. One door of the Chapel was axed be taken from the hole down which.it persistant, and pressing concern for after they failed to succeed in than merely a'sop, -which it beatingit down by hand. Kroll was hustled out quite quickly, is now being poured makes the effects student involvement in the affairs of remaining limp and easily have been. silent all the way. Agents lined both sides of the aisles, of the speech somewhat broader thara MIT will foster this learning climate. 1 preventing members of the . closing the report, the President congregation from lending aid. Boston police afterwards entered report to the corporation. would sooner see the Institute err on quickly, urging ed on two issues which could the crowd to avoid trouble and disband quietly. Flags in and This report' was actually, however, overachievement in these matters- than around the Chapel an immediate' effect on MIT. were promptly lowered to half mnast, only the second half of-the report to on underachievement." windows were draped in black, and black are the recent cuts in 'Federal streamers were hung from various the corporation. The first half was points around the Chapel. ing for research and the draft. In delivered to a closed meeting of that 6vely coming out against the group just.before the luncheon. In Taught at MIT at selective service law, he has' addition to corporation members, there his voice to the mutfitudes were present at the luncheon members have been clamoring for a of the faculty and student government. .S e.The voice of the President of Neither of the latter two groups ( -0 . 0 S ie's largest technical institution Ouse sea seemed sure of why they had been CertainlyI not hurt the efforts for invited, but. all were pleased at the lltHis vital area Professor David Hioeh of Dartmouth delegates that the electronic gadgetry students which was so vital in the prospect of a free meal. One member ipropriately enough, this point College, who taught 17.22, Structure was apparently installed for its McCarthy effort and plans to recruit I of the faculty commented that there ilso -the one at which President of Urban Life, at the Institute last year, intimidation value only. Immediately large numbers of student volunteers. had probably been an element of "riot Wnchose to condemn the recent will be running for Congress from New arrested by several police, he- was Backers of Professor Hoeh will be control" in the planning. Given mts. In the area of reordering Hampshire this fall. 'Professor Hoeh, detained several hours. Professor seeking support in the lobby of President Johnson's address, this would - al priorities, this would seem to one of the earliest backers of Senator Hoeh's detention caused Jess Unruh, building 10 this week. The group's not be too surprising. ?of the more important. Eugene McCarthy, was in charge of chairman of the California delegation, current plans call for similar In conclusion, efforts at arier in his address he made an one final comment McCarthy's -Nw Hampshire to take his appears to be in order on the address. primary group off the floor and call Weelesley, Harvard and other Boston campaign and . ~ ~~~.. ~ ~~~~ was chairman of the New a press. conference in which he area schools, followed by joint efforts Hampshire delegation to the expressed his concern over the in New Hampshire. Bundy to speak Democratic National Convention. apparently excessive use of force. The on, war Professor Hoeh became the center police later accused the professor of Frreshmen vote, of national attention at the Democratic biting one of the officers who arrested Convention when he inserted his him. Seeks support choose officers asCompton Dartmouth College identification Professor Hoeh is attempting Lecture card to cast Sunday evening the Freshman into the electronic credential checking his campaign in the McCarthy mold. He George Bundy former Special Assistant to the President Council elected the officers of their for National machines and lit the.green "approval" hopes to generate the same sort of Ity and one of the prime organization. Those gaining positions architects of this nation's Vietnam policy, will be light. He thus demonstrated to. other enthusiasm and. support among otred speaker at the October Karl Taylor Compton lecture. The formal were: Dave Slesinger of lBaker House, 0ln,which will feature a panel representing the MIT .community which President; Chip Lawrence of SAE, Vice-President; and Josie Pian d Professor Noam Chomsky as well as Bundy, vHil begin at 7:30 pm on of N.ev.q McCormick, Secretary-Treasurer. hY, October 16, in Kresge. An informal coffee hour following the Kresge Product advertised, ai also planned. Election night lasted three hours and was preceeded by a two eseminar will concern itself with US foreign policy in general and Vietnam hour self-no mination sessions Thursday Wicuiar.Bundy will express his views concerning the distinctions in the evening. The extreme lengthiness of policy stances taken by the major presidential candidates and .will go on to these meetings was the his opinions regarding the probably results of the various candidates' result of the representatives' inability to agree on i. He will also answer criticisms and questions from the other members of elanld from the audience. technical procedures, numerous absences among the representatives hough Bundy is best know for his role in the Kennedy-Johnson attending the meeting, and the large rtrations, he has long been involved with the problems of state. During number of candidates running for the and 1949 he served 'as a political analyst for the Council on'Foreign offices of president and vice-president. Is. In-1949 he moved to Harvard, where he was a visiting lecturer until The presidential contest needed two when he became an associate professor of government. He became a full tie-breaking votes to decide it and the '0r-i1 1954, and- served as the Dean of -the Faculty of Arts and Sciences secretary-treasurer's position was won 1961, when he left to enter the Kennedy administration. Since leaving the unopposed. mentin 1966, Bundy has been the president of the Ford' Foundation. Dave Slesinger won the election of .;; to the intense interest which this program is expected to generate, president on a platform of i0 to Kresge will be limited to members of the MIT community. MIT organization. Stating that he felt the a.tion must be presented at the door. job of president required an 3eminar is the second in the Karl Taylor Compton series, which was organization man rather than an "idea Wedlast spring to consolidate a number of independent lecture programs. man," he favorably impressed the By Gary DeBardi ieS will present a program" each- month which features prominent representatives with the work he had A 'rather unusual advertising display was shown on ifl discussing one or more of the major issues facinfig the nation. one of the neon already carried out in investigating the signs overlooking West Campus. The sale ended after running aweeks~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ for about specifics behind various projects a week. available to Freshman Council. l, THE TECH OCTOBER 8,1968 PAGE 2 -0 0 -0 0 Report--d - 4') -, 0 , -4 Ir 0 0 00 adequate scale of effort indivduals form a dsaq- One the one hand, .we know that combination of, increased involvement time that an (Ed. note: Ttze following is the text can be mounted within our present background to our regut W. Johnson's these are times when the most basic and opportunity - by the faculty and of President foward the students of- the Institute - structure of disciplines, departments programs and to create specie MIT Corporation, problems of our living arrangements report to the emphasizes for me the meaning of an and centers. In the urban, as in other and opportunities for those t~ deliveredFriday. It is entitled '"An MIT can only be solved by the application education in the broadest' liberal and interdepartmental and inter-school overlooked Education for our Times. '7 of large technical systems; while, on Largely on the initialf the other hand, we feel a deep yearning scientific sense; an education in which fields, the Institute must seek new learning with a purpose and a ways to enable academic work to individual members of thdeL fo4 individual paritcipation and community, new ideas havll No one can say that the ye.Gjust the small-scaleo professional approach is accompanied flourish in close coopsation with expression and for developed relating to the user past was a dull one. As the annual person-sized contribution. by an abiding concern for the practice:' reports of our schools and departments condition of man. As we look for a better orgnization resources to aid in the educatqi- On one hand there is an obvious disadvantaged neighbors. Tn bear out, it was a lively one at MIT. It need fo interdependence and close I find, therefore, in the revitalized of our urban effort, I see us inventing be useful in other areas record of these programs, 1, has also been a year of proud among people, efforts of our academic community to -ays' tat w11 communication other plans and proposals cannot beit achievement-as measured by all the organizations, cries, and nations. Yet understand, to seek a deeper and more and to other areas and to institutions. It is Wholly within- our here, but I have briefly deser ordinary standards. on the other hand, there is a profound meaningful education and to propose in method as well sampling of them in a recent R But the year iust past was not an wish for independence and privacy on new approaches a positive and hopeful tradition to innovate as in substance and, once agian, we are our alumni officers. Clearly one ordinary year. Major symptoms of "thpart of individuals and groups in all evidence of new ground gained. changing views, strong reactions, and It hardly seems ~ necessary to add called to the test. . tasks' now is to look carefit human institutions. range of opportunities before growing concerns have. shown up in Youth resists system that in the semchings of our students Faculty concerns nearly every aspect of our society. It is Over the years, subtle checks and and .faculty, 'we welcome new I turn, thirdly, to' the concerns of to respond with wider imdir of time and rest: not surprising that this fermnent should economic approaches, baring only those which the faculty, the bone structure of the commitment balances in our political, and those which best meet the It especially felt on the college campuses life have. developed into comples tend to degrade members of the- Institute. Here is the core of, the public service an learning. ., across the country, and indeed, across controls whose operation, has become community, or that damage in quality of MIT - its continuity, its d I have said here that the the world. It may be interesting to automatic and self-generating. Many of 5rreparable ways the delicate fabric that willingness to, stay, young, its reach to our times, as reflected - specualte why such massive changes in our youth today resist. these "systems' is the university. But L, for- one, the future. In these -times' of campuses, should be seen av' the ordering of relationships should in ways that often appear to be continuejto expect no such distortions intellectual and moral ferment, the opportunities to make SUn occur once or twice in a century. It is self-centered flights for personal at M.IT. faculty is eager to press forward, to me now turn to those ways that -on the solution oft vital that we all recognize that they are freedom and individuality. There is an Let experiment, to dedicate itselL It goes progress occurring now. AlU institutions in times inexorable tendency toward make- sense ^ in encouraging' the without saying that we shall see-strong problems. I have said that, like these axe bound to have difficulty centralization- while many. seek thoughtful responses of our advances in the fields in which MIT has judgment, we at MIT willbe- in responding wisely to new questions decentralization in decision and action community to what I have described as prominence and reputation second to prepared to take the wind now0 and new pressures. It is vital that the and resopnsibility. Paradoxically, large' the vexing dilemmas of our time. I none. Whether in science and up if we make sure that we universities, the proving ground of our concentrations of power in nations and believe that it is in these responses of engineering,. in architecture and -the students all the opportunityth youth, should respond with organizations seem curiously powerless the M.I.T. students that we shall find humaitides, or in management and the and all the responsibility understanding, with creative and vulnerable in their dealings with the real meaning of an M.LTo education social sciences, MIT men work at the carry. We must open the'rt imagination, and with a strong sense of strong-willed minorities in their for the present and for the future. To frontier of discovery and their purpose constructive effort by denmE responsibility toward their own constituencess. put it simply: M.I.T. is, and should is always to extend the horizon of our willingness to assign resotd~ constituents-students, faculty, and Couple0 with these dilemmas continue to be, a student-centered knowledge. That, I suppose, is. now well as attention to the larger alumni-and toward society as a whole. massive interrelations, from institution of learning. - between - Dynamics of our tioes which there can be no escape, and thee t Some of the more vocal of the need for individuality, ther is still U- V country's critics would have us believe another problem related to the that no human endeavor is so firmly effectiveness of large-scale is the o0come experienal anchored to the past as higher technological effort. This is a deep 'above all, learning tY may be more wi education. The charge criticism that what has prodced and F deeply rooted in feelings than in continues to produce so well for so . k analysis; but the feelings are strong and little for _ . many people has produced so We expect the student here to work regarded as commonplace? It is to be of society that we have $- are more widely held than many for a sizeable group in this country or extremely hard at his own edcuation. expected and is reported fully in the adequately attacked before. Fi' believe.. In any case, it behooves us all an even larger group in the world as a We want him to pursue his studies in a reports of the dean's, We expect it, but should remember that at Ml in the colleges and universities to whole. in his own personal we dare not take it for granted; for, the essential way of advancement understand the dynamics of our times mature manner and There is, finally, a gnawing doubt style. We seek an ever higher standard impact of our type of education Institute lies in the intens as we seek a navigable passage to the who question expressed by those measure his perfoerance continues t o set the standard, andl _e__pe~ctations, and the perfof future. And it seems especially fitting by which to whether a large-scale tech]c'al/-Sased as a potential contributor to a better guarantees that we shall attract to our its faculty. that M1T, which has long been'engaged economy such as ours, could function society. We ask a lot of him. In retum, community the most brilliant minds In its- efforts to deal constm in continuous change, should help tp well without the goad of war, and him a wide and the most creative talents. with the urgencies that mark the! 'find the way in times such as these. we must be prepared to give whether peace can generate the opportunity to formulate his plans, to Faculty thinldng the InSfiate - has turned of In my last report I sought to list the demand necessary to sustain ahealthy In reviewing the past year, I should self-studies that have formedth priorities that undergird intellectual have full access to the resources of society. and to write his own especially like to note two types of for charting more effective effort at the Institute. The measure of World prioeity M.I.T., educational ticket, to the extent that concerns that occupy a major portion -directions- as well as for !~ our progress in these fields is properly ways, all of these In some this makes sense.. I- believe, therefore, of faculty thinking. The first relates to existing structure. In some sit reported in the separate accounts of dilemmas, which disturb people in teaching, and more broadly to the these analytical and pHos the Schools and Centers. I hope the that our goals in the classroom, in the every walk of life, seem especially laboratory, and in the decision-making shaping and reshaping of the content of investigations' were formag_ reader will be conscious, as I am, of the violent in their philosophical impact on large-scale efforts. Two decade .snky places in which the evidence process of the Institute, should be to our curriculum, and to the the campus. They lead us to ask, once- of- its methods of the; Report of the Commit accumulates-of our interest and increase the latitude of choice and to improvement again, whether we need a moral a- Educational Survey, undA accomplishment and, 'perhaps more broaden those opportunities through presentation. Under the aegis of equivalent of war in our society; leadership of Professor Wa~ important our expectations in these which the students develop, improve competent and especially energetic whether a singular objective, and a on Educational Policy, the Lewis, gave foundation for a fields. and individualize the basic learning Committee process in which every person has a generation of effort and expa- As part of my report this year, I environment faculty is currently rmiewing a range of part - a process that produces a the humanities; and in the ealy! want to examine both the basis and the Ours must remain a community ussues, from admissions policy and commonweal that motivates each man of the Cornit~ direction of the changes that we have where, above all, learning is the reform of the undergraduate- core the Report do his best - is in fact the prime experienced in the past as well as those to outcome of experience. It is important, requirements, to alternative means of Curriculum Content Planning, priority of a crowded world. Jerrold R. Z achadas, that are molding the future. too, that we extend this climate to all evaluating student performance, to new Professor We do not know if these paradoxes 0 The problems that bedevil society in our community, to include faculty, experiments in counseling and the goals for the structure can be resolved, but I am hopeful that today, that tear at its heart, and that staff, and employees, as well as advisory system, and to what- may be undergraduate years. For the progress.toward their reflect and magnify themselves on the we are maling students. I believe that an attitude of called an inventive "classroom pari, however, such investiga. see the new awareness on campuses, relate to the basic solution. I adaptability and a continuing, technology" that would utilize our centered on the question of cu persistent and pressing concern for modern computation fnd content. In the past yea, W student involvement in the affairs of communication techniques. pursued these patterns of sAf' M.I.T. will foster this learning climate. Last year saw major new impetus in several. areas, and i find them~ harnessing of modern technology Prefer overachievement all these areas. A great measure of constructive in their result. lhb I would sooner see the Institute err energy and resources will be channeled can continue these studies, to meet 'human needs of the city' on overachievement in these matters into these efforts this year, and our small in scale, with the he~ than on underachievement expectations are high. There may well participation of everyone al A second way we can make sure have been a flight from teaching in the Institute, including membas community, but it Corporation, the faculty :aD arrangements for livinr in a modem the campus among students and that the Institute holds its rightful American academic is now student body. It is an atli~ world. It is necessary but insufficient faculty, again reflecting the whole plate in- resoling the dilemmas of our seems to. me that the trend before too self-improvement and a thinking, I believe, to relate them Amercan society, as a cause for. time is by pressing for a concerted clearly changing. Perhaps be concern that the . recognize weaknesses that If wholly to crises in the international interest in the attack on those problems that bridge long; there will optimism. The awakened door to real advance. situation-the war-or to crises in the answer to age-old problems of inequity across more than field and deal with professor is not research-oriented of · Introspection domestic situation- what has been among men? the renewed concern the human purpose. I have in mind enough. The two primary efforts here the areas of urban affairs, the professor - teaching and research Last year, as one asp aptly called the white problem. about the quality of life - these, if introspection, we began a action, could international development, public - have a balance that is both dynamic Transcendent as these crises are, there directed into positive systenafic attack on quay the hope, and in my moral: equivalents policy issues in general, the and demanding The balance at'MIT is is at least finally creat6 the management information g that reason long been seeking. It interrelationship of medicine, in a good state. judgment the expectation, that man has administrative decision model, will prevail in ending the Awar, and that seems to me that the new ethos of engineering and science, and indeed, .Black opportunities concern more cohesive approach t effective progress wil finally be made concern for one's fellow men is the the. problems of more effective learning A. second area of faculty interest on institutional planning proO in ending the deep schisms and the fst necessary step. itself. hasl been one of compelling of many'in ,Ol society. It is by a newly created 0 disparity of opportunity that exists More involvement Last year. we made signSfcant the part much needed oxganization systems, we'ex~ between the races. advances toward a new level of the. "Concern for This first step is especially improvement of the- opportunities for ; sharpen . our practices of There are, however, even more basic ,performance in urban affairs. We have significant in a sciencebased 'university;. the Negro; in. our case, for educafic6nal studies, evaluations, and dilemmas that plague our sense of nemw p r o fessorships, an for I strongly believe that, if we are to in science and consulting for . admi~isi1 will-being, our belief in ourselves, and. interdepartmental laboratory, and a opp'ortunities succeed .in factoring the dilemmas of especially, and 'for operations. We are already taP our ability to cope with the new forms scor of major studies and programs engineering today's world, science and its of the black resources of experts in °0 of crisis that will eracage in every year under way. Our faculty is invoWed in participation by members applications -modern engineering, if all of the" programs faculty and we look fowad of evray man's life. And these over 200 projects related to the urban community in you will - must be-more' powerfully- . available for study at MIT, These kind of. i'nproved efficiency t dilemmas go to the heart of the field. Q'Ate apptopziAtely, out focus is t involved, not less so.. I believe too, that of urgency and permit us to do a more effec uneashaess and the sense of outrage the harnessing of modem- technology concerns reflect a sense within the science-based learning to meet the. human needs of the city.,l priority,' that virtually 'all of the the servicing and the directi that we see on the campuses all over we -can develop- a more efnvioment, believe that we will succeed;,but I am members of' our community share. Ouir academic goals. the world. I would state some of these for leadership than effective laboratory les sure -than I was last year, at this purpose -is both to. adinit more In the- conduct of dilemms as follows': has so faX ben possible. This s
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..~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I| C I . | tE'I v I THE TECH OCTOBER 8, 1968 PAGE 3 Ik . . . , il I 0 .9 I "AB i Educataion 4 0 rmesT, I fOr I and our enduring .studies and evaluations, and- :momentum in science and engineering Miexibility in its pzesent form. These This year is further marked by the appreciation for all ,lly in the wihole process of and damging seriously the education characteristics result in distortiorns in retirement of two of our colleagues that these two renmarkable men of MIT O1venlent of the educational of' scientists and- engineers in- this the use of national resources and in the from administrative posts, but not, have done for the Institute. $ and of the opportunities for ccuntry. In the long run, if continued, uneasiaess and fnrstration among fortunately, from full and active This year has been a full one - a dcition in it, the uniTerty makes the price of the slow down in support young people that mnake them look nmembership in the faculty. Professor good one, as I have said, by ordinary | .of the experimenal approach. will have serious effects at MIT and, evasive in their response to the William T. Martin, after 17 years of measures, and one of extraordinary | e Louis Stevenson once said that over a period of time, will have.serious country's needL The country's colleges consistent and constructive leadership insight for all of us at MIT. It is only uthis wholly expeimental'. In a effects on the progress of this nation. and t studentas have lonIg responded to as head of the LDepartment of fitting to note, in closing, that our | jce-based university, this is national need and will continue, of Mathematics, has.asked to be relieved un dergraduates' own characterization g · ~y so, and. understaing his -Part of t blame for tis deeply coune, to do so. But I mustlist myself of his admirnistrative duties to retuirn' to of this year, in ltheir choice of the | theme for a most unusual and original es§ goes a long way to ecp worrisome sitiation must be aid at the with those who feel that urgent action the full-time interests of a professo. batur of MIT. dMs of the univerities- themselves. to ectify thie present situation is Dean Gordon S. Brown, after 20 yews issue of the yearbook, was a dedication ~0ople outside' the univ'eisty must Over the yeaas, we have been either not overdueo of brilliant contribution to engineering to the "awakening university." Olhebnd and accept this.fact And 'mtefe~ste.d or..nu,-1 c-.--o,,..,,o};I in MI.T kas. beein an achieving administration, education and research, Throughout its history, MIT has . members of the" academc pesading the country. that forwad expetienced a continuous awakening, $asity must always recgnize that- progress depends on ideas, and. ideas sparked by purpose and concerned in such a-frachise and such a depend on people and the facilities to with the education of leaders who senvs to us by the wider society test them. This is'a task we must take 'Our purpose is to admit more combine enlightened competence with e- expectation that we proceed on without delay.' a deep sense of concern for the quality ongbly to invet the future. In a larger fame the necessity of from.-disadvantaged backgrounds of human lite. snould like to divege here from support both 'gernmentally and These are times of awakened earing, pafltrm of this report"to include a, privately based, seems even more .. ~.ri ,.~-- _m· =_---...... searching concern and far-reaching [comment on two special problems uzgent, if the country's great resources institutioi for its sudents and for the the last ten as Dean of the School of expectation. MIT is a vigorous, thleaten to hurt thfe Institute of. education are to proceed at society because of the intense Engineering, has asked, effective and proud community, sure more broadly,' the eeducational reasonable speed We have had a good competence and concern of its faculty. understandably, to be relieved of the of its competence, unwilling to stand and.the national efforts for' the year judged by the way that Our private Once again, the record of the pressurized regime of a dean. I will on its achievements, always insistent on tinued maintenance of the sources of support - individuals, Institute's year would be incomplete continue to rely on Dean Brown, who mnoving ahead. The support of wider daids of excellence in our corporations, and foundations - have were we not to list the names of those becomes Dugald C. Jackson Professor community gives us all - faculty, eries. esponded to our needs. Wilthout that men who now retire as professors and of Engineering, for a variety of advice students, staff and administration - a everyone knows, 1968 and _1969 support, the outlook would be bleak whosb contribbutions to generations of and counsel. The MIT community and full confidence as we look to the next fiscal years marked by 'large and indeed. The Federal sources, students and to their fields have been year and beyond. I, in any case, have difficulty in HOWARD W. JOHNSON iie cuts in' Federal financial under standable, but no less outstanding. They are: Herbert L. adequately expressing our gratitude October 4, 1968 xrt for research, especially in significantly in terms of the Beckwith, Professor of Architecture; I,... -- __ _ _ _ .,__ 'e and engineering. The year 1970 consequences, have not been responsive Martin J. Buerger, Institute Professor no better and could, in fact, be to our needs. There is much to be and Prefessor of Mineralogy and se; These cuts now begin to affect concerned about, and much to be Crystallography; Harold E.. Edgerton, HATE actiites in a serious way, and it is done. But I see no quick solutions or Institute -Professor and hProfessor of duty to warn of the dangers that quick returns to a wiser course. Electrical Measurements; F. Leroy surely result if the country does Foster, Director of the Division of TO act pxomptly to reorder priorities. Uninterested, ineffective Sponsored Research; Nathaniel H. TYPE? citical fields of the Institute's Frank , Professor of Pfiysics; Hoyt CO ems we see before us sizeable A different kind of problem related Hottel, Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of cdons in levels of support for to the national purpose and effort is Chemical Engineering; Egon Orwan, ach I. would not say that all cuts the draft problem. I have commented Professor of Mechanical Engineering; let THE iappropriate or unhealthy. on this in other contexts. I simply Edward S. Taylor, Professor of Flight pefirnes they force a necessary repeat here that what concerns us most Propulsion; Walter F. U rbach, do it for you / Eng, so long as strong and new is the effect of the present law on Associate Professor of Literature; Hurd wth is encouraged.But young peppe. It is not a wise law. C. Willett, 'Professor of Meteorology; Bring your rough copy to the NEW The Tech Office, W20485 te and general reductions There is inequity, there is and John Wulff, Class of 1922 (next to the old The Tech Office) any time from 9 an to 4:30, the net effect of lessening forward unpredictability, and there is an Profe6ssor of Metallurgy. Monday -through Friday. _ __ -- rZ-n' --- m' '' __sP~aoula ~ z~.. _~ I ,_ :~~~=4 am sw 6-~ Last times today! a lean-Luc Godarsd's "LA CHINOISE" i 3:25, 6:25, 9:35 plus Dudley Moore in ' "30 Is A Dangerous Age, Cynthia"9 2:00, 5:00, 8:s05 Wednesday #D. H. Lawrence's "THE FOX
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------x q -0 T.he impatie I0 gisthe key to the impatience of which New 4D IMID G s Radicals on college campuses are often accused This,is the key to the impatience of which New l of the crime of impatience. This charge, while it is Left members are often accused. It is not enough to undoubtedly to a large extent true, may in fact have merely get results; the results must be observable by Greg'ser-ahardt m some logical basis for its existence. We are going to while they axe still around to perceive them. As a 34. The explanation for the once more strucK nata. Soln make some attempt to analyze this phenomenon moderate example of this, consider how a few gastro-intestional disorders which struck somewhere decided that the locks on over 200 Baker residents last Reading doors to The Tech offices had i and perhaps put it in the perspective it deserves. members of the class of 1968 must have felt when Period is a viral infection according to changed. Of. courses no onekd nd When the radicals make their demands, these are the faculty approved the freshman year pass-fail the MIT Medical Department. However, keys to fit the mechanism, includig theState Department of Health explained Physical Plant Department. Undetel very often totally unreasonable. In fact, many of experiment. Consider also the feelings that would that whenever an excess of 100 people the Institute explained that the c them will privately admit to this. However, they will have been raised if this program had-been passed in become ilU within a few hours, the food was only temporary and tha all hasten to add that the primary reason for this is the and water supplies are suspect. A viral tumblers would be changed oncem same manner a year later. (This assumes, of infection takes several days to run its -They. were and now the old keys - that if the demands were not unreasonable, then course, that the graduates would hear of the event course while bacterial contamination of again open 'the doors. Now the qujes they would food is- more likely to cause mass is whether someone is busy mn very likely never be met within their when it took place.) There appears to be little doubt infection in a short -time. Even, so, new batch -of keys for. the ," time spent as undergraduates. IbThis is despite the that much more satisfaction would result from bacterial contamination is very difficult combination on the door. fact that General Lewis Hershey and the seeing to conflirm and the Institate vas 38. .Itlooked like someone had Selective the results while one was still an probably trying to "put its best foot "Boston Skyline" Hans Haacke - Service system have extended this span to five, and undergraduate. forward,"-. according to the health into ',the Institute the other day, u - department. Too bad the state records only turned out to be an inge in extreme cases, six years. A direct analogy can be drawn between this and are strictly confidential ... bunch of students who' floated i the case of delaying rewards for a job well-done. It 35. Those modern mechanical propaganda handouts down the ni wonders, the Student Center elevators, hall by use of helium filled ballons. has been proven many times that rewarding an have scored another first. It seems that .39. We actually got a reply to ose - Oblituary action immediately upon its completion results in they can be slowed down even further our classifieds asking for Clark k by simply spreading now"that we have a closet. mnch greater satisfaction than a delayed the outside doors Reiterat A small bit of slightly as the elevator comes to a stop at statement he made on June 26, 1 freedom died Sunday morning at recompense. The similarities between this and the that floor. The thing will just set there the Man of Steel, pleaded, "Leave Marshi Chapel at Boston University. At 5:30 am, previous discussion are obvious. until some effort .is made to start it alone! .Stop sending copies ofAcl' FBI agents stormed into the church again. Usually a good kick will do. Comics to autograph, mart and forcibly .In light of this, it appears that student demands 360 Then, there was the fellow the certificates disguised as mun other day who development courses and ot removed Ray Kroll, an AWOL soldier.. We stopped for reforms will probably become more extreme in was sitting out in the by Great Court in a' yoga position, ignoring ridiculous things which flood my s the chapel on Thursday night to see how the the near future, rather than remain static. This fact everyone and everything except for the pole hideaway." Not surpnsingly, protest was progressing and look into things we had transistor radio in front of him. letterhead was that of that e -in itself should make the coming year interesting, to journal of opinion-Innisfree. heard about the goings-on there. 37. The Institute bureaucracy has say the least. a There was a church service, along with a rock ,of band (for the record, it was the Universa:, Pirn mo Underpass, working the scene for absolutely I =C "Uatters'W - to " The Tec'h nothing.) The service was one of the most honest ---dah- -I -;I we've ever seen, as were the people we found there. To the Editor: where you came in. You shouldju However, even more important than the know..-. surroundings or the audience (if it can be called . 34 OCT.8,1968 "'Lady-driver?" No .... LOST -In small " residentia tre ts. DRIVER! In sma-l residentialstree tsthe that) was the atmosphere. It was one of total danger is chiefly in wheeling into- BO1ARD OF DIRECTORlS Dgnsd ti thcasofheparked tricycle as you crane to seeg dedication to a cause. By this time, a lot of the Diagnosed, thi was the cause of the people had been sleeping in at' the chapel since Chairman ...... Tuesday night; there was very little to eat, and by Editor D Thursday, most of them were probably living on Managing Editors .. ' . Greg Axenson '70, RdKaren Wae:i6ittel '70 foggy"wasn't , nor at dusk, mpse quicky a you dive love. However, they had their strategy clearly ,Business Manager ...... Steve Kinney '70 s d o You must keep on, and on, untily mapped. The key was simple: non-violence Production Manager' . ..Watrean. chael 69 they were baffled. and in the Charles River. at any Carson Agnew'70, Steve Carhart '70 cost. The protesters were prepared for an inevitable News Editors . . .. Sports Editor ...... George. Wood.. '70 Impatiently, car number 2 followed Last year, bust this writer appealed t:o - this was mentioned several times in the short Entertainment.Editor, Randy. lawthoiae '71 ca nunu-mber I --...in which the head of the the, Department of Public Works of-the span that I was there. They also had clear Photography. Editor 2 GG eorge '..... Flynn '69 - driver could,...... be 'seen to turn, to peer Com moniwealth of Massachusetis.' instructions on what to do if arrested, an event Advertising Editor ...... Dave DeW itte '69 first to the left, then painfully to the Boston. A courteous reply said: "Yours which seemed extremely likely. It appeared that all _ ght. Edging across his seat, the driver observationsare .well-founded ... This: searched for some indication of Where present were willing to face their probably fate with is of course outside our jurisdic0ion. Washington Correspond ent ...... Jim Smith '69 he Was. Edging out of his trffic lane,' Some communities do an excellentjbi a reasonable degree of equanimity. Associate Managing Edittor ...... Larry Sivertson '70 he made a dive for a street, then .. others are woefully indifferent.: Associate Production anager . Even more surprising was the attendance. The Ma Jeff.... effGle Gale '70 finding he was mistaken, he dove back Their financial plight is critical, and Associate News Editors . .. .. Dean Roller '70 ..... chapel was literally overflowing. Every seat, all the Greg Berhardt '71, Jay Kunin '71 in again. Car number 2 piled up on his street- signing has been. allocated alo spaces in the aisle, the balcony, and the pulpit were Associate Sports Editox . .. . .RonRoC..... Cline i.... '71- r'71ear-.' A whiplash shock blacked-out priority in community planning o jammed with people. This will, no doubt, go down Accounts Receivable - .... Stan Gilbert '71 driver number i. And from there ...... on budgetary provision." Assistant Advertising Edditor .' . Dick Stokes '71 the ambulance took over. j - i in history as one of the largest church services ever Accounts Payable ...Julian - James. ....7O' '70.Julian~~~ames - . . . - . ~~Whose job is; it, then, to tackle tY! - in terms of both attendance and duration. Treasurer ...... Tharp .Steve71 Is . t notable -....-n Massachusetts that basic issue in public safety? Everion However, Ray has served the cause of freedom - Secretary . . ... Li . n.d ..a ...Br igh a m m o n ey i s sa v e d ' o n s t r e et si g ns9 Wa s it k ow s th a t m... o re h o sp it al s a nd sc ho o0 Puritaan economy?. Was it the are needed. Everyone responds.. both his and ours. Our prayers go with him, and we assumption thlt -all proper citizles why 'not eliminate one cauSe , sincerely hope his effort was not in vain. Managing Staff . I ...... Mike Titeibaum '70 must know their neighborhood well accidents, and make consistent' Wells Eddleman '7 1, Mitch Serota '71 enough not to need to know they are classroom teaching to the young, ab0 The, following items were discussed at the last meeting on famous streets like Production Staff . .. Main, Common, 's street safety?- economy the reas of the Inscomnm executive committee. Bruce W einberg '71 Mro Aubu m , Brattle? It certainly for delay? ...Then let's begin with tha People who axe intexested in working on the Open John Dulcey '72, Sandy Weiner '72 cannot be. laziness on. the part of the ounce of~~~~~~~~~~~~~ound prevention to savethepoun House and Alumni-Student Weekend should stop by in Rick Waterloo '72 local towns,,'oron it? Perhaps it hasn't of costly cure! Let's make our to lnscomm office (W20-401) any Sunday night at 7 pm to News Staff . - . Reid Ashez70 been thought of?.. True, 'one can see the leader and set the style of clarity speak to the Executive Committee about their ideas, time, Bob Dennis '70, John Gerth 70, signs for the streets onto which one and welcome, to the thousands wh and experience. Candidates for chairman of these two Barry Weils '70, Scott Hartley .70, wishes to turn. But it is thwarting not ive our streets for the first time,0 events are especially invited. Pete Lindner '71, Tom Pipal '71 to know off wlhich streets one wishes the second and third Are we Field Day will take eventhseodadtidArw i place this year on Sunday, Front page photo of Knroll rally by Terry Bone. ' to turn, namely the one you are on. community that "knows where it November 10. For the first time, the executive committee ,__...... _____,___ Labeled at its beginning a respectable going?going?"Thensetusuare!iciest to we Then let us first knw wh will be sponsorinag and running tiis event, which ,m'.,ciasc postge paid at t Boston. MbsschysetU0 7 Teh is -,ub- street usually carnies a name. But.to w e .;_v,Gus S..^^^-_ A r- we are . upperclassmen are invited to watch. : iishnud every Tuegagy Und Pwrirly during ;he College yeor. except aur.ng save money or effort, the sign is placed college .vacsto0n by The Tech, Room *20-483. MIT Student Center, 84 THING '68 will be held in McDermott Court (next to at the end, the beginning or the middle. Mazsach'ietts Ave.. Carmbndge. t- sschmsetts 02039. Teoepborwes: Area Urgently yours, the Great Sail) on Friday from 5 to 11 pm. All members of But few main Colde 617. 876-S:SS, and -69'00. nextension 273; . Uniited Statesfm streets are burdened with Sarah D. Schear, a teacher T. the Institute Community axe invited to attend. subscuiotion ratea:'$4.25 for one year...i.00 for two years. signs for that insignificant intersection A4 - I ------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- _ _ _ I__ I
I I S I I -i I1 AMERE'S THE I PICK UPTE FUCiNEAR Af-V - WORLP-FAMOU THE BLVE LINE.. I4OCKEY PLAYER ( o r cI -T%_- I _-- -_n - -1 '.-. 5KATN6 OUT 1L -- A,. ONTO REC _He F _~~~~~~ By Greg sernharcdt the students, the Leh Princeton University should admit U niveity judge in Washington found t Handbook included coeds, 1000 of them, according to a this choice tidbit: short-fiiaired teenagers guVt. "The society of which Lehigh study conducted for the U niversity's is a part assailling tw' long-haired youth0'¶ board of trustees. The report stated that generally disapproves 'of prema rital t entsenedto carryingpicke intercourse and this IL failure to become co-educational would is a fact to which sighs saying, 'v will respect tie fghe . /.V L the University cannot be indfferent. For. others. Otherwise I will go t.jail .,.. I - , . :S-1 . -- " - . mean that 'within a decade, if not sooner. Princeton's these reasons, the University does not Meanwhile, protesters at -4| And > -w competitive position condone sexual intercourse -1 for students, for faculty, and for in its living U niversity of Kentucky turned thetabl ;! 7HE--6OAUE THE@E NOT SLEEPING WELL financial support, would be less strong units ' (including of-camnpus living on George Waace. Some 35 scoun. NEVER E EVEN IN MONTREAL TONGIT.... groups), SEES THE4 CKE than it is now. The issue 'then, is and there is no basisat Lehigh. bearded, sandled, lon hairedthiPP' crtcialto Princeton's future." for the presumption thatprivacy accords demonstrated for nearly two houCi 'Meanwhile, four other all-male individual license without regard forthe favor of the former Alabamag0ve I institutions have announced plans to interests of others.' Brown and Wlite, Shouting "Sock it to us,Geoge, ai admit coeds: Franklin and Marshall the student newspaper, summed the "We're for Po-leece Power, the ru I College, Kenyon College, theU niversity situation 'up by commenting, "If it were bewildered Wallace somewhat whenh I of the South, and the College of-Arts meant as a joke it should not have thohght at first they were demansta and Sciences at Georgetown U. appeared in the Handbook. If it were against him. Later that day howei serious, well, that's also a joke." Wallace was true to 'hispolitic forU 'in locoparentis" ' Assaultsae and . saying "If they're really for me,I'd Always looldking out for the welfare of Assaul a(rndi Onenf-.np fhf-sa nrntp~~~~cfe5A eithivr~~~~~~nn ,a,,rh.n glad to have them." vi tau protest s.eIn a ;UUoLaUni ] name is changed from Langmann to Longuet on his ration card, and he is taught the Lord's Prayer, in order to play the good Catholic boy in front of Gramp. After the initial adjustments to Gramp's anti-Semitism and the cruel treatment he receives from the other boys at school, he grows very close to Gramp. Their relationship is almost idyllic, set against the fairy tale farm countryside of France; each learns lessons trom the other, lessons that impartial life may never otherwise have offered them. Claude Berri, the director, has in this one film managed to coax more human emotion from a set of actors than it is possible to record on film. The dialogue, although in French, is more than adequately translated into English, for the subtitles remain perfectly consistent with the spirit of the film. Simon's portrayal of Gramp is so delicate that one feels that the changing of just one detail of the movie would be enough to shatter the image that Simon created. Alain Cohen, as Claude, is absolutely brilliant. He gives the impression of a wise imp imprisoned in the body of a child. 'The Two of Us", at the Exeter Street Theater, is not recommended for anyone who hates children, life, or happiness.
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-"Thea'ttitude here is, if you're good enough to be hired -you' re good enough to be!turned loose on a ieEpi lj project," says DonrtFeistamael. - : Don~earned a B.S.'E.E. in 1965. Today, he's an Associate Engineer in systems design and evalua- t$ion at IBM~. Mosst of h is wo rk consists of determiin- ing modifications needed to make comvplex data processing systems fit the specialized requirementsof IBM customers.- D~epending opn the size of the project, Don works individually or inr~ a small team. He's now workcing with three other engineers on part of an air traffic control system that will process radar information by computer. Says Don: "There are only general guide- lines. The assignmrent is simply,g to comee:· , up with the optimumt system. Set youUr own9k pace :~~:.. Recently he wvrote a simulation progiracm that ·· enables an IBM computer to predict the per- : ii formance of a data processing system that will S track satellites. He handled that project him- 'j: I.:.i:·:~-~.j:·i:j~ ·::~ I .i~~:::~.i~..:-I ..-~ self. "Nobody stands over my shoulder," Don says. "I pretty much set my own p~ace." I':·.;5:ii::·.;i::! i 'Don's informal working environment is typi- · ·· :ii· cal of Engiineering and Science at IBM. No r:.- matter how large the project, we break it down into units small enough to be handled by one person or a few people. Don sees a lot of possi bi'lities for the f utu re. He says, " My job reqgui res that I keep u p to date with all the latest IBM equipment and systems prog rams. WNith that broad an ourtlook, i~iiiij I can move into almost anyb technical area at IBM--develop ment, man ufactu~uring, product test, space and defense projects, prog rammingag or marketing." · Checke wit1h your placement office If you' re intaerested i n engi neeringo or science at 11BM, ask your placement offdice for mo re information. ~ ~ Or send a resume or letter to Paul Koslow, I BM Corporationa, Depat. C, 425 Park Avenue, N~ew York, ~ ~ jf~ N.Yb. 10 022. WNe'd I ike to hear from you even if you're headed for graduate school or militaryservice. An Eqaual Opportunity Emplpoyer
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?Prrducers' a failure 0CE Is Te In~ likhe it l By Roy Furman By Steve Grant for the next Mel Brooks, in making his film debut in the dual capacities of writer and A definite Rock 'n' roll revival has song, Dylan's "My Back for another column in the near future. Pages." Also of interest is the Byrds' irector of 'The Producers" now at the Paris Cinema, has failed to imbue the film been going on for a while now. Ever The Who stone country album "Sweetheart th the sustained comic wit he is capable of as evidenced by his career as one of since "Rock Around the Clock" hlit the of The Who also belong in a class with top twenty in Britain last spring, there the Rodeo" - can this be the same the Beach Boys. SidCaesar's chief writers and as co-creator with Carl Reiner of the "2000 Year Peter Townshend and has been a trend back to the "roots" of group that did ' Eight Miles High"? Keith old Man." Even the laudable accomplishments of the Moon are the clown princes of star, Zero Mostel, Forerunners (BroadwaY hits "Fiddler on the Roof' and 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way rock, the down-home, nitty-gritty of rock. Can you really keep a straight "telling Although the Beatles generally get tothe Forum"), cannot bolster a sinking ship. it like it is." This approach is face listening to any of the last three credit for introducing sophisticated The vehicle for this comedy is obviously ready for dry dock, by its bromidic showing itself most clearly in the Who albums? Lovers of musical humor production techniques to rock infusions of mass culture's cliches. Centering around Max Bialystock { ero current reworkings of songs and styles are strongly urged to pick up on this (beginning with "Strawberry Fields hostel), a one-time mogul of Broadway, who must now seduce sweet little old made famous by the old masters and in group, which has done songs about a Forever") and for this revival craze aies to finance his plays, the plot easily extrapolates to foregone conclusions the return to '"the good ole days" by girl with B.O., a school bus, a ("Lady Madonna"), both songs had wRhena sucurity-blanket coddling accountant (Gene Wilder) and Bialystock the groups which for a while made a Galapagos turtle, a spider, and an obvious precedents from the Beach scheme to produce the world's greatest flop and become rich from profits derived near-fetish of far-out production alchoholic with hallucinations. Their Boys - "Good Vibrations" (perhaps t0ough overfinancing. Everything looks perfect. The playwright (Kenneth Mars) techniques. (Listeners of AM rock masterpiece is the well-known of'pringtime for Hitler" is an unreformed devout disciple of Adolph trying stations are also being increasingly the best production job ever) and nine-minute mini-opera "A Quick One 'Wild Honey" (one of the ignobly to cleanse his leader's name of infamy. The director (Christopher Hewitt) deluged with more and more moldy worst, but' While He's Away," which was the nevertheless t a transvestite tendered by a damonic-looking male secretary. The starring lead oldies.) a genuine starting point of inspiration for Mark Wirtz and Keith Reworkings revival of the show belongs to a Lorenzo St. DuBois (lDick Shawn), a paroled hippie of classics rock.) We could go back even West's "A Teenage Opera (Grocer k0own affectionately to his friends by his acronym, LSD. All exigencies have been The best example of a redone farther and call the Jefferson Airplane's Jack)." prepared for, but, as is always the case, the scheme fails while "Springtime for standard is Cream's version Skip James' "It's No Secret" the origin of Also prominent in the revival are Itler"' is an immense success. "I'm So Glad." This is definitely a song "love-and-friendship" rock, the the two leaders-the Beatles and the it appears that Brooks never conceived of the film with a flowing continuity, to be heard with your three best forerunner of revival rock. After all, Rolling Stones. "Lady Madonna" must for each scene is a juxtaposed sketch that only bears relationship to the next in friends at three in the morning when a their slogan is "Jefferson Airplane have been a real letdown for the people terms of the retroactive contextual development of plot. It may be that this beautiful divorcee has just moved in Loves You," and there can be no doubt .who swallowed the fulsome hype choppiness is a manifestation of poor editing that does not delineate properly the next door or maybe whine you've but that it's true. surrounding 'Sgt. Pepper's;" but at fiOeelement between scenes. Overlooking this the film suffers from varying gotten a new car from your father. Marty Balin and Brian Wilson, least it doesn't try to be something it between one-line jokes and slapstick action. However, the film tends toward the Other reworkings of classics include almost alone, have this ability to put isn't. "Hey Jude" is going the other mnorestatic one-line jokes and insinuations. An elderly lady backer says to Creedence Clearwater Revival's tour de their feeling and compassion into way again, but "Revolution" is good Bgilystock, "The next we meet we can re-enact 'The Rape of Lucretia"'. "Yes," force of Screaming Jay Hawkins' old music. If you read the printed lyrics to ole Beatles again, just like the retorts Bialystock, "you be Lucretia and I'll be the rape." Possibly such lines can songs (especially noteworthy is the best their songs, they come off as dumb, at instrumental sound on "Yesterday and be compensated by a television actor's improvisation, but in a film an overdose of version of "Suzie Q" ever recorded, best. This is why Simon and Garfunkel Today." such comes across insipidly unfunny. surpassing even the Stones'); and the are failures - they have no The Stones, of course, usually kick Though 'The Producers" seems to have all the pluses on its side, the able Byrds' "My Back Pages." As understanding of the modality of the around the Beatles' ideas for three alents of those involved do not mesh to provide either sheer inane comic lunacy Crawdaddy' has pointed out, the overly musical meduim. (McLuhan students, months and then come out with a o pungent, sophisticated humor. freaky "Mind Gardens" is just a pigeon are you listening?) But that's a story much better record. "Jumping Jack Flash" I - -'1- --- and "Street Fighting Man" are pretty solid assurance that another "Their Satanic Majesties Request" will be a long time coming. Meanwhile, their banned "Beggax's Banquet" Ed Stevenson's album is tied up in red tape over the getting cover, an immensely funny (and gross) shot of a filthy bathroom replete with graffiti.
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- -I I -- - -- .1 I LON ISLAND CITY N.Y. 11101 I ---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE TECI" 'OCTCBt 8A',f968 PAGE 8 I I m~m j ..' ,,_i ,;. if ~m I~~~--D~~~~~ P - - - I ~ ~ ~ ~f ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ·t I M.I.T. HUMANITIES SERIES 1968-69 SIki Instructor, presents LAST CALL FOR AUTHORS FOR TECH SHOW '69 Week-ond positions evailabl! GUSTAV LEONHARDT, harpsichord .. October 27. for skies to instruct high sco 0 ' THE CAMERATA BERN .ovember 24 boys and gsrls. Prior instructfi 0 THE BORODIN QUARTET .. anu...... ary12 Submit complete scenariosor review skits toQ experience not required. compensation. Eicellent ski fa. SEVERINO GAZZELLONI, flute ..... e.....ru...... y 6 cilities. Write or call: PHILADELPHIA STRING QUARTET ...... March 2 Jeff Meldman at East Campus, X2871 ox All oon ts on Sundays at 3:00 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, M.I.T. Series tickets: $10; single tickets (after October 1 only): $3. Al Mike Ginsberg, 742-1298 or X4428 Sk.i payable to M.I.T. Humanities Series; send Gr.up reserved seats. Make check P.O. anx 1149. Id. Mhi ,.-dh self-addressed, stamped envelope to Kresge Auditorium Box Lebuen $p NI.Y.) 7Z2SS5 Office, M.I.T., Cambridge 02139, or call UN 4-6900, ext. 2910. P~ahsr~sap·48·-QP··Dlraransago= - my -~o~Bll~a.D.--- N----, '