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When you Whoen are you going I to make her make him an honest man! an honest woman? . .lRfIFORNIA Tech Volume LXXVII Pasadena, California, Friday, February 6, 1976 Number 16 ~~rosh Party lAC Denies Kudos by Bart Croes LaBelle Tenure and Jim Westover As you probably know there was a CIT F rosh Class Bash in by c.Y. Ach"met Dabney Hall last Friday night. In Assistant English Professor Jenijoy LaBelle was denied tenure by an attempt to provide the the Institute Administrative Council last Saturday despite the freshmen with a diversion from unanimous support of the literature faculty. LaBelle conducted a I!heir ever-present studies, a few prolonged fight for tenure beginning in the fall of 1974, when a IUng-ho but responsible students committee of tenured literature faculty voted unanimously in favor collected to produce the first of her being tenured. This recommendation was forwarded to a CITFC event of the year. The divisional committee appointed by Dr. Huttenback which voted five to one against tenure. The lone dissenting vote came from a member ~vorable response indicated the of the English department. y~ue of such a time-consuming One of the prime reasons cited for not effort. tenuring was the lack of a book-length publication. The Institute Though it could not have Administrative Council followed the recommendation of the been called a smashing success, it divisional committee and denied tenure. did achieve one of its primary LaBelle subsequently published a book and demanded recon­ objectives; rumor had it that sideration of her position. Despite his vigorous' protests, the many intoxicated frosh types Adminstration finally cornered Huttenback and forced him to acquiesce to the reconsideration. Outside experts were called in to were 0 seen staggering to their respective holes at quite a late evaluate LaBelle's publications for academic merit. The Tech is nour (one was said to have found unaware of the results of these evaluations, but once they were hls home atop a toilet seat and Suave, sophisticated frosh in the midst of a rip-roaring CITFC production. Note combined with the information generated by the previous Institute debonair "Boy I want to get laid" attitude. Thus last Friday passed away... committees, the Institute Administrative Council took last Saturday's unfortunately wasn't discovered Photo by A. Kellner until the next morning). General vote of no tenure. concensus stated that the punch that a couple of surly upper­ was "great" (thanks for the classmen took it to mind to recipe, Twat!), the music was demonstrate their lack of social good, the sound was reasonable virility by spraying a fire-ex­ (after a few technical difficulties tinguisher from atop the balcony. FINANCIAL AID DOWN were overcome), BUT that there This rather obnoxious feat was could have been more of the promptly answered by the by Al Drehman this. You therefore do not have SSP (summer studies program) immortal Kunght (only one frosh subsequent act of giving one Financial aid for next year is to worry about getting squeezed students have received in the past invited, conquered, and scored). offender a taste of the sobering down. One can expect to receive from both sides. with respect to the rest of the In the other hand, the women waters of Baxter pond. In over two thousand dollars of aid Self Help student body. This adds further felt that the avid attention was a general, the unfrosh types were in the form of a job or loan, Self help is the new name complications to next year's boost to their ego. rather subtle in their search for a with less gift aid. Why so much for what was formerly called fmancial aid program. The prob­ so suddenly? It is simple; the loan aid, with the exception that We were a bit disappointed in Continued on Page Six 0 lem lies mainly in correcting money ran out. it also includes on campus jobs these discrepancies without Last year there was less than during the school year. Actually putting a sudden burden on a $640,000 available for undergrad­ this is not that much of a few students. Food Contract uate gift aid. Unfortunately, over change, as the Federal Hope! $750,000 was spent. This year Government has already told A sudden increase from there is only $630,000 available, Caltech to count on-campus jobs $1,300 to $2,400 in loan and/or Reassessment due partially to the overexpen­ as part of a student's financial work is considered by many to by Greenie Greyhound-Prophet Food diture of some $110,000 and resources. This year the self help be too harsh a burden to be Seasons come, and seasons Management, Inc. received the economic considerations. As was $1,200 for most freshmen imposed in a single year. There­ go. The child that was, becomes first contract following this, and most of you know, gift aid and $1,300 for upperclassmen. fore proposals are being made an adult. Civilizations grow and renewed the contract· for the comes from the interest of an Next year's self help has not which, if approved, would sub­ crumble to forgotten dust. The present year. endowment. When one over­ been finalized yet, but it does stantially decrease the financial kayes that are green, turn to This contract has now run spends, part of the principal is have an upper bound of $2,000 shock for present students. orown. We live in a changing out, and a recent survey of the lost and there is a natural for freshmen and $2,400 for More information will be world. Nothing is static. They student body indicated a desire decrease in the next year's upperclassmen. The latter figures available after next week's say that all things come to he to investigate new food service interest. For this reason, the are the present goals for the next faculty meeting where these who waits. . . companies, without indicating Financial Aid Committee does few years-assuming the economy proposals will be discussed. Over And so, in the natural order dissatisfaction with Grey­ not plan to overspend this year. does not play any more tricks on the next two weeks you can of things, even a food service hound-Prophet. Althouth the cost of attending Caltech's finances. expect to hear more about runs out. The time has come for The process of investigating Tech is up $520 for next year, There is also a discrepancy in financial aid than you have heard all good Techers to come to the new companies, according to Mr. the financial aid package reflects the amount of aid foreign and over the last two years. fid of the party and choose a Gang, proceeds as follows: food service for the next few certain companies are first in­ Armenian years. vited to submit bids. If they Security Packaged Barbershop? In the past decade, Caltech indicate an interest, an The Caltech Varsity has had many food services. The appointment is set up for them by Steve Oualline vulnerable. Many students invite Quartet will be providing the live Institute even attempted to run to examine such things as the Most of the thefts at Cal tech guests to their room and it is en t e r tainmen tat Burger its own, from 1966 to 1971. Not physical plant, the special are from unlocked rooms and easy for a thief to prowl the Continental this weekend, Satur­ only did the Institute find itself arrangements (such as waited cars. A thief will walk along the halls without suspicion. day and Sunday at 6:30 and up against all the same problems meals), and to acquire in for­ halls of a building ... He will It also helps to register your 7:30. Ragtime piano digitation that any food service encounters mation about special problems, poke his head in a door to see if bikes. CaItech security will stop will a ugmen t the classic here, but in addition lacked the and the sorts of solutions anyone is there. If the room is any non-Caltech type riding a Armenian Barbershop melodies, expertise to begin dealing with imposed by the current services. empty he will make off with bike with a Caltech registration. so come on down and try them. According to R. W, Gang,_ The companies then submit bids. anything that looks valuable. The Many times a thief will look Stephen Foster a la shish kebob! Master of Diriing Halls, the' According to Gang, there are most common item stolen is into an office. If there is Institute also suffered a constant several facets to accepting a bid. pocket calculators. In December someone there he will say Nominate On drain to larger companies The Hrst is, of course, the over $3,000 worth of calculators "Woaps, wrong office." and Yourself 'eh were able to pay more and amount of the bid. However, the were stolen. leave. Caltech's plainclothes pat­ The ASCIT General Elections mise better scope. After the lowest bid is not always ac- The simplest way to keep rolman has done this many times will be held on Tuesday, Feb. Institute gave up, a period of cepted. One factor is the size of things from getting stolen is to to see if anyone asks him who he 24, 1976, so go sign yourself up experimenting followed, in- the company. Is is a sad but true keep them out of sight. Also is or what he is doing in the on Flora's door this very minute, cluding the time two years ago fact that most companies lose keep your room locked. The building. Most of the time he and get yourself elected (when no board contract existed. Continued on Page Five student houses are especially goes unchallenged. something. ge Two THE CALIFORNIA TECH Friday, February 6, 19761 STUDENT SECURITY PRAISED Cry TfJ

Last Monday, the stolen car The owner was, of course, of a member of the Caltech surprised to find that her car had Community was recovered. been found in one piece, let Relieve Hardly noteworthy, except for alone sitting in a Tech parking • • • the fact that a member of the lot. The PPD was called in to I I I Caltech Student Security Pro­ take photographs and fingerprints Oppressed ..... -I- gram was instrumental in the of the car, and the car returned -I- ~F recovery. The car was reported to its rightful owner. -- missing on January ninth, and Once again the worth of unit letter • i'" ~ managed to elude the police until 104 (the students) has been • I- the owner was notified by proven, and starting in the near I would like to use tlili • l- ~ Caltech Security that it was future they will be given almost rHU·MILITY~11 __ 1 I L. u n' rr"" T." TT II I •. , F= opportunity to beg the CIT parked in one of our parking 5Qo/c, more chances to prove it. ,..II II ..ill II • student body to rise in prates lots. On weekends, (Friday, Saturday, versus the horrible oppressio While on duty checking park­ and Sunday) two more students unwittingly foisted upon one 0 While having a conversation with one of those 4+ GPAs ing lots for unlocked cars last will be added to the patrols, verest if you're a Tech Editor) it struck me that this our most resolute and long·suf Saturday, Cadets Carl J Lydick freeing the regular security fering helpers, to wit, the letter lce is lacking in humility. To wit, the exchange: and Steven D. Smith noted the people to pursue more worth­ friendly vowel, in use for rough] "You see, troll, without humility you don't know what car in question sitting in a while tasks than checking lights 3000 summers by men of dive and such, (e.g., stakeouts, more really happening in the world. You have no concept as to parking lot with its door cultures, now deserves respi frequent patrols of the campus, unlocked. A routine mention of from such over-use. I propose w e drives and desires of the proles around you. Sitting in etc.) and possibly reducing the it was made, and on Monday the honor this over-worked vow tur lofty ivory tower of science you have come to disdain number and magnitude of thefts owner was notified that it is bad with its own week, observed' on campus, both from the e common man who made you what you are. Think of practice to leave one's car one of the following months institute and from the students. the only reason you're above average is because there are unlocked and unattended at June, July, September, October llions ,who are below average. It wasn't competence that night, even at Caltech. November or December. Du' ade you what you are today, it was the incompetence of this week of joyous revelry' ose around you. You should be grateful to them, you The Third Wing honor of this wonderful vow no letter a would be forced I auld bow down before them and be eternally grateful serve in our documents, lette. at they are incompetent. But ah, you ingrate, you don't $ For Justice or home-work. Meetings to ve the guts to do it. You couldn't walk out into that cuss CIT a week will be held' lllway, kiss the floor and be humble before the entire by Nick Smith clubroom 1, this coming 30~ concerned students will be we ::>rld even if a physics-crazed Bengal tiger was urging you In the last few issues of The to help others; or should he be corned. 1 ••• " Tech, there has been considerable locked up and the key thrown Sincerely Yours, debate going on concerning the away, for the murderer he. also "Cease! Desist! I have as much respect for my fellow D. Petrovich an as the next fellow does. I can identify with the topic of Criminal Rehabilitation is. The judge in the case stated, vs Criminal Punishment. As it at the sentencing, that it was a President, CIT free a committee tmmon man despite my seeming aloofness." happens, there was a case in Los hard decision to make, and that "An example! Let us suppose a man's life ambition was Angeles just recently that the final decision on whether the be a grease-pit monkey and he finally became one. brought before the public just man would indeed go to prison auld you have respect for that man?" this problem. would be stayed for several alIFORNIATee The case in itself was a simple months, so that his works might Friday, February 6, 1976 "Well, as long as he was a good grease-pit monkey -" Volume LXXVII Number 16 "The point exactly! Why must fie be good to win your one: two elderly women had be evaluated. Will he save died as a result of an accident someone else from making the Published weekly except during spect? Can you not accord him respect simply because he examination and vacation periodl caused by a man who was, at same fatal mistake, or will he by the Associated Students of tht lS attained happiness in life? No! No! You with your GPA least chemically and legally, "slip" and perhaps cause other California Institute of Technology, ld your girl must seek excellence in performance, you drunk. At the very least, this is deaths. Only time will tell, and I ncorporated. The opinions ex. criminal manslaughter. pity the judge who had to render pressed in all articles are strictly ust impose your standards, which is why you will never those of the authors and do not The killer may never go to such a decision. To spare Jekyll entify with the common men who pay the taxes that necessarily reflect the views of the jail, according to his sentence as or to punish Hyde? md your grants and run the stores and provide the editors or of the corporation. All handed down by the judge. Bear in mind this one further contributions become the property rvices you need far more than they need science." As with almost any situation, thing: what would have been his of The California Tech. "What can I do to demonstrate my point? Must I go live there are at least two sides to decision had the killer been a Editors-in-Chief Ed Bielecki the sewers?" this case. The man who drove his common man, possibly black or Sandy McCrocodile "Yes, yes. Live in the sewers, live in the trash and car and killed those two women chicano. Would he have been so Ken Yoshida lenient? Would a man of lesser Managing ...... Ken Kroll cerement of common men. Eat from the table scraps of was a well-respected man in Los Angeles, in fact the president of standing in the community have Features ...... Morris Jon6 :hers and sleep in the dank and damp alleys of the Latin been given a chance to pay for Movies ....•.. Lewis Hashimoto . one of the major private colleges Sports •...... ••.• Joe Esker aurter. Then, perhaps, you might acquire a taste, an in the area. He had made clear his crime in this fashion? Wheth­ Writing Staff kling, of what makes you what you are. To know science his repentance and his Willingness er the decision to forgive rather Richard Ackermann, Dick Beatty, ::>u must do it, and to know man you must live. Live not to put his efforts toward helping than punish is right or wrong, Flora Boyer, David Callaway, Eric others in whatever manner the shouldn't the chance be the same (My-Set-is-On) Carter, Gavin i a superior, but as an equal or less to find the true Claypool, Pam Crane, Alvin for all? llmility we all need." judge might wish. As it happens, Drehman, Carol Freinkel, Judith the judge ordered him to work at Of course it is essential to (Rose-of·Sharon) Greengard, Can - Sandy McCorquodale a facility attempting to prevent prevent a criminal from repeating (Layout) Lydick, Paul Mason, -OJ( more accidents caused by drunk his crimes! Imprisoning them is Steve Oualline, Alan Silverstein, Dave Sivertsen, Nick Smith drivers. The judge seemed satis­ getting almost as expensive as Robert Thornton, Gregory White. THE ASCIT FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE fied that there will be no rehabilitating them, so it's not Cartoonists repetition of the dangerous be­ really a matter of money any Blue Pathe, Guy Miller THIS IS IT havior that caused two deaths, more. It costs around $7000 a Photographers year to keep a man in prison. Don Bacon, Gregg Bone, Bobb and hoped that a constructive Bus, Rich Feldman, AI Kellner, solution might be found. Oh yes, The simplest solution, of course, Gerry Laib, Ken Li, Brian Lockett, the college president cannot drive is simply an "off with their Barry Nakazono, Chiu Yuen Ng in California for at least four heads" approach, dispensing jus­ David Weinshenker, Chris (Mach-I: Dr. STRANGElOVE tice and vengeance equally with Wheeler, Dave Wheeler. years, as well. glee. Somehow, the average man Book Editor ...• Koleen Matsud While this is a very nice Syndication ..... Matt Weinstei. example of constructive rehabil­ (always a little larcenous at Business Manager .. Becky Wint -7:3(J,fk/IJ.. & 9:3D p.l11r' itation at work, there is another heart) probably wouldn't like Assistant ... "Pasteup?" R eynol thing to consider: this same that idea, since it might apply to Circulation ....Wayne Dickenso The California Tech publication college president had been pre­ him if he cheated on his income jil'8fJNleI:"/.ectllie' Nfl// offices are located in Winne viously arrested for drunk dri- tax. So the question is, how to Center (105-51), California Insti ving. In other words, this wasn't prevent the crimes. There are tute of Technology, Pasadena C just a one-time thing. He knew undoubtedly some people who 91125. Telephone: 795-6811 what he was doing when he got will always have to be incarcer­ x2154. Printed by News-Typ ated, no matter what the society. Service, 1506 Gardena Avenu '- " into that car that night those Glendale CA 91209. Second Cia women died. Until he killed There are others who can be led postage paid at Pasaden, someone, he hadn't cared enough out of the crime cycle. Regret­ California. 'to stop. tably, both things cost money, Subscriptions .... $1.50 per ter The question is this: is it and there you have ,the key...... $4.00 per yea Nobody wants to spend it, but life Subscription ...... $1 DARK STAR better to rehabilitate this upright © 1976, The California Tech citizen, this benefactor of the until it's spent, crime will All Rights Reserved C'-t J- community, and use his talents continue to rampage. 6, 1976 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Three 't '*''*''*''*''*' playa brava Leal Nets Dreyfuss $

! On Franking L. Gary Leal, associate pro­ The recipients, in chemistry, fessor of chemical engineering biochemistry, and chemical en­ here at Caltech, is the recipient gineering, were nominated by by Ngapuhi law a provision limiting the can remember receiving one of of a teacher-scholar grant from their institutions as outstanding Last weekend two unrelated these letters in the post during amount of money a candidate the Camille and Henry Dreyfuss teachers and scholars. of interest caught my the previous five years Tunney could spend in an election. For Foundation. Leal is one of 15 A member of the Caltech The first was the has been in office. One suspects senators, this limit was less than young faculty members who faculty since 1970 (when he was Court's ruling on the the best of motives in his thirteen cents per consti­ were chosen for this honor from 26), Leal was nominated for his campaign finanCing act conscientiousness. After ~ll it is an tuent - the cost of a first-class among 112 candidates at univer­ fundamental research on the second was my receipt letter. election year and the Jr. Senator sities throughout the country. mechanics of particles in fluids. a "letter" from Senator John In this light, my receipt of a from California is up for re­ Among other projects, he has carrying his frank. printed "letter" carrying election. been involved in developing When one considers the fact the timing was strictly Tunney's 'frank is most inter­ mathematical models that can be tal, it served to point esting. The letter purportedly was that until the recent Court ruling used to study the way atmos­ Senatorial candidates were so Ohshima some injustices of current to keep his constituents informed pheric contaminants or heat limited in campaign spending one reforms. on the senator's controversial wastes are dispersed. Supreme Court reaffirmed begins to wonder if the current stand on Angola. Considering the The grant, totalling $35,000, Amendment guarantees of amount of press he has received, campaign laws aren't unfairly Correction will be used at Leal's discretion of speech by striking anyone not knowing Tunney's biased in favor of the men who over a five-year period in con­ of the election law that position on this matter would wrote them - the incumbents. Sirs: nection with his teaching and the amount of have to be illiterate. Disregarding And in a year, when the US research activities. The Dreyfus a person can spend to air the validity of Tunney's reason­ Postal Service will lose a billion In his article in the last teacher-scholar grant program has views on a particular can- ing in this matter and the dollars despite the first class rate California Tech David Callaway been in existence since 1970, and or position. As the court propriety of usurping the increase, we can surely do stated "For the past eight years Caltech is the only institution it, free speech is meaningless authority of the State Depart­ without franked junk mail. In he [Mr. Ohshima] has also with a recipient each year. Last individual can make ment (A front-page article in The the interests of fair elections it taught karate at Caltecli." year's honoree was Robert W. heard in today's London Times last week reported would only be proper to deny all I believe Mr. Ohshima first Vaughan, associate professor of society. This Tunney's "foreign affairs ad­ incumben ts their franking instructed students here at chemical engineering. visor" was conferring with high privileges for obviously political Caltech during the academic year "Tomorrow's energy will be has cleary acted officials of the Russian and mail within a year of the 1957-58; further, except for a provided through scientific and in stemming this attack Cuban backed MPLA in Luanda), expiration 'of their term. And few years in the early 60's, I engineering advances on many free speech by an increasingly it is heartening that Tunney is one hopes Senator Tunney will believe he has instructed Caltech fronts," Brown said. "Caltech body of politicians finally showing an interest in his· stop using his frank to send me stud en ts during every academic scientists and engineers-and their bureaucrats in Washington. long-neglected constituents out junk political flyers. year since 1957-58 up until the Court also struck from the here on the West Coast. No-one present. students-will be instrumental in

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Colorado Blvd. Page Four THE CALIFORNIA TECH Friday, February 6, 1976' very accorate portrayal of the to end all wars, wherein rna: interiors of the B-52 and of the exploits the most permclOUS operation of the code box and devices of perverted technology fail-safe procedures. And the to destroy his brothers. Second, comic sequences are played with an age of barbarism and super· enormous skill and absurdity; stition plunges civilization into a Kubrick Arrives! such masterful scenes will long primitive existence with a barter be remembered, such as the economy, warlord social stru· This weekend's ASCIT film and Terry Southern. scientist Dr. Strangelove, who is, sequence wherein Sellers as the cture, and the fear of the plague. will be Dr. Strange/ave, to be As technologists, Techers among this bizarre set of char­ British aide can only save the Finally, the age of the "Airmen", screened at 7:30 and 9:30 should be familiar with acters, the most well-adapted to world from devastation if he can a gloriOUS and mighty brother· tonight in Baxter Lecture Hall of Strangelove as an example of a world of impending nuclear talk an Army colonel into hood of brilliant scientists the Humanities. There exists a popular anti-technological litera­ holocaust. George C. Scott machine-gunning a Coke ma­ (oho !), brings mankind to salva· void in Cinematech's film series ture which exploits and develops delivers a brash and dynamic chine. The interplay of farce and tion and fruition, to the ultimate this Saturday, due to midterms, some of the stereotypes and performance as a shallow, gung­ black social comment has made civilization of technology fOI but this abhorred vacuum will be characterizations lurking in the ho Pentagon man, displaying the Dr. Strangelove into the Gulliver's technology's sake, and to the filled by the showing of Things minds of the neurotic post­ asinine jingoism of what was Travels of our recent cinematic conquest of the universe. This is to Come by the JPL Space atomic generations. Plot: a once the typical American hero past. quite a grand scope for a mm to Exploration Post (that is, the crazed Bircher air force general of fifties war fIlms. The black­ Things to Come is something cover. JPL subsidized Explorer Scout (Sterling Hayden) unleashes the and-white camerawork serves of an idealistic turnabout on Dr. Things to Come is a fascinat· organization of future NASA might of his SAC bomber unit quite adequately to depict a Strangelove. It was made prior to ing look into the way people administrators and computer on an unauthorized mission to world of crazed stereotypes, World War Two, with the dreamed, before the existence of trolls). That film is rumored or bomb the Russians back to the drawn from cold war fantasies scriptwriting of George Orwell, atomic warfare and other recent alleged to be shown tomorrow Stone Age; by indirection and and newspaper headlines. and displays the mildly optimis­ phenomena which have tended to night at seven and nine o'clock luck, this comes to the attention Kubrick used a bizarre taste tic idealism of British socialists put science and technology into in Baxter. of the President (peter Sellers) towards incongruity in selecting of that time. One might say it is disrepute as the saviors of Dr. Strangelove or; How I and the assembled powers of the the musical score, in order to a science-fiction film, and though mankind. It was a good dream. Learned to Stop Worrying and Pentagon. Most of the B-52's of accentuate the sick absurdity of it is structured thus, Things to Much of it, especially the fin~ Love .the Bomb (1964) was the the unit are recalled, but one the manner in which the cold Come emerges as a social blue­ sequences of Airmen striving for seminal work in a meteoric series single bomber, captained by an war world is structured. Tech­ print for a sublime existence of the stars, is just silly to modern of black comedies and farces intrepid, patriotic Texan, con­ nical work in the film is faultless; mankind based on love of science viewers, bu t it would still be dealing with the insecurities and tinues on its mission. it is rumored that the Pentagon rather than the structures of worth seeing, for an audience of nameless fears underlying life in Dr. Strangelove is still an instigated security checks on social order. / modern technologists to sample the Sixties. From this film one enormously funny film, though Kubrick and other workers on There are three major pro­ the idealism of a younger age. can trace the development of its bitterness has perhaps dimin­ Dr. Strangelove because of the phesies of the film: first, the war -Lewis Hashimoto dark humor into drama and ished as the audiences move out tragedy, leading to such major of the immediacy of the cold recent cinematic works as Bonnie war into the relative pia cor of and Clyde and Blow-Up. Dr. detente. Much of the humor lies Schmaltza Italiana Sucks Strangelove was yet another in characterization, which is well unorthodox and innovative crea­ performed by a talented cast. by Dick Beatty tion by producer-director Stanley Peter Sellers excels in his three Kubrick; based on a cold war roles: the neurasthenic British Sunny Italy, Rosemead at San the isolated corner booths; diners for the carnal spheres offered up novel by Peter George, Red aide to the demented general; the Pasqual, Pasadena. in these cardboard caverns by food service Gust last Alert, the comedic script was befuddled, Stevenson-ish Pres­ Sunny Italy is one of the disappear from sight and are Tuesday, in fact.) Undergrads on developed by Kubrick, George, ident; and the diabolical German many average Italian restaurants soon nearly forgotten by the board contract can make their' common in the Los Angeles area. staff. While this may be desirable own assessment on this item. The Honorable Mr. Rhodes on One can have a pleasant meal at times, it is frustrating to be salad and bread are equally Monday at 4 p.m. in Winnett here but there is nothing out­ ignored by the same waitress conventional; the minestrone CALTECH. Lounge, when he'll be discussing standing at the place. who was responsible for con­ soup elucidated no comment "The Unscientific Nature qf The dining room is not overly cealing you. from the usually reliable source. Criminal Justice". In addition large and would be very personal The food is the average That about says it for the Tuesday at noon in the Y lounge were it not so dark that one American attempt at synthesizing Sunny Italy; it's the average lod he'll be leading an open dis­ must rely on memory to know Italian cuisine, and comes off no Italian restaurant. Dinners are cussion, and that evening at 8 who else is in your party. The better. The pizzas lack character neither cheap nor expensive at p.m. in Winnett Lounge there decor is a combination of or identity, (one wonders how $4.00 for entrees, soup or salad. will be a third talk, entitled Schmaltza Italiana and Early noble tomato sauce on toast can and bread. SI is satisfactory "Political Activism in an Age of Sidewalk Trattoria. It looks more be in the first place) while the although not exceptional, per, Indifference". Don't miss this like a living room than a spaghetti variations turn out fectly acceptable for the Teehel opportunity to talk about the restaurant (which is pleasant) but rather trite and undistinguished. although not the best choice for Real World with a Techer who's things just don't fit. Beware of The meatballs are a dead ringer the money. Programs been in the middle of it for a few years. We're going to bring you The next Philharmonic Con­ What we are as a company living proof that it's possible to cert is next Thursday at the is but a composite of what graduate from Caltech and go on usual time of 7:30 and for the to be a success in something we are as individuals. 'usual price of $1.50, transpor­ If we as individuals are motivated, in· other than science. Next Monday tation provided. Sign up now to quisitive, knowledgeable and resourceful, and Tuesday distinguished enjoy guest conductor Gennady then the company that we become a part of will be equally so. Some com­ alumnus Joseph Rhodes, Jr., of Rozhdestvensky, pianist Gary panies may describe such an attitude the class of '69, will be on Graffman, and the orchestra as a "corporate philosophy." We campus to talk to students would rather think of it as a fact of performing Mendelssohn: Over­ life. BNR is conducting research, interested in politics and govern­ ture, Calm Sea, and Prosperous design, development, long· range ment. He is currently a membe~ planning and systems engineering ,-----.('-1 Voyage, and Piano Concerto No. in all areas of technology related of the Pennsylvania House 0;' 1, plus Shostakovich: Symphony to telecommunications. Because Representatives, and has beer. No.8. of our "fact of life" approach to people, we have accomplished very active in state and national A week from now, Friday at a great deal collectively. government since receiving his noon, there's to be yet another We are presently searching B.S. degree in history. While at for a select number of qualified of our very popular noon individuals with as, MS, or PhD Caltech, he was the only blacl: concerts. This week will feature degrees in electronic engineering ASCIT president so far and tht, the group "Roland", and they do to become members of our scien­ tific staff. The challenge is excep· only one to hold office for two jazz. Eat out on the quad, and tionally unique. Your involvement consecutive years. relax for a while. would be immediate ... in areas such You are welcome to meet The as the applied design of microproces­ -Alan Silverstein sors in new or existing equipment or participating in the design threshold of -., computer'controlled telecommunications systems. The rewards are plentiful, both per· ; FEB. 20-22 'I sonally and professionally. If you have already shown exceptional accom· plishments scholastically and are interested in the ':MELISSA, MANCHESTER\'I telecommunications field, we would like to speak with FEB. 24-26: RONNIE MILSAP & I you during our on,campus interviews. "\'1 \.. GARY STEWART' ,~ ':1 ~~~~~~~~------~--~~ Campus interviews BNR February 12 Palo Alto, California .'~~~l!1r•. A subsidiary of Bell-Northern Research An equal opportunity employer MI F, ~ II..: '0'081, SANTA 'MONICA, Bl.VD~ L.A. 27&6168~ ; Friday, February 6, 1976 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Page Five Board Beat Continued From Page One simply skip breakfast and make YJ\\O ~E. ~Ou. ) i\\t-. t,l() , 'iO\) S1t\VLt money their first year at Caltech, up for it at lunch. Second and the company chosen must be entrees cause a problem even w(J) ~()\l.'\ ~~E.'-l \1~~\ '? I'M ~~11\ CLAuS. able to absorb a year in the red. now. Greyhound-Prophet's Another factor is the ability of present contract calls for a main the company to provide the and an "alternate" entree, not an ~(J) services that Techers require, additional one; the company including waited meals, sack currently serves a portion of each meals for those who miss regular entree for each student. Al­ ones due to classes, a reasonable though the current contract calls ~(g)f menu, and a willingness to for "limited" seconds, the actual negotiate with the student prefer­ situation is that of unlimited. ences as to the composition of Student desires will have to be the menus. more carefully outlined in future Why is it that most food contracts, and such special services "lose their shirts" their situations may cost more in the first year here? According to Bill future. Fennel of Greyhound-Prophet, As of today, it is uncertain there are always problems when what the cost of next year's a company moves into a new board contract will be, although location; new employees to it almost certainly will increase. become accustomed to, new But Caltech is still doing rather physical plant and layout, equip­ well on both room and board ment which sometimes is in need rates, even with the proposed of repair, new student room rate increase in mind; 'U~l\i! AA'lW~'l, I'V( Goi 1WENT'f Of i~Sf ~b\Ec:, preferences and systems of oper­ according to the preliminary U? I\T ~ ~O{li\\ ~al' it(\\\,f t-lo~ , 1tL~~\NG ation. Caltech also has special results of a survey of Califorina C~\SrJiAS 1>RE.5eJTS,.O GOob UtiLE QUL't>~ problems in its "Family style schools performed by R.W. Gang, dinners" (for instance, in keeping we have one of the lowest room AlL O'1Efl mE. WoItLt>. the food hot and apportioning and board. This is true even ------< the food among the houses), and when conSidering the luxuries iIi coping with the eccentricities that our contracts include, such of student waiters. Also, Caltech as linen service, and those waited has a small student body; it is meals. difficult to profitably serve only There will always be 550 people. (The number of complaints about "Food Dis­ employees which is required to service"; it is endemic to the serVe 550 people could serve situation. However, particularly t S~E. 'fOuR. -po\~1. I iRb.*t> \1 I~ 700-1000}. However, he asserts at such times as the present, 00, , that although Greyhound-Prophet when a new contract is being HE'! J yl\\~ ~\T 'tOU ft)Q. " ~A.tSUN P\a.o~. lost money its first year, and will considered, it is important to lEi M~ &l't 'fOU TIE AlR P\)LLUT\()t-\ only break even by the end of remain objective about the merits A tt.\~, '? P.>oAR~ w~s COM¥I.N~t~G second term, this year, the and problems involved with the company feels that it under­ current service. After all, par­ ~U1 ALL THE stands how to operate at Caltech ticularly in that dolorous first REIN\)Ee.~ SHIT. and would like to return for a year, it can easily turn out to be three year contract. worse ... What does Caltech want from a food service? Obviously, ,My.-Set-is-On palatable, nourishing meals at a semi-reasonable price. However, 284 as mentioned above, our waited After Long and Lonely Days in Angolan Bush-country ... meals are difficult for any economies, and our ten­ I do not believe that I have Three out of four Saturdays Brock of H&L Brock with progressed, the man ripped of .meal-per-week plan also causes laughed that' hard or long in NBC gathers together the Not another of my 17 reasons why to his shirt, revealing a black, sati! problems. According to R.W. several months; and I must Ready For Prime Time Players, bring your income tax returns to brassiere. Off came his heav~ Gang, in the past many confess that I do not have a plus a special guest or two for 90 us instead of to H&R Block. working boots, quickly replace( companies submitted the same penchant for laughter. On the minutes of ribbing at the phe­ Number One, we cheat for you." by silver' slippers. Tugging off hi bid for the ten-meal plan as for a NBC Weekend Update newscaster nomenon known as Western A man in a supermarket with jeans showed black panties ani fifteen-meal plan, saying that Chevy Chase describes the pro-' Civilization. The show is telecast two casseroles and a typical stockings. As if this wasn' they felt that students would ceedings of the Patty Hearst trial live (taped here in the West) housewife taste-testing them. enough, from under the ha as the screen depicts the standard from New York at 11 :30 p.m. "Yes folks, instead of chOOSing flowed very long blonde hair 100 Kilobuck artist's rendition of the court­ The Players are a heterogeneous, this casserole made with 80 cents Long before the last bars werl room scene. As the camera young group of largely unknown 'worth of this famous brand tuna, completed, the audience wen Exxon Gusher switches from one crayoned, quantities who perform with a she preferred the one made with wild. stick-figure populated, scene to 'racy, comfortable style. One gets 40 cents ,worth of Felina cat The character and texture 0 The Exxon Corporation has the next, my roommate and I are the distinct impreSSion that they food!" A couple walks each show changes with eacJ made an initial grant of on the floor with hysteria. Does really enjoy what they are doing. hand-in-hand down the avenues guest host, which provides a sor $100,000 to Caltech for this that sound sophomoric to you? Chevy (Cornelius) Chase has of Paris on a beautiful spring of beauty and excitement to thl academic year, President Brown Some of the funniest things in become the standout of the day, "This couple used absolute­ episodes. There is even legitimatl announced last Friday. Brown this world are the simplest. A Players with his Weekend Update ly nothing to make' them seem musical entertainment during thl said Exxon has indicated its satellite interview with a British and fall-down routines. He was more attractive to each other." course of the show, the mos intention to continue that level mercenary in Angola by Update formerly a writer and actor with Two men stand side-by-side, noteworthy having been thl of support for each of the newswoman Carol Stinson in her PBS's The Great American "This is my wife, and I love her. reuniting of Simon anI following two years, so that its best Nancy Dickerson voice; Dream Machine. The format is She has so much to do, with the Garfunkel, giving a memorabll total commitment to the Insti­ "This man has spent 284 long open, free-wheeling, fast-paced, housework and the kids, but she performance of many of thei tute is $300,000. and lonely days in Angola. How and funny. Last week's guest still manages to finish everything old favorites, along with som, The Exxon grant is intended do you feel after 284 long and host was Dick Cavett, and past and look fresh and alive. I asked new ones. to support research and policy lonely days here in the bush?" hosts include Simon and for her secret~ She uses hmitol." If off beat, sometimes kink] studies related to energy, Brown Mercenary: "I'd sure like to Garfunkel, Lily Tomlin, Peter Dick Cavett was interviewed and often simple humor is tl explained. He said funds will be pop your lolly, honey." Cook and Dudley Moore, Elliot as the author of a new book hot used primarily to enable faculty your liking, this show is for you Carol: "Don't say it if you Gould, and Candice Bergen. of the presses, Nebraska Pimp, in (Lampoon fans note: two of th, members to initiate research on don't mean it." While watching Saturday which he related the intricacies show's writers were once wit! energy-related projects while per­ The action commences, we Night, be sure never to go to the of his "one-horse, back seat" that venerable magazine) Even i manent or supplementary fund­ switch back to Chevy Chase in kitchen or the throne during a operation in a small Midwestern that isn't your piece of pie ing is obtained from other New York, "That report was from commercial; for it might be a town. The final skit in the last sources. Brown further said that please give it a go; it's really , war-torn Carol Stinson in false alert. The program has show consisted of the results of a the grant will enable Caltech to lot of fun. The next show wil Angola." Tasteless? Crude? cleverly inserted its! own profess­ new talent search. A man of respond to new research oppor­ not be on until February 14th Maybe, but NBC's Saturday ional-quality product plugs in the about 30 years was dressed on tunities with flexibility and speed due to NBC's also very worth Night is tearing up the airwaves, middle of the breaks. They are construction worker's clothing, and will foster close working ties while Weekend. Come St and after only 3 months, it is fantastic. A conservatively complete with hardhat. He rested for Caltech faculty and students Valentine's Day, as always, m) one of the most enticing pro­ dressed bespectacled man sits in On a prop girder singing "I've set will be on. with individuals in the energy grams to the advertising world in a leather chair; "Hi, I'm Herb Got to Be Me." As the song -Eric CarteJ industry. history. 1ge Six THE CALIFORNIA TECH Friday, February 6, 1976 The CIRCUS! Photos by D. Wheeler and K. Yoshida

"Is everybody happy?" asked juggling and balancing acts, a trio a clown. of teenage girls doing tricks while "Yes!" screeched hundreds of hanging from ropes. Since small children. A few of the Beckman Auditorium is far reo wittier ones yelled "No!" in­ moved from a Big Top, anything stead, but the Caltech Family designed to make us hold our Fun Circus was a smash-at least breath came off as slightly with the kids. ridiculous. The processions and The program propounded the spectacles were not as lavish as prodigious promenade of per­ the booming voice of the ring. formers practicing their per­ master claimed, but anyone plexing plethora of performances. under eight was impressed. Unfortunately, the grandiose Of course, no one expected descriptions and introductions Ringling Brothers to come to did not conceal that this was a Caltech, and the effrot is quite circus that could only appeal to commendable. Even so, only the. young children. The rest of us very young can appreciate this are jaded. type of circus (or Techers who The acts that did not attempt want to snicker at friends forced to be "spine-tingling" were gen­ to be clowns and animals). erally the best: unicycle tricks, -Pamela Crane

Charlie Curatalo, Johnny D, O"".CII: 0'" THE MASTeR JUDGES: 0'" 8TUOII:NT HOUSES INTERHOUSE COOKIIlG CONTEST Dean Face, Brian Freeman, Kevin Jim Black Hilton, Cora Hunter, Jim Philip Brown Chauvinistic' Frosh Harry GrdY Hans Liepmann (is-yard) Jacobs, Pete (ya, I'll do Saturday, February 14, 2:00 p.m. all the work) Kezios, Guy Miller ~~,. Jim Morgan Ray OWen Frosh, Mean Steen Pedersen, WHERE? Continue Kudos Richard (L.P.) Schumacher, Jack PRIZE Microwave oven Shaio and Jon Vavrus. Continued From Page One for their noble presence and also A special thanks to the FEW CONDITIONS: ece (of the action). We have no to Jim Mayer and Paula van der with-it freshmen who tried to Each house that wishes~ to participate Should submit a ltstanding complaints other 3-cQurse meal consisting of main dish, dessert, and its Kogel for their suggestions and bring 'nookie' and to the even choice of salad, soup, vegetable, etc. Food should be an that next time they bring for inviting all the professors of fewer who succeeded. If any­ prepared in the house kitchenette and there should De enough for six portions. If you let the Athenaeum know ,eir own wine and women. the freshman courses. thing, this party demonstrated by Thursday afternoon (2/12/76) what serving dishes or The party was made pOSSible A hearty thanks to unfrosh that a person gets as much out equipment you need, you may borrow things from them provi­ ding you return equipment (clean) the next day. The ,anks to $100 from Lyman types such as John Baker, Greg of a party as he puts into it. So Master's office will pick up the tab for rental of equip­ :>nner and approximately $200 Bone and Shal Farley for their quit strokin' it and start stokin' ment) • om ASCIT (appropriated by expertise and the use of their it, guys! First place house will receive a microwave C"Ien for in­ stallation in one of the house kitchenettes. Honorable ,e ESC). Jim Backus and Tom hi-fi equipment; also to Ed With enough popular demand mention awards will consist of 1/2/ to 2/3 of the wholesale lyder were instrumental in our Kober for saving our ass at the price of an oven (the house makes up the blaance). If you another CITFC event is possible participate but don't want an oven, you may have something fort to cope with the brilliance last minute with the use of his next term. Perhaps we, as a class, else instead for the kitchenette. , the ASCIT treasurer. amp and speakers. can continue to transcend the Following the judging by a faculty panel, participants For an enormous expenditure The specialized help of John interhouse hostilities which will be ~nvited to enjoy the feast with wine provided by , their time and effort, we'd (call him Pat) Huber, Ernie appear to intenSify as one's stay the !-laster of Student Houses. (e to give our sincere thanks to (Christian) Lewis, Chuck (EE progresses here. Please let Carmela know as scon as possible whether YOu want an oven for your house. • We will need to order a cer­ Ie Eichorn and Ed Hamrick. Toad) Sarture and Werner (One Let us set the example fot the tain number of them in order to take advantage of the We'd like to express our Minute Shower) Pyka was much upperclassmen in whom this wholesale price .. 'preciation to Ray Owen, Tom appreciated. all-out house rivalry is ingrained. Entries will be judged on the basis of balance, appearance, and taste. postol, Sunney Chan, Richard For their much-needed help Any comments, criticisms or ickerson, Glerinys Farrar, along the way we'd like to thank ideas should be directed to the lbert Hibbs and John Swanson Tom Benser, Robert Bourret, authors of this article. Friday, February 6, 1976 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Page Se,

************ GUIDE TO MONEY To Friends of John Rohmer: Mr. John (Jack) Rohmer, who was the host at the Athenaeum bar for approximately five years prior to mid-1975, is terminally ill in FOR HIGHER EDUCATION San Gabriel Community Hospital. Jack has no hospital or life insurance and has lost his vesting in the Institute's retirement program. He and his family have very' limited financial resources. His Guide to more than 250~000 Scholarships and medical expenses will be extremely heavy as he has aln;ady Financial Aid Source - items valued at over undergone major surgery followed by a lengthy stay in intensive care. We are extablishing a fund, the proceeds of which will be given to $500 million dollars. his wife. It is our hope that those of you who appreciated Jack's services and unfailing good humor will see fit to contribute. If you Contains the most up-to-date information on: make a contribution by check it should be made payable to the "1. Rohmer Fund" and sent to one of the persons listed below. Scholarships. grants. aids, fellowships, loans, work-study programs, Jim Black (1-71); Lance Davis (228-77); Alexis Livanos (116-81); cooperative education programs, and summer job opportunities; for Jim Morgan (138-78); Gordon Stanley (102-24); Vivian Stirling study at colleges, vocational and technical schools, paraprofessional (1-61). training, community or two-year colleges, graduate schools, and post­ graduate study or research: funded on national, regional, and local levels by the federal government, states, cities, foundations, corpora­ tions, trade unions, professional associations, fraternal organizations, ************* and minority organizations. Money is available for both average as wen Electric Light Orchestrfl as excellent students, both with and without need. BENNETT PUBLISHING CO. Dept. 214, 102 Charles Street, Boston, Mass. 02114. Seflrchinl ffJr Unif/lJeSfJlJnd,· , Please rush me __ ~ copies of GUIDE TO MONEY FOR HIGHER EDUCA­ TION at S5.95 plus SOc for postage and handling for each copy. Lwe Frflh1j)tfJn First-Rflte I am enclosing $__ _ _ (check or money order). Name Face the Music, , United Artists Adddress ______There's a fun game that can be played with ELO's latest album. City State Simply match each song with the person or group that is it's major influence. The first person who can match my solution wins a free «) Copyright 1976 Bennett Publishing Co. ticket and ride to see ELO's next concert. Send your answers to Rock in Dabney House. (Sorry, Dudes, only one guess per person.)

1. Fire on High .....a Marshall Tucker ,------~ -----~---- 2. Waterfall ...... b George Harrison THE l1i\lMB~REWS 3. Evil Woman ...... c Santana qOT 4. Night Rider ...... d Supertramp RtJP THE SCALPEL~? , 00 5. Poker ...... e Fleetwood Mac ITS BECOmE PRETTY 6. .... f Paul McCartney 7. Down Home Town ..... g The Who OBVIOUS THAT TI-\EP-.E 8. One Summer Dream ...... :, Yes ARE F\ LOT OF THIN(fS ABOUT 1H1~ PLRCE 1HEY DIDN'T \ELl, US AT Though I feel that this is ELO's finest album to date, it is FROSH CR(y)P ••• YEAtI.YOU still far from being great. Some­ DON'T TK\N't\ how the best that the Orchestra lHE"r'LL mAKE can seem to do is attempt to mut.H NOISE', DO improve the sounds that other YOU? successful music makers have created. I really can't predict whether Electric Light will find a unique sound of their own, but I hope they can and thus realize the potential that they have shown for too many years.

Frampton Comes Alive!, Peter himself together a terrific album. live album you can think of. four excellent rock songs that are of music around them. And wI Frampton, A&M Records. I would say that this album is Every single song on this excellent to bogey by (take note, a web that is. Peter puts c The musical potential that equal to the best live albums that album is truly fine. No filler . Holliston). Side two is a bit some of the smoothest elect Peter Frampton has shown in the have ever been made. That's . material or overlong drum solos mellower with Frampton's ac­ guitar likely to be heard ar past is potential no longer. After right. This album is equal to the . here. Although this fact is in coustical gl,litar work stealing the where. He also manages toiling with Humble Pie and The Allman Brothers at Filmore East, itself nice to know, it becomes limelight. Peter even makes the produce some of the best so un Herd and producing a few so-so the "righ teous" Bangladesh truly amazing when you find big commitment in the first cut, I've ever heard made with thc solo efforts, Peter has put concert, or any other truly great that this record is in fact a "All I Want To Be," when he new-fangled talk boxes. I ho double album. (I can hear your sings: that you can find time to gi wallets wilting already, but never I don't care this record a listen for I feel it at ·the· ICE HOUSE fear, for the two record set is If they cut my hair. one of the best new albums if DASAOENA. specially priced at only a few All I want to be long, long time. Now Thru' SUflday 24 N. Mlintor cents more than a single disk Is by your side. Here's the latest in upcomi Reservations Pbone' 681-9942 selection.) Most of the songs are Side three opens with a cute concert information: ! HELLO PEOPLE old Frampton staples, but are little guitar piece and then David Bowie, Feb. 8,9,11; DUNCAN TUCK MUSIC done with more energy and skill explodes into some more excell­ the Forum. and COMEDY then you might have imagined ent including the nth Kinks, Feb. 9,10; Sali MONDAY ROTO possible. version of "Jumping Jack Flash" Monica Civic. ONLY Side one of the album has and a passionate love song Spinners and Rufus (featuri entitled "I'll Give You Money". the incredible Chaka Chan), Fe The final side includes the best 14; Forum. cut on the album, an incredible Electric Light Orchestra, Fe song called "Do You Feel Like 16,17 ; Anaheim Conventi4 We Do." Center. Throughout the album the Roxy Music, Feb. 20; HoD crowd reacts wildly to every wood Palladium. note. At one point Peter stops Kiss & Montrose, Feb. 23,2 singing and lets the audience sing Forum. a line for him. To say that this Coming in March: Janis Ia enhances the album would be Dan Fogelburg, Carole King, TI quite an understatement. One Who, Queen, Kingfish ar can't help but be swept up with Supertramp. the crowd as Peter spins a web -Rock Howai Discobulus ~lIFORNIA Tech Duel by Anaconda Big Red's slam-dunking bas­ ketball machine hustled their way to an upset Discobolus victory as Ruddock's second-half shooting attack turned as cold as their shirts were blue. The game wasn't nearly as close as the three-point 41-38 margin would seem to indicate. After taking a six-point lead at the end of the first quarter, Ruddock began, as a portent of things to come, losing its shooting knack and held on to salvage a half-time tie. The second half told the story as Big Red held the Rudds to an incredible four points until the inse rtion of Tech reporter Ige Eight "Moon-Ball" Carter sparked a nine-point Rudd rally in the final two minutes. But all was to naught as Fleming copped three more Discobolus brownie points. by Bob D.T. Hardy even though they do not deserve allowed the following hypothesis ABSTRACT: This article to. to be advanced: If Caltech were ows that when the Caltech INTRODUCTION: It is a well to play UCLA again, it would ockey team is pitted against the known fact that Caltech has a necessarily win. To test this eLA Hockey team the result is .very superior hockey team (The hypothesis a game was scheduled 'Fleming's flim-flammery copped them an upset victory over Ruddock in )t necessarily victory for the ana played against UCLA. The Discobulus action last"weekend. Note pained expression. California Tech, 1975-1976). Foto by Pheldman utech team. Furthermore, it' When Caltech played UCLA in remarkable and somewhat dis­ ows that by random fluctua­ previous games, Caltech always turbing results of that game are UCLA would score once in 8 )ns the worse team can some­ won, establishing the fact that reported below A possible mech­ shots is ca. 0.44. The probability nes score more goals than the Caltech is better than UCLA. anism underlying these results is that Caltech would not score We Win! :tter team and so win the game Reasoning based on these facts discussed. once in 13 shots is ca. 0.39. MATERIALS AND METH­ These two numbers are ex­ by Ed Bielecki OD S: Hockey-sticks, switch­ tremely close. It therefore seems In their first return match blades, skates and various other likely that UCLA's win can be with PCC the swordsmen of paraphernalia were purchased at attributed to random fluctuation. Caltech did their first victory of random places. Several players In other words, the little bastards the season up royally. Fielding ate one Hershey bar before the lucked out. two foil teams, Tech not only game. Several did not take a won both, but did so 7-2 in both shower after the game. The Into the Future cases. game, consisting of three twen­ Another experiment on ice Tech will not, however, be ty-minute periods, was played hockey will be run this Sunday able to rest on its laurels, as it mostly on ice but sometimes on Feb. 8 at 5:45 p.m. at West will have already faced CSULA the ass and once or twice on the Covina Ice Arena. This time the on Thursday, and will meet pee head. As usual, the Caltech opposition_ will be the Senior yet again on the 12th. So, if you goalie, Cliff Brown became Olympic Team from California. have interest in viewing flashing thoroughly wasted before. Admission fee will be $1.00. foils and slashing sabers come to RESULTS: Briefly stated, the gym about 7:30 on UCLA beat Caltech, but Caltech ,f' , Thursdays. outplayed UCLA, (see Table 1) TABLE 1 We cordially invite , Period 1 2 3 Caltech I CLASSIFIED ADS goals for UCLA 0 1 1 students and faculty WANTED: Someone to fix my goals for Tech 1 0 0 .members to bank with us.

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