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BlJPOIOOATech The To Fill the Expands CALIFORNIA Space Allotted Volume LXXIV Pasadena, California, Thursday, May 10, 1973 Number 28 Election Results Rejected; May 18 Behavioralists Tell of New Election Impact on Society by Gavin Claypool Friday's class elections and by Etaoin Schroedlu Hood opened the conference by ASCIT special election were The Caltech Y presented its outlining its goals to be to invalidated Monday by a vote of second "Impact" conference last educate the Caltech community the Board of Directors. The Saturday, on "The Impact of on behavioral and humanistic action came in response to Behavioral Engineering on Soci issues and to provide an oppor protests raised by Alan Shiller ety," focusing on behaviorism tunity for Caltech and the relating to the writing-in of "no" and behavioral engineering, made community at large to interact Yotes. famous in recent years by the and discuss the matterS at hand. Shiller stated that some mem writings of Harvard psychologist Then Dr. John Whiteley, associ bers of Ruddock House believed B. F. Skinner. The first confer ate professor of social ecology at writing "none" or similar phrases ence in this series, the highly V.C. Irvine, assumed his role as constituted a "no" Yote. It had successful "Impact of Genetic conference moderator and intro become known that the Election Engineering on Society," was duced the first speaker, Dr. Carl Committee had counted only THROOP MAY no longer exist, but the Caltech Glee Club is still going strong. held last year. Thoresen of Stanford. explicitly-written "no" votes, rel The Club will present its annual Home Concert Friday and Saturday in Beckman. Caltech Biology prof Lee Queer Roosters? egating the ··none" and other Dr. Thoresen, an associate votes to the ··obscure" list. The For Best Overall Emissions professor of education, was closeness of the vote for Social speaking from the point of view Chariman indicated that the of the behavioralists. After assur ignorance of some students on Clean Air Car Project Wins Award ing the audience that he was not how to vote ··no" correctly may there to defend B. F. Skinner have made a crucial difference. by Gary Rubenstein The ermsslOns competition standards.) "He is perfectly capable of It was generally agreed that Using an eleven-year-old tur~ was almost a joke the The Hornet does not have any defending himself." - Dr. Thore balloting instructions should be bocharger and fifteen-year-old propane-powered Hornet received catalytic converters or other sen presented a sample case of included on the ballot, or be carburetion designs on a three 432 points out of a possible 200 exhaust clean-up devices. It relies how behavioralist approaches otherwise made available. Ap year-old car, Caltech's Clean Air (huh?), with 0.29 grams/mile on extra-lean carburetion with could alter the anti-social behav peal.. to the fact that correct Car Project received the "Best hydrocarbons, 0.52 grams/mile carefully designed rrrix ture con ior of an individual in order to balloting procedures appear in Overall Emissions" award in the carbon monoxide, and 0.078 trols to provide the driver with make him behave in more the little t were to no avail. R.E-D. (Reduced Emissions De grams/mile nitric oxides. The the power he needs, when he socially-acceptable ways. After a It was also generally agreed vices) RaHye sponsored by V.C. 1970 Clean Air Act requires auto needs it, with a rrrinimum brief statement interpreting the that nominations should not be Davis last weekend. The CACP's makers to achieve a 90% reduc amount of pollution. That humanistic approach to human reopened for the offices, as an American Motors Hornet also tion in each pollutant by 1976. power, incidentally, enabled the behavior, Dr. Thoresen surveyed adequate time had existed for placed second in the "Best The CACP emissions represent Hornet to run a quarter-rrrile the history of behavioralism, sign-ups.. .An exception made for Overall Performance" category: a reductions of approximately from a standing start in less than which began with a very simple, two sophomore offices (secretary combination of tests to deter 86.8% hydrocarbons, 97.7% car 19 seconds. It was the second Pavlovian stimulus-response and treasurer), which had no mine emissions, economy, power, bon monoxide, and 98.0% nitric fastest entry in the total field of model of human behavior, and nominated parties. Nominations and .reliability - Oregon Tech oxides. (It should be noted that ten vehicles, (from seven schools has since progressed to a more for those offices will dose 6 p.m. nical Institute was the "Overall the Environmental Protection and one Datsun dealership). complex model in which man on May 15, with the rerun Performance" Winner, with 396 Agency recently granted Detroit You Can't Beat Thermo! both influences and is influenced election on May 18. points to Tech's 391. a one-year delay on these The principle behind the by his environment. Dr. Thoresen tuning is simple - it is merely a responded to a general criticism way to beat thermodynamics. Continued on Page Eleven Nixon's The One! (Apologies, Hans). The turbo charger raises the engine pres sures while the lean air-fuel Corporation Meeting mixture lowers the combustion There Was ASign In The Sky • •• temperatures, thus producing Today 40% more power with a fraction by 1. Was Wett never saw the "OUT NOW" Josephson and Rich Keyfaker of the original emissions. The Please turn to The names of mast people in landmarks. sewed muslin strips together after fuel penalty involved (taking into this article ha~'e been changed to Mark Warmbrow developed figuring our how to run a sewing account the different energy page eight protect their identities and to the design for the sign's expan machine. Meanwhile Pete Continued on Page Five attempt to limit the number of sion anchors. Research confer Gloater, Tungsten Blark, and obscene phone calls the.l' andlar ences were held at many loca others were assembling the their RA receive. Names of tions at Caltech, and, to throw 16x22-foot frame, and Warm Sturtevant Memorial .. ·7::a certain people hare been with the enemy off guard, at other brow and the alurrrinum searched ..- .,:,:~_ :::'-.:k; held because it is uncertain sites outside the United States for a mill. whether the.v will be alive at (the Weasel River valley, for Thursday Morning press time. Note, however, that instance). After the sewing (it was by "Richard Nixon" or "Nixon, H as Once the anchor design ex this time Thursday morning), used herein, refers to the current isted, only a sign was needed. Key faker, Rich Richardson, Mike president of the United States, Various members of Damney Parasite, and others trolled out and should not be considered to House suggested that the second the letters on the muslin ("say, be a pseudonym. rate burglary job at the Water how do you spell 'impeach?' "). Recent court actions indicate gate Hotel was maybe just a Soon the 2x3-foot red letters thot the press mayor may not teensy-weeny bit less than excus proclaimed to the dining room be required to rel'cal its news able, and the phrase "Impeach roof: "IMPEACH NIXON." sources. In this article, news Nixon" was decided upon for the Meanwhile Warmbrow was coax sources are not revealed. If you sign. ing various mills into action. Cilnnot guess who the partici Wednesday After four hours of this exciting pants are, consult your local FBI On Wednesday, May 2, the work, he decided to flick it in office (796-7852). men and women of Damney for the night, and so our heroes The sign had been in planning House flicked in their studies to got a few hours sleep. stages for more than eleven begin their independent-study Thursday Afternoon months, following the May 11 project. Supplies were bought: On Thursday afternoon Warm and May 12, 1972, sign fiascos. 39 yards of muslin, 100 feet of brow and Keyfaker drove to These two signs, as you may lumber, 2 quarts of toluidine red Altadena and Sierra Madre in recall, existed on the east face of paint, 2 pounds of aluminum, search of better rrriHing appara Millikan library for less than six thread, nuts and bolts, and tus. On Thursday night the final houlS each. Many people who various sundries. work sessions began. Warmbrow, slept late on those days follOWing Construction began on three Keyfaker, Jim Moron, and later LAST WEEKEND. the plaque pictured above was dedicated in Crellin Gardens.. the mining of Haiphong harbor fronts on Wednesday night. Carl Continued on Page Nine Crellin Gardens can be found in back of Gates. Photo by Gerald Laib Page Two THE CALIFORNIA TECH Thursday, May 10, 1973 Editorial Take Frosh ICALTECH FORUMI Pleading the First To Lunch During the past half-decade, this nation has been engaged CEAC Harassment in a process of self-flagellation. It has weighed and pondered by Philip Massey its every move. And this is all for the good. When a man Sign-up sheets for summer Since 1970 Caltech has In the past few months, some ceases to weigh his every judgement and takes a course of visits to incoming freshmen are sported)1 recycling center under Resident Associates and their out, and the BOD is desperately gut-level reaction, he becomes less than a man. the auspices of CEAC, an ASCII families have been annoyed by finding someone to be "in organization. The center, in its anonymous phone calls in their Throughout history, two basic responses have developed; charge" (hand out keys, and be third year, recycles about 5 tons apartments.

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