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THE CALIFORNIA TECH -VOLUME XCVllI, NUMBER 24 PASADENA , CALIFORNIA FRIDAY,ApRIL 18, 1997 ARC report from the Student-Faculty Conference Dissention was rampant at the Stu whether an accuser in a BOC trial that the curriculum should support the sented, the committees and the ARC dent-Faculty Conference Tuesday April should be informed of the outcome of breath as well as depth of their inter will pare them down further. We will IS'" sponsored by the Academics and the case. This was intended to facili ests, compose a set of proposals listi ng spe Research Committee. ARC identified tate trust that the system does in fact Both the panelists and the audience cific areas that need improvement and !he issues that undergraduates, gradu act to correct injustice, but some speak had a multitude of ideas they felt were a recommended course of action for lies, and faculty felt most needed to be ers felt that this violated the subject's important and worthy of discussion. each, The plan is to present these ideas addressed, Three committees pre People wanted to debate even after the to the appropriate administrative divi sented ideas covering the topics of the allotted time had expired, After the sion and generate changes based on the Purpose of an Undergraduate Educa .. . students brought up conference ended, both faculty and input derived from the student body. tion at Cal tech, Student Life, and the the contrast between students expressed their admiration of The ARC feels that it is important Honor System. the Cal tech audience's ability to de to hold forums that allow students and The topics addressed included administrative policy fine and defend the views it held. faculty to express issues of importance, changing the advising system, restor toward pranking and The audience consisted of approxi but that it is of even higher priority that iDg trust in the Honor System to both the statement of mately 100 people per session, and these ideas be acted upon to improve fjc ulty and the students, the role of contained undergraduates, graduates, the quality of life at Caltech. It is an pdes in the search for a graduate! support of the faculty, and some staff, The modera ongoing process that has only begun, I IRedi cal school, the role of security pranking tradition tors did an excellent job of channel thank all of you who participated in the and the administration during expressed by Vice ing the discussion while allowing au Student-Faculty Conference and helped pran king, and a wide range of associ dience members with insightful points it achieve its objectives, The articles de lied topics. The discussion became President for Student to present their ideas. The ideas gen scribing the proposals of individual IIIher intense at times, and there were Affairs Gary Lorden. erated by the conference will now be committees will be upcoming in fol always contrasting views to spark de considered by each committee. The lowing weeks. Please continue to be a bate. committees will continue to meet in part of instituting change, by speaking There were several hotly debated right to privacy, A third issue was edu order to redefine their proposals in light to your house ARC rep about issues you lOpi cs. Some students brought up the cational standards at Caltech. Part of of this new information. They will feel are important and expressing what contrast between administrative policy the audience felt that the education cur present these ideas to the Cal tech com you feel are necessary changes to the IOward pranking and the statement of riculum was being watered down as stu munity through Tech articles in the up Cal tech system. IUpport of the pranking tradition ex dents with a broader range of interests coming weeks. Currently, they are read ift!ssed by Vice President for Student were admitted. Others felt that students ing through the surveys handed out dur rM/t' ~.-,-,--~- Affairs Gary Lorden, who spoke at the with broader interests would have bet ing the conference. conference. Students also discussed ter opportunities in the job market;-and Once these ideas have been pre- New core a mixed blessing
BY RON DOLLETE The addition of Bi I, on the They're heeeeeeeeeeeeeere! other hand, forced Chemistry I b Cal tech 's new core curriculum and Ictobecombinedintojustone BY KANWAR KAHLON has sparked many debates about tenn of class time, while covering undergraduate education at the same material. This move The pre-frosh are here! Cal tech. While many feel that the proved to be fatal to many students, Yes, its that time of year new core wi}) move students to who felt lost at the rapid pace at when prospective Techers wards a wider base of sciences, which fundamental subjects like get their first look at the others suggest that its lack of fo thennodynamics were taught. school. Don't be surprised, cus and increased expectations ac Another change to the Core or alarmed, if you see a tually hurt the freshman. curriculum was the rearrangement Arguably, the most notable of topics covered in math. Prob horde of happy, smiling change to the core curriculum is the ability, traditionally taken third people making their way replacement of Chemistry Ic with tenn of one's sophomore year, is about campus (no, third term Biology I. Proponents of this now being taught first term to is not almost over) with cu change argue that biology is be freshmen. Only this year will rious looks and a mouthful coming increasingly important in freshmen take probability before of questions. contemporary science and some the sophomores. Most of the pre-frosh ar effort should be taken to expose For more information about rived yesterday, and will be students to a field that could have the changes to the math core, participating a variety of ac a major effect on all walks of sci please see the related article on tivities throughout the ence. page 11. -eds course of the weekend (a master schedule of events is IN THIS ISSUE on page 6) . Activities in clude campus tours, house Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. receptions, a Club Faire, a THE USUAL THIS WEEK'S taste of the performing arts firmed one, "All of the people schools, "It's a lot friendlier, STUFF FEATURES at Cal tech, a ska concert, and have been pretty friendly and the and more personal than the the annual AS CIT pre-frosh campus is beautiful. I'm look other schools I've visited." Announcements ...... 12 ASCIT Secretary Statements ... .. 9 party. ing forward to sitting in on So don't miss out on the slew ASCIT Minutes ...... ,..... ,...... 9 Earth Day., ..... ,.. " ...... 3 Optimism and good-humor classes." Another pre-frosh on of activities on campus within Dean's Comer.,." ...... 5 Fox Trol..,.,"", ...... 7 have not been amiss how he rates his budding im the next few days. Here's to DILBERT®, ...... ,.. ,...... ,... ,..... 7 Math Core Curriculum ...... I I amongst the pre-frosh; af- pression of Caltech with other the class of 200 I ! Now Hear This ...... 4 Prefrosh Schedule ...... 6 The Outside World ...... 3 Sports ...... ,...... IO 2 April 18,1997 OPINIONS T HE CALIFORNIA TEC&... ways. Give me a break. Standi ng LETTERS TO THE EDITOR up for ridiculous posi tions doesn't make them any lessri. Consider per. A speech by Lasorda diculous. However, it does promises to be enthusiastic, en give them support. Some Lasordafor next tertaining, encouraging, and people define their lives by year's perhaps even inspiring. defiance of others, and among Whether or not you think we them are heroes and crackpots. Commencement should have him speak, the There is a dividing line. It speaker idea at least deserves consid eration. is an obvious one. It is not cuI. turally dependent, just use Dear Editor, MATI TISCARENO Even though it may sound UNDERGRADUATE some common sense ... oth. crazy at first, the idea of hav erwise, you might as well ask ing fonner Dodgers manager Please send submissions this lady about her thoughts on Tommy Lasorda speak at com for letters to the editor to BY AUSTIN COLLINS the dangers of vaccination." the origin of the universe, too. Oprah Winfrey featilTed Her knowledge of infectious mencement is not a bad one. The California Tech This week's topic came as Tommy is loved by baseball Caltech 40-58 the woman on her show one diseases compared to the fans the world over for his en Pasadena, CA 91125 a bit of a surprise to me, as one day, and the audience cheered CDC's is roughly equivalent thusiastic personality, and has of the more distinct American loudly when this woman to her knowledge of cosmol. or by electronic mail to been called "baseball's ambas folklore characteristics fell yelled at people to be sure not ogy compared to Caltech's. sador." He also has a reputa [email protected]/tech.edu. under the knife. Well, it won't "to let the government decide The only difference is that tion as a great motivator, en Deadline for submissions is be the first idea that has both what is best for your child!" your child's chances of livi ng couraging others to achieve be Monday at 5 p.m. on the uses and abuses, so this week's As long as there are moth- past twelve don't decrease if yond their abilities. The best week of publication. topic is: The Underdog. you're wrong about the ex. example of this is the 1988 More and more recently, istence of dark matter. The editors reserve the playoffs, when his team won the knee-jerk type of support ... every time the World Championship by right to edit or refuse to people have for the underdog It really is that simple. defeating two other teams print any letter for any intelligent people reason. is being manipulated into which were far superior on pa- public support of ridiculous write someone off things. This came to me first, as a crackpot, "It just goes to show that Corrections for last week's issue as so many of my unpleas idiots cheer for someone can make a differ. ant realizations do, while I ence - but maybe he read an article in the Los An him as an shouldn't. " geles Times. underdog. -Marge Simpson It detailed the "heroic" tale of a woman with a tragic "Cyrano: So, this is your story. Her son, for reasons un ers like this, the government's revenge? known to any of the doctors interference is justified. An Compte de Guiche: Take she tried, suddenly developed unvaccinated child is a tragedy it to mean I serve my King and autism when he was about in and of itself. Children vent my spleen. " two. We can all sympathize should not pay the price for -Rostand with such a woman ... such their own mothers' lack of tragedy is mercifully beyond education or judgement. Nor the imagination of most should other people's children THE CAUFORNIA TECH people. be exposed to the health risk
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"MacDougall's Pride" Hot is an amazing retro experi really stands out in my mind, ence that swings with a 1920's Violet Burning even though it's very separate ear and 30's sort of jazz groove. Violet Burning, on their from the rest of the album. They've got a very impressive self-titled album, don't really MacIsaac's fiddle is accentu· • sound instrumentally, with Jim sound like anything new and ated by the string quarted th Mathus on trombone, Ken different. With any luck, one Quartetto Gelato for a truly 18 • Mosher and Tom Maxwell on ------mesmerizing and nostal- sax, and Je Widen house on Hot is hip, but it gic experience. BY RON DoLLETE trumpet. In addition, they requires a certain "Spoon boy" (sorry, on this CD are "Why Should I boast Katherine Whalen, one Soundgarden) also in- Eclectica. Cry For You" and "King of of the group's founding mem taste. Some songs' like cludes some spoonplaying Okay, this week it's a Pain" and many more. bers, whose high yet sultry the calypso l'am accompaniment. little eclectic. Okay, really The string and brass sec voice accentuates an already The entire album has a eclectic. There's the London tions capture the essence of hip sound. Round things out "Hell" are instantly very rustic feel that's ei- Symphony Orchestra, Squir Sting's music beautifully and with Don Raleigh and Chris accessible, but the ther very infectious or rel Nut Zippers, Violet Burn transform them from their pop Philips in the rhythm section, very annoying, depending ing, and a little Ashley format into classical. The con and the result is a swing and sound does get on who decided to put this McIsaac for good measure. ductor of the London Sym- jazz jambalaya sandwich. repetitive. in the CD player. Songs Classical translations, Mm ... sounds tasty. like "Sleepy Maggie" and swingin' big band, "My aim had been to take Well, almost. Yes, "Sophia Pipes" can cross Irish, and thai 90's there are really cool songs could compare to a mellow ver over that modern barrier and catchword alternative: the material contained on the album like "Got sion of Faith No More, but noth has received airplay on local there's a little some- within the songs and My Own Thing Now" ing really differentiates them radio slations, proving that thing for everybody (or and the call-and-response from an already saturated mu Gaelic vocals (care of Mary it might turn OUI to be paint a symphonic picture musings on "Put A Lid sic scene. You know my view Jane Lamond) and bagpipes nothing for anybody). of the thoughts and On It," but unless you' re point on this: something else are mainstream material, es really into the big band please. Oh, well, I suppose I'll pecially when fused with Fortress emotions expressed sound, the CD would give them a shot. hard-edged guitars like on the First off: Fortress. within them. " probably get annoying. If The lead song off the album track, "Hills of Glenorchy." In this album, the Lon- you're the unfortunate sounds like Nine Inch Nails Honestly, though, the "barn don Symphony Or roommate of someone with a lot of guitars. It ain't that yard" sound of "Spoon boy" chestra performs the music of phony Orchestra, Darryl Way, who happens to listen to a CD great and probably shouldn't and "The Devil In The Sting. This CD is phenom said, "My aim had been to take just for the trumpets, then have been the lead track, but Kitchen" are essential to the enal, even if you're not a big the material contained within you're probably proverbially then again I didn't produce the wholeness of the album, but Sting fan. It covers music the songs and paint a symphonic screwed. Hot is hip, but it re album. The other songs are disrupt the flow of the CD. from his days with The Po picture of the thoughts and emo quires a certain taste. Some semi-respectable. "B lind" Those two aside, though, hi lice (particularly exceptional tions expressed within them." songs like the calypso jam sounds very haunting, while is an awesome romp through renditions include Even Sting's politically minded "Hell" are instantly accessible "Arabic Tremolo Radio" even tradition and tempo. The "Synchronicity" and, of songs (i.e. "They Dance Alone" (it's received a lot of airplay has a hint of the Beatles thrown characteristic quick notes are course, "Every Breath You and "Russians") lose none of from KROQ), but the sound in vocal-wise. Really, though, recognizable even on the pi Take") as well as his solo ca their potency in the classical does get repetitive. You can visit nothing exceptional. .... ano as MacIsaac plays on the reer. Unfortunately, it doesn't translation, despite their reli this album, though, if you're Ashley MacIsaac electrifying song "Wing include Ten Summoner's ance on lyrics for their complete into listening to samm groovy Now, finally, imagine this Stock." This CD is the bomb. Tales or Mercury Falling, but message. Also works great as trumpets and trombones, but in mix: rock and fiddles. Well, it 'B''ZJ''8"'D' other solo highlights included background music as you're its simplicity, it doesn't have might not be truly original, but was once one of them. In the six does steadily through the book, but after ten years which she does not ties he got about as liberal as he the subject matter is a bit too self remember, to find her village de could, living in communes and obsessed to be really good read stroyed and everyone dead. When writing for underground papers, ing. The rest is various articles for the book begins she has left to find damning capitalism. This book which the O'Rourke was actually . her brother, whom she believes to follows his development from paid and they are mostly pretty to still be alive. Most of the action there to his current occupation, very good. I liked this book, but takes place in a city called Tai writing about foreign politics and not as much as a liked some of his Tastigon, where she is waylaid on fast cars and damning commu others, mostly because there her trip. The rest of the plot is too nism. The first section of the book, weren't too many of his stories complicated to detail here, suffice a collection of pieces written for about international trouble spots, it to say that a lot of things happen BY DAISY JAMES those underground papers, is which for some reason are my fa and many of them involve fight· juvenilia and really only interest vorites. ing. The title refers to the fact that ...... A Wonderful Work: of Art ing as such. It takes time for a the notable thing about this city is ••••• Slightly imperfect writer to become good and he in God Stalk that it has an enormous number of .... Pretty dam good the late sixties O'Rourke had not by Pc. Hodgell gods and much of the heroine's ... Decent had that time yet. Politics aside, it time is spent reconci ling that to her .. Bad simply is not very good. The part •••• own monotheism. • Birdcage liner that I enjoyed the most was his ex I was surprised at how engaging I Due to my aforementioned unfa· Ifyou have a book t!wt you would Trouble in the World) and have periments with something called found this book, since science fic miliarity with the genre, I can'tre· like to see reviewed it! this column, found them all enjoyable. He is a "concrete poetry" which seems to tion isn't really my "thing". It's ally say how this stands as a sci· please drop it by my room (108 humorist with a conservative bent, be a version of those pictures that confusing at first, and a bit diffi ence fiction book. I can, however, Ru) and I'll try to get it in the next which I admit is a good part of the people draw with characters and cult to get into, but once it has say that I found it very enjoyable week or so. reason that I like him. It is always have on the bottoms of their e caught your attention it holds it and thoroughly worth reading. nice to read something that you mail, only not as interesting. I very well. Stylistically I admit that Age and Guile Beat Youth, I nno agree with and especially so if the don't know who decided that this it is a little lacking. Hodgell uses a The Three Coffins cence and a Bad Haircut author has original, well consid was poetry but I found the whole few too many adjectives and the by John Dickson Carr by P1. O'Rourke ered ideas and can present them thing very amusing. Which is okay action can get so confusing that I ? .... in an humorous way. More liberal because that's the point. The next was only able to piece together readers will, in all probability, not part is things that he wrote about what happened by reading on. It My apologies to Mark Tilford, I have recently taken to reading like him at all, unless they have an his experiences in the sixties, a bit is not great literature, but then I who lent me this book to be re O'Rourke's book's (Give War a extraordinary capacity for taking later and after he had begin to re don't think that it was meant to be. viewed. I wrote a review for it last Chance, Holidays in. Hell, Repub criticism. Part of the reason for his think some of his political ideas. The story is about a young woman week but the disk has since been lican Party Reptile, and All the venom towards the left is that he The style has improved here, as it named Jame who returns home, eaten by my desk. I liked the boOk. CALIFORNIA TECH FEATURES April 18, 1997 5 flows through the valley by de to the Tech and if Profs were to Dean's Cor ner tecting patterns of dispersion of write once in a while, the edi SF, and that Tony Tombrello tors of the paper would have looked at radon in underground such a plethora of material! it all or not, that is the aquifers in the basin. Did any of They could behave as real edi you know that? (Actually I tors then with a big pair of scis question somber, didn't either, but Ijust found out sors . . .. Ah, but it is never go mirthless, discuss- ... and so I am one up, no?) Why ing to happen, people just don't by Jean-Paul Revel ing incomprehensible things, is the Chronicle of Higher Edu have the time and interest to do way while mumbling facing the cation fascinated by Fraser something positive. So much we all are. We blackboard ... or at least with a (Scott) and few of the students time is occupied by complain are busy doing our white coat, perhaps a spotted here seem to have as yet discov ing about what might be, that So what is new? Do you thing, be it doing homework or rumpled coat, a disheveled mien ered what he does or that his there is no time for anything what happened last week? organizing the people who write and a foreign accent. But here wife, Marianne has just taken up else. r am always amazed at how the homework etc ... our thing. we have pretty ordinary people a position at Caltech? It is not Here we are assembled on little I know about what is hap So, being so much in the dark (sorry, but even though you are that often that both wife and our kapuka, a small hummock I l pe:ni~lg in the world or at home. about so many things, I am al great, you are, well, people), husband have professorial ap of territory surrounded by a sea have a view about the world ways surprised to discover from even Hawking himself who is pointments in the same institu of destructive lava (believe it or listen to the BBC to find out outside sources what is happen extraordinary in his ability to tion. not, kapukas were recently dis there is trouble in New ing on campus. remain in touch and human in All of this disheveled set of cussed at a Faculty Board Meet IIGlJi n I I'REGI~AN·T?· We are a professionaL mar a pilot and a nurse hoping a family through adoption. We a lovely home and wilL teach good and provide all emotional, physi and material wants in life healthy baby. 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PASADENA 2253 HONOlULU AVENUE, MONTROSE '" AIIad:;na Or. 81 8-796.5028 81 8-799-689 1 818-248-7206 6 April 18, 1997 PREFROSH THE CALIFORNIA TEel\- • I J I T)rrough the P.R. looking glass Prefrosh Schedule ~ BY RON DoLllTrn wouldn't trade this experience for Friday, AprillSth anything in life, even those strawberry Chandler Dining Hall --~ 8:30-9:30am Breakfast with Professors Hey Prefrosh! How're you do donuts from Donut Man. I mean, 9:45-1 lam General Session Baxter Lecture Hall ing? I bet you're already sick of ev think abou this for a second- do you Ilam-5pm Attend Classes see Class Schedule erybody asking you the same old ques want to spend the next 4 years living Meet with Faculty see Professor Info. tions. If you're like a lot of other good life like a bar code? To be honest, II :30am-1 pm Lunch Student Houses 1-3pm Athletics Open House Braun Athletic seniors (or juniors - you're not the that's what it's like at lJCLA. Center, 2nd noor only prodigy now), then you're prob here's my advice (I'm glad So 2-3pm Research at Caitech/SURF 102 Steele Lab. ably visiting a lot of other schools. you've learned to swim through all the 3-4:30pm Club Fair and Ice Cream Outside Winne The same old shit like "Where're you ranting propaganda. That's an impor 4-7pm International Day Olive Walk from?" and "What's your major?" is tant skill to learn. Even more impor Bring your International Day Visa probably being regurgitated in your tant than quantum mechanics.). 5:30pm Dinner-Rotate Houses Student Houses general direction. Well I'm going to You've got to learn the power of the 7-9pm Performing Arts at Caltech Dabney Hall give yo'll oQe piece of advice - individual. And most importantly, 8pm Magician at Page Hous<:-- Page House fookahlthatshyte. learn the importance of your indi 9pm Ska Concert Dabney House I'm here to give you the single vidual. Don't think this is a nice feel Captu re the Flag and BBQ Lloyd House best reason to come to Caltech versus good self help type paragraph. Fuck Techno Extreme Driven Foursquare at Ricketts Ricke!ts House Some Hippy Institute of Technology. you, this a kick in the ass. I don't gi ve Look around yourself, and you'll see a flying fuck what you do with your Saturday, April 19 the rest of the world. You'll see people talent. After all, you can only be what 8:30-9:30am Breakfast Avery House Cafeteria from all sorts of places, backgrounds, you allow yourself to become. But 9am-2pm Financial Aid Oflice Open Financial Aid Office you'll see walking unwritten autobi there are more important questions in lOam-12noon Campus Laboratory Tours see Lab Tours ographies, food and drink carried by life than, "Where are you from?" or Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL a breathing vessel of angst, and hope, (1PL) Tour and creativity. Math and Chern ma Board the bus at ! Oam sharp at the comer ofSail Pasqua! jors and all the Bi's in between (you and Hollistoll. the bus will return 10 campus by 12 nOOIl llam-4pm Bookstore Open Winnett Student Center know what I mean. They're all fine Noon-sunset Tie-Dye Party Dabney House orientations.) are what make this Noon-Ipm Picnic Lunch Parsons-Gates school. It's an institute of diversiry 2-3pm Women in Science! Steele House where the small size means that you Women at Cal tech won't be lost in the shuffle. You don't 4-5pm Diversity at Caltech 367 S. Holliston have to be one of the sheep. Look 5:30-7pm All-campus BBQ Oli ve Walk around yourself again. There's a cer 7-8pm Diamond Smuggling and Music Fleming House tain amount of glitz and glamour that 7:30pm Free Movies and Popcorn Winnett Lounge surrounds this special weekend of 8-IOpm Ruddock Greens Ruddock House weekends. Try and look through the IOpm-??? ASCIT Party Dabney Hall 11:45 pm Blacker Midnight Ultimate Court of Man magic shows and frisbee games. Meet ill Blacker lounge at II:45pm There's something seriously dynamic about this place, and you know what? Sunday, April 20th I'd like to see it filled with a bunch Morning Depart fur Home! Olive Walk of dynamic people who can stand up Be sure to check the LAX bus schedule!! ~ and give a damn. I love Tech and I but it does look scary in there!" HOT Chocolate will be served. Four comet chasers gather to dazzle the public BY JOSEPH TRELA the crowd soared past "decent", (which may have an ocean of view of them. The first record view concluded, the showpiece through "respectable" and "big", liquid water under its icy surface of Halley's Comet was im panel discussion began. It was Beckman Auditorium was and out into the ethereal realms that could harbor life) to help pressed onto a Babylonian clay moderated by David Levy, co packed to the gunwales. Ramo of "quite large indeed" - so large plan future missions to the tablet in the 240 B.c., but of discoverer of Comet Shoe Auditorium groaned under the that many latecomers could not smallest of the Galilean moons. course it was not recognized as maker-Levy 9 that crashed into weight of more people than be seated in Beckman and had Then, it would devote itself to the same comet in its later ap Jupiter in 1994, and currently you'd find in a dozen Hum lec to watch the showcase discus exploring the dangerous envi pearances. Comets were seen as tied for third place on the a11- tures. Even Shaft, the private sion on closed-circuit TV at rons of the volcanic moon 10 messengers from the gods and time discovery list with at least dick who's down with a/l/l the Ramo and Baxter. until its fuel supply ran out or were described as great swords, partial credit for 21 comets and groovy chicks, had to vacate Although the unofficial fo its circuitry was fried by glowing heads or "hairy stars"; a asteroid. The panel members Baxter Hall along with the rest cus of the event was on Comet Jupiter's devastating radiation they were observed at (and were Hale, Bopp and Dr. Don of the ASCIT Movie crew in Hale-Bopp, JPL took the oppor belts. sometimes blamed for) the death Yeomans, a specialist in orbital deference to the four astrono tunity to promote two of its up Before the official 9:00 PM of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. , the calculations who over his career mers of note who were soon to coming missions at kiosks that start of the panel discussion, invasion of England by William has predicted Comet Hailey'S arrive. flanked the entrance to members of a JPL amateur as the Conqueror in 1066 and the point of first visibility in 1982, With Comet Hale-Bopp still Beckman. The booth to the left tronomy club set up several Great Fire of London in 1666. the positions of asteroids Gaspra emblazoned on the western sky, of the doors described large telescopes west of the About this time (and before his and Ida for Galileo's flyby s, and and Hyakutake and Shoemaker STARDUST, a Discovery-class Beckman Institute to allow career as a scientist and head of the impact points of S-L 9 on Levy 9 fresh in the public mission that will be launched guests to view the comet - as it the Royal Mint), a young Sir Jupiter's surface. The panel memory, public curiosity about from a Delta rocket in 1999. turned out, the line of burgeon Isaac Newton would tie lanterns members answered questions these tenuous visitors from the Using aerogel technology (a ing stargazers soon stretched to to the ends of kites to simulate taken from Dr. Levy, the audi outer solar system has been at silica-based solid only a few the fringes of Moore Laboratory. comets and scare people with ence and some that had been an all-time high. So it seemed times denser than air), the space Also, both Dr. Hale and Mr. them - perhaps they were the collected from the Internet ear likely that "Comet Chasers craft will loop around the sun Bopp graciously endured the first U .F.O.s to be seen over lier. Night", a free ticketed event twice (collecting interstellar dust cool weather to autograph hats, England. But in 1696, Sir Dr. Levy started things off sponsored by the Jet Propulsion particles as it goes), come as photographs, shirts and other Edmund Halley used Newton's by described comet-watching as Laboratory and Caltech Public close as 15Q kilometers to the comet paraphernalia, much of gravitational equations to calcu "the world's slowest sport". He Relations, would summon a de nucleus of Comet Wild-2 in which had just been purchased late the orbit of his namesake then asked both Hale and Bopp cent crowd to Beckman Audito 2004 to take dust samples, and at a convenient nearby comet and predict its return in about how they discovered their rium last Friday. In addition, return those samples to Earth in concessionairy stand. 1759. When that date came and comets. Both men had taken two of the guests of honor would 2006. The second booth de After everyone was finally the comet returned, it and other advantage of a rare break in the be Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp scribed the Galileo Europa Mis seated, Comet Chasers Night comets were shown to follow southwestern summer limon· themselves, the co-discoverers sion, a proposed two-year exten began with some remarks on the same laws and courses as the soon season" to observe, neither of the "Comet of the Decade" sion to the Jupiter orbiter's upcoming cometary missions by planets - apart from the occa one was actively comet-hunting (that is still visible in the north nominal mission which will end Dr. Ed Stone, the director of sional parabolic or hyperbolic at the time, and both spotted the west sky after dusk) and definite in November. It would concen JPL, and a presentation on his comet, anyway. comet near the globular cluster draws to the public. 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No AIRP\.ANE 1liE INSTANTAHEotJ5 ott, t Dot(T ABouT PJJGE, I'M OR HELicoPTER CA.N 00 ","ElfRAT.oNl IO'IOW , I'VE WORK? WHAT'S WRoNG Ti.L).ING YOU, WHAT roo JUST DESCRISED.' D£CELEAATlOf'l ..• JUST SUN , WITH MY You SAW THE WA.Y IT FEElING A _II<> BY ERIK STREED Cal tech though his interests in more carefully. Still active in physics, math and astronomy student life, he continued do Caltech is a small, highly and enrolled at the age of 17. ing vocal performance, mainly focused institute of technol Advanced placement out of with the Chamber Singers. He ogy. Most of the people who several freshman classes along was also a member-at-Iarge of graduate from Caltech the Board of Con- go into science or en trol, where he felt he gineering related ca Dean was drawn to Caltech acted as a "moderat reers in industry or though his interests in ing influence" in academia. It is more their proceedings. than a little unusual physics . .. graduated from Dean won the Paul for a Cal tech graduate Caltech in 1989... went to Studenski travel to go on to become a graduate school in math at award and used it to successful opera go to Germany to singer. That's why we UCLA. , , began attending talk with people at The California Tech the USC opera workshop . .. there about music. thought that it would As a math major dur be interesting to talk became an apprentice at the ing his senior year, with Dean Elzinga Glimmerglass Opera. Dean Elzinga knew (Caltech '89), about that he had some tal how he went from a ent and a lot of inter being a Tech math major to a with pass/fail grading gave est in music. After making it globe-trotting opera singer. Dean the free time to pursue to the finalist stage, he was Dean Elzinga Dean Elzinga joined Thomas many extra curricular activi denied a Watson fellowship. Oberjat (Cal tech '63), Debbie ties during his first year here. Elzinga graduated from tion day in the fall of 1994, the famed New York Metro· Cree Smith and the Men's An active member of Ruddock Caltech in 1989 and went to Dean returned from his leave politan Opera and afterwards Glee Club for their production House, he also participated in graduate school in math at of absence at Inference Corp. he was hired. During this last of the opera-oratorio Oedipus the Caltech Swim Team, UCLA specializing in math only to be laid off. However, season Dean sung primarily Rex by Igor Stravinksky. Men's Glee Club, Chamber ematical logic, which he had at this time he was getting supporting roles at the Met. Dean was drawn to Singers, and TACIT, where he first studied here at Caltech. many full time singing offers, From his exposure at the Met., produced one musical and held While at UCLA he became in so he set out for New York Dean got his first international a lead role in another. Con volved in the opera workshop. with the money he had saved. offer and his first lead role. DEAN: tinuing this level of involve In his fourth year at UCLA he In New York Dean audi Dean Elzinga took the job an d ment in his sophmore year began attending the USC op tioned for several agents and has sung most of this current along with grades and junior era workshop. When he had finally obtained one. His season with the prestigious Where is level classes placed Dean in completed his fourth year of agent got him an audition at Vienna Volksoper in Au stria. danger of flaming (dropping graduate school at UCLA he out for academic reasons). In dropped out and took a day job the news? the end he passed with decent as a technical writer for Infer COMET CHASERS: CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 grades but decided to spend ence Corp. to allow him in how new species arise. some time away from Tech. greater flexibility and more On our Caltech kapuka, a Dean traveled down to Guate time for music. After another Hale and Bapp group of high powered Profs and mala and served in a Church year at the USC opera work of Mormon mission for 3 shop, in the summer of '94, he students, presumably all scien CO/'\'TINUED FROM PAGE 6 warning prior to impact. became an apprentice at the tists or scientists-in-the-making years. Upon returning to M70 in Sagittarius. However, Further questions involved Glimmerglass Opera in (in my mind, people who are Caltech in 1987, a more ma Mr. Bopp was unfamiliar with the possibility of new meteor Cooperstown, NY. On elec- interested in finding out about ture Dean budgeted hi s time the procedure for reporting a showers from the comet (u n their and other worlds and how new comet, and he had to make likely), the next appearance of they tick) are assembled, and several attempts via AT +T and the comet (about A.D. 4397) and even though we are a small The conservatives Western Union to call the the circumstances behind the green island (Dabney et. al. gar Harvard Smithsonian Astro di scovery of Shoemaker-Levy 9 dens) in a sea of lava (asphalt physical Observatory to get a (dull until Dr. Eugene Shoe· on Wilson, Hill, California and are coming! confirmation. In addition, he maker climbed on top of the Del Mar) we don't even know made the unexpected admission telescope in order to steady it in BY PETER PLAVCHAN Nixon library planned for what is really happening in our that he does not actually own a .the wind). But probably the AND NEIL STEVENS this term, and future visits to little community. telescope and was looking the Reagan library and most important question came For example: did you know through a friend's at the time. The Republicans have Dodger games in the works. from Dr. Levy, when he asked that Ditch Day is Tomorrow? Dr. Yeomans was then asked arrived! On April 10, the Said CCR treasurer Wil Hale and Bopp what their future (That's what they told me when about reports that Hale-Bopp Cal tech College Republicans liam Sharp on the new club, plans were. Dr. Hale intended I asked, but could it possibly be assembled for their inaugu "With the lack of political had "shifted" to a new orbit and to continue work with the re on a Saturday, over prefrosh ral meeting. Led by awareness so prevalent here the warning time available if a search institute he started, the weekend?) comet was on a collision course founders Dan Velez and Tak at Caltech, this club will Southwest Institute for Space Did you know about the role with Earth. He explained that Cheung, Chairman and Vice serve a necessary role in Research, in order to make sci of Caltech in the development these "shifts" were actually re Chairman respectively, the spreading ideas and encour ence more accessible to the pub of the New Biology? (Read finements made to a calculated CCR ratified its constitution, aging thought on the issues lic, while Mr. Bopp was going Judson Freeman's The Eighth orbit due to new observational elected officers, and charted that face us today, whether or to travel and speak about science Day of Creation, a terrific fac data. He also complained semi its course for the future. not people are actually in· in general to interested groupS, tual yarn.) seriously that he had received Its ambitions are diverse, c1ined to vote Republican." especially children. Both men Did you know that .... Of hate-mail from people who be including non-parlisan as For more information indicated that they felt lucky to course you know that, but you lieved he was part of a scientific well as Republican activi about the Cal tech College be given such an opportunity to are the only one who does. conspiracy to hide "the truth" ties. In addition to the Republicans, send email to present science to the public and How about telling the rest of obligatory grass-roots cam Dan Velez VIa about Hale-Bopp - a "truth", he to inspire the next generation to us? added, that is readily visible to paigning and voter registra dan [email protected]. even greater feats of knowledge A bientot, I'll have some tion drives, the CCR plans to The club is open to the en anyone with a telescope and a about the uni verse. thing to tell you about next clear sky. On a more serious help the city at large by par tire Caltech community and The Comet Chasers Night week, I feel it in my fingers, itch note, he added that while long ticipating in the Habitat for you need not be a registered proved to be a great success for ing to be expressed . . .. period comets were much less Humanity. The CCR will Republican to join. Look for JPL, Cal tech and all those inter likely to hit Earth than members sponsor political talks given flyers posted around campus ested in the popularization of of the various near-earth aster by community leaders. The for meeting dates, times, and science. It seems that we should oid groups, if Hale-Bopp was in club also plans to have fun, locations. all keep praying for comets, so fact on a collision course there with a trip to the Richard M. long as they don't get /00 close would have been only 3 months' to our little blue planet. ASCIT April 18, 1997 9 Mike Westover enters. ment per flat will encourage a ASCIT social team and repre rich alumni." Student Affairs Baldeep Sadhal reports larger Te ch. He also proposes sentatives of house social has offered to purchase a new that the budget is near that some sort of a rate-limit teams about the Prefrosh Party. monitor, and the consensus of ing completion and will ing scheme be instituted. Heidi A OJ has been hired. The the BoD is that the monitor be mai led after the agrees that editors are under theme for the party wi II be ought to be purchased. The meeting. paid and that the Tech can af "spring." Adrienne also pro Faculty Board has proposed lnutes Kiran reports the news ford the changes. Maria re poses that part of her budget be that the list of colleges partici APRIL 14, 1997 regarding the van situ quests that Terry present a writ used to purchase serving pating in the 312 program be ation, clearing up all ten compensation schedule at dishes. expanded to include histori misconceptions and ex- the next meeting. Mike reports that there was cally black colleges and uni Meeting opened 10:37 p.m. plaining the current situation, John Lin, in a fit of cough an ARC meeting last Tuesday. versities and historically fe BoD members present: will be released soon. An ar ing, leaves the ASCIT office. Baldeep reports that he male colleges and universities. Gill, Maria Satterwhite, ticle will be written in the Tech Interviews for the Tech changed the date on the ASCIT Mic Westcoat leaves. I.d';elme Bourque, John Lin, to explain the new van situa Business Manager will be held webpage. John Lin enters. Shekar, Baldeep Sadhal. tion in the coming weeks. at the next BoD meeting. Maria reports that third Meeting closed at 11:40 b:sts present: Wes Salzillo, Terry Moran and Heidi Andrew Strauss enters. term BoC Talks are coming up. p.m . Westcoat. . Eldenburg enter. A redesigning of the Tech Your friendly local BoC Rep Meeting opened at 11:46 Wes Salzillo says that CCF Terry reports that the Tech and Big T offices wi II occur, will contact you. p.m. have its usual ice cream team is underpaid for the qual with partitioning of individual Kohl reports that it has The Board approved $75 this Friday, and requests ity of the work being produced. tasks into different rooms. been requested that ASCIT for the CCF Ice Cream Social, funds for this special He recommends that payment Space will be available for per make a showing at the Prefrosh and $75 for Y-CCF Square He is also requesting be done by flat (a four-page manent archives. Kiran Shekar Club Fair. Maria says she Dance Party. for a Y and CCF square sheet). He is requesting $150 leaves the building. won't be able to make it be Meeting adjourned at per flat. He feels that this pay- Adrienne has met with the cause she has to talk to "fat, 11:47 p.m. The ASCIT Secretary takes and distributes minutes of the weekly BoD meetings, keeps track of all the ....ecords, cleans the office, posts fliers every week for elections, meetings, and signups, and submits minutes in a timely manner to The California Tech . Mic Mike Westcoat Astle "And if you really enjoy read There is a reason that Optimus the Bylaws, you should run for Prime is the leader of the Autobots. Sure, IIASC:IT Secretary, or at least become he had the matrix of leadership and all arch-enemy. " that jazz, but the matter goes much deeper than that. Some of the Autobots may have been powerful vehicles of whatever Those aren't mi words up there. • design. Sure race cars, fire trucks, and • ... _· ·'re from this little t, at ~'s even dinosaurs can be fearsome in their head of the "Documents" sec H own right but none of them matches the Well, for some reason, un- awesome mechanical power of a Mack 1Ih1,nwn to me, I actually do enjoy_ truck. Optimus Prime is that truck. Step 11.... U .III!; the bylaws. And since I'm • in his way and he' ll knock you aside with looking to be anyone's arch-en 18 wheels of pure 100% FDA approved , I'm running for ASCIT Secre- the web page, to hoard all of the butt-kicking brawn. Mess with the man official documents, etc. and you're opening up a whole trailer full of whoop-ass. Optimus Prime takes no rifle, but I won't exactly be fighting pow crap off of anybody. Any goon, hoser, erful Decepticons here either. The The current copy of the bylaws In short, I want to be the best or evil- doer that steps up is getting the AS CIT minutes are significantly less in the little t isn't exactly correct, ASCIT Secretary possible. Period. ganking of what is to become an ex fearsome than Megatron or any of his evil and not just due to bylaw changes I've been lurking around in the tremely short lifetime. I want to be the minions (even Starscream). Face-melt made this year. I want to be the AS CIT background (as the intrepid Optimus Prime of ASCIT secretaries. I ing energy weapons and paper cuts don't JIIIf" BY AMANDA SCHAFFER They played a 3-6 format. com ing away from the doubles Caltech's women's tennis matches with a 2-1 lead. At # 1 team competes at the SCIAC doubles. Lena Peccavic and tennis tournament this weekend Natsuko Kagawa won 8- 5, at California Lutheran Univer Irene Wong returned from an sity. The team enters the tour injury to play in her first match nament in fifth place. and is of the season, paired up with scheduled to open against Amanda Schaffer to win 8-3 at fourth-ranked Occidental Col #3 doubles. In singles play, lege Friday morning in the first Kagawa, at number two, won in round. three sets, 1-6, 6-0. 6-2. Amy The team is confident that Chang-Chien (#3) won 6-4, 6- they can beat Occidental in the 1, and Audrey Lee (#4) won eas tournament, despite a disap ily, 6-1, 6-0. Wong also played poinring7-210ss at the hands of Singles and came away with a 6- the Tigers last Saturday. Alexis 1, 5-7. 6-2 win. Johnson won her # 1 singles After spring break, the match, and Johnson teamed Lady Techers eased back into with Amy Chang-Chien to win the season with an alumni at #2 doubles, both in two sets. march on April 5. It was a day The Beavers also played some of fun doubles for everyone in Karl Thulin winds up for the discus. tough three-set matches, but volved. Since only three of the were unable to get the wins alums could make it, Coach BY CALTECH SPORTS DEPT who also competed at the Stanford lead over the 2nd place finisher. needed for a team victory. Nelson recruited some others to Invitational, ran his fi~st 10,000 Cailin came in first in the 1,500 On April 9, however, the help even it out. The Alums Cailin Henderson met a pro meters on a track and had an ex with a time of 4:58.8. She finished Techers showed just how tough that made it included Fiona Lo visional qualifying mark for the citing race. He ran a 31:59, put the 800 in a time of 2:30.1 which ('92). Bush ('94), and Monica they are, coming away from a Jill NCAA in the 3,000 meters with ting him at the top of the field . put her in third place. match with Cal State Silva Sharman ('95) . They were a lifetime personal best at the On March 29, Caltech took Cal tech Men's Track fielded Dominguez Hills with a 6-3 vic joined by Denise Gabaldon, Stanford Invitational March 22. seven athletes to the 1st Annual its first 4 x 100 relay team of the tory despite a strong wind that Kenny Ritchie. and Bryce Her time was 10:12"21, which was Reel Invita- season. made serving and judging the Engelbrecht ('96); and a good 20 seconds faster than her previ tional at Chris Kurtz ball's position very difficult. time was had by alL ous personal best. Dan Kleiman, Claremont. In the 5,000 lead the Coming off a team off and handed off EXCLUSIVELY for FACULTY an,) STAFF great week at meters, r Stanford . to Tim ! Henderson Kleiman Yarnall . and Kleiman Yarnall concentrated finished 1st in handed off on their speed to Eva n work by com a time of Reed, who peting in the passed the 1,500 and 16:07, forty baton to 800. In the Kejian Wu. seconds Wu crossed I , 5 ° ° . Henderson the finis h finished sec- line in a time ond with a time of 4:49 and of 46.65. Kurtz. Reed, and Wu Kleiman finished third with a time also competed in the 100 and 200. II of 4:09. In the 800. Henderson In the 100, Kurtz had a personal finished fourth in 2:30 and best of 11.89. Wu and Reed ran Kleiman came in second with a an 11.98 and 12.3, respectively. In time of 2:02. Brian Barris and the throwing events, Karl Thulin Troy Lee also competed in the 800 threw the discus 1I3'9" and pur with times of 2:04 and 2:30, re the shot 39'10". In the Steeple spectively. Lee also ran the 1,500, chase, senior Chris Cary finished having a great race with at time of in 11:54.5. 5:17. Tim Yarnall competed in his The Beavers had 4 entries in first competition of the year in pole the 1,500. Greg Detweiler was the vault with a clearance of 10' even, first Techer to cross the finish line just missing 10'6". In the sprints, in a time of 4:4 3.70. Close behind ,~ Kejian Wu had a great meet. He him was Harmesh Lad (4:43.74). had personal bests in both the 100 Bill Hiestand finished in 4:48 and :: and 200 with times of 11.88 and Troy Lee ran it in 5:12. In the j or fast r~ I;l'f from the nagging ache.ol' Ia.xes. as retirement income, the money y ou Jun'l sc nd 24.16. respectively. In the throw 5.000, Kleiman finished 1st in • we r c <:o m m~n d TI:\r\-CREF SRAs. SRAs to Washington <: an work c\'ell h.Lt'dcr fur you, :r~ F ing events, senior Karl Thulin put time of 16:07, forty seconds before , arc lax-dl'ferrct! anlluities dcsigned to help build What else do SRAs offer'! A I'ull 1',lIlge of the shot with a mark of 407" and the 2nd place finisher. Lad also ran addi,ional ,lssets- mollcy ,hat t an help ~ake the in'vestment choices and the finanl'i,tI cxpertise , a season best of 122'6" in the dis- the 5,000 and crossed the finish di n~ n'l1ce betwcen living a nd li ving w<,1/ after of TIAA-CREF - America 's la rgl'st r(' lircl1lcllt eus. line in 18:56. Brian Barris lead the ~ your \\'urkillg YC'l l'S a rc (I\'L' r, organizalio n ~ On April 5, the Beavers trav way for Caltech in the 800, run J Contrihu tiOi lS ttl y nur S R:h ;11'\' dedu<: ted To find (lu i more. st op by you r bl" ..: li t!> ullin: I i ftll11 ,\'\1\ 11" :-:lI 01r," tIll a I,n' ta x Ua sis, 5 0 y ou pay or give LI S a c~dl at 1 800 8-f2.288K \\,~, ' II sho\\" eled to Pomona to compete in ning a 2:04. which was only one "I 1I0\\", sinn: ear n ings your I.: .. ,1I"IIi' their second SCIAC meet. second behind first place. For the '~'1 k,, ~ ill "IX~'S ,\'n,1 on you how SRAs n lowcr WX\· ~ . - SILh ;In' ai-:,o I;lX l k'l l' rrL,d I1 l1 lil y ou rC IC ci\'c thcm 00 it today - it couldn't hu n . Whittier. Cal Lutheran, Cal tech, last event of the day. Caltech had '. I and Pomona~ Pitzer were all com two 4 x 400 relay teams. The first Vi 5 it us on the Internet at www,tiaa.creLorg , peting. Caltech scored against Cal consisted of Kleiman, KurtZ, .! 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