Dr. arold Brown Talks About Caltech's Future nhodes get the local area schools all for the decision to admit strings attached. The bulk Open I .. ines During a recent theT and from this deter- women 'rhls eel'· research grants should A. 1 look forward to working ington I had an to mine a proper program. reflects a proper desIre to defense. the with Caltech faculty, visit Dr. H.arold Brown, our Should the Caltech Aca· be in a more normal environ of research grants is and administrators because appointed President and demic attitude show an increased ment. faculty mattE'r. are of sueh high and be· the Secretary of the on humanitieR and q. What do you think. about Q. What do you think of the cause of the pro· Air 1.;'01'ce. was asked the cial scienee? secret research on present draft situation with re vides to the solu· editors of the California Teeh A. For science and technology A. It doesn't belong on campus. gards to students? tion that we're to ask Dr. Brown a few to find their full expression 'rhe un i. v e i A. A lottery system would be come up with of how CaItech is He was to diseuss these have to be set should engage in defense better. to relate to modern questions with me and invited text of society. search of this nature in the and education. How we move is Q. Do you see as not now. me to his ofIlee. The changE's in event of a national emergency; innovator or a mediator? interview was held on December when the very existance of the would be that we first establish Small Chuckle A. If I had to lines or communications. I feel 19 for about an hour in Dr Q. If you are familiar with the nation is at stake. World War as one of these types, from my Brown's oifice. A report Dr. 1I was such an emergency. Our very that open Unes of Calteeh what do experience and I communications IE'ad to correct Ilrown's ans,'vers to the ques· think of it? present situation is not. would dE'scribe tions prepared the 'l'ech edi· assesslJlents and viable solutions. A. I think it's as good as any )Iilitary·Industrial Complex novator. tors follows: I plan to spend a lot of time at I've seen. It strikes the Q. What should the relation· (At this point I asked Dr. first just small Q. Do you thin k Caltech should note of student ship of the campus be toward the Brown if be had any brief state· groups and groups of fac· make special efforts Q. What do you think the Defense Department? ment he would like to make ulty and students. I don't, how· minority admissions? of women at Caltech? A. The campus give us some idea of his initial ever, intE'nd to establish commit· Our move should (After a ,small chuckle) should aceept grants with no plans as our next tees to formalize this. California Tech Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology
Volume LXX Pasadena, California, Thursday, January 9, 1969 Number 12 Teckers Foiled by Fuse Rose Board Gets Twice Over u;\, ;nm Cooper group's existence. An Iudian 'Scalpe,l" Even tlw best laid of Thus, this group comprised of Pushing the group-'" mice and men and Caltech stu Page House residents, designed who had their dents sometime go astray; but and built their own mechanism ment in the of a these words are little to put Calteeh's on the lunch-was confronted with a consolation to the group of 'feck· Rose Bowl scoreboard. "scalper" who offered to sell them ers whose plan to the score· The scene now switches to tickets to the game at $20. La· "And for our next trick ... " Caltech's last New Year's prank made grone said that the network television when Lloyd House members switched 2232 display cards hoard 'Of the 1969 Rose Bowl Monday, Dee. 30. to asked many and La- in the 1961 Washington cheering section. Game went so wrong, Peter Deilnel, municipal facHities thanks to a combination of a manager of the of grone reported that saw the faulty diode, poor and a standard cheek of the score· on the of President-eleet Richard NIxon. board was carried out, the game as one of the men sur- Megawatt Xformer Burns; Although the first part of the whE'n a fuse blew, and the sta rounding President·elect Nixon. story must-for obvious reasons (Uum's electrician eould not find 'I'he group then went on to thE' -remain purely a the trouble. The scoreboard man· ,.;coreboard area, where 110t· ed an what "YYn"",,,,,,,. Three Mice Blow Minds fairly clear ufaeturerwas and penE'd may be an electrician to the to be a Secret ServIce agent A failure in the electrical A check of various electrician's and transformer system of ments on carnpus revealed Theoretically, near the end of "cene. November, many Teckers had a man a gun working Physical Plant resulted in an in if the of services had Here 'l'i1ey Come on the scoreboard. deeicled of eomprE'ssed air, caused any to visions of displaying last term's victorious football score on the The arrival of the eompany's that had better not attempt steam, hot water, demineralized ments, it was not reported, with anything, sowhhdrew from scoreboard 'Of the 1969 Rose Bowl eleetrieians eoincided water, and chilled water to the the exception of the De- with the arrival of the the scene. entire Calteeh campus partment which the Game. One of these persons House group at the stadium. Wouldn't Give Up Christmas loss of three mice which were might well have resided in Dah· The House They would not up, how· in a chamber at ney House. The] ,000 kilowatt transformer consisted of Terry Lagrone, Lar ever, and returned to the Bowl the time the compressed air sup bank bIeyv out at 2:51 a.m. Ac Perhaps Consulted ry Lebofsky, and Tom 131ascho. around p.m. that same ply was senior this this person According to the group By this the nature of the may have eonsulted with service of the a arrived at the Bowl around 11 device had been and of electricians in Ricketts House Physical the eause of the of Booth Computing Center had a.m. suspicion had fallen upon the failme has who might have agreed to work Lagrone saId that Page House from their told him that the Institute was on the mined, and in of its computers, diately notieed many visit-which had not- causes, several recon men around the area, ed-earlier in the however. 'rhe systems affected naisance expeditions of the sta terated poor and concluded that they were Se 'The group, !1owevel', knew by the transformer outtage are (Uum and the seoreboard could have been evidently vital for the mainten· cret ServIce agents detailed to HVCLUUF, about this and, evident· would have been earried out. ance of the lal'W, computer insure the of President· on a bold estimated the cost of t"inally out a circuit terns. elect Nixon's scheduled atten· to the office of stadium of the whieh would accomplish the 810,000. dance at the game. (Continued OIl page 3) to dt,velop· sired effect, tbe installation of the device would have taken r ment plans call for the Waddya Mean SornelJody Else??? tion of the second stage of ex· place, with Thurs- Notices pansion of Physical Plant fad]· day, and Friday of finals itif~s to be eompleted January, week (Dec. 18, 19, and 20) ASCIT CARDS 1970. said that with thE' a likely time at whIch the instal The ASCIT cards will be here completion of the such lation eould have occurred. on Monday. On-campus people an outtage would m~ver again oc The instaUation would should pick i'hem up from their cur. ably involve a diode system so house secretaries, and off-campus arranged that when the people should get their from Louise of the system was in onE! diree· Hood (i n 105 Winnett Center 1 . BeHeye It Or Else tion, the scoreboard would aceept RAGNAROK IS ALMOST UPON normal commands, but when the US! On this day in 193(;, Howard polarity was reversed, the score· Prepare, Grobj of Saskatoon, Saskatche· board would "UCSD-31, SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE wan discovered a strange insect CaItech-34. The reversal of the Sunday, January 19, 2 :00 p.m., in his rootabaga patch. '''hen he for this installation on the Atheneaum Lawn. Tickets sent it to the of Man probably would be $1.00, available from house social itoba for identification, he dis· by means of a remote· control chairmen and Beckman Ticket Of covered that the postage rate was radio fice. They will perform "The more than he had expeeted. Some Some Vision Farce of Pateline. time later, his great aunt Lizzie In the meantime, another PARTI ES':' ':'SEX':' ':'ORGIES almost died after being bitten group of Tech students whose There will be an organizational a rabid bushbaby while running identity is more also had meeting of the Caltech Model nude through the forests of visions of the Rose United Nations today in Club Room Northern Australia. Howard's Bowl scoreboard. There was 2 at 8 :00 p,m. Find out the true family did not kncfW of this until one This group Larry Lebovsky, Terry Lagrone, and Tom Blascho are escorted (??) off of the above title. the field by invisible Secret Service men. "eV{>l"C1 J clays later. the other Page Two CALIFORNIA TECH Thursday, 1969 Editorial Hope Seen for Black South Africans A Plea for Unity Munger Outlines New Political Direction Our fellow Teckers' Come, let us reason Pasadena, Calif. Changes in (Prime Minister) .John Vorster [,'or example, "students at The events described in this issue involving the Rose Bowl jlolitics and business are within South Africa has been Stellenhosch are ac· Game, illustrate two facts of Iife about Caltech. hope fOl' signi ti.cant progress in tempered by the moderation, tively ,;eeking contacts with South Africa's explosive radal pragmatism and outward-look EJ n g lis h-speaking universities For one thing Teckers are going to attempt to perpetrate predicament, an expNt on Afri, ing flexibility he has displayed for the Jlrst time. Sueh develop practical jokes on a grand scale. For another thing, Tech is such ca n a frail'S reports, in his two years in office, This ments are conspicuous to South a hotbed of rumor mongerers that what actually is happening on There is reason to hope "in Teversal' has rankled the right Africans, hut not to the outside campus is sometimes obscured by random, confl icting rumors the next decade for an increase wing politicians." world, especially those publ ished in the Tech. in social Lind political opportun Munger pointed out that Vor· Despite the changes, however, ities for Africans, Colored, and ,;ter, when be took office, was reo Munger ,;aid they have not yet Since Teckers are going to undoubtedly continue to attempt Asian,; in South lUdca, de· [lUted to be hard an(l intimidat· "heen transmitted to levt~ls af· to "RF" things, we believe that a group should be formed on clared Dr. Edwin S. Munger, ing, was viewed as the most ex fecting the iwerage African. campus to coordinate these attempts, so that 5uch"phrases as professor of geography. Such tl'eme, most most tot· Political opportunities "Whaddaya mean, someone else has already done iel! will never iner'fases would "match their do· alitarian leader in the National available to the Bantu-speaking mestic economIc advances and Party, peoples of South A.frica within again have to be uttered by humiliated Teckers. the new in However, the geographer adel the ,;o·callE'd 'white an,as have After all, we have the Research Project on campus to help afTairs. cd that ".John Vorster has now not increased in the last 20 students familiarize themselves with the workings of a bureau Munger, who has done exten undergone a metamorphosis is years, and they have further de cracy which we will all face when we attempt to do a research sive studies in Africa, was mem doubtfuL A sounell"r speculation clined in the last few years." project outside of Tech's sheltered enviranment. A similar co tioned in the .B1'itish publication is that thee image of him in the Although repression of black, ,Ul'iea Coufidential as a strong minds of his supporters and op· colored and Asian people con ordinating organization for "RF's" would serve a similar purpose possihility to become Assistant ponents was incomplete." tinues, Munger said, economic - acquainting Teckers with the bureaucracy of planning mili Secretary of State for Afriea in "vVhat is causing change in forces are at work that are rais· tary-like operations, something else we seemingly have to look the Nixon Administration. The South Africa is not the rise of ing the level of income and pro.. forward to. report has not been confirmed. verligtes (enlightened ones) in ductivit:v of this excluded ma- jority Therefore, we urge some student to take upon himself the Munger explained that the opposition to the government, Union of South Afriea has been hut the movement of the Nation· liJeonomie Boom task of coordinating Tech "RF's," and end forever the myriad of called "a time bomb with a al Party to a verligte position on "The booming economy has conflicting rumors which only serve to foul up Teckers, and not shortening ,fuse, hut develop· key issues. produced material and social their intended prey. ments now point to the possibil Dramatic Change~' payoff's, as seen ill the larger (P.S. We have heard rumors that such an organization is ity of a peaceful transition to a "The lllOst dramatic number of well-dressed Africans more just South Africa." of the last two decades were and a nevv economic mobility, being organized. Watch next week's Tech for the notice.) Hanl Image made within the National Party The change from white to eol· (P. Does anyone know how the L. A Col iseum score- In an artiele written for the last August and September, and ored postmen is an undeniable boord operates?) January issue of I<'oreign Affairs the effects are seen in Afrikaans fact to housewives in affected Jim Cooper magazine, Munger declared that universities, lit era t u t· e and white areas, Munger said. Alan Stein "Today, the hard imag'e of press," Munger said, "One should note, too," Mun ger added, "that the doctrine of Dave Lewin apartheid (racial has no ieleological has is. The race-hate literature found in a " few South African bookshops is "Fourth? ,;ue mainly from the United