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_ _ _ . 11 TI. .,r _1I 'T Tl A " ? ' I'lI I T T Er .1 Ir . 'I T - - - - - A - - - - VOLUME 91, NUMBERK 31 -tUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1971 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FIVE CENTS -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~------171-II----I ------Freeze to have littlee effect on MIT's financial picture By Robert Fourer ationary periods end during the to make the policies in the The wage-price freeze will freeze are not allowed the pay question and answer sets official. have no immediate large-scale increases they would normally It declared that "Increased effect on the Institute's finances, usually receive. But even these school tuition rates for the according to John Wynne, Vice raises may be allowed: reg- 1971-1972 school year, an- President for Administration and ulations seem to permit an in- nounced on or before August Personnel. crease in pay if it has been an 14, are permitted because such However, losses during the "established procedure" after a rates are considered to be in 90-day period due to freeze probationary period of not more effect at the time of the an- rulings may slightly exceed than three months. nouncement." Administrators gains, stated Wynne, whose of- In addition, tuition, room were now quite confident they fice has overall responsibility for and board, and medical fees in- needed no longer be concerned determining the effect of the creases are unaffected by the with tuition. rulings on the Institute. Never- freeze, a gain in a negative sort But the first mention of room theless he was optimistic that if of way. Overhead charges for and board came two days later, President Nixon's new economic research projects will also be in another set of questions and program achieved its goals it unaffected immediately, since answers, and threw matters into would benefit MIT in the long they are generally part of long- confusion. Room and board run. term contracts. were declared not exempt from Meanwhile, in the initial Predictions of Nixonomics' the freeze: "[They] are handled three-month freeze period the effect on the Institute have not just like tuition. If there were Institute stands to lose anticipat- only been clouded by the unpre- substantial transactions during ed income from rents in East- dictability of post-freeze the base period (confirmed by gate, Westgate, and apartments measures. Contradictory and un- deposits), the increase may be operated by the MIT-owned clear rulings made even the charged. If there-was not a sub- Northgate Corporation. - Divi- 90-day freeze hard to assess at stantial volume, the increase is dends from stock investments- first. not allowed." This appeared to an important source of in- A case in point is tuition and contradict previous tuition come-are also likely to decline related fees (room and board, rulings, and cast some doubt on in total, due to voluntary comp- medical). These were raised ef- the original reasoning as well liance with Nixon's request that fective with the summer term, so (that increases were permitted no specific increases be declared at first it was assumed they because they took effect with during the freeze. would be unaffected. A state- the summer term). As for major savings, there ment in a list of questions and In any case, a "substantial are none in sight. Prices of ser- answers released three days after volume" had already been de- vices and supplies are largely the freeze began supported this fined as 10%, so that any price. fixed by long-term contracts assumption, but for different at or above which 10% of trans- running through the 90-day per- reasons: tuition rates were con- actions had been made was to be iod. Pay increases are reviewed sidered transaction prices, since considered the ceiling for the I between January I and July 1, commitments have been made, freeze. Thus if there were any Cambridge faces test so 1971 raises have already tak- and there are a number of cases transactions for fall term tuition 1 en effect; higher rates for re- where payments have been before August 15, one could 1 search and teaching assistants made." No mention was made of reason, they would qualify as a i on voter registration were put in effect for the sum- room and board or other fees. substantial volume sincee not 10 I mer session, and will govern any Further support came almost By Robert Fourer would be cleared for almost but 100% would be at the new new appointments. a week later in the "Economic rates. This turned out to be the A court test of Cambridge's every college student who wish- The Institute may gain slight- correct interpretation: a sum- continued refusal to register ed to vote in the town where he Stabilization Circular No. 1," ly if new employees whose prob- printed in the Federal Register (Please turn to page 21 most students as voters will attended school. Residents of reconvene in U.S. District Court Boston fraternities or apart- at 1 am today. ments should have no trouble At issue is a motion for a registering now if they lived in preliminary injunction against the same place last May 2 (and 1 draft ciling set at 140 the Cambridge Election Com- can prove it with a lease, letter mission in behalf of three local from a landlord, old utility or Men with draft lottery hum- the draft. Students are warned ident Nixon authority to freeze students. They were refused un- phone bill, or old phone listing). bers above 140 are almost cer- not to drop their deferments wages. To prevent such a break der Commission policy which Cambridge students will have tainly safe from the possibility hastily, however, since if their in the freeze, passage would have have to wait for the court ruling, requires that voters be self- of induction this year, even if numbers are reached they will be to be delayed while the bill was supporting, and which presumes unless they are apartment dwell- Congress passes a new draft law unlikely to get the 2-S back returned to committee for they will not remain indefinitely ers who can contrive not to look again. modification. after graduation. this month, according to "know- like students; but chances are ledgeable government officials" The total draft call this year When passed, the new draft An opinion issued by Attor- good a decision will be forth- cited -in The will probably be less than bill will also give the President ney General Robert Quinn last New York Times coming well before the October last week. I 10,000, compared with authority to eliminate student summer declared these res- 13 registration deadline. (Fresh- If the draft extension is 165,000 last year when the deferments, an authority he has trictions invalid, but it is not in men will be ineligible for this highest number was 195. The already stated he will use. itself legally binding. [Excerpts delayed - a prospect which is fall's elections, since they fail not unlikely - the top number longer Congress delays in passing College students who were from the Quinn opinion appear the residence requirement.) the draft bill, the fewer people enrolled full time in the on page 4.1 may remain below the present If Quinn's opinion is upheld ceiling.of 125. will be called this year, and the 1970-197 1 academic year will be Meanwhile, the Boston statewide-and chances seem No one has been drafted since more will be taken the year eligible for student deferments Election Commission has accept- good it will be-students will after. in the 1971-1972 school year, if ed Quinn's guidelines, and will June 30, when the government's comprise at least 25% of the basic authority to draft men into The bill is being held up by they continue to make satisfac- register anyone who can prove eligible voters in seven of the two factors not directly related tory progress in their programs residence the Army expired. Technically, for six months by state's communities, including to the draft. One is strong Sen- election day (November 2) and the government still has of study. However, those who Cambridge. In 17 more, includ- authority ate support for an amendment who simply declares he intends to induct men under enroll as freshmen this fall will ing Boston, they will make up 35 years of age who have had sponsored by majority leader not to remain in the city in- qualify for student defer- more than 10o. deferments, but -the Nixon Mike Mansfield which would ments once the law is passed. definitely. (Registration in Student voting has especially administration claims there are declare the policy of the country Boston resumes after the pri- Dr. Curtis W. Tarr, Selective great potential consequences in no plans to do so. to be that American troops are mary election today.) Service Director, said: "Few in- Cambridge, where there are car- Students born in 1951 or to be withdrawn from Vietnam coming students are likely to be Quinn's ruling would permit a rently less than 50,000 register- by the end of this year if pris- student to select his own earlier are ,ncluded in the draft- inducted in the near future ed voters out of a possible eligible pool this year if they are oners of war are released first. because of the student defer- domicile for voting purposes, 80,000 under Quinn's ruling. Of The amendment was passed by regardless of whether he lives in not deferred. Those who are i-A ment phaseout. Of the those unregistered, it is estimat- on December the Senate but considerably 1,034,000 incoming a dorm -31 and whose freshmen or fraternity, or whether ed that at least _14,000 are numbers have not been reached watered down in a House-Senate males estimated by the Office bf his parents support him. students; there are probably will escape induction, barring a conference on the bill, and Education, approximately 80% Domicile for voting purposes ·many thousand more young major mobilization. several Senators have threatened are 18 years old and only 20% was defined by Quinn as "actual ·people not in school. Thus if a person with a 2-S a filibuster. are 19 years of age or older. residence in the town, coupled Cambridge's nine city council student deferment determines The second factor is the "The 18 year olds will receive with an intention to remain in- seats and six school board mem- his number will not be reached freeze. The bill before the Sen- their lottery numbers in 1972, definitely. The intention to re- berships will be contested this ate would increase the pay and and they will not be subject to main indefinitely does not mean this year he may write to his November. In the last election local draft board and request he allowances of servicemen induction until 1973, when draft an intention to stay forever but (1969) it took only 2500 votes be placed in the pool and his effective October 1, and legal calls should be low. The 19 year merely that there is no present to elect a councillor under the experts believe such a law would old freshmen received their lot- intention of leaving." city's proportional represerit- deferment cancelled. He will, for all practical purposes, escape supersede the law that gave Pres- {Please turn to page 2) Thus, courts willing, the way (Pleaseturn to page 3) r

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(Continuedfrom page 1) affected in 1972 by the student 2-S deferment- extends a regis- during 90-day freeze tery numbers August $ of this deferment phaseout and one-half trant's draft liability to age 35, year and will be subject to in- of these, or 25,000, will pro- and will be revoked anyhow (Continuedfrom page 1) The matter of raises after a duction next year; at least half bably not be inducted because once the new bill is passed. mary issued August 29, osten- probationary period has-follow- should have high enough lottery of enlistments in Regular, College students will not be sibly abstracting all previous ed a smoother but longer course. numbers to preclude their induc- Reserve of National Guard units, drafted in, the middle of a term. rulings, declared that increased It is still not clear whether such tion. Of those remaining, participating in commissioning If called while enrolled, they will charges were valid "if, before raises can be granted since (1) approximately 50% will be dis- programs or because of pro- be allowed to postpone induc- August 15, at least one (1) some probationary periods last qualified on mental, moral or cedural delays." tion until the end of the term; if person paid (confirmed by a more than three months; and (2) physical grounds. Freshmen may still file now in their last-academic year, they deposit) such charges." the period is not invariably fol- "This means that a maximum for student deferments, but are will be able to postpone their There were payments re- lowed by a raise. of 50,000 men will be directly strongly advised against it. The induction until after graduation. ., . . - L. . - I *. 0..I , , ceived before August 15, accord- .I .. I-- ing to Wynne, and thus the fees ()peC 8:00 to 5:30 354-6165 were exempt. (Surprisingly, the I - Registrar's letter to students I: clarifying the freeze, dated Each year Savings Bank Life Insurance ranks 4th or 5th Larrys Barber Shop September 1, persisted in quot- in sales in Massachusetts - of all Ordinary insurance ing the Economic Stabilization sold? "for that well-groomed look" Circular, though it had been The reason: low-cost; annual dividends; first-rate pro- Razorcuttilng. sun lamp tfcial 545 Tech Square superceded. The' true state of tection. See us. affairs was only hinted at in the (opposite garage letter's last paragraph.) ServinL Techmlcn tfor over 35Cyears behind East Campus) C CAMBRIDGE---- SAVIINGS BANK - Kendall Square -- - - . I -L- ---- C~'l l ---- -I -·II1 -mrrp l ~ ~ I ff I ---- II I ;- --- ~-

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I MIT rejected"Papers Cambridgezaces test By Lee Giguere Webber contacted seven of the -wouldn't be present" and be- The MIT Press Editorial Board eight members of the Editorial cause of the issues involved. on voter registration declined last July to publish a Board of, the Press (a ninth Questioned about the BAD re- (Conrtinuedfrom page IJ Most registration activities nearly-complete version of the position was vacant at the time). port which implied the MIT ad- ation voting system, and it here are being coordinated by Pentagon Papers. Standard procedure is for the ministration had a hand in the would take only 3700 if all the Cambridge Committee for Publication was rejected Editorial Board, a standing com- decision, Bishop claimed there 14,000 registered and voted. Voter Registration, which was mainly on legal grounds, accor- mittee of the faculty, to review was "no sign of his [Rosen- Thus students and young voters instrumental in bringing the case ding to chairman of the Board all material before it is pub- blith's] trying to dictate a de- could be a potent political force for student registration to Dean Robert Bishop, at a meet- lished. The Press' professional cision," and that Rosenblith had in the city. Quinn's office. It is working for ing of four members of the staff, Webber explained, exam- only posed questions about the In any case, the decline of the evening hours (an order allocat- Board on July 26. ines material and submits to the issues involved. voting age to 18 has in itself ing the necessary funds was to Bishop stated that while the Board what it considers editori- Bishop explained that a num- swelled the pool of potential have been brought before the Supreme Court had ruled that ally interesting. ber of Board members hadn't voters, and stepped-up efforts at city council last night) and will newspapers are free from "prior Under _pressure from Gravel rejected publication "out of registration have shown impress- give advice to anyone who calls restraint" on publication, several for an early decision, four mem- hand," but after a two hour ive success. (547-6767). of the Justices had explicitly bers of the Board, including discussion, he said a "fairly clear noted it would .be appropriate Bishop Professors Gardiner consensus" had emerged that for the government to prosecute Swain (V), Zennon Zannetos MIT should not become involved DINO'S PIZZA AND after the papers were published. (XV) and Ernest Rabinowicz (II) in such a venture. There was no Besides the possibility of legal (three others were traveling and discussion at the meeting of the action against MIT, Bishop could not attend the meeting) possible penalties MIT might in- SUB SERVICE claimed that printing the papers met with Webber on July 26th. cur. FAST DELIVERY would be an act of civil disobed- Also present were Provost Walter Contacted after the Board's ience and that the Board wvas Rosenblith, the highest-ranking final decision, the three absent REASONABLE PRICES "reluctant" to involve MIT offi- member of the administration members, as well as MIT Presi- cially in such an act. More sim- available at the time, and an dent Jerome Wiesner, concurred CALL 266-6381 ply, he declared that the Board Institute lawyer to discuss the with the decision. didn't want to do something legal aspects of publication. Webber stated that he was 6 PM-12 Midnight "that would be widely regarded According to Webber, the three "disappointed" that the Press MASS. AVE. IN BOSTON NEAR BEACON ST.

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If these principles common today that students upon grad- Robert Elkin, Business Manager were applied to voter registration, an uation do not return to their home Joe Kashi, Lee Giguere, Bruce Peetz, The questions relate to persons unemancipated minor over eighteen towns. the ages of 18 and 21, Alex Makowski, NewsEditors between would be restricted to his father's voting both students and non-students, There may exist fear that some small Tim Kiorpes, Night Editor residence unless his father gave his assent communities with a large percentage of Dave Searls, Features Editor who seek to register to vote ini Massachu- to a change of residence. they pre- students in the population may be "taken setts cities and towns where As noted above, however, the rules sently live. The hypothetical situations over" by student voters, who may then Second-class postage paid at Boston, Massa- pertaining to domicil for tax or probate implement "radical" programs. The chusetts. The Tech is published twice a which have been presented to me include not always prevail where week during the college year, except during the following: (I) students residing in purposes may possibility of such a "take-over,"how. college vacations, and once during the first domicil for voting purposes is concerned. ever, would depend largely upon how week in August, by The Tech, Room dormitory residences who are supported domicil requirement Center, 84 Massa- The purposes of the many students are willing to give up their W20-483, MIT Student by their parents; (2) students residing in the registrar of voters the' chusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts who are self- are to afford right to vote in their communities of 02139. Telephone: (617) 864-6900 ext. dormitory residences opportunity to ascertain the qualifica- Mail subscrip- origin. Moreover, the fear that student. 2731 or 1541. United States supporting; (3) students residing in apart- tions of the voter, and to prevent the tions: one year $4.50, two years $8.00. residence fac- voters would tend to take radical ments or other non-college possibility of fraud through multiple vot- ilities; both dependent on their paprents measures may be groundless. See legis- ing. To restrict the ability of an uneman- lative History on Twenty-sixth Amend- and self-supporting; and (4) non-students cipated minor, over the age of eighteen,to and ment U.S. Code Cong. & Ad. News, 92nd who have left their parents' homes choose his domicil for voting purposes i NMOTES are either dependent upon their parents Cong., Ist Sess., 364 (Adv. Sh. No. 3, would serve neither of these purposes. April 25, 1971). At any rate, students over * The hours for 8.333 have been changed, or self-supporting. Moreover, to restrict a right possessed by the the age of eighteen years, if they have the to 2:30-4 pm Tuesday and Thursday. The First, it is assumed in all cases that voters over twenty-one years of age, room has also been changed, to 6-120. student or non-student, as the case may intention of making the college town would be to "abridge" his right to vote their home indefinitely, "have a right to be, seeks to register to vote in a commun- on "account of age" in contravention of * 7.01 will meet MWF in 10-250 unstead ity other than where his or her parents an equal opportunity for political repre- of 54-100. the Twenty-sixth Amendment. Conse- sentation . . . 'Fencing out' from the reside. Sceondly, the cases-which have quently, it must be concluded that, for been presented to me include persons franchise sector of the population be. * Alpha Phi Omega's Book Drive will be purposes of registering to vote, a minor the way they may vote is Friday, Sept. 17 whose parents reside within the Common- cause of held Tuesday, Sept. 14 to either emancipated or unemancipated constitutionally impermissible." in the Bldg. 10 lobby. Bring in your used wealth and cases where parents reside in over the age of eighteen years has the books and put them on sale. Check in Bldg. another state. For the purposes of the right to establish his own domicil with or 10 before buying your texts elsewhere and discussion which follows, it is immaterial without the consent of his parents. III. Summary save money. whether the parents reside within Massa- chusetts or elsewhere. Finally, it is also can be stated, certain general * Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences There assumed that the student or non-student, II. Minor Voters Who are Students principles which may be of aid in resolv- and Technology: Information on new may be, is a citizen of the courses and application forms for enroll- as the case ing particular cases as they arise. First, United States either by bith or natural- The determination whether a student the fact that a minor over eighteen years ment in Functional Anatomy and Human taken may be obtained from office of ization. The answers to these questions from another city or state, who has age is not emancipated, financially or Pathology or of Director, 16-512. require examination of federal and state up residence at or near the college otherwise; from his parents has no bear- constitutional provisions, as well as of a university he attends, has made his new ing on his right to choose his own domicil purposes * New informal course on elementary number of court decisions and advisory residence his domicil for voting for voting purposes. The fact that such a Spanish conversation, plus some art and opinions. is, as in all cases of recently moved minor, whether or not a student, may be lectures. a11/2hours a week. If you'd of fact, -to be music registrants, a question supported in whole- or in part by his like to sign up, please call Connie De Fusco I. Minor Voters in General determined -by all the circumnstances of (x7115) or leave your name and extension parents is in itself insufficient reason to the case. As noted above, the basic to register an otherwise qualified on the sheet on the door of 56-510. estab- refuse The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the elements of domicil are the actual applicant. Second, the fact that a minor lishment of residence in the city or town, * On October 16 the UNICEF Committee Constitution of. the United States, re- voter who is a student resides in a of Boston will present two benefit movie cently ratified by three-fourths of the and an intent to remain there indefinite- fraternity house or other a dormitory, shows in Kresge Auditorium for the refugees states, provides in section 1 that "The ly. Once a student living at or near college residence, is of no relevance. The that he of East Pakistan in India. The Committee is right of citizens of the United States, who college or university has shown basic question to be answered is whether "in which also soliciting donations through advertise- are eighteen years of age or older, to vote has resided in the city or-town he intends to return to his former home ments to be printed in a souvenir brochure shall not be denied or abridged by the he may claim a right to vote, six calendar his course of studies is comp- which will be distributed at the benefit. To as soon as United States or by any state on account months next preceding any elction of lete. The fact that he may find residence place an ad, call Laxmidas Popat at of age." The states, however, " have long governor, lieutenant governor, senators, 434-5885 (office) or 729-5169 (home). in a dormitory or fraternity house more been held to have broad powers to or representatives, or any other state, city convenient or less expensive than renting his * Urban Action is once again looking for determine the conditions under which the or town election," and has declared an off-campus apartment does not answer volunteers - their projects have been right of suffrage may be exercised." intention to stay in the city or town for that question. expanded and include tutoring, elderly Lassiter v. Northampton Election Board, an indefinite period, he has shown him- services, transportation, legal services, re- 360 U.S. 45, 50; Evans v. Rash, 380 U.S. self eligible to register as a voter. In conclusion, the decision whether a search and a newsletter. If you are 89, 91. Under the Constitution of Mass- As in the case of any other applicant minor voter in one of the above hy- interested, please call x2894 or stop by at achusetts, "Every citizen of nineteen for registration, of course, the circum- pothetical situations is entitled to register Room 437 in the Student Center. years of age and upwards ... who shall stances may be such as to show that the, to vote should be reached in the same or district in student applicant in fact lacks the neces- manner as a like decision regarding an i for Zamix, intercollegiate have resided within the town * Auditions which he may claim a right to vote, six sary intent to establish his domicil in the applicant for registration who is over chorus specializing in Hebrew repertoire, years of age and has recently will be held from Sept. 9 through Oct. 7. calendar months next preceding any town. 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For further informa- I many purposes, including property tax tion visit the Placement Office, E19-455. liability and probate jurisdiction of wills * NOtes are printed in this space in The and the custody of children. Some of the Tech every Tuesday and Friday. Announce- stricter requirements of "domicil" per- Letter to the Editor ments of general community interest will be taining to those areas have not always given preference; profit-making or political been applied when the question concerns September 10, 1971 rejected outright its [the Commission's] events will not be listed. The editors cannot "domnicil" for voting purposes. In general, proposal for a first division." This is not guarantee the printing of any particular "domicil" means actual residence in the Dear Sir, correct and does not represent the Task submission, and reserve the right to edit or town, coupled with an intention to re- I must take strong exception to several Force's own point of view. More specif- reject copy. main indefinitely. The intention to re- comments made in the next-to-last para- ically, I would comment as follows: (1) Deadlines are Fri. 5 pm for Tues. issues, report.due Far from rejecting this notion, the Task and Wed. noon for Fri. issues. main indefinitely does not mean an in- graph of the article "Rogers tention to stay forever, but merely that for fall" on page I of The Tech for" Force has built on the Commission's there is no present intention of leaving. September 10, 1971. arguments and reasoning, and on the discussion and response to them by stu- The recent extension of the franchise In that article, the authors assert the to citizens between eighteen and twenty- dents and faculty, to reach proposals that VOTE· existence of a view of a "large number of one years of age presents some difficulty that the are closely related to the First Division To register to vote: top faculty and administrators" operation and conclu- in establishing whether an applicant of to come up.with concept. (2) The Cambridge: register at Election Commis- MIT Commission failed sions of the Task Force would have been that age is entitled to register. Although workable recommendations. This is a sion, 3rd floor, 362 Green St. (police I impossible without the initial Ideas, headquarters bldg., Central Sq.), from 8:30 some disabilities of minors have recently view that I have not encountered myself, impetus, and discussion provided by the to 4:30 Monday through Friday. Bring been removed from those over eighteen, and it is at strong variance with my own proof of residence since May 2, 1971 (lease, see St. 1971 c. 253 (lowering the age at Commission. (3) These features of the knowledge and impressions. A number of Task Force's work and conclusions will listing in old phone book, letter from which a person may make a campaign Commission recommendations that have landlord); pending court ruling you must contribution in excess of twenty-five be evident when the Task Force reports. a not yet been considered by the Faculty, also demonstrate self-support (bring dollars to eighteen years); St. 1971, c.255 by the Faculty this Tihe coming years may see funda- paycheck), especially if you are under 21. will be considered changes in educa- (males may marry without parental con- is my own belief, and the mental and beneficial For evening hours and information call coming year. It share sent at age eighteen), they remain minors recommen- tion at MIT. In my opinion, a major 876-9828. belief of others, that these of the credit for such changes will belong Boston: registration suspended until after until they are twenty-one ot otherwise dations have substantial merit. primary elections today. Register at City emancipated. It is the general rule that to the MIT,Commission. Htall ((;ov't Center) or neighborhood Joca- ordinarily, "the domicil of a legitimate With reference to the Special Task tions to be announced. Only proof of minor child is that of the father." It Force on Education, your authors remark Sincerely yours, residence (same as Cambridge) required. appears, however, that an unemancipated that the "Task Force has apparently Hartley Rogers, Jr. THETECH TUESDAY SEPTEMBER14,1971 PAGE5 Housing Office:ByMichael ... andF0dollrsa a profit of 60 dollar By Michael Feirtag porter an area for which he was accountable; in one 38. Total plant operations & dorm, the system seemed to make the porters' work maintenance 740,000 more pleasant, but in another, each porter in a team went secretly to management and complained 39. Salaries 114,300 about the Adminis- 40. Employee benefits The old-timers among others 18,40Q the dormitory janitors can remem- not doing their shares. tration 41. Office supplies 3,500 ber a different MIT: The pay was low. Housemen (porters) received $3.29 42. Administrative expense 26,400 It was not too long after the Second World War. MIT per hour, which was believed to be somewhat higher 43.-Trustee's fee'Z travel 1,500 was newly famous for having developed radar and other than the Cambridge-Boston average for such work. The 44. Total administration 164,100 devices of war, was slowly coming to acquire its vanity, union agreement is renegotiated frequently - the present 45. Total operating expenses 1,431,770 its sense of producing the wizards of technology who one took effect on September 10, 1970, and will expire 46. Income after operations would rule an automated utopia. The undergraduates June 30, 1971 - and at those times future pay increases 265,660 were rich kids who came to learn how to run the old are planned. But otherwise, payrates are flat: all house- 47. Real estate taxes 0 man's business, or perhaps merely from idleness support- men receive $3.29 an hour, regardless Financial 48. MIT investment amortization 155,000 of seniority. What & Other 49. MIT ed by daddy's wealth. These young men knew how to seniority mortgages or bonds: can do is allow employees who have worked at Charges amortization 23,000 have a good time; they partied, drank, and debauched on the Institute for longer times to be first in line for 50. MIT interest on mortgages or the strip of grass and trees dividing Memorial Drive. One promotions to job categories with higher pay: the hard bonds 52,500 freshman, on his way to MIT from somewhere in the workers have been known to have been promoted to 51. Insurance 10,100 Midwest, began to worry how he would support himself maintenance men ($4.19 per hour), and even supervisory 52. Total financial charges 240,600 in the style to which he was accustomed. He robbed a positions over the men they once worked with. 53. Net profit 25,060 few banks on his way east, and began throwing lavish The Institute had a reputation for infrequently if ever 54. Repayment of deficit parties and supplying his dormitory with nearly unlim- dismissing workers. But with some students loudly 25,000 ited alcohol. No one believed him when he explained demanding that the housemen be made to work hard; 55. Net profit after repayment 60 how he had come by the money, until, annoyed tfiat so and others, their indebtedness of several thousand -- ~~~~ , , , I . m,.. I I.,.,_ many thought him a liar, he produced a suitcase dollars slowly convincing them that fewer full of porters were It should be remembered that budgets such as this cash from under his bed. One of his friends went to the needed, convincing them that they could not afford the one can often hide things; a person who searches the FBI. white middle class liberal guilt that kept many employ- MIT Treasurer's reports for the cost of the Inauguration The janitors chuckle, remembering the large tips, the ees in the buildings and room rents high; and with still of Howard Johnson as MIT president will be unable to liquor, the rich white kids' friendliness. The black others becoming interested in term time jobs; with costs find it; even though the expense is believed to have been janitors kept the dormitories and the rich kids' up, with the number of businessmen rooms taking courses and immense, the figure budgeted for "administration" immaculate. living in dormitories during the summer down; the showed no jump that year, nor did any other figure. In But things had changed. Upper class had yielded to porters sensed an uncertain future, and increasing this projection, the figure at line 39, administrative middle. The Institute's students were now from families bitterness behind the sugary liberalism of the "MIT salaries, refers to part of the salaries of Arthur Beals, of far lesser means; engineering was the only way in Community." Assistant to the Director; James Gross, which the lower middle class could be almost guaranteed Manager of Maintenance Services; Robert Shaw, Manager of Admini- of good income and upward mobility in the society, strative Services; less than one half of Kenneth Brown- until they would rank below America's blue bloods, and IH ing, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, and could climb no higher. The upper class friendliness, born Housing Office secretaries. The remainder is covered by Eastgate, of their knowledge that they would never earn their In the spring term of 1971, the MIT Housing Office's Westgate, and Bexley budgets. The housing system also bread by the sweat of their brow, unless they wished to, announcement that room rent would increase the pays many middle-level administrators: five area mana- was replaced by middle class dread. The janitors' tips following year from an average of $533 to one of gers, two housekeeping supervisors, one assistant area decreased. perhaps $620 (exact calculations have as yet not been manager, and five clerks. What portions of these middle- And finally, in the late Sixties, the filthy hippies done) was greeted by students with a mixture of horror level salaries are covered by lines 10, 25 and 26 is arrived. No more tips, no desire to have porters clean and a sardonic acceptance of the inevitable, as the uncertain. A quick calculation can be made: their rooms, in fact, no desire to pay for porters. acceptance of death. As justification from the Housing w Which was in a way all right. The porter's conscious- Office came the usual vague plea of "rising costs," which ness had risen as the tips sank. Now, those few of the old that office made little effort to explain. Consolidated System - Estimate of Costs, timers who went on smiling and working hard were The figures which follow constitute the Housing Lines 10, 25, 26, Neglecting Overtime disliked by the majority, who did what they had to and Office's best guesses as to income and expenses for fiscal collected their salaries. 1972; the guesses were made before February 11, 1971. And finally, more than Number of Wage/hr. Total 40 hr. a year after porters had stopped Some figures are already suspect, as, for example, the Staff employees present- week, 52 Budgeted cleaning Category rooms, word came down from the MIT Housing cost of fuel. As shall be seen, the two major reasons for' 1971-72 6/30/72 week year estimate Office that porters were no longer to clean them. There the startlingly abrupt rise in rent are the startlingly 10. House- had been no way in which supervisory .personnel could abrupt rise in the cost of fuel, and the sudden desire on keeping 34 3.29 240,668 271,400 determine if the porters cleaned the students' rooms the part of the Housing Office to raise funds for 25. Mainten- anyway, Housing Office officials explained, and this maintenance work - a desire perhaps to repair the ance 10 4.19 87,152 102,600 managerial decision would eliminate a few porters and results of neglect due to previous dormitory system 26. Dorm Patrol * 3.55 62,025 save the now cost-conscious students $32 each per year. mismanagement. Explanations will follow the figures: 73,500 · 6 routes covered, approx. by 7 day week, 8 hr. day A few years previous, unclean students had been &-' '----- I I_---9~- iI -15--·II ---- I e celebrities: Filthy Pierre of East Campus was a legend, MIT Campus Housing - Financial Projections I lWJ , _I , l and had written a song book almost as pungent as the The July 1, 1971 to June estimates are all considerably under the Housing odor from his room. Now, the studly 30, 1972 apartments of the Consolidated System (includes Ashdown, Baker, Office's guesses, but our guesses have left out overtime. rich were gone, Burton, and the number of hippies and/or slobs EastCampus, Senior House, McCormick,and MacGregor) The correlation between the two sets of estimates is thus was on the rise. Each dormitory had an ever-increasing fairly reasonable. But we have yet to find the salaries of number of rooms that porters gathered outside of, the 13 middle-level managers, and we are left only with marvelling IINCOME 1. Rent - summer $216,000 how students could "live like pigs in there." 2. Rent - fall 672,020 $48,500 on line 16, anything left of lines 10, 25 and 26, The students were becoming interested in-MIT 3. Rent - spring 672,020 and whatever is left of line 39 after the top-level employees' jobs; in many cases they had to be, the 4. Rent- Faculty residents 123,890 administrators and their secretaries are paid. The figure Institute having given them job "awards" - not even a 5. Vending machine income 10,500 of 8% that 6. Linen will appear as administration cost begins to euphemism, but a sarcasm: thkre was receipts 16,000 no guarantee of 7. Miscellaneous 0 look suspect, unless administrators are paid rather less employment. In times of plenty, students could not be 8. Less: Vacancy loss (13,000) than one would think. bothered with dormitory desk staffs; now,-they wanted The point 9. Total income 1,697,430 is only that some amount of scepticism is to be night watchmen, in fact, were even cleaning useful in dealing with these figures. Westgate. And the agreement between MIT and Building EXPENSES 10. Salaries -cleaning labor hourly 271,400 Those lines where explanation is useful: Service Employees' Local 254 stated that "students... 1 1. Salaries - cleaning labor student 7,000 Line 19: Telephone expenses. Basically for the dorm may at the discretion of the Institute be employed at House- 12. Contract services t33,500 keeping line system. any time and from time to time to perform work 13. Cleaning supplies 22,300 as a -14. Employee benefits 43,400 Line 28: Physical plant. Refers largely to services means of earning part of their expenses while studying at received from MIT's Heat and Vent: keys, some plumb- 15. Total housekeeping 377,600 the Institute, and nothing contained in this agreement ing and electrical work, and frequent reading of meters shall restrict the type or amount of work which may be 16. Desk operations: salaries hourly 48,500 in the steam system. Student alotted to students." The savings in employing students 17. Desk operations: salaries student 51,920 Line 29: Repairs Services 18. Linen operations: salaries 3,100 and maintenance. Outside help, for is often considerable: a regular night watchman earns 19. Telephone expenses 9,200 elevator .system maintenance and large painting jobs, 3.55 an hour, and 5.32 per hour of overtime, while a 20. Linen supplies 9,700 which are contracted out, and some supplies, and so on. student night watchman receives 2.25 per hour, and has 21. Laundry charges 20,000 Line 30: Major maintenance provision. Here is the 22. House tax allowance no chance whatever for overtime. 0 hidden cause of the jump in room rent. Buildings 23. Employee benefits 7,600 grow More, students were becoming interested in the old and come to require massive repairs from time to employees in their buildings. Supervisors felt the heat, 24. Total student services , 150,020 time. For this purpose, money is, or should be set aside and tried, often without success, to induce the employ- 25. Repairs and maintenance - from room rents and stockpiled until such time when ees to work harder. One night watchman had his stations labor 102,600 outlays of several hundred thousand dollars are required. rearranged and a new clock was purchased, the result Plant 26. Dorm patrol salaries - hourly 73,500 For several years, Operations 27. Dorm patrol MIT's Housing Office did not put being that employers could ascertain salaries- student 0 that he had walked & Mainten- 28. Physical plant 46,600 aside sufficient funds; apparently, Housing Office man- the required mile on each round where previously he had ance 29. Repairs and maintenance 42,800 agement of as far as ten years ago until three or four walked perhaps a quarter mile - this in response to 30. Major maintenance provision 103,750 years ago was so desirous of keeping rent remarkably agitation by students who learned that they would have 31. Equipment provision 88,750 low that, a few years ago, it was finally seen that 32. Heat the to continue to pay for a night watchman to keep MIT's 130,000 dormitory system was beginning 33. Gas 4,000 to fall apart and insurance. 'The night watchman, in some 19 years in the 34.Water 19,650 sufficient funds did not exist to save it. building, had "never had trouble from students before." 35. Electricity 80,200 The decision was made to attempt to amass the In some dorms, the porters were instructed to work in 36. Employee benefits 28,200 necessary funds; the rents rose. 37. Maintenance loan repayment 20,000 teams rather than the previous system of alloting to each (Continued overleaf] PAGE;6- iTU_~DAYSE-PTEMBER 4,-1971 - -TEC~H,

(Continued from previous page) the law requires the use of low sulphur fuels that pollute 2, Linen, telephone 19 3.0 14I 3. Desk operations 51 6.2 The Housing Office calculated that amounts of less. More, the cost of oil has risen rather shockingly; a 3;i- S$SO,000 for the maintenance provision and $50,000 barrel of oil cost MIT's Physical Plant about $1.85 a year Administration 60 - 18.0 ' 455- for the equipment provision (line 31) were necessary, ago. It now costs perhaps,$4.50. The Housing Office but that that rise in costs would be prohibitive. Instead, estimates that line 32, though larger than in previous Total expenses 714 533I the figures on lines 30 and 31 were decided upon, and an years, may be low by some $30,000...... I_ . I 1_ k I I. III 'I _ lk additional $85,000 was to .be borrowed interest-free Line 43: Trustee's fee and travel. MacGregor House The major differences between fiscal 1971 and fiscal from MIT assets, $20,000 of which would be paid back was minanced by a bond issue whose management and 1972 would be the cost of oil, the major maintenance z within the first year; that $20,000 making its appearance associated paperwork have been given to a bank. and equipment clauses' large increase, and a pay increase on line 37. Thus, lines 30, 31 and 37, for a subtotal of "Travel" sent management to conferences. effective June 28, 1971: ~watcbmen from $3.29 to $3.55 $212,500, and, when added to the remaining $65,000 of Lines 47-51: Financial and other charges, which can hourly, housemen from $3.05 to $3.29, maintenance the 1oan, a total of $277,400 (minus, as will be seen, be broken down as follows: men from $3.88 to $4.19. im amounts set aside for eventual use in now new buildings) Kenneth Browning- would be moved from the to begin to correct the effects of perhaps ten years of Housing Office to that of the Dean for Student Affairs, Ig cheap room rent that would cost later students dearly. Financial Charges, thus removing the only link between students and an · Money is set aside from lines 30 and 31 in seperate Consolidated Dormitory System isolated dormitory system management in Building E-1 9. accounts for the remodeled Burton and new MacGregor, And Browning had been a poor link at that, according to on- the theory that the buildings are in excellent 1. Insurance $10,100 some students' perceptions. condition, and funds 2. Interest (MacGregor bonds) can be slowly stockpiled-for major 49,200 One former dormitory president could recall asking IIa 3. Principal repayment (MacGregor bonds) 15,000 A repairs many years in the future: the system that should Browning repeatedly over a several month period for 2 have been used with other dorms beginning several 4. Interest (M iT investment) 125,000 years 5. Repayment shower curtains. Browning smiled, explained that it was ago. (MIT advancement) 30,000 A new building's major maintenance clause is set at 6. Interest (Burton mortgage) 3,300 a; complicated business, and tried to forget about the 5% of the cost of construction; this amount to be 7. Principal repayment (Burton mortgage) 8,000 matter; this was apparently his general method for collected from the major maintenance and equipment Total financial charges $240,600 coping with problems. Months later, the dorm president clauses and set aside each year. The older buildings in had been at a meeting at which both Browning and ' ~" ~ ,, I I , ,,, ,E I the system draw as needed from the maintenance Campus Housing Director Howard Miller had been account; the accounting of the charge per student for Line 4 here indicates funds borrowed from the MIT present. Anything else, Miller had asked the president as major maintenance is not done building by building, investment portfolio. The Housing Office pays 3% the meeting ended. The president had recalled the since that would result in charging students who live in interest, and does not repay any principal currently,- shower curtains. Easy, Miller said, they were cheap, and dilapidated buildings more than those living in new ones. making the loan at least temporarily in perpetuity. This besides, they were laying in a storeroom. Browning had The Housing Office has already spent in its collective may change; with other investments paying far more looked uncomfo rtable. mind over a million dollars from the major maintenance handsomely than 3%, MIT has a bad investment in the The curtains had been installed the next day. clause of their collective fantasy. Following is a list, by Housing Office. Line 5 here refers to an advance made to Browning was made an Assistant Dean for Student dormitory, of what the Housing Office would do with its the Housing Office by MIT when MacGregor House rarn Affairs. Housing pays perhaps half his salary, since he is money if it had it: over budget. This loan is interest-free. concerned with dormitory room assignments; the Dean's

· _ P .1... ii i i ii I I . IA.I .. ___.,.I Office budget pays for the remainder. At the first presentation of the "Institute Screw" in Estimate of Needed Repairs, 1II , many years, the recipient, Kenneth Browning, smiled Consolidated System broadly and gave every indication of being pleased. Per- The Housing Office does not expect the budgets of haps he shared the syndrome of MIT administrators who Dormitory Proposed repair Estimated cost ($) 'individual dormitories to balance nor is its accounting on think it is a mark of affection when students protest a dormitory by dormitory rising costs and their lack Ashdown 1. Point and silicone north side of basis. Not only would there of power in an amusing way. building 100,000 be the previously mentioned matter of charging residents Perhaps he, and others concerned with student housing 2. Replace bathroom lead traps (98) 73,000 of a decrepit building more than those of modern and food services, would follow the lead of academic 3 Stairwell lighting 2,500 buildings; there would also be an inequity in that some bigwigs and yell foul if their smugness ever forced 4. lo-ck cylinder replacement (280) 4,500 buildings are constructed largely through gifts students to protest more emphatically. 5. Paint inside complete 43,000 while 6. Wiring 40,000 others require the floating of bond issues; it seems unfair This writer was present at a meeting called ostensibly to charge residents of McCormick, which was almost to post-mortem Alumni Weekend, but which soon Ashdown total 263,500 entirely a gift, far less than those of MacGregor, which degenerated into a sharp discussion of how much trash Baker 1. New roof 12,000 required a bond issue, and loans following its shooting the students left behind them in June. One of the 2. Waterproof cantilevered stairwells 20,000 over budget. student desk captains gleefully proposed the rental, 3. Carpet all corridors 30,000 The rents for individual rooms are determined arbi- every spring, of a truck equipped with a long chute, 4. Replace window sills 15,000 trarily, based on tradition and a vague sense of what which would be positioned on Memorial Drive, the snout 5. Paint inside complete 60,000 6. Refasten and seal all inside door surroundings are more valuable than others. Bexley, entering each window in turn to suck up the garbage the frames 10,000 which for some reason is outside the accounting conven- filthy students left behind. The administrators were 7. Kick-plates both sides corridor doors 3,000 tion of the consolidated dormitory system .is charged the somewhat more restrained; they merely made notes that Baker total 150,000 average of the system's room rents. additional garbage bins would be required. But one Thus calculations of how each student's room rent is almost gloated when he remarked soothingly that, after Burton 1. Paint dining room inside and out 4,000 spent are rendered almost impossible by the accounting all, the Housing Office u'uld have a fifty dollar deposit Burton total 4,000 system. from every resident next year, and they could dip into The closest the Housing Office comes to such a that. East 1. Repair spalling, waterproofing, lintels 40,000 calculation is a somehow amusing breakdown of how a Sitting there watching them,it suddenly occurred to this Campus 2. Paintoutside 10,000 bed in the consolidated dormitory system managed to writer that at least one housing administrator had 3. Reroof Bemis, Walcott, Goodale 9,000 E 4. Paint inside complete 55,000 earn and lose a total of $714 in fiscal 1971. Since the perhaps become infatuated with running lifeless build- 5. Lock cylinder replacefnent (385) 6,500 average student room rent paid in fiscal 1971 was $513, ings; he was pleased that they could get alumni to pay 6.Wiring both parallels 100,000 or 75% of the total transacted over the bed, we have large amounts to live in dorms for a few days, they could 7. Door replacement 35,000 multiplied all the expenses by three-quarters to come as get businessmen by the hundreds to pay $1 1.00 a night East Campus total 255,500 close as possible to telling the average student where his to stay in a building where students (ugh) paid about a average $513 went (if he believes the Housing Office) fifth of that per day. It almost seemed that he had Senior 1. Reroof Holman, Nichols, Crafts 7.000 last year, while he spent nine months in his average forgotten House 2. Paint inside complete 25,000 bed: that the exorbitant-'rates that MIT charged 3. Lock cylinder replacement (130) 2,000 businessmen were meant to make this possible. The 4. Plumbing 25,000 Housing |~~1 I I . . . . . L ,.,,_ Office ran the buildings at a distance, aloof Senior House totai 59,000 from the students who lived in them, seemingly without S Expenses and Income per Bed, knowing the buildings at all (they had attempted to McCormick 1. Paint west building inside completely 50,000 Consolidated Dormitory System charge some Baker residents, for example, for twenty- 2. Paint public areas east building 20,000 year old beds which had been replaced, their lame w McCormick total 70,000 INCOME Dollars %age excuse being that they thought the beds had been built e in, which they weren't). Perhaps they considered the f Totat: Consolidated System 1. Housemaster & tutor rents v 802,000 45 6 dormitories to be zoological gardens that contained 2. Summer guests 126 18 r specimens of a repulsive but valuable animal, and they 3.Student rents 533 75 -

4. Miscellaneous 10 1 were doing their best to keep the cages clean. f: Estimate of Needed Repairs, Income total 714 One student tells this apocryphal story: there had Buildings Outside Consolidated System been a morning during the summer when an area -

r manager had gone to a summer desk captain to request r Student Building Proposed repair v Estimated cost ($) EXPENSES Dollars %age cost ($) that his student staff clean up their corridor. The captain - had argued that the corridor was a dead end and - Bexley 1. Replace 36 bathrooms 72,000 Plant operation and restricted to the staff. The manager agreed, and admitted 2. Replace basement water pipes 7,000 iv maintenance that TIC 3. Repair roof flashing and cap unused he had made the request because he was "sure that t chimney 6,000 1. Physical plant 27 3.8 20 Bob Shaw (Manager of Administrative Services) would i: 4. Paint inside complete 2. Dormitory patrol 36 5.0 27 show F 18,000 up soon, and he'll say the place is a shithouse." i 3. Major maintenance & t 5. Renew screens 4,000 "Oh, all right," the manager said, smilng wanly, f .equip. provisions 46 6.5 35 6. Paint windows and frames outside 8,000 "forget it. Don't worry about it." 7. Sprinkler apartments 25,000 4. Repairs and maintenance 74 10.2 56 8. Emergency lighting 9,000 5. Utilities 88 12.5 66 The next day, Robert Shaw showed up. g 6. Other 1 0.0 Shaw walked immediately to the corridor. He sniffed i Bexley total 149,000 F about for a moment, then suddenly turned on the area Hbusekeeping W Westate total 73,000 manager, who stood one foot behind him. Eastgate total 1.Supplies 10 1.5 7 i 37,500 "You know," said Shaw, "this place is a shithouse." K 2. Contract services 16 2.2 12 ¢ "Yes, sir, it certainly is," the area manager energeti- E 3.Cleaning labor 175 24.3 130 caly agreed. The two men turned and walked rapidly [ from the building. W For an overall total of $ 1,061,500. Financial charges 99-- 14.0 74 B Returning to the estimated budget for fiscal 1972: (T7e hard data in the preceeding article are derived from | Line 32: Heat. This is the second major a Student services projections and financial analyses by the MIT Housing Office S reason for Other material, largely in sections I and III, represents an W increased rents, this one obviously, starkly unavoidable: 1. House tax 12 1.8 attempt to dirtill the perceptions of employees and addentd} W

- 'HETECI1 TUESDAY,; SEPTF0EBER '14;,t971 1 PAGE 7 ' -_ Noreascon 1: Science fiction and science By David Searls can attend any of several exhibits and ize . . even the Bible, all in addition to his hefty shows, not to mention the numerous "Well, what I mean is, a great scientist output of hardcore science fiction. The " ... For although in a certain sense auctions. If one is-captivated by science has the kind of mind that would appeal non-fiction works take the form of com- and for light-heartedpersons non-existant fiction movies, one can show up at the to science fiction, or vice-versa.... you prehensive surveys (Asimov's Guide things can be more easily and irrespon- midnight-to-dawn film program, and see stop and think, there are really two kinds to . . .) of the field. They would probably sibly represented in words than existing anything-from 2001 to It Came from of scientists; there's the kind that spend make good correspondence courses; as things, for the serious and conscientious Beneath the Sea. If one is enthralled at long hours in the lab and are very Fans often say, it's hard to believe one historian it is just the reverse. Nothing is the prospect of assuming the form of his thorough and compile a lot of uninterest- man can be so competent in so many harder, yet nothing is more necessary, favorite extraterrestrial being from half a ing data, and then there's the kind with fields. than to speak of certain things whose century of science fiction, one can attend brilliant minds who sit down and think Like a latter-day sophist, his appear- existence is neither demonstrable nor the Masquerade and Costume Com- very analytically about a problem and ances draw his own personal Fandom in probable. The very Fact that serious and petition, and appear on everything from attack it systematically until, suddenly, flocks where, even in auditoriums, they conscientious men treat them as existing the pages of the New York Times to the the answer occurst tothem. They're the give the impression of sitting at his feet. things brings them a step closer to exis- whimsical wrap-up spot on the late news. ones who really account for the great While his uproarious jokes draw enthus- tence and to the possibility of being If one enjoys eating and clapping one's advances in science. That's the way iastic laughter, his witticisms incur waves born. " hands, one might buy a plate at the Hugo Einstein worked." The young man, who of murmurous admiration- that create a - Albertus Secundus Award Banquet (Veal: $9.55; Broiled had been leaning further and further positively eerie effect. (from the epigraph of Scrod: $7.75). toward the young lady as he pressed his In appearance, Isaac Asimov looks like Hienrmann Hesse's Magister Ludi) If one is bored by it all, one can argument home, now leaned back. the person of whom Jerry Lettvin is a Last weekend, the Sheraton-Boston inebriate oneself at the conveniently lo- "Well, I'd have to disagree with you caricature - but he seems to lack some of hosted Noreascon, the 29th World cated hotel bar. there. It's the compilation of data that the latter's presence and character. (In Science Fiction Convention. The annual makes- up the foundation of all that fact, the two were to have appeared event is the most important of the year The young lady was a bit heavy but progress... you've got to remember that together in a panel on "The Implications for an unlikely Conglomeration of science vaguely attractive. The young man was Einstein had a rich heritage when he of Genetic Engineering," which was fiction writers, critics, artists, and people earnestand very precise. started - there had been advances in unfortunately rescheduled at the last who unashamedly call themselves Fans "This is my first convention," he instrumentation and physics was a very minute to the beginning of the conven- (their realm is known as Fandom). A ventured. pregnant field. And the footwork just has tion, causing late arrivals to miss it.) As a Worldcon is a thing of cult, faction, and "This is my second," she replied co- to be done... take the discovery of the .speaker, he is amiable, witty, charming, dialect - it shuns old wave-new wave, operatively. structuare of the insulin protein, for ins- and very fond of anecdotes. hard-soft core, fantasy-science fiction. "It's really great to be around people tance - Sanger worked for years to find Cliff Simak is the perfect foil to With a widely-mixed representation by who all read science fiction, isn't it? I it, ' and it was a crucial step in the Asimov's effusive wit. A grandfatherly race, creed, color, and hair length, it is mean, usually if you go. up to someone development- of modern biology... uh, figure, Simrak has been a writer of repute difficult to determine with any certainty and say, 'I read science fiction,' they don'tyou agree?" since nearly the very beginning of science whether any given person is a SciFi Fan - think you're weird, but around here "Yes, .1 guess that's right," said the fiction (as we know it). As guest of honor until he begins to speak. everybody reads science fiction." young man, distractedly. of the convention, he and Asimov served What does one do at a World Science "Yes. " The cult that surrounds Isaac Asimov, together on a panel somewhat ambitious- Fiction Convention? If one is interested "I mean, people -who read science the acknowledged dean of SciFi writers ly entitled "The Robot's Place in So- in the theory and practice of science fiction are really unique, aren't they?" (at least the ones that come to the ciety," the first twenty minutes of which fiction in general, one can attend the "Yes, I guess they are. " conventions) borders on the fanatic. was occupied in mutual praise and affir- series of lectures, panels, and dialogues "Like, for instance, a lot of great Known throughout Fandom as "the mnation of long-standing friendship. that are offered in profusion and which scientists read science fiction. ., or at Good Doctor," he is the author of well When the panelists did arrive at the attract the most popular SciFi writers to least some people who read science fic- over one hundred books on subjects point at hand, it was clear that it was all offer their opinions. If one is fascinated tion are great scientists." ranging from all aspects of science, math- Asimov's show. While the format was to by the field of science fiction art, one "Well, I don't know if you can general- ematics, and medicine to Shakespeare and

Noreascon 2: Science fiction and fiction By Adrian Moncrieff once, has become respectable. to some extent de-emphasized the adven- a-half sources of life. One of these was By the reading public, World Science With the advent of the "pulps" in the ture, replacing it with both "realistic" the ball room, filled with seats, in which Fiction Conventions are most to be noted middle twenties, SF become more de- science (i.e., not blatantly contradictory the set programs - talks, debates, discus- as the source of "Hugo" awards, sup- classe than ever - or, to be more accu- to known science) and strong character- sions - were given. The one-half was the posedly citing the best writing in the field rate, it became "classed," but classed in ization and plotting. It is their work art exhibit: a source of diversion, it is during the previous year. Within the inner the same sense that "westerns" or "true which is accepted (at least within true, and an area which one could profit- world of science fiction, however, Noreas- confessions" or "doctor and nurse" sto- "science fiction") as the norm, the arche- ably re-examine, but nevertheless not con served as an airing, as it were, of ries are classed: it became a distinct type of a "good work of science fiction." exactly a lively arena. The final one was current problems. genre, quite sub-liter~ary, to be real solely Further change has occured, of-course. the set of small rooms devoted to various Actually, though several "current for the purpose of entertainment, pub- In the late forties and the fifties came a activities. In two of these movies and problems" were apparent, they essentially lished in magazines with such names as concern with social problems, exempli- video-tape series were shown; two more collapsed into one question: what is- "Weird Tales" and "Astounding." The fied by Kornbluth & Pohl's The Space were occupied by organizations (the and what should be - the status of stereotypes of SF one meets today are Merchants. But this still used the tradi- Science Fiction Writers of America and "science fiction"? Although no doubt the offspring of thisperiod: the hero with tional storytelling techniques, and still the National Fantasy Fan Federation); this has been a major concern since the space blaster destroying the enemy fleet, was not considered to be the same as one was the "Alien Environment Simula- realization that SF was a distinct field, it the hero with sword saving the luscious "mainstream" fiction: It was not until the tion," a depressingly familiar and banal has become much more intense during wench (revealed in startling detail on the middle of the '60's that a serious attempt combination of strobe lights, aluminum the past six or seven years. cover) from either a Martian waving was made to bring "science.fiction" and foil, and supposedly "weird" electronic A hundred years ago various sorts of tentacles or a mystic necromancer's zom- the "mainstream" 'together. music. The remaining rooms were given "scientific romances" began appearing. bie, the hero with toolkit in the back This attempt was made by a loose over to the "hucksters," those having Of these, we remember only those of yard building a spaceship to get himself group of writers known collectively as anything to sell. Jules Verne, and those not for any to the moon. "the new wave." One got varying names -The hucksters rooms were, I confess, stylistic merit or for being "works of If, offhand, this situation does not when one asked for a list of the new at least a source of novelty. I have, during art," but simply because (a) they are seem to be one in which great works of wave, but a few writers were mentioned the past few years, spend many pleasant famous, (b) the stories are pretty good, art were likely to be produced, it never- fairly consistently: Harlan Ellison (at 37 afternoons and evenings browsing quietly and (c) we are struck by the number of theless did give rise to some fairly com- the enfant terrible of the new wave), JL G. amidst the dusty shelves devoted to sci- things he successfully prophesied. The petent artificers, as, for example, E. E. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Judith Merrill and ence fiction in the bookshops of Cam- only other figure who remains in the "Doc" Smith and his "Lensman" series. Michael Moorcock (associated, at one bridge and Boston. From time to time I minds of the English professors is H. G. Perhaps the best known of these was time at least, with the British avant-garde have even been known to purchase next Wells, who, as we all know, began his Robert Howard, whose series of stories magazine of SF, New Worlds), Tom month's issue of "the Magazine of Fan- career with The Time Machine, The War on Conan was recently quite popular, DLisch, and REoger Zelazny. It is to be tasy and Science Fiction" (inevitably a of the Worlds, etc., before moving into being dragged in on the wave of enthu- presumed that few (if any) of these month early in appearance). I had felt the "mainstream." And it was for his siasm for fantasy which followed the writers would be altogether happy at that these forays into the field had given work in the "mainstream" that Wells success of Tolkien's trilogy. What possib- being called "new wave-" Certainly some me some idea of the whole. became renouned in the days of good ly is not generally recognized is that of them have, at times,. written "tradi- I was wrong, in two ways. At tables in King Edward, even, at one point, becom- Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, A. E. tional" science fiction. It appears to be the hucksters' rooms were representatives ing the protege of the Master, Henry van Vogt, Issac Asimov, etc. - the "old the case nevertheless that they may serve of various "fanzines" (one sees why they James himself. guard" - grew up with the pulps, and to represent the new wave's central char- are so-named, but one is sorry neverthe- But time passes, and critical fashion published their first stories in them. acteristics. less) and specialized publishing houses, changes. Kipps and Tono-,Bungay have With the "old guard," however, came They are not unchallenged. That the both of which implied the existence of not worn well. The English professor still change. In their day, they indeed were old guard exists still- with a vengeance strong, tightly-knit groups to whom they speaks respectfully of Wells, but when we the "new guard," the first writers (accor- - was proven at the convention. Upon catered. Some of these groups are special- press him, we find that the only works of ding to Issac Asimov) who took science wandering around the second and third ized, as, for example, the "Hyborian Wells that he really respects are his early fiction as a serious literary genre, and floors of the Sheraton, one discovered Legion" (which held a "muster" I was romances. And thus science fiction, for who devoted themselves solely to it. They that there were approximately two-and- 1 1 PAGE 8 TUESDAY,SEPTEMBER 14,1971 TETE'-CH.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'-'" r B ary process in terms of the latter. r 1 Still, his typically scientific reserva- r tiops were positively Cartesian in com- 'ri

parison with del Rey's optimism. "We e Noreascon 1: SciFi & science cannot be sure of anything," he said. B "We're embarking on something so dif- i other man mumbled, and began fumbling by Asimov on the size of a robotic brain ferent from inything we've done before L that would be necessary to equal the with a pen and his program booklet. take turns speaking, Simak's talkcs were that predictions just aren't possible ... in capacity of man's, he plunged into a He finally succeeded in conveying i for the most part embarassingly short and his science fiction, that great man, Isaac 6 rather disjointed monologue on computer these to the Britisher, who was a rather Asimnov, showed that you cannot see the not too profound, while Asimov enliv- well-known writer. He leafed furtively ened his speculation with all the ingra- science and electronics in general, which consequences of automata in advance." .E culminated in the following syllogism: through the pages, and found that most ii tiating, anecdotal devices of a good It was here that Papert seemed bound e since the ratio of masses between transis- of the blank spaces were filled with Best a speaker. to pay some tribute science's being i tor equipment and integrated circuit Wishes alreadly. The elevator door transcendentalist, as opposed to mecha- i Still, it was curious to observe their equipment is on the order of 10,000 to I, opened on his floor, and he backed off, supposedly logical and objective deriva- nist. These two views, he said, have I and since there is no reason for us to still flipping pages. Finally, he reluctantly represented relatively distinct approaches tion of the consequences of automata handed it back. 1 expect the boys in research to slow down to the problem of artificial intelligence. It 1 undergo great leaps of faith - the discus- the pace, it is perfectly valid for us to 'Oh .. . can you get me later? I don't i sion quickly advanced along precisely the was also his contention that the want to hold these people up, you i expect another 10,000 to 1 reduction mechanists were following a dead-end lines delineated by forty years of science before long, which is about the size we'd know, "he said hurriedly. C fiction, without consideration of less ex- path, in that they held too simple a The man nodded and grabbed his 1 need for a robot's brain to equal a concept of machines, a concept that citing eventualities. Perhaps this was dic- human's. Del Rey ended his speech with a booklet as the elevator door shut. He systematically distorted the idea of i tated by the mood of the audience, looked around, smiling proudly. - whose impatience with scientific rigor melodramatic, "Isaac, we'll have robots," knowledge. He used as an example the and sat down. "That was John Brunner ... a British i would have been assured. At any rate, it There was a mild but tangible shudder writer," he confided to the woman next problem of translating Russian - early e was distressing, at times, to witness these attempts were busts, Papert said, because I of excitement in the crowd at these to him. "I met most of them at the 5 quantum jumps of imaginary technology; optimistic and inspirational words. The writer's party, but I missed him. " the programming was not designed for i at one point, for instance, Simak decided understanding of what was being i that he thought that any robots to be translated, whereas more recent projects developed in the future "must look like in the problem of language

man, and must have emotional ties." comprehension were incorporating the r Asimnov, perhaps himself taken slightly concept of micro-worlds - small areas of e aback at this, at least rationalized it a bit, real understanding that make knowledge by resorting to some impromptu psychol- functional. Conceivable, these micro- ogy: he theorized that man would antro- worlds could be juxtaposed, cascaded, or i pomorphize robots because he "likes to otherwise manipulated to create a real i give machines human proportions." form of knowledge. a Simak promptly affirmed this by confess- Papert's main point was that "all f ing that he had given a human name to knowledge is artificial" - not a matter of i every single automobile he had ever the number of neurons or logical con- E owned. struction, but rather dependent upon its One wonders if there is not some organization and patterns of assimilation. r yearning among SciFi writers to "escape One of the science fiction fans, who e from freedom" and at least partially might perhaps have had in mind the renege on their vast privilege of imagina- previous day's dialogue between Asimov tion. There is evidence of this in Asimov's and Simak and monologue between i three robotic nrules - a set of regulations Lester del Rey, asked the obvious ques- supposedly governing the behavior of tion: does this mean, then, he wondered, I future automatons which have become that the key to knowledge is in the i standard for not only him, but a great program and not in the hardware? I many other writers. More than anything i. ''Absolutely," replied Professor e else, perhaps, this could be merely Papert. symptomatic of the aura of hero worship But even this was not the most ob- i surrounding him, even though he spent a vious difference between the two presen- I good deal of time during the discussion tations. The most obvious difference was E attributing the actual cataloguing of the the fact that, while the science fiction robotic rules to another writer. writers packed the auditorium, it was a But what redeems Asimov through relative handful who stirred themselves to adulation, standardization, and over- see tihe real thing. simplification is the suspicion that his tongue is in his cheek throughout. One realizes the possibility of this when, in Some examples of SciFi graffitti: discussing robotic morality, he makes the Anyone with an extra psi-dimensioncl pronouncement that "in this modern age hyperspace warp synthesizer, please call of enlightenment, marriages between Galactic 857-A4309 Sector 7 gamma 9. humans and androids are perfectly al- Ask for 785 nickname "8". {The good right." And even over and above this, doctor needed mine to revive his waning there are occasic-al glimmerings of powers) G.D. reservations in his manner as he discusses Wanted: one (sensuous) dirty old man. such topics, as if the science were gaining Must have written over 100 books. Con- temporary dominance over the fiction. tact rm. 2437. An instance of this might have occurred The Viking-Student Alliance will meet during one of the wilder, improvisational during the next full moon at the Inn of moments of the panel, when one sensed a the Silver Eel. certain backtracking, even a reluctance in WANTED: 2 single girls (18-251 to his manner. Whether this was imagined or share room tonight {Sun.) Phil & Ken rm. not, the spell was broken when he threw 528. the floor open to questiobns or comments, Another of theenot-so-heavily attended at which point a short,-energetic man reason Lester del Rey knows so much He leafed through his program book- panels was entitled "Technology for a of white beard stood up impatiently. about robotics, explained Isaac Asirnov, is let, smiling boyishly. Liveable Earth," which included several The gentleman was Lester del Rey, that he's been writing robot stories for a scientists from industry discussing pos- another noted writer of the old guard. long time - almost from the beginning. In the program for the day after the sible new sources of energy and such. One Asimov rendered him the floor, after a Asimov-Simak-del Rey affair was inserted presented a scheme for orbiting a satellite few personal comments by way of intro- The elevator was notonlyjammed with the modest entry "Artifieial Intelligence that would transmit the sun's energy to duction, and del Rey was launched upon people, but they all seemed to be headed talk." This turned out to be a lecture- the earth in the form of a beam of a long, involved, frenetic exposition on for the top floor. Somewhere near the demonstration by MIT's and Project microwaves, to be received by large fields the state of the robotic art. He began by 1 0th floor, an intellectual-looking, MAC's own Seymour Papert. of special antennas; another talked on pointing out some facts of life: that "we bearded man squeezed his way in, causing The contrasts between Papert's talk magneto-hydrodynamics and its applica- will build a robot to build a better robot the familiar restless shifting of load. and the discussion of the previous day tions. when the economic necessity is felt, Duaring the process, a fidgety gentleman were striking. Papert began with a low- It was fascinating to see how the because after a/l, necessity is not the near the center of the elevator stepped on key investigation, asserting that "nobody audience warmed to the latter speaker mother of invention, but economic neces- the foot of the lady behind him; As he really believes truly in his heart of hearts when he produced a drawing of a hypo- sity. And that will come with space made his profuse apologies, he heard the that machines can have intelligence" - a thetical design,for a flying vehicle -oper- exploration, when we come to realize bearded man say a few words to someone comment which doubtless caused a little ated by MHD. It was round, and in fact that robots can do jobs that it is impos- else in a British accent, and snapped his soul-searching among those present. But was shaped very much like the traditional sible for men to perform." head around eagerly. he went on to say that mankind will flying saucer of both science fiction fable Del Rey continued by describing in "Aren 't you John Brunner?" he asked. eventually have to choose between alle- and apocryphal photograph. One fan detail how robots would be superior to The bearded man craned his head giance to the flesh and allegience to the interrupted to ask it he had been doing men in the extremes on the various around and nodded. mind, since the development of automata any experimentation up in New planets. Then, replying to a point made "What a place to meet you..." the could be seen as advancing the evolution- Hampshire. - -I _1 - _ .V, , - - , - . , ,- _ _ I CHARLIE the-Tech-Tailor FALL SEMESTER--ISRAEL 1 HIFI Established 1918 Brandeis University/rhe Jacob Hiatt Institute Study in Jerusalem, Israel/Jluly- STUDENT CENTER 84 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE Dcember, 1971 (40 students from 25 universities enrolled in 1970) PIZZA Have Himn Juniors and Seniors eligible OPEN 7 DAYS, "Press your suit Sew on buttons Four courses/Hebrew not required/Earn 16 credits NEAR MIT Mend your clothes Dry clean your clothing Discount on 'Cost: $2000/Tuition, room, board, round-trip travel. 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I was shown the easy to see that these concerns are two in wave uses devices hitherto employed only- he negated his assertion by stating that concluding essay in the book More Issues number: (a) are these novels "new in mainstream fiction: e.g., blocks of there are, of course, criteria for "good at Hand, by "William Atheling, Jr." (who Wave"? What is their connection (if any) prose forming an image of the scene fiction," which apply equally to science turns out to be James Blish). I had little with the "new wave"; and (b) what is the metaphorically, rather than giving a fiction and to the mainstream. time, at that moment, unfortunately, and status of these novels with respect to the simple, direct description; or the treat- To my great sorrow, at this point in could but skim the essay; its suggestion mainstream? It is disappointing to note ment of experience as being not a our discussion Mr. Gunn had to cease in that the "new wave" as a group had that, with respect to first of these, none smoothly flowing narrative, but a set of order to tape an interview, the cameras ceased to exist, that each author had now of the three show any influence of the separate fragments which must be unified for wlhich were being prepared behind us splintered off into (to use a cant phrase) new wave at all. Mr. Silverberg's Tower of (if at all) by the reader; or, perhaps most as we talked. There were still several doing his own thing, and that there was, Glass ("Welcome," Mr. Silverberg said, as important, although to some extent an questions which might profitably have within such a field as SF that is concer- the master of ceremonies at the Hugo antique in the mainstream, the employ- been considered: was Mr. Gunn aware of ned with any possible state of affairs, awards banquet, "to the tower of grass" ment of "stream-of-consciousness." the ways in which he had contradicted ample room for any experimentation, - which led one to wonder what one had Mr. Gunn agreed that the employment himself, and, if so, what were his resolu- seemed eminently reasonable. And if, as been missing) is a conventional "the of "experimental" technique was one of tions to these antimonies? what are the he pointed out, the kinds of experiment androids are going to destroy humanity" the distinguishing criteria, but that it was differences between fantasy and science that the "new wave" had introduced into novel. If is, perhaps, to be distinguished less important than the general philo- fiction, and with what criteria would he SF are rather ancient in the mainstream from those which has gone before (e.g., sophical approach, the Weltanschauung, test these? and most interesting, what that would not seem to deny their validi- Isaac Asimov's "Robot" series) by a introduced in the new wave. This he differences exist in comparison of main- ty, nor deny their efficacy in forms of certain pessimism and a judicious admix- called the "new romanticism": the stream and science fiction which would fiction that occur outside the main- ture of religious themes (the androids supreme concern, not for "society" and justify valuing certain traits in some of stream. worship Krug, the "creator"), but is "the future of mankind,"' but for the science fiction that are not valued in Strangely enough, a somewhat similar distinguished neither technically (there is individual, his independence, his internal mainstream fiction. set of suggestions was offered by Clifford little effortat experimental technique) nor flux of experience, emotion, sensation. Miss Jean Ann Berman, a Simmons, Simak at the Hugo awards banquet, thematically. SF has traditionally been optimistic, since student who was responsible for Noreas- where he was the "professional" guest of Mr. Anderson's -Tau Zero has a blurb there seems to be no particular reason for con's sundry informal "discussion honour. He began by noting that he on the front cover by James Blish: "This believing that technological progress groups," perhaps inadvertently suggested wished to say some good things about all is the ultimate 'hard science fiction' (which it of course postulates) will cease. a solution, at least to the problem of of SF, including the splinters from it. novel. Everybody else who has been The new wave, concerned with the toils, distinquishing SF and mainstream. If we What, he asked, of the old "sense of trying to write this kind of thing can now pains, and troubles of the individual- look at what science fiction has hitherto wonder," which seemed to have dis- fold up his tent and creep silently away." hence not given to taking a "long-term" been, she felt, we will see that it depends appeared? Well, that was, he answered, This is a fair estimate: but it does not view, but instead to treating the indivi- upon a balance existing between two always within ourselves not within the mean that the novel is exciting in any dual experiences as the only criterion for indispensable elements: science, and a stories themselves. If it has disappeared way. A starship is built: it suffers a determining how comfortable one "story". Neither one of these is necessary for some of us, then that is because we couple of disasters, cannot stop acceler- should feel with existence - tends to be to mainstream fiction, although both of have lost it: the fact that there are always ating; inside, the time passes for the pessimistic. them are, of course, possible in it. Science new fans entering SF is enough proof that people normally, outside, eons pass (Ein- Such comments might be reduced to fiction, therefore, is a subset of the for newcomers, as even he had once been, stein strikes again!); the universe collap- stating that new wave stories both do not mainstream, and should, even though the "sense of wonder" still existed. There ses: the starship survives: the new uni- read like and do not have the same now greatly superior to the products always were, he went on, bad stories, verse is charted: the people settle on a "tone" as traditional SF. Both of these which once appeared in the "pulps," still even in the good old days. It is true, he new world: humanity survives again. Big explanations offer reasons for not liking be considered a "genre," like westerns. said, that some stories were now being deal. It is written in, if possible, a less them, perhaps, but not for judging them (The claim that SF is a "genre" was often written that he could not appreciate, yet interesting fashion than Mr. Silverberg's "bad." Yet there is a third mode of to be heard at Noreascon.) But, since SF which received critical acclaim. but surely work; one is tempted to say that the distinction, furthermore the strongest is a genre necessarily connected to these the fact that some people found them transitions between scenes are so abrupt, point of attack. This is that the "specu- elements, it is by an author's success in good was adequate proof that they had the characters so unconvincingly deline- lative fiction" of the new wave leaves out developing the science and the story that some merit. (One felt this gentle old man ated, that it is almost incompetent. The the science, which is what distinguishes he should be judged, and only by that. was turning out to be a radical subjec- only relief is the sex (which appears in all SF from other kinds of fiction. There- Sometimes, of course, an author is suc- tivist, rather than a dogmatist like Mr. del three novels). fore, any judgements of "speculative fic- cdessful in developing both science and Rey.) This leaves Mr. WNiven's ltingworlds. tion" within the context of science fic- story-and in meeting the requirements of Further, he saw hopeful signs for SF: With the compettition so weak this tion are simply irrelevant. "good (mainstream) fiction" (whatever (a) there were many good young writers; year, it is easy to understand why it Mr. Gunn pointed out that many new they may be); in such cases, a book (b) there were many good, critics who garnered so much enthusiasm. For, even wave writers haven't the same technical receives acclaim both within the world of were accepting and assessing SF very if it too is "'hardcore" (as its blurb training .that generally prevails amongst SF, and in regular critical discourse (eg, carefully, even in the universities; (c) SF suggests), the concept it proposes is (to the older writers. As a consequence, 1984,A Canticlefor'Leibowitz-); but these had proven itself capable of responding to my knowledge) new: that an entire world many of the "old timers" (a phrase Mr; cases are exceptions, and we should not ferment, of not staying in a dead end. be built-around a sun, rather as if one Gunn did indeed use) condemn the demand, within SF at least, that to be Controversy is good, he concluded, for built a band on the path of the Earth's "speculative fiction" for the wild inac- "good" a work have qualities outside it proves that we aren't complacent. But orbit around the sun. Such a "world" is a curacies and contradictions which occur these two. he would wish, he said, that the voices rather staggering conception. If one adds with unfortunate frequency. If "specula- The problem, one feels, with such an raised in the controversy were less shrill, to this a couple of interesting extra-terres- tive fiction" is part of anything, Mr. attempt at a solution is that it has ceased for SF is a large field, one which can hold trial aliens, a girl bred for her luck, a hero Gunn described them as claiming, it is tolrecognize the- state of the art. For it is all styles, all types. of some character, and a fallen civiliza- part of fancy; it is certainly not part of still concerned to define "SF", in this The roar of applause, the standing tion on the "ringworld" which our four "science." cass as being that which has "sciefice" ovation with which this speech was met, go to explore, then the novel is rather This line of reasoning, with which Mr. and "story". But the fact of the matter is made one feel that there was hope within more than passable. But stylistically it Gunn appeared to be in some agreement, simply that, as Mr. Gunn pointed out, no the field which belied the ingrown bitter- shows no advance in SF writing. Com- depends, obviously on one's being able to such definitions are really valid today: ness which has otherwise been almost the to John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar it is draw the necessary distinctions between too much is being done in too many entire experience of Noreascon. -passe; nor does the theme seem new, genres. He felt that science fiction and different fields, normally not considered important, or interesting in the same way fantasy are indeed two different things, scientific (one thinks of Brunner's Stand that Ursula K. LeGuin's The Left Hand of with differing criteria. It was purely by on Zanzibar, an excursion into prophetic And so, finally, they handed out the Darkness (the winner last year) was. The chance that they came to be linked sociology, or of Zelazny's Lord of Light, Hugos. For the record, the interesting lasting sense one has is distinctly one of together; the conjunction holds no logical into religion), to limit SF to "science" awards were: (a) short story: 3rd, "Jean entertainment, not of a serious attempt force. But then he spoiled his structure alone. Dupres" by Gordon R. Dickson; 2nd, to deal with "the way things are" or "the by stating that one could consider the Further, such a definition still limits "Continued on Next Rock" by R. A. problems towards which the human con- genre sciencefictionandfantasy a spec- SF; it is still not to be considered "good" Lafferty; Ist, "'Slow Sculpture" by Theo- dition must resolve itself." trum, with, at one end, "hard science for whatever qualities the novels may dore Sturgeon; (b) novella:- 3rd, "The And in this sense, one understands fiction," at the other, fantasy, and some- themselves have, but only because it is Region Between" by Harlan Ellison why the convention-goers, the fans, were where between, fillin up some of the "good" in these particular terms of refer- (yet!); 2nd, "The Thing in the Stone" by distinctly defensive about being asked to holes, the new .wave's "speculative fic- ence. By erecting such clear distinctions, Cliffor Simak; 1st, "Ill Met in Lankhmar" consider SF as "literature". If SF does tion." One gathered that, in an ideal one feels, 'the SF. connoisseur is ignoring by Fritz Leiber; and (c) the novel: 3rd, have successes, if it does, in the case of universe, the two would be different, but the world outside his own small coterie. The Tower of Glass, by Robert Silver- marginal SF as The A ndrofneda Strain or that Mr. Gunn -found very difficult at Rather than showing how SF novels are berg; 2nd, Tau Zero, by Poul Anderson; Slaughterhouse-Five, even make the best times to state definitively in which genre in themselves "good," he shows why it is and Ist, (Isacc Asimov, announcing the seller lists, it is not because of the kinds some story would belong. that, although they are not (in general awards, called it "the least unexpected of interests which were expressed at Since the question of criteria had terms) "good," he'should still be permit- award in recent years") Ritigwdrld by Noreascon. arisen, I asked Mr. Gunn whether he felt ted to appreciate them. 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Ferapft~ .. . - , PAGE-10 TUESDAY,-SEPTEMBER 14/-1971 'TtI'I]E'Tf A somewhat Itar, if less emphatic crowd response to the new wave occurred during the Hugo awards ceremony. It h. true, of course, that the -stream of ioke Noreascon 2: SciFi an.d'"fiction - by Silverberg and Asimov against Mf Ellison were greeted with applause and- found anywhere today, including the confusion, error, and (one gathered) the cheers. iBut more interesting was the sorry to have missed), more. or less "mainsfream."_It is "street fiction, fiction loss, somehow, of the good repute of response to the announcement of the-: del Rey said, centered around the "Conan" series men- of the people." science fiction: all of which, winner of the "professional magazine" tioned above. Some are mor'e.eneral, as In the panel which followed, it became he "resented." category, "Fantasy & Science Fiction." this was but the.first the National Fantasy Fan Fpderation, clear that Ellison is relatively unpopular As it happens, One learned, from more than one source, taking in one and all. They all provide a with some people. James Gunn, president example I observed of a theme which was that three 'of the major professional means by which enthusiasts can follow of the "Science Fiction Writers of Amer- sounded over and over again. It ·was not magazines: present differing overall att; he was the their interests. At least two of the small, ica." and Bob Shaw, an Irishman, were limited to Ellison, although tudes. "Analog," the successor to the old>- specialized publishers have had their work ambivalent, a trifle obscure. There is principle scapegoat, but rather extended "Astounding," prints principally fiction- in local bookstores recently: one, the something in what Ellison says, they to the whole of the new wave. Put in the vein of the 1940's: heavy emphasis- Centaur Press, issuing reprints (as do suggested, but perhaps the break with the concisely, it stated that the new wave is, on "real" science, "good" plots, "beller.! some other houses) of old, rare novels past is not quite as radical as he sugges- in effect, rot. able" characters. "Galaxy" represents the and tales, some taken directly from the ted, perhaps the next five years will be The most vivid example of this, if not trend toward stories concerned with sc -1 pulps where they had their first and last ones of evolution, not, as Ellison had its most rational statement, occurred in ence and society of the 1950's. "F&SF,; - appearance; the other, Advent Publishers, implied, revoluition. The other two mem- the early hours of Monday, at the free although founded about the same time as issuing works of criticism on science bers of the panel were the better-known- movies. That evening, the principle attrac- '-Galaxy," has tended to be more inter- fiction. Clifford Simak and Poul Anderson. Mr. tion was 2001, a flick not covered by my ested in "literary" qualities than the But while I at least had had some Simak, the guest of honor at the conven- otherwise general -anathema for SF films. other two, and hence has printed many of vague intuition of this.first way I was tion but self-effacing nevertheless, felt Further, the Hugos had just been awar- the new wave stories. "Analog" won wrong, of the second I had had not a that science fiction was still entertain- ded, -and I shared the general sense of second place, which was met with some clue. What this second way is, is just a ment. Mr. Anderson, one of the nominees well-being (perhaps due more to relief dismay by those attending. "Galaxy" certain bibliographic mania for ancient for this year's Hugo in the novel, felt from the tension which had been won nothing, although nominated (third science fiction. Many of the hucksters' Ellison had created the term "speculative commonly felt than to approbation for place went to "Amazing"). fiction"- in order to eliminate from the awards). So it was with interest, and tables were covered with issues. of The reaction to the success of "F&SF- "Astounding," "Weird Tales," etc. Some, serious consideration those who did not even some pleasure, that I watched the choose to write as he (Ellison) was first film, which showed Issac Asimov might have been called almost dismal. certainly, were to be bought by fans Many people attending the convention suffering from acute nostalgia, from a convinced they ought. speaking of the history of -science fiction A minor erruptiorn occurred on the - part of the same series as the one with must have voted for it, since the awards recognition that present SF differs radi- are granted by popular vote, but, except i cally from that which prevailed before -for a faint hand, they remained silent. 1950. But advertisements of "rare, limi- Equally faint, but more impressive be./ ted editions," of "fine conditions," of cause, of the large number of people "with original dustcovers" gave one at engaging in them, were the negative feeling that one had somehow T times the responses, the soft boos and hisses. I9 m wandered into the bibliophile's paradise. =-= I One gentleman confessed to having R I bought the only issue of "Astounding" f needed to complete his collection. I If one has gathered thus far that the E didn't feel it necessary, somehow, to E convention was made up of emotional I9 inquire what stories were in it, although I w wave, em maniacs engaged in hating-the new F felt sure he would know, and had any one has been unfortunately misled. Cer- %9 discussion of merit intruded, it would, no tainly'when accosted individually - or in doubt, have been met with the contempt groups - the participants were - were back small it deserved. Also available eminently sane and reasonable in expres- books, antique, out of issues of comic sing their likes, dislikes, and beliefs about, print hardcovers, and random collections and in SF. If they tended, perhaps,-. of paperbacks. toward showing more interest in discus. One would, however, be wrong to sing the minute details of certain books attribute this attachment to what has (someone once defined a "fan" as "one - gone before solely to that dread disease, who can quote by heart, word for word, i "bibliophile's mania." True, it can strike the 'three laws of robotics,' " these three anyone, including some of the younger laws having been promulgated by Issac E generation, who engaged equally enthu- Asimovr in his late '40's 'series about siastically in frantic buying and selling. robots), they were quite willing to discuss But the majority of the buyers and sellers the trends within SF, and its status within | were old enough to suggest that they "literature." Yet, for the most part, they were the "old guard" of "fandom" (once held the same attitudes, if less vehement- again, one is' sorry such a word was ly expressed, as Mr. del Rey. created), looking. backwards, as well as cccupied by an engaging hobby. Basically, -these attitudes formed ,two One is tempted to suggest-that this groups: those concerned with how the desire for "the past," or at least the past individual felt about the personalities of | in terms of science fiction styles, is the writers of the new wave, and those ] evidence in favor of asserting the genuine concerned with what the individual existence of the "new wave." Even if this thbught was the place of the'new wave suggestion is valid, however, there is still within science fiction. Commenting on further evidence that need be considered. Mr. Silverberg's frequent barbs at Mr. For, to at least one of the well-known Ellison during' the banquet, one partici- writers of SF, such authors' classification pant detected a love-hate relationship of their own work as "new wave" is between them. One sees how this is unjustified. possible, since Mr. Silverberg, who is something qf a stylist, could'hardly help being interested in the technique, if nothing more, of the new wave, yet might "The main program" (so ran the well find -Mr. Ellison's behavior in some- "General Comments" in the conference what less than the best of taste at all program) "is divided into three seg- times. A story -was told (admittedly on ments." Of these, only the third was hearsay) of how, in convention after concerned solely with science fiction. As convention, Mr. Ellison would at some the "General Comments" had it: "Final- point stand and state that since conven- ly, we consider science fiction itself both tions were worthless, he was never going as a tool and for its intrinsic values, to attend another one. (He did not, literary and otherwise: SF, THE WRI- floor when question-time arrived. A shrill Harlan Ellison mentioned above. remember, attend this one.) TING ON THE WALL - PROPHECY OR lady asserted that it was completely The second- film, "The Orchid," was Yet not all the tales told about the GRIAFFITTI?" One of the events derived unnecessary to use all those dirty words "4experimental," produced by Samuel R. new wave are about Mr. Ellison. One, from this was a.panel on "the next five and talk about that dirty sex, as had been Delaney, a rather well-known young showing the paranoid version of history, years in SF," which was begun by show- done in Dangerous Visions. A gentleman writer. Precisely how experimental it was, stated that one evening some six or seven ing a film of Harlan Ellison (who did not suggested that Ellison had not defined however, might be debated. It seemed to years ago, Judith Merr'ill, J. G. Ballard, attend the convention) talking to a class everyone else out of science fiction, but me somewhat commonplace, although and others - associated with "New at the University of Kansas about science had instead defined himself out of it. not devoid of interest. The crowd - Worlds," gathered together. Let's," one fiction. Ellison, possibly the most vocal (One had rather the impression that consisting mostly of the younger "fans," of them said, "create a new movement." exponent of the new wave, was quite Ellison had just been reduced to the - felt otherwise. There were soon signs of There was general approval of this sugges- willing to talk energetically for the class ranks, if not excommunicated.) And restlessness, betraying, I felt, a complete tion. "But what," one of them asked, - and the cameras. He suggested that the Lester del Rey gave a fifteen minute lack either of understanding or of willing- "shall we call it? "How about the 'new essence of the new science fiction (or, as diatribe against Ellison, saying, (a) that ness- to atteminpt understanding. When the wave'? The implication is that the new he seemed to prefer, "speculative fic- Ellison was a liar, since Ellison had been predictable nude shots appeared, there wave is a- farce simply, put on for the tion") is the undertaking of disturbing willing to take any story he (del Rey) had was at first shocked silence, then vocifer- benefit of a few writers alone. Even contemporary problems, applying - to had to offer for Darigerous Visions, even ous outrage, which, so loud were the cries James Gunn, president of the Science them, if not solutions, at least imaginative if it finally turned out not to be "taboo"; of "Take it off!," managed to drown out Fiction Writers of America, noted that resolutions. He talked about some of the and (b) that Ellison was a liar again, the most interesting part of the film, the one reason for the broil between the series of books he has edited of "f'ar-put" because sex, politics, and ecology had music which formed the soundtrack. One older writers and those of the new wave science fiction, entitled Dangerous been published in science fiction since-its might justly have said that Mr. Delaney's was the "arrogance" displayed by the i Visions; his claim was that he had asked beginnings, so that when Ellison claimed film was not appreciated. The "Roadrun- latter in their dealings with those who his authors to write on hitherto taboo that a new step had been taken in ner" cartoon which followed, however, had gone on before. themes, and had received in response freedom he was just spouting. In short, was greeted with yips of delight. When, Mr. Gunn, was, however, as befits a several completely new, brash, important the distinction between the "old guard" two films later, "Gene Autry Against the professor (he teaches literature at the writings on man and his society. In effect, and the "new wave" did not exist, had Phantom Empire" was greeted with' simi- Utiversity of Kansas), quite analytic in he claimed for the new science fiction the been created by Ellison only to make a lar glee, I left, unconvinced that 2001 discussing the genuine issues of the con' greatest "relevance," as it were, to be few quick bucks, and had resulted in would appear in the reasonable future. troversy. My own first impulse had been - THEIE-t TUESDAY;SEPTEMBER 14; 1971 PAGE 11 The next program on the schedule was "sources of imagination," and made sev- driving home her ratherminor point with phenomenological scientific details (to entitled "The Uses of the Future," which eral generally unanswered appeals for a vehemence that seemed to startle her. quasi-logical conclusions) and on vanous consisted of dialogue between Frederick advice in accurate prediction. But a con- But no one took much notice, as there allegorical and actual Utopial pohl, a writer of note, and Dr. Sidney sensus was soon reached that there would were now more late arrivals clamnoring at Arnageddons by way of extrapolation, so much what Feinleib of the Arthur D. Little Com- be "no good way to apply knowledge of the door. Some attempted to squeeze by but even these embrace not pany. It seems that think-tanks have the future" anyway, which left him in a me, while another gentleman loudly sug- is probable as what is, simply, possible. added to their list of inexplicably semi- rather awkward position. But the biggest gested 'that they all search out, another That science fiction has become less successful follies the employment of disappointment was probably the revela- room sufficient to their needs. Several literal in its evolution from pulp mag- and B movies does not necessarily staffs of science fiction writers to con- tion that science fiction writers were not suggestions and counter-suggestions were azines struct scenarios of the future, or some the only type of group used as experi- shouted at once; one person favored imply an advancing sophistication of widening recon- chunk of it, and apparently the planners mental prognostigators, and that they poolside, which another said was too technique, or even a convention thought it would be hadn't really done much better than the noisy, and several more argued on wheth- naissance of the future. Rather, as one of the of nice to provide a gloating session. group of office secretaries, anyway. - er a certain room was being used. leaves Fandom, there is the impression Pohl, a mustachioed, intellectual- The MC, however, thought it best'to mild desperation, of an uncatalogued looking man with thin black hair, opened Throughout the convention, small wait, in hopes that there would be-no future shock that belies the pride that the discussion with a description of SciFi groups were meeting in individual's rooms more arrivals. The first gentleman replied writers and fans often express for as a "tool for investigating the future for for discussion of more esoteric topics of with a courteous insistence that a topic of Science, as the surviving son of countless fun and profit" and, further, by expres- science fiction - criticism of individual such general interest as "Future Society" speculations. And neither is it a bemused sing a light-hearted indignation at the authors, for instance, or the area of would surely draw more participation disgust that they feel for the exploitation territorial infringements of the think- film-making and viewing, as well as the still. of SciFi by think-tanks, but rather a fear tanks and scientific progress in general. m ore lofty, philosophic arguments. There was a general air of stalemate: of the possible, even though doubtful, "Of course," he admitted, "not all Deciding that the latter would be safest But things were getting more and more validity of the premise. Instead of a science fiction is a reliable forecaster of for the uninitiated, I opted for a discus- hectic at the door, and with the sudden steady advance into the unknown, science the future ... with prediction, you-can sion of "SF and Future Society." appearance of another large cluimp of fiction is beating a retreat from its own say something like 'sometime in the next Room 2414 in the Sheraton-Hilton is people, the suggestion of o new locale actuality. It is not probability, or even million years, the earth will be visited by of a size that permits coziness without carried the day by sheer weight of num- possibility that Fandom yearns for; creatures from another planet' and you intimacy - just right for a small seminar, bers. rather, it clings to the frail Tolkeinesque can be pretty sure you'll be right. But for in my estimation. There were a bed, I managed to be contained in the first fantasies that have always been its basis, the most part, the SF statement is not several chairs, and five or six people in elevator-load to descend. But the path- verisimilitude added for its tantalizing ef- meant to come true. However, there is the room; I took ae seat on the floor, near finders hesitated at the first floor, and I fect. The veil is not falling without a such a thing as cautionary SF - things the door, trying to assume the aspect of a took the opportunity to detach myself. It struggle, but eventually it must reveal that may happen if you don't watch non-participant observer. One of the was getting late, and I decided I probably SciFi in its true nature, not as the path- out." Pohl's one good point was that the other newcomers was zealously distribut- wouldn't want know ,about "Future So- finder, but as the mystifier of future attempt at "a rational approach to the ing some literature of doubtful relevance, cie ty "anyayway. reality. future implies ways to prevent it - it's while the MC (it's his room) tried gently the conservative interests who want pre- to return to the topic at hand. - The attitude of SciFi fans to the dictions." Feinleib,. who was young and Several more interested parties ap- future (the actual, real future) is curious. VENUS' FLY TRAP rather bushy-haired, seemed slightly peared at the door, and the MC welcomed Prediction has long been its forte and, for 2 BULBS taken aback at this. them and directed them to sit on the some, its only justification. 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Several fac- pled, in the form of a trio of which is last, to see the acting. tors prevented its success: not- one-acts, at the Thirsty Ear Pub .Cathy Lux and Kenneth Mac- ably an uninspired performance Poco, inside & out (basement of Ashdown) tomor- Donald have the speaking parts, by Philip Mendenhall as Antho- row through Saturday, done by and do very well, but even Marc ny which even Claire Wilerson's By Neal Vitale lines of ballads. This doesn't the MIT Community Players. Shulman, as the always silent Cleopatra could not carry com- The sound of Poco has finally reflect on the contents, though, The choice of plays was fair: matchseller, adds his creditable pletely. Mr. Mendenhall suffers reached the point Richie Furay as one of the best cuts on the Pinter's Slight Ache and two by interpretation to the weak from the common plaint of the sought since he first gathered the album is a Slow one, "What If I MIT professor Floyd Barbour. material provided. Ms.- Lux, al- amateur actor, over-enunciation, group together in 1968. With Should Say I Love You." The Pinter was not enjoyable by though not on stage as much, which makes his speeches ring Paul Cotton, ex- of the Illinois Less than a week prior to the comparison with the other two moved the play, while Mr. Mac- slightly unreal. Also, he was Speed Press, replacing- Jim release of their new record, Poco plays on the bill; he captured the Donald gave the best male per- wearing make-up which would Messina on guitar, the right appeared on the Boston essence of "real people" and formance of the evening. have been appropriate for a stage earthy balance has been added Common. They had been in "real" conversation, and thus Day Work suffered from a performance> but which was to a sound that has approached town in late spring, at the Music creates a play which is just as slightly wooden performance badly out of place in the more pristine purity. Hall, and their line-up of songs boring as "real" life. Barbour, on from the husband, Steve Ivester, intimate coffeehouse. Ms. Wiler- The differelnce is noticeable differed only in that more new the other hand; is an excellent but the women, Pat Pellows as son, on the other hand, was in Poco's latest album, From ones replaced the older, such as wordsmith, and we are here pro- the wife and Jaqueline Edwards done up impeccably, and gave a The Inside (Epic KE 30753). As "Kind Woman" and the "Grand vided with examples of both his as the servant, carry this one. most believable performance. a guitarist, Cotton is more than Junction" medley. The group serious side (Anthony and Cleo- The tragicomedy allows each of Music for the play, mostly competent; though, in compari- ran through "Hear That Music," patra) and his tragicomic ability the' ladies to express a range of xylophone with a little percus- son to Messina, not that obvious- "A Man Like Me," the "Child's (Day Work). Both serve as brief, emotion, which they do con- sion, was provided by Ted ly. But when it comes to vocals, Claim To Fame" (about Neil one-act efforts to put across vincingly, as they handle both Lagadmos. It was not over-done it's another Story, as his voice is Young?) medley, "It's A Good some small'aspect of the Black crackling wit (all too rare) and or pretentious; it was careful and lower and more bluesy than Morning," and several others. Experience, and combine enter- sombre soliloquy (the dominant appropriate, and on occasion either Furay or Tim Schmidt. The concert ended with tainment and good pacing with a content). This play's star per- necessary to help keep the eyes Singing harmony, he adds a "C'mon," which brought every- literate message. Pinter's mes- former is Ms. Edwards, as the propped open. Not that the per- whole new dimension to the body to their feet. sage, to my best determination, domestic who aspires to higher formance was dull, but the at- group, tempering their previous Poco, an the. basis -of their was to "go to sleep," which I things when properly prompted. mosphere is close in the Thirsty angelic qualities. And Cotton's new sound, as evidenced by came close to doing. Anthony and Cleopatra at- Ear. own songs-"Bad Weather,""O1' From The Inside and their live Forgiver," and "' Railroad gigs, can finally accept the Days"-come off sounding un- names of "rock 'n' roll" and like most anything Poco's done "?band," in the truest sense of before; particularly the latter each. mquarius -Coming of age? song, which is just plain rock 'n' AquariuslComaing c8 ae roll. The Bangla-Desh benefit al- The record is very fine over- bum, taken from the Madison By Alex Makowski proposition. When the doors group features a heavy rock all, technically and artistically, Square Garden concert last Last December ShaNaNa closed Boston lost its only sound of original material -. and Rusty Young's incredible month, is- nearing - completion. played to the Tea Party's last forum for weekly rock entertain- Dedal steel guitar work is worth The 3-record the lyrics are written to spread set is in the final audience. A victim' of the rising ment. the essence special note. From the Inside mix-down, unfortunately of life the communi- at the entertainers' fees, the concert Now another set of promot- ty has discovered. is not as up-tempo and bouncy hands of Phil Spector, and "hall" with the bare concrete ers is making an attempt at The -central figure of the as, maybe, Poco orDeliverin', as should be released within the floor could no longer deliver the selling regular, live music. The many of the songs are on the month. music, group, and community is profits needed to make it a going old Orpheum .Theatre, down- Mike Metallika (the spelling is town in the Filene's-Jordan only a guess). Metallika is the books: Marsh district, has been reno- engaging and compelling person- vated to provide a weekend ality who provided the "found- showcase for well-known rock, ing force," as one member put Future Shock comedy, jazz, opera, ballet, and it, for the commune several drama. For weeknights the years ago. His were the ideas management plans a variety of discussed by members of the By Robert Fourer uneasiness. permeating our so- Future Shock is easy reading, less FUTURE SHOCK, polished programs featuring group with the audience from by Alvin Tof- ciety and others. (Toffier would with catchy chapter leads and local talent, college fler. Bantam, $1.95. groups, and the stage during the intermis- no doubt have seized on recent subheads to keep up the pace; the like. Aimed at the college Pick up the new tangerine- polls showing an unprecedented yet the writing is uniformly sion; of him was composed a dull market, the Aquarius Theatre song of revelation colored buck-ninety-five paper- majority of Americans con- and occasionally over-florid or the Spirit in- hopes to fill the gap left by a cluded as one of their numbers. I back, 40 weeks in hardcover on vinced their country is "on the vague. The book offers numer- declining the best-seller number of campus even heard one of the commune lists, and read: wrong track.") ous striking examples; yet the concerts and the closing "Ten thousand years of the members referred to "Mike" for agricul- These changes overwhelming subject overall seems a mena- Tea Party. ture. A century or two for indus- us are found to fall into three gerie not quite true-to-life. (though there may be someone Its Inside, the theatre has under- else) when trialism: And now, opening be- types. They are detailed at organization is superb; yet there he asked if there was fore us - super-industrialism." gone quite a face-lifting since the room on the bus back after the length. is barely anything original. days eighteen months ago when Or grab the new yellow book IFirst, concert. Having no musical ex- transience. Transience the patrons could catch a perience and be told: "prostitution... of things - we throw our pos- All of which derives from a himself, he serves as the double-feature of Midnight Cow- group's lead reveals a paucity of imagination sessions away, for new ones. basic fact: Future Shock is no singer. and a lack of technical resources boy and Alice's Restaurant for Transience of places: we desert more than a variety of the Time- just two dollars. Mike's philosophy of life em- that will be remedied in the Thousands of braces a theory our old homes for unfamiliar Life journalism its author prac- yards of-red carpeting of consciousness future." were laid, that vaguely resembles ones. Transience of people: we ticed as an associate of Fortune. all the interiors were painted the over- Or the pink one: "Were Shake- Had the a soul of Emerson and Thoreau lose track of old friends, are editors of Time or soft blue, and a tape and record speare suddenly to materialize in reluctant to invest in new ones. Fortune commissioned a transcendentalists. There is a London or New York today, shop was added in- the foyer. universal Transience of organization: busi- 150,000-word piece on The Perhaps energy pervading: the ne. . would be a semi-literate." most Important, a new world, ness and government create new State of Things, this is the book sound he argues, that everyone All three are Alvin Toffler's system was added to do could draw from positions only to destroy them. that would have resulted. justice to the by adopting, Future Shock (also available in talent the pro- among other Transience of information: pop- Conversely, Future Shock is moters hope things, a more re- blue, white and lime). The ex- to bring in. The ceptive and positive ular taste and scientific know- proportionately about as appeal- number of seats dropped from state of cerpts barely hint at the revela- ing and repulsive as mind. The effect he predicts ledge are increasingly imperma- the average 2960 to 2800, and all of them tions about the present, and nent. issue of Time, and for the same resembles the community spirit extrapolations- to the future, afford a good view of the stage. of Second, novelty. Novelty of reasons. The appeal lies in a large Whether the early California drug cul- which literally fill every page. the theatre will ture science, which will change the body of facts and concepts con- prove he grew into after leaving But, drops in a sea of prophecy, a success remains to be the species of man, or combine him cisely, usefully presented. The seen. Even east coast during high they're as well representative as at five or six dollars school. Mike integrally with machines. Novel- repulsion has its roots in the way per ticket, there admits using LSD any others - and while provoca- aren't enough during his days in California, but ty of experience, to be expanded those facts and concepts are seats to provide for concerts by tive individually, overwhelming through the efforts of new "ex- brought together - in the reali- now he no longer finds acid en masse. the big-name groups that charge necessary. perimental" industries. Novelty zation that the author sees more upwards To save us from drowning, of $15,000 for an ap- His sincerity is hard to gauge. of relationships, in a rapidly value in supporting his thesis by pearance. But the Toffler has taken pains to or- management Swallowing his belief in reincar- mutating family structure. marshaling the diverse data as- expects that a regular program ganize his 500-page tract around sembled for him; than in closely nation is some feat for the first- easy-to-grasp concepts. First off, Third, diversity. Diversity of of performers carefully selected time observer, examining a narrow span of data to attract particularly when we are given "future shock. .. choice, diversity of subcults and the college and post- Mike launches into a discussion in the hope that general truths' college people will the shattering stress and dis- specialists, diversity of life prove feasi- of his prior life as the apostle will emerge from deeper under- ble. Additionally, the Aquarius orientation that we induce in styles, giving the individual an standing. Peter. individuals by subjecting them individuality he never bargained Theatre policy includes cultivat- Encountering the enormous ing Mike described the Spirit to too much change in too 'short for, strong ties with local com- range of subjects.he does, Tof- munity groups leading, perhaps, music as the aural form of the a time." It's analogous to culture After intricately outlining it, fler necessarily brings a shallow to the grass-roots support of community's philosophy of shock - the response to being Toffler attacks the evils of understanding to almost every- energy. "When I'm singing," he thrust into an unfamiliar culture change. some of Boston's neighbor- He explores adaptability thing he talks about. The result hoods. explained, "I can see the ether, except in- this case the victim - physical and psychological - is factual error - LSD is not see the light and sparks." To- never leaves his homeland but whose inability to keep up with "lysergic acid"; specious reason- gether for the past seven merely watches in horror as it change results in future shock. ing - just because four of every The first concert, held this months, the Spirit, said Mike, changes around him. It is to be Finally, he offers advice on nine words "usable" in English past Saturday, was a perform- didn't really draw inspiration revealed as the cause of rioting coping with the problem, in today did not exist in Shake- ance by Spirit in Flesh. Chief from any other group. He ex- colleges, dying ghettos, debilita- chapters for education, technol- speare's time is no cause to claim breadwinner for the Brother- pressed a personal preference for ting drugs, and numerous lesser ogy, and his "strategy of social he'd be semi-literate if resur- hood of theSpirit Commune in Steppenwolf - "John Kay was evils, as well as the profound futurism." (Please turn to page 14) western Massachusetts, the very sincere" - and Joe Cocker. PAGE 14 TUESDAY,SEPTEMBER 14, 1971 THETECH-

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Future Shuckin', or, 7uu New opportunities and open- graduates might make special 'oom 54-622, X5734, would A profit in his own hand ings not listed ifi the DROP contributions: like to work with under. (Continuedfrom page 13] and Redbook, in the process Directory are listed below. As 1) Statistical analyses of relation- graduates interested in "experi. rected (literacy requires knowing supporting Toffler's assertion additional openings arise, they ships between students perform- ments and analyses in general only a small fraction of the total that "many books are no more will be posted t outside the ance at MIT and the admission relativity, solar system dy. possible vocabulary); and opin- than one-shot magazines." That Undergraduate Seminar Office, inputs; namics, and very-ong-baseline ion not fully explained by fact - could be the book's epitaph - 7-105, and listed, with Depart- -2) "Market Analysis" types of interferometry". Toffler finds his distaste for selling a million copies today, it ment UROP coordinators. study to evaluate communi- Undergraduate Policy Semi. "Hippies, Incorporated" hard to will all but vanish in a few years Students interest in partici- cation to the secondary schools nars which have been cancelled hide, though it helps his point as time passes it by. Time, Tof- patinK in a research opportunity in helping to formulate first im- are 41.04, 41.06, and 41.14. All none. In addition, the huge data- fler emphasizes, is speeding up. in the Psychiatric Department pressions; the others are open! filing operation required for And things are changing. That should contact Dr. Merton 3) Investigation of secondary -Students interested in joining such a work can't help but ,miss is his message, and one suspects, Kahne, Room 11-203, X2917. school students' decision-making an undergraduate seminar should some intriguing cross-references his self-justification. Certainly Students interested in joing a process in affecting college check for opennings in the Un. - the vastly increased use of the the short biography just inside research project at the Charles S. choice; dergraduate Seminar Office, oceans examined in one spot, for the back cover does justice to Draper Laboratory should con- -Students interested in these Room 7-105. instance, is-not tied to the rapid Toffier's man of the future - it tact Professor Wallace E. Vander' .opportunities should contact The following departments acceleration of power consump- associates him with nine or- Veld, Room 33-107 or Room Professor Roland B. Greeley, have new UROP coordinators: tion mentioned elsewhere, ganizations, numerous periodi- DL5-137, X3759 or X3956. Room 3-108, X4791. Mathematics - Prof. Arthur though the latter might create cals, even two homes. Moreover The Admissions Office is Professor Irwin I. Shapiro, Mattuck, Room 2-239, X4345; enough heat to melt the polar the tone of the book throughout particularly interested in three Departments of Physics -.and Chemical Engineering - Prof. ice and enlarge the oceans. leaves little doubt its author general areas where under- Earth and Planetary . Sciences, Leinroth, Room 12-184. Future Shock isn't much of a expects to be a "super-industrial - . . . man" in the future sourcebook, then - just an in- he forsees. 6fil -dkl -Ak-- -A- -.a- LAII triguing conglomeration, an How well he forsees is l -- La4 oversized magazine story. another matter. Perhaps the poli- !I IHARVARD SQ. And also, it must be noted, a tics of the future, which he all I 864-4581 Thru Tues. LAW- but ignores, has We can PROVE to you that your best buy in fine example of the very trends an essential part- I RENCE OF ARABIA Peter its author perceives. The writer- to play. 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By Randy Young however, moved the girls into Southemn Yacht Club in, New Although the MIT sailing the lead and the title, followed Orleans, Louiiana. The fAnal teams' regular season schedule by BU and Radcliffe. Both series was sailed in Solings -from ended in May, Tech sailors re- Kathy and Maria won their di- August 30 to September 2, withi mained active throughout the -visions. eight participants from all. over North America- summer, competing on both the - For Terry Cronburg, two intercollegiate and the club years of eliminations ended two Match 'racing is competition levels. They garnered several im- weeks ago with his winning of between only two boats 'at a three Above, aerodynamic- stresses on a typical inflatable structure. High pressive victories, including the Prince of -Wales Trophy, time, -with the objectf-beiing to National and North American winds put undue stress on MIT's indoor tennis center, causing its symbolic of the North American obtain the lead and then cover championships. Two especially downfall, below. Photo by David SearL- Inter-club Match- Racing crown. your opponent. In the champ- noteworthy achievements were Terry represented the MIT ionship series, the preliminary Terry Cronburg's capturing of Nautical Association (MITNA) heats were on a best threeout- the North American Inter-club in the P-O-W series, which is a of-five basis, while the finals Match Racing Championship, club rather than an inter- were four-out-of-seven. victory and the women's team's collegiate event. in the Women's National Inter- I n the first round, the collegiate Championships. The elimination heats began MITNA entry was matched last summer with races sailed in against Mac Goodwin of The women's finals were sail- Cape Cod Tech sloops on the Michigan, and took the series in ed on June II and 12 at the Charles River, pitting the three straight races. United States Coast Guard Acad- MITNA against Community Cronburg and company then emy in New London, Con- Boat Club. Cronburg, with Ed met Bob Bumfs of California, necticut, in what were, to quote Shaw and Tom ("Hutch") seventeen years old and a regular one team member, "light, rotten Hutchins as crew, won this first Soling sailor. Burns provided the winds." Kathy Jones '7 I sailed encounter, and earned the light best starting competition of the in A-division for MIT, with to compete in the Massachusetts regatta, but Terry won the series Karen Giroux '73 as crew, while Bay finals. by a 3-1 margin with Burns' Maria Bozzuto '73, with Shelley Sailing 210's at Cohasset, only victory subject to a protest Bernstein '74 and Lynn Massachusetts, Terry, with Shaw that was not heard when Terry Roylance '72, represented the and Kathy Jones,,captured the had already won three races. team in Bdivision. MassBay title, and advanced to This victory advanced the Tennis bubble bursts; the New England finals, sailed At the end of the first dya's New Englanders -to the finals this past August 16-18 in action the Tech women stood in against Ed Sherman -40f St. Ynglings at Prout's Neck, Maine- newe lznfao try soon third place in the ten-school Petersburg, Florida. At the end fleet, behind Boston University Sandy Warrick '72 and Steve of one-day's racing the tally By David Seards and Radcliffe, who had 'won the Cucchiaro '74 crewed for Terry stood at 3-3, with the champion- MIT's inflhatable Carr Indoor Tennis Center is due for re-installa- title for the three previous years. at Prout's Neck, and by winning ship to be decided with one race tion within two weeks. Two first places, five seconds, there, the trio moved on to the the next day. A banquet and The structure, which split open and deflated on Augulst -28, just and one third on the second day, North American finals at the festivities that night served to two days after inflation, has been shipped back to Buffalo for ease the tension somewhat, and repairs. The manufacturer was Birdair Structures, Inc., Walter Bird the next morning Crongburg went '34, president- out and defeated SheTiman by a Ron Kinnius, Assistant to the sizable margin to take the series President, was reached in Buf- and the North American title. zfe-'S~~~~~~~~~ Also this summer, Cronburg, -falo by The Tech . According to E D ART SFO - with Cucchiaro, and Sally Kiannius, there have been "no HAQATR FR Lindsay as crew, won the other such 'failures .....not of . .SKIING,TENNIS Massachusetts Bay Senior Men's this type." QUS .Championlship, and placed third "$The industry has minimum &SUS in the New England finals. ,standards for product design, RACOUIETSPECIALISTS and these were followed in the COMPL ETE SKI SHO0P Larry Bacow '73, of Pontiac, construction. The failure of the Michigan, added another Nation- structure was due to an unfor- al title to the list of acco>mplish- tunate stackup of factors.' ments by MIT sailors, as he I'n the first place, there was captured the Wayfarer crown for a strong wind coming directly the second consecutive season, into one end of the structure, sodoA This, spring, Bacow was the that there was a large amount ofhi1 highest-finshing sophomore in stress there. In addition, this was A the New England Intercollegiate a new design, with-square ends, 32/ S inglehanded championships, and the sectionalizing caused L/.o .and he Is a mainstay of the MIT some areas to be much more O K men's varsity squad. highly stressed than normal." d This month MIT will be host- The end result of all this, J " ing the British Collegiate All-Star according to Mr. Kinnius, is that g a v o sailing team which has been "~fone end will have to be com-< Members of MIT's National Champion Women's Sailing Team are, pletely rebuilt." 2= o from left: Gail Baxter '74, Karen Giroux '73,KathyJones'71,Jane touring the United States and has been winning impressive vic- Birdair, which has been in /}#L Ilt Matrisciano '72, Lynn Roylance '72, Maria Bozzuto '73, Shelley tories ox} the Pacific Coast and in business for IS years, built thee Bernstein '74, and coach Stu Nelson. jetphoto thle Midwest. structur 4o $ 51,000.

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