Assemblies Ball Scheduled in Waalker on Friday
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~-· .·x·~W ine :~ - <- We'd ' a-: w:' . - r . } - ; · kj.-5eA-I· * n.·;·n -~j .. " : ewl.-(~.- - - ne - k*' ' Ad" P eh ':~~ ~ OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF, THE UNDERGRADUATES . OF ' MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ~~~~--. !, VOL. LXXIV,.NO.. I6 .. 'CAMBRIDGE, MAS-SACHUSETTS, FRIDAY, APRILb16, 1954 5 CENTS- -I . Dorm' Council EC bHoue CoComm A'ctivities Council I Assemblies Ball Scheduled Discusses Dance, Schedules Dance;,'In WAalker On Friday Night To Issue Booklet; OpenHouseRules Fire Drill Plann ed By-Laws Amended I Last Wednesday at 5:00 p.m., the At the Dormitory Council meeting East Campus House Committee is Activities Council held its second last. Monday, it was announced that planning to hold an informal dance on mneeting of the semester. Presidlent the tickets for the Dorm Spring Semi- May 1st, the night after the Dorm William Neff '55 opened the meeting Formal would be available some time Weekend Semiformal. The location of with a report of the recent leadelrship next week. They will be sold in the the dance is not yet decided, but there conference. individual dorms by the members of iS a chance that it will be opeh air: The main body of the meeting con- the house,committees. the tennis courts are being considered sisted of debating and voting on three it was reported that the decision of as a possibility. The admission will amendments to the by-laws of the enforcement of open house rules is to not exceed $1.50 per couple. constitution. The first amendment, an be left to the separate house commit- The Committee decided to close the addition to article VI, states: "The tees. Burton House Committee has de- East Camrpus poolroom until the Activities Council shall have the power cided to comply with DormJudComm's equipment taken from there by cer- to consider and act on the constitu- request to check for violators in the tain, users is returned. It is lhoped tionality of activities' operations." hour after the limit, whereas Baker that this will happen shortly and the This was passed by a vote of 9 to 1 House Committee has decided to es- poolroom can again be opened for with one abstention. tablish an honor system' among its the public. The second amendment, another ad- residents. This will mean that the The date has been set for- a fire dition to article VI stated: "The Ac- house committee will not specifically drill in'East 0amwpus. It will be held tivities Council shall review the elec- check f£r violators, but rather encour- .in the near future, but the exact date tions of officers of all activities." This age everyone. to report any delin- is a surprise. Students are expected amendment was unanimously defeated. quents. East Campus has not yet de- Wovacate the dormitories, and to move The third amendment dealt with a cided what its course of action will away from all entrances so that the change in a technical point and was be. "firemen" can get in. The residents are unanimously passed. Hereafter, the names of all open asked to take the drill seriously. A decision was made to publish a house -rules- violators who receive Both Dean Fassett and Dean Bow- booklet to give information about either light penalties or reprimands ditch are apparently interested in a activities - and their operations. The will not be published 'in ThILe Tech proposition made by the .Committee to booklet will make available infolrma- but will be posted on the dorm bulle- open lounges in the main buildings tion for individuals orl groups wishing tin boards, it was announced by Eu- for general student use. Lounges now to organize activities and would plro- gene MIathot '56, chairman of Dorm- existing are available .to certain vide useful material for activity offi- JudComm. His committee feels that it groups only. The main problem is to cers such as reports required by Insti- is the right of the dorm residents to find room for the additional lounges. tute Committee, availability of trans- know the names of the violators, but portation services, procedure to re- that it would be unwise to publish serve meeting rooms, duplicating ser- them. ERRATUM] jvice, mail, etc. I East Campus Arfhur Honegger's Oratorio, Kinq Photo by Becker At the meeting it was disclosed that David, will be presented by {he M.I.T. Miss Carolyn Wells, formerly of the Ballet Russe. is shown performing "the Sophisti- cated Cat" at the 1953 Assemblies Ball. Wiener Gives Lecture this year, all.of- East Campus will be Choral Society at 8:30 p.m. on - considered as a single unit in making Wednesday, April 21, in Sanders IOn Conditions in India room assignments, not as a -group of Theatre, and not on April 12, as was T. e twentieth--annual Assemblies Memcrial Student Staff, a fraternal ,separate houses as has been the cus- erroneouslyi reported in last Friday's B.11 will be held on the night of group of working students, invitations Following Trip Abroad tom previously. It was also announced issue of The Tech. April 23. Sponsored by the Walker to the "A-Ball" are sent out only to that certain dorm residents have been I friends and alumni of the student staff. showing extreme disrespect for the Alumni are kept "posted" by'means night -watchmen, and that hereafter of the Walker Memorial Alumni As- all such offenses will be reported to sociation, and every yealr many return both student government 'nd the ad- Geneva Co 7ference Is roPEC from all over the United States and ministration. several foreign countries to attend the "Ball". Darkroom Of First -In S ries f Articles The Ball will last from 10:00 p.m. Dorm Council has made all the ad- to 3:00 a.mn., with dancing to the music i I of Harry Marshard's orchestra. i vance payments on the Burton House The following is the first in a se. the United States is associated in The II darkroom, and is collecting the money ries of articles political and econom- Asian minds with a losing cause in entire building from the ballrooom to i from Burton and Baker House, who ic topics of current interest being t;he field and with the defense of old- the entrance foyer and the gymnasium will share the darkroom. Burton House written for THE TECH by scholars fashioned colonialism. upstairs will be decorated. is paying $150, while Baker House is The entertainment planned is a it associated with thle Center f In- In the past year nr so the Frenth paying $100. termntional Studies. have begun to develop a Viet-Nam jealously guarded secret. Last year a If the WMIT transmitter now being army, with Viet-Nam officers; and dance number entitled "The Sophisti- built in Balker House works, it was by Prof W.WV. Rostoj the plan has been gradually to turn cated Cat" was presented by the Caro- announced, the station will pay Dorm lyn Wells dance group; an unusual The conference which opens at over the responsibility for liquidat- Council $45 by May 1. However, if the touch was the addition of Dr. Edger- Geneva on April '26 will constitute ing Viet Minh to these new forces transmitter fails, WMIT will be liable ton's famous sti'oboszope, which pro- a major test for American diplomacy under a Viet-Nam government with I Ihe lech Staft Photo for the full $400 loan. At present the vided a climax lighted only by inter- and, therefore, for the American peo- enlarged powers. Professor Norbert Wiener in 10-250 at his station is waiting for some special mittent flashes of light. The effect was lecture "lndia" last Tuesday. pie. ' But time will not wait. The French parts which will complete the unit. ;i- iifl II similar to a motion picture slowed Thez too.u rziti-infinn ulglou wewi- t3Vlllrl:onnfrrnn. anis Ii11- people appear to be tiring of the Professor Norbert Wienear of the down so that the action appealrs as a cult and even dangerous. struggle; t h e Vietnamese want Mathematics Department lectured be- . series of lightning-like movements. Viet-Nam is a country rich in re- peace, unity, and scmne form of inde- fore a packed audience in 10-250 last Other presentations welre a piano duet, pendence; and, under these circum- Tuesday on his recent trip to India, sources and so located ap t5 threaten' and sieveral numbers by the student 'The Litdle Foxes' all of South-East Asia with Cc.-n- stances, at Berlin BIolotov was able where he spoke with mathematicians munist power. Far mIre important 'to negotiate a meeting in Geneva at staff. octet. At midnight the prome- and tourled the country. He recalled nade is held, after which, the guests than resources and jeography, the which the British, French, and our- the many friends he met there and go upstairs To Be Given Soon loss of Viet-Nam to Cbmmunism will selves will confront the representa- to the gymnasium folr a the sights and places he visited. Aftelr symbolize- to Asia that Communism tives of Chinese Communism: If -the midnight buffet. a detailed talk, he spoke of his gen- By Staff Players is on the rise, demodraey and Free Chinese Communists were to .offer a eral impression of India. Highlights World influence on the wane. ,face-saving arrangement-perhaps a were his belief that the caste system The French have fught a bloody split Viet-Nam-the French m'ght Stickmnen Victors; has been softened greatly, and that war for eight years against a Com- withdraw with honor, leaving Viet India is a progressive state although Lillian Hellman's dramatic play, munist dominated movement--Viet Minh many decisive advantages for the distribution of wealth is concen- l'he Little Foxes, will be presented Minh-which claims to fight in the a- later consolidation of total victory.