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119 -- 1- 1---- seq II I u - r m cLY· ,- -- - - - I -MITcable adds programs By Joel West aspects of the show, but noted on last year's Eliot House play, that the writing and reporting the videotape was produced by In an effort to supplement its staffs were still in need of people. the authors, Harvard students customary lecture-oriented offer- The movie-of-the-week show, Adam Bellow and Tom Kramer. ings, MIT Cable will be ex- tentatively named Coax Palace Tonight will mark the premiere of perimenting with a new program- will draw on the archives of the 'the film version. ming- format this month. University Film Center, with the For those who can tune to MIT The new line-up, dubbed Tues- celluoid-to-videotape conversion Cable (Channel 10), I recommend days on Ten, will be inaugurated being done by Video Services. The Lost Cookies. Public today, according to Robert Tonight's double feature will monitors are located in lobbies 7 Lamm '78, of the Center for begin at 9:30 with- Alfred and 10, rooms 7-111 and 4-231, Advnced Engineering Studies' Hitchcock's 39 Steps followed by the fourth floor of Barker Video Services. The weekly offer- the Buster Keaton short Cops. Library, and the Muddy Charles ings include a science documen- This week's most promising of- Pub. Most dormitories have cable tary at 7ptm, followed by the MjT fering, however, is The Lost outlets on every floor. Video' News at 7:30, with enter- Cookies running under the "MIT tainment shows beginning at Playho-use" slot. The 82-minute 8pm. film, beginning at 8pm, revolves .The Video News marks the around four Harvard frosh dur- return of a once-popular concept: ing their first term of college. The a TV campus news show.A suc- room mates are a grab-bag of cessfil show was once produced readily identifiable stereotypes: a by MITV. It had fallen into obli- laid-back San Franciscan, a vion and was later rescued by the South- Boston I rish-Catholic, a Video Club. This week's show hockey jock who shuffles women will feature stories on Tech Show, in. and out, and a prep-school 6)NTEN Marc J. Chelmer'81 as the wily wizard, chastises his daughter Varsity basketball, and the recent graduate who seems fond of syn- Elasia (Liz Moberg '80) in one of the two plays produced by the piano recital by Beat-ice Erderly. thetic substances. The film, A revived Tech Show last weekend, which will be reviewed in Fri- Lamm noted a preponderence of though cliche at times, is definite- day's issue. (Photo-'by Gordon Haff) : volunteers for the technical ly first-rate studentuwork. B~ased I- --- ·· ·· dll ·bll · ·pll - I -P------ LIBIIIBP- blIA LOw made head of LNS - part of the routine By William Cimino linois. He was appointed to the Thomas F. Jones, MIT's vice MIT faculty in 1957 and held any snowstorms," a reference to tee seemed to have fizzled out, ac- By Joel West both Fulbright and Guggenheim last winter's two record-breaking cording to Joel Orlen of the president of research, has recently Fellowships while lectu.ing at the 'Routine"- seemed to be the snowfalls. Chen echoed her senti- Provost's office, who is also a announced the appointment of Karl Taylor Compton- Professor University of Rome. He also best way to describe this year's ments that the good weather member of the Policy Committee. of Physics Francis E. Low, to the served as the director of the Independent Activities Period, at seemed to have helped, noting One, a seminar entitled "The of the Laboratory of for Theoretical Physics at least in the opinion of the people that some activities were 'flooded Divine Principles of the Rev. Sun directorship Center Nuclear Science (LNS). MIT from 1973 to 1977. involved in monitoring IAP. with people." His own half-day Myung Moon," had prompted Low succeeds Professor M X:,rtin Low received the B.S. degree "Most of the things seemed to seminar on the hazards of Ii- protests by a few students and Dleutch, who has been the direc- from Harvard College in 1942 come off pretty well" noted quified natural gas (LNG) and li- alumni, who felt that it, was inap- tor of LNS since his appointment and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees graduate student Bob Chen 76, a quified petroleum gas (LPG) propriate for MIT to provide in March of 1973. Deutsch shared from Columbia University in member of the IAP Policy Com- drew an estimated 70f80 people, facilities for such an activity. 1949. mittee. fie based his observation though press coverage was not However, attendance at the ac- the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics with Prof. Samuel Ting for work As director of LNS, Low will on attendance at various ac- what he had hoped. tivity was light, with many of the coordinate research facilities at tivities, converstaions with fellow Another popular activity was a participants reportedly voicing involving the discovery of the J- to a the Bates Linear Accelerator in students, and an IAP feedback lecture given by Louis Menanld, a open skepticism at the ideas particle. He will be returning iddleton, Mass., Brookhaven session held January 24. senior lecturer in the Political presented therein. career of teaching and research. IM in Long At that meeting, according to Science Department. The talk,a Orlen described the work of the Low was a visiting professor at National Laboratory island New York, the linear ac- Chen, several faculty members, discussion of the concepts of con- Policy Committee as "being pret- MnIT in 1956 after serving as a member of the Institute for Ad- celerator in Stnford, California, including Physics Professor stitutional law, was part of a two ty dull business." This year's ses- C·ERN Laboratories in Geneva Thomas Greytak, expressed dis- week introduction to law course sion marked IAP's ninth year: vanced Study -at Princeton and thee German high energy syn- satisfaction with the current organized by Jeffrey Meldman of most of the policy had been University and as a faculty chrotron in Hamburg. structure and usage of the 3'1/2 the Sloan School. The turnout of worked' out by those who member at the University of II- week session. Some felt that many 70 people was particularly ap- originally organized IAP. Most of students were not making best use propriate in light of.Menand's the decisions made by the com- of the period, while others ob- role as part of the IAP Ad- mittee in refining the guidelines jected to the loss of a week from ministration Committee. were merelv "fine-tuning" in his the first semester. Sauer mentions that the IAP opinion. Jane Sauer, manager of the IAP Guide classified ads had been One problem he did see in- Office felt that MIT's emphasis relatively successful. With ones a volved the IA P Guide. For postal on making student pressures facultyt mImember in the reasons, the guiide is now a part of more manageable would prevent meteroogloy department had the MIT'Bulletin. However, he elimination of IAP. To find out sought a historian to help relate felt that the language of next how successful this year's IAP climate of the past to its influence year's guide should be adjusted so was, her office will be sending out on human societies: the ad that no one would construe an questionnaires to activity leaders, brought response from a profes- implied sanction of the activities while the Policy Committee will sor of history in the Department listed. He also felt that the distinc- be polling students and faculty. of Humanitities. tion should be clearly made Sauer felt things were "easier Several potential controversies between the IAP offereings this-year because we didn't have discussed by the Policy Commit- organized by any MIT com- munity member, and regular .2rm-time courses sponsored and _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ apgroved by academic depart- ments. The other problem he saw was a case where the policy had Columnist Michael Taviss of- excellent performances in this become "too rigid." The fers a provocative article on film which examines the organizers of the Spanish Dance gun control and an interesting meetings of-two lovers over a Week faced delays in approval of solution. Page 4. 25 year period. Page 9. off-campus ticket sales; this might have occured, in Orlen's opinion, due to an overly strict interpreta- The movie Superman is really tion of the general IAP policy, all they claim it to be, or which is that IAP activities are for almost. Page 6. The men's fencing team suf- members of the MIT -community fered two defeats last Friday. only. Instead, he felt that the of- and Saturday but redeemed ficial guidelines should be revised themselves by winning all to allow advertisement of 1AP Same Time, Next Yena- Alan three of their Saturday after- campus entertainment in the same Alda and Ellen Burstyn deliver noon meets. Page II. manner as such activities do dur- I I------r I I I C a I I I ·hl ·9· '·U ·llllr ing the, reagoularayear.- I k I
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Why ~the 70's Gun control Pro-and con are not the 60's By Tom Curtis By Michael' Tavia unfair because they open the robbers or neost other criminals. "sCollege students today just don't have the social consciousness they At least 465 Americans were doorway to gross restrictions of Murder would become unknown, had in the Sixties." killed by handguns during the the populace because of the con- a thing of the past, and duels - ~"'The students of the Seventies are concerned solely with their futire month of December 1978. Ac- tent of the tests. Examiners would would replace it. If you didn't job security." cording to Handgun Control, a also be subject to bribery, and want to fight, just say so, and How many times have you heard today's social commentators la- citizen's lobby working for the probably -wouldn't do their job there would be dozens of passers- ment these "facts"? Well, it's time these facts were exposed for what passage of intelligent national gun properly in the first place. Look by willing to back up your'no' if they are: bunk. control laws, the body count in- at the idiots and maniacs who your antagonist becomes pushy. True, students today aren't marching in the streets as often-as they cludes murders, suicides, acci- pass their driver's exams today. People who were in the Sixties. True, not many administration buildings have been are totally opposed dents, and the deaths of I I If we allow the government to to carrying guns would occupied lately. But the difference is not student's attitudes; it's the is- wear children under the age of 12 dule start making restrictive laws, who. badges or armbands notifying sues. to handguns. The list was com- knows how far they will go. those around; them that they are piled from irews The Sixties were clearly dominated by one issue: the Vietnam War. reports of Congress is famous for trying to not armed. They would be a Thousands handgun of students were subject to the draft and its consequences, violence during that impose its will on others. Being an protected minority because month, and is only possible death for the sake of an unworthy cause. In the face of unl- a lower limit. anarchist at heart, I hold to the anyone who tried to attack or responsive Presidents and impotent Congresses, students had no choice Four states - California, principle that no government can molest them would find the other Texas, Tennessee, but to protest loudly. Today's students would have protested just as and Penn- tell me what to do, or not do. members of the public close be loudly. sylvania, in that order -account The alternative, no gun cortrol aiding them. But today's students are not confronted by a Vietnam War. The big- for 44 percent of the gun deaths. laws, is even worse, though. This If the country were ever at- gest issues on campuses today are South Africa, the Nestle's boycott, O~n the opposite extreme, six is just a copout which doesn't tacked or invaded, there -would be and nuclear power. None of these issues has such a direct impact as the states each had only one death at-, solve the problem, and doesn't an enormous reserve of trained Vietnam War. The first two concern the plight of strangers thousands of tributed to guns during even change the presently citizens available to protect it. miles away. The last issue concernes future dangers, not an immediate December. Massachusetts is also deplorable situation. Take a look at Switzerland, where threat to studenst's lives like the war. a non-violent state, with only two My idea is to give guns to military training is mandatory, The existence of these types of issues alone should eliminate the no- deaths. anyone who wants them, along handgun ownership is practically So what is to be done about tion that today's students care only about their personal well-being. the with free training in the use of universal, and the army embraces The SDS mnay be gone but many other groups hlave taken its'place. proliferation of handguns in this them. The benefits from this all the Inhabitants. There is the Clamshell Alliance righting nuclear power in general and country? The _solution olf the scheme are obvious and All in all these suggested the Seabrook project in particular. South African divestment is being Hfandgun Control people is evi- manyfold. Criminals will think measures would effectively and pushed by many groups including the M IT-Welllesley Coalition Against dent in their name. They want twice (or even three or four times) efficiently eli minate the gun Apartheid. I ndividual students have organized a very successful gun conltrol legislation. Let's look before attempting to burgle a probolem, and would also turn boycott of Nestle's products because of questionable practices of the at the pros and con-s Of that alter- home whose inhabitants are all over a. new leaf in the behavior of native more closely. I chocola-1te company overseas. armed and skilled in the use of people towards each osther. Think Right off we runr into enforce- their weapons. The same for bank about it. Here at MIT, protest groups have appeared frequently. Many times ment problems. Given time, recently Iranian students have protested oppression in their country. A however, most of the guns few years ago the Student Action Coordinating Committee organized presently unregistered would protests which stopped an MIT program- to train Taiwanese students in become registered, or stop func- ijj~ Steven F. Frann'80-Chairman inertial guidance technology which could have been used for military tioning, or, if ammunition were ] aThomasCurtis'8O lEditor-in-Chiof purposes. Obviously, students today are committed to improving the regulaited too, they would be dis- dKathryn E. Gro '80-Managing Editor world they live in. covered when an unregistered {E~ii HPandora 8erman'80,- Buraness Mansage The social commentators say we students have our noses to the owner attempted to buy bulllets. g ~~~Bob Wassrmans '80 -Exectv Editor grindstone as we prepare for lucrative careers. Careers 'in what, though? There would be a black market Volume 99, Number 1 -Oh, environmental engineering, cancer research, nutrition, and, despite on weapons, of course. This Tuesday. February 6.1979 low wages, humanities. We aren't the mercenaries some people think would include not only the guns we are. themselves, but also those services' NEWS DEPARTMENT And what of the children of the Sixties to whom we are so un- such as ammunition and repair News Editors: Bill Cimino '80, Kenneth Hamilton '81: Associate favorably compared. Oh, they're sitting in their offices pursuing that can no longer be found legal- News Editom: Gordon Hunter '80, Jay glass '82, Richard Salz '82; lucrative careers and forgetting that the world outside exists. Very few ly by those people who wished to Meteorologist: Jlames Franklin '80; Staffi Ron Newman '79, Mike of them are still marching in the streets. own unregistered weapons. But Ries '79, Art Hsu '80. Kent Pitman '80. Brian Aiello '81, Richmond The world of today is simply different from the world of the Sixties. for the most part, people would Cohen '81. Richard Duffy '81, Doug Klapper '81. Benson Margulies '81. Steven Schad '81, Elias Towe '81. Kate Williams '81, J. G. Part of the reason is improvements which were forced by the student go along with the laws, if all they Harrington '82. Bruce Kaplan '82, Lenny Martin '82, Aaron Rapoport activism of the Sixties. consisted of was registration. The United States gave students the right to vote '82. Elaine Douglass G. and latter pulled out of the Vietnam War. Furthermore, Congress has They won't, though. To make successfully resisted efforts to involve us in new Vietnams such as gun control truly practical owners PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Angola-, thus, nuew confrontations have been wisely would have to take tests to prove avoided. Night Editors: Eric Sklar'81, Stephanie Pollack '82, Jon von Zelowitz that they were competent with Still, there are important issues which students must speak out on. In '82; Asgociate Night Editor: Marion K. Weiss '80; Production most cases, they have. their weapons. Since most people Manager: Rebecca L. Waring '79; Staff: Thomas Chang '81. Sydney who presently own handguns -- -' ------Hoeltzli '81. Glenn Katz '81, Kennie Watson '81, Shawn Wilson '8 1. would fail those tests, many of Linda Schaffir '82. I them will protest the laws on that Paul H ubbard by Kent C. Massey point alone. PHO TO GRA PH Y DEPA RTMENT Several such- scenarios are pos- Photo Editors: Chuck Irwin '80, Steven Solnick '81; Staff: John I ,, ,__ sible, all depending upon how far 8Brland '80. Dale Senechal '81, Marvin Hom '82, Ken Schreibman Be Foloblel. 15 'Sht I eel of real; f7 i! a, JerslanJ the government wishes to commit '82. Heinz Sohn '82. Richard Soley '82. Rich Tello '82 Photographic I -.A Clat Josef In faseca yowr raserval~orks Consultant: David Tenenbaum '75. iJhavar drAw itself in this issue. Would snee-Ao 0e mUcA canprs.V. is ltva dround. allj o~r desre "fregistration" j ust become SPORTS DEPARTMENT More ;nib I'Aalj/ect-Wab'%tim io move PAuI'b'd another word for "'confiscation"? Jougts -.My a/prjnate 4ores man d7rr" Seurity forces such as the police Sports Edito-s: Gordon R. Haff'79, Bob Host '81; Staff: Gregg Stave '79, L:!nnisi Smith '81. Rich Auchus '82. yw arC e. IjC I'D would have an easier time doing All / Cnd t he same their jobs if the public had no ac- ARTS DEPARTMENT cess to handguns -witness the situation in Englanld, for example, Arts Editors: Joel West '79, David G. Shaw '81; Associate Arts where the bobbies do not need to Editor: Margie Beale '82; Staff: Bruce Nawrocki '79, Bill Rathbone '81, Al Sanders '81. Daniel Togasaki '81, Todd Chase carry guns since the populace '82, Kevin Cunningham '82. David Solo '82. does not -but has anybody stop- V ,,I ped to wonder if we want to give BUSINESS DEPARTMENT the government that much power. Advertising Manager: Brenda L. Harnbleton- '79; Assistant By taking weapons away from _ ---- L:ii -Advrertising Manager: John Hopper'79 Circulation Manager: John the people, we would leave Muggeridge, '80; Staff: Marcia Grabow'79, Kathy Dutrow'80, Lynn ourseilves totally helplessc to op%- Grabert '80, Penn Martin '81, Doug Marden '81. pose any sort of misuse of power r ; . -by those same security forces, CONTRIBUTING EDITORS genesral sri4on. MI r si·