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XCVIII, NUMBER 13 CALIFORNIA FRIDAY I 7 JANUARY 1997 ans Bethe speaks on the making of the bomb fission, the principle behind the A-bomb, America was the only one of the Allied cated his support for the Department of was discovered by Otto Hahn in late 1938 Powers with this ability, their effort was Energy's nuclear stewardship program of Hans Bethe, professor emeritus of and a theory explaining the process was thrown into high gear with the appoint replacing nuclear tests with advanced University, Nobel laureate and one developed in 1939. By 1941, there were ment of General Leslie Groves as head of supercomputer simulations. pioneers of modem quantum phys at least four countries attempting to de- the project in September 1942. Hans Bethe was born in Germany in ics. gave an hour long general interest ret velop a weapon based on fission that had Bethe emphasized in his talk that the 1906 in the contested province of Alsace clllllpecti', ve on 'The Making ofthe Bomb" a legitimate chance of success: Germany, successful creation of the bomb by the Lorraine along the French boarder. He Thursday the 16th of January. The Britain, the Soviet Union and the United United States consisted of many related -entered the University of Frankfurt in 1924 i-h.cllto tie moved from 20 I East Bridge States. The Soviet Union's research pro- projects that dealt with one particular prob and received his doctorate in 1928. Bethe normal site of Thursday Physics gram was shocked into near-inactivity by lem. During the question and answer ses was forced to flee with his wife to En ~lloqlui ulm) to the more spacious Ramo the sudden German invasion of mid-1941, sion after the talk Hans Bethe was asked gland in 1933 because of the rising power ~ldil.orium due to an unexpected surge while the American program, which had if more freedom of communication would of the Nazis. In 1935, he accepted an as linterest that may have been related to been initiated by Albert Einstein's personal have hastened the creation of the bomb. sistant professorship at Cornell University, L.A. Times mentioning the event in letter to President Roosevelt on the day Bethe responded that the limiting factor with which he has remained affiliated to weekly Science Calendar. As it was, before Pearl Harbor, was proceeding at a was the production of fissionable materi this day. In 1938, he produced the work Ramo was unable to seat everyone pace that could be charitably called stately. als (plutonium and enriched uranium) and on stellar energy production that would wanted entrance and the lobby was In England the war with Germany spurred that many of the projects, like the explo eam him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967. with people trying to listen to the intense interest in the development offis- sive lens, were completed successfully Richard Feynman received his Ph. D. from \l:81, It 'Wru'4'lpea outside through speak- sion weapons. The secret "Maud Cornmit- without revealing the entire project. When Hans Bethe in 1942. Bethe officially re tee" was formed and determined that a questioned if America should have tired from Cornell in 1975, but he contin This year's talk was much less tech nuclear weapon was feasible. While En- dropped the bomb on Japan, Bethe as ues to work on the physics of supernovas than in years past and dealt with his gland lacked the resources to build the serted that it saved lives by ending the war and neutron stars. These talks are a yearly pmlen,:e with the Manhattan Project to' bomb, America possessed the industrial quickly and preventing the Japanese from event for Bethe, who usually spends a a working atomic bomb during strength and manpower to produce a making a bloody last stand. In an inter month or so at the balmy environs of IT. He described how nuclear weapon before the Germans. Since view afterwards by The Tech, Bethe indi- Caltech on winter sabbatical. ~------. .u ...... urer takes first in SURF competition Oliver Stone to visit
BY PUBLIC EVENTS and "Nixon." He has been nomi , nated for an Oscar six times, and Sebastian Maurer won first Director Oliver Stone will has won twice. He al so has an prize in Wednesday's third and Emmy to his credit from the final round of the Doris S. give the 1996-97 James c.n:rpaluSURF speaking compe Michelin Lecture, entitled HBO movie "Indictment: The for his presentation of nu "Film, Chaos, and Mass Delu McMartin Trial." :lnI:ricialsimulations of magnetic sion." For a more complete lines in type IT supercon- Born in New York City in filmography, point your Web 1946 of a French mother and browser at our event page: http:! The competition took place American father, Oliver Stone Iwww.cco. caltech.edul -opel in the Beckman Institute Audi dropped out of college in 1965 fy97Ise.970J28.hrml Iorium. Out of more than 180 original presenters, eight final to teach in Vietnam and returned The James Michelin Distin ists remained to compete for in 1967-68 as a soldier on the guished Visitor's Program has three prizes on the basis of pre front line. He completed his been established under a gift llentation skill. The finalists pre studies at New York University from Miss Bonnie Cashin to fos IIeI1ted a wide range of scientific Film School in 1971 and worked ter a creative interaction be research, ranging from at several jobs around New York tween the arts and the sciences. femtosecond chemistry, which Sebastian Maurer, winner of the coveted until the success of his screen was examined by Julius Su, to SURF speaking award play "Midnight Express" in OLIVER STONE: "FILM, the study of turbulent gas mix properties on Schiff-Base com simple terms. Bill Whitney, 1978. CHAOS, AND MASS DE ing by Stephen Chase. plexes. who has been a judge every LUSION" Among his many film cred Steven Bennett secured sec The judges had a particu year since the first Perpall com Tuesday, January 28, 1997 at ond prize with his talk concern larly difficult time this year petition, remarked on the par its are "Platoon," "Born on the 8 p.m. Beckman Auditorium ing the study of titanium diox choosing winners. They delib ticular quality of the speakers 4th of July," "JFK," "The Free (Tickets are not required) ide in the presence of ultravio erated for fifteen more minutes this year, making the process of Doors," "Natural Born Killers," let light as a catalyst for the deg than originally scheduled in choosing winners especially rndation of organic pollutants in order to corne to a consensus. difficult. water. Fay Peng took third place Afterwards, Steve Frautschi, a The Dori s S. Perpall IN THIS ISSUE for her presentation of her work judge, remarked how hard it awards were created by Robert examining one aspect of cancer was to compare different speak Perpall, a member of the SURF THE USUAL THIS WEEK'S cell migration through the base ers. As an example, he cited board, in memory of .his late ment membrane of blood ves the difficulty in comparing Fay wife. The awards were started STUFF FEATURES sels. Also presenting were Brian Peng's ability to explain her in 1993 as an incentive for stu Bookwonn ...... 9 Board of Control Minutes ...... 8 D'urso on electromagnetic research, overcoming the lan dents to prepare excellent pre Opinions ...... 3 Circle of Fire ...... 4 Waves in dielectric structures, guage barriers of organic chem sentations. The first place win Dean's Comer...... ? 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If they are working as ban any drug, anyway, "Opening our markets ... makes an alternative to starving, the cially as a constitutional arrIP~. us all wealthy global citizens" problem does not lie with the ment was needed for al~unQ. On Political Labels tarian', itself stolen from the and takes me to task. My inter company; the problem lies with One might have thought anarchist opponents of property pretation is that he assumed my their not having any wealth or would have established a I apparently have been who followed Proudhon, "us all" referred to everyone in natively available jobs. Barring dent. dubbed a neoliberal and a con Kropotkin, and Bakunin. And the world; for the purpo~es of the the company from operating in One might also think servative. Actually, that might the libertarian position is hardly article it referred to Americans. ternationally will SImply deprive the availability of drugs in not be so contradictory; I sus close to most conservative po Opening our markets allows those workers of a job. eral prisons might tell us pect neoliberal means conserva sitions, as may be noted by our' us to be directly compared to the If someone takes a cheap thing about the feasibility tive, although I haven' t been calls for the legalization of drugs rest of tlie world and shows how job because he is starving, the keeping them out of a very paying too much attention to the (although conservative William well off most of us are. Given problem lies not in that some country. most recent mutation of labels. F. Buckley agrees here) and that most of us live through la one is offering them a che~job, Still, when I said that the lower prostitution; absolute freedom of bor for others, and not by di but in that they are starving. I On Bantlaids ing of trade barriers is always speech, trade, and movement; rectly manipulating owned recognize that sometimes one called liberalization, I should zero tolerance of pollution; and physical wealth, obviously we can link a multinational to both I fear Cherish Brown have said that it could always a smaller military, given that the will find ourselves competing the job and the poverty, but of my shameless attention have been called that. Adam United States is surrounded by with equivalently skilled for ten the latter has quite indepen bing too seriously. The Smith was firmly part of that lib Canada, Mexico, and two very eigners with lower standards of dent causes, such as in the en part of my previous article eral tradition known as the Eu large natural moats. Doubt as living, and thus be worse off. tire Second World. not deal with domestic ropean Enlightenment, and he to the legitimacy of corporations I fail to see how this is, in was not the first opponent of is also not inconsistent with lib itself, exploiting the foreigners, On Drugs structed a caricature, hopmlg I mercantilist and protectionist ertarianism, although not wide as Cherish Brown claims. If force people to see a sU'oeliori policies. spread. someone is working for dirt Robert Rossi grants that of marijuana use to alcohol For my own positions, I aes On the other hand, I freely cheap wages, presumably they marijuana is no worse than al in that situation, and then thetically prefer the term 'lib admit no more attachment to the feel the alternatives are worse: cohol or tobacco, but says it is to present and destroy eral'. But since to obtain any labels 'progressive' or 'populist' either being shot, or starving. If no better, and that we should public and private health accurate meaning I must attach than to 'conservative'. I do not the company is holding a gun to wean ourselves of those that are ments for marijuana being the prefix "eighteenth-century" think that 'progressive' need be their head, this is slavery. If their legal now. But given that people gal, the entire exercise to it, I am forced to use 'Iiber- synonymous with 'liberal' - in government is holding a gun to do use them, what should be been inspired by various their legal status? cians shrieking If marijuana should be kept 215. The title - "How to illegal, then alcohol and tobacco Domestic Abuse" - was should be made so. Yet alcohol in cheek; stoning all prohibition has not worked, is people is not close to being not working in India right now ideal solution - although I (some poor state is trying it), and think it would be an probably would not work again ment. -just as prohibition of the other drugs is not working. And the damage caused by the effort is worse than that caused by the drugs. Better that the drugs be legal, and that the advocates of Galtech 40-58, Pasadena, CA 91125 phone: (818) 395-6153 temperance try to educate and advertising: (818) 395-6154 e-mail: editorsOtech.calleclJ.edu convince people themselves that advertising: advOlech.ca/tech.edu Check Out YOUR drugs should be left alone. And ISSN 0008-1582 to improve conditions so that fewer people feel the need to VOLUME XCVIII, NUMBER 17 JANUARY 1997 Late Night Coffee House abuse drugs - but I think that
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SEE GINGRICH ON PAGE 6 MINDSTALK: Education and more fDITINUED FROM PREVIOUS PA GE On Feminism barriers, or necessarily perma As for the reference in my nent. caricature to an "unfortunate I've read that Betty moral education", the list of so Friedan's simple formulation of On Education cietal factors Mrs. Brown listed feminism was that "women are is a large part of what I thought people too, and should be treated People keep saying that such an education generally con as such." parents need to take an inter sists of. Her family and mass I think this is the second best est in the education of their four media culture - and yes, eco such formulation I've heard. children, and to encourage nomic handicaps, especially The one I prefer the most is my them to take an interest in sci with children - have not con own: "women are people first. " ence in learning. But it seems speeiJ match ditioned the woman in my scene The difference is that the first to me that this will continue to to do something like have a gun statement conjures for me an be an intrinsically difficult task llandy to shoot him down with, image of a table, at which People for as long as the parents do ours? or to slit his throat while he's sit, at first surrounded by Men, not take a strong interest in sleeping, which responses are with Women coming as a group their own education. Visit our web site at Illy first thoughts when I think and demanding a place. Which The best way to teach is by www.vitesse.com oI'being regularly physically at may well be what was needed example. One will not reliably tacked by a spouse. Or when I at first, and is needed in most of raise a polymath by telling your to find out, then see us on campus. think of physically attacked. If the rest of the world. But our child she can watch TV after she lean call such a reflex a thought. mothers and grandmothers have has done her homework or fin For example, I don't entirely gone through that stage for us; I ished her summer reading list. Interviews: VITESSE OJ Simpson killed Nicole would hope that we can move SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATJON One might do so by reading and I January 30, 1997 Ifhe beat her eight times on, to simply see people sitting visiting a library often on one's EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. marriage, he should have at the table, some male, some own, and thus conditioning the dead a long time ago. female, some (later) inhuman. child to regard learning and It is a shame that IMPACT Differences between sentient thinking as inherently pleasur beings exist, but should not be able. 4 17 January 1997 OPINIONS THE CALIFORNIA "nose" is endangered. the public than the human pro unsafe bridge, and a man How does stripping you of jectiles created by car accidents. tempting to cross it. He your right not to wear a seatbelt However, one observes every c1uded, on utilitarian gr()und, protect anyone else's liberty? It day the absence of any sort of that people are not justified' doesn't. As such, legislature has law requiring people to be even forcibly preventing him no right to implement any law remotely intelligent. crossing the bridge. They requiring such. But they did, That is not simply a caustic allowed to vigorously "tte,mntt, anyway; people cheered. I'd remark; it's an important point. persuade him that the bridge wager good money that the vast "You can't legislate intelli dangerous, and he ought majority of those in favor of the gence," a comedian joked (in cross it. In fact, they're seat belt law already buckled reference to the helmet law). gated to do everything in up. The law, in the form that This is true; moreover you power to convince him they favored, did not restrict ought not legislate matters of should not cross the bridge. their own personal liberty in the simple intelligence, unless they the end, though, if he's BY AUSTIN COLLINS on government. For example, in lea~t. They already buckled pose a danger to others. The as enough to try it he has that . Florida, it is currently illegal for up ... in effect they passed the law tute observer will notice imme The seat belt law is but Hi there, and welcome to an unmarried woman to skydive with the specific purpose oflim diately that this makes law5-re single example, but an il the very first Circle of Fire. The on the Sabbath day. iting the freedom of another qui ring minors to fasten their tive one. very first in a series, as this is No joke - but I don't care. group of people who differed seatbelt (or laws requiring that Buckling your seat belt . the lastest addition to the Cali What do I care about? The solely in their lack of personal children ride in special seats) good idea. Requiring fornia Tech s weekly articles. seatbelt law. Does it save lives? safety. justifiable. No reason for a child people do it saves lives. As the above graphic and motto Sure, it does. Is it a good idea So, sure, they were less safe to suffer because their parents ever, this sort of legisl should indicate, this column to fasten your seatbelt? Of than if they buckled up. That don't like seatbelts. We, how practice can be quite im;idiou~ will be a forum in which, every COurse it is. Are legislatures jus ought not matter. The relevant ever, are not children. There are hundreds of >llIlIIam week, 1 flame a subject of my tified in passing such laws? Hell question is were they posing a A congressman in Texas, I choosing. If you're lucky, and no. danger to those that do elect to forget precisely who, argued is one reason legislatures I'm suitably inspired, that sub The philosophy behind our fasten their seatbelts? The an once that the seat belt law was become so slow, and out ject will even be flamed with system of government, as it per swer, clearly, is no. a matter of "simple utilitarian touch. In attempting to cure style. tains to legislation (and the role One person actually tried to ism." Most people accept this, ery ill via legislation, they of government) can be illus convince me that people who do too. "Ooooh, utilitarianism. the process of legislating This week's topic: Legislation. trated pretty well in a quote by not wear their seatbelts pose a Greatest good for the greatest important issues more n;f'fir,,,I. Benjamin Franklin. He said, danger to pedestrians near a car number...the seatbelt law clearly In the same line of mougrn Excessive legislation, to "My rights stop at the tip of your accident. It is possible, he fits this criteria." Nope. It one can argue that it starts narrow the scope of the article nose." Effectively enforcing claimed, that a person not doesn't. down the 'slippery slope', down just a tad. I'll narrow it this' barrier at the tip of every strapped to his car seat could be J.S. Mill, the effective fa sets a dangerous precedent even further; 1'm not talking citizen's nose is the task of leg flung through his windshield ther of utilitarianism (I don't legislation. 1 prefer, however, about those really inane laws islation. Legislation, by its very and strike an innocent passerby. count Bentham and his pro phrase it this way: For all . that are used by every half wit nature, restricts personal liberty. 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These This program will be held victories in the capital documents at the Union but depression is a true psycho facts are all the more tragic be Tuesday, January 21 st, in Club and Serbia's 2nd largest Bank of Switzerland. In logical and medical disorder. cause clinical depression is a Room I at Winnett, beginning city. Daily protests over vestigators have been The distinction between depres treatable disorder with 80 -90 at 12 :00, and is open to all the last two months con trying to trace Jewish sion as a clinical syndrome and percent of people experiencing Cal tech students. A short lec e and may stop only assets de'posited in Swiss depression as a mildly altered improvement with treatment. ture on facts about depression when the government accounts during the war. mood state, such as sadness or Knowing the signs of de wi II be presented, and you will unhappiness, can be confusing. pression and getting help are two have the opportunity (not re gives up the capital. 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They have the reasons, those who do not would just like to get a "check email us at ment are now in jail. detected as many as 600 seek treatment suffer unneces up" on your level of depression virginia_Licon@starbasel . Prime Minister Juppe such stars located more sarily and increase their likeli- and learn more about it, we in- hOpes this will bring an than 300,000 light years end to 20 years of spo from the nearest galaxy. radic violence for the sake of Corsican e rn ment ord ered banks to 6 17 January 1997 FEATURES THE CALIFORNIA n 0 hear • th Dear Ernest, IS What are the real contents of Tommy's Chili? I ran some - through the new $80,000 HP gas chromatograph in the Ch 4 tive band which keeps popping much Edd ie Vedder is a bad lab, and now it'; an $80,000 paperweight with a cool The Why Store up these days. Their sound is thing.) screensaver. (They told me I passed and I need not come very rich and Christopher Another song that appears BY RON DoLLETE back.. .. ) Shaffer, the lead vocalist, dis on the album is "Lack of Wa -Intestinally challenged After releasing two inde plays a very moody and mel ter," which is placed at track pendent albums and endless ancholy attitude in his songs, 27. I don ' t know why. But Dear Concerned, touring in the Midwest, The anyway, it was initially re ranging from restrospective Tommy's restaurant propaganda would have you believe Why Store showcases their in songs like "Father" and "When leased on their second album it was founded in 1946 by Tommy Koulax, supposedly the and it really attracted people credible talent nationwide on I'm With You" to more cyni man in the big white suit smiling on the Tommy's restaurant at their new label, so it's been their self-titled, debut release cal songs such as "Lies" and card (the player's club it ain't). However, when I contacted on Way Cool Music. Actually, "Fool's Bargain." Warning, slightly fixed up and re-re Robert Stack of Unsolved Mysteries, he sent me the follow this is way cool music. though, "Nobody" and "Lies" leased on this new album. ing information: They've got a really nice, tend to be really repetitive and "Lack of Water" has the same While the "Tommy's" restaurant was indeed founded in catchy tune to their music, while that's not a real problem, hippe-roots-rock sound as Dire 1946, it was not established by Koulax but in fact by Dr. Otto very down to earth and pal Shaffer's voice is a mix be Straits and other rock main Von Schnitzel, an ex-Nazi scientist imported to the Ameri pable like the sounds of Toad tween that Eddie Vedder and stays. (In fact, the introduc can military following WWII who specialized in nuclearphys the Wet Sprocket or Counting that one dude from tory riff on "Lack of Water" ics. Originally a classified military project, the name Crows. Queensryche. And when sounds very similar to "Sul Tommy's was in fact a bastardization of "Atomies," a favor The CD is a great collec Shaffer sings these songs, it tans of Swing." ite expression of Schnitzel: "Veil, ve're going to split some tion of 13 songs from this In just gets really annoying be The Why Store is a very atomies today..... Von Schnitzel soon proved too unstable diana band. The first impres cause of his voice. Okay, so original and talented band and and was dismissed., sion one recei ves is that the there's one fault with the al this new self-titled unquestion Rumors persisted of secret experiments conducted un band is not the typical altema- bum. (It's just a sign that too ably shows them to be a group der the cover of the newly formed "restaurant," particularly that isn't just another modem after the FDA agent responsible for approving the chili for rock clone. "We've always human consumption disappeared while on an inspection tour, stuck to our guns," Shaffer along with the only known list of chili ingredients. A partial says. "We all have friends in list was discovered in 1971 by private investigator Dan Chase, .other bands who'll see that but was dismissed as an obvious fake because it listed ground ~ 'Green Day is hot, write a song beef and beans. The true list will probably always be as much ~o similar to theirs, and shop it a mystery as the origin of the Tommy's Corporation-Ukraine ti: around. With us, it's not a Nuclear Authority annual picnic. matter of sounding or looking lik'e whatever's in style at the Dear Ernest, moment. We've always felt Where on earth have you been? that we'd make it just by do -Missing you dearly ing what we do best." Dear Needs A Life, Actually, it was a far, far better place that I have been to than I have ever been before. While there, I did a far, far better thing than I had ever done before, and I had a far, far better rest than I have ever known. Dear Ernest, I'm having trouble getting Linux to recognize my sound card even though I've recompiled the kernel five hundred times. I've checked the root level makefile to make sure all the right modules are linked in, and read through the entire million line kernel core dump just to see if I could figure out And that's only the beginning. Because at Quantum, there's more propelling our what was wrong-looking at it in binary, though, I did find leadership in mass storage than disk and tape drives. like the passion of our people. In fact, pictures of Bill Gates, the Mandelbrot set, and evidence that their extraordinary initiative has produced over 55 million disk drives. And with ambition like completely rules out the single bullet theory. I'm trying to ours, we'll never rest on our laurels. run a Disney sound source with Micros.oft Linux, v. 3423. 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CALIFORNIA TECH FEATURES 17 January 1997 7 of us men manage to up Was it that she had discovered that Dean's Corner set our spouses, girl Albert Einstein, yes the Albert we see whiz friends, acquaintances of zing around on his bicycle, making a rak the other sex or significant ish turn in the famous poster, her idol, others at one time or other, being Albert of the Atheneum suite, so sharp ungentlemanly wiih the best of inten where understanding the Universe was A sticky wicked tions, no harm meant? Besides, men do not concemed, that very Albert, was actually was have the monopoly for causing such prob not always so bright where his personal life not "Little lems. A better statement would have said was concerned. And he is not the only fa Boys", it was that people have problems with other mous scientist (or poet, politician, podia by Jean-Paul Revel Boys. Could the people, although the problems can easily trist, pop-singer, pizza parlor operator, pau sticker have referred to a be multiplied by sexuality, a fact we may per or paparazzo or just plain poysson ... ) positive use of the word, such want to deny, but is hard to disregard. So with problems of the kind. True even of as our Boys in uniform, who, hero- maybe the sticker was just a matter-of-fact lesser men than Albert, mere boys. And ically serving the country, were perhaps statement, or maybe reflected a recent un that realization could make anyone a bit not gentle and sweet, but appropriately pleasant personal experience. upset. And so, even though I don 't know A few days before Christmas I saw a tough? It is true that since the Crusades, I considered the possibility that the who the driver was who was so low on .. passing in the street, a woman at the when chivalrous knights slaughtered her sticker was just meant to be humorous. It boys, I somehow felt like doing something ..,1, a Caltech parking decal on the left etics left and right, war has often been would have been great if I could really have which would lift her spirit. dIoof the bumper and the following sticker claimed to be conducted in gentlemanly believed that. Or if I could just have con I would like to reassure her that Boys iii the right: "So many Boys, so few fashion, gentlemanly being defined as vinced myself that just the fact that it was is a stage on the way to becoming Gentle d.iemen". I could not recognize the per "what we do is correct, obviously deserved a woman driving the sticker beating car, men. Just as Girls is a stage on the way to .. at the wheel. I felt sad, I must say, that by the enemy". It is hard to conceive of did not mean she had a visceral negative become Ladies. I hope. It happens more !IIIIeOIle had to express herself to the world anyone in the soldierly state as gentleman reaction to boys. The car might have been slowly for some than for others. The rate iltis way. I mean expressing discourage in spite of chivalry and respect for the rules borrowed, even stolen. The driver could is not constant nor is the direction of ... so openly, so brazenly, about nearly of war. The sticker might have been in have been a long haired man. Would I have progress. There can in fact be attacks of IIIf of the human race. What was wrong spired by such a train of thought, but some reacted the same way if it had been a man Boyness in ·people, who have already liilbboys? What was so bad that the whole how I did not think so. Boys, in the con at the wheel? reached the perfect Gentleman or Lady lIIIdd had to be warned lest someone be text of the bumper sticker, most likely All of these ruminations were not get state, most of the time. But as long as they _ttingly exposed to their failings? meant inconsiderate brats, with no savoir ting me very far and I still wondered in persevere, dare to do better, dare to try to 1ben it carne to me that she might have faire and the brats were Caltech students. what ways the unknown driver, I'll show understand the others, there is hope. -'not Boys in general but Caltech stu So, in fact, it was a very good thing that my bias and say female dri ver, had become With fond hopes for all to progress in ..in particular. That cut even closer to parking stickers as they are affixed to many so disappointed. Was she a student who the new year. I(gmc. At least the Caltech decal was s~l bumpers are seen from a very oblique angle had been floated at dinner time? Had she _that was a relief. Maybe no one would and can't be read, hopefully not even rec been offended by the sartorial or sanitary A bient6t. 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The most effective storytelling Auenborough has one line, and John sus that a report at least once a year would be a Board: This person may accompany the th. fendanl during wailing pedods, and al anyparr device of the film is the use of Antonio Gielgud shows up but doesn't even have good idea. The reports should conmin general of tile "earing wiJere lite defendant is present Banderas as a sort of one-man Greek a speaking part. Patrick Doyle's musical statistics, such as those found in the Honor Sys tem Handbook (number of cases dismissed by This person must not disrupt or interfere with chorus, appearing in various working score is also occasionally intrusive. lhe proceedings of the Board in any way, and the Chair and the Secretary, number of cases shall be immediately removed allhe Chair's class guises to narrate and sharply criti Taken as a whole, though, Hamlet is heard by the full Board, number of those lead discretion ifsuch disruption occurs. This per cize Evita and the Peron regime. The drama at its best, commanding your at ing to a conviction and upheld by the Dean, son will be bound by secrecy as set forth in costume budget for this movie must have tention yet very accessible. Weekend etc.) There was some question as to how often subsection (5) for all wilflesses. to publish such reports, either two or three times 10 been huge: in addition to the proverbial shows are still selling out early at The ASCIT BoD vOled last tem a year being the most popular choices. There this bylaw change 10 the student body cast of thousands, Madonna herself has Laemmle's Royal Theatre in West LA, was also some discussion about the type of sta vote. This will be on the ballot in the 85 costume changes, each more glamor where it's being presented in extra-sharp tistical information that would be released in ASCIT election near the end of this tenn. ous than the one before. 70mm format. these reports. The general consensus was that Non-Participating Observer But the film's raison d'etre, its mu it was not a good idea to release statistics such The notion of having a nml"D:art,cma". sic, is also its worst aspect (weakest is FM 101.9 and 1260 AM as the number of convictions leading to a rec observer who is not affiliated with the ommendation for leave or expUlsion for rea chosen by the defendant present at Board not the appropriate term here). Lloyd The word on the street is that FM sons of confidentiality, and that releasing the Control hearings was al so discussed. Webber is an unabashed maximalist, al 101.9, the "adult album alternative" sta information now given on a yearly basis in the son would witness all parts of the pre:limlinm: ternating between orchestral drivel that tion will be changing to an all-Spanish Honor System handbooks would be more than investigation conducted by the makes John Williams look subtle and format within a month. I have no great adequate. A bylaw to require the BoC to re Secretary and all parts of a hearing not· rock-style inusic that sounds like love for this station, but I did like to tune lease these reports in the Tech seems to be a ing the Board's deliberation. The presence good idea and will be discussed in more con a non-partial observer might be beneficial warmed-over Meat Loaf. Tim Rice's lyr in at times, because they're the only com crete Lenns at the next meeting. both the defendant and the BoC by a)~~;;j::~ ics are exercises in awkwardness, mercial station in LA that would regu Recall of House BoC Reps check on the Board. However, the 1< pseudo-poetry tenuously bonded to the larly play album tracks, forgotten hits, Kohl brought up the issue of recall of implementing this idea are complicated, meter ofthe music like a Rube Goldberg or new stuff by artists that lie below the House BoC Reps and the possible problem of some people felt that the benefits of the contraption. Evita is a very impressive, top-40 line. On the other hand, the man House Reps being called back to serve on the participating observer were not enough BoC after their term of office is over. Once a tify adding this position. There was no entertaining movie, but I'd recommend agement, DJs, and fans of FM 101.9 student is elected or appointed to the BoC (in sensus reached about adding this posilion bringing earplugs. tended to be self-important baby the case ofRepresenmtives at Large), he is then the investigation proces's, and discussion boomers who thought their station was eligible to hear a case on the Board even after tabled until the next meeting. Hamlet the only place for "intelligent" listeners his official term has ended, contingent on the The next open business meeting Kenneth Branagh's full-text Hamlet and that the musical world revolved approval of the current voting members of the at 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 23. Board. There is a concern that houses are elect FREE FOOD! Issues to be discussed i is a monumental achievement, establish around "singer-songwriters."These guys ing a BoC Rep for one year and no longer." Im the philosophy of nullification, umuUnnous d(:cisiOOl ing such a standard for Shakespeare's took themselves way too seriously; their peachment of current house representatives is by the BoC, the possibility of adding a nOl'-Dalll'" most popular play that it's unlikely any souls were indeed devoid 0' funk. the responsibility of each house. The problem paling observer posilion, and a bylaw proposal one will attempt a straight filmed ver On a related note, UK-NEWS" AM then arises that a house docs not necessarily require the BoC to publish a semi-annual sion- for decades to come. Branagh's 1260 has made the bizarre tum of switch know if Iheir BoC Rep is doing a good job. FREE FOOD! FOI a more delailed agenda, Dean Revel said thai the BoC Chair and Sec your friendly local BoC Rep. FREE FOOD! (Henry Much Ado About Nothing) in ing to an all-Beatles fonnat. That's right, V. retary should be responsible for approaching have any questions or comments, feel free terpretation here is not strikingly origi all Fab Four, all the time. They started the president of a house with a BoC Rep that is tact any BoC Rep or the BoC Chair nal by any measure, but he maintains a also playing solo stuff by the members not doing their job. At that point it becomes Sallerwhite, x6200. maria/s@cco )or Sec:re"lIY the responsibility of Ihe house 10 decide (Malt Tiscareno, .6236. tisco@ugcs ). consistently high level of production, SEE MEOlA ON PAGE 11 whether the studenl should be Maria Sn"terwh,·tt PARIAN TRAVEL Caltech Officially Approved Wellness Week Calendar Most profession'al, courteous, economical and efficient service BY ViLlA ZMUJOZINAS ences. Enjoy health related samples and reo for your official and personal travel needs. 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Here, how the sole difference be temporary writing but not rises as the leader against the those classes is whether much better. Still, this is a invasion, various allies are they fasten their seat must-read for any serious found and a lot of killing is by Daisy James mystery reader and most ca done. It's fairly typical fair but but certainly not least, sualones. nice light reading and the char _ leal:beltlaw flies in the face ****** A Wonderful Work of Art acters are well developed. categorical imperative: ***** Slightly imperfect Redwall I want to live in a world **** Pretty darn good By Brian Jacques David Letterman's New Book everyone acts this way? *** Decent of Top Ten Lists and Wedding you comfortable with ** Bad **** Dress Patterns for the Husky .,..earle else forcing you to * Birdcage liner This is actually the first book Bride with what they feel is of the Redwall series, though by David Letterman and the ,our best interests? That is Sherlock Holmes: The realism that you wanted you Mossflower precedes it chro Late Show with David what the seat belt law Complete Novels and Stories wouldn' t be reading this book nologically. I have found that Letterman writers A group of people you by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the first place. The short it is impossible to read these probably never met sat stories' are fast paced and books in chronological order, *** in a room, and decided ***** straightforward. This collec as just about every book that I'm not sure that this re llllifasteniing your seat belt was If you are going to read tion includes Doyle's forays Jacques writes seems to be set ally counts as a book. It has best interests. That, in mysteries, thi s is the place to into third person writing and in a different time. In fact, it words and a cover and all but okay. They're probably start. Here are the deductions stories told by Holmes him makes more sense to read it's pretty severely lacking in However, they are simply from cigarette ash, the impos self, but neither style is any them in the order that they are the way of plot. On the other ..,'ino.ifi"d in imposing their sible cases and the "elemen where near as good as those written, as later books contain hand, it's pretty funny (#5 ""'~m len t upon you un less tary, my dear Watsons" that narrated by Dr. Watson. references to previous ones, Thing Heard at an NBA fOI!I::belhav'ior poses a threat to have become so famous. The novels vary in qual even though they haven't hap Game: "Damn! Michael Jor While the stories are any ity. The Hound of the pened yet. 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Which should open up your schedule for the real imporlanilbings. Like sleeping. Caltech Campus Computing Organization Room 158 Jorgensen Infonnation Science Building Phone (818) 395-4612 http://www.caltech.edu/-cco-frontlfrontofficeinfo.html 10 17 January, 1997 THE CALIFORNIA FEATURES lOur. Wbeo victim eX1~·:ted~the::!:~::~ she JfOticed that the cart was DOl where had left it. Cart was later foimd on the side of Wmnett. Theft: Bike Black and green Cannoodale, mo.nt"it bike valued at $900, was taken from wicnessed suspect baclc side Page House. Victim reported that E:'::~~!I~~l~oDlt the intersection of Sao bike was lastseen on November w"''''''_ ~I!C sus,pect did DOl s!pp. atapproxinlately 11:00am. Victim The PasadeoaPolice Department was notified. the bike missing on December 1st, 1996. December 3rd ~ber 7th, 1996 Theft Theft: Bike Crime and An unknown person lOOk a claim slip belong· Red Murry mountain bike, valued ing to the victim and retrieved a package con $39.00 was taken from the lobby area taining cookies and a plane ticket valued at 1170 Del Mar. At 3:00 am, tbe Incident Beat aPl)l'O.jmtlfel~ $500. The Airline was notified parleed .his bike in the lobby. Upon return . , tlieft. ing 10 the lobby at 10:00 am, discovered November 26th, 1996 Espeailized bike, valued at $130. was taken the bike miSSing. from room·61, in Fleming House. Victim last Burglary Theft saw the tires at 2:30 pm, on November 28th. An Apple IT keyboard valued at $149, two air December 8th, 1996 Women's clothing, valued at $200, was taken Upon returning to his room at 9:30 pm, he line tickets valued at $938, and a Teleport Plati from the dryer on the north wall of the laun discovered the tires missing. num FaxlModem value unknown, were taken Saspicious Person dry room in Dabney-Blacker basement from West Bridge, room #59. Person reporting White, male 6', long brown hair, apI'roxi-. December 1st, 1996 the the items missing 7:30 mately 30 y""'\,.old. At the time November 29th, 1996 i~::~:~~ in 01 3,1996. Person reporting also incident, subject was wearing a tan incident nol~ce~ . mle. S()Um window open. Pasadena Po- Iigbt blue pants. Victim report"" that the night in lJTh~eft~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'I;e~on~~~~I'~~~~'~~;w~~~~~~~~The front and rear tires of ail early the of Avery House. "'on.... '" at 430 S. . DILBERT® by Scott Adams .. _ SO 'IOU DIDN'T READ nU5 WEE'" 1 DID FOR EVER~ UNIT Of OHJGP..EAT. 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For for non-members. deal ing with family. coping with a of her report to the Deans' Office at the end Competition. This competition recognizes information, contact Ingeborg Sepp at homophobic culture. and being GLB at of the summer. Iryou are interested, please exceptional achievements: the vision, deter 395.4087 or [email protected]. Come out ~d squan. danu on Friday. Janu Cahech1 Want somewhere just to make new identify a sponsor for your ell.perience:lt a re mination and academic ell.cellence of female ary 17th, from Spm 10 (0:30pm in Dabney friends? You are invited to the Gay.lLesbian/ search facili ty for a ten-week period. In a soon college juniors from across the country. Win OThe American Society orlNavall E"p'", Hall . Dller Lloyd Lewis will be calling both Bisexual Support Group. which meets on the essay, describe your project. and submit it to ners will receive $ 1,000, the opponunity i'b is offering $2.000 scholarships square and line dances. The dance is hosted first and third Tuesdays of each month from the Deans' Office in Room 102, Parsons-Gates meet with top professionals in their fi elds, and year 1997-98 to students who by the Caltech Christian Fellowship with 7:30pm till IO:OOpm in the Health Center along with two faculty recommendations. The national recognition in GLAMOUR's Octo in naval engineering. A~'p l lcru"sm'''' lbe U: sponsorship from the Callech Y and ASCIT. lounge. This is a confidential meeting and at Deans would like to know for whom you ber 1997 issue. Applications are due Janu· Citizens. must demonstrate a genuine i No experience is necessary; ru l are welcome. tending does not imply anything about a would be working, where, and lf possible some ary 31st. 1997. in n career in navnl engineering, and Tennis shoes are recommended. Refreshments person's sexual orientation-onl y that he or specifics concerning your proposed research applying for either their last year as an will be served. she is willing to be supportive in this selling. topic. Proposals must be received by Mon The American Meteorological Society an graduate or for one year of graduate The group usuall y discusses a particular rel day, March 3rd, 1997. nouncesJts AMSIIndw;try Undergl'aduate (doctoral candidates not eli gible). The o There will be a Writers Meeting on Janu evant topic and then moves on to the general Scholarship Program. For the 1997-98 aca line to submit npplications is Febl'uary ary 23rd, 011 Spm, in the Women's Center discussion. Refreshments are served. If you Fmm tht: FelllJw.~hip .f Advi.fing and Re.fOun:e.f demic year, 18 undergraduate schol arships ' 997. Winneu 20S. An perspective campus writers would I1ke more information, please call Office, exten.~i/)n 2150, e-nwillauren_slOlper w1l\ be awarded. Two categories of students are encouraged to attend. x833 I. @starbase l.caltech.edu: are eligible: I) Students who are enrolled in a OThe Amer-ican Chemical Society is course of study leading to a bachelor's degree soring a scholarship program for Caltech is sponsoring a one day Blood Drive Fellowships The American Association or UniversUy in the atmospheric or related oceanic or hy applicants who want to enter the which will be held in the Winnett Student Women offers a number of fe ll ows hips to drologic sciences, and 2) students who are en chemistry, biochemistry, chemical Lounge on Friday, January 24th, between and Scholarships women who are U.S. citizens or permanent rolled in a program leading to :I bachelor's ing, or other chemically related 10: I Sam and 3:30pm. Please contact Vilia residents, including one year po5t-OOctorai fel degree in science or engineering. Students in environmental science, Zmuidzinas via e-mail at hrdve1.@h r All graduate and undergraduate students are lowships and special dissertation fell owships. this latter category must demonstrate a clear loxicology. To beeligible to .~I:;~:I:~: cullulr_edu or at extension 6001 for an ap invi ted to enter the Hyunda1 50th Anniver· The international fellowship is awarded to intent to pursue a career in the atmospheric or must be African American, H pointment. Walk-i ns are also welcome. sary University and College Student Essay women who are not citizens of the U.S. or per related oceanic or hydrologic sciences. Ap American Indian. or Alaskan Contest on one of the following subjects: the manent residents who are engaged in full-time plications and supporting documents are due be U.S. Citizens or permanent o The CaJtKh Jazz Bands will perform at Informati on Society and Humanity: Family grade or post-graduate study in the U.S. A February 2Ist. 1997. plicants must also be I Beckman Auditorium on Saturday, January and Human Relations in the 21s t Century~ n.e poster with a tear-off card that allows you to sophomores, or juniors, 25th, at 8 pm. Many female jazz composers Industrial Structure and Occup:lIions of the send for an application is posted on our main The Marin Education Fund announces the the above fi elds, and m,,,,,lenm",''''''elr.,,, will be featured, including Maria Schneider Future: The Corporation's Roles as a Global bulletin board. opening of its 1997-98 Undergraduate Grant cial need. The deadline 10 andToshikoAkiyoshi. Admission is free. For Citizen; Sustaining Economic Growth and the application process. Applicants must be resi and supporting documents I, F·,b,noa,,'. more information COntact x4652. Environment in Developing Nations; or The Department or Derense Nlltional De· dents of Marin County, be enrolled at least 1997. Women's Roles in the 21st Century. To enter, rense Student Education Grants are now half-time in undergraduate study, and have a o Oliver Stone will be speaking on "Film, complete and submit the online registration available to all seniors and first year graduate low to moderate income.. Applications 'Me due OThe DaMille·Alamo B