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VOLUME?92 NUMDER SOVvoLe~~h9E _ MTMIT, 92 C_CAMBRIDGE, NU~M~3EIR MASSsACHUsETTS 58_ TUESDAY,.....MBERTrIeD^Y, NOVEMBER 28,281972 97 F VE CENTS Caruad proi jIied ~pa-ss-failr studyL sals I~nfagot 'cage By Lee Giguere cluding, but not necessarily, 5. Evaluate the freshman im A special- committee ap- grades) is determined. pass/fail grading system as it awi9Q g~~~~gg Professor of Mathematics operates this year and make Harvard Professor Samuel L. He was finally taken to the pointed two weeks ago by Facul- committee recommendations as to its Popkin is now serving a jail Norfol k County Jail in Dedham ty Chairman Hartley Rogers will Arthur Mattuck, in "en ' Case chairman, said, before Thanks- continuation and/or mnodifi- for a contempt charge, last vlea, after losing an review freshman pass-fail and sentence giving, that he planned to call cations in the future. (This after refusing to answer ques- eleven{th-hour appeals effort be- prepare "recommendations as to its continuation and/or modifi- the first meeting of the commit- report should be made to the tions before a Federal Grand fore Federal District Court Chairman of the Faculty.) W. Arthur Garrity, Jr, cations in the future." tee for sometime in early De- Jury investigation into the Pen- Judge' was unwilling Rogers told The Tech that he Pop)kin can only be held for The Freshman Pass/Fail cember. Mattuck tagon Papers case in Boston. to discuss his own opinions on hoped to bring the pass/ffail The Assistant Professor of the rermainder of the Grand Jury Grading Committee was ap- pointed in accordance with the the issue before the committee question before the Faculty in lGovernment, an expert on Viet- session , which is scheduled to March. if the Faculty vote last spring to con- met, but did emphasize that namese village life, is a friend end $a nuary 12. However, be At mid-winter last year, con- is extended he faces a tinue pass/fail for a single year serious consideration would and colleague of Daniel Ellsberg, term given to student views on the tinuation of the freshman pass/ who originaly leaked the Penta- possiblle eighteen month term. while the effects of providing "meaningful evaluations" (in- program. fail grading system had appeared gon documents to the press in The other members of the to be headed for approval, but a 1971. Popkin testified before icommittee -are: Professor of few weeks befcore the program the Grand Jury last March for Electrical Engineering Arthur C. was to come before the Faculty, some eight hours, but refused to ·Smith, Professor of Physics it was learned that medical answer questions concerning his MIT - Robert I. lHulsizer, Associate schools were requesting connection with Ellsberg or Professor of History Arthur students to provide more infor- other colleagues who may have Kaledin, Professor of Nutrition mation about their freshman been involved. He did state that Emily Wick, Assistant Dean for year. Because of concern that he neither participated in or Student Affairs Peter Buttner, some students might be handi- knew of any plan to publish the Matthew Farber '75, Sandra capped by having only pass/fail Papers. - Cohenr '73, and Michael Cedars grades for a large portion of Popkin has fought a legal '73. Mattuck, Smith, Buttner, their pre-meed requirements, the battle against the contempt Cohen and Cedars were members program was continued for only ruling since March, having been of the Hulsizer-Hein Committee one year. refused by both the Fitst Circuit which reviewed pass/fait last Late last spring, a special Court of Appeals and the IUS spring; in addition, Buttner is committee co-chaired by Hul- Supreme Court. the Executive Officer of the sizer and Associate Professor of Last month the First Circuit Freshman Advisory Council, the Psychology Alan Hein explored Court of Appeals ordered administrative group most imme- the problem and recommended Popkin to respond to some of with pass/fail, that "The Faculty interpret their his diately concerned the questions, which involved while Wick was formerly MIT's 'responsibility to provide each knowledge before June 1971 only pre-med advisor. freshman student with meaning- that a study of the war was ful evaluation of his or her work' December 1, the snow closing number will be 253-SNOW. being conducted. As of Specifically, the committee is to include the responsibility to i charged to: identify and record outstanding 1. Monitor the operation of work in terse and concrete the freshman pass/fail grading terms." In addition, the commit- 8~~~01l e 9:shaken system this year, noting in -tee suggested that when grades particular what form the are computed anyway (as in a 0 oye SCr -indlier hanadleed by any reasonable com- standable (if not excusable) set 'meaningful evaluations' take. subject taken by both freshmen MIT's new Centrex telephone pleme:nrt of operators. of explanations for most delays 2. Inform itself of medical and upperclassmen), the grade system got off to what some Be]rlan explained some of the in service. school admissions policy and be reported to the student as called a "rocky start." But ac- early-lterm problems faced by One of the biggest factors was the activities of the pre- part of his evaluation. Finally, cording to Mort Berlan, the In- NET, with particular reference the unusual backlog of work professional advisory system the recommendation called on stitute's telecommunications of- to thee letter which appeared on orders left over from the sum- at MIT. departments to "keep records of ficer, most of the wrinkles have the E iditorial page of The Tech mer. Many departments delay 3. Identify trends in the ad- their instructors' end-of-term been ironed out. on Nc[ovember 14. That phone phone work urntil the summer mission of MIT students to evaluations of freshman perfor- Berlan characterized Institute was" iinstalled on November 3, months when nmuch of the facul- graduate and professional mance"; these evaluations were phone service as "greatly im- and itts installation delay seems ty is gone or inactive. This sum- schools, noting medical to be released only at the re- proved," both in comparison to to haave been the result of a mer, by prior arrangemrent and school admission trends in quest of the student. The faculty earlier this term and when com- phonee company snafu, which agreement with the MIT tele- particular. voted to accept the recommen- pared with service prior to Cen- causedd it to be passed over seve- communications office, there 4. Conduct a faculty-wide dations with the proviso that trex. He stated that repairs are ral tinnes. There was, however, a was a moratorium on phone survey of opinion on pass/fail Rogers would appoint a com- now being handled more quickly more standard and under- (Please turn to page 7) grading for freshmen. mittee to monitor the system. than they were in September, although not as quickly as be- fore Centrex. And, he noted that "people who deal with the out- Ia~t aXgt ae 0F side a great deat have been inspecting such places as components, and generally rently, there are four engineers telling me that direct inward By Jim Moody Forr the past three weeks, a bakeries, waterfront installa- cluttered halls. in this office, and their work dialing is really great." ea o f three government tions, and construction sites for When the inspection is com- centers mostly around special One feature of the new sys- t imspec ctoss from the Department compliance with the provisions pleted (shortly after Thanks- requests for consultation and ad- temn that users are not likely to oL of OSHA. giving), the team will submit its vice. Also having responsibilities charge for M abor has been inspecting find so great is the for compliance To facilitate the inspection, findings in a report. to. Phillip for Institute safety is the units. Every local call t buildings message the federal Occupational the MIT campus was divided Stoddard, Vice-President for Environmental-Medical group, made by dialing "9" is now St y and Health Act (OSHA). into three areas, with an IESHA Operations. The report will indi- working out of the Medical De- m etered for the individual tele- Saft inspector, accompanied by a cate reasonable time limits for partment. Their job is analyzing phone being used for the call le investigation was pted by a recent fatal acci- Safety Office engineer, and correcting the cited violations. possible dangers from poisons, usually the relevant department For this purpose, the violations radiation, and ion streams. going calls from MIT were dent in a physics lab when a student was electro- head, assigned to each area. will be divided into three groups, metered-together, and the Insti-L gradmgaduate According to Stoddard, 1.MIT is required to report Interim reports were filed according to seriousness and ease correction of current tute paid for them in a lump cuted law states lasting such accidents to federal with copies being sent to the of correction. The can only be handled on sum, charging each"9"-ineuser all s5 as $1000/day .laxaties authorrities, who then. made a individual departments, listing penalties as high the department and laboratory a flat fee). The telecommunica- a-uti any violations that were found. for failure to take corrective tions office has the information rout]ine inspection. Fin'ing level. Also, the help of Dormcon ite safety hazards, they Citations for each violation were action within the assigned time be enlisted to help keep for billing on computer tapes de refusal to correct will ed to have the whole Insti- also issued, and must be posted limit. Vicious things straight in the supplied by the New England te bn in the area of the violation. the situation can result in a fine Company (NET), but lnspected. dormitories. Telephone univer- These citations can carry mone- as high as $10,000 or a six has been unable to get the NIT t IT, the first major sity t,o be inspected, would have tary penalties as high as $1000 month jail term. - The ultimate solution will lie billing program changed for in- et for serious violations, but it is Stoddard explained that and an sort~ion ofserton the=the of chargrecharge on thne-.the v.en, ;ually been checked anyway in "lots of cooperation" r the terms of OSHA, but not yet known if MIT will re- corrective measures would be increased "individual awareness" "MIT monthly statement" i overnment team decided to ceive any such. fines. instituted immediately, with of the potential problems and which each Institute entityu~~~~~~~~~~~ondlr re- c g uct the inspection at this Most of the violations found each department appointing a hazards of dangerous equipment, ceives. In addition, no office has tm in the 26 buildings inspected so liaison person to work with him as well as a general awareness by monthly T been billed for its e OcSHA was passed in far have been of a general and the Safety Office. Since the members of the community of equipment charge since the 1 Th{~ t, and implemented in 1971. nature, rather than any specifi- government can re-inspect at any basic safety and health habits. change to Centrex. It197 gavrve the Secretary of Labor cally hazardous cases. They have time, it is important to take Stoddard explained: "It is im- Prior to the installaion of It ga establishing included unchained gas cylin- corrective measures as Soon as portant that we view the inspec- calls to any MIT audacI powers for Centrex, all enforcing health and safety ders, step ladders with broken possible. tion as a mechanism for con- office had to'be handled through and i steps, vacuum pumps and other Stoddard noted that the for- structive improvement, begin the central operators. During e in places of employment. It put together many national mechanical equipment with un- mat for a long range solution to immediately to eliminate any .peak periods, lengthy delays aasot protected belts and pulleys, bi- this safety problem has not yet hazards, and strengthen our computer- t ards into a unified code. often resulted. The ams of investigators, cycles chained in stairways, im- been worked out. Probably, system for ongoing and con- based Centrex system can handle e r the Department of Labor, proper temporary wiring, ex- more men would be added to tinual attention to safety con- utp to 85,000 calls per hour; nd posed high-voltage wiring or the Safety Office personnel. Cur- ditions at the Institute." many more than could be a going around the country PAGE 2 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1972 THE TECH'
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By Lee Giguere ment; and the absence of any basic incompatible with the view that the basis.) The investigator, after examining Someti-me last spring, the Committee challenges to "common the evidence k law" and its. student is an adult capable of and talking with appropriate S on Educational Policy (CEP) began a authority, the system works very well. self-regulation. witnesses, as well as discussing the charge SR review, which is still in progress, of MIT's Because of its informality, it is easy to with both the aggrieved and the accused, A&. disciplinary system. The focal point of bend the rules and-avoid conflict. Some proposals. ." woitld be empowered to negotiate a their discussion has been the "Report of The critical requirement, though, is For a code mutually agreeable settlement with the the Working Group on Judicial Process to that neither side push too hard. Without Any judicial system should treat approval of the board. Should either the Commission on MIT Education." pressure, MIT's paternalistic disciplinary students, faculty and administrators party not accept the settle&ment, the Apparently, the judicial system occupies system can operate quite well. Even when equally in that distinctions between their board would' then refer the case to the a low priority on. the CEP's agenda - there is a flare-up, as long as neither side roles in the system should be abolished. general committee. Up to this stage, the while CEP chairman Hartley Rogers said pushes too hard on the Discipline At the same time, it must be able to process would proceed on an informal earlier this term that the committee Committee (for example, the case of the' recognize the very real distinctions in basis with the investigation remaining expected to get into a discussion of the BSU students who were involved in an authority and obligations, in rights and essentially secret much as discipline cases report "quite soon," he made no predic- incident at the Faculty Club over responsibilities that exist between these are now heard., By having each case tion about when the issue might come up employee grievances there), differences groups. In order to do this, the system investigated by an individual, the before the Faculty. (Rogers, who is also can be resolved informally. The same is should be limited, as much as possible, to committee should be able to save a great Chairman of the Faculty, has stated plans true in cases where the student agrees the rights and responsibilities common to deal of time. to bring the Independent Activities that he has violated an accepted more, for all three groups. Freedom of speech and Once the dispute is accepted by the Period, the Wellesley-MIT Exchange, and example in the case of cheating or the right to personal privacy, for general committee for a hearing, and the Freshman Pass/Fail before the Faculty stealing. (The Discipline Committee, in example, seem to fall into this category. formal judicial system is engaged, it next term.) the last year, has handled cases in both (in addition, penalties should be enforced should become a public matter. Further With the exception of a rather brief, these areas with little serious difficulty.) with respect-to all three groups. While the hearings should be open, and records and somewhat circumscribed, flurry of Because of the paucity of written rules issue of "expelling" a professor is very should be kept of the proceedings. excitement when the discipline hearings and the secrecy in which the Committee different from that of expelling a student, Following the recommendations of the for students involved in last spring's operates, the present system allows a there should be penalties provided which Working Group, hearings should - be ROTC occupation started up shortly after degree of flexibility which a more formal, apply to both groups, for example conducted by a subgroup of the general the beginning of the term, there has been codified judicial system might not afford. admonition. Even though a professor may committee, chosen from the members practically no public discussion of MIT's As long as all parties accept MIT's acting not be fired, a disciplinary record may who are not on the investigatory board. A "judicial system" in the last two years. in loco parentis, theoretically in the best well be as serious punishment for him as small panel, of perhaps seven or nine The CEP's efforts have apparently attrac- interest of the student even while it is it can be for a student.) members, should suffice to hear the case. a ted little attention and practically no "punishing" him, there is no difficulty. An explicit statement of rights and Both the aggrieved and the accused public notice. If, however, the conflict moves to a responsibilities should be formulated in should have the right to counsel, to E Yet if there is one thing that practi- different plane, if the accused no longer an open and public way, and should be present witnesses and to question each cally every committee which has looked "trust" MIT, the system begins to falter. ratified by both students and faculty. others' witnesses. In addition, the iB at the problem of judicial reform at MIT Its informality becomes a flaw, for Starting with discussions of the "Report investigator should report his findings to r E has agreed to, it is the need for broadly- "untrusting" students are unwilling to h of the Working Group on Judicial Process the panel, which may accept them E based support for any reforms (or any throw themselves on the mercy of their to the Commission on MIT Education," unchanged. new system) that are 'proposed. accusers as the old, paternalistic system public hearings should be held by Finally, appeal to the full committee s E requires. If one no longer trusts the whichever committee is to formulate the should be available. r Basic assumptions judges, an informal, open-ended disci- statement. (While it appears-that this task Apologia: The principle difficulty with MIT's plinary system looks more like a trap is likely to e fall to the CEP, it would No individual, or for that matter, no present system seems to grow out of the than a chance for "self-correction." probably be more appropriate for the committee, is really competent to prepare ambiguity of the basic assumptions on Discipline Committee itself to hold the which it is based. a judicial system for a society. The Publish or perish hearings and present the statement to the foregoing is one individual's suggestions, Traditionally, discipline at the univer- if, indeed, the in loco parentis model faculty. Not only would this free up CEP E although it certainly owes a great deal to i sity was not seen in terms of an impartial, is no longer appropriate for MIT, what is? time which could then be devoted to disinterested the efforts of the Working Group on authority "punishing" As issues of rights and responsibilities educational matters, but it would also be r Judicial Process to the Commission on E wrongdoers. The principle of in loco become more hotly contested, it is likely to provide a better model for the parentis not only meant that the univer- MIT Education and the GA Judicial Task becoming increasingly clear that MIT future modification of the code.) Each Force of 1969. The proposal in the E sity saw itself as having a responsibility to must "publish or perish." If disciplinary section of the statement should be Z regulate the private lives of students in preceding paragraphs is often sketchy and questions are to be resolved, and endless discussed at such a hearing, and the incomplete, but not entirely without the way that parents might, treating them disputes regarding the authority of the agenda of each meeting should be reason, for the final form of the system i as wards rather than adults, but. also that system itself are to be avoided, it seems published in advance. In other words, must be designed by everyone at MIT. As disciplinary action was set in a much essential that the Institute spell out, in instead of being private, as most MIT so many have said before, a successful more complex social milieu than that of clear terms, the rights and responsibilities committee meetings are, sessions to judicial - system must have widespread an impersonal regulating authority. The of those who are subject to its discuss the statement should be public. support. Such support will only be faculty's job was not merely to punish disciplinary system. Further, if students Ratification of the statement should but to correct. The Discipline Com- possible if the system is the result of are to be seen as adults before the "law," be by vote of both students and faculty, public discussion. mittee's role was not simply to determine the law must apply to all the adult as suggested by the Working Group. Their whether or not a person should be members of this society equally. In other figure of two-thirds approval by each allowed to remain a member of the words, while distinctions in authority, group seems appropriate. "community," but also to try to correct rights, and responsibilities may remain, The statement should point out that his error so that he might be able to MIT must turn to a view of "equality in the rights and responsibilities of US return. the eyes of the law" for students, faculty, citizens are not abridged by any Letters For example, discipline hearings are and administrators in order to establish a connection with MIT. In other words, To the Editor: traditionally held behind closed doors. If judicial system that will be fair and nothing in the statement should The Committee on Discipline, being the role of the committee was to punish equitable. contradict local, state or federal laws. It is apprised of the availability of commer- malefactors, or even if its duty was Unless there is an explicitstatement of clear, however, that the MIT students and cially prepared term-papers, would like to simply to determine the right of a student "common law" to' which one can look to faculty have certain privileges and remind students that: to remain at MIT in the light of his for both guidance and protection, the obligations that go beyond citizenship. "... the attempt of any student to conduct, there would be no good reason concept that MIT treats its students as Questions of academic freedom and present as his own any work which he for maintaining a cloak of secrecy over adults can be no more than a fiction. The honesty may well fall into this category. has not performed or to pass any the committee's hearings. Instead, there difference between an adult and a child is In addition, the statement should make examination by . improper means is seems to be, in most cases, a hope that that one is viewed as a free agent, note of offenses against other laws such regarded by the Faculty as a most the student will return when he has seen responsible for actions, while the other, as violence or trespassing, which would be the error of his ways. In this light, serious offense and renders the the child, is viewed as incapable of cause for a change of status with respect offender liable to immediate expul- disciplinary action is seen as a private responsibility. As a free agent, the adult to MIT. matter; the purpose of secrecy is to sion. The aiding and abetting of a has a right to know what is expected of (A real issue which the judicial system student in any dishonesty is also held protet the guilty and ease their return to him, and a right to participate in forming will have to deal with is the question of as a grave breach of conduct." -72-73 the "community." the rules that are to govern his conduct. its relation to governmental judicial In most areas of activity, however, MIT Bulletin (page 185) This means that in a large institution systems.) For the Committee on Discipline. MIT has abandoned-the in loco parentis such as MIT, the rules must be explicit, Charles A. Myers concept. As the Catalogue puts it: " . . . since it is impossible for everyone to For ptrocedures Chairman MIT assumes in its students a commit- come to understand simply through Experience with the present rnent to adult values which is expressed inter-personal contact. Further, in order disciplinary system and the opinion of by extending to them a large measure of to guarantee the right of all adults to many at MrT, including the Working responsible self-government and personal participate in formulating the rules of Group, suggest that the MIT judicial freedom." Put more concretely, one conduct (i.e., the laws), 'a formal system should have both informal and notes that MIT has abandoned such procedure must be established to prepare formal processes. In addition, the Continuous News Service things as parietal rules and operates with these rules. Working Group's report emphasizes that a very low profile as far as the regulation As for the second point, the idea that the judicial system should be considered a of student living groups is concerned. there be "equality in the eyes of the last resort, to be used only in cases where In the handling of disciplinary matters, law," this is essential if all the all other available procedures have been however, the spirit of in loco parentis, for participants in the system are to be exhausted. Since 1881 better or for worse, remains a part of the considered adults.' MIT's present The principle body of the system Vol XCII, No. 50 November 28, 1972I system at the Institute. There are few disciplinary system is one-directional - it should be a large panel, of from twenty written rules, and the assumption seems is intended to handle complaints against to twenty-five students, faculty and Robert Elkin '73; Chairman to remain that the system operates for students, but not complaints -against administrators, charged with Lee Giguere '73;Editor-in Chief the good of the accused (or even con- faculty or administrators. In effect, "it administering the system. John Miller '73; Business Manager victed) student. recognizes a distinction between student The first step in gaining access to the Sandra Cohen '73; Managing Editor and faculty that was very much a part of system would be the preparation of a "Common law" the in loco parentis view of the charge. The charge would be presented to As Second class postage paid at Boston, Massachu- far as this writer can tell, there is university. Students were seen as a special board of from three to five setts. The Tech is published twice a week no real codification of MIT's "rules of children, incapable of accusing 'their members chosen by and from the general during the college year, except during college conduct,"' nor is there really any codified protectors. Along with this, of course, judicial committee. After reviewing the vacations, and once during the first week of "bill of rights" to protect students from a went the assumption that faculty and charges the board would either dismiss it August by The Tech, Room W20483, MIT change in faculty, or administrative, administrators were always in a better or assign one of its members -to further Student Center, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, temperment. In a climate of liberal per- position to know what was in the best investigate the question. (These Canmbridge, Massachusetts 02139. Telephone: mrissive faculty and administrative senti- interest of the student - an assumption assignments would be made on a rotating (617) 253-1541. 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I I Side two opens with the transvestoid 'ed him in respect. The immediately pre- I with only an occasional, harsh bit of lead manifesto "Make Up," with lyrics like vious group with Bob Tench, Max Middle- thrown in. Appice does the vocals, with Lou Reed "We're coming out [fey tuba licks]/Out ton, Cozy Powell, and Clive Chamen Bogart and Beck managing occasional of our Closets [more delightful (which at one point had, parts of that harmonies. Appice on drums and Bogart tuba]/Out to the streets." "Satellite of group mixed with Bogart and Appice) on bass form a thick driving foundation owiee Ife Love" and "I'm So Free" show the had much more a jazz feeling. In the prior for Beck, and the result is a very funky strongest Bowie influence, the former two ventures into Boston, at the Aquarius '67 sound, recalling visions of the Fudge by Mlark Astolfi being a sci-fi hymn to a projected trans- with Todd Rundgren and at the Music and what carried through into Cactus. world BTV satellite blanket. Both feature Hall following the abysmal Redbone, the The beauty of Beck's guitar finesse is Transformer- Lou Reed (RCA) Mick Ronson's crisp, devastating piano sound keyed strongly around Middleton's gone - in its place is simple rock 'n' roll. Once upon a time, David Bowie dug work, and Bowie's harmonies seeping piano-work (he would prove the big No frills, no subtlety, just pound-em-over- Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground into the background. problem in the Jeff Beck Group II), the the-head rock. Beck is obviously content so much that he wrote and recorded a massive rhythm section of Powell and in this configuration - at last, he's gotten songin their style; it's called "Queen Chamen, and long linear leadwork by together with two musicians he's long Bitch," oan Hunky Dory. Not only was it Beck. The results closely resembled those admired. Appice and Bogart seem. happy exceptional musically, but it was the of Beck's first band - with Rod Stewart, - I'm sure this teaming will bring them first above-ground gay-love-lost pop Ron Wood, Mick Waller and Nicky more recognition than they've had since ballad. Now, a year or so later, Reed and Hopkins. Yet neither band, 'despite the early Fudge days in 1967-8 - and more' Bowie have gotten together, and I hope excellence of the earlier ones, and the money. For me, it's a disappointment; those spoilsports who are waiting for dabblings into Motown/soul with Steve Beck, I've long thought him the premier Dave to be involved with a bad album so Cropper or the second, Beck was never among rock guitarists. His amazing talent they can trot out their flash-in-the-pan happy. All along, he's wanted to work and ability, his handling in the areas of theories aren't holding their breath. with Bogart and Appice - yet his now distortion, feedback and special effects Good as the VU were, Lou has never fatmous car crash between bands found have long been phenomenal. In this new sounded so good as he does on those two going to Cactus in the mnean- grouping, the flashy splendor of his Transformer. Never were his songs so time. Only recently has this imminent guitarwork is subordinate -- far from elegantly and effectively simple, his merger been finalized. where it belongs. A new Beck, Bogart, lyrics so mad yet mundane, his singing so ' And now, Beck has had his chance to and Appice recorded offering (possibly to seductively sardonic. Lou didn't like his get into doing Motown right. He was reflect the mispronunciation of each's last effort (or his first solo LP, always impressed with the Vanilla Fudge name in a title of Baker, Fogart, and depending on how you look at it), saying - the violence, the energy they incor- Appleseed) may change my mind,but the "There's just too many things wrong porated into songs like "You Keep -Me likelihood is slim. Just as Jack Bruce's with it." I agree. It -was a slovenly, Hangin' On" and such. He felt the association in West, Bruce, and Laing, and abused piece of chintzy rock and roll. Supremes and other groups of that ilk the subsequent harkings back to '67 But now, hair cut short, fingernails just kept "rolling it off like toilet paper"; vintage music is little more than a regres- painted an obscene purple, and produced now he's got his chance to get in that sion; Jeff Beck's part in Beck, Bogart and by Bowie and his Martian Spider cohort Lou Reed very vein and try his hand. Appice's dredging up of mid-60's rock Mick Ronson, Lou has put together an In the past few months, Beck had a go may prove no more. album that can only be described as pure The genius of Lou Reed is his ability with Stevie Wonder that proved to be an I _ _ I_ ___ I _ _ bliss. The music is an awesome display of to transcend his basic punk boredom ill-advised, ill-arranged set-up. The two rock economy, that somehow rises above consciousness. "I'm so dull really," says had wanted to work with each other (one its simplistic mediocrity. Needless to he. Dave Bowie has harnessed, chan- result of that meeting is on Wonder's say, imagery tends in the direction of the neled, molded this seething boredom latest, Talking Book, a number called .a e a pear transvestoid ("Gowns, lovely, made out into one of the most enjoyable and killer "Lookin' For Another Pure Love," of 'lace/and all the things you do to your tin a subtley sweet way) albums of the featuring Beck on lead). Tie situation face") and the gay ("But she never lost year. Great artwork on the cover, too. was too stilted; that teaming dissolved among swine her head, even' when she was giving leaving some bitterness, at least on Beck's head"), but that's fashionable these part. That same sort of feeling pervades by Wanda Adams days, and Lou was never one to buck much of Beck's character - talking with fashion. ga cen .g t him the day after his concert, he seemed I was fairly skeptical about going to Side one starts off with "Vicious;" withdrawn, sitting on the floor, under a see Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine at based on the "Sweet Jane" riff, its dresser. Mention of people like Stewart, the Club Zircon - a bar in Sormerville effectiveness is enhanced by a burst of aand 'Aeseed Wailer, and company elicit few comments where people converse raucously and get damned raw guitar every seventh beat. other than short, terse sentences. (Lroni- drunk and break glasses and try to pick "Andy's Chest" is about creeping, crawl- cally, Stewart and Beck find themselves up members of the opposite sex. I just ing things, bats too, with some strange by Neal Vitale in a similar bag. Stewart has covered couldn't figure out why gentle-voiced, stoned R. Crumb imagery to boot; Lou That decade has just barely passed, yet many an old Temptations tune, Beck now soft-spoken Tom Rapp would even want turns his mischevious muse loose bn this already the 1960's are working their way works in that very same medium.) People to play there, and I am still somewhat one. The next song is one I really like, into the rock of the 1970's. In 1972, like Bowie and Bolan are dismissed with a puzzled. "Perfect Day" is gooey and maudlin but verging on 1973, Jeff Bek is a prime "They're not where I'm from;" he clearly However, all factors considered, Pearls couched in the seemingly trite lyrics are example of this trend. Beck now leads a doesn't dig what they're doing, though he Before Swine were quite successful at the some genuine emotions, ones that result trio of Beck, Bogart, and Appice; he's feels he should like David Bowie, as he Zircon. As far as I can tell, a number of when you spend a whole day with teamed with ex-Vanilla Fudge, ex-Cactus likes Seff Beck. But rather, Beck prefers die-hard Swine fans were in attendance, someone you really like, and Lou carries members, Tim Bogart and Carmen people like Al Green, and just working which helped to keep the background it off so0 well. "Hanging Round" is more Appice. The trio marks a total, new phase towards a sound like that on Layla or a noise to as minimum as could be expect- rock and roll, and then comes "Walk On for Mr. Beck, yet one that he's been tune like "Plynth" - violent, dense. ed at a bar. the Wild Side," an interesting contrast to seeking for years. And, in concert, it's clear what B,B&A Rapp and his fellow Swine, consisting "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" on Loaded, as it Jeff Beck has finally gotten into the are striving for. Instead of the beautiful, of Harry Oselop on acoustic and electric tells the stories of some of Lou's back- music he's wanted to play for so long - flowing Jeff Beck of before, clearly in the (Continued on page 4) · - :' , -- . ;.~s~-
Photos by Roger Goldstein Jeff Beck PAGE 4 TUESDAY, NOVE-M'BER 28, 1972 THE TECH _ __ I ( ___ 7 _ I_ _ __ I __ -r ______I_ _ _ _ (Continued from page 3) "Last night I had a Massachusetts -r guitar, mandolin, and banjo, Bill Rollins Dream." on bass and cello, and Art Ellis on flute, Rapp and company finished the recorder, and echoflex, performed a total political set with "Morning Song," a song I about dwarfs, lepers and hunchbacks. m P1 of three sets: an "up" set, a "down" set, and a "political" set. Rapp repeated Then the audience would not let them
3 several times that the purpose of his disappear. The encore was a solo of E "Suzanne," a Leonard Cohen song, 3 music is to depress, and this was evident I even in the "up" set. which, he said, he always wished that he ki A Ms' j 2 Every song that the Swine offered was had written. i Rapp and the Swine did a total of 3 meticulously harmonized and arranged. twenty-six songs each night that I saw All too often, however, Rapp's soft yet ludicrous, always poking fun at our I convincing voice was them and then I lost count. Both on ii lost, either due to tender sensitivies and lilly-white senses of ark astolfi aRenvironmental noise or microphone feed- Thursday and Saturday, their material i . . _ .~~~~~~~~~~~~1i good taste or musically validity. Black F Two and a half years ago, in the back. This fact was particularly discon- was fairly similar. As a group they are quite impressive. They hold their music Sabbath Vol. 4 is no different. Vulcan Summer of 1971, I was in Warren, certing because he writes and sings some mild-meld of the most tenderly poetic and witty together quite well. Each individual is a rock. Black leather dinosuar Ohio, visiting my father's relatives, and eggs. Captain Creature versus the Record- I material ever to find its way to a record talented and proficient' musician, but while there I went to a dance at the Eaters from Space. Newton Falls Civic Center, the music pressing. In other words, you have to they never let the fact that they are being provided by a newly formed listen to- the lyrics in order to get the individuals interfere with their effective- II 10-piece band, one of the lead singers message. ness as a group. of which was my cousin, Bob Fiorino. Highlights of the "up" set included Tom Rapp himself is quite amazing. He combines They were all still in High School, and "Spreading Sunshine," "Footnote," "Sail the talents of Leonard called themselves Mom's Apple Pie. Away," and- the "Jeweler." The Swine Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Eric Although my memory isn't usually too also did a whimsical little number called Andersen, and who knows who else, with his own wit and Caravan's waiting for Godot good, I do remember three things "Frog in the Window" that features all perception. His way of about that evening: in the lobby of the members of the group making frog-esque looking at the world, although sometimes Civic Center there was a trophey of a noises - and in harmony, no less. warped, is incredible. It is difficult for me by Barb Moore The "down" to understand where he finds the words golfer who swung, instead of a gold set was characterized by Samuel Beckett, in writing "Waiting club, a bull, by a horn, no less; a cop sensitive songs - mostly quiet and with that he uses, although they were always informed me that "around here we meaningful lyrics. Rapp did "An6ther there for the taking. He lives in a fantasy For Godot," never meant it as a comment on Women's Liberation. don't sit on the furnature" (I was on a Time" alone - just him and his guitar. world of reality. And he lives and speaks, The Caravan table); and the band, though a bit "Another Time" asks, "Have you come accordingly with his songs and poetry. Theater Company, however, has replaced loud, were unquestionably far more by again to die again? Well, try again All in all, the Zircon gig was quite the originally -male characters of Estragon professional an agregation than their another .time... " Rapp said that if he pleasant, although, since the purpose of and Lucky with female players, con- years might have suggested. Playing couldn't depress his listeners, he at least his music is to depress, I left there in a sequently changing the entire flavor of tunes by Chicago and Three Dog Night wanted. to confuse them, and he mention- strange state on both Thursday and Beckett's play. 'The relationship between (like "Color My World," a big fave ed that there were many interpretations Saturday. I was somewhat disappointed Estragon and Vladimir, the two bums among western Ohio kids that of "Another Time" - all of them wrong at the environment of the Zircon, but who continually wait for a man known only' Summer, and "It's For You") with - which contributed to the general ambi- after awhile, when faced with Pearls as Godot, -is a major sub-plot of the seemingly effortless enthusiasm, the guity of the song. He seemed pleased Before Swine, I was able to shut out the play. It has been debated whether this kids ate 'em up, and I had to admit when he spoke of ambiguity in his writ- background noise. Nowv, if we could just relationship is homosexual,. or merely a they weren't bad. ing. Then he called the rest of the band get them back to Boston playing at a close companionship developed over the At that time they had just cut a up to the stage to help him with "Star- quiet club such as Passim's, it would be period of years spent together. In playing demo in a studio up in Cleveland, and dancer." "Stardancer" is interesting - it perfect. Everyone - not just those who the role of Estragon as a woman, the it was that demo, of "I Just Wanna indicates to me that Rapp is somewhat stayed sober - could leave depressed. implications and attitudes in the relation- Make Love To You," which Terry hung up on outer space and spacemen That in itself would probably make Tom ship are changed to something perhaps Knight's wife, Pia, accidently heard and how one 'must feel while exploring Rapp very, very happy. sexual. The Caravan Company has even and flipped over, and as a result, space. (He has at least two other songs L, -- gone so far as to have Vladimir and with similar themes that he managed to Estragon discuss their bygone dreams of a Mom's Apple Pie became the first Black leather dinosaur eggs wedding group to sign with Terry's new Brown perform at the Zircon, also.) In "Star- and a honeymoon. Bag label. Needless to say, things are dancer," he takes the narrative position This role change, though, is not as and says that his father is a spaceman by Mark Astolfi significant as that of Lucky as a female happening for Bob & the boys: an character. In Beckett's version of his play, album and single are out, full-page who often went to "Jupiter or Mercury," and that his mother and he, for fear that Black Sabbath Vol. 4 (Warner Brothers) Pozzo refers to Lucky as "pig" and color adds abound in Billboard, and Everytime some one mentions Black "hog," treating him as an inhuman beast. they have played in front of the Kinks they might find his father dead, never go out when the sun is shining, but rather, Sabbath, I think of the X-Men,-Marvel When Pozzo and Lucky enter in the at Madison Square Garden, with Comics' teenaged mutant superheroids, Caravan's version, Lucky Bowie, and Deep Purple. It's clear stay inside unless "'it's cloudy or the sun wears an old is blotted out." The Angel, The Beast (who's since split west saloon girl dress, and occationally Terry is out to cultivate another major the X-Men, and is currently grappling .kisses Pozzo and sits on- his lap. When success a la Grank Funk Railroad, Also featured in the "down" set was a although this time the vehicle is quite song called "Love Will Get You Through with a Werewolf fixation, i.e. he actually Pozzo then does humiliate Lucky, -the different: MAP are very much into the Times of No Sex Better Than Sex Will turns into a half-man, half-wolverine ter- disgust and inhumanity in Beckett's play latter-day big band sound of such Get You Through Times of No Love," ror), Marvel Girl, Cyclops, and the' Ice- is lost. bands as Blood, Sweat, & Tears, which is a parody on the "old" proverb Man. I used to know all their Secret If you expect to see Waiting For Chicago, Lighthouse, and Dreams, and that "dope will get you through.times of Identities, but that was before 18.02 hit. Godot as Beckett wrote it, the Caravan they are equally adaptable to a small no money better than money will get you Anyhow, why should Black Sabbath Theater's interpretation could be a dissap- club like Paul's Mall, where they play- through times of no dope." "Love Will remind me of the X-Men? Not a good pointment. The acting 'is generally good, ed about a month back, or a large Get. etc." is Rapp's sequel to Stephen question, and one hardly worth an an- and the play is well done, though too concert hall, Stills' "Love The One You're With." He swer, except that I think I know why it long. Barbara Fleischman and David Starr is, and perhaps it'll be better to get it off Klein work well together as Estragon and Even so, dust Mom's Apple Pie for disagrees with Stills and counters with his own theory that people are using other my chest than have to lie awake nights Vladimir, even though a bit slapstick. fingerprints, and you'll come up with thinking about it: see, rock writers like to Peter Kovner is convincing as the loud, quite a few of Terry Knight's: har- people to make love to themselves. In "Love Will Get, etc." he says that he think up labels for everything, and one of domineering Pozzo, and Nancy Lovell is monies and organ especially resemble the stock labels that is used with regards good in this interpretation of Lucky. The Grand Funk, although Bob and Tony wishes he could find someone "to talk to, someone to make love with, not to" and, the band in question is "juggernaut- roles are slightly over-played, but are Gighiotti sound a lot like Three Dog rock," and it just so happens that the consistent. As an experiment on Beckett's Night as well. But Terry isn't building towards the end of the song, he says that he has found "her." "Her" philosophy is X-Men once tangled with a maroon- theme, the performance was a success, his next supergroup out of nothing. ensconced villian named the Juggernaut. and the audience, a good evaluation of a The talent is there: MAP can play, and summarized in the title of the song. The "political" set featured an eerie Simple as that. play's effectiveness, enjoyed it. write, as shown on their album, Moms But there's no denying that it is fitting The Caravan Theater is located at Apple Pie, and have great stage- song called "The Fourth Day of July" which Rapp played alone without his Black Sabbath should call to mind comic 1555 ' Massachusetts Avenue, in the presence. books, as they're always been sort of the Harvard Epworth Church. Waiting For Mom's Apple Pie is certainly a fellow Swine. The song is about the end of the Vietnam war and the last soldier's Comic Book of Rockdom, always bigger- Godot will be done every weekend commercial band, but never-the-less than-life, always exaggerated and lavishly through December. tight, professional, and committed to homecoming. On the ship that is sup-. the kind of music they like and play posed to carry the last soldier, the soldier the best. They are not out to simply isn't there. In his stead are all the dead make money, or ripoff teenyboppers children of Vietnam. The dead children with prefab schlock-rock. They're a march gloomily to the White House lawn pop band, but a talented one, well and re-enact the atrocities that killed- above the Standard of Mediocrity that them, forcing "even grown men to turn 'rules the American music scene these away." days. The rest of the Swine re-joined Rapp for "When the War Began" which is a I. World War I song (although applicable to Last Friday night saw Dick Cavett's any war) about a woman who fell in love just before World War I and lost her. 1 1:30-1:00 time slot taken by a show 0 0 husband to the war. It is a sad, mournful called In Concert, a taped rock bash 0 featuring Alice Cooper, Seals & number and the Swine were able to Crofts, Bo Diddley, andt -Curtis perform it as such without making it too Mayfield. In Boston, the program was I sugary. simulcast on WBCN, in stereo, which Rapp said that the Swine are planning was fortunate because the sound was to do a political version of "Love Story" pretty lousy coming out of a bitsy TV starring George McGovern as the man, the [20 speaker. The Cooper segment was United States as the dying woman, and Richard Nixon as the fatal disease. Then great, Seals & Crofts did a good but 0 short set, but Curtis dragged on, and he added that it would be filmed on Be- was a joke. The next In Concert is location in Massachusetts. This introdic- planned for Friday, Dec. 8, and will 0 tion led to a new Swine song, composed I feature Allman Bros., Chuck Berry, the night before, called "Massachusetts Poco, and BS&T. Kudos to Don Dream." In this "Dream" song, Rapp Kirshner who put it all together, and sings of how he dreamt the night before the ABC Network. This stuff almost that the war had ended and that the makes up for The PartridgeFamily. 0 soldiers were marching home. And, in the a 0 Nanucy Lovell and Peter Kovner inl Waitingfor Godot d wake of the election, the chorus says, E ~~~~~~t~ ~ ~ ~ ~ C3-0= I THETECH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1972 PAGE 5 - -- - - 1 ~1 _ _I_ I song after song . . . For their own sake, I WIe take all kind of pills concert, the worse the evening would hope this record is a flop. To give us all kind of thrills bore you. Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show But the thrill we've never known The first show was marked by about have two big things going for them: Shel Is the thrill that'llgetcha two-thirds capacity (the second show Silverstein- and themselves. The band When you get your picture drew better, though the set was cut short started out as a lounge band, playing On the cover of the Rolling Stone. by illness on the part of Ms. Collins), and The sloppy seconds of Dr. Hook innumerable little clubs like the Golden The problem, of course, is that he can an all-pervasive sense of ennui. Chris Sleezoid and the Despoiled Knee, until also crank out this pseudocountry soap Smither, a good local folkie, though not one day they were discovered and hired opera crap so long as it'll sell records. one known for his generation of excite- by Mark Astolfi to do the songs for the movie Who Is Dr. Hook's second asset is themselves. ment and electricity, began things on Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying 'Sloppy Seconds -- Dr. Hook and the They perform with a decidedly un- what could be politely termed a lack- All Those Terrible Things About Me? dlgnified energy and enthusiasm, at the luster note. Only a rendition of the Medicine Show (Columbia) Shel, bearded Playboy errant cartoonist Decked out in dirty. denim work- core sof which is the hllarious banter fantastic "Henry David Thoreau," a and closet song-writer (he penned "A modernization of Chuck Berry's "Johnny clothes, crumpled khaki jackets, and between Dennis and the band's other half-buttoned lumberjack shirts, this lead singer, the dude with the eye-patch, B. Goode" proved to be at all distinguish- band of seven brash combination show- Pay Sawyer. (Word has it the eye-patch ed from the main part of his decidedly men and latter-day river pirates has the stays until Ray can have a glass eye made dull, but nevertheless poorly-received set. potential to bolster the sagging American up with a Confederate flag on it.) All Judy Collins followed with renditions rock scene, currently innundated by persons connected with the band hold of "City of New Orleans," "All Things Dennis to be the funniest man in the Are Quite Silent," "Someday Soon," such British acts as Bowie, T.Rex, ELP, world, while Ray could well be the "Suzanne," "Songs for Judith" and Yes, etc. I say potential, however, be- craziest. The rest of the band, Messers. "Both Sides Now" beina among the more -cause their latest album Sloppy Seconds" shows_ serious stylistic problems, all Elswit, Garfat, Francis, David, and well-known, if not the more well-done. brought about by something that, for Cummings, provide competent, if un- The addition of drums, bass, and guitar spectacular back-up. Needless to say, the amounted to little improvement, if not most bands, means a new lease on life, but for Dr. Hook & Co. could mean just band is most successful when they do actually detracting, in comparison to the their raunchiest, freewheeling tunes, like evening for Mr. Kerry at the Paramount the opposite. And that is, a hit single, Theater, when only accompanied by her namely "Sylvia's Mother." Although a "Freaker's Ball" and "I Call That True Love"; the material on Sloppy Seconds own guitar and occasional piano work by monstrous hit .this spring (world-wide Richard Bell. Ms. Collins imparted little sales top three and a half million copies) is a drag, at best boring, at worst . Ray Sawyer obnoxious. emotion past rote recital of those songs; it was a poor indication of the band's an invidious dreariness that permeated true . talent, being a terrible, tongue- ,Boy Named Sue" and the Irish Rovers' If Dr. Hook and the Medicine show "Unicorn"), was doing the score and have a motto, it must be "Nothing in her newer songs on unaccompanied piano in-cheek lampoon of the archetypal and made them almost unlistenable. country tear-jerker ballad. Apparently, songs for the movie, and it was Ron Moderation." On Sloppy Seconds, they Haaskine, who is now Dr. Hooks' go overboard, in the wrong direction. As Words were fouled up; notes missed three point five million missed the point. (sadly, as in "Suzanne") - what was Anyhow, its phenomenal success manager and producer, but was then Martin Mull sez: "Wchen you stick to has had working with Shel on the film's score, described by a reviewer friend as saving the same effect on, Dr. Hook as a juicy what you're good at, good things come who first heard tapes of the band. He to you." And to us. Dr. Hook, are ya something for the second show (which, if bone might have on a pack of frisky assumed, apparently didn't materialize) puppies: eight of the eleven songs on immediately fell in love with Dennis' raw listening? yet powerfully emotional voice, out of I seemed more like insurmountable sonam- Sloppy Seconds suffocate in lachrymose the Kim Fowley/Joe Cocker/Jim Dandy/ bulence. lyrical diatribe, imposing, overproduced Only in her renditions of some of choruses, and a general surfeit of sob- Wolfman Jack/Capt. Beefheart/ArthLur Collins- fading colors of the day Godfrey-choking-on-a-peach-pit mold, Bertholdt Brecht's political poetry of war- bing, moaning, gasping, sputtering, chok- time Germany and in her tip-of-the-hat to ing, and put-on emoting; "Carry Me, and knew it was the voice to interpret by Neal Vitale Shel's songs. Now when Shel wants to, Jacques Brel in "Sons Of" did the magic Carrie," the first single of the album, is a that the name Judy Collins usually con- prime example: the subject matter con- he can rally turn loose with his own Mid-November would mark the first special brand of rollicking humor and time since 1970 that Judy Collins would notes come through at all. cerns a star-crossed, now righteously After seeing her at the John Kerry plowed, lover, rolling and puking in a wit. Witness these lines from the second be the single attraction at a concert in single off the album, "The Cover of Bsoton; it would also mark a great disap- benefit, and having a stimulating, enthral- gutter, pleading to his old girlfriend to ling set of numbers, one can only feel let him lean on her a little while slonger. Rolfing Stone:" pointment for anyone who caught her As expected, singer Dennis Loconiere WeZl we're big rock singers sharing the bill with Tom Rush, John that this was a bad night for all involved. breaks down three-fourths of the way We got golden fingers Denver, and Peter Yarrow at the John Yet listening to Living, her most recent And we're loved everywhere we go IKerry benefit back a month or two. Both album of new material, and a part-live, through, hot bitter tears mingling with part-studio recording, and coming away his unkempt beard. Once, this type of We sing about beauty shows at the Aquarius (in itself, a bad Arnd we sing about truth omen) proved weak; if you had heard her yawning a bit, one begins to wonder if thing is at best a forgettable goof. But i At ten thousand dollars a show do almost the exact same set at the Kerry the magic is fading. I I I i A profess onaS ABORTION that is safe, le al IIIa o973 Leo adCle nexpensive can be set up on an outpatient basis by calling The Problem Pregnancy Eductional Service (215) 722-5360) I To b elgible to wian a 1973 Lemon lod Porsche ($4,600 vaue and a 24 hours - 7 days day round trip for two to the "Lmon capials ofo the worId" (Lisbon, for professional, confidential d ri, R and Athens-$2,700 value) simply read the offcia rules andcaring help. listed mbow and email e cupon.
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But the weak point is another play, but this one, off enough to of them unnatural... and 2 against the to be trapped in a rocket and shipped that the audience never sees of you recall guess the real villain until the hero does. state," was apparently recorded live to Mars. How many (I was prepared to conclude with a before an audience of Columbia students, Ghidrah,'the Three-Headed Monster, such Thumbs Down on They Only Kill Their and it is chock full of stupid puns ("Your a bad-ass behemoth that all the other Masters but was informed by my film couplet runneth over"), silly play-on- monsters ganged up on him, and .were only barely able to set him down. And They only kill their audiences viewing companion that she was enter- words ("I..am your son?" "Nay, nay...I tained by the film, even if I wasn't. So it am your father!f"), and when it ends, it who can forget the grandaddy of 'em all, might be entertaining.)At the Gary blends into a strange take-off on the Nick Godzilla, the original atomic dinosaur? by Gene Paul Danger, Third Eye sequence on How Can Anyhow, -after Yung Guy's robot- You Be Two Places A t Once When You're servant takes over the show just like Lt. What the advertisements promise is a Not Anywhere At Al/. This time, the yin Brad Shaw tried to do with Nick Danger), mystery-comedy. What the movie de- is on the other yang, and its Yung Guy, proclainming "Next week this shoW- have livers, in spite of the presence of I Motor (Moto? Modal?) Detective, who new name, Rotomoto, Atomic Gumshoe. Katherine Ross (read body beautiful) and spends most of his time getting in and out And no more Buddhist writers!" and takes i James Garner (read face familiar) is Firesign - not insane ? of Radio Prison, imploring his friends tube train to Forbidden City with Yung mystery-blah. "not to be torturing me!" and crossing Guy's secretary Miki, we 'switch to the The commercials are so much better by Mark Astolfi chopsticks with Nick Danger's old neme- National Surrealist Light Peoples' Party than the film (and ,I am not even sure sis, Lt. Brad Shaw, who now works for convention, where George Papoon's name they are being aired in Boston: I heard Not Insane or Anything You Want To - 'the Atomic Occupation Forces. The is being placed in nomination for some them on WCBS in New York) that the Ffiesign Theatre (Columbia) broad accents and pigeon-shit grammar, vague national office, alternately refered writers for the ads should have done the Not Insane or Anything You Want To . not to mention the reference to Gorgon- to as "resident" and "president." This whole project. Their synopsis of the plot is the last Firesign Theatre album. Phil, zola the Cheese Monster, are straight out part is based upon a Firesign Theatre is so fascinating: the chief suspect is a dog Philip, Peter and David are splitting to of all those great, awful Japanese horror movie called Martian Space Party, and the (and he's not talking), and the clues devote time to proverbial "individual flicks that always seem to be on late at scene shifts back and forth between include a picture on the beach and a projects." In many ways, Not Insane is night when bleery eyes and edven bleerier Walter and Eric on the convention floor, bathtub that smells like gasoline. An conscious that, whatever the 4 or 5 Krazy brains cannot escape and must watch and Charles who is covering the current interesting way to occupy your time if Guys come up with individually; it is. an transfixed as Tokyo and surroundimg President's planned Mars-launching from you go to see this is to watch for the album that marks the end--of an era in suburbs are crushed beneath the oversized Monster Island. Things start hopping appearance of these clues in the film. recorded, pre-packaged humor. Bits and feet of...Remember Mothra, the giant when Glutornoto, the Supreme Dream Unfortunately, they all show up within pieces of other albums are not only moth who lived on Mothra Island and was Monster, escapes from the bottom of fE the first half hour, and things go downhill alluded to, but actually satirized. And attended by two tiny fairies who were, in Atomic Lake: "What's the story, ii from there, in They Only Kill Their Masters. one of the first intelligible bits on side real life, Japanese pop singing duo The Charles?" "This is no story, this is real! BE The comedy designation escapes me, one is an ad for a double-fun, double-deal Peanuts? How about Rodan, the prehis- He's snapping high-tension wires as if F as it apparently did most of the half record offer, Dope Humor of the 70's: toric pterodactyl? The first Rodan picture they were candy canes!...My God, this is empty house present at the showing I "RIemember Cheech & Chong? Ruben included one of the classic monster movie too -close to be news..." As things pro- saw. The only hardy laughter during the and the Jets?..."Not Insane is a tribute to quotes of all time: a scientist (thick ceed, we find out that Ralph Spoilsport whole thing came when one citizen the Firesign Theatre's roots, for it es- glasses, white lab smock) was explaining owner and opperator of the world's reports to Garner that some boy has chews the dizzyingly cerebral,- stoned to a batch of the worlds military big-wigs largest new used and used new, etc, is in 6 bitten off his daughter's nipple while the prison, having been arrested by the Presi- i labyrinthine confusion of Don't Crush what Rodan was and how he threatened r pair were riding in a car. (Garner plays a That Dwarf, Hand AIe the Pliers and to take over-the world when an Air Force dent himself. We don't know for what. small town police chief, and Katherine We're All Bozos On This Bus in favor of general posed the question: "If this Perhaps a dope rap. Ross plays a divorced veternarian's sec- the great sophomoric slapstick that Rodan is extinct, then how can he be This record is not a record to listen to retary who starts sleeping with Garner marked their earlier efforts. alive?" Then there was Gammera, the in a vacuum. It will sound pretty con- half way through the film.) NVot Insane draws primarilly upon two fire-breathing giant turtle who turning fusing, and maybe even boring, if you The real problem with this filmn is one readically dissimilar art forms: Shakes- into a flying saucer. Yeah, see, the Army have never heard the Firesign Theatre. Fire- r of billing. If it were billed as an action- pearean plays and Japanese monster figured, He's a turtle, right? All we gotta Borrow your firends' copies of past r adventure, it might almost work. There movies. Side one is almost entirely taken do is dump him on his back and he's sign efforts, and when you've got them are snarling dog scenes, dead bodies drag- up by some sort of mad, verbose Shakes- helpless. So they showered Gam with under you belt (listening -in slightly ged out of burning house scenes (well, pearean lampoon with random interup- atomic warheads until he -flipped over on altered states of consciousness might there are really only one of those), and tions. Not being a student of the Bard, his back, whereupon he played his ace-in- help), tackle Not Insane or Anything You stabbing and killing scenes. But they are I'm willing to concede that there's the-hole: withdrawing his 4 feet and head Want To. You'll be in agreement with too few and far between. probably a lot of Avonian allusions which into his shell he then sent jets of air Yung Guy when he say '"In Radio are going over my head. OK, lit jocks, shooting out of the 5 holes, began to Prison, they wash -brain of this unfor- As a mystery, the film almost works, tunate, hangin' up in strong, seagull wind to the four winds in have fun. As far as I'm concerned, the fun rotate, and then took off, trucking off with clues scattered few cities now to dry ... " sufficent profusion to fool the most begins on side two. Again, we have towards America to wreck a THETE-CH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1972 PAGE 7 _I I · ______ I _ 1 1 7 T~~~'s s In~~- s a * aSA~mnonelao Aie- m1 (Continuedfrom page 1) stalled. These involved "-'classof is now installed on some 200 work. imnposed by NET from service" problems. There. are phones. Although it does not about July 1 to August 30, to now several classes of service work precisely as the phone enable the company to devote available,ranging from unlimited company said it would - a its full mainpower efforts to the long distance in some admirn- phone on call forwarding still Centrex switch-over, and the strative offices, to tie-line re- has a dial tone and- can be used intricate testing that such a mas- stricted phones in'lobby loca- while calls are being forwarded. sive change involved, both be-. tions which cannot even call Originally, Telco had stated that Savings Bank Life Insurance. fore and after the fact. Ac- dormlines. The class of service a phone whose calls were being cording to Berlan, the number of for any phone is a parameter forwarded would be unusuable You do the shopping. And the saving. complaints received immediately which is entered at a computer until the call forwarding had According tothe 1972 Pennsylvania Insurance after cutover to the new system console by a phone company been turned off - there have was not excessive. e mployee. Apparently errors been few problems with it. He Department's Shoppers Guide to Life Insurance, NET was also suffering from were frequent in this process at believes the number of offices "It pays to shop for life insurance. Costs may vary internal problems, from which first, but there has been a taking advantage of the feature over 170%." they are just now recovering. "noticeable drop in the will grow as a description of its When you shop for life insurance you're doing These involved both illness of problem." virtues are passed by word of key personnel, and enormous When asked if Centrex had mouth. thewise thing. Chances are, you'll wind up buying turnover problems. There are 14 improved overall phone service Berlan concluded by noting Savings Bank Life Insurance...one of the best life installers working with the MIT- to the Institute, Berlan replied, that service may never again be insurance buys in the country. Ask us about SBLI. Draper Centrex, eleven at MIT "Yes, I think it has. There are what it was when MIT had its and three at Draper- The longest many criteria by which one can previous, on-campus PBX (Pri- Shop and compare. After all, you do the saving! service in this capacity for any judge phone service, but an im- vate Branch Exchange) system. installer is about one year, which portant one is the way people At that time, all wiring and is nearly equivalent to his length react to changes, and the nature switching was strictly on cam- of service with the phone of the complaints we receive. We pus; now it all runs to a new company. have heard many good things. building off-campus, greatly in- Finally, there is some and few bad ones about the new creasing the amount of paper- question as to whether or not system." work needed to accomplish even LIFE INSURANCEDEPARTMENT there was full realization of the Berlan noted, when asked, the simplest repair or magnitude of the system or the that the call forwarding feature installation. complexities involved in its "de- CAMBRDGEPORT bugging stage" on the part of the user community. Isolated in- DALZELL MOTOR SALES GROUP TO SAN FRANCISCO dividuals with malfunctioning 329-1 100 SAVINGS BANK phones could not easily see the 689 Massachusetts Avenue "big picture" of thousands of Service- SaletsS - Parts X-mnas with reservation lines installed and operating cor- lu1-optean D)elivery' Spteciailists Depart Dec. 21st. Right in Central Square retly, or of a phone company Return-- open. struggling to get service in as 'We ma.ijor in Pc't'ect Servicet A SHORT WALK FOR MOST STUDENTS. quickly as possible. Fare: $280. Things have improved, said AuLIthorized Dealer Respond by Nov. 29. Berlan, "to the point where the Call Marjorie Yang, 494-9031. ,-McCormrick 331. phone company is usually 805 Providence HgwV LV · ~@S meeting our normal delivery Rte. 1. Dedlhalm '--" - ' schedule," He explained that (off Ric. 1 28)'} ./ this involved ten working days .1 , , ,~ ..... ,~S_ -.. _ i for orders affecting six phones or less, and up to one month for more phones in an order. Phone change orders involve as few as one and as many as 70 phones, Berlan noted, and there are about 40 such orders placed per week. ricek Prro Fotball W air and f up t,.. Even on phones which did work immediately after the change to Centrex, there were a few problems that never existed before the new system was in-
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The winter sports season, Gymnastics Pistol which involves eleven of MIT's The MIT gymnastics team Competing in the tough 22 varsity teams, goes into full will open its 72-73 season with Northeast - Collegiate Pistol swing this week, with ten of the home meets next Saturday and League the MIT varsity pistol eleven teams involved in compe- Sunday, against Boston State team is out to take it all again tition for the first time this year. and University of Pennsylvania, this year. National champions in The following is a brief preview respectively. Witl ninereturning 1971 and narrowly edged out of the season ahead. lettermen, this year's team last year by West Point, the Tech promises to be the best ever, team is filled with experienced I Basketball though they have an extremely shooters: John Good '72, 1971 MIT lost four of its five tough year ahead, as Penn, the National collegiage free pistol starters, including all-time high Ivy League Champion, Southern champion and two-time All scorer, Harold Brown, through Connecticut State (home school American, Merrick Leler '74, graduation this past year. The of Olympic gymnast John Karl Seller '75, Ted Ruegsegger only returning starter is Jerry Crosby), which won the New '73, and captain John Stetkazg . ' INFORMATION Hudson '73, center and team Englands here at MIT last year, '73. f captain. The rest of this year's and the University of Massacliu- - ~-I- --r I, ----- PREGNANCY TEST AVAILABLE team will probably. consist of setts, an NCAA qualifier, have ~Mja Bob Roth '74 and Al Epstein all been added to their schedule. JV bHoy V/.' An Abortion c(an be arranged '75, in the backcourt,'with the Leading the team this year- Tuesday, Nov.2, 6:00pm wifhain 24 hours starting offensive positions going are Larry Bell '74, who has led /- >