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Ire"T -1 ------IVOLUMIE 95, NUMBER 25 Ml'iT. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - I- TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1975 65. advisors sought for recordc-size class By William Lasser ie added that he expects the Sixty-five additional advisors position of advisor-affiliate to are being sought by the Fresh- spur new faculty interest in advi- man Advisory Council (FAC), to sing because it will give new- accommodate the class of '79, comers a chance to try advising the largest ever to enroll at the without as many responsibilities Institute. as the advisor himself. Although the FAC could "get Letters were sent to faculty by" with only 30 more advisors, members in April, Buttner said, according to Pete Buttner '61 asking professors to consider ad- executive officer of the FAC, 65 vising. This campaign brought more advisors (raising the total forty volunteers between April number to 270) would give each 23 and May 7. Department advisor an optimal number of heads have also received letters advisees. asking them to ask department According to Buttner, the ad- members to b'ecome advisors. visor shortage is "a standard In addition to faculty, some problem," and "with the help of administration officials, such as department heads, the goal will admissions, personnel and finan- I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~·I be realized." cial aid officers are being sought as advisors. Alumni are also A~bdut 200 peosple came out into the sunshine Sunday to hear the ~, The number of graduate stu- represented. on the steps of the Student Center. dents serving as freshman advisors will be doubled next year, with over thirty serving for the class of '79. A Faculty affiliate MIT contract with Saudis stalled will be working with each gradu- By Mike McNamee contract. yet returned from Saudi Arabia. Joint studies planned ate student advisor and will Institute officials are awaiting The two-year-long negoti- "All we know is that Seifert The contract, Hollomnan said, -work with the advisor and his the return of MIT negotiators ations for joint study of water took over a final contract, and would have enabled MIT to advisees in any way that seems from Saudi Arabia to assess the resources and electrical power we got a short cable saying that work on two- to three-year appropriate during the year," failure of discussions with the generation needs by MIT and they had not accepted it," studies of Saudi needs for water said Buttner. Saudis on a $2 million research Saudi researchers broke down Wiesner told The Tech yester- and power. The research would recently, apparently due to dis- day. "I would surmise that it have been conducted at MIT and agreement over a contract clause was the discrimination problem, in Arabia, with researchers from on admission of MIT researchers but I don't want to conjecture the Institute and Saudi universi- to Saudi Arabia. until I've had a full report." ties working on the studies. Saudi officials refused to sign Wiesner refused to comment About 14 "full-time-quiva- the contract after Prince on the letter which the Prince lent" researchers - faculty, Mohammed ibn Faisal, chairman had termed "threatening," say- staff, and some students - of the Saudi group, received ing only that it was "a general would be working with the Cen- letter" discussing the contract ter on the project, Holloman e -"whVAd'he cdaled' a- '""thieatening" letter from -President Jerome B. and thanking the Prince for his explained. They would construct WViesener. The Saudis were correspondence. and test models for usage of thought tc have objected to a J. Herbert Holloman, director resources in an effort to help the contract clause providing that of the MIT Center for Policy Saudi government plan for fu- any competent MIT researcher Alternatives, the group which ture needs. be permitted to enter that coun- would have administered the The contract was planned try. program, said the discrimination with the Saline Water Conver- problem was an important issue sion Corporation, of which Saudis have in the past in the negotiations, but was not Prince Mohammed, a son of the X refused entrance to Jews and the only one. "We have had dis- late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, persons vho support the Zionist agreements with them on publi- is chairman. That corporation is j view of Israel as a religious state cation, arrangements for termi- in charge of developing facilities C' with historical rights to Pales- nating the contract, payment, for desalting sea water and puri- tine. Several major American and MIT's right to judge the fying ground water for the coun- krlO&;%$Wak~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~~~&~~~,-B~~~~~~ir:: ---- j companies have been criticized competence of the Saudi re- try's growing urban needs. The Y for dealing with Saudis on such Uses and abuses of the Building 7 lobby', including crowd s and searchers who come here," Saudi government is planning to terms, thus discriminating Holloman said. "Discrimination invest about $10 billion over the exhibits that block access to the main corridor, have been under against Jewish employees. consideration by the Lobby 7 Committee'. The committee plans to was not the only issue by any next ten years into water re- try to formulate guidelines for future exhibits. Story, page 5. Not only issue means." source development. MIT officials stressed, how- Holloman said that MIT had One problem in negotiating ever, that the discrimination not been told directly that the the research contract, Holloman Stink bomb forces LSC issue was not the only one which Saudis might discriminate said, was that it was one of the there had been disagreement on, against researchers, but that the first contracts the Saudis have to relocate Slun. movie and that they were waiting for a negotiators were aware of past ever negotiated for research ser- By Gerald Radack lDriscoll noted that the Patrol fuller report from Professor of examples of discrimination. vices. "They have bought servi- An apparent prank caused the has no evidence that a stink Civil Engineering William W. Thus, he said, MIT tried to ces for things like building dams first showing of the Sunday bomb was set, and is not actively Seifert, head of the MIT nego- prepare a contract "which would before, but have never dealt with night Lecture Series Committee pursuing an investigation of the tiating team, to assess the failure protect the integrity of our peo- academic institutions on a large movie to be moved from Room incident. of negotiations. Seifert has not -ple working over there." (Please turn to page 2) 26-100 in between reels and "To the best of my knowl- almost caused cancellation of edge, someone set off a stink- the second showing. bomb near the air intake for The 26-100 lecture hall was 26-100," Fresina said. hastily abandoned and the city , Fresina attributed the stink fire department rescue squad bomb to "spring fever," pointing called in after the'air there be- out that a stink bomb was also came filled with "noxious" gas set off in the Student Center that resembled "sulfur com- Sunday night. pounds," according to several LSC cancelled the second witnesses. showing of the movie, "Bedazzled," at the end of the "The rescue department was first showing, which was com- called because there was a con- pleted in 10-250, when the gas cern it might be city gas," ac- started to seep into that room cording to Safety Office Direc- through the ventilation system. i tor John Fresina A check of Later, however, the second combustible gas detectors showing was held in the Student revealed, however, that there Center. was no gas from that source. LSC did not charge admis- Campus Patrol Captain sion to the crowded second- '4 Richard Driscoll said that Cam- showing, causing an estimated tI I pus Patrol officers who were loss of $100, according to k4 called to the scene reached the Thomas Bracewell '76 of LSC. opinion that the gas "had "Under the circumstances," F: nothing to do with any labs," Bracewell said, "we felt obli- king on walls is only one form of entertainmentin Baker House. For others, see I and was "possibly a stinkbomb." gated not to collect tickets." 6&7.

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Police hunt suspects in assaults I .A ' to-toriurn-:=.a~ ~~%tl Boston police and federal FBI when it was learned that he Campus Patrol Chief James Owned and operated.0, .412*Green Street Behind the agencies are still searching for a might have crossed state lines in O)liveri noted that the $5000 by Harvard MBA's Cambridge, MA Central Square man named as having partici- eluding arrest. An effort is also reward for information leading Repairs ! 661-1866 YMCA pated in the March 22 assault of being made to identify two to Blodgett's arrest-or concernm- American & Foreign Car two MIT students. other persons who were alleged- ing the two other suspects is still One of the students, John L. ly with Blodgett and Shaugh- being offered. Monday- Friday Asinari, died of injuries suffered 8am - 6pm _: in the assault. The other student, ,- -,·; .,,,, , Robert Moses '75, was hospi- Auto body repairs and estimates talized with serious injuries in 1. - ,, ------I I1 - -· - -- -- " - Peter Bent Brigham hospital in on the news Boston. Moses has since been released from the hospitl and is New Englarnd said to have fully recovered, although he still has a small cast nessy at the time of the assault. Asinari and Moses were -Womnen's Service on his left arm. Shaughnessy is presently returning from Kenmore Square Fully liscensed abortion clinic The man being sought, John being held without bail at the attempting to hitchhike back to Free Counseling and Appointments J. Blodgett, 23, of Methuen, was Charles Street Prison in Boston. MIT when they were offered a indicted by a Suffolk County No date has be set yet for his ride by their assailants. Moses made for pregnancy - Birth Control, Gynecology and Abortion r Grand Jury for murder and trial, which is to take place at reportedly told Boston Police Tests k assault with a deadly weapon the Suffolk County Supreme that he and Asinari were driven Free Pregnancy r along with Robert Shaughnessy, Court. Campus Patrol officials through Boston, Chelsea, and Open 9am - 9pm Monday - Friday; Saturday 9-5 Everett and were stabbed and r 23, of South Boston, who has predicted that the trial will prob- 1033IBeacon St., Brookline, MVa. Call (617) 738-1370 or 738-1371 I beaten in the car before being been apprehended by Boston ably begin "before July," i Police. though they added that it might ejected in South Boston. LIL _ ,,,,, ,,, I -I _-, -- -- The police were joined in be delayed until after Septem- In response to this incident, their search for Blodgett by the ber. the Campus Patrol has produced a poster warning students of the c-W Cecila ciety potential hazards of hitchhiking. Donald Teeters, conductor p.m., Sanders Theatre, Saudi talks break down Copies of the poster have been In concert SATURDAY, May 17th at 8:30 Cambridge distributed around campus. on discrnimination clause ,, GERMWAN CHORAL SONGS OF THE 19th CENTURY Won't hurt other talks (Continued from page 1) . THISEIS YOMPROGRAIME: by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms Wiesner said that he did not scale," Holloman said. "The two ONE YRW.. activities aren't comparable." know of any other negotiations with Karl Dan Sorensen, tenor/Terry Decima, piano with Mideast countries that MIT's TCA office/by mail Discrimination might be damaged by the failure TICKETS: $2, $3, $4, and $5 at the door/at Highland Ave., Winchester, Ma 01890/ According to a recent New talks. ;HEBREW from Mrs. Brown, 166 of the Saudi ji jSTMIJES or call 491-6537. York Time report, Saudi law _ , -a "We have continuing discuss- L- -- Ii requires all applicants for entry ionS, of course, with the Irani- visas and resident permits to ans, but I don't think they will APPLY TO: WeTORS state their religious affiliation. be bothered by this," Wiesner 4/ PJ FFSSION No visas may be issued to a Jew said. "Other countries in that the wu sinrtitute by any Saudi consulate without area have approached us from ARAD -SRAEL explicit permission from the time to time on development Foreign Ministry of that coun- any talks Z~~pfhS--dd issues, but we haven't L-., I -- - - - i.a try. that have reached a serious stage I ------11 Despite this ban, some Jews yet." Wienser stressed that nego- SPECUIL AGOANE have been alowed to travel in tiations on research programs, TIX aton Pep Saudi Arabia, especially journal- even international programs, Public Welcoe ists and other Americans who often are begun with individual have expressed views sympathet- faculty or centers, and don't THURSDAY, JUNE5 So You're Graduating! ic to the Arabs. But the visa ban come to his attention until they 8:30 p.m. has taken its toll on other aca- are nearly completed. institutions including - n Keep up with what's going on at MIT, demic A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Harvard and Johns Hopkins uni- Have The Tech mailed to your home versities, which have discussed PROFESSIONAL exchange programs with the TYPIOING Saudis. for Educators, Authors, i The Tech, P.O. 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.- .·---1IO~inion -·-· I--- n -~--- ILSP- m-- %MIT3foreign npolcy: carefu considerati on By Michael McNamee for complete revelation of all The recently-revealed negotia- planned MIT programs with tions between MIT and Saudi Iran, besides the nuclear engi- Arabia, negotiations which neering plan. While the adminis- broke down apparently over the tration has heeded the letter of issue of Saudi discrimination the referendum - the commu- against Jewish MIT researchers, nity was told of four other illustrate that the Iranian nuclear proposals being discussed - little engineering program which has been said of the backgrounds caused so much stir on campus of the plans, the nature of the this semester isn't going to be an discussions, or their status. isolated case of "foreign policy" for MIT. At the same time, other nego- The proposed Saudi program tiations are going on throughout would have contracted MIT to a the world between MIT and for- straight-forward piece of techni- eign agencies that the adminis- Commentart: cal research: assessment of Ara- tration isn't talking about. Their bian needs for water and electri- position is that these aren't se- cal power, and development of cret - they just don't talk about plans to meet those needs. It them. A full list should be pre- Planing forthe PhD gap involved nothingas explosive - pared and published, giving in pardon the pun - as nuclear some detail the status and back- By Robert A. Alberty science-engineering positions, Projections are based on proliferation, "buying" of an grounds of the talks. I was invited to comment on and on the average their salaries assumptions and one of the academic department or of ad- "Projections of Science and are higher than the salaries of major, assumptions for utiliza- mission spaces, or the politics of Similarly, a report on Engineering Doctorate Supply scientists and engineers em- tion of doctorates in science and the contracting government. past foreign deals, past foreign and Utilization, 1980 and 1985" ployed by colleges and universi- engineering is the rate of growth But even such standard re- contacts 'and offers, and the his- which hasjust been published by ties and in industrial and governm- of research and development. As search, when translated into the tory of MIT's international com- the National Science Founda- ment research and development. we look ahead, the United States context of dealing with a foreign mitments should be prepared tion These projections indicate If more doctorate scientists and and the world face major prob- government, raises political and and released. There is almost no a trend on a national scale engineers are going to hold such lems of obtaining enough moral issues which must be fully information available on this toward increasing imbalances be- positions in the future, there is energy, materials, food, and addressed before such contracts tween supply and conventional the question as to how educa- medical care. We know that topic anywhere. While, presum- f can be entered into. To the ably, the committee on inter- utilization of doctorates and em- tional- programs should be these problems will be more i administration's credit, MnIT has national commitments will be phasize the expected decline in changed to provide for greater difficult to solve because of the stood its ground in opposing informed of these things, the the academic job market due to breadth and flexibility. Doctor- need to protect the environment Saudi discrimination against whole community deserves to be demographic and student choice ates have always shown a and the quality of human life. Jewish and women researchers - told, both to participate in the factors. The report emphasizes marked capacity to transfer Thus there is a lot for scientists r a stand that might have cost MIT discussion and to' be able to that projections are not predic- from one field to another and to and engineers to do, but uncer- $2 million contract. judge the recommendations of tions and that they produce a undertake jobs outside of tainty about the rate with which the committee when it com- range of possible future situa- research, but the National Sci- these problems will be attacked. The two examples seen this pletes its work. tions based on definite assump ence Foundation report recorn- Projections emphasize the idea term of MIT's foreign dealings tions and no significant break in mends that more attention that there are some limits on the trends. should be paid to building foun- total resources that will be avail- show that the Institute must Finally, there should be a In the past. predictions have move quickly to develop a "for- moratorium on foreign con- dations and developing attitudes able for these activities in the not been very successful, but for future change during the future. eign policy" - a set of policies, tracting until the committee there is one aspect of current procedures, and considerations releases a report acceptable to formal eduational process. How should projections af- projections that is reasonably The report emphasizes that fect the decisions of students? In to be used when dealing with the faculty and establishes mech- solid and needs to be taken foreign agencies, especially for- anisms for dealing with such projected differences in supply considering doctorate education, seriously. That is the fact that and demand do not indicate it is important not to overem- eign governments. The guidelines programs. The administration the number of 18-22 year olds laid out in MIT's past studies of says that it has been judging past unemployment of doctorates phasize short-term trends. Since will grow only a little in the btecause doctorates are able peo- doctorate education takes outside commitments - the offers from abroad on the same remainder of this decade and Report of the Ad Hoc Commit- grounds as any domestic re- ple who have a number of a long time, poor employment will decline in the 1980's. For options. In the fall of 1973 the prospects may lead to decreased tee on Outside Commitments, search contract - grounds this reason the demand for new Policies and Procedures, the which, in two revealed cases, Commission on Human enrollment and shortages -six college and university faculty is Resources of the National- Re- years later. It is hard to foresee Commission on .MIT Education, have proven inadequate. Holding expected to decline, and the and so forth - do not search Council carried out a sur- needs six years in advance, but deal all on-going negotiations until total faculty required in the adequately with the host of vey of 50,000 of the 250,000 even if it were, this might over- MIT has clarified and stated its United States may decline very issues that arise when the contra- doctorate scientists and engi- emphasize the important of first policies on such matters will not slightly after about 1983. How- cting agent is foreign, not Amer- neers in the United States and jobs. Actually a new doctorate just prevent such misbegotten ever, the demand for faculty will ican another government, rather found an unemployment rate of can look ahead to an active mistakes as the Iranian program, depend on many factors such as than NSF or the Pentagon. but will keep the administration 1.1%. Such a level on unemploy- career of about thirty-five years. the percentage of high school ment is regarded as frictionaly Thus it is -important to get an from closing alternatives to the graduates going to college, the There are a number of steps committee and setting unwanted level by economists and is found education that will provide the development of cotinuing educa- which the administration could precedents. In addition, if MIT's even in good economic times. basis of a career over a long- ticn, student-faculty ratios and Projections of supply and de- period of time, during which take to make the upconming foreign dealings are as extensive on-campus research. Even if the review of such a foreign policy -- as they seem to be, such a mand do not attempt to deal many changes will undoubtedly general national picture des- with quality, and yet there are occur, Most people change their most of which, unfortunately, moratorium will lend a much- cribed in the NSF report is will be conducted over tihe sum- needed urgency to the policy large difference in the quality work activities many times in correct, some fields of higher of experience provided in differ- the course of their careers and mer when the student popula- review - a leisurely process to education will increase. during date which might well stand ent doctoral programs and uni- their fleibility, adaptability, tion is low and many faculty this period because of increasing some encouragement. , veTrsities differ in their success in and ability to move into new members are away - more importance. meaningful. They are all based recruiting able students. Al-- fields as they develop have a big I The fact that the number of though projections, and the effect on the extent to which on the premise that MIT policies There is no doubt that MIT faculty positions may not grow should be founded in public will need some sort of foreign basic statistical data on which they can fully utilize their tal- much in the 1980's does not they are based, deal with popula- ents and take advantage of new discussion and debate, rather policy. The need for research mean that able people with than simply formulated by and technical training overseas tions of individuals, we all know opportunities. interests in that type of career that individuals are important (Dr.'XAlberty is Dean of the administrators and silent com- now, and in many cases the should change their plans, but mittees of faculty. money to pay for it is there too and that their careers depend on School of Science and Chairman they should be aware that there their ability, experience, and of the Commission on Human But the review of its policies may be increased competition The first is that.the adminis- dedication. Resources,} should be conducted openly and should be ready_to consider tration should heed the spirit of with the broadest possible parti- new kinds of jobs. the first half of the student cipation. These proposed mea - The National Science Foun- referendum which passed over- sures would be a first step in dation report projects increases whelmingly -- 1000 to 200 - on showing the Institute's sincere Letter ctoThe Tech in the percentages of doctorates April 15. That measure called desire for such participation. who will be employed in what To the 9ditor: ever they are confronted by an they call other science-enginee- This is in response to the aspect of reality unpalatable to ~AMM_~~John J. Hanzel '76 - Chairperson ring positions or non-science- many people who, having read them. Their subsequent intense Michael D. McNarnee '76 - Editor-in.Chief engineering positions. Other my piece on the Institute's engagement with arguments at •>h 4S ~Julia A. Malakie '77 -Managing Editor science-engineering positions proposed Iran program (The best peripheral to truly substan- John M. Sallay '78 - Business Manager include, for example, technical Tech, 4[15/75), chose to com- tive questions often gives them sales, management with a techni- ment on only my parenthetical the comforting illusion of having (L rrh Continuous News Service Since 1881 cal component, and consulting. remark about Robert Benchely's faced real problems. Non-science-engineering posi- judicial career. I dare say that the debate Of course, I know that over the proposed Iran program Third Class Postage paid at Boston MA. Tite Tech is published twice a week tions do not really require a ' s during the academic year (except during MIT vacations) and once during doctorate education. At the pres- Benchley never became a judge. has had some characteristics that the first week of August. Please send all correspondence to: P.O. Box 29 - ent time about 10% of the I added that bit of nonsense to lend a certain relevance to my MIT Branch, Cambridge, MA 02139. Offices at Room W20-483, 84 country' doctorates in science my piece for the benefit of those little joke, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. Telephone: (617) 253-1541. who need some irrelevant bauble Joseph Weizenbaum Subscription rates available upon request. * , and engineering hold other to distract their attention when- Professorof Computer Science -- -~~---~·-··C-s-_~qp~~-··~ Ila--L--~ - I science-engineering or non- THE TECH TUESDAY, MAY 13,1975 PAGE 5 ------I -I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- I Lobby 7 reviem 's, 00 errors'. I consic ers safltt glads Alne s -eashfor By Margaret Brandeau was supposed be built in the rotting apples which fell from In an effort to respond to middle of the lobby and then the net. According to Miller, I community complaints, mem- moved off to the side. It was Weinberg apparently thought yolurto xbooks bers of the Lobby 7 Committee also supposed to be somewhat from the plans shown her by the have been reviewing the prob- smaller than it actually was. artists that these were to be | .| lems encountered in the "Food" However, after it was built, paper mache apples or else real exhibit. the Apple could not stand by apples in supporting baskets. According to John Wynne, itself and had to be held up by a There were also problems in chairman of the committee, he cable in the middle of the lobby. the exhibit with exposed wires. had received letters from people "It was a question of moving it However, Weinberg said that I who were upset by the exhibit. or ditching it," said Weinberg. most of the problems of this sort "The things which people criti- ""It was impossible to move it, were repaired without much Thle Coop will buy back the latest cized about the exhibit needed and I didn't think it was fair to trouble and that the Big Apple edition of any textbook in reusable, to be taken seriously," he said, tell students that after months was the only major-problem. condition - whether or not it was~ "We need to develop a set of of work they had to ditch it." She added that, "There are originally purchased at our store. guidelines for exhibitors to Another problem brought up always going to be problems in follow." at a meeting earlier this month an exhibit like this because most One problem considered by .was that of the apples that were of the people working on it were the committee was that of safety hanging from a macrame net students. However, most of the violations. A major offender was above the lobby. Jim Miller '76, people who were in the thing Return to the Big Apple, which was placed a student who opposed the ex- followed the guidelines." Register Check-out in the middle of the lobby, hibit because he felt it obstruc- The Lobby 7 Committee will M.I.T. STUDENT meet on May 20 to work on detouring all traffic through that ted the lobby, said that some CENTER area. MIT has an agreement with people walking through the formulating new guidelines for exhibitors to follow. the Cambridge Department of lobby were hit on the head by VW iParlaasar , ·ps8888 Public Safety that there will be C -- -- an imaginary hallway kept open m .. _ - - from the front door of the lobby Ft to the main corridor. According to Suzanne Weinberg, Lobby 7 Committee U ATf Coordinator, the Apple was supposed to be free-standing. It b6mme

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Baker House was created (114 people in a 7' by 12' wisdc from an outlandish vision of single), streaking, and rush viola- tongue Norwegian architect Alvar Aalto. tions. Mass participation is the An He considered every facet of cornerstone of Baker's consis- of the college life, down to the smallest tently strong IM teams. ites tr comer of one of its 26-sided Clytemnestra (Clyt) is Baker's youth rooms and the smallest stick of mascot. Except for housemasters man, solid wood furniture. Baker's Nafl and Helena Toksoz, she has munit serpentine form gives 85%'of the lived in Baker the longest. She sible I rooms a river view. Long stair- comes from a long line of regal is a ways and curved halls promote house dogs, and Bakerites profit share- both vertical and horizontal from her worldliness, immense tion. interaction among the residents. Baker offers a unique campus life style, combining the best aspects of classical dormitory and fraternity life. Characterized as "the biggest fraternity on campus," Baker is typified by friendship, diversity, commit- ment to house unity, camara- derie, hacking, jockishness, good parties, a fully democratic government, lots of bricks, and a high house tax. Over the past -few years, Baker has led in record-setting TE1TE1 TECTiSDAY MAY 13. 175 PAQGF 7 .-- A.1-6 .A I II.J - li L., I , ". I 0- %,IJ, tuf- t Pl%%-iUw IF

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OrL Your Feet or O Your' Knees . by Bob Reina _ · One of the most discouraging aspects of rock music is the manner in I which excellent groups are pushed into obscurity while horrendous bands rise to fame and fortune. It is reassuring, however, that after a few underpubli- cized years of outstanding perfor- nances, the Blue Oyster Cult is beginning to attain the recognition they deserve. The Cult are a New York band, and, consequently, most of their fans are from the NYC-Long Island area. In the late sixties, the group (then known as the Soft White Underbelly) played the Long Island bar Circuit and eventually were warmup to Ten Years After at Stonybrook University in 1969. Their big break came in 1972 when they signed with Columbia . records - but still no notoriety. BOC's music is a -little- different I I from most rock music and I guess it can be described as amphetamined' jackhammered, hard rock. But unlike the Dolls and Kiss (or any other eye-shadowed, correspondence-school° trained, pseudo-musicians) they are musically-creative and technically perfect. Past the drums and bass of Albert and Joe Bouchard, respectively, guitars form the band's basic sound. Don (Buck Dharma) Roeser plays lead guitar, with lead vocalist Eric Bloom backing on "stun guitar" and sypthe- sizer." Allan Lanier fills in all the gaps with rhythm guitar and the keyboards, on the album if you've previously and all members contribute vocals to witnessed the visual production. Near differing extents. Cult music is charac- the middle of the song the three terized by high speed boogie rhythms guitars and bass set up a basic riff- with many weaving and harmony gui- and then simultaneously improvise Pieces of EnN y Lou tar effects; Bloom's vocals are biting around it. Soon drummer Bonchard i by Wanda Fischer and percussive while the other vocal- picks up a guitar and joins in with his I ists provide a more mellow back- licks. The end result is five ruitars Pieces of the Sky "Before Believing," written- by Dan ground. weaving in and out of each other on .Emmy Lou Harris Flowers. Emmy. Louts -voice-is illthe There are two good reasons- for the stage. (Reprise MS 2213) forefront here, not buried behind mas- OlClt's lack of acceptance in the Boston "The Subhuman" deviates from sive orchestration. This number is im- area. Their three studio albums are their usual style, for although the beat The more I listen to Pieces -of the peccably arranged, with outstanding basically mediocre and do not show is hard and driving, the vocals are Sky, the more I lke it. At first, I was guitar work by Emmy Lou herself and the band at their full potential- More- melodic and soothing. In the remain- sort of discouraged by the fact that Bruce Archer, interlaced with a sensi- over, when restricted to a forty minute der of the albums a few nostalgic tricks old Ernmy Lou Harris has such a nice tive piano arrangement, again by Bill set as the-second band, (as BOC have are utilized. Their encore rendition of voice, but was wasting it on pooriy Payne. been in Boston) they don't really cut '"Born TO Be Wild" is a bit comical chosen materia. Two other mentionable cuts on loose with a complete show and and their metamorphosis of the 50's I But the more I hear of her voice, Pieces of the Sky are "Boulder to I there's always a feeling of uneasiness tune, "I Ain't Got You," even includes the more enchanted I become with it. Birmingharn,,"' which -Harrs wrote in - I in their act. the guitar solo from the Doors' "L.A. [ may not exactly agree with her conjunction with Bill Dax2off. (who i The Blue Oyster Cult are one of the Woman" and parts of the guitar work choice of songs, but she sure is one also helped John Denver to- write best live rock bands - their new from Free's classic "All Right Now.'- talented woman. "Take Ale Home Country Roads" a double album, On Your Feet Or On Since most of the cuts on the album The one thing that may be said for while back), and a sensitive, touching I I Your Knees, is a well rounded colec- are arranged in the same style, one the material here is that it demon- verionI of "For No One,'> A Lennon- I |tion of the high points of last year's might conclude that all Cult music strates her versatility. Most of - the Mclartey compsodion. Both of these I tour. '"The Red and the Black" is'a sounds the same; actually this no more numbers 'enjoy excellent arranging i songs are of a country western flavor; ridiculously fast blues number from applied to the Blue Oyster Cult than it Hands shines when she sings about which complements THais' voices 7Lfranny and Mutatiotl Amazingly does to hard sock in general. unsuccessful love, which seems to be a The rest of the album consists of enough, Buck Dharma's lead work There is something to be said about favorite theme of c'n'w songwriters. solid material, some of which is too does not falter at this high pace. the image the Blue Oyster Cult are For example, her version of 'Too Far country westerri-orented for my per- Keeping the rhythmic style consistent trying to project. They proclaim domi- Gone" is what I would call "country sonal taste. But the lady has a voice is "Seven Screaming Dizbusters;" nance and submission, whips, leather, western-blues.' Bill Payne's piano that should be heard -even if (as I designed to be performed live, it works and the like - and their music fits the work is superb; it adds a honky-tonk do) 'you cannot bring yourself to much better than the studio arrange- bill. Buat on stage they still look like a atmosphere to Harris' vocal work. aggree with the style of mulch of her ment, with an extended guitar solo bunch of skinny guys from Long My favorite on this album has to be material. exploring many paths. Island. It was almost as if they were "'Buck'sBoogie" is the Blue Oyster forced into arbitrarily choosing a gim- Cult's masterpiece, and at recent con- mick. e certs it has become their theme song. This album has such great potential, It has a catchy theme, tight chops, it's a shame Columbia chose to ruin it. interesting chord progressions, and, as It is one of the most poorly engineered the name suggests, lets Dharma loose disks I have ever listened to. The for some of his best solos. Buck's sound resembles that of a bootleg playing combines technique, wit, album and the mixing is atrocious. The phrasing, and creativity into a style cuts on the album assume no logical that is quick but very tasteful. This order and stage announcements with song is peculiar because it has never applause are randomly mixed in been released on a Cult studio album; between cuts. (It's hard enough to (the studio version is available, how- understand their lyrics as it is.) ever, on the Columbia anthology, Thre Baring this tragic flaw, this is Guitars That Destroyed the World) definitely an album to be heard. If I moreover, it is never performed the possible everyone should see the Blue same way in any two concerts. Oyster Cul in a top-billed format. If "Then Came The Last Days of not, then pick up the album and listen May" is a sweet ballad that allows a I to the best hard rock band of the breather from the standard BOC reper- seventies. toire and a chance for lead vocals by Discography: I Buck Dharma. "Cities on Flame" is The Blue Oyster Cult (Columbia .i the Cult's slow and heavy tune, The KC 31063) i redundant pounding guitar riff pro- Tyranny and Mutation (Columbia vides a solid foundation for Al KC

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-11 _ _, P~~~~~~3:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .1 _ . -.rrqg '" s~i~ii1--i1 I/ I I I I 1 I t~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~4g slpg EXX The -Hugos. * v and One That Got Away by Charles Hitch cock - - - a I s The current science fiction achieve- that it was serialized in the October the colonials and the Imperials. The got a feeling of inevitability about the ment awards committee has an- and December issues of IF, which had classic species loyalties are further conclusion of this facet of the novel, nounlced the Hugo nominees for 1974. previously been announced as folding blurred by the mutualistic but I must admit I underestimated Unlike most other awards, the with the December issue; it only Terran/Merseian culture which has Anderson in this. The final conclusion Hugos (named after Hugo Gernsback, recently came out in hardback, so very grown up on several of the Terran is a surprise but not some cheap one the founder of modern science fiction few people saw it before the nomina- colonial worlds. Anderson has always which would detract from any plea- as a separate genre) are nominated and tions were closed. been good at drawing the complex sure in rereading. In reaching it awarded by. the fans with the commit- i So I'ni reviewing another Anderson factors behind the political slogans and Anderson deliberately sidesteps several I tee serving only to mail out and i count book. So nu? The man thinks he's here he has outdone himself - opportunities for reams of medita- the nominating and final voting Robert Silverberg - he's written four particularly appropriate because the tions, philosophic expatiations, orjust ballots. This year the nominations I for novels this year,-all of them better story is gradually shadowed by plain purple prose, instead allowing best novel (defined as anything over than the bulk of what appears in the Aycharaych, an avid ally of the the events to speak for themselves. To 37,000 words) include a couple of bookstores these days. But A Knight Merseians who in previous stories was add irony to nemesis the book begins duds and a couple which deserve a of Ghosts and Shadows is the best of responsible for some of their most and ends with quotations from an epic I chance at the award. the lot It's another story about complex schemes. later written about the colonial com- The Inverted World by Christopher Captain Sir Dominic Flandry, Terran Flandry plunges into the middle of mander in chief, who was actually a Priest is based on a hidden gimmick Imperial Navy, whose Empire is now this- by purchasing, apparently by minor figure in most of the key events. which is revealed near the end of the quite a bit older than' in previous chance, an alleged traitor condemned This is, like all Anderson, an action book, by which time I could only say books; the corrupt Emperor has in fact to slavery despite being the daughter story standing primarily by itself "So what?" The characters are so been replaced by one who is honest of the colonists' commander in chief. rather than as an overlay for deep poorly drawn and cheaply suffled that but rather slow-witted. To be blunt, She becomes practically the only intellectual argument, but the action is it hardly matters that they are totally the new Emperor is a carica- woman of the hundreds he has toyed tempered by a thoughtfulness even defeated by the end of the book. ture-German, and fortunately seen with that Flandry actually cares for, more precent than in Fire Time. The Priest has his chance to show the sort only briefly, but he is a minor flaw in which increases the strain of balancing result is a truly remarkable book of major social change that is the a major work which somehow manages her valid colonial nationalism against which should receive high praise from foundation of most science fiction, to fit itself neatly into a reasonable the needs of the Empire as a whole. I readers whatever their interests. and blows it. size instead of sprawling through Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said- several hundred pages. by Philip K._Dick is all right if you The'story opens on Flandry and the happen to like weird happenings that son he unknowingly fathered on an turn out to be somebody's hallucina- admiral's concubine 27 years (and tions - at least I could summon some several books) ago. The son is not seen interest in what happened to the again until the end of the book, when I characters but after several books on he turns out to be an idealistic traitor, the same basis I'm bored and'I feel preferring the young and vigorous (and that Dick is cheating his readers. still somewhat barbaric) Merseian The Mote in CGod's Eye by Larry Roidhunate to what he feels is a dying Niven and Jerry Pournelle is moder- Terran Empire. The Empire is in fact ately inspired hackwork which has in somewhat better health than it was been hyped past endurance in some in previous stories; the succession of areas. It epitomizes Campbell's Pre- an Emperor who seems positively requisite (a race of aliens which are I ascetic compared to the_ ultimate both believable and truly alien) but decadence of his predecessor has the humans are stereotypes, some generally improved morale. borrowed liberally from Star Trek. The Empire's immediate problem is X The. .story- istoltdreasonably well, with the tensions between the colonials, a sound if excessively detailed plot' who have done most of the work in (539 pages worth); but the climaxes, turning back a Merseian thrust into the which are built up until you expect to Empire, and the Imperial Navy which hear fanfares at the pageturns, come has ordered the colonists to disband over like so many waterlogged fire- their armed forces. The situation is crackers. exacerbated by a group of spies and Fire Time by Poul Anderson is, disaffected humans appearing on from Anderson, and astonishing book. fringe worlds as members of the Navy There are hungover bits and pieces of and doing their best by overbearing his snap judgments of other people's behavior to stir up trouble between drawing by Peter Parnail I - - - -- politics but on the whole he has managed to keep the gripping narrative I --I . of his best previous work while discarding the casually aristocratic political viewpoint which made those books so irritating. It also has %MomentsI of Perfection practically the only woman in Anerson's work who is a developed character rather than simply a figure by Margaret Minsky ------i for the men to kick around - in fact Dhagren I she has the leading human role. The Samuel R. Delany work, sometimes in some places; fog and live together or fuck or talk, and sepa- aliens are also well thought out; since (Bantam Books; 879 pages) dark clouds cover the sky. Into the city rate. Almost everyone spends lots and the story does need an implacable comes Kid, a man who does not remem- lots of time on sex, which Dlelany enemy like the Merseians of his other is This reviewer was taken in on first ber his own name. He becomes a poet, good at describing. Kid's menage a trois books they are detailed, believable, reading of Dhalgren's 879 pages, by its the lover of a musical girl and an aimless gets a bit repetitive, but that may be and different. flamboyant and often excellent writing, young adolescent boy, the leader of a because some realism is lacking in that I would not be sorry to see Fire its suggestions of a potent symbology, raoming gang of youths who live com- we cannot understand why the three are Time win the Hugo but it appears its main characters, ambiguous and imn- munally and call themselves Scorpions. attracted to each other. :likely to be defeated by The Dispos- These three, the penetrable enough to seem insightfully His poetic celebrity leads Kid to meet primary characters in Dhalgren, are the sessed (by Ursula K. Leguin) which in a drawn. Delany has staked much time the people of Bellona-- all strange, least well delineated. Kid is inconsistent poll in Locus ("The Magazine of the and reputation on this novel. It is so some wondrous inventions of character. as his poetry and leadership ability stem Science Fiction Field") scored over long and clouded that it is easy to be After a long time Kid leaves the city, from nowhere plausible. Lanya and twice as many points as its nearest diverted by hope for merit, expectation for no clear reason. His time there had Denny, his lovers, are sweet but insipid. rival. The Dispossessed is a very of revelation. He has lost. Upon long simply come to an end. There is no Those are reasons why this complex novel is I novel and for that reason will thought and some rereading, it is clear strong message, motivation, or idea to not great. There are a few redeeming reward rereading more than any of the that Dhalgren is an overlong, dreadfully be found. What a disappointment from features which we should note. Delany's other nominees. Leguin has created a weak piece. Because it is touchedby the author of that scintillating paragon assortment of well portrayed secondary pair of worlds - one authoritarian, the Delany's hand of genius, it is not devoid of novel for, BABEL-17! Much of the characters you can't possibly hope to other its created cureping ground for a of delightful and strong moments, it is novel is unfortunately occupied in a meet anywhere else, they mae worth- million communal anarchists - and crafted carefully. Unfortunately, what it game of symbol manipulation. Several while, too, for their delusions, their in- contrasts them through the eyes of a sustains is too scarred and basically objects are introduced at the beginning dividualism, their variety . Delany's genius physicist who is appreciated on pointless to make it a fine novel. in a heavy-handed, ritualistic manner. language is good, deliberately fine - both worlds for his talent but not for Most SF folk have probably tried to There are red contact lenses, chains of there are moments of Perfection, phrases his opinions. She exposes with the read some of Dhalgren and/or read the prisms, an identifying scratch of a which, well, just couldn't be written finest of needles the fallacies of reviews (Sturgeon: "the greatest SF woman's leg. These things are embedded except that Delany has figured out how libertarians and radicals alike but does novel of all time" Del Rey: "a seeming- in the structure of Dhalgren with care, to write them - perfectly. not sacrifice a good story line to make ly interminable boredom"). Even so, yet they are never clear symbols. They If you have time. read Dhalgren, or 9 i her points. we'll attempt a precis. The novel is set are never explained, never identified, part of Dhalgren. Appreciate its literary The one that didn't make it is A in Bellona, a timeless, placeless city. Its and they never become important, prettinesses, its population. There's lots Knight of Ghosts and Shadows by population is reduced to a few thousand really, to the reader. there about people's rel.-.:ionships, about Poul Anderson; in fact it did not even by a fantastic disaster. There are fires Dhalgren does not have a classical personal realities, about mniadness and appear in the list of 23 novels in the which burn continuously but do not plot: movement in Bellona is lackadaisa- delusion, too. Just don't expect to be above mentioned poll. The problem is destroy buildings; electricity and water cal - people wander meet, go looting or compelled or satisfied.

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By Lawrence D. David runner was breaking from third missed a lot of playing time due ".:i i" The MIT baseball Beavers and scored the gamewinner, 5-4. to injury; shortstop Mfike split the last four games of their Mike Royal allowed only four Dziekan '76, who was sidelined schedule last week, edging wit h tendonitis in his throwing Northeastemrn, singles in the first game of the 1-0, then losing arm, catcher Ric h Chmura '76, hearbreakers double header versus WPI, but to Tufts, 5-4, and the Beavers who missed the entire season to WPI, 1-0, before closing out could manage only three scattered singles off WPI with a knee operation, and veter- with a comeback over WPI in the an southpaw Don Proper '76, .-- ,second game of the doublehader, ace Mike Sundberg. A bad hop single that skipped who is still mending a broken 7-3. two feet over arm a leaping Felton at third ,suffered in the Harvard base game when Mike with two outs in he was hit by a Royal '76 twirled a the sixth pitch.. seven-hitter and the defense secored WPI's lone run, but it .. backed him up with several was enough to edge the Beavers, There is some promising tal- sparkling plays to keep North- I -0. ent in next year's freshman class, :: eastern at bay. Dan Sundberg and combined with a returning ... :.: ..- .. '77 and Roy Henriksson '76 The Beavers got their revenge veteran in the team, the outlook for Engineer midfielder Roger Renshaw '77 ('4) bat foiled a second-inning double nightcap, as Ken Smith another tournament-caliber team ttles a Boston steal, catcher-to-second-to catch- '77 hurled the finest game of his next year is very good. Lacrosse Club player for the ball in MIT's 15-8 scr.7immage loss to er, and Sundberg gunned out MIT pitching career to win, 7-3. BLC Sunday afternoon at Briggs Field. pinch runner Pat Morelli in the Only one of the runs that Smith ninth to end a Northeastern allowed was earned, a third- comeback attempt. The Beavers inning home run by WPI's short- Ull~asrss routs larosse, 22- scored their lone run in the fifth. stop. Smith handcuffed the WPI batters, surrendering only five By Glenn Broswrnstein all had single goals in the game. done for MIT to perform as well Henriksson reached first on an Showing why they infield hit and hits and two walks. The Beavers are.the After the first quarter, goalie as it' did this year. However, with Herb Kummer '75 nation's 14th-ranked lacrosse followed with a one-out single. crunched out 11 hits, taking the Singer - performed creditably, its defensive base, the team, if team, the Redmen of the Univer- stopping eleven of 21 shots on players develop over-the summer Sundberg's ground ball to the initiative in the second inning sity of Massachusetts first baseman when Royal scored net. and some capable freshmen are moved Henriksson laid down a perfect twelve goals in the first quarter and Kummer up, then Henriks- squeeze bunt Althogh MIT lost its fnal attracted, has a definite chance to score Yauch and powered to an easy 22-5 win son scored on a passed ball by with the three games to finish the season of continuing the improvement second run. Edelson over MIT in the Engineers' final Northeastern then stole home at 3-9, the team improved trend of MIT lacrosse. catcher Steve on the next game this year. .Kring. Kring fielded the pitch to up the count to tremendously from 1974's 0-11 I- ball off 3-0. MIT was completely out- the backstop, but his squad. throw and Felton scored the eventual classed by a UMass squad that the tag by the The addition of Laurenson (a Northeastern winning run by reaching was quicker, had better portitu pitcher were too late, second ball and transfer student who was first as Henlriks- on a throwing error by the stickhandling abilities, and had ~fiPntx son slid in around the tag. short- eligible to play this year) gave stop and wheeling around on more strength than the game. MIT more scoring punch (94 IFI Tufts jumped on David Henriksson's single to right. The but obviously overmatched, goals in 1975 against only 42 The newly-formed MIT Yauch '75 immediately, as the game was salted away in the Engineers. last year). Laurenson had 27 Summer Basketball League is p first two batters scored on a seventh when Royal singled, In UMass' twelve-goal first goals, graduating co-captain now accepting rosters for the E double and then a home run by Olson doubled him home, quarter (one of the highest single summer session. All members w Braun 21 (with 18 assists), and w Tufts first baseman Mark Fisher. Felton doubled Olson home, and quarters ever recorded in a colle- Schwartz and Connor 15 apiece. of the MIT community are Tufts scored another in the sixth then Felton scored on Henriks- giate lacrosse game), the Red- Epstein scored five goals and eligible. Rosters of up to w on another home run by center son's infield hit, on which the men bombarded MIT goalie Jeff passed off for eleven more. twelve players must be sub- shortstop threw fielder Randy Rundle. In the the ball away. Singer '77 with 25 shots, 17 on mitted to- W32-137 by w eighth, though, the silent Beaver net, many of them backhanders MIT's defense, although Wednesday, -May 28. A fee of bats exploded. A single by Steve Henriksson was elected the or "fall-away" shots, in which allowing 158 goals, substantially $60 per team will starting be charged Edelson '76, a triple past the left second baseman on the the attacking player fired after improved over last year, as co- to pay refereeing costs. For fielder (who attempted a shoe- GB All-Star Team and Kummer running past the net. Billy captain Rick Bye '75 (who persons interested in nailed referee- string catch) by Royal, a double down the first baseman's O'Brien, Frank Garahan, and missed the UMass game after ing, a clinic will spot. Kummer, be held to right by Rick Olson '78, and elected the MIT Terry Keefe all had three goals tearing knee ligaments in a Thursday, May 29 at 5:30pm then a towering home run blast- baseball team's MVP, had the for UMass in the first quarter scrimmage earlier in the Wveek) in duPont Gymnasium. by Jeff Felton '78 put the greatest season ever by an MIT rout. anchored a quick, pressing unit Projected schedules call batter, belting out a .396 Beavers on top, 4-3. average In the next three periods, that allowed few good scoring for 8-12 games per team to be with 40 base hits and 50 total MIT held its own, scoring five attempts. played weeknights in duPont Yauch retired the first man in bases, all records. goals against the UMass reserves, The squad's most valuable Gymnasium during June and, - ,the ninth, but the next batter while the Redmen subs added player was Singer, who at times July. Teams will compete in singled up the middle and the The 12-14 record is some- ten. To UMass coach Dick singie-handedly kept MIT in batter after A or B-league: with the possi- that walked. Coach what a disappointment to the Garber's credit, he switched games with excellent goaltend- bility of a Fran O'Brien third league should pulled in Royal team, especially after the 6-1 player positions and played his ing. Siiger's 230 saves in 12 interest warrant from fight field it. to quell the southern trip that began the reserves liberally in an attempt games ranked him as one of the (Please specify uprising, but the league on next batter, season. The team 4511lose to keep the score down. nation's top five in that depart- roster.) Mark Fisher, slapped Royal's 1-1 Kummer and Yauch to gradua- George Braun '75, Bob ment. For more information, pitch into center. Fisher plowed tion, but the rest of the starters Laurenson '75, Evan Schwartz Next year, only three mid- contact Randy Forent into Vince Maconi '76 at second will be back next year. The '75, Alan Epstein '75, and Bob dies, two defensemen and Singer (536-1696), base, making the Maura Sullivan second out as Beavers will hopefully have three Connor '75, MIT's top five return. As a result, a major (296-6321), or Lisa Jablonski Maconi applied the tag but the starters back next year who scorers during the regular season, rebuilding job will have to be (dl 8333). · I ,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~a.- --- I ------,------·------,, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ii " , "om --Ir - -~~~------B It's not too late - yetp Dont Freshmen may A leave stl11 enroll in te Munsarses's But ifyou have to move, don't leave one of Army I IITC Massachusetts' best features behind. Once you I move out of state you can't get top rated, less expensive SAVINGS BANK LIFE INSURANCE pro rain. at low Massachusetts rates. Buy now and keep it l wherever you settle dowrn. 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