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COV\q(~UI~6)\SJ CCfl..'\~ THE ro.:h!\lrl-r0\1\S I K~r-lo.\. CALIFORNIA ::red \. VOLUME 86 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA / FRIDAY 15 MARCH 1985 NUMBER ~1 Admiral Gayler Speaks On The Way Out by Diana Foss destroyed just as easily by a gravi- Last Thursday, the Caltech ty bomb dropped from a plane as Distinguished Speakers Fund, the by a MIRVed ICBM. In fact, Caltech Y, and the Caltech World technology often has a highly Affairs Forum jointly sponsored a detrimental effect. Improved ac talk by Admiral Noel Gayler entitl- curacy of nuclear missles has led ed, "The Way Out: A General to the ability to target silos with Nuclear Settlement." The talk, pinpoint precision. This leads to the which was given in Baxter Lecture dangerous philosophy of "use Hall, drew about sixty people, them or lose them," with such mainly staff, faculty, and graduate manifestations as preemptive students, with a sprinkling of strikes and launch-on-warning undergraduates. President systems. Goldberger introduced Admiral While Gayler views as laudable 15' Gayler, who is a former Com- Reagan's attempts to find a more :tl mander in Chiefofthe Pacific Fleet "humane" policy than Mutually ~ and a former director of the Na- Assured Detruction, he sees the ~ tional Security Agency. Space Defense Initiative as a .s Gayler began his talk by em- fruitless attempt to use technology ~ phasizing the. threat of the huge to work impossible miracles, part -a nuclear stockpiles of the two super- of a general trend to make science I powers. The numbers themselves, an omnipotent god. He stated that Baxter Art Gallery Director Jar Belloli shows opening-night audience a work 50,000 nuclear warheads between "population protection is impossi by Mark DeKooning the US and the USSR, are frighten- ble. " Countermeasures are always ing enough, but doctrines such as much easier to implement than the NATO's threat of first strike in proposals they are intended to response to a conventional attack frustrate, and the SDI could be Land of Abstraction on Eurpoe and the farcical idea of subverted by a bomb in a suitcase, "limited exchange" make ther- or by a ship full of nuclear ex monuclear. war more likely. He plosives in LA Harbor. by Ketan Shah likened the present state of rela- Technology is a good in areas such The Nile as oil on rug, and tions between America and the as verification of treaty com Hydra as oil on marble. These are Soviet Union to those betweenpliance, intelligence, and in im some of the landscape artworks America and Japan prior to World proving conventional forces. now on exhibit at the Baxter Art War II; there was a common But Gayler is sure that there is Gallery. perception that the two countries a way out of this mess. He The show, titled "Painting as were eventually going to go to war. presented constructive ideas on Landscape: Views of American In the same way, the attitudes of how to bring about a general Modernism, 1920-1984," consists the two superpowers toward one nuclear settlement. He stated of works by 21 artists. These another, the fact that, in peacetime, forcefully that he is no friend ofthe works were chosen in order to each calls the other''the enemy," Soviet Union, citing its brutal reexamine the influence of land . leads to an implicit notion that war repression in Afghanistan, Poland, scape on Americari abstract is inevitable. This is very Hungary, and Czechoslovakia as painting. dangerous. Although Gayler is well as within its own borders. It was only in the nineteenth acutely sensitive to the danger of This "has nothing to do with the century that landscape became a nuclear war, he feels that the pre- question of our survival," major subject of paintings in sent stability "is very strong," and however. We must deal with the Western art. Until then, landscape feels that there won't be war this Soviet Union, and we must was a prop, and human and year, or in the next ten years, but eliminate the threat of nuclear war. mythical figures were more that the sum ofthe dangers is very Gayler's points are as follows: prominent. large. That nuclear war is bad is 1) The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. must According to Klaus Kertess, the Anselm Keifer, Ride to the Vistula, 1980 given. We must stop trying to pin put an end to the idea that war is Robert Lehman Curator ofthe Par tion takes up from recent the present, in works by artists in- the blame and start negotiating. inevitable. The constant insulting rish Art Museum ofSouthamptom, developments where "landscape cluding Augustus Tack, Carroll Security, Gayler said, can be of the superpowers by each other New York, and guest curator ofthe has reclaimed many of its prior Dunham, and Brice Marden. found elsewhere than in nuclear must stop. To attack, a country Baxter exhibition, while landscape prerogatives" and it illustrates the On April 18 Baxter Art Gallery stockpiles, in fact, reliance on must be in fear, and feel that the painting was an innovation of the relevance of landscapes to will present a lecture, free and nuclear weapons decreases our enemy is less than human. This se nineteenth century, it was the American modernist painting, from open to the public. Mr. Belloli will security, and although the present cond condition is the result of this revelations ofmeans-that is, pro 1920 to the present. speak on "Painting as Landscape" administration professes a desire to hostile rhetoric. cedures of painting-that became During the opening night recep- and new contemporary trends. The reduce these stockpiles, no one is 2) The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. must the major subject of twentieth tion last Tuesday, Jay Belloli ex- talk will be in Baxter Lecture Hall behaving as though anyon~ wants formally renounce nuclear-war century art. Landscape painting claimed that some of the paintings at 8 pm. arms control. In fact, "primitives fighting doctrine. In particular, the was a major force in early abstract were indeed very; new. When they The show opened on March 13 have come out from under some U.S. should renounce the doctrine art. In the 1950's, image represen were unpacked, they exuded the oi- and continues until May 5. The rock and attacked the whole idea." of counterforce-the targeting of tation, hitherto suppressed, began ly aroma of fresh paint. Some of Baxter Art Gallery is open seven He pointed out that there is no such Soviet silos and leadership to reappear in paintings. Land them still do. days a week, from noon until 5 pm. thing as "unilateral security," bunkers-which leads to the danger scapes began to be obliquely refer The show begins with the ear- "Painting as Landscape" will be security thatone country can build ofa first strike; the doctrine of pro red to, and in the last fifteen years, ly modernism of Arthur Dove and BaxArt's second-to-last exhibit. all by itself. With 50,000 weapons tracted war-"shoot and shoot, restraints on allusion and metaphor John Marin, and traces The last show, "Twenty-Five in existence, numerical superiori- then parlay" (With whom? Are have slowly been released. The chronologically the development of Years ofSpace Photography," will ty doesn't equal security; neither you going to be any more "Paintings as Landscape" exhibi- landscape-inspired abstraction to open in mid-May. does technology. A city can be continued on page 3 r---E-ri-n-G-o-B-ra-g-h-----,! K!o!!!e~e 0 ~well~oo~~~ooi ~19;" ~~~d~worn by Lep Ree Khan Barclay Kamb, a professor in designed for a general audience, thin near the bottom. This bulge Begorrah, if it isn't a little no less. Food for all-all those on Geology and Geophysics, gave the was well appreciated. He showed surged like a slow motion tidal . party I see before mine own two Servo contract ($6.50 other second Earnest C. Watson lecture a blurry fast-motion film of the wave down the glacier, reaching a eyes! The MaSH is throwing us wise)-starting at half-past , ofthe term in Beckman Auditorium surge, but his preliminary explana- maximum velocity of 50 meters a a bosh on this very after-nooning. music by Dan Kahane's Irish last Wednesday. Kamb discussed tion made it understanding. day. Come one, come all; sing, dance, Country Band, and dancing with his expedition to the Variegated Barclay's wry understatements of and make merry. The festivities the Cripple Creek Cloggers: what Glacier in Alaska. the hazards contrasted favorably The next Watson lecture will be will being at day's end-5pm- better way to end a term? Why, Kamb is interested in glacial with his dire photographs. April 3rd in Beckman. Professor of and we'll dance until we can't you ask? Well, why not?-but motion because it is similar to the The Variegated Glacker Behavioral Biology Masakazu dance no more. Where shall all mainly because Sunday is St. geological motion of very large "galloped" from last May to June. Konishi will discuss recently this happen? On the Olive Walk, Paddy's Day! rock formations, but happens The Glacier had grown especially discovered differences between quickly enough for study. thick and heavy over the years near male and female brains. 2 THE CALIFORNIA TECH I FRIDAY 15 MARCH 1985 BLOOM COUNTY letters===~1 r---------, r----TM--:-r5-15-1W--F-:m~by Berke~ Breatbed I ...'II6IN6. WHITE CHEMICIlL J .....I "'ANT £XECI/TIVE ~EKS WHM FEMALE INTO 1 ~ /lEATH S(JIIIII7S, (f{'f(f(, /fOIrWITlC i.

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