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Techers IHC Not Lose Big ~RlIFORNIATech Coming a~ Volume LXXI Pasadena, California, Thursday, January.:t5'; 1970 Number 14 Resident Artists Exhibit Works in Bradley Visit to Highlight Dabney Lounge by A. Ctein Week's YActivities What does one do with a master machinist and a part-time cartoon­ by E. Gansner school reform, and Donald Wheel­ ist? Exhibit their work in an art The emphasis of the Caltech din, writer for the LA Times. show of course! The artists in YMCA's program this coming week Bradley Speaks! mention are Paul Darrow, head of is on political and social awareness. The topic of the afternoon the Scripps Art Department, and The week will be highlighted by a seminar will be "Political and Ferenc Csentery, a skilled precision visit to the Caltech campus of Technical Issues of the Urban machinist-cum-featured artist, The nationally-known councilman Environment." Dr. Roger Noll, Institute Fine Arts Committee will Thomas Bradley and by two associate professor of economics, be exhibiting their works in Dabney conmmne dwellers. Lester Lees, progessor of aero­ Lounge beginning Wednesday, Jan­ Photo by Levin Bradley will be on campus nautics, and Dr. Norman Brooks, uary 27, as the Committee's second Dr. David R. Smith delivers invocation at Memorial Ramp Dedication. tomorrow to talk informally with professor of civil engineering, all mahor show of the year. faculty and studnts on the urban from the Caltech faculty, will also Pasadena Boy environment. At 12:30, there will be participating in the seminar. Paul is a Pasadena boy, educated Round Four be an Olive Walk Talk with time Friday night, at 8:30, Bradley predominantly at P.C.C. and allowed for a question and answer will be at the Civic Auditorium for iScripps. He has taught at the period. Then, from 1:30 to 3:00, an informal reception, along with County Museum, the Chanard and The War of the Greasy St. Ramp Councilman Bradley will take part former minority political candidates. Otis art schools, and at Scripps, to in a drop-in seminar and panel The Committee for Ethnic Studies mention a few. His talents include by Phil Neches both the posts an; the holes discussion. Dinner for Bradley will is sponsoring this reception. Tickets graphics, drawing, and cartooning: Page House appears to have disappeared. The posts apparently be held in the Athenaeum at 6:30, are availabl~_at the Y office. faithful readers of the New Yorker scored an uncontested victory in now reside in Page House, while the with many active campus figures Commune Visitors will have seen his work. round four of the now-infamous Fleming House freshmen are now invited. On January 26, two members of In the past, Paul has been best "Battle of the Greasy Street hiding the holes under some quick· Policeman to Politician a commune and aythors of the known for his landscapes, which Ramp." Between Friday night and set cement. (Note: "A hole is Formerly a police officer, Brad­ periodical "Vocations for Social have a lyric, abstract quality. This Saturday morning, the David R. something that would have been ley has worked his way to a Change" will be at Caltech for a Y show will be the first to feature Smith Memorial Ramp appeared to there if it had been there." .- C' A' position on the Lost Angeles City program. They will be hosted by representational works of human aid the flow of traffic between Mead) Council. He has long been active in Kostia Bergman and Jim Beck. figures. His more recent works Greasy Street and Olive Walk. The second ramp was left well achieveing multi- racial politics. A drop-in seminar in Winnett combine superb drawing skill with The new ramp, complete with enough alone for the balance of Recently, he gained nationwide Lounge from 4 to 6 p.m. will his lyric quality. Throw in a liberal engraved plaque, will present any­ first term, however, it went the way attention in the Los Angeles provide a forum for any questions dose of Paul's warm sense of one who wishes to remove it some of the first over vacation. In its mayoralty campaign. concerning them or their publi­ humor, and and unbeatable com­ trouble. It is constructed of steel­ place, a green wooden ramp some· With Bradley during his visit will cation. The bulletin consists mainly bination results. reinforced concrete, and has steel how appeared. Unfortunately, no be several outstanding local Negro of listings of jobs that would help Freedy for Short rods going into thy street to support one counted on the effects of leaders. Among these will be Samuel to bring needed social change while Ferenc (call him Freddy) left it. Unlike ramps constructed by Continued on Page Three Sheats, Pasadena lawyer active in providing gainful employment. Rungary in 1956. He was educated, B&G, the new ramp has no drain like Paul, at P.C.C., as well as at the channel through it. These channels School of Fine Arts of the have been used to physically uproot All Hale! ASCIT Musical University of Judaism. He pre· previous ramps. viously had graduated from the Illustrious Predecessors School of TecJmology in Hungary. The new ramp is the fourth ramp Palomar, Wilson Renamed Cancelled for Spring He presently supports himself as a to grace its location since Septem­ precision machinist and welder. ber. The first concrete ramp was The Mount Wilson and Palomar institution and an associate director There will be no ASCIT Musical Since he works for a frim that deals removed sometime last tern1, and Observatories are to be known from the other. this spring. The traditional musical with JPL, he has probably even replaced by a ramp which had holes henceforth as the Hale Observa­ The appointment of Dr. J. was cancelled because of the lack helped build some of our spacecraft. for metal posts, as well as metal tories, it was announced by Dr. Beverly Oke as associate director of of staff and time. Originally sche­ Freddy's work combines his two posts. In the course of the first Caryl P. Haskins, President of the the Hale Observatories was also duled was Brigadoon, a production Continued 011- Page Three week of existence of that ramp, Carnegie Institution of Washington, announced. Dr. Oke, staff member involving large amounts of choreo­ and Dr. Harold Brown. The change of the Observatories and professor graphy and a good orchestra. of name honors George Ellery Hale, of astronomy, is a distinguished When this became impossible, it the world-famous astronomer and astronomer who is widely known was decided to organize a musical Board Of Control Considers founder of both observatories, who for his studies of stars, galaxies, and revue. This plan was dropped when did more than any other American quasars, and for his development of no production staff could be orga­ Security, History, Policy of his day to awaken interest in and modern instrumentation for astron­ nized find support for science. omy. The Hale Observatories, which by Robert Fisher ized and the subject is still quite are operated jointly by the Carnegie Sec'y, BOC open. Institution of Washington and Cal­ Come and Have a Ball Few students, faculty, or admin­ Guiding Light tech, constitute a unique scientific istrators would deny the value of The guiding principle of the organization which has long been the Honor System at Caltech. Honor System is that no member of pre-eminent in the field of astro­ Especially since those individuals the Caltech Communitee shall take nomy. Since 1908, when the Mount I who think about the system (inclu­ advantage of another member. It is Wilson 60-inch reflecting telescope ding members of the BOC) tend to possible with a rigit interpretation was completed, their facilities have conclude that it works. But with of this guidline to fabricate violat­ been unequalled elsewhere in the any collection of abstract, inter­ ions of the Honor System that world. Today, the 200-inch Hale pretable principles there are places would not warrant a full Case telescope at Palomar is the world's where application is either ambig­ Meeting. Stealing a coke from the largest optical telescope. uous or unwarranted. For some food service might be an example. "Much of what is known about time there have been -questions on Case Meetings, aside from being the universe has come from the the Honor Code's applicability to time consuming, are monumentally Mount Wilson and Palomar Obser­ non-academic matters. unpleasant for everyone involved. vatories. Each of the observatories Over the past two terms, the The BOC is not anxious to hold will retain its own identity under i Board of Control has held four them over relatively trivial matters. the new shorter name, which is discussion meetings on this issue­ Such minor violations can occur in specified in an agreement that one of them open and well­ academics as well-using a diction­ continues the productive scientific ·publicized. Opinions varied substan­ ary on a closed-book test for partnership of Caltech and the tially and a number of possible instance. Carnegie Institution that began in changes in procedures of the Board This leaves the Board in some­ the 1930's," said Dr. Horace W. were suggested. In the following it what of a dilemma, since we believe Babcock, Director, of the Observa­ is my purpose to throw some of the Honor Code is a broad ethic, a tories. these ideas out for general discus­ spirit of honesty and fairness, and The new joint operation plan Photo by Moskatel ~on. If a statement is only a as such should apply to all which changes the name to Hale personal conviction of mine, I shall interactions among people on the Observatories amends one approved Feeling down? Come up to the HIGH LIFE of the PARTY-PARTY: attempt to phrase it as such.

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