This Could Have But It Was Been a Really Tbe Much Worse Lousy Week, CALIFORNIA ch Than That. .. ~V:::o=l=u=m=e~L:::;X;X~V;:=======:=:~------------nP;-a-sadena, California, Friday, May 31,1974 Number 30 Y's Lost and Found Page Wins Interhouse Auction, Swap Meet Happen TODAY! Third Consecutive Year by Silverstein There are only two more A bone-jarring victory in Varsity Rating Trophy. weeks left of what has been a Wednesday's all-or-nothing inter­ With only 8Yz points sepa­ long, long year and everyone, house football game gave Page rating Page and Fleming in the students and faculty alike, are House the Interhouse Trophy for Interhouse Trophy Standings, just about exhausted enough to the third consecutive year. In a Wednesday's Page-Fleming foot­ call it quits. Everyone but the repeat of last year's results, ball game decided the winner of people at the Y, that is, who are Fleming has clinched the Disco­ the 1974 trophy. Page pulled out still truckin' with four major events yet on this year's calen­ bolus Trophy and Page took the a 13-12 win en route to a dar. First upcoming is the annual perfect 6-0 football season and, Lost and Found Auction on the providing there are no upsets in Institute Stages Quad today during the noon the three remaining games of the History Conference season, will lead Fleming by 17Yz hour. Walt Meader will probably points in the final standings. be the barker and he has more to disburse this year than last, most by Chris Harcourt Varsity Rating Trophy of it in reasonably good shape: I keep claiming that Caltech is Page 1.255 "Not all the sliderules are good for more than just science. Fleming 1.125 broken." Be there and you may Sometimes there is reason to Ricketts 0.840 pick up a bargain. All the found believe this. For example, Cal­ Lloyd 0.675 items the Y has will be disposed tech is a co-sponsor of UCLA's Ruddock 0.653 of-so if you just remembered conference "First Images of Dabney 0.600 This lovely lock and chain set, modeled for the Tech by Joe Carlsen, is a what it """ you lost, you have America: The Impact of the Mew Blacker 0.270 fine Ditch-Day present for the absent-minded senior. Photo by Gruner until the start of the auction to World on the Old," to be held claim it. Otherwise it will turn February 6-9, 1975 on several ASCff of O'Malley" into profit for an as-yet-unchosen local campuses. outside charity. The conference, held in con­ But don't go 'way after the junction with· the 21 st annual auction; if you couldn't find meeting of the Renaissance So­ Runoff Election Retake Today what you wanted on the block, ciety of America and including you may be able to pick it up international participation, will by Dick O'Malley Tuesday's class run-off elections. president. For sophomore class (cheap?) from another Techer at be the object of a two-volume In a move that came as no Procedural protests were received president, the candidates are the Swap Meet, which will be publication. There will be surprise, the Board of Directors from the ASCIT Excom and Doug Brandt and Eileen Reeds. from one to five on the Olive twenty-two panels on various last night refused to validate Gavin Claypool of Ricketts; a Vote early. Vote often. Walk. This is the first year that facets of the New World's impact result of the non-placement of the idea will be tried, but there on the Old, including the topics ballot boxes in the student will be a reasonable number of of imagination (art & literature), Kleinsasser Makes houses. A replacement election VOTE TODAY! vendors all the same. Walt politics and law, economics, and will be held today. Meader explained that the pur­ technology. Among the panels to It To NCAA Finals Candidates for senior class pose of the Meet is to give be conducted on the Caltech 11-4 in Flora's Office president are Marie Beall and students, especially Seniors, a campus is one concerning the Despite the poor weather in Rick Mitchell. Cary Lai, Claus chance to "clean out their impact on medicine. eastern Illinois (see page 4 for Makowka, and Alan Shusterman 11:30-1 in Houses closets" before packing out. For Fifty places in the conference more on this), the NCAA College are running for junior class vice Continued to Page Three have been set aside for students. Division Nationals are underway. Conference registration in this In action yesterday and Wed­ News Briefs category is only $10 until nesday, Alan Kleinsasser qualified October 1, when the fee rises to for the finals in the 880-yard run the regular $50. Bed and break­ and, in Coach Neal's words, Anita Lighty Wins Fellowship fast is also being arranged at the "looked good." Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica Sprint star Haywood Robin­ Anita Crafts Lighty has re­ of the pool, while faculty, staff, game of the term this Saturday at $25 for four nights (if that son has not had such good luck, ceived a three-year fellowship to and alumni (including those night. ~enri Farhi has challenged excites you, keep in mind that as he progressed to the semifinals Churchill College, Cambridge getting degrees on June 14) will the two admirals of last week's there are four to six beds per in the 1OO-yard dash but failed University, England, for graduate have to fork over $5. room). game to a "grudge match," to make the finals. At last study in biology. Higher fees are assessed per­ which will start at 7:30 p.m. The For further information con­ report, Greg Griffin was sitting Mrs. Lighty is one of seven 'sonnel whose families also want game will take place in Page cerning the conference, contact under the bleachers while meet students in the United States to . to use the pool and those who dining room; charges will be 10 either the Caltech coordinator, officials debated whether it was receive Churchill Fellowships. In want instruction. Contact the cents for chartered members of Dr. John Benton, in Baxter Hall, raining too hard to hold the her graduate program, she plans Athletic Office (ext. 2146) for the chapter, 35 cents for non­ or the UCLA Center for Medieval 6-mile run. to conduct research in chemical further information or regis­ chartered players (WHOOPEE). aNd Renaissance Studies, Bunche Weather permitting, the last microbiology with emphasis on tration forms. Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, Cali­ events in the ·Nationals will be the biochemistry of bacteria Fisher Memorial fornia 90024. held today. membrane proteins. After obtain­ Award Awarded ing her PhD, she intends to At the Mercy Joseph G. Polchinski has been become a research chemist. Of a Tholian Web selected as this year's winner of Her husband, Roger Lighty, The Caltech Gaming Chapter the Haren Lee Fisher Memorial now a graduate student at will sponsor the last Alien Space Award in Junior Physics. UCLA, will go with her to England. Lighty received his BS degree in chemistry from Cal tech in 1972. The Free Ride Is Over Because of greatly increased costs involved in running the summer recreation program at the Caltech pool, the faculty Athletic Facilities Committee has reluctantly decided to charge Tech personnel who use the pool this summer. Undergraduates and THE NOVA ENSEMBLE, a group of Pasadena educators, was featured during an Olive Walk concert last week. Photo by R. Gruner grad students will be levied a $3 fee for unlimited recreational use Page Two THE CALIFORNIA TECH Friday, May 31, 1974 UCLA ot Schroedlu Questing for Quality THE CALTECH FORUM by Etaoin Schroedlu suggest a larger role for the how does the Nixon admini­ An article in last week's Institute, not in co-opting the ASAP File System Basic Points Claimed stration calculate what is parity California Tech reported that the evaluation task but in facilitating in terms of armament? "Better Academic Policies Committee the procedure. At UCLA all Again Criticized Missed by Hantover Understanding" between the here at Caltech has been con­ instructors are evaluated at the I would like to add my voice There are some basic points I superpowers has been achieved, sidering the question of teaching end of each quarter by all to those concerned about the use feel Mr. Hantover has overlooked at least on the surface, but at effectiveness at Tech. Two pro­ students (at least all students of the ASAP file management in his article. what price and on whose terms?· posals were considered for evalu­ who come to the last class and system by the registrar's office The first point I wish to make Before I would place the tag of ating teaching quality, a broad bother to fill out the form), and for storage of sensitive informa­ is that people should be cautious "genius" on Mr. Nixon's ability proposal for taking teaching the quantified results are printed tion. I will try to point out some of extrapolating themselves off at dealing with other nations, I performance into consideration out by computer and made . of the weaknesses of the ASAP the deep end of curves. I too would try to find out more in tenure decisions and placing available by sometime in the system, although I will refrain have seen population/resource about the agreements, both writ­ the responsibility for evaluation next quarter.