UA modifies fee referendum By Andrew L. Fish dent Affairs directs part of tu- [for student activities]." Rodri- The Undergraduate Associ- ition to the UA - currently giv- guez said the UA was trying to ation Council modified the pro- ing about $7 per student every have the endowment added as an posed student activities fee refer- term. item on MIT's Campaign for the endum at their meeting last Rodriguez explained the five Future. Thurday. The revised referen- year limit was placed on the stu- The limit was also enacted to dum, which will on the ballot of dent activities fee to demonstrate address the concern of some stu- the March 9 UA elections, calls that it was a temporary measure dents that the fee would take the for the activities fee to last only -to be used for activities while pressure off the ODSA to provide five years - a limit which was the UA worked to build up a per- more funds for student activities. not originally proposed. manent endowment. He said the The guildines for FinBoard are Meanwhile, the UA Finance time limit would "force the UA meant to make that body ac- Board, which would be responsi- to work hard on the endowment (Please turn to page 2) ble for distributing the activities fee funds, is considering adopt- ing a set of written guidelines to Shrinking profits close alleviate fears that FinBoard would not be able to manage the UA store indefinately funds. By Andrew L. Fish The store had been making Mark Kantrowitz '89, president The Undergraduate Associ- substantial profits during its first of the Association of Student Ac- ation convienence store has three weeks of operations. Dur- tivities, submitted a draft of closed indefinately after 21 days ing the last week of classes last guidelines to FinBoard, which is of operation, according to UA fall the store netted $1127. Dur- currently considering them. Fin- President Manuel Rodriguez '89. ing the last week of Independent Board will have the guidlines The store was closed because of Activities Period profits were "polished" by Saturday, and they sagging sales and "the need to $156, and during the first week of wili then be approved by the UA Tugrulbey Kiryaman change the merchandise," Rodri- the spring term the store made Executive Board Sunday, accord- Battle of the Bands in Walker this past Thursday. guez said. $555. But the store lost $70 the L L_ ______L_ __IC __ _ = __ 1 ing to UA President Manuel Rod- The store had not been break- next week, and only made $10 in riguez '89. ing even over the past several its final week of operation. Search underway for Both moves seem designed to weeks, so the UA Executive Rodriguez said the trend in improve the chances that referen- Committee decided to temporar- sales made it clear that "drastic dum will be approved by the stu- ily cease its operations, Rodri- action" would have to be taken head of- visual studies dent body. guez said. He said students need - noting that on its last day of By Sally S. Vanerian tecture department Set up the Although the UA had collected Friedman committee to address different merchandise during the operations the store only grossed A nation-wide search is pre- about 500 signatures on petitions term, and that the store would $20. sently being conducted to find a the specific problems of the visual supporting the original fee pro- studies program, according to reopen once the restocking was The store is currently a low person to head the visual studies posal, the UA Council opted to complete. priority for the UA, Rodriguez program in the Department of Dean of the School of Architec- place the revised proposal on the ture John de Monchaux. Rodriguez said there would be said. He said members have Architecture, according to David ballot without a petition drive. "no purpose in having the store "much more important things to Friedman, chair of the committee Since a few faculty members The proposal calls for the imple- involved in the visual arts pro- open" with its current mechan- take care of" - such as the up- formulating a plan to revitalize mentation of an $18 term fee to dise. The store was "not provid- coming elections, the activities the program. gram in the Department of Ar- go directly to the UA. Currently chitecture will be leaving soon, ing a service" once the term got fee referendum, the UA report The committee was formed in (Please turn to page 18) the Office of the Dean for Stu- underway, he explained. (Please urn to page 2) response to criticism of the pre- sent program last fall by the ad hoc Committee to Review the Rally calls fe to aid homeless Americans Arts at MIT. That committee was By Michael Gojer "shocked by the state of the pro- ATLANTA, GA - With the gram," which was in "drastic de- "Super Tuesday" primaries only cline," reported Chairman Paul one week from today, nearly 6000 L. Joskow to a faculty meeting people gathered here three days last November. ago to pressure presidential can- Hundreds of students were didates about the plight of the es- routinely turned away from timated three-million homeless classes every term for lack of Americans. The demonstrators staff, Joskow said. In fact, there sought to dispel myths about the was a good chance that the pro- causes of homelessness and to gram would disappear within five convince candidates that federal years, as faculty members retired support for low-income housing or shifted their interest to other -which-has been cut by 75 per- areas, Joskow reported to the cent since 1981 - is necessary to faculty. stem it. All six major Democratic can- Following the issuance of the didates spoke at the march, Joskow committee's report, Pro- which took place only blocks vost John M. Deutch '61 agreed away from a Democratic debate to create the new post of associ- in Atlanta on the same day. None ate provost for the arts, who of the Republican candidates at- would be responsible for coordi- tended, though the National Co- nating the arts at MIT. Also in alition for the Homeless -the response to the report, the archi- organizers of the march -said they had invited all of them. Goldman sets "The great myth as far as homeless people are concerned," new US mark said one formerly homeless speaker at the march, "is that Michael Gojer/The Tech Jan Goldman '89 broke an- homeless people are a bunch of Almost 6000 demonstrators gathered in Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta Saturday to other US record on the last day no good people that don't want sway presidential candidates on the issue of homelessness in the United States. of the 1988 Winter Olympics in to work." He and others stressed Calgary, Alberta. Goldman fin- the difficulties of finding housing hopeful Sen. Albert Gore of Tlen- cost housing and relentless unem- ished 10th in the women's 5000 on low wage jobs. nessee claimed that, while there ployment." Demonstrators agreed meter speedskating event Sunday Demonstrators said that often has always been homelessness in that shelters and soup kitchens with an American record time of the almost homeless would be America, it has never been as bad are no longer enough, that low- 7:36.98. She edged out teammate forced to choose between paying as in the last seven years. cost housing was imperative. ; 2 : v }\0 :: ' : :: ; :~~~~~~: "A black in Chicago has less The National Coalition's three Mary Docter, who held the re- their heating and utility bills and ": ''& I htd '-' cord briefly with a time of paying for food."Twenty percent chance of living to one year [of point agenda includes establish- 7:37.00. of the homeless are working but age] than a child in Costa Rica," ing a "national right to appropri- -','Band*.... .:-.. ,..,~~~~~~~~;-.,.,- ·. - .. .. ,.--.~(X1:=:: · .-.;..,..*A...... they cannot make enough to af- according to Jones. "Most poor ate shelter," enforcing existing Yvonne van Gennip of the ford adequate housing," accord- people are white, and female, federal programs that should be Netherlands won the event with "s-'''^Zx~~i e '',.2.', -::,.'' I- a ing to Rev. Larry Jones, Director and young," said Democratic aiding the homeless, and restor- world record ttime of 7:14.13. of Feed the Children Ministries. contender Jesse Jackson. ing federal housing programs to The silver and bronze medals Democrats at the march While "historically, it took the their 1981 funding levels. All the were wone by East Germans An- blamed the cuts in spending for dislocations of war, famine, major Democratic candidates drea Ehrig and Gabi Zange, who programs for the poor on the Re- plague or civil strife to deprive have accepted those three points, posted times 7:17.12 and 7:21.61 publicans and the almost eight people of their homes on a large according to the Coalition, while .:S A C ,'.,ii~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:·· respectively. year-old Reagan administration. scale," reads a pamphlet pre- the Republicans have not. ":'-* F7 -' '--i S:·-: .: -. - -- . -.. Goldman finished 18th in 1500 Since 1981, the federal housing pared by the National Coalition, Denmonstrators at Saturday's meter speed skating event which budget has been cut from $32 bil- "today the catastrophes are qui- march came from 50 cities was held Saturday. lion to $7.5 billion. Democratic eter: dramatic shrinkage of low (Please turn to page 18) _B PAGE 2 The Tech TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1988 Ib~~ks ~ - M I 11 --- 'U FinBsoard to consider aI >a-Ine Qatre_ until Saving OiB mnP- 'e s new funding guidelines -W%% galm 4m~r~ %-kic t nhtained (Continuedfrom page 1) UA could have helped fund this mO ot& pm .o ----- m E--=NW babies is countable for its decisions, event. (Continuedfrom page 1) At that time Rodriguez added Katrowitz said. Without objective Rodriguez asserted the activi- that "visitors to MIT who only criteria "the student body would ties fee could lower dormitory on the freshman year, and the want to buy . . . insignia find the our goal! have the impression, which is house taxes and fraternity social pornography policy. Because trip off campus inconvienient." completely correct, that FinBoard fees, as the UA could fund more members are busy working on ... cannot manage the funds," of their events. these issues, no one .can devoted But Rodriguez said yesterday that the store was not receiving Kantowitz said. The remaining money raised by the time needed to revamp the Rodriguez further emphasized the fee - about $50,000 - store immediately, he explained. much business from MIT tour that the bulk of new funds would would be given to student acti- On Sept. 30 Rodriguez said it groups. be given to student activities. He vites, almost doubling their bud- was important to have the UA He said because the store was said the UA itself only needs get. store because "it is inconvienient not receiving much tour business, money (about $15,000) to help fi- Kantrowitz said that while he for students to go Kendall Square it was not important that staffing a nance the Course Evaluation had some reservations about the or Central Square just to pick up was erratic between i i amn and 1 I Guide, which is currently com- proposal, he supported it. "The essentials like pens, pencils, or pm since there is a tour which I pletely funded by the administra- alternative is worse," he ex- paper just when they run out." ends at 11 am. I .c I ------A mX tion. He explained that by par- plained. ------= 1 I Ea tially funding the guide, the UA I I could avoid pressure from the ad- ministration to modify reviews. The referendum states that the eT*E FAMLV The foundations a UA will fund campus wide events SUGGESBT5 Th-r sponsored by living groups and I a honor societies. Rodriguez did MFMORIAL of creativity. not feel this would be a large CONRIBUTONS I drain on the UA, estimating that BE MADE only $30,000 of additional money Fourth in a series. would be directed to these events. TO--E He explained that this funding II was needed because "very little AMERICAN I I mI.- goes on in terms of campus wide sCANCER Thinking about k events-" He cited the SAElor par- I mie ty and Greek Week as events that eM might receive funding. Also, he your education. noted that the hockey team want- ed to have a party in conjunction This space donated by The Tech The purpose of education is to develop basic thinking skills IK with their Beaver Cup match, but and to obtain a basis of knowledge in our chosen field. 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lelrsls3111------·------·-----·· Shultz efforts result in little Kremlin "optimistic" about treaty Secretary of State George P. Shultz PhD '49 is nearing The Kremlin is giving better odds than President Rea- the end of a Mideast peace mission with little to show for gan on whether a treaty on long range missiles will be No new sanctions against Panama his efforts. Shultz is pushing a plan for a multi-national ready soon. A Soviet official said in Washington yesterday peace conference in which the that Kremlin leaders "remain optimistic." In a recent in- A US official said yesterday that no new sanctions are Palestinians would be part of a Jordanian delegation. terview, Reagan said he did not think a strategic arms ac- planned against Panama despite the indictment of mili- But sources say Jordan is ob- jecting to that idea - cord would be reachable in time for the next superpower tary leader Manuel Noriega on drug charges. The official although Shultz is not expected to get the summit - expected in the spring. said penalties have already been applied against Panama. final word until he meets with Jordanian King Hussein in London The official said those.already imposed penalties will be tomorrow. So far, only Egypt has en- dorsed announced tomorrow -- which is the deadline for certify- the US plan. Arabs against PLO office closing ing that foreign countries have complied in combating Arab diplomats told a special United Nations General drug trafficking. Countries which are decertified are no Sandinistas blamed for stalled talks Assembly session today that American plans to close the longer eligible for US aid. The Roman Catholic archbishop of Managua, who is Palestine Liberation Organization's UN mission next Meanwhile, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) yesterday mediating talks between the contras and the Sandinista month will jeoparadize UN independence. Congress or- introduced a resolution calling on the Reagan Administra- government is blaming the government for the break-off dered the mission closed by Mar. 21. tion to impose economic sanctions against Panama in the in talks. Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo said yesterday wake of the ouster of the country's president. An offical the government's insistence that the talks deal strictly with said the Administration is not contemplating any such ac- arranging a cease-fire instead of political reforms has been tion. Deposed President Eric Delvalle remains in hiding a step backward. The last round of talks ended eleven since being ousted by Noriega last week. days ago. I _ A s~~f~~rA_^ ~ saH Uninteresting, but welcome Southern endorsement possible Our weather for the next 2-3 days looks to be Southern Democratic leaders say they may act together rather uninteresting from a meteorological to endorse one of the party's presidential candidates prior perspective. Most of the action (storms, arctic air Reagan says NATO is unRified to next week's Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses. blasts, etc.) will be confined to our north as the Sen. Sam Nunn (GA) and former Virginia Gov. Charles polar jet stream retreats northward President Reagan yesterday urged European allies to over Canada. S. Robb confirm that the possibility of such an endorse- Fortunately, "uninteresting" weather is often pay a greater share of their defense costs. But speaking to ment is being discussed. But Nunn also stresses synonymous with good weather. That will the annual convention of the American Legion, Reagan "it's only be the a possibility." case for Boston as we can said the NATO alliance has never been stronger or more expect predominantly sunny skies and moderating temperatures unified. The President's comments were made a day be- through Thursday. By Friday, however, fore he leaves for Brussels and the first full-scale NATO Gore plans media we may be blitz contending with a storm which is now forming over summit in six years. Sen. Albert Gore (D-TN) is going into hock in an effort the southwest United States. to saturate the airwaves in next week's Super Tuesday pri- mary states. But spokesman Mike Kopp denied the Demo- SDOI test successful Today: It will be breezy and cool with mostly sunny cratic presidential candidate's campaign is in financial Pentagon officials say they may be able to defeat at- skies. High temperatures will be 33-38 °F (0-3 °C) trouble. He called the plan "icing on the cake" for an tempts to use decoys to fool the SDI anti-missile defense and winds will be northwesterly at 10-15 extensive advertising blitz already underway. mph system. An official in charge of the proposed defense sys- (16-24 kph). tem says a space experiment conducted three weeks ago is Tonight: Conditions will be clear and cold with helping researchers to understand how objects look as M iecham fails in bid to diminishing winds. Low temperatures will be 15- they travel through space. have impeachment 20 °F (-9 to -6 °C). dropped Wednesday: Sunny with high temperatures 35-40°F Poll finds Southern races close Attorneys for Republican Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham (2-5 °C). have lost their A poll indicates a tight race on the Democratic in Super bid to have impeachment charges against Thursday: Partly sunny and warmer. Highs in the their client dropped. Tuesday states between Sen. Albert Gore (D-TN), Gov. Arizona state senators overwhelm- 40s (6-9°C). Michael S. Dukakis, Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-MO), and ingly rejected the motions on the first day of Mlecham's Forecast by Robert Black Jesse Jackson. 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L - _re PAGE 4 The Tech TUESDAY. MARCH 1, 1988 M _- _ M opinion0 e Orb] l a F t~~~r~iL2IIL]LSII~~~~~tAmE I . . . . ~= _ . __ , I I Column/Daniel J. Glenn Entering the academic castle s\"","~"91P Last Thursday I stood with a sors. mon to once again beseech the group of protesters in MIT's We looked around for the uni- Institute to aid them in their des- Lobby 7. As I looked around the formed guards of the Palace, perate search for a hearth to call who, as we had seen, kept such a great domed hall, I could see a their own. I dozen or so uniformed police of- watchful eye over the intruders in Yet they were met by the Court ficers watching warily from the Lobby 7. Yet there was not even Jester and the noblemen, flanked balconies above. MIT was on one in our midst. Who then, we by palace guards, who told them guard to protect itself against an wondered, were these people they would never be allowed to intrusion from the Outside from the Outside who the guards meet with His ILordship. On His The men and women I stood and His Lordship do not fear? orders the palace guards placed with were not members of the We ventured forth to learn them in chains, dragged them I MIT community; with a few ex- more about these welcomed from the Great Domed Hall, and ceptions they were not students, friends of the Institute and found banished them from the King- professors, administrators, or the answer to our query upon dom forever. staff. They were members of an- their tables: they were arms mer- other community; the one that chants from the distant Valley of Daniel J. Glenn, a graduate surrounds the confines of our Silicon, here to recruit builders student in the Department of Ar- academic castle. Some live in the of the Bomb. chitecture, is a columnist for The many houses beyond our walls; We walked slowly back to the Tech. L------·-------- --I- sP --~o and others, less fortunate, live in Great Domed Hall, shaken by the streets of Cambridge and our discovery. How could it be Column/David P. Hamilton Boston. that our sacred Institute would They came with placards and welcome as friends those that bullhorns, shouting into the come here to seduce our best and depths of the Infinite Corridor our brightest into wasting their that a great injustice had been minds and their talents on the INF treaty splits the US press done. The power of the Institute production of weapons of de- The INF treaty recently signed Bonn. can still easily be targeted at Eu- was reaching beyond its walls: struction, while those without by President Reagan and Soviet Continental leaders such as rope. homes had been destroyed, and homes, who ask only to meet General Secretary Mikhail Gor- West German Chancellor Helmut with His Lordship, are feared Fears about alliance stability thousands more were threatened bachev has induced a schizoid Schmidt felt that the alliance may be justified, but those about by the rise in rents caused by the and scorned and shoved back split in the American press unlike would be strengthened by the into the streets to die like dogs in deterrence are not. The view that multi-million dollar developments any since Nixon normalized rela- presence of new American mis- neither the battlefield nor strate- of the Corporation. Those with- the night? tions with China. siles in Europe, ensuring an We rejoined the crowd in Lob- gic nuclear weapons provide a le- out homes sought an audience On the right hand, conserva- American reply to Soviet nuclear gitimate deterrent to a Soviet in- with His Lordship, Paul E. Gray by 7 and listened to their songs tive publications such as National attack. The Carter adminstration termediate range strike is '54, the 14th president of MIT, to and their speeches. They sang of Review openly worry about the agreed, and in 1979 finalized a chauvinistic, revealing a deep- tell him in person that all was not the suffering they had endured at possibility of "decoupling" the plan to replace the Pershing Is seated tendency for Americans to well within his dominion. the hands of the palace guards NATO alliance in a "nuclear with 108 Pershing Ils and 464 view themselves as the only im- Another student and I broke when last they had breached the Munich;" comparing the treaty Tomahawk cruise missiles capa- portant actors in the world nucle- from the angry horde that be- sanctity of our walls by camping to Chamberlain's 1938 agreement ble of striking targets within the ar drama. Both the British and seiged the Institute and strolled in the gardens of the castle. That to appease Hitler by partitioning Soviet Union. the French deterrent forces, al- past the palace guards to survey struggle had secured them a brief Czechoslovakia. The NATO decision proceeded the situation. We found four respite from their life in the though small, are certainly large On the left, nuclear disarma- along a "dual track" allowing the enough to wreak enormous dev- more guarding the carpeted en- streets and gained them an audi- ment enthusiasts applaud the US to deploy the missiles while astation on the Soviet Union. trance to his Lordship's cham- ence not with His Lordship but treaty as a first, if small, step to- attempting to eliminate the SS-20 Not even Stalin would have been bers. We paused near the at least with a Court Jester and ward the world-wide elimination with offers to halt the Pershing willing to absorb that kind of rosewood doorway and asked if one or two noblemen. of nuclear weapons. (Gorbachev and Tomahawk deployment. The we might speak with Him, but But these men had nothing to damage to obtain a Pyrric victory also talks like this, although one most famous proposal of the sec- over Western Europe. the guards feigned ingorance of offer but empty promises and pi- might justifiably question his mo- ond track was the "zero option," his whereabouts. ous reprisals. Those without tives and sincerity.) advanced by President Reagan as On the other hand, the security We looped back to the Great homes soon realized the Jester In reality, the treaty is neither a propaganda ploy in late 1981. of Western Europe would be Domed Hall thru the Infinite and the noblemen were only stall- disaster nor salvation. Instead, it No one seriously expected the greatly lessened by any further Corridor, stopping in Lobby 13; ing for time until the Bringers of is simply the most recent in a Soviets to dismantle existing nuclear disarmament, particular- where, we noticed, another gath- News forgot about their plight. long line of arms control agree- weapons in order to block a fu- ly the tentatively broached "third ering was taking place. We A fortnight past the Ides of ments, some of which were suc- ture American deployment, and zero" of the British and French pushed our way through the March those without homes will cessful, most of which were not. indeed, they did not. The new nuclear forces. Some observers crowded room to see what all the be cast forth once again into the In common with nearly every American missiles were deployed would like to link further nuclear excitement was about. We discov- streets; their temporary homes previous agreement, the INF trea- in 1983, prompting a Soviet agreements to reductions in con- ered another group from the provided at the City's behest will ty fulfills some of its sponsors' walkout from the negotiating ta- ventional force levels. Even this Outside had entered our hallowed be sold to Gentry in the employ expectations at the cost of some ble in Geneva. seemingly reasonable requirement hallways; they had no bullhorns of the arms merchants. Thus, on drawbacks. The zero option proved too po- may go too far, since no level of but they too had placards and Thursday past, the homeless Let's look at the history of the tent to lie unused, however, and NATO conventional strength passed out leaflets to the passing joined hands with local serfs and treaty for a moment. Prior to the West found itself hoist on its could serve to deter a Soviet at- crowds of students and profes- marched from Cambridge Com- tack as well as the existing distri- --~~~~------~~~~~~~~~~~-,, 1979, the defense of Western Eu- own propaganda when Gorba- rope rested on the NATO doc- chev appropriated the slogan in bution of nuclear forces. trine of "flexible response," or 1986. Despite some obligatory Europe and the Atlantic alli- the ability to meet any possible hesitation, the US found it im- ance survived nicely before the level of Soviet attack with a possible to refuse what had been INF treaty, and will likely contin- NATO counterpart. Thus a Sovi- its own suggestion. The INF trea- ue to do so once the treaty be- Volume 108, Number 8 hl~Tuesday, March 1, 1988 et conventional assault would en- ty, eliminating the SS-20s, Per- comes effective. If the treaty gage a NATO conventional re- shing IIs, and Tomrnahawks, was teaches us anything, however, it Chairman ...... Peter E. Dunn G sponse, use of battlefield nuclear the inevitable result. should be to consider our "prop- Editor in Chief ...... Andrew L. Fish '89 weapons would trigger a like at- So what of the conservatives' aganda" more carefully, lest we Business M anager ...... Mark Kantrowitz '89 tack, and a full-scale nuclear at- fear of "nuclear Munich?" It's inadvertantly obtain all that we M anaging Editor ...... David B. Plass '90 tack would be met by the com- hard to argue with European ask for. Executive Editor ...... Thomas T. Huang G bined US, British, and French fears about the "coupling" of the deterrents. Atlantic alliance, since the US David P Hamilton, a senior in News Editors ...... Darrel Tarasewicz '89 In the late 1970s, however, has only battlefield nuclear weap- the Department of Electrical En- Niraj S. Desai '90 NATO observers began to note Michael Gojer '90 ons and its intercontinental stra- gineering and Computer Science, Night Editors ...... Ezra Peisach '89 appearances of the Soviet SS-20, tegic forces to deter Soviet mis- is a news reporter and columnist Marie E. V. Coppola '90 a mobile and highly accurate siles, such as the SS-25, which for The Tech. Opinion Editor ...... Michael J. Garrison '88 three-warhead missile with a Arts Editors ...... Jonathan Richmond G range just shy of the 5500 kilo- Julian West G meters that would have included Photography Editors ...... Kyle G. Peltonen '89 it in the SALT II negotiations. _|:C>!~I _ Mark D. Virtue '90 The NATO mratching threat was Contributing Editors ...... V. Michael Bove G a force of 108 aging Pershing I Akbar A. Merchant '89 missiles owned by the United Advertising Manager ...... Harold A. Stern G Activities fee unworthy; Senior Editors ...... Mathews M. Cherian '88 States and 72 Pershing Is Ben Z. Stanger '88 "owned" by the Federal Republic David M. Watson '88 of Germany, although still under UA lacks Greek contact US control. PRODUCTION STAFF FOR THfS ISSUE To the Editor: System. Night Editors: ...... Marie E. V. Coppola The politics of nuclear deter- Why am I opposed to the stu- rence required NATO to meet the As anyone who has ventured David B. Plass '90 dent activities fee that the Under- out into the social world at MIT challenge of the new Soviet mis- Staff: Peter E. Dunn G, Harold A. Stern G, Katie T. Schwarz graduate Association is trying to will attest, the Greek System is '87, Michael J. Garrison '88, Andrew L. Fish '89, Mark siles. Europeans have worried for Kantrowitz '89, Michelle P. Perry '89, Ken Church '90, Carmen- impose upon the student body? the dominant social force at this years about the dependability of Where shall I begin? The UA is Anita Signes '90, Mark D. Virtue '90. the US "nuclear umbrella" - the school. I would venture to esti- supposed to represent the inter- mate that of the students who en- American guarantee to respond The Tech (ISSN 0148-9607) Is pubhlished Tuesdays and Fridays during the academic ests of the student body. Those gage in social activities at MIIT year (except during MIT vacations), Wednesdays dunring January, and monthly during to a Soviet nuclear attack on Eu- the summer for $15.00 per year Third Class by The Tech, 84 Massachusetts Ave. who have had an opportunity to (as opposed to relying onl the city Room W20-483, Cambridge, MA 02139-0901. Third Class postage paid at Boston, rope with US-based warheads. In work within the system know MA Non-Profit Org. Permit No. 59720. POSTMASTER: Please send all address cynical terms, Europeans have for entertainment), at least two- changes to our maiing address: The Tech, PO Box 29, MIT Branch, Cambridge, MA that the UA is completely out of thirds rely on the Greek System 02139-0901 Telephone. (617, 253-1541. 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UA is out of touch with Greek system (Continuedfrom page 4) ing Greek Week, poor planning Where does the UA spend its ties, such as Campus Police And who pays for the activities in and of itself, but also around money? Certainly not on social presence and shutting down by 1 sponsored by the Greek System an away football game!r Several functions, at least not that attract am, the funding will probably go I for the MIT community? The ludicrous and costly ideas were a significant portion of the stu- largely unused. Even with the Greek System. discussed for other dates until, fi- dent body. I'm sure an itemized current financial hardship of Xoh.A ....n...;tn, yi, tE; ;. nally, the representative from the balance sheet is available, but it many MIT houses, most would the M-n I- Soc .1ai -omitee UA conceded that he had no should be published and distrib- rather struggle than be depen- on MITthe Social Committee .... he MIT S.cial .Co.... ideas, but "plenty of money." uted to the student body at large :dent. Vsi.313stlll l gi;rlepr;nILaLiVe Ir111 before a vote is even considered the UA, DormCom, and the Stu- I was outraged when I learned Ideally, the interests of the IFC on a student activities fee. dent Center Committee. Let me of the money wasted by the UA should coincide with those of the give an example of the kind of on the Student Life at MIT Week It must be remembered that al- UA in general. But that is obvi- planning that went on here. The (SLaM) last year. Over $15,000 though we are all technically UA ously not the case at this time. Interfraternity Conference began went into this week of events members, those of us who choose UA sponsored activities, specifi- planning Greek Week '87, which which attracted, at best, 25 per- to live in independent living cally social activities, just don't was to take place on October 15- cent of the student body. This groups support ourselves finan- attract IFC participation. At the 18, in April. There are many was called a success by the coor- ,cially, and with the changing de- present time, I don't think the plans to be made for a major, co- dinators. Just as a reference for mographics at MIT coupled with UA has the right to ask us to ordinated social event. Being a comparison: the budget for dormitory rush, it is becoming contribute money, regardless of football player myself, I had Greek Week '87 was $2500, and increasingly difficult to make amount, to an activities fee that planned Greek Week around over 25 of the member houses as ends meet. Section three of the will minimally serve our interests. football homecoming. well as numerous non-Greeks referendum does call for distribu- I would urge all fellow IFC tion of funds to iLGs. If this members to vote this resolution A week or two before Greek participated. A far more cost- effective event, to say the least. funding is given according to the down, at least until the IFC and Week, I was invited to attend a population, 40 percent should go UA discuss what would best serve Fall Weekend planning meeting. Don't get me wrong, many of the interests of the entire student Fail Weekend, for those of you the subcommittees and discus- to the IFC, and more if social ex- penses are to be compensated. body. The UA is not sufficiently who didn't notice it, was meant sions organized by the UA seem representative of the undergrad- to be planned around football to perform very valuable services But if this funding will be giv- uate body, in my opinion, to homecoming. It was scheduled for the student body. Do these en with the stipulations that ap- make such a decision on its own. not only for the weekend follow- activities eat up the UA's budget? ply to other MIT-funded activi- Jeff Hornstein '89

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An interview with Robert Frank Candy vMountain. gm, k4 iAN INTERVIEW WITH Candy Mlount~ain. ROBERT FRANK, that part of the theme of his innocence No, absolutely not on my part. It's no' Director of Gandy Mountain. changing into knowledge? hommage to Kerouac or anything like that. The name came up now - usually it By PETER DUNN It was part of the theme of the fihn that at the end Julius would know more about comes up from the other side: when peo- In the movie it almost seems fike Elmore life, about himself. That was. part of his ple interview me they ask about Kerouac. is selling out at the end. Do you feel there development. A lot of people remark that Well, he certainly had a big influence. One is a necessity to make a deal in Amnerica this is kind of a beatnik film. I never saw is always influenced as an artist by differ- today? Peggy Sue Got Married. I didn't really ent people so naturally there is an influ- It's the system - unfortunately that's think much of Kerouac during the making ence there. But I never put the two togeth- what I've found out. This is a system of the film. I thought more of the film like er, the book On The Road and travelling where deals are made and if you don't Wim Wenders Kings of the Road, when across the country. That wasn't really on want to make deals, you're into some they travel through Germany, two guys my mind. It was more travelling from one rough going. It's also a system that is who repair projectors. I think that always country to another, essentially from a very based on a lot of greed. happens, that if you have some kind of aggressive country to a country that's Even though Julius Is referred to in the hero, that hero will remind you of some- much more peaceful and at ease, like film as a punker at one point, he struck body ten years ago, I5 years ago. It's easy Canada. So that was more the main theme me more as a fifties beatnik. Maybe it's to put those elements together - the road than going back on the road. just Kevin J. O'Connor's role from Peggy and the punker and the beatnik. Where do you think Julius fits in on Director Robert Frank Sue Got Married. Was that intended? Was So it really wasn't intentional? (Please turn to page 9) r .. . .I ._ . ------.~ 1 11~· · . . 1~-·-...... _ _ . · a - L -C U - ---- - -- - L- -- IY -- --- II BP W L - 811 IL--h - Is IC-·-- ----- _IY IP-L ILlllbPL -I

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MM·aln~ IIITUESDAY,~ s MARCH 1, 1988 The Tech PAGE 7 A RTS II~P~ PS~g~3~OI~i- Vital Science dominates second Battle of Bands night BATTLE OF THE BANDS ing mix of familiar rock classics, hampered flute. His sweetly enunciated fills and Void's singer. The band's backup playing Walker Memorial by a lack of vocal polish. funky solos provided a richness and pro- here was boomy and muddled, and along Second session of four. When Vital Science launched into Grace fessional quality rarely heard on the SCC's with the vocals was too tame to match the February 25. Jones' "I'm Not Perfect," it was immedi- stage. wild intensity of the hard-driving original. ately apparent they were a cut above the The band ran synthesized bass through Great originals do not always translate By PAUL SHERER other cover bands. All six members were a drum machnine on the English Beat's into great covers, even with a band as tal- dead-on tight, lead by a funky rhythm sec- "Mirror in the Bathroom," with bassist ented as Vital Science. HE SCC'S BATTLE OF THE BANDS tion, crisp guitar, and sweet saxophone John Bartholomew G and keyboardist Eric The weak ending failed to diminish the has become a focal point for fills. The band proved capable of a wide Ostling '88 providing somewhat chopped impact of this competent and enthusiastic MIT's community of rock musi- and daring range of material, marked by vocals. They went on to demonstrate their band, however. Vital Science has no seri- cians. For several weeks each accomplished musicianship throughout. range with Herbie Hancock's jazzy/Afri- ous competition for winning the battle for spring the school's diverse group of bands MIT bands in recent years have more can "Karimba." Zepeda provided moody best cover band. coinpete for the titles of Best Covers Band often than not featured vocalists lacking soprano sax, while drummer Gary Head, the third band of the evening, and Best Originals Band (covers bands any real talent. Vital Science vocalist Jean- Leskowitz '88 filled in over electronic per- was the first competing in the originals play music by other artists, while originals nette Ryan set herself apart during the cussion. category. They performed a well-polished bands play their own material). Three band's second number, Eurhythmic's "I've Unfortunately, the band ended on a set of music with a strong sixties influence. nights of preliminary competition are Got An Angel," demonstrating a strong weak version of Romeo Void's "Never Say "Into a Dream" was reminiscent of the held, from which two covers bands and range and a well-trained voice. Never." Ryan lacked the raw sensuality to mellower, more introspective side of Jimi two originals bands advance to the finals. The standout elemrnent ,of Vital Science's carry the song, and wasn't fat enough to Hendrix seen on his album Axis: Bold As The second night of the Battle took sound was provided by Ray Zepeda '88, provide the incogruity that the original's Love. The song featured tight vocal har- place Thursday evening, with the last two on alto, tenor and soprano saxophone and vocals have due to the sheer heft of Romeo fPlease turn to page 11) covers bands playing along with the first of the originals bands. The evening opened with a group called Rob & Dave, a pair of Young virtuoso demonstratesflawless technique street musicians playing accoustic guitar. ENIGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA but also intense and thoughtful, ending sluggishness. The winds, espec:ially the After killing time with a blues jam while Conducted by Jeffrey Tate. with a joyfully effortless glide back into oboes, sounded good, but thee strings awaiting the arrival of one of the judges, Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin soloist. the arms of the tutli. seemed to still be a bit jet laggedd. the duo launched into an enthusiastic set Program of works by Strauss, Beethoven The English Chamber Orchestra, pro- The concert had begun with Strauss' of rock covers. Their Harvard Square and Mozart. vided an inconsistent accompaniment, Metamorphosen for Twenty-Th ree Solo street performance experience showed in Event in The Tech PerformingArts Series. providing a smooth, suspenseful opening Strings. Jeffrey Tate exposed the cdarkly re- their ability to keep the audience amused Symphony Hall, Feb. 28. to the concerto, but lapsing into periods of (Please turn to page 8) with light banter before the set and be- tween songs. BANCHETTO MUSICALE The set began with Lynyrd Skynyrd's Conducted by Martin Pearlman. well-worn Southern classic "Sweet Home Performance of music fbr Alabama." The guitar playing was crisp 'The Indian Queen by Purcell. and confident, the vocals meshing well. Jordan Hall, Feb. 26. 1 During Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "From the Beginning," however, the singers had By JONATHAN RICHMOND trouble keeping their vocal harmonies to- RANK PETER ZIMMERMANN IS ONLY gether. This problem would resurface later 23, but last Sunday night he in The Allman Brothers Band's "Blue played Beethoven's Violin Concer- Sky," and especially in the Grateful Dead's to with the confidence of an ac- "Sugar Magnolia," where the two seemed complished virtuoso. Musically, his was at the tops of their vocal ranges. not always the most mature of perfor- A high point of the set was the Dead's mances, with opportunities for creativity "Friend of the Devil." The band played it in interpretation passed over in many fast and lively, with their vocals together, places in favor of maintaining a consis- though Rob Hershenfeld's lead playing tently flawless technique. Overall Zimmer- here and elsewhere was often rhthmically man demonstrated the brilliance, but not monotonous, consisting mainly of eighth yet the depth of, say, a Pearlman. notes. Perhaps he was inspired by Jerry In the cadenzas, however - written by Garcia's relentless scale playing. Joseph Joachim who had performed the The band ended with Neil Young's "My concerto in 1844 as a 13-year old prodigy My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)," with -he showed the potential which can be Dave Campbell '89 adding a touch of ap- expected to develop over the next decade. propriately atonal harmonica. All in all, The fourth movement cadenza was par- English Chamber Orchestra they provided a competent and entertain- ticularly insightful, brilliant of execution ------I- I I

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MIT pice: $5. melancholy of the Andante cantabile, hit a Deity!" rolled forward from Sylvan's lips particularly heightened level of the sub- boozily, but in the role of the High Priest, PRO ARTE lime: it tore at the soul, but was ultimately his voice took on solemnity and as Is- The Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra will present a performance by four soothing, hopeful and utterly Mozartian. meron, seriousness. sibling violinists - Kristina, Elsa, Eric and Jenny Lind Nilsson - Nancy Armstrong, in contrast, did not ANCHETTO MUSICALE'S presenta- in Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins and (three of them in) tion of Purcell's music for The sing to her normal standards. There was [)< Bach's Concerto for Three Violins. Randall Hodgkinson little drama to her voice, with her flat, un- made for a pleas- ~ ~(will also perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25. BIndian Queen involved rendition of "I attempt from -ant, if sometimes bland evening love's sickness to fly in vain," being a par- Sanders Theatre, March 13 at 8pm. MIT price: $6. in Jordan Hall last Friday. Purcell's com- ticular disappointment. Steven Rickarts' position was intended to provide musical undernourished counter-tenor sounded MUSICA VIVAA interludes for a play by Robert Howard thin and inconsequential. and John Dryden, not to tell a tale by it- TThe Boston Musica Viva will give a program entitled Jazz Accents," Laurence Senelick's narrative was often self. To fill in some of the gaps, Laurence which includes the US-premiere of War Play by humorous, but many of his words were Senelick was commissioned to create and Kurt Weill/David Drew, a work which resets Weill's incidental music muffled: they weren't given the loud, clear deliver a narrative, using lines from the diction they demanded. 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B| TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1988 The Tech PAGE 9 _ B R t A R T S R fli | HarrisonFord puts in strong show, but movie mediocre FRANTIC Sondra. Dr. Walker may be a magician everywhere from Divia to Nancy Drew, but Walker survives until the end of the movie. .1 Directed by Roman Polanski. with a scalpel, but he bumbles through ev- here it gives Roman IPolanski an excuse to Surprisingly, very little sexual tension is t;g Written by Roman Polanski eryday life like a penguin out of water. His dump the wife and I bring in his latest developed between their two characters and Gerard Brach. pants are too long, his glasses keep slip- young discovery, E ,mmanuelle Seigner. until a steamy dance scene that rivals the 4 Starring Harrison Ford ping down his nose, and he takes his Seigner plays Michellle, a part-time smug- one Ford had with Kelly McGillis in Writ- and Emmanuelle Seigner. showers with the stall door halfway open, gler now in possessi ion of Sondra's suit- ness. flooding the bathroom. case. Michelle, armedI with a can of mace, Polanski is a resident of Paris and his By MICHELLE PERRY Sondra suddenly disapppears from their joins forces with Dir. Walker and drags familiarity with the city is apparent. Rath- THE OPENING SEQUENCE is a taxi hotel room and Dr. Walker finds himself him through the wild(er sections of Paris in er than focusing on familiar tourist attrac- ride from the airport. Harrison adrift in an unfamiliar land, unable to an attempt to exchan ge smuggled item for tions to give a sense of location, he reveals TFord is snuggling in the back seat speak the language. His attempts to locate wife. a sordid view that few tourists have a with a woman in her forties. his wife near the hotel are very amusing, Seigner is anothelr beautiful Polanski chance to discover. Ford has never in living memory costarred but Walker does not have a chance to ap- prot6gee, and gives ain energetic and sexy Ennio Morricone's score, following his with a woman anywhere near his age, and preciate the humor of the situation as he but unfocussed perfoormance. Ford gives a Oscar-nominated work for The Untouch- g to see him kiss a wrinkled check is a mild discovers evidence that his wife was kid- wonderfully convinci ng performance that ables, is a major disappointment. Its back- shock. napped. is light-years remo,ved from his early ground drone is a persistent source of irri- | Naturally, the woman, Betty Buckley, As it turns out, his wife picked up the swashbuckling chara¢cters. This time, his tation. | disappears ten minutes into the film. wrong suitcase at the airport and is now in character does not coi,me equipped with the Aside from a few nifty camera tricks, The movie is Frantic. Ford is Dr. Rich- the hands of Arab terrorists who want a physical and emotionlal tools necessary to Ford is left to carry the film. His fans will ard Walker, a surgeon attending a medical certain item in that suitcase returned. The handle the stress of thhe situation: it is only want to rush out to see it, but others conference in Paris. Buckley is his wife mistaken-object scenario has been done with much support from Michelle that should wait for the videotape. Calldy Moulataxin and Robert Fralk an a ;dyssey of enlightenment (Continuedfrom page 6) manner, but uses him nonetheless) to (Continued jfrom page 6) estate here [in Boston]. They are very pow- knowledge, and although Julius seems far assuage her own loneliness. those two extremes? Or would you rather erful. They have a foot in the door. They from innocent at the film's outset, Frank Frank's ability in conveying the under- leave that open? are part of the market today. manages to evoke a transition in Julius' stated themes of Candy Mountain are ably The film's ending iis open - you don't I didn't think that the oriental woman perception of the possibilities and impossi- achieved through his subtle camerawork, know what he's going to do. It's always up would be kinder or better than the Ameri- bilities of life. and also through his oppressive lighting to the viewer: when you create something can businessman or the American busi- This transition is quite notable in and minimal music score. What the film you leave it open t;:o interpretation, for nesswoman. That wasn't the idea. I think Frank's camerawork which, although often lacks, however, is depth of acting people to see it. To nmne he's an American, she was portrayed in a rather nasty way. strongly influenced by the contrasting set- and a definite sense of direction. he starts out an Amr,erican. In a way you Certainly, but her intentions seemed tings of New York City and rural Nova Frank insists on using mostly unknown don't know that muc ~habout him anyhowv. more artistic than the monetary intentions Scotia, also changes in point of view. actors, often musicians (Joe Strummer, You don't know reaally where he comes of the Americans. While the early parts of the film are shot Leon Redbone, Dr. John, David Johansen from or what his corn nections are in Amer- On the surface- but I'm cynical. But from an inside-looking-out viewpoint of the Buster Poindexter Band), and the ica. He probably wot uld have been a more you know, he [Elmore Silk] got what he (panning shots from inside apartments and spoken lines are often stilted because of it. interesting character if you had known wanted for it [the guitars]. And he didn't taxicabs), this develops later into more And while the film's themes are down- more about him in thie beginning - where want to go back and have to deal with wide-open, all encompassing shots. Still, played, Frank often strays a little too he comes from, ho ow he lives. Then it those kooks in New York. I think business whenever Julius interacts with other peo- much, perhaps losing his audience for a would be an easier qwuestion to answer. people will always take advantage of art- ple, it is usually within the more claustro- few minutes. Towards the end v ,vhen Elmore sells his ists, whether they are black or oriental or phobic confines of a tightly shot room. Still, these failings are minor: the short, guitars, he sells themi to a definitely orien- whatever. They will always try to steal and There are clearly two overlapping themes precise, stilted lines sometimes help to em- ta! woman. Is that slpecifically meant as a most often are successful at it. that are being played out at the same time. phasize the film's understated humor; comment on the c7urrent American- What are some of your future plans in Frank's second theme is of people as Frank's tendency to meander helps to em- Japanese trade situartion or is it a more films? Do you want to make other movies separate entities, a theme which never wav- phasize Julius' own meandering nature. symbolic gesture, thHat he wants to sell like Candy Mountain? Like an odyssey? ers - he constantly shoots conversations These may be failings on the surface, but out to somebody vsvho's not so mnoney Candy Mountain number two? I want with panning shots instead of two-shots, they fall into the grand scheme of things motivated? to go on working. I'm not sure what I'm thus emphasizing the distance between anyway. At first we wanted to have this Japanese going to do but it wouldn't be a movie of people. Upon this theme he overlaps Candy Mountain is no great film, one to woman played by oine of those Japanese that type, that makes that many conces- Julius' awakening to the reality of this in- sweep you off your feet with any major actors that is a man i but plays a worman. sions to commercialism. The type of roo- dividuality, the realization that everyone is revelation of the reality of human nature. This would have con ifused people enough. viemaking I would like it to be would be only looking out for themselves - even in But it is also not a film that will fail to Once I had a very go )oddealer, a Japanese more spontaneous the one romantic interlude when Julius en- satisfy in its own wandering, episodic, un- woman that sold my work. The idea came More independent? counters one of Silk's past flames, the au- derstated way - Robert Frank has man- from that. But aisc a), the power of the YEah. To risk a little bit more. Not to dience realizes upon looking deeper that aged to convey his personal message with- Japanese/oriental per ople - they buy a lot know which road you're going to go on as she too uses Julius (perhaps in harmless out overblowing it with false bravado. of real estate in Nev woYork, a lot of rea you start out. Z~~~~~~~~~~ gS

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Just what is a film with stance; what other novel about four young _L atitle like this one about? Upon lovers begins with a three-page reflection reading a copy of Czech emrnigr6 Milan on the Nietzschean idea of eternal return? Kundera's renowned 1984 novel, it turns But therein lies the problem with the out to be about four young lovers (Tomas, film: the full richness of the book is quite Tereza, Sabina, and Franz). But this is no difficult to portray in the filmic medium. trashy Harlequin Romance. Kundera's The best one can hope for is probably an book takes place during the 1968 Soviet intelligent and sensitive recounting of the invasion of Czechoslovakia and inter- narrative in a manner that remains faithful spersed within the novel's romance and to the more metaphysical aspects of the politics are numerous philosophical asides book. Philip Kaufman and his actors leave and metaphysical discussions -- which no doubt that they have made as good a form the real core and gem of the novel. film as possible from as unfilmable a novel Consider an excerpt: as this. Despite that, the film leaves one A long time ago, man would listen in hanging for more. amazement to the sound of regular beats Perhaps the best scene in which this be- DanieDay-Lewis and iette Binoce in Te nbearable of-Beg.ighness in his chest, never suspecting what they comes evident is the scene in which Tereza Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Bein~g. were. ... [Tlhat remainder, left over after (French actress Juliette Binoche) and To- second or so, without any indication what- curacy, complete with authentic clothing, the body had been accounted for, was the mas (Daniel Day-Lewis) make love for the soever of the metaphysical significance of props, automobiles, and tanks. (Daniel soul. first time. She screams loudly in his ear. In Tereza's scream. Day-Lewis is even provided with a gold Today, of course, ... the'old duality of the book, the scream "was not an expres- This is indicative of how straightfor- dental crown that was popular with Czech body and soul has become shrouded in sci- sion of sensuality. . . . What was scream- ward the narrative has been made in the men at the time.) During the sequence, entific terminology, and we can laugh at it ing in fact was the naive idealism of her film. The book's central division of all Kaufman integrates virtually every techni- as merely an obsolete prejudice. love trying to banish all contradictions, things into "heavy" and "light" and Kun- cal aspect of filmmaking-lighting, pho- But make someone who has fallen in banish the duality of body and soul, ban- dera's constant exploration of the bound- tography, editing, sound, color, art direc- love listen to his stomach rumble, and the ish perhaps even time." In the film, howev- ary of the two categories is so subdued in tion, acting-with such astonishing clarity unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion er, all one hears is Tereza shouting for a the film as to be virtually absent. that the scenes portray the invasion with a Yet what remains on the screen does vitality the book never could have hoped have strengths of its own. The acting in the to equal. Head has funky rhythm section film is uniformly superb, from Day-Lewis, And the narrative does manage to ver- Binoche, and noted Swedish actress Lena balize one of Kundera's seemingly unfilma- and is clean, tight and dedicated Olin (as Tomas' mistress) down to the few ble comparisons. Tomas castigates at one moments the popular Polish actor Daniel point those who refused to atone for their (Continued from page 7) Overall, the band was clean, tight, and Olbrychski has onscreen as an Interior initial welcome of the communist regime. monies between guitarist/vocalist Skip Re- dedicated. Though the SCC has tended in Ministry official. Kaufman draws thor- They should have, says Tomas, followed gan '90 and vocalist/percussionist Kris the past to favor the most pop-oriented oughly on the skills of his actors, and the example of Oedipus who blinded him- Gunsalus G. bands, Head should be a good bet to there is no mistaking that this most self when he discovered his sins. It is a make it to the finals. American of directors has successfully pity that more scenes like this one could They followed with "Don't Know Why" The third night of preliminary competi- produced a quintessentially European not be incorporated into the film because and "All Grown Up," songs in the laid tion will be this Thursday beginning at character study. with all the sheer talent involved in the back, rolling vein of Crosby, Stills, Nash & 9:30 PM in Walker Memorial. Four origi- Technically, the film is dazzling in sever- film, Kaufman has achieved what to him Young on 4 Way Street, including long in- nals bands will be performing - Chutney, al moments. One sequence in particular, in must be a supreme triumph. Nevertheless, strumental sections punctuated by guitar Solo Faces, Stoned Wheat, and Bucket O' which Tereza and Tomas photograph the it is disappointing that one must be famil- solos using a wah-wah pedal. Unlike Lunch. The winners of the preliminary Soviet tanks and troops as they roll into iar with Kundera's novel to appreciate full CSNY, Head featured a very funky nights will be announced after the last Prague, is a breathtaking cinematic tour- richness of the qualities that made the sto- rhythm section, lead by drummer Scott band performs. The finals will be held on de-force. Kaufman and his crew recreate ry of Tomas, Tereza, Sabina, and Prague Braitwaite. Saturday, March 12. the Russian invasion with a frightening ac- so special.

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Continues through Telephone: 497-8200. its Wednesday series Film and Dreams * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * March 30 with gallery hours Mon-Sat wilhFederico Fellini's 8 V2 (Italy, 19%3) $C:==1$C='!= l_===4- - IC--===" Birdsongs of the Mesozoic perform 10-5. Telephone: 720-2855. at 5:30 & 8:00. Located at the Car- beginning at 9 pm at Nightstage, 823 . I . . penter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Contemporary Insanity, a collection of Main Street, Cambridge. Tickets: $6. Quincy Street, in Harvard Square. satirical songs and sketches portraying a Telephone: 497-8200. Sean Mooney: Paintings opens today at Galaxy 500S,Blue Valentine, and Over- Tickets: $3 general, $2 seniors and sophisticated and offbeat look at modern the Newtonville Public Library, 345 Wal- looked perform at T.T. the' Bear's, 10 children. Telephone: 495-4700. The Angel Dialogs, the new intermedia life, continues indefinitely at the Boston nut Street, Newtonville. Continues Brookline Street, Cambridge. Telephone: electronic dance-opera docudrama on the Baked Theatre, 255 Elm Street, Davis through March 31 with gallery hours 492-0082. Square in Somerville. Performances are Ruby Topaz, Instigators, Roxy, Evange- strange life story of J. Robert Oppenhei- lizer, and Doldrun perform in an 18-+ Mon-Fri 9:30-6 and Sat 9:30-5. Tele- USA Cinemas' 3rd Annual French Film Thurs at 8 pm, and Fri-Sat at 8 pm and phone: 552-7162. 1 mer, father of the atomic bomb, contin- -ages Metal show at the Channel, 25 Festival continues with Pierre Chanel's ues through March 12 as a presentation 10:30pm. Tickets: $8 Thurs, $9.50 Fri- Man From Nowhere and Jacques Tati's Sat. Telephone: 628-9575. Necco Street, near South Station in JAZZ MUSIC of Theatre S. at The Performance Place, ' downtown Boston. Tickets: $3.50. Tele- White Fire, M.P.H., Artisan, Blitz, and Playtime at Copley Place. Telephone: 277 Broadway, Somerville. Performances phone: 451-1905. The New England Conservatory Honors Ex-15 perform at the Channel, 25 Necco 542-3334. are Thur-Sat at 8 pin. Tickets: $8 &$10 Jazz Sextet performs at 8 pm in Jordan Street, near South Station in downtown * , * et general, $4 &$6.50 students. Telephone: Forbidden Broadway 1988, the latest up- Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston. Boston. Tickets: 53. Tel: 451-1905. 625-6087. dated version of Gerard Alessandrini's No admission charge. Tel: 262-1120 The Brattle Theatre begins its Wednesday musical The Regular, The Stops, and Life of comniedy revue, continues indefi- Sport perform at T.T. the Bear's, }0 ext. 257. film series Fassbinderwith Lolaiat 3:30 & nitely at the Terrace Room, Boston Park Brookline Street, Cambridge. Telephone: THEATER 7:45 and Veronica Voss at 5:40 & 9:50. The Bishop's Bonfire, Sean O'Casey's Plaza Hotal. Performances are Tues-Fri 492-0082. Located at 40 Brattle Street in Harvard play dealing with a bishop returning to at 8 pm, Sat at 7 pm & 10 pm, and Sun * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * i: Square. Tickets: S4.75 general, $3 sen- I' his Irish home town after 20 years to a at 3 pm & 6 pm. Tickets: $16 to $22.50. CLASSICAL MUSIC Zangezi, a poemrn-play by futurist iors and children (good for the double noisy, impressive hero's welcome, contin- Telephone: 357-8384. Velimir Khlebnikov, translated from bill). Telephone: 876-6837. I, The Boston ues through University Symphony Or- the Russian by Paul Schmidt, is pre- March 20 at the Lyric Stage chestra performs works by Prokofiev, POETRY Theatre, 54 Charles Street, Beacon Hill, sented at 8 pm in Remis Auditorium, CLASSICAL MUSIC Boston. Haydn, and Brahms at 8 pin in Sympho- Poet Robert Bly reads from his works at Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Hunting- Performances are Wed-Fri at ny Hall, 8 pro, Sat at 5 pm & 8:30, and Sun at * * * CRITIC'S ClIOICE * I * corner of Huntington and Mas- 7:30 pm at the Art Institute of Boston, ton Avenue, Boston. Also presented The Boston Conservatory Wind Ensem- 3 pmo. Les Miskrables, the Tony-award win- sachusetts Avenues, Boston. Tickets: $6, 700 Beacon Street, Boston. Tickets: $8 March 3 and 4. Tickets: $10 general, ble performs works by Dvorak, Hoist, Tickets: $10 to $13. Telephone: $8, and $10. Telephone: 353-3345. 742-8703. ning musical adaptation of Victol general, $4 Art Institute and Museum $8 MFA members, seniors, and stu- and Ron Nelson at 8 pm In Seully Hall, Hugo's classic, continues through School faculty, and students. Telephone: dents. Telephone: 267-9300 ext. 306. 8 The Fenway, Boston. No admission April 23 at the Shubert Theatre, 265 POETRY 262-1223. charge. Telephone: 536-6340. The Children's Hour, Lillian Hellman's Tremont Street, Boston. Perfor- Poet Michael Hofmann, author of drama about two teachers at a girl's mances are Mon-Sat at 8 prn, Wed & Nights in the Iron Hotel and Acrnmony, boarding school whose lives are ruined Sat matinkes at 2 pm. Tickets: $27.50 will read from his work at 4 pm in the by rumors of lesbianism, continues to $45, $16 special student tickets for Boston University College of Liberal through March 19 as a presentation of some performances. Tel: 426-4520. Arts, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Bos- the Triangle Theater Company at the ton. No admission charge. Telephone: Paramount Penthouse Theatre, 58 Berke- 353-2510. The Tech Performing Arts Series presents.e. ley Street, Boston. Performances are Thur-Sat at 8 pro. Tickets: $12.50. Tele- Move Over Mrs. Markham, the 1971 FILM & VIDEO phone: 426-3550. West End comedy about infidelity, lust, and missed opportunities, continues in- The Somerville Theatre presents a Steve definitely at the Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tre- Martin double bill with Planes, Trains SINFONOVA Nunsense, depicting the talent show nont Street, Boston. Performances are and Automobiles (1987) at 4:00 & 7:45 staged by the Little Sisters of Hoboken Tues-Fri at 8:00, Sat at 6:00 &9:30, and and All of Me (1981) at 6:00 & 9:45. SinfoNova, is an extraordinary chamber orchestra, and their Mozart is in order to raise money to bury foul of Sun at 3:00. Tickets: $19.50 to $27.50, Also presented March 2. Located at 55 especially divine. So don't miss their 5th anniversary concert - their number currently in the convent $33.50 to $42.50 with dinner. Telephone: Davis Square, Somerville, just by the freezer, continues indefinitely at the 423-4008. Davis Square T-stop on the red line. also to be given in New York's Carnegie Hall- in which Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton Street, Tickets: $4.50 general, $3 seniors and Boston. Performances are Tues-Fri at children (good for the double bill). Tele- Anthony di Bonaventura will perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 14. 8pin, Sat at 6 pr & 9 pr, matin6es A Night With John Barrymore, with phone: 625-1081. Thurs at 2 pm and Sun at 3 pro. Tickets: Ronald Buda performing Milli Janz's one }>~ ~ Jordan Hall, March 4 at 8pm. MIT price: $3. $15.50 to $26.50. Telephone: 426-6912. man play about Barrymore struggling with alcoholism and a faltering career, USA Cinemas' 3rd Annual French Film continues through March 6 at the Actor's Festival continues with Bertrand Blier's Quartet, reexamining the themes of sex Workshop, 40 Boylston Street, Boston. Buffet Froid (1980), starring Gerard CHAMBER ORCHESTRA as power and politics as revolution from Performances are Thur-Sat at 8 pm, Sun Depardieu, at Copley Place. Also pre- Choderlos de Laclos' novel, Les Liaisons at 7 pm. Tickets: $10 to $12. Telephone: sented March 6. Telephone: 542-3334. dangereuses, continues through March 6 244-0169. ~, OF EUROPE as a presentation of the American Reper- tory Theatre at the Loeb Drama Center, Shear Madness, the long-running comic Claudio Abado will lead the Chamber Orchestra of Europe 64 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cam- murder mystery, continues indefinitely at The Brattle Theatre begins its Tuesday , in works by Schubert, Schumann, Ives and Stravinsky. bridge. Performances are Tues-Sat at the Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton film series Questioning Mar with Atomic 8 prm, Sun at 7 prn, matinees Sat & Sun Street, Boston. Performances are Tues- Cafe at 4:00 & 7:30 and War and Peace }t ~ Symphony Hall, March 4 at 8pm. MITpnrice $5. at 2 pm. Tickets: $13 to $26. Telephone: Fri at 8 pDn, Sat at 6:30 and 9:30 pmr, at 5:45 & 9:15. Located at 40 Brattle 547-8300. Sun at 3 and 7:30 pi. Tickets: $16 and Street in Harvard Square. Tickets: $4.75 $19. Telephone: 426-6912. general, $3 seniors and children (good for the double bfil). Telephone: 876-6837. SPANISH DANCE Haiku, Kate Snodgrass' one-act play The Ramon de Los Reyes Spanish Dance Theatre will present a about a poet who attributes her volumes A View front the Bridge, Arthur Miller's of haiku to her autistic daughter, and riveting Amrnerican tragedy of violence The Harvard Film Archive continues its program entitled "Bravo Flamenco/Samba Brazil," Moving Out, Ray Isle's one-act play and forbidden love in the shadow of the Tuesday film series Women Directors and featuring new choreography by de Los Reyes to Ravel's Bolero about a young man's efforts to uproot a Brooklyn Bridge, continues through the Avant-Garde with Les Ann~es '80 stubborn elder, continue through March 27 at the New Repertory Theatre, (The Golden Eighttes, Belgimm, 1983, and Afro-Brazilian dance, music and theater. March 6 at the Boston Playwright's The- 61 Washington Park, Newton. Perfor- Chantai Akerman) at 5:30 & 8:00. Locat- ater, 949 Commonwealth Avenue, Bos- mances are Fnr at 8:00, Sat at 5:00 & ed at the Carpenter Center for the Visual John Hancock Hall, Boston. March 4 & 5 at 8pm. MlTprice: $5. ton. Performances are Thur-Sun at 8:30, and Sun at 2:00. Tickets: $9 to $12 Arts, 24 QuincN Street. in Harvard 8 pm. Tickets: $5 general, $3 students. general, $2 discount to seniors and stu- Square. Tickets: $3 general, $2 seniors Telephone' 738-4146. dents. Telephone: 332-1646. and children. Telephone: 495-4700. 4 Awards Planned: classified 2 Graduate Student advertising Awards at $5,000 each, 2 Undergraduate Major Harvard Teaching Hospital seeks clinical research assistant. Student Awards at Summer 1988 or sooner. Position $2,500 each. in clinical research laboratory evalu- ating autonomic nervous system. Involves patient contact; assist in design and co-authorship of scienti- fic studies. Contact Dr. Friedman (617) 732-9727. The 1988 Carroll L WilIson Awards Part Time Help Needed Excellent salary. 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I, .... ll..e,__ I _-I _~ PAGE 14 TVe Tech TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1988 _ ~ ~ ~ , A R T s 0 THEATER East Coast Shuttle, dances by Sue Bern- POPULAR MUSIC hard. Anne Lemos Edgerton, Cheryl Split Second, in which Dennis lAcintyre Flaharty, and Donna Frechette, is pre- New Man, withguests Tribe, Paris, The pits a black New York City policeman sented at 8 pm. at the Joy of Movement Shivers, and Mike Verge & Acid Reign, against perform (o n a petty criminal turned viciously CLASSICAL MUSIC Studio Theater, 536 Massachusetts Ave- at the Channel, 25 Necco Street, Compiled by Peter Dunn racist, opens today at the Alley Theatre, nue, Cambridge. Also presented near South Station in downtown Boston. 1253 Cambridge Stleet, Cambridge. . * .'CRITIC'S CHOICE**. March 5. Tickets: $8 general, $7Dance Tickets: $4.50 advance/S5.50 at the SinfoNova performs in i x)C=x" W e === Continues through April 16 with perfor- a program en- Umbrella members. Tel: 655-0486. door. Telephone: 451-1905. mances Thur-Sun at 8 pm. Tickets: $12 titled "For CarnegieHall, " works by CLASSICAL MUSIC general, $10 seniors and students. Tele- Rossini, Mozart, Mirzoyan, and Schu- FILM & VIDEO bert/Mahler, Sara Goldstein, phone: 491-8166. at 8 pm in Jordan Hall, The MIT Lecture Series voice, John Finney, 30 Gainsborough Cornmitte pre- harpsichord, and Jan Pfeiffer, Street, Boston. sents Frank Capra's State of the Union Down Avenue and Ia The Flesh perform Baroque Tickets: $8.50, cello, perform works by Bach. Harlem Renaissance, $13.50, and $18.50 (1948) at 7:3D in 10-250 and No Way at the Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Ave- POPULAR MUSIC Handel, a night of drama [see also reduced-price Purcell, and Arne as part and songs taking you tickets offered Out, starring Kevin Costner, at 7:00 & nue, Boston. Telephone: 254-2052. The Swinging Erudites of the AV'T back to Harlem in through The Tech Performing perform at the Thursday Noon Chapel Series at 12:05 the 1920's, is presented at Arts 10:00 in Kresge Auditorium. Admission: Paradise, 967 Commonwealth at 8 pm at the Series]. Telephone: 938-6828, Avenue, the MIT Chapel. No admission charge. Cambridge Multicultural Arts $1.50. Telephone: 225-9179. Boston. Telephone: 254-2052. Center, 41 . . . rf Telephone: 253-2906. Second Street, East Cambridge. Also nVolcano Suns, Slaves, Too Much Joy, presented March 4 and 5. Tickets: $10 and Gingerbread The Somerville Men perform at the The Raindogs, with Sally's Dream, per- general, $8 seniors and students. Tele- * * * CRITIC'S Theatre presents a Rat, 528 Commonwealth CHOICE * * * Woody Allen triple feature Avenue, Bos- form at Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, just * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * phone: 577-1400. The Chamber Orchestra with Every- ton. Telephone: 536-9438. of Europe thing You Always Wanted across the street from the entrance to the The Boston Symphony Orchestra, performs works by Schubert, to Know bleachers DANCE Schu- About Sex (1972) at 4:14 &9:30, Sleeper at Fenway Park. Telephone: with celhst Yo-Yo Ms, performs Choreo Graphs, mann, Ives, and Stravinsky at 8 pm in a performance with (1973) at 7:45, and Love and Death 262-2437. , . , works by Haydn, Shostakovich, and dancers, computers, and Symphony Hail, corner of Hunting- motion detec- (1975) at 6:00. Located at 55 Davis The Bags, Tupelo Chain Sex, and Gin- Beethoven at 8 pm in Symphony Hail, tors, is presented by the Computer Muse- ton and Massachusetts Avenues, Bos- In The Wild, lake the Veii, Sofi corner ot Huntington and Massachu- um ton. Tickets: $18 and Square, som.nAfic, hjSt , naaho gerbe2d Ments'prferm at T.E. the vears, at 8 pm in Cahners Theater, The Mu- $20 Isee also Square T-stop on the red line. Tickets: 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge. Tele- Exchange, and Broken Toys perform at setts Avenues, Boston. Also presented seum of Science, 300 Congress reduced-price tickets offered through the Street, S4.50 general, $3 seniors and children. phone: 492-0082. Rat, 528 Commonwealth Avenue, March 4 at 2 pm and March 5 at Boston. Also presented March The Tech Performing Arts Series]. Boston. 4. Tele- Telephone: 625-1081. Telephone: 536-9438. 8 pm. Tickets: $15.50 to $41. Tele- phone: 426-2800 or 423-6758. Telephone: 266-1492 or 497-1118. phone: 266-1492. Johnny Copeland, Texas blues guitar FiLM & VIDEO great, and his Triage, Sojourn, The Lemmiogs, The Somerville Theatre presents The French Library in Boston begins its band perform at 8 pm & Big a Stuart !1 pm at Nightstage, 823 Clock, Parade, and Green Fuse perform The Handel and Hayden Chamber Cho- Gordon triple feature with Dolls Boston Musica Viva presents a concert series Expatriate Filmmakers in Paris Main Street, (1987) Cambridge. Tickets: $8. Tel: at the Channel, 25 Necco Street, near rus and Period Orchestra performs an at 4:15 & 9:30, From Beyond (1986) at of retrospective and new works by Wil- with Luis Bunuel's Cet Obscur objet du 497-8200. South Station in downtown Boston. all-Bach program at 8 pm in Old West 6:00, and Reanimator (1984) at 7:45. Lo- liam Thomas McKinley at 8 pm in the desir (That Obscure Object of Desire, Tickets: $3. Telephone: 451-1905. Church, 131 Cambridge Street. Boston. cated at 55 Davis Square, Somerville, First and Second Church, 66 Marlbor- 1977) at 8 pm. Also presented March 5 Tickets: $12.50 general. $5 student rush just by the Davis Square T-stop on the ough Street, Boston. Tickets: $8. Tele- and 6. Located at 53 Marlborough JAZZ MUSIC [see also zeduced-price tickets offered red line. Tickets: S4.50 general, $3 sen- phone: 646-8659. Street, Boston, near the Arlington T-stop William Malone, saxophone, Paul through The Tech Performing Arts Se- iors and children. Telephone: 625-1081. on the green line, Tickets: $3.50 general, . $2.50 members. Barringer, piano, John Lockwood, bass, ries]. Telephone: 266-3605. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra per- Telephone: 2664351. POPULAR MUSIC and Alan Dawson,drums, perform at forms works * CRITIC'S CHOICE * . * by Wagner, Tschaikovsky, Jazz/Classical/Folk 8 pm in Jewett Auditorium, Wellesley Pianist Lucienne Davidson performs and Nielsen at 8 pm Live-Music Coffee- The Harvard-Epworth Church pre- in Sanders Theatre, The Harvard Film Archive begins house is open 8:00 to 11:30 College. No admission charge. Tele- works by Chopin and Mozart at 12 pm Harvard University, Cambridge. Tickets: its film in the Ash- sents John Ford's The Man Who Shot series Animated Features down Dining Room. Admission: $1. phone: 235-0320 ext. 2028. at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's $4 & $6, $8 at the door. Tel: 864-0500. with Ralph auditorum, 600 Liberty Valance (1962), starring Bakshi's Heavy Traffic (1973) at 7 pm Atlantic Avenue, across Jimmy from South Station Stewart and John Wayne, at The Longy and 9 pm. Located at the Carpenter Cen- in downtown Bos- 8 pm. Located Artists Ensemble performs ton. No admission charge. at 1555 Massachusetts ter for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, The Neats, The Matweeds, Two Saints, * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * Telephone: Avenue, Cambridge, works by Beethoven, Brahns, Douglas and 98 973-3454 or 973-3368. just north of in Harvard Square. Tickets: $3 general, Colors perform at the Rat, 528 Claude Bolling, French co mposer/I Harvard Square. Admission: Johnson, and Schumann at 8 pm in the Commonwealth $3 con- PAA... _i,-:_ /'...... -- ~i.. $2 seniors and children. Tel: 495-4700. Avenue, Boston. Tele~ pianist, pertorms at 7:3u e lU:00 at tribution Telephonet::34a87. Eward rzckman Concert [ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CmowathrAveueBotion.- * -- Telephn:35-87 823MainStreet, Cam- A Piano Honors Recital is presented byT I p Hall, Longy phone: 536-9438. bridge. Tickets: $15. Tel: 497-8200.Nightstage, the 823New Ma England Conservatory at 8 pm _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SchoolGardcn ofS Music, corner of Follen and**** .. .. P _ in Jordan Hall, 30 * t Gainsborough Street, USA Cinemas* .ra Annual Prench illm sion charge Telephone: 8760956 2 *No Boston.admission charge. Tele-pon e: The Festival continues i USA Cinemas' 3rd Annual French Film with Bertrand Taver- The Lyres, Lost Stand, and Great Plants Paul and Rosaie DiCresenzo with Tom phone: 262-1120 ext. 257. Boss (Jacques Rivette and Andre S. Petrkis perform in an evening DANCE nier's Beatrice at Copley Place. Tele- perform at T.T. the Bear's, 10 Brookline of jazz, EXHIBITS Labarthe) at Copley Place. Telephone: The Ramon de Los Reyes Spanish Dance phone: 542-3334. Street, Cambridge. Telephone: 492-0082. irkcluding works by Ellington, Gershwvin, Annette Browine: New Paintings opens 542-3334. Er,,ing Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Theatre presents a program entitled today at the Gallery at the Piano Fatory, The Brattle Theavre presents New "Bravo Flamenco/Samba . Hart, and others, a. 8 pmn at the Cam- 791 Tremont Brazil" at TheCambridge Center for AdultEduca- Street, Boston. Continues Animation by the Brothers Quay at 4:45, 8 pmn in Jobn bridge Center for Adult Education, Hancock Hall, Hancock tion continues its filial series The Wages Pretty Poison, with P~~~~-ard S u a r . T 56 through March 21 with gallery hours 6:15, 7:50, & 9:30. Also presented gues's Pictutre Per- c at - un d R Place, Boston. Also presented March 5. of Sin with Oblomov (Russia, l9s51, Brattle Street In Harvr Sur.Tc- Thur-Fri 5-9 pin and SatSu oalitr fect, perform at the Channel, 25 Necco 6 pm. M rch 4 and 5. Located at 40 Brattle Tickets: see reduced-price tickets ets $3.50. Telephone -547-6789. Telephone: 267-0593 Street in offered Nikita Zaalko,) at 6:30 &9:15. Locat- Srena et ni~esaeSoot uwth tloS T at onmnndwtw d 876-6837. Harvard Square Telephone: through The Tech Performing Arts Se- ed at 56 Brattle Street in Harvard w t _ _ es. Telephone: 421-2000. Square. Tickets: $3.50. Tel: 547-6789. Boston.the door. Tickets: TelteCnig.Tlpo:9208 $6.50 advance/$7.50 at TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1988 The Tech PAGE 15 _ ·9pDlrsa- - - Ipa Ir IL ----i _, q __ -a Dla - - - -· --- -- I ------__ - _I I --- A R T S - u - -- _I srrip--= --- ---- Hiram Bullock, former member of the FILM & VIDEO CLASSICAL MUSIC Late Night with Daid Letterman Band, with Tiger's Baka, performs at 8 pm & The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- * * * cRinc'S CIOICE ·* 11 pm at Nightstage, 823 Main Street, sents Stakeout, starring Richard The MIT Chamber Players, with vir- Cambridge. Tickets: $1. Telephone: Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez, at 7 pm & tuoso French horn player Douglas CLASSICAL MUSIC ( n 10 pm in Room 26-100. Admission: gCopild ter Dunn 497-8200. Hill, perform works by Husa, Weber, First Monday in Jordan Hall, with Compiled by Peter Dunn $1.50. Telephone: 225-9179. Beethoven, and Dvoraik at 3 pm in Brahms Sextet in G Major, Op. 36 and Killian Hall, Hayden Library Build- Schubert Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, is b==aQBg=gluPsl·Iab - -I-l--·i-- The Claucy Brothers, Ireland's energetic ing, 160 Memorial Drive. No admis- presented by the New England Conserva- THEATER and talented quartet, with Robbie * , CRITIC'S CHOICE *, * sion charge. Telephone: 253-2906. tory at 8 pm in Jordan Hall, 30 Gains- FILM & VIDEO O'Connell, perform at 8 pm at the USA Cinemas' 3rd Annual French * * o CRITIC'S CHOICE * a * borough Street, Boston. Tickets: $5 gen- The Somerville Theatre presents What Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Film Festival continues with Louis eral, $3 seniors and students. Telephone: Mumrmenschanz, the celebrated Swiss Somerville, Mask-Mime Happened to KIerousc? (1985) at 4:15 & just by the Davis Square Malle's Eacombe, Lucien and An Evening of Gershwin, an evening of 262-1120 ext. 257. troupe, performs at 7:30 T-stop on the red line. Tickets: $13.50, Maurice Pialat's controversial Under at the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston 7:50 and Marlene (1987) at 6:00 & 9:30. music and dance, is presented by the Also presented March 9. Located at 55 S15.50, and $16.50'($2 more day of Satan's San at Copley Place. Tele- Stage Company of Boston at 8 pm at the FILM & VIDEO Street, Boston. Continues through phone: 542-3334. March 20 with performaances Tues- Davis Square, Somerville, just by the show). Telephone: 625-1081. Charles Playhouse, 74-78 Warrenton *** CRITIC'S CHOICE *r * * Sat at 8 pm, Sat rmatinres Davis Square T-stop on the red line. Street, Boston. Donation: $25 advance/ The Harvard Film Archive continues at 2 pm, CLASSICAL MUSIC * · * * Tickets: S4.50 general, $3 seniors and $30 at the door. Telephone: 367-6819. and Sun matinees at 3 pmr. Tickets: its Monday film series Three Directors $17 to $25.50. Telephone: children (good for the double bill). Tele- The Boston Philharmonic performs The Harvard-Epworth with Jean 426-9366. Bruckner Symphony Church presents Renoit's Le Crime de Mon- phone: 625-1081. No. 8 at 8 pm in Claude Chabrol's sieur Lange Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough This Man Must Die (The Crime of Monsieur Street, (1970) at 8 prn. Located at The Boston Museum Trio, with Judith Lange, France, 1935) Boston. Also presented at 4 ipm 1555 Massa- at 5:30 &8:00. The Harvard Film Archive continues its in Sand- chusetts Avenue, Cambridge, just Malafronte, mezzo soprano, performs Located at the Carpenter Center A Piece ers Theater, Harvard Square, north for of Time, Miller Ccoburn's bitter- Tuesday film series Women Directorsand Carn- of Harvard Square. Admission: works by Barbara StroLzi and Monteclair the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, sweet comedy about an elderly bridge. Tirke"t-s. 5?, $3 con- in Jewish the Avant-Garde with Born In Flames S!! and $!4. Tale- fiutio.i Icphonhe: 3Se~327 at 3 pn at the Museum of Fine Arts. 465 -trvarldInlnrP Twlkte- 51 aprio i couple facing their rnortality. phone: 536-2412. opens to- (1983, Lizzie Borden) at 5'30 &8:00. Lo1- Huntington Avenue, Roston. Tickets: $2 seniors and children. Telephone: day at the New Ehrlich Theatre, 539 Tre- cated at the Carpenter Center for the Vi- EXHIBITS $12 general, $10 MFA members, seniors, 495-4700. rnont Street, Boston. Continues through sual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, in Harvard and students. Telephone: 267-9300 March 27 with Frederic Rzewski, Massachusetts-born The 117th New England Flower Show performances Thur-Fri at Square. Tickets: $3 general, $2 seniors opens today at the Bayside Expo Center, ext. 306. * * $:00, Sat at 5:00 & 8:30, and Sun at avant-garde composer and pianist, per- USA Cinemas'*3rd A*nmtal French Film and children. Telephone: 495-4700. forms as part of the MIT Composers in Boston, near the MFK/UMass/Columbia 2:00. Tickets: $8 to $15. Tel: 482-6316. T-stop on the Ashmont red line. Contin- The Boston String Quartet performs in a Festival continues with Alain Tanneer's Recital Series at 8 pm in Killian Hall, £ongy EXHIBITS USA Cinemas' 3rd Annual French Film ues through March 13 with hours Mon- Artist's Diploma Recital at 3 pa No Man's Land at Copley Place. Tele- Hayden Library Building, 160 Memorial in the Edward Pickman Concert Hall, phone: 542-3334. New Dimensions in Photography, ex- Festival continues with Claude Chabrol's Drive. Sat 10-10 and Sun 1-8. Tickets: $5.50 to The Horse of Pride at CopIcy Place. Admission: $8 general, $4 stu- $7 depending Longy School of Music, corner of Follen ploring how contemporary photogra- dents. Telephone: 253-2906. on day, $2 children. Tele- and Garden Telephone: 542-3334. phone: 262-8780. Streets, Cambridge. No ad- The Cambridge Center for Adult Educa- phiers are combining the unique charac- * $ * 4 mission charge. Telephone: 876-0956. tion presents a new film on Robert Low- tenstics of Polaroid film with alternative ell, introduced by Frank Bidart on the processes, opens today at the Clarence Members of the Youth Philarmonic Images from Java and Bali, by C. David occasion of the 70th anniversary of Kennedy Studio, 770 Main Street, Cam- Orchestra join the Boston Symphony A Facilty Chamber Music Concert is Lowell's birth, at 8:15 pm in the Black- bridge. Continues through April 9 with Thomas, opens today at the Newton Free Boston Globe Jazz & Heritage Festival, Orchestra in a Salute to Symphony con- Library, presented at 4 pm at the All Newton Mu- smith House, 56 Brattle Street in Har- gallery hours Tues-Sat 11-5. No admis- cert at 2:15 pm in the Hynes Civic Audi- 414 Centre Street, Newton Cor- March 10 to 19 at various locations. ner. Continues sic School, 321 Chestnut Street, West vard Square. Admission: by donation. sion charge. Telephone: 577-5177. torium. The New England Conservatory through April 3 with gal- Newton. No admission charge. Tele- Making Music Together - American lery hours Mon-Thur 9-9, Fri 9-6, Sat Telephone: 547-6789. also presents Stephen Drury in a faculty phone: 527-4553. LECTURES Sovkt Festival Performances, including 9-5, and Sun 1-4. Telephone: 552-7145. recital at 3 pm and an Extension Divi- Derek Campbell, actor. director, and performances by Maya Plisetskaya and sion Faculty Recital at 8 pm, both in Jor- FILM & VIDEO teacher at MIT, and William Cavness, the Bolshoi Baliet, begins March I I and dan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Bos- The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- voice of Reading Aloud and Chamber- continues through March 29. Terence ton. No admission charge for any of sents 2010: Odyssey Two, starring Roy POPULAR MIUSIC works on WGBH, will read selections Trent D'Arby at the Metro on March 16. these concerts. Telephone: 262-1120 Scheider and John Lithgow, at 6:30 & Bobby "Blue" Bland, one of America's from the 'Cyclops" episode of James Tampopo, presented by the MIT-Japan ext. 257. 9:30 in Room 26-100. Admission: $1.50. preeminent vocalists, with The lemaen, Joyce's Ulysses at 6 pm at the French Li- Science and Technology Program, on POPULAR MUSIC Telephone: 225-9179. performs at 8:00 & 10:30 at Nightstage, brary in Boston, 53 Marlborough Street, March 18 in 10-250. La La La Human THEATER Leo Kottke aJad Michael Hedges perform 823 Main Street, Cambridge. Tickets: Boston, near the Arlington T-stop on the Steps presented by Dance Umbrella at Saturday, Sunday. Monday. Eduardo de at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 $12. Telephone: 497-8200. green line. Tickets: S5 general, $3 mem- the Strand Theatre on March 18 and 19. Filippo's tale of the Priore family resolv- Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. Tickets: The Somerville Theatre presents The bers, seniors, and students. Telephone: INXS and Public Image Limiled at the ing their domestic troubles, opens today $16.50. Tel: 492-1900 or 720-3434. Trip To Bountiful (1986) at 4:15 & 8:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC 266-4351. 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i ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~e -~~~~~~~~~~~~r.-·, IMIT smothers Caltech 13-0 By Peter Dunn party mood not develop. It's un- their offense. fortunate that MIT spectators This is East meets West, North MIT picked up the pace in the cannot show this kind of fan sup- meets South, Celtics versus second period with six goals, port for every hockey home with one Lakers, Bruins versus Habs. This to each forward on game. Maybe next year. is MIT versus Caltech in a hock- MIT's third line of Nielan, West- The party mood spilled onto ey game which the Engineers can- phall, and Jones. Nielan flicked the ice as MIT played a casual, not afford to lose. Which Engi- in a centering pass from West- neers? Good question. Tech, easy-going game. This was a phall driving up the right wing Engineers, Beavers - both teams game that the entire MIT team for MIT's third. Russell beat the would be able to share in, with Caltech goalie low with share those monikers. This year a slap- 'i 11 different players contributing the Beaver Cup will travel back shot from left point. Jones got a to the 13 goal tally: Alec Jessi- -#W to the West Coast as the Califor- fluke goal as he only caught part 210, man '88, Jeff "Norman" Bates nia techies wrested it back from of the puck after Westphall won '90 (2), Gary Nielan G, Rick the faceoff, MIT with a stunning 5-1 victory. and the Caltech goal- "Surehand" Russell G (2), Joe ie could not handle the looping Ken Church/The Tech 13 goals Just kidding - although it's Jones '89, Mike Westphall '90, shot. Dale Archer G scores one of as MIT shut out Cal- likely that will be the story The John Santoro '89, Brian Lutsch- Russell assisted on yet another tech in the Beaver Cup. California Tech will run, since witz '89, Young Shin '88, Tom goal as he made a beautiful pass things: President Paul Gray '54 hind the net. Shin brought MIT that was what the scoreboard Allen G, and John Voccio G. from the right point to Bates at showed up for the third period; into double digits on a power read at the end of last Saturday's The MIT scoring started slowly the left spot, who one-timed it many spectators started yelling play as he hit the net on a sharp second annual Beaver Cup game. in the first period, with Jessiman into the top of the net. Westphall for double digits; the audience angle from the left boards. Allen In actuality it was the MIT men's and Bates scoring the only two scored as the Caltech goalie started doing the "Wave." MIT further extended the lead by liter- hockey team that held onto a goals, the first on a shot from the caught part of his slapshot but let continued to dominate, scoring ally pouncing on the rebound of slim 13-0 lead to once again have left point and the second off a the puck trickle into the net: just one goal less than in the sec- an Alex Sherstinsky G shot from the honor of stuffing the coveted power play drive by Russell into John Santoro scored shorthanded ond period. The Caltech goal- the right faceoff spot. Voccio Beaver Cup into their puck bag. the Caltech zone. Maybe the Cal- to bring it to 8-0 with just 10 sec- tender continued to waver in net, played give-and-go with Shin up Although it may have been a tech skaters were suffering from onds left in the period: the Cal- mishandling the puck and giving the ice to finally stuff the puck in one-sided game, it was a game a little too much jet lag (after all, tech goalie again mishandled a up too many rebounds. at the Caltech crease. Russell that was far from boring, fun for they were playing at 11 am, Sat- long slapper by Dale Archer G, scored his second goal, and both the players and the specta- urday, California time - time and Santoro pounced on the Luschwitz, playing forward brought the final score to 13-0, as tors. The stands were jam- for lounging on the beach): they trickling puck. after coming out of the penalty he muscled through the Caltech packed, with nary an empty seat passed and skated too slowly to The third period went pretty box, put in a backhand on a Tom defense to put a backhand to be found - fans were sitting ever break through the MIT de- much as the first two, but Coach Dorf '88 centering pass from be- through the goalie's pads. in the aisles for a chance of a fense at their own blue line. Still, Joe Quinn let his first two lines good view. And with the seats they got a few scoring chances on warm the bench a little while his Arnold sets uneven bar record full to the brim (with a large individual drives up the ice, but third, fourth, and fifth lines got a number cheering on Caltech, no could never keep the puck in the bit more skating time. The crowd in a bewitching Salem routine less!), it was impossible that a MIT zone long enough to set up got a bit more into the swing of By Eric M. lReifschneider including a straddle-over straddle-back to a handstand on Allison Arnold '90, a member the low bar. The highlight of the of the MIT women's gymnastics Vermont edges men's gymnastics routine was a combination of team, placed first on the uneven By Eric M. Reifschneider tine including eagle giants and a The team's last meet before consecutive free hip circles to bars in Saturday's Eastern Colle- The MIT men's gymnastics layout, half-twisting front Nationals is this Sunday's New handstands on the high bar. She flyaway giate Athletic Conference team suffered a close but exciting dismount. His score of England Championships, also at Cham- dismounted with a layout Hecht pionships at Salem, 196.5-195.4 defeat at the Univer- 8.4 won the meet for Vermont. Vermont. MIT's competition in MA. Ar- from the high bar. nold's score of 8.8 set a new sity of Vermont Saturday. The Mitchell won every event ex- this meet will include Springfield MIT Arnold also qualified for the record for uneven bars scores were season highs for both cept floor and the all-around College, the University of Massa- and all-around competition, but was earned her a. first-place tie with teams, and the final margin of competition with a total score of chusetts at Amherst, and South- a unable to compete on the other gymnast from Salem State. Ar- 1. 1 points was the smallest of any 49.1, a new Vermont record. ern Connecticut St., whose events because of a foot injury. nold is the first MIT gymnast of MIT's meets in the last three Reifschneider took second with a coach, Abie Grossfield, coached The only other MIT gymnast to ever to win an event at the ECAC years. MIT, facing a more diffi- personal record 41.3. Acosta was the gold-medal-winning 1984 qualify for the meet was Rachel Championships. cult schedule than in past years, third with 41.1. U.S. Olympic team. McCarthy '90. McCarthy scored completed its season with a re- Despite the loss, MIT im- (Editor's Note: Eric M. Reif- Arnold's routine flowed grace- 8.1 on vault and 8.2 on floor ex- proved its cord of 4-4. chances for qualifying schneider '89 is co-captain of the fully from bar to bar with a vari- ercise; the latter score was a sea- Inspired by an enthusiastic for the Division 11-111 National men's gymnastics team.) ety of release and regrasp moves son high for MIT on that event. homecoming crowd, Vermont Championships April 1-2 at - I' - I - - e took an early seven-point lead on Springfield, MA. Qualifying is mmm u 1m mm m mmmm- m--i -lm!1 - mmRI m imm m u the first two events. Al Acosta re- based on the average of a team's I ceived the meet's highest score, three highest season scores. The I 9.0, for a dynamic floor routine top six teams in the nation quali- highlighted by a double back flip. fy, and MIT is currently ranked Captain Bill Mitchell performed fifth. Reifschneider, Nash, Chen, a difficult routine without any and Malonson all have a chance major flaws for a meet-high score to qualify for the individual all- of 7.45 on pommel horse. A around competition as well. strong 8.0 floor routine by MIT's Mark Malonson '89, good for at the University of Vermont I third place on that event, kept MIT vs. UVNI I the Engineers from falling even I further behind. FLOOR EXERCISES - 1, Acosta, UVM, 9.0; 2, Mitchell, UVM, 8.2; 3, I MIT began its comeback when Malonson, MIT. 8.0; 4, Wirthlin, UVM, I co-captain Eric Reifschneider '89 7.75; 5, Nash, MIT, 7.35; Shire, UVM, I scored a season-high 7.2 on 7.2; 6, Shire, UVM, 7.2; 7, Kipnis, MIT, I 6.75; 8, Reifschneider, MIT, 6.5; 9, rings. Malonson and Jason Kip- Ii Donahue, UVM, 6.3; 10, Chen, MIT, i nis G followed with scores of 7.2 5.65. Ii and 7.25, respectively. Kipnis POMMEL HORSE - 1, Mitchell, I competed on five events despite a UVM, 7.45; 2, Reifschneider, MIT, 5.95; I painful shoulder injury. Co- 3, Wirthlin, UVM, 5.2; 4, Nash, MIT, I 5.05; 5, Kipnis, MIT, 4.7; 6, Haley, captain Norman Chen '88 com- UVM, 4.6; 7, Crumbaker, UVM, 4.45; 8, I pleted MIT's dominance on rings Acosta, UVM, 4.45; 9, Holt, MIT, 3.9; iI with a season high 8.0; his iron 10,. Malonson, MIT, 3.75. I cross and double back flip dis- RINGS - 1, Mitchell, UVM, 8.05; 2, Chen, MIT, 8.0; 3, Kipnis, MIT, 7.25; 4, mount earned him second place $IFREED |'IBM-PC/XT/AT CompatiblesA Malonson, MIT, 7.2; 4, Reifschneider, on that event. MIT, 7.2; 6, Acosta, UVM, 6.0; 7, MIT outscored Vermont by Crumbaker, UVM, 5.65; 8, Katz, UVM, nearly five points on rings, but 5.4; 9. Nash, MIT, 5.05; 10, Shire, UVM, 4.95. Vermont held a three-point lead VAULT - 1, Mitchell, UVM, 8.95; 2, after four events. The Engineers Chen, MIT, 7.95; 2, Shire, UVM, 7.95; Over 900 FREE! erased that deficit on parallel 4, Acosta, UVM, 7.85; 5, Nash, MIT, PROGRAMS FOR THE Hh r:solu T 7.8; 6, Fugaro, MIT, 7.65; 6, Malonson, bars, however, by scoring 36.5 t MIT, 7.65; 6, Refschneider, MIT, 7.65; PC/XT/A T! Mini-AT style case. 'd 'le rferPtSHerculesypemoitof-l card points, a new MIT record on this wordproc150waanooed powersupply AT case with reset button, turbo buttortighl. key 9, Wirthlin, UVM, 7.5; 10, Brower, Gamesbusiness, education, · a sic turbo ma ordoperating at 10MHzl lOck. event. Alan Nash '89 nailed his UVM, 7.4. * wordprocessors, databases, * TwinFloppy disk driveecontroller card. 60r full-twisting stutz, and Reif- PARALLEL BARS - 1, Mitchell, utilities, communications, and · OneFloppyh is R expandedto 64OK · Zerowa e staes AT-arod schneider his full-twisting back UVM, 8.15; 2, Nash, MIT, 8.1; 3, more! XT·AT compatible-84-keY keyboard. 0Twin Fpoopy disk driveconffoler card. Reifschneider, MIT, 7.95; 4, Acosta, mote!guble8 ·Xrompa ~key~bo 512K of high speed RAM(1OOns), expandable to I flip dismount, to place second UVM, 7.55; 5, Malonson, MIT, 6.95; 6, and third on parallel bars with Chen, MIT, 6.75; 6, Kipnis, MIT. 6.75; 0- wf 0 keyboardAXT/ T 8b4-keey aompable scores of 8.1 and 7.95, respective- 6. Crumbaker, UVM, 5.75; 9, Katz, lNot for responsible :Ser and Para Port Card. ly. UVM, 5.65; 10, Haley, UVM, 5.35. HIGH BAR - 1, Mitchell, UVM, 8.4; MIT led by one point going 2, Acosta, UVM, 6.25; 3, Chen, MIT, into the last event, high bar. The 6.05; 3, Reifschneider, MIT, 6.05; 5, I Kipnis, MIT, 5.7; 6, Nash, MIT, 5.6; 7, outcome of the meet hung in the I count Z W617UNITECH^ {(617)651-2725 balance as the final competitor, Wirthlin, UVM, 5.4; 8, Brower, UVM, I 4.9; 8, Katz, UVM, 4.9; 10, Malonson, * uoterCo i 24 Thorndike Street Route 9, Sherwood Plaza Vermont's Mitchell, mounted the MIT, 4.5. I 0 VCenter wMon thru Sat 10am-5pm Mon thru Sat 10am -8pm bar. Mitchell responded to the FINAL SCORE - UVM 196.5, MIT I Open Late 'til 7pm on Thurs- Fri Sunday 12pm-5prn pressure with an outstanding rou- 195.4. IL_ - - _ mmmmmmmmWmmmimm mmmmmmmmmmmmJ

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