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VOLUME LXXXVIII NUMBER 20 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA FRIDAY 6 MARCH 1987 Optional Dental Plan Coming to Institute; Local Dentists Available toOay IS by Steve Gomez it could have been done for $28 in questions on the matter. Since I am Starting first term next year (or school. If anyone has questions, not always there, leave a message third term this year if details are they can contact me, Steve Gomez, at the tone and I will get back to worked out soon enough), all at x3762. I will try to answer your you. Ta Ta. ORopOay Caltech undergraduate and gradu ate students will be eligible to sign up for the Safeguard Prepaid Den tal Program. The plan is optional, but is such a deal that those already insured should take advantage ofit. It costs $34 a year for an eligible member, and $68/year for a member and one dependent. Once signed up, the member chooses a local dentist who belongs to the program. There are three dental offices, with a total ofeight dentists, that belong to the program and are close to Caltech. Free benefits of the program include cleaning once every six months, oral examinations and diagnosis, .office visits, full-mouth X-rays, and preventative dental education. Other services and treatments will require co-payment, including topical fluoride treatments ($5.00), emergency treatment ($15.00), broken appointment change (i.e., less than 24 hours notice-$1O.(0), fillings (ranging from $10-$25 depending on the number of teeth involved), extractions ($25-$55 plus $20 anesthesia, depending on the condition of the teeth), etc. For those already covered by some dental insurance, your pre > sent insurance should pick up the .D cost of the co-payment depending £ o on the type ofinsurance you carry. .c The best idea is to take care ofyour Cl. dental problems while in school The Van Is Back-Jeff "Larry" Flint, the new ASCIT upperc ass Director-at-Large presents the freshly repaired ASCIT van. The van is available to ASCIT now (when the insurance plan members who have good driving reputations. For information, or to reserve the van, contact Flint at Syndicate Alley (room 110, x3774). starts) while it is dirt cheap. You might not appreciate paying $160 to have a tooth remoyed later when What Happened to Dingo Boingo by Adam Siovik many more entries. We had until ing to be on tour, we might have Haymans of Flintridge "Why haven't we .had the Oingo Friday at five. to wait until June. Great! concert?" Since our entrance into We fIlled out (all the houses ex We started talking about the . the 'back to school' (Oingo Boingo cept Page participating at this size of the stage, the dre.ssing Concert) sweepstakes, it seems the point) 52,000 entries and drove rooms, security, lights, insurance, Donate New Chair whole campus is filled with ques them to KROQ. Kathleen seemed etc. Several weeks later I got a call tions. Perhaps this article can shed optimistic about our chances. Now saying that Mark is sorry but we [CNB] - Caltech has received a gift is needed to endow a professorship light on the situation. the waiting started. can no longer have a concert. The from Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. at Caltech. Brian Daniels and I were told band did not want to give two con Hayman of Flintridge to establish The Haymans' previous gifts to of this contest without many The long wait..• certs for one contest. Why should the Dotty and Dick Hayman Pro the Institute were the Richard L. details. After many phonecalls, they have to pay for what they felt fessorship of Engineering. and Dorothy M. Hayman Pro some to New York, I reached Every Monday and Friday I was KROQ's mistake? He tried Caltech President Marvin L. fessorship in Mechanical Engineer someone who knew what was go called Kathleen at KROQ and was everything he could but it ain't go Goldberger said that one of ing held by Frank E. Marble, and ing on. This was on a Tuesday. told that nothing was new as to the ing to happen. That's it. Caltech's most eminent professors the Hayman Lounge in Caltech's She said that she would send winner and to call back. After I called Kathleen from KROQ will be selected to hold the endow Athenaeum, in memory of Mr. out the official rules in the mail, but several weeks, and constant nagg (remember her?) and yelled my ed chair. "Professorships are Hayman's brother, Earl S. that we had to handwrite on an in ing by the CIT community, I call head off. She said that whether or among the most important gifts our Hayman, a 1924 Caltech graduate. dex card our name and school and ed Honda-the sponsor. Pam Dean not our entries entitled us to a con friends can contribute, since they The Haymans have also contri get it validated at a Honda dealer told me the winner would be an cert or not and whether or not she enable us to recognize outstanding buted generously to the Caltech and send it to New York to be nounced in three days and that if had the right to tell us what she did faculty as well as providing vital Alumni Fund, The Caltech Associ received by Monday. we weren't told yet (the winner was was irrelevant. endowment funds that strengthen ates, and the Summer Undergrad Brian and I went to all the to be told before the rest of the All that in mind, they still pro Caltech's financial base. We are uate Research Fellowship (SURF) houses asking for monetary support world) we probably hadn't won. mised us a concert and she was. go deeply grateful to Dick and Dotty program. for the cards and stamps as well as The next day Clea came to me, ing to hold them to that promise. Hayman for their foresight and Hayman, who studied mechan labor to fIll ourthese cards. All the telling me that the public events of The next day - "there isn't much generosity." A gift of $1.5 million ical engineering at Caltech, worked houses except Lloyd (and ofcourse fice got a phone call and referred that I can do ..." at Lockheed from 1936 to 1945 Fleming) refused money, saying it to her. She gave me the name and At this point I went to our before founding his own company, that their houses were not en phone number for Mark Shimmel. friendly Deans and we set up a Haskel, Inc. (Burbank, California), thusiastic. Lloyd and Fleming I immediately called him and he meeting with the Institute lawyer. which produces compressed air decided to go on, knowing that all verified that we won. I was told The lawyer. thought that the 20 Budget (and gas) driven pumps, and spe the houses would gain if we won, that there was a problem with our tickets offered to us in compensa cial purpose valves, and metal even if they put no effort in. entries not being validated but tion for the whole affair was flange seals for general industry We bought and filled out as because ofour great enthusiasm we ridiculous. How about 800 tickets and defense. He is also chairman many cards as we could afford to would be given a concert as well for all the undergrads, maybe 1600 Meeting ofHaskel Energy Systems, Ltd., in send to New York. as the next school with less - but for the grad students as well, or England, a foreign subsidiary ofhis validated- entries. maybe even 2000 to include some company. staff. The budget meeting for the Mr. and Mrs. Hayman are ac More cards Problems arise The CIT lawyer together with '87-'88 fiscal year is scheduled at tive members ofThe Associates, a our public relations office (a direct 7:00PM next Tuesday, March 10th Caltech support group. They are On Friday morning, hearing a After talking with many people line to the press) are going to try in the Millikan Board Room. All contributing Life Members and promotion for this contest on in the administration and with con to convince Honda and whoever clubs and organizations should pick members·of the President's CCir KROQ, I called, to be told by cert halls and more, Mark Shim else that it is in their best interest up a budget request form from Thu cle. Mr. Hayman has just com Kathleen Riely that we could mel called to say that the concert to satisfy us. Le, Ruddock House, and return pleted a two-year term as president deliver our entries to the station would be on December 23. I said As it stands now, a concert is them by 5:00 pm. today. Please of The Associates. He is also a rather than send them to New that would be unacceptable, seeing impossible. A reasonable number mail them to Thu Le, mail code member of the Caltech Alumni York. Without the cost of the that many students go home for of tickets to a show in 1-55. No extensions granted. Association. stamps we could afford to send Christmas. Since the band was go- L.A....we'll see. 2THE CALIFORNIA TECH FRI DAY 6 MARCH 1987 11---------0PIN 10N------1 Frosh In PICK THE Thoughts About BOC The editorship feels that with such may have the honor system and a major controversy on hand, we community in mind while trying Trouble @ too should make our own com such cases. Do they realize the im ments concerning the BOC.

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