IsPI I ---- IlII IP -- - --- c------, -- - Group examines role of I Y1IDlli B new context subjects By David lRothstein An Institute working group formed within the Undergraduate Education Office will spend the next one to two months studying the early results of MIT's experi- mental "context subjects" pro- gram, and will attempt to devel- op informal guidelines for the further implementation of the program. The appointment in September of former Provost Francis E. Low to convene a group to study Context program marked a the Tech File Photo new stage in the ongoing efforts Francis E. Low. of the Committee on the Under- Smith (history of technology) and !- graduate Program to broaden Steinberg (anthropology MIT's educational program. Low and at- , chaeology) join Low in the work- was appointed by Dean for Un- ing group, continuing their inves- dergraduate Education Margaret tigations. L, A. MacVicar '65, who has ex- Assistant Dean for Curriculum pressed strong support for the Support Margaret Richardson, Context program. Kaledin (histo- The group headed by Low, Professors Arthur ry), David H. Marks (head of civ- who teaches in the physics de- r s y T grew out of the efforts il engineering), Lawrence M.Sa partment, Sarath KrishnaswamyiThe Tech interschool Lidsky (nuclear engineering), of two now-dissolved Maurice S. Fox (head of biology), 2.70 students pitted their machines against each other for the first time last night. working groups, one from the and student Lacinda Hummel '91 The final round begins at 7 pm tonight. The contest will be broadcast live on MIT School of Humanities and Social (channel 36) starting at 6:30 prn. cable . . . p.... Science, headed by Professors RPIease turn to pagek 2) ...... P Arthur Steinberg and Merritt Roe Smith, and one from the School of Engineering, headed by Pro- Ilower its electricity conusumption fessor Elias P. Gyftopoulos, M IT seeks to whose goal was to develop mod- By Dawn Nolt zations to make all efforts to re- separate consulting firm for this Kilmarx, the parts are as follows: els for Context programs. MIT is presently working to duce electrical consumption be- purpose. The consultants have * Routine changes of light Eleven Context courses were lower its energy consumption, fore allowing a new electrical looked over the regions and de- bulbs guaranteed for an economy created, of which two were which is one of the highest in generator to be built, Kilmarx signed ways to lower energy con- life of two years will result in taught last spring and four were Greater Boston, according to explained. sumption. The consultants re- 2.89¢ per kilowatt used in refund George H. Kilmarx, engineering The rebate program with Cam- ceived bids and then hired the to MIT for the next two years. offered this fall. The classes are l taught jointly by faculty- from projects manager at the Physica bridge-Electric is a contract that lowest bidder to carry out specif- e Any changes guaranteed for-- different departments, and seek Plant. Among-other things, bulbs will refund some money back for ic tasks in their designs, such as five years will result in MIT's be- replacing light bulbs or installing reimbursed 2.89¢ per kW for to explore the relationship be- are being replaced, and new fix- every kilowatt used during a lim- ing de- multi-speed electrical controls on the next five years. One example tween scientific and engineering tures and devices installed to cut ited time after energy-saving vices have been installed on fans to better regulate airflow is when the incandescent lamps disciplines and the humanities down on electrical usage. a rebate campus. into buildings, Forti explained. present in stairwells are replaced and social sciences. In conjunction with Elec- The agreement with Cambridge Twenty-three buildings have al- by fluorescent lamps that use up It is possible that context program with Cambridge Electric states that a third party ready been finished and fur- less wattage, but still emit the courses will become part of tric, the work was started in the uphold MIT's claim that nished with energy saving de- same amount of light. MIT's core curriculum. That, spring and will end next August, must made on campus vices, mostly on the east side of * Cambridge Electric will re- too, will be discussed by the Kilmarx said. He noted that MIT any changes will eventually save electricity, ac- campus, Kilmarx said. Various imburse MIT 4¢ per kW on any working group, according to has been interested in building a cording to William J. Forti, con- methods have been used to cut changes guaranteed for ten years. Low. new electrical generator. The Su- down on electrical consumption. The rebate will continue for five Gyftopoulos (nuclear engineer- state of Massachusetts requires struction coordinator of the companies, institutes, or organi- perintendent's Office. The MIT Each change has a place in the years after the changes have been ing and mechanical engineering), four-part rebate contract with I I I -- II~ I---p---L '_, '"ar~Pb···~llr into roughly (Please turn to page 2) I-· I campus was divided five regions, and each assigned a Cambridge Electric. According to Speakers debate need for covert activities By Andrew L. Fish contest), and supporting insur- "guiding maxims" which he said Two experts on government co- gency forces in countries like Af- should govern US covert activity. vert activity clashed yesterday on ghanistan. He explained that He said covert action should be the role and control of covert ac- many of the positive aspects of used "when the goals of foreign tivity in the United States. Roy covert activity are not widely re- policy [are clear] and the admin- to defend Godson, an associate professor ported, as no one objects to such istration is willing of government at Georgetown policies and brings them into the those goals in public." Godson University, and Morton H. Hal- public domain. In addition, God- said the Reagan administration's perin, head of the Center for Na- son said the field on national se- Nicaraguan policy ran afoul of tional Security Studies and Wash- curity scholarship is very new. this rule, as no official would say ington director of the American But Godson did suggest five Civil Liberties Union, spoke at a forum entitled "Dirty Deeds?: Gary lMlarx warns of dangers Covert Action in the 1990's" sponsored by the Technology and of surveillance technology Culture Seminar at MIT. By Niraj S. Desai tion of dossiers. Marx believed Godson argued that "covert Americans should be con- that some aspects of such a soci- action is not dirty deeds" but cerned that the control tech- ety are already present. rather "an instrument of foreign niques andmfrentality of a inaxi- Recent technnoiogicai innova- policy that every post-war admin- nmum-security prison are finding tions - associated with comput- I istration has valued." Godson ar- their way into the general society, ers, video cameras, urine analy- gued that covert action "should warned Professor of Sociology sis, and electronic markers - be regarded as a normal instru- Gary T. Marx. Improved technol- have made it possible for anyone ment of statecraft ... one of ogies coupled with an inadequate to be a target of surveillance. The many tools" that a government public policy response pose a new technology can be laser-like can use in implementing foreign danger to America's democratic in finding specific information policy. He argued that "inffuenc- values, Marx said. about individuals, yet highly dif- ing events abroad is the stuff of hMarx's comments came last fuse in the broadness of its foreign policy," and it would be I night at a Social Implications of range, Marx said. inappropriate to eliminate one Technology seminar sponsored Marx noted that some simple means to achieving this end. by the Institute of Electrical and monitoring devices can be bought Godson noted that American Electronics Engineers. at places like Radio Shack - actions have achieved a va- covert In a "maximum-security soci- available to everyone without any riety of successes, such as aiding find themselves un- kind of accountability. "Why leaders in post-war Japan and ety," citizens Michael Franklin der constant surveillance, con- would someone buy these Germany, aiding leaders in anti- Mike Duffy '92 sends the ball hoopward during the strained in their movement and things?" Marx wondered. He colonial struggles, supporting season opener against Wentworth Institute. The Engi- activities, and subject to the told the crowd of approximately democratic parties in foreign neers lost 70-72. work of informers and the collec- (Please turn to page 6) I -- --- C - -CF · --- I-- -- ------elections (like the 1948 Italian
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We are currently seeking translators for: Implementing program ® To encourage students to be Most recently, changes in the more reflective about the social Humanities, Arts and Social Sci- ability · Arabic · Ch · Danish * Dutch The immediate problem facing implications of individual · Farsi · Frenh · Gemnnn ·Greek action, ence (HASS) structure were in- is · itaion ® Japanese · Korean Low's group is the development and to promote discussion of troduced in an effort to provide a of an effective mode of imple- · Norwegia · Polsh · Portuguese other personal issues. broader education to the MIT valuable! · Romanian 0 Spanish * Swedish menting the context idea. "Few members of the [MIT] student. and others. "Clearly the awareness and community" Low said, "would Asked how the context pro- Into-English translations from German some understanding of the con- dispute the importance of the gram experiment differed from and French. Many other languages also text - political, ethical, econom- general notion of the need for previous efforts, Richardson said available. ic, environmental, et cetera - in greater awareness and under- that the program's goal not only Foreign language typists also needed. which science and technology is standing [of the context in which of broadening the students' edu- All this work can be done in your carried out," Low said, "should science and engineering cation, but also of bringing to- home! be a major dimension of a sci- operates]." gether faculty from different dis- Linguistic Systems, inc. is New ence and engineering education." The role of non-scientific edu- ciplines, was particularly England's largest translation agency, "MIT owes its students a seri- located a block north of the Central Sq. cation within the framework oif important. subway station. ous efforts to provide them with the scientific curriculum present- Richardson said that she had this opportunity to achieve that ed at MIT - a paradox virtually never seen so much interaction For application and test awareness and understanding," since MIT's inception - has been between faculty members from translation call Ms. Low continued. an extremely difficult one for the different departments as has been Providing that opportunity has Institute to determine. Many occurring recently. ULnguistic Systems, Inc. DePhillips been difficult. Enrollment in 116 Bishop Allen Drive three of the four context courses Cambridges, MA 02139 864-3900 offered this term has been disap- M IT seeks L- I - - -- pointingly low, according to to cut down I~ ~a-arIICHLrZLLs~~~+~CUFP6 Richardson. The low figures - only two to on its use of electricity six students enrolled Be A Mentor! Be A TachCer! in each of (Continuedfrom page I) E40. These devices sense the tem- the three courses, "Life and In- made. This includes installation perature outside the building and UROP's Student Research Partners program is looking stitutions of Science," "Automrna- of occupancy sensors. The device then adjust the airflow accord- tion, Robotics and for upperclassmen to take selected freshmen under Unemploy- uses infra-red light to scan the ingly. If the outside temperature ment," and "Negotiations in area for any body heat, and after suddenly warms up, the heat ex- their wings during IAP and make them a part of Engineering Systems" - may be twelve minutes, will shut off any change unit will shift to blow research activity for three weeks. This is your a result of the fact that the sub- remaining lights. These have been cool air within the building. chance to teach someone else about the work that jects were offered only for unre- installed at the squash courts at All this work, however, results you do and give them the chance to get their feet stricted elective credit or of the Building W32. More have been, in little or no expense to MIT, ex- wet. (Honorarium included.) If you are an lecture nature of the courses, and will be, placed in labs, of- cept for some administrative Richardson said. fices, and classrooms throughout costs, according to Kilmarx. The experienced UROPer with a good record in a lab Richardson noted that the the campus. rebates from Cambridge Electric or similar setting, we'd like to talk to you. working group was not limiting ® MIT will receive a 6.28¢per will go in part to the consulting Participation to formal lectures its conception is subject to approval by your faculty kW refund for the next five years companies, who will in turn pay of formats for the context pro- supervisor. Interested? Leave your name at the for any fixtures installed with an their subcontractors. Kilmarx gram. Presentation of the context Undergraduate Education Office, 20B-141, x3- economy life of fifteen years or foresees that the total amount of program may involve efforts like more. This includes the heat ex- electricity saved will be 14 million 7909, or call Jane Sherwin at the same number. the recent "How to Be Good" change units installed in Building kW. .=~b~a~A~IRP_~R P~-= . ~ L~bB~hL~dC~LBC~IAA~rC~M~b~LhPPIR M __ ELM colloquium, which brought to- ------I ------
gether students and faculty for a L" ~ C L L -· ·IIB _ P-mL -·-sraRr - P ·-- Wljb Q ·-· panel discussion of ethics, or less m formal, seminar-type programs. By far the most successful, and L. best-advertised among the gener- I al MIT community, of this term's TAKE A context subjects was the six-unit course titled "AIDS: Scientific $6000 BITE Challenge and Human Challenge." OUT OF IA Richardson estimated that 55 i to 60 students enrolled :n the course, which consists of a ,eries YOUR of lectures by a variety of exp.rts Gr in many fields, including non-sc!- TUFITON entific ones. Objectives This year, with the new UPS tuition The objectives of the Context reimbursement program, you can program, outlined in a brochure take a big chunk out of your college distributed to students in May by costs with a part time package the 'ur, are; handlers job. e To underscore the common- Eligible shifts for our alities linking the study of science plan in our and engineering with other Norwood facility are: branches of knowledge; 10:30pm-2:30am (approximately) 0 To increase understanding 4:00Oam-8:00am (approximately) of non-scientific and non-techno- IUPS Package Handlers make $8-9 an
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c-rshes s · ll lsll pPss b Nixon defends Quayle Former President Richard Nixon says that Dan Quayle Canada's elections today Judge refuses to drop charge is getting a burn rap. Quayle met with the former presi- If network projects hold up, Brian Mulroney will con- dent yesterday at Quayle's transition office. Afterwards, against Iran-contra defendants at an impromptu news conference, Nixon claimed that tinue as Canada's prime minister. The Canadian Broad- Federal District Court Justice Gerhard Gesell said- casting Corporation was predicting late last night that there is no basis for media portrayals of the Vice Presi- charges against the four Iran-contra defendants, including dent-elect as an "intellectual midget." Nixon described the Mulroney and his Conservative Party would retain a par- Oliver North, are basically those of fraud, and it is the liamentary majority in yesterday's voting. Victory for Indiana Senator as "highly intelligent" and predicted he kind of fraud case that fits Supreme Court definitions of will be an excellent Vice President. Mulroney also means victory for a US-Canadian free conspiracy. That, he concluded, is how the case will be trade agreement. Opponents in Canada said the deal was tried. Gesell spoke during a hearing on a defense motion a one-way street favoring the United States. to have the central conspiracy case dismissed. The defen- The two nations are each other's largest trading part- dants are accused in the sale of US arms to Iran and the INon-candidate wins election ners, with $150 billion worth of goods crossing the border diversion of profits to the contras. Donald Ullomn, a television reporter in West Virginia, every year. The trade agreement, which has been ap- Gesell also ruled that North cannot invoke presidential said he was flattered to find that he was elected Ohio proved by Congress, would eliminate all tariffs between power as a shield for his role in the affair. The justice County surveyor. The catch - Ullom wasn't running for Canada and the United States. ruled that North was only an employee of the President office. Somehow he received more write-in votes than any - and has no right to speak for the President. Gesell also other candidate. Ullom said he does not intend to take up wants President Reagan to decide whether he will pardon the new job. Israel parliament off to rocky start North or allow the former lieutenant colonel to stand trial israel's new parliament got off to a rocky start yester- and risk the disclosure of national security secrets. The day. Fifteen members initially balked at being sworn in by judge said he will have very little control over the testimo- a representative of the extreme right, while demonstra- ny once the trial started. tions outside protested the demands of ultra-orthodox re- ligious parties. The heated exchanges took place while Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir continued to seek a broad Bush continues to fill out Cabinet coalition government that included the rival Labor Party. George Bush has named one of his commanders in the But Labor leader Shimon Peres was quoted as saying his war on the federal budget deficit. He picked Richard Dar- party is "heading for the opposition benches." man to head the Office of Management and the Budget. -- Darman has been a White House aide and a deputy Trea- 88 E8888R sury secretary; both he and Bush have vowed not to raise Novembrr... taxes to reduce the budget deficit. Bush said he has not The November chill has finally arrived. After a been swayed by a General Accounting Office report that few weeks of relatively mild temperatures, called for tax increases as well as military and Social Se- yesterday's blustery winds and chilly temperatures curity cuts. were reminders of the late autumn and winter Bush also tabbed two more members of Reagan's Cabi- Bush wants tos meet with Dukakis weather that is ahead. It appears as if this week's Richard Thornburgh President-elect George Bush wants to meet with his for- net to stay on - Attorney General weather in New England will be characterized by and Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos. Previously, Governor Michael S. Dukakis. Dukakis aides below-normal temperatures and dry conditions. mer rival, Bush asked Nicholas Brady to stay on as Treasury secre- said Bush telephoned Dukakis in his Statehouse office Across the country, the weather will be relatively tary. Bush said those three would probably be the only yesterday. Earlier yesterday, Bush told reporters at a quiet with the exception of showers in the Pacific Reagan holdovers in his cabinet. Washington press conference that he was interested in Northwest and rains in the southeastern Gulf and Governror's American Jewishlheaders are suggesting that Bush ap- Atlantic states. The rains in the southeast will be meeting with -Dukakis. Martha Barnes, the point a Jew or other strong supporter of Israel to a top spokeswoman, said Dukakis is in favor of such a meeting. associated with the late season tropical cyclone post in his administration. The appointment of John Sun- Keith. Late Thursday afternoon Keith was a unu '61 - an Arab-American - as chief-of-staff is caus- tropical storm with 65 mph winds drifting to the ing concern among Jewish groups. One Jewish leader says north in the central Gulf of Mexico. Keith is Six boxes of marijuana he's concerned that there's never been an Arab-American expected to cross over the Florida peninsula later sent by Express Mail as "gatekeeper to the President." this week. Police say a Rockport, MA, man was arrested yesterday and charged with having marijuana shipped to his home Tuesday afternoon: Mostly sunny with diminishing 15-25 mph decreasing to by Express Mail. Officials said 43-year-old Peter Rossman Ex-presidents recommend tax hikes winds. Winds northwest was arrested at his home on a charge of drug trafficking. The President-elect got some advice yesterday on cut- northwest at 10 mph. High 45°F. Police confiscated a total of 275 pounds of marijuana ting the deficit from former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Tuesday night: Clear and cold. Winds northwest 5- worth an estimated $300,000 dollars. Essex County Dis- Gerald Ford. They are among the prominent Americans 10 mph. Low 30°F. trict Attorney Kevin Burke said Rossman was arrested af- who worked on a report recommending non-income taxes Wednesday: Mostly sunny with some cloudiness ter a drug task force and Gloucester police watched six and cutting spending be used to reduce the deficit by $40 arriving. Winds light northwest. High 43 °F. Low boxes of the drug delivered to his home. Burke said the billion each year. 31-33 °E Emery Air Freight Company told the District Attorney's Reagan library construction to begin Thanksgiving IDay: Partly sunny and cool. High 44- 49 °F. Low 35 °F. office about the shipment. The company's drug-sniffing President Reagan is traveling to California for the Forecast by Michael C. Morgan dogs had detected the marijuana, but the company agreed Thanksgiving holiday and to witness today's ground- to proceed with the delivery so a suspect could be appre- breaking for his official library. Construction of the li- LI Cs - Irpl _ g p· --- - I Y--* · -· ·C·ll hended. brary is to begin soon in California's Simi Valley Region, Compiled by Harold A. Stern not far from Los Angeles. and Seth Gordon Nov. 28- Dec. 2 ( On t"rive,
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<·- -I - _- -I ," -- , AI-I"'I ------fl II I X 5' '.?S,W _aM PAGE 4 The Tech TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1988 sa P asePPler lrr w B opinion ac i A _Crack in the DomelDaniel J. Glenn ------ -- -- 1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contes t ignores reality dam surrounding Boston to proI- Steering Commitee, in a letter to ,..pSt0 5wsx I tect us from the melting of thee the "Boston Visions' Competi- Recently, Boston's architects polar ice-caps. Second place win tors, stated: "Although this is an ICEEP IE~E. have publicly displayed just how ners included an idea by two 'ideas' competition, this is not an far removed they are from the MIT students to utilize Boston'Is academic exercise - there are economic, waterways for urban social, and political transporI real, unfulfilled opportunities in realities of the city of Boston. using "water-buses," anothe Boston and a need to add cre- ;I Amidst much fanfare and flow- MIT entry applied futuristic con ative ideas for wide public discus- 1l ing champagne, the Boston Soci- cepts of the "information city- tox OL- sion." Clearly, though not men- ety of Architects awarded Boston's Washington Street corri's tioned by Mr. Redmon, the most $50,000 in prizes to 12 design dor (neglecting to mention thet pressing "real, unfulfilled" op- teams for their efforts in the complex socio-political dynamic portunity is the unfulfilled r op- BSA's "Boston Visions Competi- of the area or current neighborI- portunity for thousands of Bos- tion." Not one of those entries hood demands for affordable ton's lower-income citizens to directly addressed the issue more housing and small-business op have a place to live. sober thinkers consider the most portunities along the corridor) In this city, according to MIT tAtr Turkey treats Kurds very well To the Editor: Nov. 15] which, I think, should as Greek and English. I was in the audience at the be clarified. Koch also makes a grave error talk by Lois Whitman titled "Hu- The comment on the poster when he states that a father was man Rights in Turkey." I was that "It is illegal in Turkey to forced to change his children's greatly disturbed, not so much by share religious books" is abso- Kurdish names by the Turkish the discussion of human rights in lutely false. The idea of not being Government. This statement does Turkey, but especially by the con- permitted to share religious not make sense, since almost all tents of the posters which were books in Turkey is so preposter- Kurds bear Moslem names which used to publicize the event. There ous that it does not even occur to are also used by Turks. are considerable errors both on anyone living in Turkey. The record of Turkey on the the posters and in the letter of Furthermore, it is not illegal to treatment of its Kurdish minority Richard Koch's ["AI does not at- use Kurdish in Turkey either. has been remarkable. Currently, tack dignity of Turkish people," Government officials are required many members of the Turkish to use only Turkish, simply be- parliament are of Kurdish heri- cause the only official language p· a ·lrr ------·-· ··l- arr ·ll·ll- -a -- ,I PIQIIPa tage. Only last month Turkey of- Minorities of Turkey is Turkish. However, n. AkGvunf SOP; IN1: WMCH (PP0sTi OR fered the Kurdish refugees fleeing in predominantly Kurdish areas OXYMORON CONTRiTToRY IDEASORMMT A COMBsN the Iraqi regime medical assis- don't need to of Turkey, the use of Kurdish is tance, food, and the right to set- 'i A Al, very common. In contrast, there tle in Turkey if they wished. This prove equality are many complaints by the is not to say that human right Turkish residents of those areas To the Editor: abuses are non-existent in Tur- that they are often denied ser- I am writing to express my key. On the contrary, the efforts vices by the Government officials views on portions of the letter by of the Amnesty International to of Kurdish heritage, simply be- Arthur Hu ["All groups at MIT end the human rights violations cause they cannot speak Kurdish. cannot be represented equally," around the world are well appre- Contrary to Koch's statement Nov. 15]. Firstly, Hu's comment ciated. However, I believe that its that "a 1983 law proscribed pub- about the desire of blacks to members have a duty to avoid er- lications in languages other than achieve better representation at roneous and second-hand infor- Turkish," currently there are MIT said, "... how can they mation when presenting their many daily and weekly publica- claim to have racial equality cases. tions in Istanbul alone, in lan- when only one-third of blacks Turker Oktay G MlIrTARY 9 L'_X6^nsO- al guages other than Turkish such IWI!LLIGENCE PRESIDENT graduate?" Well, I should like CI ---· -- -- IP1 11 1101 Hu to know that we do not mere- ly claim to be equal- we are equal. Primitive attitudes such as Fraternities earned their reputation were conveyed in his letter is To the Editor: taken against those responsible tory of abuse by fraternities to- pus. Whatever the ca uses and no what undermines this fact. The letter ["Greeks face double for the chaining of the keg to a wards their pledges or others. matter how valid thee claims are Those of you who feel threat- standard," Nov. 14] by Howard person is very indicative of this Specifically, there is a long list of for keeping women out of frater- ened by the efforts to improve Zolla brings up many interesting double standard, as Zolla points people who have been injured or nities or men out of sororities, the representation of blacks (and questions about the role of the out. Fraternities face very strict killed by the initiation rituals that the end result is dis;crnimination. other minorities) should realize Greek system on campus. Yet the laws and regulations that appar- pledges more or less must under- South Africa has its reasons and that many of us did not come picture he paints of the Greek ently do not apply to the non- take. Luckily, MIT fraternities claims for apartheid, , and a cen- from backgrounds of clear cut system is not a complete one and Greeks on campus. This grossly have not had problems like this tury ago there were very strong opportunities, with parents-who hence his presentation of the negligent action on the part of a in the recent past, but unfortu- arguments to keep w(,omen as sec- have experienced the professional "fraternity-bashing" problem is dorm should be reprimanded, nately the precedents that ond-class citizens. Discrimination world. Many are from families of not complete. just as any fraternity would have brought about anti-hazing laws is discrimination no; matter what laborers and are first generation I agree that there is a double been. exist. the excuse. college attendees. Some are not standard facing Greeks and non- Yet the reason Greeks are un- Yet there is a bigger issue here This is what is at the core of from upper Manhattan or even Greeks with respect to-practical der so much regulation that is than who can chain whom to a "fraternity-bashing" iin my view. sunny-side suburbia, but from jokes and/or hazing. The fact not applicable to those not in the keg or other object. And this- is It is the question of what place the depths of inner cities such as that no disciplinary action was Greek system is due to a long his- what Zolla calls America's recent these openly discriminratory orga- Detroit, Los Angeles, and Har- decision that "fraternity-bashing" nizations have on the campus of lem. These people have defied all Design competition neglects is "an acceptable national pas- an institute which claaims not to odds by just making it to MIT. time." He states, "'Fraternity- discriminate in its p olicies, ad- After getting here, some of us need for affordable housing bashing' is unfounded, as are missions, or admi nistration not only have to worry about vig- (Continuedfrom page 4) most forms of discriminatory be- against people on thhe basis of lost to urban renewal and orous school work, but also In this state, according to the havior" and that the difference sex, race, or other chaaracteristics. about not being accepted by our Massachusetts Coalition for the gentrification. between "fraternity-bashing" and It is very ironic that t the Greek While Boston's "liberal" archi- peers, and being told that we Homeless, there are between other less subtle forms of preju- system is claiming unfair dis- tects cry about Reagan's massive don't belong here by some pro- 12,000 and 15,000 homeless, 40 dice is small. crimination when theyy themselves cuts in spending on housing, they fessors. I don't doubt the capa- percent of whom are families, Yet there is foundation in "fra- discriminate. don't hesitate to fatten their wal- bilities of most blacks being ad- and in this nation there are three ternity-bashing." And this has I am not arguing atbout the po- lets with design contracts for mitted here, but when we have to to four million homeless people. nothing to do with hazing laws or tential benefits the Gireek system huge office developments for put up with such psychological By the year 2000, according to a advertising alcohol on party post- provides to many peo pie. Nor do "high-tech" military contractors garbage, some are not able to recent MIT study there will be ers. It has to do with the fact I think the system should be financed by Reagan's enormous cope. more than 19 million Americans that most fraternities and soror- abolished. Yet until the Greeks military build-up. Nor do they So why don't blacks just work homeless unless current produc- ities discriminate against people realize that they thennselves have spend much time, money or ef- extra hard to prove that these tion of affordable housing is dra- on the basis of sex, race, and/or a double standard antd fix it, it is fort lobbying Congress to pass a people are wrong? Well the point matically increased. Serious pro- sexual orientation. Women can- difficult to take seriiously their decent affordable housing bill. is, we should not have to prove fessionals in the business of not join fraternities, men cannot claims that they are being dis- The Boston Visions Competi- our equality. Instead, those who building have got to wake up and join sororities, and whites cannot criminated against. tion revealed a lack of willingness are disturbed by the change do something to change this situ- loin the all-black Greeks on cam- Claudio S. Goldbarg '89 on the part of the Boston Society should try to put away their fear, ation now. jurors and open up their minds, and allow Perhaps the architects involved of Architects, the many of the participants to face ROTC studensts minds forgedd themselves to grow with the in the competition feel that our the reality of the affordable change. profession has little to do with housing crisis. Imagine if a na- into imperialist instruments I am not saying that this dis- the housing crisis. Perhaps they tional medical competition were crimination is the sole reason for feel affordable housing is an is- (Continued from page 4) called to brainstorm ideas for the industrial complex. From nonsen- some who don't make it through sue for politicians to deal with. guys can bomb El Salvador's hill future of medicine in Boston and sical "missile-gaps" to non-exis- MIT. Some blacks may feel that Such thinking is worse than a people into the Stone Age, or not one of the winning entries tent "windows of vulnerability" it MIT is not academically suited to cop-out; it is a convenient lie. maybe we'll see a replay of our addressed the AIDS crisis. There plows on, more nuclear war- theiintere-ste.r Ths nproblem , Architects and developers are not 19i54 bombing of Guatemala would be an immediate national heads, more jet fighters, more however, is not unique to blacks. innocent bystanders to the crime City. submarines, more aircraft carri- Finally, about Hu's statement, of homelessness in America, they outcry condemning the physi- The most visible American cians of Boston for ignoring the ers, more Vietnams, more M1T ". .. racial goals which approach are among its many perpetrators. POWs today are the minds of medical issue facing us in the young men and women dying for national proportions will not They have played leading roles young men and women wearing nothing. All this as the number yield equitable racial propor- in the devastation of the afford- foreseeable future. military fatigues on MIT's cam- Well, the growing lack of af- of American under- and lower- tions. And even if they did, mere- able housing stock: "designing pus. It's pathetic to think of the fordable housing in the city and class citizens explodes, as the ly increasing the number of mi- and developing" their way next place they'll die to enforce in the nation is the single most economy grows shakier, as our norities, will not, and cannot by through Boston's neighborhoods American hegemony. It is de- important issue facing architects, infrastructure deteriorates. itself solve the problems of rac- in an endless and profitable series spairing to consider today's cam- planners, and builders in the fu- America needs the hearts and ism on campus." I agree that just of forced condo-izations and pus mental-scape that supports ture and a "vision" that ignores minds of these young women and increasing numbers alone will not the US war lunacy. that issue should be condemned men for creative research and help. But printing such whining bulldozings of low-income dwell- A 24-hour vigil for 2420 war as narrow, self-interested, myo- production, not militaristic ado attitudes that Hu presents won't ings. Ten years ago the city of dead is touching. What about the pic, and not worthy of the pro- venturism. The MIT campus is either. Yes Hu, we are equal; but Boston had over 20,000 rooming 3 million Vietnamese men, wom- fession of architecture. no place for ROTC. These delud- until those of you who hold these house units, once the home of en, and children killed during the ed women and men deserve aca- fears accept this fact completely, many of today's homeless; today Daniel J. Glenn, a graduate war? The ROTC students' im- demic scholarships and loans we won't be able to grasp this we're left with 2000. Tens of student in the Department of Ar- pressionable minds have already from peace-oriented agencies. concept in its totality. thousands of low-income family- chitecture, is a columnist for The been forged into an instrument of America's imperialist military- David Scott Silverberg G * ** >* *By * AX a Carlonda L. Russell '90 size, rental :units have, also been Tech...... ~...... 1-- I I ., -, - -" I --1 -- ·--- :--I- ' - '~':;*11~"--- :'"' -`,---,.' *::"'~ 1'"11- 1, .- MM_[ PAGE 6 The Tech TUJESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1988 _ Speakers argue about covert action (Continued from page 1) these principles, but asserted that whether their goal was to over- in the long run covert action throw the Sandinitas or simply would be able to be implemented stop the export of their revolu- abuses of the past. In without the Also, "covert action inevitably tion. On the other hand, covert addition, he believed that there leads to lying," he said. In order support of the Afghan rebels was were enough checks on the ad- to keep covert acts secret govern- legitimate, as the administration ministration to ensure that ment agents inevitably lie to the was willing to publicly defend abuses to not occur. American people, then to Con- Lisette W. M. Lambregts/The Tech them. Halperin, on the other hand, gress, and finally to others in the Roy Godson (left) and Morton Halperin (right) debated US co- executive branch. Also, Godson said the means said he was concerned not only vert activity yesterday. Former Senior Lecturer Louis Menand of covert action must be "consis- with the failures of covert actions Halperin pointed out that for- III of the Department of Political Science was moderator. tent with American values." This but also with its "successes," mer National Security Advisor maxim would prohibit assassina- which he said "have done more Robert McFarlane testified that tions, disinformation aimed at to harm the free world." Hal- support for the Nicaraguan con- Gary Marx warns of dangers the public, or the arms for hos- perin asserted that "the people of tras was kept covert because po- tages deal, Godson said. Godson Chile right now are paying the litical operatives did not believe of surveillanece technology added that covert action should price for our.covert operations." Congress would authorize the (Continued from page 1) spread to other people, he said. He pointed out that the Church not be the sole means to achieve action. 30 about several instances in The fact that there are short- government objectives, but must Committee in the Senate, even after looking at the successes of Halperin argued that if actions which employers, spouses, and run advantages to some of the be used in conjunction with other met Godson's criteria, there others had spied on individuals. new devices should not blind us foreign policy tools. covert action, "concluded that [it] had not significantly ad- would be little need for them to Besides electronic surveillance, to their long-run dangers, Marx Two other justifications for co- vanced the foreign policy of the be covert. He called for open de- there has also been some develop- said. vert actions are "where it will United States." bate and Congressional authori- ment of electronic "leashes," Marx was troubled by how save the lives of Americans" (i.e. zation of covert actions which Marx said. A device that can be much acceptance innovations in Covert action is a "threat to would not necessarily have to de- attached to a child to tell the par- surveillance and control have foiling terrorists) and "where the basic constitutional system of non-democratic regimes are abus- tail specific operations but would ent if the child goes beyonda cer- found. People are now encour- government," Halperin said. "If for a ing human rights," Godson said. reveal their general nature. tain distance is now being mar- aged to report on others you allow government to engage keted. Similar devices are now wide variety of activities, includ- For example, Godson said it in activities without acknowledg- Halperin believed this would would have been legitimate to use being tested on people on ing drug use and - in Washing- ing them there is no accountabil- permit legitimate paramilitary probation. ton - littering. covert action against Nazi Ger- ity," he said. Without open de- operations, which are certainly Marx felt that, by allowing cer- He believed that power over many, or to use it against modern bate, the public has no voice in not kept secret from their intend- day Afghanistan or South Africa. tain forms of surveillance and the new technologies was concen foreign policy decisions. ed targets. And while the United control, the nation may be on a trated in the hands of too few Godson said the way to imple- States might not be able to give "slippery slope" to wider abuses people. 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" I ._ ~.~., 'lI I- II et -- -- I -I I - - - n s - - bL_ - I - D - -I __ _ _ _ - _ · L ----- A R T S - - -- L _ __ _I--I I -- II Pirates played with conviction THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE The maidens played their roles most ful- MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, somely, masterfully combining the inno- Conducted by Steven McDonald, cence of Shirley Temple outtakes with the Stage Direction byv Marion Leeds Carroll. impetuousness of wanton children. The Reviewed November 20. encounter between Frederick (played by Arthur Fuscaldo H) and Mabel (Jan Eliza- By OMAR A. beth Norvelle) was a stirring one. The RICHARDSON-SUTHERLAND weather forecast, as well as other passages WHAT HAPPENS when a musi- throughout the play, were too rapid for cian and lyricist collaborate these lethargic ears, but I know of no an- to create a musical which chorman who could have done as well. W ~ ~takesan adventure on the What can one say of the Major-General high seas and tempers it with a Shake- (Steven J. Rapaport '87)? Since he wears spearean romance, a young apprentice's shining crimson and looks dashing in it, devotion to duty, and a spirit of reckless verily, with decorations from the shores of abandon? Why, none other than the in- Tripoli to Galilee, he played his role with comparable Pirates of Penzance, of all of the respect one owes to royalty but course! with the sensitivity to complement his All the parts in this production by the loyalty. MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players were In the beginning of Act II, we saw pre- played with the utmost conviction, and a marital jitters in their finest form. Freder- teddy bear lent a refreshing childishness to ick's escorts acted with the coordinated the annoyingly impeccable maturity of chaos of the Keystone Kops, and form a titillating mixture Frederick and his nurse, Ruth (Carrie Naf- of conviction and ziger C). All the theatergoers could appre- cowardice. Though the show itself ciate the inherent humor in the roles, espe- is slightly more I I cially those familiar with the all-pervasive than a century old, it is still a vibrant one, morality found in the Batman series char- as anyone must be who would do it jus- acters. The parallel was there, The orches- tice. Overall, this fledgling troupe gave as II tra occasionally drowned out the libretto, admirable a performance as any I've seen but the parts were well-sung all the same. in a fair number of days. ___stMP~CACLC~Ld~B~L~·~ar~~y~L~~~·r%··am YSPRtlNGiBREAl<~oeesM-. As I I The Tech Performing Arts Series presents. .. PRO ARIfE CHAMBER ORCHESTRW 4N~HTs NASSAU s379pp The Back Bay Chorale will join the Pro Arte Chanmber Orchestra for a performance of Mozart's C minor mass, "The Great." The all-Mozart program will also include the 7NIGHTSCA NCUN s 4 79pp Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546. MIT price: $6 Sanders Theatre, December II at 3 pm. 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The one standout will appear that demands to be is the title track, "Rough Night in Jeri- screen, The Waterboys re- After touring with Sting this heard multiple times at one sit- emerge with the release of the past year, Random Abstract al- cho." The song, which is currently getting ting. Rough Nighf in Jericho, the some air-time on Boston rock stations, fourth album, Fisherman's Blues. Water- lows Marsalis to return to a purer jazz first major release by Dreams So Real, is boys Mike Scott, Anthony Thistlethwaite, sensibility. It also allows Branford to combines Barry Marler's loud lyrics and one of those rare finds. The trio from fast guitar riffs and Steve Wickham have come out of hid- emerge from the the shadow of his more Athens, GA, combines solid with Trent Allen's excel- lyrics and lent bass and Drew Worsham's acceptable ing with a solid album that mixes rock famous and flashier brother Wynton. Mu- pounding vocals with excellent '70s-style drums to form a powerful, exciting music with unusual acoustic and wind in- sically, the two brothers are pursuing dif- guitar rock to create one of the finest song. struments. This latest release reestablishes ferent directions, so Wynton's shadow is Expect to hear much more from this band sounds I've heard in quite a while. The in the years to come. The Waterboys as the most creative of to- often more imagined than real. Nonethe- band does not have any gimmicks; they day's European rock artists. less, this album provides Branford the op- use the standard guitar, drums, and bass ANDREW L. FISH The Waterboys' unique sound comes portunity to establish without confusion (Please turn to page 11) from blending the typical electric guitar his own musical and professional identity. sound with instruments like congas, bou- While previous albums displayed accu- zoukis, fuzz mandolins, violins, flutes, rate renditions of covers, and paid respect and border horns. Lead Waterboy Scott to his influences, Random Abstract gives uses these instruments to produce a sound us Branford asserting his own style while different from that of any other group. He still acknowledging the influences on his is not afraid to put a fiddle solo in a place sound. His saxophone has lyrical, precise where others would put an electric guitar. voice; there is no slop in his phrasing or in As a lyricist, Mike Scott is no less cre- the arrangement of his tunes. Branford ative than he is as a musician. He uses de- plays a number of cover tunes as well as scription and imagery in his songs that is original material, but always as his reading rarely seen in song writers today. And by of the composition. One of the finest cuts producing The Waterboys' albums himself, is "Yesand No." A piece written by Wayne Scott insures that his music and lyrics Shorter, it is a wonderful example of Bran- blend perfectly to create the effect he ford playing on his own terms, and the di- desires on each song. rect-to-master production yields a techni- The Waterboys' previous three albums cally clean and un-hampered sound. have brought them critical acclaim on both The supporting band members Keeny sides of the Atlantic. But they have yet to Kirkland on piano, Delbert Felix on acous- receive wide acceptance from the Ameri- tic bass, and Louis Nash on drums excel in can audience. Hopefully, Fisherman's their accompaniment and round out a first Blues will be the album that gives them the rate jazz band. 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I _~ PAGE 10 The Tech TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1988 A R T s FILM & VIDEO THEATER The James Cotton Band performs at POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. 8 pm & 11 pm at Nightstage, 823 Main - The Somerville Theatre presents Head The Serpent Woman, Carlo Gozzi's the- * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * Street, Cambridge, just north of MIT. The Monkees (1968) at 5:45 & 9:30 and atrical fable combining cornmedia del- Tickets: $12. Telephone: 497-8200. Alice's Restaurant (1969) at 7:30. Also Tracy Chapman performs at Sympho- l'arte techniques, exotic puppets, lush ny Hall, corner of Huntington and presented Thursday, November 24. Lo- music, and a bright palette, opens today Compiled byPeter Dunn Massachusetts Avenues, Boston. Tele- The Delores Keane Band performs at cated at 55 Davis Square, Somerville, as a presentation of the American Reper- phone: 266-1492. 8 pm at the Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis just by the Davis Square T-stop on the tory Theatre at the Loeb Drama Center, Square, Somerville, just by the Davis general, $3 se- 64 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cam- POPULAR MUSIC red line. Admission: $4.50 Square T-stop on the red line. Tickets: niors and children (good for the double bridge. Continues through February 26 Gang Green and Well Babies perform at $10.50-$14.50 advance/S2 more at the The Primitives, with guests The DeNiros feature). Telephone: 625-1081. with performances Tuesday-Saturday at the Rat, 528 Commonwealth Avenue, door. Telephone: 625-1081. and Gigolo Aunts, perform at the Chan- 8 pro, Sunday at 7 pm, matinees Satur- Kenmore Square, Boston. Telephone: nel, 25 Neeco Street, near South Station The Brattle Theatre continues its day and Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets: $14 to FILM & VIDEO MUSIC 536-9438. . * * CLASSICAL in downtown Boston. Tickets: $6.50 ad- Wednesday film series Strange Lands $25. Telephone: 547-8300. The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- vance/S7.50 day of show. Telephone: with Wim Wenders' The American Xanna Don't, The Witch Doctor, and * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * perform at T.T. the Bear's, sents Bambi at 3 pm, 7 pm, & 9 pm in Orchestra per- 451-1905. Friend (1977) at 3:15 & 7:50 and Nicho- For No One 26-100. Admission: $1.50. Telephone: The Vienna Symphony Don Juan, Maolire's probing and comic 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge, just forms works by Mozart, Strauss, and las Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973) at 258-8881. Joplin Har, Haven, and Rock City per- 5:40 & 10:05. Located at 40 Brattle treatment of the legendary romancer of north of MIT. Telephone: 492-0082. Berlioz at 8 pm in Symphony Hall, form at the Paradise, 967 Common- women, opens today at the Huntington corner of Huntington and Massachu- Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. The Brattle Theatre continues its Satur- wealth Avenue, Boston. Tel: 254-2052. Tickets: S4.75 general, $3 seniors and Theatre Company, 264 Huntington Ave- Mitch Woods and his Rocket 88's per- day/Sunday film series Hepburn and setts Avenues, Boston. Tickets: S22. * n * * Telephone: 266-1492. children (good for the double feature). nue, Boston. Continues through Decem- form at Johnny D's, 17 Holland Street, Tracy Together Again with The Philadel- Peppino D'Agosttno performs at Johnny Telephone: 876-6837. ber 18 with performances Tuesday-Satur- Somerville, just by the Davis Square phisStory (George Cukor, 1940) at 3:50 D's, 17 Holland Street, Somerville, just day at 8 pm, matinees Wednesday, T-stop on the red line. Tel: 776-8667. &8:00 and BIiLglng Up Baby (Howard * $ * * The Benjamin Britten Fesival, commem- by the Davis Square T-stop on the red The Harvard Film Archive continues its Saturday, and Sunday at 2 prn. Tickets: Hawks, 1938) at 1:45, 6:00, & 10:00. Lo- orating the composer's 75th birthday, is line. Telephone: 776-8667. Wednesday series Conlemporary World S13 to $28. Telephone: 266-3996. Cystal Ship, with guests Artisan and cated at 40 Brattle Street, Harvard presented at 8:30 at the Boston Universi- Cinema (1960-85) with Badlands (Ter- The Amazing Mudsimrk, perform at the Square, Cambridge. Tickets: $4.75 gen- ty Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Av- Train of Thought, Damaged Goods, 8:00. Lo- Channel, 25 Necco Street, near South rence Malick, 1973) at 5:30 & Ruddigore, the Gilbert and Sullivan op- eral, $3 seniors and children (good for enue, Boston. Tickets: $6 general, $3 se- Enun Geer and the Beggars, and Deep cated at the Carpenter Center for the Vi- Station in downtown Boston. Tickets: the double featured Tel: 876-637. niors and students. Telephone: 353-3345. Six perform at T.T. the Bear's, 10 Brook- eretta, is presented by the Boston Acade- $5.50 advance/S6.50 day of show. Tele- sual Arts, Harvard University, 24 Quincy my of Music at 8 pm in Sanders Theater, t * * - line Street, Cambridge, just north of Street, Cambridge. Admission: $3 gener- phone: 451-1905. Harvard University, Kirkland and Quincy e* *. The Longy Artists Ensemble performs MIT. Telehone: 4.92-082. al, $2 seniors and children. Telephone: Streets, Cambridge. Also presented No- Dvorak's Quintet in A Major, and works 4954700. Sugar Minot performs at 8 pm & 10 pm by Telernann and Mark Winges, at 8 pm Doah performs at 8 pm at Nightstage, vember 26 at 8 pm and November 27 at at Nightstage, 823 Main Street, Cam- 3 pm.-Tickets: $15 and $18. Telephone: in the Edward Pickman Concert Hall, 823 Main Street, Cambridge, just north bridge, just north of MIT. Tickets: $13. CLASSICAL MUSIC Longy School of Music, Garden and Fol- of MIT. Tickets: S$0. Tel: 497-8200. 242-O055. Telephone: 497-8200. len Streets, Cambridge. No admission The Choir of King's Chapel performs '14 Nuts 'I' Krakers, the campy parody of DANCE Baroque Christmas," a program of charge. Telephone: 876-0956. POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. the Tchaikovsky ballet, opens today at * * ~, * * * , CRITIC'S CHOICE , *, works by Telemann, Charpentier, Buxte- * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * the Boston Center for the Arts, Cyclora- hude, and Handel at 5 pm in King's Cha- The New England Consemtory Honors ma Hall, 5398 Tremont Street, Boston. The Nutcracker opens today as a pre- Woodwind Quintet performs works by The Neighborhoods and Treat Her sentation of Boston Ballet at the pel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston. No ad- POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. Right perform at 7:30 at Chevy's Be- Continues through December 15 with mission charge. Telephone: 227-2155. Villa-Lobos, Ingols Dahl, lean Damase, performances Friday-Sunday at 1:00 & Wang Center, 270 Tremont Street, and Carl Nielsen at 12:30 in the Federal Edie Brleiil and the New Bohemians per- lair CafM, Route 9, Framingham. Ad- Boston. Continues through Decem- 879-5300. 7:30. Tickets: S12 to $15. Telephone: FILM & VIDEO Reserve Bank of Boston's auditorium, form at 8 pm at Nightstage, 823 Main mission: $5. Telephone: ber 31 with performances Wednesday- 508-588-2716. The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- 600 Atlantic Avenue, across from South Street, Cambridge, just north of MIT. . * . * Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 6:30, FILM & VIDEO sents Gorky Park at 8 pm in 26-100. Ad- Station in downtown Boston. No admis- Tickets: $9. Telephone: 497-8200. 528 Com- matinees Saturday and Sunday at * * n~ · Sin City performs at the Rat, mission: $1.50. Telephone: 258-8881. sion charge. Tel: 973-3454 or 973-3368. monwealth Avenue, Kenmore Square, The MIT Lecture Series Committee pre- 2:00. Tickets: $7 to $42. Telephone: Kassav, with guests Bin Skala Bim and Boston. Telephone: 536-9438. sents Mary Poppins at 3 pm & 8 pm in 787-00. FILM & VIDEO Batwell, perform at the Channel, 25 · * . * 26-100. Admission: $1.50. Telephone: The Brattle Theatre continues its Satur- day/Sunday film series Hepburn and * Necco Street, near South Station in 258-8881. * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE *, * The Boston Baked Blues Band and Mad- The Concert Dance Company of Boston Tracy Together Again with The Philadel- continues its downtown Boston. Tickets: $25. Tele- The Brattle Theatre eline and the Blues Hounds perform at performs at § pm at the Strand Theatre, phis Story (George Cukor, 1940) at 3:50 Tuesday film series Stylistically Sixies phone: 451-1905. Johnny D's, 17 Holland Street, Somer- ***CRITIC'S CHOICE** * * * e Warren Miller's Escape to Ski is pre- 543 Columbia Road, Dorchester, near &8:00 and Desk Set (Walter Lang, 1957) with a D. A. Pennebaker double fea- ville, just by the Davis Square T-stop on The Escape Club and In The Flesh per- sented at 6:00 &9:00 at the Berklee the UMass/]FK/Columbia T-stop on the at 1:45, 6:00, & 10:00. Located at 40 ture, Don't Look Back (1966). with the red line. Telephone: 776-8667. Ashmont red line. Also presented Satur- Bob Dylan, at 4:30 & 8:00 and Mon- form at the Paradise, 967 Common- Performance Center, 136 Massachu- Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cam- wealth Avenue, Boston. Tel: 254-2052. FILM & VIDEO setts Avenue, Boston. Also presented day, November 26. Tickets: S10 advance/ bridge. Tickets: $4.75 general, $3 seniors terey Pop (1968) at 6:20 & 9:50. Lo- $12 day of show. Telephone: 661-0237. cated at 40 Brattle Street, Harvard its Thurs- Saturday, November 26 at 7:30. Tele- and children (good for the double fea- The Brattle Theatre continues ture). Telephone: 876-6837. Square, Cambridge. Tickets: $4.75 Zug Zug and Society of Children per- day/Friday film series with Akira phone: 720-3450. general, $3 seniors and children (good form at the Rat, 528 Commonwealth Av- Kurosawa: Early Discoveries to the Clas- __ * * s. , The Somerville Theatre presents 2000 for the double feature). Telephone: enue, Kenmore Square, Boston. Tele- sics with Rashomon (1951) at 4:00 & 876-6837. phone: 536-9438. 8:00 and Horse (Kajiro Yamamoto, 19413 The Somerville Theatre presents Howard Maniacs (H. G. Lewis, 1965) at 5:00 & 8:00 and Blood Feast (H. G. Lewis, at 5:40 & 9:45. Located at 40 Brattle Hawks' Bringing Up Baby (1936), star- POPULAR MUSIC, ETC. The Incredible Casuals and Asa ring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, 1966) at 6:30 & 9:45. Also presented Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Monday, November 28. Located at 55 The Somerville Theatre presents Tucker Brebner's Idle Hands perform at Johnny Tickets: $4.75 general, S3 seniors and at 3:30 &7:45 and Frank Capra's It Hap- (Francis Ford Coppola, 1988) at 5:30 & D's, 17 Holland Street, Somerville, just pened One Night (1936), starring Clark Mambo-X, and The Piv-Nerts perform Davis Square, Somerville, just by the children (good for the double feature). at TT. the Bear's, 10 Brookline Street, Davis Square T-stop on the red line. Ad- 9:45 and Eight Men Out (John Sayles, by the Davis Square T-stop on the red Telephone: 876-6837. Gable and Claudette Colbert, at 5:30 & 1988) at 7:30. Located at 55 Davis line. Telephone: 776-8667. 9:45. Located at 55 Davis Square, Sore: Cambridge, just north of MIT. Tele- mission: $5 general, $3 seniors and chil- Square, Somerville, just by the Davis erville. just by the Davis Square T-stop phone: 492-0082. dren (good for the double feature). Tele- Square T-stop on the red line. Admis- Stinking Badges, Hell Toupee_ Smoke wdtff_ L - on the red line. Admission: S5 general phone: 625-1081. sion: 4.50 general $3 seniors and chil- Shop, and Big Face perform at T.T. the $3 seniors and children (good for the dren (good for the double feature). Tele- Bear's, 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge, double feature). lelephone: 625-1081. Cavedogs, Blood Oranges, and Brot he Harvard-Epworth Church presents phone: 625-1081. just north of MIT. Telephone: 492-0082. JAZZ MUSIC Kendall, perform at the Channel, 25 Alfred Hitchcock's The Farmer's Wife near South Station in , , · * · Didi Stewart *and Friends perform* at * Neeco Street, (1928) at 8 pro. Located at 1555 Massa- The Harvard FClm Archive continues its CLASSICAL MUSIC 8 pin &10 pm at the Regattabar, Charles The Brattle Theatre continues its Thurs- downtown oston. icket $6 Tele chsett vee, a n ioe I Tuesday series Women and the American The Boston Symphony Orchetra, Seiji Harvard Square,Hotel, Cambridge. day/Friday film series with Akira phone: 451-1905. of Harvard Square. Admission: $3 con- Cinemna with Dance Girl Dance (Dorothy Ozawa conducting, performs Mahler's Also presente dNovember 26 at 9& pm Kurosawa: Early Discoveries to the C/as- * tribution. Telephone: 354-0837. Arzner, 1940), starring Lucille Ball and Symphony No. 9 and Webern's Five 11 presTickets: $7.75 andS875. Tele-, S!cs with Rasbomon (1951) at 1:45, 4:45, Shy Five performs at the Rat, 528 Com- & 7:50 and lhey Who Step on the Ti- monwealth Avenue, Kenmore Square, COMEDY Maureen O'Hara, at 5:30 & 8:00. Locat- Plecesfor Orchestraat 8 pm in Sympho- phon e : 864-12Q0.ph~~~~~~~~~~~ED~ ~ ~~onweal: ~ Avnu,4enor1SuaeCO ed at the Carpenter Center for the Visual ny Hall, corner of Massachusetts and , ., , ger's Tail (1945) at 3:30, 6:30, & 9:35. Boston. Telephone: 536-9438. ImprovBoston performs at 8 pm at I- Arts. Harvard University, 24 Quincy Huntington Avenues, Boston. Also pre- Tbe Dellick ttaTio performs at Located at 40 Brattle Street, Harvard * ~ * * Crossroads, corner of Beacon Street and Street, Cambridge. Admission. $3 gener- sented November 25 at 2 pm and No- the Willow Jazz Club, 699 Broadway Square, Cambxidge. Tikets: 54.75 gun- Fa! Ci, _o.d Toeperforms at Johnny Massachusetts Avenue. Performances al, $2 seniors and children. Telephone: vember 26 at 8 pm. Tickets: $16 to Ball Square, Somerville. Also presented eral, $3 seniors and children (good for D's, 17 Holland Street, Somerville, just continue every Sunday night. Tickets: $5 495-4700. $42.50. Telephone: 266-1492. Saturday, November 26. Tel: 421-9333. the double featur'e). Tel: 876-6837. by the Davis Square T-stop on the red general, $3 students. Tel: 576-2306. }ine~;To.ooh-0 '776-g(,67, F [ [ | | | | S l | C W E sag t g --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-I mm TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1988 The Tech PAGE 11 A R T S Rzunrig too safe, out Waterboys, B. Marsalisare winners TRUTH AND SOUL songs, but closer examination reveals a Fishbone. cynical, often desperate view of love. Columbia records. "Shadow and Jimmy," courtesy of Elvis Costello, is a fine example. It is the per- N a coordinated promotions maneu- fect theme for Was (not Was) and they put ver, a copy of the most recent Fish- the song to a Latin-flavored tune, which bone release, Truth and Soul, somehow works out. reached me right after the tour stop Was (not Was) continually find them- at Axis a few weeks ago. The group is cur- selves using a variety of styles as a vehicle rently touring the country in support of for their alternative take on life. Witness, this album, and is being received very well "11 MPH," a song about Lee Harvey Os- by the older "cult" following as well as wald; disturbing lyrics on top of a funky newer listeners who have come to appreci- Marcus Miller bass line. "Out come the ate the Fishbone sound. Freaks' is a revisitation of the song from It is clear, as was noted in my concert their previous album, where it was titled review, that Fishbone has matured. In fact, "(Return to the Valley of) Out Come the everyone in the group is now over twenty- Freaks." It continues where it left off be- one. Seriously, though, their musical ear fore, with three more vignettes on freaks has been sharpened and their sound is in the Was (not Was) universe, then fades much more refined;- nothing has been lost into Sweet Pea, with his Smakey falsetto, in the aging. Fishbone still has a great on 'Anytime Lisa." From there, cut to time. They still record fun party tunes like Donald Was waxing psychopathic to his "Bonin' in the Boneyard," but they can Dad about being in jail. An abrupt jump also create a song like "Slow Bus Moving for most of us, but certainly not for this (Howard Beach Party)," and be taken seri- band. ously. What Up, Dog? is definitely not the The mixing of styles is perhaps Fish- best way to get your feet wet with in the bone's strongest assest, with their ability to strange waters of Was (not Was). The pre- put funk, ska, and Los Angeles hardcore vious album, Born to Laugh at Tornadoes, elements into a cohesive sound. The beat 11 is much easier to take. Theirs is a dis- A that's cut loose in concert is present on the turbed vision, one that is quite close to album. All of the talent that put the new outright weirdness, but it works. As dis- .i songs into Fishbone's act was first applied turbed as their vision may be, musically it to putting the songs on record. is often startlingly clear. There is something in the show that's MARK ROMAN missing from the album, however. There's something about the energy of Fishbone's live act that doesn't translate well to re- cord. Perhaps this is an unfair expecta- THE CUTTER & THE CLAN i tion. In having first been acquainted with Runrig. Fishbone through their performances, the Chrysalis Records. album may pale in comparison. The al- somewhat subversive - even "dangerous" HIS IS A WELL-PRODUCED, pleas- bum is listenable and enjoyable, but to FOLKWAYS: A VISION SHARED -for their lyrical messages and their re- ant-to-listen-to rock album. And A TRIBUTE TO WOODY GUTHRIE cords were not heard on radio or jukebox, really appreciate the music is to see the precisely in that fact lies its sole AND LEADBELLY nor easily available in stores. Perfor- band live. Until the next tour, the album weak point. This sextet from Various Artists. mances on this disc run the gamut from will certainly suffice. Scotland are clearly competent masters of Columbia Records. true-to-the-original (TajMahal's rendering MARK ROMAN mandolin, bagpipes, and accordion as well IMM1W T OODY GUTHRIE and Huddie of "Bourgeois Blues" is turninginto a rni- as the standard guitar, bass, and drums, "Leadbelly" Ledbetter were nor hit on folk-oriented radio stations) to and they write intelligent lyrics with equal oddly innovative (Brian Wilson -- yes, perhaps the two most influ- WHAT UP, DOG? facility in English and Gaelic. it's some- that -Brian Wilson- - doing Beach-Boysy Was (Not Was). thing of a disappointment that with these ential folk musicians of the things to "Goodnight Irene"); still, the Columbia Records. first half of this century, and their work talents and background Runrig takes the keen sociopolitical insights and love for T AS (NOT WAS) is a bizarre duet too-safe route, making music that isn't continues to shape folk and rock music to music of the original artists come across greatly different in sound from everything this day. Both were recorded by Folkways from Detroit, two friends loud and clear. operating under the assumed else on the radio. The few really innova- Records, which has just been acquired by tive moments on The Cutter & The Clan the Smithsonian Institution. A Vision names of David and Don Other notable performances on this Was. This album, What Up, Dog?, marks only make one wish to hear what Runrig Shared represents contemporary perfor- record are given by John Mellencamp, could do if they weren't interested in sell- mances of Guthrie and Leadbelly classics the return to recording of the brothers I Bob Dylan, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Little Was and their crew of session demons and ing lots of records. donated by various folk and rock artists to Richard, and Guthrie's folksinger son I super-star guests. Featured are regulars , BOVE fund Folkways' continued chronicling of Arlo. traditional music. David and Don, vocal Sweet Pea Atkin- I Guthrie and Leadbelly, one white, the Folkways is releasing a companion al- son, and guest collaborators Marshall Crenshaw and Marcus Miller. I other black, wrote about life from differ- bum, The OriginalVision, containing the ent perspectives and played for different original recordings of these songs. Buy This album continues in the direction es- audiences, but they both had a huge im- 'em both. tablished by the first two albums: disturb- pact on American musical tradition (and V MICHAEL BOVE ing songs with disturbing themes, usually over lost love. First listening leaves the im- dare I say, politics?). This is all the more mrw.ln significant in that both were considered pression that these are forgettable pop JLLJ The Mysterious Case of the Wolf-Man, Heinrich Hertz: The Beginning of Micro- Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts wherein Sigmund Freud, Sherlock waves continues through December 31 at of Ancient Egypt continues through De- Holmes, and Lon Chaney journey the MIT Museum, N52-2nd floor, 265 cember 11 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Q Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Gal- 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Tele- through turn of the century Vienna, con- The Rock of Boston, with 'til tuesdav, tinues through December 3 as a presenta- lery hours are Tuesday-Friday 9-5 and phone: 267-9300. The Del Fuegos, 0 Positive, Tribe, Bar- Compiled by Peter Dunn tion of Theatre S. at the Performance Saturday-Sunday 12-4. Tel: 253-4444. Place, Elizabeth Peabody House, 277 rence Whitfield and the Savages, and Involvement: The Graphic Art of Anto- Broadway, Somerville. Performances are others at the Boston Garden on Decem- nio Frasconi, a survey of works by the ber 2. Roy Orbison at the Channel on In Gratitude and Admiration: A Cele- FILM & VIDEO Thursday to Saturday at 8 pm. Tickets: bration of Waiter Gropius, an exhibit of artist credited with reviving the woodcut $8 and $10 general, $2 discount to stu- December 2 and 3. Cabaret, with Joel birthday cards sent to Walter Gropius on as a fine-art mredium, continues through The Somerville Theatre presents Dead Grey, at the Colonial Theatre Decem- dents. Telephone: 623-5510. ber 6 to 31. Arlo Guthrie at Symphony his 60th and 70th birthdays to celebrate December 18 at the Boston University Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988) at the 50th anniversary of the Gropius Art Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, 5:30 & 9:30 and Koyasnisqatsi (1982) at Nunsense, depicting the talent show Hall or December ?. Treat Her Right at House, and Billy Budd, Sailor: Bound to FILM & VIDEO the Paradise on December 15. Scruffy Boston. Gallery hours are Monday- 7:45. Also presented Wednesday, Novem- staged by the Little Sisters of Hoboken Vary, a Guild of Book Workers exhibi- Friday 10-4, Friday 7-9, Saturday-Sunday , * , CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * ber 30. Located at 55 Davis Square, in order to raise money to bury four of the Cat and The Titanits at the Paradise tion of unique bookbindings, continue 1-5. Telephone: 353-3345. The Harvard Film Archive continues Somerville, just by the Davis Square on December 16. Photographs by Chris- through December 31 at the MIT Muse- their number currently in the convent topher J. Andrews at the MIT Weisner its Monday series of Film Comedy T-stop on the red line. Admission: $4.50 freezer, continues indefinitely at the with Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Gallery beginning in February. urn, N52-2nd floor, 265 Massachusetts A Native American Festival, with gallery general, $3 seniors and children (good Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton Street, Avenue, Cambridge. Gallery hours are exhibits, video presentations, storytell- Rose (1984) at 5:30 &8:00. Located for the double feature). Tel: 625-1081. Boston. Performances are Tuesday- Tuesday-Friday 9-5 and Saturday-Sunday at the Carpenter Center for the Visual ing, a pow-wow, and other events, con- Friday at 8prm, Saturday at 6 pm & 124. Telephone: 2534444. tinues through December 31 at the Cam- Arts, Harvard University, 24 Quincy The Harvard Film Archive continues its Street, Cambridge. Admission: $3 9 pm, matinees Thursday at 2 pm and bridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Tuesday series Women and the American Sunday at 3 prm. Tickets: $15.50 to OFF CAMPUS Second Street, East Cambridge, near the general, $2 seniors and children. Tele- Cinema with Billy Wilder's Double in- The BiNATIONAL: Art of the Late 80s, phone: 495-4700. $26.50. Telephone: 426-6912. ON CAMPUS Lechmere T-stop on the green line. Tele- demnity (1944), starring Fred MacMurray American Artists continues through No- phone 577-1400 for more information. and Barbara Stanwyck, at 5:30 & 8:00. Present Laughter, Noel Coward's comic Works Since 1950, examining the work vember 27 at the Museum of Fine Arts, The Brattle Theatre continues its Mon- Located at the Carpenter Center for the romp about a vain, middle-aged actor of the New York-based feminist artist 465 Huntington Avenue, and at the Insti- day series of Film Noir with Billy Visual Arts, Harvard University, 24 pursued by a silly, young woman, contin- Nancy Spero; Visual Impressions of an tute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane, present- Wilder's Ace In The Hole (1951) at 3:50 Quincy Street. Cambridge. Admission: ues through November 27 at the Lyric Invisible Sculpture, mechanical and envi- Street, Boston. German Artists is pre- & 7:55 and William Wyler's Detective $3 general, $2 seniors and children. Tele- Stage, 54 Charles Street, Beacon Hi!l, ronmental sculptures by Santa Monica erted Dcember !6 to January 29. Tel: ing a comprehensive showing of the Story (1951) at 5:55 & 10:00. Locatee at phone: 495-4700. artist Carl Cheng; and The Bear in the 267-9300 (MFA) and 266-5151 (ICA). work ot the much-admired New En- Boston. Performances are Wednesday- gland painter, confinues through De- I 40 Bratfle Street. Harvard Square, Cam- Friday at 8:00, Saturday at 5:00 & 8:30, Ma.ketpfae: Anticommunism and Pal" otism in Recent American Advertising, a cember 31 at the Museum of Fine bridge. Tickets: $4.75 general, $3 seniors The Brattie Theatre continues its Tues- and Sunday at 3:00. Tickets: $12.50 to * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * r * and children (good for the double fea- Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Bos- day film series Stylistically Sixties with $15.50. Telephone: 742-8703. visual essay by the Boston artist Richard A Preposterous Past: The Sumptuous ture). Telephone: 876-6837. Bolton analyzing the influence of super- ton. Telephone: 267-9300. Giomre Shelter (David Maysles, 1970), Still Life in the Netherlands 1600- with the Rolling Stones, at 4:00 & 8:00 Shear Madness, the long-running comic power politics on advertising, continue 1700 continues through November 27 . . . . through December 4 at the list Visual and Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969) murder mystery, continues indefinitely at at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * at 5:45 & 9:45, Located at 40 Brattle Arts Center, MIT Wiesner Building E15, the Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton University, 32 Quincy Street, Cam- Special Effects: The Science of Movie Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Street, Boston. Performances are 20 Ames Street, Cambridge. Gallery bridge. Telephone: 495-2387. POPULAR MUSIC Tickets: $4.75 general, $3 seniors and hours are weekdays 12-6 and weekends and Television Magic continues Tuesday-Friday at 8:00, Saturday at 6:30 through January 5 at the Museum of * * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * * children (good for the double feature). & 9:30 pm, and Sunday at 3:00 & 1-5. No admission charge. Telephone: One Family: An Extended Portrait, pho- Science, Science Park, Boston, near Warren Zevon, with Timothy B. Telephone: 876-6837. 7:30 pm. Tickets: $16 and S19. Tele- 253-4680. the green line T-stop of the same Schmidt and Danny Dugmore, per- phone: 426-6912. tographs by Vaughn Sills of the Toole (tle Goin' Fishin', an exhibit of photo- family of Georgia, continues through name Gallery hours are Tuesday- forms at 8prn & I1 pm at the Para- graphs, models, and equipment examin- Sunday 9-5. Admission: $5 general, Talk Radio, Eric Bogosian's sardonic November 30 at the Trustman Art Gal- dise, 967 Co.mmonwealth Avenue, ing Boston's fishing industry, continues lup.,~;~.m.P ~ 'AMa1Th,- C-..... $3 seniors and children. Telephone: Boston. Telephone: 254-2052. 742-608 ~5imon i ewa,--72!gsu T Driving Miss Daisy, the Pulitzer Prize- play jabbing at call-in-show hosts and through January 15 at the MIT Museum, Bso a fler hou a Monday t 7 72 83-2500. winning drama starring Julie Harris, their fans, continues through Decem- N52-2nd floor, 265 Massachusetts Ave- Friday 104:30. Telephone: 738-2145. Brenapeform Rssel a!8:00& 1:30 continues through December 4 at the Co- ber 10 at the Alley Theatre, 1253 Cam- nue, Cambridge. Gallery hours are Tues- at Nightstage,823 Main Street, Cam- lonial Theater, 106 seum of Science presents Boylston Street, Bos- bridge Street, Cambridge. Performances day-ridy9- an Saurda-Sudayunday Twenty Years of Tapesir3 Acquisitions: SpeedTheFridayBo and(Greg Sat bridg,noth jut o MIT Ticets: ton. Performances are Tuesday-Saturday are Thursday-Sunday at 8 pro. 'rickets: 12-4. Telep'hone: 2_53-4444. 16-5cniustruhDcme n EgadTm AacGillivray) and New $12.50.Telephone: 497-8200. at 8 pm, matinees Thursday and Satur- $12 general, $10 seniors and students. . . . Kochglaln Thea Capsule at the Mugar day at 2 pm, Sunday at 3 pro. Tickets: Tlpoe49816thWiia,.KchGlryte uum Omni Theater, MMuseum of Science, Mu- 5iR . . e2ep2one.-5.0day ato2 pm,Sunday atelephone.Tickets:6Telephone:3491-81 Emanuel Swedenborg: 18th-Century Sci- of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, scum Park, Bost;ton, near the green line $22.50. to$37. 426-9366. . See, Yankee Do, an off-beat, entist, models of the inventions of the Boston. Telephone: 267-9300. T-stop of the same name. Continues A ChistmsCrol.the dapatio of Murder at Rutherford House, the amus- reeetloathwNwEgndsac fmusSdihnvtrttsaad.... through March wwith screenings Tuesday- Charles Dickens' classic tale, opens to- - religious writer, continues through De- Drawings Based on Travels in Japan, by Thursday at am, 1, 2, 3, 7, & 8 pr, day at the New Ehrlich Theatre, 539 Tre- ImSre, comber 31 at the MIT Museum, N52-2nd John Ziemba, continues through Decem- Fia loa montStretBoson.Coninustrouh cy, ontnue inefiitey a th Wibur Boston Baked Theatre, 255 El flor, 6 ascuet vneCm ber tKj s tui,40S.tehn udaevrh &10 pm, and Saturday- December 23 with performances Thurs- har,26TeotSreBso. DvsSurSmril.Promne bridge. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Frid SreBotn oadmsincay. Amsin 5g )ur from 10 am to 8 pmn. dayFriday and at 8:;0 Straat500 Performances are Thursday-Saturday at Street ThusdyFiaato8 nd Sau-o- andmisaudysunai24Tl- Tlpone24179 chilrgen. Telsio:742 general, $3 seniors and day30 and Sunday at 2:00. ikt:$2 8p, mtn Saturday-udya dyat8p 10 1.Tikt: S oS1. poe 5 44 12-6088 or 723-2500. · ...... · ,..2~~2pm.:ricketsr; .60-t,to ;5(includes-'e,---->7 -- ,'''-,·.--, - "AaM ,, , ''~%~~i,,.-.-~.,4 4.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~e¥'' ;, ,.;..-.-..,s)--','-::Y, ... '..."~*" ..... ~M PAGE 12 TheTech TUESDAY, NOVEMBER22, 1988 otis -. - I ' '],.- - Shane LaHousse named NECFC Playoer of the Year 4-0; Chang had never fenced in, against Babson College. The En- Sports Update Senior quarterback Tim Day her life before taking PE fencing gineers also host Gordon College also set a single game school as a freshman. The victories over in a Saturday afternoon Led the conference mark of three scoring tosses, and Tufts and McGill did not count matchup. in points and rushing tied the season TD pass record of towards the team's NCAA re- Shane LaHousse '90 was six. Day finished the season as cord, which stands at 1-1, be- CDhecanio sets personal the conference's top-rated passer named the New England Colle- cause Tufts is a club team and on the strength of his second half bests in pistol meet giate Football Conference Player McGill is a Canadian team. of the season, culminating in his The men's team lost two of Senior Ken Decanio of the of the Year for his outstanding MIT pistol team set two personal performance this season. La- performance against Bentley Col- three last weekend, defeating bests in a meet with Navy and Housse led the conference in lege when he overtook Kevin Tufts (18-9) while losing to New Ohio State two weekends ago. rushing yardage, yards-per-game Lucey of the Falcons. York University (17-10) and Decanio scored 547 in the air pis- average, and points scored. He McGill (18-9). tol competition and 542 in the set an MIT record with his 120.7 7 football players standard pistol. Eric Blau '91 yards-per-game average, and he named to all-star team Basketball starts off paced the Engineers' second led the Beavers in rushing for the ii..1 . .aB- . ._-L-. . Four Beavers were named to oi1w:gt lOSS to0 Wenwonlr place finish in the air pistol with second year in a row with 845 the NECFC All-Star Team first a score of 557. MIT also took yards and in scoring with 9 The men's basketball team second in the standard pistol. touchdowns and three extra-point team: LaHousse, offensive line- opened their season with a 72-70 Kyle G. Peltonen/The Tech man Bob Kupbeng '90, lineback- conversions for 60 points. To- loss to Wentworth Institute. The Compiled by Harold A. Stern Shane LaHousse '90, who er Darcy Prather '91, and Rick team's next game is at home and the Sports Information Office gether with his 742 yards gained led the -NECFC in rushing, Buellesbach '90 at safety. Lapes, last year, LaHousse's 1587 yards I, I g -__c. ------c------was named Conference Day, and defensive lineman Mike ------places him within easy reach of Player of the Year. Ahrens '90 were named to the the top of MIT's all-time rushing second team. Total Offense list, led by Hugh Ekberg '88 College. Lapes hauled in II Yds YPG (2136 yards) and Christopher J. passes for 225 yards and three Adams '87 (2069 yards). Kelley finishes 55th at Bentley ...... 2816 352 touchdowns to set single game re- MIT ...... 2106 LaHousse's best game was the 301 cords in all three categories. Division Iii nationals Merrimack ...... 1907 273 season opener against Stonehill Lapes' three scores elevated his Sean Kelley '89 finished 55th at Stonehill ...... 2022 253 College, when he gained 260 season total to six touchdowns to the NCAA Division III Cross Providence ...... 948 190 yards and scored four touch- tie him for the season record, Country Championships at St. Assumption ...... 1486 185 downs in the Beavers' 29-7 vic- and moved his career total to a Louis despite a freak accident Total Defense tory, breaking MIT's single-game record 10. which occurred 1 ½ kilometers rushing mark. He received the His 11 catches pushed his sea- into the race. A competitor Yds YPG Division II-II Gold Helmet son total to 32 to break that stepped on Kelley's foot, tearing Merrimack ...... 1043 149 MIT ...... 1735 248 Award and the Eastern College mark. The 32 catches, combined his spike and ripping a shoelace; Athletic Conference North Divi- with his last year's total of 20, -set Assumption ...... 1991 249 Kelley completed the final 6½2 ki- Bentley ...... 2086 261 sion III Player of the Week a new standard of 52 in a career. lometers with the torn shoe. Award for his performance. New England Collegiate Providence ...... 1330 266 The 225 yards against Bentley Stonehill ...... 2298 287 gave him a season total of 623, Football Conference Lapes re-writes record shattering the old record by 219 Women's fencing 3-1 The women's fencing team im- Conf All book in season finale yards, and a career composite of W-L-T W-L-T PF PA 961 to break the existing career proved their record to 3-1 with Bentley ... .. 4-0-1 5-2-1 234 160 Receiving Leaders Wide receiver Anthony Lapes record by 172 yards. victories over Wellesley College Merrimack . .. 5-2-0 5-2-0 90 78 '90 shattered every MIT single Lapes was named to the ECAC (11-5), Tufts -University (13-3), MIT ...... 4-3-0 4-3-0 141 115 Receptions, Yds TD RPG Assumption .. 3-4-0 3-5-0 86 164 game, season, and career receiv- Division III North Honor Roll and McGill University of Mon- Smith. Stot...... 39 592 3 5.6 Stonehiii . . · . 2-4-! 35-4-1 147 129 ing record on Saturday in a sea- for his play, and was NECFC Co- treal (13-3). Alice Chang '90 im- Providence . .. 0-5-0 0-5-0 50 102 Lapes, MIT ...... 31 623 6 4.4 son-ending 41-35 loss to Bentley Offensive Player of the Week. proved her undefeated record to Grimwood, Ben.. 32 479 7 4.0 Last Week's Results 0 ~ ~ ~ - c, ---.------Kinney, Assure/.24 312 4 3.4 Veillette, Ben..... 22 230 1 2.8 Assumption 14..... Stonehill 13 Scoring Leaders Rushing Leaders Touchdowns FG XP Pt PPG Attempts Yds TD YPG McMahon, Ben ... 9 0 2 56 10.2 LaHousse, MIT..147 845 9 121 LaHousse, MIT ...9 0 3 60 8.6 McMahon, Ben. 117 594 9 119 Shine, PC ...... 5 0 0 30 6.0 Scire, PC ...... 61 335 1 112 Grimwood, Ben...7 0 0 42 5.3 Branchaud, Mer...129 494 0 71 Strachan, Sto ..... 6 0 0 36 4.5 Conference Passing Leaders Games Att Cmp Pet Yds TD INT Rating Day, MIT ...... 7 90 41 45.6% 624 6 2 121.35 Lucey, Bentley ...... 8 208 109 52.4% 1360 12 13 113.38 Morency, Stonehillt ...... 7 142 63 44.4% 801 6 9 93.01 Pierpont, Providence ...... 5 61 18 29.5% 197 2 5 51.07 t: does not include the resu/ts from Saturday's Stonehi-Assumption game. tECH CATHOLIC -; ~ COMM uNTV I Welom es You! I - -- '- e ---ml ------ pa- - 9 b---P- ; ;ll. 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