NEWSPAPEROF THE UNDERGRADUATES OF THE ASSACHUSETTS INSTITUE OF TECHNLOGY OFFICIAL .. NWSPPEROF THE UNDERGRADUATES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OL. LXKVII NOo. I CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1957 5 CENT i r i -4 -- , - I -- , ry Library Guards Stouffer's Starts Running o Curb Book Thefts aut Chief Woe Is $s Morss Hall Food Service "I honestly don't lknow of any food- about the deterioration of Commons "We are the last major urban in- meals, Mr. Maclaurin said that about itution to initiate such a plan," service company which serves as good food at such low prices." In this way, the only appreciable change made tes Professor W. N. Locke, Direc- was in limiting the number of bev- r of the Institute Libraries, of the R. Colin Maclaurin, Director of Gen- eral Services, describes Stouffer's, elages served on Commons to one in- ew library "Book checking" policy. stead of three, as previously. This -ting. the inconvenience to Institute the firm which will manage the din- ing service in Morss Hall and Pritch- and the other minor changes in the udents and faculty of the some five food were necessary in view of the ousand odd dollars of "missing" et Lounge this term. In a few weeks, Stouffer's recipes rising costs of food and labor within oks which plague the system annu- the last few years. For example, the ly, Locke emphasized the "frustrat- will be used to prepare the food serv- ed in Walker Memorial, and the firm salaries of the employees were re- g" nature of book disappearances cently raised by 10%. The -lpices, the prime motivation behind the will also soon be responsible for food pulrchases. however, had to be kept within the ve. Called long overdue by many reach of the students' pockets, and Mr. Maclaurin said that his assis- culty members and Professor A. T. now are still considerably lower than tant, William Mackintosh, had con- pen, chairman of the Library Ex- the cost of meals at many other sidelred a large number of firms and utive Board, the new policy places schools. -called "book-checkers" at all en- had finally selected Stouffer's. The nces of the Science and Engineer- chief reason for the decision was the g libraries with the authority to high quality and low cost of their Free World's Unity amine all outgoing material. No food. Another reason was the re- eckers are being considered for the searcl-h done by Stouffer's in new food aller libraries, like Rotch and Cryotron, Tinier Thian Traansistors, products on the market. The firm, Will Be Discussed ronautical, for the present period. Mr. Maclaurin feels, is about the only Necessitated by the checking sys- one placing enough emphasis on the By Ward FridayAt 5 n is the permanent closing of the Will Shrink GianatComputers Soon testing of new foods. The firm is now Barbara Ward, noted British au- yden east wing second colrridor With pioneering research on a new of Radio Enginee' 'in April, 1956, testing some new frozen foods. or. Regretting this unfortunate "in- Mr. Buck will receive I.R.E.'s 1957 Since the beginning of this term, thor and lecturer will appear in device to relplace transistors and Kresge Auditorium Friday, Febru- venience", Locke plans to make tubes in giant computers, the Insti- Browder J. Thompson Memolrial the food selrved in Morss Hall and e south wing elevator "molre ac- Prize. The award is made annually Pritchet Lounge has been under the ary 8, at 5:15 p..n. as the final speak- tute has made a major contribution er in the series, "Diplonmats-Off-the- .sible". Revamping book shelving for an outstanding paper by an au- ,management of Mr. Robelrt WAheeler to what one of its engineers calls a Record" sponsored by the World Af- the involved area will permit easy thor under 30 yealrs of age. and under the supervision of Miss coming "revolution" in electronics. fairs Council. icess to the elevator from the first The cryotlron is man's first plracti- England, a dietician, both Stouffer's This new device is a cryotron, so Miss Ward is regarded as one of 0or Science Library and the second small that 100 will fit into a thimble. cal use of superconductivity-the employees. The G1raduate House din- por Central Library. Consequent ability of some metals to conduct cur- ing service is not yet under the new the most influential writers in En- It is the first useful application of a gland and one of the most brilliant !proved convenience of the base- rent with no resistance at extremely management. "Evidently, Stouffer's phenomenon discovered nearly 50 women in the Western world. As an ent "stacks" will facilitate Profes- low temperatures, below minus 420 had some difficulty finding two teams years ago but still not yet under- Editor of the London Economist, she r Locke's plan to utilize now va- degrees Fahrenheit. In its simplest to send to MIT," Maclaurin said. stood. is a specialist in both economics and st parts of these quiet, air-condi- folrm. the cryotron consists of a However, that service, too, will be Development of the cryotron was foreign affairs and is the author of ,ned basement "stacks" as a study stlraight piece of wire with another under the new management within begun three years ago by Dudley A. several recent books dealing with lea. This remodeling which will in- wire-as fine as a human hair- six months. Buck, a graduate student and iii- foreign policy, the latest of which is lde new lighting and desks for the wound around it as a control wind- The staff selrving the food is still structor in the Electrical Engineer- Policy for the West. Miss Ward has isement waits only for ar, added ap- ing. employed by MIT, though it is under ing Department at MIT, in coopera- written many articles for the New lropriation. Below the critical temperature the the direction of Mr. Wheeler. tion with the Lincoln Laboratory. York Timies Magazine. i' Net cost of the book checking sys- The first data-processing equipment (Continuel on page 7) Speaking about the complaints n itself (the system will use avail- "The Western world", says Bar- in which this simple, tiny device will bara Ward, "has never known any le student' personnel and outside replace complex tubes and expensive tlp) will probably be in excess of belief other than that society exists transistors is nos, being built at Ar- Amstutz, for the protection of the human indi- cost saving. thur D. Little, Inc., with the coopera- Coryell Spiro, In Rae-; Despite a fourteen per cent budg- vidual; that the human individual in tion of MIT engineers. society can achieve goodness and wis- Cry increase over last year, the This first cryotron electronic cata- rary is in financial straits. Rapid Weymar Plans Six-Point Program dom and freedom. If we lose that logue will use 215,000 cryotrons. A faith, then we shall not survive what- Creease in the number of technical conventional computer to do the same WVithn the official announcements of blications and the Institute's rela- ever we do, because it is that faith job might require more than 50,000 thlree new candidates for Undergrad- which is the tap-root of democratic biely late library start keep the sys- vacuum tubes. uate Association offices, and the six- On in a constant "squeeze". Despite society. We can build up our de- Present experimental circuits, says point program of another, the elec- fenses. We can build up our arma- eat Locke cites as a "great im- Mr. Buck, suggest "that a large-scale tion race went into full swing this ments. We can multiply our xnate- :vement" in the Humanities libra- digital computer can be made to oc- weeak. rial satisfactions. In the end we shall . the need is still acute. With all cupy one cubic foot," not including The campaign really took on a po- k publication at the most volumi- fail because if there is no vision, the refrigeration and terminal equipment. litical aspect when Arnie Amstutz people perish." us in histolry and the "geometric In contrast, today's digital comput- '58 and Ritohie Coryell '58 joined Miss Ward was educated at the ers fill whole rooms. Igression" of technical printing, forces, running for UAP and UAVP Sorbonne in Paris and also studied in ! Institute libraries with an at best For his first report on clyotron respectively. Amstutz, Burton House (Continued on page 6) i (Continued on page 6) research, published by the Institute Inscomm representative and chair- man of the Communications Commit- tee, was a member of Execomm this 5 %c of Student Body even-Man Board Namned To Run year and was elected as a delegate to the '56 National Student Congress. Coryell was a member of Junior Prom DroppezdAtMid- ear [he Tech JUnder Aew Constitution Committee, and was the Secretary- "Look to the left of you, look to the Treasurer of the Junior Class. right of you, in six months one of :A new constitution and the staff written more than ten years ago. Larry Spiro '59, also an NSC dele- you won't be here." The 'validity of 6pointments for Volume 77 were an- The constitution also provides for gate, has announced his candidacy this old saying was sharply disprov- b6nced at The Annual The Tech the establishment of an Advisory for UAVP. Spiro, the sophomore rep- ed by B. Alden Thresher, Dean of Ad- iff Banquet last month. The con- Board consisting "of alumni and 1resentative to Inscomm, has served Arnold Amstutz, second to announce missions who stated that only about Rtution changes the controlling body friends of The Tech and replresenta- as a member of several sub-commit- U.A.P. candidacy. 35 members of the Class of '60 have h the newspaper from the tradition- tives of the faculty and administra- tees and was the chairman of the "flunked out". lfour-man Managing Board to a tion." The first chairman of this Ad- Freshman Leadership Conference. have declined to release it for pub- Of the entering freshman class of den-man Board of Directors. visory Board, as provided for in the The plan of running on a party Oication at the present time. 1936, Dean Thresher, although he !Named Chairman of the Board of constitution, will be Mr. Friedman. ticket is a compalratively newv idea In announcing his candidacy, Spiro didn't have the exact figures, guessed ectors was Ralph E. MIanchester, The other members will be named by I at Tech, and has met with varlied stated, "The office of Undelglraduate that somewhere near 75 students had a Course II Junior from Easton. the Board of Directors later this reactions, both pro and con. Amstutz Association Vice-President can and left the Institute, 35 for scholastic assachusetts. The other Board memr term. and Coryell, in explaining their ac- must be used to maximum effective- difficulties, the others of their own rs are.: William G. Daly, Jr. '58, tion, stated, "Student governrnent has ness by improving its basic func- aging MurrayEditor Kohman The reorganization of the staff sys- free will. These students left to enter already spent enough time dreamling tions: co-ordinating the subcommit- Busgingess Manager; eland aEK tem is expected to streamline and I other schools, accept jobs, or enter the up new philosophies and creating tees, and acting as liaison with Ins- army. However, it is expected that B eaysr. '58, Editorial ChairndE make more efficient the operations of colorful resolutions. However, this co0em; calrrying out special policies many of them will re-apply for ad- '59, News The Tech. At the same time, the sys- an; Stephen M. Samuels has not always led to positive results. and projects; and contributing inde- missioin to the Institute for the Sep- more opportuni- tol; F. Thomas Bond '59, Sports tem should provide We believe that in many areas we pendent and original thought. The tember term. Although it is not itol; and George E. Glen '59, ties for staff members to receive ade- need action and not talk. We are run- UAVP is therefore in an excellent known exactly what becomes of many quate recognition for their services. 1(tography Chairman. ning on a joint platform because we Iposition to effectively initiate and of the students who drop out, the the new' constitution, which still It is hoped that a larger number of feel that we can accomplish nmore by calrry out student government policies. Admissions office is planning to con- induced to st be approved by Institute Com- students will thelreby b. working together. Judging from our His success depends upon the inter- duct a survey to find out the future ;tee, was written by John A. Fried- affiliate themselves with The Teclh past experience, we believe that this est and ambition of the individual of these lost Techmen. is the only way to insure action." an'57 and Robert G. Bridgham '57, Opportunity for this will be provided I I feel that the background and expe- The classes of '59, '58, '57 have al- outgoing Managing Board mem- at a The Techl smoker to be announc- Even though a platform was men- rience which I have gained in stu- so lost members. Of the 2752 1regis- TS;and supersedes a document ed within the next two weeks. tioned in the official statement, they (Continued on page 8) (Contzilued on page 5) IThen c FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1957I .,g{ . .. .. n ,i ' [ - . - III. .
- ne I' i ne Tach I WINTER F UN calendar of events I No. 1 WANT A NOVEL PARTY? VOL. LXXV11 Friday, February 8, 1957 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 . Entered as second class matter at the post office at Boston, Massachu- Physics Department Colloquium: "Trapping and Sidney Hill Country Club ot Chestnut Hill has available to private setts. Published every Tuesday and Friday during the college year, Recombination Processes in Solids." Dr. M. Lax, of except during college vacations, by THE TECH, Walker Memorial, groups, fraternities, etc., its beautiful indoor Cascade Pool, and its Cambridge 39, Mass. Telephones TRowbridge 6-5855-6 or UNiversity Bell Telephone Laboratory. 4-6900, Ext. 2731. ROOM 6-120, 4:00 p.m. new olympic-sized artificial Ice Skating Rink. SUBSCRIPTION RATES .Mathematics Department. Harvard-MIT Joint Math- Institute U.S. Mail Foreign emafics Colloquium: "Irregularities of Distribution." 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EL 4.1366 AIR CONDITIONED Pete Silverberg '60 Dennis Kelly '60 Don Wilen '60 KRESGE AUDITORIUM, 8:30 p.m. SPORTS BOARD SATURDAY, FEBRU;ARY 9 Patrick J. McGovern '59 Paul Jacobson '60 MIT Bridge Club. Monthly Master Point Tourna- Abe Feinberg '60 Harris Hyman '58 Bob Loinhard '60 Dave Savage '58 ment. BAKER HOUSE CAFETERIA, 1:30 p.m. MANAGING BOARD Varsity Swimming Team. Meet with U.S. Coast Alfred Kniazzeh '59 Robert Saunders '60 Guard Academy. ALUMNI POOL, 2:00 p.m. Oliver E. Seikel, Copy '59 I Varsity Wrestling Team. Meet with Boston Univer- EDITORIAL BOARD sity.. ROCKWELL CAGE, 3:00 p.m. Fred Epstein '57, Assist. Warner Hirsch '57 Carl Swanson '60 Dan LaDage '57 Lecture Series Commiffe. Film: "Jubal" (in Cinema- Warren Heimbach '59 F. Helmut Weymar '58 Scope and color), staring Glenn Ford and Ernest It Gilbert Weil '56 Allen C. Langord '57 LITERATURE CAN BE SCREAMS! Chuck Eckert '60 Borgnine. Admission: 30 cents. PHOTOGRAPHY BOARD KRESGE AUDIITORIUM, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. | Louis P. Nelson '59, Photography Editor To save you tiresome days of reading, daysthat can | William Hees '59 R. Broder '59 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 be more happily devoted to healthful winter activities E Ron Pellar '59 Ken Kellerman '59 Department of Humanities. Organ Recital by Ruth Barry Rutter ',59 Linda Greiner '60 like skiing, tobogganing, and three card monte, this Peter Lee '60 Jaime Glottman '59 Sisson, Minister of Musc at the First Congrega- columntoday presents digests of some classic novelsthat Martin Zimmerrman '59 Philip Fauchold '60 tional Church, Manchester, N. H. are sure to come up in your lit courses. Jerome H. Mil =grarn '60 Harold Leaguer '59 NEWS BOARD MIT CHAPEL, 4:00 p.m. William A. Cramer '59, Assistant MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 The Scarlet Letter Daniel J. Thomas '59, Assistant Stewart W. Wilson '59, Assistant Geology and Geophysics Department. Meteorology Glen W. Zeiders '59, Assistant Department. Earth Science Colloquium: "Some Re- This isa heart rending story of a humble Boston lass Tony Aldrich ''60 Ranjit Puri '60 named Hester Prynne who is so poor that she does not Robert Ankrorna '60 S. Theodore Scott, Jr. '59 finements of the Thermal Contraction Theory." Dr. have enough to eat,. nor a roof to cover her head. But Robert Feinbauum '60 Stephen Weinstein '60 Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor, Director of Tony Johnson '60' Jon Wigert '60 she is a brave, brawny lass and she never complains and Gus Petit '60 Geological Sciences, Harvard University. by and by her patience is rewarded: in the summer of ROOM 4-231, 4:00 p.m. 1859 she wins a football scholarship to Alabama. MIT Rocket Research Societv. Business Meefing. -Hester works hard and makes the varsity and wins EDITORIALS ROOM 10-275, 5:10 p.m. her letter. Everybody says she is a shoo-in for All-Con- Lecture Series Commitfee. Lecture: "American vs. ference honors, but along comes the War Between the This issue marks the beginning of Volume LXXVII of Br,-,sL, Humour." Stephen Potter, British satirist and States, and football, alas, is dropped for the duration. author. Admission free. .The Tech and, as have previous Managing Boards, we look KRESGE AUDiTORiUM, 7:30 p.m. forward to the challenge, and also the feeling of accom- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 I plishment, that publishing a newspaper can give. Computation Center. Seminar: "A Short, Element- Along with the inherited responsibility the new Board ary Coding Course for the IBM 704 Computer: has a new constitution to work with. This constitution does I." Dr. F. J. Corbato, MIT Computation Center. away with the old Managing Board and sets up a seven man ROOM 2-239, 3:00 p.m. Board of Directors. The old four man Managing Board Metallurgy Department. Electrochemistry Collo- quium: "A Quantitative Interpretation of the Shape system, while perfectly logical on paper, had been somewhat of Electrochemical Polarization Curves." Dr. Milton lacking in the last few years, the main disadvantages being Stern, Metals Research Laboratories, Electro Metal- that authority and responsibility were not outlined specifi- lurgical Company, New York. cally, and in many cases overlapped in the various Board ROOM 10-275, 4:00 p.m. positions. The new constitution, however, makes a clear-cut MIT Rugby Club. Meeting and discussion of Cali- fornia trip. ROOM 1-203, 5:00 p.m. definition of each department and places a man at the head Poor Hester goes back to Boston. It is a bitter'cold Varsity Swimming Team. Meet with the University winter, and poor Hester, alas, does not have a roof over of each department with proper responsibility and author- of Massachusetts. ALUMNI POOL, 7:15 p.m. her head, and the only warm clothing she owns is the ity. It is hoped that this system will produce a more unified WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 football sweater from Alabama, but that, alas, has a and efficient The Tech. Organ Demonstration. Mr. David C. Johnson, MIT big scarlet "A" on the front of it, and she can hardly wear Organist. KRESGE AUDITORIUM, 12:!0-12:40 p.m. such a thing in Boston where Union sentiment runs Junior Varsity Squash Team. Game with Middlesex. so high. letters SQUASH COURTS, ALUMNI POOL, 3:00 p.m. Poor Hester, alas, freezes to death. Operations Research. Seminar: "Waiting Lines- WVe reiterate that The Tech is a student-controlled, auton- Part VI: Poisson Arrivals, Exponential Servicing." Little Women omous organization and all opinions and policies are made Dr. Herbert P. Galliher, of the Operations Research by the staff. We feel, however, that The Tech has a certain Project. ROOM 2-333, 3:00 p.m. The Marches are a very happy family-and for no responsibility to maintain contact with outside opinion. We Electrical Engineering Department. Colloquium: reason whatsoever. They are poor as snakes; they work "Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion." Professor Mel- from cockcrow to evensong; their dear old father Philip therefore encourage students, faculty, and other members ville Clark, Chemical Engineering Department. Re- is away with the Union armies; and their mattresses are of the MIT family to submit signed letters to the editor. freshmenfs will be served in Room 10-280 at 4:30 lumpy. All letters ,will be considered and as many as possible will p.m. ROOM 10-250, 3:30 p.m. Still, nothing can dampen the spirits of madcap Meg, be printed. Biology Department. Colloquium: "The Mechanisms jocular Jo, buoyant Beth, animated Amy, and crazy old of Gene Recombination." Dr. Paul Levine, Biological Marmee, as the merry March girls lovingly call their Laboratories, Harvard University. Tea will be served lovable mother. reviews in Room 16-71 1 at 3:30 p.m. Well sir, one Christmas the March girls get an in- ROOM 16-310, 4:00 p.m. vitation to a ball. But Beth reminds the sisters that they On Wednesday, February 6 at 8:30 in the evening, the Freshman Hockey Team. Game with Lawrence can hardly go traipsing off and leave poor Marmee alone New England Conservatory of Music in cooperation with Academy. SKATING RINK, 4:00 p.m. at Christmas time. The sisters swear a lot, but they the MIT Department of Humanities presented Donald Freshman Basketball Team. Game with Boston Uni- finally agree with Beth. versity. ROCKWELL CAGE, 6: 15 p.m. W/illing, organist, in a program including works of Bach, Marmee, however, will not hear of it. "Land's sake, BapFist Student Union and Inter-Varsity Christian little women!" she cries. "You must go to the ball and van der Horst, Brahms, Hindemith, Kennan, and Sowerby. Fellowship. Joint meeting. Speaker: Bill Bright, of have some fun. There will be punch and ginger snaps Mr. Willing was assisted by Norma Cleary, soprano, and Campus Crusades. ROOM 3-070, 7:00 p.m. and confetti. Best of all, there will be morris dancing. Elinor Preble, flutist. Varsity Fencing Team. Match with Harvard Uni- Oh, how your f/ather and I used to love that!" A member of the faculty of the New England Conserra. versity. WALKER MEMORIAL, 7:30 p.m. "I never knew father could dance," cries Meg. Varsity Basketball Team. Game with Boston Uni- tory, Mr. Willing demonstrated a competent technique and versity. ROCKWELL CAGE, 8:15 p.m. "Oh, yeah?" cries Marmee. "You should have seen interpretation on the MIT Holtkamp. Your reviewer feels MIT Humanities Series. A concert by the Juilliard Philip morris!" that the Bach deserves special mention in regard to regis- Quartet and Gregory Tucker, Pianist, will be given "Was Philip a good morriser?" cries Jo. tration and interpretation. On. one hand the Fifth Trio in Kresge Auditorium at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, Feb- "The best," cries Marmee. "Philip could morris in Sonata, while played well enough, was very uninteresting- ruary 17. Tickets for the performance are on sale in the Music Office, Room 14-N236, at $1.75. long size and regular and was full of natural goodness especially in the Largo where the registration Mwas not Checks should be made payable to the MIT Human- and fresh and firm and unfiltered too." changed once. While on the other hand his use of the ities Series. The girls are cheered to hear this and go to the ball. "Holtkampreeds" was excellent. The ugly, grunting reeds CALENDAR OF EVENTS Marmee stays home all alone, but soon gets a wonderful were not used at all and the others were dished out with The Calendar of Events is distributed to the staff surprise: Philip comes back from the war! care. As a high ranking tonal finisher of a well known through the Institute's mails each Wednesday, with When the girls return from the ball, they find Marmee announcements for the following eight days. Ma- and Philip morrising, and they cry "Huzzah !" and throw Boston Organ Company has' said, "Our janitors would be terial for the Calendar of February 13-20 is due in expected to voice reeds better than that!" Also, your re- their bonnets in the air, where they are to this day. the editor's office, Room 3-339, not later than noon OMax Shulman, 1957 viewer believes that one should not take too much liberty on Thursday, February 7. in Bach with regard to tempo changes within the composi- I Speaking of books, in our book today's new Philip Morris, made biy the sponsors of this column, is the. smoothest, tastiest tion. The B Minor prelude was played as if someone had cigarette ever offered anywhere! written "rubato" all over the music. tIDAY, FEBRUARY g8, 1957 The Tech _ ___ Page Three__ Alumni Assoc. Meets In Walker; Dr. Sizer Named Full Biology Dept. Head; Stratton Reports On CornplonLab 7 Other Faculty Appointments Announced The Institute will dedicate this members of the MIT staff. Dr. Irwin W. Sizer has been ap- vices, and from 1945 to 1948 he awas information theory, a new branch ne a $4,200,000 laboratory build- Panelists included General James of pointed head the Department of Biol- a political analyst for the State science -w-hich combines gfor education and research in nu- McCormack, Jr'., special adviser to De- the methods ogy. Professor Sizer, who has taught partment. of mathematics and electrical com- marscience and electronics, Chan- MIT's presi