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.