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I 6 0 A Pyont left~An gm a am tag, o l? An XEI|L By Mistake of past public statements. of the US government, and in By Kuala Larnpur Feirtag asserted that he had MIT Corporation Chairman Uninformed officials told Baker House by the New The MIT Press today met with Hughes on several Howard Weasiy Johnson stunned the Reamer that several England Telephone Company. revealed that it had paid an occasions in the Bahamas. At a secret press conference undesirable parts of the Institute One of Beholden's first advance of $800,000 to one point, the billionaire esterday afternoon in 9-150 will be spun-off, b'in order to official acts was to file papers freelance writer Michael Feirta- industrialist offered the 2 when he dropped a bombshell of reduce friction with uneeded with the Commissioner of for the "absolu te, true, unknown writer an organic fig. unprecedented proportions. elements of the community." Corporations for a change of the authentic, final autobiography The validity of the MP Survivors claim that the Planned sales , if a- buyer can be name of the MIT Corporation to of Howard Hughes," whose manuscript has been brought Ai Chairman announced the sale of found, include undergraduate the Massachusetts Tool or Die recent purchase of MIT had been into question by Mr. Hughes' MIT to the Hughes Tool education, the Herman building, Corporation. "A lot of the announced only hours earlier. statements at an informal press A Company of Houston, Texas. Building 14, Baker Houlse, and Hughes people have been Accord ing to officials, - the conference which he held on the Sources close to the reclusive Burton-Conner. So far, interest through MIT- as students, and autobiography will also be steps of building 7 when he billionaire refused comment, but has been expressed in the they thought the name more serialize&, in abridged form, in camre to take possession of MI r. 2 it is widely known that he left Herman Building by an appropriate," Bebolden noted. the MIT News Ofic:e At that time, in response to a h ihs British - Columbia unidentified foreign spy agency publication, Tick Tock. reporter's question, Hughes said headquarters late yesterday, and "Who's Michael Feirtag." The was last seen departing the i . ---- t·-> answer was considered unusual, Vancouver airport in a private as the reporter had asked Hughes 1 plane headed east. A man fitting what he thought of Boston Hughes description was then weather. spotted by a crowd of reporters Questions were raised at at 77 Massachusetts Avenue. the highest level as to why Informed observers believe Hughes would pick an unknown B that the indiscriminate gassing of like Feirtag to write his West Campus by members of autobiography, when so many Cam bridge's finest (and a less competent writers would do number of policemen) may have (The allegations rose in a gq been the cause of the statement issued by a former g overwhelming apathy with MIT chairman speaking fronm the . which students greeted the top of Eastgate.) . announcement. In response, the author Administrative comment noted that his job application to was also restrained, but for NelwE Yeorker has ' been different reasons; with the mls-uellvered to Hughes. The exception of assistant dean for eccentric billionaire was tenements Ken Blueina, all impressed, and agreed after a g senior administrative officers of lengthy correspondence, to tthe Institute have been blocking allow his autobiography to be ",5 the entrance to .the Herman written. '," building for the last three days. In support of his ,la A haggard, wbm Constantine contention, Feirtage offered for ; Slimsonides (the on-duty inspection a series of 10 letters, administrator, who could barely Howard Hughes answers reporters' questions on steps of building 7 which he -claimed Hughes had be heard over shouts of "Off the written. All the letters were Pigs," and "Where's my 3og2$ O EIi$Ad $ffiZZ2$ triple spaced of yellow paper: M raincoat!") issued a brusque but prominent typewriter repairmen .' informative "no comment" .b'ogu OZO .n cs on s. 7rin C assert that the letters were X when informed of the A parcel containing scientists to pursue their can't tell a frog to go study his written on the same type of Ad announcement by a Daily fifty-sevena volurnes exposing the e x p e ri m entatio n in an calculus-" typewriter Hughes used to fill ';t Reamner reporter. existence and activities of the atmosphere "flee from the out his 1948 driver's license Blueing joined with Bob heretofore top secret Child recriminations of a public Volume 57 mentions a high application. Beholden, the acknowledged Psychological Development Labs lacking the insight provided by frequency of "system crashes" Fiertag, whose motto has ''to dean of student affairs, in came into the hands of The higher education, who might in the early stages of SGS long been 'never say in six -; welcoming this change of hands inches what Daily Reamer early Monday fail' to rationally weigh the research. What became of these you can say in 60" at the corporate helm. "We morning. . The parcel was benefits of s c i e n tific crashed "systems,' is open to has written the concise work in .Q welcome this change of hands at delivered to the Reamer office achievement against the lives of speculation. However, it is felt 36 volumes which, MIT Press g the corporate helm," the by an individual described as a few nameless children."' that this information may shed offi ials have revealed, will be A statement read. sold in supermarkets around the ;4about five foot eight, possibly (according to the introduction some light on just why the ELO Bob Bought the country at the rate of one of MIT mute, very light complexion, to volume one) This atmosphere dumpster has been under armed @0 News office first denied, vcaulme per week. then partially balding but with long has allowed the labs to make guard for the past eight years. 4 admitted knowing of the stiff red hair growing straight unprecedented progress in many I Fi -1 1, i ' : consummated .r purchase. Final out of the side of his head for previously unexplored fields, ..,confirmation came in a press several inches. He was wearing a such as brain transplant, Xrelease from his office which 1%ose-fifting white and red amputation, castration, and the W also mentioned Bought's polka-dotted garment and white effects of amphetamines, LSD, $.-imminent departure for sneakers. The alleged person and heroin on infant t Houston, where he will handle arrived at the Reamner offices at development. C MlT policy in the future. 3:18 am, deposited a crate H.L. Torpor, Course IS The tight-lipped crew of containing the 57 volumes, department head, was HiHughes associates (also known as produced a 45-caliber automatic unavailable for comnment. But e the Mormon Mafia) which and a large placard which read his secretary, upon overhearing X arrived at MIT late in the "NO PICTURES," bounid and speculation by Rearner reporters . afternoon quickly set up gagged the entire staff, and was concerning certain unsolved consultations with all available gone. There is some infant kidnappings in the X members of the administration. speculation that the messenger ;ambridge area, blurted out, : Both of them later told reporters did not wish his or her identity "Oh, pooh. We get every last one - that the new owners were to be revealed. from the white slaver." . "reasonable to a fault." Blueing The CPD Labs are located has been made administrative in Building E10, and have been The last of the volumes Officer, while Beholden has engaged in a wide spectrum of dealt with the development .of -.o become a vice-president of psychological inquiry since the controversial SCS or Student X Hughes Tool, with official 1947. The existence of the labs Guidance System, an ingenious E responsibility for the new accounts in large measure for the electronic device scheduled to be Massachusetts Profit Center. rapid growth of the MIT implanted in the brain of each During discussion of likely physiological psychology incoming frosh as part of i' candidates, the name Slimonides department. As one researcher orientation routine next year. -,has surfaced again and again, like puts it in volume 12, 'sWhy "Without the research done by .a five day old cadaver in the should I mess around with the CDP Labs," writes Charles k-Charles. Informed sources could mor-keys and rabbits at Harvard Stick Drooper, who is .not he found, but usually when I Can mess around with the responsible for implementation. t-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~g, reliable speculation and rumor real thing at Tec:?" The labs "'the project would have been ,;ward him the job on the basis Were Originally founded to allow held back for years. You just Bob Beholden, new-MIT leader, greets Hughes

MI PAGE 2 TUESDAY. MAY 23.1972 THE DAILY REAMER DBr 1aily 19rainpr. ~I amia -ucrlous.' grey VOI.UME LXIX NUMBER 22 There's never any information in thre These .vicious grojects were-designdo-Ato: 'intellect,. regardless of sex, :ace, greed, or TUESDAY -MAY 23, 1972 newspapers, which is why this is. being,, -'break.. the spirits of those who are national p'rorities. wh.',pr `--heNational written. Dr. Weasel says theire;'s. no use exposed to-them,, converting the victims.- -The Maggo-ct Lkaboratory is Bored of Drectofs anyainytow int. ing.servants'ofthe r cling'classes.doing .secret,. research, ol- electronic Blob Milkem, Squirt and if that is revealed, the government Attempts to disrupt' these,:classes' have 9ensprs/Rep.osrtg:reahing us tell of plans Luigi Padini,Jiggler might get wise to the ripoff. F-ortunately, the even more,: powerful all Sandy Colon,JIangingEditor ,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~o 6.3 6,4 1805- - and Weasel has committed one- -brigade 'of attacks of 6.04, 18V.075.:ard'other/a.d3, 'T', Len Toad, Money Grubber heavy-duty deans and a battalion Ken of mental mentaldefoliantsefoliants developeddevelopedby', :the,.communications.ni 0 '"Later appii'c'ationf to. Torpid, Come On Deparmentof Deth (llI-C'at ~he:'human- thoug h s -is Daneene Fry, Society Editor engineers .to stop them from, finding Department -of Death the'- t ' hinted, though'-a voice Walt Creek, Copy Scrounger anything out. These- ve'teranis'"-hage Institute. ead Reginald Stuart-Smythe, reportedly served well in denying.-In arelated -evelqpment; MIT, iMPOSSible glVl knowledge to thre students, bulat I knnbww ann'ounced its greatest'profts ever tyd'ay -l clearly;fftilu're to, put a stop to-MIT's Duckling n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~pofthineve th[ear Blad Dilldeaux, Jock Filler nothing of this. .Paul Grey _congratulated, the _ Dropper genocidal 0inlati'bn' the past has given Rabid Churl, Wimp Meanwhile, MIT's Lock-on 'Labs ihae Labs for their ;,utstan4 m& dnPo p tovent. my spleen at Sheldon Lowerdrawer, received' a contract to develop -'an through-ecentfinancial-problms,iaciiarolms add'th~~~~~~~~~~pf~m-rodughrcn W a n . . g a g;. n Fixer dn"'Wesl k tot supor outan automated, pen-is to conlinue'to. encia that while the 3-70'c45 hadaiet to add .u' I Oh Tannenbaum, Smile wo fucking-over of the Asian peoples. We sej'- aHl",the' profits, ,h':.'was' bu'uy, confusing":-sbciet'y Thereefre:, ('as a soihifion to' my Sherry Globstein. ' Ever PresentCompaniona says he didn't know anything about thfis-, them-with indirec ¢ss.t une' . .... I believe him.' You wouldn''t-:' kiow -- Mitchell Tiredfag, Also Ran Facalty memrbers :-visiPed;!._'st.:.n:,a.~t:',(est h 's-,'.a- pro'test. Corps of f Nakir Minazian, Wise Jock Emeritus · anything either .if' you ::took twe'nty · support -o the-.Administra iof-f ime iand':-%aaxiliaries- to Slo Krasher, Holyoke Bureau Valiums a day. '::,-7:em obersotenhe ,deiS'amtit'ensf:?r.tar'Chiteciture aginst warT'swar Martin Schiz, Square Peg Weasel is also a director of. tanihi`-A'bie; announced-'that the0y woul~-_sigt es-rif :,.- _i Falax Makrupskvi, Mass. A ve. "a smad.?,electronic's-,contractor- -which -i's one.the steps--leadiring,-to 'We.a§el i s'offic:en ,way-/t6" ake a ,succesful ! Carnal McGuile, Of an Evening r eIp O'r t.-e'd I y~' " a'e~v'ei o p~i?'lng ':~-~!i~su sy. i ttieutBfst.r.eq.'~:ukfi'.is rt t 7.to'.-imakeof itk.t-tnagive- -' Neal Vitalis, Goat Grease Cou'n tel~rmaeasur~s: d:, ievic:s" ~Wlc b :;W'fil.- 'Cagmpuls-pattr~ffm'r'escuaed-vIF-ice('lPreside~ ':-!.:'-} :Pebples,r who constitutethe - Pecker Petarsky, Blechh Sheila Kline, Body Beutiful interfere withnbriiaa sightby mangth' o i.~,i!~k:i·,t eefie:t:-heleaves,-., US'ai'dsat-MbT. entire: uifivers, :turn.a:-sil-,erpeari'shade: ? :' :ptiiC¢:x.~a_~e.'.t:! ,6'61We,~er: :(- ;': '7-- ' '::.':;-?::-:: ,::(Dr-p. isi~s~t esis is.-coriect, so Production Staff: gray, ' I' tried::'to. "lbeate'Pal - 'ntitute:i'i~~~~',, :-.' ')'~ataaty:}-t~e'rcfli-'Ji''hbs~lfo;.'~ hi'eo nameless and u nfounded ~':~.'.i,:p,¢' g a'pr-Ogramr:0fntoa Newts staff: G-e r~e'Yt ask: him~abo"Uat this'. pmje:c-t;: 'dt~~?~i:i}k'I; ";pa~n~;one: to coualdn't fjind .him,:'~..' ~::',."~,' .- ' ',', ,-; aT&a:!..,:ig¢?~..;T,~3'.!me}.. eK::0h~ibi~irin6edjit . Th~aink ,y'9 u ':my ~fellow Olds staff: "Den':at tiie 'Cntuer:: for-ititbeernaon::aoce.rte' effiit-i,,'~o-:::.. . I`,'::~'d:, n. -- · :~ capitalis,m, -th notoriQus;('-c~5'm'in'as-;¢" ?~n(a:-'":-'· "'rs;}:o .ih~drcl~r.7'-'ioq·n~afnt~igin?);:,i;[i;',se: no .:'ni-. p'se: r~ooiiaus_:·cpP~ni~Pr~s'~F~nl~....i .:~t~sss~s·' ' k"''- nal I~ -A0Abtdtli Staul `Instituste` o e o a msl curmioo rueprted,'F prelazf-~~~~ : Grey `tot adk- hirb'ab ouUpdatlj~\=_T~td~:-"veI~~~.~nt2rsi:6nsd.7~, this,1 p r...:apj-c s tl- non-"~-' } rii/g:vm--.-i.'hs :a. s:,e'.~,'d---~',ohi.' -_"'sicla,are- MIT : . i~ ", ' .pa3Z to .... remark t'.Announ-eas toldst.re eoes, applae"id one oThrtke - i fi ts t} u e othero-myhs 1l8.0'2,t-S [42''_6.1: 7-:-';24..:E,':la'd :i uiages:PP6s£iuanigri:?-?tft::H a rompltion.:,-..- Capitalionm' oanesaerthatea fean c k-r-nowYo:-'0e~ t h ispe-mogW . e aete-orldarondus;

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By Fonda Peters flash, inspired by the Tachmen's Crew action on the Charles cheering. this weekend capped the end of Coach Dutch was unavailable a brilliant season for MIT for comment after the tough There was a satirical article scheduled to appear oarsmen and oarswomen. loss, as he was down in the In the featured races, MIT workshop drinking it up with in this space. The target of the article decided, lights shone brightly in finishing riggers Roy Toes and Joe Without informing anyone connected with the only third behind highly-touted Tonguetwist, and eating the crab management, that he was offended by it. He Georgetown and Columbia, Leftout caught threw the article away; the loss was not dis- traditional patsy of the East. In earlier races, frosh crew covered until it was too late to replace the The 150-pound engineer boat flamer Don Sour stated "My article. ~~~1~~~11M R, I smm (which had to cheat to make boys might not win, and they The editor wishes to thank Mr. Fiertag weight) tried to psyche-out the might not come close, but they for his unstinting efforts on behalf of keeping opponents by severely do show up." understroking through the body The MIT women's crew was this paper from coming out. of the race, rowing at 19 strokes disappointing, as'the shell sunk per- minute as compared to when the coxswain, distracted Gee orgetown's 39 and by a male exhibitionist on the Columbias's 34. However, the Harvard Bridge, steered it into a Techmen, stroked by Dieter Paid bridge abutment. Foundering in '73 and coxed by Sildon Tickle the Charles, MIT bow-woman '72, fell too far behind after the Judy Uglychild '75 was heard to start, and neither of their foes comment, "Oh well, it Wasno could see e tlien to be big thing." psyched-oui. This was the last race of the No Headline.. season for the lightweight In a move which brought varsity, who have had a good police on campus in droves, the season thus far, distinguished by the mist ry de partment devastating losses to Woopie announced that one of its Tech and Newton College of the professors has dissolved a body Sacred Heart. Coached by during a lecture in 26-100 last former MIT crew nondescript Tuesday afternoon. Dn = Mac Snaile¥, the oarsmen tried Professor H. Bar performed L$S C z ir something new this year - the action in front of a crowd of anerobic training. That's where nearly two dozen students, one you row long stretches s without of whom reported the incident breathing. This has the to course five headquarters upon advantage in competitive rowing its completion. of' not having to worry about "I really had to do it," Bar inhaling wien there is more explained. "The dissolution of important work to be done. the body involved had become The really important crew essential. If we don't have any news this years-has been the vast more Lithuanian grad students' imi p rove me nt of the Tach in the department, there is no heavyweight eights, coached by longer any need for a Lithuanian long-haired hippy freak Ptete Grad Students in Chemistry Dutch. Never rated a serious Society." Bar declined further challenger in the past, MIT comment as the police lead him 1tFor more information, call x3791.) heavies were really out of it this mockpem-ge away. L.=- -·· year. Seeded 35th at the Eastern m ----l----a, a --C- ...· i 'M-u..------c~··I Powonr Sprints, they were refused a I starting berth in their heat because the referee said they Vibravo would slow the race down too SPACE AGE TECHNOLOGY much. I BROUT HOME TO YOU In their race last Saturday, Greasy Maneuver the fatweights displayed a novel The Daily Reamer has In the priglacy of any room in way of blowing a race already in learned that a greasy maneuver Vour own homne, Vou can now enioy the benefits of mrrolern the bag. Leading powerhouse has been planrico to bypass the space technology with the Diljoi Northwestern by a length just 20 stipulation of the MIT bylaws Rockit-Potr PersonalVibrator. strokes short of the finish line, that all chairmen must be past or Good for tired neck and back stroke Jere Leftout decided he present presidents of the muscles, this device requites no was hungry, so went fishing for Institute. Hughes plans to batteries oT ACIDC. 3 feet long, crab. Numnber 7 man Andy appoint William Barton Rogers 4 inches in diameter, the vibrator Kernelhand didn't like that, so as chairman, in the hopes that has a costing of non-stick '"Tef- he hit Leftout in the back with Mr. Rogers will be unable to 0 Ion 2." In the car or on the his oar. Then cox Dave Burps perform his duties. If this proves 0 beach, this personal portable de- vice will provide you with ne'ny '72 called for a sprint; the crew to be the case, some pliant hours of pleasure. Available in thought he said "Spirit" so they administrator will be appointed I your choice of decorator colors, all -cheered "Hip, hip, hooray." as his assistant for corporate I

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LpTr By Curtis Reeves ...... : ~ is ,,c~u~-W~.~nl-$~ _ ··::· Nineteen of the 31 people _ :~.AIR SCIENCE B ----~I _ ~i~MNOTARY.Ii NAVALLAnA at$$M B 1st yar cost s against whom charges were NAVkL ADMIMSSTPAT!'VE UNIT. M"' ·" By Paul Schindler containing explanation and de- brought for participation in the .: vo WMITfEE ON -· ".-7: May 12 occupation of the Build- SELECTIVE SER VICE , ,.. ,,,,.' The Tech has learned that it tails is forthcoming from the k'·ps FL'OO' S'·UI ing 20-ROTC offices have been ' will cost MIT five million dollars president's office. --TI i _m_ - next year to divest the Charles Costs s found guilty of trespass. Accord- . . i 1 Stark Draper Laboratories on With Draper Labs out of the :c·"J,; ing to the records of the Third .';i District Court of Middlesex ----;. . . June 30, 1973. The figure was picture, there will be an imme- County, punishment ranged developed after lengthy negotia- diate loss of $10 million in L·iz tions between the Lab and the indirect cost payment; about c from fines of $100 apiece for sixteen people to two 30-day jail Institute over the inter- one-quarter of the total indirect sentences and one sentence of relationship of the two after payments. (Indirect costs are both the fine and the jail term. : t separation. paid on all research contracts to cover such things as physical All 19 people involved have ap- The Lab, which began its pealed. plant, libraries, and personnel existence as a special laboratory services-) Currently, it is ex- Most of those charged were ~. of MIT in 1935, was part of the MIT students, although some pected that about five million of Department of Aeronautics and that total will be recouped from MIT employees were involveda s - ~.E Astronautics (the department well. ] the labs directly for services pro- According to Assistant to the ;'~ name was different at that time) vided. The rest will come from and thus an integral-part of the' three major changes in indirect Chancellor J. Daniel Nyhart, . Institute. This meant that ad- then Dean for Student Affairs, costing: ministrative functions and 1) On campus research will be who was present at the ROTC ; library service (among other offices during the occupation, charged 58% (now 52%) for things) were joint undertakings; overhead; off-campus 28% (now internal discipline hearings have ' now, such ties will have to be 25.5%). been held only for those stu- broken dents who were degree candi-" 2) Lincoln Labs will be dates in June and wished to :i~ " h: The date for divestment still charged an additional $900,000 know thle outcome of the pro- The occupation of MIT's RO'TC offices ended with a voluntary contains some uncertainties, as in indirect costs, raising its total ceedings against them before evacuaon on mid-morning Salturday, May 14, less than 24 hours there are details which remain from $6.6 to $7.5 million. graduation. Nyhart would not afterthe protest had begun. Photo by David Tenenbaum unres'ovled concerning the final 3) $2 million in unrestricted comment on the decisions of the relationship of the two organiza- MIT funds will have to be used y into Building 20 with the inten- Committee on Discipline, citing tions. One source close to the to make up the difference in that group's reluctance to dis- rsdn ihr io tion of pressing charges. "It was indirect costs the first year. This Committethatgrou'son elucancDiciplinPresident to is- Associate Richard Dean Nixon. for $tudeniit process noted that "we don't close its findings to the com- Assochard Sorensonex tense," he said, "but a situation want to make any more pro- amount is projected to drop to K- we could have lived with for a $1 million after that. munity, particularly.1 before the ~~~~plairned why charges wert mises we can't 'keep. ending of its deliberations about b l thi chation ance considerable length of time." 'There are several major a case, and Nyyhart's own lack of wht in this setuade iid The determining factors in the The divestment figures used changes which must be made contact with Committee chair- wa set fti aemd it decision to press charges, accord- here have been developed at the before divestment can take montan Professormmitte chair- different from the incidents earr- ing to Nyhart and Sorenson, staff level, and in negotiations place, and any of them, if un- man ProfessorEl~iaGytpu Her this year at the Center foi los, as his reasons for failing to Ierntional Studie nterf )r were the breaking down of doors with the Naval Materials Com- completed, could delay it. The comment.I tg and the "human wave" move- mand, which negotiated for the labs must get their non-taxable Gyftopouloscomment. was unavailable ~~~Ithatnternationlal at no time duringStudies, the notingearlier f(Please turn to page 13] government. An official letter (Please turn to page 13) for comment. episodes had administrators acC- The occupationl followed a tually said, "You are trespassing sit-in in front of the office Of You will be disciplined" Prioor MIT President Jerome Wiesner incidents had brought on, y outi s starIII axLl lS which had in turn been pre" warnings of proceedings. By Norman D. Sandler down shows more women, more day of the first convention ceeded by a rally on Kresge Sorenson further noted that o MIAMI BEACH - Well, it's blacks, more youths, more session. Plaza protesting the mining of the administration did not g( all over - the Democrats have "grassroots" people than any Youth was represented. One chosen George McGovern, the other past political nominating of the platform reports ("The mild-mannered, outspoken Sena- convention. People and the Government") . Ai er9ga'zes fa daz e tor from the state of South Along with the usual collec- was even presented to the con- Dakota, who in February of this tion of full-time politicians, vention during the Tuesday year was pulling 4% in the popu- whose, presence is expected, night platform debate by one of A for voeer-$fraie larity polls, to carry the ball were the college students who the youth delegates, Chris Arter- By Lee Giguere housing less than a week in against Richard Nixon's Repu- had to take a week off from ton, a graduate student in the In spite of a dearth of work- which to register if they wish to blican team in the political summer school, the high school MIT Political Science depart- ers, the MIT Undergraduate As- vote in Massachusetts. Some Super Bowl the first week of students who were in the process ment and a McGovern delegate sociation .(UA) is organizing a freshrmen may have difficulty in November. of preparing for their first year from Massachusetts. two-week fall voter registration proving their residency and, in of college and many other The young delegates were not The nomination went rather "under 30" delegates who were drive for the Institute communi- the past, Cambridge has been smoothly, with McGovern just the McGovern workers ty and perhaps fior the surrpund- reluctant to register students brought together at the delegate home from college for the saum-- having it all sewn up well before Youth Caucus on Monday, the ing areas of Cambridge. without proof of their domicile. the actual balloting began Wed- {Please turn to page 15) According to UA President Reeves explained that there is nesday night, July 12, as mil- Curtis Reeves, who is doing most also a possibility that the UA lions of Americans watched of the legwork for the drive will be able to register students Al c]'el% arcso 'n himself, the biggest problem Walter Cronkite, John Chan- pp oi d in their home towns, but said cellor, or Harry Reasoner re- ahead will be converting the that this depends upon the laws port the results from their initial enthusiasm of students in each state and may also hinge booths thirty feet above the dtre clt o£ admiss~ .s into a sustained effort. upon just when the drive is held. action on the floor. The League of Women Vot- To inform incoming studenfits Peter H.- Richardson, associate undergraduates into the recruit- ers, MassPax and mernbers of the of the UA's plans, Reeves is However, there was more to director of admissions since ment process, viewing them as a the convention than that; more MIT administration have been sending letters both to freshmen 1964, will succeed Professor highly credible source of infor- contacted in working out the and to transfer students; the than the presence of some five Roland B. Greeley as director of mation about MIT for' high details of the drive, Reeves re- Deans' Office, he noted, is assist- to ten thousand "non-delegates" admissions.when Greeley retires school students. ported. Hel went on to say that ing the UA in preparing these who camped in at Miami Beach's on August 31. Flamingo Park, and more to it Announcing his appointment, the UA was exercising great care letters. A teacher and counselor in Chancellor Paul E. Gray 'empha- in its planning to avoid any Over the summer, the UA has than the 2500 National G;uards- secondary schools before coming men who slept in Miami Beach sized the importance of'the disputes with the Internal Reve- been sponsoring weekly lunch- to MIT, Richardson has traveled admissions office as the first nue Service over MIT's tax-ex- eons with its officers and a few Senior High School for a week extensively while working for to insure that the afore- point of contact with MIT for empt status. (In the past, the interested students. Reeves ex- the admissions office. Besides prospective students. '"Peter IRS has warned colleges about plained.that he believes that the mentioned non-delegates in Fla- interviewing applicants, his work mingo Park remained peaceful. Richardson's insight into. the lending their facilities to poli- recent decline of student govern- 'has included "explaining" MIT nature of the educational- experi- tically-oriented campaigns.) rment was brought about by the There was an entirely dif- to high school students around ence at MIT," Gray said, "will According to Cambridge City abolition of Inscomrm. (Ins- ferent air to this year's political the country. In the last few help him and his associates to Hall, Reeves said, registration comm, the Institute Committee, three-ring circus in hot Miami years, he has been particularly convey to a new generation of requirements in Massachusetts was abolished 31/2 years ago; it Beach, and the most interesting concerned, as have other mem- prospective students the diversi- include a 30-day residency was student governent's top item was the make-up of the bers of the office, with MIT's ty of the Institute and the clause and require that registra- legislativre body. 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H3 ,WHI ZL/6['t" _Sn"nv'alVI_. 39Vd THE TH FRIDAY,AUGUST4,1972 PAGE3 Anti-war group ass CenfreL to beg in Aughti AX Wxao i -T Serves By Paul Schindler will reduce problems with the transfer calls, even though they hMIT will begin receiving Cen- system. Calling errors should al- have not gone thromgh an oper- By Lee Giguere At the moment the people trex service from New England so be reduced by the issuance of ator. If a call is made from The spirit of SACC, the Sci- involved in the effort are still in Telephone on August 12. Insti- a new Centrex directory, which outside to a wrong extension, a ence Action Coordinating Com- the process of gathering data and tute Telecommunications officer is scheduled to take place by single depression of the switch- mittee, once a serious and active_ talking with people at MIT; Mort Berlan is "guardedly opti- August 4. hook will signal an operator who anti-war, anti-war-research group nothing has been written so far, mistic" that the conversion will Thus, while 864-6900 will will then come on-line to handle on the MIT campus is "alive and nor has there been any analysis work out well. continue to be answered, callers the transfer. The party initiating well." of the data collected. For Sep- Betrlan noted that "the gross will be referred to 253-1000, the the transfer will hear a ringing A new group, not calling it- tember, Watson projected a cutover of service will certainly new MIT number, or 258-1 000, tone, telling him that the trans- self SACIC but carrying on that pamphlet which would give take place on the twelfth, with- the new Draper Laboratories fer notification has been made. group's efforts to documrnent "some hint" of the group's work out major problems." He added number. All MIT extensions will One new feature offered by MIT's alleged complicity with the and would include som-e figures that there will be bugs in the be available for direct inward Centrex may lead to problems. military-industrial complex, has on research at MIT. He also system at first, but that he is dialing; extension xxxx may be The call forwarding feature, on begun working this summer to stated that the group plans to certain that they will be worked reached by calling 253-xxxx. extensions equipped for the ser- compile data on who MIT serves, (Please turn to page 15) out and that the extensive train- The Dormitory Telephone vice, enables the user, by dialing according to Associate Professor ing program undertaken at MIT System will continue to operate 72 and a five-digit extension, to of Humanities William B. Wat- independently of service offered forward calls to another exten- son. The group, composed of by NET, with private phones in sion. Dialing 73 wil- cause the students from several different each dorm room, interconnected feature to stop functioning. Two departments including Biology, to the Centrex system Via a problems appear likely: Physics and Humanities, will di- tieline; to reach an extension The first is a technical and rect its efforts to try to find out from a dormlilne, dial 80 fol- training problem. When the for whom the science and tech- Iowed by the five-digit extension system was being planned, it was nology at MIT is being pro- 3-xxxx. Unlike the-extensions, thought that a telephone from duced, who MIT students serve Massachusetts Institute of Tec-hnology the number of digits in dorrm- which calls were being forward- and what kind of industries re- CENTREX Telephone Service phone numbers will remain four, ed would not operate if picked cruit MIT graduates. but a substantial section of tele- up; it would merely give off a The ultimate goal of their phones will be renumbered to high-pitched whine. This will not work, Watson continued, is to To make calls for: Dial: facilitate service. These will be be the case, although many publish, in either pamphlet or mainly in McCormick Hall. people were trained to tell book form, a well-documented Campus telephones 3 + four digits It will still be possible to others that. It will be impossible analysis of "Wrho MIT Serves." reach dormlines from exten- to determine, just by picking up Watson believes that the an- Local area telephones 9 -+ seven digits sions, by dialing 180 followed a telephone, whether or not it is swer to this question wiU be by the dormphone number, and set up for call forwarting. different from the administra- Directory assistance from the main MIT number, The other problem is a people tion's usual claim that MIT Campus 3-1300 either by dialing 253-1000 and problem -- if someone using the serves many diverse constituen- Local area 9+ 411 asking for the dormphone num- call forwarding service forgets to cies. Wh-le he agrees that "MIT ber or by dialing 2534759 for follow good etiquette by calling does serve a large number of Toell calls and credit cards 190 information and asking to be ahead Co warn that calls are interests," Watson feels that transferred. being transferred, many false re- there is an "extraordinary con- Telephone trouble 3-3654 In addition, the Dormphone ports of wrong numbers may be centration" of these interests in system will offer a new service, given. beginning the defense area. The D1epart- Emergency 100 sometime this fall, in Berlan stated that conversion ment of Defense, he argued, is the form of a number by means to Centrex will bring about im- the primary beneficiary of basic of which dormphone users will provement in telephone service Campus Patrol 3-2996 research done at the EInstitute be able to reach a NET toll at MIT, including improved allo- and depends on institutions like operator directly. By dialing cation of costs, especially on MIT for new weapons. Even 061 1, third number, collect and local calls. The new system outside the defense field, Watson credit card calls may be placed keeps track of message units For additional stated, "the kind of things we information refer to your directly from dormphones. used by each extension, and the work on seem to lead to high- telephone directo^ry. After the installation of Cen- units will be billed through MIT technology solutions." trex, it will still be possible to accounts. Asl e Jees Camh ge see cs. faze,tranquiJfty

in an unusual early morning ledge his budding literary talents awakening, Tuesday, July 19, Ashe soon found himself tho- Olen Reid Ashe, Jr. '70 departed roughly enjoying himself. In MIT and Cambridge. January, 1969, he ran as a dark horse for the Managing Editor's Ashe, former Managing Edi- position and won. Following his tor of The Tech and for the past graduation from the Institute in year an Assistant Editor at Teckh- February, 1971 in Electrical En- nology Review, plans to travel gineering, and several months extensively in Central America, traveling, Ashe returned to take especially Mexico and Guate- the job at Technology Review. mala. While there he intends to try his -hand at writing a book. Ashe's position at Technzolo- Up until now his literary efforts gy Review is being taken by have mainly been limited to Michael Feirtag, another former news and feature stories for the The Tech editor and a writer for two MIT publications and occa- the now defunct humor maga- sional assignments for The zine- VooDoo. Boston Globe and Newsweek magazine. Following his travels Ashe NOTES will return to his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina where * Last year, the Student Center Committee ran the Experimental he has been offered a position Coffeehouse (the 24-hour coffee- on the Charlotte Star-Observer. house in the Center Lounge) relying exclusively on volunteer labor. We An avid wanderer, Ashe has would like to continue this program often combined joumrnalistic ef- next year - beginning at the start of forts with his travels. He has R/O Week. In order to keep the concept of having the coffeehouse covered solar eclipses in Mexico manned 24-hours a day, we will, and Canada and traveled with again, have to rely on large amounts the. Clean Air Car Race from of volunteer labor. If you think that Cambridge to California during it's a program worth continuing and you have a few hours to help out - the summer of 1970. Still, many please leave a message for Steven of Ashe's most brilliant and best Wallman at x3-3913, W20-343. known pieces of writing have Thanks. been generated while sitting at a typewriter or riding in a Student * FREE KUNDALINI - No, it's not something you find on an Italian Center elevator. menau - it's yoga. Free open air classes Monrday-Thursday 10:30-12 Ashe's career in journahlism at on the Fenwvay near the Rose Gar- MIT did not start until his den. Sponsored by the Parker Hill- sophomore year when he was Fenway Sulmmoertiing. Also, 3:30-5 the historian for PBE fraternity. in Harvard Yard across from the Fogg Museum. Instructed by David Lee, His writing efforts there so im- Student Teacher of Yogi Bhajan. pressed The Tech News Editor Steve "Eggplant" Carhart that * Join The Tech! Staff meetings he recruited Ashe to write for every Wednesday and Sunday night the student newspaper. Though during the school year. Free pizza and 10 cent cokes. MIT Student at first quite reticent to acknow- Center, room W20483. PAGE 4 FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1972 THETECH ~. . _ .

""ree~~cd~ scholr8ealy a 31 ol By Lee Giguere proportion of pass-fail grades.) - (The MIT faculty totals over 700 mem- of the term; the grade would be recorded Five years ago, MIT began what must But the questions raised by the prob- bers entitled to vote at its meetings; it is only Pass or Fail, and again some special have seemed to many to be a very radical lem with the medical schools were more unusual for more than 100 to attend a feedback 'would be given to the fresh- educational experiment - for four years far-reaching and not so easily settled. It regular faculty meeting.) man." MIT's freshmen were to receive only a soon became clear that while MIT's fresh- As the 71-72 school year drew to a 3) "Still a third basic idea is to single passing grade, with no distinction man year was pass-fail as far as the close, this is what the status of Freshman maintain the present system complete being made among students who success- Registrar's office was concerned, many Pass-Fail appeared to be: continued for with grade reports (A, B, C, etc.) except fully completed their course work. The instructors, and several departments, were the class of '76 and to be reviewed again that such grades would be known only to Pass-Fail experiment was amazingly suc- keeping so-called "hidden grades." To sometime in the coming school year. the student and not enter permanent cessful: incoming freshmen took to it some, this meant that the spirit of pass- While the issue seemed to have been record, the transcript recording only pass well, and even the Institute's educational- fail was being violated; in spite of MIT's resolved, the indefinite continuation of or fail. This is essentially the Caltech ly conservative faculty grew to accept this official "no grades" policy for the fresh- Pass-Fall no longer appears as certain as it plan-" step away from MIT's tradition of being a man year, grades were being kept and the did last July - in the course of the Two weeks later, The Tech reported highly competitive, dog-eat-dog undergra- competition for grades was still going on. debates a great deal of unhappiness with that the CEP "has decided against imple- duate institution. In addition, during the first few weeks the program among the faculty seems to menting pass-fail grading for the freshman In fact, as the four-year experiment of the discussion of the problem, no one have surfaced. year." drew to a close last year, the continuation quite seemed to know what the rules The question of Freshman Pass-Fail of Freshmen Pass-Fail seemed certain. were. Did the Physics Department keep "grades. . resurfaced quickly, however. On April 5, The report of the Committee on Evalua- actual grades or only the old quizzes and wiped off the record" '1968, The Tech revealed that the faculty tion of Freshman Performance (CEFP) exams? What was the procedure for the Freshman Pass-Fail at MIT has roots would vote on freshman pass-fail at their was highly favorable; it stated: "We con- release of these "hidden grades?" that go back at least six years: "In the fall regular April meeting: "The proposal clude that it [Pass-Fail] should be re- Presented in March with the CEFP's of 1966, Dean Gray [now Chancellor would abolish all freshman subject grades garded as a definite improvement to the recommendation to continue Freshman Gray] addressed a joint meeting of the for an experimental period of four years freshman year." Not only did the com- Pass-Fail indefinitely, the Faculty balked CEP [Committee on Educational Policyl to evaluate both short and long range mrittee recommend the continuation of and voted instead to continue the pro- and SCEP [Student Committee on Educa- effects on student performance." Pass-Fail indefinitely, it recommended gram for another year so that the medical tional Policy] at which time he informal- Student interest in the proposal, ap- that a new two-year experiment be begun school problem could be further dis- ly proposed that freshmen grades be parently, was important in its revival; with a Pass-No Record system in the cussed. At no time during this debate wiped off the record." (The Tech, No- SCEP had been working on the pass-fail freshmen year. Yet this summer, the were the merits of pass-fail per se in vember 4, 1967) Since 1964,.Caltech had proposals and lobbying in their behalf. future of Pass-Fail is not so certain. question; rather, the discussion was had pass-fail in its freshman year and the In an editorial on April 16 - the day On the eve of the CEFP's final report limited to the difficulty pass-fail caused idea had crossed the continent to MIT before the faculty vote - The Tech to the Faculty, a previously unforeseen for medical school applicants. where it was picked up by Gray and other presented its argument for pass-fail, difficulty threw into doubt the future of At that time, Professor of Mathematics MIT educators. raising for a final time before the decision MIT's experiment. Members of the class Hartley Rogers, Chairman of the Faculty, In the fall of '67, the CEP was many of the ideas that are now incor- of '72 (the first class to graduate with announced that he had appointed a spe- considering pass-fail formally. Three alter- porated in MIT's Freshman Year: only pass-fail freshman grades on their cial nine-member panel to examine the natives, The Tech reported, were being "At the moment, freshmen are re- trasncript) were reported to be having problem. In May, this panel presented its discussed: quired to make course-choices on what is, some difficulty in applying to medical report to the Faculty recommending 1) "A freshman would be told by the admittedly, unsufficient information. Al- schools. (In retrospect the problem may "that the faculty interpret their 'responsi- instructor as to whether he had passed lowing them the freedom to pur'sue their not have been as severe as it at first bility to provide each freshman student the course or not, and some form of interests by taking pass-fail courses wvill seemed; this summer, Susan P. Haigh, with meaningful evaluation of his or her written or oral feedback about his over-all permit better course selection. Advisor on Pre-Professional Education, work' to include the responsibility to performance would be communicated. It "The proposal as it stands includes a told The Tech that 77% of those in the identify and record outstanding work in is doubtful whether so drastic a plan written evaluation of each student, to be class of '72 who applied to medical terse concrete terms." While no one quite could attract the necessary support." discussed with his advisor and the profes- schools were accepted - a high ratio for seems to want to say it, "terse, concrete 2) "Another proposal maintains the sor involved. We feel that, in addition to any school - and further, she pointed out terms" appears to- miear. ABCD-type present quiz structure [weekly quizzes in permitting a more comprehensive evalua- that this class also had a third term -- the grades. The faculty voted to accept the each core subject] with scores as they are tion of the student's work, this will also term of the 1970 strike - with a high committee's recommendation 73-26. now. The difference would be at the end improve student-faculty relations and conmunicatiorns, something which is, for most students, sorely lacking under the · T U K sat m- a AL ne present system. l~aXs -__a s orot {;Ajxfairue li "In conclusion, the plan will have the best of both systems; the instructor, By faul Schindler which is emaciating most student govern- benefit is less important than individual when filling out the evaluation, will un- Students arriving at MIT for academic ments: apathy, issues, and power. benefit, and it is every man for himself. doubtedly rate the student on the basis of year 1972-3 will not find the student Even discounting heavily for the "rose- The result is apathy when it comes to a letter grade, along with other pertinent government in the hands of a) the debate colored glasses syndrome" (which always most issues of community-wide concern. comments, while the student will be society, b) any particular fraternity, or c) makes the-way-it-was-then better than The only functional governmental allowed the freedom to pursue his inter- a group of atheltic types. At one time or the-way-it-is-now) it is obvious that MIT units at MIT are 'dormitory and fraternity ests and think creatively about some of another, these groups thought that stu- students as a group were less apathetic self-governments. They are little more the problems presented in and out of the dent government was important enough five or ten years ago then they are now. than tenants unions which attend to the classroom. We strongly encourage every to be worth controlling. They don't feel The most obvious explanation is that MIT functions needed to keep their living faculty member to vote in favor of the that way anymore. was much more homogenous in years past group members satisfied, but do little of proposal." The number of students who bother to than it is now. Once, the Institute was an wider concern. On Thursday, April 18, The Tech vote in the election of the Undergraduate enclave reserved strictly for super-serious What wider concern should there be? announced in- a special issue the faculty's Association President (the only elective engineers in white shirts and ties; mostly No one seems to know. There is a distinct decision to institute Freshman Pass-Fail office) has declined. There are a number white, male, middle and upper middle lack of clear-cut issues which might acti- on a trial basis. The vote was reported to of reasons for this, but an important class. The Institute now harbors an in- vate student concern and galvanize some be 105 to 33. thing to note is that there are no longer creasing number of women, blacks, and kind of Institute-wide action. Most stu- While not everyone was entirely satis- any entrenched power groups in charge humanists, as well as people whose back- dents have not seen any pressing issue fied with the new program (the Freshman freezing out the young blood. The few grounds do not reflect the polished sensi- since the 1969-70 peak of radical anti-war Evaluation Forms in particular came in traditional power trippers that are left bilities of "respectable" -Amerca. The action. The war (and its bastard child the for some criticism), the reaction appeared have gone on to other places to ply their changes were rno -accident:- a decisionwas draft) were inmmediate, tangible issues to be generally favorable. After their first trade. Yet the young-blood isn't flowing made that diversity was necessary for the over which some emotion could be devel- term on pass-fail, "no greater number of into the corpse of student self-rule, be- continued growth and success of the oped, even if they were remote from freshmen [memnbers.of the class of'72] cause that is how it is perceived: as a university. students' daily lives. Anti-war radical failed core courses last term than failed corpse. An unexpected side effect of the Mike Albert was responsible for the last them last year; no more freshmen were Some people bemoan the loss, others changes has been a noticeable decrease in spurt of student interest in an Undergrad- put on probation," according to reports cheer it, the vast majority has failed to community "spirit" and togetherness. uate Association election, at a time when in The Tech on March I1, 19)69. Further, notice it. It is easy to overlook the loss of Rather than turning towards one another, such issues as the ABM (which was it was noted that "the evaluation forms student government; after all, it never was students are turning inwards, looking opposed in congress by Jerry Wiesner), very important except to the people in it outside of the university, or consulting MIRV, and MIaT war complicity were hot Continuous News Service and to their friends. Its major function the psychiatric staff. (One former history- items. was the organization of social events and professor noted, with some accuracy, that The days of heated anti-war activity the overseeing of special interest clubs on MIT's large psychiatric consulting staff is are gone, as shown by MIT's reaction this campus. The concept of"arranged" social needed because the effect of a technolog- spring to the imminence of World War iHi; events is dead on this campus, and the ical education on the human mind is instead of a 1970-style strike, it was Since 1881 Association of Student Activities is self- similar to the effect of industry on the virtually business as usual. No one has VoL. XCII, NAo. 28 AuguLst 4, 1972 ruling. So what was left for the Under- environment.) Students don't feel com- been able to articulate any area of stu- graduate Association to do? fortable turning to the person down the dent discontent close enough to home to Bob3 Elkin, Chairman It might have served as a focus for hall if the two have no common roots. If attract the attention of an undergraduate Lee Giguere, Editor-in-Chief pressure for change in the student envi- the people who five in dorms and fraterni- ruling body. In fact, the attempt to do so John Miller, Business Mansger Sandra Cohen, Managing Editor ronment, but it ran into the triple threat ties do not form eclose ties, then mutual (Please turn to page 14) THE WIeZAD OF I]D by Branat parker and Johnny hart Thace staffJbr the sumrmer issue: Mark Astolfi. Gina Babson, Dave 5dg~ · WE-=' NT-e oN Ap 1200 C- tt9i------e deBronkart, Bill De'amnpli, Lee Giguere, Makowski, A t7Ar Pir::T...ANP 1-~j T 40 QPJI3%j Timr Kiorpes, Sheila Kline, Alex Pete Peckarsky, Jay Pollack, Curt Reeves, Bill Roberts, Norm Sandler, Paul Schindler, Dave Tenenbaum, Len Tower, Neal Vitale, Bruce Weinberg. Sandra Yulke

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MT@o71] 1COUs-at 0 :Ml l gve Iosh allo the o1 A 's spite of the fact that one of the supposed the faculty in March, Chancellor Paul 1 did appear to provide a somewhat more sponsible for polling medical schools on a realistic basis for guidance and direction person-to-person basis 'were reluctant to purposes of Pass-Fail is to allow students Gray (who played a major role in the of the freshmen's efforts .... discuss their findings as they first began. to work on what interests them; perhaps initiation of the Pass-Fail experiment five "Of all the factors which work against With such a dearth of information, public unfortunately, what interests most MIT years ago) said that the original intent of the success of pass-fail, the most frustrat- discussion quietly died, and as April wore students is science and technology, not Pass-Fail had been to remove the "unnec- ing is the effect of the attitude of on, the situation ip Vietnam worsened the humanities. essary and unproductive" pressure of re- upperclassmen, who tell the freshmen and for manry at M T concern for the The solution here seems obvious, al- corded grades, but not to remove the (and their advice is ofter followed) to future of Pass-Fail wa. overshadowed by though its implementation is obviously pressure to adjust to a new environment. 'tool hard' and forget about pass-fail. concern for the future of the world. not so simple: if the humanities core Further, he stated that the intent had After all, the Institute is out to screw As the Hulsizer-Hein committee began subjects were interesting, students would been for the student to have more them, isn't it?" their deliberations, Hein outlined for The work in them. (When Caltech introduced access to the kind of informration that Tech some of the possible courses MIT pass-fail eight years ago, its freshmen would allow him to assess his own pro- A head-on clash might follow: to retain Pass-Fail without neglected the chemistry course. The gram. The future of Pass-Fail came up for any sort of grades; to provide "meaning- course, reportedly, was subsequently re- It is, of course, quite possible to argue open debate at the March 1972 meeting ful evaluations" of freshman performance vamped and interest in it revived.) MIT that the "solution" adopted by the facul- of the Faculty. Before that meeting, the more detailed than the present freshman has been trying to improve its humanities ty preserves the original intent of Pass- problem evaluation Fail since no grades are recorded is. of medical school admissions forms; to have the depart- offerings and make themrn more attractive by the policies had been discussed within the ments retain grades (which would not be for several years - the substitution of Registrar, and that since the intent had CEFP and also the Pre-professional Ad- sent to the registrar) that would be made several options for the once-mandatory been to provide the student with more L vising Office. In addition, The Tech had available to any school or employer that a Western Tradition was one effort in this and better feedback about Iis perfor- devoted a great deal of space to discus- student would designate, either in all direction. Clearly there is no easy way to mance, the call for "meaningful evalua- sion of the issue before the February courses or only those that a student make the humanities core interesting and tions" in "terse concrete terms" is also in meeting of the Faculty (when Pass-Fail requested; to urge students to take fol- exciting, but if the humanities are as line with this original intent. was originally scheduled to be discussed). low-up subjects in their sophomore or important a part of education as MIT But to this reporter, at least, any grade Opinions on the issue were diverse. junior years; or to allow students who so claims they are, then it seems their that is transmitted to anyone besides the The Pre-professional Advising Office, desired to take a special exam in order to supposed worth should provide some student or his advisor (such as the evalua- concerned that some students might not get a grade in a subject they took as a worthwhile and interesting material. tions to be sent to the medical schools) be able to get into the medical school of freshman. might just as well be recorded by the their choice, was preparinga handbook To some members of the community, A vanished problem?7 Registrar as far as the intent of Pass-Fail i which would advise students to "arrange ·it seemed that MIT should take a "hard Discussions over the summer with As- is concerned. Once this grade is made for some kind of evaluation of your sistant Dean for Student Affairs Peter public, it can easily become a goal in ··· stand" - that it should refuse to send any pass-fail." Their statement went on to say grades to the medical schools - these Buttner (Executive Officer of the Fresh- itself, and as such, sornething to strive for

i that "instructors' comments on the people felt that the adverse effect this man Advisory Council - the man who - and striving for grades was what Pass- Freshman Evaluation Forms are often' would have on the sizable minority of does the organsizational work for the Fail was meant to eliminate. (There is I inadequate." The implication of the state- students who would go on to medical freshman advisory system and the fresh- nothing wrong with using letter grades as rf ment was that pre-med students should schools would not be so great as to man year in general) and Haigh seemed to one part of a multi-dimensional evalua- seek a letter grade from all their instruc- override the benefit that they felt the indicate that the problem with the medi- tion system for the student and his tors. majority of the freshman class would cal schools, which at some moments last instructors and advisors; in this case they j At the same time, however, the CEFP receive through Pass-Fail. Others felt that spring appeared nearly insurmountable, is are part of a feedback system that is had written into its final report a very MIT should capitulate entirely; to them, a not nearly so great as it seemed. confidential, personal, and multi-faceted. ·b strong condemnation of "hidden grades," return to letter grades was what -was Haigh emphasized that in spite of the Though the original intent of Pass-Fail to specifically mentioning the requests of called for. O)f course, there were also apparent difficulties encountered by provide meaningful evaluations to the pre-med students, and labelling even this many middle-of-the-road stands. It might members of the class of '72 (some appli- student might have meant to incorporate I use of letter grades as a corruption of the be possible, some felt, to make the cants were asked for additional.informa- grades, it could only have been in this Pass-Fail system. "We call the attention "meaningful evaluations" that the Pass- tion about their work) 77% of the seniors sort of non-public context.) st of the faculty to the fact that the Fail program called for meaningful who applied to medical schools were On the other hand, some of this ; i transmission of unofficial grades to any- enough to suit the medical schools with- accepted. (Apparently, 77%0 is a good concern over "Edden grades" represents ·s one for any purpose is contrary to the out actually being letter grades. The placement ratio in the highly competitive an overly-sensitive reaction. As the Hulsi- intention and spirit of the Pass/Fail sys- suggestion was even made, quite serious- medical school market.). What the medical zer-Hein report notes, in some subjects tem... We believe that even this limited ly, that the Institute simply throw a schools do when they see pass-fail grades taken by freshmen, grades are being assignment and use of letter gades for wrench into the -,-hole process by award- on a transcript is still unclear; the schools, computed anyway because significant pre-meed students corrupts the Pass/Fail ing A's to all freshmen who successfully Haigh stated, do not want to be quoted numbers of upperclassmen are enrolled in or Pass/No Record system for all students complete their subjects, thus subverting on just what their admissions procedures these subjects. (In particular, this applies who are not certain when they are fresh- the medical schools' admissions process. are. to the two subjects considered to be the men that they will not later apply to In MPay, Hulsizer presented the find- She indicated, however, that there was most important of the pre-meed require- medical school. . " ings of his committee to the faculty. something less than 10l0% correspondence ments: General Biology [7.01] and or- During the time between the discovery Apparently, he reported to them, the between the stated policy of the schools ganic chemistry [5.41].) In such sub- of the medical school problem by the medical schools treat a "pass" as a "B" or and the way their admissions procedures jects, the spirit of pass-fail is necessarily CEFP and tke original date for the a "C", and then use a weighted average of actually worked: "What they do and violated and, unless freshmen are denied discussion of Pass-Fail by the Faculty, the the grades and the Medical College Ad- what they say are two different things." the possibility of taking subjects with two groups (the CEFP and the Pre-profes- mission Tests to select among the appli- Some schools, she continued, do have a upperclassmen, will always be violated. siotal Advising Office)'met head-on over cants. A further complication, he noted, first cut, based either on an applicant's In the calculus, physics and humanities the question. However, any resolution of was that most MIT students complete cum or on a combination of his cum and core subjects, however, the situation is the question seemed impossible until their pre-meed requirements during their his Medical College Admissions Tests very different. Only rarely do upperclass- more information could be obtained. freshman year. (MCAT) scores. She conjectured, how- men mix with freshmen in these subjects. When the proposal was brought up The committee's "solution" seemed to ever, that at most schools freshman pass- 18.01, in particular, is taught and graded before the Faculty at its March meeting, hinge on a play of words: by interpreting fail grades would not enter into this exclusively pass-fail: There are six exams. Professor of Economics and Political Sci- the faculty responsibility to provide process at all. In fact, she explained to If a student passes them he passes the ence Everett H-1agen briefly discussed the "'meaningful evaluation" of a freshman's The Tech that a new standardized medi- course - no distinction is made accord- problems with the medical schools, but work to mean that that evaluation should cal school application form, on which ing to how well he does on the exams, or asked the Faculty to approve Pass-Fail be in "terse, concrete terms," the com- applicants are required to compute their on how many times he may have had to with the understanding that if the medi- mittee seemed to feel that the whole averages, would allow MIT students to take one of them to pass it. In these cal school problem proved to be serious, problem could be side-stepped. ("Terse disregard their average-less freshman year subjects, the computation of "hidden the decision could be changed. The pro- concrete terms," it appeared, could easily when calculating their cum. grades" is very likely to change the very posal seemed headed for easy approval be interpreted to mean a letter grade, but Buttner's inclination was to minimize spirit of the program. (It should be noted when no one responded to President through this device, the committee the problem. Pre-med students who do that both physics and calculus are pre- Jerome B. Wiesner's call for discussion. seemed to feel it would violate the spirit well, and can.prove it, he pointed out, are med requirements.) Then Professor of Nutritioni Emily Wick of Pass-Fail less.) While the committee's not at all handicapped by the present Yet the system as it now stands rose to voice her uneasiness and any solution did not meet with whole-hearted system. It is only the student who decides appears to be the best possible solution chance of quick passage for the measure approval by the faculty - Provost Walter late in his undergraduate years to go on for MIT in the short run. As Buttner put disappeared - as in any other large group Rosenblith stated that he was "troubled to medical school and who either hasn't it, those students who do well are not of people, once someone had taken the by the philosophical implications" of the done well, or can't prove it, who is likely hurt, and those who do not plan to go to initiative to speak first and break the committee's proposal and suggested that to be hurt. In his opinion, the average medical school are apparently unaffected. calm, everyone else clamored to have his "more imaginative" solutions might be freshman will not be affected: "pass-fail, (Even under Pass-Fail, concern to "do say. devised, although he himself offered none per se, is still the predominate mode for well" does not disappear, freshmen still After Wick spoke, Rogers. who had - the proposal was passed 73-26. most students." The only real problem, compare their quiz scores anyway.) Those earlier given the motion the Committee he said, are those students who "don't who believe that grades are unimportant on Educational Policy's support, an- Another cross ... supply any back-up information" and he can still ignore them during their fresh- nounced that he had appointed a special The Humanities faculty, already saw the real problem as "small." man year, and for those who are "up- committee to be chaired by Professor of plagued by antagonistic students who do Admitting that "some claim that this tight" about performance, and grades, Physics Robert Hulsizer and Associate only the most minimal work in the core [the faCulty's decision] re-introduces some of the pressure, at least, is removed. Professor of Psychology Alan Hein to freshman and sophomore course, saw this grades," Buttner argued that MIT faced Over the long run, of course, there is a contact nmedical schools and collect infor- introduction of hidden grades as one the problem of trying to "reflect reality much better solution: MIT could make an mation about admissions policies. . more cross to bear. Their classes filled while trying to change it." He preferred effort to join with other; reform-minded At the suggestion of Provost Walter with students there only because they are this form of pass-fail to none at all. universities to improve a system of admis- Rosenblith, the motion was amended to forced to be, some humanities instructors Further, Buttner argued that students sions which is based primarily on letter extend Pass-Fail for only a single year, feel that if their students believe they will 'can't hide behind pass-fail." grades. MIT also could use its national and it was in that fornm that the faculty be graded in their science courses but not influence (about which it likes to boast) passed the motion. (There was some in their humanities subjects, the students A euphemistic solution to urge the country to take a more sentiment in the meeting that Pass-Fail will simply neglect humanities even more. In spite of the Hulsizer-Hein commit- reasonable posture concerning medical could not be allowed to die at the end of Their fear is certainly not unfounded. tee's final "solution," Freshman Pass-Fail education, where there are often 20 to 50 this year only to be revived later, and in Their reaction, however, seems to dis- will still be up for re-evaluation this year, times more applicants than openings. some measure this was responsible for the play some rather sloppy thinking. Many and there are some among the faculty Both these courses will take time and acceptance of the ammended motion.) of these professors have very liberal views who have reservations about the "solu- effort, and it seems best that MIT adapt The issue then faded into a virtual on education and often favor pass-fail tion." itself to an unpleasant reality while trying limbo. The Hulsizer-Hein committee be- philosophically. Faced with being disre- Whether "meaningful evaluations" in to change. (Perhaps, too, the Institute gan its considerations rather slowly, and garded by their students, however, they "terse concrete terms" violates the spirit should clean its own house first: what those members of the Pre-professional have turned to attack Pass-Fail if its of Pass-Fail depends in large measure on role do high school grades play in MIT's Advising Office who were primarily re- "purity" is not safeguarded. This is in one's definition of Pass-Fail. Addressing own admissions procedures?) 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Posters come be graded?" the members are waiting. flood of mail describing Rush Week and in mailing tubes into which they will As3 one upperclassman' relates, "I was There are all kinds of theories on how touting MIT's 29 fraternities. The Tecl never again fit. in this class with all freshmen except for you can really tell the houses apart - could hardly resist the temptation to join By the end of the summer a semblance me. The first day they were all arguing pledge program, throwing summer bro- in the outpouring and so presents this iale of order had been established. Those jock about how they were to be graded, and I chures against the wall and going to the of a Rush Week past. -Editor) houses that could be unmasked from was the only one for whom it mattered at ones that land face up, whether the house By Rich Foster behind their screens of euphemisms all." has ever been cleaned. One good way to "I remember my Rush Week." rushed to fill the cylindrical files, seconds At the Student Center thousands of find out is by what the tour is like. In this This is one of the rare truths to be before the postcards saying that I would forms are filled out, thousands of manila one I was shown cubbyhole doubles, the found at MIT - everybody remembers his appear at Sigma Phi Nothing at 2 am envelopes distributed and a thousand or work they had been doing until I had rush week. Every undergraduate at MIT Sunday, which I never did send in. (It so freshmen put out to pasture until the interrupted, and how much the members has had at least some contact with the would not have mattered if I had mailed Freshman Picnic at 5 pm. Huge stacks of enjoyed life at House A. Somewhere fraternity system, whether receiving doz- my personal message to the Rush Chair- sex education literature are piled near the along the way my -pocket is covered with ens of bids or throwing out a summer's man; it would have been forgotten in the entrance; they disappear rapidly. a name tag, soon to become but a small worth of mail. It is impossible to avoid; if hectic scramble for future fratres willing Outside in the bright sun other pro- portion of my collection. you don't go to it, brotherhood will and able to rape Simmons College.) Min- cesses are beginning. Those who have Rush at House A is informal, to say come to yo.. utes later the rest of my mail for the shelled out a dollar are leafineg through the least. One of the members says, "Let's Rush ("Residence/Orientation." or summer followed; I was about to be the picture book for people they know. do this," the others ask their freshmen "R/0") Week is the apotheosis of the sucked into the abyss of the real thing. Future addicts are beginning their life's how that sounds, and if no one objects system, and all who come recall it fondly. Arrival in Boston and at MIT are work by shouting "Fourth for bridge?" everyone will go do it. In this manner the The mere mention of the words is suffi- discoveries of a New World for the beasts Others are standing, preparing for the evening proceeds pleasantly until about cient to provoke a full-blown epic from involved, as well as for Boston. At the long walk to temporary housing, alone in eleven, when I decide that it i§ important all within hearing distance, whether the airport it is hard not to distinguish the the world. They find others like them- to see what the competition is like before event itself was good or bad. The halt, the brand spanking new freshmen from the selves and on the spot decide to become casting my lot with A. lame, and the blind all join in this rest of the world. Many are decorated in friends. The Hotline buzzes, and I am soon pastime, and even those who slept coats and ties and drag an excess of The afternoon is spent waiting for greeted by a chauffeur from House B. through the whole thing have been overpriced luggage. They exhibit shiny- dinner, paging through the folder, which House B is one of the local palaces. There known to devise copious memoirs. bright faces and relatively short, well- features information on evyrthing from are a few of them around, and during I had devoured a sumanerful of litera- combed hair expressly for the purpose of Gay Lib to Boston restauraits, and learn- rush week they are all too pleased to give ture, beginning with the mail informing telling the shuttle people who they are. ing a new language full of words like their guided tour absolutely free of me that I would receive more mail and Boston has not seen such weird-looking random, tool, nurd and others; all totally charge. The whole house is softly lit, and ending but days before my departure fox people since the Septemrber before. meaningless in more conventional lexi- all the members wear coats and ties. I the Real Thing. I had scanned the rush Being picked off at the airport and cography. There is more meeting of other The tour of the palace is an event of booklets, barely distinguishable from one introduced to rush-hour traffic (if it is freshpeople and more asking, "Which part world-shaking importance to those giving another. There were pictures of seniors not really rush hour a traffic jam can of New York do you come from?" 'it. Official certified tour directors had from Skokie, Illinois majoring in manage- certainly be created for the occasion on Finally the picnic arrives. Those who been examined and approved, and there is ment who played soccer and baseball and demand) is an almost universal exper- come on time have arrived too late, for interplay between them as they decide sang for the LogaRhythms. On the page ience. On the ride the starch is ruffled the feeding and hand-stamping have al- among themselves who could relate the in front was a friend he made at Tappa and the dividing process begins. Some ready begun and lengthy fooalines remi- elegance of each particular chamber most Kega Beer rappeliing down the side of the discover that it feels good to be liberated niscent of the Depression (funny thing favorably. The greatest discussion oc- house, a spacious Back Bay townhouse and, recognizing that they wi-" rinot see about that) have formed without them. curred in a room on the top floor costing $143 per month and achievement many ironed shirts in the next four years, Too soon the large amounts of food are containing a tiled fireplace imported from oriented. add a few tentative creases themselves. consumed, and the proceedings move to Belgium when Queen Victoria had origi- The brochures are replete with pic- These creases set a pattern that will be the other end of the Great Court. nally presented the palace to an incestu- tures. Action athletics take their place hard to break, not that anyone would There barely audible speeches are de- ous aunt. across from members posing atop a New want to. Many will help to discover new livered, those who have made friends "This room is occupied by seniors Hampshire promontory. Group photos of vices while at MIT, and some will perhaps continue talking, and those who have because... (I forget the- exact reason) I every description and promises of more begin the exploration and mapping of an found companionship continue to make ... This fireplace came from Belgium in than grinning faces backed up by shots of eighth deadly sin. "I was always wonder- out. There are speeches saying that it is 1867 and every tile in it is different." grinning faces, not to mention Studious ing what it would actually be like to go to the last time until graduation when all of "That's a really nice fireplace," chimes John, are photographed within the splen- classes at MIT. There was a party the us will be together.' There are speeches in the second guide. dor of the House. night before the first day of classes. It saying that we represent every state ex- "Girls really like fireplaces," returns Ah, parties - it is impossible to forget was nice, and so was she," quoth a cept Alaska and Nebraska, and there are the first. them. There are parties of every concei- successful member of this group to a speeches by eminent figureheads never to Awed by this wisdom, we are led back vable shape, and still more as yet unimagi- throng of admirers. appear again on the face of the earth. down the stairs to the living room. nable to virgin minds. There are Bedsheet Next to him in the car is a more timid The endless proceedings are finally Eventually a senior from Oakland major- Toga Parties, there are Wine and Cheese and restrained member of the Class of over, and we'are told to turn around. At ing in electrical engineering is found who Parties, there are Casino Parties, and there '75. His mouth is agape at the process the other end are representatives of the is willing to talk, and shortly thereafter are good old-fashioned Let's-see-how- underway next to him. He anxiously fraternities, yelling and waving placards, the distinguished rush chairman himself. smashed-I-can-get Parties. smooths every wrinkle almost before it is beer cans, and enlarged replicas of the One of the distinguishing features of Then there are those who say "We're- created. Once at MIT and the Student summer gimmickry. There is a mad rush House B is its heavy dependence on -not-sending-a-rush-booldet." These frater- Center (under whatever disguise it has to join them, and I am escorted off to rushbook humor. Rushbook humor, far nities recognize that rush booklets don't assumed for the occasion), he will quail at House A. more evasive than even the notion of tell anyone anything and send letters the very prospect of being separated from House A is the official Unfraternity, humor itself, is the series of chortles that proffering "a good place to live." Alas, his valuable horde of luggage. For weeks an erstwhile House without a house. separates one fraternity from another. they don't say anything either. afterward these "bright" freshmen will Their present environment is a slight "Brother Bill gets up at 5 every morning Finally there are the gimmicks. Pi dress up every day, religiously attend improvement over those days when they to manufacture acid in his lab, while Phelta Thi will stand out in your mind every class and persist in asking questions conducted rush on a shoestring, without Brother Fred arises at noon and goes back because of the life-size inflatable rubber that could be bred only in an American anyplace to put their newfound fratres. I to bed with his girlfriend an hour later." elephant they sent you, which filled your high school. "Will it be on the test?" am led inside, given a tour of the environ- (Ha ha ha.) 41 c41 N .'*~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~THETECH FRIDAY, AUGUST4,1972 PAGE7 .. . , , _ .....~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ d }enc}@n~tited e} At;ien Jl mlNl~ I At House B this is very real. In the The Tour of Two Rooms and the Door The tour is a large group, and the have succeeded in the face of impossible course of the evening there are more than is a legendary event as old as fraternities brightly-painted house reflected the ef- odds. Perhaps there was a purpose to it. a few "They all say that because I'm so themselves. Tales are told in each house forts made to attract new members fol- Maybe the idea is to cure latent male short ." 's. These are the property of of methods used in days of yore, and of lowing a straight-vs-freaks battle. There chauvinist pigs, but the house is definitely what appear to be the mainstream of the refinements resulting from advances are novel living arrangements and new not coed, and there are few influences in House B, probably those who had read in civilization. One house had picked its and interesting ideas on all sorts of things. the atmosphere other than the strong i the rushbook and kflow how they are fill in a vintage year, so the stragglers who As a result, the living room is over- aroma normally following a basketball supposed to behave. had not heard the news were given a flowing. The bright freshman who had game. Around quarter of twelve, fifteen min- special tour. They were led to the base- lured me is seated in a froup of five or six At dinner I am in the first shift to eat utes before midnight, while the night is ment bathroom, where a Brother was talking to a member, one of the few to be (there were at least two), cleverly placed still young, a terrible thing is happening. seated on the john. -He got up, shook found. Eventually I squeeze into a posi- adjacent to my bird dog, who is once With lame excuses like, "You need to get everybody's hand, and sat down to re- tion at the left elbow of another, and am again attempting the impossible. He is not ready for a big day tomorrow," my sume his business. The tour went up the pacified until lunch is called. really a mismatch - the whole house is. classmates are being led away likesheep back stairs to the first floor bathroom. Eating arrangements in House E are What is on the table was something else and being put to bed. Put to bed! Even Inside the same fellow who had been in also rather novel. In the dining room are again. Prominently displayed is Mateus the thought was absurd. This was it, and the basement got up, shook everyone's two tables with twenty-four places. Also Rose. Bird dog says, "They told us that if they dare to talk of a big day tomorrow. hand, and sat back down. The survivors in the, dining room are twenty-four fresh- we have wine for dinner we can only have (Benjamin FrankLin to the contr'ary, I do were led upstairs, where the incident was men sitting at the twenty-four places. On two beers tonight instead of three." not even consider thinking of going to repeated on every floor. (Times have my left is a freshman. On my right is Mateus wine, yes sweet Materus, once bed at such an early hour. I flee into the changed and this method has been re- another freshman. Across from me are again I encounter thee. Mateus was the night.) placed by more humane tactics.) freshmen. At a separate table in the far preference of the high school wino under- The excuses are of course a cover for Now the Unwanted is sent to talk to corner of the room are two members. I ground, and it had even made a few the summit meeting in which the assem- Jerry, who is playing pool in a room by learn a lot about the house that lunch successful forays above-ground in English bled brethren decide who to bid. Some himself. He has been known to speak hour. They were serving hamburgers. class skits. When the price of Mateus went plead the "big dAy," others explain that twice in the two years he has been at Eta After lunch they are taking people to a up, a four-day period of mourning was the members are tired after all the work Pi. "What are you interested in0' Red Sox game. I call for a chauffeur from declared, ending only when Friday night's they put into the house, and some tell "¥Iath." House F. excess of good cheer caused all to forget. their future topics of conversation the "We don't have any math majors House F is an institution I had been There is Mateus, worth one beer at a truth. At any rate, getting put to bed at here." (Pool balls click.) "What sports do warned about earlier. "There is one house Saturday night party to the membership. midnight is a drag. you play?" ,that is different from all the rest. You Dinner is steak and potatoes. Such a steak At these meetings the "choice blend of "Basketball." will know it when you come to it. I won't I have never seen; this one, even tasting selected fratres" doff their coats and ties "That's too bad. We don't have any tell you which one it is, but its housebill like plywood, provoked fond memories and polite inquiries for the rough-and- basketball players here." (More pool balls is $100 more expensive than anywhere of breakfast as I dine in 'the plywood tumble of trading in human flesh. This is click.) else." confines of House G. The food comes and not just a luxury in which only the most Silence. The tour is conducted by a coated- keeps coming in overly generous fortunate establishments indulge; even I walk through the portals of House D. and-tied brandy sipper. We are shown amounts. I eat, and am hardly given time those doomed to become very well I am greeted by a Brother, who intro- every bedroom and the conveniences of to recover before dessert fills my field of acquainted with their four freshmen (or duces himself. "Hi. I'll give you a tour of each. In a room at the top the tour ends vision. I eat some more. was it six?) strive to maintain respectabil- the house first. Come on upstairs. This is and the guide discusses finances and the When the mneal ends and the second ity. "If you ever sat in on one of those the living room (there are people talking like before pointing out the television and shift storms the ramparts, most head back meetings you would never want to join a inside). Here are the back stairs with a the stereo. At this point one muscular to the living room whence they (and 1) fraternity. What goes on is incredible: dumbwaiter. This room is a double. We freshman chirps "You people must be came. I stagger instead into a sitting room 'That guy is one of the worst assholes I have two seniors in it. (We go up the really rich." and sink into an overstuffed, upholstered ever saw. We can't bid him'." front stairs.) This room has two people in Back downstairs some are discussing chair, gazing vacantly at the basketball Saturday morning my promised ride to it. We laugh about the way it is painted. how the jokes in the New Yorker are not trophies on the mantle. I subside further a free meal fails to arrive, leaving but one We call it the Boob Room." (Eventually I funny. Others are considering forming a into the chair. More stuffed than it is, I course of action: I call some of the see the point. "Ha. Ha.") hockey team. For a while I attempt to have a greater claim to anonymity. The competition and am soon seated before a I am led back down to ground level. "I converse with such of the members as are world swims before my eyes as I await luscious plate full of steak and eggs; not am a senior deeply interested in rush, and willing to be spoken to, six-course math the taxidermist. the Official Steak and Eggs Breakfast, but I feel that freshmen should see as many majors and the like. Things are pretty In bounces another member, carrying House C's Saturday breakfast. houses as possible before making up their barren until one member brings up the a list. He explains how difficult it is to be The tour of House C has a dlisincticve minds." I am led to a table, where there subject of how my rush week is faring a mrneber of a fraternity, and how he has flair, smelling, strongly of last nights are two girls checking people in and out. Gold mine! There is a party that night. a list of fifteen names from Saturday party and drunken freshmen. The house They have no idea what is going on. A few hours later I decide to go alone that he is trying to keep track of. itself is quite nice, although most of the Maybe I was a first. somewhere else for dinner. I mosey down We talk for a while, I being extremely beds are filled with victims of John "Where are you going?" asks one of the street to a house that looks like it is amiable due to my tenuous grip on good Barleycorn. The major rushing technique them. made entirely of plywood and was health. As we part I am told, "There's a of House C seems to be to get- all "Where are you going?" asks the sen- erected in one night sometime back in the party tonight at eight." who enter so smashed out of their gourds ior deeply interested in rush. early 60's. The tour does everything I stumble to the door, fully aware of that by the time they wake up it would "I don't know." possible to confirm my suspicion, but my situation and what is best for it. I be too late to stagger down the street to "Put down 'Boston'." The girls look there seems to be no danger of strong stumble past ("There's a party at eight.") test the competition's Budweiser. puzzled. I am shown the front door, breezes, and I resolve to stay there for and out onto the street. Down Mass. Ave. My meal is very well served, unlike the which is open. I am on the hot street dinner. I stride, faster than I deemed imaginable cattle feedings I am to encounter else- again. At House G, known. at other campuses under the conditions. Past MIT, away where. Only a small group has congre- In a daze I walk down the street until I as Thump-de-dump, I am bird-dogged by from the glittering lights, far from HoJo's gated and conversation is possible. To- am accosted by a bright-looking freshman a member with whom I have absolutely land of twenty-nine flavors of parties, I ward the middle of the morning I wander on the prowl for the outfit that did not nothing in common. It would have been march onward into the night, advancing out for a while to meet my destiny and feed me breakfast. It being almost time difficult to find someone less compatible, toward Harvard Square. the high point of my rush week career. for lunch, I accept. but the venerable brethren of House G

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'orchestral instrumental "Grande Finale" isn't Alice Cooper's style ought to realize that the first cut on Pretties is the equally Flckn 0s0 orchestral "Titanic Overture." School's Out finds Alice and the band down on their hands and knees examining aand elucidatin:g te.eir x,,ts both s.,as rd There are two kinds of movie theatres blooded boys-will-be-boys Amerikano in Boston: those that are owned by Ben punks, and as outrageous, innovative, and Sack and those that are not. This fact is thoroughly aztec musicians. significant mainly I haven't the because most of the slightest idea what their next album will iX modern movie theatres in town fall into be like. All I knlow is I goddann can't the former category, making it a foregone wait! If conclusion that theatres here charge the I4 same price for admission: usually three ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::..:::::.:: :Mark Astolfi:: ha dollars. Not just Sack; everyone charges three dollars. And you can forget about student Crises of discounts. First of all, there are nearly, .j half a million students in the greater Boston area; second, they are far and away the most avid movie viewers. This the Repubic hypoes the box office for youth-oriented movies that play Boston, but is is often Crises of the Republic - Hannah Arendt (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) the unfortunate case that it does so without Hannah Arendt must be something like a great deal of discrimination as the lawyer to whether the film is worth in To Kill a Alockingbird: her seeing or writing betrays a concern not. You can be burned just as badly by for the Republic that transcends politics, much an American Internationat,"cheapie" here as that Southern in Boston as I lawyer's humanity you can anywhere else. transcended prejudice. Somehow, Arendt You might have noticed the "hem in manages Boston" to write strongly without reference; this in spite of the invective, to take fact that strong stands without MIT is located in Cambridge. alinging herself with one or another The two cities are cheek and jowl, as are a popular cause. whole lot of other cities in this part of The most Massachusetts, I exciting thing about her but 99% of the high class work (and it is exciting in its movie own way, action occurs in a half dozen Sack avoiding the bullshit that usually seems to theatres located in downtown Boston permeate such scholarly political analysis) near what is known as the "combat is the way she is able to cut through zone." the myths of both the left and the right. In Here is where "French Connection," each of three main essays in the book she "Fiddler on the Roof," or "The shatters commonly-held myths with her Godfather" will play. Chaplin festivals, careful, thoughtful avant-garde or message analysis. films such as In "Johnny Got His Gun" "Lying in Politics," Dr. Arendt play the discusses the issues of deception hinterslands, in Cambridge itself, or, in the raised by -the publication of the Pentagon Papers case of "Johnny" at the Abbey Cinema last year. While which she follows the path is located next door to the Back already cleared Bay fraternity houses. by many other commentators and scores those A word about the "combat zone" now Al ice Cooper responsible may save you from some surprises later. for the planning of the The This was not an isolated case, however. ful songs must be "Refrigerator Heaven" Vietnam war for their own self-deception, area is named for the sailors on leave she who frequent it, and its reputation is With all the journalistic flap, favorable as and "Return of the Spiders," the two digs a little deeper to seek a cause for unsavory (and well earned). It consists of it might be, concerning Alice's last two A.C. selections quoted therein. Along their self-deception. She remarks that street upon row of porno movie houses efforts, Love It To Death and Killer; their with "Shoe Salesman," and "Mr. & Mrs. there is a connection between lying and and bookstores, along with tattoo parlors first two, the superbizarro-if-somewhat- Misdemeanors" "Still No Air," and prob- acting - this connection is the faculty of and cheap pinball awful Pretties For You and the totally ably the best Alice Cooper high energy imagination. Without imagination, Arendt machines. It is argues, not something of a severe over-reaction to incredible Easy Action (Rolling Stone hard-rock parody of all, "Below Your only would man be unable to Boston's hated it, Fusion hated it, The Tech hated Means," they comprise an album which is lie, he would be unable to act: without old image of prude city (it was imagination, only a dozen years it, yet I maintain it is one of the best a pure, insane delight, with strange yet he would not be able to see ago that this town the world as different stopped banning books), and often American rock albums ever), have been compelling lyrics, and truly unusual com- than it is and so unjustly ignored and, when discovered in positions. would not be motivated to change it. The surprises newcomers. war in Vietnam evolved There is a thriving film community the back of someone's record stash, uni- Which brings us to Al's latest, School's the way it did in because men with imagination the area, and if you are laterally badmouthed. Out. Those of you who have heard it and were not a devotee of forced to square their theories and Orson Welles (after whom a theatre is There are two versions of Pretties, liked it would be well advised to pick up differing only in packaging: in the later a copy of Easy Action (although Pretties hypotehses with reality. named), Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, or Civil disobedience, Alfred Hitchcock, you edition, part of the girl in Ed Beardsley's For You should be left for only the most most people can depend on believe, is an act of conscience, many recurring chances to see their cover illustration is censored out; earlier serious Alice Cooperphiles). There are but printings show it's merely a snatch of inescapable similarities. Having lodged A re nd t, in the essay "Civil movies. Disobedience," argues that One other note of interest: if you underclothing peeking out from under themselves firmly in the ears of critics in fact her robin egg turquoise dress, all of which' and fans alike, having paid off all their dissenters are members of "organized would like to see the film "The King of minorities." Hearts" is ironic considering School's Out comes musical dues with interest, the Coopers While she admits that there is a theatre in Cambridge disobedience may which has been showing wrapped in paper panties. Inside the first are now returning to explore sociological find its roots in it for over a year, privately-held beliefs, and is still showing it, with no record, the material comes dangerously and musical areas which are of interest to she goes on to signs of argue that action springs not from these stopping. close to qualifying as music at numerous them. Alice likes to consider his band the points and actually includes two fairly most Amerikan privately-held concerns, but, from :';*;"::-:-:'..:. .'-i:-::'.::--:::.:. : - ::-:::.'P.ESchindler, Jr-:.'- band in the world today, reasonable rock numbers, "Living" an d and what could be more Amerikan than publicly shared convictions. Civil "Reflected." The rest is very disharmoni- the education scene, from grade school disobedience, she claims, is not the act of i--t Irl. ous and disjointed, in short, bizarre. on up. The resulting album is a riotous an individual but of an association. LI At thze time, Frank Zappa had just success, with a good deal of sneering Going further, she argues that dissent discovered the Phoenix band and had humor and such endearing lyrics as: must have a place in free society. The SO -ce Co oer(r hustled them forthwith into concept of government by consent, her IIn a recording Me and Jimroie we. ain't never gonna studio without fully realizing quite what confess essay shows, is meaningless without the he had actually uncovered. The resulting We cheated at the math test recognition of dissent. Unless the citizen record is poorly recorded and sounrds We carved some dirty words in our knows he is free to disagree, there is no a prel y choice, there on half-finished, which may or may not have desk, can be no freedom. been intentional but is at least under- Well now it's time feor recess.. Government by consent, she concludes, standable. Even Zappa was grossed out, But musically, -/4 of School's Out is a implies that the people have freely chosen Brothers) consent over dissent. The other day, before and he admitted it. He had great hopes throwback to the early years, reviving the the coming of for Republished in this volume is her essay School's Out, I was talking to a friend of the band, not the least of which was protorock texture of Pretties and Easy his planned foray into avant-garde pack- Action. For example, "Gutter Cat vs. the "On Violence," in which Dr. Arendt my brother's, a high school dude named makes essential distinctions between Ronnie. He was telling me how his rock aging, viz: releasing Pretties in the form Jets" changes mood four times, harkening of small discs, packed in tunafish tins. He back to the constant, sometimes discon- power, strength, and violence. Power and and roll band was in the process of violence, she argues, are distinct. Power regrouping, the five-man aggregation for- decided not to. certing changes on Easy Action, especial- Alice Cooper's follow-up, Easy Action, ly the cut "Still No Air," which coinci- rests on numbers, while violence depends merly known as Slates & Stones, Electric on instruments (i.e. weapons). Only real Funeral, Machine Head, and now Death which came out in early 1970, was dentally enough contains the first usage equally confused but this time hardly of the "when you're a Jet" lyric from power, she notes, can sustain a Trips Inc. Oh really, sez 1, what kind of government; there has never been a songs do you do? Oh, sez he, stuff by disharmonious; in fact, there's a lot of West Side Story which figures so promi- latent rock and roll energy simmering in nently in "Gutter Cat." "Public Animal government which maintained its power Grandfunk, Tenyearsafter, Alice Cooper. by means of violence. However, she Oh, sez 1, Alice Cooper? Yeah, sez he, them thar grooves. Here it crouches, soon No. 9" and "Luney Tune" would fit it will strike in the guise of Love It To quite well on Easy Action, although continues her discussion by noting that they're really good. I got both their when a government (or a part of society) albums. Both, Death, then overextend itself on Killer. I they'd be the rockingest things on the sez i, they got four out. loses power, it often turns to violence; in Naaaw, sez he, and we both proceed to recall reading the inner sleeves of Warner album. "My Stars" resembles Pretties Bros.-Reprise records describing the material, especially the piano work; the fact, she plots a sort of inverse relation argue the point a while until I lay on him between power and violence. Revolution, my copies of Pretties For You and b~asy grab-bag samplers available for a buck or hiccupping guitar, and the cascading mel- Action. He was dumbfounded. two, and wondering what weird, wonder- ody. And those of you who feel that the (|Continued on page I 1) PAGE 10 FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1972 THE TECH _ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_' _ ol I' - answer, never having seen them live. But this particular night couldn't have been one of their best, what with the garbled singing, crudely under-arnplified backup, and the volley of missed notes, sloppy tempos, and off-key harmonies which send the listener running for cover. The_ Argent - liner notes also declare that this is the first "legitimate bootleg," and so far not really all together now they're right. 3) But one of the joys of bootlegs is All Together Now - Argent (Epic) the occasional- inclusion of tunes that, Well now, Argent has a hit single. And while live staple of the group in question, wouldn't you know, after two great have not been recorded on any studio albums, the hit comes from a record that albums. No such luck with Live at Max's. is their weakest to date, but which will With the exception of three songs off sell heavily due to the success of "Hold Loaded, "Sweet Jane," "New Age," and Your Head Up." "Lonesome Cowboy Bill," the record is The first recording venture by this made up of cuts from older albums, three band after founder and keyboardsman from The Velvet Underground, and four par excellence, Rod Argent, split the from Velvet Underground and Nico. Zombies, along with bassist-turned- Needless to say, none come even -cose to. producer Chris White, was a superb disc' approximating the original versions. Or in called simply Argent. From that nucleus the case of Loaded, the eventual versions, sprung songs like the original "Liar," for had this record been released back in 'Like Honey," "Schoolgirl," and "Dance the fall of '70, it would have provided in the Smoke." Ring of Hands followed, sneak previews of the yet-unreleased, last showing a stretching-out of the forms laid VU album. For example, "Sweet Jane" down on the first record, a maturing, and contains an extra little part that is absent a better meshing of instrumentation. But on Loaded. with those progressions came efforts that Good: 1) The record lists for only Leon Russell missed, unlike the amazingly even and $3.98. I "Out in the Woods" and the rainstorm on of song Three Dog Night could easily fit high level maintained on A rgent. The 2) The record is a documentary encap- into their repertoire. But I do like this good songs were great - "Celebration," sulation of the Velvets at a particular "Manhattan Island Serenade." The brightest spot on the album is the cute, simple song, and as an American ",Rejoice," "Chained," and "Where. Are time in their history as a group, and for Bandstand song critic would say, "It's We Going Wrong" - while the weaker this reason would no doubt be a treasure countryish "If the Shoe Fits," an amusing indictment of the hangers-on and news- gotta good beat and ya can dance to it." numbers were just that - "Lothlorien" trove for the serious VU aficionados. Yet this song suffers from too many and "Sweet Mary." After more than a John Cale had left, Nico was nowhere in groupies who live by mooching off their rock magazine press credentials. While the instruments. The squeaking of guitar and year, All Together Now has now been sight, and Billy Yule was temporarily the bleating of brass could -be eliminated released. replacing Moe Tucker on drums. Live at melody is no great shakes, Leon's caustic humor, dormant since the Asylum Choir and wouldn't be sorely missed. Actually, As expected, Rod Argent is as Max's is certainly an accuxate portrayal of this song would sound best cut down to incredible as ever, furthering his creden- what the band sounded like on its own days, comes alive in the lyrics: Can you get us In free, my girlfriend the piano and vocal, but-that would result tials as a top keyboards player; along with turf; the problem is that there aren't that in smaller paychecks for five members of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, the many -people who care, and if you were and me, We like the songs but we hate to pay the band (or six, depending on who's third of a triumverate of rock's best. In never much of a Velvet Underground fan, singing). "State of the Union" offers a the classic mold of under-rated top-notch this album is better passed by. Can I have your guitar, can I ride on your car good. musical background and some guitarists (which produced the likes of, I n closing, a strange bit of serendipity: amusing lyrics. Finally, I'm saying more. among others, Trevor Veitch, Ron Wood, while I was still in the process of collect- Can you give me a role lo play.? Can I have an autograph, can I sit in than enough about the remaining three Robin Trower, and Steve Howe) falls' ing my thoughts to write this review, I songs simply by making the allusion that Stratocaster-ist Russ Ballard, whose play- time off to search through your lap took some Are you really into witchcraft like they eXist. ing adds another dimension to the band's back-copies of Fusion magazine, looking sound, despite his lack of recognition. Yet they say To complete this release, two more for something pertaining to another Can I follow you home, can I use your the overall quality of things has slipped, group entirely. I was quite surprised to posters are included in the front sleeve, and now, the good songs are just good, find, in the September 10, 1970 (No. 46)- telephone, with which many Chicago freaks can and the lesser moments border on being issue, a two-page article by Tom Mancuso Can we crash here for just a few days? probably finish wall-papering their rooms. terrible. concerning the Velvets' summer engage- We're from Rolling Stone so it's OK. On their next poster, I won't be surprised Carney is a quiet, listenable record, to see only four faces staring out at me, if "Hold Your Head Up" is a simply great ment at Max's. Apparently, Tom never bumped into Brigid, for lhe makes no which is disappointing in that it is only Chicago VI is a continuation of V. song, with its interweaving guitar and one side of Leon Russell's incredible Whether or not Chicago can function well organ embroidered over that hypnotic mention of a projected live album. I mention this as a public service to hard- talent, and the weaker side to boot. without wind instruments is a question I bass/drum pattern; but it's the only cut can't answer. However, I do think that if Now that is of that core VU archivists who just might find Looking back on past Russell efforts, off All Together as a prophecy unfulfilled. the horn section would stop sitting on its caliber. "Tragedy" and "1 Am The Dance Nirvana reading the article while listening Carney stands to the record. Have fun. ;; '.::-:::'".; ;;;.:..:-.-:.::i.:--:i ." ;;;,,,:'. ·; ;::'.:..:':::v; Mak Ast o i ::-:: collective brass, and- play music more of Ages" follow rather closely in quality, suited to their capabilities, we would hear but "Keep on Rollin',. "Be My Lover, "'"-'"'"'"''''' i--':,:..':.:.' Mark Astolfi *.e:: For the fifth time - songs which are closer in quality to Be My Friend," and "He's A Dynamo" two of their better efforts, "Beginnings" are little better than alright. Yet the most Carney - -Chicago and "The Approaching Storm." severe lapse occurs in the form of a ==. ---':=':==:==:. = -:-".-.==Jeff Palmer:.:-e::: thirteen-minute suite, "Pure Love." There an unfulfilled prophecy are a few salvagable moments musically, Chicago V- Chicago (Columbia) but the horrendous drunken, raspy, (Shelter) What has Chicago been doing all this Hookfoot a'co.min' "bloozy," overindulging vocals and the Carney - Leon Russell time? They haven't recorded any original muddled juxtaposition of ill-fitting The pattern of deterioration begun on Leon Russell's second solo album is con- material in 18 months, with the excep- themes prevent the comments on the tion of "A Song For Richard And His whole album from ranging past noncom- tinued here on his third, Carney. Just as Good Times A'Cornin' - Hlookfoot gospel-stomp brand of Friends," an utterly forgettable song mittal, much less into. the favorable the rollicking, from an equally forgettable monstrosity (A&M) region. rocker on Leon Russell gave way to the of an album package, Chicago at Carnegie Caleb Quaye, Ian Duck, Roger Pope, It's really too bad, after all this time of slick, show-off, at times overproduced Hall. Sure, I was expecting a two-record Dave Glover. If these names sound famil- num- sticking by Argent and saying what a material on Shelter People, rave-up set, but not because it had seemed to iar, it's because you've seen them on great unrecognized band they were that bers have all but disappeared on Carney. become their style to release double various Elton John records as back-up when they finally .release a record that The closest things, "Roller Derby" and albums. It's just that they hadn't been in musicians. Their new album, Good Times will get more than a modicum of maybe "Tight Rope" and "Out in the the studio since 1970. However, Chicago A Comin', is listenable but in the end attention, the disc just isn't that good. A l! Woods," are merely shadows of "Delta V is a single album. As I heard the last disappointing because only two of the ten Together Now winds up being a rather Lady," "Roll Away the Stone," or "'Of chord on side two, I was reminded of cuts demonstrate the genius at which the weak album, one that, unfortunately, will Thee I Sing." standing at the kitchen sink in agony, other eight hint. Black guitar-man Caleb be the first exposure to many people of a The pervading feel on Carney is one of frantically swallowing gulps of water to Quaye is the driving force behind the group that can do better. low-key melancholy, of subdued pensive- wash out the taste left from that first album, writing four of the tunes and ·Xe:i:'-'"::':':.4; ···**:::;...... -'.::.'-'.:-*;^ ir:; A; ; Neal Vitale :;.:: ness; slow, relatively uncluttered reflec- teaspoonful of Vicks Formula 44. The co-writing five others, singing lead on tions on life and rock superstardom. same thought runs through my mind on many, and providing excellent guitar- Many are deeply personal, a long recog- both occasions - I'm afraid I realize how work throughout. Technically, Hookfoot Resurrected Velvet Underground nized trait of Russell's music. But only the second dose would be. is a tight, experienced band. Harmonies "Me and Baby Jane," which was the flip The main distaste I have for this album are clean and full, even if they do at times side of a single off of Shelter People, is as is that the- horn section is taking a resemble those of Hamilton, Joe Frank, The Velvet Underground Live at Max's good as Leon's best slow numbers, vacation, doing imaginative work on only and Reynalds, especially at the end of Kansas City - Velvet Underground "Superstar," "Hummingbird," or "Hello a few cuts. "A Hit By Varese" features "Living in the City," where the music (Cotillion) Little Friend." Others on Carney, good brass solos and overall, this is the fades out leaving the voices to continue Who was it who once said, "The fate "Manhattan Island Serenade," "My best cut on the album. In "All is Well," for a few bars more, quite an impressive world hung in the balance, and was Cricket" and "This Masquerade" in par- Pankow, Parazaider, and Loughnane pro- technique. of the uneventful found wanting."? When hung in a similar ticular, are pretty but rather vide an adequate brass backup to an But Hookfoot's weakness is their.rna- is likewise found musically, and hence not characteristical- otherwise dull song, and "Now That teTial, which tends to be quite bland and balance, this new album ly Leon Russell, who ends up sounding wanting. To illustrate, let us take a look You've Gone" contains a well-done sax ordinary, except for two songs - "The and the bad, of The like a hip Wayne Newton. music on trumpet Painter," featuring a churning Yes-like at the good points, There are also other sore spots: "Cajun solo and interesting Velvet UndergroundLire at Max's Kansas trombone. The rest of their blowing perpetual motion background of organ, Love Song" is an expedition into Bayou and City. on this album is, on the whole, lackluster piano, and guitar; and "Flying in the swamp-rock country, and gets bogged USA," a slower rocker with crisp, upfront Bad: 1) This record was recorded Then there is and lackadasical, and disappointing if during the summer of 1970, when the VU down in short order. compared to their three previous efforts. vocals, postcfard-to-home lyrics, and taste- "Carney/Acid Annapolis": I would have ful flowing chord changes. Yet the overall played an extended gig at Max's KC, a thought that the days of the self- (Am I forgetting something?) New York City club. No, that's not bad, "Dialogue," lyrically if not musically, feel of the record is, sadly, one of indulgent "Revolution No. 9"-type freak- limitation. That is, musically competent but it was recorded on a portable cassette long gone, but apparently is an interesting cut, and features Terry snuck in by a friend of the Velvets, Brigid out cut were Kath, the activist, "debating" with Peter performers struggling with a limited toe- Polk, and it is not surprising, therefore, not. This time it's done with voices Cetera, the "apathist." By the end of the hold on the rock muse. Which means that that the sound quality is only fair, despite instead of transistors, and is mercifully song, the ideas of the two have changed, Good Times A'Comin' fails to deliver, what the liner notes might claim. Also, short, just under four minutes. Elsewhere, they no longer hold extreme positions, and is ultimately just another album. I the record is mono. in places of incivise composing and keen and are closer to understanding each sense it could have been otherwise. Their 2) Whether or not this was a "typical" arranging, Leon falls (staggers?) back on other. "Saturday in the Park" is the type next album may be a pleasant surprise. night for the Velvets is something I can't tired gimmicks like the jungle noises on ..::::'.':*.;;.-:;.:e :-::-:'.':.:::::-: ::-::-.:::..;:;::: M ark Astoifi :.;':i: THETECH FRIDAY, AUGUST4, 1972 PAGE11 ca.lied "My Ass is Mine" which talks of credence away. But the sermonizing is drafts and drills and uniforms in a most low key, and can be forgiven as the The cyclical theory amusing fashion. A black woman in the necessary ending of an afternoon of good cast recites a very moving poem that clean fun. of Elton John beek. - stops the entire £film, as she describes her "'i ~~~~~~~~~~GenePaur.'.-'.:;:: man, and then his unwilligness to fight (Contittuedfrom page 9) and die in a stupid war. Honky Chateau - Elton John (Uni) in her schema, comes not through The f'ilm drags in places, but it is very There are now five American-released violence, but -through the recognition of much worth your while both to see it and Elton John albums, and the cyclical to stay through the whole thing, because 1nature of those records is truly intriguing, the power "lying in the streets" by some there are very worthy high points every ,new grouP. as is the continuing excellence equally "Toghts on Politics and Revolution" once in a while which make the whole amrazing. Each new disc since Elton John thing worth it. A t the Abbey Cinema I is an interview in which Arendt further Daddy Who? has marked a maturing, a progression, yet discusses the ideas she presented in "On .... ' ~~~~.'~-":-~-'~.:PE. Schindler, Jr.5::: a return to one of the styles explored on Violence"' and in ,Which she also Last of Daddy Cool.! that first record. Tumbleweed Connec- comments on what .she sees as a tion sprang from "Take Me To The' Pilot" world-wide student movement. the Red-Hot Lovers Daddy Who? Daddy Coolf! Teenage and "No Shoestrings On Louise" as did "" ~'''~~~~..':_::-: ~ ii '-"'e Lee Giguere :.:'-":' Heaven - Daddy Cool (Reprise) 11-17-70, in turn, develop from the Last fall, when mentioning to a couple expansions of that country/western/rock Neil Simon is the toast of Broadway, of friends a few of the more interesting 'n' roll theme on Tumbleweed. Madman renowned for a touch of gold that makes releases out of the voluminous number Across The Water picked up on the all of his -creations for the stage with whlich Warners/Reprise and friends heavily orchestrated, lyric-centered financially rewarding for his angels. He had just glutted the market, I was efforts of "First Episode at Hienton" and has pulled off a feat virtually unparalled surprised to find someone who had even "The King Must Die." And now, Hoaky in modern times: he had three heard of Daddy Cool, never mind one Chateau marks yet another tangent from non-musical shows running on the Great who- thought they were terrific. It turned Elton John, while at the same time F.T.A. - White Way simultaneously. In addition to out that my friend was from Australia, as returning to that variegated quality of the all of this, he has written a screenplay Free (?)the Army are all of the band; even so, it made me nucleus that was the first record. adaptation of his hit Last of the Red-Hot i go back and check them out a bit. It Musically, with the exception of the Lovers. seems that Daddy Cool is to Australia overblown "Honky Cat" and "Salvation," "Foxtrot, Tango, Alpha; Free The The show on the stage in New York I what the Beatles once were, and what the sound has shifted back to, early Elton Army" is the cheer which Don Suther- with Dom DeLuise was a funny, farcical, I Marc Bolan now is, to England and what John, sans Paul Buckmaster and his land and Jane Fonda deliver frequently whimsical evening of theatre, as the lover Ino one since Elvis Presley has been to strangling strings. The band is a pretty during the trim FTA (Free The Army), settles in while his conquests get I America. So, there must be something straight rock conglomerate, -with only The fih-in is a collection of the skits which progressively kookier. All of the action Ithere past the glitter and camp and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and A.R.P.-man takes place in one roonm: the fastidious I Jane Fonda has taken around the world Iput-on that. is so 'much a part of that David Henschel providing bits of to entertain our troops (for some reason, living room belonging to the hero's bunch of Australl."C diversification. As piano-player/vocalist, mother, who gets back by five from her the show has never played on a base). I John, is still distinctive in both respects. The FTA show established Fonda's two-day shift at the hospital. On top of Fine songs like "Amy" and "Susie anti-war credentials, and raised the ire of all the verbal Simon-style humor we are I (Dramas)" revive the style and feeling of the US government, which tried to keep treated to, there is the continual I "Your Song," "I Need You To Turn To," the show out of Japan where the subliminal threat of a) the mother's and "Sixty Years On" off the first album. American military presence was already return and b) "contamination" of her I "Hercules" is a snappy little tune in causing' trouble enough. This kind of perfectly clean apartment by drinks or which Elton John starts sounding like background and the distribution of a film cigarette butts. I John Kongos who used to sound like version at home probably won't make But it must be noted that the fdlm is Elton John. "Rocket Man" is a great matters easier for Jane, who' faces not the play, nor should it be. And here, I i song, showing another side of Bernie possible treason charges for her recent will mention what every other review of Taupin's lyricism. But it is "I Think I'm broadcasts from Hanoi which encouraged "Lovers" seems obliged to mention: the Gonna Kill Myself" that is the classic pilots to abandon their bombing missions. "~opening-up" of a play into a film. Simon from Honky Chateau. It's a tremendous The live show can be categorized as has been unsatisfied with the opening-up 50's parody, musically and stylistically, "revolutionary vaudeville" and the film done by other writers on his previous Daddy Cool with lyrics like: can be categorized as a documentary, but work. This time, he reserved the I And it turned out there was. These designations tend to be slippery and this tampering privilege for himself, and dud-es from Kangarooville managed to put Yea, I'm gonna kill myself, film is no exception. resisted the mostly gratuituous down some neo-50's rock 'n' roll, along Get a little headline news. First of all, although the spirit is scene-shifting which usually occurs during I'd like to see what the papers say with versions of American classics like On the state of teenage blues. willing, the flesh is weak here; being a the ",opening-up" process. The movie is "Lollipop" and "School Days." It all Ic-Cd. actor wuho opposes Ithe wuar does not- very sireliar to the play, as the vas't bopped along pretty well on their first A rift in the family, make a person into a worthy vaudevillian. majority of its action is two talking heads album, Daddy Who? Daddy Cooif, with I can't use the car. The unknowns in the film are part of the in a single apartment. We do get to see their smash hit Down Under, "Eagle I gotta be in by ten o 'clock, show because they can handle their roles, the set up of each 'incident, including Rock," crowning it all. - who do they think they are? while the stars are here for name value; hilarious scenes in a New York fish Now .we have their second go-around, thus they suffer by comparison. Fonda is market, in Central Park, and in a and the boys are rocking and boogeying I'd make an exception just inot a singing dancing performer, and suburban kitchen, as hapless Alan Arkin harder than ever, %withall those old rock If'you want to save my life. Sutherland does not come across well in stumbles from seduction to seduction. In' roll roots strong as ever. This time Brigitte Bardot go tta come his bit parts. And both, in spite of earnest There is only one thing which Arkin they do simply heart-rending covers of And see me every nigh t. efforts to "rap" with the little people does not have to ma-ke the role come the tear-jerking "I'll Never Smile Again" What with the combination of Elton (and stately the film would show only the completely alive on the screen: -he is not and the soubscratching "Baby Let Me John's returning to those directions most successful efforts), come across as fat. It is not clear that Simon intended Bang Your Box-- But it's on their own pointed out on Elton John, and the slightly nervous and insincere when they the red-hot lover should be fat, but the songs, "Drive-in Movie," "Love In An revealing of other facets of his and Bernie deal, person to person, with dissatisfied two men most closely identified with the F.J...... Teenage Blues," and "Daddy Taupin's work, the result is nothing less GIs. Broadway role, James Coco and Dom Rocks Off," that Daddy Cool really gets than an unqualified success. The good Secondly, this is not a documentary as DeLuise (both of whom, by the way, off and shakes its collective ass. songs are great, and the lesser efforts are those of us in the TV generation have could easily have done the film, and one Both of the band's albums have been still good; totally, Honky Chateau is come to know it. There are no cuts of wonders why they did not) were fat, and uneven, as just about any records of this another excellent album in a string of five official America responding to the some- they were masters in the role. sort will be; but when they hit (and for Elton John. times heavy-handed propagandizing about The performances of the three women Teenage Heaven hits more often, of the ...... ~--N ea racism anid sexism in the armed forces in the film can be recommended without two), they'll get you right between the (one song is titled "'Ti'm Tired of Having the slightest reservation. Sally Kellerman, eyes.I Bastards Fucking Over Me"); there is only as the worldly sleep-around New York ...... ~''':.;'~....::::.::: Neal V tt ::::. one side presented, and it is presented City bitch-with-a-heart-of-ice puts the forcefully and often, intercutting from proper edge into her cutting comments as -Santana & Miles - performance to performance, press co-n- she takes Arkin apart bit by'"bit, with ference to press conference, rap session to clock-watching, and such comments as more dead than' alive rap session. Balance is really a pretty "t~~pp hesehavef h orstbeen bes O'fi I hollow concept,' and one is treated to a my life." She is followed by Paula Carlos Santana & Buddy -Milest Live! much -more -honest portrayal- at least of Prentiss as a hyper-active lunatic type (Columbia) prospective nightclub singer, with a Nazi The bulk of this record is given over to presented without interruption. dyke singing coach. She makes everyone the Latin/Black caterwauiing and pander- The producers and writers of the show in the theatre squirm with her bodily .ings that have become trademarks of are not, without skill; the material is testimonial to excessive adrenalin, and Santana, Miles, and friedds, with little adapted to the audience being played to she recounts sexual exploits that would being done to elevate those. musical forms (a page taken from the book of Bob make Hugh Hefner b!.ush, and concludes above street level. Carlos Santana does his [lope, and every other entertainer who by offering uptight Arkin a joint. As in best to keep things afloat with some good I has cheered up our boys oveses' eve the play, our hapless central character guitarwork, but when thin&-, turn into 25 including a name change to "Free the finally learns enough to be a passable minutes of "Free Form Funkafide Filth," Navy" when it is appropriate. Much of it lover, only to be presented with an little cam-be done short of prayer. is very funny-, the skits are tight and the opportunity which involves a But the inclusion of two songs pro- songs are both melodic and lyrical, even if philandering neighbor, who is possessed vides a bit of redeeming social value, they are sometimes delivered off key. of as many hangups as can be easily showing who are the real heroes of this Sever-di examples of the show's content imagined. recording. One tune is Buddy Miles' immediately come to mind. In one skit, The. film is honed to a Simon "Them Changes," first introduced on we are treated to a technically accurate "laugh-a-.minute" edge, which makes it Hendrix's Band of Gypsys; the version on play by play description of a delta battle thoroughly enjoyable. But, just as with Live! provides, by comparison, a realiza- by two commentators who call each the play, the laughs get spread out tion of just how good Jimi Hendrix was. other "Red"; "Charlie coming on the towards the end, as the message is SnUCk And the opening track, "Marbles," is field now.. the lieutenant leads a in: done just well enough to spark enough Everything grows with the' telling oift interest (hopefully) for people to seek charge but ... a grenade has gone off, the the big screen, including a conclusion lieutenant is gone, there are flag~s all over out John McLaughlin's electrically churn- the field, and it looks like a fragging which assumes that our wandering seeker, ing original rendition, off Devotion. In penalty." (in case you have been on a after a "briet', meaningful relationship" either case, one finds out who are the real desert island the last few years, frogging is will return 'to his loyal wonderful wife winners off Carlos Santana & Buddy killing an over-eager officer with a forever after. It seems a little out of Mdies! Live! -- two great guitarists, character, and takes a bit of the film's fragmentation grenade.) There is a song0 Messrs. Hendrix and McLaughlin- Elton John I ...... ~ '"~:": -,~.-:~ - .'..:$Neal iae:::: PAGE 12 FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1972 THE TECH _ _I_ _I I pily conceived and executed, and probab- ly wouldn't have made it past the demos I had not you-know-who been doing it. But if it fails as music, then, does it succeed as something else? Isn't STIN'YC meant to music wake up Amerika to its oppression of women, blacks, and its people in general? John Lennon - Isn't it the revolutionary manifesto of our times committed to shiny black vinyl? waiting for Harrison I'm afraid .1 must conclude, no. In the Lennons' defense, they are singing songs Some Time in New York City - John & about things that concern them, wrongs they Yoko/Plastic Ono Band/Elephant's Mem- feel (and I wholeheartedly agree) ory (Apple) should be righted. They are taking more of a stand I can see it now. Twenty years from than many other influential today, my kid comes home from school rock limelighters. You have to admit their intentions with Johnyoko Lennon's record album are commendable. But who is Some Time in New York City tucked STINYC addressed to? Whose conscience under his arm. Seems it's required listen- does it jog? Moms and Dads aren't going I ing in his "Conflicts in Mid-20th Century to buy the album, the kids are. These kids Democracy" class. I suppose I wouldn't are the best-informed, most socially The Strawbs, before Rick Wakenman's departure be too surprised, for a listening or two aware young minds in the history of mankind. If it happens i would give him a moderately interesting tonight, they topped by sparkling harmonies, as on the.e know about it while they're .from the form of the perspective on our troubled times, that munching pristine "in Amongst the Roses." Yet thee previous two perspective being: rich, young, dope- their Cheerios tomorrow morning. They more delicate the music, the more glaring singles, so I went back to Kongas and f crazed, irreverent and irrelevant British know all about Attica, Northern Ireland, the weaknesses of the group. played it a few more times. Yup, I was and Women's f Lib. Maybe they care and Carrying their Celtic wrong. F rock musician and wife turned concerned, bent farther to F they're doing something. Maybe they care John i down-to-earth, just-average-Joes Ameri- natural up-dated culmination, the Kongos is a strong singer, with a E and think that there's nothing they can style that progressively becomes more i kan revolutionaries. Like the album jack- Strawbs came to Grave New World with ai do. Maybe they don't care. and more distinctive. His writing et says, "Ono news that's fit to print'.' frailties intact, and strengths altered only is good, I The point, But how about our present day eardrums Plastic Onos, is that you're technically by the addition of Weaver to1) if not overly distinguished, and his band E not telling anyone anything they don't sloughedwhat had off previouslyas a very derivative batch of of musicians assure tight, competent t and sensitive-yet-tolerant musical tastes been a remarkablyD Oll hmmm? already know, and, more importantly, stable set-up (as most groups go nowa- music. Besides the three top-notch 45's, i you're not giving them any reasons why the t To start with, STINYC, the latest days). What they've now tackled is thel_ moody, rollicking, synthesizer-laced they should care. STINYC contains situation "'Try To Touch Just I offering from the Plastic Ono Crew of in Ireland, centered thematically One" and the soft t nothing constructive or instructive. It is a e "Tomorrow Apple Records contains five songs per around three songs - bassist Ford's I'll Go" (with Ralph McTell) I side, ranging in quality from what you revolutionary playpen, its precocious "Heavy Disguise," Cousins' "New are the best from the album. Kongos is a naivery equalled only by its lack of I might label "sorta good if you're in the true World," and the Strawbs' collective varied, potent record, albeit somewhat F substance. While poor musicianship might E; mood" to downright insulting. Actually, I "Tomorrow." What results is a tapestry overly angelic, overly gospel-ish, and F think the Lennons have finally gotten under some circumstances be redeemed of thoughts, emotions, and reflections on over-produced at points, and which their heads together, and I'm fighting the by the vital thought behind the music, in the strife, in both the present and the admittedly takes several listenings to good fight to like this record. Here's a the case of STINYC, it just doesn't come past tense, and dealing in specifics as well really appreciate. But a very good record, blow by blow account. off. This means that the record, despite as generalities. What at first seems like nonetheless, which deserves a lot more Side one opens with the controversial its two or three good tracks and aura of just another album in the medieval ilk attention than it has received. single "Woman Is the Nigger of the social concern, is a poor investment. soon . becomes a lingering, haunting ::::::;-::::::::;::.::;:::::::::;.:::::::::::::;.:::.:::;.:;. Neal Vitale::.::i:.:: World." It is one of the better cuts on the By the way, I almost forgot. It's a achievement. album, and would probably be a sizeable double album, although it lists for only But it becomes glaringly evident that it Carl and the Passions- hit were it not for the word "nigger" in $6.98. As advertised on the back cover, it has become increasingly difficult to the chorus, a word which even Archie includes a "free" jam disc, one side sustain such lyric-keyed work, especially so poor Bunker, not to mention American media of which features the Onos' messings since the Strawbs really don't have a in general, shuns. The song has all the with Frank Zappa, the other side includes singer. Cousins, though the more distinc- right touches: John's echoing voice, fine thousands of rock VIPs from Clayton to tive compared with Ford's Paul Simon-ish Carl and the Passions - So Tough[Pet sax backing by Elephant's Memory's Stan Hopkins and back. It shouldn't seem voice or Hooper's nondescript vocals, Sounds - The Beach Boys (Warner Bronsteifi, and a lush organ and strings strange, in light of Live Peace Toronto clearly is not a very pleasant vocalizer to Brothers) accompaniment thanks to Phil Spector. 1969 and the Lennons general musical listen to. Production gets in the way at If you are among those lucky enough "Sisters, O Sisters" is the first of attitude nowadays, that the bonus record times, though it was more a problem on to already possess a copy of Pet Sounds Yoko's three tunes. The song seems to be is pretty miserable, as crudely recorded From the Witchwood with Tony Visconti that has not yet succumbed to the brutal- some sort of early 60's chick singer satire and musically uninspired as one could at the helm. Lack of a strong, solid ities of diamond against vinyl, then this with some bouncy guitar work and little imagine (no pun intended). The package musical stance (which could overshadow re-releasing of that album along with the else. Ms. Lennon is on key maybe 75% of as a whole is discouraging. I suppose we'll any of the other troubles) does in the new So Tough should hold little interest the time, a marked improvement. Next just have to sit back and see what Strawbs. Where they stand is clear, but for you. But if you've played your old comes "Attica State," which sounds like Harrison's got up his sleeve. that position can't support what is being Pet Sounds into the turntable mat, or you a cross between "For You Blue" and ":""'""'~ ~'0'"'"'"' t ." -- :.-;'-:.'-, Mark Astolfi ::':-: said. So Grave New World languishes in were never astute/fortunate/well- "Old Brown Shoe," followed by "Born In its low-key nature, and misses being a endowed/into the Beach Boys enough to a Prison," more Yoko silliness which is Grave New World - truly excellent album by just that much. pick it up back in 1966, then you face saved by a hauntingly melodic chorus and Yet even with its flaws, Grave New the dilemma of whether or not to shell more nice sax work. this year's sleeper? World is a progression for the Strawbs. It out for it now, and get only a couple (at The last song on the first side is by far is the first effort of any scope to try to best) second-rate songs to boot at the the best on the album, deal with the conflict in Ireland and ranks with Grave New World - Strawbs (A&M) (dis- inflated $7.98 list. "Working Class Hero" counting Paul McCartney's as one of the The Strawbs are a pretty amazing quickie) and it better things John's done since The Great succeeds admirably in that regard. But band. Very few groups could do what Split back in 1970. "New York City"' only a band like the Strawbs could find a they've done over the years: The Strawbs takes up where "Ballad of John and way to undercut themselves, as they've were able successfully to restrain Rick Yoko" left off, being a musical diary of done on Grave New World, and Wakeman from showing off much of his prevent the Lennons arrival in Amerika, their this album from being as good as it prowess on keyboards; in fact, prevent could. meeting up with Dlave Peel and Jerry have been. And it could have been great. him and the band from becoming known Rubin, their playing the Fillmore, and to much more than a mere handful of :-:i~i-::;:.-,:!:.;.::.:;: .-::-:-*:;.-:-:-:-:-:..:-:-:;:.;,.-::-::. . N eal Vitale:::;.-:. etc. The song really rocks, being a bit well-versed persons outside England. more hectic than "Ballad," and with a They ultimately managed to find an able more primitive fifties feel. It shows that replacement for Wakeman after he went John -can still get it on when he wants to. to Yes, in the form of one Blue John Kongos revisited The question is, why doesn't he? Weaver. They survived dismissal left and right as )t^~~M 'd7 just another "pretentious English group" I combined with a low-key style that Kongos- John Kongos (Elektra) proved rather somnolent for most. And, Early now, with Grave New World, they've this year when Kongos was released, I listened created a work that is the nearest tiring to to it a few times and then knocked off a a masterpiece without actually being one. quickie review, pretty well panning it. It never In their previous two American re- quite fit, or some leases, the live Just a Collection of such thing, but the review never ran in Antiques and Curios and From the The Tec h Art Section. And now I' gad Withcwood, the Strawbs' style and it didn't. orientation was clearly established. Ap- Listening to that record now, having parently under David Cousins' guiding repeatedly heard two singles from Kongos Brian Wilson and Mike Love hand (as vocalist/guitarist/writer), the receive characteristic AM radio overkill, base in medieval music - very baroque, the album comes through as a very strong So Tough is a colossal disappointment very folky, very Celtic, very underwhelm- one. Last summer, ti-ie pre-release single after Sunflower and Surf's Up; the depar- ture ing - was soundly -formulated. Nothing "He's Gonna Step On You Again" made a of Bruce Johnston and subsequent John Lennon arrival of Ricky flashy, highly lyric-geared, using the very small dent in th~ airwaves, but was a Fataar and Blondie killer enough tune to crease a few heads Chaplin now appears to have been much If side one was tolerable, more or less, music more as a counterpoint for imagery i along the way. Yet tlhe album came as more damaging to the band that initially side two unfortunately is not. "Luck of that rivalled the likes of John Renbourn an anti-climax, sounding very Elton John- thought. The new record resides in some the Irish" and "Angela" are slow, dreary Iand Bert Jansch; at times, even early Marc ish, even using most of the same sort of pseudo-gospel-meditation limbo, i pieces. "We're All Water" is the third Bolan. The band was always quite musicians, so that at first, it was simply scarred by abortive attempts at rock 'n' Yoko song, with more fifties rumblings competent4 and versatile, with most roll and Dennis Wilson's twice being and typically inane lyrics, with a few members1 adept at several instruments. tunes, having lost the ex citement that buried alive in orchestral avalanches. Even -patented Yoko screams and cackles Yet the very type of music seemed to marked the single. the best songs, "She Come Down" and thrown in for good measure. "John Sin- 1be just too decidedly forgettable. On Then Elektra issued "Tokoloshe Man," "All This Is That," are little better than clair" has nice bottlenecking and an jFromthe Witch wood, thanks to Wake- a cut from the torrid "Step On You" out-takes from earlier discs. The record amusing melody, but is spoiled by the IIman's opening up a bit and John Ford's mold, and I began to reconsider a bit, but buyer is ultimately left to decide if Pet repetition of the word "gotta" (as in Iheady bass, there were moments when not really very much. "Jubilee Cloud" Sounds (a genuine classic) is worth the ".;gotta set him free") 15 times in a row theI Strawbs could almost be called a rock followed, making the rounds - of the price of a two-record set where one each time the chorus comes around. Iband, as on "Sheep." But they would stations along with John Baldry's record isn't worth the plastic on which On the whole then. STTNYC is poorly quickly revert to fragile, acoustic inter- cover version. That song struck me as an it's pressed. (at times horrendously) recorded, slop- Iplay admist guitars and harpsichord incredibly powerful number, a break -:-.-:'.:::::.::.: Neal Vitale::.:-:' I THETECH FRIDAY,AUGUST4, 1972 PAGE 13

D-Lab divesfmenf due; lnt@ephIase stuldents e@re MN " Mmvm I,fl , ,,0w , f invi AME By Lee Giguere lWIT@Fs cost to be 5Jv MIT is more than just calcu- I (Continued from page 1) hoped that those educational lus and physics for the first 23 status from IRS,' and receive ties which now exist between members of the Class of '76 to (from various sources) about $1 the Lab and MIT wilU'continue. arrive here - it's a maze of million 'dollars as a "cushion These include Course XVI pro- fascinating 'tunnels set in an in- fund" to tide the Lab over fessors and students doing re- teresting city, a school where the varying periods of demand for search projects at the Lab; the professors "know their stuff." their services. In addition, since employment of students as tech- The 23 are participating in half of the Lab area is in space nicians; and the teaching of Project Interphase, a seven-week which is owned by MIT (the freshman seminars by Lab staff introduction to MIT designed, other half is leased commercial members. according to Assistant Dean for property) some arrangement for Divestment was not the only Student Affairs James J. Bishop, rent has to be made. avenue open two years ago, even "to enable you to develop grad- According to officials, the though it was the one chosen. ually your individual style, stu- changes wrought by divestment Many thought that the Labs dent habits and self-discipline will undoubtedly necessitate should be kept under MIT con- that will lead you into the first some additional reduction of trol and converted to non- year's mode of operation, expec- services in both academic and military, non-classified work in tations and quality and quantity support programs, and a con- the civilian area. At that time of the workload." Photo by David T'enenbaum The initial reactions of this adelphia is more organized than Interphase: 1) to give these tinuation of the tortured budget. Johnson -said such conversion Boston, but the Boston subway cutting process which has been was not possible, or desirable, advanced guard of MIT's newest freshmen a "graduated introduc- freshman class were solidly fa- -system is "peaceful" compared tion to MIT," 2) to give them a going on for the last few years. from the viewpoint of the Lab to Philadelphia's. Al went on to As one Institute officer noted, and its contractors. vorable. Seven of the 23 were chance to explore the recrea- The merits of these argu- questioned by The Tech after say that he was "crazy about tional and cultural resources of "The loss of this revenue will City Hall" and added that it was not brighten the picture for ments are now moot; the deci- their firsL week at MIT. MIT and Greater Boston, and 3) sion will come to fruition, and MIT's tunnel network is being a "great feeling" to be at MIT. to give the Dean's Office staff future tuition increases." With Debra, the conversation Background barring unforseen faculty or ad- probed by Albert Oliver of Phila- and their advisors and instruc- ministrative action, the D-Labs delphia and Debra Johnson of turned to class work: like so tors a chance to get to know On Wednesday, May 20, many before her, she found the 1970, Howard Johnson an- will experience final separation Houston. Al was quick to com- them. from MIT on June 30, 1973. pare Boston with his home: Phil- problem sets hard. In the calculus course the nounced to a Faculty meeting Most students dread the his unilateral decision: "I con- Interphase students use the same thought of summer school, but text as that which will be used in clude that we cannot over the Pete Garcia, of El Paso, like period of the next months and 18.01 in the fall. Besides being Corf [ns I, gui several other Interphase partici- able to take as many of the six years 'continue to manage the pants, said, "I like it fine." The Draper Laboratory... " His 18.01 exams as they can, they statement caused an uproar program, he said, has been good will also review pre-calculus which has not yet died down in -[orROIC Ire ISpss so far, and Pete expressed his math, Bishop said. The physics fear that without it MIT "would some quarters-, over both the (Continuedfrom page 1) passers), whether or not he had course, he noted, serves as an decision and the decision pro- have been hard in the fall." introduction to physics as it is ment which was intended to been there earlier, was found not Unlike most newcomers to Bos- cess. force administrators out of the .guilty. taught at MIT. ton, Pete found the city green Photography and music work- In addition, Johnson's report building. "It was a real shoving Continued for a period of compared to his home town. J on that date included the state- .match," recalled Nyhart. three to six week§ were the cases shops provide the two humani- Harold Caldwell of Flint felt ties options the freshmen must ment that complete separation After these latter incidents, a of Harold Eubank, Michael Fed- that MIT had an "atmosphere of of the Lab might take place in a ten-minute countdown was be- erow, Stephen Gould, Joshua choose between. Bishop ex- a lot of work" - "not easy but plained that more traditional hu- year: "I think in terms of a year. gun by administrators during Klayman, Bruce Schwartz and interesting." Jim Banks of New- Others, perhaps more aware of which those present were repeat- Dean Solomon. According to manities subjects had been offer- the complications, say it will edly warned of the possible con- port said the group was "up to ed in the first three years of the Nyhart, everyone had the oppor- our necks in work." Jim was take months longer, some say sequences of their staying in the tunity to have his case filed for program, but interest in them shorter." Since then, the major building. "We were very aware another of those who don't had waned. In the summer pro- continuance, and all were urged mind summer school; in fact, he discernable movement towards of the time," Sorenson stated, to do so by the District gram, Bishop said, the students divestment has been a change in pointing out the problems the said he 1!~v ed M!T. are more concerned about their Attorney. For the past four years, ac- the name of the Labs; from the administration encountered dur- Sixteen people were fined ability in MIT's scientific and cording to Bishop, from 20 to technical subjects. The students, MIT Instrumentation Labs to ing the prosecution of those $100 each. They were: Janice 50 freshmen have participated in the Charles Stark Draper Labs. responsible for the occupation Benson, Bonnie Buratti, Wayne he continued, "wanted things of the President's office in 1969 the summer program. This year's that involved their talents and The comfiplications which Christian, Gregory Duane, Paula group of 23 (17 of them black Johnson spoke of did arise; they because of a lack of detail about Elster, Neil Goldstein, David their hands." were mainly connected with exact times of specific incidents. students) are required to take Heller, Edward Hendricks, Keith calculus, physics and onb of two The cost of the program is drastic NASA and DoD cutbacks On May 18, Vice President Hersch, Joseph Lubischer, Ste- in research funding, along with Kenneth R. Wadleigh filed com- humanities options. In addition, borne entirely by MIT, which ven Mark, Deborah Sedgwick, an optional chemistry course is pays the salaries of the staff, the the nosedive which the economy plaints against 31 of the approxi- Judy Somrberg, Aaron Tovish, took at that time. Unable to find mately 70 people who allegedly being offered. For their work in students' room, board and travel Susan Volman and Anthony the required courses, they will expenses, and provides them new sources of non-military fun- took part in the trespass. Identi- Willmer. ding, the labs were faced with fication was made by deans and receive a block of 18 units of with their books and a $7/week Given 30-day sentences in the credit. destruction if MIT jettisoned faculty members only, although Middlesex County House of Cor- allotment for incidentals. (Each them prematurely. Negotiations some students-were on the scene rection were Jeffrey Mermelstein Bishop explained that all 23 student is also allowed $5.35 per for divestment have been on- with the permission of the of the freshmen invited to parti- day for meals.) In addition, MIT, and Paul Sedgwick. cipate in Interphase were ac- going during the entire time, but Deans' Office. Again according Donald Wolman was sen- in its financial aid package, one Institute officer noted, "We to Sorenson, when those facility tenced to 30 days in the House cepted unconditionally to MIT. makes up an assumed $500 in had no incentive to hurry them However, they were chosen for summer earnings. members and administrators of Correction and given a $100 the program because while the. along." Some people have present were starting to make fine. According to Wolman, the Bishop admitted to one diffi- accused the Department of De- identifications, "everyone was judge attempted to give some Admissions Office felt they culty with the program. In the fense of dragging its feet, but the given the option to say 'no, and could perform well and were fall, he said, 'there is some let- $200 fines until it was pointed "desireable personalities," there down when the high student/fac- same official scoffed at that idea some did." Only those who out that *At ...... not legal too, "the Labs are important. to could be positively identified by were either deficiencies in their ulty ratio of Interphase is di- All of the defendents waived academic backgrounds or they luted. The close-knit group that DoD, and will probably be more more than one person were counsel. Those who are appeal- expensive after divestment. They charged. were felt to have a lower than the Interphase freshmen found ing will be heard before Superior normal chance of success at in the summer no longer exists, didn't slow us down, but they Summonses were served start- Court at a date yet to be de- didn't push us along." ing on May 26, with hearings MIT. he said, and they don't have the cided. Internal judicial hearings Besides the "patching up" of built-in encouragements that The D-Labs have had the of- May 31 through June 2. for those whose cases have not ficial status of an "Independent Of those charged, found not these deficiencies, Bishop elabor- being in such close contact with already been'heard will be held ated three other goals of Project their instructors provide. Division" since May of 1970, guilty were Robert Bickerton, in the fall. and have their own board, com- Donald Koolish, Michael Kras- posed of the people Johnson ner, Anthony Kroch, Thomas Ng suggested; "one Corporation and James Okun. According to member, faculty, and interested Sorenson, anyone who denied outside people." In addition, his presence in the building at 8TEBEO MIT treasurer Paul Cusick now 3:35 pm (when those present serves as treasurer of D-Labs, were officially declared tres- while MIT Vice-President for Re- I search Al Hill serves hs chairman of the board of directors. ·3i High MIT administration ~O O 1 n lU sources contend that when di- vestment is completed, the inter- 10,000 sq. ft. of office or re- locking nature of the D-Lab board will be reduced, to mini- search space available immedi- mize the appearance of Institute ately. Single or multiple offices 20%X to 40%/- OFF-! control. At the same time, it is with carpeting, central air con- ditioning, convenient t6 Mass Pke, Harvard, MIT, & MBTA Tired of paying high list pries that stores charge? We offer a complete line of (Quincy-Harv. Sq. line). 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©1972 "unreasonably small" proportions of the enough minority members to form -an the minority reports dealing with abor- By David H. Green, total delegate slates. Other challenges acceptable delegate slate. tion and homosexuality were defeated. Norman D. Sandier, claimed that blacks, Latinos, or youths The guidelines, which had -an over- The fornmer clearly was the victim of and David M. Tenenbaum were unrepresented in the various state whelming effect on the campaign through political pragmatism as the McGovern delegations, while some were brought for the primary season, later sparked the forces compromised their idealism (The following are excerpts from a to procedural, rather than delegate make-up, credentials committee fights and broaden their power recent study funded by UROP and pre- base. The delegates reasons. The Illinois delegation headed by threatened to divide the party. Through- had placed their nominee ahead pared by David H. Green, Norman D. of their Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, himself out the campaign. the McGovern people, values and so, by the second day, many Sandler, and David M. Tenenbaum, all an old party regular, received the ax by due to the South Dakota senator's of the "new politicians" staff members of The Tech, on the had blended the credentials committee for non-com- authorship of those reforms, could mani- effectiveness of the McGovern Commis- with the old. pliance of not only. the slatemaking, but pulate the Commission rules to their In a section sion reforms implemented for the first entitled "New Directions" also of the public notice advantage, while other candidates in time within the Democratic Party this requirements the Commission said: "No political party, amidst testimony that local party leaders many cases did not yet understand either no president, no government year. The reforms called for more' repre- can by itself held secret meetings to prevent outsiders the wording of the guidelines or the scope sentation of minorities - particularly restore a lost sense of faith... What we from infiltrating. Procedural matters were of their jurisdiction in the eventual blacks, women, and youths, at the Demo- can do is to recognize the doubts of the cause in the challenge leveled against seating of delegates. cratic National Convention last month, Americans... and to act to begin turning the California delegation by four of the The end-result was that McGovern had and the Convention has been referred those doubts into hopes." Thus, after to presidential aspirants, who although re- almost absolute control over the con- as the most open political convention in recognizing the cynicism and skepticism ceiving popular votes in that state, re- vention, encompassing not only the cre- history. with which the American people regard ceived no delegates, due to the "winner dentials committee vote, but also the Green, the political process, the 'platform called Sandler, and Tenenbaum, ac- take all" nature of the primary. The moderation of the Party's platform to credited as members of the press, for a shift in party priorities from increas- ventur- credentials committee, conform with his own political strategy. ed to in another em- ing national prestige to increased fulfill- Miami Beach to evaluate the re- bittered fight, unseated the 151 forms first-hand, and their preliminary ment of personal needs. McGovern delegates, apportioning them The Platform findings are reprinted below. -- Editor) to the other candidates. This was a key The shift in the power base of the The Delegates The 37th Quadrennial Democratic factor in McGovern's actual nomination, Democratic party initiated by the The actual breakdown of the delegates National Convention came to order on when the ruling was overturned on the Mc Govern Commission affected the at the convention bore scant resemblance July 10, when Chairman Lawrence floor of the convention. recommendations of the Platform Com- to the breakdown of the '68 Chicago O'Brien sounded the gavel. However, the The credentials committee hearings mittee. The party did not pledge itself to convention, which was primarily domi- McGovern Commission guidelines were threatened to turn the convention into attain the traditional national priorities nated by party regulars. put to their first test of strength two chaos, as a direct result of forced com- but rather focused on basic human needs The people who came to Miami Beach weeks prior to the convention in Washing- pliance of the Commission guidelines. such as "a personal life that makes us all were not, by and large, the politicians ton, DC, where the Democrats' Credent- Although specifically denouncing any feel that life is worth living ... a social represented at the previous nominating ials Committee sat in session to determine type of quotas, the reforms were inter- environment whose institutions are used sessions, but rather a new breed of who would be seated at the convention as preted differently in many states, and in for the good of all; ... a physical politicians (about 80% of the delegates I delegates. some locations. delegations with as few as environment whose resources are used for had not attended a convention before). Throughout the spring delegate se- 6% women were allowed to pass through the good of all." They were more representative of the lection processes in all fifty states and the credentials committee fights and be Specific topics 'of the platform report American electorate, yet they represented four territories, challenges to the delegate seated at the convention, while others include jobs, -rights and social justice; a new form of political elite. slates had been mo'unting, charging vio- with as many as 45% women had to cities and the environment; education; A survey by the Washington Post of lation of one and sometimes all six of the justify themselves before the committee. law and justice; farming and rural life; this year's delegates revealed that they basic areas in which the Commission had In many cases, approximate quotas were foreign policy; and the people and the did not conform in at least two respects set out reform guidelines. Challenges established for judgment of non-com- government - the Commission report was to the "grassroots" image which had been from special interest groups such as the pliance, although a factor which was not introduced by a resolution to end US projected when the McGovern guidelines women's political caucus were heard immediately considered was that of involvement in Southeast Asia. were first introduced. against states where women made up "good faith" in attempting to recruit Although the platform is quite liberal, According to the Post poll, 31% have annual family incomes over $25,000, compared with 5% of the population. The poll also revealed a stunning discrepency Vw~or between average levels of education i ess e a0 i among the delegates and the national mean. 39% of the delegates polled hold (Continued from page 4) The most prominent example of a the payment and billing process. The new post-graduate degrees, 20% more hold has been virtually abandoned. student effect on administrative decision MIT policy is to require payment before college degrees, and another 27% stated During the fall of 1970, some mem- making had nothing to do with the UA. It registration, or complete signed arrange- that they had attended' some college. bers of student government and a small was radicals in the street, bad national ment for payment. Since the Bursar's Thus, a total of 85% replied that they had minority of MIT students thought they publicity, and eventually pressure from office was incapable of administering the continued their formal education beyond had found an issue around which some faculty and students that caused MIT old system (last term paid before this high school, while the national mean for constructive action could be galvanized: President Howard Johnson to announce term's registration),' it seems unlikely it formal education of 11. 1 years. they discovered, in a direct confrontation the divestiture of 'the Instrumentation will do well with the new system. Its Although being an elite by educational with the administration, the true power- Labs, then the Institute's major war- effect on freshmen will be marginal: the and economic standards, this year's dele- lessness of student government at MIT. research arm. Johnson allowed in his pandemonium among upperclassmen can gate body had a far better profile in terms The issue was a gay mixer at MIT. plans for a "gradual" divestiture, which is only be guessed at at this time. The point of identifiable minorities than was the still going on, but it is unlikely that MIT is that students were not part of the case in '68. Women made up 38% of the would have made even this small gesture discussions which led to the new policy. total delegate body this year, as opposed The student politicians were asked by towards cessation of war research had it to 13% in Chicago; 22% of the delegates MIT's Student Homophile League (SHL) not been for (normally placid) students in to the '72 convention were black, as to overrule an administration veto of the the streets. They could be. Students could serious- opposed to 5.5% in '68; there was a 200% mixer. Thinking that the cause was right, ly change many aspects of their own lives increase in representation of Latinos; and the UA passed a resolution giving the A more illuminating example of stu- at MIT, including the environment in the youth increased its representation this SHL permission to hold a mixer; former dent participation as it tends to be halls, curriculum, the activities of the year from 4% to 21%, though this was Dean for Student Affairs J. Daniel Nyhart practiced at MIT is the selection of MIT Corporation, and even the selection also influenced by the lowering of the vetoed the resolution. Students asked, Nyhart to be Dean for Student Affairs. of Presidents or the Institute's policy on voting age to 18. "Do we' or don't we control the student Johnson was a former dean of the School real estate. There are many real issues The identifiable minorities were, how- center?" Nyhart's response had a lot to of Management, and as such spoke in involved, and people could represent ever, the only ones to increase in repre- do with possible psychological damage terms of "inputs to the decision-making themselves and a lot of others if they sentation, as ethnics fell in representation and various studies of impressionable process." were willing to serve on the committees from over 1,000 in Chicago to under 800 youth, but it boiled down to "No, the by which MIT does its work. Not enough in Miami. Included in this category are administration has the ultimate veto over people seem willing to do that. many laborers and "blue collar workers," anything you decide." As President, he tried to live up to his theories, at least in public. Students were who were not intentionally excluded on a committee which took part in a from representation, but because they do As a result, some of the crucial com- not comprise what can be termed an That was the beginning of the end of "search process" for the new dean. The mittees go short-handed, and the deci- any belief that remained in the effective- discussions ranged far and wide and they "identifiable minority," they were not as sions that determine the future of MIT actively recruited for delegate slates. ness of the UA. The new UA president were reported to Johnson. What no one continue to be made by the same small on the elected in the spring of 1971 violated the committee knew until recently, group of people who have always held the constitution blatantly; he called only one when Johnson admitted it, was that he power over our lives. Student Conclusion government The Commission on Party Reform and meeting of the UA. Outside of a few had already decided who the new Dean could be a vehicle for expression of the Delegate Selection to the Democratic journalists, almost no one noticed. was to be before the committee began its views of the common man through de- work. Procedures are no insurance of an National Committee formulated guide- bate and discussion and selection of lines that yielded substantially better In light effective student voice. representatives of this, should there be a UA who would represent representation to youth, women, and someone at all? Recent actions of the MIT adminis- other than themselves. It also blacks. The delegates as a body, however, tration make the answer an emphatic Part of the problem was expressed could continue to be what it is now: a formed what the Washington Post called "Yes, and worthless appendage which has outlived pretty damn quick." The recently by an MIT Vice-President, who the "American Elite" in that in terms of people who run this institution have pointed out that it is "damned difficult its usefulness. educational and economic status they begun trying to turn some control over to to find representative students" to serve were unrepresentative; in addition ethnic the ii inmates, partly because of radical on committees. He told me that "You The choice lies firrmly in the hands of groups 'were more poorly represented in action, partly because of a belief in can't very well represent the average MIT the newcomers, who 'have not yet bee 1972 than in 1968. consensus politics as the most efficient student." This is true; journalists are turned off by witnessing the impotent The effect of the guidelines was also way to run a diverse university without atypically non-engineering types, whose thrashings of a dying government, and in reflected by the outcome of the Con- splitting it into small, inefficient pieces. life revolves around the Student Center the hands of the students who are return- vention; proof that working with a tho- Perhaps it is out of guilt over continuing much more than around 26-100. How- ing to another year of hard tooling, in rough understanding of the guidelines a annual tuition increases (which will prob- ever, the truth of the statement is no whom there still burns a spark of hope campaign could yield both a presidential ably boost 73-4 tuition over the magic excuse for laxity in gaining realistic stu- for alleviation of some of the sub-human nominee and a reasonably united party. It A dent opinion. $3000 mark); more likely it is the sense about decisions of central conditions which surround - them. It's is doubtful, however, that the party of fairness of fair-minded men that has concern to students. either that, or another year of reading would have been as well preserved if the caused an increase of student control over "student government is dead" articles in McGovern delegates had not been willing student concerns. To date, such shared The occasion for the discussion was the newspaper and shuffling down the to compromise their ideals for their control has remained largely potential, or one such decision which reflected a lack hall to another stultifying class or margin- candidate, thereby- minimizing alienation token, but the mechanisms are available. of understanding of the student side of al dorm room. during credentials and platform disputes. I 11 iI THE TECH FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1972 PAGE 15 I II III, 'Otl . 2 es s Diar. : ocril C. I es III " (Continued from page I) ventions. One who witnessed the in Fairfield, Iowa, he, as others, I i mer, but. also the Wallace convention might go so far as to was at the 1968 Democratic i backers (that's right) who con- say that the actual nomination convention. However, at that I "tended that the Youth Caucus was somewhat anti-climactic, time he was on the outside of I was an exercise in futility and considering the build-up and the Hall, watching as the police I motioned for adjournment. And political controversies which had battled with demonstrators there were the- Muskie and developed throughout the pri- throughout the bloody four days Humphrey delegates who, being mary campaigns, and later in the of the convention which culmi- somewhat alienated by Mc- credentials and platform com- nated in the nomination of Govern's views, were left in mittee hearings two weeks prior Hubert Humphrey. limbo in making their choices to the convention. once the two candidates had The youth delegates were de- This time, Pillow was on the . withdrawn. termined to make their presence inside voting against the seating ;: The young delegates were di- known and to make good im- of the delegation from the verse. They were not, as origi- pressions, as they studied up on Windy City, and casting his votes nally had been suggested, all platform planks, rules com- on many issues which led to the '68 riots. I McGovern delegates, though a mittee proposals, and all the great many of them were - a other issues on the floor, often I nterestingly enough, the result of the South Dakota sena- sticking out the sessions longer Miami Beach police and National I tor's being the one who wrote than their older counterparts. Guard had drawn up contin- the party reforms (the Mc- Most demonstrated undying gency plans on what to do if Govern Commission guidelines) enthusiasm toward the whole McGovern had not been nomi- Activity on the floor of this year's Democratic National Convention which helped draw most of the affair, dismissed by some older nated, as rumor had it that the did not have all of the attention of the delegates on the business on young voters into the political delegates as being due to the non-delegates were ready to the podium. Photo by David Tenenbaum Courtesy Time-Life arena last spring during state unique experience of attending "tear Miami apart" in the event conventions and primaries. their very first convention, but of another Humphrey nomina- Although not showing a great seen' by others as being "a fresh tion. Invest gation to proae deal of idealogical solidarity be- future for the Democratic Party There were, however, definite hind specific platform issues and American politics." drawbacks to having all the brought up by the National Many of these people were. youthful delegates at the con- iVe T. researc Youth Caucus, the youth dele- not entirely new to the political vention. For example, the gates were definitely noticeable process, though many of them security precautions at the con- (Continued from page 3) particular movement, moment, at the convention, giving the had ex perience "with the vention hall, aithough already take part in this fall's freshman experience." Instead, he expects event somewhat of a face-lifting. system" in a different sense. Ted extremely tight (this reporter orientation program. that some sort of "science and Gone were most of the smoke- Pillow, a McGovern delegate was thoroughly inspected not Discussing the group's work technology for the people" filled rooms and the spectacular from Iowa, was one such dele- less than ten times in one eve- so far, Watson said that the work group will be formed in the near outbursts which at one time gate. ning while going in and out of had been divided into "seven or future. were common at political con- A student at Parsons College the convention complex's North eight" areas including: a look at Hall), were somewhat hampered the nature of basic research - at times when secret service and I "Who does basic research really security personnel could not tell serve?" - the kind of problems ,Com F goa . e rp: the delegates from the non- that are studied, its "institution- delegates or some of the media I al connections," and its funding; Approximately one month people (e.g. Abbie Hoffman and the connections between MIT from now the MIT Class of '76 Jerry Rubin) from the demon- and the military; career orienta- will be arriving on campus for strators outside the gates. tion among MIT undergraduate the beginning of Residence' and, graduate students; and Orientation Week and the start Besides that rather trivial MIT's "involvement and partici- of their MIT career. The pictures problem, the young delegates pation in policy decisions" - below and right are to give them were very well-respected by "What do most of its members a preview of their first hours on almost all of the older delegates, do?" He also noted that the the MIT campus. including the old-time, hard-line study would take in the problem RIGHT: Arrival at MIT means pols, many of whom had not of conversion including funding lugging around suitcases - from missed a convention since the and institutional problems with- airport or car trunk to the early fifties, and the likes of in MIT. Student Center to temporary whom many of the youths had The MIT administration, Wat- -dorm assignment. Early birds attempted to unseat in the cre- son continued, has been very will be able to lounge around in dentials fights. cooperative in furnishing the the Student Center and watch Of the old-timers this re- group with information, with aid others arrive to go through the porter spoke with, most expres- coming from the Provost's Of- initial proceedings and wait for sed feelings of enthusiasm for fice. in particular, he reported the fun - and hectic - week to the party reforms and the influx that the group was given a tour really start. of new faces. They were encour- of the Lincoln Laboratories by BELOW: The official start of aged by the performance of the some of its top officers. Watson R/O Week is the picnic in the younger delegates at the conven- felt that they wanted to dispell Great Court (unless it rains). tion, and saw in them a new notions that they were working Here freshmen get to meet the hope for the Democratic Party. on a laser "ray gun," and to members -of their class, some show their interest in basic re- faculty and administration mem- search. He explained, however, bers, and the few upperclassmen Admi$ssnons that the Defense Department's who are admitted for free food; Advanced Research Projects After that it is out into the Agency's definitions of its "stra- madhouse of what is still really gets, new head' tegic needs" is exactly what Lin- fraternity Rush Week - five {Continued J]>oin page 1} coln Labs is doing. days to find a place to live for Discussing the revival of and social sciences, in architec- the coming year, or maybe four. ture, urban studies and manage- SACC, Watson discounted the rebirth of that particular organi- ment. His background in secon- zation because to the people Photo by David Tenenbaumo dary school education provides a involved in it, it "represents a sympathetic understanding of the dilemmas of choice for the young person considering college Reeve$v ws or university education and the wisdom to shape admissions advice to guide that choice efozms .' TV He, soundly ." (Con tinued Jrom page I) Gray added that he was Association, the dormitory presi- particularly pleased that the new dents, and IFC representatives.) director had come from within Reeves admitted, however, that the Admissions Office itself. a return to Inscorem is not the "We wish to increase the career answer for the UA; some way opportunities within the MIT must be found to encourage administration for the many wider participation. ailing,quo"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.... highly qualified men and women The UA, Reeves stated, is here, and Peter Richardson's sponsoring the first major rock advancement is in the spirit of concert to be held at MIT in that objective." over 22 months. Spirit in Flesh, Richardson has worked close- a Massachusetts group, will per- ly with the Faculty Committee form in Kresge Auditorium on Undergraduate Admissions (pending negotiations with LSC) and Financial Aid, which is on September 2 2. Big-name con- VIZI,~~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~,,2 responsible for admission policy certs have long been absent from at MIT. In addition, he has the MIT campus because of a participated in the institute for series of financial disasters. The Education Management at Har- rules for on-campus concerts do vard University. not permit off-campus advertis- Born in Boston on May 28, ing, and it has proved impossible 1924, Richardson received his to attract a large-enough audi- S.B. in general engineering from ence from within the communi- MIT in 1948. ty. -PAGE 16 FRI DAY, AUGUST 4,--- 1972 THETECH ------~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T8 >r cre There's an air about the boat- onship. Five out of eight return- everywhere. The ergometer, of- house these days, an air saying ing from the first boat, and ·ten considered the secret to Har- that MIT's oarsmen are winding seven out of eight from the vard's and Northeastern's suc- up for a big season. This could second boat are back, as well as cess, will be a part of every be the year for Tech crew. a group of fine, well-coached oarsman's training. Several It happens in all sports. They frosh. Pete Billings '73 will be coaching changes, not yet an- go through peaks and slumps. back at stroke; he's now com- nounced, should improve the Usually only the coaches, not manding the National Team performance of each crew. the athletes, can see this periodi- Lightweight eight in Europe, It seems that one of the city, but this time somehow where they were winners at things that the boats will need everybody down at the boat- Munich in the pre-Olympic this fall is to have the MIT house can feel a peak coming on. championships last week. Also Community believe that the There are reasons to feel that returning are Mike Scott '73 and crews here could very well be the peak is there. There are facts Bill DeCampli '73, who along the best in the East. The Harvard to back it up. The varsity heavy- with heavyweights Dusty Ord- Community can believe this weights have almost everyone way '73 and Larry Esposito '73 about their crew based on their returning, Gere Leffler, '73, who were winners in the Intermediate past records. But this year, was a candidate for the Olympic Fours race at the American Hen- Northeastern found it more ex- eight is coming back to stroke. ley Regatta. By August 7, the citing to break the Harvard trend Pete Holland, head coach, is lights will be launching an eight, than Harvard did to continue it. back as well. Last year's boat one month before most schools This year, MIT's crews are in almost defeated Northeastern's touch the water. Northeastern's position, and EARC Championship eight. New training methods begun they expect the MIT Communi- None of these facts point to a last year will be continued by all ty to know this. losing season. the crews. "Aerobic Treining," Traditionally, the crews will The varsity lightweights have designed to increase stamina, is point, in the fall, for the Head of all begun their drive to a champi- used by international crews the Charles Regatta to be held on October 24. In the meantime, -i they'll probably take on North- 3~ eastern, Yale, some of the smal- er schools, and maybe even Har- Al Dopfel '72, MIT's standout pitcher, has made the starting 'vard. If there's an MIT team to rotation of the Shreveport Captains, the AA farm club of the watch this year, it's probably the California Angels. Despite the handicap of being knocked out by a t Everybody wants to win, crews. a 2-1 and the facts seem to indicate ball thrown by his own first baseman, Dopfel has acquired that the crews can do just that. record and a 1.40 earned run average. He has 22 strikeouts to his credit and has given up 16 hits and 15 walks over 25 innings. Jetphoto o re, acl,ies lor womeni By Sarady Yulke - new lockers, will also provide As well as lack of locker Faced for the first time with baskets for women to keep their space, women have vociferously an athletic requirement for belongings in. There have never complained about the lack of a women, the Athletic Depart- been any baskets available to sauna for women. The present ment has doubled the amount of women before. sauna is located in the men's locker space presently available The addtftion of women to the locker room and several years to women at MIT. previously for-men-only Field ago was "liberated" by a group The expansion. which is House will necessitate some of women who thought that scheduled to begin on July 28 major changes in the building they had as much right to it as and finish by September 15 (in externally as well as internally. the men. time for the first physical The present entrance to the new education classes) involves the locker room is through the other Prof. Ross H. Smith, Director conversion of the largest of the locker rooms in the building, of Athletics, said that the reason locker roorns in Briggs Field and will- be closed off. A new that they had not originally House. The room was originally door will be made in the north installed a sauna for women was the trainers room before they side of the building and a that it had not been planned as a moved to duPont, and has passageway which will connect recreational facility and that the recently been used for visiting wil, the duPont lobby will be Athletic . Department had not teams. constructed so that it will not be expected it to get so much use. Besides providing two more necessary for women to an "It was originally the idea of the showers and simply more space, outdoors in order to get into the Athletic Association Executive the plan's majoz benefit is that it Athletic Center. Committee. They wanted some- will more than double the thing that would help wrestlers number of lockers for women, The construction, which will and people in crew as well as and for the first time, it will be cost almost $30,000, has been other-varsity athletes take off possible for a woman using the planned only as an interim weight fast, and thought that it athletic facilities-to sign out and solution. As part of a large would be used only for those lock a locker on a yearly basis. overall study now being done by purposes. It then turned into a This is a service that has been the Planning Office, which will community facility." available to mer in the past but design the Athletic facilities here In any case, as icing on the not to women, due to the fact at MIT through 1980, a further cake while renovations are tak- that the total number of lockers expansion of the present wom- ing place in the Field House, a for women was only 49. The en's locker room, duPont center, sauna will be installed in the expansion, besides- providing 56 is planned. -present women's locker room. co I,V,,4, - -- ,, , O.- P. 00=

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