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I Horn, Wilson quit UA race endorse Bachman, Zito By Michael Garry Wilson was in full agreement Jonathan Horn '77 and Tim with him. Wilson '78 have withdrawn as Undergraduates vot ing in to- candidates in the race for Under- morrow's election vwill also graduate -Association President choose class officers fo>r each of z (UAP) and Vice-President the four classes and corisider two (UAVP), throwing their support referenda - a proposalI to adopt on UAP-UAVP candidates Ken a new UA constituticon and a IlIGC 4-'A Bachman '75 and Dominick Zito statement of student opinion on '76. the program to train up to 54 I According to a paid advertise- Iranian students in nuclear ment in Monday Bachman and engineering. A Cambridge group wants to have a say in how MIT will use this Cambridgeport property, on which th e Zito, if elected, will share their In a related matter, an effort Simplex Company factory once stood. The land has been unused since MIT bought it in 1969 fronn positions with Horn and Wilson, is underway to hold a referen- Simplex. something which is "legally" dum on granting the Institute permissable, said UAP Steve Committee (Inscom) the power Wallman. to veto any exhibit thLat would L Bachman and Zito will be set up for more thani 24 hours MIcuac 'arn rimcm e c CISh compete against the remaining in the Lobby of Buildinlg 7. UAP-UAVP candidate term - Jim Miller '76, a forimer chair- Lee Allen '76 and Steve man of LSC who, with a few of Shagoury '76 - in the election, his friends in the student 012 birla ex c eve owftrneri to be held tomorrow in the government, initiated tlhis effort. By Mike McNamee acres of mostly-deserted build- help determine what use is madee lobby of Building 10 from 9am siad he is presently gathering A neighborhood group has ings, rubble, and empty land - of apartments vacated by CamI- to 5pm. signatures of undergra(duates on charged MIT with bad faith, has. been empty since MIT took bridgeport residents moving into Horn told The Tech that he a petition to hold thee referen- hostitlity, and arrogance in its it over in 1 969 from the failing housing built on the Simplex withdrew from the race because dum. He said he ha s already dealings with Cambridge resi-- Simplex Company. Economic site; and facilities including a "I felt the best opportunity for gathered 150 signatnures and dents near MIT's Simplex pro. tactors and lack of a private hydroponic garden; an audito- electing responsive, capable needs a total of 400 - -or about perty in Cambfitdgeport. developing company interested rium, and recreational facilities ; government for the next year 10 per cent of the unde-rgraduate The Simplex Steering Com-- in the site has kept the land These considerations weree was in my withdrawal in support student body - tco obtain mittee charged in a series off from being used since that time,. sent to MIT in a letter to Presi- of Bachman and Zito." He said permission from the U.A to hold letters and articles in thee "We've talked to at least 15 dent Weisner in December. ask- he made the decision last week- the referendum. Cambridge Chronicle that MIT companies about possible uses (Please turn to page 2) end and that his running mate (Please turn to pagge 3) has refused to acknowledge the for that land since we bought wishes of area residents in the it," said Vice President development of the 1 9-acre site, Kenneth R. Wadleigh '43. atb s co1mmi;ttee ,0 for:mnerly- t'he property of "Sometimes we've come pretty' Simplex Wire and Cable Com-- close to closing deals with them. pany, which MIT purchased. in But we never have come up with :i, 1969. the package we want." s it disbanded ? The Committee claims a Cam-- MIT's guidelines for develop- By Norman D. Sandler Sheehan said that before that mittee. We're not listed as a bridge City Council vote in June> ment of the property, as stated and Mike McNamee time he and his committee, standing committee and it's been authorized them to participate by then-President Howard For five years, research activi- established in September, 1969, over a year since we had a in MIT's planning for the Johnson at the time of the pur- ties at MIT's Lincoln Labora- would meet with people at formal meeting." Simplex property. The Councill chase, haven't changed, accor- tories were regularly reviewed by Lincoln (and at the Charles That account of the commit- ruled at that time that no zoning ding to Wadleigh. MIT pledged a standing Institute committee Stark Draper Labs, before it tee's chronology was in apparent variances or permits for building at that time to leave the land on of faculty and students. divested in 1972) in annual conflict with statements made on the property would be issuedi the tax rolls, and to make the Now, however, it appears that sessions, during which the last week to The Tech by until MIT had "obtained the property useful to both the city nobody - including the last committee was briefed exten- President Jerome B. Wiesner and ;1- mandate of the community" on as a whole and the neighborhood chairman of the committee - sively on the unclassified aspects Chancellor Paul E. Gray. development plans. and area. "We're still commited knows for certain who, if any-D of research activities at the At a meeting attended by MIT officials have called ' to those pledges," Wadleigh said. one, is overseeing Lincoln Labs laboratories. representatives from The Tech i1" the Council vote and "illegal" The Council vote, reflected a research. Following divestment of the Wiesner and Gray said they st; move, and say that the Simplex city view that MIT was not Chemistry Professor John CtI Draper Labs, Sheehan said the thought the Sheehan committee Steering Committee is not repre-- listening to area residents in its Sheehan, contacted by The Tech committee concluded that was still in existence, although sentative of the entire commu-- planning for the site. Since the Draper no longer fell under its they added that neither had ,i last week following publicatior s nity. They add that Institute; vote, the Steering Committee of a report that Lincoln hadt jurisdiction and shortly there- been aware of the committee's wiat officials have offered to meet has held a series of meetings, been involved in the transmitta 1 after the formal discussions with activities for more than a year. The status of the Sheehan -:iP with community groups, inclu-- hearings, and forums, resulting a of army intelligence data on zI officials at Lincoln also ended. ding the Steering Committee, to list of development features that nationwide computer network Now, Sheehan says, the committee and the extent of discuss the future of the Simplex the committee considered neces- said that the last time hi! Committee on the Special faculty participation in review of e land. sary, including community Standing Committee on the Laboratories "is in kind of a Lincoln research contracts Underdeveloped kitchen, parking, and child-care Special Laboratories met form limbo situation. We don't even appeared to be uncertain in The Simplex property - 19 facilities; community groups to ally was more than one year ago know if we're a standing com- (Please turn to page 3) h" q - mmu a M.Aft,a am, &I"0%WMAMmm ff ME ffwwmmi 0% #%=& In %,ooinrn1 L& We b='Lb %I /%I wri n,, cL I ri in oa fa nib" Sm

I--·-b. - --------- --c----.--a- Dorm rates increase 9%, Summary of Room and Board Rates Commons goes up $90; 4% less than last year; (1974-75 and 1975-76) points plan to be started Annual Rent (Including dining fee) inflation cited as reason 1974-75 1975-76 Increase to increase flexibility By Margaret Brandeau By Margaret Brandeau Rates in all of the undergraduate dormitories MacGregor House $1017 $1111 $94 In an effort to make the partial meals plan will-jump by more than 9 per cent in September. .McCormick Hall 1006 1100 94 more flexible next year, Dining Service will insti- This increase - which comes out to about $86 tute a "points" program for meals next year, and for the academic year in each of the dormitories - Burton House 1000 1092 92 will eliminate meal tickets and one-third meals was mainly caused by inflation according to New House 976* 1068 92* plan. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Nancy The annual rate for the 19-meal plan (including Wheatley. She added that the percentage increase Baker House 853 933 80 IAP) will go up S90 to S1190 and the cost of is about 4 per cent less than the total 1974 cost of East Campus 852 932 80 the 15-meal plan will increase S80 to S930. living increase. Senior House 791 863 72 The points plan will provide a student with 268 The housing costs at most other colleges and points for S230. A student can buy breakfast for 1 universities have risen by about 12 per cent, Weighted Average $ 930 $1017 $87 point, lunch for 3 points, and dinner for 4 points. Wheatley said, so that "in terms of increases we're On the points program, a student will be able to doing okay." She said that in spite of soaring Bexley Hall $ 792 $ 864 $72 get unlimited seconds. energy and salary costs, the Housing 'Office and This plan will provide more flexibility in the students have done well in "controlling expenses Total Weighted Average $ 922 $1008 $86 present dining system, according to Assistant Dean that are controllable." for Student Affairs Nancy Wheatley, because a *Assumes New House set equal to McCormick and Burton In setting dormitory rents, Wheatley explained, student can buy any meals he wants; he does not ithou't· tdesk service. fA(Pite:e triurn to page 2) (Please turn to page 2) -...-...- - .. ,A. . - r r rm 3 llfL3 PAGE2F TUESDAY,APRIL1 b, 1lJ/b TLu.Ln- '75-'76 dormitory rents Dining Service sets.. -oi'ntt, an (Continued from page 1) have to pay for meals he does Commons Contracts increase by avg. of $86 not eat. Many people who are 1974-75 1975-76 presently on the one-third meals 1) very "pro-desk." Spring Total Fall IAP Spring Total (Continued fro n page plan have to pay for breakfasts Fall iAP $1190 The New'House rent was set $520 $1100 $540 $119 $540 the rate review committee pro- they do not eat. Wheatley noted 19 Meal Plan $ equal to that of Burton and ;480 $100 $520 $1100 $540 .$11.0 $54Q $1190 jects expenses for the next aca- that many students have ex- without the cost of 370 80 400 850 420 90 420 930 demic year and estimates the McCormick pressed interest in being able to 15 Meal Plan she said. "We went 520 amount of income that will desk service buy only dinners, for example. FPartial Plan* 145 45 155 345 230 60 230 come into the dormitories dur- through a list of plus and minus to The 268 points are enough provides 25 breakfasts, 25 lunches, and 25 dinners. In ing the summer. Student housing things in these dormitories," plan buy five dinners a week through- es 268 points which can be used for any meal. Point values rents and housemaster-tutor Wheatley- noted. "We compared 1975-76 it provid( and room out the term.breakfa st, 3 for lunch,. and 4 for dinner. rents are then set to provide a kitchens, carpeting, Meal tickets, said Wheatley, things, and break-even operation. sizes, among other will be eliminated because "they is Wheatley stressed that no decided that the new house are a real hassle." They have not The Historic OLD VILNA SHUL to Burton and current housing services will be comparable worked out at all, she said, and 16 Philips St., Boston McCormick." curtailed next year. She said that are "driving Dining Service invites the Jewish students to our Traditional even residents of MacGregor and Wheatley said that the New crazy." Many people have not who pay about $30 will have no and Orthod( ox Services. McCormick, dorm probably yet. paid for their tickets, 9am ayear for desk services have been trouble in attracting new stu- there is a large outstanding FRIDA',Y: Sundown SABBATH: dents, because it will be cheaper balance on them. issue: than MacGregor, McCormick Commons costs for next year Simplex and Burton. She did say that will be equal in the fall and angry some students may not want to spring terms. This year students city group live in the dorm because it will pay about 8 per cent more for (Continued from page 1) have no desk service. spring Commons than they do ing Weisner for a written re- There will no longer be a for fall Commons. According to IPLT0ine:876 08760 sponse to show MIT's willingness rate review, Wheatley, this is because while mid-year dorm hat's "No-fault"? How much is apartment insurance? to comply with the Committee's Wheatley said, because of the there are the same number of We to all your insurance said MIT uestior '11 give you the answers demands. Wadleigh difficulties involved in this year's school days in each term, there is without giving you a sales pitch. Just call officials had refused to answer mid-year review of graduate are more eating days in the DickRaamsey afiy weekday. the letter in writing, requesting dormitory rates. spring term. the area instead to meet with . resident groups to discuss their T. phelan &Co. requests. The group refused to Buddyi's Sirloin Pit Insurance Agency Inc. Since 1898 meet with Special Assistant to 11 Dtunster St., Harvard Square (next to the Holyoke Center). who 39 Brattle St. Harvard Sq. Hartford. the Chairman Walter Milne, I i I~1876-0876. Representing Aetna, Travelers, Restaurant) -j handles most of MIT's relations (located in Cardell's -- I = I I A with the city, Wadleigh said. no I_P- ... I I ·4··l1 iP 3/41b. N.Y:Cut Sirloin Steak Dinner - $3.40 has charged The Committee Chopped Sirloin Dinner - $1.60 that MIT is trying to divide the community and work against We serve Pabst. Refills cost less. them through other groups. In a "The price gets lower - you get higher." Steer Beef with no letter to the Chronicle, the We use only USDA Inspected Western fillers, or coloring added (unlike the beef in some Committee charged that a Fac- tenderizers, I other restaurants). i ulty Club dinner with area resi- Sunday. i CAREER Johnson, was Open I11:30am - 9:00pm. Closed dents, attended by L- a "tactic" to "divide the com- i munity by catering to some OPPORTUNITIES community leaders and disdain- New- England WITH ing others," calling this "sinis- ter." 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GOOD USED FURNITURE Atpril 15, 1975 I (lesks, bureaus, etc. and small appliance repairs "Toward a Materials Ethic in National Policies" J & Rt Used Furniture and Repairs 5:30pm 159 A Harvard Ave., Room 10-250 room Allston, MA Note change in U ~--- so I ~ ___ __------I~B~b~SP~ls~ -1II ~ - i .W ·i-.;; -. r ·.: -· . i~i~~...i· A " .,~ .. · .. '. -·!· r v·.· THETECH TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1975 PAGE 3 _ _ ---- r_ ---------4-. -- - -- = I _ I sl-i~~~~~a~~a---~~~~~~ a IL- SU-SHIANG RESTAURANT- - F o orc ere cis an inen fr SZECHUAN-HUNAN CUISINE & * Best Chinese foods you can have anywhere (Continued from page tf However, Sheehan said he Sheehan, he explained; "has * Very interesting Chinese pa;tries on Sat & conversations last week with was never certain of the com- been wanting to rotate out of MIT officials. mittee's mandate following the the chairmanship. I 'expect that Sun afternoons for brunch lovers 4 Asked about the special labs ,,Draper divestment. "We are not in the listing of standing com- *New luncheon specials at low, low prices & committee, Sheehan's secretary doing anything actively," mittees that will come out this plenty of choices said, "You'll have to ask (MIT Sheehan said, "I run into spring for next year, the com- * Whole evening's entertainment for our Vice President) Constantine Lincoln director Gerald P. mittee (on Lincoln-Labs) will be at the cost of $10.00 per listed. I also fully expect that banquet Simonides, who decided last Dinneen every now and then and person. year that we were defunct. We ask him what's going on, but as Dr. Sheehan will not remain as can't get straight answers from far as I'm concerned, we aren't a chairman." Address: Business Hours him; maybe you can." standing committee." 158 Prospect St., Cambridge Sun-Thur Noon-10pm I Sheehan said that his com- Fri, Sat Noon-11pm "I asked Dr. Dineen to alert (at corner of Broadway) According to Simonides, the mittee actively reviewed Lincoln MBTA get off at Central Sq. Pastries if anything the least bit I initiative for disbanding the me research activities and contract wa Ilk 3 blocks Sat, Sun Noon-3:30pm Sheehan committee came from controversial seemed to be devel- proposals prior to the Draper Tel: 491;7717 Luncheon "I believe that oping out there." But, Sheehan divestment. And, he added, that Mon-Fri Noon-4pm 4 I Sheehan himself. statutorily the committee is a added, there have been no such system drew criticism from continuing committee," reports. people at Lincoln and its pri- Simonides -said yesterday. Simonides said that MIT mary funding source, the Air "About a year ago, Sheehan officials hope that the Commit- Force. talked to me or the President tee on the Special Laboratories "Some people objected to the (Wiesner) and he said he didn't can again become active, pos- approval process. The fact that think he saw any further func- sibly later this year. contracts had to be reviewed by tioning for the committee after "Sheehan has, had contact a faculty committee disturbed the divestment of the" Draper with the Laboratories in some Air Force people and some at Laboratories. We said that we cases, through the director, al- Lincoln Labs who felt Lincoln thought the committee should though it's clear in my mind that' was at a disadvantage compared continue with only the Lincoln he does not want to stay on," to other non-university compe- Labs." said Simonides. tit6rs for research contracts." The Lincoln Lab Committee has been endorsed in principle by the Ad Hoc Institute Com- Control'of lobby shows mittee on Outside Commit- ments, chaired by Institute Professor Gordon S. Brown, to be UA referendum if which later thid week will recommend strong measures for petition drive succeeds overseeing MIT's research activi- ties and improving communi- (Continued from page 1) "I'm sick and tired of having cation between the Institute Because of Miller's late start to fight my way through the community and its various labo- in collecting signatures on the lobby," Miller said. "I think ratories. petition, the referendum will not undergraduates should have The Committee on the Use of elec- be included in tomorrow's some say about what gets put in Humans as Experimental Sub- tiori, but will be conducted at Lobby 7." some later time. (Please turn to page I 0) _____ a i~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The referendum proposal assumes that the new constitu- r-r-) E, i,1FM F~ tion, which establishes Inscom as *'EKW c ,1Th § Seminar on Merit and the central governing body of the, UA, will be- approved in Equality in a Just Society tomorrow's' electfin. -In· addition Thursday, April 17, 1975 to giving Inscom the power to WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 16 veto the holding of any exhibit TUESDAY AND Lecture Hall 9-150 in the Building 7 Lobby, the 4:00 PM proposal provides that the veto 10 a.r. - 4 p.m. can be'overturned by a majority LOBBY, BUILDING 10 $10 DEPOSIT vote in a special undergraduate The Politics of referendum in which at least 25 HIGH SCHOOL RINGS ACCEPTED AS TRADE-INS

.~- _ .. i per cent of the undergraduates -- _ _-- iI Genetic Engineering: would have to participate. r Who Decides Even if students approve the SEN IORS proposal, Miller noted, it must still be accepted by the admini- If you want experience and Who is Defective? stration in order to take effect. Suzanne Weinberg, coordinator enthusiasm vote for JONATHAN BECKWITH, MD, Dept. of Micro- of the Lobby 7 Committee, biology and Molecular Genetives, Harvard which is in charge of the exhibits Medical School. that are placed in the Building 7 Lobby was not available for tomorrowUT comment on whether the Jr'Class President Sponsored by the Technology administration would accept the for Class Presidenet tomorrow. and Culture Seminar at M.I.T. proposal. i I .. .f_ _I I . sIL L.i i i- - - If the proposal does go through, Miller explained, PROFESSIONAL Inscom would for the most part serve as a "rubber stamp" in TYPINGfor approving exhibits for Lobby 7. Educators, Authors, Only rarely would Inscom "put Architects, Dissertations, its foot down" and object to Theses, Reports, Cassettes- exhibits which it feels obstructs You tape it ...We type it Lobby 7, preventing students 8 WINTER ST. BOSTON from easily walking through the 1278 MASS. AVE. HARVARD SQ. lobby or from relaxing and chat- 423-2986 ting with friends in it, Miller THE SKILL BUREAU3, said. i L ----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~le ve -,'t,' v v ] [ %doB~Qi~ara- I~·ae~~r~au~ ------7

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_:w IWVAWG ld 16 .. - A~Ameu m m . Om lu -,vie D mwgmk eri Ar-w -- ARF 'BP 0 r -- b -I Ll._;nmarnexiDow lw9w CIE Y 0 '%AU . if i. help fulfill industrializatioin goals' Hansen: 'MIT should underdeveloped countries, and even to' "has signed the Nonproliferation Treaty. Kent F. Hansen Institute, the School of Engineering or some very well-developed countries, are By Much work and research has continued in Professor and Acting Head, the Nuclear Engineering Department very great. The cost of electric energy the area of developing -safeguards to Nuclear Engineering itself. from nuclear plants is much lower than at faculty meetings control the inventory and flow of special I welcome the opportunity that The The discussions the costs- from oil plants and, in the around the campus nuclear materials. Most experts now Tech has made available to discuss the and other meetings United States, it is also lower than the issues of concern believe that the safeguards procedures are issues that have arisen over the training of have identified three cost from coal plants. Countries without These issues sufficient -to detect whether or not nuclear engineers from Iran. I should with regard to this program. large amounts of fossil resources are weapons, material is being diverted from peaceful make it clear at the outset that my are the proliferation of nuclear compelled to consider nuclear power if the dealings with the nondemocratic uses into other programs. comments are my own, and in no way Th behnefits of nuclear power. to they wish to industrialize. A nation such official position of the government of Iran, and the academic very heavily into the any_ is moving represent-r as Japan a procedures used in establishing such field as it is essential for its -' nuclear special program. I will make brief com- economic well-being. Japan does have an ments with regard to all these issues. ~~~~~~~~~~:j.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- industrial base and it is possible .for them - of proliferation of The problem '~ : ' : which they can . , ...... to manufacture products ·.. ~,;~'7':i:::::Hi'/...... :.e--- : '.,,..oo:.-..;...· ;-.-.,,.x:."" .:.':: ': ,-,. ··..~··...v- 5L~···· -·.v··- ·L ~ w- ~ U , ~~Cr"--- nuclear weapons has been of great con- sell abroad to bring in the income . ~ uu9. ..' h.rgc...... ,...... nuclear profession from its _r,~, A cern to the .:.. necessary for the expansion of their ':OV:V..Y.;',s.^.~~~~~~~~~~sAv . ~~~~~~~~~~.Y ...+.+._. .,-:"'""'; .. very beginning over 25 years ago. The energy resources. On the other hand, Iran . ~~ ~~~~~~~~~i·'....- ·- I- ...... efforts of people working in the area of does not have a large industrial base and led disarmament and nonproliferation has it cannot gain international credits except contributions to the "'&' ~ ~ 0 b.v.-...... *...ss1 ~ .,. .: s , to several landmark ';^'~~~~~~~~.Y,. -. Y.:...... ,.F...... o,.. <.>;..,.....,,.,. by selling its one major resource, oil. problem. The International Atomic .. -':'v-'-:' o ';^-'...... From the Iranian view it makes sense to Energy Organization. (IAEA) was created go nuclear now so that by the time the oil .W ,,, {... 1- ... expressly for the purpose of aiding resources are gone the country will be in the countries in the development of a 1position to, maintain and improve its benefits of nuclear power and to prevent energy productivity. the spread of nuclear-weapons around the It requires something on the order of world. The IAEA has sponsored the six to ten years to build a large nuclear Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Under plant. The current Iranian plans specify a the terms of this treaty countries which development period of about ten years inter- are signatories have agreed to for their plants. They- will need an addi- national inspection of operating reactors, tional ten years of experience with opera- fuel fabrication facilities, and fuel repro- (Continued on next page) cessing facilities. The government of Iran our inlluence with Irecm -- A heads attenuates Brown:M "w, w Burvina our called "The Ethical Issues Involved in of work ticular students have been selected from a be. By Gordon S. Brown believe will be, in the forefront Man's Use of Technology." I do not I respect the integrity group nominated by their government. I Institute Professor Emeritus along these lines. know of anything offered anywhere at system of our Nuclear Engi- know from past experience that all will I preface my remarks about the and value this time that is built on the solid hard I am relieved to learn measure up to our admission standards. I faculty debate over the education of neering faculty, and data, and is of the scope and objectivity, of Iranian am also gratified by the fact that we will nuclear engineers from Iran, by citing the that with a sizeable number that is needed to come to grips with the we will have an have a relatively large group here each act that nuclear power is already here, students in our midst technical, political, economic and ethical of concern year, because with a significant number and will be with us for several decades. audience for our expression trade-offs. The seminars on Technology control these is a chance to develop in Iran a real world being what it is, leads me for the establishment of strict at MIT, and the various The develop movement of sufficient magnitude to and Culture conclude that it is in our own best procedures. As the students offered by individual MIT Pro- to their in'fluence both policy and practice. By subjects to become a piece of the action confidence in us we can strengthen are a good first step,; but some- interest only for educating only a few students each year fessors regulation of fission resolve to use nuclear technology and more visible in its in the world-wide from any one foreign country the voices thing more formal power and in the development of substi- peaceful purposes. entirety is needed. What I have in mind not to train these of reform cannot go critical. tutes. We must do all we can to ensure If MIT should decide would integrate and reinforce what is we will be taking a counter- that all nuclear engineers are educated to Iranians, now going on and permit the calm, that will be greatly to My observations of Persian culture, the highest standards of competence and productive action deliberate and realistic analysis of this disadvantage. By so doing we will not and my discussions with many people, integrity, are made fully aware of their our most complex and urgent problem by a Iran from its plan to have fission teli me that Iran is rapidly becoming a responsibilities, and are motivated and deter wider segment of the campus. It should Iran can obtain nuclear reactors country where many of the world's best helped to add their voice in a responsible power. present factual evidence rather than and will have their scientists will be working. They will be way to the debate about how we manage from several countries, opinion about the Shah's intention to trained elsewhere. Such an both Iranians and expatriates. Many of what we are now doing, and where we go engineers pervert the nuclear power program to the ensure only that we will not them will be Americans. Iran has the next. action would development of atomic weapons. At the establishment that in the desire and the affluence-to influence the Nuclear power technology is a rela- be part of the present time there is no such evidence. time must bring nuclear progress of science and technology on a tively new and highly complicated busi- shortest possible Such a program would permit us to reach in Iran under adequate broad front. I hope their programs will be ness. Advances come slowly since it takes fission power a wide segment of the general pubzc. The in all of its aspects. open to scrutiny. I hope that some of us a decade after the decision is made to operational control message should be directed at the French, seen first hand the respect and can be part of the action. But by rejecting construct a plant before we can learn how I have the German, the Canadian, the Arab, the that our foreign-student the present proposal and by burying our well it will work. But we should not the admiration Israeli, the Iranian, etc. as well as the have for MIT. When they return heads in the sand so to speak, our suddenly stop the construction of nuclear alumni Americans who work in the nuclear- all of them achieve influence will be greatly attenuated. power plants, because the present home substantially power arena as engineers and as policy government, Instead of participating in what is technology is really not that bad. New positions of influence in makers. It should stimulate thinking that We need many becoming an emotional debate over the doctrines for the design of reactors, the industry or education. will lead to the new life style that But in order that their proposed educational program for these regulation of their operation, and the more of them. mankind in both the industrialized and is important that they nuclear engineers, I urge the community disposal of radio-active wastes must be voice be heard it industrializing nations must seek and their own society. at MIT 'not only to proceed aggressively and will be evolved. They must be taught have credibility within adopt in the next several decades. rather than concerned, with this program, but to develop semi- to hundreds of engineers. Our department I anm gratified By participating in Iran's development the fact that these par- nars or suitable programs on what might of Nuclear Engineering must be, and I therefore, by program, and by educating a large num- ber of their future policy makers, our actions can have authenticity. They can sell adrniss io1ns' our leverage to influence 'Universities do not support of MIT's rushing to aid of the maximize open letter was sent to the Humanities purchase the MIT Human- thinking. Doing what I have in (A co(py, of this Shah, whose despotism at home is mankind's ities Department for its own use. mind with the good taste and sense of The Tech. -- Editor) matched by aggressive claims to of nuclear It is axiomatic that admission to the that is needed will be a The very serious question in the Persian Gulf area, claims proportion general university is open to individuals and hegemony take a long time. proliferation aside, the buttressed with American military advice difficult task and will violated by the where spaces are limited, that admission educational principles and material. But it must be done. in nuclear engineering is based on free competition among in- Finally, there is an aspect of the recent special program But we wish to hear and discuss the for and at the behest of dividuals. meetings that deserves mention. arranged by MIT issues in all their complexity. Therefore faculty are so funda- Of course, as with any fundamental dialogue has been unstructured. the Government of- Iran we call for a general Institute forum, a The entire MIT com- principles, these prohibitions might be different issues are mental as to give the public 'inquiry, this spring on the Iranian About half a dozen ponder and debate their broken from time to time given ex- up at random. Most get only a munity pause to program in particular and on the general brought it. tenuating circumstances. We can then ask hearing. Submerged beneath violation and to seek to prevent questions raised therein. fragmentary principle at if a request from the Government of Iran question of whether There is this fundamental Meanwhile we urge the Faculty to the discussion is the constitutes reason to suspend normal should decide stake: Universities are not in the business the Administration a MIT, because of its size, procedures. It is clear to us that it does recommend to of selling admissions singl) -. in lots. on the Iranian pro- whether it will operate as a participatory that it is the Government of year's moratorium They do not arrange to take in a fixed not: note debated in democracy or as a representative demo- request has come. gram while the issues are number of students at the regular fee and Iran from which this among cracy. But over and above this question is to speak committee, among the faculty and beyond _that number only those who can So although it is well and good the simple fact that the Administration the the students, and in the Institute at large. in addition pay the extra costs not of helping the people of Iran, it is not must run the Institute. The question then our help. The Shah has thirty-five years' worth'of underwritten in their case by endowment people of Iran who have asked is how does it seek to obtain the neces- bluntly oil left in the ground; he doesn't need funds, grant mony, etc. A Rockefeller - It is their government, and - put sary advice and council of its consti- a military dicta- nuclear energy tomorrow. no matter how well qualified - could not - that government is tuents. The report of the Ad Hoc Com- For Iran is a IWayne O'Neil buy his way into MIT by offering to torship of the worst.sort. mittee on Outside Commitments, pre- liberties Professor of Literature defray all costs. country in which the basic civil pared, in 1970 and about to be wvblished, a. very Noam A. Chomsky Nor is admission to the University for do not exist, in which any but says a lot about this matter. activity is con- Professor Linguistics sale to special corporate or national narrowly defined political I strongly support the Ad,::.nistra- activity and rewarded April 1i, 1975 interests' IBM could not buy special sidered criminal tion's action to undertake the p- posed with imprisonment, torture, and death. from graduate admission to MIT for even one signed by 55 training- of the Nuclear Engineers We find it difficult to imagine what This letter was also . of its high-powered electrical engineers 6omm'rmunity. Iran. -. arguments can be made in iother members of the HMIT nor could the National Endowment for reasonable THETECH TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1975 PAGE 5

orl. rcriiri ianc ecrr eim umeermng ro rarxi ,Weizenbaum: 'Identification with Iran identifies us with torture By Joseph Weizenbaum "data" on the basis of which the decision simple answer. Things get complicated lran. Professor of Computer Science to go ahead with the proposed program only when one chooses wrongly. President Wiesner just the other d'ay While Robert Benchley was still a law was made and no one who has not had The government of Iran does, as a reminded the faculty of how student at Harvard (and long before he many weeks to study that "data" could matter of State policy, practice torture determinedly many members of the became a Justice of the United States possibly reach sound conclusions about on political dissidents. It'uses the threat faculty recently struggled to prevent the Supreme Court) he was instructed to the proposed program. But at bottom of torture to terrorize and thus to control identification of the Institute as such write a brief for any one of the par- there is a crucial and starkly simple the population. The proposed program of with the anti-Vietnam war views these ticipants is a fisheries dispute between question: When one has, for only a brief technological cooperation between MIT same members held as individuals. Having Canada, Iceland, and Great Britain. He moment, the opportunity to enter a and the Iranian government identifies the then so strenuously sought to guard its carefully cited the many already recorded political prison in which people are tor- Institute with that government. Because virtue from becoming compromised in an arguments in favor of one or another of we are free not to cooperate and because the disputing'nations and then wrote his we know of its policy of terror and brief on behalf of the fish. The matter torture, the identification of the Institute before us here has also produced a record with the Iranian government is at once an of statements, from the President, the identification of the Institute. hence of Provost, Deans, and Professors Emeriti ~-...... --~-.,- me-v;- - ' ,, /; each of its members, with that and otherwise. Each speaks to the in- government's policy of terror and torture. terests of Iran or to those of one or more The brave dissidents who languish in constituencies of the Institute. The pro- Iran's prisons understand this and look to posed program is officially characterized those of us who are still free, particularly as, among other things, an experiment , '.. N . to academics and intellectuals, for sup- designed to measure the impact other port and understanding. They under- such programs might have-on the Insti- stand, and we should too, that every tute. No one appears to have realized that academic delegation that engages in the Iranian people are the actual subjects friendly conversations with their govern- \:' g 'shloB h -'\ of the experiment. They are the fish, so ment leaders buttresses their government I,r to speak, whose interests need first and '..:'"' - :."..'--.- ...... 5euoac··~r b"as and thus prolongs and intensifies their foremost to be defended. and the people's suffering. It is precisely ' -Z We have been told over and over again '' ` ~ on this basis that the Russian physicist that the issues that have been brought to Sakharov opposes closeknit economic and the surface by the proposed program, ..... - t, '..-. technological collaboration between his e.g., those relating to nuclear proli- country and ours. Sakharov has declared feration, to the process of decision that the Soviet state should not be given making at the Institute, to whether or not the advantages of such cooperation until the Institute's resources are for sale, etc., tured, does one act so as to comfort the and unless there exist reliable guarantees act of love, is the Institute now to are exceedingly, even exquisitely complex imprisoned or does one mock them and of internal Soviet liberalization. The same recklessly sell it in a coldly calculated and subtle. It has been said that no one their suffering by counting silver with reasoning and the same principle ought, business transaction consum mated in a who has not had access to all the relevant their tormentors? That question has a in my view, apply to our relations with Teheran hotel room? %-O%-NE I' he Shah's intentions do not favor his people By Mark P. Abbate et. al. independently (an already stated goal) after 20 years starvation, malnutrition, anything in the last 250 years, we must at The recently initiated plan for the and have technicians that can divert fuel illiteracy and poverty abound, while Iran least realize that technology, education or training of 54 Iranian students in nuclear for bomb production. It must also have carries the dubious distinction of being knowledge can be abused, and as the engineering allows a significant number of engineers versed in the difficult task of the world's largest arms importer. Maybe source of that technology, we must take potential harms as its byproducts which handling the plutonium. the Shah wants the people to bite the responsibility for its real consequences. are serious enough to warrant dis- The United States is aware that this bullet. Two points emerge here. At best, The contention that knowledge is di- continuation of the program. Analysis of program allows the Shah to develop if the reactors are used only for energy vorced from the consequences of its Iran's internal and external politics weapons, and clearly has not tried to stop (again, highly unlikely) who will benefit application and hence can be withheld strongly suggests that abuse of the nu- its implementation (in fact it has from it? At worst, contributing nuclear from no one is simply untenable. The clear power capability resulting from probably encouraged it). Coupling this weaponry to the Mideast power struggle case at hand involves nuclear pro- MIT's training is both possible and fact and the makeup of Iran's external creates internal tensions which stifle liferation, coupled with placing the probable. politics, one is practically forced to con- social change, and can externally lead to nuclear weapons into the most dangerous Examining the Iranian government clude that the Shah will build nuclear nuclear holocaust. part of the world, and actively con- itself, one finds that the Shah was weapons. The total political picture In the face of these possible grave tributing to the existence of a terroristic installed in 1953 by a CIA-assisted coup. demands opposition to the program. Iran consequences, why has MIT signed this regime. At this point in the analysis, the The Shah has maintained power and dominates the Persian Gulf region, which contract? Justification is cited in that administration and Nuclear Engineering stability through brutality, oppression is of crucial importance in the world oil developing countries need a strong base concluded, in their words, that the deal and torture. Over the past ten years (and trade. In an area as ripe for war as the of technology to grow on. First, Iran is was a "net plus." Apparently "net" particularly the last couple) Iran has been Mideast, when the inevitable occurs, with already energy rich. If they would divert judgments don't include moral and poli- in the midst of a massive United States Iran as a, participating nuclear power, it even a small amount of their export oil tical concerns (or give them infinitesimal supplied arms and military buildup (it is will be highly likely that the superpowers for internal use, they would have ample significance), since these concerns over- now at the forefront of weapons would become involved - thus a large energy. The 35 year supply statistic is. whelmingly condemn the program. The technology, with the exception of nuclear scale nuclear war could easily become a based on very large export figures. Right point has already been raised that deci- devices), and is presently engaged in reality. Short of full scale nuclear war, now, Iran is burning off excess natural gas sions on the basis of moral or political active aggression in the Persian Gulf however, the mere threat of nuclear at wells. Secondly, there is strong arguments are very difficult. Admittedly region. power in the Mideast (in this case aligned evidence to suggest that nuclear power they are, but it is all the more reason why Based on the thoroughly militaristic with the US) offers a significant for Iran is economically a poor choice. they should be confronted, not ignored. nature of the regime, there are strong destabilizing change of the present Thirdly, again, is MIT dealing with the Has MIT built its reputation on ignoring grounds to assume that the Shah will balance of power. people of Iran? Will the people benefit difficult questions? We're now told that develop nuclear weapons via the If one re-examines the internal aspects from this technology? Does evidence the Iran contract is already signed, and supposedly harmless reactor technology. of Iran in light of the above analysis, it suggest that the Shah will suddenly turn that besides, if MIT doesn't provide the Bomb technology consists of having a becomes clear that the Shah is trying to from repression and militarism to using training, someone else will. This argument source of plutonium, and engineering to maintain a facade of productive tech- all his resources for the good of Iran'? is the last refuge of a Wiesel. If MIT were build the bomb. For Iran to have a source nology. That is, industrialization is sup- Further justification is attempted via to take a stand against this, at least some of plutonium, it must operate the reactor posedly in progress for the people, but academic freedom. If we've learned other universities will take it as an example and also say no. If a mistake has been made in signing the deal, it should be revoked - especially with 'Department doesn't consider politics' consequences of this magnitude. (Continuedfrom previous page) ment had 66 foreign students enrolled as personally endorse the proposals that tion and refueling their plants in order to of September 1974. Forty-four of these have been made to the faculty to create a If Iran is so anxious to solve its be confident of their own ability to students come from governments which committee, either ad hoc or a standing problems with technology, why doesn't it sustain their industry without outside are nondemocratic. Of those 44 students, committee, to review the process and deal directly with those deserving im- help. Thus, their present planning is 24 of them have financial support from make recommendations to the Adminis- mediate attention. Eighty per cent farsighted and essential for their own agencY As government or governmental tration regarding the future. I am con- starvation strongly suggests emph asis continued development. As signatories to ri,,-cy As a matter of policy in the vinced that MIT will have many requests should be on agricultural technology, the Nonproliferation Treaty, they have Department we have never considered the for special programs from developing rather than vast outlays on something so done everything that they have been political view of the country of origin o' countries in the future. It is evident that tenuous as nuclear power (assuming the asked to do with regard to their inten- an applicant, nor have we considered the the area of energy production is not the Shah's intentions are xwith the Iranian tions in- dealing .with nuclear power. If applicant's personal political views, as a only area in which developing countries people). nations such as the United States and condition for admission. Within our own swill -need technical assistance. One can On the basis of academic and tech- others are to tell underdeveloped Department I am certain we have very quickly identify problem areas such nological responsibility regarding nuclear countries that they cannot have the students from Iran who are of divided as medicine and health care delivery, proliferation and actively maintaining benefits of nuclear power, then there is opinion with respect to the Iranian transportation systems, development of dictatorships, we strongly oppose the no question that the Nonproliferation government. Nevertheless, I feel it would natural'resources, and education itself as execution of this training program. Treaty itself will crumble. For most of be a mistake to impose any political areas where any developing country will the undeveloped world their only hope conditions on the admissibilitv of stu- invest its efforts for its own future (.llark P. .Ibbate '76 is a member o.t' fbr industrialization is nuclear power. dents. benefits. I believe that MIT should recog- tht Commnlittee .-Against Training ,VuclLcar The question of dealing with a The final issue, involving the academic nize its unique character as an l-ngineers for the Shah. HIis statement nondemocratic government occurs in all process by which the decision establishing international resource and help countries wias drafjted with the assistance of aspects of our educational prograrnsthere a. ep, t- sp ecia -program was made, in. 'fulfilling' their personial goal of J[loward Shrohe G. A.idrew Cahn '6 and at MIT. The Nuclear Engineering Depart- deserves considerable attention. I industrialization. ' Brucet A ckerlnan; '~7 oJf thdt CComr!nmittee.) s.tion.~ i i PAGE 6 TUESDAY,APRIL 15,1975 THETECH -~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ f ,,m..

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Ziegelheim '75, Dave Dobos '77, Jim Thompson '77, Darwin Fleischaker 6nim49*~ ~A I"M So"~ PIMRUIN6 0W BUT; 41M,- CAN YOU WCLL MWIN( I ME -fCRTA6UAi4T '78. VJIT's"T"W"7fIC V~ ;,, - Arts Department Arts Editors: Neal Vitale '75, Stephen Owades; Associate Arts Editor: Thomas J. Spisak. Co.10mmentary Third Class Postage paid at Boston MA. The Tech is published twice a week during the academic year (except during MIT vacations) and once during the first week of August. Please send all correspondence to: P.O. Box 29 - MIT Branch, Cambridge, MA 02139. Offices at Room W20483, 84 Why a netw. UA cons titution?'S Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. Telephone: (617) 253-1541. Subscription rates available upon request. By Steve Wallman that meeting was almost a body or any group. It cannot A new UA Constitutfion will carbon copy of this one (or is it force or coerce (persuade, per- be on the ballot tomorrow. Over the other way around?). Some haps, but not force or coerce) six years ago, a UA constitution people felt that it was not anybody or group to do any- calling for a general assembly representative enough (they thing ( or not do anything). Letters .to The Tech was voted on in a UA referen- liked the GA idea) others felt What then can it do? This dum. Not long after that pro- that everything was func- will seem like a trivial point, but posal passed, it became generally tioning perfectly the way it was, if you have been involved in TWO views of 'Food' obvious that it was not going to (they favored the abolishment of things, you can start to see the (A copy of this letter was the only exhibit that has been . work. the previous constitution per- importance of it - the Institute sent to The Tech. - Editor) annoying. We have had confetti The General Assembly was iod). Before that, Curtis Reeves Committee can meet and talk Dear Dr. Wiesner: strung in our trees, water set up in a purely and pleasingly (the UA`P two years ago) came and recommend. It calls for a We are a concerned group of dripped in our halls, and mush- representative way. One student up with a three-paragraph consti- gathering of almost all of the students who would like to raise rooms strewn on our steps. Must from each living unit was elected tution that was printed in The people integrally involved in some questions about the exhi- we put up with this again and to represent that unit. HIe would Tech, which gained absolutely providing services and student bit now being shown in Building again? It is embarrassing to us confer with his constituents, no opponents, nor proponents viewpoints to the student body - 7, Food, and about the whole that visitors to MIT see these discuss the issues, and vote in an (except Curtis). There have been and the administration. It ena- idea of "art" in Building 7. exhibits first and see them as informed and representative meetings now for three and one bles the various groups to discuss 1) Safety: A safety officer MIT's idea of art. Why should manner. half years on "what should be joint programs, not as competi- employed by MIT informed a the MIT community be consis- The GA would thus truly done" and the answer has tors but as partners. It allows the group of students last year at tently subjected to this "art" as represent the student body views generally been "who cares?" So student groups to have a larger this time that 1/4" carpet on a defined by a very small group of on all issues. Accordingly, it was you may ask, what am I body to bring issues to and to hallway floor (for the M.E. people? given the power to control and suggesting? I'll tell you. ask for support. It provides for a Student Lounge) was not per- Marian Tomusiak'77 decide on all issues that related Right now we have a system pooling of resources when the mitted because a blind person Gail M. Rubin '76 to undergraduate student that works generally well. Most need arises. It strengthens the wouldn't know it was there and Pat Callahan '75 government. of the operating groups are run student's hand by creating a would trip - seriously now, with Susan Coppersmith '78 This included such things as by anybody who has the time to unified recognizable front when all our senses intact we all felt Channing Lai '75 the Finance Board allocations, work on them. Most of the the actions of the Faculty or the menaced by this exhibit, Food. John C. Wall '73 Nominations Committee ap- groups do well by themselves, Administration require it. It also Ropes, waste baskets, broken Laurie Turkanis '78 pointments, student activities taking care of whatevever small creates a beginning, a founda- "Apple" supports lying unpro- space allocations, Nominations pieces of the earth (or MIT) they tion, which the potential good tected on the hallway of build- (A copy of this letter was Committee appointments, stu- are set up to administer. But of a student government can Mug 9, not even a straight line to sent to Tech Talk which made it I dent activities space allocation, herein lies the problem. Most of continue to grow. walk in - think about the blind available to The Tech for publi- the policies and expenditures of the people in the various activi- This constitution, if it passes, members of our community - cation. - Editor.) the Student Center Committee, ties will agree that cooperation- is not meant to last for all time think about those with walking Dear President Wiesner: movie schedules, grading policy, and communication in student (or even more than a few years). disabilities - is this fair to them? Today there were hundreds the fate of the Draper and government is not very high, It is a compromise between the Is it fair to us? of apples hanging from a fishing 1I Lincoln Labs, and rush pro- that a great deal more can be ideal representative democracy 2) Energy: Huge amounts are net installed up to the ceiling of 17 cedures. done to alleviate at least sched- of everybody coming to meet- used by this exhibit (note blown Lobby 7. So what happened? To begin- uling problems, set up joint ings,' of everybody having circuit breakers in the Dean's Yesterday there were hun- with, the Polaroid Corp. decided programs and run much larger nothing to do but be concerned, Office) - but not as much dreds of mushrooms on the I that it was not going to pay too events, it is just that nobody has with a system near the present perhaps as "Weather," last year's front steps of Lobby 7, crushed I much attention to a GA resolu- any formal mechanism for get- one nobody talking, nobody big display. How can we accept by hundreds of people walking. tion concerning war research, ting this done, and the informal helping, nobody cooperating. As this use when we are trying to Please, may I say: then the SCC decided not to ones have a habit of breaking the students change, and the cut-energy use during the height 1 ) That food is precious enforce some rules concerning down every so often. groups change, this constitution of the energy crisis, not to because millions of people do I mixers and admission procedures So what does the new Consti- allows for quick change. mention waste of money which not have enough food, and and walked out of the meeting, tution call for? To begin with, it People have been talking we address next? because it is expensive, even for then one of Harvey Baker's redefines the Undergraduate about constitutions for over 3) Thousands of dollars!!! American people. enemies (Harvey was a News Association to be the student three years. Let's pass one that Come now. Feed the Cambridge 2) That we, parents and Editor of The Tech at the time), governmental body, as opposed can work, for now, during these poor o help other world star- educators, want to show our 'decided to use the GA to keep to all of the students. This times, that will encourage people ving - don't throw mushrooms young people how to respect Harvey off a committee, then means that when the UAP (or to talk about something else. on the steps and let apples rot in food and how to use it in a way Bexley Hall decided to elect a any other office) talks he is not This constitution guarantees the air? How can we believe the that it will not be spoiled or cat (actually a kitten, I believe) talking for all of the students, peace to all of the various groups MIT deficit problem, understand wasted. - as its representative, then the but simply for the student that now exist, while encour- why we have to pay for class 3) That we are proud of MIT, UAP stopped calling meetings, government which he represents. aging cooperation and a unifica- notes now, and why UROP we do not want people visiting I no one complained, and people He may be providing a valuable tion of roles and resources. money is hard to get when we us from foreign countries go started to think about what else student viewpoint, but he should Maybe this one won't be any see the tuition we're struggling back to their home and tell their they could do. make no mistake about it, he is better than the other; it does to pay for put up in plastic as a friends that we are ignorant and Since then, the various not talking for every individual have three years worth of red blob called an apple. We extravagant. members of student government MIT undergraduate student. thought behind it, but no walk through building 7 and see Thank you very much. have been thinking up new Second, it declares the opera- experience. The Constitution we this incredible sink of time and Michele Halverson constitutions. This constitution ting entities as existant on their have now, on the other- hand, money, then we see in building Bi-weekly employee is nothing new. Last year a own, without the GA, and had much less thought, and has 10, people asking for money for April 10, 1975 meeting was held to try to come independent on their own, free almost the same amount of Vietnamese Relief, Israeli Relief, up with some constitution that from interference from a UAP or experience. Why keep something and the John Asinari Scholarship Editor's Note: There is currently would work. What came out of anybody's executive committee. that hasn't worked for so long? Drive. All this money, time, and a petition drive being conducted r Third, and most important, it There will be a regular meet- Won't you vote to give some- space for the self-indulgence of a to call a special referendum on sets up an Institute Committee. thing new a try? few "artists" whose art is not Lobby 7 exhibits. The proposedF ing of the faculty at 3:15pm This is a totally different Insti- Wednesday in Room 10-250 generally appreciated. referendum would allow the I tute Committee from the pre- ito discuss grades and the Iran- (Steve Wallman '75 is presi- Hi/re raisingth eser questions student;:: tg'erngenta voice in l .968 terTy.be with, it.has _dent .an progra I ....of .... Undergr.aduate in regard to Food, but this isnot exhibits placed in the Lobby. no power o controlr over any- '"TsXS~ii:i 'iid 7 - = ^T M

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I curate reproduction of their best *~~ ~~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 0~ 0 * . 0 6 had no idea it would sound the way it acoustic cuts from their latest album, * . · U 8 8 * S S S ~ ~ c· .. Let There Be Music, and grew heavier did after we got into it I did have that long, stretchy guitar wore on. The electric in mind as the night what Jimi Hendrix or end was sound... like work they did near the what John McLaughlin does... I especially the long blues impressive, John did [influence me directly 1 featuring the wonderful dual think jam a bit. What Mahavishnu was doing at guitar work of John Hall and Larry the time really impressed me, because Hoppen. Unfortunately, their album it was the first time I had heard a band quite meet these high · ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ does not play with that kind of physical impact standards. e U S S S8888 eoo,~~~~o0 0 0 ·0 ·0 ere~~~® · S S 0 S o but [who] also play their instruments The crowd, of course, roared at the t 8 g e e u a e ® .· I= 0 @S a S 0 0 · 6 0 * * ¢ · o *0 S e great." sight of Chick on stage. The band *n9is * * S * * * * m I commented on the continuous with a smooth medley of ~oOO ~EVE* @ * @~~~~~~~~~ *,*Do o ·**e * * * * e * vo opened of his keyboard entourage Stanley Clarke's "Dayride" and expansion and asked him when it was going to "Beyond the Seventh Galaxy." I 0 0 S Ot eo to0 0 * 0 0 **eS * * e e e o eSe * * * a e * * * * stop. The only instrument he plans to *@ v o e Se * e * * @ * o " e * * * v * * · couldn't help being amazed at how a S S * **0 0 *0 * X * * is a large Moog. He's interested in Return to Forever could add band like keyboards but "I'm also so much since their last electric improve becoming reinterested in acoustic C 0 S om · lb 0 · · · 0Boston concert. As usual, Clarke was · · e· ~~~~~~~~~~· .a · * 0 *· ·S· 0 0 08 S S me . . o.' -** · Ze * a · '8BsyWel*. o ille e oX ·* . music. The concept I like is real A superhuman, and Lenny White is a breadth in music and a wide range of providing increasingly formidable com- 6~~co BBreB Ats ° ** 9o °Ue I 1 · sPo~b a @* D e o e Xb 9 o -al 1 o 1l colors and ways of playing." petition for Billy Cobham. O e I S e9- o 0 t o e X*e la a - e e o vJo118[ e 0 ** We spoke about the dichotomy with his sY O 9 s Q e ar a ee d 0 O: ngB - a k G · · Corea was amazing @) 8 All 8 o o o between the two sides of No AMystery. of " °"gB@o e. 8~ ; > @ee e lightning fast riffs at the opening Was he really trying to satisfy two White's "Shadow of Lo." It was Lenny audiences simultaneously? "When we in this piece and in the following first formed the first electric group we extended solo rendition of "Vulcan a lot of people who liked Al were making Worlds" that I began to notice very disappointed and personal us formerly DiMeola's development of a they couldn't get into immediately style. There wasn't as much what we were doing. I don't like to McLaughlin in his playing; he's still lose people who I've established a developing. An interesting and comical friendship musically wilth. So that was in the middle of the pattern emerged the idea to form the music so that it Chick would play a riff and number. of different kinds of would reaches lots each member of the band I peo ple." attempt to duplicate it. At times it was Chick's music has been exploring so how tight hilarious and- it showed just many types of music that Return to the band can be. Forever no longer has one "sound." "I The renditions of "No Mystery" I don't enjoy playing one kind of music "Celebration Suite" were faithful and I because I can feel good playing music to their recorded versions and brought I and if I just do it without thinking a delightful change of pace to the about it, it comes out different. I'm concert. The encore medley of "Jungle to find a balance in life where I (the latter trying Waterfall" and "Lopsy Lu" Chick Corea myself continue to get freer and more album) spotlighted from Clarke's solo I aware of the people and create better, bassist. With little effort he folks), follows the trend of driving provisational duet between Corea and the master but at the-same time not lose touch melody of a rhythm- reminiscent of Clarke and works very well. The executed the bass line and funk with with the world that I'm living in and Juice." "Flight of the New- remainder of the side is devoted to "Lopsy" - simultaneously! "Earth stay in contact with people and Return to Forever frightens me a born" is basically an improvisational "Celebration Suite." A drum roil and organ fanfare reminiscent of bullfight reality. What we're doing is for people bit, because I can't conceive of how outlet for nineteen-year-old guitarist and then after that how each indi- much more they can improve. It is no Al Di Meola. Al is an amazingly fast music. Chick is then featured on a phase shifted organ chorale solo and vidual contributes to it." doubt, however, that Chick Corea and technician, but he lacks the However, of his many musical band have left Weather Report, The musicianship of his predecessor, Bill snare drum duet with Lenny White. A very latin improvisation section styles, there is one that is close to his Mahavishnu Orchestra, and The Connors (who left RTF when he heart. "If I looked really closely and Eleventh House crawling in the wake thought the band was getting too features all members of the band. The major problem with Chick personally at what I myself enjoy, I'd -of their accomplishments. funky). He's possibly been listening to enjoy playing very delicate acoustic too many Mahavishnu Orchestra Corea's Hymn album was the lack of tonal variety among the pieces. The music. But that's a very personal thing records. "Sofistifunk"' is written by which I couldn't feel satisfied doing Return To Forever's No Mystery drummer Lenny White and features a next record Where Have I Known You Before resolved this predicament, but for really long periods of time because sequenced synthesizer introduction. it just concerns me in relation to strange mixture of was lacking in overall musical value. I With the release of each Return to Corea includes a myself." I Forever album, Chick Corea experi- textures in "Excerpt from the First Both aspects are satisfied admirably quite well on No Mystery - Corea has Why is Chick trying for a hit single? ments with new musical ideas. Hymn Movement of Heavy Metal." It opens "'Jungle Waterfall' was reallly an piano solo succeeded in releasing a fine disc I of the -Seventh Galaxy was his first with a pompous acoustic experiment. For the first time I said, into an acid-rock passage which will satisfy his "pure jazz" fans, heavy electric album. Where Have I and fades If we louder and louder, as well as allowing more rock en- 'Okay, stop messing around. Known You Before explores syn- which grows audience moving towards it's own destruction. thusiasts to become interested in his want to hit that kind of an thesizers, organs- and acoustic pianos. let's do it and say we're going to do it! i As his style gradually changed, Chick (Is Corea commenting on the late music. Perhaps more of his con- I temporaries should follow suit. So I sat down and I said, 'Okay, how i .began to reach a wider, younger sixties?) As the distortion fades the I communicate to that audience?' returns and ends the Discography: can audience, while alienating some of his acoustic piano and then just wrote that piece." more traditional jazz fans. However, cut on a quiet note. is a Interestingly, the album seems sub- Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor Chick Corea, the individual, with his latest release No Mystery, I warm, friendly human being. Besides liminally geared towards Top 40. The PD5336) Chick will have all actions smiling. granting me the last-minute, un- secret of No Mystery's success cover resembles a commercial Where Have I Known You Before The scheduled interview, he eliminated all is that it's two albums in one. Side one psychedelic cover of the '67-'68 era; (Polydor PD6509) inside are enclosed pictures of the No Mystery (Polydor PD 6512) of the security and management is the hard rock, funky, electric, foot- hassles that confronted me backstage stomping Chick; side two is tasteful friends and relatives of the band, and I the address for correspondence (a fan at the Orpheum. sophisticated acoustic and electric Chick plans to tour club?!). Side two opens with "No In the future jazz. The album opens with Backstage At The Orpheum until June, where a long vacation will Mystery," which is perhaps the high "Dayride," a heavy funky piece leave him performing only a few penned by bassist Stanley Clarke. point of the album. The band is very I tight, but with little restriction, and Chick Corea was gracious enough to sporadic large rock festivals this Synthesizers predominate in contra- summer. In the fall, we can expect puntal fashion, and Chick even joins in it's probably the only opportunity grant me a personal interview before you'll have to hear the entire band the concert. With children Thad and tours of Japan and the US, as well as a on vocals with one riff.."Jungle Water- solo album featuring pianist Gayle fall" (believe it or not, they're trying play together with no electric instru- Lee Lee on each knee and close friend with the Maha- Moran. to get a hit single out of this one, ments. "Interplay" is an im- Gayle Moran (pianist -- I -- m Illk , . , t ,- , . - II I --I . I.- -·· --- , __ - - · -lrBBWIBIBI1IIIBB1BB':------·c--I I _I- - L ------IL I - I-- LI ------AFd

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-i patchily, by Beverly DalPozzal. I. Trial Boy Jury is one of the shortest works composed by Messrs. Gilbert & Sullivan, but it is just as flashy as their longer operettas. Mr. Sutton is in top form as Edwin, the man who is being sued for breach of promise by Amgelina. Cheryl McDermott as Angelina is exactly :~g the character called for by the play. She is light and exuberant, yet at the same time beautiful and tragicomic. i: ...-- However, it is the Judge, executed by Trent Jones, who makes this production superb. He mugs his way through some of the most difficult patter ever written. His light interpretation adds charm to the stage and he is a perfect foil for the rest Gilbert & Sullivan for the masses of the cast. A competent orchestra under the by William Schaffner expert leadership of Christopher Blair The Boston Light Opera, Ltd., is a such excellent standards for the players debits. Pinafore is a compliment to the helps to augment the fine voices of the company designed to offer high quality lacks technical finesse. It is obvious that superb direction of Francis Piatti and cast. The orchestra is quiet enough to live theatre for the price of a first-run the technical problems are due partly to Kathleen Lang Nuber, and is a showcase allow the voices to carry. An added treat movie. Thus, for S3.50 ($2.50 for a the lack of working capital that unfor- for the entire cast. Robert Sutton, an is the use of the original Sullivan score in Sunday matinee) you can spend an tunately afflicts new theatrical com- MIT alumnus, sings Ralph with seemingly Trial. evening watching H.M.S. Pinafore. On panies. The sets for both productions effortless ease. His outstanding voice is The Boston Light Opera, Ltd. is a new Friday and Saturday evenings, Trial By were poorly designed and sloppily the perfect complement to Denise company-Friday evening was its pre- Jury is offered as a curtain raiser. This is a painted. The lighting, although accept- Freeland's (Josephine) lovely soprano. miere performance-and it promises many double bill not to be missed by those who able, shows little imagination. This Norman Nuber, who played IHiggins in fine shows in the future. Technical areas I feel that good theatre dissappeared when unfortunate combination detracts the MTG production of My Fair Lady, need improvement, but the production is the MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Society was strongly from the rest of the show. gives an outstanding interpretation of Sir laudable for its high caliber of acting. So absorbed into the Musical Theatre Guild. Makeup, with only two exceptions, is Joseph Porter, the socially discriminating everyone, Gilbert & Sullivan fan or not, I The entire production is staged with a mediocre, and some of the costumes need Admiral of the British fleet who hopes to should see this performance and help I flair I have never seen before in revamping. Josephine, a lovely girl, is wed Josephine. celebrate the birth of a talented troupe. dressed like a fishwife: Dick Deadeye is overacted to perfec- at the Madeleine Lee TheatreI semi-professional theatre. Every actor on .1 stage knows precisely what to do, down The entire production thus rests upon tion by Philip Baas; his performance 140 Clarendon St., Boston toi the smallest gesture, and opening night the merits of the company and the alone is worth the price of admission. April 25, 27; May 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 jitters were all but absent. orchestra. And a cast of this quality could Mark Owen adds gusto to the sailor Eves. at 8 pm, Sun. Mat. at 2 pm It is a shame that a production with easily make up for far more. serious chorus, and his solo is the best in the No reservations f I I --. . - - .I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MI9'ynip ony ( rc estra - spring tour preview by Stephen Owades The program presented by conductor orchestra (and conductor) and soloist was David Epstein and the MIT Symphony less than perfect, and Mrs. Erdely's ten- Orchestra on March 15 in Kresge con- dency to rush toward cadences led to tained the works that the orchestra has some splayed downbeats. The orchestra prepared for its spring tour (which will be acquitted itself well in the Mozart, with confined this year to a series of day-trips outstanding solo woodwind playing. to nearby colleges). Thus it was with The Bartok Concerto for Orchestra particular interest that I attended the was presented after intermission. Known Kresge concert, since the opinions of as a tough fest for even the most virtuiosic many outsiders (and particularly prospec- of orchestras, the Concerto must have tive MIT students) about music at MIT been a great challenge to the MIT are affected by what they hear of the Symphony players. The results were most MIT Symphony on tour. As always, the satisfying. :All of the difficult solo lines, orchestra has nothing to be ashamed of. scattered throughout the entire orchestra I Kresge Auditorium and its balky (thus a "'oncerto for orchestra"), were I acoustics presented a serious problem in played with accuracy and a confidence the opening piece, the Overture to Die that belied the anxiety which any instru- Teufels Lustschloss ("The Devil's Pal- mentalist must feel when faced with the I ace") of Schubert. The electronic rever- legendary difficulty of this score. David i beration system, which must be carefully Epstein's concern for the rhythmic struc- adjusted to aid the otherwise dry sound ture and flow of large-scale works made of the hall without itself becoming ob- itself evident in an interpretation that trusive, added a wiry and metallic sound, spanned an unbroken arch and kept the especially to the strings in their upper rapt attention of the audience through- register. The overture itself is rather out. (It was, in fact, as successful an lightweight, relying heavily on hackneyed interpretation of the Concerto for Or- o gimmicks to convey an atmosphere of chestra as I have ever heard.) Upon suspense. It didn't seem to inspire the rehearing this piece on the WTBS broad- orchestra's best efforts, though except for cast, my attention was drawn to various some shaky and tentative chords from the flaws in ensemble that had passed unno- trombones (in a difficult, exposed sec- ticed in concert, but the emotional inten- tion), the playing was serviceable enough. sity of the performance would have hid- Some attention seemed to have been den or excused far more serious prob- paid to the reverberation system 'before lems. the next piece, Portals by Carl Ruggles, since the wiriness was no longer apparent. John Buttrick, director of music at Portals is written for string orchestra in MIT, and Beatrice Erdely will participate the powerful, blocklike fashion charac- in a performance of Bartok's Sonata for teristic of Ruggies, and the decisive and Two Pianos and Percussion in the MIT II unanimous attacks of the MIT ensemble Chamber Players' final concert of the conveyed the uncompromising spirit of season this Wednesday night, April 16, at the music. 8 pm in Kresge. The percussionists will be Beatrice Erdely, the wife of MIT music David Stork (whose percussion playing in faculty member Stephen Erdely, was the the Crumb Madrigals on the last Chamber II soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto in A Players program was one of the highlights Major, K 488. Though she played all the of the evening), Leslie Markman, and notes efficiently enough, the sparkle Richard Horn. which the outer movements demand was Also on the program will be Hummel's largely missing-though perhaps the over- Quartet for Clarinet and Strings, Irving refined tone of' the Bosendorfer piano Fine's Quintet for Winds, and Introduc- I was partly to blame. The rapport between tion and Allegro of Ravel. photo by Stephen Owades- David Epstein conducts MIT Symphony I . I I I I ...... i iLJ...... iniEII I i i · ai ...... t i ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'.Ii -A - I -- -if~ P------ I - -s I - -- -- ,, I,

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Tensegrity from Greece to Cambridge i I by Guy Nordenson -·

Dr. Hugh Kenner was at MIT lasf ferent thougfh equally powerful usage art-object is thus divorced from its duly Wednesday for an in formal talk of this space to both -tie together original context in the artists work to nosted sponsored by the Course XXI Society seemingly jarring subjects and express serve as evidence of some thematic. (an "organization" 'of humanities the tensions that can only be com- qualitative or chronological intent. majors). Dr. Kenner; a Professor of municated silences. Overall, Dr. Kenner concentrated thsrmas j spisak Twentieth Century Literature at Johns Responding to a question by on the meaning of words and language. Hopkins University, is the author of Barbara Sirota, Kenner elaborated this Language has, according to him, books on Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, metaphorical connection between evolved to the point that the words I James Joyce and- R. Buckminster 20th Century poetry and Fuller's and lines have become the basic units Berserkers Planet - Fuller. Tensegrity. He pointed out that the of a kind of literary construction Fred Saverhagen Kenner brought along a Tensegrity same discontinuity that underlies them business. Novels rise from a careful, (DAW Books, 173 pages, $1.25) Sphere to illustrate his remarks. The pervades throughout much of con- and arbitrary, blueprint: beginning Fred Saberhagen is a modestly Tensegrity (tentional integrity) is the temporary art; that it has as well much with a point of view, insight, plot, etc.. competent writer of pulp science sinmplest example of the principles of our cultural patterns (e.g. the recent The novelist adds on structure and fiction. His graceless style is well which extended include those of the switch from continuous to digital superstructure ("And besides," "And suited to his favorite topic - the war famous Geodesics. The Tensegrity- displays in clocks, stereos etc . .). over and above that...") till the betvween man and a race of doomsday Sphere is made up of 12 sticks Kenner spoke as well to the whole · thing is sufficiently fleshed out. robots known as the Perserkers. While (actually dowels) held in 4 intersecting pecularities of academic learning. In According to Kenner this process his writing is unlikely to be long planes by wires extending from their response to a remark by Mykl Castro underlies much -of contemporary remembered, it just happens to work. ends. The Tensegrity is.-particularly concerning the "museum-ification" of literature and to .some extent other Berserkers Planet, his latest effort, is useful for demonstration purposes visual art, Kenner pointed out that arts. good enough to spend an afternoon since it effectively separates the much the same was occuring in poetry The evening was essentially Fuller- reading. There are no pretensions to compressive and tensive stresses To accomodate the classic "survey" esque, extending over an astonishingly making enduring statements about the lrespectively along the sticks and wire. course, anthologies have emerged as wide range of topics. Like Fuller, human condition. Saberhagen only The wires then lie outside and the arbiters of "importance" and "rele- Kenner does not prepare his lectures, claims to be entertaining; this time he dowels inside the sphere outlined by vance." The student can then be led but instead will let the topic emerge has succeeded. their points of intersection. by the hand through these museums, *from a rather free-flowing exposition Centering on this sphere Kenner pausing to note each piece. The of his extensive knowledge. s continued, using its system of dif- -ferentiating tensions and compression 2018 A.D. or The KiXzg Kong Blues - to illustrate aspects of Pound's and Sam J. Lundquist other's poetry. He explained his (DAW Books, 153 p. $1.25) notion of the space between words, Billed as the succ :. ;)r of Brave New noting that early Greek did not World, 1984 and ,l CI ckwork Orange originally include,. Greek was origin- this crock fills . ne of its promises. ally written across the page then The situation 'contrived, the plot around and backward, and around hoarier than J.:;.us Ceaser, and the again and forward, much as a plough ending inconsist.nt with the rest of runs across a field. The space between the story. Lunc; iuist has presented us words most likely came along with the with The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit philosophic differentiation of a con- 'set in the twent-first century, the tinuous "real" into particular "ideas." ending of which does not seem Anyone who has listened to a foreign plausible within the previous construc- language which they did not under- tion. I hope that the translation of this stand can attest to the tendency of the tripe was bad, otherwise the reading words to run into one another. At public of Sweden has less taste than most, phrases may be isolated, but it is the rest of the world. only in the written language that the words separate. - I It is only in 19th century France Two sets of re-releases to be that the potential, poetic and other- thankful for are Simon and Schuster wise, -of this late addition to the doing Henry Miller and Pinnacle doing alphabet was fully understood and the Hornblower saga. Miller is the implemented. It was the Symbolist greatest living American movelist. poets and in particular Stephane While his general reputation is based Mallarme who gave these "silences" on the "pornographic Tropic of their place in verse.. Through Ezra Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, his Pound and T.S. Eliot and later William lesser known works, like The Colossus Carlos Williams this element entered 'of Mfaroussi and Big Sur, demonstrates English verse. Both poets made dif- photo by Mike Garcia Hugh Kenner a deep and abiding love of writing and I life (n.b. it iw very difficult to seperate the two in his work.). His craftsman- ship is magnificent. Simon and Schuster seems to be selling the books yeroin from Turkey to Long Islanad at $1.95: each. They are more than worth it. by Michael D. McNamee The Hornblower saga is a very fine study of a man in command. The saga The Heroin Trail or the drug culture; drug users could class-Long Island view of the drug also is good entertainment, there are By the Staff and Editors of Newsday not be dependended on to be "credi- culture and its inhabitants. As a enough blood, gore, and death to Holt, Rinehart, and Winston; ble sources;" there was nothing avail- documentary for tracing the "busi- satisfy all but the most hardened TV $8.95, 313pp. able to report but the official side, ness" side of drugs across the globe, it western fanatic. While it does have its The events of the 1960s -- antiwar which promptly became folk wisdom, is excxcellent; as a story for under- share of warts, like Forester's habit of protests, counterculture, civil rights, common knolwedge, and accepted standing the why of drug usage within signallingthat Hornblower is doing racial violence, and so forth - caught dogma - right or wrong. Even the a mile of Newsday's Garden City something heroic or brilliant by having many American institutions unaware, most comprehensive attempts to cover offices it fails. the hero worry about whether it is but probably nine more so than the the drug situation by the "straight" This failing becomes noticeable heroic or brilliant or what he should press. Reporters and editors found media failed on these grounds. only in the last few chapters, after the have done, the saga is among the most -that, while they had no problems with That, if anything, is the weakness reporters have finished telling their imitated series of books on the riots or marches or demonstrations, of The Heroin Trail, a book composed globe-trotting story of crime and vice market. At $1.50 each, the six books the root issues which they should have of reprints of the Pulitzer Prize- and smuggling, when they get to New that have been released already are a been covering - the causes for the winning Newsday (a Long Island news- York and Long Island and try to damned good buy. looting, rioting, and demonstrations paper) series on heroin. The series, explain to their readers what happens I -usually escaped them. As reporters which ran daily from February 1 to at home. Until then the story is fairly I and editors are wont to do when they March 4, 1974, represents and incred- standard investigative reporters stuff. find themselves unable to cover some- ible alolocation of newspaper re- Like all the newspapers of the 1960s, thing adequately, they fell back upon sources and reportorial talent on one however, when the social issues come official explanations and pat theories subject - 14 reporters in 13 Asian and to the fore, Newsday fails. to explain what they really didn't European countries, proeuding 32 Perhaps the book would be better if know how to explain (and perhaps excellent articles tracing the heroin the reporters who worked on the New could not have explained in terms of business from the poppy fields of York/Long. Island end had come standard journalism); this failure, as turkey literally to the arms of the forward with personal essays or chap- much as anything else, accounts for Long Island addicts. ters at the end. The traditional news- the growth of the alternative press, the But the book still suffers from paper "feature" cliches they appar- new journalism, and other such -forms newspaper myopia - from the accept- ently feel required to -use in the in that troubled decade. ance of cifficial theory and dogma, articles just don't convey what they Drag coverage by the media is an from the riding of old "common probably could say about drug use. extreme case of that weakness. Repor- knowledge" about drugs and their They've left out an important part of ters didn't know anything about drugs effects, and from a standard middle- the story. I -11-1."'I - - M-a, 11*1-- - ii il6 ...- l .. ,.-- .s ; ..<-d-.i- . FE PAGE 10 TUESDAY. APRIL 15. 1975 THE TECH -- - -- . - -1I . I------ -i I IN TERA C TI VE L EC TURES'. Eleven unique recordings, by Morrison,- Lettvin, S'agan, Wlood,' .a-i) coznrnitm' ee c~is Pan e Margulis, Siever, and Coleman. With Electrowriter sketches by the, speaker and numerous answers to interesting questions. Can be used (Continued from page 3) science data and research is very with social science data on at Polaroid, 740 Main Street. For further info, please call Karen jects, another faculty committee much is the air, and is a matter individuals, Houston at 864-6000, ext. 2800. he said, don't realize L i in a position to oversee any of great concern to the commit- that their work i~ I _ .. " -- falls in the. ------RI N' research involving the use of tee right now," said Dr. Warren committee's jurisdiction, and so ,...4Jfl NMMM=Mkl, data such as that which was Point, Associate Medical Direc- don't report to the group. "It's l z contained in the intelligence tor and chairman of the Human very difficult to ensure that MAI-N MARKET files, suffers from almost as Use, Committee. "We've been people report to the committee 782 Main Street much confusion as the Commit- studying the question intently on this type of research," Point tee on the Special Laboratories. for several weeks now and said. "Computerized data is the The Human Use Committee is haven't been able to formulate worst kind - many people don't Nearest Supermarket to MIT not sure what its charge is any clear guidelines." realize the possibility for abuse regarding work undertaken at The Human Use Committee, of such data. They don't think Food - Beer and -Wine Lincoln Labs, or regarding pro- which is charged with "making of the data as representing FREE DELIVERIES TO MIT jects involving the use of compu- sure human experimental sub- people." I terized data in social science jects aren't misused or abused," The MIT research in question i 547-840 research. normally would have jurisdiction involved computer modeling ex- \\\s M! - I I 1:11------ 1 1 i I Similar confusion over Lincoln research, Point periments, based on data com- "The whole area of social said. But many people working piled by the US Army Intelli- gence Command on antiwar -N--l 4--m civilians. The data reportedly a T ELA - vak,, was received at Lincoln over the W-1 a ARPANET, a research oriented x computer network I funded by the Department of Defense. ' Baker House Explorer Post 76-- The nature of the work which has a specialty in General would make it "unlikely" that Science and Engineering, is launching researchers would report to his its first major membership drive committee, Point said. "To be amongst the M4IT community. The perfectly Post is open to any high-school-age honest," he told The teenager, with preference given to Tech, "there are a lot of relatives of MIT affiliated people. loopholes in the way the com- Adults wishing to help out. or mittee's charge is set up. There anyone wishing intformation, contact are a lot of projects that-go on Neil Kaden (494-0440, or x3-3162). without any review." Meetings are held every' other Wed. in Baker House from 7pm to 9pm.

The semi-annual Course VI Steak Fry will be held Thursday April 24, at 6pm in the iobby( ; Bluildin 1 3. There will be steaks. .- tatoes, salads and cold beer and so'... Tickets are S3.25 and are avail ,ble in Room 38-476.

: APO *and the Vietna ;iese Stu- dents Association will soonsor a Funds Relief Drive to help the refugees in South Vietnam. Booth will be set up in Lobby 10, April 16 to May 9, from 1Oam to 3pm.

A display of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and weaving, sponsored by Women Exhibiting in Boston (WEB), is at the Center for Research on Women in Higher Education and the Professions in Cheever House, 828 Washington St., Wellesley. The exhi- L. bit is open from 2:30 - 4:30pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday through May 23. "Women/Erotica," an exhibit of erotic art done by five New England women, will be on display April 9-17 in 200 Billings Hall at Wellesley.

* Walter Sullivan, author, Science Editor of the New York Times, and explorer, will speak on "The Earth's Environment - Can We Survive?", on Thursday, April 17, at 8pm in the Lowe Auditorium of the Arlington T High School, 869 Massachusetts i Avenue, Arlington. L--- -- ' I ---

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,&A. urw . I I v I I Emmilk . ff Wm aw a J LIM 3 0 c ies s JN VVIIM - (Continued from page 12) them any pickoff move. runs scored; and Dziekan had time Tufts had left the field and Bowdoin's field still had snoW- three RBI, three hits (including a was ready to hit. Then came the on it in places, but this could double and a triple) in six trips incredible decision, when the not cool the Beaver bats that and two runs scored. Henriksson umpire at the plate decided that had been frustrated for so long. smashed a bases-loaded triple in the ball had really hit the After a stretch of five games the sixth, Kummer went one for ground, ordered Tufts to take with only twenty hits and ten two, scored twice and added two the field again, put the r4unners runs, MIT pounded out twelve RBI;, Felton connected for two on first, second, and third with hits and cashed in 15 walks from hits in three at-bats, three runs, two outs, with MIT still at bat. the Bowdoin pitchers to bury and two RBI, and David Yauch This was understandably too the Polar Bears, 20-3. The '75 got one hit in two trips, much for .the Jumbos, who Beavers saw a 3-0 lead vanish as three walks, four runs, and two angrily claimed then that the Bowdoin got three walks arnd stolen bases. Royal pitched the ball had never hit the ground, three Texas league singles on first six frames and picked up his that it wasn't right to let their pop flies to knot the score, 3-3 fourth win against one loss. pitcher sit for fifteen minutes .in the second inning. MIT then The Beavers will face Harvard waiting for a call to be made, scored 17 runs, eight in the sixth Tuesday and Lowell Tech Wed- but the home plate umpire stuck inning, to put the game away. nesday, both on Briggs Field at to his decision, and the infuri- It was Bowdoin's turn to 3pm. Both are crucial games, ated Jumbos took the field. strand runners, as they left 15 and the Beavers must also However, Rick Olson '78 hit an men on base while the Beavers overcome their problem of embarassingly innocuous ground left only six on the sacks while losing their home contests. Then Members of the Yale's women's crew team receive the Eisenberg Cup ball to the second baseman, who wheeling twenty runs. Beaver on Saturday, the Beavers will from MIT's Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Carola Eisenberg (fourth flipped it to first to squash the batting stars were legion, as travel to Wesleyan, the reigning from left). MIT placed third behind the Elis and Princeton in this rally. Maconi went two for three, with New England ECAC champs, for year's inaugural competition. From 'then on the game was three RBI, three walks, and two a 2pm contest. nasty, featuring junior Mike Royal's tackle of Bob Berluti between third and home, after AtSd& AMk Berluti had crashed third base- man Felton on an earlier play knocking him out of the game. Tufts tried to give the game away in the ninth inning, but Vince Maconi '76 took a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded and two outs for a called third strike to end the nightmare. The Beavers collapsed against Bates Friday, as they could muster' only four singles off Bates sidearmer John Willhoite. The Bobcats scored in every inning but the fourth, collecting thirteen hits and eight stolen bases on their way to a 13-0 victory. The Beavers again lacked the clutch hit and played a very poor game in the field, as several fly balls sailed over outfielders' heads, and the Bates baserunners ran wild when pitch- er Rick Olson '78 did not show W softball faces I BU Friday night By Kathy Roggenkamp (Kathy Roggenkamp '77 is a member of the women 's softball team. J The MIT women's softball season will begin Friday after- noon when the team faces Boston University at Nickerson Field at 6:00. Preparation for the four-game season began in mid-March with workouts in Rockwell Cage. In April, the team began concentrated prac- tive outside under the direction of grad student Dave Castanon. Individually, the team mem- bers are more talented than those who played last season. That team faced only Brown and lost decisively. The success of I women's softball at MIT this year will depend on how well the women work together. Big bats for the team may include Lisa Jablonski 77, Maura- Sullivan '76, and Fran Lussier G. The MIT nine will play at Tie ervvvi- bJl : UNH April 29) and here against -Chalre'tsc. I10 p55 . . .. Emerson May 2. why it's called Gireen:.-. > . .G ...... ; ...- ....-... .- --. , -I-To samuple this IFefu:'lr i :ik(tte-;a in ali -IS:states) ask a bartender to fix some. 1He mlyt -::'ay, Whatfs Swampwater?-Give him the reci-et ~CIt' 8PEEDY® :i: -To I , ounces of Green Chartreuse, INSTANT PRINTING ::add 6 ounces pineapple juice, ¼ lime 876-6098 1 and ice. Stir. 895 MAIN STREET CAMBRIDCE. MASSACHUSETTS ::Note: Foir do-it-yvouLrseIfe.s, one bottle of COPIES WHIL E YOU WA TCH! ::G"rGeen Chantneuse makes one gallon of a Advertising Flyers a Contracts a Business Forms a Programs S.ampW'ater.--:-- * Newsletters a Resumes IMPORTED BY SCHIEFFELIN &CO.. 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s~~~nrtW so ) C "t------__----p----l - -1 Il OF neavrers srnagsh Bow~doion After Bates, Tufts losses By Lawrence D. David then had their chance to get The MIT baseball Beavers back. in the game in one of extended their losing streak to the strangest baseball incidents three games with uninspired ever to take place at Briggs losses to Tufts, 8-4, and to Fields. Bates, 13-0. then rebounded There were two outs in the Saturday to roast the Bowdoin bottom of the MIT seventh, with Polar Bears on their own field, Roy Henriksson '76 on second 20-3. The Beavers will take a 7-4 and Jeff lelton '78 on first. mark into their biggest game of Steve Edelson '76 struck out and the season versus Harvard on the catcher rolled the ball back Tuesday. to the mound, thinking that the On Tuesday April 8th the third out had been made. Tufts Jumbos stampeded the However, Coach Fran O'Brien Beavers, 8-4, as the Beaver bats had other ideas, as he ordered could not produce any key hits his men to run the bases, as the Lacrosse co-captain Rick Bye '75 (25) tries to dodge three Amherst defenders in Saturday's 12-8 loss with men on base. ball had hit the ground as while Engineer Defenseman Craig Johnston '77 (9) looks on. Edelson swung at it and thus was MIT had hammered out a 3-1 still alive. A third strike pitch lead at the end of three innings that hits the ground cannot be on the strength of Dan legally caught by the catcher, Amherst rallies to top la crosse Sundberg's single, which scored and thus the catcher must either Mike Dziekan '76 and Herb tag the batter-runner with the Kummer '75. The Tufts catcher By Glenn Brownstein pass from George Braun '75 at 47 seconds later, Amherst scored ball or throw the ball to third, heaved the ball into right field Scoring six goals in the final the 2:43 mark to put the Engi- the game-winning goal, that took second, or preferably first base trying to get the quarter, Amherst's varsity la- neers in front, 1-0. Evan much of the fight out of MIT, sophomore for a force-out in order to put speedster going back to first, and crosse team broke open a close Schwartz '75 followed with a on a semi-break. Bob Minicucci the batter out in this situation. Sundberg legged it around the game to defeat MIT, 12-8. The score one minute later to put tallied the clincher, one 6f four The catcher had done none of basepaths on the three-base error Engineers led three times in the MIT up 2-0. goals that afternoon for the these and all three runners came to put the Beavers up by two. game (2-0, 3-2, 6-5), but had Amherst attackman. around to score. Amherst rallied to tie the Then the roof fell in. their problems with Amherst in Amherst' then added three Meanwhile, Coach O'Brien the final score at 3-all early in the second period as the Lord Jeffs more times before Rich Henige IiD Tufts catcher Mike Russo quarter, though, and the teams ii( argued with the umpires, claim- scored four straight goals mid- '75 scooped a ground ball into blasted a three-run homer in the ing that the pitch hit the ground traded goals three times to send way in the quarter to gain the the net to close out the scoring. fourth to put Tufts up to stay, and that Edelson had never been the squads into the game's final f. victory. Amherst outshot MIT, 59-24 4-3. GBL All-Star Bill Norton put out. The argument raged on fifteen minutes tied, 6-6. Y For the first time this year, (37-13 on net), but the Engi- Throughout this season, MIT a- made it 5-3 with a run-scoring for fifteen minutes, in which MIT scored the first goal of the has started games slowly, allow- neers stayed in the game largely double in the fifth. The Beavers (Please turn to page ]1) game as Bob Connor '75 took a ing opponents to roll to five- and on the strength of sophomore 01% m a EM six-goal leads early in the con- Jeff Singer's goaltending. Singer r; Or& made 24 saves in his best single- Y test. Although the Engineers had 7. %.*VI wgw&W,#%ats 'YA 01 iarns, u ts no problem in the early mo- game performance of the year. ,l Also sharp in net was middle By Bob Nilsson point, Harrison losing 5 and 4 to ments of the Amherst game, the score of 5 and 4 means that the Bob Kenley '75, who made a (Bob Nilsson '76 is a member Tufts; Bob Kneeland '77 num- team's recurrent "first-quarter winner closed out his opponent difficult save in the second peri- of AMIT's golf team.) ber five, and John Nugent '77, blues" came in the fourth I on the 14th hole, being five od while substituting In a golf match as exciting as number six, swept their matches, quarter this time, as Amherst for Singer, holes up with only four holes to who was serving a slashing penal- Jack Nicklaus' win in this week- Kneeland up on both and steamrolled MIT. go. Should 'the match end on the ty at the time. end's Masters Tournament, the Nugent 2 up on his two eighteenth hole the outcome is After two Amherst goals in Engineers topped two of New opponents. expressed as one or two up. MIT's difficult schedule (six the period's first two minutes of New England's top eleven England's perennial golf powers, Bonnell, in the thriller against The week of spring break was had staked the Lord Jeffs to an Wesleyan and Tufts, on Friday Tufts, won on the first hole of spent shaping up the team's teams) continues today at 8-6 lead, a Braun-to-Schwartz Bowdoin. The to open the team's spring season. his sudden death playoff. He game in Georgia and Florida. Engineers then goal at the 5:29 mark brought also defefeated Wesleyan 5 and The team played matches in return home Friday to play Holy MIT within one. However, just The match was highlighted by 4. The final scores were 5-2 Savannah, Ga. against Armstrong Cross in a 4:00pm contest. --I - -- - I ---- U - -I - L--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ two sudden death playoffs with against Wesleyan and 4-3 against State College before heading to I the outcome of the meet in Tufts. These wins boosted the Melbourne, Fla. where they l doubt until MIT's number seven year's record to 5-1-1. stayed at FIT and played at the golfer Leo Bonnell '77 won on For those unfamiliar with Admiralty Golf Club. Along the the 19th hole. Captain Peter scoring in golf matches, there are way the team also matched up Wolczanski '76, playing number seven team members who com- against Williams College at Sea one, downed his Wesleyan oppo- pete head to head in 18 hole Island Country Club and nent 3 and 2, but lost to Tufts 2 match play with the corres- Valdosta State and California down. Number two for MIT, ponding number on the opposite State at Francis Lake Country Mark Swenson '78, defeated team. One point is awarded to Club, both in Georgia. Wesleyan 1 up and Tufts 5 and the victor in each match. The The golfers always face their 4. MIT's numbers three Jim outcome of the individual toughest competition in the Harrison '76 and four Bob matches are expressed in terms spring when the schedule in- Nilsson '76 could not produce a of holes up and holes to go. A cludes Harvard arid Trinity. A I a___ new threat to MIT this year may be Babson who defeated Tufts in their opening match with their I April 19th 9-5 (Patriot's Day) top men in the 70's. I Space Shuttle/MartianRobot/. Aside from intercollegiate Science Fiction & The Future/ Space E match play, the team will be I Colonization/Alternative Auto Engines R playing in the 36 hole Greater Magnetic Levitation/Airships i7eS I Boston Collegiate Athletic Asso- I ciation's Tournament on April April 20th 12:30-5:30 (Sunday) -= 22 at Concord Country Club and I LF F the first annual Massachusetts - Biotelemetry/Telecommunications College Championship to be held I Cable TV/Data Processing/Creating r in May. t. Other Realities With Computers-Video y . _ _11' I April 21st 9-5 (Monday-No School) m Nprttn XB|I Future Studies/Interactive - -k Lecture System/ Ocean Resources XI Alternative Energy Sources/Solar XI Energy/Wind Power/Power From This year's Intramural I Space Track Meet will be held on I Sunday, April 27. The meet iiXI IQ will begin at 11:00am with ?4nB!.| Admission: Only $10/dOay or $25 for all 3 both trials and finals on the days for studentslteachers (luncheons $5) same day. Although entries will be Others: $25/day or $50 for all 3 days. accepted up until the time of REGISTER NOW !! Return this ad with the meet, all team rosters your name, address, and a check to: must be submitted by Future Forum, Box 11-69, Nashua,NH 03060, l 5:00pm, Wedresday, April call (603) 23, to be eligible for the team 883-1503, or register at the Forum. trophy and personal awards. At Boston s Museum of Science MIT's newest intramural sport, Community Baseball, got underway Please leave all entry forms in last weekend with all four teams playing twice. Over 70 members of the IM Track Manager's mail- Sponsor: Future Research Corp. ~ the MIT community are involved in the sport's first season. box in W32-l 21. I . . . . ; . . IL I