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VOLUME 86 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA / FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5,1984 NUMBER 3 Trustees Decide On New Logo by Lily Wu dicated that the logo did not The . Caltech Board of matter as much symbolically Trustees have made a final because it is used mostly just logo choice recently" after for identification purposes on several months of logo con Institute publications. "The troversy this year. The new of Caltech seal, which is more im ficial logo is the same one portant, h'as not been affected which been temporarily at all." suspended in the beginning of The first logo change this the summer, except the one year was made in January. handed torch bearer has been However, the use of that logo replaced by the more familiar was suspended in June because 2-handed torch passing. The it was felt the January decision motto "The truth shall make was made too hastily and the you free" is not included and logo chosen was designed with no regard to the historical the founding date of Throop Professo'r Gary Lorden beams over his new gomain - Photo by Min Su Yun University, 1891, now appears. significance of earlier logos. The logo is a white design and The suspension was prompted lettering on a black by a discussion of the issue background. This is called the during a California Tech inter view with R. Stanton Avery, Lorden Chosen as New Dean primary logo. For cases when Lorden is perhaps best but he says he will suppress his that color scheme would not be the Chairman of the Board of by Julian West Trustees. This final re-design Dr. Gary Lorden was known to undergraduates as a "creative urges," at least for a appropriate, a secondary logo while. "I plan to learn a lot in with the same design, only was approved just before selected as the new Dean of lecturer in Math 2c, the prob classes began a couple of weeks Students effective Monday, Oc ability term. He was also "head the first year," he cautions. black on a white background, One change which he does was chosen. The further use of ago. The new primary and tober 1. coach" of Caltech's Putnam secondary logos were designed Lorden, a Professor of Exam team over. a successful promise to make is to bring the any former logos is to be Dean's office into the computer replaced by these two. by Doyald Young. Mathematics, replaces another decade when Caltech won the overall championship five age. He wants to hook up to The earlier idea that this mathematician, David Wales. The new Dean has had times. the rapidly expanding campus logo is graphically more ap network, and set· up an elec propriate than the former logo plenty of experience in dealing He has also served on a with Caltech students, having large number of high-profile tronic billboard for complaints. with the motto seems to still That would give students an hold. According to D. Fuller been a Caltech undergraduate committees, including UASH, Freshman Admissions, opportunity to give feedback to ton, Vice President of Institute himself. He left Caltech with a B.S. in 1962, returning in 1968 Scholarships and Financial teachers - "sort .of an instant Relations, the combination of TQFR" ...,. and make comments the motto and the school name as an Assistant Professor. Dur Aid, Academic Policies, and ing his 16 years on the faculty, Health. like 'gosh, problem 6 is hard was too much type and it look this week' to which professors ed bad, and was hard to read he has served as advisor for Lorden feels that his ex numerous freshmen and perience as a Caltech could respond. They could also when the logo was reduced air gripes about requirements beyond a certain size. He in- The new primary logo mathematics majors. undergrad will be an asset in the Dean's job, which includes Or other sore points. a lot of individual contact with Another role for computers students. He cites the Honor would be to create a data base, System as one example - "I in order to keep track of which Nuclear Freeze Discussed regard it as the normal way of courses are overcrowded, or life." which students need advice. Film and Speakers Consider Issues The Dean must also repre Lorden said he realizes that sent the students as a whole to a mathematics advisor has a by Julian West Soviets during a period of U.S. A discussion period with individuals on the faculty. "I somewhat distorted perception Dr. Robert Nelson and intervention abroad. the audience followed the am expected by the President of other options, and he wants Marvin Schachter were the On the other hand, accor talks. Most speakers supported and the faculty," Lorden says, to understand them better. "I guest speakers for the Caltech ding to Nelson, the SALT II the freeze. "to represent student interests want to start learning about Nuclear Freeze Campaign on treaty was negotiated by the One person questioned to them, at least with respect to how the students and faculty Wednesday night. Dr. Nelson, Carter Administration, then whether the Soviet people are the academic program." view the courses and re from JPL, is the executive withdrawn from Congress in as informed as Americans But while work with in quirements". director of the Southern the wake of the Soviet invasion about the issues of the arms dividuals "from the two ends He is concerned about "the· California Federation of Scien of Afghanistan. race. Nelson responded by ask of the curve", as statistician question of whether Caltech. tists. Schachter was one of the Nelson suggested that ing how many people in the au Lorden explains it, is perhaps students take on too much, and initial sponsors of the Freeze perhaps it was not important to dience had watched Nova last the main job, "there are certain whether the requirements push Initiative in California. link nuclear arms control to night. matters of general policy where them too much." Caltech They focused on the history other issues. He proposed the That episode dealt with an the Dean can be influential." students "not only take courses of. nuclear weapons and arms threat of nuclear annihilation is international effort by Such matters include things that are the envy of the world, control agreements, and so great that America should American and Soviet scientists like the curriculum and gradua but they take more of them," pointed out that the introduc follow the Soviet lead and deal to discuss issues of nuclear tion requirements. and the new Dean wonders tion of sophisticated American with arms control as a separate war. When the program was Lorden may have some why. weapons actually increases the issue. continued on page 5 things in mind for the future, A particular area of his threat to the U.S. because the Marvin Schachter spoke concern is with the freshman Soviets' ability to respond about· the sudden and loads. One of Lorden's two thoughtfully is limited. widespread political popularity daughters is now a freshman at The evening began with the of the freeze movement. It has UCSB, and he observes that screening of an award-winning grown over the past four years the freshman loads are very film, entitled "What About from being ignored at the 1980 different at other universities. The Russians?" Through in .Democratic convention to for Shepard Dies Lorden is also interested in troducing the testimony of a ming a major plank in that improving relations between number of highly-ranked ex party's 1984 platform. Even graduate students and perts who appeared in inter conservatives and Republicans by Chris Meisl contest awards three $300 undergraduates. He thinks that views, the film attempted to now back a bilateral, verifiable Larry Shepard of San Marino, prizes which have gone to contact between the two groups answer some of the commonly freeze by a 2 to 1 margin. sponsor of the Don Shepard about 130 undergraduate is stimulating for both sides. raised objections to the nuclear Schachter stressed that a Award, died two weeks ago students. Finally, he encourages freeze proposal. . freeze would serve American students to speak out about After the film, Nelson gave after a prolonged illness. interests. If we had had a Shepard established his Shepard also began a Fun their own concerns - not only a brief speech, centering on the freeze two years ago, he Fund to enable students to dine to him, but to the President post-war political history of the award in 1951 in memory of pointed out, the Soviet navy his son, a former Caltech stu out and be partially reimbursed and other individuals in United States, and relating it to would not now have for the expense. Both the Don authority. "Caltech students the development of nuclear dent, who was killed in an air submarine-launched Typhoon crash. The award gives Shepard awards and the Fun tend to be too passive and ac arsenals. missiles. Furthermore, the Fund reimbursements are cepting of whatever is imposed He observed, in particular, students money for cultural Freeze would relieve the strain luxuries, such as theatre, managed by the Master's of on them," he judges. "They that the SALT 1 arms limita which the arms buildup places books, or music. The annual fice. underestimate their influence." tions treaty was signed by the on the U.S. economy. 2 THE CALIFORNIA TECH/FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5,1984 possible? If not, then are the blessings worth the price of the 1===== I tt curses that we are paying for them? Do we even consider these • = e er questions as much as we should when we research and explore . new fields? What is the range of unhappiness and imbalances caused by the scientific progress which has created longer lives ~fly airnlanes, and televisions? ' Apology Nwnberl Even medicine and longer, healthier lives have wrought their share of problems. Nature is balanced just so; everything in it To the Editor: An ex~inationofstudent life at Caltech has a purpose including famines and illnesses. Unfortunately I would like to apologize one of their purposes is population control, but it exists becaus~ for the derogatory statements nature also knows she has a finite limit to what she can provide. made about the Humanities In our effort to eliminate disease, we upset a balance and poorer and Social Science Division in nations struggle with starvation, lack of space, and depressed my article "Humanities at Do We Care? economic conditions. What then? Communication systems, Caltech," in the last issue of nuclear power, chemicals and bacteria, vehicles and airplanes the California Tech (Vol. 86, are all used as lethal weapons of war though each also has No.1). by Lily Wu countless benign applications. In everyday life, technology has I disagree with that article's "In mid-February, a fortnight before he was to leave brought us comfort, convenience and leisure time. It has also claims about the inferiority of Pasadena [Caltech), Einstein addressed several hundred created pollution, acid rain, new diseases like overweight and the H & SS division. The error students. His speech must have been startling to many members heart conditions from lack of exercise and rich diets a was caused by my cut-and of the faculty, particularly to Millikan, whose natural inclina deteriorated ozone, permanently damaged wildlife and nat~re, paste composition style, tion was to believe that all was for the best in the best of all and boredom. . sleepiness, and lack of later possible worlds. For instead of singing the praises of scientific All these may seem trivial now, but soon, the problems will proofreading. progress, Einstein asked why it had brought so little happiness. start to be more pressing. Already we feel too keenly the threat -John Beahan In war it had enabled men to mutilate one another more effi of nuclear annihilation. In 1961, President Kennedy likened the ciently and in peace it enslaved man to the machine. 'You feel world situation to the sword of Damocles, a sword which hung S Slacks that this old chap in front of you is singing an ugly tune,' he only by a thin thread over the head of a king. We suffer from Suits said. enslavement to macQ.ines, which are not perfect yet we treat A Skirts 'I do it, however, for the purpose of making some sugges them as such more and more. Shirts tions to you. If you want your life's work to be useful to "Why had [technology] brought so little happiness?" Why M mankind, it is not enough that you understand applied science aren't "life's work more useful to mankind?" Why is "it the ALTERATIONS as such. Concern for man himself must always constitute the tendency that scientists only ''understand applied science as RESTYLING chief objective of all technological effort, concern for the big such?" The allusion to Millikan almost seems to personify that TAILORING unsolved problems of how to organize human work and the which Einstein hoped to warn against. The inclination is too INVISIBLE REWEAVING distribution of commodities in such a manner as to assure that g~eat among scientists and engineers to oversimplify or even TEL. (213) 449-8634 the results of our scientific thinking may be a blessing to dIsregard the nature of the non-technical world and non DAYS & EVENINGS mankind, and not a curse...' technical people. 159 S. Allen Apt. 106 Pasadena - from Einstein: The Life and Times, by Ronald Clark . Attitudes even among Caltech undergraduates reflect that. Nothing in this world is free. Alas, no blessing ever seems to Humanities and social science classes will always be second best be granted without some negative strings attached somewhere. and even a source of derision. It is sure to create a laugh for Yet, Einstein's hope that scientific thinking be a blessing rather students to disparage the way of thinking and working of TINA & MICHAEL than a curse does not seem wholly unreasonable. Can it be philosophers or economists. It is something to be proud of to HAIR DESIGN speak of how little work one got away with in their last humanities class, as if they were clever enough to put one over For Men and Women on the prof. To belittle these fields of study can only serve to Haircuts, Perms, Color The Caltech Y Fly-by perpetuate the sadnesses of technology. A fundamental part of Manicures, Pedicures . an~ ed';lcation is learning and appreciating the value of people, theIr hIstory and the nature of inter-personal relations. It is 20% Offto Caltech community foolish to disdain those studies. Science is not the answer to Friday...October 5 By Appointment Only everything, or anything sometimes, and most of all, it can't be Tuesday through Saturday Concert, The Stanford Band, 3 PM, on the conducted in a vacuum. Outside this cozy cocoon called Caltech steps of the Athenaeum. 991 E. Green St., Pasadena CA is a complex world with several billion people and problems to Parking on 108 S. Catalina match; and we are ALL citizens of this world, like it or not. 793-2243 or 449-4436 Sign up for sailing which will be on October However, a broader approach to problems, besides specifically 13. technical ones, is neither stressed nor encouraged here. Who ex- < actly is putting one over on whom? Sign up for a Philharmonic trip which will be The old chap does sing an ugly tune, but it must be sung and JfDFORNIA TECH on October 12. The program will consist of works heard. Volume 86 NumberJ by Haydn and Mozart. 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======-=-=-=-=-I_e_tt_er_s_·_:I ...... --._:...... ---1_. I perspective, and in direct con and th¢ Social Sciepces and .Harvard, and at Caltech we re tradiction with Pitts' claim, to had demanded reforms, I Iy very heavily on the Hun Outrage surpass this figure one has to Pride would have felt happier about tington Library, and for areas go back 42 years to the end of it. Undergraduate educatii:>n it does not cover, UCLA and To the Editor: the Great Depression in 1940. To the Editor: could be better at Ca~tech, and inter-library loan. A sense of outrage is a ter For the entire year of 1982 Chris Mihos shows an ad a diScqssion about how my A second problem, let's rible thing to waste, and unemployment averaged 9.70/0, mirable degree of institutional divisipn could .be improvbd face it,. is that a ''technical in outrage is just what I feel after the highest annual rate since pride in the Sept. 28 issue of would be we~come. Alas, ~p- sritute" draws a fair number of reading Steve Pitts' article in 9.9% in 1941 (again, the end of the Tech in commenting on parentlY Mr. Beahan feels he is st,dents who think. that the Tech's Polemic [vol. 1, no. the Great Depression). Lisa Birnbach's review of writing a sympathetic state- "Humanities are BS" and re I]. Lile Reagan, Pitts has lost The facts: currently Caltech, which he finds "in ment, and that make~ his co~- se~t having to take their re all grasp on reality when he unemployment is 7.5%. When sulting" and "filled with ments hurt all tile more. qqiredcourses, particularly as writes " ...we now enjoy the Reagan took office in 1981, misconceptions, stereotypes, Mr. Beahan begins with a F;~eshmen. If such students highest percentage of per unemployment was 7.6%; and ignorant judgements." He false assumption, that a predominated at Caltech, capita employment ever in a when Carter took office in concludes with the comment, "technical lO~titutle" like te~ching here would indeed be peacetime economy.," Nothing 1977 unemployment was 7.5%; "it is unfortunate that this Caltech cannot have a first-rate U.".,plea~ant. Fo~tunatel~, there could be further from the when Ford took office in 1974 review had to come. out while program in the humanities al1d are en~ugh students h~re who truth. The facts, the reality, is unemployment was 5.5%; the Institute is trying its social scienceS. That assump- are bright, able, and interested that during the last four years when Nixon took office in 1969 hardest to improve campus life tion is worth examining.' I in questions outside the areas the United States has suffered unemployment was 3.6%; and attract a wider range of in think of two things which work of science and engineering so under the highest unemploy when Johnson took office in terests in the student body." against H & SS at institutions that able faculty stay and in ment in the postwar years, 1963 unemployment was 5.7%; I feel the same way about like this one. The first is that deed enjoy teaching here. unemployment reaching 10.8% when Kennedy took office in John Beahan's article, Caltech, like MIT, does ~ot What Mr. Beahan doesn't in December of 1982. For continued on page 7 "Humanities at Caltech," on have a. ~irst-rate libr~ry i~ 1Jle realize is that Caltech competes the same page. If Mr. Beahan humamtIes. The problem IS not effectively in the a¢ademic had set out to write an attack insurmountable. The MIT· marketplace. The reaso* is ,that on the Division of Humanities faculty uses Widener Library at continued 01\ page 7

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We go back to sleep, and dream of Disneyland, Forest Lawn, or holding hands Planned Near Caltech in the back of the chapel. only dealing with the Reagan is all image and no by Bill Callahan mechanics of doing a safe rap Reaganism and substance. A few Saturdays ago, I had pel, but also in dealing with But images can go awry. an experience which will stay with me the rest of my life. I your emotional attitude Mothers and daughters and towards what you are doing, fathers and sons are concerned went with a group of people up Rock'n'Roll into the mountains only an For example, when I did the about the images of women in jump for the ring from fifty music videos. Maybe the image hour and a half's ride from Before the music video special, tq feel sexual. TQe in Tech and took the California feet up, I knew I had this goal debate erupts, let's talk about dustry understands and takes industry doesn't understand in succeeding in getting the that people might not want to Wilderness Training. some other "all image, no financial advantage of the On the outside, the training ring. What the trainer did was ~f see women as points on a substance" sources in our socie desires young adults to looks like just a day up in the help me get in touch with how sexiness-na5tiness graph. ty. Take Ronald Reagan, for become fun adults. mountains, learning some new I dealt with that. I found that I instance. He mumbles and Reagan is successful Maybe we want to think of wanted to do it not so much women as more than flesh and skills perhaps, or having some jumbles facts and figures, and because the images he projects new outdoors experiences. In for me, but to be a good exam· fishnet. in general can't tell the truth are the images we long fOli. We the training, I climbed up a pIe to the others, since I was from his elbow. live in scary, keep-your~eyes Hey, maybe we don't want the first to go. What I realized to see women as Nancy rope ladder to a tiny platform In 1966 he managed to say closed times. We're scared of and jumped for a ring, I team was that I do that with a lot of Reagans - "in their these two lines in the same day, nuclear suicide, scared of the ed up with a partner and made things in my life which involve "I'm a fellow who bleeds every big world over which we once place"- either. Maybe we want succeeding at goals. to see womep as more than it across some ropes, I rappell time a tree is cut down," and felt supreme, scared of the ed down a bare cliff. These are The training starts early at social and se~ual subordinates. "115,000 acres of trees in the shifting expectations of the scary and fun things by 7:30 am. You and your group state park is a lot to look at. rights and needs of men and Maybe people want, and need, hike in and participate in six images of women based upon themselves, but the California How long can you look?" women, and scared of different Wilderness Training is more events. Some of the things you When Reagan remarked, colored and cultured brothers, human dignity. Meanwhile, the do seem very risky, but I found photos of Reagan and Bush, than just that. The people that "There you go again" to Jimmy sisters, and in-laws. Structures run it are highly skilled in not continued on page 9 Carter in the 1980 debate, he of old are deservedly falling continued on page 8 was in fact wrong. More recently, he has claimed that submarine-launched missiles can be recalled (they can't) and that he himself donated a tenth of his income to charity (really Sperry.•. 1.4 percent). But what an image! Everybody loves him. With Semiconductor Reagan, it seems just like the good old days. Operations But what about music videos? Most videos are usually strings of images: special ef Offering Career ;,..~~~-k:i fects, explosions, and all around unbelievables. In the Jacksons' "Torture" Fulfillment video, one of the five finds himself surrounded by basketball-sized eyeballs. He in Microelectronics backs into an eyeball, his hand falls into its pupil, and he im mediately jerks it out. His hand is covered with clear gelatinous goo. He watches in The Semiconductor Operations' wafer • Device.- Should be familiar with device fabrication and development center is part of physics and wafer fab techniques relating horror as an eye forms in his rapidl~ palm and blinks at him. the developing Sperry Park complex, to new product design. located midway between the Twin Cities of Now this scene wasn't at all • Product - Thorough knowledge of IC an important scene in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. This mUltimilli~n-dollar facility represents the state prOd.ucti.on including ,design, process, video. It was about twenty applications, quality assurance and test. seconds long. I don't know of the art In this highly competitive industry. about most twelve-year-old The laboratories are designed to exceed the • ~uality/Reliability - Working to insure kids, but it sure shook me up. most stringent environmental standards. Improved IC yields and reliability is About the women in this Sperry has invested heavily in providing emphasized here. laboratory equipment of the highest quality video - they had three-inch • Softw.are - To generate new programs for long fingernails. Their clothes and has assembled a dedicated work force of talented professionals. CAD, Integrated circuit simulation and new were shredded, dark, and microprocessor products. . slinky. They were sexy. They As the emphasis on microelectronics spreads were scary. th.rough(:lUt the world during the 80s, Sperry • Test - These jobs involve the application of This from the Jacksons? will continue to playa leading role and will computer programs to test integrated After the evil-spirited continue to seek the kind of professionals who circuitry designs. "Thriller"? Is shock-schlock will thrive on the challenge, respond to the really the best way to keep us rewards, and look to the future. interested? I hope not. Here at Semiconductor Operations our All of these engineering disciplines, and many There usually isn't anything engineering and technical people are actively others as well, come together at in a music video which a film engaged in advanced special purpose MOS Semiconductor Operations. Here the critic would call "content." bipolar and hybrid device development. ' environment is informal yet highly Film reviewer Gene Siskel call ed music videos "junk." Most The major engineering disciplines are as professiC?nal. We emphasize a team approach follows: yet sC?lut!o,ns to pro~lems ultimately result videos don't say anything. from Individual dedication. For more They just dazzle and frazzle. But don't be surprised. In • Process - Heavy involvement with IC information contact your placement office or dustrialized pop music has pro

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Buckaroo Reviews by Matt Rowe ...all the rage is the title of Movie Review General Public's first album, and, while not an instant classic, it is a well-executed col Heady A New lection of original pop tunes. Gods Wreak Havoc Had- GP not substituted a by Lily Wu Meanwhile, not too far keyboardist for the Beat's sax "So what do you want to away, trouble brews. A sloppy, Tunes Beat ophonist (the Jamaican Saxa, see tonight?" lazy group of Marxists (whose included nonetheless on one "How about The Gods leader looks like Castro) make The Space People (Historical note: The cut here), it might have been Must Be Crazy? It's the new a half-hearted effort to Stop Making Sense is the English Beat (or just 'The Beat' hard telling ...all the rage comedy from South Africa." assassinate the country's prime most ambitious project yet anywhere but the U.S.) formed from a Beat album. It con "South Africa??!I" minister and they spend the re from Talking Heads, one of in 1979 as part of the British tinues that group's assimilation Yes, South Africa. And mainder of the film being pur· America's most consistently in ska (fast, danceable reggae of reggae/ska rhythms and what a good film, too. sued by the army. teresting bands. Stop Making like the Young I-Publicans) styles into more familiar pop It starts out with a National Finally, in a third corner, Sense is an album. Stop Mak movement. Their albums'-I textures, while adding some Geographic-like description of there is a pleasant an· ing Sense is a film (to be releas Just Can't Stop It, Wha'ppen?, new jazz touches (on "Hot a tribe of bushmen in the thropologist working on his ed soon) of Talking Heads' Special Beat Service, and the You're Cool" and "As A Mat Kalahari Desert. Always thesis by collecting animal concerts last December at the posthumous collection What Is ter of Fact"). More important peaceful and loving as a group, feces samples and analyzing Pantages Theatre, right here in Beat? . reached higher and ly, General Public sounds more the tribe's centuries-old har them. Though usually very Dead Loss Angeles. Stop Mak higher spots on U.S. charts, of a whole here than the eight mony is disrupted when a pilot normal and capable, he turns ing Sense is a booklet (with the and the Beat seemed to have member Beat ever did - the carelessly discards a coke bottle into a complete moron in the album) with a lQt of very nice almost broken into the market reason Roger and Dave gave as he flies overhead. The company of women (like most pictures and some very bizarre when key musicians and for leaving. bushmen find that this gift Tech males). As the story goes text. Is Stop Making Sense an songwriters Dave Wakeling and The best song on ...all the from the heavens is useful, but though, he is appointed to pick order? When did Talking Ranking Roger announced they rage is without a doubt since there is only one, fighting up a new female school teacher Heads Stop Making Sense? were leaving the Beat to form "Tenderness," the second breaks out as each tribe from a bus stop and several No Music On Weekends General Public. A rather unim single. It reminds me of mid tnembercompetes to possess hilarious comeuppances ensue. Talking Heads released a pressive debut single ("General sixties Motown- hummable, the god-send. The discord Somewhere amid the sands live double album, The Name Public," included here) is now danceable, and so full of hooks eventually' prompts the leader of the Kalahari, all three of This Band is Talking Heads, accompanied by an album, it's certain to catch any to start on a quest to negate subplots become intertwined just two years ago. What's the nine months after it was listener. The only complaint I the evil brought on by the and we are treated to a fairly point? There's a movie to go originally promised.) . continued on ,page 8 strange gift. continued on page 8 with this one, and people would scream if there were no soundtrack album. (Like me.) The album - the noises on it - are presumably an "in complete experience" without the pretty pictures. So they put SOFnNARED~LOPMENT a 20-page color booklet in the bag with the record. They put it in the bag with the cassette, too, which has extended ver OPPORTUNITIES AT sions of most of the songs. (How do you extend a live recording?) The album is MICROSOFT secondary to the movie, but the movie isn't out yet, so I'm MICROSOFT CORPORATION is seeking EXCEPTIONAL SYSTEMS DESIGN reviewing the album. There are nine songs, Three appeared on PROGRAMMERS towork on multitasking operating systems, networking,advanced the last live album. Four were compilers, interactive systems, graphics, productivity applicationsand more. You'll on the last studion album be wor:king with hardware such as the Macintosh and other 16- and 32-bit micros (Speaking in Tongues). That (286,8086,68000), so newsome of it hasn't been publically introduced. You'll work leaves two songs that are likely with an extrordinary development system, top minicomputers and mainframes to be interesting. such as DEC-20, PDP 11, VAX, and SUN 68000 machines. Come to Microsoft and Soap Operas Are News go to work on projects to propel the whole microcomputer industry forward. At These are not love songs. Talking Heads are not pop. Microsoft, we make things happen. Here you'll be part ofthe developmenteffort to Talking Heads were once an bring state-of-the-art technology to the "real" world. art-rock band, but now we call them art-dance. Talking Heads Microsoft took the lead at the beginning of the microcomputer software industry. lyrics are not obvious. Talking Our first product, Microsoft BASIC became the most widely-used software in the Heads confuse us. Of the three world...And it still is. We have set the standards in research, design, development, repeats from the last live and marketing ever since. Wework on projects thatcometofruition today. Andour album, only one is a better live rendition. ("Life During War peopleare influencing the wdy software will looktomorrow. Wewantprogrammers time" actually has a little life in who will create Microsoft High'performance Software. it here.) One is just. ..dif ferent. ("Psycho Killer," writ To makea good thing better, Microsoft is pleasantly locatedin Bellevue,centerofa ten for two guitars, bass, and drum, appears here played on scenic playground and just across the lake from Seattle. an acoustic guitar with beat box accompaniment.) Of the Microsoft seeks exceptionaLsystems programmers with top skills, top grades and four repeats from the last' achievements: who have demonstroted talent in software development and studio album, only one can be systems programming through relevant Bxperience such as summeremployment, easily distinguished from a tape and some canned applause. work at a campus computer center, graduate research and/or otherprofessional ("Slippery People," possibly the work experience, possessing a sound boseoftechnical knowledgeandshowing an best song on Speaking in eagerness to learn and grow. If you meetthese qualifications, you deserve to work Tongues, gains harmony and with the best! Microsoft offers an excellent compensation package. Explore the an excellent gospel ending.) possibilities bysending a letteror resume in confidence to: JoAnnRahal,Technical There is one song from lead Recruiter, MICROSOFT CORPORATION, 10700 Northup Way, Box 97200, Bellevue, singer David Byrne's 1981 solo Washington 98009. We are an equal opportunity employer. project The Catherine Wheel, a soundtrack for the Twyla Tharp ballet. ("What a Day That Was," the best track on Stop Making Sense, is a sparse song that gets its power from Byrne's impassioned vocals.) MICROSOFT My favorite Talking Heads song is also on this album. High Performance Software ("Once in a Lifetime" comes across as precisely the art-pop continued on page 8 'THE CALIFORNIA TECH/FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5,1984 - . _._. [,Z._ 11 7 ed members of the H & SS the fact that there is no faculty, but to anyone who graduate program in the More Rage Pride in the Humanities wants to come see me personal- humanities and only a small ly about courses I would be one in the social sciences. from page 3 from page 3 expectations, Caltech faculty in happy to name names of first Mr. Beahan has some good 1961 unemployment was 6.60/0; in the late 1960's the Caltech H & SS perform on the same rate scholars and teachers. words to say about the Divi and when Eisenhower took of administration reversed the level as their colleagues at Har- A prestigious faculty is not sion. My regret is that those fice in 1953 unemployment was policy of treating H & SS as a vard, Stanford, Chicago or in itself a guarantee of a fine words of praise and encourage 2.9%. President Reagan's "service-division" and began to other rival institutions. The undergraduate education. The ment, like a flower on a dung record on unemployment can offer the same terms to H & SS proof of this statement is that Harvard faculty roster is heap, rise out of a mass of not be compared favorably to faculty as to other faculty in Harvard and Stanford have distinguished, but a student disparagement. In my opinion, the last 10 years, let alone the the Institute. Salaries are com recently hired away some of there runs a good chance of be he doesn't need to be so modest entire postwar period. petitive, teaching-loads are our faculty, and Caltech has' ing taught, not by one of those about his institution. I'm not. Since it has recently become moderate, and most important, hired faculty away from distinguished professors but by Sincerely yours, fashionable in Republican support for research is ex Chicago, Hopkins and Har- a harrassed graduate-student circles to blame the Carter Ad cellent. vard. It would be invidious for teaching assistant. Caltech -John Benton ministration for all' the events Contrary to Mr. Beahan's me to begin listing distinguish- students benefit mightily from Professor of History of the past 4 years, let me hasten to add that unemploy ment declined during the last six months of 1980 and the October 9 first six months of 1981. Pitts' imagination again Win a robot runs amok when he quotes figures for inflation. The worst inflation sen in the Carter years (and landaiob). was 11.8% for 1980-nowhere near the 20% that Pitts claims. The Reagan prosperity that Win a robo•• Pitts speaks of is also false. Of At the conclusion of the BPI-SOURCE presenta fice of Management and tions, there will be live, national prize drawings. The Budget figures show that the r>rizes include T.!. .Scientific Calculators and the Grand percent of change in after-tax Prizes~two electronic personal robots.l\1axx Steele~ the income (adjusted for inflation) mobile robot, is controlled by radio or a programmable from 1980 to 1984 was -7.6% memory system. He can speak 140 pre-programmed for the fifth of the American households with the lowest in words and phrases, pick things up, wake you up and play comes and - 8.7% for the fifth electronic games. Maxx can even serve your favorite of the households with the beve~g~s. largest incomes. The tax cuts We'll also be giving away BPI-SOURCE T-shirts that Pitts speaks of amounted and helpful information to take home with you. Maxx is a to .1 % of the household after personal robot by Ideal'M (CBS Toys). tax income for the fifth of the households with the lowest in comes and 5.9% for the fifth Landaiob. of the households with the Through this one day video teleconference, you'll highest incomes. According to learn about many career opportunities that are awaiting the Congressional Budget Of Come to the premier telecast of BPI-SOURCE, the you. BPI-SOURCE gives you, the student, a chance to learn fice, 35% of the 1982 Reagan Satellite Communications Recruiting Network. We bring valuable and helpful information about each company. tax cut went to the wealthiest major companies and career opportunities to high tech Participatmg companies are recruiting students 5% of the taxpayers. The college graduates. majoring in all engineering disciplines (including aero redistribution of wealth involv Beamed live, from a satellite 23,000 miles up, ed here is staggering. space, chemical, civil, elec Having disposed of the broadcast will let you participate in live ql!estion trical, electronic, industrial, Reagan's tax cuts, might I re and-answer periods throughout the telecast. You will mechanical), all disciplines mind Pitts (who implies that no also see the following presentations and speakers: of computer sciences, plus taxes have increased during the majors in aviation manage- Reagan administration) of the BILL ABERMAN ment, math, physics and increase in Social Security tax President, BPI in 1982? Or the increase in all other technical dewees. gasoline tax in 1983? SPERRY CORPORATION Admission is free. HIgh It is pointless to go any fur COMPUTER SYSTEMS achievers with above average ther - Pitts' article is so ridden grades are encouraged to with blatant falsehood that any : DR. RICHARD J. GOWEN participate. And noregistra conclusions he might draw , President, IEEE tion is required. could only be considered fan tasy. . "The Future of Engineering" , The BPI-SOURCE presentation is Oct. 9 at Why this blizzard of facts, Dabney Lounge and will include a live morning telecast I DR. RUSSELL DREW this torrent of figures? Because Vice President of Student Career Development, IEEE at 9:00 a.m. PST and a live repeat approximately 3 hours for the past four years the na later. Choose the telecast that best fits your schedule. tion has been seized by a sleep NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY Pick up further infonnation including presentation ing sickness - a willingness to schedules at the placement office or call: blindly accept any falsehood, POLLY RASH distortion, or manufactured i Director of Marketing, SatServ BPI-SOURCE 1-800-328-4032 fiction uttered by Ronald (formerly with the Public Service Satellite Consortium) (in MN 612-370-0550) Reagan. This sickness has over "Satellite Technology - New Ideas, New Jobs" come the United States before: TM it is the same lack of national TEKTRONIX, INC. integrity that characterized Mc Carthyism-the refusal to face DR. MARVIN CETRON reality in favor of heroic fan Author of]obs ofthR Future tasy. How can this illness be "Jobs of the Future" fought? The only thing that can be done, and I do that FEDERAL AVIATION now, is to shine the light of ADMINISTRATION truth into the shadow of distor tion. To quote James REP. ED ZSCHAU Michener, "An age is called COngressman California 12th District Dark not because the light fails (Silicon Valley Area) to shine, but because people refuse to see it." We live in a (formerly Chairman, American Electronics Assoc.) Dark Age now - the light of "Your Government and Your Future" truth is present but people refuse to see it. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING Steve Pitts says that liberals NASA FEATURE PRESENTATION "refuse to learn from facts." I "Space Station ...The Next Logical Step" say that Pitts would not know a fact if it came up and spit in SPECIAL PRIZE DRAWINGS his eye. -Sam Finn Graduate Student, Physics .8 !'!!'!!·!'4L'T!..H~E~C~A~L~IF~O~R~N~I~A~T~E~C~H~/~F~R~I~D~A.!Y~, O~C~T02. ~B~EB.R~5~1!192!8~4"1 ~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!§!!j!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2 !i.!!!!!! General Public Talking Heads movie. Tbere are many strange Sire Records. It has a list price Chaos Reigns words in the booklet. These (album or cassette) of $9.98. It from page 6 from page 6 words read like Captain cost me $7.56, plus tax. It is have is that Dave Wakeling, masterpiece it is.) The album Beefheart or Laurie Anderson available wherever it can be from page 6 General Public's lead vocalist, has a cover: a back, a front; an lyrics, or the plot to a Kurt bought. complex plot, memorable per· seems to think he's Smo~ey inside and an outside. Vonnegut book. The words I formances, stiches of laughter, Robinson; some of his moans put at the beginnings of Images and also an interesting look at and grunts are more ex Body Odor paragraphs are from this modernization and all that it asperating than sexy - some, If Stop Making Sense has a booklet. There are eleven ques from Afar brings upon us. but not all. Other standouts in pleasant body odor, it is a tions on the back cover. None from page 4 This film opened in New clude "Anxious," reminiscent body with a schizophrenic are answered. photos of Reagan and Bush, York City a few months ago of the Specials (another band mind. It has a plain black-and Civilization is a Religion smiling and hugging Dallas despite demonstrators pro·, in the ska revival movement, white jacket. It does not have a Talking Heads are not Cowboy cheerleaders, look testing the film's portrayal of whose members have gone on clear plastic inner liner; it does atheists. They are heretics. really good. African tribes and the fact thai to The Fun Boy Three, The not have a white paper inner Stop Making Sense is often Images can be oppressive. it is a South African film. Tbe Colour Field, and The Special liner: it has a black plastic in hard to believe. As music, it is Images can be liberating. We objections are not warranted, AKA); "Never You Done ner liner. This costs more, so it excellent. As a live soundtrack, can either accept and reinforce though. One will notice thaI That," an upbeat revision of must "mean"· something. But it is generally weak, with a few our insecurities (easy) or we far from being mocked, the "End of the Party" on Special what? Talking Heads are play standouts. As a multimedia ex can challenge our insecurities bushmen are the heroes of this Beat Service; and "Are You ing with our minds. The album perimental experience, it may and overcome them (hard.) We film. It is a well-researched Leading Me On?", a playful comes with a clear plastic cover be quite an event, but I won't need the help of images. movie and highly entertaining song that leads the listener on which you can keep to protect really know until I see the Speech therapists might as well as insightful. The Gods with its shifts and stops. There the jac.ket. What will they movie. I'll let you know. Stop favor Reagan's cool, comfor Must Be Crazy is a great im are three of the now-obligatory think of next? Making Sense is perplexihg. ting speaking voice to the provement over much of whaI "political conscience" Sex is a Job This is an awful thing to write plainer speech of Mondale. But is being offered to us in the songs - none a complete suc ...and people would rather in my first review, but I can as images go, I like Mondale theaters now. cess. General Public seems to watch things than eat. only say you'll have to see for and Ferraro standing together Presently, it is only at the think "heavier" song topics Besides, vinyl leaves a bitter yourself. For myself, I am con as a team much better than Laemmle's Music Hall in should have appropriate music, aftertaste. There are many fused, but it is a pleasant con Reagan and Bush standing Beverly Hills, but it is worth and as a result these songs things to watch with Stop Mak fusion. together with cheerleaders. As the trip or certainly worth stand out on an album of ing Sense. There is a booklet Flat Landscapes for music videos, Cyndi waiting for a wider release otherwise light, upbeat tunes. with pretty pictures from the Stop Making Sense is on Lauper's my favorite. which is sure to come. The most impressive thing about ...all the rage is how easily it carves its own niche. Everyone's doing pop music these days; it's the latest musical revolution. The key to success, as shown by Culture Club, David Bowie, Madness, OREGON SHAKESPEAREAN and scores of others, is to have FESTIVAL'S Production Of: an original sound. While SCANDIAFESTIVALI General Public's sound is A dazzling display of gymnastics, "THE TAMING perhaps least in evidence on acrobatics, dancing and music direct OF THE SHREW" "Tenderness" (the best bet for a from Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Petruchio has "Come to wive it hit), if there is any justice in wealthily in Padua." But will Kate prove SATURDAY the world the rest of the album to be more than his match? will be heard. OCTOBER 13 THURSDAY & FRIDAY Another aid to success is 8 PM quality- it's all too often ig Tickets: $16.00-14.00-12.00 NOVEMBER 15 & 16 nored, but we can't have it all, 8 PM can we? While ...all the rage Tickets: 17.00-15.00-13.00 isn't vinyl of the caliber of Pur ple Rain, it does have stand outs. The most consistently im CAMBRIDGE pressive aspect of this album is JOSE MOLINA Dave Wakeling's lyrics. "Some BUSKERS BAILES ESPANOLES one's been lying/In my Playing classical music with an Featuring one of the world's primero ~ bed/Roses to start with/Now Spanish dance interpreters. i nothing in the garden grows," irreverant twist has brought these is typical of a lyrical style that virtuosos international stardom. SATURDAY can only be compared to Elvis SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17 Costello. The King, in fact, 8 PM seems to be one of Wakeling's OCTOBER 20 Tickets: $15.00-13.00-11.00 main influences on this 8 PM album - fortunately, for Tickets: $14.00-12.0D.-10.011 Costello himself has been going downhill recently. CALTECH GLEE CLUBS present: In summary,' then: while ...all the rage might not be all BERT HOULE "A STAR FOR EACH, the rage, it is certainly worth A CELEBRATION OF MIRACLES" listening to- far more so than . MIME THEATRE Stop Making Sense (for exam The magic and myth of mime conjures Both Christmas and Hanukkah are celebrated by the Caltech Men's ple) or David Bowie's new up laughter and touches the soul. and Women's Glee Clubs. album (from what I've heard). FRIDAY FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY I'd be surprised if you don't NOVEMBER 30, DECEMBER 1 &2 end up liking many of the NOVEMBER 2 tracks, and besides, a new 8 PM 8 PM original band like General Tickets: $12.00-10.00-8.00 Tickets: $7.50 Public needs support if it is to ever get off the ground. So buy the album, or at least request THE NEW "Tenderness" on your favorite SWINGLE SINGERS radio station. This is really a HAMBRO PIANO QUARTET plug for a personal favorite, 4 Grand Pianos! 352 Keys! 4 Pianists! This quartet will enchant, With an Accent on Christmas but I think you'll like them, amuse and astound you with music ranging from light classical to Eight superb singers blend the too. popUlar. techniques of jazz scat with the realms, General Public, ...all the SATURDAY of classical and popular music. rage, IRS Records, $7.98 list. FRIDAY Available to the general public. NOVEMBER 10 Also Recommended: 8 PM DECEMBER 14 X, Rank and File, The Tickets: $14.00-12.00-10.00 8 PM 'C},(' c~-;w C'0wi!(ijt' (Vb/ficpr Knitters, October 26th, Univer Tickets: $15.00-13.00-11.00 sal Amphitheater. Three of L.A.'s best. The Knitters' ac coustic folk is especially recom mended. Lou Reed, New Sensations. "I Love You, Suzanne," "My Red Joystick," and nine more of Lou's best since "Walk on the Wild Side." THE CALIFORNIA TECH/FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5,1984 9 Baxter Show Opens

reflect the climate and culture by Irene Replogle of the region. Baxter Art Gallery opened Baxter's exhibition is the its 1984-85 season last Tuesday first to celebrate the talent and night with. "Myron Hunt, ingenuity of Myron Hunt. The 1868-1952: The Search for A show documents his work Regional Architecture." through photographs, sketches Most Caltech students are and blueprints. Included with probably familiar with quite a photographs and a drawing of number of Hunt's designs Throop is a whimsical photo of Huntington Library and Art the building being destroyed by Gallery, the Pasadena Public a wrecking ball. Library, the Rose Bowl, the The Gallery also prepared main building of Huntington an elaborate, 120 page Memorial Hospital, catalogue to accompany the ex Polytechnic School, Throop hibition. Its $24.50 price tag Hall, Occidental College and may be beyond the reach of num€rous other buildings. most students, but it is Hunt's work is impressive worthwhile to spend a few because he was successful at minutes looking through it. designing a wide range of The essay on Hunt's design of building sizes and purposes. the Rose Bowl is fascinating. His designs are also special Baxter Art Gallery is open because he was one of the first every day from noon to 5pm. architects to try to create a The Gallery is located in the The Pasadena Public Library on Walnut St. style unique to Southern basement of the Baxter California, a style that would Building. Wilderness Training from page 4 that the sense of danger existed only in my mind. The events are not only safe, but can be done by people who do not consider themselves to be the rugged outdoors type. One woman on my training was for o ty, out of shape and overweight, but she did every event, including the rappel. I was so touched by the day and my experience that I came to the Caltech Y to ask for support in making this available to anyone at Caltech. The date will be Saturday, Oc tober 20. The Y will help out with transportation. People go ing on the training will receive a list of some basic equipment needed (a day pack, canteen, broad brimmed hat, sun tan lo Together we can make it happen - as tion) and some forms needed Nippon Motorola Ltd. offers you the to register for the day's train opportunity to come home to family, ing. At least fifteen people will friends and a brilliant future with the be going, with no real upward world leader in microelectronic limit. The cost will be $50 per components and systems. Our Information person. I know that may sound Systems Group, Communications Sector, a little steep for a one-day Automotive and Industrial Electronics thing, but I look at it this way: Group and the Semiconductor Products I took two classes this term Sector currently have outstanding career which required texts, and I'm openings available at our ultra-modem spending more than that on facilities in Tokyo and Aizu Wakamatsu.1f just those books. And I know you are a recent or soon-to-be college that the experience I had that graduate and a Japanese citizen with an Financial Analyst day and the lessons I learned interest in working back home, consider Position requires BS Finance/Accounting about myself will be much the following opportunities: more valuable to me than Shipping/Receiving Administration anything I expect to learn at Design Engineer • Assembly, Position requires BSIBA Tech this whole year. The Manufacturing • Final Test Engineer • lessons are things that can't Quality Control Engineer • Plastic come from books, because What could be, . ,is. At Nippon Engineer • Production Supervisor • they're about you and how you Facilitie$ Engineer Motorola Ltd. The career you want. In relate to the world. It's worth Positions require BSIMS the country you love. For immediate much more than the $50 and ElectricallMechanical Engineering consideration, send your resume to: Ron the time spent, no matter how Smith, Motorola Inc., Semiconductor heavy a load you have this Products Sector, 1140 S. Priest Dr., term. Materials, Traffic Tempe, AZ 85281, Dept. IN28. If you are interested, con Position requires BS Materials tact me or stop by The Caltech Management Y. MIS.Programmer/Analyst MOTOROLA INC. Position requires BS Computer Science, Nippon Motorola Limited Correction: Math or Business An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Last week's article by Hos Process Engineer sein Mohammad, "Stone to Speak on Human Rights," Position requires BS Chemical Engineering, mistakenly stated that Proposi Chemistry or Solid State Physics What could be ... is. tion A was a California in 'Imagine the career you want. In the country you love, Japan itiative. Proposition A was on the ballot only in L.A. County. 10-THE CALIFORNIA TECH/FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5,1984 f~======sports======JL-~__~ ~ ------' ful skills yet again. Frosh get as they pull away. New guys Volleyball coaching unit. The returning Polo hour-long drive-in drill, while get to play with a clueless players are (in no order at all) 'starters' get a non-stop drill sophomore, who is quickly Starts Cris Morris (middle blocker) Script designed to exhaust and con thrashed within inches of his by Busy Sue Chris Tiller (setter), Lynn fuse. life in death alley (hell-I still Last Saturday the Caltech Hildeman (setter), Leslie Lip women's volleyball team (do pard (unspecified) and Irene by Polo Soph Climax: The crosstown don't know what that is). rivals come to our place. The Closing scene: Rotation not say "beaverettes") played Replogle (defensive specialist) Fade in... their first game. Usually, the The new people are Nicole The scene: A crowded con Fifteen now plus ten, fall meeting. Drunken author. behind early, thanks to some Paper airplanes fly. Flush. first game of the season is a Vogt (middle blocker), Jeanine vention floor. Ballots being complete disaster and I do not cast, people cheering, scream refs who can't tell the dif Take another swig of Cooler, Gainey (unspecified), Linda want to talk about Saturday's Schleuter (defensive specialist), ing. The President, dressed in ference between the 2-meter write another sentence. The game, except to say that it was and Tammy Chou (setter). Our Hawaiian shirt and OP's, and line and the 2-inch line. But mind buzzes. The head swims. our heroes regroup and come God, I'm gonna be sooo hung the best of all possible new coaching unit is head bearing a large straw hat, takes disasters. the podium. Silence sets in. He storming back. But then, a over tomorrow. How can I coach MJ Babiac and assistant disaster. An advantage is finish this off? I know, a On the team this year are coaches John and Marty. clears his voice. "We have a several returning players, five unanimous decision. The win thrown away. The momentum team .... I suppose I ought to say new people and a whole new ner of this year's award, Mr. shifts. Soon, it's out of reach Pass out-total darkness. continued on page 11 Waterpolo of 1984, is ..." Fade to cloudy day, early September. Fourteen polo players, led by Mr. Waterpolo, 1984, take to the pool for another campaign. The weeks roll by: eggbeater, layouts, drive-ins, counterattack drills, RB's, scrimmages, and the return of Squintman. Mid-September. Sun shin ing. The fabulous fifteen (with the return of Speed) set off for faraway adventures. Instead, they get lost in a massive smog cloud and end up in Riverside. Cops everywhere. The pool is a pit, reeking with stench and filled with hostile foes. The fif teen take up the challenge. At first, the two teams seem even. Game close. But then ...hack! wheeze! cough! The yellowbellied cowards began using their home pool advan tage, the air quality, to pull ahead. With the fifteen unable to breathe, the Yellowbellies win going away. A dispirited Fifteen return home. Clint's house. Watch and learn time. Some just sleep. The others learn lots of in teresting facts about waterpolo (did you know that a waterpolo pool has no bottom and is fill ed with honey in the last two minutes of a game? Or that it's just like basketball only with 90070 of the action taking place underwater? Several of the Fif teen changed majors to Chiropractology. They soon •• • at In Gilfillan began practicing it, right in the You can build an outstanding career while being involved in the kind of engineering that .develops everything pool. from command and control systems to the most advanced radar systems. And you'll be with the one company Quick scene shift up the 110 having an unrivalled history of achievements in radar. A company that has become a preeminent supplier of air to the pool. Clear, bright, defense ground environment systems and air traffic control systems." clean. Large crowd for the With many major programs underway, our company again posted a record year for new orders and sales. home opener. Clever manipula We even added new facilities to handle this year's dramatic increases. We're located in the San Fernando tion of the road signs leave half Valley, 40 minutes away from Los Angeles. And you'll enjoy the backing and resources of International of the enemy lost somewhere in Telephone & Telecommunications, our parent company. the jungle of downtown Glen dale. When you consider all these advantages, ITT Gilfillan is the one company to be with. Openings are available But the remnant, having for degreed candidates to work in: survived the little scam, come • Antenna & Microwave Engineering out with a vengeance. Quickly, • Receiver Design they're off to the races, leaving • Software Design the Fifteen initially stunned. • Radar & Weapons Systems Design Behind Mr. Waterpolo, the • Mechanical Engineering Fifteen rally, but, alas, it's too • C3 late. The rest of the enemy ar rives from out of the jungle to defeat our heroes, with the On Campus Interviews timely aid of a 300-pvund Friday, October 12 blubber whale from the South Pacific. Anticipate a career with excellent achievement and advancement potential. Contact your Placement Office to Scene: day after Frosh sign up, or write directly to Dick Dorsey, P.O. Box 7713, 7821 Orlan Avenue, Van Nuys, CA 91409. An Equal camp. Large crowd in the pool. Opportunity Employer. U.S. Citizenship Required. YOu mean all we have to do is beat a bunch of out-of-shape girls in a scrimmage and we can double the size of out GILFILLAN DIVISION team? Dodd writes up a new ITT recruiting pamphlet: scrim mages with the girls every week. Learn all those wonder- THE CALIFORNIA TECH/FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5,1984 .; 11

from page 10 are interested in completing the more about Saturday's game. team, talk to Coach Neal. We knew we were in for a The Men's 5.I-mile race tough match as soon as the was also interesting as the Claremont-Harvey Mudd week's strategy of "training Scripps team showed up. Every through" this competition 'one of them was tall. One almost backfired. A loss to Oc chick was probably 6'3", and cidental was inevitable and the she wasn't even their best hit Caltech team thought they ter. We played two games (best could stortlp on La Verne even two of three match). In the if they worked out very hiud first game everyone played all week. An exhausted team well, except that most of us toed the line early Saturday not couldn't serve the ball over the quite ready to go. Oxy net to save our lives. We lost, dominated by taking the first 15 - 7. The second game lasted six places, but Sean Moriarty !only ten minutes and I'm not held the score to 15 - 49 by telling anyone the score. outrunning their seventh man.. Our next home game is on A perfect score is 15-50. In Friday evening - be there and the race against La Verne, be· prepared for some Unh qaltech had first place, but was HOT volleyball action. Unh sbrprised by three La Verne Huh! runners who were faster than Chris Tiller jumps to block volleyball - Photo by Min Su Yun expected. Now the only way Calt.ech could win was to finish the rest of its scoring runners X-Country Races Against ahead of any of La Verne's. Fresllman John Gehring led MONKS PIZZA Darin Acosta and Mike Jensen Oxy and La Verne in far ahead of La Verne's next FREE DELIVERY by Big Mo Bures and Marit Nilsen in the runners, While Dan Bikle The Caltech cross-country middle of it, behind from the helped save the day by passing team raced against Occidental start. This lead pack broke them near the finish. Andy 3'04-9234 and La Verne Colleges in its apart halfway through the 3.1 Wolf and John Luo rounded first league competition last' mile race. Jenny easily left one out the Tech varsity seven this Saturday morning. The races Oxy woman behind but could vveek by staying near La were held on Caltech's scenic not stay with the other. She Verne's fourth and fifth men. home course at Lower Arroyo finished in second place against . The final score was Caltech Park near the end of California one of the strongest teams in over La Verne, 27-28. Our Blvd. the league and well ahead of gamble had paid off. After The women's race was ex the La Verne squad. Still, wards, the team had its tradi citing 'as Jenny Haase and the Caltech had to forfeit because tional ice cream stop before top two Oxy runners left the it doesn't have five women run rteturning for that last exciting resr of the field, with Clea ners this year. Please, if you rotation lunch.

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Everyone is engineering planning to con attend. We will try to organize a tures, its promise and perils publishes the Teaching Quality welcome. tinue in grad school for a general clean-up - so be will be the focus of the Feedback Report, better known Master's Degree are invited to prepared to spend the required Caltech/MIT Enterpnse as the TQFR. It contains Chinese Club Dinner apply for the GEM fellowship hour of work. Forum, scheduled for October valuable information about Are you into kung-fu which pays tuition, fees, and a 16 in Baxter Hall. courses which may help you in movies, Chinese food, or any stipend of $5,000 per graduate The Big T Is Here The Enterprise Forum, co the future. If you want a copy, other aspect of Chinese culture? academic year. You must be a If you haven't already done sponsored by the Calteeh In it can be picked up at the Or are you interested in ex junior or senior and a U.S. so you may pick up your copy dustrial Relations Center and Registrar's office. periencing any of the above? If citizen. Applications are in the of the 1983-1984 Big T in either the MIT Alumni Association so, come to the Chinese Club Career Development Center, 08 the Tech office (107 Winnett) or will hold a series of monthly Putnam Sign-Up orientation dinner, Saturday, Parsons-Gates. Deadline is Rm. 220 Ruddock. Graduates meetings featuring the president ,The annual intercollegiate Oct. 6, from 7 to 10 in Winnett December 1, 1984. may also pick theirs up if they of a high-tech company who Putnam Mathematical Contest Clubroom 1 (upstairs, south do not wish to wait for the presents his or her business takes place this year on Satur end). $4 for membership (which SU RF Seminar Day graduate mailing. plan. The plan is critiqued by day, December 1. The competi includes many benefits) and $4 Saturday, October 13 is panel of experts from related tion is open to any regularly for dinner. Asian background is SURF Seminar, Day. SURF Westbank Talk business fields, who pose the enrolled Caltech under not required; we welcome students will give 20-minute Yoav Ben-Horin; political hard questions regarding fund graduate. To register for the ex everyone! presentations of their summer and military analyst at the Rand ing, marketability,and growth am please enter your name on research projects between 1:30 Corporation, will speak and potential. one of the sign-up sheets in New Post Office and 4:30 pm af various loca answer questions regarding The first meeting will Sloan before Tuesday, October For those of yo~ who tions as listed below. Everyone Israel's complex situation in the feature Luis Villalobos, presi 9. haven't noticed, the Catalina in the Caltech community is West Bank in a talk on Tues dent of Conographic Corpora The exam will be held in Post Office Station is no longer welcome to sit in the sessions. day, October 9th in Winnett tion, a two year old computer rooms in Baxter. The morning on Catalina. After a year-long Session I, 102 Spalding, Lounge. The talk will be at 4:30 graphics company in Newport session begins at 8:45; the after hiatus and remodeling, it's now topics in Biology. pm. Beach, now doing about $3 noon one at 1:00 pm. The at 967 E. Colorado. The win . Session 2, 104 Spalding, million in sales. Representative Mathematics Club will sponsor dow section is open from 8:30 topics in Biology. from Conographic will display a warm-up session during the am to 5:00 pm. Session 3, 106 Spalding, Give Tours thier video equipment at the last week in November. Details topics in Chemistry and Weare low on campus tour close of the presentation and to be announced. Job Conference Chemical Engineering. guides. If you would be in open discussion will follow. As individuals you'compete Tuesday, October 9, a job Session 4, 113 Spalding, terested in giving tours of the . Techers with entrepreneurial with other undergraduates in fair' will be held via satellite in topics in Chemistry and campus please contact ,., either aspirations are invited to at colleges in the U.S. and Dabney Hall Lounge, from 9 Chemical Engineering. Karla Peterson in Ruddock tend. Baxter Hall will be open at Canada. There is also a team am to 12, repeating from 12 to 3 Session 5, III Dabney, (x6182) or Jacqueline Burle in 6:00 pm for informal discussion competiton. Last year our team pm. The broadcast originates in topics in Mechanical Engineer Public Relations (x6228). and light supper; the presenta of Bradly Brock, Alan Murry, WashingtonD.C. and is being ing, Environmental Engineering tion will begin at 7:00 pm. and Charles Cuny took first received at 30 universities na Science, Social Science. Big T Needs You _ Reduced admission fee for CIT place. Are we in a monotone tionwide. Representatives of Session 6, 115 Dabney, Are you tired of seeing these students with ID is $5. non-decreasing sequence? It's major technological corpora topics in Engineering. little blaring paragraphs every Please call Bonnie Baker at up to you! Sign up today. tions will discuss what kinds of Session 7, 121· Dabney, week that ask you to work for 356~3916 to register. positions are available with topics in Geological and the Tech? Well, we sure are, MIKADO Auditions their companies. There will be a Planetary Sciences. and knowing that you, d~ar LSJUMB Returns Auditions for the annual phone in Dabney Lounge so Session 8, 125 Baxter, topics reader, are sophisticated, The Leland Stanford Jr. Caltech musical will be held on students can ask questions of in Physics. visual, creative and way cool, University Marching Band will Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 17 the representatives and hear Session 9, 127 Ba}l:ter, topics we're putting this mellow play a concert ·on the & 18, from 10 am to 6 pm in them answered on the TV in Physics. paragraph in the Tech to appeal Athenaeum east steps this Fri room 25 Baxter. This year's screens. Although there will not Session 10, 128 Baxter, pro to your more compelling in day afternoon at 3. show is Gilbert & Sullivan's The be actual interviewing during jects from JPL. terests. Who are we? We're the The performance will be in Mikado. All Caltech and JPL the event, many of the com Session 11, 210 Baxter, editors of The Big T, Caltech's lieu of the Friday Noon Concert affiliates - students panies participate in campus in topics in Computer Science. one and only yearbook, and if usually held on the bookstore (undergraduate and graduate), terviewing at Caltech; there will Session 12, 218 Baxter, you can take pictures, do quad. faculty, staff, and friends - are' be literature available to take topics in Engineering and Com layout, .write, drink coffee, The concert is presented by invited to participate in the pro-· home. Free T-shirts will be puter Science. bullshit artfully or just hang the Caltech Ywhich has duction. Performances are the given to the first students atten around, you'd be more than brought the Stanford band to last weekend in February and ding each session. There will be welcome to join the staff of the campus twice in recent the first weekend of March, an over-the-air nationwide Watson Fellowships what promises to be the best years. 1985. drawing for TI Scientific Essays for the Watson yearbook in a pig's memory. The band will practice music Calculators and a Grand Prize, Fellowships are due on Friday, Economic, social and under and formations on the Film Showing a personal robot. (Students do October 19. Seniors interested the-table renumeration is Polytechnic football field on The film Stroszek, directed not need to attend the entire in applying for these travel available for those who desire Friday from I to 3 and 0 n by Werner Herzog (German broadcast to be eligible for the fellowships should talk to Gary it. So join already! The first Saturday morning from 9 to 11 English subtitles) will be shown drawings.) 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