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By Mike McNamee come apparent that he was, by Computer Science sections of and Paul Schindler far the most qualified candidate the department, he made a point Professor Wilbur B. Daven- for the position." of mentioning both groups in his I I port, head of the Center for Davenport said simply, "My statements to a special meeting Advanced Engineering Studies, perceptions changed through if the EE department held yes- was appointed yesterday to head time," and noted that, while the terday morning to announce his the Department of Electrical process might have been simpler appointment. He hopes, he said, I to "continue to preeminence of Engineering effective February if he allowed consideration of I 1, 1974. his own candidacy last spring, its education and research in Davenport will replace Jack- the intervening search was a electrical engineering and com- puter science," and that he 3 son Professor of Electrical En- healthy examination of the state I gineering Louis D. Smullin, of the department. wants to do "whatever is poss- I whose resignation from the top Considered by many to be a ible to strengthen the inter- I post in MIT's largest department conciliator with friends in both action" between electrical en- i was made public in September the Electrical Engineering and (Please turn to page 11) (The Tech,9/25). Davenport told The Tech that he was "greatly honored to be yt c Y I come head of a department that has the past - and the future - I that the Electrical Engineering 1 e cem iffee 3 department has." f e I Davenport's name was on a By Mike McNamee Jacoby. The energy conservation list submitted to Dean Alfred Governor Francis Sargent '39 section of the Energy Laborato- I Keil of the School of Engineer- -as appointed several MiT fac- ry is sponsoring, in cooperation Jerome Wies- 1 ing and President u-lty, including the Head of the with three New England utility I I ner, with an indication that he .Energy Laboratory, Professor companies, a conference at MIT I I preferred not to be considered, a on December 1 7 for large energy I David White, and Professor of I statement he has often repeated MAanagement Henry D. Jacoby, users. One proposal that has I in public. The official MIT re- to an Emergency Energy Com- received some publicity is the I lease on the appointment noted mrrittee to investigate ways to idea of using a "cadre" of MIT I that after serious discussions and I "help prevent disastrous energy students to make measurements I additional review, Keil selected Professor William B. Davenport Photo by Margo Foote, shortages in New England this and gather data on energy con- I Photo by Marge Foote, News Office Davenport because "it had be- x-,vinter." servation for large-scale commer- I I "if this winter is a very cold cial users. I one," Jacoby, "We've been operating on I T p es '%'ye I Fy2sel ev ence who was ap- very limited information about o inted by 1 energy use," says Leon I S argent to Glicksman, a Mechanical Engi-
By Greg Saltzman coverr the erased Nixon- "fingerprint" when it records a h-ead the com- neering lecturer. "We are think- I t The tape experts scrutinizing Halde]man conversation. If a re- conversation on a tape. Posses- m='ittee, told ing about getting students to go I I the Watergate tapes are unlikely coveryy attempt were fully suc- sion of "the machines will be Th e Te ch out during IAP to collect data in I I to come up with any legally cessfu 1, and if the recovered mat- useful for comparing the ma- '-New England Energy Jarge commercial areas on heat- 3 were incriminating, then I conclusive evidence, according eiial chine fingerprints on the tapes wvill have seri- and ing, lighting, and other energy 3 to Barry Blesser '64, Assistant the e:xperts would be able to to the fingerprint produced by ous problems MIT uses." I Professor of Electrical Engi- provid e more than circumstan- each machine," Blesser said. One with oil and "Hopefully, we can give these II neering. tial eviidence. thing that the experts could do, other energy shortages students enough orientation to I "The most that the technical HIo wever, Blesser thinks that he continued, would be to "see XWarm weather now has been allow them to make suggestions people could say is that there is it is "doubtful that they can if the fingerprints on a tape are beneficial, bat it may be pretty to the establishments they I an inconsistency between what recoveer the erased material. all from the same machine." rough in January or February." study," Glicksman continued. has been reported about the They might recover enough to The machine fingerprints The committee, according to Jacoby agreed that the idea I tapes and what has been ob- get so mnething intelligible, but it have several aspects. One is a aacoby, was appointed as an of forming a "cadre" had "been II served," said Blesser, an expert is nott likely that the material characteristic transient signal left effort to get "all the skill we floating around" for some time, I on audio signals. Even if the can bee recovered sufficiently to on the tape whenever a record- could gather in a short time in and that other suggestions have I experts find that the tapes have pass the legal tests" for permis- er's voice-actuated motor was Boston area" to serve the gover- been made for applying MIT's e I been changed, "they cannot sible wvidence. started or stopped. The transient iror in a technical advisory sense. technical resources to the energy I specify the motivation for the Stil11,the inconsistencies that signal makes it possible to detect "The committee is just an problem. I change, and that will be the crux the exxperts might find could be any edited section that does not em-nergency planning group, try- Students would also be need- I of the matter." used in perjury trials. For exam- coincide exactly with a complete -iag to develop contingency plans I Blesser cited the example of ple, it may be possible to deter- period of time in which the ed, Glicksman said, to help ana- I for energy conservation later in lyze data after it had been gath- I the 18 minute section of the mine whether it was Woods' motor was on. thne winter," Jacoby said. "We're I ered, and to upgrade it in "an I Haldeman tape which the White recordLer or a different one that Another aspect of a mna- r-.ore a technical committee - on-going project." He added that -lHouse clains was erased acci- was used to erase the Haldeman chine's fingerprint is its wow and h-:ehave no formal advisory role the emphasis "is on lAP at the 3 dentally by President Nixon's tape. flutter, which are periodic varia- - and we're trying to pull to- moment," but consideration is personal secretary, Rose Mary As part of their search for tions in the tape speed due to aGther data on energy conserva- I being given to proposals that the I Woods. The advisory panel, inconnsistencies, the advisory slight irregularities in the ma- I New En- I tion, the status of project continLue, perhaps with Blesser pointed out, probably panel is studying the nine tape chine's mechanical parts. An I ciand's supplies, and federal pro- assistance ftron ITROP. throtugh- will not be able to determine machi nes used to record Nixon's oscilloscope can be used to ob- grams that may help us out." I out the secC011d term. whether the erasure was acci- conveersations. The machines serve the wow and flutter in Jacoby pointed out that New Jacoby said that the ineer- I dental or deliberate, were turned over to Watergate wave form. -ngland is in a unique position Techniques of computer en- Judge John Sirica last week. Even if a person editing the gen11y : lnery C1Ion mittee hopes I Most of the I ir,_ energy supplies. to make full use of the Insti- hancement of electronic signals Ble;sser explained that each tapes used the same machine gasoline in the Northeast is pro- tute's resources. hbui vwe are just E might make it possible to re- machine leaves a characteristic (Continued on page 3) vided by the US, he said, but in organized to do it." X >Nd, getting fcel oil and other petroleumln The comlinittee is contacting fac- -roducts, -'New England is not ulty memnibers to get help fromn really part of the United States them with consultation and We are almost wholly de- organization. pendent on imports." "I see the Emergency Com- situation will be bad in The mittee as a temporary body," other parts of the country, Jacoby concluded. "We're there Jacoby predicted, especially in to help the governor during the the upper Midwest and Southern present crisis. If the committee California, but "it will really be i needed in the future - if the necessary to conserve to get crisis goes on - then we xvill stay through the winter here." in existence and keep working." Although the current warm 1 spell, which has enabled MIT to In the article "GSC urges Z^- Vi-·''''W sa-ve all its fuel oil reserves so far, Congress to impeach Nixon" has built up oil supplies in the in last Tuesday's issue of The iN ortheast, Jacoby says "we have Tech, Alan Robock was in- all the oil we can hold now, and correctly identified as the have to make these reserves sponsor of a motion to dis- fr ._,__- la st." band the Graduate Student "Using MIT's resources" Council. Robock sponsored Several proposals have been ihe motion to urge Congress rmaade to use the Institute's tech- Assistant Professor Barry Blesser of Course VI, an to impeach President Nixon, Dr. Thomas Stockham of the University of Utah, a nical resources to aid energy expert in audio and acoustics The Tech regrets the error. member of the advisory board appointed by Judge c Conservation, according to I Sirica to examine the tapes, spoke at MIT last week.
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·--· j .- A iTO: ~ s ,f- .L ( e e"I oget L72~A S C:0r I Thursday .- ecember (Part three in 4__ es on admis- est ratings on both scales, and $1,750 in self-help loans and Fridcay S-8, 13-1i sio ns) keep admitting," Richardson jobs," Richardson said. "Until By Pau -.-ix- - ier said. we spring solid money that we Saturuzday 8:O0 pM The Arn s process at In response to questions, he can give out in grant or scholar- $2.50 stated that MIT's yield of its ship we cannot compete with MIT makes use -o7 - numerical Kresge Little Theatre MIT indicators, or -- _h predicts most desirable students is "as some other colleges. Mr. Frailey For reservations call 253-4720 suc - s d a nother good as it is elsewhere," and works very hard to keep the scholastic I_ ___ which describ - e applicant as noted that "we do not get stu- equity level (self-help) down. I _ _ , _ a person, acc c - to Director dents, in the main, with high SI's work very hard to keep it down. MIgT ran=ashop of Admissions - e- Richardson and low PR's, as opposed to any Anybody who runs a budget at '48. other group." MIT knows there is not much oanno u~nces its lAP Producc The Scholasf-- - e x (SI) was In terms of actual statistics, money around." originally crea ___eut i ' 5 years Richardson said that 54 per cent _ -- -, I- -- ago. Althougl-- =- - -asupdated of all students admitted last year Sh kespe=re's annually whe -- -e were fresh- accepted their admission offers, man grades, ex,-- ---_ ~ Son -- since the while only 40 per cent of those MeAs 7 in the "northwest corner" (stu- Me
"We have --o -y- of predict- in social suc~__es s- amL we don't try to," he st a-- - _ Richardsc -- _ escribed the constructiorn PR, and its associated su-tzw - . -y ...Everyone who writes ao--__ c>-r applicants writes nice t - -_s b30out them at the 90 per c le1.-- We try to see the the paper pileCd -f-- --ont of us. It isn't the inte_-- e_-ix, or what the teacher says, -=- i is 1portant, it is how you - ogether the total impress-_r- of a particular youngster." He contiL- ,' - XVe summn arize this, and us e-- e summary as
well as the -~ making the ,- Ir - decision. A -c o d ifferent peo- ple read foi- _ -- __ ard their rank- ings tend z- _ e onsistent, al- though not -- -al. That's wvhy we have r- ?2-oie read tnhe folders. It is e docum-- ent, it's the imps . __ .. - Richards-z=-lso noted that faculty asss-- fie process 0a ~~:Y - IT-- 7 reviewing fo--- ==- -s although it is v- --W difficult. he -s to finld faculty- with enou-- - -= _ Faculty in- v o lvement - In- aardson says, "helps us _-owCc- what they want." E3' An a e--- tt s ade, he stated, to ' - _ a_-y school or0 department ---- orniating the faculty w -eadz admissions folders. Columbia cassettes are made to stay alive for a long time. n fact, they're the only fail- Adrrs _-- v _-s 3Pro cess c,'fc rctrp; on the market. "Having __ - the students in the two ± _- -S-rsions,we place We have low noise/high output ganma-ferric oxide tape. And thanks to a 20-20,000 them in a -_: Zx, and start with frequency range, what you hear is what you get. the studenrt s -I-t- -. have the high- Hz ...... ; :--l -.ir 1, ' -I-,^ t --. f , ---,P. 5~-^ .w_,-r l--r. . t _ _:=-. 1+". ·."-+I- - ----- i - --- . We use oversized Mylar slip sheets; impregnated with gra- phite. So there's no friction.
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Saltzman attacked and Paul Schinadler wrong. most of the major points of the j lar recording, it is highly unlike- versity of Utah, spoke here at I ly that the wow and flutter MIT on Tuesday about improv- Ten years after the assassina- "By taking the material avail- Warren Report, claiming that it would be exactly in phase. ing old Caruso opera recordings. tion of Pxesident John F. able and presenting it in a cohe- did not accurately represent the m to Blesser noted that "if these are Stockham described a computer Kennedy, the controversy over sive fashion, I am attempting facts of the assassination, iden- I out of synch, you can tell." method which removes the dis- his death still grips the attention prove that there were not one, tify the true assassin, or fully r but two conspiracies - one to expose the background of Lee I Another problem for any torting effects caused by the of the American people. I tape editor is that the recording poor recording equipment used Robert Saltzman, a consul- assassinate Kennedy, and anoth- Harvey Oswald, she suspected er to cover up the first,"' assassin who was murdered a few t environment for the editing in Caruso's time. Such a method, tant to the Committee to Investi- would have to be the same as may well be used in examining gate Assassinations (CTIA), of- Saltzman explained. days after the assassination. that in which the original record- the Watergate tapes. However, fered over three hours of photo- The lecture, presented to a There is evidence, according to ing was made. A sudden change Stockham declined to comnment graphic and documentary evi- packed Kresge Auditorium, was Saltzman, that Oswald had con- in background noise would prob- on his current activities as a dence Monday night to show a "visual analysis' of the assa s - nections with his murderer Jack B ably be detected, as would a member of the advisory panel. why he feels the official explana- sination and the events sur- (Please turn to page 1) change in the microphone used B for the recording. NUTS & SCREWS by Fred Hutchison ------I _ _ - - -- M M Re I - - ______The advisory panel also has a I o timJiom$. .. JOJ MINUTES HE C.al}'r PEaJALIZP__ HY" tEr!.. YOu'VE .,- M R. Gurney problem, though, and that is the o rjmuoortgz 20 llA3)vrs tN~qWE 9M¢,t TY Bx..8. Bohr rTecx," HARR-Y &or 7 O E 7-4E #AO 774E. ?E,'AI'Y 80c<... Iction, poor quality of the signals re- corded on the tapes. A machine nTsr ceAosr- -.T- WAS h Fop, to rqJuriis ;rUSr Doriae5r A4Sb Lndos1r Tosr cCoSE :-:_ WAS It3 fingerprint, Blesser remarked, "is A Ft&-'l-o. WHOa.. oES 8ECAma lo~AOS~mgsle :r AAPgPEA ms ED MoST N 6rforE:s A FIG-.. WHO o30 5 like a [human] fingerprint. If ro agP-.e< ' -tHAr ire o It you smudge it and pour deter- TaAr' RrE-XEE 7THitK -A Tr RE'-EREE 7'ltdK L- :CEPENr- A WJFHS· gent over it, it's harder to iden- He IS ? JW I'e WA4HOLE LE,, --... HE S5 ? :30 pm it tify." In addition to making Nlo esI-FE6.. MLE C.AAJ r Aa 8B SIES raar more difficult to find inconsis- Is KlI)H -war I tencies, the poor- quality of the ca. Mar AWAnY YcoJ& Z7l$P 6iV&ES mation. tapes also makes it that much aeaE /E m Slt1S more difficult to recover erased O conversations, such as the one that Wotds admitted oblitera- C:) ting. nra Still, Blesser thinks that the advisory panel examining the tapes is "absolutely first rate." -- -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~-- ; -- 1 1 The methods that they are likely I We Deliver to use, said Blesser, are "at the Correction Regarding 'WORt DUR{ING ViACATIO£ limits of current technology." In UROP Booklet I 0 ODiscount tco If you can type 60 wpm or more or can operate special terms of expertise, "it would be like PBX, register with us for temporary hard to match them." ME? Students office equipment In the ad for The Tech's jobs. We need you. Work a day, 2 days, a week, etc. Blesser noted that there are production shop in Tuesday's on pizza pvrchased on premises some experts in the government instant pay. Top rates. 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I L ------I I ------_a PAGE 4 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1972 THETECH GOP leaders to ask for Nixon s resignation By Norman D. Sandler before the Seafarers International Union - if he is not already - be made aware of to make a smoother and less controversial .t.. © 1973 The Tech last week. the consensus among many Republican exit from the Oval Office. A likely Congress, after more than two months At a news conference Wednesday, Sen. members of Congress that his resignation scenario, and one that has probably been of deliberations, has confirmed Rep. Jacob K. Javits, R-NY, said that discus- is the only way to save the party and considered by the President himself, is I Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., as successor to sion of the President's resignation revive the government from its lengthy one where he is admitted to Bethesda _ former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. "moved to the front" with Ford's con- period of inaction. Naval Hospital for observation, and two ..*, Agnew was convicted October 10 on firmation, and explained that talk of As for Nixon's repeated promise not days later makes the announcement that one count of tax evasion in federal Nixon's resignation "could not even be to succumb to pressure calling for his he must step down - at least temporarily district court in Baltimore immediately considered in the absence of a vice resignation, some of Agnew's most vehe- - for medical reasons. i following his forced resignation. president." Javits' office late Thursday ment denials of guilt came only one week The Nixon Administration must be denied that the New York Republican before he was forced to resign by US With the pressure Nixon has been relieved that the vacancy in the line of implied the President should resign, and attorneys who had compiled evidence under, it seems plausible he might reach presidential succession once again is occu- said the statements made Wednesday only that he had taken bribes while serving as the point where he "could not" subject pied by a Republican "team player." meant the possibility can now be raised governor of Maryland and - until De- himself to the strain of the White House i However, White House officials might -. and discussed. cember 1972 - while serving as Vice any longer. In any case, it is apparent that and with good reason - view the Ford However, a request for his resignation Presid ent. the Republicans will soon begin to clean confirmation as the beginning of the end by leaders of his own party during a As long as he is not being forced out up the party before next year's elections, for the "man who brought you Water- private meeting may elicit a different of office by overwhelming criminal evi- and the first person to go will be the a gate." response from Nixon. The President will dence, Nixon will have the opportunity President himself. . i _ According to an authoritative source, '. _~ Ford's inauguration as vice president sig- naled the initiation of an effort by i members of Nixon's own party to force Ie the President's resignation by early next .. r year. : j Reportedly heading the movement to U Letters to the Editor - _ persuade Nixon to voluntarily step down I I .1 I are Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, R-Ariz., and i GOP minority leader Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa. Both men have warned of the To the Editor: To the Editor: To the Editor: ',I! President's declining credibility since the The senior faculty in Course III seem I address this letter specifically to the This letter is dedicated to those among i issue of the missing White House tapes to believe that if a subject is enjoyable, it staff of The Tech. When I first heard that us who have been too bsy with their 1 Ii unfolded earlier this year. can't be educational. 3.095, "Materials you people had entered your supreme own lives to realize that the "Amenican Goldwater and Scott were preparing Processing: An Engineering and Historical leader into the UMOC campaign against Dream" is quietly turning into a night- several weeks ago to go to Nixon im- Approach," is considered by many stu- his knowledge i really thought the idea mare. I mediately following Ford's confirmation dents to be both. Yet, it has been was great. After all, who deserves the fate It was once true, that, in America, a ;I and ask the President to resign in order to cancelled. better than Paul Schindler? Even Paul man from any social stratum could, with save the Republican Party in the 1974 The course is structured with 2 hours couldn't find fault with this point, so he enough determination and sweat, become congressional elections. They have strong of lecture and 4 hours of lab each week. put his best foot forward, and gallantly whatever his skills and intelligence would support from a number of their Repub- The lab is in either metal casting or threw himself into the thick of competi- allow. However, the Almighty Dollar has i - lican colleagues in both chambers, and glass-blowing. tion. ultimately triumphed, and possession of it one source on Capitol Hill said this week Students are given a good background During the ensuing week I saw Paul many of them is now an essential pre- that even conservative Republicans have in the lectures, and progress to quite a Schindler do more things to demean and requisite for flexibility in choosing one's '" been overheard making "caustic remarks" level of competence in working the humiliate himself than I'm sure lie is life style. 1 U1 about the President and the problems material in the lab. willing to admit to. Paul deserves a hearty Howard Sitzer's and Mike McNamee's . facing the White House. In my opinion, this is a perfect exam- congratulations for his efforts, but where editorial (1 2/4/73 pgs. 1,2), disguised as a Goldwater could not be reached for ple of dealing with an area sorely lacking were his brothers and sisters from T1/e news article, has prompted me to attempt comment, but his press secretary, Tony in an MIT education - that of actually Tech? During the first four days of to determine how these two fellow Smith, said the Arizona Republican has "getting one's hands dirty," and physi- UMOC I saw only three different people students could draw such narrow 'on- not discussed any plan to ask for Nixon's cally doing something educational. help Paul. Only one, or possibly two, of clusions. I suspect that the majority of resignation. "Such a conversation has The course is a resounding success these helpers belonged to the staff of The students who work on a school news- never taken place," Smith said. with the students. It demands a high Tech. Where the hell were the rest of paper are probably ones who had tree i" ! Scott's office also issued a quick denial degree of interest and involvement, but is you? If you were sure enough to commit time after high school to participate in li when contacted by The Tech late Wed- rewarding to those who put in the effort. Paul tokilling himself for a week, the least extracurricular activities, and this prepar- '! nesday. When asked if the Senate minor- David S. Gromala you could have done was come out and ation coupled with a surplus of time a" ity leader was planning a visit to the help him do it in fashion. Seriously, enables them to engage in similar activ- White House to discuss the President's though, I really think the staff of The ities in college. This assumption leads me i: M requested resignation, press aide Robert Tech owes Paul Schindler one huge apolo- to the conclusion that these students t Hetherington said there was "no validity" To the Editor: gy. As a person who enjoys perpetrating probably do not know the meaning of I: in the report "as far as Sen. Scott is Reminiscent of a faculty resolution hacks, I am quite critical of people who hard work. 1 concerned." condemrnming US involvement in Indo- begin something and then abandon it in I realize that there are probably some However, confirmation of the plans to china, I see by your December 4 article, the middle leaving someone else "holding health and aesthetic reasons and many ask for Nixon's resignation suggests that "GSC urges Congress to impeach Nixon," the bag." What can I say? other social factors which discourage a I as the end of the year approaches, the that a portion of the MIT community has Keith Milkove student from living in a library; I also GOP leadership is becoming increasingly once again been "represented." For what realize that the Institute cannot "offi- disenchanted with the President's defense reason does the Graduate Student Coun- To the Editor: cially" approve of such unorthodox use of his alleged involvement in the Water- cil, as an organization, pass a resolution As you may know, for the past few of facilities. But there must be another gate scandal and related affairs, and are urging Congressional action'? years we have been trying to disassociate side to the problem, and it is The Tech's worried that their uncertainty will be Either the members presume to rep- ourselves from our national fraternity and responsibility to every member of the damaging at the poll next November. resent, in some sense, the political establish ourselves as an independent co- community it serves to impartially in The only way to quelch the dissent in opinions of the entire MIT graduate operative. To this end, we did away with vestigate and report the other side of the the GOP ranks is by replacing the current student body or they are simply expres- pledging and initiation procedures. We story. Administration in an attempted return to sing the result of a majority vote among have been "open bid" for the past few So the next timue, Howard and Mike, a state of normalcy, where the govern- themselves. If the latter is true, who years - encouraging people to join on you think harshly of a fellow student ment may once again function smoothly. cares? Wouldn't it be a lot better for each their own initiative without having to be who is living in a library, I suggest that Impeachment is a slow process and faces member who favors impeachment to bid by the House. And after some frus- you think a little more. I am confident:: opposition by Republicans in Congress, write an individual letter saying so? trating correspondence, we became offic- that you will soon find yourself thanking i but the GOP leadership apparently be- What really bothers me is that I rather ially independent of Sigma Alpha Mu whatever goodness you believe in that:i lieves Nixon's resignation is a much swift- suspect its the former that's true. I have National. Finally on Monday, November you, by some unknown randomness, were er, less painless solution, and surely less the nagging feeling that the "Graduate 19, 1973, we came up with a new name born with favorable initial conditions. damaging to the nation. Student Council of the Massachusetts and henceforth we are Fen way House. Let's stop helplessly worrying about No consideration has been given to Insititute of Technology" takes some We would like to make people aware Watergate when so many eviis of our, Nixon's response to a request for his advantage of some of the prestige of its of our feelings as well as our new nam3. modern society are all too abundant here resignation. Sen. Edward Brooke, own name, at the price of intellectual We would appreciate any help toward the at our own Institute. R-Mass., publicly asked the President to dishonesty. Certainly, I have been aware above goals - and would be glad to Mike Druke '73'i step down in a meeting at the White of no organized attempt, on the part of discuss our philosophy with anyone in- terested. House several weeks ago, but Nixon said GSC, to determine the leanings of the Continuous News Service he would stick out the crisis. He re- graduate student body on the question of The People of Fenway House peated his vow to "stay at the helm ... impeachment. 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I' i I THE TECH FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1973 PAGE 5 - 2 -!.:Ir ... · .: I. zt.L -. ---.1S~ __ar m r-I hoto by John Krout The Who at the Boston Garden (see page 6) PAGE 6 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1973 THETECH a beachfight with the Rockers; John ly everything, including politics, govern- Entwistle, in "Is It Me?," takes the ment, space travel and exploration, even mellower, more sensitive, almost maudlin, the automobile, in favor of a life of romantic side that reappears sporadically unadulterated Entertainment. TV, films, as glimpses of what is perhaps the real records, and tapes have been supplanted Jimmy surface (is it me for a moment?); by Memory Loops, played back on Keith Moon, in "BellBoy," reveals the Graphaphones, apparently a highly creeping, forced insanity of running sophisticated .system of 3D hologram I around carrying others' bags in a hotel projection, sophisticated to the point that Jimmy and friends had once where the distinction between the Loop smashed up; and Peter Townshend, in the and the real is incidental, if not negligi- ultimate resolution of the work in "Love ble. Even Panoramaland 2000, an amruse- Reign O'er Me," captures the emerging ment park containing most of civiliza- desire for some sort of spirituality, some tion-as-we-know-it's important buildings, I sort of salvation spawning from a monuments, and natural wonders, blinks situation that is clearly not right. The in and out of existence when disturbed. effect is incredible. by the electrified zeppelin of Mr. Motion, Quadrophenia, though it needs per- the inventor of Amazination, one of the haps a half-dozen listenings to be fully better Loop systems. Most of the charac- appreciated (in fact, I hated it for the ters on the album are not real people, first few times through feeling, quite being either tweenies (inflatable govern- mistakenly, that Townshend's ego had ment employees, although existing gov- overstepped its rock group confines is ernment is only skeletal), misters (M.R.'s, going to be hard to top as the year's best Multiple Rebendables, which are Amazi- and most astounding work; in concert, it nation puppets or robots), or part of the is significantly altered musically, even if System, Mark's suspended animation the immensity of the piece remains un- caretaker unit, which is either built into diminshed. The instrumentation of the his ship or built into himself; it's hard to group live is the basic guitar/ say which. Everything in 1 999 is prepack- bass/drums/vocals structure (a distinct aged (even shit: Poopane - "When you change from on record) with a reliance on gotta go, you gotta go), preprogrammed, tapes to supply a few of Townshend's automated, monitored, more or less mag- array of sonic dabblings. Their version of netic or radioactive, and, above all, fun. Quadrophenia was extensive, though de- Mark returns triumphant of the Earth, leting a few of the instrumental themes landing in a deserted space museum, and and some of the songs early into the epic; is treated to a prerecorded welcome by a "5:15," was one of the best cuts on the tweenie, then is kidnapped by Mr. - (I. to r.) Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, and Peter Townshend of The Who record was performed very well, though Motion, who covets the Recall-Loops missing the driving staccato piano of Mark recorded on Planet X, Loops which : i and one girl was led into a back room Chris Stainton. From that point on, it eventually become real-er than real, t On i- the covers bleeding from the mouth; inside, in an was a virtually complete rendition of the wreaking havoc until, at the end of the effort to clear the main aisle: on the last two sides of Quadrophenia, and a record, the System is again talking to u . floor, police shoved, choked, and beat the fantastic rendition at that. Mark, and it seems that it's all been just a 107g bee ang. often less than responsive and cognizant From there it was into "Won't Get laser dream provided by the ship to keep Who fans, reminiscent of the gestapo Fooled Again," dedicated to the Montreal Mark's mind active in deepspace, or per- ir. forces in evidence during those earlier police, after Towhshend had politely told haps to camouflage Mark's death from S: Music Hall dates. them to "fuck their fuckin' arseholes." him, as he enters a Black Hole and/or rc But the Who seemed to be progres- Their version was played with a manic after the ship is disabled by Planet X KkG- r vengence, only to lead into the crowd WV: by Neal Vitale sively revelling in the anger from their aliens. We are confused, as Mark is con- I run-in with, as Daltry called the Canadian favorite segments from Tommy - fused. He can't accept the world he seems : ar Perhaps it's a bad omen for a rock police, the "filth." Moving from "I Can't "Pinball Wizard" and "See Me, Feel Me." to return to, for he is from an earlier, ; . J L C supergroup to have a gig upcoming in Explain" through a sloppy trio of oldies Three huge klieg lights in back of the more corporeal time. But the whole story Boston. Some sixteen months ago, a year - Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues," stage were lit to climax the song and set, is a neat essay on reality manipulation, illumrinating last August, the Rolling Stones were "My Wife" (sung terribly out of key by the crowd, as the mid- manipulation to the point when reality heading into the Boston Garden for two John Entwistle), and a not-too-impressive stadium batteries of spotlights were can quietly slip away. nights of concerts, only to have Mick "My Generation - it wasn't until the played around the hall. The brightly This is not really a Firesign Theatre Jagger and Keith Richards arrested en group struck into the heart of their set, blazing kliegs turned the band into hazy album, though. Dave Ossman wrote it and route at a Rhode island airport for assault excerpts from their latest double-pocket silhouettes in the smokey air; the Who stars as Mark, and the other three Fire- on a newspapermnan, finally saved by a album, Quadrophenia, that the seething, left the stage virtually unseen as the signers cover the most important roles, last ditch plea from Mayor Kevin White. violent energy was focused into musical sell-out Boston Garden crowd stood and but a large number of other folks (no-one This past Sunday night, December 2, the excitement and spark. Before that, the cheered, most deservedly so. I just hope you know, except for Wolfrnan Jack) Who were busted by Montreal police for expected windmill chops of guitarist the group made it in one piece to the appear in the less important parts. Not wreaking havoc (some several thousand Townshend and Daltrey's usual mike Spectrum for Tuesday's show in that there's anything wrong with this, dollars worth) on their hotel rooms after twirlings were nothing more than Philadelphia. except that none of the other players are their set at the Forum. It was after unemotional tlheatrics; Townshen d claim- - as adept at voice characterizations as the 5:30pmr when the band finally arrived in ed he was feeling "fuckin' incredible," his Firesign boys. They are for the most part Boston, after sonme seven hours in jail, for playing betrayed the statement. Black' quite ordinary voices, perhaps giving a an 8:00pmn show Monday evening at the leather-clad bassist Entwistle, who has desired effect; but this, together with the Garden; and it was after Pete Townshend moved out of his "silent pillar" mold and Se~c3 fl~ng fact that, compared to past Firesign IiKh had had a glass splinter removed from his into a villainous bad-boy's stance, fared efforts, this one is played straighter, with eye a few hours earlier, and Daltrey the worst for the night; his singing was fewer puns and less contorted plot machi- had had a strep throat diagnosed with awful, his bass-playing inaudible, and his nations, gives the whole production a some superfluous scare talk about throat temper senseless, as he smashed his rather low-key, soft-sell feel, quite un- ('ilif cancer thrown in for paranoia's sake. French Horn when a number had to be characteristic of the UFiresign theatre. I by Mark Asto!fi 14o Possibly, though, it's just the Who who scraped because of sound problems. I There's less of the time/space continuum court disaster so closely. The last time Townshend's guitarwork would im- I How Time Flys - David Ossman slapstick, less linguistic slight of mouth, ('it-( they had visited Boston, in August of prove as the evening wore on, but Messrs. I (Columbia) and more of an effort to paint a credible 1971, for four nights at the Music Hall, Daltrey and Moon proved to be the This is the first Firesign Theatre record (comparatively, mind you) scenario. I technical problems had been multiplied musical heroes of the night. Quadro- to deal explicitly with science fictional Everything is laid out in front of you, by some internal friction in the group, phenia is very crucially dependent on I topics: travel to other planets, suspended Freddy Burns' Burns Psychotic Plastics, and during one set, Daltrey kicked over a strongly melodic bass and drum playing animation, alien beings, hostile Black "The Years In Your Ears," and all. bank of amplifiers, splitting open the to fill in where Townshend only Holes, and the like. It concerns a 'young Except, of course, that you can't be sure head of a nearby roadie. The band had occasionally has added guitar to a layer- space traveller, Mark T. (probably "T" whether Mark's experiences in the future be, then been keyed up, volume-wise, for ing of ARP-synthesizers, strings, horns, for "Time," from a past Firesign charac- are actually happening or are all in his a playing outdoor concerts at Forest Hills, and assorted electronics; to pick up the ter and the album's title), who volunteers head, and either way, a lot ofit still isn't So New York, and Daltrey, after repeatedly slack of Entwistle's off-night, Moon was for a mission to Planet X in 1979, and the really happening. ter telling Townshend to turn his guitar emminently impressive with some super- world he finds upon his return to Earth in How Time Flys is probably the weak- recscoro down so that his own vocals could be lative explosive drumming. And Daltrey, 1999 (although the whole story could be est Firesign Theatre-related album yet, bus heard, got fed up at the lack of response, strep or no strep, was phenomenal, creat- interpreted as merely a figment of Mark's but it's still a humorous, witty, engaing Re: threw his tantrum, and stalked out of the ing the singularly riveting aspect of the imagination.) The world on the verge of parable. And as Mr. Motion points out, eOn I rec- hall. All of which with Rod Stewart and group's sound at the Garden. I the 21st Century has abandoned virtual- "Some of this is real, I assure you." the Faces (fresh from an incredible con- Quadrophenia is the writing product I cnr ·B rm*r; * . ------·------cert earlier in the evening on the Boston solely of Pete Townshend, but it is just as I whe Common, in front of a few hundred much a showpiece for Daltrey. Roger clos thousand fanatics) at the peak of "Maggie Daltrey no longer sings the multiple per- reca May's" popularity, waiting in the wings sonae of Tommy, but rather deals with THE TECH ARTS SECTION for a joint encore that never occurred. the bulk of the characterization of young I That Who concert was nothing to rave mid-sixties Mod aspirant Jimmy. The i Neal Vitale '75 - Arts Editor about, indicative story line of all four nights of that is a fairly simple one, closely II visit. paralleling that in movies such as The Mark Astolfi '73 - Associate Arts Editor,(sports) The way Monday's set began, it looked Harder They Come and The Cool World II to be a possible repeat, quality-wise. - the life of a kid out of the large lower II Sandy Yulke '74 - Associate Arts Editor (drama) After Keith Moon typically lurched and class underbelly of society, whether it be john Kroul '75 - Associate Arts Editor (media, music) stumbeld on stage, beneath on orange in London; Kingston, Jamaica; or New Steve Owades '75 - Associate Arts Editor (classical music) Hin neon-outlined fall-out shelter sign an- York. With Qzuadrophenia, it is the de- i Gerto nouhcing the Who, the group equally velopment of a personality expressed as John Hanzel '76 - Associate Arts Editor (graphic arts) lurched and stumbled into "I Can't Ex- being "quadrophenic" (i.e. four-sided) - plain," slowed down a bit, perhaps as a each of the four main aspects of Jimmy's Arts Staff - Matthew Farber '75, Brian Rehrig '75, nod towards Bowie. In the audience, psyche has grown out of and is taken by Renee Chow '77, Blake Hurt '77, Harish Mendis'77, heads were being cracked. in performance an individual imember of Mike Curren, Wanda Fisher, Jeff Palmer, Bob Ross Ulni On the way in, at least two or three the Who, Roger Daltrey. in "Helpless; AeatK in J people were carried bodily and struggling Dancer,"' represents the tough-guy who f slnlo:in s by numerous bluecoats out of the Garden would prowl around Brighton looking for I .Kin: dIEl" h *C S?·l s -·rp r , arxJcnaa l 1~.-N, THETECH FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1973 PAGE7 laid back tune in its own right. "We'il Never,Forget" is a fun tune, rbMhuar Asteos sounding like what the Sound of Music kids would have sung had they got their hands on a copy of Ramparts. Were the Turtles alive today, this would be their stryMa g de ut cup of soup. "Where Am I" is incredible, with faint touches of Chicago, Alice by Mark Astoifi Cooper, and Black Oak Arkansas. Then comes "Bad Guy," which is to my ears a Tihundermug Strikes Thundermug full-out Alice Cooper lampoon, complete (Epic) with bloody vocals, razor-sharp throw- away gtitar runs, and savagely leveling Somewhere in between the retooling bass. of Beatle, Byrd, and Beach Boy mid- Tracing influences on Thundernlug sixties dies by such bands as Big Star, seems almost an endless task: the Sweet 10cc, Stories, Raspberries, and Wackers, Who, Beatles, Led Zep, on one side of the and the atomic crunch of the heavy metal Atlantic, CCR, BOC, Alice Cooper on the mothers, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, and other. Yet it all comes out Thundermug. Led Zeppelin, in a region recently staked They may look like a bunch of down- )ut by Britain's next supergroup, Queen, home Macon, Ga., pickers, but they can mas emerged Thundermug. I'm told that flash! he word is slang for a portable potty, but ts a misnomer for sure in this case. These our boys from London, Ontario repre- ent Canada's most impressive import ince the Guess Who and Lighthouse, and The Beat'es zhundermug Strikes is hands down the lest non-American, non-British album of he year. Probably of the 70's. And just aaybe of all times. Their stock in trade is .oflone to~~the ounding, lunging rock and roll, in the ianner of Queen, but funkier, less or- I by Mark Astolfi ate. Their music is a rare and delicate alance of, on the one hand, wit, imagina- Mind Games - John Lennon (Apple) on, taste, and on the other, violent, Ringo - Ringo Starr (Apple) o-quarter-given rock madness. Mind Games, by John Lennon, is his It's an incredible effort. Everything is best since John Lennon/Plastic Ono l place; there are no loose ends, no Band, that primal scream of raw, com- irow-away experiments, no padding or mercial work with the Beatles, John is ller. Every round inch of vinyl is filled back on the track with a bang. Two things - Ringo Starr p, with a raging guitar break here, a contribute to this. First, John has shuck- listed aachine-gun drum riff there. Thunder- ed his role (cf. Sometime In New York in the credits ?) Harrison is on four cuts. Other guest stars :ug's music exhibits variety, vitality, City) of effete rock 'n' roll revolutionary; The second thing is the conspicuous include Martha Reeves, Marc Bolan sight, and humor. If and when the he's given up the unruly, Che-come-lately absence of one person on this album: Ms. Harry Nilsson, all of the Band, and Dave iucermen land, and want a sample of Elephant's Memory as back-up band, in Lennon. Now I enjoyed Yoko's book Bromberg, not to mention sidemen with ,ck and roll to bring back to their favor of the latest Plastic Ono in- Grapefruit, for it displayed a playful, names like Keltner, Keyes, Hopkins, and alaxy, Cropper. this just could be the record we'd I carnation, this one called the Plastic U.F. albeit simplistic, wit; ditto for her art and exhibitions. But mnt to give 'erm. They'd be listening to it Ono Band, with Ken Ascher on key- musicwise, she was and But with all these star players, the Id boogeying all the way home. It's boards, Dave Spinozza on guitar, Gordon is bad news, somehow unable to translate music is unspectacular. Very simple melo- dies, rmned paradigmatic. An album of all Edwards on bass, Jim Kelter on drums, the literate and artistic wit into black some elegant arrangements, a couple )tential hit singles. and Mike Brecker on sax. It's the best vinyl, and with a voice like a consumptive decent guitar solos (and a nice synthesizer Side one opens with a rush: "Orbit." since the Clapton-Voorman-White line-up donkey. On the liner notes, she's credited break by McCartney), all flanking Ringo's fis is the strongest I manifestation of the on Live Peace Toronto 69. The one with "Space." Excellent. She's in her deap-pan, slightly off-key non-singing. "Photograph" is a stirring e-Tommy Who influence that runs political song, "Bring On the Lucie element. single, good car rough the record. The vocals are pure radio fare. "You're Sixteen," the only (Freeda Peeple)," is done to post-Beatles The songs. Well, there ltry; this is the album's "I Can See For are two sizzling oldie on the record, is cute enouglh. George Harrison-type guitar chordings, rock numbers lik-e you .-ever thought les,"a brilliant ode to the down-to- "You and Me (Babe)" is a bittersweet and it seems at least partially tongue-in- you'd ever hear from John again, "Tight rth grandeur of space-rock. Next comes show-closer, just right for Ringo's style. cheek. There is also some talk on the AS" and rictoria Muse," an abrupt change of "Meat City." The rest are love In short, Rilngo is uninspired but far inner sleeve of "the birth of a conceptual songs in general or to Yoko in specific. ce. It's a deceptively gentle little in- from dull. Produced by Jim Perry, the country," Nutopia, and there's a three- There's talk of Mantra, karmic wheels, umental, sort of a minuet in double- album comes with a lyrics booklet, conim- second-long '"Nutopian International An- and UFO's. It's been a long ie, with intricate \weaving of guitar time since plete with inspired drawings by KIlaus them," copping a lick from Lennon's John made a record with so- few musical es, all done on a sturdy rock backdrop, Voorman. And also, a S0.98 list price. earlier classic, "Two Minutes Silence." and personal hangups. I like it. :h strong bass underpinnings. The vigor Shapcs of tlings to com e, I'mn afraid. This is the kind of (loggie-doo we used to As for Ringo's albumni, this is probably .1 humor of the piece shows t hat Focus gleefully toss about in HiSkooi, and as close as we'll come to a Beatles reunion i I Edgar Winter aren't the only ones fortunately John doesn't dwell on it. record. (Althoughi the Byrds and Lthe )able of putting on a great satiric rock I John produced and arranged the entire Manmas & Papas did trumental. it, right'?). One song. I Li', and at long last hlie pays attention to John Lennon's delightfull "I'ml the Great- "Jane J. James" is next up, a story of details, using his long-dormnant musical est," is performed by three ex-Beatles, pe and the circus, witlh guitar sounding savvy to dclesign some nice arrangements Starr, Lennon, and Hlarrison, and two the old Janmes Gang and Plendrix, a and effects, although tor som0e stranle semi-Beatles, Preston and Voornrman. And verful rhlylthm guitar hook at the reason he can't help sounding, froin tilme that's as close as we'll get to one song. )rus, and a thundering double-tempo to timne, like Harrison. (Could George be Paul and Linda also appear, on a pleasant by Dan Dern in beat throughlout. "Mickey Mouse the mysterious Dr. Winston O'Boogie little tune they co-wrote, "Six O'Clock." b" is a rcmake of the "Mickey Mouse Author John Hawkes spoke last Friday b March,'" a very, very loose trans- night in the Student Center Mezzanine on to be sure, done to frantically Lounge to a small gathering of the MJT Ithy rock chordings, and featuring the literati and other interested people. Mr. h, swooping harmonies of Queen or Hawkes divided his time between dis- cussing the nature of his writing, recount- Then comes "The Investigator," the ing certain anecdotes pertaining to the t on the LP next to "Orbit." Based on books, and reading a sequence of nodification of Led Zep's "Lemon selections from three of his novels, one of ig" riff, the stark vocals, subject mat- which will be published in April. and abrupt ending suggest inspiration John Hawkes has been a relatively n the Sweet, especially "Block- obscure author until recently; however, ter." Also, there's a weenybopper T. Leslie Fielder and several other major : guitar solo. This could be Number critics have declared him to be one of in England, easily. "He's got certified mmendations/If you've been bad, America's leading authors, Hawkes is best known for his novels I catch you sooner or later ... " Second Skin and The Blood Oranges; he has also 'Africa" rounds out the side, and is as written The Lime Twig and e as Thundermug comes to filler: its a The Cazn- nibal, as p of what comes before and what is well as other shorter novels and short stories (which, he come on side two (metaphysically claims, are really fragments of aborted novels). king, a record is continuous), with His latest novel, Death Sleep and The Tralveller, rumbling background of "JJJ," the is due April 1 9'). Mr. Ils and a piece of guitar riff from Hawkes currently teaches in the Creative Writing bit," some of the rhythm guitar from Depart- ment at Brown. ere Am I." And just as you're king this is getting to be a drag, in Barbara Sirota from the MIT es a Roy-Woodesque kazoo solo. Literature Department gave an intro- IUs. ductory speech. Mr. Hawkes' appearance ide two starts with "Garden Green," is one of a series of authors' talks; :h is British all the way: I can hear Visiting Professor Tillie Olsen read on ies, Who, Deep Purple, and Procol Tuesday, Nov 27, and Donald Barthelme im influences. Then they give the gave a talk on Monday, Dec 3. Ms. Sirota :s' klassik "You Really Got Me" a read a rather dry, high-flown speech c-out. Although close, to the original citing various critical heavies, and then tyle on instrumentation, it's too turned the lecturn over to Mr. Hawkes. )th, too lifeless to compare with the Once at the wheel, John Hawkes prov- :'s version. Never-the-less, it's a nicely John Lekennon [Continued on page 8] PAGE 8 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1973 THE TECH C WIL___ I __ I_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~r- I [Continued from page 7] novels upon which the Cornan strip is first published short story, The Black based, complete with samples of the Destroyer, etc. Marvel is also expand- ed himself to be a delightful, unpressured L old pulp art. Like their regular Comics, ing and revising its line-up of racial speaker; he spoke in a quiet voice (since these big Marvel books are loaded with minority heroes. LUKE CAGE, for- he is recovering from pneumonia - he did ,;; behind-the-scenes gossip, info on new merly called HERO FOR HIRE, is warn that at any moment the dry, crack- books and projected characters, artist, now known as POWERMAN (there's ed voice of the Devil might return to his author, and editor bios, etc. Again, the also a villian by that name in the lips) and made all manner of outrageous 4 affiNt art varies, but in the hands of a master, Marvel stable), and is billed as the and gothic statements with off-hand easi- E "First Black Superhero." Wrong. It ness. Esteban Maroto for example, the U I black-and-white graphics can spawn was Marvel's own BLACK PANTHER, John Hawkes' novels all deal with the masterpieces impossible with stiffling who guested in FantasticFour starting allure of death as seen from the viewpoint in 1966, did a tour of action wwith of middle-aged men who have the spector i' B in 1965, James Warren, who had color graphics. THE AVENGERS, and now stars in of past crimes (murder, adultery and the i i previously (he still does) published a Jungle Action. Luke is also pre-dated like) overshadowing his present actions. , highly successful line of 8xl 1 -size and D.C. Meanwhile, as Marvel by THE FALCON, who now shares His images tend to the spectacular - an . monster magazines, including the lead- .l I open up (or ressurect) new genres of co-billing in CAPT. AMERICA'S mag, attempted seduction in the corpse of a U er in the field, Famous Monsters of U Comics, such as sword & sorcery, and who recently underwent a second de-windowed hotrod in a musty barn [ Filmdom, began two large-size black- horror, scifi, even Kung Fu ripoffs (see costume revision, and can now fly, to during a New England snowfall, a trio U and-white comic Books, Creepy annd U Marvel's SHANG-CHI, in Master of keep pace, I guess, with CAP's new- observing a pair of bats in the lizard -. Eerie, which featured tales of grue- Kung Fu), Charlton Comics is trying U some horror, the supernatural, science found super-powers. Joining these house of a European zoo performing to revive its Superhero line, starting Black heroes is a new-comer, gleeful autofellatio, the passive eroticism U fiction, and later, sword & scorcery with the all-new E-MAN. Now the U fantasies. The Warren Publishing Com- BROTHER VOO DOO, who dabbles of a desert islander slowly kissing a ripe, U trend of the past couple years has been with the mystic in Strange Tales. sweeping mimosa tree in the warmth of : U pany was able to overlook the severe to humanize heroes, giving them U Comics Authority Code, which pro- Marvel has also introduced a Red afternoon sunlight - and Hawkes stays faults, hangups, and love-life hassles, as Indian hero, RED WOLF (wearing a with his images until the reader is over- | c hibits explicit violence, death, blood well as making them more aware of i 'n' guts, nudity, and even the remotest wolf's head cowl very much like the whelmed. He mixes the feelings and facts - U such previously ignored "villians" as one SKY WOLF wore in Air Fighters, into a tapestry that seeps the reader : i suggestion of sex, and which nearly polution, overpopulation, racism, sex- r killed the Comic Book as an industry back in the 40's), as well as the along; although there are times when it ism, etc. E-MAN (the "e" is for Japanese SUNFIRE, who is part hero, seems that the fullest potential of an I back in the early 50's with its ruthless "energy") is just the opposite: he's : I assault on the bloody EC horror part villian, along the lines of the image is never realized, and the ultimate - innocent, naive, inquisitive, witty, SILVER SURFER, SWORDSMAN, direction of the novel is uncharted. comics, because their books were too boyishly good-looking, almost child- large to be classified as Comic Books, and HAWKEYE, all of whom were In his preferatory remarks, Hawkes: like in his honesty and shyness. With criminals before they went straight. addressed himself to the relationships i and were, in theory at least, aimed at U older adolescents and adults. So pop- .: between imagination and sex, sex andti: I Elsewhere, CAPT. MARVEL, in ular were Creepy and Eerie that in love, love and creativity, and death. From - one of the most visually stunning there he went on to talk about the ' September of' 1969, a 3rd book was single Comic Books I've' ever seen (art: added, Vampirella, concerning a se- protagonists of his novels, and the man- X Duoo ,J , Jim Starlin), recently underwent a ductive vampress from a planet with ner in which he perpetrates his grand, U cosmic metamorphesis in which he U "rivers of blood," who comes to Earth visions of the world upon the actions of' K .. srI.A. became "one with the Universe" (a these protagonists and their surrounding, for something to eat, er, drink, escap- Zen Superhero?) And the Sub-Mariner ing a drought on her home Drakulon. acp characters. (Hawkes also commented that has finally doffed his skimpy green the novel was a writer's instrument of I These books currently have 70-80 Ir . . swim trunks in favor of a real costuem, of revenge upon those who have done himn pages, cost $.75, and feature stories a black leather job complete with wrong, which to some extent accounts for-l varying quality, depending on the cali- webbing under the arms. Whew. the peculiar accidental hanging of a; I ber of the author and artist. psychiatrist in a sauna in one of his - I A D.C. Flashes: The current rage at novels.) Although Hawkes enjoys a repu- U With the success of the Warren line, D.C. is the re-issuing of Golden Age tation as a morbid author whose work it is not surprising that Marvel Comics (1938-1945) material, most successful abounds with death, symbols of death, Group has, at long last, entered the of which has been Shazamf, containing thoughts of death, and accounts of death, old CAPT. MARVEL strips, and new $.75 size, black-and-white derby with a IIB ltft his writing reveals an enchantingly black ones done by the original artist C.C. I spate of horror titles. Therein one humor which redeems the contents from meets such unsavory characters as Beck (who's since left.) They've done being dulf as death. His anecdotes reveal a I Simon Garth (THE ZOMBIE), Michael much the same thing with BOY COM- sense of the world as absurd as James Morbius (THE LIVING VAMPIRE, his MANDOS, have released giant Thurber's, yet as intellectual and pre.; condition the result of a medical ex- (10xl4in.) books with old TARZAN occupied with image as Borges'; yet it is periment gone hairwire), and a variety stories and a reprint of the first clear that John Hawkes enjoys what he is SUPERMAN strip, from Action No. I of lesser ghouls, golems, and were- doing, delights in talking about it, and' things, as well as modern versions of and WONDER WOMAN has returned maintains a wry overview of his actions DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN'S I good reason, I suppose, for as explain- to art and adventure with the flavor of while he does them. MONSTER, and the WOLFMAN. ed in his origin story, E-MAN is not a the 40's. I hesitate to recapitulate most o Then there is the slinky succubus, man but a sentient cloud of cosmic tlawkes' comments because it is uncle: SATANA, who stars in Vampire Tales, energy, who is trapped by Earth's how much of his talk was put-on; ae. and is Marvel's answer to VAM- gravity, befriended by college stu- though he maintained a straight face ant U P1RELLA. The Devil's Daughter, as dent/exotic dancer Nova Kane, (with a serious tone throughout the evening, eve. SATANA is affectionately called, must marked preference for dishabille), and while recounting some humorous anoc. feed on men's souls to survive, which I who can modify his molecular struc- dote, I do no believe for a minute that w she sucks from their bodies with a kiss ture (i.e., shape) ito anything at all, can extract any meaning from what Mr: I including the orange and yellow E- tlawkes has said. Like his writing, hi' 1 '4 - -P Ip LLI-I B 1I PB MAN costume, complete with E=mc2 'I talking seems to be composed of flawl I emblazoned on the chest. He sleeps in images which capture the listener's ai a toaster and travels through telephone tention and stimulate the imaginationr i I 0bII0B wires. (Nothing new under the sun: but in the end, the image is all t hat we ar- a Is. kit ~ 1 a% VOLTON, a Holyoke Pub. Co, hero, given. Hawkes suggests that his boom: -1I originated that trick in 1940, and a would make marvelous movies; he e little later THE ATOM did it, too.) visions them as epics without word,,: The art is done by Joe Stanton, with a consisting solely of images which see:. bright, energetic style remeniscent of down onto the celluloid. Certainly th a Steve Ditko, who drew Charlton's last movie industry could do (and has done- big hero of the 60's, BLUE BEETLE. worse. Mr. Hawkes then read excerpts fror As with the old Charlton titles, Second Skin, The Blood Oranges, ari E-Man contains a second smaller fea- Death Sleep and the Traveller. The pa : I sages were those of the seduction in ti f ture (BLUE BEETLE had THE QUES- ' TION, JUDOMASTER shared his hot rod, the mimosa kiss, and the bats i book with SARGE STEEL, etc.) The the lizard house (no rationale was giv(:; magazine is bi-monthly, and the plan is for the presence of mammals in tt[ I Then there's THE SHADOW. This wrong area; when I asked, Mr. HawkiI to have a different second feature strip man of mystery character originated in in each issue. The first was The replied with words to the effect of "I f¢:! the 20's as the narrator of radio show like it."); the presences of death ar.fI Knight, a throwaway espionage strip, Street and Smith Detective Story helplessness were entwined in the se, featuring an U.N.C.L.E.-like organiza- Magazine Hour. His popularity was suality and sexuality of each scene. Tt1 tion based on chess pieces. In E-Man unexpected, but Street and Smith author's gift for interlocked repetition ? No. 2, there was a more interesting soon started a pulp magazine of key phrases created a feeling of tirp (there are other methods); the soul filler strip, called Killjoy. KILLJOY SHADOW stories, the red-masked emerges poetically as a fragile butter- could well be Comicdom's first mute avenger battling crime with a tangle of suspended, letting each image be absoir? fly, which she promptly devours, Superhero; he sez absolutely nothing, secret identities. The character later ed to the fullest. The evening concluded with leaving her victim a rumpled, hideous just disrupts robberies. The strip returned to radio, this time as the star question-and-answer period where N corpse. subtly lampooned super-villians, secret of a detective drama show, with 'a identities, and the concept of crime in standardized alter ego (Lamont Hawkes' flights of critical fancy ilte general, and was quite palpable as a highest, culminating in discussion Besides these horror and super- Cranston) and the newfound ability one shot affair. This type of experi- rarefied that neither author nor audien natural books, Marvel also produces to cloud men's minds, rendering him mentation promises much, and for its was quite sure of the topic. The ent Savage Tales, which is devoted to invisible. I often wondered how he sake I hope E-Maan survives. avoided clouding his own mind in the evening proved rather typical of the NI I CONAN THIE BARBARIAN and his Literature department, shunning both kith. One copy I looked at featured bargain. Maybe he did. Anyhow, there Other News At Marvel: One inter- were also SHADOW movie serials. classical and the human elements, a I the wooden art of Barry Smith, who pursuing the intellectual. The Snark, esting 'new Marvel book is Worlds And, as with most of the major pulp does the regular Conan book, featuring usual, refused to be caught, and many 1! Unknown, which is currently featuring novel heroes, THE SHADOW was tried all the gleeful stabbing, goring, and with the same feeling one gets after- graphic adaptations of well-known sci- in a Comic Book starting in 1940. bloodletting CONAN was allowed only meal in most American Chinese r U fi movies, novels, and short stories: Now, 33 years later, the "scourge of to imply in the Code Comics, as well The Day the Earth Stood Still, The taurants. That is to say, we had be as a comentary on the original pulp the underworld" has returned to a Day of the Triffids, A.E. 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REQUIRED FOR ADMITTANCE rnII- south - m PAGE 10 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1973 THE TECH I ------~~- - I - - DO C $ isorsrer z11y By Margaret Brandeau According to Peake, and advi- are put into counseling." "An advisor helps to make sor should try to develop a Pete Buttner, Associate Dean the Institute more personal and relationship with his students for Student Affairs, says that the helps a person become integra- where they can talk to each broadest goal of the freshman ted into the MIT community," other openly, because an advisor advisory system is for every stu- says Cynthia Bloomquist, Asso- can make the best recommenda- dent to have a chance to develop ciate Director of Admissions. tions when he knows his stu- a relationship with a member of dents well. An advisor should try to the faculty or staff. An advisor can be helpful to a According to Buttner, the become a friend, and also some- student because he has had more one who can give advice, she typical MIT freshman comes experience than the student and from very different surroundings. said. Bloomquist added that an because he has found a lifestyle He has had few, if any, adult advisor can try to ease the prob- which suits him. "The thing lem of relating to the system and friends. His freshman advisor, that's wrong," Peake explained, Buttner feels, has the potential can get through the red tape for "is that we still have plenty of for becoming his first adult a student. students here who don't know friend. Professor William Peake, head any body on the faculty or staff. Buttner encourages advisors of the advisors in the electrical "We would like to see each to know advisees and vice versa. engineering department, feels student knowing at least one "The biggest thing that we could that "the advisor represents the member of the faculty or staff look toward is revising our Institute to the student and the well. The only way that's going mechanisms which enhance the ,. ,. ,, l·a ma ·ol--a -·-··Ill-r --c·IIP uua student to the Institute." to happen is if more resources chance that a student can have a s .-.. .. - - ------ lasting, meaningful relationship with his advisor," Buttner said. When the FAC began in CALCULAT OR 1950, the advisor system was a8ssifg. a vertis g not explicitly voluntary, as quo- tas were set for each depart- 4 ~_ _ ~~ lM.T. STUDENT CENTER ment. Beginning in 1969, the freshman advisor system became voluntary, and more non-faculty s2<$n, Gaccurate answ'ers English instructor needed. 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Peter Haag '74 then third period, then slipped with quish New York's Yeshiva Uni- faced off against his opponent, a only 32 seconds remaining to his versity 51-6. 230 pounder, and Peter at 185 6 minute match. Joe Leading MIT's evening as- pounds took little time to show Tavormina '76 ended any sault, JV Super Captain Jack that Yeshiva's fat need not be chance of a Maritime victory Mosinger '75 used a fireman's feared with a pin in 1:10. with a hard fought match at 177 carry to bring his hapless oppo- Last Tuesday night, MiT's pounds. When his 6 minutes of nent to his back in 10 seconds. varsity wrestling team defeated reversals and escapes were Attention then turned to New its first two challengers of the through, his 6-5 lead added 3 Jersey Prep Champ Werner Haag new season in a triangular meet. points to Tech's team score. '77 whose match lasted 3:05 The team of ten matmen won 14 before the Yeshiva man's shoul- of their 20 bouts as Massachu- Peter Haag '74, ascended the mat at 190, and after a long six der hit the mat iorthe last time. setts Maritime Academy and the At 1 34 pounds strongman University of New Hampshire minutes lost 3-2. Then to top off the team's first -victory of the Farrell Peternal '77 was over- were defeated 33-12 and 27-12, evening, MIT's singing goliath, come by the onslaught of the respectively. The evening opened opposition's captain. Jody Silver with Mass Maritime putting Erland von Lidthe De Jeude '76 '77 regained the initiative in the away UNH 27-18. pleased the crowd, wheeling his next match, pulling a 13-11 vic- Jack Mosinger '75 was the massive 330 pounds around to tory over Yeshiva's only other first Tech wrestler to take to the pin his relatively insignificant wrestler. mats, and did so in grand style. opponent in 1:10. John Thain '77 further Taking his opponent to the mat Again Mosinger ascended the dashed Yeshiva's hopes with a in less than 10 seconds, Mosinger mat, but now his opponent wore 1:00 pin in the 150 pound class had his pin in 1:28. Captain Ed the blue uniform of UNH. He '74 then played with his as MIT's mighty junior matmen Hanley was ready for another win, but continued their merry charge. victim from Mass Maritime for was temporarily humbled by a Steve Brown '77 recorded a 5:04. Ed added a new twist to 5-3 decision. On to Captain Ed pin in 5:49; Joel Lederman '76 MIT wrestling in taking down his Hanley, whose opponent was engineered himself a quick pin opponent, letting him escape, able to keep off his shoulders in 3:18 and Dave Ziegelheim '75 then repeating the cycle 10 reasonably well. Ed only won put it to his New York Based foe times, with 3 near falls, before 20-6. Werner Haag also found in 5:49. the opposition's shoulders mold- UNH's lightweights tough. ~~ors~~~~~~~s~~st~~~i~~~~ ~~lcls~~~9 One glance at the scoreboard showed Tavormina that MIT's ,score was too low. In 3:14 he remedied that, having convinced L i his opponent to lie down. Peter Haag was next, and after three periods of dominating his mighty, The MIT women's basketball 15-11. However, it was the last lethargic opponent, won 94. team opened the 1973-74 season four minutes of the game that Erland received a forfeit, to the with a game last Thursday really mattered. Northeastern disappointment of the crowd. against Northeastern's JV team. came on strong, and added 15 The game was both tense and points to their score, all the LSC disappointing for MIT, as they while holding MIT scoreless. Friday, December 7 held the lead until the last four Kathy Roggencamp '77 lead the minutes, and were finally defeat- MIT scoring, with 13 points. The Concert ed, 43-31. Despite their loss, the MIT for Bangladesh MIT opened the game strong- team made a good showing. The 7 & 9:30- 26-100 ly, and by the end of the first team consists mostly of fresh- quarter, they were leading, men and sophomores, who had Saturday, December 8 had no experience playing to- The Godfather gether when practice started in early November. However, under 6:30 & 10 - KRESGE the patient coaching of Randy Sunday, December 9 Florent and with the aid of Jack Barry, a defense and offense Bonnie and Clyde By Glenn Brownstein identical to the first, with Bran- MIT's 64), made 40 turnovers have been organized, and a suc- 8 - 10-250 The MIT basketball team was deis hitting 10 of its first 12 and was outrebounded 57 to 46. cessful season is anticipated. routed by Brandeis Tuesday shots and moving to a thirty- High scorer for MIT was The two remaining games on Monday, December 10 night at Rockwell Cage 106-64, point lead. The rest of the game Campbell Lange '76, who had 19 the schedule before the winter Free lecture: evening their record at 1-1. was rather fast-paced and slop- points (including 9 for 9 from break are at home against Clark, The Loch Ness Monster py, with MIT making about the foul line). Alan Epstein '75 Brandeis, rated as one of the played last night and next Tues- 8:15pm, 26-1 00 better teams in New England, twice the mistakes Brandeis did, had 14 points (5 for 7 from the day, away at Emmanuel. took control of the game from and shooting poorly, missing floor) and 3 of MIT's 5 assists. the beginning with phenomenal many inside chances. The Engineers will attempt to T-he Historic OLD VI LNA SHUL shooting, hitting 12 of its first Brandeis continued to pene- recover against Trinity at home 16 Phillips St., Beacon Hill, Boston 15 shots in the first half. MIT trate the MIT defense with a fast Saturday night at 8: 15. invites the Jewish students to our Traditional shot poorly in the early going (in break offense, leaving the Engi- The JV/freshman squad lost Orthodox Services. addition to allowing numerous neers flat-footed a lot of the their second game of the year to FRI DAY: Sundown SABBATH: 9 am turnovers) resulting in a 32-10 time and outscoring the Tech Brandeis 72-61 Tuesday night. followed by a delicious Kiddush lead for Brandeis after about ten squad 53-32 in the second half Lenny Nethersole '77 and Glen miniut es. as they had in the first. Tuckman '77 led the JV with 18 Brandeis, sensing rout, began The only high point for MIT and 12 points, respectively. Joe LONG HOURS to play more for showmanship in the game was foul shooting, as Flake '76 had 8 points and 10 than precision and MIT managed the Engineers hit 18 of 24 rebounds for the Engineers. L:W PAY to stay even for the rest of the (75%). 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