Volume LXXIX Number 5 California Institute of Technology Friday, October Z, 1977 YRS Price Absurdly .. r I I Th By Brett Stutz session with students and attend Caltech very nearly had Dr. a dinner as well as making his Henry Kissinger as a speaker for evening presentation. At least the fifteenth of November. In a this concession was made; usually very unusual situation, the cost he makes his appearance for the was to be split among four presentation and then leaves as campus agencies instead of a soon as it is over. Many feel that more normal one or two, but it did little to ameliorate the when one of the co-sponsors high price asked by whom Meader withdrew its pledge, it became called "one of the most exagger­ impossible to fund this event. atedly paid persons on the About eighteen months ago, lecture circuit." the Caltech Y made the first The lecture circuit is big formal approach to Dr. Kissinger. business these days. The more After initial negotiations and an desirable a speaker is, the less unprecedented cooperative effort, accessible he becomes because of an unprecedented sum was agents and other staff. Initial raised, only to have Kissinger up contacts must be made one to the total package cost through an two years in advance. For this addendum to the contract. On reason, it is almost essen tial to June 22nd, one of the co­ have continuity of staff in the sponsors withdrew its support sponsorirIg organizations; this is because of internal reorganization one reason why Beckman and a change of priorities. Auditorium has a permanent staff. Professor Harry Gray displaying "Rhodium Bombshell," the latest rage at the Ath bar. But will it replace According to Walt Meader, direc­ The Y is the only agency on 'beer? Photo-Floyd Clark tor of the Y, it still would have campus with staff that acts as a been possible to obtain money to department of student activities. fund the addendum had this one As such, it makes initial contacts group not dropped out. Even and becomes the primary con­ Leading though the lecture could have tractor. The Y Student Executive been partially funded by selling Committee has responsibility for tickets, the Caltech Y's long deciding how to spend the Y's $12 illion at standing tradition of not charging limited budget to please the most Caltech chemists have announced development of a chemical admission to such events pre­ people, a fact to be considered compound that can convert the energy of sunlight directly irIto cluded this. by critics of the Y's programs as liBehind Goals chemical fuels. Although the compound is still in the experimental Dr. Kissinger had agreed to the going market prices for By Pamela Crane stages, its discovery raises the possibility of convertirIg sunlight into have a question and answer lecturers continue to increase. A little bit of that 01' black fuel with much greater efficiency rmagic may make the world go than schemes to convert either ,'round, but unfortunately not solar-powered electricity or plant Caltech. It is quite a tough material into fuels. c eady's Gossamer 5 ,business to run. Yes, business, The chemists-led by Dr. ~for instead of a product, Caltech Harty B. Gray, included Dr. Kent ,sells its talent. Grants are the R. Mann, .. an N.S.F. Energy ndor Fins Ra o 'payment for Caltech's contri- Postdoctoral Fellow and Nathan butions, to industry and general Lewis ('77). They discovered the By Spencer Klein foot high hurdles before and enlightenment. It is now the chemical, a complex molecule Dr. Paul McCready, designer after the figure eight. This course This fourth year of the five-year "At containing the metal rhodium, -of the Gossamer Condor, spoke has been generally accepted as fthe Leading Edge" campaign to last year, but only recently have to a full house last Monday defining a successful man­ By Mark J. Rosker raise $130 million for the the Caltech scientists found that evenirIg in Ramo auditorium. The powered flight. The demise of varsity football lnstitute, and there are still the chemical could be used in crowd was estimated at five Dr. McCready received his at Caltech will cost the Institute !obstacles to surmount. solar power schemes. In a paper hundred people, and about PhD from Caltech in aeronautical as much as $2500, yet it appears delivered at the annual meeting eighty people were turned away. engineering. He is the founder that some $4000 originally ear­ When public announcement of of the American Chemical Socie­ The Gossamer Condor, a and president of Aeroenviron­ marked for football will go ::the campaign was made in ty in Chicago, Professor Gray man-powered airplane, won the ment, Inc. An aeronautics and towards several badly needed January 1974, about $32 million said that when a solution of the 50,000 pound sterling ($87,500) meteorology expert, he enjoys improvements throughout the 'had already been collected. If rhodium compound is irradiated Kramer prize by successfully sailplanirIg and hang gliding. Physical Education Department. cash inflow had been constant, with light in the visible region of negotiating a mile and a half long Many other people were irI­ Like all divisions at Caltech, Caltech would have received the spectrum, it undergoes a figure-eight course, clearing ten Continued on Page Three the PE department has never . $103 million by the end of reaction to produce hydrogen received all the funds it re­ August of this year. But due to gas. The Caltech scientists' work quested from the Institute. But the vagaries of life, things don't was also reported irI the August the situation for PE has been !always happen the way we wish, 1977 issue of the Journal of the particularly acute over the past and only about $91 million had Amelican Chemical Society. four years as .their monetary ibeen collected by that time. The rhodium compound allotment has been kept constant Proposals totalling $17.5 million which is blue in solution, consists despite inflation. This has meant are now out, and another $22.5 of two atoms of rhodium held postponement of the purchase of million worth are now in prepar­ closely together by four clamp­ new equipment and has placed , ation. like structures composed of limitations on the number and carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen variety of courses offered. Professor William Corcoran, atoms. The compound's structure ivice president for institute af­ resembles a wirIdmill, with the Each year, a large portion of fairs, feels we do quite well in metal atoms trapped at the hub the. PE department's money is used to fund the perennial 'gamering funds, "but it's a hard and the cIamplike structures protrudirIg like the vanes of a Caltech football team. With the ibattle. Thirty-three hundred team's temporary disbandment wirIdmill. other colleges are all fighting for this year, the department was money from the same sources. When light strikes this com­ left with bills for purchased .The amount of money we get is pound, the blue compound reacts football equipment, for reserving a function of how much develop­ with hydrogen atoms in the game officials and for pre-school ment we do, as well as the surrounding solution to produce room and board costs, a total of economy, corporation interest, hydrogen gas, and changes to a about $2500. and just luck." yellow form of the compound. The elimirIation of football The new compound solves a will mean the general PE pro­ Over 60% of Caltech's revenue major problem that has plagued gram will inherit the remainirIg applied now comes from the scientists attempting to harness $4000. Athletic Director Warren government, either directly solar energy using chemicals. Dr. Paul McCready explains his man-powered airplane, the Gossamer Emery explained the probable Continued on Page Three Continued on Page Four Condor, to a packed house at Ramo Monday. 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The professors in charge of Physics 2 are to be commended for recognizing and correcting a gTave error, namely: the deplorable requirement that there be no collaboration on homework assignments. The point of homework is as a learning experience, with fellow students providing necessary insight and guidance after one has made a sincere individual effort. To prohibit collaboration is to severely inhibit the learning process at Caltech, homework assignments become tantamount to examinations and the spirit of scientific cooperation is shown the door.

Ph 2, of course, was a particularly noticeable and irritating error In judgement as it is an Institute requirement. (Some around here call it an Institute anachronism.) Other courses have been brought to our attention as transgressors; Ch 14 being the most noticeable with ChE 63 and ChE 101 not far behind. The professors I am beginning this article films selected we feel offer the common cause or ideal. Our in these courses must miss the essential fact that the with an apology to the readers of best of the Marx Brothers. principals in this love story ar my Tuesday article. In that story Monkey Business will be shown necrophilic teen-agei and interaction between students is as important to the learning about the Marx brothers, I first immediately followed by The 80-year-old lady. Throughout process at Caltech as interaction between students and claimed that the opening dia­ Cocoanuts and finally DUCK film our heroes give jabs instructors. It seems senseless for a student who has made logue involved the president of Soup. The first feature was punches to motherhood, an honest effort to solve a problem to be unable to ask a Wagstaff college. In fact the their first original motion pic­ military, psychiatry, and c fellow student how to solve the problem. The academic speaker was President Wagstaff ture, the earlier two films being puter dating. Loads of laughs who was the head of Huxely adapted from their stage plays. guaranteed. ASCIT films world would hardly be where it is today if thought such as college. The Marx ideas of confusion, shown in Ba.xter Lecture Hall this were its foundation. For those interested in the indignity and, yes, even surreal­ 7:30 and 9:30 on Friday Marx brothers, Cinematech will ism are evident. The second nings. The physics professors have come to gnps with the be showing three of their films feature was their first film and Mike Ku problem, it's time for the others. this Saturday night in Baxter historically interesting for being Lecture Hall at 7:30 pm. The made in 1929. Soggy papers Sandy McCorquodale [?-Ed.] and inferior cutting are tlw california Al Kellner part of this early sound film. The hm~~£eature, Duck Soup is their masterpiece. Truffaut called this film one of the two greatest Volume LXXIX Number STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP 8, Known Bondholders, 11II Tuesday, October 11, will find Friday, October 7, 1977 MANAGEMENT AND Mortgages, and Other Security antiwar films ever made. CIRCULATION Holders Owning or Holding 1 percent Drs. 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Names and Addresses of Samples, complimentary, and other 11II Saturday, October 15, Paul has been hit over the head with Publisher, Editor, and Business free copies (15, 7); (e) Total Belmont will lead a day hike to the theme of the film. His Gregg Brown Manager: Publisher-Associated Distribution (2285, 2263); (f) Copies Strawberry Peak in the beautiful second film shows better style Henry Fuhrmann Students of the California Institute not distributed: (1) Office use, of Technology Inc., address above; left-over, unaccounted, spoiled after San Gabriels (you know-those and experience. Business Manager Editol~ Albert Kellner, address printing (415, 237), (2) Return from shadows on the horizon occa­ Harold and Maude is a Kevin Drum above; Business Manager-Kevin news agents (0,0); (g) Total (2700, Drum, address above sionally visible to the north). modern love story, and, like any 2500). Writers 7. 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were built with conventional A proposal is not hastily Caltech. Many alumni are in key ribbed construction, and a single thrown togefuer with disregard, positions in management, and crash could take 2,000 man but done quite carefully. De­ this often helps. The proposal is hours to repair. They were also pending on what is involved, designed to match Caltech's too heavy, and had short wing various committees may draw up interests with those of the spans. Continued from Page One the proposals. The Buildings and company. This may seem like a McCready said the Gossamer through NSF grants and the like, Grounds trustee committee tedious and costly operation, but Condor was designed to a;-oid or as student aid and JPL would design a building proposal, it is very necessary. According to Continued from Page One these problems. It was built from overhead. Tuition now amounts for example. The corporations Professor Corcoran "Caltech has olved in the project, including mylar-covered aluminum tubing to 10%. Gifts and endowments approached are carefully exam­ the lowest cost per dollar o associated with Caltech: Dr. construction. This made it easy make up most of the rest. ined for high returns on equity, produced in the U.S. [academic eter Lissman, vice president of to repair and saved weight. The Professor Corcoran commented special interest in college fund­ syst~m]. We try to be cost­ eroenvironment, and an assis- final weight was seventy pounds. that Caltech would like to be less ing, and especially interest in effective." nt professor at Caltech from Dr. McCready said that if, after a dependent on federal sources, 962 until 1969 (he also received few flights, a part didn't break, it but that this is not easy to is PhD and MS here) .and Jim' was replaced with a thinner, accomplish. Individual professors urke, one of McCready's c1ass­ lighter one, to conserve weight., secure their own funds, and it is Take a nates. The wingspan was ninety-six feet not very often from some SEMESTER Dr. McCready began his talk because the power needed is government agency. A major y tracing the history of man­ inversely proportional to the portion of "At the Leading AT SEA with the owered flight from Icarus' and wingspan. Edge" is alloted for endowed Institute for Shipboard edalus' feathered wings The Condor was designed to professorships, grants, general re­ Education and the Univer­ ough early twentieth century fly slowly, about ten miles per search funds, and to help defray sity of Colorado. empts, such as a 1935 Russian hour. It has flown as slowly as the costs of the Seismological Let this unique inter­ .gn which actually got off the six miles per hour. This makes it Lab and Palomar Observatory. national program add an und and won a small prize. extremely easy to handle, requir­ This assists in keeping down the important dimension to your th vast improvements in pow­ ing no flying experience. It also amount of government money undergraduate experience. red flight, interest died down cut drag, and allowed the use of needed. Each semester the S.S. or a while. wire bracing, instead of heavy Universe*-the education In 1956, interest revived with struts. It uses a large, twelve-foot ship-sails to fascinating inflatable wing plane. In diameter propeller, which turns areas of the world. 57, the Royal Aeronautical slowly (110 rpm). Fully accredited, courses ciety set up a man-powered Turning the Condor transferable. ght group. The Kramer prize Turning is accomplished Next sailing: Around· . atly stimulated interest in through wing warping. The Con­ the-world, Spring Semester, 59. dor has no rudder. A 2-3 degree to 1978. In the next eighteen years, change in wing attitude is enough For further information: any designs were proposed and to turn, as all turns are gentle, Institute For Shipboard Education with a 2-3 degree bank. Mc­ ested. About fifteen of them got BRIGHAM'S P.O. Box 2488 the ground, but none could Cready said the Condor uses an Laguna Hills, CA 92653 tiate the full mile and a half unusual system for turning; in­ 40 N. Lake Ave. Pasadena Telephone (714) 581-6770 re-eight course. These designs stead of the wing warping 796-0966 *18,000 ton, Liberian registry red several problems. First, increasing the lift, it increases the ey were hard to repair. Most Continued on Page Six

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II ppoint ent "th Continued from Page One molecules of hydrogen per 100 perhaps the most important he Future Until now, such experimental photons would be excellent, he problem to be solved before the compounds because of their said, and such efficiencies should compound can be used to make For En ineerin ds structure have been able to be achievable. The ultimate limit fuels from sunlight. After hydro­ Engineering opportunities exist at Hughes Aircraft Company, utilize solar energy to activate of the efficiency of the process is gen is produced using the blue Culver City, California, in its Radar Systems and Electro­ only a single electron at a time. unknown, said Dr. Gray. form of the compound, the Optical & Data Systems Groups, for graduates with the However, pairs of electrons are Another problem of the sys­ resulting yellow form must regain following degree: needed to create chemical bonds, tem is that it utilizes but a small its lost electrons, reverting to the such as the production of portion of the spectrum of blue form before it can be used hydrogen gas-a compound of sunlight. again. Dr. Gray and his col­ • PhD in EE, Applied Physics two bonded hydrogen atoms­ 'Fine Tuning' the Molecule leagues are now experimenting from the individual atoms in To solve these problems, the with various ways to do this, The positions involve the development of advanced radar and solution. But the rhodium com­ Caltech scientists plan to "fine including heating the compound avionic systems, electro-optic and space sensor systems, laser pound contains two rhodium tIme" their molecule, changing in solution to reconvert it by systems, airborne computers and software. Opportunities are atoms in each molecule, each of the structure to alter the dis­ reacting the compound with available in the following specialized areas: which yields an electron when tances of the rhodium atoms oxygen atoms in the water to irradiated. Thus two electrons are from one another. They will also produce oxygen gas. They are Analog & Digital Circuit Design available to create a chemical attempt to fit other metal atoms also collaborating with Dr. Mark Hybrid Circuit Design into the structure in place of Wrighton of the Massachusetts bond. Systems Analysis rhodium. Other candidate metals Institute of Technology, who has Several Advantages Systems Engineering The rhodium compound also include iron, nickel, cobalt, plat­ developed a system to generate inum, and palladium. If iron, oxygen from water and sunlight Signature Technology has several other advantages Pattern Recognition which makes it promising as a nickel or cobalt tum out to work that at the same time might be sun-capturing chemical. It reacts well in the compound, the able to convert the yellow Image and Information Processing most readily with light in the economics of the system would compound back to the blue one. Computer Architecture visible region of the light spec­ be greatly improved, Dr. Gray If the two reactions could be Scientific Programming trum, where solar energy is most pointed out, for these metals are linked in this way, the result E.O. Sensor Design concentrated. Also, the undesira­ the cheapest of the candidates, would be a full-fledged chemical Optical Systems Design ble "back" reaction, in which the and much cheaper than rhodium. system for using sunlight to split Signal Processing Circuit Design Recycling the chemical is water into hydrogen and oxygen. yellow compound absorbs hydro­ Servo & Control Systems Design gen to change back to the blue compound, is very slow. This For details, interested graduate are requested to schedule means that the hydrogen fuel VILLAGE produced will not be absorbed interview appointments with our recruiter. Your placement before it can be removed. CHINESE RESTAURANT office will schedule you for our recruiting visit on Ocotber 1772 E. Colorado Blvd. near Allen 18, 1977. According to Dr. Gray, con­ Pasadena, Ca. 91106 . Tel. (213) 449-9334 siderable work must be done r------. SPECIAL FOR STUDENTS I I before the compound will be I I useful in solar conversion sys­ $1.35 Daily lunch Speciai I I tems. For one thing the efficien­ I I 10% off on a la carte Sunday 5~10 PM I I cy of the system is quite L ~ OPEN FROM 11:00,AM to 10:00 PM' :Closed Mondays 10w-lOO photons of light are HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY required to produce 4 molecules Parking in the rear. . I.D. Required of hydrogen. An efficiency of 30 U.S. Citizenship required • Equal opportunity M/F/HC employer

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was raised eventually. This alum­ III ni money, like the funds left over from football, will be spent II I to improve the PE program­ accruing benefits for all members Continued from Page One football money, the general PE of the Caltech community. use of this money: ±lrst, a second program was lifted out of the term of ice skating, a sport new red. With this in mind, the to the PE program next term, administration squashed the pro­ will be added to the schedule. posed faculty and staff charges. Most of the remaining funds will The football savings, of be used to. purchase new equip­ course, will hardly end the severe ment, such as uniforms and balls, fiscal crunch in the PE depart­ requested last year by PE ment. In an effort to obtain instructors but removed from the funds, the department recently submitted budget in order to launched a fund dlive among stay within the department's alumni lettermen. Money was monetary allotment. Should requested for the tennis ball enough of the $4000 be left throwing machine and the un­ after that, the purchases of a even parallel bars as well as a tennis ball throwing machine and baseball pitching machine, a new of uneven parallel bars will be basketball scoreboard, a football 449-6967 449-1022 considered. blocking sled, stationary rings, a standard for the three-meter Interestingly, among the more diving board, and supports for fortunate recipients of the bene­ badminton ,md volleyball nets. 1009 E. COLORADO PASADENA NEXT TO THE ACADEMY THEATRE fits from the football funds are About $4000, one-third of the PARKING IN REAR members of the Caltech faculty expected price for these items, and staff. After all possible budget cuts had been made last year, the PE department had still exceeded its allocation by some $2000. In order to help balance ~n the books, the department pro­ posed charging faculty and staff nominal fees for lockers and PE classes. Caltech is almost unique JauI @akI£tl ~a50n among colleges in that it does not charge for such PE services. Any chance that such a policy B.s., M.S. Mechanical Enbrineering, Caltech, 1977. Cough-cough-sputter-spu t-sp ... popity-popity-wheeze-pop-pop-BANG. would be enacted over faculty AI Cocconi attempts to get his home-built, radio-controlled helicopter protests died along with the '77 Ricketts House Presidenl1976-1977. airbourne. Photo-Greg Bone football team. With the influx of

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