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.Volume 98. Number 45 Friday. October 13, 1978

1-978 The Tech Coalition pickets MIT corporation TBy Kenneth- Hamilton Raytheon. Raytheon is one of the A frica. Cheryl Strothers '80, plans to carry out such action The IT-Weleey Coaition corporations in MIT's investment hc since she claims that "it would Against Apartheid protested last owever, one of the leaders in the Against Apartheid protested last portfolio that has assets in South co)alition, disavowed having any lack shock value." I Friday in front of the Sloan School of Management while a meeting of the MIT Corporation h was being held inside. Between 60 % ;;e and 70 people attended the rally ' research. at MIT I to demand that the M IT Cor- I poration divest itself of stocks in mechanism. The brake then i corporations doing business in produces a torque during the I South Africa and also make a "swing" phase of walking, statement against apartheid. resulting in an improvement In Vincent Fulmer, Secretary of i the gait of the amputee. the Institute, declined to state Flowers mentioned that in con- A low pressure area with great whether a petition embodying the trast to currently used prostheses potential is cranking up to our Coalition's obtjectives and .. '. which require the -amputee to south, but it appears the storm presented to Constantine B. - , straighten the leg and '"vault" will track to the west of New Simonides by the Coalition last during a stride, the microcom- England, keeping tempera- May was a subject of discussion puter controlled prostheses under tures mild. at the meeting. The petition was study would give a "more natural, signed by 1,003 members of the : v. .< 'P rolling gait." However, "we don't Partly cloudy skies becom- MIT community. According to think it's realistic to expect the ing mostly cloudy by this after- Cheryl Strothers '80, a represen- . [artificial] leg to do a major part noon. Highs in the upper six- tative of the Coalition, the peti- of the work associated with lifting ties with a gentle southwesterly tion has not been formally v :- the body," Flowers said. flow. Lows tonight in the mid- acknowledged by Simonides. ' 8 f Emphasizing that the new dle fifties. Sunday calls for Eave Vanderbilt G. also a " -s. -a developments would not be com- partly cloudy skies with highs representative of the Coalition, mercially available in the near in the low. sixties. Rain commented that the Coalition is future, Flowers said, "It's strictly probability 30 percent today, having some difficulty identifying a research tool." Currently all 50 percent-tonight and Satur- which group bears responsibility outside use of the system is con- day; 30 percent Sunday. fined to evaluation as a post- for this issue, be it the Corpora- ":.d >I tion, the Committee on '..!. operative training aid at Mas- Shareholder Responsibility, or sachusetts General Hospital. the Executive Committee. Future developments of the ' microcomputer controlled knee INSIDE .Lawrence Krauss G, speaking , ;/!(I : for the Coalition, said that part of l mechanism will probably be directed toward the development the reason rallies such as thie one , a 's new last Friday. have been.o9itganized of an active/passive knee Living in the US,A. proved ar- by the Coalition is to publicize the mechanistm using a tistically disapointing especial- issue and stimulate dialogue motor/generator as an activating ly when compared to her within the MIT community. device. previous four efforts. Krauss announced that the'Coali- Funding for the project comes from the National Science Foun- tion plans to hold a reception for . by Chuck Irwin) Drake Koca on October 17 {Photo dation -and from the Social 'By Jay Glass; thieir natural 'gait. Rehabilitation Service, a branch. between 6 and 7pm in the Spof- B JyGs Flowers. became involved in ford Room (1-236). Later at'8pm "'Were optimistic.. . that we of the US Department of Health, *.,Pa.l -e scan provide improved mobility re:habilitation design work Koca will be speaking at Harvard ,. ss t t Education and Welfare. Says for amputees," stated Assistant t khrough his enjoyment of Flowers, "we've been lucky to in Longdrdlow Heall. Drake is the Professor Woodie Flowers of the . ernngineering design, and "applying maintain funding and keep the founder and Secretary2-General of hat you like to an area such as thefeoudlack ·Black AlliedAllned WorkcersWorkers Union.Uniono Mechanical Engineering depart- w project alive." Crew may be a physically and Last spring,reg Williams a ment, "and we will be moving.in re:habilitation . . . is a nice .thing Woodie Flowers came to MIT mentally taxing sport but its tat , r~gsp W , a that direction in the next few to do," he said. staff member of the American as an undergraduate in 1966, and participants find it ex- The A/K prosthesis undergo- joined the faculty in 1972. Besides hilarating. Friends Service Committee years." g preliminary evaluation is con- spoke on the steps of the Student Flowers and several colleagues in research, he is chairman of the s e .tson .hevf tare now involved in research into tr olled by a microcomputer, 1979 Independent Activities Center as part ofa demonstratio n seally worn on the back or sponsored by~by the Coalition. He the design of above-knee (A/K) hus Period Organization Committee. urgedstudentsM IT to occpy the prosthesis which would enable the haand-held. It sends appropriate He is also well-known for his 2.70 urged MIT students to occupy the artificial leg to be "customized," lo:w-power signals to a magnetic ------14 Canmbridge offices of the Badger design class and its Design Corporation, a subsidiary of allowing amputees to walk with p~article brake in the knee Contest at the end of the term.

With a 3-0 win over Brandeis, MIT's varsity soccer team Depar nent heads desVribe goals raised its season record, to 4 I wins, 2 losses. By Lenny Martin engineering and computer Electrical Engineering and Com- Jack Kerrebrock, Head of the I .Editor's Note: This is the third science, as well as the Division frs puter Science has been developing Department of Aeronautics and of a three part series focusing onr Study.and Research in Education. for one and one half years, ac- Astronautics. Kerrebrock, whose I- the special interests of departmrent Keyser has edited Linguistic In- cording to Head of the Depart- specialties are propulsion and 7 heads and the goals they have for quiry, published by the MIT ment Gerald Wilson '61. Core un- energy conversion, is "very -- l16 their departments. Press, since 1970. dergraduate courses will have pleased" with research that he has "We're probably one of the Head of the Department of more involvement With digital led on the transonic compressor computers, and laboratory work _I-- .~~-~- _ l- best, if not the best, departments Civil Engineering Frank Perkins and on the aerodynamics of com- in the world. . . but that doesn't '55 stated that his department is will be further integrated with pressors for jet engines. EX CERPT mean it can't be improved," said undertaking a major study of its normal classroom teaching. Perception, on the other hand, Professor of Physics Herman undergraduate curriculumn in an "Maybe some of the un- receives much attention from In case you didn't realize'it, Feshbach, one of many depart- effort to improve it. After ex- dergraduate core courses will Richard Held, head of the students here [Stanford] are ment leads who discussed their plaining that a major revision has have more meaning," said Department of Psychology. One smart. During a final exam special interests or departmental been made more or less every Wilson. of Held's better-known research some time ago, a chemistry goals with The Trch. seven years with the last in-1970, Wilson related that he is excited projects, the kitten carousel ex- professor warned his 400 stu- One problem Feshbach is Perkins said that "a general feel- about several "technological periment, showed that active dents that he would accept no working on is what he termed the ing among faculty and students ,problems in the nation that we movement must accompany -late blue books. One student "incompatibility" of the cur- that changes need to be made" can have more impact on." They visual stimulation for the attempted to hand in his test riculum needs of physics in mandated the study, include medical application of in- development of normal sensory- 10 minutes late. The professor general with the needs of students Perkins noted that his depart- tegrated circuit technology, motor coordination. refused it, and the student who-need special preparation for merint has tried to strike a automatization of unsafe tasks In another project, a team pleaded to no avail. Finally the certain areas of science and reasonable compromise between such as coal mining, and develop- headed by Held found that babies student asked, "Do you know engineering. _aspects of civil engineering related ment of holographic communica- prefer horizontal and vertical who I am?" When the profes- Professor Samuel Jay Keyser, to the physical sciences and tion systems, which would allow, lines to diagonal ones due to sor admitted he didn't, the stu- head of the Departmnent of aspects related to planning, for example, an Easterner to "at- heredity rather than environment. dent quickly stuck his blue Linguistics and Philosophy, is policy, and social issues. He ad- tend" a meeting in California Many psychologists had book in the huge pile of exams working on the development of a ded that it is unclear what 'without actually going there. "It previously hypothesized that and ran out the door. cognitive science center. He said changes will be made due to wide would be like being in the same babies acquire the trait by living Stanford Daily the center would support not only differences of opinion. room," Wilson said, smiling. in a civilization full of structures his department but also those of A major revision, of the un- Also sensitive to his depart- embodying parallelism and. psychology and electrical dergraduate curriculum in ment's impact on technology is perpendicularity. s---~.-Ill I--~-e_, II~ I ·~·~ lbb·I II

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This band, however, may turn out to be more of a "spoof," wear- [ ing random costumes and using haphazard formations rather than be- ing in traditional plumed hats and spelling the letters "M-I-T" across the field. And what's the only -thing still missing from a perfect fall semester at the old alma mater? Homecoming, of course, and one is be- ing planned for the football club's only home game later this season. t A good indication of today's mood is the near cult status of National [ Lampoon's Animal House. This movie is popular with all MIT stu- E ,dents, not just the large .[ .It fraternity population, due J lto its portrayal of a wild, carefree college at- .. t lmosphere. i'he minovie has .· ~~~~~~~~inspired a similar mood around MIT and other col- legc campuses. The rebellious men in Animal House can be contrasted mwNAS HEL, -AND I AKwE.TAlANYMOR g to The Graduate'srebel of the 60's, Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman rebelled . - against the establishment: the Delts rebel against anything and m everything, destructively. Edtorial Student government at MIT has also approached traditional respec- tability. The Inter-fraternity conference has been urging its members to participate more in campus organizations. The Dormitory Council is r. ading. keep~ ''qaso~ s ' also revitalized, and the General Assembly is functioning again. MIT G im might even lose some of its 'isolationism' by participating in an inter- The proposals of the Ad Hoc Committee on -fixed percentages." If grades should not be collegiate conference with the Ivy League schools. This conference will Grading should all be defeated by the faculty fixedlsolelyonpercentages, then how can you` talk about certain national· and global issues, but it could also on October 18. These motions are unfair to stu- justify fixing a student's worth by them? degenerate into nothing more than a simple comparison of different dents and faculty alike, and are basically self- The real purpose behind the grade distribu- college student governments. contradictory in their reasoning. tions is to categorize faculty, not students. Other events around campus are more-alarming. thursday has drop- ped almost all of its news coverage, betraying their charter of the '60's The first motion considers the redefinition of -"'Faculty ... will be made aware of the current to publish only news, mostly of the outside world. On the trendy side, grades form phrases such as "Passed with grading practices of colleagues in their own and disco dancing is becoming quite popular, not as an activity taught by Honor" and "Passed with Credit" to long, ob- other departments," says the March report, one individual, but rather as a real class sponsored by a recognized tuse paragraphs. These redefinitions are even "and this awareness will stabilize the use of grades dance club. more harsh on unluckier students, as the *,C" grades at MIT.' This would homogenize Also scheduled to make a return appearance at MIT is the Tech grade relates that the student has "an ability to at MIT rather than stabilize them. And the sug- Show, a student musical sponsored by the Musical Theatre Guild. The haft'die relatively simple problems." The ,',D" gestion that faculty advisors would have more which died in the late 1960's due to Tech Show was an annual event -grade only shows "some capacity" for handling detailed information to use when counseling "student political unrest" which caused a "re-channeling" or "re- students is naive, considering the current level focusing of student interest" away from the Tech Show. these "relatively simple problems." This It doesn't take the re-emergence of a musical show to sense a lack of description is as bad as the previous one -for a of advisor-advisee relations. "political unrest" at MIT, however. Critics from inside and outside "D" grade, "Barely Passing." If motion 2 should pass, then another motion would be considered, providing for storage of have been bemoaning this trend in student apathy since the Vietnam "Grades have the advantage of ... being War ended. "Students are out of touch with the outside world and care grade, distributicns of a student's entire relatively less sensitive to personal bins." says academic career. This would require an incredi- only about their careers," the critics claimed. 1978. But were student interests really re-focused that much? The student the Ad Hoc Committee's report of March ble amount of computer time and planning by activities today certainly do not point to a "goal-oriented" college Yet the grade re-definitions in the motion refer the Registrar's office. This motion is excessive, crowd, nor do they ignore events of immediate importance to MIT stu- to such terms as "appropriate concepts" amd for it reduces a student's entire academic career dents, such as grading, drop date and financial policies of the Institute. "exceptionally good performance." Perhaps it to a few numbers. It is also possible that this In retrospect, many of the student activist "triumphs" of many years is safer to reduce a student's entire course work motion is unnecessary, for if the grade distribu- ago centered on policies close to the students, including the divestment to a single letter than to employ such subjective tion for each term passes, then it is very likely of Draper Labs and the takeover of the President's office. words as are contained in the newdefinitions. All in all, it's -good that MIT students are getting involved in an interested person could obtain all this infor- something besides problem sets, even if it is not involvement in civii The second motion proposes to include the mation anyway. rights marches to Washington. Who knows, if a new movie makes Tom percentages of grade distribution on each stu- Last week: the Committee on Educational Hayden more of a student matinee idol than John Belushi, we might be dent's most recent'grade report. Thlis motion's Policy voted not to support any of these in for a new era of "unrest." emphasis contradicts the reasoning behind the- proposals, and student policy groups have also first one. In the March report the Ad- Hoc shown disapproval. These motions are of David Schaller'78 Chairmhan Committee asserts that "we do not feel that benefit to neither students nor faculty,- and grades should be awarded solely according to should. be unanimously defeated. . |I t _o Editor-in-Chlef0IBobWasserman'8O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_-. XCOW, . Steven F. Frann '80 - Menaging Editor- ...... , . . - Lee. Undquist '79 - Business ManagerJ tDw ~ff7 .- ,-~. ,~ --- . _ Volume 98, Numrber:45 - _ "-" , ,-:Friday, .Omber 13, .1978 PHOTOG6RAPHY'DEP RTME.T : - I ~ TBE. Photo- Editors: Chuck irwin- 80, John;Grunsfeld :80;O Staff:- Randy: Fahey '79, Dale Senechal '81, Steven Solnick '81, Dougla's Birdwell . G, Monty Solomon. Photographic Consultant:· David Tenenbaum '75. 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Butwhen yourcompany is Texas Scientific Calculator in your hand. per chip now and .100;000 is in sight. You're a geo- Instrumentsand one of your cus- -Now, let's compare it to the most You're glad you got into physicist. A good tomers is the U. S. Sixth Fleet, you popular-computer of the 1950s- technology. one. You could be learn to expect the unexpected. - the IBM 650. with any of the bi( The destroyers are equipped with - "The 650 weighed almost three ...... I O utsm arting oilcompanies. B, TI computers and they need new tons, required five to 10 tons of air Smog. you wanted to get with a company software fast. You come aboard and conditioning and 45 square feet of You've always whose specialty is the same as sail with the Fleet until your;job is floor space. And it cost $200,000 "' ..:'' designed air- yours. Exploration. completed. in 1955 money. borne radars for, That's why you're at TI, in Not a bad assig nment for asoft- "Now look at the TI-59 Calculator ..... -TI customers. Geophysical-Service. ware-specialist named Susie. You're you're hblding-in tlhe palm of your Now, all of a TI explorer ships, T! photo- glad you got into technology. hand. it has a primary memory sudden you know your next radar geologic aircraft and TI truck- and capacity more than double that of design is going to stayat the airport. tractor-mounted vibrator systems 'The Incredible- the 650. It-performs its principal On the ground. are working all over the world. Talking Chip. functions five to 10 times faster. It's on the ground that traffic They're finding oil. And they're i : ":'1 """::!:'..~ You're an inte- 'And it retails for under $300." controllers at Los Angeles Inter- identifying areas where no oil grated circuit With a story like this, the hardest national Airport have a problem. exists, thereby saving huge losses designer atTI. part of your job is holding onto your They can "see" incoming and out- in drilling costs. 'You've helped sample. You're glad you got into going airplanes on their radar just Also, Tl's worldwide computer ~'" ~' find a way to make technology. fine, so ,long as the airplanes are in network and its Advanced Scientifi a chiptaik, something no integrated the air. Computer is making 3-D recording circuit has ever done before. a .' The Joy Of But when the airplanes are on the and processing possible. This ex- First application: an electronic Complication. ground--touching down, taking off, clusive exploration technique is the aid that helps children learn to spBl1. You're in sermi- taxiing, parking-they are some- only practical way to unscramble The world's first talking textbook. conductor design times impossible to see and control. "no-record" areas on land and sea Andithat's:justthe beginning. at Ti. You love it Ground smog obscures them.< You're a happy sleuth. You're in The tal king chip's potential is mind- when people at You believe you-have ananswer on the bigge'st hunt in history. And' 'bending. You're glad you got into parties ask you to the smog problem. You dig out your team is out in front. technology. what you do..You say, "I make the plans for an airborne ground- You're glad you got into things complicated." (Pause.) mapping radar you helped design. technology. "in fact, I got promoted recently for You adapt the design so the L. A. creating some majorcomplications." controllers can use it to see through What you mean (but seldom smog. It works beautifully. explain) is this: the more active Today your smog-piercing radar element groups (AEGs) you can put is widely known as Airport Surface If yn ot in technlogy yet think it over -aIfyo. c iare ology'en, talk to Texas Instruments Campus Interviews See what TI s doing in · Microcomputers and microprocessors · Air traffic control radar and Discrete · Semiconductor memories Address Beacon Systems Oct. 19-20, 23-24 Nov. 14 · Linear semiconductor devices · Microwave landing systems , Microelectronic digital watches · Radar and.infrared systems • Calculators · Guidance and controls for tactical · Minicomputers: hardware, software missiles and systems featuring software · Worldwide geophysical services --.- .:..,. 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Lower standard of LivingintheUS.A. a By Joel West ranging the material effectively, and in the Linda Ronstadt could be considered a backing vocals. Gold's efforts gave Hasten successful female vocalist: her latest album, a sense of unity,- as contrasted with Heart, Living In The USA, has an initial shipment which is a collection of good cuts in- of 2 million copies - double platinum. The terspersed with better ones. four previous , Living In The USA has neither: its few (1977), (1976), successes are predictable. "Alison" (Elvis Prisoner In Disguise (1975) and Heart Like Costello) is the fourth song after a succes- A Wheel (1974) sold over a million copies sion of-abysmal ones; it is the first song each, not to mention the 1976 Greatest Hits with the warm voice that we expect, in- terwoven nicely with an alto sax and album, which also went platinum. IF One could surmise that Ronstadt is not background vocals by Edwards and Gold E hurting for money; neither is producer/ (in his only appearance on the album). manager , who produced these The next cut is undeniably the best-on album. Here we have Ronstadt as the. 5 five previous albums (in addition to those the '.I I of James Taylor). Anyone who buys tLiving lonely, hurt ballad-singer, singing "White and Blues" by J.D. Souther, is struck by three questions: "Why did Rhythm Mr11 Simple Dreams" was Ronstadt make this record? Why did Asher whose "Simple Man, Fw make this record? Why did I buy this equally needed on last year's album. Un- record?" fortunately for concertgoers, this cut is With the exception of a few cuts on pure studio: both Ronstadt's dubbing of Hasten, Ronstadt has not written any of backing vocals and her effortless transition the material on her albums; nor does she to falsetto are unlikely to be heard in live record any of the instrumental parts on her performance. The only other cut that suc- latest album. So to judge this, or any of her ceeds is 's "Mohammed's albums, one is limited to song selection, ar- Radio"; in this case the writing of Zevon, ranging and performance. In the past, who also wrote the title track for Hasten is Ronstadt has been fortunate to have strong strong enough to counterbalance the talent backing her up: before Don't Cry warbling of Ronstadt and her two (female) Now (1972), , Randy Meisner backing vocalists. and Glen Frey were her back-up band after The failure of this album is that, unlike she left the ; these gentlemen last year, there are no good up-tempo are also known for their later work as the numbers on the record. "Back In The Eagles. They were invaluable, not only for U.S.A." is the dismal latest of Ronstadt's their instrumental work, but also for their obligatory rock-shouters, preceded by the back-up vocals. The impor- forgettable '"Poor Piliful Me" (1977) and writing and disap- "fine;" one less take would have been even tance of the latter cannot be overestimated: '"That'll Be The Day" (i976); evidently her Hasten are heard here. the greatest (1975) is what pointment, however, is the quality of the finer. - it is the vocal trio of Ronstadt, Andrew success with "Heat Wave" first copy of is prompted Asher to have Ronstadt scream vocals. The -backing vocals (except as To add insult to injury,_the Gold, and bassist that Living In The U.S.A. reviewed-featured, at the core of her album between 1974-76, this third cacophonous single. The'failure noted) are far too polished or schmalzy'- title cut those on "Ooh Baby Baby" one would ex- no extra charge, liberal amounts of surface from the hit "When Will I Be Loved" of "Back In The U.S.A.," both as a L pect on a Carpenter's album. Ronstadt noise sprinkled on a warped disc that was () to the a capella and the first cut of the album, foreshadow's the mediocrity - on the. five herself is a disappointment: at 32 her voice drilled (or stamped) off-ceriter. Even "" (Hasten Down The the album's last year. For an previous albums, both the, first and title should nottbe going, butshe:insists on sing- picture isn't as good as Wind). unknown artist, this would: be an in- Unfortunately for Ronstadt, Gold chose cuts were among the strongest on the ing material -that makes her sounfd reaidy better than any cut on for her second retirement testimonial. The teresting album on the way up; for Ron- to pursue a solo career ("Lonely Boy") album, with most way this albuin. - worst part is that she doesn't seem to be stadt, it's a tedious album on:the after making the Grammy-winning Hasten. down. 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L · _ _. arts---- He c: AROUND MIT AT THE MOVIES- The Odessa File The MidNite Movie, Sat., IN THEATRE Ballroom Dance Workshop Learn to fox- Woody Allen: An American Comedy Al- Oct. 14, second floor of the Student Center. trot, no partner necessary. Sun., Oct. 15, in len explains how and why he writes, why he IN TOWN Threepenrny Opera, a three act musical the Sala;'Student Center, from 2-4pm; ad- stopped reading comic books and switched Kay Gardner and Friends will be per- drama with script and lyrics by Berthold mission 50¢. For information call Teri to more "intelligent" reading material ("to forming original music on flute, violin, Brecht and Kurt Weill will premiere at the Weston x5-8514 or Kelly Gamble x5-7336. impress women"), and follows his life from , and guitar; at the Sanders Theatre, Caravan Theatre, 1555 Mass. Ave., Har- The IMIT Symphony, David Epstein, stickball player to college dropout, from Harvard, Oct. 13 at 8:30prn. For informa- vard Square the week of Oct. 18-21. The zonductor; Ellen' Hassman, cello soloist. gag writer to stand-up comic to serious tion call: 427-4696 or 738-0421. run will continue through the fall each Program: Korngold's Overture; Dvorak's humorist. Clips from some of his films Laserilur, The Cosmic Laser Concert, Wed., Fri., and Sat. night at 8:30pm. Cello Concerto in A Major; and Schubert's provide a visual illustration of Allen's nar- opens in the Hayden Planetarium at the Tickets are $5 -with student discounts. Symphony No. 3 in D) Major. St.,'Octo 21, rative. The film is now playing at Off The Museum of Science Fri., Oct. 13. The one- Reservations by phone: 354-9107. Kresge. Admission $1 at the door, free Wall; for information call: 354-5678. hour concert- incorporates beautiful laser tickets available in. ;Lobby 10. effects with recorded music ranging from The Crucible, Arthur Miller's drama, Death of a Salesman Presented by the Thi's weekend's LSC lineup: Pink Floyd to Strauss. The schedule is as will open the Emerson Theatre Company's MIT Community Players in Kresge Little Equus Fri. 7 & l0pro, 26-100. follows: Thurs. at 7, 8:15, & 9:30pm, Fri. at 1978-79 season; Performances are through Theatre.' Performances are Oct. 20, 21, 26, The Grand Illusion (Classic) Fri., 7:30pm, 9:30 & 10:45pm, Sat. at 5:30, 7, 8:15, 9:30 & Sun., Oct. 15, and Tues., Oct 17 through 27,. and 28'at 8pmr, with matinee perfor- 10-250. 10:45pm and Sun. at 5:30, 7 & 8:15pm. Sun., Oct. 22 at the Emnerson College mances. Oct.-22 & 28 at 3pm. Tickets $3.50 Dr. No Sat. 7 & 9:30pro, 26-100. Tickets are $3.50 and available at the Theatre, 130 Beacon St. Tickets are $2.50; at the door, $3 in advance.:For-information To Have and Have NOt Sun. 6:30 & 9pr, planetarium box office and all Ticketron for information call: 536-0862. call: x3-4720. 10-250. outlets. For information call 723-4586. - . _ _ _ _ ,, _ - iv --- What would Socrates think of O'Keefe? Ifyou question long enough and deep enough, certain truths about O'Keefe become evident. It has a hearty, full-bodied flavor. It is smooth and easy going down. And, the quality of its head is fact rather than philosophical conjecture. We think there's one truth about O'Keefe that Socrates would not question: It s too good to gulp. As any rational man can taste.

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UAM6 -1-e- ..-, * The annual Harry S. Truman application have not completed more on "Stellar Evolution and Supernova Scholarship Award will be made to than 30 semesteri hours or 45 quarter Collapse," 4pm Tuesday, October 17 current sophomores intent on a career hours of postbaccalaureate study in in Robinson Hall, room 253, on in the public service. The awards will any field of science, engineering, Tufts' Medford campus. Refresh- be for $5,000 and are renewable for social science, or mathematics. Appli- ments will be served at 3:30pm in the the senior year and for up to two years cants must take the Graduate Record Burden Lounge of Anderson Hall. of graduate study. One MIT student Examinations, which will be given on The lecture is sponsored by the Fox- will be nominated by the president of Decernmer 9, 1978 at designated boro Company. For additional infor- the Institute. Any student wishing to centers throughout the U.S. and in mation contact Professor Fu Tak be considered should contact Dr. certain foreign countries. The Dao, 628-5000, ext. 241. Louis Menand III, Roorn 4-246, x3- deadline for applications is December * Michael Ryan, winner of the 1973 7752, no later than October 20, 1978, 8, 1978. Further information and Yale Younger Poets Award, will read application materials may be obtained from the manuscript of his second OBE * The office of the Dean for Student from the Fellowship Office, National book on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 8pm7 Affairs now assumes responsibility for Research Council, 2101 Constitution in Curtis Auditorium, Boston Univer- co-ordinating services for handi- Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418. sity School of Nursing, 635 Common- capped students. Students with special wealth Ave. The reading, a part of the needs or concerns resulting from * Any student attending either junior Writers at Boston UnLiver sity Your eyesight is priceless, so how can you be sure of getting first- physical disabilities, permanent or or senior college is eligible to submit program, is free and open to the quality contact Uvnses? temporary, should plan to contact his verse to the College Poetry public. Trust the proessonals at Lechmere. Of the 10 brands of contact Dean Bonny Kellermann in Room 7- Review. There is no limitation as to henses approved by te Food and Dreug Administration, we buy only i 105, x3-677 1. Dean Kellermann is form or theme. Shorter works are * "Medical Ethics in the Context of those of the highestquality. This assures you of safety, comfort and optical acuity. Plus, You save moneyl Our trained opticians can fit also interested in talking with handi- preferred because of space limni- Medical History" will be the subject tations. Each poem must be typed or of-Dr. Stanley J. Reiser's lecture to you with sof contact lenses for just $199.00* --hard contacts for capped students about their experi- only M.001 Come to Lechmere > : ences on the MIT campus. printed on a separate sheet. and must the Cambridge Forum on Wednes- YouQI Sees the difference in con- M bear the name and home address of day, Oct. 25, at the First Parish, 3 tact lenses! A new organization is being formed i the student, as well as college address. Church St., Harvard Square. The -Hard as on campus dedicated to hejping cCDK_not include eye examination. handicapped people cope with Various Entrants should also submit the name Cambridge Forum meets.weekly at 8pm, aspects of M IT life. Handicapped and of their English instructor. and is open to the public SPECIAL OFFER WITH THIS A! FEE American Optical SUN- non-handicapped students and without charge. GLASSES 14 STYLES-(VALUES UPi'O $26.50) WITH ANY CONTACT X employees interested in participating * Dr. Albert Lord, Professor of LENS ORDER! Limit one per customer. Offer expires January 1, 1979. | in this group should contact Len Slavic and Comparative Literature at + The Harvard Law School Forum is Evenchik (office: x3-7655, home: 643- Harvard University, will speak on pleased-to announce that its second Prescription Eyewear Shop. 4079), Roger Goun (office: x3*6771, "Oral Tradition Literature'" at the speaker for the 1978. 1979 season will CAMBRIDGE 547-2151 i be the celebrated television producer DEDHAM 329-9210 I home: x5-9239X, or Ed Agro (524- Cambridge Forum, 3 Church Street, MAWNHESTER. N.H. 603-627-3186; 2057). Harvard Square, on Oct. 18, at 8pm. Norman Lear. The talk will take place DANVERS m-7-116 on Thursday evening, Oct. 19, at 8pm WSEE YOU POCKETSTNE 0 NCTS SPRINGFIELD 543-2294 i i. * Freshman Evaluation Forms are * Tufts University's Distinguished in the Roscoe Pound building Multi- I Contact lenses available In Cainde, Dedham arid Mancsester stores only. due on Friday, October 20. Instructor Speaker Series on Science and Tech, Purpose Room located on the Law I turn-in deadline is Wednesday, Oc- nology will present a lecture by physi- School campus. It will be open to the I i tober 25. cist and Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe generali public. Admission will be $2. mvme - _ I , I- -- --~~~~~~~~~~~" --- ~- - '" -" -- --- II~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Il9rl-~ra~agarsr8 plap i * Add Date: October 13, 1978 is the last day to add subjects to regis- 7R tration, and the last day for juniors r and seniors to change an elective to or When the president of Gen Rad was-an MIT students from pass-fail grading. i

* On Oct. 15, at 2pm at Roon 6-120, perhaps he wasn't thinking of the presidency-at the i Noarn Chomsky, Professor of Lin- guistics, Joseph Weizenbaum, Pro: time. EBut promotion frorm within is one of Our major j fessor of Computer Science, George Wald, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Biology at. Harvard; and Parvin corporate, commitments. Najafi, a representative of Payam -Danesrjvo,an Iranian newspaper, will discuss the recent mass uprisings for We6're -lto'-igtoyou because GenFnad is democracy in Iran. The speakers will committed to recruiting the-- best engineering correct the US Miedia's distortion of these events, which claim the recent personnel available to continue our demonstrations are the reaction of international reputqtion for quality and fanatic Moslems opposed to the Shah's "liberalization." state-of-the-art products. After we've got the best we- try to keep them * The MIT Marching Band will hold interested by expanding their an organizational meeting on Sunday, October 15, at 7:30pm in Talbot horizons and our reputation. Lounge, East Campus. Anyone inter- ested is weicome. For information, One. of the ways in which we've call lee Silverman at x5-6257, or Tom I achieved our world leadership, in I Gaul at x5-6276. automatic test equipment, electronic MIIT alumnae will treat five stul- iristruments and. acoustic/vibration dents to brunch sponsored by Greater measurement instruments is through 1 Boston and Rhode Island American Technion Society, at the 57 the 'rprjesct-team concept." Used Restaurant, on Sunday, October 29th, effectively for product development, I at 10:30am. Interested students should contact Debbie at x3-3467 this concept allows, us to mix. the from 2 to 5pm M-F. current knowledge and enthusiasm of the, recent graduate with the t The MIT Chamber Music Society will open its, 1978-79 performance development kiiowsiedge of our - season with a concert by the Chamber experienced staff members. Players in the newly renovated Hun- tington Hall (Room 10250) Saturday, Everyone benefits frorm this October 14 at.8pm. The program for arrangemnent. the concert will mark the 150th anni- versary of the death of Schubert with Work etter alone? Then perhaps several songs by- the composer, in- our "preliminary investigation" cluding "'Der Hirt.auf dern Felsen" ('Shepherd on the Rock-'), Opus 129. approach Is right for you. Based upon if you pian to continue your A reception will ftollow the concert in -your experience you-couid, be the Bush Room, 10-105, where the education -- We re behind you all public nosy greet the performers. assignedtQ Work With a senior the way. Under our tuition program engineer in preliminary product you'll be eligible immediaely for * The Section of Foreign Languages investigation. and Literature at MIT invites you to 100%/ reimbursement.., rmeet the French film director Eric We're interested in talking to: Rohmer, director of Mt, Night at Some companies talk about Maurd's and Clire's Knee, who will BSEE, MSEE candidates, Computer present and discuss his film La Collfe Science majors with Logic Design commitmenerats-instead we just tionneuse, on Sat., October 14 at 2pm background for positions in Software do it. Th e next step is up to you. A in Room 66-1 10. This screening is GenRad representative will be on free. Development, Hardware--Design, * The NSF Minority Graduate camrpus- October 31, 1978, please Fellowship Program is open only to Hardware/S-oftare Design, make an appointment through your persons who are citizens or nationals Microprocessing Design, of the United States as of the time of Applications Engineers, placement office. Or call Pat Perillo application, and who are members of directly at 646-7400, ext. 332. an ethnic minority group underrepre- Mini-computer Programmers and sented in the advanced levels of the GenRad, nc. 300 Baker Avenue Natiorn's science talent pool - i.e., Sales Engineers. Concords MA 01742 American Indian, Alaskan Native. Black, Mexican American, or Puerto Rican. Initial NSF Minority Graduate Fellowship awards are in- An uenRayd tended for students at or near the An equal opportunity employer Mi'F beginning of their graduate study. L -_~-~- . . . Eligibility is limited to those- who on I L I I I, I , In .- , - - _

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Novel tist in design contest By Lee Moriivaki ... thiiss stroke, take it up in three, one! slight current. The port side oarsmen used acting happy about it." I listened to the thr-'? Part 1: The Idea ... two! ... their blades as picks to anchor us in place, crowd more closely and heard: and we sat back for the show. "Turn, turn now!" 2.70 Introduction to Design "Stop, stop! Turn around, go back!" I looked up at what appeared to be an MIT t* * ** "Eat 'em up!" Prereq.: - "Do-it number 77!" Year: U(1) professor running across the BU bridge "Get ready!" From his position on top waving his arms frantically. "Don't go any "Yeeee-hah!!" 2-3-4 of an overturned rubbish bin, Professor Three seconds to go, "what is going on?" Introduction to the design process in farther, please turn around!" He gestured Nathan Cook supervised the action. down at me while I listened up at him. I repeated over and over in my head. engineering, stressing the creative ap- "Launch!" he yelled, and 400 people on the With two seconds to go the 68 remaining proach. Problem definition'and concept '"I wonder what's going on," I said half shore, plus eight- oarsmen, plus me, entrants suddenly turned Lo starboard like generation, visual thinking and graphical to myself, half to the stroke. watched, as the eighty-five "boats" left the a school of piranhas. The Harvard shells communication, design analysis and opti- "Forget him," said the stroke. hands of their owners. charged into them and we understood. The mization. I looked at the stroke with irritation. "I A bright yellow tin can craft struck a contest wasn't a race anymore, it never W. C, Flowers, N. H. Cook think it's an MIT professor," I said. submerged branch and flipped over, sink- was. The contest was to sink the Harvard "What?" The stroke turned around to ing to the bottom. shells! look up too, (rowers face the stern and "Oh no, no, no!" exclaimed a tall "Well, Nate, it's that time of year again, Chinese boy as his ping pong paddle ship "I don't believe it." said the bow man. can't see what's ahead) but we were already "I don't believe it," said the two man. got any ideas?" Associate Professor under the bridge. All he could see was a veered sharply off course and headed out Woodie Flowers placed his coffee cup -towards the BU dorms. "I don't believe it," said the three, four, precisely in the centr of his saucer and mass of green steel girders. five, six, seven and eight men. "Waaay 'nuff!'" I shouted, "riiide it!" A three-thing collision ten yards off peered at his- friend. shore cut the number of competitors to "Uh, uh, yeh," I said. Professor Nathan .Cook, his friend, All eight oars finished clean anrid iflze at eighty. Two more sank before they reached A red, white, and blue hydrofoil drove peered back. "Hmmm," he began, "as a right angles to the shell. We cruised the fifteen yard point. deep into the leading shell's bow. An matter of fact, I do .... " through the bridge, eight "T's" suspended The cries of anguish mixed with the aluminum claw clamped down on a gun- over the surface, perfectly balanced, decel- cheers of the crowd drowned out the traffic wale of the second shell and broke it off. A erating gently. As Magazine Beach came sounds on the bridge. pressure-sensitive yacht was.struck by an '"What do you think of it Woodie, is that into view I finished my commands, "oars Then, through all the noise, I alone was oar and 'blew up, sending pieces of oar a real challenge if you ever saw one?" down, check it down.all eight." able to pick out a familiar voice, a familiar blade all over the river. "I think," Woodie paused, intertwining cadence, "six! ... seven! . . . keep it on! . . . With 65 little machines clambering every his fingers, "I think it's an excellent idea, I The rowers let their oars drop to the eight! ... right on it! ... nine! . . . right at which way on three crew shells the confu- just hope it's not too difficult for them. water and used them to bring us to a stop. the catch! . .. ten! . . . ten more! ... one! sion increased rapidly. ."Hey, look at that!" The five man This is the most advanced objective we've- ... move it now! ... two! .. ." A submerged Coke bottle smashed off aimed for in quite a few years of 2.70." pointed at what I was already intently watching on the shore of Magazine Beach. "Harvard!" I thought to myself. My the rudder of one boat while an "1" beam "Oh, they can handle it," answered gaze broke away from the race and swept of similar design dismantled another's Professor Cook reassuringly. "It should be upriver. Just around the bend my eyes. stabilizer fin. very interesting. I can't wait till next fall, Part 3: The Real Thing caught the first glimpse of a needle-sharp Harvard started fighting back. A huge put- I'd like to see what wins this contest." I'd neverseen Magazine Beach like this prow cleaving its way towards me. One oarsman smashed his oar down on a hundred meters away, three white, glit- tering rock launcher sending it straight to before. Over 400 MIT students and faculty pry Part 2: The Set-up crowded the thin strip of grass between tering, slick swords rounded the corner in the bottom. A coxswain managed to of the perfect unison, three Harvard Crimson off a floating drill before it could lock on "One week till the Head of the Charles," Memorial Drive and the rocky shore completely. They fought valiantly but I Charles. The parking lot was packed with crew shells racing downriver on a collision 'I thought to myself as I stood on the contest. could see it was a lost cause. I cars, many served as grandstands for the course with the 2.70 Boston side dock of the MIT boathouse. At one minute and 27 seconds of the bat- adjusted my megaphone and talked to my spectacle about to occur. The 2.70 things chugged and lurched along, two-thirds of their way across the tle the first shell started sinking; a rubber- crew. "Count off from the bow when Spectacle? Sure was. Our boat drift:ed u band-powered meat tenderizer had tender- ready." p Charles, moving at a turtle's pace. The to the bridge abutment, scraping its $6,000 three crew shells glided downriver at full ized its way right through the four man's As the eight rowers counted down I got side against the stonemasonry, and we pressure, 5.5 meters per second, 50 meters foot stretchers. into the stern seat and placed my hands didn't even notice, for all along the shore of -away, just nine seconds upriver. Thirty-six seconds passed before the se- over the steering knobs. the Charles, 50 yards down the bank, were Eight seconds. cond shell started taking on water. Twelve "Eight,'" said the stroke seat rower to lined 85 ... things.. Seven seconds. seconds later it was clear that the end was me. , "What the hell is going on?" asked Everyone saw what was going to happen near. A peanut butter jar of lighter fluid "Leeettt's walk iiittt out," I shouted. We someone. now. had ignited the stern of the last remaining pushed our boat off the dock and slowly "It's the 2.70 competition, today's the Six seconds. shell. drifted away. day," answered the stroke. The Harvard coxswains kept racing. A After only three minutes it was all over: "Stern six to row, stern six, Ready all. . ." "It was in The Tech yesterday," I added. championship crew doesn't waste their the quickest 2.70 contest ever. The Harvard I looked ahead to plan a clear course, "row!" "What are they doing though?" asked practices -with MIT games. rowers pulled themselves up the far shore , ~~~~~~~~~~.- the three man, echoing my thoughts. Five seconds. of the river. The contestants turned in their The six stern oars squared perpen- "I think they're going to see who can I suddenly realized that something little pink ballots naming which "things" dicular for a split second then submerged, traverse the river the fastest," offered the wasn't quite right. I couldn't figure out they felt were the most outstanding. The propelling our white bullet upriver. stroke. what it was. professors and faculty members hopped By the time we reached Tang Hall we, We all agreed with silent nods, our eyes "Why is everybody cheering?" asked the into their cars; dinner was waiting at home. were on all' eight and moving well. Just. never leaving the shore. seven man. Below my left shoulder, the sun colored before we passed the BU boathouse l called '"You guys! At least keep us off the "That's it," I thought to myself, "why is us orange as I pointed the bow of my shell out the first piece. "Alll eight; first piece¢ bridge!" The bow man was the first to everyone cheering? The Harvard boats are at the MIT boathouse, "back to the barn siitt ready ... three and twenty at the half - notice that we were pinned there by the about to wipe out their fleet and they're, all all eight, onnn the paddle, ready alii, row !" mw--iB?-Iil i Ii~c- - j .I p ImIIII I YoaU Never ILooked So Good:'

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i- - , jury and prosecutor in disci- not cause a resurgence of campus and perhaps more than most ten i II plinary hearings held by the unrest. Albert stated that he was year spans (more or less), the six- COD. -In March 1970, in response returning to N1IT for reasons of ties made certain that things 366A - 370 Broadway to these charges, the Discipline employment- "in case I want to could never quite be the same Cambridge Used Furniture Committee adopted a proposal get a teaching job., again. for internal reform presented by ---' I--'- -I - Y -·· -- L - L - I_ Cenrte Professor of Materials Science (R & R Antiques) (Musical Chairs) and Engineering Roy Kaplow LOWEST PRICES AND WIDEST and Professor of Physics Louis S. SELECTION INTOWN-- ALL BRANDSI Osborne. 10,000 unusual items - The changes switched the role Browsers welcome All types student furniture of the DSA from prosecutor to a "SPECIAL 20%fi general overseer of a disciplinary Reasonable Prices - and accessories:, case, and allowed the COD to ap- STUDENT DISCOUNT - '- 1--lam as, dishes, watehes, etc. point another faculty member to "on foreign car parts preside over the hearings when V',".~HPresent your'student ID and 868-3100 Hours: one of its own members did not ~~,< itreceive 20% off the regular retail list price. 9:00- - 5:30 wish to do so. In addition, the ~ ~Special free help for Do-lt-Yourselfers Institute agreed to pay for legai Monday- Saturday counsel to assist in the prepara- IMPO#RTED CAR PARTS OF NEW ENG6LAND FREEDELIVERY TO I tion of cases for both parties. 2096 Mass Ave, Cambridge, 24 Brighton Ave, Boston I- -CAMBRIDGE AND SOMERVILLE Although these changes were 661-0820 787-9350 (Muszieal ChairsO)nly . recognized by the General As- _ __-- -- _., _ r._I._ ~ sembly as a step in the right direc- tion, they were called insufficient protection for the so-called "political" cases the( COD was handling. The Tech then attacked the General Assembly's decision that all political cases should be deferred until a more equitable arrangement for the COD could be worked out. The editorial stated that the changes in the COD which had been called for for so long had finally been made and therefore the General As- sembly had attained its victory ih but wanted more, It added that as a result of this, "It is clear that once again a motion passed by the General Assembly will be severely criticized and once again ignored, all because it is the result of an uninformed body of people in- clined towards hasty, dramatic votes on 'pressing issues.'" What event, if any, represented the end of the sixties at MITTThe decade was starting to drift to a close sometime in the spring of 1971. The UAP electibon turnout that term was the lowest in five years. Only 1420 students turned out to vote as compared to the 1619 that turned out in the year 8 Albert was elected and the 1899 B who voted during the Dres- sler/Eddleman year. - On M arch 5,' 1971, former provost Jerome Wiesner was elected. president. Wiesner, a formner presidential- :cience ad-. I visor, more closely fitted the. B traditional MIT presidential mold C than did Johnson, who'had been r R v------9

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Crew:fh sp_ _ L __ - -s_ ,,, qd------u-·es ------ crew: or tetril ofit l By Cindy Cole weights and row in the "tank." at the same second, making the "Not long ago, the only way While sweating and wincing they boat lurch up and glide through ! our coxswains got wet was when will think about that bright Satur- the water. After a few days on the I What You Need they rowed in the rain," com- day morning in May when they water and a taste of the speed and You should have an MS or PhD degree in one of the mented Rigger, Roy Foote, sum- will pull ahead of Harvard or the flying feeling you experience following: ming up the MIT crew situation. Yale or Penn. when all eight are hitting the Chemistry "Now they get dunked often." Why would anyone do this? catch at the same instant, you Computer Science For the uninitiated, the winning Diane Medved'80, Captain of the may become hooked. Electrical Engineering coxswain is always thrown in the Varsity Women, commented, But who out there will under- Materials Science water after the race. "Crew is one of the most stand all that?. Comparisons with Mechanical Engineering The MIT oarsmen and women demanding sports on campus, football, hockey and basketball Physics are prime examples of a basic both mentally and physically. are hollow. The only way to What Weo1 rowing tenet - you don't have to You must have self-determi- understand or to appreciate row- TI's six Central Research Laboratories ensure the timely be a natural athlete to be a good nation and perseverence. You ing is to have climbed into one of availability of technologies required by present and future oarsman. Like the vast majority must be aggressive and want to the sleek shells and rowed. business opportunities. of rowers on the Charles, few of -win. You must love to have a Class Day is November 4 and is This involves (1) discovering, identifying and evaluating them had any rowing experience good time, but at the same time one opportunity to try rowing. new scientific phenomena likely to generate inventions and before coming to Cambridge. not mind working hard for it." The Head of the Charles, on new products, and (2) determining and developing the tech- And yet they compete among the RPewards? "To know that you Sunday, October 22 is a good nologies required for new business opportunities. best. are, in part, responsible for mak- chance to come see quality row- The six facilities include: B Often depicted as masochists, ing a racing shell glide through ing. Crews from as far away as The Systems and Information Sciences Laboratory crews train nine months for less the water at speeds close to 20 feet Wisconsin, Nebraska and Florida The Advanced Components Laboratory r than an hour of competition in, per second is exhilarating," stated will be here to race the defending The Materials Characterization Laboratory & Facilities the spring. You see them at Medved. The tangible rewards are powers of the East. The Advanced Technology Laboratory B daybreak and at dusk plying their meager - a few victories, a hand- Anyone interested in joining The CCD Technology Laboratory craft on the Charles; sprinting, ful of shirts and maybe a trophy. the crew team is welcome to come The Physical Sciences Research Laboratory calling for power 10's or 20's, and It is the feeling of doing some- to any practice. All novice squads Areas of Activity g paddling. The oncoming ice will thing in concert with seven other practice 5-7prn Monday through Materials Preparation/Crystal Growth soon force them inside to run, lift men or women, hitting the water Friday. Materials Characterization Component Development, including: Charge Coupled Devices

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_, In,xa, Ad Kathy Chrien '80 taps the ball paSt BU's front line in women's volleyball action last Thursday. MIT lost. 8- 15, 15-8. 12-15. 15-9. 15-12. (Photo by Joel West.)

U--- _a -- i By Richard Auchus better than itdid in its last game. - -_ -______Y - I ---. ------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Boston University came from The players' timing, setups, and behind to take-a 3-2 victory from spikes are markedly more effec- the M IT volleyballt .eam last tive, but basic serves gave them THE NSA CHALLENGE .. Thursday. The squad- played a trouble and probably cost them fine game against a very powerful the game. Linda' Plano '82 made AND YOUR RESPONSE opponent; but service faults, odd- some brilliant diving saves, and ly enough, snapped most-of their Karen Samuelsen '81 frustrated Engineers, mathematicians, and If you are the type of engineer or rallies in the middle three games.. BU with vicious spikes cleverly computer scientists at NSA comprise scientist who is intrigued by a chal- Tech was hot the first game, mixed with pierfectly placed a technological community that is lenge .... who winning easily, 15-8. BU got its "dinks." The best all-around per- looks forward to conT act together in the next contest formance was given by Kathy unique in the Western world, and tributing significantly to the security and won 15-8. Both teams put on Chrien '80, keeping Tech alive perhaps in the entire world. Members of your country ... and who possesses quite. a show in game t'nhree by'go - with several clutch plays. of the staff develop and utilize devices a high degree of imagination, initia- ing well out of bounds to return which are in advance of those utilized tive,'and intellectual curiosity, then volleys and making some spec- by any other group in the- country. we urge you-to investigate a career at tacular diving saves. Tech PART TIME JOB NSA. managed to hold on to a slim lead and win the game 15-!2, but the Gnomon Copy is seeking team was never really in the Members of the NSA Technical Staff will visit MIT on October 19,- fourth game, which BU won 9-15. Xerox machine operators. 1978 to discuss in more detail the career opportunities described Tech ran up a 6-0 lead in the final -Starting pay is $3.15/hr. above. V contest, but squandered it on ftours :tvail;able to suit your sloppy play an'd careless miscues. schedule, incl.uding Electrical Engineers, Computer Scientists, and Physicists please MIT's rally late in the game was M idnight-8alm. Near MIT, visit the Jackson Room, 38-466, 11:30-1:30 or 2:00-3:30. not enough, and BU triumphed, ovnled by M IT grads, you .working The team played noticeab-12. will he with students Mathematicians please see notices on department bulletin boards. The teama played noticeably like yourself. This isia mCuch better job than handling A!/Hours food, and we are good people NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY Professirdal Typing Service t(o work lor. Di;al "C-O-U-R- Atth: M3'!I Fort-Gor.t: G. Meade..ti.raland '20t755 Incorporated iE-R" and. cask tfor Tom Ant Equal O)pportuniity Emjployer m f. Free Parking Sctarnaltti. .. . ~_ 864-2600 U.S. c:itizenllship is reqluired. : " , * I d I ~'1 I' - - ,, ~ , ,, B_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' I .... -- ~ ' I: * ~ -~ ·..." - i , , , -= , ,, I _ _ ~ , · i , , ' , , , t.,

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Golf makt" the grade By Tom Curtis of his nearest competitor. He put- For the second straight year, ted for a 68 on the 18th green, but the MIT golf team has qualified the ball stopped on the lip of the for the Eastern Coliege cup. Conference Championships by A 78 by sophomore Bob finishing -second in the ECC Sec- Cosway was MIT's second best tional Qualifying Round. score. This was Cosway's best This year's qualifying round score of the year. Team captain was held last Friday at Dart- Mlike Varrell '79 shot his year. mouth. The Championships will Senior Doug Wegner's 81 and be held Sunday and Monday at sophomore Ned Emerson's- 84 the Essex Country Club in rounded out the scoring for MIT.- Manchester, Massachusetts. Vermont led the 18-team sec- MIT's high qualifying round tional field with a team score of finish more than made up for a 299. MIT and Dartmouth tied for poor regular season record. Hav- second place with 307's. The top ing lost to Merrimack, St. four individual scores count in the Anselm's, Northeastern, Boston team score. All three teams College, and Bentley, MIT had a qualified for the Eastern College dismal 0-5 record. In the tourna- Conference Championships. ment. however, MIT finished Top teams from across the -ahead of all of those teams. Northeast will be competing in MIT's Doug Parigian '80 was the Chaimpionships. Last year, finished seventh out of 14 the sectional medalist with a one- MIT ~ai~gg~" Y .under-par 69, two strokes ahead teams in the Championships. the ball in MIT's loss to BU last Thursday. (Photo by Joel West.) , -, -, - - -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -

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Adra Smith '79 serves the ball in last week's match against BU. (Photo by Joel West.)

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There will be an organizational meeting of the women's intercollegi- ate basketball team on Monday, Oc- tober 16 at 5pm. The meeting will be held in W31-118 (next to the Physical Education Office) and is open to all interested undergraduate women.

The Women's Athletic Council will be sponsoring a brunch for all women's athletics and freshwomen on Sunday, October 15, from IIam to Ipm in McCormick Penthouse.

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Have you always wondered what an Autocross was, or what the'differ- ence between a Gimmick and a Pro Rally was? If you're into perfor- mance cars, whether you h~ave one or not, the Auto Club is involved in acti- vities you can enjoy. The first Auto Club meeting of the term is this Sun- day ( 10/ 5) at 7:30pm on the 4th floor room 491. i of the Student Center in - ______- I- I-

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x . - _ soorts-s MHll--- SocceAr v vhips Bralndeis, ups record to 42 By Bob Host the game, as did Boza, who The varsity soccer team predicted both of his. improved its record to 4-2 with Although gates had more op- two wins in the last week, a 4-1 portunities in the MIT zone in the victory over Bates on Saturday latter stages of thie game, none and a 3-0 triumph over Brandeis succeeded and the Beavers' record on Tuesday. went to 3-2. Last Saturday, the team was On Tuesday the team faced sparked by a quick offense and a Brandeis, the victims of an MIT brilliant performance in goal by upset last year when they were the Tom Smith '79 as the Beavers then-defending Division. III downed Bates. The first goal was champions. The Beavers were scored by Luis Boza '79 on a ready for this game, and did a penalty kick. Bates tied the score good job of stopping numerous shortly afterward but MIT Brandeis attacks in a game that countered when Zanda Ilori '79 was marked by much physical put in a free kick to make the contact and a strong wind. halftime score 2-1 in MIT's favor. The first goal came on a shot by Play in the first half was fre- Jay Walsh '81 from Uhle. Less quently going from one end of the than half a minute later, Walsh - field to the other, with both teams had another scoring opportunity (Photo by Rich Tello.). getting very few good breaks. on a penalty kick, -but his shot Bates missed an excellent scoring was wide to the left. The rest of opportunity when Smith blocked the half was marked by tight _ r IN I II I I I ' i I_ a penalty kick for the second time defense until Ilori put in an unas- this season late in the half. Coach sisted shot with under three Walter Alessi later said that this minutes remaining to give MIT a save was the key play of the ga mne, halftime lead of 2-0. and it seemed to motivate the Beavers toward the end of the In the second half, Brandeis' at- half, as they charged into the tempts at outpsyehing their oppo- Bates zone but could not main- nents were of little avail as both In the field of .energygeneration, Nuclear Power is potentially the best alternative to our tain a drive as the half ended. Boza and Ilori put on impressive nation's future 'eeds. If you are a recent college graduate or just approaching MIT came out strong in the se- ball-control displays that enter- graduation in a technical major and have'mantatained a degree of academic excellence, cond half and stayed in the Bates tained the spectators and Beaver you mayqualify for a rewarding and challenging career in Nuclear Power with unlimited zone by eluding defenders. Boza players while serving to embar- advancement opportunity andijsnusualiy attractive benefits including: rass the Brandeis team. When got his second goal of the game 0 Scholarship of $650/month during senior year after just fifty-two seconds of the Boza put in a shot from the right side, assisted by Allan Strong '80 e Starting salary of $1§,500; increases to $24,000 in 4 years half on a pass from Bill Uhle '81 ® Free medical. dental care to,put MIT ahead 3-1. to make the score 3-0, MIT's Throughout the second half the focus turned to preserving e 30 days paid vacation annually team kept hustling and as a result Smith's shutout. With less than a I year graduate level training in nuclear engineering most of the action was in the nine minutes to play, this task was EXce!llent retirernent plan Bates zone. Whern Bates did eased somewhat when a Brandeis maneuver into MIT territory, player got a "red card," signifying ejection from the game with no Ask yor Placement Officer to set up an intervlew with a Navy they were quickly repelled and representative when he the campus on: Smith wag basically.untested for replacement allowed. Thus, play- wisits most of the half. ing with a one-man advantage, OCTOBER 24, 19'78 MIT had many chances after the Beavers kept Brandeis at bay or contad your Navy representative at (617)223-6216 Collect. Boza's second goal, most notably and Smith had his shutout, mak- a play that went from Paul ing ten saves; but, because of the Thompson '79 across the field to extraordinary defense he was un- Rob Currier '79, back to Jeff Tyr- tested throughout the game, just NIUCLEAR POWER MANIAGER rell '80, up to T. i-i;who faked as was the case against Bates three once and then shot, just missing days earlier. NAVY OFFICER PROGRAMS slightly. In all, l1ori outshot the The victory was even more 575 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 entire Bates team. impressive in light of the fact that The Beaver's final goal came on Brandeis had-given up only two I _-s -.... ' ' : · II I - r ; i a shot by Tim Meixsell'80, on an goals in six games while posting a -g I - - I-··--C·--·C ------ -- assist from Ilori. Coincidentally, 5-1 record coming into the con- Meixsell predicted his goal before test. L -- - -I ______ The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Join the University Film Study ·.I _~ _ _- Center"s 1978-79 Membership Program!

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