_ __ y I-I Options Sold Out Lincoln Laboratories Stratton Explains Policy Open JP Ticket Sale To Be 27th To Advise ARPA Despite the strong efforts of Inscomm to have all Saturday On Missile Defense Concerning Frosh Quizzes classes on November 5 cancelled to facilitate the activities of field day, all Saturday classes will be held as usual. The Advanced Research Proj- Freshman quizzes will continue to be held on Mon- The JP Committee announced this week that JP options are ects Agency (ARPA) announced days for the remainder of this term, and will be switched October 25 and 26. An to be redeemed Tuesday and Wednesday, today in Washington, D.C., that to Fridays next Spring. This decision was released by option for the entire weekend will cost $12. Friday ;gth tickets a special Technical Advisory alone will sell for $7 while a ticket for Saturday afternoon will be Group for Ballistic Missile De- President Julius A. Stratton last Tuesday, and explained $3, and Saturday night will cost $5. It should be noted, however, fense has been set up in coop- fully in the following letter addressed to Ira Jaffe, '61, that no separate Saturday afternoon or Saturday night tickets will eration with the MIT Lincoln Undergraduate Association President: be sold to option holders. Every option may buy all three tickets, Laboratory and the Willow Run tickets for Friday night and Saturday afternoon only, tickets for Laboratory of the University of Dear Mr. Jaffe: Friday night and Saturday night only, or only the Friday night Michigan. The avowed purpose This letter is in response to your request on behalf of the night ticket ticket. Thus an option entitles the bearer to a Friday of this group is to give recom- Undergraduate Association that a decision to schedule fresh- plus a priority on both of the Saturday tickets. mendations on ARPA's Project man quizzes this fall on Mondays rather than Fridays as in All option holders should be sure to redeem their options by DEFENDER. Wednesday, October 26, since all remaining options and all re- the past be reconsidered. maining individual tickets will be placed in the general sale the Project DEFENDER is I am aware of the many questions that have been raised next day - Thursday, October 27. There is a waiting list consist- ARPA's advanced research pro- by students, particularly underclassmen, by student counselors, ing of 69 people, and they will get first crack at the unredeemed gram to find adequate means of and by some members of the Faculty as to the wisdom of such options. The general sale on Thursday, October 27, will consist defense against operational bal- a change. The issues involved are basically matters of educa- with op- listic missiles and means to of 150 tickets for Saturday night above those reserved tional philosophy and policy. Consequently, I asked the Com- night tickets left as a result of option handle decoy warheads. tions, plus any Saturday Faculty to review the holders not buying all three mittee on Undergraduate Policy of the tickets, plus any unredeemed op- facts that led to the decision and to advise me on an appropri- tions above and beyond the wait- ate action. ing list. Chances of obtaining The Committee conducted a most thorough examination, an option in this manner are T interviewing representative freshmen, upperclassmen, and expected to be slight. members of the Faculty. It is now the unanimous recommenda- tion that: "The Monday quiz hour be retained for the remainder of Heschel To Deliver the Fall Term, that the quiz be held on Friday during the Spring Term, and the attitude of the freshmen toward the two Morris Burg Lecture days be determined at the end of the Spring Term and be one of the factors considered by the Faculty in scheduling the TechI freshman quiz hour for the future." I approve this recommendation. Vol. 80 No. 31 Cambridge, Mass., Friday, October 21, 1960 5 Cents Let me add a few comments of my own. First, it should be clear to everyone that the issue has been wholly one of educational policy, that it has therefore in- volved the Faculty, and that the decision has had nothing to NSF Research Grant do with administrative expediency. It might have been incon- venient to shift back to Friday after the beginning of the term but not impossible. The Committee was asked to exclude from Reactor Gets A Quarter Million its consideration questions of administrative detail. Secondly, both the Committee and the Administration un- A National Science Foundation grant of nearly a quarter of a derstand that the real educational problem involved is that of million dollars has been received by MIT to expand the research weighing certain immediate and obvious merits of Monday Abraham J. Heschel facilities of the $3,500,000 reactor located on Albany Street. The quizzes against the larger background of an MIT undergradu- grant is making possible four major areas of additional research: ate education taken as a whole. Abraham Joshua Heschel, (1) a neutron diffraction spectrometer will be provided for studies Professor of Jewish Ethics and of the structure of molecules, crystals, etc. Atomic nuclei may Finally, this incident seems to me to have provided an Myvsticism at the Jewish Theo- also be studied by means of the spectrometer. (2) A neutron outstanding example of the possibilities of constructive inter- logical Seminary of America, "chopper" or beam interrupter will be added to the facilities to play in good faith between students, Faculty, and Administra- New York, will deliver the study the effects of specific energy level neutrons on various tion on matters of importance to us all. In the many discus- tenth Morris Burg Memorial materials. (3) Equipment will be added to enable the insertion sions and rather voluminous correspondence that have flowed Lecture at MIT on Sunday, Oc- of short bursts of neutrons into the reactor so as to produce a out of this unexpectedly complicated problem, I have sensed for the purpose of investigating tober 30. The lecture, which is short burst of reactor energy nothing but good will and a sincere concern on everyone's part reactor physics. (4) A "hot cell" is being installed next to the free of charge and open to the for the welfare of freshmen at MIT. public, will be held in Kresge reactor for the purpose of efficiently producing radioactive iso- Auditorium at 8:15 P.M. Pro- topes. Yours sincerely, fessor Heschel will be the guest The reactor has been operating at its original maximum pow- JULIUS A. STRATTON at a coffee hour for faculty and er output of one megawatt, but students following the lecture. the grant will enable the reactor Professor Heschel is the au- to increase its output to a full M IT Grad R thor of "Man is Not Alone" and five megawatts. The reactor eports on Crossroads Africa #1 *, -. , "God in Search of Man." went "critical" (achieved sus- . By Benson T. Chertok, '57 In his lecture here, Professor tained atomic chain reaction) on : } the past summer I was one of eight thus was During Heschel will discuss the topic, July 21, 1958; and MIT people who went to West Africa with Op- "Man and Mortality Today," a more than a year ahead of any ;r. . 6-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~4 eration Crossroads Africa. Crossroads, founded problem to which he has de- other land-based reactor in New by Rev. James Robinson, of New York City, in voted much attention. England. 1958, is a study and workcamp adventure de- signed to make young Americans aware of and conversant with the emerging new-Africa. The Freshman Council Elects Officers operation is financed by private contributions and the balance is paid by the participants. William Nelson, of North Plainfield, New Jersey, was elected Through the spirited leadership of Jim DeSola, President of the Class of '64, in the Freshman elections held on '60, we raised over $3,000 from the MIT Com- October 11. Nelson is Leader of Section 8 and is a pledge of Sigma munity. Phi Epsilon. Operation Crossroads 1960 convened in New In a tie vote which had to be decided by the newly-elected York City in mid-June for a week of orientation class president, Ronnie Gilman of Dover Club was chosen over before leaving for West Africa. In New York Dave Moran as class Veep. Gilman is from Memphis, Tennessee, the 180 participants listened as experts spoke and is in Section 31. about different phases of African life - British, The new Secretary-Treasurer of the Freshman Class is Wil- French and Belgium colonialism, U.S. policies liam Pinkerson, from Winnetka, Illinois. Pinkerson is also from toward Africa, local social customs, recent Dover Club and is Leader of Section 28. events, missionary work, primitive art, first aid There will be a general class meeting for Freshmen next for snake bite (there are more poisonous snakes Tuesday, at 4:00, in Kresge Auditorium, to explain the plans and in the USA than in Africa!) etc .... We were purpose of Field Day. Bill Nelson commented that, after survey- divided into two groups depending on whether ing the Freshman class potential, he believes that the Sopho- we were going to English-or French-speaking mores should "prepare for a beating." countries, and flown to London or Paris respec- Phil Miller, President of the class of '63, commented on tively, for more orientation at the colonial offices Nelson's confidence by stating that the Freshman class "has a "Crossroads Africa" in action. Benson T. Chertok, '57, in those cities. surprise coming to them". appears at top center with trowel and beard. (Continued on page 8) '63 Sippers, Samuel Bluestein Co G. L. FROST Co., Inc. toom Sin Club Meet Attention Students Q The first meeting of the class Ask About Student Discount AUTOMOBILE BODY REPAIRING & REFINISHING of '63 drinking society will be From Tropical Countries: 1080 Boylston St., Boston held at Delta Upsilon, 526 Bea- CO 7-1102 E. W. 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0'.0 0--o ally observed at MIT in assigning professors' Ghosts At MIT duties seems like an ideal balance to us. C04 Not long ago President Case of Colgate President Case and the New York Times "'HOME SWEET HOMECOMING" O University sounded a sharp warning to American notwithstanding, we would rather study under universities, telling them to beware of "ghost men who are doing the work that will be written A great number of people have been asking me lately, "What is Homecoming?" but I have been so busy trying to find out E faculties". He stated that many professors in the up in textbooks five and ten years hence, than LL learn from teachers masterfully putting across why my new sports car leaks that I haven't had time to answer. U.S. today receive high salaries to do government the developments of five and ten years ago. I am now pleased to report that I finally discovered why my research, but have "undefined" teaching respon- sports car leaks-I have been driving it upside down-and so sibilities; citing an example, he went on to say I am ready today to turn my attention to Homecoming. ( that, "More than half of the budget of one pri- Let's begin with definitions. Homecoming is a weekend when ' vately controlled eastern university comes from Von Braun and Huxley old grads return to their alma maters to watch a football game, Lu government sources." Wernher von Braun, speaking in Kresge last visit old classrooms and dormitories and inspect each other's I The New York Times was quick to back up week, made some statements which, upon reflec- bald spots. President Case's stand, saying, ':Is not the first tion, do not ring true. The weekend is marked by the singing of old songs, the slap- rate teacher . . . worthy of more respect and First, in answer to his self-posed question, ping of old backs and the frequent exchange of such greetings advancement than the mediocre teacher whose "Why Must We Conquer Space?" he replied, as "Harry, you old polecat!" or "Harry, you old porcupine!" 'research' output is some piece of unimaginative "To satisfy our scientific curiosity." This is the or "Harry, you old rooster!" or "Harry, you old wombat!" As you can see, all old grads are named Harry. drudgery that is of the most marginal im- truth, but not the whole truth. If you were to I not just old grads who behave with such liveliness during portance ?" It is ask a Congressman, or the man in the street, why Homecoming; the faculty also comports itself with unaccus- The "eastern university" to which the Presi- we must conquer space, the chances are over- tomed animation. Teachers laugh and smile and pound backs dent of Colgate referred is commonly agreed to whelming that he would say, "To stay ahead of and keep shouting "Harry, you old Airedale !" This unscholarly be MIT. Whether this is true or not, many peo- the Russians." The American space program of behavior is carried on in the hope that old grads, in a transport ple will take it to be so. which Dr. von Braun is such an integral part, is of bonhomie will endow a new geology building. It is fitting that we clarify the issue of the largely an ad hoc effort to meet the demands of The old grads, however, are seldom seduced. By game time budget, and reflect somewhat on the role that competition with the U.S.S.R. The motivation on Saturday their backs are so sore, their eyeballs so eroded, research does play here at MIT. for the financing of his work and that of his their extremities so frayed, that it is impossible to get a kind Last year the expenses of current operation colleagues is not solely a desire for knowledge. word out of them, much less a new geology building. for MIT were $91,950,000. Of this, $66,000,000 Von Braun's statement to the effect that industry in return )\tt1 j was paid by government and "The scientist must be a good soldier and do Z. i for research done. The remainder came from what is demanded of him," is questionable at 1~~~1I~ r / 1·
tuition, gifts, investment, etc. These, however, best. Too often, at MIT and elsewhere, scien- I are not the significant figures when one is con- tists and engineers regard themselves as artisans cerned with faculty salaries and duties. Faculty or craftsmen whose responsibility for their prod- salaries last year totaled $8,620,000. Of this, uct ends with delivery to the user. Such an at- $3,770,000 came from the government. This is titude is acceptable when your product is a r 44% of the total, considerably less than half. cobblestone or a china plate, but it is dangerous In considering the nature and the role of beyond belief when your creation is poison gas or I .v research here at MIT, let us first eliminate from an H-bomb. The exploitation of modern drugs ". ,=q'· E our consideration such projects as the Lincoln and psychology, as well as the development of c Laboratory and the Instrumentation Laboratory. the weapons of mass destruction, are unmis- r a~~~~~ They are managed by MIT for the government, takable indications that today, as never before, lpl (. )-d more or less in the line of duty to the country. the actions of the scientific community may well Even the football game does not improve their tempers. With few exceptions, personnel in these labs determine the fate of the nation as well as the K are not faculty-members, do not have the title world. "Hmmph !" they snort as the home team completes a 101-yard professor, and do not teach. (It is the operation Faced with the sheer magnitude of the forces i march to a touchdown. "Do you call that football? Why, back of these laboratories, incidentally, which ac- he is unleashing, the scientist cannot in our in my day, they'd have been over on the first down! By counts chiefly for the $66,000,000 figure men- opinion escape responsibility. George, football was football in those days-not this namby- today! Take a look tioned above.) Professor Huxley in his lecture Wednesday pamby girls' game that passes for football at that bench-50 substitutes sitting there. Why, in my day, If we then confine our attention to research night differentiated between the individual as there were 11 men on a team and that was it. When you broke U done by faculty members for government and he sees himself in his historical context and the a leg, they slapped a piece of tape on it and you went right back industry, we find in most cases that it is work individual as he detaches himself from this con- in. Why, I remember the big game against State. Harry Siga- by the various professors which, besides ad- text. Modern man, in his everyday life, Huxley I foos, our star quarterback, was killed in the third quarter. I vancing knowledge in the field, contributes im- said, is capable of sensing little or none of the mean, he was pronounced dead. But did that stop old Harry? measurably to their effectiveness as teachers. historical progress which is going on about him. Not on your tintype! Back in he went and kicked the winning However brilliantly a professor may assemble The situation is tragic, but especially so for the drop kick in the last four seconds of play, dead as he was. Back and put across the body of knowledge that is a scientist and engineer. Since the scientist is re- in my day, they played football, by George !" I given subject, if all he does is present the known, sponsible for our most rapid progress, it be- I Everything, say the old grads, was better back in their day-- accomplished work in the field, his worth is comes vitally important for him to be able to everything except one. Even the most unreconstructed of the sharply curtailed. The fields of science and en- discern the consequences of his work and to old grads has to admit that back in his day they never had a gineering are expanding at an accelerating rate. think of them morally in terms of history, as smoke like Marlboro-never a cigarette with such a lot to like -never a filter so easy drawving, a flavor so mild yet hearty, so If our professors are not at the frontiers of von Braun apparently does not. =I F I existing knowledge, doing the research that We can see the beginning of attitudes such abundant, so bountiful-never a choice of flip-top box or soft moves the frontier forward, we can not expect as his right here at MIT, where many of us pack. to gain insight from them into what will be go- ignore our position in society and take refuge So old grads, young grads, and undergrads, why don't you settle back and have a full-flavored smoke? Try Marlboro, the ing on in our fields when we enter them a few in our work. There is little attempt on the part filtered cigarette with the unfiltered taste, and Homecoming years hence. of the faculty to draw us out from this refuge. will be a happy occasion and the sun will shine and the air will If our courses are to be anything but a ster- The widespread retention of this amoral attitude, be filled with the murmur of wings and no man's hand will be ile rehash of existing knowledge, we must have as we leave MIT and enter our various fields, raised against you. our professors in research. The 50-50 balance could have more devastating consequences than ( 180 Mlax Shulman * * * between research and teaching which is gener- it is pleasant to imagine. At Homecoming time-or any time-try Marlboro's unfil- The Tech Vol. LXXX, No. 31 tered companion cigarette-mild, flavorful Philip Mforris... October 21, 1960 Regular size or king size Commander-a brand new and happy experience insmoking! Have a Commander-welcome a board! THE TECH is entered as second class matter at the post TECH, Walker Memorial (50-211), Cambridge 39, Mass. office at Boston, Massachusetts. Published every Friday Telephones TRowbridge 6-5855 or -5856, or UNiversity during the college year, except college vacations, by THE 4-6900, extension 2731. I. _Cl~~~~r~~~~ ~ _ ~C~~~I - I -HTo BRATTLE THEATRE Funny Flick at Exeter m October 23-29 Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe Tony Curtis "SOME LIKE IT HOT" Sellers Strikes Up Riot in'Jack' 5:30 7:30 9:30 I By George Lakoff, '62 I _ _ _ I -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I'm All Right, Jack," a British satire with Peter Sellers now -. playing at the Exeter, lets loose a highly charged and uproariously THE BROWN DERBY funny volley at modern labor. Works Too Hard 1358 Boylston Street Ian Carmichael delightfully portrays Candide-like Harold Boston Windrush, an aristocrat who tries to find a useful existence in being a factory worker. Windrush is, however, slow to learn the Since this weekend falls in the middle of the first round of upperclass quizzes, a lot of the'attractions around town now "'ill ways of the working class, and he gets caught doing too much go virtually unseen by MIT eyes. The lucky people, though, who -oon Now Presenting .. . work. For this, his union sends him into Coventry (a month's had all five quizzes this week, have a variety of entertaining silent treatment) and calls a plant-wide strike. The strike grows choices. MEL DORFMAN into a general strike, and Windrush becomes a figure of national If you've never seen "Streetcar Named Desire", you just I stature. haven't lived. Tennessee Williams' little jaunt through New and his famous The film is funniest and most hitting in its caricature of the Orleans will be at the Charles for another three weeks. Jazz Village modern factory worker. Peter Sellers riotously plays Kite, the This weekend is your last chance to catch Shelley Winters in shop steward who watches over his brothers-at-goofing-off with "Invitation to a March" at the Colonial. This one is fairly Dixieland Band the determination of a general in battle and the pettyness of a amusing. CD spoiled child. He and the "brothers" who have dull factory jobs Reputed to be really funny is "The Rape of the Belt", the Ul (Sunday and Monday nights) Benn Levy comedy imported from London, at the Wilbur until have no concern with their work itself, but spend most of their next Saturday. The plot concerns Hercules and Hippolite (queen I time defending against the enemy, Management. of the Amazons, clod). TOM KENNEDY Hero Windrush John Gielgud is the director of "Five Finger Exercise", last and his In carrying out the old comic theme of human foibles slowing ·year's Broadway hit which reaches the Colonial on tour, Monday. down (and, in this case, stopping completely) the March of Prog- Jessica Tandy stars in this slice of English family life. Fabulous Four ress, the movie seems at times to spill over from the realm of The college boys (and girls) up river seem to have done a good job with "Troilus and Cressida". See for yourself, tonight (Tues. through Sat. nights) introspective self-criticism to that of socialist propaganda. Harold might be the hero-worker whose main interest is in doing his job. or tomorrow at Loeb Drama Center. Dancing nightly Twenty to one, you won't get to see the surest hit to reach Although stupid and delightfully fraught with temptation, Harold Boston this season. Another Lerner and Loewe musical with No Cover No Minimum is the only major figure in the movie with any integrity. Tempted Julie Andrews starring is certain to run long, especially when by a bi-lateral labor-management bribe, Harold turns on the bri- made from a very whimsical fantasy about King Arthur by T. H. I -- - bers, exposing his uncle and his wartime buddy as big-business White. Try hard at TCA; it's called "Camelot" at the Shubert. crooks and blasting Kite and the r -- - -l Tufts is still running "The Acceptors", an original about a other self-effacing socialists like social worker. Just the thing if you're at Jackson this weekend. him as proponents of the line, Throughout the year, the B.U. theatre will be studying the HARVARD R AD C LI F FE LIBERAL UNION PR ES ENTS THE "To each according to his needs, changing role of the hero in tragic drama. They start out with from each as little as he can "Oedipus Rex" and "Oedipus at Colonus", next Thursday, Friday, get away with." If the movie is and Saturday. Translater, Dudley Fitts was consulted for the NlMUIG;TSm IIYBERA propaganda, Harold's big scene production. climaxes it perfectly. He tosses FRIDAY OCTOBER ZI 8:30 P.M. A-GA.88Z TUE ATER If you have a secret connection or something, you might have the bribe money into the air, tickets for the Boston Symphony, tomorrow night. If not you TICKETSAVAILABLE THE HARVARDCOOP OR PHILLIPSBROOKS HOUSE O° by mal orderfrom LIBERALUNION CONCERTS and hordes of workers go gro- can hear it on WCRB. Mozart, Schuman, and Franck symphonies SUBSCRIPTION$175 SUBSCRIPTION5:75 Ill ,/ak 2 Ixf7 SUBSCRIPTION1 75 52 DUNSTERST. CAMBRIDGE38, MASS velling madly after it. are featured. Numbers 41, 7, and only respectively. "I'm All Right, Jack" calls The Handel and Haydn Society will preempt Symphony Hall - _ _ us wastrils, and it says we en- Sunday. Works by Purcell, Bach, and Bruckner are on the joy being the wastrils we are. program. The theme is contained in the Sunday will also find Alan Barker, a young pianist, at Jordan > Sunday Evening OCTOBER 23 at 8 o'cloclk title. Hall. Beethoven and Mozart should be well represented in this recital. Next Thursday, Joseph Krips will wield the baton at a con- HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS cert by the Israeli Philharmonic. The festivities are at Symphony (Former Congresswoman from California) Hall. "Ethics in Political Campaigns" Kresge will play host to the After Dinner Opera Co. next FORD HALL FORUM Restaurant-Lounge Friday. The Baton Society is selling tickets in building ten. 21 Harrison Ave. - HA 6-4210 Folk-singers Ewan Maccoll and Peggy Seeger will be singing JORDAN HALL - Galnsbero St. cor. Huntington Ave. - BOSTOIN Superb Chinese and Polynesian folk songs (what else?) at Jordan Hall next Saturday. Ethnic DOORS OPEN 7:45 P.M. 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* * * I Tickets $1.65 at T.C.A. or at the door. -- .1 AL-.~11~~1^^"1~ ^"~~~^~ CIIIIIIII*-CII -r 1 - m0 m m m m m m m =~~~~~~~~~~~ E I -0 Triangular Tomorrow IM Mat Tournament a) Last Home game of | WANTED Next Week; Sailing, MIT's "International" MIT students to wear our tuxe- U soccer team. Today dos at all your proms. Brook- ,ZIEI- S' - eU!.100I '49a04S New Hampshire Jars Harriers Tennis Continuing I o -. Both varsity The annual intramural wres- _2:00 P.M. line Formal Wear, 31Z Harvard and freshman cross country teams were downed tling tournament will be hell by the University of New Hampshire at Durham last Saturday. next Friday and Saturday in E A homecoming crowd of 2000 watched the UNH harriers, leaders the du Pont Athletic Center. o 0- in the Yankee Conference, top the Beavers 15-49 in the varsity Both teams and individuals are U 3000 SUMMER JOBS Service contest and 18-41 in the frosh fray. eligible to compete, but team formation is encouraged. Team George Withbroe, '61, paced the harriers for the third con- U entries are due in the Athletic U IN EUROPE Adventure secutive week with a seventh spot finish. Roger Hinrichs, '63, Association office by 4 P.M. to- U 0 Freedom Steve Banks, '62, Paul Robertson, '61, and captain Herb Wegener, day. AS IS EUROPEAN SAFARI '61, 9th through 12th, respectively, rounded out the MIT scoring. Each team may enter only Acculturation Hans Hinteregger, '64, early leader in the race, battled a later one man in each of the seven weight classes: 129, 137, 147, write to: UNH surge to cop third place in the preliminary encounter. 157, 167, 177 lb and unlimited. Romance Both Tech squads return to their home course, Franklin Park, Only persons who have not re- American Student Information Service I tomorrow, where a triangular battle is scheduled with North- ceived a college letter or 1963 I -i ro Jahnstrasse 56a, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Inexpensive eastern University and Coast Guard Academy. Past history of numerals are eligible. The weight check will be held Fri- the meet indicates a fierce three-way struggle U LL is to be anticipated. day in the du Pont training U I I ------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- -1 room from 12-4 P.M. I I- Sailing Under Way The fall segment of intramu. U ral sailing is nearing comple- tion with racing in teams of I two boats each composed of skipper and crew. Points will be divided between the fall and U spring winners, with the tro- phy going to the highest overall k point winner. Tennis Finals Next Week Also moving toward a close is the IM tennis tournament. Quar- ter and semi-final matches will I be held this weekend, with con- solation and final rounds set for I next week, the winner being de- termined on the weekend. I U
Tech Sailors Fifth I In Danmark Trophy K In the sailing meet held last F weekend at Coast Guard Acad- emy, in New London, Connecti- cut, for the Danmark Trophy, an MIT second team finished fifth. I In the regatta, won by Boston University, MIT was represent- ed by Ken Klare, '63, and War- U ren McCandless, '62. i There were two minor events I also held the past weekend, on the Charles River. In one race, U Mike Lifschitz, '63, and Chuck Glueck, '62, walked away from a field composed of six other RCA, builder of Tiros Satellite, schools. The varsity sailing team was kept inactive last week in prep- needs young engineers today aration for this weekend. This will be the heaviest sailing I weekend of the fall, with four for spectacular achievements tomorrow varsity meets scheduled, one of which is an intersectional meet at the Merchant Marine Acad- Tiros has broadened man's scope of the heavens through engineering assignments that give you a emy, at King's Point, New and earth. From an orbiting observation post high clear picture of various fields you might choose. York. in the sky, it transmits a new wealth of meteorolog- Or, if you'd like to continue your graduate study ical information to earth-bound stations below. ... RCA will pay full cost-tuition, fees and ap- How They Did Tiros is only one of many RCA successes in the proved text-while you go to school or study two wide, wide world of electronics. And as the horizons Cross Country days a week, and work at RCA three days. N. Hampshire 15, MIT 49 of electronics steadily expand, the need for more These are only a few of the many reasons for getting N. Hampshire 18, MIT (F) 41 and more competent and creative engineers in- Soccer creases in direct ratio. That's why RCA, now in all the facts about a career with RCA. 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PHONE ALgonquin 4-2770 C) Situation Complex I respectively. "B" MASS. FROM HARVARD AVENUE ALLSTON, I MINUTE N, U The other league championships will be up The chances of a tie developing in at least FREE PARKING II 3ne "B" league are strong, con- I sidering the won-lost situation I ------I and the scheduling. In only one - -- Il -- I -o U I I Here league, League V, is a winner t U Air Force Soccermen sure to be named without play- i -0 ~ offs. Student House and Dover U Co achflClub, both 3-0, meet Sunday. BUY and SAVE Saturday With ex-MIT In League VI, Grad House Dining (3-1) meets Pi Lambda U 0) A former MIT coach will direct the Air Forcee Academy soc- Phi (4-0). Delta Tau Delta II on 1014CD U cer team against MIT tomorrow on Briggs Field. .The match is (2-0-1) and Phi Kappa Theta scheduled to start at 2 P.M. Arne Arnesen, who cc)ached the Tech (3-0) clash in League VII. Both U soccer teams for three years until 1957, has bee?n the Falcons' of these Saturday encounters could produce a tie. In League i coach since the Academy was opened. i GAS and 01L U VIII, Alpha Tau Omega (4-0) U The servicemen will be making their first totur in the East. takes on Theta Delta Chi and I I They also met Navy and the midshipmen triump)hed, 5-0. Pre- runnerup Senior House II (3-0- viously the Falcons had played to two ties, with the University 1) plays Phi Beta Epsilon. for of Colorado and the Colorado School of Mines. Vogt Passes for 3 TD's Coach Charles Batterman's Techmen will be af 'ter their fourth Tim Vogt, '62, quarterback- victory, having defeated Worcester, Trinity and IMiddlebury. In ing the DU's, passed for all their most recent contest the Engineers bowed to Tufts, 3-2. three touchdowns in the second and third quarters. The first YOUR CAR This will be the first of three score, a loft to Paul Olmstead, home games for MIT. Wednes- On Deck '62, just before the half, marked day Springfield will be here and the first time the Betas had been Coast Guard follows Saturday. Tomorrow, Octolher 22 scored upon this season. In the AUTHORIZED COOP GAS STATION After next Saturday the Engi- Soccer with Ai:r Force 2 P.M. third quarter, Vogt connected neers will be engaged only in Cross country with C. Guard, twice with Jeff Paarz, '63, for I away games. Northeasterrn (V&F) 2 P.M. a three touchdown margin. The occasion of tomorrow's Wednesday, Octo3ber 26 STATION I NELSON'S MOBIL GAS I game raised the speculation that Soccer with SIpringfield Division A Results someone might produce a live 2:30 P.M. i League I: Sigma Chi 20, Tat Ep- Friday, October 28 silon Phi 0; Delta Upsilon 1, Beta Beaver to serve as MIT's mascot Theta Ili 7; League Ii: Graduate should the Air Force team bring Soccer (F) with Belmont High House 13, Sigma Phi E'psilon 12; 218 Main Street a falcon. 3:15 P.M. 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II -.1 ______--- ______I------I- -~ ` ~ - ~--- 'A I- III I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . 'E I co Skull House Shuffle m a) Africa Offers Challenging Experience Slated m 'U The next six weeks were I a- (Continued from page 1) Kappa Sigma will give its m spent in villages on voluntary Phi After the London orientation, self-help projects. Twelve Cross- campus-wide Skull House Shuf- m we flew to Lagos, Nigeria via roaders and twenty-six Ghanian fle on October 29, beginning at a Tripoli, Libya. With only a six students together with villagers 0 8 P.M. R - hour stopover before flying on built a three-room concrete - ; to Ghana, we got a glimpse of - . L -o school house at Prampram, a the skyscrapers, air-conditioned fishing town. Our American - I I I-I I-I --- -- I -- s -- - ------ - -0 -- CI C-·IC·rCC·I·---· clubs and plush homes of Lagos, group was then split in half for bal- L contrasted with the mammy two more work camps. Six of I L (N her burden casually on ancing us joined with twenty Ghanians i a her head or selling her brightly to help with the construction of I The TOP name in Missile colored cloths, the slums which I a community plaza in Larteh, L compare well to those in New a town snuggled in the Akwap- Inertial Guidance -AC York City, and the all-purpose im mountain range. hard-riding bus, the mammy I U When we arrived, the wel- n wagon. The twenty Crossroad- pre- seeks 0 coming committee was well SPARK PLUG I C ers assigned to Ghana then pared. The children cheered and r made the two hour airtrip to carried our luggage, sign post- top talent! e Accra, the capital of Ghana. c ers were everywhere telling of I We were driven to the Univer- our arrival and the chief and II I sity College of Ghana which his elders greeted us in tradi- a LL was to be our headquarters for tional fashion. We poured liba- PLUG, THE ELECTRONICS (9 AC SPARK I the summer. tions to our ancestors with not I The University is a beautiful only the chief but with each of DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS, complex of white buildings with E the clan chiefs in their respec- immediate, permanent positions in Milwaukee, Los a has C red-tiled roofs spread over tive compounds. An enterpris- I mile of rolling landscape square ing cafe proprietor invited us Angeles, Boston and Flint. If you have a BS, MS or PhD I within sight of Accra and the on the house that I in for drinks degree in.EE, Physics, Math or ME, you may qualify . .. Atlantic Ocean. The student liv- first day. In the next two weeks I ing quarters for the 750 under- a we worked, played and lived r graduates made this former with these people who made us wonder with envy. and opportunity for advance- MIT student citizens of Larteh and even re- You can find a challenge r Each room in the dormitories I named some of their young ment at AC. You will be working on such projects as has a balcony overlooking the children after us. When we de- r court and all of the furniture parted not many eyes were dry MACE, THOR, POLARIS, the ultra.-sophisticated TITAN I is made out of rich mahogany I as over 500 people lined the Systems. (even the wastebaskets). The system and complex Bombing Navigation I streets as our lorry inched its r USA imports 45% of its mahog- way out of Larteh. i - any from Ghana. The dining Sitting at my desk here in halls are more like Chinese tem- Cambridge six weeks after this AC and GM will assist your career progress through ples, being brightly decorated experience, I am convinced that graduate study at universities in nearby locations. In I and spacious with long rich many of the Crossroaders will i dining tables (of mahogany, of addition, you will have the opportunity to take exclusive return to one of the great chal- r course). lenges of the twentieth century. week was spent in I on-the-job course work on the advanced state of the art. The next As Rev. James Robinson said to II e and around Accra as we wit- us in New York, "Africa's fu- the Republic Day Cele- ness2d future - it is the I ture is our Milwaukee: brations. Kwame Nkrumah was world's future." We did not go These training programs are now available in I r sworn in as first President of to Ghana to mold people in our the Republic of Ghana. We were own image. We went because E caught up in the emotion of the Americans are terribly ignorant I ENGINEERING PROGRAM-For men whose r celebrations and enjoyed the about Africa. We went because career aim is design and development of inertial guidance I parades, sports events and State we believe that this world is not Ball as did the Ghanians. Peo- rockets or dollars or even all I equipment. All recent college graduates will enter this ple constantly approached me on protons - it is human beings the streets saying that they had six-month training program with formalized, half-day who want the same things out r seen me at the University and of life as you and I do. classroom instruction. This instruction will be in conjunc- wanted to become friends. One day I took a bus from the Col- tion with rotating job assignments of a two-month duration. lege to Accra. I said, "Good Operation Crossroads Af- These assignments, in Manufacturing, Reliability and Engi- Morning", to the driver, where- rica will be sending another from upon all of the passengers re- group to West Africa this neering areas, will provide a smooth transition "Good Morn- plied in unison, and possibly a pilot to career development. ing"! Later when I did not ap- summer academic learning pear at the bus terminal for the project venture to East Af- return trip at the specified hour, rica. Anyone interested in the municipal bus hunted me participating should write FIELD SERVICE PROGRAM-formalized two- to Stu- down on a side street. The dri- immediately to: Africa I four-month classroom training on missile inertial systems ver said he knew I was going dent Study-Work Camp back and didn't want me waiting Project, 360 West i22nd and bombing navigation systems. After completion of two hours for another bus! 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