Committee heads \ + . w Elevator engineer · · I, I I. I '. vI Ianalyzes system I . I discuss publiclty By Charles Man before thdie committee is to meet. 2. All II committees should publicize their inStudent Center The old issues of student participa- tion in the decision making process meetings well in advance and should By Reid Ashe were given a rehash by the Committee make available the names and addresses Bil Brown 56 is in one of the most of Committee Chairmen (CCC) at a of the committee members. 3. AIll com- lusual lines of engineering work in meeting Monday. The discussion group, nmittees should hold, at more or less te World: he specializes in designing consisting of student members of facul- regular intenrvals, open meetings to dis- !leVator systems. ty committees, committee chairmnnen, cuss their purpose, aims, plans, past ,rhe. holder of almost a1t the and other interested persons tried to actions, and mode of operation. 4. All dlevator "software" patents in center its attention on student partici- committees should submit and have ,xistence, BiE is frequently called in by pation, government structure. and published descriptions of their fiunc- :gtLects for consultation. His firm, agenda. The argument centered around tions, in a general sense with particular Bto>vn & Murphy Associates, has to its communication of the aims and actions reference to the sorts of problems ~lit successful and original designs of committees. This was assumed to which might be referred to that com- brught the world. His current project be important and the essential point mittee. 5. That all committees should ~ that of desigrig elevator software since the general consensus was that publish in The Tech, or Tech Talk, or New York s World Trade Center. perhaps in handouts, their current acti- ElevatoX software, Driefly the faculty meetings did not really decide anything, since all the issues dis- vities on a short-term basis. explamned, is the art of achieving the cussed in the general meetings are first maximum degree of efficiency and Committee Membership considered in committee meetings. It passenger convenience in Other suggestions relating to existing was also apparent that the people pre- committees were that membership in hightly-confired one-dimensional senrit at the meeting thought that the committees should be open to all system. Involved in the process are committee system could be made more interested persons who are wfiling to sch basic concerns as picking the right effective if certain changes were made. hadware for the job, and such make a serious and continuing effort to ubliminal concerns as human reaction Changes Suggested work with the committee. tie and walking speed. The changes suggested centered A suggestion for improving the Student Cente Elevatars around communication of the activities structure as a whole was made with To clarify the concerns involved it of the committees and the formation reference to the importance of depart- hbfield, B/ll consented to make a brief of some new groups. The proposals for mental problems to the students. The comrentary on ihe more blatant faults the improved communications follow: suggestion was for the formation of of the Student Cenier elevator system. 1. AU committees should be required joint' student-faculty committees to 'The Student Center elevators are a VoL 88. No. 52 Friday, Dcember 13, 1968 Five Cents- to submit agendas for publication consider departmental requirements, ~- ' ~=--' ~ 1 i i - i 'i &%ster ... ," began Brown after a course material and all the host of other brief nvestigation. "What you have are matters of academic and non-academic two completely independent systems, Labs on concern associated with the depart- -----~~~~~~~~~~~~---s - campus- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~ ch, of which is forced to do the entire ments. Ob." The job, he explained, is that of A. -3 -W -T A D A hro The essential viewpoint of the dis- responding to a call on a specific floor. p. cussion was phrased by one of the "You have CSR aie r on one hand the matter Is IVwAd3~a P amn moderators: "'The question is not of dofuplicity of effort, which is bad openness of meetings but of openness (Ed. Note: This is the second in are a major concern of the CSR, in the almost entirely out' of the space enuh by iltsof, and on the other the a of structure." It was felt that the propo- seed research category. industry. Nutritional problems are Mdiocy" of the physical placement of series) sals for communication would make For example, the rapid travel which among the other life sciences affected e two units. Brown aid-that the joint Dave deBro~rt the already existing structure more space travelers will undergo has also by CSR research. dlidency of two independent units as A NASA satellite designed and built accessible to both students and faculty. raised many 'questions about the Assoc. Prof. Eugene Skolnikoff and afunction of ditance of sepaion has by MIT's Center for Space Research The CCC will review the suggestions biological effects of such travel. Prof. Edward Robertst are investigating the apeak at zero, then goes down, and (CSR) may be' launched within the and present most of them in more Nevin S. Scrimshaw is currently social implications and consequences of ia again at iniity. (The function next 18 months according to Prof. J.V. explicit form for further discussion. involved with research into biological space science, and the race to the ato varies with obstacles, both physical Hanington, CSR Project Director. rhythms; an area that has developed moon. Under consideration are the ad visual, between the two.) The. satellite, nmamted Sunblazer, will' "lThe separation- you human factors and effects of the have here is be a solardata-collecting unit Using _..__ massive technical changes taking place, t about at the minimum of the- radio-propagation methods, it wil at ss-all tbged and many of the side effects and e[~icency curve.' What happens in attempt to determine the al Stitute se witl At Monday mesting by-products in technical fields which prtice is that a person wishing to go charaternistics of the extended corona VP iglEst a IwSa down pres~s the down buttons on have been offshoots of the space race. By Joseph Kashi around the sun, and the nature of -m S _ _ Ma Way---. ~wRmu both elevators, and Space Science About 150 persons directly stands by one of, interplanetary space. Group The Space Science Group, concerned with freshman academic per- them. Probably a t1rd of the time it is two categories one of not the. larger groups involved in formance heard detailed comments that elevator, but the other one Sunblazer is one of many projects major WEch frt arrives. The system is projects, is mainly concerned with directed at the Committee on Fresh- in many areas currently under way at ovted down not only by have both interplanetary physics, particularly man Performance at a meeting Monday the-CSR. Prof. Harington divides these evators answer the call, with x-ray astronomy in the Sala de Puerto Rico. but also by projects into two categories, according techriques. A haWing that person walk the thirty major concerni-is the localizing The purpose of the meeting was evi- feet to the nature of the research each does. and or So while tie car is waiting resolving of the many new dently one of factfInding rather than for him. Whi Sunblazer he says, is a project x-ray "Bel/eve me, that sources which have been discovered presentation by the Committee, as the i a significant with specific research- objectives, many in retardationi the galaxy, in an attempt to understand entire meeting was taken up by comn- factor, and one which we projects are momre general "seed cOns/talyI try to eliminate and define the emission mechanism. ments, mostly from freshmren. The first in our research," looking for general ideas and I segment was devoted to an evaluation icnsulting work." concepts.- Sunblazer, of course, is the other of the major projects. The satellite of the limitation of freshman course While its main aim has been the has been under development for the last loads to 54 credits as a general maxi- Brown noted that the Student investigation of space and its nature, Center elevators four to five mum unless petition was made. At flthus were a particularly the entire space race has generated years; Prof. Harrington says he defimitely does "expect a launch point, the Committee stated that the widespread side effects. These effects we turn to page 5) within the next year, year and a half or philosophy behind this limit was that ALd so." The instrument capsule will be under the pass-fail system, many fresh- Prayes repet launched atop a NASA Scout rocket, as men might attempt to accumulate cre- Photo by George Flyr a joint project. Unlike many starved dit by taking as many courses as pos- Decaying brick wall of top-security NASA projects, Sunblazer has already sible and barely passing them all due to Cambridge houeasng group Bldg. IL5A at 199 Mass. Ave. is received specific Congressional a highly overloaded schedule. However, pierced by errant wrecker's crane. appropriations for completion of the many exceptions may be made, with will reconvseene tomorrow Mishap occurred 10 am. Thursday. mission. (Please now to page 3) l 8 Bob Denni Convention's Co-ordinating Committee The housing problem in Cambridge has held several- meetings with Loi Weitit f otreseen remains in the forefront of community administration officials from Harvard news as the second Cambridge and MIT in which the Committee's Convention on- Low-Cost Housing demands have been discussed. Brandeis Sanctuary settles down prepares to convene tomozow.