Continruous MITI News Service Cambridge Since 1881 t|Massachusetts Volume 99. Number 1 , _ T__Tuesday, February 6,1979 2 1979 The Tech 119 -- 1- 1---- seq II I u - rmcLY· ,--- - - - I -MITcable adds programs By Joel West aspects of the show, but noted on last year's Eliot House play, that the writing and reporting the videotape was produced by In an effort to supplement its staffs were still in need of people. the authors, Harvard students customary lecture-oriented offer- The movie-of-the-week show, Adam Bellow and Tom Kramer. ings, MIT Cable will be ex- tentatively named Coax Palace Tonight will mark the premiere of perimenting with a new program- will draw on the archives of the 'the film version. ming- format this month. University Film Center, with the For those who can tune to MIT The new line-up, dubbed Tues- celluoid-to-videotape conversion Cable (Channel 10), I recommend days on Ten, will be inaugurated being done by Video Services. The Lost Cookies. Public today, according to Robert Tonight's double feature will monitors are located in lobbies 7 Lamm '78, of the Center for begin at 9:30 with- Alfred and 10, rooms 7-111 and 4-231, Advnced Engineering Studies' Hitchcock's 39 Steps followed by the fourth floor of Barker Video Services. The weekly offer- the Buster Keaton short Cops. Library, and the Muddy Charles ings include a science documen- This week's most promising of- Pub. Most dormitories have cable tary at 7ptm, followed by the MjT fering, however, is The Lost outlets on every floor. Video' News at 7:30, with enter- Cookies running under the "MIT tainment shows beginning at Playho-use" slot. The 82-minute 8pm. film, beginning at 8pm, revolves .The Video News marks the around four Harvard frosh dur- return of a once-popular concept: ing their first term of college. The a TV campus news show.A suc- room mates are a grab-bag of cessfil show was once produced readily identifiable stereotypes: a by MITV. It had fallen into obli- laid-back San Franciscan, a vion and was later rescued by the South- Boston I rish-Catholic, a Video Club. This week's show hockey jock who shuffles women will feature stories on Tech Show, in. and out, and a prep-school 6)NTEN Marc J. Chelmer'81 as the wily wizard, chastises his daughter Varsity basketball, and the recent graduate who seems fond of syn- Elasia (Liz Moberg '80) in one of the two plays produced by the piano recital by Beat-ice Erderly. thetic substances. The film, A revived Tech Show last weekend, which will be reviewed in Fri- Lamm noted a preponderence of though cliche at times, is definite- day's issue. (Photo-'by Gordon Haff) : volunteers for the technical ly first-rate studentuwork. B~ased I- --- ·· ·· dll·bll··pll - I -P- ---------- LIBIIIBP- blIA LOw made head of LNS - part of the routine By William Cimino linois. He was appointed to the Thomas F. Jones, MIT's vice MIT faculty in 1957 and held any snowstorms," a reference to tee seemed to have fizzled out, ac- By Joel West both Fulbright and Guggenheim last winter's two record-breaking cording to Joel Orlen of the president of research, has recently Fellowships while lectu.ing at the 'Routine"- seemed to be the snowfalls. Chen echoed her senti- Provost's office, who is also a announced the appointment of Karl Taylor Compton- Professor University of Rome. He also best way to describe this year's ments that the good weather member of the Policy Committee. of Physics Francis E. Low, to the served as the director of the Independent Activities Period, at seemed to have helped, noting One, a seminar entitled "The of the Laboratory of for Theoretical Physics at least in the opinion of the people that some activities were 'flooded Divine Principles of the Rev. Sun directorship Center Nuclear Science (LNS). MIT from 1973 to 1977. involved in monitoring IAP. with people." His own half-day Myung Moon," had prompted Low succeeds Professor M X:,rtin Low received the B.S. degree "Most of the things seemed to seminar on the hazards of Ii- protests by a few students and Dleutch, who has been the direc- from Harvard College in 1942 come off pretty well" noted quified natural gas (LNG) and li- alumni, who felt that it, was inap- tor of LNS since his appointment and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees graduate student Bob Chen 76, a quified petroleum gas (LPG) propriate for MIT to provide in March of 1973. Deutsch shared from Columbia University in member of the IAP Policy Com- drew an estimated 70f80 people, facilities for such an activity. 1949. mittee. fie based his observation though press coverage was not However, attendance at the ac- the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics with Prof. Samuel Ting for work As director of LNS, Low will on attendance at various ac- what he had hoped. tivity was light, with many of the coordinate research facilities at tivities, converstaions with fellow Another popular activity was a participants reportedly voicing involving the discovery of the J- to a the Bates Linear Accelerator in students, and an IAP feedback lecture given by Louis Menanld, a open skepticism at the ideas particle. He will be returning iddleton, Mass., Brookhaven session held January 24. senior lecturer in the Political presented therein. career of teaching and research. IM in Long At that meeting, according to Science Department. The talk,a Orlen described the work of the Low was a visiting professor at National Laboratory island New York, the linear ac- Chen, several faculty members, discussion of the concepts of con- Policy Committee as "being pret- MnIT in 1956 after serving as a member of the Institute for Ad- celerator in Stnford, California, including Physics Professor stitutional law, was part of a two ty dull business." This year's ses- C·ERN Laboratories in Geneva Thomas Greytak, expressed dis- week introduction to law course sion marked IAP's ninth year: vanced Study -at Princeton and thee German high energy syn- satisfaction with the current organized by Jeffrey Meldman of most of the policy had been University and as a faculty chrotron in Hamburg. structure and usage of the 3'1/2 the Sloan School. The turnout of worked' out by those who member at the University of II- week session. Some felt that many 70 people was particularly ap- originally organized IAP. Most of students were not making best use propriate in light of.Menand's the decisions made by the com- of the period, while others ob- role as part of the IAP Ad- mittee in refining the guidelines jected to the loss of a week from ministration Committee. were merelv "fine-tuning" in his the first semester. Sauer mentions that the IAP opinion. Jane Sauer, manager of the IAP Guide classified ads had been One problem he did see in- Office felt that MIT's emphasis relatively successful. With ones a volved the IA P Guide. For postal on making student pressures facultyt mImember in the reasons, the guiide is now a part of more manageable would prevent meteroogloy department had the MIT'Bulletin. However, he elimination of IAP. To find out sought a historian to help relate felt that the language of next how successful this year's IAP climate of the past to its influence year's guide should be adjusted so was, her office will be sending out on human societies: the ad that no one would construe an questionnaires to activity leaders, brought response from a profes- implied sanction of the activities while the Policy Committee will sor of history in the Department listed. He also felt that the distinc- be polling students and faculty. of Humanitities. tion should be clearly made Sauer felt things were "easier Several potential controversies between the IAP offereings this-year because we didn't have discussed by the Policy Commit- organized by any MIT com- munity member, and regular .2rm-time courses sponsored and _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ apgroved by academic depart- ments. The other problem he saw was a case where the policy had Columnist Michael Taviss of- excellent performances in this become "too rigid." The fers a provocative article on film which examines the organizers of the Spanish Dance gun control and an interesting meetings of-two lovers over a Week faced delays in approval of solution. Page 4. 25 year period. Page 9. off-campus ticket sales; this might have occured, in Orlen's opinion, due to an overly strict interpreta- The movie Superman is really tion of the general IAP policy, all they claim it to be, or which is that IAP activities are for almost. Page 6. The men's fencing team suf- members of the MIT -community fered two defeats last Friday. only. Instead, he felt that the of- and Saturday but redeemed ficial guidelines should be revised themselves by winning all to allow advertisement of 1AP Same Time, Next Yena- Alan three of their Saturday after- campus entertainment in the same Alda and Ellen Burstyn deliver noon meets. Page II. manner as such activities do dur- I I-- - -- -r I I I C a I I I ·hl ·9·'·U ·llllr ing the, reagoularayear.- I k I ·I -1 I l"'"' , _ PAGE 2. 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