IL _ dbl I LlsL-··I·I -I I- ii IsCr, _ILr - klI ICI''8 -v E *etX,>,¢a t./... .f sCC selects treasu rr lacks vote for chairman By Burt S. Kaliski- The committee decided to hold sor. Fraternities have co-spon- The Student Center Committee the first pub this Thursday, but sored the event in previous years. elected Mark J. Bri e 85 as trea- will not pay its members for bar- surer but could not reach quo- tending. "It's time the committee actu- rum for election of a new chair- ally commit itself to something The committee man at its regular weekly meeting plans to hold and pull through once,' Fradd Sunday. two Friday night concerts, one said. She asked that the members Sept. 30 and the other Dec. 2, who wanted to hold the concert One of the 12 members present but has budgeted no money for a be willing to for work during the Brine's uncontested election band for the first one, Fradd concert. left before the-.election of the said, "The social calendar looks chairman, making it impossible bleak. We should put a lot of, Committee members last year for either of the two candidates money into pubs," she said. often fought for concert shifts, EM- to win without the other's vote. said William M. Hobbib '86, sec- W.§ The Election of officers requires ap- Student Center Committee retary and acting chairman. "I approved proval Of at least 11 of the 21 a motion to budget think it's very important for the nry,ns_ry Wu $3000 .v . members of the committee. for the concert during committee to pick itself up and homecoming weekend, provided Micheline K. Fradd '85, the throw a concert by itself," he the committee is the sole spon- former treasurer of the group, said. and John Mark Johnston '84. the V committee's summer chairman, :nsive ran for the office. John S. Doctors __ss. Kowtko '83, former chairman, lecture on uctds had resigned at the previous ,assesIPF Tech photo by Grant ucaedsteal- meeting. herpes M. Johnson trou- anl AIDS The new Nautilus Machine puts a strain on a student's life. Fradd resigned earlier 1-anor this 16 By John J. Ying _ . | . , , , , ., , - month from the office of treasur- Dr. Mark A. Goldstein, the e '87, Three doctors from MIT's I er for personal reasons, leaving opening panelist, started his dis- three medical department discussed the Brine as acting treasurer. She re- cussion explaining that there are as all causes and symptoms of fused to comment on her herpes many myths about herpes. He Hackers^ return ound deci- and acquired immune sion to run for chairman deficiency said cases of the disease have after syndrome (AIDS) her resignation as treasurer. at a sympo- been recorded since Roman ~edgrton sium sponsored by the Office of times. ic~tmunre Mary Kate Bayalis '86, class the Dean for Student Affairs Herpes currently secretary, and the member of the afflicts as By EIllen L. Spero the Lemming Liberation Organi- Wednesday night. many as committee who left the meeting 20 million people in the The large, framed print of the zation." The term "herpes" changed United States with following Brine's election, said "I 300,000 to famous bullet-and-apple strobe James Olivieri, chief of police. from an acceptable term to one 500,000 new cases personally felt we weren't getting each year, photograph made by Prof. Har- expressed disbelief in the haackers that denotes a disease "over- Goldstein said. anything done." The election old E. "Doc" Edgerton '27 and claim that they did not night," Robert M. Randolph, as- Two damage would be more fair if more mem- different viruses slm- stolen last week was found Fri- the broken door. sociale dean for student affairs plex I and simplex 11- bers attended, she said. cause day-morning in lecture hall 54- "'I can't say that the vandals and foru-z moderator, said in his herpes, Goldstein said. The The committee also discussed vir- 100, according- to Campus Police. didn't cause the damage because introductory remarks. uses have 50 percent of plans for Thursday night pubs, their The thieves left a note with the of the time proximity factor," An article appearing in Time DNA in common. he Friday night concerts, and an The type I print, which they returned unda- said. "The natural assumption magazine was very influential in virus usually is October 16 homecoming causes cold sores maged except for the clasp which that the damage weekend makming herpes a widely talked- and was caused by concert. the fever blisters found on had attached it to the wall. the about disease, he continued, and same people who took the 1 he group children, and the type 11 virus "What's up Doc (Edgerton)?" plans to hold the "it impacted rather quickly print." pubs causes genital inflammations, he begins the note, which in Lobdell Dining Hall throughout the Institute." is written "We are just delighted to get it from 9pm to said. Either type, however, may on MIT paper and addressed midnight. Brine AIDS also has become a wide- to back," said Peggy Carney, admin- suggested also cause inflammations expect- the Campus Police. the committee pay ly discussed and feared disease, istrative assistant to the Depart- members ed of the other type of virus. "Sorry about the $15 for three hours of Randolph continued. Ne%,sieek hack, but at ment of Electrical Engineering bartending, but T he clinical lesions produced least you got some, free publicity other members has run three cover stories about and Computer Science. She is contested the by the type II virus usually ap- for the dedication," it continues. plans, claiming the the disease, he said, and *'not planning the dedication of the committee pear two to 20 days after a pri- The note is signed "Love, should not pay its even Reagan" has been on the new EG & G Education Center the hackers who didn't own members. cover that mnuch. (Pleuse turn to page 8) paint 'tomb' (Building 34). or break the door. Courtesy of ( Please turn to page 2) DN-A', Francis Crick delivers talk on future of brain study By Qavid G. Shaw "MIT is in a unique position in need a greater emphasis on ma- Nobel Laureate Dr. Francis the field of brain sciences," Crick cro-organization of the brain, H. C. Crick, co-discoverer explained, "for of the the great strides based on research studies, which double helical being structure of DNA, made here in the area of vi- can then be applied inaugurated to problem- the Whitaker Colle- sion processing, and the simulta- solving with computers." ge's Distinguished Lecture neous development Seies of analytical Crick closed his lecture by ex- in the Brain Sciences by speaking and computational models for pressing his hopes for the Whi- to a capacity crowd brain systems. at Kresge taker College's plans to develop Auditorium Thursday. an extensive program in the "Artificial intelligence ap- field of brain research. "You are The lecture, entitled "Thinking proaches alone will not provide all in a very enviable position. About the Brain," was based on solutions to the problems of howN Great things will be done here in Crick's article of the same title the brain works," he said. "We the next few years; I wish which appeared in the Sept. 1979 you luck." issue of Scientific American. Crick, a relative newcomer to the field of brain research, explained - I H e~~~~~0 how he came to write the article: "They told me 'We'd love to know what you think about the brain, because you know nothing Tracy Kidder describes Rush gives a fast-paced about it.' " design of a new machine. concert in New York. Review, Page 2. He then proceeded to dispel Page 9. the notion by discussing his ex- tensive involvement in the area of A la carte dining test Orphan's Lonely at Night visual perception and how the underway at Next House. is best left alone. brain processes information re- Page 8. Page 9. ceived by the eyes. He expressed his confidence in the ability of Decipher the secret Football drops Friday's neuroscientists to explain visual message and win $100,000. game despite strong defense. processes and completely map Page 1 1. Page 12. Tech photo by Dennis Cuv the visual pathways in the brain, IDr. Francis H. C. Crick, co-discoverer of the doubble helical struct_' a task he predicts will be accom- of DNA. plished within the next five years. i | | . S , , , -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i PAGE 2 The Tech TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1983 B]B%1 - -- I c - --- - - W L Kidd er- bares Soul 8]l~~ o. ... - . By Diana ben-Aaron just hanging around offices and $I~p P% Fr~ tIar Tracy Kidder, author of the labs in the evenings. It was made Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul clear to me that if I got in the of a New Machine, explained how way, I'd be out, so I tried not to he wrote the book and offered re- get in the way," he explained. gl l ri1 iIl ~(s~9 ( I I ( marks on "writing about real "Clearly, some people [at Data people" at a lecture Thursday. General] felt it was to their ad- Kidder, a Harvard graduate vantage" that he write about and regular writer for The Atlan- their work, Kidder said. -I w tic, said his anger at not being While no one at the corpora- we tion requested regular progress If you get your color print film developed at a drugstore or a camera store, use able to- readily understand science you probably get back a lot of pictures that just don't look good.