I guess file shDrt of Ci Stot-News c /fist week WtlS Friday, April 28, 1978 Volume LXXIX Number 3' Pasadena, California Tech's .fiuman ans W liepmann Powered Cycle Speedsters MonS . Ferst Hans W. Liepmann has been distinction of the German selected the 1978 recipient of Society for Aeronautics and Square Off the Monie A. Ferst Award for Astronautics, and the Worcester By Spencer Klein contributions to motivation and Reed Warner Medal of the Tonunorow and Sunday, May encouragement of research American SOCiety of Mechanical 6 and 7, the international human through education. Liepmallll, Engineers. powered speed championships will the second recipient of the award His current research interests be held at Ontario Motor since its inception, is the Charles include chemical reactions in Speedway. Two bicycles from Lee Powell Professof of Fluid turbulent mixing, which is a Tech will be entered. Mechanics and Thermodynamics fundamen tal energy-related One bike, the Bunberner has and the director of the Graduate problem for combustion and been entered in this contest the Aeronautical Laboratories. chemical laser technology; and the past two years.' According to Alec Liepmann is internationally fluid mechanics of superfluid Brooks, one of it's designers and known for his work in fluid liquid helium, which is related to ex-vIce-president of the mechanics and aerodynamics. the problems of cryogenic International Human Powered Through his own research and engineering. Vehicle Association, it can be through that of his students, he The Ferst Award will be depended on to perform well, but exerted an influence on the presented on May 18 at the not spectacularly, reaching speeds design of aircraft, rockets, and annual awards banquet of the of 45-48 miles per hour. It has the development of modern fluid Georgia Institute of Technology placed in the top five in the two dynamics. chapter of Sigma Xi. It consists of races that it entered. According to In recognition of his work, he a medal and a cash prize of $1 000 Dave Sivertsen, another of the has been elected to both the and is named for Monie A. Ferst, designers, it is being entered in the National Academy of Engineering an engineer and businessman and hope that it will eventually pay and the. National Academy of Georgia Tech alumnus who for itself. Sciences. He has won many actively supported scientific The other, Tech cycle is an Dr. Hans W. liepmann awards, including the LudWig research on university campuses. entirely new design. According to Prandtl Ring, the highest Dave, who designed and helped build it, it will either boom or would be about 50 cycles entered. bust. He predicted that, if The two day meet will begin at Caltech .. Oxy everything worked right, it will go 7 am each day. The events include 55+ miles per hour, and break the a 200 meter sprint, a 35 kilometer record. But, like any new design, road race, and a one hour Orchestra it will probably have a lot of bugs endurance event. The 200 meter in it, and may only make it up to sprint is the main event, ~ and to erform twenty miles per hour. features a $10,000 prize, plus a By Bob Hanson Dave said that many bike possible $2500 bonus for Next weekend, the Colleigate designers predict speeds of up to exceeding 55 miles per hour (the Symphony Orchestra (Caltech and 70 mph, but when it comes time present record is 49 miles per Oxy's own), in cooperation with to try them out, they only get up hour). Individual and multi-rider Oxy's Chorus and Glee Club, are to twenty or thirty miles per events are expected: Admission is presenting a musical double hour, due to defects in their $2.00 for one day, and $3.00 for feature at Thorne Hall at Oxy. design. He predicted that there both days. The program will consist of two Gemlun works: Carl Orff's popular Carmil1a Burana and Kurt Weill's lesser known Del' 8ch cksters in lAC Finals Lindberghflug. Two concerts will be presented: Friday, May 12 at 8:]5 pm, and Sunday, May 14 at Bv R. C. Colgrove Also pulling points for Tech 7:15 pm. I t was a cold, dark morning were the school's premier milers, Rob Bourret hands off to Arne Fliflet in last year's KElROF Carmina is a collection of 24 24 hour relay photo: Steve Kellogg last Saturday when the assembled Rob Bourret and .vic Manzella. twelveth and thirteenth century Rob ,though somewhat off his forces of the Mighty Caltech Wanted Germans song lyrics. They include Track and Field Team sallied best,' was able to pull in a drinking songs and earthy love forth to meet the opposition at Tourth-place-winning 4:32, while songs, all set to music in 1937 by the SCIAC finals at Claremont Vic came in behind him to snatch ew 00 Carl Orff. The Weil wrok, also of College. The members of the Oxy, fifth. Rob also helped John the pre-war era, depics Lindberg's Pomona, Whittier, La Verne, Hattick, Tom McCabe, and Duane Each to nm one mile legs in a enough goal. We ran 247. Tim solo Atlantic crossing fliglit. Del' Claremont, and Caltech track Grey in their fifth place mile relay continuous relay over a 24-hour Brown headed up an all-Page, Lindberghflug a contata, was teams easily outnumber the effort. period. non-track team which covered originally intenqed for German spectators huddled in the cold All these efforts combined to The 24-hour Relay, a running 189 miles. (Which just helps to broadcast. This powerfully violent cement grands~ands. It was a dark. allow Tech to trounce arch rival event sponsored nationally by illustrate that any ten Techers can composition combines Weill's day too for the Techers, pitted as La Verne in revenge for last year's Runner's Workl magazine, will beat any two Real Worlders in innovative scal~s and dissonances they were against such awesome defeat. return to the Caltech Track this almost any test of endurance.) with Bertold Brecht's imaginative track powers as Oxy and Pomona-. On the women's scene, Celia year on Saturday, May 20 under Incredibly, all twen ty runners lyrics. Nevertheless, the valiant men and Peterson really was a team in the auspices of Kellogg's Eighth survived the hot (85 degrees Both pieces are to be staged by women from CIT rallied to the herself. Celia, Tech's only female Light Regiment of Foot. Faluenheit), smoggy (First Stage Oxy's Alan Freeman, including cause and came through with track member, single-handedly Last year's event originated at Health Alert) day and the cold dramatic movement, costumes, some fine efforts. (leggedly) scored almost as many the conclusion of track season. (50) and gloomy (dense fog) and props. This will be the fIrst Norm .Murray- sprint~r. points as the men's team and With only 15 members on the night, not to mention the authorized West Coast production hurdler, and nearly a team in outscored the entire Whittier entire team (including long marathon workout. of Der Lindberghflug (one hinlself-ran the 100, the 220, the women's team. Celia was unable jumpers, shot putters and Any running of this event is an unau thorized production is high hurdles, and'the 440 relay. to hold off the fInishing kicks of sprinters) the Relay. seemed ~ experience unto itself. The known to have been made last His hard-won and disputed fourth the other runners (Celia being dopmed to never getting out of mixture of speed and endurance spring, featUring LOll Angeles ,place finish in the hurdles unaccustomed to such short the starting blocks. (It is possible neeessary to cover a reasonable tenor J ohnathan Mack. Along ,cOl;nbined with his fifth position distances) but was still able to to run with fewer than ten men; distance is unique, and the Relay with the Caltech Glee Club ~in the 220 and his fourth place grab the fourth place spot in the the record for a 2-man (non-Tech) has been callefl everything from concert this Saturday, these ~personal best of 10.1 seconds in mile. Our women's team really team is an astonishing 187 miles.) "challenging" to "sadistic." "A presentations guarantee to make ('the 100 won him hatf of all the proved herself in the two-mile, While we had little chance of battle of attrition." "A workout next weekend an exciting one for ~points Caltech was to earn in the however; humiliating the field and breaking the 298-mile record, 240 beyond comprehension Ofl even Continued on Page Four (meet. Continued on Page Four miles seemed like a challenging Continued on Page Four Friday, May 5, 1978 Page Two THE CALIFORNIA TECH- Par_wI by Geoff &skU Big Bureaucratic OH 1 8ttpPi"t\) lltE A6.0 For many years marijuana has the government must enforce c.od~sE ~ been illegaL The United States these laws. The official line is that Government, in the spirit of the government has a legitimate self-consistency. has taken a interest in safety, and therefore number of actions to enforce the dangerous substances may be law and minimize the amount of banned or restricted. Some people marijuana available. The latest who claim to speak for freedom such action is the paraquat caper. The idea was that the U.S. deny this premise. BId each of us government would provide the is safer because of laws restricting MexiCan government with a way the use of dynamite. The­ to kill marijuana plants: paraquat difference between .marijuana and sprayings on the fields.