!· I" ···· -· Continuous -MIT;| News Service i HCambridge Since 18581 M~assachusetts Volume 99, Number 28 Tuesday, September 4. 1979 i Rush Week running Smoothly By Eric Sherman although freshmen could still ob- bids from other Fraternities. Despite the new Massach-usetts tain alcholic beverages, alcohol In general, said Matteo6 it is drinking age, this year's rush is Nvas "not. pushed as much as last too early to decide how a par- go'ing well according to most rush year," When asked-about rush ficular 1'raternity's rush is progres- organizers. violations, Phillips there had been sing until freshlmlen begin to ac- I-FC president Barbi Hill '80 no major problems. cept bids on Monday. said that she was satisfied with The R/O0 center reported that An unexpected turn to this I rush and was not aware of any ;ls of' Sunday afternoon, 1048 year's rush' has been the reac major problems. When asked freshmen had arrived and tion of Bexley. Instead of follow- about problems with the new checked in, Of the freshmen that ing the traditional anti-rush, Bex- drinking age, she replied that the have arrived, 207 are women. ley has postered the Institute and fraternities were "trying not to This means that the number of invited freshmen to drop by. antagonize anyone'that [freshmen womnen in the class of '83 is lower Accord~ing to Steve. Bradley, drinking) would bother." than had been hoped for. desk captain, Bexley is holding Bob Matteo '80. IFC rush About two percent of the neither a rush or an anti-rush. chairman, said that it is a little too freshmen had not visited any "Sone peop ic we're being friend- early to tell how rush is progress- fraternities by. Sunday. The ly lo and Spom-e people we're still ing, but that there have been no greatest number of fraternities naot being ftriendly to," said major problems~so far. On drink- visited by one person was H .. The Bradley, "[We're] looking for ing, Matteo said that drinking greatest number of total visits people who feel they belong still exists, but that it hasn't been made by one person was 24. here.'' emphasized as much as in Zetta Psi, a new fraternity at One problem that Bexley had previous years. He went on to say' MIT, has been given special rush wats a lack of entry keys. Because "Generally, if a freshmfan prefer7- priveleges for this year such as be- of an error on the-part of the redoto drink alcohol, he was not ing able to extend bids early. As locksmith, Bexley did not have denied." of' Sunday afternoon, they had enough entry keys to Fit the new DormCon president Dean Phil- two 1reshmen accept bids. Matteo locks that had been inslatled-over lips '80 concurred with Matteo's said that this is not necessarily ai the sumniter. Bexley had requested The fraternity rush began with Friday's picnic & continued through the sentiments. He said that things bad signs since freshmen could be that no 1Ireshnien be temporarily delay accepting one weekend. (Photo by Mary Anrn Helferty.) . fare running smoothly and that expected to ( Please turn'to cage 2i bid to see whether they receive Academic OIien taion improved Ii· rI By Kent Pitman port Office summarized the feel- Also in the past, many students Changes to the "form and sub- ings of a group of concerned stu- have spent their time in the stance"' of tomorrow's freshman dents and faculty who had just Academic Midway which follows iII academic orientation have been met to discuss the problem. asking questions about core planned in response to comments Among the agreements reahied placement. "It-is hoped-that -the. f rom members of the M IT comr- by the group were the shortening question/answer session] will al- munity that the old program was of the orientation lectures to a- low the Academic Midway to be Ii not proving effective. one-hour -session, and the in- more of a time for exploration of In previous years "the troduction of a set -of informal courses and schools," Lazarus freshmen did not -feel that they discussion sessions immediately commented. were getting any significant afterward. Sklar pointed out that one usefulness out of... core -orien- The purpose of these discussion reason the academic orientation tation,"' R/O Coordinator Eric sessions will be to provide a more has not been well attended in -the Sklar '81 explained. comfortable atmosphere for stu- -it - was that upperclassmen According to Sklar, core orien- dents to ask questions. remember how it was for them tation has in recent years con- Sklar noted that one problem and give it very poor reviews. sisted of talks which went into with the way things had formerly Because of the format change, considerable detail, about infor- been done was that however, he expressed his hope mation which freshmen could just question/answer time was offered that tomorrow's activities would as easily look up in the Freshman in Kresge - MIT's largest have a much higher attendance. I Handbook. Auditorium - as part of the main Because of the last-minute X Today's program will offer less orientation lecture program. This nature -of these changes, the in the way of redundant specifics caused awkwardness for those not rooms chosen for these discus-. IFJay- . - ........... ;1 Wc 1w about the core options and more used to talking in front of large sions are not very close to Kresge. TCA begins a two-day blood drive today in the Student Center. (Photo of a general nature. It will center groups- and needlessly wasted the Lazarus said in his memo that by Steven Solnick.) 4 upon "comments on require- time of many who might not be plans for a more careful re- r a; ments and why they are," said interested in a given question. By organization should be under- ·3i Sklar. offering the question/answer time taken for next year's incoming TCA holding blood drive In a memorandum written late on a more informal basis in smal- class - involving better coor- of this dination of facilities and perhaps By Jay Glass .·, last month Associate Dean Alan ler groups, the planners a first IFhe TIechnology Community times and thbles strictly on J. Lazarus, Director of the event are hoping to better serve some even more major modifica- Associatio n (TCA) will begin come, IXrst serve hasis. Undergraduate Academic Sup- people's needs. tiOnlS to the orientation's format. Last yeir's R/O blood drive i:! IlC L·ae - ---- · Ib II II1RI I-11 -P- = ------ - their series or sponsored MIT- yielded about 320 pints, lout songc 'i;1 IRed Cross blood drives today. -··c _~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~; The R/O drive will last through improvemnent is expected this year tommorrow, with the blood due to increase(d publicity. r: ·· TCA's next- blood drive this -· donation goal ror.the two-day lial drive set by TC'A at 400 pints. .season will be their 10-day :I I'he location for the drive is the blood drive, currently planned lor. fourth flo)or of the Student Center late October. in front of the TCA office. Nurses 11n the live blood drives hold rhs TCA it MIT1 during the year, the ·:· and tablcs will be available today from 9:45arm-3:30pm, and toinor- MIT comnm-uniyy typically the r<w froin 11:45am-5pm. donates about one percent oI A delinite need for Iresh blood blood collected in the now exists in the Boston area, M assachusetts- MWtine Ked Cross liter the accident-fraught Labor region, even though. the MIT *VDay weekend. community comprises only about No reservations are necessary, two-tenths o1 one percesl of the as donors will. be alotted donation rlegion;ll population. w---- - Led Zeppelin explores Think you can't dance to punk different styles of music on rock' Then you've never seen their new album, In Throughl' the B-S2's in concert. Page 7. The Out Door. Page 6. The freshman picnic kicked off.RiO Activities Friday afternoon. For more pictures of the picnic, see lPhoto by Mary Ann Helferty.V i page 3. II _ --r -· I rI. · r -~~~~~~~~~~~-------- -~r~~~~~~~~~LdrlO ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ r- -- -~~~~I _~a PAGE 2 THE TECH TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1979 ~~~~98'~~ ~~ ~ ~ j Froshheated to parties This blank space could By Gordonl Rt. Haff. to be more for the benefit of the Ed note: Gordon Haff is ex- upperclassmen 'than for the periencing· his.Afkh RI/ Week. He freshmen. be filled by your tlen:ts. filed these observations with The Although R/O Week means a Tech. lot of hard work, particularly at - The big weekend is Finally over. the frats, many people here feel Although many frats are still try- that R,'0 is the best time -of the -Join us at the activites midvay ing to rill their slots and although year. There is nothing else which the dorm assignment process is is quite like R/O and indeed the At yet complete, the pace of rush biggest barrier to it is getting as a whole is slowing down. through and not collapsing from The striking thing about Rush exhaustion. it is a time of weeks is not any differences but decision-making, but it is also a rather the similarities from year time to have, fun and a lot of it. I to year. Even with Ed King's guess that's what makes R/0 drinking bill which some thought memorable. L- would drastically affect R/O week, Kush still goes on the same as ever.