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By Greg BernhardtWidespread discussion and

participation marked the experi-mental Agenda Days program.

Initial reaction of severalAgenda Committee membersand the departmental discussiongroup leaders indicated that 'theprogram was a success.I Checks with the departmentsshowed that participation washigh in the discussions held Wed-nesday afternoon. The most ac-tive was the Department ofPhysics which drew over 600people to the preliminary diseus-sion in 26-100 before it brokeup into groups.

Input wantedDean Wadleigh, in an inter-

view with The Tech early Thurs-day afternoon, said that he con-sidered the program very succes-sful so far. Wadleigh, a memberof the Agenda Committee, indi-cated that the Committee head-quarters in the East Lounge ofthe Student Center would beopen through today and wouldprobably remain open next weekto gather the input from thediscussion group leaders and anymembers of the. community withideas or suggestions to offer.

After President Johnsof'sspeech before a near-capacityaudience in Kresge, most depart-ments met as a whole to outlinewhat they wanted to discussbefore dispersing into smaller

War hauBy Alex Makowski

Discussion of ROTC thisweek centered on one keyissue-Should the program bejudged on an academic or poli-tical basis?

The important point, Pro-fessor William Watson charged, iswhether' we want to maintainROTC or, by removing it, at-tempt to erase the militarismthat pervades our country. Pro-fessor David Frisch countered by

groups. With few exceptions, thegroups did not attempt to reachscientific conclusions on issuesalthough one of the Physics dis-cussion groups passed a resolu- tion calling for an end to workon the MIRV projects at thespecial laboratories.

Dinner guests After the afternoon discus-

sion groups, many faculty mem-bers, administrators, and mem-bers of the labs and staffs wentto the dormitories and frater-nities for dinner. Wadleigh calledthe turnout "spotty" and theAgenda headquarters confirmedthat the number of guests variedgreatly from group to group.

Department heads were gen- Prolerally very pleased with the pro- Phygram. The Department of Earthand Planetary Sciences said that S"almost every faculty member" ;as well as "a great number ofstudents-both graduate and un-dergraduate" attended the dis-cussion groups. The departmentplans to meet in a similar fastion' weragain. and

Professor John Ross, Head of tionthe Department of Chemistry, thereported that between 150 to sixti200 attended his department's ill discussion groups. After the dis- tioncussions, the groups reassembled "preto report on what they did. Ross raisepointed out that a good sign of hun'the interest evoked was that 1

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By Larry KleinSix MIT faculty memberse among the fifty scientistsI engineers elected to the Na-nal Academy of Science atsociety's one hundred and

h annual meeting last weekWashington. With this elec-a, the Academy, the nation'semier"scientific organization,ed its membershi p to eightidred and forty-six.[he National Academy ofance is a private society of

debateseting. Most of the more than0 seats went empty as neitherLCC nor the Resistance)wed up to debate the desir-lity of ROTC at MIT. Perhapsthe spirit of Agenda Day,

>ugh, 9-150 was filled withth students and faculty for- second forum.Professor Fred McGarry andisch advocated the considera-n of ROTC on academic orstitutional grounds. Themer labeled efforts at abol-ing the program futile in theive. for solution of larger moreessing issues. ROTC, he in-ted, must be judged on thesis of its own merits, rather,an using -the military as aipegoat for the world's prob-ns.Concurring, Pr6fessor Frisched a Stanford U. study. Pre-ed with a statement eschew-all political issue, the study

rocated changes in the institu-nlal characteristics of the pro-m. Frisch agreed with theflysis and proposed a setupembling the present religiousmciling offered by the variousths.Professor William Watsonrned on a different tack, dering that "it's difficult to jus-t maintaining a system whichds men into the war in-tnam." ROTC, he argued,

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distinguished scientists and en-gineers "dedicated to the fur-therance of science and its usefor the general welfare."

The membership of the Aca-demy is self-electing and may beincreased by a maximum of fiftya year. Chosen for the Academyare leading men from all fields ofthe natural sciences and,engineering.

Joining the membership ofthe NAS are six members of theInstitute community:

Samuel C. Collins-Receivinghis PhD. in chemistry from theUniversity of North Carolina in1927, Professor Emeritus Collinshas served on the MIT Mechani-cal Engineering faculty since1930. He has received theWetherill medal, the Kamer-lingth Onnes gold medal, and is amember of the American Soci-ety of Mechanical Engineers.

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Joseph C. R. Licklider-Headof Project MAC and a formerprofessor of psychology at theInstitute, Dr. Licklider was awar-ded a PhD.: in Psychology fromthn University of Rocehseter in1942. Specializing in the fieldsof psychoacoustics and man-computer interaction, Dr.Licklider is a fellow of numerousscientific societies and past pres-ident of the Acoustical Societyof America.

Benjamin Lax-Dr. Lax re-ceived his PhI) in physics at MITin 1949 and has since beenassoicated with the Lincoln Labsand the National Magnet Labora-

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Tuesday night's scheduledfire drill went unnoticed, as thealarm system justified the lackof confidence everyone had inits efficency by failing to oper-ate.

Baker residents expected thesystem to fail. Some residents,recalling a similar drill last yearwhich ended abortively, wentthrough the halls urging studentsto vacate their rooms. However,no-one took the drill seriously.

An electrician was finallyable to ring the system man-ually, alloyving some semblanceof a drill to take place. The lasttime the system worked wasduring final exam period lastterm, when a person leaving hisroom about 1:30 am accidentlytouched off the alarm. Thesystem jammed and clammeredon for about 15 minutes beforean electrician disarmed the mainbox.

The Baker system is in poorshape-some of the boxes maybe accidentally triggered veryeasily. Accidents of this sort arenow prevented by placing a pen-ny under the hammer arm of thealarm. This expedient measurehas prevented several falsealarms, which would have beenset off by hockey pucks flying inuncontrolled games of hall hoc-key. Some of the boxes do notarm the system, and the clappersof some bells are also missing.

The MIT Safety Office saidthat the failure of the system liesin a faulty box at the main desk,where the alarm was firstswitched on. The alarm systemin Baker is the oldest system oncampus, and is due shortly forpartial replacement. The cir-cuitry of the system is checkedonce a month, but the bells arerung only if requested by thehouse residents.

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means of a campus/corporate DialogueProgram.

Here, Arthur M. Klebanoff, a senior at Yale,who plans graduate studies and a career ingovernment, is exchanging views withMr. Galvin.

In the course of the Dialogue Program, ArnoldShelby, a Latin American Studies major atTulane, also will explore issues with Mr.Galvin; as will David M. Butler, ElectricalEngineering, Michigan State, and Stan Chess,

Journalism, Cornell/, with Mr. Doan; similar/y,Mark Bookspan, Pre-Med, Ohio State, andDavid G. Clark, Political Science MAcandidate at Stanford, with Mr. DeYounig.

These Dialogues will appear in this publication,and other campus newspapers across thecountry, throughout this academic year.Campus comjments are 4nvited, and should beforwarded to Mr. DeYoung, Goodyear, Akron,Ohio; Mr. Doan, Dow Chemical, Midland,Michigan; or Mr. Galvin, Motorola, FranklinPark, Illinois, as appropriate.

WHO CARES ABOUT STUDENT OPINION-?BUSINESSMEN DO.

'Three chief executive officers--Tihe GoodyearTire & Rubber Company's Chairman, RussellDeYoung, The Dow Chemical Company'sPresident, H. D. Doan, and Motorola'sChairman, Robert W. Galvin-are respondingto serious questions and viewpoints posed byleading student spokesmen about businessand its role in our changing society through

Arthur M. Klebanoff, Yale

Dear Mr. Klebanoff:Dear Mr. Galvin: not stay in business if'it did not operateon the principle'of "sustained yield"-growing at least as many trees as it harvests.

Boise-Cascade Lumber Company is oneof many that conducts multi-useforestry prograhns-the company's timberlands are open to the public forrecreational purposes such as camping,fishing, hunting, hiking. Logging roadsallow public access into these areas andare also invaluable in forest fire control.It is--a fact that game-increases in well-managed forests ... this again is acontribution to conservation.The National Association of Manufacturersestimates that American corporations arecurrently spending in excess of $500million annually on air pollution control research and methods. -MIany millions moreare being poured into water pollutioncontrol by business.

Slum clearance and renovation currentlyclaim the energies and financial resourcesof a number of corporations; othersare working on improved sewage andgarbage disposal systems.

Yes, there is some legislative "log-rolling", lobbying, and other questionablepractices, just as there are someunscrupulous doctors, students who cheat,corrupt people in government, criminalsroaming our streets, traitors anddeserters in the Armed Forces. Like you,I believe that unethical practices inbusiness-as well as in other fields-areintolerable.Efforts by business to "clean house" areincreasing, just as business' involvementin society's problems is more evident.Hopefully,students will be more willingin the future to examine both sides of theledger before passing final judgments. Ifmore of the brighter, talented students,with the high ideals and personalintegrity that you mentioned would joinbusiness, the self-policing process thatyou and almost all business leaders seek,would advance more rapidly.

Sincerely,_ , d.

Robert W. GaivinChairman, Motorola Inc.

Student reaction to business is conditionedby what appears in newspapers andmagazines. And what appears concernsinvestigations more frequentlythan innovations.

We read of industries withacross-the-board product unreliability,and watch the nation's largest corporations

','-:titack Ratph-Mader for defending thepublic against such frauds. Many of ushave had our own bad experiences withmis-filled orders or short-lived productsmore expensive to repair than to replace.

We read of industries raping thecountryside in the Redwood forests ofCalifornia, the strip mines of Kentucky, and the oil fields of Oklahoma whilepreserving their malicious advantage witha peculiar and depressingly traditionalbrand of legislative log-rolling. We see theregulators co-opted by the regulated, andthe future of an industry sacrificed to theshort-run advantage of a single firm.

And we read of concerts of industriesdefining their own public interest, andcalling it progress. Some of us havetrouble seeing progress in hundred footlong trailer trucks, brand-name drugs,and supersonic airplanes and thecongested airports from which theyare meant to fly.

This is a college generation deeplyconcerned with personal honesty. Tomany college students business appearsunreliable and destructively self-interested. Only the most positive actionsby the business community can changethis reaction, and create any significantdegree of interest on the campus.

My question Mr. Galvin is what willbusiness do to police itself?

Sincrly yours

Arthur Kleban'offGovernment,. Yalev

A newspaper that ran stories such as"120 Million People Committed NoMurders Yesterday" . . . "Thousands ofOfficials Found Corruption-Free" ..."Very Few Students Are Sex-CrazedDope Addicts," would lose readership.Newspapers must, by definition, reportthe "news"-including factual occurrences,but putting emphasis on extraordinary-events. Crimes, wars, and-corruption, areunusual happenings, and are thus reportedin our news media.

A report that a "New Drivemobile Sedanis Found Unsafe" is of greater importanceto the motoring public than, say,"Fifty Makes of A-ltos Pass Safety Tests."Most newspaper reports of fraudulentpractices by business firms are accurate.However, newspapers are sometimesguilty of subjective interpreting andreports of entire industries with "across-the-board product unreliability" can onlybe described in those terms.A single corporation (much less an entireindustry) would not survive long byproducing inferior goods. Competition isself-regulating for one thing, and mostcorporations are bound to meet certainstandards specified by various tradeassociations and institutes. Governmentregulations, too, must be met, and,finally, the buying public has the last word.

Business is policing itself, Mr. Klebanoff.Consider some of the positive aspects ofmodern, responsible corporations whileyou weigh the shortcomings andmalpractices. You have read of industries"raping the countryside," but apparentlyyou haven't read reports of businessesand industries involved in conservation-an involvement in which billions of dollarsare being expended, and will continue tocost many billions more.An important conservation activity byindustry is the building of huge lakes bythe nation's investor-owned electric powercompanies. Although these water massesare essential to the companies' operations,they create valuable and much-needed.reservoirs of fresh water. Powercompanies usually open these lakes to thepublic for recreational purposes. Anexample of this is Commonwealth Edison'slatest watershed which provides thepublic with over 100-miles of newlyreclaimed shoreline.Lumber companies, far from "raping"our forestlands, are in fact responsible fortheir growth. A lumber company would

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the students involved. Slusher, acadet lieutenant colonel in AirForce ROTC, emphasized thedegree of control the faculty hasover the course content and theinstructors. Refuting any chargesthat ROTC cadets might form apressure group on campus, hepointed out the conspicuous ab-sence of ROTC students fromcampus politics and publica-tions.

Hewitt made light of the "in-.dentured servant" chargedusedto downgrade service scholarship. Although young men signtheir contracts during their sen-ior year in high school, he insis-ted that cadets could leave theprogram any time by the springof their sophmore year. Stressingthe objectivity of the military

{continued from Page I1was anr autonomous organizationon campus solely to recruit.While also pointing out that "in-tegrating military instruction"onto a campus "erodes" thetraditional independent postureof a university, his main objec-tion was that by assisting themilitary we support their posit-ion.

Alan Silverston, a SACC rep-resentative, agreed, tying ROTCin with militaristic phases of oursociety from the was in Vietnamto Chicago's "shoot from the,hip" Mayor Daley. Eliminatingthe program would be a movetoward ameliorating this facet ofour society.I George Slusher and Don

Hewitt presented the opinions of

instructors, despite their uni-forms, he described a recentclass discussion on the ABM thatresulted in a negative view of theweapons system.

The Young Americans forFreedom were also represented,as SACC asked Dave Pearson toair their position at the firstforum. Rather than academicissues, Pearson maintained,ROTC must be discussed as thepolitical symbol that it is. Herepeated Slusher's previous des-cription of the academic rele-vance question -"a straw man."

Professor Ithiel Poole, whilesupporting the ROTC program,charged the real need for reformwas in the draft laws. He des-cried them as being at oddswith basic American principles.

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Ross termed the program g r a"extremely useful" and said that WGB:"we've got to do this a number progrof times." He said that he has porarbegun to receive the input from Seenthe individual groups through memsecretaries selected from each facullgroup. He added that he was pledsurprised to find out how little roleinformation passes from group develto group until such efforts as technWednesday's are made. realm

Professor Boris Magasanik, panelHead of the Department of Bio- ture:logy, also stated that "I found it livelyextremely interesting." He indi- Thcated that the department turn- Agenmout was good, and that "politi- the ically oriented groups" were par- that

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arly well-attended.s another part of the pro-n for Agenda Days,H-TV broadcast a specialram entitled '"The Contem-ry University in Society as

from MIT." In it, panelbers including students,ty, and administratorsgrap-with the question of theMIT should play in theopment and application ofiology, particularly in thei of the military. A secondI discussed "Internal Struc-

Goals and Means" in adebate.

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We believe that conversion mustbe carried out, and the timne to do itis now.

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Panel watcherTo the Editor:

I was appalled by the perfor-mance Dr. Draper of l-Labs gave atthe May 2 open hearing of theReview Panel on Special Labora-tories.

To address the Panel with a hu-morous lengthy history of his life andof the I-Labs filled with irrelevanciesshowed little comprehension of thedeep issues involved.

I hope that the lack of incisiveprobing by the panel of the presenta-tion of Dr. Draper, and by most ofthe panel of Dr. Clauser of LincolnLabs is not characteristic of theclosed hearings. Otherwise the Re-view Panel means nothing.

It is clear in my mind after thepresentation of last Friday that it istime for Dr. Draper to be retired andfor MIT to exercise more iresponsiblecontrol over both Special Labora-tories.

We normally apathetic membersof the MIT community owe thanksto SACC for calling the problems ofthe Special Laboratories to our atten-tion.

Allen J. Cohen G

Art protestTo the Editor:

I am too civilized to express mytrue feelings. I have given my homeaddress because I am writing as aprivate citizen - however, I haveworked at MIT for almnost sevenyears. My feelings have been rousedfor the following reason: an art ex-hibit has been requested to be takendown at the MIT Faculty Club be-

cause a few people, unidentified,objected to the nudity in some of thepictures. And, this is supposed to bea lih'beral institution? You must under-stand that the space allotted to theseexhibits, byprivate artists, is so out ofthe way that most people do noteven realize that there is a newexhibit.

The word "radical" was men-tioned. Why is it that somebody isthus labeled if he thinks differently?No survey was taken as to how manypeople objected to this exhibit andhow many people had no objection. Iwould like to know if the Board ofthe Faculty Club votes on such mat-ters. This rather narrow view con-demns forever such artists as Reubensand Leonardo da Vinci to name but afew of the many artists who go backthrough the centuries. As a sage hassaid: "It's all -in the mind, youknow."

Sutata Kesarcodi Whaley

HousingTo the Editor:

Steve Kaiser's article on what astudent can do to take action abouthousing omits the two most effectivekinds of action:

l) Becoming a builder and build-ing new housing, and

2) Buying existing buildings andimproving them.

A little of this kind of directaction does a lot more than largeamounts of talk and reports.

Operating on a small scale, almostany competent MiT student shouldbe able to make a significant contri-bution in this area in his spare time.

Many students are hesitant toown property. The few who do,however, will unanimously assure theothers that their fears are unjustified.

Jason Fane '64

SACC proposalTo the Editor:

(An open letter to the PoundsCommission, on conversion of thespecial laboratories)

In establishing the Pounds Com-mission, the administration has indi-cated its willingness to explore indepth the question of war-relatedresearch at MIT and, in particular, atthe special laboratories. Clearly oneof the conceivable outcomes of theCommission's study could be arecommendation that war-related re-search at the special laboratories beterminated. It is imperative, then,that the consequences of terminationbe considered immediately.

SACC is opposed to war-relatedresearch. However, we do not believethat the special laboratories shouldbe severed fEom MIT, nor that thegroups engaged in war work be sim-ply disbanded. Rather, we feelstrongly that the enormous techno-logical sills and resources of thespecial laboratories should be con-.verted from destructive objectives toneutral or socially constructive andproductive projects, and that jobsecurity be guaranteed to those whoare now working at the laboratories.We call on the Commission, there-fore, to begin at once, with highestpriority, a study of the conversion ofthe special laboratories to sociallyuMs m14 research.

The question of war work at thespecial laboratories is one. that theentire MIT community must face.Most important, we must recognizethe human dimension of the conver-sion problem . War work is done atthe special laboratories because poe-ple do it. Highly trainel scientistsand technicians work on weapons formany reasons: because large amountsof money and the best equipment areavailable for this work; because ofthe prestige and influence associatedwith working for the top echelons ofgoverunent; and because of politicalmyths about the necessity of contin-ually expanding our arsenal of wea-pons beyond what we need fordefense. Despite these factors, webelieve that technicians and scientistsat the special laboratories, if given anattractive alternative, will choosesocially meaningful work over design-ing and building weapons for the·Department of Defense.

We believe that an attractive alter-native can be found. Convarerting thespecial laboratories to socially usefulresearch is difficult, but it can bedone if .there is a commitment oftime, energy, and money on the partof the entire community. As a start,the following steps should beginimmediately:

1) Studies by MIT faculty andstudents, scientists and technicians inthe laboratories of alternative pro-jects to replace war wxrk. SACC isalready engaged in a study of how tobring conversion about.

2) Action by the MIT corporationand administration to use their influ-ence and power to fund alternativeproject

Conversion would produce benefitson many levels. For the world, it is anecessary first step in slowing thearms race; for the country, it wouldbegin teo check thle frightening influ-ence of the military-industrialmachine; for MIT, it would make theresources of the special laboratoriesavailable to the entire communityrather than one segment of it; and forthose working in the special labora-tories, it would provide the chance toapply their skills and talents to socialproblems that urgently need solving.

The recent wave of interest inthe Cambridge housing crisisleads to some interesting specu-lations on it's cause. Most peoplehave assumed that the Crisis isdue to increasing admissions onthe part of MIT and Harvard(not to mention BU) coupledwith a refusal on the part ofthose schools to build additionalhousing to accomodate thesestudents.

The record will, to some de-gree, corroborate this. The lastmajor on-campus housing effortat MIT was around 1950, whenBaker was built and Ashdownpurchased and converted. How-ever, it is difficult to believe thatundergraduate enrollment hashad much effect on the situa-tion; as it remains relatively con-stant. The graduate school, it istrue, has increased enrollmentby about 3 to 5 percent peryear. However, it is difficult tobelieve that this has precipitatedthe current state of affairs.

Another explanation whichcomes to mind is an idea whichhas been blamed for so manythings that it seems unfair toheap another upon it. Yet, it isundeniable that the Vietnamwar, while it has not had mucheffect of the per class enroll-ment, has substantially affectedthe total enrollment at MIT. Theruling that five-year double de-gree aind BS-MS programs arelegal means to beat the draft hascertainly contributed to this, ina major way. And, how many ofthose fifth year students willwant to hlive in a dormitory (withrequired comnwmons, no less), orwill be encouraged to take up aplace in a fraternity which couldbe used for a pledge in the fall?Therefore, it seems safe to saythat, perhaps, the crisis is being.

aggravated by this situation.Consider a few other side-

effects which have occurred anddirectly affect the situation.What about recent Federal Re-serve moves to tighten credit?Whenever the Fed has done thisin the past, it lhs literally screw-ed the housing situation worsetlian any other market. The rea-son is that long-term financing isan absolute necessity for con-struction, but it becomes lessavailable during times lice this.Therefore, housing, which ismore flexible than other com-modities which also need suchfinancing, takes a beating,which, in turn, forces rents andprices up in existing buildings.And there is little doubt that theinflation which caused the needto put on the brakes was at leastpartly caused by the Vietnamwar.

The- critical point, however, isthe increasing 'numbers of fifth-year students. The winners ofrecent elections point up thistrend (Albert, Bob McGregor(Finboard), George Flynn(AEB), etc.). In my own depart-ment, roughly twenty percent ofmy class will be sticking around'for a second degree. While this isnot intended to be any sort oftypical number, or anything re-sembling it, the trend it points'to is definitely a real one.

Letters to TechWhere now?Agenda Days have come and gone, and we are in the understand-

able quandry of asking ourselves: "What now?"Anyone who had hoped that the progranm would "turn on" the

entire community was of course disappointed. The thousands whoattended thevariousdepartment meetings, however, were afforded aunique and spontaneous educational experience which will havesubtle, long-term effects as well as the more obvious immediateconsequences. Not everyone was exposed to the discussions, buteinough of the community was to provide a "critical mass" ofconcern for reforms which we hope will snowball into the rest of theInstitute.

One impression we received from the discussion we attended andfrom talking to individuals who had attended other discussions, wasthat many people discovered that lots of other people have beenbecoming more and more concerned about many of the same issueswhich were bothering them. Out of this realization will undoubtedlycome some increased measure of political participation on the partof the community.

We were particularly gratified by the faculty turnout for anumber of events. It may have been quite surprising for manystudents to witness the magnitude of faculty concern for some ofthe issues raised. We hope that the student-faculty dialog begun thisweek will continue regularly in the future and that we will confrontthe common concerns we now recognize more as a community thanhas been the case in the,past.

One theme which came through repeatedly, both in meetings andon the television special is that being an effective individual insociety today demands more than a narrow professionalism. Thesame is true for institutions. The promotion of an environmentwhich will make MIT that sort of institution and the individualswhich compose it policy-makers rather than detail-developers is theprime item on our agenda.

For the immediate future, it seems to us appropriate that theArrangements Committee should continue to act until its dischargeas a temporary ombudsman for channeling the ideas comning fromthe concern sparked by recent programs to the appropriate agenciesfor action.

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at the airport manned by the IFC. All incoming freshmen will report to thisClearing House before they can becontacted by a house. The secondproposal allowed a shuttle bust serviceto be established from the airport to the Clearing House in the StudentCenter. Provision will be made forhorses to meet specific freshmen at theairport Clearing House and take them ito the-main Clearing House. Since theentire freshman class will be coming toResidence/Orientation Week, this pro-cedure will hopefully alleviate theproblems of congestion and confusionthat arose last year.

The list of names of admitted fresh-men will be released Friday, June 13.

There was considerable. concern a-mong the Housing Office and theDormitory Council that a pledgingtime of noon on Thursday would notallow them enough time to give outroom assignments on Friday, allowingfreshmen time to move into their

The events at Harvard yesterday(April 10, 1969) raise serious questionsof' social responsibility that concernacademic communities throughout theBoston area and across the country. Inrecognition of ouf social responsibilityas students of MIT, we feel it necessaryto adress the MIT administration,faculty, and student body.

To maintain an atmosphere of aca-demic freedom, each individual mustassume responsibility for intellectualrather than physical confrontation. Abasic issue raised at University Hall washow to conduct intellectual confronta-tion responsibly. We feel that allparties involved were' lacking in fulfil-ment if their moral and professionalobligations. By calling in local policethe Harvard administration assumedresponsibility for any consequences ofthe clearing operation. By the unneces-sary forceful removal of the studentsthey neglected this responsibility. Simi-

larly, any Harvard student who choseto remain in the building assumed theresponsibility for all consequences ofhis decision. We feel that any studentdenial of this responsibility is intellec-tual hypocrisy.

Finally, the police officers con-ducting the clearing operation hadboth a human and professional respon-silit to employ a minimum of force.Certainly they too should be heldaccountable for shirking these responsi-bilities.

Both deliberate confrontation andauthoritarian response, as they occuredat Harvard, are poor substitutes forresponsibility. We like to believe thatMIT has been free of violence becauseof the responsible conduct of all mem-bers of the MIT community, as eviden-ced by the recent Cambridge housingproposal. We have faith that suchthorough, conscientious efforts willalso be applvied to other current issues.

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"At best, $3500 down." That was down and out.·the comment of one Spring Weekend What Can Be DoneCommittee member late Sunday night In all probability, JP will be thewhile the6 precise cost of the weekend only weekend next year; It Wouldwas being tabulated. With thlis in seem that if it is to avoid the fates ofmind there can be little doubt that Spring and Winter Weekends, somethis will be the last Spring Weekend. radical changes must occur. The most

, News Analysis significanit charge to date has beenThis past year witnessed the death of the approximately $30,000. budgetWinter Weekend. The $7500, lost..lat a ita prl s o: Financial Botd.year was simply too 'grt-r;~am-, ~The as0, 1h Eve were briefly[ascial Board to absorb. This year, iFC-: follows: 1)i`flation in the price' ofDormComm went into Spring musical groups has caused theWeekend expecting to at least break quality of weekends to decline.even; the result: a $3500 to $4500 This must be stopped.loss.

(Signed)

George Katsiaficas, IFC Chairman

Chris Thurner, IFC Vice ChairmanTravis Jackson, IFC TreasurerDubose Montgomery, IFC SecretaryPeter B. Kramer,

IFC Judicial Committee Chairman

Paul S. Snover, IFC Purchasing ManagerJ. Ralph ColeDale GeigerJohn Gerth

Gary F. Gut

Bruce W. JohnsonTim Mapstone

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2)Almost all figuring of ie budgetmust be done on an approximatesell out basis. The physical limita-tions of the available facilitiesmake this a necessity.

This loss puts the IFC as a wholeapproximately $9000 in the red, theother debts having accumulated overthe past several years. With this inmind, it is not probable that the IFCwill risk sponsoring another weekend.Also, the enthusiam of DormrnConn hasdiminished greatly in the past fewyears. Combining these facts leads tothe inevitable conclusion that SpringWeekend will go the way of WinterWeekend, and possibly the.way thatall social weekends seem to be going-

3)We're the only weekend. If MITis going to have weekends in thefuture, JP must be a success thisyear.The final test will come 'next

Novermber." If people want W-eekendsin the future, JP must and will sell.

Two weeks ago, the IFC broke itstraditional moratorium on politicalstatements with the release of a Reso-lution regarding the Rostow incident,immediately followed by a personalstatement by the members of the IFCExecutive Committee. Two considera-tions are paramount in reference toboth these documents-the content ofthe statements, and the reasoningbehind their release.

The Resolution was drafted as areaction to a specific incident-theappearance of Walt Rostow and theensuing confrontation. The personalstatement cannot be so easily categor-ized, however. Although it discussesthe Harvard situation with painfulthoroughness, its principle theme is notwhat was happening at Harvard butwhat was happening at MIT. The sig-natories state: "We like to believe thatMIT has been free of violence becauseof the responsible conduct of all mem-bers of the MIT community," and citethe evidence of the Cambridge housingproposal. The desired purpose of thestatement seems to be one of reassur-ance, of patting MIT on the back andsaying, in effect, "It won't happenhere." According to one of the signers,all this was planned to be released at atime when the administration wascoming under increasing pressure fromother sectors of the MIT communityand was drafted as a direct response tothe personal statement by the Execu-tive Committee of the MIT StudentGovernment which was released thesame day.

By trying to counteract the StudentGovernment statement, the IFC Per-sonal'Statement accomplishes littleexcept reiterating the status quo.Its main theme is summed up in a

sentence: "Both deliberate confronta-tion and authoritarian response...arepoor substitutes for responsibility."This is quite true. Yet to condemn thesymptoms of a problem without dis-cussing their underlying caiuses is onlyhalf an answer. The conditions whichled to the takeover of University Hall-the war, expanision into Cambridge,problems in the educational system-aswell as those which have led to therecenprotests at MIT are at the verycrux of the questions our society mustanswer in determining its futurecourse. These problems deserve anddemand our most careful considera-tion, not a myopic disregard. It is thislack of recognition for the deeperproblems involved at Harvard and atMIT which is obviously absent fromthe Personal Statement.

I do not mean to discredit the MITadministration for the work they havedone to promote a "responsible" at-mosphere at the Institute. Indeed theirrecent efforts toward establishing ameaningful dialogue while objectivityis still possible are commendable. Butneither their interests in promoting thisdialogue nor those of the rest of theInstitute's community are aided bythose who indulge in self praise forpast successes while failing to recognizethe forces which could destroy anyprogress made thus far.

Neither do I wish to necessarilyimpugn the motives of the lFC Execu-tive Committee. Differing political con-victions among the members renderedthe drafting of the statement at besthopelessly difficult. The problem is notthat they were incorrect in what theysaid. The problem is that they simplydid not say enough to produce ameaningful commentary.

continue through.the week until Satur-day midnight. Also, for the first time,there will be a break or moratorium inthe middle of Rush Week to allow abreathing space for all parties concern-ed. The moratorium will be in effectWednesday morning.

A full text of next year's ,RushRules will be found on page'2 of thisissue. ;

IFC comments on Harvard, RostowIFC Resolution

"Resolved:That the MIT Interfraternity Con-ference, in the spirit of academic freedom, and a philosophy that everyman be given the right to free speech,regardless of viewpoint, supports the :right of Waft Rostow to speak freely 'on the MIT campus.

As members of the MIT com- ;munity, we would respectfully request that no member of this community prevent anyone from speaking as this : would deny us the opportunity tohear his point of view.

While we admit the right of dis- ',sent, we do not feel that dissentwhich infringes upon the right of free _ _Espeech is acceptable as a reasonable Janis Joplin and her group provided Saturday afternoon entertainmentcourse of action." at Spring Weekend.

Extensive Rushing Spring Weekend loses money

Personal Statement

helps PiKA growLast week, Pi Kappa Alpha com-

pleted the first phase ofits program toestablish a new chapter of their Frater-nity on the MIT campus. A week ofconcentrated rush yielded a nucleus offifteen men. Aided by neighboringchapters at Trinity College, the Univer-sity of New Hampshire, and alumnifrom the local area, a rush party andbeer blast were held. . -

The first mneeting of the new groupwas held on Monday, April 21. At thattime, the group discussed preliminarygoals and purposes of the new Frater-nity. Phil Bobko, class of '70, waselected temporary president. Commit-tees were set u -in regards to thepressing problems facing the newgroup: in particular- housingm rush,finance and budgeting, constitution,and kitchen.

The Housing Committee faces amajor challenge due to the restrictionsof housing in the Boston area. Thegroup has tenatively decided to con-centrate its search in the Cambridgearea. An alumni committee is aidingthe search for a house.

The Rush Committee must preparethe new colony to rush on an equalbasis with the other MIT Fraternities inSeptember. It is also concerned withexpanding the size of the new groupwithin the present MIT communitybefore the end of the second term.

The national office of PKA is tryingto arrange colonization procedureswithin the next month. At the timethat the group becomes a colony, goalswill be set up to qualify the colony foractivation as a chapter of PKA.

President Phil Bobko stated, "Dueto the factthat our group is new andwithout predetermined tradition, weare in a position to form a uniqueexercise in community living. Amongthe items to be considered are Frater-nity government and responsibilities.This offers the individual an opportun-ity to participate in the realization of anew fraternal ou.

Rush Week Changes FormClass of '73 Names out June l3

The IFC Rush Committee and rooms before that evening. Anotherhouse rush chairmen met April 20 to consideration was that a house woulddiscuss the rules for Rush Week and get feedback on the success of its Rushchanges in Rush Week. Last Sunday, Week sooner if the pledging date werethe rules for Rush Weekwerefinalized earlier. Consequently, the pledgingin another meeting of the Rush chair- time has been changed 'to 7:00 ammen. Thursday morning;

Two proposals to change the pick - This year, for the first time, Rushup procedure at the airport were ap- Week will not begin on; Friday, 'butproved. A Clearing House will be set up -.irstead, pn. Monday evening and will

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community, internally or externally, political,

social, or economic, will be considered fair game for

critical evaluation. However, it must be made clear

that these evaluations will reflect only -the opinionof the board of Infocus '69 and will not necessarilyrepresent the official views of the IFC.

To achieve these goals, Infocus '69 will bepublished twice morrthly and be delivered to ail

fraternities. It will also be stuffed inside every copy

of The Tech sold. Letters to the editor will be mostwelcome and, hopefully, will add to the relevance of

the paper to the community. Articles on theindividual houses will appear in each issue. Also

there is a program under consideration to have one

member from each house act as a representative to

the paper; this will provide a speedy and efficientcommunications network as well as a feedback

system for opinion polls. This plan will be formally

presented to the IFC at its May 8 meeting.

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PRE-RUSH WEEK RUSHING inform the IFC Clearing House ana all1. No rushee shall enter a Frater- faternities involved.

nity or the residence of a Fraternity 8. AU bids extended to rushees

man or be in the company of a during Rush Week shall remain open at

Fraternity man between the time de- least until the end of Rush WNeek.

fined as the end of summer (above) 9. On the day of the moratorium

and the close of the pre-Rush Week each Fraternity will be responsible fox

meeting; except when a Fraternity man making sure that every freshman that

is providing transportation (only upon spent the night at their house arrives at

the 'ushee's request) from the point of the place designated by the IFC Rush

arrval in Boston to the Cleing House. Committee by the beginning of the

2. After the pre-Rush Week meet- moratorium. Each freshman will turn

ing, but before the official opening of in his schedule card to the Rush

Rush week, a rushee may stay n 'a Committee upon his arrival. Each Frat-

Fraternity overnight provided his name ernity is responsible that those fresh-

is submitted to the Clearing House. men spending the previous night turns

3. The official opening of Rush in his schedule card. At the end of the

Week shall be at 7:00 am on the moratorium, each Fraternity will pick

morning following -the day of the up only those freshmen that spent the

pre-Rush Week meeting. previous night at their house. AU those

RUSH WEEK RUSHING freshmen are required to' sign back in

1. AU iushees must register with the 'to that Wouse before seeing other frat-

IFC Clearing House - ernities during the day. Freshmen who

2. No house shag attempt to con- did not spend the previous night at any

ceal the presence or location of a fraternity may visit any fraternity they

rushee-. Each Fraternity shall keep a wish. Each Fraternity must immediate-

record of the departure and their pro- ly report to the Clearing House all

posed destination 'upon departure. freshmen returning to their house after

These records shall be kept on forms the moratorium that did not spend the

provided by the IFC and shall be night there. During the moratorium no

submitted to the IFC Rushing Chair- fraterrity man shall be in the presence

man within three days after Rush Week of a rushee.ends. 10. After the moratorium, no Frat-

3, No house shall refuse to call a ernity may entertain any rushee away

rushee to the telephone if hle is present, from the house - fof -the remainder of

nor shall members of another Frater- that day for more.than onle (1) hour,

nity be refused the privlege of speak- excluding all dates originating after

ing to a rushee unless the rushee is in a 8:00 pm.

bid session at that time. 11.I No bids shall be extended to a

4, Before 9:00 amn on each day of rushee on his first visit to a house; nor

Rush Week, except the, day of the shall any bids b~e extended until after

moratoriumn, each rushee. shall see that the end of the moratorium. No bid

there is delivered to the .[FC Clearing- may be accepted before 7:00 am Thur-

house or one of its boxes (in each sday.

dormitory and fraternity) a schedule of 12. Any questions concerning the

the places and times of his (the interpretation of these rules or of any

rushee's) location from the previous rushing practice should be submitted

eve ning to the following morning. Each to the IFC Rushing Chairman for

Fraternity shall be responsible for turn- clarification.

ing in the schedule cards of rushees 13. AU dates rushees have made for

who spend the night in that house to Mo:nday evening and for Monday over-

the Rushing Chairman at 9:00 am each night will be frozen when they register

momning. at the Clearing House.

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In past years, the production of Infocus has

been, at best, a sporadic process. Two issues a term,

'perhaps less, were deemed sufficient to cover the

wide spectra of events that involve the 1FC and its

members. Articles were seldom informative, often

repetitive and boring. In short, past volumes of

Infocus '69 have been a sorry excuse for a

newpaper.However the days when this form of publication

could be tolerated have come to an end. If the

fraternity system at MIT is to continue to provide

an atmosphere conducive to the growth of the

individual, and informed membership is a must. If

the events at Harvard and other universities across

the nation are to be avoided here at MIT, communi-

cation must be keyed upon now.

Also, communication should and will not be

limited to strictly factual material. Opinion and

comment will take up a considerable portion of

Infocus '69. Any issue that confronts the MIT5. Each house will immediately

notify the Clearing House-.of everyrushee who- pledges, including the timeof pledging. Tlhis is in effect from thehours of 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. Ifpledging occurs outside these hours,the Clearinrg House will be notified at8:00 am of the following morning. It isthe responsibility of each house tonotify the Clearing House between 1 and 12 pm of those rushees who will

be spending the night in the house. AFraternity's obligation to call the

Clearing House will end Saturday mid-

night, which will be the official closeof Rush Week.

6. No Fraternity shall entertain anyrushee away from the house in any one.ay of Rush Week, except the day of

the moratorium.a. for more'than six (6) hours total,

nor

b. for a period longer than fire (5)hours consecutively excluding all datesthat originate after 6:30 pm.

7. If a rushee wishes to cancel or

change a .date, he must personally

Proposed IFC Rush Rules for 1969SUMMER RUSH

1. Rushing will be permitted duringthe summer, but no Fraternity man

shall incur any expense in the enter-tainment of a rushee.

2. Summer ends when the rusheeenters a transportation facility for thetrip to Boston, or on Wednesday mid-night preceding the official opening ofRush Week, which occurs later.

3. No printed material may be sentto incoming freshmen prior to the datefreshmen names are released by theDean's Office. Any printed materialsent to incoming freshmen must bemailed using third class or bulk rates,

unless it is being sent outside thecontinental United States. This will bein effect from the time the list of

freshmen is released by the Dean'sOffice until riive days later. Printed

material is anything not written byhand.

4. A Fraternity shall not extendprinted blanket invitations for Mondaynight.

On Tuesday, April 23, approximately seventy-five students and faculty staged a demonstration to

protest war related research at MIT. In the course of

this demonstration, the marchers stopped in front

of the President's office and - asked to see him.

President Johnson wasn't in at the time so tHe groupdecided to sit down and wait. After some time,

word arrived that Johnson and Dr. Killian, Chair-

man of' the Corporation, were in the Bush Roomand would hold an open discussion on the researc-hissue.

However, to quote The Tech, "The crowd hadlittle intention of leaving the hall to see Johnson.

Professor Louis Kampf, Department of Hulmanities,called it 'degrading' to be assigned to a room at their

convenience and charged, 'they can come to ourroom at our times'."

This "sit-in" was the first (albeit mild) MIT

example of the campus. phenomenon known as

confrontation politics. Firstused at Columbia over a.

year ago, this radical tactic has occurred across the

nation with-disturbances at the University of Chi-cago, San Francisco State College, Berkeley, and

most recently at Harvard. The underlying philoso-phy of this tactic is that unless the power structureis forced to take action, no change of any substancewill occur, and that confrontation is the only wayto make the power structure take action and defmeits position.

Although the people who decide to use con-frontation politics usually achieve their goal and

make the power structure take action, we feel thatit has been proven that, in -most cases, the cost is

too high. The cornered animal fights the hardest,and 'putting the administrations into a defensiveposture makes them all the more- determined to

preserve the status quo. As was pointed out in the

book Up Against the Ivy Wall, a documentary of theColumbia crisis,-the administration will see the

confrontation not only as a challenge to the

individual school's authority, but also as a threat to

the goals that they believe are embodied in the

institutions of higher learning across the nation. It

was further pointed out that the administrations felt

a duty to other colleges not to allow their school to

set a precedent which would herald the end of

higher education as they bide it. In short, con-

frontation politics polarizes the issues anid makesthe battle a life abid death event. Having observedthe happenings at other schools, we see little

desirable in creating such a situation. Havring raisedthe determination of the administration, reform will

be granted grudgingly, slowly, and usually with little

personal commitment. Add to this the personal cost

to those who were the objects of a "bust" and the

price for this kind of reform becomes too high.Although we feel that the happenings of last

Tuesday were for the most part spontaneous, and,

sprang from deep seated personal commitment, any

re-enactment could have serious consequences. We

ask that the leaders of the SACC movementconsider exactly what those consequences might be

should the situation get out of hand. The age ofliberal and conservative factions, radical and moder-

ate factions, right and left factions has come to anend. If meaningful and justified change is to occur,we must all be pragmatists.

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Siinapee, New Hampire, for a day ofskiing, followed by an informal supperat the house and wild party to thor-oughly exhaust everyone. Soumethingelse we like to do is to hold jointparties with other MIT fraternities.This serves a dual purpose of betteringrelations and defraying costs. We havehad flue turnouts of this kind withSAE, BTP, and TC. Besides parties, weprovide tickets to see the Bruins, Sox,and Celtics along with concerts andother social events outside the house.

Another direction for involvementthat we feel is important is our intra-mural sports activities. It is a big boostto houise spirit when a team makes agood shoing. It, is my own personalopinont, and most of the house'sopinion, that intramurals serve tHeirpurpose better since points have beenabolished. It seems to have provided aposipve step toward replacing somne ofthe heated' rivalries. with more goodnatured rivalries between firaternities.Also in the athletic vein is an annualfrosh-soph football game in the fall,and recentl a sophomorejuniorbasketball game.

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It should be clewt that the ob-serations contained here are personalones, and should by no menas. be takento represent those of the brothers ofPhi Delta Theta.

We are. at present, examining thepragmatic value of some of out hallow-ed traditions. The utility of our nation-al affiliation, required chapter meet-ings, the blackball system, inflexiblebudgeting, and Rush Week are being.seriously evaluated.

Our national fraternity seems tooffer us at the present time, anever-ending flow of forms to be filledout and meetings to attend and -otherrequirements for "~ousr benefit.'' It isbecoming -more and more difficult to-pursue the goals of thle fraternity be-cause of the requirements, Co-educational loving is of course impos-sible within the national structure. Weare also forced to hide the most cher-'ished goals of the fraternity that aresupposed to build good brotherhood.

Every man is traditionally able tokeep from membership anyone who hedoesn't like for any reason. This black-ball system is operationally an easyway for an individual to thwart the'efforts of others. If the group wants its.members to share in helping each othergrow, why does it allow one memberto destroy the initiative of the others?

It seems to me that only one-half ofthe brothers should need to approve anew pledge.. Our house needs new menand it has only begun to understandwhy it isn't getting them. Rush motiva-tion is severely injured by the per-ceived difficulty of getting a friendpledged.

Our budget for the next year is justbeing completed. We have tried toallow for funds to be available whenthe enthusiasm and the willingness towork are there. We have tried tospecify several major projects that wewant done in the next year. By fixinghousebills now and arranging for near-by apartments for upperclassmen, wehave tried to shorten the feedbackchannel between -"doing your ownthing" and the Rush effort.

Rush Week is so exhausting andunimpressive for both freshmen andbrothers alike that we are trying todesign new systems to get men living inthe house. We would like the IFC toseriously evaluate its rules restrictinginteraction between freshmen and thefraternities. It is possible that we willbe open informally during Rush Weekfor freshmen who want to meet us, butthe brothers will not all be available torun. the freshmen through the rushmachine.

It appears to me that forcing a manto come to a meeting almost precludesthe possibility of the meeting being asuccess. We have tried instead to struct-ure voluntary functional workshops onspecific topics like rush, pledge, train-ing, budgeting, and education. Thequality of discussion and the efficiencyof the meetings has increased consider-ably.

The IFC has announced the forma- The blackball system, the use of drugs.ion of a new committee to investigate and marijuana in fraternities, and theopportunities for academic work in effect of increased black enollment onindividual living groups. Although still the fraternity system and Rush Webkin its formative stages, the committee were the major topics of discussion at ahas outlined various programs onhouse presidents' meeting held Aprilwhich it plans to work during the 20.

Drug use proved to be the issuewhich~inspired the greatest amount ofdiscussion. Although the rapid increasein the use of marijuana and other drugsduring recent years is common know-ledge, the implications ofthis increasefor individual fraternities have beenobscure. IFC Chairman GeorgeKatsificas pointed out that the dis-covery of drugs in a fraternity houseby' the police could result in therevocation of that house's lodging li-cense which legalizes its right to ope-,rate as a residence for its members.Several presidents then commented ontheir individual efforts to discouragedrug use among their own brothers.The most severe of the measures des-cribed involved the expulsion of anybrother found to have marijuana in hispossession inside the fraternity house.Some presidents commented that leni-ency had only aggravated the problemand that they were now seeking othersolutions.

The subject of the present blackballsystem was discussed briefly with ageneral consensus that further study isneeded to determine whether the pre-sent system prevailing in most houses isa viable alternative for the future.Under the present system a "no" voteby one brother can prevent either thebidding or initiation of a rushee orpledge. This "one ball" method ofrejecting new members was attackedby several of the presidents who.Offered alternative suggestions rangingfrom a vote of a 9017o to a simplemajority requiled for admission.;,

Many questions concerning the ef-fects of next year's increased blackenrollment on the fraternity systemand Rush Week were raised at themeeting, but were matched by fewanswers. One of the most importantissues appears to be whether thesestudents will even consider joining afraternity and choose to visit housesduring Rush Week. It was proposedthat a special rushing effort may beneeded to encourage black member-ship. However, an equally importantquestion was the willingness of indivi-dual houses to accept black members,limited both by prejudice and nationalfraternity restrictions. On all thesequestions the only valid answer for themoment seemed to be to wait and see.

remainder of this term.The first of these is the establish-

ment of classes or seminars meetingone or two evenings a week in theliving groups. The possibilities ofobtaining credit for these courses arenow being explored by the committee,and a list of interested facultymembers is being assembled. In orderto assure sufficient attendance forthese classes the combination of two ormore houses or of one house withinterested women from Wellesley hasbeen suggested.

The committee is also working tobring faculty members into the frater-riity on a non-academic basis and hasproposed two specific plans towardthis end. Faculty members would beinvited to live at a fraternity for two orthree days under the first of theseproposals. During this time they wouldbe in contact with the members on atotally non-professional basis. Thissame type of contact is also the goal ofthe proposed non-resident faculty fel-low program in which houses wouldchoose a faculty member to visit themfrequently on an informal basis. Thecommittee will help find interestedfaculty members for both these pro-grams.

Chris Thurner (SAE) is the chair-man of the newly-created committee,and any comments or questons shouldbe directed to him.

without using hands) around the field.This was tfllowed by the zipstrip,(changing clothes in a sleeping, bag),and so the afternoon continued. Thecompetition was capped off by thederby steal which pitted forty derby-topped Sigma Chis against two or threehundred Wellesley girls bent on gettingthe Sigma Chi's derbies. After all thepoints had been tallied, Shafer Hallemerged as the victor.

Spectators and participants spilledover Severence Green at WellesleyCollege at the first Sigma Chi DerbyDay orn April 10. Teams from eachWellesley dorm competed in a numberof "field events" in an attempt togarner a stereo system from Tech HiFifor their dorm's living room.

The Day began with a paradethrough the Wellesley campus led by apied piper bandwagon and joined alongthe route by cars which had been,outfitted by each dorm as part of thecompetition. Once at the Green thefestivities soon validated their billing asa "fun-filled riot" and a "spectatorzoo," as teams bamboo-rambled (arelay race with five people carrying abamboo pole between their legs andthen handing off to a second quintet -

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tions among fraternities is to alloweach house to say a few words aboutthe activities in which they are partici-pating. With this in mind, I havechosen a few areas that I feel will be ofinterest to other houses. Hopefully thiswmill provide some useful ideas, and wegladly accept suggestions and dis-cussion on any or ail of them.

Recently there has been much crti-cism of fraternities and the fraternitysystem. In lieu of this we felt that apositive step would be to hold aLambda Chi Alpha retreat conducted

.by the house president. It consisted ofthe major house officers and severalother interested brothers. We saw thevalue in a crtical evaluation of ourhouse, where we were weak and wherewe were strong, internally and exter-nally. One of the major topics dis-cussed was a redefining of our goalswith regard to pledge training and howthese goals could best be attained.Another was the discussion of the basicdefinition of fraternity: just, what isbrotherhood and howit is exhibited byour house?

We are undergoing a revitalizationin the public relations departmont. Afew things we found fruitful in thisarea are joint parties with other houses,

Ecocktail parties for professors, the IFCand TCA blood drives, and inviting ourBack Bay neighbors to dinner. In con-junction with pledge toanig ourpledges provided a valuable service to alocal hospital in -their capacity asjanitors. There is also the never-to-be-forgotten annual St. Patrick s, Day

|Party for the Irishmen behind theathletic desk at DuPont. Of course we

Edid not neglect our valuable relationswith Back Bay girs. The most recent,and- least painful of whichz, was asoftball game with a group of BU andChandler girls on Briggs Field.

We believe in a strong alumni rela-tions propam The local alumni At acopy of our social calendar and are-

-urged to participate in all socialfunctions.. There was recently fineattendance at a quiet party with anightclub atmosphere for the alumn.Once a year we send a news letter tothe alumni which informs them of ouractivities and the activrities of other

Calumni.

t ~~When Winter Weekend flopped, wetook the inqitiative to provide our ownsolution for our undergrads and alum-ni. We organized the Lambda ChiAlpha ski Day which consisted of

ipiling into a bus and taking off for

Sigma Chi holds first anlnualDerby Day for Wlellesley

Fiji Island Partyto occur May 10

This year's Fiji Island Party, to beheld May 10, will have certain changesin detail-but not in spirit-from those-in the past. The most significantchange will be an admittance charge of$2.00 per couple instead of the trad-itional policy of free admission, al-though this is not expected to dampenenthusiasm.

The party, which is open bid forthe whole campus, will be held at theSaima Club-an unheated dance hallsurrounded by woods, a stream, and alake-in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Asin past years, the dress will be sarongs,leis, and body paint. Another standardattraction is the traditional FIP punch,and guests are strongly urged.to bringtheir own hollow coconuts for itsconsumption. Music will be providedby the Wrong Tracks, who specialize insoul music. A bus service is 2 so beingplanned for those who do not wish todrive.

Tickets for both the party and thebusses may be purchased in blocksthroughout the living groups. Also,tickets and maps for drivers are avail-able at the Fiji booth in the lobby ofbuilding 10.

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IM fines changed, enforcedIn an action which will squeeze to go over to the Institute and suit up

the athletic budget of almost every and then have nothing at all to do inliving group on campus, the IM Exec- the event of a forfeit.utive Committee has developed a The problem of enforcing thesystem to regularly enforce the fine system was not so easy to resolve. In

system for forfeiting IM contests. the'past, the money was rarely col-

For years the IM rules have plainly lected simply because of the reticencestated that a living group forfeiting on the manager's part to call up a

any IM comtest is to be fined $10 friend of his and say, "You're screwed!. I(and, until recently, a few IM points) If you don't send me twenty bucks by iand not be allowed to engage in any next Tuesday, you're kicked out of the e

IM activity until the fine is paid. For football playoffs!" Not only is this tyears, likewise, their rule has been because a manger is basically a nice I

largely ignored; less than 5% of the guy, but if you get everyone mad at nmoney able to be collected was ac- you, you're'going to get fined yourself. atually taken in. Thus, the system was So, what has to be done is to take the. rre-evaluated with an eye toward personal responsibility off the man- t

making it work. The main points con- ager's shoulders and give it to the rsidered were first, that a fine system inpersonal IM Executive Committee. ilis necessary to prevent large numbers Then, monthly, forms will be sent outof forfeitures (see Infocus, May %68, to all offenders, and they will not be heditorial), second, all 'sports being allowed to enter any ensuing sports nfined equally is not reasonable, and until the fine is paid. ri

last, how to induce managers to in- Though the purpose of the fine is e

yoke, the fine. not to make the Athletic Association t]farting these factors into the minds flush, the extra money. obtainable this

of those people whose job it is to way could help initiate a new referee'sworry about such things yielded these pay scale. Refereeing is, without a

results. A $10 fine for not showing up doubt, the biggest problem in. IMfor a golf match was considered ridicu- sports, and the main reason it is a

lous, as nobody in the world is incon- problem is the antiquated pay scale.venienced or put out by that inaction. With the money they are now getting,

Likewise, wrestling, swimming, track, their main motivation is the love of thecross-country, and rifle won't be fined. sport; after two years of acting as a

The remaining sports were divided into scapegoat for the losing teams, theytwo groups: Team Sports requiring find the initial fascination gone. Just as

officials on one hand, and badminton, they are becoming at all competent,ping-pong, squash, and tennis on the they get tired of the whole scene and

other. These latter sports merit only a quit. So, depending upon the approval$5 fine because fewer people are incon- of the Athletic Administration, com-

venienced by a forfeit and, these being petent officials would get enough of a

individual sports, the members of the raise to actually be motivated by theteam:-'showng up' can' at [e-ast practice money. If this goes through, and it's

among, themselves. The team sports'probably the only real chance to -m-still require the full $10 fine because, prove the system, you may fed your-

in every case, at least eight people have. self actually having -to go out of your S(way to argue with the ref next year.

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As usual the worst sport for frater-nities in general is volleyball. With SAEdropping out of the sport because ofthe'loss;of several key players (and IMpoints),, the, only fraternity to finish inthe -top four in the final VB standingsin the last six years disappeared fromcompetition. This year, Only twoteams, PSK and TEP, have survivedeliminations to make the. top eight.PSK had' besides SAE, been the onlyfraternity team to finish consistentlyhigh for the last five years, while this isTEP's' first showing in the top eight inquite a while:

The squash playoffs aren't verydifferent from previous years, as LCA,ZBT, PLP, and SAE all have made astrong showing. The surprise, however,is PBE who, with two top players fromlast year's freshman squash team, wnthe wlnner's bracket of the eliminationsystem by beating favored LCA-'lastyear's'champion. However, LCA re-peated last year's stunt of coming outof., the -loser's bracket to win thechampionship match by a 2-1 score, asMike Oliver and Phil Henshaw- edgedtleir men inf 3-2 matches.

The softball season .as started outquietly, with no upsets or surprises.The general quality of play seemsdown' especially the pitching, as fourik asti year's' top eight pitchers are'gone with no outstanding replace-ments. Champion LCA's 'Pease hasgoert out for varsity baseball, TC'sBrodish and Burton's Miller have grad-uted, and DU's Terry has switched tot1ird base. The top contenders seem to~ S:~A:M," fourth last year behindpitcher Sitkus, and LCA, fifth last yearwith Isaacson pitching. The hopes ofSAE, third place last year, suffered asevere setback as last year's playoff4A. Jarst , U; hdi" A'tw t:' A l lo ByD

wctlm tA Juped on pjtcher Itonaul for twelve runs on the way -to

Octory. A -dark. horse-is Bexley, winnerOf three games, 5 2 runs.

A very poor showing of only four-teen teams in Rifle made it relativelyeasy to qualify for the top ten finals.Senior.-Iouse took both the prelimnin-aries,and the finals easily, but in thefight for second, SN- reversed theirpreliminary, position with PBE byedging them out 738 to 718. SN wasted by the two high fraternity shooters,

aate.k Asbelh with a'194 and Tom14atliackwith a 193. Other high freish-ig fraternities were DKE, LCA, and

: Water polo is running alongsmoothly, albeit slowly, wit h not near-ly so many forfeits as characterized lastyeas. season. With fewer teams and amore leisurely pace, the teams are ableto show up for four to six games intwo and one-half months. The stand-ings show little change from last year,as Burton leads LCA in the A league,with DU in third place due to two1-point losses to LCA. the first divisionof the B league finds SC slightly aheadof the combined TC-PDT team. (TheTC-PDT water polo merger marks thefirsttime that two. houses have com-bined leams -in a -sport, and is anexperiment tried while IM points havebeen removed.) Leading the other Bdivision is ATO, as all' teams' leok'forward to the ten-teams playoff dueto start next week.

.by Rich Boettge

Every year or so, around spring-time, someone of the Tech sports staffgets the urge to purge the world of sinand decides a good start would be toexpose the corruptness of the IMCouncil. "Thirty-three percent of themembers wear contact lenses," he com-plains, "and fat people aren't electedmanagers." And everyone with nothingelse to read or think about nodsgravely and mutters, "Yes, yes-whymust we have all these self-seekingdishonest politicians -standing in theway of a few guys trying to play ball?"

So now the expose is that a fewpower-hungry houses have taken overthe IM Council, to wield their power todevious ends, subduing and disregard-ing the will of the majority in theprocess. Meanwhile, the rest of thehouses outside the Triad strive vainlyto break into this self-perpetratingmonopoly and halt the further sub-jugation of their interests.

This isn't the way it is.First of all, no group right now

would want control of the IM Council,because there are no vested interests tocontrol; there aren't any IM points toquibble over. Second, no group wouldwant to stuff the IM Council for theprestige of having a lot of members,because there is no prestige to being amanager of an intramural sport. All amanager gets out of being a manager isto get to meet a lot of poeple whoplay, lets say, volleyball, ad 'especially.people who like to argue about playingvolleyball. He learns how to talk on thephone six hours a week, and he gets toelect other managers (choose one ofthe following one) and have cider anddonuts once a month at a two-hour

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print anywhere but in thd letters heprints it on; nobody outside his sportor the Council has the vaguest idea thathe's doing anything, and there isn'teven anyone he can hand a scholar-ship-evaluation form to. Finally, if anyother group, just for the hell of it,wanted to take over the Council forreasons unknown, they could do itinside of a term by simply runningmembers for all the uncontested posts.Of the last fifteen -managers elected,only two were from the same livinggroup of the previous manager. Any-one from anywhere who wants to bean assistant manager would be wildlywelcomed by any IM sport manager;lately, they've been largely doirig with-out.

The way it actually is right now isthat if these three 'jock houses" wereto stop "controlling" intramurals, thatis, theydyould not supply over half themanagers as they do now but wouldonly have their "fair share," the pro-gram as presently run would dissolve.There would then not be enough stu-dents to do the work, and the jobwould fall to the athletic administra-tion. We actually are moving a little inthat direction already, as the adminis-tration's new Director of IM's, DaveMichael, has been told not to maintainthe laissez-faire policy that, ProfessorMerriman had. An extension of thisattitude could lead us to Harvard'sseverely structured, administration-based, system, which is presently de-caying. A system like this for us wouldprobably also decay with time becauseof the unreceptive inertia which neces-sarily accompanies a set organization.

Right now we've got a systemwhich runs the most extensive andwell- participated-in IM program in atleast New England, and does so be-cause of the constant turnover of new,interested people who constantly keepmodifying it to keep it contemporary.If someone wants to do it a differentway, they're welcome to try-but don'tjust sit on the outside and complainuntil you have an alternative anywherenear as workable.

opening diamond lead with the A andruffing a diamond into his hand, henoticed mainly that if either f'mess lost,he would have to have a 3-3 split inone of the majors, guess which one,and co-ordinate setting up the twelfthtrick with the extraction of trumps.

To South's dismay, however, theplay of his 4 to the K of clubs droppedonly one of the enemy trumps, and hecould see that it would take an exactset of circumstances indeed to preventthe opposition scoring a natural trumpplus a major suit ruff or a diamondtrick to set the contract at least one.So, playing to win both finesses andthen be able to strip the eact hand toeverything but trumps, South cameback to the closed hand with adiamond ruff which used the last of hislow trumps. He then split the heart suitwith three leads, winning the finess,and took two rounds of spades back tohis own hand, winning the secondfinesse. That set up this situation:

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North started out sedately bydeferring his 2NT response to thesecond round to show more than 13-15points. In this situation over South'sweak two spade bid, North assumescontrol of bidding and forces South tocontinue bidding until North closes it.South could rebid neither no trump,because of his singleton diamond, norspades, so he had to choose betweenhearts or clubs. He stifled his firstimpulse to raise hearts, partly becauseLhe thought his A-Q-i0 of spades wasreason enough to play the hand fromhis side, but also because the only waythey could have a heart contract (andbid the way he had) would be forNorth to have exactly five hearts to theA-Q, in which case he would have achance' to support the suit the nexttime around. Thus, even with hissomewhat .shaky club suit, herationalized a bid of three. This setNorth off into a reverie over the manypossible concealed values in hispartner's hand, and, looking atapparently the remaining club honors

in his hand, started on the road to slamwith a cue-bid of three diamonds.Forced, South was not too unhappy to

belatedly raise North's hearts. North,then seeing the K of hearts shiningacross the table at him, decided just tomake sure of an ace over there bystopping at Blackwood on the way tosix clubs. (North felt a' momentarytwinge of excitement at the news of allthe aces, but stifled his curiosity aboutseven with the thought that partnerwas too inexperienced yet to handlesmoothly those grand slams.)

South, after enduring North's smuglook of self-satisfaction at his

undoubtedly perceptive bidding,grimly set about the task of making agood show of the slam. Taking the(Please turn to page 4, col. 3)

Friday100 yd. dash100 yd. dashquarter finals440 yd. dash220 yd. dash220 yd. dashsemi-fials180 yd. lowhurdles100 yd. dashsemi-finals

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SundayAll field events and finals in therunning events.

In case of rain on Friday at 4:00, trialswill be moved to Sunday and finals tothe following Sunday May 18. H-4

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South, more than mildlyappreciative of the suit splits andhonor placement, now had only to leadone of his good spades to highlyembarass East. No matter which of histrumps he ruffed with, the boardoverruffed, and when the 13th heartwas led back to the ace of trumps, hewas force to uselessly underruff.Another spade through east establishedone of dummy's trumps as the twelfthtrick, and North-South learned a lessonwhich to this day has them going downtwo at slam when they should only becontracted for game.

-The MIT Symphony OrchestraDavid Epstein, Conductor

John Buttrick, Robert Freeman, Pianists

.aSaturday, May. 10 8:30 PM Kresge Auditorium of MIT

Works to be performedTragic Overture-Brahms

Firebird Suite-StravinskyConcerto No. 10 in E flat, for two Pianos-Mozart

Tickets $1.00 at the door, or free to the MIT community in Building 10

S3prin'g IntramuralSports Review

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BrigeColumnAn optimistic outlook on life is

probably the best way to keep yourselfcheerful, as long as you don't regularlyeverextend this philosophy at thebridge table. Hoping for partner topresent you with the two key cards tomake a save worthwhile can rewardyou with a high board when you'reright, but if this thrill is mitigated bytoo many tragic misconceptions, yournovice status will eventually wear outits welcome.

The philosophy that the gods won'thelp you unless you call upon them isnever more frequently applied than inubber bridge, and is the mainexplanation for the bidding and play inhe following deal.

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By Karen WattelSix months ago A.WN.OL.

Mike O'Connor was picked upby the C.ID. at the MIT StudentCenter. Monday night he return-ed to campus "to talk topeople."

"lt feels strange to be out,"Mike said Tuesday during aninterview with Te Tech. '"Thesun hurts my eyes." He had beenin Fort Devens 177 days andbeen outside only 13 times.

"I was scared when I first

went in, " Mme remembered."But I was mad at the sametime, so going in didn't reallybother me for the first few days.I hiad to think about it. I made agame of it-Who could breakwhom first." -

"I almost broke a couple oftimes, lMke the end of January,waiting for the court martial andlater after they said there was nochance of discharge." That wasbased, according to Mke, on thereport of the army psychiatrist

which said that he should bereturned to active duty andcould still be made into a goodsoldier.

-Mike felt that in the sameways they wanted to break him,he could break some of themjust by talking to them. Hereports that he was successful incases of individual army guardswho then transferred from thebase.

From MIT after Sanctuary,Mike was taken to the Fargo

building in Back Bay where hewas finger-printed and photo-graphed. He was then taken ina paddy wagon to Fort Devens.usually people arriving on Sun-day are taken to the MY. head-quarters and moved on Monday,Mike explained, but in his casethey took him immediately tothe stockade. "They were scaredthat the Boston group wouldcome break in or something.They would have put me di-rectly in solitary, but all the cellswere full." However, they didput him in at 5:30 in the mor-ning "for laughing at the guardthe night before."

Nine more times during hisstay at Fort Devens, Mike wasput in solitary "for raising hellwith the guards." Asked if hefelt he had done this, Mike said"yes." He was never, however,kept in overnight. Orders in the

beginning from the post com-mander not to put him in soli-tary resulted in his being put in amulti-person cell all by himself.

Mice called Fort Devens avery political post. In general, hesaid, it is run by civilians. Hisrelease came about because ofpressure from people lice thepsychiatrists at MIT and Mass.General, Senator Muskie forwhom Mike campaigned inMaine, and Mife's civilianlawyer.

Captain Tom Dugan volun-teered to handle O'Connor's caseand had to get special permissionto do so. It was the last case hewas allowed to handle, however,as he was then transferred toVietnam.

The army's psychiatric inter-view on which they orginallybased their decision that he

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" '"The Dean of Student Affairs in the case of an undergraduate studentor the Dean of the Graduate School in the case of a graduate student, mayexcuse a student from a scheduled final examinationwfor reasons of illness orsignificant personal problems by issuing the grade of OX. An instructor incharge of a subject may excuse a student from a final examination which hasbeen postponed for reasons other than excuse by the Dean, such as conflictsbetween examinations or with religious holidays, if a mutally satisfactoryagreement is ratified in advance of this examination by the Head of theDepartment in which the subject is offered, an if the instructor is preparedto submit a gade based on other evidence.

For each subject in which a final examination is given during theprescribed period, no written examinations or quizzes shall be given duringthe three days, Sundays excepted, preceding the reading period. For eachsubject in which no final examination is given during the prescribedexamination period, no more than one written exercise of not more than onehour (one class period in the case of laboratory or design subjects) shall begiven during the three days, Sundays excepted, preceding iee dingperiod."

NOTE STUDENTS HAVING CONFLICT IN EXAMINATIONS: If astudent inquires about a conflict in his examinations or an examination notscheduled, please instruct him to follow the directions on the ExaminationSchedule before the stated time limit.

All students and Staff having questions concerning the scheduling of finaleamainations should be referred to the Schedules Office, Room E19-338, asa final examination scheduling must be taken care of in that office on auniform policy fox all students.

*The Modeem Man Society will sponsor an irotductory semina onTranscendental MedOitation given by students of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at 8pm, Wedensday, May 14 in Room 407 of the Student Center. Free.

*MIT Cass of 1969 in operating a hotd information clearing house tox theparents of the graduating class during June Commencement. For furtherinformation, call Shelley Fleet X7766.

*Tihose students who intend to apply to medical school for admission inSeptember 1970 are reminded they should makce an appoinitment to talkwith Dean Wick in Boom 5-106 before the end of the spring term.

*She Nominations Committee of the new Student Government iscurrentlr engaged in filling appointments to admiListrtion and facultycommitstees There are currently positions open on the followingcommittees: Academic Performance, Student Emnvionment, AthleticBoard, Community Service Committee, Community Service Fund, Evalu-ation of Freshman Performance, Placement Services, Regisens Office,Activities Development Board, Task Force on Equal Employment Oppor-tunities, And Privacy of Information. Anyone who would be interestedin serving on any of these groups for the next year should contact WellsEddleman, X316l, as soon as postgble.

*A reference collection on MIT and its activities has been created inthe Student Center Libry. The current Presdent's and TreasurersRepoats, Poies and Procedures, compiations of .esearch projects andpublications, and information on the Corotrtion are mnong the pubfica-tions pertinent to the debate on the future of MIT.

*Nomiations Cnommittee will hold a meeting Sunday at 2 pm in ReomW20-00 of the Student Cetem.

*Summer Session Regstation Material must be returned to theRegistrars Office, Room E19-335, or the lInormation Ofne, Room7-111, before 5:00 pm, Wednesday, May 21.

M. l. T. DRAMASHOP

C4WE BOMBED IN NEW8 V DEN '

by Joseph Heller

Directed by MICHAEL MURRAY

May 9 & 10 at 8:30 PM

Little Theatre, Kresge Auditorium

All tickets $2.00

Reservations: UN 4-6900 Ext. 4720

Mike OiConnors sanctuary figure, to talkreturns

FOREIGN LJANGUAGES

Don't leave things for "Man'ana"start working now to enpyyour next trip or vacation

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Regular Courses April 17Private Instruction All year-round

THE URl-AN CAIENDARMIT URBAN CONFERENCE

May 9-10, 1969; Room 9-1 51

AGENDA

Friday mornin:opening of Conference-Professor Robert C. WoodIntroduction-Professor Charles L. MBferPresentations and discussions conernmm the initial experiences of the Urban Systemslaboratory in conducting multidisciplinary research projects in the city.

Topics include Boston Model Cities cooperation, and Boston New Comnnunity, N.Y. Citysystems Analysis, NCHRP Environment, and CARS Public Transportation Projects.

Participants include Professors R. Hirschfeld, Ithiel Pool, R. de Neufville, M.L. Manheim, DanielRoos, and others.

Luncheon break:

Flry afternoon:Panel discussion on future urban reseach at MIT: goals, needs and opportunities. Moderated byProfessor Bernard J. Frieden. Participants include Kenneth Geiser, Wmlliam Mathews, ProfessorWillam Porter, William Rich, Professor Lester Thurow, and Francis Ventry.

Fday evening:

Dinner for all Pants, the campus room, Ashown House (coner Mass Ave and MemoriallDrie.)

Speakers include Prfesoss Robert C. Wood, S.M. Miller, Lloyd Rodwin.

Satnrday moning:

Panel and discussion: Outside reactions to MIT activities and plans. Selected Visitors from-ovenument and private sectors invited to respond.

Spnsored byg the Urban Systems Laborafory

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land, suppliers of MIT's com-mons dining halls and other cafe-terias at the Institute, held adinner Monday evening to dis-cuss their food and services.

In attendance were Mr. larryBishoff, Mr. Robert J.,Radocchia of Walker Memorial,Miss Raven from Stouffer's, andother representatives of the firmvisiting from Cleveland. In addi-tion most of the Commonschairmen from the compulsoryhouses were present along withsome-house presidents.

In essence what Stouffer'swanted to do was :to presenttheir latest ideas on innovationthat they were preparing tomake in their food services. Aprepared statement was read. inwhich the Stouffer's representa-tive announced plans for intro-

ducing new food to the Institute

KALEIDOSCOPEAn MIT Community-wide Festival

FridayMay 16

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the improvements were also dis-cussed, but any thought of anincrease was met by Bishoff'sguarantee that the Institutewould not increase commonsprices any more than the $35per year increase being addedduring each of the next twoyears to meet the rising cost oflabor and food production.

On a final note; the dinnerserved consisted of a vegetablesalad with dressing, assortedrolls, shrimp cocktal, a largehelping of a thick steak, bakedpotato with asparagus, anddessert. And oh yes, rose wine asan appetizer.

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Perhaps the prime topic ofdiscussion at the dinner meeting(Stouffer's catered it) was theattitude of the people on com-mons to Stouffer's, the dininghall employees, and to the fooditself. It was suggested that tast-ing boards be set up that wouldmeet regularly to sample thefood being presented during aparticular week, particularlythose items which had not pre-viously been served. The variouscommons chairmen complainedthat it pvas very difficult to getstudents to take part in suchactivitites and, with the excep-tion of when they disliked thefood, it was very difficult to getthem to say anything.

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"lean Virgo's "L'ATLANTE" plus"ZERO FOR CONDUCT" at

5:10, 7:30, 9:451Sat. Matinee 2:45Starting Sunday:

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During his stay at FortDevens, O'Connor started writ-ing a book, of which he has 150-pages done, and wrote somepoetry, too. The book, which is,"sort of a documentary," hehopes to work on this summer.He would like to write some-thing about the psychologicaleffects of confinement. At FortDevens he wasn't allowed towrite too much about the stock-ade itself.

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Tech's lacrosse team thor-oughly trounced the Holy Crosstwelve, 14-1. In the process,both Jack Anderson '69 andWalt Maling '69 broke the oldrecord for goals in a season.

Tech started fast as the JohnVliet'70-Dave Peterson'71 com-bination clicked for two quickgoals. The team continued toclick after that as many attack-ers scoring for Tech. Vliet got agoal to go along with his twoassists. Ken Schwartz '69 alsochipped in two goals.

As usual, the big scorers wereAnderson and Maling. Malinghad four goals to give him a totalof 37 for the season. Anderson'sthree goals give him 36 for theseason. These totals break JoeSkendarin's record of 35 set in

1961. Furthermore, the stick-men have three games left thisseason. Anderson also managed inthree assists to increase his re-cord total points per season.

The big difference in thegame was Tech's greater skill inthe fundamentals. Tech's passingand ball-handling completelyoutclassed Holy Cross, prevent-ing them from ever making thegame close. Holy Cross was fur-ther weakened by 12 penaltiescalled against them. Tech scoredmany of their goals in theseadvantage situations. -

In the second half when it,was obvious that Tech had won,the defense let up somewhat andgoalie Marc Weinberg '70 got anopportunity to demonstrate hisskill. He responded well bymaking eight. nice saves toround out a satisfying win. Theseasonfs record is now 10-3.

Tech's biggest game of theseason will be Tuesday againstUMass. It is a non-conferencegame, but it has added impor-tance due to the fact that UMassis rated fifth nationally.

440 Yard Intermediate Hurdles-T-56.2 sec. 1. Bannister-UNH; 2.

The track team was trampled89-53 by the University af NewHampshire on Wednesday. Thedefeat came largely at the handsof Jeff Bannister of UNH whoproduced 29 points. Highlightingthe engineers' efforts was adouble win effort by Ben Wilson'70 in the mile (4:20.1) and thetwo mile (9.11.9).

Javelin-D-210'6" 1. Phillips-UNH; 2. Bannister-UNH; 3. War-go-M.Pole Vault- H-13' 1. Nichols-UNH; 2. Tibbett-UNH; 3. Glow-ienka-M.High Jump- H-6'0" 1. Bannister-UNH. 2. Winges-M; 3. King-UNH.Shot Put- D-47' 11%4" 1. Phillips-UNH; 2. Bannister-UNH; 3. Lau-tenschlager-M.Triple Jump- D-427" 1. Mc-T snd.M- I Rannntpr TTNI1- 'A

Reed-M.100 Yard Dash-Smith-UNH; 2.Hemmelstein-M.220 Yard Dash-Smith-UNH; 2.Kelly-M.440 Yard Dash-

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T-50.8 sec.Kelly-M; 2. Young-UNH; 3.Wear-UNH.880 Yard Run- T-2:00.3 1. Van-ier-UNH; 2. Sullivan-M; 3. Rich-ardson-UNH.Mile Run-T-4:20.1 1. Wilson-M;2. Vanier-UNH; 3. Jarret-UNH.Two Mile Run- T-9:11.9 1. Wil-son-M; 2. Martin-UNH; 3. Pe-tro-M.

I,,,,-,,,, Z. ,,,,,,,,o~,L -,U,,, o..IJWU- 1 . The tennis team continued its one, and Don Smith topped SkipNovosielski-M. triumphal march with two more Brookfield '69 6-2, 6-3 atLong Jump-D-20'8" 1. King- victories this week to increase its number two. Gonzales' cut shotsUNH; 2. McLeod-M; 3. Novosiel- season mark to 12-3. The net- ruffled'. McKinley's usuallyski-M. men conquered Brandeis 7-2 on smooth style, and BrookfieldDiscus- D-142'3" 1. Bannister- Monday and edged Brown 54 in faltered' when he couldn't con-UNH; 2. Millins-UNH; 3. Lear- a squeaker. This, weekend the trol his passing shot.mouth-UNH. engineers play host to the New Bob Metcalfe '69 lost the first

Englands, and judging from this set 6-2 to Curt Bennett ofHammer Throw D-180'5 1. season's record they have a good Brown, but the engineer steadiedPchllipsr-UN; 2.Scla-. Laut shot at taking the crown. in the last two and won handily

At home against Brown the 6-2, 64. At four Manny Weiss120 Yard High Hurdles- T-15.5 top two Tech seeds had off days. '70 lost to Brown's Pete Guter-sec. 1. Bannister-UNH; 2. Spike Gonzales defeated Bob man 6-3, 7-5.Hall-M; McKinley '69 8-6, 7-5 at number However, the engineers even-

ed the singles section at 3-3Ruggers capture fifth place when Tom Stewart '69 and_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Steve Gottlieb '71 won 64, 6-2,

....... ._,6-1, 7-5 at the five and six slotsin Seven-a-side Tourna-ment respte tewwell and kept his foes at the

The rugby club entered two the big BC center. baselinie while Gottlieb's con-teams in the Seven's Tour- Tech's third game was against sistency was enough to win.nament held Saturday at Har- the Harvard Business School. The Techmen needed twovard. Of the sixteen teams en- Tech's offense worked better wins from the doubles entriestered, the first Tech team (dub- this game with several free runs and that's what they got. Scud-bed Elephants) placed fifth with for the backs. Tech jumped into der Smith '69 and Gottliebthe other teanm(Snakes) placed a 340 lead when Apse kicked a finished first with a 6-3,640 win.twelfth. The winner of the tour- penalty goal. However, the more McKinley and Weiss then camenament was the University of experienced opponents kept through witll the clincher to sealBritish Columbia. fighting back and tied the score the victory. They took the first

The Elephants ' first game on a tripk near the end of the set 7-5, lost the second 4-6, butwas against the experienced Bos- first half. Harvard scored several 'came back to take the third 6-3.ton Rugby Club led by Dan more times in the second half Metcalfe and Stewart playedSikes. The game was scoreless while holding Tech scoreless to long into the night before losingfor nine minutes of the first half send the Elephants to the beer. 64, 4-6, 64 to Smith and Ben-as the Elephants defense played Harvard finished second. nett.

, Photo by Craig Davis

Charge! Tech attackman -moves in on the Holy Cross goalie on asuccessful scoring attempt in last Wednesday's contest.

WT PI, UMassin mark to 5-6

Tech's usual leaders, GregKast '69 and Mike McMahan '69were off their gamrs. Both fin-ished at 84. However, CarlEverett '69 took up the slack ashe fired a 73, low score for thematch and his low for the sea-son.

to better seasoBy John Light .

The golf team brought itsseason record to 5 Wins and 6losses with victories over Uni-versity of Massachusetts andW.P.I. The match was played atthe Concord Country Club.

In an effort to prepare forthis weekend's New EnglandTournament at Williams, thematch was played under medalconditions rather than the usualmatch play format. Under medalplay, low total strokes for ateam wins the match. MIT pre-vailed with a seven man total of562 as compared to 569 for UMass and 617 for W.P.I.

well. But the forwards werelosing most of the scrums, keep-ing Tech on the defensive. Asplay went on, the inexperiencedTech backs, overeager for theball, tended to bunch in aroundthe scrums and rucks. This left adefensive'weakness on the wingswhich Boston soon took ad-vantage of when their wing gotloose near the side line and ran70 yards for a try. In the secondhalf, Boston scored twice moreon similar plays for a final scoreof 1343. Boston went on to placefourth.

In the second game, the rug-gers faced a bigger team, BC, buta lot of hard tackling and abrilliant run by Juris Apse re-sulted in a 54) win. Juris madehis run after seven minutes of

'fierce, scoreless battle. He grab-bed the ball in a loose ruck, tooktwo steps, shock off a swarm oftacklers and then sprinted thedefense 50 yards for a try. Afterhe converted, Tech had a 5,0lead to protect.

The second half was a hard-hitting defensive battle as BCfought to stay in the tour-nament, but Tech held on relent-lessly. The key defensive playwas made by wing Don Arkinwith a minute and a half to play.He made a score-saving tackle on

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Lending stong support to.Everett's leadership were DonAnderson '70 and Ken Smolek'70 who turned in scores of 76and 78 respectively. Fourthfor Tech was John Light '70who scored 81. Captain TomThomas '69 shot an 86.

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Today, Tomorrow, SundayTennisV3-New Englands at MITGolf(V)-New Englands at Wil-liams

By Ray KwasnickAs the IM intramural softball

playoffs loom on the horizon,confusion reigns on one of the Aleagues while the other has aclear cut champion. Phi DeltaTheta threw one race into a realscramble with an upset victoryover LCA last weekend. At this

point SAE, LCA, and PDT allhave a shot at placing in theplayoffs for the f'ist four places.

In the other league SAM edgedpreviously undefeated Bexley Ato go into the playoffs as theonly unbeaten A league team.

Bexley aslo gains a spot amongthe top seeds.

In the Phi DeR-Lambda Chigame last Sunday PDT won 3-1in a tight pitcher's duel on athree run first inning. BobRyzzak '71 drove in two of theruns with'a long home run, andthe other run was unearned.LCA's lone tally was also un-earned. PDT'S Lloyd Wilsontossed a two-hitter for the win.

The Sammies won twice lastweek. Paul Sitkus '70 pitched abrilliant no-hit 11-1 win overBurton A. The lone Burtonscore, which was unearned, wasonly the second run off Sitkusthis season. With a top playoffslot clinched, Sitkus sat outWednesday's game with Bexley.

Stu Nemser took over, and in atough contest, SAM topped Bex-ley 9-8 in nine innings. IraSacks '70 drove in the winning

run with a one out single.In the intramural squash play-

offs LCA squeaked by PBE forthe championship. Mike Oliverand Phil Henshaw of Lambda

Chi scored 3-2 triumphs over BillJaklitsch '71 and Gene Thorner'71 while PBE's Aldo Retistopped John Bunce '71 3-2.

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