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The role of graduate studentsin the review of the undergrad-uate curriculum is now under dis-cussion following recent recom-mendations by the Undergrad-uate Association (UA), theGraduate Student Council (GSC)and the MIT administration.

The GSC approved a motionOct. 16 supporting the participa-tion of at least one graduate stu-dent on each of the four ad hioccommittees that are consideringreforms to the undergraduatecurriculum3t.

A second resolution recom-mended that any graduate stu-dent be afowed to serve on anyInstitute committee, regardless ofwherevthe student conducted heror his undergraduate studies.

Withlout the measure, graduatestudents in departments that donot have undergraduate programsor that do not accept some MITundergraduates into their gradu-ate programs would be ineligibleto serve on some committees, ac-cording to Janine 14. Nell G.

pressing disagreement," said an-other.

Students expressed differingopinions on the purpose of di-vestment. The purpose of divest-ment, is to _weaken companies,rendering them <'not strong

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discuss diTech concerning MIT and divest-ment, a questionnaire on apart-heid drafted by the JA Counciland a recent copy of The Studentwith an anti-apartheid button,

It-was impossible to fAd a-South African student whowould talk about the apartheidissue, according to Lori Avirett'87, one of the organizers of theforum. South Africans whospeak against apartheid whileoutside of their Country "can becharged with treason when theyreturn' shte said.

MI1T currently has $1 50 millionof a total of $800 million investedin securities linked to businessesdealing with South Africa, Mosersaid.

"There is a financial case thatcan be made" for divestment, ac-cording to one student. The In-ternational Monetary Fund andUS banks have already stoppedmaking new loans to South Afri-ca, he said.

Some students at the forumopposed divestment. 'What rightdo we have to interfere in othercountries' internal affairs?"asked one student. "I'm not surethis is the right means for ex-

Tech photo by Steven H. WheatmanMembers of the MIT and Simmons College ChristianFellowship Clubs display their carved pumpkins. Thegroups gathered Saturday in the Great Court to pre-pare for Halloween.

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Rose was the 1979-80 recipient of the James R. Killian Jr. Fac-ulty Achievement Award. The citation accompanying the awardread in part: "Rose's professional life has constituted three dis-tinguished careers; that of scientist and engineer, that of thetech"nO gy/policy analyst, and that of the bnrdge builder be-tween the scientific and theological communities. He has auth-hed over 150 articles ranging from high technology to highRose worked for several years at Bell Laboratories, studyinggaseous electronics and electron and plasma physics. After join-1ng the MIT faculty, he played a leading role in organizing thelnstitute s thermonuclear fusion program.

Rose continued research in fusion at MIT until 1969 when hebecame founder and first director of the Office of Long RangeNanning at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During the twoYears at Oak- Ridge he established the program from whichtriginated the laboratorys research in energy conservation andteenvironmental sciences.UPa n his return to MIT, he studied nuclear waste disposal,and ahe ba d the relationships between global energy options,H became a member of the "World, Council of Churches'Working Party on the theological and ethical issues underlying

tho sacfor a just, participatory and sustainable society.Rose retired from MITf in December 1984, and moved todA fulleral service will be field at 1 1 am Thursday in the Cathe-dral C uorch of St. Paul, Boston. A memorial service will behed :0 m rda, o

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The CoMMittee on the Under-graduate Program (CUP) hasconsidered involving only thosegraduate students who attendedMIT as undergraduates, saidRobin M. Wagner G at the GSCmeeting. The other committeeshave not sought any graduatestudent membership, she said.

One of, the CUP's major func-tions is to seek educational inano-vation and formulate proposalsfor change, Wagner said. The di-versity provided by students whodid their undergraduate workelsewhere might further the com-mittee's goal, she continued.

Associate Provost for Educa-tional Policy and Programs Sam-uel J. Keyser said he favors grad-uate student participation on thecommittees.

The counsel of graduate stu-dents who are MIT alumni wouldbe 'very valuable," he said, andstudents from other institutions"can also bring a perspective."

He stressed that the importantissue is not representation, but"making sure that graduate stu-dent views are included." Howthese views would be included, hesaid, would be determined by thechairmen of the four committees.Keyser sits on the CUP, but noton any of the other four commitstees.

A graduate student who justcompleted an undergraduate edu^-

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Go Beavrs! Th MIT Ceerleadrs hel a pepral -'Tech photo by Ronald E. Becker|o se~a~rersl The =IT Goeeryeaders onW a Sep rall! n the Student Center steps FridayAfternoon to get MIT Psyched8 for the Homecoming Garne Saturd.,. Unfortunately,MIT-lost the game 22-0. See story on back paege.

Black frosh enrollment dropsBy Anu Vedanftsm in me,' " he continued. -they large number of minority stu-Only 3.8 percent of MIT's don'tbotherapplying to MIT be- dents iscaused mostly by Asian-freshman class is black - the cause they don't think they'll get Americans he said.lowest black percentage in 1 in' The Office of Admissions em-years, according to statistics from, MIT - with a 25 percent mi- ploys an associate director to fo-the MIT Office of Admissions. nority student body- hasone of cus on minority recruitment, aBlack enrollment has dropped the highest total minority per- higherpost thanat most univsrsi-from 65 students last yeanr to only centages in the country. But the (Please turn to page 17 i40 in the Class of 1989. A, ,

'There is a very dramatic dropthis year in black enrollment; it'svery disturbing," said Michael C.Behnke, director of admissions."We have had relatively decentsuccess recruiting students in oth-es minorities."

Blacks, Mexican-Americans,Puerto Ricans and American In-dians are still extremely under-repTesented, he said. MIT consid-ers only these groups to beminorities.

'Quite frankly, it seems to methat the Admissions Office is notspending enough time recruitingblacks," said Nate Whitmal '86,member of MIT's Black Stu-dents' Union. "Not- enoughblacks are interested in coming toMIT"... They have comparableability to other students.

'But black applicants think,'l'm a black person and I'm ap-Plying to this prestigious institu-tion that has been predorinatly white for over a hundred years*. i

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Students discussed MIT's in-vestments in ccnmpanies doingbusiness in South Africa, the Sul-livan principles, and the effec-tiveness of divestment at a forumon apartheid and divestment hildin the Baker House dining hallThursday.

About 35 people from the MITcommunity discussed the issuesat the first in a series of meetingssponsored by the UndergraduateAssociation QUA) Council.

"The council every month ishaving a forum on a campus is-sue,' said UA President BryanMoser '87. The issue of apartheidand divestment was chosen forthe first forum as a 'precursor tothe Institute Colloquium," hesaid.

Several documents were hand-ed out at the forum, including afact sheet on South Africa,copies of two articles from The

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programsored by the MIT Technologyand Culture Seminar, the MITDisarmament Study Group andthe Boston chapter of ComputerProfessionals for Social Respon-sibility.

A panel of respondents fromthe MIT community also ap-peared: Professor Vera Kistia-kowsky of the Department ofPhysics; Professor Shaouil Ezekiel'68 of the Departments of Aero-

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Strategic Defense Initiafive ortum.Dr. Jamies Ionson, director of

science and technology for theStrategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Office, predicted last Mondaythat there will be an 85 percentchance SDI systems can stop allbut one Soviet missile fromreaching the United States.

Ionson spoke at a forum spon-

with AIDS diesin firmary was equipped to handleident who such a patient.Os year as AIDS patients create a "two-Line Defi- way vulnerability," Kane ex-[DS) has plained. The patients themselvesassociate are very susceptible to disease.ph of the and need to be protected from in-Student fectious persons. Health care

workers also need to be protectede if the from potentially dangerous con-[ to iden- tact with the patient's blood andrmary or secretions.

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was diagnosed earlier th,having Acquired Immuciency Syndrome (AIdied, according to ADean Robert M. RandollOffice of the Dean forAffairs.

Randolph was unsur(student, who he declinedtify, died in the MIT infiat home.

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By AlrsmD C. Morgan

Featu reKurt Vonnegut, celebrated au-

thor -of Jailbird, SlaughterhouseFive, and most recently Galapa-gos, spoke about everything fromblue-footed boobies to nuclearwar to Franz Kafka's MAetamor-phosis last Tuesday in KresgeAuditorium.

He correctly assumed thatmost of the MIT students gath-ered in Kresge were either engi-neers or scientists. Focusing onthis, he warned them to be cau-tious as to "whose dreams theymake come true.' Vonnegut saidthat fascists such as Adolf Hitlercouldn't have carried out theirhorrible realities without the co-operation and assistance of"chemists, architects and engin-eers.'

An oath, similar to the Hippo-eratie oath for doctors, should beadministered at MIT's graduationceremonies, suggested Vonnegut.Such an oath would facilitate anawareness of the consequencesthat scientific research holds forcivilization, he said.

"We might acknowledge thatall modemn sciences have theirroots, if we go back far enough,in the wish to make people wellagain," he said. "I commend [theHippocratic oath's] spirit, thoughnot its particular content, tochemists, physicists, engineersand architects." Those who donot take the oath could be con-sidered official "guns for hired'he added. .

"If you, with your sacredknowledge, .. . were to takesuch an oath and mean it," Von-negut said, "it would be a last-ing, eaningful step towards safety-and sanity."

Vonnegut's familial ties to MITspan three' generations. His fa-ther and grandfather received de-grees in architecture from the In-stitute. His brother received adoctorate in chemistry, and hisuncle flunked out.

MIT accepted Vonnegut in1940 with the condition that he

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He compared the prospect ofnuclear war to "Jima Jones Kool-Aid" which Americans canchoose not to drink. Vonnegut _ .

encouraged his audience to takewhatever action was possible tostop weaponry production. There i__ .<are 'no fates worse then death,"he warned.

Vonnegut also explained sever-al storylines through graphing .v· <. 5 lthe "good" and "ill fortunes" ofthe main characters of several _narratives. Vonnegut plotted'.dif- _ _ _ l - hferent plots as functions one apersonalized two-dimensionalaxis using a blackboard near the Tech photo by Michael Klupodium. Kurt Vonnegut, in Kresge Tuesday.

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get rid of his deficiency in math-ematics as soon as possible. Hesaid, however, that his mail defi-ciency 'couldn't be remedied in amillion years."

Vonnegut also discussed hit lat-est work, Galkpagos, during his75-minute monologue. The novelis set in the GalA~agos Islands,which were made somewhat of atourist attraction.by Charles Dar-win's interpretation of habitationthere.

Vonnegut described his role asauthor of Galapagos as a kind ofprophetic Darwin, predicting hu-manity's predicament a millionyears from now.

He also characterized "survivalof the fittest," or "Darwinism,"as "the religion of our time." Hesaid that both the Republicanand Democratic political partiesare Darwinistic, with the formerthe more extreme of the two.

He described World Wars I adnaIt as Darwinistic, whose sole pur-poses were "killing people, to im-prove breeding stock." A pacifist,he said he owes this attribute to ahis growing up in the 1930s,when pacifism was fashionable.Arms manufacturers were collec-tively referred to then as "Mer-chants of Death," he said.

Times have since changed and"we live in a much more milita-ristic society," he commented.But "war has lost its zing' with

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Unless an AIDS patient neededcare which the Medical Depart-ment could not provide, the pa-tient would not be sent to anoutside hospital, Kane said. A

with victims of Hepatitis B, andexisted long before the AIDSoutbreak.

The danger to health careworkers is actually less withAIDS than with Hepatitis B.Kane added, because the AIDSvirus is more fragile and there-fore harder to transmit.

The Medical Departmentwould do what was "clinically in-dicated" to care for an AIDSpatient, Kane said. The AIDS pa-

patient with a disease or an op-portunistic infection "will remainour patient" regardless of wheth-er or not the patient was sLlffer-ing from that disease or infectionas the result of having AIDS.

The isolation of AIDS patientsis the result of a growing un-founded fear of and discrimina-tion against AIDS patients, Karnesaid. "The last thing we want todo is feed into thatdiscrimination _"

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(Editor's note: The following is ity to do some thinking about thehalf of the text of Scott Saleska's consequences of our work.reply to the Oct. 21 address of So, progress, Dr. Ionson? OfDr. James Ionson, director of the course. But that alone is notInnovative Science and Technol- enough. We must also ask, pro-ogy office (IS T) of the Reagan ad- gress towards what? What kindministration's Strategic Defense of progress? Progress for whom?Initiative (SDI). The concluding What are the likely consequenceshalf will appear in Friday's The of this particular technology -Tech.) not just technology in the ab-

I don't want to trouble you all stract. What are the human andtoo much at this time with argu- social costs, the potential forments about the technical or stra- greater or less security?tegic feasibility of the Strategic If the societal "progress" thatDefense Initiative (SDI). It is not SDI gives us is a greater dangerthat they are particularly difficult of nuclear annihilation, that isor obscure - it is just that I not the sort of progress I thinkcwould prefer simply to express we want -and it's not technol-my concerns about your pro- ogy we should waste valuable re-gram, Dr. lonson, from the point sources developing -no matterof view of a student of science. how technically challenging or

You speak a good deal about exciting it is.progress, and say that what you Now, before I am accused ofare trying to do with the SDI being a luddite, or of wanting toprogram is aid the cause of pro- "hold back progress," let me sim-gress and the development of new ply point out that technologicaltechnology. development can, at any given

And that is something few peo- moment, proceed in a virtuallyple here would argue with - infinite number of directions. Butafter all, we are, most of us, very because our technical resourcesinterested in technology, and we are not infinite, we are constantlyhave a lot of fun with it. That is required to make decisions.why most of us are here. Therefore, the research that is

But, we must also concern our- being done -and that which isselves with more than just our not -reflects where our societalown fun, and our own personal priorities lie.intellectual challenges inl technol° Which leads one to question:ogy. We also have the responsibil- where are our priorities now?

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as applied math, often has politi-cal consequences. A friend ofmine trained in game theory re-cently worked on the StrategicDefense Initiative, until he real-ized that the results of his nar-rowly focused efforts could onlybe used to justify a program withwhich he did not agree.

In computer science, the politi-cal consequences are becoming sodirect they may be embeddedwithin the software itself as capa-bilities advance. Robot controlsystems and space shuttles areplaced under software control.Projected "advances" includeautonomous fighting robots, bat-tle management, and missile tar-geting. As computer software ad-vances through this spectrum ofpoliticization, where do we drawthe line? Should a computer pro-gram be permitted to make theultimate political decision:whether to launch the missiles?

Unfortunately, Star Wars is of-ten debated on purely technicalgrounds. But political argumentsmust be considered because eventhe software may have to makepolitical decisions. For the soft-ware to be "correct," we mustfully consider the Soviet responseto our technological initiative.

In the near term, since the So-viets will not permit the tjitedStates to have a unilateral SDI

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Columns and editorial cartoons are writtenby individuals and represent the opinion of theauthor, not-necessarily that of the newspaper.

Letters to the Editor are welcome. Theyshould be addressed to The Tech, PO Box 29,MIT Branch, Cambridge MA 02139, or byinterdepartmental mail to Rtoom W20-483. Let-ters should be- typed and bear the authors' sig-natures, addresses, and phone numbers. Un-signed letters will not be accepted. The Techreserves the right to edit or condense letters. Weregret we cannot publish all of the letters we re-ceive.

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Let me begin answering that byreading something I came acrossrecently in the Careers Hand-book. It's available in the CareerPlacement Office, for those ofyou who are interested. As a stu-dent of physics, I took specialnotice:

Tvo majors in which the de.fense sector is hard to avoid areAeronautics & Astronautics andPhysics. This will not come as asurprise to Course 16 majors be-cause most major aerospacemanufacturers are deeply in-volved in building military sys-tems. Anyone choosing Aero &Astro, knows this from the begin-ning.

If you are in Physics, on theother hand, you may have startedout dreaming only of contribut-ing your bit to the stock of hu-man knowledge. Later, with thePh D under your belt, you maydecide to leave the academic lifefor industry and then you discov-er that many.of the most excitingplaces to apply your backgroundin lasers, or cryogenics, or incomputer modelling are in thedefense sector.

Indeed, approximately one-third of all scientists and engi-neers in this country are em-ployed working on rnilitary-

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While collecting signatures onthe pledge against Star Wars re-search in Lobby 10, I am con-tinuously confronted with thequestion: "How can you opposeStar Wars without doing the re-search first to find out if it's fea-sible?"

Pressed for time at the boothby students rushing to class, I'minclined to give the short answer:

"The entire Star Wars (SDI) re-search program neglects defenseagainst cruise missiles, whichevade radar detection by follow-ing the terrain at low altitudes.Even if SDI accomplished itsgoal, the Soviets could deploymore threatening submarine-launched cruise missiles only afew seconds from our coast."

Though I believe this short an-swer is an adequate rebuttal,some students don't like it. Someof them insist that the govern-ment would not be stupid enoughto spend S2.7 billion on half adefense.

But remember who's in theWhite House. Back in Californiawhen Reagan was governor, near-by defense contractors such asLawrence Livermore Laboratory,Lockheed, and Rockwell sufferedthe blow of Nixon's 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treatywith the Soviet Union and GreatBritain. Despite the treaty, thesecompanies con nmied to receivehundreds of million dollars of

ballistic missile defense contracts- even during the Carter admin-istration. Reagan never fails tooutdo Carter.

Other MIT, students believewe'll eventually discover a way tostop cruise missiles even thoughSDI doesn't try right now. This isa natural reaction for MIT stu-dents; after all, why would any-one come here unless they be-lieved in the potential oftechnology?

Such problems certainly pre-sent a technical challenge. Buttechnical solutions usually havepolitical consequences, and there-fore they are political actions.

Sometimes the political conse-quences are so arbitrarily or re-motely related they can be ig-nored. For example, you mightdiscover a promising alternativeenergy source that required amineral from Zambia. This dis-covery might prompt the UnitedStates to increase aid to Zambia,and to help its mnining industry.Military aid might allow an op-pressive Zambian leader to stayin power against the wishes of hispeople. But this result is unlikely,compared to potential directbenefits of your new fuel.

Technological effort is rarelypolitically neutral. Basic researchin theoretical mathematics is anotable exception. Before 1945,so was basic research in physics.

Research in other fields, such

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The Graduate Student Councilrecently advertised in The Techfor graduate students to serve onfaculty standing committees andcommittees appointed by- thepresident, but there was no men-tion of the mandates of thesecomnlittees- We would like to letgraduate students know what isinvolved and why we should beinterested in Institute policy. The-GSC will be interviewinginterested students this Thursday,Oct. 31.

Faculty standing and resi-dentiai committees are concernedwith policy formation and reviewof all aspects of MIT from thequality of life for students to lab-oratory safety to the academicprograms offered at MIT. As stu-dents, we can make a significantimpact by offering our perspec-tives to the administration andensuring that the decisions madewill be in our best interests.Without student input, theadministration would be makingmajor decisions without consult-ing t'ne student body.

For instance, MIT decided thatgraduate student housing wouldbe a low priority item and didnot include it in the currentcapital funds campaign. The ad-ministration perceived - withoutany real proof - that graduatestudents were attracted to MITfor the rigorous academic pro-gram only and were willing to putup with the exorbitant costs ofliving in Boston. Unless we letthe administration know ourconcerns, this situation will notchange.

This is but one example ofissues that need to be addressedand are being addressed in stand-ing committees. If we care aboutthe quality of life at MIT, abouthow the library acquisitions, sys-tem works (or doesn't), about

tudents: gepolicy concerning our academicprograms and a myriad of otherconcerns vital to graduate stu-dent life at MIT, we should allconsider serving on a facultystanding committee.

The current faculty standingcommittees which accept gradu-ate students are listed belowtogether with a brief descriptionof their mandate. Some of thesecommittees have already hadtheir graduate student positionsfilled in this year. You shouldcheck with the GDSC if a particu-lar committee interests you.

The Facully Policy Conmittee(accepts one graduate student).This newly formed committee, inconjunction with the newCommittee on the UndergraduateProgram (described below) hasinherited the duties of the nowdissolved Committee on Educa-tional Policy. The Faculty PolicyCommittee:

a. formulates policy on mattersof concern to the faculty, forapproval by the faculty; inter-prets and implements policy asapproved by the faculty;

b. coordinates the work of theother Committees of the Faculty,establishing liaison with them,providing guidance and direction,and referring issues to particularcommittees or establishing adhoc committees as appropriate;

c. maintains a broad overviewof the Institute's acadermic pro-grams, coordinating and review-ing proposals from the standingand ad hoc committees fbr pre-sentation to faculty meeting;

d. commlunicates-with the fac-ulty as a whole on importantmatters of policy, reporting regu-larly at faculty meetings;

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Each of the standing commit-tees described below is in addi-tion to the specific duties listed,responsible for (1) formulatingand reviewing educational poli-cies and other policies which re-late to its work, (2) requestingany needed clarification of suchpolicies from the Faculty PolicyCommittee, (3) recommending tothe Faculty Policy Committee anychanges of such policies which itdeems to be advisable, and (4)performing such other duties asmay be delegated to it by the Fac-ulty Policy Committee or by thechairman of the faculty.

The Committee on GraduateSchool Policy (accepts 2 graduatestudents).

The committee exercises gener-al overview of graduate programsand-of students working foradvanced degrees.

The committee:a. provides guidance with

respect to graduate admissionspolicies and procedures; thegranting of graduate scholarshipand fellowship awards; and theconditions of appointment of thegraduate student staff;

b. evaluates proposals for theadoption of new graduate degreeprograms and for the discon-tlnuation of existing programs,and makes reco:)mmendations to

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Wheatnan's column on meetinga Playboy Bunny who is also (in-credibly?) a Mensan ['Meeting aMensan - who is also a Playboymode, Oct. 181? It made MITstudents, who supposedly have ahard- time meeting' members ofthe opposite sex, seem like frus-trated baboons in heat, titillatedby Playboy magazine in the soli-tude of their rooms.

The "reporter's' implicit as-tonishment that brains and beau-ty could be combined in an MITstudent is insulting to the com-munity. The thought of Wheat-man drooling all over Valerie-the-bunny is embarrassing (if that's

getting lucky,' as he put it, hereally is in sad shape).

I suggest that you help yourwriters to report their experienceswith more sensitivity and depth,The woman Wheatman describedwas completely one-dimensional.In an attempt at humor, he de-clared that her superficial attri-butes were all that mattered andthat anybody who liked Valeriefor her mind (or personality) wasa "poor deluded person." TheTech-has some serious problemswith consistency if it prints thislow-level drivel beside analyses ofthe proposed pornographyamendment to Cambridge's Hu-man Rights Ordinance.

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%#(Continued from page 5)in rlaking recommendations tothe facultY on such matters ascalendar changes, examinations,and grading.

The committee acts with poweron proposals for changes in grad-uate level subjects of instructionand reports all approved changesto the faculty.

The committee also acts withpower upon requests from gradu-ate students for approval ofminor departures from generalrequirements for advanced de-

The committee considers casesof alleged misconduct by studentsbrought to its attention by theDean for Student Affairs or byany member of the MIT commu-nity. An accused student is givenan opportunity to appear inperson to a meeting of the com-mittee. If the findings of thecommittee include a recommen-dation that a student be requiredto withdraw from the Institute,the recommendation with thefindings shall be reported to thepresident for approval or disap-proval; otherwise, the committeeshall act with power.

greet,

Fginaly, the committee actswith power in evaluating the aca-demic performance of graduatestudents, including the issuanceof formal warnings and denials offurther registration in the Gradu-ate School.

At the conclusion of the tworegular terms and of the summersession, the committee makesrecommendations to the Facultyfor the awarding of advanced de-grees.

The Committee on the Under-gruduatre Program (accepts 1graduate student who attendedMIT as an undergraduate stu-dent). This new committee:

a. encourages experimental in-nosation in undergraduateeducation and formulates pro-posals for changes and modifica-tions in undergraduate education-al policy;b. exercises oversight responsi-bility for undergraduate educa-tion, including the freshman yearand other interdepartmental pro)-grams, giving attention to bothshort-term and long-term trendsand directions;

c. interprets and implementsundergraduate educational policyas approved by the faculty;

d. exercises authority toapprove and supervise limitededucational experiments and togrant exceptions to allow any ex-periment to depart from specificfaculty regulations and MIT ad-ministrative procedures. Descrip-tions of experiments and reportso n their progress and outcomeare circulated to the faculty. Ex-P eriments (such as Concourse)that show enduring value are in-c orporated in the usual ways into

Ethe faculty regulations and ad-ministrative practices; ande. Interacts with other faculty

oMmittees and with the schools,departments, and programs onimportant issues innrdergraduate education andcOrtmunicates with the MITomrnmunity as a whole about

such issues.The Commtittee on Student

Aflirs (accepts 2 graduate stu-

Becaulse successful educationdepends on social and effiective,s1 well as cognitive, aspects of

the student's experience, the com-ite Is concerned with student

If, and the quality of the learn-11g and living environment at

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iSUup o rt s e r Vi c e°tIs t it st dens an idewth the formal and informal re-"tonship between the Instituteadthe student. The committee

isexpected to meet regularity'w it representatives of supportservices to students, and to un-ifice isstudy and research spe-sii issues, The committee serves

bodyt to the oc9 faculty advisoryOff O~ice Of the Dean

for Student AGffairs, offering poli-cy consideration and advice.

The Committee on Discipline

(4"'Pts2 graduate students).

The Committee on the LibrarySystem (accepts 2 graduates).

This committee, with the ad-vice of the Director of Librariesformulates policy for the admin-istration of the libraries consis-tent with the objectives of theInstitute. It serves as liaison be-tween the libraries and their us-ers. The committee reviews bud-get allocations prepared annuallyby the Director of Libraries.

There are also 16 presidentialcommittees which also acceptgraduate students:

* The Commencement Com-mittee (1 graduate student)

o The Community ServiceFund Board (2 graduate students)

o The Dining Advisory Board(I graduate student)

o The Equal OpportunityCommittee (2 graduate students)

o The Committee on ForeignScholarships (1 graduate student)

o The IAP Policy Committee(I graduate student)

o The International Institu-tional Commitments (I graduatestudent)

* The Prelaw Advisory Coun-cil (I graduate student)

e The Medical AdvisoryBoard (2 graduate students)

e The Radiation ProtectionCommittee (1 graduate student)

* The Committee on Safety (1graduate student).

* The Student ActivitiesDevelopment Board (1 graduatestudent)

* The Toxic Chemicals (1graduate student)

v The Use of Humans as Ex-perimental Subjects (2 graduatestudents)

* The Committee on the Visu-al Arts (2 graduate students)

e The Committee on WomensStudents Interests (3 graduatestudents)

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We won't describe the respon-sibilites of the presidential com-mittees here. But we urge you tocontact the GSC for their de-scriptions, if any of their namesintrigue you.

In addition to these commit-tees, there are also ad hoccommittees which accept studentssuch as the current committee es-tablished to examine the militaryinfluence on MIT. The GSC hasrecently asked for graduate stu-dent representatives on the fournew ad hoc committees formedto consider major reforms in theundergraduate curriculum. Thesecommittees promise to offer ex-citing and challenging opportuni-ties to explore fundamental issuesin educational policies andprograms. We expect that gradu-ate students will be permitted onthese committees, and hope youwill stay tuned for announce-ments to this effect.

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The tensions and the suspi-cions within NATO continue toincrease. International terrorismwill seek revenge, one way or an-other. Israel is taking its chanceto deal with Jordan directly,omitting the PLO and provokinga new era of terrorism. The bigloser is the Middle East.

But who wants to have peacein the Middle East? Certainly notlsrael. Its recent familiar act ofstate terrorism was bound tothrow back all peace efforts foryears. Certainly not the UnitedStates. Its blind support of ,shat-ever has the "MMade in Israel" la-bel makes all commitments to apeaceful Middle East and the endof PLO terrorism look ridicu-lous.

Anyway, Reagan is as popularas before, and that is whatcounts. Right?

vanni Spadolini decided thatwhat has been the most stablegovernment Italy has ever had isno longer worth supporting.Craxi was forced to resign, reiter-ating his position that the Reaganadministration had offered insuf-ficient legal ground for detainingAbbas.

The Italian press' complaintsabout Italy being treated like a"banana republic" certainly seemjustified.

Egypt's President Hosni Mu-barak, seeking an apology fromReagan, heard only one word:"Never." Deputy Secretary JohnC. Whitehead was sent out in-stead on a fence-mending missionwith a Big-Brother smile, He hasbeen as successful as expected.This is an obvious outcome ofsomething we call economic andpolitical imperialism.

a peaceful solution for the Mid-dle East. Italy is a member ofNATO - "a valued ally" accord-ing to White House SpokesmanLarry Speakes. Both nations havebeen made to look like fools.

The skyjacking itself was a vio-lation of the terms of the com-promise that ended the seajack-ing without bloodshed. Theoperation violated Italian air-space, territorial rights, and sov-ereignty. Delta Force units andItalian military were very close tokilling each other over four Pal-estinian terrorists.

Italy released Abbul Abbas ac-cording to its long-term MiddleEast foreign policy of recognitionof the PLO, despite the urgentpleas from Washington to holdAbbas.

Suddenly, Italy's strongly pro-American defense minister Gio-

Not much more than threeweeks ago, another hostage dra-ma, the seajacking of the Italiancruise ship 'Achille Lauro," hada relatively lucky ending. Thisalone would not be anything new,but there was a surprising conclu-sion. After the Palestinian sea-jackers left Egypt by air for aPLO trial in Tunisian the US AirForce intercepted the Egyptianairplane and forced it to land inSicily.

What could have been the mo-tive for the hijacking of theEgyptian civilian airliner? The"Achille Lauro" affair was basi-cally over. Due to the efforts ofboth Italy and Egypt, all but oneof the hostages were releasedsafely. The four Palestinian ter-rorists as well as PLO Secretary-General Mohammad Abbas wereon their way to a PLO tribunal inTunis where the four hijackerswere supposed to be tried.

There is only one possible ex-planation: tough President Rea-gan, who had recently lost face inthe TNVA-crisis, strongly neededsome action to touch up his frag-ile ego. Most Americans seem tosimply love a leader who showsthe world how "strong" and"firm" the United States is.

Moreover, there was the thirstfor the blood of terrorists andthe disturbing feeling of totalhelplessness left behind by theTWA-hijacking. An action in"Rambo"-style was just the rightthing to generate a new wave ofpro-Reaganism and euphoria inthe United States.

If the four terrorists had everreached US territory, they wouldhave had to pay for every terror-ist act in the last decade in thename of just vengeance. A fairtrial as intended by the Reaganadministration would have been afarce -just like the PLO tribu-nal in Tunis might have been. Weshould be thankful to ItalianPrime Minister Bettino Craxi forhaving prevented another ques-tionable outcome of America'smnorality and self-righteousness.

Do not misunderstand me: thehijacking of the "Achille Lauro"was a condemnible crime. Butthis does not give the Reagan ad-ministration a title to give lessonsin firmness or to take "justice"into its own hands.

Is the jailing of four Palestin-ian terrorists at least someachievement in the fight againstinternational terrorism? Definite-ly not. Terrorism is a disease justas the measles is. There is nosense in trying to get rid of eachred spot separately; one shouldnot even scratch them, no matterhow much the itch. The right.thing to do is to fight the diseaseat the right place, inside thebody.

Terrorism anid terrorists aresymptoms, indications that thereis something wrong somewhere.There is no sense in trying to getrid of each terrorist separately ei-ther - the only outcome will bea nasty scar on society's moralskin. To stop terrorism, we mustlook to its cause and straightenout what has to be straightenedout - in our case the MiddleEast situation.

For the time being, let us for-get that there are "professional"terrorists - that Palestinian ter-rorism against innocent Ameri-can civilians might be, if not jus-tifiable, at least an understand-able answer to CIA or officialUS-supported terrorism againstinnocent Palestinian civilians;that modern mass media are cen-tered around sensations, indirect-ly provoking international terror-

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tured after they had been re-leased by Egyptian authorities asa part of the agreement thatsaved the lives of the passengerson the "Achille Lauro." The un-avoidable and horrifying result ofthe interception will be an in-crease of violence on part of ter-rorists. Fruitful compromises willbecome rare. The world will soonhave to lament even more LeonKlinghoffers, many of whom willhave died unnecessarily.

The sudden outburst of Ameri-can self-righteousness destroyedin one stroke all credibility in anyAmerican commitment to therule of law, the respect for a na-tion's sovereignty, and the con-cern for allies. What remains isthe barbaric "'might makesright."

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people don't belong here must doesn't need to sit behind engi- science and perhaps get to driveange to meet this factn Stu- neering and sciece. My hope is every now and then.nts need co feel better about that someday humanities at MIT Philip Koebel '87

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One dva y to deal with this dis-riminatione is to chang e the poli-Kbies and curriculume at MITmhere are committees lookin gutro such changes. Even though

ny changes that the ad hs c As a deftrr asseRROmTbled_bommittee on Humanities, Arts AoISpendius allyours.Ind Social Sciences decide upontill occur far down the roal , the carN esW P SoTentire school is a ucted just by herto Qf the 14

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A second way to pramote as sr. evreater enthusiasm .Or the ihu-anities' is to generate the ex--Kevi n Thomas,

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propose that students and fac-_Ilty members who feel their in- .. YR OTAtrest for the liberal arts im- v ....... _OKPO 'pinged upon should gathertogether, meet other people whoFeel similarly, talk and shareviews and experiences. I think ..... _ students, particularly art hIt~TF, ..... _need to be told, by their peers . ... _and professors that what they are . ... _iterested in is important be it lit- . ... _erature, history, economics, any- . ... _h'ing. ... . _I dont- want to create a divi-

sion or imply that science and en-gineering aren't important. I feel,however, that at MIT (and in theworld) students get positive feed-back for studying in these fields.How many people, for instance,are questioned about the practi-cality of an engineering degree?

So, I am calling for a Forum _On the Appreciation of Human-ities to meet on Wednesday, Oct.

30 in room 4-149 at 7 pm- Every-one in the MIT com~munity, in-cluding engineering and sciencestudents, faculty members, stu-dents in HASS and first-year stu-dents, is invited to attend and in-formally discuss the appreciation rTof humanities at MIT. The only )Ifgoal we have for now is for peo- PI l5E

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pornography bill currently underdebate, but my reaction to AdamDershowitz's letter ["Porn mea-sure violates rights," Oct. 181 isfairly unequivocal. He eitherhasn't thought very clearly aboutthe intention of the bill or he haspretty warped ideas about sex.

The bill is not intended to sup-press all sexual activity or the re-presentation thereof. It seeks toeliminate the portrayal of sexualsubordination or humiliation ofwomen. These are not elementsof a normal, healthy sexual rela-tionship.

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protest being referred to as ob-iects or animals, I think most ofthem would. This seems to beDershowitz's implication when hesays that sex can be described asthe penetration of a womain byobjects or animals.

One of the worst aspects ofpornography is its portrayal ofsex as an act of brutality ormindless physical gratification.This attitude seems to have beenabsorbed by Dershowitz. I won-der if his female friends find hiscomments about certain bodyparts as "casual" as he does.

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What does the United Statesdo when our SDI system de-signed to knock out 10,000 war-heads faces 100,000? Callingupon technology, we upgrade ourStar Wars defense to Version 2.0.We build more weapons.

Eventually, the Soviets will fig-ure out how to build their ownSDI. If, then, we could negotiatea treaty insuring both SDI'swould only be used defensively,we might have a successfulcounter to one type of nuclearthreat. Unfortunately, it is impos-sible to imagine a SDI systemthat could not be easily software-upgraded to knock out the othercountry's SDI. SDI satellites aresitting ducks compared to mis-sies.

Charles Zraket SM '53, execu-tive vice president of the MitreCorporation, describes multipleSDls as, Awe worst crisis-insta-bility situation. It'd be like hav-ing two gunfighters in spacearmed to the teeth with quick-firecapabilities."

The cause of the instability issimple. It would be unacceptablefor one country's SDI to "godown," because that would leavethe oher country free to launch afirst strike under its protectiveSDI umbrellas

An SDI vs. SDI attack wouldthus be perceived as the openingmove to a first strike, and wouldthus require instant SDI vs. SDIretaliation. Ain SDI vs. SDI at-tack would also be required in

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Even a software upgrade couldbe perceived as an opening ma-neuier leading to a first strike.

Even worse, true SDI softwarewould have to be programmed toreact to situations where thingsgo wrong, even if the problemsare with the other country's SDI.

A human decision of how torespond to a mistake would un-doubtedly consider political cir-cumstances on the ground -even statements in Pravda! Buttime requirements would pre-clude human involvemnent; thesoftware would have to decidewhether to attack using inc'om-plete information in situationsfor which is was not tested.

To be 'safe," each countrywould need an "SDS1)t" to pro-tect its SDI. But then, all the ar-guments of the previous para-graphs would still apply, at ahfigher defensive level.

Boeing, Rockwell, Lockheed,and McDonnell Douglas mightbe content to build SDSDI's andSDSDSDI's, but the result wouldbe decreasing stability, not in-creasing deterrence. Technologi-cal development unbridled by po-litical concern would cause thecomplexity of retaliatory policyto surpass the' capabilities of poli-cy -makcers, and certainly make"SDI control' an even more dif-ficult problem than arms controlis today. Why not solve the easierproblem?

(Editor's note: Rich Cowan is amember of MITr StudentPugwash.)

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-was different from NSF's tradi-tional approach towards basic re-search. James Ionsonss response:

"That is not our mode at all.This is mission-oriented basic sci-ence. The luxury to go off and sitin an ivory tower and do wonder-ful good science - what's inyour own mind good -science -that's a luxury this country maynot be able to afford for awhile.But it still has to be done. That'swhy NSF is there, but that's notwhy we are here. *... [Foir us] themission is central.'

And the mission, after all theoxymorons about 'weapons oflife," and the paradox of re-search that is both "~mission-oriented" and "basic," is an out-rageously expensive weaponsprogram which, according tomost scientists and engineers inthis country, siply won't work.

That is where the Reagan ad-ministration's and Dr. Ionson'spriorities are now.

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ihould also worry the fifty-sevenercent of MIT undergraduates

who, according to a recent Stu-dent Pugwash survey, expressedan aversion to working for themilitary industry.

You might wonder, Dr. Ionsorn,Ihy that prospect worries us.After all, you seem to think thatthis work is very important, andimply that we should really be ex-cited about the opportunity to do Be mindful

To the Editor:I would like to commend you

for your effort in reporting onthe 13th Annual MIT Black Stu-dents' Conference on Science andTechnology; however, I was dis-appointed with your coverage thespeech given by Professor JamesH. Williams Jr. '67. Your edited

narration ["Williams gives ownview," Oct. 221 did not capturethe full intensity of Williams'sspeech, diminished its clarity, andfailed to reflect the emotion withwhich it was delivered. It is un-fortunate that the reporter ne-glected to mention the thoughtfultone that was present throughout

the speech, because tone is so im-portant in interpreting the writtenword.

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our reason for being worriedis not because we are not interest-ed in science or technological ad-vancement, or because we areagainst progress. It is because wedo not Eke the priorities thatpeople like you are giving us.

Proponents of SDI often ask,"What harm can there be intrying?"

Well, I'11 tell you what harmthere is. Every time we engage ina massive spending program likethis that is wasteful and danger-ous, it means less money, andfewer resources for other pro-grams that are imnportant, or so-cially useful, or truly scientifically interesting.

It mneans, in the present con-text, that we, as a nlation, are es-sentially ignoring the problem ofacid rain. This at a time when fif-teen percent of the forests ofNew England are dying, whenthe Black Forest of Germany isbeing decimated, and the defor-estation. of the Alps has begun. Itis a problem of world-wide pro-portions with potentially de-vas-tating effects on the world envi-ronmnent and its inhabitants, yetyour boss, President Reaganl ig-nores the urgent recoinunnenda-tions of his own panel on acidrain and spends hardly a cent onresearch in that area.

Or, what about alternativesources of energy? That will be avery pressing problem soxme daysoon, yet where is the money forthat?

Federal money being spent injust these two areas - the envi-ronment, and alternative energy- is, according to one professorhere who is an expert an these is-sues, less than one-third of whatit was five years ago.

Or - if it Is glossy, hi-techchallenges you want - whatabout an effective mass transpor-tation system? And by that Idon't mnean just improvements onthe T. I'm talking about some-thing big like high-speed trans-continental trains. But no, weleave that to the Japanese, withall the implications that carries[or our international competitive-ness.

Or, what about space explora-tion? If this administration is soConcerned about the advance-ment of basic knowledge, whereare all NASAS exploration pro-grams? Programs like the Inter-national Solar Polar Expedition,the Venus Orbiter, or the GrandTour of the four outer planets -whch we now, because of the

aignment of the planrui will notave the chance to do again for

4ecades- Comet Halley is comingt spring. Several other coun-

nres are sending probes to inter-cePt it '-but not the US. YVhynot the US, Dr. Ionson?

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We should feel proud - notthreatened - that ProfessorShaoul Ezekiel (one of the re-spondents at the talk by Dr.James Ionson on Oct. 21) andothers have stood up for their be-liefs. We hope that other profes-sors will follow their example,and only work on projects inwhich they believe.

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would not make a film which is a celebra-tion of violence . . [To Live and Die inL.A.] is saying quite the opposite . . . thecharacters live by the gun, die by the gun.'

The film is at all times brutally non-he-roic. Friedkin emphasizes that all of thecharacters have "feet of clay." This is true:Just when one starts to put faith in a char-acter's superiority, something will happento demolish the pedestal upon which hewas precariously balanced. Friedlkin se-verely puts down the super-hero illusionpresented by much of television, calling it

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The second half was "dedicated" toWagner's Ring. The particular character ofWagnerian music makes it especially vul-nerable to Russell's humor. Throughouther career, therefore, this "'number' be-came a Russell trademark.

Accompanying herself at the piano, sherecounted the operatic story. She finishedoff the prelude with one chord, repeatedseveral times. By the fourth repetition theaudience was cheering, and Russell turnedaround with a perfectly straight face: "Ifyou know the chord Of E-flat major youknow the whole prelude."

The rest of the description was strewnwith similar biting remarks. Siegfried andthe Valkyries inspired her the most.

The frosting on the cake was an Englishpopular song, for which Russell, gesticu-lating widely, insisted on audience partici-pation. The refrain involved several notquite "proper' sounds. It was quite an ex-

_perience to hear Symphony Hall subscrib-ers produce such sounds in unison.

But despite her popularity with the audi-ence, Russell's wit all too rapidly evaporat-ed on me: I was overcome with a certainsadness and boredom when, by the end ofthe evening, I could all too easily predictRussell's jokes. The actress perpetuates theconventionalism she laughs at, and doeslittle more. But maybe that's the idea.

Jacqueline Gottlieb

Anna Russell at Symphony Hall, Oct. 24.It was a great evening for Anna Russell.

The British raconteuse, now over 70 yearsold, was rewarded with long standing ova-tions for her performance. This was herBoston farewell concert.

The applause far exceeded any I haveheard in three years of going to SymphonyHall. It reflected on the dowager's infec-tious vivacity, not only on the warmth ofher popularity.

In a bright pink gown draping her am-ple body, and bathed in the purple aura ofthe stage lights, Russell dominated thestage needing no help from the Steinwaygrand.

She parodied almost anything that couldbe sung. She started with German liederand German drinking songs. The latterwere accompanied, of course, by extensivepantomime of beer-drinking and thigh-slapping. In a similar spirit she sang herversion of a Russian folk song christenedDa, Nyet, - "our rough equivalent of'Let's do it'" she could not restrain fromremarking.

A French romantic chansonette fol-lowed: the heroine smokes her first ciga-rette with her first lover after 'the firsttime." Twenty years later she smokes herlast cigarette, apparently suffering fromtuberculosis. By the tenth repetition of"ma derniere cigarrette" spontaneouslaughter rose in the audience at the mereanticipation of the words.

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In To Live and Die in L.A., however,the scenes are shudderingly vicious, oftencoming as an electric surprise, and rarelyoccurring when they seem inevitable.Friedkin asserts that one of the most im-portant aspects of a good script is anabundance of "surprising situations - sit-uations that are unpredictable." Althoughone might mistake that violence is the solepurpose of this film, Friedkin states "I

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lover whom we have to imagine had a

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peared to be stifling herself, as her person-al space appeared to become increasinglyconstricted, and the physically unchangin2room shrank emotionally to unbearablyclaustrophobic proportions. GabriellijEemotionally-charged singing drew the au-dience into the piece; firm orchestral play-ing added effect.

Of care in pronunciation made one wordslur into the next, making it impossible todiscern what was being said. The lack ofclarity was heightened by poor amplifica-tion. So some pregnantly funny words andlines were lost on the audience.

Poulenc's La Voix Humaine came acrossmuch better. Anna Gabrielli sang the onlypart in Cocteau's play of "one act, oneroom, one character, love and that banalproperty of modern plays, the telephone."

MIT Symphony Orchestra, conducted byAlan Yamamoto, Kresge Auditorium,October 26; Boston Lyric Opera Companydouble-bill: FaCade by Walton and LaVoix Humaine by Poulenc, Alumni Audi-torium, Norteastern University, October25, event in The Tech Performing Arts Se-

ies.The MIT Symphony Orchestra put in a

mixed performance on Saturday night.Mozart's Overture to The Impresario is asnappy piece, and should be done withboth drive and humor. The orchestra dem-onstrated neither quality in a performancethat lagged and lacked coordination. Mo-zart played raw is simply not Mozart atall.

Matters improved greatly, however, forScriabin's Piano Concerto in F sharp mi-nor, Op. 20. The orchestra provided acolorful opening, and soloist Abbott Rus-kin entered with a performance that wasfluent and free-ranging. Ruskin endowedthe work with a lyrical romanticism - asis appropriate to an early Scriabin worksuch as this. His playing was fiercely inde-pendent - he seemed to become com-pletely absorbed in his music - but theorchestra nonetheless provided a cohesivebackdrop to his playing, its subtly shiftingtextures adding illumination to the solo-ist's part. The velvety-romantic outlookwith which the strings introduced the An-dante was beautiful; the subtle but alertwind playing in the Allegro moderato gavethe movement a breezy feeling that pro-vided lift for the build-up to the exhilarat-ing finale.

There were major problems, however,for the performance of TchaikovskySsSymphony No. 4, which wound up theevening.

Alan Yamamoto - replacing al ill Da-

vid Epstein - had rehearsed the orchestraonly hours earlier, leaving them exhaustedfor the concert itself, according to a mem-ber of the orchestra interviewed after theconcert. Yamamoto had also chosen ratherdifferent tempi from those rehearsed bythe orchestra's regular conductor, and thischange may have led to the confusionwhich ensued: -The strings were seriouslystrained for much of the piece, and it wasa hopeless task for Yamamoto to attemptto keep them together.

There were some pleasant spells,though: The third movement pizzicato hadcharm to it; winds added a quintessentiallyRussian color to the piece in several pas-sages, and there were also moments of im-pressive brass and percussion playing.Overall, though, the piece came across asuntidy and pushed: Yamamoto would havedone better to have foregone somefortissi-mo in favor of a more restrained and care-fully-shaped reading which would havebeen less likely to overtax MIT's frequent-ly profound, often brilliant, but nonethe-less young and sensitive orchestra.

The Boston Lyric Opera Company em-barked on an adventurous double-bill lastFriday, but floundered in the first half.Walton's FaCade puts three actors on stageto narrate poems by Edith Sitwell, whileWalton's music plays. John Balme con-ducted the orchestra, and brought outsome wonderfullly evocative music. Eachplayer in the chamber-sized band seemedto be a virtuoso in his own right, and per-formed with vigor and style. But the lifeof the music was not matched by the poet-ry from on stage: Although William Cav-ness did somewhat better than KristinLinklater and Richard Conrad, none ofthe three distinguished themselves. A lack

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an "obscene, distorted view of Americanlife as I have observed it."

One cannot help but compare To Liveand Die in L.A. to the popular TV seriesMiami Vice. When asked if this show hadany influence on him, Friedkin replied, "Ihave never seen Miami Vice ... it isn't thekind of TV I would watch." Although thefilm does at times resemble the show, it isfundamentally different in that everythingis down-to-earth. The characters get theirhands and consciences dirty in the vermin-ridden streets of L.A., rather than saunterdown the tropical avenues of glamorousMiami: setting trends, never getting hurt,and almost always defeating the evil.

Los Angeles was selected to be, as Fried-kin puts it, "a giant chaos of a place . .. .ametaphor for the inorganic nature of citylife, which seems to be crumbling at theseams."

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in highly charged, life-and-death situa.tions.... The audience won't admit toidentifying with the characters, but findsthem fascirnating."

To Live and Die in L.A. is certainly notan exploitative splatter film. It will not ap-peal to all, due to its copious and explicitcontent of spectacular violence. But onhearing Friedkin expound on his objectivesin creating such a film, I could not helpdetecting a genuine sincerity in his mo-tives.

Friedkin is probably best rememberedfor the highly appraised The French Con.nection and for the Horror Genre trend-setter The Exorcist. In To Live and Dieand L.A., the emphasis is on the vulner-ability and realistic imperfections of theotherwise conventional gun-toting heroes.His aim is to demystify the characterswhich the one-hour TV series have madealmost omnipotent.

Friedkin defined the attraction of sus- It is with this knowledge, that youense movies as being "interesting dra- should see the film. Perhaps. in this light katically . . . [involving] people who are you will come to appreciate it.

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Greg Arnderson '88, Jackie Berger '89, ElBurton '89 (for work above and beyondcall of duty), Brenda Chin '88, Derek Chi'89, Christine Chu '88, Carissa ClimacoDavid Duis '89, Howard Jay Eisen '89, !Fatur '89, Jennifer Felch '89, Grace MaMelanie Ryan '89, Charlie Sakamaki '89, ViVasista '89, Anclrea Wong '88, Joe WooLarry Yu '89, Mike Fox '88 & Mike Couris(for creative stamping) and DavidOakes '89 & Scott Silverman '88 (forwanting to help, even though theycouldn't be there).

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meeting on Tuesday, October 29 at7:30 pm in room 400 of the StudentCenter. Please come. If you can'tmake the meetirn, but are Interest-ed in joining any of the committees(senior week, senior gift, parapher-nalia, commencement speaker,publicity and social), please callBeth at di-7373.

If you have not received a classnewsletter and survey, it is becausewe do not have an address for youon campus. You can pick up copiesof the most recent newsletter in theUA office (Room 401, Student Cen-ter). We would like to be able tosend one to everyone in the class,so if you have an address on cam-pus, please call Sharon (dl-7374) orBeth (dl-7373). If you received anewsletter with either your name oraddress incorrect, please contact usto correct it.

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ing business in South Africathan the profit.

;estment is an expression ofnational solidarity" with

s in South Africa, said Ar-Contreras '84, a member of

Student.e student said, "This is onealong the path to hopefully

rights in South Africa."er student noted that Co-a University was "saying

ething as Paul Gray was" not long ago, but agreed

vest within two years be-of student pressure.ral students criticized the

ivan principles, a set ofines for companies doing

ess in South Africa.lot of people believe this isovide good publicity foranies," said one student,

izing the Sullivan principles.long as companies aire inhAfrica, they pay taxes and

Jr h oernment."ohrsuent said that thehArcngovernment- re-stergtto take over cor-

ions' facilities in that coun-uring times of civil unrest.e South African governmentndorsed the Sullivan princi-said Omnar S. Valerio '85, a

ber of the MIT Coalitionnst Apartheid. Valerio noted

the there is no neutral thirdyevaluation of companyhiance; rather, "companiesup on themselves.

on Sullivan, chairman ofrat Motors, said 'the Sulli-Principles are no longer

ing," and supports "divest-as an ultimatum,' accord-)another student.

user raised the issue of whyMtion has been focused onhAfrica instead of other op-

ive countries. He noted thathAfrica was the only coun-base its oppression "solely

e basis of race."ntreras said that it was "hy-Lcal" to only consider cov.

porations' actions toward SouthAfrica while ignoring their activi-ties in other countries. "It's im-portant to look at their role allover."

Moser also questioned: "Howdoes the apartheid issue affect usat home?"

The Institute is "returningbask to the middle 50s," saidContrerks, citing the firing ofDean Mary Hope, the recent as-signment of the Office of Minor-ity Education to the Office of theDean for Student Affairs andrises in the cost of education.Those cost increases make it "vir-tually impossible for poor kids togo to school here today."

Another student criticized pro-posals for tuition tax credits as"supporting private education in-stead of improving public educa-tion."

Associate Professor of Math-ematics Frank E. Morgan '74,chairman of the Institute Collo-quium Committee, discussed theupcoming program on apartheidand divestment sponsored by thecommittee. "Is this the way to getstudents and faculty together?"

'he asked.One student criticized the

schedulirngof some activities dur-ing the late afternoon, whichconflicted with their classes. Mor-gan replied that holding the ac-tivities at a later time would dis-courage faculty participation.

"It will be. interesting to seehow the [student/faculty mix]will change from late afternoonto evening,n he said.

Contreras questioned the un-derlying purpose of the collo-quium, citing a recent meeting inWashington, DC, in which schooladministrators discussed how tostop campus demonstrations.

"I don't tnink I could be chair-man of the Institute Colloquium .Committee if I was a member ofthe administration," Morgan re-plied.

The next UJA Council forumwill be Nov. 14, Moser said. Thediscussion topic has not been de-.cided~yet, but "educational poli-cy" is a possibility, he said.

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professors makes black students

feel alienated and alone. Youthink you're~ going to have a fB blir~hrder time getting through here | because You're black.-

Another major problem is lack _of finances. "A41T is not recruit-ing poor Chicanos," Bernal said,"and it is not helping those en-

rolled to pay. Chicanos haven't .- -; b |,; l

been graduating for financial rea-

thes- only one Chicano graduat- Freshmen and Sophomores line up in Lobdell Wednesday for the annual Ice Creamed last year [out of 20 enrolled in Orgy. This and other events were part of the Autumn Weekn eerto hcthe original class]." culminated in MIT Footballf s Homecomning game Saturday.eknclbrto whh

(Continued from page IJties, according to Behnke. Re-

cruiters give presentations at high

schools with significant minority

or women enrollment whenever

possible.MIT uses an affirmative action

program in judging applications,

Behnke said. "We don't admit

anyone who is not a good candi-

date. But given the pool of

strong applicants, we try to ad-

mit minority students.

"The goal is to admit as many

as possible," he added. "The

pool of black applicants was not

s good as it has been in past

years. Also, nationally, the num-

bers of black students going on

to college declined" from 32 per-

cent in 1977 to 28 percent in

1984, he explained. 'And less

blacks took the PSAT, fromwhich we base our recruitment

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1973 to 1984 in black applicants

into the Ivy group."No Puerto Rican students were

enrolled at the Institute 25 yearsago, according to the AdmissionsOffice. But enrollment in that ini-

nority group, unlike black enroll-ment, has been increasing stead-

ily over the past 25 years. PuertoRican enrollment at MIT current-

ly stands at above the nationalaverage -nearly two percent of

te Class of 1989 are PuertoRican, more than twice the fi~g-ures provided by the 1980 nation-

al census. American Indian en-

rllment has been holding steadyover the past 8 years.

Blacks composed II l 9 percent

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Blacks oriiY compose 3.8 percentofthe Class of '89. Harvard Uini-

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nautics and Astronautics andElectrical Eanine snd Com-puter Science; and Scott Saleska'86 of MIT Student Pugwash.

Ionson said he began travehingaround the country to clear up"SDI misunderstandings," ad-dressing -audiences from liberalto radical."

He said he would not try tochange the minds of listeners, butrather to provide information. 'Iwill not even attempt to conveyan illusion of objectivity," Ionsonexplained. .

Ionson initiated his 45-minutepresentation with a defense forthe foundation of SDI.

'"We all believe in peacethrough law and negotiation," hesaid. He asserted that offensivedeterrence is currently necessaryto back-up the negotiation pro-cess. Reducing arms can at bestreduce the costs of the reliance,he said.

"Defensive deterrence could bea more moral alternative, and itshould be investigated,' said Ion-son. "Defensive deterrence, re-member, is non-nuclear and in-capable of destruction." Hestated the intent of SDI was tomake nuclear weapons uneco-nomical and obsolete.

Ionson emphasized that -noth-ing is in the deployment scenario.We are only doing research ...The US is engaging in open re-search of political, economic andtechnical issues."

To demonstrate his confidencein the feasibility of SDI, Ionsonexplained that the effectivenesswill lie in the layering of defenseshields along missiles' trajector-ies:

* The first layer covers thefive-minute boost phase in whichthe rocket's flame is on and easyto detect. Ionson claimed thislayer is 90 percent effective; only140 of 1400 missiles would getthrough the first layer.

0 The second layer, the five-minute bussing phase of the mis-sile, can be covered with 80 per-cent efficiency. The 140 rocketsescaping the first phase, Ionsonexplained, would mean that 1400warheads would escape that layer.Only 280 warheads would escapethe bussing phase, he said.

0 In the midcourse phase of30 minutes, Ionson claimed thatSDI's 70 percent effectivenesswould allow only 84 warheads toescape.

0 The three minute exoatmos-phenic phase in which the missilereenters the atmosphere could becovered with 80 percent efficiency,Ionson claimed, allowing only 17warheads to survive.

0 In the endoatmosphericphase, Ionson estimated a 95 per-cent effectiveness rate. The endresult is an 85 percent chancethat only one of the 17 remainingwarheads would ultimately escapethe defenses.

Ionson cautioned that the ef-fectiveness depends on the num-ber of missiles in the attack.

Kistiakowsky was the first torespond following lonson's pre-sentation. She opened by arguingthat lonson's numbers on SDI ef-fectiveness were purely hypotheti-cal. "Their charming presenta-tion does not make them real,"she said.

SDI is technically infeasible,Kistiakowsky continued; it en-compasses "no new ideas by andlarge." SDI is instead "based onstretching existing things to tech-nological limits." She cited a

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study which stated that at least42 warheads could escape SDIdefenses, killing 25 to 30 percentof the US population.

Kistiakowsky also addressedthe fact that a retaliatory posturewould still have to be main-tained. Relying on SDI would beanalogous to relying on a largefortress.

She- also said the satellites arehighly vulnerable relative tolaunch and reentry vehicles.

Kistiakowsky also quoted SDIDirector General James Al Ab-rahamson '55, who stated, "Aperfect Astrodome defense is nota realizable thing."

Responding to Kistiakowsky,Ezekiel stated, "Research shouldbe done even though on paperthings look impossible."

Saleska concluded by stating"if you believe in SDI, then go

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(Continued from page 1)ation is "a valuable resource,"aid UA President Bryan R.4oser 'S7. Such a resource is vi-11 in answering -fundamental,hilosophical questions abouthat MIT as a university should

ing the issue of graduate studentparticipation, and claims the fac-ulty has been reluctant to seekstudent input.

She cites "seven months worthof lack of student involvement"up to and following the Wood-stock, VT, meeting in May whichinitiated the curriculum review.Another example, which Mosernoted, was a New York Times ar-tide on MIT's curriculum reformpublished on Sept. 29 - beforeMIT announced the review tostudents.

The issue of graduate studentparticipation in undergraduateeducational policy decisions isseen as an example of a largerproblem. Wagner characterizedthe difficulty as a "lack of studentinput.'

Moser's thoughts are similar:'Graduate students need to beunderstood a lot better aroundhere."

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hould involve "being preparedhead of time [andl knowing

hat the issues are.""There should be an avenueailable for graduate students-ifere is interest" in advising edu-

ational policy, Nell said. Wheth-r there would be continued in-rest, she said, is "difficult to

redict."The GSC made its recornmen-

ation for three reasons, Nell ex-lained. First, certain MIT grad-ate departments do not acceptIT undergraduates. Second, di-

ersity encourages "innovation."hird, "enthusiasm and interest"re more appropriate criteria

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Jack. L. Kerrebrock, head ofe Department of Aeronauticsd Astronautics, and Dean .ofngineering Gerald L. Wilson1 co-chair a committee review-g engineering education. Thatremittee is likely to includenly faculty members, Kerre-*ock said. Students would par-iipate in smaller meetings inach of the eight engineering de-arments.Leo Marx, professor of sci-

ence, technology and society,eads a commrittee studying an

integrated liberal arts and tech-ology program. While "certaiin-

Iy not closed to the idea,' he saide is concerned that new mem-

bers may have difficulty catchingp with eight weeks of activity.Robert J. Silbey, professor of

c hemistry, chairs a committeetsudying mathematics and scienceerquirements. The members1 would all welcome the counselO f students in our deliberation,",whether undergraduate or gradu-

Iate, he said. "Choosing the rightPeople is still hard."lPauline R. Maier, professor of

history, heads a committee study-ig the humanities, arts and so-

cial sciences requirement. Theperspective of undergraduates isimor desparately needed" thantht of graduate studenlts, in partdue to the undergraduate empha-is of the humanities programs,

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Hugh Ekberg '88 plows through Bentley College defense in Saturday's Homecoming game. Despite a large, enthusiasticTech photo by Steven H. Wheatran

crowd of fans, the EngineersBy Jerome Braunstein The defense, usually the strong

An estimated crowd of 1000 part of the team, did not help thepeople witnessed the MIT Bea- Beavers' injury-ridden offense.vers lose their homecoming game 'We came out flat," said defen-22-0 to the Bentley College Fal- sive co-captain Nicholas S.cons in Steinbrenner Stadium Nowak '86. Defensive co-aptainSaturday. Larry S. Monroe G explained

"We played our worst game of that the team "considered [itself]the year," said an upset Dwight to have a good running defense,Smith, MIT head coach. Bentley but they still moved the ball. TheCoach Peter Yetten earned his defensive line wasn't getting offS0th career win. the ball."

Bentley 22, MIT 0 Fiv-foot six 145 lb. defensiveback Hong M. Yang '87 madese" 0 4 16 _- 2 the Beavers' only interception of

BMsT*-Pul WAS 8 bass m 0 Than the game. He recovered the er-Heft Upassfiod) rant HIeffin pass in the end zoneSenfley--John Captioni 25 uno gn1sh faild)Bmnft-Dan CaampBW37 FG to stop a Bentley touchdownBeney-Sean Co al~ 26 nterc*ption rewm drive in the second quarter.Attendance- O100 "I thought that I played well

F~u downM -7 ff against the pass, but got beat onRust*$-net Yards 55-227 37-96 the outside mn,' Yang said. ThePassingoxarc 52 34 Falcon ground attack was effec-FPssn -181 4-13-1Punuw 2irft 30 52 tive, gaining 261 Wds rushing.Punts 2-85 7-274Furnbleslos 1-0 5-2 The Beavers held their opponentsPuzudts-yards }-5 4 35,

Ird-drO 4-35 --- to only 52 yards passing.R ,Chng-U 17-98,Deinkewiz Defensive end Christopher P.23-139. Hsevn 1016; Cokoogianis 5- Moreno '88, who left the game15. haT, Ekbb#9 17-67. Adams 11-39.

Gasprini & 92, Macda I -8, Bbdt 1-1. due to an aggravated groin in-Passing-ientley. eHfin 8-18-1-52. MIT, jury, summed Up the game ay-Gasparimi, 4-13-1-34.RaMrgving_8*ntMV, Wassel 4-31, Copponi 3- ing, "We- were mentaffy preprared.

19, O1ole 1-2. MT, Rice 2-28. Coress1-5. Ekberg 1-1. but not physically.' Team prac-

tices were uninspired al weekpreceding the game, he added.

Because of injuries and aca-demic demands, players eithercame late or missed pratices en-tirely. Hugh B. Ekberg '88 start-ed as center for John F. Ryan '89,who was away at a wedding. Lat-er Ekberg substituted at quarter-back for Peter J. Gasparini '88.Gasparini went out for a seriesafter being hit in the head.

Ekberg last played quarterbackwhen he was a sophomore inhigh school. As a result, the Fal-cons knew that MIT planned torun the ball. The usually strongMIT running game, which gainedover 300 yards two weeks ago,was limited to 124 yards. Ekbergled the attack with 67 yards in 17attempts. Christopher J. Adams'87 provided support, gaining 39Yards in 1 carries.

Gasiparini returned later in thegame and should be playing nextweek.

The score was relatively closedurng the first half. The BentleyFalcons first scored with an eightyard touchdown pass early in thesecond quarter. The point after

touchdown (PAT) attempt faileddue to a bad snap.

MIT's lack of offensive punchwas best demonstrated early inthe first half. On two consecutiveBentley possessions the Beavers'defense shut down the Falconsdeep in their own end, giving theMIT offerns the ball inside theBentley 30. On neither occasionwas MIT able to gain even a firsdown, as their best scoring op-portunities of the afternoon werewasted. This typified the offense'sperformance; MIT gained a totalof only 130 net yards on the day.

The score remained 6-0 until

the fourth quarter, when Bentleyscored again on a 25-vard run.The PAT attempt again tailed.After a Bentley field goal, thescoring concluded when Gaspar-ini threw an interception m hichwas taken for a touchdown. Gas-parini ended the day with onlyfour completions, for a total of34 -yards passing.

The Beavers play their lasthome game of the season againstUMass-Baston at I pmn SaturdayThere are two games left in theSeasn, and the Beavers need to

wnthem both to avoid a losingrecord.

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