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HASS comnmittee recommends reformsBy Shawna Vogel

The Committee on the Hu-manities, Arts, and Social Sci-ences (HASS) on Jan. 30 issuedits interim report proposing revi-sions in HASS requirements. Thereport defined four new categor-ies for HASS distributionsubjects designed to give MITundergraduates a more completeand coherent introduction to thehumanities.

"The proposals are intendednot for implementation but fordiscussion throughout the Insti-tute," said Pauline Maier, chairof the HASS committee.

Under the proposed require-ments, students would take onecourse in each of the followingfour categories: socio-culturalstudies, historical studies, literaryand philosophical studies and thearts.

* Socio-cultural studies wouldattempt to develop students'awareness of "how values and as-sumptions govern human cultures

'by examining specific human so-cieties whose governing values,assumptions, and social organiza-tions are different from thosethat predominate in the contem-porary United States," the reportstated.

* Historical studies would em-phasize students' understandingof "the process of historical con-tinuity and change."

* Literary and philosophicalstudies would exercise students'abilities to "read -and analyzetexts, and develop their knowl-edge of literary and philosophicaltraditions."

* A study of the arts wouldenhance students' capacity to"understand nonverbal forms ofcommunication, particularlymusic and the visual arts."

The committee proposed alimit on the number of subjects

offered in any one category toavoid overabundance or redun-dance in courses accredited asHASS distribution subjects. They

By Mary CondelloFewer than ten students at-

tended a Feb. 5 forum on por-nography, sponsored-by the Un-dergraduate Association (UA)and the Graduate Student Coun-cil (GSC). UA President Bryan R.Moser '87 responded that "por-nography isn't the flaming issue itwas last year."

Moser and GSC PresidentJanine M. Nell G, who led theforum, had hoped to obtain stu-dent input in the form of specificconcerns or suggestions regardingthe draft of the MIT PolicyStatement on Sexually ExplicitFilms [The Tech, Feb. 4].

"The issue that the committeeis addressing seems to havedropped out of existence," saidLouis Menand III, advisor to theLecture Series Committee (LSC)and senior lecturer of politicalscience.

"Other issues, for the time be-ing, have superseded it," specu-lated Prof. Isabelle de Courtiv-ron, a member of the group whoproposed the current revisions ofthe policy. "There are only somany things you can get involvedin and outraged about."

Prof. John Hildebidle, formerchairman of the ad hoc Commit-tee on Pornography, said that noone seems to want to show por-nographic movies anymore. Hesuggested this might be "a sign ofmore intelligence on campus."

Because LSC has not shown asexually explicit film since lastspring, many students do notperceive pornography as an im-mediate issue, de Courtivronsaid. "People don't feel an urgen-cy about it," she added.

The pornography symposiumsponsored by the MIT Women'sStudies Program and Harvard'sCommittee on Women's Studieslast October helped defuse the is-sue, she explained. "It showedthe complexities and ambiguitiesof it as a social issue," de Cour-tivron said. When people are bet-ter informed about pornographythere is "less of a knee-jerk reac-tion," she added.

"We shouldn't respond to is-sues only when interest is at a

,peak," Moser countered. Pornog-raphy was a more controversialtopic last year, he said, because

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also suggested frequent and rig-orous review of these subjects.

"The impetus for the reportwas a consensus throughout theInstitute that we needed morestructure in the distribution sys-tem and . . . more academicactivities bringing people fromdifferent disciplines together,"said Ann Friedlaender, dean ofthe School of Humanities andSocial Science.

The committee recommendedno structural changes in the con-centration requirement of threeor four subjects in a single HASSfield. Instead, they suggested inthe report that "no concentration

consist predominantly of subjectsthat are highly or exclusivelyquantitative, or are primarilyconcerned with the teaching ofskills."

Under the committee's guide-lines, students would still be re-quired to take enough HASSelectives to comprise a total ofeight subjects, the report stated.Report proposes new requirement

One innovative proposal thecommittee advanced was the es-tablishment of a new Institute re-quirement to be entitled "TheContexts of Science and Techno-logy." The new requirement

might be implemented through arevised freshman seminar system,the report suggested.

The program would consist ofa subject or group of subjectstaught cooperatively by facultymembers from different disci-plines. These subjects would ex-amine science and technology inthe context of how they affectand are in turn affected by otheraspects of human culture, the re-port stated.

"For example, two or threefaculty members might offer acourse on how Galileo's workinfluenced philosophy, art, and

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Seminar probes ethics of SDIBy Katie Schwarz

Should the Strategic DefenseInitiative (SDI) be judged interms of its intentions or in termsof its actual effects? This ques-tion was a key point of conten-tion at a Technology and CultureSeminar yesterday.

"A weapons system is not good -or bad," said Richard Pipes, pro-fessor of history at Harvard Uni-versity. J. Bryan Hehir of the USCatholic Conference disagreed,arguing that "a moral debate isnot just about goals, but alsomeans."

Pipes, a former advisor toPresident Reagan on defense,said the proposed space-basedantimissile system is an "essen-tially practical issue.... The is-sue is not morality but efficacy."SDI is only a means toward theuniversally acknowledged goal ofaverting nuclear war, he said, andethical discussion should concerngoals and not the means used toachieve them.

Hehir, a Georgetown Universi-ty scholar and one of the authorsof the 1983 bishops' pastoral let-ter -on nuclear war, objected that"morality is also, and most im-portantly in the area of warfare,a debate about means and howthey relate to ends." A discussionof any policy must include "theconsequences of pursuing the ob-jectives stated in the policy," headded, and the consequences ofSDI could include divertingscarce resources from domesticneeds.

No moral philosopher in West-

Tech photo by Sue FaturRev. J. Brian Hehir at yesterday's SDI forum.

ern history except Machiavelliconsidered the means used to a-chieve an end irrelevant to theend, said an audience member ina question-and-answer sessonafter the forum.

Pipes studies Soviet approachPipes, a specialist in Soviet his-

tory, described the Soviet nuclearstrategy. The Soviets concentrateon forestalling US retaliation byattacking military and industrial

targets, he said. These targetscould be well defended by SDI,which would significantly reducedamage to them and thus deter aSoviet strike.

The Soviet Union spends asmuch on defense, such as air andcivil defense as well as antisatel-lite systems, as it does on offense,Pipes said. This approach sug-gests that the Soviets do not sub-scribe to Mutually Assured De-

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Ron McNair: a pioneerwho pursued excellence

By Earl C. Yen"You're betier than good

enough. You may not come froma well-to-do financial back-ground, you may not come froman affluent social background,you may not have glided throughthe University of South Carolinawith the greatest of ease.

"But if you're willing to workhard, sacrifice and struggle, thenI proclaim today that you're bet-ter than good enough." -Ronald E. McNair PhD '76,speaking at the University ofSouth Carolina's 1984commencement.

Ronald E. McNair pursued thelife of a pioneer. As an astronautand scientist, he challenged hismental and physical environ-ment. As a teacher and leader, hegave back to the community ev-erything he accomplished in a ca-reer shortened by disaster.

Memorial services will be heldfor Dr. McNair tomorrow at 2pm in Kresge Auditorium.

McNair was born in 1950 inrural Lake City, South Carolina.His father, an auto mechanic,and his mother, a schoolteacher,fostered a deep respect for educa-tion in McNair and his twobrothers.

"His parents were very strictabout his having to go toschool," said Clarence G. Wil-liams, special assistant to Presi-dent Paul E. Gray '54. "Theywere, determined that their kidsget the very best education, andthey sacrificed all they could tothat end."

Williams came to MIT in 1972as the assistant dean for minorityaffairs in the graduate school,

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Nelson Mandela may be freedWinnie Mandela, the South African activist, says her

husband, African National Congress leader Nelson Man-dela, may soon be released from prison, but she doesn'thave "the slightest idea" where or when. Winnie Mandelaspoke to reporters at Jan Smuts airport in Johannesburg,after visiting her husband at Cape Town's Pollsmoor pris-on. Asked whether her husband might accept exile, shereplied "not at all." On the contrary, she said he plans toresume his leadership "of the oppressed people of SouthAfrica." (AP)

Duvalier family flees HaitiFormer President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier re-

mains in seclusion at a luxury hotel in southeasternFrance, after fleeing Haiti on Friday. He is not entirelywelcome in France - the municipal council will meet to-day and consider declaring him unwelcome.

Two nights of jubilation and rioting shook Port-au-Prince after Duvalier's departure, leaving as many as 300dead. An afternoon and nighttime curfew remains in ef-fect, and there is growing concern about a possible foodshortage. A military-civilian council now controls thecountry. Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy, head of the council,promised his country elections, a new "liberal" constitu-tion, and a "real and working democracy."

Gramm-Rudman provisioncalled unconstitutional

A federal court in Washington struck down an impor-tant provision of the new Gramm-Rudman-Hollings lawon Friday, declaring it unconstitutional. The section inquestion required across-the-board spending cuts if Con-gress failed td meet specified deficit-reduction targets.Senator Phil Gramm, the chief congressional sponsor ofthe act, has set in motion an appeal to the Supreme Courtto restore that portion of the act. (AP)

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Kennedy hopes to visit MITJoseph Kennedy, candidate for the eighth congressional

district seat vacated by House Speaker Thomas P. O'-Neill, toured Cambridge on Friday, stopping in. Kendall,Central and Harvard Squares. Kennedy hopes to concen-trate on local issues as a member of congress, he told re-porters. The federal budget deficit should be addressedfirst by cutting the defense budget, secondly by seeking

US figure skaters crownedDebi Thomas became the first black US figure skating

champion on Saturday, at a competition in the NassauColiseum on Long Island. The Stanford student landedon five triples in her free-skating routine to cement thevictory. Second place went to Caryn Kadavy of ColoradoSprings, while defending champion Tiffany Chin tookthird. Brian Boitano won the men's title for the secondstraight year. (AP)

Eighth-seed wins indoor tennisBrad Gilbert is the upset winner of the US national in-

door tennis championships in Memphis. He defeated se-cond-seed Stefan Edberg, 7-5, 7-6. En route to his firstmajor title, Gilbert had to beat top-seed Jimmy Connorsin the quarterfinals, and then eliminate number three,Anders Jarryd, in the semifinals.

Gilbert has been named a singles player on the US Da-vis Cup team, along with Aaron Krickstein and JimmyArias, US Captain Tom Gorman has announced. Theywill join doubles players Ken Flach and Robert Seguso.The United States will play Ecuador in a first-roundmatch next month (AP)

New world mark set in pole vaultSergey Bubka of the Soviet Union set a new world in-

door record in the pole vault in yesterday, clearing 19' 5"in Moscow. The mark was broken later in the day by Tex-an Billy Olson, who vaulted 19'5-3/4" (585.75 cm) at aUS Olympic invitational track meet in New Jersey. Theworld record has already been set seven times in1986.(AP)

The new leaders have made "a good start" toward re--storing order and human rights, said White HouseSpokesman Larry Speakes. The Soviet newspaper Pravdaclaimed that the new leadership is backed by the UnitedStates, and predicted that the Haitian people will sweep itfrom office. (AP)

Phillipine election results contestedFour days after the booths closed in the Phillipines,

there is still no clear winner, and the official tabulationhas yet to begin. The National Assembly is preparing tostart on the official vote canvas, the only legally bindingcount, which might take days or weeks.

The tabulation of votes at the Government's electioncommission stopped after 30 computer operators walkedout. The workers claimed that ballot-counting results onthe tabulation board - which showed President Ferdi-nand Marcos in the lead - did not match the computerprintouts. Independent sources claimed yesterday thatchallenger Corazon Aquino had 54 percent of the vote;government sources gave Marcos 51 percent. US observ-ers, before returning home yesterday, said that they wit-nessed attempts to undermine both the voting and thesubsequent tabulation. (AP)

Spy-swap scheduled for todaySources in the Reagan administration revealed that the

proposed East-West spy swap is scheduled to take place inBerlin today. The United States plans to release a CIAconsultant who has been charged with passing defense se-crets to Czechoslovakia.

Latin American ministers meet ShultzForeign ministers from eight Latin American countries

met with Secretary of State George P. Shultz PhD '49 yes-terday. They urged the Reagan administration to renewdialogue with the Sandinista leaders of Nicaragua, and tostop supporting the anti-government "contra" rebels. Theministers described this course of action as "the onlypeaceful path." (AP)

Magazine carries accountof shuttle explosion

An exhaust plume that escaped from the side of the sol-id rocket booster of the space shuttle Challenger causedthe bottom half of the booster to separate from the exter-nal tank, according top a report published in Aviation

greater efficiency in social programs, and lastly by tax in-creases, Kennedy said. The candidate plans to visit MITduring the campaign, but was unable to set a date, aidesreported. (special to The Tech)

Massachusetts Democrats meetRecord numbers of democrats attened party caucuses

yesterday, surprising in a year featuring only one statewidedemocatic contest this year and the race for Lt. Governor,an office left vacant since John Kerry became a -US sena-tor two years ago. Over 50,000 democrats turned outacross the state. (AP)

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Location of third black hole suspected

An analysis of a two-star system at a distance of 3000,light years indicates that one of the stars may be a blackhole. It is the nearest suspected black hole; only one otherhas been located in the Milky .WNay. Ronald A. RemillardSM '81 of MIT and Jeffrey E. McClintock PhD '69 of theHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reportedthe new discovery.

The suspected black hole is three solar masses large,and its companion is a dwarf star which from time totime sheds material into the invisible star, causing it toradiate a powerful burst of X-rays. In a two-month periodin 1985 the X-ray brightness of the object increased a mil-lionfold to become the brightest source in the sky. (TheNew York Times)

Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky will be freed pri-or to the exchange in order to separate his name fromthose of the accused spies, reports Bild, a West Germanmagazine. Dozens of organisations have asked to meethim at the airport, and an official ceremony is planned.Bild also reported that Shcharansky's mother will also beallowed to leave the Soviet Union, but not as part of to-day's deal.(AP)

Thirty feared dead in train crashA nine-car passenger train and a 114-car freight train

which was on the wrong track collided this Saturday inAlberta, Canada. Two bodies have been recovered fromthe wreckage, but the death toll is expected to climb to-atleast 29. Authorities say it could take weeks to recoverand identify all the victims, in one of the worst rail acci-dents in Canadian history. The freight train reportedly rana caution light and a red light before the accident. (AP)

Hungarians demonstrate againsthydroelectric project

Police dispersed the first independent demonstration inBudapest since 1956 on Saturday. The demonstration washeld to protest a joint Czechoslovak-Hungarian hydro-electric project, which experts fear may lead to environ-mental damage. Close to 100 protesters gathered in a pub-lic square; they planned to attend a talk on an island, butwere dispersed by police on the way there. (The BostonGlobe)

Week and Space Technology magazine. As a result, thelower part of the broken-off section rotated outward,pushing the top end into the tank, crushing it. The subse-quent explosion is what registered as the initial brightflash seen on videotape, the report continued.

Soviets express willingnessto negotiate

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said there are no pre-conditions necessary for the United States and the SovietUnion to negotiate immediate reductions in intermediate-range missiles, reported Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA)after his visit to Moscow. The Soviets have agreed to let19 citizens, including several long-time dissidents, leavethe Soviet Union, Kennedy said. (AP)

Cambridge tours Soviet UnionA panel of Americans who have traveled extensively in

the Soviet Union will discuss American-Soviet exchangesand visit the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High Schoolthis week. The five-member panel precedes this spring'svisit to Russia by the Cambridge Soviet Sister CityDelegation.

The panel, to be held at 7.30 pm on Thursday, will in-clude David Kreiger of the Nobel prize-winning organiza-tion International Physicians for the Prevention of Nucle-ar War. Other panelists visited the Soviet Union to studydrama, art, and Armenian culture. A second meeting willbe held on Feb. 19. (Cambridge Chronicle)

Quickly rotating pulsar discoveredA new pulsar has been detected in the constellation

Aquila, spinning at 186 rotations per second. The spin isextraordinarily rapid and highly uniform, making the pul-sar an extremely accurate clock. By watching for changesin the clock's speed, astronomers hope to be able to detectany jostling of the space between the star and the Earthby gravitational waves. The new pulsar is the second fas-test spinning among 400 that have been discovered, andonly the sixth which orbits a companion star. (The NewYork Times)

Comet Halley rounds sunComet Halley passed through perihelion (point in orbit

closest to the sun) at 1 lh Universal Time (6 am EST) Sun-day, moving into the outward leg of its 76-year journeyaround the sun. The comet is too close to the sun in oursky to be visible, having just passed behind the sun asseen from the earth on Wednesday at 6 pm EST. The com-et should again be visible from Earth within a month,when it emerges from behind the sun. The next milestonesfor the comet will come in March, when it recrosses theearth's orbital distance on Mar. 20. (AP)

A low pressure system, having developed off the the North at 15-20 mph.coast of the Carolinas, will pass to our South and Tuesday night: Skies will clear. A northwesterlyEast. So again we will miss out on significant snow- flow will help to drop temperatures into the teensfall here in Boston. After the passage of the low by morning.pressure system, the temperatures will be colder for Wednesday: Mostly sunny and cooler with highs 25-*Wednesday and Thursday. 30.Tuesday: Our skies will be overcast and there is a. .chance of some light snow - especially during the Wednesday night: lear and very cold. Lows 5-15.afternoon hours. High temperatures will approach Thtrsday: Partly cloudy with highs near 20.the freezing 'point while winds will be brisk from Robert X. Black

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The Student Assistance ServicesStudent Affairs (ODSA) suppliesresidents to their housemasters. /Affairs Robert M. Randolph has

, in the Office of the Dean forgrade reports of dormitory

Associate Dean for Studentsaid that the reports are in-

tended solely for counseling. For example, housemasters coulduse sudden drops in grades as indicators for students needinghelp.

But most students barely know their housemasters. Althoughthe ability of any housemaster to advise students is notin ques-tion, the fact remains that most MIT students do not requireand do not seek this source of advice. The release of these stu-dent's grades is an unreasonable breach of privacy.

Academic counseling should rest with the academic advisor,just as residential matters fall to the dormitory housemasterand floor tutor. When academic problems mesh with residentialmatters, the housemaster or tutor can consult the academicadvisor.

In some dormitories, 'housemasters have given the grade Te-ports to graduate residents. To allow graduate tutors to see therecords of other students is improper. Graduate residents maylack the maturity to use this confidential information in an aca-

,demic advising capacity.Last year, a dormitory housemaster who learned of a stu-

dent's poor grades informed the dormitory president of thisfact. Allowing a student's personal information to be given to apeer is clearly wrong. This incident shows an abuse that result-ed from this unwise policy.

The Institute currently allows all faculty members to accessany student's grades if they so desire. This privilege is an un-warranted breach of a student's educational privacy that couldlead, in extreme cases, to harassment. If a professor has a validreason to review a student's grades, that request should also bedirected through the student's advisor.

The release of grade information should come strictly at thediscretion of the student and his or her academic advisor.

ristmasplayed basketball:

They are both bundled up withjackets and sweatpants. The air iscold. It hurts her lungs, and shecan see her breath, but for oncethe driveway is nbt icy. The ga-rage hoop is rusty. The net istorn.

Move and shoot.As the Toad drives in for a

layup, she says: Dad and Momare fighting a lot these days.

Release the ball.Yeah, he says, gulping air,

hands her the ball. He frowns.She can't tell whether he's wor-ried about their parents or some-thing else. Dribbling the ball, shecareens into him. Even thoughshe presses against him, he is dis-tant. It reminds her of when theyplayed hide-and-go-seek and shecouldn't find him.

Her brother is four years older,and he has come to some under-standing with their parents.Whatever we choose to do is upto us, and whatever they chooseto do is up to them, he says as hesteals the ball. That's the way itis.

The ball hits the floor.And as her father's fist hits the

kitchen table, she bursts intotears. She doesn't know what tosay. She realizes that she hasn'treally grown up. She loves themso much, but she doesn't knowhow to stop them, or reason withthem.

Her parents are strangers now.She doesn't know who they are,and she wonders if she ever did.

found a certain freedom. Shecould go out with anybody shewanted and come back to herroom at any time in the night.She could decide which coursesto add and which to drop, whento go to class,-when not to.

Her classes were very hard,and she could no longer watchtelevision while doing homework.She stayed up until morning,studying and snacking, sleepingin late, missing breakfast. Thishorrified her mother.

She returned home trying toimpress her parents that she wasmore mature. Her childhood bedwith all its fantasies seemedstrange. She went to parties andtried to show her high schoolfriends how she had tuned intothe new wave fashions.

But Christmas and New Year'sEve left her hung over, and theearly January blues set in. Herbrother left for graduate school,while her friends returned totheir colleges. She was no longerthe mature college student whoreturned home, triumphant, butthe 19-year-old kid who hadcrawled back to the nest.

In the end, she watched a lotof television: the bowl games,Fred and Barney, Arnold andWillis, Wally and Beaver, Greg,Marsha, Peter, Jan, Bobby andCindy. ("Mom always said,'Don't play ball in the house.'Mom always said, 'Don't playball in the house.! ")

The day before Todd left, they

She's home for Christmas, andher parents are arguing. Mothersits down at the kitchen table toread the newspaper. Fatherstands, listening- to the rustle ofthe pages. His right hand is play-ing at his beard.

Back from college in the east,she lies on the sofa, pluckingpine needles from her dirtysweatsocks. Her parents havethrown out the tree for the gar-bagemen to pick up. She can seeit now, if she wants to. It's darkgreen, lying dead on the drive-way. The needles hurt her feet.

What's the matter? her fatherasks.

Nothing's the matter, hermother replies.

Upset, mother becomes coldand silent, goading father to ask-what's the matter until they bothexplode in anger. What gets toher is that her father knows ex-actly what's the matter, and hermother doesn't read newspapers.

Can we help you with yourbags, dear? they had asked atO'Hare.

No, those are just bags undermy eyes. I haven't slept in aweek.

You're so quiet. How is theweather in Boston ? Do you haveany friends? What is that youhave in your hair? Do you haveenough to eat? Of course shedoes, she's a little chubby now.Oh no, you look just right. Ididn't like it when you were soskinny. You look just right.

(A year fromn now, they willsay: "Remember last Christmas,when you were overweight?")

Do you have any friends? Yourbrother will be back tomorrow.We'll all be together again.

She has this sudden urge todrag the Christmas tree back in,hurl it onto the kitchen table andsay: Sic Semper Tyrannis!

In college, she thought she had

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comments on Professor Frank E.Morgan's tenure case, which hasreceived much attention in TheTech recently. It has been fairlytreated: Earl Yen's article ["UAurges tenure review," Feb. 4] wasobjective and accurate, while theletters from Marino Tavarez["Teaching not a priority atMIT," Feb. 7] and Miller Puck-ette ["Make you views known toMIT," Feb. 7] offered eloquentpersonal testimony to the deepimpression Frank has made onmany MIT undergraduates overthe last seven years.

In the discussion, emphasis hasbeen placed on Frank's teachingand his contributions to the Insti-tute. Perhaps I could add someremarks about his research.Mathematics research is usuallynot easy to describe to non-specialists, and Frank's papersare as technical as anyone's. Yetmany undergraduates knowsomething about his professionalwork, because of his efforts inclass to communicate the excite-ment he feels in doing it.

Frank's research is in the the-ory of minimal surfaces - thosesurfaces which have minimal areafor a given boundary. If stable,they can often be realized byshaping a wire in the form of theboundary and dipping it in soapsolution; the resulting soap filmspanning the wire will be theminimal surface. The classicalproblems are existence anduniqueness: for a given bound-ary, does a minimal surface exist,and if so, is it unique?

One could say (erroneously,but let it pass) that Nature showsus the surface exists - at least inthree-space - but she is silentabout the uniqueness. Much ofFrank's research has been on thisuniqueness question. He showedthat in a certain sense, therewould be a unique surface for"almost all" boundaries. Theproof required a difficult mixtureof probability theory, differentialequations, and geometric mea-sure theory.

This answered the question "in

general," but left it open for par-ticular boundary curves. He nextastounded the experts by showingthat by using as the boundaryfour carefully placed circles, youcould get a whole continuous in-finity of minimal surfaces, eachbounded by the same four cir-cles: uniqueness violated with avengeance! (Mother Naturedoesn't know about these - theyare unstable and will never beseen.) Very recently, he has foundan extensive class of boundarycurves for which he can provethat there are at most only a fin-ite number of minimal spanningsurfaces.

These are all striking and origi-nal contributions to a l00-yearold problem. But he has donemore. As anyone who has seenthe soap-bubble machine inBuilding 6 knows, the minimalsurfaces can have singularities nonsmooth points where they cutand self-intersect. The investiga-tion of these singularities isconsidered one of the mostimportant problems in the theorytoday. Frank has taken a signifi-cant first step by showing whatthe set of tangent lines at thesesingular points must look like.Most surprisingly, his efforts togeneralize this result to higher di-mensional "surfaces" lead himaway from measure theory anddifferential equations into purealgebra, of a difficult variety -the so-called Grassmann algebraof 3-planes in spaces of dimen-sion 6, 7, and higher. 140 yearsafter this algebra was invented,Frank is making discoveriesabout it.

As letters we received attest,Frank's research in minimal sur-faces is highly respected by hiscolleagues around the world.Moreover, appearances notwith-standing, teaching and service areimportant considerations in ten-ure cases; in our Department,there have been tenure decisionsin which teaching and servicewere probably what tipped thescale (both positively and nega-tively). In the face of Frank'sachievements, the Departmentdid not have an easy decision.

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that students have internalizedthe Institute's stated position onthe importance of a well-roundededucation:

"MIT provides a substantialand varied program in the hu-manities, arts, and social scienceswhich forms an essential part ofthe education of every undergra-duate," reads the 1985-86 MITBulletin. "Through this program,students can deepen their knowl-edge in a variety of cultural anddisciplinary areas and can devel-op sensifiities and skills vital toan effective and satisfying life asan individual, a professional, anda member of society."

As long as I have been at MIT,I have listened to' advisors, deansand teachers tell students to takeadvantage of MIT's humanitiesprograms. I have listened to therecent talk of educational reformat MIT. I have watched the cre-ation of the Dean for Undergrad-uate Education and understoodthat one of Margaret L. A. Mac-Yicar's primary goals will be tosee engineering students takemore humanities subjects.

The time has come for the In-stitute to support these goals withsignificant financial backing. Ifthe Institute wants more students

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crowdedtaking humanities subjects, thenit must hire more teachers to pro-vide more sections of these sub-jects. Popular subjects requiremore sections: students deserveto be able to take these subjectswithout crowding. We cannot ac-cept signup sheets and limited en-rollment as solutions to the prob-lem of crowded subjects in art -orliterature. There is certainly noshortage outside of the Instituteof people trained to teach thesesubjects; we must hire them.

Students, for the most part,believe that MIT'E humanitiessubjects are top-flight. This beliefhas been, untiI now, generallyjustified. But this degreee of con-fidence cannot be maintained inthe years to come unless seriousefforts are made now to reduceovercrowding. The only accept-able way to reduce overcrowdingis to increase teaching capacity.

"People are getting sick of sci-ence and engineering.... I wentto a French class. There are twosections - 60 people showed upto just one. They're going to tryto make another three or foursections." - an anonymousundergraduate.

What has happened to enroll-ment in the Institute's humanitiessubjects? Instead of dwindling,humanities are now among themost popular and overcrowdedsubjects offered, even in compari-son to desirable engineeringsubjects.

"I went to a writing class -the kind where we are supposedto read each other's papers -and fifty people showed up onthefirst day." - an engineeringstudent.

Wre tend to think of depart-ments such as humanities, politi-cal science and architecture as"service departments" - depart-ments that exist in part, at leastat the undergraduate level, toprovide their subjects primarilyto non-majors. In recent yearsthe number of students takingadvantage of these departmentshas greatly increased; studentsare now taking more than theeight humanities subjects re-quired for graduation. I am fear-ful that the quality of humanitiesat MIT is beginning to suffer as aresult of the overcrowding causedby over-enrollment in popularsubjects.

Last Thursday, I spoke withRuth (Ikey) Spear, coordinator ofthe Humanities UndergraduateOffice. She smiled at the thought

of so many MIT students takinghumanities subjects but admittedthat there had been problemswith overcrowding in somesubjects.

A humanities major, in the of-fice at the same time, was morevocal. "It's been getting worse ev-ery term, class by class," he said."Something is going to have tobe done about it - unfortunate-ly, it is probably going to happenafter I graduate."

What is it that is causing thisovercrowding?

Two and a half years ago, Itook Creative Photography(4.921). Seven students were inmy section, and approximately12 were in the other. This semes-ter, over 100 students wanted totake the subject, yet fewer facili-ties and teaching resources areavailable now than were in 1983.If I had wanted to take 4.921 thissemester, I might not have beenable to. Similar conditions existfor almost all of the subjects of-fered in the visual arts.

Is MIT admitting a differentkind of student, a broad-mindedstudent interested in the arts andsocial sciences in addition totechnical subjects? A studentwho is concerned with literatureand philosophy in addition to cir-cuits and signals? Or is it simply

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John Turner, associate dean ofthe graduate school, remembersMcNair holding a seminar on thephysics of karate in front of apacked lecture hall.

"He wasn't a big guy - he wasonly about five-foot six," Turnersaid. "But he would commandattention when he walked into aroom. He was a very popular stu-dent here - very outgoing, verydown-to-earth. As soon as youmet him, you felt like you knewhim a long time."

McNair worked as a physicstutor in the Black Student Union(BSU) tutorial service and wasalso a member of Omega Psi Phi,a predominantly black serviceand social fraternity.' "He hadboundless energy," Turner said.

' Both Turner and Williams wereinvolved in a campaign to in-crease minority enrollment in theMIT-graduate schools duringMcNair's MIT years.

"McNair was one of the stu-dents who was very interested inbeing helpful," Turner recalled."There was a project to increasethe number of black graduatestudents in the physics depart-ment. McNair visited otherschools including his alma materto encourage promising studentsto come to MIT."

McNair became interested inlaser spectroscopy and beganwork on his thesis project super-vised by Feld, who became aclose friend. McNair studied thestorage of laser energy in molecu-lar vibrations, and he soon be-came an expert in molecular laserphysics.

"He did some of the earliestexperiments in the field," said Ja-van, who also developed a closeworking relationship withMcNair. "His work was veryoriginal."

McNair married Cheryl Moorein St. Paul's AME church, andreceived his doctorate in 1976.The couple moved to Los Ange-les when Ron became a staffphysicist at Hughes ResearchLaboratories.

MeNair joins NASAIn 1978, Ron McNair was ac-

cepted to the National Aeronau-tics and Space Administration's(NASA) mission specialist pro-gram for scientists interested inbecoming astronauts.

Even during his NASA train-ing, McNair would often cameback to MIT to visit his friends."Sometimes he would just showup unannounced," Turner said."He just loved MIT."

"He would fly all over theUnited States," Turner contin-ued. "He'd stop in San Franciscofor lunch, drop by in Boston fordinner, and then go back toHouston at night."

On Feb. 3, 1984, McNair madehis debut in space as a missionspecialist on board Challengerflight 41B. He operated a me-chanical arm which aided in thetesting of jet backpacks duringthe mission. He became the sec-ond black American in space.

He returned to MIT in April1984 to speak to the MIT com-munity, and he encouraged stu-dents to join the NASA missionspecialist program. His lecturewas.part of a special celebrationhonoring his first space shuttleflight.

"Even after becoming well-known, whenever I asked him tospeak with students here, hewould always squeeze it in,".Turner emphasized. "He was anexcellent orator. He was always

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one year after McNair enrolled atMIT as a physics graduatestudent.

"The environment [ofMcNair's childhood] was stillvery segregated," Williams ex-plained. "You got your strengthfrom your community. There wascertainly a tremendous segrega-tion between the haves and have-nots."

McNair graduated as valedicto-rian of his high school class andstarred in basketball, baseball,and football. But his two loveswere science and the saxophone.

"He was interested in scienceever since he was a little boy,"said physics professor Michael S.Feld '63, McNair's graduate the-sis advisor.

Professor Ali Javan, who alsoworked with McNair on his MITthesis project, said McNair wouldsometimes play his saxophone inthe laboratory, patiently waitingfor the results of experiments inthe late hours of night. "He wasan absolute virtuoso on his saxo-phone," Javan recalled.

McNair became a presidentialscholar and was awarded a schol-arship to North CarolinaAgricultural and Technical StateUniversity. After trying a musicmajor, McNair decided -to devel-op his talents in the naturalsciences.

McNair learned karate duringhis undergraduate years andeventually became a fourth-degree black belt. "His karate re-quired a lot of precision ...[and] discipline," Williams said."It was similar to his studies."

In the spring of his junior year,McNair came to MIT as part ofan exchange program designed tobring promising black sciencestudents to the Institute. Hestayed at MIT for the summer,taking courses and doing moreresearch.

McNair graduated magna cumlaude from North Carolina A&Tin 1971 with a degree in physics.Encouraged by his North Caroli-na A&T professors, McNair ap-plied and was accepted to MIT'sgraduate physics program on aFord Foundation fellowship.

McNair had "boundless energy"

"When he came to MIT, hecame with a weak background inphysics," Feld explained. ButMcNair quickly caught up withthe other physics graduate stu-dents, excelling in many of hisclasses.

"I wasn't aware that he cameto MIT at such a disadvantage,"Javan said. "He was right therewith everybody else. Ron was justvery sharp - a true scientist."

"It took tremendous effort toget up to speed," Feld acknow-ledged. "That took a lot ofdetermination." ;

McNair also excelled in labora-tory research. "He was one of thebest people in the lab," Javan re-called. "He was very thorough,very original. He had a widebreadth of knowledge."

Outside of class, McNair fo-cused much of his energy on akarate club he s tarted at St.Paul's African Methodist Episco-palian Church in Cambridge.

"The club became very popu-lar," said Feld, whose family

- joined the club. "My kids are stilldoing karate today. It was inter-esting having a graduate studentwho was also your karateinstructor."

"He encouraged a lot of youngpeople to be part of his club,"Williams said. "His leadershipability in handling young men

encouraging young people to go.,into science and engineering."

Less than two months ago,McNair spoke with DavidWaugh, dean of the EngineeringSchool at the University of SouthCarolina, about the possibility ofjoining the faculty there.

McNair told Waugh that"blacks don't grow up and pros-per and move away - they goaway and prosper and comeback."

But Ron McNair never got achance to come back. He per-ished aboard the space shuttleChallenger on Jan. 28, alongwith six other astronauts.

MIT reacts to McNair's loss"He was just starting his car-

eer," Feld said. "He was going todo something of national signifi-cance. This was just the begin-ning for him."

"Many people outside theblack community don't realizehow big a loss his death is,"Turner said. "Speaking from ablack perspective, we have tofight myths about black intelli-gence, black credibility. He wasone of those persons whoknocked down so many of thosemyths. He became a hero to theblack minority."

"But his dying is not in vain,"Turner continued. "His will be abeacon of light for minorities.Maybe they will challenge them-selves to become Ron McNair.His credo was' 'Maximize yourtalents and abilties.' That's thekind of message he would haveliked to leave behind."

"But for me, he will alwayslive,' Javan said.

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wltn singing, Illuminating and embroider-ing the message of the song.

The concert began with Salamone RossiEbreo's Con la luce e col canto, in whichthe purity of harmony and perfection ofensemble-work became quickly apparent.The inspired free-flowing viola da gambaplaying of Laura Jeppesen was particularlywell highlighted here.

One of the more attractive aspects ofCamerata concerts was the entertainingand informative coinmentaries of Joel Co-hen. Following the introductory music,Cohen explained that madrigals are farmore complex than "Nvmphs and She-phereds doing 'FaLaLaaaLaLa' and doingother things as well," and proceeded toprove his point with a set of beautifulLachrimae. Monteverdi's Dolci i miei so-spiri had a relaxed quality underlined byRichard Clemmitt's accomplished spinnetplaying. After the meditative Wer sehenwill by Jacob Regnart, Cohen movinglyplayed Dowland's Lachrimae on lute.

Visit by night your lady's chamber windowWith some sweet consort;To their instrumentsTune a deploring dump - the night's deadsilenceWill well become such such sweet-complaining grievance.This, or nothing else, will inherit her.(Proteus)The Two Gentlemen of VeronaWilliam Shakespeare

John Ward's "Out from the Vale" endedthis section. It was a piece of intense mel-ancholy, translated into rapture by theheavenly weaving and combining of Ca-merata's sympathetic voices.

"Dying," Cohen said, was a Renaissancemetaphor for the height of love. His expla-nation helped make sense of the sectioncalled "Singing and Dying." Tirsi vicino amorte by Andrea Garieli was brought offwith great depth; Eccomi pronta by Mon-teverdi was done suggestively with a livelysense of humor.

The second half of the concert wasequally inspired, proving beyond doubtthat as Shelley's poetic lovers declare:"We - are we not formed, as notes ofmusic are,For one another, though dissimilar?"

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David Hockney, speaking at theCarpenter Center for the VisualArts, Harvard University(Quincy Street), Feb. 6; exhibi-

tion of some of his recent prints, throughMkar. 2.

Serious air-conditioning problems sur-faced in Le Corbusier's reputed CarpenterCenter last Thursday, as an overflowcrowd congregated to listen to DavidHockney. The congestion was clear testi-mony to the star status of Hockney, thephotographer, painter and printmaker who

-is English by extraction but now fittingly aHollywood~ resident. He disappointed fewpeople on this occasion: the subject of histalk was not especially novel but his capti-vating presentation made up for that.

The issue at hand was linear perspective.Ever since the Renaissance, this has beenconsidered the 'preferred" way of lookingat things, one which corresponds mostclosely to "reality." Photography has be-come its major exponent; photos are sup-posed to show what things "really" looklike. Hockney stated that, while- he wasstill mainly a photographer, he perceivedthis attitude as narrow-minded.

Basically, he claimed, linear perspectiveis utterly artificial. A rigid perspective viewshows the world as it should look to youwhen -you peep through a hole using justone eye and not moving .- "In short, youare not very human." Consequently, "It isa false distinction to say that there is re-presentation and abstraction;" the verypoint of view which-poses as eminently re-presentative is in fact loaded withabstractions.

Hockney presented a standard example(Masaccio's Trinity with Donors) and anequally standard counterexample (the Chi-nese sense of space in painting) to illus-trate his views. But his recent experienceof driving through the new St.Gotthardtunnel in the Alps provided him with freshmetaphors. The view from his car lookedlike this:

Its strict frontality, absence of temporaldevelopment and convergence of lines in asingle vanishing point at infinity madeHockney conclude: "Perspective is tunnel

vision." Once outside the tunnel, he feltrather like this:

Clearly, he stated, "Infinity is every-where, surrounding the viewer" - an in-terpretation that seemed to him "theologi-cally sound."

Hockney's art reflects his concerns. Theconcept of lines converging toward a van-ishing point is emphatically absent fromhis works; instead (most strikingly in hismany depictions of chairs), he has his linesdiverge to evoke extension and substance.Often, he shows objects from a revolvingviewpoint. In his photos he applies collagetechniques to add an element of time.

This denouncement of linear perspectiveis not exactly revolutionary. While photog-raphy, for obvious reasons, has felt per-spective's spell most intensely - indeed, itis in this medium that Hockney's contribu-tion is likely to make its major impact -most other 20th-century art takes itsrestricted validity for granted. As seenagainst this background, Hockney is mere-

ly more explicit than others, both in worksand in words.

It is not surprising that Picasso's legacylooms heavily over Hockney's work.Hockney deemed the Cubist revolution themajor artistic achievement of the century.and Picasso's work its most compellingsingle oeuvre. But he claimed both-are stilllargely misunderstood. People tend toview them as no more than a "manner,"an abstract, secondary way of looking atthe world. However, "Cubism is not a sty-le," it is a form of representation perfectlyvalid in its own right; Picasso's creed stillneeds to be proselytized by "lesser artists."

The Hockney prints currently on displayat the Carpenter Center fit perfectly in thisprogram. Colorful and pictorially simple,they exhibit a kind of middle of the roadeclecticism that owes as much to Matisseas it does to Picasso. But the aesthetic rig-or of these illustrious models has beenmellowed down quite a bit, and the resultsare often somewhat bland. There isenough to please the eye, but one wondershow long its impression will last.

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Maier suggested that the facul-ty would probably be open to aninnovative program of this sort ifsome form of central administra-tive control were emphasized inthe new system.

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The fear that the Soviet Unionmay be researching an antimissilesystem of its own is one factoramong others that prompted theproposal of SDI, according toPipes. The project should havebeen called "Strategic DefenseResponse," he added.

Premises of nuclear arguments

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from all other conflict and thosewhich do not,-Hehir asserted.The Western tradition of viewson war derives from two think-ers, he said: Clausewitz, whocalled war "the extension of poli-tics by other means," a rationalaction as a last resort to achievepolitical goals; and St. Augus-tine, who said war can be moral-vly defensible if the use of force islimited.

Some present-day strategists,such as Reagan and Henry Kis-singer, try to "stretch classicalcategories ... over the new reali-ty," Hehir said. They believe nu-clear war can be a rational ac-tion, and a limited nuclear war

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secretary Robert McNamara, be-lieve that because of their unprec-edented power, nuclear weaponshave no use other than deter-rence, he continued.

Hehir characterized Reagan'sconception of SDI as an attemptto "get us out of the dilemma ofthe nuclear age" and nullify thedistinction between nuclear andconventional weapons by remov-ing nuclear weapons' "seeminglyinherent threat" to civilianpopulations.

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(Continued from page 16)an identical result, as Vanu Bose'87 was unable to catch up withthe leader and ended up second,with Schubert finishing third.

The Engineers took the lead inthe remaining sprint events with astrong 22-5 run. Co-captain DanLin '86 had an easy win in the400-meter dash, and Teddy Bssey'88 managed to hold off a chal-lenger in the final straightaway tocome in second:

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MIT had little difficulty in tak-ing both relays. Although the4x400-meter relay of Donohue,Bosey, Parrott and Lin fell be-hind early, Bosey had a strong legin turning a 10-meter deficit intoa 5-meter lead, and the Engineersnever looked back in winning by60 meters. The 4x800-meter relayof Dighe, Sam Peretz '89, Robin-son and Walker ran uncontestedin setting a freshman record with8:23.01.

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"Basketball defeats Emerson(Continued from page 16)

kept their offense away from thelooming Mihura. The Lions keptthe margain at six for fourminqtes.

MIT made two consecutiveshots to open up the lead to ten.The Lions called a timeout fol-lowing an inside shot by McEl-roy. McElroy, however, continuedto feed on the Lions with twoconsecutive three-point plays. He

By Mark S. Abinanteand Carl Weiner

The undefeated men's gymnas-tics team continued its winningstreak last Saturday with a 199.45to 191.85 victory against visitingLowell University. This is the firsttime in twelve years that MIT (7-0) has beaten Lowell ingymnastics.

The MIT gymnasts took anearly 3.5 point lead over Lowellafter floor exercises due to excel-lent performances by Alan Nash'89, Jeff Mann '86, and team co-captain Brian Hirano '87. Aflawless double-back somersaulton the floor helped Hirano re-ceive the highest score of themeet for that event.

The Lowell team tumbled backto gain a one-point lead over

Soccer star namedJeri Ikeda '87 has been named

to the Adidas Intercollegiate Soc-cer Association Women's Aca-demic All America Team. Ikedais the only New England playerselected for the first team. Shehad a team high six goals and five

was six of six from the foul lineon the night, extending his freethrow shooting streak to 57 of59.

No basketball game is com-plete without a slam dunk. MIT'sjam man was McElroy off aMihura-block-inspired fastbreak. It was off to the races andMIT led, 63-49.

Mihura got one more block forgood luck, McElroy completed a

MIT through strong showings onpommel horse and rings, includ-ing an exceptional horse routineby Lowell's Ralph Divito and ahigh-scoring rings routine byBarry Sutter.

The fired-up MIT gymnastswere not ready to give up themeet, and managed to remainvery close on these two events byconsistent, well-executed rou-tines. Mann, Hirano, and co-cap-tain Rick Campione G performedcrowd-pleasing giant swings onthe rings while Eric Reifsneider'89, who was back in action afterrecovering from a January injury,executed a fine pommel horse set.

The Engineers then dominatedthe second half of the meet, gain-ing points during vaulting, paral-lel bars, and high bar. Hirano

to all-America teamassists to lead MIT women's soc-cer to a 7-7 record in their firstseason of varsity competition.Her GPA is 4.5, and she is ma-joring in Materials Science andEngineering. Alison C. Morgan

32-point game, tying his careerbest, Casagrande played beyondhis years, and Nelson contribut-ed. All in all, the four Engineerswere in double figures. Balanceand teamwork is especially no-ticeable in that 22 out of 37 Techbaskets were off assists.

Saturday's win ends a fourgame losing streak for the Engi-neers. They take their 6-14 recordinto a home game againstWorcester Polytechnic Feb. 13.

once again thrilled the audiencein DuPont with his piked Tsuka-hara vault, executing a half-turnonto the vaulting horse and aback somersault off his hands toa one-step landing on the mats.

The MIT gymnasts postedtheir highest gain from the highbar due to daring routines byCampione, Hirano and SteveBetz '89. Campione nailed hisdouble back dismount at the endof a very clean performance whileBetz demonstrated difficult "eag-le" giants. Hirano threw a highdouble-back dismout over the barto wrap up the meet for Tech.

In an emotional scene after themeet, celebrating the end of the12-year jinx, Coach Fran Molessopraised the team for its fine per-formance. They did it by "pullingtogether as a team," the teary-eyed coach said. The MIT men'steam will have one more meet atUniversity of Massachusetts atAmherst before the New EnglandChampionships on March 2.

(Editor's note: Carl Weiner '87is a member of the men's varsitygymnastics team.)

Women gymnasts upsetBy Madeleine Biber

The MIT women's gymnasticsteam placed third in a tourna-ment Saturday with Salem Stateand Albany State, at Salem. MITwent into the meet with a recordof 5-1.

Salem scored 155.70 to capturethe meet. Albany followed with141.45 points and MIT managedonly 122.85 points.

Catherine Rocchio '89 per-formed a handspring full vault toearn the third highest score inthat event. She also came in thirdon the beam where she had avery solid routine with no falls.

Evie Vance '86 had a clean barroutine for a 6.8 while her floorroutine earned her a 7.0. HillaryThompson '87 performed agraceful floor routine for a 7.3.Grace Tan '86 did well on bars,and "hit" all her moves. PaulaAqui '89 performed nicely onfloor as well as vault.

The team's next competitionwill be at home on Saturday, Feb.15. It will start at 2 pm in theDuPont gymnasium.

(Editor's note: Biber is co-cap-tain of the women's gymasticsteam.)

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By Alison C. MorganThe MIT men's basketball

team embarrassed Emerson Col-lege 8,-61 Saturday afternoon atRockwell Cage in a contest thathad more than a few shadings ofprofessional basketball. The Em-erson Lions resembled the LosAngeles Lakers in their yellowand purple warmup suits, butwere unable to play up to thestandards of their colors. Tech'sBruce Mihura '88 played a Man-ute Bol role with eight blockedshots,-his career high.

Mihura snuffed Emerson twiceduring the first three minutes ofthe game. The Lions stayed corm-posed, tying the game 4-4. Randy

Nelson '86 then diverted the de-fense, allowing Mihura to put theEngineers ahead for good. Nel-son had a hand in each of Tech'sfirst four scores.

MIT 1000-point scorer MikeMcElroy '87 turned on his gamewhile Mihura was busy being theBig Man. McElroy convertedtwice off deft passes from hisTech teammates to make thescore 16-5, MIT.

Emerson's fear of a Mihurablock was evident. The Lion'sRayon Thomas had the first ofthree walks off a shot hesitation.Coach Fran O'Brien noted thatMihura was"a big factor" and-

that "Emerson didn't shoot thatwell."

The Lions roared back to nar-row the gap to two, 24-22, withfive minutes remaining in thehalf. Mihura converted, but Em-irson responded with a three-point play off a scoop shot.

Mike Casagrande '89 spun onein and out and in to open it to29-25. Casagranride scored twelvepoints without starting. "Casa-grande, Doug Cornwall '89 andDave Evans '88 came off thebench strong," O'Brien said.

Mihura blocked two of theLions' first three shots of the sec-ond half. Emerson College then

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By Mike ResslerThe men's volleyball team

journeyed across the Charles Riv-er to defeat the Wentworth Insti-tute of Technology (WIT) andthe University of New Hampshire(UNH) in two New England Col-legiate Volleyball League(NECVL) games Saturday atWentworth.

MIT defeated WIT, 15-1, 11-15, 15-7, 15-4 in the openingmatch and swept UNH 15-0, 15-7, 15-10 in the second game.

MIT's middle attack was domi-nant throughout the afternoon asmiddle hitters Paul Stuopis '87and Eric Daly '87 powered theteam in both victories.

Stuopis played a key role ingames one and four against WIT,blocking out opposing hitters andscoring on several decisive hits ofhis own. A jump serve by Young

Soo Ha G, who totaled 20 serviceaces for the day, was especiallyeffective in the fourth game inwhich he tallied seven aces.

MIT lost its only game of theday against WIT, 11-15, when theEngineers' reserve players couldnot hold off Wentworth.

The stellar play of Daly andHa shut down UNH in the firstgame of that match. BetweenHa's serving and Daly's hitting,UNH could not get off theground. MIT took the first game,15-0, without having the team ro-tate completely around.

UNH regrouped and playedbetter ball in games two andthree, but MIT proved to be toopowerful and took the match.

The Engineers challenge theHarvard Crimson tonight at 8'pm in MIT's home opener inRockwell Cage. The 1986 season

is MIT's first as an National Col-legiate Athletic Association(NCAA) team, and tonight'sgame represents MIT's first meet-ing with Harvard as an NCAAteam.

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(Editor's note: Mike Ressler'86 is a member of the men's var-sity volleyball team.)

Tech photo by Dan O' DayBruce Mihura '87 attempting a basket during Saturday'sgame against Emerson College. MIT won the game, 87-61.

By Christopher Y. KimThe men's indoor track team

raised its season record to 7-1with a resounding 86-50 victoryover the Bowdoin Polar BearsSaturday at the-Athletic Center.

Scott Deering '89 led theweightmen effort, as he wasedged out by 1/4 " in the lastround to finish second in the 35-pound weight throw. Mike O'-Leary '87 finished third in with a41' 11 /2" effort. Deering had hisrevenge shortly thereafter whenhe captured the shot put.

Joe Peters '88 lost in the finalround of the long jump, comingin second with. Sean Schubert'88 managed to take third in thetriple jump.

MIT fared better in the re-

maining field events,-as GlennHopkins '87 easily took the highjump. The pole vaulters have notlost yet this season, and this timeit was Bobb White '87 who wasvictorious. Teammate Scott Baird'87 came in third.

The Polar Bears took the firsttwo running events, as injuries si-delined two of the Engineers' toprunners Gordon Holterman '87and Sean Garrett '88.

The other MIT runners morethan made up for the loss. In the1500-meter run, Rod Hinman '88had a very strong race but wasovertaken in the last lap and hadto settle for second, followed byAnton Briefer '89 in third. The55-meter high hurdles produced

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