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Because there will be fewerwomen next year and becausemore dorms want more women,Cook said, Burton residents feltthat they should escalate theirR/O activities.

Last year Burton House wasundersubscribed. One reason forthis, according to Burton roomassignments chairman JeffSchweiger '75, is because Burtonran what he called a "negativerush." Its focus was on gettingfreshmen out to see the alterna-tives to Burton House. Anotherreason for the under-subscrip-tion was because "not many"women were assigned temporaryhousing in Burton during R/OWeek. He also said that, "I don'tthink $250 was really enough.I'm sure that $1000 will proveuseful." Schweiger beheves that"we should be able to get theextra women we want."

InflationBaker House has raised its

RIO budget from $1450 to$1750. This increase was mainlydue to inflation, according toBaker House R/O chairman DaveLee '76, who cited increasedtransportation and food costs, astwo major factors. He noted that"our plans for this R/O Week arealmost identical to those of lastRIO Week." One of the reasons

Baker spends so much money onR/O Week, Lee said, is becausethe Baker house tax is S22 -about S10 over other dormi-tories. "One of the main attrac-tions of our house is that we arevery active and we spend a lot ofmoney on activities," he said.

McCormick next year will bespending about $600 on R/Oweek, about $100 over last yearAccording to Pearl Huang '78,R/O co-chairman for the dorm,McCormick traditionally has aquiet R/O week. "People usuallyare pretty sure whether or notthey want to live here," she said,"and the Dean's Office makessure that McCormick is filledeach year."

If dormitories are going to bedoing more to attract freshmennext year, some of the frater-nities may suffer, said Interfra-ternity Council chairman MarkSuchon '76. "I'm worried aboutthe less structured, more infor-mal fraternities and the onesthat don't have a summer rush,"he said.

"What we fear most is dormparties on Friday night, becausethat's the beginning of the fra-ternity rush. We also have tocontend with the 'inertia factor':some students never leave thedorms once they get there,"'Suchon said.

By Margaret BrandeauIn an effort to recruit more

freshmen women, Burton Houselast week voted to quadruple its197 5 Residence/OrientationWeek budget, raising it from$250 to $1000.

According to Burton HouseR/O co-chairman Carolyn Cook'77, it was decided in a recentmeeting of all women at MITthat it would be desirable toexpand the number of women inBurton House. However, Admis-sions Office figures indicate thatthe class of '79 will have onlyabout 50 in a class of approxi-mately 1130 students, as com-pared to the class of '78 whichhas 210 women out of 1030students.

rain tutureplaced on foreign students inrecent years.

Naturalization of the Viet-namese students would have towait for special legislation fromCongress, Danielson said. "Wehave nothing but the normalimmigration procedures to go byright now," he explained."Under those procedures, itwould be very difficult for thesestudents to be naturalized."

Congress has not yet con-sidered legislation on na-turalizing the students, but a billhas been introduced to appro-priate financial aid for Indo-chinese students in this country.HR-6120, a bill introduced byRep. Paul Simons (D-Ill), wouldprovide annual grants for stu-dents from South Vietnam orCambodia to complete theirstudies here.

The bill would provide grantsto pay the full cost of educa-tional expenses up to $2500each year for any student en-rolled as of Jan. 1, Allen Cissell,legislative aide to Simons, told

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Nyugen Hu An's battle to prevent his deportation to Vietnam hasbeen ended by history. An, an MIT graduate student, and sevenother Indochinese MIT students will be permitted to stay in theUnited States indefinitely as the federal government has eased visarestrictions on students from Cambodia and Vietnam.

Viet st udents: unceriBy Mike MIcNamee

The end of the war inVietnam has had special impacton one set of Vietnamese people- the more than 2000 Viet-namese students now studying inAmerican colleges and uni-versities.

They - along with theirCambodian counterparts - havefound themselves in legal limbosince the fall of Saigon last weekto the Provisional RevolutionaryGovernment, which broughtabout the end of the long Viet-namese war.

Beside the legal questions ofcitizenship, status as studentsand as potential American citi-zens, and the practical questionsof how to pay for completingtheir educations, these studentsmust decide whether or not theywish to return to their home-lands, and, if so, when they wishto do so.

Their considerations are com-plicated by the fact that manyof them do not know wheretheir families are, or whethertheir relatives managed to escapein the last days of the oldgovernment.

"I am still waiting for somesort of statement from the newgovernment about what theythink we students should do,"one of MIT's seven Vietnamesestudents told The Tech. Thestudent, who asked not to beidentified, said he had "abso-lutely no idea" of how he willdeal with the decision whetheror not to go back when hecompletes his studies here.

"After I graduate, a lot willdepend on what the situationthere [in Vietnam] has beenlike," the student explained. "Ifconditions permit, I will gohome, but I'm going to wait andsee."

The student added that hisfamily is still in Vietnam, al-though he had not heard fromthem for some time. "I hopethere are no recriminations by

the government against people,but I am certain that they willinvestigate the status of all thestudents who are in this coun-try," the student said.

The US government, busywith the problem of resettlingthe thousands of Vietnameserefugees who fled Saigon beforethe city fell, has taken littleaction to deal with the studentshere. The Department of Justice,however, has waived the res-trictions formerly placed uponVietnamese and Cambodian stu-dents, and will not attempt tosend students back to thosecountries after they graduate.

"We've been telling' all thestudents that call that we won'trequire their departure, and thatthe work requirements havebeen waived," Russell Danielson,Deputy District Director of theImmigration and NaturalizationService in Boston, said. Viet-namese students - of whomthere are approximately 280 inthe Boston area - will be gran-ted new visas and allowed towork in this country without thework-permit restrictions INS has

By Michael GarryTwo student thesis projects

have been halted by the theft ofa unique device used to aidpersons who are "night blind."

Valued at $7,000, the device,called a channeltron, was takenfrom the office of Professor ofBiology and Electrical Engineer-ing Jerome Lettvin. It is des-cribed by Lettvin as irreplacableand not available in any cornm-

mercial market.The device was made, he said,

exclusively for patients withnight blindness in the Massachu-setts Eye and Ear Hospital inBoston, which lent IRttvin thedevice on a short term basisbecause "at the moment theydidn't happen to have a patientwho needed it."

The students were utilizingthe small, hand-held device intheir thesis projects, one for anundergraduate degree and theother for a master's. ."This re-search has now been scuttled,"Lettvin said. "So if someonetook it as a lark or for asouvenir, we wish that personwould return it - we need it sobadly."

Lettvin said he discoveredthat the device, kept in a small.leather case the size of a cameracase, was missing from his officein Building 36 last Tuesday anddeduced that it had been stoleneither that Monday or during thepreceding weekend.

Both the desk drawer inwhich the channeltron wasstored and his office door werekept locked, Let~vin said, ex-plaining that the thief apparent-ly opened the door with amaster key and then pried openthe desk lock to get at thedevice. He noted that many suchmaster keys are available and itis not difficult to obtain one.

Lettvin was at a loss forguessing any motive for stealingthe device, although he saidsomeone might have liked it as asouvenir or wanted to trade itfor money. The Campus Patrolhas been alerted about thetheft in an effort to promptwhoever stole the device toreturn it. "There will be noquestions asked, no follow up,no nothing," Lettvin said. "Wejust want it back."

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The class of '79 will apparently be the largestclass ever to enroll at MIT, reaching the goal set byInstitute officials in response to budgetary andacademic considerations.

As of yesterday afternoon, 1134 students hadaccepted the Institute's invitation of admission.This is within the goal of 1130 to I 150 set by theAcademic Coun- cil in February(see The Tech,Feb. 28, 1975)."I have everyreason to be- l lieve we will stay within ourgoal," said Peter Richardson, Director of Admissions.

The Admissions Office still has not heard from153 applicants admitted in March. From thisgroup, Richardson expects about fifteen to twentyacceptances. In addition, at the end of this week,about 60 persons will be admitted from thewaiting list, according to Richardson.

During the summer, an estimated 30 to 70persons who have indicated that they will enrollwill change their mind. This "summer melt" is dueto several reasons. "Students whose first choicewas CalTech or Harvard and whose second choicewas MIT may get admitted from the other school'swaiting list, for example," explained Richardson.EOther reasons include deciding to take a year offand family considerations.

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D. Reid Weedon, Chair-man of the Student AffairsVisiting Committee, hasplanned an informal openmeeting to give students theopportunity to suggest rele-vant topics for the agenda ofthe next full meeting of theVisiting Committee. Allinterested students are invitedto attend this meeting whichhas been scheduled for Thurs-day, May 8th from 7:00 to9: 3 0pm in the MarlarLounge, Room 37-252.

Theft of unique devicehalts two thesis projects

Frosh admissions, housin set100 men to new dorm

By Stephen BlattMore than 100 students have expressed interest

in living in the new dormitory now under con-struction on the West Campus.

The 300 bed dorm, currently being called the"New West Campus Houses," will house 75 resi-dents of Russian House and French-GermanHouse, with the remaining spaces filled by the

upperclassmenwho have ap-plied to liveuee zingin there and by in-coming fresh-

9 olarf'A m men. The non-IlasS sof'79 language houseswill be all-male.

_ ~ The dormconsists of six houses, which are vertical livinggroup units, connected by a center arcade. Moststudents who have applied to the dorm haveexpressed an interest in living in the front houses,which face the Charles River, according to Assis-tant Dean for Student Affairs Nancy Wheatley '71.She added that the Dean's Office is interested inmaintaining an even mix of freshmen and upper-classmen in each house, and is trying to convincegroups of people who will be moving to the dormto live in the back houses. "A living group is morethan the facilities and the view," she said.

Barring "unforeseen circumstances" the dormwill be open for R/O Week next fall, according toWheatley. The cost of the dorm will probably be"around" its 6.5 million dollar estimate, sheadded.

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* There will be a teach-in on_Indochina featuring Noam Chomsky,Ngo Vinh Long, Louise Bruyn, andAndy Mermell today at 7:30pm, inRoom 10-250.

* Harvard Professor WassilyLeontief will debate MIT ProfessorPaul MacAvoy on the topic "TheUnited States Needs Increased Gov-ernment Planning in the Economy,"today at 4pro in Burden Hall, Har-vard Business School.

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* The location of the forum andfestival to be held in observance of"Days of Solidarity with Indochina"has been changed to the HarvardScience Center. The event will beheld from 2pm to 1Opm, on May 11with exhibits, slides, films, food,theater, and presentations by Viet-namese, Cambodian, and Laotianresidents of the US.

* The Catholic Chaplaincy announ-ces special holyday services forAscension Thursday, May 8, at 8amin the Chapel, 12:05pm in theStudent Center West Lounge, and5:05pmr, in the Chapel.

* Registration material for the1975 Summer Session is available atthe Registrar's Office, E19-335. Theregistration forms must be filled inand returned to the Registrar's Officeby tomorrow.

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'last until the student completedwhatever degree program he iscurrently enrolled in.

"This bill is essentially thesame thing as was done forChinese students when Chinafell, or for Cubans when Castrotook power," Cissell explained."But I don't think any of thosebills ran into the opposition thishas met."

Simons' office has received'"somne really nasty mail" inopposition to HR-6120, Cissellsaid. "They all say, 'You aren'tdoing anything for Americanstudents, so why help the Indo-chinese?' " he said.

Cissell said that about 200 of

the 2300 Vietnamese students inthis country are on American-sponsored Agency for Inter-national Development grants,and won't be eligible for the aidSimons is proposing. The annualcost of the program, he said,would probably be less than the$6.5 million which the legisla-tion asks be appropriated.

Cissell refused to assess thechances of the bill's passage. TheHouse of Representatives voteddown one bill for aid for refu-gees last week because oflanguage it contained au-thorizing Presidential use oftroops in Vietnam. "Withoutthat authorization, I believeCongress would approve the aidfor refugees," Cissell said.

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MIT will provide advisory andresearch service in support of the-Wentwo-rth's development of a.technical post-secondary school on the Rae wsin Shiraz, Iran, under the termsof the $1.5 million five-yearcontract received by MIT this School and Alfred Keil of Engi-week. neering, three or four other MIT

Wentworth had previously an- faculty members. and severalnounced (The Tech, March 21) a IOSS representatives, will meet$1.8 million contract with the three times each year to dealIOSS to undertake major devel- with program review, budgetaryopment of the technical school review and advice, and modifica-in Shiraz. Wentworth was given tions of IOSS's other programsthat contract by the IOSS after in technical education.MIT suggested that the school - A research committee com-a Boston technical and voca- posed of MIT faculty memberstional school offering two- and will select projects in educa-four-year programs - would be tional research and sponsor thembetter able to develop such an- with funds from the contract.Iranian school than MIT. The committee will also monitor

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Forgettingforgetting

By Michael McNameeIf there was ever a fitting

ending to sum up the sad, illogi-cal, and senseless story of Ameri-can involvement in Indochina,itwould have to be the currentreaction in the US to the swarmsof Vietnamese refugees descend-ing on our shores.

The United States, championrefugee-maker all over the world,is finally faced starkly and clear-ly with the results of its Vietnampolicy. The embodiment of thefailures of that policy in thou-sands of Vietnamese refugees -representing the hundreds ofthousands uprooted so manytimes within their country, fromvillages to relocation camps tostrategic hamlets - has forcedmany Americans to actually seewhat 30 years of war, half of itsupported by the US, has doneto the people of Vietnam.

The American people, itseems, don't want to face this.Mail in Congress is runningheavily -against the refugees.Thousands of Americans, seeingthe wanderers as job competi-tion, economic burdens, have

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'Food'-in a year.

There was a spirit of cooper-ation about "Food" that oughtto be encouraged. SuzanneWeinberg has pointed out thatmany institutions and individu-als from MIT - students, teach-ers, scientists, engineers, andadministrators - have contribu-ted and helped. This cooperationhas uplifted the art students' andartists' spirits.

For almost two years now, Ihave suggested for Lobby 7 anexhibition on the theme of"Love" -- another theme thatwould lend itself to unitingmany efforts. The show wouldattempt to express the spiritiualand univeral forces of love whileleaving private its private andintimate aspects. If the Lobby 7program survives the ebbingtides of the economy, such ashow would be a worthwhileproject to follow "Food" in duetime (meaning about two years),

Profesor-Otto PieneDirector, CA VSApril 30, 19 75

BasketsTo the Editor:

The "serious point" that-Prof. Piene made in his letter(The Tech, April 18) is to memost shocking and disturbingaspect of the Food Show. If thatdisplay "represents student workcoming out of subjects which arepart of the MIT curriculum,"then MIT has elevated collegecredit for Basketweaving to theheights of respectability. At leasta basket has some utilitarianvalue.

Dr. Bruce D. WedlockDirector, Lowell Institute School

April 18, 1975

ConcertTo thle Editor:

I would like to congratulateMr. Steve Wailman and theUndergraduate Association fortheir decision to cancel theMontgomery Concert scheduledfor tonight. It's about time thatsomrne of the student pols aroundthis place woke up to the factthat this isn't 19)65 any moreand not everybody is interestedin paying through the nose for adumb beer blast and a bunch ofdumb "musicians" who sit upthere and wiggle their asses for acouple of hours for a fewthousand dollars. Surely at MITpeople can come up with a fewmore sophisticated and intelli-gent forms of entertainmentthan that.

David A .... k '77April. ,, 197.5

To the Editor:After reading your "Com-

mentary," on Food and "Food,"I would like to point out a fewfacts in the hope of restoringsome balance of view vis-a-vismuch zealous judgment.

Contrary to the impressionthe reader must get upon no-ticing the identification of theauthors of "Not Even Decora-tive" as "... graduate studentsat CAVS" - there are no gradu-ate degree programs for the artsat MIT. Ms. Porto is a specialstudent whose work can be seenin the third floor window ofStaircase 7. Ms. Green is a Ph.D.candidate in the Division of Edu-cation. They both must not haveread "The ultimate in environ-mental art..." in The Techz inresponse to which I mentionedArman's "Le Plein" as a com-ment on a suggestion of a gar-bage show in that article -definitely not in reference to"Food" as they allude.

By definition visual art ismade to be seen. Students ofthis medium must experiencenot only the steps that lead torespective objects and phenom-ena, but they must also experi-ence exhibiting, staging of eventsand the pleasures and displea-sures of exposure (including theaudience's reactions).

Visual arts classes at MIT -unlike programs in many com-parable institutions -- are notblessed with appropriate studios,workshops, storage, preparation,or exhibition spaces; or with abudget that would alleviate theseinconveniences. The occasionaluse of Lobby 7 ("Food" fol-lowed "Weather" at a 17-monthsdistance) makes up modestly forthe absence of the above-statedassets.

"Food" presented a seriousissue in an evocative fashion andapparently generated a mostlively reaction. Obviously Lobby7 is not located in an art school,or a university with an art de-partment. Art expressions in theunprotected and unfurnished en-vironment of Lobby 7 have amore direct appeal - for goodwor worse - than they wouldhave in a gallery, a museum oran art school; and the audienceresponds more directly, and fre-quently with less sympathy andrestraint, than it would in anexhibition building with its at-nmosphere of reverence for thearts. Everything and every actionis fully exposed in Lobby 7.Watching the unfurling of ashow becomes part of the expe-rience for the viewer, and watch-ing the viewer watch the instal-lation is part of the participant's

experience.Under these trying circum-

stances (it is easier for artists andart students just to work forartists and art students in thewell-known ivory tower) manyparticipants have workedextremely hard to articulate acoherent statement. They havedisplayed courage and dedica-tion which deserves to be ac-knowleded. The cries "waste,waste" miss the point complete-ly. Thirty dollars worth of wastedapples should be considered amoderate price for the debate.The fact that much of the timethe audience's discussion of"content"obscured discussion of"form" honors a group of cre-ative young men and womenwho are a minority in this com-munity.

"Lobby 7 is sacred" is aneasy but dubious argument thathas popped up frequently in thediscussion of "Food" and theLobby 7 program. Unlike somePost-World-War IX MIT buildingssuch as Baker House, KresgeAuditorium and the Chapel, theeclectic Lobby 7 and much ofwhat comes with it has nevermade the ranks of history as acreative accomplishment - be-cause the Pantheon was therefirst. I can hardly see a betterway of countering Lobby 7'sfake style than by exposing aconstant flow of images andactivities that reflect the stu-dents' (and faculty's) work,especially from fields that com-municate with the lively anddiversified MIT audience."Food" and the ensuing discus-sion have shown - this time inan atmosphere of controversy -that there is a strong need atMIT for this kind of open andfrank exchange.

There should be praise for theaudience, too. Although thetraditional catalysts of culturaldebate were absent from"Food," some viewers have re-sponded quickly and intensely.Although the show lacked anyshock staple of violence, did notcarry a gun, and could easily belabelled "harmless," the audi-ence perceived the exhibition'smessage and saw the contentthrough its various forms.

Curiously, many of the easilyaccessible portions of informa-tion in written and other graphicforms were overlooked. Mostoverlooked was the fact that agreat science photographer, FritzGora, loaned fascinating worksto an enterprise clearly labelledand explained as a campus exhi-bition. As a form of gratitudeCAVS will show more of hiswork - under easier conditions

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protested their arrival here. Theroots of this protest, some obser-vers say, goes to a fundamentalracism in Americans - a dislikefor Orientals that goes back toPearl Harbor, or even to thebuilding of the western railroads.

Nonetheless, America mustwelcome these refugees. Not justbecause America is "the land ofthe free and the home of thebrave," nor because the Statueof Liberty has a plaque saying"give me your tired, your poor,your huddled masses yearning tobe free." Such reasons might bevalid for Gerald Ford, but theyaren't sufficient - they havenever stopped America from set-ting immigration standards andquotas in the past.

America must welcome therefugees because American poli-cies brought them here. TheUS's active participation in thewar prolonged it; the US's refu-sal to help enforce the ParisAgreements by applying pressureto either side, coupled withPresident Nixon's secret plans tohelp the South Vietnamese afterthe Accords were signed. keptthose agreements from beingmeaningful; the US's rhetoric,stated by President Ford and

American refugees of this war -the conscientious objectors anddeserters who did not acceptFord's "amnesty" plan (willthey too, be regarded as jobcompetition?).

Americans seem to want toforget the war - forget therefugees, forget the dead, forgeteverything connected with theVietnam era. That, as much asanything, seems to be behind therejection of the refugees. Thereare better, and more construc-tive, ways to forget Vietnam,however.

Start by forgetting the leadersof the war - keep General Thieuout of this country, don't makea Generalissimo-in-exile of thatcorrupt windbag; get rid of Kis-singer and, eventually, Ford,leaders who prolonged our ago-ny and wanted to do so evenmore. Forget the hates of thewar - recognize the new govern-ment in Vietnam, recognize thebrave role played by Americanobjectors and deserters. And fi-nally, forget the attitude thatbrought us Vietnam - the ideathat America knows best, andcan continue to spread thatAmerican vision across the worldwilly-nilly.

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'Vie tn am;refugeesSecretary of State Henry Kissin-ger in their mad battle with theCongress over funding, is prob-ably responsible for the flight ofso many Vietnamese. The refu-gees wouldn't be coming heretoday if American policieshadn't been such abysmal fail-ures; the least America can do isaccept them.

There are ironies in the refu-gee situation which parallel thegreatest ironies which the warproduced. Many refugees are en-tering this country throughCamp Pendleton, only a fewmiles from Richard Nixon's SanClemente hideaway (what mustgo through Nixon's mind whenhe hears refugee stories now?).While thousands protest the ad-mission of the refugees, nothinghas been said of the whereaboutsof the non-lamented president ofVietnam, General Nguyen VanThieu (will he be able to put hisreported stock of gold to workto buy his way into the US?).And even when people urge suc-cor and assistance to the Viet-namese refugees, there is still nopromise of forgiveness for the

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Admit fills largest class ever(Continued from page 1)

freshman class to within the1130 to 1150 target. However,

last year, the summer melt was

not as large as expected and the

class of '78, targeted for 1000

students, ended up at about

1040 students.Of the 1134 persons who

have decided to attend MIT, 162

are women. Although the final

number of women may change

because of summer melt and late

acceptances, Richardson expects"over 150 women" in next

year's freshman class, a drop of

about 50 from last year's total,which remains the highest ever.

The precise number of blacksand other minorities has not

been determined yet, either, but

Richardson believes that "there

will be somewhat fewer next-year than in this year's freshmanclass." He added that "we still

have to convince women and

Sanford calls for greater

gov't economic planning(Continued from page 3)

higher education," he said, be-

cause it is one that "well servesthe nation."

Economic flexibility needed

In order to obtain full em-

ployment, which he defined as a

situation in which "everybodywho wants a job will be able to

find some kind of job," Sanfordsaid that current inflexibility in

government economic policy

must be eliminated.Senator Hubert Humphrey's

(D-Minn.) new bill, which wouldprovide public service jobs to

those who can not find jobs, will

not in itself eliminate unem-ployment, Sanford said. "We

can't decree full employment.""The best way we have [to

fight unemployment] is thefederal budget," Sanford stated.

Deficits and taxes can be used tokeep the economy "on an even

keel," he said."We should hone up this tool

so it can be applied more quick-

ly," he. said, proposing that the

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minorities that the MIT ex-perience is a valid way to achievetheir objectives."

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- the Gospel of St. BrownMichael S. Harper gave a reading of

Es poetry last Thursday to a packedcrowd in the Mezzanine Lounge of theMIT Student Center. He was invited toread at MIT about three years ago, andhas written a considerable amount ofpoetry since then. Since 1970, whenhis first collection of poems waspublished, Dear John, Dear Coltrane,he has published six other volumes ofpoetry. He is the director of thegraduate writing program at BrownUniversity, and has given poetryreadings all over the country.

His poetry is complex, deep,rhythmical, and plays jazz blues on mynervous system. His reading of thepoetry is extremely powerful. Each'poem hit me in a different part of mycultural and physical anatomy, and Ifound myself walking out after thereading with Bessie Smith's ripped outshoulder and a thousand boys, gonesmacked out, in my arms, floatinghigh, playing Coltrane's sax,- andcraving more.

I wanted to be impartial but I can'tbe. I can only say what I felt from hispoems, from his voice. It is verydifficult to talk about Harper. I wantto just say, he hits hard. Very hard.Read him, hear him. But it wouldn'tbe fair to you, reader, if I didn'tattempt to explain why he moves meas much as he does.

First, his technique is brilliant andflawless. He uses words in a contextwhich gives them the meaning and thesounds which the context demands.For instance, in his poem, "NightmareBegins Responrsibility, he stringstogether long groups of juxtaposing sounds and meanings to achieve adisjointness, the schizophrenia ofnightmare which rebounds from asep-tic hospital walls, and forces hispersonal grief on the reader.

Say it for his two sons goneSay nightmareSay it loudpain breaking heartmadnessNightmare begins responsibi-lity.

I could go on, I could go into eachword and sound, and write for a longtime about it, about 'goin' boxcarredhome,' and 'sex fingers toes in themarketplace,' about electronic niggerain't street poisoned,' and on and on,-and I would just be saying His wordsare beautiful. So I'll say that instead.His words are beautiful. His control ofsound in the building of a mood isextraordinary.

The second way in which his poemsmove me are their rhythm. He plays avariety of jazz rhythms in his poetry,light and harsh, complex and simple. Ihad heard that Harper's words werejazz rhythms, but I didn't understandwhat-that meant until I heard and readhis poems.

He uses subtle rhythms in his moreloving poems. In a -poem about PaulLawrence Dunbar the gentle rhythmacheives a respect, a distance denied, aquiet grief for his early death, which Ididn't know you could do in poetry.And Harper does it, while evokingsocial anger and personal love, whilephilosophizing on music and life as adistortion of space, as an expression ofa space, a continuum, ail their own.And Harper achieves this in a veryshort, compact poem, with no sense ofcrowding. He is a craftsman!

To leave rhythm, I go on to thethird reason why Harper moves me asmuch as he does: personal history. Hispoetry is rooted with deep heavy rootsto a past which he makes immediateand ever-present. Most good poetstoday are able to make me part oftheir lives. Their words make meidentify with their own past, andstrike certain chords in my past.Harper does this. But his life and hisroots are over three hundred years old,and when he takes his personal life andmakes me feel it, and makes thousandsof other lives personal for me, andtakes those three hundred years offeelings, headrags, hatreds, terrorsloves, deaths, ecstasies, starvations,and a sax singing to itself at night,; andwhen he takes those three hundredyears and makes them immediate andpersonal, right here, now, and me, itpunches you pretty bad. In otherwords, his roots go very deep and theydrink very deep, and he focuses it allin his poems so that when you read it,KAPOW! it hits you.

Harper is writing about life, his,others, almost mine, it seems, with atremendous sense of understanding,with a tremendous power of "image-making," and immediacy, a sense ofresponsibility, and he is writing aboutdeath, And all the stages in between.His voice is deep, powerfully rooted inan everyday world, a zen world ofnow. His poetry is day-to-day rooted,and at first sounds common andcomfortably "down-home," but atcloser view is tremendously surreal.His poetry is so real it isn't there.

Maria, or the Wrongs of WomanMary Wollstonecraft(W.W. Norton; 154 pages; $6.95)

Mary Wollstonecraft lived duringthe ferment of the French andAmerican Revolutions. She was part ofa circle that included Thomas Paine,the pamphleteer, William Blake, theRomantic poet, and Joseph Priestly,the discoverer of exygen. Profoundlymoved by the intellectual fermentaround her, Wollstonecraft assertedwomen's unalienable right to freedomand personal dignity at a time whenwomen were considered chattel almostuniversally.

Maria is unblushing propoganda. Thefemale protagonists are made as nobleas possible, unyielding to the tormentsof male dominated society. Throughtheir troubles they remain gentle,liberal, and proud. Their personhoodremains undiminished through theirordeals. The antagonists are made asplebian and as vulgar as possible. Theycannot do good; they oppose theliberation of women or are willingtools of women's oppression, thereforeanything they do must b1 evil.

MIaria, or the Wrongs of IW4onmen isnot great literature. Propaganda doesnot make great literature generally. Itis, however, significant, both histori-cally and socially. It is historicallysignificant because it is among thefounding documents of the femaleliberation movement. It is sociallysignificant because its trlth!_s are stillvalid. The right to humna, dignity isunconditional and cannot he limited. Irecommend this work highly.

The Zulu KingsBrian Roberts(Scribner's Sons; 363 pages; $10.95)

The messiah theory of a leadercausing events and great changes innational life is common throughoutpopular historiography. The bookmarket is deluged annually withbiographies proclaiming the popularityof this theory, The messiah theory isvery easy and quite comforting ifmatters are not to the historian'sliking, a scapegoat can be foundreadily. It is so smooth and comfortingthat one easily forgest that the theorydoes not work.

The Zulu empire rose and fellwithin a centuryv. Whie both the riseand fall were dominated by thepersonalities of the Zulu kings, thenation rose because of the superiororganization, tactics, and discipline ofits armies and fell to the superiortechnology of the advancing BritishEmpire. The driving ambition ofShaka, known' contemporarily as "TheBlack Napoleon," may have been acatalyst in the rise of a minor coastaltribe into the most formidable nativemilitary power in southern Africa. Theweakness of Dingane, (Slha'ka's succes-sor, may have contributed to the Zuludefeat by Pretorius i: commandos.National ascendency -r- national de-cline, however, is caused bvy elementsgreater than the perso:s,2!it .of a singleman.

The Zulu Kings is is,:., researchedand written. Althouah '¥::,erts over-states their personai , f'ect uponnational history, the bicyraphies of thefour Zulu kings are fascinating. Irecommend it as biography but not ashistory.

researched, wellobjective.

documented, andA Theory of ConflictBrian Crozier(Scribner's Sons; 245 pages; $12.50)

With all the recent revolutionaryferment, it was inevitable that some-one attempt a defenitive study of thecauses and justifications of revolution.Brian Crozier attempts to do so; hissucess here is considereable.

Examining first what rebels rebelagainst - the State- and proceedingthrough the causes of revolution to itsresults and ultimately to its justifica-tions, A Theory of Conflict is well

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that need smoothing; at worst, peopleare oppressed by their supposedprotector. In the worst case, the causesof revolution are clear. When a rebelmovement appears where conditionsare rapidly improving, however,change is the catalyst for revolutionaryferment. The very fact that conditionsare changing sets off a feedbackdemanding more change, which in turnsets off feedback, leading eventually toa bloody encounter to gain that whichwas being achieved anyway.

Is the result of revolution worth thecost? The costs are apparent- thehomeless, the dead, the ruin of whatwas to be a fine country, all of whichtraceable to the revolution. How can arevolution justify itself?

Crozier offers no set answers, ratherhe presents a number of cases-in-point.Each case is designed to bring our afew salient features and questions andto provide the reader with sifficientfamiliarity to look at new cases.

A Theory of Conflict is perhaps abook on rebels and revolutions toappear in the recent past. It isassuredly the only truly objectivestudy of causes and effects, dealingnot with any particular cause but withall causes. It should be requiredreading for any who have an interest inrevolution.

According to Crozier, the State hastwo purposes.

Man loves order; he cannot abide achaotic existence. The State, providingan ordered basis for living (albeit not aalways rational one), fulfills this need.Second, there are always those whoneed protection. For these people, theState claims to provide the neededsecurity.

No government, however, is per-fect. At best, there are rough edges

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Control problems plaguedMIT pitchers against Brandeis, asthey issued 13 walks and threwsix wild pitches en route to the10,4 loss. Brandeis ace MikeFahey fanned 14 Beavers ineight innings, but had to come into pitch the ninth when hisre liever, Steve Riley, wastouched for three runs by astubborn Beaver squad that justwould not quit.

First baseman Herb Kummer'75 is batting a torrid .404 andhas already set single seasonrecords for most hits (36) andmost total bases (46) and his.440 Greater Boston Leagueaverage has made him thestrongest candidate for the firstbaseman's spot on the GBLAll-Star team.

The 1975 Beavers have rap-ped out more hits than anyother team in MIT history (200)and have 39 extra-base hits and45 stolen bases, also seasonrecords, but the team has alsostruck out a record of 183 timesthis season and the staff ERA isa whopping 5.51. The Beaverssurrender an average of 7.09runs per game.

The Beavers, 10-12, winddown the final week of the 1975season with a Wednesday contestat Northeastern (4:00pm) and aSaturday doubleheader atWorcester Poly beginning at1:00.

By Lawrence D. DavidThe MIT baseball team failed

to pull its season record even lastweek, dropping a 15-9 decisionto Northeastern, snatching a 4-2squeaker from Suffolk, and thensubmitting to a 104 thrashing

t by Brandeis.The Beaver bats banged out

15 base hits against North-eastern, nine in an eight-runfourth inning, but Northeasternraked four MIT hurlers for 16hits and stole seven bases to slapdown the Beaver uprising, 15-9.

-Mike Royal '76 pulled hisHoudini act again and againagainst Suffolk, masterfullypitching out of jam after jam,but found himself on the shortend of a 2-1 score going into thebottom of the ninth. DavidYauch '75 drew a walk offSuffolk pitcher Jim Scibilia tolead off the final frame. Royalthen bunted the ball just out ofScibilia's reach toward secondbase. Suffolk shortstop TimFlynn had no chance to getRoyal at first, but threw the ballanyway and the throw was wildpast the first baseman.

.With Yauch on third andRoyal on second, Suffolk drewits infield in. Center fielder SteveEdelson '76 wasted no time ashe cracked Scibilia's first offer-ing off the tennis bubble to winthe game over a stunned Suffolknine, 4-2.

Beaver first oaseman Herb Kummer '75 sets to throw out a Suffolk runner as third'78 (9) looks on. Junior Steve Edelson's thre-run homer with nobody out in the

baseman Jeff Feltonbottom of the ninth

rallied MIT over Suffolk, 4-2.at Aft...

Springfield,By Glenn Brownstein with

The MIT varsity lacrosse remateam's record dropped to 3-8 Harvthis past week as the Engineers to cldropped a 13-7 decision to GHarvard and lost a heartbreaking goals15-14 contest against Springfield Tenras a tremendous rally just fell assistshort. A

Against the Crimson, MIT MIThad another case of its recurring game"first-quarter blues," trailing 7-1 officearly in the second quarter, but delaysettled down to battle Harvard havinevenly the rest of the way. The befoCrimson appeared up for the the 1game only through the first datequarter, and let down thereafter, gameallowing the Engineers to pull the

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upsets Radcliffe SpriIV ~~~~~~~~~SprinBy Caren Penso Engi

The MIT women's tennis andteam upped its record to five quarwins and two losses last week Brauwhen they beat Boston State 3-2 someand trounced heavily favored tinueRadcliffe 7-2. up a

In the Radcliffe match, the TMIT team played its first nine- in t!point match, having. previously half,played only to five. This forced upccPatti Schettig '76 and Stella ever,Perone '78 to double up and goalsplay in both singles and doubles withmatches. Although not accus- periotomed to playing singles, they .both took their matches easily. Spri]

Liz Kendall '78 and Chris leadVogdes '78 were also forced to perioplay two matches, yet teamed scoreup to crush the number three anddoubles team 10-I in their extra MITmatch. goal

The number two doubles Brauteam of Anne Averbach '77 and LauriPerone extended its winning withstreak to twelve matches by in thputting away its opponents from ABoston State 6-2, 6-2, and coacRadcliffe 10-4 (pro set). clain

The team finishes its season wastoday against Mt. Ida College. wou

topl axrnerwebbing when the stick wasoverturned. After much discu-ssion, the stick was declaredillegal, and Schwartz sat out amandatory three-minute penaltythat all but ended MIT'schances.

Although the Engineers suc-cessfully killed the penalty, theycould not get possession in theiroffensive zone in the finalminute, and Springfield escapedwith the win.

MIT only had four pointscorers, but all of them hadexcellent nights. Laurenson hadsix goals and added one assist,Alan Epstein '75, all-time varsitybasketball assist leader, paddedhis lacrosse total with six, aseason high; Schwartz had acareer-high five goals, and Braunscored three times and assistedon two others.

By Dave DobosAlthough Rich Okine '77

captured three events for thesecond straight meet, the MITtrack team dropped its final dualmeet of the season Thursday tothe Coast Guard Academy 89-65here at Briggs Field.

Trying to avenge last year's111 /2-421/2 shellacking at thehands of the New London squadproved to be too difficult a taskfor the injury-ridden Engineers.A healthy team with sidelinedsprinters Jim Banks '76, PaulKuzmenko '77, and co-captainGary Wilkes '75 might have putMIT on top.

Wilkes, competing in the lastdual meet of his MIT career,won the long jump with a fineleap of 21' 10lh" and picked up athird in the --440 before rein-juring a badly strained muscleand sitting out the rest of thecontest. It is doubtful that hewill run in any of the upcomingchampionship meets.

In winning the 100 yard dashand both hurdle races, Okineextended his dual meet indivi-dual event first place streak toseven races, not having lost sinceearning a second in the interme-diate hurdles in the first meet ofthe season against Bowdoin.

Junior Greg BHunter scoredtwelve points with firsts in thejavelin (personal best 189'7")and shot put (43'3Y4") andthirds in the high hurdles anddiscus. Probably the most im-proved athlete since last year,John Lundberg '77, who hasthrown consistently all season,picked up his third straighthammer victory. Two importanthammer and shot put secondplaces were earned by freshmanFred Bunke.

Co-captain Jeff Baerman '76(mile), Mike Ryan '76 (triplejump), Dave Grasso '75 (discus),Chris Perley '77 (intermediatehurdles), and John Krolewski(two-mile) also took seconds intheir respective races. Reid vonBorstel '78 missed the freshmanhigh jump record by 1/4" when heleaped 6'3-3/4" and tied forsecond.

The Engineers finish the sea-son at 1-3. Although not muchbetter . than last year's 1-5record, the squad showed -marked improvement over lastyear as a comparison of scoreswould indicate. The loss ofWilkes from the sprints nextyear will certainly hurt, but he isthe only graduating senior in therunning events. Except for dis-cus thrower Grasso, the fieldevent squad will remain intact.

In the Greater Boston Trackchampsionships Sunday at Bos-ton College, -MIT placed sixthwith six points. Rich Okine '77,

· after winning both his prelimi-l nary and semifinal heats in thea, high. hurdles, raced to second

place behind meet MVP SamC Butler of Harvard. Greg Hunter

'76 placed fourth in the javelinwithiya throw-. oVf.L84hi Other:~?;

outstanding performances forMIT included junior co-captainJeff Baerman's 4:18.2 in themile and sophomore FrankRichardson's 14:11.2 clocking inthe three-mile.Summary of EventsLong Jump: l-Wilkes (MIT);

2-Moore (CG); 3-Smrnith (CG);21'10%"

Triple Jump: 1-Moore (CG);2-Ryan (MIT); 3-Dempsey(CG); 441/2"

High Jump: ! -Moore (CG);2-Tie-von Borstel (MIT) &Watry (CG); 6'5"

Pole Vault: 1-Davis (CG);2-Allard (CG); 3-Williams(MIT); 14'

Shot Put: I-Hunter (MIT);2-Bunke (MIT); 3-Murray(CG); 43'3V2"

Discus: 1-Buehler (CG); 2-Grasso(MIT); 3-Hunter (MIT);137'0"

Hammer Throw: 1-Lundberg( MIT); 2-Bunke (MIT);3-Buehler (CG); i 52'6"

Javelin: 1-Hunter ( MIT;2-Zedella (CG); 3-Davis (CG);189'7"

120 yd. High Hurdles: l-Okine(MIT); 2-McCool (CG);3-Hunter (MIT) 15.5

440 yd. Int. Hurdles: l-Okine(MIT); 2-Perley (MIT);3-Fiedler (CG); 57.1

100 yd. Dash: 1-Okine (MIT);2-Smith (CG); 3-Johnosn(CG); 10.2

220 yd. Dash: I-Smith (CG);2-Johnson (CG); 3-Dempsey(CG); 23.2

440 yd. Dash: 1-Weyers (CG);2-Lapke (CG); 3-Wilkes(MIT); 51.1

880 yd. Run: ]-Baird (CG);2-Sultze (CG); 3-Ryan (MIT);1:58.65

Mile Run: I-Thacker (CG);2-Baerman (MIT); 3-Richard-son (MIT); 4:20.7

440 yd. Relay: l-Coast Guard;2-MIT; 44.5

Mile Relay: 1-Coast. Guard;O.2-MIT; 3-3:28.9

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9th-inning HR tops Suiffolk'Brandeis, NU belt Beavers

Harv eardriin four goals with 4:33aining in the game, butvard added two quick scoreslose out the contest.;eorge Braun '75 had fours to lead MIT, while Billnis had two goals and threets to lead Harvard.it Springfield Friday night,'s problems began whene time arrived with no:ials present. After a longy, two officials came afterng been called only minutesre. The apparent reason forlack of referees was that the

of the MlT-Springfielde had been changed early inyear and the local officials'eiation had somehow notn notified.}nce the game began, MITe out very flat, allowingngfield to move through theineer defense almost at will

take a 6-2 lead at therter. Evan Schwartz '75 andn scored to close the. gap

chow, but Springfieid con-ed to dominate and opened10-4 halftime lead.

'he Indians added two goalshe first 1:06 of the second

and a rout seemed to be)ming. The Engineers, how-, came alive, scoring three

s in a 2:10 span to pullin five midway in theod. "

AIT lost its edge, though, andngfield moved out to a 15-8with 1:50 remaining in the

od. Bob Laurenson '75ed 33 seconds later, though,that goal began a furiousrally that included two

Is by Schwartz, two bynm, and one more by

renson to pull the Engineersin one, 15-14, with 3:47 lefthe game.,t this point the Springfield:h went to the referee,mning that Schwartz' stick

illegal because the ballld not freely roll out of the

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