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By Tony ZamparuttiThe faculty will discuss tomor-

row the Committee on Educa-tional Policy (CEP) recommenda-tions on the freshman year, in-cluding a formalized system forhidden freshman grades.

The CEP proposal would takeeffect immediately upon facultyapproval.

'I am not aware of any kind ofintense discusion among the fac-ulty" about the proposal, FelixVillars, chairman of the faculty,said, The CEP proposal is "bytheir view a minor deviationfrom practice," he -added.

The CEP last month recorn-rnended a formalized system ofhidden grades for all freshmen inthe spring term, along with newevaluation forms for the end offall term. The fall term formswould use a "cheick-box" systemto evaluate freshman perfor-mance.

Both the Undergraduate Asso--ciation General Assembly andthe Student Committee on Edu-cationlal Policy oppose the CEP'plan for hidden grades at the end:of spring- semester. The two bo-dies recommended the presentspring term freshman evaluationform be replaced with a faculty-

:'initiated check box system.l UA President Kenneth J. Segel'83, who has speaking privilegesat faculty meetings,.said he will

address Wednesday's meeting."As far as I know, in just my

day-to-day activities ... I'm notaware of much discussion"among faculty members of theproposal, Physics Professor Mar-garet MacVicar '65 said.

"My experience in speakingwith" professors and departmentheads in the school of engineer-ing, Ocean Engineering ProfessorKim Vandiver '69 said, is they are"in general ... quite critical ofpass/fail-."

"Even though [the CEP planis] encroaching on pass/fail, it isprobably defending it," Vandiversaid, "because a lot of professorswant to do away with [pass/fail]."

Both MacVicar and Vandiverare members of the CEP.

'*The last time there was a seri-ous proposal to alter pass/failthere was a good deal of studentdiscussion and faculty interactionwith students about the propos-al," noted Louis Menand III,Special Assistant to the Provost."I have not heard any discussionfrom the faculty on the proposalat all."

Mathematics Professor ArthurMattuck said he had informallydiscussed the CEP plan with oth-er faculty members. "The peopleI've spoken -to -support it and Isuppose they'll go and vote forit."

This Falafel King truck, along with various otherpart of campus.

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street vendors, has been relocated to another

The assailants fled east on Me-morial Drive, he said. He andtwo other KS members broughtFerrell into the house.

Moll said Ferrell had a severehand wound and had beenstabbed in the side. Another KSmemrn6r -called the Campus Po-lice while Moll attempted to ad-minister first aid to Ferrell.

None of the - quipment wastaken. Neither he nor other wit-nesses would be able to identifythe suspects, Moll said.

An ambulance took Ferrell toMassachusetts General Hospital,where he was put under respira-tory intensive care, Glavin said.

By. Burt KaliskiTwo men stabbed a photogra-

pher, Jeffrey Ferrell, while at-tempting to rob him on Memori-al Drive Saturday night, accord-ing to Campus Police (CP) Ser-gpant Anne P. Glavin.

The men attacked Ferrell nearAlpha Tau Omega (ATO) andKappa Sigma (KS) fraternities.

Ferrell arrived to photographan ATO event. He told CampusPolice and KS members the twomen assaulted him as he wasleaving his car and they demand-ed his cameras.

One man had a switchblade.Ferrell said he knew some self-de-

-ense methods, according to Ken-neth L. Moll '85 of KS, but hadbeen taught how to disarm a manwith a weapon in his right hand.The assailant held the switch-blade in his left hand, Moll con-tinued, and when Ferrell resisted,he was stabbed.

Moll said he heard, shortly be-fore 9 pm, a man scream and sawtwo tall men, one on a bicycle,and Ferrell standing on MemorialDrive outside Kappa Sigma.

The victim ran toward BurtonHouse shouting for help, Mollcontinued, then ran back towardKappa Sigma.

By Ron NormanThe new $102,000 Student

Center Committee (SCC) budgethas fueled debate over budgetingof the group's money and thecommittee's purpose.

The Office of the Dean for'Student Affairs (ODSAi) reportto the MIT Corporation VisitingCommittee on Student Affairs,released last Friday, raised specif-ic questions concerning issues re-lated to the Undergraduate Asso-ciation (UA).

"Much discussion has revolvedaround the role of the SCC, theuse of its unallocated, reserves, itsrelationship with the UA, and tothe Student Center as a programin and of itself," the report states.

Several other questions in the.report were raised by SCC in itscontribution to the Dean's Officereport to the Visiting Committee.

"Is [SCC] a government groupor is it simply a group created to

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Another key question raisethe report asks if SCC shouldexpected to fund events outthe Student Center or if moraised in the Student Censhould be used for, "futuretivities or services in that being only."

Should SCC be encouragedbe more self-sufficient, the repasks, or should a means oftributing surplus funds be fou

Stephen D. Immerman, Astant Dean for ResidenceCampus Activities in ODSA, sthe D)ean's Office will be lookat the SCC budget.

Immermnan explained a metfor addressing the problemsthe SCC's funds, suggestinga task force be created tosearch the duties of the SCC,that the issues be addressedthe UA's annual spring electic

d to By Will Dohertyport The Tenth-Annual MIT Blackdis- Students' Conference on Scienceind. and Technology hosted hundredsssis- of prominent blacks from a vari-and ety of fields in science and engi-said neering, Friday and Saturday.king Participants in the conference

included students. faculty, staff,thod alumni and prominent blacks of leaders, like Dr. John B. Slaugh-that ter, Director of the Nationlal Sci-re- ence Foundation.

and Slaughter, the first black Di-d at rector of the National Scienceons- Foundation, was the conference's

keynote -speaker. He addressedtwo major themes: tapping un-used human resources and com-batting serious education prob-lems in science and technology.

Stressing that "minorities are apart of the pool of human re-sources that have not seized theopportunities that are availableto them," Slaughter seemed opti-mistic for the future. "For weli-educated women and minorities,job prospects are continuing toimprove."

Minorities accounted for onlyfour percent of the entire work-force, six percent of the bache-I W | lor's degrees, four percent of thegraduate degrees and less thantwo percent of the doctorates inscience and engineering, Slaugh-I.: ter quoted an NSF report.

man In 1978, women occupied lessAc- than 10 percent of the jobs avail-

able in science and engineering,Slaughter said. "The higher the

education level, the higher thedropout rate," he lamented.

Dr. Slaughter advised studentsat the dinner to continue theireducation beyond a bachelor'sdegree because "we're going toneed all the minority graduateswe can get to fill those places."

Slaughter concluded his re-marks by affirming, "Yes, there isa place for the black experiencein science and technology."

John B. Turner, AssociateDean of the Graduate School,pointed out that 14 years ago ablack undergraduate could "walkfor miles before finding a personof color" on the MIT campus.'He was quick to admit, however,"We've come a long way since1967."

Turner expressed concern that"MIT is not immune from Feder-al cutbacks, especially for thoseof us who are of color."Throughout the conference, par-ticipants seemed anxious abouteconomic statistics, like the 20percent unemployment rateamong blacks nationwide.

Between 1865 and 1974, MITawarded 12 PhD degrees to blackstudents. In the eight years since1974, the Institute conferred 55PhD degrees on blacks.

The Institute now has 19 blackfaculty members and 26 blackstaff administrators, includingnine with tenure. MIT has onefemale black faculty member, a

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Women's soccer has begun.For details see page 12.

MIT football team loseshomecoming game. Badly.Page 12

Professor Marvin Minskytells us what artificialintelligence is all about.Page 6.

More than 1 00 rooms in thedormitory system areovercrowded. For details seepage 6.

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Dr. Ray Hammond, a doctoralstudent in medical ethics at Har-vard University, speaking at theSaturday luncheon, explainedthat the gains of blacks in institu-tions like MIT were a result ofwhat he called "a tidal wave thatopened up the doors of educa-tional opportunity."

Hammond traced the develop-ment of this tidal wave throughthe black American struggle forchange to the present day. Pre-sent-day sexism and racism are"'hurdles that we can leap ratherthan mountains we cannot scale,"he said.

Hammond urged the blackcommunity to be aware andmake sure others are aware ofsuccesses and failures in openingeducational and corporate insti-tutions to minorities and encour-aged black students to become"actors, not merely puppets, inthe institutional environment."

The conference opened Fridayin the Sala de Puerto Rico with acareer showcase providing blackMIT students a chance to speakwith personnel representativesfrom two dozen corporations.

On Saturday, there was a ple-nary session, a luncheon and aworkshop session. To round outthe program, Roberta Flack ap-peared in concert at KresgeAuditorium.

The Black Alumni of MIT, anationwide organization char-tered in 1979, participated in theweekend conference, which in-cluded a. reception for blackalumni and the group's third an-nual meeting.

Dean Mary A. Hope, at a lossfor words, received a standingovation recognizing 10 years ofeffort organizing the conferences.

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MIT has granted four foodvendors - last year a familiarsi ght o n M as sa chusetts Aven ue- a new permanent location inthe parking lot between buildings56 and 58.

The Institute is allowing FelafelKing, Blue Goose Pizza, and thefish & chips truck to sell food onMIT property, according to H.Eugene Brammer, Director ofHousing and Food Services. TheInstitute is also allowing a secondfelafel seller to operate in anMIT parking lot at the corner ofAmherst and Hayward streets,across from 100 Memorial Drive,Brarnmer said-.'

.The four vendors can operateon MIT property between Il 1amand 4pm, Brammer noted.

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Last May, the Institute askedCambridge Police to enforce lawsrequiring street vendors to moveat least every ten minutes, tomove the food trucks away fromMIT's 77 Massachusetts Avenueentrance. Most of the vendorscontinued to sell near the cam-pus.

"We would get as many as twotickets a day on Mass. Ave," saidMoses Catz, who operates FelafielKing with his brother Amos."Three or more tickets a weekwas common."

Catz said he and Amos collect-ed over one thousand signaturesfrom customers on a petition toallow them to move 012 campus.He claimed the petition precipi-tated MIT's decision to allow thevendors on campus.

Felafel King's business is down40 to SO percent because of lostcustomers from the WhittakerCollege building, Catz said, buthe no longer has to pay for viola-ilons.

Bob and Edie Analetto, owners)f Blue Goose Pizza, said theysre "very happy and secure" atheir new site.

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The problem with the presentsystem is not an unsatisfactoryform of evaluation, but an inad-equate method of insuring com-pletion of the forms. The CEPproposal does not sufficiently ad-dress this problem. For the fresh-man evaluation system to workwe need only find a way of im-proving communication between

students and faculty. Admittedly,there would be a higher responserate if we switched over to hid-den grades; what'is needed, how-ever, is meaningful feedback, anda higher response rate would bemeaningless if it meant the sacri-fice of quality evaluations.

I am aware of, and can some-what sympathize with, a desire bya large number of the faculty toinstitute freshman grades for oneor both terms. I can only see theCEP -proposal as a compromisebetween this faculty sentimentand the CEP's own wish to retainpass/fail. I can not claim to be asaware of all the issues as the CEPmembers themselves, but I fail tosee how -this proposal faces anyof those issues. I therefore urgethe faculty to vote against theproposal.

Mike Witt '84Vice-chairmant, SCEP

To the Editor:

Tomorrow the faculty will voteon the Committee on Education-al Policy (CEP) freshman hiddengrade proposal. After discussingthe proposal with the StudentCommittee on Educational Poli-cy (SCEP), I can not support theCEP recommendations.

The CEP claims that their pro-posal would increase feedbackbetween students and faculty.The CEP surely cain not thinkthat grades could provide nearlyas much information as a "checkbox" system and/or written eval-uations. A check box system hasbeen proposed for the fall term,yet was deemed impractical forthe spring term. Why would it beimpractical? It wouldn't be timeconsuming for the faculty, sincethe students would be rated ontheir performance on tests, home-

The ASA Executive Committeeis re-evaluating the -use of officespace. A survey was sent to all

Eactivities, withi or without an of-fice, to determine their size, stu-dent representation, and space re-quirements. The deadline for re-turning these surveys is October31.

According to the ASA Consti-

To the Editor:Since the ASA Executive Com-

mittee was not interviewed byLeo Hourvitz for his column''ASA- No space allocationplan", we would like to informthe MIT community of out pre-sent stand on the issue of officespace allocation for stuident acvti-vities.

is responsible for reviewing, andin conjunction with the Dean'sOffice, assigning space to activi-ties. We feel that a case by caseassessment is the most practicalway of assigning office space,given that the space available tous is already full to overflowing.We do not know of any systemat-ic procedure that would improvethe situation.

The Committee to review officespace was created by the previousExecutive Committee. We canfind no record of its membership,actions, or of anything otherthan its Stated purpose.

The A.,sociation of Studenlt Ac-tivities is always open to ideasand suggestions on ways to betterserve the needs of activities atMIT.

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the SCC's madness. The Strat'sRat and the Junior-Senior pubheld last Thursday night wereboth intended as trial runs forwhat the SCC hopes will be apermanent pub in the third floorof the Student Center. It plans tohook up with the National Uni-versity Pub circuit in order tobring national acts to MIT's stu-dent body -or at least to thatportion of it which happens to betwenty years of age or older,

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To the Editor:The Student Center Committee

(S CC) is embarking on a projectwhich will result in the systematicdiscrimination of over one-half ofMIT's entire undergraduate pop-ulation. If the afflicted groupwere Black, Chicano, or Jewish,there would be "hell to pay" forthose responsible, and with goodreason. The fact that the group inquestion here is less socially co-hesive, less able to mobilize effec-tively against this implicit threat,should not be ground for any lessdrastic action.

A week from last Friday, theSCC resurrected the Stra's. Rat,an event which featured a liveband in a pub-type atmosphere.The evening was noteworthy forthe presence of several demon-strators outside the door. Itseems that the SCC was not ad-mitting anyone under twenty toits Strat's Rat. The decision notto do so was apparently an arbi-trary one, not one dictated by le-gal or ethical considerations-indeed, the SCC members work-ing the event, the ones checkingIDs, were themselves under twen-Ity years of age.

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ict on ofic spaceIt seems nobody on the MIT campus knows what to do

about the lack of office space for student activities. The Asso-ciation of Student Activities (ASA) knows of thirty studentgroups that want office space. The ASA is responsible for allo-cating activity offices in the Student Center. Control of activityspace in other buildings is less certain. Robert Hblden, retiredAssociate Dean for Student Activities, allocated the old Thurs-day office in Walker Memorial last summer, but there is noclear authority for assigning student activity space in that orother buildings on campus.

Students activities are a vital part of the Institute community,and many groups need permanent offices to grow and flourish.At the same time, some groups may not need all the space theyoccupy. Occasionally, space will become available as groups dieoff, as did Thursday in 1979. One authority should monitor ac-tivities' need for office space and the availability of that spacearound the campus, reallocate offices of student groups that nolonger need them, and lobby for new space if it is needed. ThatThursday's office in Walker remained unused for three years,while many groups went without, clearly demonstrates theneed to centralize responsibility for student activity officespace.

Although Samuel Austin's tenure as ASA President endedwith no great record of accomplishment, he at'least tried toawake the ASA from years of inactivity. The space situationpresents an obvious opportunity for the new leaders in theASA. In fact, the ASA executive committee intends to reviewthe problem this year. The ASA should use this opportunity tofinally do something, rather than return to benign obscurity.

The future of M IT's freshman pass/no credit system willlikely be decided at tomorrow's meeting of the faculty. Mem-bers of the faculty should critically consider the Committee onEducational Policy's recommended modifications to freshmanyear evaluation.

The pass/no credit grading system was instituted to ease theoften difficult transition from high school to the rigorous paceof academic life at the Institute, and to allow freshmen thefreedom to explore some of the many opportunities for learn-ing- curricular and extracurricular- offered at MIT.

Returning freshmen to a formal grading system, even with apromise that internal grades will never be released, can only ex-acerbate the pressure on freshmen. Members of the facultymust realize the CEP proposal reflects not merely a proceduralchange, but a fundamental modification of the philosophy be-hind the pass/no credit system.

The CEP has relied on largely anecdotal evidence to advanceits plan. It has shown no substantive evidence demonstratingthat formalized hidden grades will more effectively evaluatefreshman performance or ensure students learn core course ma-terial.

The faculty should heed the voice of student opinion. TheUndergraduate Association Genleral Assembly and the StudentCommittee on Educational Policy both rejected the use of hid-den grades. Thte students have recognized the important rolethe pass/no credit system has played in their MIT experience.

The CEP says the problems of freshman evaluation lie not inthe method of written evaluation, but rather in the inadequatefreshman advising system. The committee is correct, but theCEP recommendations do little to improve the advising sys-tem. The faculty .should attempt to cure the disease, not itssymptoms. The philosophy behind the pass/no credit systemremains sound; it should not be abandoned.

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for this enterprise is coming fromthose who would be systematical-Iy excluded. Those under twentyare unwittingly contributing tothis project through the electron-ic games they play and the tu-ition money they pay. These arethe SCC's two main sources ofrevenue. Since the SCC dependsupon the entire student body forthe funds that comprise its veryexistence, one might expect thatthe SCC owes a responsibility tothat same student body - theentire student body. If the cava-lier attitude displayed by certainSCC members at recent meetingsis any indication, this may not bethe case.

This attitude of those runningthe show at the SCC is offensiveand should not be tolerated. Theplanned systematic exclusion ofall those under twenty is needlessand unjustified. Feasible alterna-tives exist-these alternativeswould allow the SCC to open upits planned pub to the entire stu-dent body, and they involve onlya modicum of extra effort. Someschools open up their events, toal! by setting up a partition andallowing only those of drinkingage into a specially designateddrinking area. Others simply re-quire an ID at the bar before al-cohol can be purchased. Thesealternatives are effective solutionsto the problem. They haveworked in the past and should beconsidered. Unfortunately, thoserunning the show at the SCCwere more inclined to laugh andmake jokes about those who at-tempted to discuss these alterna-tives.

With many organizations feel-ing the pinch due to a lack ofspace in the Student Center, itseems somehow inconsistent thatStudent Center space would beallocated to an organization oran event which would promotethe exclusion of a large segmentof the MIIT student body. Onemight imagine that this spacecould be put to a better use. TheSCC responded to this conten-tion by proposing a motionwhich would allow that one-halfof its events be open to those un-der twenty years of age. Thepromises afforded by this actionwould have been hollow ones in-deed. Allowing for Sala bandparties and the Friday AfternoonClub (where the SCC admits alland simply requires an ID-at the

bar before alcohol can be con-sumed), the SCC would be prom-ising no more than it already pro-vides. As it turned out, the SCCrejected even this motion.

We urge all those who shareour feelings to take positive ac-tion. By attending three SCCmeetings (the SCC meets everySunday night at 7:00pm in Room400 of the Student Center) youcan become a voting member ofthe Student Center Committee.Then you can help us change theSCC-and those who would runit - for the better, should theypersist in their plans to establisha pub which would systematicallyexdude over one-half of MIT'sundergraduate population. Weowe ourselves no less.

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Minsky joked about the tech-nological progress made in com-puter hardware, commenting,"Now we can produce chips liketoilet paper." He is awaiting atime when a parallel machine inwhich "a million little computerscan do something useful all at thesame time" is developed.

According to Minsky, aboutl000 people work in Al tabs orprojects around the world. Onehundred of them are profession-als, he said.

Minsky, Donner Professor ofScience, delivered his lecture, en-titled "What's Happening in Arti-ficial Intelligence?" in room E25-111. The lecture was sponsoredbv the Personnel Off-ice, the Pro-vost's Office, and the SloanSchool of Management.

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have 107 overcrowded rooms, ac-cording to George Hartwell, As-sociate Director of StudentHousing.

Although above the usualcount of 50 to 60 overcrowdedrooms for this time of the-year,the figure is not "exorbitant,"Hartwell said.

East Campus is the most over-crowded dormitory, with 37 over-crowded doubles, according toEast Campus room assignmentschairman Bruce Campbell '83.Upperclassmen live in two ofthose overcrowded doubles, headded.

Burton House room assign-ments chairman Aaron Jungreis'83 reported 19 overcrowdedrooms in Burton, all of which areinhabited by freshmen.

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By Will DohertyProfessor Marvin Minsky used

children's stories to illustrate ma-chine modelling of the brain toa-bout 500 people Friday.

Artificial intelligence, Minskysaid, may provide a model forunderstanding the architecture ofthe human brain or may discovera different architecture to per-form the same functions.

Minsky's lecture covered therole of artificial intelligence (Al)in computer science, mathemnat-ics, psychology, linguistics, biol-ogy, and education.

Although plagued throughoutthe lecture by an inoperative me-chanical blackboard -for whichhe blamed engineers- Minskywas able to illustrate some of thehundred or so applications of Al.He mentioned a program to diag-nose illness when given symp-toms and a program to determinehow to use oil drilling rigs effec-tively.

Minsky painted a vision of theultimate computerized knowledgeacquisition system, able to readall the books ever written and di-gest all the'movies ever filmed.

When questioned about Japan's" Fifth Generationl" project,Minsky explained that Japanesegovernment and industry are ap-plying the few Al people theyhave to making computers moreintelligent. "The application ofintelligence to computers is clear-

500 Memorial Drive began theschool year with 20 overcrowdedfreshman triples but presently has18, according to room assign-ments chairman Michael Keane'83.

Thirteen rooms are over-crowded in the New West Cam-pus Houses, which include thefour language houses. FrenchHouse has one overcrowdedfreshman triple, according toroom assignments chairman EveRiskirn '84. German House hasneither overcrowded rooms norvacancies, said room assignmentschairman Erica Ellingson '84.Russian House has one over-crowded freshman triple, accord-ing to M-argaret Magnus G.

McCormick Hall has 10 over-crowded freshman triples and 3overcrowded upperclass doubles,according to Judy Chow '84,room assignments chairman.

Baker House contains 9 over-crowded freshman quads and twovacant rooms. said Eric Shrader'83. Shrader noted that none ofthe overcrowded freshmen haschosen to "uncrowd."

Bexley Hall, MacGregorHouse, and Random Hall haveno overcrowded rooms, accord-ing to Hartwell, but MacGregor's

Alex Herndon'84 reported onevacancy and Random's JosephKilian '85 counted three openrooms iri the dormitory.

Jeffrey S. Meth '84, Bexleyroom assignments chairman, re-fused to comment.

Senior House has one openspace for a female and two formales, in addition to one over-crowded room, said SeniorHouse room assignments chair-man Michael Rohan'84.

The total number of I110 over-crowded rooms given by the dor-mitories' room assignmentschairmen differed fromHartwell's figure of 107. Hartwellreported three fewer overcrowdedrooms in 500 Memorial Drivethan did Keane.

Hartwell said the number ofovercrowded students has fluctu-ated greatly in recent years. Thedormitories were seriously over-crowded two years ago, but had alarge number of vacancies lastyear.

MIT housing officials plan toovercrowd 50 to 60 rooms earlyin the fall semester to compen-sate for students who leave thedormitory system during thecourse of the year, according toHartwell.

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Eye In The Sky, Th1e Alan Parsons Pro-Fect on-Arista Rcords.

Abracadabra, The Steve Miller Band onCapitol Records.

Radio stations have at least two trickstoward playing a greater variety of music-ach hour. The first is electronic and bare-

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Chicago's "Hard To Say I'm Sorry," Stevemiller's "Abracadabra," and Alan Par-;on's 'Eye In The Sky" have all lost a fewminutes on most Boston stations.

"Eye In The Sky" opens the new AlanParsons Project LP of the same name.There is a two minute instrumental lead-infor the song, which hit number 4 on Bill-board's single chart this week. "Eye" -haslyrics reminiscent of the society in 1984 setto a calm backroulnd with a firm steadybeat. The track makes itself heard withoutblasting its way through one's mind.

The entire album, covering a broadrange of musical styles, has a mixture ofbrilliant instrumentals and uplifting har-monies. The best qualities of Kansas, Si-mon & Garfunkel, and Foreigner havebeeni mixed to produce one of the best al-bums of this fall. Real voices combinedwvith real instruments '(no synthesizers)hiave built an album worthy of a formerengineer on Dark Side Ofr The Moon and4bbey Road.- Parsons' first albumn ap-peared in 1976 after two y ears- of -roduc-.ion, Eye In The Sky is the Project's sixthLP.

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traordinary new rock visions of The AlanParsons Project." Do not let this stickerfool you. These are not the ramblings ofsome half-spaced freak who shouts overthe music. Rather, the album contains theorchestral and lyrical brilliance not fre-quently found in today's popular music.

"Abracadabra," from The Steve MillerBand's latest, is another frequently snippedsong; here we lose a few minutes from theend, an instrumental segment which addsappreciably to a lengthy song with onlytwo real sections intertwined. Unfortunate-ly, this segment is one of the best parts ofthe song, which provides a strong beat tothe identically titled album. Unfortunately,the beat is lost quickly in the disc. Thereare exceptions: "Young Girl's Heart" hasan unusual catchy melody with the vocal-ists providing . somewhat interestingcounterpoint. Many of the tracks, though,have a hillbilly/gospel sound unexpectedfrom a group which brought us "Fly LikeAn Eagle,"' "Rock 'N Me," and "Jet Air-liner."

A new sound of some sort was expectedthanks to new bandmembers Kenny Lewisand John Massaro, who both triple as gui-tarists, vocalists, and writers. While in thepast, Steve Miller did most of the writing,Lewis, Massaro, and Drummer Gary Mal-laber bad more input son this album thanbandmembers have on previous releases.

Fortunately, the full version of "Abraca-dabra"t is available on an extended playsingle. After twelve years, The Steve MillerBand is planninlg its first live album forthe summer of 1983.

Both Capitol and Arista have courteous-ly provided lyrics for the albums.

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od to make the halftime total 19-O in favor of the visitors.

Both teams seemed to havetrouble moving the ball in thethird, however, the visitors werethe ones, once again, to score,this time on a ten-yard touch-down pass.

The remaining three touch-downs were all set up by inter-ceptions, as Martinelli had hisworst throwing day of the year.In sixteen attempts, he had onlyone completion and four inter-ceptions, all of them leading toscores.

Next week, the Engineers willtravel to Assumption College inWorcester. Assumption currentlyholds second place in the NewEngland Football Conference,tied with Bentley.

By Martina DickauThe annual homecoming game

turned out to be an event thefootball club would probably liketo forget, as the visiting BentleyFalcons walked over the Engi-neers 46-0 before a crowd ofabout 350. The team has nowlost two straight games, and itsrecord falls to 2-3.

As in past contests, the Engi-neers started strong. After stop-ping the first Bentley drive, MITtook possession of the ball on itsown thirty-eight. After a fewshort running plays, quarterback

Vin Martinelli '85 carried the balltwenty-three yards, deep into Fal-con territory. As he was tackled,Martinelli lost his grip on thepigskin, but offensive tackle JohnEinhorn '84 alertly fell on theloose ball.

An eleven- and a four-yard runbrought the Engineers to theBentley eleven, where the drivestalled after two incompletepasses. The foot of Tom Hastingswas called upon, but his twenty-one-yard field goal attempt wasblocked.

The first quarter ended withouteither team having scored. Thesecond, however, was differentstory. Completing a drive begunin the first quarter, Bentley putsix points on the board when

Dave Doolittle carried the ball infrom the six. On MIT's next pos-session, John Kohler intercepteda Martinelli pass 'and ran forty-two yards for another touch-down, making the score 12-0.Bentley then added anothertouchdown at the end of the peri-

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fun doing it."The team practices three after-

noons per week, and the coach isMike Whitt '84. When askedabout the future of the club,Flynn commented,"We hope togo varsity in a couple of yearsand get the club into some orga-nized league." Although the sea-son will soon be over, anyonewho is -interested in more infor-mation should still contact AnitaFlynn at 864-7240.

The club plays varsity and clubteams from local colleges. Allgames are held at home. Al-though the team has lost all fivegames so far this season, theplayers are not disappointed.Kenta Foss '83, a player on theteam, said,"'Basically, most of usare just beginning and intermedi-ate players, and this is only ourfirst season. The important thingis that we are'all learning to playas a team, and we have a lot of

By Arthur LeeDo you know that there is a

women's soccer club at MIT?Well, there certainly is, and it is anew club sport on campus, play-ing in its first season.

According to club organizers,widespread interest and enthusi-asm originally started the club.Anita Flynn'83, the prime moverbehind club organization, talkedto me about the origins, the aims,and the hopes of the club.

"I played soccer in high schooland in some community teams,and I really would like to playhere," she said. "Last spring, Istarted talking to people aboutforming a club. We then hung adrop poster in Lobby 7, and wealso placed an ad with LSC atthe beginning of the term." Shewent on, "During the AthleticMidway, some forty-womnentalked to us and said they wereinterested. Around thirty fivewould show up for practice. Nowwe have some twenty five to thir-ty steady players for the games."

"The administration, especiallyClub Sports Director Jack Barry,was always willing to help. Theygave us eight soccer balls, and of-fered us transportation. When weasked for uniforms, we got them.Now we are all set."

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Women's Volleyball - continuedto roll with 2-0 wins over BC,Harvard, Maine, UNH (all Divi-sion I teams), and Salem State atthe UNH Wildcat Classic lastSaturday. The Engineers' recordstands at 17-1. Today MIT hostsHarvard at 7:45pm.

Women's Cross Country - de-

feated Regis and Emmanuel 21-56-59 on Saturday, upping theteam's record to 9-0. The squad'slast dual meet of the season isthis Saturday vs. Suffolk and St.Anselms at Franklin Park.

Men's Sailing - finished secondout of nineteen at the Smith Tro-phy on Sunday. At the WoodTrophy Saturday, two MIT fresh-men, Dave Lyons and John Lee,were First in their division.

Men's Soccer - dropped to 2-7with a 3-1 loss to Holy Cross Fri-day. John English '83 scored theteam's only goal.

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