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Volume LXXI Pasadena, California, Thursday, January 29, 1970 Number 15

ROSALYN TURECK DOWNS receives plaque from Dr. Brown at dedication.

Finall)'!

Downs-Lauritsen Dedicated

Tech Loses

of some European buildings. Theold and new sections of Booth willbe connected on both the first andsecond floors.

The new facility is designed toenhance the data processing capa­bilities of the Institute, and provicebetter atmosphere for research ininformation science. The gardenlevel of the new building will bedevoted to laboratories for researchin information science and bio­systems. There will also be a largelab for use in experiments in"information processing in socialsystems," as G. D. McCann, directorof the Booth Computing Center,puts it.

The first floor of the additionwill contain keypunching facilitiesfor users of the computers, akeypunch service, the contact area,and user card deck storage. All ofthese facilities are currently in thebasement of Booth proper. Thevacated area in Booth will be givenover th offices for informationscience. A new feature on the firstfloor of the addition will beindividual customer cubicles andconference rooms.

The second floor will containmore offices for computing centerstaff, information science staff, andstudents. Now, wouldn't you like tohave an office with a balcony?

This addition should, accordingto McCann, provide adequate roomfor at least the next five years, eventhough planning started two yearsago. This is partly because no largeincrease of computer power iscontemplated in the near future,although there will be some smalladditions in the area of peripherals.It is not expected that the needs ofthe campus, although hard topredict, will expand enough tooutgrow our current computers inthe near future. No great expansionof the information science effort isplanned either, although McCannhass been looking for two full

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Dichter to Play at

Beckman Friday;Guest With Techers

Caltech students and their dateshave quite an evening in store forthem this Saturday, when pianistMischa Dichter will both perform,and stay for a reception afterwards.

Dichter is one of the world's mostdistinguished young musicians. Hiscareer started at the Julliard Schoolof Music, the Caltech of music. Hewon the Tchaikovsky competition,and has a brilliant debut with theNew York Philharmonic to his credit.

After a performance of works byBach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mous­sorgsky, Dichter will meet Techersand their dates in Winnett Lounge.sherry, coffee, cookies, and conver­s·ation will be served.

The program will include the or­gan Prelude and Fugue in D Major byBach, a Beethoven sonata, three cap­riccios, a Ballade, and an Intermezzoby Brahms; and Pictures at an Exhi­bition, in the original score, by Mous­sourgsky [we end on this note1.

by Bruce BrittonNo, Booth Computing Center is

not going to fall into the large holebetween Booth and Physical Plant.The newest campus dust bowl is thesite of a 24,000-square-foot additionto the computing center. This willmore than double the area availablefor computer processing, computingcenter staff, and information sciencestaff. Construction on the building,which will cost an estimated $1.2million, was started on January 5and is to be completed in the springof 1971.

The new addition will have threefloors, just like the existing sectionof Booth. There are, however, twointeresting structural novelties. First,the addition will have the onlybalcony (all the way around) oncampus. Secondly, instead of abasement, it will have a "gardenlevel," similar to the ground floor

Booth Has It All OverB&G Parking Lot

Immaculate ConceptionThe other projects were started

after the concept of studentresearch groups was extended tocreate a Research Center, workingwith students of other schools inthe area. Included were USC,UCLA, IRC as well as students fromother colleges. The new projectswere to .be created on a shorterterm basis under the ResearchCenter (ARC) which would handleprocuring money and services for itssubsidaries.

The major projects were in thefield of education, including onewhich brought several black stu­dents from Federal City College, inWashington, D.C., to work andstudy on the Caltech campus. Therehas been much controversy aboutthe success of this particularproject, and several questions ofimproper financial supervision havebeen raised.

Render unto Ceasar...The research center has been run

as a subsidiary of ASCIT with anexecutive officer reporting to theASCIT BOD. Its finances are acombination of ASCIT, and Insti­tute managed. ASCIT cannot begiven certification to accept tax-freegrants. The Institute accountingoffice has handled disbursement,from national agency funds.

The funds cannot be transferredfrom one account to another as thecontracts with NSF limit the uses ofthe Smog Project funds. ASCIT hasno outstanding debts outside theInstitute, according to Dr. LymanBonner, because of the Institutesunderwriting of the nationally-basedgrants. Two major figures, FloraBoyar, who was secretary of theSmog Project, and Charles Searce, ablack student research associate,were unavailable for comment. MissBoyar has transferred her respon­sibilities. Search has not been seenrecently and is being sought inconnection with the final ac­counting of the project.

A number of individuals haveproposed new projects, to be startednext summer. Administrationsources have indicated their desireto see this one better supervised,but are not lacking in enthusiasm.

-photo by Levin

by Ira MoskatelThe research center is dead. Long

live the research center!The ASCIT research center along

with the smog project is now beingterminated. Left in debt, theresearch center's later projects havebeen inactive for several monthsnow. The smog project is left withmoney in its account, approxi­mately $3000 by Institute es­timates. The debts accrued by theother projects, including the variouseducation projects amount to atleast $5000, with the final ac­counting yet to be made.

The smog project was the first ofthe research projects, initiated whileJoe Rhodes was ASCIT presidentwas originally funded with ASCITand Institute grants which enabledits organizers to get a $68,000 grantfrom Ford Foundation. Since thenthe smog project has received fundsin varying amounts from severalother national groups, including theNational Science Foundation.

the facilities. After this the widow ofDr. Downs, better known as RosalynTureck, gave a piano recital at theAthenaeum.

Research Projects Over; Funds Question

announced that IHC will move toClaremont for September, 1971. Ina statement dated Tuesday, January27, Sister Helen Kelly, President ofIHC, served notice of the same tothe world at large.

Officially, the "conversations"between Caltech and IHC provedinconclusive, however, the storylooks somewhat different behindthe scenes. Apparently, IHC wouldhave accepted an invitation fromCaltech to move here, but faced acontractor's deadline which fellsometime between the middle andthe end of this month.

Faculty sentiment here proved tobe sharply divided, so that itappeared that several weeks at aminimum would elapse before thefaculty could come to a definitedecision. By that time, it wouldhave been too late for IHC whetherthey were to move here or toClaremont.

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by Paul LevinLast Friday the Institute finally

got around to dedicating Downs­Lauritsen, which had been occupiedalready since third term last year. Ina short but impressive ceremony Dr.Brown presented the widows ofGeorge Downs and Charles Lauritsenwith replicas of the steel nameplateswhich now adorn the two buildings.

The two-building puzzle was thenclarified by the representatives fromthe Atomic Energy Commission andthe National Science Foundation,Theos Thompson and Lloyd Herwig,respectively: The NSF contirbuted tothe construction of Downs (the westhalf), and the AEC contributed tothe building of the other half.

Howard Cary, Chairman of theBoard of Cary Instruments, nextspoke of his association with GeorgeDowns. Having been a consultingengineer on the outside, Downs con­tinued in this role once he came toTech, often with amazing results. Dr.Robert Bacher then did the same for"Charlie Lauritsen," praising his at­tention to detail, his striving for per­fection, and his ability to solve andapply the wave equation.

After this Carl Anderson brieflyexplained what was being done in thebuildings and what their future was.He then invited the guests to inspect

mances of "cultural significance/redeeming social value." Rebatescome to 50% of the cost of oneticket per event per student.

Both graduate and undergraduatestudents desirous of making use ofthe rebate policy should bring ticketstubs to Ned Hale. She can befound in the Dean's office inThroop.

Former Faculty StarReturns for Lecture

Dr. Woodbury, a former memberof the Caltech faculty, presentlyteaching at the University ofMassachusetts (Amhearst), will lec­ture on innovative education andthe California Institute of Techno­logy. The lecture is scheduled for 4p.m. this afternoon in 208 Dabney.

It's Official. IRCWill Go to Claremont

If you missed the ears last week,and the gossip this week, be it

Bradley Visits

Centers OnUrhan Environs

News Briefs

In Nomine Deus Pacem,Saint Francis De SalesHas His Day

Today, all proper Catholics, andseveral random other people, cele­brate St. Francis De Sales' Day. Incase you have not yet noticed, he isthe patron saint of journalists.Considering the present state of thenewspaper staff, we could use ablessing from our patron saint; infact, we could use a blessing fromany patron saint.

Also, for those of you who havenot yet noticed, the Tech staffconsists of several Jews, a Lutheranor two, and various sundry hea­thens.

Huttenback Now RebatesTo Grad Students

In his continuing campign tobring culture to Caltech, Dr. RobertHuttenback, genial Dean of Stu­dents, announced that grad studentswill henceforth be able to obtainrebates on tickets to live perfor-

by E. GansnerIn what turned out to be an

eight-hour press conference, theCaltech YMCA sponsored a visit byLA City Councilman ThomasBradley to the campus last Friday.With the discussion centeringaround the topic "Political andTechnical Issues of the UrbanEnvironment," Bradley participatedin an Olive Walk Talk and anafternoon seminar in WinnettLounge. The day finished with adinner at the Atheneum forBradley, local minority group po­litical leaders and active campusfigures.

Bradley did not use a preparedspeech for his olive walk talk, butconducted a question and answerperiod. After a brief lunch, Bradleycontinued the discussion in Winnett.At the seminar, he was joined byDr. Norman Brooks, professor ofcivil engineering, Lester Lees, pro­fessor of aeronautics, and Dr. RogerNoll, associate professor of eco­nomics, all from the Caltechfaculty.

Civics laBradley covered rapid transit and

other urban problems. He felt thatwe have the means for rapid transit;we simply must be willing to payfor it. A broad tax base should beused to finance it, including someof the revenue that comes from thegas tax. He would like to see asystem built with the year 2000 inmind. He considered rail transit orbusses in restricted lanes as effectiveintermediate steps.

Bradley would like to seestronger laws and stronger enforce­ment dealing with pollution. Hecriticized the city departments forbeing hypocritical in their dealingswith pollution. They claim to opposeit yet build new steam plants andpollute the rivers and harbor. Inplace of the new steam powerplants, he offered atomic powergeneration or power production inan area that doesn't collect smog.He also mentioned the need ofpopulation control through zoning

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Thursday, January 29, 1970

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the individual. This amounts to lessthan 5% of the house members.However, it appears that you wishedto charge indiscriminately that "themembers of the house" were guiltyof kidnaping.

In your next sentence, youclaimed that "a large umbrella wasbroken by the house members." Iwas an eyewitness of the incident,and the fact is that only one person(idsregarding Neches who is not amember of the house) bent theumbrella. However, you have againdisregarded the facts and laid theblame on the house. Admittedly alarge percentage of the peoplepresent were apathetic when it cameto defending the individual, but thisdoes not necessarily imply that theywere "allowing their most primitiveemotions" to show.

This is an obvious injustice tothe house, but I am not writing toask for an apology for thingsprobably looked different fromyour point of view, but I wouldhope that this letter, or one like it,will be printed so that the outsideworld may know what reallyhappened. .

·~Tom Matoi

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'shower' the individual (Phil Neches)and when they were met withresistance and a polite request toleave way, only responded withmore force." I would like to pointout that Page House has approxi­mately 80 persons living on campusand there are around 50 others whoare closely associated with thehouse, but who live off campus. Ifthese members had desired to"shower" Neches, he would haveundoubtedly been showered. Thetruth is that not more than 6people attempted anything against

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has now passed 50. Therefore, onehighly-placed Institute administratorwins his bet from another highly­placed Institute administrator ....One of the above administratorstells me that Tech frequentlyreceives communications from someof the Techers who go awaythen decide that maybe they'd liketo come back after all. He finds thisvery encouraging, as we obviouslylose some quality people each year.(Some of our administrators, atleast, ~re awarp that this is aproblem. . . . Why is the newBooth Addition going to have abalcony? . . The usually-moribundcommittee on relations with theoutside world has been busilymeeting lately; could it be thatwe're going to admit the existenceof that world?

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FRANKLYSPEAKING

by Etaoin SchroedluAt the end of last term and over

term break there were many rumorsof huge numbers of Techers whowere leaving the Institute, for onereason or another. As of Add Day(last Friday) the total number ofstudents who were enrolled firstterm who did not enroll for secondterm was 34. Of these, four werefrosh, 16 sophs, 5 juniors, and nineseniors. That's a nasty thing to doto seniors. Actually, 34 is probablyhigh, as there are undoubtedly sometrolls around somewhere whohaven't registered yet. P.S.: Why dowe have more juniors than sopho­mores?

Third Term SeniorsDr. Miller reminds all seniors that

students registering for an underloadthird term, a thing which seniors arenoted for, will find their scho­larships lowered to balance thelower tuition costs made of studentscarrying underloads. Apparently inthe past clever people have tried tomake a little on the side by takingunderloads if their graduation re­quirements could still be met.

Zoo Lives!Informed sources tell me that

one of Caltech's great traditionsmight be returning to campus nextyear, in the person of WarrenBurton. He is considering trans­ferring in as a senior next year,from the wilds of East Anglia(that's England, fans), where he iscurrently lurking. Blacker may neverrecover.

Letters'

Matoi Questions Recent Editorial

'AND WHAT MAKES yOJ llHNt\ MYDE.PA~TMENT /5 CORRupr?

Dear Editor:When I read your editorial in the

January 22nd edition of the "Cali­fornia Tech," I found it veryamusing but not very factual.Admittedly papers do not have tobe factual in their content to bepublished in the United States, andI am not suggesting censorhsip, butI do not think I should be forced tosubscribe to a paper which allowsfalsehoods to go unchallenged.

Specifically, I wish to commenton the statement, "The members ofthe house (page) attempted to

Throop- Beat

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Craig L. Sarazin

Objectivity and rationality in journalism are two goals which are veryhard to attain, even though we all appreciate their importance. Often ouremotions can cloud and mask the real significance of incidents, distortingour sense of proportion. We believe that just this sort of thing occurred lastweek in an editorial in this paper.

The editorial concerned an incident which occurred on January 16 inPage House. According to the editorial, an En15 Journalism class wasinterrupted by the protests of a student who claimed that a letter he hadsent to the Tech had not been published. The student was particularlyupset because the letter, which was critical of Dr. Dave Smith, had beenshown to Dr. Smith without the student's approval. After a heateddiscussion, the class continued.

After the class was over and as one of the staff members was leaving, hewas met by a group of Page House freshmen who attempted to showerhim. The editorial inferred that the attempted showering resulted somehowfrom the incident involving the unpublished letter.

There is absolutely no reason to make this inference. None of thestudents involved in the writing of the letter participated in the showeringor even knew that it was going to take place. In fact, all of the studentsinvolved in the attempt to shower the staff member were freshmen. Whenquestioned, they said that the showering had nothing to do with the letterto the Tech,but was directed at the staff member because of his habit ofwriting on the blackboards before chemistry lectures. A number of suchattempts h.lve been made by other groups of freshmen because of similiaractivities. Such showerings are common, and seem to result more fromgood-spirited funthan malicious intent.

As a result of this incident inllolving only a handful of students from Page,the members of that House were described as barbarians. The House asa whole has also been threatened with a $200 fine by Dr. Smith. We believethat this incident has been blown all out of proportion.

Objectivity and Rationality are best applied to a situation when a situationhas actually been observed. Editor Sarazin was not present at the incident.

AProper Perspective

.EDITORIALPage Two

Clearing An IssueLast week and editorial appeared in the California Tech complaining

about an unfortunate incident in the student houses. It seems that theemotional reaction both to those involved in the incident and to theeditorial has increased beyon all rea~on. This editorial is to explain theintentions of the column of last week.

Last week's editorial decried a practice and a standard of behavior, itdid not call any individuals any names. We apologize for arriving at theconclusion that the showering was a result of Mr. Neches' action;however, we do not deem the action of the students involved in any wayproper or desirable. The practice of showering has been called "A release oftension" by some. This reporter cannot see how an act, ptentially violentand which has in the past actually injured several, as being a "harmlessrelease of tension." We accept that the practice of showering has beenpresent on this campus, as well as others, for many years. Many other veryfaulty traditions have managed to remain for that very same, faulty, logic.

As to Mr. Matoi's letter conplaining that the Tech was charging allthe members of Page House, that is hardly the case. Neither do we believe,however, that only the individuals involved in trying to shower Mr. Necheswere the only persons at fault. Our reseach has indicated that at least oneupperclassman had remarked that he thought Mr. Neches should be dealtwith. If the argument that he meant jokingly when he called for action, wecan only counter with the extreme example of Thomas a Becket, who waskilled by two knights who had overheard the King telling his advisor thatBecket should be dealt with. Needless to say no crime of great magnitudeis involved. Nevertheless, our point is that those members of anorganization who are looked up to must meet the responsiblility withwhich they are faced.

We have repeatedly attempted to check out the matter of the fine.The last communication we made, on Monday with the Master's Office,indicated that no fine had actually been levied. Rumors told of a $200 fineon Page House. Apparently some consideration of that fine was made. Webelieve it would be very unfortunate if such a fine were imposed.Attempting to punish a house by destroying its social program can hardlybe deemed just.

Some action must be taken, however. In past years, it has been theresponsibility of the Upper Class Committee in each house to deal withinfractions of conduct. the UCC's are supposed to set an example for therest of the house. Several witnesses claim that one of the UCC's wasresponsible for the remark calling for action. We think the proper actionfor the Master would be to meet with the UCC's (not only Pagel to discussthe responsibilities of the UCC system.

A last word about the issues involved. A newspaper receives manyletters for publication. The staff of the newspaper has a legal responsibilityof checking every fact received. The letter submitted for publication, withthe signatures affixed. As a result, the staff has the right to show it toanyone they deem necessary. Responsible journalism, including the mostcrusading editorials, demands factual accuracy as well as discression. In thematter at hand a great deal more tact could have been used on the part ofall involved.

The second issue involved is that the newspaper must operate freefrom threat. There is a difference between vocal complaint and influenceby physical action. Freedom thrives in the former and dies by the latter

--Ira Moskatel

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What's That? Ecology???Nonacademia Revisited

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complicated. What exactly are the"non-acdemic" areas that troublethe Board? They are things likeborrowing utensils from the FoodService for one's own personal use,off-campus students eating meals inthe undergraduate houses withoutturning in guest slips, some minortheft that occurs for example fromthe refrigerators in the studenthouses, from construction sites orfrom the stockrooms, or questionsof unauthorized entry into offices.Admittedly many such actions whencarried to extremes could beproperly called violations of theHonor System. Yet, in the majorityof cases, where, as I like to believe,any malicious intent is lacking,these actions do not come underthe Honor System not because theBOC has declared so, but simplybecause questions of honesty ordishonesty are not directly involved.I do not think of the Honor Systemwhen I take a coffee cup out of thedining room or when I get a seconddesert. But still the fact is that ifeverybody were to do this the FoodService would soon run out of cupsand some people would be leftwithout deserts. So such actions·should be discouraged or preventedbut they could not be properlycalled '.'Honor System Violations".Rather they should be faced forwhat they are, i.e. breaches ofpractical regulations imposed topermit the smooth functioning ofthe system. That the Food Serviceis under the Honor System by nomeans implies that all the rules itmakes become automatically em­bodied in the Honor Code.

What to Do?Now traditionally the above

mentioned areas have fallen underthe jurisdiction of the Board ofControl. Punishment, when in­flicted, has usually been reprimandwith a request for reparations ifappropriate. Presently, however, forreasons that were adequately ex­plained in an article last week byBob Fisher, the Board finds itselffaced with an increased number ofsuch "violations" and therefore withthe dilemma of either ignoring themor having its efficiency threatenedby having to call weekly casemeetings.

This pressure has brought thequestions facing the Board intofocus: Is it the appropriate body totake care of those cases that falImore in the category of breaking apractical regulation or a commonconvention rather than "takingunfair advantage of another memberof the Caltech community"? Does ithave the time necessary? And if theBOC is not to deal with them, bywhom are they to be handled?

Time VS. RealityIf it were not for the time

required, there are some goodarguements why these cases oughtto be tried by the BOC. First of allit is a body of proven responsibility,in that respect almost unique amongstudent committees on campus.Secondly there are always advan­tages to having someone tried by his

peers. This is essential in order tobring about confidence in thesystem as something essential inorder to bring about confidence inthe system as something acceptedby mutual consent rather thanimposed from above. So thequestion more specifically becomeswhat primarily student mechanismsexist or should be set up in order tohandle those cases and how shouldthey relate to the Board of Control.

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become an automatic part of theirthinking. As with driving, if I mayuse the analogy, the repetitiveapplicatioI) of its principles to anumber of concrete instances haspushed the Honor System down tothe level of the almost subcon­scious. Nevertheless it is a fact thattraffic can flow smoothly withouteach driver being aware of all theskills that go into his driving.Similarly, despite its acknowledgedsignificance, the Honor Systemfunctions without being an issue ofeveryday discussion.

Moral MachineryOnly when a deviation from the

routine occurs it becomes necessaryto call back to mind the full moralmachinery of the Honor System inorder to decide on a fair course ofaction. Thus the system is to a large

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extent left up to individual interpre­tation, the rest being supplied byprecedent. As a result, ideally, thesystem functions on its own. TheBOC intervenes only when an actionhas occured that can be consideredas dishonest or unfair to othermembers of the community.

In practice, however, the numberof borderline cases is so great thatthe Board occasionally feels thepressure to come up with "policystatements". settling unequivocallycertain disputed areas in order toclear confustion and provide acertain uniform standard of judge­ment. Non-academic areas such asunauthorized entry or relations tooutside companies operating oncampus fall into ~that category.These policies should not beregarded as intrusions to theindividual's morality but rather asconventions, consistent with thespirit of the Honor System, to beaccepted for a more efficientoperation of the community.

Defeats PurposeI strongly believe the Board of

Control has no business in draftinglong lists of actions that constituteviolations. This would be defeatingthe very purpose of the HonorSystem, namely to not only createan enjoyable atmosphere but to alsoteach individual responsibility byoffering individual freedom. Withthis in mind the Board also oughtnot to issue policy statements inany way contrary to the opinions ofthe student body in particular andthe Caltech community in general.Not only would the enforcement ofsuch a policy be totally unpracticalsince the Honor System is not andshould not be policed, but also theBoard would be overextending itsauthority in doing so.

I have tried to emphasize thatthe Honor System is a spirit ofhonesty that ought to pervade allrelationships and dealings within theInstitute. The BOC does not havethe authority to define where thespirit is or is not applicable!Whether, though, all violations ofthis spirit concerning undergraduatesshould come under the jurisdictionof the BOC is a different, and stillopen, question.

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The Board of Control hasrecently entered a series of discus­sions concerning the applicability ofthe Honor System and the extent ofthe Board's' jurisdiction in theso-called "non-academic" areas.Since a policy statement may beforthcoming it was thought appro­priate at this time to request asmuch input as possible from thestudent body. Please feel free todiscuss the matter with your houseReps. It is of great importance.

In an effort to clarify the issuesinvolved I have tried below to bothgive them some perspective anddescribe them as precisely aspossible. Although personal biasesand unavoidable in any suchdescription, I have tried to incor­porate as many ideas as I could inthe hope that any, or a combinationof them might eventually lead to asatisfactory answer to the presentpressing questions.

Let me start with a few remarkspertinent to the Honor System bothas a moral principle and as apractical, working state of affairs,and to its relationship to the BOC.

Prized Traditionm, Now the Honor System is oneof the most prized traditions ofCaltech. Few have disputed itsmoral value or its practical useful­ness. Because it is a general moralprinciple, as opposed to a long listof specific rules, it places theresponsibility on the individual forthe justification of his actions. Andthus, by creating self-respect first, itleads to an enjoyable atmosphere ofmutual trust and openness.

Yet this is not to say that theHonor System claims to be aconscious force in one's everydaydecision m:Jking. For a large part ofthe Caltech community it has

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coyotes, trees--which are regulatedand affected according to suchfactors as rainfall,seasons, availablechemicals, altitude, and other "areafactors."

We encounter "environmental"problems whenever men changethese "area factors" by pollution,physical damages, hunting programsfor large carnivores, fire control, orany of the other ways we try andcontrol our surroundings. At acertain point, these changes may beso large or serious that we damageor kill off the community-then wehave an eco-catastrophe like theSanta Barbara oil slick or the deathof Lake Erie.

Ecologists' WorkEcology is also a branch of

science which studys in detail someof the complex aspects of naturalsystems in order to understandthem better. Thus, an ecologist maystudy a single species of moth orbarnacle to discover what range ofcommunities it can live in,whatroles it plays in energy flow orreproduction or other species, whatit eats, and how its numbers areregulated. He might study thisspecies because it is directly impor­tant to man, as the sea urchinswhich flood the coastal waters nearSouthern California, or the honeybee; or he may be interested fromthe even more practical standpointof helping us to understand thenatural systems around us so thatwe do not harm them.

Recently, some workers havebeen trying to develop computerprograms that respond much like anatural community in an attempt toimprove our skills in diagnosing· orpredicting responses to man-inducedchanges. The science of ecologystudies the web of life, as JohnStorer called it, so that we will

Continued on Page Nine

by Paul T. Wegener"Ecology" and "Environment"

are two words much bandied aboutthese days, yet remarkably fewpeople seem to understand whatthey mean. This column is the firstin a series attempting to define andexpand these terms: what"ecology"means, some of the basic environ­mental problems we face nowadays,the concepts and ideas we need tounderstand to live with the worldrather than take from it.

"Ecology" exists on many levers,so we shall start with the simplest.Ecosmeans"earth" or "house,"ologymeans "the study of' "anunderstanding of'-together, thestudy of the earth, an understandingof it as a house, a family place tolive. The simplest relationship wehave to the world are common ineveryday life--our nutrition is agood example. Plants take carbondioxide, water, and sunlight toproduce the many sugars, proteins,and other molecules we need tosustain life. The plants evolveoxygen in the process, which weabsorb in our lungs and use to burnsugars and obtain the energy to runour own body machinery. We thususe energy that originally camefrom the sun and has beentransmitted via plants and theanimals that eat them. The carbondioxide and the oxygen are usedover and over in this simple cyclethat underlies all life.

Sense of CommunityAnother ecological concept that

underlies much of our thinking isthe community-type: we all knowthat tide pools have one"King"oflife, a pine forest another, the sagechaparral of Griffith Park another.These types, which we can easilyvisualize, are in fact ecologicalcommunities of many differengorganisms--bacteria, worms,

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Sex and the Single Spider,And Other Things

You may have noticed a quasi­regular feature in the last few issuesof the Tech, which hides under thetitle of News Briefs. As you mayhave noticed, almost anything isgrist for the News Briefs mill. Ifyou have a random activity youwant publicized, or know of someuseful bit of information, NewsBriefs is the illogical, but proper,place for it.

News Briefs are the creation ofyour fiendly Features Editor, whooften has nothing better to write ona Monday night. If you wantsomething printed therein, see PhilNeches in the Tech office, who willprobably tell you that there is nospace, but will print it anyway.

Easy Chair PoetsMeet Tonight

We have received the followingcommunication, which we herebypass along: there will be a meeting

of the totem this thursday night,jan. 29, at 8:00 p.m. in rooms5-8 Dabney. just of a nightlyinvisible essence. please be there.

Prints and Sculpture andSculpture and Prints

The latest in a series of art showsnow awaits your perusal in DabneyLounge. Works by Paul Darrow andFerenc Csentery will grace thelounge for the next couple ofweeks.

Both artists offer courses throughthe Institute Art Program.

Also, many on campus, includingsome of those involved, have toldboth this reporter and Dr. Smiththat they feel that a large finewould not be of any use. In thewords of one person, a fine isuseless because it generates morebad feeling ... nothing positivecomes of it.

Strongest reaction occurred inPage House, as owuld seem logical.However, a surprising amount ofdebate on the issue also occurred inFleming. No indication is yetavailable on reaction in any of theother Houses.

WE DON'T STAND ON PRINCIPLE,

WE USE THE FLOOR!

Good Grief! That's theBiggest Molehill I've Seen

Reports of frayed" tempers result­ing from the attempted showering ofa Tech editor last week seem toindicate that enough hot air hasbeen generated on the subject to fillthe Goodyear Blimp. Before mattersget farther out of hand, thefollowing facts may help:

Dr. Smith has not imposed anyfine on Page House as of our goingto press. He has, however, been"considering" it carefully.

Sing Out for InterhouseComing Valentine's Day

With Interhouse Sing less thanthree weeks away, one begins towonder what or who will enter. Aquick poll of Dabney and Flemingfailed to turn up any concreteevidence of organization for thisevent, however, the Glee Club istrying to get Peggy Lee for themaster (?) of ceremonies.

Houses may enter in the follow­ing catagories: large choruses (min­imum of sixteen), small groups (sixor less), and totally random. Groupsmay be vocal, instrumental, ormixed-media (blark!).

Continued.from Page OneAdd Day Extended a WeekDue to Journalistic Goof

On the second term calendarwhich appeared in the first issuethis term, Add Day was listed asJanuary 30th. Unfortunately, theInstitute calendar pegged Add Dayat the 23rd; however, the Registrar'sOffice has been kind enough topermit students to turn in Addcards late.

We know that the Tech has areputation for perpetrating confus­ion, but ...

Seniors Who Want PhotosShould Move Fast

If you are a senior, and youwant your picture in the Bit T, andyou have not done so already, dropin at Kent Photo Studios in coatand tie either today or tomorrow.After that, well, you'll have to seeChip Smith about it.

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write a dialogue account of whattranspired at the personal appear­ance, including relevant gestures andfacial expressions. The witness (ifthere was one) should write aseperate report. The two reportsshould then be merged into a finalreport to be copied and submittedfor inclusion in the registrant's file.The registrant should include in thereport the complete answers hewould have given to questions if hehad not been interrupted (if inter­ruptions occurred). He should givefuller explanations of issues he feels

by Ira MoskatelYou think you've got problems

with the stock market, do you? Well,then, how would you like to manage$80 million in stocks and bondsinvestments subject to the vagariesof the Big Board?

Such is the problem faced by themen who have to manage the Insti­tute's financial endeavors. With al­most $100 million in endowmentand a yearly budget of about $32million, the treasurer of the Institutealong with a Trustee's Committee, avice-president and two investmentfirms have to assure that Caltechhas the money to finance its educa­tional and research activities.

The largest part of the Institute'sfixed income comes from its endow­ment, or gifts and bequests fromprivate· sources. The income comesfrom interest and dividends as well

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were not sufficiently developed orunderstood. These additions to thedialogue should be marked asadditions, with explanations as towhy they are included.

The registrant will receive aNotice of Classification from thelocal board advising him of itsdecision. Should the decision beunfavorable, the registrant has 30days from the date the Notice wasmailed to appeal to a State AppealBoard. The appeal should be inwriting and should be sent to thelocal board. The appeal must begranted if requested within the 30days.

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personal appearance itself that thelocal board is most likely to commiterrors or demonstrate poor judge­ment. The registrant may be able topersuade the board of its error. Ifnot, he has the errors recorded inhis report. The registrant whobypasses the personal appearancehas left himself defenseless.

PREPARAnONA personal appearance is only a

successful as the registrant makes it.A few hours of hard work are muchbetter than several years in jail or inthe armed forces. Anyone who goesto a personal appearance (and thatshould be everyone) would bewell-advised to obtain a copyof Face to Face With Your DraftBoard (by Allan Blackman, $.95,available at the Free Press Book­store of the AFSC, published by theWorld Without War Council, 1730Grove Street, Berkeley, California,94709) at least a month in advanceof the personal appearance andstudy it. It is an excellent source ofinformation and advice on how toprepare for and participate in aproductive personal appearance.

This preparation includes 1. goingto the local board in order toreview and copy your file--youmay be surprised at what's in itand, surprised or not, you need toknow its exact contents; 2. ob­taining additional evidence to sup­port your claim; 3. preparing a listof positive evidence in your file andmaking copies to distribute to theboard members at the personalappearance; 4. preparing a shortwritten summary of the evidenceand arguments for your claim (alsoto be distributed to the board); 5.preparing a list of evidence andissues you want to discuss with theboard; 6. preparing an openingstatement and answers to typicalquestions; and 7. chinking aboutyour physical appearance.

WITNESSES AND LAWYERSWitnesses who will support your

claim mayor may not be allowedby your local board. You shouldrequest that they be allowed andbring them with you to the localboard's office even if your requestis refused. Local boards will notallow a registrant to be representedby counsel at his personal appear­ance (although his lawyer may beadmitted as a witness). However,registrants who anticipate eventualcourt action should be mindful ofthe recent decision in United Statesvs. Weller, in which the DistrictCourt for the Northern District ofCalifornia held that a registrant hasthe right to be represented bycounsel at his personal appearance.The decision may be overturned andis only applicable in the NorthernDistrict, but a registrant who doesanticipate going to court may wantto request that his lawyer beallowed to be present and advisehim at the personal appearance.Other registrants may wish to avoidantagonizing their boards.

AT THE APPEARANCEThe registrant should use the

personal appearance to attempt todraw out from the board thereasons that they have for notgranting him the desired classifi­cation. He should seek to dispel anydoubts raised and clear up anyquestions. He should try to clarifythe main issues between himself andthe board. He should not be lulledinto optimism by a friendly ornon-agressive board but shouldalways be seeking to find out whyhe has not been granted theclassification.

AFTER THE APPEARANCEImmediately after the personal

appearance, the registrant should

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Warning: To the best of ourknowledge, all the information inthis column is accurate at thepresent time. However, judgementsby the courts or changes in theRegulations occur often. A coun­selor or lawyer should be consultedbefore taking any major action thatwill affect your Selective Servicestatus.

The Personal AppearanceAny time you receive a Notice of

Classification informing you of aclassification action by your localboard (not by the state or nationalappeal board) that was not itself theresult of a personal appearance, youhave 30 days from the date thenotice was mailed to request apersonal appearance before yourlocal board. Simply write, "Irequest a personal apIJearance," signyour name and Selective Servicenumber, keep a copy, and send theoriginal Certified Mail, Return Re­ceipt Requested, to your board. Theboard must grant such a request andwill notify you as to the date andtime your personal appearance isscheduled.

DON'T SKIP IT!The personal appearance is the

first (and for many classifications,particularly the conscientious ob­jector ones, the most crucial) stepin the appeal process. It providesthe registrant with an opportunityto actually appear before and totalk to the people who exercise alife and death power over him: it isthe only chance that he has toargue his case directly with themembers of his local board. A localboard will usually reject a claim fordeferment if it has any questions.Usually, the only way a registrantcan find out what the questions arein his case is by a face-to-faceconfrontation with his board. Oncehe knows the question or doubts,he may be able to convince theboard to grant the desired classifi­cation by pointing out evidence inhis file the board may haveoverlooked or misunderstood (localboards often prove to be extremelynegligent in their review of regi­strants' files, particularly the thickfiles). Or the board may have beenreluctant to grant the classificationwithout first able to make apersonal evaluation of the regi­strant's sincerity and demeanor(especially in conscientious objectorcases).

The importance of the personalappearance estends much furtherthan the effect on the local board.Should a registrant appeal directlyto the state appeal board ratherthan attend a personal appearanceand then appeal, the appeal boardwill often merely rubber-stamp thelocal board's decision. Appealboards generally do not review a filevery carefully unless prompted by aregistrant's specific objection to thelocal board's classification action.Only through the personal appear­ance can the registrant attempt todetermine the reasons why his claimwas not accepted. If, as oftenhappens, the local board refuses tospecify the reasons, a careful reportof the conversation and actions atthe personal appearance may indi­cate the state of mind of the localboard and provide a basis for theappeal. Such a report, written by aregistrant who was well-prepared forhis personal appearance, is alsoindispensable to any later challengein court of the Selective ServiceSystem's actions. It is extremelydifficult to establish local boarderror or prejudice at either theappeal board level or in the courtswithout this record of the personalappearance. After all, it is at the

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and probably will be again,a bill inthe California Legislature thatwould have banned the internalcombustion engine in a few years.The front runners for replacementsare steam and electricity. (By steam,I mean vapor, not necessarily watervapor.) Simple calculations showthat if the whole country changedto electric cars, the power output ofthe country would have to doublein order to be able to rechargethem. Steam cars have their ownproblems, such as the lack of alubricant good enough at highpressures and 1000 degrees. Youbegin to get the idea.

It turns out that pollution is abigger monster than most peoplethink. It may even trigger anotherIce Age. From figures issued by UCSanta Barbara, Penn State's Collegeof Earth and Mineral Sciences, andthe U.S. Environmental ScienceService, it seems that the averagetemperature of the whole world isdropping. In the last thirty years, ithas dropped about one=eighth ofwhat has been calculated as neces­Sil" to trigger an Ice Age. Thesestudies indicate that this drop islargely due to atmospheric pollu­tion. You figure it out. If pollutioncontinues to expand, it's ended.Everything.

I'm not a fanatical conserva­tionist or crusader. I'd just like tobe able to eat and drink andbreathe, and for my descendentsnot to freeze. I don't think that'stoo much to ask.

all organic material in the clotheswe were testing, and the Squlech,

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Consumer Reports Special Bulletin,March 1970:

"Testing and analysis ofSquelch chowed that it containsat least thirteen enzyme additivesand four inert ingredients. Notrace of soap or syntheticdetergent was found. Squelch issupposed to digest all dirt. Itdoes not. However, after thirty­seven hours of standing in water,

you as I don't use one of yourmachines, but no one will tell mehow to muffle my washing machine.I learned to live with the booms thepower detergents made, but thechomping noises from the enzymedetergents drive me out of my tree.(And when I forget to use theladder that is a bad scene.) Whatshould I do?--Black and Blue andNervousDear B,B, and N,

How many of there are you,anyway? First, buy hospitalizationinsurance from our Allstate subsi­diary, then get a lightweight alumi­num ladder from our Home Pro­ducts department. We also sell acomplete line of all-weather mat­tresses which you can leave outsideif you keep for- getting the ladder.We don't have much hope of gettingyou to buy anything from us ifyou're that absent-minded. At amonimal extra cost (meaning that itis big enough to deserve the name)we will supply you with plasticcovers to protect you from thesharp corners on the extrudedaluminum ladder.

All we can do for your washingmachine is recommend that you useSquelch in it. Squelch is a totallynew concept in washday revolu­tions; since you do not have one ofour machines we feel free inrecommending it.

by Nick SmithThe Federal Government, led by

our illustrious President, has de­clared war on pollution, and it is awar (make no mistake about that).Unlike, the war on poverty, this onehas to be- won if mankind is not tosmother in its own refuse.

In his State of the Unionmessage, President Nixon madepollution a major point, andalthough he offered only oneconcrete plan for the present, it is astart. Nixon proposed a $10 billionprogram to build sewage plantsacross the land. (Someday, theremay even be a few clean rivers andlakes again.) Also stated was theidea that the cost of any item, evencars, must be high enough to payfor all of the pollution problems itcreates, including disposal. (Justthink, no more auto graveyards orbeer-can mountains.)

Most important of all, thePresident said, "We no longer canconsider air and water commonproperty, free to be abused byanyone without regard to theconsequences. Instead, we shouldbegin now to treat them as scarceresources, which we are no morefree to contaminate than we arefree to throw garbage in ourneighbor's yard. This requires com­prehensive, new regulations."

New regulations are indeed ne­cessary, and with them vast studiesof what these regulations can andwill accomplish. The effects ofmeasures can not be taken forgranted, For example, there was,

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lotion for two weeks and I haven'thad to fight off any lust-maddenedgirls yet. However, for the pastthree days a female basset houndhas been following me with apeculiar. .. (ed. note: The manu­script is torn dirtied and blood­stained. Police have found thirteenpaw prints which are clear enoughto provide positive identification)Reply from the makers of HaiKarate: To whom it may concern(since our correspondent has goneto the big Playboy pad in the sky):

The active ingredient in HaiKarate is dehydro-deoxy-phenyl­2,2-bis (mercaptoethanolo)­thioazeotropin. WE thought it wascommon knowledge that in at­mospheric concentrations detectableto the human nose it causes acondition resembling human termi­nal paranoia in members of thebasset and other hound breedswhich have the inborn metabolicdisorder known as Norizaki's Con­dition. If that last sentence hasn'tconfused you, we urge you to readthe discussion titled "The Menaceof Berserk Bassets," starting on page42 of the Hai Karate DangerManual. Do you really think wewould go to the bother of writing a59 page handbook for a shavinglotion if something funny weren'tgoing on?

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Consumer complaint department ofthe L.A. Times, April 3, 1970 (allletters forwarded to the appropriatemanufacturers)

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control.That evening many local

minority leaders joined Bradley fora dinner at the Athenaeum. There,he participated in another' questionand answer period. Looking into thepast, he blamed public fear andignorance for his recent loss in theLos Angeles mayoralty campaignand gave concern for Los Angeles ashis reason for not entering intostate politics. He then alluded to hispossible future political campaigns,centering around 1973.

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and a logical development plan.

Panthers and PoliceWhen questionned on the recent

confrontation between the BlackPanthers and the police, Bradleysaid that the police acted tooabruptly. He also stated that thepolice attitude of eliminating thePanthers to allow responsible Negroleadership to grow tended toward apolice state and was conceptuallywrong. For Bradley, if there areleaders, they will show themselves.He pointed to the public outcryover the affair as healthy and as the

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professors to help fill gaps in theareas of stocastic methods andcomputer systems.

The addition to Booth will aidMcCann and the rest of thebiosystems and information sciencepeople in their research, as well asimproving service to the Caltechcommunity. The IBM S360/75,Caltech's batch processor, will con­tinue to serve the campus. Our IBMS360/50, which runs the time­sharing system, will be the subjectof several experiments, one ofwhich is already in progress (aregional hook-up with ten othercolleges). Among other experimentsis a new system, called RELSYS,developed by a team headed byProfessor Fred Thompson. Caltech'stwo other large computers willcontinue to be used in such diverseareas as biosystems and geology.

The Beaux' Strategem

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trapped in a loveless (and of coursechildless) marriage; she flails outhopelessly against the boredom andmisery of her life. Lancaster asksher to leave with him; but sherefuses. The next day Lancasterdoesn't bother to pull his ripcordand lands with the most spectacularWhump! in all moviedom.

The movie is now half over. Theteam then decides to put on aspecial performance the next day.Wilson performs the same stunt thatkilled his partner and pulls theripcord approximately fifty feetabove the ground. Wilson then givesup skydiving and leaves the now­seduced Bonnie Bedelia. The End.

It could have been very good.The tragic hero whose flaw is theneed to control his own life andwhose heroism lies in the ability todo so is a magnificent theme. Themotif is spectacularly suited to themedium. There are few sports whichare visually more effective thanskydiving. However, characterizationis essential to any movie with so

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Every reviewer must develop agood idea of the qualities that makea good movie. Careful considerationof The Gypsy Moths is of immensehelp in such a development. TheGypsy Moths has no glaring faults;the photography is excellent, itmoves quickly, it is told straight­forwardly; a number of fine actorsperform professionally. Possibly,one could blame the picture on thedirector (the non-auteur theory),but the errors are of omission ratherthan commission. It is not even amagnificent failure like Camelot.What causes this movie to be sodismal?

The gypsy moths are a trio ofitinerant stunt skydivers, Burt Lan­caster, Gene Hackman, and ScottWilson. They are playing a smalltown in Kansas, the home town of I

the junior member of the team,Scott Wilson, on a sweltering July4th weekend. They spend the nightbefore the show at the horne ofWilson's aunt, Deborah Kerr. Duringthe night the Aunt seduces Burt,Hackman picks up a topless dancer,Wilson fails to seduce his aunt'sboarder, Bonnie Bedelia, and thetheme of the movie is established.Each of the men and women engagein their respective activities in adesperate search for freedom intheir lives.

Burt Lancaster, alone, under­stands the need for freedom."Skydiving is not only a way to livebut a way to die." Miss Kerr was

Leading RogueRobert Stephens, as Francis

Archer, performs so well as to defydescription. In words of onesyllable, he is great. Even if the restof the show had fizzled (which itdecidedly did not), his performancemakes The Beaux' Stratagem wellworth seeing.

In an exclusive, but not tooprivate interview, Stephens con­fessed that the play is a great dealof fun to do. Comedy is more funto do than drama because theaudience responds, rewarding theactor, he said. Because of its size,the Ahmanson requires an actor tobe expressive wth his whole body,not just his face, which makes theplay quite energetic. (Incidentally, itis trivial to sit down with a swordbuckled to your belt, if you knowhow to do it.)

In the LemonlightIdeally, he said, a theater com­

pany should perform a differentwork every night in a series. This iswhat the National Theater Companydoes at the Old Vic in London. Asa matter of record, the NTC spentnone weeks rehearsing The Beaux'Stratagem. The other play they willpresent in Los Angeles, Chekhov'sThree Sisters, has been part of therepertoire for two-and-a-half years.

American theater may be savedfrom Broadway by the rapidemergence of new theaters aboutthe country, especially in LosAngeles and Houston, Stephens said.He thinks that the Music Center is"stunning," and that it would take30 years to get such a structure inLondon.

Student Power"I love student audiences. . .. I

think they're the best. ... Youcan't fool them (with less than afirst-rate performance).... They areterribly stimulating."

So if you want a vastlyentertaining evening, see The Beaux'Stratagem, which runs now throughFebruary 7. Also, the NationalTheater Company will presentChekhov's Three Sisters February 9through 28, also at the Ahmanson.

Elliot Martin, we're proud ofyou: in case you haven't noticed,this was a rave review.

position as one of the world'sgreatest cumeQ1ennes. RonaldPickup as Thomas Aimwell andSheila Reid as Dorinda turn inexcellent performances.

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pop, and otherwise concert loca­tions are not alphabetized.

Royce Hall at UCLA is mostlyclassical for awhile, with oneexception. Alirio Diaz is there onJan. 30, followed by the HerbieHancock Sextet on the 31st, anexception if I ever heard one. (Jazz,in fact.) With hardly time to sweepthe ice, the California ChamberSymphony appears on Feb.!.

The El Camino College Auditor­ium is featuring the Juilliard StringQuartet every Friday and Sundayuntil Feb. 8. They also havesoprano Bella Rudenko on Feb. 3.

The Santa Monica Civic has aconcert on the 31 st, with theYoungbloods and the Sons. Theplace is quiet for two weeks, as if ina hush preceding JUDY COLLINSon Feb. 14.

The Anaheim Convention Centeris flying Jefferson Airplane on Feb.7.

Bovard Auditorium, at USC, hasJohn Sebastian in concert on Feb.7.

With all this going on, don't justsit there, sit somewhere else.

(Note to editors: I'm tooopinionated not to have a byline!)

On StageThe Ahmanson comes through

with its typical snowy set design,which handsomely complements theNational Theater Company's im­pressive acting. Rene Allio made themost of the great resources of theAhmanson in a manner which doesgreat credit to both of them.

The NTC comes off with equalfinesse. Maggie Smith reaffirms her

school for scandal for one night.The lesson will prove both painlessand hilarious.

First, you need a conspirator toplay your servant (rich heiresses liketo think that they are marrying richmen, besides which, a servant likeArcher (Robert Stephens) generallydoes quite well for himself, too).Second, find a quiet part of theEnglish countryside in which a fewunattached, rich beauties lurk. Ifthese lack, then rich married ladieswho dislike their husbands will dojust as well.

Rogue for All SeasonsYou then proceed, by fast talk,

deception (white lies are not sinful),and maneuver, to work your wayinto the amorous affections of thedesired young lady. Within a fewscenes, the young lady will beplotting just as furiously to get atyou. You now have the best of allpossible worlds, provided that youdo not suddenly become toohonest.

However, should this befall you,ill is not lost. If you have playedthe game properly, fortune willbring both your lady love and scadsof money your way. If not, youwill be doomed to die an excellentbut bankrupt playwright.

To Your ImaginationThe Beaux' Stratagem can be as

risque as your imagination. In thewords of the prophet, "If youhaven't done it, at least you'vethought about it." Farquhar provesthat intimation and subtlety faroutweigh pure shock value fortitilation.

To help you along, the NationalTheater Company brings out everyturn of plot and dialogue, characterand staging conceivable. For ex­ample, in one scene, ThomasAimwell (played by Ronald Pickup)fakes a fit. While Lady Bountifulexpounds on the treatment of same,Aimwell finds himself nestled inDorinda's bosom. The audiencehardly notices Lady Bountiful'smonologue.

Biff Rose from now until the 1st.(Gilding the bruin just doesn'tsound right.) 306 Ocean Ave,otherwise. known as U.S. 101, inJuntington Beach, is the location, ifyou dig driving.

The Ice House, at 24 nearbyNorth Mentor, has Tim Morgonuntil Feb. 1, along with Lambert &Nuttycombe. See Frets and Frails(there is one this week) for details.The Dillards start playing on Feb. 3.

Shelley's Manne Hole is for jazz,which is rarely spelled backwards.Willie Bo Bo appears until Sunday,the 1st, and the Jazz Crusaders playfrom the 3rd until the 15th. It's at1608 N. Cahuenga Blvd. in Hol­lywood.

Troubadour, at 9081 Santa Mon­ica Blvd. in The Big City, isfeaturing Phil Ochs and the Dillardsuntil the 1rd, this Sunday. TimHardin is there from the followingTuesday, the 3st.

The Whisky A Go Go, theprimarily dancing place of the lot, isfeaturing Cat Mother and the AllNight Newsboys this weekend, at8901 Sunset.

The following rock, classical,

Restore Indecency!The Restoration, for those of

you who missed History I, lastedfrom 1660 to about 1710. In termsof real events, this translates fromthe disestablishing of RichardCromwell as Lord Protector (theBritish had some amazing euphe­misms for absolute dictator)through the reign of Queen Anne,the last Stuart.

Philosophically, politically, andsocially, the Restoration representeda reaction against the excesses ofthe Puritan spirit under OliverCromwell, who wanted to suveEngland's soul regardless of whetheror not England wanted its soulsaved. Such blatantly wicked sub­jects as sex were once again subjectsfor legitimate theater. In fact,theater itself was once more alegitimate pursuit.

Farquhar, thus a son of theRestoration (what a phrase!), foundlittle resistance towards his be­coming an actor. However, whileplaying a fencing scene, he onceforgot to exchange his sword for afoil, with nearly fatal results to theother actor. While the RestorationStage lost one actor, posteritygained one excellent comedy writer.

After leaving acting, Farquharattempted to make a fortune bymarrying one. Alas, his plans didnot materialize. However, from theexperience, he wroteThe Beaux'Stratagem, the story of two desti­tute gentlemen who proved moresuccessful at the same game.

The Plot ThickensYou, too, can marry into beauty

and money! Just attend Farquhar's

pen.

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by Pat Riley andPaul Levin;

Sharon Mason andPhil Neches

TECH Drama Staff

If The Beaux' Stratagem is as funto do as it is to watch, then RobertStephens and Maggie Smith must behaving a grand time at theAhmanson Theater. The NationalTheater Company of Great Britainbrings a great deal of talent to thisproduction, which fully developsthe art of being risque withoutbeing gross.

George Farquhar (pronouncedFaf kwar, folks), one of the bestRestoration playwrights, completedthis play shortly before his death in1707. The play reflects both itsauthor and the period in which itcame trippingly off the author's

No particular town, but the ideais there. Don't you wish you had amagic mirror in your head? Let'sgo!

Ash Grove has Doc Watson andSeals & Crofts until Feb lth, agood combination in itself, and onFeb. 6-8, the Byrds fly into theGrove. The whole thing is at 8162Melrose.

The Golden Bear probably has

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metal cylinder around, occasionallytouching it to their foreheads andsmiling in a curious, twisted fashion."Therefore," continued Professor J.Hadley Gurnspeed, Ph.D., Post­doc.3, as he gestured at the tri-Dvisual "trivvy" diagram hangingabove him, "phonon-hole couplingin a Vanburen superconductor, likeactivated gadolinium telluride, al­lows generation of extremely in­tense magnetic field, in excess of agigagauss in some cases. Fields ofthis strength can alter the ionconcentrations in nerve cells andalter the human neural network incomplex, little understood, andprobably dangerous ways." The kidsin the back row passed thestun-sender with its activated gado­linium telluride magnistor and glee­fully altered their neural network incomplex ways. "Upjazz soulsyncmindmute!" grinned one. "Betchatantalum tintype, twister!" smiledanother.

Overwhelmed by the super­sensory mind-mash in the upjazzjivejuice jumpjam jungle of way­uptown Brasilia, the two touristsstared at a clump of youngsters?pimgomg in a swimpool. "Theydon't seem to be doin' nuthin'."commented one. "Yeah." agreed theother. "That's kind of unusual, ain't

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made them laugh at the fact thatthey were not laughing. He threw ina few jokes to which the audiencegave thunderous founds of silence,but that was largely due to the factthat it was hard to tell he wasjoking. His best has gotten betterand his worst hasn't gotten anyworse.

The headliner until Feb. 1st isTim Morgon. Publicity agents havestuck him with all kinds of tags,like "Mr. Communication" and"Hero of the Pepsi Generation," buthe's really just a good singer. Hisstyle is hard to describe, but it's alittle bit like what should have beenin between the old Dion, Elvis, andRick Nelson and the new Dion,Elvis, and Rick Nelson. He has thesmoothness of the latter withoutlosing the force and vibrance of theformer. A couple of the songs hedid didn't seem to fit his style verywell, such as "Dock of the Bay"and "Hey Jude." Most of the songshe did sounded quite well, like "SheBelongs to Me" and "Everybody'sTalkin'." He's good. Go see him.

Denny Brooks, who records forWarner-Seven Arts, dropped in for aset. He did Dylan songs, songs madebig by Judy Collins, other things,and had time for a Lord Buckleymonologue. He's rock, and he isgood. See what you're missing?

-Nick Smith

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by Jonathan V. PostIt was the evening of the

ultimate new-year in the sintered­sand sin center stun-sender worldcapital of Brasilia. The lofters werefloating, the hellbents twisting, thequantum queers sitting entranced intheir coruscating fantasy-flamingspectrum-spanning fireballs. Poly­sync music blended with cybeat andthe almost incomprehensible hyper­rhythms of upjazzed badbeat. Lightsflickered in a seven-against-elevendoubletime, and mad Moog magicmutated musical mandalas.

"It's bad, real deep-damned bad,these kids today...." lamented aforty-ish creep in a fluorescentneopryl spin-suit. "Yeah." agreedhis aging pal. "When we wuz kids,yah blew yer mind fer a kick. Nowthese stupid freaks jam down for anupjazz jolt. Yah can't reach 'emwhen they're up, and they can't tellyah nutin' when they're down.""Yeah." "Happy New Year,"grumbled the glow-gowned clown,pulling a self-light narco-stick fromhis ankle-pocket, "Merry Millenium,goddamnit!"

As the physics professor strodeup and down the aisles of thelecture-hall, arm-waving and lec­turing stridently, a clump ofbedraggled students in the back rowsurreptitiously passed a decimeter

Down Jazzed Up-TightSide-Souled Dad

The. show this week at the IceHouse includes a couple of repeatsand a new (at least to me) singingduo. That duo is Lambert andNuttycombe, (Garfunkel, eat yourheart out) and they turned out tobe reasonably good. They evidentlywrite their own material, and inspots, it shows. They seem to bevery competent guitarists, and havegood voices, but they seem to getcarried away with the lyrics attimes. Anyway, they are pleasant tolisten to, and will probably getmuch bigger in the music business.

George Hopkins was back again,for better and for worse, as thecomedy act. He was better than thelast time he was at the Ice House.This time, he was quite funny inspots. Whenever the audience didn'treact well to a particular bit, he

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LIVE DEAD: The Grateful Dead;Warner-Seven-Arts 1830

The Grateful Dead seem to holdthe dubious distinction of being thebest known group that hasn't reallygone anywhere. They have just hungin the limbo of being well-knownbut not super-stars.

Sorrr explanation of why theDead hold this unique position canbe found on their latest album, LiveDead. The double record album isexactly what it claims to be, a liveperformance on record. This is tobe distinguished from the recordedlive albums. The Grateful Dead havea very different approach toconcerts. Rather than play ten songsin 45 minutes and making theirperformance a live record, they takethree or four long things and playthem non-stop. In the surroundingsof a concert with lights, people, andother ethereal elements, this can bequite an experience. This the Deaddo well and explains their continuedpopularity in concert.

When this is transferred to arecord, a large portion of the totaleffect is lost. Having what is reallyone piece go over three sides of arecord makes for confusinglistening. Having lost the environm­ental support, the length also canbecorrr rather monotonous. Myadvice is to spend your money tosee the Dead live, dead Live Deaddoesn't make it.

-James Henry

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from interest and dividends as wellas from the sale of selected stocks.The invested portion of the endow­ment is approximately $80 millionwith the remaining $20 million in­vested in areas with constant income.

The fixed income investments,mostly land, are designed to producea constant percentage return, nowrunning about 7-7Yz percent. Thestock market investments are de­signed to produce income and ap­preciation, or growth. In the past,the income from sales and dividendshas averaged about 3'%% with theendowment increasing approximatelyten percent per annum. This year hasbeen a great deal less than average,with a Trustee's report showing nonet appreciation of inv~stments. Inother words, no increase in the egg.

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DENNY BROOKS by (as it turnsout) Denny Brooks, Warner-SevenArts 1822.Denny Brooks is one of thoseperformers who is better in personthan on a record. Don't get mewrong; his record is good, it's justdisappointing compared to hearinghim live. I know it's not a musicalchange, because the same people didmuch of the album accompanimentwho appeared in person. Thevibrant, vital quality of his musicjust doesn't record well.Denny Brooks combines folk androck in a manner sort of like theearly Byrds, but including thingsthat the 1965 audience wasn't readyfor. For example, how many Janand Dean fans would dig a rockversion of Joni Mitchell or GordonLightfoot? Denny Brooks pulls itoff with the music of the twoCanadians and many others. Themusical arrangements include ac­coustical, steel, and electric guitars,bass, drums, oboe, piano, andoccasional horns and strings. Thesecombine with Denny's voice toform a folk-rock sound that youshould listen to. Purists will not likehis versions of some songs, parti­cularly "Wherefore and Why" and"Both Sides Now," because hechanges the style in which they aredone, but most of you probablywon't mind once you've heard him.If you get the chance, give eitherhim or the album a listen. They'reboth named Denny Brooks.

-Nick Smith

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The death of the old West gavebirth to a new kind of hero; thegunman who is unwilling to adaptto changing times. Two recentmovies (employing entirely differentapproaches) have portrayed thesemen. Each movie has used thesemen for commentary on today;both imply that now is a dying ageas well. Neither movie could havebeen made before today; both aremovies of today. The Wild Bunch,Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, wasthe most violent movie ever made.Butch Cassidy and the SundanceKid is the movie of the comic hero.

Butch and Sundance (paulNewman and Robert Redford) arethe leaders of the Hole-in-the-WallGang, a group of bank robbers and(on bad days) train robbers. Fromthe beginning they are supremelyconfident and magnificently blaseabout their jobs. They are entirelyunable to take themselves seriously.They and their woman, Etta Place(Katharine Ross), are forced out ofthe West by the new technology. E.H. Harriman of the Southern PacificRailroad declares war on the Gangand wins. They travel to Bolivia andstart a new life-robbing new banks.In the end Etta leaves and they arekilled by almost the entire Bolivianarmy.

The only possible criticism isthat the few serious moments arepainfully thin. This judgement iswrong. No comic hero may haveserious parts to his life. Falstaff isthe perfect example. The weaknessof the serious parts merely empha­sizes how unimportant taking lifeserious is to them. The reason theyare heros and not mortals lies in thefact that they know who and whatthey are. They are not willing totranscend their era; although theyare able to. They could have gonestraight and succeeded; their great­ness is in that they recognized thatgoing straight is unnecessary, and isnot better.

Butch and Sundance are apropsto today because the present is alsoa transition era. People today areagain confused and overwhelmed bythe change in recent times. Butchand Sundance area prototype of

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Our recruiter's handshake is straight from the proportion to your abilities sounds like the wayshoulder. And so is his talk. you like to do business, our business would

He'll neither promise the world nor expect it like to meet you. We can do something for you,in return. He's interested in meeting young if you can do something for us.

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gets to the top. It may be anautobiographical sketch for RindyMartin has appeared in several otherfilms, including one with WalterBrennen and Tim Rooney (son ofMickey). .she has also appeared onBonanza with Hoss and the boys.But her lucrative Dumb is just anact.

Offstage, Rindy acts more likethe $50K/year business executiveshe is. She is the president of acorporation concerned with theoepration of several nightclubsincluding the Mardi Gras Lounge indowntown LA. She is currentlybuilding a millionaire's club-also inLA-complete with gym, sauna, bar,and cardroom. For kicks, Rindyraces horces. She has her ownthoroughbred, a two-year-old namedSunny Dress who races at SantaAnita and Hollywood Park.

So the next time you can't getup for Apostol, go snake appliedeconomics with Rindy Martin-,-atthe High Life.

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Philosophy Is Money-

Beauty Titles Prime Attraction

by Bill BradleyJudging from recent ASCIT

activities, nudity seems to be thecoming thing. Just ask TerryColling, of recent erection lallyfame, or Rindy Martin, Miss Cali­fornia Go-Go, currently appearing atthe High Life.

Rindy came on campus last weekin conjunction with Party-Partypublicity and afterwards shed somerevealing light on the philosophy oftopless dancing. Her philosophy ismoney. She nets a kilobuck a week.Her many beauty titles have madeher the prime attraction at the HighLife and the best known dancer inPasadena.

Dancing, she's the typical Cali­fornia blond: not too bright butmmmmmmmmoi!!! What bazooms!!Barrington Pictures liked what theysaw: they starred her in "TheSunset Strip," a full length moviesoon to be released about-getthis-a young starlet and how she

location, removed himself to thecoal mine tunnels underneath thecampus. "I'm glad I was lucky," hesaid, remembering that all of hiscourses had scheduled times listedback at Initial Trial Pre-Registrationtime five months ago, and he hadnot been scheduled for any parti­cularly bad hours, other than oneSunday morning class.

After several hours' more unin­terrupted work Miller managed tofinish and returned to the Regis­tration building, glad that he was nolonger a freshman, as their lineswere many times longer than theupperclass lines.

Registration finally over, Millerheaded back to his cell block with afriend who had also finished. "Well,did you get all the courses youwanted?" he asked.

"Oh, yes," said the friend. "Ieven managed not to get anyconflicts, although I'll have to missfour meals a week. In fact, mycourses sound so great that I canhardly wait until they start nextyear. It seems a shame that thereare still two terms to go before theone we registered for today starts."

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Tftlnscendenftl/ 'I(egisfftlfifJnby Etaoin Schroedlu

Ed. Note-Some of our olderreaders may remember that fromtime to time in previous years theTech presented accounts of life atanother college, the MythologicalInstitute of Theocracy, as told byEdward B. Barrelmaker, a student atthat institution, to the Tech's JimCooper. My personal opinion is thatthese glimpses of life at another;very different institution from ourown are of great value, and sinceMr. Barrelmaker is no longercapable of communication with us,I have persuaded my good friend,Mr. Edward A. Miller, who attendsthe Camelot Institute of Tran­scendentalism, to relate to us someof his experiences at that world­famous seat of learning, which isprobably the intellectual leader inits field. I shall try to explain anyterms or customs which are unfamiliar to us which Mr. Miller

. should use. His first communicationwas about Registration for classes.

Student Edward A. Miller of theCamelot Institute of Tran­scendentalism pushed back his chairand flexed his weary writing hand."Gee, all this stuff to fill in forRegistration is sure a waste oftime," he remarked to the fellowTransient in the next chair. "I don'tknow why the Institute doesn't doanything about it."

"Don't complain," said thatunsympathetic individual. "Re­member, 'The Truth Shall Cost aFee'." But Miller noted that the useof the Institute Motto, whichnormally was an encouragement tohim, seemed to do nothing for hisaching hand.

The Truth IsThe student on the other side of

the table was more inclined towardconversation. "I do think thatyou're right, Miller. After all, not allof these organizations could pos­sibly need to know all this abouteach of us. Why, I don't thinkthere's been a Vaihingerian Societyon campus for several years now,but we're still filling out a card forthem."

"Oh, you're probably right, butremember, things are getting betterevery year," said Miller's CBC fromdown the table. (Ed. Note: CBCmeans cell block chairman, a roughapproximation to our own 'DCC'.)He continued, "After all, this yearwe're meeting our Phys. Ed. require­ment by successfullly completingRegistration."

Very Precious"That's true," admitted Miller.

"But I never liked P.E. anyway, andsee no need for it to be requiredhere. How many cards do you haveleft to do?"

"Oh, only about twenty; I gotup early," replied the CBC, asunivormed first aid personnel rushedto the corner of the room, to theaid of a Transient who had fallen avictim to the paperwork. "Takingany electives this term?"

Therefore"No, just the standard schedule,"

said Miller, as the CBC turned toofficiate another argument aboutthe system used to determine whennew terms at CIT began. Miller washimself a firm believer that CITused sunspots to determine this, asno other agency could be sorandom in its scattering of vaca­tions, and so ignored the argument,pressing on with his card work so asto be able to finish by dinnertime.

But the relative silence of theroom was soon broken by ananguished upperclass Kant major,who had just discovered that one ofhis option courses was scheduled for5:00 a.m. three days a week, andMiller, in search of a more quiet

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nutrients are cycled without loss,the better the chances of thiseco-system surviving changes in thephysical or biological environment.This offers some explanation as towhy this country, with its greatdiversity of culture, financial status,even languages and experiences thatthe people have, has survived somany changes in technology, cli­mate of opinion, and status in theworld. Any drop in diversity couldseriously impair this society's adap­tability to change~~ an ecologicalhint in the direction of "Thefreedom to be different is thecountry's strength."

Looking AheadIn future columns I hope to take

several of the fundamental conceptsin ecology and examine them, usingmodern problems of common ex­periences as examples. The field ofecology has much to offer us, asidefrom providing us with ways ofunderstanding some of the environ­mental crises around us. I will beglad to reference any of my points,and will answer as many questionsas I can. I welcome profusely anyand all aid in writing this column~

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Coined by the PoetThe highest meaning, to my

mind, of ecology is that coined bypoet Gary Snyder~Earth HouseHold. He sees ecology not as a dimconception of "Nature," out there,or the study of the complexity ofthe web, though that is very neededto help us regain the kind ofunderstanding of give and take thatthe Indians had; rather, he wouldlike us to become ecological inpoint of view, to remember that weare natural beings in a naturalworld, knots in a web with strandsleading to and from us. We eat foodgrown in the same way as the grassthat feed the deer, we die ofpoisons like DDT and lead fromgasolines as surely as the bald eaglesand the osprey, and we too mustform stabile, naturally regulatedcommunities adapted to the re­sourcesand physical factors aroundus.

Recent work has shown thatstudies of human society can befruitfully considered from an eco­logical point of view. The stabilityof an eco-system (a particularcommunity sharing the samephysical and biological environment)is related to the diversity it shows.The more strands there in the web,the longer the chains of energy flowand the more efficiently essential

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by Craig Sarazin

Thursday, January 29, 1970

expansion stop if it runs out ofprotein or something? M. Yes,but you see, Squelch was formu·lated to digest nearly everything.Anyorganic material at all, fromlive fish to oil slicks will bedigested and allowed to spreadthrough the mass. It woulddissolve a man if he were in thewater. B. Any organic matter atall . . . Have you ever seenHaiphong Harbor?M. No. Ifyou're worried, I can tell youthat eventually the enzymes willbecome too dilute to be effec·tive. (Slight look of relief on

Bergman's face)

Let's skip rather rapidly over theanswers given to questions like'what did North Wietnam want with150,000 tons of Squelch?' and 'Whatwas the Russian captain trying todo when his submarine was caughtin the goo?' and pay little attentionto the way the Stephen DecaturSociety announced on the 8th ofAugust that "The people must dofor themselves what the governmentis too chicken to do," andannounced on the 9th of Augustthat it could not even affordColgate-palmolive's $70 million bilIfor the Squelch, let alone the $2.3billion suit from International HellasTransport, former owners of theIshibatsu Maru.NBC evening news, August 11,1970,Chet Huntley reporting:

"The· area of sea matrix reachingout from the coast of NorthVietnam has finally stopped ex·panding. Scientists say that it willnow deteriorate slowly over aperiod of several months. Arrange·ments were made today in the StateDepartment to extend foreign aid toNorth Vietnam, until the harbor isfree of matrix again.

"In the South the vietnamizationof the war goes on. The mostconcentrated rocket attack onSaigon in three months endedabruptly when an ARVN companysurprised the North Vietnam Army's324th Battalion in the southeastsector of ..."David Brinkley reporting:

"Colgate-Palmolive, the Isrealiembassy in Washington, and thegovernments of Syria, Jordan, andSaudi Arabia all denied strenuouslytoday that the company hadreceived ,?ffers from any govern.ment...

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Anyhow, it kept the summerfrom being a complete drag.

MILLER CONTINUES

From the front page of the L.A.Times, Aug.5,1970:

HANOI -(Reuters)--VinhVong Binh, the Premier of NorthViet Nam charged today that theIshibatsu Maru was deliberatelyblown up in Haiphong harborMonday night in the full know·ledge that the 150,000 tons ofthe American detergent Squelchwhich it contained would cause areaction in the water whichwould destroy the harbor. In anuncharacteristically brief speechthis afternoon the Premier in­formed his Cabinet that at aboutten that morning a large area ofwater around the wreckage offthe Japanese-built Greek ownedore freighter became gluey. Boatswent to investigate, were quicklymired, . but the crews excapedwhen the surface bacame firmenough to walk to shore. Vinhcharged that United Friends ofHanoi, a British and Swedishgroup, was actually a front for acombine of reactionary blood.sucking bloated capitalist im­perialist American warmonger pigmillionaires called the StephenDecatur Society.

The area of hardening is stillexpanding.

ABC News Special Report: JulesBergman, ABC Science Editor withDR. Roger Melton, Caltech Assis­tant Professor of Chemical Biology.Evening Aug. 6 Bergman: Dr.

Melton, according to the latest·reports, more and more of theharbor and bay are hardening.How can this go on? Melton:Well, you must understand thatthere is very little Squelch in thehardened material. The Squelchenzymes stay in solution, dis­solving, or digesting, all availableorganic material, and incorpor­ating it into the matrix whichstabilizes the water. B. What isthe matrix? M. I suppose thebest way to describe it is acombination of proteins andvarious natural and syntheticnitrogenless materials with pro­perties somewhere betweenmucus and Jell-o. B. But whydoes it harden? M. I really can'tsay. Except. .. A year or so agoit became evident that the waterin living cells is in an icelikeform at body temperature. Thismay be something similar on amicroscopic scale. B. I wish itwasn't so macroscopic. Won't the

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dissolved into an amorphous,jellylike material which expandedand absorbed water to more thana million times the originalvolume of the Squelch. On ashort exposure to vibration(Howard knocked a beaker of itoff the table) the jelly-likematerial became rock hard.Squelch is a menace.",

CAGERS BAT .333

The Caltech varsity basketballsquad won one game and lost twolast week, while the junior varsityteam couldn't manage a victory inthree contests.

Occidental humbled the Beavers95 to 57 last Wednesday here atTech, while the Oxy Frosh wallopedTech's JV's 108 to 46.

Caltech's varsity beat PacificChristian College at Lakewood HighSchool by a score of 82 to 71Friday night. But here at Caltech onthe same evenIng the junior varsityhad less luck against the LosAngeles Police Revolver andAthletic Club, Inc. The final scorewas L.A.P.D. 82-CIT 48.

Here against La Verne Saturdaynight our varsity lost 80 to 70 afterthe N's had bowed 86-66.

Redlands will be here tomorrownight for a varsity game that beginsat 8:30 p.m.

Caltech's wrestlers prove to be a bunch of indepindent operators. See our mat-chlessteam. in their inimitable style. trying to get a head (lock) of the opposition. Pic by Fish

SWIMMERS WORKING

The Caltech Tennis team opensits 1970 season this afternoon hereagainst the Long Beach TerminalNavy team. Ken Pischel will beplaying first singles for the Beaversand will join Andy Chow on thefirst doubles team.

Chow plays second singles, whileGeorge Lantos is third, Don Smithfourth, Jim Crawford fifth, andBruce Eisenhart is sixth boy. ArtEllis is the alternate for singles.

Smith and Crawford form thesecond doubles team while Lantosand Eisenhart will play the sailors'third doubles pair. Larry Niren isthe doubles alternate.

The match begins at 3:00.

The University of California atRiverside swim team defeated Cal­tech 64 to 48 Friday at Tech'spool.

An important factor that hurtCaltech's team was the injury toJim Jakway, who tore some car­tilage in his ankle and couldn'tswim.

Caltech's 400 yard medley relayteam of Mabry Tyson, Max Ray,Bob Hall, and Jeff Rude wereawarded first place with a time of4: 14.5 when the Riverside quartetwas disqualified.

Tom Coates placed first in the50 yard free style in a time of 24.5seconds. Steve Johnson and EdFronczak finished first and secondfor Tech in the 1 meter divecompetition, with 181.25 and131.75 points, respectively. Johnsonalso won the 3 meter dive eventwith 141.75 points. Beaver GaryReeder placed second with 115.55points.

Tomorrow, Friday, the Caltechtankers visit Occidental for varsitycompetition, beginning at 4:00 p.m.

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Gary Stormo is the best, and atpresent the only, long jumper andtriple jumper. His marks are 21-5and 42-0 and should improveconsiderably this year. TomBlaschko, Mike Ruth, and AgisAbatzoglou are veteran shot putters,all of whom have marks well over40 feet.

DiscusobalusAbatzoglou also throws the dis­

cus over 130 feet. Steve Bienz is agood freshman prospect in discus,having thrown 125 in high school.

Senior Bob Jackson and soph­omore Charles Thoele are returningjavelin tossers who will be joinedthis year by junior Brian Cox.Thoele, who took fifth in theall-conference meet last year, has abest mark of 162-7~. Jackson andCox have best marks of 169-5 and159-10, respectively.

Dave Holmes, who has cleared 12feet, is the only Tech pole vaulterat present.

Hop, Skip, & Blark!Mr. LaBrucherie stated that the

team is relatively strong in the 880,mile, 2 mile, shot put, discus,javelin, and 220. The team desper­ately needs more men in the longand triple jump, pole vault, andhigh jump. The team's majorproblem is lack of depth in manyevents. Any Techer with abilityshould seriously consider competingin the sport of track and field.

One further note about thesquad is the addition this year of anew assistant coach, Mr. Bill Smith.Smith is a 1964 graduate of OhioState University. He was a deca­thlon man who placed third in thenation in 1967. Smith also was theBig Ten champion. in the 330 yardintermediate hurdles in 1964.

The Page House Interhousetennis team compiled a total of 41points to edge Ricketts, whofinished with 40, to win the IHtennis competition.

Fleming came in third with 38points, while Ruddock and Lloydtied for fourth with 36 points each.Thus, there were five teams withinfive points of each other. OnlyDabney and Blacker failed to makea good showing, with 19 and 14points, respectively.

The Page doubles team finishedfirst in the doubles competitionwith 33 games won in six eight­game matches. The victors wereSteve Patt and Tom Studebaker.

Bruce Eisenhart of Lloyd wonthe first singles title with 34 gameswon. Doug Fay of Page and LarryNiren of Ricketts tied for secondwith 29 wins each.

In the second singles event, ArtEllis of Ruddock topped the fieldwith 34 wins, just ahead of Pageboy Steve Battelle with 32.

Terry Boardman of Lloyd wonthe third singles competition with34 wins. Don Franks of Rickettswas second and Leo Lomeli ofFleming was third with 33 and 32points, respectively.

New Ass'! Coach

Spikers

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by Richard L. ShortThe 1970 varsity track team has

been getting in shape for thecoming season, which begins Feb­ruary 13.

Coach Bert LaBrucherie's teamincludes 12 veterans and 15 firstyear men.

Tim Tardiff, Bill Butterworth,Dick Harley, Martin Smith, andRatchford Higgins are lettermen inthe running events. Tardiff, a 2 yearveteran and probably the team'sbest in the 880 and mile, will bejoined by promising freshman GaryPope to make these events theteam's strongest ones. One or bothof these distance men should breakthe school's mile record of 4:22.0soon.

Giddyap!Junior Martin Smith and soph­

omore Ratchford Higgins give Techstrength in the two mile run.

Butterworth and Harley, bothseniors, are the Beavers' leadingsprinters, with times in the 100yeard dash of 10.1 and 10.2,respectively.

Junior Bob Hall, when he getsthrough with the swimming season,will bolster the team in the 120yard high hurdles and the 440 yearintermediates, as well as in the highjump. Hall's best times in thehurdles are 16.7 and 60.3, which heshould improve greatly this year,while he has cleared 5-8 in the highjump.

Kangaroos allOne of the most promising new

track men is frosh Charles Almquist,who may compete in the 220, 440,120 HH, or the 44 IH. Almquist hasa time of 50.0 seconds in the 440,and 16.1 in the high hurdles.

Other frosh cindermen includeRuss McDuff, Bill Kennedy, andDale Evans.

In the field events sophomore

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it?" asked the first. "Yeah."confirmed the second. In theswimpool it had just been dis­covered that, under the potentinfluence of "spacedust" and "spee­dier", one could detect very rapidchanges in temperature. Havingreprogrammed the environment, thekids were flicker-freaking on ther­mal polysync with parapoetic over­lay. Upjazzed indeed!

Midnight, December 31, 2000a.d. The info-irradiated air wasbombarded with a redoubled in­tensity and complexity of sound,light, and smell as the party peaked.All the members of the phased-outgeneration of oldies thought thesame thought. "It's the kids mil­lenium now. It's the end of oursand the start of theirs. We don't digthem too much, but we hope theydon't blow things as bad as wedid." And the old ones, the parentsand grandparents and ancestors littheir marijuana cigars and shuffledoff in their mod clothes to thedimly remembered and melancholysound of rock music and lived outthe rest of their dull, dim, drab,downjazzed lives in a milleniumthey could neither make norunmake. For them it was all over.For the rest, it was just beginning.

Guibas Poses Questions On Honor System

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Continued from Page Seventoday's existential hero.

The acting is truly remarkable.Paul Newman has long been recog­nized as one of today's finer actors;he outdoes himself. The movie alsomarks the emergence of RobertRadford as a major actor. KatharineRoss is, well, Katharine Ross(drool).

Butch Cassidy and the SundanceKid is a very sell-made movie. Adiscussion of the philosophy of themovie may only be justified by alack of technical error. Not that itmatters but most of it is true.

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human a theme. Frankenheimer isunwilling to devote the time tomake a sympathetic character whichis soon to become" a pancake. Sincekilling off the hero is ineffective, hetries to create a new hero. For someinexplicable reason he saves Wilson­to no purpose.

Frankenheimer is guilty of laz­iness. He assumes that the skydivingscenes are going to carry the movie.There is no overriding sense ofpurpose, no unified direction. Agood movie is an enthralling exper­ience; one is so involved that one isunwilling or unable to analyze whyit is good. Only upon viewing a badmovie does one realize that eachevent must have a precise andproper place. Nothing in The GypsyMoths adds to the movie. The onlyperson involved in that movie I haveany respect for is that idiotstuntman who opened his chutefifty feet above the ground.

-David N. Dobrin

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that a uniform solution may beimpossible and we had better lookfor piecemeal answers, for specificsolutions to specific problems. Forexample the VCC Committees, asthe house disciplinary body, couldhandle rule infractions within thehouses as well as some of the"Food Service violations", such asborrowing utensils, concerninghouse members. Less desirable is thesuggestion for a system of fines forunpaid meals in the houses andother similar actions.

The above few suggestions aremainly intended as examples andare by no means exhaustive. Prob­lems always arise in trying to obtaina workable system, consistent withthe Honor Spirit, that does notunduly restrict the feedom ofCaltech students. It often seemsthat the best way out is to simplytry to convince people of the utilityof these rules so that they willnaturally give considerstion to them.

Now You KnowI am afraid that now I have

convinced my reader of the com­plexity of the problems rather thanclarifying the issues for him. Be thatas it may, I would be happy if theabove provoke some serious consi­deration of the questions involved.Let me again emphasize that nosolution will be acceptable unless itis both fair to all concerned andconsistent with the feelings of themajority of the students. This iswhy the Board needs to hear whatyou have to say. Let me end bypromising that any definite pro­posals that have taken or will takeshape will be well publicized before

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No other body but the full BOCought to have the authority ofconvicting someone of an HonorSystem violation. Any other bodyor group should function indepen­dently of the BOC and specificallytake care of the regulations it issupposed to look after. It couldhave the authority of reprimandingsomeone of "irresponsible behavior"or "improper action" and ofpossibly demanding reparations. In­dependence from the Board wouldalso mean that the BOC couldintervene and act as it presentlydoes in case any party, or the BOCitself, felt that a question ofhonesty or fairness concerning theHonor System was involved.

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rather attractive suggestion has beenthat of essentially letting theChairman of the Board handle thecases with the help of the Secretary,according to the above require­ments. Since the case for this ideawas made last week, I will confinemyself here to two ovbious ob­jections: is this not giving theChairman too much authority, andmoreover is it not further burdeningthe already laden office of ASCIT­Vice President? Maybe some moreBoard members ought to be in­volved.

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