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....uL.~e CaliforniaTechCalifornia Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, Thursday, October 3, 1957
Sandy Gordon (Ph 0, '56)pursuing new vocation
Number 1
Test datesrevealed tograd students
Admission tests for GraduateStudy in Business, Law and 15other subjects will be offered onfour dates during the comingyear, according to EducationalTesting Service, which preparesand administers the tests. Thesetests are required for admissionto a number of graduate schoolsthroughout the country; a candidate must make separate application for admission to e a c hschool of his choice, and shouldinqUire of e a c h whether itwishes him to take the Admission Test and when.
The Law School AdmissionTest will be given at more than100 centers on November 9 in1957, and February 15, April 19,and August 2 in 1958. The othertests may be taken on November16, 1957, or January 18, April 26,and July 12, 1958.
A Bulletin of Information provides details of registration andadministration as well as samplequestions, and may be obtainedfrom Educational Testing Service, 20 Nassau St., Princeton, N.J.A completed application mustreach the IDTS office at least fifteen day s before the test forwhich the candidate is applying.
Courtesy CIT Athletic Dept.Ed Krehbiel, last year's All
Conference fullback, returns tospark Tech's offense.
Alumni increasescholarship fund
The $90,000 Alumni Scholarship Endowment Fund now ispermanently established due tothe fund-raising activities of theAlumni Association during thepast year.
By adding $29,000 to the trustfund, they have insured that afour-year full tuition scholarshipcan continue to be given to oneman: in each entering class.
ost Riversideopener Saturday
Returning lettermen to spark team;strong backfield augers well
by Steve EmmanuelSporting one of the classiest
backfields ever seen in the Southern California Conference, Caltech opens against Riverside inTournament Park Saturday.
Presented with the best football squad in years, both in ex
.perience and depth, Coach BertLaBrucherie has high hopes fora very promising season. 35 players have been suiting for practice, the biggest squad since 1948.
The backfield, fast and experienced, includes Dick Van Kirk,Ed Krehbiel, Don Stocking, ArtTakido and Hal Forsen, varsitylettermen. Takido, Krehbiel, andStocking hoi d All-Conferencehonors, Takido having letteredon the 1953 team as a sophomore,and spent the intervening yearsplaying for Uncle Sam. As inthe past, Tech uses the Split-T,which suits the passing abilitiesof Van Kirk.
The strongest position on theteam is end, where senior GeneStanley and junior Fred Newman are backed by Tony Leonard and Tony Howell. Newman, ahalfback last year, was movedto en~ because of his speed andshiftiness; however he still needsto learn the fine points of defense.
The line is good but neitheroutstanding nor especially heavy.Russ Pitzer, John Conover, LanceHays, Dick Bar 0 n, and TomBjorklund have been outstanding in practice.
The league this yea r is expected to be tougher, with noteam particularly outstanding.The games should all be fairly
(Continued on page 5)
Rotation nowunder way
The interhouse system of Caltech, combining the best elements of fraternity and non-fraternity schools, went into fullswing this week with the beginning of freshmen rotation. Thefreshmen, "rotating" from houseto house, "live" in each of Caltech's four houses for two days,eating there and spending theirfree time there. At the end ofthis period, each frosh choosesthe house of his choice, while thehouses in turn choose the froshthey want.
The California Tech here reprints the IHC rules on rotation:
"Rotation shall at all times begoverned by an attitude of mutual respect between the housesand the freshmen. The criteriafor weighing all matters shall be:does the act in question put pressure on the freshmen? does itconstructively present the bestpoints of the house? and doesit damage the other houses?
"Freshmen are encouraged tostate a preference for a particular house to the president ofthat house. However, such apreference shall not be expresseduntil the last 24 hours before thefinal preference lists are madeout. Only the president of ahouse may express the house's
,prefereI1;ce for a freshman, andthen only after the freshman hasexpressed a preference to himexcept that an individual maysay that he, personal1y, wouldlike to see the freshman in hishouse."During rotation no house shall:
(Continued on page 6)
After basic training, Gordonhopes to persuade the Army touse his mathematical talents forsomething besides counting potatoes, but in his w 0 r d s, "Iwouldn't give too much for mychances."
He will resume his instructor·ship at UCLA after about 2 years.
Hie/'
Alcohol lawsreprinted' forTech minors
•In seasonTech to h
In a letter from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Con-
•trol of State of California, it hasbeen brought to the attention ofthe California Tech that the" 'Number One' problem concerning violations of the AlcoholicBeverage Control Act in thisstate involves the purchase, consumption and possession of alcoTech here reprints the essencethan 21 years of age." Since thisage group embraces most of thestudents at C.altech, and many ofthese students are not aware ofthe specific California laws applying to them, the CaliforniaTech here reprints the essenceof the laws brought to our attention:
1. It is a misdemeanor to sellor furnish alcoholic beverages toa minor in any way. It is alsoillegal for a minor to possess alcoholic beverages in any publicplace.
2. It is a misdemeanor to present false evidence of age in order to obtain alcohol.
3. If any person is caughtdriving a motor vehicle underthe influence of alcohol, it is amisdemeanor. If he violates another act of the Vehicle Codewhile intoxicated, it is a felony.
4. A misdemeanor is punishable by a fine of not more than$500 or more than six months inthe county jail. A felony is punishable by a fine of between $200and $5000 and/or 90 days to oneyear in jail.
Annll/neemenfsSTUDENT SHOP
Any student interested in shoppractices who would like to jointhe Student Shop may obtainapplication blanks and inform,,-
• tion from Al Forsythe, D 5; JohnConover, B57; or Bob Pailthorp,F 8. Deadline will be Oct. 10.
The student-operated club haswood and metal-working facili·ties for its members. It isequipped for most light machinework and cabinet-making; a variety of hand t00ls is also available.
GLEE CLUBFinal tryouts for the Caltech
Glee Club will be conducted at4 p.m. today in Culbertson.
frosh' - girlsSunday afternoon, October
6, at 2:30 p.m., the ann u a IFrosh Tea Dance will takeplace in Dabney Hall loungeand courtyard. The freshmenwill meet girls from local colleges and prep schools andwill dance to the m u sic ofClaude Davis and his qUintet.
The dance was planned byTom J Qvin and Mike Talcott.Refreshments will be served.
WIN MEDALThe American Society of Civil
Engineers will present the Rudolf Hering Medal for outstand
(Continued ou page 8)
by Mike MilderYes, "boy wonder" Sandy Gor
don (Basil Gordon, PhD '56) hasa new job. Since late August hehas been scrubbing floors andsorting garbage at sun,ny FortJackson, South Carolina.
Remembered by Caltech undergrads as one of their favoriteinstructors, Gordon made newslast year by leaving Tech for ateaching position at UCLA. Buthis penchant for changing produced an unexpected trend: Instructor of Mathematics, Caltech;Instructor of· Mathematics, UCLA; Private, US 52452818.
Surprised friends of Gordon express the opinion that their brilliant, shy, sensitive Sandy andthe U. S. Army were just notdesigned with e a c h other inmind. Recent correspondencefrom Gordon supports this theory. He writes, "The intellectualclimate is somewhat differentfrom that at Caltech; in fact 42men out of this company of 180have already been discharged foridiocy."
AroundThe QuadFRESHMAN HONORS
Twelve freshmen have beenawarded Honors at Entrance onthe basis of their high standingon entrance examinations, Professor L. W. Jones, Dean of Admissions,announced.
They are Jerome V. Casper,Raymond L. Phoenix, Robert F.Poe, Richard H. Kruegar, Laurance J. Sloss, John C. Champion,John B. Trenholme, Peter ..J.Bickel, Kendall F. Casey, MartinP. Kellogg, Keith Matthews andRichard S. Norman.
LINDVALLDr. Frederick C. Lin d vall,
Chairman of the Division of Engineering and Aeronautics, hasassumed the office of Presidentof the American Society for Engineering Education for the 195758 term.
Dr. Lindvall has been a member of the ASEE for 16 years andfor the past two years has been
.vice-president in charge of sectional activities.
Tech gradwins $5000
Ted Lang, Caltech class of '57,won the $5000 first prize in asatellite essay contest sponsoredby the Martin Company of Baltimore.
The contest, open to seniorsand graduate students throughout the country, was for an essaywritten in 2500 words or less onany phase of the satellite program. Lang's paper, entitled "AnEquilibrium Trajectory for a Satellite Powered by Solar Radiation" brought not only the firstprize to him, but a like amountto Caltech as the Institute attended while the paper was being written.
He will continue at Caltech ingraduate work toward a MS degree.
Dr. R. L. Sinsheiner, who received his degree at MIT in biophysics, has come to Caltechfrom Iowa State College to continue his research work on nucleic acids in viruses. At thesame time, he will teach in theBiology Department.
Hoyle Returns
Fred Hoyle, who has beenat Caltech in previous years, hasreturned as Visiting Professorof Astronomy. He is also a staffmember of the Mount Wilsonand Palomar Observatories.
Visiting Professor of History,Dr. L. H. Jenks, retired this yearfrom Wellesley College after'working there for 27 years. Others include professors, instructors, senior research f~llows, andresearch fellows, who will staywith us for one year.
61 Come, 60 Leave; Staff Grows
Sixty faculty members haveleft Tech since last June, mostlybecause of the termination oftheir one-year visits.
H. S. Johnson, Associate Professor of Chemistry, resigned tojoin the staff of UC at Berkeley.Dr. P. Kyropoulos, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, left to become Executive Assistant in Charge of TechnicalDevelopment of the Styling Section of the General Motors Corporation.
Besides the addition of newfaculty members, the roster oflab assistants, secretaries, andaccountants, shows about twentynew faces. They can be foundin the General Library, the Biology Lab, the Chemical Engineering Office, the Accounting Department, and elsewhere.
Volume LIX
New faculty members willbegin teaching, research duties
Looking forward to living with Caltech's academic spirit andits student body, 61 new faculty members have arrived to join ourstaff in this new school year.
Prof. John Todd and his wife,Dr. Olga Todd, are both entering the Mathematics Department. Both have obtained theirdegrees in Europe. They workedfor the British Government during the war and for the American' National Bureau of Standards afterwards. Professor Toddwill give training in mathematical experiments on computingmachines. Dr. Todd will workas Research Associate in Mathematics.
or two - and impressed favor.ably.
The student leaders, severalsmiling gentlemen led by DickKirk, were introduced among po.lite aacclamation. 'A small, introspective skit was presented, in·volving the baring of the quasiquasi- Einsteins in our midst.While enjoyable, it probably didnothing for adjustment. It revealed one whose humour is thatof the fabled overdry martini:Brad Efron, bud din g genius.Dennis Long, graduate studenti n for m e d the multitude thateveryone is buddy-buddy, a fact..,well brought out, surprisinglytrue.
Friday was the day when Mr.Efron stepped gaily into the limeI i g h t with a commentary onTA's, the men you love to hate.It surprised s 0 m e that theabused clique never had a representative to come to the defence.
Dean Strong showed himselffull of perspicacity and wit whenhe cut the faculty down to humans while introducing themThursday night. One of thosecut, a very scholarly gentlemannamtd Eagleson, gave an interesting resume of Institute history. Next was the first appearance of a mercenary character(initials Dave Leeson) who offered preViously 0 pen e d softdrinks and stale peanut buttercookies for sale.
The afternoon's pro g ramopened with a discussion of theHonor System. Gene Cordes, anexpert on the subject, and an extremely lucid one, more thanably described the system fromthe student point of view. Professor Robert Sharp's sober observations pleased everyone.
Dr. Webb's explanation of thehealth program included a welcome notice that one need notworry over the possibility of ahigh mortality rat e from theAsian Bug.
That evening's t a len t showwas generally well accepted. Areally wonderful Victor Borgeimitation highlighted the show.The quasi-professional emcee andhis talented Marlon Brando-ishfriend am use d with excerptsfrom Playboy and the SullivanShow. The Curacachas, J ovin(guitar), Leeson, Kelly, Jovin(voice), talented group who lastyear introduced termites intoRadford, provided unwholesomeentertainment. The talented dialogue comedian Pierre Langlois,is still running. Except for thelack of a good washboard man,Al Forsythe did a good job withthe makeshift band.
Dr. Feynman's performancewith Tony Iorillo and Rick Nordlander was unofficially voted thebest musical performance at Radford.
Professor David Elliot, his richbrogue rolling, introducing CraigElliott, upperclass seer, whospoke on having lunch with Pancho Villa.
Camp closed the next morningwith speeches by Dick Cooperand Vince Taylor.
After speeches by such studentnotables as Dick Kirk, Dave Lee
(Continued on page 3)
Thursday, October 3, 1957
EDITORIALLY
One hun d red eighty·four"eager" freshmen, togetherwith the usual complement of"cynical" upperclassmen and"inspiring" faculty, last weekrecreated the annual exper·ience of frosh camp.
Faculty warned frosh of up·perclass cynicism, upperclass·men warned frosh of the dan·gers of studiousness and thedaggers of the faculty, and thefrosh proved themselves nor·mal, healthy boys by enjoyingthemselves and ignoring thespeakers.
There is nothing new aboutfreshman camp e xc e p t thefreshmen; the California Techwelcomes the class of '61.
frosh viewsFreshman (amp
by Joel YellinThrough three days of fun, sun
and turmoil came one conclusion: This year's frosh are thebrightest ever to enter CIT. Butthis we knew already, speakingfrom an unprejudiced point ofview. These junior genii receivedan education: an education inlistening, in bridge-how manylounge rats developed at CampRadford remains to be seenand in finding a faculty who areactually human beings. Whetherthey are such from other thanthe Tech point of view remains
.a mystery to this writer, but allwill come to pass as Allah willsit. One must wait and be patient.
The programs varied little incontent, if we take the talentshow and a small but hilariousskit as the exceptions whichprove the rule ... My very firstimpression of those on the program was that Dean Strong resembles my dentist, an interesting, beague·eyed man, who hateswasting anaesthesia on such simple things as impacted wisdomteeth. Dean Eaton, a misplacedadvertising executive for Cresttoothpaste. witted a funny line
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THE CALIFORNIA TECH
Courtesy ASCIT Photo DivisionUpperclassman Jon Kelly, Dean Foster Strong and an unidenti·
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Calypso singers and five guitars.
8ig 10 'invades TP
may be planted in solitude, butmust be cultivated in public."
Conversation overheard:Hey, who's the cat with the
bongos?Dick Feynman.Teach here?Yeah.Nobel Prize?No.Guess it don't take brains to
play a good bongo.
Most effective speech was givenby frosh Yellin, deploring lackof organization in previous attempts to 1i g h t Oxy bonfire.Deans were so roused they calledan immediate meeting to excommunicate BOD for allowing suchheresy.
CfllnPIIrew;ns
DUbridge continued his arith·metic series of frosh camp talks("Your $600 bargain," "Your $750bargain,") with one e n t it1e d"Your $900 bargain." However,it seems proper to rejoice in thistrend, as the students' percentage share is going down, down,down. Moral of speech: if you'reflunking out cause you can't afford bluebooks, be happy. Theinstitute's doing much worse.
fact that each time the experience becomes more and moremeaningful. Take it for what it'sworth. Others noted at campwere Dave Kubrin, Larry Brown,and Dick Feynman (my roommate).
For those who still understandlittle of the camp's idea and purpose, Sam u e I Johnson oncewrote: "The seeds of knowledge
FROSH CAMP(Continued from page 2)
son, Vince Taylor, Bob Walsh,Russ Pitzer and Harry Spertus,the frosh had a pretty good ideaof what Caltech is, what it offers,and w hat it stands for. Thiswriter spoke to several upper·classmen who were present fortheir third or fourth time anddiscovered the very interesting
Thursday, Octobe,r 3, 1957
Feelin' blue? Need money, too?Students, we've got news for you!
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The Caltech varsity footballteam came as close as they probably will ever to playing a BigTen team when the Michigan\Volverines w 0 r ked out onTech's field last Friday afternoon before their game with SC.
Bennie Oosterbaan's team nodoubt sought out the Pasadenacampus because of the privacyand excellent locker room facili·ties. Bennie's, choice proved awise one as the Wolverines beatthe Trojans 16-6 011 the follow·ing day.
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'age Four THE CAL I FO IlN I A TECH Thunday, October 3, 1957
The Outside World
Inflation - Cause. and Curesby AI Carlin
As the student body learhed last Monday, prices are going up.Curiously enough, the recent Caltech tuition increases have paralleled similar increases in the national economy as a whole. LaborDepartment statistics show that prices took a marked upward turnnear the beginning of 1956 and have been going up ever since despiteincreasing Federal Reserve discount rates. This appears to be dueprincipally to an industrial price rise which commenced in themiddle of 1955 but was hidden until the first of the year by fallingfarm prices. However, when farm prices began to recover in 1956,prices took a noticeable jump.
Therefore, to explain the current inflation, it is necessary toinquire into why industrial prices took a marked upward turn in1955. There are two obvious possible explanations, increased wagesand increased profits. Both exhibited a remarkable increase during1955. Corporate profits reached new highs in 1955 and 1956, justexceeding those during the Korean War years of 1950 and 1951.Taking it for granted that inflation is undesirable, we must considerwhether either or both of these increases for major sectors of theeconomy are justified.
First, labor: Briefly, what has happened is that productionworkers have received a noticeably bigger slice of the nationalincome since the war at the expense of those with fixed income,partly because employers have had no strong reason not to passwage increases along to consumers. Certainly wage increases cannotbe justified as mere productivity increases; Labor Department statistics show that total non·agricultural wages have risen 28 percentmore than productivity in the last decade. It is difficult to blameraw lnaterials-those with low labor costs-since they show slightlylower prices on the average, but show higher and higher comparative -prices at each succeeding stage of manufacture, so that thewholesale price index for "finished goods" is 18 percent higher than10 years ago.
The question of corporate profits is even less clear cut; for whois to decide what a proper return on investment should be? Firstof all, profits can be measured in at least four different ways, eaohof which gives a different result. While the total dollar volume ofprofits set a new record last year, so did business volume. FederalTrade Commission figures, in fact, show a slight decline over thedecade and between 1955 and 1956 in profit "margins"; i.e., profitbefore ta,x as a percentage of total costs. Labor economists, however, point out that there has been an increase in profits as a per.centage of the capital invested. It does seem clear that increases inprofits cannot account for a significant part of the inflation. Butperhaps profits were too high to start with.
Numerous other culprits have been singled out; but in theopinion of this observer they are not major factors. One is privatespending, the classical villain which has once again received theofficial blame from Washington. Acocrding to former Secretary ofthe Treasury George Humphrey, the prime cause and origin of thecurrent inflation was a "capital goods boom"-a surge in businessbuying; and it is true that some of the steepest wholesale price riseswere in so-called "investment goods." It does seem to be true thatconsumers helped to start the boom by a buying spree (heavilyfinanced by installment credit) in 1955. While this did ~ot continueinto 1956 or 1957, there has be.en a high level of consumer demand.
Another of the. accused is government spending. This is hardto SUbstantiate, however, as the Federal Government has been removing at least a little more money from the economy through taxesthan it has been putting into it. Taxation is also blamed, firstbecause taxes are reflected in higher prices, and secondly becauseof subtle changes it produces in investment and spending habits,of which the expense account is the best known example. A sixthpossible cause is the huge increase in the money supply since 1940.And, even though the Federal Reserve has kept a tight reign onthe supply for the last two years, this ]:las really not had mucheffect because of the increased "velocity' of money, a rather difficultphenomenon to control.
Therefore, it seems to this observer that the country mustdecide whether labor deserves a larger slice of the national cake;if it does, it will have to pay the price, literally. If it decides thatlabor does not, there is really little that it can do about it short ofwage controls which are politically impossible in the foreseeablefuture.
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The Bull Penby Ford Holtzman
Now that rotation is with us in all its partisan fury, it mightnot be amiss to stop and consider the purposes of all this rigamarole.
The most obvious purpose is to fit each freshman into the Housewhose personality is most congenial to him. But, while this may bethe most obvious purpose, it is not completely achieved, nor is itvital that it should be. In two weeks' time all the freshmen andthe Houses can do is to give each other the once-over and trust totheir skill in seasoning observations with appropriate quantities ofsalt. Usually they succumb to the influence of inertia; last yearonly 20 percent of the freshmen left their original Houses.
Best House?I am not saying that freshmen frequently;, fail to end up in the
best House, The entire question of a "best House" is rather fatuous.By the end of the term almost every freshman will be convincedthat, by the grace of providence, or his own wits, or God, or whatever you please ... he has managed to join the best House. Youcan fit into all the Houses, or else you cannot fit into any -of them.None of the Houses has such a set personality that a reasonablysane freshman cannot adjust to it and the House to him.
, From Dorms to FratsA more important purpose than merely to fit freshmen into
Houses is to unite the diverse elements of each House and tointegrate the freshmen into the Houses. When the student houseswere first built, there was no rotation. New students were justassigned to one of the Houses with no ifs, ands or buts. However,it was soon noticed that freshmen who did not sweat a little bloodto get into a House took little interest in the House and all it hadto offer. And so the wheels of that day hit upon rotation as ameans to keep the houses from failing as fraternal organizationsbut yet to protect all the brethren from the cold, cruel world.Without rotation the Houses would be as drab as dormitories.
The Grey Flannel FibTo tell the truth, I have brought up these two "purposes" for
rotation just to say that, though they may seem to be ample justification for rotation, they really are not. In a term's time nobodywill really care which is the best House, and in four years' timenobody will really care whether or not the Houses were united. Thereal reason for rotation is not very glamorous, but very true. Itis, very simply, to teach us how to fib, create unwarranted impressions, cast exaggerated 'aspersions, and in general to trounce friendand joe alike for the benefit of ourselves and for an organizationwith which we have cast our lot. And since most of us are going tospend a good portion of our lives doing these tbings, it's about timewe had an opportunity to practice the most subtle and most sublimeart. of shooting the bull, and to evaluate our mistakes. Anyone whofinds himself in any sort of executive position is going to have tobe a graceful hypocrite. And though hypocrisy may not be veryinspiring or delightful, I'm afraid it is here to stay. We came hereto learn; rotation is a chance to learn some of the facts of life andhow. to· deal with them.
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From the Los Angeles Times,Sunday, August 5:
WITHOUT A DROUGHT!
David Reid Gilson, a stUdent,took a drink the ha.rd way whenhe created his own fountain onSan Vicente Blvd. in the WestSide.
Gilson's water bill was wellover $100 when he lost controlof his car and smashed into afireplug. According to a city ordinance, the party damaging theplug must pay for all the· waterlost.
ASClr start.phot0t:l;v;s;on
ASCIT Presitl~nt RiChard Kirkhas given Dennis Paul and Randy S c h mus, president of theDarkroom Club, unofficial permission to proceed with plansfor a campus Photography Division, pending approval of theBoard of Directors. Little doubtwas expressed that the proposedmeasure would be approved.
Schmus revealed that the planwill combine cam pus photographic talent and equipmentinto a single organization partially supported by ASCIT funds.This organization would providephotographs for campus publica·tions and news releases on anorder basis and maintain a cataloged file of all pictures.
Schmus, charging that the oldsystem of obtaining photographsis haphazard and wasteful ofequipment, tim e, and money,claimed that the new Photo Division would effect an· increase inspeed and as much as fifty percent savings in cost.
will accept material strictly onthe basis of its literary quality,from undergraduates, grad students, and faculty members. Andfinally, the magazine is experimenting with the process of offset printing, which combinesversatility with a relatively lowcost.
The editors, hoping for aprompt second issue, set Nov.15 as the copy deadline for V6r.1, No.2. All those interested inwriting for Totem shOUld contact John Lango, Ken Scholtz,Eugene Robkin, or one of thestaff members. Copy may besubmitted directly to TOTEM,Church Lab, Caltech.
1iEditor-in-chlef - Bob Walsh
Entered as second-class matter November 22, 1947, at the post office in Pasadena, California, under the act of March3, 1879.
CfJliffJlnifJ Tech
UTotem"arrives!The first issue of Totem, Tech's
new literary magazine, appearedon schedule last week to greetfrosh and returning upperclassmen as they registered. AlthoughTotem is designated as Farrago'ssuccessor, it differs in severalimportant respects. Totem ispublished under the auspices ofthe Humanities Department and
Thursday, October 3, 1957 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Page Five
QUARTERBACKDick VanKirk
in the goal or pUll one of thegood swimmers, perhaps DaveTucker, back into goal and playmore defensively.
All - Conference center guardEd Park is the only other lossfrom last year's team, and hisplace will be capably taken overby Bob Smoak. Also returningare Owings, possible goalie, MikeMilder, and Norm Velinty. Upfrom the Frosh are Tucker, PeteRony, Bob Thompson and DaveSingmaster, possible shallowwqter goalie, to add furtherdepth to Tech's already strongteam. Bob Ruby, with good highschool experience, promises tostand out on the Frosh team.
HALF-Art Takido
The entire strategy of thisyear's offense and defense willbe changed in view of the strongreturning squad and the loss ofa goalie. Instead of playing sideways at our home pool, with twodeep water goals, the game willbe played lengthwise with oneshallow water goal. Coach WebEmery plans to concentrate onoffense in the deep end with allmen forward,' like basketball,with a large man in the shallowend goal. In the deep end, heplans either to use Don Owings
Varsity water polohopes still bright
The most important factor in the outlook of this year's waterpolo team is the loss of goalie Don Wiberg for the season. ExceptfOt' the sudden weakness at this vital position, the outlook is brightand a championship year may be again in the offing. Clark Reeswill be back as number one scoring threat, with help from BobBlandford, Vince Taylor andKeith Martin.
VARSITY FOOTBALLCALENDAR
Saturday, October 5-UC, Riverside at Caltech (2:00)
Friday, October 11 - Caltechat Redlands
Saturday, October 19-Caltechat Pomona-Claremont. (Daygame)
Saturday, October 26-Caltechat Cal Poly (at Pomona)
Friday, November 1-Whittierat Rose Bowl
Saturday, November 9 - CalBaptist at Caltech (10:00 am)
Friday, November 15 - Occidental at Rose Bowl
Saturday, November 23 -'"LaVerne at Caltech (day game)
TACKLE-Larry BeITy
FOOTBALL(Continued from page 1)
even, and it is unlikely· that anyteam will emerge undefeated inleague play.
LaBrucherie is expected tostart Newman and Stanley atends, Larry Berry and Gene Beisman at tackles, Pitzer and Conover at guards, Hays at center,Van Kirk at quarterback, Stocking and Takido at half, and Krehbiel at fullback.
OccidentalOxy is Tech's traditional rival,
only they don't know it. TheTigers have been strengthenedby a number of Junior Collegetransfers and a new coach. Theloss of their brilliant pass combo,Jack Kemp and Jim Morra, morethan offsets these gains, however. Stan Friedman, Alil Conference lineman, will return tospark the Tigers' wing-T, unbalanced-line offense.
CENTER-Lance Hays
Cal PolyCal Poly is much improved
over last year's team, which lost
• •winning seasonby Dave Singmaster
For the first time in over twenty years or so, Caltech has achance of breaking even or better in varsity football. Tech facesfour league rivals and four non-leaguers, with UC at Riverside hereSaturday afternoon for the season opener.
UC at Riverside --------------to Tech. A new coach, a new
Riverside promises to be an athletic scholarship program andeasy game with Tech favored. many returning lettermen addThis is Riverside's third year of up to the strongest team thatvarsity intercollegiate football Caltech will face.and trey have not had time to de-velop a strong team. They beat WhittierCal Baptist, a very weak team, Whittier has only two first31-0 last week. stringers returning to their var-
Redlands sity. The loss of Gary Campbell,Redlands is weaker than last star tailback, has occasioned a
year's champions. The Bulldogs' shift from single wing to T forline is lighter but their backfield mation under the direction ofis still fast. Howard Tipton, their new coach. The Poets haveSmall School All Coast last year, lost one game to Santa Barbara,is returning to spark the Bull- 13-0.dogs' wing T backfield.
Pomona-ClaremontPomona will be spearheaded
by two returning All-Conferencebacks, Jim Lindblad and BuzzBlock, both only 150 pounds.They will operate a single wingunder a new coach. A dark-horseteam.
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ROTATION(Continued from page 1)
1) spend any money on, orlend any to, a freshman. "Lending" includes furnishing goodsor services on credit.
2) post a coming social program.
3) organize or sponsor any"social events. Unorganized stagparties on campus shall not bec9nsidered social events provided that they are conductedin accordance with the StudentHouse r u I e s as interpreted.'Unorganized' means the existence shall be spread by individual word of mouth only.
4) get freshmen dates or lendthem cars. '5) be in a freshman's room, orask him to leave his room,after 10:30 p.m.6) give information to a freshman on the preference of anyother freshman."N0 freshman shall actively or
passively resist rotation."No freshman shall participate
with any house in an organizedathletic program during rotation,and no challenges for interhousetrophies shall be made duringthis period.
"'House' in the above rules,means either the organized bodyas a whole, or any or all of itsindividual members."
c~~:rtesy ASCIT Photo Di;'isionThe new year brought with it the usual 180 variations on the
pictnred scene above, in which the new stndents clutch to themselves their Institute catalog and all-important white card, whilegasping at the size of the bill and making mistakes writing outtheir checks. On second thought, perhaps the one on the left isn'tgasping at the size of his bill. At any rate, the picture is a sureindication of the beginning of. a new academic year.
QUAD(Continued from pace 1
ing published t~hnical papersto Norman H. Brooks and AlfredC. Ingersoll, Assistant Professorsof Mechanical Engineering, andJack E. McKee, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, for theirpap e r on "Fundamental 'Concepts of Rectangular SettlingTanks."
PRESS
Dr. Frank Press was appointedas director of the SeismologicalLaboratory in July.
Dr. Pr~ss, assuming his newduties this month, succeeds Dr.Beno Gutenberg, world-famousgeophysicist who is retiring tohalf-time status after 27 years atCaltech and 10 years as directorof the laboratory.
The new director, 32 years old,has been a member of the laboratory staff since 1955, when hecame to Caltech as professor ofgeophysics. He had previouslybeen associate professor of geophysics' at Columbia Universityand a member of the researchstaff of Columbia's Lamont Geological Observatory.
FELLOWSffiPS
Caltech has to date awarded
Thursday, October 3, 1957
32 fellowships for graduate stUdyduring the academic year 1957·8.
The fellowships, representing a
total outlay of $120,000, w ere
financed by grants from 26 busi
ness corporations and founda
tions.
Each fellowship grant covers
a year's tuition and includes a
stipend for major student ex·
penses.
Class officersJoining previously elected class
presidents Sop. n y Nelson (se
nior) , Jerry Arenson (junior) ,
and Jim Sorensen (sophomore)
was new I y elected freshman
class president Sid Leibovich.
Also chosen by the BOD to take
the helm were Ken Casey, vice·
president; Bruce Ulrich, secre
tary; Don Forrest, treasurer;
Tom Tisch, athletic manager; and
Bill Bauer and Pete Lippman,
oBoard of Control. The new frosh
officers will serve until electionsat the end of first quarter.
THE
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