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VOLUME 89, No. 47 / MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1969 FIVE CENTS-~~~~~
Nov 4 discipline groupsauitlnstitut response
Deember action aims at elections
"Continuous News ServiceSince 1881."
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larger than the draft quotas,indicated Mrs. Amy Metcalfe,Undergraduate Selective ServiceAdvisor, in an interview last Fri-day. She also said that whetheror not one goes is highly depen-dent on which local board hehas. One board might reachnumber 170, while anotherboard might reach only numb(48. She also' said that all of .'Lestandard deferments would stillapply.
However, she doubted if itwould still be possible to go theI-A, 1-SC, 2-S route that she hascounseled freshmen to take inthe past. She does not feel thatboards will be willing to give outthe I-SC's.
The lottery goes into effect atthe first of the year. All eligiblemen between 19 and 26 will beincluded. Mrs. Metcalfe said thatthis will include thost whoseoccupational deferments haveexpired, and that. these defer-ments will probably becomemuch more difficult to get.
Youngest to go first in systemof one-year-long eligibility;
lottery to set order
New draft laws forbode majorchanges in the lives of Americancollege students.
Mr. Nixon's reform allows thePresident to institute a lotterysystem for conscripting men intothe Armed Forces.
Under the plan, each day inthe year is randomly assigned anumber between one and 365.Each letter of the alphabet issimilarly scrambled. A draftboard will fill its quotas in orderof youngest first. If June 19 wasgiven the number one, for exam-ple, an if within that group theletter Y was first, persons withthat birthday and first letter oflast name would be called. Aboard then would finish the al-phabet, and then move to thenext day.
The -list of days and the num-ber assigned to each will bepublished in October or Novem-ber of the preceeding year. Thefirst quarter or so of the list isalmost sure to be called, and thebottom quarter will most likelynot have to go. Those in be-tween will be in a difficult posi-tion.
One can only be eligible for ayear. After that, he could not bedrafted except in cases of na-tional emergency. For example,assume one's birthday is Septem-ber 5. If that day is rankednumber 365, a student couldwrite his board and request thathis 2-S be changed to a 1-A. Ifhe survived the year, as he pro-bably would, he would no longerbe eligible for the draft andcould complete his educationwithout worrying about thedraft.
The draft changes will havean impact on this year's seniors.If a senior's number had comeup before his deferment has ex-pired, he will then be cazlled inJuly, after he has graduated.
One of the advantages of thesystem is that a given numberdoes not change. Again, let ussay that your birthday falls onSeptember 5. Further, let's as-sume that you become eligible inJune, and that your number is170. If you are not called byDecember 31, then the order ofcall goes back to one. If, in thenew ranking, September 5 isnumber 10, your number willremain 170, and you will pro-bably not be called.
The first year, all eligible men'will be put into the draft pool.The pool will be about five times
Victor Weisskopf, head of the Physics Dept., and three actors fromthe play "J. Jobertf Oppenheimer."
were sufficient impetus to forcethe hearing.
The play is particularly note-worthy because it attempts toraise some of the subtle issuesinvolved in the relationship ofthe scientist to his governmentin the atomic age.
After some false starts, thescientists, the actors, and theaudience (which overflowed thechairs which had been set up)found productive commonground discussing the motiva-tions and outlooks of the princi-pals of the play, particularlyOppenheimer and Edward Tel-ler. It was Teller who enthusias-tically backed the H-bomb andsupervised the crash program forits development.
The point was made that theissue of ever-bigger weapons wasnot so much one of morality asone of the existence an asymp-tote-there were only two tar-gets in all of Russia on which an
H-bomb would be much moreuseful than an A-bomb. Theissue is one of survival, and whatone does if he perceives theinterests of his government to bedifferent from those of the hu-man race.
Some of the discussion cen-tered on the responsibility ofthose who occupy pivotal posi-tions in society-such as the nu-clear physicists in recent years-to consider the consequences oftheir work. It was also said thatthere is a limit to what any oneperson, even a person in a posi-tion with crucial leverage, can doalone.I It was suggested that the in-terests of any governmentshould never conflict with thoseof the human race. Yet thenagging question of what to dowhen it appears that such is thecase remained unresolved. TheOppenheimer hearings and theother witch-hunting and chau-vinism which characterized theearly fifties took place with pub-lic acquiescence if not outrightsupport. What conditions couldlead to public opinion of thatsort? No one seemed to know.
Some interesting insightswere provided by FrederickRolf, who played Teller. Rolf,who has also played AdolphEichnmann, explained that Tellercertainly did not consider him-self to be the villain, and ex-plained his efforts to understandthe way in which Teller's mindworked.
Rolf also mentioned an inter-esting sidelight. Most of the au-dience generally views the playas a tragedy, with Oppenheimeras the hero, and Teller as some-thing of a villain. When theLincoln Center Repertory Com-pany decided to do the work,their lawyers contacted all theliving principals to gain permis-sion to use their names. Ironical-ly, only Teller was enthusiasticabout the play. Until his death,Oppenheimer refused to permitthe use of his name.
Amy Metcalfe, Undergradu-ate.Selective Service advisor atMIT.
Members of the administra-tion addressed a joint meeting ofthe panels Saturday. The eightInstitute officials 'presented alargely chronological overview ofthe events of October 29 (GEprotest) through the week ofNovember 4, discussing eitherparticular days or incidents. Ac-cording to Prof. Merton C. Flem-ings, almost all the material pre-sented had been previously pub-lished in the news media.
The following persons repre-sented the administration: Pro-vost Jerome B. Wiesner, Associ-ate Provosts Paul -Gray and Wal-ter Rosenblith, Institute Vice-Presidents Kenneth Wadleighand John Wynne, Deans JosephSnyder and J. Daniel Nyhart,and Assistant to the PresidentConstantine B. Simonides.
By Robert ElkinA poor response from the
MIT community has character-ized the first week of theRogers and'Flemings panels.
With the exception of theadministration, only Prof. H. P.Whitaker - has spoken to theRogers panel as of last night. Asof Friday, no individuals hadcontacted the Flemings panel.Whitaker spoke not of specificoffenses, but of general issues.
According to Jeffrey Hankoff'70, member of the Rogers'group, this slow response maydelay the completion of the re-ports. However, others do notfeel this is a significant proqlemyet. Professor Hartley Rogersstated Sunday that the MITcommunity should be aware bynow of the existence and pur-pose of the two special panels.
They were established by Pre-sident Howard Johnson to 1)examine questions of disciplineand violations of the law and 2)recommend which actions war-rant future consideration.. Thepanels would also consider possi-ble guidelines for dealing withsimilar situations in the future.
The Rogers' panel will receiveand review complaints concern-ing the "violation of acceptedstandards of behavior" focussingon members of the MIT commu-nity. The Flemings' panel willdeal with complaints involvingviolations of civil law by bothoutsiders and mrembers of theMIT community.
24. In particular, there will becanvassing at stores and theatersthe evening of Friday December12. Dave Burmaster '69 is direct-ing these effoirts.
-'On December 13, in additionto continued canvassing ofstores, there will probably be areturn to the South End to helpthe Low Cost Housing Project.In November, students fixed upthe apartments Low Cost Hous-ing was supposed to rehabilitate.Also in December, VMC plans tocanvass residents of the area toexplain that students are provid-
Next month the focus of stu-dent protest shifts back to localactivities coordinated by theVietnam Moratorium Commit-tee.
VMC will concentrate' onbuilding a base in all' the livinggroups, working toward thelong-range goal of supportingpeace candidates in' primariesand Congressional elections.
The steering committee hopesto get at least one member ofeach living group to act as Iiason.
The protest itself will takeplace on December 12, 13, and
ing labor for projects whose re-sources have been sapped for theVietnam war.
Other activities at MIT willinclude the usual money-makingprojects. This month VMC willsell Peace Seals to put on letters,as well as the usual buttons andposters.
December 24 is left open foractivities in the students' homecommunities.
There will also be an attemptto have businesses in Cambridgeput signs in their windows sup-porting immediate withdrawal,
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CBST CONDUCTS Draft lottery will forcemany to changeplansSWPOSMI -
'OPPENItEIERFaculty members participate
in discussion concerningscience and society
AUDIENCE FILLS ROOM
Spectatorsjoin in as dramaprovokes questioning of
social responsibility
Five prominent physicistsfrom the MIT faculty joinedseveral members of the cast ofthe play "In the matter of J.Robert Oppenheimer"' in asymposium Friday afternoon inthe Sala to discuss some of theissues raised by the play.
The MIT contingent includedprofessors Albert Hill, JetrroldZacharias, David Frisch, GeorgeVAlley, and Viktor Weisskopf.
The play is a dramatization ofhearings held in 1954 to deter-mine whether the great physicistOppenheimer, who headed theLos Alamos labs which de-veloped the atomic bomb duringWorld War II, should lose hissecurity clearance. Although hehad earlier'been cleared for se-curity despite having some corn-munist associations during thethirties, these associations, coup-led with his unwillingness tohead the crash development ofthe H-bomb and the generalhysteria of the McCarthy era,
WELESLEYADOPTS24-HOUR PARIETS
FOR SOME DORMSBy R. G. Hawthorne
The Wellesley College Senatevoted last Thursday night toapprove 24 hour parietals forundergraduate women... withreservations.
Senate, a group of nine stu-dents and seven faculty/adminis-trators, voted fifteen for, noneopposed, and one abstention onthe motion which states thatstudents wishing 24-hour parie-tals will live in separate dormi-tories from those content withthe present parietal hours. Be-cause of the re-shuffling thisrequirement demands, 24 hourparietals will not be in effect inany dormitory until second se-mester.
A group of approximatelyone hundred, sat and watched asstudent body president PixieLoomis and chairman of housepresidents Linda Chung present-ed the motion. Explaining to theaudience that the Senate realizedthe motion might split the col-lege into two groups, LindaChung stated that "... peopleasked for 24-hour parietals atany cost, and that's what we gotthem."
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;Techdefiaken. I Ihardly need to pointout how difficult it is to decidewhere these -lines ought to bedrawn. Does SACC believe thatit is seriously, contributing' tothis discussion when it behavesin this fashion?
Myron WeinerDepartment of Political Science
CIA Comment
To the Editor:A few nights ago, a friend and
- I were talking about the recentdenfonstrations at MIT and spec-ulating on the motives. of those
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To the Editor:Concerning your article about
the GA meeting that you report-ed in the Nov. 21 edition of The.Tech. Apparently your reporterleft before what I consider to bethe most important part of themeeting, the setting up of aMIRV referendum to be votedbefore the Christmas holidaysafter a large public informationprogram. I write this letter be-cause the largest job of theGeneral Assembly will not beproviding a forum for discussionbut getting a large enough turn-out so that the vote is meaning-ful and something can be donewith it, be it a presentation toProf. Penman (VII), PresidentJohnson, or a delegation to Pres-ident Nixon. However yournewsman failed to report it fromthe meeting. All help on pubiici-ty of this vote would be appreci-ated.
David McIlwainPosiedon Committee of GA
SACC Tactics
To the Editor:On Thursday a joint NAC and
SACC rally was held at KresgeAuditorium to demand, amongother things, an end to varioussocial science research projectsat MIT, including the Inter-national Communism Project inthe Center, for ,InternationalStudies. That afternoon, at' therequest of SACC, a meeting ofstudents, staff, ·and faculty washeld at the Hermann Buildingfor a discussion of the "issues"rather than "tactics". SeveralSACC participants asked for adescription of Professor Grif-fith's International CommunismProject. Other well-informedSACC students proceeded to de-scribe the projecti pointing outthat it provided materials to theacademic community previouslyonly readily available to govern-ment, that everything about theproject including its archives wasopen, that many SACC membershad been using the archives ofthe project' for their own re-.search, and that in their judge-ment there was no reason toterminate the project.
.Since some of the SACCmembers present at the meetinghad indicated that they wereunfamiliar with the project andsince those who were familiarwith it approved of the project, Iasked why SACC had co-spon-sored a Kresge rally demandingthat the project be terminated.The answer was that it was
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"It is"a serious matter to de-mand that the university termi-nate the research project of-anyscholar. We have heard such de-mands from state legislators,alumni, trustees, and from politi-cal groups on the left and right.Here at MIT we. are engaged in adebate over what kinds of re-straints the university Ought toplace on the rights of individualscholars and their laboratories tochoose their' own research pro-Jects and the criteria by whichresearch projects should be un-
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Letting kids run the world"To make the children's work
lively," says Preston, "I suggested theyplay simnulation games with thecomputer.
- "To play one, for instance, thechildren break up into groups. Eachgroup governs a 'country.' And thecomputer gives them problems tosolve, like depressions, wars, bumpercrops.
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involved. Naturally, the CIApopped up.
At first the idea sounded bi-zarre, but then we consideredthe following factors:
1: I-Labs is unlikely to "con-vert" and would probably moveaway rather than " convert". (See John Murray's article onpage four of the November Spec-ial Issue of Catalyst if you arenot familiar with this argument.)
2: According to Doc Draper,in a conversation I had with himlast spring, the Pentagon wantsI-Labs away from MIT and outon Rte. 128.
3: The CIA is hardly alien-ated from the Pentagon and hasalways been ready to use leftistmovements for the CIA's ownends. (For documentation ofthis, see The Agony of theAmerican Left by ChristopherLasch.)
Since the efforts of NAC andtheir allies, if they are successful,can only have the effect ofdriving I-Labs away from MITand out to Rte. 128 and sincethis is what the Pentagon wantsanyway, one wonders if the CIAis involved- or merely having agood laugh at the expense ofthose who value the control ofwar research above the emotion-al catharsis of demonstrating.
The Russians have written apropaganda booklet about theCIA; its called Caught In theAct. Watch for a new edition.Since our government will nevertell us what the CIA is doing,maybe their's will.
William D. Spies
"!'m helping kids learn to use computers'
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As a byproduct of his recent attempts tointimidate and discredit the nation's news media,Vice President Spiro Agnew.has raised somelegitimate issues which responsible members of thepress should consider.
He urges that readers be critical of reports inthe media and that they not place blind faith inthe printed word. This is certainly a reasonableattitude; the members of the press are humanbeings ice everyone else. On the other hand,Agnew's attempts to hint that there is some sort ofdark conspiracy which distorts the -news -areinexcusable from a high government official. Themedia structure is a fragile institution, subject topressure from the financial interests whose adver-tising supports it and those (whom Agnew, isattempting to incite) who blame the medium for adisagreeable message, as well as the governmentitself. Objectivity will not be best served by apolitically-rnotivated attempt at intimidation, butrather by the preservation of multiple sources ofinformation, and the development of a spirit ofresponsibility and professionalism within the press.
A newsman must recognize that his credibilityis a precious thing which is slowly acquired butcan be quickly Fost. No one can report with 100%oaccuracy, but nothing less than an all-out attemptto reach that goal will'suffice. He must endeavorto remove opinion from articles purporting to befactual. In selectngy news to be covered andemphasized, he must strive to avoid being affectedby personal prejudices. A man with no opinions or.passions would be some -ind 'of vegetable, sonaturally, complete success is impossible; but one!must t y
Actually, we do not fear a public which iscritica,_-of its press, for it will then be eq·uallycritical -of the verbiage of its government leaders.The public will then no longer be the SilntMajority which(ike' Hitler's) does not'object togovernm ent poiies- snimply because it has notconsidered them rather than because it has con-sciously approved them. "when the public is thusaroused, we will no longer have to fear the Agnewsof the world.
dan't say AOwl"100. In the formal chatg of Lt.Wiliam Caly, Jr, head of the conm-pamy that aiepdy m yumm a Vit-nmese vilg, it ates that he did"with ptemedittion.. mutder...oriental bhuman being whose nameand sex ae unknown" One wonderwhat the differene is- between 109,%fentat human ben. " and anyother kind.
98. When questioned about the posbiity of his tatting to ,eoqe Katd-
Gca, a cster to The Tech prpoat-img to be columnist Joewph Alsopreplied "! wouldn't want to wasteanother penOh's time as I've ealdymade up my mind about him."99. As the marchen at the Washington moratoiurm chanted, "Fuck-you,Ag-new," a voice from the side criedout -please, pleas no dirty wih-
Heresy
half-truths that even he changedsome of the story after no onewould believe him the first time.It took columnist Jack Andersonto bring out the truth.
Cook at Senator William Ful-bright. Long a friend of the Leftand now a sort of hero, hisvoting record on Civil Rights isone of the' worst in the Senate.Senator Mike Mansfield, Demo-cratic Majority Leader, after eu-logizing Robert Kennedy. as adear friend, etc., still won't votefor gun control. Senator TomDodd and Rep. Adam ClaytonPowell have already been cen-sured by their own colleaguesfor misuse of office so gross thatit could not be ignored.
Former Topkick LBJ alsopursued the useless war, doinghis best to cover up the facts. Hewas best buddies with crookBobby Baker and maintains a
Aelevision ownership setup inTexas that defies any interpreta-tion of the law. He won electionin Texas originally by registeringnames from tombstones in aSouth.Texas cemetery and hav-ing them vote for LBJ. A manwho says he was at the pollingplace three minutes before clos-ing time swears he was last inline, but nearly a thousand peo-ple are listed as having votedafter him, all curiously enoughfor Lyndon.
Nixon's cabinet is even moreinteresting. HEW Secretary Ro-bert Finch's only claim to fameis that he is a personal friend ofTricky.m Dick. Secretary of theInterior Hickel is a noted foe ofconservation. Attorney GeneralMitchell has shown his proficien-cy for compassion in recentweeks in much the same way asSpiro you-know-who.
There are virtually no politi-cal officials in the United Statesthat one can point to as havyngclean, ethical records, and votingtheir conscience. Barry Goldwa-ter is one, and Gene McCarthymight have been anaother, exceptthat the national Tammany Hallmachinery of LBJ-Daley-and-a-cast-of-thousands came down onhim with the Big Screw that wasprobably predestined anyway. Itis almost impossible to name anytrustworthy public officials withany power that the nation car atleast respect, even if it doesn'tagree with. Something is verywrong here. The entire base ofthe public trust has witheredaway.
Nixon can't communicate to"young people" and wonderswhy. No one believes a damnthing he or anybody else inoffice says. Funny; all the youngpeople who do believe Nixonwind up as cannon fodder inVietnam, a curious way indeedto repay a trust.
Once upon a time, this coun-try's political figures wereheroes. They grew up in logcabins, were viceless, wise, com-pletely ethical, and most of allhonest. Have a look around,
Look at the clown in theWhite House. He pursues a use-less war, won't end the draft,doesn't give a damn about thepoor, or the young (they didn'tvote for him), and pictures him-self as some sort of aristocrat.He speaks for the silent majori-ty, grooves on Generai BeadleCollegej the marijuana laws, andCheckers. His daughter entered aprivate hospital with "abdominalpains." Nothing more was heard.
Look at the clown in BlairHouse. Five years ago he was acounty commissioner. A newlyrisen star, he has managed toridicule America's foremost dip-lomat, her two finest newspa-pers, her television networks, theyoung, "the intellectuals," hisown daughter, and everybodyelse he doesn't agree with. His
,prime qualification for officewas that he balanced the ticket.
Look at Clement -Hayns-worth, Nixon's nominee for theU. S. Supreme Court. Clearly apayoff to Sen. Thurmond, who"delivered the South" to theRepublicans, his civil rights andlabor record was so bad that 55Senators voted against his confir-mation. Aside from his conserva-tive judicial stance, his "ethics"not only allowed him to sit oncases in which he had a'personalinterest, but even allowed him torule on a case, buy the stock ofthe firm he had decided in favorof, and only then announce thedecision he had previously de-cided to make.
Look at Ted Kennedy, U. S.Senator from Kennedy-can-do-no-wrong Massachusetts. Alwaysthought to lack the ability of hisbrothers, this was more or lessconfirmed, when it was revealedthat he cheated on his exams atHarvard. Always cool in a tightsituation, Teddy demonstratedhow fit he is to be President inthe now famous Kopechne deathcase. His official explanation forthe occurences of that nightwere so riddled with lies and
general the major job of PublicRelations is exactly. what itsname implies: to present MIT ingeneral, and the administrationin particular, in the best possiblelight.
There is nothing particularlysinister about this. No evikenceexists that PR engages in deliber-ate deception. In fact, in its dayto day operations, PR is socompletely innocuous that wereit not for its two publications,Tech Talk and Institute Report,the average MIT student mightnever learn of its existence.Rather, whatever distorting PRdoes lies in what it does not say.Its typical press release, for ex-ample, consists of such things asthe text of President Johnson'smessage to the class of '73, theannouncement of a gift to theInstitute, or the news that Pro-fessor X has won the Y prize forZ. Internal disputes are not givencoverage by PR, the assumptionbeing that one doesn't hang dir-ty laundry in public. A pictureof MIT gleaned from PR pressreleases would be one so rosy asto belie any possibility of cam-pus unrest.
In its routine functioning, PRis more or less autonomous, ac-cording to Wylie. Nominally un-der the control of Malcolm Kis-pert, Vice-President.in charge ofacademic administration, the of-fice is pretty much left aloneexcept when matters warrantclearance with higher echelons.Anything directly concerningthe President, ' for example,would be cleared through hisoffice. While emphasizing thisautonomy, Wylie added thatthere w'as "no question whom Iwork for," and he went on tomake it clear that his personalsympathies also lay with what heconsiders to be the best interestsof the Institute.
Some people who haveworked there claim a narrowprovincialism pervades the of-fice, and that nonconformistsare ill-tolerated. At least oneemployee claims to have been
By Bruce SchwartzOn Friday, November 7, the
last day of the November Actionhere, this reporter was present ata press conference called bySACC. Before that conferencegot under way, however, some-one noted that some representa-tives of the MIT Office of PublicRelations were present. DirectorFrancis E. Wylie and his assis-tant, Bob Byers were then sub-jected to several minutes of blis-tering criticism by several peo-ple, especially SACC's IraRubenzahl and Jon Kabat.
They contend that PR, whichhad handled MIT's official rela-tions with the working pressduring the week of the Novem-ber Actions, had been guilty ofsystematic distortion of thenews and should therefore beheld in part responsible for theallegedly "biased and slanted"coverage given NAC and SACCby the "pig press."
These accusations raise seri-ous questions. Just what sort offace does MIT present to theworld? How much of that imageis projected by the Public Rela-tions Office, and is it accurate?Or, as SACC contends, does PRpresent the media with a system-atically pro-administration slant-ed view of the Institute?
With this in mind, at least acursory examination of the Pub-lic Relations Office, its staff andfunctions, seemed to be in order.This was done through examina-tion of its publications, its pressreleases (particularly those is-sued during the NovemberActions) and an interview withits director, Francis Wylie.
It soon became apparent thatSACC's criticisms were in partjustified, but only in part. Forone, PR is not a press agencyand was never intended to by. Itis very definitely an arm of theMIT administration, totally com-mitted to that body's point ofview as it (PR) sees it. Remem-ber that the administration isnot a monolithic body; it hasinternal disagreements. But in
penalized because of over-friend-liness to campus radicals. (Asecretary, she was transferred toanother MIT department.)
PR has another functionwhich it shares in part with theInforriation Office, directed byPaul Johnson. That is the distri-bution of information concern-ing activities at MIT and admin-istrative follies. Here again thewhitewash aspect is evident. Thisinternal information function isin the main carried out by twohouse organs.
Tech Talk, edited by MissJoanne Miller, carries news ofgeneral interest and is describedas "addressing itself to the entirecommunity," and indeed it does,with short, bright pieces about.everyone and everything fromNobel prize winners to PhysicalPlant. As one might expect,though, it is as controversial as aDoris Day movie-and less sexy.It also carries very useful classi-fied ads.
Institute Report was begunlast spring and is completely avehicle for the administration.Its first three issues this fallfeatured reports on_ the MITcommission, administration re-leases on the November Actions,a report on CIS and the speciallabs, and a list of new researchcontracts, October 13-31. TheCIS report notes that CIS wasfounded in 1951 but makes nomention of CIA support, Theunclassified open nature of CIS'work is emphasized, but no men-tion is made of radical groups'criticism of the results of pro-jects such as CAM will be 'usableonly by those with sophisticatedcomputers at their disposal-making those results useless toanyone save the government,IBM, or MIT. Similarly, no men-tion is made of the guerilla-tracking capability of the MTIradar. These examples point upPR's tendency to simply omitinformation that might embarassthe administration or the Insti-tute.
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man or eerily beautiful 'tepend-ing on your attitude. 1,; musicthat machines synthesize can beeither or both. The electronicmusic that makes you lose yourdinner might be good music; thecompositions you put down to-day might be the classics oftomorrow; maybe the secret atti-tude in the back of your mind asyou smile at your sophisticatedfriends is right after all, and itreally is all junk.
So how do you decide ifelectronic music is any good?Your old stand-bys are useless:bursting into tears of joy isfrowned upon; you can't tapyour foot since, if there are anyrhythms, they're too complexfor humans to follow; if youlisten for melodies and imita-tions of orchestral sounds,you're looking for the kind ofmusic found in corporate eleva-tors, your expensive aoctor'swaiting-room, and the Moogsynthesizer.
There's always the freak ap-proach: does the stereo effect ripapart your head, or, damn it all,is it fun to listen to the thing?
The whole question becomesacademic with Karlheinz Stock-hausen, since it's hard to helpthinking that it's all a put-onanyway. Stockhausen seems tobe the Andy Warhol of music.Time, for one, would have usbelieve that his live concertsusually find him perched atop amountain of sound-synthesizingequipment, pressing buttons andscratching himself, while'his fel-low musicians do pretty much asthey please, and the listeningaudience wanders around thebase of his electronic heap withtheir mouths hanging open.
Hymnen (Deutsche Grammo-phon) is an agglomeration -ofnational anthems, crowd noises,recordings of conversations andother juicy tidbits, short-waveradio broadcasts, and perhaps agurgling kitchen sink, rehashedeither electronically or by sim-pler means known to tape re-corder owners. The compositionis divided into four "Regions,"each concentrating on two orthree anthems; the total length isclose to two hours.
With Stockhausen's unfortu-nate reputation, one listens toit with the same sarcasticeither-no tinkling or bell-likewatching a Warhol flick or hear-ing Nixon's State of the Union.
III the first place, fully half ofthe effects seem obtainable byjiggling a turntabie or pulling outits plug. There is not a largevariety of electronic noiseeither- no tinkling or bell-liketones, never a hint of the mind-less joy of the Maxwell 'louseelectronic coffee pot perk Thewhole piece could sound to a
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By David J. MaurieUoIn Tagore's Indian spiritual
drama Chndetlika, now being'presented by the Stage I Drama:Workshop, there is a satisfyingbalence of poetry, drama, andvisual fulfillment. This is sayingmuch for a very simply stagedand costumed one-act play, butit bears out the basic fact that aplay of substance molded by acapable company needs. noelaborate trappings.
Charidalicka does have one ex-tra advantage. Being drama ofthe Orient, it contains a certainkind of pace; rhythmic, com-pelling, and, once in motion,completely irreversable. Fromthe, moment the cast makes itsappearance and sits in contem-plation of the coming ritual, weknow that the inevitable is aboutto happen.
Two women speak, acthig outan allegory of creation, the eter-nal vigil of the young spirit togain perfection.
The daughter has been visitedby a Holy Man who tells her thatthe individual is above any caste,that all men are free spirits. Sheis "reborn," her mind open tothe unlimited horizons beforeher. If only she could grow intothem, if only she could take thehope given her and ask for no-thing more. But ask she mustand dramatically her demandcomes in the form of a magicspell worked by her mother. Inthe mirror of her mind thedaughter watches the sufferingher selfishness brings upon theHoly Man, only to realize toolate that his suffering is the grieffor her own blindness, her man-made temporal bonds, and final-ly, her death.
The Holy Man'appears at lastand in his simple utterance offorgiveness the dead girl's selfish-ness suddenly becomes some-thing else, something pitiable, a
thing to be understoodBoth the program notes and a
discussion with a member of 'theworkshop, Gerry . Qsterofsky,point out that the Company isexperimental, but in a differentsense/ Where many experimentalgroups use changes in traditionalpresentation as their departurepoint, Stage I prefers to concen-trate upon the basic human im-pulses, almost in a meditativeway, and allow them to pushtheir own natural conclusions tothe fore. The results-are produc-tions that are tight and clearlymotivated, with elements thatused to be taught in the "old"school but have somehow been-lost in the current maze ofavant-gardism, cruelty, absurd-ism, and super-realism.
Stage I performs at 577 Wash-ington Street. On'the same billwith Chandalika is the JapaneseHachi No Ki which this reviewerwas unable to see. As with mostof our small theaters in Boston,don't expect the traditionalmeasure of your money's worth,two hours of entertainmentpunctuated by two ten-minuteintermissions. There are oldideas in the air, but with newapproaches to the discussion
Carlos & MoogBy Robert Fourer
If anything explained the sur-prise popularity of last year'sSwitched-On Bach, it was novel-ty-no one had heard such asophisticated electronic music-maker, and probably most buy-ers hadn't heard much Bach,either. The album did draw a.wave of scholarly comment,some hailing it as a superb "reali-zation" of the old master, somedenouncing it as worthless imita-tion that did a disservice toelectronic music as well. But(despite its presence on Colum-bia's classical label) it succeededmostly as a pop hit, and even_ :.: _ ~1! ? _ X ar A d 1o w . '1
ing to enjoy what they might,and leave matters of significancefor the future.
A year later, like all goodsuccesses, Switched-On Bach hasa sequel, dubbed The Well-Tem-pered Synthesizer. Now some ofthe novelty's faded, and it'll beinteresting to see if it can garnerthe same critical and popularattention; in any case, it's a goodopportunity to take a. longerlook at the "form," and itssupposed values.
The Well-Tempered Synthe-sizer is not entirely a rehash ofthe first album, or its "Bach'sGreatest Hits" selections.There's only one Bach piece onit-the Fourth BrandenburgConcerto-which comes off likethe original trials. Three piecesfrom Handel's Water Music marka distinct change in style andform, if not approach. FourScarlatti Sonatas represent aneven greater departure-the ori-ginals seldom embody more thanthree or four voices, andarranger. (also "operator," orwhatever) Walter Carlos hastaken the liberty of "fragment-ing" the warts among severaltone colors. Finally, the album isopened and closed by twoMonteverdi pieces, one of whichmarks the first attempt at apartially choral work.
In other words, there's beensome experimenting, and whilesome 'results are good, somearen't. The Bach and Scarlatticome across best, or at leastthey're the most fun to listen to.Carlos' fragmentation technique,also applied to the solo violin inthe Brandenburg, extends thewide variety of sounds so at-tractive the first time around.
The rest, however, is not sowell off. In the Handel, the briefBourree sounds too fast andmechanical, while the Airfeatures an unbearably sleazysound that suggests a saxophonewith a cold. The Allegro Deciso,
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Square at next to outrageousprices) be reviewed? If youdon't know by now, this is a tworecord set of heretofore unre-leased Bob Dylan performancesoff several purloined tapes. Acouple of freaks in California arecranking them out by hand orsomething. The sound qualityvaries from poor to inaudible,due to both the recording quali-ty and the pressing. On top of allthis, Columbia Records (whichhas Dylan's contract) is said tobe considering legal actions.
Two tapes form the basis ofthe recordings. The older one isvery folk-oriented, probablymade in Minneapolis, and almostall of the material is foreign tome (I am not a Dylanologist).The most striking thing about
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and absurdity, then moving to avague sense of anguish. Onecould swear that the -heavybreathing, muffled voices, andlow-frequency outbursts ofsound in Region Four speak,perhaps even eloquently, of war.Yet Stockhausen says that hehas composed the anthem of'Utopia. Interesting.
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(Continued from page 5)while technically satisfactory,can't muster the power of thestandard orchestral version; ingeneral, Carlos' methods are bet-ter suited to light pieces. As forthe vocal simulation in theM onteverd i, admittedly it'sclever, but it suggests too mucha gagged real chorus to be veryeffective.
Carlos' synthesizing, then, hascome a good way (his custom-built instrument is twice the sizeof the standard Moog Mark TII,which anyone can buy), but hasfar to go. People who found hisfirst album just curious or pleas-ant. or who thought it madegood background music, maytire of this one; while those whowere impressed by it will likelybe further impressed.
As to the synthesizer's "mu-sical significance," the issue is nocloser to being decided. It awaitssome good original composi-tions, Columbia's claims ofgreater "exuberance and excite-ment" notwithstanding. Carlosstill owes his success to Bach andfriends, whose music was in-spired by the instruments thenat hand, and, when played pro-perly upon them, is no lesseffective. Until the synthesizerhelps contribute something new,it will remain an appealing, butinessential, novelty. (The jacketnotes give the impression Carlos,has written some things himself,but Columbia seems reluctant torisk marketing them.) L
Finally, these albums mayhave some non-electronic sideeffects. They are not recordingsof full performances-each partmust be taped seperately-andthe lack of flat artificiality maystimulate recording-studio exper-iments with more . traditionalsounds. Also, with the profits (ifany) Columbia might be able tohire some ordinary spirited musi-cians (if any exist) and try torealize the exuberance and ex-citement as Bach imagined it.
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On the positive side, one; isnever bored. There's always thelistening for the hacked-up na-tional anthems; with things theway they are in this country, themutilated American anthem isnot only delightful-it may alsobe iMegal, On hearing the mix ofcrowd noises, anthems, and elec-tronic effects, the desire to con-sider the whole thing a magnifi-cent hack collage of the modernworld is irresistable. Stock-hausen claims that Hymnen isnot a collage, though.
With a small exercise of theimagination, one pictures thecomposer using--his materials toachieve an air of purposelessness
is especially evident this year,which has seen such a radicallydifferent view of British school-children in If.
The story should not be madeto carry an extravaganza, butthat is what this lavish musical isattempting to be. Though manyof the songs -and numbers areenjoyable, they simply do notfit. Yet, some of the scenes aremoving and convincing, for PeterO'Toole is a consummate actor.
"There must be a lesson in itsomewhere," Mr. Chips says onetime, "but I don't know what itis." The lesson is, that just as abeautiful woman needs no make-up, a simple tale needs no embel-lishment. This is one of the fewnovels that, is quicker to readthan to see the film version; thetime would be better spent read-ing.
By Emanuel Goldman(syndicated by Cambridge Phoenix)
James Hilton's novella Good-bye Mr. Chips is a modest andunassuming tale about the mel-lowing of a crusty Englishschoolmaster over the years,through an unlikely romanceand marriage with a stage star.While preserving much of thestory, and happily, a few verba-tim scenes from the book, thefilm, at the Gary Tneater, isweighted with all sorts of triviali-ties that threaten to sink theentire enterprise.
In the book, the generationsof' schoolchildren and the pas-sage of time provoked a gentlenostalgia. "We grow older, butyou always stay the same," Mr.Chips is fond of telling his charg-es. But on screen, the school-children, frankly, are corny. This Sandwiches
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through the efforts of other art-ists. Though he cannot sing,Dylafi conveys meaning in hissongs when he performs themthat become lost in interpreta-tions by others.
This tape includes the onlyrecorded versions by Dylan of "IShall Be Released"- done com-plete with the same harmoniesused by The Band in their re-cording, "Wheels On Fire"-done in an easy swing, "Tears OfRage," "If You Got To Go"-done in an up-tempo version,"Every Night Without You"-bluesy and recorded before a liveaudience somewhere, "TooMuch of Nothing"- the Peter,Paul, and Mary (of course) hit ofthe year, and "The MightyQuinne- Dylan's comment onChrist complete with The Bandharmonies on the chorus and arecorder in the background. Thesound quality is very poor buthearing the original is oftenworth the trouble.
Still, thiss album is really apiece of musical trivia. It is forthe confirmed Dylan fan or the4'rockolcogist"' (one who digs the.roots,). For these~two groups it isa -must. Otheris best--beware thepurloined tapes.
(Continued from page 5)the performance is the incredibledifference between the '"folk"Dylan, the 'rock" Dylan, andthe "country" Dylan (NashvilleSkyline). The tape features himrapping about song writing andpictures of himself, as well assinging. He also tells an anecdoteabout East Orange, New Jersey.Possibly the most telling (as faras pinpointing the time duringhis maturity) and the most mem-orable cut is a talking-blues num-ber about bigotry and religionbased on a black characternamed Hesikiah Jones. Nothingis familiar but it's just the sort ofmaterial expectable from abright young folksinger inGreenwich Village during theearly sixties.
The second tape is quite dis-tinct from the first for threereasons: it sounds as if it werepressed using a darning-needle;Dylan had by this time goneelectrified; and the material isfamiliar. The tape was apparent-.ly recorded in the studio in hishouse at Woodstock and in-cludes The Band in backup in-strumentals and vocals. How-ever, what moves the listener isDjlan singing his material whichhas already become familiar
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ty might feel it necessary to havesuch a thing as a public relationsoffice, Wylie explained thatamong other things, the Presi-dent and various deans simplyhave no time to deal with thepress on routine matters. Theinternal information distributingwork of PR is also important, hesaid, since "Everyone at MIT isdrowning in paper." PR, in hisview, provides a specialized ser-vice that saves time for officersand faculty members (who alsomust often deal with the press).Finally, PR serves as a '"buffer"for administrators generally un-accustomed to speaking with thepress, he contended. The lastargument seems a little speciouswhen applied to MIT's adminis-
trators, who are not known fortheir mal-adroitness in front ofTV cameras.
Indeed, except in routinematters, PR very rarely speaksdirectly for the MIT administra-tion. Not even during the No-vember Actions did they speakfor MIT; Associate Provost PaulGray handled that with twice-daily briefings while HowardJohnson contented himself withpress releases. PR mostly issuedsuch things as crowd estimates,I-Lab budgets, and "clarifica-tions" of "misreports" such asone heard over area radios thatprotesters had "taken overMIT."
SACC's accusation that PRmisrepresented what was hap-pening at MIT is true, but onlyin part and mostly by omission,not deception. The only glaringerror that one can point to wasthe continuing reference to thedemonstrators as "anti-war pro-testers," a misconception carriedby most Boston newspapers, al-though the press soon caughtwise to the fact that more thanwar was being protested andchanged their stories according-ly. PR carried no statementsissued by NAC; it assumed NACwould take care of that, with
justification. PR did its job: itpresented the administration'sside of the story.
If blame for inaccurate pressaccounts must be laid anywhere,then, it is upon the media them-selves, not PR. If they chose touse primarily administrationviews in reporting the story,then they, not MIT, are guilty ofbad journalism.
For one thing, both NAC andSACC issued press releases,though NAC refused to holdpress conferences because it feltthe press would distort whateverwas said. No newspaper andcertainly no TV station evercarried a statement of NAC's orSACC's position.
Television's journalistic bank-ruptcy was further exposed atthat November 7 press confer-ence as Kabat described how hehad shown up for a TV interviewthe night before only to be toldthere would be no interviewsince the MIT administrationhad refused to send a representa-tive! But MIT spokesmen re-ceived plenty of television ex-posure.
In essence, then, the blamefor slanted press cannot be'placed upon the Office of PublicRelations. It belongs with thepress. But there is a lesson to belearned here, and that is thatwhen any group here wants itsviews promulgated it cannot ex-pect PR to be its vehicle. PR'sheart belongs to daddy HoJo.
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The MIT rifle range was thescene of some precise shootingFriday evening as the varsityteam fired a 1337 to set a newMIT record and beat WeqbtworthInstitute. Wentworth scored1 146. The old MIT record was1336, set in April of 1969.
The match, consisting ofsighting shots and ten shots forrecord in each of three positions,prone, kneeling, and standing,was fired by eight MIT shooters:Jack.Chesley '71, Captain DickEvans '70, Don Falkenstein '72,Howard Klein '72, Eric Kraemer'71, Karl Lanmson '71, FrankLeathers '72, and Bill Swedish'7I. Dave Hunt '7Q and TomSte~tinger '70 were unable toattend the match.
The top lfive scores fromthese eight counted for the teamscore. The team members com-bining in this record perfor-mance were Chesley at 260,Swedish with 26 1, Kraemer with269, Captain Evans at 270, andLamson at 277. The quality ofthese scores is easily seen whenone compares them with theiropponents'. Wentworth's highestscore in the match was a 242.
The highest possible score is300 for an individual and 1500
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Thie MIT rugby club endedtheir most-successful season inmany years with a come-from-behind 6-5 victory over the Bos-ton Pilgrims. The win uppedtheir season's record to 7-1. Alsoon Saturday, the 'second teamlost to the Boston Greyhounds5-3 to end thei season at 3-5.The third team was shutout 8-0giving them a 2-6 record.
As a further honor, forwardJuris Apse was named to theBoston area all-star teanm. Theall-stars will play, an exhibitiongame against the Boston Ragby-Club's first 'team in Newport,Rhode Isiand on December 6.
The last game of the seasonwas.played oin su~-freeiing coldon- a muddy field, but the.-Techbacks got to handle the ballmore than they had all year anddid a good job of it. However,the slippery field made cuts dif-ficult- and the backs were neverable to break loose for a, try.although they consistentlygained ground.
The first score of the gamecame midway-through the firsthalf. Tech won a scrum and asthe ball came out the back. lockLarry Izzo picked up the balland raced down the sideline for25 yards before passing to Pedro
By Ray KwasnickAEPi led the 11I-team field
with forty-seven points as theycaptured last weekend's intra-mural swimming tournament.Phi Beta Epsilon, entering only afour man contingent, grabbedsecond place. Theta Delta Chinarrowly edged ZBT 36-35 forthird, and Lambda Chi Alpha'stotal of twenty was good enoughfor fifth.
An interesting sidelight to thecompettion was the suprisingshowing of McCormick Hill'sfirst organized entry in an intra-mural swim tournament. Thegirls outraced four other squadsto finish seventh with ninepoints.
-The meet had some outstand-ing Individual performances.Seven records were broken inthe course of the event. PBEestablished a new mark of 2:08in the 200-yard medley relay.Dave Lyon '71 of Alpha EpsilonPi sent the old Z00-yard free-style mark tumbling with a blaz-ing 2:12.9.
In the 5 0-yard freestyleTDC's Jeff Ellison '72 capturedfirst with a twenty-five-second-flat clocking, but MikeMcCreary, a fifil' year studentracing for Ashdown House, es-tabished a new mark of :24.8 inthe preliminary round. However,he couldn't sustain that pace inthe finals.
In tlie individual medley Mikebathers '71 of TDC broke theold record in the preliminarieswith a 1:02.0. He tired andadded a second to his time in thefinals, but, 1:03.0 was easily e-nough for the win.
Tom Haefer 70 scored ZBT'sonly first of the meet with a
Taborga who carried the ball tothe two yard line where he gaveit up to Apse who scored.- The3-0 lead lasted for the rest of thehalf as neither team was able tomount a significant threat.
In the second half, Bostonhad moved the ball to Tech's 30on' a kick that went out ofbbunds. On the ensuing lineoutBoston sneaked an extra backinto the line. -- They won thelineout and the extra backforced an opening in the Techdefense and a Boston back brokethrough and scored. After theconversion Boston led 5-3.
Tech was not able to serious-ly threaten again until with threeminutes left in the game, a bril-liant -play by Taborga suddenlyput them within two yards of atry. The ball had just come outthe side of a scrunm and insteadof picking it-up, he kicked itdown the sideline and thensprinted- after it. The Bostonfullback just beat him to theball, but all he could do was kickit straight out of bounds. Thisset up Tech with a scrum on thetwo. Tech won the scrum butheld the ball in as they pushedagainst the Boston srtum. Bos-ton slowly gave ground untilfinally Izzo was able to fall onthe ball for the try.- The gameended at 6-5 when Boston wasunable to score in the final twominutes.
As a measure of how com-pletely Tech dominated its op-ponents this season, the totalscoring statistics show Tech "SA"scoring 97 points in the eightgames while their opponentsscored only 20.
In the "B" game, Techjumped into the lead on theopening kickoff when GerryToman picked up a fumbled-Boston pass and sprinted intothe end zone. However, the teamwas unable to score again. TheGreyhounds scored a try andconversion early in the secondhalt
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IM hockey action. TX went on to win 8-1.
victory in the diving. Mike Carlin'70 registered another of PBE'sthree firsts in the 50-yard butter-fly with a :27.9.
Mathers, who was the onlyswimmer to win two events,took hiis second first in the100-yard freestyle. Hi;> time of:55.6 not only was enough towin, but it also broke yet a-nother mark.
Bob Mullinax '70 of LambdaChi Alpha churned his way tovictory_ in the 50-yard back-stroke in :54.5. Garry Crossland'72 after toppling the 50-yardbreastroke in the preliminarieswith a :32.9 slowed down to:33.1 in the finals. However, hestill finished in front of the packand gave the Phi Betes theirthird triumph. This win pulledPBE up to AEPi before the final
race, the 200-yard freestyle re-lay. Nevertheless, AEPi camethrough with a record smashing1:45.1 and claimed the title.
Besides double-winnerMathers, Lyon and Mullinaxwere the top point getters. Ontop of his 200-yard freestylewin, Lyonsplaced second in theI 00-yard freestyle. Mullinaxadded a second in the individualmedley to his honors.
The Varsity Pistol Team o-pened its season on an optomist-ic note Saturday with a drubbingof Boston State. The Tech Red(No. 1) Team blasted BostonS tate No. 1 4936-8OX to3599-13X. The Grey Team hadequally little trouble with theopposing second team, defeatingthem 4458-33X to 3274-12X.The lowest Tech shooter scoredhigher than Boston State's best.
Captain Oscar Asbell '70 ledthe team with 843-15X, despitea slow start. The team's othersenior, Dan Flint, fired steadilythroughout the match to finishwith 841-16X. Below that, per-formances became erratic.Wayne Criswell '71l and Al Smith'71 both suffered in rapid fireand finished with 825-16X and823-18X respectively. Sopho-
more Robert Gibson struggled toan 815-1 OX after very poor slowfire-at the beginning. NewcomerJohn Good '72 firing in his firstmatch rounded out the RedTeam scoring with a respectable.789-1OX.
Scoring for the Grey Teamwere: Rich Schwartz, 794-9X;Andy Sims, 779-7X; Jack Cater,749-2X; Sam Wheatman,737-4X; Richard Waterloo,730f5X; and another newcomer,Bart Adrian, 669-6X.
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