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By Barry S. SurmanThe Association of Student Ac-

tivities (ASA) Executive Commit-tee unanimously passed a resolu-tion Sunday calling for a new stu-dent activity fee to be collectedlronm all undergraduates at MIT.

Claiming funding from the Of-rice of the Dean for Student Af-fa'irs has remained "nominallystagnant" through much of thelast decade, the ASA resolutionurges the Undergraduate Associa-tion (UA) General Assembly(GA) to act to initiate the activityfee for the coming academic andfiscal year beginning July !.

Under the ASA proposal, tui-tion would be reduced by theamount ODSA plans to allocateto tile UA next year.

The new student activity feewould be set by the GA. alongwith the UA budget recom-mended by the UA FinanceBoard (FinBoard) each spring,and would be included as a

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Boston College 11,805 27 437Boston University 20,477 33 844Clark University 2573 14 109Fitchburg State College 4350 7 135Framingham State College 4087 1 22MIT 8686 18 561North Adams State College 2394 - 28Northeastern University 29.830 32 662Tufts University 6410 25 254University of Massachusetts

Amherst 21,911 10 1013Harbor-Campus-Boston 7281 10 280Worcester NA 3 250

NA - Not Availables Uniform Crime Report of the Mas-sachusetts State Troopers

cognitiveBy Sam Cable

The Committee on Curriculaapproved a tentative proposal bythe psychology department for adegree program in cognitivescience last Thursday, saidPsychology professor Daniel M.Usherson and several COCm em mbers.

The COC has been asked to putthe proposal on the agenda of theApril faculty meeting, saidPhilosophy profiessor SylvainBruinberger. Usherson pointedout that the proposal is just a ten-tative idea.

The only cost for the proposedmajor would be a quarter-tirnesecretary, Usherson said.

"One of the exciting aspects ofthis idea is that we can dosomething this new and excitingat virtually no cost," saidBromrberger.

According to Usherson, all re-quired classes for the programalready exist in the M IT cur-rioalum. The majority of them be-ing in psychology and philosophywith some from the department ofElectrical Engineering and Com-puter Science.

Usherson described cognitivescience as"-a bridge" between thehumanities and sciences.'Cognitive Science is trying toelucidate a scientifically basedview of hurnan nature," he. said."It tries to complement the veryvalu~able enterprises [in the studyol' Iunl;Jn nature] launched in thehumanities over the centuries."

Usherson said that he could notpredict what the Faculty votewould be. Brornberger said, "Wedo not see any reason that theywould vote against it but we do

Fox stated "Tuition costs, thenumber of students living oncaMlpu s, the number of' campuspolice of'ficrs. the age of' thecampus, the buildings per acre.and the type ol'acadelic calendarused byv the school all al'tect thenumber of reported crimes oncampus.

T he basic ilaw" in the report'sanalysis is that the number ofcrimes includes those againstI'ctllty and stafl'' members, saidOlivicri. When the number of'crinics per person is calculated.the number of' enrolled studentsrather than the total populationof' the campus is used. "The bot-tom !ine is if you' want to countcrinmes per person, then count thetotal population."

MIT reported 18 violent crimesand 561 property crimes, ac-cording, to the UCR. "It'sridiculous to count typewritersstolen f'rom an MIT office as acrime against a student," notedOlivieri.

Olivieri said, reading 1'ron anarticle in the Caimpus Law En-f'orcement .!ournal. "Inter-

campus comparisons ;re also in-appropriate il' predicted solely onthe similarity of' student enroll-ment and itmorino the total in-stitution population wvhich alsoi ncI u des l'a cLu It v. a d -ministrative/su pport, personnel,service a n d m a i n I e n a n'ceemployees, and the periodic swell-ingr ofhe popula'ion b), reason ormajor sporting, and otherrecreational activities which takeplace on institutional property."

There were six completed rob-beries at MIT in 1980, accordingito the MIT Campus Police An-nualI Report. None of the six oc-curred to an MIT student. There

,%as one rape on camnpus thatyear. according to the Annual

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By Kenneth SnowA report claiming MIT has the

highest campus crime rate ofeleven Massachusetts schools sur-veved is a "misleading use ofnt, mbers," according to M ITC'alnlpLIs Police Chief James01ivieri.

The study, inade by AssistantProfessor oTr Criminal JusticeJames Fox and Professor of[-conomlics Daryl Hellman, bothol' Northeastern University'sCelnter for Urban and RegionalEciionomic Studies. utilized dataf'rom the Uniform Crime Report(UCR) published by the Mas-saIchusett s State Police.

The report stated NortheasternUniversity had the lowest crimerate, with 23 reported incidentsper 1000 students in 1980. BostonCollege, Boston University,Tuf'ts, the Unversity of M`as-sachusett s (U-MIass) at Boston,and U-Mass at Amnherst allreported crime rates higher thanNortheastern's, according to thestudy. MIT led the list with 66reported incidents per 1000 stu-dents.

health, mass transit, and other is-seIS Lithat "airc not processedthrough mercantil e values."

Naidcr deplored the new trendronsard. "carccrism". an IvyI2Leagu terilm used to describe"looking Out for your lucrativeniclih." Instead, he sugg-ested stu-dents listen more to public c0n1-corns. "Concerns airc a reflectionon how- narrow, or oA; broaid thedemocratic valucs arc."

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By Carol Yao"You are going to have a lot of

power to change the course of'events: you're the elite," RalphNaider told ai packed audience in10-250 on April I.

Nadcr's lecture, entitled "TheSocial Responsibility of'Engineers," was third in theTechnology and Culture SeminarSeries.

The aIudience vvas favorabletoward Nader's speech, except fora I'cw dissenting students. One ac-cused Nader of' discouragin gcreativity in fields such as nuclearand chemicail engineering, andcatled him "a f'raud ... Lind ach a rlat n .-

Nadcr, a graduate l' 'Princetonand Hlarvard Lawk- School,claimed society is suffl1ering 1'rom"the lack o1' articulakting the roleo1' the engineer." Students a re nottaking courses such as automotiveengineering satiety or pollutioncontrol, according to Nader.Instead, the "m-nercatntile I'factor-has become the dominant f'orce inshazping, careers.

Naider aisked, "Haiven't yourealized how easy it is I'or cor-poraitions to operate in a dic-tatorship'Y' They have so shieldedtheir position, they don't carewhether people out there havecivil liberties." He added, "Whois going to deflend the democraticvalues beyond those of making aprof-it'? Clearly the professionshave a role."

Nadcr said in a proiession "youhave a broader missilon to dis-convenience yoursell- in order touphold ethics. 'Those in a trade donot consider ethics while doingthicr work, said Nadcr.

"The cngineering ilpparatusput itself' on the waIstefl side of'technology ," Nader claimed. Theresults are an oil crisis, inllation.recession, gcopolitical problems.Nadcr encouraged students toconcentrat e on safecty, public

separate, charge on Institute bill-ings each term.

The ASA Executive Committeealso voted unanimously to recom-mend the GA abolish the existingpositions of UA accountant andsecretary, replacing them with afull-time combination book-keeper, receptionist, and typist,at a savings of about $18,000 an-nuallv.

A draft of a motion to be sub-mitred to the GA claims both ex-isting positions "have much sparetime," and that FinBoard has "-been reluctant to take action onthis matter.

The draft calls for auditingfunctions of the accountant to beassumed by the MIT AuditingDepartment, and directs the UAPresident to prepare a descriptionof the new position for ODSAand to fill the position on July I.

In addition, the proposalspecifies the resulting savings be

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Tech photo by Omar Valerio

Ralph Nader spoke on "The Social Responsibility of Enginners" last.Thursday in room 10-250

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not want to maike anyjudgments." fti indicated that if1the proposal receives faculty ap-proval. it must be brought bef'orethe corporation.

Osherson said that if theproposal receives final approval.the psychology departmentwishes to begin the program next

Osherson said he had no es-timates about eventual enroll-mrnit. aIssu.ni,,1 fa-cu lty arid C'r-

poration approval. He said that itwould probably be bigger thanthe Language and Mind prograimof' the philosophy department. 'itwon't be as big Lis Course 6(electrical engineering},"Bromberger said.

Cognitive science is ,lsot in-volved in such things as educationatnd intellectual growth. saidBromberger. M IT is the'recognized world leader incognitive science, according, toUsherson. Bruonberger said that.without the "pioneering" workdone in linguistics ait MIT.cognitive science would probaiblynot exist.

Usherson said that there aireseveral corporations in theBoston area hiring cognitivescientists. among them the firm ofBelt, Beranek, and Newman.

Neither Usherso n orBruinberger was concerned withthe prevailing attitude of thePresidential administrationtowa rd the h u m an i t ies.Bruinberger said there is a largeamount oI' activity in cognitivescience in the country and the costof the program would be very sm-all.

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could have been attacked relative-

ly easily, as many voters were

concenltrated in few pollingplzces.

l)iskin saiid negotiations

betxveen the rival lfictions and

parties could be a "realistic and

ulltimatel y beneficial" way to

Ill ini 1 IIlIe suLffering and bloodshed

ani(ng lhe El Salvadoran people.

"a government without people."

Halrney ;lso noted the econorny

hast take'n ; wartime direction:

I'ood production has been cut in

hall' its ;i result. He commented,

"the econimic situation is bleak,

itnd (t he cconomy] is at the point

ol' ballkruptcy."

"The Iniorale of the [El

Sallvadoranl army is alt an all time

low," Ii;rney clalimed, citing a

alijor hrlrratcks desertion in the

SiIn Miucl ;rea. Harney mrlin-

tailCd, VWithout US [support],

the governmlent would topple,

and the people realize that."Flowevcr the morzale of the

FMLN Lucrillas is high. ac-

cording to Ht;rney. The FMILN

cn 'jovs local public support: he

declarted. "The sense ol cooperin-

itzzil ;llon, the civilian popula-

tion is very. very strong."Hlarncy s;aid the leltlist guPrril-

las received little to no aid from

Nicar~igLuZA znd Cuba, and as-

sertcd, "The revolution Or the El

Salivador ran people is indigenous

to thle].'

Whcil requested to remark on

the elections, Harney said, "The

leftisls in El S;lv;ldor sce the elec-

tions ~s ; l(lrce ... an illegitimalte

o I to legitirnize the

governmleln·Ct.''Thile llck ol violence during the

elections was "not the military

victory that Alexander Haig

claimied it was," Mlrtin Diskin

.lintlainci. Diskin sa1id. in of-

icial st~ltaltlelmts, Ieltist guerillas

admonc10Xishcd the populace not to

vote, and did not threaten voters

Nvith viecnce. He cl.Iimed voters

By Andrew H. Wold

"El S~ilvador hals had enough

political parrties, election officials.

voters ... Lind elections ... Yet

,inotlilr clctlion won't have any

imnpac" oin the fighting ;wnd

bloodshed occurring there. as-

serted Anthropology Prolessor

Malrlin lDiskin, alt a lecture last

Tll~ uarsclay .

The MNlT Socialist (Group andtilc Conmmittee oil Central

Almcrical veo-sponsored the Icc-

LUrc, titled "Why El Salvadior" "El

SaIMllaor has had, f or lifty years,

; scric s of repressive right wing

goc,vcrnmlen't,, and the El

SaIlvadlorran people are finally

rcbelling ;lgainst the rightist

power cliques, cIainled Diskin.

C on(liniening on the recent elec-

tions in El Salvador. Diskin

spcCllated fear motivated many

people to the polls, as non-votersCould lIlcr be identilied by lack o1f

Li regisration stanip on their ID

cards.

.)iskina atlribuled ultra-rightist

Roherto d'AL bisson's strong

showing at the polls to his

promrniscs to end violence with

violence and the flact that, in

d'Aubissoln-eontrollcd districts.

'The Mliosl survival-oriented thing

to do) wotild be to vote lor

d'Auhisson," due to the lack ol

privacy and the soldiers awt polling

Jil Hrtlrney who recently

returned Iromt several weeks with

FMLN leftlist guerrillas in El

Savlaldor, described his observal-

tionls. tle believes the current

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The Student Center Comnmittee: (SCC) has again denied that itf"111S Lnder the Jurisdiction of the Undergraduate Association(UA) G;eneral Assembly ((;A), a claim7 it has made re"Lllarlysince the (-iA was reconstructed by UA President JonathannHaka;la i n 19)79. SCC Chairma;n Steve Thomais c~ontends there·arec as mnany Students active in SCC as in the (iA, and tha~t SCCha~s sponsored events and provided services "For over a decade,w flout help- or suppcort 1'rom the GA."

Thomas' contention - true or untrue - is not reallv~ impor-tant in consi I tngthe relationship of' his comm nittee to the G;A.Whati is importanit is that the G;eneral Assembly is the represen-

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The Reagant Adi-inistr'ation istrying to Inobilize support f'or ourpresence in El Salvador by raisingthe spectre of a~ Soviet takeover.Evidencoe, however, reveals ouroovernm~ent has quite differentrea~sons for being there.

Rea~gan and Secretary of StateAlexander Haig clairn that silicethe 1979) Nica~ragua~n revolution,the S~andinista~s have becometota~litariran Commn7unists. Reagana~sserts C~uba is 'List I Soviet Pup-pet, and- anything under Cubancontrol is alSO Linder So~viet con-trol.- The US contends the ElSalvadoran guerrilllas (theFM1LN) are: presently controlledby Nicaragua and Cuba, citingeviidence-of purpo~rted atrms sup-plies and training emannating fromthose countries.

Reagan's stlttenments alone do17ot explain why the US caresaIbout El Salvardor. A Sovietpresence should not in itselfviolate US ideals of self-determination, since America hasintervened in Chile, Brazil,G;uatem~ala,, Vietnam, Iran, and(ireece, to name only a few. Rus-slan client states mpurder and tor-Lure the local population, but thatdoes not bother our governmentsince US-backed dictators havethe same~ I'ailing.. The lo~ss incurredin Li Soviet takeover is to US in-tcrests.

Our interests m~ay be in danger,

- civilians who train onweekends. Such militias atre Useful

fo~r defense, not offense, aind anarnied and ttrained population isexcelleint insurgence againsttotalitariant government. If ad-visors arre not front the US, it isbecause there are: none avatilable1'roml- the US..

Advisors, including farmers,doctors, and teachers, havehelped the Sandinistas in theirSUCCCSSI'Lil literacy and va~ccina-lion campaigns. The Sandinistashave: taken unused land or landwhich belonged to the pre-

elenlents, such as the SocialDem~ocrats and former membersof the ruling ChristianDemocrats. It also includes un-ions of' workers, peasants, atndstudents. W/orking international-ly, the FDR has gained wide ac-ceptance for the rebels. Mexico,Canada, several W9est EuropeanCountries, and the- internationalSociall Democratic Party havedescribed the rebels as alegitimnate political force and haivecalled for negotiations.

Reaglan and Haig~ ignore mostof' the Salivadoran story, since itviola~tes their thesis ol'Soviet con-trol. Their trick is working. A re-cent poll shows that hall' of theUS believes there are Cuban orSoviet troops in El Salivador, eventhough no newspaper or govern-nment official has made that claim..Such Li poll does not show thattpeople are so incapable that deci-sions Lire best lelt to the experts(tranislate: the state). Instead, itshows the state has successfullymo~lded our thinking. Every ad-mninistration since World \~ar 11has emnphasized "the Sovietthreat" to 'Llstify any US mnilitalrymove. By tnow people expect tosee the Soviet hand anvwh~ere,regardless of' the evidence, evenbefocre the cairn is made.

If evidence about El Salvadorm~atters, then US rnotivations Lirenot what Reagan says. The rebel-lio~n has internal causes, is foughtby the local population for

legitimtereasons, aind hasearned the support ofniuc~h or theInon-Conlmunist world. Further-mrore, if' it succeeds, the USSRCould not gain control. Manyi in-terests conmpete in the FDR-FM/LN, some outrightly anti-C011 11 1.1 iSt. 11' the presentg~overnmient negotiated, as therebels wa~nt, it would retain somepower. In any case, the rebels in-tend to have elections.-

The US disag ee wth its alliesabout ne ntations with the guer-rillas. The Soviet threat cannota~ccount focr that difference, sincethe allies are also anti-Soviet. USinterersts dil'fer front those of therall~ies on the economy. CentralAmnerica's foreign investment isovcrwheniingly Amnerican. Ifgovevrnmnents there change,' theUS, not1 Europe,. loses.

Nicaragua's programs indicatehow a Salvadoran revolutionCould hurt UlS business. Haig'spicture is distorted: he speaksonlv of an arms build-up. Cubanadvisers, and relocation or In-dian~ -rs (soo 7eti im es cal leddgenocide). But most of themilitary, exrpansio~n is in the militia

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been much discussion- aboutchanging the structure of theUndergraduate AssociationFinance Board (FinBoard) toimprove the operation of theboard, and-at the last General As-sembly (GA) meeting severalbylaw amendments were passed,one of which changed themembership composition on Fin-Board and set a common startingdate for FinBoard seats. As aresult of this, several organiza-tions will be holding elections forFinBoard seats in the next fewweeks.

With the bylaw changed, Fin-Board will consist of a chairman,a vice-chairman, -four membersselected by the outgoing board,the Undergraduate AssociationVice-President, three members ofthe Undergraduate Associationselected by the GA, two of whommust be GA representatives, theAssociation of Student Activities(ASA) Treasurer, two ASAmembers at large, and one un-dergraduate selected by the UANominations Committee.

The UA Nominations Commit-tee (NomComm) will be electingone member through its spring

hearing process on April 10, theG;A will be electing its represen-tatives on April 15. and the ASAwill elect its m-nembers-at-largewithin the next few weeks. Moreinformation on these electionswill .ppear in Tuesday's UANews, or can be obtained fromthe ASA find NromCommChairmen.

FinBoard will be holding hear-ings for its open seats on April 5and 10. Applications for theseseats are available in the Fin-Board office (W20401).

As the treasurer of the UA,FinBoard deals with a wide rangeof issues, many of which have adirect impact on the MIT com-munity, If you are looking to getinvolved in a student activity andare willing to,make a substantialtime commitment, we urge you toconsider trying for one of thepositions mentioned above.

If you have any questionsabout Finboard, or the applica-tion procedure for board seats,feel free to drop by our office, orto give us a call.

Charles BrownUA FinBoard Chairman Elect

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IRWIN SIZER AWARDNOMIINATIONS SOUGHT

Nominations are being sought for the IRWIN SIZERAWARD, established by the Graduate Student Council in1975 to honor Irwin Sizer, former Dean of the GraduateSchool from 1967 to 1975, presently the President of theHealth Science Fund and Consultant to the ResourceDevelopment Office. The award is presented for the "mostsignificant improvement to MIT education," to encourageinnovations and excellence in MIT academic programs. Therecipient of this award, selected by a committee of theGraduare Student Council in closed session, will receive acertificate and cash award of $200. Any person or group inthe Institute community is eligible, though in any year theaward committee may decide to give no award.

Nominations may be made by letter, should includereferences and/or supporting material, and may be submit-ted to Janice Goldman no later than April 16, 1982.

Previous awards have been given to the leaders of theWriting Program (1975), Independent Activities Program( 1 976X, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program(1977), the Innovation Center at Sloan {1978X, Office ofMinority Education (1979), and the HUD Minority InternProgram (I1980).

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entertlainmenl media have depicted ourpretistoric alncestors with an air of absur-dity. Not to totally discredit the genre,uchieving total realism has rarely beendesired in order to construct workable plotSitUations. The crealtors of ''The Flint-stones" had no initentioin of malking usbelieve the cavemen existed in such aI wiy.

Que~stflivr Fire makes us believe. At leastbelieve we're .seeing a film iabout cavemen,.not calvernen film caricaltures or comics.The filmmal~kers, halve gone through grealtpalin .Ind exp~ense tv' present a screen iniagethalt ma~y halve actualily been photogralphedin our distalnt pclst. The only other film to.lchieve this wals the opening of' Kubrick's'()()/ A LSpa((e Od/lvsse. Cavemana), thoughpure campr> had no reall diallogue, butcrea;tced a simiple lalngualge l'or thechalracter~s. "'Ma. Aloonda Zug-Zug.- ThisWals Mln Importalnt step) lor Ilull lengthcilvemlen I'lllns. Quesxt lor Ffires lealps forwalrdwith reseac~lh ;Ind technicall consideraltionson palr Wittl the gtreatest historicall dralmas.On thi~s level it succeeds immlealsuralbly.

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id him. The second side contains original songsI's nice by the samie five groups. The best ise more "Morse Code of' Love" by the Capris. Thevithout overall sound of' the re~ord is very food.

C'BS uses the phrase "amrbient Sound" to,r ma nce describe the recording process used in this,

and series of` releases. It's not an4`thing as1 exoticippella. as direct-to-disc or half'-speed ma~stering.

under- It's m~ore oF a~ "direct-to-tape," wLith thet from groups reco~rding after a m~inilun nu·7e

ibly be ofi' rehealrsals rtnd w~ith no overclubs orr'T's per- studio ginimlicks.. The result is voca~l hatr-

in a Inionites that a~re very clean with the "I've"1'eel that manv of these same gro~ups had In

rn ore their original hits twenty years ago.(>of'cuts A popular m~usic magazi~ne used to ratce

C.CBS records using one to five stars, with the a~d-irds on ditionatl category of an "car" f'or thoseg new' releases which would ap~pea~l to speciallate fif- ta~stes. Both of' these: recent alb~ums deserveiost in- such a~ rating. TJ7e Secrect Polic'enian's. Other're col- Ball offetrs a cha~nce to hear somae populrlr

titled B~ritish ro~ckers in unusual guises.al is rt Ewrc~rthitilq OWd is New~ success Iul ly reviives a;of re- onc~e-popular nmusical style. As the old say-nlikely ing goes, "These reco~rds aren't f'or[en to. everyone, but ,,

home without a! Full-scale band behinThough he strains his voice a bit, itto h-ear "in the Air Tonight"` in thena;tural1 setting of the concert ha~ll, studio f'rills.

The nmost uncharaJcteristic perf'oris by Sting. He sings "Roxanne'"M/essage in Lit Bottle" almost a ca,aiccompanied only by some rather.S4ated guitar ril'Is. It's very differentthe style of' the Police. It will probarhatied by nmany Police fatns, but Stingformlance is the m1ost interestinggenera~lly odd collection.

Another recent release is evenstrange, Lind a.lso features a~ number of' particulair interest to. collectors,records just released a series of recoithe Amnbient- Sound label featuringrecordings by bebop groups of the lities and early sixties. The best and mterestinF songs fromi this series arlected in a sampler appropriatelyEvnri,er~thing Ne is Old.. The materh;niixture of original songs and coverscent rock hits. Some of' the more urchoices niake this a fun record to list,

4'.ew is Old on-Ambientt Sound

,Wyears have seen increasingI rlo rcrd companie~s in,,.s collections. Several labelsI nw wave samplers of wary-an attempt to make the genreajially viable. A couple oferts featuring major bands,de it onto records recenatly,.juch release is The Secretrother Hall, recorded at the~h galI to benefit Amnesiy

t Ihe first time an Amnestybeen preserved on vinyl. the"'Ischronicled in separate corn-;jc albums a few years ago.releases, the latest Secreitry' is a curious collection ofIts. This time around, then has-beens like Eric Clapton

(!and solo performances by10pular British groups.

i ne oilggest name act is the pairing ofClapton and his old buddy Jeff Beck.Thoughh neither has done inuch of conse-quence in quite a few years, their perfor-m~ance is surprisingly spirited on such stan-dar&s as "Crossroads." Ail the Clarpton-is-G;od fans should find the release worth itf'or these songs alone. U~nfortunately,Donovan doesn't fare as well. He's long

,since lost the innocent lilt his voitce oncehad, and "Universal Soldier" and "Catchthe Wind" sound every bit a's dated Lis theyare. The Jive Five will probably appall( Steely

Darn I`Lans with their slowed-down renditionof' "Hey Nineteen." Randy and the Rpain-bows (rem7ember "Denise?") goes a stepl'urther with ai snappy version of' REOSpeedwagon's "in Your Letter." TheCapris do a respectfu I version of John Len-n~on's "Imagaine," and the Flarptones con-tribute a~ straiglht reading of "Love Needs aHeae~rt- bhy Jackson Browne. All thesecovers are Contained on the first side,which concludes with the most interestingsoils in the collection - the Mystics doingat previously unrecorded Raninones song,"Doretten is Never Borinz."" It's an insta.nt

T~he rest or the songs feature perf'or-m~ances by Sting of the Police, Bob GeldofLind Johnny Fingers of the 13oomtown Ratsand G~enesis' Phil Collins. The weakest ofthe three is certainly Gjeldof and Fingers.Their rendition of' "I Don't Like Mon-days" is similar to the one the Rats do inconcert these days. G;eldof tries hard toelicit pathos, but ends up soundingmelodramatic and unconvincing.

.In addition to his role in Genesis, PhilCollins is a solo performer in his own right.This experience is apparent in his twosongs, in which he sounds perfectly at

Big Show. Tech Showa '832 prevented bi, iheMWIT Mursic~al Theatter Guild. Pe~forniancesApril 9 & 10 at 8pinr inI Kresge Aulditorium.ltickets~ $3 iv~ith MIT ID; fr r!r in tio idn.reservai~ionls call~ 253-61794.

-- niiall-town kid, arrives in New '~ork to bean assistant director for a show that is indanger of'closing. He meets Sally, the new

- director, who tells him how tough thingswill be. When she isn't calling Norman"kid," she's rehearsing the cast through thescenes, or fighting with the playwrig~ht, orpleading with the lead actor and actress, orbegging the executive producer not to closethe show, or righting off the playwright'sTimorous advances. One person shouldn'thrlve to do this in real life, and on stage theresult is a development of' Sally's per-sonali-ty Lit the expense of the othercharactetrs. Consequently the others seemunfinished, two-dimensional, and predic-

<=nk tabFle.

It seems that the book and score uwere..... written to connect a set of unrelated songs

to som~e unrela.ted scenes. (in the show. a__ _sinilarr problem is blarned on the writer:--- there's g~ood reason to do the same in this

review.) Lalck of' continuity precludes anyquickening of the show's pace a~nd makesall the song cues seem forced. The songsthemselves arre as cliched as the plot, con-laining fa~miliar but simple themes andtrite, uninspired arrangements. Simila vythe dancing is not energetic enough to dis-guise its obvious simplicity. These elementscoine together to create a set of unbearableproduction nurnbers,' with "Style" and-"Cottontail Rag- being the worst. "FairTune" and "I'm in Lust" fare much betterdue to strong voices, min imalchoreography, and catchy melodies. None of' the music was helped by placing the

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hhird to be the new kid and have to put upwith an endless barrage of cliches about lifeand the G~reat White Way. It's harder stillto sit th rough a show about the new kid, es-peciallyv when it consists of nothing but Brozidway banalities. In short, it is ex-tremely difficult to sit through Big Show,·the 19822 Tech Show.

Countless m~usicals have been written 'Ibout lif'c behind the scenes Lind the strug-gles the audience never sees. Bijz Shovi,dra~ws from A Oiorusr~ Line for many of itsp~lot devices - the dance coach rehearsing the chorus, the interpersonal conflicts -but 11-ils to capture any of that show'senergy. The production isn't seriousenough to rnerit its stately, sometimessnail-like pace, and it isn't fast enough tocarry the audience through its deficiency of'comic relier.

What Big Showv lacks is balance: someideas are overemphasized, some are ig-nored. The plot reflects this: Norman. a

I orch-estra in the choir loft (a move neces-sitated by a large set that covered theorchestra pit). where the reverberat~ions arllbut drow·ned o~ut the stage.

~~ '~With so much working against thern, theF actors WOolld be hard pressed to turn in

Y goo~ucd pe~rl'ormances, yet Big Showr doesbenel''t f'romn a Im.. Linda Schaffir '82 pre-

--------- sescts a1 convincing po~rtrayal] of directorSaIIl~~VN W IIorth and proves to be the strongesteSv oic-e in thc cast. Ga;rdell Gelle '83 seemsperfectlv suited I'or his role as "ne\.N kid"Norma~n Minor, pr 'ecting 'ust the rightsenseo of' innoce~nce his charact~er requires.C~ommnendable performances (despite theInfiltratioris of' their characters) were atlsodelivered bv John Karris G;, Janev Gr-zNlwwicz (1, Fran O'Neill '84 and VinceY;oung '85. One hopes that they will appearin next year's (better written) Tech Show.

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On Friday, April 23, the.Ramones will be playing at thenew Athletic Center, with ThePeter Dayton Band and TheNeats. The tickets cost $3, and aregoing fast, so get your ticketstoday!

The Spring Olympiad will beheld on Saturday, April 24th, andwill include most of the eventsheld last year. We need livinggroups to sponsor and run eventsfor the Olympiad. If your livinggroup would like to help out,please give me a call.Simultaneous with the Olympiadwill be an Activities midwaywhere student activities groupscan put on exhibitions. If yourgroup is interested in this form offree publicity, call MicheleAndersen, the Midway Coor-dinator.

On Saturday evening will be theAmherst Alley Block Party. Fourdormitories, ten fraternities,Dormcon and the MIT SocialCouncil are all getting together tothrow 6 parties on Amherst Alley,

including an outdoor band partyoutside Burton and Baker House.This should easily be the socialevent of the last few years, so setthe date aside. You'll be sorry ifyou don't!

These are only some of the ac-tivities scheduled for SpringWeekend '82. If your living groupis interested in running an event,your activity is interested in put-ting on an exhibition, or you justplain want to get involved, giveone of us a call! After all, it's yourSpring Weekend - get involved.

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fund from the Undergraduate As-sociation General Assembly andGeneral Committees" and otherInstitute sources.

The ASA will hold a publichearing April 13 on a proposal tolicense student activities to chargeadmission to more than threefilms a semester, with a licensingfee of ten percent of the grossrevenues of the movies, includingconcession and publicityrevenues. The proposal includes afee deduction to encourage ac-tivities to co-sponsor events.

The MIT Pro-Life Communityand the M IT Ice Dance Club wererecognized by the ASA at Sun-day's meeting as well.

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MIT,- he hypothesized. "ItVOLIld not .make a dlil'rcne'' to

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Naddcr Urcged students to study

hi illtl ics. "The proccss oleCdLICZtv l6i11 is mnostly vocaltional,"a n dl st L deItS rega r d t he11 Li III Z.11 i 'CS .t S ' ' s h yv h- eclatinmed. The hti1.lilniics are im7l-

portanl in teaching ethics. alny

Person is a1 "robot" unless heaInswrcs to his ethics. Nalderclailaed.

[iC c1lCUraged i volvemei7nt in

Staidlcl cha~pltrs of cngilneering

s'ciectics Claimini g nia Isny timies

thcse chlaptecrs set the standards

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Nadecr Urgcd StUdents to) take

1mo()rC rCsponsibility. "S1ludents

alre conlident in acadeic work

hLut not as citizens." He stressedthatt good citizenship is a learned

skill, ;lcqlired by a;lrticipaltion inZlctivities SICh IZs sttUdent goverVn-mllen l.

Hie salid universities should notjtist stress academics: "We've gotto learn to graIdc responsibility."Nadecr noted, "There's I'Zir moreStalcldnl activismll going 017 ill the

state Universities than in the IvyLc"lties. IBeiing bright loesn'tailway s Imlcann hciin rihlt."

AnIlolter problehl Nader Il'Mindwith Ulniversities was tlleir suh-

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Keport. The victim was an MITstudent. The UCR and Fox'sstudy does not distinguishwhether or not these crimes oc-eured to students in the Calcula-tion of crimes per student.

Olivieri said he asked the UCRcommittee to reconsider itsmethod ol accurnulating data buthald no success. He has since stop-ped providing the UCR commit-tee with informnation about MIT.Many other universities, in-el uding Harvard, presently do notprov'de such information.

Olivieri noted this informationis .tvail'lble in the MIT Campusl'olice A nnual Report.

"Awareness is important and wedistribute many copies of thereport .round campus, but ifthey[the UCR] was to use thesenumbers like this, then I just can'tgo .long,". he explained.

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;IP~a PAGE 12 THE TECH TUESDAY. APRIL 6, 1982

MIT h;ld another Iirst place win-ner in John Taylor '84. CaptainColin Kerwin 82 and WilliamBr1n10 X85 r;ln consistent andgtitsy races to t;ake second andthird in the cold and brutal 5000metCrsi. Then the ElngineersIinished oI'I thc afternoon by win-nins-s the 1600-meter relay,highlihttiln, some I'ine ruLnning byLat nce P'arker '84. Johnl radailsky 'X5, John Taylor '84atnd anc.horrmanr Ron Slnith '84.lespite suCII Iine perform.nces,however, the Engineers could not01utrUl1l hch Division I UNH team.

Tht weather did not affect theresults greatly. "I don't think thewcathelr hald a~nything to do withit. Everybody was running underthe sam1e conditions, and the sameguys stiII win." s.;id Coach( iordon KOKly oI N IT, "Actually.wheat we miissed wals the presenceol' Mairtin Taylor, ourjumnper and

rullner. Vie hurt his knee onWcedncsdav during prlctice, andit bothercd him gcoing into thenmeet." Erik Altilnln '83, theEnoineCvrs head m;ananlger turhteraddecd. "Hlis in'Ury cost lis about

1 5 pOints, not boLu1nting the points11C Cosldl hllve tLakeln tlwavV From7

Ne" HamX17pshire." KeIlv alsoSalidi -6ctting tenl points ior usM,1. l;king ten 1'rom thema7 ,ltkes

it a liMuch clozser Illmatch. Then weCo()Lld hv;eV done somethinc dil:I'crciltl\ dclokvii the stretlh." As Izrmhis owvn prognosis, Tayvlor suid,-1lopcIUly I'I be bh c k hv nextwceek. As (o1 IloUv, imy knee Ieels afi t lt bctcr. but I still I;IVe ---,

cold."Idte~cd, it is hoped that Taylor

Mill he hac.k by ilext week to 6tceBJowdeoill e)1 .il l Satu av in duaI-!Ict tl~l kkilI talkc police there.

By Arthur leel ;ast Satlurdays, under some cold

.lntl winidy weather conditions,the MIT Enl ineers lost to theUnivecrsily ol'NCew Halmpshire but

heat 3aLtes C ollgce in .L tri-meet athomle. The final score was 100 Ior

NliI . 78 lo()r MIT, and 25 Ior1i;,lcs.

WiLthctat exception, the MIT11-' n crs pcrlformed ;aldmirabTly

wcll. 'Tlh vweightmnen did very wellmt silo sf~lld ine perlformiiances hy

Dlavc Kicda '82. Patrice Parris'X8. ;Ifd Gireg Procopio XS. TheytOok first, thirdw .nd fourthresspectively ill the-halmmer thro~wevent, g~iving MIT ain ealrly boot)SIo(r (hze afternoon. The Engineerskept it Lip with more O)utstatndingperl'ormatlnces by Procopio,Kiceda. ande Tom1 Ba.iley '83 whorespectlively tooek second, fourth,;lnd thirel ptlaec. Giordon Beckhalrt'X4 .lnd Wi 1i1am Kelly '85 allso didkcII I'or the aftternootn by pilacingthirdi in tile Jalvelin thro w alndl<)lrtli ill the shot pUt reqspective-

I n1 thl tralck event~s, theEnoni lcers hald two) dOLible eventswvlnnor~s Pa.ul Neves '83 .andLya slTal ;ylor '85. 1] the 15(00mete~lrs, Neves took first pIzicewvh I I vcaptiin JeffI- Ukav X82J')1;Czd I'olrth. Forty mlinltleSki;Icr, lel Neves-lLikaIs tealmstrwuck a a~in by taking Irs ~sU'ccOld ill thlC 80)0 with the respec-tive tinics of !:-57.29 asnd Li close1:57-87.. -nic, other dotiIbc events\N lnnlur of' the: afIternoon was

1-vialla Tfactor. Li 1'reshmaln whoL~lilt theIndole§or .sqLIade bit came11h;ack to runI oeutdoors. He \Veen

otthel~ lC 100( and1( 200(-me1teda;shest. 111 thcd4()O-nllter htrdles,

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The MIT Softball team opened last Saturday with a 10-4 loss to Bates.

season is "STER,' which standsfor "State Tournament, EasternRegionals." To reach the goalimplied by the motto, MIT mustwin games against several of thebetter teams in Massachusetts.Two of those teams, St. Anseln,'sand Clark, are on the schedulethis week. Clark takes on MIT athome, Friday, April 9 at 3:30pmn.

By Eric R. FlemingMIT's softball team opened its

season with a 10-4 loss at thehands of Bates College Saturdayon Briggs Field.

Last year, the Bobcats shut outMIT on no hits. This year, thesame hurler took the mound andpromptly fell behind 2-1 on thestrength of hits by Liz Anderson'84 and Laurel Carney '83, plusback-to-back errors.

However, Bates rallied quickly,scoring four times in the next twoinnings, including a pair of runsin the third inning after the firsttwo Bates batters reached baseafter errors by Anderson andCarney. Meanwhile, the visitors'pitcher regained her form, takingadvantage of a large strike zone tohold M iT to just one hit in the se-cond, third, and fourth innings.

Bates broke the game open inthe Fifth inning. After two wereout. the Bobcats put togetherthree singles to score three times,malking the score 9-2. Tech loadedthe bases in its half of the fifth,but Andrea Kress '82 hit a softliner to short to end the inning.

MIT scored twice in theseventh. Jeannie Raymond '84walked to lead off the inning, thenAnderson belted her second dou-ble.of the game, sending Ray-mond to third. Catcher TerryFelts then beat out an infieldsingle to score Raymond. CindyRobinson '84 followed with awalk, and Louise Jandura hit intoa fielder's choice to bring Feltshome. MIT, however, could notsustain the rally, as Kress andCarney flied out to end the game.

Despite the loss, the team is op-timistic about its fortunes in 1982.Coach Jean Heiney called Bates"a;t very strong team," noting theno-hitter thrown against MIT lastyear. The team's strengths lie inits experience (three starters andsix varsity players return from lastyear), and pitching in the form ofRobinson, who has made flneprogress in the pre-season.Defense is the key to the season,and Heiney says, "Physical errorshurt us today. But if we make theroutine plays, a few special plays,we'll win our share of games."

The team's motto for the

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By Robert Irion( bitbE , l.v llen/.- Rerhcvt /rionl i.v a

Tlhc varsity gzoll tcmli spent anc1 jy lblce spring hrbrek ill ( icorgia

;alnd F;lorida. prcpalring lo'r the Lp-

comllilng SC;eaSOn. Co;achl iJck HBlrrv;accollipalienl this tcali oil the trip.Ml ;11111LKIl CVC11t l'or thel M ITgollurs. Tlc participants this yetarwerC (o-ca;Ipl;lins Nc;a1 Nordtstromil'X2 zindd Scott vytbrc, X82. EdColIgatec 'X.R, I'3at Fowler '83 , Mor-ris Kcallcr '83, anid a trio oi'l reslimlelz Ivrnilc F N . ChrisFullrlgono, and Rohert irinon.

1NlClhotlrile, H~ondall I'or two(matchs *ith tIe FIT goII teaml .

'nlic cnainecrs sqLc.Ikc-d b FI1T in

til openinig mIatch hy a 312-316taliv. Low scorer Ior MIT waslc;ller withl a1 74. TIc nex.ut Illmatchwas anll calsy onet I'or tle te;1ni1, as

tilhey whippeC d the Friel;l o aoll'ers

298X-.30. Kcsler and Nyherg settilc torrid pace witll ; p;lir of 73's.F-ovhIlot a 75. ;a pcrsonal best.mlllc Nordstroml and1 Irioll chllllc

in \vi.tl 77's. Fowl{cr andi F rlonIvshia~rcd X()'s to comilplcte one ol'

MIT's best sorin- LIlls cvevr.A Itcr al 4-2 record iIn the I',all.

C oacxh BIal rrv Iooks IOrwazrlrd to averyN sUic:eSSI 11I spring steasoln u ith\whlat le I'cels is aL Stronlg, C'onISiS-

tIenl tcamil. In their iirst mat~tchvcstcralIV, MIT I'lrice (Clark a~ndSl'oiIk at tile Stox Ac ,\rcs aolI'couirsc in Stcwe. Malss.

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