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have been hired recently, Thomassaid, at greater expense to SCCthan in the past. Friday after-noon clubs are warm-weatherparties featuring local bands onthe Student Center steps.

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President Paul E. Gray '54 has cess toappointed a special Academic determCouncil task force to review the GrayInstitute's policy of providing fi- sider anancial aid to all undergraduate financistudents demonstrating financial need-sneed. merit-b

'-The time has come," Gray reviewsaid in his charge to the task subtracforce, "to review this policy in from athe light of likely future develop- "I dments, Institute funding priori- natureties, and the changing policies might tand priorities of universities with Frankwhich we compete for students. of the

"It is essential," Gray contin- to figuued, "that this review reflects our procee(commitments to social and eco- Thenomic diversity in the student and ev

itd to the principle that ac-) an MIT education not belined by economic status."y directed the panel to con-alternative admissions andial aid policies, such assensitive admissions andbased financial aid, and to, the Institute's policy ofcting outside scholarshipsi student's aid package.lon't know even what theof the recommendations

be," said Associate ProvostE. Perkins '55, chairmantask force. "We first haveure out how we want tod."panel will consult "anyoneveryone" with expertise in

admissions and financial aid, Per-kins said. "Obviously, studentopinion ... will be heard from aswell."

Other members of the taskforce are Vice President Constan-tine B. Simonides, Vice Presidentfor Financial Operations StuartH. Cowven, Dean for Student Af-fairs Shirley M. McBay, and Pro-fessor Sheila E. Widnall '60,chairman of the faculty Commit-tee on Undergraduate Admis-sions and Financial Aid.

The task force will report inMarch to the Academic Council,a decision-making committeecomposed primarily of MIT'sdeans and vice presidents.

[record tryTuesday morning at Hanscom lAir Force Base in Bedford,Mass., but failed when one of theoutriggers snapped at high speed,causing the vehicle to fall on its t:side and skid on the runway,,

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By Jake 7inioMechanical breakdowns pla-

gued MIT Group Velocity's entryin the eighth International Hu-man-Powered Speed Champion-ships in Irvine, Calif., last week-end, frustrating its hopes ofbreaking the land speed recordfor a human-powered vehicle.

Group Velocity spent over ayear designing and building itshuman-powered vehicle. The ma-chine did not perform well inSaturday's race, finishing infourth place with a speed of42.258 miles per hour, accordingto Peter Boor, Vice-President ofthe International Human-Powered Vehicle Association.

White Lightning, a group fromNorthrup University, finished infirst place on Saturday, with aspeed of 50.943 miles per hour,Boor said.

In Sunday's competition,Group Velocity finished in thirdplace with a speed of 49.424miles per hour, behind WhiteLightning and Vector Group, ateam of engineers from GeneralDynamics Corporation, accord-ing to Boor.

Vector Group holds the currentland speed record of 62.92 milesper hour. Their top speed Sundaywas 57.899 miles per hour, Boorsaid.

An entry from the Northeas-tern University was also hinderedby mechanical difficulties, Boornoted, attaining a top speed ofonly 11 miles per hour Sunday.

Group Velocity's cyclists didnot coordinate well mechanically,and several components of thevehicle, including the chain,broke down, Boor explained.

The five riders are top NewEngland cyclists who were chosenover the summer and trained ex-tensively for the record attempt,said Group Velocity memberJohn Hsu '84.

Group Velocity's machine, theNew Wa ve, "has four frontwheels and is designed for fiveriders," states a recent Group Ve-locity progress report. 'The driv-er powers the front two wheels,which are mounted side by side,and also steers and brakes. Theother wheels, located at the mid-point and the rear of the vehicle,are each powered by two ridersusing both pedals and handcranks. Outrigging wheels pro-vide additional stability at lowspeeds. The riders sit in a recum-bent position, since the humanbody can provide much morepedaling power in this position."

Using Group Velocity's studentmembers, the team attempted tocrack Vector Group's record last

Tech photo by V. Michael BoveOnlookers view Anselm Kiefer's collaged woodcut Grane atthe show Recent European Prints, which opened last Friday atthe Hayden Gallery.

By Tony ZamparuttiProfessor James H. Williams,

Jr. '67 resigned last Saturdayfrom his position as housemasterof the New West Campus Houses(New House).

Williamns announced his resig-nation in his concluding remarksat a ceremony dedicating NewHouse I in honor of the lateJames B. Fisk '31, former presi-dent and chairman of Bell Labo-ratories, and New House VI inhonor of Dr. George W. Thorne,a life member emeritus, of theMIT Corporation.

Williams said he left for strictlypersonal reasons. Williams ex-plained in his speech he was di-vorcing his wife, Karen H. Goo-dall. He has been housemastersince New House opened in July,1975.

Williams said yesterday his res-ignation "had nothing to do withthe housemaster system or theresidence system per se."

Dean for Student Affairs Shir-ley M. Mclay said she did notknow of Williams's resignationuntil his pronouncement. "Wewere informed, just as every elsewas, in [his] closing remarks."

Williams said he did not notifyanyone in the administration ofhis intention to resign before Sat-urday. The program for the dedi-cation listed Williams as house-master at the beginning of theprogram, but only as Professorof Mechanical Engineering forhis concluding remarks.

"He had given us a letter tothat effect" on Saturday, McBaynoted, but she said she did notread it before the dedication.

resigns"In the interim, I feel that the

residence program is in the verycapable hands of Jeff and BetsyLang," Williams said. ProfessorJeffrey H. Lang and his wife,Elizabeth Lang, are New House'sJunior Faculty Residents.

"As I said on Saturday, thepast seven years have been thebest seven years of my life," Wil-liams said yesterday. "There is abuzz that goes on in the dormi-tory that excites me- I'm sorryto leave that."

The Office of the Dean forStudent Affairs will begin asearch for a new housemaster,McBay noted.

By Ron NormanThe Student Center Committee

(SCC) postponed approval of a$102,500 budget for 1983 andelected Kenneth E. Dumas '83chairman Sunday.

The proposed budget for thefiscal year beginning July 1, -1982,projects $100,000 in income fromarcade games, $15500 from inter-est and $1,000 from dinner andrefreshment fees.

Income from SCC's pinballand video game room last yearwas more than double that ofprevious years. The additionalrevenue is being used effectively,claimed Steve Thomas '83, out-going SCC chairman. "We're try-ing to improve social life in theStudent Center," he said.

The budget does not includethe SCC 24-Hour Coffeehouse.The coffeehouse budget is "about

-a quarter of a million dollars,"according to Undergraduate As-sociation Finance Board Chair-man Charles P. Brown'84.

SCC plans to spend $30,000for Friday night events, $8,000for midnight movies in the Stu-dent Center, and $5,000 for Fri-day afternoon clubs on- KresgeOval.

Friday night events include liveband parties at the Student Cen-ter. More popular Boston bands

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t ducationall Policy (SCEP) iscompleting its Co(ulrse Evalluation(6ride(' forsipring term and prepa.r-ing another guide for fall 1983,according to SCEP co-chairmen

Steven E. Barber X4 a.nd Kei-MuYi X '3.

SCtE will issue its springtluidd in November, Yi said. Thegu iI'e will be .1 co mpilatio n of re-sponse; to questionnaires stu-dents in selected classes were.asked to c~omplete last spri ng.Simlilalr questionnaires will be

used to evaluate this term'sCourses for the nex't guide, sched-uled for release in April.

C ourse evillualtions will containaveralges of students' qusintitaitiveratings in Parents including interest,quality, and toughness of sub-jects, ;111d a sainpling of Sttldetco-ilnieit~s, according to Yi.

'rhe evalluatlion forms SCEEP

distributed to) students u eregearced to !large lecture uand sci-ence courses, Y i salid, and wereoi'tell inaprproprialte for smlll-l

scllinilrs find humanities sub>-

jects. StCl-P plEans to use twotypes of. forms in the future-One1C fr classes in the 11uI1II1j ariisan1d ollc lor thoec in the .secinces-he salid.

Guitle( fear the current semestercolitalined reviews of' 75 subjects.Fhe1 new issue will fealture ebout120I subjects, Barber stlid. T-he ex-

palnded guide will contain evalua-lions offall core science subjectsfnd most sophomore- and junior-levcl requirements in the morepopular dcpartments, Yi added.

The SCEP guide evaluatescourses priniarily in the Schoolsof' Science find Engineering. Yisa id. Only aI ,ew non-technicalcourses- in 1architecture, eco-

no1lics, and phiiosophy - are

included in the guide.

SCEP plans to increase theprograll,1 however, to "hopefullyinclude all of' the humanities dis-tribution classes," in the Aprilguide, Yi said. The expansionwill approximately double thesize ol the guide, Barber said.

The (Colur.se evaluation Gulideg"scrves everyone at MIT - fTac-ulty and departments as well asstudents.," Yi said. saculty nlle-

hers, YJ explaincd, gain studentlfeedbalk about a~reats such as%workload and teaching style,while students get a clear, "bal-an17cd response 1rolm the entireclass," rather than just al tew 1n-

dividualls.

Barbder estimalted the cost k4the lall guide at $7000. MoneytIr the project comies 1'rom theDlelns of' Science aInd Engineer-

ing as well lis the Provost's Of ficeand the Undergzraduat e /Associ-

ation, he salid.About f iftv Students worked to

prerpare the spring, (Colur.vc t'lvhlla-lioll Guielel(.

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MIT under construction in 191 5, as seen from the Harvard Bridge. The land was filled using, forthe most part, mud from the Charles River. The massive structure, designed by W.W. Bosworth'89. is supported by 22,000 piles. The Great Dome, modeled after the Pantheon, had not yetbeen constructed at this time.

By Thomas HuangThe Council for the Arts at

MIT is unsure whether it canfund tree membership for MITstudents at the Boston M useumof Fille Arts (MFA) next year,according to Stacia E. Zabusky, a

staff member of the Council.The M FA charged the Institute

S7500 for mienmbership privileges,including free admissions forMIT students this year. Nextvear's fee, the museumn an-nouneed, will be $10,000.

The Council needs to raise the$10.000 by Deceniber, when thei nstitute's two-year inembershipexpires.

Two years ago, grants from thedeans of MIT's five schools, theOffice of the Dean for StudentAffaiirs, the Undergraduate Asso-ciation, the Graduate StudentCouncil, and the Council for theArts funded MIT's membership.

"We are concerned that mem-bership sponsors might not beable to afford the rise in costduring this limie of budget cuts,"Zabusky said.

The Council has not yet offi-citliy informed the other groupsol the cost increase, according toZabusky. The groups, she said,have not yet budgeted any money

for renewing the MFA member-ship.

The Institute's menmbership en-titles MIT students to free M FAadmission and discounts on itemsin the M FA shop and museumlecture and concert fees. Admis-sion to the museum normallycosts $3.50.

1 IT students' made over13,100 visits to the MFA last

year, according to Zabusky.The Council for the Arts,

founded 11 years ago, has 97members, about two-thirds ofwhom are MIT alumni. TheCouncil supports art activities atMIT with advice and finances.promotes the idea of art aided bytechnology, and helps show thereare people at MIT interested inart, Zabusky said.

The Council has recently en-couraged students to visit themuseum. A drop poster in Lobby7 and an article in Tech Tallk ad-vertised the free admission,

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The new budget sets aside$27,000 in undesignated funds foractivities SCC sponsors with oth-er groups, unbudgeted events,and other projects.

SCC expects to spend $12,000on equipment, such as moviescreens and beer taps and $1,500on additions like a messageboard and stools to the videogames area.

The committee allocated$4,500 to publicize events, $3,000

for administrative costs, $7,000for 'SCC special projects,"$4,000 for dinners and refresh-ments for SCC members, and$500 for partyline - a telephonehotline with taped social eventlistings.

Last year's special projects in-cluded a $893.47 freshman re-cruiting mailing, Christmas giftsfOr the Student Center managers,a residence/orientation week"deli night," and T-shirts forSCC members.

The $40,000 activities fund, es-tablished last year to fund stu-dent activities located in the Stu-dent Center, will earn about$2,500 in interest this year. The

V Undergraduate Association Fi-nance Board allocates moneyfrom the fund.

SCC income for the year end-ing June 30 totalled $120,778.55.

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None of the riders was injuredand the vehicle sustained "mini-mal" damage, according to Rich-ard Mastrangelo '85.

A Lexan plastic fairing, a longstreamlined shell to reduce aero-dynamic drag, was installed onthe vehicle for the first time be-fore the record attempt. The fair-ing was punctured but did notrip, Mastrangelo said.

Practice runs without the fair-ing produced a top speed of 45miles per hour, Hsu said. LastTuesday, the vehicle attained aspeed of 53 miles per hour beforethe outrigger broke, he added.

The outriggers were shortenedbefore the run to increase aerody-namic efficiency, Hsu noted.

Group Velocity predicted intheir progress report that a topspeed of 70 miles per hour couldbe reached with the fairing.

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worldIsraeli soldiers killed in Lebanon ambush - In an incident Sunday six miles east of Beirut, six Israelisoldiers were killed and 22 injured when they were ambushed by unidentified attackers. On the same day, aland mine in downtown Beirut wounded at least six people, including two French soldiers in the peacekeep-ing forces. US envoy Phillip C. Habib returned to Washington after meeting with Syrian President HafezAssad in Damascus on Sunday.

Spanish army officers accused of plotting coup - The Spanish Defense Ministry announced threei army colonels were arrested last weekend for plotting a coup, which would have taken place on October 27,the day before national elections. The Socialist Party is expected to win the elections. The planned coupwas backed by right-wing officers arrested for an aborted overthrow on February 23, 1981. Pope John Paul11 is planning a nine-day visit to Spain beginning October 31, just after the elections.

Sudan to send troops to Iraq- The government of Sudan announced Sunday it will send troops to aidIraq in its war against Iran. Sudan did not disclose how many men and weapons it will send to help Iraq.The government of Iraq did not comment on Sudan's announcement. Western analysts predicted otherArab governments might match Sudan's offer of troops. Sudan said its decision to aid Iraq followed mutu-aI defense resolutions adopted at lasi month's Arab conference in Fez, Morrocco.

SpoutsFor those who were asleep or studying on Sunday the Atlanta Braves won the National Leaguewest division race and the Milwaukee Brewers the American League east division. The Sox also had fun,ending the season with a three-game sweep of the once-great New York Yankees. The Brewers will play theCalifornia Angels tonight in the American League pennant race. The Braves will meet the St. Louis Cardi-nals tomorrow night in the first game for the National League pennant.

W~eatherSunshine -Today will be sunny, with the high about 67 degrees. Tonight will be clear and cool, with alow of 50 degrees in town, 45 in the suburbs. Tomorrow, the high will be. in the middle 70's, under sunnyskies, unless something goes seriously wrong.

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MalssacresIsraeli prine Minister Mena-

chemn Begin, his Minister of De-fense Sbaron and the future of Is-rael all stand accused of a crimethat they did not commit: themurder of at least 300 Palestinianresidents of the Shatila and Sabrarefugee camps in South Beirut.Beyond Minister Sharon's largelyaccurate charge that the massacreat the hands of Lebanese Chris-tian militiamen is being used byprofessional Israel-haters to forcethe Begin government into tur-moil, there are certain observa-tions that can be properly madeby foreign commentators. First,the military occupation by Israelot the southern half of Lebanondoes not imilply an Israeli respon-sibility tor civil order; to requiresuch il! the case of the. LebaneseRepublic would be similar tomaking firemen accountable forall the fires that they could notprevent. rhe intentions of the Be-gin government with regard tothe invasion were clear: to createthe underlying conditions forsome sort of peaceful coexistencebetween Israel and her neighbors.They did not pretend that theiracltiol1s would be pretty ones, andperhaps suspected that Lebanon'sdisgruntled political factionswould react precisely as they didin the assasination of President-elect Ger;nyel and the massacreof Palestinians. There was no civ-il order in Lebanon prior tW-theIsraeli incursion, and thereforeone cannot expect Israeli militaryadministration to rneasure up toperfect standards from the start.In a state of anarchy. everyoneloses, and yet no one can be le-gitima!tely held to blame. The Is-raelis recognized this fact: theirinilitalry deeds were the first conl-crete steps taken since 1975 to re-

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The hypocrisy associated with -the same way they have Jerusal-media and diplomatic reaction to lem' Why did these centurions ofthe deaths in Beirut is almost be- peace brush aside as insignificant

Ivan K. Fong '833 -ChairmanIerri- Lynn Scofield '83 - Editor-irn-Chief'IW-4 9V. Michael Bove '83 - Managing EditorWilliam L. Giuffre '84 -Business Mlanager

Volume 102. Number 42Tuesday, October 5. 1982

NEWS DEPARTMENT

News Editors: Barry S. Surman '84. Tonr y Zaniparutti ;84; Associ-ate News Editors: John J. Ying '84. Burt Kaliski '85. Staff: LauraFarhie '83. Andrew Robbins '83. Sam Cable '85.-Gene Chang '85.Moris D)ovek '85. Joe Killian '85. Charles D. Rubin '85. Joel Gluck'8;6, Richard Mlynarik '86.

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Davied G. Shaw '82. Jon von Zelowitz '83, Robert E. Malchman '85;Indexing Project Representative- A. David Boccuti '79; FacultyAdvisor: Edwin Diamond.

PRODUCTION STAFFFOR THIS ISS/UENigaht Editor: Matt Giamporcaro '85; Staff: V. Michael Bove '83,Trim McNerney '83. Jon von Zelowitz '83, Charlie Brown '84. BillGiuffre '84. Amny S. Gorin '84. Barry S. Surman '84. Tony Zamparutti'84. Bill Coderre '85. Paul G. Gabuzda '85, Ron gloom '86.

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yond words. Where were theseself-appointed guardians of the'public interest' when 60,000 Le-banese and Palestinian civilianswere being mewed down betweeni975 and 1981 ' How much cover-age has been devoted to thegrowth of Beirut during the 1960sand 1970s as the forward base ofthe international terrorist move-ment and allaundering center fordirty petrodollar money'> Howoften has. the diplomatic commu-nity at the United Nations casti-gated the Christians, M oslems,

the regular assasination of West-ern diplomatic personnel inLebanon and the never-endingthreats to the lives of the Leban-

ese President, Prime Minister andNational Assembly Speaker? It ishard to say, but the obnoxiouspersonal characters of Begin and

Sharon come out looking goodwhen compared with the implicitsanction of this violence and na-tional disintegration by public of-

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pie from constant PLO shellingand to free the civilians of Leba-non fromn the horrors of the PLOoccupation. Instead, the forumbegan with a slide show which"documented" the destruction inLebanon. What was neglected tobe mentioned was that much ofthe devastation wreaked in Leba-non and shown in the media oc-curred far before the Israeli inva-sion, during the Lebanese civilwar in which one hundred thou-sand people died. ProfessorChomsky, the keynote speaker atthe forum, normally laudablyskeptical about the media's repre-sentation of fact, apparently hadno difficulty believing hysterical

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teSpDOnabBPilitAt this Thursday's Undergraduate Association General As-

sembly (GA) meeting, the newly-elected body will have the op-portunity to assert leadership sorely lacking in other sectors ofMIT student government. The GA has been asked to considerthe revisions to freshman year pass/fail proposed-by the facultyCommittee on Educational Policy (CEP). Tile GA must articu-late student sentiment on this issue, a job other student leadershave failed to perform. They should direct the UndergraduateAssociation- President to use his speaking privileges at the Oc-tober 20 faculty meeting to express student opinions on this is-sue.

The student proponents of the CEP plan offer mostly hazyand poorly-considered paraphrases of the CEP-report. TheCEP's consideration of revisions to the pass/fail system hasbeen marked by heavy reliance on anecdotal evidence and lackof attention to the needs of MIT's undergraduates. No one hasattempted any serious, thorough study of the effect the propos-als would have on stepping up the pace of an MIT education,especially during the freshman year, when every effort shouldbe made to reduce the amount of pressure to which studentsare subjected.

The CEP seems also to have ignored the educational implica-tions of these changes, mistakenly believing that returningfreshmen to a more formal grading procedure during the springterm provides the only effective means of student evaluationand the sole guarantee that students learn core course material.Rather than focusing attention on MIT's sadly lacking fresh-man advising system, evaluating the often less-than-stellar.quality of freshman instruction, or concentrating on makingthe current subjective feedback mechanism work, the CEP hassent a clear message to freshmen: you may be at the world'sfinest engineering school, but do not expect educational break-throughs at MIT. It is simpler for harried professors to returnto the traditional A-B-C-D-F grading system than to spend afew extra minutes more thoughtfully evaluating a student's per-formance.

The CEP guarantees the new, more formal hidden gradeswill never be released by MIT, but it has made no provisions toinsure these informal grades will not be abused. No one hassaid what will happen when a graduate school insists a studentrelease his grades. Students may feel pressure to do so. Withsome departments already using "hidden grades" in prerequi-site subjects to restrict enrollment in subsequent courses, theCEP's reassurances ring suspiciously hollow.

Another issue the CEP has ignored is one of integrity. It istotally inexcusable to change the pass/fail system to affect thisyear's freshman class, as has been proposed. MIT has a com-mitment to these students to retain the pass/fail evaluation sys-tem they were told would govern their first year in Cambridge,rather than changing the rules in the middle of the game.

The pass/fail issue deserves extended, in-depth discussionamong all members of the MIT community. The CEP shouldbe directed to reconsider its recent efforts, and at the very least,produce more solid evidence to Support the contentions it nowmakes so glibly. The GA must assume the mantle shunned byother student leaders and insure the faculty does not make adecision all of MIT will regret.

Readerer doof dzda eTo the Editor:

In a recent article, The Tech,when describing a forum on Isra-el's invasion of Lebanon, usedthe word "brutal" in regard. tothe Israeli action.. By writing inthis fashion, The Tech has joinedthe rest of the nation's news me-dia in irresponsibly condemningIsrael for the massacre in the ref-ugee camps before an inquiry hasbeen made. In keeping with thistrend, panelists at the forum pre-sented rumors aand half-truths tothe audience as reality.

The news media and membersof- the forum have chosen to for-get that Israel initially invadedLebanon for two humanitarianpurposes: to free their own peos-

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licials and journalists throughoutWestern Europe, North America,fnd the Soviet Union. Everyonemust weep for the families of the300 Palestinians, because theirpassing has been made so utterlytrivial by media 'events' of the re-cent past.

Having untangled the moralcomplexities of the massacrequestion, it is important to in-quire into the reprecussions ofthat event inside Israel. The re-

cent demonstration of 4O0,000 Is-raeli citizens in Tel Aviv is an oddoccurence, the history of Israeland, indeed, Judaism since atleast 70 A.D. has not, in themain, been one of mob reactionto political crises. On the con-trary, Jews have always placed ahigh value on the moral and in-tellectual development of the in-dividual. Whalt the glatering ofroughly 10'S., of the Israeli popu-I~ltion indicaites, paradoxically, isthe long-term popularity of' thePrime Minister's. political party

fnd its founding ideals. Beginand his successors depend uponthe growing proportion of' Orien-tal Jews being born in Isralel toconvert Zionismi from al socialisttand Western concept championedby the Labor Party into a pro-foundly conservative and com-bative' force in the Middle E.1st.It is their Spirit of anti-Arabisiland xenophohia. not that of thepetiL bourgeoisalnd the iltellectu-all, which will deternine thecourse of Israel for the foresee-atble tuture.

The Orientallizattion of' Israelwill Soon crerlte .1 crisis in rela-tions between lsralel aind the Westthalt should put the tactical blun-ders of the Rea;gLn yearLs toshame. When Isralel becoines in-distinlguishablle i n demo>grap hicmLlid cultur;al terms f'rona the ArabNvorid, will the United States andits Jew ish colmiluntity lend SLIp-

po~rt to rl stllta with k-hich theyc.ln filndf little common11011 groundsWill the Oriental' Jews remellimberthe counitless acts of' kindille.ss.lnd couralge that halve dc'incdUJ.S. relaltiolns with Isralelis overthe past thirty- four ylears? Willthey recall that the vellu of' Isram-el. beyond being Li refuge for vic-

timns of' the Hllocaust 11md gelner-al anlti-Selmlilioln, lay· prcriscvl inits exper imental nagture in itsablity to lv in the l'.icc of' thenmcidiocritv that is mlodlern Ar~iiculture:> Will thev recall tha;t the

hairs geopolitical position of' Is-rlcl anld its retl'ustLi to ilnteiralte

'Arith the rest ol' the Middle Easstcrcltcd a soart of' high-hrrowedaInd pra-lmatti ic Ica.dership (ill 1he1'orm (M' iCh1 Girlri-mon, Neir,Dayanli anld Weilzman1) tha~t is 01filllIlltllSC V;A ' LtIC the present ito .rudderless M"'esterll Ci\vilielzim l 'n It

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thur Lee's Tuesday, September28, columrn regarding the revisionof Japanese textbooks. Lee failedto properly explain the textbookselection process in Japan.

The Ministry of Education ap-proves textbooks for use in Japa-nese high schools. When review-ing a textbook, the Ministrymakes recommendations and sug-gestiops to the publishers. Rec-ommendations must be followedfor the textbooks to be approved;however, suggestions are option-al. The Ministry suggested revi-sions in the textbooks to changethe Japanese invasion of China toan "advance." Other suggestedchanges included the NankingMassacre and the- Korean nation-.li uprisings. Since they were sug-gestions, the publishers were notcompelled to follow them. TheMinistry approves several text-books for use in high school his-tory classes. Solue of them de-

scribe the Japanese invasion inChinaL as an invasion, others de-scribe it as an advance. The ap-proved textbooks represent a va-riety of viewpoints and it is up tothe individual school to decidewhich one to use.

In writing this letter, I do notmean to imply that the Japanesegovernment is free from anywrongdoing. I agree with Leethat "The Japanese people of to-day and tomorrow must knowwhat really happened." However,the final decision as to what"really happened" rests with theschools and teachers in their pre-sentation of the material.

What really prompted me towrite this letter was Lee's asser-tion that "Japanese militarismmay well be on the rise again."Among the reasons he gives tosupport his assertion Is the in-crease in Japan's defense budget.(The current defense budget isslightly over one percent of theGNP.) Anyone with even a su-

perficial knowledge of Japanesesociety or politics would knowthat this statement is simply ludi-crous. Japaln's self-defense force isill-equipped to protect the coun-try against any major attack,much less launch a military cam-paign. Further, the Japanese con-stitution explicitly prohibits theintroduction, production, or de-ployment of nuclear weapons. Fi-nally, there is no other country inthe world that has suffered theravages of nuclear war. The hor-ror of Hiroshima is still verystrong in the minds of the Japa-nese. They are determined to seethat this kind of tragedy will notbe repeated.

James Mihori '83

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Add date is Friday, October 15;the Registrar's Office will not ac-cept add/drop cards without allof the necessary signatures. TheUndergraduate Academic Sup-port Office, 7-103, urges studentsto obtain all signatures well be-fore deadlines to avoid petition-ing the CAP for approval of alate change. If your advisor is un-available, contact your under-graduate officer or departmentheadquarters.

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khe massacre, he convenientlyargot that the ~Phalanlgists, not~he Israelis, pulled the trigger.jhile the Israeli government~ight have behaved foolishly,hornsky should stick to thetrth, not wild innuendo, if he

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aiviaitor s were oftecn outnlumberediri the Pacif~ic, they almlostt alwayssheld their own. In one ba~ttic(which went down in history as~the "'Marlanas Turkey Shoot"))the Am~ericans destroyed 3 15 Jap-anese aircrart while losing only23 of their own planes. Major SC-vcrsiky wasS right = the w;1r wasSoiie by the side with the best air-craft1`, C'vel though they %veren'tthe cheapest.

By and larg~e, the inhabita~ntsor the Pentagon know their jobhs.Theity a~re prof~essional militarv4men. arnd they Lire not stupid.Thehir duty is to provide the Unit-ed Statecs with the best rightingI'o rce o n the Earth, and theythenisclves are probatbly the betstaiuthorities on how to do tha~t. 11'Co n g res s were to give them Li1fixed amrount or nioney each yaerto a~llocatett as they pleased, wewo~uld probably have the: bestfighting F~orce on Earth availablefo~r that suni. The problem conreswhco politicians, who in generalknow comparatively little aboutin titry Inatters, get involved inthe allocation process. Then thePentagon has to stop making de-cisioins and start currying favors.Congre~ssmen are loatth to allo-cate: money for unglarnorousthingls like Inaintenance, training,andi spare parts, so these: areasget neglected in lfavor of glamor-ous new high-tech weapons,which themselves need spareparts which are rarely provided.Congress should stop trying tointerfere in the anffatirs osf thearnied services and let them goabout their business of keepingthe United States and her allies

secu re. Stewatrt Cobb '83

MaIrk Temopler's column in lastF-riday'~s (October I's) Tec~ acd-dressed the therne that "'the Pen-tagon has not spent our [defense]nioney wiselY." Unforunately, hisco~lumn suf'fered from the inclu-sion of a couple of popular rmis-conceptions.

The misconception implicit(but neve r actually stated) in hiscolumn is that the Pentagon,likes the nation's defense sp~end-ing decisions. This was true o~nce,but is true no longer. As at result01' various. reforms over the lasttwerity years (designed, ironically,to improvel the defense procure-pent process), the procurementarill of the P'entag~on has been re--duced to little more than a salesforce. They outline for Congressvarious defense options,· andC'ongress decides which ones-tof'und. It is no~surprise that Con-gressmlen (who are as gadget hap-py as the rest of us) often choosethe moust technologically ad-vanced weapons sytem, whichmav not be the system which%works best in practice. ?The Pen-tagon may not agree with the de-cisions of Congress, but it isfo~rced to take what it can get.

It was not always thus. Whenthe Pentagon was in charge of itsow·.n spending, it tende-ad to make,,

Isurprisingly good decisions. TheB-52 bomber is a case in point.After twenty-five years and atleast twvo attemapts-to replace it(the X B-70 and the B- IA). the 8-52 is still the primary strategicbomber of the United States. Al-though the original specificationscalled for a 3,000 hour operatinglifetime, every b-52 still in servicehas flown- at -lealst-9,000--bo-ur~s,and many htave flown 12,Q000bours and more. The B-52 hasbeen sucessfully adapted to low-level tactical bombing missions(in Vietnam), which are the polaropposite of the high-altitude stra-tepic missions for which it wasoriginally designed. So well hasthe B-52 performed that there is

currently a proposal before· C'on-gree to replace the engines of'somee of the newest B-52's("only" tenm to fifteen years old)so that their service lives can beextended still further. The B-52bomber is a testiinony to thePentagon's aliRity to make wisespending decisions when it is al-lowed to do so.

The second mniscnception inTempnler's colunin is that "largenumbers of simple, inexpensive"weapons systeins are necessarrilybetter than smnaller numbers ofmlore costly but more advwincedweae~pons. This ideat is not alwaysvpuntrue, but neither is it afwwavstrue. The choice between wea~p-oilns systems m1ust relyv on the rela-tive mnerits of the individuallweapons, rather than on somei

The homnosexual living in gen-era~lly friendly Bo0ston/!Canibridgemlay becamelt dangerously com-placent. It Is oftien the media thatalerts us to the presence of hos-tile citizens. Thus Tlhe 'Fecft is tobe thanked fo~r publishing in itsSeptembe~r 28S, Fecedback section aletter fromn "Names withheld byrequest" comnplaining of an ad-

vertisernent rn the September 17issue for the Hottest College JockC~on test.

Frankly, howe~ver, it read mlorelike a case· of sour grapes to i-e.And it's certainly worth notingthart it's now the bigots. insteadof' the hom~sosexuals, asking thattheir namelts not be published.

D~avid C'. Van Hoy

There were several inaccuraciest~in Jerri-Lvnn Scofield's column.. Frosh need pass/1'ail" (TheIi~ch,~ Frida~y. Septemnber 24) that,b-ear correction and classification..-rhese staiiencnts deal directlywith Ithe published version of' theCommrittee on Educationa~l P'li-c~y's (CEt:P's) Recommnren dationsn on the Freshmien Year.

The need f'or better instructor/student/ardvisor commlunicationhas been· well-established. Ac--cording to a study conducted bythe Undergraduate AcademnicSupport Office, only a very -,mallpercentage of freshmen receiveevarluation formis btack at the endof spring term..

Thie current narrative formts are:not, being replaced: they are: beingau Fete. he proposed check-

off boxes are mandatory only atthe end of faltl term, and the useof' the narrative mode of evalua-tion is actively encouragedthrough the First three evaluationperiods. (However, the narrative

W.()Lld hC: Supplanted by an inter-nal gradrft at the end I>'~r ngterm,. with a na~rrartive requiredonI1v 1li)r thosSe studeL'ts r ececvintn

Comnplete internal gra~desu/ould be comrputed and reportedI`Or the spring terml oniv. ALccord-

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students could not obtain a gradeil' it were computed only thatth~ere~ is no formnal mnechanisma todo so.

We: encourage all students to

reread the proposal as publishedin September 22's Tech~ 'rarlk ifanyorne has questions or com-mentrs, please contact any CEP1memrber. (if you don't know one,contact Steven Barber '84 at x(5-6121.)

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against the PLO slaughter of Le'-banese Christians. ·Perhaps, if allof us had done so earlier, the Is-raelis woulda not haave had to in-vade. Before we parcel outblamne, let us-look to ourselves.

Ruth Riotman '83(Editor'.v note:= The passage inquestsion stated thatr the jour pan-elisis descr~pibed the L~vraeli behavior~as brutal. The Tech shaould notini~srepresema what they? said. If thepanelists called the behavior bru-tal, it is our responsihifity to re-port their woruds.)

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Baseball - After eight straightwins, the team's record drops to8-2 with a pair of losses, Friday8-3 to Bentley and Saturday 4-2to Brandeis.Mens Crew - At the annual Tex-tile River Regatta in Lowell Sun?-day, the eight-man varsity squadfinished second, 1.4 seconds be-hind Boston University.

In the four-man event, howev-er, MIT did not fare as well,coming in fourth behind CoastGuard's "A" and "B" boats andHoly Cross.Men's Cross Country - Anotherclose. loss, this time 26-29 toLowell Saturday dropped themen's record to 1-3 on the year.Women's Cross Country - Withtheir finest showing in two yearsof varsity competition, the wom-en defeated all five of the otherteams participating in a meetheld at Franklin Park Saturday.The scores were MIT 71, Lowell.78, Tufts 80, Brandeis and KeaneState 96, and Coast Guard 105.The top finisher for the Engi-neers was Sarah de Leon'85, whofinished fourth overall with atime of 19:32.Field Hockey - A 6-0 loss atClark Saturday dropped theteam's record to 3-2 on the year.M~enss Sailing - Competing inthe Danmark Trophy at theCoast Guard Academy Sunday,the men's team finished ninth inthe seventeen-team field" beatingYale, Brown, and Dartmouth,among others. Leading the waywas captain Bruce Klein'83, whofinished sixth in the "A" division.Women's Sailing -Sunday, M IThosted the New England Inter-collegiate Single-handed Cham-pionships in which team co-cap-

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(Continuedfrom page 12)in, tying up the game- at thatpoint. However, even with con-stant effort, the Engineers' of-fense could not generate anymore points, and the score re-mained tied up at 1-l. at the endof regulation.

The game wvas then sent into aten-minute overtime period. Bothteams failed to score, with Batesunable to manage a single shoton goal. In the second ten-minuteoverti me period, MlT's defenseremained impregnable, complete-ly shutting out Bates' offense.With 4:24 remaining, the Engi-neers went all out for one bigpush on Bates' goal. FullbackBusa passed the ball to MalcolmDuke '83, who slipped by the de-

iense and scored the winning goalfor MIT.

Commenting on the team's sec-ond victory of the season, CoachWalter Alessi said,"ln the firsthalf, we didn't play that well. ButI guess we woke up in the secondhalf and played better soccer.Our defense was good, eve,,though we didn't capitalize onsome good scoring opportunities.If we had, I think we could halewon during regulation time."

Defeating Bates was not easc:and MIlT's next opponent mulleven be tougher. The Engineerswill face Brandeis, nationally rawt-ed the number one Division IIIcollege in soccer, today at homein Steinbrenner Stadium. Thegame starts at 3:00 pm.

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Saturday, the team competedin the Greater Boston Tourna-ment and finished seventh in theseven-team field.Woments Volleyball- A 3-2 win

over Eastern Nazarene Saturdayupped the team's record to 10-1,a record equal to that of lastyear's team at this point in theseason.Water Polo - MIT defeatedArmy 14-11 in the MIT Invita-tional, raising their record to 5-2.The tournament schedule was ab-breviated when RPI dropped outof the competition.

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half, MIT came back out alive-and kicking. The Engineers out-shot Bates 5-2. With co-captainJohn Busa X83, three time GreaterBoston Lcague All-Star, back asthe sweeper on defense, the Engi-neers completely shut down anygenuine offensive threats fromBates.

With a strong defense behindthem, the MIT offense quicklywent to work. At 10:23 of thesecond half, halfback GuillermoAbadia '83 set up a shot fortealmmate and co-captain, JohnEnglish '83. The ball went sailing

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By Arthur LeeUnder clear blue skies and

beautiful field conditions, themen's soccer team defeated BatesCollege in double overtime by ascore of 2-1 at Steinbrenner Sta-diurn last Saturday, as the Engi-neers upped their record to 2-3.

In the First half, Bates domi-nated the MIT baLckfield, puttingsome heavy pressure on the de-tense. Outshot I1-5, the MIT de-tense finally broke down, allow-ing one goal. But they managedto keep the score to a 1-0 deficitLit hailftime.

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Worcester State S"aturday to faceal team ranked number two in thenation and was completely domi-nated, losing 42-3. The Engi-neers' record is now even at 2-2.

Entering the garne second inthe leIague in defense, MlIT wasunalble to c0olttain the much iarg-er Lancers and gave up three un-atnswered touchdowns before line-baccker Jon Opaalski '84 intercept-ed a Sean Mahoney pass to setup . thirty-two-yard Field goal byToml Hastings G in the second.quarters making the score 21-3.

Worcester State scored onemore touchdown in the half andtwo more in the fourth quarter tocom)plete the rout. In all. theLancers comnpiled 413 yards whilelimniting their visitors to 89.

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g.amlre for the Engineers wats JohnL)DRubeil '83, who hold three re-captionS foor tOrty-nine yards and

six kickofl returns for a totld of127 Crdns icluding a tforty-sxeen-yatrd return 1ate in the emilc.

Lastl vesar Worccster State wonthe :onlerexnce title with an 8-0record, outscoring opposition277-86. So far this year. thel.ancers are 3-0 and have outs-

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stands a very good chance ofwinning. Thatt game will takeplacte il Steinbrenner Studitimand is scheduled to begin atI:30pm7.

Tech file photoIntramural loating Division Championships were held this weekend. Be sure to catch the exciting play-offs sometime next weekend.

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