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"'There is a growing concern at and causing aMIT about the financial aid pic- said. MIT currcture," said Associate Provost deficit of betweFrank E. Perkins '55 at an open $14 million, asforum on financial aid last H. Cowen, vic(Wednesday. '"The cost of running nancial operati(the financial aid system" is forc- "WNe should ting MIT to "wonder how it can ey as equitablycontinue its present policies." as possible," i

Perkins, chairman of the Aca- does not havedemic Council task force on fi- aid to meet allnancial aid policy, said he is not "We are conspecifically concerned with set- or help you mting tuition and self-help levels (Please thfor next year. Instead, his com-mittee will consider MIT's poli- _" i

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to financial need, financial aid tbased solely on financial need,and uniformity in the self-help re- M ITy Ivcaquired of students receiving aid. MIT officialh

The task force is considering W2e which hotan "admit-and-deny" policy, dent studecwhereby-the Institute would failto meet students' full financial.need by a fixed amount, Perkinsexplained. The committee is alsostudying the "more onerous"policy of ta king need into ac-count in the admissions process.

The MIT Black StudentsUnion and La Unibn Chicana porAztlbn presented a statement op-posing elimination of need-blindadmissions at the forum. [Page2.]

"We do nrot try to put a quotaon the ... financial aid of afreshman class," said Leonard V.Gallagher '54, Director of Stu-dent Financial Aid. "Financialaid is awarded strictly on the ba-sis of need."

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a violations fore I'RSA to losestudy the situation before anyfurther renovation takes place, in-dicated Peter H. Brown, assistantdean for student affairs.

"Before any renovation,"Brown said, the committee wouldlike to see if NRSA is a "healthy,viable organization [to deter-mine] whether there is any justifi-cation for this kind of expense."He continued, "NRSA will havea chance to justify its use of thespace. The committee- has notworked out a plan."

The chairman of the ad hoccommittee, Associate Dean forStudent Affairs Robert, A. Sher-wood, said his committee will ad-dress the status of NRSA4 andmake a recommendation on thefuture use of the building. Hesuggested that groups such as thenew sorority, international stu-dents, the Women's ResourceCenter, and graduate studentsmay be interested in the use ofthe building.

NRSA President Julia A. God-dard '84 and Vice President Jef-

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m K. FongIs closed Buildingised the Non-Resi-nt Association-

(NRSA), on January, 13 as a re-sult of safety and building codeviolations cited by Cambridgecity inspectors.

The MIT Safety Office, the Of-fice of the Dean for Student Af-fairs (ODSA), and Physical Plantdecided to close the facility afterCambridge building inspectorsfound numerous safety andbuilding code violations, includ-ing improperly grounded wiring,lack of smoke detectors, an ob-structed fire escape, and poorlydesigned stairwells, according toSafety Office Director John M.Fresina.

The ODSA is in the process ofobtaining a Cambridge approvedcertificate of occupancy for the30 year old building, Fresinasaid, but he does not know howlong it will take.

Cambridge officials inspectedthe building in December and in-fomed MIT of the violations ear-ly this month, according toNRSA tutor Robert E. Piret G.He was allowed to move back aweek after the building wasclosed, Piret indicated, and thebuilding will soon be open forday use.

An ad hoc committee on stu-dent activity space will further

At least twenty-five or thirtystudents leave MIT each year be-cause of financial problems, not-ed Dean for Student Affairs Shir-ley M. McBay.

Student financial need totalled$21.75 million this year, Gal-lagher said. Grants meet 57 per-cent of the need, and MIT unres-tricted funds provide one-third ofgrant payments. MIT's endow-ment and outside sources provide43 percent of grants.

Financial aid must stop draw-

Tech photo by Laurie S. GoldmanMIT closed NRSA's building because it failed to meet safety coderequirements. Medical Department before the

Health Services Center (BuildingE23) opened a year ago.

Information Processing Ser-vices is moving from Building 39to allow the entire building to beused for research in very largescale integration (VLSI). IPS willmove its terminals and printersfrom the second floor of Building39 to the second and third floorsof Building I I.-

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By Daniel J. WeidmanInformation Processing Ser-

vices (IPS), the Joint ComputerFacility (JCF), and an MITGraphic Arts "Quick Copy Cen-ter" will move into the HornbergBuilding (Building I11) late thisspring, according to PhysicalPlant Construction CoordinatorWilliam H. Combs '54.

The Homberg Building, locat-ed next to buildings 3 and 7 onthe main corridor, housed the

By FRoderick A. Dick'MIT and Harvard are joining

with the City of Cambridge todevelop a computer educationprogram for the city's publicschools.

Cambridge Mayor Alfred E.Vellucci organized's committee toplan the program after discussingthe need for computer literacywith US Senator Paul E. Tsongas(D-Mass.), the mayor said.

The United States must facethe high technology challenge ofJapan and other internationalcompetition, Tsongas has stressedrepeatedly. "The Japanese are do-ing well now economically and

are still taking advantage of theUS economy," he said Friday.

"Tsongas's message is clear,"stated Vellucci in a proposal forthe Cambridge school system."Either America faces up to thehigh technology challenge of Ja-pan and others or we face the fu-ture unable to compete."

Vellucci's committee - whichincludes representatives of Tson-gas's office, the city, the two uni-versities and private industry -is forming a non-profit organiza-tion to develop a prototype pro-gram for the Cambridge publicschools.

Although details of the pro-gram are still being discussed,Vellucci said, students will be giv-en exposure to both software andhardware before graduating fromhigh school.

MITand Harvard will contrib-ute educational and technologicalexpertise, and state and federalgovernment and private grantswill help pay for the program.

If the program proves success-ful, other cities in Massachusettsand throughout the nation maybegin similar programs, Velluccisaid.

MIT representatives to thecommittee include Walter L.Milne, special assistant to thepresident for urban relations,John P. Terry of the Office of theProvost, and Professor Judah L.Schwartz.

Gerald Indelicato representsGovernor Michael S. Dukakis onthe program committee. Execu-tive Assistant to the Mayor Rich-ard McKinnon, Superintendentof Schools William Lannon, andVellucci represent the city govern-ment.

Are you a freshman?Should you start your thesistomorrow? See IvanFong's column and find out.Page 4.

Arts department getslost in space. Page 7.

It's raining pink and green.Page I 0.

The track team is backon track with the first win infour games. The nextmeet is this Friday.Page 11.

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"There is a real problem: Peo-ple who are prepared to donate" Brg S atawould rather give moey for a The MIT Black Students Union and La Union Chicana pornew program than for financialbztlan (formerly the Mexican-American Students Association)aid, Perkins said. The last major issued a statement last Wednesday opposing changes in MIT'sdo nation for financial aid, he lneed-blind" admissions policy and increases in the equity level,

donation for financil a, Ktha e or minimum amount of self-support, not including summer

sacCormick wa 4m in 1968K earnings, required of students receiving financial aid.Such changes, the two groups claimed, would "discriminate

The Office of the Dean for on the basis of income, specifically against those minorityStudent Affairs (ODSA) and the groups that have lower incomes than majority. Americans," thusUndergraduate Association (UA) decreasing the diversity of the MIT student body.sponsored the forum, which was "M'ore efforts should be made to develop alternative sourcesattended by approximately fifty of funds," the groups stated. "Financial aid should be the firststudents and Fifteen faculty and priority when determining the allocation of unrestricted funds."staff members. Another open The equity level for the current academic year is $4000, ormeeting will be held February 23 28.9 percent of the Institute's estimated undergraduate studentfrom 3:30 to 5:30pm in room 6- budget and average travel expenses of $13,850.120.

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A student receiving an outsidescholarship, Perkins 'noted, willhave aid reduced in another area.For this reason, he indicated,some groups will not award ascholarship to MIT students andsome students avoid applying forscholarships.

M IT would change the policy ifthe incentive to apply for scholar-ships would then increase, Per-kins claimed, but he said he doesnot think that likely. MIT stu-dents presently receive $2.5 mil-lion in outside awards.

Financial aid- is "a zero-sumgame," Perkins commented."You don't have any way of get-ting luxuries," he added, andthere is no incentive for summerearnings.

Summer earnings are based ona student's year, Gallagher said,not on figures reported by theCollege Scholarship Service(CSS). An increase in summerearnings, he said, will decreasePell Grant eligibility, but if needis high enough, MIT will supple-ment the grant.

Faculty salaries are driven upby competition from private in-dustry, Cowen added. Endow-ment income and unrestricted in-come are not keeping pace withinflation, he said.

A science and technology edu-cation is more expensive than onein the humanities, Perkins said."Giving levels here are low," andthe cost of the educational pro-gram has gone up much fasterthan inflation.

The total academic budget is$140 million, according to VicePresident Constantine B. Simon-ides. Tuition payments total $72million, and unrestricted fundsprovide the difference- The en-dowment of other top schools is

IPS, 9CF(Continuedfrom page 1)

IPS will also use a conferenceroom in the penthouse above theHomberg Building's fourth floor.The IPS MULTICS computersystem will be moved from thethird floor of Building 39 toBuilding W91 at the far west endof campus, Combs said.

The Joint Computer Facilitywill move from its present localtion in Building 1 to a more visi-ble location on the first floor of

Building 11, Combs said.Graphic Arts will move its

copy center from the basement ofBuilding 3 to the basement ofBuilding II.

The Admissions Office andBuilding Services departmenthave expressed interest in thespace that will be vacated whenthe JCF and Graphic Arts movetheir operations.

The Industrial Liaison Pro-gram (ILP) will also move from

fices, the move will consolidatethe program's offices in onebuilding, said ILP AdministrativeAssistant Katherine K. Allen.The Kendall Square/CambridgeCenter area is becoming "quitedesirable," she said.

The second and third floors ofBuilding II are now in the finaldesign stages. The first floor de-signs are still preliminary, and thebasement design is not yet under-way, Combs said.

Building 39, taking up new quar-ters on the fourth and fifth floorsof the Suffolk Building (BuildingE38) at Main and CarletonStreets, said Combs. The ILP,which serves as a liaison betweenMIT and private industry, is pres-ently located not only in Building39, but also in Buildings 4 and1'0.

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Terrorists sentenced in Rome - Thirty-two men and women,-members of the Red Brigades terrorist orginization were sentenced tolife imprisonment Monday~for crimes including the kidnapping andmurder of former prime minister Aldo Moro. in all, 23 people wereconvicted of kidnapping and murdering Moro, and 40 other defen-dants with a total of I11 murders, I11 attempted murders and 4 kidnap-pings between 1976 and 1980. Five bodyguards were killed whenMoro was abducted in Rome in March 1978. The former prime minis-ter's body was not found until 55 days later.

N ativonDodd opposes Salvadoran aid -US Senator Christopher Dodd(D-Conn.), returning from a fact-finding trip to El Salvador, said heopposes US military aid to the Central American country. The SenateForeign Relations Committee begins hearings next week to decide.whether to approve the $25 million in military aid the Reagan Admin-istration wants to provide. The President recently claimed military aidto El Salvador is justified, because the human rights situation in thecountry has "improved." Dodd estimated between 200 and 250 civil-ianls are killed monthly in the continuing guerilla war.

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practice "Controlled Ambition"- -the philosophy that enticesstudents to begin problem setsthe night before they are due andtempts them to think, "Whystudy now for the exam when Ican save time by cramming la-ter?" It is the philosophy whosecentral tenet is "Don't do toomuch today, because then you'll-have nothing to do tomorrow."

I have found many MIT stu-dents, myself included, succumb-ing to the practice of such an an-ti-work ethic. Why such a work-only-when-under-the-gun philos-ophy? On the surface, it wouldseem that MIT students developthis masochistic attitude in re-sponse to severe pressures ontheir -time - starting a problemset the week before it is due is thetoughest thing in the world to do,especially when one is already aweek behind. There is more to-Controlled Ambition, however,than mere procrastination. Itpoints to an inherent characteris-tic of an MIT undergraduate edu-cation.

'Whom do you admire more,the student who learns his stuffbut doesn't get good grades, orthe student who doesn't learn thematerial as well but manages toget good grades?"

The freshman who asked methat question was perplexed.With hidden.grades second term,'he felt he would probably workharder than he did first term, butstill concentrate on learning thesubject material, as he did firstterm.

"I take it you didn't feel youdid very well first term," I said.

"Right," he said, '"I didn't. Butthat, I thought, was the mainpurpose behind freshman pass/fail. I didn't have to worry aboutgrades."

I agreed, but, to help answerhis question, offered a simple-minded analogy. "Which com-pany do you admire more," Iasked, "the one that serves itscustomers by making a. qualityproduct, or one that maximizesits profits?"

He thought for a 'moment, andanswered that while he character-ized most companies as having asingle-minded pursuit of profits,the company that built the better

product would probably succeedmore in the long run.

"Well," I observed, drawing onmy business acumen, "might it bethat just as grades should be a re-flection of one's understanding ofthe course material, profits are 'acompany's way of measuring howwell they are serving their custo-mers?"

I sensed he was not-convinced."Yes, but in an ideal world, if acompany builds a better widgetor whatever, then the assumptionis that profits will come. Similari-ly, and in theory, if one learns thematerial, one can expect goodgrades. But experience does notalways show this to be true," heargued.

"Then," I replied, "it boilsdown to the purpose of an educa-tion: is it to get good grades or tolearn something? Does a com-pany want to make a profit or toserve the community? How doesone measure success?"

"In any case," I continued, "Ireally don't admire either ofthem. Both are cheating them-selves in one way or another -whether it be not getting. thegrades one deserves, or not get-ting the education the other de-serves. Besides, there are otherfactors, such as study habits forthe student, or advertising andmarketing -strategies for the com-pany, that can make a differenceand make the question muchmore complicated."

The pressure on college stu-dents for good grades can bestrong. Graduate schools, em-ployers, parents, peers, and self-motivation all compete to addfuel to the fire. But who is fool-ing whom? Does a corporationhave an obligation to make prof-its to keep its share of stock-holders happy? More often thannot, it's the tangible goals, likegrades or profits, that motivatepeople.

Nevertheless, I complimentedthis freshman on his noble at-tempt to place learning beforegrades.

"Just wait until next year," hesaid with a smile.

With the first phase of thisyear's trial writing requirementcompleted, many freshmen willbe forced to confront their inabil-ity to write. I say "forced," notbecause I want freshmen to disre-gard the fact that this year's test

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the rtindreal in the twentieth century. Themass atrocities committed in Sta-iin's Russea, Hitler's Germany,and Mao's China were astonish-ing in their brutality and totality.And although we have alwaysvowed, "Never again," we haveonce again seen an entire nationengulfed tby unspeakable terror.

The nation is Cambodia, oneof the dominoes in the much-ma-ligned domino theory. Throughthe accounts of refugees, govern-ment and United Nations.studies,and investigative journalism, wehave learned about the wretchedfate of that country.

Back in April of 1975, PolPot's Khmer Rouge Communistinsurgents captured Phnom Penhand destroyed the remainingfragments of the Lon Nol regime.Then they turned Cambodia intoHell on Earth.

The Khmer Rouge -evacuatedall of Cambodia's cities, forcingeveryone- including hospitalpatients D to march into thecountryside. Those who resistedwere shot. Phnom Penh, a city ofthree million, became a ghosttown overnight. Many peopledied of illness, exhaustion, orstarvation du ring the arduousmarch from the cities.

Once the people had reachedthe countryside, Angkar, theCommunist Party of Cambodia,stripped them of their belongings- even their cooking utensils.They executed those who hadhad any standing before the revo-lution - writers, engineers,teachers, merchants, monks.They put everyone, children in-cluded, to work at forced labor,cutting down trees, sowing rice,

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Aid forum CTo the Editor.

I attended the financial aidtask force open forum lastWednesday afternoon. I was dis-appointed with the showing onboth sides, but I was mostashamed by the type of discus-sion that the students presentwere. most interested in pursuing.Instead of a discussion of thelong-term financial problems fac-ing MIT and the student commu-nity, or even an interest amongthe students for a better under-standing of how the alumni's andgovernment's money is distribut-ed amfong MIT students, themain topic of conversation was inmy view irrelevant and absurdlyselfish. Students wanted to knowhow they could get around thefederal law governing how muchextra money students can makebefore they have to start givingfinancial aid back. One vocal stu-dent stated that he would like to

Why can we not have a mean-ingful dialogue with the adminis-tration about subjects-that are soimportant to us both? I wouldlike to discuss and hear discussedsubjects of a more pertinent na-ture. What about the number ofpeople forced to leave? Is it pos-sible that there are inequities inthe way the existing monies aredistributed? How is it that MITstudents could refuse to generateincome for the financial aid sys-tem by seeking outside moniesand scholarships that could easilybe theirs? And, most importantly,what can we do to help insurethat the policies of aid-blind ad-missions and meritbased finan-cial aid be preseored-in the fu-ture?

Joseph Izatt '84

centive to do so because the In-

stitute would then reclaim part ofhis financial aid. If indeed it isthe case that most students on fi-nancial aid at MIT find them-selves disadvantaged because the

government will not give themfree money and a car too, thenperhaps there is something wrongwith the system - unfortunately,I know too many students receiv-ing little or no financial aid whodon't have so many troubles.

Leonard Gallagher and the fi-nancial aid people who ran themeeting were more polished thanthe students, but not necessarilybetter prepared. When asked howmany students leave MIT everyyear for financial reasons, Gal-lagher and his entire staff drew acomplete blank. Surely they are

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shown in this film was very Well, Apocalypse Now was justshocking and frightening. We all a film, but the suffering and fear

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always done. Thus, for me thecost of a soda has gone up tencents, and for no good reason.And even if you do take yourcans to a redemption center, youonly get half of the price increaseback - you're still out an extranickel for each can.

Where do all those nickels and.dimes go? Several cents per cansimply disappear, to cover thedistributors' increased costswhich are a direct result of thebottle bill. Two cents go to theoperators of the redemption cen-ters. (The residents of East Cam-pus, being quick on the uptake,are trying to get their dorm de-clared a redemption center, sothat they can recycle a bit moreof the price hike.) Some of the re-maining nickels go to the thriftyfew among us who save all oftheir cans; the rest are discardedalong with the cans that the restof us throw out.

If the cans remained in thetrash, Lauricella would effectivelyget a gift of five cents for eachone. However, they probablywon't. The Central Square indi-gents are not likely to let such anopportunity pass them by. At fivecents a can, if you have a lot offree time and a good source ofcans, you could probably make agodd- bit of money (by their stan-dards, anyway). I predict that,before too long, we will frnd peo-ple rummaging through MIT'strash barrels to find the valuablecans that the rich and carelessstudents have discarded., But theywon't roam the, streets cleaningup cans,, because the cans aregenerally spread too thinly; it'sessentially a mining activity, andMIT is the motherlode.

The sapposed purpose of thebottle bill was to keep drink con-tainers from cluttering up the en-vironment. Its results, at leastaround MIT, turn out to be total-ly different. Those of us who'vebeen dropping our cans in thetrash all along are fined a dimefor each drink; those of us whochange our habits to include lug-ging empty cans around are fined"only" a nickel each time; andsome Central Square bums willspend their -time pawing throughour trash, hoping to collect partof those fines.

The Taxachusetts eco-freakshave brought this mess uponthemselves, and I hope they likeit. I just wish they hadn't broughtit upon the rest of us as well.

You may have noticed that,since you left for Christmas vaca-tion, the price -of a soda from oneof the Coke machines that dotthe Institute has jumped twenty-odd percent, from 35 to 45 cents.You might, at first, think that SalLauricella, who runs all thosemachines, had suddenly decidedto triple his profits, but it turnsout that he's making no moremoney than he did before. Infact, if you voted in the Mlassa-chusetts election last November,the odds are better than even thatyou have no one but yourself toblame.

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What does that mean? Well, atfirst glance it means an instantfive-cent rise in the price ofdrinks.The distributors can't ab-sorb the cost of redeeming thedeposits, so they pass it on to theconsumers. Actually, it's worsethan that, because the distribu-tors have to pay two more centsper can to the "redemption cen-ters" to make redeeming contain-ers worth their while. In addition,the distributors have a whole newproblem' of transportation andrecord-keeping, which adds stillmore to the cost of the can.From the distributor's point ofview, a ten-cent rise in the cost ofa drink is not only reasonable,but necessary.

So you're paying ten centsmore for every soda. If you're adedicated penny-pincher, you canget half of that back by hangingon to your can until you get to aredemption center. For most ofus, however, that's not cost-effec-tive. I'm not going to carry-anempty soda can through threehours of classes for a lousy nickel- I'm going to pitch it in thenearest trash barrel, just as I've

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Refugees who escaped told oftheir forced labor at gunpoint,the total lack of medicine, thelack of shelter. People who werenot soldiers subsisted on rice: oneeight-ounce tin per day for six,eight, ten, or more people. Fam-ilies died off, one by one, fromexposure, malnutrition, insanity,and rampant disease. Those whoresisted or displayed "individual-ist tendencies" were executed. Asone refugee said, "So little is al-lowed that you don't know whatthey might shoot you for." An-other pointed out, "Gin its [Ang-kar's] name, the power of life anddeath is vested in the hands ofthe lowliest soldier." The terrorexperienced by those people ishard to imagine.

Some Cambodians managed toescape Angkar by fleeing into thejungle. I recently met one whomade it to America. He said hehad eaten leaves and tree4 barkto survive. He was lucky- heescaped, and only three of his fa-mily's ten members died underPot Pot's regime. He had onething to say about Communism:"Soviet, China, Vietn~am, Poi Pot~- they ail same. Bad."

But it is really impossible todescribe fully the horror of Com-munist Cambodia. It boggles themind. As one escapee hass said, "I'lost track of the terrible things Isaw there. Every article, everybook I have read about Cambo-dia under the Khmer Commru-nists is a pale copy of the wretch-ed, ghastly original."

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But in recent years, the truthhas emerged. The mass graveshave been found. The refugeesare being listened to. And the de-mographers have been counting.It is estimated that two to threenillion people in a nation of sev-

en million died under Pot Pot'sthree-and-one-half-year rule. Sixmonths ago, the West was horri-fied at the sight of hundreds ofmassacred Palestinians at Sabraand Shatila. But two to three mil-lion, dead, is beyond our compre-hension.

I think the people of Cambo-dia now understand that the priceof freedom must be eternal vigi-lance. And I hope that we in theWest realize it, too.

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Tuesday, January 18; lecture sponsored bythe MIT Lecture series Committee.

James Doohan, known to the civilizedworld as Chief Engineer MontgomeryScott of the U.S.S. Enterprise, arrived onthe Kresge stage last week to the sound ofwild and prolonged applause from an au-dience packed with devoted Trekkies andinterested fans. Doohan, a charismatic andlively speaker, was entertaining and wellworth seeing, yet many felt that the even-ing's program, -and the man himself, hadshortcomings.

Doohan launched the lecture by sayingthat sixteen years ago he had received aletter from an MIT senior saying 'that "1hope you will be here soon." Doohan's re-ply: "Well, I'm finally here. It's abouttime."

Immediately after this brief introduc-tion, the audience was treated to an ex-tremely dull NASA fil m concerning thespace shuttle. The film, narrated by D~oo-han, who claims it won awards in Ruma-nia and Poland, emphasized rather redurn-dantly that the shuttle program is not justfor the US, but for all mankind. After thefilm, Doohan resumed his talk by sayingthat the United States is in a technologicalrace that it can't afford to lose, a point di-rectly at odds with the film. One wondersif Doohan listened while he narrated.

As a matter of fact, one wonders ifDoohan seriously cares about anything. Inthe question and answer period that com-prised the rest of the lecture, Doohan con-tinuously made it plain that the one thingthat he cares about and that motivates himis money. Yes, there is more than love ofmoney to James Doohan, including hisrather puffed-up sense of patriotism. andhis professed fascination with all branchesof science, yet when asked, for example,who was his closest friend on the Star Trekcast, he answered, half-jokingly, "the pay-master."

Doohan kicked off the question and an-swer session with a few humorous ques-tions of his own. "What would I do if Iwere captain? I would limit Ensign Kirk toone girl a month, . . .and Bones wouldn'tbe allowed to say "He's dead, Jim."' Doo-han also brought up the fact that there areno provisions for toilets in' the blueprintsfor the Enterprise. "There may be no toi-lets, but we do have phasers. You set themon disintegrate. .*' .........-

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2010, Odyssey Two, By Arthur C.Clarke; A Del Rev Book, 1982; $14.95.

December was a great month for sci-fiepic sequels. Isaac Asimov finally wrote asequel to his Hugo award-winning Founda-tion trilogy, and 2010, Odyssey Two is Ar-thur C. Clarke's sequel to his 1969 classic,2001, a Space Odyssey.

2010's most redeeming feature is that itanswers most of those questions left unan-swered by 2001. Why was astronaut DaveBowman turned into a Star Child, andwhat is he going to do to Earth? What arethe black monoliths? Why did the super-computer Hal go insane, and try to mur-der the crew of the Discovery? What hap-pened to the Discovery?

It is the latter question that serves as thelaunch point for the sequel. Dr. HeywoodFloyd is also wondering what happened tohis multi-million-dollar spacecraft, as isthe rest of the world. So it's a race betweenthe Russians, Chinese and Americans tosee who can launch a salvage mission andreach Discovery first.

The answers to all these questions arefascinating and make good reading. Thebook's greatest weakness is its rather blandcharacterization. Even with a spaceshipfull of men and women and a long, boringmission to Jupiter, the subject of sex bare-ly arises. On the other hand, the sequeldoes delve deeply into David Bowman'sbackground, explaining why he was such acold fish in the original.

When differences existed between thefilm version of 2001 and the novel whichparalielled it, the conflict has been re-solved in favor of the movie. For instance,in 2010, it is for Jupiter, not Saturn, thatDiscovery was originally bound. So if yousaw the movie, it's not really necessary toread 2001 before 2010.

The climax is rather grandiose, but thenso was 2001. If you enjoyed 2001, but weremore than slightly confused, reading 2010should answer most of your questions.

And yes, negotiations are under way toturn the sequel into a movie, too. Jack Li

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Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov;Doubleday 1982; $14.95

In the first three books of the Founda-tion series, Asimoy paints a vivid pictureof the decline and fall of a galaxy-span-ning empire. One man, psychohistorianHari Seldon, foresaw the decline and thethirty thousand years of barbarism to fol-low. He produced a plan designed to re-duce this barbaric period to a mere 1000years, and set up two foundations "at op-posite ends of the galaxy" to ensure theplan's fufillment.

One of the foundations, the First, spe-cializes in the physical sciences. It is gener-ally known as simply The Foundation,since the Second Foundation, (specializingin the mental sciences) is believed to be ex-tinct.

In Foundations Edge, it is 498 years intothe Foundation Era, and the galaxy is fol-lowing the long dead Seldon's plan perfect-ly. Too perfectly, in fact, and some Foun-dationers are getting supicious. FirstFoundationers ask themselves whether theSecond Foundation was really destroyed,and the Second Foundation is wondering-whether another force is loose in the Gal-axy.

A Foundation Councilman sets Qff on amission to find the mythical Second Foun-dation. As a cover, he takes along an his-torian who has spent his life searching foranother myth, this one buried in antiquity:the planet of human origin, known in leg-ends by the name of 'Earth'.

It is impossible to say more without giv-ing anything away. Since Edge summarizesthe first three novels in the series, don'tread it until you've read Foundation, Foun-dation and Empire, and Second Foundation,in sequence. Reading Edge out of sequencewill ruin the preceding trilogy.

in fact, in Edge Asimov also introduceselements from his novels Pebble in the Sky,Prisoners of the Stars, and The End ofEternity. Even the robots are introduced,with the Three Laws of Robotics presentedas an amusing legend. It all comes togeth-er in the last sixth of the book, and thosewho have not read all of Asimov's pre-vious sci-fi are finding the ending a littleunsatisfying, if not overwhelming.

My main criticism of the book is thatthe characters are too universally smug,and their opinions shift rather erraticallyat times. Asimov will probably recieve alot of criticism for trying to wrap up thefruits of a very prolific career into 60pages at the end of Edge, but many fansmay be left with a satisfying feeling at see-ing it all tied together.

Incidentally, why doesn't somebodymake a movie out of the Foundation se-ries? It represents science fiction at its best.

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Most amusing were Doohan's rendi-tions, in various accents, of his famousline "But Captain, my engines just can'ttake that," including a Russian versionthat sounded surprisingly -like Chekhov.Later he mentioned that the part of Scottyis no major acting feat: "Scotty is 99%Jinmy Doohan and 1% accent."

Doohan, a 'seemingly amiable person,is not overly fond of William Shatner, StarTrek's Captain Kirk. "I watched T.J.Hooker once for five minutes and neversaw it again."

Concerning the executives at Paramountinvolved with the making of the Star Trekmovies: "They are terrible, terrible, terri-ble people to deal with."

Doohan's favorite episode of Star Trekwas "'The Doomsday Machine', becauseof the science in it." His least favoriteshow was "A Way to Eden".- "I like watch-ing Star Trek reruns," said Doohan mod-estly, "they're always the best thing on TVthat night." Doohan regrets the fate of thetelevision show. "It's the Nielsen ratingswhich took Star Trek off the air, whichtells you enough about the Nielsen ra-tings."

A few avid Trekkers in the audience hadsome penetrating questions about techni-

cal goofs in the show, most of which Doo-han blamed the writers for. Why, for ex-ample, should the most important officerson the ship be the first to beam down ontostrange planets? "They had to send thestars there." To one improbable suggestionfrom a fan, Doohan replied, "In a fewyears maybe you'll produce a science fic-tion movie, and you'll do it!"

Concerning the two Star Trek movies,Doohan had this to say: "Only 'TheWrath of Khan' came close to the series...With 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' theexecutives really screwed up."

The lecture ended with a showing of thefamous "The Trouble with Tribbles" epi-sode, in which Doohan had a sizeablerole. In reply to a question about the barscene in that episode, Doohan said "I'msupposed to be drinking Scotch, but it'scolored water," and received scatteredbooing from the audience. Doohan alsolays claim to the punchline of the show:"...they'll be no tribble at all."

In all, the lecture was enjoyable, but theonly revelations one could gain concerningthe true character of James Doohan werenegative ones.

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M IT students are supposedlyhighly self-motivated. Why then,Controlled Ambition? Becausethe systemn encourages it. Withouta writing requirement, professorscan lecture ald day on the meritsof effective written communica-tion to no avail. Professors mtaydiscourage students from pullingall-nighters to finish their prob-lem sets, but students, acting intheir own interest, see it as an in-credible time-saving device.

There has been some talk re-cently of proposals examiningMIT's freshman year curriculum.While the Institute aims to re-mnain a center of technologicalexcellence, a re-evaluation of theFirst-year core curriculum is bothtimely and needed. M IT shoulddeal with questions central to thepurpose of freshman chemistry,physics, and mathematics re-quirem~ents, and whether theyadequately serve to in troduce stu-dents to scientific thought. Whatis the proper role of freshmn'anyear courses, and where does thestudy of discrete mathematics,statistics, computer program-ming, or biology fitt within theserequirements, if at all?

Tht're are complaints on bothsides. The Electrical Engineeringdepartment begrudgingly re-teaches its students what shouldhave been taught in 8.02, whilemajors in Economics claim 8.02has no relevance to their courseof study. External motivation, inthe form of requirements, is animportant facet of an M IT un-dergraduate education that lendsmeaning to an M IT diploma.

I motivation rarely gives resultsPoorly designed and implement- will take. Be reasonable in your for anything academic, among studies. There is so muched requirements, however, result assessment of how much time my classmates, at an all-time low. of the classroom worthin less-than-enthusiastic students you have, but, above all, try not Perhaps it is IAP, a time for re- I do think, however, thatand give them all the more rea- to "play the game." flection. Certainly, I do not advo- motivation rarely producson to practice Controlled Ambi- Perhaps I make these observa- cate submersion in Academics, for term results.tion. tions because I am a senior, "old there' is a limit to which one Maybe I should start X

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By Martin DickauAfter three consecutive losses,

the track team bounced back, de-feating host Coast Guard 89-47Saturday afternoon. In all, theEngineers won 11 events, as theyraised their record to an even 3-3.

Pat Parris '86 continued hisimpressive performances, onceagain winning both the 35-lb.weight throw and the shot put.Martin Taylor '83 collected firstin the triple jump with a totaldistance of 41'-3".

I n the running events, M IIT fi-nally managed to overcome someof this season's difficulties andwin. Ed Arenberg '85 took the60-yard dash with a time of 6.6seconds. Not to be outdone, JoePresing '84 grabbed first place in

the 60-yard hurdles with a timeof 7.7.

Dave McMullen '83 ran the440- in 51.7 seconds to place first,and Dave Richards '86 posted a.time of 1:14.4, as he bested thefield in the 600. The 2:00.3 runby John Hradnansky '85 in the880 gave him the top spot, andthe 1000 went to Ken Kovach '83with a time of 2:20.8.

The Engineers continued theirstrong showings in both the one-and two-mile relays, easily takingboth events.

The team's next meet will be athome this Friday at 6pm againstarch-rival Tufts, and MIT reallwants the victory. Comments Ko-vach, "I'll run five events if Ihave to, [in order] to win."

Here it is, the last weekend ofIAP. Don't miss your chance toget out and see some of ourteams in action:

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Friday, Track will host Tufts inthe New Athletic Center at 6pm.Squash will take to the courts induPont at 7pm for a matchagainst-Stony Brook State.

ball will meet Wellesley in theCage, while Wrestling takes onWilliams and UMass-Boston induPont. At 2pm, both gymnasticsteams will face Coast Guard induPont, Hockey will skateagainst Stonehill, and Squash willtake a swing at Amherst. Round-ing out the day, Men's Swimminghosts Springfield at 4pm in theAlumni Pool.

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ring waysA 63-46 loss at Bowdoin last

Tuesday snapped the men's mod-est two-game winning streak, butthe Engineers got right back ontrack, defeating visiting Wesleyan81-76 Thursday. Co-captainMark Branch '83 led the attackwith a career-high 32 points, in-cluding an MIT-record 20 for 20from the free throw line. Theteam's other co-captain, RobertJoseph '83, had 16 points.

The squad continued its win-ning style Saturday, thrashinghost Coast Guard 51-38. The En-gineers allowed the Cadets onlyfive points in the first ten minutesof the game. The MIT defensealso held all of the opposingplayers to under ten points, whileMark Johnson '84 and Bud Tad-diken '85 each had twelve for thevisitors.

Both teams will be at home to-morrow for a basketball double-header. The women will lead offat 5:30pm against Conn. College,and the men will follow at 7:30against Curry.

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The women's team opened itsseason against highly-regardedSpringfield College and lost141.80-123.00. MIT's Mi-ssy Max-field was first in the all-aroundwith a 30.1. her single best per-formance was a 7.9 in the vault-ing. Both squads will be at homeSaturday when they host CoastGuard at 2pm.Men's Hockey - The hockeytearn dropped to 4-' Saturdaywith at 4-0 loss to Division 111Curr:. The icemen were in actionlast night agalinst Tufts, and willhost Stonehill Saturday after-loo n.

Rifle - The rife team picked upright where it left off before thebreak. downing host Dartmouth2176-2101 last weekend.Skiing - The skiing team openedits season last weekend at theBowdoin Ski Meet in Bethel,Maine, finishing fourth amongthe eight schools participating.Co-captarin Chris Craven '84 wasseventh in the men's giant slalomn,while Bill Larkens '84 was 13th.In the slalom, Cravens was againthe top MIT Finisher, this time infifth place. Larkens was 12th.Co-captain Malrk Bouchard '84posted a strong fourth-placeshowing in the 16-kilometer crosscountry event. Frederik Johnson'86 finished 13th in that race.

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Basketball squadsfind winn

By Marfin DickaurBoth the men's and women's

basketball teams, continued toshake off their earlier slumps last-week, the women scoring two'consecutive victories to go to 5-4,while the men won two of three,upping their record to 4-7.

After a loss at Coast Guardearly last week, the women edgedout visiting Amherst 59-57Wednesday. Cindy Robinson '84led the Engineers with 17 points.Co-captain Joyce Kelly '83 had16, and Julie Koster '85 had 10.

The squad, riding high after itswin, romped over Babson inRockwell Cage Saturday 62-46.Koster paced MIT with 12 re-bounds and a career-high 19points. Kelly chipped in with 14,and co-captain Terry Felts '84dumped in 11. The key to thegame was the Engineers' defenseholding Babsoifs Judy Pearson,who had been averaging wellover 20 points per game, to onlyseventeen.

MIT's Larry Hsu (right) is narrowly defeated by Hayeslost Tuesday by a score of 2-8.

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