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Impeach Peter BerkeRecent actions on the part of Undergraduate
Association President Peter Berke have led usto the conclusion-that he has not accepted theresponsibilities of his office and shouldtherefore be impeached and removed from of-fice by the undergraduate student body.
The latest of Berke's long string of un-presidential initiatives consisted of his sendinga letter to several members of the Board ofDirectors of The Tech appointing them to thehitherto nonexistent "General Assembly ex-ecutive committee" in what was clearly afacetious response to a serious editorial in lastTuesday's issue.
By refusing to call the General Assemblytogether, Berke has revealed his disdain for stu-dent government and for the responsible par-ticipation of representatives of the studentbody in the decision-making process oncampus. His letter to The Tech, which purportsto place the responsibility of convening the GAon certain members of the newspaper, isevidence of the cavalier attitude which has per-vaded Berke's administration since his electionin April.
Berke is in our opinion guilty of the follow-ing actions and inactions which taken togetherconstitute a strong case for his impeachment:
* He has refused to convene the General As-sembly.· He has consistently refused to accept his roleas spokesman for the undergraduate students.Berke was not in attendance at the last facultymeeting, at which the controversial drop dateproposal was discussed, even though theUndergraduate Association President is theonly undergraduate automatically allowed tospeak at faculty meetings. In addition, Berkemade only weak and undefinitive statementsduring last May's Writing Program debate.
* He has displayed a condescending and un-responsive attitude towards the members of thestudent body, going so far as to state publicly inthursday that students are no longer welcome tomake comments to him concerning the Dean'sOffice and the state of art at MIT.
Under the procedures outlined in Article V,Section 4 of the Bylaws of the Executive Com-rnittee of the UA, the president can be removedby a two-thirds vote in favor of impeachment.in a referendum held upon petition of 20 per-cent of the undergraduates.
We believe that those who value effective stu-dent government at MIT should begin thisprocess immediately.
Peter Berk's leter tomembers of The Tech Board
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responsible for '.ne pla-nnir.ng ir.d SC:S-fX - Lr cf ',_r General Assembly. This lncirds raC 'tr,; ti , '.g- ... -. sele:..of representatives for the assem.ly.
You have expressed a 7ery z'r,-:o --. rr for tr. rv.. - .'.0-of this assembly, so I a= sure Tc, w;'l. 'r.- tl:= i-schedules to act or ycour real c¢.-er .. I l ': 1assembly, as one pert 0:' .y Jot r ;.-.---,t c: -Kt -* -.. -am ctherwise avo'labt e to : ei- yu ;r .r rrk.
Thaear you for yo.r lnrerezt -a: >:' :rt. ',support a.d tre ccdr wll11 of -r.e s".i:: -., . -a productvl'e IAP and cani arrar..;e . -'r. a- .,. - -ut t all of your :-ncrerr.o.
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Famous hacks at MIT includethe annual Freshman ShowerNight and the Green BuildingPumpkin Drop. but these palein comparison with some ofthe mischief perpetrated on theCaltech campus, including theincredible Senior Ditch Day.
.. p3The women's volleyball teamended its season with a fifth-place finish in the Easternchampionships on Nov. 18.and 19. MIT was the onlyteam in the tournament todefeat eventual champion EastStroudsburg State College.
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Jerusalem, Nov. 19 - AnAmerican reporter tried totelephone Cairo form the presscenter here today. The agitatedtelephone operator. placingthe first call to Cairo in herlife, managed to route itthrough 1el Aviv andMadrid ....
"Cairo, this is Tel Aviv call-ing. I'm so excited," the Israelioperator said.
"Me. too my dear," camethe response.
"And I'm so glad to speakto you on the line because it isthe happiest day in my life,"the Israeli operator continued."How's the weather there?"
- The New York Times
By Jordana HollanderThe report of the Ad.HoCoem-
mittee on Grading, due to bepresented at the Dec. 21' facultymeeting, will be finished andreleased in its final form sometime during the next few weeks,according to its chairman, Profes-sor of Managment Zenon Zan-netos.
The purpose of the committee
Institute Observer
By Michael HeaneyThe top of the Green Building
has been a source of fascinationto many MIT students for years:attempts to gain entrance to theroof are made almost every night.
it was one night last week thatthis reporter was taken on a tourof the roof by a Campus Patrolsergeant from the night shift. Weproceeded through the tunnelfrom Building 56 (the GreenBuilding's lock cylinders hadbroken-off master keys in them),via the elevator to the 18th floor,and then took the stairs to the20th.
The cylinder in the door hadbeen recently pried out with acrowbar, leaving no locks; thesergeant opened it with his finger.The second door was not locked,and after a -flight of stairs we wereon the roof 30 seconds after thefirst door's alarm would havebeen heard at Campus Patrolheadquarters. Would the Patrolbe able to reach the roof in time,if an emergency did occur?.
It is supposedly the challenge ofgetting to the roof that attracts somany students. The route throughthe .tunnels, elevators andstairwells is not known toeveryone. The door at the 20thfloor is usually locked, with awarning against entrance by un-authorized persons printed on thedoor. Several yards beyond this
is to improve and clarify the pre-sent grading system. Professor ofElectrical Engineering ThomasGreytak '62, a member of thecommittee, indicated that therewould be three main pointscovered in the final report.
One of the committee'sproposals is to indicate thepercentage of students in a coursethat received each grade. This in-
door is a similar door that is notlocked.
Both doors are protected by anelectric breaker alarm which trig-gers a warning at the CampusPatrol headquarters on the se-cond floor of the duPont Gym-nasium building. It is possible toget to the roof from the 19thfloor, which contains PhysicalPlant equipment, but this door islocked and equipped with analarm.
An elevator runs from the 18thfloor to the roof, operated by keysand alarmed much like the doors.A notice on the wall notes: "Thiselevator is controlled by a timerand operates only on weekdays.After 5pm and on weekends it isinoperable by any means." Thedoor at the top of the otherstairwell is sealed shut from theoutside, with no keyholes ordoorknobs on the inside.
According to SergeantMolineaux of the Camous Patrol,there have been no major securityproblems with the alarm system.Within 30 seconds to twominutes, of an alarm sounding,contended the sergeant, the CPwould be right there.
Most of the students caught onthe roof claim that the door wasleft open. In the past studentshave picked the locks, pried outthe cylinders, or used duplicate
formation would be added to thestudent's grade on his transcriptfor each course he takes.
The recent Student Committeeon Educational Policy poll askedstudent opinion of the addition ofthis type of information to theirrecords. Over two thirds of thosestudents answering the surveystated that they were not in favorof such a change.
keys to get to the roof.On the roof are meteorogical
equipment, a radar dome, radioequipment, a crow's nest, a fewoffices, and air conditioningequipment. Students aren't al-lowed on the roof for severalreasons. Some of the equipmenton the roof is expensive, and van-dalism is feared. The roof is con-sidered to be unsafe, and a strongwind could knock someone offbalance, especially if they were
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The second of the proposalswould attempt to further clarifithe meaning of each of the lettergrades by expanding their presentexplanations. These changeddescriptions would then be dis-tributed to faculty as an aid totheir grading and may be printedon the student transcripts.
The third proposal would allo,professors :o add to the lettergrade of part of the class b,providing for letters of commen-dation to be attached to theirtranscripts. These letters wouldgive extra recognition to out-standing work or would explainspecial circumstances.
According to Greviak's state-ments at the last faculty meetngthe grading committee's finalreport mill be considered at thefaculty meeting next month. Thedrop date proposal will also bevoted upon at that meeting. mak-ing action on the report highlyunlikely. Greytak indicated thatdiscussion oa the proposedchanges to the grading s'.stemwould continue into the Februaryfacuit- meeting.
(Photo by Steven Solnick)
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climrnbint the crou's nest or one ofthe 'arious ladders and catwalkson the roof Suicide attempts arealso feared.
Besides just getting there, theroof does hold some mnxslnque ofits ovn: purnipkins. plastic con-tainer- filled with Aate. and ear-hage ba,~ filled %xith doorknobshat. been dropped from the roofIn the past.
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Students prepare to "restack" a senior's room during Senior DitchDay at Caltech. The entrance Is being sealed with blocks of Ice andthe gaps are filled with. water (the resident was a deep-sea diver)'(Photo from the 1973 Big T. yearbook of Caltech)
' PARKS. PIPES. AND PEOPLE * All remaining back issues of Trechwill be the topic at a free symposium Engineering .News ,4ill be distributedon Alaskav with films. panels, and tomorrow at noon in Lobby 10. Ar-workshops on Sat.. Dec. 3. forn rive promptly for the best selection.9:30am to 5pn at Paine Hall. Harvard Over 2.500 TEN's were picked up in(next to the Science Center). For slightly over an hour when they werefurther informration, call M11arsha distributed last week in Iobby 7.Rockefeller ;it 227-5339, M1ITEcology Action at x3-7922. or Bob ' The M.IT Corporation is lookingChen at 6284319. for nominees to the Corporation to
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he a Volunteer Open House for skiers in Education) to be held at the Triminterested in instructing city kids in Inn at Babson College, Wellesley.the skills of skiing and mountaineer- rooms 01-05 on Sat., Dec. 10,1977.ing. The meeting wil' be at the Ski Registration and coffee from 9:00-Shop/Offices at 180 Mlass. Ave. 10:Oam.Boston: refreshwients witl he served.
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dergraduates breaking intoseniors' rooms, creativelydevastating the interiors, and ty-ing one or two of the seniorsremaining on campus to treeswith rope, garden hose, or alength of chain.
Senior Ditch Day occurssometime in the third quarter.
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None of the underclassmen knowexactly when the seniors will boltthe campus, although the day hasbeen secretly set by the seniorclass for months.
The seniors go to great lengthsto protect their rooms: they installwhat are known as "stacks." If anundergraduate makes his wayinto a senior's room, he may doanything creative to the room,although the senior may beguilehim by leaving a suitable bribe.
The stacks vary from "brute-force" to "finesse". stacks. Everyyear seniors in Page House, oneof the seven undergraduatehouses, come up with a brute-force stack that is, according toMike Coln, a former Caltech un-dergraduate "a feat of structuralengineering." The Page Housestack generally uses successivelayers of reinforced concrete,wood blocks, steel plating,fiberglass, and railroad ties toguard against entry by "anythingshort of a bomb." To gain accessto the vault undergrads use scaf-folding, to attack the second storywindows, diamond drills, and car-bide circular saws. Yet, Coincommented that the brute-forcestacks are almost always brokeninto early in the day.
Jon Teich, a grad student inElectrical Engineering at MIT,related that "every year afterDitch Day, the Master of Hous-ingand the Director of the Hous-ing Office sort of stroll past thehouses and shake their heads acouple of times - and then theydraw up the house bills." The billsfor the damage that is inflicted onthe seniors' rooms on Ditch Dayare passed on to each House as awhole.
At the other extreme. is the"finesse" stack which requiressome thought and craft to gainaccess to the room. Teichrecounted that the most "non-forcq-' sack he had ever heard ofsimply r e q u i r e d the collaboration
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By Kenneth HamiltonHow do our counterparts at the
Cali fornia Institute ofTechnology (Caltech) manage toretain a semblance of sanity? Onerelease from the pressure ofacademics is Senior Ditch Day.
This annual event on thePasadena campus finds un-
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WORLDMeeting called in Cairo - Egyptian President Anwar Sadathas invited Israel, the United States, the Soviet Union, andvarious Arab nations to a meeting in Cairo as preliminary to theGeneva peace talks. Israel has formally accepted the invitationand the United States has indicated that it will attend. Jordan,however, has refused the invitation while the other nations in-volved have not yet responded. Anti-Sadat meetings have beenannounced by Syria and Iraq, and will be held in Tripoli and pos-sibly in Baghdad.
NATIONMaryland appeals tuition ruling - After a Io'Aer court ruled
that publicly supported state colleges and universities mustcharge foreign students whose parents work for Internationalagencies the same tuition as in-state students, the state ofMar'land has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court Twsentyeight other states, including NMassachusetts. have filed friend ofthe court briefs in support of the Maryland brief.
Huge trade deficit announced - The US CommerceDepartment reported that the foreign trade deficit reached 53.1billion in October, making it the single worst month ever in UShistory. One of the reasons given for such a large deficit is thedock strike, which has hurt US exports.
Carter trip rescheduled - President Carter has changed theitinerary of his planned overseas trip. He will leave Dec. 29. visitIran, India, Saudi Arabia, France, and Belgium and return onJan. 6. Proposed stops in various African and Asian nations havebeen dropped, but these countries may be visited by the presidentnext spring. This trip was postponed from last week due to thedelay of the president's energy proposal in Congress.
LOCALJudge delays school plan - The filing of the unified facilitiesplan proposed by the Boston School Department. the StateBoard of Education, and the Boston Public Facilities Depart-ment was delayed by Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrt,,until a hearing on Dec. 2. The plan would result in the closing ofseven Boston schools this vear. six in 1979 and thirty-six others inthe following years. Garrity stated that he would not hand downa final ruling until the mayor's office had held public hearingswhere the communities and parents involved could gile theirvie'ws on the plan
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You might say that the Board ofDirectors ,were given a great chal-lenge. From a purely biased pointof view I would say that wemanaged to sta, afloat. though,at times. not far above the ,aves.The gauntlet is about to be passed'on to a new Board of Directorswith a new set of initials gracingthe bottom of 'From the Editor'sDesk.' I think that the new Boardof Directors is fullK qualified to
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Volume 97. Number 56Tuesday. November 29. 1977
NEWS DEPARTMENT
News Editors: Mark H. James '78. David B. Koretz '78; ociateNews Editors: Bob Wasserman '80. Steven Kirsch G; Art: DavidCopeland '81, Vince Dovydaitis '81; Staff: Patrick Barron '78. DavidPotter '78. Richard Renner '78. Henry Fiorentini '79, Michael Ries'79. Roger Silverstein '79, Margot Tsakonas '79. William Cimino '80,Barbara Hill '80. Hillary Lust '80, Kent Pitman '80, Brian Aiello '81,Larry Duffy '81. Kenneth Hamilton '81, Michael Heaney '81. JordanaHollander '81, Rick McDermott '81, Lynn Ridlauer '81, RobertSteinberg '81. Herman Vargas '81.
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To the Editor:I read The Tech regularly and I
pay attention to-is4 point of view.When Bcb Wasserman complainsthat student participation in themeeting of the Dean for StudentAffairs Visiting Committee wasunsatisfactory, I'm troubled andwant to know what I can do tomake the exchange moreprofitable.-'We did advertise the meeting
widely on campus. If the studentswho attended were "intimidated"by the size of the Visiting, Com-mittee, the only answer is to getmore students out for themeeting. We tried. 4'fi1at we didwasn't enough. What more canwe do to get a larger turn out thanwe did?
But Bob is wrong when heimplies that the students whowere with smaller groups of theVisiting Committee memberswere "handpicked." We set updinner meetings at separate loca-tions: Ashdown, Baker, SeniorHouse, Sigma Chi, and WILG,precisely to encourage informalinterchange at a more personallevel. The dinner I attended atSigma Chi was in the dining roomwith all free to participate. and afair number of students did. Mycolleagues at the other houses hadsimilar experiences. No one was"picked" except insofar as theyheld offices in the various houses- offices to which they are
The Tech welcomes Lettersto the Editor, which should betyped and triple-spaced. Un-signed letters will not be pub-lished. An author's name willbe withheld on request. I
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J a_-- To the Editor:.- I hope the following points willI am writing to express my con- help illustrate this fact.
cern over the latest faculty First, the proposal was initiatedproposal to place further limita- by an engineering department. As
;/>x tions on the ability of students to engineer s, we are trained to worrydrop Classes'at a later date. It is about efficiency and the cutting ofmy feeling' thhat the parties costs. For an engineering project,proposing the earlier drop date like a solar collector. this is allare placing too much emphasis on well and good. The principles ofefficiency and costs, rather than engineering, of cost benefiton what is best for the students, analysis, are limited, however,and,. through them, society as and if carried too far, we losewell. I believe. in other words, sight of more fundamental ques-that the huinan perspective in this tions. People, for instance, are not
ti_1E, issue has been subjugated to more machines, we need flexibility Wetraditional engineering concerns. have not come to MIT knowing
exactly what we want to do; wetend to make mistakes, especially#' B ea w e in a high pressure situation. FromEng. N - X = to ew s a human, from a people stand-point, we need flexibility.
TEN. that he was doing it "just In defense of Lach. Gomez Second, almost 90 percent offor pre-med." In previous years. said, "When Elliot got it [TEN], the students are in favor of keep-about half the articles in TEN it was down- Elliot just didn't do ing the drop date as it is. Thisfrom undergraduates were un- much to boost it up." For exam- point should be strong enough tosolicited and the other half came ple, plans to recruit freshmen stand by itself.from UROP students contaced..throughsuchmeansasaboothat Third. many of my friends,by the TEN staff. This halnged- the' Activities Midway "never friends who I feel are mostwhen Lach took over. materialized." human, who are most apt to go
"Nobody submitted any arti- Lach failed to carry out the out and help the world, arecles to TEN." recalls Go lez. He most important duty of any of- seriously considering leavingadded that since Lach. a biology ficerin a student activity:hefailed MIT. Why are they doing this?major, wasin charge ofgettingar- to train his successor. Not only Primarily because they feel theretitcles, TEN became biology that, he failed to ensure that a are too many constraints onoriented. "He published a lot of sucessor did exist, poorly trained them, constraints to take awayhis own articles (papers he had though he might be. By failing in their soul, their goal to helpwritten for classes) and published these simple tasks. Lach ensured humanity. This is one of thestuff in research papers heIfouffd." reerhppr ethe demise of an already crippled "social costs" of the newfound.'' 0-vear-old student activity. proposal. Do these people have to
it was just him. Others never leave IT, or is there some way-really, topls partin.ac agir o, . . l, itPg,,x ,cfi'<the-, too,-- cane fir finto the
,Co°mcz-s~a. d--H~c~nte m!°.e~J'- ~1!alt;.-~-~,L~.a ~ do~.4~,'.,~-,H~ional framework of MIT,to his knowledge no copies were an important position in the MNT which supposedly has, the sameever-sold i/f'Lobbyv'0'and'that' community a2nd lfrovsded a-op- ois-- ey ~~~~~goals as them.'there were "quite a few left over" p o r t u n i t y for M IT un- I would urge the faculty tofrom the typical press runs of 500. dergraduates to publish-" welgh the above actors carefully
Bv Steve KirschWh>,. after almost 60 years. did
the staff of Tech EngineeringY.c't,.~ (TEN)q dissolve? Becausenobod% including themselvescared about their magazine? Itsure seems that ,ay.
N, hv didn't people care about amagazine that should have thesame popuiar appeal that Scien-tific A:,erican does today. Onereason is that many people neverheard of TEN.
One professor who has beenhere 13 years said. '"I don'tremember TEN. .r..Voodoo uas in-
through three veryAt times I havemagazine had little
shaky years.felt that theor no future.
finitbely morew ell known."Another F ofes-
take over the leadership. 9[ TchEngineering News.
.':With that, said. I wouldlike-to'thank the staff of Tech Engineer-ing News for all the time the)donated 'to the- magazie.' Amagazine does not come outthrough the work of the editor-in-chief or even the Board of Direc-tors in concert with the staff andstaff candidates. The seventieshave been a time of great troublefor college engineering journals.All I can say is I hope our choicestsici for next year's Board was awise one."
K rutter was wrong. Elliot Lach'77 was not a wise choice foreditor-in-chief.
According to Nanelle Scott '78,the last general manager of TEN,Lach was responsible for gettingarticles .for the magazine. Scottsaid that issues were late becauseLach failed to get articles in ontime. "Elliot said it was difficultto get articles frorn un-dergraduates." Could it havebeen that difficult to find the twoarticles needed to fill a 16 pageis-sue, especially when the yearbefore they had more articles thanthey could print" Why didn'tLach seek articles from professorsor reprint relevant articles fromanother journal so that issuesdidn't come out late? Late issuesled to unhappy advertisers andunhappy advertisers meant fewerads and fewer pages.
When the ASA Execcommtried to contact TEN a few weeksago to find out why TEN hadn'tpublished anything for the lastyear and a half. the only personlisted on the last staff roster theycould reach was Camilp Gomez'80.
Gomez said he didn't know hehad been elected editor-in-chiefuntil he returned to MIT this fall.He said he had never been on thestaff officially but had just been"helping out." He said he had ap-parently been put up for the posi-tion over the summer by Lach,now a medical student at Yale.
Gomez said that Lach "wasn'tthat interested" in putting out
sor %ho came here as an un-dergrad uate in 1956 said, "I knowthe name . .. I'm sure I've readcopies that appeared on my desk. .. I don't remember paying for
any student, publications otherthan Voodoo and The Tech." Onegrad student who has been hereseven years~said he never heard ofTENN.
That many people never heardof TEN is not surprising - evenduring TEN's prosperous years inthe 50's and 60's only about 1,200copies of each issue were printed.And of that I 2 -i3a!&about 500vere sold for--a, 4t/rlirin Lobbyt0. and only 200-wet to regularsubscribers (mot ribraries).
The situation Worsened duringthe recession in ';%9 and '70 asTE N lost much or its advertisingbase and was forced-te;-faise itsprice to 75c. Althioli '.!issuequality and staff interestremained high (full color frontcovers. 60 pages per issue, 50 staffmembers). the dynamism couldnot be sustained. Of the 1,000copies printed of the 30 pageNovember 1970 issue. only 45were sold to other than the 200subscribers.
Forrest N. Krutter '75. Editor-in-Chief of TEN during 1974, at-tributed the meager over-the-counter sales to "personnelproblems." explaining that theycould ~only manage to staff abooth in Lobby 10 for one weekeach issue.
Things had been bad for TENsince 1972 when. because of thelack of advertising. the issue sizehad fallen to 16 pages. "We hadmore articles that we could affordto print" Krutter said.
In the January 1975 issue ofTEN'. Krutter wrote what 'was tobe the last "From the Editor'sDesk," though he didn't know itthen:
"This issue brings to a close thefifty-sixth volume of TechEngineering News and my term asEditor-in-Chief. I approach theend of mv tenure in this positionwith ver5 mixed feelings. TechEngineering. News has gone
in making a decision on the dropdate question. I would also urgethe faculty to reconsider thewhole educational system we havehere, to see if it, too, is best set upto solve the problems of the worldfrom .a human as well- as anengineering perspective, insteadof being geared to produce..engineers," for whatever valuetheir work has. I personally donot believe that the above twogoals coincide, as many of thefaculty may have been misled tobelieve. hope that a Way to ac-commofite my friends, who areinteresa'ti n'heiping people, andthe workd, can be found. Thankyou very much.
Thomas A. Davidson GNov. 21. 1977
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But, all that aside, we agreethat "a larger and more diversestudent representation wouldhave been better for bothgroups." We invite the staff ofThe Tech and its readers to dropby" the Offi Ce or write us:with'ways of attaining that goal.
.- Carola 'Eisenberg"'Dean for Student .Affai
Nov. 25, 1977
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f Continuedirom page 3)of some trained fruit flies. Theroom was sealed up and a lightemitting diode was placed in-themiddle of the room. The LED lita photosensor which controlled asolenoid locking the. door. AfterDitch Day was over and the un-dergrads had failed to get into theroom, a senior arrived to feed atroop of trained fruit flies throughhis keyhole. Eventually the fruitflies massed together atop theLED, thereby tripping the lightbeam, breaking the circuit, andopening his door.
Among the other morecelebrated stacks include PaulSchluter's "finesse"' stack. Paul iscurrently a graduate student inCourse VI at MIT. His stack re-quired the undergrads to whistlethe first fifteen notes ofTchaikovsky's Fourth Symphonywithin certain frequency and timetolerances. After they haddesperately struggled in vain forthree days, armed with everythingfrom accordians to flutes, Paulsauntered into the house andwhistled his way into his roomwithin a few minutes.
A restack is mandated if the un-dergraduates succeed in breakingthrough a senior's stack. Arestack is any creative mania in-flicted upon a senior's room onSenior Ditch Day. Teich com-mented that his first experience atCaltech after he had arrived oncampus was watching a winchlower a granite boulder from aroom that had-been restacked theyear before.
The California Tech, Caltech'sstudent newspaper. reported thatlast year's Ditch Day produced anindoor soccer field and a barn intwo of the houses. Upon breakinginto a senior's room in FiemmingHouse, "all the furniture wasremoved. and the floor wascovered with .Asod;, White ,ines ,,were draw n'on the sod (and) goals,were put up at either end of hisroom." In Ruddock House, therestacked room came completewith hay, a live horse. and a cow."His roommate, a sophomore,was heard to object somewhat to
ever found anything again."Of course if a group of un-
dergraduates succeeds in breakinginto a senior's room, they may bedistracted by a bribe. A popularbribe that the seniors leave is beeror wine, in the hope that the in-truders will be too far gone torestack the room properly if thebribe is accepted.
the plan.""Murphy's stack wasn't very
impresive," Teich recalled, '"buthis claim to fame was that he wasan incredible slob. His room wasin complete chaos all year long ... Once a grioup broke throughhis stack, they spent about twohours cleaning up the place till Itwas spotless - I'm not sure if he
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would attempt some songs that they hadnever performed on stage before. He sang"Love of My Life" to the accompanimentof Brian May's solo acoustic guitar, thenthe whole group invited the house to singalong to an acoustic version of "'39."After hearing these numbers, one can easilyconclude why they had never been per-formed live - they don't quite work.However, Queen's performance of theirharder rock tunes was brilliant. Thehighlights of the evening were May's solosduring "White Man" and "Get Down,Make Love." The renditions of "Liar,"'"Keep Yourself Alive," and "Tie YourMother Down" were also flawless. as was aslightly shortened "You're My BestFriend."
The band returned to do a few encorenumbers, including the sshmalutzy "W'e Arethe Champions" from the new album. Asan extra "bonus," they did a tribute toElvis Presley. leading the screaming crowdin a chorus of "Jailhouse Rock." Hopeful-Iv, this will not continue as a trend in con-certs. As Mercury took his final bow. heannounced: "It's been a pleasure doingbusiness with you all.", And a perir business it was. Te'richally,the concert was marred by poor soundquality. and awful lighting work from thespotlight crew. The group's choice of songswas also poor. favoring the newer, campierNMercury-authored tunes Instead of thetighter solid rockers. After the concert hadended. someone in the audience remarked:"Queen's hard rock days are gone."
One fact that should be taken into ac-count is that Boston was only the secondstop on Queen's U.S. tour, and they might
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their older tunes: "Death on Two Legs,"''"Killer Queen," and "Lover Boy." Thelast, "I'm In Love With My Car,'" which isusually sung by drummer Rodger Taylor,was not sung by any member of the bandbut instead vocals were provided by a pre-recorded tape. The tape was used again inthe -middle of "Bohemian Rhapsody."while the band left the stage.
Mercury announced that the group
By David S1awOn November 12, the rowdy audience in
Boston Garden rocked to the sound ofQueen in concert. It took very little toplease the largely high-school-aged cFowd,and Queen complied by p'utting out amediocre effort.
The concert opened with a song from thenew album, "We Will Rock You," whichwas followed by "Brighton Rock." These
iP` "B D-~b~L "CsCI _~e _-C~ ftwo songs had most people out of theirseats; most of them would stay that way forthe rest of the show. Lead vocalist FreddieMercury told the audience to "keep up the
Queen s latest concert at zhe Boston Garden was not as good as It should have been good mood" and introduced the next(Pho-to V A David Boccut, , group of songs as a "pastiche" of some of
Semi-Tough is not about footballto like the fun-loving trio. SometimesKristofferson's serenity is laid on a bitthick. but that is the script's fault. not his.
If Semi-Toulgh seems to have a lack ofdirectfii'A.it',is due to the inclusion of thefootball sequences. It seems that theproducers wanted to make a film about lifein the latle seventies, but were forced by thegeneral framework of the novel to throw ina fess gridiron scenes here and there. As aresult these scenes are meaningless andthe) detract seriously from the flow of theFilm.
Dircctor MOichael Ritchie has followedthe same formula that he introduced in hisprevious delights Smile and The Bad NewseBears. namely an enjoyable comedy filledwith vicious satire on the word.oFtodayv.The 'medvie'may not live- uf-i`s'exppectat'ionsbecause it lacks the pure down-homequalit, that made Jenkins' novel so en-jovable. Taken on its own. however, Semi-Tolugh is full of raunchy entertainment.providing us with a good chance to laughat our times.
pretends to in an attempt to show her justhow meaningless the entire thing is andthus win her back.
The major purpose of the film is to showthe silliness of the mass attempt to find ins-tant answer's to life's problems.Evervvahere the film turns, someone isshouting the praises of his "answer," be itpyramid power or "movagenics' whichconsists mainlN of cravling around onone's hands and knees trving to findoneself. Big Ed Bookman (RobertPreston). Barbara Jane's father andq.ereot~ped Texan owner of the team, hasexen gone so far as to install miniaturedoors in his office and cut the legs off of hisdesk to facilitate his practice of"movagenics. That Bill,- Clyde and Bar-bara Jane, the most down to earthcharacters of the film. find such gimmicksunnecessary. is a good indication of theopinion of WCalter Bernstein's screenplayon the.subject.
Reynolds. Clayburgh.-and Kristoffersonall fill their roles ,ell with Clayburgh es-peckall, standing out. It is impossible not.t. li_
~)4 Sem i-Tough, a Lnited Artistsrelease: starri ng Burt Rey-nolds. KrisKrslto/-lerson. and Jill Clayburgh. producedhi Da:,d .MerricA. directed by tMichaelRitchie; screenplay bY Walter Bernstein.plat ltrg at Sack Cheri. rated R.
By Al SandersDon't let the ads fool you. Semri-)Tough is
not a corned% about football, Certainly thestars are football pia ers and Ee do follouthe .Miami team to the Super Bo l.Nevertheless. unlike the story of DanJenkins' classic novel of the samne title,these football sequences are secondar).Instead. 'he movie focuses its satiric edgeon the relationship of the three principalcharacterq and their Involverement in thecurrent conrciousness movement.
ju-t as in the no.el. star running backBiil. Clyde Puckett (Burt Revnolas) andhi.- pass-catching budd, Shake Tiller (KrisK;ristofferson) lie uwith and zood-naituredl compete for the heart of BarbaraJane Bookman (Jill Claburgh). BarbaraJane Is one ofthe few -"nines" in the historsof ther athletes rather chauv-instic ratingscale ("There ain't never been a ten"). Allthree are about ais Texan as theN come andit ii . joy *Atching them laniuidly drawltheir a,. thrugh life.
The finm declates from Jernkins' saga inthat iz cconcntrates on Tiller's having"ound hirnsel" through the movement,:i,lied BE .\T muchn ike the current fad est.7hc rLceiver' >sudden introspectixeness:Jucq Barh.bra Jane to locok at hirm ,ith a
netw :-'tcre.,t and before long the two areUngJged. aIn arrangement that Bill' ClNde
ldInd., me,: ansatisfxing.Fhe htgl:h,-ht of the f-ilm is a ~.eekend
'r,' . emninar In , hch Barbara Jane tries tote " it .. . -,t" referring to the new
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Fall sports in reviewBy Tom Curtis
Can a winning collegiate athletic program be constructed withoutmassive recruiting and athletic scholarships? According to MIT's fallsports teams the answer is a resounding yes as three of these teamsfinished first in Massachusetts and one team - the sailing teamfinished first in New England.
The sailors topped a fourteen school field to win the Schell Trophyand the New England Fall Championship. The team also captured theJack Wood Trophy and the Greater Boston Chanipionship for the()berg Trophy. The women's sailing team also performed well. Win-iiing the Captain's Cup highlighted the women's season.
The perennially strong women's volleyball team captured its thirdstraight Massachusetts State Championship. The team edgedSpringfield in a thrilling match to capture this year's Division i title andcomplement the two Division II crowns it won in 1975 and 1976. Thevolleyball team also competed in the small college Eastern Cham-:pionship for the second year in a row. In regular season matches, thewomen finished with a 21-7 record. All of the team's losses came intournament play.
Of the three MIT state champions, the water polo team was by farthe most surprising. After a long string of losing seasons, the team ex-ploded to finish third in New England behind powerhouses Brown andYale. Under the leadership of third-year coach John Benedick, theteam was able to defeat every other New England competiti .. xccptBrown. Goalie Pete Griffith '79 was nominated to first team All-NewEngland for his outstanding performances.
The varsity soccer team also ;rlled a few surprises although thesquad did not finish first in Massachusetts. Under the direction ofanother third year coach, Walter Alessi, the Tech booters finished witha 7-6 record, their first winning record in 14 years. The team's biggestsurprise. however, was a 2-l overtime victory over defending nationalchampion Brandeis. This upset was instrumental in knocking Brandeisout of national championship competition this year. Goalie JamieBernard '79, a transfer student, was invaluable in guiding the teamthrough this remarkable season. Bernard held the opposition to anaverage .69 goals a game.
Some other teams won their first gaines ever this season. Thewomen's field hockey team topped Clark, 3-2, to win its first game, andthe women's rugby club reached the same milestone by beating UConn,22-4.
The cross country team was the season's only disappointment. Aftera 7-1 season last year, the team won only two of its eight meets thisseason. However, the team did improve rapidly in post-season play.The harriers climaxed their season with a respectable eighth in' theIC4A meet in New York.
All of the teams except cross country and volleyball performed muchbetter than last year. Since only the women's volleyball team will losemany of its starters, the fall teams should continue to improve nextyear. While Fall 1977 may be a season to note, Fall 1978 may well be aseason to remember for years and years.
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alive in the tournament.MIT's final pool match was
against Western Maryland. Afterlosing the first game, 14-16, MITwon the next two, 15-6, 15-6, toearn its way into the singleelimination championshiprounds. MIT's earlier loss sentthem into the quarterfinalsagainst the second seed, IthacaCollege. Playing their fourthmatch of the day at 9:15pm, MITlost a close match 15-11, 15-10when Ithaca twice pulled awayfrom 10-10 ties with good serving.Ithaca went on to lose to EastStroudsburg in the finals. The lossleft MIT tied for fifth, eliminatingthem from consideration for thenational championships.
MIT thus concluded avery suc-cessful 1977 season. The vol-leyball team was undefeated inregular season matches; its onlylosses in a 21-7 season came dur-ing tournaments in Rhode Island,
-Connecticut and at the EasternChampionships. Five of MIT'slosses were at the hands of teamsin the national championships,since Maryland and URI finishedone-two in the large collegeEastern championships, and EastStroudsburg and Ithaca didlikewise in the small collegechampionships. Moreover, MITwas the only school to beatStroudst-!rg at the Eastern cham-pionships.
By David Castaon(Editor's note: David Castanon
is the coach of the- women's vol-leyball team.)j
For the second straight year,the MIT women's volleyballteam participated in the EAIAWsmall college championships heldthis year at SUNY-Binghamtonon November 18 and 19. Thisyear's tournament field wasenlarged to 16 teams of muchstronger caliber; MIT, thedefending champion, was seededfifth, and last year's runnerupMansfield State was not selectedfor the tournament. Top seed inthe tournament was East Strouds-burg State College, a team whichhad beaten the Tech squad in twoprevious matches.
The tournament consisted offour round-robin pools, followedby a single-elimination cham-pionship round. East Strouds-burg, Western Maryland andClarion State College were inM IT's pool. The Engineersstarted the tournament on thewrong foot by losing to a taller,inspired Clarion State squad, 15-7, 15-6. The loss came as a shockto most tournament observers,but it was only one of a long seriesof upsets throughout the day, in-dicating the balance of the teamsin the tournament. MIT founditself with its back to the wall,since another loss wouldeliminate the team from the tour-nament.
Fifteen minutes later, MITplayed East Stroudsburg, thenumber one seed and eventualchampions. This match wasperhaps the finest match of thetournament; it was certainly oneof the best mathes MIT has everplayed. MIT upset East Stroud-sburg, 10-15, 16-14, 16-14, in along match that saw MIT twicelose 14-1 1 leads only to pull awayand win. The key factor in thematch was the sudden awakeningof MIT's blocking ability in thesecond game; althouogh much sm-aller than their opponents, theMIT blockers used good position-ing to stop Stroudsburg's power-ful spiking. MIT's victory, a com-plete team effort, kept their hopes
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Athletics, in anticipation ofphysical education classes and in-tramural hockey. On November 9the sand bed sprinkling wasbegun while repairs and paintingcontinued until November 10. ByNovember 14 the rink had a fairbase of ice, but on November 16one of the compressors brokedown. Warm weather then set inagain with a forecast of more tofollow. and the decision was madeto let the ice go.
By Helen MiyasakiOne year ago. after extensive
repairs on the refrigerationsystem. the MIT Ice Rink wasfrozen and ready to use onNovember 13. This year.however. the rink's opening hasbeen delayed for over two weeksbecause of the unusually warmweather we have had recently.
The rink was originally built in1955 as a temporary structurewith an expected lifespan of ap-proximately ten years. .A new in-door ice rink is included in PhaseI of the new athletic facility butconstruction on this structurecannot begin until enough moneyis contributed for the beginning ofPhase i.
Each year the construction of anew rink is delayed. MLIT spendsmore than $10,000 in repairs forthe old rink. The pipes that freezethe ice are connected to theheating system of KresgeAuditorium and have long beenknown to be inadequate for theamount of refrigeration required.
This year it seemed that thesystem could not take any moreand. compounded by the warmweather, ice failed to appear untilSunday.
A target opening date ofNovember 14 had been set byRoss Smith. Director of MIT
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By Jeannette M. Wing;Editor's note. Jeannette M.
Wing is a member of the women's/encing team. i
The MIT women's varsity fenc-ing team opened its season byhosting a three-way meet withUniversity of Connecticut andWheaton College on Saturday,Nov. 19.
Led b- captain Michelle Prel-tvman '79. M IT decisively routedUConn. 13-3. Prettyman. playinga cautious defensive game, wonall four of her bouts, allowingonly five total touches to scoreagainst her.
Returning varsity members ofthe team include Jeannette Wing'78, who won all three of herbouts against the weaker UIConnfencers. and Meredith Boice '7&,who contributed three easy winsand dropped only her last bout bya 5-4 score.
Fencing varsity for the firsttime, Julia Shimaoka '80 addedthree victories to the total. Withthe victor of the meet decided,Marian Stein '80 substituted infor Wing and lost her bout byonly one touch.
.MIT narrowly lost to WheatonCollege, 9-7. Again, Prettymandefeated all four of her oppo-nents, one of them after making aremarkable comeback when shewas down 0-4 and scored fivestraight touches to win. The MITjunior varsity fenced WheatonCollege's JV team and lost 11-5.
The next meet is Wednesday,Nov. 30 against MIT's traditionalrival Radcliffe.
More problems were causedwhen it rained because a "falseice" formed which had to bescraped off. Earlier, when askedwhen the rink will be ready,Professor Smith replied, "1honestly can't say because it de-pends on the weather so much."
This weekend's below freezingtemperatures have frozen the icefor the winter, but, until the in-door rink is built, MIT will en-counter this problem again.
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