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lets printed volume LXXVIII Number 16 Dr High WtlterPasadena, California Friday, February 4, 1977 Eight Pages
;-----The Week In Review --------,
Wells Beats Strong NoVote to Win Presidency
this year. In contrast, the overallbudget went up 8% and 6%during the same time.
Despite the' increases, theCaltech student still pays less foran education than do his counterparts at other major privatecolleges that Tech competes forstudents with (the Universtiy ofChicago excepted). Other schoolsare experiencing increases of 10%or more. Morrisroe cites a ratherfamiliar example--the case ofStanford Universty. In years past,it cost $150 more to attendStanford than to attend Caltech.Today the difference has climbedto $750.
At most schools, tuition comprises about 40% of the totalincome. These schools need largeincreases to counteract inflation.Some of the revenue generated islater "recycled" back to studentsin the form of financial aid. Thisis not the case here where tuitionincreases are by design keptrelatively low.
Gutierrez from Lloyd, AthleticManager Ray Gildner from Fleming, and Directors-at-Large LesliePaxton from Fleming and RayBeausoleil from Lloyd.
The new ASCIT BOD will besworn in by the present BODsometime this month. However,before this is done, the results ofthe election must be approved.There should be no problem withthis and the formalities should betaken care of within a week. Thelast BOD meeting of this administration will be next week.
Actor Freddie Prinze diedSaturday after he shot himselfin the head. He had reportedlybeen despondent over recentpersonal problems.
House Democrats voted tostri p Re p, Robert Sikes(D.-Fla.) of a key subcom-,mittee chairmanship in whatwas seen as a crucial test oftheir desire to clean up theHouse. Sikes was reprimandedllast year in a conflict ofinterests controversy.
White House officials saidthat the way is being clearedfor resumption of arms talkswith the Soviet Union. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance ispresen tly discussing the possibility of a visit to Moscow inMarch or April as a first steptoward a Carter meeting withLeonid Brezhnev in late Sum'mer or Autumn.
Tuition Increase of Over$250 Projected for 77-78
by Kevin Drumment came a few days after aState Department statement ofhuman rights in Moscow haddrawn fire from the Soviets.
Claudine Longet was sentenced to 30 days in jail andtwo years probation for heraccidental killing of her loverVladimir (Spider) Sabich.
Vice-President Walter Mondale remained firm on Carter'scommitment to withdrawtroops from the South Koreanpenninsula. The decision camedespite the wishes of bothJapan and South Korea.
The State Department issueda statement in support ofdissiden t Andrei SakharovThursday which, according toCarter, was not authorized byhim. Carter indicated displeasure with the statement but saidthat it did reflect his stand onthe issue.
ASCIT BOD Finally SetAfter Second Runoff
by Kevin Drumand Henry Fuhrmann
Caltech undergraduate students can expect an increase inexpenses for the next academicyear. The Tech has learned thattuition will rise from the current$3375 to $3648, while overallexpenses (including fees, roomand board) will jump from about$5200 to $5567.
David W. Morrisroe, InstituteVice-President for Financial Affairs, explained the reasoningbehind the projected cost increase. According to Morrisroe,the inflation of higher educationcosts is normally greater thanthat of the general economy. Thereason is that expenses are totally"salary driven." That is, 70% ofall costs are due to employeesalaries and benefits.
Other factors are financial aidand Institute operating expenses.Financial aid is currently thefastest growing expenditure. Aidincreased 15% last year and 14%
The elections are over, andthe new ASCII Board of Directors has been selected. The newASCII President is Bert Wells ofRuddock, Chris Sexton of Fleming has become the Vice President, and the IHC Chairman isEric Kaler of Ruddock.
The other members of theBOD are Secretary Tom McDonnell from Dabney, TreasurerMike Schwartz from Dabney,Director for Academic Activities·Leroy Fisher from RuddOCK,Director for Social Activities Paul
The big story for the weekturned out to be the weather.Storms lashed the Eastern andSouthern parts of the countryall last week and have notsubsided yet. Over 1.5 millionpeople were left joblessafter the cold wave shut downfactories all along the coast andthe figUre has now risen to overtwo million.
President Jimmy Carter saidthat "some degree of crisis"was being faced by 11 states.The sudden storms have increased the chances of agreement on an energy bill now inCongress. The bill would permitreallocation of natural gas· toareas hardest hit by stormcaused fuel shortages.
Secretary of State CyrusVance said that the CarterAdministration will speak franklyon human rights where itfeels it is necessary. The state-
for these three officers to sit inon sessions of the search committee. He claims that hisconnections with various facultymembers and administration officials will allow him to gainuseful information about what isgoing on and that he will be ableto make suggestions at an earlierstage than last time.
The second problem thatWells considers major is that ofthe size of the undergraduateclass. "I have no preconceivednotions about the size of theundergraduate class in the longterm," he said, "and I will acceptthe decision of the ad hocfaculty committee appointed tostudy the problem." He mentioned that he will try to havesome influence in choosing mem-
Continued on Page Seven
Photo-Dave WheelerThe Mudeo site is being landscaped, leaving no place fornext year's Mudeo. Where will it be?
Following are interviews withthree of the most importantnewly elected ASCIT officers:President, IHC Chairman, andDirector for Academic Affairs.
by Kevin Drumand Ken Herkenhoff
The ASCII presidency, according to Bert Wells, should bea Hason between the faculty andadministration and the students.Rather that concerning itself justwith social, student orientedoperations, ASCII should stay incontact with the faculty andadministration in an effort toimprove communication and possibly obtain greater benefits forthe student body.
One of the problems that theASCII president will have todeal with this year is the searchfor a new Institute President.Wells believes that the ASCII
-president can play an importantpart in the process even if thereare no students actually on thesearch committees themselves.During the last search, whichproduced Harold Brown, studentswere given no voice in theselection until late in the gamewhen the choices had beennarrowed down to two or threecandidates. Even then, student input was minimal. Thereare official student contacts forthe committee (ASCIT president,IHC chairman, and the Directorfor Academic Affairs). Wellswould like to obtain permission
What will Harold Brown do now that he is in Washington?Page 2
Caltech's Hockey Club: why aren't they doing as well aslast year? Page 5
Basketball team beats LIFE College for first win of season.Page 8
by Etaoin SchroedluA recent issue of the UCLA
Daily Bruin contained two interesting articles on cheating atUCLA, the gist of which seemedto this reporter to be worthpassing on. The headline of thelonger article was "CHEATERS!Poll shows 66% of studentscheated--without regrets" andwent on to cite a recent surveygiven to a class of over 200students. Of those who returnedthe questionnaire (a number notgiven), two-thirds admitted tohaVing cheated at least once.Worse yet, most of the class werefirst-quarter freshmen! The figuremay or may not be typical ofthe 33,000 or so UCLA studentsat all levels of study, but it is upfrom a 1973 survey, in which"only a slight majority" admittedto cheating.
That 1973 survey, said theDB, also produced the interestingresult that many students did notthink that using crib notes inexams, or turning in term paperswritten by somebody else, constituted cheating. (That doesn'treally leave very much, exceptstealing the answers to examsbefore they are given-which hashappened.) Those attitudes represented a defini te softening ofthe traditional moral views oncheating, compared to an attitude survey a decade earlier.
The major reason studentsgave for cheating was to get goodgrades, but some also wanted to"beat the system." (I can have alittle bit of sympathy on thatscore; the "system" at UCLA canbe maddeningly random.) Sixteenpercent laid the blame for theircheating on parental pressures-all in all, 1 find that numberrather low. Cheating was morally'acceptable, said 24% of therespondents, and 36% "claimedthey would use cheatmg ordeception after they graduate inorder to get a job or promotion." (Anyone who had worriesabout where our next generationof political or business 'leaders'are coming from can relax: theschool that gave us Haldemanand Ehrlichman is still on thejob.) By consensus, the worstcheaters are the pre-med studentsand the athletes. (It's probablyno accident that doctors andathletes have descended from
Continued on Page Three
Cheating at UCLA:How Do StudentsReact to it?
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Editors-in-ChiefKevin Drum
Henry FuhrmannAI Kellner
Business ManagerKen Kroll
Darkroom ChairmanDave Wheeler
Chuckles the Managing EditorChuck Kahn
Volume LXXVIII Number 16Friday, February 4. 1977
Published weekly except duringexamination and vacation periodsby the Associated Students of theCalifornia Institute of Technology,Incorporated. The opinionsexpressed in all articles are strictlythose of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of theeditors or of the corporation.
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can deal with" means? From myperspective as previous editor,the implication is that anyonewho does not automatically goalong with the Tech editors issomeone they can not deal with.
It seems tbat the only two. criteria that was used in determining the new editor wereexpedience~ "Let's get it overwith"-and personal preferenceon the part of the Tech editors.
No one will argue that thereshould be close co-operationbetween the various publicationsof ASCIT. But this co-operationshould be based on the respectivepurposes of each publication andnot on the personal preferencesor differences that might arise inthe course of each publication, asthe editors attempt to do theirjob.
Respectfully,
letters to The Tech
CACTUS FLOWER
THE ASCIT FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE
By Michael Calabreseand Jake Herms
Mondale, Vance, Brzezinski,Brown, Blumenthal-these menrepresent the entire Cabinet-levelforeign policy wing of the newAdministration. These men, alongwith Jimmy Carter himself andmost of his old foreign policyand economic advisers, areamong the 60 original Americanmembers of a private international group known as the TrilateralCommission.
The Trilateral Commission,founded in 1973 by DavidRockefeller, seeks to encouragecooperation between three greatindustrial regions of the world-North America, Western Europe, and Japan.
Gerald Rafshoon, Carter's media specialist, has said thatCarter's selection to the commission in 1973 was "critical to hisbuilding support where itcounted."
Carter's first appoin tmen t tothe new administration was fellow member Cyrus Vance tosucceed Henry Kissinger as Secre-
To the Editors,Having read the minutes of
the ASCIT BOD meeting of 24thJanuary published in the Tech, Iwould like to make some comments regarding the appointmentof the new Big T edi tor.
In the minutes it is written:"the California Tech wants aneditor 'they can deal with.'''And after deciding that it wasnot worth the effort of interviewing the two people inconsideration, the BOD voted toappoint Stan Cohn, whom theCalifornia Tech editors "expressed a strong preference for,"to be the edi tor.
On reading the minutes, onecannot help but notice the totalabsence of any discussion on thequalifications of the applicantsfor job of editor. One is also ledto wonder exactly what "they
-AI Kellner
Parry! Riposte! I ~~~~~CO~d~,"d~~f~~O~S~':~'~~~PU?O~~om:~'O~,eC~~~?The Editorial Page the Harvard Crimson. The article Secretary of Defense under recommending that the bombing
in its full form appeared on Robert McNamara and defended be terminated, since it could notJanuary 12. the escalation of bombing in destroy North Vietnam's deter·
Vietnam. mination or capabilities.Carter has also nominated The Pentagon Papers also
former Caltech President Harold show that in 1967, Brown hadBrown to be his Secretary of played the maj or role in dissuad·Defense. Brown's past record has ing McNamara from limiting thenot received the attention it bombing of North Vietnam. Partdeserves. At a press conference of his argument was an impres·on December 21, Brown denied sive analogy based on an incor·that he had advocated totally·· rect "law" of diffusion: thatbombing and mining of North "interference close to the sourceVietnam while Secretary of the has· a greater effect than thoseAir Force in 1968, and stated close to the output."
. that this was only one of several Brown was also the mainstrategies that he had trans- proponent of the jinxed F-lllmitted. He failed to mention that Continued on Page Threehis other two proposals alsocalled for increased bombing ofIndochina.
The Pentagon Papers revealthat Brown did in fact personallyadvocate the first plan. Part ofhis actual cover letter is quoted:"I would judge that CampaignNo. 1 can, in military terms,limit South Vietnamese actionsnear their pre-Tet levels (areference to the Tet offensi~ebegun early in 1968.) It couldpossibly reduce North.. Vietnam-ese capability in South ·Vietnamsubstantially below the 1967level."
3.2 Not Good EnoughOver the past five years, the average G.P.A. of Caltech
students has increased one-tenth of a point. Many of thepowers-that-be believe this increase to be a sign of gradeinflation. This group has also concerned itself with the factthat 50% of the 1976 graduating class will graduate withhonors. These powers have gone so far as to recommendthat the G.P.A. required for honors status be increased to3.3 from the present value of 3.2. The current status ofthis proposal is unknown.
Although these policy-makers probably consider thismove to be reasonable, they ignore student attrition. Thepredicted attrition rate for the class of 1980 now stands at50%, and thus only 25% of the current freshmen willgraduate with honors. This is a reasonable level.
Of course, if those students who leave were to stay, theaverage G.P.A. would decrease. Consider the followingsimple example:
A group of students - one with a 1.9, another with 3.0,and the third with 4.1 - has an average of 3.0. If the firststudent, in agony and disgrace over his 1.9 (which is still a"C," which meant "average" back where life was slower),drops out of Caltech the average G.P.A. instantly shootsup to 3.55. This move increases the group's average score,although no one has increased his personal G.P.A. Thepolicy-makers decide to increase the difficulty of thecourses, and thus brin~ down everyone's grades.
There doesn't seem to be a solution in sight. All we canhope for is that the courses don't become anyharder- we hope they'll become a little easier-and thatthe attrition rate stays low. Of greatest importance is thatan increase in the average G.P.A. should not be cause forconcern. Instead, it should please the administration thatCaltech is getting better.
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All the News That FitsDancethe Night Away
The Advocates for the Artsinvite students to attend theArtists and Lawyers Ball tomorrow, Saturday, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.It's at the Elks Building, Sixthand South Parkview, Los Angeles.Tickets are $3.50 at the door.
Congratulations,Dr. McKee!
The American Society of CivilEngineers wiII present Dr. JackMcKee with the Edmund Friedman Professional RecognitionAward. The award is in recognition of his encouragement toengineering students and hiscontributions to civil engineering.
StudyAbroad
Tel Aviv University has announced a fuII-scale promotionof its Student Overseas Programfor the academic year 1977-78for English-speaking, academicaIIy qualified studentswho may wish to continue theirhigher education in Israel.
For information, write to theAmerican Friends of Tel AvivUniversity, 1900 Avenue of theStars (Suite 2625), Los Angeles90067, or call 213-556-3141.
Geta Job
Two hundred students fromthe western states are needed fora variety of internship projectsthat wiII be developed during1977 by the Western InstituteCommission for Higher Education (WICHE).
These internships will involvetwelve weeks of work on actionresearch projects with publicagencies. The sponsoring agencywill provide a tax-free grant of$100 per week.
For additional information,write the Resources DevelopmentInternship Program, P.O. DrawerP, Boulder, Colorado 80302.
Flashers WantedBring Your ...
The 1976-77 yearbook editorsare looking for photographers forthis year's Big T. Anyoneinterested in taking or printingpictures should contact DaveWheeler or AI Kellner at449-9696 or x2153.
Kill It Before It Dies!Saturday, February 5, the
Caltech Gamers will present afree-for-all game of Alien Space.The action wiII start at 7: 30 p.m.in Dabney Hall Lounge.
CHEATING ONRISE AT UCLA
Continued from Page Onetheir pedestals in the last generation or so.)
Cheating has advanced technologically from the cruder daysof yore, the article notes.Apparently some women students have taken to putting cribnotes inside their underwear,secure in the knowledge thattheir professors wouldn't investigate to the root of the matter.(Well, I wouldn't be so sureabout some of the professors Iknow, but that's a differentstory.) There has been quite arash of people taking exams forother students. (If you havesomeone do that, you might getto be Senator from Massechusetts.) Some term paper writershave even "submitted materialthat their own professors havewritten"-it was unreported whatresulted from those efforts atcheating.
The faculty have made effortsto reduce the cheating, such asrequiring photo IDs in exams,
. but the article does not dwell onthe fact that there isn't muchthat can be done to stopcheating. Unless the evidence isvery solid, in fact, a prof or TAcan get in a lot of troublemaking accusations of cheating
these days. Rarely can a case behandled (and not often can iteven be discovered) without thehelp of honest students. Twostudents appeared to be cheatingin an exam I proctored last year;the other proctor, who lookedlike Arnold Schwarzenegger,went and stood behind them fora while, and when they turned intheir exams, I conspicuously puta check mark on each one:psychological warfare, since wedidn't really want to try to doany thing else. (They bothflunked anyway, as it happened.)The check marks shook them upa little at least, and may havehad aeterrent value.
One of the Deans reportedthat in 1975-76, 94 cases ofcheating were referred to theDean of Students Office, and 30students were "separated fromthe University," but obviouslythis is only a drop in the bucket.
The second article in theDaily Bruin related the story of astudent, not named, who has a3.9 GPA and gets extra moneyand payment in kind (dope) forcheating on behalf of otherpeople by taking exams forthem. "It guarantees an A," hesaid, and related some details ofhis -modus operandi. He also said,"I don't think I've ever cheated,"but even aside from one's viewsof his extracurricular examtaking, he admitted to using crib
sheets in his own behalf. Clearly,his moral standards don't rank ashigh as his GPA.
Is the trend at UCLA alsogoing to be the trend nationwide? I don't know about that,although I've had a notion forsome time that the full price ofVietnam and Watergate won'tbe paid until we realize thecontribution those episodes havemade to the morality of the nextgeneration or two of Americans.It is possible to have hope-as faras I'm aware, cheating at Caltechis neither rampant nor increasing,and the pressures at Tech aresurely greater than at UCLA. Onthe other hand, although peopleat Tech generaIly don't seem torealize it, numericaIly speakingthe UCLAs of the land are somuch more significant and typical than the Caltechs.
Late NewsLinen Exchange Time Changefor Graduate Students
For those who have notnoticed, the linen exchange timefor Graduate Houses on Thursday has been changed to 12: 30through 1:30 p.m.FinancialAid
Attention! Financial aid applications for the 1977-78 academic year are available now in109 Dabney Hall.
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heads. Thus, his support of theB-1 bomber should be veiwedwith some circumspection.
As a point of interest, anotherimportant member of the Trilateral Commission is J. PaulAustin, chairman of the Atlantabased Coca-Cola company andCaltech trustee.
Brown's, and the entire Trilateral Commission's, influence onCarter should be substantial. Wehope that Carter is not sooverwhelmed by his governingcoalition that he forgets aboutthe common people who electedhim .
Continued from Page Twofighter-bomber, a plane that eventhe Republican National Committee had rated as "unacceptable."He testified that it was "provingto be an outstanding aircraft,"wrjle failing to mention thatthree of the six original prototypes had crashed.
Even while he was a delegateto the 1969 SALT talks, Brownwas pushing for immediate U.S.deploymen t of several hundredARM's along with MIRV missiles.This was despite the fact that theU.S. already had a three-to-oneadvantage in deliverable war-
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Low by David BowieI've enjoyed a fair amount of
the music that Mr. Bowie hascreated over the years, so it's notas though I don't appreciate hismusic. Still, this new album isthe most worthless drivel I'veheard .in years. The songs areincredibly baroque, unrhythmic,and weird. Maybe the off-keylead guitar phrases and theexcessive studio effects areBowie's idea of where music isheading. Frankly, I don't con·sider it music at all. By all meansavoid this album like the plague.
Wings Over America by PaulMcCartney and Wings
I wouldn't have thought thatthis band would have enoughtalent to put on a Jive show.They manage it only by workingup very short and tight arrangements with lots of pop-rockgimmicks. Only McCartney hasany free rein in the production.The rest of the band might aswell have been on tape (maybethey were). There is a largeentourage of stage performersincluding a brass section, afemale back-up vocal crew, andsuch. The spotlight never reallyleaves McCartney however, andthis is just as well for Pau~ putson a well-paced and entertaining~how. It's sad that I don't reallyappreciate his pop-rock musict forhe and his band are certainlyleading exponents of this genre.
Hotel California by the Eagles.The Eagles are trying to put
some meaning and purpose intheir music with their latestalbum. This is certainly a daringchange for the band whose goodtime rock-and-roll put them atthe top of the charts. At thesame time the band incorporatedJoe Walsh's dynamic guitar intotheir music. The slight change inapproach might scare off some oftheir fans, but I like the albumparticularly "Life in the FastLane" and the haunting title cut,"Hotel California." The albumhas a few faults. For instance 1think the guitars should be a bitlouder and a little less clean. Thevocals are simply excellent,though, and the songs all fittogether coherently. The albumshould be rated as a criticalsuccess. It'll be interesting to seehow the public responds to it.[Editor's Note: The album hasalready attained 'platinum' status, with over 2,000,000 copiessold.]
Hopp Kon' by Hot TunaJack Casady and Jorma
Kaukonen have played togetherover ten years now so it's notsurprising that their music soundslike one person playing two guitarswith four hands. Jorma sings alot on the album with hischaracteristically gruff voice. Fortunately, the lyrics aren't exciting, so not being able tounderstand them is not critical.What is important is that Jorma'sleads are as hot as ever and HotTuna's rock and roll still hitshard and heavy. None of thesongs last over five .minutes,though, and fading out duringsuch blazing guitar play is almostcriminal. The music is good whileit lasts.l so turn up those ampsand wake up the whole house.
The Pretender: One ofJackson Browne's Finest Albums
by Rock HowardHere are a n~mber of brief
impressions I can relate concerning some records of recentvintage:
The Pretender by JacksonBrowne.
This is another fine production by possibly the mostimportant singer-songwriter insoft-rock during the last fewyears. The songs are mostlywistful and sad with touchingmelodies that are fairly simplebut arranged brilliantly to makethem musically worthwhile. Thelyrics are best described asbeautiful as, time and again,Jackson captures an emotion thatI've felt myself, but never knownexactly how to express. Whilethis is not Jackson Browne's bestalbum, it should be rankedamongst his finest.
Rock on Rock
The Lotte Gos1ar PantomimeCircus is returning to Caltech fora performance in BeckmanAuditorium 'at 8 p.m. on Saturday, February 12. There will bea special free performance foryoung people in Beckman at 11a.m. that Saturday, and a specialmaster class in mime from 9:00until 10: 30 a.m. Friday morning.For more information, call theCaltech Ticket Office.
* * *The Importance of Being
Earnest by Oscar Wilde and theWest-coast premiere of Travestiesby John Stoppard are currentlyplaying in repertoire at the MarkTaper Forum of the MusicCenter. The repertory cast includes David Dukes, Jean Marsh,and Anita Gillette. Tickets areavailable by calling the MusicCenter box office at 972-7211.
~DavidRitchie
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ruary 8. The program for theFebruary 13 concert at 3:30p.m. will consist of the MozartQuartet in G minor, K. 478Serenade in D major, Opus 8 byBeethoven; and Schumann'sQuartet in E flat major, Opus 47.
* * *Christiane Edinger, the a
mazing young German-born violinist, will perform at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena onSaturday, February 5 at 8:30p.m. A highlight of the programwill be the world premiere ofGottfried Von Einem's SonataOpus 47, for unaccompaniedviolin. Her Ambassador programwill also include Bach's SonataNo. J in G minor for unacompanied violin and Beethoven'sSonata in F major, Opus 24("Spring") and Prokofiev's So-nata in D major, Opus 94a, forboth violin and piano.
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EntertainDlent New-s,
Tickets are now available toASCIT's production of Guys andDolls. The show will play inBeckman Auditorium from Friday, February 25 through Sunday, February 27. For prices andreservations, call the CaltechTicket Office at 793-7043.
>I< '" *
Elizbeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.,the author of On Death andDying,will speak on the topic of"Life and Transition" next Tuesday, February 8, in BeckmanAuditorium and 8 p.m. TheOffice of Public Events isoffering 40 free tickets toCaltech students.
'" '" *
Fifty free tickets to see theFrench String Trio and pianistGeorges Pludermacher. will beavailable on a first-come-firstserved basis in the Caltech Ticket'Office beginning Tuesday, Feb-
Updateand UCI) had been practicing for the entire fall;some even worked out through the summer.
Why did our team only manage two or threepractices in an entire month? The reason is money.Hockey teams in Southern California must rent icetime for practices. Our team pays $50 per hour forthe rink, and an average practice lasts 1Yz hours.Unforttinately, hockey money here is less than whatthe team needs. Even with the support of ASCIT,GSC, the athletic department, and the AlumniAssociation, Tech's hockey squad can only affor4about one or two nights of rink time per week,including games. This doesn't leave much time topractice.
The rink also manages to schedule Caltechpractices so that they will not conflict with "primetime" ice skating. Thus, practices and games areheld late Sunday night. Spectator turn-out is almostzero.
SCHA player quality has risen over the years,too. A few years ago, Southern California hockeyhad a minor explosion on the junior league level.Many of the junior league all-stars are college -agenow, and are competing in the SCHA. In contrast,some of Tech's players are still learning how toskate.
All factors considered, it is still amazing thatCaltech managed to dominate Class 2 back in 1974.Two years ago, the team suffered from many of thesame problems: inadequate funding, no practice,odd practice hours, and inexperienced players. Butextra effort from the coach, Jim "Doc" Warden(who works for free, incidentally), and fineperformances from the more experienced players onthe team helped to pull Caltech through. The switchto Class 1 and the loss of some seasoned playersreally hurt.
Caltech still has a number of talented players.Phil Wood, a graduate student in ChemicalEngineering, is third in the league in scoring thisseason. Rick Lye, a junior, scored four goals inTech's last game against UCI. Dr. Fred "the Jet"Culick is still with the team, too.
What's in store for the future? "The main thingwill be that we will try to drop back to Class 2,"Yates says. This move, combined with moreexperienced players, may put Caltech back on top.
Hockey
ABOVE -USC player lunges for puck with Dick Junchano down and George Yatesscreened from play
LEFT -Jay Killea (No.8) body checks USC player in Tech's 17-5 loss to USC.
ACaltechAUgood thi~. must p-atJ&••
Story and Photos byJohn Loo
For a number of years, Caltech'shockey teamwas one of the few exceptions to the CIT sportssyndrome. Unlike the other Tech teams, the hockeysquad had a winning record, and swept theirdivision two years ago.
This year, however, the team is 0-9. What hascaused this dramatic change? According to GeorgeYates, team captain, any of a number of thingscould have done it.
Caltech plays within the Southern CaliforniaHockey Association (SCHA), not the NAJA, NCAA,or SCIAC. The SCHA likes to reorganize itselfrather often. Two years ago, the SCHA had twodivisions: Class 1 and Class 2; Class 1 consisted ofthe "tougher" teams. Caltech played in Class 2, andbeat everybody.
Last year, the SCHA had one division, due to alack of teams and interest. With Class 1 and Class 2combined, Caltech suffered some losses, butmanaged to win enough to look respectable.
This year, the SCHA split into two divisionagain, and stuck Tech into Class 1. The SCHAofficials refused to place Caltech back into Class 2,
• due to scheduling problems.Tech faced a number of other problems. First,
five experienced players graduated. Then, the homeice rink (the Ice Capades Chalet in Pasadena's CivicCenter) was not completed until October. As aresult, the hockey team had only two or threepractices before t~ season started in November.Tech's team entered the 1976-77 season inexperienced, out-of-shape, and lacking teamwork. OtherSCHA teams (such as USC, Cal State Northridge,
Rick lye (Black) fights for puck with a USC player, as Fred Culick (left), George Yates (2nd from right) andDick Junchano (right) skate to assist.
This year's story: Dick Junchano in -Caltech's 2-11 loss to Cal StateNorthridge.
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orbital photometry interlaced togive complementary data about aregion. He showed graphicallythat "aerial imagery is a way offinding things hidden in theworld around us," by showingthe audience a series of slidesfrom street level to 38,000 milesabove San Francisco. The inherent tradeoff is perspective fordetail; the goal is multiple viewsof a region that not only giveaerial fidelity but good resolutionas welL
After the film, Brown toldhow each ERTS image, 100nautical miles on a side, represents about 2340 scan lines,each about 80 meters wide.Hence each individual imagereturned to earth stations eitherdirectly. or off automatic magnetic recordings contains around28 million bits of data.
Brown particularly stressedthe "benevolant nature" of remote sensing, despite the poli tical hassles relative to thepossibilities for internationalspying. He succeeded, in wellorganized fashion, accompaniedby polished delivery and beautiful graphics, in not onlyconveying a capsuleunderstanding of the methods ofthe sCience but the possibilitiesand usefulness of it as welL
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have not made the problem clearto the Institute's administration.Whatever the reason, now is anappropriate time to act on thisproblem. The undergrads are notsimply an expendable groupattached to the Institute; theyare an integral part of it, andshould be treated as such..
Chess states that the Women'sglee club will not be going ontour this year; instead they willbe going to a camp at Oceanside.Since the BOD had given theclub $200 specifically to sub·sidize tour expenses, they wouldlike the BOD to review theirrequest. A representative couldnot be present at the meetingbecause it conflicted with asinging practice that night. Sincethere was no quorum, it wasdecided to table the matter untillater.
2) Bielecki mentions thatSteve Hurst suggested that theBOD award Dr. Schaefer withmore than just a letter ofcommendation- perhaps aplaque or a beer blast. McDonnellthinks this would be a good idea.Bielecki says we cannot figureout an appropriate presenationuntil we have a quorum.
3) Bielecki suggests that theBOD agree to meet at a newtime to allow more member to
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firms, has such a high rate ofillness among its students on aregular basis?
At least in part, the answerlies in the fact that variousinstitute policies encourage sucha problem. Whereas private businesses generally provide for sickleave, so that someone unfortunate enough to be sick is notalso disadvantaged at his job,Caltech makes no provision foracademic difficulties arising fromillness. Recently, a nurse at theHealth Center asked an Instituteadministrator about the possibility of providing a tutor for astudent who had been bed-riddenfor a week. The adminsistratorreplied that the student could, ofcourse, have a tutor, but at hisown expense.
Since the student can expectno help from the Institute inmaking up lost time due to anillness, the average student mustattend his classes even if he issick with a contagious disease.Thus, the cold can spread to theother members of the class.In addition, the Institute makesno provision to handle more thana few bed patients at the HealthCenter. Thus, in the event of amajor outbreak of any communicable disease, one can expect a large number of sickstudents to remain in the houses,and will spread the disease thereas well as in the classrooms.
Perhaps the reason for theseproblems is that the students
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Photo-Ngaiman ChauRobert Leslie appearing in the quad during Noon Concert last week. The concert was sponsored by the Caltech Y.
The Reason for Those Tech Epidemicsby Carl Lydick
Once again, the annual Caltech cold epidemic has arrived.One of the more unique aspectsof student. life at Tech is theannual epidemic: a major portionof the undergraduate communitycomes down with a cold or theflu wi thin the span of only oneor two weeks. The questionarises, though, "Why here?" Whyis it that Caltech, unlike publicschools and private business
Aerial Imaging Subject ofWednesday YDiscussion
by Alan SilversteinKnow it or not, the new
science of aerial imaging has beenaffecting your life for severalyears now and will become evenmore important in the future. Sospoke William Brown, U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologist, at anevening presentation sponsoredby the Y last Wednesday inWinnett lounge. His multi~
media, hour-and-a-half talkentitled "New Window on OurPlanet" featured large staticdisplays, a NASA film on theEarth Resources TechnologySatellites (ERTS), a bevy· ofbeautiful slides, and free samplelithographs.
Man first studied the earthfrom above in 1858, during aballoon ascent near Paris. Systematic high-altitude observationis a more recent occurrence,however. In 1960 the Tirosweather satellite was orbitedprimarily to return images oflarge-scale weather patterns.ERTS-l in 1972, and ERTS-2in 1975, were the first unmannedcraft wholly dedicated to lookingat the en tire planet in a regularfashion.
Brown emphasized' themultilevel nature of aerial imaging, showing how ground observation, aircraft recording, and
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the Teaching Quality FeedbackReport, serving on several committees which deal with academicpolicy and curriculum, and thisyear occupying a spot on thefacul ty advisory committeewhich will search for a newCaltech president. Director-electLeroy Fisher looks upon theseresponsibi1itie~ not only withrespect for their importance, butwith an encouraging willingnessto give his best toward tacklingthem.
Personally, Fisher impressesone as an introspective, wellmannered, and generally quitelikeable guy. These qualities willundoubtedly be to his advantage,when one considers the largenumber of people he will dealwith on the BOD and elsewhereas he fulfllls his obligation. Hewill try to find ways to increaseinteraction between faculty andstudents and make the facultymore aware of student needs. Hewill continue successful programs such as the TeachingAwards, and will initiate newplans, including frequent facultyvisits to the houses. Fisher feelsthat any increase in facultystudtmt communication is desirable, and he plans to workwith the outgoing director, BertWells, to facilitate smooth implementation of his policies.
Director forAcademic Affairs
known.On food service: "People
around my house (Ruddock)have been sick more than usuallately and I wonder if it is due inpart to the food. Last term thefood was all right, but this termit has gone straight downhill."One possibility, he thinks, is tofind out what food services othercampuses use (this was tried lastyear). However, due to Caltech'ssmall size, it may be nearlyimpossible to get good foodwithout a raise in price that isunacceptable, he said. In anycase, he feels that the contractwith Saga (a new one was signedlast week) should definitely bereconsidered.
Personally, Kaler gives theimpression of someone who islooking forward to his office andbelieves that he can make apositive contribution toward improving life at Tech. He isreasonable but has definite opinions on many subjects-opinionsthat he has no doubt thoughtthrough carefully.
The Director for AcademicAffairs has many importantduties, among them coordinating
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tion, faculty committees, and thequality of the food service.
On rotation: "When the gagrule was abolished last year Ithought that freshmen would getmany wrong impressions of thehouses. I was wrong, though. Ithink that most people are morehonest than they are given creditfor." He believes that it doesn'thurt freshmen to be aware ofother houses' reputations as longas they are aware that these areopinions of people who have notactually ever lived there. Heclaims that rotation went moresmoothly this year because ofthe lack of a gag rule. "Whenthere are fewer rules, there arefewer rules to break," he stated.
On faculty committees: Kalerthinks that better feedback fromstudent members on facultycommittees is important to asmoother running government(the IHC chooses student reps;the BOD approves them). Although an effort to have studentreps submit statements to theBOD after every meeting failed afew years ago, he believes that itwould be worthwhile to try itagain. In addition, he would liketo print these summaries offaculty committe meetings in theTech in order to make theproceedings and the functions ofthese committees more well
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Related to the problem oflackluster teaching is lacklusterstudents~ Le., student apathy.He believes that Caltech is moreserious these days, that studentsare more concerned about doingwell academically than before."Students' come here very purposefully," he commented."They want to get out of herewith a B.S. or an M.S. that willget them a job or into a goodgrad school. They don't seem tocare about much else." As anexample, he doesn't believe thatthe rising GPA's here are necessarily due just to grade inflation.It may also be because of theincreased seriousness with whichstudents take courses. He claimsthat student apathy is not reallya problem per se, but that it issimply a situation, and one thatmust be worked with. He alsobelieves that the strong NO votein the presidential campaigns(16% in the first runoff and 37%in the second) represents strongstudent apathy.
Wells also has several otherthings that may produce interesting results. For instance, hewould like to work with the mcChairman (Eric Kaler) and perhaps arrange joint meetings ofthe mc and the BOD. He willalso look into the possibility ofsitting in on Trustees' meetings.Finally, he is considering goingaround to different houses onceor twice a week just to talk topeople after dinner about thingsthey would like to see the BODdo. And if none of these thingswork, then he suggests that wejust call a corporation meeting."Vau need a hundred people andit's a lot of fun," he said. ''I'msure we could do some interesting things."
IHe Chairman
The mc Chairman is perhapsthe second most influential officein ASCIT next to the President.And, according to newly electedChairman Eric Kaler, it is alsothe most representative office inthe ASCIT hierarchy. Kaler, whowas ASCII Secretary two yearsago, believes that the IHCChairman has no actual power,since he is not a voting memberof the mc, but that since he isthe spokesman for the group, heis in many ways more influentialthan any of the other members(the seven house presidents)despite not having a vote. Kalergave his thoughts on several ofthe activities that the mccoordinates: principally, rota-
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However, he does have sev~ral
ideas about short-term solutions.He wants to get a definitivestatement, to talk to key peopleand gather opinions about possible solutions to the problem."Some priorities will be violatedin any solution," he commented,referring to two specific solutionsto the problem. These are toeither force upperclassmen offcampus reduce the size of thefreshman class for one year.However, he says that severalpeople have led him to believethat this is not an acceptablewlution to the faculty. Ifadmissions keep up at the ratethey are at now, the studenthouses would end up 40%freshmen in a few years ifupperclassmen were forced offcampus. He doesn't believe that'this is a conducive environmentfor either the honor code or forwda! life in general. However,no new student house can bebuilt for' at least five years, sowrne short term solution mustbe worked out within the presentframework. He suggested that areasonable solution might be tokeep the freshman class definitely under 220 and probablycloser to 200. He cited thesefigures from it faculty reportwritten a few years which saidthat the optimum class size wasbetween 200 and 220.
Also, he said that we should"plan for a new student house,assuming... the recommendation isto increase the student body!ize." He estimated that it wouldtake about one year to find adonor to finance the new house.
The third, and last, on Wells'list of the most critical problemsis "underutilization of humanresources." Basically, he thinksthat faculty members are notrutting forth the enthusiasm thatthey once had, that they are notputting enough interest into theirteaching. He will be workingwith the Director for AcademicAffairs (Leroy Fisher) in trying10 find solutions to remedythis situation. He thinks. thaty-eater teaching enthusiasm couldbe encouraged through the continuance of the teaching awardsand the TQFR. Another sug~estion of his is to start teaching~erninars, where good teachers(possibly those receiving' theteaching awards) would talk toothers about how to teachcourses. This has been donebefore but he believes that itmould be tried again. "I thinkthey (the teachers) should beinterested," he concluded.
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On Saturday, January 29,Caltech's men's and women'sswim teams went up against the
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