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UIE 90, NUMBER 49 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1970 MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FIVE CENTS

By Lee Giguererally last Tuesday called in

port of worker demands atFaculty Club culminated inthreat of discipline actiontrespass charges against stu-

ts who had entered Provostme Weisner's office.Students had entered Weis-'s office seeking to force himannswer questions concerningdispute; however, he wasnt when they arrived.

SDS continued its efforts onIlf of the Faculty Clubkers Wednesday afternoon

canvassing of workers onthree o'clock shift. Ac-

ing to Deborah Golomb G,workers were "very sympa-ic." Miss Golomb also statedSDS would picket the Sloan

ool every day this week be-n twelve and one.

Ihe rally began a little after)n with speeches by two SDSymbers and two of thelkers. Afterwards, a group of,at 40 moved over to Weis-

2s office, remaining there forut forty-five minutes beforeg ordered to leave.

provokesd responsecommented tbat most sectionswere marked with "incoher-ency" and failed to be specificenough. He also cited lack ofresearch, apparent ignoring ofexisting evidence, and lack ofinnovation as reasons for re-jecting the report.)

UnreadableSeveral students surveyed

complained about the report'sstructure, saying they "reallydon't feel like wading through itall . . . wish it had a summary."Another student commented onthe "fifty-word sentences."

On1 the other hand, a smallergroup was appreciative of thegeneral ideas put forth. Thisgroup tended to include thosewho appairantly were not alreadyfamiliar with the problem area;they were grateful for the over-view, and appreciated the "con-structive suggestions" offered.

Essays applaudedStrangely enough, the ap-

pended essays drew more favor-able comments than any othersection of the report. In parti-cular, Laurence Storch's com-ments received applause fromabout half of those making anyspecific remarks. Storch referredbriefly to the ommissions of thereport, and to how he felt theCommission had failed to meetits charge. Jay Forrester's appen-dix regarding decision-makingand administration at MIT wasalso well-received.

Commissionhighly varie

By Dave deBronkartPreliminary reaction to the

newly-released MIT CommissionReport has been non-committal.

A cursory survey of the MITCommunity revealed mixedfeelings ranging from "well-written" to "pure shit."

The telephone survey wasconducted Sunday night, ran-domly sampling students, fac-ulty, and administration. Twofactors qualify any analysis,however: first, delivery has notbeen completed to all residencesand since many students weregone for the holidays, only anarbitrary cross-section had re-ceived their copies; second, mostof those who had received thereport had not yet read it, indi-cating that valid responses cameonly from persons who werevery interested, rather than froma sample of "average" students.

.Of those surveyed, then, theoverall feeling was summed upby one faculty member whosaid, "I was very impressed bythe thoughtfulness of the report,but upset by the lack of depthshown." Comments followed ageneral pattern: generalizationswere positive, on the order of"some good ideas," "lots of ma-terial for the GA to work with";on the other hand, specific com-ments were highly critical.

' (UAP Wells Eddleman se-verely criticised the report. He

They then proceeded downthe hall to Vice-President forOperations Wynne's office, onlyto find him out. Finally, thegroup entered Dan Nyhart's of-fice, where they questioned himabout the Faculty Club dispute

and also about disciplinary ac-tion against the black studentsinvolved in the alleged FacultyClub disruption two weeks ago.

Inside Weisner's office, thestudents argued with _ames J.Culliton, Assistant to the Vice-President for Administration andPersonnel, over whether or notWeisner would speak at an openrally. They came to the office,they said, not to disrupt any-thing, but only to obtain an-swers to their questions aboutthe dispute. Culliton held that ifthey wanted to see Weisner theywould have to make individualappointments with him.

As the discussions withCulliton proceeded, a number ofInstitute officials, including Con-stantine Simonides and KennethWadleigh, appeared in the hall-way outside. The demonstratorsasked them for comment on theissue but Wadleigh simply moveddown the hallway, while Simon-ides stated, "I don't have any-thing to say to a group of peoplewho march into an office." Twoof the faculty club workers werepresent and began to argue withCulliton about the wage de-mands.

After about half an hour,Simonides entered and tried topersuade the group that "a lot ofpeople are working on the reso-

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By Curtis ReevesgIT has received a grant of10,000 from the Council onirary Resources for the opera-a of an experimentalnputer-based technical libraryem.

Professor Carl F.J. Overhage,mer head of the Lincoln La-atories, initiated the studies

C COUNSELSO SEARCH FORNEW PRESIDENT

By Curtis Reeveslfie Corporation Joint Ad-ry Committee held a forty-minute public meeting on

ember 19 before meeting ined session. It was the com-ee's first open meeting sinceinning discussion on candi-

es for the presidency of MIT.ccording to Gregory Smith,nnan of CJAC and a mem-of the Corporation, thed meetings have been de-exclusively to such discus-

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lhe topics of debate, whiched from stricter budgeting atInstitute to MIT's future, alltered on the presidency andtype of man who will take;position in July.gesbem of CJAC, who have'meeting regularly with theoration Committee on the

idey, raised questions ashether the president will beto relate to people outsideInstitute. Said one membersumming up -the group'sns, "I don't think we un-and what society needs.badly needs right now aof watchful eye on itself,so a watchful eye on soci-

We must afford ourselves aluxury, the luxury of

,g at a new group of pro-s We must look for a per-who is willing to look atproblems freshly."

that led to the design and sub-sequent manufacture of the pro-totype. The unit was developedby the MIT Electronic SystemsLaboratory, and is being fi-nanced by both public and pri-vate sources.

Overhage noted that the pro-ject, known as the InformationTransfer Experiments (IN-TREX), is not new. Four grantshave been received since 1967 insupport of the project from CLR(a division of the Ford Founda-tion) and from such agencies asthe National Scierice Founda-tion, the Carnegie Corporation,and'the Independence Founda-tion.

He explained that the projectwas not directed toward puttingtogether such a system at MIT,but rather toward answeringquestions about its practicalityin terms of the user's ability toget information quickly.

INTREX uses consoles con-sisting of an electric typewriterkeyboard, a cathode ray displaytube, and an electric controlpanel as the base from which thefact-finder works.

The components serve twobasic functions. First, the type-writer, with its link-up to anIBM 7094 computer, acts as afact-finding tool which tells theuser what documents are avail-able which are relevant to hissubject. The computer, which isoperated by the InformationProcessing Board, acts as a com-munication and storage device.

The user engages in a dialoguewith the computer to narrow orexpand the range of documentsuntil he has those that will bestserve his needs. There are morethan 12,000 recent articles inthe fields of materials scienceand engineering from which tochoose.

The second part of the sys-tem, which includes the displaytube and the control panel, en-ables the user to get the text ofthe desired documents at thesame terminal

GA meetingthe Student Homophile League.

Eddleman added that there issome support for having theExecutive Committee run stu-dent government until the GAhas something to do.

Another item on tonignt'sagenda is an attempt to takeMIT student government out ofthe National Student Associa-tion, but Eddleman said hedidn't know how much supportthe move would attract. He com-mented that "It's not a thing ofwonderful value one way or theother."

A third item on tonight'sagenda is condemnation of theAdministration's intention todiscipline black students in-volved in a recent demonstrationat the MIT, Faculty Club. Eddle-man said that informal settlement of the disciplinary cases isstill possible, but remarked thatGA sentiment is about 90% infavor of the students, reflectingsimilar sentiment held by 60%(his estimate) of the studentbody.

A proposal by the SHL thatthe GA adopt two new rules formixers may nmd its way to themeeting tonight, although it isnot on the agenda. SHL pro-poses that, for all mixers nextterm: 1) all mixer advertise-ments state that the mixers areopen to homosexuals as well asto heterosexuals, and 2) 50% ofall mixer profits be turned overto SHL for educationalpurposes.

SHL would like to see therules min effect as long as permis-sion for a homophile mixer isdenied.

The MIT Committee on SexEducation, a group of severalmale and female students, iscurrently arranging a series of sixlectures entitled "Human Sexu-ality" to be presented on consec-utive Wednesday evenings begin-ning February 17.

Each lecture will deal withsome specific topic, rangingfrom the physiology of sexualintercourse to the legal status ofsex (is cohabitation legal m Mas-sachusetts, and if so, under what,conditions?). Each topic will bepresented by an authority inthat field.

The Committee advised bytwo MIT doctors, is attempting·to combine features of very pop-ular programs at Brown. Univer-sity and the University of Massa-chusetts.- Some of the lectures,to be delivered in room 26-100,will be followed by seminar-typediscussions, at which an expertwill be present to answer ques-tions.

The list of speakers and top-

ics is not final, as negotiationswith possible speakers are still inprogress. The group is privilegedto have obtained Dr. Alan Gutt-macher, President of Interna-tional Planned Parenthood andWorld Population, as the firstspeaker of the series. His lecturewill include a discussion of ana-tomy and physiology of sexualprocesses, conception and con-traception. Other topics underconsideration are the emotionalaspects of sex, and heterosexual-ity and homosexuality. The en-tire lecture series will present anintegrated picture of sex as afundamental aspect of life ingeneral and'human relationshipsin particular.

The program is being co-sponsored by the Lecture SeriesComrrdttee, which is sharing thefinancing with the Office of theDean of Student Affairs. TheCommittee on Sex Education ishoping to prepare an informativebooklet to be available to MITstudents at some future time.

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Dissolution tops agendafor tonight's

By Duff McRobertsThe MIT General Assembly

will face a motion to dissolveitself _when it meets tonight,according to UAP WellsEddlemrnan.

"It's going to be rejected," hepredicted, but explained thatsome- members were disap-pointed over the GA's lack ofability and/or willingness to acton the recent mixer request of

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(Continued from page 1)lution of these things," and theiraction was not conducive toeffo~rts to reach a soluition to thedispute.

During this time, an olderman appeared in the doorway,claiming to be a faculty memberof 20 ytears standing. MIT, he3aid, had employed no blackswhens he first came here. "Thereis racism here," he offered."Wrhen is MVIT going to do some-thing about it?"

Associate Provost WalterRosenblith then asked the de-monstrators to leave the pro-vost's office. If they did not, hestated, "We~ will be forced totake disciplinary actions and de-clare you trespassers." By thistime Wadleigh and Nyhart hadalso entered the room. Whenstudents tried to question iJim,Wadleigh refused to comment,saying "I'm here to serve no-'Lice."

In his office, Nyhart refusedto comment on the administra-tion's position in the workers'dispute because the issue hadbeen submitted to arbitration.Culliton explained that this wasbecause in "non-adversary arbi-tration," neither side has astated position, but instead animpartial arbitrator enters theedlispute to determine the facts.

Approximately 50-60 peoplehad attended the noon rally onthle steps of Building Seven. Thefirst speaker, an SDS member,reviewed the "history" of theFaculty Club worker's fight.

Herb Lee, one of the blackworkers, followed him. -Lee,speaking from notes, promised"we-'re going to fight" for the

BSU members. "In 1970," hesaid, black are "still in slavery.""T-hese injustices have got tostop, if: we have to demonstrate'til hell freezes over."' The

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UCGLES SWER 3S11 OR CA PUS CROWNIt has been rumored that

somewhere in MIT, hidden be-hind all the books and problemsets, there lurks a man who istruly ugly.

Alpha Phi Omega has man-aged to narrow down the searchto eight suspects. It now needsthe MIT community's aid inapprehending the one most vi-cious creature, the Ugliest Manon Campus. The line-up is asfollows:

1. MATT "THE BEAST"BEASLEY - from Eta PotatoSpud House (Phi Kappa Theta)- last seen as the "head of thedepartment of redundancyhead." He is usually dressed inhis favorite chains and "BEAST"tattoo.

2. DON "DEJA VU" GAR-VETT - from MacGregor F2.With jaws of steel and skin ofscales, this creature bears astrange resemblance to a livealligator.

3. DAVID S. GROMALA -Delta Tau Delta. One of themore toolish candidates - "Itink I kin do a well job because Iem en efishunsey ekspert. I kinout-ugly any a dem guys."

4. ROWF KNOPF - spon-sored by the citizens for ROWFCommittee of Senior House.This muscle-bound candidate hasa type of ugliness all his own -and a strong odor. .

5. DAVID PAKTOR - Mac-Gregor G Entry - "David ofNewark" is exposing himself tothe public eye because he is"tired of being treated as a sexobject." Judith Crist has said:"Absolutely disgusting.,. Oneof the worst ever."

6. KENNETH "GRIN"SKIER - an inhabitant of EastCampus. Ken's most potent wea-pons are his enormous mouthand his, distinctive odor. At-tempts to measure this odorhave revealed it to be beyondthe range of our equipment.

7. HERMANN QUINCYWITHERSPOON - RandomHall. The official report of theHermann for UMOC Committeereads: "Hermann's ugliness istoo vast to be assimilated byhuman senses ... It. has beenrumored that those who look atHermann don't remember any-thing because their minds refuseto accept what their eyes tellthem.. ."

8. MATTHEW LIEFF - Mac-Gregor E Entry - -MIT is havinga relapse of Matthew Lieff. Thisfiercely belligerent suspect'is outto prove that last year's UMOCContest in which he was a con-testant was a farce, having beenwon by a poor dupe of theBeauty Bosses rather than a can-didate with true natural ugliness.

The above candidates are con-sidered extremely dangerous. Ifspotted they should be reportedto the UMOC booth which wilibe set up for this purpose inBuilding 10 from Monday, No-vember 30, through Friday, De-cember 4, from 9 to 5. Witnessesare encouraged to cast as manyvotes as possible for the suspectof their choice. Votes are in theform of donations to the CAREPakistan Relief Fund, one pennyper vote.

2.- DON "DEJA VU" GARVETT

4. ROWF KNOPF

6. KENNETH "GRIN" SKIER

8. MATTHEW LIEFF

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BSU discip iuBy Wells Eddleman

Racism, subtle and otherwise, is the basic issuein the Faculty Club dispute. There are severalviews of racial problems which all claim to benon-racist:

A laissez-faire view: racismf is ended vwhendiscrimination loses its legal sanction. Any actionby authority to combat existing racist attitudes, orthe effects of past racism, is inappropriate.

A liberal view: Racism must be combated, butinstitutional action can only be taken when it isacceptable (and doesn't -threaten to upset thepower of the liberal oligarchy). A significantfeature of this view is dictating to blacks on whatthey should do about racism.

A radical view: Individuals and institutionsmust recognize present and past racism, and dealwith it. Right, not opportunity, must determinewhat actions are taken. It is not racist for blacks tohave their own pride, identity, or institutions -. itis racist to deny these things.

Faculty Club disputeIn the Faculty Club dispute, the conflict is

essentially between the liberal view of managmentand the radical view of the workers and their allies.The MIT Administration follows the liberal line,taking into account the complexities of the situa-tion, but also using these complexities to rationa-lize a lack of direct action.

The worker's demands - equivalent pay retro-active to initial employment, discharge or transferof Club manager William Morrison, and preferen-tial hiring and promotion for black workers - havebeen snarled in the tangle of negotiation regula-tions (workers charge that their union, their legalrepresentative, remains unresponsive; they are alsowary of the arbitration method) and bureaucraticprocedures. Even the management of the FacultyClub (and MIT) concede that these grievances havetaken a long time in the "process of resolution." Itwas within this context that a non-violent, non-obstructive sit-in was held at the Faculty Club bythe BSU on November 14.

Conflict of rightsThe sit-in raised a conflict of rights: on the one

side, the right of people to attend a "Wild West"party at the Club; on the other, the right of theworkers to a fast settlement of their demands.Now, what did the sit-in do to these rights? Itabrogated the first, but its hard to get upset oversome people having one party denied them.r Validprotests should take precedence over "normal"activity, for short periods at least. Tfie secondright was somewhat aided. In the words of a BSUmember: "MIT wasn't moving at all before thatSaturday. On Thursday we metwith Wiesner and found out thatthey were going nowhere, so wedecided to act."

Proper responsePerhaps a proper response to

site sit-in would have been togrant the demands. After all, for'dnly three workers the monetarycost would not be high (theFaculty Club seems to have plen-ty of money to mail out reportson the dispute). The inequityinvolved in raising the pay classi-fication of. the workers is like-wise small. Transferring Morri-son to some other part of theMIT food operation doesn'tseem impossible, and -its prettyclear he can't relate well to theworkers involved, in addition tothe problem of his racist acts.

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-two views:By Alex Makowsci

Once again events have forced the MIT commu-nity to consider what means a university shouldsanction for settling disputes.

The crucial issue in the current debate over theFaculty Club and the BSU discipline should not bealleged racism. A racist administration would never.have made the commitment MIT made two yearsago to increasing the number of black studentshere.

Rather, we must decide whether the blackstudents' motive - encouraging a. favorable solu-tion to the worker-management dispute - justifiedtheir successful attempt to shut down a FacultyClub party. In general, should the DisciplineCommittee excuse illegal acts when the defendantcan demonstrate good intentions?

Threat of disruptionThat wouldn't be any way to run a university.

An affirmative answer . sanctions, any sort ofprotest by idealistic demonstrators; one side in adispute could hold the, campus prisoner with thethreat of disruption. A university community mustdedicate itself to the rational -settlement of dis-agreements.

The BSU sit-in, then, should not be consideredin some political context. It would be foolish toexpect the Discipline Committee to pass judge-ment on the Faculty Club dispute before deter-mining ,what to do with those students identified asparticipants in the sit-in. During the disciplinaryproceedings, no other considerations should out-weigh the nature of the protest itself.

No special proceduresThere is no need for special procedures to

insure that the blacks get a fair hearing. There areno racial overtones involved with the administra-tion's charge; the procedure used to handle thesit-in in Johnson's office list winter should proveequally adequate for this fall's BSU sit-in.

In particular, the arguments for putting blackson the Discipline Committee for this case seemespecially weak. If some students worry that theregular undergraduate Committee members are notcapable of attaining enough of an empathy withblacks and their problems, might not otherswonder whether members specifically chosen toprotect the interests of the accused will be willingto protect the commniunity's interest as well? TheGeneral Assembly has already judged the currentmembers competent to handle judicial issues - itshould stand by that decision.

In summary, special allowances should not bemade for the accused just because they were moti-vated by a need to protest "real grievances."

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Lewis vs.Contrast

By Lee GiguereThe MIT Commission u

from a very different viesthan that of the Lewis Cosion of twenty years ago, esizing a contemporary "crieducation rather than therical perspective taken bLewis Commission.

In the forward to theport,' -the Lewis Comnstates, "The committee ustructed to re-examine theciples of education thaiserved as a guide to acapolicy at MIT for almost iyears, and to determine wlthey are applicable to thetions of a new era ... " Th

Letters to Te TechVisiting Committee

To the editor:I am disappointed by Harold

Federow's article concerning theVisiting Committee on StudentAffairs (The Tech, November13, 1970). His criticism relatingto the limited number of stu-dents present is not justified.The Committee has decided toreview the entire advisory sys-tem. 'A study of that systemmade up of the praise and criti-cism of the individual studentswould be like the story of theblind men describing the ele-phant by feel. As it was we did

not have time to hear all of thereports on the many aspects ofthe system.

The report of last year's Com-mittee contains about 80 pagesof student input. It will shortlybe presented to the Corporation,mainly as an information sourceof student opinion. By itself,this input is not going to changemuch, but it can lead to changeswhen connected with thoroughstudies of operating systems,such as the advisory system. Itwas that kind of study that ourmeeting was set up for on No-vember 14.

The Committee would like to

have student comment cadvisory system. If anyolsomething to saA,1t he swrite a letter to me orwhole Committee. That iyou can have input, if yoenough.

As a newly elected Cotion member (and an M1ITate student last year), Iwelcome letters from anybers of the MIT communitcerning affairs of MIT. I uto answer all that I receive.

Ralph M. 1)Corporation mre

Visiting Comionf Student A

THE WIZARD OF ID ,by Brant parker and Johnny hart

The Wizard of Id appears daily and Sunday in the Boston Herald Traveler

Commission:!

in perspectiveCommission, on the other hang

vorked prefaced its report with the codvpoint ment that it had "met duringil)miis- period of unparalleled tensionig,mpha- American universities." Uisis" in History review Uhisto- The first Chapter of t4y the Lewis report, entitled "DeveloU

ment of an Educational Phileir re- sophy," opens with a concisenission review of the Institute's histormvas in- and the aims of its foundesfe pain- 'William Rogers. The Lewis Comet had mission accords great respecttfidemic the "Rogers Plan" in its repormninety and affirms its importancehether "'they seem to us excellant gnitcondi- ing principles in our educationse MIT planning today." The chapte!

mentions "new problems" onliafter it has examined the historcal development of the Institut

Each succeeding chapter divelops this theme and carries1out, first reviewing the past,all

)n the zn the then examining contemporartne has phroblems in the light of thiShould historical perspective. to the The MIT CommiSsion, whilei how, not slighting Rogers' ideas, doeju care not convey the same sense 0

historical perspective. Rather,,irpora- puts its emphasis on contempofgradu- rary' developments and issuewould' There is no charting of th!mem- course of the Institute's developY con- ment over the years.;ill try Education and research *

'avison For example, the chapter eClember, titled "In Undergraduate Educae

mittee tion," while mentioning boyt.-fais the Lewis Commission antd l

Committee on Curriculurn Coitent Planning which was fornelin 1962, puts little emphasis ojthe historical development oAMIT's educational policy. Anlther chapter, discussing the rolof sponsored research, undlines its importance as "the intelectual lifeblood of MIT," bug

-does not explain, as the Levrreport does, how sponsored I

search programs developed a0ethe ways in which MIT, in 1searlier years-, had interacte4

closely with industry on Csearch.

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lethargy, when first-rate artistsare putting out second-rate al-bums and everybody is won-dering what to listen for next, itis reassuring to hear that at leastone group continues to moveforward, constantly producing,constantly progressing.

In one of the finest perform-ances of the year, the IncredibleString Band presents U, a tworecord set. The music was origin-ally performed live along with apantomime group called 'theStone Monkey. As a unit, Udoesn't really hold together thatwell and was reviewed poorly asa live concert. As just an album,though, it contains some of theirbest material and their strongestwork to date.

The Incredible String Bandhave been turning out excellentalbums at a fantastic rate forthree years. (They have yet tohit the Billboard Top 200 al-bums with any of them.) MikeHeron and Robin Williamson arethe center of the group andwrite all of the material. Theirsongs contain complex images

tually ordered by W.U.S.A. forthe purpose of unmasking wel-fare chiseling and making a scan-d al. This revelation drivesRainey to desperate action, lead-ing to a wild finale.

WUSA is a scary film, not somuch because of the storyline,but it reflects the polarization,the extremism, and the violencethat are rapidly becoming thestate of mind of America. In thisway, it is similar to recent filmsabout campus radicals; however,WUSA of course, focuses on theright. The Paul Newman-JoaneWoodward plot. is tedious andmelodramatic, mostly because ofthe script. But the character ofRainey is a memorable one; in-deed, if Rainey had been theprotagonist rather than Rhein-hardt, WUSA would have been amuch more powerful film. Atthe Cheri Theatre Complex.

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from a lack of any recognizablekind of social activity. For vani-ous reasons, including lack ofstudent and administration sup-port, every attempt to sponsor afinancially successful concert hasfailed miserably; it should be-noted that "financially success-ful" does not mean highly pro-fitable. Most of the sponsoringgroups are just trying to breakeven. Such big-name draws likeMountain and Tom Rush haveliterally taken it in the ear, tothe tune of $2,000 and $800respectively. There are severalreasons for these failures, butthey are all irrelevant; the impor-tant thing is that unless some ofthe MIT functions become self-supporting, no group is going toattempt financial suicide andproduce fiscal bombs that no-body bothers to enjoy.

The focal points of past MITsocial seasons were the week-ends, which were supported ingreat numbers-by the MIT com-munity, Tl: InterFraternity

Conference (IFC) is making aninvestigation into the possibili-ties of producing another week-end, and, concurrent with this,will be sponsoring a beer-blastthis Saturday. MIT's last beer-blast, staged last March, failedcompletely; there is, however,reason to believe that this onewill do better. In the past, thebeer-blasts have been producedin conjunction with a weekend,and consequently attendance hasbeen high. The IFC doesn't ex-pect to make a profit on thisone, but it does hope to breakeven.

The IFC has hired the Parlia-ments and Funkadelic to providethe music, and has also contrac-ted for 25 half-barrels of beer(Budweiser, of course). Thegroup chosen got rave reviews ata similar function at BU severalweeks ago, and feedback reportsthat they are strictly-a beer-blasttype group. The Parliaments andFunkadelic are the two separateparts of the same group, with.the Parliaments providing the

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and beautiful fantasies. Their'ballads are unrmatched. More re-..cently, they have taken to occa-sional rock and roll type songswhich are largely parodies. Anamusing example of this isRobin's "Robot Blues," whichdescribes how a robot is frustra-ted 'in his attempt to win thelove of the beautious NumberThree and laments, "That's whyI got those old Robot blues /Down in my compartment /Down to--- my magnetic soleshoes." Reading that, one mightthink it sounds like a ten-year-old corny idea. But when theISB do it, even with the boogiewoogie piano accompaniment, itisn't corny because the wholeidea is just so alien to their stylethat it comes off as a hilariousnumber.

This point of their "style" isvery important. If you haven'tseen them in person, then it may-be hard to understand the radi-ant innocence they have, thecompletely unpretentious char-acter they show that never failsto warm an entire audience. Thetwo guys, along with theirgirlfriends/accompanists, Roseand Licorice, have such a happytime up there on the stage thatyou can't help smile along withthem. Their whole .presencebrings to mind such words asdelightful, heartwarming,charming, which sound overlydramatic but are accurate des-criptions of the responses theyinspire. That is why it doesn'tmatter that their voices oftensound strained or that they hitoccasional bad notes. Thiey areobviously enjoying themselvesand they create music which issimple and easy to identify with.

Robin and Mike play a multi-tude of mostly acoustic instru-ments and do an extremely ade-quate (sometimes even better)job on all of them. Drums arerarely used - they are quitecapable of creating their ownrhythmic patterns without them.There is also an eastern influencein- several of their songs and

Mike is getting rather good onthe Sitar. Much of their liveconcert time is taken up withtheir switching around to all thedifferent instruments but thistime is scattered with commentsfrom the group and is just aspleasant as the music. Theirshows are a real joy in everysense.

On records, they are just asgood. The arrangements are keptto a minimum of overdubs andthe sound is realistic. Their pro-ducer, John Wood, has gottencloser and closer to capturingtheir live sound on disc. And thenumber of instruments they playis astounding. The songs are allfine and despite their prolifera-tion, there are hardly two'oftheir songs that are similar. Eachof their eight albums has severalstandout cuts, but the best over-all albums are The 5000 Spirits,Wee Tam, and now U.

This latest could be their bestone yet, on which the love bal-lads are more beautiful, theirparodies-are funnier, their lyricsmore descriptive, their instru-mentation more inventive. Espe-cially good are "Robot Blues,""Queen of Love" and "BridgeSong." For all of its almost twohours there is scarcely a boringsong.

The last two albums hadfewer and longer cuts on them.They were excellent but theyleft the listener with a desire formote. U is exactly what anyonecould have wanted from the ISB.It is more - in every respect. Itshows Why their fans are sodevoted. And it will make youwant another listen to their ear-

ier albums. Most of all, it shoulsmake you want to see them live.They really ought not to bemissed. And then you'll realizethat they are one of the fewgroups that can unpretentiouslycall themselves Incredible.

(Note. - they will be ap-pearing at the Boston Tea Partythis Friday, Saturday; and Sun-day. )

By Emanuel GoldmanBroke and hardened, Khein-

hardt figures that in order tosurvive, let alone make a-.buck,he's going to have to sell part ofhimself. The question is howmuch he's willing to sell. "Ifthere's one thing I object to," hetells his girl friend, "it's discri-mination on the basis of race,creed, or color. Cause I'm aliberal." Yet this same Rhein-hardt goes to work for right-wing W.U.S.A., a New Orleansradio station concerned with"crime, the decline of patrio-tism, and welfare chiseling."

In the tradition of Babbittand I Can Get It .For YouWholesale, WUSA chronicles theGreat American Sellout, with anadded political twist. Rheinhardt(Paul Newman) suppresses his

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MIT Dept. of Humanities presentsA CONCERT OF 20TH CENTURY MUSIC.

for flute, clarinet and piano

Carol Hunt Epple, fluteBarbara Brewer, clarinetMargaret Rhode, piano

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(Continued from page 4)And preferential hiring and ad-vancement opportunities for mi-norities are part of an official(though not terribly well-known) MIT program called the"Affirmative Action Plan."

Faculty complaintsBut instead, apparently in re-

sponse to a number' of facultycomplaints, the Administrationfiled disciplinary charges againstsome of the black students in-volved in the sit-in. The Admini-stration seems to have beenmore or less divided into twocamps: one favoring formal dis-cipline as a resolution of thesit-in, the other favoring an infor-mal settlement. The latter appar-ently agreed to bring charges toplacate the hard-line Administra-tion faction, and to prevent indi-vidual faculty members from,bringing charges on the sameissue at a later date. Some admi-nistrators and students are nowworking on an informal settle-ment proposal to be presentedto the Discipline Committee.

Asse. lbly roleUnder the above circum-

stances, should the General As-sembly get involved in the disci-pline issue? Only if, first, thedefendents want it to. For effec-tive GA action, students mustreally oppose this disciplinaryaction, and the GA must gobeyond statements of sentiment.

The BSU and 28 possibledefendents have lent their appro-val to a motiion t6 be presentedto the GA which has two majorprovisions:

'Discipline problem'First, a solution to the "disci-

pline problem," which is reallypart of the Faculty Club dis-pute: Ideally, charges should bedropped by the Administrationor thrown out by the DisciplineCommittee because the sit-in wasnon-obstructive, non-violent,and in support of real grievances.Failing this, a settlement shouldbe made which includes a settle-ment of the labor dispute satis-factory to the workers and aninformal settlement of the disci-plinary -charges. Formal disci-pline is an inappropriate way ofsettling this issue because it doesnot take the labor dispute intoaccount adequately.

Plan ofactionSecond, a plan of action if

formal disciplinary trials areheld: since any trials on'the sit-inwill be political (Administration'charging protesters) and con-cerned with an issue of racism(Faculty Club dispute), there isevery reason to have black stu-dents' viewsTrepresented- in the

.discipline process. The best, wayto do this is to put black stu-dents oh the Discipline Commit-tee for these cases, giving the

regular representatives leave ofabsence while these cases areheard.

Admittedly, putting blackson the Committee will not solvethe problem of students-vs-faculty, which is the majorsource of student discontentwith the Committee. And theappointment of blacks is specialtreatment. It is not my conten-tion that the regular members ofthe Committee are racist or in-adequate. Rather,black studentspicked by the BSU and the GAcan do a better job in thesecases. If some other group candemonstrate that there is enoughdiscrimination against them towarrant similiar treatment in adisciplinary case,, then the GAshould give it to them also.

Substitution allowable?Some faculty have raised the

question as to whether this sub-stitution would be allowable.Under the regulations of thefaculty, students members are tobe selected "according to theprocedures of the respective stu-dent governments . . . they shallserve for one year." The pro-

posed substitution is in accordwith the Undergraduate Associa-tion Constitution, and does notchange the terms of the regularmembers.

Faculty retaliation?

Another, more valid, objec-tion would be, what if the facul-ty retaliated by putting racistson for its representatives duringthe hearings? The importantpoint here is that the proposedGA action has been cleared withthe possible defendents, throughthe agency of the BSU. Thus therights of the defendents are notviolated by the GA substitution.

In summary, the issue of theFaculty Club dispute is the sameissue as that of the sit-in. Bothare still disputes mainly becauseof the liberal attitude towardracism which is practiced by theMIT Administration and the Fa-culty Club management. Disci-plinary action is no way to getany possible constructive resultson this problem. The rights ofblack workers and black studentsmust not be sacrificed to subtleracism on this campus.

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The importance of historicalperspective in shaping institu-tional goals should not be de-nied. The importance of under-standing past mistakes as part ofan effort to avoid new ones is'also significant. But the MITCommission has taken the viewthat today's problems are notamenable to' historical solutionsbut instead require "creative re-newal" and effort to "seize-thetime" rather than re-emphasizeold values. The Commission'sreport indicates that ol' valuesmust be build upon, but with,the new ideas and new perspec-tives drawn from an analysis ofcontemporary problems.

(Continued from page 4)can only appear in a discussionof what impact the MIT Com-mission will have on educationalpolicy.

The Lewis Commission's re-port was presented in a calm,careful style, but, in retrospect,many of the reforms it proposedwere never introduced. A newSchool of Humanities wasformed, but it failed to integratea humanistic viewpoint intoMIT's educational environment.The Lewis report also warnedagainst financial overdependanceon sponsored research as well asthe danger of the Institute be-coming identified as a war-weapons center, but this recom-mendation, too, seems to havegone unheeded. In contrast, theMIT Commission's at times ap-

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FILMMAKING:Beginners and Advanced WorkshopS· Super 8 Moviemaking· 35mmcolorslidephotography· Teaching Super 8 in High Schools * A memorial service will be held at 3:30 pm today

in Kresge Auditorium for Dr. Theos J. Thompson. Dr.Thompson; a Professor of Nuclear Engineering, waskilled in a Nevada plane crash last Wednesday. He wason a leave of absence while serving as a member of theUS Atomic Energy Commission.

* Course 11.505 Urban Studies Laboratory (2-5-5)has been approved for laboratory credit. Interestedstudents should contact Professor Walter, 9-537,x6757.

* A forum on political repression and politicaldefense will be held Monday, December 7, 1970, at7:30 pm. Speaking in the Sala de Puerto Rico in theStudent Center will be Noam Chomsky, Steve Fraser,and Howard Zinn, among others. The program issponsored by the Labor Committee, New UniversityConference, and the Fraser Borghmann Defense Com-mittee.

* THEM, a horror flick, is being shown as part of theUMOC contest tonight in 54-100 at-7 and 9:30 pm.Admission is 49 cents for the late show, and 48 centsfor the early show, and can be contributed to thecandidate of your choice. During intermission you willbe treated to a demonstration of the ugliness of eachcandidate, and will be encouraged to donate moremoney in the form of projectiles.

* COMMON CAUSE is a new nationwide movementto revitalize government action on poverty, housing,education, equal oppotunity, environment, etc. Weneed help in organizing locally during IAP. Come to anopen meeting: Wednesday, December 2, 7:30 pm, MITStudent Center, Reading Room (second floor).

* The MIT Department of Metallurgy and'MaterialsScience will hold an Open House on Saturday,December 5. Starting at 10 am in 6-120 and con-tinuing into the afternoon, members of the depart-ment will discuss and demonstrate some of the manyareas of interest in Course II. All freshmen andundesignated sophomores are cordially invited toattend. Refreshments will be served. For furtherinformation, contact Harvey. Cohen, dl 9652.

* Freshman Council Meeting: Wednesday, December2, 7:30 pmr, fourth floor of the Student Center. Areyou being represented? If not, come to the meeting.

* There will be a meeting of the MIT Scuba Club onWednesday, December 2, at 8 pm in the pool.

* This week's Thursday noonhour concert will fea-ture Karen Barlar, Soprano, Robert Freeman, Oboe,and Adele Holevas, Organ, performing works by Bach,Handel, and Mozart. The program begins in the MITChapel at 12:10 pm. Admission is free.

* Postdoctoral fellowships and lectureships are stillavailable through Senior Fulbright-Hays, SEATO andNATO for 1971-72. If interested in research abroadfor next year, contact Dean Hazen (10-303; x5243)for further information.

* The Institute of International Education is spon-soring a seminar at the College of Europe in Bruges,Belgium. Those interested in modern European historyand international relations and who want to go toEurope for spring term of 1971 should contact DeanHazen's office, 10-303, x5243.

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-inches) lists Boston SymphonyOrchestra concerts, Open Re-hearsals, Boston SymphonyChamber Players concerts and alloutside events taking place atSymphony Hall. Listed at thebottom is information pertainingto .regular and student prices,how to obtain tickets from theBox Office, and how to reachSymphony Hall by MBTA.

There are several special tick-et prices for students. Any un-sold tickets for Boston Sym-phony concerts may be pur-chased at the Box Office for $3(regardless of face value) tenminutes prior to concert time bystudents with current ID cards.

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On Saturday, Dec. 5, at 8 pmin the Sala de Puerto Rico, A&MRecords, in cooperation withthe GA Social Committee, willpresent Marc Benno, i with

'Booker T, Jones and Rita 'Cool-idge. Tickets will- be free.

Marc Benno's -first claim- tofame was as half of the recording

.duo'known as The AsylumChoir. The other half - LeonRussel.

The Choir put out one albumin 1968 which has become arock legend, but as Benno states,"The Choir eventually came toan end, but it was really thebeginning-' of both my andLeon's individual soul search-ings. We found out what wecould do together, and finallydecided to find out what -wecould do individually."

Benno left Los Angeles andreturned to Texas (he was bornin Dallas), formed a group called"Jomo," and played a series of"joints" performing his ownmaterial.

"But it didn't work out, sothe band dissolved, I went to

New York City, and then toApple in England to try and getsigned to a label."_

The Apple deal didn't comethrough, and Benno returned tothe States. Eventually he came.in contact with David Anderle(producer of Benno's new albumfor Willow Productions, and re-leased by A & M Records).

About the music on this al-bum, and his music in general,Benno says simply, "I go back tothe truth . . . I like to go back toRay Charles, Mance Lipscomb,and Lightnin' Hopkins. They re-present a generation of truth. Iplayed with Mance once forthree months in Austin, andhung out with Lightnin' here inLA for two weeks. Now bluespeople are the truth, and theytalk about what they live...women, dope, cards. What elsecan you write about that every-one canidentify with?"

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General Electric is marketing a1 4-horsepower rechargeable electrictractor capable of speeds up to 7miles an hour.

We think it's a remarkableinnovation. But an electric car it's not.

As a garden tractor for homeuse, Elec-Trak' can take advantage ofcharacteristics that would be distinctdisadvantages in an electric car.

The availability of fuel is noproblem for Elec-Trak. It's designedfor limited use near electrifiedstructures, making overnightrecharging possible.

The heavy weight of thebattery, which would slow down acar, means greater applied tractionfor Elec-Trak.

Because Elec-Trak must travelat stow speeds to do its-jobs, thereare no aerodynamic energy losses totake into consideration.

Still, one might expect Elec-Trakto be the forerunner of a pollution-free automobile. Perhaps it is. Butthere are many crucial problems leftto be solved.

The most important one, ofcourse, is the development of asubstantially better electric battery.Any car built today would be severelylimited in range and performance,and probably prohibitively expensive.

General Electric is makingprogress on new batteries, but there'sa long way yet to go.

We've experimented with zinc-air' batteries. Sodium-sulfur batteries.Silver-zinc batteries. Lithium-halogen batteries. And others. Thereare problems with all of them.Problems of life-span,.cost,practicality.

Despite the problems, GeneralElectric scientists and engineers areworking for the breakthrough thatwill make electric cars possible.

-Maybe the breakihrough is -closer than we think. But we'll

continue to wo-rk and leave thepredictions to someone else.

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others like it, to tell you the thingsGeneral Electric isdoing to solvethe problems of man and hisenvironment today.

The problems concern usbecause they concern you. We're abusiness and you are potentialcustomers and emnployees.

But there's another, more.important reason. These problemswill affect the futwe of thiscountryand this planet. We'haw astakein-that-future. As businessmen, Ands,.simply, as people. - -

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