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that grades will help to motivatethe frosh who are now blowing offvarious classes. However, will thebenefit from this exceed the dam­age done to people who pushthemselves too far for a goodgrade? While only time will tell, I

that the latter will dominateare many frosh so re­

fi'om the top ofhigh schools.

is a time of transi­explore new ideas,

and live without(most for the

this comes a cer­of recklessness andIlaving the frosh on

eases the transition byleeway around our

conscious or uncon­the frosh puts

everybody. One ofof sanity is be­

us. No longerof "Don't worry

Frosh, on pass/fail" com-fort the distressed frosh.

LETTERS TO EDITORTHE OUTSIDE WORLDQUANTUM COMPUTERSASCIT MINUTESCOMICSMEDIA GUYBOOK REVIEWGOAL-SETTINGSPORTSANNOUNCEMENTS

gre

Could be Gordon Moore....

by Erik Streed

The frosh are on shadowgrades this term. Beiil;&mtfpshthis concerns me. One6£thijt~a-·

sons I choose CaltechmY~f·6fh~rschools was the fact thatfiij~hf~arwas all pass/fail.makes the transitioneasier to handle.this fall I found out thatwould be on grades.I thought, that'sPlen ty of timeto theNow these gradescreeping out of the wc,oc[wcThis trend is disturbing as itdirectly back to the badwhen frosh were graded

Courses whichbeen pass/fail (Physicsistry 1b, etc. ) nowworked. Gradingbe created.bell curves to sendheads ringing.this will affect the classam sure the administration hopes

They~re here....

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ity can achieve.A woman ofextraordinary

talent and strength, June Jor­dan will be speaking at noonon Monday, January 15,1996at Ramo Auditorium. Forthose who are unable to attendthe noon celebration, therewill be an Evening Medley of

. Gospel Songs performed by amass choir participants includ­ing The PCC Gospel Choir andvarious other groups. Markyour calendar and be ready toexperience a literary, culturaland musical tour.

York Times; her outstandingachievement was further rec­ognized when she received theNational Association of BlackJournalist Achievement Awardfor International Reporting onthe Black Condition in 1984.

Jordan has become a voicethat "epitomizes wise sister, al­ter ego, conscience, song."While delivering thoughts ofcommitment, passion, revolu­tion and creativity, she chal­lenges her readers to examinetheir own involvement in real­izing the possibilities human-

Rev. Martin Luther King, fr.

ing to he revived Monday

SEE MOORE ON PAGE 3

communications, power elec­tronics, signal processing andmicrowave electronics, theMoore Lab contains lecture hallsand teaching laboratories. Infact, a few of the teaching labo­ratories are devoted to motivatedunderclassmen in basic AppliedPhysics classes and Digital Elec­tronics classes.

A Micro-department store,the EE stockroom carries over1,000 items, varying from Inte­grated circuits, wires, electronicsparts to stationary, drinks andcandies. Located in the quietsub-basement ofMoore Lab, thespatial EE Stockroom also comeswith a mini-library, housing nu­merous data books and electron­ics catalogues from various com­panies. "Having a place for thestudents to sit and go check outIC information is definitely abonus," grins Lyn Hein, thestockroom manager. While "oneis not a real EE unless he's gotparts in his hands," Jenkin, theVice President of the Intel Cor­poration, strongly encouraged

Looking for a little histori­cal and cultural tour? A seriesof events you might want toconsider is the Dr. MartinLuther King Birthday Com­memoration. Following theperformance of AfricanAmerican singing groupAlkebulon Boys Choir, the fa­mous political activistJuneJor­dan will give a speech com­memorating Dr. King's contri­butions, highlighting his lifeand civil rights struggles.

From the Harlem riots of1964 to the Persian Gulf War,today's wars against immi­grants and families on welfare,Gay & Lesbian Americans andall victims of hate crimes,Jordan's work transcends thetraditional bounds of self andsociety, expressing the unity ofequality, justice and tender­ness.

Named "one of the mostimportant poets writing today"by The Library Journal, Jordanhas had poetry included in vir­tually every major anthology,such as Norton Anthology ofModern Poetry and The Vil­lage Voice Anthology. Dramatriumphant, she published TheIssue, BangBang UberA lies, andAll Blessings in the 80s. A regu­lar columnist for The Progres­sive,Jordan's essays, reviews, ar­ticles and poems appear in awide range of publicationsfrom the Essence to the New

by Maria Huang

Maria Huang

Spirit of Dr0Y celebrations to memorialize slain civil rights leader

A generous gift of$16.8 mil­lion from Gordon and BettyMoore has finally given birth toa new 90,OOO-square-foot labora­tory that will enable the Caltechfaculty in the Division of Engi­neering and Applied Science toaccelerate their developing com­munication and computationalsystems of the future. With itsporticoes and red tile roof, theMoore Laboratory of Engineer­ing is true to the Mediterraneanstyle of Caltech's traditional ar­chitecture.

The Moore Building is finelyequipped with 110 high-poweredPentium personal computers,courtesy of the Intel Corpora­tion, allowing faculty and stu­dents to conduct applicationsranging from VLSI circuit de­sign, simulations, word process­ing, and classroom work. Featur­ing the first fiber-optic computernetwork on Caltech campus, theMoore Lab computers will en­hance faster communication ofinformation. In additional to theadvanced research facilities for

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thing to do as an under­graduate is not to wastetime and remain idle. I sug­gest that as an undergradu­ate, one should strive to bedoing something produc­tive. This could be anythingfrom doing well in yourcourses, to doing research,to writing poetry. The bot­tom line is to pursue yourinterests to the best that youcan.

Undergraduatesshould explore,

keep options open

Dear Editors,This is in response to the

article "Success & Our Future"by Samson Timoner that ap­peared in the January 5,1996issue of the Tech.

I find the article by Samsoninspiring and full of energy.Nevertheless, I disagree withthe article in saying that oneshould figure out their lifegoals as an undergraduate.

The undergraduate expe­rience is when one usually dis­covers her interests and talents.It is a unique time in your lifewhen you get to meet manypeople and participate in allkinds of activities. Goals oncedecided upon as a freshmanmay change over the course offour years as an undergradu­ate. This is quite alright as theaverage college student in theUS changes his m~jor 3 times.

Further, as you progress to­wards your degree, you mayfind that you have undiscov­ered talents even in your jun­ior and senior year. You maynot have been exposed to asmany things in high school asyou are in college, so restrict­ing your goals as a freshmanmay be a pitfall.

Of course, if you are al­ready sure about how you wantto shape the rest of your life(say you want to be the Presi­dent of the United States),that's great and you shouldprobably pursue that goalwith every effort. But leav­ing options open as an un­dergraduate will not dam­age your chances of successlater in life.

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Editors' note:Last week's editorial on

affirmative action was written byeditor Mason Porter. The omissionof Mason's name was an oversightand in no way implies that theeditorial expresses the views of theCalifornia Tech, any other editor, orany staffmember ofthis paper.

Dear Editors,I was saddened to read the

editorial in the Jan 5th editionof The Tech on the subject ofaffirmative action. It seemed tome that the writer missed thepoint of the policy rather spec­tacularly. It is not, as I under­stand it, intended to right thewrongs against minorities thatoccurred decades ago, butrather to help right the wrongs

the are happening now. Forexample, while assessing col­lege candidates on the basisof race is in a narrow contextracist, it is designed tocounter a broader racismwhich permeates Americansociety and denies many mi­nority Americans access to thequality ofeducation necessaryfor them to achieve their po­tential and compete normallyin college applications.

Affirmative action is de­scribed as unfair and racist,but I do not believe that it is.I believe that it is a response,to racism, occurring inAmerica now, that deprivesmany minorities of things thatmore wealthy and privilegedfellow Americans take forgranted.

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ates, Caltech seeks demonstrablequantitative and verbal abilities,initiative, perseverance, breadthof interests, etc.) and that themetric for each dimension ispoorly determined (to cite themost objective for admissions,SAT scores have a precision nobetter than +/ - 20 points) . Whilethis does not mean that all can­didates are indistinguishable, itdoes mean that any measure ofqualification has a large errorbar, and so there is often a poolofequally "qualified" candidates.It is then not unreasonable toconsider such secondary factorsas gender, ethnicity, or economic

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That is, that one can de­termine unambiguously whois "best qualified." It is almostalways the case that the con­siderations are multi-dimen­sional (e.g., for undergradu-

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Coast is caught once againin heavy snowstorms justdays after the clean-up fromthe blizzard of '96 started.There were 95 casualties ofthe first blizzard which leftmillions of tons of snow onthe city streets of the East.Snow began to fly again onWednesday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­The budget talks were sus­pended on Tuesday untilnext week. The discussionthat was to bring about a fi­nal decision turned into 4hrs. of haggling before allparties chose to take abreak.

HAMPTON, NEW BRUNS­

WICK - Steve Fossett

aborted his attempt to flynon-stop around the worldin a balloon Wednesday. Af­ter starting in South Dakota,he encountered severe coldweather and technical diffi­culties, forcing him to landin a field in New Brunswick.

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born Science Center.The birth of this research

head-quarter was not trivial. Thesummer rain of 1995 definitelymade the construction infa­mously challenging. The atten­dants shared a moment of silentin memory of Mr. Jim Lennox, aconstruction work who sacrificeddue to a construction accidentlast summer. The Mediterraneanstyled building erects at thenorth of theCaltech campus,providing the Caltech studentsand faculties an totackle the that can besolved SCIence te<:hllOJlogy.

cal cavity formed by two highlyre­flective mirrors, one of which al­lowed partial transmission oflight.The scientists sent pairs of pho­tons through the cavity, and inves­tigated the states of the photonswhen they reemerged, showingthat the output state of each pho­ton depended on the polarizationofboth input photons. This isjustwhat is required to implementquantum logic.

In effect, the cavity func­tioned as a rudimentary logic gateat the single photon level. Thephotons served as the currentneeded to carry bits of informa-

tion; and changing the pho­tons' polarization was analo­gous to flipping the bits inconventional computers.The Caltech result, byKimble and graduate stu­dents Christina Hood,Hideo Mabuchi, QuentinTurchette, and research fel­low Wolfgang Lange, was ac­companied by a paper in thesame issue of Physical ReviewLetters by a group at the Na­tional Institute of Standardsand Technology in Boulder,

Colorado. Together these papersrepresent the first demonstrationsof conditional dynamics at thesingle-quantum level - the levelsuitable for implementing discretequantum logic.

While this result is a signifi­cant first step, many complexproblems remain to be solved be­fore even primitive networks ofquantum logic gates could bebuilt, much less an entire com­puter. Indeed, researchers havenot yet determined whether largeand complex quantum computerscould ever be built using curren ttechnological strategies.

In this regard, the work ofKimble's group is especially im­portant because they have focusedon an optical implementation ofquantum logic. Because singlephotons can be transmitted longdistances through optical fibers,optical quantum logic gates couldbe used for specialized applica3

tions in optical communication,'even if they prove not to be usefulfor quantum computers.

This work was supported bythe National Science Foundationand the Office of Naval Research.

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tum states of atomic particles tocarry and manipulate informa­tion. The basic components in aquantum computer would bequantum logic gates.

Motivated by the recent ex­citement over Shor's algorithm,Kimble and his group demon­strated that the strong interactionbetween photons and an atom inan optical cavity can provide thebasis for building optical quantumlogic gates. Their optical quantumlogic gate operates by processingthe polarization states of a pair ofphotons, with the polarizationstate of each photon encodingone bit of information.

Any legitimate logic gate mustdisplay an essential feature calledconditional dynamics, whichmeans that the output ofeach gatemust depend upon both inputs tothe gate. Or, in an optical quan­tum logic gate, the output state ofeach photon must depend on theinput state of both photons.

In their experiment, reportedin the December 18,1995 issue ofPhysical Review Letters, Kimble'sgroup showed strong conditionaldynamics for an atom in an opti-

munity to make discoveries inscience and engineering of sig­nificant benefit to industry andto humankind.

The dedication of The Gor­don and Betty Moore Laboratoryof Engineering at the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology tookplace in the afternoon on Tues­day, January 9, 1996. Well at­tended by people inside and out­side of the Caltech comrnunity,The with a wel-come Caltech Presi-

Dr. Thomas andended with the Moore +o,>~iil"',,

warm invitation to the new-

the distinction between two alter­nate states, such as zero or one,no or yes - as pulses of electricalcurrent through wires, transistors,and other components. The basicbuilding blocks of an ordinarycomputer are logic gates, whichprocess the bits of information.The processing either passes thebits through unchanged or "flips"them, changing zeroes to onesand vice versa. Theorists have pro­posed that a quantum computermight work by recreating the com­ponents and logic gates of conven­tional computers in a quantummechanical way, using the quan-

The work ofKimble'sgroup is especially

important because theyhave focused on an

optical implementationofquantum logic.

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PASADENA Caltech physi­cists have demonstrated that indi­vidual photons, which normallydo not interact, can strongly influ­ence each other when brought to­gether with an atom inside an op­tical cavity.

This result interactions be­tween single photons - could beused to make information process­ing devices that employ quantum­mechanical effects to improvetheir performance. Further, thesedevices could form the buildingblocks needed to construct a"quantum computer," atheoretical machine that, re­searchers believe, could out­perform any computerbased on conventional tech­nology.

Scien tists and securityspecialists have given the sub-ject of quantum computipgmuch attention since the1994 discovery of an algo­rithm - a mathematicaltechnique - for factoringlarge numbers on a quantumcomputer. This algorithm,devised by Peter Shor at AT&TBell Labs in Murray Hill, NewJer­sey, means that in theory, a quan­tum computer could outperformany conceivable classical com­puter. Such a machine would havewide ranging implications for ev­erything from national security toautomated teller machines, be­cause the encryption codes thatprotect electronic data rely onhuge numbers that even the mostpowerful conventional computercannot factor. A quantum com­puter would make such codes ob­solete.

The area of quantum infor­mation and computation hadcaught the attention of the quan­tum optics group at Caltech,headed by Professor of Physics H.Jeff Kimble. Together with SethLloyd at MIT, the quantum opticsgroup recognized that their ex­periments were closely related tosomething called quantum logicgates. Quantum logic gates are thebuilding blocks needed to con­struct a quantum computer.

Conventional computerswork by sending classical, pre­scribed "bits" of information -

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1students to become motivated tolearn electronic parts and to con­duct hands-on experiments.

Having received his Ph.D. inchemistry from Cal tech in 1954,Dr. Moore has been a long termsupporter to the Institute. A co­founder of the Intel Corporationin 1968 with the late RobertNoyce, he now serves as chair­man of the company. Often

for "ifyou slow down, youdoom " Dr. Moore

oversees the Caltech Board ofwhile the

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also meet with Sharyn Slavinand Stan Borodinsky aboutfunding for the new ASCITprinter (as David Derkits RE­ALLY would like his printerback). Finally, Dave will put upthe signups for ASCIT Presidentand Vice President thisWednesday.

the BOD to meet with Caltechadministration members onceperterm. We also talk about twopossible Bylaw changes. Thefirst proposed change, allowingthe president slightly differentvoting privileges (he now has tobeat a dead chicken in 5/4 timewhenever he wants to vote), wi IIbe turned into a resolution re­defining a tie and defining theword "infastuous" as "a possiblehomonym of the word /arbo­real'''. The second amendment,separating the offices of BOCChair and Vice-President with a50 terawatt laser, was very in­complete and needs work. We'llrework the schematic and dis­cuss the revised amend menext week.~ Laura has to talk to GraphArts about billing process forthe ASC copier. ra also

to Stan Borodinskyset a separate ASC ac-

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Kanna, and Kanna pays him be­fore he leaves.~ Jon wrote a of recom-mendations and laws andresolutions, many (2) which wepassed last meeting/year/term.

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Whether you like po­etry or hate it, we havethe event for you! FernDavyes will be giving a po­etry reading tonight from6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in theJudy Library in BaxterLecture Hall. She man­ages to make even poetryhaters enjoy her read­ings. Come see how shedoes it...

Monday, January15th is Martin LutherKing, Day. No, youdon't get the day off.However, the Caltech Yhas a few events sched­uled to commemoratehis birthday:12:00 noon-JuneJordan,speaker, Ramo Audito­rium6:30-8:00 PM-Alkebu-IanBoys Choir "FromCradle to Carriage",Ramo Auditorium, narra­tion and gospel choir

and became serious art collec­tors interested in supportingemerging artists and artistsfrom California. Peter NortonComputing was sold to the Sili­con Valley conglomerate,Symantec in 1990, and theNortons now spend much oftheir time collecting art.

In the current exhibit atthe Santa Monica Museum ofArt, one well known work is a 9foot tall mannequin by the LAartist Charles Ray; another is aprison window by RobertGobert of New York. There areexciting sculptures, photo­graphs, and paintings whichtogether forma stunning visualexperience. The Norton ex­hibit will be showing until Feb­ruary 25. In addition to thefour galleries the exhibit spans,there is other art including awork that takes up a wholeroom with six TVs and two pro­jectors.

The locality of the SantaMonica Art Museum is fun, too.There are many exotic shopsand the beach is a coupleblocks away. To get to the Mu­seum, take the 110 south, to the10 west, exit Lincoln left,Ocean Park right, and take aright on Main. The address is2437 Main Street. The hoursare Wed. and Thu. 11 a.m. 6p.m., Fri. 11 a.m.-l0 p.m., Sat.and Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thetelephone number is (310)399-0433.

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Contemporary art andNorton Utilities? Surprisingly,the two are related.

"A Glimpse of the NortonCollection as Revealed by KimDingle" is now showing at theSanta Monica Museum of Art.The Norton Collection con­tains contemporary art prima­rily by young and upcomingartists. Although there is nospecific theme that pervadesthe entire collection, there issome focus on the "post-con­ceptual movement" and workshaving to do with identity. KimDingle, an LA artist, was cho­sen to create the exhibition ofselected works from the Nortoncollection. In the exhibitionshe has tried to give a sense ofthe 'behind the scenes' effortsneeded to maintain a large artcollection.

In 1983, Peter Nortonfounded Peter Norton Com­puting, the software companythat introduced the popular PCprograms Norton Utilities,Norton Anti-Virus, andUnerase. In 1985, after thecompany became successful,Peter and his wife Eileen tookto collecting contemporary art,fulfilling a dream they hadshared since their courtship.Neither of them had any for­mal background in the visualarts. They established theNorton Foundation in 1988

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As would be expected, the crit­ics' poll showed evidence of muchbetter taste, honoring innovativerocker P] Harvey in several catego­ries including Artist of the Year. Al­bums by Tricky, Elastica, SmashingPumpkins, Neil Young, Oasis, andpersonal favorite Bjork also re­ceived mention. On the otherhand, they too named White Zom­bie as Best Metal Band and the rea­sonably good but not fantasticR.E.M. continued their death gripon the nation's rock critics by be­ing named Best Band. The critics'winners don't really match up withmy own, but I can respect theiropinions, unlike those of the read­ers. It's good to see somebody com­ing out in favor of interesting, tal­ented artists who bring somethingnew to the music scene instead ofthe tired old fogeys and inoffensivetripe-meisters nominated forGrammys or the flavor-of-the-week

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allle lllelllbersPerry, master of the spitball. Thatin itself is not, however, the rea­son to vote them in, as somebodywho does not think Perry shouldbe in the Hall probably shouldnot vote for Sutton or Niekro.Though I feel Perry does belongthere, there are some players(such as Harry Hooper) whomost people believe do not.

One can also make argu-ments for Perez, formercloser Bruce Sutter (whosaves 300 games), andSteve Garvey, the would­be father ofour country.None of the players whoappeared on this year'sballot for the first timetruly deserve election.In fact, only three ofthem (including KeithHernandez and BobBoone) even receivedthe requisite 5% of thevotes to be on the ballotnext year. Some of thosewho will no longer be on

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Ray, and Dan Quisenberry.(Quisenberry, though not Hall ofFame caliber, deserved to remainon the ballot for his role as thepremier closer in baseball for sev­eral years.) In fact,and a few others received novotes. In the next few years, theHall of Fame will meet with manyexcellent candidates not cur­rently eligible. In 1999, for ex­ample, Nolan ("The E)'press")Ryan, George Brett, Robin Yount,and Carlton Fisk will all be eli­gible for the first time (they allretired after the 1993 season),and should all get elected thatyear.

poin~ed out that 300 victoriesused to be considered goodenough for automaticHowever, nothing should be con­sidered as such, because theplayer must be viewed on one'sentire playing ability. For ex­ample, former slugger DaveKingman hit about 450homeruns, but would have be­come the first player with 500homers not to be elected to theHall had he reached that mile­stone. He was a one-dimensionalplayer; he was horrible defen­sively and only batted about .230.He failed to get at least 5% ofthevotes his first year on the ballot,and was subsequently dropped.Both pitchers have similar statis­tics to Hall-of-Famer Gaylord

ally, he almost single-handedlykept the knuckleball alive, help­ing the two main activeknuckleballers (Tom Candiotti ofthe Dodgers and Tim Wakefieldof the Redsox) control their mainpitch. Sutton, in his third year ofeligibility, won 324 games and lostonly 254, and in my opinionshould also have been voted intothe Hall of Fame. Niekjro

write-in votes last year.Nonelection by the writers,

however, does not preclude elec­tion by the Veterans Committee,and IS-member group comprisedmainly of former baseball playersand current executives. The Vet­erans Committee can only con­sider those who both were on theHall of Fame Ballot their finalyear ofeligibility and garnered atleast 60% of the vote inanyone year. JimBunning, who missedbeing elected by a scantfew votes several yearsago, is expected to begranted entry throughthis means in 1996.

In each of the pastthree years (ReggieJack­son, Steve Carlton, andMike Schmidt in 1993,1994, and 1995 respec­tively), only one personper year was voted intothe Hall of Fame bybaseball writers. In eachcase, the candidate dominatedthe n;st of the field to be votedinto the Hall in his first year ofeligibility. There was no such can­didate this year. Formerknuckleball pitcher Phil Niekroled the voting with 321 (68.3%)of the votes. Following him wete

. first basemen Tony Perez (309votes, 65.7%) who had his peakyears as part of the "Big Red Ma­chine" (the Reds) of the 1970's,and Don Sutton (300 votes,63.9%), the mercenary pitcherwhose gray locks are somewhatreminiscent of Shirley Temple.Niekro, affectionately known as"Knucksie", was in his fourth yearof eligibility. He should havebeen elected, as he won 318games while losing 274. Addition-

On Monday, re-porters denied every player onthe ballot entry into MajorLeague Baseball's Hall of Fame.This was only the eighth time inthis annual process, the first timesince 1971, that nobody waselected to the Hall ofFame by thebaseball writers who voted. Play­ers become eligible five years af­ter retirement and remain on theballot for 15 years. A player needsto receive 75% of the votes (thisyear, at least 353 votes) in orderto gain election to the Hall. Anyplayer on the ballot who does notgain at least 5% of the vote (eachwriter may select up to 10 people,including write-in votes) isdropped from the ballot the fol­lowing year, although reinstate­ment is possible. (Former Cubthird baseman Ron Santo, forexample, was placed on the bal­lot again in 1985 after not garner-

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from the tip off. Goff shot wellfrom the key, while sophomoreArun Durairaj put heavy pres­sure on the opposing pointguard and tallied an amazingsteal, finishing the playoff witha coast to coast lay-up. Moatssank two "three" pointers in thefirst half adding to Tech's strongshooting effort. That trendwasn't to be broken in the sec­ond half as Moats sank five morethrees. Tsai also put in a pair ofthrees in the second half, as theBeavers began to pull away.Sophomore Matt Letterman hadsome great offensive reboundsand a powerful block near thethree point line, giving Tech thestrong fifth man play theyneeded. Sophomore Ben Turkadded to his season block tallyand controlled the key alongwith Goff. Tech captured firstplace honors with a score of 71­61. GofT and Turk received allTournament honors, whileMoats took home the covetedTournament MVP award.

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eryone swam a good 100 yardfreestyle with Bhuta working ahard 200 breaststroke swim. Itwas four years ago that a largeCaltech team traveled to the"Glitter City" for the "RebelClassic". This year the team ef­fort was hurt by the timing ofthis year's event occurring dur­ing Christmas break. "Al­though sending a small groupof athletes, the team did ex­tremely well and will benefitfrom the experience of a bigtime meet" reports CoachDodd.

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the Techers wen t upagainst the fastest teamswill be facing this year. Theteams included the Universityof Utah, Claremont, Las Vegas,U .C. Davis and eleven clubteams. A total of355 swimmerscompeted in the three day for­mat. Day one sawJen Hollandand Heather Dean swimmingwell with fast times for the 50freestyle, 32.32 and 31.09 re­spectively. Wes Tanaka took afast 200 I.M. into the prelimsand just missed the finals witha time of2:12.80. Mike Greenemade it into the finals in the50 freestyle with a 22.29 andreturned that night to place5th in the consolation finals.The relays also did well withSooketoo Bhuta to a23.65 on the second of the200 freestyle and Wes poppinga 1:01.54 in the fly, and Greenea 1:01.94 in the backstroke ofthe 400 medley relay. twowas highlighted by Wes' 100yard fly 1:03.21 and ColinHumphries and Brian Collinskept improving in the 200freestyle. Heather swam a nice100 backstroke holding solidsplits of 22 seconds per 25yards. who normallydoes not swim the backstroke,lowered his time to a 58.90 andmade it into the bonus conso­lation heat for that evening.

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Oh and Five. That's thestreak the Beavers Basketballteam is looking to break. Fridaynight may be the time for theturn around. That's when thewomen take on Pacific Christianfor their third match up of theseason. The first contest againstPC proved to be mainly a game

between one extremely finetuned team that had seen over amonth of practice and one teamfull of many newcomers withonly a few warm-ups under theirbelts. Unfortunately, Caltechfilled the shoes of the newcom­ers. PC's offense and endurancewas too much for the Beavers tohandle opening night inCaltech's Braun Athletic Center.

The second matchup featured afantastic first half showingCaltech. The ladies demon­strated a much more controlledoffensive and played extremelyaggressive defense. However, PCcame on strong the second halfand clinched the win. The thirdand final matchup brings PacificChristian back to Braun AthleticCenter tonight (Friday) at 7:30

p.m. Coaches Sherry Roche andMike Tice have helped devel­oped stronger offenses for theBeavers and imbedded more ag­gressive defensive traps as well.These changes should enableCal tech to make a powerfulshowing Friday night at their fi­nal home appearance. Thewomen are playing more cohe­sively as a team in recent games,

since all of the players are see­ing large amounts of playingtime. Inconsistent passing andrebounding still plague the Bea­vers, but an increase in hustle hashelped damper the effects of theturnovers. Look for Tech to fighthard for a win tonight as the1995-96 home season comes toa close. Go out to Braun and sup­port the team at 7:30 p.m.

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Friday 1/5-Men's Basketball Won 76-55Arizona College of the Bible(Hi-Tech Tournament)Saturday 1/6-Men's BasketballWon 71-61 Southwestern(Hi-Tech Tournament)-Women's BasketballLost 23-72 Swarthmore-Men's SwimmingLost 72-155 Pomona Pitzer-Women's SwimmingLost 31-162 Pomona PitzerTuesday 1/9-Women's BasketballLost 33-57 La Sierra

The Chinese-American Engineers and Scien­lists Association of Southern California(CESASC) is offering scholarship awards foroutstanding achievement. Approximately 10awards will be Inade to undergraduate stu­dents for the 1995-96 academic year. Theaward consists of a certificate and a scholar­ship of at least $400. Full-time undergradu­ate students with a Ininimum CPA of 3.5 areeligible to apply. Applications and all sup­porting documents are due Jannary 25th,19%.

The Korean American Scholarship Founda­tion, Western Region, is offering scholarshipsof$1 ,000 to $2,000 for full-time undergradu­ate and graduate students of Korean heri­tage. Application forms are available uponwritten from: KA.5F vVestern RegionOfl1ce, Box 486, PacifiC Palisades, CA90272. The deadline to apply is January 31st,1'1%.

The Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excel­lence in National Environmental Policy Foun­dation has created a scholarship program toattract students into careers ,in environmen­tal public policy, health care, or tribal publicpolicy. Scholarships are awarded on the ba­sis of merit to students who are sophomoresorjuniors during the 1995-96 academic yearand who have excellent academic recordsand demonstrated interest in and potentialfor careers in environmental public policyor are 0Jative Atnericans or Alaska 0Jativeswho have excellent academic records anddemonstrated interest in and potential forcareers in health care or tribal public policy.The scholarship covers eligible expenses fortuition, fees, books, and rOOt11 and board toa maxillllllll of$5,000 for one academic year.

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The American Concrete Institute (ACI) is of­fering several awards. The Peter D. COllrtoisConcrete Construction Scholarships are two$1000 awards for undergraduate study inconcrete construction for the 1996-97 aca­demic year. Eligible students must be en­rolled at least half-time and must be seniorsin 1996-97. The application, available at theFinancial Aid Office, with all required sup­porting documents is dueJanuary 15th, ] 996.

"""~=""''''' ~ibgazine announces its 1996""'omen Competition.

\-Vomen \vho are currently full-tiTne juniorsarc invited to submit to receiveone of len awards of a Glsh prizeof ,000, the opportunity to meet with topprofessionals ill your field, and national rec­ognition in GLA'VIOUR's October 1'196 is­sue. Applications are available in,cial and must be completed andposllll:lrkecl no later thanJa.l1uary 31st, 1996.

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity issponsoring its annual essay contest for full­time undergraduate juniors and seniors.Students are challenp;ecl to examine and ana­lyze urgent ethical issues in essays of 3,000­4,000 words. First prize is $5,000, secondpri/.e is $2,500, and third prize is $1,500.Essays must be postmarked by Jannary 12th,1996. For essay guidelines and additionalinformation, visit the Financial Aid Office.

awards scholarships to engineering under­graduates with outstanding academicachievement and interest in careers in thenuclear power industry. For the upcomingyear, 200 college sophomores, juniors andseniors will be awarded scholarships of$2,500each. To be eligible, you must have 3.0 orhetter CPA and be m~~joring in one of thefollowing: nuclear engineering, power gen~

eration health physics, mechanical, electri­calor chemical engineering (with nuclearfission or power options). If interested, con­tact the Dean of Students Office, 102 Par­sons-Gates. The deadline for applying is Feb­ruary 1st, 1996.

Attention seniors interested in pursuing ai\'lasters of Science degree in aeronautical,astronautical, or aerospace engineering: Stu­dent members of the American Institute ofAeronautics and Astronautics who are plan­ning to attend graduate school next fall canapply for a one time Francois-XavierBagnoud Fellowship. The award will providesix stndents with fnll tuition up to $20,000plus an $18,000 stipend for one year. TheFellowships Advising Office has applications;the deadline for this application is February1st, 1996.

The Computational Science Graduate Fel­lowship Program supports full time doctoralstudy in an applied science or engineeringdiscipline witli applications in high perfor­mance computing. Applicants must he intheir first year of graduate study and be ei­ther U.S. citizens or permanent residents.The postmark deadline for completed appli­cations is Wednesday,January 24th. Applica­tions are available in the Fellowships Advis­ing Omce.

Attention seniors and first year graduate stu­dents. Applications for the National DefenseScience and Engineedng Graduate StudyProgram (NDSEG) are available in the Fel­lowships Advising and Resources Office.Applications are also available via the web athttp//www.battelle.ulg.lIdspg/l/dsrg.hlmIAt thispoint the application is not live-it can onlybe printed from \vcb. A live applicationis still under development. Although, it washoped that it would be available this year, thiswill probably not be the case. The NDSEGsupports work ill almost all fields of scienceand engineering. If your field of study doesnot on the list (e.g. astronomy), thenlist closest to it as your main field ofstudy and your actual field under subdisci­pline. (In the case of astronomy, a personwould probably list either physics or mathwith astronomy as the subdiscipline.) If youhave other questions, please contactLo,uren StOlper althe Fellowships Office. The~DSEG provides three years of support forgradnate level study. Applicants must be U.S.citizens nationals and be graduating se­

alumni \vIlo have not yet begunor 1st year graduate slu­service or sponsorship of

DC'mlrllllf'nt of Defense is required ofap­All :-.JDSEG malcri~tls including tran­

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The NatlOlnl Academy for ;\uclearTraining

D"IJ2l1.·tllllclnt of Energy ComputationalFe:!!o'wsillip supports full­

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on International Exchange (CIEE). It is a verypopular program, and it is highly advisableto apply early. No language skills are neededwith the exception of Spanish for Spain andconversational French for \forth Africa.There is a placement cost of S195 for one 2­4 week project. Information brochures areavailable in the Fellowships Office or wewould be happy to send you one via campusmail: e-mail your name, the [let that yon wantan International Volunteer Pr~jects 1996 bro­chure and your mailcode 10 I([Urnl

_slo{jJt/'@slarbmel.caltn!l.ed" A listing of lastJ'ear's volunteer pr~jects is available for re­view in the office. \fote that special fellow­ships for minority students interested in thisprogram are available through the CIEE.

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any in tcrested Jun iors,students missed the Deceml)c!Scholarship meeting, the app!iC1lionrently available in the Fellows!l1i))s (Jf!ice.deadline this appliG\lionary 1st thosedena branch.

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The Caltech Swedish Club will meet at 3pmon Sunday,January 14th, at 975 San PasquaIApartment #] ] 8 for a ':iulgranspundring"(post-Christmas celebration) . Anyone inter­ested in Scandinavian culture or speakingSwedish is welcome. For more informationplease contact :Vlikael Sahrling at eitherphone: (818)583-900] or e-mailmikael@[ajJir.caltech.edu ; or Lena Peterson atphone x6994 or (818)683-9]02 or at e-mail:lenll@jJC1lljJ.mlterh.edu.

Looking for a safe and supportive place todiscuss issues such as coming bein.g OHt,

dealing with family, ahomophobic cultllre, and atCaltech? vVant somevvhere just to newfriends? You are invited to the Gay/Lesbian/

meets on theTuesdays of each month from

7:30pm till 1O:00pm in the Health Centerlounge. This is a confidential meeting andattending does not imply anything abollt aperson's sexual orientation--only that he orshe is willing to be supportive in this seuing.The group usually discusses a particular rel­evant topic and then moves on to the gen­eral discllssion. Refreshments are served. If

would like more infonnation, please callx8331.

The Pacific Classical Winds will give a freePaco A. Lagerstrom Chamber Music Concerton Sunday, January ]4th at 3:30pm in theDabney Library The program will includeBeethoven's Sonata in F, 01'. 17 and Quin­tet in E-flat, 01" 16, as well as Kreutzer's Trioin E-flat, 01" 43 and Weber's Variations, 01'.33. The performance will be played in totalon instruments authentic to the music's pe­riod.

fhe Caltech Jazz Bands will hold a concertwith guest trumpet soloist Bobby Rodriguezon January 27th, 1996 at 8pm in theBeckman Auditorium. The concert and park­in?; are free.

Storyteller Jackie Torrence will appear onSaturday, January 13th at 2pm in Caltech'sBeckman Auditorium for a 60 minute Fam­ily Faire presentation designed especially forchildren. Tickets are priced at $9 for adults,$5 for children and can be purchased at theCaltech Ticket Office. For more information,please call x4652.

2:A one day blood drive will held in theWinnett Student Lounge on Wednesday,January 3]st, between 9:15am-2:30pm. Tomake an appointment, please contact VillaZmuidzinas at x6001, although walk-ins arewelcmne and much appreciated.

IThe Dorian Wind Quintet will present aColeman Chamber Music Concert on Sun­day, January 2]st, at the Beckman Audito­rium at 3:30pm. The program includesBach's Concerto after Vivaldi (arr. M.Rechtman); Mozart's Divertimento, K. 439b(flute, clarinet, bassoon); Schifrin's LaNouvelle Orleans; and Beethoven's Quintetin E-flat Major, 01'. 4 (arr. M. Rechtman).Admission starts at $22.50.

ILarry I. Palmer, Professor of Law at theCornell Law School, will be giving a Science,Ethics, and Public Policy Seminar entitledLaw and Eth ics at the Beginning and End ofLifeon Thursday, January 18th, in the Judy Li­brary.

Istanbul-Travels in Turkey at 8pm in theBeckman. Tickets to this film are priced be­tween $7 and $9.

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IOn Monday,January ]5th, a special celebra­tion of the observance of Dr. Martin Luthe"rKing's birthday entitled From Cradle to Car­riage will be held in the Ramo Auditori~lln

starting at 6:30pm. The observance will in­dude highlights of Dr. Kiug's and civic rightsstruggles complemented by a medley of gos­pel songs by a mass choir. Participants in thiscelebration will include the Pasadena CityCollege Gospel Choir and members of theFirst AME Church. Admission is free.

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Cal tech Guitar Classes for the Winter quar­ter will meet on Tuesdays starting on Janu­ary 9th in Room I of the Stndent ActivitiesCenter (SAC). Beginning classes will be heldfrom 4:30 to 5:30pm, intermediate from 3 to4pm, and advanced classes fronl 5:30 to6:30pm. Classical and Flamenco repertoiresarc explored but techniques transfer to otherstyles ofguitar. The Beginning Class includesajazz/folk chord system. Classes are free toCaltech students and other members of theCaltech community (space permitting). Un­dergraduates can receive ~i units of credit ifthey choose. Private instruction on any levelcan also be arranged. TLe instructor, Classi­cal Guitarist Darryl has an interna­tional background in perfonnance, teachingand recording and can be reached by phoneat (213) 465-0881 or bye-mail atddenning@cw.((l!tech.('du.

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SUinmer language fellowships are av;\ibblethrough University of Midtig,an's l'Cip"",Tcehnolo,;y Program to students interestedin Engineering Science or .:\'1anagement fromany U.S. institution. The fellowships notfor study inJapan, but fund study at tJni-

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