INSIDEA new column devoted to thearts, ranblin', reviews threeconcerts of mixed qualitywhich took place over [AP.

The MIT mens fencing squad

Bhe MIT inen's fencing squadedged an aggressive WestPoint team, 14-13, keeping itshopes alive for an Eastern foilchampionship.

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EXCER PTS'After much debate in

Washington among Houseand Senate conferees,Congress is putting thefinishing touches on the newenergy bill. The compromiselegislation will have far--reaching effects on theAmerican way of life, ac-cording to reliable Congres-sional sources who are visitinghere during the holiday recess.

The bill would do the fol-lowing:

Liberalize conservation lawsThe present Law of Conser-

vation - the First Law ofThermodynamics - placesstrict requirements on energyaccounting procedures. Thenew bill relaxes these require-ments so that energy systemsmay be operated on a deficitbasis. Power plants will be ableto operate at 1000 percent ef-ficiency. and there will be freelunches for everyone.

.4mend the lasw of gravityIt is proposed that begin-

ning Oct. 1, 1980, fallingbodies will no longer ac-celerate at 32 feet per secondper second. The legal rate willbe lowered by increments untila new rate of 22 feet per se-cond per second is establishedin 1984. This means that mat-ter will be attracted to Earthwith about two-thirds the pre-sent pull of gravity, thus re-quiring less energy for us toclimb hills. pitch hay, pumpwater, etc. New sports recordsare being counted upon to dis-tract the population during the.period of adjustment.

Abolish entropjyThis measure repealing the

Second Law of Thermo-dynamics - the Law thatrequires the entropy, or un-available energy ofthe universe, to atways increase- will make available vast

amounts of energy tied up inheretofore irreversible thermo-dynamical systems. A non-tech-nical spinoff of this action willbe a reversal of society'sdecline.

The New York Times

Copyright 1978 The Tech

Sound in 10-250 a problem for LSCBy Gordon Haff

Nearly six months after 10-250's scheduled opening.problems with the sound systemare still preventing its use formovie projection.

When asked about theseproblems, Harry Portnoy,Campus Architect and the personresponsible for the constructionof 10-250, replied that there wasno real problem with the soundsystem but rather "we haven'tcompleted all the work on it yet."He added that "we're having less[problems with 10-2501 than an-ticipated."

Michael' Dornbrook '75 of theLecture Series Committee (LSC),the major users of the 10-250 pro-jec;ion equipment, disagreed withPortnoy and cited a list of itemswhich he and other members ofLSC considered wrong with theroom.

Dornbrook's major complaintwas with the JBL sound system

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The new movie screen in Room 10-2bO as only 20 feet wvide and Is 3 feet too short to match the currentprojector lenses. LSC has been unable to use the screen for the past tawo weeks due to an oroerabiescreen motor control. The sneakers to the left and right of the screen were built In oak cabinets to matchthe oak trim around the blackboard. The cabinets and border have beenIrwin)which was installed. Currently, system in 10-250 at a substantialthe sound system is "distorting discount. On January 4. 1977.horribly.''" according to LSC members had a meeting withDornbrook. people from planning and with

In November 1976, LSC Frank Cook from Audio-Visual.received a proposal from the Bose At this meeting. LSC laid outCorporation to set up a sound some of the things which they

IAP's most popular activity

Berke again ofBy Steve Kirsch, and love it, real

'Disco dancing, IAP's most some popularpopular activity for the last two movementsyears with a typical attendance of whatever else yi300, will 'be offered for the lat' "This is a cla:time today and Friday by dividuals whoUndergraduate Association Presi- before (and edent Peter Berke '78. thought they ne

The activity, which in the past come expectingtwo years has never attracted less cha-cha steps fthan 250 people at any session, won't come exFwas not advertised this IAP. for school pBerke was not sure when he Though maybewould return to the Institute and something out.did not want to commit himself to '.'If you ma fixed date. A last minute poster Wednesday's cladvertising campaign did, on Wednesdayhowever, attract about 80 stb- we'll get you cdents. pants will be en

Berke, who prefers teaching a by price reducsmall group, was surprised by the local nightclhigh turnout for the event. "I ex- palaces. If ou'pected about five people to show the class or aup," he said. think would rr

In a letter to undergraduates, place for you, FBerke described the class: early. After eac

"We'll start with the basics and some time to ccin 15 minutes you'll be able to and get to knohold your own on any dance floor "The dancin

lly! We'll go on tor current steps,or chants, orou'd like to learn.ss especially for in-

haven't danced:en people whoever could). Don'tme to teach fancy

'or couples, and Ipecting you to run}resident, okay?e we could work

iss Monday orass, come at 11:30y or Friday and:aught up. Partici-couraged (perhapstions) to frequentlubs and partyd like to help withanything that younake this a betterplease come a little:h class, we'll haveool out, talk, dancew each other....g class is open to

Arist's conception of proposed solar power satellite system to beplaced in geosynchronous Earth orbit. (Photo courtesy Professor ReneMiller)

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were interested in: a Bose soundsystem which could be used formovie four track sound, a dim-mable lighting system. a largemovie screen and a number ofother important items, such as in-dependent booth ventilation, con-venient location of switches. wir-ing of different signal levelsthrough separate conduits. ade-quate soundproofing so theaudience cannot hear noisegenerated by projectors. Proiec-

anybody...with a special invita- onists and the toilet. qualittion to reactionary. self- audio monitors so that projec-aggrandizing. irresponsible and tionists can hear sound problemsego>-blinded members of the over the noise of the projectorscampus press. and making sure this booth. un-

The goal of the class. according like any existing booth at MIT,to Berke, is to have fun and to met state building codes."attract undergraduate men and At the end of this meeting.women to learn something in an Portnov told LSC that if any ofanalytical way rather than by these requests were to be fulfilled.picking it up." He noted that his a complete proposal would haveclass is '"one of the few things at to be in in two days time. LSC didN1MIT attendedequally by men and this, including Bose's proposalwomen." and a complete diagram of the

In the past two years, Berke has wiring raceways and projectoralways received applause after set-up. In order to overcome anyeach of his classes. He said that budgetary objections. LSC of-many people stay after class to fered to pay for the additionalthank him personally. "They cost of the sound system. boothdon't do that in physics," Berke monitors light dimmers andsaid, "but they should." lenses - or the total cost if neces-

sa ry.Berke's class is in the spirit of

how he sees his role as UAP: "to (BBtB specifically Robertget people to do what they're NewNman was the contractorgood at." He added, "That's how for the acoustc andI got elected - because I taught a sound system design of iO-250.couple of hundred un-dergradu atIe s how dane . Their ortiginal plan was to use thedergraduates how to dance."

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NASAcutsprotestedBy Steven Solnick

Proposals for large scale spaceventures and the need to avertplanned NASA budget cuts werethe topics addressed at a meetingorganized by the MIT SpaceHabitat Study Group lastWednesday night.

Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz,Visiting Institute Professor, sug-gested to an audience of seventy-five that "naive pessimism" aboutour abilities to survive in space,rather than technologicalproblems, was keeping the humanrace from tapping the virtuallylimitless energy and resourcesavailable in space. Endorsing "anopen future for the human race,"Kantrowitz said that space of-fered the same possibilities for"new starts" as the New Worlddid centuries ago.

Professor Ren6 Miller, chair-man of the Department ofAeronautics and Astronautics,proposed a plan which he called"the answer to all of America'slong term energy problems." Theplan calls for solar power satel-

lites to be placed in ageosynchronous earth orbit.These generating stations. whichwould transmit energy to earthvia microwave, could be as largeas 40 square kilometers and couldhave power outputs in the 5-20gigawatt range. The componentswould be launched by futurederivatives of NASA's SpaceShuttle system and assembled inorbit.

An even larger scale spaceutilization project was presentedby Mark Hopkins of the HarvardEconomics Department. Hopkinsdescribed a possible space habitatto be constructed out of lunarmaterials at one of a number ofgravitational equilibrium pointsin the earth-moon system. Thishabitat, first proposed by Profes-sor Gerard O'Neill of Princeton,would produce the solar powersatellites described by Miller. Theconstruction of such satellites inspace would allow them to bemore easily transportable becauseof the absence of gravity. Thisfactor, along with the abundance

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old 10-250 sound system and relyon the excellent acoustics forspeech.

According to Dornbrook,"Newman would have nothing todo with Bose." In March, when itappeared that BBN was definitelynot going to install a Bose system,Bose offered to do an audio testmatching their system against anysystem which BBN cared to use,no matter what the price.However, Bose wanted MIT toagree to purchase their system ifthe test proved it to be superior.Dornbrook said that "eventhough there was never a writtenagreement, there was a basic un-derstanding that if the Bosesystem was better it would beused."

However, when the test wasperformed, Harry Portnoy senthis assistant, Doris Cole, insteadof coming himself, and RobertNewman was in Australia. JosephK. Hichar III '78, former LSCchairman, stated that "everyonethere agreed the Bose system wassuperior," including Newman'sassistant, Frank Cook (A-V) andthe sales representatives from

.notW-" Digital Equipment Corporation(DEC) will discuss opportunities atDEC. specifically in diagnosticsengineering, on Thurs. Jan. 19 at1:30pm in the Marlar Lounge, Room3--252. Everyone welcome. especialblseniors and graduate students inelectrical engineering and computerscience

* A commemoration of the 1973Supreme Court decision on abortion

ill be held Sun. Jan. 22 at 1:30pm atthe Arlington Street Church (cornerof Arlington and Boylston Streets.Boston). Speakers from the religiousand political communities will includeRepresentative Saundra Graham ofCambridge. For more informationcontact Mary at 491-1559 or Marty at738-1370.

* The Ken Rozoff ChessSimultaneous Exhibition will be heldon Fri. Jan.27, starting at noon inLobby 7. To reserve a board, sendS1.50 to Brad Schaefer at Burton141G or call x5-8156.

* The first meeting of the '78 R/OCommittee will be on Wed. Jan. 25 at4:30pm in Room 7-105. If you are in-terested in helping out or have sugges-tions but can't come to the meeting,call Barry Newman at x5-7603.

' The German Academic ExchangeService (DAAD) offers scholarshipsto American students for study inGermany during 1978. The programshave an application deadline of Jan.31. For application forms and furtherInformation contact the DAAD atOne Fifth Asenue. Apt i -D. NewYork. NY 10003.

* The EECS Student-Faculty Corn-rnmttee Is sponsoring two tours whicnA 11l feature a talk with companyengineers and a tour of plant facilities.The first. scheduled for this Friday. isto the HeAlett Packard MedicalInstrumentation Facility (a VI-A co-op comprnpn in W'altham. The secondtour. on Thurs.. Jan. 26. will visitPrime Computer. Inc. nFramingham. an advanced computerequ!pment manufacturer. Sign-up andtickets are available at the EECSLndergrad Office. Room 38-476.Both tours leave at the lobby of Bldg.39 at 1L:30pm.

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Lake Systems, an Altec dis-tributor subcontracted to do thesound system installation. TheAltec system .tested was anenhanced version of the old 10-250 system which was purchasedby LSC in 1963.

After LSC turned in its designproposals, the design officerefused to discuss their plans orgive any information during theseven remaining months of con-struction, Dornbrook noted.

The present sound system, in-stalled without LSC's knowledge,is a quadrophonic system as op-posed to the 4-track system whichLSC requested. (Whilequadrophonic sound has fourseparate sources which are put inthe four corners of the room,movie stereo has front right, frontcenter, front left channels, andone rear surround channel.) Theinstalled quadrophonic systemmakes normal monophonicsources sound like they comefrom the side of the room of thenearest speaker, instead of fromthe screen.

LSC themselves purchased theBose system which NMIT decidedthey did not want. The system willbe set up for 4-track magnetic

sound movies.Other problems with 10-250 in-

clude an inappropriate sizescreen, wrong lenses and miscutaperture plates, and bad wiring.Dombrook also mentioned that"when you turn the arcs on or off,you get a gross popping soundthrough the sound system." LSCexperts believe this is due to in-correct wiring.

In addition, the mercury vaporlighting system needs a warmuptime of seven minutes. This situa-tion, while presenting problemswith showing movies, is evenmore serious during lectures atwhich slides are being shownintermittently throughout the lec-ture.

Another problem with thelighting system is that the dimmercontrol only works between fullbrightness and 2 percent of fullbrightness, a level which due tologarithmic eye response appearsto be half of full brightness.Below that point, the lighting hasto be turned on or off in one step.This, like the former antiquated10-250 lighting system, tends toblind people when it is turned onor off.

One of the two combination 16-35mm projectors recently installed aspart of the 10-250 renovation. They are the first projectors of this kindBauer has ever made. Current problems with the projectors include alens-aperture plate combination that cuts out 30 per cent of the35mm image and produces a 16mm image too small to be seenclearly from the back of the room. (Photo by Chuck Irwin;

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First of all, we have assets of over $26 billion that make us the

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Size alone is almost theleast of it.In our Investment Affairs complex youcan be quickly involved in the analysis,negotiation and management of directlyplaced fixed income securities, publiclytraded bonds, common stocks, mortgages,real estate equities, or short term securitieswe manage-not only for our policyholders and contract holders, but forpension funds, a real estate trust, and arapidly growing number of other assetpools that we manage for investmentclients.

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Direct Placements can bea real awakening.Few MBA's realize the challenge inherentin the growing complexity of the DirectPlacements business. These investments-made through direct negotiations with awide variety of capital users in manydiverse activities, and in each case tailoredto specific needs-frequently involve tensof millions of dollars. These placementsare handled by very small investmentteams which are highly professional intheir actions and investment philosophy.

Portfolio management:responsibilities come fast.Our Portfolio Management Department,which currently manages some $4 billionof assets for pension and profit-sharingfunds and variable annuities, is anup-to-date and fast-paced operation.

Management and associated research areclosely integrated. MBA's becomeinvolved almost immediately in a portfoliomanagement process that places crucialimportance on individual contributionand performance. One person oftenhandles a $400 to $500 million portfolio.Few environments offer so muchopportunity to exercise your initiative.

Investment strategy: findinga road map.A third, equally challenging area inInvestment Affairs is in our Systemsand Planning Department. Here,you'll be involved in the theory ofinvestment strategy, including develop-ment of models for asset allocation,analysis of new investment vehicles, andestablishment of portfolio objectives andperformance measuring. You'll be creatingsophisticated programming models andmaking utmost use of your strongquantitative skills.

Openings in New York andRegional Offices.We have openings for MBA's as financialanalysts in our Direct Placement andPortfolio Managemenrt Departments, andfor planning associates in Systems andPlanning. All require strong analyticalability, maturity, communication skills,and a high degree of motivation. Tell useverything you think we ought to knowabout you. Write: Mr. Robert Malone,Investment Affairs, The Equitable LifeAssurance Society of the U.S..1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York.NY 10019.

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WorldItalian government dissolved - Italian Prime Minister GiulioAndreotti handed in the resignation of his Christian DemocraticParty to President Giovanni Leone on Monday. The resignationfollowed increasing pressure by members of Communist,Socialist, and Republican parties for greater Communist par-ticipation in Italian government.

Hotline uses satellites - A new emergency hotline system,involving the use of orbiting satellites, has been set up betweenthe United States and the Soviet Union. Officials said that theuse of satellites eliminates the problems caused by cable and highfrequency radio transmissions. A terrestrial hotline system hasbeen in service since 1963.

NationNASA names Hoffman mission specialist - Dr. Jeffrey A.

Hoffman, an MIT astrophysicist, and three MIT alumni wereamong the 35 persons selected by NASA as space shuttleastronauts. Hoffman is a member of the Center for SpaceResearch's Cosmic Ray Group. NASA also chose six women -the

first ever appointed for the US space program.

Supreme Court to question search rules - The JusticeDepartment asked the Supreme Court to give police officers theright to make suprise searches of newspaper offices. The case wasbrought up after a break-in of the Stanford Daily.a studentnewspaper at Stanford University, by local police. The police hadwanted some photographic negatives to identify the participantsat a demonstration where a police officer was injured.

Humphrey dies - Senator Hubert Humphrey died Friday ofcancer at his Minnesota home. He was a leader in the Senate forforty years, Vice President under Lyndon Johnson, and an un-sucessful presidential candidate in 1968. Nicknamed "The Hap-py Warrior," Humphrey was widely known for his optimisticpersonality as well as for his progressive legislation. Humphreywas buried in his hometown Monday.

SportsOrange Crush goes flat - In the Super Bowl, the DallasCowboys defeated the Denver Broncos by a score of 27-10 in agame ridden with turnovers. The Dallas defenders interceptedfour passes by Bronco quarterback Craig Morton and alsorecovered four Denver fumbles.

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Association's (TCA) annual IAPRed Cross Blood Drive was calledsuccessful, if "a little slow," bythe co-chairmen Paul Stipe '79and Jim McCormack '79.

The third IAP Blood Drive,held January Ii and 12, netted254 pints of blood for areahospitals. Stipe said he waspleased with the result, especiallysince, as is usual after the holi-days, there was a severe shortageof blood in the Boston area.

Stipe attributed the slowresponse this year to a .lack ofpublicity. The Blood Drive beganonly a few days after most peoplereturned for IAP. Thus the mainproblem the TCA staff faced wasadvertising the blood drive. Thereis generally less work involvedduring the IAP blood drive thanduring other blood drives in theyear, because TCA does not try toreach as many people. accordingto Stipe.

The TCA's next Blood Drivewill be held in mid-March andwill be the major effort to collectblood during spring term.

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By William LasserWhen those of us in our early twenties and late teens became

politically, aware, American politics was dominated by LyndonJohnson and Richard Nixon, and America itself was torn by racial con-flict and by a growing opposition to the Viet Nam War. A few men inleadership positions, however, were able to retain a sense of justice andcompassion throughout the difficult period of the late 1960s. One ofthem was Hubert Humphrey.

In an era of riots, demonstrations and social unrest, Humphrey wasthe counterv'ailing force in American politics, a man who gave us someindication as we began to understand what was going on around us thatpolitics could be used to help people rather than to kill them, or draftthem, or arrest them. Along with George McGovern, Eugene Mc-Carthy, Robert Kennedy and others. Humphrey gave us hope, a per-vading sense of optim-ism which could scarcely be found elsewhere,

There is a temptation to glorify those wh~o have passed away: theRomans had a saying that "nothing butgood shall be said ab~out the dead." andby and large we stick by that maxim.Rarely, however, are eulogies as sincereand as applicable as were the speechesgiven Sunday and Monday byHumphrey's personal friends andpolitical compatriots. For, despite hisfaults, it could be said with completehonesty that Humphrey' always caredabout the "little man," tht he was at theforefront of the civil and human fights

movements long before such a political position was particularlyfashionable, and that throughout his career he attempted, both withsuccess and with failure, to unite rather than to divide.

The late 1960s were difficult times for Humphrey also, of course.Though strongly opposed to the Viet Nam War, he felt bound as vicepresident by a sense of loyalty to Lyndon Johnson to remain silentrather than oppose his President's course of action. Only after it wastoo late, during the 1968 election campaign against Richard Nixon. didHumphrey again regain. his accustomed outspoken role.

But the great outpouring of emotion expressed by the American peo-ple at Humphrey's death is an indication of his position as a nationalleader in difficult times. In a symbolic sense, he represented the quintes-sential New' Deal Democrat -- a man concerned about the poor, theunfortunate. the politically weak. And he represented the mythologicalAmerican politician w'ith his strong commitment and enthusiasm forcauses he believed in. and with his sense of fairness and humility whichmade him graceful and dignified both in victory and defeat.:.,Armericans will~remem-ber Humphrey for many things. Some'willremember his famous speech at the 1948 Democratic National Conven-tion, when, as t'he unknown mayor of Minneapolis. he brought the civil

-rights-issue out frnto the open'. Others will recall him as a nman'who spentwhat seemed i-ke his whotle life running for the Presidency, but whonever attained that office. The clearest picture in my mind ofH umphrey is of what might be called his last appearance as a presiden-tial candidate -- the day he bowed out of the 1976 race for theDemocratic nomination. It was typical of his style, for in deciding notto run he left those watching him not with a sense of defeat or despair,but with a feeling of accomplishment and anticipation.

It is unfortunate that in this country we tend not to recognize andhonor great men until they die or are dying. Humphrey wanted theceremonies surrounding his death to be a celebration of life, to be fullof music and song. fie did not want anyone - neither his personalfriends nor his countrymen -- to be sad. I, along. I suspect, with mostAmericans, found it impossible not to mourn our nation's loss.

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By B-ob Wasserman structure addressed 77 Mass-Last year a man in Min- achusetts Avenue might even be

neapolis. Minnesota attempted to incorporated into one or twohave his name changed legally to larger buildings with roomn1069. "My close friends just call numbers assigned logically.me one-zero," he commented. It's not that all the buildings on

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Whether or not this -man's plea-'* a-Id. educators.. Perhaps .the In-for a new name will be accepted 'st'itutewic~i oegrtby a local court, this-could be-the, improve haje themqit im~age, "obstart of a new national movement b "t teWlimBroof shunning Christian namesRoesLbyan ob10altogether. And why -not? Today YRoger LobbY"ard C"L obury, 1we have social security numbers, to ~'".h Rihr -ku

"MacLaurin Lobby."bank account numbers, telephone numbers, etc., which are begin; tlatteAmnsrtoning to be acccpted'as substitutes cudmk uehbd cle

the Charles Hayden Memorialfor real identities.I wouldn't be surprised, to see ibar,'! or-14"whc

sohas -like you need a compassfuture ID cards which -instead of supictures. have striped black linesJu tgesimilar to those found on super- to utttlyitmdtmarket goods, as well as social Yugfclymmesi hse ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~yugfcurity numbers, of coure.

Now suppose Mr. 1069 IM manager,becomes a rich and famous in- %dustrialist, say Vice-President of T h dtrGeneral Motors. Well, maybe AsaIM angrIfe)cm

pelled to reply to Gordon Haffs1069 decides to send little 1069-2arilinyuiseofJuryI1to MIT, or perhaps he had I sMngdPol.M.Hfreceived a degree from the In-doaeaIrgzptinfhsat-stitute and is grateful to' his oldcltowahessashepralma mnater. In any case, 1069 mngmn fI okydecides to donate quite a largelitnseragivnc.sum to MIT for the completion ofa new Center for Numerical Mr. Haffs oiggest gripe ap-Engineering. pears to concern hoceay's A-

The members of'the MIT Cor. league. His complaint is- thatporation are delighted by the every team is "an all star team"news of the gift. Not only are they and that."no living group couldpleased with Mr. 1069's compete in it." In regard to thisgenerosity, but he has solved one complaint, I refer Mr. Haft to theof their toughest problems for 1977-78 MIT Intramural ,Sportsthem, that of naming the new Handbook in which A-league isbuilding. The Building Commit- described as a league in whichtee names a new structure after its "serious competitors can competechief benefactor, and also assigns for championship trophies."a number to it, which everyone Nowhere is it, stated that theseends up calling the building. This teams must include living groups.time, however, the authorities can Mr. Haft goes on to state that thiskill two birds with one stone, and problem could have been solvedsimply 'name the new Center by the establishment of living"The 1069 Building." group and independent A-leagues

The previous example just as now exist in soccer. Contraryshows one of the more 'irritating to Mr. Haffs statements, thischaracteristics of MIT: all the situation has been looked into.buildings are referred to by The first examination of this oc-numbers instead of names. The curred last year and was per-Admissions Office could seriously formed by then manager Dannywonder how many' prospective Bovarnick. In my own evaluationfreshmen have been turned off by of this idea, I found it unsuitablejust walking around the Institute for hockey. If Mr. Haft wouldas the tour guide explained, have examined the league align-

" ..now on your right is ments, he would have seen thatBuilding 33." such a two part A-league wouldOne could even argue that this leave 2 teams in an independent

maze of buildings and their league and no more than 4, andnumbers are not in a logical Se- more realistically 3 teams in thequence, and both newcomers and fiving group division. I hardlyold-timers might be better off if find this arrangement moreall the buildings were called by beneficial to the intramuraltheir English names. The large program.

Hurnanities Department.The complete change-over

from building numbers to namesmight cause somte inconvenience,in course schedules, for example.Nevertheless, short abbreviationssuch as "GRN" or "MACL"would be just as simple to write asnumbers and would preventregistration guides from lookinglike secret code..1 Although the circumstancessri'rofinding the 'naming' o ' MIT'buildings by numbers can easilybe~joked about; this situation. is-a,very serious one. The use ofnumbers instead -of naffies forbuildings is a de.hurmianiz.ation of,'the-Institute, and the MIT ad-ministration and students shoulduse these names in all instances.Until the turnaround is effected',however, every9rne should find- a.'complete list' of MIT buildingsand their names (look inHoToGaMIT), and, use thesewhenever possible.

s defendedIn regard to AMr. Hails com-

plaint concerning the lack of anA-league in football, I fail to seehis point. I sincerely -hope that hedoes not feel that this situationwas handled lightly, I attendedmany executive-committeemeetings during the first term.Some of these meetings includedthe discussions of A-league foot-ball. It was plainly shown thatthere is nothing a manager can doto make an A-league if there isnot sufficient interest, despite hisgreat efforts.

Mr. Haft also appears dis-mayed by the lack of publicizingof standings. Firstly, i hope, thatMr. Haft has not forgotten theweather which plagued the open-ing of the ice rink. This caused afew more important items to behandled. I also did not placestandings at the top of mypriorities since last year they werecompiled approximately everytwo weeks, and were seldom ac-cepted by The Tech, and if ac-cepted, were not printed.

In conclusion, I would like toinquire how Mr. Haft planned tobe able to show- "the managerialside of the intramural sportsprogram" while never having at-tended an Intramural ExecutiveCommittee meeting wheremanagerial problems and deci-sions are discussed. nor havingbeen a manager himself. Perhapsif he had held such a position, hewould have more respect forthose who put the time and effortinto making the IM programwork.

Philip A. Zylberman '80IM Hocke~y Manager

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pointment and anger at therelatively large number of con-flicting activities which are listedfor [AP. I realize that everyperson is not expected to be in-tcrested or have time to go toe,,ery class, and obviously someconflicts are not avoidable.However, as I look through theIAP Guide. and notice the largenumber of activities which Iwould like to attend, but whichoccur at the same time, I cannotescape the impression that most

of the classes and seminars werescheduled for the convenience ofthose who are putting them on.There should be a concerted ef-fort, and~ we certainly deservesuch an effort, to coordinate theactivities so as to minimize con-flicts. I admit I know nothing ofthe difficulties involved in such aneffort, or even whether it hasalready been attempted, but suchan effort to improve the situationwill certainly produce betterresults for us than no effort at all.

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Concerts duringIAPBy Drew Blakeman

UWhile I was back home over lAP. one ofthe many interesting and varied things I didswas to attend several rock concerts. In this,the inaugural column of ranmblin' I willreview the three concerts I saw, all of themat the Capital Centre in suburbanAWashington. DC.

Mv first concert this IAP was Kiss onDec. 20. Kiss was. well. Kiss. They are theultimate costume band, and their highlyelaborate siage show takes precedenice over

their music in concert. They weren't at alldisappointing to someone who knows whatthey are like - they delivered everyvthingthat was expected of them.

The most interesting aspect of this showwas the crowd, undoubtedly the youngestaudience I have ever seen at a concert.Many parents took their children to seeKiss. probably not knowing exactly whatthey were letting themselves in for. Some ofthem left quite disgustedly in the middle ofthe show. but most managed to stick it out.A few of the "oldsters" seemed to enjoy theconcert quite a bit. but most seemedrelieved when it was over. All the nine andten year olds really enjoyed the show,though. Then again. the music is aimed atthat age group.

This concert wasn't too high on enter-tainment value: I had seen the stage showonce before. and their music is performedmuch better on records (after the soundengineers get a crack at it) than it is live.The opening act, Piper, was the pits,although they were not much worse thanthe average non-talented opening group.

The second concert I saw wasAerosmith. two days later. It was by far themost disappointing of the three. I had ex-pected so much more from Aerosmith,hoping that they had improved con-siderably from last year's tour, which was abomb. I was wrong: they were worse.

Lead singer Steve Tyler's voice is ab-solutely shot. It sounds like he's sufferingfrom a terminal case of laryngitis. Tyler'svoice was somehow made to sound normal(at least for him) on Aerosmith's latestalbum, Draw the Line. but those electronicmiracles can't be used live.

The sound was exceedingly bad, theworst I can remember at a concert. It wasamplified and distorted literally beyondrecognition, so much so that several timesduring the show it was impossible to tellwhich song the group was playing. It wasthat bad. Aerosmith's opening number,Back in the Saddle Again, was easily their

best that night. and the concert wentdownhill from there. Aerosmith is a primeexample of a group which builds up a goodreputation through a few excellent albumsand a well-received national tour, and thenrides on its reputation at the expense offurther artistic development.

The opening act, Golden Earring. wasclearly the superior band. Styx was to haveperformed. and I was looking forward to-seeingthem again-after having seen them atthe Orpheum in November. But their

drummer, John Panozzo,developed pneumonia,and Goiden Earring wascalled in as a last-minutereplacement. Their per-

formance was much crisper thanAerosmith's. and lead singer Barry Haywas infinitely superior to Tyler. His voice ispowerful and penetrating. and is as good asany in rock music today. Golden Earring'smusic is classic heavy metal with a par-ticularly strong beat, and the group per-forms it well. Their one legitimate hit,

"Radar Love," was the best performednumber of the evening by either group.

My third and last IAP concert was TedNugent on Jan. 5. More than 22,000showed up at the Cap Centre that evening,virtually a capacity crowd, so many thatpeople were forced to sit in the obstructedseats behind the stage. This was the best ofthe three concerts, both in the quality ofthe performances and the crowd's responseto the music. Ted Nugent had the audienceon its feet and clapping for most of his act.The instrumentals were superb - therewas an electricity present that is rarelyfound in concert. The audience got caughtup in the spirit of the performance, andmade the music seem even better than itwas.

It was slightly surprising that CatScratch Fever, Nugent's current hit off thealbum of the same name, was played asearly as it was - the third number in theconcert. This song has the potential tobecome his first hit on the national level,although he has already found someregional success. He also anrinounced that alive album from this tour will be releasedsometime in February.

The backup groups were Point Blankand Golden Earring (again). Point Blankplayed first, and started off on a bad foot.Their first two numbers were pretty bad,but they improved considerably after that.Golden Earring was as good as they hadbeen two weeks earlier, possibly a bit bet-ter. They performed virtually the same setthey had done previously, but it wasshortened by slicing out a few of the songsin the middle of their act.

4* The Turning Point, starring AnneBancroft and Shirley MacLaine, written byArthur Laurents. produced by Herbert Rossand Arthur Laurents, directed by HerbertRoss. introducing Mikhail Baryshnikov andLeslie Browne, featuring the American Bal-let. Theatre. A 20th Century Fox production.

By Kathy HardisThe Turning Point is a beautiful piece of

entertainment if one enjoys watching theballet. However, dancing is the movie'sprimary emphasis; the plot, which is notdeveloped to its fullest potential, appearsto be only secondary in importance.

The story centers around two oldfriends, played by Anne Bancroft andShirley MacLaine. Twenty years earlierthey had both been prima ballerinasrehearsing for the same starring role.MNacLaine fell in love and left to get mar-ried and raise a family, while Bancroftremained in the ballet for "nineteen curtaincalls" and a lonely starring career.

After their lives took separate paths theymeet again, still haunted by old rivalriesand jealousies. This recrimination climaxesin a short fight outside of Lincoln Center,but the scene should have been longer andthe build-up bigger. The continuity of thiscentral theme is continuously being brokenby stunning, yet irrelevant dance se-q uences.

The action of the film is also interruptedby a sub-plot concerning MacLaine's teen-aged daughter. played by Leslie Browne.She is a fledgling ballerina with the talentto follow Bancroft's path, yet is temptedinto an affair with the company's youngRussian dancer (Mikhail Baryshnikov).This echoes the past complexity of hermother's decision to give up her career for

love, but that parallel is also not sufficient-ly developed.

MacLaine's and Bancroft's perfor-mances are both very notable despite thescript's occasional weaknesses, andalthough Baryshnikov's acting is almostnon-existent, he makes 'his amorous inten-tions towards Browne quite clear, and hisdancing is unsurpassed.

The ballet sequences, both on and offstage, are the movie's finest points. Theyare filmed at angles which would rivalthose of any Degas ballet painting, and theclose-ups of dances, both in rehearsal andin performance, show -the highly perfectedskills necessary for the ballet not alwaysevident to the ordinary viewer.

If ballet and its technical aspects areyour forte, this film should not be missed.If you are willing to sacrifice a better-developed complex storyline to see thatwhich most people would pay $15 a ticketto see at the American Ballet Theatre. TheTurning Point offers you front row seats.But if you want a more poignant andrealistic script for what could have been anexcellent story, you should think twiceabout seeing a movie with unfulfilled plotpotential.

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MOVIESSaturday Night Fever - Good dance se-quences, but pretty mediocre other thanthat. And on top of it all, the music isdisco. Cinema 57.Magic Movies III - Some interestinganimation, mostly foreign. Off the Wall.Close Encounters of the Third Kind -Cinema 57.

AROUND MITStrat's Rat - Cheap beer, and themusic has been improving. There was apretty good crowd last Friday. Probablyworth dropping by. Friday, 8:30-2am inthe Sala.

LSCFantastic Planet - An unusual fantasyfilm with mediocre though interestinganimation. Probably worth seeing, es-pecially if you like fantasy. Wednesday,7 and 9:30 in 26-100.

What's Up, Doe - A hilarious film setin San Francisco and starring RyanO'Neal and Barbra Streisand. Some ofthe chase and slapstick scenes will leaveyou rolling in the aisles. Friday, 7 and9:30 in 26-100.

Lawrence of Arabia - A powerful epicfilm about T. E. Lawrence, theenigmatic British army officer whoserved under General Allenby againstthe Turks in World War I. Everythingabout the movie is spectacular - theacting by Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif,Alec Guiness, and others, thecinematography, and the music. Don'tmiss this one. Saturday, 5:30 and 10 in26-100.

&uaster Keaton Festival - Sherlock Jr.,The Electric House, The Blacksmith, andThe Goat. Shorts by the funniest, interms of straight comedy, of the silentmovie actors. He was the star of TheGeneral which LSC showed in Kresgelast year with organ music by JohnKiley. Sunday, 7 and 9:30 in 26-100.

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The other MIT win was byBruce Wrobel '79, who won hisbout against Coast Guard 11-5.There were a number of othermatches in which the Engineerscame close to winning but couldnot pull off the victory. CoachWil Chassey said that by nextweek the team would be in shape,and that Harvard and CoastGuard were two of the best teamsin New England.

Harvard coach Johnny Lee ad-mitted that Coast Guard earnedtheir victories, and that Harvard'swrestlers had to concentrate onfinal exams as well. "Coast Guardwon the tight ones," he noted,and had three pins against Har-vard and two against M IT ontheir way to the team title.

16, to finish first in the competi-tion. In the other match, Harvardshut out MIT 50-0 to take secondplace.

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member of the varsity fencingteam. )

The MIT fencing team edged astrong Army squad, 14-13,January 6 at Harvard. A halfhour earlier. the West Pointershad defeated Harvard, the teamresponsible for MIT's loss in theseason opener.

The meet was close all the way;the first round ended with thescore 54 and the second roundended in a 9-9 tie. The Armycadets fenced an extremely ag-gressive game, with which theMIT sabre squad could not cope.The fencers were runningvigorously up and down. andeven off the strip into the wall.The directors had to position peo-ple at the walls to try to preventthe fencers from being injured.Tom Stefanick '78. who won thefirst of only two MIT sabre vic-tories, commented, "It was acompletely different game."

The foil and 6pxe squads,however, posted 6-3 wins to driveMIT to a one point victory. Cap-tain Mark Smith '78 was in fine

form, defeating three Armyfoilists convincingly. GeoffPingree '80 contributed two foilwins to the cause. Top Ep&eistJohn Rodrigues '80 remained un-defeated for the season, whileBrian Wibecan '79 picked up twoip&e wins.

Coach Eric Sollee commentedthat the foil squad was "ourstrongest weapon, and wasstarting to fence up to par. Healso reiterated hopes of anEastern foil championship. Solleesaid that the sabre squad was"shaky," while Rodrigues feltthat 6pee was developing somedepth.

The next varsity meet will beagainst Dartmouth on Saturday,January 21, at 2prn in duPont.

IIMonday

Varsity Basketball vs. Tufts atM IT ............... 8:15ppm

ThursdayWomen's Varsity Basketball vs.Eastern Nazarene at MIT .7prn

FridayVarsity Track vs. Lowell at MIT............. .... 5:30pm

Varsity Swimming vs. BostonCollege at MIT .........66pm

SaturdayVarsity Wrestling vs. Amherstand Albany State at MIT iI amWomen's Varsity Fencing vs.Dartmouth at MIT ...... IpmVarsity Fencing vs. Dartmouth atM IT .................. 2pmVarsity Gymnastics vs. Dart-mouth at MIT .......... 2pmWomen's Varsity Gymnastics vs.DVrtmouth at MIT ...... 2proVarsity Squash vs. Stonybrook atM IT .................. 2pmV-,rsity Hockey vs. Maine

)rtland-Gorham) at MIT 7proVarsity Basketball vs. Bowdoin atM IT ... ........... 8:15pm

SundayVarsity Pistol Free Pistol andStandard at MIT ........9am

TuesdayVarsity Hockey vs. FitchburgState at MIT ........... 7pm

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Freshmen avengedin MIT Field Day

By Gordon HaftMany years ago, many being arbitrarily defined as more than twenty

or so, there was not an IM sports program at MIT as today. Whatprograms existed were both smaller and less organized than' theirmodern counterparts. What those students did have, however, wasField Day.

Field Day was an institution which dated back into the early years ofMIT, or Technology as it was then called. It dated back to even beforeMIT moved across the river from where it was Boston Tech. The.modern" Field Day was a competition between the freshman andsophomore classes which originated in 1901. Earlier, there had been anactivity called the Cane Rush. In this activity, the freshman class wasgiven a large cane which the sophomore class tried to get away fromthem. In 1900, however, "the unconscious body of Hugh Moore '04was found wrapped around the cane, and although he was removed im-mediately, all efforts to revive him were unsuccessful."

The following year. the first Field Day to be called by that name washeld. Eventually, it encompassed a number of activities, including aglove fight in which each team tried to wrestle gloves from their oppo-nents. These events were taken very seriously until their decline in thelate 1950's. Teams had coaches and practiced for weeks before the bigday. Field Day predictions and results were banner headline items inThe Tech. Field Day was a big event in the lives of freshmen especially.Before the day, "kidnapping" of class presidents and an assortment ofother hacks designed to embarrass or otherwise inconvenience theother class were committed by both freshmen and sophomores.

Today people complain about how freshman shower night is"demeaning to their character." I can't helpbut wonder how they would have reacted tothe situation presented in the following whichwas published in a 1956 issue of The Tech:

"On Thursday afternoon I was walkingacross Harvard Bridge when several cars stop-ped, and over twenty sophomores descended

on me. Seeing resistance was hopeless, I signalled the freshman I waswith to run. and resisted until he had escaped.

"Once I was in the car. I was held securely, and the car %ras drivenout to Brookline. where I was blindfolded, bound. and transferred toanother car. I was then taken to an apartment near Fenway Park. Mycaptors said that as long as I made no attempt to escape they wouldtreat me as well as possible under the circumstances. They also saidthey desired my presence at the Sophomore muglift.

"For dinner I was taken to a drive-in where I was given a steak din-ner. After dinner I was taken to a Harvard dorm. Also present at thedorm were three Harvard students apparently recruited to help hold meby the fearful sophomores. At this point escape seemed impossible.However. I began to complain that I could not study well in thecramped dorm room. Finally, to silence my protestations, my captorstook me to a library. There I wrote a note which said: 'Help. I am anM IT Freshman being held prisoner against my will. Can you help meescape?' After I had studied a while, it was decided to return me to thedorm. On the way out, I slipped my note to a man who was either ajanitor or a Harvard proctor. He stopped us, asking what the notemeant. While the people with me gagged, I turned and ran. I ran out onMemorial Drive, where I jumped in front of a car. When they stopped,I opened the door and leaped inside, crying for them to go. go, go.

At first the three Harvard students in the car thought I was eitherdrunk or insane, but finally I convinced them that I really was the presi-dent of the MIT freshman class, newly escaped. After this the guy in thecar put me up for the night and offered me full hospitality. In the morn-ing, I called Dwayne Burnson. the Freshman Inscomm Representative.After Dwayne had taken his quiz, he picked up Art Shallock, the vice-president. and drove out to pick me up where I was staving. JoeVenderber. the Secretarv-Treasurer. had apparently disappeared, asDwayne could not find him at this time. Then we drove down to NewYork. Friday night we sent the poor, frustrated sophomores atelegram, which said, 'Sorry we missed your party. Were unavoidablydetained. Wish you were here. Signed: Executive Committee,Freshman Class.'"

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