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By Ralph NaumanGraduate student funding re-

sources will not be seriouslystrained despite the 7 percentincrease in applications to theMIT graduate school.

According to Dr. Irwin Sizer,Dean of the Graduate Schooland Professor of Biochemistry,the graduate enrollment willonly increase by about 2 per-cent, and "support is going upmodestly" to compensate.

Sizer explained that graduatestudent funding is "almost allexternally supported." He des-cribed the funding resources:

- Research assistantships,which are paid from the Insti-tute's solicited research money,a fund of about $100 million.There are 1000 of these, pro-

iding funding for one-third of

the graduate students. In view ofincreased nationwide research in-terest, "we expect they're (thedepartments) going to be moresuccessful this year at gettingresearch money," said Sizer,"and the number of RA's willmodestly increase."

- Teaching assistantships(500), which are budgeted bydepartment. The choice in adepartment, said Sizer, "may bebetween three TA's or an assis-tant professor," and the depart-ment chooses. Although theInstitute finances TA's, "youcan't say a TA is gratuitous,"said Sizer, adding, "They're theones who really work blood andbone."

- Na tional ScienceFoundation Fellowships, whichconsist of 500 federally financedgraduate student stipends. MITusually gets around 15 percentof the fellowship recipients na-tionwide.

- The newly reinstalledNational Institute of Healthtra ineeships, which channelfederal money into "living sti-pend plus tuition" grants tograduate students in all branchesof medicine, biology, biomedicalengineering, etc.

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By Charlie ShooshanThe Admissions Office has

announced that 1670 highschool students have been admit-ted to the Class of 1978, due tostart at MIT this fall.

Lists of the admitted stu-'dents, in zip-code order, will bepublished Thursday afternoon;and will be available in Room3-108 at 1:30pm for studentswho wish to contact prospectivefreshmen in their home area.

-. 'mmunication between cur-rent MIT students and prospec-tive freshmen is one way ofhelping admittees decidewhether or not to come to M1T.According to Sandy Cohen,Assistant Director of Admis-sions, "Current student contactshave been most effective." Infact, Cohen said that one of themain reasons the list of admis-

sions is published at this time isto allow MIT students to consultthe list before going home' forSpring Vacation.

Cohen also noted that eachliving group may send a repre-sentative to sign for a copy ofthe admitee list. Since letters ofadmission go out Wednesday,students should refrain frommaking contact until Saturday.

With a class size of 1000 asthe goal, 1670 students (42% ofthose applying) were admitted,345 female. The ratios of admit-ted to applied for male andfemale are within one percent ofone another.

"We are concerned aboutminority admissions," Cohennoted, stating that it was dis-tressing that only 2 AmericanIndians applied this year. Six-teen Mexican-Americans (1 fe-

male), eight Puerto Ricans (4female), one American Indian(male), and seventy Blacks (29female) were admitted.

"The US Department ofHousing, Education, and Welfare(HEW)," Cohen stated, "is en-couraging minority admissions,yet the Massachusetts Commis-

sion Against Discrimination(MCAD) has said that informa-tion concerning race, color, orreligion should not appear onthe applications."

She continued, "Therefore,the admissions office does notask any direct questions to thisend."

By Margaret BrandeauDevelopment of communi-

cations skills is an importantpart of education. Oftenscientists and engineers findthemselves lacking in this areawhen they get out in the busi-ness world. MIT has been tryingto do something to remedy this.

Through the electiveScientific and EngineeringWriting (21.10), ProfessorRobert Rathbone tries to helpstudents with writing problemsthey may encounter, such as thewriting of theses, term papers,journal articles, and technicalreports.

"I don't think that studentsat M IT get as much help inwriting as they could," Rath-bone commented. When fresh-man composition was done awaywith in 1949 it was thought thatthe new core subjects wouldteach writing. Although students

do write in these courses, Rath-bone feels that "somehow theteaching of writing was lostalong the way."

"I do what I can," he added,"I offer an elective and help onas many fronts as possible."

Rathbone noted that as engi-neers progress further in theirwork, they realize the need forwriting skills. "Very few under-graduate students seek out acourse in technical writing, gra-duate students ask for such acourse, and engineers beg forone," he said.

For 21.10 his students do ashort piece of writing; they thendiscuss them in class.

One assignment his studentshad was to explain how a simpleelectromagnetic device works, tosomeone who had never seen it.One student wrote on how touse a telephone. "This soundslike a very simple, childish thing

Another assignment was toedit an actual manuscript writ-ten by a physicist at Arthur D.Little Co. Rathbone feels thatediting gives students an appre-ciation of the problems involvedin processing and communi-cation. "It's important to under-stand how people read things, aswell a how they write them," hesaid.

Students in the course prac-tice writing to differentaudiences. They also do oralreports, for Rathbone feels thatstudents generally do not haveenough chance to do oral re-porting.

At the end of the semester,students are required to do a

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from science courses as fromengineering courses. Under-graduates, graduate students,and frequently special studentsfrom industry take the course.

Rathbone is also involved inthe cooperative teaching ofwriting in technical courses. Theinstructor of the course has stu-dents read an article and writeon it. He grades-the papers ontheir technical content, thenRathbtone grades them on thewriting.

A consultant for people whoare writing theses, Rathbonereviews reports of all mechanicalengineering majors who are wri-ting their bachelor's theses. "Theidea is to give as much in-struction, as much help as pos-sible to people who are involvedin writing."

Through his various teachingprograms, Rathbone reaches per-haps 550 students each year."This is by no means a bigsplash," Rathbone said. He hassuggested that there be arequired course in technicalwriting, but says that the ideahas not gone over well.

(Continued from page 1)major writing project on somesubject which they haveselected. Many write on a spe-cialized topic from their field.One student wrote.-in detail onthe art of fencing. Another stu-dent conducted a survey of whatcompanies require of their engi-neers in terms of writing. Theproject can be in the form of ajournal article, a documentary

film, TV script, or a newspaperscience article.

Rathbone then holds con-ferences with individual stu-dents, discussing their projects."I think," he said, "that face-to-face instruction is as helpful asany other kind, perhaps evenmore helpful in some cases."

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Such was the scene last Thursday evening as a group of abouttwenty students applied their interest, creativity, and expertise tothe first taping of MITV news.

MITV staffer, Mike Thomas '74 said that the weekly videotapednews shows were to feature news of interest to the MIT community.Friday's program included such diverse items as interviews with KenBrowning on coed housing, and James Killian about his experiencesas Presidential Science Advisor.

MITV also had film coverage of Daniel Ellsberg's recent speech atMIT, and a special filmed report on streaking at Harvard. A sportsreport featured the MIT fencing team in action (both true-to-life andslow motion).

Although MITV made its debut on only one monitor in thebuilding seven lobby, Thomas indicated that long range plans call forrunning cable all over-campus to various viewing points. "At onetime we planned to put on shows twice a week, but that probablywon't happen for a long time," he said.

Last weeks show marked the culmination of planning which datesback almost a year. "The first inklings of MITV," said CraigReynolds '75, Production Supervisor of MITV, "were toward theend of second semester last Spring. The idea sort of germinated overthe summer."

According to Thomas, MITV is an educational experience. "Wetry to keep it unstructured," he said, "so everyone has a chance todo what they want to. We won't have it down to routine for a longtime."

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By Barb Moore"Film making is not nearly as

difficult as writing an opera,"and, according to Ricky Lea-cock, Professor of Architecture,that may be one reason that hisfilm making course enjoys suchpopularity.

Leacock teaches his filmclasses in building E-21, which,if you can find it, is the filmsection of the Architecture De-partment. "We're sort of isolatedhere, but there is a move tochange that," Leacock comr-mented. "We'd like to convertthis whole area into an artsarea," he continued, "along thelines of Harvard Square."

Before he came to MIT, Lea-cock had a film company withD.A. Pennebaker, and madeseveral commercial films. They"got into a lot of trouble be-cause we were taken over by abusiness type," and soon afterleaving the company Leacockcame to MIT. While with Penne-baker, the company made suchfilms as "Monterey Pops," whichserved as a model for many of

the rock music films to follow.Looking back at it now, Leacockremembers that the theme songof that movie, "something aboutSan Francisco and flowers inyour hair was about on a parwith 'White Christmas.' " Thatwas the time of the flower move-ment, and although he was moreinterested in documentary films,Leacock considers "MontereyPops" successful.

How did Leacock get fromthe flower movement to MIT?"Wiesner asked me what MITcould contribute to the art offilm making, and I thought thatwas an excellent way to ask." Soabout four and a half years ago,LIeacock joined the then sixmonth old film section, whichwas begun by Edward Pincus,Associate Professor of Architec-ture.

Leacock was soon part of aresearch team, studying the poss-ibility of developing inexpensiveequipment to shoot soundsynchronized film. At that time,an eight millimeter sound synchcamera cost around $15,000,

and Leacock hoped to reducethat price to around $1000. "Wehoped to develop a whole sys-tem for $4000-camera, editingequipment, recorder, everything,but it ran closer to $8000." Still,there is a camera which is nowmass produced for $1500, and itis light and inexpensive enoughthat it can be used for moreimaginative purposes.

One student of Leacock'stook a camera on board a Texa-co oil tanker, and did somefilming for the Sierra Club."You could never take one ofthose hideously expensive mod-els for something like that,"Leacock added, "It would bethrown overboard or some-thing. "

Now, Leacock's attention hasturned toward the practical useof the "super 8." Four of thesystems have been sold to educa-tional TV stations, who usethem "to do what they woulddo anyway cheaper." Some ofhis students' works have beenaired, and although "it has usu-ally been at 2:00am," the sta-tions have been generally coop-erative.

Leacock is interested in find-ing people who want to use filmin relation to their outsideknowledge, "rather than trainingan army of technicians." AtMIT, Leacock has been success-ful in this goal. Here he actuallyhas people involved in the tech-nical end who are making filmnsthemselves.

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After super 8, Leacock isn'tsure what he will do. He is surethat it will be "something much

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By Storm KauffmanIf you look through this issue, and at

this column, you will probably come to-my conclusion that we are beating thissubject to death. As I've never been oneto miss an opportunity to beat a subjectto death, I'll accept this chance to con-sider a somewhat auxiliary idea.

First, while I applaud the proposal toeliminate the overly bureaucratic humani-ty requirements, i do agree with thecontention that the "humanistic" fieldsare of great importance. However, I nar-row that even farther to what I wouldterm "communications skills."

Working on a newspaper' (as an editoryet), I have to spew out a good deal ofcopy per week. In other words, a substan-tial demand is placed on my meagerwriting skills. But, because of this need toproduce much verbiage, I have becomevery much aware of the importance ofdeveloping writing techniques.

Unfortunately, it is in this area ofdeveloping people's ability to communi-cate that the Institute seems to 'fail. Partof the difficulty lies in convincing mostof the students that writing will play avital role in their careers, be they inscience or engineering or humanities.

In fact, one of the "recruiting" gim-micks that The Tech has stressed in thepast is this growing interest of big busi-ness in people with proven communica-tions skills. Honestly, this has becomeincreasingly important for those in tech-nical fields because of the necessity ofletting others in your own field and inother areas know what has been accom-plished. A garbled technical report isworse than none at all.

Believe it or not, not everyone whocomes to MIT can write (haven't I provedthat?). I have heard numerous complaintsfrom professors and students who have todeal with written material. They statethat they receive reports (and even pre-liminary theses) with abominable gram-mar, amazingly imaginative spelling, lackof organization, and most -of the otherthings that your high school English in-structor used to yell about.

Some professors have made an attemptto work with students on their writingproblems. The Humanities Departmenthas several writing courses - one intechnical writing, several in fiction andprose, and a freshman option that stresseswriting (most other courses, while re-quiring written work, do not offer anysort of critical advice on style).

Mechanical Engineering has tried tointegrate writing instruction with a labcourse by critically evaluating students'reports and recommended in the past thatthose who took another lab take a writingcourse in Humanities. Over IAP a NuclearEngineering group worked to prepare astyle book to be used by students work-ing on theses in the field.

Clearly, the faculty are interested, butthe enrollment in these classes is usuallynot large. Students must realize that thekey to success in their career is becomingincreasingly dependent on their ability tocommunicate their bright ideas to theircolleagues and bosses. In our hierarchicalsociety the prime method of conveyingthese ideas is by the written word, andtomorrow's scientists and engineers willhave to learn to communicate clearly andconcisely by this method.

It doesn't mean that you have to loin anewspaper (but you might consider it),but you should think about what good isdoing an experiment or developing atheory if you aren't capable of communii-cating tlle results to outsiders.

the Institute thinks they should have..Most people would probably agree

that no student should graduate fromcollege without any cultural knowledge,knowledge of literature, history, or philo-sophy, or of any of the other liberalinfluences which the humanistic facultywould like to foster. But with increasingnumbers of students coming to the Insti-tute well-grounded in- humanities fromhigh school, is. it really necessary torequire that they take three or four morecourses, as has been suggested in the past,in the same are-as? And even if -it isnecessary that they ha ve more educationin values, are history, literature, anthro-pology, and foreign literatures the onlyfields that can imnpart that knowledge? Idon't think that either of those questionshave to be answered yes. Althouigh thefaculty's assumpt ions have been provenwrong in th e past (for instance, theassumption that MIT students alreadyknow how to write -see the column tothe left), I don't think that any morecompulsion needs to be added to thestructure of the Institute requirements.Hopefully, the committee that will beestablished by the new proposal will beable to regulate the list of Distributionsubjects and ensure that MIT students doget a liberal education -hopefully with-out having them notice it.

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By Mike McNameeNews Editor

Tomorrow afternoon, if all goes asplanned, the faculty will vote on thefuture of the Institute requirement inHumanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts.This vote, the end product of a longprocess of study, revision, writing andrewriting, will set the broad outlines ofhumanities education at MIT, if not forever, than at least a long time.

Whether or not the number of peoplepresent will be sufficient to -really settlean issue as important as this (although thefaculty has probably settled move impor-tant issues with fewer members than willbe present. tomorrow), the process thatwas started by Dean of the School'of

.Humanities and Social Sciences HaroldHanham when he came to MIT last Junewill be finished, and a new requirementwill take effect next September.

There is no quick and easy way to sumup the proposal in a few words (for proofof that, see the reams of material thatThe Tech has already printed trying toexplain it). The latest document, theproposal that will be presented to thefaculty tomorrow, is essentially the sameas the proposal presented at the Februarymneeting, with changes being made to thePreamble of the requirement to set forthmore specifically the aims and objectivesof the requirement.

Since the faculty tends to respect thehard work that goes into the drafting ofproposals that come before it, it can beassumed that the substance of the re-quirement will not be modified too muchat the meeting. But the amendments andchanges that might be made could have aprofound effect on the directions that thenew requirement takes when it is imple-mented.

The most basic controversy that hassurfaced in the revision of the old require-ment has been between the humanists inthe school, especially in the literature andhistory sections, and the social scientists.The humanists have maintained that thepresent distribution requirement does notstress such desirable educational goals asthe study of values, the importance ofinteraction in small classes, and the im-portance s:of writing. Several times duringthe writing of the requirement, the facul-ty of literature and history have proposedthat specific language be written into theproposal establishing the primacy of the

humanistic fields, especially in the distri-bution subjects (which are presentlyfreshman and sophomore subjects).

The final proposal takes some of theseobjections into consideration. -The pream-ble of the requirement states that theobjectives of the program in Humanities,Arts and Social Sciences are: "to develop:(i) skill in communications . . . (ii) Know-ledge of human cultures, past and pres-ent ... (iii) awareness of concepts, ideasand systems of thought that underliehuman activities; (iv) understanding ofthe social, political, economic and legalframework of our society; and (v~sensi-tivity to modes of communication andself-expression in the arts." Whether ornot the humanistically-inclined facultywill regard this language as sufficientremains to be seen; there were amend-ments proposed at the mleeting of .thefaculty in February that would go farbeyond this in specifying the areas fromwhich the Distribution subjects could bedrawn.

Tiie debate here seems to be fairlybasic: are humanities subjects the bestway, or even the only way, to impartliberal education (or, in MIT's case, aliberalized education) to a student? Thefaculty members who have proposed therestriction of Distribution subjects to thehumanities seems to feel that MIT stu-dents, given a choice between "The Wes-tern Tradition" and "Principles of Eco-nomics," will choose to take the socialscience course and ignore the "soft"humanities. There is a lot of justific'ationfor this idea; one could argue, for in-stance, that the sudden increase this yearin freshman enrollment in Philosophvcourses is due to the fact that two of thethree philosophy courses offered forfreshmen are " Logic, Language, and -Sci-ence," and "Science and Philosophy."What right-thlinking MIT freshman couldpass up a chance to take some sciencewith his Humanities?

The idea behind having a humanitiesrequirement at all Is to say that studentsneed to be coi-pelted to add a liberal-artscomponent to their education at MIT.Should this component be strictly liberalarts, or should a student. be allowed toslip some math and science into it? Thefaculty members that have been pushingfor the restricted Distribution subjectsseem to feel that an added element ofcompulsion is necessary to make sure thatstudents get the kind of educationn that

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For this reason, we ask that all ourefforts now be devoted to healing therifts that have occurred, and that weattempt to put aside the personal rancorthat the untimely article in The Tech andthe accompanying disclosure of Judcom'sefforts may have generated.

As always, we are available to anyonein the house for discussion of any prob-lem.

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pertinent aspects of the research wasnecessary in order for Ellsberg to makeclear the very relevant and importantimplications this research had for thequestions of authority and obediencewhich were raised by the Vietnam war,which, like the originally scheduled title,was "a topic that the releaser of thePentagon Papers should certainly be ableto address well." The "few" people thatstayed for the question and answer periodafterwards amounted to about half of theoriginal audience, or about 500 people.

In sum, then, if McNamee wishes toexpress his disagreement with the way theSCC handled the lecture, that's certainlyhis privilege. He certainly had some legi-timate grievances. But when these objec-tions degenerate into childish frustrationand vilification of a distinguished speak-er, they are unpardonable. Whether ornot one agrees with Ellsberg's politicalviews, he certainly had many interestingthings to say, and his remarks seemed tobe very much appreciated by the vastmajority of the audience.

Jim Adams '77Steve Tobin '77

Ellsberg lecture IIITo the Editor:

The right- to know, as Daniel Ellsbergspoke of it, is on privilege which re-mains essential to the upkeep of a trulydemocratic society. Unfortunately, I donot feel that Michael McNamee's column,concerning Ellsberg's MIT lecture (March15), served the best interests of thisliberty, or of those who support it. Yourassertion that the lecture was a flop mighthave been a completely legitimate argu-ment - if it had been supplemented bycorrect facts and well founded views. Inyour article I found neither.

Your "facts" are highly debatable.You write that "most of the back sec-tions of the hall were sparsely populatedat best, and lots of seats went begging,"and go on to say that many people got upand left during the course of the lecture,and only a few stayed for the question-and-answer session afterwards. Though itis true that at lecture's beginning therewere a number of empty seats in theback, many of these filled as Drs. Menandand Ellsberg gave their opening remarks;certainly, the crowd's size increased, andnot decreased as the talk progressed. Itwas my observation that almost half theaudience remained for the questionperiod. So even using The Tech's con-servative estimate of 1100, that stillleaves 500 or so people, which seems tocontain more than "a few."

Much more importantly. though, I amvery concerned with the argumentsthrough which you founded your con-clusions. For instance, you speak of thelack of any "stirring address like the onehe [Ellsberg] gave here three years ago."I ask you to reflect back to that speechEllsberg made on the wake of his rise tonational recognition. At that time hespoke to an overflowing crowd, receivinga standing ovation at his introduction; hespoke of what he had done, and why he

felt it was important. Think for a mo-ment - perhaps the excitement then wasindeed stirring, but was he relating a trulyimportant or meaningful message for hisaudience to understand, or was he justtelling an extremely friendly crowd whatthey wanted to hear? How could he knowso soon what the significant effects orimplications of what he had done wouldbe? How could he know the true extentof what he had revealed?

You then speak of his lack of "memor-able lines" and "interesting comments oncurrent affairs." What true weight is therein memorable lines? - one lesson weshould all learn from Richard Nixon isthat such speech, laden with thick frost-ing, might well be just a glorification ofnothing, or worse yet, a cover for some-thing completely different. No, insteadthe importance should lie in what onebelieves, and asserts through well thoughtout argument.

You cite Ellsberg's explaining "theresults of some behavioral research thateveryone had read about a week before inTime, never coming within I 00 feet of histopic." How can you be so shortsighted?The findings he spoke of were right inline with his whole point, with everythinghe argued in justifying his revealing of thePentagon Papers. He couldn't have stres-sed the Milgram experiments enough -for I feel, expecially in the light oftoday's dilemma of which Ellsberg spoke,that these are perhaps the most importantsocio-psychological findings produced inrecent history.

I think your slanderous remark thatEllsberg's was a "rambling, ill-preparedaddress . . . that any bright I 5-year oldcould have discovered" was an unfor-tunate one for you to make, especiallysince it seems that you have not achievedthat discovery. For his argument wasneither rambling nor ill-prepared, and wasreceived at its close be a standing ovation- reflective, this time, of what Ellsberghad to relate, rather than of a "tribute tothe appeal of a big name."

The tone of this rebuttal is admittedlyharsh, but, I feel, rightfully so. For I amquite uneased by what I read. and seehappening in our government. You wereangered by the treatment of the press bythe Student Center Committee judgingfrom your argument, quite justifiably.But to let this overshadow the impor-tance of the message I heard in KresgeAuditorium is sin.

Ellsberg's final point was that, allowedto hear the two sides of the coin fromequally respectable sources, we are betterable to judge authority. We would notthen be blind to the direction in which weare being led, acting in the mindlessmanner so well depicted by Milgram. TheNixon Administration attempts to getaround the right of which Ellsberg speaks,by keeping secret 'real intent and action.Thus, this is a crucial time for all of us totry to open up the eyes of those aroundus. Perhaps then, the Orwellian horrors,which Daniel Ellsberg describes as reali-ties in today's government, will not re-occur.

Scott Cooper

Feminis mTo the Editor:

As a feminist, I have been heartenedby the continuing news of various effortsto advance the roles of women at MIT.Likewise, when I received a request lastyear from the Sloan School to help theminterest women and minorities in their1974-75 Sloan Fellowurs Program, I waspleased to respond. I sent them the namesof two young executives who I thoughtmight be interested. Both are women; oneblack, one white.

Recently one of them said to me,"Thanks for giving them my name. Takea close look at the application form I justreceived."I read it; I didn't believe myeyes. It asked the applicant's maritalstatus and then "If married, wife's firstname - ." It asked for the applicant'sfather's name and occupation but askednothing about the applicant's mother.Toward the end, it said "If married,please ask your wife to write her ownstatement regarding this program andmoving to the Cambridge area." AndFinally, it asked for four references, one:f whom should be "A person who<nows you and (if you are married) yourwife as individuals in the community."

Was this some sort of test to see howmuch more crap an aspiring career~'oman will put up with? Or, are the:eople who run the Sloan Fellows Pro-,ram just insensitive and unaware? Or,was the whole idea to show the world thezig welcome mat outside their front doorwhile failing to note that the door was;ecurely bolted from the inside?

John HI. Holly

Ellsberrg lecture IFo the Editor:

Michael D. McNamee seems to thinkhat one of the main flaws of the lectureriven by Daniel Ellsberg was the way itvas arranged by the Student Center~ommittee. His main complaint was thevay the press was treated by the SCC.?he SCC aparently decided that theyvere arranging a lecture for the M ITtudent body and not the world-at-large.The world has had ample opportunity to[ear from and about Ellsberg.) Sub-equently, the press were not given front-ow-center seats. To this. I say - fine!oo many times have I seen the press

ake up the best seats at concerts, plays,-ctures, and other non-serious newsvents. These events are primarily plan-ed for those people who come in persono experience them, not for the (admit-:dly much larger) group of people who,ad about the events the next week in aagazine.' If a person goes to all the

rouble of shelling out his own money forrock concert (for example) and waiting

i long lines, etc., then he should have at,ast the same chance of getting the best,at in the house as does some news,porter whose paper supplies him with a-served ticket already paid for.

With regards to the front row reserva-tions for SCC members at the EllsbergLecture, perhaps the head of that com-mittee should consider making its goalseven nobler by not only offering a fresh-man a chance at a seat (by refusing toplay patsy for the press), but by offeringa freshman a chance at the best seat (byrefusing to grab it himself).

Finally, the only circumstances inwhich "special seating privileges" seemjustified are 1) in the case of someonewho has worked very hard to bring theevent about and 2) when the event isnewsworthy, in which case the press (orbetter yet, a single press representative)should have reservations. To allow one ofthese groups special privileges and not theother is rather hypocritical. Therefore, atthe Ellsberg lecture, a few (3-5) goodseats (not best seats) should have beenassured for those SCC members most-responsible for this lecture and for re-porters from the campus newspapers (theonly papers which could truly considerthis event worthy of first-hand coverage).

Scott W. Roby '76

Ellsberg lecture lITo the Editor:

Re Mike McNamee's article on theEllsberg speech, in The Tech of March15:

Certainly one of the legitimate func-tions of a journalist is to present editorialopinions on current events of interest tohis or her readers, and we are not going toattempt to answer McNamee's incisivethree-sentence analysis of Ellsberg's ad-dress. However, we would like to answerthe blatant factual inaccuracies which arepresented as to the audience's reaction tothe speech, (inaccuracies which seem tohave arisen in the heat of Mr. McNamee'spersonal vendetta against certain mem-bers of the SCC.) According to thearticle in question, "he left them yawningin the aisles." Evidently McNamee was sobusy yawning that he missed the standingovation lasting several minutes at theconclusion of the speech. Granted, a fewpeople left during the speech, but thisseems to be nothing unusual when oneconsiders the tremendous time demandsplaced on many members of the MITcommunity - demands which often con-flict with special activities. How manyweeknight lectures have ever taken placeat MIT without a single member of theaudience having to leave during the lec-ture due to prior commitments?

As to the subject matter, supposedly"everyone" had read-about the researchEllsberg spoke of in the previous week'sissue of Time. HIowever, when Ellsbergasked the audience how many were at allacquainted with the research, only a veryfew hands were raised (which makes onewonder how McNamee reached his con-clusion and presumed to speak for theaudience as a whole.)Consequently, asomewhat detailed explanation of the

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He has just made a film of"various friends eating softboiled eggs," and another recentfilm involves himself taking abath. "I'm interested in the sub-jects that you couldn't filmwhen movies had to cost$100,000," he added. "Whatwas the subject mater of pre-photography painting?"

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Leacock sees the film sectionas the "photographic, film, visu-al aspect" of the Architecturedepartment. When asked aboutits inclusion in that department,Leacock noted that it "makesmore sense than the Chemistrydepartment."

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