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drive collected 1392 pints ofblood, a decline from lastspring's total, according toMarian Tomusiak '77, chairmanfor the drive.

Despite organizational diffi-culties and poor publicity, 1589people showed up to give blood

A regular meeting of thefaculty will be held tomorrowat 3:15 pm in 10-250. In-cluded on the agenda areplans to discuss and vote onremaining recommendationsof the Ad Hoc Committee onGrading.

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By Michael GarryThe MIT Chapter of Pi Kappa

Alpha (PiKA) can become coednext fall, according to the officeof the Dean for Student Affairs.

The dean's office approvedPiKA's petition for ¢oedity lastweek, and said the fraternitycould admit female studentsstarting next September.

PiKA members hope to per-suade 5 undergraduate woynento join the Cambridge fraternity.Letters have been sent to allfreshman, sophomore and juniorwomen living in dormitories ask-ing them to consider joining thefraternity. Letters have beensent to all freshman, sophomoreand junior women living in dor-mitories asking them to considerjoining tle fraternity, and point-ing out, that among other things,PiKA is less expensive than anyof the dormitories. PiK.A alsoplans to accommodate five ign-coming freshman women.

Despite their reservationsabout coed living in independentliving groups, which include thefraternitieland Student House,members of the DSA officegranted PKA coed status becauseit has displayed "strength andstability" during the past year,.said Ken Browning '66, AssistantDean for Student Affairs. -

"It's harder . to evaluatecoedity in independent livinggroups than in dormitories,where there are faculty and grad-uate residents," he said. "But wehave had a better feeling about itthis year and so we decided thatit was the right time for PiKA togo coed." He added that thefraternity's request for coedstatus was turned down last year"because we weren't as confi-dent of their situation then."

Ken Shultz '77, a member ofPiKA, explained that 2 years agodisunity in the fraternity led the

DSA .office to believe that itwasn't prepared for coedity.However, he noted, this problemhas long been resolved and thefraternity is now "as stable as itcould be."

Members of PiKA have want-ed the fraternity to become coedsince it was founded 5 years ago,Shultz said, although they haveonly officially requested coemityduring the past 2 years.

The members feel that coed-ity would create a "healthier andmore natural" atmosphere in thefraternity, Shultz said. "Any in-teraction we now have with girlsis very strained," he said, "and itis easy to develop a sexist atti-tude. Living with women wouldreduce the unnaturalness and re-mind us that women are notreally any different from men."

'Shultz admitted that it maybe difficult to find five under-graduate women interested inmoving to PiKA. But he pointedout that under the present hous-ing system, women students arevirtually restricted to the dor-mitories, having only three inde-pendent living groups (Delta Psi,Epsilon Theta, and StudentHouse) from .which to choose."We offer another alternative,"he said, "which is very muchunlike the other three." Head&-ed that although there is noofficial deadline for finding thewomen students, "we'll knowwithin a few weeks from re-sponses to our letters whetherwe'll be able to jet them ornot."

Browning said that the mem-bers of the DSA office are reluc-tant to allow fraternities to be-come coed because they have"slight reservations" about thesuccess of coedity in indepen-dent living groups to date andfeel that some fraternities ap-proach coedity "in a superficialway."

In a meeting of about 500 faculty and students held last Friday, Parviz Payvar, Dean of the EnergyDivision of Aryamehr University in Iran, defended MIT's program to train Iranian nuclear engineers,saying that M IT wil I be the Iranians to help themselves.

society, to discuss the Iranianprogram, which has been strong-ly criticized since it was firstrevealed two weeks ago.

The Iranian program pro-vides for a total of up to 54Iranian students to receive Mas-ters Degrees in Nuclear Engineer-ing over the next three years.MIT is charging a special tuitionrate of about $10,000 per stu-

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Under the terms of the accep-ted proposal, Iran will send upto 27 students to MIT in June tobegin intensive training in Eng-lish, with optional training in

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By Mike MeNameeMIT's proposal to train 54

Iranian students in Nuclear Engi-neering during the next threeyears has been accepted by theIranian governmient MIT officialsannounced Friday.

Dean Alfred Keil of theSchool of Engineering toldabout 500 MIT students andfaculty that the Iranian govern-ment had accepted- MIT's finalproposal, and that the new pro-gram would start in June.

Acting Head of Nuclear Engi-neering Kent Hansen, who hadjust returned forn Iran, said hehad interviewed about 50 Irani-an students and had found 23whom he felt met MIT's admis-sions standards. He said that theIranian government might con-tinue to submit applications totry to raise the number of stu-dents participating to 27.

Keil and Hansen spoke at aseminar sponsored by ChiEpsilon, an engineering honorary

By Margaret BrandeauSen. William Proxmire (D-

Wis.) charged that MIT's Innova-tion Center is "wasteful" of tax-payers' money.

Proxmire, chairman of theSenate Appropriations Commit-tee which has been conductinghearings on the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) budget,claimed Friday that the Innova-tion Center "Is in the dubiousbusiness of using taxpayers' dl-lars to turn out inventions, mostof which accrue to the stu - -dents."

Proxmire complained that"all patent rights for these feder-ally supported inventions accrueto MIT" and "65 percent of theroyalties go to MIT, 35 percentto the student and none to theFederal Government, which paysthe bill."

The innovation Center, operating on a five-year grant fromthe NS'F for -a total of$1,125,000, currently involvesabout 100 MIT students.

In response to Proxmire'scharges, Professor Y.T. Li, Direc-tor of the Innovation Center,said- that only when a studentreceives more than $500 supportfrom NSF does the Innovation

Center get any royalties fromthe invention. Awry student candevelop his or her invention in-dependently, using non-NSFfunds, he said, and then does nothave to give MIT royalties fromthe invention.

According to Dean of theSchool of Engineering Alfred H.Keil, the money from NSF is"seed morrey," used to make thecenter self-supporting.

Proxmire also charged thatthe products of the InnovationCenter are of "questionable ben-efit." As examples he cited amachine that peels bananas, arecord turntable which can rear-range the order of cuts on analbum, and an-electronic guitarwith strings which can be indi-vidually controlled for volumeand tone.

Keil responded by saying that"the fact that Senator Proxmirefinds some of the inventions oflittle interest to him does notmean that they are of no valueto the individual students, toengineering educators, or to thenation." He went on to say that"what may seem frivolous toSenator Proxmnire is quite seriousto many other Americans if mar-ket data are to be believed."

Keil said that many usefulinventions have come out of thecenter. Among these, he listed acounterfeit gold detector, a pro-fessional darkroom timer, and acontrol system for heating andventilating operations.

"Our primary objective," ac-cording to Li, "is education. Weare not an invention factory."Keil added that Proxmire "seemsto misunderstand the purpose ofthe NSF innovation program ingeneral and the operations of theMIT Innovation Center in partic-ular."

Keil said that "engineering-educators desperately need thiskind of understanding of theinnovation process and how wecan teach it effectively." Hebelieves that America has a greatneed for what he called "innova-

-tive, inventive engineers.""High technology products

have provided this country's cut-ting edge in foreign trade inrecent decades," he noted, say-ing that "There is concern thatour rate of innovation is slow-ing."

Senator Proxmire periodicallyissues statements attacking wastein both military and scientificestablishments.

More than ]300 people each gave up a pint of their blood in thisyear's spring blood drive.

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The drive attracted 719 walk-in donors, who had not madeappointments in advance. Thiscompensated for the small num-ber of appointments that weremade, which Tomusiak said wasdue to the lack of direct solicita-tion of employees and dormi-tory residents.

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Background discussedPresident Jerome B. Wiesner,

speaking at the meeting, ex-plained that the program was "inline with what we've been doingfor many years now."

Addressing a mostly-criticalaudience of about 500 MIT fac-ulty and students, Wiesner said,"We've long been educating stu-dents from underdevelopedcountries.-- Iran can expand on amore rapbid basis now, and so weare -expanding -their programsaccordingly.'

Negotiations on the programbegan last July after the' Iraniangovernment contacted MITabout a number of educationalprograms, Keil said. The choiceto send almost 30 . students,which necessitated setting up aspecial.program, was also madeby the Iranians,-Keil said. .- "We made it clear to themthat their students would haveto meet MIT's standards for ad-mission and degrees," Hansensaid, adding that the students hehad interviewed -were- "highlyqualified."

Program attacked -The program came under at-

tack, however, from many of theparticipants at the seminar, whocondemned the government ofIran as dictatorial and repressive,and charged MIT with "compli-city" in helping Iran get nucleartechnology.

"The Shah (of Iran) wants touse the nuclear power he gets tostop liberation movements any-where in the Gulf (of Persia)area," a member of the MITAssociation 'of Irarian Studentssaid. "While the conditions ofIranian peasants gets worse, the

-Shah is out buying reactors toimprove his own power."

The student, who refused togive his name, said the Iraniangovernment was "corrupt, dic-tatorial, repressive, and reaction-ary," adding that "every weekthere is a Kent State in Iran."

Another Iranian, VisitingAssociate Professor of Me-chanical Engineering ParvizPayvat, Dean of the EnergyDivision of Aryamehr Universityof Technology in Tehran, de-fended the program. "Sometimeago, Iran was receiving aid fromAmerica, and many Americanswere arguing that instead of

giving away aid mroney, America should help countries to developthemselves," Payvar said. "Now "we are in a position whe e wedon't need aid. We need help indeveloping our technology, andthis program will help."

Payvar said that Iran hadnever been an aggressor nation inworld- affairs, and 'thiat, as a

signator to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran wouldnot develop nuclear weaponswith the technology they weregetting.

"The program with MITshould be thought of as a short-term program to help anothernation, not financially, but tohelp itself,' Payvar said.

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By Michael McNameeMIT students at last week's

hearing on the proposed-gradingreforms were treated to an un-expected pleasure when theywere told by one professor,"MIT is a professional school,not a learning experience."

No one has recorded what theimmediate response to that ob-servation, made by Professor ofBiology Bernard Gould was; atleast one student, however, wasobserved to be still in a state ofshock two days later. MIT, he'dalways thought, was an educa-tional institution, a "universitypolarized around science," aplace where young minds cameinto contact with older, wiserminds for an experience in edu-cation that would leave all betterfor having been there. How he'dbeen told by one of those older,allegedly wiser minds that MITwasn't anything at all like that -it was a school for ordinarypeople to go in order to become"professional" at some skill ortrade or art.

Professor Gould may be for-given for his statement; as ad-visor to pre-medical students inBiology he no doubt must sharethe twisted view of educationthat seems to be required offuture medical people. What can-not be forgiven is the idea thatseems to be spreading through-out the faculty - or at least, thefaculty that shows up at facultymeetings - that the Instituteshould be run to accommodateviews like this, and even toencourage students to join inthis destructive, anti-humaneperspective on education.

As an example, take the pro-posal of Professor of ElectricalEngineering James Meicher, whotold that same hearing that heintended to introduce a motionto cut freshman Pass/No Creditback to one semester, from itscurrent two. His reason? Itseems that freshmen aren't learn-ing the material in the uppercIasscourses they are taking in Elec-trical Engineering well enough tosuit Melcher without the pres-sure of grades. Freshmen are alsobecoming sophomores, Melchersaid, with "poor study habits,"whatever those might be.

What Melcher and his EEcolleagues don't seem to realizeis that there is no reason in theworld for a freshman, usuallywith three more years of studyahead of him, to be taking thoseupperclass courses. FreshmanPass/Fail, and its successor,Pass/No Credit, weren't estab-lished just to enable freshmen toget a head start on being profes-sional grinds. They were estab-lished to help freshmen explore,try out a variety of fields, dis-cover interests, and adjust to thepace and workload of MIT grad-ually.

It seems hard to believe thatpeople like Melcher, Gould, andAssociate Professor- of ElectricalEngineering Stephen Senturia,(who proposed the now-

infamous plus/minus gradingsystem) are proposing their "ed-ucational" reforms less than fiveyears after the Commission onMIT Education recommendedestablishing a Division of Under-graduate Education, completewith a Dean, for devising waysto improve studens' general edu-cation in their first two years atMIT. The Division would spon-sor innovative programs, encour-age special classes for under-classmen, and concentrate on"general education" for stu-dents. Like most of the Commis-sion's proposed reforms, this onewas ignored; and now, only fiveyears later, the faculty seemsready to allow reactionairesamong them to drive MIT backto the state it was in in themid-1960's - a "professionalschool" for neat, well-manneredrobots to study for a few yearsso they could graduate, go outand make money, ten per centof which he would tithe back toMother 'Tute.

It's easy to follow Melcher'sreasoning to its conclusion. Ifsome freshmen are taking-upper-class courses in their secondterm, then some of them mustbe taking them in the first term,too! And those students probablyaren't learning the mater-ial to Melcher's satisfaction,either! And if bad study habitscan be nipped in the bud bycutting Pass/No Credit in half,think of what can be done bygetting rid of it altogether! Bythis logic, there seems no reasonwhatsoever to keep anything re-sembling freshman Pass/Fail any-where at MIT, except maybe forseniors, who have alreadylearned Good Study Habits.

There are, however, at leasttwo very good reasons for notdoing away with Pass/No Credit:

- Each year, many freshmenspend their first term adjustingto MIT, and their second termadjusting to themselves, their de-sires, and their wanrs. Thesefreshmen spend their first yearhere questing, looking around tosee what they want to do withtheir lives, changing majors everyother week, developing their per-sonalities and conceptions ofthemselves. In short, the firstreason is the freshmen who usethe breathing space given byPass/No Credit to grow andlearn.

- Many other freshmenspend their first year learningthe message that people likeMelcher and Gould are trying topush. These freshmen are takingthe core courses of the ElectricalEngineering curriculum - someof the most difficult, poorly-taught courses at MIT' I'm told- while they're still on Pass/NoCredit, so they won't be hurt bytaking them on grades. In short,the second reason is the fresh-men who use Pass/No Credit towork on becoming "profes-sionals" at getting through MIT.

It's hard to say which reasonis more compelling.

By John J. HanzelNo one around MIT seemed

to get too excited when WGBHannounced that its "Nova" serieshad found a student here whocould design a workable atomic-bomb. The fact that literaturedescribing all of the critical as-pects of bomb design is easilyaccessible has been widelyknown for some time. In fact,over two years ago; the "Back-yard Bomb Coordinating Com-mittee" sponsored an IAP build-your-own-bomb contest.

Admittedly, the BBCC wasnot serious, but the points it and"The Plutonium Connection"raised are deadly serious. Itreally is trivial to design anatomic bomb. Machining andbuilding one so that it worksproperly is another, more dif-ficult change, but one that cer-tainly is not beyond the meansavailable to any semi-industrialized nation.

The more important questionis that of the security of theplutonium produced by atomicgenerating plants around theworld. As the program showed,security in many instances isincomplete and ineffectualagainst attacks from without,and totally defenseless against

subterfuge from within, if a per-son is sufficiently determined.And yet the same questions ofsecurity have been raised timeand again for years (the BBCCmade reference to a 1969Esquire article, in particular).

The problems we face fromthe proliferation and abuse ofwhat was formerly nuclearwaste, is, in fact, a symptom of amuch larger problem. As society

advances to new heights of tech-nology, so too do the attendantproblems reach new zeniths.

Increasingly, scientists areprobing into areas which holdimmense promise for the well-being of mankind, but whichalso could conceivably be thePandora's box that will bemankind's final scientific .dis-covery. The problems of elimii-nating sulfur dioxide fromexhausts or soap suds from ourrivers pales greatly when com-pared with the difficulty ofcollecting and storing safely thevast amount of "nuclear sludge"that is produced in the UnitedStates alone - residue whichmust be kept safe for thousandsof years.

Because of this, scientists areincreasingly called upon todefine the - limits between re-search which can benefit man-kind and that which can destroyit, between freedom of access toscientific information and accessfor less-than-scientific purposes.- Researchers had, for a while,

declared a voluntary moritoriumon genetic research which in-volved altering the' basic struc-ture of chromosones, out of thefear that a mutant might escapefrom the laboratory and cause adevastatingly realistic version ofThe Andromeda Strain. Re-search of this type has resumedunder a new set of guidelineswhichl try to insure the world'ssafety by recommending thatsuch experiments be carried outonly on cells which could notlive outside of a test tube.

And yet, how does a re-searcher decide when to proceedin a given direction and whennot to, since a breakthroughmay lie just past the next ex-periment? Especially in acountry such as Russia, whichdoes not have the best ofreputations as far as freedom ofresearch is concerned, the choiceis hard to make. Dare a biologistsearch for a cure to cancer whensome unwanted by-product maybe turned into a weapon by theever-watching government?

Even more difficult is the.question of diseuination ofinformation. Should MIT trainIranians in nuclear engineeringwhen it is almost certain that theIranians intend -to join thosenations possessing nuclearweapons? The argument that "Ifwe don't do it, someone elsewill," falls when one views thequestion on a purely philoso-phical basis. One might as wellproclaim, "If someone is to beguilty, let it be us."

MIT is proud, and justly so,of its dominance in technicaland scientific fields. Leadershipimplies responsibility, however,and in this situation the res-ponsibilities are awesome. Notonly does a scientist today have

to be concerned wvith the directeffects of his project, but theramifications of advancing tech-nology and industrialization interms of the mental and socialwell-being of society have to beconsidered. All too often in theisolated atmosphere of a labora-tory the implications of a pro-

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Multics, MIT's computer time-sharing -systemn, has promptedanxious reactions among stu-dents, faculty, and administra-tors at MIT.

The. MIT Information Pro-cessing Service (IPA) may beforced to terminate the widely-used Multics system due to risingcosts and.increasing deficits (seeThe Tech, March 4).

"We simply are not taking inthe revenue to meet an expensebudget of $2.5 million," saidRobert Scott, Director of IPS."As a result, termination of theoverall Multics system must becounted as an option for us."

Scott acknowledged that ter-mination of Multics would beseverely felt in certain quartersof the MIT community.

"There are many things thatare unique to Multics," Scottnoted. "For those people or

organizations taking advantageof the unique aspects of thesystem, changing to anotherwould be a difficult and expen-sive proposition. Some of ourcurrent users simply couldn'tmake such a transition."

In addition to its effect onMIT users, the end of Multicsservice would also have a consi-derable impact on non-MITusers.

"It depends on how youcount, but it may be accurate tosay that about 407 of Multicsusers are not affiliated withMIT,"' Scott said. "These non-MIT users, some of them withvery substantial accounts, in-clude Honeywell InformationSystems, the University ofIllinois, and a variety of com-panies and universities in theBoston area. Termination of thesystem would present big prob-lems to some of these groups."

Scott denied that IPS is nego-

tiating with Honeywell to modi-fy the present system so that isis cheaper to operate.

"We've told Honeywell whatour problem is and we've askedthem for suggestions," he said."That's all."

John Klensin, of the Archi-tecture Department's OverlapProject, which is the largestpaying user of the Multics sys-tem, said that his project wouldbe severely affected by the totaltermination of Multics.

'"We think that the retentionof Multics is in the best interestsof not only ourselves, but of theentire MIT community as well,"Klensin asserted. "We likeworking with Multics here atMIT;"

"'We understand the difficultposition that IPS is in," Klensincontinued, "but Multics is vitalto us. It's a research tool offantastic potential."

Klensin said that if termina-tion of Multics were to comeabout, the Overlap Projectwould, in the short run, switchover to a Multics System opera-ting elsewhere. Eventually, hesaid, the project would adopt adifferent computer system.

Other reactions"I think this raises all sorts of

questions about how the IPS ismanaged," said one critic, "andabout just how fiscally respon-sible they are."

"It would be interesting tosee how the termination of Mul-tics might affect the ability ofHoneywell to market the sys-tem," noted another.

Joseph Dehn '75, chairman ofthe Student Information Pro-cessing Board, considers Multics"a valuable service to the MITcommunity" and feels that itstermination would be "a poorthing."

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* The spring academic midway willbe held in duPont Gymnasium (TheArmory) on Wed., April 2, from2:30-4:30pm. This is a good oppor-tunity for freshman and undesignatedsophomores to meet and talk withpeople from a variety of depart-ments, labs, projects, etc. For furtherinformation, call x3-6771.

* Dormcon will be holding an elec-tion for the position of R/O chair-person on Wednesday, April 2 at10pm in room 413 in the StudentCenter. If you are' interested in thispost, please speak 'to your housepresident on what this post involvesand show up at the meeting.

* Tickets for the Lecture by SamErvin to be held in KIesge at 8pr onTuesday, April 8, 1975 will be givenout free of charge by LSC on Tues-day, March 18 at l0amrn and Wednes-day, March 19 at Sprn in Lobby 10.One per person; MIT or Wellesley IDrequired.

* The Political Science Departmentis sponsoring an internship programfor MIT students who want to workduring the summer in a Congressionaloffice, executive department, orgovernment-related group in Washing-ton. The Department has a limitedamount of money with which to helpsuppet students' living expenses.Students who wish to be consideredfor such funding should submit anapplication to Professor JeffreyPressman in room E53-421(x3-2449)o The application consistsof an academic transcript, two lettersof recommendations, and a statementexplaining the student's job interestin Washington. Although studentsshould malke their own arrangementsto secure summer positions in Wash-ington, Professor Presman and othermembers of the Political ScienceDepartment will be happy to help byproviding suggestions of organiza-tions and individuals who might becontacted. Applucations are duebefore March 21,1975.

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* Thursday, March 20th the Har-vard Law School Forum will presentformer Senator Fred Harris of Okla-homa widely regarded as one of theleading contenders for the Demo-cratic presidential nomination.8:00pm in the Ames Courtroom,Austin Hall, on the Harvard LawSchool campus. Admission is $1.75at the door. °

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Fellow of the Harvard Institute forPolitics, will be speaking on the topicof "Personal Privacy in America."l:30pm Pound Building, Room 102,on the Law School campus. Admis-sion is $1.00 at the door.

* Monday, March 24th, the Har-vard Law School Forum will presentSenator Lowell Weicker of Connec-ticut, a member of the Senate Water-gate Committee, 8: 00pr in the AmesCourtroom, Austin Hall, on the LawSchool campus. Admission is $1.75at the door.

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and was responsible for the coupthat overthrew Makerios, as say-ing, "By a sudden onslaught, wewill exterminate the Turkishcommunity to the last person."

Cyprus's large Turkish minor-ity has long been afraid of domi-nation by Greelk Cpriots orattempts to achieve "enosis"(inion with Greece). A Coupagainst then-President Makarioslast July by Greek Cypriots wasbacked by the Greek junta.

The reaction to the coup ledto the fall of the Greek militarygovernment and a Turkish inva-sion of Cyprus.

Since the summer, the UnitedNations Security Council hastried ink.i to settle the issue,while the Turkish minority haspushed for a biregional govern-ment.

"The Turkish side believesthat international conferenceswill not solve the problem ofCyprus," Atalay declared. "Un-less the two mother countriesand the two Cypriot communi-ties think thoroughly, the prob-lem of Cyprus will not be solved.

- By Gerald Radack"Turkey intervened in Cyprus

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The Gospel According To Hfarvard Busi-ness School- Peter Cohen (Doubledayand Company; 331 pages; $2.25)

"The West Point of Capitalism" isone of the kinder nicknames for-theHarvard Business School, bastion ofscientific management and rationalbusiness techniques, the school thatturns -put more top executives, moremillionaires, more presidents of For-tune's Top 500 Corporatibns, than any ..other single institution.

Peter Cohen does not dwell on thepleasant nicknames for the B school,however. Cohen, a graduate of theschool's two-year Master of BusinessAdministration program, prefers tolinger on some of the more unpleasantaspects of the education of America'smanagerial elite. In doing so, he ex-

.poses many of the more unpleasant'-aspects of American education, andAmerican coporate society in general.

No one who reads this book willapply to Harvard B School withouthaving second thoughts. Cohen de-

scribes the pressure of working eightand ten hours a night, after classes, tocomplete three cases a day, with eachcase ranging up to forty pages. Suchpressure may sound familiar to MITstudents, but as Cohen describes the BSchool, the pressure is more intense,the competition more cut-throat, andthe stakes of the game higher than atany other school in the nation.

Besides discussing the causes of thepressure, Cohen delves into the rootmeaning behind the system of educa-tion that makes schooling so competi-tive. In a brilliant essay inspired by thesuicide of a B School student (re-printed in The Tech, Feb. 28), Cohenquestions the necessity of "competi-tive education," the need for creatingpressure on students when every stu-dent is needed to make whatevercontribution he can to solving theworld's problems. That essay alone isworth the price of the book.

By placing his fictional protaganist(all the names of Cohen's classmates,

and some of the biographical informa-tion about them, were changed in thebook) at Harvard during the time-ofthe 1970 anti-war-action, Cohenoffersanother perspective on the social use-fulness of an institution like the BSchool. Showing the student body andfaculty torn by dissent over the Viet-nam War, contrasting the HarvardSquare protesters.with the B Schoolactivists, comparing the recruitingprocess by which Harvard MBAs findtheir $18,000 jobs with the action inthe streets, Cohen raises fundamentalquestions about the role of business,and business education in solvingAmerica's problems.

Through his own eyes and those ofhis classmates, Cohen offers a usefuland interesting view of higher educa-tion in the Cambridge circuit. Anyoneinterested in attending the B schoolshould read this book; many peoplewho aren't planning on going therewould find it valuable for its insightson education and American society.

The Rape Of A *P*E - Allen Sherman(Playboy Press; 448 pages; $1.95)

The Rape Of A *P*E is the funniestbook to cross my desk since I joinedthis august institution. It is also one ofthe more thoughtful and incisive com-mentaries on contemporary Americarecently published. Sherman's humoris fabled; My Son the Folksinger, whenreleased was among the more quotedalbums, The Rape of A *P*E shouldwell establish his name as a savant.

Billed as the Official History of theSexual Revolution, Sherman's workcharts the rise and fall of the American*Puritan*Ethic. The finest writing inthe book is the adventures of Sap, anEveryman who watches the prehistoricrise of the institutions responsible forthe mess we are in - Class, The State,War. It is through Sap that Shermanoffers his solution. We can be saved bya free-loving anarchism, an abolition ofthe taboos that seperate us, and areturn to the blessed state of naturefrom which we supposedly started.

Despite its naivete, or perhaps be-cause of it, the solution is appealing.The composition is very fine. Sher-man, the shlock comedian, has left 'alegacy of gentle caring and naive wis-dom. I recommend this work highly.

Herblock Special Report - HerbertBlock(W.W. Norton; 225 pages; $7.95)

Herbert Block has been drawingcartoons about Richard Nixon sincethe California Crook first went toWashington in 1948. Herblock SpecialReport is a compilation of that cover-age. Taking Nixon's career from hisdays as a red-baiting freshman congres-sman stacking firewood around Liber-ty, until the full, complete, and abso-lute pardon pictured taping the recordof Watergate closed, the major thesisof Special Report is that Nixon reallydid not change in twenty years.

The cartoons have been a part ofmost of our lives for so long thatcomment on them is unnecessary. Thetest is reasonably well written foressentially a cartoon book. If y-_ liketo have this kind of memento moriaround the house spend the eightbucks, because it is good.

The MIT Department of Human-ities offers three prizes for under-graduate writing at MIT. These prizesare open only to MIT undergraduates.There is a limit of two separate entries,by one person, in each competitionand no single entry may be submittedin more than one competition.

The Ellen King Prize for FreshmanWriting is open to all categories ofwriting by freshmen at MIT. There is a$100 first prize and a $50 secondprize.

The Robert Bolt Writing Prize isopen to all categories of writing byMIT undergraduates. $425 is dividedamong several awards.

The Boit Manuscript Prize is opento works of substantial length. com-pleted or in progress. It is primarily forlonger works of publishable quality.There is an award of $200 offered.

The competitions close April 18,1975.

Copies of the rules are available in14N-409. Questions concerning therequirements for entries in any of thecompetitions should be directed toeither Joe Brown, for prose or fiction;or to Patsy C mming, for poetry ordramatic writing.

Alec Reid, a Beckett scholar andpersonal friend of the playwright, lec-tured Wednesday, March 12, to a smallliterary audience in 14E-304. The lec-ture was sponsored by the HumanitiesDepartment-and the Council for theArts. Reid's announced topic, "TheWorld and Art of Samuel Beckett,"gave him scope-for.anecdote and anal-ysis of Beckett as he pleased. Hispreoccupation with Beckett, the pro-phet of alientation and author ofWaiting for Godot, grew from his inti-mate familiarity with the Irish theaterand personal meetings with the authorwhich have given him an appreciationof Beckett's motivations and messages.Reid spoke first of the contradictionsof Beckett. His enormously variedliterary output reflectsrhis .ability toadapt to all media; his repulsive, some-times disembodied characters are yet

-humane portraits, most deeply he is "aman with a gift of language, whoseems hell-bent on destroying lan-guage."

Reid's close observation of the in-fluence James Joyce had on Beekettwas engaging. Reid's thesis is thatJoyce directly got Beckett to write.When they met Beckett was a school-teacher in Paris and had not begun hisliterary career yet. Reid also claimsthat Joyce was the source of Beckett'sdissatisfaction with words as a medi-um. He contrasts the manner in whichthese two authors resolve their dismayat the limitations of language: Joyceby inventing vast new languages,Beckett by trying to convey variedmeaning and emotion with as fewwords as possible. Reid pointed to anobscure monograph by Beckett onProust which rebutted the doctrine ofthe supremacy of reason and fear. Henoted that although Beckett has writ-ten novels in which the author wasomniscient, this evolution has beentoward what Beckett himself calls im-potence, representing the author's ina-bility to use words to communicateexperience.

Reid's straightforward, elegantlystyled lecture on these topics wasilluminating; his comments on Waitingfor Godot, however, were more heroworship. than critical enlightenment.The comments, though very warm,were somwhat predictable: "The char-acters in Godot cannot take action...because they do not know. Much ofyour life is like that - we cannot actbecause we are lacking information.""Beckett's theater (is) entirely bring-ing . us into zones of experience."Godot is -so widely seen and-played

,because it "'is so involving, it illumi-nates your own experience. Your com-ments on Beckett's plays are only onyourself."

Reid brought a warm personalapproach to Beckett's work's his criti-cism was not, however, always intellec-tually impeccable. Nonetheless, such apleasant gentleman and literaryarchivist is an asset to the small, ecleticliterate community at MIT., which isnot stimulated directly very often. Wewere surprised at the torpor of Reid's

audience. They listened; they scribblednotes and commented to their neigh-bors; at the end of the lecture a fewquestions were asked; no one, how-ever, took the opportunity to start anysort of argument with the speaker.When students are presented with alive critic with whom they can discussissues, they should stop worryingabout their notebooks and feel free tospeak. To provoke exciting literarydiscussion at MIT does not seem anunreasonable goal.

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The West Point of Capitalismby Michael D. McNamee

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By Glenn BrownsteinThe University of California

at Harvard (a Harvard-MIT grad-uate student team) and the Pro-vidence Turners captured thedivisional titles at the secondannual MIT invitational volley-ball tournament last Saturday atduPont Gymnasium.

UCH defeated its arch-rival,the Cambridge Volleyball Club,in the Division I final. The inten-sity of the competition was en-hanced by the strained relation-ship between the two teams,caused by the departure last fallof four Cambridge VBC mem-bers to help form the UCH team.

In Division II, Providencewithstood a strong challengefrom the MIT Volleyball Club todefeat the Engineers in the titlematch, 15-8, 7-1 5, 15-9. MIT,short of seasoned players (mostclub members are under-graduates with little or no ex-perience prior to coming toMIT) and without the services ofits powerful spiker Bob Keener'75, who played for UCH in thetournament, was not expectedto mount any challenge for the

divisional crown.However, retaining the rest of

the New England semifinalistteam and adding a number ofother players, the Club playedconservatively and consistently,compensating for a height disad-vantage with excellent place-merits and well-timed blocking.

Fourteen teams participatedin the tournament, of whicheight competed in the strongerDivision I, and six in Division II.

UCH and Springfield led Sec-tion A of Division I with 5-1records, while Cambridge VBCand Woonsocket (3-3) made theplayoffs from Section B. UCHdefeated Woonsocket (1974tournament champions) in threegames in one semifinal, whileCambridge outlasted Springfieldin the other three-game semi.

The MIT Volleyball Club ad-vanced to the finals by defeatingCape Cod, 15-8, in its semfinalmatch. Other Division II en-trants included Providence,Holyoke, Quincy, and Concord.

This year's Division I champi-ons, UCal-Harvard, derive theirunusual name from the fact that

Engineer spiker Frieer Krups '77 reache s to hit the ball over the net

Engineer spiker Frieder Krups '77 reaches to hit the ball over the netagainst Cape Cod. MIT defeated the Codders in the Division 1 semifinal before losing to Providence in the championship match.

most of' the team members'played intercollegiate volleyballas undergraduates at one of theUCal campuses. The combina-tion of experienced collegiatevolleyball and strong YMCA-calibre players has earned UCHthe top ranking in New Englandin only its first season of compe-tition.

As a result of its number-onerating, UCH will represent NewEngland in the Holyoke Memori-al Tournament, featuring topteams from all over the country,on April 15.

MIT's Volleyball Club willtravel to Attleboro, Massachu-setts on April 12 to compete inthe New .England YMCA cham-pionships.

By Glenn BrownsteinBy winning six events and

placing in three others, DeltaTau Delta won the IM Swim-ming championship, held Satur-day at the Alumni Pool.

Lambda Chi Alpha placedsecond and Baker House finishedthird in the competition, whichinvolved over one hundred en-trants from fourteen livinggroups.

In defending its 1974 title,DTD jumped into the lead bywinning the first event, the200-yard medley relay. Al-though Rob Colten '76 of LCAput his team out in front bywinning the 200 freestyle, suc-cessive victories by MarkThorne-Thomsen '76 (100 med-ley) and Jeff Bentley '76 (50freestyle) put the Delts-in frontto stay.

All three swimmers contribu-ted one more victory to theirrespective teams during themeet, while Alpha Tau Omegaswimmers took the other twomen's events, as Dave Martin '75won the 50 butterfuly and DaveMabry '77"won the 100 breast-roke.

The final event of the meet,the 200 fresestyle relay, wasmarred by two accidents, bothof which had a substantial effecton the race's outcome.

The first mishap took place atthe start, when LCA's startingswimmer fell of the startingblock in diving into the water

The MIT Volleyball Club's Bob Cassels G (24) spikes over a CapeCod block in tournament action Saturday as teammate SalvadorCaro G (left, glasses) looks on.

and lost several seconds thatmay have cost LCA the race.

At the timne of the accident, italso appeared to have cost LCAsecond place in the team com-petition as Baker House, despitenot having won an event goinginto the final relay, .led LCA44-39 in the runner-up battle onthe strength of two seconds andfive thirds.

The Baker team got off to astrong start in the relay andtrounced the field, finishing thecourse in 1:44.9, several secondsbetter than second place DTD.

Unfortunately, at the conclu-sion of the race, one Bakerswimmer, reaching down to con-gratulate a fellow racer, lost hisbalance and fell into the pool.There is a swimmingrule that nomember of a team may re-enterthe pool before the race is com-pleted (one team was still swim-ming at the time of the acci-dent), and therefore the mishapdisqualified Baker, and DTD wasawarded the victory.

In addition to the men's indi-vidual and team competition,women's individual competitionwas inaugurated in this year's IMmeet, with Kathy . Ruiz deLuzuriaga '78 winning the 100medley, Alicia Abels '78 takingthe diving title, and WendyWolfe '78 capturing the 100freestyle.Summary of Events:200 yd. Medley Relay: 1-Delta

Tau Delta 'I'; 2-Alpha Tau

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Omega; 3-Lambda Chi Alpha;1:58.7

200 yd. Freestyle: 1-Colten(LCA); 2-Tomn (EC);3-Anciaux (SC); 2:21.9

Women's 100 yd. IndividualMedley: l-Ruiz de Luzeriaga;2-Wolfe; 1:19.1

Men's 100 yd. Individual Med-ley: l1-Thorne-Thomsen(DTD); 2-Rosenkrans (PDT);3-Troiano (Baker); 1:05.7.

Women's Diving: 1-Abels; 79.50Men's Diving: l-Milne (PIT);

2 - J o h n s on (B aker);3-Djermakoye (Baker); 89.00

50 yd. Butterfly; 1-Martin.(ATO); 2 Wylen (TX);3-Mauel (DTD); 27.6

Women's 100 yd. Freestyle:1-Wolfe; 1:12.1

Men's 100 yd. Freestyle:1-Bentley (DTD); 2-Rogers(DTD); 3-Frank (Baker); 58.0

50 yd. Freestyle: 1-Bentley(DTD); 2-Hamburgen(Baker); 3-Frank (Baker);25.4

400 yrd. Freestyle: 1-Colten(LCA); 2-Sheldon (B3B);3-Jaynes (LCA); 5:21.5

100 yd. Backstroke: 1-Thorne-Thomsen (DTD); 2-Wylen(TX); 3-Hamburgen (Baker);1:07.3

100 yd. Breaststroke: 1-Mabry(ATO); 2-Twaalfholen (DP);3-Prey.(Russian); 1:23.7

200 yd. Freestyle Relay: l-DeltaTau Delta '1'; 2-Phi KappaSigma; 3-Lambda Chi Alpha'A'; 1:51.9

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