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Billy Joel's latest album, 52ndStreel.is somewhat of a disap-pointment for fans of hisprevious work.

The men's fencing team, aftera disappointing opening lossto Harvard, won two of threemeets in a trip to the NewYork area.

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The formation of a facultycommittee to act and advise theMIT Corporation in the selectionof a new president for the In-stitute- will be announced at thenext faculty committee meeting,scheduled for December 13, by"Robert I. Hulsizer, Chairman onthe Faculty.

According to Paul Lagace CG,who was appointed to the Cor-poration Joint Advisory Commit-tee on Institute Wide Affairs (C-JAC) last October, there will bethree committees involved in theselectio-n of the new president.The CJAC and the faculty com-mittee will act as advisory boardsto the eight member CorporationCommittee which the MIT cor-poration appointed at its quarter-ly meeting on Decmeber 1.

CJAC is a committee com-prised of five students, five cor-poration members, and fivefaculty members. The committeeserves as a -liason between theMIT community and the corpora-tion. By presenting the views ofthe students, employees, andfaculty to-the corporation, CJACprovides perspective for the Cor-poration whose decisions affectthe MIT community.

The faculty committee andCJAC wiii ultimately presenttheir recommendations to theCorporation Committee which, inturn will present its recommenda-tions to the Corporation.

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which has been decided y et." Headded, "It is not clear as towhether the CJAC can make anyspecific recommendations. Wewill be actively soliciting advicefrom the general community andI will be very willing to talk to any

-students on the presidency as towho should be considered andwhy he should be considered."

Lagace emphasized that "C-JAC does not make the final deci-sion. This is the responsibility ofthe Corporation." The ultimateaction of the CJAC will be tocompile a list of names to submitas recommendations for the posi-tion- from which President JeromeB. Wiesner will retire in June,1980.

"The committee (CJAC) has nospecific issues that it has to dealwith from year to year. It dealswith topics that the corporationand committee feel affect the M ITcommunity" stated Lagace. TheCJAC members have not yetdefined their role in the choosingof the new president. Accordingto Lagace, "this is not something

Light rain today under cloudyskies with an ..offshore wind.Highs in the mid to upper for-ties. Scattered rain tonightwith an occasional thunder-storm, lows in the forties. ForSaturday, rain continuing ear-ly in the day with warmtemperatures. Highs in themiddle fifties to near sixty in-land. Rain ending by Saturday'night or early Sunday morn-ing. Lows in the upper thirties.rFor Sunday, drier and cooler,with temperatures in the for-ties.Rain probability eighty per-cent today and tonight, sixtypercent Saturday, thirty per-cent Saturday night.

.By Richard SalzThe" Program Planning

Group/Client Team, led by As-sociate Dean for Student Affairsin Charge of Housing RobertSherwood and Director of Hous-ing and Food Services EugeneBrarnmer, has been charged toprepare a report with suggestionsand ideas for the structure of thenew dormitory to be built in theTang parking lot. Two other ad-ministrators are also involved,Campus Architect Harry Portnoyand Bob Simha of the PlanningOffice.

The other members of the com-mittee are Julian Beinhart, NateCook, Bill Thilly, and Jim W4-iiamrns, all of the faculty; CharlieRohrs, Charlie Crespi, and StanMorse, graduate students; andSteve Forman '80, GeorgeLesiuetre '81, Tom Potter '79,Mark Stern '79, Robert Steinberg.81, and Jon 1McCombie '81, un-dergraduates.

Current plans call for the newdormitory to be finished andready for student use bySeptember of 1981, so the Plann-ing Group is under a tightschedule. "They originallywanted the report on January 8,but Dean Sherwood said thatwasn't enough time to get studentinput," explained DormConP-.;ident Potter, a member of thePlanning Group.

The Group's report will be the"principle source of information"for the architects and contractor,according to Simha. "After thereport is out, Gene Brammer andI will follow through and makesure the suggestions and recom-mendations are followed," ex-plained Sherwood. Sherwood alsointends to periodically report to

the student body on the status ot'the construction and how well theGroup's recommendations arebeing followed.

The Group has had onemeeting so far, an open meetinglast Wednesday, According' toPotter, no one but the -Groupmembers attended. The nextmeeting will be Monday eveningat 7pm in New House. Sherwoodemphasized the need for studentsto attend the meeting, especiallythose in New House since one ofthe charges to the Group is tostudy New House and analyze itsflaws.

New House has no dining hallor commons area. Rather, it has acentral arcade that was designedto bring the house together. Ap-parently it doesn't work. "There'sa lack of house unity. They can't

but he assumes that MIT willprobably buy land within a"reasonable walking distance" ofthe new dormitory. Potter andSherwood both named propertyoff Vassar Street as the likelychoice. Simha is also consideringre-allocating some of the existingparking spaces as well. He willalso have to find spaces for peopleto use in the interim to replace theTang lot while construction is go-ing on.

The only details set for the newdormitory are that it will be alow-rise, like New House, hous-ing 300 students. The Group willbe expected to make recommen-dations on every other aspect ofthe dorm's internal structure."The idea is to build a dorm thatgets rid of New House's flaws,"said Potter.

have a large party or housemeeting," noted Potter, addingthat he's not sure where NewHlouse's Monday meeting will beheld.

Sherwood agreed with the lackof unity, saying he feels NewHouse is more like six indepen-dent fraternities. However, he ad-ded, "I haven't heard a great dealof negative comments."

The Group's other majorresponsibility deals with parkingfacilities. The roughly 200 park-ing spaces in Tang lot that will bedestroyed by the construction willhave to be replaced. In addition,Cambridge zoning laws requiredone parking spot for every fourbeds, so an additional 75 spaceswill have to be created.

Simha is responsible for theparking. He has no definite plans,

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Similarly, the aience.of an athletic aftecoon (e.g.The Big Game) is another

ideal momentt , Downingthe mountains elevatesthe morale of the fan andX

hence, the teanL Therefore, if you care at all about

the outcome, it is your duty tomountaineer.

When should one notenjoy the iLnvigoration of themotretains? Here, you'll behappy to learTn the list ismuch briefer.

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aks th e gap I 'betweenamlateur arld . '-,aficionao. So thekey to successful mountaineer-ing is to choose the occasiornswisely and well. When, ther4 isit appropriate to slowly quaffthe smooth, refreshirng mountadms of Busch Beer? 5

Celebrations, of course, are both expected and ex- cellent opportunities totestyour mourm ntaineering mettle. Indeed, on major holidays it is virtualy:--

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Wasserman on the EditorialBoard which sets The Tech'seditorial policy.

Other elected Board membersare Night Editors Eric Sklar '81,Stephanie Pollack '82, and Jonvon Zelowitz '82; Arts EditorsJoel West '79 and David Shaw'81; Sports Editors Gordon Haff'79 and Bob Host '81; PhotoEditors Chuck Irwin '80 andSteve Solnick '81; AdvertisingManager Lynn Grabert '80;Contributing Editors John Hop-per '79, Gary Engelson '80, JohnGrunsfeld '80, Jardana Hollander'81, Leigh Passman '81, andMichael Taviss '81; and SeniorEditors Mike Brzustowicz '79,Brenda Hambleton '79, Lee Lind-quist '79, David Schaller '79,

David Thompson'78, and Rebec-ca Waring'79.

Four Associate Editor appoint-ments were approved by theBoard. They are Associate NewsEditors Gordon Hunter '80 andJay Glass '82; Associate NightEditor Marlon Weiss'80; and As-sociate Arts Editor Margie Beale'82.

The new Board members willassume their duties at the begin-ning of the Spring term. Theboard is the oldest in many yearswith nine seniors, ten juniors,eight sophomores, and only twofreshmen. It is also one of themost experienced with 19members of the current Board onthe new Board.

Special to The Tech .Steve Frann '80 was elected

Chairman of The Tech forVolume 99 by the members of theoutgoing Volume 98 Board in theannual election meeting held lastSunday.

Frann heads the first all-juniorExecutive Board since 1972.Frann will be joined on the Ex-ecutive Board by Editor-in-ChiefTom Curtis, Managing EditorKaty Gropp, Business ManagerPandora Berman, and ExecutiveEditor Bob Wasserman. The Ex-ecutive Board will supervise theoperations of The Tech.

William Cimino '80 and KenHamilton '81 were elected NewsEditors at the meeting. They willjoin Frann, Curtis, Gropp, and

World - - -Americans evacuate Iran - Diplomatic forewarnings of ;bigtrouble" caused US business firms to begin bringing homeemployees and their families on Wednesday. Violent outbreaksstemming primarily from protests agaist Iran's military govern:rnment were expected to culminate Sunday with the public self-flagellation of thousands of Moslerns. In the meantime, Presu-dent Carter reiterated support for the Shah and announced plansfor a National Security Council study on Iran.

INd atiionalUnleaded gas price hike loorms-- Alfred Kahn testifiedWednesday before the congressional Joint Economic Committeethat if price regulation is causing a shortage of unleaded gasoline,then higher-priced gas is the only alternative to long lines orrationing. Kahn, chairman of the Council on Wage and PriceStability, is President Carter's chief inflation fighter.

Lo:caIFirm exploits no-bid bonanza- Persil ConstructionCompany of Roxbury has collected a large portion of hundredsof thousands of dollars in no-bid contracts awarded by theBoston Redevelopment Authority. Most of the contracts werefor emergency tasks or projects worth under $2500. -They weretherefore exempt from guidelines requiring publicly advertisedbidding. Nobody has charged legal wrongdoing in the affair.

-Lenny Martin

cles placed into storage. Thesereceipts should be retained, asthey will be required in order toreclaim property stored.

Larceny at RunrkleThe wallet of a student living in

the Runkle section of SeniorHouse was stolen from the desktop of her unlocked, unattendedroom late in the evening Wednes-day. It was later recovered, minusthe cash. Around the time of thelarceny, other Runkle residentssaw a stranger wandering aroundthe upper floor corridor near thevictim's room, but unfortunatelyhis presence went unreported un-til after the theft had been dis-covered, by which time he hadvanished.

* They must be completely con-tained in sealed boxes or cases.* The boxes or cases must beclearly marked with the owner'sname, term address and expecteddate of return.

Articles may be placed into ortaken out of storage during thehours 8:30am to 4:30propm, Mondaythrough Friday, not includingholidays. All items will be storedat Campus Police Headquarters(W31-215).

Storage space will becomeavailable at 8:30arn, Monday,December 18, 1978. All itemsmust be reclaimed by SecondTerm Registration Day, Monday,February 5, 1979.

Receipts will be given for arti-

An investigation into thedisappearance of valuable In-stitute equipment has led to theEast Campus area. Officers willcontinue to pursue their leads.

Christmas/lAP StorageAs in past years, the Campus

Police will make available storagespace for students absent from thecampus over the Christmas vaca-tion and/or lAP, who have small,valuable property to store(stereos, TV's, etc.). Due to aserious shortage of storage space,the following guidelines will beobserved:* Items to- be stored must bereasonably small (No bicyclesplease!).

* Freshman evaluation forms are dueon Friday, December 15. Instructorturn in deadline is Tuesday, January2.* Many foreign students planning totravel outside of the United Statesduring the holiday/vacation periodwill need documents to return to theUS for their Spring studies. Studentsanticipating such travel are urged tovisit the Foreign Student Office, 3-107, to insure that they possess thenecessary documents for travel.* Bell 'Laboratories: Summer,Researchn Program for Minorities andWomen: This program offers womenand members of minority groups op-portunities for technical employmentexperience at Bell's reseairchlaboratories in Murray Hill, Craw-ford Hili, West Long Branch, andHolmdel, New Jersey. Students whoapply should plan to be available forat least i0 weeks starting in early Juneand normally should have completedtheir third year of college. Applica-tions must be received by January 31and may be picked up in Room 3-136or by writing directly to: Administra-

tion, Summer Research Program,Room 3A-433, 100 Mountain Ave,Murray Hill, N.J. 07974. Further in-formation can be obtained from DeanJeanne Richard, Room 3-136, ext. 3-4869.* Acclaimed playwright EdwardAlbee will speak on "The PlaywrightVersus the Theate" as part of theBoston University Distinguished Lec-ture Series on December 11. The lec-ture will begin at 8pm in MorseAuditorium, 602 CommonwealthAve. Admission is free with a BostonUniversity [D and is $2.00: for thegeneral public, who will be admittedonly after 7:45pm.

SCIENCE vs -MATHImagine identical basketball playing

twins in identical space ships travellingat 0.9c and closing on each other directly

;so their closing speed is 1.8c relative or0.99c relativistic.

Each twin would observe the other

twin's clock is running more than twiceas fast as his and the -other's space shipis less -than half as iong but has overtwice as much mass. According to Eins-tein each twin notices absolutely nochanges in his own space ship or clock.When each twin stands on the floor orwall and'spins the ball on the end of hisfinger the other twin sees the ballshortened only in the space ship's direc-tion of motion no matter what spin theball is given.

Imagine we rapidly switch the twinsback and forth between the space ships.How many switches would they makebefore they conclude mass does not in-crease with speed, time does not run

faster or slower or an object does not getsmaller. These things only APPEAR tochange because of relative motion andthe finite speed of all forces at a dis-tance; An accelerated charged particledoes not get more mass as it is ac-celerated it simply becomes more dif-ficult to control from a fixed source suchas we have in ALL accelerators.

For details see page 151 of 12 Oct.78 New Scientist, page 8 of 23 Oct 78Princeton Alumni Weekly, page 107 ofOct 78 Physics Today or send SASE to:JW Ecklin. 6143K Edsall Rd.. AlexandriaVA 22304. If you want to collaborate ona physics textbook or a magazine articleplease advise.

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As a sophomore who, while not' probably reach the most people inon the Ring Committee, has been the short time remaining beforeclosely involved with the recent the meeting. The sign went up atRat controversy, I would like to 2:00pm and was taken down atcomment on several things. 6:30pm. Students were invited to

First, the poster that started the come to the meeting if they wereconfusion: as co-author, I would concerned, because the meetingslike to set the record straight on had never been designated asits purpose and actual content. "closed."' Also, they were invitedWhen I learned on Tuesday after- to call Lori Ullman or Tomnoon that the final vote on the Chang - as Class Pres. and VP,designs would be taken that even- respectively, we felt they were theing, I was very concerned that no first ones who should be con-attempt had been made to take tacted. I agree that they shouldany sort of large class poll on the have been contacted in referencequestion, especially since the sug- to the use of their names, and Igested change was such a major apologize to both for not doingone. I was told that the members so. However, I-was extermely dis-of the committee had personally appointed when, on Tuesdaygone around with pictures of the evening, Lori complained sonew design, but i could not vehemently about the fact thatbelieve that nine people would some students had actually beenreach a large enough percentage interested enough to call-her, es-of the class in the one day they pecilally after she had stated thathad allotted for that purpose afternoon that she welcomed class(Monday night was supposed to opinion.be the final vote meeting, but the The poster has been accused ofcommittee decided to get opi- being biased, '"grievously mis-nions on Tuesday and then vote leading," "geared toward thoseagain after the Monday vote who strongly opposed the treebecame deadlocked at 4-4). t sug- design," and of implying agested the poster as an attempt to general class vote on the issue, allget more opinions - any opi- by someone who had never seennions- on the matter. Volume it. I now submit the actualof replies was the goal, and we wording - please judge for

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Committee is deadlocked on thefinal design choice for the 1981Rat. The issue: The traditionalbeaver with sticks (signifying us asengineers. . . building a dam rn... )or the beaver gnawing -on a treetrunk (signifying us as -beginningengineers ... taking down a tree... ). What do You think? As some

concerned soph's, wefeel the Com-mittee is not paying enough atten-tion to class opinion - after all, wehave to wear the ring also - notjust the Committee. So expressyour opinion - come to thefinal-vote meeting tonite - 7pm --McCormick Lobby. Or call LoriUllman ('81 Pres.), x5-8448;: TomChang ('81 VP), xS-9493.Thanks!"

But enough of the initial poster;I would also like to address someof the public criticisms of theposter survey taken last Friday.Of most personal concern are Ms.Ullman's indictments of thedrawings used- as representativeideas of the "tree" and "twig"versions. As the person who drewthem - no, as the person whotraced the tree sketch and thebeaver for the twig sketch directlyfrom the picture taken--around by

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o Pltbut be sure to spoon -feed me on asemester of personal expression tobe followed by "a concise butrepresentative survey ofliterature, drama, and modernthought." This last, one assumes,in a nine-credit subject offered atseven in the evening.

For students interested in aserious experience of humanitiesthere are many first-rate subjectsavailable without duress.Something of the spirit of the oldHumanities Requirement is aliveand thriving in' the offereingslisted under the Western Tradi-tions program. There are also agreat many fine' subjects inliterature and history and foreignlanguages. Of these, I hope I willbe forgiven for mentioning2 1.1 IO, in which I teach. This in-troductory subject includes worksby Homer, Sophocles,Shakespeare and Tolstoy. I'mconfident many students will findit nourishing. It is taught on theprinciple, familiar to students ofscience and engineering, thatprofessors establish the syllabusand that students follow it.

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I could barely contain my excitement as I waited for the last pas-senger to get off the plane from the West Coast. On it, I knew, wasTran Sfur-Yee, the first exchange student from China to attend MITfor almost thirty years. and 1, although only a sophomore at the In-stitute. was to be her guide for the First semester here.

There she was!! Rather short in stature with short black hair andsmall wire-rimmed glasses, she had an intense expression ofstudiousness. In short, she looked like a herd. But I was soon to be

proved .wrong."Hello," I said, "I'm

Jim, your guide at MIT.Welcome to the United

' States."A fter exchanging

greeting and other for-malities, we left the airport and prepared for her first tour of the institu-tion which she and her government had chosen for her studies.

Walking through Building 7, Tran and I spotted a gray-hairedgentlemen smoking a pipe. Sensing the importance of the man, she in-quired about his identity.

"That's Jerry Wiesner, the President of MIT,- I replied gladly. "He'sbeen a very popular and respected President, but unfortunately he's go-ing to retire soon." ,

"Oh really," said Tran, "And when is the Revolution to happenwhich will replace him? Is US science and technology that advancedthat you can even predict your revolutions?"

"No, no, we're not going to have a revolution at MIT to find a newPresident. The MIT Corporation has set up a committee to selectWiesner's successor," I explained.

"Corporation'? Hmm, very American," she commented. But she stillseemed confused. "How will the people tell them who they want?Where are your wall posters?"

"That's not the way we do it.... "I replied in exasperation. I was at-tempting to explain political processes at MIT further when I wasrescued from the task by bumping into an outgoing, medium-heightstudent with a moustache.

"That was Barry Newman," I told her, eager to change the subject."tfe is the President of the Undergraduate Student Association. He'sbeen working hard as UAP this year, and has even succeeded in reviv-ing the UA General Asernbly, a governing body which had beenneglected and unaffective for years."

"This student Politburo of yours," Tran asked me, "It was sort of agovernment-in-exile, right?"

"Yea, sure, when-you think about it," I admitted."Ah, we have the same phenomena in China, also. We call it

Taiwan."Just then a speeding taxi roared down Massachusetts Avenue, nearly

hitting us as we were crossing the street."These automobiles, they are disgusting," Tran observed, "Don't

you Americans have bicycles?""Of course, but bicycles can't ride in the streets, because all the

trucks, cars and buses make it too-dangerous.""I can see the whole story, now," said Tran, "Long ago automobiles

were very pleasant, but then bicycles came along and threatened tomake the automobile extinct due to the obvious advantages of the bicy-cle. In self-defense, then, automobile-makers began to manufacturethem as large, as noisy, and as dirty as they could in order to force themore popular bicycles off the roads. Is that correct?"

"i really am not an expert in those matters." I was forced to reply.Hoping to change the subject, I invited her to play a game of table tensnis, knowing that the sport was a favorite in China.

"I would be delighted to play ping pong," she answered. "It is an oldChinese custom, even dating back from before the building of theGreat Wall. There's an ancient Chinese proverb about it, from Con-fusius. It goes..."

"Wait, wait," I interrupted, (now I was the one who was confused)"are you sure'?" Not wanting to hear her answer, I decided to try onelast time to impress her with American life.

"Look at the Christmas tree over'there," 1 exclaimed, pointing to thelighted evergreen near the Student Center steps. "Christmas is our mostimportant holiday, a time when the spirit of giving spreads throughoutthe land."

"No wonder American business is so successful." Tran replied. "Theculture here gives moral and religious creedence to buying and col-lecting material possessions. I believe I am finally beginning to unders-rand your country" I

Now if I could only begin to understand hers.

To the EditorIt was with great distress that I

read the opinions expressed in theDec. 5 issue of The Techregarding the class of 1981 ringing was Class President Lori Ull-man's attempt to mask the real

Iman's attempt to mask the realissues behind accusations of 'sen-sationalistic' journalism and useof the opinion page to defame andattempt to discredit the actions ofa fellow class officer.

Many basic contradictionshave surfaced in reports of theevents which led to this con-troversy. As a member-at-large ofthe Ring Committee, I feet it ismy duty to report to the class of1981 and the entire MIT com-munity the facts as seen fromwithin the committee andhopefully clear up several of thesecontradictions.

Class opinions have beensought as a method for resolvingcommittee differences regardingthe ring design ever since the firstring shank conflict. The commit-tee placed a poster in Lobby 7 tosolicit class opinion on five alter-natives. The results of this posterwere declared unobjective and ig-nored only after it was announcedthat they differed with -severalmembers of the committee's ownfavorites. -

The next attempted strategy atsolicting class opinion was per-sonal poll-taking. This stategysoon proved ineffective as mostpolls returned to the committee.overwhelmingly supporting- theopinons of the poll-takers. Fewsurveys were accepted as beingtruly objective because nearly all

icould be challenged as containinghidden biases. A motion was then'passed to have the committeemake the final designsdecision, ir-regardless of expressed class

,opinon. This decision was sup-!ported by those members who feltthat the committee was trulyrepresentative of the class of 1981and that they had the right to

* Pro nenTo the Editor:

Bob Wasserman's brief history-of the dissolution of theHumanities Requirement at MITwas valuably instructive, a storyof confusion and loss of purpose.But his condescending specula-tions about the virtues of rein-stating a required Humanitiessubject for entering freshmen areworth a lot less.-There are an astonishing

number of fundamental mistakesand errors of judgment in- hiscolumn of December 1. But I willtrouble to isolate only hiscatastrophically foolish moment.-Recommending a syllabus to theprofessors, Mr. Wasserman ex-pressesthe hope that Plato andAristotle will be excluded becausethey "are sometimes as difficult to·decipher as Calculus."

It ought to have occurred toMr. Wasserman that the two

founding thinkers of the Westernhemisphere might reasonably beexpected to challenge the mind asdeeply as calculus. Mr. Was-serman is not asking for a re-quired Humanities subject, he isasking-for a rest-cure.

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with less successful numbers ofactual calls "gotten through," Allin all, we managed to contact EastCampus, 15 frats, WILG, Ran-dom Hall, Bexley, and two floorsof Senior House before Fridaymorning. Also, in addition tonotices in The Tech, posters werehung at east entrances to the mainbuildings and Walker, in hopes ofreminding people to vote and ofcatching those who hadn't heardof the poll earlier. The major pur-pose of the survey was to get theopinions of as many sophomresas possible - we certainly did notwant to ignore anybody. Theresponse was large enough tocause the Ring Committee toreconsider their initial findings,which was also one of the objec-tives of the poll.

In closing, I would to thankeveryone who voted or 'got in-volved in one way or another foryour interest and support.

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;oph oore:,sounding-off(Continued from page 4) vote members of the committee.

cislon now hinged on the vote Drawings were traced from thea single member ofthe commit- original' artist's sketch of thewho has been unable to attend beaver chewing on a tree with

ore than one third of the corm- slight modifications being madeittee meetings, including that so that a beaver could be shownucial design meeting, due to her chewing on sticks also. Theseass schedule. drawings were extremely accurateOn Tuesday afternoon Jenny and fair, and if anything, favored

ord, former-member of the comr- the. tree beaver because- he wasittee, placed a large poster on a professionally, drawn. Every. at-illar in Lobby 7 advertising the tempt was made. to. make-the poll.:atus of the design vote, as unbiased as possible and wide-resenting the 'proposed alter- ly publicized. Telephone calls toa t i v e s, a n d e n c o u r g i n g sophomores, signs posted around)phmores to attend the meeting the institute,--and a notice on theiat evening. -Having actually front page'of The Tech were all-en the poster, I know no men- used to help, spread the word ofon was made of allowing all the poll-taking.lass members to vote and that it The poll was extremely success-rged all sophomores to attend .ful with 40 percent of the class ofhe meeting.,No 'underhanded' is- 1981 participating. The final tallyue raising was attempted as al- was 372-63 in favor of the:ged by Ms. Ullman. The. class traditional stick-chewing beaver.vas being informed of the status Ms. Ullman was convinced thatof their supposedly representative this was a significant enough ex-:ommittee. Although the ap-, pression of dissent regarding the)earance of telephone numbers-of committee's decision, but only:ommittee members on the poster after attempts to discredit the pollnay have been inappropriate, with accusations of inaccuracy .hese numbers -were also readily The committee is now movingavailable in the- student directory. on with the design of the ring us-More relevant is the fact that Ms ing the class's choice of what theUllman vehemently objected to beaver is chewing on. In discuss-:he publicizing of the issues being ing this issue with Mr. FiresterJecided, informing most and others, I recall stating that I;ophomores for the first time that felt Ms. Ullman probably camea conflict even existed. across worse than she really

As a result of the appearance of deserved to. in the article in Thethe poster, opinons were phoned Tech. She has been an effectivein, sent in, and carried in per- leader and the committee has ac-sonally- by many very concerned complished much under hermembers of the class. rJporn guidance. But when she resorts tofin'ding a large group of ignoring class opinions, defamingsophomores very anxious to ex- other members of the class, andpress their opinions of which willfully misrepresenting the truthnearly all disagreed with her own, in an open letter to The Tech, IMs. Ulrnan-di6lared - that, this + cainnot-sit back without speakingmeeting Was closed as were all out on what I know to be therealring committee meetings (this had truth.never' been discussed with the Glenn L. Katzcommittee before). Another com Member Al Largemittee member incorrectly cited Class of 1981 Ring CommitteeRobert's Rules (which the com- December 6, I978mittee has never been following)'as a grounds for closing themeeting without a committee Los Grapos mas petvote, ignoring the. wishes of atleast four committee members, in- The seluding myself, to have an.' openmeeting. Ms. Ullman was very . Academia offunreceptive to the flood of opi- . l.e v '.' language -clasnions received that evening as per class. Thwere several other committee structor. Privmembers who retired to a " ':,16 Go ~ about ther"tvseparate room to start the Call 354-61meeting while leaving others stilltrying to collect opinions. In ashow of bitterness about the . ,

poster, Ms. Ullman publicallylashed out at Ms. Ford and essen- . f'tially ignored the overwhelmingmajority of opinions presentedthat. evening. The final design.vote was 54 in favor of the treeand'Ms. Ford resigned in protestto this disregard of ,class senti-ment.

The Wednesday eveningmeeting again began with protestas students came to. voice theirpreferences. After much heatedarguement, Ms. Ullman finally ,~A.consented to reverse the final vote · !'if students could meet-her chal-lenge of raising a large enoughnumber of dissenting signaturesby the next Tuesday. .

A third Lobby 7 poster was Sale Ends Deceseen as the quickest and easiestway of collecting these signatures HARVARD SQUAto meet this mandate. This 'pester M.I.T. STUDENT iwas not- sponsored by Ms. U!i- CHIDRENAS HOman, nor Ms. Ford, but by con- MEDICAL CENTEIcerned sophomores and minority r your holiday shopping

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(Continued from page 4)Ring Committee members, I re-sent having them called "unfor-tunate" and "inaccurate" and "alot different from the actualdesigns." If the tree drawing-wasso -unfortunate," why did thecommittee use it for its own sur-veys? The only artistic "liberties"taken were: 1) My decision to fillin the backgrounds very darkly tomore closely approximate the ap-pearance of an actual ring; 2) Therendition of the sticks. I used thesame beaver for both versions inan attempt to set up a "controlsituation," with just the tree andtwigs being the differences forconsideration. The .descriptions"actual" and "inaccurate," whenapplied to initial renditions of ar-tists' concepts as compared to thefinal rings, have practically nomeaning, and I fail to see thejustification in calling my "ren-ditions" any more "inaccurate"than those hastily procured fromthe ring company. I'm sure that aposter with those two versionswould reveal the same result-

that the class just does not wantthe tree. By the way, the actualvote turned out to be 372 (twigs)to 63. (tree) - a very impressiveturnout for any one-day, Lobby 7poll!

Which brings me to my lastpoint. I would just like to men-tion, for the record, that a gooddeal of effort was expended to tryto inform sophomores in the fratsand East Campus area of the ex-istence of the survey and the im-portance of voting. ! personallycalled all floors of, East Campuson Thursday night, got throughto all but two of them, talked to asophomor e on each floor andasked him/her to tell the rest ofthe sophomores on that floorabout the survey. Everyone Italked to was very congenial, andagreed' to spread the word,regardless of which opinion theyheld personally. Similar calls weremade to Senior House and frater-nities, although unfortunately

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The Mezz, Fri., Dec. 8, 9-12pm; free. brothers produced such favorites asMIT Jazz Band, Friday 8:30 pm in Popeye, Superman, and Beety Boop.Th

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The MIT Symphony performs their se- 2pm.cond concert of the term Saturday: 8:30 pm I Tin Kresge. The program features Mahler's N T WNSymphony No. I and the premiere of a'song The Handel and Haydn Society's annualcycle by Music section lecturer Edward Messiah returns to Boston Friday, Dec. 8,Cohen. Free tickets available in Lobby 10. and Sunday, Dec. 10. The society's 150-

MIT Brass Ensemble, wide program, year tradition features a different versionSun., Dec. 1-0, at .3pm in Kresge each year and is usually the best of theAuditorium. plethora of yuletide performances ofGullery showvs around MIT: Handel's choral masterpiece. For info call

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Joel uses a sopranino recorder where a-farless imaginative songwriter' would haveused a flute. The best-number,; "Honesty,"seems to loosely plagiarize his entire album(The Stranger); opening with a modifiedversion of "The Stranger," the versemelody is quite similar to "Vienna" off ofthe 1977 album.

It's not that this album lacks variety oranything for one to appreciate. The big-band jazz opening to "Half a Mile Away,"with horns orchestrated by Dave Grusin, isa novel and attractive opening to whatturns out to be just another top-40 typesong. The next track, "Until the Night,"features a lush of string orchestra with Joelsinging in the very: low end of his:range,where he sounds far better than most rockvocalists who stray from their normal Tes-situra.

On the final song of the album, Joel hasa surprise for us as he did on The- Stranger.On the latter, the last track is an untitledinstrumental on the "Stranger" theme; on52nd Street, the title cut, refrains,)frombecoming homogenized and retains its jazzflavor throughout - sax player RichieCannata brings out his clarinet for its onlyappearance on the albumn. However, in theinevitable comparison to Stranger, 52ndStreet loses, and loses big. In seeking com-placency or as a reaction to the blandness(i.e. ';,polish") that-had crept into 52ndStreet, Joel overracted, giving us a con-fused hash of styles superimposed on thebrief but well-hidden gems that only par-tially redeem this album.

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For those who have been waiting for thisalbum, wait no longer. Or rather, wait untilnext year - in spite of its top position onthe charts, 52nd Street is an uneven effortunworthy of its author.

Only a hermit could have avoided hear-ing the single, "My Life," which hasreceived extensive airplay on all the localrock stations. While the honky-tonk pianois nice, and the background vocals displaythe subtlety which Mr. Joel is capable of,the song lacks direction. One furthercaveat: for those whose stomach turns at adisco beat (as mine does), avoid this song.

As usual, Joel's lyrics are inspired com-pared to those of his rivals in the field.Joel's crisp yocals are irnmpeccablei even onsuch losing efforts as "My Life." His mainproblem on this album seems to be copingwith the schizophrenia of thepop/latin/jazz/hard-rock fusion thatmakes his work unique.

Both "Zanzibar" and 'Stiletto" featurenice jazz passages, the former for trumpet,bass and drums, the latter for sax andpiano. However, the heart of the latter ismarred by an insufferable beat "a-thud-thud" that is far from subtle.

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The latin "Rosalinda's Eyes" is one ofthe better cuts on the album. Not contentwith the evocative vibraphone, nylon-stringed guitar, and suitable percussion,

Wings~the n.Wins, by Arthur Kopit, directed by John

Madden7 starring Constance Cummings, at> tie Wiibur 77zeatie,: 252 Tremont St.,

Biiiton through Dec. 23. Tickets $5.50-$Pi.50; call 423-4008.

By Leigh J. PassmanWings is a fascinating theatrical study of

the mind and its inseparable dependenceon language. It is hardly a play, but ratherthe stream of consciousness of a stroke vic-tim struggling to regain her speech.

The play opens with Mrs. Stilson (Con-stance Cummings) reading in a comfor-table armchair. Moments later she ex-periences a stroke. The stage goes dark,noises and crashes abound, as Mrs. Stilsonruns through symbolic dark whirling'-screens pas mirrors until she is subdued bynurses. The story accounts her struggle toregain her ability to speak in the setting ofa rehabiliation center. Cummings' fineacting and detailed facial expression con-vey the suffering and frustration Mrs.Sti!son experiences. Much of her verbaliza-tion of thoughts recount her youth as apioneer aviator.

'Wings, while of course more, muchmore, than simply the dramatization of therehabilitation process, surprisingly doesn't'attempt to articulate a theme. Rather, inthe words. of playwright Arthur Kopit,Wings is: "an adventure, a quest, a,mystery", of. a' woman who becomesprogressively cognizant of her condition,and indeed, it- is a warm and revealingstudy.

Kopit'srinterest grew out of his study of.the rehabilitation of stroke victims. Whenhis 'father suffered an extreme stroke,writing about it provided an outlet for him.While visiting his father at the center, he

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Though much of the production's suc-cess is derived from Kopit's strongscriptand Cummings' fine performance, thestrong contribution of director John Mad-den, setting by Andrew Jackness, andlighting by Tom Schraeder demonstrate astrong collaboration. Schraeder's harshlight in the earliest stage of her strokemakes the audience slightly uncomfortable,more understanding and sympathietic toMrs. Stilson's state. The_:si/nple sets byJackness, dark revolving.s-eens .and, mir-rors double visuaily as partitions an~d win-dows as well 'as a whirlwind pictures'of her

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By Rich Auchusie MIT wrestling teamked up two victories in threemeets bon Saturday. The Tech

men, captained by seniors:e Wrobel and Gary Spleeter,ated Wesleyan, 20-14, andfdoin, 32-10, but fell to a'erful and agressive Westernv England team, 31-14.. pin in 5:36 by 142-pounder

rm Hairston -'7-9 sparkedT's first triumph oversleyan. This was quite an,rovement over last year whensame squad lost to Wesleyan

3. Rich Potash '81 (126 lbs.)iCrosier '81 (150 lbs), Chris

'rack team; victorioust dual -meet

By Lew BernderEditor's note: Lew Bender is amrnber of the track team.

The indoor track season got offthe right foot Saturday, with a

:tory over both Brandeis andPI. WPI led through most of

meet, but the Beavers came)m behind to pull out the vic-ry. The final score was MIT1/2, WPI 55, and Brandeis 49 /2.

The: most important factor in'ning'.the .meetCLvas depth. MIT ..

ok-- '~(."l:ae,-m"-aonyfo a out iof, cE·l:t·g ace-in 'OY~~O d:Oa f· IKteen.2events, however they tookeven.':second. places and fourird: place finishes. The winnersDr MIT. were Kevin Wade'81 inte triple jump, Jim Turli '80 intehigh jump, Barry Bayus '79 inle two mile run, and Eddie-igenito '81. in the pole vault.

The'meet looked bad for MIT:t the start as WPI pulled into an point lead after ten events.

ioweVer, a first and second placei the'high jump coupled with aweep of the pole vault put MITn the lead. Captain Bayus' heroicperformance in the two mile9:49.2) allowed MIT to maintainheir slim margin. In an excitingnile relay M IT scored threemoints, 'which was enough to:linch victory of the meet.:

Head coach Gordon Kelly. wasielighted with the team's strong )errformance, as the Beavers havelow -defeated Brandeis and WPI,br four consecutive years.

The Track team is now:-2-0 for:he season and will have its nextmeet today away at Holy ' Cross.

Capelli '82 (158 lbs.), and heavyweight John Stenard '80 won theirindividual bouts.

Capelli decked his Bowdoin op-ponent in 2:58, and Potash andHairston racked up big victories,11-2 and 18-9, respectively.Stenard, Crosier, Spleeter, andHoyt Davidson '79 (167 lbs.) alsoscored victories for Tech in thethird dual against Bowdoin.

Coach Wil Chassey was verypleased with the team's perfor-mance as a whole. "You can't winunless everybody does his job."he said. "Everybody went out anddid what he had to do." CoachChassey added that a few

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By Jowel WestThe men's and women's varsity

swimming team stroked to suc-cess in the third annual MIT In-vitational, held last weekend.Though no score was kept, theMIT teams clearly dominated thethree-way meet, which also in-cluded the Babson men's teamand a coed team fromBridgewater.

For the men it was the onlymeet of the preseason, affordingcoach John Benedict a brief in-dication of this year's crop.Benedict was particularly impres-sed with freshmen Mark LaRowand David Erickson - rightfullyso, in view of Saturday's perfor-mance. Erickson set new froshrecords in the 100 Free (49.8), the100 fly (56. a), in addition to winn-ing the lo0 Breast. La Row tooksecond in both the 100 Back and100 Fly, trailing Erickson by 0.7seconds in the latter event.Returning swimmers Mark Hunt-

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dtominantonly epee wins of the meet.

The team bounced back on the-trip to New York last weekend,losing a close meet to New YorkUniversity, 14^13. MIT took themeet to the last bout against oneof the top three teams in the na-tion. Harmnenberg again led theattack, defeating all three oppo-nents, including Leonid Derv-binslky, defending ECAC Cham-pion -and former National

Mrlenws fencing teamBy Brian Wibecan "Sabre and epee did not fence up

Editor's note: Brian Wibecan is to par." The score was tied at 9-9a member of the fencing team. after the second round;, but the

The men's fencing team team could not pull it through.rebounded off an opening loss to Highlighting MIT's performanceHarvard by winning two meets in were the efforts of captain JohanNew York and narrowly losing to Harmenberg '81 in epee and JimNYU. - Freidah '8 I in foil, both of whom

The opener against Harvard, won all three bouts. Eric de BeusNovember 29, was a disap- '82 took two bouts, helping thepointing 15-12 loss. "The team foil team to a 6-3 victory.choked," said coach Eric Sollee. Harmenberg's victories were, the

fah and Harmenberg wered for the Brooklyn Collegeeven so, the team smashedyn- College 22-5. The foilwith Terry Chen '80

ig Freidah, continued itsit performance by winningbouts. No more than twowere scored against an

,ncer in any one bout; af six against the squad.ook seven bouts, led byberger's three. Gonzalez-Chun, and Nager lost onlyAklyn's first sabreur to br-six victories.team's impressive showingYork raised hopes for the

Championships iri the spr-iis' year's schedule is the;t in the team's history andeady proving to beal. The team's next meet isDartmouth on January

:08.8 first place in the 1 OO-yard backstroke. (Photo by Joel West)

C ;Otlllllgr recorDrzinger '81 and John Dieken '80 respectively. Klincewicz took firstalso had a fruitful day. in the 100 Fly, 100 Back, and 100

Coach Benedict has his sights Breast, nudging out Konecke byon the meet against Amherst, to less than a tenth of a second in thebe held February 10, which has last event. Though still plaguedbeen extremely close every season by depth problems, the womensince the coach came to MIT are vastly improved from lastthree years ago. This year, year, when they lost close meetshowever, he feels confident that with only 8 women on the squad.MIT will win; the 400 Free Relay, Coach Benedict feels they are thealways a problem in past years, is best women's team he's coachedalready better than in the four here at MIT.previous years. Thirty swimmers from both

On the women's side, Captain teams will be traveling to FloridaSheila Konecke '80 and new- during 1AP. The group will traincomer Karen Klincewicz '82 outdoors from Jan. 3-14 beforeturned in outstanding perfor- returning to Cambridge for themances in seven and nine races, beginning of the regular season.

On December 1 6th and 17th theC6suncil for the Arts at MIt, in coopera-tion with the Graduate Student Counciland CZR Representatives, will present aweekend of music featuring a recital ofMleloodies by baritone Vincent Ricento andpianist Thomas Zajlkowski entitledFrench Poetry set to Music incorporatingthe writings of the great French poets andcomposers such as Verlaine, Roulenc,Beaudelaire, and Duparc to mention a few.Also included in this weekend will be theBostonia String Quartet playing chambermusic of Mozart, and the Musicians ofCottage Farm presenting Pergolesi's twoact comic opera La Serva Padroina sungin English.

The events are scheduled for 8pm onSaturday the 1 6th and 3:30prn on Sundaythe 17Vth, all taking place in the LittleThleatre at Kresge on the campus at, MIT.

Tickets will be available in advance or atthe door at $7.50 for both events or $5.Q0each. Students with ID and senior citizensmay obtain tickets at $5.00 for both or$3.00 per. The weekend is free to the MITcommunity.

For more program information or ticketreservations call 427-2931.

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in New-Y!orkAmateur Champion. Bob FreidSchoenberger '81 won two bouts, replacedlosing only to Dervbinsky. Dave meet. EHeller' 79 also won a bout to Brooklybring the epee score to a 6-3 upset. squad,In foil, MIT took four bouts, two replacinby de Beaus and one each by- excellenFreidah and Rich Htemphill '79. all nineIn sabre, George Gonzales-Rivas touches'80, Dalhoon Chun '80, and Brad MtIT feNager '82 each defeated NYU's total ofthird sabreur. Epee to

At Brooklyn College, the Tech 'Schoentfencers got into the winning track, Rivas, Cdefeating St. John 14-13. Starting to Broooff cold, the team held on to win , ing in sifoil 6-3 and lose 4-5 in the other The ttwo weapons. Harmenberg went in Newat the forefront for a third time, ECAC (remaining undefeated. The foil ing. Thsquad, Freidah, de Beaus and toughestHemphill, all lost to St. Johns' is alrepremier foilist, but won the rest. benefici,Gonzales-Rivas contributed two againstsabre bouts to the win. 20.

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