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FRIDAY 18 APRIL 19861PASADENA, CALIFORNIA[VOLUME LXXXVII NUMBER 24

Yes, the David R. Smith Memorial Ramp Plaque is back! Valiant Buildings & Grounds agents toppled the corruptB&G dictatorship, restoring freedom to both themselves and the plaque. In a touching ceremony, B&G operativeDick Barker himself restored the plaque to its rightful resting place. Cries of joy rang throughout the land!

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theory is that it will provide a"single theory to describe allelementary particles and forces ina single elegant equation," accor­ding to Gell-Mann. Presently, theonly forces to have been related toone another are the electromagneticforce, the weak force, and thestrong force, leaving the gravita­tional force unique.

If the theory is correct, spaceshould consist of nine dimensionswith an additional time dimension.The fact that we see only four thatis explained by the notion that theremaining six curled up into littleballs at each point in space shortlyafter the universe came into ex­istence. Gell-Mann hypothesizedthat we may actually exist in allten, but that the other six are sosmall that no one has noticed theirexistence.

The Theory of Superstringswas first thought of about 15 yearsago by John Schwarz, who cameto Caltech in 1972 to research it.He and Joe Scheck, who came toCaltech in 1974, proposed that thetheory could be applied universal-

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Ruben Mettler speaking at the Ath.

question of how students candevelop leadership qualities. "Startby accepting challenges here atCaltech. Set high standards. Relateyour coursework and extracur­ricular activities to the largerchallenges of science and engineer­ing; learn to work the whole pro­blem. Don't expect popularity; aiminstead for credibility and respect."Above all, "take on the burden ofthe initiative," he advised; get in­volved on campus. If you have anidea, implement it. Only ex­perience can hone these skills.

Leadershipon

by Josh KurutzMurray Gell-Mann, Nobel

laureate and Millikan Professor ofTheoretical Physics at Caltech, ex­plained the theory of superstringsto an overflowing BeckmanAuditorium Wednesday, April 16.The Watson lecture entitled, "IsEverything in the Universe Com­posed of Superstrings?," detailedthe progression to the superstringtheory and an explanation of it.

The essence of the theory holdsthat all matter is made of tiny(length scale of 10

33 em.) "strings"that form what are known aselementary particles. Conventionaltheories describe particles asgeometric points while stringtheory describes particles as onedimensional loops.

Part of the significance and ver­satility of the theory is that an in­finite number of particles could bemade using superstrings, thoughmerely hundreds could feasibly ex­ist due to energy restrictions. Thatproperty could calm those who getdistressed when new particles arediscovered.

One of the great hopes for the

In industry, leaders must firstindentify the corporation's consti­tuents: their customers,shareholders, employees and sup­pliers. Then they must decide howto balance these interests andtranslate them into corporate goalsand strategies. This, Mettlerreminds us, is not a static process.To remain competitive, a corpora­tion must re-evaluate its goals andstrategies at regular intervals. Thenew goals must then be widelycommunicated internally andexternally.

To illustrate these ideas, Met­tler outlined how TRW appliesthese principles. The corporationhas four basic objectives which,roughly put, are ethical conduct,profit through quality goods andservices, employee contribution atall levels, and support for the com­munity. This is the framweorkwithin which each of TRW's onehundred or so divisions must work.Each develops its own strategy tomeet thises directives in a way ap­propriate to its activites and con­stituency. Mettler stressed the im­portance of clearly defined cor­porate goals as the key to effectivedelegation of leadership.Misunderstandings are costly andeasily prevented with clearcommunication.

Finally, Mettler addressed the

Watson Superstrings

Mettler Speaksby Rosemary Macedo

Ruben Mettler - Caltech alum­nus, Chairman of the Board ofTrustees of Caltech, Chairman ofthe Board and Chief Executive Of­ficer of TRW - addressed 100undergraduates, graduates and ad­ministrators on the qualities ofleadership at Monday's kickoff forthe Noland Leadership Series,sponsored by Ametek.

Mettler began by listing the at­tributes of a good leader. Most im­portant is effective communication.Good leaders define their goalsclearly, ask the right questions, andhave a broad perspective by whichthey can understand other's view­points, particularly those opposingtheir goals. Leaders must be ableto develop strategies, motivateothers on a sustained basis, andpromote creativity and innovation.They must be dedicated to qualityand excellence. All these skills,however, are for naught without in­itiative. Leaders put their plans intoaction and see them through tocompletion.

When he lashes back at George andhis leering vision of Nick's bravenew world, we can sense the great,attractive power within him. Butwhen he spills out in drunken con­fidence the intimate secrets of hismarriage, it is less believable. Thisis as much the fault of Albee'sdialog as Lawrence's acting.

As the simpering Honey, Bet­sy Arnold's stiffness is somewhatjustified, but when Honey getsreally smashed and attempts her in­terpretive dance, Arnold doesn'tlook any less uncomfortable; herforced performance in is unfor­tunately sharp contrast to Reno'sand Roegler's boldness.

Again, Ulhos Afraid of VirginiaWoolf? is a long play, perhaps toolong. although this is again no faultof TACIT's. Since it is being stag­ed in Winnett Lounge, seatingspace is at a premium. Thus, bewarned that people who choose tosit in the front row will findthemselves in George's and Mar­tha's living room, an unnerving ex­perience as bottles smash andvarious couples roll about togetherat one's feet. All in all, the ex­perience is a worthwhile one, aglimpse into the barren heart ofsupposedly intellectual America.

Tickets are $6.00, $4.00 forstudents, with performances Fri­day, Saturday and Sunday even­ings, this weekend and next, at7:30.

Children as the Peace-Keepers"This proposal was inspired by

the success of 'Children as thePeace Makers' - the late Samantha

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own impotence, are really the stuffof the play. At first, as Marthascreams at George for notremembering the name of someBette Davis fIlm, the audience is allset to loathe her and to feel sorryfor her husband. This all changesas George reveals the fiend he hasbecome over the past twenty-threeyears. Or perhaps it was alwaysthere inside him. Martha, with hersublimely hideous green jumpsuitand her incessant braying, gradual­ly shrinks in stature, until by theend ofthe three hours, we can seeher as the pitiable woman she reallyis.

Taylor Lawrence grows into hisrole as Nick, the blond superman.

by Diana FossEdward Albee's Ulhos Afraid of

Virginia Woolf? is a wrenchingnightmare of empty lives and emp­ty bottles. TACIT's Ulhos Afraid ofVirginia Woolf? is also a wren­ching experience, but ultimately aworthwhile one. It is a long play,running in real time the three hoursbetween 2:00 am, when Georgeand Martha and their hapless guestsarrive for drinks and conversation,and dawn, when the party's finallyover and everyone gets to go home.

Bravura performances by JanetReno, as the boozy harridan Mar­tha, and George Roegler, asGeorge, the eternal associate pro­fessor driven to monstrosity by his

TACIT Presents Virginia Woolf

Off-White Winners­Destabilizing Plans

by M. St. Clair tion of a Large Attack Zone Yaw-The Space Weapons Study ing System Using Swivel And

Group (SWSG) announced the Navigation (LAZY SUSAN)winners oftheir "Off-White Paper" betwen the North and Southcontest Tuesday in an award hemispheres. Once installed, thisceremony held at Winnett. As a system would allow the U.S. toprotest of what they perceive as the rotate the earth 180 0 in the eventfoolishness of the huge SDI of a Soviet attack, causing theirdevelopment effort, the SWSG missiles to fall on them. The in­asked students to write parodies of stallation, of course, must be doneSDI proposals. The award secretly so that the Soviets do notceremony, which was attended by learn of the plan. For this bit ofabout 80 students, was covered by genius, Dave will receive a frisbeethe Associated Press, the Los lesson from Dan Roddick, 1984Angeles Times, and other local world champion. The PINNO­newspapers. Forty-three entries CHIO system proposed by Jeffwere judged by a panel of SWSG Gelles, chemistry graduate student,members and Southern California suggested installation of "a high­Federation of Scientists represen- technology, microprocessor con­tatives for their cleverness, trolled nasal prosthesis (i.e., an ar­originality, and humor. This tificial nose)" on the faces of alldistinguished panel, including in- SDI officials. When activated by adividuals from TRW and the satellite-based "misstatement"Pacific Missile Test Range, chose detector, this "nose" would grow,as the grand prize winner a pro- thus alerting legislators and theposal entitled "Application of public. Jeff received a gift cer­Genetic Engineering to the tificate from the Espresso Bar.Strategic Defense Initiative." The Lloyd House captured the prize forproposal, from Greg Ojakangas, a most entries from a housing unit.graduate student in planetary Other top entries were "Carsciences, involves the use of "a Wars" (John Klemic), "Unifiedlightweight strain of pygmy hip- Dirigible Theory" (Cameronpopotamus" which, when fed a Campbell and Paul Bonenfant),special radioactive diet, would fill "The Antithesis Alternative" (Suewith helium. These LAUGHS Larson), "Bermuda Triangle(Lighter than Air Upside-down Focusing System" andGrazing Hippos) would then rise to "PANACEA" (Peter Gray), "Usea height where "the atmospheric of Caltech Scientist for the Defensedensity equals the mean hippo den- of Ballistic Missiles" (M. Z. Iqbal),sity," or the "hippopause," forming "Cardboard Sky" (James Theiler),a protective ROOPH (Readily and, winner of the "A Modest Pro­Operative Overhead Protection by posal" Jonathan Swift MemorialHippos). In Gteg's words, "A Award, Dave Fascha, forNUPH (NeUtral Pygmy Hip- "Children as the Peace-Keepers."popotamus) is enough." For this The last was deemed too satirical­contribution to the nation's defense, ly biting for off-campus release,Greg will receive a Zenith but we think California TechZF-148-42 personal computer, readers can handle it:courtesy of Zenith Data Systems.

Award winners included "AHemisphere-based Bomber andMissile Deflection System," byDavid Palmer, graduate student inphysics, which advocates installa-

.~ rare happy moment in TACITs production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

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REPORTERSJim Bell • Diana Foss

David Hull • Josh KurutzGary Ludlam • Rosemary MacedoAnthony Stirk • Marty Zimmennan

PHOTOGRAPHERSRon Gidseg • Teresa Griffie

Sandy Lee • Rosemary MacedoChris Meisl • Rod Van Meter

Min Su Yun • Sing Dng WongTHE INSIDE WORLDBlacker: Jim Bell

Dabney: Mike RobertsFleming: Steve McAdams

Lloyd: Nicole VogtPage: Konstantin Othmer and

Dave ParkinsonRicketts: Saxy Workman

Ruddock: Sam Wang

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it (the rental sign was clearly visi­ble), all without even checking thestory with any member of Fleming.

How do I know all this? I havetalked at length with the Muddersresponsible (God rest their souls).Also, the Mudders took manyslides to account for their ac­complishment, which we "borrow­ed" and viewed. Mr. Securityguard: we know who you are.

Still steamed-Ed Zaneui

Mr. Kurutz responds: I would liketo emphasize that my article triedto portray the cannon theft as an at­tack on Caltech, not just FlemingHouse. It also pointed out thepositive aspects of Fleming's in­volvement such as the determina­tion to retrieve it and the per­sistence of at least one member ofthe house. It would have been jour­nalistically irresponsible to treatFleming or Campus Security in anyother way.

I apologize for the inaccuracyin reporting. The article recountedwhat I had found out from Bernie

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Irresponsible?To the Editor:

I am writing to protest the ir­responsible journalism practiced bythe California Tech. I understandthat the Pasadena Star-News andother such papers need to glorifytheir stories to sell their product,but I don't understand why such in­competence should be present here.

The article written by JoshKurutz can best be described aslibelous towards Dave Ely andFleming House in general. I willattempt to provide the details here,however unspectacular they mightbe:

CD 7:30AM: Cannon taken byHarvey Mudd students while fourFlems slept (they were the onlyones here). Mudders fooled onesecurity guard, and one frosh­Ralph from Ricketts. No Flemswere around, especially Ely, wholives off-campus.

® 10: 15: Ely arrives oncampus-no cannon. Immediatelycalls me at home in Westminsterafter security guard tried to con­vince him that the cannon-nappingwas legitimate.

® 11 :00: Harvey Mudd ad­mits responsibility. Ely, SteveMcAdams and others go to Muddto make sure cannon is well.

At no point was Ely fooled bythe Mudders. It appears to me thatthe Tech was unwilling to exposethe real moron - the security guardwho was convinced that a) a waterpipe under the cannon was broken,b) the cannon needed repairing, c)the same company was repairingboth, d) they rented a truck to do

L. A. Philharmonic. Mozart's Violin Concerto in A,Beethoven's Symphony No.9. Music Center, 8 PM. Sign ups closeMonday, 4/21.

Night, Mother-play at the Mark Taper Forum, 8 PM.Tickets $5. Winners posted TODAY (4/18).

Workshop: "Finding Meaning in the Nuclear Age," withprofessional counselors David and Madeline McMurray. In theY Lounge, Thursday 7:30 and Friday 9:00 AM. Sign up in theY. Limited to 30 participants.

Renaissance Faire! The Y has 100 tickets at half price ($6.50each). Good any weekend until and including Memorial Day.

Noon Concert with Beltires. At noon on the Quad. Bring afriend and a lunch.

Direct from New Zealand on their world tour! The WellsCathedral Choir of Somerset, England.Beckman Auditorium,8 PM. The Y has 100 free tickets (normally $7!), first come, firstserved.

Thursday ... April 24

Movies-Discount tickets to Mann and Pacific Theatres, $3.00each.

"Learning to Break the Rules: What Makes Engineers(Among Others) Wise and Successful," a lecture with Dr. Mar­tin Krieger of U.S.C. In Winnett Lounge, 7:30 PM.

Wednesday Night Videos in the Y. Every Wednesday at 9 PM.

Tuesday ... April 22

Any questions, comments, or ideas?Come see us in the Y office or call x6163

Friday ... April 25

Noon Concert with Bill Bing and the Monday Jazz Band.At noon on the Quad. Bring a friend and a lunch.

L. A. Philharmonic. Mozart and Schubert. At the MusicCenter, 8 PM. Y Car leaves Winnett at 7:15 PM.

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The Editors reply: We at the Techbelieve that no incident is so seem­ingly simple or explainable that itcould not actually be evidence ofa world-wide conspiracy so all­encompassing, so sinister, that itwould curl your hair if we told youeven what little we know about it.Trust us.

The Caltech Y Fly-by

Friday ... April 18

To the Editor:Thank you for running the

balanced articles by Tony Stirk ongraduate stipends and housing. Ihope the housing office will find acreative way to keep our housingaffordable even at the expense ofsome frills.

Incidentally, Provost Vogt,many graduate students enjoysocializing with undergrads.

-Paul Smith

To the Editor:Hey, the Smith plaque was

loose as early as the weekendbefore last! I remember taking noteof the fact when I walked by on 5April.

It seems unlikely that anythingsinister was involved. Surely itdoesn't warrant a front-pageheadline.

No doubt the freezingtemperatures during this winter'smost recent snowfall simply crack­ed the bolt casings attaching DirtyDave's plaque to the ramp.

Yours truly,- Dennis Mallonee

former Tech Editor, 1973-75

- Pamela DerrvGraduate Stude~t

To the Editor:With reference to the letter

from the Provost last week I'd liketo say that I for one enjoy socializ­ing with the undergraduates, main­ly due to the favourable Ratio.

Sincerely,Brian Warr

Gradturkey in Physics

A Social Grad

To the Editor:I would like to respond to Gary

Hindoyan's response to myprevious letter. [Issue of 4/11/86]

Mr. Hindoyan's description ofthe kebab incident is simply not ac­curate. When I returned the kebab,the server was not busy. Therewere no other customers at thecounter. There was another foodservice employee standing idle nextto the server. The server did notput the partially eaten kebab on anempty part of the tray. He put it ontop of a pile of kebabs. The otheremployee tried to take the kebabout of the tray, but the server stop­ped him. I do hope the kebab wasdiscarded later, but there was noreason for the server to put it thereat all. He could have simply put iton a plate temporarily or handed itto the other employee.

I would like to comment on Mr.Hindoyan's claim that Chandler isinexpensive. I do not believe thatChandler is particularly inexpen­sive for a cafeteria. It is true thata dinner for under $5 at arestaurant would be inexpensive,but Chandler is not a finerestaurant. Its food is cold cafeteriafood which has often been sittingout for some time.

I am now eating at theAthenaeum.

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To the Editor:Knowing the great respect with

which the Honor System is regard­ed at Caltech, I will make this briefand to the point. Over the lastseveral months books have beendisappearing from the shelves inmy office (as well as the office ofat least one postdoc in my group)at an alarming rate. Though I havenot made an inventory, the follow­ing books are known to be missing:

Jackson - Classical Elec­trodynamics (2 copies-one mine,one belonging to the aforemention­ed postdoc)

Kittel & Kroemer - ThermalPhysics

Kittel- Solid State PhysicsHerstein - AlgebraBjorken & Drell- Relativistic

Quantum Mechanics (Volume 1)Bjorken & Drell- Relativistic

Quantum Mechanics (Volume 2)It is perhaps suggestive that the

Kittel and Kroemer is believed tohave disappeared sometime withinthe last month, coinciding with thebeginning of the spring. quarter andPhysics 2c (which uses Kittel &Kroemer as a text). Herstein wasseen as recently as 6 months ago,as was (I believe) my Jackson.Solid State Physics (Kittel) hasbeen missing at least 4 months, andthe Bjorken & Drell were seen asrecently as last October, I believe.

Each of my books has my name(Lee Samuel Finn) impressed by alibrary-style seal on the title page(the second copy of the Jackson hasthe name of the postdoc, JensVillumsen, on the title page). I ask,in the Spirit of the Honor Code,that these books be returned im­mediately (I suggest the campusmail as a suitably anonymousmedium).

Stolen Books

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Interior and Exterior

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• GOOD FOOD

BURGlER CONIlNlENIAll

Philip Glass' Liquid Days

minded governments.Chomsky argues that our allies

in South America are as muchunder American influence asEastern Europe is under the SovietUnion's. Just as looking at EasternEurope shows what the USSR doesto its client states, looking at SouthAmerica shows what the U.S. doesto its. Two of our allies-ElSalvador and Guatemala - havewon the Council on HemisphericAffairs' award for Worst Govern­ment of the Year for the past sixyears, having killed 150,000 oftheir own citizens; second placewent to the American-backed Con­tras. In 1978 and 1979, Somoza'sregime in Nicaragua killed 50,000,and was backed to the end by Jim­my Carter's administration.

According to a recent Oxfamreport, only in Nicaragua has anysubstantial effort been made on im­proving the education and healthservices available to the commonpeople. The Boston Globe recent­ly stated that few U. S. officialsbelieve the Contras can actuallybring down the Sandinistas; theyare content to see that money thatwas to have been used forNicaraguan social reforms iswasted on defence. Think aboutthat; it implies that the U. S. feelsthreatened enough by these socialreforms to work to prevent them.The title of the Oxfam report sug­gests the reason: "The Threat of aGood Example." Chomsky, likeOxfam, feels the threat is that im­poverished people in other coun­tries might see the reforms inNicaragua, and start agitating forthe same - and popular unrestcould cause the overthrow ofgovernments cozy with the U.S.

On the subject of aid to theContras, Chomsky asserts that theAdministration has already sent$20 million this year (during theHonduran "invasion"), and cansend sufficient aid by pathways notopen to scrutiny; the only reasonthere is a vote in Congress at all isthat Reagan wants an endorsementof the concept that the U. S. has theright to use force to intervene atwill. The debate in Congress hasmostly been on the effectiveness ofthe aid; there has been very littledebate on the real issue - thusReagan will probably get what hewants.

Thus this week's strips will notappear in this space.

Try page 6.

week's Bloom County grossly ex­aggerates the real and alleged tran­sgressions of certain motion pictureactors.

It is distasteful to us, and we'resure to many of our readers, to in­terrupt a regular feature due tocontent.

Yet it is also our responsibilityto guard against publishing damag­ing material we know to be over­drawn and unfair. We feel this

Noam Chomsky onU.S. Interventionism

Bloom County Will NotDisappear From The Tech

This Week

by Daniel KegelDr. Noam Chomsky, professor

of linguistics and philosophy atMIT and one of the founders ofmodern linguistics, has been activein issues of intervention since thedays of Vietnam. Speaking to acapacity crowd on April 9th at theAckerman Ballroom at UCLA, hedelivered a scathing indictment ofU.S. policy in South America, andargued that it is our moral respon­sibility to act now to protect inno­cent lives in Nicaragua and ElSalvador.

Although the topic was SouthAmerica, his discussion of U.S.policy included analysis of the re­cent U.S. naval skirmish off Libyaand the 1962 USAF bombing ofSouth Vietnam. The audience wasreceptive, and applauded en­thusiastically whenever Chomskylet fly at Reagan. ("He probablydoesn't understand what he isreading off the cue cards ... [ap­plause] I mean that literally, not asajoke.") or at U.S. conceptions ofpropriety ("We ought to be con­cerned when people can get up andsay without ridicule, 'We've got tocontain the threat from X', when Xis a tiny, weak country.")

Over the past century, the U. S.has intervened with force in theDominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba,Nicaragua and Guatemala in orderto keep American-influencedgovernments in power. In fact,says Dr. Chomsky, the early ac­tions against the American Indiansby European colonists could beconsidered the earliest example ofuse of force to further U. S. in­terests in a subject land. When suchan incident is analyzed-if ever­it is usually regarded as some kindof weird error, in which the U.S.somehow did not live up to itsideals. Strangely enough, these er­rors turn out to be beneficial forU.S. business. Chomsky's explana­tion of U. S. behavior involves theobservation that only people orgroups with large resources can in­fluence the government, and thatthe major powerful groups arebusiness organizations; thusgovernment tends to look afterbusiness interests. Much of theU.S. intervention in the area, saysChomsky, was in direct responseto perceived threats to Americanbusiness from independently-

ing a repeat in Open the Kingdom,I could hear one of Laurie Ander­son's voices speaking the lines:

A man wakes up to the sound ofrain

From a dream about his loversWho pass through his room.They brush lightly by, these

lovers.They pass. Never touching.These passing lovers move

through his roomThe man is awake nowHe can't get to sleep again.So he repeats these wordsOver and over again:Bravery. Kindness. Clarity.Honesty. Compassion.

Generosity.Bravery. Honesty. Dignity.Clarity. Kindness.

Compassion.The actual setting of these wordswas quite different from what Iheard in my head while readingthem, although it fit in with the restof the album. Which leads me tomy main complaint about thealbum.

The actual declamation, the fit­ting of the words to the music,seems completely arbitrary. Thestyle is classical, in that the phras­ing does not match the patterns ofeveryday speech - the lyric is fittedmore to the instrumental than viceversa. It sounds like opera, or anynumber of pieces that composershave thrown at choirs through thecenturies. Of course, there's norule that phrasing in choral workshas to follow the patterns ofspeech. (Think of Handel'sMessiah: For unto us a child is bo­0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0­

o-o-o-o-o-orn with all those love­ly scales that everyone hates tosing.)

But Glass' declamation seemsrandom and perverse. Words aretossed together in rapid succession,then stretched out, and the resultisn't anything startling and new, oreven greatly offensive. Instead, itseems as though I'd heard it allbefore. I wouldn't expect to hearany of this stuff on KMET (whoknows?), but Songs from LiquidDays is conventional and unex­citing in it's own way.

If you like enough of the nameson the album (I didn't mention theRoches, Bernard Fowler, DouglassPerry, Janice Pendarvis and theKronos Quartet), see if PooBah'sdoesn't have it for cheap (the copyI listened to was obtained there for$3.94). Otherwise, don't worryabout it too much.

metaphor and all that, as in:.. .But there'll be a thick and

smokySilence in the airWhen the fire finally diesAnd I'm wondering who 11 be left

thereIn the ashes of the timeBurned awayBurned awayVega's Freezing best represents

the style of the lyrics as a whole:... If it were only youNaked on the grassWho would you be then?This is what he askedAnd I said I wasn't really sureBut I would probably beColdAnd now I'm freezingFreezing

What catches my attention is thesudden swing from grand themesand questions like "Who would yoube then?" to the deliberatelytrivial-" ... 1 would probably becold". This is not an inherentlygood or bad technique, but it ispervasive - note the beginning ofthis article; I seldom do anythingoriginal. David Byrne suppliessome nice lines in Liquid Days(Part One):

Love takes its shoes offand sitson the couch

Love has an answer foreverything

I offer Love a beerLove watches televisionLove needs a bathLove could use a shave

I recall reading in Rolling Stoneabout David Byrne being in love.That was a while ago, but whoknows?

Byrne's other contribution OpenThe Kingdom (Liquid Days PartTwo) is hauntingly enigmatic,which means I didn't understand it.It starts out:

Days offishesDistant RoarTurning to speakTurning to hear . ..

If you think that's neat, fine, youget no argument from me. Lateron, it says "Love" a lot (with thecapital letter), so it must be worthsomething.

Finally, Laurie Anderson'sForgetting has a hauntingly detach­ed feel, which means I liked it, butit made me feel a little funny, likesomething I'd been assuming for along time wasn't really true. I findLaurie Anderson often has that ef­fect on me, and I admire her for it.When I first read the lyrics, dur-

by David HullSongs From Liquid DaysPhilip Glass EnsembleCBS Records

What is one to make of SongsFrom Liquid Days? Is it a seriousattempt to fuse the classical andpopular styles, whatever those maybe? Is it a chance for Laurie Ander­son, David Byrne, Paul Simon andSuzanne Vega to prove themselves"serious" lyricists, for LindaRonstadt to polish her Pirates ofPenzance soprano? Is it a promo­tional ploy based on the idea thatno right-minded fan of "cerebral"music could resist all those namesin one place? Is it just some ideaold Phil had while chatting withEinstein on the beach? I'd guess it'sall of the above. Unfortunately, forall the potential you might think thealbum would have, it's not reallymuch of anything new.

The music sounds like PhilipGlass. I don't mean that as praiseor damnation, I simply mean thatall the other Philip Glass I've heardsounded about like this. You've gotyour doodle-deedle-deedle arpeg­gios, repeating and repeating oversimple chord changes, underpinn­ed by syncopated full chords,usually in the brass and keyboards.It's a little reminiscent of Bach, andparts of it remind me of theThreepenny Opera by Kurt Weiland Berthold Brecht (the inspira­tion for The Trial in Pink Floyd'sThe Wall).

Most of the musical sections arefairly short, so perhaps the full im­pact of the repetitions would fail totake hold, but then there is a fairamount of overlap between songs.If you're in the mood for it, thismeans something like "subtlychanging patterns within aminimalist framework". Otherwiseit's the same stuff, over and overagain. That's Glass for you. If youlike Glass, you'll probably like theinstrumentals, and if not, you pro­bably won't.

The lyrics vary in quality. IWasn't impressed by Paul Simon'soffering, Changing Opinion, whichhe opens with:

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"I propose literally usingchildren as the peace keepers. BUb­bly, enthusiastic, bright, talentedphotogenic and well meaning 12year old girls could be loaded intolow ~emperature orbital storagecontamers.

"In time of Russian missile at­tack, the little darlings would beloaded into hyper-velocity rail­guns and accelerated to aroundlOkm/s~c. Impact of a roughly40kg ChIld at lOkm/sec with an in­coming missile would utterly wastesaid missile.

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have been nice if Mr. Zanelli wereavailable the three times I tried tocontact him; better still if he hadjust responded to the note I had lefton his door. The inclusion of hisinformation would have made abetter article.

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Ruddock: Birth announcemen~s first:Eigen's a mommy now. She had 4.6 kittens on April 16. The seniorsare finaly getting it together. Saturday is the long awaited and just alittle late 56-day drink off. Alley 2 (the peach lovers) has challengedalley 5 to feats of skill and daring. Alleys 3 and 1 are still waiting toplay off their cookie bake off. In case you hadn't realized this weekendis prefrosh weekend. Welcome Alice & Amy!The social event for this week could be a beach trip if the sun be shinin'.Last week's social event (the party with Page) was an awesome suc­cess. Way to go, E.T.C.!The Ruddock basketball Machine rolled over Ricketts, Dabney & Lloydthis week. Stay tuned for further word of the Budd's skill & prowess.

-Butch

New invention of the week: Instead of carrying around one of thosestupid fake beepers so you can get away from people you don't like,try my new invention-the Bogus Radion Badge and Warning Device.Just depress the secret button, and your badge will start a loud warn­ing siren and red flashing light, indicating highly dangerous radiationlevels. Not only can you quickly slip away, you will also make theslime you're trying to get away from afraid to have children.

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LETTERS

-ArexDabney: Due to technical difficulties, Dabney House continues to ex­ist. Top scientists are working round the clock to correct this problem.

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Blacker: It was a dark ana srormy night. Don Johnson was cool. Sud­denly, the Black Hand appeared over the horizon. Jimbo strugglesvaliantly before breaking down completely before the Master; the threelittle pigs did their job well. Sorry Nancee ...At the stroke of midnight, the Wars began. Let's all try to rememberthat ammonium iodide can be harmful to you and those you live with.Have you opened your closets lately? You might find them Alarming,more so than the late thing on the floor.Those of you who are celibate should not come to our Espionage Dance,but all others are welcome to stuff their faces. And if we're lucky, maybeRich Letterman will introduce his friend Bob.Thanks for the bike tip, whoever.

Fleming: Well, the results of Chaz's vote are in, and it seems thatKonstantin just squeaked past Parkinson in heavy voting. ALthoughexact numbers are not available yet, the general trend is:

Konstantin Heaps and gobsParkinson Lots and lotsVito Quite a fewBineet......... . ' Several

In fact, many of tht ahove even voted for themselves. Several times,if actions do indeed speak louder than words.

As far as Interhouse basketball goes, we edged past the Moles lastfriday, and being in an edging mood, edged past the Boys in overtimeMonday. Ricketts lost.

Did I say "edging mood"? I think maybe "edgy mood" is more acecurate. After bending over backwards to keep everything within regula­tions and then getting raped from behind by Page and Mudd in quicksuccession, all we can do now is rub out asses and wonder. Wonderwhen our cannon is coming home and how long our self-control canhold out. Because pride is a hard thing to swallow and an even harderthing to keep down. So let's just hope that there's a little cannon retur­ning action here pretty soon. Before things start to get out of hand.

The trip to Magic Mountain is Saturday, so get your tickets fromthe Cheese and then go and try to furget for a day.

The tennis ladder is up, so let's see some challenging action.Juniors rule. Especially. in Indoor Olympiad. Followed by the

Seniors, the Sophomores, and finally the Frosh. I guess the Frosh finallyfinished the relay, with Burly eating Slovik's, uh, meat. There's nothingquite like watching a highly trained athlete perform.

Until next week ...-AI Fansome

Page: It's been quite an explosive week in Page House. The "powersthat be" thought Page should reaffirm its belief in Vito and, much totheir chagrin, Vito even managed to defeat President Reagan in an ap­proval rating. Congratulations to Vito and President Reagan for theirintegrity.

Wild surfer punk, H20 polo stud Dugen Leanard takes the helmof V.P. of Page. Konstantin Othmer and Dave Parkinson are nowdevoting all their time to make the world safe for democracy.

This week's election is for Little Red Fairy. There were manynominations, but the final candidates, listed from favorite to underdog(and dumbest) are:o Ed "Blue-lip" Zanellio Charlie "No-neck" Millero Brian "Done the Math 5 yet, Jimbob?" Daniels

Send your ballots to CHAZ LICKS RAMBO'S ASS 1-53.The party with Ruddock was a great success. We didn't see Ed there;

rumor has it he spent the first part of the evening in Winnett. [We didn'tsee him there either - Eds.JThe latter part of the evening is still unac­counted for.

Two weekends ago, members of the RAMBO CLUB won trophiesfor defeating the Cong at Sad Sak's War Zone. Last weekend, althoughoutnumbered 42-25, they aided the Western Regional Champion NONAMES team and defeated their opponents four out of four games.Will members from Caltech's Rambo team participate in the Survivalgames national championships?

Be sure to watch TIC-TAC-DOUGH at 2:30 today and Monday.Just remember, "They can kick me out of Page, but they can't kickthe Page out of me!"

- The Probation OfficersRicketts: They just don't make 'em like they used to. A group of noisypests seems to have infested the area under Ricketts Hovse. They gnawon concrete and wear funny hats. I think that one of them is named"Glenn". The enterances to their nests are about one foot in diameter,and they are usually located in thick concrete walls. If you spot anyof these, plase contact Nancy at the Housing Office for immediateaction.

News Flash! In case you're in doubt, the Supreme Court has ruledthat the tomato is a vegetable. Many people don't believe me when Itell them this, but it really is true, gosh dang it! Last night, Rickettsand Blacker showed their committment to increased interhouse activi­ty by trading delicious desserts for potatos in silver foil wrappers.Bravo!

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state of affairs?Or have you decided that it's

hopeless anyway and that your bestbet is to go for big bucks now, getthe BMW or Mercedes, the houseand the vacation condo, and let allof "them"- the current internationalmilitary power brokers - make thedecisions about nuclear weaponsbecause they know better?

Do you think about nuclear warmuch or do you simply deny thatit could happen to you? Dothoughts of speaking out againstnuclear arms buildup make youfeel you're some sort of weird ex­tremist? Do you despair that you'retrapped on a sinking ship - theplanet earth - and that your life isrendered meaningless by the threatof nuclear war?

The above questions and manyothers will be explored during aworkshop entitled "Walking on theEdge of Despair: Finding Meaningin the Nuclear Age." Theworkshop, jointly sponsored by theCaltech Counseling Service, theCaltech Y, the office of theMaSH, the Dean's office, and theoffice of the Vice-President forStudent Affairs, will run 5Vz hoursover two days, April 24 and 25,and will be presented by David andMadelaine McMurray. DaveMcMurray is a clinicalpsychologist and director ofCounseling Services at HumboldtState College; Madelaine McMur­ray is an artist and Jungiantherapist.

The workshop will use film,slides, readings, group discussions,and feeling exercises to exploreperceptions and reactions of par­ticipants regarding nuclearholocaust. Attention will be paid tothe "going 1st class on the Titanic"mentality many young people havedeveloped in the face of thismassive threat; i.e., that con­fronted with devastation of life aswe know it many people assume ashort-term focus on their lives, op­ting for their own material successover a sense of a longer term andbroader focus which takes thewelfare of society-and civili­zation - into consideration.

The workshop is open to allgraduate and undergraduatestudents plus faculty and staff of theInstitute. The workshop will runThursday evening. April 24, 6:30to 9:00 pm and Friday morning,April 25, 8:30 to 11 :30 am. Thereis an enrollment limit of 30 par­ticipants, so call now to reserve aseat.

For more information callMarie Robles or Bruce Kahl atx6393 (Counseling Service), orRobin Wilson at the Caltech Y,x6163.

rotated among outstanding scien­tists in the fields of mathematics,astronomy, geosciences, bios­ciences, and polyarthritis.

In honoring Dr. Wasserburg,the Academy cites his "major im­pact on our knowledge of theuniverse, focusing on the originsand history of the solar system andits component bodies. His work hasestablished a time scale for thedevelopment of the early solarsystem and the formation of theplanets, the moons, and themeteorites."

Dr. Wasserburg is interna­tionally recognized for his pioneer­ing research in isotope geology; forhis work as director of Caltech's"Lunatic Asylum," a world­renowned center for the study andanalysis of moon rocks, meteorites,and particles from interplanetaryspace; and for his counsel towarddevelopment of the U.S. spaceresearch program.

Edge of Despair

[CNB]-Dr. GeraldJ. Wasser­burg, John D. MacArthur Pro­fessor of Geology and Geophysicsat Caltech, has been awarded oneof the scientific community's mostprestigious honors, the 1986Crafoord Prize of the RoyalSwedish Academy of Sciences. Hewill receive the award and

. Crafoord gold medal from KingCarl Gustaf of Sweden in aceremony at the Academy onSeptember 24, in Stockholm. Dr.Wasserburg shares the prize of ap­proximately $138,000 (1,100,000Swedish crowns) with ProfessorClaude Allegre of the University ofParis.

The Crafoord Prize is financedthoi-ugh the Anna-Greta andHolger Crafoord Fund, establish­ed in 1980 by the late Swedish in­dustrialist Holger Crafoord, whoinitiated the manufacture anddevelopment of the kidneydialyser. The award is annually

by L. Bruce Kahl, M.D.Special to the Tech

As you make your way throughthe mountains of Math and Physicsproblem sets, laboratory work,

I field trips, requirements upon re­I quirements, moving from night tonight, quarter to quarter, and yearto year, do you think much abouthow you will use all of your hard­earned knowledge, how you wantto spend your days after gradua­tion? Do the "how's" of these ques­tions reflect any consideration ofthe massive nuclear buildup in theworld, the imminent danger to all

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The single largest problem,however, was in 2021, whenHouse Security Adviser Larry J."Bud" Hansen brought to light aplot to undermine the DarbCard™services offered by DabniBank, asubsidiary. The conspiracy, head­ed by Dr. James Xi, threatened notonly to produce counterfeit Darb­Cards, but to invade the DarbNetcomputer system using a programcalled VisiGoth™ to defeat theDarbCard validation systems.

To defend itself against Dr. Xi'sscheme, the House enlisted the ser­vices of Patrick J. Wayne, one ofthe House's top operatives inEurope. Wayne went immediatelyto Xi's Cambridge headquarters,spent several days gathering in­telligence, and finally confrontedXi in his very command center.However, the Brach's CandyDisplay proved overpowering, andWayne was knocked unconscious.Xi, ever looking for a more evilsolution to a problem, took Wayneto the Hill of Death, a tribal ritualground in the Central Americanwilderness.

After a bizzarre and wackyceremony, involving Americangame show idioms from the latetwentieth century, Wayne was putinto a terrifying hypnotic tranceand forced to ride up the Hill ofDeath on a bicycle in clear viola­tion of [Title-Relevant Phrase] sec­tions 21201(c) and 21205 of theCalifornia Vehicle Code.

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The Story So Far:In late 1985, Dabney House, a

little known "upstart"undergraduate House at theCalifornia Institute of Technology,raised a huge amount of venturecapital with which the House ac­quired Beatrice Corporation, at thetime a very large congolmerate ofcompanies. The House immediate­ly fell into a period of dictatorship,in which it stayed for about twen­ty years.

Within the first few years of thetwenty-first century, however, ma­jor reorganizations at the highestlevels of the House governmentlead to a restructuring, withDabney ultimately becoming whatis commonly known as a CorporateRepublic. (In fact, most politicalscientists believe that this stage inthe House's history was the modelCorporate Republic on which allsubsequent examples were based.)

It wasn't long, however, beforemajor external events shook thestability of the House and its effec­tiveness in a changing market. TheDOS Trials of 2012 led to arevitalization of the Corporation'salready popular alternative com­mand processor, but increasedsales were not without their pricein human suffering. In addition, theUndergraduate Division underwentthe largest one-week drop in theDow-Jones Academic Averagesduring early 2015, which leftanalysts and educators concernedfor months.

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PUBLIC EVENTS' SEASONRenowned harpsichordist

Malcolm Hamilton will perform inrecital Saturday evening at 8 P.M. inRamo Auditorium. At the turn of thecentury, Pasadenans would likelyhave enjoyed the creativity of Bach,Handel and Scarlatti. Mr. Hamilton,regarded as a leading interpreter ofthe baroque period, honorsPasadena's Centennial with thisspecial program.

Sunday brings Jacob Will,bass-baritone of the San FranciscoOpera, to Ramo Auditorium at3:30 P.M. His appearance marks theconclusion of the San FranciscoYoung Artists in Recital series atCaltech, which featured the risingnew stars from the opera.

Mr. Will's program features theworks of Purcell, Brahms, Mozart,Quilter, Ibert and Ives.

CIT student rush tickets for$5.00 each are available today forboth of these performances. Caltechstudent ID required (limit 2 rushtickets per ID).

The Wells Cathedral Choirand Chamber Orchestra make theironly Los Angeles area appearanceThursday, April 24 at 8 P.M. inBeckman Auditorium. Concluding asuccessful world tour, their Caltechprogram includes the music ofGibbons, Weelkes, Byrd, Okeover,Philipps, Haydn, Mathias, Walton,Britten and J. C. Bach. Consisting of16 boy Choristers and 10 Gentlemenof the Choir, the Choir's history datesback to the year 1136. The Gentle­men still reside in the Vicar's Close,a medieval street, which was built forthem in the 14th Century. Tickets arepriced at $7.00; Caltech studenttickets are $5.00 each.

Next weekend brings the annualColeman Chamber EnsembleCompetition to Ramo Auditorium.The competition, held on Saturday,April 26, is open to the public, freeof charge. The Winners Concert willbe held on Sunday, April 27 at3:30 P.M. in Ramo Auditorium.

Participants from across thecountry compete for prizes totalingover $9,000. Student tickets to theWinners Concert are $3.00.

Tickets can be purchased at theCaltech Ticket Office, located justnorth of the Beckman Auditoriumparking lot. Call campus extension4652 for further information.

The author of this column andthe editor of this newspaper, afterlengthy negotiations with represen­tatives of, among others, the Na­tional Panel on Community Ser­vices, the East German FraternalSociety of Police Officers, thePresidential Commission on UrbanRenewal, the Automobile Club ofNebraska, the Nonh Atlantic Trea­ty Organization Central StrategicPlanning Committee, the AmericanDirect Marketing Association, theNational Security Agency, Rick'sLiquor Mart of Philadelphia, andthe Florida Advertising Council,have arranged for the columnpreviously entitled "Dabney House'sInside World," which has for thelast several weeks been ofa serialnature, to be moved to this space.As a result, the series of articleswhich originally occupied thisspace, which started several weeksago ("Amber" and "Chapter 2: TheGathering Storm'?, and whichcaused much embitterment andconfusion, will not be continued.This is not an admission ofguilt.

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In 1984, it was found that onlytwo systems of symmetries couldwork within the framework of thetheory. It turned out that eachsystem had 496 (31x32/2) sym­metries; this, according to Gell­Mann may be the reason that onlyhundreds of low-mass combina­tions of superstrings can exist,rather than an infinite number.

"Have they found the HolyGrail?," Gell-Mann asked, "Onlycalculation and experiment willtell."

Experiment will be a difficultprocess because of the energies in­volved with superstrings. It wasoriginally thought that thesephenomena could have an energyof around one GeV. It is nowbelieved, according to GelJ-Mann,that 1019 GeV would be necessaryto study superstrings.

Dave "bitchen" Gallup blowing away the pole-vault Saturday

The Caltech Tennis Team standing together and smiling.

Superstringsfrom page 1ly to solve everything. Previously,it had been thought of as a way torelate quantum chromodynamics(QCD) and quantum flavordynamics (QFD).

QCD and QFD describe theforces encountered between par­ticles according to their "color" or"flavor." These forces are foundbetween quarks, which have six"flavors;" up, down, strange,charmed, truth, and beauty; andthree "colors," "red," "blue," and"green". Quarks assemble in dif­ferent combinations to form dif­ferent particles, like protons andneutrons.

Some of the great plagues ofquantum field theory have been in­finitely large corrections of finiteterms, but they may now be doneaway with by superstring theory."There are no infinities at all (in thetheory)," said Gell-Mann Thiswould eliminate the need for"renormalization," also known as"sweeping under the rug;" this pro­cess assigns finite values to infiniteterms.

meter event. Lee and Penn came inthird and fourth in the 5000 meters.Alex Athanasopoulos won the 400meters in 52.00 seconds for a newpersonal best. Ray Hu and ToddKaplan each scored personal bestsin the 3000 meter steeplechase.Dave Gallup won the pole vaultwith a new personal best of 13 feet.Smith finished third in the polevault. Edward Mao competed inthe shot put and the discus. Caltechwas represented in the long jumpby Inada, Schoffield, and RobbyDow, who finished third throughfifth respectively. Other membersof the track team who participatedinclude Ghani, Davila, Tetzlaff,Bloomberg, Haba, and Smith.Haba reached the 6'0" mark in thehigh jump.

There will be another trackmeet at Caltech this Saturdaybeginning at 10:30 am.

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On the men's side, no newschool records were set but severalpersonal bests were made. JohnGehring won the 5000 meter racewith 16: 12.40, a personal best.John scored another winand per­sonal best with a 4: 10.94 in the1500 meters. Hillyard, Penn, andLee also competed in the 1500

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peted against Whittier and Pomonalast Saturday. The women's trackteam set new school records in the400 meter relay and in the 1600meter relay. The 400 meter teamconsisted of Dee Morrison, TrinaJuzang, Jarita Holbrook, andYvette Madrid, who ran the relaywith a time of 61.67 seconds.Madrid, Morrison, Juzang andKatrin Rodriguez composed the1600 meter team that finished in5:53.42 seconds. In the long jump,Holbrook and Juzang came infourth and fifth respectively.Madrid placed fourth in the 400meter event. In the 100 meters,Holbrook finished in third placewith a new school record of 14.61seconds and was followed byJuzang in fifth. Holbrook also plac­ed fourth in the high jump, Mor-

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GSC Penthouse PartyA penthouse party presented by the

GSC, Division of Biology, ASCIT and Kin­nin & Kochik Enterprises will be the hap­pening scene on this Saturday night, star­ting at 8:00 pm. The theme of the scene willbe "Hawaiian Luau" and so Hawaiian dressis the rad thing to do. It will occur in thepenthouse of the Spalding Business ServicesBuilding. The "Inland Empire's hottest newwave band", The Conservatives, will befeatured. Come and get stoked. This eventis free and open to anyone who wants a goodtime.

Well, Me For One ...Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the

classic study of faculty life at a small townuniversity by Edward Albee, will open April18th in Winnett Lounge. Tickets are on saleat the Ticket Office, $6 general, $4 students.

Walking on the EdgeOn April 24th and 25th, David and

Madeline McMurray of Humboldt StateUniversity will present a workshop focus­ing on the impact of living with the realityof imminent nuclear war. The workshop,entitled "Walking on the Edge of Despair:Finding Meaning in the Nuclear Age," willdeal with issues such as: short range vs. longrange thinking and planning as influencedby the nuclear threat; what it may mean toraise a family under these circumstances;what it can mean to choose a scientific careerunder the same; the impact of the nuclearthreat on the social awareness of individuals.

The workshop is enrollment-limited to30 participants, to include students, staff andfaculty, so call now to reserve your place­as of this writing, the workshop is about halffull. The workshop will take place Thurs­day evening, April 24, 6:30 to 9:00 pm, andFriday morning, April 25, 8:30 to I 1:00 am.

For further information or to make yourreservation, please call Bruce Kahl or MarieRobles at the Counseling Center, x6393, orJulie Bolster or Robin Wilson at the CaltechY, x6163.

BOD on Club BudgetsOne of the items which shall be discussed

during the next ASCIT BOD meeting shallbe proposed changes in the way the BODcurrently budgets money for clubs and otheractivities. Proposed changes include dispen­sing with a large budget meeting at whichclubs are allocated money for the entireyear, and instead considering each event asit begins to be organized. This would be ac­companied by a coordinated effort to iden­tify what sources (Deans, MOSH, ASCIT,etc.) should be approached for funding fordifferent kinds of events.

This discussion will be held at the BODmeeting Tuesday, April 22 at 9 :40PM in theMOSH's office.

Master's TeaAll undergraduates are cordially invited

to the Third-tenn Master's Tea on Tuesday,April 22, 2 to 4 pm in the Master's office.

Come and munch your way throughchocolate, sugar, cream, butter, and hangthe consequences.

Summer HousingSummer housing information and con­

tracts are now available in the Master's Of­fice and Housing Office. Deadline for retur­ning contracts to the Master's Office is May16.

Grad Housing RatesHousing rates appearing in the 1986-87

Graduate Student Housing Options Informa­tion Packet have been adjusted and aresubstantially lower, as follows:

On-Campus Graduate Houses$7/day for a single room ($210 for a 30-daymonth).$7.33/day for a suite room ($220 for a30-day month).Catalina Graduate Apartment ComplexI (four-bedroom apartments)$8.26/resident/day for a single room ($248for a 30-day month).Catalina Graduate Apartment ComplexII (two-bedroom apartments) Two residents:$9. 16/resident/day for a single room ($275for a 30-day month) or Family: $18.32/dayfor the apartment ($550 for a 30-day month).

Please remember that new incomingGraduate Students who submitted housingapplica~ions by April 15, 1986 will be givenfirst priority. All other Graduate Studentsare to return housing applications by MayI, 1986. If needed, a lottery will be heldat that time. Any applications received afterthe lottery will be assigned on a spaceavailable basis by order of date received.

If you have any questions, feel free tocontact Linda Chappell in the Housing Of­fice (x6178).

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fashionable "Off-white Paper" t-shirts. TheSpace Weapons Study Group will provideyou with one of these sturdy, colorful (tan,gray, light blue) 100% cotton souvenirs ofthe Off-white Paper Contest for ONLY$8.00! But wait ... order now and get a freeanti-Star Wars poster at no extra charge!Send your name, mail code, size (S, M, L,XL), color selection, and check (made outto Space Weapons Study Group) to CindyStrong, SWSG, 127 - 72. (First color choicemay not be available.)

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and find out what CLAGS is doing for therest of the year. The place to be is the YLounge, Monday at 8 p.m.

CCF MeetingCome and join us tonight at 7:00 pm in

210 Thomas. We'll be having a fun activityand a time for sharing.

"And let us consider how we may spurone another on toward love and good deeds.Let us not give up meeting together, as someare in the habit of doing. but let us encourageone another - all the more as you see the dayapproaching." (Hebrews 10:24-25)

On May 2nd, there will be an Amy Grantconcert. For tickets ($16.50) and info callEric at x3761. Please call soon (before Sun­day, April 20).

Plant & Bake SaleTo all Caltech students: The Service

League is here to help, so please be thereto support our fundraising Plant & Bake Saleon April 25, Winnett Patio, 8:00 am to 1:00pm. Thank you.

Waltzers Unite!Enjoy dancing? Ever wanted to learn to

waltz or polka? Come to a waltz and polkadance on Saturday, April 19, from 8 pm to12:30 am in Dabney Hall Lounge.Refreshments provided and no admissioncharge. Sponsored by the Caltech Y andMOSH.

Sulim Khan Regrets ...I won't be able to help in organizing the

Squash Club anymore, due to academic timeconstraints, but would be grateful if so­meone else would carry on the organizationfrom her on. If you are interested, pleasegive me a call or drop me a note: SalimKhan, 1-89, x6078, or 354-0719.

Summer JobsThe Alumni Association, in conjunction

with the Career Development Center, hasgenerated some summer job possibilities.These positions are currently available, soif you are interested in summer employment,you should come by the CDC as soon aspossible. We expect to have more jobsavailable so please check with the CDC(Room 8, Parsons-Gates) on a regular basis.

Passover SederA passover seder for students, faculty,

friends and families at Caltech will be heldWednesday, April 23 at 6:30 pm inChandler. The seder which marks the firstnight of passover is an annual event spon­sored by Hillel Extension and is led by RabbiMichael Perelmuter.

The catered dinner will be kosher andcosts $13.00 for faculty and staff, $8.00 forstudents, and $6.00 for children under 12.Those interested in attending should send acheck payable to "Hillel Extension-Seder",900 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA90024.

In addition to the seder, a shabbat ser-27 No. Catalina, Pasadena vice is planned for May 16 in the Y Lounge.

Those wishing more information about theOpen Tues. thru Sat. 8 AM to 5 PM. seder or other Hillel events should call (213)ILo ..l 208-4427.

Summer In A Grad HouseSummer housing information and con­

tracts for the On-Campus Graduate Houses(Braun, Keck, and MJ Houses) is availablein the Housing Office. The deadline forreturning contracts to the Housing Office isThursday, May 15.

Thai Traditions FestivalA Thai Traditions Festival celebrating

the start of the Thai New Year with art,dance, music and ritual will inaugurate theCity of Los Angeles Folk Arts Program asits first major public event on Saturday,April 26, from noon to 5 pm in BarnsdallArt Park, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard (justwest of Vermont - a direct bus ride from SanPasqual and Lake on the 181, for thosewithout cars).

The afternoon program is free and willalso include demonstrations of Thai classicalpainting, vegetable carving, dancing, swordfighting to music, and kick boxing. Ten fodobooths with traditional Thai delicacies notavailable in restaurants will be prepared on­site and sold at very reasonable prices.

Opening ceremonies begin at noon withdignitaries to honor community artsteachers.

The event is sponsored by the City ofLos Angeles Cultural Affairs DepartmentFolk Arts Program and Councilman MichaelWoo, with support from the California ArtsCouncil and the National Endowment for theArts. For information, please call (213)485-2433.

Job Fair DelayedYou may have noticed that the Alter­

native Job Fair was not held on the 15th ofApril, as originally planned. It was re­scheduled for the 13th of May to allow thecompanies more time to make their decisionswhether to participate. Sorry for the in­convenience. If you have any further ques­tions or want to help with organizing the JobFair, please contact Hasok Chang, I-59,578-9414.

Red Door-Open At Last!The Red Door Cafe is happy to announce

"firm and confirmed" hours for third term.Open daily, Monday through Friday, from2: 30 to 5: 30 in the afternoons, Tuesdaythrough Thursday evenings 8-11 pm.Everyone is welcome and the Red Doorneeds your support. Stop in for deliciousfood and drink - become acquainted withour "Brownies du jour"!

Manage Air For $$$The South Coast Air Quality Manage­

ment District has several part-time positionscurrently available. These positions will

. become available as early as May 5 andcould possibly continue full-time through thesummer. If you are interested in workingfor AQMD, come into the Career Develop­ment Center (Room 8 Parsons-Gates) andpick up an application and sign up for aninterview. Interviews are scheduled forApril 25 in the CDC.

Symphony TicketsSign up by Tuesday, April 22 for $5.00

tickets to the Pasadena Symphony on Satur­day the 26th. The program features Dvorak,Beethoven and Coriglioni. [They didn't saywhere to sign up, bur try the Y---]

PhysicistfTheologian On AllA scholar of international renown for his

writings, lectures and research in the historyand philosophy of science will be at Caltechon Tuesday, April 22 for a William Ben­nett Munro Memorial Seminar. Stanley L.Jaki, a Hungarian-born Benedictine priestwith doctorates in Theology (Rome) andPhysics (Fordham) will speak on 'TheTheological Aspect of Modern ScientificCosmology', at 4:00 pm in the Judy Library(Baxter Hall). Dr. Jaki, who has beendistinguished as Gifford Lecturer at theUniversity of Edinburgh, Fremantle Lec­turer at Oxford. and Hoyt Fellow at Yale,is currently DistinguisI1ed University Pro­fessor at Seton Hall University, NJ. Theseminar is part of a series promoted by theDivision of the Humanities and SocialSciences, and on this occasion is co­sponsored by the Newman Center, with theassistance of the Intercollegiate StudiesInstitute.

Dance Party Saturday.. from 8:00PM to I :OOAM in Chandler

Dining Hall. Admission is $6.00. Sponsoredby the Caltech Asian Community. Come andhave fun'

Renaissance FaireIt's time again for the Renaissance

Pleasure Faire in Agoura' Come one and allfor great food, entertainment, costumes, andwonderful crafts! The Y is selling tickets for$6.50 (they normally cost $12.50 at thegate). Tickets are good for any weekendfrom April 19 through May 26! Transpor­tation may be available.

Another Final OfferThe Poetry Workshop that meets in the

Y Lounge on the second and fourth Tues­day evenings of each month now has copiesof its book Another Final Offer. They areon sale for $2 (cheap) and are available inthe Y Office. New members are alwayswelcome. Bring your poetry to share.

Italian-American $$$Undergraduate scholarships and graduate

fellowships are available to Italian-Americanstudents. Please stop by the Financial AidOffice, Room 10, Parsons-Gates, for addi­tional information or write to:

The National Italian American Founda­tion, Educational Scholarship Program, 66611th SI. NW, #800, Washington D.C.20001, Attn. Dr. Maria Lombardo, Educa­tion Director. Phone (202) 638-0220. Ap­plication deadlines are between May 9 andMay 30, 1986.

Bus PassesIf you ride the bus a lot, and are a full­

time undergrad, you can get a bus pass goodfor unlimited non-express fares for $15 permonth, plus $1 initial fee. To get it, youneed a I" by I '4" non-returnable photo,something from the registrar indicatingyou're really here, and a form which alsoought to be at the registrar's office. You haveto do all this twice a year, but it's cheap ifyou ride the bus very often. The form willtell you where to get the pass itself. Still con­fused? Write RTD, Los Angeles, CA90013.

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