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isclosedif subpoenaed. Seetion four details the status of the HealthCenter as a confidential place togo with regard to drug problems.Health Center records cannot besubpoenaed without consent ofthe stUdent, and all consultationwith the Institute psychiatrist orpsyehologist is considered priviledged communication un de rState law.
DrugewSometime within the next few
days every member of the graduate and undergraduate studentbodies will be receiving a copyof' the Institute's policy statement on drug use. The booklet,Drugs and the Caltech Student,was prepared by a special committee of administrators, facultymembers, and students under thechairmanship of Dr. KennethEells, staff psychologist.
The report consists of fourmajor sections. The first sectiondeals with rules' and procedurerelating to drug usage. The Institute's position is essentially,that although it does not condonethe use of drugs such as marijuana and LSD by students, usein itself will not be consideredan act (',aIling for disciplinaryaction on its behalf, providedInstitute property is not involved. Any student discovere'd tobe using drugs on campus will
Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Pri%e winner lectured a "standing roomonly" freshman chemistry lecture last Thursday. Dr. Pauling's visit to the Institute in conjunction with the dedication of Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory ofChemical Physics marked his first return to the campus since he left the Institute in 1963. Since 1963 he has been active in the work of the Center forthe Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California.
be required to move off-campus.Hepeated violations, or violationsof a more serious nature, maylead to disciplinary action. Saleand distribution of these drugsmay lead to action by the Institute against the student(s) involved. However, the reportclearly states that the Institutewill not act as a law enforcement agency, nor will it cooperate with the placement of in-formers in the Student Houses. The committee which drew up
The second part of the report the report, which was approvedis an up-to-date summary of the by the Board of Trustees, conmedical and psychological data sisted of nine individuals. Theknown about the effects of psy- ehairman was Dr. Kenneth Eells,ehedelic drugs. In diseussing Institute psychologist, and theLSD, the pamphlet includes a other eommittee members' were:seetion summarizing the' findings Christopher Dede ('69), Deanon the question of chromosomal Paul C. Eaton, Leonard Erickdamage. Legal aspeets of drug son ('68), Leslie F'ishbone ('68),usage are dealth with in the Prof. Robert Huttenbaek, Prof.third part, which covers topics James K. Knowles, Prof. Felixfrom penalties for use of mari- Strumwasser, and Prof. Hobertjuana, to obligations to te'Stify L. Woodbury.
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was not on the ballot, garnered18,535 write-in votes, over 60%of all write-ins cast. No othercandidate received a significantwrite-in vote.
Students also indicated theirsecond and third choices for president on the ballot. McCarthy ledin second choices with 209,820votes, followed by Kennedy with175,914, Rockefeller with 170,319,and Nixon with 118,960.Non-contenders
No other actual or potentialcandidate made a significantshowing in first-place votes.Among them, however, GeorgeWallace garnered 33,078 votes,Ronald Reagan 28,215, and JohnLindsay 22,301. The SocialistWorker candidate, Fred Halstead, managed just under sixthousand vote'S while HaroldStassen barely exceeded onethousand.
McCarthy scored well in allparts of the country but built hislead particularly in the East,where he led Kennedy by a largemargin. In the South, Kennedywas the leading Democratic candidate, but Nixon outpolled both
Kennedy and McCarthy in thesouthern states.
Some 11,000 foreign studentsalso voted in the election, registering 36% of their vote forKennedy. McCarthy was the' foreign students' second choice with28%.
Among the 1,072,830 studentswhose votes have been tabulatedthus far, over 90% of the indicated total student vote, thegreatest number registered theirparty preference as Democratic,followed by Independent, thenRepublican. Within Democraticranks party support was greaterfor Kennedy than McCarthy, butthe Minnesota Senator showedgreater strength among Republicans and Independents. AmongRepUblicans, Rockefeller d I' e wconsiderable support outside hisparty.On Vietnam
In the election, which wasjointly sponsored by SperryRand's Univac Division andTIME magazine as a public service, students were also asked toindicate their preferences onmilitary policy and bombing in
McCarthyResults of the first nationwide
primary ever held in the U.S.,showed Senator Eugene McCarthy decisively outscoring a largefield of announced and unannounced candidates.
Of the 1,072,830 votes cast bystudents on over 1200 campusesin CHOICE 68, McCarthy was thefirst choice of 285,988, followedby Senator Robert Kennedy with213,832 votes and Richard Nixonthird with 197,167 votes. Over44% of the students who votedwill be eligible to go to the pollsthis November.
Results of the April 24 nationwide election were announced byRobert G. Harris, Executive Director of the student-organizedvote, at a press conference May2nd at Sperry Rand's' UnivacDivision offices in Washington,D.C.
Total first place votes for otherleading candidates were 115,937for Nelson Rockefeller, who hadnot announced his candidacywhen the vote was held, and57,362 for President Johnson whohad withdrawn his.
Vice President Humphrey, who
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on Choice allotVietnam and on priorities for relieving the urban crisis. About45% of the students voted for reduction of the nation's militaryeffort in Vietnam, 29% for temporary suspension of all bombing, and 21 % for all-out bombing.
The most popular means of alleviating the urban crisis wereeducation and jobs, both aboutequal.
In discussing results, Dr. CarlHammer, Director of Scientificand Computer Services for Univac's Federal Systems Division,pointed out that this was thefirst major election in which allinformation on the ballots wascomputerized. In previous elections computers had dealt onlywith totals from the polls. Within the foreseeable future, Hammer observed, national presidential elections will be tabulatedand analyzed much as CHOICE68, providing much more information in depth on electoral decisions.
Analysis of the Caltech voteshould be available this comingweek.
NoticesBUDGET REQUESTS
All organizations ex pee tin gA.SCIT funds must submit budgetsto Joe Feng in Blacker immediately.FAME, GLORY, ETC. STilLAVAILABLE
Nominations are still open formembership on the ASCIT ExComm and for sophomore, junior,and senior class officers for nextyear. Send applications to LarryShirley in Ruddock.WHAT IS A CASTLE?
You can fi nd out tomorrow andSaturday nights in Beckman Auditorium at 8 :30 p.m. Admissionis free to all ASCIT members. Besides finding out what a castle is,you can see an exciting new musical play presented by students ofCaltech and PCe. It's The Castlethe 1968 ASCIT Musical. Remember, this original, full-lengthmusical play can be seen for freeby all ASCIT members.PICNIC ••• FREE
The Cal tech Newman Club ishaVing a picnic this Saturday atSeismolab with GIRLS! AnyoneWishing to go please contact TomCarroll, 128 Lloyd, Ext. 2180 before the sun goes down today.
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the world. Thirteen years afterMaharishi made him his masterGuru Dev died. Maharishi bega~his campaign, and made his firstappearance' in the United States'in 1959 at the Masquers Club inHollywood.
Algebraic meditation
The guru has a great followingamong students. UCLA startedthe Student International Meditation Society (SIMS), a corporation of youths who practiceTranscendental Meditation. Itsmembership has exploded, andmay even spread to Caltech aftertoday. Not only must studentspay a fee of $35 for initiation toTranscendental Meditation, butalso they are required to stopsmoking either cigarettes ormarijuana and refrain from theuse of LSD and other mind-expanding drugs for at least 15days.
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by Carroll
Maharishi Mehe'Sh Yogi is onthe Caltech campus today. Thefamed Indian guru and modestpersonality of television and thepress is to speak this afternoonon the Olive Walk at 3:30 p.m.to all interested at Caltech concerning his worldwide campaignof Transcendental Meditation.
The Maharishi has establishedhis ashram, or retreat, in Hishikesh, India, a small haven forIndia's gurus, loeated on the Ganges River. With him lately havebeen such names as the Beatles,Mia Farrow, and Mike Love ofthe Beach Boys.
Come learnYogi got his start by becom
ing the student of the Guru Devand living a life of seclusionin the hills of India. Early inhis studies he determined tospread his meditation all over
Signing away the next yearof their lives', seven graduatestudents have been selected asResident Associates for the'seven undergraduate H 0 use s.This year for the first time amarried couple will reside' within the sanctity of a studentHouse. The "lucky" couple isMr. and Mrs. John Webb, andthey will reside in DabneyHouse. Over the summer theRA's room in Dabney will berefurbished to better suit theneeds of a married couple. Mr.Webb is from Australia and isa graduate student in chemistry.
Other new HA's include JohnHall, graduate in geological science; Zoltan Tokes, graduate inbiology; Dennis Rydjeski, graduate in biology; and Dr. Alan
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Signing away the next threeyears of their lives, 62 freshment have chosen physics astheir option instead of goinginto science. The s'econd mostpopular choice was engineeringwith 33 followed by mathematicswith 31. This compares with 65in physics, 38 in math, and 31in engineering for the originaloption choices for the presentjuniors, the last group for whichthe figures were readily availa"ble.
Only 20 freshmen chose purechemistry, while five chose thechemical engineering option. Following chemistry was biologywith 13 and astronomy with 1I.
In the liberal arts department,a grand total of four freshmenchose to make' a humanitiesoption their second option orminor. Two chose economics, andone each history and English.
Foolishness to onFoolish FoolishSeniors Frosh
Signing away the next fouryears of their lives, 203 highschool seniors have acceptedinvitations from Caltech to become members of the Class of1972. This compares to an original membership of 195 for thepresent freshman class. The Institute had sent invitations to 305high school seniors, of whichonly 203 accepted.
Dr. Peter M. Miller, AssociateDirector of Admissions, statedthat the Freshman AdmissionsCommittee had made a "consdous effort to see if we' couldbroaden the scope of the incoming freshman class."
The Class of 1972 will beginto learn about their mistake atthe traditional Fre'Shman Campwhich will be held at Camp Radford beginning September 26.
Page Two CALIFORNIA TECH Thursday, May 16, 1968
Editorial Letters Editorial
Last year's furor over the amount of drug usage by Caltechstudents has had one good consequence, for the recently announced Institute policy on drug usage is both enlightened andeffective. This policy, stated in the booklet Drugs and the Caltech Student, is perhaps the most reasonable and enl ightenedpolicy set forth by any major university in this country. The Institute recognizes the impossibility of acting "in loco parentis",of policing the students rather than treating them as responsibleadults. The policy was passed by the Board of Trustees, and wethink this will help to revive student confidence that this bodydoes look after the latter's interests, after all.
Though enlightened, the new policy clearly defines the Institute's concerns in the matter of drug use among students.What an individual student does on his own is no concern of theschool's, as long as illegal acts qre performed off-campus. Theprime concern of the rules are to prevent misuse of Instituteproperty, and to prevent unnecessary hardships to innocent students. Perhaps the most enlightened part of the policy, and alsoone of the most crucial parts, is that a student convicted in adrug case will not necessarily be expelled from the Institute foran offense which does not entail a violation of the Institute rules.This is a courageous stand, and both the committee and theBoard are to be commended for an excellent job.
-David Lewin, Jim Cooper, Alan Stein
Steve Lewis
Eds note: Please refer to editorial "About the Bookstore."
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responsive to student needs thanbureaucratic machinations it willgrant 1) An immediate 10% discount for students on books andperiodicals 2) A student voice inthe bookstore purchasing policy,3) Student approval of the newbookstore manager when he ishired.
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onLewis CallsDiscountDear Eds:
Everyone at Caltech has spentmoney -- a lot of money at theCaltech bookstore. Watching allthat money pass over the counteris a part of lif'e at Tech. TheCaltech bookstore sells books andsupplies to students at exactlythe same prices charged byVromans and other local establishments. Often a cheaper edition can be bought off campus.
This year the bookstore expects to make $24,000 profit. Ithas been making about thismuch profit annually. Of, thismoney most goes to pay for thebookstore building. The buildingwill be paid off next year andthe Institute will have gottena free building off' of your money.$3,500 of the profit will go toASCIT. Last year ASCIT formeda committee to ask for a 10%discount for students. The bookstore gave the research project$2000 and the committee wasdissolved.
Last year the bookstore sold$178,000 in books and periodicalsto students and faculty. Thefaculty already gets a 10% discount. Thus for under $18,000,probably well under $15,000 thebookstore could give students a10%. This is well under the$24,000 profit which the bookstore currently makes. Indeed itleaves enough to payoff' theloan.
Furthermore the bookstore refrains at this time from sellingsuch high profit items as cigaretteS (perhaps at 35c a pack)candy, or posters because theyclaim that these do not go withthe image of a "dignified technical bookstore." It serves noone's best interest when thebookstore refrains from sellingpopular items, items whose salewould go a long way to payingfor a discount, simply for thesake of dignity.
The Institute does the studentsno favor putting the bookstoreon campus. It makes a sizeableprofit on the students. It goesto little trouble to secure thebest bargains for students or torespond to stud€nt needs orwishes. The bookstore says it
(" t' d 5) was created to serve the stu-,-,on lnue on page'- ---JI dents. If the bookstore is more
CIA Accusedby FerdntanEditors:
T. J. O'Neil's letter to the Tech(25 April) reveals a startling misconception of the string of recentassassinations in the U.S.: Malcolm X, President Kennedy, Dr.King, Bobby Hutton, etc. Werethese deaths really the fault ofsolitary extremists?
Consider one of the assassinations about which most isknown: that of JFR. Thanks tothe patient efforts of Mark Lane,Harold Weisberg and manyothe'rs, we now know that theofficial story, that Lee HarveyOswald, acting alone and for hisown fanatical reasons killed JFK,is false. Furthermore, we knowthat the evidence readily available to the Warren Commissionwould readily have convincedthem of this, if they had beensearching for the assassin, ratherthan seeking only to reassurethe public about the officialstory. Why should the government hide the facts about a"lone assassin"? Well, we knowalso, due to the labor of MarkLane, Harold Weisberg, DistrictAttorney Garrison of New Orleans and others, that CIA menor eX-CIA men, trained by theCIA in violence, committed thethe assassination. The full extent of CIA involvement is notclear, but the fact of such involvement is.
Bobby Hutton, on the otherhand, was murdered by the police while surrendering to them.A murder by an agency of thegovernment.
It is also a matter of recordthat Malcolm X, reversing hisformer idea that the Muslimswere out to get him, pointed outshortly before his death that theMuslims COULD NOT HAVEBEEN responsible for the harrassments he was receiving. Dueto his former high position inthe Muslim religion, he knewhow the Muslims operated andwhat they could and could notdo. Unfortunately, in the caseof Malcolm X, the conspiratorswere more successful in hidingtheir trails.Government involved
With the government involvement in the murders of JFK andHutton, with the suspicious circumstances in the murder of' Malcolm X, and with the disclosuresof the methods of operation ofthe hidden agencies of government, is not the hypothesis ofindividual fanatics restrained bya benevolent government growing rather thin? Is it not moreprobable that various' agenciesof the government are now utili·zing or encouraging others toutilize a FINAL solution forthose left-wing leaders they can·not otherwise cope with? Evenif Dr. King were murdered by alone fanatic - and all one has isthe government's word that thegovernment is innocent - is notthe encouragement given to potential aS'sassins by the more andmore blatant fascism of' the government and by the spectacle ofthe government murdering itsleft-wing opponents perhaps thekey factor?
Frederick Arthur Ferdman
-Jim Cooper, Alan Stein
Mr. Lewis also seems to overlook that the bookstore doessupport the student body indirectly. He does mention the factthat the bookstore gave $3,500 to ASCIT, but he fails to makeit clear that this is a yearly contribution. His claim that the student committee on the bookstore was dissolved after the bookstore gave $2,000 to the research project is also false, since itwas the work over the past year of that committee, as well as thework of the Faculty Undergraduate Relations Committee, uponwhich the Faculty Board based its decision to recommend theforming of an official Bookstore Committee.
Again, we grant Mr. Lewis the right to express his own opinions, but we cannot stand silent and see them go unchallanged.
About the Discount
About the Bookstore
Bookstore Does Contribute
A Reasonable Request
Next, Mr. Lewis demands "a student voice in the purchasing policy of the bookstore." Here, we fail to see exactly whatwhat Mr. Lewis wants that he does not already have. At present,students are able to order virtually any book or periodical throughthe bookstore. Perhaps Mr. Lewis is concerned with having thebookstore sell candy and cigarettes. Although with the numberof candy and cigarette machines on campus we are not at allsure that they would be the "high profit" items Mr. Lewis claims,this certainly would not be an unreasonable request. As a matter of fact it's so reasonable that at last Monday's Facluty Boardmeeting a resolution was passed urging President DuB ridge toform a Bookstore Committee composed of students and faculty.There is little reason to believe that Dr. DuBridge will not formsuch a committee. Thus, in the near future, students will indeedhave some voice in the items they would like to see sold at thebookstore.
Finally, Mr. Lewis demands an immediate 10% discount onbooks and periodicals sold to students. He states that the Institute "will have gotten a free building off of your money." Hisstatement is not exactly correct.
When it was discovered that funds were lacking to completethe bookstore, a loan was arranged. This loan was not drawnfrom some outside source, but it came from the Institute Endowment Funds. These funds are what represent your money. Although it may seem dubious at the times when term bills comealong, what you pay for tuition actually represents only a smallpart of the actual cost of your education. The balance comeslargely from interest on the Institute Endowment Funds. Thus,the loan the bookstore is repaying is actually being paid to thefunds that support a good deal of your education.
Mr. Lewis' statement that the loan would be paid off at theend of this year even after a 10% discount was deducted fromthe earnings is false. According to Mr. Kermit Jacobsen, Director of Procurement and Auxiliary Services, the bookstore wouldbe unable to payoff the remainder of the loan should a discountbe granted. Once the loan is totally paid off, we would certainly be in favor of granting a 10% discount. This is undoubtedlyone of the things which the Bookstore Committee would investigate.
The Bookstore Manager
Mr. Lewis first demands "student approval of the new bookstore manager." What Mr. Lewis fails to realize is the fact thatthe administration is perfectly will ing to cooperate with the students in the hiring of a new manager. The administration hasrequested ASCIT to select several students who would meet withprospective managers informally. The opinions of the studentsas well as those of faculty members will be taken into consideration when the final selection is made.
It was with no little trepidation that we made the decisionto print Mr. Steve Lewis' letter concerning bookstore. Our doubtsarose out of our concern for the rights of the student body ingeneral, for it was felt that Mr. Lewis' inflammatory statementsmight indeed hinder the progress of a student-faculty committeewhich has been investigating the bookstore question since thebeginning of the cshool year. Our decision to print the letter wasbased on our belief that the Tech should serve as a forum for anystudent's opinion, whether or not the editors happened to agreewith that student. (Witness also Mr. Ferdman's letter in thissame issue.) We, however, do not have to leave such a letterunanswered. Let us examine Mr. Lewis' "demands."
Mike Farber
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tern of Caltech needs change. Butit appears we cannot havechange with a ruling body thattakes the position that the present setup is ordained by God, andany criticism of it is blasphemy.Thus, reform of the system muststart at the top, as I have proposed.
by Tom CarrollAfter clarification of multiple
rumors, the California Tech hasreached the conclusion that thereare fewer bigots in the housinglist than was previously presumed (see March 7 California Tech).Not one example of racial discrimination has been uncoveredand all leads have proven fruitless.
In actuality, the controversycentered around a misunder"standing between the Office ofGraduate and Off-Campus Housing and a receptionist who worked for the volunteer Housing Information Service of Altadena atthe beginning of the year. Itseems that the female Negrotelephone operator who was purportedly discriminated against bylandlords advertising in the housing list was merely seeking amore' suitable apartment thanthose offered. She was unhappywith the appliances in the kitchens of the places she had tried,and the Housing Office calledHIS to obtain more listings. Anensuing misunderstanding during a phone call precipitated thecontroversy.
The Tcch also checked some'of the landlords presently advertising through the HousingOffice and found no unwillingness to accommodate Negro tenants. It seems that the landlordshad honest intentions when theysigned the non-discriminatoryclause on the Housing Office'sapplication. Although the Techpublicly apologizes for any harmdone in the investigation, it alsois overjoyed that in this case itwas proven wrong.
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letj ~~gtSDOUG WESTON'S May
favor a reduction of militaryaction in Vietnam and 29.1 percent are for withdrawal. Amongstudents for me, 51.2 percentwould stop bombing and 28.4percent prefer temporary suspension. I can assure you I shallkeep these views in mind as Itry to develop intelligent responses to changing international relations.
The emphasis of students forMcCarthy on education and jobtraining in our urban reconcila~
tion efforts is reassuring to mein a very personal way. Let usremain together, and I am confident that our common causecan change the direction of ourcountry.
With best wishes.Sincerely yours,
Eugene J. McCarthy
their own sake and to placethem above the desires and theneeds of the student body. Itsmembers are so committed tothe present system that they cannot see its faults or improve itsgood points. Furthermore, theyhave been completely ineffectivein advancing the interests of thestudent body against those elements of the administration whosee the houses only as a financial matter.
The reason for this unresponsiveness of the IHC does not appear to lie in its personnel, but inits very structure. The housepresidents, understandably, tendto see matters from the point ofview of their own houses, whichleads to a certain narrowness ofvision
Many students, both off and oncampus, agree that the living pat-
SAT., JUNE8:30 PM
Farber ProposesNew IHCJ<Jditors:
Recently, a proposal has beenadvanced that would have theIHC expand and take over mostof the functions of ASCIT. Afterwatching the performance of theIHC on a relatively minor matter, that of the style of lunchesserved in the houses, I am moved not only to protest, but alsoto advance a counterproposal.My counterproposal is to subor-'dinate IHC to the new Commission on Student Life under a reorganized ASCIT.
Few organizations on this campus have done such an inefficie'ntjob in representing the interestsof the students. The recent debacle over lunches, which was anexercise in arbitrariness, if notin downright dishonesty, is aclear example of this. IHC appears to value traditions for
Dear Editor:I am writing to you in the
hope that you will communicatemy appreciation to the studentson your campus for theirCHOICE '68 votes.
Not only because my candidacy was favored in the balloting am I grateful. More significant than the success or theloss·es of individual candidatesin CHOICE '68 is the participation by one million students onsome 1200 campuses in the political process'. Student opinions,debated and expressed democratically, will influence electionsthroughout our nation.
CHOICl':'; '68 opinions on military action, bombing and theurban situation have been forwarded to me. I note that 55.4percent of my student supporters
McCarthy ThanksStudents For Votes
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Berkeley. He would get as good,if not better taught sciencecourses at either University. Hisclass sizes would be comparableand in the case of Stanford smaller than at Caltech. He wouldhave the added advantages of fully devloped non-science departments and the resultant enrichedintellectual climate. There aresocial benefits a-plenty for goingto Stanford or Berkeley and noone challenges the value of theCalor Stanford degrees. Hewould meet as many if not morefaculty members and would haveopportunities like junior yearyear abroad programs readilyavailable.
The "B" type student mightalso have a hard time choosingCaltech over Berkeley or Stanford. If he is socially unexposed,Caltech is certainly not the placeto begin. He would get as good ifnot a better science educationat the other universities and thepossibilities for personal growthheavily favor not coming to Caltech.
Caltech best?This matter of whether or not
Caltech offers the serious mindedscience student the' best education there is, rests on some basicmyths. Most undergraduates usethe term scientific education asconsonant with scientific courses.I have met and communicatedwith ma n y undergraduates atStanford and Berkeley and several students from schools allacross the nation. Our coursestructure is not unique' in content. A course will vary here andthere but the PHI and 2, 106 and125 sequence is repeated constantly, for physics majors. Thefaculty members who teach thesecourses are comparable in manyschools of Caltech's research stat-·ure. In any case the inabilityof many professors to communicate what they know, tends toeven out the faculty factor. Theintangble aspects of a scientific education are clearly notmonopolized if even shared by
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Part IIby Joseph Rhodes
Caltech is not a scene ofstudent violence and disorder.Great throngs of angry studentsneither imprison administratorsnor fill Throop Hall. The comparative tranquility of the Caltechcampus does not, however, meanthat Caltech has somehow avoid-'ed the urgency for re-examination which has touched so manyother colleges and universities.
I began this series of articlesto encourage public discussion ofissues vital to Caltech, Le. wh~rewill this Institute of Technologygo from here? This is necessarynow, because in spite of the opportunity for a redefinition ofthe Institute represented by the"Science for Mankind" slogan,the faculty committee on Goalsand Aims and the upcomingturnover in Administrative personne'l, the entire Caltech cmumunitiy has yet to address itself to the form such a redefinition should take. Is "Sciencefor Mankind" nothing more thanfund-raising packaging of thetraditional Caltech approach ordoes this slogan represent a fundamental and concerted attemptto direct the Institute's resourcesalong socially valuable guidelines? Are we going to first rigidly define the Institute along traditional lines, reorganize the Institute's Administration and thentry to attract a new president?I believe that we cannot answerthes·e questions until we' take ahard look at Caltech and decidewhat is fact and what is myth.The Caltech education
If we wish to get to the rootsof Caltech we must ask the ques-·tion, "Why should any undergraduate come to Caltech?" Wecan idealize the undergraduatestudent body into two sets Set A student is "well rounded"socially active and motivated.Set B is the narrow minded science "troll" often alluded to byCaltech students. An "A" person must be hard-pressed tochoose Caltech over Stanford or
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More NoticesHAS ANYONE SEEN MYSLiDERULE?????
LOST - yellow Pickett sliderulein grey case. Contact L. Pilachowski, Ricketts House, if found.LIKE RAVI SHANKAR?
Well, the soundtrack to CinemaTech's presentation this Friday at8 P.M., World of Apu wasscored and performed by him.Need more be said? Oh, the cost.Only $1.00!
CREATIVE???For anyone who writes, draws,
paints, photographs, or is just plaininterested, please come to the Totem meeting on Sunday, May 19 at4 :00 p.m. in Winnett clubroom 2.
SUMMER SOFTBALLORGANIZING
There will be an organizationalmeeting of the Caltech SummerSoftball League on Friday, May17th at 12:30 in Winnett Clubroom No.2. Managers of teamspreviously in the League and individuals wishing either to form newteams or affiliate with a team areurged to attend.
DO YOU CARE?On the pillar by the bookstore is
a petition requesting the Congressto institute a new investigation ofthe murder of John F. Kennedy.MATH AWARDS
The winners of the E. T. Bellundergraduate prize and the Morgan Ward prize will be announcedat the award dinner, Sunday, May19, to be held at Panch ito's Restaurant, San Gabriel.
nical details are being handledby Bill Drake, Vince Johns, BartBordon, Mike Kahn, and LarryShirley.
just because the temperaturehas its ups and downs.
You can understand whywhen you consider all the extratrouble and extra expense that
go into brewing Bud®. For instance, Budweiser is the only
beer in America that's Beechwood Aged.
So .. , it's absolutely okay
to chill beer twice.
N~ Enough said. (Ofo• course, we havea lot more to say
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1968 ASCIT Musical. The production, which has been in planning for nearly a year, is anoriginal musical play by Caltechstudents Dan Nemzer and MikeGaret, with direction by JimDownum and choreography byDick Neu. The Castle is freeto ASCIT members and will bepresented tomorrow and Saturday nights at 8:30 in BeckmanAuditorium.
The Castle stands near a smallSpanish fishing village and hasbeen a focal point of' the villagers' traditions for hundreds ofyears. But now a powerful industrial company has destroyedthe unity of the village andthreatens to destroy the Castle.The question is: Will the peoplefight to save the'ir village, theirCastle, and their spirit of cooperation?
Portraying the people caughtup in this dramatic excitementare Karen Gillet and Shari Friedland of PCC, and Caltech students Terry Bruns, Jeff Moller,Chris Reed, and Glenn Prestwich. They are assisted by anensemble of over thirty Teckersand PCC girls.
The original music will beplayed by a fif'teen·piece orchestra directed by Jim Downum,with Reuben Epstein as concertmaster. The production and tech"
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It's here! The Castle! Thisweekend PCC girls', a low-incomeworld traveler, a magical potter,an old fisherman, and even ahandsome young surveyor willall come together to present the
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There is no doubt that thesevere limitations of the Caltechsoc i e t y restrict a student'sgrowth. It is unnatural and unnecessary for Caltech students toexist in a male environment.Few opportunities exist forcasual associations and relationships. An educational environ·'ment must stimulate a studentand in some ways reflect hisfuture situations.
There is a commonly acceptedmyth at Caltech that as a smallinstItution we experience an intimate association with the Caltech faculty This is certainlytrue for many students. Severalstudents, however, never see professon; outside the classroom.This is an unfortunate waste ofa great opportunity.
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Education is of course a muchbroader concept than academicaevelopment. Caltech has the responsioility for the growth oftne entire student. This is anarea where we fail miserably.
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the majority of Caltech students.Students worl,- in research labsin about the same proportions,much of the intellectual fervorand excitement that exists atthese other schools is lackinghere. It would be a sad mistaketo operate under the assumptionthat Caltech offers a student amuch better science educationthan any other major school.
This conclusion, essentially discovering that perhaps no oneshould come to Calte'ch, is notsomething that makes me veryhappy. If anyone would like topursue this analysis, please do.The admissions record of lastyear seems, however, to corroberate the fact that high-schoolseniors are wiser these days andwon't necessarily decide on aschool for its impressiveness orbecause it writes a convincingcatalogue.
'I'ech can't keep up One could view Caltech as anI referred in my last article instItution devoted to implanting
to the impact the "information a set of scientific values in aexplosion" has had on the Cal- student body. In our presenttech education. The assumption world, it becomes evident thatthat the' Caltech education is Caltech has some responsibilitythe first stage in a lifelong pur- to consider the social values itsuit of facts is precisely the imparts to the student body.problem. Caltech cannot hope to Dean Strong wrote a letter tokeep pace with the expansion of incoming freshman that warnedknowledge'. Updating our curri- of the dangers of mistakes byculum should not be simply a default. This also applies to Calmatter of shifting the courses tech. We live in a turbulent soback one year and encouraging ciety beset with a whole arrayseniors to take more graduate of complex issues and problems.courses. In this regards the In- The Calte'ch student has his constitute can hope to accomplish .., science pricked by the YMCA,only one objective. It can expect the newspaper and the variousto develop within an individual campus organizations. He is toldstudent, the ability to teach him- that he shares some social reself. This means that students sponsibilities. In many ways,must be given more' direct re- however, the student body folsponsibility for their educations. lows the example set by the faculPrograms like the Swarthmore ty and administration. The rehonors and Princeton scholars suIt is apathy. If the Instituteprograms must be instituted. wishes to develop a graduate
In the Princeton program a who is socially aware and conselect portion of' the encoming cerned, it must involve itself in afreshman class are allowed to major way in its community.develop their own educationalprogram with the constant guid·ance of a faculty member. Scholars are not reqUired to take anycourses and usually b a 1a n c ecourses with intensive independent work.
The Swarthmore Honors program inaugurated 40 years ago,offers Swarthmore upperclassmen the opportunity to intensively study material via the
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Stranded Tecker after spending harrowing night on Catalina.
A Tecker's date looks on in despair as last boat pulls away from Catalinadock, leaving her and her date stranded for the rest of the evening on Catalina.How she and her date survived this harrowing experience is told in the accompanying story.
MisFortune (???)
Alas and alack! We cannot endthe article as happily as wewould like, for a grave misfortune befell a certain Tecker overLost Weekend. This Tecker, whohappens to live in Ricketts, hadthe great misfortune('?'?'?) to bestranded overnight on Catalinawith his date. We can imaginethe great anguish he must havefelt in his heart when he and hisdate returned to the dock andfound it empty. But we mustsalute his great courage, for withlittle more than his date in hishand, he and his date managedto survive the great wildernessthat is Catalina at night. Morethan this, he even managed theheroic feat of returning to themainland via the Catalina FlyingService. His return to Tech wasundoubtedly the most heroicfeat of any Tecker over the weekend. 0 valiant one in RickettsHouse, the Tech salutes you.
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Cope, Research Fellow in chemical engineering. The House assignments for the new RA'swere not available at press time.
Evidently not learning theirlesson, two of the present RA'swill be returning next year formore. Ricketts will still begraced with the presence ofKostia Bergman, graduate in bio"logy; and Lloyd will still operateunder the guidance of Jack Griffith, graduate in biology.
Foolishness cont.
brunch at Manning's Cafeteria.Thus, as the sun slowly set inthe west, another Lost Weekenddrew to a close, with all thecouples .
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After having spent anothernight on the second floor ofLloyd, the girls rejoined theirdates Sunday morning for a
Saturday found the couples onan ocean voyage to that jewe'l ofthe Pacific, Catalina Island. Theseas were running high, however, and preliminary reports indicated that more than one person made the trip by rail. Arriving at Avalon totally exhilarated,the couples entered the groundsof the Avalon Beach Club, thetraditional terminus for LostW,e,ekend expeditions. A\fter aday of fun in the sun, a sacklunch, and a steak dinner, thecouples again boarded the chartered boats and steered a courseback to the Caltech cam pus.Other than the fact that the daywas somewhat cold and windy,and the fact that there was ashortage of silverware and platesat the dinner, the day was generally enjoyed by all.
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Lost Weekend began earlyFriday evening with a specialformal dinner served out-of-doorson the lawn between Rickettsand Fleming House. Approximately 75 Teckers with theirdates attended this and otherLost Weekend functions. Themeal went smoothly thanks to awaiting staff who for once intheir careers forgot to be theirusual surly selves.
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couples adjourned to the SierraRoom of the Statler Hilton Hote'lwhereupon they proceeded todance until the early hours ofSaturday morning. For the restof the night, the female guests
by Jim Cooper
To the delight of' few and tothe' woe of many, Lost Weekend1968 has come and gone from theCaltech campus. Those delightedconsisted mainly of the residentsof the second floor of LloydHouse who were once again ableto occupy their own roows afterthe departure of the' Lost Weekend guests. Those saddened included most of the rest of theundergraduate student body. Thereason for their sadness is thefact that the guests for LostWeekend were members of thefair sex.
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Interhouse Football StartsWith Flems, Lloyd Ahead
The Interhouse Bridge Tournament began last Monday and thefinal matches will be held nextMonday. A play-off, if necessary,will also be next week.
Each House sends two twoman teams to the tournament.It is played in the duplicate stylewhere each team plays handsthat have been pre-arranged. Inthe tournament, the North-Southteam from each House while theEast-West teams rotate. Pointsare on the IMP system whereteams get +points for e a c hmatch. These points are thentotaled with a point apiece forthe first 12 points and a half'point for the next 24 points permatch.
In overall IMP's, Fleming isleading with 58 points while Ruddock is close behind with 48points. Dabney is third with 32while Blacker has 10. Page andRicketts have -65 and 83 respectively. Lloyd did not enter ateam. Blacker is leading in totalHouses defeated with four whileFleming, Ruddock, and Dabneyhave each beaten three.
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fast rushers. Dabney could havea good all-round team; however,Johnson lacks coolness at quart·erback and the team does notplayas a team because they lackexperience.
While Ricketts has a standoutperformer in Rehbein, they donot have the team to back himup on either offense or defense.They are slow at keying defensively and have no offensive receivers besides Rehbein whocatch consistently. Blacker willcome in last. They have nofinesse or stick-out performers.
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On their overall balance andseasoning, I predict the .B'lemsto repeat as football winners.They have good speed offensively and a good quarterback in JoeTempleton. Defensively, Fleminghas an excellent backfield andgood rushers. They have not yetallowed a point to be scored uponthem. Page and Lloyd will fightit out for second place with Pagevictorious because they are ateam of veterans. With Brownthrowing and their strong defense, they have a powerfulteam. Lloyd has a strong rushingand blocking team and has an excellent receiver in Hanson. However, they do not have thefinesse to beat Page or Fleming.
Ruddock will come in fourthon the strength of Fettig's passing and on their receiver's speed.On defense they have strong,
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Dabney increased its DiscoboIus point lead to four points asthey downed Blacker in a handball match. Only two Blackermembers showed up. One matchwas played and Fox of Dabneywon. Blacker then forfeited therest of the matches. Dabney nowhas 24 points and an unbeatablelead as they appear to havewrapped up the trophy.
Lloyd was' next on the proverbial challenger's list and challenged in touch football, waterpolo, and golf. Dabney acceptedin touch football and the gamewill be played on Sunday.
In point standings, Dabneyleads while Ricketts is in second.Far back is Fleming in thirdwith Blacker fourth. Page isfifth while Ruddock is sixth withLloyd back in last.
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