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IBy Ivan Fong

Graduate students from

Taiwanl al MIT have reported al-leged spying on them by agents oftheir governments, in a "verypolitical and sensitive issue" con-cerning students who, because ofpolitical strife in their homelands,may be innocent victims ofpolitical persecution.

"[Foreign students] might bespying on one another, yes ...[bult it's very difficult to pin-point," declared Eugene R.Chamberlain, International Stu-dents' Advisor and AssociateDean for Student Affairs. "Therehave been specific incidences ofalleged spying [at MIT]," con-tinued Chamberlain, "But theseare not provable facts."

According to one student,"After the [mysterious death of aCarnegie-Mellon University assis-tant professor in July during avisit to his native Taiwan], therehave been many spies."

Numerous MIT graduate stu-dents spoke of a letter distributedaround the Chemical EngineeringDepartment on September 2 ap-parently accusing a graduate stu-dent in the department of being aTaiwanese spy. Although thevalidity of the letter is coritrover-sial, Chemical EngineeringDepartment Head James C. Wei'54 concedes that there "may be asecurity problem.''

'It is a sensitive issue becausethe rights of students are in-volved, especially those of the in-nocent," remarked Wei.

Sources also claim that the al-leged spies are not really spies,but people who clandestinelyobserve the conduct and moralsOf others, and report back to thegovernment. The problem ofpolitical pressure on foreign stu-dents is also a national one -several Iranian students in Ten-nesee were arrested after an inci-dent last month involving sup-

porters ofthe Ayatollah RuhollahKhomeini.

Dr. Louis B. Menand 3d,Special Assistant to the Provost,commented yesterday that he hadnot heard of any recent allega-tions of spying; but that a policyset by then-President Jerome B.Wiesner fnd then-ChancellorPaul E. Gray '54, that "While wereaffirm the openness of ourcampus, we would be indignant ifany person camne onto ourcampus for purposes of spying orsurveillance,' still stands.

"Any person present in theUnited States as an agent for aforeign government must registerwith the United States Depart-ment of State and sanctions areimposed for the failure to do so.Information concerning 'spying'activities will be referred to theDepartment of State," continuedthe open letter to the MIT com-munity dated March 18, 1976.

The letter arose trom allegedreports that a student takingphotographs at an open forum atM IT on February 6, 1976 wasperforming some surveillancefunction for the Taiwanesegovernment, which, in a detailedreport by Menand in May of thesanie years found no firmevidence to support-.- Menand'sreport did, however, claim thatthe government of Taiwan mayoperate i nationwide surveillancesvstem to monitor Taiwanese stu-dents in the US.

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The Big Sail, in preparation(Photo by Bill Coderre)

for a repainting sometime today.

By Stephanie PollackAs -part of the voting -for

Homecoming Queen whichbegins Wednesday, students willhave the opportunity to vote foror against the entire contest, ac-cording to Skip Bulter '82,chairman of the UndergraduateAssociation Social Committee.

This compromise between op-ponents and proponents of theHomecoming Queen contest wasreached at an open forum at-tended by approximately 100 stu-dents Tuesday evening. "Thecompromise is a workable one,"Butler noted. "It takes into con-sideration the considerable workdone by those who would like tohave a Homecoming Queen andshows consideration to those whowouldn't like to have one at all."

Voting will take place in Lobby10 on October 14, 15 and 16. Theballot will indicate their approvalor disapproval of the contest. Theballot will also contain a list ofthe names of all HomecomingQueen nominees, including theUgliest Man on Campus(UMOC), according to Jim Olivo'82, Homecoming Queen co-ordinator.

If the majority of studentsvoting indicate disapproval, Olivo

continued, no Queen will beelected- and_ HomeCmingWeekend will proceed in the samemanner as two years ago, whenUMOC was crowned Homecom-ing Queen. If students favorholding the contest, the seven

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By Jay GlassTuesday's assassination of

Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat is one indication of growingArab dissatisfaction with secularstates, according to MIT profes-sor and Middle East historyspecialist Phillip Khoury.

Sadat was assassinated bymembers of a small, fundamen-talist Islamic group with strongmilitary ties, according to ais-yetunidentified Egyptian authorities.Sadat died shortly after thegroup's assault, which came dur-in, Li military review com-memorating Egypt's 1973 warwith Israel.

Observers in Egypt report littleof the open, widespread mourn-ina noticed after the death ofSadalt's predecessor, General Ab-dul Nasser, in 1970.

''There could be only txvoreasons for this.'' commentedKhoury. ''Either the streetsecurity is so tight that no onedares go out,'' he said, "or mostEigyptiains weren't as attached toSadaIt as we in the US like tothi nk."'

''The prestige he brought aIs aworld figure was a source of pridefor Egyptians,'" said Khoury, whosp~elt a year in Egypt as agraduate student, "but Sadat mnayhalve spent too much timne onpetace-making and too little onbootstrapping, Egypt's economy.''

Generally, Khoury indicated,the secular Arab states that wereestablished after the end ofcolonial rule made claims offuture peace and prosperity thatled their peoples to unreasonableexpectations. Increasing unrest inthe Arab world, including Sadat'sassassination, is fomnented

''basically because the statessstelns haven't met their claims.'commented Kthourv.

'People who have studied theregion [the Middle Ea'lst] were lesssurprised'' at the news of Sadat'sdeath. said K;houry. He expressedLi belief that Sa~dat mav havereceived intelligence that somesort of trouble was immiinentt:"The key question is that Sadatarrested 1700 people last week -w hy, if he didn't know somethingwas coming'?'

Sadat's apparent successor ast gypt's President will be VicePresident Flosni M ubarak, whowas ntimed President unanirnous-1y by Egypt's Parliament onWednesday. Mubarak will takeoffice following expected popul;Irapproval in a nationwide referen-dum next Tuesday.

"IHe's really an unknown quan-tity - more so than Sadat ft thetime of Nasser's death,' saidKhoury. Khoury expectedMubarak to take control ofEgypt's government smoothIv.

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Tuesday's Social Council meeting in 10-250 drew approximately 100people (Photo by Eric A. Sohn)

By Tony ZamparuttiTo meet the budget deadline of

the Office of the Dean for StudentA ffa i rs (ODSA), theUndergraduate Association (UA)Finance Board (FinBoard) willsubmit in mid-December an es-timated budget for fiscal year1983.

"We need as many details aspossible in all budgets" by themid-December date, noted DeanShirley M. McBay, when thedeadline decision was first madethree weeks ago. The Decemberdate was set "to make sure every.part of the office should followthe same calendar," said McBay.FinBoard's budget for this year

was set by the ODSA lastJanuary, before the board begancompiling budget requests.

"I talked to Dean McBay andwe agreed how the Finance Boardwould meet the [ODSA]tinmetable,' solid LDave Peereboom'82, Chairman of FinBoard.

FinBoard will begin compilingin February a detailed budget,based on student activities forfiscal year 1983, which begins Ju-ly, 1982. As the budget processconcludes, adjustments might bemade -in FinBoard budget re-qucst, said Pecrehoom.

The ODSA granted FinBoardan $ 11,000 supplement to this

!yealr's budget (fIscal yeair 1982)over-he summer. "For now, weare allocating that [supplementalfunding] as we would our unal-located resources," said Pee-reboom. The funds would be dis-bursed to activities throughoutthe school year based on their re-q uests.

At FinBoard's meetingWednesday night, two activitygroups requested funding. TheHellenic Students Associationasked for $l,100 for severalcultural activites; they weregranted $450. The Society ofBlack Engineers requested $800to fund a speaker series; Fin-Board granted them $650.

DeRubeis evaluates hisadministrations accomplish-ments. Page .2.

Members of the MIT com-munity express a variety ofviews on the UA Social Coun-cil's Homecoming Queenproposal. Pages 5 & 6.

Lyres and other strangers onPage 9

Comic wars continue, Page13.

Into students report spyingi byforeign government agents

Students to votefor/a ainst Queen Lost goals blamed

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DeReubeis declared a goal of ob-taining a seat on the AcademicCouncil, which makes academic-related administrative decisions.Commented the UAP, "What itcame down to is they're invitingme to the Academic Councilmeetings for tuition decisions."

DeRubeis did not feel the lackof a permanent seat on the Coun-cil would restrict his ability torepresent. students' interests onother issues. "I don't see aproblem," he said. "I think ifsomething like the Whitehead In-stitute came up, and the studentsdefinitely had a stand on it, I'd

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By Barry S. SurmanThe Undergraduate Associa-

tion (UA) is still aternpting tomeet campaign committmentsmade last March, according toUA President (UAP) John E.DeRubeis '83, but many projectsstill remain in discussion andplanning stages .

DcRKubeis's proposal for aHarvard-Dudley MBTA bus passfor MIT students has been scrap-ped, he said, "because we'reworking on a campus bus." TheUA is also planning to make aproposal to the M BTA for a tran-sit system-wide discount for col-lege students, DeRubeis added.

"What I want to do with theMBTA," said DeRubeis, "isbasically get a student rate." TheUAP discussed his plan withPresident Paul E. Gray '54, who.:"said, as far as he saw it, therewould be no problem and that Ishould talk with some membersof the faculty in Urban Plan-ning," DeRubeis recounted.

"The idea behind the campusbus is that it will be a service-.not a convenience. We want toprobably charge fifteen cents'or aquarter during the day and havefree service at night- the hopebeing that the morning will payfor the evening service." The MITPlanning Office, The Office of theDean for Student Affairs, and,Campus Police all support the,plan, he said, because it will "takethe load off the CP's, so the CP'sdon't have to keep escortingpeople." DeRubeis had no es-timate of when the shuttle mightbegin operation.

The Center for AlternativeScholarship Help (CASH), a UAclearinghouse for informationabout scholarships available fromsources outside the Institute, isalso not yet operational. "Bob[Wallace'82, UA Special ProjectsCoordinator,] has just set up hisspecial projects teams," saidDeRubeis, "and is channellingpeople to the different committees

-one of them being CASH." Healso noted, [Wallace] doesn'thave a coordinator for it yet."

Another project which was sug-gested in DeRubeis' campaign,but has not been implemented isUA SAVES, a program of dis-counts at area merchants,available upon presentation of an

Sadatforsawtrouble

I('mllmwd /h1m( page 1 j"NMubaarak wals the individual\with the mnost influence in Egypt,o1utside of Sadalt," Khourv said."It's indicative of' his strengththat both the opposition and hisowx n party agreed unanimously onhis nomainaltion [For Prcsident]."

\ ith the death o 1 theirlmotivator, the Egyptian-Israeli

accords signed at Camp DavidnmaL be endangyered. To reassureIsrlael anild other nations Lis to theintcntions of the new' government,I'Presidential in o mll i n ec Mubarakdeclared Wednesday that Egypt"x\Nill honor its treaties and com11-niltment s." Khourv was pes-simiistic about the prospect offullilling the treaty. "I think thatthey [Siadat and Israeli PrinmeMinister Begin] knew it wasalreadyi doomed- I think the US,,owcrnilent also knew it, but the\w a n't adm it it. ''S"Sadatdesperately wanted the US to putsonme pressure on israel to con-sicder the Palestinian question,"said Khourv.

Khour!y expects foreign affairsto occupy a position secondary to

coc)nolli c issues on the net, E gyp-tian government. "They are con-ccrncd about what happens to the'Palestinians - but the have to

think of themselves first."

Undergraduate Association President John DeRubeis. (Photo beJesse Castillo)

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Talent Hunt.WorldIsrael promises to keep to terms of treaty - The IsraeliGovernment announced Wednesday that it intends to follow the provi-sions of its peace treaty with Egypt, despite the assassination of Egyp-tian President Anwar el-Sadat. "if tie peace continues, the Sinaiwithdrawal will continue," noted Israeli Foreign Minister YitzhakShamir. The withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula is scheduled to becomplete in April 1982.US leaders to attend Sadat's funeral - The official Americandelegation to the funeral of Anwar el-Sadat will include Jimmy andRosatlynvl Carter, Gerald R. Ford, Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M.H-laig Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, Caspar W. Weinberger, Jeanne A.Kirkpatrick, and 13 others. Following recommendations from theSecret Service, President Ronald W. Reagan will not attend for securityrflesons. Sadat will be buried Saturday next to the Tomb of theUnknown Soldier in Cairo.Commonwealth condemns South Africa - The Commonwealth,the free association of sovereign states who recognize Queen ElizabethIi as the head of their, organization, expressed "deep concern" overSouth Africa's continuing refusal to recognize Namibia as a free and in-dependent nation. The members also alluded to a concern that Presi-dent Ronald W. Reagan was unsympathetic toward the Namibian is-saIc, citing that he was striking up a warmer relationship with the SouthAfrican government. The Commonwealth, which includes Great Bri-tain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and 27 third world nations,met in Melbourne, Australia this week.

NationSenate approves AT&T decontrol By a vote of 90 to 4, the Senatepassed a bill Wednesday which would allow the American Telephoneand Telegraph Company (AT&T) to expand into areas unrelated totelecommunications, such as data processing and information services.AT&T is currently restricted from operating in areas other thantelecommunications by the Communications Act of 1934, whichgranted AT&T its monoply.

Soap opera viewing may be hazardous to your health - Frequentwatching of daytime television serials may cause the soap opera addictto adopt reckless health habits, according to a 10-year study releasedthis week by the University of Philadelphia. The report, published inthe New England Journal of Medicine, said that soap operas may leadaudiences to believe that "if any problem arises, the doctor will surelyprovide the cure," possibly causing viewers to let their health-carehabits go lax.

LocalAdmitted rapists receive suspended sentences - Despite arecommendation of 10-year sentences by Norfolk County district at-torney William Delahunt, Judge Herbert Abrams suspended thesentences of five men who pled guilty to raping a Whitman, Mass.wsomlan in January 1980. "I consider it a serious charge," commentedI)eklhunnt. "I was comfortable with the 10-year sentence, [butSLISpCildintg a senatchanCel is the prerogative of the court," he added.State trooper, three others indicted in marijuana theft - Anindictment handed down Wednesday from a Barnstable County grandjury in Yarmouth, Mass. connected four persons, including a Mats-sachusetts State Police officer, with the theft of $1.3 million worth ofmarijuarna. According to the State Police, 50 bales, or 3500 pounds, ofthe plant were stolen on September 25 from a storage room of the StatePolice station at South Yarmouth, Mass. One suspect surrendered tothe police on Wednesday, but the other three are still at large.Somerville woman awarded $2.75 million - The MiddlesexSuperior Court has awarded the largest settlement in Massac!usettshistory to Donnal Snow of Somerville, Mass. In her suit against herdentist, Dr. Melvin Yavner of Brooklime, Mass., Snow alleged that shenearly died 1from an injection contracted while having a wisdom toothpulled by Yavner in April 1972. Yavner is appealing the court's deci-sion.

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The Tech (ISSN 0148-9607) Is published twice a week during the academicyear (except during MIT vacations), weekly during January. and once duringthe last week In July for $10.00 per year Third Class by The Tech. 84Massachusetts Ave Room W20-483, Cambridge, MA 02139 Third Classpostage paid at Boston. MA. Non-Profit Org Permit No 59720POSTMASTER: Please send all address changes to our mailing address TheTech, PO Box 29. MIT Branch, Cambridge, MA 02139. Telephone. (617) 253-.1541 Advertising, subscription, and typesetting rates available. 1981 TheTech. Printed by Charles River Publishing. Inc

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voice of reason" sheets. I figurethat roughly 80-85 get read (aliberal estimate), 400-450 get usedas umbrellas (a conservative es-timate), and another hundred orso are used for miscellaneous pur-poses (such as lining one's parrotcage). This leaves well over 4000Ergo's decaying in our hallwayseach week.

Another impression thatbothers me about Ergo's existenceis the impression of MIT studentsit gives to the students at Har-vard, BU, and Wellesley, where itis also distributed. I remembermeeting a Harvard student whoasked me something like, "A lotof MIT students are pretty con-servative, aren't they?" When Iasked him what gave him thatidea, he replied that he had seen afew copies of Ergo. I explained tohim that nobody here reads it, un-less they want a couple of goodlaughs or an instant cure for in-somnia. The fact that the paper isassociated with MIT although so

Editor's Note: Ergoopportunity to replyand declined.

was given anto this letter

few MIT students relate toanything it says is what concernsme. When students at other col-leges see it, they may not knowthat the paper is almost totallydisregarded here and is not takenseriously by anyone other than itsstaff (and even they can't believemost of the stuff they print, I'msure.)

I am in favor of the philosophythat people should be exposed toa variety of opinions. Certainly,alternatives to Trhe Tech aredesirable. I believe that the Linkdoes a good job in this capacity.The students here can usuallyrelate in some respect to the arti-cles these 2 papers contain. Itseems to me that the views expres-sed by Ergo would be better left topropaganda of the "Young Liber-tarians" or the Ayn Rand FanClub.

And now I must retire to pur-sue my individual happiness. Ithink I'll shower some freshmen.

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To the Editor:I used to think that nothing

could be worse than listening to alecturer in 10-250 or 26-100without a newspaper to preventme from dozing off. Recently,I've found that there is somethingworse. I was rushing off to classone morning like a good littlenurd when I saw the usual stackof papers in Lobby 7. 1 grabbedone. When I felt myself dozing offin class, I reached for the paper.Much to my dismay, I discoveredthat I had picked up Ergo. It hadbeen awhile since I last actuallyread an Ergo. There's somethingabout its appearance that says,'Leave me alone. Pick up lastweek's Tech or Link instead." Iguess that's why you see so manyErgo's in their original stacks.

What is it about Ergo that Iwould object to? Well, it's notreally the viewpoint, or lack ofone, that it represents. After all,nobody reads it, so I'm not wor-ried about it polluting the mindsof our freshmen. (I say"freshmen" because after you'velooked at your first issue of Ergo,most people never pick one upagain, unless it's raining out andyou need something to cover yourhead.)

Perhaps it's the waste of paperthat upsets me. According to theircirculation statistics, they printmore than 5000 of those "campus

Editorials, which are marked as such and printed in a distinc-tive format, represent the official opinion of The Tech. They arewritten by the Editorial Board, which consists of the chairman,editor-in-chief, managing editor, and news editors.

Columns are usually written by members of The Tech staff andrepresent the opinion of the author only, not necessarily that ofthe rest of the staff.

Letters to the Editor are written by members of the MIT corn-.munity and represent the opinion of the writer.

The Tech will attempt to publish all letters received, and willconsider columns or stories. All submissions should be typed,preferably triple spaced, on a 57-character line. Unsigned letterswill not be printed. Authors' names will be withheld upon re-quest.

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Editorial

Lowerpace, butnot opportunitiest:t,//"r,'s Aole. Thi' i.% the .s'econdl o.f three editorial. v di.s'cu.sing thei'('('llllll!('nt/imic l.' s o /l'th Pcic' rnd Progrcam.V Subc'ommittee of'the C'om-

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Freshman year should be a time to explore oneself, theInstitute, and the basic sciences without fear of overloading bytaking too many courses or worrying too much about grades.The Pace and Programs Subcommittee of the Committee onEducational Policy has made two recommendations intended tohelp make their vision of freshman year a reality, but one sug-gestion falls short and the other goes too far.

The subcommittee's proposal to issue freshman grade reportsto freshman advisors at the end of each term oversteps thebounds of pragmatism and threatens to create even more ten-sion for freshmen. Although the grade reports will be for inter-nal use only, many multiple pressures for their releases willdevelop.

Once word of the grade reports gets out, companies andgraduate schools may request freshman grades. While MITalready has policies that address this situation, the existence ofthe grade reports may well lead outside groups to encouragefreshmen to release the information themselves or request that-the Institute release it for them. In addition, new rules wouldhave to be formulated to prevent misuse of the reports by MITdepartments - both undergraduate and graduate.

Such rules would be too difficult to develop and enforce thatmaking the change would not be worthwhile. While thisproposal should therefore be rejected, the subcommtitee'srecommendation to set a normal freshman course load shouldbe adopted, albeit with some changes designed to allow moreflexibility.

The first thing to realize is that lowering the freshman creditlimit will not necessarily slow the pace of individual study orresult in more dedication to learning core subjects. In fact,reducing the freshman load may exacerbate the pace problemfor upperclassmen, especially for students who wish to double-major or graduate early.

An overemphasis on the current freshman credit limit has ledto aim for the limit rather than viewing it as a maximum. Asnoted in the subcommittee report, freshmen should be better in-formed of what a normal class load is, while the existence of anactual limlit should be downplayed.

N'o matter what is defined as a nornmal class load- four andone-half subjects or fifty-four units- some students will in-evitably be capable of doing more. The subcommittee cites thedesire to double major or graduate in three years as one cause offreshman overloading, but there is nothing inherently wrongwith either of these practices. Some students will continue tochoose these alternatives, and they need an escape clause.

Freshmen should be able to take more than the normal courseload- up to the equivalent of the current unit limit- with onlythe written permission of their advisors. Freshmen should alsobe able to appeal an advisor's refusal to agree to additionalcourses to the Undergraduate Academic Support Office. In therush to reduce the pace for freshmen year, the subcommitteeshould not overlook those students for whom more than a nor-teal load is not overloading.

Ergo doesn't represent students

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To the Editor:The MIT Homecoming

Weekend should include aHomecoming court. This court,made up of high spirited peoplefrom all over campus, wouldfocus attention on the good thingswe have in common at MIT, andinspire pride in ourselves as aschool.

Strong objections have beenraised 'against a Homecomingcourt, claiming it is intrinsicallysexist on grounds that it would bean excuse for a beauty contest, toend by putting some prettywoman's carcass on a Homecom-ing Queen pedestal, her sole pur-pose to be gettin,, stared at. I f thiswere all anybody saw in the court,it is exactly what would happen.However, a court can serve alaudable and worthy purpose, es-pecially at MIT where we so lacka sense of ourselves as a whole.The choice is up to us.

We live in a school communitywith very few chances for celebra-tion of our common joys. Toorare are large scale or frequentgatherings to do anything at all.

It has been often noted that aclass as a whole will probablyniever be in the same place at thesame time between the freshmanpicnic and graduation. The big-gest groups assembled regularlyare probably LSC sell-outcrowds. These point out the MITapathy pattern very well. With

perhaps a quarter of the studentbody gathered, the only condonedexpression is jeering at and mock-ing the movie, LSC, and most ofall, ourselives.

Now we all have fun hacking.No one should be too serious allthe time, but there should be aplace in our lives for honest pridein where we are and the peoplewho live with us.

School spirit, enthusiasm forthe undergraduate community asa social whole, is something peo-ple don't associate with M IT.Spirit centers around livinggroups, and varies from low tovery high. People can take pride

in their house, entry, or floorwithout being ridiculed. Likewise,one can praise the quality ofprofessional development orresearch excitement without beingdamned as a "rah-rah". A simplepride at being part of the whole,however, is pretty radical.

This seems to be changing, andmany of us feel it is changing forthe better.

Homecoming last year and spr-ing weekend for the last two yearswere campus wide events whichmany people liked a lot.

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vended the voting will be personally ac-g Queen, I quainted with all of the can-sappointed didates. In this case the only

The only criteria to go by is appearance.as reached making this inherently sexist.on on the WAhether vou're voting for men orIlot to vote women, there's no way around it,11. It seems it's a beauty contest. I expectedn this long more out of m!y peers.r made up, In spite ofthree well-supportediajor com- petitions and several good argu-vious from ments, the Social Council refusedouncil was to bring the issue to a full studentie decision bod,, vote before proceedingcourt elec- further. The) maintain that there

are "lots" of people that weant toostensibly have a queen, citing 30 fraternitiesI Council) (I seriously doubt this figure but

ormplaints even if it Xere true, it's a *vhopp-. Sexism's in, one third of the un-)ng time." dergraduate student population.)nic plague Out of the entire meeting, theencourage remark that deserves the mostst, though, consideration was that of Keni sexist ac- Dumas when he pointed out that

>ple telling Social Council maintains that thisfor what- weekend is to unify the campus

rmecoming and it's quite clear that having aus to some Homecoming Court isn't the way

To the Editor.:I have just returned from the

forum in 10-250 concerning the is-sue of Homecoming Queen. Thetwo major objections that wereraised were: 1) that the contest issexist, and 2) that people fromoutside MIT and in the MIT com-munity would have a lower opi-nion of MIT if the contest washeld. I would like to address eachof these concerns.

Homecoming in itself is a sexistinstitution. At Homecoming, wewill cheer for men in a stereotypic

male role: that of a footballplayer. Why is it that it is notwrong to encourage the footballplayers to personify malestereotypes'? Why is it that it is notwrong to encourage thecheerleaders to personify femalestereotypes? By having aHomecoming in the first place,this is what we are doing. It is notwrong because the footballplayers enjoy playing football,and being cheered for, and thecheerleaders enjoy being cheeredwith. The whole situation is funfor the football players,cheerleadcers and fans and thereis something very right aboutthat. Why, then, is it so wrong forus to have a Homecoming Queenor King (the contest is open toboth men and women). Thosepeople who run for the.positionwant to be running and there is alarge part of this campus thatwould like to have a Homecom-ing King/Queen. Is the concept ofhaving a Homecoming Queen orKing really sexist? The contestwould be fun for all those in-volved and would not hurtanyone not involved.

As far as how the outside worldwill look at this, let me pose thisquestion? Do the followingschools have HomecomingQueens: 1)Harvard, 2)Yale, 3)-Dartmouth, 4)Penn State, 5)Stan-ford, 6)UCLA, and 7)NassauCommunity College? Would youropinion of the students from(plea.s' tur', to Brody. page ()

to do it.Kinta Foss '83

To the Editor:MIT Homecoming has been

facing a problem in that a few ofMIT's "nerds" want to preventthe harmless election of aHomecoming Queen. On October25 the MIT football team will beplaying Assumption College in itsthird annual Homecoming game.This game is dedicated to theschool and the fans. To do so asymbol of beauty is elected to bethe queen over the game, and inactuality it is to her the game isdedicated.

There is a vocal contigent thatwants MIT to be continually as-sociated with ugliness and wouldhave the team dedicate its game tougliness. It is in my opinion thatthese people do not attendfoothall ganies and .should reali/cthat they are trying to swaysomething which they don'tgenerally participate in anyway.

give UMCTo the Editor:

I would like to add my voice tothe opinions expressed in Tues-day's Tech regarding theHomecoming Queen contest.

MIT's most attractive socialquality, and one we take toomuch for granted, is itsegalitarianism. Many MIT stu-dents suffered from the cli-quishness of high school and as aresult have no use for the im-mature social elitism that this sortof contest promotes. Thisdemocratic attitude is one of thebest things about this place and Ifor one would hate to see itchange.

As students at one of thecountry's most demandingacademic institutions, most of us

UMOC is fine, in that it is atypical M IT hack that goes tocharity, but things have theirplace. Why can't this schoolcelebrate beauty once instead oftrying to propagate the Tool andDie syndrome. This is somethingthat is trying to appeal to the en-tire community. Hopefully aHomecoming Queen can bring ustogether and generate someschool spirit. Why must wealkvayvs he non-conlfornmist, let's tryto enjoy something that iscelebrated in schools all over thecountry.

I see it as insecurity that makespeople at this school tight such afriendly harmless activity. If awoman has enough security torun for Homecoming Queer whyshould it challenge the security ofanother. If the ugly are jealous. asit appears to me, then don't spoilother people's fun. I saw aIt thelforu111 held in 1(1-250 on ()ctohcr6 the people vehemently fightingthis as the very samne greasvshowerless ones that wear IHTFI'shirts, maybe you all might likeyourselves a little more as well asour school if we did somethingthat is open and friendly. Stopspending your lives looking forsomething to destroy, but rathersomething to complement andbuild.

If you came to MIT to hidefrom society then don't hurtother's enjoyment. This place istrying to become more wellrounded. We shouldn't try toround into full eggheads butrather expand our socialcapabilities as well as mental.Perhaps we let our mentalcapabilities overrun the desire tobe social, and this is what otherssee in us: "Hey, where is youcalculator"- don't you hate it? Ithink it stinks and wonder what itis out there in college life I'm mis-sing.

Maybe this small ceremony canbring future happiness and a bet-ter understanding betweenourselves and allow a more evenbalance between our two lives.

Eric Brandt '84and four others

believe that hard work deservessome acknowledgment. UMOCcontestants give unselfishly oftheir time and effort for acharitable cause. Attractivenessand popularity are pleasantthings, to be sure, but should betheir own rewards. Doesn't thewinner of the UMOC contestdeserve the honor, tongue-in-check though it is, of beingcrowned Homecoming Queennmore than does someone who ischosen merely on the basis ofpopularlity?

I believe we can have a "real"Homecoming Queen. If this elec-tion takes place. I (and manyothers) do not plan to vote.

Barrie Trinkle '82

To the Editor:There must be something

basically wrong with this place.Tuesday I attended the UA SocialCouncil's open forum to discussthe proposed idea of electing aHomecoming Queen (male orfemale in this case-- or place). Iexpected that many of the viewspresented would annoy me, but Idid not realize how outraged Iwould really be by the time I left.

Feminists:re UMOCTo the Editor:

With all these feminist typesblatantly protesting the Institute'sdecision to have a HomecomingQueen, it is surprising that theyhave yet to petition for the title ofUMOC to be changed to UPOC(Ugliest Person On Campus). Ifseems that, with all their liberatedattitudes, very few of MIT'swomen would even consider ad-mitting themselves ugly enough tovie for that coveted title.

Christopher Noren '84

Let me address the main focusof this controversy. Why shouldwe have a Homecoming Queen?The hope of the Social Council isthat the Homecoming Queen canhelp provide a focus for theHomecoming Weekend. Hopeful-ly such a focus will encouragepeople to participate in and enjoythe activities scheduled. The pointis that there is no purpose otherthan to have fun. I don't find thatto be such a disagreeable cause.

I would like to ask those peopleat the forum who so solidly op-posed the idea of a HomecomingQueen- why shouldn't we have aHomtiecoming Queen'? I heardsome dandy responses at theforum. "It would reflect badly onMIT, I don't want a prospectiveemployer to know that MIT had aHomecoming Queen." That wasone of the more rationalrespollnses. "We walnt UMOC tobe queen." That's fine. He can beon the ballot and you can vote forhim. I would also like to havechoice, however. "It's a sexistidea." It's only sexist if you

!perceive it to be. If you think it's asexist idea, then don't participate.

No one is holding a gun to yourhead and forcing you to par-ticipate, and such an event as thechoosing of a HomecomingQueen can have little bearing onyour own personal life. The com-ment that upset me the most,however, was "If your (the SocialCouncil's) goal is to unify thecampus for a weekend, then youare defeating your purpose. Youcan see already that you havedone nothing other than divideit." Divide it? How can somethingbe divided that has no unity tobegin with'? All the people oncampus may like the idea of aHomecoming Queen: perhaps itwill only unify part of it. In thiscase I find that something is bet-ter than nothing. M IT is not areal college; MIT is a collection ofliving groups of people that go tothe same buildings for classes.Perhaps this can at least help partof it.

I would guess that many of thepeople present at Tuesday'sforum are exactly those peoplewho have no intention of par-ticipating in the Homecoming

events anyway (many said so, infact). What is wrong with thesepeople'? Are they so intolerant,selfish. and insecure that theycan't allow others to have a goodtime? Maybe if they don't allowothers to have fun, they won'thave to feel as though they aremissing something by not par-ticipating'? If you feel this way,then I must say that you are miss-ing something - you're missingalot. Often it is not the amount ofwork that makes MIT oppressive(osL o1'I us Vouldn't change thatt),it's the grossly negative attitudesand causes of many of the stu-dents here (when was the last timeyou saw a rally for something?). Iunderstand now that on the elec-tion ballot there will be a choiceof not having a HomecomingQueen at all. If you really don'tlike the idea, then don't vote andignore the entire event. Is thereainy real reason to tear down thewhole thing? If you would like tosee a Homecoming Queen, thenmake sure you vote. I'd like to seeif this place is really in such badshape as it appears.

Todd Hylton '83

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Queen is not a beauty contest, asmany people at M IT seem tothink. Rather, it is an attempt atinstilling a serious school spirit inthe student body of MIT. The factthat the Homecoming Queenneed be a wom-an is not as impor-tant as the fact that the queenmust not be a man. When we electthe VMOC as Homecom ingQueen, we turn any morale theevent might have produced into aioke. It is verv hard for a footballteam to win if its so-called fanscan't take their roles as sup-porters of the school spiritseriouslI.

Moreover. if we refuse to electal queen merely to avoid fitting themold of the ty pical American col-

lege, we make a grave mistakeand sacrifice an Important aspectof college life. The queen is notsimply a person to be gawked at:she fulfills a vital, necessary role,of which she can be proud. And if

I any woman here wouldn't feelpride in such a position, she needonly refuse any nominations shemight receive. The election of aHomecoming Queen is not a dis-play of sexism; it is a display of

serious school spirit, somethingMIT has long been lacking andsorely needs.

R. W. O'Rourke '85Francis Malwowski '85

John Lang'85

To thre Editor.We would like to respond to

the letter to the editor of October6 concerning the subject ofHomecoming Queen. Althoughwe do not disagree with the state-ment that "Women come to MITto be able to participate on anequal basis with men in the male-

dominated society," we feel thatthe 30 people signing the letterhave lost their sense of proportionand fun. We think that ratherthan feeling threatened by this"ritual" the women at MITshould be happy that they arefinally recognized as beingwzomzien. We have heard too many

disparaging remarks concerningthe women at MIT, and arepleased that people are finallyrealizing that this school is notjust composed of men and uglywomen. It is also encouragingthat we, as a school,.are finallybeginning to shed our anti-socialimage. As a measure against pos-sible charges of sexism we suggestthat a Homecoming King also beelected. We like the turn that M IT

( ow//ilzl mfd 1(11J /E') cZ)(r'.t..e./mlJa g 5)successes by having more eventsduring Homecoming weekend.They have lots of encouragementfrom those of us who lookforward to having a good time.

it's too bad they stumbled ontothis controversy over theHomecoming court. It's been saidthey should scrap it to save therest of the weekend. Instead, theSocial Council is going to havepreliminary voting for courtmembers as originally planned,and on the same ballots poll stu-dent opinion on Homecomingcourt to see if we will have it atall.

This is a good compromise.While deciding whether to have

a Homecoming court, we wouldremind the student body that theinstitution of "Homecomingcourt" will become only what wemake of it.

If we duplicate traditions con-sidered sexist and harmful, wewill do little good and the practiceof Homecoming court will diequickly.

I f, however, we makeHomecoming court a collectionof spirit leaders from the entirecommunity, then the court couzdbecome the focus for a greaterschool-wide enthusiasmthroughout Homecomingwkeekend. Consciousness of andpride in the student body as awhole might be easier to accept.

A Homecoming court is not apractical requirement. They don'thire bands or deal with caterers.Rather, they should be a symbolof unity for the whole school.Their function would be to leadby example. Who becomes kingor queen, or if there even is one, isnot Lis important as the groupitself. The king or queen wouldonly matter Lis a representative ofthe group. Perhaps this would beclarified if the court picked itso\wn king or queen or both.

This is not the traditional roleof Homecoming figureheads, andthe more traditional role of sexsynlbol is what offends people.

For those offended bv the pos-sibility of a Homeconming queen

. . . ' -in the traditional model, think on institution from a vehicle for in- uayis taking,-uu, utoward, amr"IComl

is taking toward a more "normal" cream eat off, semi-formal, bandthis: suiting stereotypes to a useful college-like place. Having a Road Race, MidnightMIT is a leader in developing thing than by abolishing the in- Homecoming, with all the atten- Mae Party e aHomeomin, wth al te aten- Madness Party, Alley Rally, andmany newideas in science and stitution.many new I eas in science and stitution. dant activities is certainly very most importantly the Football

technology. Perhaps we could be By changing the institution you much a part of this change. We, -Game, you might realize how in-a leader in changing the may change the way people think. therefore, heartily endorse the noccous the Homecoming King/-

traditional image of the By abolishing it you merely stop idea of a Homecoming Queen Qenu idea is and how much funHomecoming court (king and/or them from thinking at all. (and King). it can be.queen included) as well. More Dan Hoskins '83 Susanne von Rosenberg '83 Michael L. Brody'82good would come of changing an and six others and 19 others

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Vice President Constantine B.Simonides '57 noted, "The In-stitute is very much concernedabout the privacy of the MITcommunity ... including inter-national students."

"MIT is an international in-stitution," he continued, "Wegain a great deal from ... inter-national students." Concerningthe related problem of "the ex-port of technology," Simonidesreported that the content "of allour programs is open . . . There isno classified work on campus."He did, however, mention thatcertain research at the LincolnLaboratories, an affiliate of MIT,is classified and proper precau-tions are taken.

Dr. Richard Cyert, president ofCarnegie-Mellon University,warned last month against the in-timidation of foreign students byagents of foreign governments onUS universities. "All those fromany country where reporting onother members of that country ispart of the culture [should bewarned] that such activities are il-

',legal [on American campuses],"declared Cyert.

Almost all students who cur-rently report suspicious surveir-'lance or have heard rumors ofsuch activities commented thatthere was not much they could dobecause of the sensitive nature ofthe problem. One Taiwanese stu-dent said he had heard of one stu-dent who spoke with "the vicepresident of MIT." Vice Presidentand Dean of the Graduate School

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(Continued from page /jMIT students receiving thehighest number of votes Will benamed the Homecoming court.

Olivo noted that the purpose ofthe change in voting procedurewas to allow the Social Commit-tee to "accurately assess students'feelings on the matter andproceed appropriately."

Many of the comments at theTuesday forum focused onwhether or not the contest wassexist. Kinta Foss '83 claimedthat "putting six women on apedastal is degrading." This viewwas countered by that of KarlFrey '82, who noted that "sexismhas been around a long time andit's here to stay." SuzanneHirschman '82 noted that thecontroversy over sexism was"making people feel very badabout what can be a very positiveexperience."

Butler and Olivo explained tothose attending the forum thatentrants were not restricted towomen. "Any MIT student canrun," Butler emphasized.

Students at the forumpresented the Social Committeewith petitions circulated bySenior House and the Associaitonof Woman Students. Between 200and 300 students signed petitionscalling for the elimination of thecontest or the installation ofUMOC as Homecoming Queen.

While some students felt thatthe disagreement over the contestcould produce a split between thedormitories and fraternities,Olivo dismissed this possibility.He noted that the Social CouncilExecutive Member from BurtonHouse has "gotten positive com-ments from the constituents."

MIT undergraduate andgraduate students are eligible tovote for Homecoming Queen. Ifthe contest is held, the sevenmenbers of the Court selected inthe initial balloting will be re-quired to answer two questionsposed by the Social Committee.The candidates' responses will bepublicized, and the final vote willbe held on the Friday ofHomecoming Weekend, ac-cording to Olivo. Final voting willbe preferential.

Butler said that the "forum washealthy." He added that"whenever you have a new eventyou run the possibility of turningsome people off." According toButler, "there are no set tradi-tions for Homeecoming," and theSocial Council has devoted "thebest possible effort" to planningthe weekend.

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The Lyres adhere strictly to their musicalroots, and this may prove an impediment totheir future career. Before going on torecord albums they will probably have toexpand their range a bit. Good though thisEP is, it can't compare to the same musiclive. Those who are not familar with theLyres are advised to check them out at alocal club. Then, buy the record to enjoythose same songs in the comfort of yourown home. It's a good bet you'll be danc-ing in front of your stereo.

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il-Scott Heron, following the release ofhis latest LP, plays an 8pm concert at theBradford Ballroom, 275 Tremont Street.Ticket information at 661-7720.

Tonight Lit Streets, 1239 CommonwealthAvenue, two great Boston bands, TheNeats (60's fun) and The Alleybeats(rckatbily fun) cut some rug. About $5.00.

At cozy Inn Square Men's Bar, 1350Cambridge Street, there are two good gigsthis weekend. Friday, Lou Miami and theKozmetix with the Sex Executives andSaturday, The Peter Dayton Band and theFuture Dads.

For classical listeners, an organ concertat the Busch-Reisinger Museunm, 29Kirkland Street, Cambridge, 4:30prn.featuring the works of Bach and Bux-tehude.

For the campus-bound, tonight andtomorrow night the MIT Dramnshop pre-sents An Evening of One-Act Plays at 8rpmin Kresge's Little Theatre. Works byBeckett, Gerstenberg, and Morton will beperformed. Free.

And on Sunday the Francesco StringQuartet plays Mozart, Debussy. andDvorak at 3pm at the Longy School ofMusic, I Follen Street, Cambridge. Ticketsare $12, but probably worth it.

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The current exhibit, Bodl, Language, atthe Hayden Gallery through November 8,has been pulled together by guest curatorRoberta Smith, and deals with "figuration

.Among young New York artists" as her ex-hibit notes explain. The exhibit treats thephysicality of current artistic expression,either in subject or form: the artistsrepresented work with the human figure,with an idea of corporality, even offragmented physical presence, or - withabstract subject matter, that through itsforceful embodiment suggests thephysicality and humanness of the artist.Bodvl Latkuage is arranged in such a waythat this underlying transition is madeclear: the progression is from photographto paint "collage"- body language is a setol' nonverbal signals that are yet clear mes-sages, and thus the exhibit is aptly titled.Smith calls this "legible" art, art in whichthe artistic process and the artist himselfare critical.

Several artists are of particular note.Richard Prince's sets of photos, taken fromadvertising, focus on a particular part ofthe human body seen under stereotypicalconditions and highly fragmented. UntitledFilm stills by Cindy Sherman isolate thehuman figure in mysterious, alienating sur-roundings, snapshots from some in-comprehensible and complex story.Sherman also offers some large colourphotos that produce the same effect:however, isolated as they may be, thesefigures still suggest force and perseverance.In one of the colour photos, a brooding

woman holding a glass of whiskey is il-lumninated half by daylight and half by theorange neon glow of a storefront display,the environment she is captured in is sobizarre that her humanness - the bodylanguage that establishes that humanness

is ascendant.

Ken Goodm-an's work (pictured) beginsthe move toward the physicality of form:blobby, bold black and white oil on canvasfigures are exhibited here. Very in keepingwith the exhibit theme is the work Of DavidSalle. Salle mixes two styles - a detailed,"lneshed-out" mode and a sketch form,superimposing the latter on the form. Theresult is a painting which suggests a con-scious fnd unconscious level - what bodylanguage is all about. There is a strange ap-

Peal to Richard Bosman's quartet Of goryheads, physical in their form and content.The paint is thickly applied, suggesting thenightmalrishness of some of Van Gogh'swork, and the images are of decapitution,torture and nafues.

Julian Schrabel's two works bring the ex-hibit to a close, the most physical works ofall. "Birthday" is oil on canvas overlaidwith strips of wool blanket. and "Voltaire"is a large, intriguing piece composed ofgloppy oil paint fnd broken crockery onwood.

There will be a second show, also part ofBodi} Lanlguage looking at figure-relatedscul pture opening on November 20. TheGallery is open 10 to 4 daily, and 6 to 9Wednesday evening.

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(Continued fromt page 2)'ask if I could go to one of theirmeetings. I don't see any reasonthey wouldn't let me go; they'reinterested in student input:"

On the issue of the WhiteheadInstitute, DeRubeis plans to askthe General Assembly (GA) todecide upon any stance the UAmay take. "We're going to bringthis up at the next GA meeting[October 22], which just happensto be before the next facultymeeting," he said. "It wasn't on

last night's agenda because Iknew the meeting would runlong." He added, "If the studentshave some opinion for or againstit, we'll make a recommendationat the faculty meeting."

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We are an affirmative action employer, mif.decided that what went on therewould stay' private, ' said one 0ofthe fresthmen.- Deani Robert A.Sherwood; Associate Dean forStudent Affairs, commented,"Freshmen Shower Night,though it may start out in goodspirits and is considered to be atradition,' invariably results ineither injuries or damage toproperty,- and. most importantly,violation of students' rights, whoend up being victims against theirwill."

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A bicyclist on a MemorialDrive sidewalk was injured Fri-day when three freshmen sprayedwater at him from a dormitorywindow. Accord-ing to theCampus Police, the man wasstruck in the shoulder by what hebelieved to be a small rock, andthen sprayed with water from afourth floor window. The manlooked up and fell from his bicy-cle, incurring a serious thumb in-jury and a knee gash.

One of the freshmen involvedsaid, "We had already hit a jog-ger; he had laughed and egged uson. Then one guy came along onhis bike; we shot him but neversaw'him fall. We thought is was aharmless hack; it didn't turn outthat way. I'm sorry that it hap-pened."

Shortly after the assault wasreported to the dormitory housedesk, the Campus Police arrivedto aid the Housemaster in findingthose who were responsible forthe prank. The wounded man wasescorted by a Campus Police of-ficer to the MIT infirmary formedical care, according to MITCampus Police Chief JamesOlivieri.

"Later on," the freshman said,"we heard that people had ournames so we figured we shouldturn ourselves in."

The freshmen had been armedwith mariahs, sections of surgicaltubing which, when filled withwater, shoot farther than a fullycharged water fire extinguisher.One of the freshmen involved ad-ded, "We apologized to [the manwe hit]. It was really an unfor-tunate circumstance that got car-ried away."

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and basic sundae material," saidRanshoff. Admission will be "anominal fee of 25 cents," ex-plained Liao, and upperclassmenare welcome.

A pep rally put on by the MITCheerleaders will be held on theFriday afternoon of HomecomingWeekend, reported M IT SocialCouncil Chairman Skip Butler'82. The Student Center Commit-tee (SCC) will hold this event inthe Kresge Oval, said Liao. Sheadded that cider, soda, beer,doughnuts and hotdogs will beserved.

Since the SCC does not wantelections for the HomecomingQueen to be held at the Pep Rally,it is uncertain when the queen willbe elected, according to Liao. To-day is the last day that people in-terested in ru nn i ng f orHomecoming Queen can submittheir nomination forms. Theforms require the signatures Ofthe person ru nn i ng f orHomecoming Queen and twowitnesses.

On Friday evening after theSemi-formal there will be mid-night madness parties with beerand dancing at one or two livinggroups. One party will be held atBeta Theta Pi Fraternity, ac-cording to Liao; she said theremight be another party on thisside of the Charles River.

The pre-game Homecomingevents include a Sunday morningroad race entitled the " MITHomecoming Classic." The roadrace is a three-and-a-half milerunning race sponsored by theM IT Athletic Department, agroup of runners from the SloanSchool of Management called the"River Rats,'' and the M ITAlumni Association. "Anybodyfrom the MIT community iseligible" to participate in the roadrace, said Liao. The entry fee is$2, and entry forms will beavailable in Lobby 10 next week.Participants will receive a free T-shirt saying, "MIT HomecomingClassic, 1981I.-

Prizes for the winners of theRoad Race will be presented bythe M IT cheerleaders near thefootball stands.

Butler described the DKE alleyrally as a "pre-game barbeque"funded by the MIT Social Coun-cil which is held in the backyardof DKE fraternity.

"Our main goal [of Homecomn-ing events] is campus-wide par-ticipation," said Ranshoff. Olivosaid that they are "actively seek-ing graduate students andfaculty" for participation in theHomecoming Ball. Butler ex-

By Laura FarhieA semi-formal Homecoming

Ball, a Homecoming Queen, anda live band party with the groupImages are among the features ofthis year's MIT HomecomingWeekend, October 22-25.

The Homecoming events are aprelude to MIT's Homecomingfootball game against Assump-tion College on Sunday, Ocotober25. Other Homecoming events in-clude a drink-off, an ice creamorgy, a Friday afternoon pep ral-ly, midnight madness parties, anda pre-game road race and DKEalley rally.

The semi-formal HomecomingBall will be held on Friday night,October 23 at the Boston ParkPlaza Hotel, in a room consistingof "two huge ballroomstogether," according to the Coor-dinator of the Semi-formal, JimOlivo, '82. There will be a swingband, a cash bar, and "free horsd'oeuvres and free champagnepunch," said Olivo. TheHomecoming Queen will becrowned at the Semi-formal.

The MIT Social Council hasbudgeted $8000 for the Serni-formal and is "hoping for 800people" to attend, reported Olivo.Trickets are $15 per couple or $8per person.

The Band Blast featuring thegroup Intlage~s will be held on theSaturday night of HomecomingWeekend in duPont Gymnasium.Between band sets "early in theevening" there will be a pep rally,;iccordinlg to the Vice C hairman1 of'the M IT Social Council, AngieLiao '82. Beer, m unchies andCoke will be provided; admissionwill be $2.

The Homecoming Weekendwill actually begin on the Thurs-day evening of HomecomingWeekend with a drinkoff for theupperclassmen and graduate stu-dents and an ice cream orgy forfreshmen and sophomores.

The drinkoff will be a beer-drinking contest between thejuniors, seniors, and graduate stu-dents. There will be a keg of beerfor each class at four differentdormitory or fraternity locations.Each class will drink the beer atone location until the keg isempty; then the class will move onto the keg at the next location.The class which finishes its fourkegs of beer first is the winner,"the two losing classes will split[the cost] for the beer,'' explainedthe Coordinator of Homecoming,Tom Ransohoff '84.

The ice cream orgy for thefreshmen and sophomores willhave "a lot of ice cream, fixings,

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Judy Norsigan and PamelaMorgan from the BostonWomen's Health Book Collectivewill speak about the book OurBodies, Ourselves, on Tuesday,October 13, at 7:30pm in McCor-mick Hall's Green Living Room.

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between dormitories and frater-nities, investigation of the com-mons system with the object of in-creasing the quality of food oreliminating the commons require-ment, the establishment of a shut-tle and a student bank, and in-creasing GA involvement in MITpolicy decisions.

Institute Vice President Con-stantine B. Simonides '57 wasguest speaker at the meeting.Simonides addressed several is-sues of major importance to MITsuch as trends toward increasingengineering enrollment, increas-ing tuition, budget cuts inresearch funding by the ReaganAdministration, and a nation-wide decrease in the number ofgraduating high school seniors.

Simnionides said that, in thefuture, "MIT could be facing adifferent mix of people and weneed to be prepared." He saidthat, due to rising tuition and sm-aller graduating high school clas-ses, it is possible that fewer stu-dents front lower income familieswill be attending MIT in theIfu t u re.

Sinionides challenged the GAto take steps in integrating allaspects of education at M IT,notably curriculum, services, such-Is conseling and placement, theresidential aspect of studentslives, anld student activities.

GA President John E.DeRubeis '83 initiated informaldiscussion of future goals for theGA. Among goals suggested in-clude increasing communication

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tinued to struggle this season as itdropped a 2-0 decision toBrandeis Tuesday afternoon. Thejudges are currently ranked se-cond in New England amongDivision III schools. Meanwhile,MIT's record drops to 1-4-1.

MIT managed to hold its ownagainst Brandeis in the first halfof the game thanks to the work ofgoalie Bob Schaeffer'83. Schaef-fer played a very strong game forthe Engineers, coming up witheighteen saves as the Brandeis of-fense kept him busy.

Brandeis managed to get twogoals in the second half, however,and that was all it needed to win.Once again MIT was plagued by alack of offensive punch, aproblem that has been hurting theteam all season. In the six gamesthey have played this season, theEngineers have been out scored17-4 and have been shut out fourtimes, including their last twogames.

MIT will have to solve theirproblems quickly, however,because they are now in the mid-dle of a tough Five-road game trip.

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Emphasis will be placed thetraining and coaching of SpecialOlympains. Scheduled to appearat press time are former CelticsJohn Havlicek, Dave Dowens,Tom "Satch" Sanders, and SteveKuberski, in addition to Celticradio announcer Johnny Most.

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day's weather is perfect. Exam-ples: Opening soccer game withHAHVARD - a steady rainreaching downpour amounts atvarious times. Three days later,club football plays on wet andcold day (of course, three hoursmakes it seem a LOT colder). Itmay take six weeks for me to ad-just - guess a summer in Florida

makes ones' blood thin. Justwouldn't be the same if it were 65and sunny. Hope the Cage iswarm this winter.

Like the new floor in duPont.Put in over the summer, it's shiny,has better traction, and best of all,NO DEAD SPOTS. Not very funto be moving on a fast break,andall of a sudden having the ballcome up to your ankles. The onlygood feature of the old floor wasit taught you not to play ballstanding up.

Liked the club football team'snew offensive set - the"Beavergun." When we held onthe ball, it gave Worcester Statefits. Needs work, especially in theball-handling phase. M IT re-minds me a bit of Oklahoma'ssquad- pure panic football.

Speaking of football, have youheard that great new stadium an-nouncer at the two home games?The Patriots should sign him up.On second thought, why asecond-class group such as them'?Send him to Detroit for the '82Super Bowl!

This has been a rather unsettledweek for me, with the holidayweekend and all, so this columnwill be just as unsettled. A fewrandom thoughts floatin' aroundare ...

The weather has been abouttypical for this time of year- it'salways cold or wet the day of aTech home event, while the next

Tomorrow Tech will travel toLowell, a Division 11 school. TheEngineers will then visit two Divi-sion I teams- Boston College onOctober 14, and Holy Cross onOctober 16 - before finallyreturning home on Wednesday,October 21 for a game againstTufts.

By Brain Schultz

Field Hockey - The teamcontinued their slide as they drop-ped two games this past week.Last Monday, they were edged byGordon 1-0, and on Wednesdaywere shutout 4-0. With a recordof 2-6, the Engineers' next matchis on Monday, October 12 againstFitchburg at SteinbrennerStadium at lpm.

Sailing -Two MIT sailors haveperformed exceptionally well inthe past few weeks. Ruth Hef-ferman '85 finished twelfth out ofthirty-two entrants in the NewEngland Women's Single-handedSailing Championships last Sun-day. Sailing coach Stu Nelsonsaid afterwards, "She did a ter-rific job. I was very pleased withher performance."

This weekend, MIT will behosting the NEISA Single-handedChampionships for men. MITwill be represented by Penn Ed-monds '83. Edmonds finished se-conci out of fifteen entrants in hisdivision earlier this fall at theelimination competitions held atthe Coast Guard Academy inNew London, CT.

Cross Country -While mostM IT students will be taking abreather over this four dayweekend, the men's and women'scross country team will be gettingready for the Greater BostonChampionships on Tuesday after-noon at Franklin Park. The menhalve competed in this eventbefore, but for the women, this istheir first year. Men's coachCii fton West and women's coachChristopher Lane aire optimisticabout this important event.

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