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An interview with professorAugustus Witt of the Depart-ment of Materials Science andEngineering inagurates TheTech's new series of facultyprofiles: "Chalk Dust."

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Mainy MiT crews placed in thetop ten in their events in Sun-day's Head of the' Charles.Regatta. The women's four-did especially well in missingfirst by -legs than a second.

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tion raised at the meeting wouldgive housing priority to first yearforeign students, and decreasedpriority to upperclass graduatestudents.

Parking on campus wasanother concern raised at themeeting. Some students pointedout that on occasion patrons ofnearby Cambridge hotels park inprivate MIT parking lots. Theyclaimed that the campus police donot tickey these cars, but do issuetickets to students who park theircars illegally.

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Management and Budget of in-direct costs, and their subsequentreimbursement for Federal pro-jects carried out by the Institutemay cost in excess of two milliondollars in revenues during the up-coming year.

While Federal legislative ac-tions may be detrimental to thescfiool; a Federal judicial actionhas spurred the Institute to par-ticipate in a positive action aidingthe community. The Phase II

;desegregation program orderedby Federal Judge Arthur Garrityprompted MIT, together with the

Wentworth Institute and theMassachusetts Port Authority, toestablish the Mario Umana Har-bor School of Science andTechnology. The Urnana School,which this year achieved fullcapacity, has become the mostpopular of Boston's nineteenmagnet schools.

The Whitaker College ofHealth Sciences was establishedas a joint MIT-Harvard ventureduring the past year. The collegewill be interdepartmental. Possi-ble locations are being explored inthe east campus area for the

school.Other points of interest:

· The Biology Achievement Testwill now be allowed as an alter-native to the Chemistry or PhysicsAchievements previously requiredfor admission.· No replacement for Dean forStudent Affairs Carola Eisenbergwill be made at least untilSeptember 1979.· Also, due to "substantially" in-creased enrollment in the Schoolof Engineering, its budget hasalso been increased.

By Bruce KaplanUnderlying much of the text of

the "Report of the President andChancellor" released lastWednesday are potentiallydevastating results of some newFederal regulations.

Perhaps the most significantoftheseregulations are the changesin the. Immigration andNationality Act, revised January1, 1977. This law severely limitsthe ability of the Institute'torecruit foreign faculty andresearch staff. Before an immigra-tion -visa is issued by the USDepartment of Labor to allow theperson to work, the Institute mustfirst show that the candidate isbetter qualified than any UScitizen. This will greatly decreasethe diverse profile and inter-national character of MIT'sfaculty.

A second set of new Federalregulations concerning the treat-ment of laboratory animals hasnecessitated the construction of anew facility on Vassar Street,which was completed this year,and extenive renovation of ex-isting facilities to take place overthe next four years. The-total costof these actions is not reported,,but the National Cancer Instituteis paying $1.5 million toward'the.projects.

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It is anticipated that-'the:number of openings for younger,faculty members will decreasebecause of the regulation.

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graduate students working onlyon a thesis, since much of theresearch done by graduate stu-dents is funded by outsideorganizations and the govern-ment.

Somne foreign students com-plained that they are not able tocome to M IT and reserve housingin June or July as many Americanstudents do. Many must wait un-til they come to M IT at the begin-ning of the semester to get hous-ing. By this time most of the MIThousing is already allocated, asituation which places a burdenon foreign students. One sugges-

student grievances to be presentedbefore the coming meetingbetween the MIT CorporationVisiting Committee on StudentAffairs and the GSC. These hear-ings were the first open hearingsbetween the Visiting Committeeand graduate students.

The agenda of last Thursday'sGSC meeting included concernssuch as financial aid, tuition,hoursing, leisure time, andproblems unique' to women,minorities, and foreign students.

Several graduate students atThursday's meeting proposedthat tuition be reduced for

A three fifths majority ofthosepresent at a faculty meetingisrequired to pass a motion, notthree fourths of those presentas reported in last Friday'sarticle on grade redefinition.The Tech regrets the error.

Some lingering cloudiness withpossible drizzle early thismorning but clearing later inthe day. Fresh northwesterlywinds will keep things cool;highs in the middle 50's. Verycool tonight with lows in theupper 30's. Warmer and sunnyWednesday with highs in themiddle 60's. Lows Wednesdaynight near 50.

Looking ahead some highclouds moving in late Thurs-day in advance of anotherfront. Chance of rain decreas-ing to 20 percent by this after-noon, 0 percent tomorrow, but30 percent by Thursday night. The UMOC (Ugliest Man on Campus) candidates gathered yesterday to prove what an ugly bunch they really are. The money collected by

the candidates will go to the Community Service Fund. The last day of the contest is October 26. It is reported that the photographer who

furtively snapped this picture is in serious condition resulting from shock. W.hot by Gordon Haft)

Annual Report exanines new laws

bs to discus grad grievancesB3y Brian Aiello

The Graduate Student Councilis currently without either a presi-dent or vice-president, evidencinga basic lack of organization andleadership. The only officers onthe Council are the treasurer,Richard Celottoj and thesecretary, Peggy Hunter. Electionof officers was scheduled to takeplace last Thursday, but it waspostponed until the GSC'sNovember meeting.

Last Thursday evening, Oc-tober 19, the Graduate StudentCouncil met to discuss graduate

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Continued from page I )Parking lot security is also a

concern of a number of students.Though over twenty cars werestolen from- MIT -parking lotsduring a one year period, nomoney from parking fees goes tosecurity.

Some students voiced their con-cern over the lack of office spacefor graduate student activities.Currently graduate studentsgather informally primarily at theundersized Muddy Charles Pub,sponsored by the GSC. Since theAssociation of Student Activitiesis predominantly undergraduate,several graduate students thoughtthat a separate association of asimilar kind should be organizedfor graduate students.

An opportunity for graduatestudents to voice their concernswill take place this Friday, whenthe Dean for Student AffairsVisiting Committee for GraduateStudents Open Hearings meet.

The open hearings will be heldthis Friday afternoon, October27, at two o'clock in room 10-340.

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WorldSalt Talks - After two days of SALT negotiations in Moscow,no agreements have been made between Soviet and Americanrepresentatives. Reports of a summit between President Carterand Chairman Brezhnev have been circulating. It is hoped thatsuch a meeting would -quicken the talks.

MideastMideast Peace,-- An Egyptian spokesman praised PresidentCarter's efforts to break the impasse in Mideast negotiations onthe Camp David agreements. Meanwhile, President Sadatreturned the final draft of a 19 point peace treaty between Egyptand Israel for further study. The Israeli Cabinet met in specialsession last night and is expected to announce an official state-ment regarding the new treaty sometime today.

'N ationIndian Claims Settled - Maine officials reported a settlementin the disagreement over Indian claims to two-thirds of the state'sland. Some 37 million dollars in Federal money will be paid tothe Indians in exchange for an end to Indian court suits.

Carter to address media -President Carter will announcewage and price controls as part of his anti-inflation program.

SportsPatriots Win -- The New England Patriots are in first place inthe AFC Eastern division after defeating the Miami Dolphins 33-24, on Sunday.

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Lee Lindquist:'79 -Business ManagerVolume 98 Number 48

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of the Committee's four facultymembers (Siebert, Melcher, andPhysics Professor Tom Greytak)has slowed down the Committee'smomentum. It's time for thefaculty to take a careful look atthe Committee's role, to deter-mine whether we really need theCommittee in its present form.

The motion which set up theAd Hoc Committee on Gradingleaves appointments to the discre-tion of the President of MIT.With President Wiesner's timenow devoted chiefly to alumnifundraising, responsibility for theCommittee falls to' facultychairman Robert Hulsizer and

Chancellor Paul Gray. If M1T isto avoid further tension betweenstudents and faculty (and betweenfaculty and faculty) over grading

policy, Gray and Hulsizer must

tant pain. This condition necces-sitates the use of an ointment· forthe rest of the week. Insofar asI cannot put'on make-up, 'I will beunable to actively campaign forthe remainder of UMOC. I mustapologize to those people whohave helped and supported me,and I urge everyone to vote forthe U MOC candidate of theirchoice. I will not mention wherethis occurred and who was in-volved in order that nothing oc-:curs in a retroactive manner. -Once again, I must apologize, andI wish all the other candidated thee-best of luck. :-

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To the EditorMany of you have seen. a

strange thing walking through thecampus for the past few days.Something on a leash that barkedand shook a can of money. Since'UMOC began this past Thursday,the wolfman has been seen allover campus. I am the wolfman,and I feel that all the people of the

.MiT community should knowwhy I have not and will not beseen for the rest of the campaign.:'n" Saturday night, while in adorm campaigning, ether was

.thrown in my face and eye. Thishas resulted in numerous smallscratches in my cornea, and cons-

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Sen. Proxmire andthe Golden leece

By Bob WassermanlSenator William F. Proxmire has taken aim against federal research

spending. The Wisconsin Democrat's weapon is the Golden FleeceAward, presented monthly for the "biggest, most ridiculous, or mostironic example of government spending or waste" as Proxmire explains

A prime recipient of the award is the National Science Foundation.__h1The N S F won t h e first

l_ |_C~~~~~~~~~olden Fleece inii Em a ~ November 1975 for its

'll~ ~ ~ .~ e 584,000 study entitled. | '"Why People Fall in

_ I [ I~s>5a Love." The NSF has been. l -__ honored several times more

for such studies as the "socio-sexua ior of the dabbling Africanblack duck," and an, NSF-sponsored project by the University ofWashington on the perception of the unusual, which determined theresponse of people when shown a picture of an octopus in a barnyard.

More embarrassed honorees have been several large federal agencies.In 1976 the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse won the Golden Fleecefor a $100,000 study to determine whether drunk fish are more aggres-sive than sober ones. A recent award was given to the-administrators ofthe Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) for its $400,000funding for a door-to-door survey to find out the number of dogs, catsand horses in Ventura County California. The Department ofAgriculture won their Golden Fleece for a study on how long it takes tofry two eggs in a skillet. The DOA scrapped similar projects on lunchand dinner preparation after receiving the award.

The liberal Proxmire is considered a loner and an eccentric by his fel-low Congressmen. Graduated from Harvard Business School afterYale undergraduate studies, Proxmire enjoys a large deal of supportfrom his liberal, independent Wisconsin constituency. Now a twenty-year veteran of the Senate, Proxmire recently underwent a hairtransplant and began a heavy program of jogging and physical fitnessto rejuvenate his sixty-two-year old frame. Rated by Ralph Nader asthe strongest consumer advocate in Congress, Proxmire has under-taken such projects as working on aNew York City sanitation truckfor a week to see whether the garbagemen were justified in their fre-quent 'strikes.

Proxmire's fiscal conservatism on research and other matters has along and interesting history. As a freshman senator in the 1950's, Prox-mire introduced five new bills into Congress establishing programscosting $35 million dollars. Vice President Richard Nixon immediatelypounced on Proxmire, calling him a "wild Democrat drunk with vi-sions of votes" due to his "wild spen-ding binge." Proxmire has beengun-shy of government spending ever since, and his Golden FleeceAward evolved out of this hesitancy.

Although Proxmire has begun to soften his hard-line fiscal policies,evidenced by his support for federal loans to New York City, theGolden Fleece Awards are just as visible and biting as ever. One awardto the National Endownment of the Humanities for a studv on tenniscourt manners was well-deserved. but also came at a bad time for thestruggling humanities field. And not all of the Golden Fleece awardshave been passively or humbly received, either, for currently there is an$8 million lawsuit filed against Proxmire for a prize to a study of "whymonkeys clench their jaws."

Proxmire has concrete proposals for federal research, of course, notjust complaints and exposes. Proxmire has, urged that scientificresearch proposals be evaluated by a different group in each respectiveagency, in order to stop the funding of studies, "a/t best dubious and alltoo often ridiculous," in the senator's word. Proxmire would also liketo see a governmental listing of all studies, past and present, and finallyhe wants the Office of Management and Budget to "ride herd" onwasteful agencies and research.

Many of Proxmire's citations for useless research are well warranted,but some also have taken a particular study out of context from alarger, more important research project, for example the study onmonkeys. Perhaps the senator should don a technician's robe or takeup a researcher's clipboard, to really understand scientific research.After all, he did it for the garbage collectors, didn't he?

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Zannetos'By Ron Newman

"The Grading Committeelooked -only at grades - they feltthat grades were the center ofMIT's problems. But it turns outthat grades are not the instrumentto use to-deal with educationalproblems."

In that remark at last week'sfaculty meeting,' EconomicsProfessor Michael Piore mayhave issued the definitive explana-tion of the Ad Hoc Committee onGrading's unusual ability to an-tagonize both the students andthe faculty of MIT.

Certainly the members of theGrading Committee did little lastWednesday to ..prove Piorewrong. The '....meeting opened .

.w ith a long.............:;............,...........speech by the committee'schairman, Management ProfessorZenon Zannetos, explaining. thatthe committee's recommenda-tions were designed to "preservethe integrity and excellence of ourcurriculum." Zannetos was fol-lowed by Electrical EngineeringProfessor James Melcher, whodescribed the proposals as a moveto prevent "the GRE [Graduate

I Record Examination] ... fromdictating my curriculum fromabove," and finally by ProfessorWilliam Siebert, also of EE, whosaid loudly of the motions, "Avote yes is a vote to protect thegrading system. A vote no is avote for the erosion of theAmerican university. I truly'believe we stand today at the edgeof a waste land."

In less than ten minutes, theGrading Committee totally aban-doned moderation. an place of thecautious language of its March.1978 report, the Committeereverted to the combative sty le-of,its initial 1977 report. Includedwas the old phrase "truth inpackaging," used to describe theplacement of grade distributionson student grade reports.'

Zannetos' statement that "I-hope students don't think anymember of the committee tookand ,Aversary role. We're not try-ing to 'get at' students," was-strongly · contested by otherfaculty, notably Piore and Assis-tant Professor Sherry Turkice the-chairman of the Committee onStudent Environment. Turkie andPiorc expressed serious misgiv-ings about the negative effect thegrading proposals were having onstudent-faculty and faculty--faculty relations at MIT.

In such a supercharged at-mosphere, the Grading Commit-tee's stated intention to press onwith a study-of freshman pass/failwould seem ill-advised. For-·tunately, the resignation of three

'astelandexpand the Committee during itsremaining six authorized months,making it more representative ofthe MIT community. Some sug-gestions:* The participation of the Officeof Freshman Advising wouldseem essential in any discussion ofpass/fail. Either OFA directorAlan Lazarus or Assistant Deanfor Student Affairs Bonny Keller-mann would have much to con-tribute to the Committee.o The lack of student representa-tion has been a chronic problemsince the Committee's establish-ment in April 1976. No graduatestudent was appointed until latelast term, and only one seat hasbeen provided for an un-dergraduate representative. Theholders of that seat, Louis Toutonand Drew Friery, have oftenseemed ideologically closer toProfessors Zannetos and Greytak.than to the majority of the stu-dent body. Hulsizer and Gray

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GraAOa To the Editor: The policy of- the I

I am writing with regard to the ministration, and it is a'rash of graffiti which appeared -one, is thaivandalism is naround the campus on the telligent way to expressColumbus Day weekend. Ac- and that such slogans acording to Mr. DeWolfe of the removed as soon as IPhysical Plant, fourteen buildings Fortunately, since the er(not all of which were MIT late sixties, the campus hproperty) were defaced. He 'es- been subjected to thesetimated the final cost of painting To those who are resand sandblasting at $2000! Along whether you believe inwith the graffiti, a banner was with the Shah" or "Noalso run upa flagpole and the (which was the theme ofropes cut, so that Physical Plant the' graffiti), there are behad to hire two sieeplejacks at to express your ideas. Hi$200 to c;.:imb up and bring it usina them? Unless, odown. These costs come out of you. have nothidng intelthe university 'overhead which is say. -'paid for by our tuition, already Paul Giers;the highest in the country. October

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By Gordon R. HaffIn contrast to last fall's in-

tramural sports seasons, many ofwhich were plagued with aseemingly endless stream ofrainouts and managerialproblems, this fall's intramuralsare running' smoothly.

In fact, only one sport hasproblems. Tennis is running onlya tournament this year instead ofteam play. According to DanRadler '79, this year's IM tennismanager, the change was forcedby the unmanageable number ofteams last year. He said that lastyear's situation where teams hadthree matches, no team cham-pionship, and an individualthampionship which was heldover one weekend was unaccep-table. He added -that the IMCouncil Chairman, Jason Tong'80 made the decision to drop the

)team play.,This year's tournament has

about 15 percent fewer peopleparticipating in it than did lastyear's program. Radler said this isbecause "when there's a team itgenerates interest." However, hedoes not see any way of goingback to team play without "severe-ly limiting the nutmber of teams."He added that it is better to havea lot of individuals participatingthan a few teams. .

Volleyball, football, and soccerare having better luck. None ofthe three sports has suffered amassive increase. in teams (soccerhas the largest increase: seventeams); this is probably the firsttime this has happened in years.In addition, soccer and footballhave been blessed with this fall'ssunny weekends. Last-year, therewere rainouts almost everyweekend. This fail has had butone rain day so far.

tIM football is running well thisyear after a previous season in~~~~~~~~. ...

which there was no 'A' league.This year has the largest 'A'league in year s with ten teamsparticipating. Tom Coiten '80,IM football manager, agrees thatthis change was brought about bythe Football Club. He said that"the Football Club removed thefear of the 240 pound tackle."

The traditional powerhousesaren't even the teams out in front.Sigma Alpha Epsilon, winner ofthe IM championship eight out ofthe last nine years, has an un-distinguished record. LambdaChi Alpha, SAE's perennial chal-lenger, has also lost- last Sun-day 3-0 to Delta Kappa Epsilon.

The only major problem thisseason is one which .is affectingmore and more IM sports: theproblem of getting referees.Despite an increased pay scalethis year, Colten said that hewould really be having severeproblems it it were not for theFootball Club players refereeingto raise money for the Club. Thisproblem has been increasingsteadily since the athletic depart-

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cabins into singles. But if this turn of eventsis unsettling, it is Dame Agatha's fault, notthe director's.

The sets and the cinematography areparticularly beautiful. Shot partially onlocation, the film wends its way from theSphinx to the Hypostyle Hall (which wasused in The Spy Who Loved Me) andbeyond. In the-Hall there is a- great scenedone in total silence in which the camerafollows a large stone falling from atop apillar to its intended victim below.

Although often a little slow-moving, themajestic beauty of the setting and thecharm of the period clothes and sets makethe film a satisfying visual experience. Andthere are enough surprises lurking in theshadows (reptiles, for example) to keep youin suspense. Even Ustinov plays his partwell, if he would only stop uttering tritecomments, such as "Why don't you, as theAmericans say, 'Take it easy'?"

As for the identity of the murderer,you'll have to find out for yourself, for thatis the whole point of this film. And if you

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By Bruce Nawrocki goody gumdrops!" when he finds the (filmed as The Ten Little Indians), in whichWith the popularity of Murder on the

Orient Express it seemed obvious thatsomeone would produce a film usinganother novel from Agatha Christie's vast:~collection, in the same vein as Murder. Sowe now have Death on the Nile, this time ,

with Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. : -,We are on a leisurely cruis e down the |. 4

Nile, wi.th an assortment of very :suspicious-looking characters. Someonehas just killed Linnet Ridgew'at, "the:.richest girl in the world." Is it the insanely :jealous woman (Mia Farrow) whose fiance Lran off to marry Linnet? Or the woman * (Maggie Smith) who was forced by Lin- --- -:net's father from a position of wealth to (Left to right) Simon MacCorindale, Jack Warden, Mia Farrow and Maggie Smith listenone of servitude? Or Linnet's uncle as detective Hercule Poirot unravels the identity of the murderer aboard the steamer(George Kennedy) who just had her sign Karnak in Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.over the Chrysler Building (and more) to murder weapon. Bette Davis, complete everyone gets killed off, there is still'plentyhim in case she died? Or one of nearly a with a skull cap and copious make-up, of action. Someone, it seems, has seen thedozen others? looks laughably embalmed in the first murder and eventually gets murdered.

With this large cast, there is not much scene in her plush, claustrophobic And, of course, someone sees this newtime for character development, so the film Washington, D.C. apartment. She asks murder and is promptly shot. So by thesucceeds only when the single-trait Poirot to relate to her several of his end, the passenger list has been thinned outcaricatures succeed. At times their actionsare completely unbelievable and evenludicrous.

What raises this film above the banal,though, is the delightful characterizationsof several of the actors. Angela Lansburyplays the hilarious role of a constantly available, free admission. Fri., Oct. 27,drunk and sex-starved writer of Gothic AT THEba l "OVIES from 9pm to lam in the Mezzanine

romantic novels who has hit the skids of Psvethn The MidNite Movie_ gat_ Oct Lounge_ ........

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Boston at Boston Garden, Mon., Nov. 6at 8pmr, tickets $10, $8.$0 & $7.50..

Weather Report at the Orpheum, Sat.,Nov. II at 8pm, tickets $8.50 & $7.50.

Queen at Boston Garden, Mon., Nov. 13at 8pm, tickets $9.50, $8.50 & $7.50.

Dave Brubeck and the New BrubeckQuartet in concert for two shows in the-Lovln Ballroom at Brandeis University onSat., Oct. 28, at 7pm and 10pm.Tickets are $6.50 and are on sale at theBrandeis Student Service Bureau, TuftsUniversity, Boston College, Strawberries,and Out of Town.

Pat Paulsen: A Lecture n tnrumorPresented by the Lecture Series Commit-tee; Tues., Oct. 24, 8pm in KresgeAuditorium. Tickets cost $1.50 with MITor Wellesley ID, $3 general admission, andare available in Lobby 10 and at the door.

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Coliseum, Wed., Oct. 25 at 8pm, tickets $8

28, second floor of the Student Center.This weekend's LSC lineup:

Sleuth Fri., 7 & 10pm, 26-100.Holiday (Classic) Fri., 7:30 in 10-250. Vincent Price Double Feature: The

Raven, 6 & 9:20pm; Comedy, of Terrors,7:40 & Ilpm; Sat. in 26-100.

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Death of aBy Joel West

In 1944, Arthur Miller wrote a two-actdrama about a fairly ordinary Brooklynresident and his family. Long sincerecognized as a masterpiece- of Americanliterature, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Deathof a Salesman is somewhat sterile on thepage, and requires a good stage productionto bring out its power. Audiences at MITwere treated to such a production lastweekend, at the hands of the MIT Com-munity Players.

Willy Loman is the aging patriarch: atraveling salesman who covers the NewEngland region. After 34 years with thefirm, he grosses $70/week (perhaps$10k/year in today's money) and has suf-fered the indignity of having his salarytaken away and being put back on commis-sion only. At 60, he is -forced to borrowmoney from' his neighbor Charley to sup-port himself and his loving wife Linda.

Loman is a perpetual dreamer: neverhaving known his father, he relies on tales.told by his brother Ben, who romanticizes

)their father as successful and far morecreative than an thousand other men; Benalso loves to tell the story of how he"walked into the jungle at 17 and walkedout at 21 a millionaire" (in diamonds).However, in the principal time frame of theplay we are told of Ben's death; throughoutmost of the play he exists as a fantasy, or

alter ego of Willy's, much as Bogie was toWoody Allen in Play it Again, Sam.

Miller's play operates on several levels.The focus of the play is, of course, onLoman and-his dissatisfaction with his life.Equally imnportant is the complicated inter-relationship of Willy, Linda, and their twosons Biff and Happy: indirectly, Miller un-.ambiguously. shows us the complexrelationship of this seemingly simple fami-ly.- Easily missed is the intricate detail:identical phrases are used by Biff and Willyin a context that does not call attention tothis link between father and son.

The primary emphasis of the play is onthese two characters; if either is weak, theplay fails miserably. However, from hisvery first moment on stage, Sol Schwadecaptivates the audience with his movingportrayal of the tired old father. Exhaustedafter a long trip, excited about an imaginedfuture for his two young "Adonises,"'violently angry when he can't understandhis younger son's actions or motivations,,Schwade conveys the entire range of emo-tions.-as the-eminently fallible Willy. It isfortunate that the actor is not as old as thecharacter he portrays: few men as tired'arndworn-down as Willy is could deliver the in-tensity that he does.

Dan Genetti as Biff is somewhatenigmatic at first, not inappropriate for aconfused 34-year-old boy who has yet tosettle down. But Genetti brings through thecharacter as he really is, a man who is likehis father, but resents him terribly, locke-tin a typically Freudian son vs. father con-flict. Also, unlike the rest of the male line,Biff accepts his failings and attemptsdesperately to treat life as it is: his line "wenever told the truth for 10 minutes in thishouse" -is the most truthful in the wholeplay.

Like his younger brother, Happy (JimCusano) was a strapping young athlete in

Willy Loman (Sol Schwade, right) attempts to discuss his problems with his elusivebrother Ben (Charles BerneO). (Photo by Joel W est)high school. Lacking his brother's with an admittedly shallow part. Chrisidealism; he has gone into business with Hull is the archetypal gnurd as Bernie,success comparable to his father's.-Cusano Biff's friend who later goes on to argue aplays the part to the hilt, convincing in his case before the US Supreme Court, Of allcynicism, lack of principles- and almost the principals, only Kip Reilly (a lastcompulsive philandering. He rarely dis- minute addition) performs spottily as Wil-agrees with what his father says, and shares ly's only friend, Charley.the elder Loman's self-delusion. Director Carol Melcher has aimed high

At first, Kathy Kariotis Reilly has trou- in choosing such a serious and complexble with the part of Linda; later on, as her play. From the question of why Biff gavesuffering increases, she is able to bring out up on life at 17, to the ultimate fate of thewhat is largely a passive part. She patiently elder Loman, her players carry the ideas ofputs up with her husband's failings, at- Miller's work with polish and consistency.tempts to prevail on her favorite son Biff, About the only "amateur" thing about thisand tries to control their heated arguments. play is the set, which was effective in spiteLiving her life only through the men in her of the obviously low budget.life, Kariotis interacts well with those For $3, students will have four more op-characters with whom she is forced to deal. portunities to see a truly fine performance

Of the other parts, Charles Berney brings of Death of a Salesman: October 26, 27, 28the necessary mixture of wit and wisdom to at 8pm and at 3pm on the 28th. Ten orthe shadowy character of Ben. As the other more theater-lovers can obtain their ticketswoman, Deborah Crockett does her best at a reduced rate of $2.50 each.

Charismatic Biff Loman (Dan Genetti) isunswayed by the advice of his friend Ber-nie (Chris Hull). (Photo by Joel West)

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MIT Football Club seems to behaving a dismal season. In two ofits last three games, however, theteam -lost by less than atouchdown. MIT lost one gameonly because its field goal attemptwas blocked on the-last play ofthe game.

Following an opening 27-12loss to Fitchburg, the team bat-tled then-undefeated Mas-sachusetts Maritime at BuzzardsBay. MIT scored first in the gameon a fourth-and-goal quarter-back sneak by Bruce Wrobel '79from the one yard line. However,Massachusetts Maritime scored.Once in the second quarter andonce in the third quarter to claima 12-6 victory.

Versus New York Maritimetwo weeks ago, the club nearlypulled off a come-from behindvictory. NY Maritime had scoredtwo touchdowns and a field goalto take a seemingly secure 17-0halftime lead.

MIT was not about to concededefeat, though. In the thirdquarter, Mike Barrett'81 chargedin for the Beavers' firsttouchdown. Early in the fourthquarter, Jeff Olson '81 ran forMIT's second touchdown. Twopoint conversions were successfulafter each touchdown and MITtrailed by just one point.

Late in the game, M IT puttogether one last drive. The of-fense pushed the ball to the NYMaritime five yard line with lessthan a minute remaining to play.Wrobel was then sacked on the 15yard line with just seconds left inthe game. Stu McKennon's subse-quent field goal attempt wasblocked as time ran out.

Friday, the club was surprisedby Brooklyn College even beforetaking the field. The clubmembers had thought they wereplaying just another small-scaleclub team. Brooklyn turned outto be an NCAA Division IfIpowerhouse with a 100-mansquad coached by an eight-manstaff. MIT felt lucky to lose byonly a 42-16 score.

Brooklyn blew the game openimmediately. On its first threepossessions, Brooklyn scored, atthe end of the first quarter,Brooklyn had a 28-0 lead.

MIT did come back to scoretwo touchdowns in the secondquarter. Wrobel connected withBobi Anderson on a 17-yardtouchdown pass play. The otherscore came on Wrobel's thirdquarterback sneak touchdown ofthe season.

Brooklyn iced the game withtwo more touchdowns in the thirdquarter. MIT ended the scoring

when Art Aaron 'S0 blocked aBrooklyn punt out of the endzone for a safety in the fourthquarter.

The Beavers play their onlyhome game of the season thisSaturday at I:30pm in Steinbren-ner Stadium. The opponent willbe Sienna (2-2) which MITdominated in a scrimmage beforethe season.

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How the energy crisis chfins your chancesAre you getting ready to look for the perfect job? Morepower to you. Literally. You'll need it. America is havingtrouble finding the energy it takes to make you a job.

Led by American ingenuity, the world today works byharnessing plenty of energy. Thank goodness. The alterna-tive is human drudgery. Yet because our system is energyintensive, a recent movement calls us wasteful. Our basicapproach to using energy is wrong, say these zealots. Bigis bad. Small is beautiful and the soft Path (isolated, localenergy systems-even individual ones' is what we need.

Could you really depend on a windmill to power yourhospital? How much steel could you make with a nuirrorin your yard'?

A curious combination of social refornenrs, wildernessfanatics and modem-day mystics has brought America'senergy development almost to its knees. TThey've stalledthe nuclear-approach and stymied coal. They've chokeddown natural gas exploration and hamstrung oil. Theirlove of exotic energy sources-sun, wind, geothermal andtidal action-will last only until a few bigprojects get underway. Then, chances arethey'll find a way to turn them off, too. Ohur realenergy crisis is a crisis of common sense.

I ur government seems toactually encourage this madness. -Politicians entertain harebrainedschemes to tax this, ban that,rig fuel prices and regulate theiruse. We've strangled the marketsystem, the only approach thatcan deliver as much of each kindof fuel as people choose to buy.

There's a direct connection betweenfinding more energy and creating more jobsMore of one makes more of the other.By the end of this century. we'll need 75%more energy than we're using today.Right now, 93,000,000 American men andwomen have jobs. Over the next ten years,

we'll have to create another 17,000,000 jobs for moreAmericans. including you.

Plain talk about EINEGYWe Americans already know how to solve the energy

crisis. We have the technology to reach solutions. Yeteach solution comes with its own set of political problems.Natural gas mustn't cost too much. Offshore oil mustn'tspoil our beaches. Coal mustn't rape the land or poisonthe -air. The atom mustn't threaten to destroy us. Energyconservation mustn't inconvenience people too much.

Fair enough. But so far, we're paying more attentionto the problems than we are to the energy itself. We'vegot to stop making every social goal an ideological crusade.We need to think things through and make rational trade-offs if we're ever going to get those 17,000,000 new jobs.

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-By Michael Taviss"Our theoretical framework is

about as leaky as ,a'sieve,"

"This country was leading theworld until about ten years ago inevery sector of electronic-materials, but in many sectors ithas slipped.

"In recent years basic researchand development has erodedbecause of the economy of thisdecade. Industry decided that it ischeaper to acquire the technologyrathier than develop itthemselves." Dr. Witt pointed outthat the government supports thesame point of view.

Witt also believes that theUnited States is falling behind inthe field of space processing ofelectronic materials. "I have dealtwith NASA for ten years andhave been involved with the spaceprocessing program,' he said."They- state tha t the SpaceProgram has been very unsuccess-ful so far in materials processing.But they ignore many of thne im-portant aspects of reducedgravity. They recommend ex-perimentation, but are against in-dustry in space."

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space, as long as certain condi-tions are met. If there is an openflow of information," Witt con-cluded, "it makes no differencewho explores." He admits,however, that there has not beensuch a flow in the past, and hedoes not expect one in the future.

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On the strength of their success- ing lostful play at the Yale Tournament upon itsheld last Saturday, the MIT water the prevpolo team can now claim to be se- 5-4 cont,cond in New England behind to proveBrown, last year's New England team. Ccchampions. a "supel

MIT started off by defeating major cSouthern Connecticut, 15-7, for victory athe second time of the season. The Benedsecond game of the tournament the impwas against Yale who edged out since theMIT for second place in New He partiEngland last year. Yale had quickercalready .run over Harvard 15-5 ment ofearlier in the day. against a

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(Continued from page I/)of the day went to the women'sfour who posted a time only .4 se-conds behind'first place UPenn.(.4 seconds translates to aboutthree feet.) This four consisted ofBow Liz Fisher '80, 2 Joan Whit-ten '80, 3 Cindy Cole '79, StrokeDiane Medved '80, Cox DebbieUtko '80.

The women's eight, defendinglast year's fourth place finish,placed fifth behind Wisconsin,Yale, UPenn, and Vesper &BC:!-Charlene Nohara coxed the eightwhich was made up of the samewomen who had rowed the fourearlier in the stern combined with.Bow. Faith Alexander -'81, 2Sandvy McCarley' '81, 3: Laurra 'MacGinitie '80, and 4 RobinMiles '79.

In spite of pre-race odds of 4-1placed on the Tech oarswomen byHead Rigger Joe Landquist,MIT's 1973 Heavyweight varsitybeat the women's eight time by afull 18.3 seconds. Hampered onlyslight ly by the post-race (and pre-race) refreshments carried withinthe boat, the heavy 1973 crewfinished 36th in the Cham-pionship Eights event.

Hartley Rogers, AssistantProvost,. finished fifth in theVeteranwSingles. Pete Billings '73,placed -third in the LightweightSingles event.

Racing' under- foreign colors,Mary Za~wadzki '78 finished 16thin the wqrmen's singles. Mary was,the wbmen's varsity captain last'year and is presently'rowing withthe Mendota R.C. in Wisconsin.Jim Bidigare '78, rowing for-Union B.C. in Boston, placed 7th'in the novice singles. , .

The 80-degree Sun ande flatwater of last Saturdiay make. ithard to believe that this racemarks the end of the fall rowingseason for most schools. As apreview of next spring's competi-tion, the Head indicates a poten-tially winning season for Tech'screws.

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s return from Californiaious Wednesdayin a tightest, the MIT team wantede that it was the betteroach John Benedick citedrior desire to win" as theomponent in MIT's 6-5over Yale.lick was also pleased withirovement in team skillse team's trip to California.icularly cited the squad'scounterattack and refine-its set offense and defensea set offense as the majorimprovement.

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:I-lf they do not wish to expandthe committee, Hulsizer and Graywould be well advised to simplylet it die by failing to appoint newmembers. Such a move wouldreturn the review of gradingpolicy to the Committee onEducational Policy, and it wouldhelp shift the debate at MIT from"How do we improve the gradingsystem?" to "How can we besteducate our students?"

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The first of these, Tufts, is ateam that the Beavers have neverdefeated under AIessi's tutelage,although last year MIT had a l-0lead going into the last tenminutes only to see the Jumbosstrike for two goals in rapid suc-cession and win 2-1. The next twoopponents are Colby, currently 7-1-1, and Boston University whichis ranked in the top ten in NewEngland. All three of those gamesare away.

The season finale is at homeagainst Coast Guard, a team the ·coach described as always tough.He stated that MIT and these op- -ponents are so evenly matchedthat the Beavers could win, split,or lose all four of the games, butthat in any case the way to ap-proach them is one game at atime.

By Beb HostThe varsity soccer team

improved its record to 6-3 in thelast three games with victoriesover Lowell and Holy Cross and atough loss in overtime to BostonCollege.

The Lowell game was played ina driving rain and, as a result,both teams were very cautious onthe wet field. The only score ofthe game came on a shot by JimAtwood '79 midway through thefirst half on an assist from RobCurrier '79. The game was totallydominated by MIT, however, asthey outshot Lowell 28-1, withgoalie Tom Smith '79 not havingto make any saves. MIT won 1-0.

Rain was again a factor in theBC game, played on astroturf atBC. The Beavers appeared to beapprehensive in this game, whichwas scoreless throughout regula-tion time and the first overtimeperiod. However, after 101minutes of total playing time, BCbroke the ice on an open shot offthe give and go for the only goalof the game and held on to win, }-0, to increase its record to 8-3.iI all, BC had 28 shots on goal to13 for MIT, with Smith turningaside nine shots.

The Beaver offense finallyopened up in the Holy Crossgame, where Jay Walsh '81 -led theattack with two goals and BillUhle'81 added two assists. Walshopened the scoring on a long passfrom Uhle which gave the Beaversa 1-0:halftime lead. The secohdagoal was scored by Luis Boza '79,again on an assist by Uhle. AfterHoly Cross narrowed the gap to2-1, MIT exploded for three goalsin 41A2 minutes, with Zanda:!lori'79, Walsh, and Francis Awuah'79 (assisted by Atwood) puttingthe ball in the net. Smith didanother fine job, and the Beaversupped their record to 6-3.

With only four games left in theregular season, MIT could con-ceivably get a post-season tourna-ment berth if the team plays wellin the remaining games. CoachWalter Alessi is hopeful but ad-mits that winning all four gamesis a difficult task, since the fourteams are all good.

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(Continued from page 5)ment discontinued its PE referee-ing courses. Colten stated that PEclasses of this nature "would helpa lot," -not only in number ofreferees but in terms off refereesnot having to learn skills during agame.

Soccer has also been runningsmoothly. There will be playoffsin 'A' and 'B' league. Accordingto IM soccer co-managerThatcher Root '79, there have-been no serious problems withfield space so far this year sincethere has only been one dayrained out.

Volleyball, the only one of lastfall's major sports not to haveserious problems, is going almostas well this year. With only threeteams interested in playing livinggroup 'A' (Baker, SPE, andDTD), living group and indepen-dent leagues had to be combinedthis year. The playoffs will consistof achampionshi p match betweenthe top two 'A' league teams. Inaddition- there will be playoffmatches between the top teamsn.ineach of the twelve 'B' league divi-sions.

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ball in for a-goal in 'Saturday's--soccer game with Holybut five shots got by hirrm-as MIT tallied a 5-1 victory.

Zanda Ifori '79 (in tthe air) attempts to. head'theCross. The Holy Cross goalie stopped- this shot,(Photo by Steven Solnick)

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