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MIT has not yet advertised forthe position of director of OME.

I"Some students will be in-volved in the selection process,"Perkins said.

Perkins will choose facultymembers who are concerned withOME to serve on the serach com-mittee, he said. The committeewill be represent a "spectrum ofideas" about OME's purpose, hecontinued.

Some MIT administrators be-lieve OME should not exist, Per-kins commented, in response tostudent questions about whetherthere is a plan to abolish OMEcompletely. Perkins strongly sup-ports the office, he said.

Perkins encouraged the con-tinuation of all existing OME,programs. He promised that theoffice's role in "planning and im-plementation will continue."

Perkins said he has two goalsinvolving OME. He plans tostrengthen the relationship be-tween the Core Group, consistingof faculty members who teachcore freshman courses, and theFreshman Watch Program, whichmonitors the progress of minorityfreshmen.

Perkins also wants to see thedevelopment of stronger relationsbetween OME and the Admis-sions Office.

Most students at the meetingsaid they appreciated Perkins' ef-forts. Many were dissatisfied,however, because he did not dis-cuss specific issues regardingMcLaurin.

"This won't be the last meetingof this kind," Perkins said.

By John B. SearlesAssociate Provost Frank E.

Perkins met Friday afternoonwith a group of students, admin-istrators, and faculty concerningthe dismissal of Dr. William D.McLaurin.

Mclaurin, who was dismissedby Perkins in August, had beenthe director of the Office of Mi-nority Education (OME).

Members of the Black StudentUnion, the Black Graduate Stu-dents' Association, and LaUnion Chicana Por Aztlan werepresent at the meeting.

The focus of the -meeting, Per-kins said, was two-fold: to an-swer any questions concerningthe present and future affairs ofOME and to "elicit from thegroup information" in order tosolve any problems involvingOME and the minority communi-ty.

Perkins refused to give anyspecific reasons for the dismissal.It "was an accumulation of manythings over a period of time," hesaid.

"We don't want to get into apersonal evaluation," Perkinssaid when students asked him tostate some good points about Dr.McLaurin. "The purpose of themeeting is not to give Dr.McLaurin positive or negativepoints."

Perkins said a search commit-tee for a new director will be ap-pointed by October, as he hadannounced last week. The selec-tion process "is not a simpletask," he noted. "It could takemonths" to find a replacement.

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distribute laboratory handoutswhich give specific safety remind-ers about particular experiments,she said.

Another basic of laboratorysafety is a zero-contact policywhich restricts, as much as possi-ble, direct contact with toxic ma-terials by the proper use of safetyclothing and ventilating hoods,Greene said. Also, the generalpractice of conducting experi-ments on a small scale helps tominimize possible accidents.

The major hazards involved inlaboratory work are fire and ex-plosion, Greene said. These dan-gers, plus the additional problemof toxic exposure, can be reducedby careful work practices.

MIT's statistics on laboratoryaccidents reveal the effectivenessof these safety procedures, Fre-sina said. '"In the twenty yearsthat I've been here, there haven'tbeen more than twelve serious ac-cidents involving students, withonly one fatality." Fresina defineda serious accident as one that re-quires hospitalization or medicaltreatment beyond first aid.

Fresina added that in the sametwenty years only one fatality in-volving technicians has occurred.He was uncertain about the num-ber of non-fatal accidents.

By David P. HamiltonMIT's application for an ex-

emption to the Massachusettsright-to-know law depends on thecondition of Institute safety pro-grams for success, said SafetyOffice Director John M. Fresina.

The right-to-know law requiresemployers to inform their emrn-pIoyees about hazardous sub-stances in the work area. Em-ployers whose safety regulationsare stringent enough can qualifyfor an exemption to the law.

MIT's safety policies have al-ways met the requirements neces-sary for exemption, Fresina said.

Each department at the Insti-tute maintains its own safetycommittee. said Professor Freder-ick D. Greene II, chairman of the

Committee on Toxic Chemicals.The safety committees are re-sponsible for defining their ownpolicies and providing the neces-sary safety education for those inthe department, he said.

"These safety programs focuson the twin principles of workingin good facilities and maintaininggood work practices," Greenesaid. These goals are accom-plished, in part, by requiring theprincipal investigators or supervi-sors to inform their co-workersof possible hazards in their re-search.

This approach is very flexiblein dealing with unexpected prob-lems and is therefore more usefulthan any set of rigid guidelines,Greene explained. Many of thedepartmental committees alsodistribute handouts on laboratorysafety to their researchers andstudents to supplement this poli-cy.

Students enrolled in under-graduate chemistry laboratorycourses are informed about safe-ty procedures through a one-hourlecture, said Dagmar Ringe, di-rector of the UndergraduateChemistry Laboratory. Professorsadvise students to read safetyprocedures from their texts and

By Earl C. YenOnly fourteen freshmen have

joined the new Integrated StudiesProgram (ISP), although roomexists for "up to 50" students, ac-cording to Professor Leon H.Trilling, director of ISP.

Anne E. Armitage, ISP admin-istrator, said ISP lost about 10potential members for two rea-sons: because of ISP require-ments, some students would nothave been able to take a foreignlanguage the first term, and ISPis not the optimal program forstudents who have received ad-vanced placement credit forfreshman courses.

A freshman in the programtakes a 42-unit block of coursesin ISP which includes 8.01 or8.012, 18.01 or 18.02, ISP's ownHumanities Distribution course"Science and Technology Fromthe Renaissance Through the En-lightenment," and one 'of fourseminars on topics ranging fromNewton to the Biology of HumanBehavior.

Trilling said few freshmenjoined ISP this year because it isa new program. "One drawbackis we have no alumni," he added,explaining that upperclass stu-dents in Concourse and the Ex-perimental Study Group (ESG)play a significant role in the re-cruitment process for those pro-grams during Residence/Orienta-tion week.

"Fifty is a very optimistic fig-ure for a first-year program," Ar-mitage said. "It's small this year,but any program in a start-upyear is not going to be fully sub-scribed."

ESG had 36 students when itbegan in 1969, according to As-

Winn joined the MIT CampusPolice in January 1979, afterworking as a staff sergeant-sta-tion commander at Logan Inter-national Airport. He previouslyhad worked 22 years for the Mas-sachusetts State Police.

Winn is survived by his wifeJudith, his son Scott, his motherAlice, his brother John and hissisters, Mary Claffey, Joan New-ark, Paula Lloynd, and ElizabethKelley.

Gunn was ill

Gunn, who primarily workedthe Campus Police night shift,died while he was on vacation ata family reunion in Atlanta. "Hehad been ill over the last coupleof years," Olivieri said, so hisdeath was "not so much ashock."

Gunn was "very dependableand always very visible on pa-trol," Olivieri said. He joined theCampus Police in October 1969,after working a year with Phys-ical Plant.

Gunn is survived by his wifeEffie and his son Charles.

Funeral arrangements for theofficers have not yet been made.

By Ellen L. SperoTwo Campus Police officers

died last weekend in separate in-cidents unrelated to their officialduties.

Officer Robert B. Winn, 53,was pronounced dead at 4:37 pmSunday at Massachusetts GeneralHospital from a cardiac arrest,according to Campus PoliceChief James Olivieri.

Officer Charles A. Gunn, 52,was pronounced dead in Atlanta,Ga., on Saturday afternoon froma massive heart attack, Olivierisaid.

Winn was jogging on the out-door track at Steinbrenner Stadi-um Sunday when he suffered aheart attack around 3:50 prn.

Martin Hunter '87 saw Gunncollapse and gave him cardio-pul-monary resuscitation until theCampus Police arrived and tookover, Olivieri continued.

Winn's death came as a shockbecause he was in good physicalcondition, Olivieri said. Winn ex-ercised for about an hour eachday avter work.

The officer was "very person-able, very quiet, and effective inhis performance," Olivieri said.

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Professor Leon H. Trilling, Director of ISP.

sociate Director Holly B. Sweet.Concourse had 14 students its

first year, and enrollment in-creased to 46 the next year, ac-cording to Cheryl A. Butters,program administrator.

Information on ISP, Trillingsaid, will appear in the MIT Bul-letin in future years, as well as inbrochures sent to prospectivefreshman applicants. As a result,freshmen will be made aware ofISP at an earlier stage.

The program will continue tobe offered "at least through thisspring," Armitage said. ISP hasa slot during the second term, theadministrator explained, for anelective, which means a studentcan take a foreign language whileparticipating in ISP.

Armitage expects the program

to attract some of those studentsin the spring who did not enrollduring the first term because oftheir inability to take a language.

"We have a charter [with MIT]for a three-year experiment,"Trilling said. "We are lookingforward to doing this for a three-year period and then we'll seewhere we are."

According to the draft propos-al originally approved by theCommittee on Educational Policylast March, the program will tryto "provide for a group of fresh-men an educational experience[emphasizing] the connections ofthe scientific disciplines with theircultural contexts and their appli-cations to-meet human needs."

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The Student Center bowling al-ley lost $30,000 last year, Hobbibsaid, so SCC is trying to improvethe bowling alley's programming.

This year, the committee willcontinue to develop program-ming such as band parties andcomedy nights, according to Per-son. It will also make major ren-ovations to the 24-hour coffee-house.

By Thomas T. HuangThe Student Center Committee

elected William M. Hobbib '86treasurer and Suzanne C. Dunbar'86 secretary at its meeting Sun-day night. These were the firstelections under the committee'snew constitution, written lastspring.

Two freshmen, Michelle Hol-guin '88 and Blair Cohen '88,were elected to the newly-createdpositions of purchasing directorand publicity director, respective-ly.

All positions will last until theend of the term.

SCC wrote a constitution to re-place its old by-laws last term,according to Chairman James S.Person III '86. "We did a majoroverhaul and created new divi-sions to provide a better delinea-tion of work." A small group ofpeople was being given too muchto do, he said.

Hobbib said the comptroller'sdivision, headed by the treasurer,plans the committee budget term-by-term. The administrative divi-sion, headed by the secretary,

keeps the committee records andfiles. The remaining divisionswork on purchasing, publicity,programming, and building fa-cilities.

"The first objective is to getthe committee operating" underthe constitution, Person said."We also have to work with bud-geting - SCC never did a goodjob of budgeting."

The committee's old by-lawsdid not require the committee todraw up a budget, he said. As aresult, Person explained, SCC"spent money as it came in" lastyear, rather than "using morecontrol and looking to the fu-ture."

The Office of the Dean for Stu-

because the other two freshmenprogram were generally oversub-scribed in the past two years.

For most courses, ISP offers itsown lecture and recitation sec-tions in addition to tutorials andsmall study groups.

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are to "stress the connections be-tween science, technology, andthe social matrix in which theyhave arisen" and to provide stu-dents with "a sense of working ina small group."

ISP was formed, Trilling said,

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I had never noticed the paint-ing before. It had just been there.But at 5 am, as my throw nearlyhit it, it was hard not to notice."God! That is just beautiful!What is it?"

"MIT Beautiful Art," I wastold.-I had no prior knowledge ofbeautiful art at MIT. I hadthought I was going to have toexist for the next four years with-out beautiful art. Excited aboutthis new discovery, I told somefriends about it immediately.

"Did you know that MIT hasbeautiful art?" I asked.

The first few people I talked towere both shocked and delighted.But thene I made the mistake oftelling someone who had pre-vious knowledge of MIT art.

"I'm sorry,' he said. "You aremistaken."

"What do you mean?" I asked."MIT has no beautiful art. All

MIT has is ugly art. It's all calledM<IT Ugly Art. There are no ex-ceptions. I guarantee you thatyou did not see a piece of beauti-ful art. It doesn't exist here. Youwere either drunk, hallucinating,or very, very tired. What you sawwas ugly art. I swear."

I found this news very disap-pointing. I started to protest."But what about the book Iheard about -A Walkinlg Tourof Art at MIPht It's all aboutMIT Beautiful Art. My room-mnate and I have been combingthe stores looking for it."

He laughed and corrected meagain. "Don't you see? It's allvery simple. You have to go to

Y, Harvard for beautiful art. AllIt MIT has is ugly art. In fact, if)f you want, you can get your veryt- own piece of MIT Ugly Art. Ev-,t ery year they have a lottery and if1- your lucky number is chosen,.you0 get to put a piece of MIT Uglye Art into your very own room forit the entire year."Y My roommate and I talkedI about entering the lottery, but de-

cided instead to go to the Har-vard Coop and buy the tackiestposter we could find. For someunexplainable reason, I had real-Iy been turned on to ugly art. Wecame home with "Wired ForSound" and it's pretty awful. Butnow we regret we didn't enter thelottery because our tacky posterwill just never be able to equalMIT Ugly Art.

Perhaps you've never noticed itbefore. But that's highly unlikely.Cold black metallic sculptures -no, things -- tower in several lo-cations around the campus. Mostof them are simply ugly. The fewthat are practical can be forgivenfor their appearance. The GreatSail prevents revolving doorsfrom constantly revolving andthe ugly thing outside the alumnipool serves as a fairly comfort-able seat.

I guess I'm just lacking that ar-tistic eye that allows more cul-tured people to appreciate MITUgly Art. To me, it's good forclimbing, throwing footballs atand writing about. I hope itmeans much more to some otherpeople, or else MIT has burnedthousands of dollars that couldhave been used to alleviate dormcrowding, provide more financialaid or improve the food service.

I walked by the lounge and sawthe guy who had told me thepainting was "MIT BeautifulArt."

"You like that?" I asked him."Hell, no," he answered."But you...'"I was kidding. Ha! You be- (

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The dismissal of Office of Mi-nority Education Director Wil-liam McLaurin paves the way forthe eventual dissolution of thatoffice. The office originated froman idea whose time has passed, ifindeed it ever had a time.

Over 15 years ago, outcriesthat the Office of the Dean forStudent Affairs was not sensitiveenough to the "special needs" ofminority students compelled theInstitute to create the Office ofMinority Education. Its ideologi-cal premise was that minority stu-dents have special problems byvirtue of being minority students,and something must be done tohelp them..

One of the special problems al-legedly associated with being aminority student is not being able:o solve or even discuss "minority,roblems" through the tradition-1 problem solving mechanisms;nstead, special groups mustorm to cater to minority needs.

These problems may have ex-sted in 1965, but they do notlow. The minority education of-ice has reinforced the idea thatMinorities require special treat-nent by providing special chan-els solely for minority students.Minority students are made dif-!rent, both in their minds and inie minds of non-minority stu-ents, by the existence of an or-

ganization designed solely to helpminorities.

The Institute should be "colorblind." No need exists for a spe-cial office for minority educationto deal with minority students'problems. No reason exists forthe continuation of a racist organdesigned for dealing with socialand educational problems of mi-nority students.

Giving minority students a spe-cial office represents and encour-ages segregationism. If minoritystudents choose to solve theirproblems, be they race-related ornot, through an official channel,they should use the same channelas non-minority students. Havinga special office is like having spe-cially defined areas on a bus forminorities only. Whether the areais in the back or the front of thebus does not matter; it is stillsegregationism.

The Office of Minority Educa-tion offered two programs thissummer, as in previous summers:Interphase and MIT's Introduc-tion To Engineering and Science(MITES).

Interphase is a program of-fered, by invitation only, to somemembers of the incoming fresh-man class. The program is in-tended to close gaps in the stu-dents' high-school educations -to bring them up to par in sub-

jects like math and physics.MITES is a similar program

offered to high school students.Both programs admit only spe-cially defined minority students.

Interphase and MITES aregood programs. Interphasewould be a much better programif it were open to all studentsneeding extra preparation, ratherthan just minority students.MITES would also benefit were itnot a racist program.

McLaurin's dismissal givesMIT the chance to make massivechanges in its programs for mi-nority students. The Dean's Of-fice can assume the counselingfunctions of the office - the BigBrother program, the Black Stu-dents' Union Tutorial Program,and others.

The provost, the Dean's Officeor a new Office for Student Sum-mer Programs could continue thesummer programs. Interphaseand MITES should then becomenon-discriminatory.

If, instead, Provost Francis E.Low or his successor merely ap-points a new OME director, hisaction would evince no progressin minority education at MIT inthe past decade. MIT will stillsupport segregationism, with se-perate and unequal programs forminority students.

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Before the reconstruction pro-ject on the Alley began, there wasenough room between BakerHouse and the tennis courts to fita two-way road, a row of trees, asidewalk wide enough for a tankto pass, and a row of bushes. Icannot understand why it wasnecessary to uproot the row ofbushes by the tennis courts. Sincethe new road will be one-way, itdoes not stand to reason thatmore space would be neeeded toaccommodate it than the two-wayroad that came before.

While I am on the subject ofthe one-way road, I would like toask one simple question: why isthe road going to go westward?After all, the stretch of MemorialDrive accessible to the Alley alsoruns westerward. An eastboundAlley would spare easterly traffica long trip around Briggs Field toVassar Street, while westerly traf-fic could simply make use of Me-morial Drive. (Is it possible thatthe taxi lobby, seeing a chancefor higher fares, convinced MITto point the Alley west?)

And, lo, the tragedy of theweeping willows! Once upon atime, you may recall, there stoodthree beautiful Salix babylonicaalong the east end of' the Alley.Now there stands only one, de-prived of her sisters by the cold

blade of Technology. When theInstitute was faced with thechoice of laying the new roadthrough the Julie Fassett Gardenor through the Salix trio, it sacri-ficed the latter, presumably inhonor of Ms. Fassett's memoryand Dean Fassett's money. (Nevermind that the garden, along withits little plants, could have beenrelocated. That matters not.)

My walk home along AmherstAlley today was not at all remi-niscent of the same walk in Sep-tembers past. There were no littlebirdies chirping, no leaves begin-ning to reflect the passage oftime, and no golden beams ofsunlight shimmering through thedrooping habit of Salix babylon-ica branches. Instead, there werereminders of our everlasting waragainst Progress and its ally Con-crete. After the Battle of' Am-herst has been lost, the birdies,prisoners-of-war, may return, butthe willows will forever bemourned as missing-in-action.

So, we have lost. Our enemiessprang a surprise attack on us inthe dead of surnmmer and massa-cred our trees. Now we can onlyhope that they will do as all goodvictors do and try to make repa-rations for the havoc they havewreaked. Bushes can be replant-ed between the new road and thetennis courts. And although noneof us will live to enjoy them, newweeping willows can be plantedsomewhere along the new Alley,so that our great-great-grandchil-dren can someday walk in thecool shade that once kissed us onour way home from the concretejungle that is MIT.

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ben-Aaron told me to get onthe elevator-racing beat, so I fol-lo:wed my reporting instincts andchecked out a guy named PauloLegrec over in Central Squlare.

Cherry blossom petals laystrewn along the avenue as Iwalked to the square, lining thetar-black pavement like flowersfrom a wedding, the fragrance tomy nostrils hypnotic. The bag la-dies became maids-of-honor, thecop at the corner of the street abest man.

I soon came upon Legrec'sapartment, which faced a smallgrocery store run by JohnnyRudner, who used to play guardfor the Celtics in 1952. It was asif all the over-the-hill athletes hadgathered in a ghetto like litter, tocommiserate and hold on to lostdreams.

He used to be damn good inhis day, Legrec. He had raced ele-vators in the 1960 Olympics inRomne and had won the silver, asymbol of America's hopes forfuture gold and official sponsors.

The medal was too much of aburden to him; the ribbon anoose. One year later he marrieda Swedish meatball vendor andmoved to Cambridge, the City ofLights.

His room was in as bad shapeas he was. Cockroaches skitteredacross the burnishedavood flooras he opened the curtains to

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To the Editor:It's odd, but this year there are

not as many editorials in TheTech on pornography: I yearn forthe days when there were at leastthree vehement vituperationsagainst either pornography, orthe MIT Lecture Series Commit-tee and its policies on the screen-ing of pornography. I miss theextended debates of yore, and Ihope that this submission to TheTech will rekindle interest.

Last year, I wrote a letter con-demning LSC's showing ofBambi being pornographic in na-ture, as the film shocked me. Buthaving since seen some of theviler movies at MIT, and in thevicinity of Boston, it is time tosay that this student has becomevexed upon viewing films featur-ing voluptuaries shedding velvetvestments!, leaving only their va-nadium necklaces to vibratearound their necks whilst practic-ing verbotenz activities.

Thankfully, the LSC, which at-tempts to be the vanguard of thevox populi, is shielding studentsfromn greater victimizations. Forexample, I am glad LSC has notshown scenes of Vanessa Wil-liams in a verdant vale. ThankVishnu for that, but I think thatshowing pornography of any va-riety turns students into vapidvegetables. Viewing these sexscenes vicariously may put stu-dents on the verse of overindul-gence in drugs, and alcohol: oneday, virtually every student maybe violating his or her body byvauntingly downing valiums andvermouth. Veritably, LSC viewsthe world through a violet view-graph.

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squint at me, a would-be intruderto his past; wallpaper peeled likeonion skin. I could smell theacrid whiskey which laced hisbreath, figured he must have beenhiding bottles in his closet, andwas appalled, disillusioned, hav-ing admired him when I was askinny child growing up in thebackwoods of Alabarna.

So this was the elevator-racer."One can smell the intensity in

the air as the racer waits for hiselevator," he told me. I couldsmell it; he hadn't washed for

days. I scribbled into my note-book, hoping to somehow recap-ture in his jumble of words amnan who had shone so brilliantly25 years ago.

But they were only words, andthe reporter, in his naive attemptto re-create people on fragile pa-per, stumbles.

I strove, in putting my pen topaper, to physically connect theman to my image of him.

The only reason Legrec wonthe silver in Rome was that theSoviet men were disqualified.They had illegally taken femalehormones to improve their reac-tion time in pressing the elevatorbuttons.

The Olympic Commrittee madethe discovery when it found threetampons in the Russians' dormi-tory rooms. One Soviet protestedthat he had wanted to bring themhome to his sister -his familywas so poor that the girl had touse the daily Pravda for her pur-

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"The newspaper is just toobig," the Soviet had said.

Legrec continued, afloat in hisdreams, reminiscing of the eleva-tor racers of his youth. "His legsbend in a crouch, his breathingslows, blending rhythmically withthe hum of the elevator," he said,recalling emotions of a man whobecomes one with the elevator, asexual act. "He flexes his forefin-ger as he anticipates the lunge,pressing the seventh floor but-ton."

Tragedy has scarred his eyes.His career was cut short by a per-vous breakdown brought on bywatching too many reruns of"Leave it to Beaver" and "SpeedRacer" when his Swedish loverleft him to do the weather on thelocal news.

"Slowly, as if in a calm pool ofwater, he turns to watch his op,ponent, who waits for the secondelevator," Legrec said. "Hungermasks his face. Whose elevatordoor will open first?"

The rules for elevator-racing,an indoor sport, are as follows:The racers push the elevator but-ton, and, side-by-side, they wait

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However, there are still a fewunsettled people out there. Thesepeople are uncomfortable in theirnew environment. They havetrouble relating to other studentswho seem concerned only withtextbooks and problem sets. Thedrone of pop music, the starkwhite walls and the narrow per-spective of a typical MIT studentseems suffocating.

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acers of yesterdayfor the pair of elevators. The rac- "It's times like these when Iers must then reach the top floor just don't give a damn aboutof the building to receive torches. Kristy McNichol's chemical im-They must return, by elevator, balance," was the last thing hethe torches to the referee. told me. I left him quietly, out of

"We were the golden boys rac- respect for the whispering ap-ing in their elevators," Legrec plause of crowds which mustsaid. "Some of us were Jewish have been echoing through hisboys from the Bronx who prac- memories.ticed with elevators in high A week later, I met him againschool. Others were strictly play- in the Green Building. He had aground players, working for that group of racers with him, all oldright move, the jazz. men and women - all of them

"Elevator-racing was an Olym- were there, Bartholomew Ives,pie event from 1936, when Mar- Giorgio Wallace, and "Little Eth-coni invented the elevator, to el" Samuelg.1972," he continued. "There was, Legrec took me aside andof course, the time in Grenoble asked, "Remember in that Willywhen they didn't have any build- Wonka movie, when at the end,ings tall enough for elevators. Wev they ride away in a flying glasshad to settle for escalators. elevator?" I nodded. I had seen

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An Adventure in Chinese Songs andDances, Taiwanese Youth Goodwill Mis-sion, Kresge Auditorium, September 22.

While I cannot claim to be well-versedin the finer points of Chinese culture, withits images fresh in my memory, I can saythat the Taiwanese Youth Goodwill Mis-sion's presentation of An Adventure inChinese Songs and Dances was one of themost enjoyable artistic events I've ever ex-perienced.

The performance Saturday nightmarked the Youth Goodwill Mission'stenth visit to the Boston area. In thecourse of two and one quarter hours,fourteen college students from Taiwan of-fered dances with song under themes ofCourtesy and Unselfishness, The Braveryof Soldiers, The Voice of China, In Praiseof Youth and Songs of Friendship. Thefive minute segments were presented inrich costumes, ranging from traditionalwhite dresses, black gold-braided vests andornamented headdresses to bright coats insilky greens, pinks and yellows and evenwarm-up pants and red, white and bluetops for a tribute to America. Displays ofstreamers, fans, flags, tambourine-likerings, metal rods, swords and shields add-ed color to the fine traditional style of thefirst three themes.

Native instruments and voice accompa-nied much of the act, reinforced by tapedmusic. The brevity of each display, along,with the contrast in costume and use ofobjects (the fans were opened with arhythmic percussive snap while the rodswere rapidly spun for a shimmering pro-pellor effect) maintained excitement theevening through.

The main purpose of the Missionseemed not to be so much to perform as tocommunicate. The display of our active,open-mided, peace-loving Chinese youthand [expression of7 our good will towardand friendship for you fthe American peo-ple] were the most conspicuous and affect-ing facets of the multi-media display.Compared to last year's program, which,had as themes the beginnings of Chineseculture, the principles and mores of the

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All ForYou and The Actor's Nightmareby Christopher Durang; at the CharlesPlayhouse through 28 October; $15.50 -$22.50.

The religious leafleteer outside theCharles Playhouse should have been a tip-off as to what to expect from Sister MaryIgnatius. They seldom leaflet plays whichdiscuss abortion, murder and homosexual-ity; they leaflet when plays ridicule reli-gion. Durang takes pot shots at religion inboth plays. His aim is far better in TheActor's Nightmare. However, I will savethe best for last.

The title character, Sister Mary, is thenun all your friends who attended parochi-al told you about. She has ways been six-ty-five and about a quart low in the brainpan forever; and for any who have had ab-solutely no exposure to the Cath6licChurch, she does explain it all for you.

While this reviewer cannot boast aCatholic upbringing, he can boast a catho-lic upbringing. For that reason, SisterMary fails to amuse.

Durang attempts a stinging indictmentof Catholicism by having Sister Mary re-cite much of the dogma practicing Catho-lics are asked to accept on faith. WhatDurang achieves is more of a running in-side joke. The faults that Durang choosesto expose are not much more illogical thanthose of any of the world's major reli-gions. Where the play might have made astrong statement against any religion's callfor "belief by rote" or blind faith, it lackssufficient depth for a non-Catholic to seethe parallels.

Sister Mary Ignatius is long on actingand short on import. Elizabeth Franz givesa wonderful performance as Sister Mary.She is warm and real one moment and ter-rifyingly unhinged the next.

The Actor's Nightmare is by far themore enjoyable play. Poor George Spelvin

people, and the determination to improveon the culture of today's China this year'sshow seemed to have less to explain andprove to the audience and more to rejoicein and hope for.

The constant smiles of the dancers andindividual thanks of each performer nearthe end of the night clearly indicated a sin-cerity which made the transmission ofgood will to the American audience all themore vivid.

The performers, chosen from one hun-dred and six Taiwanese universities, in-cluded medical students and future secre-taries and diplomats as well as severaldancers and operatic singers. They unitedin a common love of artistic expression.

Director Kuo-kung Shih forewarnedthat the synchronized precision of a pro-fessional group could not be expected ofthe student ensemble, but they were veryclose. Any faults of precision were over-shadowed by a sense of grace, from thecoordinated undulation of feathered fansand movement across stage to the bounceof the contemporary numbers. More con-spicuous faults could be attributed to thebreakdown of equipment. Feathers andcloth fell of their wooden frames and thetape machine temporarily broke down,much to the good-humor of the spiritedaudience in a near-packed Kresge Audito-rium.

The concluding theme, Songs of Friend-ship, included several Chinese folk songs,Camptown Races, Swanee River, and NeilDiamond's America. Perhaps the high-pitched "ya-hoos" of Camptown Races,and child-like skipping during America in-dicated too simplistic a view of Americancultural heritage", But earlier portrayals ofshy men courting flirtatious coeds had auniversal nature about them. In the hand-clapping finale, An Adventure in ChineseSongs and Dances was not only a delightbut a successful communication of good-will and optimism. The Youth GoodwillMission deserves best wishes for the rest ofits tour; we want to see them back in Bos-ton soon.

Scott Lichtman

(Jeff Brooks) is an understudy who findsout five minutes before showtime that thelead actor has had an accident. The onlyproblem is that George doesn't rememberanyone in the cast nor which play they in-tend to perform. As a matter of fact, theonly things that George remembers arethat his name is not George and that hemight be an accountant.

If you have ever had a nightmare aboutshowing up in vaguely familiar surround-ings totally unprepared for what is de-manded of you, you will enjoy this play.George's pitiable attempts to ad lib hisway to wakefulness are high comedy in-deed.

James F. Kirk

Elizabeth Franz as Sister Mary Ignatiuswith Richard LeBranti as her pupil.

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On his journey, N!xau encounters anumber of characters from Western "civili-zation." They includes a scatter-brainedscientist doing his doctoral thesis onpachyderm manure, a secretary tired ofhumdrum 9-to-5 work, and a joke of a ter-rorist group trying to overthrow the gov-ernment of Botswana.

The scientist's (Marius Weyers) attemptsto win the heart of the burned-out secre-tary (Sandra Prinsloo) are the main sourceof entertainment along with his constantstruggle to deal with the African wilder-ness. The gags may seem repetitious attimes, but Weyers has a knack for makinghis relentless clumsiness convincingly real-istic.

The South African cast is relatively un-known to American audiences and pro-vides a refreshing change from the wellknown faces of Hollywood slapstick.

With The Gods Must be Crazy, JamieUys provides a view of the Bushman tribewhich may otherwise have only been foundin an issue of National Geographic. Theshots of the Kalahari desert and all its im-menseness are remarkable. Especially im-pressive is the way Uys was able to directthe Bushman N!xau who, up until thetime he was cast,; had never seen a whiteman or "large animals with round legs"(cars). One gets the feeling that the filmcrew was invisible. The Dark Continent isfilmed as a refreshing feast of colors andamicable people (excluding the guerrilas,of course), providing a perfect setting forthe unavoidable ending.

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live in the studio (no overdubs) by Lee anda host of his studio musician friends, andcomes out crisp and vital on your turnta-ble. "Heavenly Bodies" features digitallyechoed drums and a distorted guitar solowhile "The Rit Variations" contains ex-tremely fast passages on guitar systhesizerand keyboards. On the Line throws nocurves; all the tunes have a predictable poptendency and ornamentation which mayoffend mainstream jazz or hard-rock lis-teners. But what feeling human being cannot relate to Ernie Watt's beautiful passagein "Heavenly Bodes" or bop along to Ri-tenour's "stroll on a picture-perfect Satur-day morning" solo in "California Roll?"The album is not to be confused with hisnew one, Banded Together, which isdance/vocally oriented. On the Line is forthe light and melodic at heart.

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This new Steps Ahead album bears littleresemblance to their first major Americanrelease, Steps Ahead. Modern Times, likeLiving in the Crest of a Wave, has a gener-ous helping of synhesizers (introduced bynew keyboardist Warren Bernhardt), al-though in a much more laid-back format.They function to keep time and reinforcesome bass lines. With Michael Brecker ontenor sax, Mike Maineiri on vibes, andEddie Gomez and Peter Erskine complet-ing the lineup on upright bass and drum-set, you know there are going to be a lotof creative improvisation. The hook is thatthe solos are over-commercially viable,melodic tunes: great for practicing yourown soloing with as well as an excellent in-troduction to this type of music. As withthe other two albums, Modern Times hasfew if any clinkers. The beat keeps yougroovin' along.

Not to worry, next column will feature"some kind of rock."

Scott Lichtman

The Gods Must be Crazy directed by Ja-mie Uys; now at the Sack Copley.

In spite of its length (109 minutes), TheGods Must Be Crazy is able to maintain aperfect mix of comedy and documentary.Jamie Uys who wrote, produced, and di-rected the movie, is once again able to usethe camera both with the innocence of aninnocuous bystander and the assertivenessof an adventurous anthropologist. Al-though Uys claims to be "merely an enter-tainer" seeking to make clear and simplefilms free of humanistic messages, TheGods is both aesthetically and intellectual-ly enriching.Other internationally ac-claimed films by Uys include Beatiful Peo-ple, (1973) and Funny People, (1976).

Both Uys and his cast are native SouthAfricans, and all of the shooting for TheGods took place in the Kalahari Desert,home of the South African Bushmen.

Uys portrays the life of a South Africanbushman tribe very intimately. The storyrevolves around N!xau (pronouncedN.XAU), one of the Bushmen leaders. Hismission is to take a Coke bottle he hasfound to "the end of the world." The bot-tle, thrown by a careless pilot while flyingover the Kalahari, is believed by the tribeto have been sent by the Gods since it hadfallen from the sky. The bottle proves tobe more trouble than it is worth. The tribewas very tranquil and peaceful with noconcept of property or ownership until theappearance of this unknown object. ThusN!xau is dispatched to dispose of thetrouble-maker.

Excuse me, have you bought a record? Ifso, then the chances are good that youhave been "ripped off" at least once on analbum that didn't deserve its $7 price tag.This new section, "Off the Beaten Groo-ve, " is designed as a consumer's guide forthe tech/audiophile. The encapsulated de-scriptions will pan from the best to theworst and will give an introduction to anyvein of music we can collate and review.Send your comments on the music we re-view to The Tech.

This issue's topic is "commercial jazz/fusion." This is not to be .confused withbig bands, acoustic quartets or Ella Fitz-gerald's second cousin. It does include syn-thesizers, Pat Metheny, an infusion ofrock, saxophones, Spyro Gyra, improvisa-tion and a lot of whistleable melodies. Thefollowing can provide a good jazz transi-tion for those not into jazz. They alsohappen to all be "10's"; records with ne'era bad song and well worth the money.

Bill Evans, Living in the Crest of aWave, Elektra/Musician.

Bill Evans can be found in the featuredjazz albums section at the Tech Coop andon the cover of Downbeat Magazine thismonth. Many cuts like "Living in theCrest of A Wave" and "The Young and theOld" are textural compositions with a richblend of synthesizers, tenor and alto saxo-phones and slurred bass (the bassist isMark Egan, formerly of the Pat MethenyGroup). Every musician has top-notch cre-dentials and plays his rear-end off on acollection of ballads, "organic" samba-feeland fusionistic tunes. The pace is well var-ied and every song is enjoyable in its ownright.

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ing over a variety of funk riffs and callingthem songs to writing high-caliber compo-sitions. They have direction, emotion andtone. This particular album was recorded

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A large part of defense is of 55 percent, he said.

By Diana ben-Aaron"We do not desire hegemony

over the countries of CentralAmerica or the Caribbean,"Jeane Kirkpatrick, US Ambassa-dor to the United Nations, saidat a briefing last week for collegenewspaper editors.

"We're not that kind of super-power," Kirkpatrick added.

"We don't have 10,000 troopsin any Central American country.But there are today, and we an-ticipated this, some 10,000 Cu-bans in Nicaragua," she said.

Kirkpatrick described CentralAmerica as a "unique challenge-... for this administration. .. be-cause of the irreducible, existen-tial, fact of the location ofCentral America in Caribbeanand our borders."

"I would like to emphasize thatin that in this administrationthere is not the slightest desire tounderestimate the importance ofindigenous factors in the conflictin Central America," Kirkpatricksaid.

Nonetheless, the Soviet Unionhas made a special effort to inte-grate small groups along theUnited States's southern borderinto its bloc, Kirkpatrick contin-ued. "There is overwhelming evi-dence that the guerrilla war in E1Salvador based on armed direc-tion in Nicaragua. The stakes forthe United States are very high,"she commented.

"Our administration has com-mitted itself to maximum supportfor peaceful nations short ofwar," Kirkpatrick said. She em-phasized the importance of self-government for countries in Cen-tral America. "The whole essenceof our policy is to ...help themprotect their own independenceand do so by means whicTi- aremoral and legal," she explained.

"We will continue in supportof democracy in Central Americain ways that will not risk US in-volvement and conflict but willpromise the future to CentralAmerica that they have longedfor for a very long time," she re-iterated.

Bergen fears nuclearproliferation, testing

The United States has rejecteda moratorium on nuclear testingbecause "there is concern that theSoviets will use some of theirtests to back out of treaties, JohnD. Bergen, President Reagan's di-rector of speechwriting, said atthe briefing. Bergen holds a jointappointment at the Departmentof Defense.

"Also, we want to be able tomove from experiments to pro-tection very fast," he added.

"We've got an advantage [inour precautions for nuclearweapons] over the other areas ofour society, because we've beenhandling nuclear weapons for alonger period of time," Bergensaid. Nuclear proliferationthroughout the world, particular-ly to countries with no experiencewith nuclear weapons, is a con-stant worry, he added.

"We're working very, very hardwith the Senators and with ourother allies...to hold down theproliferation," Bergen continued."The foundation of our strategyis to work with the Soviets tobring down the levels of nuclearweapons in our arsenals, in thearsenals of the two superpowers,and [safety from accidents] is oneof the great reasons why we wantto do it."

One of the United States'sgoals is "a leakproof defense,"Bergen said. "Even if we had adefense that allows, say, 90o ofSoviet ballistic missiles to enter,we believe that that will make theuncertainty of their success of anattack that great that they willnot hazard an attack," he ex-plained.

Even a defense that "leaks,"Bergen observed, "is still effective

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The rest of the defense madeits share of clutch plays, too. Co-captain Mike Ambrogi '85 madea crushing first-quarter tacklewhich knocked the ball out of thehands of the intended receiver.Chris Moreno deflected twopasses, in addition to making atackle and seven assists. RichRice made two exciting plays,first tipping a pass, then sackingthe quarterback.

Penalties continued to plagueMIT, which had 10 for a totalloss of 116 yards. The team wasable to overcome the lost yard-age, thanks largely to very strongpass protection by the offensiveline, but penalties could prove tobe a problem in the future.

This win, as did last week'sagainst Stonehill, broke a three-year jinx. The Engineers had lostto the Friars in all three of theteams' previous meetings.

MIT's next game is at homeagainst Manhattan on October, 6.

By Janice MarchiafavaThe football squad won its

home opener Saturday, 24-23,edging out the Providence Friarswith a field goal in the final min-ute of the game.

Kicker Peter Gasparini '88,who earlier in the second halfhad been tackled in the end zonefor a safety, made up for the twopoints Providence gained by put-ting a timely 25-yard field goalthrough the uprights with 48 sec-onds left ill the game, giving theEngineers their second win of theseason'

MIT's offense was forced torely on the pass throughout thecontest, as the rushing game wasstill faltering, yielding only 129yards.

The passing game seemed tothrive under the pressure, howev-er. Facing fourth down and 10yards to go in the second quarter,quarterback Dave Broecker Gcompleted a 35-yard pass to Ja-son Jonas '88 for a first down.

Broecker finished the day with20 completions in 42 attemptsand three interceptions for 261yards. Jonas, a split end, led allreceivers with seven catches for atotal of 105 yards.

MIT opened the scoring on abit of good fortune. FullbackDan Curran '85 had brought theten yards to the Providence goalline, where he fumbled. The ballrolled into the end zone, and of-fensive guard Tom Spaight fellon it for the touchdown.

Providence came back 14 sec-onds into the second quarter totake the lead 7-6, but M4IT re-sponded with a drive of its own,fueled by the 35-yard pass onfourth down and capped by Cur-ran's one-yard scoring run.Broecker hit Kerry Hooks in theend zone 'for the two-point con-version, and the Engineers led,14-7 .

The visitors responded by gen-erating two long touchdownpasses to go ahead 21-14. TheEngineers, however, knotted thescore on an I l -yard run byBroecker with 28 seconds left inthe first half.

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Tech photo by Steven H. WheatmanG passed for 26 yards during Saturday's 24-23 victory over

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