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Life insurance agents deceptive
Ralph Bakshi's latestbrainchild. Wizards, ananimated look into the far-distant future, held greatpromise but many aspectswere disappointing.
Spring is here with or withoutthe cooperation of theweather. The best evidence isbaseball's annual springtraining program, which is justgetting under way. Foul Shotsexplores this year's versionof the event.
--- p8UPDAITFrank Press, Head of the De-partment of Earth and Plane-tarv Sciences, Tis"currentlyawaiting final securityclearance on his appointmentas Science Adviser to PresidentCarter. Press, who is spendingfour days a week inWashington preparing for thejob, told The Tech that. whenand if the position is-offered tohinm he "would accept it."
LOCAL _Representative Lois Pines(D-Newton) is gaining sup-port in her efforts to pass a billthrough the MassachusettsLegislature limiting the admis-sibility of evidence in rapetrials which concerns the vic-tim's past sexual history andother potentially humiliatingfacts, The Boston Globe saidyesterday.
NA IONNearly 5,000 University ofHawaii students participatedSaturday in a march on theHawaii State Capitol inprotest of a proposed 13 percent budget cut for theuniversity.
With the end of the Vietnamconflict, anti-war feelings havesubsided and Army ROTCenrollment is up again, saysMajor General Charles C.Rogers, deputy chief of stafffor ROTC. Enrollment fig-ures, which dropped from1.77,000 to 33,000 during theVietnam era, have risen to55,000 this year and are ex-pected to continue climbing.
The National Safety Councilhas released statistics showingthat the rate of travel accidentsin 1976 -34 people killed perbillion miles of travel - wasthe lowest in recorded history.The drastic reduction in deathshas been attributed to the 55mph speed limit.
By Bob WassermanLife insurance salesmen have
employed unethical methods andmisrepresentation in their effortsto sell policies to graduatingseniors.
Complaints have been receivedby the office of the Dean for Stu-dent Affairs, primarily: frommembers of the class of 1977.
Lisa Broderick, secretary toDean for Student Affairs CarolaEisenberg, receives most of the
complaints from students con-cerning life insurance. She saidthe main complaint is about tele-phone harassment; some com-panies call four or five times. Theagents tell a student that theyreceived his name from a"friend," but either they refuse togive the name or use one withoutany authorization.
Several students have com-plained about claims from com-panies that they were the sole in-
Insurance Officer Kimball Valentine reports that no company is solelyauthorized to sell I{fe insurance on campus. Several companies falselyclaimed this priviledge when they tried to sell insurance to seniors.according to the Dean's Office.
surance agency authorized tooperate on campus. According toBroderick, an agent was asked toleave Lobby 7 by Campus Patrollast fall after a number of com-plaints of soliciting.
Dean Kenneth C. Browning '66asserted it was "simply not true"that any one company was solelyauthorized. Browning noted thatsoliciting is prohibited on cam-pus, and that this rule is especiallyenforced in dormitories.
MIT Insurance Officer Kim-ball Valentine said he doubts anyone life insurance company issolely authorized by MIT or hasever been. He recalled, however,that twenty years ago certaincompanies were sanctioned by theInstitute. These companies of-fered policies with dividends setpayable to M IT, as gifts fromgraduates. The Alumni Assoucation or a graduating class spon-sored these plans. Valentine ad-ded. and policies from severalcompanies were alwavs offeredconcurrently.
Robert J. 1Holden. AssociateDean for Student Affairs, hasdealt with the life insurance prob-lem extensively in the past year.Hoiden said a college student'ssenior year is the time to beginthinking about the future, and in-surance agents take advantage ofthis fact.
Holden said "life insurance issold, not bought," which explainsthe apparent aggressiveness of thesalesmen. He concluded that al-though there are complaints everyyear about these practices, it ishard to evaluate the general ethicsof insurance salesmen due to a"lack of positive feedback" re-
ceived from students.According to an investtigtlon
by Consumer's tInIon. "the latthing most college students needis life Insurance." Thi, report v, a,issued in the March 1977 Isue t!Consumer Repurtr. An an jnalss , several corrpanies and their po;i:-cies aimed at college students corn-cluded that these policies were t,.small. too costly. and gencrali'the wrong type for the collegegraduate.
Corsumer Reportv stated thatinsurance companies stress small-er. whole-life policies. whichbring higher profits to the com-panies. rather than term policieswhich bring hiher premiums i,,the buyer and lease him rnmore in-sured.
The magazine further recom-mends term and ,hole-ife poli-cies offered in the general marketto the college student over thesespecial college plans.
Browning suggested that anopen forum on insurance. presen-ting unbiased information on lifeinsurance policies for graduatingseniors, be initiated b, theUndergraduate Association orthe Senior Class. He also sug-gested that a pamphlet investiga-ting life insurance be published.
Valentine said a lesson could belearned by seniors in regard to theselling of life insurance: over-zealous buying and selling prac-tices are a "fact of life" and thegraduate will encounter thesepractices many times in his life.Valentine concluded that life in-surance is vital and universal intoday's world, and he hoped thesecomplaints "don't sour peopleaway from life insurance."
gett's arrest Friday. said thatBlodgett was arraigned as a fugi-tive in Houston yesterday. Thedistrict attorney's office is nowseeking return of the suspect toBoston, The Boston Globe repor-ted Saturday.
According to Byrne, Blodgettwas arrested two weeks ago byHouston police on a concealedweapon charge, and then releasedfrom custody pending examina-tion of the suspect's fingerprintsby the FBI.
Upon learning of the flightwarrant outstanding from Mass-achusetts. FBI agents placedBlodgett in custody Fnriday.
Blodgett had reportedly disap-peared from his Methuen homethe day after the Asinari slaving.
England, and was instrumental infounding the Indian Institute ofManagement in Calcutta.
The Winchester resident A asco-author of a textbook, .Aceoun-
ting - .4 Manageent .Approach.Hill has taught 15.-501 - Fi-
nancial and kManagement Ac-counting - to undergraduatesand the graduate course 15.-516.Management Accounting andControl Systenms.
Hill is survived bh his atOe Hil-dreth. a son, Thomas 1. Jr.. ofBoston: a daughter. Joanna. nowliving in W;inchester. and .:brother. Marion F. Hill. oftBucksport. Maine.
By Glenn Browastein Boston, committed suicide byA nationwide manhunt for a hanging himself in Charles Street
primary suspect in the murder of Jail on Nov. Il, 1975.an MIT junior two years ago Asinari died early on the morn-ended Friday with the arrest of ing of March 22, 1975, of injuriesJohn Blodgett in Houston by FBI received when he and a compan-agents. ion, Robert Moses '75, were at-
Blodgett, 25, formerly of tacked by four men with whomMethuen, -Mass., is one of two they were riding. Moses. whilemen indicted by a Suffolk County. seriously injured, recovered fromGrand Jury in March, 1975, for the assault.the brutal slaying of John A. According to an accountAsinari '76, a 20-year old pre- Moses gave police while recover-medical student. ing. he and Asinari were trying to
The other suspect, Robert hitchhike across HarvardShaughnessey, 22, of South Bridge late Friday night, March
Five Writing instructorssend facultya statement
By David B. KoretzFive members of the Writing
Program staff who claim to havebeen fired by the School of Hu-manities and Social Sciences havedrawn up a position paper statingtheir case.
The eight-page document, writ-ten by Sanford K-ye, JosephBrown, and three instructors, willbe distributed to 1,200 membersof the Institute's faculty and staffthis week.
Besides detailing the chronol-ogy of events leading up to thepresent situation, the paper pro-vides a background history of theWriting Program and outlines aproposal for the Program'sfuture.
The authors of the paper con-tend that the ad hoc faculty eval-
uation committee, which was ap-pointed by Harold J. Hanham,Dean of the School of Humani-ties and Social Sciences, ignored.in structure and in practice. thefavorable report of the SivinCommittee which evaluated theWriting Program last spring.
The writers of the document,besides Kaye and Brown, areDaniel Dehainut, Seth Racusen,and Stephen Reuys. Kaye toldThe Tech that the faculty mem-bers should receive the documentbefore the end of the week.
21, and were picked up by fourmen driving a gray sedan.
The students were taken on aride through Everett, Chelsea,and the South End. during whichthey were robbed of their wallets,shot, and stabbed. When thevehicle finally stopped in SouthBoston, Asinari opened the doorand pushed NMoses out. strugglingafter him.
One of the men in the carchased Asinari and struck himover the head with a tire iron, thefatal blow according to medicalexaminers. Moses was saved bySouth Boston residents, whocalled police upon hearing thestudents' cries for help.
Suffolk District Attorney Gar-rett Bvrne, who learned of Blod-
By Mark JamesProfessor of Management
Thomas M. Hill died Fridav inthe MIT infirmary. He was 62.
Hill was a member of the Al-fred P. Sloan School of Manage-ment faculty for 35 years, andhad been Associate Dean.
He was born in Bucksport,Maine. and received a bachelor'sdegree from the University ofMaine. Hill did his graduate stu-dies at Harvard University. andcompleted additional work atStanford Universitv.
After serving in the ArmedForces during World War 11. Hillwas a visiting professor in eco-nomics at Lecds University in
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Update
Secxond Asinari murder suspect captured
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Next year's weather patternswill not be a repeat of those thispast year, according to the pr.edic-tions of Professor Emeritus ofMeteorology Hurd C. Willet.
Although there will again becolder than usual weather in mid-dle latitudes, regional patternswill be different, Willet said,probably resulting in colder tem-peratures for the West and lesssevere snowfall in the Ohio Valleyand Midwest.
-He bases this prediction 9n thecurrent cooling trend and the ten-dency of winter weather patternsto repeat after three years.
Willet has forecast a 20-yearperiod of colder weather begin-ning in 1980.
A major cause of cooler weath-er has been a shift in wind pat-terns, acconding to Willet. Thewesterly winds normally crossNorth America from west to east,but during this winter they splitinto branches that brought warmair northward to Alaska andforced cold, Artic air southeast-ward to the central and easternUnited States.
This north-south shift in winddirection was also largely respon-sible for the drought whichparched western Europe this pastsummer, Willet noted.
He stated that "if one quarterof the money now spent on devel-
Next year's winter may not be any milder than this one, according toProfessor of Meteorology Hurd C.the hardest hit.oping the theroretical forecastwere spent on studying past cli-mate, significant advances couldbe made."
Accurate weather records havebeen kept in North America since1900, but significant amounts ofdata are available for the 19thcentury. Willet said that he wouldlike to see weather data from theperiod around 1790, because itappears that we are entering an80-year sunspot cycle similar tothe one which began in that
Feld: stop new armsBy Thomas J, Spisak
Because the US has a five yearlead in weapons development,this country should take the leadin nuclear disarmament by adopt-ing a unilateral moratorium onnew arms deployment, accordingto Physics Professor BernardFeld.
"Without restraint on the de-ployment of new weaponssystems, the arms race will get outof hand," Feld told an MIT audi-ence Thursday. He was speakingon "Arms Control and NationalSecurity."
Feld maintained that nationalsecurity would not be threatenedby the proposed unilateral mori-torium. "The introduction of newsystems requires testing; testingwhich can be monitored by uni-lateral means," he said.
The need to control the armsrace-is clear, Feld asserted. "Thesuperpowers have arsenals ofabout an order of magnitudegreater destructiveness than whatwas considered Mutually AssuredDestruction a decade ago."
"Both sides are tendingtowards more destructiveness,"he added.
Feld attacked three "gaps" asbeing the inventions of hardlineanalysts: spending, technologyand shelters.
He acknowledged that theSoviets were spending more rou-bles on defense than the US wasspending dollars. "But if you lookat the black market exchangerates rather than the officialSoviet exchange rates, the UnitedStates may be outspending theRussians."
Feld said the "technology gap"stemmed from the perception thatSoviet scientists were about ascapable as American ones. Ac-cording to Feld, the argumentcontinues that "since we see noevidence that the results of thisparity are being applied to thecivilian sector of Russian society,the Russians must be ahead" indefense.
"The fact is the average dif-ference between the time theAmericans introduce a weaponssystem and the time the Russiansintroduce it is 4.6 years in favor ofthe US," he noted.
Some observers have claimedthat the Soviets have a superiorcivil defense program, the "shel-ter gap." They note that there aremany generals involved in theprogram.
Feld addressed this argument
by pointing out that "of the 50Soviet generals in their civil de-fense effort, 45 are retired WorldWar II generals," who are prob-ably not actively involved in mili-tarv planning.
"Soviet civil defense manualsread the same as American pro-grams of the early '60's. I don'tthink the shelter gap is much of athreat."
Willett, but different areas may be
decade.Willet remarked that he did not
think aerosol propellants willcause a serious enough depletionin the ozone layer to cause clima-tic change.
(The state of Oregon has re-cently imposed a ban on the useof aerosol sprays using flourocarbon propellants due to thealleged danger of these cornpounds to the ozone layer.)
Willet asserted that there arelarge fluctuations in ozone levelsin response to solar wind and thatthe effect of flourocarbons would
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would only have an effect if the,built up in the upper atmosphere,a phenomenon that has not beendemonstrated to occur.
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A journalist copeswith his emotions
By 'William Lasser"He was 33."That "as how The Tech, and for that matter Thursda. in typical
journalistic parlance, summed up the life and tragic death of Jeffrey L.Pressman last week.
Newspapers use the formula for almost every obituary and deathnotice. But there is something quite different about "He was 33." Weare used to "He was 86." or "He was 71." It is alwaxs so remote to us,in our earIx twenties or late teens.
In the newspaper business, one deals constantly with tragedy - fires,murders, suicides are constant reminders of our mortality. Fortunately,The Tech does not deal with these difficult issues every day. as do largemetropolitan dailies. But they occur often enough that those of us whodeal with death on even an irregular basis learn to steel ourselvesagainst it, ignore it. treat it as an abstraction with no real effect.
I knew Jeff Pressman uell. as his student. as his advisee. I owe him alot. and his death had an effect. I had dealt with death before as a jour-nalist. and I did not let it bother me then. How could I have been so in-sensitive'
I attended the memorial service held Thursday in Kresge. Therenever was any question but that I would go. It was something I simplyhad to do. and I instinctively put on a conservative jacket and tie, outof respect for his memory. It was strange. for he had never seen medressed that wasy when he was alive.
I do not know Ahy people attend funerals and memorial services. orwhy thev' were conceived to begin with. But. they have been with ussince civilization began. I do not know w'hy I went Thursday. I did notgo for Jeff Pressman: nothing could be done for him. I did not go toconsole his family for I do not know them. Seven of his friends'- col-leagues and students - spoke. but I did not go to speak.
I went. I suppose. for myself. drawn there because I needed a chanceto sit and think about him, a place ,whereI could be comfortable in feelingemotions that I mas otherwise afraid to
_a ~-,,E a feel. I had to be with people who felt as Idid. and listen to people who said what Iwanted to hear. and what I would havesaid.
It was difficult to work on the paperThursday evening, watching thePressman story being written. reading iiostensibly as an editor. but unable reallvto concentrate on it enough to do
anything to it. Then. as editor. I had to approve the headline. "Is it OKwith 3ou?" someone asked. I looked. "Pressman dead at 33." No. itwasn't OK. But I couldn't fix what was wrong with it.
Facts-are facts, the lifeblood of a newspaper. Journalists deal toooften in facts. but. like our society, too rarely' in emotions. We can wRritewhat we know. we can write what we think. but we cannot write whatwe feel. Men in our societ} are ridiculed if they express emotions. The,can not show that they care. Neither can reporters.
One of his eulogists said that he always left a meeting with JeffPressman feeling better than when he had come in. That is a far moreappropriate statement than anm that could be made in a news story. Icould not agree more. I felt better when I left the memorial service thanhefore I arrived.
To the Editor:The article entitled "New music
unappreciated" is full of careless-ness and lacks real insight intocontemporary or traditionalmusic. Roger Kolb could havesimply said, "I don't like con-temporary music" but then he
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wouldn't have had a voice in TheTech. Simply, he is not of thisworld.. not at all sensitive towhat has happened in worldculture for the last 100 years. Thatis. he works from a conception ofart untouched by the ideas ofscience, literature, technology andthe influx of ideas from the non--uestern world.
I know no one who is preparedto speak so freely for the entireacademic community of music ashe does by saying that serialmusic is the dominating processby which modern music is made.And even if this were true, the ar-rangements of the .tones of thechromatic scale is one of a di-verse range of elements that canoperate with various degrees ofinterdependence to make thetotal music. Identifying serialcomposers as a "school"'is likeidentifying electrical engineeringas a "school": convenient foradministrative purposes but say-ing nothing about the diversityand substance it contains.'
He finds it convenient to write-off the 20th century as a musicalmistake and fails to differentiatebetween the 12-tone writing ofBerg, Webern, Boulez, Babbitt,and Stravinsky, who he has care-lessly classified as simply neo-classical; as well as the non-serialmusics of Cage, Tudor, Feldman,Reich, Riley, Carter, Kagel,Berio, Xenakis, Ligeti, Pender-ecki, Stockhausen ... to name adiversified few.
When he speaks of the "screw-ball theory derby" I might as-sume, although it is never clear inhis article, that he is contrastingthe diversity of approaches tocomposition that exist today withthe lesser number of composi-tional approaches the classical or
romantic composers have left us,and he is discontent. It shouldconcern him equally that the be-ginning of Beethoven's Eroica willevoke laughter from a Vietnameserice farmer before it evokes heroicvisions or that in isolation anytraditional western melody seems
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Any structured sonic event, even a hoax,can be;,given serious consideration.
impoverished in comparison tocertain oriental varieties. He mis-ses the significance of melody intraditional western music.
An example in reference to hisabhorrence of technology inmusic. The technology of thepiano renders harpsichord tran-scriptions anemic, two dimen-sional in contrast to the moreevolved timbral and dynamic ran-ges of which the piano is capable.Nevertheless nothing compares tomusic for harpsichord played on aharpsichord. We enjoy it withinits own conditions. And so it iswith electronic music. Roger
Eating out: To the Editor:
Libby Cone's letter objectingto restaurants selling human (fe-male) flesh along with the bovinevariety, shows how little evenTech undergrads appreciateCoble's Law of Restaurants, i.e.
Q*A = const.Where Q = quality of restaurantand A = attractiveness of wait-resses.
Although Coble did not statethe physical basis of this remark-able equation, at least two cometo mind: The most obvious basisis that decorative waitresses arehired to entice customers (male)into eating at restaurants whichthey would otherwise avoid. Asecond, and possibly more plaus-ible basis, is that because tips arebad in poor restaurants, waitress-es in such establishments soonseek better positions, and are re-placed by younger women.
If the Newbury Steak House isindeed peddling cheese cake, theyare selling beef cake right alongside, because males also servefood. I am also informed by a
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Koib never even brings up the is-sue of sonic control via. the com-puter. tie denies both innovationand craft and in its place puts sen-timentality. He seems to feel thatemotion excludes intelligence. Inhis case he may be right.
In his grand finale he describeshow a band of BBC broadcasterstrick their audience into listeningseriously to a musical hoax:"carefully pieced" "random tapesounds" devoid of "the slightesttrace of musical intelligibility. Hedoes not identify what "randomtape sounds" are. Any soundscarefully spliced to-eliminate anytrace of "musical intelligibility"introduce a great deal of struc-ture. The human being is quitecapable of perceiving a variety ofstructures and 20th century musichas given the listener the licenseto do so. Any structured sonicevent, even a hoax, can be given.serious consideration. An exam-ple of this phenomenon is my gul-libility in responding to RogerKolb's almost totally vacuous ar-ticle.
:oble's lawwoman who dines there fairlyoften that one waiter in particularis "nice looking."
Ms. Cone's suggestion thatmany ladies of the night are ex-waitresses, suggests a very inter-esting U ROP project, whereinsome enterprising undergraduatewould determine the past employ-ment history of the demimon-daines,of LaGrange Street. As acompanion project, another stu-dent could travel around Bostonasking unhappy-looking waitress-es if they were considering a ca-reer in prostitution.
Kennetb C. RussellAssociate Professor
of Materials ScienceMarch 2, 1977
The Tech welcomes Letters tothe Editor. Correspondenceshould be typed, triple-spaced,and not exceed 200 words. Un-signed letters will nof be con-sidered for publication, thoughthe name of the author will bewithheld on request.
New music deserves thought
Lynn T. Yamada '78 - ChairpersonWilliam Lasser'78 - Editor-in-Chief
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In July, 1974, a group of students andteachers in the Literature Section of theHumanities Department began the M ITPilot Writing Program to integrate writinginstruction into the undergraduate cur-riculum. To that end, the Program has:
1. provided writing instruction for2,000 students;
2. created a Course XXI WritingMajor and a Humanities Concentra-tion in Writing - there are now nearlya hundred Concentrators and severalMajors;
3. introduced ten new courses. in-cluding two Humanities Distributionsubjects and several interdisciplinarysubjects:
4. introduced undergraduateTeaching Assistants into theHumanities Department:
5. established educational links withother departments and programs ...and with other universities.
... Evaluation of the Pilot WritingProgram began in the spring of 1975. TheCommittee to Evaluate the Pilot WritingProgram [chaired by Professor NathanSivin] included professional writers,
teachers of writing and literature,educational psychologists, a member of theVisiting Committee to the Humanities, andadministrators of experimentalprograms. ..
The Evaluation Committee undertookan extensive examination of the goals of'the Pilot Program, the performance of thestaff in achieving those goals, and theProgram's effect on the educational en-vironment at MIT...
In June. 1976. after more than a vear ofwork and at a reported cost of 520,000. theEvaluation Committee issued an 83 pagereport with extensive supporting materialThe Report "strongly supports the direL-tions and achievements of the Writing Pro-gram's pilot endeavor."
Both Deans explained that while the Reporti-has been "received" bythe Humanities Administration. no action will be taken on any of theCommittee's proposals until next fall, Blackmer and Hanham did ex-plain that extensive plans have been completed for what is expected The student writing that most MIT 'aculty see Is exposition so the,
are most immediately aware of deficiencies in exposition Buj if aflthat students needed were llustratlve models of good aroseexplanations of rhetorical strategies. and vigorous editorial services.
to be a "transitional year" for thefall.
Writirfg Program beginning nextThe Tech. July 30. 1976. p. 2
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to give this committee Its m-an-- The Report. p 36
The largely positive conclusions of theReport called for a substantial commitmentby MIT to a permanent program inwriting, with a major emphasis on student-centered teaching. The events of the pastterm do not reflect this sort of commit-ment.
I. Circulation and Discussion of theReport. in May, 1976, Dean Harold J.Hanharn announced at a public forum that'we should try and produce a sensibleclimate in which to hold a serious discus-sion (of the Report) in the fall." Institute-wide circulation of the Report, a necessaryand logical first step toward creating a sen-sible climate, has still not taken place...
3. Evaluation of Current StafJ. TheReport recommended that the SteeringCommittee supervise the evaluation of allcurrent staff on the basis of the Commit-tee's recommended criteria and the Dean'snew "Guidelines for Appointment andPromotion of Instructors, Lecturers andSenior Lecturers." Instead, the Dean ap-pointed Dean Blackmer to chair an ad hoccommittee to evaluate only four of the staffmembers, without providing the Programwith the ad hoc committee's mandate or itscriteria for evaluation,
in November, 1976, after the four staffmembers met for the only time with the adhor committee, one of them wrote an eightpage memorandum to the committeequestioning their procedures. The commit-tee declined to discuss her memorandum.Two others could not elicit from the com-mittee, the Dean, or the acting Director ofthe Program (who was a member of thecommittee and who served as liaisonbetween the committee and the Program)either a clear statement of the positions forwhich they were to be evaluated, or of thecriteria on which they were to be judged.They initiated discussions with Dean
xriting. the Evaluation Committee com-pared Writing Program students rith stu-dents In the Harvard Euposito rVProgram... Donald Byker. the head ofHarvard's Expositors% Writing Program.who conducted the sures for the Com-mittee. reported that "Harvard-s programdoes much less with student reading ofpapers and with student response to eachother's writing. We definitel! will seek tobuild more of these features into ourprogram.
M.uch evidence has been gathered atMNIT and other universities about theweaknesses of the "expositor>,""remedial," or "bonehead English" ap-proach to the teaching of writing. This ap-proach, which drills mechanics andorganization. too often ignores the stu-dent's own thought processes and limits"creative" writing to a preselected few...
In gathering qualitative and quanti-tative data to measure the effectiveness ofdifferent approaches to the teaching of
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lting dseevoped by membreoof The Wrirtin Program atthe Mctmhoses I^gof Tediumoa _
That the Writing Program has survived and grown :n a bleak timeand in an unlikely environment is not to be taken lightly it suggestsgrassroots strength that no "ideal" program designed by a task forceand Imposed administratively could have developed
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Hanham in an attempt to arrive at a moresensible evaluation process. In the middleof these negotiations, they were fired. Fiveother members of the Program, having upto three years of service to the Institute,were also terminated without evaluation.
4. Writing and Experience. The Evalua-tion Committee recommended that"Writing and Experience" (a subject whichserved 450 students in 197576) be rein-stated as a Humanities Distribution sub-jei:t. In an unprecedented procedure, theCommittee on Distribution received, at therequest of Humanities DepartmentChairperson Bruce Mazlish, adversarytestimony from members of the LiteratureSection who had no direct knowledge ofthe subject. Reinstatement of distributioncredit was subsequently denied...
... We propose the following actions torestore reason and integrity' to the processof determining the future of writing atMt IT:
1. An Institute-wide discussion ofthe committee Report and the fun-damental issues regarding the futureof writing at MIT. with the participa-tion of students, staff and ad-ministrators;
2. The creation of a Steering Com-mittee of tenured faculty "qualified byproven concern for the quality of stu-dent writing and by a sympathetic
understanding of the WVriting Pro-gram's mission" to guide the future ofthe Writing Program and' to overseethe evaluation of present staff;
3. A fair evaluation of the presentstaff in line with their performance asstudent-centered teachers andeducational innovators. within thecontext of the Report:4. The development by the staff inconsultation with ,he Steering Com-mittee, students. and the administra-tion. of a structure to house student-centered teaching of writing.
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from three Boston universities will be heldat 8:30pm on Friday, March 11 in KresgeAuditorium. The groups involved are theMIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, the MITConcert Jazz Band, the Harvard Jazz En-semble, and the University of LowellStudio Orchestra. The concert is open tothe public. Free tickets will be distributedat MIT in Lobby 10 from Monday, March7 through Friday, March 11.
Israeli conductor Dalia Atlas will directthe MIT Symphony Orchestra in concertsto be given at Wellesley on March 10 andat MIT on March 12. The MIT concert inKresge will begin at 8:30pm. Free ticketswill be distributed in Lobby 10 the week ofthe concert; tickets at the door will costS .00.
The MIT Choral Society, under the dir-ection of John Oliver, will sing Bruckner'sMass in F minor at a 7:30pm concert onSunday, March 13 in Sacred Heart Church(47 Sixth St,) in East Cambridge. Ticketsfor the concert, available at the door or bycalling x3-2906, cost $4 ($2 for studentswith ID's).
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By Stephen R. WilkWizards, written, produced and directedby Ralph Bakshi: released by TwentiethCentury-Fox.
Ralph Bakshi's Wizards is set in a worldcommon to comic book art. It's a world ofsword-swinging heroes, ill-clad maidens.sorcerers, elves, fairies and NamelessBeasts. Set two million years after an all-consuming nuclear holocaust. Wizards isconcerned with the battle between the gro-tesque beings of the radiation-scarred landof Scortch and the elves of the pastoralMontaga.
Fighting on the side of the elves is Ava-tar (Bob Holt), a. diminutive, cigar chom-ping wizard with a Brooklyn accent. Theinhabitants of Scortch have been defeatedbefore. but now they are being lead byAvatar's evil brother, Blackwolf (SteveCravers). Blackwolf is using unearthedremmants of forbidden war technologyand Nazi propaganda to aid him, and theminions of Scortch are able to crush theMontaga armies. The only hope for theGood Guys is for Avatar to journey toScortch. accompanied by Weehawk (Rich-
ard Romanus), an elf; Elinor (Jesse Wells),a fairy: and Peace (David Proval), one ofBlackwolfs robots, now reformed, andthere break Blackwolf's power.
This premise holds great potential for afantasy epic. In fact, it seems to have beentaken from that magnumt opus of fantasyepics. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings.Wizards, however, fails to live up to itspossibilities.
The most strident feature is its uncom-fortable blend of the cutesy and the hor-rible. The image presented by the bedtimestory narration and the Kewpie doll fairiesclashes with that of the blood-and-gutsbattle scenes and Nazi regalia. Further,Bakshi's world has not been clearly deline-ated. What are the limitations on thewizards' powers? Why is an old movieprojector so important to Blackwolfsstrength? The characters are inconsistentand vague, and many of the incidentsconfusing.
Blackwolfs wife, for instance, is intro-duced only to be knocked off. One gets theimpression that we are not supposed tothink about what's going on, but just look
at the pretty pictures. Bakshi has a flair forvisual imagery. The steeds used by thecombatants look like a hybrid of horse andostrich.
The President of Montaga looks like aclown, and some of Scortch's soldiers haveheads made of gas masks. Bakshi's natureis at its most biting when he shows twopriests engaging in a ceremony calculatedto insult anyone. The bearded figures mur-mur, bow in rhythm, hit each other, do asong and dance, and wheel each otheraround on a crucifix while their parish-ioners are massacred.
But although the animation is of excel-lent quality, large portions of the film aregiven to high-contrast prints of scenes ofcharging vikings and knights from oldmotion pictures, sometimes doctored togive the figures the appearances of gar-goyles. One is soon bored of this repetition.Finally, the length of Wizards is a shortninety minutes.
Wizards is ultimately aimed at a specificaudience - the adherents of Robert E.Howard, Frank Frazetta, and "adult fan-tasy." Anyone else is liable to find it allrather silly.
The MIT Community Players' Marchmeeting will feature selections from Brechton Brecht. The program will include mate-rial from the plays, poetry, and letters ofBertolt Brecht. The meeting will be onFriday, March 11, at 8pm in the Mezza-nine Lounge of the Student Center.
Pianist Lydia Orias will be in concert atthe Community Music Center of Boston ina program of Skryabin, Rachmaninoff,Prokofiev, Anderson, Haydn and Liszt onThursday, March 10, at 8pm. The concert,free to all, will be held at the CommunityMusic Center, 48 Warren Avenue in Bos-ton.
Soprano Linda Terry and pianist VictorRosenbaum will be performing works bySchubert,Vebern and Mozart on Thurs-day, March 17, at 8pm. The concert isbeing held at the Community MusicCenter, 48 Warren Ave. in Boston. Allconcerts are free and open to the public.For more information, please call482-7494.
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Buildin, S$55.iX) jo;s- ,z' at atime--is tough. At this rate, we mustsell another SI .850.(X0 worth ofproducts and senrices to clear enoughmoney for a single new joh. That'swhy better profits are important. Theymake rore jobs. Even Governmentjobs. The Government's mone% comesfrom taxes o n all of us who work.
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PGE S THE TECH TUESDAY. MARCH 8. 1977
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Rites of siBy Glenn Brownstein
"Yankees 'cheapskates.' bat-boy claims"... "The Yankeeshave climbed to the top of theHate and Ugliness Poll" . . . aYankee managing partner sellshis share of the team in objectionto Reggie Jackson's signing, re-marking that "it will be interest-ing to see how the three biggestegotists in baseball - Billy Mar-tin, Reggie Jackson, and GeorgeSteinbrenner - get along."
Yes, everybody, it's time forspring training., the annual ritualthat concentrates the 26 majorleague baseball teams - don'tforget the Seattle Mariners andthe Toronto Blue Jays - intothree states (Florida, Arizona,and California) and provides uswith the momentum to beginanother year of rooting for ourfavorite squad.
Just as 1975 was the "can theA's make it four in a row" year(they couldn't), and 1976 was the"will the Reds repeat" year (theydid), 1977 is "hate the Yankees"year, as professional baseball'smost classless club builds up anegative rooting interest un-matched since the Casey Stengelera.
If one chooses to believe Batt-lin' Bill, Martin. the pilot of thisdiamond "monolith." the Yanks
will win the pennant by 20 gamesand then roll over the Reds infour straight - and we all re-member what a shoo-in the RedSox were supposed to be last , car.
The free agent draft has signifi-cantly redivided talent among theteams. California. ,kith the addi-tion of Bobb? Grich, Don Bavlor.and Doyle Alexander. is theAmerican League West faiorite.not Kansas Cit,. And don't ex-pect to see the Orioles near thetop in the East - their losses dueto trades and free agents shouldbe too much to bear.
On the home front. the issuesare money and talent: shouldLuis Tiant get a renegotiated con-tract based on his outstandingperformance (money). and whowill play left field for the RedSox, Carl Yastrzemski or JimRice (talent)?
The Bostun Herald 4miertcanran a front-page color picture ofbatting practice in ,u inter Haven.the Sox' home base during Mlarchand ecarlx April. The weeckendw\eathY.r reminded us of spring.on. ,. couple of Vccks awxa%. Theitch '. pli. anti watch haehall i,ba.k it'., 1le t, turn ot f the "hot
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pring training egin%VMEX Radio will broadcast hundreds of IM participants canBoston's first Grapefruit League get a jump on the season, slatedgame tomorrow against Detroit to begin the weekend after springat 1:30pm. and the first spring vacation. It's time to air out thetraining telecast will be on Satur- gloves, stretch out the caps. digday. March 26. out the balls, and get back on the
In another week or so, barring field for a little pepper game ora new touch of winter, the Briggs two. I, for one, can't wait. Playplaying fields will be dry. and ball!
By Brian WibecanThe junior varsity fencing team
scored an amazing upset by hand-ing Concord-Carlisle their firsthome loss in five years, 14-13,Wednesday at Concord.
This was the first time the JVhas defeated Concord since fen-cing between the two teams begantwelve years ago. The win bringsthe final JV record to 3-3, the bestsince 1965.
It was a long and suspensefulmeet with 27 consecutive boutsfenced on one strip. Concord. atone point ahead by five bouts.continued their streak into thethird round, ending the sabrecompetition with the score 12-9.The MIT foil squad then cap-r
:ore upsettured all three of their third roundbouts, while the first epee boutwas dropped, leaving the score13-12 in Concord's favor.Freshman John Rodrigues dealtConcord's top epeeist his onlyloss that evening, keeping themeet alive. and allowing BrianWibecan '79 to secure the victoryby winning the final bout.
The sabre squad, up against thequick Concord personnel, wasonly able to take two bouts - oneeach by Dave Karp '78'and BillZajac '79. The foilsmen, led byfreshman Geoff Pingree's sweepof three, provided most of themomentum by taking seven. Theywere supported by the epee squadwho won five.
Bob Castle blocks an enemy spike in volleyball action duringMIT Invitational Meet last Saturday
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