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By Andrew L. FishMIT currently has no policy

for dealing with the NationalCollegiate Athletic Associationdrug testing regulations, but anad hoc committee plans to for-mulate a policy within weeks, ac-cording to Director of Athleticsand committee member Royce N.Flippen Jr.

Last January, the NCAA Con-vention approved drug testing forathletes in championship compe-titions. Under the NCAA rules,all athletes are required to sign adrug testing consent form beforetheir competitive season begins,according to an NCAA pam-phlet.

During NCAA championships,certain athletes will be requiredto submit to a drug test, eitherrandomly by the athlete's posi-tion, or by suspicion, the NCAApamphlet explained. The athleteswill have one hour to report to atesting station where they willprovide a sample in front of awitness. If an athlete tests posi-tive for any prohibited drugs, heor she will be suspended frompost-season competition for 90days, and his or her school willbe notified.

The NCAA does not state howindividual colleges may use thetesting information, but the con-

sent form does say that a positiveresult would become part of astudent's educational record.

Although the drug testing con-sent forms were distributed to allfall and winter athletes, MITnever decided what to do withany resulting information, Flip-pen said. The consent form wasdistributed along with otherNCAA forms in the fall and wassigned by every athlete, Flippensaid.

But many Americans began tochallenge drug testing in the stateand federal courts, and "we be-gan to worry a bit ourselves,"Flippen said. Several winter ath-letes at MIT refused to sign theconsent forms, he said. Flippenhoped that formulating an Insti-tute policy would satisfy studentconcerns.

The drug testing issue came asa surprise to many people atMIT, said Robert M. Randolph,committee member and associatedean for student affairs. "Our in-tent is to make sure we have apolicy in place," he said.

Randolph admitted that theadministration "should haverevved up quicker" to formulatea policy. He blamed the inactionon bureacratic inefficiency.

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the report, agreed that racism is acurrent problem at MIT. Thesample in the 1985 Black AlumniSurvey was stratified into a recentgroup and an early group, andthere were no statistically signifi-cant differences between thegroups, Wilson said. Also, thequotes and anecdotes in the re-port were intentionally takenfrom- recent- students. according

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:8kiX pesrts probAdBy Paula Maute

The future of the US nuclearpower industry is uncertain, saidenergy experts at a public forum,"Beyond Chernobyl: The Futureof Nuclear Power," sponsored bythe Technology and CultureSeminar on Tuesday at MIT.

"What is the future of nuclearpower after Chernobyl? My an-swer is, I don't know," said MIT'sKent Hansen, professor of nucle-ar engineering, and associate di-rector of the Institute's EnergyLaboratory, Hanasen was one ofthree speakers who discussed nu-clear power before an audienceof 100 people.

Three major factors will influ-ence the future of nuclear power,Hansen- said. They are: future de-mand for electricity, availabilityof other energy sources, and thepublic's acceptance of nuclearpower, Hansen said.

The public's acceptance of nu-clear power has been low for thelast decade, Hansen said. Ameri-cans fear not -only reactor acci-dents, such as Three Mile Islandand Chernobyl, but also radioac-tive wastes, which the public con-siders "far more sinister," ac-cording to Hansen. Nuclearreactors, however, are very safeand have a low probability of anaccident, Hansen asserted.

Energy experts have had difficulty forecasting the demand forenergy despite numerous predic-tions based on factors such aspopulation growth and industrialuse, Hansen explained. Until theoil crisis of the 1970's, the UnitedStates' demand for electricitydoubled every ten years since theIndustrial Revolution. But today,US energy reeds are increasingby about 2 percent per year, Han-sen said.

How available fossil fuels willbe in the future will affect the ex-tent of the US' reliance on nucle-ar power, Hansen said. Oil pricesand demand are low today, but

By Mark KantrowitzPresident Paul E. Gray '54 de-

fended "The Racial Climate onthe MIT Campus" report, whichsaid MIT needs to improve its ra-cial environment for blacks andother minorities, at Wednesday'sfaculty meeting. The report, pre-pared by the Minority Student Is-sues Group, was released in lateOctober.

Gray. responded to, a numberof specific- questions-abou't tihe re-:port which had arisen in his dis-cussions with MIT faculty ad-ministrators.

Gray said the MASIG report fo-cused on black students becausethere are enough black alumni topermit a careful study of the ra-cial climate. "This is not neces-sarily true of other minorities,though it is obviously true of thecircumstances of women atMIT," Gray said.

MIT has examined the situa-tion for women and has "found

substantial similarities in someaspects of their experience andthe experiences presented in thereport," Gray noted.

Though the report was notbased on surveys of non-blackminorities, the report still "givesus some indicators which wouldcause us to think about the ex-periences of others as well," Graysaid.

Guay: rae-mpnew exists. 8i MIT

The 1985 Black Alumni Survey,on which "The Racial Climate onthe MIT Campus" was largelybased, surveyed blacks who en-tered MIT between 1969 and1981, according to the report.

But the report's findings havebeen confirmed by conversationswith current MIT students, Graypointed out. Gray said he wasconvinced that "these problemsexist in real time" and are notsimply historical artifacts.

John S. Wilson, a co-author of

this could change with politicaldevelopments. The United Statesowns large coal reserves, but coalproduces large amounts of car-bon dioxide, contributing to the"greenhouse effect," he ex-plained.

Predictions for the future sup-ply of natural gas "look good,"Hansen said, and natural gasproduces small amounts of car-bon dioxide compared to other

fossil fuels.New technologies could make

fossil fuels environmentally safer,Hansen said. Technological de-velopments could make solar,wind, and biomass energy moreeconomically viable as well.

Nuclear power not economical

Human error and poor man-agement, not engineering failure,

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he said. Thus, the center encour-ages companies and univerisitiesto understand the need for con-tinually educating their employ-ees, he continued.

When the center was first es-tablished, it encountered difficul-ty in attracting engineers and sci-entists, he said. "Originally, itwas thought that engineers andscientists would come and geteducated." But few people want-ed to leave their company formore than a few months, he said.

One of the center's major pro-grams is the Advanced StudyProgram, in which approximately50 scientists and engineers cometo MMIT each year from compan-ies, universities, and governmentsaround the world, according toPaul E. Brown, director of theprogram.

"About half are foreign andhalf are from America,' Brownsaid. The program allows theparticpants to concentrate in aparticular field of study he said.

The Advanced Study Programhas 52 participants this term, according to a CAES pamphlet. Al-most 20 fellows are from govern-ment agencies, about 20 are fromindustry, and about 10 are fromassorted laboratories. Of thosefrom industry, however, only 7 or

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By Robert E. Potter IIThe Center for Advanced En-

gineering Study serves as a linkbetween industry and academia.Professor Shaoul Ezekiel SM '68,who became director of CAESthree months ago, said the centerwas established in 1971 to fighttechnological obsolescence in in-dustry, government, and universi-ties.

The purpose of the center,housed in building 9, is "to ex-pose industry to what is going onand convincing them that the to-pics will be important in the fu-ture," Ezekiel said. People needto be continually educated in or-der to extend their useful lives,

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Amory Lovins, Director of Research at Rocky MountainInstitute.

MIT to respond toNCAA drug testing

Gray defends 'Racial Climate"" rport

nuclear powver's future

Center serves as linkbetween industry, IWIT

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to Wilson, an associate in theAnalytical Studies and PlanningGroup of Gray's office.

Report is first stepin fighting racism '

"Broad discussion is the firststep in dealing with the problemswhich are addressed in this re-port, the first step in making thisenvironment more supportive ofblack students, and all studentsin general," Gray commented.

The fact that other predomi-nantly white universities have ra-cial problems should not keepMIT from trying to improve itsown situation, Gray stressed."That it [racism] is a problemhere is sufficient reason to try todeal with it here, and what thecircumstances may be elsewhereare not all that important withhow MIT comes to terms withthese matters."

Racism is especially unaccep-table at MIT "because of our his-toric, appropriate and entirelynecessary attention to individualperformance and individualachievements, and the way inwhich individuals grow in thiscommunity," Gray said. "Theremust be no acceptance at MIT ofany intolerance, or racial or sex-ual discrimination or favoritism."

S. Jay Keyser, associate pro-vost, said, "We are now in a po-sition to show how this problemcan be dealt with in a creativeway, and hopefully, that by doingso, we will be a model for otherinstitutions in the country."

Faculty "shocked" by report

Professor Mary Potter, chair-man of the faculty, remarked thatfaculty members are "enormous-ly shocked that some of the inci-dents related in this report couldhave occurred in the past fiveyears."

Potter said she was concernedover the "negative and very dam-aging ripple effect" of such inci-dents.

Potter mentioned another kindof "benign" intolerance, a sort of"softness" to students in theclassroom, she said. "We mustnot substitute for racism a kindof kindness, asking easy ques-tions, giving easy grades, don'tmake hard remarks on the pa-pers. That's pernicious, it's an-other form of low key racismwhich must be wiped out," sheemphasized.

The report revealed that manyfaculty members have substan-tially different expectations ofblack students than other stu-dents, Gray observed. "What isunique, and particularly trouble-some in the revelations of thisstudy, is that expectations ofpoor performance, expectationsof lack of ability, or assumptionsabout impropriety of presence,which are held by some membersof this community, reflect a ra-cially based stereotype which isshocking and simply out of placeat MIT."

Some faculty members suggest-ed forming more specific griev-ance procedures for racist inci-dents, being sensitive to the useof metaphors drawn from the mi-nority such as "a black markagainst someone," achieving agreater representation of blacksin all levels of the MIT communi-ty, and holding an Institute collo-quium on racism.

Faculty discuss Interphase

Some faculty members at themeeting asked whether ProjectInterphase, or an equivalent pro-gram, might be extended for an-other semester, during the fresh-man year or earlier.

Project Interphase, a transi-tional summer program for newlyadmitted minority students, hasalready been extended, in theform of the "Second SummerProgram," one professor com-mented. This program takes stu-dents who had been through In-

terphase the first year, andprovides them with summer jobopportunities and some access toeducational opportunities, hesaid.

Project Interphase has alsobeen extended in the other direc-tion, in the form of the "Minor-ity Introduction to Engineeringand Sciences," a program run bythe School of Engineering forhigh school juniors, another pro-fessor noted. A substantial frac-tion of the students who attendthat program come to MIT, headded.

MIT ran two different versionsof Project Interphase this sum-mer, another faculty membersaid. In addition to the full 7-

Winter Wonderland.Center.

week program, the institute helda shortened two-week version, heexplained. As a result of thischange, a larger number of thestudents MIT targeted for theprogram were able to attend, hepointed out.

But appraising the impact ofProject Interphase can be diffi-cult, Gray noted, because MITinvites all students who theythink might benefit from it, andalmost all of them come. Thisprevents MIT from assessingwhether the program substantial-ly improves the performance ofminorities at MIT. Nevertheless,most of the students who attendProject Interphase report positiveexeriences there.

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Hasenfus will not appeal convictionEugene Hasenfus, the American convicted of conspir-

ing against the Marxist government of Nicaragua, will notappeal his verdict, his attorney said yesterday. Instead, hewill work on getting a pardon from the Nicaraguan gov-ernment. Hasenfus was sentenced to 30 years in jail Sat-urday after being found guilty of running supplies to con-tra rebels. (AP)

Khomeini opposes diplomatic tieswith United States and Satan

Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran, yesterday con-demned officials in the Iranian government who want con-tact with the United States. Khomeini said they should be"screaming at America" and asked, "Why should we beso Western-oriented or Satan-oriented? ' (AP)

Soviet Union legalizescertain capitalist activities

Lawmakers in Moscow have passed a law allowing peo-ple to hold second jobs as self-employed taxi-drivers, re-pairmen, and restaurant operators. The new law, whichwill take -effect next May, loosens the highly centralizedSoviet economy, but does not affect private hiring, whichwill still be proscribed. (AP)

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President Reagan said the decision to sell arms to Iranwas his alone, and that no more such sales would bemade, during a nationally televised news conference onWednesday. The arms deal was justified by the potentialrewards, including the release of American hostages inLebanon, he claimed. But there was no specific arms-for-hostages deal, he added.

If the deal's cover had not been blown, five Americanswould have been freed - not three, Reagan said.

During the news conference, Reagan also expressed op-timism about arms talks with the Soviets and the possibil-ity of another superpower summit. (AP)

NASA performs shuttle safety drillNASA simulated a launch pad emergency yesterday to

test evacuation procedures from the space shuttle Atlan-tis. Seven astronauts took part in the drill, which was de-signed to improve the shuttle's escape system. (AP)

General Motors puts on the brakesGeneral Motors laid off nearly 17,000 employees yester-

day because of a strike at the Delco Electronics Plant inKokomo, IN. It may have to shut down its North Ameri-can assembly operations unless the strike ends. Negotia-tions resumed yesterday.

General Motors officials said they don't know how longthe layoffs will last.(AP)

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Delahunt to openjuvenile trials

Norfolk County District Attorney William Delahuntsaid yesterday that he will file legislation to open up crimi-nal trials involving juveniles, even though he believes thatthe names of juvenile suspects should remain confidential.The public is unaware of the seriousness of some juvenileoffenses, Delahunt continued. If the public hears aboutthe cases, it won't tolerate the status quo, he said. (AP)

New Hampshire group advocateslocal control of state troops

A group opposed to American involvement in CentralAmerica sat outside the office of New Hampshire Gover-nor John Sununu every day for five weeks in order to geta face-to-face meeting with the governor. The groupwants to keep the National Guard out of military trainingin Central America. In order to achieve this goal, theywant Sununu to resist attempts in Washington to put theguard under more federal control.

A meeting has been set for Dec. 18 to discuss local con-trol of the guard. (AP)

Bruins chokeThe Boston Bruins failed to hold a 2-goal lead in the

third period and had to settle for a 4-4 NHL tie in Buffaloon Wednesday night. Norm Lacombe got the equalizer forthe Sabres with less than six minutes remaining in regula-tion.

The Bruins got goals from Dwight Foster, Geoff Court-nall, Thomas Gradin, and Tom McCarthy. (AP)

B Celtics squeeze by young HawksThe Boston Celtics defeated the surging Atlanta Hawks

Wednesday night, 111-107, at the Boston Garden. Withjust over five minutes left in the game, the Celtics scoredeight unanswered points, pulling away from the scrappyHawks. Kevin McHale scored 30 points, and Larry Birdadded 29 points, while Robert Parish had 20 rebounds.Dominique Wilkins tossed in 29 points for Atlanta. Theresult left both teams with 7-2 records. (AP)

Personal income, corporate profitson the rise

Personal income rose 0.4 percent last month, register-ing its highest gain since last April, when it rose 1.2 per-cent. But personal consumption expenditures for Octoberwere down 2 percent from a month earlier, the CommerceDepartment reported.

After-tax profits of US corporations climbed 4.3 per-cent in the third quarter, which is the best performancesince the end of last year. Profits totaled $144 billion at anannual rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Depart-ment said. (AP)

Stillwater battles intrudersThe city of Stillwater, OK, has used rubber snakes and

cannon fire - but still has not removed the estimated2,000 sparrows who have made Stillwater their nestingarea. The latest idea to get rid of the birds came fromCity Manager Carl Weinbaug, who announced his plansyesterday to use a fleet of motorized model airplanes todrive the birds away. But no one has of yet volunteered aplane for war duty. (AP)

Study says reduction in cigarettesmoking may be useless

Smokers who cut down on the number of cigarettesthey smoke each day are not necessarily reducing theamount of toxins that they inhale, according to a study inthe New England Journal of Medecine. Smokers who cutback tend to compensate by smoking cigarettes more in-tensely, which multiplies the tar and nicotine they inhale,the study said. The best thing for smokers to do is to quitentirely or switch to a brand with the lowest tar and nico-tine content, the authors of the report asserted. (AP)

A warmer stretchAfter the sloppy weather and below-normal

temperatures of the past few days, we will see awelcome return to near-normal temperatures anddrier conditions during much of the weekend. Afterthe rain departs this morning, we will have a drystretch until Sunday afternoon, when anapproaching cold front may trigger some showers.Saturday should be the better weekend day and it'snot too early to check out the skiing up north;some of it is quite good.Today: Rain ending in the morning and partial

clearing this afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s(282 K) early in the day, then falling through theafternoon. Gusty Northwest winds up to 30knots (18 m/s).

Tonight: Partly cloudy, windy, temperaturesdropping to around 300 (272 K).

Saturday: Mostly sunny, highs in the mid 40s (280K). Winds brisk in the morning, subsiding bymidday. Saturday night will be fair with lows inthe mid 30s (275 K).

Sunday: Partly sunny and milder, chance of ashower in the afternoon, highs in the low 50s(285 K).

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Volume 106, Number 53 Friday, November 21, 1986

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Column/Kenneth D. Leiter

ApartheidAs I ran through the doors of

the Johannesburg train station tocatch a train to Pretoria, a blackporter stopped me. "You cannotenter through here," he said."This is the colored entrance. Goto the other end of the station."With five minutes left to thetrain's departure, I ran with myheavy luggage to the "white en-trance."

Huffing and puffing, I quicklyfound my way to the correcttrack, but as I climbed onto thetrain, someone yelled at me,"That is the car for the bloodyKafirs. Why would you want toride with those animals?"

My watch said 3:13 pm; thetrain left at 3:14 pm. This wasnot Amtrak - South Africantrains are as precise as the chang-ing of the guard at BuckinghamPalace. Hearing the commotion,the conductor surmised that Iwas a tourist, so he quickly di-rected me to the right car. As thetrain pulled away from the sta-tion, I fell into my seat cursingand fuming at the stupidity ofapartheid.

In the seat next to me sat a

cannot die quicklySouth African of English de-scent. During the journey I dis-cussed politics with my fellowtraveler. He inquired about theAmerican reaction to apartheid,and I, in turn, asked him aboutthe English-South African pop-ulation's feelings towards theAfrikaners, and apartheid itself.

Continually, he expressed hisconcern and remorse about howcountries naively thought thatthey could instantly change a sys-tem that had reigned for so long,with economic sanctions, disin-vestment, and boycotts.

Like many other South Afri-cans that I met during my threeweek stay, he believed that the in-trinsic problems of racial dis-crimination in his country weretoo complicated to be changed bysimple solutions. That was theone statement which I heard overand over again from Englishmen,Afrikaners, and even a few edu-cated blacks.

The man on the train left mein Pretoria with one commentthat I will never forget, "Changewill come, but it must come slow-ly. Otherwise there will be chaos,

destruction, and death."Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, the

leader of the six-million memberZulu tribe and a most respectedblack leader, has publicly voicedhis opposition many times to dis-investment and sanctions, thoughhe is hardly satisfied with his gov-ernment's policies. United StatesSecretary of State George P.Shultz PhD '49, in an address be-fore the National Press Club inApril, mentioned that opinionpolls in South Africa by reputa-ble organizations reveal that theoverwhelming majority of blackfactory workers are opposed todisinvestment by American firms.

I had heard for most of my lifeabout the revolting system ofwhite-imposed segregation be-tween blacks, Asians, and co-loreds on the one hand, andwhites on the other. For at leastfive years I had thought of goingto this nation, which despite itsbeauty and varied attractions,was as abhorrent to me as Ger-many still is to some Jews. I cer-tainly could not directly under-stand the plight of South African

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Column/Sharalee M. FieldWhere have all the flamers gone?

Well, folks, it's Thursday, andonce again I have one lonely let-ter for tomorrow's opinion pages.Columns are not usually the bulkof the opinion pages. Thesepages are, instead, filled mostlywith "feedback," and not all of itis generated by Simson L. Garfin-kel's columns. They are thevoices of the MIT community ex-pressing their opinions on currentevents, MIT happenings and lifein general. But these voices havebeen strangely silent lately.

Granted, this makes editing alot easier. Headlines are a breeze.It tends to keep my mailboxclean, also. But a page of editori-al cartoons just doesn't make avery interesting opinion section.You may have been laughing, but

we weren't. Our opinion pageshave seen classic flames such asthe issues of pornography, abor-tion, and divestment as well asother random political happen-ings. To be reduced to one smallletter of the "The Tech goofedagain" variety and a handful ofcartoons is rather depressing, notto mention embarrassing.

So what's the problem? Why isno one flaming? Now that theNovember elections are over isthere nothing that concerns peo-ple? If all of you are so content-ed, you could tell us what hasbrought about this marvelousstate. Nobody wrote a letter com-menting on the breathtakingbeauty of Killian Court onWednesday morning when the

sun came out after the earlymorning snowfall; perhaps youwere too busy trying to get toyour next class on time withoutfalling on the ice.

Perhaps everyone has beenlulled into contented apathy bythe thought of the imminent holi-day season: friends, families,homecooked feasts, parties andfun in lieu of classes, exams andproblem sets. Indeed, these arewarm, comforting thoughts. Thismay explain why no one reallywants to make a statement aboutthe homeless who will be coldand hungry this holiday season,or about any other issue whichwould otherwise disturb our in-tellectual community.

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(Continued from page 4)blacks, but I tried to compare itto the blacks' treatment in theAmerican South in the earlytwentieth century.

Xan Smiley questioned thiscomparison. "In fact, there areno similarities between the stateof the black American, and thatof the black African," he wrotein his article "MisunderstandingAfrica."

Unlike the situation in Amer-ica, the black in Africa does notnecessarily want money, educa-tion, and freedom from preju-dice. Most black Americans arecompletely American in hopesand culture and often simply seekto be treated as whites.

In Africa, sameness is con-fused with equality. Though mostof the blacks throughout Africaare fundamentally equal towhites, they do not have the samedesires. Because of this, their pri-mary aim is not necessarily to betreated as whites. The South Af-rican black's goals are to becolorless and equal.

Presently, apartheid is the onlystate-sanctioned racist policypracticed by a "democratic"state. Once I had learned moreabout South Africa's policies andcultures, I could not understandhow a nation this wealthy, sotechnologically advanced, somodern, and so cultured couldpractice such an inhumane sys-tem. After my visit, however, Iunderstood that without theseracist policies, the nation wouldnever have prospered into a richpower, an anomaly on a conti-nent of corruption, sloth, and in-efficiency.

Before my trip, I believed fer-vently that the blacks should begranted total equality immediate-

ly. I thought that the Americangovernment needed to pressurethe Botha regime through rhetor-ic, economic sanctions, and anyother possible means into abol-ishing the present racist system.Influenced by the American me-dia, I saw nothing- but the. injus-tice towards and suffering of theblack population. I did not real-ize the complexity of the situa-tion.

While the government couldmake blacks equal citizens andhand over the reins of govern-merte to black leaders tomorrow,could the country function-prop-erly without enough trained', edu-cated, and experienced leaders?

I used to think the answer was"yes." By the end of my trip myviews had changed drastically. Ifinally realized how mistaken arethe impressions. that manyAmericans have about South Af-rica. My answer to this samequestion is now a definite "no."An immediate change in the col-or of the regime would providethe blacks with immediate satis-faction, but it would not solveany long-term problems.

Certainly, reforms should beintroduced. Black leaders shoulddefinitely be integrated into thegovernment, and practices suchas segregated buses, trains, res-taurants, and public toiletsshould be gradually done awaywith. Better, and eventually equaleducational facilities should beestablished for blacks. All effortsshould be made to make thecountry more racially desegregat-ed as fast as is peacefully possi-ble.

Prime Minister P.W. Botha hasinstituted limited reforms, andmore are on the way. The segre-gated bus system was in its last

days when I left the country. Twoyears ago non-whites were intro-duced into Parliament. Promi-rnent black activists such as Win-nie Mandela, despite what seemsto be evidence to the contrary,have been given more freedom ofexpression and movement. Butthe "one man, one vote" conceptis a much more difficult reformto demand because scores ofyears of history and work cannotbe changed immediately.

After speaking to many SouthAfricans, I can sympathize withtheir fear of a black regime. Whocan guarantee that when theblacks obtain power they will notpractice the same system of"apartheid" as is now practicedby the whites? And who canblame the South African whitesfor fearing that what they haveworked at for years, economical-ly, scientifically, and intellectually,faces possible ruin if they were tolose control of the country?

Although I was horrified bymany of the policies of segrega-tion practiced by the governmentand individual citizens, I do notthink that the blacks are reallytreated "badly." Their wages,though not so high as those ofwhites, are the highest of anycountry in Africa. The infantmortality rate, the literacy rate,and the standard of living amongthe South African blacks are bet-ter than in any black nation onthe continent.

I would like to see the systemchange "overnight," but not atthe expense of stability. My ex-periences in South Africa demon-strated to me that change mustcome in South Africa, as I trulyhope and believe it will, but thischange it cannot be forced; it canonly be slowly nUtured.

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for divestiture. Bringing in a po-litical issue with our senior classgift would mean making a com-mitment to our values that isgreater and more lasting thansimply checking off a box on aballot. Thus, an important ques-tion is: just how committed werewe to the values expressed in thereferendum? This senior class'gift will make that decisivelyclear.

As a way of promoting mean-ingful thought, pertinent discus-sion, and a reaffirmation of ourvalues, I believe that donating toEFD is the right thing to do.EFD is a trust fund formed bythe faculty, staff and alumni (in-cluding a congressman) to putpressure on MIT to sell all of itsstocks in companies doing busi-ness in South Africa. If by 1994MIT has not divested from thesecompanies, the EFD will give all

of its funds to be equally dividedbetween the United Negro Fundand Amnesty International. Be-yond doubt, these two charitableorganizations would, by them-selves, be worthy recipients ofour class gift.

I therefore encourage all sen-iors to discuss this matter furtherand express their opinions on thetwo main issues I have raisedhere. It is interesting to note thatthe Harvard senior classes havefor the past three years chosen tomake use of their gifts to encour-age Harvard University to divest.As every political action can gainsignificance when seen as part ofa greater political movement, Ihope that MIT students will alsosee this step as part of an ulti-mate goal of bringing to an endMIT's participation in apartheid.

To the Editor:In the coming weeks, the class

of '87 will be deciding on a sen-ior class gift to the Institute. As a,class member and future alum-nus, I feel it necessary to raisemy concerns regarding this topicwith my classmates and the entireMIT community. I propose thatthe senior class gift be donated infull to the MIT Endowment ForDivestiture (EFD).

The purpose of this letter, rath-er than merely to campaign formy proposal, is to encouragepeople to think about this issuein certain ways. The choice ofgiving the gift to EFD has twomain facets that must be giventhought. First, is it appropriateto donate a "non-material" giftsuch as the one I have proposed?Second, is it appropriate to ad-dress political issues in doing so.

The first question, that of don-ating a gift other than a materialobject, is one that could andshould be considered. In essence,it is a choice between a gift thatpeople will see and perhaps situpon, as opposed to a gift whichwill be a unique exercise inthoughtfulness by this class, di-rectly involving our ideas andvalues. Both kinds of gifts can bevaluable as ways of being remem-bered, and of reflecting a classspirit. I encourage people to pon-der for themselves what relation-ship the spirit of the class of '87might have to changes now hap-pening in the "outside world,"the same world we will enter inJune.

In regard to the second ques-tion, should such a gift havestrong political concerns, I pointout that 60 percent of the under-graduates who participated inlast year's UA referendum voted

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By JULIAN WEST

OT IBSEN'S GREATEST WORK, orhis best known, "Rosmer-sholm" is nevertheless an im-Nportant early play. And it is cer-

tainly Ibsen, heavy and thick, withimpenetrable shadows and a dimly re-vealed plot.

What plot there is seems to be a littleabout politics, more about liberation andinnocence. It was ambitious of the NewEhrlich Theatre to tackle it in the centena-ry of its first production.

The production succeeds, though notwithout a few problems. First, they havenot managed to overcome Ibsen's pacing.The first two acts contain some prettyclumsy expositions, and, to be frank, dragto no uncertain degree. But they lay thenecessary groundwork for the psychologi-cal drama of the second half, and it isafter the interval that the play becomesgripping.

In a little studio theater it is easy to hearthe audience, and there were more than afew fidgeters at the close of the play. I donot understand why; perhaps they had notbeen adequately warned of what tos expect."Rosmersholm' is not action-packed; it isa relentless psychological pursuit of itscharacters. Tho~se carefully scrutinized in-clude John,-Rosmer, a hereditary estate-owner and a fallen priest; and his intellec-tual companion Rebecca West. Even theskeleton in his closet, a wife who wentmad and killed herself long before thestart of the play, comes under the micro-scope.

The second problem concerned the por-trayal of the characters. It was not that theacting was bad, it was simply a little mis-guided. Dr. Kroll (Charles Weinstein), whocontributes to Rosmer's downfall througha mudslinging campaign, was well por-trayed, but was too friendly and outgoingby half. He is something like J.R. Ewing,,smiling amiably at his friends, even while

double crossing them.Rosmer himself (Vincent P. Mahler) was

suffused with his sought-after inner peaceto such an extent that he always had a sortof grin on his face. In the face of possibledeath and disgrace he remained cheeryrather than resigned.

Much better performances were turnedin by the women. Terry Stoecker was afine Rebecca, the woman with secrets fromeveryone. After confessing to Rosmerabout the past, she has a splendid momentalone to consider the future. Equally good

was Chris Fadala, as Mrs. Helseth thelongtime housekeeper, who gave her opin-ions on a number of occasions. She madethe best of a few awkward scenes, includ-ing a hideously predictable fimal speech.

What made the production worthwhile,however, was not the acting but the stag-ing. A simple but effective set was en-larged into a several performing areas bythe use of spotlights which never quiteprovided adequate lighting. The resultinggloom deepened the darkness of Rosmer'slabyrinth.

When faces emerged from the shadows,they were frequently half-lit, neatly paral-leling their speeches, which frequently re-vealed only one side of a character. In thisplay everyone has something to hide, andthey were provided with plenty of shadowsto hide in. OInly Rebecca's blue dress re-lieved the starkness of the men's black-and-white costumes.

"O how happy I would be if I could kin-dle a little bit of life inl this barbarousdarkness," Rosmer says. The New Ehrlichproduction does, indeed, kindle a little.

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LORD OF THE RINGSBy J.R.R. Tolkien.A stage adaptation using giant puppetsby the Thbatre Sans Fil.At the Shubert TheatreFriday, Nov. 21 at 8pm.Saturday, Nov. 22 at 2 pm and 8 pm.Sunday, Nov. 23 at I pm and 6 pm.

What most people will find disturbing isthe rather high-tech nature of some of theproduction. The technology is not con-cealed beneath a veneer of magic; but isobvious. It is most evident in the decidedlyandroid elves and the torchlight eyes of theorcs and nazgul.

Boromir and Aragorn, the human char-acters, were costumed players but might aswell have been puppets: their disjointed,exaggerated gesticulations blended in wellwith those of the puppets.

Some of the sets were simple, but mostwere effective. Here the high-tech wasmore appropriate as in the lighting effectsfor the elven forest. One scene transfor-mation, from a giant canvas map to amountainous landscape, was particularlystunning.

The voices were recorded, which makesit seem that there was little acting goingon. But once one considers how well syn-chronized the stage actions were to thevoices and music, this prejudice is dis-pelled. And the soundtrack makes it easyto switch between French and English per-formances. The troupe has even per-formed in a foreign language: four perfor-mances of "The Hobbit" were given inCantonese in Hong Kong.

Another advantage of the soundtrackwas the recorded music, which could noteasily have been done live. Mostly synthe-sized, the music developed naturally en-ough from that used for "The Hobbit."

No modern Th6itre Sans Fil productionwould be complete without blacklight andvarious other lighting effects, and thesewere there in profusion. Other tricks, suchas puppets flying out over the audienceand orcs parading through the aisles, werealso effective. The puppets ranged widelyin size and complexity, the smallest andsimplest being luminous bats. A dragon,though not as impressive as the Smaugpuppet used in "The Hobbit," was enor-mous.

How well all this is going to fare onBroadway is anybody's guess. But whensixteen black-costumed puppeteers ran on,still hooded, for their traditional curtaincall, the applause was long and loud. Indi-cations are good.

By JULIAN WEST

T IS AN AMBITIOUS UNDERTAKING to

bring Tolkien's masterpiece to thestage. However, given th~ enormoussuccess of their "Hobbit," it seemed

inevitable that the Montr6al-based The6treSans Fil would try it. After its premierelast year, and the English language pre-miere in April, the production has nowgained the momentum for a pre-Broadwayrun.

While "The Hobbit" was an unqualifiedtheatrical success, One had to suspect thatany adaptation of the six-book epic Lordof the Rings would have to be somewhatabbreviated. Suspicions were not allayedby the safety curtain, which presented aclipped version of the famous "Three ringsfor the elven kings. . .' prologue.

Surprisingly enough, most of -the plotwas there, although it was evident thatmounting the climactic battle scene poseda problem. The program notes contained asynopsis more detailed than an opera's,lest the audience get confused. But evenmore surprisingly, the show was compre-hensible even to those with only glancingfamiliarity of the work. This, for a start,put it above and beyond the animated filmeffort.

What principally distinguishes the stagework is that Th6itre Sans Fil understandsthe nature of magic. Any stage work is alittle magical and only in a theater, as op-posed to a film, can clever illusions workmagic.

The stage effects, some being tried outin Boston for the first time, were marvel-ous. They started off slowly, with a hobbitvanishing a little clumsily in a hail of pixiedust but the fireworks, literally, soon start-ed. Best was Gandalf's magic wand, adruidic staff which glowed and fired laserbolts. Containing the attacking Nazgulwith vibrating force lines earned an ova-

the Rings." The elves - wispy, insubstan-tial things manipulated by the heads andarms - were so stylized as to be impres-sionistic. This should settle the complaintsof those who feel that staging the work isto deny the necessary element of imagina-tion.

-tion from the stunned audience. -I.As for the life-sized puppet characters,

there were over 70 and they were in classicTh6atre Sans Fil style. The hobbits, three-feet tall with broad, simple-looking faces,worked fine in the whimsical "Hobbit" butwere A bit too comical for "The Lord of

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8 are from the US. The ages ofthe fellows range from 25 to 65,and the average age is around 35.

The participants generallycome from the same institutionseach year, Brown explained. Fel-lows pay approximately 1.5 timesthe tuition charged to undergrad-uates, he said.

Tetsuya Fujita, a fellow fromNEC Corporation said he was"very much satisfied" with the

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Forum probesthe future ofnuclear power

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caused the Chernobyl accident,said Amory Lovins, director ofresearch at Rocky Mountain In-

stitute. "And it could happenhere," he said.

Chernobyl "wasn't so much anaccident as an inevitability," Lo-

vins said. But Lovins, who oncefavored nuclear power, now op-poses it for economic rather thansafety reasons.

Nuclear power, which supplies12 percent of the United States'electrical energy, is one of the

most expensive energy sources,he said. Nuclear power generatesabout one-half as much energy aswood burning, taking into ac-

count the energy needed to oper-ate nuclear plants, according toLovins' calculations.

The era of the big power plantis over, Lovins claimed. TheUnited States should steer towardenergy efficiency and renewable

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wind, and geothermal energy, hesaid.

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the general public must begin tointegrate new technologies intoelectrical systems to improve en-ergy efficiency, he said. The Unit-

ed States has the potential to dis-place all nuclear power outpulfive times over by "retrofitting'the country's electrical systems tcreduce the amount of electricaenergy needed, according to Lovins' figures.

Panelists disagree overeffect of Chernobyl accident

John Ahearne, vice presidenof Resources for the Futurecountered that the Chernobyl ascident in April will not signifcantly affect the growth of thlUS nuclear power industryAmericans tend to have short atention spans and think, "It canhappen here," he explained.

The overall trends indicate aunfavorable future for nucleapower, in contrast to 30 years alwhen the nuclear industry hadbright- forecast, Ahearne saiThe industry is in trouble dueeconomic reasons and the pulic's fear of nuclear power.

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(Continued fiom page I)should ignore the NCAA's policyby withholding the consent formswhile MIT is creating a policy.Withholding the forms "couldhave penalized students forwhom this is not an issue," hesaid.

MIT had distributed most ofthe winter consent forms beforethe controversy arose, Flippenadded.

MIT must say what it will dowith drug testing information to"allow students to make an in-formed judgement," said JefferyA. Meldman '65, a member ofthe Committee on Privacy andthe ad hoc group.

'We are trying to undue anydamage that may have beendone," Meldman said. Studentsshould be able to rescind theirsigning of the forms after the In-stitute policy is announced, headded.

Meldman proposes policy

Meldman has proposed a poli-cy which bars drug testing infor-mation from being used in anyMIT disciplinary proceedings.The proposed policy would alsoprohibit drug testing results fromappearing on a student's educa-tional record or medical recordunless the student so desired.MIT should only suggest counsel-ing if the test indicated a drugproblem, he proposed.

Any information MIT receivedfrom drug tests should be used ina "productive manner" and notagainst the student, agreed MarkA. Goldstein, committee memberand director of student healthservices. But he added that amedical professional would beobligated to follow up on anydrug problem indicated by theNCAA tests.

Constitutional concerns

Drug tests in general are a vio-lation of constitutional rights,said committee member Paul )D.Grace, coordinator of sportsmedicine. "Unfortunately we'rein the NCAA," he said. But headded that MIT was "very sensi-tive in protecting studentsrights."

"I think drug testing of anykind is ridiculous," said JonathanN. Katz '90, a student opposedto the plan. "I can take care ofmyself," he said. The tests are aform of illegal search and seizure,and they violate students' rights,Katz asserted.

In addition, Katz felt the testswould not succeed in improvingcompetition, which is the statedpurpose -of the NCAA's policy.The tests do not show whetherathletes are actually impaired bydrug use, he noted. The NCAAdoes not make the results avail-able until after the competition,he said.

Prohibited drugs

Drugs prohibited by theNCAA include psychomotorstimulants (i.e. amphetamines),sympathomimetric amines, mis-cellaneous central nervous systemstimulents (including largeamounts of caffeine), anabolicsteroids, diuretics, street drugs(marijuana, cocaine, etc.), and,for rifle competition, alcohol andvarious other compounds.

"I don't agree with indiscrimi-

nate testing of all the drugs onthe list," said Mark A. Goldstein,director of student health ser-vices. Some of the prohibiteddrugs are legal medications, henoted.

The tests could cause tremen-dous anxiety among athletes,Flippen said. Some of the drugsprohibited by the NCAA are notused for enhanced performance,he noted. An athlete might notknow if he had taken a substancewhich would cause him to testpositive, Flippen said, yet it couldcause his team to be disqualified.

Flippen, a member of theNCAA Executive Committeewhich formulated the policy, saidthe NCAA's goal was to use ath-letic teams as a catalyst for stu-dent drug education. AlthoughFlippen voted against the propos-al last January, he said he under-stood why others were in favor ofthe motion. "The initial reasonsgiven for announcing the drugtesting was to highlight the issueand alert the public," Flippennoted.

Flippen said he is much moreconcerned about the issue now.The drug testing issue has be-come "a very sticky, complicatedmess," Flippen said. The imple-mentation of testing has beenvery complicated, and the drugtesting policy will be reconsideredat the NCAA Executive Cornmit-tee meeting in December, he said.

Athletes react

"I'm refusing to sign the formsand so are quite a few other ath-letes," said Arthur F. Lent '90, amember of the fencing team."Some of what's being tested foris absurd," Lent said. He wasalso concerned about the test re-turning a false positive.

Drug testing involves theNCAA in our private lives, Lentsaid. He likened the regulationsto "a case of big brother watch-ing you."

"If I was sure of MIT's policyand had more details of theNCAA policy, I might considersigning," Lent said.

The basic idea of the NCAAprogram is good, said committeemember Martha R. Beverage '87,who played on the field hockeyteam this fall. But the tests aretoo extensive, and logistics werenot well thought out, she said.The current regulations "infringeon people's rights and health,"Beverage said.

Beverage admitted that shesigned the fall consent form with"no thought." She said she ques-tioned the winter consent formbut signed it, in part because shedid not anticipate particpating inpost-season competition.

No MIT teams have yet beentested under the NCAA rules,but the cross country team mightbe tested at their championships,Grace said.

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By Julian WestA four-player team from MIT

may have qualified for a place inthe national finals. in a collegebridge tournament. The teamplaced third in the Atlantic Con-ference of the North AmericanCollegiate Bridge Championship,held on Tuesday. The winningteam in the region, New YorkUniversity, is one of five teams toqualify for the final, to be held inSt. Louis in March.

Because one of the six confer-ences had no competing teams,officials are looking for thesecond-placed team with thehighest score. The University ofToronto, which placed second inthe Atlantic Conference, is likelyto be disqualified. Pending late orcontested results, MIT wouldthen be the highest-scoringsecond-place team.

Twenty-two universities in theUnited States and Canada fieldedeligible teams for the competi-tion. To be eligible, players hadto be full-time university stu-dents. North-south and east-westpairs competed separately in thecontest, and the top pairs werecombined to form the officialschool team.

Kevin J. O'Donnell G andEthan Rappaport '87 were thetop east-west pair at MIT, andMark A. Edeburn G and DavidG. Pickering G were the top eligi-ble north-south. There is, howev-er, some question of Edeburn'seligibility as a "special graduatestudent." A higher placing pair inthe open competition were not

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students.The tournament was an unusu-

al "par bidding" competition, inwhich players at each competingschool played the same 24 deals.After the bidding on each hand,a slip of paper was opened whichawarded a certain number ofpoints to one pair for reachingone of a number of correct con-tracts. One player was then in-structed to play a particular con-tract, regardless of the contractactually reached. Further pointscould be gained for correctlymaking the contract, or for cor-rect defense.

The play therefore resembled aseries of "bridge problems," akinto chess problems, rather thanactual random deals.

The two MIT pairs scored a to-tal of 248 points. The full unoffi-cial results from the six compet-ing school in the Atlanticconference were: NYU 282, To-ronto 253, MIT 248, Yale 211,Connecticut 192 and Harvard183.

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MIT had been considered a"sentimental favorite" in the At-lantic conference by officials try-ing to predict the winners, ac-cording to Matt Guagliardo ofthe American Contract BridgeLeague in Memphis, TN.

The championship was spon-sored by the ACBL and by theAssociation of College Unions-International. The winner of theSt. Louis competition will go torepresent the ACBL at the WorldJunior Team Championship inAmsterdam in July.

The ACBL has not been repre-sented at the World Juniors forseveral years. Although NorthAmerican collegiate par biddingcompetitions were once held an-nually, the championship has notbeen contested since the 1970s.

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