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MITii, ;CAMBlRDGEt, MASSACHUSETTS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1970 FIVE CENTS

By Joe KashiMajor -.restructuring of the

president's office is likely in thr.wakit of President Howard Johtn-son's resignation.

The presidential search com-mittee recently appointed by theMIT Corporation was chargedwith a concurrent re-evaluationof the functions and duties thatshould be directly . attributableto the president.

In addition, Johnson, in hisletter of resignation to the Cor-poration, said that both he andJames Killian, present Chairmanof the MIT Corporation, woulddevote considerable time to ex-amining how the present admini-strative structure might be de-centralized. Johnson said thatmost of the decisions now madeby the president could be effec-tively dealt with on a depart-mental level. He said that itmight be advantageous to fill theoffice with more than oneperson.

One authoritative voice with-in the administration suggestedthat this might be an ideal timeto examine the entire governingstructure; Johnson's resignationmight prove an ideal catalyst fora broader overhaul than sugges-ted. '"The Corporation has tochange. It's attitudes andmethods have to be updated forMIT to make the changes it must

make if it is to resolve theunderiying educational problemsfacing mnajor institutionsthroughout the world. The rangeof structural changes open arerelated to a Corporation thatunderstands the nature of theproblems now facing us."

"Basic Proltits Unresolved"He went on -c say that'some

of the more difficult and im-portant problems facing MIT in-cluded resolving conflicts be-tween enhancing creativity andprofessional competence, re-structuring student-faculty con-tacts into a more rewarding andinformal relationship, andchangirng the reward systems bywhich academic achievement ismotivated. Johnson's post asChairman will aid this restruc-turing, he continued, becauseJohnson will provide continuityand has the insight and experi-ence to effect further meaning-ful change. "However, the ulti-mate responsibility for changerests with the Corporation,which hasn't delegated itproperly."

Johnson, in an earlier inter-view, said that the president hastwo main functions: decisionand communication. "The de-cision making process is in areasonably healthy state at MIT;all viewpoints are taken intoaccount. The fundemental edu-

President Howard Johnsoncational decisions can be madeat the department and schoollevels. Communication," hewent on, "is becoming increas-ingly important. The problem isfinding more input and outputchannels."

It is likely that several admin-istrators will share the functionspresently dealt with by the Presi-dent. "The job," said Killian, aformer president, "is a 24 hourone." In his letter of resignation,which had cited personal rea-sons, Johnson maintained thatthe President should be moreconcerned with long-range de-velopment of the Institute ratherthan day-to-day administration."At this time," he remarked,"the long-range is often nextMonday."

Corporation searchThe only presidential search

committee named so far consistsof 8 members of the Corpora-tion. The Corporation will makethe final appointment decision.Members of the committee in-clude James Fisk, '23, Chairman,Vannevar Bush, '16, HonoraryChairman of the Corporation,

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By Bruce Schwartz(Ed. note: Bruce Schwartz accom-panied the Clean Air Car Race toCalifornia as an official observer, oneof 44 who rode- with the entryvehicles, logging information for therace coordinating committee. In thiscapacity he also spent a week prior tothe race assisting the committee inthe conducting of tests on the ve-hicles. The duration and complexityof the.CACR means that what fol-lows is at best a cursory examinationof the events of those %weeks.. Alonger article iwiU appear in the No-vember Technology Review.J

As scheduled, the transcon-tinental 1970 Clean Air - CarRace began here at MIT beforedawn on Monday, August 24.Most, of the competing entriescrossed the finish line at thePasadena campus of the Califoi-nia Institute of Technology, one

week later: Sunday, August 31.Two of the cars came in undertheir own power the followingTuesday, the survivors of thefield of battery-powered electricvehicles. They had been delayedby their 60 mile range and90-minute recharging periodsp

The next evening, at a ban-quet attended by such lumi-naries ag Lt. Governor EdwinReinecke of California, RaceCommittee Chairman BobMcGregor G -announced the win-ners. For the benefit of thenewsmen hidden behind theglare of TV 'floods McGregor

carefully explained that the win-ners would each receive as theirprizes $5000 testing contractsfrom the National Air PollutionControl Administration(NAPCA), a principal backer ofthe race.

Seven winnersHe announced seven victors.

Six had been selected by a math-ematical formula which includedscores on emissions tests , per-formance trials, fuel economy

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MacGregor barely readyMacGregor House is' still

under construction, just barelvready for occupancy; assign-ments have been made to allrooms but a few. Several otherareas of MacGregor should becompleted in a month.

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By Duff McRobertsCrowding in MIT dormitories

once again will plague studentsin several Houses this year, but arecord-breaking fraternity rushhas taken some strain off thesystem.

Many freshmen who stay intheir presen t Houses will findtheir crowded conditions allevi-ated by mid-year, or sooner orlater, due to the fact that someupperclass.men will leave duringthe year. As there still is (as ofthis writing) some room left inHamilton House in Boston,students who elect to movethere may be uncrowded sooner.

As of late yesterday morning,404 freshmen had joined frate-rnities, 27 more than in any

previous Rush Week; KennethBrowning of the Housing Officecredited the good rush withhelping to relieve the crowdingof freshmen in the InstituteHouses.

Burton-in-exile

The dormitory system'smajor dislocation at present isthe renovation of Burton House,which resulted in the placementof Burton-in-exile in brand-newMacGregor House and HamiltonHouse, a motel which MIT hasleased for the duration of theBurton renovations. BurtonHouse shouldbe ready for occu-pancy again by next fall, afterwhich Hamilton House will nolonger be used.

such prestige schools as MIT, theAmong several other factors,

a national trend toward greaterinterest in the social sciences andthe humanities and better finan-cial aid treatment elsewhereseemed responsible for thedecrease.

Despite the smaller percen-tage of students accepting MIIT'soffers of admission, ProfessorRoland B. Greeley, Director ofAdmissions, did not see a needto change MIT's image as apurely technological institutionin order to attract morestudents.

Greeley listed four causes forthe lower yield. First, the trendtoward social sciences drew peo-ple to- liberal arts schools. It issignificant that MIT's losses toother technological institutionsremained unchanged, while los-ses to large liberal arts schools,such as the Ivy League colleges,were slightly Sigher than pre-viously, as was the variety ofschools to which MIT lost stu-dents. A large number went tostate universities, reflecting thegrowing acceptance of state in-stitutions as prestige schools.

yield generally ranges around 60%.

Second, though only a fewstudents were upset by the tui-tion increase, it played a role indriving students away. Third, asmall number of students werescared away by radical activism.on campus last year.

The fourth reason is relatedto the second. MIT's financialaid program is different fromthat of other schools in that ithas a higher equity level. Where-as other schools have cut-offpoints for aid based on academicperformance, MIT tries to meetthe students' need fully. Thusthough other schools may havelower self-help thresholds (usu-ally on the order of $600-MIT'sis $1200 in a job-loan option),aid is cut for those of a lower

academic quality. Thus MIT'sprogram is weaker for the indivi-dual, since a good student -can,get a larger scholarship grantelsewhere, but it is stronger over-all, since all needs are met eitherthrough scholarships, loans orjobs.

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By Lee GiguereThis Rush Week broke pre-

vious records with 404 freshmenpledging fraternites.

According to Tom Mikus'70,IFC Rush Chairman, only Threehouses were seriously under-filled; Phi Mu Delta, the Com-monwealth, and Phi KappaTheta.

The President of Phi Mu Del-ta, John Ford '71, said that hishouse was short by four men forits freshman class. The house, hesaid, "definitely needed fresh-men" and was seriously con-sidering an in-term rush for thefirst time in several years. TheCommonwealth and Phi KappaTheta were unavailable forcomment.

Coed rushThe Number Six Cluq (Delta

Psi) and Sigma Nu, which be-came coed for the first time thisyear, had difficulty rushingfreshman coeds because the girls'parents were reluctant to allow'

them to join a coed living group.According to David Sheldon

'71, President of Number Six,the house has no freshmancoeds, but is now rushing trans-fer students. Three spaces therehave benn kept open for coeds.Sigma Nu has two freshmanwomen in its new class, but wasalso faced with parental prob-lems during Rush Week, accord-ing to its president, Jerry Green'71. Sigma Nu filled all its openspaces and will also have severalof its men living with neighbors.Green said that SN is planning aspring rush aimed primarily atcoeds.

When questioned about rushrule violations, Mikus explainedthat in retrospect there were nomajor violations. Houses are al-lowed to submit formal com-plaints until midnight tomorrow,but as of Sunday nigght, non hadbeen submitted.

Dorms uncooperativeMikus noted that there had

been some trouble with thedorms this year, saying thatthere hadn't been a lot of co-operation. One difficulty wasthe lack of phones in Mac-Gregor.

The IFC is holding a meetingtonight for house presidents andany other interested people todiscuss in-term rush. Mikus saidthat a "get together" was beingplanned for Sunday to helpfreshmen and fraternity menwho were still looking for newmembers to meet. He also spokeof setting up a reference systemof people still interested in join-ing houses. In-term rush will be adefinite possibility this year.

Phi Kappa Theta has beenputting up signs around the In-stitute to attract new members.

During Ruslf Week, the IFCkept track of houses needingnew rushees by using overnightfigures and pledging figures andkept other houses informed ofthis list.

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Structural changes likely

CACR raises hopesfor low-pollutton cars

Shift toward H umanaitiesalters admission pattern

By Drew JaglomnA four percent drop in student yield forced the MIT admissions

office to dip heavily into its waiting list this year.The yield is defined as the percentage of admissions accepted. At

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before Rush Week with a pam-phlet it distributed to all frater-nities. The principle issue it triedto raise was that freshmenshould enter houses as equalmembers. The pamphlet pointedout that the FRC would stress tofreshmen that. they had powerduring Rush Week because thehouses needed them. Also men-tioned in the leaflet was a sec-ond handout to be given tofreshmen at the beginning ofRush Week which would indi-cate how each house had votedon the two FRC proposals (fullmembership to freshmen and theabolition of phone tapping).However, the second leaflet

never appeared.Canvassing

Siegal said that in the nextfew weeks, FRC members woutldbegin canvassing in the houses,especially among freshmen, Inparticular, the canvassers woulidtry to discuss "things that.change after Rush Week," suchas the freshmen duties which thenew class begins to take on.

Neither Siegal nor Brewsternor Mikus felt that there hadbeen much friction between theIFC and the FRC. Siegal felt theCaucus' ideas were "well ac-cepted" by fraternities althoughsome houses disliked the idea ofthe FRC as an outside influence.

By Lee GiguereThe Fraternity Radical Cau-

cus' proposals for the abolitionof phone tapping and the admis-sion of freshmen into houses onan equal basis appeared to havelittle effect on Rush Week.

According to Tom Mikus '70,IFC Rush Chairman, "the things[phone tapping, hard flushing]that the FRC is talking about areon the way out."

Howie Siegal '71 of SPE, amember of the caucus, felt thattheir major influence was pro-bably that houses made changesthat went "much further thanthey had. in the past" in liberali-zing their rules.

Siegal noted that the FRCmight have helped progressivehouses this year by raising theissues in the minds of freshmenand by encouraging some radicalfrosh who might not have at-tended Rush Week to visit frater-nities. Mikus however, pointedout that in general "liberalhouses did more poorly," while"conservative houses did well."

No investigationsWhen questioned about

checking for phone taps, ChrisBrewster, IFC Judicial Commit-tee Chairman, explained that-itwas almost impossible for hiscommittee to discover a tapthemselves. He added that therole of the committee as it isconstituted is to investigate com-plaints and not to initiate itsown investigations.

Brewster said that he hadinstructed workers in the clear-inghouse to forward any com-plaints to him and that thefreshmen had been encouragedto bring forth any complaints.No complaints, however, werereceived by the judicial'committee.

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measured during the race andscores in the race (actually arally, with normalized drivingtimes for each of the seven legs)itself. The emissions score re-ceived the heaviest weight in thisformula, and all the winners hadto surpass the 1975 Feaeral stan-dards for automobile emissions:0.5 g/mile hydrocarbons, 11g/mile CO, 0.9, g/mile oxides ofnitrogen .

These six were winners of theclasses into which the enteredvehicles had been divided. Theywere:

Class I: Internal Combustion(ICE) burning gaseous fuel-Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) Propane Gasser, one offour WPI entries that finishedthe race.

Class lI: ICE burning liquidfuel-Stanford's methanol-powered Gremlin.

Class III: Turbine-MIT. MikeBennett '71 led the team thatbuilt and drove this overpoweredmonster, which was actually aturbine-electric utilizing a sur-plus jet-fueled gas turbine todrive an alternator, and a (poten-tially) 600 hp motor to drive thewheels.

Class IV: Electric-pure vari-ety. Cornell University. The win-ner was actually built by ElectricFuel Propulsion Co. of Detroit,

and was subsequently deliveredto Arthur Godfrey, who hadpurchased it.

Class V: Hybrid Electric-WPIand University of Toronto hadscores within 10 percentagepoints; as previously ruled bythe committee, this meant a tie.

Overall winnerThe overall winner was not

declared on the basis of scores.It was chosen by a panel of fiveexperts in the automobile andpollution fields: David Ragone,chairman of Dartmouth's Schoolof Engineering; S.W. Gouse ofthe President's Office of Science& Technology; Harry Barr, Presi-dent of the Society of Auto-motive Engineers; John Broganof NAPCA; and John Maga, ex-ecutive officer of the CaliforniaAir Resources Board.

They chose as the best carWayne State's entry, a modifiedCapri built by a team of Fordengineers taking night courses atWSU. (The iniative and ideaswere theirs; the money wasFord's.) The overall winner waschosen not only for purity andperformance but also for practi-cality as a prototype Or massproduction in the reasonablynear future. The Wayne State carburned unleaded gasoline, hencewas viewed as most practical inthe short run since propane or

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Many of the faculty and staff of MIT live in theThird and Ninth Congressional Districts of Massa-chusetts. For those who aren't sure of theirdistricts, the Ninth Congressional is composed ofmost of the wards of Boston, and the Third of thecities and towns west of and including Newton,and east of Gardner. It is in these two districts thatthe only important Congressional races in Massa-chusetts are being fought. The primary election istoday, September 15, and we.urge all faculty andstaff, who are registered as Democrats or Inde-pendents, to vote.

In the Third Congressional District,-we wouldlike to stress the importance of voting, even moreso than in the NNinth District. There, FatherRobert Drinan, Dean of the Boston College LawSchool and a Jesuit priest, has a real chance tooust 28-year veteral of Congress, Philip Philbin, amilitaristic supporter of Administration warpolicies. As Vice Chairman of the House ArmedServices Committee, Philbin has been most notablefor the lack of scrutiny he has given militaryappropriations bills. He enthusiastically endorsedthe military build-up in Viet Nam and refused towithdraw support of ILyndon Johnson, even whenDemocratic support of that President dwindled toan all-time low. He says he is now committed togradual withdrawa a la Nixon, but clearly this isonly because it is the most right-wing position hecan safely take without risking deep voter aliena-tiotln.

In 1968, Philbin was opposed by two liberals,Joseph Bradley and Tho as Boylston Adams.Between them, their vote total topped that ofPhilbin, but because they split the anti-war vote,Philbin came out on top. This year, there is nosuch split. Father Drinan favors immediate andunconditional withdrawal from Viet Nam. Hefavors a massive drug reform and rehabilitationprogram for the young. He suppor s increasedmental health appropriations on a national scale.He would guarantee every citizen a decent placeto live He favors tax reform, national health

insuarance,- and environmental protection legisla-tion; Father Drinan needs your vote.

The Ninth Congressional District primaryfigures to be a runaway for Louise Day Hicks. Thisis the seat fonnrmerly occupied by Speaker of theHouse John McCormack, who-recently announcedhis resignation after 42 years in Congress. Thedistrict has a 25% black population, yet blackpeople there are substantially underregistered, andhence will not be represented in that proportion inthe election. Thus David Nelson of Roxbury, thecandidate The Tech endorses, has only a very smallchance of winning. He has tried to attract whitevoters to his campaign, through slogans such as"Not just for some. But for everyone." Never-theless, Nelson's campaign, hindered by lack offunds, has moved slowly. The picture is furthercomplicated by the presence in the election ofState SenatorJoseph Moakley. Moakley really isnot a bad fellow, and, in head to head debateswith Nelson, has fared rather well. Nonetheless,because Moakley's views are so similar to those ofNelson, they figure only to take votes away fromeach other, and make it even easier for ev ry littlebreeze to whisper Louise.

Mrs. Hicks, for the uninitiated, is a formermember of the Boston School Committee and acurrent Boston City Councilwoman. She was anunsuccessful candidate for mayor of Boston, losingto Kevin White a few years ago. She opposesbussing of children to integrate'schools, has aloveaffair with the Police Department, wants to "gettough" on "crime in the streets," and is workingto repeal state legislation against racial imbalancein the schools. Her campaign slogan is "You knowwhere I stand," and she has refused to publiclydebate either of-her opponents.

Idrs. Hicks will probably win, yet every vote forDavid Nelson will cut her margin, and increase hischances for victory. Consequently we urge allBoston voters who can, to vote for David Nelsonfor Congress from the Ninth Congressional Dis-trict.

By Harvey BakerI met Hank early in June at a

beach on Cape Cod, flirting witha girl I faintly recognized as anold high school friend. Though itwas late in the afternoon and Iwanted to start back to Bostonto avoid the teaffic, the urge toat least say hello to the girltemporarily prevailed. I weighedcarefully the advantages of for-cing my way into territory hehad apparently staked out forhimself, but -decided that mymotives were innocent enoughand would not be construed ascompetition if I quickly identi-fied my reason for coming.

I plastered a smile on myface, strode slowly toward thecouple, and then just as her facecaught mine, gave it the bighello, how are you, routine,while the boy she introduced tome as Hank looked sorrowfullyon. After a couple"of minutes ofconversation I decided the de-cent thing to do was to leave,and after making my apologies,began to wend my way back upthe beach. Hank resumed hiscarefully prepared monologue,and, satisfied that I was gone forgood, began to move in for thekill.

From the hill at the top ofthe beach, I paused and lookedback. From my distance, Handlooked like any ordinary fellow,his pimply face and skinny legsnot being too evident. Thoughthe temperature was in the nine-ties, he had kept his long-sleevedjersey on, not .wishing to be"exposed" as he put it, and hadeven brought with him a hat tokeep the sun from beating at hisbrow. (It was becoming cloudy.)

I wondered a bit about him.He seemed to be alone, without-any companions in sight. Minewas the only car in the vicinity,save for that of a friend of thegirl he was wooing, and therewere no private homew nearby.Why he would have bothered tocome to this stretch of beachwas a bit of a mystery, andstayed that way. I made a deli-berate attempt to keep my mindoff what was surely his wonbusiness, and was about to start-the car when he came runningup the beach, hailed me, andasked ff I had any ."sparechange." I had been approachedby scores of panhandlers before,but never quite in this fashion. Iwas about to tell him that Ididn't really feel like giving himany money, when I saw the lookof badly concealed (perhaps de-liberately so?) desperation on hisface. Customarily I detest sub-jecting the poor to the indignity

of asking what they want moneyfor, but in this case, with abso-lutely nothing in sight to spendit on, I found myself asking thatvery question. He replied with astammer that he needed it fortransportation back to Boston.Straightaway i offered him aride.

He looked longingly at tehsweetly smiling, girl; I answeredwith a stare that said ride ornothing, and he begged off amoment to say good-bye to hisnew found love. She looked upmoderately displeased on hear-ing the -news, but my Judeo-Christian ethic responded insideof me that she ought to be gladthat I was taking this beggar-gigolo out of her life. He' re-turned, hat in hand, and wedrove off.

On the way back, Hank freelyadmitted to me that was onlytrying to pal up the girl to see ifhe could "cop some bread" offher. This caught me somewhatby surprise, as I had assumedthat his actions sprung more outof sexual desire than anythingelse. If possible, I disliked thewiry kid even more for this thanI had originally,

At seventeen, Hank was agaunt, haggard runaway. His cut-off Jeans were torn and his shirtfaded. His curiey hair made himlook rather handsome, however,and his tired, drawn smile beliedhis age, making him look musholder than he really was. He toldme he had come from the plushCleveland suburb of ShakerHeights about six months ago,because his parents didn't "un-derstand" him. When I askedhim what it was, specifically,that they didn't understand, heshot me a look of total-disbeliefwhich said, "I know you're pret-ty square, but you can't be thatmuch out of it." When I askedwhat he'd been doing the last sixmonths, he answered, "Living."Fair enough.

I stopped at a gas station inPlymout to get gas and check'the oil (it was low), and as I gotmy change from the attendant,Hank asked to borrow a dime tomake an "important" phonecall. Already I was beginning totire of this young man, buthaving committee myself to takehim to Boston, I could not easilyditch him. I gave him the dime,told him to hurry it up, andwent back to letting my J-Cethic be disgusted by him.Funny how the initials of JesusChrist are the same as that of theethic supposedly derived fromhis ideas. (In fact, if Christ wereliving today, The Ethic wouldhate him. Hell, he was a beggar'sbeggar.

Impatiently checking thphone booth for my companion,I allowed my self-righteosness toovercome my decency, and start-ed to walk toward the booth.Just then, he came out smilingand bade us leave. I noticed himslip the dime I had given himinto his rear right pocket. Hehadn't called anyone.

All of a sudden I started to'worry about my reluctant com-panion. I almost care about whathappened. Despite my regarding

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ANOTHERHIPPIE COLLEGE

To the Editor:I would like to communicate

to the student body my recentassessment of MIT. I attendedthe 1970 Alumni Day mainly toimpress my children with theschool's greatness and hoping bytheir visit that they would beinspired to someday attend theirfather's alma mater.

It didn't take me very long toconclude that this was not thegreat school I once knew, andcertainly not the place to whichI would consider sending mychildren.

It was pathetic that thebeautiful buildings and facilitieswere contaminated by so-calledstudents who had every appear-ance of being animals ratherthan civilizedm educated youngmen. The so-called students werea conglomeration of long-hairedhippies, kooks, freaks, and fairysof all sorts. The famed "BoweryBums" command more respectthat the assortment of animalsthat we saw littering the beauti-ful MIT campus.

Our contacts with some stu-dents and displays indicated thatMIT is infested with a Ioti ofleft-sing radicals. A dialoguewith some of these students ledme to believe that they areill-informed , do not know anyhistory, and do not possess theability to debate intelligently.What we saw were symptomsand manifestations of a "sick"generation of students whoappeared to have no goals in life.

It, contrast to the above de-pressing situation, we were privi-leged to have had sitting at ourpuffet table Mr. Thomas Des-mond '09, member of the MITCorporation. My children wereinspired by listening to Mr. Des-mond describe America's andMIT's heritage. It was Americans

Mike Mr. Desmond wSho made +tscountry great. It is ironic that heis the symbol of the type of mnanthese student radicals want todestroy.

It is unfortunate that most oftoday's students cannot compre-hend the struggles of past gen-erations. Perhaps it is becausethey have never experiencedanything but affluence. I am

indeed grateful that I grew upduring that period because itenabled me to appreciate thevalue of an education. My re-ward was to see my illiterate,foreign-bsorn parents shed tearsof joy as they watched their sonreceive a degree from MIT.

How sad, that after 19 years Ireturned, embarrassed to tell mychildren that this was not thegreat school I knew but, as mychildren labeled it, just anotherhippie college.

Saverio G. Greco '51

PICKING A

PRESIDENT BLUES

To the Editor:The MIT Corporation/Admin-

istration, in their Usual secrecy,have shifted Howard Johnson tobe Chairnan. A Corporationcommittee, whose membershipreads like a Who's Who in theMilitary-I ndustrial-UniversityElite, is going to pick a newPresident and "re-evaluate" thefunctions -performed by the Pre-sident. They have kindly allowed

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TLIE WIHZARD OF ID by Brant parker and Johnny .hart

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Primary elections

Letters -to ahe .dmllh.

TTHE TECH TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1970 PAGE 5

ScenterfoldSEPTEMBER 15, 1970 NO. 27

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"T am at a loss:- " Duyck began.When it became evident that this was his

whole message, the enthusiasm knew no bounds.PA UL GOODMAN The Empire City

In the midst of the white hallways of Building Nineof the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is astairwell. Mouted in the concrete wall of the stairwell'stop story is a ladder which can be climbed to a trap doorthrough which one passes to the roof of the Institute.From that point on the roof, an easy walk of a fewhundred feet leads to the Building Seven dome,overlooking Massachusetts Avenue. The dome can beclimbed with ease. The excursion is one which has oftenbeen accomplished by MIT students; one apocryphal,story has it that somebody once made the trip with awoman and a bed. Probably it never happened.

The top of the dome is a flat circle with a fifteen footradius, much of whose surface is glass tiled, a skylight.Sitting in the center of the circle, one has the illusion ofsitting on a disc floating above Cambridge. To the west,the land fades to a green rippled blur. Toward HarvardSquare and central Cambridge there is the semblance ofcosmopolis: red and green smears of light, traffic signalsreflecting on black asphalt; slithering, hissing automotivenoises_at a distance. East Cambridge industry smoke-stacks blot the sky. Over Boston the sun is rising, the skyaround it tinged with transparent green at the horizon, avulgar, impossible orange above.

In the night or at dawn, the quiet drone of themachineries of the sleeping is audible, or ratherperceivable, for .it is felt rather than heard: thecomposite of minute electrical discharges, molecularrearrangements, movements of muscle fiber-the ma-chineries of self-servicing, semi-autonomous beings,mostly asleep, whose collected whispers, not masked atthese hours by the sounds of waking man, are'sensedhere at the top of the dome. The air vibrates withpossibilities, chances of individual components of themachine complementing each other, producing someaggregate result... Whirr and a nearly inaudible clickand Nixon is President. Vox populi vox Dei. Whirr clickand Harvard Square is a sea of glistening shards of glass.Whirr click and ant-like, police swarm around theirmound in Central Square. Whirr click...

A slow, silent wind blows steadily from the sea. As itpasses over the bodies at the top of the dome, it gentlydissects away the skin, layer upon layer peeling until thehuman form is transparent. There is a feeling ofdetachment, of existence without memory- or aspirationor desire, in eternal present. The machineries of theliving below, the curious forms of the obscure distantlandscape, all'n have an unnameable significance.

I sat apart from six or seven people who had beenatop the dome before I arrived. They formed a circle,and were passing a pipe. They were smoking dope. It wasearly June, 1970. MIT was empty. About everything wasa feeling of emptiness, finality.

II .

-History, Stephen said, is a nightmare fromwhich I am trying to awake. '

JAMES JOYCE Ulysses

Several hundred years ago, in a previous existence, Iappeared in Boston, my suits packed with wash-and-wearclothes, my wallet packed with wash-and-wear dollarbills. I was, in a word, a freshman.

The taxi that brought me to the Grey-Walled Citadelof Knowledge and Repository of the Secrets of theUniverse in Cambridge was driven by a middle-agedgentleman whose head resembled an ancient tarnishedbrass doorknob. Observing the youthful, innocent

By Michael Feirtag 0 Copyright 1970 by Michael Feirtag

away from the totentanz of Western life and trying tolearn how man should live.

By the mid 1960's, even if relatively few were bonafide "hippies" (transmutated beatniks), most wereleaning in that direction, apolitically. America's children,with no cultural heritage to be learned from theirparents, were forming their own around music, the drugexperience, mysticism, sexual desires, feelings ofcommunity.

Music especially blossomed, new primitive music,whose roots went back no further than the 1950's and avague notion of African rhythms. Of classical music, or,strangely enough, jazz, the new musicians were, andlargely still are, absymally ignorant. The newness andsimplicity were looked upon as virtuous, if not essential.Highly significant also was the electric nature of music,the'turning of technology to aesthetic uses-a strangeanaogue to the sterile kinetic art of contemporaryartists, many of whom thrive at MIT.Highly significant also was the nature of music, theturning of technology to aesthetic uses-a strangeanalogue to the sterile kinetic art of contemporaryartists, many of whom work at MIT.

Now in the 1960's the civil rights movement was inits integrationist stage, and some middle class whites feltdrawn to this sort of "political action" as opposed towhat they saw as the cop-out of an alternate life styleand apolitical cultural revolution.

A middle class white youth knew the empirical factthat his life was unsatisfactory, yet was unable todetermine why he felt oppressed. He saw the subjugationof blacks: an obvious, physical symptom of an evilsociety, as opposed to his own nebulous spiritualoppression. This corroboration of his own malaisecatalyzed his political involvement, his sense of outrageat the oppression of blacks, and produced the birth of afeeling of solidarity with blacks.

Many of these civil rights activists would mature into"radicals" and "revolutionaries" as the black movementdeveloped its "black nationalist" and "class warfare"proponents.

Some white middle class young people would arriveideologically at old left Marxism, drawn by the need tointellectualize and rationalize the insanity they sawaround them, the unsureness within themselves. Marxismprovided a simple, logical explanation of man'soppression of man, and there is much comfort for theconfused mind in logical explanations of madness.

American youth, then, toward the close of theSixties, formed three groups: the first, the unaligned andconservatives, trying, with increasing ill-ease, to marry,to play student, to work, to follow in their parents'cultural lead; the second group, feeling an increasingnausea at the prospect of American middle class life,gravitating toward an alternate culture and/or drugs;thethird group, espousing radical political action, sometimesin the Marxist tradition.

The "college kids" in the cars along Memorial Drivewere a dying breed. They went to college merely to gainfour more years of the pursuit of happiness before bigbusiness, free enterprise, or the armed forces swallowedthem and their silly idealism, their silly hope. They werethe first group, the unaligned, and it was rapidlybecoming impossible to be unaligned.

The second and third groups were beginning in thelate Sixties to cross-pollinate.

"...There is a sense in which ideology is a thing ofthe past among politically involved dissenters," wroteTheodore Roszak in The Making of a Counter Culture."By and large, most New Left groups have refused toallow doctrinal logic to obscure or displace anirreducible element of human tendemrness in theirpoliticking. What has distinguished SDS, at least in itsearly years, from old-line radical youth groups (as stillrepresented, say, by the Progressive Labor Movement) is

expression that adorned my face in those long-departeddclays, the cabbie decided to introduce me to thefun-loving collegiate life.

"All along the river," he cackled as we drove downMemorial Drive, "all along the river, they park there allnight... college kids... fucking."

He turned toward me.Situations such as this are not covered in Amy

Vanderbilt. I could guffaw and ask the cabbie for details.I could give the cabbie a dirty look, but that might bedangerous, and was at any rate impolite. After all, hewas trying to be helpful. On the other hand, if I didn'tlook fascinated at this juicy tidbit of erotic localtradition, what would the lecherous doorknob think?

I settled for a noncommittal grunt. At most of thecrises in my life, I have settled for a noncommittal grunt.

Amazingly it worked. Deciding not to waste anymore revelations on so unappreciative a disciple asmyself, he maintained silence until our arrival at theFortress of Truth and Beauty, where he opened hismouth only long enough -to charge me double thecorrect fare.

Oh well, I thought as I entered the Mausoleum ofTechnological Man, I suppose he gets his jollies cruisingalong Memorial Drive looking into the steamy windowsof parked cars.

I was wrong.The police got their jollies in those ancient times

cruising along Memorial Drive looking into the steamywindows of parked cars. Perhaps the "college kids" gottheirjollies letting the police watch.

The United States in the 1950's was the mostprosperous disaster the world had yet seen, the mostawesome in the progression of insane societies whosegeneses and dissolutions constitute history. Its middleclass was rapidly gaining the leisure time it didn't knowhow to use, earning ever more of the lucre that wouldnot make it content. Its sex life was decimated by thewriggling of the communist under the bed. The UnitedStates was maturing into the reductio ad absurdum ofmaterialism-the morality and aesthetics of a well-oiledmachine.

And the nation, dedicated to hiding from itself itscolossal human failure, somehow gave birth to ageneration that hated it.

Perhaps it was the incredible rapidity of change inAmerican technocratic society, possibly it was simplythe natural revulsion of a child to the unnatural demandsof Western culture, which denied pleasure, denied play,whose philosophy denied the existence of any realitybeyond its rules of logical deduction-denied, in fact, allthe activities whcih a human child knows by experienceof them to be good.

The beatnik was born, or rather the myth of thebeatnik, for whatever the sleazy reality may have been,it is the myth that is significant. America gave birth,then, to the mythical figure of the beatnik: a mystic in amaterialistic society, a hedonist in a puritanical land, anartist among conformists.

America looked at the beatnik myth. America fearedold age and death, as do all people who have not learnedto live; the beatnik flaunted his youth. America feareditself, the fact that homo sapiens is an animal and part ofnature; the beatnik flaunted his mighty orgasms and,according to the myth, his animal odor and facial hair.America looked at the beatnik, and America tried tolaugh.

More important than the beatnik myth itself was theconcept of revolution' cdntral to the existence of themyth: for the first time in civilized history, the tiredconcept of classical revolution a la Marx was replacedwith an anarchistic vision of cultural change-joyous adlibbing to create whatever social organization (preferablysmall, tribal) might seem appropriate to satisfy the urge.of- the human being to reunite hirTiself with his ownnature; the direct and simple technique of breaking

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the unwillingness of the former to reify doctrine of the.extent of granting it more importance than thle flesh andblood."

Abbie Hoffman, writing in The Realist, explained theutility of going to Chicago for the DemocraticConvention of 1968: Chicago, wrote Hoffman, "canserve to open up a dialogue between political radicalsand those who might be considered hippies. The radicalwill say to the hippie: 'Get together and fight, you aregetting the shit kicked out of you.' The hippie will sayto the radical: 'Your protest is so narrow, your rhetoricso boring, your -ideologicAl power plays so old-fash-ioned!' "

"It is not our wish," Hoffman wrote in the samearticle, publishedjust before the convention, "to talke onsuperior armed troops who outnumber us on unfamiliarterritory. It is not their wish to have a Democratnominated amidst a major bloodbath."

But America, to use Norman Mailer's metaphor, was adrunken man on a skateboard careening madly downhill,who, in his wild gyrations toward a certain crack-up,executes some amazing maneuvers-

In 1968 Johnson withdrew. McCarthy ran. BobbyKennedy reconsidered and decided to run. The Yippies(Hoffman was a Yippie) decided that they couldn'tcompete with the charismatic Bobby and called off aplanned "Life Festival" at the Democratic Convention,deciding instead to concentrate on developing com-munities on the Lower East Side in New York, Free Cityin San Francisco.

Then Bobby was killed. America kills charismaticliberals. America was crazy; the Yippies were sane.America was freaking out; the Yippies were stagnating.

So the Yippies decided to go to Chicago for a DeathFestival and celebrate the Death of Yippie.

The police bet thek.. l -eod boys andt p... who were..,vu ,a,,I~ aildr --- !. lu ~rClean for Gene were in Chicago, and the police beatthem too, while inside the convention hall, theDemocrats were giving birth to the Politics of Joy.

The Politics of Joy. . .As Hubert Humphrey travelledthrough the land displaying his puffed koala bearcountenance and a mouth containing more teeth thanany human being had any right to possess to any whowould listen, as Richard Nixon, looking, as the BBC'sGoon Show put it years ago, like a skull and crossboneswhen he crossed his arms, unveiled his new image, thenature of the youth movement was showing signs ofchange.

Roszak was "bleakly aware that an ideological shifttoward righteous violence is on the increase among theyoung, particularly under the influence of the extremistBlack Powerites and a romanticized conception ofguerrilla warfare... 'confrontation politics' and cheersfor the fiction of the 'peoples' war' are becoming moreprominent in the United States... as frustration withthe brutality and sleazy deception of the establishmentgrOWS."

The demonstration of the "brutality and sleazydeception of the establishment" in Chicago would bedramatic.

And the danger of the transformation of protest fromanarchistic or neo-Marxian humanism to "the age-oldpolitics of hatred, vindictiveness, and windy indigna-tion". ..

But hold. We have much to speak of, and much of thehistory of the Menopausal Institute of Technology (asTimothy Leary calls it) to tell. For the moment, it is yet1968. We will have much to despair of in years that haveyet to come.

III

Have fun while you can.T BONE WALKER

In 1968, MIT hosted the thirteenth of a rash of"Sanctuaries," festive occasions on which severalhundred students harbored an AWOL soldier, andnonviolently obstructed the police and Federal agentswho generally appeared in three or four days to take thesoldier away to-a stockade. -

These were innocent days when the slogan "Girls SayYes to Boys Who Say No" seemed to make sense, andViet Nam was only a tragic mistake. True, there hadbeen the Democratic Convention...

Mike O'Connor, MIT's fugitive GI, was properlyangelic. A television station brought in cameras, a ROTCstudent to debate O'Connor, and a moderator: wholooked like a shaven, sterilized grey worm in hisbeautifully tailored suit. An inane half-hour discussionwas taped, but that was all right, because everybody sang"We Shall Overcome" aftenrward, and many people cried,and many MIT students felt that the Sanctuary was the

puissant than Piggy's conch shell-meant power. JonnyKabat of the Science Action Coordinating Committee(SACC) made an effective speech, arguing against anyunthought-out action that day; a takeover of MITadministration offices had been proposed. A vote wastaken, and the decision was made, apparently bymajority rule (although that-was argued later) to marchto IL 5 and returnimmediately thereafter to the StudentCenter.

SACC is grudingly respected by MIT adriministrartors,perhaps since many MIT brass may have felt that Kabatsaved the Institute from disaster that day.

Kabat is 'one of the very few convincing speakers inMIT's movement. He is idealistic and guardedly hopefulabout the future. Last May he was taken into a policestation and beaten by police after leafletting at a highschool.

The demonstrators ended their impromptu meetingand poured out of Building Seven's doors. Singing andchanting, they spilled down the steps like some lavishproduction number from a Busby Berkeley musical andoozed onto Massachusetts Avenue ,.fouling traffic,happily breaking all sorts of laws, no doubt. The mass oftraffic obstruction moved up Massachusetts Avenuetoward Albany Street and IL 5.

So'began a walking tour of Cambridge. In front of alarge Viet Cong flag which headed the march, in -the veryvanguard of the movement as it were, were a few scorenewsmen who trotted along, turned to take pictures,called greetings to one another, and seemed to beenjoying themselves.

The demonstration, leaderless and purposeless,wandered the back streets, following the VC flag,chanting, singing. A parade without a permit... Ho HoHo... obstructing traffic. . power to the people.. . un-til they fnmnd thPi;r way halr tn the Student Center andmet for several hours to analyze and plan, and went tosleep on the inhospitable floor.

There were about twenty Weathermen in NAC andthey were annoyed. They met on the fourth floor of theStudent Center in a separate caucus and discussed theirfrustration that the rest of NAC didn't want violencesave in self defense. Tle Weatherpeopleis desire was tobreak into groups of four or five street-fighters to attackisolated police. The Weathermen wondered how theycould communicate to NAC the revolutionary joy theyfelt now that they had dropped out of school and hadrealized the necessity to begin a violent struggleimmediately. They spoke in quiet monotones.

The next day at IL 5, they respected the wishes ofthe rest of NAC. There was no violence.

In fact, there is little to tell of the second day, andthe picketting.

At 6 am on a grey Wednesday, perhaps 400 left theStudent Center and walked silently 'and rapidly througha cold steely drizzle to IL 5. Moving to each of fiveentrances, they set up their picket lines.

By midmorning a small crowd had gathered acrossAlbany Street-some students, some professors, some ofthe employees of IL 5, who had been told not to reportfor work or attempt to enter the building. Dr. CharlesStark Draper, the Labs' director, stood on the roof of IL1 next door.

300 police-six busloads-arrived and dispersed thedemonstrators. The police were armed with clubs anddogs. There were a few injuries.

NAC regrouped in the Student Center and'called it avictory. They sang "Power to the People."

On the third day, NAC obstructed the corridor on thesecond floor of Building Three, the location of theoffices of many MIT administrators. After a few hours,NAC returned to the Student Center.

The floor of the Sala de Puerto Rico was empty thatnight. It was all over, except for the disciplinaryhearings. ..

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MIT assumes that all students come to theInstitute for a serious purpose. .

MITCatalog, Vol. 106, No. I

Polish freedom fighter Joseph Mlot-Mroz is adedicated anti-communist crusader who can be seencounter-demonstrating at peace rallies and radicalactions. On the third day of the November Actions,NAC and SACC had met in MIT's Kresge Auditoriumprior -to the obstructive sit-in in Building Three.Mlot-Mroz had been there, marching outside. TheCampus Patrol had decided that his presence mightprovoke a confrontation with radicals, and hadrequested that Cambridge Police remove him from thecampus. This had been done.

first human experience they had had at the Institute.The Sanctuary continued for two weeks, and this was

odd, because police had broken up Boston University'sSanctuary (which took place in a chapel) in a few days.Great is the power of Technology.

After two weeks, the remains of the Sanctuary weremoved elsewhere, to make room for a prom, or aweekend, or a mixer, or some such ritual. And early onemorning, with almost no one around to see it, three orfour feds hustled O'Connor into a car and drove off intothe sunrise.

IV

Yet when I looked for good, there came evil'A nd when I waited for light there came darkness.

JOB xxx

In October of 1969, the usual march to BostonCommon occurred. 100,000 participated. It was apleasant afternoon. Optimism hovered over the masseslike a nimbus cloud of marijuana smoke, which alsohovered over the masses. A plane made a peace sign inthe sky. George McGovern spoke. Many stayed, listened;and were bored for their trouble.

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It is better to curse the darkness than to lightone single little candle.

BR OTHER MARSH

It urns commnon know.edge in the fall of 1969 thatsomething important would happen in November. Timehad passed, things were worse; calls from polirticians for"rational debate" were just insidious forms ofrepression; "meaningful dialogue" was laughable. Othercampuses were making headlines, and it was time for theBastion of Technology to errupt.

The November Action Coalition (NAC) beganmeeting sometime in advance of November, and anaction was determined: the obstructive picketting of oneof the Instrumentation Laboratories (IL's; they havesince become the Draper Labs).

The I-Labs developed inertial guidance systems, withtypical scientific detachment, for lunar vehicles andnuclear warhead delivery systems alike.

By the week of November 4, 1969, several hundredpeople had made their homes on the floor of the MITStudent Center's Sala de Puerto Rico. This gathering'smembers were unlike the well-groomed liberals whodominated peace demonstrations of a few years ago;appearing for the first time en masse were militantwomen in kerchiefs and shapeless clothes, and thechauvinist's utopia of "groovy chicks" putting out-fordraft resistors seemed very far away.

Singing and dancing were gaining popularity, with"Power to the People," a dirge-like song of revolutionaryjoy, in the number one spot.

Eighty percent of the assembled radicals came fromoff campus, MIT officials would be fond of pointing outin press releases when it was all over. For now, theydeclared that the new residents of the Student Centerwould not be interfered with, so long as they did notinterfere with "the normal functioning of the Institute."

On the first day, perhaps 700 people assembled inBuilding Seven, under the dome. Leaving an occupyingforce of a few dozen, a few of whom could play thesoprano recorder miserably, the majority marched acrosscampus to the political science department's Center forInternational Studies (CIS).

The CIS was established with CIA funding afterWorld War II to enable scientists to investigatesociological phenomena with typical scientific detach-ment, which was to be utilized in Washington to stop thecommunist menace. Its recent activities, according toradicals, include investigations into relocating peasants inAsia, defusing revolutionary movements, and developingcomputer capabilities to aid the isolation of domestictrouble makers.

The administration had closed CIS.The demonstrators indulged in guerrilla theater and

returned to Building Seven.The lobby of Building Seven is a three-tiered

sepulchral arena. One expects to find in it the tomb of apope, if not an MIT president. Outside Building Seven,mounted atop the Institute's edifice, were twobig-brotherish Speaker horns,- placed there to informradicals if necessary that their actions were naughty andillegal.

The 700 jammed the lobby and held a disjointedmeeting. The ownership of a megaphone-far more

The incident would'lead to a Discipline Committeehearing two months later. But we are missing somehistory:

In October of 1969, radicals disrupted a GeneralElectric recruiter who had come oi: campus during theGE strike. In January of 1970, MT expelled MikeAlbert.

Albert had been elected student body president onhis campaigtr pledge to make trouble. His face andsurrounding iMedusa coils of hair have been uncharitablydescribed a,; a monkey looking out of a tree. He is ablunt, sarto;nic, sometimes earthy speaker with anincredibly last mind. When expelled, he had nearlyenough cre lits for a mathematics degree, and a perfect5.0 average.

Mike AlfF.rt was expelled for participating in the GEdemonstratans, for disrupting one thing or another, andfor using r.zughty language to MIT big cheeses. Therewas specul;:-ion that had Albert not so openly showedhis conte ;.: for MIT's disciplinary apparatus and MIT'sdignitaries -' might have been let off with admonish-ment or slve; ension rather than expulsion. As some sawit, MIT, in - + spirit of vindictive pomposity, threw outAlbert to save face.

In January of 1970, the Discipline Committee -heardtestimony relating to the alleged interference by GeorgeKatsiaficas with police attempting to remove JosephMlot-Mroz, the Polish: freedom fighter, from KresgeAuditorium during the November Actions.

George Katsiaficas had been an eminently respectablegreasy student politician, fraternity member, andmanagement major. His radicalization had amazed many,and perhaps scared those who thought that filthy hippiescame out of the woodwork rather than the SloanSchool. As a member of Rosa Luxembourg SDS (as wasAlbert) Kats had participated in the November Actions.While at the Kresge meeting, he had seen plainclothes-men approaching Mlot-Mroz and had, in the spirit offreedom of speech, tried to stop the freedom fighter'sabduction.

Leaflets advertised guerrilla theater beTore Kats'hearing, and in fact, there was a short depiction of thetrial of Mike Albert. But the Disciplinary Committee wasto provide the day's main entertainment.

Literature Professor Roy Lamscan, looking like somehybrid between a teddy bear and Peter Lorre, andtastefully attired in grey, hosted the proceedings. Hefumbled with a microphone for a while, finally obtainingsatisfaction and making himself heard. The audienceencouraged his efforts. "I'm glad you like my goldenvoice," he ad libbed, to show that he was All Right.

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Richard Sorensonestablished that Mlot-Mroz was standing outside theNovember meeting singing "George Wallace Was Right"to the tune of "We Shall Overcome." Kats testified laterthat he thought that singing was nice. Campus PatrolLieutenant Driscoll testified that Mlot-Mroz had a finevoice.

Driscoll'gave his version of the i ciden .As he toldit, Kats finished up in front of the prowl car that wastrying to pull away from the curb of MassachusettsAvenue with the freedom fighter inside.' Kats was"hollering in a screeching voice 'Arrest me! Arrest me!'which we, of course, refused to do."

"Have you ever lied in your life?" Kats asked thewitness.

Driscoll was silent.Lamson: "Mr. Katsial-c.s, questions should be

relevant."Kats: "The defense contends that half of what the

witness said was a lie."Lamson: "'Then ask directly."Kats: "Did you lie?"Professor Osborne wanted to know about the history

of violence on campus. He questioned Driscoll oncampus incidents of the past, seeking to know if violencehad ever been necessary to stop students.

"There are times," answered Driscoll, "when peoplehave to be restrained. They go berserk or something."

Why?"People under the influence of something or

other.. ." muttered the Lieutenant."College!" came the shout from the audience.Campus Patrolman Cox testified that he had grabbed

Kats and asked him to "leave the officers alone." Coxhad been tripped from behind and knocked down byperson or persons unknown.

Campus Patrolman Blado testified that he hadgrabbed Kats by the arm and hurled him halfway acrossthe street, thus removing him from the path of thepolice car.

"Why aren't you wearing your uniforms today?" Katsasked Blado as an afterthought.

Biado: "We're off duty. We're here on our owntime." s

throw students down flights of stairs at facultymeetings) as well as the harrangues of humanitiesdepartment irregulars. Johnson knows most talkativefaculty members by name.

Johnson has reassured conservative alumni that MITwill continue-to do its patriotic duty. He has divestedthe Instrumentation Labs. He has come out against theViet Nam war, more or less. He detests violence andcoersion and worships moderation and reason. He nevermisses a tuition riot. He believes that the answer toscience is more science. He comes equipped with his ownPR man and a' sinister ball of jello, ConstantineSimonides, formerly a Presidential Assistant, nowadditionally Vice President. If Simonides knows towhom Johnson has sold his soul, he isn't telling.

Whatever it is Johnson does, he is good at it. Fortunetrusts him, having published "Come Squeeze or Bust, inHoJo We Trust," an article whose title suggests thatJohnson's only difficulty is with pimples.

Johnson convinced the faculty to sit tight and notsummon the police. He promised legal action.

Meanwhile, the occupiers were admitting anysympathetic looking young person who would promisenot to identify those inside in court. The mood insidethe offices was one of relaxed revolutionary boredom.

Several adolescents who had been having a water gunfight found an IBM machine used by secretaries toproduce error-free letters. Thinking to use the machineto produce error-free leaflets, they began experimenting.Provost Jerome Wiesner swept into the office, hurdled adesk, and executed a daring rescue of the IBM machine.

Wiesner had eyed the hardwood floor of theSanctuary and wished that he'd been younger. Stronglybelieving in science serving man, he has long worked forthe application of his discipline of electrical engineeringto medicine.

Wiesner was Kennedy's science advisor.Wiesner is caught between the immorality that hides

behind the apolitical-search-for-truth lie of science, andthe hatred of all science that pervades the lie'sopposition. He is unwilling to join the technocracy'sopposition, but working alone, despite his writing andSenate testimony against the ABM, despite even hiswriting for Playboy, he is politically impotent.

And his temple of reason, MIT, is collapsing.Wiesner's usual facial expression is a wistful smile, butangry outbursts -against activists are becoming morefrequent.

After two days, the occupiers, perhaps 75 strong, left.MIT took photographs. MIT administrators met tocompile a list of occupiers whom at least twoadministrators could positively identify in court. 31would be charged.

Howard Johnson returned to the faculty and called ita victory. Howard Johnson told the faculty that theradicals had entered the offices with non-negotiabledemands and had left with nothing. The facultyapplauded.

The occupation had protested the disciplinaryhearings, the expulsion of Albert. Moderate and liberalstudents, .very possibly a majority of the undergraduates,had been passing resolutions demanding Albert'sreinstatement before the radicals had entered the offices.

The student body had little sympathy for thetakeover.

After the occupation, there was no further talk bythe student body of demanding Albert's reinstatement.

In retrospect, many students, indeed many radicals,would be at a loss to understand the necessity for thetakeover. Afterwards, some would justify it as"educational."

VIII

"What- impertinerncel" said the Pudding. "'7wonder how you'd like it, if were to cut a sliceout of you, you creature/ "

....Alice hadn't a word to say in reply; shecould only sit and look at it and gasp.

"Make a remark," said the Red Queen: "it'sridiculous to leave all the conversation to thepudding!"

LEWIS CARROLL Through the Looking-Glass

In early April of 1970, the November ActionCoalition met in the Sala de Puerto Rico to plan theircontribution to the Spring Maratorium.

Moratoria are generally fairly dull affairs at which, aswe have mentioned, liberals speak to 100,000 students.A few of the 100,000 smoke dope. Many assuage guiltfeelings. Quite a few are on the make. Somehow, mostliberal gatherings wind up as mixers.

NAC and friends were interested in providing an

Kats: "I think you should be paid."Blado: "We ore being paid."And lo! The defense called Mike O'Connor.The angelic AWOL GI of the Sanctuary-angelic no

more. A filthy hippie he, long and mangy ofhair,bearded, a cigaret dangling provocatively from his lips,with a drawling, friendly voice:

"I better not say fuck," he announced, "becauseAlbert got kicked out of school for saying fuck. I'll sayshit."

O'Connor hinted that he might have been the onewho tripped Campus Patrolman Cox.

Steve Shalom entered stage left, fully dressed inovercoat, scarf, and a red cap, all of which he carefullyremoved and piled on the conference table. Havingfound the microphone under the heap of clothes, hegave his evidence: he "saw everything that happened,and it was the capitalist system that was to blame."

There were no questions from the DisciplineCommittee.

Shalom dressed.Lamson: "Sorry you had to take so much time taking

your wraps off."The sounds of tambourine and drum are heard

offstage.Lamson: "Let's have no accompaniment."Hippies, pig press, and an MIT student from East

Campus who dressed in campy dark glasses and whitetrench coat and was rumored to be in the employ of theFBI, had been creeping onstage throughout theafternoon, causing Lamson .to periodically halt theproceedings. "Off the stage!" the audience had shouted,anxious to get on with the show.

Finally, the stage was offed. Two or threestink-bombs struck the platform, partially obscuring theconference table with volumes of yellowish sulphursmoke. Lamson found his way to a microphone. Hecould be glimpsed through the fog adjourning thehearing.

The writer w;ould like to be able to provide the readerwith the verdict of the hearing, and deeply regrets beingunable to do so. The legal proceedings against politicalactivists have become so numerous and so labyrinthinethat-one hardly knows any longer for which incident aprolific radical is being condemned, expelled, im-prisoned, or, occasionally, exonerated.

VII

Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnnkonnbronn to-nnerronntoonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntooh-oohoordenenthurnuk!

JAMES JOYCE Finnegans Wake

At the end of January of 1970, four persons, clad inwhite lab coats and ski masks, battered down the doorof the office of the President of the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology and entered into temporarypossession thereof. Perhaps 300 were in occupancy atone time or another during the two day stay.

President Howard Wesley Johnson's office is a simpleroom whose obscenely white walls are adorned bynautical paintings. In the drawer of-a sturdy, unimposingdesk are usually a handful of mediocre cigars.

A corridor from Johnson's office runs pastsecretaries' quarters and an extraordinary socialist.realistpainting of MIT's ancestor, Boston Tech, terminating atthe office of the Chairman of the MIT Corporation,James Killian, a grey-haired grandfather figure who takesevery opportunity to speak of the wonders ofeducational television, which he pioneered. Killiarn'soffice is the impressive one-walnut panelled walls,expensively bound books, square yards of desk space.

The occupying forces overrap Killian's office and allthe subordinate offices, leaving johnson's office toconcerned liberals, MIT administrators, and the press.

An angry faculty met in room 10-250. They werepacified by Howard Johnson.

As we shall not have occasion to deal with Johnson inperson again, we should here take advantage of theopportunity of essaying a description while the GreatMan stands before us.

MIT President Howard Wesley Johnson (Hobo) is partof the shift in power at the Institute from electricalengineering to management. He is the sort of man whosegrey suit seems to be an. extension of his personality.Master of the smile electric and the inoffensive tensionreducing witticism, he can be seen in his natural settingat faculty meetings, which he chairs. One wonders howmany spineless professors secretly detest the offhand,genial manner in which he imposes Golden -Reason onthe faculty, damping the more reactionary views of theInstitute's colorful fossils (who' have been known to

The first, and largest, group, the liberals, wandered offto wait for the next mixer, the next peace candidate, caand Godot. A small group of degenerates cha nting "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh; We Want Mescaline" flew over the :Longfellow Bridge at low altitude and was not seen 'Iagain. The third group, perhaps 2,000 strong, marched ito Harvard Square, arriving that evening. !-

At police headquarters off Central Square, a holiday -latmosphere prevailed as. peace officers from various ;communities assembled. Central Square resembled the1984 Automobile Show-all styles of padd,, wagon ondisplay, as well as an impressive showing of :ot helmets sand other fashions. X

Displayed -this -evening for the first tiv,% was the x

police strategy that would be used in the -ature. Thepaddy wagons would carry police to Central Square, -

where MBTA busses would be loaded with cliling cops, E

gossipping, tapping nightsticks impatiently. -The nightsticks are overgrown mutants, ,.rhaps two

feet long and two inches wide, made of has ,rood. Oneimagines a bat-boy inside the station- he usual, Mr.

officer? 36-ounce 'Berkeley Slugger' .... Re aber have th/e grain on top when you swing... Go c there andknock them outta the park. .. "

The busses would make their way through East F

Cambridge to Harvard Square, where the police wouldform lines to the north of the Square, and, in repeatedsweeping operations (with optional side trips into the Isubway and such) clear the degenerates out. The policewould then form lines across all arteries to protect the Z

now empty Square and wait for the demonstrators to go ahome.

This strategy had one disadvantage. The demon-istraters were home. Many, if not most, lived near theSquare. Many others who were not dermonstrators wouldwander out to see what was happening to their fellowfreaks. Still others would be willing to offer shelter,sanctuary.

And the radicals' strategy? Most young people are notactivists, but sympathize with many radical goals. Whenpolice enter their neighborhoods, chase anybody present -

around with rather horrifying clubs, occasionallydamaging people, and liberally dose the area with teargas, people sometimes decide - to do more thansympathize. Perhaps even some conservatives are ipartially converted.

The radicals' plan had one disadvantage: the radicals, msome of whom amused themselves by throwing rocksthrough windows and setting fires in a newsstand and a ibank. e

There were perhaps 2,000 people in or near the LE

Square. This alone is misleading; most people were ig,observers who wandered as near to the Square as they acould get, which generally meant within thirty feet oflines of police across Massachusetts Avenue with their Iclubs at paade rest. i--

At the front, street people and assorted degeneratesformed a ragged line 'and gawked at police, until the i

police, a blue-helmetted mass, hands clutching clubs likesome uniformed octopus, would chase the street people ia few hundred feet down the block. After this the policewould regroup and the degenerates would return. After -all, this was home.

Although, very few threw rocks, anybody who stood raround and gawked at the blue-tentacled octopusbecame known as a "rioter"' in the papers the next day,a process similar to calling the upstanding citizens whoinvariably turn outo watch a fire "arsonists."

It was a moderately relaxed riot, at least on the partof the rioters.

Yet it must be noted that there were a few hundredinjuries, some serious. One woman miscarried whenbeaten by police.

I spent the evening wandering up and down the Zstretch of Massachusetts Avenue between Central andHarvard Squares. I recall a little old lady who had beenout taking a nightly walk, unaware of the evening'sentertainment. She was, of course, totally acclimatizedto the dope smoking, unbathed hippies wandering thestreets of a spring evening, but the presence of police inthese numbers was somewhat novel-at the time.

The little old lady was telling us all in a loud voicewhat she would do to the blue meanies if she had ashotgun. Her entertaining narrative was interrupted by acharge by those gentlemen. We adjourned the meeting afew hundred feet away from Harvard Square.

The fellow standing next to me picked up a piece ofvacuum cleaner which happened to be lying in the streetminding its own business. He chucked it at a plate glass x

window which shattered impressively. We adjournedfurther down Massachusetts Avenue.

Towards 11 pro, some of the police withdrew fromHarvard Square, entered their busses, and returned to

proximity to many students, who are unanimousin theirdislike of Assistant Dean for Student Affairs JayHammeriness.

While the shouting and cursing in the Sala de PuertoRico was occurring one floor below, the high potentatesof the Massachusetts Institute of Technology weregathering in Dean Hammerness' office behind a lockeddoor and the girth of a Campus Patrolman, whooccasionally muttered under his breath some commentabout "kids playing revolution downstairs." He wouldhave been angrier, but he was being paid.

Prominent among the high potentates was VicePresident Without Portfolio Kenneth R. Wadleigh.

Wadleigh is an MIT archetype. Once a jolly MITundergrad who welded an MBTA trolley to its tracks, heis famous as Dean for Student Affairs for hisannouncement to a variety of malfeasants that if theyare here in five minutes, they won't be here tomorrow.

"Fuck you, Wadleigh," Mike Albert once told theDean, "I've had enough of your ridiculous blatherings."Albert wasn't gone the next day, but he was expelledfrom the Garden of Technology not long afterwards. Heis currently earning his bread by the sweat of his brow,as a construction worker.

Wadleigh is currently Vice President WithoutPortfolio.- Someday the Powers That Be may give him aportfolio, but it seems doubtful that the MIT archetypewill rise further in the hierarchy.

Wadleigh was dressed this evening in worn-outtrousers and a red flannel shirt. He looked like he hadbeen leaning over an upright piano singing "She'll beComin' 'Round the Mountain When She Comes" in astraining tenor when the telephone had interrupted totell him that the filthy hippies were at it again. He wasangry.

The administrators decided to throw out NAC,contending that it was not an MIT student group, whichwas, in fact, generally true. There were, however, twomore immediate reasons for the decision to eject NAC.

The first was the deterioration of relations betweenCambridge government and MIT. The Institute, everanxious to avoid politically inspired :drug raids byCambridge narcs, and perhaps thinking of futureexpansion into Cambridge, didn't -want to anger the CityCouncil by allowing a group to meet on campus to planthe trashing of the city.

The second reason was emotional. The administratorshad come to look upon MIT as their fiefdom, theirimmaculate prestressed concrete Shangri-La, wherereason and scientific detachment ruled.

And those degenerates who called for revolution soloudly that they could be heard in City Hall. . . Out withthem. They aren't MIT students. They're outsiders.They're trespassers.

The decision had been made, but it hadn't beencarried out. The student body's greasy politicians hadbeen meeting elsewhere in the building when MikeAlbert had appeared. "Sorry to interrupt," he told thegreasy politicians, "but your friendly deans are fuckingoff again."

Most greasy politicians moved their meeting to theSala.

If the MIT administration interfered with thecommingling of radicalism and grease, it would be seenas a disruption of student government. The illusion ofstudent self-government is one the administration, thusfar, is desirous of maintaining.

The administration went home. The radical meetinghad disintegrated by itself anyway.

A few of us reporter-types were loitering nearHammerness' office when the administrators exited.Wadleigh strode past us, then returned. "I'm disgustedwith MIT undergraduate government," he hissed. Hewalked off. "And you can quote me on that," he hurledover his shoulder. "Forwards or backwards." And wasgone.- Silence and darkness reigned over the prestressedconcrete Shangri-La.

IX

The R evolution came and wentAnd unrest was replaced by discontent

PETER WEISS Marat/Sade

April 15, 1970. The traditional demonstration onBoston Common seemed poindess. Abbie Hoffmanspoke. After making fun of the alleged sexualbackwardness of certain SDS factions, he got to thepoint._ "Boston was the cradle of liberty," said Hoffman."How many -hands are gonna rock the cradle? Howmany hamds are gonna cradle a rock?"

Generally speaking, the rally broke up in three ways.

alternative to listening to politicians and ogling BostonUniversity coeds, and hoped to provide an opportunityfor more energetic protestors to protest in a more

energetic way.Perhaps 200 sat in the Sala. As usual, the most

important participants in the meeting would be themicrophones, of which there were two.

The first was a hand mike clutched tightly in thehand of a woman who moderated.

The woman performed a curious dance with hermicrophone, shuffling nervously, pivoting on her heels,swaying forward, mike at arm's length arcing around her,reminding the writer (who confesses to the bad mentalhabit of irrelevant free-associating) of the dance of thecock-of-the-rock as once depicted in color in NationalGeographic. The bird dances to signify its desire to mate.

Being discussed at the moment was the feasability ofgoing en masse to Cambridge City Hall to take out gunpermits. The idea was discarded on learning of the highcost of the right to bear arms. Gun permits areexpensive.

The discussion turned to the elaboration of a generalplan to trash something. Somebody wanted to know theproductivity of heaving rocks through the windows of"every fucking milk store between here and HarvardSquare," as she put it. Others proposed banks. Somedoubted the value of trashing, some doubted the valueof trashing indiscriminently, some just wanted to heaverocks. The moderator continued her dance, angrilysilencing speakers when she determined that their timewas up, or the meeting shouted them down.

Hollering, cursing, and the like had gone on for twohours when a man who claimed to be a member of theBlack Panther Party stepped up to the secondmicrophone.

The second microphone had a stand. It stood at aninappropriate height, but defied adjustment, until finallythe possibly-Panther bent down and almost swallowedthe mike, looking like a little boy petulantly sucking alollypop. He began to speak.

Grzzzzzzak!!The microphone emitted a loud angry overloaded

protest of its own. The voice of the possibly-Panther,amplified and distorted beyond any possible recognition,blasted from the sound system.

Members of the audience suggested that he mightmove the microphone a few inches frommhis mouth andspeak lower.

The possibly-Panther would have nothing of thisrepression of his right-to speak, and bent down andswallowed the microphone again.

Krrgaaacekza rgk! .!His point, when after several minutes he was

convinced to use the microphone properly, was thatthree days ago he had personally written a leafletinforming all who would read it that windows wouldbreak and if I have decided what you are going to dowhy do you waste my time with two hours of debatingand goddammit you fools better quit jiving and get yourshit together and trash 'cause if you don't when therevolution comes we may have to come and get-

"SHUT UP, MOTHERFUCKER!!!t!"There are sounds that the human throat can give

utterance to under times of extreme tension, sounds thatmake their unfortunate listener feel that one hundredharpies are slowly slitting the skin with a hundredgleaming razors.

Every person but one turned involuntarily toward thesource of the cry. It was a young woman. She slumpedin her chair, her chest heaving vehemently, her facecontorted horribly with anger. The males seated oneither side of her were typical sorts-blue jeans tight inthe crotch, moustache, corona of shaggy hair. Bothlooked extremely uncomfortable. One was hesitantlybegging her to take it easy.

He needn't have bothered. The only person whohadn't heard her was the possibly-Panther, who hadcontinued his osculation with the microphone uninter-rupted. He was suggesting that those people who wereseriously interested Ln action rather than talk meet at theother end of the room. A few moved in that direction,but most had given up the evening as lost, and had left.

Most had been reluctant to talk back to a black whoclaimed to be a Panther; perhaps many had disagreedwith his putdown of debate yet kept silent.

Or had they really -disagreed? The silence may havebeen tacit concurrence with the belief-that there hadbeen talk enough-what matter that no group strategyhad been determined. On April 15, they would ad lib.

On the third floor of the Student Center are theoffices of Assistant Dean for Student Affairs JayHammerhess, an energetic little man whose responsibili-ties for scheduling auditoriums and Student Center keephim away from other administrators, but in close

Central Square, -where, on leaving the busses, theymarched around the corner in military drill formation,climbed into their paddy wagons, called farewell to eachother, and went home to the suburbs. The few peoplewatching were amazed. They hadn't known that theirpolice force could do tricks like marching in drillformation.

In Harvard Square, the crowd detumesced. Suddenlythere was the realization that the evening's fun andgames were over. Some police guarded the Square, ofcourse, and some people hung around.

Until the curfew was announced.

A mile from Harvard Square, a mile downMassachusetts Avenue, MIT waited for a plague of copsand hippies that never came.

Under the dome facing Massachusetts Avenue, on thesteps of Building Seven, before the main entrance to theMassachusetts Institute of' Technology, stood twosolitary silhouetted figures, guarding five miles ofcorridors and acres beyond measure of grey walls. VicePresident Without Portfolio Kenneth R. Wadleigh, in agrey suit, stood staring down Massachusetts Avenuetoward Harvard Square. The street was empty. CampusPatrol Chief James Olivieri was speaking tersely into awalkie-talkie, doing a passable Broderick Crawfordimitation.

It was almost funny.

Workmen spent-most of the next day installing glass.Krackerjacks, a high priced boutique, perhaps thephoniest enterprise in all of pseudo-hippie money-grub-bing, was hit hard, as was the Coop, Harvard's HolyokeCenter, and banks. Also trashed was the message boardof an Episcopal Church and the window of GoodwillIndustries, a second-hand clothing shop.

Many people wandered about the Square silently,their heads bowed, their eyes attracted by the gleam ofglass shards in the gutter.

X

A Philosopher, seeing a fool beating hisdonkey, said:

"Abstain, my son, abstain, I implore. Thosewho resort to violence shall suffer fromviolence."

"That," said the Fool; -diligently belaborz:g,the animal, "is what I'm trying to teach thisbeast-which has kicked me."

AMBROSE BIER CE

The Weathermen held a convention last year inChicago, a city which seems to hold some attraction forhogs, democrats, and crazies. On one wall of theirmeeting hall, reported Liberation News Service, hung alarge banner praising the Sharon Tate killings, whichmurders the Weathermen appreciated almost as much asthe New York Daily News, which published cheesecakephotos of the dead actress on the front page for fourdays.

The Weatherman philosophy is fairly simple and tothe point. Weathermen have come to understand thattheir previous existences have been lousy, blame it onthe system, and are fighting back. The only possiblemethod they see of alleviating their condition is violentrevolution. The only possible revolution will be madewhen angry students fight. Weathermen form a vanguardgroup, carrying on a guerrilla war not dissimilar from theone taking place in outwardly calm Saigon, waiting forthe others to give up-their silliness and join the fight. Tothis end, it is ideal to trash and bring down policerepression, and perhaps force the society to give birth toa premature police state, as this encourages students togive up their silliness.

This simple, logical, level-headed philosophy ofcleansing by violence is one of the mainstays of humanculture, and can perhaps claim pre-eminence in having'brought man to his present glorious condition.

The Weathermen are a small group. The mass mediarefer to them as a "branch of SDS"' when they wish tohint that all activists espouse aggressive violence, and as a"dissident faction" when they try to reassure theiraudience that the movement is fragmented.

In April, a few hundred frustrated radicals, fed upwith liberal demonstrations and fascist governmentsalike, would trash Harvard Square. The act was deploredby many, who argued that the act of damaging a storewas pointless; that many workers and students wereturned off; that many, given this evidence of degeneracy,would-look benignly in the future on police repression- f street people et al.

A Weatherman or person of not dissimilar outlookmight argue that recent history has shown that

non-violence fails, that it will fail in the future; thatevery time the police react violently to provocation, theranks of the struggle are swelled; that what appears to bea few provocateurs attempting to force violence onmany non-violent demonstrators is really an earnesteffort to .awaken people to a disagreeable reality thatthey would have had to face eventually.

Are they wrong?The panel that the United States government picked

to study ghetto uprisings determined that the cause ofcivil rights had been served by violence. The UnitedStates government corroborated the findings byignoring the report.

Those in power are working for violent revolt. Thosein power are doing their utmost to make cleansing byviolence seem desirable, if not necessary.

The very fact that numbers of people see noalternative to violence says quite a bit about theirgovernment. The presence of madmen says quite a bitabout the "sane."

The property damage in Harvard Square on April 15was not violence. Even such an act as the burning of theBank of America Isle Vista, California branch is anon-violent event, and, since even John KennethGalbraith recognizes that business is the government, anaction that an anti-government movement wouldconsider appropriate.

But let us turn from property damage to violence.As of the time of writing (September, 1970), some

police have been killed by snipers; there have been ahandful of casualties resulting from many hundreds ofbombings. A violent revolution of miniscule proportionshas begun.

Yet violence carries with it a curse on those whoresort to it:

"Wherever non-human elements-whether revolu-tionary doctrine or material goods-assume greaterimportance than human life and well-being, we have thealienation of man from man," wrote Theodore Roszakin the previously quoted Making of a Counter Culture,"and the way is open to the self-righteous use of othersas mere objects. In this respect revolutionary terrorism isonly the mirror image of capitalist exploitation."

Further, those who advocate violence characterizetheir enemies as personifications of evil-pigs andbums-and "we had better dispense with the personifica-tion of evil," wrote Konrad Lorentz in On Aggression,"because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerouskind of war: religious war."

Those who advocate violence are given to consideringexpenditures of certain numbers of human lives as"worth it." Calculations of numbers of deaths are mad;the idea of acceptable numbers of deaths for therevolution, of martyrdom for the peoples' struggle, asinsane as the joyous news from Washington thatcasualties in Viet Nam are down from last week.

"When there is a war," wrote Paul Goodman in TheEmpire City "both sides are far more essentially inagreement than they differ, being in agreement to have awar."

Peter Weiss in Marat/Sade:"Once and for allthe idea of glorious victorieswon by the glorious armymust be wiped out.Neither side is gloriousOn either side they're just frightened men messing

their pants."Neither the United States government nor most

radicals choose to consider the implications of violence.'Those radicals who do will inform you that violence canbe dispensed with after the revolution.

It can't be done. Never in this world will hatred bestilled by hatred-this is the law eternal: Buddha.

The United States government lives by violence. TheUnited States government's opposition has yet, with afew exceptions, to embrace violence.

Yet violent revolution seems inevitable. And violentrevolution is no revolution at all.

It is the continuation of 10,000 years of civilizedhuman insanity.

10,000 years of human beings as things.Revolution:Movement in a circle...And mere property damage?He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a

stone.In Harvard Square on April 15, 1970, many hands

cradled rocks.

XI

-This is no movie. This is real.-Which reel?-The last reel...

FIRESIGN THEA TER

In April of 1970, Richard Nixon saw a war movie andinvaded Cambodia.

On May 4, 1970, the National Guard killed fourstudents at Kent State University in Ohio.

The Guard had run out of tear gas. They claim tohave been advanced upon by a mob of students shouting"Kill the pigs!" A few Guardsmen opened fire.

Perhaps the young Guardsmen were scared. Perhapsthe old "lifers" were angry. Perhaps they had achievedthe human communion of shared danger a quartercentury ago, and thought of World War II as the goodold days. Perhaps World War II had taught them thatthere is much to be said in favor of fighting one's enemy.Perhaps they wondered why young people aren'tenjoying Viet Nam.

Perhaps they were shooting their accusers, theevidence of the emptiness of their own lives...

Officers, shocked, yelled for cease fire. Some laterreported having to strike their men to get them to stopshooting. Some Guardsmen threw down their rifles andbegan-to cry.

In Washington, Richard Nixon spoke to the nation.Displaying a lawyer's attention to careful wording thatwould be strangely missing when he would discuss theCharles Manson trial, he only hinted that the Kent Statestudents got what they deserved.

In Jackson state, blacks were killed. Kent wouldremain more prominent in students' minds, which wasunderstandable, death acquiring meaning with personalidentification with the white middle class liberal victims.

On Monday, May 4, 1300 MIT students meeting inKresge Auditorium went on strike.

The meeting stressed the need for cooperation. MikeAlbert spoke of the need for radicals, liberals, faculty,and even Howard Johnson to work together non-violently to make "fucking Richard Nixon scaredshitless."

On Monday night, perhaps 50 dope smoking hippiestrucked out of MIT's dorms and liberally spray-paintedthe two-thirds of an MBTA bus which serves as a busstop on Massachusetts Avenue across the street from themain entrance to the Institute.

3 am Tuesday, May 5: From across the river camestrained shouts of "One two three four; We don't wantyour fucking war!" and the sounds of the enthusiasm ofa small crowd-a few cheers, a few sirens, silence.

Someone had tripped while trying to fire-bomb theBoston University administration offices. He would bearrested for "possession of an infernal weapon."

On Tuesday afternoon, Boston University gave up.Beset by scores of false alarms and, bomb threats, theadministration aborted the spring term and gave students48 hours to leave.

At the MIT Student Center, liberal strikers who hadspent the day canvassing milled about. A few crazieswere present: Someone had been distributing a smallpiece of paper bearing a map of MIT with ROTCheadquarters, administration offices, and labs marked bythe symbol of a small lit match; someone else had burstinto the Student Center with the enthusiastic suggestionthat everybody get stoned and head over to BostonUniversity.

The rumor -was that angry BU students would beburning buildings.

Boston was quiet. BU students, numb from days oftension, days of false alarms and bomb scares, oozedglassy-eyed from their homes to watch the fire enginescome and go without purpose.

-BU recanted its 48 hour time limit the next day.During the week, liberals canvassed.On Friday, 100,000 students rallied at Soldiers' Field.

Mr. Softie trucks beat police helicopters six to three. Awoman from Kent State tried to describe, in halting,broken, cliche-ridden sentences, the collapse of herworld.

People leaving the demonstration and arriving atHarvard Square found that police had blocked offtraffic. The Square was empty. The expanse of emptyasphalt begged to be occupied.

By 9 pm, Harvard Square had been trashed again. Afew hundred people, mostly what would have beendescribed a few years ago as juvenile delinquents, stoodin the Square, war-whooping.

Many, many student-types begged them to clear theSquare. This was not April 15. The student strike wasout to win middle and working class support; these fewhundred punks were ruining everything.

Many people in or near the Square were Harvardfreshmen who couldn't go home, that benign university

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or later catches up with il its mistakes, will catch upwith this one.

XII

... for theysay that one is not yet an adult solong as he looks forward to the time wheneverything will be different because hel knowthe secrets; but he is an adult when he comes torealize that there is no secret at all. .

PA UL GOODMAN The Empire City

The sun has nrisen.One of the circle of six or seven people who had been

atop the dome before I arrived wanted mescaline, andasked one of the others if he had any to sell.

He did.As the capsule was handed over, it slipped'and

dropped to the glass-tiled skylight. It broke. Psychedelicfairy dust was carried out over Cambridge by a slow,silent wind which blew steadily rom the sea.

Teach us to fly, begged Wendy, so we can fly toNever-Never Land and never grow up. Very well, repliedPeter, sprinkling them with fairy dust. Just close youreyes and think only of lovely things.

They giggle~d goodbye to meand commenced theperilous descent of the dome, faces blanching inhalf-feigned terror-laughter as they slid down the hump.Their.sandals clattered on the pebble-strewn surface ofthe roof as they made their slow way to the trap door.

Each in turn hung suspended in space above thestairwell for an instant before each dropped through thetrap into the midst of the white hallways of BuildingNine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Man is learning to use the new brain, the cortex. Theold animal brain inhibits the learning process, and thehistory of the acquisition of knowledge is irregular, andat times regressive-the Middle Ages. -

Man acquires consciousness of his existence and hisdeath in the cortex. The ancient, emotive brain cannotcomprehend consciousness, death.

Man as-an animal has neither claws nor fangs, and isnot given strong violence inhibiting instincts. As ananimal be can do little damage. Then man's cortexinvents weapons.

The old -and new brains are badly out of contact witheach other.

Man as an animal has a strong' desire to form.communities and a tendency to dispute with othercolonies.

The easiest way to create a community and satisfyman's self-transcending urges is to provide a group ofpeople with a-common enemy.

Then man's cortex invents language, and language

quantifies and sophisticates perception. Koestler: "In

the rat it is the smell which decides who is friend or foe.-In man, there is a terrifyingly wide range of criteria,from territorial possessions through ethnic, cultural,religious, ideological differences, which decide whostinks and who does not."

Dispute the explanation-it is theoretical, thoughbased on neuroanatomical fact.

The conclusion is the inescapable tragic lesson ofhistory: Man trys to achieve community, friendship,love-by killing.

And Abraham stretched forth tsi hand, and took theknife to slay his son.

The people on the Common could not stomach theirparents' culture and so they created their own.Increasingly, the'culture is a symbol of membership, ameans of acquiring a collective identity.

A few hundred will participate in a radical action.A hundred thousand will attend a well publicized

liberal rally.Four hundred thousand will congregate in rain and

mud in upstate New York to live with each other for afew days of communal bliss. Four hundred thousandproducts of less than 36 templates; four hundredthousand compulsive conformists who like the samemusic, who speak the same phrases, who wear the samestyle of clothes. And this is the hope.for the fiuture...

The easiest way to create a community is to provide acommon enemy.

If Richard Nixon is willing to -exterminate everyblack, every student, every dissident, to stay in power,he will do it comforted by the intellectual belief that heis saving humanity, and by the emotional inability tounderstand that bums are human beings. If arevolutionary is willing to die or willing to kill, he iscomforted by the belief that he is saving humanity, andby the emotional inability to understand that pigs arehuman beings.

It's pigs versus bums.What is stupider than the death of a human being for

an idea, for the future? What is greater insanity than thepitiful attempts of mankind to build a good world on afoundation of rotting corpses?

-The triumph of the belief that violence cleanses is theatom bomb. The atom bomb is the embodiment of thedesire of mankind to perish in anonymous mass deathrather than face the need to learn to live a fullyconscious life, to die a fully conscious death. The manwho will kill and the man who will die for a cause havenot learned to live.

Many believe that there is little time left, that by theyear 2000 three billions must die horribly to allow therest of us to live out the remainders of unnatural, pitifulexistences. Some believe that it is already too late.

What matter if the United States makes of this worlda technocratic horror, reducing man to desparatelyfighting to control nature, to prolong a meaningless lifeand hide an ignoble death? What matter if Chinasucceeds in imposing on man the social stability ofinsects, making life meaningful only because your workkeeps others alive physically and little more?

. What difference if there is a continuation of 10,000years of butchery in the name of love, freedom,community?

The time is not distant when evolution, which sooner

having padlocked Harvard Yard and the freshmanhousing within.

The police had been sitting in their busses, and hadlearned the subtleties of psychological warfare in theSquare: the interiors of the busses were dark, menacing,the only sound coming from within the sound of clubstapping on walls, floor.

At 10 pm the police cleared the Square. Nixon wason the radio: "No, I have not been surprised by theintensity of the protestors. .. "

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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all ourrighteousnesses are as flthy rags; and we all dofade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,have taken us away.

ISAIAH tiv

The rising sun is sending long shadows slashing acrossKresge plaza. it is early June, 1970, atop the dome.

The efforts of liberals resulting from the galvanizationarf the May Strike will come to nothing. The efforts ofliberals to elect politicians they favor in November of1970 will come to nothing. All this can be seen fromatop the dome.

Harvard Square will be trashed twice more during thesummer, once to commemorate the anniversary of theCuban Revolution, once to celebrate the release of HueyNewton from prison. This will mean nothing.

Howard Johnson will resign from the Presidency of,the Menopausal Institute of Technology, ending "thebest years of my life... the ferment and pace have madethem difficult years. But this is the price ofresponsibility for any institution that is not content tostand still."

"For a variety of reasons, including some good ones,the presidents of colleges and universities. . .are themost expendable part of the process. . that seeksanswers... I have no complaints on this score."

"Now is the time for a new perspective on thepresidency. . I have agreed to accept the chairmanshipof the Corporation. ."

Now is the time for a new perspective on life. I haveagreed to accept the position of god. No matter.

It is summer on Cambridge Common. Severalhundred people roast in their own sweat, basted underthe heavenly heating element. Goethe noted that thereare less than 36 tragic plots. Surely there are less than 36varieties of homo sapiens on Cambridge Common. Withseveral tons of clay and 36 templates, the creator couldhave'sculpted the multitudes.

Beneath the statue of the noted patriot, somebody orother, freshly daubed with messages of social signifi-cance in red spray-paint, the Rock And Roll Bandstands, plugged in and feeding back. '"This is the firsttime we've played outside," explains the lead guitar,looking suspiciously at the sun, "but we'll get it alltogether soon. Give us a few minutes."

About half of the people assembled on the Commonlook curiously like ten year old heads incongruouslyjoined to twenty year old bodies. Many are runaways;the strange expression on their faces-childlike, paradox-ically detached, far away, yet intense-might come fromthe trauma of leaving home. Or it might be the traumaof being home.

If a crystal is grown in a barely supersaturatedsolution, molecules will move slowly to equilibriumpositions, the crystal will form slowly and perfectly. Ifthe crystal is grown too rapidly, it deformns-crystallinecancer.

The people on the Common had to grow up toorapidly.

The aggressive instinct in animals, Lorentz has shown,is a life-affirming force which helps to maintainspecies-wide homeostasis of a sort, to curb overpopula-tion and overcrowding.

Man has two brains: a primitive brain, which controlshis emaotive behavior, and a modern brain, the cortex,placed above it. The cortex is intellective. The twobrains are badly out o£ contact with each other. Man isthe victim of an evolutionary defect.

Arthur Koestler suggests that human beings aremotivated by desires to affirm themselves as individuals,and by desires to transcend themselves in community.Human societies teach their children to suppressself-affirming aggressive urges. The aggression has tosurface elsewhere. And horribly, it does.

Koestler, in The Ghost in the Machine:

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opinions.The Tech: How would you

define the role of CorporationChairman, and what duties doesthe post entail?

Killian: The Chairman aids inthe making of policy. The Presi-dent is the chief executiveofficer, and is primarily con-cerned with internal Instituteaffairs. The Chairman is respon-sible for the external relations ofthe Institute, raising funds, andacting as a bridge between theCorporation and alumni on theone hand and the internal mech-anisms of MIT on the other.

The Tech: Dr. Killian, whatdo you think will be the futurerole of MIT in society?

Killian: MIT will becomesteadily more involved withproblems impinging upon Amer-ican life. MIT has often been abellwether for universitychanges. We have expandedgreatly in all fields. We havebecome a new kind of techno-logical institution since the war,though still centered aroundscience and engineering. We havea responsibility to expand anddevelop multidisciplinary rolesto deal with the more complexproblems facing society and theengineer in particular. The engi-neer, since he is often the bridgebetween science and society,

must have a greater knowledgeof the social sciences in order tounderstand the effects of tech-nological innovation upon so-ciety. The problem is how toexpand this approach.

. The Tech: Dr. Killian, whateducational changes do youthink might be useful at MIT inthe future?

Killian: It is vital that theInstitute be deeply devoted tolearning and scholarship and givethe best possible oppertunity topeople to develop themselves.

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By Joe Kasfi{Ed note: The Tech spoke recently

with Dr. James KilWian, retDring Chair.man of the MIT Corporation, toexplore his views on possible struc-tural changes in the MIT administra-tion and on the relationship of theUniversitY to society and to itsstudents.)

The Tech: Dr. Killian, Presi-dent Johnson cited the need toreasses the role of the Presidentin the governing of the Institutein his resignation. What areas doyou think might be examined,and how might the office of thenew President be restructured toprovide more oppertunity forlong-range planning?

Killian: Howard Johnson

is only changing posts. The dualset-up of Corporation Chairmanand President at MIT has beenvery effective. It provides con-tinuity and shares the burden ofadministration through a divi-sion of areas of interest. Someschools are seriously consideringchanging to this form of admini-stration.

Structural change at MIT canarrange for more people to sharethe definite responsibilitiesassociated with the President'soffice, but we still need an ex-ecutive officer. But the burdenmust be shared as the Universitygrows more in size and com-plexity. It is increasingly clearthat some change in this officeshould occur. The job is a 24hour one.

The Tech: What types of in-put will be utilized in the selec-tion of the next President?

Killian: We- must seek andseriously consider counsel fromall segments of the University.CJAC should get into the prob-lem deeply, and through thismechanism, the students can bemost directly involved.

The Tech: Does CJAC stillhave much credibility after itsreport on the GM issue wasoverruled?

Killian: I think that CJACstill has credibility after the GMincident. That the Corporation-turned to CJAC to give the issuedetailed study is proof, I believe,of the importance the Corpora-tion attaches to CJAC.

The Tech: What do you thinkwill be the Corporation's role inthe future governance of MIT?

Killian: The Corporation willprobably take a more active rolein the governing of MIT. It mustgain more intimate contact withthe community, and must fur-ther explore ways to be in con-tact with opinion. The ExecutiveCommittee of the Corporation

-may have an even heavierresponsibility in the future'governing of the Institute. TheCorporation has steadily diversi-fied its membership and isattempting to get very young.qualified alumni to obtain abetter view of student ideas and

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The electric power was nearlyabsent from MacGregor's list ofluxuries. A month ago somespringklers flooded the basement(which still had water in it forfreshman orientation) and thetunnel under Briggs Field. Work-man finished replanting the sodthere Saturday.

No chimrney (almost)Although MacGregor was

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ssary in MacGregor. Workmanare more than happy to rousethe entire house with the soundof jackhammers at 7:30 am. Onestudent found himself staring atworkman hanging outside hiswindow at 8:00 one morning,and was greeted by, "It's late, soget up." Any pounding thatsounds as though its next doormay very well be there.

The ceilings are the sameform as Twenty Chimenys, asort of waffle design. There aresome rooms that don't quitematch, however, and peopleliving next to each other in theserooms wifll be able to wave overtheir brick wall through a waffle.

The fimest part of MacGregorare their bathrooms. Anyonesttemnting to shower will findno shower curtains, and a lack ofdrains anywhere on the-rest ofthe bathroom floor forces therunoff from showers into thesuite hall.

There will be somewhat moreprivacy when stalls for heads areput in; in the meantime residentsmust be content that the Insti-tute has allowed a change fromthe Springfield Oval. It isespecially chummy for the suite.without Lights in their bath-rooms, where the residents taketurns holding flashlights to shave,

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natural gas burning cars wouldrequire the establishment of anational distribution system-andtheir mass introduction wouldseriously disrupt the oil industryadn the economy as a whole.Wayne State had failed to win itsclass because of the team'sfaulty setting of a manual chokewhen the car underwent -thecritical emissions tests in De-troit. But a retest at Caltechconvinced the judges that it wasa clean car after all.

Following the announcementof the winners, the press movedin to interview and film. Earlierin the day the cars had paradedto Pasadena City Hall; the mayorhad declared it to be "Clean AirDay", but it was the eye-irri-tating smog that better under-lined the purposes of the race.

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CACR's objectives were setback last winter when it was firstorganized. It was an outgrowthof the MIT-Caltech Electric CarRace of 1968. Although twocommittees of students, one ateach school, originally set out toarrange the event, most of thework fell by default to the MITend, where McGregor, coordina-tor Craig Lentz, and severalothers recruited. their wives andrelatives to help with a task thatgrew to near-unmanageable sizeas interest snowballed and in-dustry, sensing the public rela-tions possibilities inherent in aCar Race of this sort, rushed tojunp on the bandwagon.

44 startersAt one point there were 92

preliminary entries, though byAugust that had dropped to 52,and 44 actually showed up tostart.) CACR's goals were four-fold: to assess the state of ve-hicle technology, to determinepollution emission character-istics for different types of pro-pulsion systems, to publish tech-nical reports and "to createpublic awareness of . . . curreretprogress in vehicle technologicaldevelopment and dispel anypublic misconceptions as to sci-ence's capabilities."

The race itself was more apublicity hack than anythingelse; the technology could havebeen worked out entirelyin thelaboratory and on the test track.Committee members admitted asmuch. But nothing else couldhave attracted the publicityCAC R received-coverage innewspapers nationwide, storiesin all the newsmagazines, TVspots, etc. The racers made over-night stops in six cities en route:Toronto, Ann Arbor, Champaign(111.), Oklahoma City, odessa(Tex.), and Tucson (Ariz.). Therace's passage invariably made abig splash in the local papers,though coverage often distortedmany aspects of the race andwas usually slanted toward localentries.

Banquet circuitFour of the cities welcomed

the CACR entourage (includingentries, trail cars, committee ve-hicles and their drivers, plusobservers, a caravan of over 150vehicles and 350 people) withChamber of Commerce spon-sored bar-b-ques, reception withthe mayor, keys to the city, etc..

But all this was so muchfrosting on the cake.

The race results seem to indi-cate that Clean Air Cars are hardto build, or at least to keepclean. Only 6 beat the 1975standards idr Detroit. Of course,Several failed to make standardsbecause of' mechanical diffi-culties, and one might reason-ably expect professionals to do

better than students. In this re-spect, then, CACR made itspoint: it is possible to at leastmeet the 1975 standards.

Fuel economy was measuredin terms of thermal efficiency toprovide a basis of comparisonbetween the different classes;measurements were taken over a1000-mile stretch of the race.

Most of the entry vehicleswere ICE's modified to eitherbum other fuels or equippedwith special emission control de-vices. These all finished the raceon schedule.

Problems for electricsThe electrics were another

story. All fell far behind thepack the first day due to theirrecharging habits: Iona Collegedropped' out the first day andwas towed to Pasadena; GeorgiaTech's trail vehicle with its re-charger so slowed them theycame in too late to qualify; BUlikewise came in too late; andonly Cornell and Stevens made itin time - and then onlyv afterthe committee extended thedeadline so some electrics couldqualify. Clearly the electric autois not ready for cross-countrytravel.

Nor did the steam make ashowing. UC at San Diego gotstarted, but broke down the firstday and was towed to California.WPI's car was slow and leakedchoking- fumes into its passengercompartment; they drove off thestarting line and back to Worces-ter. Steam cars, of course, are aneglected. technology - it is un-derstandable that students work-ing without massive support

could not get it together in time.Many of the ICE cars, by

contrast, had impressive backing.Makers of emission control de-vices lent units in return for theobvious free publicity. The pro-pane and natural gas companiesespecially were in evidence. Atleast five of the entries wereintirely industrial projects, ring-ers with student drivers. Theseincluded Ethyl's attempt todemonstrate that leaded gasolinecan burn clean. Ethyl makes allthe lead additives in Americangasolines:

Slick publicity stunt?Despite press agentry that left

even Bob Byers, MIT's veteralassistant PR man, somewhatstunned (Byers and Ty Rabe,CACR's PR man, set up a RaceInformation Center in Chicagoto feed news to the press) theRace did accomplish its purposesin the opinion of its organiiers.The next steps are up to thegovernment and the motor andoil industries, and if they do notrespond to CACR's lead andthrust, then the Race will haveto be dismissed as what it sooften appeared to be duringthose long days on the road andnights at the impounds (meetingthe people, eating the barbeques,drinking with the press and thebusinessmen, etc.): a slick publi-city stunt, something to lull thepublic into the belief that some-thing is being done about airpollution, butit, like the oil com-panies' current advertising cam-paign, a lot of hot (and dirty)air.

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(Continued from page 4)a faculty committee and CJAC(representing students throughits I13 student membership?) to"advise" them. of selection' of aPresident and redefinition of thejob.

This elitist process demon-strates how MIT runs itself, andwhat types of interests reallycount in the present system ofMIT government. More impor-tant, it affords us at MIT, and inthe surrounding community anopportunity to assert ourselves.

The power structure of MIT,as exemplified by the Presi-dency, has more power than itcan use creatively. Meanwhile,many other people are ham-strung by the need for approvalfrom Higher Authority. Mean-ingful reevaluation of the Presi-dency menas re-evaluation of theway MIT works. The MIT Com-mission has not as yet done this,although it may in its forth-coming report. .

in any case, the selectionprocess is moving along; the Cor-poration's picking of a Presidentmay precede any real re-defini-tion of the job. They know whatthey want - a corporation presi-dent for MIT, preferably withsoine knowledge of education.Real study of the functioning ofthe Institute is difficul and re-quires much work; it cannot bedone so rapidly.

Right now, we in the commu-nity should assert to the Corpor-ation our legitimate interest inrestructuring the way this placeis run; our right to help pick thepeople who do run it; the powerto have them accountable to us.To this end, I have made thefollowing general proposal to theCorporation:

That the Corporation Com-mittee on the Presidency, whichnew represents alumni and Cor-poration, add to itself faculty,students, employees, staff, andmembers of the local communi-ty, selected by those groups.This augmented committeewould then hear a 'job descrip-tion" for a "President" (or what-ever; it's not clear we shouldhave a President). This job de-scription would be prepared byCJAC (or a similar group repre-sentative of the community)while the new members of theCommittee on the Presidencywere being picked.

The augmented Committeeon the Presidency would enter--tain nominations for "Presi-dent," All candidates or groupswishing to take the "job" de-scribed by CJAC would have towrite platforms for presentationto the community. An "elec-tion" would be held in whichpeople could vote preferentiallyfor candidates acceptable tothem. To be eligible to become"President," a group or candi-d ate would have to showacceptability by appearing onthe ballots of 75% of the votersvoting, and placing in (say) thetop three preferentially.

Final selection of the "Presi-dent" could then be made bymany processes: communityvote, consensus of the Corpora-tion, faculty, students, em-ployees, alumni, community(say, four of these groupsagreeing to the same candidate; agroup could agree to more thanone candidate if they wished); orany other process agreeable tothe community of MIT. Prob-ably the Committee on the Presi-dency would define the finalselection process.

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choices; there was less demand.This year among freshnen- forspaces in- Random and Bexley,and some students were· placedthere on their second or thirdchoice.

Transfer students placed

The good Rush Week alsomade it possible for some tran-sfer students from other schoolsto be placed in the InstituteHouse system (in Hamilton'House); this has not been pos-sible in previous years.

In remarking on the successof Rush Week, Browning praisedthe Cleaighouse and the livinggroup governments for -their co-operation and efficient opera-to.

-Continued from page 1)The financial aid office knew

that the total amount awardedin scholarships would be lowerthis year, since the tuition in-crease resulted in higher need.Though more money was avail-able, it was not sufficient tooffset the need rise. This was thecause of the uniform $1200 self-help program now in effect.

the financial aid office pre-dicted a drop in yield of about3% due to the new programThis figure was reasonably ac-curate, but' apparently not forthe correct reasons; there was an8-9% drop in yield for non-aidapplicants and only a 2% drop(to 62.8%) for aid applicants.The reasons for the drop in

(Continueds from page IjThe effects of the good Rush

Week were felt most at HamiltonHouse, which was not immedi-ately filled. On the other end ofthe scale are East Campus andSenior House, which arecrowded almost to their capaci-ty. Baker House is moderatelycrowded; Bexley and Random,with space available exceedingfreshman requests, are about attheir normal quotas McCormickjlaU should be ffaled to capacity

when some graduate women are

n on-aid applicants must befound elsewhere, probably in thetreed43 towards a liberal arts edu-cation and a greater breadth ofcourse offerings elsewhere.

MIT's yield (now 61%) com-pares favorably with that ofmost other schools with which itshares applicants.

NJeverless, MIT will have towork to bring up its yield. Pro-fessor Greeley denies the likeli-hood of MIT's expansion intoless technical fields. Instead hebelieves that the largest singlefacto in raising the yield is theattitude of students toward theInstitute. Contact between MITundergraduates and applicantsand the image of MIT carried tohigh school students is very im-portant in the decision

assigned there.

Browning noted that between75 and 80 per cent of the-freshmen were assigned to theirfirst choice House in the donni-tory system, a figure comparablewith last year's.

Spaces for freshmen at Mac-Gregor and Baker Houses werefilled - entirely with. freshmenwho had itarne the. respectiveHouse as their first choice. EastCampus and Senior House werefilled almost completely on first

(Continuedfrom page 4)him outwardly as a faker, deepdown I figured he was morescared than anything else. Myquestions about where in Bostonhe lived and with who fell ondeaf ears, even though I cloakedthem by claiming to want toknow only where to drop himoff. His only reply was that hewas with " some of the grooviestpeople ever," and he was "fixedjust fine."

Since he hadn't given me anexact address, I offered to drophim off at Boston Police Head-quarters. He swore at me ner-vously, continuing to stammer,even though he knew I wasjoking. The joke was com-pounded as a police cruiser spedpast us in the right lane. Hahksank down low in the seat as itwent by. I felt like a driver of aget-away car after a hold-up. Wesmiled at each other as he gavethe police car the finger as itsped off up the Southeast Es-pressway. The stench of Bostonhit us, and I started to talkabout pollution. He wasn't in-terested. For that matter, nei-ther was I.

I let him off in KenmoreSquare, gave him a dollar, andtold him to be nice to somebodyand not panhandle for a day orso. His reaction was a combina-tion of surprise, gratitude, andsmugness at having coaxed somemore money out of me. We werealmost friends now, and thoughhe couldn't give me his address(he knew I'd "understand"), hedid give me a telephone numberwhere he could be reached.After waiting what I figured wasa respectable amount of time, Icalled it a few days later. It wasdial-a-prayer.

Two months later, I waswalking through downtown Bos-ton on my way to work, and sawa dishevelled, unkempt, youngman being wheeled into an am-bualnce. Hank. Sirnce I'd seenhim, he'd lost 20 pounds that hecouldn't ever spare, and lookedghostly pale. I found out thehospital he was being taken to(they shouldn't have told me),and resolved to visit him later.

Han'k was a speed freak, andhad started shooting speed onlya few days before I had met him.That was why he wore the longsleeve shirt, that's why he need-ed every cent he could get, that'swhy he couldn't even risk givingme his phone number, nevermind his address. It turned outhis name wasn't even Hank.There were many things I wouldhave likded to have said to him,if only I'd known. I never gotthe chance. He died thatafternoon.

There is no moral in thisstory, no attempt at the sense-less repetition of SPEED KILLS,not even any hidden implicationnot to speed. Frankly, I don'tblame Hank at all. Maybe hedied happier than he would havebeen living. What is sad, though,are the conditions whichbrought about his running away,turning to speed, and dying.Sadder still is that these condi-tions still exist, everywhere inAmerica; more Hanks are leavingthe damning middle class societyevery day. The polarization be-tween the counter-clutures isspreading wider, and people onboth sides are more and morebitter. Hanks are everywhere.

'How many more will die? Thatis up to Middle America and theSilent Majority. They alone willdecide.

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Paul Keyser Jr., '29, Carl Meul-ler, '41, Jialius Stratton, '23, apast President of MIT, GeorgeThorn, leptha Wade, ?45, andUncas Whitaker, '23.

Both Johnson and Killian em-phasized that CJAC would beextensively consulted in thesearch process. They consideredthis the most direct channel nowavailable for student input onthe decision. Two members ofCJAC, Jeptha Wade and PaulKeyser, are included on thesearch -committee. In addition,the Undergraduate Assembly isconsidering the creation of astudent search group to reportto CJAC on the vacanc,%, -- hn-son asked that any in,students submit their written re-commendations to CJAC, pro-nising that they would be givenserious consideration.

Shift for continuityJohnson will become Chair-

man of the Corporation upon hisresignation, effective June 30,1970, as president. He was elec-ted to the post at the regularmeeting of the MIT Corporationon September 9, -1970. He willsucceed Dr. James Killian, whowill retire to write several booksnow in an intermediate state. Inannouncing Johnson's appoint-ment, viewed as a part-time post,the Corporation emphasized thecontinuity of leadership whichthis promotion would engender.

Johnson was elected Presi-dent of MIT, in December 1965,to succeed President Julius Strat-ton, who had retired. He cameto MIT in 1955 as an AssociateProfessor- of Industrial Manage-ment, and became President ofthe Sloan School of Managementin i959

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