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By Mike McNameeMIT smokers can relax - at

least for a little while.Despite all the publicity and

fuss over the tough anti-smokingordinance .paes e ,.by the Cam-bridge City Council Mondaynight, MIT officials aren't in toomuch of a hurry to stick up "NoSmoking" signs and force peopleto put out their cigarettes, cigarsand pipes in classrooms, halls,and dining rooms.

For one thing, Cambridge

By Peter G. BalbusThe fatal fire at Tang Hall

this summer has set off a blazeof questions about the safety ofother Institute Houses.

The newer Institute houses,such as McCormick, MacGregor,and New House were construc-ted according to stringent safetycodes. And the renovations per-formed on the older houses

Mayor Walter Sullivan vowedTuesday that he would move toget the ordinance, not yet 24hours old, repealed as a first stepto amending it. Sullivan explain-

-e.4 that the ordinance measure,which provides for a fine of $25to $50 for smoking in a publicplace - public buildings, class-rooms, auditoriums, restaurants,hospitals, and so forth - was toostrict.

Secondly, MIT may not becovered by the ordinance. As a

(such as Burton.and Ashdown)brings these structures up tocurrent standards.

The Institute, however, has ahabit -of exceeding current safetystipulations whenever possible.Thus, even Bexley, often refer-red to as "MIT's resident slum"features a complete automaticsprinkler system and other

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private institution, MIT mighnot be required to comply wittall the provisions of the lawespecially those regarding classrooms and dining halls. The signare being delayed while InstitutFattorneys consider the matter.

And many MIT officials feethe whole matter is moot, sincethe Institute is working now orgetting into compliance withstate law which takes effect irless than a month which cover.,the same ground as the Cambridge ordinance - without thefine.

"We fully expect they'lchange it," William P Dicksondirector of MIT Physical Plantsaid. "If they don't repeal it ochange it, then we'll have to fineout what it means to us. Ancsince we're already working orthe state law, it probably won'be all that different anyway."

The new law is "in limb¢status," according to JosepiCollins, Special Assistant to theChairman of the Corporation"We haven't even got a copy othe ordinance yet. And whencalled to ask for one, they guJtold me, 'Don't worry too mucdabout this, don't act on it lik{it's gospel.' "

Even Cambrdige's attorneyare playing down the effects othe sweeping ordinance passes

By Mike MeNameeMany MIT students hate it. It

causes crowds, waits, hassles, redtape, and often problems. Butdespite the problems and despitechanges in procedures MIT isplanning to keep RegistrationDay.

"Sure it causes problems, anda lot of people don't like to gothrough -it," Ronald Smith,Associate Registrar, said. "Butyou've got to keep it in focus,and realize that Registration Daygets a lot of things done thatwould be difficult to do other-wise."

The twice-annual ordeal ofstanding in line in duPontGymnasium, picking up forms,filing them out and makingschedule changes is somethingfew undergraduates like toundergo. And fpr a while itseemed as if registration Day.would become outmoded,

TS W lktt by the Council. Andy Troddenh of the Cambridge Law Depart-:

, ment said his .office wasn'tworried about entorcing any-

s thing yet - "just wait until wee see what happens after Monday"

when the Council will consider;1 Sullivan's move to repeal thee measure.n But even if MIT doesn't havea to worry about what the cityn will do to smokers, it does haves to consider the state law whichI- {Please turn to page 2)e 8w w 't__;_

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The Special Committee on,Grading recommended, and the

!faculty adopted, a new regis-tration procedure which elimi-nrates Roll Cards - cards handed6ut to each student and requiredtb confirm registration in asubject. With the replacementtliis year of Roll Cards withnon-required Class Cards, theRegistration Day lines in duPontseemed to be unnecessary.

But Smith said the Regis-trar's Office was not likely to goalong with any plans to elimi-nate Registration Day replacingthe duPont procedure with aplan in which faculty advisorswould distribute all registrationmaterial. -

"You must understand thathanding out the forms isn't themain thrust of RegistrationDay," he said. "The main thingis changes in registration - and.we handle as many as 200 suchchanges every semester."

Smith- explained that theRegistrar's Office uses duPont asa centralized station for advisingstudents on changes in sched-ules. "We make two computerruns for new schedules, dealwith many students who don'tneed to go through the compu-ter, and advise others. As aresult, we're able to give stu-dents a complete schedule, withroom numbers and all, by Spmon Registration Day.

"That's what RegistrationDay is all about."

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Despite recent upheavals in the structure of Registration Day, Itshould be around for a long time in one form or another - with allits associated problems, headaches, and confusions.

Life s ninor aggravations:stickers that do not stick

By Stephen Blatt"If the registration stickers

don't stick, apply some moremoisture," is the manufacturer'sadvice on how to solve this

term's problem with the ID cardstickers.

In addition to not sticking toID cards, the registration stickersfor the fall term are too long tofit properly on the card and toowide to avoid covering thewords, "Invalid unless currentregistration sticker is affixedabove."

According to Associate Regis-trar Ronald Smith, this year?sm.etho.d of ,printing class cardsaind.registratior sticker, on one

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card is, despite the problems,"far more cost-effective" thanpreparing the packet of com-pute: roll cards and ID stickerused in previous terms.

"I apologize for this term'sproblems," said Smith, whoadded that the problems shouldbe solved in time for the nextRegistration Day. Because theclass card/ID form was new.only enough c-cpies were printedfor one term, allowing changesto be made for future terms.

Last year, both term's stick-ers were printed in one run, but*the printer forgot to change the

..date on the green. second term

stickers, thus necessitating aspecial replacement sticker, dis-tributed in March.

In order that the same typeof self-adhesive be used on thenew forms as was used inprevious years, Smith said, themanufacturer claimed the ad-hesive would have had to beapplied by hand, thus driving upthe cost. This year's form, asprinted, cost as much as lastyear's form containing the IDsticker and instructions. In addi-tion to printing the ID sticker,other costs in past .. years in-cluded preparing roll cards andcollating the set of formns into apacket. . -

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(Continued from page I)takes effect Oct. 1. A PhysicalPlant team headed by Dicksonand Special Assistant to the VicePresident for Operations DickSorenson has been meeting withInstitute attorneys to figure outwhat MIT will have to do to bein compliance with that law.

At least one person at MIT isunhappy with the delay, how-ever. Professor of Mechanical

-Engineering David G. Wilson,chairman of MIT Action onSmoking and Health (ASH) saidhe was "delighted" when theordinance passed, but upset thatSullivan wants to amend it.

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The student-faculty Commit-tee on Privacy, formed last fallin the wake of publicity overlegislation dealing with privacyof student records, is preparingan interim report to be presen-ted to the faculty this fall.

The committee has beenstudying the issue of recordprivacy for members of the MIT.staff and junior faculty mem-bers, according to ProfessorArthur C. Smith of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Sci-ence, chairman of the commit-tee.

"We've agreed to work on a-report that will go beyond theissue of the Buckley amendmentand student records and will dealwith new privacy areas," Smithexplained. "The basic questionwe're considering is do we have

(Continued from page 1)Most of the students making

schedule changes are freshmenand sophomores who especiallyneed assistance, Smith said."You get some kid who. has gotone of these 'lunch only' cards,and he's like a lost sheep a lot oftimes," he said. "We're sur-rounded with bewildered kidsfor a couple of days afterwards. '

Registration Day is also use-ful, Smith said, for findingstudents who need to straightenout financial matters and send-ing them to Student Accounts;for registering motor vehicleswith the Campus Patrol; forgetting student pictures -taken,and for completing registrationfor physical education classes."There's a lot that goes onthere," he pointed out.

fiitifh said -his office was-considering no major changes inthe Registration Day procedure,but "we're willing to talk aboutit. We think we're getting betterevery year, but we'll discusschanges if people want tosuggest them." '

The registration changes pro-posed by the Grading Commit-tee were not 'aimed at doingaway with Registration Day,according to Roy Kaplow, Pro-fessor of Metallurgy and chair-man of the committee. Whileconfessing he knew little of theactual procedures that went intoregistration in duPont, Kaplowsaid the committee had "strong-ly supported" the concept ofRegistration Day "as a time forstudents to see their advisors."

the same privacy obligation toprotect the privacy of staff andfaculty as we have, under law, toistudents?"

The Buckley. admendment isthe provision passed by Congressin August, 1974, whicl requiredschools and colleges to make

extensively publicized, it alsoapplied to colleges and univer-sities. MIT devised a policyunder which students couldreview their records by applyingthrough the Dean for StudentAffairs' Office.

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personal records on studentsavailable to the students' parentsor, if the student was 18.yearsold or older, -to the studenthimself.

Although the act was aimedat elementary schools whereabuses of records have been

"We specifically did notrecommend doing away withRegistration Day as a time to seeadvisors," Kaplow said. "Thecommittee regarded that as es-sential,- and we didn't think itwould be wise to do away withthe concept. I think it's prob-ably the only time that manystudents see their advisors."

Kaplow said he could see noreason for going through "the enmasse mess in duPont" if ClassCards and other materials werehanded out through advisors.But Smith said he saw one majorobjection - "you can't alwayscount on advisors," he said.

"We have no way of knowingwho would actually go to theiradvisor if we registered thatway," Smith explained. "Be-sides, we also do things likecollecting address cards- how dowe know whether we'd get themall if we left it to the advisors?

"I'm not saying faculty advi-sors wouldn't do all that wasnecessary," Smith concluded,"but I'd be afraid to trust thatkind of system."

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Most of the committee'swork so far has been concernedwith "operations people" whodeal with records, getting theiropinions on what privacy ruleswould mean to them. "One ofour problems has been a lack ofinput from the other people -the people whose records thepolicy will be concerned with,"he said. "It's not an issue manypeople get upset about."

One thing the committee hasfound, Smith said, is that thereare "no gross violations" ofprivacy at MIT. "I guess that'swhy people are bothered aboutthe issue," he said. "There aren'tany big violations to get upsetover."

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By Michael McNameeNine months after the orig-

inal disclosure of "widespreadand massive" illegal intelligenceoperations by the Central Intel-ligence Agency, that issue is-about to come to a head. Special-committees in both houses ofCongress are investigating the.allegations of CIA domesticspying, and public attention tothe activities ot intelligenceagencies has never been higher.In this process, an old high-school civics lesson is about tobe proven true once more:

The Senate is great for flashand show, but count on theHouse of Representatives whenyou want serious work done.

The House rarely gets achance to upstage its flashierfellow-Congressmen in theSenate. The Senate is the placewhere almost all the presidentialhopefuls hold court; the Senateis where rmost of the specialcommittees that conduct biginvestigations are located; theSenate is "where the action is."There are only 100 Senators,two to each state, as opposed to435 Representatives, and socovering the Senate is easier andmore popular, and Senators areall better known than Represen-tatives.

So the Senate usually gets thebows and the publicity. But thatdoesn't mean the House ininactive and lifeless - on the

contrary, the House is wheremost of the legislative work ofCongress is done. While someHouse members deserve theirreputations as know-nothingdrones, legislative zeroes, othersare the foremost experts in theirfields - expertise that pays offwhen the House members gointo conferences with Senatorsand often emerge the winners.There isn't much flash to thejob, but there's action in theHouse.

The old civics lesson came tomind this week as the SenateSpecial Committee on Intelli-gence Activities started its publichearings chaired by Sen. FrankChurch, D-Idaho. The TV newshas been full of taped reportsshowing Barry Goldwater play-ing with a CIA dart allegedlymade to shoot "startish toxins"to kill enemy agents. CIADirector William Colby andformer Director Richard Helmshave been shown allowing ashow they didn't know why noone had destroyed the CIA'spoisons arsenal when ordered todo so. Senators have performedthe proper displays of righteousindignation, as popularized bymembers of the Senate Water-gate Committee, as revelationspour forth, It's great circus, andeven better television.

Meanwhile, what has theHouse committee, chaired byRep. Otis Pike, D-N.Y., been

doing? Nothing - nothing, thatis, except for telling the WhieHouse to take a flying leap withPresident Ford's demand thatthe committee return all thedocuments it has in its posses-sion. Nothing - except fortelling the CIA it is in contemptof Congress for withholdingother documents under subpoe-na. Nothing - except for diggingin every imaginable place to findout where the CIA gets itsmoney and where the funds itreceives go to.

The House committee, unlikeits Senate counterpart, isn'ttaking its script - let alone itsfacial expressions - from theSenate Watergate Committee.That committee was extremelyvaluable in turning up largeamounts of new material on theWatergate scandal and - farmore important - exposing theAmerican people to -the Water-.gate evidence, an importantpiece of public education. It'swork was excellent - for theWatergate scandal.

But Church's committee is inanother context, and anotherkind of script is necessary. TheAmerican people don't have tobe convinced of CIA infamy anddirty tricks - the quick accep-tance of the New York Timesrevelations of last Decembershows that - as they had to beconvinced of CREEP and Nixonwrong-doing. The CIA scandals,

while they demand thoroughinvestigation, are not all of onepiece and do not lead to assimple a conclusion as "thePresident must go" - the even-tual conclusion of Watergate.

The CIA scandals demandanother approach. They demanda serious, substantive look at thestructure and operations of theintelligence community, a searchfor the roots of the scandal,which go far deeper than thethree-year duration of Water-gate. They demand correctivelegislation and reform - thekind of work the Senate Water-gate Committee, despite itsmandate, never produced. Theydemand the kind of work Pike'scommittee is doing.

Pike and his fellow Repre-sentatives have been looking atwhat the CIA claims to do best- its actual foreign spying.Instead of concentrating on theagency's foul-ups and bad apples

- mistakes the CIA's pres-ent management admits and

To the Editor:Your article about AWARE's

objections to the phase-out ofemployee skill training coursesmakes several statements whichare contrary to my experience asan employee interested in-inone of these courses. Thissummer I called the PersonnelOffice to enroll in a shorthandclass and was told that thiswould not be possible. Thewoman I spoke to said thecurrent class was filled, so Iasked her if i could take a classin the fall. She said that thiswouldn't be possible either as allskill training courses were beingphased out in September. Shedid not suggest taking a courseelsewhere under the tuitionreimbursement plan or mentionthe possibility of having a classhere if 10 people expressed aninterest,

I asked her if she knew whythe courses were being elimi-nated. She said it was just partof the cutbacks taking placethroughout the Institute; she didnot say that there was a lack ofinterest in the courses. Talkingto employees who have takenthese courses, I have heard thatthey were put on waiting listsand that classes were full..Sometimes, of course, em-ployees were unable to attendevery class because their super-visors were unwilling to let them

disavows - the committee islooking at the CIA's proper role.In the process it has turned upthe true weaknesses of theagency - the secret funds, thelack of accountability, the needfor tighter control. And in theend,. the Pike committee willprobably produce legislation forreforming the intelligence com-munity, a task which the Senatecommittee has been chargedwith doing but which it will, if itcontinues as it has gone, probab-ly fail in.

Right now, the Church com-mittee is getting headlines andTV time. But in the end, what'sgoing to count is the reform, notthe platform; the'changes, notthe publicity; the exploration ofthe country's attitudes towardsintelligence and national securi-ty, -not the revelations; thebudgets, not the dart guns. AndI predict that in the end, we willonce again owe a debt ofgratitude to the lowly House ofRepresentatives.

go if the office was too busy.To regard courses at other

institutions as a viable alterna-tive seems hopeless to me, forthe advantage of these courseswas their convenient location.Far less time would be taken outof an employee's day by a walkto Bldg El 9 than by traveling todowntown Boston, and manyemployees cannot attend nightclasses because of other com-mitments (to families, etc.).

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September 16, 1975

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Asked if MIT's houses wereindeed safe, Director of Housingand Food Services H. EugeneBrammer returned, "Is anybuilding really safe? What doessafe mean?" He continued that"all of the Institute houses meetor exceed current safety stan-

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The Campus Police investigateda complaint of two subjectsattempting to obtain a "loan" of$40.00 from a newly arrivedFreshman. The money would bereturned to the rightful ownerafter the receivers made a trip toBoston. The subjects were inter-cepted on the HSarvard Bridge bythe Campus Police who returnedthe money to the student andwarned the disappointed coupleto refrain from this practice inthe future.

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Two local residents of theCantab City were apprehendedby the Campus Police carrying atypewriter out of Building 39.The culprits offered an explana-tion that they were studentswho were hired to convey theproperty from one building toanother. The involved Officersfailed to place much credence inthe story and further conveyedboth the typewriter and the

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Your attention should be direc-ted to the Information Digestpublished by the Campus Patrolrelative to Assaults - since theopening of the school yearmembers of the Communityhave been the victims of Assaultson the Campus and nearbylocations. In order to reduce therisk of victimization the bulletinoffers simple rules-of-thumb out-lined below:- Know where you are going;

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Jody Scheckter awaits the start of the 1974 US Grand Prix in his blue tlt learn I yrrell car (top). i he 19/b race is October b, when he willbe facing stiff competition from many drivers, including Tom Pryce in his UOP Shadow (below).

S h~ecke addvoatgues race safety-(Continued from page 8)

on speed, track, and car safety. Jody would like to see the corneringspeeds much lower, since any accident on a corner would occur at asafer speed. "The new regulations require the car's rear wing to belocated 80 cm. farther forward than before, but I don't think thatthis is enotugh," he said, "cornering speeds will still be much toofast."

On the cars, Jody-would like to see a much more complete rollbar around the driver, but he added that this would only be possibleby making it mandatory, since the added weight would slow downthe car.

Jody feels that the Watkins Glen course is much safer after recentchanges, which include a chicane in the middle of the esses,

repositioned steel barriers, aid the installation of catch' fences onseveral corners. Commenting on the new additions, Jody said that"the new chicane portion of the circuit will offer a new challenge tothe drivers, and with the track additions, it will also be much safer."

Last year Jody ran in the International Race Of Champions,which consisted of twelve of the world's top drivers racing identicalChevy Camaros in four races-two on f'oad courses, and two on ovaltracks.

Finding the oval racing a totally foreign experience, dody woundup in last place at the end of the series. He has much higher hopesfor this year's series, since he feels that he is beginning to understandthe art of driving a car at 170 when both of your bumpers aretouching another car.

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Office (W32-121) by 5pmtoday. All participants musthave an athletic card. Thedeadline for submitting teamentries has already passed.

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The MIT hockey team willhold an organizationalmeeting Monday, September22 at 5:15pm in room 491 ofthe Student Center. All un-dergraduates and graduatestudents are eligible to playon the squad, which will berun on a club basis this year.

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Fall intramaural sportsstart play this-weekend

By Glenn Brownstein as IM soccer action gets under-

MIT's extensive intramural way. Over 50 teams (a new

program gets underway this record) have entered the yearly

weekend, as the touch football competition, switched from the

and soccer seasons begin Satur- spring to the fall season last

day, and volleyball starts Sunday year.evening. In 1975, there will be an

This year's touch football independent A-league, primarily

program has attracted 68 teams composed of foreign graduate

entered in four league classifi- students and former varsity

cations (the fourth, D-league, is players from MIT and other

a new addition to the program). schools now attending 'the Insti-

Competing for the A-league tute. The living group teams win

championship this year will be compete for the B-league cham-five teams, three of them return- pionship, which will serve as the

ing from last year, and two regular IM title.B-league squads who will be The volleyball program con-moving up to the top class. tinues to expand, with 106

Defending champion, Lambda teams competing this year in A,Chi Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, B, C, and D league. Two Aand the Black Student Union league championships will be atwill be joined by 1974 B-league stake this year as there will betitlists Delta Upsilon and the both independent and "livingTrojans, composed primarily of group" A leagues.Baker residents. Ashdown, Fast Breeders, and

This weekend, the Trojans Tang will join defending cham-and Deita Upsilon kick off the pion Math in the independentfive-week A-league campaign league, in which former varsitySunday at 12:00, with the letter winners may play.BSU-SAE game following at Competing for the "living

2pm. A-league contests will be group" A league crown will beplayed on the Rugby Field eight teams in two divisions.

(same as last year). B and C league play beginsHellenic Athletic Club will Sunday night, with the A and

begin its defense of its Viano D league teams starting actionCup championship this weekend two nights later.

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Beaver first baseman Joe Krakunis '79 (22) stretches tb make the play di Lowe l's Bill McCuskier !5)

in the eighth inning of MIT.s 9-1 loss Monday at Briggs Field. The Beavqrs evened their fall record at

1-1 by overwhelming Emerson yesterday. i

Lowell trounces be sballBy Glenn Brownstein Mike Dziekan '76 in the second. went to'second on a passed ball,

Giving up at least one run in Lowell right L fielder Gus advanced to third on senior

each of-the first four innings, Sharry opened the scoring in the Steve Edelson's infield hit, and

MIT's varsity baseball team lost first, coming in on a throwing tallied on a low pickoff attempt

to the University of Lowell (for- error by Dziekan! on shortstop on Edelson that got by first

merly Lowell Tech), 9-1, Mon- Paul Hamilton's grounder. baseman Moloney. Edelson was

day afternoon at Briggs Field in In the second,, with runners then thrown out at the plate

the Beavers' fall opener. on second and third and one trying to score from second on

Ken Smith '77, who gave up out, ULowell catcher Greg Hill an infield error.

three runs while working the singled to left, scoring third Five Beaver pitchers worked

first two innings, took the loss, baseman Bob Steward, and then in the game, as Smith, Don

while Lowell's Steve Corneau got Kevin Moulton hit! a sacrifice fly Proper '76, ace Mike Royal '76,

the win, pitching five strong to center to score&Tim Newfell. Paul Swinson '79 each worked

innings after starter Bill A bases-loaded walk by two innings, and John Kirsch '79

Moloney no-hit MIT for the first Beaver hurler John Kirsch '79 in pitched the third. Coach Eran

four, giving up only a walk to the third forced in the fourth O'Brien, beginning his ninth year

Lowell run, and Hamilton's. .a t the helm of the Beavers,Cl~~~~ ~ ~6-4-3 double play grounder substituted freely in MIT's first

il dbo k W aL= scored Moulton in the- fourih, game since early May, looking atgiving ULowell a 5-0 lead new personnel and beginning the

Tuesday; MIET defeated Clazk, The visitors added one in the 'yearly rebuilding effort.

3-1, on the Briggs Field pitch. sixth and three in the seventh to -- ; MITs next home game willAlthough the Engineers had put away the victory. MIT'sonly be: Tuesday at 4:00 against anplayed a better game against run came in the sixth, when excellent junior college nine,Bowdoin, they had little trouble right fielder Steve Gaverick '79 Massachusetts Bay Communityagainst the weaker Clark eleven. singled to center with one out, College.

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Fernandez opened the scor-ing, taking a pass from Okineand sending it past the visitinggoalie. Johan Nye '77 then metFernandez' corner kick and fedit to Okine, who scored his thirdpre-season goal.

Yoshida added the third MITscore on a second-period rush,dribbling past two Clark defense-men to set up the score.

Despite the Engineers' unin-spired play at times, Coach

Alessi was pleased with the playof two fast-improving freshmen,

Rob Currier and Mike Raphail,who should be welcome addi-tions to the MIT squad.

The soccer team's firstregular-season game will beagainst crosstown rival Harvardon Wednesday afternoon atSoldiers Field. The Engineershave not scored against theCrimson in three years, losing a5-0 decision in i972 and 1-0games the last two years. Gametime is 3:30.

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captain of MIT's varsity soccer-team. )

The MIT varsity soccer teambegan its 1975 season last weekwith two vitorious scrimmages,defeating Bowdoin and Clark.

Last Saturday, the Engineerstravelled to Bowdoin and up-ended the Polar Bears, 3-1.Aggressive play and superiorconditioning were the majorreasons for the victory.

New head coach Walter"Middie" Alessi (being lacrosse-oriented, Coach Alessi has ahabit of calling the halfbacks

"middies" after the correspon-ding lacrosse position) waspleased with the team's spiritdespite many nagging injuriessustained earlier in the week.

Rich Okine '77, a new addi-tion to the varsity after twosuccessful seasons running track,scored twice to lead MIT'seffort. Okine scored an unassis-ted goal on a seven-yard shotafter a scramble for the ball infront of the Bowdoin net, andadded a ten-yard head shot laterfor the second MIT score.

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all of last season with a kneeinjury, made a perfect crossingpass to assist on the second goal,then headed in senior Paul

Fernandez', well-placed comerkick to round out the Engineer

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Jody Scheckter drives Formula One tfor the Elf Tyrrell Team. Thefollowing are exerpts from an interview last week.

Once known as a wild driver, Jody Scheckter has since become

much more controlled and also a strong advocate of safety. Thematuring of Jody's driving style has been attributed to Ken Tyrrell,the team manager. Jody admitted that "it used to be that if'l didn't

spin 4 or 5 times in each practice, I wasn't driving very fast. WhenKen told me that I didn't need to prove that I could drive fastanymore, I started to concentrate on going just fast enough to win."

With Jody's concern for safety, much of the discussion was based(Please turn to page 7}

Salors gahin Lark sweep;

fresh win T lech 'nghy'D.,nV~~or Y`IrQnanAt Rnrhnrq Relt '77 en-skinnered to

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third place in B-Division.The freshmen hosted six

schools to a regatta sailed inTech Dinghies (slower, singlesailed boats). Elliot Rossen withRobert Shulz -crewing won fourof eight races in capturingA-Division. In B-Division JohnStautner with crew JordanKreidberg placed sixth.

A second frosh team finishedsixth- overall. Walter ariid -andJim Neumani placed seventh irA-Division, while Eric Greeneand Bates McKee took third inB-Division.

Tomorrow. the varsity sailsin 44-foot yawls at Coast Guardin the McMillain Cup elimina.tions and in a Three C reivTean

Race at Harvard.. The women.-open their season,this 'eekendl

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The varsty .so-w tam (gay)- cntoiled mj< h of he play-in Tuestay-s a -·c1rn; ct > ;opened the fall season with winsClark.·`-'"I It gD eBa-on home water last Sunday-.

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regatta. Captain Paul Erb '76with Steve Gourley '7i7 crewt-ing

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