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As if Monday's weren't bad enoughPart II:

At leastb ur cartoonist quit whenhe found out he couldn't draw.

By Bill ConklinThe fourth member of the

Cambridge City Election Com-mission, the group that decideswhether MIT students can votein Cambridge, will be appointedin April.

In a meeting held by theDemocratic City Commissionlast week, Sondra Scheir,Vincent Panico, and ThomasNeel were chosen as the threenominees for the post. In AprilJames Sullivan, who will then beCity Manager, will appoint oneof the three to the ElectionCommission.

Andrew Trodden, the incum-bent, failed in his bid forrenomination. A member of thecommission felt that it would be"fairly accurate" to say thatmany members were more' in-terested in unseating Roddenthan in electing any one can-didate.

Sources in the commissionexpressed doubts as to theauthenticity of Trodden'snomination four years ago.Some commission members onlyrecalled nominating two people

at that time, with Trodden'sname possibly being sent in withthose two as a "back-door nomi-nee."

When asked about this, JerryCohen, commission member,replied, "I don't know. It maybe that Trodden was nominatedby acclamation before theregular election."

Neel commented thatTrodden was "the heavy choiceof the City -Commission at thattime." .

The meeting, which lastedonly two- and a half hours, went"very smoothly," according toNeel. "It's the shortest electionwe've had in years. Everythingwent as was expected, and every-one worked together. Troddenmade his try for reelection, andhe lost."

One probable reason for thebrevity of the meeting was thepassing of a motion made byDavid Sullivan '74 to elect thenominees by a roll call vote,rather than by secret ballot.

"Our individual votes shouldbe recorded so that our voterscan make us answer for them,"he argued, "and on that basisdecide whether we should bereelected or not."

Several members of Trodden'svoting 'bloc argued stren-uously against the motion, call-ing for their protection as pri-vate citizens to vote in secretballot. Sullivan pointed out thatthey were voting as elected pub-lic representatives, not as privatecitizens.

coping withBy Jules Mollere

The Energy Crisis has broughtto life many alternatives to theautomobile. One of the mostsuccessful mass transit systemsto date is called Dial-a-Bus.

Dial-a-Bus is an experimentalsystem in which passengers tele-phone for a bus to pick them upat their door. The passengers arethen deposited at their destina-tions, not at a not-so-nearbus stop.

In a recent luncheon seminaron the Dial-a-Bus system inRochester, New York, DanielRoos, Associate professor ofCivil Engineering, said that Dial-a-Bus is achieving "wonderful"results there but that any expan-sion of the system may be heldup by lack of the necessaryresearch.

"We can look at the won-derful things that are happeningand trace them -back to theperiod of research from1967-70," Roos explained,"However, since then there hasbeen a tremendous push to getsomething on the road, so muchso that the door was closed onreseardh in 1970... From1970-73 we had the first genera-tion of [Dial-a-Bus] projects,most of which were generallysmall and out of metropolitanareas. Now we're larger, auto-mated and in the metropolisand, in trying to integrate withthe existing systems we've runinto some problems thatResearch should have handledfor us."

Roos also stated tht the lackof any transitional program fromdemonstration to production

shortagesand the ignoring of technologicaladvice may cause problems."We've gone into this with theidea that we can do whatever wewant and just fix things up onthe spot as we go along, Thetechnicians just weren't listenedto and we have to be concernedwith that."

Despite these problems how-ever, Roos stated that a greatdeal had been learned from theactual operations. "One of thethings we have found to be ofutmost importance is the selec-tion of the site," said Roos. "Weof course want the site to be assuccessful as possible for thesystem but we also want to beable to get as wide a cross-section of information as wecan. The designers of the federalproject at Haddonfield are stillworried about whether or notthey chose the best site and thathas caused lots of problems."

According to Roos theproject in Rochester should givethe cross-section that is needed."The project covers a small partof Rochester itself but is mostlyin the suburban town of Greece.There are about some 5,500people to the square mile andthere are some major shoppingareas nearby... The city ofRochester itself is suffering mostof the typical problems facingcities today, such as the rapidflight to the suburbs, Howeverthe transit lines only extend tothe edges of the city itself. Dial-a-Bus thus provides many ofthese prople an alternative wayto get to their jobs or schools inthe inner city as well as those

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By Ralph NaumanChange was equated with de-

cay, and declared to be inevi-table by Dr. Kerineth E.Boulding, who spoke at MIT lastweek.

Boulding, Director of the Pro-gram of Research on GeneralSocial and Economic Dynamicsfor the Institute of BehavioralScience at the University of Col-orado, took part in- a seminarjointly sponsored by the Tech-nology and Culture Seminar andthe Karl Taylor Compton Lec-ture Committee. The topicwhich attracted his remarks was"Defense Against UnwantedChange."

Respondents at the seminarwere Professor of ManagementPaul W. Macavoy, and DavidDodson Gray, an Episcopal mini-ster. Louis Menand III, of thePolitical Science Departmentand the Provost's Office, servedas moderator.

Boulding said that "Socialchange is something which goeson all the time whether we likeit or not. Claiming, "We're theonly species around here whohas the sheer brash to evaluatethe Universe," he suggested eval-uating change is difficult becausegoodness "is surrounded by verydark clouds."

Boulding stressed the value of

stability. "If you look aroundyou at the world, most change isbad," he said, calling upon his"'second law of practically every-thing," which is that "mostchange is decay."

Boulding explained whythings go bad. "The natural stateof affairs is things going frombad to worse," he stated, adding,"All good things are artificial."In the US, we produce moregoods "to fight decay, but pro-ducing goods produces bads,"according to Boulding.

"A prime source of worseningis addiction," he said, referringto the demand in industrializednations for affluence despite glo-bal shortages. Other factors are'externalities,' which is wheresomebody else suffers the conse-quences of somebody's deci-sion,' and " 'suboptinmization,'which is the best way of doingsomething that shouldn't bedone at all."

But the primary contributorto worsening, said Boulding, "isdefense, in its largest sense; theeffort to prevent change, evenfrom bad to worse, often makesthings worse." He said US na-tional defense, for example,takes 6-7% of the GNP, but doesnot hurt the USSR, just as USSRdefense hurts only Russians andnot the US. He suggested, "mil-lions for tribute, but not a pen-ny for defense" may be a morerealistic solution to that particu-lar problem, though he added,"Marxism is the most miserablereligion I know."

Boulding concluded, "I don'thave the answers; there aren'tany easy answers to thesethings... But sometimes thequestions are more importantthan the answers."

Macavoy responded with Pre-sident Nixon's economic recom-mendations, calling for patience,international perspectives, andstable domestic policies, andadded "I'm supposed to see thatBoulding and Nixon seem to bein close agreement." He sug-gested that Boulding's laissez-faire government was inadequatefor the energy crisis and other

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By Stephen Blatt"Exercising your mind in a

way peculiar to yourself is thegreat game of the universe. It isthe greatest form of individu-alism in the world," according toDr. Isaac Asimov.

Asimov, author of 150 booksand professor of Biochemistry atthe Boston University School ofMedicine, represented the phys-ical sciences in the third of aseries of four programs of discus-sing "Why the Liberal Arts?" onFebruary 28 at BU's Law Audi-torium. Asimov said that theincreased leisure time now avail-able should be utilized to exer-cise the mind lest mass ennui setin, and that a liberal arts educa-tion makes available the know-ledge to educate the mind. "Tooffer students the liberal arts isto offer them a chance to behuman."

Leisure TineCalling the liberal arts "what-

ever a person doesn't do for aliving - to a scientist literature isthe true liberal art, and to awriter, the sciences represent theliberal arts," Asimov spoke ofthe origins of the liberal arts inancient Greece as leisure timeactivities. "The liberal arts arethe arts for the free man," andin Greece, he said, the free men

did not have to work for a living,but rather had all his work donefor him by slaves.

"We all have leisure timenow, and we have to find thingsto do with this leisure time. Ifwe know what our career will beand specialize in it, then what dowe do with the rest of our time?There are some things you cando, like nothing. Unfortunatelythis doesn't work. I liave neverheard of someone who did noth-ing forever. You can steal hub-caps, or watch TV, but you can'tdo nothing." But, according toAsimov, the latter are "extreme-ly unsuccessful forms of spend-ing time if you have an activemind."

ReadingAccording to Asimov, while

almost everyone in the UnitedStates can read, very few enjoyreading. "The number of peoplein the US who read one book ayear is far less than the numberof people who don't read anybooks at all. Reading is a hardthing. Reading is a rewardingthing, too." Noting that peoplewatching TV "are passive recip-ients, empty receptacles intowhich are poured" whatever thenetworks want, he added that"this may be the most efficient

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fore liboeral arts needed,Asm ov tells BU croVwd

The City Dance Theater In the Lobby of Building 7.

PhBoto by Roger Goldstein

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Photo by Roger Goldstein

'Everythin gets worse.CompGon v speiker ssays

(Continued from page 1)economic ills.

(Gray is currently workingwith MIT on "Strategies for aSustainable Society.")-

Gray suggested the centralproblem was "how to keep thesystems you've got, going." Hesaid the key factors for stabilitywere "our impact on the bio-sphere,"and our impact on eachother in the "ethosphere (socialworld) . .. There really 'arie greatlimits to how mutih we can do tothe biosphere and get away withit. We're going to have to con-tend with how.-we put- con-straints on each other' so wedon't do the biosphere in."

Boulding was asked why hethought more technology wouldremedy the ills of present tech-

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According to Roos this sys-tem, begun in August 1973, isalready carrying over 500 peoplea day and the number of riders isincreasing rapidly in apparentcontradiction to what Roosadmits to be the highest fares ofany Dial-a-Bus system; 50 centsone way from home to school,70 cents to work and i dollargenerally. Roos said that approx-imately 25 percent of theseriders drove their own cars previ-ously, 12 percent would nothave made the trip without Dial-

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(Continued from page 1)way of getting across a messageever invented." However, every-one who reads a book gets adifferent impression. "In books,you get only words - no pic-tures and no intonations. Youhave to imagine everything. If abook is read by 100,000 people,it is 100,000 books, in a way TVcan't be.

"Reading is the first of theliberal arts - a fact which isalways taken for granted," hesaid. This is because in earliersocieties reading and educationwere synonymous: "youcouldn't get an education with-out being able to read, and ifyou could read, there wasnothing to do with it but get aneducation."

Asimov noted that we haveseveral ways to fill our leisuretime. "We can be spectators; wecan eat, drink, and be merry.But none of this exercises themind. The mind must be exer-cised - else we suffer boredom,

and boredom is the most painfuldisease ever invented." He de-scribed the Liberal arts for theancients, as "a form of playrestricted to those who hadtime." Now, however, "we areall fortunate enough to play thegame if we can. It is the mostrelevant thing of all - one thingyou will never exhaust and thatyou will always enjoy."

He claimed that there is nosuch thing as a "completed edu-cation." "A completed educa-tion is a rapidly forgotten educa-tion." College, rather than com-pleting a person's education,merely begins it. "Everythingyou learn in college is an excuseto allow you to continue youreducation in other ways. It is anopportunity to gain an interestin something which will not be asource of income, but rather willbe leading your brain to exer-cise, and filling your leisure timeby amusing you in its own way."

In response to questions afterthe lecture, which was part of

the BU College of Liberal ArtsCentennial Celebration, Asimovexplained why he started writingstories. "There was never any-thing to read except magazines,which my father wouldn't let metouch. One day, I realized that ifI wrote the stuff myself, I couldthen read it."

"We've got maybe 30 yearsbefore our technology andsociety fall apart,"Asimov saidin response to a question on hisview of the future. "The Ameri-can standard of living is alreadybeginning to fall. We must learnthat we can hate our neighbor allwe want, just so long as wecooperate with him. Even with arestricted life in a physical sense,there remains one resourcewhich is infinite - the humanmind. We can develop a civili-zation which can grow inten-svely, instead of extensively.Perhaps we are now faced with aToynbeean challenge, and ourresponse will determine thefuture of civilization."

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Lange led all scorers with 29points, winding up the year witha team-leading 17.1 ppg. Roth.added 18, while Jackson (leadingboard man this year .with 282)pumped in 16 for the Engineers.

Despite the excellent win'over WPI, the MIT hoopsterscompleted the 1973-74 seasonwith a 4-19 record, the worstmark in the school's history.General inconsistency plaguedthe team all year, as it neverseemed (until WPI) that morethan two players could put theirgames together at any one time.

Still, on the more optimisticside, only John Mills '74 andRoth graduate among the start-ers and major subs, and it ishoped that Peter Maimonis '77,who picked up loads of valuableexperience this season, will beable to fill the need for a newbackcourt partner for Epstein.The starting fronltcourt will beback for two more years, andthe tremendous advantage ofhaving virtually the whole teamback next year, along with thelightening of the schedule(which this year seemed a littletoo strong for a school of MIT'ssize and recruiting policy)should improve the Engineers'record greatly next year.

IML Hockeystandinns

The 1973-74 IM hockey sea-son came to a close Sunday,March 3. A total of 180 contestswere piayed this year, despitethe fact that adverse weatherconditions forced 25%o to berescheduled.

Although finishing with thesame log as NRSA/FIJI, LCAwas crowned the A-league cham-pion by virtue of a better goalsfor goals against record.

By Glenn Brownstein threadI:t took twenty-four games to neers c

do it, but the MIT varsity bas- Co-ketball team members meshed addedtheir individual talents perfectly recoreThursday night, solidly outplay- windiring and defeating WPI at the finisheCage, 81-72. It was the final field g,game of the season for the Engi- team.neers, who completed a general- MJTly disappointing season by beat- with cing a Worcester team that had year, l

beaten sectionally ranked Bran- the firdeis earlier in the year and was deftlyvery highly rated.

The key to the ball game for AltMIT was rebounding, as the En- 40-36gineer front line of Peter sharpJackson '76, Cam Lange '76, and still qBill Courtright '76 combined for could52 rebounds, a team record for gamethree players in any one game had d(19, 18, and 15, respectively). previoCourtright also adrded seven the ccassists, ulnusual for a center, as themost of them coming on long to asdowncourt passes for breakaway the selay-ups, although al -few were easy v

encers zwinBy Nelson Chu Dartr

For the fifth straight year trophMIT's fencers have won the New for MEngland Fencing Tournament, who f:topping a field of, eleven Jotschools which included Brandeis, placeBrown, Dartmouth, Fairfield, weapoHoly Cross, Northeastern, Nor- Reimewich, Trinity, WPI, and 'the host to Jo(school, Massachusetts Univer- Thsity. The Engineers looked un- imprebeatable from the start as they Farle3took their first. twelve 66bouts Chrisbefore a loss. Losing only 'five bout lmore contests the rest of theway, MIT rolled up a remarkable Wittotal of 54 wins to easily outdis- pionsltance the competition. WPI man- haveaged a second place finish with. main/44 wins, while Dartmouth re- Eastercorded 38 to take third. weeke

Maestro Silvio Vitale and Colu:Coach Eric Sollee deserve a great Navy,deal of praise as their men Princeplaced first in every weapon entere(sabre, foil, and epee). a tou

In the sabre competition, be w(Kong Park '75 broke a tie with ride tBourgeois of SMU and Guidi of clas s

-the-needle passes to Engi-driving the lane.-captain Al Epstein '75

six more assists to hisd-breaking season total,ng up with 133. He alsoEd the year with a .461oal percentage, best on theBob Roth '74 ended hisvarsity basketball career)ne of his best efforts thisblazing from the outside inst half and moving the ballin the second.

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in the second half, as MITlone at least eight timesusly this year. 'However,fIlapse failed to materializee varsity increased its leadmany as sixteen points intcond half, breezing to anvin.

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iouth to gain his first placey. Also showing promise4iT was Robert Shin '77.inished in fourth.han Akerman '77 easily;d second in the foilon, while teammate Richer '77 lost a close contestey Yu of WPI for second.Le Engineers were especially%sive in epee, as Chipy '75 went undefeated andEckel 974 lost only one

to place one-two.

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I FUJI ; MIT center Bill Courtright '76 3 Thursday night's upset win over WPI whiJackson '76 and Cam Lange '76 look on.

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