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become less competitive in pastyears, Culliton added.

The Institute annually surveyssalaries paid to professors at uni-versities which compete academi-cally with MIT, and the results ofthe survey are used to determinethe competitiveness of the MITprofessors' salaries.

For the 1983-1984 academicyear, MIT paid full professors anaverage of $48.600 per year; asso-ciate professors $34,400; and as-sistant professors $27,200.

At those schools surveyed,average yearly salaries for thesame period ranged from $38,000to $58,000 for full professors;$27,300 to $37,200 for associateprofessors; and $22,900 to$30,300 for assistant professors.

According to the survey, MITranked sixth in average salariespaid to full professors, third insalaries paid to associate profes-sors, and fourth in salaries paidto associate professors.

The unversities included in thesurvey are, in the order of de-creasing professor's salaries:Rockefeller University, HarvardUniversity, Stanford University,the California Insititute of Tech-nology, Yale University, MIT, theUniversity of Pennsylvania, Prin-ceton University, the Universityof Chicago, Columbia University,the University of California atBerkeley, Cornell University, theUniversity of Michigan, the Uni-versity of Minnesota, and theUniversity of Wisconsin.i

By Janice M. EisenIn its last meeting of the term,

the Undergraduate AssociationCouncil last night passed motionsto commend the MIT administra-tion's formation of a committeeto investigate the use of alcoholon campus, and to commend Ste-phen D. Immerman, former as-sistant dean for student affairs,for "invaluable contributions tothe quality of student life. . "

The UA Council also con-firmed a secretary-general andnew officers for two of its generalcommittees, and unanimously ap-proved the UA Finance loard'sproposed Undergraduate Associ-ation / Association of StudentActivities budget for 1984-85.

The motion concerning alcoholuse was authored by UA VicePresident Stephanie L. Scheidler'85, who wvas not present at themeeting. According to UA Presi-dent David M. Libby '85, theOffice of the Dean for StudentAffairs is "taking a more activerole" in combatting excessive al-cohol use, and has formed acommittee to investigate theproblem.

Scheidler's motion recom-mends "strong student represen-tation'9 on the committee, anddemands the committee meetonce before the end of the cur-rent term.

The subject of student repre-sentation on the committee occa-sioned a good deal of discussion.As originally written, the motionrecommended the representativesbe "appointed from the UA Of-fice of the President . . . and ap-pointed from the InterFraternityConference." Kip Dee Kuntz '85said he felt this represented an"overemphasis" on fraternityparticipation.

Michael R. Candan, presidentof the Class of 1985, said sepa-rate mention of the InterFrater-nity Conference is needed be-cause the conference "representsa lot of the campus." He said theInterFraternity Conference 'atthis point has very little respectfor [the UA Council]" and doesnot feel the council adequatelyrepresents its interests.

Daniel J. O'Day '87 objectedto Candan's argument, saying the

UA Council is "the legitimate re-preselatative" of all MIT under-graduates. Kuntz added that dor-mitories are "just as concerned"with the problem of alcoholabuse as are fraternities.

Scheidler's resolution wasamended to strike the referenceto the InterFraternity Council.The amended resolution was thenpassed by a vote of 12-1, withfour abstentions.

Immerman commendedThe UA Council passed with-

out objection a resolution com-mending Immerman, who recent-ly left the Office of the Dean forStudent Affairs to take a positionin Resource Development. Theresolution states that Irnmerman"fulfilled the highest ideals of theOffice of the Dean for StudentAffairs . ."

The council also voted to en-grave the resolution on a plaqueto be presented to Immerman atthe Awards Convocation if possi-ble, and to establish some perma-nent remembrance of him in stu-dent government.

Officers confirmed

In other business, the UACouncil confirmed the election ofRobin L. Barker "85 and CalebC. Wong '87 as chairman and vi-ce-chairman of the UA Nomina-tions Committee, and Mark J.Fister '86 as chairman of the Stu-dent Committee on EducationalPolicy. None of the three attend-ed the meeting.

Libby nominated Tamara L.Abell '87 as UA Secretary-Gener-al. The council confirmed herwithout objection.

Win Treese '86, vice-chairmanof the UA Finance Board, pre-sented the proposed UA/ASAbudget of $123,595 for 1984-85.He said there would be a surplusthis year, which he estimated atroughly $10,000, due to activitiesnot spending funds allotted.

The UA Finance Board willnow allocate funds to co-sponsorparties, a function previouslyfilled by the UA Social Council.Treese said the board was "notimpressed by the way the SocialCouncil allocated its money. TheSocial Council will retain respon-sibility for Homecoming andSpring Weekend events.

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MIT's women crew team strokes their way to victory Saturday, winning the SmithCup for the first time in four years.

By Charles P. BrownThe Activities Development

Board tabled a joint request fromTechnique and The Tech to di-vide the Undergraduate Publica-tions Trust Fund, which containsover $11,600, and to move au-thority for administering thefund from the Activites Develop-ment Board to the Undergrad-uate Association Finance Board.

The Undergraduate Publica-tions Trust was established in1935 by The Tech, Technique,Tech Engineering News and VooDoo. The latter two organiza-tions folded in the 1970s.

Several ADB members ques-tioned the propriety of dividingthe trust between The Tech andTechnique. "Some of the moneyis likely to have been contributedby two now defunct organiza-tions," said ADB member Wil-

liam J. Hecht '61, MIT AlumniAssociation executive vice presi-dent.

Anita Walton, program coordi-nator for dining and residenceprograms in the Office of theDean for Student Affairs, saidshe believed splitting the fundwould "create a headache for[the two groups]."

Technique General ManagerDonald M. Davidoff '85 saidthere inust be clearly defined pro-cedures for disbursement of thefund.

"[Technique] had a lean year in1982. WVe came in for funds, andwere denied," Davidoff said. Hesaid that due to a variety of cir-cumstances, including missingseveral key publishing deadlines,Technique lost $4000 that year.

"I do not see us getting to thebottom of it today," said Kenneth

C. Russell, ADB chairman. "Iwould like to put this on the firstorder of business for next fall."

After the meeting, Undergrad-uate Association President DavidM. Libby '85, an ex officio mem-ber of ADB, said "The use of the[trust] must be established ... itis useless just sitting there."

The Activities DevelopmentBoard approved a $2000 dis-bursement from the trust toTechnique for new photographydarkroom equipment, and tableda request for $2000 from TheTech to fund a project to indexits back issues.

Libby also said The Tech's re-quest was rejected because mem-bers of the committee questionedThe Tech's need for the funds,since The Tech has funds for cap-ital expenditures and has an ac-count set up for the indexing pro-ject.

"Any money that The Tech hasfor the next year is needed to re-place equipment that won't makeit until the next fiscal year," saidScott 1. Chase '85, managing edi-tor of The Tech, in an interview."We were hoping that this dis-bursement would enable us tocomplete a substantial portion ofthe [indexing] project over thesummer," he added.

In other business, the Activi-ties Development Board ap-proved a request from the UA Fi-nance Board for authorization tospend up to $5000 from its in-vested reserve account to helpfund the purchase of a computerfor the UA offices. The $5000would supplement $3000 fromthe UA Finance Board's operat-ing budget.

The Activities DevelopmentBoard ended its meeting in aclosed session to discuss nomina-tions for the William A. StewartAwards, which are given by theboard to recognize students for asingle contribution to a studentactivity or event.

By Peter R. VogeliMIT has rapidly increased

professors' salaries in the pastfew years in order to make itssalaries competitive with thoseoffered at other universities andin industry, according to James J.Culliton, director of personnel.

Salaries paid to professors had

Tech photo by Henry Wu

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Exhibits ranging from $25traps for catching mice to a mod-el of a generator which may withits 10,000,000 volts smash theatom will engage the attention ofthe spectators today. The latest instreamlined trains, homing pi-geons, and other items of scienti-fic or Technological interest willgreet the guests . . .

Radio tubes, manufactured be-fore the eyes of the visitors, willbe given to members of the audi-ence after completion. Thesetubes, however, will not fit theaverage radio receiver becausethey are experimental types builtfor special apparatus only. Theentire apparatus for the tubemanufacture will be open so thateach step may be seen plainly.One tube will be made every fif-teen minutes.

In the same room, a machinewill test your breath by ringing abell. Another booth will showthat a woman's beauty is onlyskin deep. At still another, theInstitute's electrical engineeringstudents go the penny arcadesone better by having a free peepshow.

From The Tech, May 1, 1934:Technology men have long

complained of the great distancebetween almost any two givenpoints around the Institute, butfor the first time an investigationby a reporter of The Tech has re-vealed that there is a basis for thecomplaint.

The average distance traveledby a Technology student duringclass hours was found to beabout five miles. This measure-ment was determined by a report-er who carried a pedometer in hispocket for several weeks.

In rainy weather the personwho wants to go from the end ofBuilding I to the end of Building2 without exposing himself to theelements must travel almostthree-quarters of a mile, the pe-domneter revealed. This was thelongest distance measured.

The second longest distancewas from the dormitories [SeniorHouse] to the Coop, almost halfa mile. This is about an eighth ofa mile farther than from the dor-mitories to the Kendall Squaresubway station.

The dormitory resident whowishes to stop at the informationoffice, Room 10-100, must travelthree-eighths of a mile to reachhis destination, while it is a trifle

farther from the Central Library[now Barker Engineering Li-brary] to Walker Library [thenlocated in the Francis AmasaWalker MIemorial Building], notcounting the elevator trip.

Following the reporter's mean-derings from Walker to the trackhouse [located where Room 26-100 is today] reveals this distanceto be a quarter of a mile. It wasalso discovered that participantsin the Technique Rush will haveto travel but one-quarter of amile to reach the infirmary [nowGreen Hall]. From the entranceat 69 Massachusetts Avenue[Building 5] to the Building 6 en-trance was also a quarter of amile.

The freshmen, it was found,travel the greatest distance. Thiswas due mainly to drill, whenthree times a week the lowerclassmen march about a mile anda half each drill period. One dayseveral weeks ago, a picture ofthe R.O.T.C. was taken on thesteps of Walker, and that day thefreshmen marched and marchedfor a total distance of two and ahalf miles.From The Tech, May 5, 1934:

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WorldSyrians hold three Israeii officials. - Syria is holding three staff members of an Israeli liaison officelocated in Christian-held Lebanese territory. Israel said it is holding Lebanon and Syria responsible for thearrest. The three reportedly lost their way Tuesday while heading north from Beirut, where they were firedon by a Syrian held border crossing. The Israelis then reportedly fled to Lebanese soldiers who turnedthem over to Syrian officals.

Solidarity disrupts May Day parades - Lech Walesa and thousands of supporters of the outlawedlabor union Solidarity entered an official May Day parade in Gdansk, Poland on Tuesday. The marchersshouted Solidarity slogans as they marched past a Communist Party reviewing stand. Street clashes werereported in six cities as police dispersed the marchers.

NationMondale wins Tennessee, Jackson takes D.C. - Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale wonthe Tennessee primary Tuesday with 40 percent of the vote, defeating Sen. Gary W. Hart of Colorado with30 percent, and Rev. Jesse L. Jackson with 24 percent. Jackson won his first primary in Washington, D.C.with 63 percent, swamping Mondale's 30 percent and Hart's 7 percent.

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Baker's residentsoppose commonsEditor's note: The Tech received an open letter to President Paul E.Gray '54.Dear President Gray:

We are members of Baker House Dormitory and we would like todiscuss some matters concerning the commons food program at MITAs you are probably aware, Baker has staged various peaceful andnon-peaceful demonstrations to gain attention to our cause. Fromboycotts to foodfights, Baker has been trying to gain your attention.We implore you to seriously consider what we have to say. Your staffat Dining and Food Services does not even attempt to make concreteimprovements in the system. Their statistical summaries are nevercomplete.

1) We believe that commons costs too much. Paying $7.05 for din-ner next year is excessive. Most of our fellow Baker residents neverreach cheap points. The fixed capital costs must be reduced, unioncontracts updated, maintenance services improved in efficiency; some-thing must be done. With lower fixed costs both the Institute and wewill benefit. Food buying practices must be examined and any hints ofmisconduct must be eliminated.

2) We also believe that an Institute wide a la carte system must beimplemented this September. A la carte will serve two purposes. First,it allows us to pay only for what we eat. No more eating massiveamounts of food just to justify the price we pay. Second, on an a lacarte system the proper incentive exists to bring about menu changes.If no one eats an item, then it would be replaced by a more desiredalternative. But ultimately, we have control over our diet.

Dr. Gray, we are adults and we wish to be treated as such. Pleaseuse your leverage to institute an a la carte system campus wide. Thankyou for your consideration.

Wayne Greene '84and 1I10 other Baker residents

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Little posiTo the Editor: Over the past year, Robert E.

Malchman and I traded about ev-ery printable insult imaginable,which was no doubt amusing tomost readers of The Tech. Unfor-tunately, the 'real issues (if, infact, there were any) were neverseriously discussed at that time.

More recently, I have beencalled [Feedback, April 27] a rac-ist, an intellectual and a "career-ist student politician," whateverthat is. I was urged in last Fri-day's letter to go "get beaten up"in the South African mines.Again, this sort of thing wasamusing to anyone who pickedup The Tech, especially myfriends. However, a few "juicy"phrases are all anyone seems toremember of the letter.

My letter, a response to ShivaAyyadurai's letter, ignored thecentral issue and picked on Ayya-durai's writing style. In readinghis original letter, I sympathizedwith him, but thought his meth-od of presenting his argument tobe absurd. I also pointed outwhat I felt was a gross oversim-plification, on his part, of theSouth African situation, butfailed to elaborate. Simply put, Ithought Ayyadurai's letter wasnot at all thought-provoking; myletter, in turn, was pretty trivial.

Then a third letter appears(with more references to me andmy personal attributes than tothe South African problem it-self), which psychoanalyzes meand concludes that I am a racistfor pointing out the shortcom-ings of Ayyadurai's letter. So inthree weeks, and three letters,nothing worthwhile has been saidon the subject of South Africa.

Last Fridayls letter was not se-rious enough to offend or insult

me; I can only shrug it off andhope that it had some entertain-ment value. I think, in general,that is the only value most lettersto The Tech have. A few sen-tences of good, intelligent opin-ion are usually overshadowed byparagraphs of personal attacksand other sarcastic garbage (I've

written a lot of similar garbagemyself). I hope that in the futurewe can stop the flaming, andshow that we are more intelli-gent, and less childish, than wehave demonstrated in the past.Personally, I think it's kind ofembarrassing.

Mike Witt '84

Trivializing of women'sissues discriminatoryTo the Editor: She goes on to say "being

I found the recent column by privileged from infancy never toJacqueline Gottlieb [April 24] have been discrminated againstamazingly naive and self-contra- ... I have not understood whatdictory. She starts by complain- discrimination [in Western soci-ing that the high visibility of wo- ety] is all about." Her lack of un-men's issues here "blurs my derstanding of the women'svision" and "forces me to fight movement in this country justback, mostly for therapeutic rea- makes her and her sometimessons." Now that's a strong reac- pained, sometimes flip, outcrytlon, I would say. But she ends appear foolish and ridiculous. Fe-with "mostly, I laugh at all this;" minists are partly responsible forand "I found [discrimination in the presence of women in signifi-Western society] amusing, rather cant numbers at MIT.innocuous, and even interesting." I seriously doubt that the edi-

In trivializing women's issues tors would have had the courageGottlieb trivializes herself. Or to publish such a column had itdoes she consider herself to be been written by a man. If theyabove all the fray because she is are so phobic of reverse discrimi-"excellent" enough to be at MIT: nation that they feel compelled to"if to ten mediocre male engi- publish opinions discrediting theneers there is one exceptional Women's Weekend maybe theywoman professional, the male/ should examine themselves asfemale ratio at MIT and the fran- possible practitioners (of reversetic efforts to change it become discrimination) in publishingpitifully meaningless." Gottlieb Gottlieb's column.seems to be confusing excellence Fanya S. Montalvowith surmounting sexist barriers Editors note: As explained in thethat have nothing to do with policy statement periodicallytechnical mastery. What is wrong published in the opinion pages ofwith having ten average (for The Tech, columns represent the-MIT) female engineers alongside opinion of the author and notof the ten average male engi- neessarihaofhenewspaper.neers? Will that somehow dilute We encourage the airing of a va-her achievement at MIT, if there riety of opinions on issues ofare more women around? concern to the MAIT community.

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ELIJAHThle MIT Choral Society, led by John Oliver, con-ductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, gave aperformance of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah last Fri-day. The chorus was joined by vocalists from NewYork and the Boston area, and a forty eight pieceprofessional orchestra. The concert took place atthe Sacred Heart Church in East Cambridge. Thesephotographs were made at two separate rehearsalsduring the week of the performance at the same lo-cation.

Henry M. Wu

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The Pretenders' triumphant returnThe Pretenders at the Orpheum Theater,Saturday, Apr. 28.

The Pretenders are, at long last, back.The band is touring again, although halfthe personnel are new to the group, andthey released their long-awaited new albumLearning to Crawl late last year. After aninjury to their drummer postponed their1981 Boston appearance, the band finally -

returned to the Orpheum Theater lastweekend for three sold-out shows. TheirSaturday performance, like their new al-bum, was a display of their solid musician-ship and creative writing ability.

The Pretenders wasted no time in ener-gizing the crowd when they started theirconcert with "The Wait." The group con- I tinued with a series of upbeat songs before easing into a slower, more contemplativemood. The versatility of the bands styles created a danceable intensity that is some- -

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This intensity displayed by the band set the concert and the Pretenders above thecurrent barrage of populist bands. ChrissieHynde has turned toward more stylizedproduction and away from the raw sound I , of the group's first album. Two drug-relat- ''" A '-ed deaths within the band coupled with ,the birth of Hynde's child (Ray Davies ofthe Kinks is the father) have spawned aphilosophical side evident in the group'srecent performance.

Throughout the concert the Pretenders interspersed rough, fast-paced rockers .with thought-provoking, moody music,with the middle of the concert being domi- the Pretenders are not apolitical, but are tooed Love Boys" to "Private Life," which nated by the latter. The show's middle sec- concerned with the "politics of love." Few concerns the more painful sides of love.tion was highlighted by "Thin Line Be- bands manage to repeatedly write songs They played a full range of such tunes attween Love and Hate" and "I Go to about love without having the lyrics even- the Orpheum and kept the performanceSleep." During these quiet parts, the emo- tually lose their integrity. The Pretenders' varied in content and in melody.tion generated in concert amplified the "love songs" maintain interest because The band's roots surfaced again at thefeeling intended in the two songs. they range in content from teasing songs end of the show when they closed with

At one point Hynde pointed out that like "Bad Boys Get Spanked" and "Tat- "Mystery Achievement," "Up the Neck,"

The first thing you notice about hell is allPoodles from Hell, written by Charles accident. Having accomplished his assign-

_ llU~~i111511111111 _Monaghan, illustrated by Mick Stevens; ment, he then uses his new-found abilityAvon Books, unpaginated, $5.95 softcover. to travel through time and space to find

'At first I felt a lot like I was walkinginto a big, fancy party where I didn'tknow anyone, but a guy who used to be atailor up in Canada came right over andput me at ease. He found me somethingcool to drink, introduced me to a few ofthe others, and then let me stand off bymyself for a while so I could take every-thing in. Nice folks. Nice, nice place."

Regular readers of The New Yorker orNational Lampoon are probably familiarwith the warped humor of cartoonist MickStevens. In Poodles from Hell, he teamsup with writer Charles Monagan to tell thestory of Howard Inkley, "the first cartoon-ist ever to make it into Heaven." The celes-tial powers-that-be, concerned over publicrelations, commission Inkley to draw a se-ries of cartoons depicting the advantagesof Heaven over Hell.

Inkley, given total artistic control andfree run of the afterlife, records his im-pressions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,beginning with his death in a clothes dryer

out about the real story of evolution,chronicle important events in the rise ofcivilization, and provide a few tantalizingglimpses into the future.

Stevens' Klibanesque drawings are oftenhilarious and occasionally memorable;each section of the book begins with apage or two of explanatory text. Some-times the writing is the best part; it's ashame Monagan doesn't get the chance toexercise his ability to be deadpan sillymore often. But that's my only complaint,and Poodles from Hell seems destined tojoin the ranks of cartoon classics.

"What use society makes of my findingsI cannot say. I have merely done what Isaw as my duty. There were times when Iwas scared, yes, and times when I was baf-fled. There were times when I really, reallyhad to go to the bathroom. If the so-calledtastemakers wish to ignore my work, let'em. I can live with it (so to speak).

"Now it's party time for me."

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and "Precious." Drummer Martin Cham-bers stepped to the forefront during thesesongs, and it was his energetic playing thatput the thrust in the final portion of theshow. "Up the Neck" particularly show-cased his dynamic playing style as hepounded the rhythm, flipped water from acontainer into the air and tossed drum-sticks in all directions. The reformation ofthe group has allowed Chambers, whoalong with Hynde ii one of the two origi-nal Pretenders, to capture the spotlight asa figurehead leader of the band.

The Pretenders finished with a three-song encore which included one of theband's earliest hits, "Brass in Pocket." Theencore capped a show which containedmost of the songs that the audience want-ed to hear. The Pretenders didn't havetime to play all their hits, but their perfor-mance provided an evening of variety andenergy.

The sole drawback to this concert wasthat it was performed at the Orpheum.The confining ushers there tend to breedlackluster crowds. The Pretenders,though, are not a band that should bewatched while sitting down. The usherswould have preferred an audience that wasrestrained to its seats and not dancing inthe aisles; "but not me, baby, I'm tooprecious .. "

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standable; to give the potential applicants a basis for ac-,tion, and at the same time not to tell them that somethingis going to happen that isn't going to happen. We've got areal dilemma, you're right.

I've got to be writing [the admissions] material now,and we have a draft that essentially says MIT reserves theright to restrict enrollment in certain, I think the word weused is "areas" -a nice vague word which means we cando anything we want.

I'm nost talking about what is right to do now, I'm talk-ing about how one deals with the ambiguity that one'sdealing with today.Q: Do you -hope that things will be altered so that itdoesn't become necessary to restrict access?A: I do, yes. That's my personal opinionx. I hope it willnot be necessary to restrict access; but on the other handl,you can't tolerate the kind of increase in student body andthe relative stability of the faculty in electrical engineer-ing. One, just because you don't want to let the facultypeople carry the whole load, and two, because if the num-ber of students in any one department grows too fast, itkind of makes that end of the boat heavy, and you reallywant mnore balance than that - intellectually more bal-ance than that. It's not the workb it's the intellectual bal-ance.

And the other thing is, I have a very strong conviction,and I don't know whether I should say three years, or fiveyears, or seven years along, but I have a very strong con-viction that this problem will go away. I've been sitting inthis office now for 12 years and I remember the day whenthe dean of engineering came down here anld said, "Peter,you've got to do something for me and get me more stu-dents. We've got the world's best engineering school, and*we don't have enough students." Well, that's not the prob-lem that the electrical engineers are talking about today,and that's a 12-year period. Actually, it's less than thatbecause I'd been here a couple of years before he showedup. So, by the time you're married, and your first kid isfive years old, things are going to be a lot different.Q: Did you do anything to get the dean of engineeringmore students? Did you alter your admissions policies inany way after he talked to you?A: Yeah, we modified some of our publications. Wetalked about engineering a little more strenuously . . .

"I' want to get to the point wherethe terminal is about as important asthe telephone.

Q: You're going to do the reverse now?A: Certainly. My staff will tell you that it's a little bit likeswimming upstream because we've noticed over the lastfour or five years that as you talk to high school seniorswhen you ask them the question, "Well, now tell me whatyou're interested in studying," five, six, seven years ago;you were getting answers that range from all the wvayacross the sciences, and occasionally an engineer. Nowa,they're all engineers. In other words, you're talking tokids who have different thoughts. Then, as now, if yousay, "Well,- now tell me what is electrical engineering?" orwhatever subject we happen to be discussing at the mno-ment, chances are pretty good that if you soften the ques-tion and say, "Tell me, when you say you want to be anelectrical engineer, what do you envision that you'll bedoing three to five years from now," they don't know. Infact, I'm sure some freshmen at MIT may have troublewith that one.Q: Are these the same kids, but they have different ideas,Or different kids?A: Well, they're different kids, but they're the youngerbrothers and sisters of the same kids, all right? They're-coming from the same communities, they're coming fromthe same families, but they're at a different point in time.If their older brothers and sisters came in this cohort,they would have looked'very much like them, so it's timn-ing . * -Q: What particular policies are you going to employ whenyou're recruiting the Class of 1989? Are you going to talkpolitical science to them? Are you going to admit a slight-ly different group of kids? Are you going to encouragethem to take more English?A: If you will go back and look at what we've been doingfor the last 10 years, I believe that we've been recruitingfor the broadest group of kids that we can possibly get.We talked about the writing requirement two years beforeit was a fact. We had to get that far out ahead in order tobe talking to the people when it became a fact and wetalked about pass/fail', we talked about UROP, we talkedabout economics and political science, we talked aboutwhat I consider the breadth and depth of this place. Be itathletics, be it women's issues, be it music, we try to sayMIT is a lot more'. . .Q: Yes, you're presenting the entire range of the Instituteto these kids, but do they then still say "Where are thecomputers? "'A: Yes.Q: Is there anything you can do about that?A: Here's a very practical problem. We've got ProjectAthena coming down the road. How do you talk aboutProject Athena? If you really listen very carefully to the[Project Athena] people, they are trying to design some-thing which is truly broad, truly creative, truly education-al -they don't always say that, but if you listen to themwith your third ear, that's really where they're at. But ifyou don't listen with that third ear, you sometimes getcaught up in some more mundane kind of stuff Ourprobleml is to go out and talk so people hear with thatthird ear, but all yDu-have to, do is say the word "'compu-

Tech photos by Henry Wu

Q: What do you think is the place of the admissions officein combatting Course VI overenrollment?A: To execute and implement policies that are decidedupon by the faculty and the administration.Q. What have they decided so far with respect to what theAdmissions Office should do?A: We should seek a more diverse student body, diverse ininterests, and that's a very clear message. It's one that wealways have been interested in but never had quite somuch incentive to pursue.Q: How has the admissions process changed over the lastfew years?A: It's not a new idea, but we've gone through a phenom-enon in the last four or five years where things have beengoing on well outside MI1T that have a tremendous impactnot only on us, but on institutions around the country.

,Q: Like what?A: Well, kids discovered there were computers, or parentsdiscovered there were computers, and gave them to theirkids. The marketplace has discovered that it needs peoplewith a sense of how to deal with these new things; adven-ture games and all that became very commnon. So all of asudden, we've got a demand for people with skills thatseem to be linked to the ability to manage these mnachines,these new toys. And, at the same time, we've got an eco-nomic -depending upon whether you're a Republican orDemocrat -downturn, disaster, take your pick, and soall these things have come together to make what you andI call Course VI more visible, more available as a meansfor coping with these items that I mnentioned. So, as hasalways happened, students' interests and understanding ofthe Job market track where the exciting, intellectual thingsseem to be going on...Q: Do you find you're getting increasingly more studentsinterested in computers applying to MIT as more of themndiscover what it is?A: That's a question which I'm not sure I'm ready to an-swer. Yes, there are more of themn, no question aboutthat. There are more kids who are interested in comput-ers. But then, that's true of the world at large. You goback 10, 20, 30 years ago and there weren't a lot of kidsinterested in computers. So the phenomenion, as I view it,is a function of these forces coming together. And theymove relatively fast.

On the other hand, 'if you take a look at things likechanging the faculty of MIT, even if you thought it wasdesirable, that takes place on a long time frame. A personcomes here and becomes a member of the faculty upongraduation with their Ph.D. at 25 or 30 and then theywork until they're 65; that's 35 years.

So changing the Institution to meet demands is not al-ways easy, and if you've been reading about what the fa-culty's been doing -how much do you know about thediscussions that have been taking place in the [Committeeon Educational Plicy]?

"I'm going to tell them that MITreserves the right to restrict access toa particular department.

Q: I went to the open faculty meeting at which they decid-ed not to take any action with respect to the Class of1988. Do you know what action will be takens with respectto the Class of 1989?A: I wish I knew.Q: You're going to have to go across the country and starttelling these kids things.A: Absolutely.Q: What are you going to tell them?A: First of all, I'm going to tell them that MIT reservesthe right to restrict access to a particular department.Q: Particular subjects like 6.001 [Structure and Interpre-tation of Computer Programs) or majors like Course VI-3?A: I think the language will be written so as to cover boththose options. Our problem is to say today - becausewhat we put in print today will be around for at least ayear -. ,, ,~tb ft.%vnpL be ppqq1,, tort~coming,, and under-

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ter," and what happens? You begin to think of a room,not unlike the one across the hall in the Glass Menagerie.Lots of little screens with people sitting looking at them.

I have a too] over there called a telephone. I use it allthe timne. It's not an important appointment in this office.I'd be helpless without it, but it's not an important ap-pointment. If I set a terminal over there, it would changethe whole tone of the office. And I want to get to thepoint where the terminal is about as important as the tele-phone. That's where it belongs.

Now, how do you get that message across? How do youget it across to people who want to believe [computersare] the new religion, the new magic, the new whatever.Q: Priesthood, with them as priests? A: Priesthood, with them as priests. Anld I don't want tomake-a bunch of priests, I want to get bright young peo-ple who think about ideas, who think about people, liketo be involved in making society work, andl I think it's amust that they use mathematics. But I'm really lookingfor something that's a lot more than that.

I thinky we, more than many around here, have beentalking and and thinking and doing this for many years,but we're faced with a very tough dilemma. If we talk toomuch about the Course VI problem, I'mn bringing every-one right back down to a focusing on this priesthood, asopposed to getting them to think about their education.

The reality is, I'm old enough to know that people whograduate from MIT don't do what they thought they weregoing to do when they were high school seniors, andprobably don't do what they thought they were going todo when they were seniors at MIT. How do you get themessage across to a group of people that are really anx-ious and really worried about how they're going to putfood in their mouths?. .

I mean, [many students think,] "Gee will I ever get ajob?" If anybody in this world is going to get a job, it'sgoing to be you guys, and what you ought to be concen-trating o~n is broadening yourselves both intellectually andas a person so that whatever set of problems you're deal-ing with six months, a year, two years from nowns you'vehad some experiences that will1 stand you in good stead.Now how do you say that, either in writing or in conver-sation with a young man or a young woman in ways thatthey hear you?Q: The faculty voted recently to waive the physics require-ment under special circumstances? What do you think willbe the effect of that, and what are the special circum-stances?A: The intent of the faculty was that most students willmeet the requirements as they have in the past. But incases where particularly talented young men and womenhaven't had the particular prescribed program that wetalked about, there will be some flexibility allowed to us.We spent a lot of time saying to high school students,"You must get physics, and you must get chemistry." Nowwe can say, "Youl ought to take all of these, and if youdon't, we ought to know why you didn't do it, but we canstill consider you if you didn't," and that's a differentkind of message. Time and time again, I've had to look ata young man or a young woman and on the 15th of Octo-ber, say to themn, "sBut you haven't taken any chemistry.It's OK for you to apply but you'll have to go to summerschool next summer."

Peter H. Richardson '48 has been Director of Admissionssince 1972. He had previously served as Associate Direc-tor of Admissions and as a teacher in privateschools.Richardson announced earlier this week he plans to ac-cept early retirement effiective Sept. 1. The interview wascondacted before this announcement.

That really sticks it to you, you've got to really want tocome to MIT to get over that hurdle. I now can say that"You really ought to have some chemistry in your back-ground. Maybe you otght to read a chemistry book nextsummer, but go ahead and apply." There's a difference be-tween the two comments. It's going to mean that we'regoing to be able to cast the net a little bit more broadly.The person that gets caught in this trap is more likely tobe a woman as opposed to a man, so that I think that's amove in the right direction and I don't think any memberof the faculty will ever know the difference unless theyhappen to go back and read the minutes of the facultymeeting. I certainly know, that as director of admissions,I have no intention of going out and trying to find differ-ent kinds of kids than what vwe've been getting. What Iwant to do is to increase the pool of the same kinds ofkids, kids who are intellectually alive, kids who have highenergy levels, kids who knew how to do math and wantedto, and yet be able to include in it kids who haven't hadphysics or chemistry.

One of the happiest moments of my week is when I getup and walk up and down this corridor and look at thefaces of those kids coming down that corridor. That isabout as diverse a group of people as you'll find any-where; and certainly in terms of intellectual eill igy andcapability, it's as bright.

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Linda E. Mar '85 coxed thewinning boat, with ElizabethBradley G at stroke. Other row-ers were Ruth M. Fricker '85, Jo-celyn M. Patterson '84, Linda E.Muri '85, Linda S. Siemer '84,Maureen A. Sybertz '85, Heide-marie Stefanyshyn ' 84. andJeanne W. Simon '86.

The coach of the US womnen'sOlympic team, Robert Ernst, in-vited Bradley to participate in theOlympic team trials as a result ofher performance in the race, saidEarle. Ernst was one of the start-ers for the race.

"The rest of the Olympic hope-fuls have been training togetherfor four years, so this is some-thing really out of the ordinary,"Earle observed. The trials will beheld at Princeton the week ofM ay 14.

This season is an unusual onefor the other rowers as well,Earle noted. "Before this season,

Smith Cupwe lost every race for three years,but this year we have a 6-4 recordso far," she said.

The junior varsity and novicewomen also raced BU and North-eastern Sunday. The first noviceeight race was a photo finish,Earle said. "BU was two boat-lengths ahead of them at the be-ginning, but MIT brought it upeven going through the bridgeand kept it there until the lastthirty strokes. Our rowers gavethem quite a race," she observed.

The women will again face BUin the final race of the season, theEastern Sprints May 13 at NewPreston, Conn. BU is the defend-ing champion at the sprints,which will also include Yale Uni-versity, Radcliffe College, Dart-mouth College, and the Universi-ty of Wisconsin.

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Women's varsity crew Varsity sports for this weekeSaturday, May 5

Men's crew (heavyweight): MIT and the University of Wiscon-sin at Dartmouth College (Cochrane Cup).

Women's crew: New Englands at Lake Quinsigamond(Worcester, VA). t

Men's sailing: Connecticut College/Yale University Invita-tional.

Women's sailing: Regis Bowl at Brown University. v ISoftball: Nichols College at MIT (double-header), I p.m.Men's Tennis: MIT at the University of Connecticut.Track: New Englands at Bowdoin College.

Weekend

Men's sailing: New England Dinghy Championships at the USCoast Guard Academy.

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Baseball: Suffolk University at MIT, I p.m. m.Women's sailing: Wheaton College Invitational.

Monday, May 7

Baseball: Northeastern University at MIT, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, May 8

Lacrosse: MIT at the University of Lowell.Softball: Mount Holyoke College at MIT, 3:30 p.m.

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Men's tennis: Wesleyan University at MIT, 2 p.m. This space donated by The Tech

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