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1 non-student members and theGeneral Manager. Student mem-bers are any degree candidate.

3459 out-of a possible 17,000student members voted, andthey reduced MIT's graduateschool representation by one,while adding one more memberof the Harvard Business School.(The balance of student Coopmembers overwhelmingly favorsHarvard and its associated gradu-ate schools, by a ratio of abouttwo to one.)

Davis noted that, while thisyear's turnout was small, it was"typical for recent years." Headded. that he was "of coursesorry -that there will' not be fourMIT directors during the comingyear.' I have enjoyed workingwith them, and they have givenme a great deal of support dur-ing my year here. Don't forgetthough that MIT still has facultyand administration representa-tives in constitutional propor-tions."

The board meets once amonth to review policy, with theexception of July and August.Davis noted that the boardserves an important advisoryfunction which enables the Coop

By Paul SchindlerAn 18%o turnout :of eligible

Coop. voters lowered- MIT'srepresentation among studentdirectors in results announcedby Coop Manager Davis last-Fri--day.

The top vote getter was Joe.Angland of MIT, third place wastaken by another MIT director,John Newkirk. The pair roomtogether in Boston, and whencontacted by The Tech both saidthat they were "gratified" bytheir election. They also'notedthat the call Sunday night wasthe first word they had receivedof their election.

Representation of MIT andHarvard, at both. the graduateand undergraduate levels, isdefined by the Coop by-laws.The proper number of peopleare'nominated by the Coop eachyear for student director posi-tions. But the petition process,according to Davis, throws outthis provision, and awards thedirectorships .on the basis ofvotes received.

The Coop bylaws merely'r&-quire that there be 23 directorsof the Coop: I1 of whom mustbe student members, along with

Joe Angland

to be more responsive to theneeds of its customers.

Returning director Anglandsaid that he was, "particularlyhappy that we still have somerepresentitives on the board;MIT's under-representation is

-clearly unfortunate. There arejust more random people at Har-'vard Business School willing totake the chance of running forCoop office than at MIT. Tothem, its just one more casestudy."

By R6ber.t ElkinApproximately 200 Cam-

bridge residents, federal, stateand local'officials attended whatMIT Corporation - ChairmanHoward Johnson: termed a"neighborhoo d block party" tocelebrate the start of construc-tion of MIT's three-site $ 17.7million housing program for theelderly last. Sunday- at the MITFaculty' Club'.:: "

The festive grouridbreakingceremony was marked not onlyby impromptu. singing and danc-ing, but also by .ttle ejection ofSteven Goldin (left-, above), aresident near the Cambridgeportsite, for leafletting against noisepollution caused by the con-struction.

The 'construction of 684 unitsof housing at three sites in EastCambridge, North Cambridgeand Cambridgeport representsthe largest federal "Turnkey"program in the nation. Underthis program, MIT will build theapartment complexes and. sellthem to the Cambridge HousingAuthority on a non-profit basis.

To finance thd construction,MIT will borrow funds from theMassachusetts Housing FinanceAgency.

.The ceremony. consisted ofthe pouring- and making of threecement cylinders which will beplaced in the. buildings duringconstruction, by representativesof the three neighborhoods. Em-bedded within each cylinder willbe a chrome capsule containingthe names of those Cambridgecitizens.involved in the neighbor-hood planning groups which as-sisted MIT in the planning ofbuildings to conform to their.own needs.

During the reception preced-ing the ceremony, Goldin-hand-ed out flyers attacking MIT for,its failure to require the use oflow noise construction equip-ment, such ·as .jackhammersdespite the availability of theequipment. He refused to leavewhen requested by. Vice-Presi-dent Kenneth Wadleigh andfinally had to be practicallydragged out by Lieutenant Dris-coll of the Campus Patrol.

By Norman SandlerThe athletic and humanities

requirements are aspects of theMIT curriculum which are beingsubjected to intensive investiga-tion by the Institute Committeeon C-urricula, according toRichard De Neufville, AssociateProfessor of.Civil Engineering,and Chairman of:the Committee.

Over the past two years, theCommittee has reviewed allundergraduate requirements andhas added to the list of options-which were felt to satisfy the.goals of the requirement. Inaddition, the Committee- ischarged with the task of review-ing petitions for exceptions tothe General Institute Require-ments.

The questions which have

Cited as examples were theincreasing number of subjects inthe social sciences which arenow listed as requirementoptions.

With all the new options andpossibilities now open for fulfill-ment of the General InstituteRequirements, the Committeehas been receiving a number ofpetitions to have other coursescount towards the fulfillment ofthe . requirements, particularlythe laboratory requirement.

When asked about the proce-dure for reviewing petitionsreceived by the Committee, DeNeufviUlle replied that some of'the requests received carry withthem an almost-routine accep-tance, such as the petitioning tohave completion of 6.01 countas lab credit. He also said thatthe Committee is turning awayfrom the notion that lab creditcar .be attSahied only throughwork in an experimental labora-tory set-up .

In defining the requirement,De Neufville explained, "... theessence of a laboratory project isone in which you test theoreticalknowledge ... against whathappens in real life ... testingthat and doing so in a learning

.and academic environment." Hesaid each request for lab credit isreviewed with those goals inmind, and students are nowreceiving lab credit for morecourses in social sciences thanbefore.

If a student should want torequest credit towards fulfill-ment of one of the InstituteRequirements, he should com-plete one of the petitions (avail-able at the Registrar's Office)describing in detail the. courseand how it fulfills the require-ment for which credit is beingrequested. The completed peti-tion should be returned to oneof the members of the Commit-tee or to the Registrar. Petitionsmay be. submitted any time,however De Neufville advisesstudents to'wait until they have,finished -the, course for whichthey want credit.

evolved dealing with the Insti-tute's athletic requirement offour quarters of physical educa-tion include.the inequity of notreceiving credit for intramuralparticipation, fulfillment of therequirement through attendancerather then the achievement of alevel of competence, and therequirement exemption. forfemale students.

The "competence vs. atten-dance"' argument was likened tothe so-called swimming compe-tence requirement, by which allstudents are required to demon-strate the ability to swim, or else'must enroll in beginning swim-ming, after which they are sup-posed to be able to demonstratethe same level of competence.One-sixth of the entering stu-

.,.~ dents each year do not knowhow to swim, and enroll-in thebeginners' swimming course.Ironically, upon completion ofthe course it has been found that10% of those who took it still donot know how to swim.

When asked about the futureof the athletic requirement, DeNeufville stated that the Com-mittpe is trying to find a way tomake the requirement more fair,including the possibility for atype of advanced standing, resul-ting from a situation last yearinvolving a number of peoplewho would have been kept fromgraduating due to physical edu-cation requirements which werenot fulfilled. On the other hand,however, he said that it is highlyunlikely that the Committee willrecommend abolition of the

A requirement.The problems arising from

the humanities requirement are adifferent situation altogether, DeNeufville said. With a growinginterest in what is all-too-loosely'termed "the humanities" includ-

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t tee is trying to "round out thepicture" through expansion of

t the humanities options and "toimprove the scope of subjects"which are available to. undergrad-uates to fulfill the requirement.

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"Everything sings, everything dances, everything -MIT students over the years.:spinse," explained Professor Philip-Morrison to an Above, Prof. Morrison pokes a gyro intoaudience of children of-all ages in 26-i00 last cession.Sunday. Aided by two student helpers and several Owing to rainy weather, 26-100 was only alspinning devices, including a gyroscope-loaded two-thirds full. The parents of the younger clsuitcase (a difficult piece-of baggage), the Profes- ren may have understood Morrison's~lecture asor brought to .his lecture on very elementary better, but the kidsapplauded every trick (sucphysics the same enthusiasm, zest and showman- making a chain spin rigaidy like a hula hoopship that.have delighted and engaged hundreds of short film about tops prpleted the hour.

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much to the pleasure 6f theArmy, which he saysis trying torid itself of dissenters, he wasreleased with an honorable dis-charge earlier this year. Hisrelease came at a time when hehad enough chges fied againsthim to :warrint a 25-year prisonterm, over a year after he firstsubmitted his request to theArmy. In a statement at a Senatehearing, General William West-moreland atn'tbuted Font'schange-of-attitude from the.time.he entered West Point tothe time of his release to "'theenvironment' Font was exposedto while at Harvard . . ."

Font wams that with theadvent of automated warfareand electronic battlefields, theArmy may get a vote of approvalfrom the public,. since the newmethods of killing ; according toWestmoreland are "'99 effec-tive against .the enemy" withAmerian losses being nearly_~nonexistent.

lHe went on to say that sincemuch of- the research and devel-opnent of these--technlogicalweapons is done at and aroundMIT- and Cambridge, people atMIT should be particularlyaware of the situation andshould attempt to stop it beforeit goes any further, when manyfeel we will be "past the point ofno return," when, according toAirman I st class an Ingersoll, afriend of. Font's, "the Pentagonwill 'be fighting Armageddonwith electronic monsters."

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By Nora SndlerLieutenant Louis Font was

honorably discharged from theUS Army in April of this-year.He is a West Point graduate, andthe first such graduate ever to bedischarged from the Army as aconscientious objector.

A 1968 graduate-of the ser-vice academy, Font first appliedfor release from -the Army inFebruary of 1970 on thegrounds of his opposition to theVietnam War- At the time of hisapplication, he was a graduatestudent at .Harvard's John F.Kennedy School of Government,working on his master's degree.Following the submission of hisapplication through Army char-nels, he was immediately sent toFort Meade, Maryland, wherethe Army did their best to ren-der Font harmless, includingsupplying him with an office butnothing to do.

Then came the first mistakethe Army made while Font wasstationed at Fort Meade. Fontwas assigned to be barracksinspector. He proceeded toinspect the 1941-vintage bar-racks and collect statementsfrom enlisted men and officerson the conditions of the bar-

-Sy Ken vacaThe role of the Dornnitory

Council in -student affairs at MIT: has 'beenchanging for the last,J several years. -

The Council, whichis made-up of the presidents of the sevenMIT.. dormnitories, has neverPlayed a very dynamic role inbringing about changes or insti-.tuting programs. Several yearsago, its only major function was

i its involvement in freshman ori-entation and rush week, where itattempted to serve as a counter-bhalnan&ce force to the -Inter-

.Fraterty Conference. When theFr.eshm an Advisory Coincil-began taking control of coordi-nating R/JO Week and its pl1i-cies, the Dorm Council was-rele-gated to the-role of a figurehead.

- Mike Wilson, the president ofthe --Dormn Council, expressedhopes that this year the Councilwould become more viable. Ithis -begun to become moreinvolved in interaction with theMI!T Administration. Early inOctober the Dorm Council met.with Assistant Director of Hous-ing and Dining Services KenBrownirng, Associate Dean forStudent Affairs Richard Soren-'son and President Jerome Wies-ner to discuss contingency plansfor this year.

The --council has formnned acommittee, made up of- a fewmembers bf each of the livinggroups it represents, which will.

Louis Font, the'first West Point graduate discarged fornm. e Armyas a consienftious objector, speaks at MIT Hillel meeting lastSunday. - Photo by Dav Vogel

racks. These he compiled into a1 1 0-page report which heattempted to submit throughproper channels. He finmallyresorted to geing the report tothe press, much to the embar-rassment of the Army. As Fontpoints out, "The slightest bit oftruth on the printed page sendsgenerals up the walls."

Font relates that finally,

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Table 4 - Voluntary withdrawals and CAP actions

year of fall term spring term year total-occurrence VW CAP total VW CAP total VW CAP total

1965-66 20 34 54 15 48 63- 35 82 117

1966-67 ' 26 37 - 63 13 54 67 39 91 130

1967-68 23 51 74 3 55 58 16 106 132

'1968 9 (NA) 41 (NA) 21 . 29 50' (NA) 70 (NA)'1969-70 6 8 41 109 44 28 72 112 69 181

said that an increaing numberof students are looking for"viable ways to get out of alockstep education." The impor-tant thing is the difference be-tween the old idea of droppingout, where a student justcouldn't "get it together," andthe idea of taking a term off forother reasons. He observed thatMIT has lead the way in thelatter category, and cited it asjust one example of the personal'concern the Institute shows forits students.

Yohn also pointed out thatthere is an increasing amount ofinterchange among universitiesand predicted, "we are going tosee more students who find acreative wayr to use a term andthen re-register at a later date. Idon't think you can really callthem dropouts."

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together. The difference mustrepresent students (who had pre-viously withdraw n) beingreadmitted through the Dean'sOffice, so a hlealthy number ofthose who do withdraw even-tuafl come back.

The counseling Deans offered

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Classof VW CAP total'70 3 0 371 (year 4) 17 12 29'72 (year 3): 30 15 45-73 (year 2) 22 15 37

'74 (year 1) 3 O 3Special 2 0 2

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not return for their sophomoreyear is an interesting statisticaltrend, especially the sharp dropfrom 7%. to 3% two years ago.This invites speculation thatfreshman pass-fail and changingCAP policies must have hadsotmething to do with it. Inconnection with this, though, itmust be noted that the first classto get by with a light drop in thefAmst year suffered a very heavy.drop (7%) between the sopho-more and -junior years, sugest-ing that going easy on freshmenmay be just putting off theinevitable.

The -most startling figure inTable 3 is the 7% drop-off inregistration between the sopho-more and junior years of theclass of '73. This is too sharp abreak with the trend of theprevious six years to be dis-missed as a statistical fluke, andit is probably the best-documented figure in the table,so there cannot be too muchdoubt as to its accuracy.

Deans William Speer, DavidYohn, and Nannette Smith, ofthe counseling staff of the Of-fice of the Dean for StudentAffairs, were -very helpful inproviding both concrete. dataand subjective impressions as to'why this should be so.

Dean Smith has done a studyon voluntary withdrawalsthrough the Dean's Office, partsof which were printed in theApril 9, 1971, issue of The Tech.She-also has statistics on CAPactions (negotiated withdrawalsand disqualifications). Unfortu-nately, except for those occuingduring 1970, neither the volun-

Table 3 - Corrected PercentageChange

'67 -12% % -5%'68 -9%6 -1% -756'69 -7% -2% -89%70' -5% -2% -5%'71 -5% +2% -5%'72 -7% -1% -4%73 -3%6 -7 --74 -2% -

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A class-by-cliss breakdownwas available for the fall term of197)0, though, and is given inTable 5.

The bulk of the withEdrawalsare concentrated among sopho-mores and juniors, which is what

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Interestingly enough, the yeartotals in 'fable 4 are all approxi-mately double the yearly drop-offS rates of all the classes addedI

By Bert alstead. entrance requirements for mech-Have you heard. more than cal school. Since we do not-

m usual numbex of stories expect them to become juniorsbut people dropping out -of next year, we should not count

Ignstitute? Do you suspect them as dropouts when they do~t a greater number actually not becomejuniors.l drop out between last fall Also, up to this year, fifth-:

ad this fall? Well, your suspi- year students were countedions may not be , entirely, along with fourth-year students..Ilnfounded. This- year -a. new. category -was

Statistics from the-Registrar's added for fifth-year students. Ifffice show a significant depar- we add the 976 seniors to the

re this year from the pattern 166- members of this -category,f withdrawals over the past - we get 142 a number more

eral years, Starting, with the nearly in line with the previouslass of '67, the -number of trend.dents registered during the Finally-, there are transfer stu-I term of.each year as each dents. We would have to sub-

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year change year change year change yearass of I 1 to 2 2 - 2to 3 3 3 to 4 4'6b7 92 '- +O61.2% 940 -2.3% 9183 +11% 1O18

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just raw statistics, tion to find out how many wereunfortunately will here the year before. Table 2what we want to shows transfer student statistics

from the Admissions Office.1, the consequences The attempt has been madeng procedures used here, based on the available in-n into account. For formation, to compensate forof the 83 special - the above effects. In particular,

e 'students regis-. the assumption (which. may be1 are oregistered as dangerous) has been made that

sophomores. A the ratio, of fourth-year to fifth-graduate student is year students has remained con-candidate but is at stant over the' years. Thisother'specific pur- assumption has been used to

as completing the calculate the actual number ofstudents in their fourth yearduring the past. several years.

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ear transferred into against taking these figures too1 2 3 4 literally, as they are based -onJA) (NA) 54 5 several assumptions and approxi-

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easy explanation. It could bethat an extraordinarily largenumber of students who had

to fall, 1969, hence previously withdrawn returnednxes in t e upper - that yearor it could be that'thisnor. However, Mat- is an example of the limitations

of the methods used to derivethat the figures had these figares, but it is probably atia!!y constant over combi'iation of both.rears. The steady decline in the

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wrench into the process forseveral years was the draft, butnow that it is less of a concern(at least for those. with highnumbers), taking a term off hasbecome a more realistic -alterna-tive. Mr. Leggett of the Admis-sions Office also mentioned ageneral change "out there," anincreasing acceptance by societyof students taking one or moreterms off-

More significant, perhaps, is achange in the students them-selves. Dean Speer remarked thatstudents Used to come to MITfor purely practicaL-easons, butthat. they now- come not '"tolearn a-trades but rather to geta college education. He said hewas impressed with the increas-

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He; also had an' elder. brother who, bhesaid, had taken LSD-and undergonechromosome damage, and for this reason fLargy was very leery of drugs. Despite-this reservation, hewas one of- the fiugx

freshmen on the floor 'to try marijuana--At that time dope-smoking in ther

dormitories was-still a clandestine, furtive activity. In contrast, to the almo0juniversal complacency with which pot-smoking is tolerated today, heads in 1968 were wary of busts and consequentlyitried to- keep their smoking secret,Gradually, however, the upperclassmenrelaxed their guard 'and in- most MITSdorms that year the freshmen became7aware that drugs. were being used,.Curiosity moved many to seek out:a:source and turn on; this appears to have.been the case.with Larry Harmon. At any.!rate, of fourteen freshmen on Burton-.Four, he was the third to try grass, in-February of his freshman year. He lateritold his father he found pot "extremely-enjoyable"; his friends confirm this.

Whether consequent to his use of pot-eor coincidentally, Larry began to grow his'hair longer and he ':was no longerHarmon the Tool." He studied 'consider.-ably less and joined the interminablebridge games so popular.here. However,-he mhanaged to complete' the yearsuccessfully after spending the last two weeks- of it cramming in the . StudentCenter Library.

But still, nothing had occurred that would mark him different from dozens of -other freshmen that year. Beyond ques- tion, it was the drugs he later took which-caused or triggered his subsequentpsychosis. Whether it was latent within him is a question for psychologists; as far

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-By Bruce SchwartzCopyright a 1971 by The Tech

On Thursday, November 22, a formerMIT student named Larry J. Harmonentered St.. Aloysius Roman CatholicChurch in Spokane, Washington - hishome'-town;. He was armed with a sledgehammer and a clip-fed .22 caliber rifle.With the hammer he smashed the interiorof the church and with the rifle he killedthe caretaker, 68 year old Hilary Kunz.'Emerging from the church, which standson the campus of Gonzaga University,Harmon wounded four more peoplebefore police officers shot and killed him.

He was 21, and beyond doubt, insane,if that word has any meaning. His father,attorney E. Glenn. Harmon, in a news-paper account 'the day after the tragedy,describedi his son as a. religious fanaticwho believed that he had seen the devil-and-that Christ was an imposter, "thedevil incarnate." Frustrated in his at-tempts to preach this gospel, his fathersaid, Larry went on a rampage. The elderHarmon laid the cause of his son'smadness to, LSD which Larry -had takenwhile a student at MIT in the summer of

_ 1969.-Inevitably, the incident attracted wide

press -coverage: the sensational is alwayshot copy, even for the staid New YorkTimes, expecially when the sensationcontains elements of tragedy, in this casethe ruin of the Promising Young Man bythe Evil Drug. LSD and MIT were- theangles played up as the Associated Pressflashed the story across' the continent,where "a spokesman -- for the publicrelations department at 'MIT-tsaid the boywas not in any academic difficulty at:thetime he left."

Most 'of these accounts relied on E.Glenn Harmon's statement for an imageof 'Larry Harmon. One paper in Pitts-burgh splished the news across the frontpage 'as though World War. III haderupted. Some of the reports wereinaccurate: the Times somehow notedKunz as "a woman custodian," Ergo puthim in the class of '73 instead of '72.

.This 'is relatively unimportant. Moresignificant was the instant acceptance ofthe elder Harmon's interpretation of hisson's "initiation" into acid. The stories.seemed to raise questions, and ones whichshould matter to us at MIT. First,though:

Nothing exists in a- vacuum. Theconstellation of events surrounding thetragedy of Larry Harmon in the SpokaneDaily Chronicle of Friday, November 12,includes "Cargo Plane Mishap Kills 10,""Troop Cuts to Step Up," "Stock TheftIs-Charged 7," all 'in smaller type than-"Fatal Rampage:- Details Studied." Onpage 2 is "Error Fatal to 8" (Saigon, AP)wherein a -US gunship 'accidentally fires-

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on' ARVN troops, so what?' To what dowe-.attribute the concentration on-LarryHarmon, other than-National Enquirermentality? Is the .evil committed inmadness somehow 'more horrifying thanthe evil conceived in sanity? Or merelymore unusual?

Why write this article, for an MITaudience? ;My own morbid curiosity,perhaps; then again, Larry Harmon wasamong us, we all in some way 'share hisexperience, do we learn anything- from it?

To write this article I talked to severalpeople who knew Larry.4 as a freshmanand sophomore. Because this story dealswith illegal drugs, I have chosen to omitmost of their names.

- Much information that might havebeen interesting was also unobtainable.

:'MIT's policy of confidentiality seems toextend beyond the grave as concernspsychiatric-and academic records.

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Larry Harmon came to MIT in the fallof .1968. As a student at Spokane'sUniversity High School he was like manyof us, "a respected and brilliant youngman running smoothly down a track ofexcellence, happiness and success," ac-cording to the SpokaneChronicle. Histeachers related to the newspaper that"He was very, very analytical with hismind',"' "both oneof the crowd and alone;,-' straight-A but not too'-proud- toaccept.-a place on the "B" squad of thewrestling team. He started college physicsat Gonzaga University before coming toMIT.

As a freshman Larry lived in a quad onthe fourth floor of Burton House. Hisroommates recall him as rather conserva-tiVe. He studied'"atithe time," which wasexceptional among the frosh on .'BurtonFour that year (pass-fail had just beeninstituted), but hardly unusual for MIT.In fact, they say, with the exception ofminor idiosyncracies that could beanyone's, Larry's behavior ,never sug-gested that he. would one .day flip out,certainly never that he would turn into areligious-maniac. In fact, he cotsideredhimself an atheist, and was ratheremphatic about it.

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partment, working jointly with thePennsylvania State Police, has devel-oped information which leads them tobelieve that the murder of a University

,of Connecticut co-ed is connected to adouble homicide which occurred al-most exactly one year later in FultonCounty, Pa. The police are now seek-ing information ' from college com.munities in the northeast in an effortto solve both cases.'

Paget Weatherley, who was a 23year old college student at the Univer-sity of Connecticut, was found shot todeath in a wooded area adjacent to alonely country road in Mlton, Conn.on November 16, 1969.

Connecticut authorities are nowinvestigating the' murders of JunePenny Eberlin and Mary Lenihari, bothundergraduates at Queens County Col-lege in 'Queens' New York. Both

-Eberlin and Lenihan were found onNovember 4, 1970, shot to death-lyingnext to interstate 70 in Fulton Coun-ty, Pa.

Connecticut State Police have de'termined that the mode of operationin each case is identical: further,Connecticut authorities state that evi-dence gathered by them: leadS them tobelieve that' all three -murders werecommitted by the same person.

Police believe that the person re-sponsible for these murders may befollowing a pattern. They state that althre'e wome n were probably

-hitchhiking when thay were last seen..All three were part of a universitycommunity. All' three were trans-ported' some distance before theirbodies were abandoned on the side ofthe road.

These two crimes were committedone year apart; police are Convincedthat other'female hitchhikers, particu-larly college students, .have had con-tact with the murderer. They arehoping that anyone reading this, par-ticularly female hitchhikers in the NewEngland and New'York areas. who hasbeen the victim of an assault whilehitchhildng will contact them.

Anyone with information is askedto contact the Connecticut State Po-lice Detective Division, 100 Washington Street, Hartford, Conm by calling(203)}-566-2250 or writing to P.O.Box1000, 'Hartford, Conn. All informationwill be kept confidential.

To the Editors: commenced'the Johnson-Wiesner admin-istration t:ook:office, and virtually its firstact was to instruct counsel.to file-no briefand enter no argument in the Massachu-setts Supreme Judicial Court, where thecase by then reposed. The defense of theoath was properly taken over the theMassachusetts Attorney General repre-senting the Massachusetts Legislature -the real culprit. Subsequently the Courtstruck down the oath.

I am morally certain that this was the"loyalty'test" to which President Wiesneradverted in his Inaugural speech, and anoble adornment to the MIT escutcheonit is.

Yours sincerely,Gerald A. Berlin

We publish- the above letter almostwithout. comment, in spite of thepuzzling treatment the writer gives Dr.Wiesner's mention of loyalty oaths; vide:IS Dr. Wiesner. indeed. referreing to thelegal matter of five years previous whichhe -as provost allowed 'to die?. Was Dr.Wiesner couscious.of the matter;:does heeven remember it?'Or'i is it an unfortunate epigram,: -accidentally, innocently, in-serted into the speech? '

In all this uncertainty, however, thereis one thing we .are sure of We are:morally certain Awe think) that Mr. Berlins iaware of thetzoological'meanitlg ofthe escutcheon :which Dr. Wiesner isdepicted as adorning with a loyalty.oath. -Ed.

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I. have belatedly - seen -the- 'BruceSchwartz .Marten commentary on theInaugural Address of President Wiesnerset out in your edition of October 8. Mr.Marten made. what he called one of hisfew "carping criticisms" of the Address.by singling out the passage which reads,"And the only loyalty test we shallimpose is that of loyalty to learning."Your reporter noted that "...it's acatchy sentence, and you have to toleratesuch things in public addresses."

With ial. deference, Mr. Marten hasmissed the point, and perhaps this is asgood an occasion as any to refresh therecollection of old hands in the MITcommunity and enlighten the youngerones in respect to the loyalty question. In1965 two assistant professors on the MITfaculty, Joseph'Pedlosky, in Mathematics,and William Watson, in History, declined.to execute the loyalty oath exacted of allteaching personnel in Massachusetts as acondition of holding their jobs. That-oathcalled .for the support of the UnitedStates and Massachusetts. Constitutionsand the faithful discharge of teachingduties. The educational employer underthe law was obliged to -administer theoath. Pedlosky and Watson challenged thevalidity of the oath by seeking to enjoin.MIT from administering it.

I was counsel for the two facultymembers in question and-:cam; atfes/tthat i?.MIT's attorneys embarked with consider-able commitment and diligence to defendthe oath. Several months after the 'suit

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Whatever the impression given by APand Glenn Harmon, MIT and its adminis-tration do not "condone" drug experi-mentation, except in the sense that theadministration does not act as policemanto ·prevent it. There is good reason forthis. Colleges in the sixties which tried toact ,in loco parentiswith respect to drugbusts often found themselves in a worseposition, with the students defiantlyusing more drugs, not less, and refusing tobelieve warnings that were sincere. Ratherthan alienate itself from its student bodyby playing policeman, MIT has chosen toregard its students as adults capable ofmaking their own decisions - until theydevelop problems, and then the Institutestands ready to help with 'the largest'psychiatric staff of any major university.

Perhaps drug education has not, beenas good as it should be; there was a splashof newspaper articles and seminars in1969-1970 (albeit submerged beneathradical politics) but now concern hassubsided. Dick Sorenson reports that LSDuse seems to be going up this fall afterdropping steadily for a year, and perhapsthis is why Larry Harmon's story shouldbe printed. We may'scoff at sensational-ism via AP, but the tragedy in Spokaneshould remind us that psychochemicalsare not well understood, can be danger-ous, and thatt you are playing games withyour mind when you take them. LarryHarmon may well have had latentpsychotic tendencies; nevertheless, thedrug was clearly responsible for" precipi-tating them.

MIT's position on marijuana, that mildeuphoric, is fairly we'll known to be tacitapproval, as long'as the user is discreet.Complaints will result in 'such th'ings. aslast week's confiscation 'in MacGregor.And while the Institute will probablynever attempt to prosecute LSD users,LSD traffickers, if found out, mnay bereported to Cambridge policei accordingto Dean Sorenson.

MIT is no more a dope haven than anyo.ther American university. Probably less

so. We may speculate with grim humor,however, on what this publicity does tothe Institute's image. Certainly University

· High in Spokane will be wary of sendingmore students our way. No doubt thetarnish on MIT's reputation worries theadrhissions office a wee bit. But a Nobelprizewinner or Clean Air Car Race willrestore its luster. No sweat.

Life - and the Spokane DailyChronicle - presents us with a ball ofironies. Consider: Larry Harmon came toMIT intending to study nuclear physics,according to one press accounot. Likemany students, he probably would havechanged -his mind about -that, but let ussuppose he hadn't smoked grass, hadn'ttripped and had become a nuclearphysicist. Let us suppose he had become,like many another MIT graduate, aweapons·' researcher. As one of his oldroommates asked me, is his brand ofsanity less murderous than Larry's insani-ty? Whaat does "Shattered Statues LitterChurch" 'matter in Spokane when bombskeep dropping in Asia?

Norbert Wiener once said that thehuman brain, though plentifful in neurons,was not adequately equipped with inter-connections, that the cerebrum hadevolved so fast that it had not intercon-nected properly with the older parts ofthe brain, and that hence man was moreprone to- mental disorders than loweranimals. We are not smart enough tounderstand the world we are cleverenough to create; and sanity is the liecommonly agreed upon.

Directly and implicitly, Larry's fatherand some newspapers have tried to assignblame for his death. No such guilt exists.Larry was experimenting; those who

.supplied the pills could riot have knownthe consequence. Lai-y was clever; hedeceived many people about the depth ofhis psychosis. Perhaps the doctors inSpokane could have given hin -betterpsychiatric treatment. Perhaps his fathershould not have permitted- him to havehis own car and rifle. Pointless to say -the saddest tragedy is that which no onecan foresee or prevent, which comesabout through no one's evil intentions.

-Over the last three years, under theimpact of drugs and political upheaval,and the uncertainty of the times, we haveall known people who seemed to snap,break, demoralize,· flip out. Larry's isonly the most extreme case; we have seenand, I hope, learned from these experi-ences.

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o1ias anyone: knows -he had,� never e�;peri-'enced a religi6-iis.-hallucino6n-'-.untiI thefirst time Arippqd: oh'Jun6,21'-A969according tohis father'

Larry, accordin to his roommates, didnot get along well with hit parents anddid not want -td return lidine for .thesummer. He -enrolled in. summer schoolhere and stayed on in Burton with one ofhis. roommates. ln-lat� June-, Vhey decided-they' wanted to tripj and - got - some

sunshine'.7. from upper6lassmen,�on the�floor. This -Arug, was most likely a,combination of LSD and STP, a powerful-mescaline'7're'lated hallucinogen sometimes'said to 'compare "to acid as-acid dots tograss." The expdrience of taking it- hasbeen described as- "'an express train in theskull.," "an overload of mental energy."By. all accounts it'set''Larry Harmon offon a -three-day nightmare.in -which hesawhallmates with..btar& -as- Devils. Duhngthe trip he was driven to 'read the OldTestament -and out'this was later to comehis obsession with religion. -

Several days after -the first trip,apparently. wanting to- convince himselfthat his, -visions. 1a:d be'en'hallucifiatory,not real,,he-too-k, ffie" drug again - and.thevisions recurred,':---mor'e-.inte'nsely. 3histime, though the drug again wore off, the'religious ..'obsession remained. He beganseeing the devil in people on the street.

During-'this second trip-he phoned hisparents, told them he was'tripping, andsaid he wanted to come home.' Heapparently convinced the -MIT psychia-trist. who dealt with him that there wasnothing Arastically wrong; , his fatherbitterly notes that he, "talked to a doctorand officialsat MIT, who deprecated theseriousness of what 'had haippened" toLarry. He went home and was hospital-ised for four weeks, kept under sedation,but apparently received no psychiatrictreatment since' his Spokane physicianregarded his 'problem as brain damageresulting from the LSD

In the fall, he returned to M IT. Heseemed normal in. every Yes pect save one:he still saw' devils. Harvard Square, hesaid, was 90%'full -of them. After smokinga bit of grass, Larry �flashed back andstarted tripping. Then he began'flashingspontaineousb.;,he-couldn't stay alone in a-room with another Person. Thiee.wizeksinto the -term,-he withdrew from MIT -a .-ndreturned to Spokane.

His father's a6count tAkes over fromhere. Psychiatrists "held out no real hopefor a jeal cure." Lar' read the NewTestament, -and -became 'convinced ofChrist, s non-divinity'. 'The -family movedto Coeur D'Alene Lake,. where theyhoped hard work would cure Larry.

Larry sent two or three letters t&hisformer advisor Dean Rechard Sorenson.The last 'came in January of this year. Hewas speculating about returning to MIT.

Then, last March, Larry hopped - aplane for' Israel, Where he 'went to -thetomb of the Hol' Sepulchre and dese-crated 'the shrine by blowing out thecandles there, and cli upon. it. Hewas Arrested then released. to his father,who flew over after word of his son's

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E. Glenn H :~ !-elieves his son wentto St. Aloysius.-'O:?//~ to commit suicide.,"He could nots~~~ that no one would

listen to the ::it0t d 'truth' he hadfound in- two LSD.'Pills."

Whatever his mnotives, Larry's fate isthe same.

DikSorenson,, Larry's roommates, his

high school teachers: -all surprised,shocked. The head of the high school

mahdpartment: "He was one of thosenice people you me et, a boy you'df neverex'pect violence from." (When Charles

JWhitman climbed 'a. tower at the Univer--sity of Texas on August 1, 1966, and shot

J33 people, killing' 12, the same sorts ofJ' things were, said.) ''i.'. . ''

We received "a' -letter W'hic-h' snows aJ typical reaction to. the new*s of Larr'sjrampage'. It indicates how -ready people

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have their lives ruined by drugs. These articlesare being sent to you - not the admi-nistration- because I am afraid that-an aohninistrationthat condones drug experimentation would try.to keep knowledge of this under wraps.

I pray that publishing of this might avertfurther drug experimentation - and furthertragedies.

former student at MIT:- Mr. Harmon took LSDin an-,.MIT dorm on June 27,'1969 and alsoseveral days later.

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sketched during the course of aweekend: her non-elations with'her husband and friends; frus-trating memories of an affair;and so on. The cat bite, which atfit was an appropriate meta-phor for the theme, is over-worked and loses all its subtlety- even to the point where thehusband asks, "Do you want tobe rabid?" Sophie's reply: "If Iwas, I'd be equal to what's out-side."

It seems as if Gilroy IS on theverge of making a definite. state-ment about cities and people,but- he backs away. The city isindeed seen to be a reflection ofthe venom in his characters, butwhich came first - the charac-ters or the city? To put itdifferently, is the city that badbecause of the people in it, orare the people messed up be-cause of -the city they live in?Had Gilroy taken a stand-on thisquestion, the filmwould havebeen far more provoking.-A4t the Cirele Theatre,:Brookline

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: Frenchi CBy P.E..Schindler, Jr.-

Touted by many as a primecandidate for picture of the~year, The. French -Connectiondeserves ever one of the super-latives that have' been heaped onit everywhere it has been- re-viewed... .

Pictured righi is the directorof this film, William Friedlkin,who sculpted a cinematic .mas-terpiece from several accurateportrayals: New York City, nar-cotics officers as humans, andthe thrill of the boring chtse-.

Although New York. City ismerely a background for theaction, its presence can be felt inevery scene, as the city exhibitsits seamier side for all to see andmarvel at. Garbage, escapingsteam, the freaks and misfits.who .,walk- around. behind thestars all seem as real asilast weekat Broadway and 42nd street.One ,big--stake-out in the fihnl isspoiled by a` group of Chicanocar thieves, which lends thewhole movie an -authentic air-

Gene Hackman., who has re-ceived deserved praise -for hold-ing down the active'half of thedetective team, portrays whathas to be the most life-like cop-in recent film. history. As Doyle,he and his'partner mug their waythrough a number of infonnants,gathering- information 'whichleads to the big bust.-

We -see-tite pair at play, atwork, and asleep. The sleep partcomes during several of thelengthier stakeouts, in whichFriedkin manages to impart theboredom of 'real police workwithout boring the auice inthe process. The name if thegame: here-is involvement, and it

By Emmanuel GoldmanWatching a Frank Gilroy film

is sort of like being in a badT-group: interpersonal conflicteverywhere, weakness and ugli-ness exposed, but absolutely no-thing resolved. First in The Sub-ject Was Roses, then I NeverSang for my Father, and nowDesperate Characters, Gilroy cre-ates an enormous abyss betweenpeople, an abyss which the char-acters have no idea how to tra-verse.

What makes this film so dead-ening, in spite of the fact that itis basically well-made, is thatnothing is learned either by thecharacters in the film, or by the

viewer watching it. Why take outyour dirty laundry in ,publicunless you intend to demon-strate how to clean it -or at-least, how not to clean it?

To be fair, Desperate Charac-ters has another theme. Set inBrooklyn (that well-known ha-ven of brotherly love), the filmmakes several correlations 'be-tween the outer state of theenvirons and the inner state ofthe protagonists. A stray catbites Sophie for no reason; peo-ple lie in the street; sirens wail; aman talks. to himself on thesubway - and no' one paysattention. In parallel to this, thepattern of Sophie's life-style is

records:

Scaggs, Dreams, et al. Alfred Eric Street, French classical guitarist, will appear in KresgeLitLIe Theatre on Monday, November 29, at 8:15 pro. Iri a programSponsored by the MIT Classical Guitar Society, Street will performworks by Frescobaldi, Purcell, Scarlatti, Bach, Tansman, and others.Admission is $.50 for M IT students, $1.00 otherwise.

Boz Scaggs & Band - Columbia"This album is really lousy,"

said Brenda to Cindy, tossing thenew Grateful Dead double al:bum back into the record bin. Itwas=Wednesday afternoon, and itwas custOm that on Wednesdayafternoons,' after school, Cindy,and her best girlfriend Brenda,and Debbie, and Joanne, andEddie, Steve, Kevin, and Jay(they had a group named Titanium Sweat) would truck on downto the local record' store andperuse the new arrivals.

"yeah, a real bummer,"agreed Eddie. But ' Cindy saidnothing, for she had other thingson her mind. Like how she wasflunking Mr. -Quigly's sophomorecivics class. Like how she hadjust broken up with Barry. -So,while the others were grabbingarmloads of the new Zeppelin,and live Humble Pie, and TenYears After, and the new BlackSabbath, Cindy, not really.knowing why, picked up a copyof Boz Scaggs & -Band. Perhaps.she remembered Boz's hit of lastspring, "We Were Always Sweet-hearts." That was when she hadfirst started going Out' with Bar-.ry. He taught her how to tie-dye.

Back home, Cindy put :her -purchase on her Record Club ofAmerica stereo system. And shedidn't believe what she heard atall. Not at all. Clean, fluid guitarand pulsating organ riffs. Svweet-sounding horns purng in -thebackground. Boz and his peoplesinging the blues and C&W andboogie-woogie. Why., you couldeven understand the words. Saxsolos and love songs, electricpiano and close-fitting har-monies. Funky and jumpy. Andpeaceful, too. She was so5 ysti-fied by these strange new vibesthat. she didn't notice she wassitting on her favorite GrandFunk album. And she hadn'teven lit any incense.

After supper, Brenda calledto ask if she wanted -to go downto Eddie's and listen to theTitanium Sweat jam. But Cindysaid no. And went and listenedto both sides of Baz S$cags &

Band again. Then she played"Love Anyway" a couple timesin a row. It made her think of.Bary and it made her feel un-'ha'ppy.:

_ Just then, the phone began toAing.

Imagine My Surprise - Columbia- If you like -thevcartoons of

Gahan Wilson, then buy this'album as he does- the frontcover: you can hang_ it on yourwall, and make the album intoan ashtray with some boilingwater.

if you dig Frank Zappa, thenI don't 'see how you can dowithout the title cut of ImagineMy Surprise, a splendid 8-minute,Mothers' spoof written and sungby Randy Brecker, who has Zap-

_pa's voice down cold.If you're into, good-soundin'

music n- .generi,:-thqn here'sanother -40 minutes, of it.Dreams is a big band, a la Chica-go. But they.axen'tTop 40 likeChicago. Ter? emfnts(;arecleaner, ci"sper,'! less" Clutteredand more interesting; a truerrock and jazz synthesis. They doa simply incredible,, version. of

Traffic's "Medicated Gooe, andthere isn't a -weak cut:~ on the--'album. OK, so maybe they :do'use a lot of gurgling wah-wahguitar, but the whole production{by- Steve Cropper) is SO precisejand the harmonies so fine, thatyou don't notice redundancy,and you never. lose interest Justthe kind of alb.m a reviewerlikes to find buried in a pile ofnew releases. Imagine my --sur-prise . ..

Mordicai Jones - PolydorWhen you listen to this al-

bum, you'll hear a semi-famouspicker named Link Wzay playqngguitar, dobro, and neat pedalsteel, Mordicai sminghi the songsand blowing hSot licks out hisharp, Billy twisting away on thescratcher, .ad someone pitt hing

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is piayed ver, very well indeed.Every --scene.draws:i audiencefurthe'r. and -;further ..into - thestory. -

The thrill'of the boring chasemight be called the key to thewhole ,fimt.: There'is only o0ereally dramlatic= chase scene. inthe fili, --and that is very nearthe end, yet -the 'entire filmbuilds to it. We watch as tiny

·clues are discovered and piecedtogether by skUll, luck, intuition,and court-ordered wiretap. Asmall-time Italian is spotted in abig restaurant, tailed, staked out,wiretapped, followed, and inves-tigated, until he leads to a giantheroin shipment, imported inthe car of a prominent French-movie star, at the' behest of aFrench engineer. The set-up, the

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has less than a twelfth of thepopulation of the world it usesOver a quaffer of the energy pro-duced. This was but one of thefacts presented by David White,Ford Professor of Engineering,and Electrical Engineering doc-toral candidate Marty Boughmanin the "Energy Crisis' seminarlast Thursday.

There is apparently a correla-tion between a nation's GrossNational Product and its, con-sumption of energy.' The USwith a level of about $4000 percapita uses some 300 millionBTU per person per year.

The rate of energy expendi-ture has been growing at asteady four percent a year forthe past century and a half. Ifthis were- to continue for ano-ther one hundred' and fiftyyears, the thermal release ofenergy consumed would beapproximately one percent of

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in with fime bottleneck. Andother stuff, too. Cajun Mojo,Swamp-Cowboy, Prairie Naviga-tor. Recorded at Link's shack inAccokeek, Maryland, JlordicoiJones is a.bluesy album of unre-fined, dowri-home music. It'sloose. It's happy. And'it's good.

Son of America - Seemon &Marijke - A&M

Seemor and Marlike playwhat might be called American-Gypsy m'usic.....Personally, itdidn't appeaT to-me, but perhapsit might'--tO.you if you digtambourines- and bazoukis. Thealbum is prodU'ued by Graham

the sun's incoming radiation-In referring to this -aspect,

White said' "It' could be likewe're all living in Miami; then,again, it. could be like we'reliving somewhere else."

To bring the prediction. closerto home, it was noted that theUS already releases one six-hundredth of the solar energy itreceives. If this were magnifiedto a global-scale, the environ-me.nt could not withstand it.Not to mention melting of thepolar cap, there would also be agigantic release of carbon diox-ide from the oceans which con-tain some sixty times the atmo-spheric concentration.

Returning' to economic con-siderations, energy concerns takeup nearly one-fifth of the capital'investment in the US, thoughenergy is still cheap at threepercent of the GNP. Now, asnuclear plants become increas-ingly necessary, the capitalinvestment per plant will

Marike?Nash, and among the peoplewho lend a hand or voice fromcut to cut are Joni Mitchell, RitaCoolidge, Booker T., and ChrisEthridge and Sneeky Pete, ofFlying Burrito Brothers fame.The title cut is probably thebest, a C&W hit about JackTyrie, a Hollywood stuntmanwho was killed in Vietnam. Itseems his friends have erected alife-size fiberglass statue of Jacksomewhere in ,the HollywoodHills, and the album publicizesthe fact that they'd like to re-place it with one 150 feet tall- Ifthat interests you, write to A&M,records.-

fields now known hold only threeyears supply. Presently, we arein fact robbing underdevelopedcountries of their natural resour-ces to support our high standardof living.

White noted that now thatthere is a flattening of gains inefficiency of power productionat 40%, the only recourse will benuclear plants. There 'is effec-tively a delay of 30 yearsbetween the time when a newenergy source is' discovered untilthe time it can become a signifi-cant factor. Solar energy isimpractical at the present stateof technology and geothermalsources are already being moder-ately tapped; neither canbecome important until the turnof the century.

It is very likely that by 2000,as electricity becomes more andmore the energy common

increase but be balanced by thelesser cost of fuel.

Nationally, five energy sour-ces are used but there is regionaldiversification. New Englanddepends on oil for 3% of itsenergy and, as it has no suchresources, it is an energy defi-cient region. The East and Northrely mostly on solid fuels and oilwhile the West and South use gasand oil. The national breakdownis 20% coal; 33% gas; 43% petro-leum; 1% nuclear; and 3% hydro-electric.

Humble Oil Company hasprojected nearly a doubling ofpetrochemical requirements by1985 with 28 million barrels perday compared to a domesticproduction of only 6 million.Even sooner, in 1975, the USwill be producing only 8 millionbarrels to meet a demand of 18million.-

The Alaska find, and anyothers that may be discovered inthe region, will not boost ourreserves. greatly. The Alaskan oil

denominator, forty percent ofour energy will come from nuc-lear sources; There is presently athirteen year construction timefor such plants, but this shouldsdecrease. Present fuel processingcapabilities are sufficientbecause -of military drives of thepast. More importantly, thereare significant proven reserves ofnuclear fuel; many were foundduring explorations in the '60'sbut as uranium is now cheapsuch efforts have all but ceased.

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ing on passing and defense.Brown looks to be the team'stop scorer. Coach Barry is con-vinced-that center Jerry Hudson'73 will demonstrate- the mostimprovement, assuring the squadof a solid front court attack. ·

The 'loss of guards BruceWheeler and Gerry Loe throughgraduation posed the biggestproblem for the team this year.However, this varsity is- thebiggest squad in years and thereare many bright candidates forthe back court positions. Thestarters in the two scrimmages

-played to date have been MinotCleveland and Ray White '74..Cleveland returned to the squadafter a one year absence fromthe Institute, and .. is a fineshooter besides 'being experi-enced as a guard.

White is Barry's accomplish-ment: the coach describes him asvery coachable and says, "Rayworked himself into the startingguard spot. I believe he'll be ableto do the job." Other candidatesfor the job are Walter Stanley

By S. HollingerMIT's basketball team, hot

prospects foir a winning year,will begin their season on De-cember 1 at Tufts. Coach JohnBarry believes there are t keyrequirements which will deter-mine how the season will go forthe hoop squad: I ) they willneed improved play from theexperienced forwards, and 2) theanswer to the guard question.

All of the front-court menfrom last year's 1 1-10 squad arereturning but there is a prob-lem. Co-captain and starting for-

-ward Bill Godfrey '72 is againhaving trouble with the foot heinjured last year, causing him tomiss a significant part of theseason. He sat on the benchduring the scrimmage with Suf-folk, but has been back in prac-tice for a week and probably willbe ready to play by the Tuftsopener.

Co-captain Hal Brown '72,the other starting forward, hasalways been strong on offense,and this year Hal has been work-

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The MIT gymnastics teamsmashed six records as they out-classed the opposition Saturdayat the University of Bridgeport.The team scored 126.63 tobreak the old team record by 3.7points. In fact, MIT has neverseen an opposing team score thathigh either. Danny Bocek '72became the first MIT gymnast toscore above nine as he scored 9.1on the vaulting horse. Larry Bellscored the most points everscored in one meet by a Techgymnast, 40.57. Dave Beck '72broke the individual floor exer-cise record with 8.37, and along,with Bell and-Bocek -broke theteam record for the event with22.47./It was a fantastic openingfor the season. -

The meet opened with therecord performance on the floor.Beck, Bell and Bocek finishedwith first, second, and fourthplaces. Their performance wasespecially great because of theless-than-ideal setup they had towork on. The pommel- horseteam was markedly improvedover last week's practice meet, asthey produced the largest marginof victory of any event and infact doubled Bridgeport's score.Paul Bayer '73 with 7.43, DennisDubro '73, 6.83, and Bell, 5.73,swept the first three places withtheir 19.99.

The rings brought the second1-2-3 sweep led by senior DaveMillman's 7.37. SophomoreJarvisMiddleton pulled in another ofhis second places with 6.83,- apersonal high, and Larry-Bellwas again in the scoring with a6.03. The vaulting horse broughtBocek's second performance andanother top' three sweep. BothDonn Wahl and Neil Davies '74broke the eight barrier with 8.13and 8.0 for an impressive (butnot record) 25.23.

The parallel bar eventbrought Larry Bell's highestevent score and first place. His8.27 with sophomore Andy

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Captain Dave Beck '72 performsMIT's record-breaking win overbroke the individual record in fieRubel's second place 7.9 andcaptain Beck's 6.53 for fourthcombined for the second highestevent score, 22.7. Up to thispoint the-team had 110.62 andhopes of reaching 130. Unfor-tunately, the lfigh bar was adisappointment. Top finisherNeil Davies with 6.37 and thirdplace Bell with 5.47 producedfine routines, but the other threein the event did not perform asexpected. Freshman Scott Fos-

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