California Tech, v. 97:6, October 27, 1995

Midterms! They "suck the paint off your house and... The California ECH •give your family a permanent, orange afro!" from Spies Like Us Volume XCVII, Number 6 Pasadena, California Friday, October 27, 1995 Astronaut Encourages Support of Women, Minorities in Science by Amy Herr force in combined efforts with minorities do not continue on in more abundant than a zero-sum The Women's Center, The Y, The careers relating to math or sci- equation. Demands for equal- It is the nature of this flower to bloom, writes Alice Walker, and bloom she has. Dr. Mae C. Jemison: Chemical Engineer, Scientist, Physician, Teacher, As-tronaut, African-American Scholar, and Dancer. Dr. Jemison entered Stanford University on scholarship at age 16, where she earned a Chemical Engineering degree. From there, she continued her education at Cornell Medical College and, in 1981, graduated with a Doctorate in Medicine. Combining her keen intellect with her never-ending compassion, Dr. Jemison worked in Sierra Leone and Liberia (through the Peace Corps), Cuba, Kenya, Thailand, and Los Angeles. In the late 1980's, NASA selected her as an astronaut on a joint US-Japan mission. On September 12, 1992, aboard STS-47 on En-deavor, Dr. Jemison became NASA's first Science Mission Specialist and history's first woman of color to peer at Earth from some 200 miles above. The Multi-Cultural task Student Affairs Office, and The ity should not be taken to be Society of Women Engineers, offered the Caltech Community an opportunity to acquaint itself with this remarkable woman on October 18th, as part of Kaleidoscope 95: United by Our Simi-larities, Celebrating our Differ-ences. What did Dr. Jemison have to say to the community? Of course, we learned of her outstanding achievements and enthusiasm for science; but, more importantly, Dr. Jemison delivered a specific message about minorities and women in science. Realistically, Dr. Jemison acknowledged the common perception of any discussion about Dr. Jemison explains these unacceptable statistics through her Zero Sum Equation analogy. This analogy explains that the Demands for equality should not be taken to be threats, equitable distribu-tron of opportuni ties can only help everyone involved -Dr. Mae Jemison threats, equitable distribution of opportunities can only help everyone involved. Simply because 01 other underrepresented person doesn't look or act like a stereotypical scientist, doesn't mean he/she isn't a scientist, given the chance. In fact, Dr. Jemison believes that women and minorities can bring new insight and understanding to science, partly because of their unique perspec-tives. And how should minorities and women become incorporated into the scientific commu-nity? Dr. Jemison suggests a five gender and ethnicity as a turn- part solution: off. Yet, she recognizes that the most scientifically privileged per- 1. Commitment to a sound intellectual resources of this sons consider something added education for all children, country are not being tapped; to the other side of the equation 2. Adults behaving as they that is something she urges us all (i.e. to those underrepresented want their children to act (in- to change. Quoting figures given in the scientific community) as cluding having by Dr. Jemison: merely 7% of something subtracted from their open attitude towards change), PhD's in physics go to women, side of the equation. We are 3. Distinctions constructed while a meager 2% go to African-more intelligent than that, Dr. between what an image is and Americans and Hispanics, and Jemison urged, we must include what a role-model should be, 4. Acknowledgment of the dependence of the scientific community on society as a whole and of the dependence of society on science, and, finally, 5. Recognition of past fall-ures and successes Dr. Jemison has no doubt that together these five points will be a step forward for our society and a move towards the de-stratification of our communi-ties. As a result of this change, she surmises that science will harness the entire range of human potential. But is this enough? Dr. Jemison implores us to question the damage that 200 to 400 years of oppression has brought about; can that be undone by simply saying it is over, if that in itself is even possible? Beyond developing a society that grants all aspiring scientists and engineers op portunity, there remains a final hurdle. "The only reason I am SEE JEMISON, P. 3 more than 67% of women and all of our citizens, for life is much Grad Students Shine in Saturday's College Bowl by Mason A. Porter On Saturday morning, Caltech held its first College Bowl Tournament in several years in the hopes of fielding a regional team during that competition next February. After eating bagels provided by Sam's Bagels, the morning competition began. This division was won by Damned Scurves (and a Flem), consisting of Sophomores Kiran Sheker, Geoff Smith, Brandon VandeBrake, and Tai Lam, and Junior Jamie Walls. They went undefeated in the five game competition. Other teams in the morning division were The Usual Suspects, Four Moles and a Funeral, and Free Radicals (whose team member and mascot Ben Williamson insisted they were known as The Lambada Ar-mada). Though some morning teams even found that it was difficult to answer questions while half asleep, those in the afternoon division had no such prob-lems. The Herpolhodes won six games without a loss against six other teams, including the Barking Spiders and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The team consisted of graduate students Richard Mason, Daniel Gottesman, Scott Kelly, and Russel Todres. Later in the afternoon, the Herpolhodes defeated Damned Scurves (and a Flem) in two consecutive playoff rounds to gain the intramural victory. The winners won prizes provided by Sam's Bagels, Tower Records, Starbucks Coffee, and Hamburger Hamlet. In This Issue: In what has become an annual tradition, Chem 1 freshmen throw Professor Nathan Lewis into the Millikan reflecting pool. Happy birthday, Nate! LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IHC NEWS YNEWS ASCIT MINUTES CALENDAR SPORTS VCR+ AND BEYUND NOTICES ANNOUNCEMENTS 2 October 27, 1995 OPINION The Calforma Tech ENVIRONMENTAL OPINION PROVOKES READER RESPONSE Capitalism a Fundamental right? It greatly disturbs me to see articles such as Autumn Looijen's "Quest for Profit Destroys Environment" of October 20, 1995 in the newspaper of one of the greatest science and technology institutes in the world. In her article, Ms. Looijen claims that mankind is going to have to "be content with what we have" (meaning our standard of liv-ing), to "be prepared to accept stiffer measures," or else see our planet ruined and our race ex-tinguished. Ms. Looijen identifies a right "not explicitly guaranteed in the Constitution... the right to make money" as "the root cause of many of our most pressing environmental prob-lems." This right may have to be taken away, she says. She seems to imply that because it is not a right guaranteed explicitly by the Constitution, it would be legal and even proper to do so. The Constitution is a document of principle. Its essential purpose is to guarantee us those Rights upon which our country was founded, "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" as es tablished by our Declaration of Independence. These are the fundamental Rights; those listed in the Bill of Rights are some of their most important derivatives. The right to make money is one more such derivative. In desiring to take away man's right to make money, Ms. Looijen and her ideological gang really want to take away his Rights to liberty, the pursuit of happiness and, ulti-mately, to life. She is advocating a government which dictates to each man how he may earn money and what he may do with the money he does earn: a government which dictates some of the most crucial aspects of his life. This is not liberty. No man (not even those doing the dictat-ing) can be truly happy under such a government. This is certainly not the life which the Founding Fathers fought to secure for us. What truly disgusts me is the philosophical view of man and the universe implied by Ms. Loojen's projection of our fu-ture. Man is a profoundly unique being in that he possesses the faculty of reason. It is this faculty which has allowed him to progress from a brief, painful life consisting mainly of roaming from field to field, picking berries to assuage his constant hunger during moments when he is not fleeing some equally hungry beast, a life completely devoted to maintaining his physical re-quirements, to one in which a CA TECH public events EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED Armchair Adrentures NARRATED BY KEN ARMSTRONG FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1995 8 PM Beckman Auditorium Regular Prices: $9.00 - 7.00 OPERA A LA CARTE THE MAGIC OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1995 / 8 PM Beckman Auditorium Regular Prices: $28.00 - 25.00 - 22.00 Paco A. Lagerstrom Chamber Music Concerts PAUL GALBRAITH "Orphereon" guitar (with 8 strings) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1995 / 3:30 PM Dabney Lounge FREE Transcriptions of Bach's complete violin compositions. CIT STUDENTS: CALTECH - DISCOUNTS Half price for all events $8.00 RUSH tickets day of show (subiect to availability) CIT STAFF / FACULTY: S2.00 off for all events Hall price TECHTIX available day of show (subject to availability) Call the Caltech Ticket Office al x4652 minimum of effort secures his physical existence and he is free to truly live. To compose the "Ju-piter" symphony or to write Les Miserables, to discover the code of life in DNA or the code of the universe in superstring theory, to create unimaginably powerful computers or to send men and spacecraft to explore the solar system. Ms. Looijen says it's all a big joke on man. Just as he glimpses the brilliant future he seems capable of, he finds that it was all an illusion. His technol-ogy, his method of dealing with reality, his faculty of reason, is impotent to achieve it. With reason undermined, there is no place for passion or wonder, love or ambition in her world; the fab ric of it isn't strong enough to support their weight. The only future open to him is to renounce this glorious life, to deny his rational faculty when it tells him that his lot can be better, to condemn himself and future generations to stagnation. I can think of no idea more malevo-lent, more thoroughly nihilistic, than this. This is the critical issue raised by Ms. Looijen's article, not the root of environmental problems, but something far more important, a metaphysical issue. (The root cause of any environmental problems is a lack of long-term planning, which is encouraged by the government ACADEMY BARBER SHOP 27 N. Catalina Ave., Pasadena Open Tues.-Sat., 7:30 A.M.-4:00 P.M. (818) 449-1681 Afraid of AIDS? If you think that sex causes AIDS you've been misled! "As applied, the HIV theory is unfalsifiable, & therefore useless as a medical hypothesis. 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There is no place here for its spiritual antithesis. Eric R. Westphal Environmentalism Short-Sighted Last week Autumn Looijen gave us a tract on profit seeking and the damage this does to the environment. As a provoking opinion it has obviously suc-ceeded. If it was meant as a coherent and defensible statement I fear it failed quite spectacularly. The title and ends of the article strongly imply that profit-seeking itself leads to damage to the environment — not that there is any other recommendation for organizing the economy. This is reinforced by Looijen's contention that we must reduce our consumpuon to save the environ-ment. Alas, the chosen examples are wholly inadequate to making any broad philosophical point. The cars we drive are rather pol-luting, yes, and trash is a problem - but these are from flaws in the market systems. The cost of polluting cars is not well reflected in their price, and waste in of itself can hardly be necessarily an evil — we all produce waste, which some other lifeform considers food, and around we go, The economy simply lacks the saprophytic stage of the cycle. But if better mechanisms were in place profit seeking would drive people to be more efficient and ecologically cor-rect. And deforestation is hardly a fair example in this country, which subsidizes public logging to an extreme degree. One might as well cite California farmers for growing rice and alfalfa in the desert when the water is politically controlled. But while pollution of our own environment is quite shortsighted (in both time and space) certain strands of environmentalism (which Looijen may or may not be fully espousing) are just as short-sighted in a longer term way. According to our current physical understanding life itself is bad for its own environ-ment. Energy is constant and entropy increases, so any complex dynamic system surviving in a gradient contributes to the deterioration of that gradient by its own operation. True conserva tion lies in not moving at all, in not living. All else is a matter of degree. Shall we huddle in a cold dark room, eking out generation after generation until the Sun gives out, or live quickly, but burning brightly and gloriously? This is a matter of choice, but the decision between the stars and the shadows is not universally clear. Or as binary as I have presented it. So telling us to reduce our consumption independent of the efficiency of that consumption is simple dogma pushing I would also like to note that people tend to maximize something in all societies. We strive for profits and goods; others for less tangible forms of status. Financial profits do have the virtue of being visible and manipulable if one wishes to manipulate behav-ior. And lastly... Looijen concludes that "We must be prepared to accept stiffer measures, including taking away that cherished right to make money. After all, the alternative is taking away the future of our race." If someone is attacking your immediate livelihood through theft or pollution you have a generally (I sweep aside hordes of cultural exceptions) acknowledged right to save yourself. But if you feel someone is "consuming too much" you should think very carefully about what measure of violence you are willing to use to make her comply with your vision of how life should live. Damien R. Sullivan The California ECH atech 4y8 "4b. vasadena LASTIC : (818) 395-6153 VOLUME XCVII, NUMBER 6 OCTOBER 27, 1995 Copy EpiTor Shay Chinn LAYOUT ROTOR Autumn Looter Samantha Gizerian MISCELLANEOUS EDITOR Mason Porte Stephen Van Hooser STATE ARMINISE Stephen Van Hooser Mason Porte Mytanwy Callahan Maria Huang FEaTURe WrITER: Adam Villan EVENTS AND NOTICeS Terry Moran BUSINESS HANdGE 328 CIRSULATON Sander Granat Donna Ebenstein Published weekly except dur ing vacation and examination perod by the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology, Inc exeressed nereth are stricty those of the authors. Letters and announcements are welcome. All contributions should number and the intended date of pubiation am is prefere mal to ecuors@uech.caurcn.enu. 1fl4 editors reserve the right to edit and pediency, etc. All articles are the prop ery or me durnors. namors cha co: umnists retain all intellectual prop erty rights. The California Tech is distrib uted tree. Issues will be malled oft-camous toon receiptor sil per yed to cover third-class postage and preparation costs. Printed by News-Type Service, Glendale The California Tech Jemison: CONTINUED FROM PAGE here today is because of affirm ative action." Dr. Jemison assures us, "I was very talented, but unless somebody (i.e. Stanford) made the positive step of trying to include more people, I would not be where I am." Thus, Dr. Jemison is a true example not only of what one can make of life, regardless of obstacles; but, an example of what can happen when institutions and people in positions of power take the attitude that different types of people can bring different important insights to the scientific world. Sure, Dr. Jemison agrees, we must do things for ourselves. "... but, you can dig a hole for someone so deep that they can't get out. You can put someone in a position they cannot escape from. You walk by them in that hole screaming for help and you have the responsibility to help - just as those in the hole have the responsibility to try and get out. Ignore it and you are guilty, whether it was your fault they were put in the hole or not." In coming to Caltech, Dr. Jemison brought the objective of enlightening us as to the position of minorities and women in science because it is a problem. She conjectured some basic solutions to the zero-sum equation analogy — an equation which perpetuates fear towards diversification. These solutions could remove present partitions in the scientific community, with regards to who receives certain educational opportunities. In addition to those solutions, she asserts that we must each be armed with un-derstanding, whether a student, scientist, professor, or parent. This understanding develops what Dr. Jemison feels is most important to our scientific and national communities - that is, a responsibility of tolerance. Benedetti Reviews CDs .... Steely Dan-Alive in America There's nothing in these 11 flawless performances to make you think that they were recorded live-no weird arrangements, silly covers, or crowded singalongs. And while this perfectionism is the ideal backdrop for solo upon not-perfect solo, I miss Jerome Aniton. Caspar Brotzman and F.M. Einheit-Merry Christmas Einheit (on hammer and drill) and Brotzman (on over-amped guitar) run for 55 minutes. After a couple of listens I still can't tell whether these are elaborately constructed songs or thrown-together noodling. And if you like this sort of thing, it shouldn't matter. October 27, 1995 3 IHC Minutes 12 October 1995 Present: Tom (chair), Laura (Secretary), Bill (Da), Brian (Fl), Nestor (LI), Mike (Pa), Art (Ri), Adil (Ru) People show up at 12:15 p.m. I leave at 12:45 p.m. Meeting begins about 1:00pm. Minutes this week by Tom with embellishment by Laura. Yeah. We passed the shoot the moon clause for interhouse sports. Art made the motion, which states that if a house loses every game of every sport all year long without forfeiting, they can challenge the house with the most trophy points for the trophy in any major at the end of the year. The challenging house must bring beer. Tom passed out fliers for people to go to a taping of a TV show and get paid for it. Barbara Green wants to make sure that when student affairs people come to lunch in the houses, someone is there to greet them and sit with them. She'll give the president some notice when they will be coming. She said there were mixed results last year, and since they will be thinking about bringing faculty in the future, she'd like to make sure there are no bad experiences. Bring Tom your Ath lists. He wants to have a copy of the Ath lists so if someone wants to check them while the gym is closed they can, and also to check for duplicate names. IHC Minutes 19 October 1995 Present: Tom, Laura, Bill, Nestor, Adil, Vogel, Art, Leonard Sung (Lloyd Ath Man) Pumpkin Drop: Each house agrees to give Dabney $50 for the drop this year, and they expect to get money from ASCIT (probably $50) as well. Meetings won't be in SAC 64 until the furniture is removed from there. Check the door for meeting locations though SAC 25 and Clubroom A (room 13) are likely choices. Art ask that house refrain from RFing the Ricketts Pot because it is falling apart. Just remember: "Don't mess with the pot." An Addendum to the "shoot the moon" clause is proposed and voted in 5-0-0. It states that if the team which is going to "shoot the moon" has another team forfeit against them then it doesn't count as a win for the purposes of shooting the moon. Nestor wants screws from Page. Lloyd voices complaint about Ricketts' reffing of the Da/Ll game, claiming that the slide rule was not called. Everyone decides that the reffing was probably equally bad for the whole game and that nothing needs to be done about it. Finding competent refs is discussed and we agree that the general rule of providing one ref from each playing team is an alternative in the case of bad reffing, when agreed on by both playing teams. Disco order: This weekend, Page vs. Fleming in Ultimate Frisbee. Lloyd challenges the winner. That's All Folks Respectfully submitted Laura Brady, IHC Secretary Avery Committee: The Avery committee to make recommendations about Avery House to Gary Lordon, Vice President of Student Affairs, consists of myself (David Wales), Kim West, Myfanwy Callahan, Diana King, Marsha Maxwell, Nestor Ocampc, Maria Satterwhite, Jeanne Wison. If you have any comments of suggestions about Avery as we hold open meetings, please contact any of us. Our emails are dbw@cco, kwest@starbasel, myfanwy@ugcs,king@cco,marmax@cco, no@cco, mariafs@cco, jeannew@ugcs. PAIGE, I'VE FIGURED OUT WHY YOU'RE 50 AFRAID OF QUINGY. FoxTrot by Bill Amend I'LL BET BY AND WHY'S THAT? THE TWo of You NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO BOND PROPERLY. THIS TIME TOMORROW, YOU'LL BE INSEPARABLE. JASON, IF THIS WET STUFF ON HIS CHEST IS GLUE... 001A # 1995 Bill Amend/Oist. 1 YOU KNOW YOU'VE MADE IT RIGHT WHEN THE FUMES WAKE YOU UP FRIDAY NIGHT ASCIT MOVIE "A TERRIFIC MEX OF ACTION AND HUMOR." STALLONE SNIPES DEMOLITION MAN NEXT WEEK: Baster Lecture Oall S1 SO MOIT members LA STORY Cines: 7:30 & 10.00 $2.00 All other LAEMMLE THEATRES ESQUIRE 2670 E. Colorado Blvd. (818) 793-6149 COLORADO 2588 E. Colorado Blvd. (818) 796-9704 Merchant-Ivory's Feast of July Jane Austen's PERSUASION Daily 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 p.m. Sat-Sun Bargain Matinee 2:10 p.m. Daily 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 p.m. Sat-Sun Bargain Matinee 1:45 p.m. 4 October 27, 1995 The California Tech Official ASCIT Minutes There: Jon, James, Dave, Tom, Greg, Laura, Melissa, Darth, Andrew Huntington, and Alex Lin. Not There: Kanna and Ken Meeting officially begins at 10:04 PM. Ricketts House requests multihouse funding for Oktoberfest in November with Fleming. Kanna will give Ricketts check eventually. The notokan Karate Club asks for about $150-200 in funding to feed/house Shotokan specialists and to pay for some of the niceties associated with progession from one belt to the next. We decide to hold off funding them until Kanna tells us how much we have left in our budget. Alex asks for about $100-150 in funding for the CCSA/KSA party held on Saturday. They originally showed up to get funding at the meeting the BOD cancelled; chus, they're not coming to us to ask for money after the event. We decide to hold off funding until ... ditto. Jon and Tom talk about the athletic teams' monopoly on the ASCIT Van (I thought you needed 3 to get a monopoly). on and lom and other members of the BOD express the desire to see the Athletic department purchase their own van. We'll ask Grace to discuss this with the Athletic department; on might also discuss this with Sharyn Slavin. In the interim, we suggest to Laura that the van signout should have some restrictions placed upon it to prevent such a monopoly. Someone suggests letting people sign out the van only up to a week in advance. I think we should put booby traps in the van similar to those in MacGyver - if the team can disarm the trap in time, they can take it out. Otherwise, they die horribe grizzly deaths. Jon reads off a brainstormed list of ideas to help offset the $9000 that ASCIT Movies spends every year. Renting movies and hooking up a VCR and goat sacrifice are not listed, but hey. Jon then reads off a lists of ideas to fix the federal budget and do away with all crime and war. Greg asks Jon to clarify the suggestions before sending them out to Peter Manca. Maybe goat sacrifice is still feasible. Imagine this - you've just bought a ticket, you're settled into your seat with your coke or candy, the lights go out, and all of the sudden, hey, the projector breaks. Before the movies team has a chance to announce a short 20 minute delay while they get the second one running, somebody throws a goat (a small goat) (a DWARF goat) (or maybe just a dwarf) in front of the screen and GIVES IT AN AMA 95 PROBLEM SET! It is generally agreed that the Movies Team should write a letter to the Tech explaining their financial predicament and their requirement to raise ticket prices, shortly followed by an actual raise in ticket prices. Jon has chosen 4 people (Alison Slemp, Dave Bacon, Stephanie Haussman, and Steven Bennett) as well as two alternates (Adam Villani and Neil Jones) to be upon the Core Curriculum Council. The Faculty Board also asked Jon if it was a good idea to get Caltech to set up a voucher system with the Pasadena Cab Co. SO THAT Techers stranded in Pasadena could hail a cab to take them back to Tech instead of walking back and getting mugged. James argues that everybody should be mugged once as part of the L.A. experience. The faculty are also complaining about the speeds of bicyclists on campus and they may have security enforce bicycle speed laws on campus if the problem persists. Engineering and MIS Opportunities WORLD (I can't wait to see this. I want pictures.) Melissa will send the letter for requests for the UROH to Graphic Arts. Graphic Arts will then mail the letter to everyone on the faculty, all Post-Docs, all grad students, and most of France. AH! VIVE LA FRANCE! Laura will run live wires throught Graphic Arts in an attempt to get them to input copy account numbers faster than they've been doing it. Greg mentions the upcoming Halloween Party in the SAC coutryard. It should cost less than $1500. ASCIT has to pay for 1 security guard to stop bicyclists from speeding through the party. Tom's cold is back. Say hi to Tom and then stand back. The IHC meets Tuesdays at 9. Dave is going to rewrite the election bylaws with Dave Derkits (who wrote most of the bylaws we currently have). Dave also wants to put something in the Tech explaining the purpose, design and underlying motives of ASCIT. James says it's been a BAD BOC week. GAVIN (who mysteriously materialized into the room) has no Tech Editor salary information for us yet. He'll give it to us next week. The truth is out there. DoveRlepa ASCIT Secretary Y NEWS by Donna Ebenstein HALLOWEEN is coming!!! I know it's the middle of midterms, but the Y has come up with a way to enjoy Halloween and decompress a little during exam time. There will be brownies, cake, and cookies to eat, as well as movies to watch, in the Y Lounge from 8 p.m. until Midnight on Tuesday, October 31. So stop by, grab a snack, and relax for awhile. Then, at midnight, you can go and watch the pumpkin drop from Millikan library. So come to the Y on Halloween. For a slightly more commonplace event, Evyn Charles and the Remarkables will be providing this week's noon concert in front of Win-nett Center. So bring your lunch out to the Olive Walk and enjoy some good music and fresh air. Good luck with midterms and have a great Halloween! •Physics 11 - Second •Hurdle (1996) Imagine the following scene: small rocks of a variety of sizes and shapes sit on a bed of fine sand. Every day more fine sand falls from above. There are two possibilities: the rocks are gradually buried; however, if there are some insects present who are constantly moving about, crawling over and jostling the rocks, and disturbing the fresh sand in search of food, the rocks may not be buried as easily. In the second situation, which rocks will "float"? We want quantitative answers. I NOTE: This actually happens. Sedimentology is definitely affected by "bioturbation" Rules: Clearly state all assumptions made. 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Although much of the show is as one expects, some of the side-shows created for Halloween are pretty awesome, and I don't actually believe you could go and no tget frightened at least once. Even if you are Sean Mauch. I'm betting that the biggest freak show is going to be the Halloween Costume Party along Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood where over 90,000 people are expected to show up, dance, and party. "Food and psychics are available." It'll all be occurring between La Cienega and Robertson on the boulevard. Cacophony Society's Devil's Night also sounds to be a fright. "A mechanical freak show" is the description for the main show, which 1S accompanied by Woodpussy's "haunted whorehouse", which promises to include moving parts, as well as "Shockcinema" and other fine treats. It'll all be inside The Clubhouse downtown off of Santa Fe Avenue. Topping the list is this one: "The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles has dug up something special for Halloween:" their 11th annual Hollywood Cemetery Walking Tour. The tour will be held on Saturday between 10 and 11:30 a.m., starting at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard. ASCIT will also be throwing a Halloween Costume Bash, to-morrow, Saturday the 28th, from J p.m. Costumes are a necessary for this one, unless you're a mole. Around Town This Sunday, October 29th, the genius of Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and Martian Chronicles (like you didn't know !), will be showing up at Vroman's (695 E. Colorado) for his third annual Halloween visit to sign books and other para-phernalia. My suggestion: try to get him to sign a copy of Dianetics. They'll be a "second best" (not including the original actors and actresses, less party, and a lot less money than the other sold-out Pantages show) playing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on its twentieth anniversary at the Rialto Theater at mid-night, Saturday, October 28th. But you could miss all this and still not be any different. If you want to be really cool, you'll October 27, 1995 5 alendar go to hear Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano, and Cat's Cradle (if you don't know these, then you really really should make something of yourself and go and read them. Ya, skip your mid-terms, read Vonnegut. He'd want it that way), give a talk at USC entitled "How to Get a Job Like Mine." Vonnegut is even better in person than in his books, but be prepared to be offended, put down, and inspired all at the same time. News of the Weird-ish I recognize well that it is not the way of the average Techer to let a good Halloween by without at least a near run-in with the law enforce-ment, but this Halloween I would advise that you do your best to be careful to avoid the black and white auspices: the Pasadena Police have just been equipped with a new weapon—the "bean gun". Pasadena Police have received four hours of training for proper use of their new shotguns loaded with non-lethal, though pain inflicting, bean bags. Now, the word "beaners" has a whole new meating. Concerts Yes, you did it. You missed the final Boingo tour. Now, the next time you get to hear from Elfman he'll be producing the scores for Disney shows with cute little birds that talk and know somehow to be unusually cynical or sickeningly happy. No more perverting the youth, no more liking little girls, or Dead Men's par-ties. Just Twiddle-dee and Twiddle-dum as Disney takes over Corporate America and Elfman makes monkey's sing about the facts of life. It's come to this. But, yes, there is life after Boingo, and while I wallow in the misery that is the end, you can still go to a lot of other concerts. Just not Boingo. In fact, I say we have a calendar section just to mourn the passing of Boingo, and not disgrace their dissolution with any other sugges-tions. With Boingo gone, there will be no more concerts with suggest-ing! Tickets for Babes in Toyland with Season to Risk and Mount Shasta for their concert at the Hollywood Grand on December 7th at 8 p.m. went on sale yesterday. You might still be able to squeeze out tickets to Björk for November Ist at the Paladium, Juliana Hatfield at The Wisky on the 28th, Belly and Catherine Wheel at the Mayan on November 9th, and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult with Eve's Plum on October 27th at Hollywood Grand. 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Now that you know what's causing that electric buzz in the campus air, let's run down the season to date, while introducing you to some of the personalities that constitute this finely-tuned icebound juggernaut. Domination does not come without sacrifice, and as such, the core of the team could be found in the gym on a daily basis throughout the summer months, at least when they weren't out on the softball field winning the GSCA-League Championship or drinking beer at a wide variety of locations. Intense training ses-sions, designed by former Caltech player and current na-tionally-ranked speed-skater Haj Sano, honed a sharp edge on the squad's physical conditioning before the biscuit (slang for puck, for the uninitiated) and skates ever made their appear-ance. Two weeks before the sea-son, the team took to the ice, with the mantle being passed from Haj to our player-coach, the former Czech National Team superstar Pavel Svitek. Pavel, a household name in the Czech Republic, while dispensing some of the wily guile (i.e., stickwork) that got him suspended for 10 games last year, gently, yet firmly, molded the still-pliable collection of talented individuals into a living, breathing unit. On the eve of the first game, each member of the lineup knew their function, however large or small, in this machine, and mentally steeled themselves for the genesis of the '95-'96 season. The season opened on the morning of October 15th, at the Pasadena rink, with a visit from the Santa Clara squad. At the pregame captains' meeting, after viewing the military-like precision of the Beaver warm-up drills, the Santa Clara captain was heard to mutter under his breath, "[Shoot], we're screwed..." After 5 minutes of the first period, it was evident to everyone in attendance that a truer prophecy was never spoken; the final score was 15-1 Beavers. Obviously inspired by their shiny new white home uniforms, the second line of Hathan McCormack and Max Lyutikov, on either side of center Mike Slessor, accounted for 8 goals in this match. Unfortunately, they also yielded the lone Santa Clara goal, thus earning the nickname "The Maginot Line" for their questionable defensive effort. This line is a product of Pavel's insight into assembling the available talent: McCormack, a transfer from perennial NCAA Division I contender R.P.I., brings an unpredictable element to the unparalleled stickhandling skills of Lyutikov, a Russian by birth, and the Gretzky-like passing talent of Canadian import Slessor. The third line of GSC guru Daniel Maskit and new addition Ben Liau, boosted by the addition of Svitek, added 6 tallies to the good guys' side of the ledger. The usually productive first line of Bob "How's the wife/baby/ dog?" Lane, 102-pound Steve "Your skin is so soft" Chase, and Mark "Bulldog" Stewart was, for the most part, held in check. We'd have to wait for the next weekend's road trip to see this group explode. And explode they did: facing the adversity of a 10:30 p.m. start time in a chilly, distant Fresno rink, and lacking key contributors Lyutikov and Jon Hodowany, our boys responded with a truly majestic effort. One might even say that this team thrives on ad-versity. The Beavers were outmanned by UC Davis 15 players to 9 and were further hindered by referees seemingly bent on a Caltech defeat; yet through gritty defensive play and wisely-conser-vative transition-game strategy these icebound warriors secured a hard-fought 4-2 victory. In both this victory and Saturday night's 6-3 romp over a much-improved Santa Clara unit, stingy defenders Biff "Not This Way" Yamazaki, Chris "Have a Seat" Claypool, David "The Dutch Touch" Vernooy, and Marty "Guys and Dolls" Ross were key to the Beavers' supremacy. Throughout both games, the Caltech players showed a remarkable degree of selflessness and team unity. Typical of the Beavers' valor were the hard-nosed performances by Slessor and Vernooy. Slessor, after suffering a separated shoulder in the first period of the Davis game, ignored unimaginable pain in playing out, essentially one-armed, both that game and the next while Vernooywent into the weekend with badly infected foot blisters which, despite nearly preventing him from walk-ing, clearly could not have affected his skating But defense was not the only story, for desire also shined brightly in the eyes of goalies Franklin Monzon (Fri-day) and Rico Attanasio (Sat-urday) who consistently rejected irreverent opposing attacks on their net-often by resorting to acrobatic, near-prescient maneuvering to get the job done. Likewise, the Beaver offense was always ready to answer an opposing threat with a quick goal by either the magician Svitek or any of the other greedy Caltech goal-mongers. The "Svitek Express" ac- counted for 4 goals and 2 effort along with strong performances by Ross (2 and 3) and Lane (1 and 4), and timely offensive contributions from Slessor, Claypool, Vernooy, Stewart, Chase, and even Monzon (who switched gears and skated out on Sat-urday) were the blows that violently, yet with insuperable finesse, laid the opposition to rest. Up next for the Beavers are games with CSU Fresno at home on Sunday Oct. 29 and away on Nov. 10, followed by CSU Long Beach at home Nov. 12, and another meeting with Davis at home on Nov. 18. Riding a wave of confidence three victories tall, one can only imagine the incredible edge-of-your-seat action that our hometown heroes will provide in their upcoming bouts. assists on the weekend. His VCR Plust and Beyond by Jessica Chang The Entrepreneur Club is proud to welcome alumnus Dr. Daniel Kwoh, founder and Senior VP of Gemstar Development Corp. Dr. Kwoh graduated in physics from Princeton in 1970, and earned his Ph.D. degree at Caltech under Professor David Goodstein. He went on to do research at TRW in various areas, including microwave backscattering from water waves, streak x-ray study in a high explosive test, and laboratory cloud chamber study of nuclear winter. In 1986 Dr. Kwoh co-founded Gemstar with Henry Yuen (Caltech Ph.D., Applied Mathematics) and together they invented the famous VCR Plust two years later. Subsequently, Dr. Kwoh and Dr. Yuen were named the Best Entrepreneurs of 1990 by Business Week Magazine. VCR Plus + has now been incorporated into all major name brands of VCR's around the world. Based on the success of VCR Plust and the imminent launch of new products, Gemstar recently completed its IPO. Please join us at 5 p.m. in 102 Steele on Thursday November 2, where Dr Kwoh will give a brief review of Gemstar's history as well as a preview of what is to come. 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Assistant Vice President for Public Rela- von athech, Mr. O kouke is responsbie for Caltech's publications (except for the stu- dent-run lule land the student-run Big 7). periodicals (except for the student-run Tech), and media relations, and also oversees the Insulutes unnice of rubic vants. Cultarst raul Galbrath will be pertorming a Paco A. Lagerstrom Chamber Music Concert *The Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society is nom oon om on suncay, november oun.n pleased to announce their Town Meeting On Dabney Lounge. Admission is free. Science And Technology on November Ist at 10 am. khis Videoconterence, which will originate in the North Carolina Triangle Park died ana De transierred via mwo-way video to the audience at Galtech's Beckman Institute Auditorum, will feature Dr. Neal Lane, Di- The Caltech-Occidental Band will be holding a concert directed by William Bing with guest conducor trank lachel. Fioressor of vusio at USC on Saturday, November 11th, at 8 pm in the Beckman Auditorium. Admission is ilee. rector National Science Foundation, who will discuss with a studio panel, Sigma Xi mem- bers, and other distingushed guests the Cur rent Issues in Scientific Research." From the Counseling Center *The next movie that will be shown in the German Film Series (which will emphasize Swiss films this year) is Die Schweizermacher ("The Swissmakers") (1978). Showing on Wednesady, November Istin Baxter Lecture Hall at 7:30pm, this film features English sub- titles and is presented free of charce. For more information, please call x3610. *Dr. Gresg Herken. the Chair of Soace His tory at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, will be giving a Scence, Ethics. and Public Policy Seminar entitled "The Human Radiation Experiments: Science, State, and mealcal etnicsm mistoncal Ferspecuve. ine talk will be held this Thursday, November 2nd in the Judy Library at 4pm and is open to the public. 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Tickets available at kenitech ilcket ornce di all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers. Call x4652 for more information. Ken Armstrong will hostan Armchair Adven- tre taver nil enunce darwnst aron today, October 27th, in the Beckman Audito-rium at 8 pm. Admission starts at $7.00. Opera a la Carte will be presenting their per- formance of the Magic of Gilbert and Sullivan Looking for a sate and supportive place to discuss issues such as coming out, being out, deanns witil tamily. coping With homophobic culture, and being GLB at Galtech? Want somewhere just to make new mends? We invite you to the Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Support Group every first and third Tuesdays of every month from 7:30 to 10:00 pm in the Health Center lounge. This is a confidential meeting, and attending does not imply anything about a person s sexual or entation-only that he or she is willing to be discussa particular topic relevant to the group that week and then move on to announce- meny and venera escussion, nerreshinent will be served. If you would like more infor-mation, please call 395-8331. in the Beckman Auditorium at oom on Sat urday, November 4th. The show will feature rany costumed musica numbers from snow. such as T'he Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance. Tickets range from $22 to $28, with a $2 stu dent discount. *The applications for the DOD National De-rense Student Education Grants will be avall able within the next two weeks. When they Mnue a nonce wi oe sentio te mouses and placed in the Tech. Any student applying for the NSF should consider applying for the DOD as the grants are similar in their qualt The Women's Center and the Gounseling cations. 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Goals of the group wil derstanding of the less commonty taught lan include: developing a conceptual understand- guages and cultures to allow them to become ing ot aggressive, non-assertive, and assertive more integrally involved in global issues in Deravior, racucle soccie ocheviolai skili tien nicid as troieshondi. litouxd inc (eye contact, voice projection, body lan- NSEP Undergraduate Scholarships for Study quage); strengthening cognitive skills includ Abroad, students can study in any country ing gaining an understanding of rights and except the following: U.s., Canada, New appropriate behavior; and problem solving Zealand, Australia, and Western Europe. specie dincult situations, Jan Aura, In.b rreshmen, sophomores. luniors. and scniors and an intern from the Counseling Center may apply. Freshmen and sophomores can will co-tacilitate the group which will be held apply for summer, semester, or full year pro- for the next five weeks at the Women's Cen- grams. 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Five weeks are yet lett in the submit a complete application to the Deans' Counselng Center s t rocrasunation uroup For further information on the following an- Otitra 1 novemher ut luen. mattech con for graduate and undergraduate students, the nouncements please contact the Office of nominate two candidates to the Churchill next meeting in the series is scheduled to be Internatonal Frograms, Mot.tro4, extension rounadaon. held this next Tuésday, October 31st between 6330: 3:15 and 4:45 pm in the Health Center Lounge. ne group wil provde an opportu nity to discuss procrastination difficulties, to contribute to procrastination, and to learn ways to begin to overcome procrastination. nevin nusin, n.l. unecior of the student Counseling Service, will lead the group with staft member amil Ali, M.A. For more infor- mation call Virginia at x8331 to arrange to meet one of the group leaders prior to be- ginning the group. 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The Kamehameha Schools Bernice Pauahi bisnon state announces ts mative mawaman Higher Education Program Scholarships. nooncan must De of nawanan ancesuy, ot enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program, have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 for undergraduates and so for graduates, mus service oroct lo machent in & nowdlian community. Completed applications are due no later than Wednesday, November 1, 1995. 1o receve an apphcation, call 1 (800) 842 The California ECH Caltech 40-58 SAC Pasadena, California, 91125 The California Tech 4682, ext. 8216. Asian d racitic Americans in righer Louca don arenasottering tour sooo non-renew able scholarships for the 1996-97 academic year. Applicants must be Caltorna resident attending at least half-time in Fall of 1996 and must have a mininum so GlA. Applicants must also bave undergone special cicum stances or unusual hardships, must have d neeo ri mandai asomulnce to compicie tien educational goals, and must have a community involvement or do volunteer work with asan and lacluc american Doomadons. l apply, complete an application and statement of candidacy and subimitit to the Caltech fi nancial Aid Office no later than November 24, 1995. The California Irrigation Institute (CII) an-nounces a $500 scholarship award for junior and senor undergraduates majoring in ai irrigation or water-related field of study. Ap Ducants inust nave d minmum svoin, mus provide two recommentatons wom protes sors in the area of soil, water, irrigation, o other agricultural-related fields of study, and must not have previously received the award. Appucants must aso wrie a di wora Cs42 on a subject dealing with water management and/or irrigation and must be willing to at rend the annual CIl meeting (all expenses paid). Applications are due November 25; 1yyb. for an application or more miorma tion, come to the Financial Aid Office. The California Park and Recreation Society Aging Services and Activities Section an-nounces its scholarship competition. Under- graduates and graduates may apply for the $200 awards. Applicants need to be full-um students in the areas of recreation, leisure studies, or in an acing-related feld. Appli- cants also must have GPAsof 3.0 or above and must have financial need. The deadline to submit appacations 1s November 50, 1933 Ine amercan society of meaunt keinter ating and Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc. is offering nonrenewable scholarships in the amountof $2,500 to full-time engineering stu dents in the final two years of undergraduate study. students must nave a iM 0t 3.20 0 above and must be involved in the fields of neauns, venumnon, al condmonat ore frigeration, or in related areas including in door air quality, energy conservation, human comtort of tival, sustem cesin, oberaton Applications are available at the Financial Aid Office, and are due De cember 15, 1995. the the wiese tenncaton for muranity 1 sponsoring its annual essay contest for full- une underenawae mniois and scmioi otu dents are challenged to examine and analyze urgent ethical issues in essays ot 3,0000 - 4,000 words. First prize 1s 85,000, second prize 15 $2,500, and third prize is $1,500. Essays must be postmarked by anuary 12, 199b. 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