California Tech, v. 97:10, December 1, 1995

Alrite for the Tech or tae'll gide you a bart to the head. Volume XCVII, Number 10 The California ECH Pasadena, California Don't take gour finals, Trash! Mrite for the Tech Ball and Drain and the Battlefield of Honor by Maria Huang Each year, Professor Erik Antonsson leads a group of ambitious ME seniors to design and build from scratch, a fabricated machine. This year was no exception. Given a "bag ofjunk", a joystick, and 30 seconds of electricity, 32 graduating seniors challenged themselves to building 2-cubic-foot sized cars that trespass their opponent's territory and deliver a load of ping pong balls into the opponent's field. The 11th annual Caltech ME72 Engineering Design Contest took place in Beckman Auditorium on Thursday November 30th, 1995, and attracted massive audience around the Pasadena community. At the beginning of the term, the participants were each given a bag full of springs, pulleys, washers, rubber bands, and various parts that were supposedly all they could use on their designs. Having taken ME71, which introduces students to basic machinery techniques and which builds up confidence, the seniors were thrown a timeline that guides the seniors toward finishing their project on time. As expected, the participants this year took 3 weeks putting together their ideas and design on the ball car, another 4 weeks on fabrication and then the rest of the term testing the machine and correcting errors. The class seemed quite mellow at the beginning, but as the term went on, the pressure built up ex-ponentially, "One begins to ask 'When is this gonna be over?'" said one senior, Jeffrey Mach. As a general consensus, students found the contest a little "unfair," for each ma- Today I am a man. chine has its own strength and weakness, and one never know 32 graduating seniors built 2-cubic-foot sized cars that trespassed the opponent's territory and delivered a load of ping pong balls into the opponent's field whom he will be competing with on the stage. "If you get unlucky, you could have the third best design and still get eliminated in the first two round, simply because you were competing with the two guys who have the best and second best designs," replied senior Chris Marsh as he checked the rubber band on the wheels. With the technical and emotional support from the friendly Manager John Ven Deusen and machinist Rodney Rojas, the participants feel more confident and innovative when building their ma-chine. After all, "the shop SEE ME72 ON PAGE 2 PHOTO PU SUAY CHINA Friday, December 1, 1995 Astronomers Announce Discovery of Brown Dwarf by Jay Aller released by the contracting gas generates enough heat to ignite PASADENA - Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology and the Johns Hopkins University today announce the discovery of what they believe is a brown dwarf, and release the first image and spectrum ever taken of this elusive type of object. The brown dwarf, called GL 229B, lies in the southern-hemi-sphere constellation Lepus, near Orion, where it orbits a small, dim star called GL 229. This is the first detection of such a cool object outside the solar system. The scientists will discuss their results on Wednesday, November 29, at noon EST during a Space Astronomy Update at NASA Headquarters in Washing-ton, D.C. The results will also appear in the November 30 issue of the journal Nature and the December 1 issue of the journal Sci-ence. The discovery was discussed at a Caltech colloquium and in October at the Florence Cool Stars meeting in Florence, Italy, but this marks the first publication of the results and the first release of the brown dwarf's image and spectrum Brown dwarfs are objects that astronomers have long theorized must exist, but for which proof has been indirect and never 100 percent convincing. They are formed from the same gaseous material as stars, but are much less massive. Current stellar models agree that the upper limit to the mass of brown dwarfs is about one-twelfth the mass of the sun. When objects are more massive than this limit, the energy and sustain nuclear fusion. Fusion combines hydrogen atoms to form helium and releases tremendous amounts of energy as light, heat, and other types of radiation. Objects powered by fusion are called stars But when objects are less massive than about one-twelfth the mass of the sun, their cores never get hot enough to sustain fusion. These objects are called brown dwarfs. While young brown dwarfs can obtain enough energy from gravitational contraction to be quite bright, this source of energy isn't nearly as long lasting or as powerful as fu-sion. So brown dwarfs fade rapidly as they radiate away their gravitational energy. Later they radiate by means of their meager internal heat, and are much cooler, dimmer, and harder to see than stars While scientists concur that brown dwarfs and stars are made of the same stuff, it is not clear that they're made in the same way. Stars form by direct condensation of interstellar gas, while planets are thought to form by condensation of material within proto-planetary disks that form around stars. Brown dwarfs are intermediate in size between small stars and large planets, and could theoretically form in either manner. Astronomers want to find brown dwarfs for two reasons First, they want to determine the smallest-mass object that can form by condensation of interstellar gas clouds, in the manner of stars, and whether enough of SEE DISCOVERY ON PAGE 4 In This Issue YNEWS FOX TROT IHC MINUTES ASCIT MINUTES SPORTS 2 December 1, 1995 ME72: The Battle Continues CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 gets quite lonely during second term, since students don't come here as much anymore," claimed Rojas with slight dis-appointment. Being the "only event at Caltech that has a dead-line," the ME72 Contest had a great turn out. This year's trophy goes to Scott DeWinter, whose car focuses both on defense and active attack. Right after his machine blocks the way of the oppo-nent, it drifts toward the opponent's drain and dumps all the balls into the hole. Doctor Antonsson was once again impressed with the intelligent approach his students have taken and the amount of effort they willingly put into this project. "Solving open-ended real world problems" has always been an interest to Professor Antonsson, and he would gladly lead his future students exploring ways to make magic out of a "bag of junk." The California Tech "Hee, hee, hee" PALECH public events EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED BOYS OF THE LOUCH CHIS CRISINAS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1995 / 8 PM Beckman Audltorium Regular Prices: $28.00 - 25.00 - 22.00 COLEMAN CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET Beethoven, Hindemith, Dvorák SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1995 / 3:30 PM Beckman Auditorium Regular Prices: $22.50 - 19.00 - 15.50 - 12.00* The The WAVERLY ChRISTMAS CONSORC STORY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1995 / 8 PM Beckman Auditorium Regular Prices: $31.00 - 28.00 - 25.00 CIT STUDENTS: CALTECH Half price for all events DISCOUNTS S5.00 RUSH tickets day of show (sublect to availability) *50 FREE tickets available for Juilliard String Quanet CIT STAFF / FAGULTY: S2.00 off for all events Hail price TECHTIX available day of show (subject to availability) Call the Caltech Ticket Office at x4652 Interview With a Victoriously-Challenged Competitor Tech editor Mason Porter inter-win. Some people are doing this viewed ME72 contest participant by driving their machine to their Nestor Ocampo on Wednesday drain. My machine shoots ping night to discuss the contest. pong balls kind of like a baseball or tennis ball pitching machine MAP: What are the best and worst would aspects of working on this project? NO: The whole class is geared towards hands-on learning more than any other class or lab I've ever been in. Since a vague, term-long goal is given, I've had a lot of freedom to play with different de I've had a lot of freedom to play with aujjerent design ideas and learn by breaking my machine. sign ideas and learn by breaking my ma- Two spinning disks project the balls and a vene tian blind from our bag of junk serves as a track to direct the balls in the right direction Since some ma chines can hold 250 or so balls, and the contest is only 30 seconds long, balls have to be shot pretty quickly chine. I think this is a lot more in-teresung and rewarding than trying to learn from a book or a more structured lab. Unfortunately, since the true test is not until the day of competition, it can become easy to put tasks off and fall behind if you're not careful. A few milestones during the term keep us in check to some extent. MAP: Is this type of class part of the reason you came to Caltech? NO: I'd heard of something similar to this class at MIT when I was in high school, but I didn't know we had it here until I came It was a nice benefit of being an E&AS major, so I wanted to take the class soon after I learned we had it MAP: Can you describe the "goal" for this year's entries? How does your machine work? NO: The goal for this year's contest is to get a number of ping pong balls from inside your machine to a funneled hole on the opposite end of the contest arena. The person who delivers more ping-pong balls MAP: What have been goals for these contests in past years: NO: Last year, people had to grab as many golf balls from a trough as they could. The year before that, people worked in groups to build a rolling chair contraption A few years ago, machines had to Sumo wrestle with each other. The California ECH Catech 40-5e: (81e) 39den.€ phone: , LAST12: VOLUME XCVII, NUMBER 10 UNCEMbEA！，Iンン。 Copy EDiTOr shay chin PHOTOGRAPHER Miaria Muanc Samantha Gizerian MiscELlANEOus EDITORS mason rorie Stephen Van Hoose EVENTS AND NOTICES ferry Morat STAFF VURITER sreonen van moose Mason Porte ivanwy calana Maria Huang lasselhof Burroo BUSINESS MANAGE transisco vuterre FEATURE TRITER Adam vilan Terry Moran Joe Trela FONTRIBuTOD GIACULATIO; sander uranat David Relve Donna Ebenstein WRITE FOR LAAMES AND BRIVIALITE. wer-twa Muang THE TECH... 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SAKARTA MUNICH Caltech Glee Clubs Annual Holiday Concert Britten Ceremony of Carols Rutter Dancing Day Traditional Carols Reception Friday, December 1, 1995 Saturday, December 2, 1995 8:00 pm Dabney Lounge, Caltech Free Admission Further Information Call (818) 395-4652 4 December 1, 1995 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 these hard-to-detect objects exist to comprise a dominant component mass in our galaxy. That is, could brown dwarfs solve a difficult cosmological puzzle by accounting for a significant portion of the missing "dark mat-ter?" Second, astronomers want to study the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and learn how they are related to the atmospheres of planets. Such understanding is important to the search for other planetary systems. Because of the importance of brown dwarfs both to cosmology and to finding other planets, astronomers have made a considerable effort to find the objects, especially young brown dwarfs because they are still hot, relatively bright, and more easily seen. Young brown dwarfs are most likely to appear in star clus-ters, the "nurseries" where stars form. The Caltech/Johns Hopkins team has tried a different approach to finding brown dwarfs over the past few years. Caltech astronomers Shri Kulkarni, Tadashi Nakajima, Keith Matthews, and Ben Oppenheimer have been collaborating in the search with Johns Hopkins scientists Sam Durrance and David Golimowski. Instead of scouring stellar nurseries for young brown dwarfs, they looked for older, cooler brown dwarfs as companions to stars within our local NEWS The California Tech DISCOVERY: Astronomers Locate Ancient Star neighborhood, within 45 light-years, or about 265 trillion miles, of the sun. These are not young stars, but have ages as large as 10 billion years, with an average age of 5 billion years. There are two advantages to searching for these older, nearer brown dwarfs instead of young ones. First, scientists know the distances to nearby stars with good accuracy, so when they identify a brown dwarf candi-date, they can immediately calculate its total luminosity. The lowest luminosity of any normal, hydrogen-fusing star is one ten-thousandth that of the sun. But brown dwarfs, especially those more than one billion years old, can have much lower luminosi-ties. Searching for an object with a luminosity less than this limit is a very simple method of unambiguously detecting brown dwarfs. Second, the minimum temperature of a star is about 1800 K, while old brown dwarfs can have much lower temperatures. This makes old brown dwarfs interesting to planetary scientists, since their cool atmospheres are similar to those of the giant gaseous planets in the solar system. For instance, it is well known that prominent absorption features are seen in the spectrum of Jupiter that are never seen in the spectrum of any star. Takashi Tsuji of the University of Tokyo in Japan has found that below 1000 K, carbon prefers to attach Goldsteins to hydrogen and form methane, CH4, not the more usual carbon monoxide, CO, seen in cool stars. So methane absorption lines in a spectrum is a sure sign of low temperature. Last year the Caltech/ Hopkins team started the "Byr survey," a survey of stars with ages of near a billion years. As the first step, the astronomers made an image of each of the stars they wanted to study with a "corona-graph," a camera with the ability to see faint objects in the glare of bright stars. The coronagraph blocks light from the star so that dimmer nearby objects become visible, much like a solar coronagraph blocks out the sun to allow astronomers to see the relatively faint flares and explosions on the sun's surface. This coronagraph, used at optical wavelengths, was made by the Johns Hopkins team and has been used extensively at the 60-inch telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory. A similar device built by Matthews, but which detects infrared wave-lengths, (1 to 2.5 microns), has been commissioned recently at the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar. The astronomers looked at each star twice, at an interval of one year. All stars move relatively quickly across the sky, so true companion stars will move the same distance and remain together after a year. But unrelated objects that line up by chance and only seem to be companions will have different motions and will drift apart over a year. The astronomers identified brown dwarf candidates on the 60-inch telescope and examined them more closely with the 200-inch Hale Telescope. This method paid off when the scientists found a faint companion to the star GL 229, an M1-type star at a distance of 17 light-years, or about 100 trillion miles. They found that the companion had moved the same amount as GL 229 in a year, and concluded that the two must be in orbit around each, other. Using the known distance to GL 229, they calculated the luminosity of the companion to be only 7 millionths that of the sun, almost 10 times less than the faintest known star. The presence of wa-ter, seen in the absorption lines of the spectrum, shows that the surface temperature is very cool, less than 1000 K, or 800 K lower than the coolest known star. They also detected methane absorption lines in its spectrum, confirming Tsuji's prediction that methane is found only in cold objects. This discovery, the first of a cool brown dwarf, is an important first step in the search for planetary systems beyond the solar system. The strange colors of the object, extremely red in the optical wavelengths and blue in the near-infrared, and the presence of methane suggest new strategies to search for brown dwarfs and massive Jupi-ter-like planets. The spectra of faint objects could be screened for these unusual characteristics, allowing astronomers to concentrate on the most likely brown dwarf candidates. The brown dwarf is 44 astronomical units, or about 4 billion miles, from the main star and has a mass roughly 20 times that of Jupiter. It is unclear whether it was formed like a star, by direct condensation of interstellar gas, or like a planet, by condensation of material within protoplanetary disk that formed around the star. As brown dwarfs get less massive, it is increasingly difficult to explain how they could form like stars, since that process requires smaller and smaller condensations caused by ever larger pressures But explaining the formation of larger, Jupiter-type planets is also difficult. Thus there is a new threshold between small brown dwarfs and large gaseous planets, where one method of formation stops and the other takes over. The theories of the Caltech/ Johns Hopkins team are rudimentary at this point, but the proximity of the companion to the parent star suggests that it was formed in a planetary disk rather than directly from the interstellar medium. They are continuing to observe this system and have obtained images and spectra of GL 229B using the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory, the 10-meter telescope at the Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea, Ha-waii, and the Hubble Space Tele-scope. For more information contact Jay Aller at aller@caltech.edu. BAGEL BAKERY 20 KINDS OF BAGELS BAKED CONTINUOUSLY ON PREMISES ARCADIA 412 N. Santa Anita Ave. (next to In-N-Out Burger) 447-2457 PASADENA 86 W. 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Ricketts isn't will- Hopkins Center for Tal- ing to make any commit-ented Youth program, ment at this time, but isn't and whether we should ruling out the possibility house them at Caltech in of giving up space. Page exchange for the signifi- is willing to give up the cant sums of money be- bottom floor of their ing offered to us by house. Ruddock is willing Caltech. All the presi- to give up taking doubles dents except Nestor said as singles, but not willing their houses thought the to kick people off campus program was a good idea. during the summer. The There was some support total commitment is for the notion of hosting about 120 spaces if Lloyd the program on campus and Ricketts give none. QUALITY LEGAL SERVICES BUSINESS WRITING & PARALEGAL SERVICES Research Papers; Theses; Dissertations; Resume's Reports; Essays; Articles Proficient Writer; Proofreading Experience 20yrs. Secretarial Experience UCLA Paralegal Certificated English Degree GENEVA M. 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The chair will talk CIT office. houses seem interested in to Bill Irwin and ask him • The bike purge has getting the restriction on to put a policy of giving started, so you're prob- multiple parties at the one week's notice on ably out of luck if you same time lifted, but no non-emergency mainte- didn't remove the note one seems enthusiastic nance in the student from your bike. about the financial or houses into effect. • Adil mentions that work-time burdens of • We talk about PPlant did a fine job of re- putting on an Interhouse Interhouse sports a little attaching the Ruddock party in the near future. bit. We agree to ask the toilet seats, and mentions • We talk briefly about next IHC to consider the that Page should be ex- locks on the arcade in the women's 50 yd back- pecting a bill for that SAC. Some people have stroke as a possible swim- soon. He also asks Mike requested locks be put ming event for next year, to have Page clean up af- there to prevent damage although it's too late to do ter their pranks better. to the machines. Many it this year. Brian asks • Nestor mentions the member of the IHC think what happened to the Star Trek convention. the damage is mostly due Discobolus changes we Someone put a sign up Caltech students, butthat it doesn't do any harm to thought they passed last saying that there would year — adding about 6 be a reception with re- give it a try. Brian asks minors, and making a freshment for all conven- that the key lock on the rule that no valid chal- tion goers at Lloyd House arcade be removed if a lenge could include more after the convention. combo lock is put in than 1 racket sport. 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By consen- jor incident happened a chance to fix the dam- sus, two additions to the • Brian mentioned a age themselves, PPlant rules are made: (1) A stu- strange thief who took his replaced 28 ceiling tiles dent may play for only coffee grinder and left a in Lloyd out of a 6 to 8 one house in any term. (2) hacksaw. that were damaged. They If a person appears on also failed to replace multiple ath lists in any term, they may determine Meeting ended around 9:45 p.m. Rag Time on Green RESALE CLOTHING WOMEN 1136 E. Green St. • Pasadena (818) 796-9924 Wed 10-6 • Mon-Tue Thur 105 • Sat 10.3 on which ath list they belong by merely playing for the house for which they wish to play the rest of the term. However, it Tune in next time - same IHC time, same THC channel, Tom is strongly discouraged THIS FRIDAY'S Paris $190* TECH MEETING London Mexico City New York Boston Wash. D.C. $229* $115* $159* $178* $178* or cher worstivide desiration. 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Minutes I really didn't take decent notes on the merits of these bylaws and why we ac-cepted/rejected them, so here goes: The BOD agreed to HIGHLY SUGGEST putting away about 5% of its total funds away every year. NOVEMBER 20, 1995 There's a new footer on the minutes. Read it. Heed its words. Join us. Present: The ENTIRE BOD minus nobody listens. Greg would also like to Jon agrees to rewrite a bylaw requiring James and Ken for 27th and Kanna for remind seniors to note the location of ASCIT to meet with various members of 20th. companies you apply to work for. If the the Administration once per term. Jon This meeting (the second) was most company is nearby, you don't get to be also agrees to rewrite the Bylaw that sepa- likely Jon's last official meeting as AS- flown out (unless you're a total stud). rates the offices of BOC Chair and Vice CIT President. Jon is graduating and Tom says the IC agreed to putting President and gives the VP duties akin will become the resident "person who locks on the arcade door and some other to an "overseer" over ASCIT funded graduated who knows how everything doors. Cream cheese and fish on doors, groups such as the publications, Movies works" for a term or two. however, was right out. (generally make the day to day running Meetings begin at 10:05 and 10:08. The CTY program (seventh graders who of student government as smooth as pos- Unless you're really anal, don't ask. did well on the SATs) will be at Caltech sible). Jon finally agrees to rewrite the Dave is wearing a suit in one meeting. over the summer. amendment to prevent one form of stra- CAPISU asks for funding for the By Robert's Rules of Order, every- tegic voting from occurring on the BOD Here & Now after it had gone and one on the BOD is a screw-up, and the If you have any questions about possible went. The BOD does not retroactively meeting ends. Next week. Same time. Bylaw amendments, don't hesitate to fund events, so we couldn't fund Same place. contact Jon McDunn (keep in mind he's them. The HKSA requests money for trying to graduate), Tom Maccarone Greg mentioned that quite a few events, MANY OF WHICH ARE OPEN (ditto), or any other BOD member people read the minutes (aren't you TO THE WHOLE CAMPUS HINT (we're mostly bloody throats, but what special) and liked the idea of an AS-HINT HINT, that will occur second did you expect?). CIT Social Hour. Greg estimates the term. The BOD agrees to give them $70 We vote against a bylaw reclarifying cost of such an hour to be approxi-for a few parties and some food. Special the President's duties because it seems mately $1000/year. Greg would like to food. You eat it with soup. We're suck- redundant. We also voted against a by- put the first ASCIT Social Hour on the ers, aren't we? law removing the BOC Chair and the third Friday of every month. Dave pro- • THE ASCIT BOD DISCUSSES BY-IHC Chair from the BOD. We we we we poses ASCIT Tea and Scones on the LAW CHANGES AND RESOLUTION we we. We propose that next year's BOD second Monday of every month, but CHANGES: Dave's election bylaw (inser- meet at least twice per term instead of tion of the word HALF in BIG letters) is at least once per week (we don't need passed for election sometime next term to meet this frequently). We vote 6-0-0. against a bylaw which would make the • Jon agrees to rewrite a few bylaws. A Tech Editors appointed instead of few bylaws are struck down and beaten elected AS THIS COULD LEAD to into the ground with blunt objects. the Tech Editors all being from one Sticks. house year after year after year after year after year. Not that this ever happens with any ASCIT affiliations. Never. We vote against the Uber Council proposal which would separate the IHC Chair and BOD Chair from the BOD and then create an Uber council consisting of them plus the ASCIT president to deal with issues of jurisdiction. We vote to move the Bylaw suggesting a dues increase from $20 to $25/term to general election. Dues haven't been increased in about 10 years (literally) and the BOD can't continue to fund clubs and Movies and houses if dues stay at their present rate. What's $15/year out of $24000/ year? Seriously. Meeting ends at 12:28 AM. We leave. Try to laugh at yourself once in while. Everybody else does. Dave Relyea ASCIT Secretary A standing invitation to all open AS CIT meetings is extended to ASCIT managers, ASCIT-appointed officers, faculty-student committee members, and members of the IHC and the BOC. Additionally, any member of the Caltech community is welcome to at-tend. HINT HINT OWN. Yours and yours alone. MAC. The awesome computer with all the bells and whistles. ASAP. 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And in addition to growth, technology and scenery, C-Cube offers an excellent compensation plan, including stock options, flexible spending accounts, and comprehensive insurance benefits. For more information about our College Recruitment program, please call (408) 944-6321. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. C-Cube Microsystems 10 December 1, 1995 Men's & Women's Swimming & Diving Men Overall: 1-0 SCIAC: 0-0 Women Overall: 0-1 SCIAC: 0-0 The swim team had a m match against the Whittier P, week. The men and womer enjoyed early leads thanks standing diving performance Callaghan, Phil Rodriguez, Mike Fisher, and James Honaker. The men extended their lead with wins from captain Mike Green in the backstroke events and a quick 22.44 in the 50m freestyle. Adding to the speed was Jim Pierce in the distance events and Wes Tanaka in the but-terfly. The women had some great efforts from first year swimmers Mina Leung, Heather Dean. and Samantha Howarth. The Lady Techers were pleased as the returners gave some mid-season perfor- mances verv early in the season, as Christie Armentrout had a personal best leading off the 200 yard freestyle relay (28.13), Jennifer Holland broke three minutes in the 200 freestyle (2:56:10), and Keri Ryan swam to a 2:51.4 in the 200 I.M. The final score for the men: Caltech 149, Whittier 44; and for the women: Caltech 70, Whittier 135. On Saturday, the men's diving trio of Phil Rodriguez, Ben Taskar, and Mike Fisher traveled to Claremont to compete in the CMS Winter Diving Invite. All the divers had their moments as Ben nailed his first four dives and Mike hit his last four dives in the eleven dive format. However, it was Phil's steady performance and clean entires that placed him second out of seven men divers. Final placement was Rodriguez with 265 points, Fisher with 209 for fourth, and Taskar with 197 points for fifth place. Men's Basketball Overall: 1-2 SCIAC: 0-0 SPORTS Caltech Sports quite a few players coming off the bench to play tough and help out the starters. Matt Hetterman came in off the bench scoring 9 points. Coach Victor stated, "We have a ways to go, but we feel we will continue to improve." Over the Thanksgiving vaca-tion, CIT hosted the Sixth Annual Hi-Tech Tournament. Competing in the tournament were: Caltech, LaSierra, California Christian, and California Maritime. The Beavers took on the Keelhaulers of Cal. Maritime in their first game on Friday, Nov. 24th. The Beavers jumped out on top and kept the lead throughout the entire game, winning 6148. All 15 players that suited up for the game saw some playing time. Leading the scoring for CIT was senior Matt Goff with 23 points. Other high scorers in the first game were Moats with 13 and Steve Tsai with 12. This first win allowed them to play LaSierra in the finals on Satur-day. The Beavers battled hard but lost a close to them by a score of 66- 69. It was tight right up to the wire with the CIT players showing character and mental toughness. Tsai had a scöring high of 24 points and Turk had 16 points and 12 re-bounds. The Beavers travel to St. Louis, MO this weekend to compete in the Lopata Tournament hosted by Washington University. Christian Knights. Although the Techers got off to a slow start, they scored 13 points in the first half. After adjusting their defense and taking a rest at half, the Lady Beavers slowed down the opponents, containing them to 17 points in the second half, while scoring 17 of their own points. Caltech made a strong showing in their first game despite the 30-57 loss. Senior Angie Bealko, team captain, scored an amazing high of 18 points. Ellis Meng, team co-cap- tain and center, made 5 points, while Michaeleen Callahan totaled 4 points. Playing tough at guard, Irene Wong brought in 2 points and Frances Siu scored 1. Swift-footed Lori Hsu brought the ball down the court most of the night, never acceeding to the Knight's press. Unfortunately, guard Nasim Afsarmanesh was taken down by the Pacific Christian defense, injuring her knee. On November 16th, the Caltech Men's Basketball team had an exhibition game with the Australian Junior National Team. It was a very exciting game filled with fun and camaraderie. The Aussies were big and strong, but the Beavers gave them some exciting competition. It was a good experience for the CIT plaers, despite an unofficial loss to them. The Beavers opened their official season on November 18th against L.I.F.E. Bible College at home. It was a close game for the entire 40 minutes, with the lead go ing back and forth. Josh Moats had a high score of 17 points with Ben Turk close behind with twelve points as well as 10 rebounds. Behind Turk in scoring was Arun Duraraj with 9 points. Caltech worked hard with Women's Basketball Overall: 0-1 On November 20th, the Lady Beavers went up against the Pacific Fencing The fencing team traveled to the University of California at Santa Barbara on November 18th to compete against UCLA, USC, and UCSB. The lady foilists had a The California Tech banner day! Emma Goldberg and Mihoko Kato won 11 and lost only 1 each. Adrienne Bourque, who is nursing an injury, won 7 and lost 5. As she becomes healthier, her record should improve drastically for she has plenty of talent. The sole CIT lady epeeist, Emily Jennings, also won 11 with only 1 loss. The men's saber team was once again undefeated, but Austin Collins' perfect record was besmirched by one loss in the match against UCSB, and another unfortunate loss against a USC fencer. Despite these losses, Austin should still win the individual title barring an unexpected catastrophe. Xavier Fan, in his very first college tournament, won his first three matches against USC. The Sabermen are solidly in first place in the conference and should be able to stay there with continued hard work. The epee men had a good showing. Wes Salzillo won 7 and lost 2. John Langford won 5 and lost 4. Freshman Aaron Higgins, with only a limited amount of prac-tices, had one win against 8 losses. He should continue to improve and will do much better before long. Men's foil had the toughest time because of very stiff competi-tion. Dan Hennessy and Devon McClain are both improving, and with more practice and experience will do better. The good news about men's foil is the two new freshmen. They look very prom- ising, and if all work together, the team may do well in the second half of the season. THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP Graduating Seniors interested in Management Consulting: Please join us for an informal reception and briefing to learn more about our Associate Program Monday, December 4 4:00 pm The Athenaeum Room Dinner and Refreshments will be Served AMSTERDAM ALLATTA AUCKLAND Bankok BRUSSELS BUENOS AIRES CHICAGO DUSSELDORF DALLAS Dusseldorf FRANKFURT HAMBURG HONG KONG Jakarta MUALA LUMPUR LONDON Los Angeles MADRID MELBOURNE MILAN MONTERREY Moscow MUNICH MAWORK PARIS SAN FRANCISCO Shanghai Singapore SYDNEY TOKYO TOrONTO ZURICH The California Tech SPORTS December 1, 1995 1 1 Women Hoopsters to Take Court Tonight by Angie Bealko Meng threw in a few and managed Stofer, Kara Swedlow, Melissa set for the second match up but still they're out of the running yet. To- to play an aggressive game, tallying Hampton, and Frances Siu all saw fell to Pacific Christian. Hsu and night the ladies meet College of It's a Friday night. You're hang- up four fouls. Excellent hustling some minutes and filled in at for- Wong kept the game alive for Tech Notre Dame. This fierce match-up ing out with your friends wonder- was seen at the guard positions by ward, giving some more depth and by controlling the floor and run- Lori Hsu, Irene against a Division Two team will be Wong and much needed fresh bodies. Nasim quite a challenge for the team, but Michaeleen Callahan. do tonight. So you ask yourself: Rachel ning at a phenomenally fast pace ing what the heck you're going to Afsarmanesh did an outstanding for the entire game. All of the play- it'll still be an exciting game none "What's free? Where will all my Steinberger did a great job playing job hustling at guard, but unfortu ers saw a lot of playing time as the the less. So come out to Braun gym other friends be? Can I win cool intense defense, while Joanna nately suffered a knee injury that lady hoopsters had only nine play- at 7:30 p.m. and cheer on the prizes? Do I get to scream and yell? Dodd found a few offensive boards, will plague her throughout out the ers on the roster. women as they battle for rebounds, Where can I get all of this for just putting some strong pressure on rest or tie sedsot. They've lost their first two knock some unsuspecting oppo- one low price of nothing???" Fear the other team's defense, Katie The team had better offenses games but that doesn't mean nents over, and score a few threes!!! not my friends, your worries are over.. Come to the Women's basketball game at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Friday) at Braun gymnasium!!! The Ladies have yet to capture a win after their first two showings, but they're hungry for one. Both of their first games were against Pa- cific Christian College. The first match up drew a huge crowd of nearly a hundred spectators. De- spite lacking a set offense (due to limited practice time prior to the first game), the lady hoopsters made a decent showing for their first time out on the court. 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The Affirmative Action League of Pasadena City Gollege invites all students to join their rally in support of Affirmative Action on vecchnoer mn al 14 noon at too rid guda, lonowea Dy a debate on Attirmative Achon at /pm, December /th, in the Lounge of the Cross Cultural Center at PCC. For turtner miormaton, please call 791-1916. #The Waverly Consort will perform Medi- eval, renaissance, and baroque storysongs of the Nativity with pageantry and ancient music in their Christmas Story on Friday, December 8th at 8pm in the Beckman Audito-rium. Admission begins at $25 with a $2 student discount and rush $8 tickets going on sale to students one half hour before the per-formance. The Caltech Glee Clubs Annual Holiday Concert will be held Today and tomorrow, December Ist and 2nd, at 8 pm in the Dabney Lounge. Included on the program 1s a pertormance of bniten's Ceremony of Carols and Rutter's Dancing Day, as well as many other traditional carols. Admission is free. 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If your field of study does not appear on the list (e.g. as-tronomy), then list the field closest to it as your main field of study and your actual field under subdiscipline. (In the case of as-tronomy, a person would probably list either physics or math with astronomy as the sub ciscionne. li vou nave any oiner quesdon please contact Lauren Stolper at the Fellow ships Office. The NDSEG provides three years of support for graduate level study Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nation. als and be graduating seniors, recent alumni who have not yet begun graduate school, or Ist year graduate students. No military service or sponsorship of the Department of Defense is required of applicants. All NDSEG materials including transcripts and references must be received by, not postmarked by, January 17th Attention seniors interested in pursuing a Masters of science degree in aeronautcal, astronautical, or aerospace engineering: Stu- dent members of the Amencan Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics who are plan-hing to attend graduate schoot next fall can apply for a one time Francois-Xavier Damond relowsaro. lne aware wii orovide six students with full tuition up to $20,000 pius an 3l0.000 sabend for one vear. the Fellowships Advising Office has applications; the deadine for this applcation is febru-ary Ist, 1996. The Computational Science Graduate Fel- lowship trogram supports full time doctoral study in an applied science or engineering ascioune with appacatons in nign pertor-mance computing. Applicants must be in their urst vear of graduate study and be ei ther U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Ine postmark deadhne for completed applications is Wednesday, January 24th. Applications are available in the Fellowships Advising Office. The 1996 U.S. Department of Energy Integrated Manufacturing Predoctoral Fellowships program is now open: applications and information are available on the Internet This program awards 12 fellowships for 3 years of full-time study toward the PhD in in area remied to neegrated systems o1 manufacturing. Fellowship awards provide an annual stipend of $20,000 and a costof-education allowance of up to $15,000. Ap plicants must be US Citizens. The applica tion deadline is Today, December Ist. For further information, please access hlp:/ www.nas.edu/fo/index.html. The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship supports full-time Ph.D. level study in areas where the computer is used as a toot to solve problem. in a scientific or engineering discipline. Ex amoc.olDoccumuisarcanent oc com puter based predictions of environmental chantes, Drasma cynamics tor ruson chere semiconductor design, or the study of fluid now through geologic structures. etc. Inere fore, students from a wide range of fields may find themselves eligible to apply for this GOLDEN PARIAN TRAVEL GLOBE SM Caltech Officially Approved Most professional, courteous, economical and efficient service for your official and personal travel needs. Free service to you. We deliver. Airlines, Cruises, Tours, Hotels, Car Rentals. Individual, Commercial, Groups. (818) 577-8200 468 S. Sierra Madre Blvd., Pasadena DUKE OF OIL 10% OFF 14 Pt. FULL SERVICE OIL CHANGE THRU DEC. 95 W/ Student-faculty ID PLUS OTHER SERVICES Pasadena Automatic Transmission Service 210 FWY * Fuel System Cleaning Service LAKE v Radiator Service WALNUT jiffy lube® Free Refill Policy Offered Open 7 Days a Week No Appointment Necessary COLORADO 1420 E. Walnut St. (818) 793-9896 fellowship. The application deadline is January 24th. A small number of applications are avalade in the renowsmos navuing and ke sources Office. #The Rotary Scholarship meeting for Jun- inre suniore 11e Cercte caconte wth held Today, December Ist at 12 noon in Winnett Lounge. The Rotary has several programs: a 1 year fellowship for study in any Rotary country, a multi-year program fo those who wish to earn a degree abroad, and a short-terms or six month tellowship t support language study. Juniors should plan to attend this meeting in particular as the application process takes place in the winter with tinahsts announced in the spring, summer. Winners of this year's competitor would not leave to study abroad until fall of 1997! Therefore juniors should apply this year and not wait until senior year unless they want a one year gap after graduating. Seniors should not be discouraged from applying as there are productive ways to use this interim year. Grad students can go while grad students or to do a project after receiv ing their Ph.D. A pizza lunch will be served at the meeting. To help us in planning num-bers, send an email with the subject lin titled Rotary Pizza Lunch and let us know your name, year of study, and your favorit toppings and it you usually eat more than 2 large slices of pizza! Please send this communication lauren_stolper@starhasel.callech.edu by Tues day, November 28th The National Security Education Programs secks to could American cimens with an un derstanding of the less commonly taught lan-quages and cultures to allow them to becom more integrally involved in global issues in their field as professionals. Through the NSEP Undergraduate Scholarships for Study Abroad, students can study in any countr except the following: U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Western Europe Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors may apply. Freshmen and sophomores cal apply for summer, semester, or full year pro-grams. Tuniors and seniors are only eligibl for semester or full year programs. Seniors midy only dool lor the orostam Drowded they will not graduate from the program be- lore or durine mneir term of sucy. oident interested in applying for the progran shoule recual an abolcadon from cure Stolper, Fellowships Advisor, by November 13th to allow sufficient time to comblete the appicaton and devise a plan orstudy. Com pleted applications are due by November 30 turned in to Lauren Stolper. From the Deans Office, 102 Persons-Gales: The Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Polia Foundation has created a scholarship pro gram to attract students into careers in en vironmental public policy, health care, or tribal public policy. Scholarshios ar awarded on the basis of merit to students wno de sophomore, or miles cunas int 1995-96 academic year and who have excel lent academic records and demonstrated interest in and potential for careers in envi- ronmental pubic volcvor te vatve Ameri cans or Alaska Natives who have excellent academic records and demonstrated mten est in and potential for careers in health care or tribal pubhc poncy. Ine scholarship cov ers eligible expenses for tuition, fees, books, ah. room and board to a maximum @ do,wo for one academic year The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Founda non awaras scholarshios to muniors wno hav outstanding leadership potential and intenc To pursue careers in pubuc service. If interested, please stop by the Deans' Of tice, Ine deadine for receipt of nomina tions for this scholarship is Today, Decem- From the Financial Aid Office, 515 S. Wilson, second floor: The California ECH Caltech 40-58 SAC Pasadena, California, 91125 The California Tech The American Society of Heating, Refriger ating and Air Conditioning Engineers, Ino is oftering nonrenewable scholarships in the amount of e2,500 to full-ume engmeerine students in the final two years of under graduate study. Students must have a GPA of 3.25 or above and must be involved in the fields of heating, ventilation, air condi-tioning, or refrigeration, or in related areas vation, human comfort, or HVAC system design, operation, or maintenance. Appli cations are available at the Financial Aid Office, and are due December 15, 1995. The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity is sponsoring its annual essay contest for full time undergraduate juniors and seniors Students are challenged to examme and analyze urgent ethical issues in essays of 3.000 - 4.000 words First prize is $5,000 second prize is $2,500, and third prize is $1,000. essays must be postmarked by janu ary 12, 1996. For essay guidelines and addi tond informaton, voit the minanci Aid ine American concrete instante Adit ot tering several awards. The Peter D. Courton Concrete Construction Scholarships are two plode awards for undergraduate study in concrete construction for the 1996-97 academic year. Eligible students must be enrolled at least half-time and must be seniors in 1996-97. The application, available at the Financial Aid Office, with all required supporting documents is due January 15, 1996 GLAMOUR Magazine announces its 1996 Top Ten College Women Competition Women who are currently full-time juniors are invited to submit applications to receive one of ten awards consisting of a cash prize of $1,000, the opportunity to meet with top professionals in your field, and national rec ognition in GLAMOUR's October 1996 is-sue. Applications are available in the Financial Aid Office and must be completed and postmarked no later than January 31, 1996 $The American Mensa Education & Research Foundation announces its 1995.06 Scholarship Essay Contest. Applicants must submit an application/entry form and an essay of fewer than 550 words describing their academic or career goals. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or permanent resi-dents. Applications must be postmarked on or before January 31, 1996 $The American Chemical Society is accepting applications for its Minority Scholars Program. Qualified applicants must be of Mirican-american, misoanic muno, mmer can Indian, Alaskan Native, or Native Pacific istander descent, and must de civen or pei manent residents of the United States. Ap plicants must also be majoring in chemis-try, biochemistry, chemical engineering, or planning a career in a chemically-related field. Other qualifications include full-time attendance in 1996-97, demonstrated high achievement in chemistry or science, and evidence of financial need for scholarship aid according to FAFSA guidelines. Applications are due February 15, 1996 The Consulting Engineers and Land Survey ors of California (CELSOC) are offering scholarsnosorub to oo.ooo to undereradu ates and eraduates working towards derret in engineering or land surveying. Unde vraduates must be luntors orsemors in 1990 97. Both undergraduate and graduate ap oican mus De chronied tulame nave minimum cumulauve Ofa or s.L, and D nobicans must aiso De m terested in pursuing a career in the consult ing engineering of land surveying neid: Completed applications and all supporting documents are que february 10, 199o $The Zonta Club of the Santa Clarita Valley Area is offering two $1,000 undergraduate "nolarhos locmae reseenb or tic dank Clarita Valley. Applicants must be full-time auring the 1sooyt academic year, and mu have legal addresses within the Santa Clarita Valley. Applications are due March 1, 1996