Volume LXXX Pasadena, Cahforma, FrIday, October 27, 1978 Number 6

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Ray Owenlacking a permanent chairmanand while the Institute waswithout a president after theresignation of Harold Brown. Theuncertainty which the vacanciesproduced in the minds ofcandidates for the faculty ("Whatif I go there and the newpreSident decides to scrap HSS")has prevented many posts leftempty by attrition from beingfilled until now, but nearly all ofthem should be filled in the nextyear or two.

Philosophy will be one majorarea of improvement. Several ofthe new faculty will bephilosophers, and Dr. Noll iscurrently. consulting with leadersin the field, among them thewell-known Adolph· Gruenbaumof the University 9f Pittsburgh,for suggestions as to just whatsort of faculty and programwould be best suited to Caltech.A fairly comprehensive plan willbe drawn up within the next twomonths, and the first new staffmay well be installed here by thesee Noll: Page 2, Col. 3

Roger NollThe HSS Chairman

by R. WillsonDr. Roger Noll, who becan1e

the new chairman of the HSSdivision on' Oct. I, hopes tomake the members of thatdivision "as excited, serious, andproud as anyone on thecampus," and "to show them(the faculty of other divisions)that we're just as good at whatwe do as they are at what theydo." .

Significant numbers of newfaculty are to be hired, enoughto allow the division to provide"a coherent, integrated programwhich would provideundergraduates with theopportunity to become aseducatl~,i in the Humanities asthey want to be." These newfaculty members (veryapproximately 10 of them) willbring the HSS staff, now 35 innumber, up to its previousstrength, from which it hasdeclined during the past twoyears.

This decline has been due tothe unwillingness of new staff tocome to the division while it was

In commentary onl a fewpartic,ular issues Dr. Owen retainshis rosy outlook. He doesn't seeany problem as Mayer does infaculty-student interactions. Hefeels the great majority ofinstructors are open. Sometimesthey are hard to find and not allthe faculty types are first-ratecommunicators, but it is rarewhen a faculty member doesn'trespond to the students. Further,he believes that the interactionbetween faculty and students hasremained about constant (orpossibly increased slightly due tostudent involvement in researchlabs) in the last 30 years. He alsodisagrees with the assertion byL.A. Times reporter GeorgeAlexander that the averagefaculty age is rising quickly andenhancing the gap betweenfaculty and students.

Dean Owen feels that gradeinflation was never a realproblem. It started as anunsound extrapolation based onthe rising percentage of studentsgraduating with honors. Sincethen the percentage hasdecreased. On a related topicRay insists that students don'thave as much trouble transferringsee Owen: Page 5, Col. 4

be concerned exclusively withproblem areas and thus gloss overthe large number of studentswho are doing well and arehappy. Ray acknowledges thatCaltech can_ be unnecessarilyrough for many of the studentsand understands Dr. Mayer'seagerness for change, but doesnot see any need for panic.

From his vantage point asDean, Ray sees many goodaspects of undergraduate life. Hesees students with interestingideas active on the Dean'sAdvisory Council. He interviewsapplicants for prestigious Watsonfellowships. He joins the seniorsfor their annual class dinner.There he senses their pride ofhaving survived Caltech and seesthem as happy and relaxed. Alsohe constantly meets alumni whoare doing quite well and believethat Caltech's unique educationwas a major key to their success.Thus Ray connot believe reportshe sometimes hears of the totallyforlorn in the undergraduatecamps.

by Rock HowardOne of the busiest people on

e Caltech campus is thendergraduate Dean of Students,ay Owen. Along with theeanship," Ray acts asice-President of Student Affairs.rom this post he oversees andetains responsibility for. theean's Office, the Master'sf'ice, Health Services,omissions, Student Relations,d Physical Education. In

ddition, Professor Owen teachesfew biology classes. Despite

's workload Ray remains onef the most unflappably cheerfulrsons ar,ound town.This cheerful attitude does

ot diminish when Ray broachese subject of student life ataltech. Dr. Owen thus becomes

excellent foil to Jim Mayerho, as -Master of Studentouses, takes an almost cynical'ew of undergraduate existence.

y doesn't believe that he and. are on ideologically oppositedes of the fence. Rather heIieves that Jim is more apt to

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beginning of the next schoolyear.

Other major areas of attentionwill be literature, languages, andfine arts. In this latter field, thegoal will be to porvide 3

coordinated program of academicstudi,~~ and other activities, suchas performances and seminars, soas to make use of outsideresources, such as the Baxter ArtGallery, which regularly bringartists to the campus.

The small size of thedepartment (about 35professional staff) forces HSSstaff to "interact or be hermits."One major criterion in theselection of the new staff will bethe possibility of theirinteraction with the faculty ofthe other divisions, and so theobject of the selection process isto find candidates whose researchinterest~ lie in areas related toscience (History of Science,economics of technologicaladvancement, for example). Noll

see Noll: Page 3, Col. 5

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IThe Caltech Y fly by Bo 0o Wednesday, November 1, UPDATE NOON DISCUSSION SERIES. 0.0 Dr. H. David Politzer, Associate Professor of Theoretical 0o Physics, speaking on "Quarks: Science Fact or Science Fiction?" 0B Clubroom 1, Winnett, at noon. Bring a lunch. Bo Wednesday, November 1, THEATRE WORKSHOP. 0B Featuring theatre games and improvisation. Winnett Lounge 8o at 7:30 pm. Space for 20 participants. Come by the Y 0o office and sign up. Deadline Tuesday noon. 0

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One of the perennial pr'oblemsthat the Y has had to deal withis abuse of xeroxing privileges bypersons unknown. A xeroxmachine ha~; been made availablein the Y workroom for studentuse 24.hours a day; copies are 7cents each and can be paid forusing several methods. Duringoffice hours, you may chargecopies to your student aCCO\l"tby completing a quad form, oryou may put cash in themoneyb,,:'I.. During the evening..we ask that you use only thecharge method and this is wherethe trouble begins.

As we pay monthly for themachine according to the numberof copi''-s mad~, it is veryimportant that during 'he hourswhen the office is closed wekeep an accurate record of thecopies made and :he copiescharged. The problem is thatcopies are made and /lotrecorded properly. Noting thecopy on your quad form is notenough; the xerox charge sheetmust also be completed. Theintent is that the meter readingswill equal the number of copiesrecorded on the xerox chargesheet and that we will notexperience "theft".

Unrestricted use of the V'sxerox machine was provided tostudents because it was thoughtthat people would not takeadvantage of other people. It'ssimple enough to fill out a quadform and charge sheet; it doesn'ttake much effort. But thismachine costs us money to run,and you are ripping us off whenyou "forget" to leave somechange or "forget" to fill O\lt aquad form. This month therip-off total was 680; that's$47.60, folks!

To have someone who issupposed to be of moderatelyhigh intelligence "forget" to payfor 200 copies (this happened!)is confusing to most normalpeople. Also, when the machil}eis jammed, call the number' onthe wall for the person whc. canunjam it. They hav" a key, andyou won't have to break the lockto get to the inner works, assome jerk did recently. If peoplecontinue to damage the machineand/or continue to rip us off bynot paying for copies, the Y isleft with very few alternatives:the machine will be shut downon weekend,; if that doesn'twork, night time use will bestopped; and if that doesn'twork, day use will be restricted.

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Computers are not evil or mali­cious in themselves but still theyhave been-the agent of destructionin the death of many minds.

Computers are not weapons butstill they can inflict wounds sosubtle as to make possible analmost unconscious suicide.

For the very speed and powerwith which computers renderjudgement can lure us into ab­dicating our own judgement tosome imagined cybernetic omni­science. The judgements of acomputer are but permutations ofthe implicit judgements of itsprogrammers and its pronounce­ments but the amplified echoes ofour own minds. The computer,then, will return our own foolish­ness just as it repeats our Wisdom;worship of its judgements is both apygmalion love of self and acowardice which seeks to escaperesponsibility for its own decisions.

And the very power andversatility that lets the programmercreate worlds within the machinecan let him hide there form lesssatisfying Reality. This god-likepower of creation is addictive; forwho would foregoabsoJute powerto be again a tool of fate. Further,the decision to live in the com­puter's world is to renouncecitizenship in our own. For withevery key struck in a program thecomputer delivers an equal andopposite stroke, a behavioral re­inforcement, programming theprogrammer. And, in his increasingattention to his artificial world,many a programmer has slowlytyped his soul away into thecomputer; becoming finally onlyanother terminal, indistinguishablefrom the machine itself.

The computer is a useful toolbut one only need observe the stateof its disciples to know that it is adangerous one. One need only hearthem, intoxicated with the glory oftheir cybernetic kingdoms, speakin ecstasy of their ability to controland destroy other programs torealize that absolute computingpower corrupts absolutely. Oneneed only see those whose appear­ance and personality have witheredfrom disuse to wonder whether webuy computing power with ourhumanity. We must be ever mind­ful that the computer is but a plowwith which to till the field ofknowledge; and that we are not theoxen but rather the farmers whoshape the tool, guide it, and reapthe harvest.

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feels that' the opportunity forin teraction with gifted scientificfacul ty, as well as the presenceof bright undergrads (who makecompetel1t research assistants andare early enough in theiracademic careers not to belocked immovably into their ownareas of interest) will serve toattract calented new staff to thedivision.

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even mal resolution.The argumen ts for and against

cannot be total:y encompassedhere. This proposal waul,.]necessi ta te long-term planningand cooperation. Howev,,;, it isobvious that the nextgenera tion- the illtematiol1algeneration--of space f1ight is"ready for takeoff'. To thosewho question the need for evenconsidering such a subtle changein our lifestyle at this time, I canonly answer that those who

of space shu ttle and spacestation. Why, if the U.S. has asuccessful program of its own,should it wish to merge withother nations? The benefits arepotentially enormous.Economically, the burden offinan,jng a space program wo\,ldbe vastly eased thorughcommunal sharing, and thesavings reinvested in domesticprojects; technologically it wouldallow the broadest exchange ofideas and research; it wouldallow develo?~ng nations to traina core of personnel in complextechnolog:es of benefit toearthbound populations; it mightfoster peace :md cooperationamong countries with a commonstake in the project, especially ifthe concept should awaken thepublic imagination. Finally thereis the philosophic argument that

. space exploration is tooimportant to allow dominationby a single nation.

It must be admitted that thereare a few seeming difficultieswith this proposal, but on thewhole they are minor. Somemight argue that the U.S. willlose its technical and economicadvantag"s in space; however,these are at best temporaryanyway, and enterprisingAmerican businesses will still beable to profit through thein ternational agency. The AirForce will (presumably) continueto research missile systems andelectronics. It can be argued thatthe existing NASA bureaucracy istoo firmly entrenched todissolve, but a space agency ofthis type will need a decade ormore to devel Jp, and during thattime much of the existingframework can be shuffled in.Some advanced technologywould obviously come into thehands of the Soviet Union, buton the other hand we wouldobtain some technology fromother nations.

I t seems to me the mainworry of such an internationalspace agency would be exactlywhat faces the U.N. today: theability of a bloc of nations todisrupt effective and nonpar+isanaction by the group. As of now Ihave no solution to this problem,but I feel confident of its

How does that old song go?"The moon belongs toeveryone." In one sense that'svery true. For centuries menhave divided up their lands intokingdoms and empires. No singlecountry, though, has a legitimateclaim to the planets andterritories beyond the earth'satmosphere: rather this is theheritage of all mankind, and ifman is going to mature anddevelop on an interplane'dryscale then all nations must sharein the exploration andcolonization of space.

It is thus all the moredepressing to witness the UnitedStates' space program entering itsthird decade of unilate:alexploration. The few recentU.S.-U.S.S.R. joint missions area hopeful start, but they do notgo far enough. I believe theUnited States should activelyencourage the design andformation of an inkrnationalspace agency (possibly underU.N. jurisdiction) for theexplorati'll1 of our solar system.

The present situation hasdeveloped iJrimarily because oftwo factors: World War II, andthe 'cold war'. At the end of the1940s the technology did notexist to put a manor anythingelse--in orbit. A huge capitaloutlay was needed to develop aspace program, and only twocountries had funds to spare:America and Russia. In addition,these two countries had siphoned

,off the best of Germany's rocketengineers. A mu tual spaceprogram might have been idealexcept for one factor: the twocountries weren't speaking toeach other. In fact, the originalprimary motive for spaceresearch was military applicationof missiles. Later, with theJaunching of Sputnik, thelnilitary battle became one ofpropaganda. President Kennedy/.vas able to mobilize this nationto put a man on the moon~ithin seven years, but only sohat "we would be there first".t scarcely surprises that thisationalistic attitude shouldurvive almost into the 80s.

Nowadays our country sendsrobes to all the planets in ourystem; we are preparing the age

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success. Somehow they needmore of a sense of reward fortheir efforts. Cat tech students aremore roundly and broadlydeveloped and overa(; betterhuman beings than they getcredit for. Often the unhappystudents only need a reassuringsign from someone that they aredoing a good job.

Finally, the Dean senses thatTech may be approaching anexciting era of change. He seesour new president as interestedin undergraduate matters as wellas warm and responsive' to theneeds of the communi(y. Herecalls that Tech went thorugh abatch of profound changes about10-12 years ago which includedpass-fail for freshmen, femaleadmissions, and freshmenelectives. He has high hopes thatequally profound and beneficialchanges may be close at hand.

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out of Tech as some studentsmight suppose. He feels he doesa good job of communicatingwith other schools and doesn'tlet them just count freshmenpass grades as C, for example.

Ray disputes Jim Mayer'sfigures concerning the graduationrate at Tech. His little chartsshow that since the Fifties,Tech's 4-year graduation rateaverages out at 60% and its totalgraduation rate is 70-75%. Alsomany of the victims of attritionget other degrees elsewhere. Hesees a correlation between thoseleaving Tech with those whoenter with higher verbal aptitudescores than mathematical scores.This would be a manifestation ofTech's scientific emphasis.

The big deficiency that Dr.Owen thinks the students mayhave at Tech is a real feeling of

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House, ranging from ArtLinkletter to Lily Tomlin.

There was always somethingabout the Ice House, somethingfriendly that drew some of thebig names back to perform therewhen they had the time. Thecrowd was never hostile, usual!yunderstanding even on those rareoccasions when an act snllplydidn't click. Bob Stane, theclub's owner since its inception,had a talent for finding people toperform there who were talented,whether or not they would everbecome stars. And many didn't.The Ice House also had theperpetual also-rans of music andcomedy, the songwriters whowanted to be singers, the singerswho had been on tour so longthey didn't have anyplace to gohome to, the leftovers from theprevious eras of music. Bob Lind,whose only hit was a decade old;

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The Ballroom Dance Club hasra field trip to UCLA this weekJand will not meet in winnett thifFriday night. New dancers arc~

invited to join us next Friday aW8pm for Beginning Instruction. t,Slugs or Kilos? It

Masses will be held inClubroom 2 of Winnett, Tuesdaynights at 9:30. ]

Little t's!Faculty, staff, departments,

and other non-ASCIT memberswho wish to buy a Little t cando so in the Caltech bookstore.The cost is $2.00.

Jazz Blood?The Caltech Dixieland Band is

alive and well (in fact, damngood), but it needs some newblood, especially .a drummer(Duchess got hungry one day,you see-ed.) If anyone likes toplay Dixieland (any instrument)call Professor J.E.McKee, X1391.We'll welcome recruits.

Slugs or Kilos?Tuesday nights at 9:30.

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Nov. I, at noon, there will beanother informal talk about artand the Gallery. Bring yourlunch.

.Yay or Nay?There will be a debate on

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need lots of people in thechorus, too, from 8 to 80. Andremember, there are five churusnumbers and five dances!

The orchestration is not toocomplicated. There are five reeds(No.1, flute and piccolo; No.2,B-flat clarinet, oboe and englishhorn; No.3, B-flat clarinet, E-flatclarinet and soprano sax; No.4,B-flat clarinet, flute and bassclarinet; No.5, bass sax, B-flatclarinet and bassoon). There arethree trumpets, three. trombones(naturally), one percussion part,four to eight violins, two cellos,one bass and one pianist. Ifnecessary, we may spread thereeds around. Also, we need asmany pianists as possible forrehearsals.

On the staff. we need aproperties manager, a makeupman and hairstylist, and apromotion director. For thecrew, we need set-builders,back-stage crew, costume sewers,people to help cast-mem1)I;rs withtheir costumes, light men, propassistants, and all around go-fers.As you can see, there's lots todo.

If you are interested, show upat auditions. Crew members willbe signed up and notified ofwhen they will be needed. Staffpeople will be put to workimmediately. Orchestra peoplewill be asked to sign up, and anorchestra rehearsal will be calledfor everyone at the beginning ofJanuary. The final orchestra willbe chosen at that time. Castmembers will be asked tovocalize and learn a short routinetaught by the choreographers. .1fsomeone is interested in a part ofany size, he or she will be askedto sing something from the showand to read. If anyone isinterested in Harold or Marian, asong of the person's ownchoosing should be prepared.Bring two copies of the music tothe audition; an accompanist willbe provided.

If anyone has any qUiCstions,or would like to see the script orscore, drop in to Flora's office in105 Winnett or call her at ext.2157.

MusicalNotes

by Flora BoyerAuditions for the Cal tech

Musical, to be presented inFebruary, 1979, will be held onSaturday and Sunday, Nov. 18and 19, in Winnett StudentCenter Lounge, frol11 1--5 pmboth days. This year we will bedoing Music Man, by MeridithWillson.

The show takes place in asmall town in Iowa, River City,in 1912-. Harold Hill, a travelingsalesman, arrives in town to sellthe townspeople on the idea of aboys' band complete withinstruments and uniforms. Withno knowledge of music andplanning to decamp witheveryone's money as soon as theuniforms arrive, "Professor" Hilltalks up his revolutionary newmethod of teaching music, the"Think System". The townlibrarian, Miss Marian Parao, whoalso teaches piano, suspectsHarold of being a confidenceman. But due to his kindness toher shy younger broth,?rWinthrop (who hath a lithp) shefalls under Harold's spell, as doeseveryone else in town. There isthe requisite happy ending, butnot before the School Boardturns into a barbersho:;:. quartet,the Mayor's wife becomes agrecian urn, an anvil salesmanstirs up the ice cream social, thetown's gossipy ladies call Mariana "fallen woman," and (gasp) apool table is moved into thebilliard parlor. I

As far as parts are concerned,there are lots! Marian is thefemale lead, with three secondarywomen's parts, one of which is adancer. There are four smallwomen's parts (they all sing) andeight to ten dancer-singernon-speaking parts. There aretwo young girls, one of whommust sing, and play piano.Harold is the male 19ad, withfour secondary leads, two ofwhom do not need to sing, andone who must be a dancer. Thereis the quartet, who have severalsongs, five other small parts, andwe also need eight ,0 tendancer-singer types. WinthropParoo must sing and hopefullyplay the cornet. Of course, we

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Scenes from the then ASCITMusicals Kiss Me Kate (right) andStudent Prince (below). For news.about this year's production, readthe article.

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-Nick Smith

CIT-Oxy PartyA splendid time is guarenteed

for all at the first annualCollegiate Symphony OrchestraHalloween Costume Concert, tobe held at Thorne Hall at Oxy,Oct. 31 , from I I: OOpm towhenever.

The Orchestra will play suchever-popular and appropriateselections as Mussorgsky's "Nighton Bald Mountain", Saint-Saens'"Danse Macabre", andMendelssohn's "Reformation"Symphony, to be followed by ashowing of the Roman Polanskifilm The Fearless Vampire Killersor Your Teeth and My Neck, anda costume judging with prizes.

And what do you have to doto get all this and more for yourvery own? Just show up at Oxyat the right time. Admission is$1.00 if you come in costume,$1.75 otherwise. See you there!(and remember those Oxy girls!)

few I've seen from a competentcomedienne, most others fallingback on some gimmick or other.Basically she did what a goodstand-up comic does, which isentertain people with bits out oftheir own lives.

Jay Leno was pretty good,another stand-up comic whowandered from topical subj'~ct totopical subject.

My favorites of the evening,however, were Rick and Ruby,otherwise known as the Rick andRuby Show (I suppose so Raoulwouldn't feel left out). Rick,Ruby and Raoul provided someof the most outrageous comedymusic I've ever heard. Basically,they are musical impressionists,providing the audiences withsuch horrifying concepts as NeilDiamond as a singing comedian,Camptown Races as being sungby Fleetwood Mac, and a3-minute version of West SideStory. Not to mention BarryWhite singing Jambalaya.

Anyway, the entertainmentwas good, and the atmospherewas encouraging. There is stillhope that the new owners won'tdisgrace the name lee House,that in fact their concentrationon the comedy acts will providea home for up-and-comingcomedians, one of the things thatthe old place did. I know that Iintend to give The New IceHouse another try, and I feelthat I can recommend it.

The New lee House is at 24N. Mentor Ave. here in Pasadena,about I mile north and west ofthe student houses.

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entertainment field, and at leastsome basis for their pretentiousnew name for the old club. Twoof them were involved in theLaff Stop, an all-comedy clubdown in Newport Beach. Onewas also a comedy writer,another. works in the field ofgathering test audiences. Theyhave worked at remodeling theclub, and creating an extra placeto relax and be entertainedother than just the mail{showroom.

The plans currently in theworks include having the mainroom, The Comedy Showroom,feature three acts nightly, with acomedy headliner along withmusic and/or magic acts, thelatter coming from such places asThe Magic Castle in Hollywood(a club not open to the public ingeneral, which has some of thebest magicians in the worldperforming at it occasionally). Inaddition, the Music and MagicCabaret will be a smaller, moreintimate room for other acts.Admission to the larger one,which includ,~s admission to theother as well, is $3Sunday-Thursday, and $4.00 onweekends. Admission to just theCabaret will only be $1 to $1.50.

Already scheduled to appearas headliners are Billy Crystal (of"Soap" and much better things)and Jimmie Walker (of "GoodTimes"). Crystal will appear thisSaturday and Sunday nights,with Walker next Tuesdaythrough Thursday. Shows start at8:30, with second shows at10: 30 on Friday and Saturdaynights.

The food and drink menu islimited but interesting. Fulldinners are available for $4.50,including Spaghetti, Chicken'; laKing and Beef Stew. A ChefsSalad will run you $2.50, as willNachos or a Cheese and Appleplatter. A Sundae is $1.50, and asmall basket of Chocolate ChipCookies is $1.00. Drinks rangefrom $.85 for standard softdrinks, to $1.00 for ciders,coffees and lemonades, tobottled beer ($1.25 domestic,$1.50 imported), wine ($1.25)and a small number of fancycocktails ($1.65). Not bad,really, no more than you'd payin a medium-priced restaurant forsimilar items.

The show on preview nightconsisted of some very goodentertainment, and that bodeswell.

Elayne Boosler is an excellentcomedienne. Her basicallystand-up routine was one of the

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And they were good, dammit!All of those people you neverheard on the radio, all the oneswho never made it onto TheTonight Show or wherever starsgot seen.

All that for the price ofadmission, which was alwayscheaper than a movie ticket. Foryears, $2 more or less would getyou in, and there was none ofthis 'minimum' garbage on drinksor food. If you didn't wantanything, or couldn't affordanything, that was cool. And itwas more likely the formerreason, since the food or drinkswere relatively cheap for a club.For the same quality and less,you paid twice as much at theTroubadour or other places.

And then it all died.•••••

The New Ice House ComedyShowroom and Music and MagicCabaret held a sort of a grandopenin~ last week, invitingnewspaper people from this andother distinguished publications.The whole thing was very wellstaged, with the new ownerswandering around talking topeople. The new owners haverespectable credentials in the

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by Thor FeatCaltech's cross-country team

:;plit a quad meet 2 -I lastFriday at San Diego and nowstand at 11-5. The score wasUCSD 24, Caltech 43, TijuanaTech 75, and USIU 95.

Tech started out fast, forc;ingthe pace for the first mile, doing5: 10 to 5: 16. But then th,; stGephills of the long 5.1 mile coursestarted to take their toll, andUCSD runners moved into thebetter positions. At the finishline Rob Bourret blazed intnsecond place in 27:52, then camethree UCSD runners and aTijuanan. Rich Holmes, GlenGeorge, and Bill Gould finished;n 7th, 8th and 9th in 28: 54,29:05 and 29: 13 respectively.Eric Kroevaar paid the stiffestpenaltj :or his early burst ofspeed, finishing 17th in 30: 39.Randy Field came in 18th in30: 58, Brian McLain 23rd in33: 18 and Dave Drum 24th in33:35.

The most important part ofthe cross-country season is nowhere. Tomorrow Caltech will hostLa Verne and arcluivalClaremont. Next week Caltechhosts the SCIAC Finals, and theNAIA District 3 meet is the

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