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ISNIEA group of expert China-watcherstold The Tech that it is unlikelythat the Taiwanese engineersbeing trained at MIT in inertialguidance would apply their -knowledge to the productionof guided missles.

A new team has been picked byIFC to represent MIT in the'"Fourth Annual Great Budweiser

Canoe Race." The team wasepicked after complaints by

fraternity presidents and othershat the original team was packed

with friends of members of thelection committee and had

on-MIT women. The new teamonsists of 17 fraternity men and

11 women, 3 from fraternities.

A mysterious "bug" which hasinfected at least some members ofeach group visiting Talbot Housein January, producing violentillness, is the subject of an investi-gation by the Medical DepartmentThe investigation has been slowedby a delay in getting water samplecanisters.

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OUTSIDEUS Secretary of Transportationhas given approval for the con-troversial supersonic Concordeto land in Washington's Dullesand New York's. Kennedy Air-ports during a 16-month trialperiod. Opponents of the plane?developed jointly by the Britishand the French at a cost of$3 billion, say that the plane isoo noisy and may disrupt the

ozone layer. They have alsoquestioned its safety. Coleman,however, said it would be"irresponsible" to ban it withoutfirst giving it a chance.

A major earthquake hitGuatemala and surroundingparts of Central America onWednesday, killing an esti-mated 2000 people.

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By Mike McNameeIndustrial development, not

military expansion, is the aim ofa $900,000 MIT-Draper Labo-ratories program training 15Taiwanese engineers in inertialguidance and instrumentationsystems, MIT administrators andfaculty said yesterday.

While acknowledging the pos-sibility that Taiwan, or Nation-alist China, will apply the tech-niques learned at MIT. to devel-oping weapon systems - espe-cially ballistic missles, a majoruse for inertial guidance systems- the MIT officials said theprogram's purpose was devel-oping high-technology, low-investment industry in Taiwanto aid that country's develop-ment.

The program, which was re-ported yesterday in thursday,involves engineers from a varietyof fields studying guidance sys-tems in the Department of Aero-nautics and Astronautics. Thetwo-year program is adminis-tered by the MIT Center forAdvanced Engineerinmg Studiesunder a $917,306 contract withthe National Taiwan University(NTU).

Under that contract, MIITchose 15 civilian Taiwanese stu-dents to enroll as Fellows of theCAES Advanced Studies Pro-gram, a world-wide special pro-gram which does not grant de-grees. The Taiwanese can enrollin courses in MIT departmentsto study marketing and indus-trial management in addition toguidance theory and design.

Laboratory work in whichthe students will design andbuild a guidance system is beinghandled by the MeasurementSystems Laboratory. That workwas originally to be done by theDraper Labs, which withdrewfrom the laboratory phase of thework at the request of the USState Department. Draper now isproviding lecturers for the pro-gram.

Joint initiationThe program grew out of

discussions between Aero andAstro Professor Yao T. Li, headof the MIT Innovation Centerand a native of Taiwan, and Dr.Yen Cheng Hsin, president ofNTU, Li told The Tech that theTaiwanese were seeking a tech-n'ological area in which they

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"Most Taiwan industry usesimported technology and is verylabor-intensive," Li said. "Theyare looking for ways to replacet h at with -technological in-dustry."

The choice of guidance sys-tems was a "coincidence," Lisaid. Li had been involved injoint projects with Draper, aleading laboratory in guidancework, and the Taiwanese ex-pressed interest in this field, hesaid.

"Guidance and instrumenta-tion has an advantage becauseit's-not a heavy industry - capi-tal expenses are not high," Liadded. "Taiwan could get into

dicating that no export of vitaltechnology was involved, how-ever, State objected to the plans.

"State apparently felt thatDraper was too close to the realthing - state-of-the-art work -to do this program," AssistantDirector Paul Brown of CAESsaid. Although Draper officialssaid that. the technology in-volved was on the public record,State denied Draper the certifi-cate, forcing complete revisionof the contract. Draper nowonly provides lecturers for theprogram.

" S o mebody - either atDraper or at MIT - didn't dotheir homework," ChancellorPaul Gray '54 concluded. Draper

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this industry very easily, andthere would be a market for itsproducts."

Inertial guidance systems arebeing increasingly used on shipsand airplanes as well as misslesystems, according to experts inthe field. A world-wide "posi-tioning network" for navigationis also being developed to be inplace in approximately fiveyears. "They won't have anytrouble selling their stuff," oneexpert told The Tech.

State ObjectsUnder the original contract,

Draper was to provide labora-tory instruction for the "hands-on" part of the program. Whenthe laboratories applied for aState Department certificate in-

'"The concerts take all themoney away and take all the(UA officials') time away,"Allen explained. "Every UAPhas had to be an agent." Noconcerts in Rockwell Cage havebeen planned, he continued, al-

student opinion, he admits hav-ing a long way to go. "We havegotten a little way but are notwhere I wanted to be." He notedthat his biggest problem is "toestablish our legitimacy with thestudent body. The people I talk-ed to across tlae street (in theadministration) are eager," butthere is a cynicism on the part ofthe students that "may be wellfounded."

The proposed new constitu-tion was an attempt to make theUA more directly representativeof the student body. Amongpossibilities discussed at a meet-ing of UA, IFC, anid Formconofficials were the recreation of arepresentative body possiblysimilar to the ['A General As-sembly and the creation of abody composed of leaders ofexisting student activities. Thelatter group would be similar tothe "Institute Committee"which the previous UAP, SteveWallman '75, attempted to cre-ate.

The constitutional meetingproved to be a disappointmenlt,Allen said, since "not nearly asmany people as I invited" actual-ly showed up.

Allen noted that althoughShagoury has resigned as UAVP,he still will have a role to play inthe UA. "They have differentinterests," he explained. "Kevinhas always been into the admini-stration side of the Institute, andSteve has been into organizingthe UA itself."

By Gerald RadackUAP Lee Allen '76 has ap-

pointed Kevin Miller '77 to thepost of UAVP, replacing SteveShagoury '76 who recently re-signed.

Miller's previous experiencewith student government has in-cluded being a member of theStudent Committee on Educa-tional Policy (SCEP) and a pre-sence during "deliberation ovey aconstitution which was to beproposed shortly."

Shagoury apparently resignedbecause he did not feel there wasanything for him to do as Vicepresident. Miller, however, sayshe intends to play an active rolein the UA, even if he has noofficial duties other than to takeover in the absence of the presi-dent. He will "get people to-gether to discuss problems," heexplained, and will "act as acentral point for accepting com-plaints and providing informa-tion where information is notreadily available."

This conception of theUAVP's role coincides withAllen's view of what the UAshould do. "The UA provides anopportunity for students tointeract with the admrinistra-tion," he says.

Under Allen's administrationless emphasis has been placed onUA-sponsored concerts, whichhave been criticized in the pastbecause of the large losses thathad to be made up out of theUAP's budget.

IAP is not a particularly gooadtime for gathering news, but itis a very good time for exploringnew and different activities. Withso many offerings, many peoplewere unable to aprticipate inall that ther were interested in.The Tech photography staff hasrecorded just a few of the manyexperiences of the IAP.

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Among the activities the UIJAhas been involved in this year,Allen stated, was a discussion ofthe proposed activities fee. (Ac-tivities money now comes fromgeneral tuition funds.) "Westudied it and went to otherschool and talked to them. Wedecided to let it stay the way itwas."

Although Allen has madesome progress in his plan tomake the UA a mouthpiece for

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(Continued from page 1)officials now refuse to discussthe contract, referring callers toCAES.

Kindleberger informed

The thursday account of thecontract was obtained fromdocuments placed on file by theCommittee on International In-

stitutional Commitments. Copiesof the original contract and theamendments were given to thatgroup while it was reviewingMIrT's international programs inthe wake of debate over theIranian nuclear engineering pro-gram.

"Most of the Chinese negotia-tions were carried on before our

committee went to work," Pro-fessor of Economics CharlesK i ndleberger, the committeechairman, told The Tech. "Wewere provided the documentsfor it, but didn't go into it indepth. When I heard about theState Department objections, Ithought it had been sidetracked,so we didn't examine it deeply."

As the committee was pre-paring its report to the facultylast October, Kindleberger said"we learned that it had beenrenegotiated and a new agree-ment signed." The committeedid not mention the program inits report, which was heavilyamended by the faculty, butincluded the documents in thoseplaced on file.

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Taiwan program peaceful, MIT says

Taiwanese ICl s?Unlikely say ex ers

Can Nationalist China use MIT training in inertial guidancesystems to'develop ballistic missiles and other offensive weapons? Ifit has the capability, will it apply it? Is Taiwan capable of applyingMIT's training to development of a high technology guidanceindustry?

The Tech asked academic China-watchers from all over thecountry these questions in the context of the MIT-Draper Labora-tories Taiwan program. Expexpts from their answers' follow:

Professor Ted Greenwood, MIT "I'm not aware of any Taiwaneseefforts to get missile-area technology. Do they have the capability tobuild ICBM's? No, not now, but they could get it if they wanted it. Ijust can't imagine why they'd want to, unless they had a nuclearweapons program in mind. I don't think so . .. Taiwan manufacturesa lot of high technology things, and there's a growing market forguidance equipment. I think they're on the right track ... Thisprogram can be explained in a lot of ways. While I'm not ruling outmilitary interests, I tend to have a very non-conspiratorial view. Ithink they're after industry .... "

Jonathon Polla.ck, Harvard, "That kind of stuff is always beingbandied about - that Taiwan is getting missiles, nuclear weapons,and so forth. Notwithstanding the potential, there's no evidence thatthey've diverted plutonium to weapons work. . . The Taiwanese havedemonstrated a great deal of competence in high technology withmilitary applications. But this would be a wlyole new area. They havestrong defensive forces, but not much offense. They might behedging their bets, but in terms of the political scene, I wouldn'texpect military uses of this work. . .The manufacturing capabilitiesare definitely within their grasp. . .I don't think a decision has beenmade to go with nuclear weapons or missiles. I just wouldn't putdark interpretations on this program."

Allen Whiting, University of Michigan "There are an awful lot ofcomponents in an ICBM, and the Nationalists have no experiencewith any of them. They just started to build jet aircraft on contractfrom the US. There's really no utility in it - they've had missilesstationed there since 1957 which could have nuclear warheads puton them...., Taiwan's a leader in high-technology manufacturingLabor is cheap but well-educated, very highly-trained and dexterous.I think they could develop this manufacturing. I'd put a pretty lowcredence in those reports (of missiles and nuclear weapons). They'rereally in no position to go into a nuclear slugfest.

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By Mike McNameeFifteen fraternity men and 13

women, including three fromfraternities, have been chosen torepresent the MIT Inter-fraternity Conference in theAnheuser-Busch California canoerace.

Team member's names (seelist below) were released to TheTech yesterday by IFC ActivitiesCoordinator Joel Mandelbaum'78 (DU) after a revised selectioncommittee reviewed nomina-tions from several fraternitiesand athletic organizations.

The team will leave for LosAngeles, Cal., on February 11 topaddle-,in a 72-hour non-stopcanoe race against teams fromthe University of Maryland, theUniversity of Southern Califor-nia, and the University of Calif-oihia Los Angeles. Anheuser-Busch, a brewing company, issponsoring the "Fourth AnnualGreat Budweiser Canoe Race" topublicize Budweiser beer and

Busch Gardens, the Los Angelesamusement park where the racewill be held.

Mandelbaum and, one otherIFC official will accompany theteam "in a managerial and ad-ministrative capacity," therelease said. In addition to thetrips to California, Anheuser-Busch will provide a going-awayparty for the team at the DeltaUpsilon fraternity and $1000 forthe IFC Activities Fund.

The new selection procedurewas set up after protests- bystudents who thought the teamoriginally -picked byMandelbaum and three other DUmembers was loaded withfriends of the committee. Six ofMIT's 30 fraternities were repre-sented on that team. IFC offi-cers reportedly also had consid-ered picking non-MIT women tofill the team, but protest forcedthem to pick MIT women only.

Members of the IFC canoeteam are:

Men - Donald Findlay '79(DKE), Kevin Hotvedt '78(LCA), Jimmy Thompson '77(SAE), Jonathan Rogers '78(DTD), Matt Breitenberg '76(BTP), Steven Ollanick '79(AEPi), John Everett '76 (PLP),Steven Wilkcins '78 (ATO),Douglas Browick (TEP), WilliamKaiser '77 (PGD), Brian T.Harrington '77 (LCA), WilliamCburtwright '76 (DU), Lee A.Boy '79 (DTID), Pete Watson '77,(SPE), and Charles Johnson '76(TEP).

Women -Carole Swetky '77(Baker), Amy Powell '79 (McC),Alicia Abels '78 (Bur), LisaJablonski '77 (Bak), Renee Roy'78 (No. 6), Cathy McGrew '79(Bak), Beverly Herbert' '76(Non-Resident), Anne Averbach'77 (McC), Margaret Meyer '77(ET), Janet Freeman '78 (EC),Cathy Greany '78 (No. 6),Patricia Schettig '76(Non-Resident), and WendyIrving '77 (Non-Resident).

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By Mike McNameeSkiing and winter sports at

Talbot House, MIT's Vermonthideaway, have been over-shadowed by the search for amysterious "bug" that infectedevery group of students whichvisited Talbot in january.

At least one student grouphas cancelled plans to visit Tal-bot, located in ski country nearWoodstock, Vt,, after severalcases of flu-likce sickness werereported there.

The MIT Medical Departmenthas moved to investigate thesituation, but so far most of thelaboratory and on-scene workhas been done by local and statehealth aruthorities. Water andstool samples are being taken totry to isolate what hMedicalDepartment Dr. Melvin H.Chalfen said "seems to be a virusor bacteria."'

The mysterious disease firstappeared early in January, ac-cording to Assistant Dean forStudent Affairs Jon IHartshorne,when r aermbers of the TalbotHouse staff reported three- orfour-day illcssws simiar to thef u. T he matter came toHartshorne's attention when sev-eral student groups v''ilngTalbot reported that three orfour members of the 24-persongroups became ill.

"It was an awvful sickness,"one member of a group thatvisited Talbot last week told TheTech. "They thought it might bethe cold bag lunches, so they cut

those out, then they told us notto drink the water. The peoplewho were sick were dehydratingbecause they couldn't drink thewater."

Chalfen said there was "noquestion of quarantine" atTalbot, and Hartshomrne said thatgroups were being given a choiceof whether to visit or not. "Wetell the person responsible forthe group, and he talks it overwith them and they decide," hesaid.

Since the tests that are beingconducted on the water supplyat being done at Burington, Vt.,there has been some delay inobtaining results. "As soon asthe sample canisters get here,we'll send them back specialdelivery," Hartshorne said, "butthey haven't arrived yet."

A dditionaly, results fromtests on the heating system, todetermine if excessive amountsof carbon monoxide are present,are not yet available.

"The dosing of Talbot Houseis a real isgue," Hartshorne said,"but were waiting to make anydecision until we have furtherdata, hopefully at the beginningof next week."

Most groups have decided notto give up their reservations onthe house - Talbot House ismost in demand in ski season,and reservations are prized -and have gone to Talbot. Onegroup, C Entry in MacGregorHouse, has cancelled its trip,however.

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News DepartmentNews Edito: Margaret Brandeau "77; Ance.iate News .Edits: GexrawRadack '77; Staff: Stephen Blatt '77, Farrell Petereal '77, Lucy Everett'78, Mitchell Trachtenberg '78, Michael Brzustowicz '79, HenryFiorentini '79, Eileen Mannix '79, Rich Newcome '79, Thomas Mayr.

Production DepartmentNight Editors: Mark Munkacsy '78, Wulliam Pritchard '78, DavidThompson '78; Prduction Manager: Michael Graves; Staff: NancyGreenberg '77, Lynn Yamada '78, Craig Albert '79, Jean Goodwin '79,John Guppy '79, Wilton Madison '79, Gerald Michael '79, RichardNewcome '7 9, Rebecca Waring '79, Gayanne Gray.

Photography DepartmentPhoto Editors: Tom Klimowicz '77, David Schal!er '78; Staff: DaveGreen '75, Thomas Vidic '76, Mike Garcia '78, Mark James '78, RobMitchell '78, Richard Reihl '78, Dave Bocutti '79, John Hopper '79,Lee Lindquist '79, Dave Martin '79.

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To the Editor:In your recent editorial on

Cambridge and its future pos-sibilities, you note that industryis moving out of the area. Thereis also a reference to the North-east using its political weight toelect a Northeasterner as presi-dent who would be more symn-pathetic to the regional situa-tion.

I believe it pertinent to bringout the preliminary data of theUS census for 1975 which showsthe Southern and Western statesgrowing at a rate which farexceeds the Northeast or NorthCentral states' growth rate. Whatthis means is that in the 1980reapportionment of US congress-men, the Northeast will surelylose representatives to Arizona,Colorado, Texas, Florida, andNorth Carolma. As this shiftoccu-s, the sentiment of, theCongress is certain to switchwith the Northeast being an in-evitable loser.

As more of the electoral col-lege votes shift South and West,the election of a NortheasternDemocrat becomes more re-mote. These "sun-belt" statesare also today's economic win-ners, and they'll not vote for a

regional president who wants toreverse the current trend.

The political option of theNortheast is fading, and I believeit is a tool that can no longer beused by the Northeast. As yourarticle suggested, the regionshould emphasize its strengthsThe cities of the region shouldrecognize its position in thebanking and financial areas, ascorporate headquarters, centerfor high technology industries,the fine natural ports, and itsuniversities.

If the region continues to losethe manufacturing base and at-tracts only the igh level skilledjobs, the region will becomeeven more stratified between the

very rich and very poor. The twogroups will be competing for thesame space and services, with therich the obvious winners. Therich will push up the cost of thebasic services. The unions will beshifted to areas outside this re-gion.

By emphasizing. only itsstrengths, the region worsens itsweaknesses. Revitalization winrequire imaginative programs tokeep the area competitive andgrowing. So far nothing alongthese- lines has been proposed.How, the necessary -sacrificesshall be distributed will be thepolitical debate.

Paul H. Levy GJanuary 27, 1976

To the Editor:This is in response to Mark

Throop's letter in the January23 The Teeh criticizing the newsculpture, "Transparent Hori-zon." The gist of Throop's re-marks is that the sculptureshould not be regarded as a workof art because he doesn't like it.To him, it looks "like a three-year-old did it."

What Throop doesn't know isthat similar objections have beenlevelled by first viewers againstnearly every great work of art inhistory. Wheen Rembrandt's"Night Watch" was unveiled in1642, the reactions were laugh-ter -and derision. The paintinggot its nanme from hanging forthree centuries over a dimly-litdoorway in an insignificantAmsterdam building. The morescorned an art work is at first,the better is its chance for beingult i m a tely recognized as . amasterpiece. Somewhere aroundthe twenty-third century thescales will fall from our eyes,enabling us to appreciate "Trans-parent Horizon" for what itreally is. Too bad Throop don'tlive that long.

The second thing he doesn'trealize is that the appreciation ofart works is largely a matter ofeducation. If Throop knew asmuch about sculpture as themembers of the Committee onVisual Arts do, he'd like it a'hundred times better. Immediaterecognition for masterpieces al-ways comes from a small,learned, visionary elite.

With these truths in mind, letus nOW put an end to all thenaive criticism that now darkensour outstanding new sculpture,"Transparent Horizons."

Roger KolbJanuarzvy 8, 19 76

To the Editor:May an aged "square" who

has inhabited an office on cam-pus for somne years comment onthe "Transparent Horizons" con-troversy?

I have been impressed withthe generally responsible effortsof students to get their opinions(i.e. dislike) of this "artistic"embellishment across to theCommittee on the Visual Arts.The childish acts of defacing thestructure - while certainly im-mature and subject to strongcriticism - nevertheless cameonly after the "establishment"had proved nonresponsive. al-though this makes such child-isthness Ino less distasteful, albeitsomewhat understandable sinceit reflects, I suppose. frustrationat being ignored.

As a matter of policy, theCommnittee onl Visual Arts might

well differentiate between gen-eral public areas of the Institute,like the courtyard of the Li-brary, and those areas which areessentially living group centers,as is the East Campus. In choos-i.ng objets d'art for the latterone would anticipate the selec-tion of items which could reas-onable be expected to be mean-ingful and pleasing to a majorityof the inhabitants of that area.Dormitory dwellers probablynever can have the same freedomof choice as do fraternity mem-bers in choosing or decoratingtheir surroundings, but certainlytheir opinions chould be..of morethan secondary consideration inthe selection of an-edifice whichis going to so dominate what is,effectively,. their "front yard."

Wni. Bradford GoveA ssistan t Director, OSP

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California, there thaey go;behind the IFC decision

By Glenn BrownsteinBy now the MIT canoe team for the Budweiser race to be held

next week has been officially chosen The team will be composed of12 men and 12 women, all MIT students, with the men comingsolely from fraternities and the women being selected campus-wide.

I suppose that this story's been beaten almost to death, but thereis one major point that needs to be brought up that being theselection of male canoeists, which is still and will remain acontroversy.

Ostensibly, the reason to confine their selection to fraternitiesstems from the original decision to name 12 canoeists from six "jockfrats." Since the IFC is organizing the team on campus, it seems atfirst glance to be fair that the California-bound rowers come fromfraternities. After all, Southern California once sent a team of bandmembers to this race and the Anheuser-Busch people have usuallycontacted smaller groups rather than campus-wide organizations.

Then again, UCLA selected its team from a campus-wide pool,and it appears upon closer examination that the IFC should havedone the same.

What is at issue here is not the $1000 the IFC will receive fororganizing the squad; it could easily have asked all athletic chairmenplus a NRSA representative to submit names for the final lottery andstill received the money as the team organizer. More at issue iswhether MIT is really two different schools socially (frats, anddorms/off-campus). Most of MIT's fraternities are physically sepa-rated from the remainder of the Institute. This recent incidentpoints out that the frats apparently consider themselves sociallyseparate from the rest of the student body and have no desire tomake any effort to change this.

Based on this theory it is not surprising that the IFC votedSunday to restrict the male part of the team to fraternity jocks; it'salso very predictable that they would first consider Simmons, BU,Wheelock, and Boston Conservatory of Music women first, as theyare geographically closer than most MIT women, owing to the smallnumber of coed frats.

The IFC has apparently lost asense of scope of the possibleramifications of such a decision. In the past IFC and dorm-sponsored

activities have been open to all members of the MIT student body,but it appears that the lure of California and the $1000 may havecorrupted the organizers into revealing their true feelings about theother students on campus.

We may see any number of reprisals against this decision. It's myguess--that frats may be discriminated against at dorm parties orother dorm-sponssored events, or more likely, the strained relationsbetween the IFC and dorms concerning R/O are likely to becomefurther stretched, possible to the breaking point, for it is byaffecting rush week that the dorms can best make their presence felt.It is too late to change anything concerning what has been aone forthe race; I'll be rooting for our team, controversy or no controversy.

Perhaps I'm blowing this incident out of proportion, that the raceorganizers are simply guilty of a couple of bad judgments, whichhappen to all of us at one time or another. I'd just suggest that theybe a little more careful next tinme, for I fear that they've made someenemies among dormitory and off-campus people who feel as mucha part of this school athletically and socially as the frEats do.

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By Alan MarcumrThe MIT varsity rifle team

won a -our-way match on Jan-uary 31, defeating the Universi-ties of Maine and Alaska andSpringfield Technical Commt:ni-ty College.

Paced by senior co-captainJerome Dausman's 557 out of aperfect 600 score, the rifle teamfired a new MIT record-settingmark of 2206. The match waswell contested, with Maineshooting a fine 2200, Alaskafiring a 2176, and Springfieldcoming up with a 1570. Alsocontributing to the record-set-ting score were Dave Muller '77(552), Glenn Graham '78 (551),and co-captain_ Jesse Villagran'77 (546).

Further records were brokenwhen the United States ArmyMarksmanship Unit from Ft.Benning, ,Georgia fired at theMIT range on January 18. The

match was won by Ray Carter ofthe AMU with a score of 590, amere six points off the nationalrecord. Dausman again led theInstitute's shooters with a careerbest - and MIT record - scoreof 578.

MIT will shoot against Alaskaagain when the riflemen travel toWest Point to compete tomor-row in the Fifth Annual Invita-tional Smallbore Rifle Tourna-ment. The team is hoping torepeat its December victory overthe Cadets.

The squad meets North-eastern here on. Wednesday,hosts the Massachusetts StateSmallbore Championships nextweekend, shoots at DartmouthCollege on February 28, andhosts the Smallbore Sectionalmatch and the New EnglandCollegiate Rifle League finals inthe range beneath the duPontGymnasium on March 6.

the educational Council, andsome last-minute funds from theAthletic Department itself havemade the trip possible.

The team leaves with a 5-4record to face Oberlin (Ohio)College, Northwestern, Brown,and Chicago in the tournament.It will return Sunday night andplay Radcliffe College on Mon-day.

The wrestling team thrashedBoston College Tuesday 26-15.Three MIT grapplers pinnedtheir BC opponents. WernerHaag '77 (134), Bruce Wrobel'79 (177), and 170-pound JoelLederman '76 wrestling heavy-weight scored the big victories

for the Engineers.On Monday, the hockey club

dropped to 4-5-1 after an unim-pressive 8-0 drubbing at thehands of Plymouth State. Wed-nesday's game with Tufts waspostponed. The Engineers traveltomorrow evening to Trinity.

Biology captured the men'sdivision of the first ever intra-mural indoor track meet held inthe Cage on Sunday, January 25.Winning t'ne mile and two-mile-relays, Biology amassed 52points to outdistance runner-upSigma Alpha Epsilon with 28.

The only double wi.nner wasWalter Hill G in the 600 and1000 yard runs. SAE's FrankWalsworth '76 took the mile andfinished second in the two-mile.

In the women's division,Debbie McKechnie '79 sped tothree victories and RoseannaMeans '76 picked up a pair eachof firsts and seconds.

By Caren Pensoand Dave Dobos

The MIT women's basketballteam, with the support of theMIT Community, has made it toChicago. The idea for the tripcame out of a return invitationfrom the University of Chicagofollowing the MIT Women's Invi-tational Basketball Tournamentheld last year.

A lack of funds in the athleticbudget appeared to prevent thetrip. However, "MIT Women'sAthletic Supporter" T-shirt andbutton sales plus generous con-tributions from the Women'sLeague (formerly Tech Ma-trons), the Alumni Association,

already difficult task of defeat-ing an excellent Amrnherst squadimpossible. It was so one-sidedand inept that Engineer CoachFran O'Brien received apologiesfrom six Amherst players andthe opposing coach after thegame was over.

While minor contact was cal-led fairly evenly outside the foullane until the game's fmal mo-ments, Amherst got awav withanything and everything inside.MIT picked up four technicals,due to, "rabbit-eared" officialsand to frustrated Engineer ball-players.

Amherst steadily built up itslead early, taking a 43-31 bulgeinto the dressing room aftertwenty minutes.

The Lord Jeffs then tookMIT apart, running off a 154.spurt to lead by 23, but theEngineers then came to life.MIT's hustling press forced eightAmherst turnovers in a five-minute span and cut the differ-ence to 60-49, Rehnquist hitthree straight jumpers, yet MITroared back to within six pointswith 2:29 left, slowed only bysome "creative officiating."

Freshman Tom Berman's fouland technical enabled Amherstto widen its advantage to eleventhough, and the Lord Jeffs werenever again headed.

The varsity returns to Rock-well Cage Saturday night for an8:15 game against Clark.

By Glenn BrownsteinOne super night, one good

night, and two bad nights: that'sthe story of MIT's 92-85 loss toAmherst Wednesday in the win-ner's gym.

The super night belonged tothe Lord Jeffs' Jim Rehnquistthe 6'3" forward from McLean,Virginia, who has led the coun-try in scoring most of this year.Paying absolutely no attentionto good defensive work by theEngineers, Rehnquist pumped in16 of 24 field goal attempts, andsank all 18 free throw tries for50 points, an all-time Amherstrecord and the most points anyplayer has ever scored againstMIT.

The good night belonged toMtT's all-time leading scorer, tri-captain forward Cam Lange '76,who had a season-high 32 pointson 13 of 22 from the floor and 6of 8 from the line. Lange's hotshooting paced the Engineers'frantic final-ten-minutes come-back, in which 1MIT whittled aonce 23-point bulge to just six,scoring 42 points in the game'sfinal 9:40.

In fact, there were nine goodnights for MIT, as the Engineer'spress was the key factor in thecomeback, forcing 20 Amherstturnovers il the second half andkeeping the game tight until thefinal buzzer.

The two bad nights belongedto the officials, who made the

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