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VoWume LXIV.<br />
Bite the<br />
World<br />
California Tech<br />
Associated Student .. of the California Institute of Technology<br />
-Photo by Ken Brown<br />
Some of the trophies presently held by Student Houses. The Discobolus,<br />
Varsity Rating, and Snake trophies, in the right center of the group, were presented<br />
yesterday at the Spring Supots Banquet.<br />
Caltech Band Presents<br />
Annual Spring Concert<br />
BY TOM LUBENSKY<br />
Tonight at 7:30, the Caltech<br />
Band will present its annual<br />
Spring Concert in the Athenaeum<br />
Patio. The concert will be<br />
somewhat different from the<br />
traditional third term presentation<br />
that is usually held in tJhe<br />
Olive Court between Ricketts<br />
and Fleming. This year's production<br />
will be held! under the<br />
auspices of the Athenaeum Program<br />
and will be a full-length<br />
Many<br />
High<br />
Seek<br />
Posts<br />
Nominations for class officers<br />
closed' Monday; for the senior<br />
class: president: Art Johnson,<br />
Don Terwilliger, John Clauser;<br />
vice president: Fred Dorr, Frank<br />
Winkler; treasurer: Elliott Harry;<br />
secretary: Joe Weis; athletic<br />
manager: Dick Karp.<br />
For the junior class: president:<br />
J. C. Simpson, Guy Jackson,<br />
Gerry Steiner; vice president:<br />
John Beamer, Randy Cassada;<br />
secretary: Neal Wright; treasurer:<br />
Gary Scott; athletic manager:<br />
Bob Scott.<br />
For tlhe sophomore class: president:<br />
Gary Bornzin, Jerry Yudelson;<br />
vice president: Mike Hunsaker,<br />
Dario Iacuelli, Bill Orr;<br />
secretary: Phil Liapis; treasurer:<br />
John Rouse, John Yavorsky;<br />
athletic manager: Jim Sharrard.<br />
Conger Topic<br />
World Peace<br />
The fifty-second annual Conger<br />
Peace Oration Contest will<br />
be held in the Winnett Student<br />
Center Lounge Wednesday, <strong>May</strong><br />
<strong>29</strong>, <strong>1963</strong>, at 11:00 a.m. it was<br />
announced Monday by Mr. Herb<br />
Rooth, director of forensics.<br />
Some phase of industrial or<br />
world peace will be discussed by<br />
each contestant in his sevenminute<br />
oration" Winning contestant<br />
will receive fifty dollars<br />
cash award; second-place winner,<br />
twenty_five dollars.<br />
Judges for the contest will be<br />
Dr. D. S. Clark, Engineering; Dr ..<br />
J. Kent Clark, Humanities; and<br />
Dr. John Baker, 'pastor, Pasadena<br />
Neighborhood Church.<br />
Students, faculty, and the public<br />
are invited to attend.<br />
concer:t, featuring a wide diversity<br />
of numbers to appeal to<br />
nearly every musical taste.<br />
The first half of the concert<br />
will feature several serious productions<br />
including Schubert's<br />
Unfinished Symphony, J 0 h nson's<br />
Concert Overture, Whear's<br />
Jederman, and several others.,<br />
The second half of the program<br />
will concentrate on a selection<br />
of lighter numbers, including<br />
Camelot by Lerner and Lowe,<br />
a flashing Mexican number Gallito,<br />
and C.lare Grundman'S Second<br />
American Folk Rhapsody.<br />
Several of the selections of<br />
the program were used during<br />
the concert the Band presented<br />
at Disneyland Plaza Gardens on<br />
April 27, but tonight's production<br />
will include many more.<br />
The soothing strains of the<br />
evening's festivities win be well<br />
within earshot of the student<br />
houses, so it is suggested that<br />
the student body take a deserved<br />
break from its snaking ritual<br />
and attend what promises to, be<br />
an excellent concert.<br />
Pasadena, California, Thursday, <strong>May</strong> <strong>23</strong>, <strong>1963</strong><br />
and<br />
the World<br />
Bites You<br />
Number <strong>29</strong><br />
Snake, Discobolus· Awards<br />
Highlight Spring Banquet<br />
Joseph ,Bocklage and Bruce<br />
Chesebro were co-winners of the<br />
new Athlete of the Year award<br />
at the ,spring Sports Banquet<br />
yesterday, and Blacker House<br />
walked away with both the Discobolus<br />
Trophy and the Goldsworthy<br />
Interlhouse Scholastic<br />
Trophy (better known as the<br />
Snake Trophy). In addition Ricketts<br />
House took the Varsity<br />
Rating Trophy by a wide margin<br />
over Blacker and Ruddock.<br />
Tau Beta Pi Honorary Fraternity<br />
awarded the annual! Outstanding<br />
Freshman Award to<br />
Bill Broste of Ruddock. Ruddock<br />
also ran away with the four<br />
individual sports trophies. Bill<br />
Ricks won the Alumni Baseball<br />
Trophy, awarded for "sportsmanship,<br />
moral influence, ability<br />
as a player, individual improvement."<br />
The Vesper Basketball<br />
Trophy, awarded for "sportsmanship,<br />
improvement, moral<br />
influence and scholarship" was<br />
given to Joe Weis, who was<br />
also elected captain for next<br />
year. Still another Ruddock<br />
man, G e 0 r geM c B e a n was<br />
awarded the Campbell Swimming<br />
Trophy and he and Dave<br />
Seib were elected co-captains of<br />
next year's team. Finally, Ruddock<br />
sophomore Ken Brown was<br />
awarded the Goldsworthy Track<br />
Trophy. The team captain for<br />
next year will be Ruddock senior<br />
Pat Early. All trophies were<br />
awarded by a vote of the team<br />
members.<br />
Frosh Awards<br />
Freshman awards were also<br />
presented in two sports., Jerry<br />
Yudelson of Dabney was the<br />
winner of the Carl Shy Basketball<br />
Trophy, and Tom Resney<br />
of Page was given the John C.<br />
Peterson Baseball Trophy as the<br />
outstanding player on the frosh<br />
team.<br />
Trophies were presented to<br />
the winners of both the Scott<br />
Tennis Tournament for varsity<br />
players, won by Spike Curtis,<br />
,and the Novice Tennis Trophy,<br />
Alpha Phi Gamma Fraternity<br />
Institutes New Chapter Here<br />
In a ceremony Monday evening,<br />
the charter members of the<br />
national honorary journalism<br />
fraternity, Alpha Phi Gamma,<br />
installed the officers of Caltech's<br />
newly founded Clhapter, Gamma<br />
Lambda. They are: president:<br />
J. C. Simpson; vice - president:<br />
Donald Green; treasurer: Robert<br />
Levin; secretary: Rodger Whitlock;<br />
bailiff: Richard Karp.<br />
The purpose of the fraternity<br />
Seniors Plan<br />
Grad Dance<br />
The first annual Cal tech Graduation<br />
Ball has been set for<br />
Thursday evening, June 6. It is<br />
only open to seniors. The Grand<br />
Ball will feature the six-piece<br />
band of Bud Balzer, playing in<br />
the Winnett Lounge from 8:30<br />
p.m. till midnight. The dance<br />
should be an historic one, setting<br />
a new Cal tech tradition and<br />
providing the seniors with an<br />
(Continued on Page 2)<br />
is to recognize those students<br />
who have made contributions<br />
toward the success of the Cali·<br />
fornia Tech, the Big T and other<br />
publications of the student body.<br />
It was founded in 1919 at Ohio<br />
Northern University, Ada, Ohio,<br />
and became a national fraternity<br />
in 19<strong>23</strong>. Alpha Bhi Gamma has<br />
a number of member schools in<br />
Southern California, including<br />
Redlands, Fresno, Long Beach<br />
State, L. A. State, and San Fernando<br />
Valley State. It is for this<br />
reason, as well as the fact that<br />
conventions are held in Southern<br />
California about two out of<br />
every three years, that Alpha<br />
Phi Gamma was chosen by Caltech.<br />
Present plans are to have new<br />
members accepted and initiated<br />
next fall; eligible at the time<br />
will be those Wiho have previously<br />
worked on some phase of<br />
Caltech journalistic activities<br />
for at least one term. It is expected<br />
that there will be a<br />
spring and fall initiation each<br />
year.<br />
for non-varsity players won by<br />
Don H. Lee. It was also announced<br />
that Les Tomley was<br />
named to the first team conference<br />
all-stars as an outfielder<br />
and Bill Ricks made the second<br />
team as a pitcher.<br />
In addition to the above<br />
awards, varsity letters and frosh<br />
numerals were awarded for<br />
swimming, baseball, track, basketball,<br />
tennis, add golf. Honor<br />
keys and certificates were awarded<br />
to those who had earned<br />
them earlier in the year by their<br />
contributions to Caltech.<br />
Snaking Results<br />
In the Snake Trophy statistics<br />
Blacker took its first with<br />
New Prizes<br />
Awarded For<br />
Mathematics<br />
The winners of the E. T. Ball<br />
Undergraduate ResearClh Prize<br />
and the Freshman-Sophomore<br />
Problem Contest, both annual<br />
prizes awarded for the first time<br />
this year, were announced at a<br />
dinner in the Athenaeum last<br />
Tuesday night, <strong>May</strong> 21. The Bell<br />
Prize, a cash award of $150, for<br />
an original mathematics paper,<br />
was awarded in duplicate to Ed<br />
Bender and John Lindsey, both<br />
seniors, and the first prize of<br />
$25 in the Problem Contest was<br />
awarded to Martin Cbhen, a<br />
freshman.<br />
AMended by the Mathematics<br />
Department staff, the dinner also<br />
honored the participants in the<br />
William Lowell Putman Competition<br />
this year. The team for<br />
the Putman c.ompetition, composed<br />
of Bender, Kenneth Kunen,<br />
and Lindsey, placed first<br />
in the nation; Bender and Lindsey<br />
placed among the top five<br />
contestants nationally, Roger<br />
Hill and Kenneth Stolarsky<br />
placed among the second highest<br />
five, and Alan Hindmarsh, Kunen,<br />
and Oharles Ryavec re<br />
'ceived honorable mention.<br />
The Bell Prize is awarded to<br />
the Writer of the best original<br />
mathematics paper submitted by<br />
a junior or senior under the<br />
sponsorship of a member of the<br />
mathematics faculty. The winners'<br />
names will appear in the<br />
commencement program. The<br />
Problem Contest, open to sophomores<br />
and frosh, results in up<br />
to four winners, individuals or<br />
groups, who submit the best<br />
problem and solution, based on<br />
the nature of the problem and<br />
the originality and elegance of<br />
the solution. Funds for the prizes<br />
come from awards accumulated<br />
by Caltech teams that have participated<br />
in the Putman Competition<br />
over the last few years.<br />
College ,Concert<br />
Discounts Given<br />
The Hollywood Bowl Symphonies<br />
Under the Stars, in a<br />
massive effort to bring culture to<br />
the outlying wastelands of college-age<br />
youth, will be holding a<br />
"College Concert at the Bowl"<br />
on Thursday, July 18, which<br />
(r,ontinueil on palr4' 4)<br />
a 2.905 overall GP A, down somewhat<br />
from Page's record 2.98<br />
last year. The order of finishing<br />
of the other six Houses, and<br />
their GPA's are: Lloyd, 2.874;<br />
Ruddock, 2.847; Page, 2.806; Ricketts,<br />
2.751; Fleming, 2.747; and<br />
Dabney, 2,742. The overall average<br />
for the student Houses was<br />
2.811 Wlhile the off-campus average<br />
was 2.873. Tau Beta Pi came<br />
through with ,another customarily<br />
statospheric GPA of 3.715.<br />
The averages for the four<br />
classes were freshmen, 2.654;<br />
sophomores, 2.725; juniors, 2.926;<br />
and seniors, 3.044. The overall<br />
school average was 2.821.<br />
The Goldworthy Trophy was<br />
instituted in 1950, and is named<br />
after Caltech's second Master of<br />
Student Houses who died in<br />
1948. The winner in its first<br />
year, witlh four Houses and<br />
Throop Club competing; was<br />
Dabney which achieved a 2.<strong>64</strong><br />
overall GPA, almost 0.1 points<br />
lower than its last place average<br />
this year.<br />
The Don Shepard A ward was<br />
also announced recently, though<br />
it was not awarded at the Spring<br />
Banquet. Winners of the award,<br />
given annually to one or more<br />
outstanding needy residents of<br />
the Student Houses for cul'tural<br />
pursuits, were Carter Naylor of<br />
Blacker and Gerry Thomas of<br />
Page, both juniors.<br />
Notices<br />
NEW R.A.'S CHOSEN<br />
With the knowledge that the<br />
Resident Associates of Dabney and<br />
Lloyd would not return, two new<br />
R.A.'s for those houses were selected.<br />
Selected as R.A.'s for next<br />
year were David Brieckner, Chemistry,<br />
and Vassilios Kerdemelidis,<br />
EE; they have not yet been assigr.ed<br />
to Houses.<br />
little t CHANGES<br />
Anyone who wishes any content<br />
changes in the little t (specifically<br />
home addresses and house listings)<br />
is advised to get all changes into<br />
the little t mailbox outside the Y<br />
office in Winnett sometime before<br />
the end of June.<br />
COFFEE HOUR TODAY<br />
The Coffee Hour today will be<br />
the last one held this school year.<br />
Everyone is urged to come, in order<br />
to make this Coffee Hour a memorable<br />
end to the first year in what<br />
is hoped to be a long series of successful<br />
ASCIT Faculty-Student Coffee<br />
Hours.<br />
SUMMER VISITING CONDUCT<br />
Students are reminded that the<br />
rotation rules will be in effect this<br />
summer. I n particular, students<br />
should limit visits to freshmen that<br />
they do not already know. If an<br />
individual feels that he has a good<br />
reason for contacting a frosh during<br />
the summer, he may do so at the<br />
risk of having his House penalized<br />
for his actions by the IHe.<br />
IN STEREO, YET!<br />
The sudden appearance of 18<br />
new records in Winnett Lounge is<br />
due to a gift (in money) from the<br />
Service League to augment their<br />
original gift of the Hi-Fi System.<br />
In order to show appreciation for<br />
the gift, the ASCIT Board suggests<br />
that all students using these records<br />
treat them with proper care and<br />
replace them in their jackets when<br />
finished.
Page Two<br />
Editorials<br />
y Pickets l Why?<br />
With their characteristic regard for humanity, the Caltech<br />
Y Cabinet has decided that it must enter the racial turmoil<br />
and cooperate in the picketing of realtor Jim Wilson. Wilson<br />
has been accused of discriminating against Negroes in the<br />
selling of homes in his large real estate tracts. There is at<br />
present an injunction pending against him to determine if he<br />
is receiving federal loans on these projects. If it is judged<br />
that he is taking this money while indulging in racial discrimination,<br />
he will be required by the government to halt these<br />
activities or his financial support will be halted.<br />
Wilson has discovered an ingenious method for making an<br />
extra amount on each house he sells. I n some tracts he refuses<br />
to sell houses to Negroes and raises the going price a<br />
certain amount. In other areas, he refuses to sell to whites<br />
and raises the price to Negroes a comparable amount. Hail,<br />
free enterprise and the capitalistic system.<br />
Regardless of the inner moral revulsion experienced by<br />
the enterpising humanist, it is definitely neither his right nor<br />
duty to meddle in the private affairs of another person. Private<br />
contracts concerning personal property are in no way the<br />
business of the Caltech Y Cabinet. Unless the investigating<br />
commission rules that he has violated a federal regulation, Wilson<br />
retains the right to utilize his private property in any fashion<br />
he so desires.<br />
It is very difficult to find any excuse for the action of<br />
the Y Cabinet in this affair. Designed as a service organization<br />
to the campus, in what way does their recent action reflect<br />
anything but perhaps the over-powering urge to sentimentalize<br />
all human dealings? This tendency is dangerous<br />
because it alienates potential support from thoughts that are<br />
perhaps desperately needed.<br />
The growing trend toward picketing as a cure for all the<br />
world's ills is symptomatic of the almost sentimental attitude<br />
of today's pseudo-liberal fuzzy thinkers. Liberalism has been<br />
a dominant force in world affairs during the last two centuries<br />
mainly because it resisted this temptation to slip over into such<br />
a non-realistic frame of mind.<br />
We feel that the action of the Y Cabinet in censuring<br />
Wilson was as far as they should have gone. Their picketing<br />
action was beyond the bounds of a campus service organization,<br />
and we decry their lack of maturity in this matter.<br />
FINAL ASCIT BUDGET<br />
-Don Green<br />
J. C. Simpson<br />
Social Program ............ $2,690.00 President ...................... $ 75.00<br />
Athletics ...................... 3,250.00<br />
Calif. Tech .................... 1,995.00<br />
Big T .............................. 3,340.00<br />
Glee Club ...................... 700.00<br />
Vice·President .......... ..<br />
Secretary, Office ...... ..<br />
Drama Club .............. ..<br />
Dark Room .............. ..<br />
Election Rally .......... ..<br />
90.00<br />
675.00<br />
80.00<br />
35.24<br />
100.00<br />
Model UN .................... 300.00 Totem .......................... .. ?<br />
Band .............................. 400.00 Contribution to Debt .. 1,000.00<br />
Debate ............................ 250.00 Contingency Fund...... 637.76<br />
Activities ...................... 320.00<br />
$16,000.00<br />
California Tech<br />
Published weekly during the school year by the Associated Students<br />
of the California Institute of Technology, Incorporated.<br />
Editors-in-Chief<br />
J. C. Simpson, Don Green<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Gerry Steiner<br />
News Staff<br />
Clem Chase, Walt Deal, Stuart Galley, Bob Gillon, Richard Karp<br />
Ken Kimball, Wally Oliver, Cliff Tedder<br />
Ken Brown, photographer<br />
Feature Staff<br />
Rodger Whitlock, Editor<br />
Jon King, Lee Molho, Steve Schwarz<br />
Sports Staff<br />
Neil Wanamaker, Editor<br />
Steve Blumsack, John Diebel, Tom Latham, Bob Liebermann (Honorary),<br />
Ray Plaut, Frank Schultz, Dave Seib<br />
Business Staff<br />
Dick Karp, Manager<br />
Circulation: Guy Jackson<br />
Califor.ia Tech, 12en East California Blvd., Pasadena, California.<br />
Member of The Associated Collegiate Press<br />
Second Class postage paid at Pasadena, California<br />
Printed by Bickley Printing Co.<br />
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc.<br />
Subscriptions: $1.50 per term, $4.00 per year. Write: Circulation Manager.<br />
CALIFORNIA TECH<br />
Letters<br />
TOTEM Stand<br />
C r i tic i zed For<br />
Impracticality<br />
Editors:<br />
I disagree with the stand<br />
taken by you in the editorial<br />
two weeks ago on Totem. Your<br />
ideas on the matter are ideal·<br />
istic dreaming, rising from a<br />
consideration of the success of<br />
humor magazines elsewhere, instead<br />
of a sane consideration of<br />
the facts. Caltech has had three<br />
different magazines in tJhe last<br />
twelve years: Pendulum for four,<br />
It'arrago for two, and Totem for<br />
six. Bach one slowly went downhill,<br />
publishing less and less frequently,<br />
until it finally succumbed<br />
to the apathy of CaL<br />
tech. Yet each time, cries of<br />
outrage arose, and lot a new<br />
magazine arose from the ashes<br />
of the previous one. From Pen.<br />
dulum, which was literary, rose<br />
Farrago, which was a combination<br />
of humor and serious writing,<br />
with the emphasis on the<br />
humor; from Farrago rose the<br />
Totem we all (except the frosh)<br />
know so well.<br />
From this, it appears to me<br />
that it is obvious that no such<br />
undertaking is ever going to<br />
succeed here. It hasn't done it<br />
yet, and there is no reason to<br />
believe it will now. Hence, I<br />
think the BOD should turn<br />
down any request for money<br />
for a magazine, literary or hu·<br />
morous or both, on the grounds<br />
stated above, and let the idea<br />
remain as it should, stillborn.<br />
Rodger F. Whitlock<br />
Soph Snakes<br />
Join Sections<br />
Individual sophomore honor<br />
sections in each of the three subjects,<br />
Ma 2, Ph 2, and H 2, will<br />
again be available in <strong>1963</strong>-<strong>64</strong>, it<br />
was recently announced by the<br />
Registrar's Office.<br />
AU eligible freshmen who<br />
wish to be considered for enrollment<br />
in any combination of<br />
honor sections must indicate<br />
their intention on a form available<br />
at the Registrar's Office, 119<br />
Throop, before June 8. Failure<br />
to file the form on time will<br />
cancel eligibility.<br />
To be eligible, a student must<br />
have achieved a GPA of 3.0 overall<br />
in the freshman year, must<br />
have an average grade of 3.3 or<br />
better in the prior course in the<br />
field of the honor section (for<br />
example, 3.3 or better in Ma 1abc<br />
for the math honor section), and<br />
must have the permission of the<br />
instructor who is to teach the<br />
section.<br />
Three Proiects<br />
Planned By Y<br />
The Caltech Y has announced<br />
its term end projects. 'Dhese include<br />
collecting books for Asians,<br />
gathering clothing for overseas<br />
relief and a student book exchange.<br />
Every year the Y sends books<br />
to the Asia Foundation to be<br />
distributed to Asian colleges<br />
and secondary schools. Persons<br />
who wish to donate text and<br />
reference books published after<br />
1945 should bring them to the<br />
Y office.<br />
Boxes will be placed in the<br />
house lounges for used clothing<br />
for the American Service Committee<br />
for overseas relief. Students<br />
who wish to sell books<br />
for next year sihould bring them<br />
to the Y office before the end of<br />
this term. Students set their<br />
own prices at the Y Book EJxchange.<br />
'I'HE I