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Bite the
World
California Tech
Associated Student .. of the California Institute of Technology
-Photo by Ken Brown
Some of the trophies presently held by Student Houses. The Discobolus,
Varsity Rating, and Snake trophies, in the right center of the group, were presented
yesterday at the Spring Supots Banquet.
Caltech Band Presents
Annual Spring Concert
BY TOM LUBENSKY
Tonight at 7:30, the Caltech
Band will present its annual
Spring Concert in the Athenaeum
Patio. The concert will be
somewhat different from the
traditional third term presentation
that is usually held in tJhe
Olive Court between Ricketts
and Fleming. This year's production
will be held! under the
auspices of the Athenaeum Program
and will be a full-length
Many
High
Seek
Posts
Nominations for class officers
closed' Monday; for the senior
class: president: Art Johnson,
Don Terwilliger, John Clauser;
vice president: Fred Dorr, Frank
Winkler; treasurer: Elliott Harry;
secretary: Joe Weis; athletic
manager: Dick Karp.
For the junior class: president:
J. C. Simpson, Guy Jackson,
Gerry Steiner; vice president:
John Beamer, Randy Cassada;
secretary: Neal Wright; treasurer:
Gary Scott; athletic manager:
Bob Scott.
For tlhe sophomore class: president:
Gary Bornzin, Jerry Yudelson;
vice president: Mike Hunsaker,
Dario Iacuelli, Bill Orr;
secretary: Phil Liapis; treasurer:
John Rouse, John Yavorsky;
athletic manager: Jim Sharrard.
Conger Topic
World Peace
The fifty-second annual Conger
Peace Oration Contest will
be held in the Winnett Student
Center Lounge Wednesday, May
29, 1963, at 11:00 a.m. it was
announced Monday by Mr. Herb
Rooth, director of forensics.
Some phase of industrial or
world peace will be discussed by
each contestant in his sevenminute
oration" Winning contestant
will receive fifty dollars
cash award; second-place winner,
twenty_five dollars.
Judges for the contest will be
Dr. D. S. Clark, Engineering; Dr ..
J. Kent Clark, Humanities; and
Dr. John Baker, 'pastor, Pasadena
Neighborhood Church.
Students, faculty, and the public
are invited to attend.
concer:t, featuring a wide diversity
of numbers to appeal to
nearly every musical taste.
The first half of the concert
will feature several serious productions
including Schubert's
Unfinished Symphony, J 0 h nson's
Concert Overture, Whear's
Jederman, and several others.,
The second half of the program
will concentrate on a selection
of lighter numbers, including
Camelot by Lerner and Lowe,
a flashing Mexican number Gallito,
and C.lare Grundman'S Second
American Folk Rhapsody.
Several of the selections of
the program were used during
the concert the Band presented
at Disneyland Plaza Gardens on
April 27, but tonight's production
will include many more.
The soothing strains of the
evening's festivities win be well
within earshot of the student
houses, so it is suggested that
the student body take a deserved
break from its snaking ritual
and attend what promises to, be
an excellent concert.
Pasadena, California, Thursday, May 23, 1963
and
the World
Bites You
Number 29
Snake, Discobolus· Awards
Highlight Spring Banquet
Joseph ,Bocklage and Bruce
Chesebro were co-winners of the
new Athlete of the Year award
at the ,spring Sports Banquet
yesterday, and Blacker House
walked away with both the Discobolus
Trophy and the Goldsworthy
Interlhouse Scholastic
Trophy (better known as the
Snake Trophy). In addition Ricketts
House took the Varsity
Rating Trophy by a wide margin
over Blacker and Ruddock.
Tau Beta Pi Honorary Fraternity
awarded the annual! Outstanding
Freshman Award to
Bill Broste of Ruddock. Ruddock
also ran away with the four
individual sports trophies. Bill
Ricks won the Alumni Baseball
Trophy, awarded for "sportsmanship,
moral influence, ability
as a player, individual improvement."
The Vesper Basketball
Trophy, awarded for "sportsmanship,
improvement, moral
influence and scholarship" was
given to Joe Weis, who was
also elected captain for next
year. Still another Ruddock
man, G e 0 r geM c B e a n was
awarded the Campbell Swimming
Trophy and he and Dave
Seib were elected co-captains of
next year's team. Finally, Ruddock
sophomore Ken Brown was
awarded the Goldsworthy Track
Trophy. The team captain for
next year will be Ruddock senior
Pat Early. All trophies were
awarded by a vote of the team
members.
Frosh Awards
Freshman awards were also
presented in two sports., Jerry
Yudelson of Dabney was the
winner of the Carl Shy Basketball
Trophy, and Tom Resney
of Page was given the John C.
Peterson Baseball Trophy as the
outstanding player on the frosh
team.
Trophies were presented to
the winners of both the Scott
Tennis Tournament for varsity
players, won by Spike Curtis,
,and the Novice Tennis Trophy,
Alpha Phi Gamma Fraternity
Institutes New Chapter Here
In a ceremony Monday evening,
the charter members of the
national honorary journalism
fraternity, Alpha Phi Gamma,
installed the officers of Caltech's
newly founded Clhapter, Gamma
Lambda. They are: president:
J. C. Simpson; vice - president:
Donald Green; treasurer: Robert
Levin; secretary: Rodger Whitlock;
bailiff: Richard Karp.
The purpose of the fraternity
Seniors Plan
Grad Dance
The first annual Cal tech Graduation
Ball has been set for
Thursday evening, June 6. It is
only open to seniors. The Grand
Ball will feature the six-piece
band of Bud Balzer, playing in
the Winnett Lounge from 8:30
p.m. till midnight. The dance
should be an historic one, setting
a new Cal tech tradition and
providing the seniors with an
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is to recognize those students
who have made contributions
toward the success of the Cali·
fornia Tech, the Big T and other
publications of the student body.
It was founded in 1919 at Ohio
Northern University, Ada, Ohio,
and became a national fraternity
in 1923. Alpha Bhi Gamma has
a number of member schools in
Southern California, including
Redlands, Fresno, Long Beach
State, L. A. State, and San Fernando
Valley State. It is for this
reason, as well as the fact that
conventions are held in Southern
California about two out of
every three years, that Alpha
Phi Gamma was chosen by Caltech.
Present plans are to have new
members accepted and initiated
next fall; eligible at the time
will be those Wiho have previously
worked on some phase of
Caltech journalistic activities
for at least one term. It is expected
that there will be a
spring and fall initiation each
year.
for non-varsity players won by
Don H. Lee. It was also announced
that Les Tomley was
named to the first team conference
all-stars as an outfielder
and Bill Ricks made the second
team as a pitcher.
In addition to the above
awards, varsity letters and frosh
numerals were awarded for
swimming, baseball, track, basketball,
tennis, add golf. Honor
keys and certificates were awarded
to those who had earned
them earlier in the year by their
contributions to Caltech.
Snaking Results
In the Snake Trophy statistics
Blacker took its first with
New Prizes
Awarded For
Mathematics
The winners of the E. T. Ball
Undergraduate ResearClh Prize
and the Freshman-Sophomore
Problem Contest, both annual
prizes awarded for the first time
this year, were announced at a
dinner in the Athenaeum last
Tuesday night, May 21. The Bell
Prize, a cash award of $150, for
an original mathematics paper,
was awarded in duplicate to Ed
Bender and John Lindsey, both
seniors, and the first prize of
$25 in the Problem Contest was
awarded to Martin Cbhen, a
freshman.
AMended by the Mathematics
Department staff, the dinner also
honored the participants in the
William Lowell Putman Competition
this year. The team for
the Putman c.ompetition, composed
of Bender, Kenneth Kunen,
and Lindsey, placed first
in the nation; Bender and Lindsey
placed among the top five
contestants nationally, Roger
Hill and Kenneth Stolarsky
placed among the second highest
five, and Alan Hindmarsh, Kunen,
and Oharles Ryavec re­
'ceived honorable mention.
The Bell Prize is awarded to
the Writer of the best original
mathematics paper submitted by
a junior or senior under the
sponsorship of a member of the
mathematics faculty. The winners'
names will appear in the
commencement program. The
Problem Contest, open to sophomores
and frosh, results in up
to four winners, individuals or
groups, who submit the best
problem and solution, based on
the nature of the problem and
the originality and elegance of
the solution. Funds for the prizes
come from awards accumulated
by Caltech teams that have participated
in the Putman Competition
over the last few years.
College ,Concert
Discounts Given
The Hollywood Bowl Symphonies
Under the Stars, in a
massive effort to bring culture to
the outlying wastelands of college-age
youth, will be holding a
"College Concert at the Bowl"
on Thursday, July 18, which
(r,ontinueil on palr4' 4)
a 2.905 overall GP A, down somewhat
from Page's record 2.98
last year. The order of finishing
of the other six Houses, and
their GPA's are: Lloyd, 2.874;
Ruddock, 2.847; Page, 2.806; Ricketts,
2.751; Fleming, 2.747; and
Dabney, 2,742. The overall average
for the student Houses was
2.811 Wlhile the off-campus average
was 2.873. Tau Beta Pi came
through with ,another customarily
statospheric GPA of 3.715.
The averages for the four
classes were freshmen, 2.654;
sophomores, 2.725; juniors, 2.926;
and seniors, 3.044. The overall
school average was 2.821.
The Goldworthy Trophy was
instituted in 1950, and is named
after Caltech's second Master of
Student Houses who died in
1948. The winner in its first
year, witlh four Houses and
Throop Club competing; was
Dabney which achieved a 2.64
overall GPA, almost 0.1 points
lower than its last place average
this year.
The Don Shepard A ward was
also announced recently, though
it was not awarded at the Spring
Banquet. Winners of the award,
given annually to one or more
outstanding needy residents of
the Student Houses for cul'tural
pursuits, were Carter Naylor of
Blacker and Gerry Thomas of
Page, both juniors.
Notices
NEW R.A.'S CHOSEN
With the knowledge that the
Resident Associates of Dabney and
Lloyd would not return, two new
R.A.'s for those houses were selected.
Selected as R.A.'s for next
year were David Brieckner, Chemistry,
and Vassilios Kerdemelidis,
EE; they have not yet been assigr.ed
to Houses.
little t CHANGES
Anyone who wishes any content
changes in the little t (specifically
home addresses and house listings)
is advised to get all changes into
the little t mailbox outside the Y
office in Winnett sometime before
the end of June.
COFFEE HOUR TODAY
The Coffee Hour today will be
the last one held this school year.
Everyone is urged to come, in order
to make this Coffee Hour a memorable
end to the first year in what
is hoped to be a long series of successful
ASCIT Faculty-Student Coffee
Hours.
SUMMER VISITING CONDUCT
Students are reminded that the
rotation rules will be in effect this
summer. I n particular, students
should limit visits to freshmen that
they do not already know. If an
individual feels that he has a good
reason for contacting a frosh during
the summer, he may do so at the
risk of having his House penalized
for his actions by the IHe.
IN STEREO, YET!
The sudden appearance of 18
new records in Winnett Lounge is
due to a gift (in money) from the
Service League to augment their
original gift of the Hi-Fi System.
In order to show appreciation for
the gift, the ASCIT Board suggests
that all students using these records
treat them with proper care and
replace them in their jackets when
finished.

Page Two
Editorials
y Pickets l Why?
With their characteristic regard for humanity, the Caltech
Y Cabinet has decided that it must enter the racial turmoil
and cooperate in the picketing of realtor Jim Wilson. Wilson
has been accused of discriminating against Negroes in the
selling of homes in his large real estate tracts. There is at
present an injunction pending against him to determine if he
is receiving federal loans on these projects. If it is judged
that he is taking this money while indulging in racial discrimination,
he will be required by the government to halt these
activities or his financial support will be halted.
Wilson has discovered an ingenious method for making an
extra amount on each house he sells. I n some tracts he refuses
to sell houses to Negroes and raises the going price a
certain amount. In other areas, he refuses to sell to whites
and raises the price to Negroes a comparable amount. Hail,
free enterprise and the capitalistic system.
Regardless of the inner moral revulsion experienced by
the enterpising humanist, it is definitely neither his right nor
duty to meddle in the private affairs of another person. Private
contracts concerning personal property are in no way the
business of the Caltech Y Cabinet. Unless the investigating
commission rules that he has violated a federal regulation, Wilson
retains the right to utilize his private property in any fashion
he so desires.
It is very difficult to find any excuse for the action of
the Y Cabinet in this affair. Designed as a service organization
to the campus, in what way does their recent action reflect
anything but perhaps the over-powering urge to sentimentalize
all human dealings? This tendency is dangerous
because it alienates potential support from thoughts that are
perhaps desperately needed.
The growing trend toward picketing as a cure for all the
world's ills is symptomatic of the almost sentimental attitude
of today's pseudo-liberal fuzzy thinkers. Liberalism has been
a dominant force in world affairs during the last two centuries
mainly because it resisted this temptation to slip over into such
a non-realistic frame of mind.
We feel that the action of the Y Cabinet in censuring
Wilson was as far as they should have gone. Their picketing
action was beyond the bounds of a campus service organization,
and we decry their lack of maturity in this matter.
FINAL ASCIT BUDGET
-Don Green
J. C. Simpson
Social Program ............ $2,690.00 President ...................... $ 75.00
Athletics ...................... 3,250.00
Calif. Tech .................... 1,995.00
Big T .............................. 3,340.00
Glee Club ...................... 700.00
Vice·President .......... ..
Secretary, Office ...... ..
Drama Club .............. ..
Dark Room .............. ..
Election Rally .......... ..
90.00
675.00
80.00
35.24
100.00
Model UN .................... 300.00 Totem .......................... .. ?
Band .............................. 400.00 Contribution to Debt .. 1,000.00
Debate ............................ 250.00 Contingency Fund...... 637.76
Activities ...................... 320.00
$16,000.00
California Tech
Published weekly during the school year by the Associated Students
of the California Institute of Technology, Incorporated.
Editors-in-Chief
J. C. Simpson, Don Green
Managing Editor
Gerry Steiner
News Staff
Clem Chase, Walt Deal, Stuart Galley, Bob Gillon, Richard Karp
Ken Kimball, Wally Oliver, Cliff Tedder
Ken Brown, photographer
Feature Staff
Rodger Whitlock, Editor
Jon King, Lee Molho, Steve Schwarz
Sports Staff
Neil Wanamaker, Editor
Steve Blumsack, John Diebel, Tom Latham, Bob Liebermann (Honorary),
Ray Plaut, Frank Schultz, Dave Seib
Business Staff
Dick Karp, Manager
Circulation: Guy Jackson
Califor.ia Tech, 12en East California Blvd., Pasadena, California.
Member of The Associated Collegiate Press
Second Class postage paid at Pasadena, California
Printed by Bickley Printing Co.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc.
Subscriptions: $1.50 per term, $4.00 per year. Write: Circulation Manager.
CALIFORNIA TECH
Letters
TOTEM Stand
C r i tic i zed For
Impracticality
Editors:
I disagree with the stand
taken by you in the editorial
two weeks ago on Totem. Your
ideas on the matter are ideal·
istic dreaming, rising from a
consideration of the success of
humor magazines elsewhere, instead
of a sane consideration of
the facts. Caltech has had three
different magazines in tJhe last
twelve years: Pendulum for four,
It'arrago for two, and Totem for
six. Bach one slowly went downhill,
publishing less and less frequently,
until it finally succumbed
to the apathy of CaL
tech. Yet each time, cries of
outrage arose, and lot a new
magazine arose from the ashes
of the previous one. From Pen.
dulum, which was literary, rose
Farrago, which was a combination
of humor and serious writing,
with the emphasis on the
humor; from Farrago rose the
Totem we all (except the frosh)
know so well.
From this, it appears to me
that it is obvious that no such
undertaking is ever going to
succeed here. It hasn't done it
yet, and there is no reason to
believe it will now. Hence, I
think the BOD should turn
down any request for money
for a magazine, literary or hu·
morous or both, on the grounds
stated above, and let the idea
remain as it should, stillborn.
Rodger F. Whitlock
Soph Snakes
Join Sections
Individual sophomore honor
sections in each of the three subjects,
Ma 2, Ph 2, and H 2, will
again be available in 1963-64, it
was recently announced by the
Registrar's Office.
AU eligible freshmen who
wish to be considered for enrollment
in any combination of
honor sections must indicate
their intention on a form available
at the Registrar's Office, 119
Throop, before June 8. Failure
to file the form on time will
cancel eligibility.
To be eligible, a student must
have achieved a GPA of 3.0 overall
in the freshman year, must
have an average grade of 3.3 or
better in the prior course in the
field of the honor section (for
example, 3.3 or better in Ma 1abc
for the math honor section), and
must have the permission of the
instructor who is to teach the
section.
Three Proiects
Planned By Y
The Caltech Y has announced
its term end projects. 'Dhese include
collecting books for Asians,
gathering clothing for overseas
relief and a student book exchange.
Every year the Y sends books
to the Asia Foundation to be
distributed to Asian colleges
and secondary schools. Persons
who wish to donate text and
reference books published after
1945 should bring them to the
Y office.
Boxes will be placed in the
house lounges for used clothing
for the American Service Committee
for overseas relief. Students
who wish to sell books
for next year sihould bring them
to the Y office before the end of
this term. Students set their
own prices at the Y Book EJxchange.
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