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Computer Reseller News selected himas the number one executive in thepersonal computer andone of the 10 "Legends of the PCIndustry."

The list of achievementsstop here. Currently, Mr.the director of NoMaxterns, and a member of the Board ofManagers of Memorial Sioan­Kettering Cancer Center as well as amember of the Board of OverseersofColumbia Business School. He isalso chairman and partner of SevinRosen Management aventure capital firm a sev-eral-hundred-million-dollarlio. Sevin Rosen has invested in morethan 60 computer, telecom-munications, health care,energy, and other start-up companies. the SevinRosen companies that have achievedpublic status are Borland Interna-

Compaq ConvexComputer, Cypress SeluH:ofldulct()f,Cyrix, Electronic

LotusProteon, Quarterdeck Officeterns, Retix, SiliconVideo Telecom.

The Entrepreneur wasstarted at the end of last year in aneffort to promote entrepn:ne:urshipat Caltech. It is open to allundergrads, grads, faculty me:ml)ers,and any interested individuals. Theclub sponsors and organizes monthlyevents featuring speakers, workshops,and socials. Our next meeting is onWednesday, 1/25 at 6 p.m. inWinnen Clubroom . Pizza will beserved, so come and get involved! Formore information contact samson@ugcs or jessica@portia.

by Jessica Chang

Entrepreneur Club is proudto welcome Mr. Rosen, who will givea lecture and offer advice to prospec­tive entrepreneurs next Tuesday, 1/10.We invite you to join us at 4:30 p.m.in Baxter Lecture Hall to hear aboutMr. Rosen's success and learn fromhis experiences. There wil1 be oppor­tunity for a question and answer ses­sion at the end of the talk. Refresh­ments will be served. Benjamin M.Rosen is the Chairman of the Boardof Compaq Computer Corporationand also serves as the vice-chairmanof the Board ofTrustees of Caltech.A Cahech alumnus from FlemingHouse, Mr. Rosen was one of thespeakers at the cpnference "Caltechand Entrepreneurship: Where Are Weand Where Should We Be Headed?",which was held in conjunction withthe groundbreaking ceremony for theGordon and Berty Moore Laboratoryof Engineering last year.

After graduating from Caltech in1954 with a bachelor's degree in elec­trical engineering, Mr. Rosen wenton and received his master's in EEfrom Stanford in 1955 and later anM.B.A. from the Columbia Busi­ness School in 1961. Since then,Mr. Rosen has contributed greatlyto the computer industry and oursociety. He was a former foundingdirector of Lotus DevelopmentCorp., vice-president and senior elec­tronics analysts at Morgan Stanley &Co., and an electronics engineer atRaytheon and Sperry Gyroscope.In 1992, Mr. Rosen was chosen byComputerworldas one of25 peoplein the computer industry "whochanged the world." Also in that year,

long series of Fs. For instance thenumber 3,145,727 is represented inhexadecimal as 4147FFFF80000000(the first three digits are the expo­nent). Coe, Intel, and others havebeen working together on a software"patch" that will examine "risky" di­visors and rescale both divisor anddividend before the actual division.

Another common source ofdis­cussion regards the frequencytpatthe general user might actuallycounter this bug. Estimatesbeen made from once per 30,000years to once an hour. Both esti­mates are, in a sense, correct, sincethere is no standard for the "generaluser." Given a random divisor, theerror has a 1 in 9 billion probabilityof occurring. The 30,000 year esti­mate is for, perhaps, a thousand di­visions per day, while the once anhour estimate is for a chip doingnothing but random divisions all day.

The event has also caused anavalanche of new Pentium jokes onthe net. A sample joke is "Why wasn'tthe Pentium called the 586? Becausewhen they added 100 to 486 theygot 585.99942317703." Of course,many of these jokes represent thePentium as more erroneous than itactually is. Finally, yes, that is LevarBurton Commander Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Gen­eration) doing the voice-over for thePentium commercial.

What's Going

By Chris Farrar

went up six-percent, to an average of$11,709, accordingto the survey.

Meanwhile, the rate of inflation was 2.9-percent asmeasured by the Consumer for the 12 monthsending il} August.

"The good news is that the rate of increase has con­tinued to lessen," said James Appleberry, president of theAmerican Association of State Colleges and Universities."The bad news is that any increase il} tuition limits ac­cess, and the impact is differentially hurtful for the eco­nomically disadvantaged, minorities and recent immigrantgroups."

The posting of the error waslater cross-posted to the Internetnewsgroup comp.sys.intel, anewsgroup specializing in discussionsof Intel's products. As could havebeen expected, comp.sys.intel wasswamped with a deluge ofposts con­cerning this event. It was soon shownthat every Pentium chip tested sharedthe same error and therefore it waslikely the error was on everyPentium chip ever made. Other ex­pressions that were also evaluatedincorrectly weft discovered, and TimCoe, a design engineer from VitesseSemiconductor Corporation, founda pattern. He released a report thatclaimed the worst case expression was5,244,795/3,932,159. If you have aPentium, try to evaluate the expres­sion 5,244,795-(5,244,795/3,932,159)*3,932,159, whichshould come out to be zero (withinspecifications, 0.000000001) but, infact comes out on the Pentium as256, an error larger by a factor of256billion!

The outside press soon pickedup the news. Both the AssociatedPress The New York Timesprinted stories regarding the subject.The fullccause of the error is nowknown. Without going into techni­cal details, the error only occurs whena floating point division is called witha whose mantissa's hexadeci­

'repr<:seintalt!cm consists of thefollowed a

Wei-Hwa Huang

Many of our readers have prob­ably heard of a problem with the(relatively) new Pentium processorchip, Intel Corporation's (who sup­plies microprocessor chips for allIBM-PC compatible machines) mostadvanced chip commercially releasedto the general public. Here's the realstory.

A professor Thomas Nicelyposted an electronic message on aforum on Compuserve that reported"a bug in the floating point unit[FPU] ...of many...Pentium proces­sors." He noted that the expression1/824,633,702,441 was apparentlyaccurate to only seven decimal places,which was significantly less precisionthan the Pentium FPU promised(single precision instead of doubleprecision arithmetic). He had arrivedat this conclusion by noticing that theresults of a program he had writtenconcerning a series in number theory,that of the summation of the recip­rocals of the twin primes (pairs ofprime numbers that differ by 2),which is known to converge. Whencomparing the results ofhis programwith published results, he noticed adiscrepancy which painstaking test-

isolated to an error in the Pentium(Astute mathematicians may

have already noticed824,633,702,441 is one

National Student News Service, 1994

Officials of the College Board recently announcedthat tuition increases slowed at most institutions thisyear, but the rise in college costs still exceeded the na­tional inflation rate.

In its annual tuition survey, the College re-ported that undergraduates at public four-year collegesand universities are paying $2,686 for tuition andfees on average, which is six-percent more than lastyear.

The annual cost of private four-year schools also

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ethnic minorities.Class is offered Wed. afternoons

from 1-3 PM with screenings onMon. evenings at 7:30 in Baxter Lec­ture Hall. Films are open to theCaltech community and a short dis­cussion will follow each film,Contact Prof. Rosenstone at X4069or his secretary, Sheryl X4220.

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This course will be looking atAmerica in the 1960s through filmsmade in the '60s. It will attempt tosee how the social, cultural and po­litical issues of the '60s appeared inmovies made'during the period,rather than a retrospective look back.

Topics will include the ColdWar, student politics, the counter­culture, the anti-war movement and

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Classical and Flamenco repertoiresare explored bur techniques transferto other styles of guitar. The Begin­ning Class includes a jazz/folk chordsystem. Classes are free to CaltechStudents and other members of theCaltech community (space permit­ting). Undergraduates can receive 3units ofcredit if they choose. Privateinstruction on any level can also bearranged. The instructor, ClassicalGuitarist Darryl Denning has an in­ternational background in perfor­mance, teaching and recording andcan be reached at (213)465-0881.

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ACADEMYBARBER SHOP

Cahech students, faculty, andstaff will be dancing up a stormthis coming term at the BraunAthletic Center. In response toan enthusiastic demand fordance classes, the Athletic De­partment will once again be of­fering Beginning Jazz Danceclasses starting Tuesday, January10th.

The three hours-per-weekcourse will take place on Mon­day evenings from 8:00p.m.­9:30p.m. and Thursday eve­nings from 8:00p.m.-9:30p.m.(The first meeting on Tuesday,January 10th is due to a print­ing error in the schedule.) Theemphasis of the instructor,Phyllis Eckler, will be on encour­aging dance as a fun form ofphysical fitness. With upbeatmusic and the latest dancemoves in her routines, Ms.Eckler says students are barelyaware of how their bodies, pos­ture, and attitudes toward get­ting shape are changed after tenweeks. "I want Beginners toenjoy moving," says Eckler,"while at the same time I try to

give them feedback on injuryprevention and proper align­ment." Sign-ups for the coursebegin January 3rd at the BraunAthletic Center. Classes areopen to all students, faculty, andstaff as well as spouses who aremembers ofthe athletic facilities .

or for people who want help on some basicsteps. People are welcome to start joining theclasse$< anytime. Dancers in the ballroom danc­ing club teach different dances on differentweeks. We cover swing, tango, merengue,rumba, cha-cha, waltz, polka, Viennese waltz,and fox-trot in about five months. Classes willbe in Winnett lounge on Monday nights from7:00 to'8:30 p.m. startingJanuary 9. For moreinformation, contact Jeanne Hardebeck atjlh@seismo.gps, x6971, or MC 252-21.

It is not necessary to have a partner forany of the classes. Ifyou don't have a parmer,come to the classes anyway and check themout. The teachers ask that people rotate part­ners so that people can learn the best leadingand following techniques and not reinforce acouple's bad habits.

Ballroom dancing can earn undergradu­ates physical education credit, although noneofthe ballroom classes are currently P.E. classes.The "student-designed fitness program" allowsa student to negotiate P.E. credit individuallywith either the Director ofPhysical Education,Dan Bridges, or the Assistant Director WendellJack. Undergraduates interested in having ball­room dancing earn such P.E. credit should talkto Bridges or Jack.

In January, the club will sponsoring dancebreaks from 7:00 p.m. to about 9:30 p.m. inWinnett lounge on Friday nights. These aredancing practices open to beginners, interme­diate and advanced dancers who want to prac­tice dancing or socialize and watch othersdance. For more information contact RuthAnn Bertsch at MC 127-72, x6553, orRBERTSCH@cco. To get reminders and up­dated announcements via e-mail, contactChing Liu at CHINGLIU@ugcs.

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Cha-C/;tl-cha! Gillduate students Leila BelKora andAshish Bansal sport their fancy moves on the d4nce floor.

people. To register, send a check payable to TheCaltech Ballroom Dance Club to Bob Herman atMC 170-25. Registration will probably be availableat the door; however, sign-ups are on a first-come­first-serve basis. If there are any questions, he is avail­able at rherman@arms.gps or x6143.

The club will offer free beginning classes onMonday nights starting in January. These are per­fect classes for people who have never danced before

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Ballroom dancing is a great way to relax,meet new people, and have fun. Come join theCahech Ballroom Dancing Club to learn to

dance, to have fun dancing, or both. Winter termthe club will offer a beginning class and a begin­ning to intermediate class. The club also hostsdance breaks, times people can practice dancingand socialize. People without parmers are wel­come to all events, as are all members of theCaltech community.

The club has hired Enio Cordoba, ownerand director of the Alhambra dance studio Let'sDance LA, to teach a beginning to intermediateclass this winter term. West Coast swing andsalsa will mainly be covered this term. Both EnioCordoba and his teaching partner Terryl Jonesare experienced professional dancers and teach­ers. Cordoba is a world renowned champion inthe Latin dances and very experienced in otherdances. For example, he won the u.s. ProAmLatin Championship in 1991. He has coachedus and world swing champions. He has wontwo Feather Awards, the dancer's equivalent ofthe Oscars, for Top Teacher in 1992 and HottestMambo Dancer in 1993 and 1994. Jones is aFred Astaire National Rising Star BallroomChampion. Besides teaching Latin dances and

teach modern dances such as waltz,fOJ{-[l'OL tango, and Viennese wahz. Classes atCaltech will be from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ap­proximately every other Friday starting January20. The first class January 20 is in Winnettlounge; but most classes thereafter will be inDabney lounge. Free practices will be held onthe alternate Friday nights. The cost for five les­sons is $15 for students, staff, and JPL employ­ees and $30 for spouses, alumni, and other

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Editor's Note: Due to space restrictions, sections ofMedia Guy have been postponed to next week.I saw a ton ofmovies over break, so here we go.

by Adam Villani

Zhang Yimou's new release To Live is the best ofa number of fine epic filmsfrom mainland China in the recent past that chronicle 20th centUJ.y Chinese history

(FareweU My Concubine, The Blue Kite) . Zhang's best previous films, ]u Dou and

Raise the Red Lantern, have both been very tightly controlled psychological dramas

confining a small cast ofcharacters to a limited physical space, and his work here on"cast ofthousands" scale is verysatisfYingindeed. To Livechronicles thelife of

the Xu family, beginning in the late 1940's with the father in the family (Ge You) as

a wealthy landowner who loses everything he owns gambling, along with his wife,the exquisite Gong Ii (from Zhang's previous films and FareweUMy Concubini). The

first of many great ironies in the film is that as the Maoist Communists take over

China, the man who won the Xu property is shot as a counter-revolutionary; whileGe lives because he is now a working class puppeteer. As the first act ends, Ge breath­

lessly reassures himselfthat "it's good to be poor." As history unfolds through the eyes

ofGe, Gong, and their children, we might almost be fooled into thinking To Live is

a pro-Maoist film. But the constant ironies in the film reveal that Communism

under Mao is full oflies and is a system that eats its own. Despite all ofthis, the film

remains remarkably lighthearted; we care about the Xu family like we care about our

friends. At the 1994 Cannes film festival, Ge You won Best Actor and the film itself

won the Special Jury Prize. It's playing locally at the Rialto in South Pasadena.

HeavenlJ Creatures is a riveting new film from New Zealand that tells the truestory oftwo teenage girls, Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) and Juliet Hulme (KateWinslet), whose friendship grows into an obsession that drives them to murder Pauline's

mother. I found this movie so intriguing that I saw it twice, and the second viewingaffirmed my initial hunch that this is one ofthe best films ofthe year. As we learn in

voiceovers taken directly from Pauline's diaries, the girls imagined themselves to be

"heavenly creatures" that could see and enter a medieval fantasy world they had

created, complete with a saucy royal family for whom they had detailed 500 years of

lineage. Director Peter Jackson (DeadAlive) pulls out all the stops and tells the story

from a truly mad view-point. The "Fourth World," as they called it, is brought to lifeby using innovative special effects, and the camerawork and editing allow us to feel

the pair's insane ecstasy with them as well as the pain of their eventual separation.

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o The American Society of Naval Engineers issponsoring a scholarship program with awards of$2,000 each for the 1995-96 academic year. Eli­gible srudents must be U,S. Citizens. graduate or

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o The American Women's Club in Sweden an­nounces that a travel grant will be awarded for studyand research in Sweden. The amount of the grantwill be equivalent to the cost of an APEX round­trip ricket between New York and Stockholm, ToqualifY you must be: an American citizen; female.age 18 or over; accepted for a period of study orresearch at .f Swedish educational institution oragency; and show evidel1;i~ofneed, The completedapplication and all suppprting documents is dueno later than April 15, 1~95,

o The Jewish Communiry Foundation and TheJewish Vocational Service have scholarship appli­cations available now for several different scholar­ships under their administration, The scholatshipsare designed to provide financial assistance to Jew·ish students who are legal residenrs of Los AngelesCounry, enrolled full-time, and are able to docu­ment significant financial need. Application formsmay be obtained from Jewish Vocational Serviceuntil March 1, 1995, Write to: Room 303, 6505Wilshire Blvd" Los Angeles, CA 90048, or call(213) 653-2858, Completed applications are dueApril 13, 1995,

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o The Coalition of Higher Education AssistanceOrganizations announces three $1,000 scholar·ships, and six $1 00 scholarships available to Caltechstudents. To receive an application, you must cometo the Financial Aid Office to pick up a COHEAOpostcard; and send it in to request the applicationby April 1, 1995, The completed application isdue to COHEAO on June 1, 1995,

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The Financial Aid Office has applicationsand/orinformation On the following and additional schol­arships, All qualified students are encouraged toapply, The Financial Aid Office is located at 515 S,Wilson, second floor.

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o The Imel Foundation is offering a renewable Mi­nority Engineering (MESP) Scholarship at Cal tech,Funding for the first award will begin in the 1995­96 academic year and ineludes: an award amountof$20,000 to be applied toward tuition, fees, andliving expenses; a paid summer internship at IntelCorporation offered through Intel's College Re­cruiting Office; and an Intel Mentor, The applica­tion deadline is January 20, 1995, Nominared can­didates will be interviewed in late January or earlyFebruary, Final selection will be made by March31, 1995, Basic eligibiliry criteria include: Secondyear underrepresented minority (African American,Native American, or Hispanic) majoring in electri­cal engineering, computer engineering, or computerscience; full-time student; U.S. Citizen or perma-

The 1995 E1ie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Con­test, with awards totaling ~ 10,000, is now open to

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The American Concrete Institute (ACI) is offer­ing several awards, The Peter D, Courtois Con­crete Construction Scholarships are two $1000

awards for undergraduate study in concrete con­struction for the 1995-96 academic year. Eligiblestudents musr be enrolled at least half-time andmust be seniors in 1995-96, The application, avail­able at the Financial Aid Office, with all requiredsupporting documents is due January 10,1995,

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o Women's Glee Club begins all new music this·term: Purcell's "Come Ye Sons ofArc", Stravinsky's"Symphony of Psalms", and the Mozart "Requiem",Rehearsal will be held in SAC 1 on Mondays from7:30 to 9:30 p,m, and wirh rhe Men's Glee Clubin Beckman on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 6:00

p,m" This is the last time this year that the GleeClub can accept new singers. For more informa­tion contact Laura Brady, President (356-7427,laura@ugcs) or Monica Hubbard, Director (X6260,

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The Caltech Ballroom Dancing Club meets everyThutsday at 7 p,m, in Dabney Lounge for a 90­

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National Research Council announces the1Q,95 Resident, Cooperative, and Posrdoctoral Re­search Associateship Programs to be conducted onbehalf of federal agencies or research institutionswhose 120 participating research laboratories arelocated throughout the United States, The Pro­grams provide opportunities for Ph.D. scientistsand engineers of unusual promise and abiliry to

perform research on problems largely of their ownchoosing yet compatible wirh the interests of thesponsoring laboratory, Approximately four hundrednew full-time Associateships will be awarded on acompetitive basis in 1995 for research in: chemis­try; earth and atmospheric sciences; engineering,applied sciences and computer science; life, medi­Cal, and behavioral sciences; mathematics; space andplanetary sciences; and physics. Awards are madefor one or two years, renewable for a maximum ofthree years; senior applicants who have held thedoctorate at least five years may request shorter pe­riods. Applications will be accepted on a continuosbasis throughounhe year to the National ResearchCouncil Associateship Programs (TJ 2094/D I),2101 Constitution Avenue, N,W, Washington,D,c. 20418, or at the fax number (202) 334-2759,

The Universiry of Texas at Houston has created aSummer Research Program for students interestedin pursuing a graduate degree in the biomedicalsciences. Students will gain hands-on experiencein the areas of biomedical research under the su­perVision of faculry sponsors of their choices, Spe- ,cialized training is available in laboratory and ra- .diation safety, research technology, and biomedi­cal ethics. Studenrs will write research abstractswhich will be published in the annual UT-H Sum­

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Sao Summer Internship Program 1995 Applica­tions are invited from undergraduates [0 partici­pate in the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observa­tory Summer Intern Program at the Harvard­Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge,Massachusetts. We anticipate that twelve posirionswill be offered during the summer of 1995, Re­search opportuniries exist in all areas of astrophys­ics from planetary science to cosmology includingtheory, observation, data analysis, instrumentationand laboratory astrophysics, The program will pro­vide students with the opportunity to use telescopesat the Oak Ridge Observatory and to present apaper at a scientific meeting. The Intern Programbegins June 12th and ends August 18th, 1995, Thestipend will be $250 per week, and housing/travelwill be subsidized, Applicants most be US citizens(or hold a valid green card) currently enrolled in aprogram leading to a bachelor's degree, Graduat-

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o On Sunday, January 22nd at 3:30 p,m" TheChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center willperform Mozart's Quarret in F major for Oboe &Strings, K. 370; Brahms' Trio for Horn, Violin &Piano, Op, 40; Hindemith's Sonata for Oboe &

Piano; and Faure's Quartet No, 1 for Piano &Strings in C Minor, Op, 15 at the Beckman Audi­torium. Admission ranges from $12,00 to $22.50

(a $4 discount is available for Caltech students),

On Wednesday, January II th at 7:00 p,m, in theBeckman Audirorium,·Paulina Borsook will present"Love in Cyberspace: One Woman's Opinion,"Paulina Borsook will discuss in this Women's Cen­ter Speaker Series her writings on developing rela­tionships using the internet technology communi­cation and will provide her analysis of the strengthsand weakness of using the internet to develop rela­tionships, reading from one ofher publications en­titled "Virtual Romance",

o The Women's Center will also be hosting a seriesofdinner lectures, on the 13th and the 19th ofJanu­ary, Held at the Athenaeum at 7:30 p,m" these lec­tures will host perceptively Dr, Funk and Dr, Bult.Dr, Funk, the Program Leader of the Flora of theGuyanas program at the Smithsonian, has been pro­filed as one of the participants in the heated debateregarding appropriate merhods for doing phyloge­netic analysis and is known as an intrepid field bi­ologist, Dr, Bult, head of the Molecular EvolutionLaborarory at The Institute for Genome Research(TIG R), is currently working on the project focus­ing on patenting eDNA sequences from the hu­man genome project.

o William Bing will be hosting guest drummer GregBissonette in a Caltech Jazz Bands Concert on Sat­urday, January 21st, at 8 p,m, in the Beckman Au­ditorium. Admission is free.

century American parlor inusk to Hungarian andIrish ",nes on Sunday, January 15th ar 3:30 p,m,at the Dabney Lounge,

o On Tuesday, January I Othat noon, Dr, FayAjzenberg-Selove, professor of physics at the Uni­versiry of Pennsylvania and author of the book "AMatter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physi­cist," will speak about her new book at the Women'sCenter.

o Professor ofChemistry Rudolph Marcus will givea seminar "Managing Your Way to a Nobel Prize"on Tuesday, January 17th at 6:00 p,m, in the Ath­enaeum, A Nobel laureate in Chemisrry, Dr,Marcus' speech is hosted by the Caltech Manage­ment Associarion; admission will be $28,00 formembers of the Athenaeum and $38,00 for non­members, All wishing to attend are kindly asked toRSVP with Ron Oliver by January 10th at Cal techmail-stop code 202-6,

o The Caltech Swedish Club will meet at 3 p,m,on Sunday, 15 January, at 955 Fallen Leaf Rd"Arcadia for a "julgransplundring" (post-Christmascelebration). Anyone interested in Scandinavianculture or in speaking Swedish is welcome, Formore information, please call Welma Muhlemanat 355-8265 ot Rustan or India Leino at 584-7162(or email rustan@cs),

o CIT Guitar Classes for the Winrer Quarter willmeet on Tuesdays swting January lOin Room 1 ofthe Student Activities Center (SAC) as follows: Begin­ning Guitar Class between 4:30 and 5:30 p,m" Inter­mediare between 3:00 and 4:00 p,m" and advancedclasses from 5:30 to 6:30 p,m, Classes are free to CaltechStudents and orher members ofthe communiry (spacepermitting), Undergraduates can receive 3 units ofcreditifthey choose, The instructor, Classical Guiwist DarrylDenning has an.intemarional background in perfor­mance; teaching,~nd recording, and can be reached at(213) 465-0SSr

Goodwill Industries ofSouthem California is seek­ing male and female volunteers to model authenticantique fashions that date as far backas the 1860's,

The sryle shows are held at major hotels, counttyclubs, and churches to benefit the non-profit Good­will, which provides rehabilitation and job train­ing and placement for people with physical andmental disabilities and/or social disadvantages.Shows are held weekdays as well as weekends,Goodwill is seeking models between the ages of 18to 70 years, so please contact Beryl Panza or CathyHoyt at (213) 223-1211 Ext 229 or 230 for moreinformation.

The Caltech Muslim Student Association will holdMuslim Friday Prayers weekly in the Y-Iounge at12:40 p,m,

The Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Support Groupmeets the fitst and third Tuesdays of each monthat 7:30 p,m, in the Health Center Lounge, Thisconfidential meeting is open to all Cal tech com­munity members looking for a supportive contextin which to address questions and concerns aboutsexual orientation including coming out, beingout, self-discovery, coping with families"" We be­gin with a focus topic but move to whatever is feel­ing most relevant to the group that night. Refresh­ments are served. For information, please call 395­8331.

"Take a Break and Spend Some Time withFriends," The office of the International StudentPrograms would like to invite you to our OpenHouse for coffee. tca and conversation. EveryWednesday from 4:00 p,m, - 5:30 p,m, at the of­fice oflnternational Student Programs, Olive Walk.Open to the entire Cal tech community.

o Frank Klicar will personally narrate the comingArmchair Adventures travel film entitled "China-The on Friday,January 13that8 p.m. at the Beckman auditorium, admis-sion will range from $6.50 to $8,00,

o The Arroyo Singers, a women's chorus that is inits season of performing in the San

is new members. Rehears-als will be 7: 15 to 9:30 onthe Caltech campus beginning January 10th, Novoice training is required. During the spring, thechorus, under the direction ofJames Reitzell, willpresent a concert on June II th on the Caltech cam­pus, as well as being featured in other communiryevents. Repertoire is broad, including c1assi~al, folkand contemporary. The spring concert will featureBroadway favorites from George Gershwin to An­drew Lloyd Webber. Those interested in joiningmay call Cathie Dejoseph at (213) 256-5332.

o Dr. Merritt Roe Smith, Director of the Programin Science, Technology, and Sociery at MIT, willbe holding a seminar entitled "Military Roots ofMass Production" on Thursday, January 19th at4:00 p,m, This lecture is part of the Science, Eth­ics, and Public Policy Seminar Series, and is free to

the public.

o The Boland-Dowdall Duo will present a con­cert including a mixture ofpieces ranging from 19th

o The AIDS Service Center presents "Just SayKnow," a free eight week educational support groupthat will explore different topics related to HIV andAIDS, "Just Say Know" will meet every Tuesdayfrom 6:30 to 8:,30 p,m, from January 31st throughMarch 21st at the AIDS Service Center, 126 WestDel Mar Boulevard, Pasadena, To participate, callTom Drake at (818) 398-4553,

o On Wednesday, January 11 th at 8 p,m" Dr, RoyWilliams, senior staff scientist at Cal tech, will givea lecture entided "Infinite Information on theInternet" at the Beckman Auditorium, Dr. Will­iams will discuss what the Internet is now and whatit will be in the future in this Earnest C WatsonCaltech Lecture. Admission is free.

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