21 Student Projects Win New $1500 Hoopes Prizes

A study of juvenile delinquency in Japan and an investigation of the behavior of the brown howler monkey are among the 21 undergraduate academic projects named yesterday as the first winners of the $1500 Hoopes prize.

The award, funded by a million-dollar bequest from the estate of Thomas T Hoopes '19, also grants $500 to each winner's faculty supervisor. Under the terms of the bequest, each year's prize-winners will receive at least $1000 each for general excellence in scholarly work. All but three awards this year went to senior theses.

A nine-member Faculty committee, whose members are also reimbursed from the bequest, selected the winners (A complete list follows.)

The results of another unusual Harvard honor were announced yesterday--the Phi Beta Kappa teaching prize Lisa Anderson, assistant professor of Government and of Social Studies, and Thomas Parker, assistant professor of Mathematics, were this year's winners.

The teachers were selected by a committee of faculty members and past winners, who drew them from a slate submitted by undergraduates in the prestigious honor society.

Anderson teaches an undergraduate-level course and a graduate seminar in politics in the Middle East and North Africa Parker teachers two undergraduate courses on differential and integral calculus and an upper-level course on elliptical theory.

The winners of the Hoopes Prize, along with their project and faculty supervisor are.

Stephen Szaras '83, "The Spanish American War. An Analysis of Generational Differences Professor Alan Heimert.

Amy Remensnyder '83, "Santus et Novitas: Novitea; Saint Foy of Conques." Assistant Professor Richard M Fraher.

Antoinette-Elsa Reed '83, "Parlez Vous Le Metalanguage? The Implications of Bilingualism for Linguistic Awareness in a New Language." Professor Roger W Brown.

Cyrus Patell '83, "Joyce's Use of History in 'Finnegan's Wake," Professor John V Kelleher.

Mark Folk '83, "Methodological Improvements on Testing Effects of Sumulus Complexity on Rotation Rate." Professor R. Duncan Luce.

James Glazier '83, "The Archaic Etruscan Relief Revetment." Professor David Gordon Mitten.

David Rothenberg '84, "The Way of Pure Sound." Ivan Tcherepnin. Senior Lecturer.

Vivien Dietz '83, "Taxing Vanity The History of Assessed Taxation in 18th Century Britain." Professor John Brewer.

Richard Weitz '83, "Cold War Theories

Team B

"Baseball is really nice to study because there are good numbers," says Mendonca, who concluded that there is indeed racial discrimination in major league baseball.

The admitted baseball buff also concluded that Blacks are over-represented at both ends of the salary spectrum but start out making less than comparable white players. Discrimination affects mediocre Block pros the most, Mendonca argues:

It is not possible to reject the theory that Blacks are encouraged to play other sports, nor can it be conclusively said that white high school baseball coaches are not prejudiced against Black players in general and are discouraging them from playing baseball. It may be that white coaches are prejudiced against Blacks, and only when a Black player is clearly superior is he allowed to play. It is also possible that if Blacks are generally better athletes than whites, high school coaches may encourage Blacks to play football and basketball because they generally return more money to the school because of greater fan interest than baseball Since there is no evidence of racial barriers between the minors and majors it could be that this barrier exists even before professional baseball.

Helene Sahadi York of the Government Department also discussed discrimination--that which women face in politics. She concluded that despite tremendous obstacles a "latent feminist constituency" exists among American voters.

York administered a questionable to women at Radcliffe, Lesley College, Simmons College and Boston University, among other schools, and discovered consistent "feminist sympathies." However, she points out that:

Despite generally strong agreement with feminist items and economic equity items, this sample of young women often shows hostility to the feminist movement and to feminists...94 percent of the respondents agree with the substantive clause of the ERA, "that equal rights under the law should NOT be denied on account of sex." Yet, by comparison, only 66 percent support the ERA versus 24 percent who are opposed. Ten percent are undecided, by far the largest group of undecided in 36 questions.... Respondents generally agree that women should have equal opportunities and be equal in all spheres, but 14 percent think that "women will end up with things they don't want--too much equality" and one-third (34%) agree that "there is such a thing as too mock equality.".

The last question asked respondents whether they describe themselves as feminists Predictable more than a majority ($54) did not, whereas an unexpectedly high percentage (43%) did....

That feminism is seen as separatist or concerned exclusively with women troubles many of the respondents. One Radcliffe respondent, 21 associates feminism with "supporting the rights of women over the rights of men" A second contends that it means "divisiveness and isolationism which encourages women to focus on the quality of their lives and not on the general quality of all lives."

Julie Tang of the History and Science Department focused on an individual rather than a broad field, producing a biography of the late Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, George Kistiakowsky. Subtitling her work, "From Bomb Creator to Peace Crusader," Tang examined the background of the Manhattan atomic bomb project, in which Kistiakowsky played a major role. In the first biography of the prominent scientist, she used documents from the Harvard Archives; the Council for a Liveable World, which Kistiakowsky founded, and primary documents from his personal files. Tang met Kistiakowsky two years ago and received his permission to begin a biography.

After he died last December Tang says, "I felt that it was something that I could de as a tribute to him:" She wrote:

In the years from 1968 through 1982, Klstiakowsky took his message to the American people by becoming an outspoken critic of the government and its handling of nuclear weapons policy. Ironically, this was the man who had put the first nuclear weapon together with his own hands who had done so under a "native" trust in the wisdom and judgement of the government leaders, and believing that these weapons would make the world a safer place. Half a lifetime later, he became entirely devoted to trying to "undo the nuclear weapons." under the conviction that the world is drifting toward nuclear war, and hoping to bring about a change in attitudes which might prevent such a realization of his 1945 prophecy.... His new plan of action involved a monumental task trying to share with his fellow Americans a "rationality and vision" about arms control which he had developed over the decades since joining America's fledgling military science efforts at the start of World War II. Thus the years from 1965 on, Kistiakowsky covered the nation making speeches, writing articles, attending conferences, and holding seminars bringing to bear both his scientific background and the knowledge that came from many years of "insider's experiences" in Washington