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...Sigma Chis at Colorado State have invented a sweetheart of a sport. They call it "parachute riding," and it works like this: first a parachute is laid out on the ground with all the shroud lines straight; then it is harnessed to the rider, who stands, sits or stretches out on a flat piece of heavy cardboard. Helpers then lift the chute so that it can fill with wind-all the while chanting "Come and help, Gus!" (the name for springtime gusts in the Rockies)-and away the rider goes over the grass on his cardboard chariot at speeds...
...last week the Sigma Chis were right back at it, under the watchful eye of Senior Richard Delanoy, who has devised a safety measure for the sport. Four Sigma Chis line up downwind, like baseball outfielders; whenever Gus blows too strong and the rider seems on the verge of liftoff, the outfielders rush the chute and plunge headlong into it, thereby safely collapsing the nylon canopy. "It's exciting when you see that chute billow out and you begin to move," said A. G. Phillips at the end of his parachute ride. "You feel that...
...equally adept in academese and computerese, Palevsky aims to keep S.D.S. at that nimble size where "we need optimize our strategy only in a small sector of the market." S.D.S. may already be growing out of that league. Last December the company delivered the first of its Sigma family of realtime, third-generation computers. The most complex, Sigma 7, costs up to $1,000,000, can serve more than 200 users simultaneously on a time-sharing basis. Sigma thus represents a big step into highly competitive commercial data processing...
STEPHEN C. F. DIAMOND: Eliot House Committee, social chairman: Harvard National Scholar; Dean's List; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; freshman football, captain; varsity football; Rugby Club...
While drowsing through an afternoon class in Elementary Logic or Advanced Trig, many a U.S. college student has wondered why his classes can't be as much fun, or as relevant, as the nightly bull sessions in the Sigma Chi dorm. No note taking, no grades, no assigned readings, the beer flows and so does student eloquence...