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VOL. XI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1961
NO. 15
Federal Adviser to Speak Here
philosopher speaks	”	"	Aerosoace	Leader«;
'Dual Potentiar of Machines Will Hear Scientist Can Advance, Destroy Man
The servo - mechanisms being i developed lor our increasingly scientific society have a potential both for advancing and des- j troying man, a visiting British | philosopher said recently.
Professor E. W. P. Tomlin, a j
cultural attache for the British I Foreign Service and currently a j visiting professor in the School | of Philosophy, remarked during i a lecture on whether machines j will ever be able to think that the future dominance of man depends on his ability to control the devices of his super-scienee.
Describing the belief that a regime of super-machines may someday replace man as a “new scientific myth,” the philosopher warned that myths always con tain a certain amount of truth.
“Electronic brains already ‘think- for man, and to that extent control him," Professor Tomlin said. “Remember, what thinks for me governs me."
Increased depen d e n c e on machines can result in man becoming mo.'-e mechanized if he
E. W. F. TOMLIN
... on conscious allows himself to be adjusted to the rhythm of the machine's needs, rather than vice versa, the philosopher continued.
He noted that man's ability to establish wider, more far-
TV Classes Feature Excerpts From Ages
Events from the development of ancient	Jei"usalem to the
growth of	Keystone comedies
are being discussed this week by USC’s	trio of television
teachers.
Early morning TV classes in cinema amj religion, and a weekend class in psychology, are being presented over local station KNXT as part of the university's Oddysey education series.
Cinema Professor Arthur Knight, host of “The Liveliest Art” on Mondays, Wednesday
Dates Given For Papers
This is the final edition of the Summer Trojan for the 1961 summer session. The Daily Trojan, official student newspaper during the fall and spring semester, will resume on Sept. 12 with a special orientation issue.
Scampus, the official student handbook, will be available to freshman and new students on Sept. 9. Scampus Editor Hal Drake said that the newly revised and updated magazine will be the most complete single source of information and background of the university.
In the meantime, El Rodeo, the student yearbook, is currently scheduled to appear . . . ohhh, about Sept. 10, or maybe Oct. 12.
The deadline on El Rodeo tickets in the activity book has been extended to Sept. 30 to compensate for the delay.
and Fridays, will continue to trace the emergence of the silent era heroes and comedians tomorrow morning at 6:30.
Professor Knight will conclude a discussion of the two-reel comedy favorites and will introduce the early Western heroes. On Friday, he will contrast the spectacles of the silent era with the “not-so-spec-taculars.”
Divided Era
The division between the Jews and Samaritans in early Christian history will be the subject of Dr. Gerald Larue’s “Archaeology and the Bible” lecture Thursday morning at 6:30.
His discussion will center around the city of Jerusalem, from the time of its conquest bj David up to the Christian era. The beginnings of archaeological investigation will also be considered.
Dr. Herman Harvey’s Sunday psychology program, “The Touch of Fame,” will be concerned this weekend with the confused and mysterious life of American poet Edgar Allen Poe.
Utter Failure
At 4:30 Sunday afternoon. Dr. Harvey will delve into Poe's unfortunate childhood, his utter failure as a student at West Point and the violence in his life that was later reflected in his works.
Such works as “The Raven,” “The Black Cat” and “The Gold Bug” will be discussed during the presentation of Poe as a literary critic and philosopher as well as a writer.
flung relations than other species has made him superior only insofor as he has been able to dominate his creations.
The Englishman, who will start as cultural attache to the British Embassy in Tokoyo in the fall, used man’s relation to the machine to support his theory that consciousness is the “integrative purpose of life.’’ Comparing the servo-mechan ism of the engineer to the fossil of prehistoric organisms, Profes-| sor Tomlin claimed that a maeh-| ine can only be an embodiment | of ideas, much the same w a y | that a fossil is an embodiment of something once alive.
Long Line “From the embryo to the most elaborate servo - mechanism there is a line of continuity, supervised by the conscious itself,” Professor Tomlin claimed. | “Thus, mechanisms are n o t triumphant over consciousness, i but instead the triumph of con-| sciousness.”
The philosopher denied tht belief in a separation between life and consciousness, mind and body, and implied instead thar life and consciousness are iden tical.
lTnswn Force
He claimed that consciousness is the unseen, binding and integrative purpose of life, which operates much the same as the j unseen rules to a game. •
Professor Tpmlin recently I served as cultural attache to the | British Embassy in Ankara. He is an officer of the Order of the British Empire and the author | of several books and articles on philosophy, including “Great j Philosopher of the Western
i World” and “Great Philosophers i of the Eastern World.”
Reid McClung, Ex-USC Dean, Passes at 75
Reid Laee McClung, 75, dean of the School of Commerce from 1927 to 1951, died Friday at Queen of Angeles Hospital.
Coming to USC shortly after the formation of what was then known as the School of Commerce, Dean McClung saw enrollment in his school rise from fewer than 300 to more than 1.000 students during his tenure.
Early Fame
Born in Louisa, Ky.. he was educated in the public schools of West Virginia and worked his way through Morris Harvey College at Charleston, W. Va.. to become at the age of 16 the youngest graduate in the history of the institution.
After teaching at Willie Hal-sell College in- Vinita, Okla.. and New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. N.M., and taking two years of graduate work at Vanderbilt University, he returned to Morris Harvey College at the age of 23 to become
its vice president.
War Record
Commissioned a lieutenant in World War I. he rose to the rank of major and at the conclusion of the war went to Washington as Chief Personnel Statistician to the General Staff.
After a tour of duty there. Dean McClung returned to academic life, working as an in-
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Dr. Charles H. Townes, consultant to President Kennedy’s Scientific Advisory Committee, will speak on campus next week at the opening of the Air Force-Aerospace Corp. Symposium on Ballistic Missile and Aerospace Technology.
Dr. Townes, who is also vice president and research director of the Institute for Defense Analysis in Washington. D.C.. wili appear before space science leaders from government, military. industry, and educational institutions active in the nation's ballistic missile and space pro-grams who will attend the meetings.
1 of the School of Commerce from	Leader*
Eugene M. Zuckert. secretary i of the Air Force, will deliver the keynote address for the •ymposium. which is expected t<> draw almost 1.800 of the nation’s leaders in space technoJ-
Dr. Townes, a former professor of physics at Columbia University. will speak on “Optical I Masers and their Application in \e:ospaee Technology.” which ■ pertains to the transmission of light beams over great distances. Award Winner The physicist earned his doc-, torafe at Cal Tech and was re-; oently appointed provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds the 1961 Rum-ford Premium award from the | American Academy of Arts and j Sciences along with numerous ! other international science hon-| ors.
Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr..
associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is scheduled to discuss the possibilities of flight to the moon at the conference, which will be hosted by FTesi-dent Topping.
Tickets for the keynote speech and unclassified sessions may fie obtained by contacting Dr.
Charles T. Morrow, symposium
chairman, at Aerospace Corp.
National Conferences Draw USC Faculty, Administrators
USC professors, instructors and deans will be representing the university at a series of nation-wide conferences and meetings before returning for the fall semester.
Discussions ranging from population problems and chemistry to journalism and movies will be attended by USC faculty during the next several weeks.
The International Congress of Schools of Cinema and the 15th UFPA Conference being held in Berkeley are currently being attended by Herbert E. Farmer, director of services for the department of cinema, and by Bernard R. Kantor, assistant professor of cinema.
The meetings started Saturday and will conclude this weekend.
On Sunday, John H. McCoy, director of the School of Journalism, will fly to Ann Arbor to represent the university at the annual conference of the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism to l»e held at the University of Michigan.
Meetings during the first two weeks of September will call for the services of several more USC faculty. Among those who will be representing the university are:
Dr. William Buchanan, associate professor of political science. who will be a member of a panel discussion of “Communication cf National Values and Attitudes to Policy Makers” during the meeting of the American Political Science Association in St. Louis, Sept. 6 to 8.
Dr. Karol J. Mysels. professor of chemistry, who will preside aver a symposium on the teaching of colloid and surface chemistry at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago from Sept. 2 to 8. He will also present a paper on “Surface and Colloid Chenrvstry in the Graduate Curriculum" at the meeting.
Dr. Georges Sabagh. associate professor of sociology. who will .»resent a paper at the International Population Conference, which will take place Sept. 11 to 16 in New York City.
Dr. Robert Simha. professor of chemistiy, who will present a paper at the symposium of the American Chemical Society that will meet in Chicago from Sept. 3 to 7.