southern california
SUMMER NEWS
No. 12
Los Angeles, Calif.
Friday, July 31, 1953
(Courtesy L.A. Examiner)
DEVELOPERS OF SC's new vacuum ultracentrifuge, Dr. Karol J. Mysels and Jon Myer, are shown inspecting their unique research machine.
SC Research Machine To Measure Molecules
A machine that overcomes and multiplies gravity at the same time, is believed to be the largest in the world and is unique in many respects. It is the newest development of SC’s chtmistry department.
It looks like a model of a flying saucer resting or ..	.........:— spinning near a space station to
Free Piano Class Offered
Summer News To Return for Post-Session .
Ah the famous general once snid, “We shall return.”
The Summers News will appear five times (luring the foui-week starting Monday I’he other publishing dates are Aug. 7, 10, 17, and 24.
For the last three weeks ihe SN will come out only once a week.
We wish to thank all the students and faculty members who cooperated with us during the six-week session. News items for the coming issues may be brought to 428 Student Union.
If the hike up the four floors is too much, phone RI 2311, Ext 573 Office hours are 9 to 12 daily.
Summer staffers Sam Feldman, George Lasezkay, Dee Caruso, and Norm Nager are all back for the Post-Session.
Opportunity for free piano instruction during August for a limited number of junior and senior high school students w'as offered today by the SC School of Music.
The pupils will be taught in demonstraeion groups by Mrs. Fay Templeton Frisch of New Rochelle, N. V., authority on class piano instruction. She will conduct two group piano courses at SC from August 3 through 28 at which teachers may observe her methods.
Full information may be obtained by calling Richmond 2811, Ext. 518.
Veteran's
Notice
Veterans attending SC under Public Law 346 or Public Law 050 who fall in one or more of the following categories should contact the eVterans Affairs Office before July 81, 1958.
1.	Receive their degree at the end of Ihe current summer session and wish to continue for an addieionai degree.
2.	Change their course or degree objective.
8. Change their major
4 Transfer to another institution.
be built by rocket travelers to the outer planets.
Actually it is a magnetically suspended vacuum ultracentrifuge, cn important research tool for Dr. Karol J. Mysels, associate professor of chcmistry at SC, who will use it to measure the size of molecules, those minute particles which form all matter. .
Jon Myer, instrumentologist for tile SC chemistry department designed and built the ultracentrifuge in a year and a half for Dr. Mysels with the help of Bruce Varnes of the SC physics machine shop.
The cost of building this remarkable machine • was shared with the University by the Bris-tol-Meyers Co. of Hillsdale) New Jersey, and Research Corporation of New York as part of their program of encouraging pioneering fundamental research at se-lerted American institutions.
The gravity defying feature of the instrument is a 15-pound duraluminum disc that can be seen floating freely in mid-air between an electromagnet above and a sort of mine detector below without touching anything at all.
The disc stays suspended indefinitely. If it is pushed out of position it returns to it spontaneously and apparently without effort.
“It finds a grove in space and stays in it,” said Myer.
At the same time this disc may be spun at 30,000 or more revolutions per minute. This sets up tremendous centrifugal forces which subject samples placed in (Continued on Page 4)
Cancelled TV Panel to Be Seen Sunday
A special program microwaved from New York about the Korean truce cancelled the scheduled debut of SC’s new Summer Session educational television program .series over KNXT, Channel 2, last Sunday night.
The panel discussion on “Tomorrow’s Schools” has been rescheduled for this coming Sunday, at 8:30 p.m. with two changes in the participants.
Dr. John Lounsbury .president of San Bernardino Valley College, and Dr. James M. Hughes, professor of education at Northwestern University, both of whom are teaching here this summer, will be on the panel.
They will substitute for Dr. Foster E. Grossnickle, professor of mathematics at New Jersey State Teachers College, and Dr. Rolland H. Upton, superintendent of schools at Auburn, Wash., who will be unable to i^fniain in the city after teaching their last classes today (Friday).
Dr. Albert C. Fries, head of the departments of business education and office administration, will remain as moderator of the panel. Two Summer Session faculty members who were original members of the panel will be seen and heard on the program.
They will be Dr. Joseph Lauw-erys, professor of comparative education at the University of London, and Dr. Frederick Mayer, professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Redlands.
This is the first of several programs leading up to a new educational venture, a college credit course oil television, which SC will start in the fall.
Three weekly introductory programs bginning Sept. 6 will lie offered by Dr. Frank C. Baxter, SC professor of English, in preparation to his Shakespeare credit course which will begin Sept. 26.
Any person may view the program, but to get credit actual mail registration will be required at a cost of $12 for the one unit.
Tuesday Final Day For Registration
Summer School ends today for many Trojans, but many students are already enrolling in the four-week Post-Session which starts Monday.
Registration opened today at Owens Annex, Door B, at 8:15 and will be open until 5 tonight. Hours tomorrow are from 8:15 to noon.
Last days U- register are Monday and Tuesday when hours .vill be 8:15 until !:30, said John D.
Cooke, Dean of the Summer Session.
“Tuesday is the last chance to register,” lie emphasized.
The maximum number of units Post-Session graduate students can take is five, if the course numbers nre below 500. If the course is numbered 500 or above, four units js the maximum.
Undergraduate students will be allowed a maximum of five units if the courses are 400 or below.
No exceptions will be made to the above rules, according to the registration ofli -ials.
Schedules for the fall semester which starts Sept. 21, are now available at the Information Office. Registration material and permits are now-available in Owens Annex.
Registration for the fall semester takes place Sept, 16 through Sept. 19.	-
Mail registration for fall is now -ioing 4!i? and registrations postmarked later than Aug. 15 will not be accepted. A signed advisers card is necessary to register by mail.
Course changes or additions for the post-session are as follows:
General Studies 200 (3), 8:30-10:30 MTWTF, P4125, Wilson,
FH 202.
German 02()b (0), Course in Reading German, 7-9:25 p.m.,
MWF, P4450, Exner, DM 306.
Spanish 100b (3), Elementary Spanish, 8-11:45 MTWTF, P7307,
Boyland, FH 117.
Some 85 visiting professors will augment the* regular Summer Session slaf.»’ for the four-week term.
Acting Library DirectorNamed
Appointment of Harriet E. Howe as a visiting professor of library science and acting director of the School of Library Scionce at SC for the coming year was announced today.
Miss Howe, who directed the library school at the University of Denver from 1931 to 1950, will serve in place of Dr. Lewis F. Stieg who will be on sabbatical leave from SC and lecturing at the University of the Philippines in Manila on a Fulbriglit fellowship.
iMss Howe taught at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Simmons College in Boston, and the University of Chicago before going to Denver.
She is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a Bachelor’s degree in library science, earned the Master of Education degree at Harvard University, and received an honorary Doctorate in library science from Colorado Woman’s College.
Miss Howe will have additional responsibilities at SC when Mrs. Frances Lander Spain, assistant director of the library school the past tour years, leaves Aug. 1, to accept an appointment as superintendent of work with children ill the New York public library.
DEAN JOHN D. COOKE
. . . post-session starts
Troy Songs' Recorded
Tommy Walker and the Trojan-aires, a 24-man band and chorus of 20 men and women, have just recorded “Songs of Troy” for SC.
This is the first album of records of SC music to be dohe in SC’s history. It will be available in the fall and will carry an RCA Victor custom label.
Eight “Songs of Troy” in the album include “Fight On,” “All Hail,” “Trojan Warriors Charge,” “Cardinal and Gold,” "Carry On,” “Watch the Trojans Roll,” “Trojan Marching Song” and “Song of Troy.”
Walker directs the SC football hand during the gridiron
season. The chorus was conducted by Charles C. Hirt.
Official
Notice
SC Summer Session school has received an urgent appeal from the Los Angeles Red Cross Regional Blood center in connection with the desperate need for blood at this time. The school has responded to the need by scheduling a bloodmo-bile visit to the campus oil Friday, Aug. 14tli.
Donors will be accommodated from 9 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. hi the basement of the university commons.
This summer session bloodmo-bile visit to the SC campus is a first among southern California universities and colleges. Hummer Trojans are being called upon to help ‘‘take up the slack” during the current drop in blood donations, which is seriously impairing the life-saving work of the American Red Cross. Trojans, I’m sure, will answer the call.
A. S. Raubenheimer Educational Vice-President John D. Cooke Dean, Summer Session
Veteran's
Notice
Veterans attending SC under the Korean GI bill, Public Law 550, should report to the Office of Veterans Affairs for attendance check forms between July 28 and August 1.