Dean Announces -Week Program
BUSY—Summer Session Dean John D. Cooke and Jack Rose, Post Session URA director, look over recreation plans for the next four weeks. Dr. Cooke has been named acting dean of the graduate school and will be busy doing both jobs. Rose is filling in for Dr. Tillman Hall at the URA helm.
POST SESSION
IR Series, Talks, Coffee Hours Set
Post Session students at SC will be offered a varied program of lectures, assemblies, social events, and tours, it was announced today by Dean John D. Cooke.
International relations will be the subject for a series of lectures on Monday and Wednesday afternoons at 2:15 in 133 FH. “Collective Security
vs. Collective Peace” will be the topic of the first speaker, Director George Taylor of the Eastern and Russian Institute at the University of Washington, o n Wednesday.
Kenneth T. Young Jr., director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs in the U. S. State Department, will speak next Monday on “The Challenge in Asia to United States Policy."
“Asian Implications of Recent Soviet Policies" will be discussed by Harold H. Fisher, professor of international relations at San Francisco State College, on Aug. 15. Dr. Ross N. Berkes,, director of the School of International Relations at SC, will present “The United States and British Responses to the Challenge” on August 22.
Analyzing “The Meaning of Television for America,” Dr. Dallas W. Smythe, professor of economics and communications at the University of Illinois, will speak Tuesday morning at 11 in 133 FH.
Two coffee hours will be held for graduate scholars in the Graduate Students Lounge. The first one is Wednesday afternoon from 3 to 5 and will be sponsored by the social science departments and the School of Library Science. The School of Education will host the affair on Aug. 15.
URA Sets Up Pair of Trips For Weekend
The University Recreation Association, under its new director, Jack Rose, has released dates for activities during the Post Session.
Topping the list are trips to the Huntington Library in Pasadena, and Marineland in Palos Verdes. The library tour will leave at 11:30 a.m. Friday from the URA office, 112 PE. New office hours will be 1-4 p.m. Mon-day-Friday.
Saturday a large group is expected to visit the oceanarium at Marineland. The SC students, faculty, and guests will leave at 8:30 a.m. from in front of the PE building or meet at the entrance to Marineland at 10 a.m. Deadline for signing up for both trips is 4 p.m. Thursday.
Tuesday night the first of three social dances in the PE dance studio is planned. Dancing will be from 7-10.
Summer
News
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
NO. 13
LOS ANGELES 7, CALIFORNIA MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1956
Expert on Asia
To Give Speech
Dr. George Taylor, director of the Far Eastern and Russian Institute, .University of Washington, will deliver the first Post Session forum address Wednesday at 2:15 p.m., in 133 FH.
This is the fourth in the International Relations series on “Challenge and Response in Asia.” Dr. Taylor’s topic will be “Collective Security versus Collective Peace." He will examine the Moscow-
Peking strategy of moderation and emphasis on peace and coexistance in Asia and the Western policies of collective security. He has made trips to China and the Far East as a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian and as chief of the Far Eastern Division, U. S. Office of Information and Cultural Affairs. He recently returned from a third visit.
Broaden Collective Security
“It may be that the collective security policy of the United States, that is, military security pacts and agreements will have to be broadened to meet successfully the new intensified economic and cultural propaganda offensive of the Soviets,” said Series Chairman Rodger Swearingen.
“The Soviet offensive has to be dealt with simultaneously on all fronts; defensive, economic aid, political, psychological, propaganda, and cultural penetration and influence. Of course, this is extremely difficult.”
Dr. Taylor will call on his personal experience as a historian and political scientist in China, and as a member of the State Department’s Office of Information in his lecture.
Assembly to Study
U.S. TV Meaning
“The Meaning of Television for America,” will be examined at the first Post Session assembly Tuesday at 11 a.m. in 133 FH. Dr. Dallas W. Smythe, professor of economics and communications at the University of Illinois, will speak.
Roundup
Monday — Teleforum, 8 p.m. KTLA, channel 5.
Tuesday—Assembly, n a.m. 133 FH. Speaker: Dr. Dalla« W. Smythe. Topic: “The Meaning of Television for America.” Social dancing, 7-10 p.m., PE dance studio.
Wednesday—IR series. “Collective Security vs. Collective Peace,” by Dr. George Taylor. 2:15 p.m. 133 FH. Graduate tea, 3-5 p.m. Graduate School Lounge.
Friday—Trip to Huntington Library, 11:30 a.m., 112 PE.
Saturday—Marineland visit. Leave PE building 8:30 a.m. or meet at Marineland at 10
a.m.
ACCOUNTING
CPA Review Class Starts Tuesday Night
A review course to assist candidates preparing for the national examination for Certified Public Accountants will begin on Tuesday.
The CPA coaching course will be given by SC’s University College on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 10 p.m. The course will follow the examination sections, and candidates may take only those parts in which they need review.
Classes on problems will be held from Aug. 7 to Sept. 6; on theory, Sept. 11 - 20; on law, Sept. 25 to Oct. 11; and on auditing, Oct. 16-25. The national examination is scheduled for Nov. 7, 8, and 9.
Anyone who has had sufficient practice and study in accounting to understand the material is eligible. Registration will be held on Tuesday from 6:30 to 7 p.m. in room 314 Bridge Hall.
Instructors will be James S. Forbes Jr., CPA, and A. B. Keel, CPA and attorney. Both are members of the American Institute of Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Additional information can be obtained by calling Exts. 232 or 209.
“The essential meaning of television for us is that it symbolizes the communications revolution which has taken place in the last half century,” he said. “It includes new motion picture techniques, development of high speed presses, radio, and television.
“Is television responsible for juvenile deliquency?” “We are not sure,” said Dr. Smythe, “but probably not.”
He said that when people point a finger at TV as the cause for delinquency, they usually are re-fering to the whole communications revolution which has speeded up our way of living.
“The sheer presence of television has a meaning to America,” he said. “It is a fact that three-fourths of American families have TV sets which they view on an average of five hours a day.”
Sleep, Work, TV
“Television viewing is the Ihing most often done by Americans next to sleeping and working,’* the professor said.
“The immediate effect television has had is to cut down movie play, and spectator sport attendance. Also, this year will be the first time that a presidential election will be able to use television fully and it will have a tremendous effect,” the profes-j sor said.
Dr. Smythe has been chief of the economic and statistics division of the Federal Communications Commission, director of studies for the National Association of Educational Broadcasters and has conducted studies of TV program content for the Fund for Adult Education, Ford Foundation.