U niversi-ty of	Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. Llll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1962
NO. 80
Dramatist To Be Honored Month-Long Program
Festivities to Salute 400th Anniversary
Ki3H SPEED PRINTER—President Norman Topping (left) listens to explanation of UNIVAC's high speed printer unit in
the USC Computer Sciences Laboratory from Jack Veale, marketing manager for the Western division of Remington Rand.
Manufacturers, Educators Open Computer Center
A $2 million complex with land a Univac Solid-State Mag- together with a growing aware-
machines that can read or write jnetic Tape System, which, in all the information in the Los [addition to its powerful central
Angeles telephone book in about six minutes was dedicated yesterday at USCs new Computer Sciences Laboratory'.
Present at the dedication were President Topping; Dr. Robert R. Brown, director of the new center; Walter W. Finke, president of Minneapolis Honeywell; J. Presper Eckert, vice president of Remington Rand; and Dr. John Mauchly, president of Mauchly Associates.
The system includes a Honeywell 800 electronic computer
processor with 8,000 words of memory, can do more than 40,000 addtions or subtract tions a second.
Its data can be fed into the central computer by means of either magnetic tape or punched cards.
Honeywell President Finke explained the importance of electronic data processing at the dedication.
“The success of EDP is the outcome of the amazing degree of sophistication that has been attained in the hardware field,
Big Brains' Develop From Artillery Work
The electronic computers der the supervision of Dr. John which were dedicated here yes-| Mauchly, an associate profes-terday were not overnight phe- sor of electrical engineering. He nomena. Their capabilities have wondered if the new science of increased from use in artillery electronics could be applied to to the speedy tabulation and the ancient science of mathe-“thinking” for modem day matics to make faster calcula-
business.
At the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1940s, the Moore School of Electrical Engineering was at work for the Army Ordnance Department to compute firing tables for artillery.
Students were working un-
Expert Eyes TV as Aid To Colleges
Educational television will help California colleges meet burgeoning enrollment problems, a leading researcher told a national radio and television honorary fraternity recently.
Dr. Marvin Laser, chairman of the language arts division at Los Angeles State College and director of a recent study, “Television in the California State Colleges,’’ cited the need for both closed and open circuit TV in higher education.
Dr. Laser pointed out the United State’s 3.5 million student population will have doubled by 1960, with California riding on the crest, he said.
Closed circuit television will provide a solution to the problem of finding qualified instructors for these students, he said.
“However, the development of educational TV in our colleges will be seriously hampered for some time because of apprehensions and misunderstandings on the part of educators,” Dr. Laser predicted,
“Many faculty members and college administrators feel that television will replace the face-to-face teaching situation. However, he explained, “this is not the case. Television will be used primarily to supplement and enrich preseht teaching fare.”
Dr. Laser said he hoped that California colleges would soon take advantage of ultra high frequency TV channels now being made available for educational use.
“As these stations grow in number and in size, and as closed circuit instructional television grows in use, many new jobs will be created and there will be a vital demand for trained personnel," he added.
tions, and he saw the need for an electronics expert.
He chose the man who spoke at yesterday’s ceremony, J. Presper Eckert, and together they lamented late into the night over coffee about the slowness, the unreliability of the computer they were using to calculate the artillery.
They agreed that electronics deserved broader application, and together they outlined an electronic computer that could, they hoped, perform at a fantastic speed.
When they submitted their plan, World War II was on, and any idea for speeding work was welcome. Army Ordnance gave the university a contract and funds for preliminary work and study on an electronic computer. The design began in 1943 with 12 engineers working on it.
The first all-electronic general-purpose digital computer was compiled only 200,000 man hours later. It could do the work of 50,000 people working by hand, but it was big and heavy and consumed as much electricity as a large broadcasting station.
ness in business and science of the almost unlimited capabilities of the modern machines,” he said.
He added that challenges of the future may be met by finding ways of applying the ma chines to the problems of our times.
Powerful Tool
“Electronic data processing is one of the most powerful tools of automation ever devised,” he said. “It is a tool that no business in a competitive society can afford to ignore, one that no society in the present competitive world of nations can fail to support.”
He predicted that history will record EDP as one of the de cisive weapons in the struggle for survival in the 20th century.
Eckert, Remington vice president, whose company installed the solid-state com. puter, said the university is a proper home for computers.
Act of Wisdom “The university campus is where we find the majority of men and women with the kind of dedication it takes to walk through the darkness which obscures the future,” he said. “I believe that by placing this laboratory in your hands, we have committed an act of wisdom.”
The machine Eckert’s company installed can whisk through mountains of paper work in record-breaking time.
For example, the system could speedily process a typical payroll labor distribution run for thousands of workers.
The time needed to complete the computations and summari-zations, print the paychecks and earning statements, punch them and so on can be cut in half by the machine.
Magnetic Brain Its “brain” is a magnetic tape, which stores the data. It is comprised of a central processor, the tape units, a tape synchronizer, a card reader, a read-punch unit and a high speed printer.
The printer can transmit line of type 130 characters wide and operates at the rate of 600 lines a minute.
The term “solid-state” refers to the fact that a variety of new devices are used in place of the old system’s vacuum tubes.
Speaker Pins Scciety s Ills On Majority
The major danger facing democratic society is that the majority may decide it has “the truth” and will demand conformity from all, a visiting political scientist said Tuesday night.
Speaking to about 50 persons at the first Stonier Hall faculty lecture program of the semester, Dr. Fred Krinsky, visiting associate professor of political science, said minorities are one of the major characteristics of a free society.
Conformist Attitude
The democratic principle of allowing the minority to be vocal enough to try to win enough votes to gain a majority would be undermined by a conformist attitude, he said.
A major difference between a free and a subjugated society is that in a democratic society the individual is able to say “I may, although I seriously doubt it, be wrong,” Dr. Krinsky said.
He must also be willing to tolerate ideas he may think abominable, the political scientist claimed.
He pointed out that the basis of unity in a democratic society is recognition of a higher loyalty that exists among conflicting viewpoints.
Individual Loyalties The several loyalties of the ( average man — such as to a church, a political party, a labor union or an athletic team — come into conflict with each other, he said. However, the loyalties above these individual loyalties are what hold the society together.
Individuals hold loyalties to the Dodgers or the Giants and to the Republican or Democratic parties, for instance, Dr. Krinsky noted. These are translated into loyalties for baseball and democracy, the overall systems in which the parts exist.
A month-long, university-wide celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of Lope de Vega, Spain’s greatest dramatist, will open on campus today.
Theatrical, literary, musical and art departments have joined in preparing events for the celebration
dedicated to the dramatist,;	‘-
who lived from 1562 to 1635.;
The campus program, which!' is part of an international ob-l servance of the anniversary,;
DANCE-DRAMA — An original American dance-drama will be on the bill of fare of the experimental Stop Gap Theater which opens tonight. Taking roles in "The Scarlet Ibis" are students Melanie Alexander and Gordon Hoban.
International Plays To Mark 'Gap' Start
Children s Author Creates Live'. Past
Author G e n e v i v e Foster started writing history for children because she was tired of reading dull accounts of the past
note to Mrs. Foster’s history books.
The author pictures the world as a small unit where no man or nation ever lives and exists
The author of illustrated I alone.
books for children told a large group of library school students and instructors here yesterday that she wanted to help erase the way history had been taught to her.
“There is a direct relationship between a man’s life and the world around him,” she explained.
Mi’s. Foster uses a man’s life as a timeline in creating her
“I couldn't endure the way history books. By making history was taught to me in charts and graphs of inventions, high school, so I decided to i scientific and historical devel-clarify the mass of blur by writ- opments, growth of nations and ing books for children that political powers during a spe-made history alive and dynam- cific era, in addition to gather-ic,” Mrs. Foster explained. ing information on important “Aside from interest, the people of the time, she tries
subject lacked unity,” the author said. “The world was always sliced into countries, but never inter-related.’’
to weave all the facts together to show their relationship to her main subject.
The author says she spends
Correlation of countries and vast amounts of time in re* characters in history is the key- i search.
Fair Booths To Be Built For Carnival
The YWCA will be reserved for “World’s Fair” booth construction today from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon, Yolanda Mesch-witz, carnival chairman, announced yesterday.
Miss Meschwitz asked that booths be constructed by tonight and decorated tomorrow because the electrician must wire the Y building on Friday noon to 3 p.m.
She said refreshments will be available at the YWCA this evening for those who are working on booths, but reminded builders to bring their own supplies for construction.
Booths Dismantled
Booths must be dismantled by midnight tomorrow evening and all lumber and decorations piled up in the Y driveway, so that the janitors may haul it away.
Two people should be scheduled to work in a booth at all times during the carnival, Miss Meschwitz said. In addition, a sign stating the name, theme and price of goods must be on the front of all booths throughut the evening.
Price Consultation Any organization entering a food booth should consult with Aggie Yambao or Miss Mesch witz concerning prices, resources and amount bought. All food bills must be turned in by March 9.
Foods planned for the carnival’s world theme include hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, tacos, hot dishes and casseroles, foreign foods, popcorn, ice cream, cotton candy, frozen bananas, coffee and soft drinks.
Other carnival booths will offer entertainment, sales on wrapped candies, cookies, “imported items” and games.
Experimental Stop Gap Theater will open a three-day run tonight at 8:30 for an international selection of plays which composes the most diversified group presented this year.
The bill ranges from a 17 th century French farce, “The Doctor in Spite of Himself,” to a 20th century German drama, “The Exception and the Rule,” and an original American dance-drama, “The Scarlet Ibis.”
Tickets for the play are almost sold out, according to William C. White, drama instructor. He advised those without reservations who want to see the production to call the drama office to find out whea-ther seats are available.
The experimental theater program is part of a class exercise for an upper division and graduate course in directing and staging plays. The 17 members of this semester’s class selected the plays for the production. Supervising director is John E. Blankenchip, associate professor of drama.
“The Scarlet Ibis” will utilize the talents of Frank W. Brazinski and Herbert Biela-wa, graduate music students who scored the lyric drama. Tre production is an adaptation of a story by James Hurst. James Penrod, who conceived the idea for the play, is directing.
“The Exception and R u 1 e,” written by
Brecht, explores the ethics involved in the dispensation of justice. The author, who wrote his play after fleeing from the Third Reich, tells the story of the murder of a Chinese coolie by his German employer. David Ackles, John Meade and Roger Towne are in the major roles.
Moliere's “The Doctor in Spite of Himself,” will complete the bill. The satire will be directed by Robert Smart. Lennard Richmond, Susan Olm-stead and Arnold Tamon will star in the production which is about a doctor who fancies himself to be the greatest physician in the world. He prescribes bread and wine for the strange malady of a beautiful girl, but “complications” set in.
Troy Camp Opens Spots
Students interested in being counselors at next summer’s Troy Camp can still pick up applications in 301a SU and sign up for interviews, Dianne Riley, head women’s counselor, said yesterday.
The contract with Camp Buckhorn in Idyllwild was signed this weekend to enable 120 underprivileged children to enjoy a week-long adven-the ture in the mountains financed Bertolt j and operated by USC students.
will be highlighted by six per-j formances in English of Lope’s j “The Gentleman from Olme-; da,’’ (“El Caballero de Olme-j do”) in Bovard Auditorium.
The vork, to be directed byi Dr. Herbert M. Stahl, professor of drama, will be played March 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24 at 8:30 p.m. and at a special matinee on March 17 at 2 p.m. Elaborate Set An elaborate set has been designed for the production by John E. Blankenchip, associate professor of drama. The play will be produced on a large scale with authentic costumes and incidental music of the Baroque period.
Translation from the original Spanish was made by graduate students in a Lope seminar given last semester by Prof. Everett W. Hesse.
Lectures, exhibits, films, displays and concerts will also be featured during the month-long celebration.
Rare volumes on and by Lope will go on display today in Doheny Library.
Rare Editions Included in the exhibit are rare editions of his plays, including a facsimile edition of the manuscript of “La Dama Boba” signed by Lope in 1602 One entire display case in the exhibit, arranged by librarian Lewis F. Steig and Miss Sara Jo McGuire, is devoted to a biography of Lope. There are illustrations and photographs of Madrid about the year 1600, sketches of the playwright at various periods of his life, the house in which he lived and the garden in which he is reputed to have composed plays and poetry.
Various Sources Books and illustrations in the exhibit have been obtained from various sources in addition to the university collection, including libraries of Ob-erlin College, Berkeley, the Hispanic Society of America ! and the private collection of Professor Hesse.
Tomorrow an illustrated lecture on the Spanish writer will be given by Professor Hesse at 8 p.m. in 129 FH.
The activities will continue next Wednesday with showing of a Spanish movie with English sub-titles in 133 FH, and of a recent feature motion picture in color about Spain on March 14.
From March 13 to 30 an art exhibit prepared by Edward S. Peck, associate professor of fine arts, will run in the downstairs gallery of Harris Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Inquiry Board To Interview Six Hopefuls
By DAN SMITH Senate Reporter
Six biological sciences field-of-study candidates will face a board of inquiry tomorrow at 2:15 in a last ditch effort to prove their eligibility to run for ASSC offices.
The candidates were scratched by Elections Commissioner John Moyer after their eligibility was challenged last week.
ASSC president Hugh Helm said the board meeting was called because neither the accused or accusers had been able to present acceptable proof to the Election Committee.
Goldberg Protests
The candidates under question are Richard Luros, candidate for field president; Steve Klevens, vice president: and Dave Barthold, Garry Rodrid-gue, Steve Schwartz and Russell Hicks, senator.
The confusion began last week when David Goldberg, the only biological sciences senatorial candidate in the race at present, protested that the others were ineligible because they did not meet the field’s requirements outlined in its constitution.
The constitutional provision demanded that candidates for biological science field-of-study office serve in the department’s student council the semester before election.
Elections Commissioner Moyer was forced to scratch the candidates when Goldberg, president of the council, presented a letter, signed by Dr. Jay M. Savage, assistant head of biological sciences, testifying the protest was accurate.
Council Existence Hicks, who claimed no council existed, asked how he or the others could have served on it.
Hicks said that Dr. James W. Bartholomew, sponsor of the student council, had told him no council activities or meeting dates had been filed with his office.
The board will be chaired by Dean of Students Robert J. Downey and will consist of Helm; Moyer; Bob Kendal, ASSC Senate president pro-tem; Hedy Davis, chief justice of Women’s Judicial court; Mrs. Kay Chertok. Election Committee adviser; and six representatives from the University Senate.
New Conservatism' Rationalizes Values of Past, Teacher Claims
By MEL, MAXDEL
Tenets of the new conserva tive movement in America were described by a USC graduate and local high school teacher yesterday as rationalizations for the preservation of certain past values.
Richard J. Du Bois, a teacher in the Los Angeles public school system, told students and faculty members at a political science coffee hour at the YWCA that conservatism is a relative term because of the difference of opinion as to what is to he conserved.
His functional definition of new conservatism was “a rediscovery of past values which
new conservatism are that it is not an organized movement either politically or economically, but rather an academic movement; it is going in many directions; it advocates the containment of Communism
was given by the critics,” he emphasized.
Giving examples of some of the important authors labeled as new conservatives and their philosophies, he singled out Peter Viereck, who accepts the
at the same time it calls for: social reform of the “New isolation: and it advocates Deal” and feels it should be rule by an aristocratic elite of incorporated into modern Retalent and virtue, but it can-! publicanism; Clinton Rossiter, not decide on the best method'who wants the “New Deal of selection.	; frozen with an exchange of
Du Bois, who wrote a thesis public welfare for private wel-here on new conservatism, fare: Russell Kirk and Eric
pointed out that the movement Voegelin is far from a unified philosophy. The advocates of new conservatism are moving away from one another, as each has
in turn are to be freshly and i his own ideas of what it should vigorously applied to the dual include.
tasks of social preservation “The appendage or label of and innovation.”	new conservatism’ was not'
He said that the problems of ^ generally self-imposed — it
who say that the philisophical foundations of liberalism lead automatically to secularism and the police state; and William Buckley Jr. and Kirk, who want to do away with the “New Deal.” With the exception of Buckley, the other authors are all university professors.
“The one form that all the new conservatives are agreed upon is that the Judeo-Chris-tian-Greco-Roman amalgam should be conserved,” he said.
The main contribution from Judaism is monotheism and the universal applicability of
the Ten Commandments, he stated. From Christianity he
extracted the idea that man is made in the image of God, and is, therefore, divine.
Some of the qualities he said were adopted by the new conservatives were the exchange of economics as the foundation of civilization, and God, natural law and morality; the rights of society as a whole to take precedence over any individual or group; and values that are absolute — never relative.
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