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AWED SCHOLARS — Taking time out from a busy class schedule at the University of Cambridge last summer, Bernard Weiner and Virginia Gubin, USC students, were able to visit some famous Cambridge coljeges. In the background is the Kings College chapel. The two students were among 18 Americans who attend the English school. Others included Jon Barrett, Hugh Bcbys, James Caleshu, Chapman Cox, Jack Faulkner, Michael Guhin, AAaryalice Herrick, Harry Horner, Stephen Imhcfi-, Jean Croeger, Joan Robinson, John Trammell, Robert Weiner, Janet Nelson Whitcomb and Mary Bee Young. Session was condensed.
Professors Praise Kennedy Speech
By DICK CAROT -ERS
President Kennedy’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday was a clear cut, direct and forceful statement of a firm American policy, a poll of USC faculty members revealed.
Political Science Professor Carl Q. Christol, history instructor Joseph Boskin and Episcopal Chaplain Michae, Hamilton all believed that the President's stand was a turn in the right direction for world peace.
The President claimed in his message that the United States would defend Berlin and the rights of all peoples by force of nuclear weapons, if necessary.
Disarmament Proposal
A major part of the President's speech concerned a proposal for world disarmament that called for immediate banning of nuclear testing and self-determination of all peoples.
Delegates who attended the meeting felt the speech was an impressive plea for international cooperation to keep peace as well as a statement of principles for peace, freedom and self-determination.
Representatives of the Communist countries, who were cool throughout the proceeding, refused to comment on the President's pointed remarks.
Dr. Christol saw the speech as a “tremendous appeal” to the new nations of the world to stand for a cause of right and justice as provided o r in the United Nations charter.
Dr. Boskin claimed that the President's position has put the
Six Physicists Give Papers On Continent
Six faculty members of the physics department are back on campus after attending three international scientific meetings.
Dr. Gerhard L. Weissler, chief Investigator of the nuclear physics laboratory which houses a 32-million-volt linear accelerator, presented research papers at the 5th International conference on Ionization Phenomena at Munich, Germany, and a plasma conference at Salzburg, Austria, early this month.
The Rutherford jubilee conference on Nuclear Structure at Manchester, England, also held early this month, was attended by Drs. John S. Nodvik, Harriet Forster and Charles N. Waddell, all of whom read research papers.
The Rutherford conference
honored the late Dr. Ernest Rutherford, Br!t:sh physicist who won a Nobel	in chemistry
in 190s, created the mcuern theory of radioactivity and first named alpha and beta rays.
Cambridge Lives Within Echo of Past
(Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of three articles discussing the University of Cambridge summer session attended by 18 USC students this year. Miss Madron was one of USC’s representatives to the session.)
By JO ANN MADRON Assistant to the Editor
Although surrounded by tradition and steeped in the ways of the past, Cambridge has still been able to preserve an intellectual atmosphere for the past seven centuries.
The English people are acutely aware of anything that may be associated with tradition, such as royalty, but they are cautious about the use of tradition. They are aware that for progress some of the old ways must go, but they are torn between the old and the new.
Cambridge reflects many cf the feelings of the English. Even as progress is made with scientific dis-
coveries many old traditions are still held over from medieval periods of history.
The traditions appear readily in the college life. For instance, the masters and tutors of the colleges still take their honored places on the dais at the head of the dining halls. All undergraduate fellows must live in the colleges and each college has certain lock-out hours, usually before midnight.
The most noticeable example concerns the academic gowns worn by all university fellows. A complete set of rules about what can and cannot be worn with the gowns is familiar to every student. For example, no head covering of any kind can be worn with the garb.
The gowns are required for university classes, evening meals in the college dining halls and street wear.
The special dress is also a way to distinguish the
Cambridge fellow from the ordinary Cambridge citizen. A very definite class system exists in the small university town where the masters of the colleges are in the highest class, followed by the graduate fellows, undergraduate fellows and then the towns people.
Even among the citizens themselves, there exists a definite traditional class system which can be traced throughout Great Britain. The system today is dependent not so much on wealth as on education. Of course in many cases when a person has wealth, it becomes a small matter to receive a good education.
Oxford and Cambridge graduates, without considering nobility, appear to form the upper class. Moving down the ladder one will find the highly educated who have attended the modem universities such as London, Manchester and Ediburgh.
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neutralists on our side and has forced the Russian’s to the defensive.
“Kennedy would hold the Russians responsible for all actions of the East Berliners regardless of whether or not a Russian-sponsored separate peace treaty is signed," he said.
The Rev. Mr. Hamilton said that the Presiuent, in his identification of self-survival in the face of nuclear war, has brought to focus the only remaining basis for the negotiation of the East - West political issues.
Xutflear Paradox
“It is a paradox that the nuclear bombs are to us in the West both a threat to our long I and hard won civilization, and j also our only defense against the armies of superior hostile conventional forces,” he said.
Delegates in the jam-packed j UN assembly hall interrupted i the President's speech six times with applause and ended with a 45-second ovation.
The heaviest applause came when the President pledged that “we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression, that we shall neither flee nor invoke the threat of force, and that wre shall never negotiate out of i'ear and we shall never fear to ne-| gotiate.”
Artificial Crisis
Dr. Christol pointed out that the Berlin crisis has been artificially manufactured by the Ruisians to keep the world in conflict so they can advance their goals by reason of the very chaos they have created.
“T h e President insisted that negotiations on Berlin and orher j problems could be resolved i peacefully if the Russians would approach the problems with I gcod will," he said.
In flatly rejecting Russia’s j ''Troika'’ plan of three secretaries - general, each with veto i power, to succeed the late Sec-| retary General Dag Hammarskjold, the President said the t “Troika” would replace “order ( with anarchy, action with paral-: ysis and confidence with confusion.
Diminished Authority
“Diminish the secretary general's authority and you diminish the authority of the only body where all nations, regard-j less of power, are equal and ' sovereign,” President Kennedy said. “Until all the powerful are just, the weak will be secure only in the strength of this een-eral assembly.”
Dr. Christol noted that President Kennedy's speech was aimed at not only the Russians and the uncommitted peoples, but also the American people.
“I believe Mr. Kennedy was also speaking to those Ameri-| cans who have felt his policy up to this time ineffectual, es-I pecially in the areas of international affaii-s.” he said.
He went on to sa5r that it was a very d:rect. and cle«r-cut talk in which the United States i	(Continued on Page 2)
Groups Offer Many Grants To Scholars
Scholarships in many fields of academic pursuit are currently being offered to all university students.
Among the more well known grants being offered are the Rhodes, Marshall and Danforth scholarships.
Fellowships for university women, wrhich are available to students who have either gotten their degree or are juniors or seniors, are also being offered.
Approximately 100 Danforth fellowships are available to candidates from accredited colleges and universities in the United States who are male seniors or recent graduates and who are interested in a career of teaching, counseling, or administrative w-ork at college level.
Intellectual Promise
The applicant will be judged on intellectual promise, personality, integrity and genuine interest in religion and potential for effective college teaching. Applications are being distributed by Dean Warren in 200 Adm.
The Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University is also open to male citizens of the United States between the ages of 18 and 24 who have junior standing and an “A” average.
Applicants will be judged on literary and scholastic abilities, attainments, character leadership and an interest in sports. Deadline for applications, which are being distributed by Dr. John E. Cantelon, university chaplain in 212 SU, is Nov. 1.
Rated High
The Marshall Scholarshio is rated higher than any other award an American can win for study abroad. Four of these scholarships are being offered to men and women in the Western states who are under 26 years of age and who wrill have earned a degree by fall of 1962.
Applications are to be filed by October to Basil Bleck, information officer for the British Consulate-General, 3324 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.
PSYCHOLOGIST TO VIEW RACIAL RELATIONSHIPS
Racial relationships between Africans and Europeans will be the topic of a discussion tomorrow afternoon at 3:15 in 129 FH by a visiting African psychologist.
Professor Cyril Rogers, for the past year of the University of Rhodesia, has been studying these racial problems in Jamaica. Before that he taught for five years in Africa, during w'hich time he did intensive research on this subject.
While in this country, Dr. Rogers h.as been working with the Carnegie Foundation on problems of African research centers that are in some of the larger universities and colleges in the United States.
These centers teach university students who are interested in Africa courses on its history and its newly acquired problems.
Formerly of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, Dr. Rogers received his doctorate at the University of London in the early 1950s.
Cabinet to Consider Elections Ordinance
An ordinance to insure smooth running election lines will be introduced at the Executive Cabinet meeting tonight at 7 in the Senate Chambers, 301 SU, ASSC President Hugh Helm said yesterday.
The ordinance has been prepared to make more definite a section on election procedures in the recently passed Elections Code. It will direct the Elections Committee to prepare a voting procedure that will prevent possible tie-ups in the voting lines, Helm said.
Possible slow'ness in the election procedure that could discourage many students from ! voting was seen as a defect in the code by both the Cabinet | and the Senate, although both 1 bodies passed it last week with unanimous votes.
Neither group felt that the possibility of repeating the long ! waiting lines experienced during last year’s election wTas an im-j portant enough aspect to cause :veto of the code, j Final plans for the Student
Leader Conference at Camp Hess Kramer will also be presented at the cabinet meeting.
ASSC Vice President Sue McBurney, who is coordinating the conference, said that arrangements have been made for 70 ASSC leaders to attend the one-day conference, which will be held Oct. 14.
The conference will attempt to help the students recognize and realistically solve inter-organizational and student problems, Mrs. McBurney said.
Areas planned for discussion include possible ASSC help in forming car pools for commuters, integration cf new students into campus life, financial programs for the classes and improving communication between the ASSC and the students, she noted.
Free admission passes to the SMU-USC football game for newly arrived Congolese students will also be requested at the meeting. First reports from three ASSC departments will also be heard.
Paul Saltman To Lecture on Plant Process
By PONCHITTA PIERCE
An explanation of the way mechanisms move in and out of biological systems will be given this afternoon at 4:15 in 352 Sci. by Dr. Paul D. Saltzman, associate professor of biochemistry and nutrition.
Using the genus of plants known as Nitella for his model, Dr. Saltman will discuss “Ion Transport in Nitella.” The talk will be based on his findings this summer at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he did research w'hile on sabbatical leave from USC.
“Our major discovery was the location of pumps in various sections of the cell,” Dr. Saltman said. “We pin-pointed three pumps which serve to pump chloride into the cell and sodium out of the cell by using light energy.”
Pump in Membrane
The first pump, which moves chloride into the cell is located in the plasmalemma between the cell wall and the row of choro-plast§. The second pump, which takes sodium out of the cell, is also located in the plasmalemma, Dr. Saltman explained, an interrelation between the two has not been established.
A third pump, located in the chloroplasts, pumps the sodium out of the chloroplasts and keeps it in the cytoplasm.
This afternoon Dr. Saltman will use the Nitella to explain the pump system because of its size. The Nitella is about 10 centimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters in diameter.
Compares Education
While doing research in Copenhagen, Dr. Saltman also had an opportunity to compare American and European scientific education. Making the comparison. Dr. Saltman said that the American form of education produces more freedom of thought and a spirit of inquiry.
“We are much better off in science,” he claimed. The atti-(Continued on Page 2)
National Foundation Makes Fund Award
A $75,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation to assist in the operation of USC’s computer sciences laboratory during the next three years was aji-nounced yesterday by President Topping.
The money will be released periodically to the university when Dr. Robert R. Brown,
Quiz Starts For Students Seeking Posts
Interviewing of student applicants for more than 500 positions on 20 ASSC committees begem on schedule yesterday, although the deadline for petitioning was extended to Friday.
Personnel Committee Chairman Len Biel said that the interviews will be conducted all week and that new applicants will be added to the interview list as their petitions are received.
Petitioning, originally slated to close last Friday, was extended by Biel to give new fraternity and sorority pledges a chance to apply for membership. He called service on an ASSC committee “one of the finest ways for a new student to serve his university.'*
The interviews are being conducted by Biel and the personnel committee as well as by the chairmen of each of the committees daily from 1 to 3 in the Student Lounge. Applications are being distributed in the services office, 301a SU.
Openings on the 20 committees are in the six divisions of student activities, student affairs, student services, public relations, general service and student organizations.
“We feel that we have a committee that will provide an outlet for the interests of every student,” Biel noted.
Committees still seeking members are homecoming, Songfest, special events, orientation, rally and the foreign student committees.
LBJ Seeks Christol Aid on Corps
A personal invitation from the Vice President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, has been extended to a USC professor to attend tomorrow’s Peace Corps Conference at the Hunt-ington-Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena.
Dr. Carl Q. Christol, head of the political science department, said that he received the letter from the Vice President urging him to generate interest among students in the work of the Corps.
“Vice President Johnson wanted me to be present at the conference so I could communicate to the public through media such as the Daily Trojan the nature of the Peace Corps and what it has accomplished,” Dr. Christol said.
The conference, the first of 13 such regional explanatory events, is being sponsored by USC.
Dr. Rodger Swearingen, direc-
DR. RODGER SWEARINGEN
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tor of Soviet-Asian Studies Center and international relations professor, will act as chairman of the official host committee
that will include some of the Southland’s leading dignitaries.
Among leaders scheduled to attend are Mayor C. Lewis Edwards of Pasadena: Irwin L. Deshetler, assistant regional director for AFL-CIO; Walter P. Coombs, executive director of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council; Dr. Paul Hadley, USC dean of the summer session and executive secretary of USCs Institute of World Affairs: and other prominent representatives of education, business and industry-
The conference, open to the public, is designed to bring firsthand information on the Peace Corps to the groups and individuals in attendance.
Principal speaker will be Warren W. Wiggins, associate director of the Peace Corps for program and development operations who will officially represent Sargent Shriver, corps director.
DR. CARL Q. CHRISTOL
. . . special invitation
Potential Peace Corps recruits and those just interested in learning more about the organization are urged to attend.
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Registration for the conference will be held today from 3 to 8 and tomorrow from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the hotel prior to the formal opening of the conference by Dr. Swearingen at the 9:30 a.m. deadline.
There will be no registration fee for students, and only a nom- j inal charge for non-students.
Those interested in attending for the luncheon tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. should make arrange-ments at the Huntington-Shera-:on Hotel immediately upon ar-rival.
After the welcoming address j by Dr. Swearingen, a symposium • on “The Peace Corps in Opera- • tion” will be conducted from | 9:50 to 12:15.
Among the topics to be discussed at the symposium include recruitment and methods of selection; training sites and programs; and overseas support.
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director of the computer center, and a faculty committee notify the foundation that funds are needed.
The S2-million computer center at 1010 W. Jefferson Blvd., at the northwest comer of the campus, has been in operation since this summer, when a Rerrungton-Rand Uni vac Solid-State 80 computer was installed by its manufacturer.
Installation Continuing
Minneapolis-Honeywell presently is installing its model 800 electronic data processing system, which is expected to be-ready for operation in a month or so.
Formal dedication of the computer sciences laboratory may take place some time in the fall or shortly after the first of the year.
The center is to be used by professors and graduate students in business, engineering, medicine and the physical and social sciences for scientific research projects. Remington-Rand and Minneapolis-Honeywell will also use the installation for training and educational purposes.
Financial Assistance
Each participating company has also assisted the university fmanically in remodeling of the building the university bought to house the computer sciences laboratory.
The USC facility is unique in that it is believed to be the only one of its kind in the United States in which two computer manufacturing companies have installed their most modern highspeed equipment in the same building.
Remington-Rand's Uni vac 80 can perform 11,760 additions or subtractions a second. Other equipment in the complex punches cards, sorts and reads them and prints information from them at 600 lines per minute.
Eight Jobs
Minneapolis-Honeywell's model 800 will be able to do eight different jobs at once at lightning speed. It can handle 1.67 million characters — numbers and letters — per second in record-sorting and merging and file maintenance operation and can average 40,000 additions and subtractions a second, or 6,200 multiplications.
Dr. Brown, who was appointed director of the computer facility this summer, has a master's degree in mathematics from USC and his doctorate in math from UCLA. He also holds an appointment as associate professor of mathematics at USC.
He was a computer scientist with International Business Machines Corp. eight years before accepting the directorship of the campus computer center.
Business and engineering classes in the use of computers will be expanded on the campus, and courses in the application of computers in medicine, public administration, social work, sociology, chemistry and physics are planned.