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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1961
NO. 51
COLD WAR
Directors Hit Expert Compares Movie Critics
U.S. With Athens Durin«Panel
The United States stands in danger of becoming another Athens, with Russia taking the role of Sparta, Dr. Buell G. Gallagher, chancellor of California state colleges, said last change.” night.
Speaking at the opening session of the 38th annual Institute of World Affairs, Dr. Gallagher noted that the current struggle between the USSR and the United States is simi lar to the ancient conflict between Sparta and Athens.
“Spartans believed they had the truth, and knew that strange ideas from other places only caused discussion and dissension, possibly leading tc
The educator claimed such practices endangered the stability of the Spartan state.
The institute will continue today with addresses by Hilton P. Goss, George Borgstrom. Christopher Bird and Fowler Hamilton, administrator of the Agency for International De-Sparta had the original iron velopment of the State Depart-
curtain,” he said. “It was illegal for foreigners to enter the city, and trade with other nations was forbidden.
ment.
Dr. ‘ Gallagher warned last
inight that the United States,
I like Athens, is faced with an
“Likewise, commerce in ideas adament ene-my.
wTas banned,” he continued. T	. _! In foreign relations, Sparta
imade treaties when they seer.i-
jed expedient, and broke them
| when they were no longer
needed or stood in the w-ay of
her desires for conquest, he re
ported.
Moreover, the Athenians gave the Spartans a propaganda advantage of incalculable value by refusing to give tc their friends “that equality which friendship cannot endure,” he claimed.
Repl
Experts Seek Robot To Problems
An investigation to develop methods for the solution of mathematical, problems which no man could wwk in a lifetime is under way here on a high-speed electronic computer.
No Choice
The educator noted that, “By denying equality and democracy within her own borders and Even standard mathematical.^^ abandoning it in intema-processes would not get the tioal relations, Athens found
that she had but one recourse —to become like Sparta.”
would not answer because of the complexity of the problem, said Dr. Gregory Young, associate professor of electrical engi-
The Spartans made many promises to others, and con-
neering. So, he turned to the tinuouslv sought to undermine Minneapolis Honeywell model the alliances of confidence 800 electronic data processing with which an actua] or p^. system in the university's new tial enemy confronted her, Dr.
Gallagher reported.
computer science laboratory. The research in computer
“Sparta lived by her own
decision processes is sponsored moral principles,” he contin-by a $15,000 one-vear grant ued. “She was a garrison state from the U.S. Air Force and with a slave-holder’s mentali-is concerned with the opera- ty, an imperialist’s desires and tion of guided missiles and ra-ia readiness to do and says
dar systems.
whatever served Her purpose.” Try to Bury
The “ruthless imperialism"
Missiles
For example, the method of production of plasma (a sheath ;s*cmrn'nS from the Kremlin is of high energy ionized particles Planned to embrace all nations surrounding a missile or satel- anc^ eventually to bury West-
lite in flight) is being sought on the computer.
Information about plasma might disclose the launching site of enemy missiles. Plasma also interferes with radio communication with satellites and! may shield missiles from radar detection.
Mathematical equations
ern Europe and the United States, Dr. Gallagher said.
“This is a special and peculiar moment of historical decision,” he claimed. “We could do much worse than to search again for the guiding principles by which man’s duty shapes his destiny.
“Both our own survival and the future of the world which
which might explain the pro- does survive hang on the deci. duction of plasma are fed in-	we make today and in the
to the computer along with ex- ;immediate years afiead.”
perimental data. The comput-1-
er then tries all different solutions of the problem until it finds the one which agrees best with physical experiments.
Best Answers "The computer search procedure is not hit or miss,” Dr.
Young said, “but has to be organized. We want to find the optimum, or best, answer in a reasonable period of time, and it wculd be impossible with standard mathematics or by one man if he did nothing else during his entire life.”
Glee Clubs Will Meet
An authority on the Negro spiritual will be the guest speaker for the Trojan Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs tomorrow evening at 7 in the lobby of Marks Hall.
Jester Hairston, choral arranger and director, will emphasize Christmas spirituals in his lecture-demonstration.
Six famous film-makers struck out at critics of American cinema at a film symposium held on campus Thursday.
Defending the quality of Hollywood productions as compared to the currently popular art films were directors Otto Preminger, F red Zinneman, Stanley Kramer, John Frank-enheimer, Michael Gordon and Dennis Saunders.
The directors, in a panel moderated by Saturday Review film critic and associate professor of cinema Arthur Knight, looked askance at the way praise often is attached to foreign films.
Not So Sweet
Preminger, the most outspoken of the director-turned-critics, hit at the critical success of Italian-m a d e “La Dolce Vita.”
“You have taken it upon yourself to criticize an American production and then you turn around and heap accolade on accolade, trying desperately to outdo each other, on a picture like this,” he said.
“I cannot see where this film has the faintest resem blance to continuity even,” the director of the upcoming “Advise and Consent” claimed.
Kramer was less pointed in his criticism.
Definite Trend
“The young people of whatever country it might be have been pushing on with a definite trend in mind,” the director of “On the Beach” noted.
“Many times their pictures have not been finished products, but they have been driving forward with what they feel and what they see,” he continued.
Kramer noted that foreign films reflect the time and country in which they are made, economically and social-
Jy-
“Nevertheless, I am not sure whether I am impressed or not,” he added.
Money Matters
Director Frankenheimer agreed with Kramer, to the extent that he feels European films are "simply economically impossible here.”
Moderator Knight, who as a critic had to weather much of the directors’ ire, asked the panelists whether untried, original screenplays often have difficulty getting financial support in this country, in comparison to the support given proven works of art.
“Of course it is easier to get money for a picture to be made from a best seller,” Gordon, director of “Pillow Talk,” replied.
“Which would be of more value to you, a Rembrandt or a picture I have just finished painting?” he asked.
Director Kramer added, however, that the work of new artists is “a manifestation that we dare not pass off too lightly.
“These men are coming,” he reminded the panelists.
^ Bill of Goods
What might have been a worthwhile observance of Bill of Rights Week on this campus last week turned into little more than a salute to incompetence, mismanagement and petty politics.
We have to thank for this the sponsoring organization, the Greater University Committee, headed by Beverly Wilson, and its underling Bill of Rights Week Committee, beaded by Dave Meyer.
All managed to turn the week into a sham.
Most outrageous of the committee’s activities was its conduct of the Bill of Rights essav contest. The annual contest offers student winners a chance to win from $25 to $100 in savings bonds, plus a chance to compete for national recognition and prize money.
Yet the essay contest was not opened to the general student body.
Instead, the committee contacted “several” fraternity and sorority houses and asked members to enter the contest. Chairman Meyer “couldn’t remember” how many houses had been contacted nor which ones. He knew, however, that the “word” had been “spread.”
The only reason offered for the selective entry process was the committee’s “fear” that “no one would enter.”
Chairman Meyer said that he was going to ask the English department to urge students taking English classes to enter the essay contest. And he did.
After the winners had been chosen.
Case in misrepresentation Number Two: the handling of the Miss Liberty Bell contest.
There was no contest.
Announcement was made that Miss Liberty Bell had been chosen on the basis of her school activities and “her interest in the Greater University Committee.”
According to Chairman Wilson, the committee did not “have the time” to sponsor another contest — but it nevertheless felt “obligated” to name a Miss Liberty Bell.
Thus, the runner-up of a Greater University Committee-sponsored best-dressed coed contest was arbitrarily selected to reign over a. week designated as a tribute to freedom.
We need not cite any more examples.
Bill of Rights Week was turned into a child’s playtoy at a university which prides itself on its mature student body. We wanted to celebrate a Bill of Rights Week but all we got was a Bill of Goods.
WTe suggest that the university have the dignity to invalidate the results of the essay contest and refuse to enter into national competition an essay purported to be representative of the student body, but in fact representative only of petty politics.
Let’s keep our shame to ourselves.
Peace' Program Will Begin Today
PREPARATION
Girls' Day, Roses Bring Professor to Law School
If it weren’t for an unusual girls’ day assignment and three dozen red roses, the School of •Law’ might be without one of its most respected faculty members.
The unusual assignment — serving as an honorary judge on the bench of Los Angeles Juvenile Court — first fostered the dream of a high school girl that she might become an attorney.
Today, Mrs. Dorothy Wright Nelson is not only a practicing attorney but one of the few women law- faculty members in the nation.
She doesn’t worry now about how’ her male students will react to a woman law professor, but it wasn't always that way.
The red roses solved that problem.
At the end of her first semester of teaching, the male students chipped in and bought her three dozen red roses.
“The most beautiful flowers
MRS. DOROTHY NELSON
. . . roses and torts-
anyone ever gave me,” Professor Nelson says.
f years and an electee to Phi Beta Kappa.
She was graduated from the School of Law with a master’s degree in 1953. Mrs. Nelson transferred from UCLA to USC when offered an opportunity to w-ork with Prof. James Hal-brook on a research project involving the trial court system in Los Angeles.
Eventually, the results of the Halbrook research project were published, and many of the recommended changes were made.
Although her original interest in juvenile law is still evident, Professor Nelson is most active in the study of judicial administration with an emphasis on improving the mod ern court system.
Beside her academic interest in the subject, she has a small
Plan Improves New Teachers
Professor Nelson's back- law practice which she con-president at UCLA, national siders a necessary part of her president of Spurs for two!legal research experience.
By JO ANN MADRON Assistant to the Editor
A unique high school teacher preparation program, now in its second year at USC, has set two goals for itself. It looks for subject matter depth and breadth through an extra year of academic specialization and new competencies in teaching through revised professional course work.
The program, which is experimenting with an increased six-year preparatory program instead of the conventional five-year period, standard in California, is a cooperative effort among the School of Education, graduate departments, the Ford Foundation and the Los Angeles School District.
Pattern Set
“USC is setting a pattern of quality to which many others most look for improvement of their own approaches to teacher preparation,” D r. Leonard Calvert, director of the Spq-cialist-Teacher Prcgram, said.
Although there are many other post-graduate teacher preparation courses in the country, the USC program is the only one which requires two years of education beyond the bachelor’s degree, Dr. Calvert emphasized.
“Whereas the typical program in the nation seeks to maintain the status quo or to shorten the period of preparation for high school teaching, the Specialist-Teaeher Program seeks to extend the time by one full year,” Dr. Calvert said.
First of Two
The first of the two graduate years is designed to give greater subject matter depth through 24 graduate units while participating in the local school system as ?. teacher assistant for three hours daily. In the second semester of the first year, the student does one hour of student teaching each day.
During the summer the prospective teacher takes 10 units of work towards credential requirements and the master’s degree in his field.
Teaching Intern During the second year the subject matter specialist becomes a teaching intern, teaching half time the first semester and full time in the second semester.
At the end of the program, the successful candidate will have earned the university’s recommended General Secondary Credential and its “Spe-cialist-Teacher” certificate, Dr. Calvert said.
“The graduate of the Specialist-Teacher ProgTam, w h o previously had an undergradu-
ate major of 24 to 36 units in an academic subject taught in h'gh school, will have a subject field preparation of approximately 60 units,” Dr. Calvert reported.
“Ninety per cent of his six-
year program will be in content areas. The balance will be in carefully coordinated, closely related, practical, professional course work involving class-room experiences,” Dr. Calvert said.
Ford Finance
The program, vvnich is being conducted as a six-year experiment, has been financed by the Ford Foundation with the Los Angeles schools and USC taking over the financial responsibilities at various steps in the program. At then end of the six-year period, the program will be financed entirely by the schools and the university.
The 61 USC students now active in the program are also helping to determine the value o f non-professional teaching-assistants in the work of a resident classroom teacher and to determine the contribution of a teaching assistantship as an experimental frame of reference for professional courses, Dr. Calvert said.
Second Report
Conclusions drawn from the experience of the past two years in the second annual report of the program show that the program has attracted highly qualified participants, as revealed in the high Graduate Record Examination scores and the success of the present program participants in the Los Angeles schools.
Morris Tale Of Suspense' To Be Read
A beautiful princess in distress and a strong man with an opportunity to rescue her are the characters in a short story to be presented at the English Noon Reading today at 12:30 in 133 FH.
“The Lady of the Land,” which will be read by Dr. William D. Templeman, English department chairman, is a short story by William Morris taken from “The Earth Paradise,” a collection published in 1870.
Exciting, Sad
“The story takes place on an island in the eastern Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and is an exciting and suspenseful story, hauntingly sad and beautiful,” Dr. Templeman said.
“The story comes almost as if being told by a series of large and vividly-colored tapestries hung on the long walls of the great hall of a huge medieval stone castle,” he commented.
Many Talents
William Morris had a tremendously busy life working in many fine arts and in business, Dr. Templeman said. Combining the fine arts and industrial production, he founded a company which engaged in printing, carving, furniture and the metals.
Not only did he print, illustrate and bind famous books at his Kelmscott Press in the 1890’s, but also he was a noted architect, a designer of tapestries, wall paper and stained glass and the producer of the Morris chair, Dr. Templeton noted.
The university’s second “Peace Week” observance will open on campus today and will feature a series of speeches, films and debates.
The program, which is designed to emphasize the large world issues that will determine future world peace, will be highlighted by a major university convocation on Wednesday. '
A showing of “The Diary of Anne Frank’’ tomorrow night and a panel discussion and impromptu speech tournament will also be features of the Peace Week program.
Proceeds from the showing of “Anne Frank” will be donated to Dr. Albert Schweitzer by the Peace Week Committee, chairman Mike Robinson said.
Hiding From Nazis
Admission to the film, which is based on the diary of a young Jewish girl who spent two years hiding from the Nazis with her family in an Amsterdam attic, will be 50 cents.
Dr. Aurelius Morgner, associate professor of economics and international relations, will moderate a panel cn the problem of nuclear testing Thursday.
The nuclear testing panel will also feature Dr. John Cantelon, university chaplain, and Dr. Paul Saltman, associate professor of biochemistry.
Winners of an impromptu debate on the future of world peace will be announced Friday, Robinson said.
Guest Speaker
Robert T. Hartmann, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times, will be guest speaker at the all-university convocation. •
Hartmann will speak on “The New Frontier’s First Year” in Bovard Auditorium.
Robinson encouraged all students to attend the .Peace Week events, especialfy the “Anne Frank” screening.
“This film is particularly suited to Peace Week because it does an accurate job of revealing the qualities that make men human, even under the most inhuman conditions Robinson said.
The first Peace Week program was conducted last spring. Co-sponsored by the
Carnegie Foundation, the week posed some of the problems confronting world peace fcr student contemplation.
“The Peace Week program is not an attempt to save the world, but to furnish the students with some stimulating events to arouse discussion,” Robinson reported.
He said the theme of the week is “Peace on Earth . . . Now?”
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie En-d o w m e n t for International Peace in 1910 to explore the problems “involved in progressing towards a peace worthy of man’s aspirations.’
It was Carnegie’s hope that war, “the foulest blot upon our civilization,’’ would be discarded as disgraceful to civilization.
Last spring’s peace celebration was an outgrowth of the 50th anniversary of this attempt to end war by the Carnegie Endowment.
Yule Tree To Appear
USC’s madrigal singers will present a selection of seasonal carols today at noon to herald the unveiling of the first all-university Christmas tree.
The carolers will sing at the base of the 20-foot tree, which is scheduled to be placed at Childs Way and University Ave.'today.
Five hundred lights on the tree will be lit every night until Christmas, Bob Jani, coordinator of special events, said. In today’s ceremony, professional decorators will put tradition ornaments on the tree.
“We hope to make the tree an annual affair,” Jani said.
The university’s Christmas convocation will be held for the 24th time Dec. 12 in Bovard Auditorium.
Africa Shows Power Split/ Nigerian Says
North African power moves are generally ignored by Africans below the Sahara, a Nigerian labor leader said here
Friday.
E. I. Ekwerike, president of the Electrical Workers Union of Nigeria, told a class in international relations that sub-Saharan Africans have not been affected to date by “wooing” efforts of North African leaders, including Nasser cf Egypt.
One of the “three rings’’ of Nasser's “Philosophy of the Revolution” called for a united Africa, presumably with Nasser at the head, Ekwerike said.
Pressing Problems
The “ring,” however, isn't regarded as very important or significant by the non-Arabic Africans, Ekwerike explained. He said that sub-Saharan Africans are too preoccupied with the pressing nationalistic problems in the southern half of Africa to worry about the politics of Mediterranean Africa.
Nasser’s attempts to secure a pan-African economic blockade of Israel haven't met with success in southern Africa, either, Ekwerike said.
He pointed out that Africans who have not been nurtured in the Jude o-Christian-Moslem traditions have not been affected by Israeli-Arabic conflicts and do not appear ready to take any interest in them.
Xkrumah Leadership
Sub-Saharan Africans also haven't been willing to listen to Ghana’s Nkrumah, who has also made overtures to unite Africa under his leadership, Ekwerike said.
Ekwerike. who is in the United States under the auspices of the Foreign Leader Program, is a high-ranking labor leader in Nigeria. He talked before Prof. Willard A. Bel-ing's class in the diplomatic issues in the Middle East.
Official Defends Airwaves
No media of mass communication in the country’s history has been so consistently attacked by the other mass media than broadcasting, a Federal Communications Commission officer said Friday.
Commissioner Frederick W. Ford, spoke to a seminar on radio broadcasting sponsored jointly by the telecommunications department and the California Broadcasting Association, He said he was “at a loss to understand why the power of broadcasting has not been judiciously turned on its tormentors — not vindictively, but in vindication.
“It seems that writers are at liberty to call broadcasting and broadcasters any name they choose, but if one little performer strikes back, there is a yell of ‘foul’,” Ford said.
The commissioner claimed he could “see no reason why Iht
controversy and maintains a high degree of competition, particularly withir* the two arms of dual companies,” he
power of broadcasting should not be used properly to defend and explain itself.
“For a number of years, the radio and television industry | said.
has been the whipping boy of Broadcasting’s defense, the other forms of mass media,” he commissioner said, would be in claimed.	taking the position of leader-
Ford said the other media I ship which they have an obli-work to ferret out the ills and'gation and responsibility to misuses of the public broad* assume, in communities across casting facilities.	; the country.
“In my view, no other media j “Moreover, I see no reason have ever attained the creditiwhy broadcast stations should with the public for accuracy not take a position on political and integrity that, with all its matters, as has recently oc-faults, broadcasting has attain- curred in New York, New Hav-ed,” he said.	en anc* perhaps other cities,” he
The commissioner pointed out said, that this was probably one rea- Ford noted that there are son that the other media in certain callings which do not such numbers seek broadcast lend themselves to public con-prcperties and yet continue to cern and broadcasting is cne of
attack broadcasting.
“Perhaps this is not without some benefit, for it keeps broad-
them.
“The public should care what opinion its stations hold on pub-
casters on their toes, promotes j lie issues, and the stations
should report the facts on those issues.
The commissioner claimed that this country can no longer afford to have a sterile broadcasting industry “from the point of view of community thoughf, action and controversy.
“Broadcasters have been given a valuable government resource to serve all of the interests of the community, including political, social and economic interests as well^as entertainment,” he claimed.
“There is no other mass media that can compete with you in community leadership if you aggressively seek that leadership,” he told the broadcasters.
“This is true because no other media can concentrate the attention of so high a percentage of the population on any given issue,” Ford said.