Southern Oali-fornîa
SUMMER TROJAN
VOl. VIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1958
NO. 11
Schools Better Despite Critics Says Educator
Modern educe out a superior the tremendous rollment. Dr. J. stone, director
lion is turning product despite increases in en-Wayne Wright-of New York of Educational ie Faculty Club
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ntemporary due to the s of self ap-of our educa-
said.
the United States increased in all ; in the public pointed out by oved scores on exams compar-vears ago,” he
City's Bureau Research, told t Wednesday.
“Criticisms o schools are lar^ irresi>onsible won [♦•»infed guardians tional system,” h€
“Throughout intelligence has i fields of learning sch«jols. This is the greatly impr college entrance ed to those ol said.
Blaine, blame, Blame
“Still tiie businesses blame the colleges, the colleges blame the high scnoois anc tne high schools blame tlie grammar scnoois for modern eciucatioii s lailure to measure up to that of earlier years, he said.
Wrightstone then quoted Will Rogers wno said "me schools ain t like they used to be and probably never v*as.
People look back at the schools of tneir youtn with more nostalgia tiu*n accuracy, Wrightstone pointed out. This is probably why so many parents have the idea that modern education is not as good as that they had in the twenties.
“Actually it is much better,” Wrightstone said. “The materials and methods of education have been much improved and expanded.
Three R's
“The teaching an learning of the • students is more effective than before. The three R’s are also taught with greater effectiveness."
“For example the average scores in reading in our high schools have risen from the sixth to the ninth grade level in just a decade or so.“
Overall the pupils and parents of today are much better educated than they have ever been before, he declared.
Wrightstone is currently a Consultant to the Educational Testing Service in Princton, New Jersey, and has just completed
Big Post Session Enrollment Seen
More than 3000 students are expected to enroll Monday in SC’s annual four-week post session.
Registration, being held in Owens Annex, 836 W. 36th St., began this morning at 8:30 and will continue until 4:30 this afternoon. Students may also enroll at the same
--- time intervals tomorrow and
Test Pilot Orbits in SC's Centrifuge Test
A North American test pilot, weighing 1320 pounds, found himself being rushed through space at a speed of more than 18,000 m.p.h. yesterday while seated in the cockpit of SC’s centrifuge.
The unique, 350-second flight into a simulated orbit around the earth forced North American pilot A1 Blackburn backward into his seat with
I Monday.
Attendance Grows
Nearly 7000 students attended the six weeks summer session which ends today. This enrollment exceeded last year’s by 200, reported Summer School Dean John D. Cooke.
The fee for the post session is the same as that of the summer session : $21 per unit. Teachers, however, who show the proper identification, and are registrating for four or more units, will only pay $19 per unit.
Workshop Highl iglit
The August month of classes will be highlighted by a workshop in intercultural and intergroup relations, to be conducted August 11-28 for the SC School of Education by Gertrude Noar of New York City. Miss Noar, who is the national director of education for the anti-defama-
a force of eight transverse G pressure thus increasing his weight nearly nine times.
He is believed to be the first flier ever to undergo the full, three-stage acceleration pressure test of human reactions in the SC test chamber which is located behind the School of Medicine.
The experiment, which came close to choking him with suffocating reaction tested him both mentally and physically— to the transverse G pressure of hypersonic rocket flight.
As the cockpit raced around, the TV pictured Blackburn apparently attempting to writhe a bit to ease the weight on his chest. He gasped from time to time.
At the close of the run when he would have been in orbit, Blackburn rolled his shoulders and pressed both hands to his chest. A long sigh escaped him as he wiped sweat from his brow.
“It’s like an iron band
he
Test For Air Force
SC is currently running one squeezed around your chest,’
said. “It’s gets tighter and tight-
an eignt year term as Chairman of the Research and Development Committee of the College Entrance Examination Boa rd.
He received his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M A. from New York University and his Ph.D from Columbia.
Official
Not icc
Veterans attending under P. It. 550 are reminded that the attendance forms for the first fi\e weeks, and the Six-week session are available in the Office of Veteran Affairs, Commons Basement. The completed form, signed by your instructors, is due back to Veteran Affairs between July SI. 1958 and August 6, 1958. Flora K. Willett, Assistant Registrar
of the nation’s initial test programs on transverse G for the Air Force. The centrifuge is whirling daily to come up with answers in this project, supervised by SC medical professor Dr. John P. Meehan, Richard Kaehler, engineering psychologist and psychologist Wilbert Brandt.
In the cockpit as Blackburn rode it yesterday were four control consoles, one in front of the pilot, one in front above his head, another at his lower left side and a fourth at his left shoulder.
Each had five controls, a knob, a trim tab, a switch, a wheel and a button, with lights I operating in connection with i each control.
Strapped Controls
Blackburn was required to I operate the controls with the left hand, on the theory he would normally be holding a control stick in his right hand.
Strapped to his left leg was a small signal box on which he rested his left hand.
When a light flashed he was required to lift his hand off the box, reach out and grasp the indicated control and actuate it.
The SC centrifuge can deliver 20 Gs and has been tested to 12 (positive G) with human subjects.
The L.A. Times and KTTV, I the Times-Mirror television sta- | tion, were permitted to install cameras on the spinning centrifuge and watch Blackburn’s re-f actions.
er and there’s nothing you can do about it. You take little, quick breaths, then finally it’s rough breathing at all.”
Panicky Feeling
“There’s a panickly sort of choking feeling, a fullness in the throat I can’t describe, like when you’re under water too long and taking too long to reach the surface.”
Blackburn is a widely-known test pilot who conducted the zero-launch trials of North American’s F-100 Super Sabre. He purposely asked for a space flight that would be more rug ged than the force he would be subjected to in a minimal orbital launch.
He was tested on all controls of each console during all stages of his 350-second flight by Ken Wight, an SC medical student who is one of several regular student subjects in the centrifugal research program.
Space Studies Surge
Not until the recent surge of space studies was transverse G given much heed, for there was no craft that could produce such strains on a pilot and no great likelihood that humans would be called upon to undergo them.
The advent of space technology has brought transverse gravity pressure into the forefront of human factor studies, for too little is known of its effects on the human mind and bodv.
Poetry Group To Give Voice Verse Reading
Selections from Ann Stanford's “Magellan: A Poem to be Read by Several Voices,” will be presented by the Carousel Poetry Theater Thursday, 2:15 p.m. in 133 FH.
The Carousel Poetry Theater, under the direction of Jacobina Caro, a drama coach, grew out of Miss Stanford’s wishes that someone besides herself read her poems. Their initial presentation of “Magellan” was so successful they have been askd by the Chapparal Poets to repeat it and to continue with other dramatic readings.
Publishes Poetry Miss Stanford, who received her BA at Stanford University i and her MA at UCLA, has pub-i lished two other books of poe-| try.
In Narrow Bound and The White Bird have been contribut- ; ed to several literary quarterlies, including the ‘‘Sewanee Review,”
“Poetry Magazine of Verse” and the “Hudson Review.” Miss Stanford also has lectured at the San Francisco Poetry Center
and at Poetry of Los Angeles.
Last year she received a fellowship to Yaddo, a writer’s colony in up-state New York.
Dance Director Jacobina Caro, the director, was formerly head of the dramatic movement of Actors Laboratory. Prior to that she was a modern interpretive professional dancer. She has had several dire c t i o n assignments, among them “The Tender Trap” for Rancho Playhouse.
In addition to her current i work with the Carousel Poetry Theater, she is a drama coach and has classes at the Holly- (jurjng the post session is due wood Center Theater. Readers	highly	concentrated	work
; doing “Magellan” include Mi | chael Hughes, Carl Brant Max Allen and Edmund Teske.
SC Medical School Receives Study Grant
A $38,000 grant for heart research at Childrens Hospital and the SC School of Medicine was announced yesterday by the Los Angeles County Heart Assn.
Childrens Hospital is the headquarters for the department of pediatrics of the medical school, and affords outstanding facilities for the care of children.
SC faculty members in the medical school who will be supported by the grant include Drs.
Richard S. Cosby, associate clinical professor of medicine; Yale J. Katz, associate professor of medicine; Helen E.. Martin, professor of medicine, and John P.
Meehan, associate professor of physiology.
The County Heart Assn. j granted $165,770.40 in all to sup- j port heart research at local medical schools and hospitals. j
tion league of B’nai B’rith, will be assisted by Dr. Fannie Shaf-tel of Stanford University; Dr. C. C. Trillingham, county school superintendent and Dr. Ralph Tyler, director of the Center for advanced study in the behavioral sciences at Palo Alto.
Lacks Activities Dean Cooke mentioned that the lack of campus activities
required during the four weeks.
“I am gratified to the weatherman for the wonderful weather he has given us,” Dean Cooke said. “I think we’ve had an interesting and smoothly running summer session. I’m glad that the lectures and the activities of the University Recreation Association have been so well attended.
“I hope to see most of you in the post session, and all of you in the post session, and all of you again next summer.” he
declared.
Official
Notice
Students who expect to complete requirements for slegrees in either Summer Session should check with the Senior Department in the Registrar’s Office.
H. W. Patmore
Registrar