University of Southern California
VOL. LVm	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1966	NO. 12
Dial-a-Class plan promises easy, no-lines registration
HIGH JUMPER LEW HOYT IN MARINE GARB Graduated first in a class of 500 platoon leaders
High-jump star graduates 1st in Marine officer class
High-jumper Lew Hoyt graduated first in a class of 500 Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class candidates at Quantico. Va.. this summer.
Hovt. 3 senioi from San Gabriel.
Speech on
Wagner scheduled
A percussion recital and a lecture or. the Wagner Music Festival will highlight the School of Music's activities this week.
' Parry Silverman will perform for his Bachelor of Music degree in a recital tonight at K:30 in Hancock Auditorium.
The audience will hear “Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion." ‘Toccata for Percussion Instruments." ‘‘Introduction and Tarantella for Marimba." ''Inspirations Dia-b^lique for Percussion Solo." and “Courante No. 2 for Percussion Alcne.”
Accompanying Silverman will be Jay Kohorn. Margaret Butte, pianists; Karen Jackson. Phillip Lehrman, James Quinn. Eric Remsen. and David Scffinger. percussionists: William Kraft, conducting.
While working for his degree. Silverman has been teaching music tat Millikan High School in Long Beach.
Michael Tilson Thomas, a music student, will give a lecture on “Bayreuth-1966" tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium.
Thomas went to the annual Wagner Music Festival at Bayreauth. Germany. this summer as a student and spectator. He was soon hired as an active performer, working as a pianist and conductor.
received the Col. Phil Yeckel Award, an engraved gold wristwatch for establishing the best record in leadership and academic standing in the
class.
The ten-week program included courses in military tactics, military law. history and tradition of the Marines and first aid.
As a high-jumper on USC's track team, he won the NCAA championship as a sophomore. He has an all time best of 7-0'
After graduation. Hoyt will receive a commission as a second lieutenant in the Marines and begin a three-year assignment.
Other USC students participating in the Marine program were Robert A. Johnson, Walter M. Haas and Sherwood J. Egbert.
Post Office, book service chcmqe hours
Two campus services are available to students during the following
hours:
The Reading and Copying Room in Doheny Library is nowr open from
6	to 10 p.m. during the week, and
8	a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
The World Affairs Library Copying Room, opened Wednesday, will operate during regular library hours for the copying of world affairs and science books.
U.S Post Office hours are from
9	a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday for general student and university personnel use. Departmental mail is processed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
The Post Office is located at 926 W. 35th St.
AT BOVARD MONDAY
Cynic Sahl's latest raps to be put on student trial
Mort Sahl. noted cynic, critic and comedian, will perform in Bovard Auditorium Monday night.
The special performance at 8 p.m. was arranged by the ASSC. Tickets are available for Si in the Student Activities Office at the YWCA. 857 W. 36th Place.
The USC student body will act as a test audience for material for Sahl's new record which will be released next Spring.
Topics which Sahl is expected to hit include the California election, the Vietnam war and other national, social and political problems.
The performance is open to anyone, but students have first priority for tickets, said Clive Grafton, director of student activities.
Sahl received a B.S. degree from USC and did graduate work in public administration here before turning to work in night clubs as a comedian.
His first successful engagement was at the hungry i in San Francisco, lasting for over two years.
Since then he appeared as an emcee at the 1959 Academy Awards, was an accredited correspondent to President Dwight Eisenhower’s press conference,wrote speeches for John F.
By JON KOTLER
Registration without lines?
Telephoning for your classes?
No. this isn’t the registration procedures at a utopian university. This is the prospect for USC students in the near future, thanks to a revolutionary system of computerized registration known as Dial-a-Class, which is now being used successfully at Indiana University.
Rather than the lines and delays now facing class-seekers, registration would be turned into a three-minute operation per student. And students could enroll from many miles away.
LESS EFFORT
“Dial-a class gets students registered faster and with less effort on everyone's part,” Mark Frazin, assistant registrar, said.
‘And instead of wasting many minutes standing in line, the worse thing that could happen with this system is that the student would get a busy signal,” he added.
The Dial-a-Class system works like this: after conferring with his faculty adviser, the student phones the registrar's office at his scheduled time.
He gives the list of classes he wants to a girl in the office who types them into a terminal unit which
is connected by telephone wires directly to a master computer.
The computer then sends back a visual response on the availability of the classes and flashes the information onto television-like screens of the computer terminal units in the registrar’s office.
The terminal units are similar to those being used by various airlines to determine the availability of seats on flights. Initially, T)ial-a-Class would make its debut at USC with 15 of these video-response units.
"Eventually, the computer will be able to suggest optional alternate class schedules if the desired classes are filed. But in the beginning, we’ll probably only use the computer to tell which classes are open or closed," Frazin said.
When this plan becomes reality, all returning students will be required to pre-register. But instead of being given certain days on which to pick up registration materials, as is now the practice, students will be given times to phone for classes.
This can be done in either of three ways: by class, with seniors having first choice, followed by juniors; by alphabet, alternating different segments of the alphabet, as is done now; or by grade point average. those students with the best averages going first.
Students need not be on campus at their apointed phone-times. In fact, at Indiana this summer, students registered for classes by phone from as far away as Hawaii.
Frazin said studies are now underway to determine the costs of such a system, and that it seems as if Dial-a-Class won't cost any more than the registration system we are presently using.
‘‘We’ve been working on this new plan for more than six months.” Frazin said, “and when we re finished, the university will have a registration system similar to, but more refined than, Indiana's.”
And Indiana was able to register 18,000 students by telephone during a three-week registration period last per student during this period was 2.8 minutes.
Library dean to tour Vietnam universities
Dr. Martha Boaz. dean of the School of Library Science, has been drafted by the State Department for a six-week tour of duty in South Vietnam.
She will soon leave for Vietnam at the request of the Cultural Affairs Office of the State Department to deliver a series of lectures on library science at Vietnamese universities. After a two-day briefing in Washington, Dr. Boaz will jet directly to Saigon to begin her lectures.
She plans to present several lectures a day with approximately 60 teachers and librarians attending each lecture. In addition. Dr. Boaz will act as adviser and consultant to Vietnamese librarians.
"I will visit as many Vietnamese universities as safety and accessibility will permit,” Dr. Boaz said.
Dr. Boaz expressed both excitement and apprehension over her up-
coming trip. “The trip will naturally be interesting and exciting, but the element of danger will be ever present,” she said. “Who knows, the whole place could be bombed.”
JUST PICK UP A PHONE AND REGISTER That's how easy it will all soon be
STUDENTS JOIN SAILORS
Study-at-sea program draws two
John Roos. a junior in history, and Thomas Zink, a sophomore in education, will participate in a voyage of discovery aboard Holland - America Line's SS Ryndam. the new floating campus of Chapman College.
Chapman, one of California's oldest colleges, is located in Orange. Calif, and offers a liberal arts pro-
Outside USC
WORLD
Kennedy and did specials for NBC and BBC.
He now has h»s own hour and-a-half television sho v on Friday nights on KTTV.
Sahl has said ho feels it is necessary to laugh at tho thi-i-s we take most seriously. “After all, the country you save may be your own.”
MORT SAHL Campus cynic
SAIGON — American cavalrymen and helicopter gunships chased a battered Communist force from the central mountains into open country w'here they systematically shredded the Red ranks in a sweep that killed at least 271 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars.
Meanwhile North Vietnam said Soviet military aid and know - how have enabled its forces to shoot down “almost 1.500 American planes in the air war against North Vietnam.”
NEW DELHI. INDIA — Communist Chinese troops and nationals have intruded into Bhutan territory several times in the past six months, a Toan Indian protest note to China said Monday.
It was the first time India had -'ccused China of intrusions into Bhutan since the Sino-Indian border dispute started there nine years ago.
TI’NTS — Tunisia formally severed diplomatic relations with the United Arab Reoublic Monday, climaxing a bitter 20-month dispute between the two Arab nations over how to handle the explosive Israel problem.
Tunisian President Habib Bour-guiba and U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nassar have been at odds for years over the Israeli question and other problems.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON — Former President Eisenhower said yesterday that he would not eliminate the use of nuclear weapons t© end the war in Vietnam.
He stressed that no one outside tlie administration could decide what tactics or weapons should be used.
NEW YORK — A group seeking to save the old Metropolitan Opera House from destruction won a round in court Monday when they obtained a stay of demolition of the building.
gram for both undergraduate and graduate students.
College facilities aboard the ship include 14 classrooms, a modern science laboratory, an oceanography laboratory, a 10.000 volume library, a 280-seat theater and a completely-staffed hospital.
The curriculum parallels that offered on the land-based campus; however, the program correlates the courses with the scheduled itinerary in an attempt to ready students for a knowledgable exploration of the various ports-of-call.
In addition to the faculty and administrators from Chapman College. a number of academic leaders from colleges, universities and research organizations around the world will board the ship.
This is the second year of the study-at sea program. As many as
600 college every state
students from nearly will depart from New York this month for a semester of learning at sea aboard the SS Ryndam.
Football tor mom and pop
The USC-Washington football game, entertainment, a buffet dinnpr and the martial strains of the Trojan Marching Band will highlight the 1966 Parents’ Night Oct. 8.
There will be a dinner for parents and students at 5:30 p.m. in Alumni Park, after which the Trojan Marching Band and the Trojan Horse will lead the parade of guests to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the game.
LOCAL
LOS ANGELES — Don Drysdale. despite his poorest season, has received Dodger Manager Walt Alston’s call as the starting pitcher of the World Searies which opens Wednesday in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES — Negotiations for a Brown-Regan television debate have collapsed amid accusations from both parties.
Regan’s state chairman accuses the governor’s forces of failing to respond to a compromise plan while Rrown's campaign manager says the Republican’s statement was “the last gasp of a fading campaign.”
LOS ANGELES — A skyful of baloons over California State College at Los Angeles today marked the opening of a week-long political forum on the campus.
The week’s activities will include speeches by many of the candidates seeking election in November.
LOS ANGELES — City School Superintendent Jack P. Crowther was granted a leave of absence today for at least a month due to back trouble.
Dr. Louise Seyler was named acting superintendent by Board of Education President Dr. Ralph Richardson.
Hackford names successor for ailing representative
Tugrul Aladag, an economics honor student from Turkey, has been appointed to the office of foreign stu-dent representative to the ASSC Execuive Council during the first semester.
He will replace the elected representative, Abdul Elsadhan from Saudi
TUGRUL ALADAG New representative
Arabia, who is temporarily unable to serve because of poor health.
Taylor Hackford. ASSC president, made the appointment after a consultation with Elsadhan. He said both felt Aladag. who lost the election last year by only 10 votes, has been well prepared to fill the post by the experience of the campaign and knowledge of foreign students problems.
In an interview Monday. Aladag said he is looking forward to a good working relationship with Hackford. “I am also open to suggestions from members of the foreign student body.” he added. “I am aware of their problems and have experienced most of them myself.”
Aladag has been a student here since 1963 and is a second-semester junior. He has a cumulative grade poin.t average of JL72 and hopes to do graduate work at MIT after his graduation in January, 1968.
Visiting Turkey this summer for the first time since coming to the United States, he said he had developed a greater appreciation of both countries and cultures after living here.
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