Gerontology Center has record enrollment
More than 300 students will be enrolled in the Gerontology Center's 1972 Summer Institute for Study in Gerontology, the largest number of students ever.
They will attend classes in the six-week institute, which is divided into three 2-week ses-sions^July 24-Aug. 4. Aug. 7-18, Aug. 21-Sept. 1. They will listen to experts in every phase of gerontology, the study of aging, from this campus, from other universities, and from local and national institutions.
Two reasons have been offered for the increase in enrollment in the summer institute.
First, the Gerontology Center has combined its two former summer institutes into one. One was the Summer Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology; the other was the Summer Institute on Community Mental Health and Aging. Until this year they ran concurrently, but under separate direction.
A spokesman said. “We’ve had
good feedback to these institutes, and consequently, more people have been attending.”
The Summer Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology, which began in 1967, had a greater multidisciplinary emphasis than its counterpart, for the faculty was drawn from such fields as biology, medicine, physical education, politics and public	administration,
psychology, social work, sociology, and urban and regional planning.
The Summer Institute on Community Mental Health and Aging, which started in 1969, was aimed mainly at professionals, though the faculty w'as from equally diverse fields.
Another reason for the increase in student enrollment is the greater interest in the questions of aging by those in government, business, and other professionals, the spokesman said.
The Gerontology Center has
the largest such program in the nation, but only one other program of any size exists—in Florida. The center here was founded in 1964.
Two categories of students are enrolled in this year's summer institute—professionals in the field of aging, and graduate students who want to learn something about the field.
The enrollment is primarily on the graduate level, for the center offers only two courses for the undergraduate —“Introduction to the Issues in Gerontology” at the 400 level (available for both undergraduate and graduate credit), and the Human Development Semester, with courses in biology, psychology, social work, and sociology.
The professionals include students from throughout the nation, and they come to learn more about a rapidly changing field. Students may include professors from other universities, administrators of convalescent
ALMOST, BUT NOT QUITE — It appears that the new Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center is ready to accommodate the 1972 Summer Institute for Study in Gerontology. However, the building is still under construction and is scheduled to open in September. Photo by Dave Greenlee.
homes, nurses, social workers, and government employees, especially those from the departments of mental health and senior citizens affairs.
On the other hand, many of the faculty for the institute are from such fields, too.
For example, William Oriol, staff director ofthe U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging,
will teach a class in the Aug. 21-Sept. 1 session. "Politics, Power and Aging” (Political Science 566).
Others are from universities throughoutthe nation, including the University of California, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and Stanford University. A number are from
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\ class in oceanography could be cancelled unless enrollment can be increased.
The class (Geological Sciences 107). taught by Bernard Pipkin, senior lecturer in the department, was scheduled to begin Monday and continue through August 4. However, enrollment is far below that expected.
However, students may still register for the class by going to the Registrar’s Office and picking up the class card (41015-R). Students may also go through drop-and-add procedure. The tuition is $328.
The lectures are from 9 to 11:40 a.m. Monday through Friday, and the discussion-laboratory section is from 1:15 to 3:45 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.
In addition, students will go on two field trips—one aboard the VanTuna, a boat operated by Occidental College with several other local colleges, for study off the coast, and the other to the tide pools and coastal features of the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
The class had been reserved for high school seniors and recent high school graduates, but is now open to general enrollment. It fulfills part of the general requirement in sciences.
Further information may be obtained from the Registrar’s Office, the Summer Session office in Administration 356. the Geological Sciences Department office in Science Hall 160. or Pipkin's office in Science Hall 165.
Doctorates to be granted off campus for first time
For the first time in the university’s history, so far as it is known, the doctorate will be conferred in an off-campus commencement.
About 10 candidates will be awarded their doctorates, along with some 80 candidates for master’s degrees, by the School of Education in ceremonies at Heidelberg, Germany, in August.
This will be part of the School of Education’s program for international graduate study, which began in Europe in 1963, with a program for personnel assigned to U.S. dependents’ schools there.
By 1965, the School of Education conducted a summer seminar in administration in Tokyo. Japan, for some 80 administrators from the Pacific area. It also established a program in Europe to prepare students for the master of science in education, developed with the U.S. Air Force.
The program was conducted at air bases in Germany, Greece, Spain and Turkey.
Later, regional programs were organized in
Africa, with headquarters in Ghana; in Newr Delhi, India; Taipei, Taiwan; Bangkok, Thailand. Commencement exercises in Taipei and Bangkok were held in May, with Milton Kloetzel. academic vice-president, and Irving R. Melbo, dean of the School of Education, conferring the degrees.
The School of Education has also organized a program with the U.S. Army at seven locations in Germany; Brussels, Belgium, and at the Supreme Headquarters of Allied Powers in Europe.
Faculty for these programs are from the regular staff. "First, the courses in which they are expert must be offered overseas—not all are offered—and second, we must have enough faculty for our cam--pus programs before they can go abroad,” Melbo said.
"Each faculty member must make a personal choice—he is not obligated to work during the summer; he must be willing to go abroad before we send him.”
Prof sees new world law on environment
By PETER WONG Editor
Carl Christol, professor of political science and international law here, believes that the work of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment has provided a basis for a future world law on the environment.
“Everyone here would be quick to admit that these formal pronouncements are but the first step in a long-ranging process of environmental and developmental activity,” he said in one of nine reports he sent from Stockholm, Sweden, site of the conference, during June.
“From the legal point of view, and this was not a conference specially designed and run by lawyers, there was a general feeling that the Preamble and the Principles (of the Declaration on the Human Environment adopted by the conference) formed the first step for a new international law on the human environment.”
Christol represented the American Bar Association’s section on international and comparative law, and the International Bar Association, which
regularly sends observers to legal conferences.
He wras one of some 60 persons in the United States delegation, which was headed by Russell Train, chairman of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality.
Other Californians at the conference were Shirley Temple Black. Roger O. Egeberg, dean of the School of Medicine from 1964 to 1969 and now special assistant for health policy to the secretary of health, education and welfare; Norman B. Livermore, Jr., head of the state’s Resources Agency.
Christol cited principles 21 and 22 of the declaration adopted by the conference as the basis for his belief in a future law for the environment.
“States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law', the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the
limits of national jurisdiction,” principle 21 states.
Principle 22 provides: “States will cooperate to develop further the international law-regarding liability and compensation for the victims of pollution and other environmental damage caused by activities within the jurisdiction or control of such States to areas beyond their jurisdiction.”
Focus
In other words, nations have the responsibility to control pollution that may cross their borders, whether they be political or natural, such as the ocean or space.
Besides the Declaration on the Human Environment, which contained general principles, a 200-point action program on everything from ocean dumping to birth control was recommended.
The conference also agreed on the establishment of a $100-
inillion fund for the environment. toward which the United States, through its delegation chairman, has pledged $40 million. Contributions to the fund will be voluntary.
A new global monitoring network. Earthwatch, will incorporate many existing programs to keep track of air and water pollution and release of harmful materials into the environment, and will be partly financed from the fund.
To implement the action program and the global monitoring network, a new international institution, the Governing Council for Environmental Programs, and a secretariat, were recommended by the conference to the UN General Assembly.
The recommendations for the new council and secretariat were based on several concepts, Christol said.
The chief officer of the environment secretariat, the executive director, will have broad powers in providing assistance to nations, settling disputes, and assessing technological impact.
"This comes fairly close to the practice in the United States required by the Environmental
Protection Agency of submitting impact statements before embarking on possible threats to environmental integrity,” Christol said.
The executive director will work closely with both other UN agencies and professionals in law. science and engineering.
Financing environmental protection activities will take into account the needs of the developing nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America, and will insure that the costs are shared as broadly as possible. The activities, which will be tied to the UN General Assembly rather than to the Economic and Social Council, will be coordinated by the governing council of 54 nations. (The United States had fought for a smaller council of no more than 27 nations.)
“As one surveys what has happened in this field one is obliged to admit, no matter what his country or his perspectives, that no one is totally satisfied with the outcome,’’ Christol said.
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