Aerospace Seeks Pentagon Branch
By Carol Friedman
USC’s Institute of Aerospace Safety and Management is currently negotiating a contract to establish a resident center in the Pentagon.
The institute now runs 22 resident programs in the United States and five foreign countries.
Organized in two divisions, the institutes undergraduate program is a 10-week course in aviation safety, while the graduate course leads to a master’s degree in Aerospace Operations Management.
The undergraduate aviation safety program has conducted 10-week courses for military officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force since 1962.
Officers enrolled in the institute take five courses; aerospace engineering, electrical systems, aircraft accident investigation and prevention, aviation psychology and aerospace physiology.
Five days a week, seven hours a day, the officers study the causes of aircraft accidents and ways of preventing accidents.
One course of particular interest is aviation psychology taught by Chaytor Mason, a clinical psychologist
and former military pilot. The course is designed to give safety officers an insight into psychological factors involved in aircraft accidents.
Mason, a master of the double entendre, is possibly the most popular instructor participating in the course. His fresh approach and unorthodox classroom technique never fail to capture the attention of his students.
During one lecture on the effects of fear on the pilot, Mason instructed his class to sit back and relax. “Pretend you’ve just finished a big Thanksgiving dinner,” he said.
As the class responded to his instructions Mason nonchalantly continued describing what fear does to the pilot and how it might affect his judgment.
Suddenly with one swift movement, Mason pulled out a pistol and fired in the air. As 27 startled Army officers practically jumped out of their seats Mason calmly explained what was happening to them: increased respiration, flow of adrenalin, and tension in the muscles all over the body.
After two-and-a-half months of study under Chaytor
Mason and five other instructors the officers graduate and return to active duty. Some of them leave for military bases in the United States while others go to serve in places such as Caracas, Venezuela or South Vietnam.
The graduate division of the Institute of Aerospace Safety and Management is headed by Dr. Herold A, Sherman.
The graduate program leading to a master’s degree in aerospace operations is designed for the student who wants to pursue a career in aerospace.
This program attempts to help aerospace managers to communicate with specialists and technicians with whom they work. To direct the activities of these scientists the aerospace manager must understand the problems these men must face.
After receiving their master’s degree the aerospace managers are knowledgable in the fields of fuels, metal fatigue, reciprocating, turbine and rocket engines, space environment and physical and psychological stresses on crew members. He understands the problems of the scientists he manages and he speaks their language.
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University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. XIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1968
NO. 2
Archaeology Students On Big Dig in Jordan
Photo bu Robert Parker
CHEFS PREPARE LUNCH IN NEW RESTAURANT The new addition is open from 11:30 to 2 p.m. daily.
New Commons Opens To Serve Luncheons
The aroma of a sizzling steak penetrates through the walls of the Commons Restaurant, just opened June 3rd.
The new Commons Restaurant has a price range of from $.75 to $4.00. A complete meal consists of salad, vegetable, entree, roll and butter, and a beverage. Entrees offer the diner a wide assortment of foods, varying from hamburgers to steaks and sea foods. The chef features a common favorite, welch rarebit, the businessman’s special.
The new decor consists of Herman Miller furniture, wall-to-
wall carpeting, chandeliers and sit down tables. Four private rooms are available for business luncheons and dinner meetings.
There will be paintings on the walls. The decoration is not yet completed.
The President’s dining room is furnished with Ratan paper on the walls and expensive paintings. There is also a little garden to look out uoon.
Commons Restaurant is located on campus directly above Commons Cafeteria.
It is open to everyone. The hours are 11:30-1:45, Monday through Friday.
For the Archaeological Council, this is the year of the Big Dig.
Small groups of students led by Dr. Gerald Larue, professor of Biblical history and archaeology, have conducted archaeological excavations in the Holy Land on three previous years, 1963, 1965, and 1966.
But this year’s student-professional team, representing the fast-g rowing Archaeological Council, will have 43 members who will fly to Israel to begin examination of the ruins of a 2000-year-old Roman fortress on June 21.
Site of the Big Dig will be at Khirbet Mazra’a, a few miles south of Haifa, where the party will work for eight weeks.
Membership of the party generally ranges from high school age to graduate student and includes a number of adults, three married couples, and a third-grader. Student and professional interests vary from anthropology to aerospace engineering and include business, cinema, art history, religion, political science, sociology, psychology, and even medicine.
Preparation for the Big Dig has been underway for more than six months and the party
GROUP NEEDS PARTICIPANTS
Undergraduates are needed to participate in an experimental encounter group sensitivity group) to assist a graduate student with a group counseling course. The group will meet one hour each week for six weeks and will decide the areas of discussion. If interested, call Mrs. Susan Wolff at 823-2264.
is well organized. Intensive orientation sessions for three hours a day have been in progress on campus since June 10.
Headed by Dr. Larue, the Big Dig staff will include site and area supervisors, architect-engi-neers and draftsmen, photographers, and a great many people with shovels and other, more sophisticated excavation instruments.
Khirbet Mazra’a lies on the Via Maris, at the point where the coastal road meets the inland road which passes by the
The University Recreation Association has provided a program of organized social and recreational activities for Summer Session students, faculty members and their families.
The calendar is as follows:
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES: Dances (Dance Studio), Square and Folk Dancing, Tuesday nights, June 25, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30. Social and Round Dances, Thursday nights, June 20, 27, July 11, 18, 25.
EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL TOURS AND ACTIVITIES: Marineland Tour, Saturday, June 22, 10-4 p.m.; tour CBS TV Studios and Farmers’ Market, Friday, June 28; Knott’s Berry Farm Dinner, Saturday, June 29; “Summer Stock” featuring the Lariats — Bovard Auditorium, Friday, July 12, 8-10 p.m.; Disneyland, Saturday, July 13; Chinatown dinner, Wednesday, July 17; Huntington Library and Art Gallery (Forest Lawn, Los Angeles County Museum), Friday, July 19, 10-6 p.m.; boat trip to Catalina Island (Bird Farm, Glass Bottom
sites of the great defensive cities of Jokneam, Megiddo, and Ible-am. A number of tombs, which have been rifled in the past years, have raised hopes of the USC Council that some un-touched tombs may still lie beneath the sand and soil of the area.
Dr. Larue believes it may be possible to excavate the entire fortress site and make the necessary photographic and other recordings in a single season of work. The size of the party he will lead adds to this assurance.
Boat, Diving Bell, Speed Boat Ride, beautiful beach), Saturday, July 20; movie studio tour, Friday, July 26; trip to Mexico (plus San Juan Capistrano Mission, Ramona’s Marriage Place, San Diego Zoo), Sunday, July 28.
The following facilities are available for campus activities: two gymnasiums, swimming pool, dance studio, handball courts, tennis courts, apparatus room, volleyball courts and auditoriums.
Recreational swimming—noon-1 p.m., 3-4 p.m., Monday through Thursday afternoons; Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
Gymnasiums and Athletic Fields—afternoons: Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
Tennis Tournament — entry deadline July 8, play begins July 11.
Badminton Tournament—entry deadline July 14, play begins July 18.
Golf Tournament and Dinner— entry deadline July 28, play begins July 2.
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Summer Activities Schedule Listed