University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL XIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., JULY 23, 1968
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Seminar Slated
“A Decade of Research in Social Psychiatry” will be held tonight from 7:30 to
9	p.m. The speaker will be Dr. Simon Dinitz. professor of sociology, at Ohio State University. The seminar will take place in the Conference Hall of the Ross-moor Cortese Institute at 3717 South Grand Avenue.
Professor Dinitz is the author of four books and over 50 articles in major journals. His coauthored volume, “Schizophrenics in the Community — An Experiment in the Prevention of Hospitalization” won the Hofheimer Prize for Research of the American Psychiatric Association in
1967.
Two books, “Women After Treatment: A Comparison of Former Mental Patients and Their Normal Neighbors” and “Critical Issues in the Study of Crime” were published this year.
In addition, he is editor of Crimmologica, regional editor of “Excerpta Criminologica” and, as of January 1969. an associate editor of the “American Sociological Review.”
Dr. Dinitz received his B.A. from Vanderbilt and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has taught at Ohio State since 1951.
Non-AKD members who are interested in attending this seminar are invited to make arrangements by calling 746-2658 or 746-2659.
Women’s Dean Says Iran Students Don,t Date
MRS. BAYANDOR Studies USC for Iran.
By ANN SALISBURY
Imagine going to a university where the men and women do not date. Mrs. Fakhr-Iran Bayandor, the dean of women of the newly established Aria-Mehr University in Iran, indicated this is the situation in her country.
Mrs. Bayandor is visiting USC during the summer to study different aspects of university life to take back some ideas with
her when she returns to her job in Iran.
Speaking through an interpreter, Mrs. Bayandor said that the culture of Iran would frown on dating in college, however, men and women may study together and speak together on campus.
The new dean, who is a former member of Iran’s Ministry of Education, will begin a new system at the university. Some of
Electronic Equipment Helps Teachers ’ Learning
Sophisticated electronic teaching machines are helping five high school teachers enrolled in a special institute to bridge a massive communications gap.
The teachers, four from the Southland and one from New Mexico, are learning the techniques of teaching English to speakers of other languages.
They are responding to a critical need for qualified teachers in the field.
Statistically, Dr. Robert B. Kaplan, institute director, pointed out:
•	Nearly six million residents of the United States do not speak English as a native tongue.
•	The majority of this number cannot speak English at all.
•	Approximately 700.000 of
Student Cinema To Show at Edinburgh
Student films made-in the Division of Cinema will be the principal attraction at this year’s Edinburgh, Scotland, International Film Festival.
At the invitation of the Festival, USC will show nearly 12 hours of films during a two-week period, Aug. 19-Sept. 3 at Film House.
It is the first time in the history of the oldest international film festival of its kind in the world that such an invitation has ever been extended, according to Dr. Bernard Kantor, Chairman of the Division of Cinema and associate dean of the School of Performing Arts.
This will not, however, be the first year USC films have been shown at the famed Scottish festival. Four of the five U.S. films shown last year in the experimental division were made by USC students.
One of the five top Festival awards went to “THX-1138-4EB ” produced by George Lucas, Jr.. of Beverly Hills, a USC Cinema student*.
Included in the Edinburgh Festival showing, according to Dr. Kantor, will be some 160 student films made at USC in the last
10	years.
Collectively, these films have won more than 500 awards at film festivals in the United States and Europe.
Mr. Herbert Kosower of Beverly Hills, assistant professor of Cinema, will personally introduce each film presentation at the Edinburgh Festival and will answer the questions of viewers about the individual productions.
Showing of the student films represents the second major contribution which the School of Performing Arts will be making to this year’s Festival.
The Festival Theatre Players, a company of 40 talented student actors, singers, and dancers, will be performing for the third year in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where they have won critical praise for the last two years.
these persons live in Southern California.
“Our program using the electronic consoles,” says Kaplan, “is aimed at producing more teachers of English as a second language, training them faster than has been possible by conventional methods, and better equipping them for their work. Previous use of this programmed instruction on a pilot basis has proven the method effective.
“This is the second year we have operated the programmed training. Many of the teachers who participated last year have already been promoted to leadership posts in their districts,” Kaplan added.
The elaborate teaching machines present a programmed, self-instructional course developed by English Language Services, Inc., of Washington, D.C. Valued at more than $11,000 each, the consoles are on loan to USC.
Each of the participants in the project is seated at a console, where he dons earphones to listen to 140 training tapes, views 163 motion picture training films and uses specially i designed workbooks.
A monitor begins the program by directing each participant to introductory material provided in the teacher-trainee kits and acquainting each trainee with console controls.
Each trainee will spend a total of 150 hours working with the device, moving through the program at his own speed, continually aware of his own progress.
The program is conducted in conjunction with the USC-NDEA summer institute for elementary and secondary teachers of English as a second language, and with the approval of the U.S. Office of Education, sponsor of the institute.
The program, which began June 24 and will end August 10, is a joint effort under the English Communications Program for Foreign Students and the Department of Linguistics, both headed by Dr. Kaplan; and the School of Education, under Dean Irving R. Melbo.
Other faculty members assisting in the project are: Joseph Aurbach, associate director, Charles W. Gay, Mrs. Patricia Cabrera, Nathaniel Hickerson, several visiting professors.
Music Emeritus Professor Dies
Julia Howell Overshiner, emeritus associate professor of music and a former chairman of the theory department for 28 years, died last Monday in Monte Sano hospital in Glendale after a short illness. She was 78 and a native of Los Gatos, California.
Funeral services were held yesterday at Peace Chapel at Kiefer and Everick mortuary.
Mrs. Overshiner is survived by a brother, Bernard Howell, of Alhambra. Her husband, a Los Angeles County employee, died several years ago. Their home was at 5321 Mt. Helena Ave., Los
\ngeles 90041. She also had a summer home at Idyllwild.
An organist and pianist, Mrs. Overshiner was one of the first theory students of the late Carolyn A. Alehin at USC and also studied composition with the late Arnold Schoenberg.
Mrs. Overshiner was chairman 3f the Alehin Scholarship Committee at USC and friends have asked that contributions in her memory be made to USC for music scholarships.
Mrs. Overshiner taught at USC from 1920 until she went on leave in 1951 after a serious automobile accident. She retired in 1955.
the things she would like to	see added are dormitories and	extracurricular activities, so	far nonexistent.
Mrs. Bayandor said there are other differences between the two universities.
“Students aren’t so free to speak,” she said. “Their appearances are different; they have no beards or long clothes, and they have more respect for older people with experience,” she said.
But she added that there is a generation gap nevertheless. Students, she explained, feel that experience isn’t as important as adults think it is.
“I have also learned that experience can be less important if there is a good education. In Iran there are very few young administrators, but here at USC young administrators are assistant deans of men and women. That illustrates that with a good education a great deal of experience is not always necessary.”
Mrs. Bayandor believes that in Iran students will soon ask their parents for more freedom and this will give them more authority. That is why she believes it is important to study the recent history of American teenagers.
Another difference between the University of Aria-Mehr and USC is that many women go into fields of science, chemistry, math, physics, and industry. Mrs. Bayandor pointed out that while these fields may not be (Continued on Page Two)
TOO LATE TO DROP CLASSES
Last Friday was the last day to drop a course with the mark of W if work was of passing grade for the six-, seven-, and eight-week sessions. For those students are aren’t doing so well, you’ll just have to throw a lot of effort into the next few weeks.
However, the students in the eleven and twelve-week sessions are a bit more fortunate. This Friday is the deadline for them to drop classes with a mark of W even if they are failing.
On August 2 and August 3, registration for the four-week postsession will be in progress from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, and from 8:30 to noon on Saturday.
And finally, the seven-week session will be ended and given up to memories by August 3.