VOL. LXII NO. 76
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1971
Play featured in arts festival
University of Southern California
COMPANY THEATRE
A rother wooden attitude is struck by the Royal Court in a scene from "The Emergence/' a play to be shown on campus tonight and Friday in Bovard.
“The Emergence." a stylized fairy tale performed by the Company Theatre, will highlight the Festival of the Arts tonight and Friday at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
The Company Theatre's highly visual performance of “The Emergence' earned the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best theatrical design work in 1969.
Reserved student tickets for the performances are available at the ticket office and at the door for $1.50.
Today's program of the Festival of the Arts spins off with Frisbee Day. Students may bring their frisbees and play all day in Alumni Park.
At noon, a jazz quintet will perform on the Student Activities Center patio.
A laser-sound experience will be given by Finnigan's Wake, a group of former architecture students, at 7 p.m. in Edison Auditorium. Hoffman Hall. Immediately following at 8 p.m.. Gene Youngblood, a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts, will discuss how World Games can best function.
Also at 8 p.m. is a multiple projection event. "Itself.” It will be presented three times nightly. Feb. 25-28. Showtimes are at 8. 9 and 10 p.m. in Harris Hall Room 101. Admission is $1.00.
The Buckminster Fuller World Game WTorkshop will continue today from 1 to 5 p.m. in Hoffman Hall. The object of the World Game is to analyze the resources of mankind and the earth, and design a system that gets the maximum output from these resources.
According to game enthusiasts, resources which now support only 44 percent of the world's population can support all the world's increasing population at higher standards of living than man has yet experienced or even conceived of.
A basic principle of the game is that the good life for any man depends on the probability of realizing it for all men. As a result, peace is not an unattainable ideal, but an experienced reality, consciously chosen as the best of all possible alternatives.
Fuller explains man's evolution
By BOWIE ROWE
Bovard Auditorium was filled Tuesday night. People milled in front trying to get in without tickets. Buckminster Fuller, a man with an answer to one of the world's problems, had come to speak at the request of The Festival of the Arts.
Gene Youngblood, a professor at California Institute of the Arts, introduced Fuller. The lights dimmed. Fuller immediately asked to raise the house lights. “I like to see eyes.' he said.
Fuller covered everything from children's education to the pyramids of Egypt. He started with change. From his youth. Fuller has seen the advent of the automobile, radio, television, computer and man s walk on the moon. “You all are very young and haven't seen change.“ he said and asked the audience to become more aware of the changes going on around them.
With the introduction of modern communication systems, the literacy of the populace has increased. Fuller said. He cited examples of illiteracy and how. over the past decades, it has nearly become obsolete. Before radios, a child's absorption of language and knowledge was dependent upon his parent. The parent was often ignorant and illiterate: what little he knew, he passed on to the child.
Radios provided a new source of education for the child. Fuller said Announcers were selected because of their diction and knowledge of words. This has continued into today's generation of students who. Fuller commented, are 'all literate and extraordinarily well-inlormed. Traveling around the world I find almost all of humanity with a beautif ul vocabulary. Fuller said
Parents' teaching of the child has handed down the same set of values from over a thousand years. Fuller said. He asked the audience how many of them used the words "up" and "down. He went on to explain that we use them because we are conditioned to. He explained how "in and "out could also be correct if you thought of the universe as an infinite plane.
"Words are the most extraordinary of all our heritage, he said. The diction-
ary is the most extraordinary memorial to what man has accomplished. Words are the most precious tools we have. "
"I think that all of humanity is in the most extraordinary transition from man as muscle and energy, to man as mind." he said. Man s muscle and energy was pared down to size by comparing it to other amounts of energy within our universe. Fuller used the energy of one hurricane as the basis of his comparison. One hurricane's energy is more than all of the atomic energy now stored in both Russia and the United States. All the work man has ever done in history would equal one second of the hurricane's force.
Next, Fuller described man's size in proportion to the universe. “What's our planet like?" he asked. "It is 100 times smaller than one flame reaching out from the sun. It has an 8.000 mile diameter and from the highest mountain to the deepest ocean there is only a differential of 10 miles.
"If 2.000 people standing five feet high stood on each others shoulders, they would equal the high and low differential. That's an invisible man on an invisible planet. Little man. little mind, on little invisible earth."
According to Fuller, man should not despair. The amount of knowledge that has been accumulated throughout the ages is enormous in comparison to man's size.
Fuller then began a bird's eye look at world history and how technology evolved. In ancient Egypt all people were interested in preparing for the after-life of the pharoah. Ingenious people, whom Fuller labeled Leonardo types, began inventing ways of insuring this after-life. An example of this would be the levers used in the building of the pyramids.
This continued until there was so much technology that the after-life of the noble class was taken care of. then the middle class. Finally with the coming of Buddah. Christ and others like them, the after-life of the great masses was taken care of. Fuller said.
This continued until the advent of the divine right of kings which, according to Fuller, provided for the living life
of the kings. The Magna Carta looked out for the living life of the nobles. The Victorian Era saw the fulfillment of the living life of the middle class. By the time of Industrial Revolution, the technology was available to provide for the living-life of the masses.
Now. with the life-after and the living-life of everybody capable of being provided for and taken care of. people are interested in assuring the survival of the generations to come. Fuller advocates a do-more-with-less philosophy which would not only provide for the people still in need now but also leave the means to provide for the generations to come. “It is a highly feasible manner to take care of all humanity with the technology we know now." Fuller said.
Now. four percent of a machine's efficiency is used. By increasing the efficiency. the out-put can be increased. Fuller began his World Game two years ago to use the resources now available to their fullest potential to provide for all humanitv.
Photo by Bruce Bolinger
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
ASSC will decide
on new constitution
A new ASSC constitution with proposed court and council changes will be discussed tomorrow at the ASSC council meeting. It will then be decided whether the student vote on the constitution will come up this year or next.
New provisions for the courts were drafted to give students the opportunity to be judged by their peers rather than administrators.
Section 111 c. reads. "The Student Common Court shall have original jurisdiction over all disciplinary cases. No discipline imposed by the deans or administration shall take effect unless affirmed by the Student Common Court. . .
"The IFC and Panhellenic Judicials, and Men and Women's Judicial are hereby abolished, and their functions assumed by the Student Common Court."
"The present 25-man council is un-
workable." said Jack McNamara, independent student representative. The new constitution cuts the number of members from 25 to 12—president, vice-presi-dent. five graduate, four undergraduate representatives and a freshman representative.
With this new provision. McNamara said. "All undergraduate representatives except the freshman will have the same constituency—the student body. This will make them more unified. "
The present constitution recognizes the candidates receiving the highest total votes, whether 20 or 500, as the winner of the election. The new constitution requires that the candidates also receive at least one third of the votes cast.
McNamara said. "I don't expect any major problems in the passage of the new constitution.