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BEAR FACTS Published by the Oceanids, UCSD Womeno Editors: Peggy Burckhardt, Ruth Newmark. March 1965 Circulation: Freda Reid. Typists: Marge Kudo, Karen Tucker. Calendar: Judy Haxo, Lorri Roth, Juliet Saunders, Ellen Smith, Ilse Warschawski. CHANCELLOR TO ADDRESS TOWN COUNCIL MEETING SANDSCRIPT Chancellor Galbraith will be guest speaker at a general On February 10 appeared the first issue of a UCSD meeting of La Jolla Townspeople sponsored by the La Jolla student newspaper--an event which Bear Facts has looked Town Council on )l(arch 11, 8 PM, at Muirlands Junior High forward to from the beginning. School Auditorium. Bear Facts was conceived as an interim solution, The Town Council is operated by 36 elected Trustees somthing to fill the communication gap until a regular chosen from its membership, and its projects are supported university newspaper could become established. That by voluntary dues. Anyone who lives or works in La Jolla newspaper has begun, and it cannot be said to have made may hold membershipo The purpose of the organization is a 11modest 11 beginning, in any sense of the word. We hope to 11 unify, coordinate, foster and direct the civic, com that, as its Freshmen editors grow into Juniors and Sen mercial, educational and general welfare activities of the iors, Sandscript will grow in scope and responsibility community of La Jolla. 11 until it becomes a "university" newspaper--one which pro vides the communication necessary for keeping our rap DR. ECKART APPOINTED VICE CHANCELI..DR idly growing campus a genuine communityo From now on, Bear Facts will constantly revaluate its The Regents of the University of California have ap function on this campus, trying to fill only those needs proved the appointment of Dr. Carl Eckart as new Vice which Sanscript is not yet prepared to fill. Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Eventually--soon, we hope--Bear Facts will put a quiet Dr. Eckart, Professor of Geophysics, will give up the chairmanship of the Academic Senate, which he has held --30-- under its last, bare issue. since July, 1963, in order to take over his new duties as THE UNICORN: FILMS FOR THE DEDICATED Vice Chancellor. The Unicorn Theatre originates in creative dissatis HELP NEEDED FOR CHILDREN faction. The ordinary theatre imagines that people want only the new, the conunerciai. the accepted. They do not Volunteer workers are needed for the informal, after realize that there is a substantial minority which wants school help sessions held at the Friends ~eeting House in to see the unusual--fil.ms from all countries, unseen La Jolla for "culturally disadvantaged" children. These films, old films, experimental films, documentaries, and are children of normal intelligence, whose progress in so on. Not only does this group exist; it is curious, school is affected usually by language difficulties or by a active, adventurous, and dedica tedo home atmosphere which is not conducive to learning. In Because film-making is so costly, involving great ex most cases, the children show marked improvement when given penditures and greater profits, both production and dis individual attention and encouragement. tribution are governed by financial, not artistic, con Several faculty and student wives are already involved siderations. Producers want films which feature popular in this program, but more help is needed •. No special training is required. If you would like to use your free actors, are intellectually uncomplicated, and which en time in this worthwhile way, call Mrs. Gretchen Rudnick tertain by proven methods. They expect to achieve beauty by formula, and originality they fear as if it were dis (4.54-7459) for information. order or disease. 1 Yet this new art is a strong one, potentially unifying FAMILY SERVICE HOLDS PARElJTS DISCUSSION GROUPS all the other arts, utilizing the several senses in un Nevin Wiley, director of the Family Service Association, ique cooperation, and shaping the flux of life without announces two new discussion groups for parents. arresting it. Because of this latent strength, great The Parents of Teenagers group meets Mondays, 7:30-9:00 artists continue to struggle with the restrictions and PM. Interested parents may join this continuing program at timidities of the studios, continue to stealthily provide any time. us with masterworks. Parents of children between 6 and 12 may take part in a Film distributors and theatre owners, because of cyni ten-week series beginning March 24. Emphasis in this group cism, greed, or financial necessity, want the same kind will be on "problem preventiono" of film which the producers want. Unusual or demanding Both groups meet in the Family Service Assoc. Bldg., films are ignored, old films are forgotten, bold films 7645 Family Circle (across from Kearny H. S.). There is a avoided. Vast audiences are desired, and so we see only registration fee for each. For information call 279-0400. those films which the many wish to see. It is as if the library would stock no book that thousands of citizens UNUSED CONCERT TICKETS were not anxious to read (what then of celestial dynamics Sally Spiess, Oceanids President, has volunteered to act or the novels of Henry James?), or the art gallery would as a clearing-house for any unused theatre or concert ticketso hang no picture not demanded by hordes of angry citizens If you find yourself unable to use series or other tickets, (what then of Roger van der Weyden or Kandinsky?). please do not let them go to wasteo Give them to Sally in A list of the films we have had no chance to see here time for her to pass them on to someone else. Her address in San Diego would comprise a panoramic history of the is 9450 La Jolla Shores Drive. Call 453-0378. film. Rather than chronicle the lack, we intend to reme- dy it. --Harold Darling SPRING CLEANING? The Unicorn You can help with a new Nereid-Oceanid project by donat BEAR FACTS SUBSCRIPTIO:ti:S--REDUCED RATES FOR REMAINDER OF ing your usable clothing to help student families. Judy ACADEMIC YEAR: Students-35¢, UCSD Staff & Faculty-70¢, Shanabarger, 9334 Redwood, Apto J, has volunteered to be in Other-$1.00. Send money with name and mailing address to charge. Call 453-2751. Freda Reid. 1105 Cuchara St •• Del Mar. Calif. NIGHT THOUGHTS OF AN ASTRONOMER winter a low ground fog rolls in at nightj and through the dome slit one can watch it advancing like a billow by Ylarg;aret Burbidge ing white sea, creeping ever higher until only the tops IJcpartMe~1t of Chemistry* of the surrounding mountains lie uncovered, like giant, black ships. The observatory is at 7000 feet, and it Astronomy is a sparsely populated profession, and, often happens that the fog stops just below this height, the number of women in most of the sciences being small with a perfectly clear sky above, so one can work all relative to the number of men, the few women astronomers night and then watch the slow recession of the white sea find themselves to be something of a curiosity. Peopl~ at dawn. On other nights the fog may suddenly rise and often ask me how I first became interested in astronomy, engulf the observatory, and one must very quickly close and want to know what it is like to work with telescopes the dome and the mirror covers, so that water will not at nighto I will tr;:v to set down a few thoughts about condense on the mirror. the second of these questionso Some kinds of astronomical work involve making Perhaps all who take up observational astronomy have long exposures to record photographically the spectra of in their makeup something of the masochist. There are stars or galaxies; at the other extreme, some work in indeed physical disco~forts to be borne, such as the cold volves switching rapidly from star to star and making of the twelve-hour-long winter nights, the switch from hundreds of short measurementso In the first kind of day to night schedule and the consequent battle against work one spends hours with nothing to do but keep the sleepiness on the first working night of an observing run, image of a guide star on cross-wires, and one's thoughts and the cramp that comes from sitting still in a con range far and wide. I know some astronomers who con fined space for many hourso But it is delightful to work struct tales of science fiction during these quiet hours. in the summer nights, with a clear, sparkling sky over For myself, it is a time when I get my wildest scientific head, the night scents coming from the wooded mountains ideas--hypotheses which are usually demolished in the around Lick Observatory, and finally, the pale eastern cold daylight (sometimes by the results of the night's grey turning to gold as dawn comes upo And always there work) but which are amusing while they last. And there is the excitement of new discoveries perhaps about to is always the chance that an idea will survive! be made, or the satisfaction of getting, for example 9 good spectra of a faint and difficult object. DRAMA GROUP The University of California's observatory is nam ed after James Lick, who provided the money for it and The Oceanids Drama Group will hold its next meeting on whose remains are buried under the pier of wl1at was, un March 8 at the home of Fran Tyler. The Bradners will be til recently, its largest telescope. The new telescope, in charge of the reading of "Any Wednesday," a play cur second largest in the world, has a light-gathering mir rently being given on Broadwayo ror 120 inches in diametero My; work is done on rather This Oceanids interest group, under the chairmanship faint objects, for which one works at the principal focus of Lois Nagy, differs from most others in that it attracts of the mirror, reached from an observing cage in the cen not only Oceanids, but also university students and staff ter of the telescope tube at its top endo members, both male and female, and occasionally someone This cage must be made small so as to obstruct as not attached to the university at all.