UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO ,Volume I, Number 2 17 February, 1965 SAN DIEGO: OFFICE OF THE CHANr~-I-Oi LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA February 11, 1965 MARK HINDERAKER SUBJECT: Comments for SANDSCRIPT As a fellow freshman at UCSD: I have taken particular interest in the class of 1968. We began our life on this campus together at a barbecue last fall. On that occasion the mood approached euphoria. Since then members of the class have, perhaps, experienced frustrations and disappointments; in some respects realities may not have measured up to expectations. It is inevitable that this should be the case; it would be true of the transition from high school to any university, and the creation of a new university involves some growing pains for all con- cerned. But my impression is that you continue to share with the administration and faculty the sense that you are involved in the beginnings of a great university, and we value your advice on how to improve the quality of the environment, both intellectually and socially. I hope, individually or through your representatives, that you will give us your views. We cannot provide junior boys for freshman girls, at least not yet, but will do the best we can to make this both an exciting and an enjoyable campus. albraith i’C..... ,,)gy at the University of Toronto,and Claudlb Guil- RecruitingofTop-Rate Professors len,a professorof compara- Ti!E PROBLEm< OF PARTICIPA2iON tivelltsrmture, described by CHANCELLOR’S STUDENT ADVI$O2Y COFTIT~E A F~nulne problem exists at U.C.S.D. AwardedTop Billing at SanDiego The Chancellor’s Student Advisory Prof.Pearce as "Princeton’s It is tre problem of brlncin~ the BY WILLIAM TROMBLEY,i[Sf,~n~h’~,~NI~[. SUN.,JAN.31oIO~k~ bestyoung full professor." fre hman students to t~e full aware- Committee is a vehicle of co mmunlcatlon Ttmes a4vclltkm writer " ........... "Wearen’t interested in ness that they will determine how much between Chancellor Galbralth and the SAN DIEGO -- The ’ 5- Perhaps most impor- drivesout good.Our idea’ startinga lot of departments I withone good man at thetop ~hey get out of their university Student body. There are five underrrad- Universityof Californiaat~ I the people of.Celia fromthe first has been that uate members; Janet Albln, Larry Baker, ’ ,lornia,as representedby- ifyou pick the right 15 phy- anda lotof mediocrepeople experience. Education is many things San Diego,newest of the state governmentor the siciata,you can have the best beneathhim," said Keith for man:; different people. ~ome people Fredrlca Felcyn, Mark Hinderaker and university’sseven branches, statewideadministration of universityphysics depart- Brueckner,who is deanof take more advantage of the social Steve Lewis. The graduate student body seemslike an unlikelyplace theuniversity, grant UCSD mentin thecountry, even if graduatestudies. "We want to Jump from opportunities at U.C.S.D. t},an of the is represented by Elizabeth Venrlck and forstrqggle ofany sort. ,timeand money to trythe ypudon’t have, another.de- leducatanal exI~erimen’t.~? l:~fftrnenton campus." 1 nothingat allto an excellent educational opportunitles--others be- Bob "alkan. Dean Forbes meets with the The campust)uildings doctoralprogram in one restatop Torrev Pines Mesa, Thesearch car answers to Goes to Harvard- come so Involved with themes and math Adglsory Committee andthe Chancellor. the~equesUons has involved To do thatwe needat overlookingthe Pacific, on So recruitingbegan, with [estV’aear"fivesuperior appoint- problems that they never stop dealing The C.S.A.O. serves to acquaint whatmust be oneof themost t CSDin a continuingseries of batUes,and it is fartoo Brueckner,Arnold and bio- mentsin eachdepartment." with thiDFs instead of peoole. Sor~e Chancellor Galbralth with the student !beautifulcampus sites in the logistDavid Banner as chief’ Thelevels of excellence workl. earlyto pronounceany ver- ~birddogs.Their success is students live for brldve or surfing, point of view on issues involving dict.The first freshman class whichBrue/’kner seeks have Studentsand professors, shownby thepresence on to- now beenattained, he be- others for art and music. This is not student activities and affairs. Cbancellc~ of181 students has just e0m- da3~’sUCSD faculty of 12 glancingout the windows of etedits first semester on li~ves~in the basic sciences bad, but it does show limited tastes. Galbralth is especially interested in classroomsor offices or la- membersof the National --physics,chemistry, biolo- One ofthe most Improtant contributions improving the social and recreational boratories,seethe ocean on ~.,~mpus. Academyof .Sciencesand gy,mathematics and earth e Butit is nottoo early to twoNobel laureates--Ure.y that a university can pa~s on to its activities at U.C.S.D. But he is waltln~ [oneside, the roiling foothills ~escribesome of thebattles sciences;in twohumanities ¯ of theLaguna Mountains on and Dr. Maria Goeppert fmlds--hterature¯ . andphtlo- ¯ I students is a taste for many things. for STUDENT INITIATIVE to acquaint the gndto tryto determinewhe- Mayer,the physicist¯ Balance must be ar leved if a person admln---l~-~ion w-’n w-~ type of activities theother. fleerthe UCSD ideals are ad-~ sophy,and one field of ap- Only an occasional Fora varietyof reasons, Ipliedscience -- aerospace is to be fully able to appreciate llfe. that the students want. For example, i ~;ancingorare in retreat,i mostof themhaving to do swooshingjet from the near-! "’ UCSDhas built from the] randmechanical engineering The "Jack of all trades and master of if a group of students wamt to form a Iby MiramarNaval Air Sta- withuniversity politics, Dr. sciences. tionreminds them of theout- /~p down,using the Scripps Rbvellenever became chan- one" should be the goal of education. football class in the P.E. program, or ltmtitutionof Oceanography,] cellorat UCSD.He conti-: By 1967 Bruecknerex- I%ideworld. La Jolla,5 mi. t~neof the world’s great oeea- pectsUCSD to be ableto of- We should have literate mathematicians a bowling lea~e or class, all they need ~away,is scarcelyknown forJ / nuedto serveas directorob an~ s,’ientifically aware humanists if do is organize to make their wishes ri~graphicresearch centers,’, Scrippsand put in a hitchas fera Ph.D.in history,fine ;a longhistory of combat.1 Ka.aroof for the structure of arts,economics, lX~’chology, we ~.,ant a ,.,ell integrated society. known. Possibilities include record Yetstruggles are indeed statewidedean of research I a:university. beforeleaving this year to politicalscience, sociology, This applies to our activities at U.G.S.D dances in the T.U.B. on weekend nights, takingplace In thelovely :? Scrippshas been part of appliedelectro-physics, an- newbuildings atop the mesa, becomedirector of theCen- thropology,linguistics and It is crucial that we become continually music and art work using unlve~sity I t~teuniversity since 1912..In terfor Population Studies at Iand theiroutcome may be e 1950sDr. Roger Revelle, iseveralother areas of ap- exposed to many new experiences, that facilities (this is already a reality), importantnot only to U~CSD Harvard. pliedscience. ~crippsdirector, began tto :ButHerbert York, UCSD’s we may be able to derlvc the most val~e student rates for golf and bowling, andto theentire University addchemists, physicists andl Acquisitionof thebest! of California,but to ma~s firstofficial chancellor, and from each experience. Therefore it is and many other opportunities. All the 15’iologiststohis collection of[ JohnS. Galbraith,who took peoplehas been difficult and highereducation across the ~p-flightoceanographers.- I becomesmore ~o eachyear. im ortc.nt that U.C.S.D. freshmen students need to do is organize the land. overthe job last December, broaden tl,eir interests, make new as~ activities. The effectiveness of tie UreyFrom Chicago [ havemaintained this high IUCSD already has many WantSense of Identity qualityin facultyappoint- rofessorsat the "Prof. sociation, and take advantage of the Honor Spirit and llvlng-group problems ~-HaroldUrey, who won a[ ~ice"pay level of $19000 a Brieflystated, these are NobelPrize for his discovery ments,both in the~iences . ’ . I full r:nce of social, c~ltural, and are also points of concern to Chancellor someof theimportant issues 6fI heavy hydrogen,came andia thesocial sciences year,htghest the unlvermty intellectual activities w ich the uni- Galbralth. The Chancellor is ~ery beingthreshed out: f~0mthe University ofChics-’ andhumanities. canoffer. versity provides. The more success eager to receive student suggestlons 1--Cana universitysuc- ~o; chemistJames Arnold Thus, SeymourHarris, tThe university’scampus cessfullyset up shopby hir- well-knownHarvard econ- at Riverside,on theother, we acl:i~ve in sampling many things, about the U.C.S.D. proyram. Construct- fromPrinceton; physicist ingonly first-rate men, most KeithBrueckner from the ,omistwho served as an advi- hand,recently made its very the better we will do at each indlvid- ive student criticism coupled with of themat thelevel of full ser to PresidentJohn F. firstProf. Five appointment. l~tiversityof Pennsylvania. Naturally,Riverside resents ual Job we ~ndertake. student initiative and in~ere~t will professor,before hiring large :’.At the time, Revelle Kennedy,has been named numbersof associateand chairmanof the UCSDeco- theappointment ofstill more help "iron out" some of therou~h p.lannedan instituteof high-salariedpeople at San assistantprofessors and be- ~cienceand technology, nomicsdepartment. Mark llinderaker-Edltor spots in this program. foreadmitting any signifi-