News Scrapbook 1974-1975

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SALOMON AND SALK HONORED

An archeological dig is scheduled to begin tomor- row at the Del Mar site from which a human skull, recently dated at being about 48,000 years old, was discovered about 40 years ago. The skull, now known as San Diego Man, may repre- sent the oldest known inha- bitant of North America. It is on display at the Museum of Man in Balboa Park. The digging operation will be conducted by the Museum of Man with per- mission from the city of Del Mar. Dr. James Moriarity of the University of San Diego will be in charge of the activities and will be assist- ed by students from the university. The site of the dig is located on a large bluff just north of the San Dieguito River mouth between old U.S. 101 and the ocean. The skull, exposed by ero- sion, was discovered about 40 years ago and kept by the museum since that time. Recently, Dr. Jeffrey Bada of the Scripps Institu- tion of Oceanography used a new dating system he developed to determine the skull's age. The 48,000-year-old figure he obtained is about twice the age of any other human remains found in Jl.orth America and seriously questions previous theories of when man first came to this continent. Moriarity and his stu- dents will be investigating what is called a midden, or trash heap, in which the skull was found. They are hoping to find other evi- dence or articles that may bear on thli question of what kind of people were present in this area at that time.

On recommendation of the Board of Trustees, the University of San Diego has conferred upon Colonel Irving Salomon and Dr. Jonas Salk honorary Doctor of Laws Degrees. The conferral took place at the 1974 Commence- ment exercise, June 1, at the C1v1c Theatre in San Diego. Dr. Salk de- livered the commencement ad- dress. His subject was "Freedom, Tolerance and the Generous Spirit." Colonel Salomon Is a member of the University of San Diego Board of Trustees He is retiring this year from his position as lec- turer in political science. The cita- tion reads in part, "It Is for that which he sums in the totality of a life devoted to public service, philanthropic work and God-given character ' Colonel Salomon is a former United Nations Undersecretary, delegate to the 13th General Assembly of the United Nations, member of the Board of Trustees of Georgetown and Brandeis Uni- versities and in San Diego, mem- ber of the boards of such organi- zations as the Y.M.C.A. , the San Diego Symphony and the Old Globe Theatre. Dr. Salk was born In New York City In 1914. He received his M.D. in 1939 from New York University College of Medicine. In 1942, he went to the University of Michigan, under a National Research Coun- ci I Fellowship to carry on in- tensive studies on the immu- nology of influenza viruses and immunization against influenza In 1947, Dr. Salk went to the University of Pittsburgh and in 1954 became the chairman of the Department of Preventive Medi- cine. While at Pittsburgh, Dr. Salk was engaged in classifying the many strains of polio virus and made observations pointing the way toward the development of vaccine for paralytic polio. In recognition of this the state of Pennsylvania, in 1955, created a newly endowed chair at the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh, appointing Dr. Salk as the first Common- wealth Professor of Preventive Medicine. In 1963, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla was opened and is today referred to as a leading center of scientific re- search. Dr. Salk, as director and resi- dent fellow of the InstItute, is en- gaged in the overall work of the institute, as well as conducting re- search programs in his own labor- atory He has also authored two books, "Man Unfolding" and "The Survival of the Wisest."

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Archeologists began digging Saturday in search of articles or matter that may be related to a 48,000 year old skull fownd in Del Mar in 1929. Recently redated by a new wocess, the date of the skull rattled a long accepted archeological opi'nion that held that people migrated to the New World no more than 20,000 years ago. Dr. James R. Moriarty (pictured below) will direct the dig for the Museum of Man. Moriarty will direct the efforts of USO and l'CSD students. In the picture at left students Steve Gvatt and Brian Smith begin work on the site. "There is no chance of finding further burial sites," said Dr. Spencer Rogers, ·scientific director of the museum. But the excavation was organized just in case more human material is discovered. The skull is on display at the museum. The site, in a Del Mar park, overlooks the San Dieguito River. In the picture above. the view is looking south over the dig which is protected by a fence. - Photos by Fred Gates.

The diggings at the site will be in operation from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundavs. Because of the site's scientific: impor- tance, access to it will be controlled. However, short visitor tours and explana- tions of the work will be offered by personnel at the site. Jn b . /Jl'r I ;2,---

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INDIVIDUAL STRESSED

USO offers new 1 learning approach

"If they want to follow it . out and read what psychi- atrists and psychologists say, fine. It's a literature course, but I don't think the literature lives m a vacu- um." Can raw freshmen be ex- pected to look a professor in the eye and say what they think they should be study- ing? "Initially they are reluc- tant to do that, but they have a strong desire to," Hill says. He's negative on the average high school ex- perience of most students. "They know whatever has been happening to them is not valid, but the system has rewarded them for just following. "With the preceptorial system, there's a very inti- mate relationship with the student right from the be• ginning. And if the instruc- tor has a true respect for the student ... and really listens to him, the student is willing to venture." All preceptorials ,viii be conducted on the pass/fail basis. Instructors will give students written evalua- tions on their weaknesses, rather than letter grades, one more way of putting into student hands much of the responsibility of chang- ing and learning, according to l<'oster. The program may spark another curriculum reform Foster is interested in, clus- ter courses, or the idea of taking two or three courses at the same time which take on similar subjects from distinct academic an- gles. It's a tentative step into reform. The preceptorials will be available to fresh- men only and they'll take only one, for three hours' credit. USD will continue to conduct the vast majority of Its courses as lecture classes.,_, .---------!

'Is there some other way of getting at that information other than the standard in- troductory course?' " One of the 26 who vo- lunteered to create a "pre• ceptorial" and lead it is Ronald Hill, an English pro- fessor. "Exactly· what will be taught to some large extent will depend on the stu- dents," he says. "You must work with their interests." The title of his enterprise is "Madmen, Idiots and Platonic Self-Conceivers: Some Heroes and An- tiheroes of Literature." That curious mouthful de- scribes a look at men at odds with their own society, from the mythical Odys- seus to Ken Kesey's 20th Century asylum inmate, Randall McMurphy, in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest." Hill's preceptorial will be a literature course but the general is.sue he wants the assigned books to raise and the students to perhaps an- swer for themselves, is, ' What IS it to be insane?" From the assigned read- ing, which also includes Fitzgerald and Joseph Heller (Catch 22), students will develop their own addi· tional reading lists and pose their own questions and an- swers.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8-1 "Three or four years ago the great majority of stu- dents either knew what they'd be ma3oring in or they had a pretty good idea. For organizational reasons, that was a good thing. You just had to assign them an adviser in that field," Fos- ter says. But more and more stu- dents are not declaring their majors right away, waiting to see what could lead to a career, waiting to see how they can best fit their own interests to a for- mal academic situation. Fosler, who at 34 has just completed his first year as dean of USD's College of Arts and Sciences, doesn't pretend that the preceptori- al program will clear up all the questions of new stu- dents, but he thinks the pre- ceptorials will give fresh- men immediate exposure to alternatives, alternatives suggested by both .the sub- ject matter and the teach- ers "We tried to identify basic areas of knowledge where all students would be likely to take introductory courses. Then, we asked faculty members to think,

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PROGRAM STRESSES INDIVIDUAL NEED

D takes new view of learning approach By 80 DOR TRIBUNE E cation w,uor educational counseling center on campus.

students who, once they complete the seminar, won't necessarily meet with the professor again. Both methods are almost always available to upperclassmen and graduate students only. USD is offer- ing its preceptorials to freshmen only. "First of all," says Dr. Ed Foster, who built the program at USD, "freshmen want to know some real individual with a name, not some

isn't revolutionary. It probably stands in combination of the time- honored tutorial and seminar meth- ods. Under the tutorial system - an English tradition - a student, dur- ing all his years in the university, follows one tutor through the books and research the tutor advises him to tackle. He seldom, if ever, takes advic.-e from anyone else. A seminar is a small group of

15 students, led by one teacher who has laid out an area v.ithin his own specrnlly for the students to enter. And as long as they don't declare a major study area outside the teach- er's own, students will continue to be advised academically by the "pre- ceptor" they encounter this fall, per· haps for their entire four years at USD. To academics and those familiar with universities In general, the idea

"If his adviser is also his teacher, they're going to get to know each other. And get to know each other in an academic context." The time for individual attention and guidance, the reasoning goes, is in a student's early years, not later. Foster says ·that's more true now than it was before. (Cont. on Page 81, col. 1)

WOQ(lrOw Wilsoq established 1t at Prin~ton Univ r ity when he was pre d nt there In 1905. nd University of San Diego is hoping the preceptorial system It will begin this fall will yield signifi- cant teacWng reforms on Its own campu. Every USD fre hman will enroll In a preceptorlal - a group limited to

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