Physical Science Building Construction Bids Sought

Construction bids for UCI's six-story physical science building are being sought fr o m b u i l d e rs throughout the southland. Bidding documents are available on campus.

State bond funds totaling $6.2 million have been released by the state Department of Finance to be-gin construction immediately, ac-cording to L. E. Cox, vice chan-cellor for business and finance. An-other $2.5 million in federal funds from the Higher Education Facili-ties have been authorized for the project.

equipment, including a nuclear re-actor.

The building is scheduled for completion in the spring of 1969. It will include facilities for instruc-tion and research in physics and chemistry.

Designed by architect Kenneth S. Wing, F AJA, Long Beach, the building will be located southwest of the central campus park, adja-cent to the Science Lecture Hall.

CON·STRUCTION BIDS are now being sc:>ught on this arch.itect's proposal for UCl1s Phy· sical Sciences Unit I.

Part of the federal contribution will be used for major laboratory

It will be the largest building on campus at the time of its comple-tion, containing 200,000 gross square feet of floor space. Construction will be of structural steel a9d pre-cast concrete.

University of California, Irvine

Volume I, Number 19

I News Dinner Dance

A Spring formal dinner-dance, sponsored by the ASUCI, will be held May 26 at the Newporter Inn. All students, faculty and staff are invited to attend.

The Ray N oval Band will pro-vide music, and a comedian from Las Vegas will add entertainment for the evening.

Dress will be formal attire -long or short formals for women, and tuxedos or dinner jackets for men.

The cost of the dance with din-ner is $10 for two. Tickets for the dance only will be $4.50 per couple.

Shuttlebus Service The "shuttlebus" which makes

trips between Irvine and UCLA is extendfog its five-day service one additional day.

Students will be able to ride to Los Angeles on Saturdays by re-serving bus space in advance. The service will begin April 1.

Librarian John Smith explained that the additional run will be for students who are unable to go on week days.

The bus will leave UCI at 8: 30 a.m. and will depart from UCLA at 3 p.m.

Writ.er-Critic lecture The Department of F o r e i g n

Languages and Literatures of UCI will present a lecture on "Form and Content of the New Novel" by French writer and critic Nath-alie Sarraute.

The lecture will be Wednesday, April 5 at 4 p.m. in the Science Lecture Hall. All students, faculty and staff are invited.

Extension Workshop "Byrd's Hit" is the title of a

series of experimental theater pieces to be staged by the University Ex-tension New Art Workshop. The program will be held Wednesday, April 5, at 8 p.m. in FA 1616.

The experimental "one acters" will feature exotic sounds, visual effects and very unusual scripts. Class instructor is Joseph Byrd, director of the Experimental Work-shop of the Pasadena Museum of Art, in whose honor students nam-ed the presentation.

Fiesta Planned The Nonacademic Advisory

Council has planned a springtime "Fiesta" for all UCI employees. The dinner-dance will be held Sat-urday, April 15 at El Toro Marine Base in the staff NCO Club.

Dinner will be served from 7 to 8: 30 p.m. Dancing will continue

11TAKE A BAN·ANA OUT TO LUNCH" March 30, 1967

Briefs I Fall Applicants Swamp ·UCI; ~:~mp~,:~n: a.m. The cost js s2.s0 Over 1400 Sent Elsewhere

Staff members may purchase tic-kets from their area representative. Deadline for reservations is April 4, and tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

For further information dance co-chairman Jean Maher may be contacted at 5137.

Alpha Phi Omega Conference The 33rd Section-III conference

of Alpha Phi Omega will be held at UCI and Newport Beach this weekend.

The Irvine Rho Rho chapter of APO will act as hosts to the con-ference, which is expected to draw nearly 150 delegates from Southern California and Hawaii.

St. James Try-Outs The first rehearsal and try-outs

for lead roles of the "Father Riv-ers' Folk Mass,'' presented by St. Jam es College Youth Group, will be held on April 2nd, 7 p.m., at 2871 Bay Shore Drive, Newport Beach.

This performance of the Folk Mass, under the direction of Mr. Les Van Dyke, Newport Harbor High School vocal music director, will be a first for Newport Beach.

This work has received world-wide acclaim, and it is hoped that all high school and college age young people interested in partici-pating in this unique experience will call 673-1510 for further in-formation.

Swimming Team Receives Honors

An informal ceremony honoring the swimming team will be held in Gateway Plaza tomorrow at noon.

Chancellor Aldrich, Coach Al Ir-win, Athletics Director W a y n e Crawford and the entire swim team will be present to accept a trophy for their fantastic 2nd-place finish in the NCAA college swimming and diving championship.

Dr. Aldrich will also accept a plaque for the "record setters" of the tournament.

UCI fell second only to Santa Barbara, but their finish affirmed the fact that the Anteaters have built a national swimming power of Orange County student-athletes in two short years.

The Irvine swimmers set nine new UCI records as well as one NCAA record. The four man team of Dave Belknap, Bob Sharp, Bob Nealy and Steve Farmer whittled the 400-yard free relay time to 3: 14.9 during the competition.

Undergraduate applicants to UCI for the fall quarter are now being channeled to other University of California campuses, according to Lyle C. Gainsley, registrar and admissions officer.

Gainslev said that UCI will have about 700.openings for undergradu-ates next fall. Before the March I deadline, 2100 applications were received.

All qualified students who ap-plied before the deadline will be

Business Group Forms at UCI

A Business Advisory Council has been formed on the Irvine campus. As a sub-committee of the New-port Harbor Chamber of Com-merce, the purpose of this organi-zation is to acquaint students with all of the many rewards and chal-lenges found in a career in busi-ness.

The objective is to be accom-plished by means of student visita-tion to various businesses in the Orange County area. Over 20 busi-nesses from the surrounding com-munity are participating in the program.

Visits take the entire day, and students are in the company of executives of each concern. Visi-tors find out why the business exists, what financial and sociologi-cal importance the business pos-sesses and what takes place in the average day of a businessman.

Important contacts can be made in this program, with the possibili-ties of future employment, as well as the enlightening inf o r m a t i o n gained concerning a business car-eer.

A steering committee of five Irv-ine students is presently leading the Business Advisory Council, includ-ing Bob Partridge, president; Rick Farrell and Seu Gibson, program coordinators; Paul Ideker, secre-tary; and Larry Brammer, public relations.

Students interested in learning more about the Business Advisory Council and arranging of appoint-ments for visits to various busi-n'esses in the area are invited to an open meeting in the 3rd floor lounge of the Commons, Monday, April 3, at 7: 30 p.m.

admitted to one of the university's nine campuses.

University officials announced that those who apply for admission after the March 1 deadline will be placed on a waiting list at seven of the nine campuses of the university because of the uncertainty over the university budget.

UC administrators have said they can admit all qualified students if the University receives at least $264 million in state support. Governor

Reagan has proposed $235 million. The UC Board of Regents or-

dered the UC administration to proceed with planning on the basis of a $255 million appropriation, which would mean limiting enroll-ment by 3,500 - 5,000 students be-low the anticipated fall level of 97,000.

At a budget support level of $235 million, more than 10,000 students would be denied admission, offi-cials have said.

NCAA Approves UCI Membership

UC Irvine has been approved for NCAA college division member-ship in District 8, and the Anteaters are eligible to compete in collegiate sports championships sponsored by the NCAA, effective immediately.

Announcement of the member-ship approval came today from tJCI At h 1 e ti c Director Wayne Crawford after receipt of a tele-gram from the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Kansas City, Mo.

SRT Presents Third Play

"Six Characters in Search of an Author,"· Luigi Pirandello's classic of modern drama, will be the third presentation of the season for the Student Repertory Theatre.

Opening Friday, April 7, "Six Characters" will be performed three nights, April 7-9, at 8:30 p.m., in the UCI Studio Theater. An earl-ier scheduled opening was post-poned to avoid conflict with other events on campus.

According to Robert Cohen, SR T director and professor of drama, " 'Six Characters' is one of the most perplexing and provocative plays of all times. It caused a revolution in the theater when it was first pre-sented and has gained in impor-tance as the theater world has be-come more ready for it."

SR T's successful run of three, one-act comedies closed this week with a visiting performance at the College of the Desert in P a l m Springs.

Crawford was extremely pleased with the news, and Coach Al Irwin and his swimming team were also elated. "This is great," said Irwin, "now we'll be able to compete in the NCAA swimming champion-ship in Commerce."

Irwin's p o w e r f u I swimming forces have been aw a i ti n g the NCAA's approval on the member-ship application since their spec-tacular dual meet victory over two-time defending c o 11 e g e division swimming champion San D i ego State, 73-31, late in February.

UCI applied for membership in October 1966, but the application could not be acted upon until the school was fully accredited by the accrediting commission for senior

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Buffalo Springfield w i 11 be featured in a dance and light show in UCl's Campus Hall tomorrow n i g h t, at 8:30 p.m.

The N,ew York Stock Ex· cha,nge w i I I present the light show, and Loma is sponsoring the event.

In addition to 8 u f f a I o S p r i n g f i e I d, the Cob-blestone Gard.en will play for the dance.

Tickets are $3, although UCI students may purchase tickets in adva·nce at $2. Pre-sale UCI tick.ets are lim· ited to two tickets per stu· dent. Tickets are now on sale in the Activities Office and snack bar.

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Scientific American Features . .

Argument For Gene Manipulation The modem advocates of pro-

grams of genetic improvement of the human race are headed by the Nobel Prize-winning biologist H. J. Muller and by the author of the Conclave source book, Sir Jul-ian Huxley. Huxley, in his "Es-says of A Humanist," cal.ls for programs of both positive and neg-ative . eugenics; that is, for both multiplying the good and dimin-ishing the bad.

For the positive half he recom-mends that married couples be per-mitted to select an outstanding in-dividual as sperm donor for their offspring, probably not by name but by his record of achievement as reported by the Health Service. Their doctor would then impreg-n_ate the wife with sperm previous-ly supplied by the donor and deep frozen. .

For the negative half, he recom-mends a program based on birth control and voluntary sterilization, in order to diminish "the people, all too familiar to social workers in large cities, who seem to have ceased to care, and just carry on the business of bare existence in the midst of extreme poverty and squalor. Unfortunately, they are not deterred by the conditions of existence from carrying on with the business of reproduction: and their mean family size is very high. Their misery and improvidence is not their fault, but their misfor-tune: our social system provides the soil on which they can grow and multiply, with no prospects save poverty and squalor."

Huxley then goes on (pp. 270-271) to attack the view of Meda-war and others, saying that this problem can be solved by changes in the environment alone.

In reviewing Huxley's "Essays" for the 0 c t o b e r 1964 Scientific American, A. E. Mirsky of the Rockefeller Institute attacks Hux-ley's proposals as playing into the hands of the radical right and as being simply impractical: "Ref er-ence to recent books on human genetics would quickly show that o u ts tan din g investigators think much more knowledge (and not simply "detailed knowledge") would be required before policies far more modest than those Hux-ley advocates could be implement-ed."

Mirsky then describes some of the recent work on the effect of the environment on the activity of genes, and concludes, "The way is now being opened for environmen-tally affecting gene activity and so not incurring the awful risks of a eugenic program, the risk of irre-versibly changing t h e biological character of our species on the basis of inevitably subjective atti-tudes and insufficient information."

An answer to an answer to the answer, written by Huxley and Mirsky, appeared in the January 1965 Scientific American. Then, in March 1965, the readers had their chance:

Martynas Y cas wrote, "The need for more knowledge is incontro-vertible, but the statement unfor-tunately seems to imply that man,

lacking knowledge and wisdom, is not currently embarked on such a program. That the medical use of insulin, to take one example, is usually described as the alleviation of diabetes in no way changes the fact that it is also a potent pro-gram to increase the frequency of ~iabetogenic genes in the popula-t10n. Although Dr. Mirsky stress-es that it is difficult to determine what to select for, at least this one particular program meets virtually no opposition." .

Theodosius Dobzhansky said, "It seems scarcely credible that a ser-ious scientist can see no need for more detailed knowledge of human genetics than is now available to embark on a program of genetic ~mprovement of mankind. Sir Jul-ian seems to be convinced that he knows exactly what kind of gene-tic endowment will be best for mankind and just how to proceed to achieve this goal. What he is pleased to call "modest and volun-tary methods," i.e., artificial in-semination of women by the sperm of donors selected (by whom?) for this purpose, is certainly not free of objections on genetic grounds even ~ it were accept~ble on psy~ cholog1cal and s o c t o l o g i c a l grounds."

George Milwee, Jr., commented "Unless Dr. Mirsky holds that in~ telligence needs to be discouraged, I should like to point out to him that while the detection of genius may be too difficult for the tests of our psychologists, the detection of stupidity is a task that comes within their scope. If the number of stupid people is to be decreased it is unnecessary to decide whethe; the children of stupid parents are stupid because of an unfavorable combination of genes or because they are raised in a stultifying en-vironment. The task in either case is to persuade stupid people not to become parents."

Paul G. Neimark struck at both: "What deeply bothers me regard-ing the debate on whether or not we are ready to apply eugenics is that Mirsky seems to have accept-ed Huxley's premise that the prime question here is only one of suffi-cient scientific data. The all-en-compassing ethical consideration of whether or not any man or group of men ever have the right to tell any other man or group of men whom to marry or how many chil-dren to have has been purposefully subordinated. When all the major evidence on eugenics is finally in, Huxley's ideology will still have to answer for the fact that he advo-cates applying science with sold-iers."

Bruce Stewart wrote, "Mirsky perceives the perils of authoritari-anism, of racism and the lack of conclusive means of identifying de-sirable and undesirable hereditary traits. Against these dangers must be placed the grave consequence of the present do-nothing policy."

"Mirsky implied that science may achieve control over the chemistry of heredity before eugenics is real-ized. If so, his difficulty will not be escaped. Unpleasant decisions

Conclave Schedule 8:00 - 2:00 2:00- 3: 30

4:00- 5:30

5:30- 7:30

8:00- 10:00

Classes as usual. Main address by Medawar and short speeches by the other panelists. (Campus Hall) Student discussions with guest speakers visit-ing all groups in rotation. (Fine Arts Build-ing) Buff et dinner served in the court outside Campus Hall. Student meal tickets will be honored. Commons will be closed. Panel discussion, commenting on statements and answering questions submitted by the discussion g;roups. (Campus Hall)

will still remain as to which genes to "correct" and what kind of cor-rections to make. Should gene manipulation be achieved, these ten-tative and pragmatic decisions will have to be made."

As the Scientific American has given the Anthill permission to make quotations of only limited length, these excerpts do not give the complete argument. The rest may be found in the copies of the magazine ·referred to above, and above all in Sir Julian's own "Es-says of a Humanist."

Conclave La,ks Affirmative ·voice

UCI's spring Conclave will be without a speaker in favor of the ideas proposed in . the Conclave: Genetic Cures for Social Ills. Otily persons opposed to the topic will speak at the event. Lack of time was the reason given for this im-balance in the program.

To compensate for this b i a s, twenty copies of Sir Julian Hux-ley's "Essays of a Humanist" have been placed in the dorms and on Reserve in the library. Huxley's book stimulated sharp controversy when it was released.

Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel Prize winner for biology in 1960, will be the featured speaker at the Con-clave. Medawar shared the Prize for discovering a method of in-ducing immunological tolerance for transplanting living organs. Meda-war will lead off the Conclave with a speech at 2 p.m. .

Professor Paul R. Ehrlich of the Division of Systematic Biology at Stanford, Professor Bobby J. Wil-liams of the Department of An-thropology at UCLA, and Profes-sor Alan J. Miller of the Depart-ment of Psychology at UCI will comprise a panel for discussion at the Conclave.

In addition to speeches and panel discussions by professors, students will have the opportunity to form discussion groups of their own dur-ing the day. T hes e discussion groups may submit questions to the panel for comment.

The Spring Conclave is sponsor-ed by UCI's Division of Physical Sciences.

Guard Posts Open Sophomore males can now enlist

in the California Army National Guard specifically for officer train-ing.

Young men can satisfy their mili-tary obligation and advance toward a commission in the Guard with a minimum of . interference to col-lege studies. Although students will have a Reserve service obliga-tion to complete upon graduation, they serve the remainder of their time as commissioned officers, get-ting on with the business of start-ing a career at the same time.

Males who are interested in the program may contact Lieutenant Colonel Morton, GE 4-4077.

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colleges and universities. Irvine received full accredation

in late January 1967, and the appli-cation for membership was then circulated to d i s t r i c t member schools for approval.

"I understand that a man is born into this world with his own pair of eyes, and that he is not at all respon-sible for his vision - he is

·merely responsible for his quality of personal hones-ty."

-STEPHEN CRANE

March 30, 1967

''Wt JU.ST WANT TO MAI<£ CONSCRJPTICJN M~ ObNIOCRAT/G If II

Application Date Extended Deadline for application to two

new University of California Edu-cation Abroad study centers at Beirut and Jerusalem has been ex-tended to April 10.

The study center in Lebanon is limited to six undergraduate male students. The University offers an opportunity for UC students to gain direct knowledge of the Arab world while working toward a de-gree from the University of Cali- . fornia. ·

UC's study center in Jerusalem provides an insight into . the life

and problems of the people of the Middle East, with reference to the new state of Israel. Students who are not already fluent in Hebrew are expected to enroll in an inten-sive summer program in the langu-age at the Heb,rew University.

Unclassified Ads . I Wanted: Secretarial work - typing, shorthand, dictaphone, filing , mailings, proofreading, correcting papers. To do at home. Neat and accurate. Call Sher-ry, 673-3339. Balboa lsl=d.

I Letter To The Editor I To the Editor,

In the past few days, a number of UCI students have reported to me that police officers have stopped, searched, and bulli.ed them without cause. These students hav.e one thing. in common: they do not look like the people in tooth-paste ads. The policemen who harass people for wearing their hair long or dressing in their own styles (a·nd the FBI ag.ents that come snooping around) are giving students · some peculiar l.essons about freedom. It seems that you are free to pursue life, liberty, and happine-ss only if you consent to look, think, a.nd act in accordance with stereotyp,es - other-wise, look out!

Albert Camus, the man who has been called the con-science of our time, has written that today the murderers ar.e the iudges, and it is the innocent who must iustify themselves. No police pester the crew-cut, clean-~haven manufacturers of napalm or t~e expensively dressed matrons who help to keep our "invisible poor11 in despair. But put a flower in your hair, and you become a suspicious charader. As long as you wear a button that says 11Make War, Not Love,11 you are okay. Hate is respectable. Mass murder is respectable;

Those who are pest.ered by the police for no reason must not suffer in silence. If you are harassed, call the ACLU in Los Ang.eles or Orange County, write to the. L.A. Free Press of the UCI Anthill, call Al Mitchell at the Fifth Estate Coffee House on the Sunset Strip. · If the police do not know that their iob is to protect citizens, not to persecute them, to help and not to hinder, then they must be taught about th.e civil liberties guaranteed to Americans. Would the police like to see the Su.nset Strip demonstrations against Blu.e ·fascism re· peated on Harbor Boulevard?

It is a bitter irony that these people who get most hys· terical about defending our American way of life fail to real· ize that the crucial diff.erence between a free society and a totalitarian society is that the former valu.es and protects the idiosyncratic individual. If we demand that the individual conform to State-approved stereotypes, then w,e become what we profess to hate - totalitarians. ·

STEPHEN A. SHAPIRO Assistant Professor