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VOL. I, NO. 12
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1959
EIGHT PAGES
Six Computer Sessions
To Be Open To Public
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Six panel discussions on problems of research on di
gital computers will be open to the public as part of the
summer conference on "Courses in Frontier Research in
Digital Computers," to be held here.
Planned for the evenings of August 18 through 26, the
discussions will feature visiting faculty members as panel
ists, who, according to Dr. John W. Carr III, UNC Com
putation Center Director, will explain the capacities and
functions of so-called "electronic brains" in lay terms
All of the meetings, except for that of Thursday, Aug.
tLst 20, are to be held in Carroll
Hall auditorium at 8 pm. The United States, England and Mexi
Thursday meeting will be held in co will attend the courses,
the Gerrard Hall auditorium at The topics and panelists for the
the same hour. evening discussions are as fol-
Thirteen of the world's leading lows:
authorities on electronic comput- Tuesday, August 18. "Future
trs will serve as visiting faculty Trends in Computer Hardware."
for the courses. Panel Members: Professor Saul
During the conference the Uni- Gorn, University of Pennsylvania;
vac 1105 Automation System, re- Dr. Heinz Schecher, Munich Tech
cently installed on campus, will tiische Hochschule; Philippe Drey-
be demonstrated and used for the
fcrst time. -
Over 130 engineers, scientists
and industrial and business uses
of electronic computer from the
(See COMPUTER, page 7)
Sheffield Bill
Receives Veto
By Patterson
Hank Patterson vetoed a bill in
troduced by Dewey Sheffield to
give honor council defendants who
plead guilty the right to waive a
jury.
The student board passed Mr.
Sheffield's bill which amended the
student body approved referendum
for a trial by jury in summer hon
or council trials, during the Au
gust 4 meeting.
Before the amended bill came
to a vote, Bob Bingham who is a
member of men's honor council
gave his support to the bill. Mr.
Bingham felt that if the defendant
plead guilty there was no purpose
in calling in a jury.
Because the bill was drawn up
Lo fill only the requirements of
Lhe referendum, several members
of the board thought the council
was stepping over the line and
(See VETO, Page 5)
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VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PERSONNEL
Two-Week Meeting Opens
Supervisory personnel concerned
with vocational rehabilitation
!rom six states, Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands opened a two
week meeting on campus last
Monday.
The third regional Office of Vo
cational RchaMLtation OVR) of
the Department of Health. Educa
tion and Welfare is sponsoring the
of its kind, in cooperation with the
University.
Three guest lecturers i.K-Ijdir,g
DR. JOHN W. CARR III
. . Computation Center Hed
James
Bates, vice president
and aCtua-y of Home Security
Holmes, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Affiliated
Companies. Atlanta, Ga.; and Les
ter F. Zerfoss, director of Indus
trial Relations and Management
Services of American Enka Cor
poration in Enka, N. C.
U.N'C Education School faculty
members. Dr. William P. Mat
thews and W. O - Slattery. are
serving as institute coordinator
and University consultant, re
spectively. Dean Arnold Perry of the Edj
cation School will jcin Charles H.
'59 Summer School
Very Successful - King
Two officials of the University Summer School, Dr. A.
K. King and Samuel H. Magill, Monday released state
ments appraising the 1959 sessions.
Summer Sessions Director King termed this year's
terms as a "very successful summer school," but Magill, Di
rector of Summer School Student Activities, voiced a need
for a new approach to summer activities.
Reporting on enrollment in
crease, Dr. King said, "There ably directed, and in general
has been a slightly more than this has been a successful sum
two per cent increase in enroll- mer for the Department of Star
ment of advanced students, grad- dent Activities,
uate and professional students he "We have been happy to have
explained. undergraduate students from
ThA industry and scholarshin many other colleges and universi-
has been very high," he contin- ties and hope they will tell other
ued. "Under the leadership of students about summer scnow as
Dean Samuel Magill. with the Carolina.
help of the WMCA and the YW- Dr. King said that Lenoir and
CA, Graham Memorial and var- the addition to Peabody Hall will
ious interested students, we have be air conditioned next summer
had an excellent program of stu- as a partial answer to student
dent activities. discussion about hot weather.
"The film series was well se- jje called the UXC News the
lected, the summer school chorus most valuable of all summer stu
dent activities, saying:
"It serves to tie the campus
together in a way that no ofher
activity could accomplish. Dur
ing the current summer the UNC
News has discharged in a very
responsible manner it's objiga
gation to the students, the facul
ty, and Chapel Hill, for keeping
everyone informed.
In his statement, Magill hinted
at a possible new approach to
ward summer activities, commenting:
"The free disposition of
Li e Insurance Company in Dur- J V arren of Raleigh, director oi
ham, will klrc?s the group.
OLher jptrAers will be R.
M.
Division of Vocational RehabiLta
tion, and Corbet! Reed)-, regiorJ
representative of OVR with head
quarters in Charlottesville, Va., in
welcoming the delegates to the in
stitute. Dr. Matthews, institute coordin
ator, explained that most of the
sessions wiU deal with case stu
dies. "We plan to use the Harvard
Csse Studv tochniaue." he said.
"in which ri al but dismiised cases dents to attend carefully to their
are ciscL'.ised by participants who academic responsibilities and re
crn.Micr the situation, what was,ax p-;- rxtra curricular partici
done and what sheuld have been : v- vA,..n tt fnr a
rew tpprr-ach to summer activ
ities, sn tpproach that will pro-
sta
cere
la aidi:-r.D there will be several
lecturer and discussions cn vari
ous asTtects of vocational rehabil-
ation.
vide diversion with
! cf effort "
a minimum