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1 ;a, Wednesday. Mar, 22, 1967 . .77. . RTVMP Old Ti By PENNY RAYNnp DTH STAFF WRITER Ever thought about the dif ficulties of trying to make a harp talk? Or about how to make a man sound the size of a giant and a twelve-year-old boy sound the size of a peanut? . "Except for the Fine Arts Festival," Frank Beaver of the UNC TRVMP department ."no one in his right mind would try to do it." The Radio Department is producing for the Fine Arts Festival 'The Odyssey of Run yon Jones", an old-time radio drama of the type popular in the thirties and late forties before the advent of televi- sion. Radio was the "sit down medium" then," and "The Long Ranger" was the most popular program. Beaver feels that "recre ating a radio drama in the same spirit that old melodra mas were resurrected" is the best possible method for teach ing radio production. "The Odyssey of Runyon Jones" is a fantasy about a young boy searching in heaven for his dog who was run over by an auto. As a fantasy, it offers many technical, but challeng ing problems for production. For instance, the giant, play ed by professor Earl Wynn, must sound forty times larger than Runyon Jones, who is played by Wynn's twelve-year-old son, Stacy. A talking harp As Key "Improved teaching of the young to be effective members of society" is the greatest Comp - contribution computers ! can make to society and the university, Dr. Ralph W. Gerard said here last night. Giving the keynote address to a conference on "The Com puter and Research in the Hu manities," the internationally known California physiologist said "the pressing environ mental problems with which we live are those man has created for himself." The problems were created 5 by r?inef easing r the ;ease anSi f frequency and range - of -com- munication, the number of people who communicate and the richness of material which we now can communicate to ; each other," he said. "We are rapidly raising a sea of information in which we must either swim or drown and the way we must swim is , by enhancing the problem solving resources of man and society. l; "But the greatest contribu- tion computers can make is the- improved teaching of the young to be effective members of society." i Dr. Gerard's talk opened r. activities at the conference, sponsored by the University of North Carolina here and International Business Machines Corp. In his speech, "The Com puter and the University," 7 BLVl BILL. INC : w f- 'X , .... , A ' X ; w - f ; : , " i U - !' I: 'I - ; ; : ? X- . Dept. Presents accompanies Runyon on his journey, and its "speech" must be so scored that it is obvious to the audience what the harp is saying. Sounds of birds, howling wolves, chimes, gongs, musical bridges, and many other things must be duplicated. To add to the problems, the cast is finding its own sound effects, instead of using tapes from music and sound effect libraries. Mark Ollington, a Ph. D. in music, is scoring original music for the pro duction. The show will be performed in a small studio before a live audience. Very little will be pre-recorded. "This will give the audience an oppor tunity to see a live produc tion done in the same spon taneous spirit in which radio dramas used to be done. Mu sic, sound, and dialogue will be blended in a symphony of sound all at one time, rather than taping the show, editing out flaws, and recording and re-recording. For instance, the sound man will be on the stage doing the sound effects before the audience," Beaver said. "The radio drama is an ex citing part of twentieth-century culture, which, regret fully, has passed," Beaver said. "Radio can do a cer tain kind of imaginative story that no other medium can; in fact, with the blending of uter Teaching Cited To New Education Dr. Gerard told of the com puter in use as a teaching machine at his home campus, the University of California at Irvine. "Students use computer-aided learning in courses in eco nomics, psychology, biology, information and computer sci ence and remedial work in mathematics, English, history and civics," he said. 'Terhaps a quarter of all undergraduates have been on a computer terminal for a longer or shorter time and at least as large a fraction of ;the" i' faculty is A actively f inte? -: rested in developing course materials. "The whole orientation of the campus administration, faculty and students is to ward the highest possible in tegration of this newer re source into the fabric of the university. Being new and en ergetic we have a great ad vantage in this direction." Advantages of computer-aided learning are plentiful, said the dean of the graduate di vision and director of special studies at the Calif ornia school. For the student, he said it offers: "Better, more comfortable and faster learning. He can time his learning experience at his convenience, go at his own pace and catch up missed time. "Better teaching at many levels and in many areas. You have to look for fho W" bocauso it's silent. Mr.Wranglor for wreal sportswear. The famous silent "W": you don't pronounce it, but you must look for it if you want sportswear that looks wrlght fits wright, feels wright. Made wrlght, too many in no-iron fabrics treated with the wre markable.Wranglok per manent press finish. Mr, Wrangler sportswear is here, on campus, in your size, V A sounds, music, and voices, what you can do to the ima gination is unlimited." Television, Beaver explained, limits the scope of the viewer's imagination, because one must accept the characters the way someone else has pictured them. "I never will forget how disappointed I was when I first saw the Long Ranger on television. My imagination had conceived of something much grander and greater than he was." 'Taping was rare in the early days of radio, and it was less expensive to do radio dramas live. Norman Crowin, who wrote Runyon Jones, wrote, produced, and directed one thirty-minute drama every week for 26 weeks of the year. Each drama was done twice-first for the East coast and then for the West coast. This involved several rehear sals a week, as well as script changes if the East coast au dience missed a pun, or some thing," Beaver explained. Beaver invited all interested people to attend the perfor mance, scheduled for the after noon of April 12 as part of the Fine Arts Festival. Mem bers of the cast include Earl and Stacy Wynn, Rob Moyer, Dan Summey, Mike Edwards, Fred Heitman, Peter Heaps, Savannah Scarborough, Laurel Dykstra, Jane Howard, Dale Nieburg, and Alex Toogood. "Personalized tutoring and individual attention. "Automatic measurement of progress by keeping appropri ate records of responses. When the course is finished the ex amination has been taken and examination neuroses are by passed. "Vastly richer materials. Demonstrations, exhibits, tra vel material and on-site work at archaeological excavations or ocean-bottom laboratories are available for presentation. "More sophisticated pro blems. These can be included in instruction even to the le- vel of simple research, lifting the drudgery of sheer repeti tive computation." Students aren't the only ones who benefit from computer teaching machines, Dr. Gerard said. Teachers also get a break. "Such a system," he said, "removes a great deal of drudgery and repetition from the teacher. It allows the teacher to be updated with out allotting a periodic sum mer or year to brush up on subject matter. 'It encourage frequent changes in the material used and it makes much more time available for real teaching." Computer-instructors are a virtual requirement for teach ing students in developing na tions and in the poverty pock ets in our own country, Dr. Gerard maintained, because the vast educational needs of such areas "cannot be ap proached with the supply of human teachers present or fu ture." The California educator spoke to an estimated 340 people in the mam dining room of the Holiday Inn here. A spokesman for the com mittee which planned the meet ing said it is "probably the largest such conference ever held. People came from as far away as Florida and Illi nois." Sessions on the computer's research role in archaeology, art, history, literature, music and newspapers will be held during the remainder of the conference, which ends Tues day at 4:30 p.m. Mr I KCiOTT RUN NOW. I VICAR, IT WAS NICE fD T; 'AS BEEN -3 cZJtzA -5 THE DAILY Professor Earl Wynn, playing the giant, and "The Odyssey of Runyon Jones" to be present his 12 year-old son Stacy, playing Runyon ed during the Fine Arts Festival. Jones, rehearse for RTVMP's production of Letters To The Editor To the Editor I have been sent a clipping from the Associated Press Dis patch in which you are quot- ed as saying that Pembroke College had distributed pills to co-eds and "there is no longer relevancy to the question of which university should be first". Unfortunately your informa tion is fragmentary and oo viously incorrect. In the spring of 1965 two co eds over the age of twenty-one who were engaged to be mar ried a the end of the academ ic year were given contracep tive pills before their ap proaching marriages which is fairly standard custom throughout the country. Any attempt to draw a parallel be tween , this situation and the ' wholesale prescribing : of pills to the undergraduate college population at large is unwar ranted and not in the true tra dition of honest reporting or editorializing. Yours truly, Roswell D. Johns, M.D. Director Brown University Health Services. $3 "W6 THE PETERSOM HIT THE VA Hl$ FAMILV UVD IN NEU) MEXICO... O 167. Th iUU Srwlieate. Im. 4 DUt Mirror. Llllo.TM 9t -22. TAR HEEL i n - I : - I TED To the Editor Senator Mansifeld said he thought the CIA was wrong in its secret financial involve- ment with NSA, but he didn't think there was any need of a congressional investigation or & v Y- At BETA THETA PI presents JAMES and Also THE SHOWMEN Thursday, March 23 8:00 P.M. PLANTERS' WAREHOUSE, DURHAM Tickets Now Available at Y-Court $3.00 Advanced, $3.50 at Door WIN A FREE DATE TICKET ml I I f - Br i joint committee to study CIA activities, since there already was a senate group for this purpose, and he was a mem- ber of it. 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