University of California Santa Barbara - La Cumbre Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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Front row: Joseph Ransdell, June Main, Char- lotte Stough, Nandini Iyer, Helen Heise, Lau- rence Houlgate, Alexander Sesonske, Burleigh Wilkins, Merrill Ring. Second row: llham Oil- man, Edward Casey, Jack Barense, Herbert Fingarette, Paul Wienpahl, Hubert Schwyzer. Third row: Jon Wheatley, Ronald Hathaway. PHILOSOPHY Seminars and Spokesmen Highlight Study of Thought Philosophy Club seminars supplemented the department ' s program with guest speakers W. B. Alston from the Uni- versity of Michigan; Stanley Munset from UC Irvine; Don- ald Davidson from Stanford, and Eric Havelock from Yale. More new faces in this demanding field were the added faculty members, llham Dilman, Burleigh Wilkins, Edward Dasey and Francis Dauer, all hailing from eastern schools. Highlighting the list of department publications was W. B. Macomber ' s The Anatomy of Disillusion. Courses in ' Philosophy of History and Philosophy of Law broad- ened the already challenging panorama of concerns. The study of philosophy is principally the study of thought. Although degrees in this field are basically geared to academic professions, the values of philosophical funda- mentals are beneficial in all walks of life. RELIGIOUS STUDIES Religious Investigation Aids Comprehension of Culture Religious studies create an understanding of the general and cultural human conditions, past and present. Many current problems can be rephrased in light of the lack of religious consciousness in the modern world. The study of religion includes a history of the reactions of other peoples to similar crises. With increased awareness of these issues, students may be better prepared to develop their own views. In a more academic sense the department affords the stu- dent a chance to better comprehend a specific culture through study of its religious philosophy. The addition of five new courses to the curriculum, and two new faculty members, will help to facilitate this quest. Richard Comstock, Thomas O ' Dea, Wilbur Fridell, Walter Capps, Philip Hanson, Neal Steffen, Robert Michaelsen. 142

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Structured musical groups facilitate discipline and unity in the wdrld of sound. However, the solitude of a novice plucking on his simple instrument is an enviable expression, too, for it allows individual release and a chance to meld with the spheres. 241

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For our students, as for others, the future holds work and play, love and anguish, joy, suffering and death-and the hundreds of choices that make a life pointless or significant. Philosophy will not change any of this, but it might allow them to understand them- selves and their lives a bit more clearly and choose a bit more sensibly. -Alexander Sesonske, Chairman, Department of Philosophy. SPEECH Forensic Teams Compete In Numerous Tournaments Under the guidance of Kathleen Corey, the Speech Depart- ment ' s Forensics Teams competed in 23 regional and na- tional tournaments, notably the Dartmouth, Desert and Notre Dame Invitationals; the Rocky Mountain tourna- ment; and the Chicago National. Another facet of the crea- tive activity was Chairman Edwin Schoell ' s premier produc- tion of a new three-act play, Way, Way, Way Out There. Seminars were directed by Dr. June Shoup on Advanced Speech and Hearing Problems and by Dr. Maurice Sklar, who handled group studies in speech and hearing. Greeting an increased major enrollment of 10% were two additions to the curriculum, Foundations of Communica- tion and Research in Speech. Dr. John Snidecor con- ducted a lecture series on esophageal speech and completed a research project with Dr. Nobuhiko Issihiki at Kyoto Uni- versity in Japan during the fall quarter. Front row: Edwin Schoell, Rollin Quimby, Theodore Hanley, Upton Palmer. Second row: Kathleen Corey, Karen Wingerd, Barbara Thomas, Vincent Farr, S. John Macksoud, Virginia Perry. 243