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

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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

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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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HISTORY-SOCIAL STUDIES Front row: Philip Sorensen, Alec Alexander, Walter Mead, David Podoff. Second row: John Pippenger, Harold Votey, Maxwell Pellish. ECONOMICS Front row: William Kennedy, W. Douglas Morgan, John Hambor, Llad Phillips. Second row: Jerzy Karcz, James Sullivan, Lloyd Mercer, Vittorio Bonomo, Robert Weintraub. Procficol Social Problems Dominate Research and Study Summarizing the economics program at UCSB, department chairman A. P. Alexander stressed the growth of methods of analysis which are generally applicable, rather than the study of problems which may or may not be encountered during one ' s life. The connection between economic prob- lems and todays ' questions of social policy demands a dy- namic interest in this expanding department. Six new faculty members helped to meet these demands, while research and publication activities touched on many highly pertinent areas, such as the exploratory Economic HOME ECONOMICS Humanities and Sciences Drawn Upon in Research Home Economics majors deal not only with the provinces of the kitchen and the sewing room, but delve into aspects of practical existence on a commercial scale. They draw from the physical, biological, and social sciences, as well as from the humanities, in their research toward degrees in careers such as nutrition, buying in clothing firms, teach- ing, restaurant administration, and homemaking. In the area of theory, this course is beneficial even to non- majors, as it concerns family relations, child-care, manage- ment of resources, and the development of the individual in the family and in society. In September the department hosted the Third Annual All-Cal Graduate Student Nutrition Symposium at UCSB, with the help of its 166 departmental majors. Front row: Frances Halm, Lucille Woolsey. Second row: Frances Taci- onis, Elizabeth Maney, Ann Rice, Eleanor Mathewson, Paul Scherer. Analysis of Ocean Mineral Resources Development, undertaken by Walter Mead and Phillip Sorenson. Publi- cations included articles on Options for Meeting the Rev- enue Needs of City Governments, by Dr. Weintraub, In- dustrial Entrepreneurship, by A. P. Alexander, and East European Agriculture and United Kingdom ' s System. The increasing interrelation between economic problems and political and social life, coupled with the department ' s heavy Letters and Science requirements allows economics students to gain a broad cultural education. 244