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"A ompterhasnoin flitsonIt hierarch of pro ra s a llosacmue to shedue an cotrol most of its ow IR~c%EI operations.t ANCQ) 'VfA mituof enc andar t1 tin" taAal computer hasn dTo doits jo craeteporm,Says Rod,"tsamxueo sCienc anyr. Roduered a intst in th sens 1966. Todavet hes n BMSytesProgrammring (twoIt' aUA chal* to USO fVt a portion of Operating System/360, a hierarchy of programs that allows a computer to schedule and control most of its own operations. A mixture of science and art "Programming" means writing the instruc tions that enable a computer to do its job. Says Rod, "It's a mixture of science and art. You're a scientist in the sense that you have to analyze problems in a completely logical way. Programming "It's a chai to use evi CAN WER I7I ~ANSW em*S 56099cr AIR e i (465 WV ING6 'ME THEY IW S COLKE 1'Ey OJ95 AO OpV A Cro U10 ' 019 "S*/ 1:~ CANTW os of IP & "But you don't necessarily hunt for an ulti mate right answer. There can be as many solutions to a programming problem as there are programmers. That's where the art comes in. Any given program may work, but how well it works depends entirely on the ingenuity of the programmer." Programmers hold a key position in the country's fastest growing major industry information processing. Business Week re ports that the computer market is expanding about 20 percent a year. You don't need a technical degree If you can think logically and like to solve problems, you could become an IBM pro at IBM ice arything p -I" BlacKst4 r 1s MADS OF Of 1finatel %A5 euet. 4L BY SUSAN ROSS Faculty Editor Intelligence agents are on Caro lina campus breaking codes and establishing contacts, according to Prof. Paul Blackstock of the in ternational studies department. An intelligence and psychological warfare research specialist, Black stock creates mock espionage on campus as part of a graduate course on strategic intelligence. Efforts are made to maintain a security level so the course imi tates the secrecy of international espionage, so Blackstock declined to reveal all the details of the course. Students break ciphers and make contacts with people, using clues "just like in the movies," s a i d Blackstock. According to the associate pro fessor who holds a Ph.D. in inter national relations, "Intelligence is the first line of defense and the basis on which U. S. foreign pol icy is made." grammer no matter what your major. We'll start you off with up to twenty-six weeks of classroom and practical training. Visit your placement office ON Sign up at your place ment office for an inter-- CAMPUS view with IBM. FEB. 17,18 An Equal Opportunity Employer IBMA ligence The course includes reading lit rature in the field of intelligence uch as "The Code Breakers" by )avid Kahn and working on prac ical agent and research problems. Blackstock emphasizes the re earch aspect of intelligence in a .967 issue of Saturday Review: 'Espionage is the organization and ,ontrol network of agents to col ect information normally denied official representatives. Information is collected through clandestine sources, and so, accord ing to Blackstock, espionage is often mistakenly regarded as noth ing more than a "collection of cloak and dagger outfits." Blackstock, who served in Army ntelligence during World War II, 5uggested the usefulness of the .ourse for those in the military or lanning to enter the field of in. -elligence. A specialist in the affairs of Russian a n d Eastern European ;atellite countries, B I a c k s t o c k .eaches two lower level courses, Soviet foreign policy and strategy ind practices of world communism. According to Blackstock, most of .he information about the James Bond-type agent, so widely pub lished and filmed today, has come rrom memoirs of agents. The most Faculty Footnotes Philosoph Gains 2 l Herbert S. Matsen and Raymond K. Perkins Jr. have joined the fac ulty of the USC Department of Philosophy. Matsen, who formerly taught at Converse College, is completing Ph.D. requirements at Columbia University. Perkins has taught at Duke University where he is com pleting his doctoral work. .* * * Dr. Paul C. Berg of the School of Education is one of two nomi nees for presidency of the Inter national Reading Association. Recognized as one of the nation's authorities on reading behavior, Berg has been director of the USC Reading Clinic since 1957 and has recently retired as president of the National Reading Conference. As two-year president of the Na tional Reading Conference, B e r g was instrumental in founding the Journal of Reading Behavior. Prof. James T. Myers of the School of Education will partici pate in an international confer ance on edlucation in Communist China to be held in Brussels Feb. 18-19. He will join 25 other Euro r>ean scholars. USC Spanish Prof. Jorge de la _ANDY GRIFFIThHe *, *00 A U MIRACLE 1: CO03, [.JO ?E? * ONE HOUR OR ONE (BY REQUEST) * SPECIAlJST IN CLEA: AND TRIMS * 24-HlOIR C;OIN-OP LJ * SIRTS LAUINDERE'D (ON HANGERS A * GOLD SEAl. DRY CLI WE INVITE YOU; TO COM Leader Agents famous memoirs are those of Kim Philby, the Russian who invaded the security of CIA. Blackstock quipped that Ameri cans did their share of infiltrating Soviet intelligence, the KGB, say ing that at one time "one out of five KGB members were from the FBI, and the only ones who could afford to pay dues." From 1945 to 1951 Blackstock was an intelligence specialist in Western Europe and North Africa for Army G-2 (intelligence). From 1951 until 1960 he served as a psy chological warfare specialist in the office of the chief of psychological warfare. Dr. Blackstock y Faculty lembers Jara has been selected from 20,000 candidates for. inclusion in the first volume of "The Two Thou sand Men of Achievement" pub lished this year in London. Law Fraternity Gives Plaque To Adviser Prof. William A. Clineburg of the Law School was presented a plaque Monday night by Phi Al pha lelta law fraternity noting his "outstanding and distinguished service" as an adviser. According to fraternity member Ellis Merritt, C I i n e b u r g, who teaches courses on taxes and leg islation and holds a division of practice court, e as been of service not only to their chapter, but to the entire North andl South Caro lina area chapters. Clineburg has held the p)osition of attorney for the chief counse lor's office of the Internal Re enue- Service, and later he was sp)ecial assistant to the Attorney G;eneralI under the tax diviasion of the l)ept. of Justice. E'S AN EX-MA RINE TURNED PRE ACHER 1TAINMENT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! 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