Communist ABCs

The prospectus for the new course, announced last week by the University of San Francisco, had an ominous ring: "A basic course on the nature of the enemy." To Professor Anthony T. Bouscaren, who thought the whole thing up, Poly Sci 140 was to be exactly that--the first required course in the tactics and strategy of domestic Communism.

Beginning next fall, every junior at San Francisco will study the nature of Communism for a full year. For background, U.S.F.'s academic vice president, Father Raymond T. Feely, S.J., will analyze the philosophy of Communism and the nature of totalitarianism. Then, Political Scientist Robert MacKenzie will lecture on Soviet expansion. Finally, 30-year-old Tony Bouscaren, who has been keeping tabs on left-wing organizations ever since his undergraduate days at Yale, will take his students inside Communism, U.S.A.

His students will read everything from Das Kapital to transcripts of the Hiss trial. They will interview local C.P. members and FBI men, write detailed term papers on local Communist-front activities and how they operate. Bouscaren's idea is not to turn his students into amateur counterspies, but to give them a firsthand look at "what we're fighting against." After all, says he, "we have compulsory courses in American institutions; I feel we should have one to tell about the threats to those institutions."

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