Students run new university
The Kansas Free University has returned to campus this time, leaders say, to stay.
Leland McCleary, one of the organizers, says it is a different kind of school, a school where students are free to learn for the sake of learning "without a grading system or the authority of an omniscient instructor."
"Many students find school a drag. It is a constant struggle to please teachers and parents, to get through irrelevant courses, write so many meaningless papers and pass so many exams, without much pleasure to themselves or excitement in learning what they really want to know." McCleary said.
McCleary said the Free University offers an alternative. He belives a free setting would provide
an education based on people's interests and needs. "Since the Free University rejects the concept of education by coercion and bribery, there are no grades given and no degrees are granted," he said.
The purpose of the school is to provide students with, McCleary said, "the pleasure of learning and the sheer exhilaration of exercising control over your own life and work." It is, according to a pamphlet, "an intellectual and moral community without hierarchy based on age or academic achievement." Motivation is supplied by the student. The rationale behind this is that the student will learn only what he wants to learn and what he feels he needs to learn, McCleary said. Students coordinate the courses.
U.S. judges split on high school hair issue
By United Press International
by United Press International Federal judges are split over the question of whether or not it is legal to suspend boys with excessively long hair from public high schools.
An Indianapolis federal judge ruled Wednesday that 16-year-old Tyler Crews constitutional rights were not violated when North Central High School officials denied him admission because his hair was too long. The same day a Chicago federal judge ordered Barrington Consolidated High School to readmit David Miller whom had been suspended because his shoulder-length hair and stubby moustache did not comply with the school's dress code.
In response to the action Crews brought against the officials of his school U.S. District Court Judge James E. Noland said, "The plaintiff is not entitled to an injunction requiring the defendants to admit him to North Central High School without first complying with the school's regulations as to length of hair."
The judge said Crews was entitled to readmission when he complies with the announced hair style requirement of "above the
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collar, over the ears and above
the eyes . . . "
Chicago U. S., District Court Judge James B. Parsons issued a temporary restraining order preventing Barrington Consolidated High School from suspending Miller pending the court's decision in Miller's suit against the school charging that his constitutional rights had been violated.
"This is a new day," Parsons said. "We cannot mold the people of today in the mold of the people of the 1920's and the 1930's."
... You just cannot expect to make the future look like the past."
Waller seeks members
The Museum Membership Program has begun a membership drive to gain student support by providing benefits such as information concerning exhibits and museum projects.
A Bret Waller, director of the KU Museum of Art, said members receive the museum newsletter, announcements of activities and museum publications.
By joining for $2.50, students will also be able to subscribe to art magazines with group discounts. Membership envelopes are available in the museum.
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