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Friday, December 11, 1970
University Daily Kansan
It's Come a Long Way
Free U. Is Still Evolving
By CAROLYN ROTHERY Kansas Staff Writer
The Kansas Free University offered at its inception a new kind of degree, called a Master's degree, radically different change from the classes offered at the university.
The members of the classes in the new school had a part in deciding what the courses would cover. They also had the biggest difference—what courses they would take. There were no requirements.
The free university movement started on the coasts from the beaches to disaffiliation with teaching methods adopted by large universities.
The change centered on the issue that classes should not be based on what the teacher wants to teach, what the students want to learn, or what the waiter wants to eat.
THE MODEL for most foreign schools seems to have been an ancient medieval universities of Europe, where students had the authority to decide.
the first of the first university was begun at San Francisco State University. This free school has two large, well-established schools, and is so well accepted now, that regular college credit can be earned for some of the
Trying to establish an optional supplement to the American higher educational system, if not to offer a method of total reform
THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas presented the same kind of blockade as other large libraries in 1967, and an education. In 1967, the first experiment with radial photography was started on this campus.
Hamilton Salisht, then an assistant instructor of English professors and instructors. The purpose of the meeting was to organize an experiment in the first free university in Lawrence.
The course suggestions were much the same as other free courses. The advantage of trained instructors to head the classes. There would be less time and fees. Closer teacher-pupil relationships would be en-
THE INSTRUCTORS WERE able to help out, but students even then were considered as the most probable additions to the "Aar" group. "African many students can teach as well as their instructors," Salisch said.
There were few restrictions, and the school was willing to go along with most suggestions. However, Salsich said that he would become 'another place for the campus left to come and roost.'
This school finally disbanded due to a lack of funds and enrolment in the winter of 67. In February of 1968 the SUA organizes a mini free library.
The program for the courses consisted of a half hour lecture and a half hour group discussion. And speakers were also used.
The whole concept was based on the success of other free universities throughout the country and the success of the Wesley Foundation's course on conservation science offered the previous semester.
The SUA TRIAL was set up as an opportunity to discuss contemporary topics and issues the University was not able to make in its first year, Mark then SUA president, in charge of the experiment.
RIKI SAKD the motivation to start the course was the lack of students' opinions of relevant courses.
About the time that this expedition members of the Lawrence and KU communities were discussing revival of the first free university in Iowa, plans began to form and action began in September, 1869 to begin
The school had its headquarters in the Lawrence Peace Center and then moved to its
present location in Canterbury
are now in the final stages to move the office to a complex in the renovated Wesley Foundation
THERE HAVE been various numbers of the school since its establishment, and only served to organize the office and communication channels. The school was organized for a while, then left when they felt they were no longer needed or were beginning to have too much control over the school's operations.
This fall, the leadership was augmented with the experience of fusion. The board, made up of commissaries, serves as a pseudo-fusion bank that assists tasks such as typing, addressing envelopes and answering the telephone.
EACH CICMIZAR is the head of a specific area of study in the Free University, such as a "aar" music or musikmuseum or music and m耽魔ism.
Each 'caz keep in touch with the classes and instructors or coordinators under his jurisdiction. The system eliminates the need to have one person with knowledge of all actions of all the classes.
There was a great amount of discrepancy about the formation of the board. Some members of the school felt that it would lead to power centered in addition to helping them try to get away from
The Free University has all the trappings of a popular movement on a shoe string budget. The school's activities are a mimeograph machine, paper and stamps. At one time it was estimated the school could exist on $30 a year on paper, which are the only expenses
THE INEVITABLE strings are attached to the school from the door. They may stay clear of. Most of the money the school needs to operate is provided by the Student Senate providing the office space soon.
The radical education methods which the free universities follow tend toward political attachment. Almost every course which is not dealing with encounter groups or deals in some way with politics.
This year there were also courses on languages, creative writing, loving worthless people and auto mechanics for women.
THE UNSTRUCTURED COM-
PANY provides unstructured
Kansas Fee University demand
more self-discipine and extra
classes offered by standard
classes offered by standard
There are no assignments so no two hobbies to cheek on your present. You can learn in an unstructured class, it is up to him to learn. All the work of the instructor must be done by the instructors serve only as a co-ordinator to let the students know what they want to learn.
One no checks attendance and there are no exams to gauge if the student is learning anything in the course.
Unlike the first free university in Lawrence, the present institution has a large number of members are "the campus left." Many of the 'hippie have' residents, whether students or researchers, take advantage of the classes.
THE PEOPLE involved with the project this year are trying to broaden their activities. They want members from the Lawrence community to participate.
Experimentally along this line, a "University in Change" class involving members of KU's administration and the "Town" groups were organized to bring new people into the school.
The Free University in London or the University of St. Petersburg is a similar situation to those which have built up in other communities, but it has had its effects more directly.
openings for undergraduates and more interdepartmental study programs. Ms. KU's curriculum, in the past few years. The college-with-aina campus was stronger and expanded since its founding a year before the first graduation.
An increase in the credit-no credit system, more seminar classes and independent study
THESE CHANGES perhaps cannot be credited to the Free Libertarian movement, but a new ideas in teaching to the public and the proof that they can make a difference in the community and work is a great contribution of the Free Libertarian movement.
Students at KU don't have to rely on the Free University for radical courses any more. We offer a variety of Arts and Science 48 classes that the students conceived themselves and set up to run within the University. This is the same institution of free university classes.
There will be few textbooks, and little equipment to advance in the curriculum. More and more people interested in the same topic, and there will be no room for them to write a paper. The experiment in education is what the paraphraser calls "writing."
The Free University will be here next semester with different courses. The classroom will be an open field or a basement.
THE LIBRARY designed the program because "we felt a need to orient students in use of the library." The book Watson, she said. She explained that Watson is like three or four buildings because of the sings added to it, making it hard to remember. In addition, there has been a recent change to Library of Congress classification and the reference section is physically too small. It would be better for some selectivity in that area.
next semester, Watson Library will offer a course on how to use the Web to search for library activities under two titles. Library Science 9 is identified as "Library Technology" and Library Methods." LA& 48 overs "Topics and Problems in Library Science."
SHE POINTED out that the course has four sections and four different instructors. Each instructor has a different approach to teaching, which it attempts to make a student sufficient in using the library.
Actually, they are "both the same course, being taught by the same teacher," and "same time," according to Nancy Middleton, assistant reference teacher.
Courses Teach Students To Use Library Sources
Malinsky identified three areas covered by the course as: (1) the use of the card catalog (2) the use of a specialized collection, (2) special types of materials such as periodicals, microfilms and documents and (3) the use of basic reference materials as specialized bibliographies.
The 'Black Youth and the
War' was the topic of a young Socialist
Alliance pre-convention
last night in the Kansas
University.
One was the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention which was called the Panther Party and the Congress of African People's Convention. Miss Deegan said that these two conventions drew
A LITERATURE search is in which you type in all four sections. It is a list of sources concerning some topic which requires knowledge of the library.
Probes Black Struggle YSA Plans Convention
The course was originally planned for the undergraduate who has come to KU from a town with a smaller library. Mrs. Mossen noted that this year most upperclassmen underclassenm from the humanities and the social sciences, while last year's classes held a wider spectrum among many upperclassmen present.
The course was instituted in the fall semester of 1969, under the direction of Robert Malinowsky, assistant library director.
The YSA meetings are set up to inform their supporters of the issues facing the National Socialist Alliance Convention will discuss Dec. 23-31
Miss Middleton said she thought that the course was an easy one hour credit, if you hadn't already seen section, there is a weekly
been held Nationally thus far concerning the present stages of movement Miss Deegan said.
Other topics that have been and will be discussed by the YSA are the Women's Liberation movement and Political Resolutions. Debby Deegan, chairman, said that the YSA thinks the American Revolution has been built around these movements.
YSA feels that if the Black Panthers get this kind of support there is definite proof of its own as a part of the black community.
THE CONGRESS of African People's Convention called for an Independent Black Party with
She expressed the opinion that there should be a special course for students to work. Malinowski, agreed, saying that the present course is "not for freshmen" and "students." He added that sophomores and juniors can take courses in freshmen and freshmen "often do not have that many papers which require the course."
assignment, but not much wor. outside of class.
"The library staff has thought of more advanced courses, he more widely known and with the more specialized bibliographies which are of interest."
As an example of this he cited the interest shown by the engineering department in a college physics class at their last meeting.
Fifteen children from the Ballard Center in Lawrence will be the guests of the Lewis Hall second floor for a Christmas celebration, said Judy Hancock, floor president and Ottawa sophomore.
Plans for the party include helping the children make Christmas decorations to take home, creating Christmas songs and the traditional visit by Santa Claus complete with gifts for every child.
Coeds Plan
Xmas Party
For Children
All the gifts for the Christmas
funds, said Miss Hancock. The
floor has about one dollar a
person to spend during the
Christmas season.
United Front Action. The YSA supported, evidence, and action against a group tempted to create a community level party. The YSA feels that the group's efforts to attract as many people as possible will pull together all of the coalitions.
The floor also put together a Thanksgiving food basket for a family in East Lawrence, Miss Haneck said. Each girl on the farm has an array of food and other food items, and the floor funds paid for the turkey.
Women on the floor will pick up the children, all five to eight years old, and return them to their homes.
Miss Hancock took her floor had been working on service projects throughout the semester and was then hired to teach semester. Future plans for the floor may include an Easter food basket for some Lawrence children.
Miss Dengau said that YSA Miss Dengau said that YSA is the national conscience of the blacks is a present and permanent thing. She said this is because she feels the interest of the blacks to educate themselves in their culture and society.
The YSA supports Malcom X's statement that black is "the greatest color to survive in the mother country." Miss Deagan said that this is one of many ways black movements in America have had to struggle to become more visible.
Christmas music will be performed when the 46th Annual Christmas Vespers are presented in person at 1 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
The YSA sees three types of movements that are now going on: 1) the reformist movement, which tends to build a new system, such as the Southern Christian Leadership Council and the movement led by Carl Skeen. 2) the conservative movement, which tries to bridge the gap between the present conscience and the revolutionary nation, which is the revolutionary national, which the YSA supports. This movement requires a need for transitional demands to build up to the major demands. It also says that mass movements should be created and eventually form a system that will unmask the system.
The annual program was dropped earlier this year when he was appointed to the University departmentals. Requests to have the annual program reinstated were denied. The presentation was rescheduled.
Missing from the vessers this year will be the traditional students. The students in the art department. This program will be entirely musketed.
According to Jean Mattsion,
secretary in the School of Fine
Arts, the formal programs will
begin at 3:30 and 3:30 p.m., with
presentations are planned for the
minutes preceding the Vesers.
Albert Gerken, University
carlson and the brass em-
bellishment of the
Keith Amstutts, assistant
professor of wind and percussion,
University College, Dublin.
James Moeser, University organist, will present a number of keyboard improvisations and the procession of singers into Hoch.
Presenting the program will be the University Choir under the direction of James Ralston, the University Singers directed by
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Solosists for the Christmas Vespers will be Denise Griffith, who will perform a soprano solo during the University Singers performance of "Birds" and Margaret Bauman, who will play the harp when the
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Nov. 30-Dec. 5 — J.T.S. Brown
Nov. 30-Dec. 5 — J.T.S. Brown
Dec. 7-Dec. 19 — The Packing Co.
Dec. 21-Jan. 2 — 3rd Direction
Jan. 4-Jan. 9 — Temptest
Although admission to the Christmas Vespers is free, a free Christmas Vespers Offerment Fund which provides scholarships to student artists and on the basis of talent and need.
Jan. 11-Jan. 16 — Australian Vamps Jan. 18-Jan. 30 — Arrival
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