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Free University offers alternative
Beginning Juggling, Home Brewing, Body Massage and Learning to Live Without Cigarettes are just four of the 34 courses offered at University, Enrollment today at 4 p.m.
enersities.
According to Brian R. Bickard, acting director of the Free University, the SU-sponsored organization provided all-encompassing education offered by the University of Kansas.
University of Kansas.
No course fees are charged and enrollment is in the Kansas Union at booth No. 2.
No. 4. Each class is taught by a volunteer instructor whose only requirement, Bickford said, is sufficient confidence in his own ability to convey his skills to others.
Bickford, Oberlin senior, said the courses do not replace the education offered by KU, but rather supplement it.
He said the Free University was originated by a disgruntled English teacher, Hamilton Sauskill, who had been a student where off-bat friends of knowledge could be shared.
THE FREE university started in 1968 when it was funded by the Student Senate. In the Spring of 1974, SUA took it under their auspices.
Bickford said there are no set course offerings.
"If a class is a success and the instructor is willing to continue, the course will be offered repeatedly," he said.
Most of the classes will last the entire semester, as long as student interest is maintained and the teacher has new material, he said.
matter, he said.
The Free University is allocated a budget of $1,100, but Bickford said that they would not spend all of it.
Classes meet wherever the instructors designate. Some will meet in the teacher's homes, at the United Ministries Building and at various outdoor locations.
"We have a significant number of religious classes," Bickford said, "more than in the past. However, this does not reflect a change in the philosophy of the
A BONUS TO the program is that people can get practical experience in teaching, Bickford said.
Free University, but merely who was willing to teach the classes."
There are many reasons why people enroll in the Free University.
Wes Iencreg, Topea senior, said he is taking the Home Brewing course because his grandfather makes his own beer and Iencreg wanted to learn the difference in
Rick Kirkendall, Lawrence graduate student, said he is taking the Edible and Useful Plants of Eastern Kansas course because the food is free, the field trips should offer some beautiful scenery and he is interested in photography.
is interested in photography.
Bickford said that many of the classes were offered with as serious an intent as any regular class.
"The instructors invest their time and energy only because they consider the
experience valuable — both for themselves and for the students," he said.
The courses offered this semester by the Free University are: Basic Automotive Technology; Basic Bible Survey; Beginning Jugging; Behavioral Weight Control; Belly Dance; Body Massage; Hunger; Body Massage; Bridge for Beginners; Covenant Group for Prayer and Spiritual Growth; Creative Fantasy Club; Edible and Useful Plants of Eastern Kansas; Feminism and Therapy; Film Group; Gay Liberation and the Church; Home Instruction; Inquiry into the Episcopical Church; Live Without Cigarettes; Macro Analysis Seminar; Meditation; Metal Arts; Orienteering; Path of Bliss Meditation; Personal Decision Making; Pocket Billiards; Punk Rock Club; Science Probe Into Law; Sugar Addiction; Sunday Evening Fellowship; Universal Language Mediation Systems; Weekend Consciousness Exploring Group for Males; and Winning Sports Car Rally.
Brick streets add rustic character, hazards
By CAROL HUNTER
Staff Writer
Although many students who live along Lawrence's brick streets praise them, a member of the city engineer's office said yesterday they could be dangerous this time.
The official, August J. Dettab, said the
fourth anniversary of the 1870's,
becomes slippery in damp water.
"Fog and mist like we've had in the last few days, make the streets particularly chilly."
Residents of the areas, however, rarely see the danger in their streets.
Sheryl Martell, Topeka graduate student
who lives in the 900 block of Louisiana, said she preferred the brick streets to the paved
ones.
The brick streets are better because they don't have the big holes the asphalt ones have, she said.
Dettmann said another problem with brick streets was buckling.
stairs.
"Bricks will settle or shift slightly with the ground," he said.
A brick street in Lawrence is not replaced unless most of the bricks are deteriorated or missing, he said. Most of the streets east of the University and south of 23rd Street to the Kansas River were once brick, Detharn said.
In some instances, such as for the covering of crevices in the rock, the shell is layered with layers of asphalt.
bricks were large, Dettmann said. Some bricks were 10 inches long, six inches thick and five inches wide, he said. They were heavy, too, because they had no holes like
Dettarb the bricks were not replaced with new bricks because of the
The base was needed because street
"There's no machine that can lay bricks," he said.
A man can lay bricks for $4 or $ an hour, he said, but a machine can lay asphalt for $2.
Cost was also the reason the city quit laying brick streets around 1920 or 1925, he
saus
because bricks had to be shipped from farther away, they became too expensive,
One of the brick plants was at Third and
Profs criticize faculty uninterest
Several KU professors yesterday criticized an apparent lack of faculty interest in a voluntary early retirement plan being developed by the Board of Regents.
Grant Goodman, professor of East Asian Studies and member of AAUP said yesterday that faculty members, as a result not seen in the plan, despite its importance.
Staff Writer
Members of the executive committee of the American Association of University Press (UUP) decided to investigate possible alternative plans that would be more acceptable.
"The faculty is not concerned, at least those in my department," Goodman said. "But when and if a forced retirement plan comes up—then they be interested."
Ramifications of U.S. Supreme Court cases will be discussed by Robert Casad, professor of law.
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faculty and the staff.
Moss criticism of the committee's lack of interest in dealing with issues. He said a definite strategy should be formulated with a list of priorities for the year.
FELIX MOX, professor of anthropology, agreed with Goodman and said the proposed plan was disadvantageous to both the faculty and the administration.
The proposed plan would provide varying amounts of cash incentives to faculty members wishing to retire before age 70.
Burchell said Casad would talk about how much authority court decisions carry.
Goodman said the plan, which is still being considered, did not provide enough incentives for early retirement to be beneficial to faculty members.
such authority could decision.
"SOMETIMES A decision may be just a small drop in the rain bucket," Burchill said.
preference and affinity.
Todd Vanamah, director of Gay Society's research, said that Hadden would also be discussing the efforts of organization is making to keep on the books a recently-passed Wizard of Oz book against homosexuality in discrimination against homosexuals.
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"We're like firemen," he said. "We rush around after the fact. We should have a defined set of priorities."
In addition to the workshops, a panel of labor and civil rights leaders will discuss affirmative action and labor issues.
affirmative action and laws
Luis Jiminez, compliance coordinator for
the Lawrence Human Relations
Commission, will moderate the panel.
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Bonnie Ritter, director of the Office of Affirmative Action, will discuss new grievance procedures and a new affirmative action plan that is expected to be approved soon.
stages and did not establish specific guidelines.
Also presented to Dykes at yesterday's meeting was a previously passed resolution of the AAUF executive committee saying it was "distressing and reprehensible" for them to retire without any prior consultation with the faculties at the Regents institutions.
William Scott, president of the local chapter of AAUP, said afterwards that the retirement plan still was in its preliminary
Following the meeting, members met in closed session with Chancellor Archie Dykes to discuss topics that included the voluntary early retirement plan and next year's budget.
Eleanor Burchill, coordinator of KU-Y said the workshops were designed to make people more aware of the Bakke case and some of the possible repercussions.
Affirmative action issues to be topic of workshop
rights movement, will discuss sexual preference and affirmative action.
"The danger is that all affirmative action plans, even good ones, could be called into effect."
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In addition to the Oct. 3 workshops, KU-YA,
Berkshire and Gay Services are also sponsoring a speech on the Bakke case by Walter Leonard, president of Fisk University, on Oct. 11, the night before the Bakke case goes to the Supreme Court.
Ed Dutton, associate professor of social welfare, will discuss reverse discrimination and the emotional issues surrounding the Bakke case.
re Alan Bakke reverse discrimination suit, gay rights, sexual preference and other affirmative action issue will be discussed 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
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Shafee Mbaila, a member of the African People's Party and a para-legal worker from Philadelphia, will present a political analysis of the Bakke case.
Louisiana streets, near the present water works, he said. Dedttarn that he didn't know how many streets were laid with bricks from the plant, but that several sidewalks contained bricks bearing the plant's name.
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