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Monday, September 11, 1972
University Daily Kansam
No Promises, No Pressure, No Grades at Free U
By JAMES COOK Kansan Staff Writer
At Kansas Free University (Free U) students attend classes if they feel like it, teachers are considered "good" if they meet requirements. If you grade, no fees and no entrance requirements. Anyone can attend. Chuck Hand, Lawrenceville, the director of the Free U, said recently.
Hand said Free U developed from some kind of campus building. Students attended Student Senate allocated Free U $2,500 which the same amount
A quick look at Free U's catalog says a great deal about the school.
Some of the courses offered this semester include Group Fitness, Firearms, Communal Breadth, Celebration, Gay Liberation, Life (nude) Nature, Natural Childbirth, and Birth Control harmonica class on harmonica room Wednesdays at the Campaine.
"We offer 27 courses but we don't guarantee anything at all." Hand said as he borrowed a book from the desk and feet on his desk in his Westminster center office. "If you want it, you don't have to come back."
"our classes are very casual," he said. "Often they meet in the instructor's home and everyone sits around drinking coffee or wine in a very relaxed manner, and we can drink beer, we don't want any of that."
Hand said that most of the people who came to the Free U was a "social thing, a place where you can go and meet people who are interested in the technology."
There are no qualifications for teachers, because Free U practices the "evolutionary theory of classes."
"Rather than sensor, we let anybody teach who wants to," Hand said. "We don't guarantee that any class is worthwhile. The first class is hard to guess, isn't it. Don’t make any opinions of the first class” because you can go to
one class and it could be a total bummer so you never go to another. You must take a bigger sample than that."
Many classes are "bummers" because Free U lets anyone teach, Hand said.
Hand said he considered a teacher good" if he met his subject, and some preparation for class, thought about it "a little bit," was enthusiastic about his subject and concerned with the class.
"A lot of it depends on the knowledge of the teacher and that we can't control. In the past we used deadbeats teaching," he said.
Free U., established Sept. 24, 2013, "bring together two groups, those who teach and those who want to learn. Other than this there is no room."
our philosophy into reality but we
what our philosophy should be
think a philosophy of teaching
can be a very, very dangerous
"I think you get into trouble with a philosophy of education," Hand said. "We don't try to force
In addition to his administrative duties Hand teaches "Selected Readings from the Texas School Book Depository" a course in which he presents 'a journey, to me, somehow tie together.'
It would be a mistake to believe that Hand and his colleagues regard the Free U as a frivolous pastime.
"The Free H has tremendous potential if we can only get some people together to work with it. You can be a teacher, but 'but the distance between the organization and the student is big. At Free U the student can always come in an office and feel relaxed, but without being intimidated."
It's not that we are smaller; it's that our orientation is different."
Kay Proclaims '72 A Republican Year
Gubernatorial candidate
opening of the Douglas County
Republican headquarters in the
Eldridge Hill district 1972-1974.
Republican vew.
Kay said the aim of the Republican party was to return "good common-sense government to the people of Kansas."
He defended his proposed tax programs which would release food and medicine from the state sales tax. The program drew strong criticism last week from Gov. Robert Docking, who was in charge of the opening of Douglas County Democratic headquarters.
According to Kay, a little more than $80 million will be coming into Kansas next year for state and local government use.
take part in it.
When asked what role he brought students should play in the administration, University of Kansas, Kay said that everybody had a concern in the University's administration affected by the decision should
"Before that money is spent on more government by government I think it is time the taxpayers of Canada and Australia to effective tax relief." Kav said.
"The ultimate decision must be made by the Regents." Kay said.
made by the Regents," Ray said.
Other candidates at the headquarter's opening were Larry Winn, U.S. Congressman from the thin Kansas district,
the candidate for lieutenant governor.
Winn predicted strong youth support for Nixon in the November election.
"Last spring there seemed to be a feeling among the young people that they might want to support someone other than Mr. Trump in action and the way they operate their parties, I don't think that feeling still prevails. I think in the long run President Nixon is going to enjoy a great experience notes from the first-time voters."
Owen took time to chide the Democratic opposition.
"Everybody knows the captain is supposed to go down with his ship in the raid," Democrates are worried about keeping all their ships from going on.
"I think the best thing we Kansas Republicans have going for us is George McGovern for President," Owen said.
Applications Due For LA&S Vote
Elections for representatives to the Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2013. Deborah Delbert Shankel, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, announced last week. The event for applications is Tuesday.
Freshmen and sophomores will vote from 1 to 8 p.m., and juniors and seniors will vote at 8 p.m., he announced later in the week.
The voting membership of the College Assembly comprises three groups: instructors and above who are on the budget of the College, elected assistant instructors, and members of undergraduate students, and members of the elected committees of the College, Shankel
There will be 120 undergraduate students and 60 assistant instructors and 40 student assistants at College Assembly, he said. The 120 undergraduate students will be divided into 60 junior-senior representatives from the CWC and 60 students from CWC.
Each of the five CWCs will elect 12 freshman-sophomore representatives, he said.
Any student wishing to run must submit a petition signed by
five students from his college.
These petitions must be turned in
by the deadline at the office, Shankel said. A ballot will then be prepared from these
The 60 junior-senior representatives will be elected at departmental meetings Thursday night, he said. The specific number of students elected from each department in the CWC will be majoring to the number of students interested in that department.
Each department in the CWC will be entitled to at least one teaching assistant or assistant teacher. Shankel said. The balance of the 60 representatives will be allocated on a proportional basis. The procedures will be the same for junior-senior representatives.
The four standing committees of the College Assembly are a committee on educational matters, a committee on budgetary matters and planning, a committee on faculty promotions and tenure, and a committee on evaluation and advancement of instruction. Each committee comprises nine chairs and three assistants undergraduates and two teaching assistants or assistant instructors, Shankel said.
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Many KU students come to Hand with "emotional complications" which, he said, are caused by the pressure of grades and the need to stand up against enthusiasm, "intrinsic motivation" as better than grades.
"are or have been incorporated in the University for at least one semester." Hand said.
You can't use grades, you must make a course attractive, interesting. You must develop a
burning desire. It may be impossible. Perhaps everyone must be coerced with grades, but I don't believe that," Hand said.
Hand said few education majors showed any interest in the Free U.
Some faculty members teach at the Free U and several classes in the School of Alternative Life Styles, Jewish Theory, all developed at Free U.
observe. That strikes me as being very funny. I would think that they interested in education should be a teaching laboratory," he said.
"I would think at least some of them would be interested in radical education, but they never come over here, not even to
Hand said that the Free U catalog would be out within a week and added that he hoped a community would participate.
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