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Wednesdav. December 12, 1973
University Dally Kansan
CWC Called Only Modest Success
By JOHN JOHNSTON
Kansan Reporter
The Colleges-within-the-College (CWC) program at the University of Kansas has been only moderately successful since its formation, but it does possess a great deal of potential for innovation, according to several directors of the program.
"The Colleges-within-the-College have probably never worked as well as people had hoped," said Ellen R. Gold, acting director of Oliver College.
Gold said the CWC evidently hadn't been enforcing uniform rules.
Julian J. Fabry, assistant director of North College, said he noticed a lack of coordination among the administrators of the program.
"I think if there were some administrative directives the CWC could function better than they have in the past," said Fabry.
The first CWC was established in the fall of 1866. The goal of the project was "to obtain for freshmen and sophomores a curriculum that includes courses of the small academic community and, at the same time, to preserve for the student access to the extraordinary richness of the world's natural resources."
'Put negatively, a goal of the project is to reduce the dangers of student anonymity.
FOLLOWING THE FORMATION of Centennial College in 1966, Oliver, North, Nunenmaker and Pearson colleges were established in the fall of 1967. Since then, some faculty members and students have been able to complete the lack of progress made by the CWC.
The College Assembly established an ad hoc committee on the future of the CWC last year. The committee studied the CWC program and made several recom- ments. The committee published with a final report in the May 17, 1973, issue of "College Communications."
The Assembly approved the committee's proposals to achieve uniform administration of CWC rules, administration practices and advising. It also accepted a proposal to create an experimental subcollege.
The ad hoc committee cited several problems which developed in the early stages of the program. Although the CWC were originally established as "living-learning arrangements," the plan was revised to include a record year because of the problems that arose in trying to arrange block scheduling for 5,000 students.
THE COMMITTEE'S REPORT also indicated that many members of the CWC staff didn't think their roles were defined well enough. The staff members lack experience with computers, often overloaded with work and are usually excluded from decision making because
they lack academic rank, the report said.
"The problem of advising came into sharper focus as students raised specific problems they encountered," the report said. "These included seeing a different student each week in information lack of knowledge about the requirements on the part of advisers, permissive advising, a break in continuity between sophomore and junior year, and students not knowing the alternatives open to them." Students can petition to deviate from requirements.
Robert P. Cobb, director of Numerameter College, said he thought too many students and members of the faculty had viewed advising as a process which only produced an enrollment card. Cobb said the system could not be one-sided if it was to be effective.
"Some students expect all advisers to be walking catalogs," said Cobb.
Jerry Shapiro, Prairie Village sophomore and a member of Oliver College, said, "You have to go outside the CWC to find advice on how to be wise and even then you have problems."
Orientation and advising should be a continuing process that begins with the first letter a prospective student receives and is instructed, according to North College's Fabry.
"Part of orientation should be that students advise themselves, and then go to an adviser who questions their choice of courses," said Fabry.
The committee recommended that a planning council be formed to develop an experimental sub-college, which would provide an atmosphere of diversification. The committee recommended that a sub-college in about two years. Then the educational experiment would be implemented and, after a period of four years,
College Assembly would determine what
the next plan should be.
Some features of the CWC program were abandoned without being tried, according to Cobb. He said the experimental college might work in those areas.
He said that block-sectioning was an important innovation which had it worked for. "I didn't see any difference," he said.
Fabry said the sub-college would give "progressives" a chance to put their concepts into practice. Novel approaches, such as those we mentioned earlier, workshops might be implemented, he said.
The present CWC system has progressed toward innovation to a limited extent, according to Fabry. Next semester a course is offered in English subject areas into one class.
Local Gas Prices Up, Less Gas Is Available
Several local service station operators predicted yesterday that gasoline prices would continue to soar as gasoline became scarcer.
The price yesterday of a gallon of regular gas in Lawrence averaged about 32 cents with full service. Most self-service stations sold regular for about 39 cents a gallon.
Gene Lawson, owner of the Kerr-Meckerg service station at 900 Illinois St., predicted that prices might increase to 60 cents a gallon by next summer. He said his monthly fuel supply for December had been cut 10 per cent from last year.
Lawson said he expected a greater fuel cutback by Kerr-MGee next month. A reason for the continuing cutbacks, he said, is that more petroleum is being refined for heating fuel because of government- approved price increases in that area.
Bill Osburn, owner of a Conoco station on Highway 10, said he expected his monthly gasoline supply to be cut at least 15 per cent to a two or three cent a gallon price increase.
He said that he wouldn't favor a gas tax to conserve fuel and that he preferred gas rationing because a surtax would discriminate against the poor.
said he had increased his price for a gallon of gas by four cents in the last two weeks. He said he wouldn't be surprised if the price on a gallon of gas increased to 90 cents if the government decided taxation was the best means to force fuel conservation.
"There's going to be a sharp difference when we get into the issues. There'll be a sharp break between what we think the gov't should do and what we think the senate should be doing," he said.
2nd Team Files for Student Office
Warren Walters, owner of the Hilcrest Mobile Service at 900 acre St., said he would lose $150 in business this month as a result of a 15 per cent gas cutback to his station. He added that the company last Wednesday. His station now sells regular gasoline for 42.9 cents a gallon.
Doue Meker, owner of the Nineteenth Street 66 Service at 1843 Massachusetts St.
Jack Panchot, owner of Jack's Super 100 at 511 W, 9th St., said his monthly gas supply two months ago was 80,000 gallons. This amount received $38,700 gallons from his supplier.
Edward C. Rolfs, Junction City sophomore, to file to run for president and Kelly J. Scott, Houston sophomore, filed for vice president.
A second team announced its candidacy a year ago, with body president and vice president for 14 months.
Students must file for candidacy before 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23.
Rolfs and Scott will run against John H. Beisner, Salina junior, and D.A. Hunter, Oklahoma City junior. But the filing deadline for student candidates is approximately 5 weeks away, so students may still declare their candidacy.
Mark Nicole, assistant manager of Jerry's Texaco at 2260 Ineu St., said his station's价 for a gallon of gas increased from $1.99 to $2.15, would probably increase again this month.
Rolfs, a senator from Pearson College, said yesterday that he and Scott were interested in investigating the funding issues in academic problems of students.
Rolfs said the race against Beinser and Hunter would be interesting.
Nicely said the station closed earlier because his fuel supply had been cut to 22,000 gallons a month, from 30,000 gallons earlier this year.
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