School stresses creativity
Free University supplement to education
By CHARLENE MULLER
Kansan Stafff Writer
The Free University of Lawrence is the place people go have the desire to pursue an interest or a hobby. There is no fee to enroll in the Free University and courses are open to students and non-students regardless of age.
The coordinators of the Free University said the university was a "non-profit non-polished, non-sectarian" organization.
Alice Engelken, Goff sophomore and a coordinator, said the Free University believed the present structure of the American
educational system did not meet the needs of our society. Students, she said, contently exist within ivory walls, shunning responsibility for making decisions.
"Instead of promoting life," Miss Engelken said, "the present educational system postpones it."
Miss Engelken said the Free University believed each individual had particular interests and possibilities and therefore needed to ask his own questions and direct his own education. Education, she said, involves the total environment and should lead to personal growth and social action.
One of the Free University's advantages, Miss Engelken said, is that it views education as self-directed which means that each person should have the right and ability to choose what he wants and feels he needs to know.
Courses on any subject may be suggested by any person at any time, Miss Engelken said. Success, she said, depends on the participants. A class lasts only so long as there is interest in it, she said.
Coordination, Chuck Hand,
Lawrence junior, said the Free University was the ideal educational system. When education is free of grades and compelling requirements, he said, constructive creativity is promoted.
Some of the courses presently meeting are: radical education, sunsets, beer making, loving worthless people, fanatics and fanaticism, creative writing, sculpture, the concept of love, martyrts and martyr makers, the female predicament, and languages (Russian, German, Spanish, Japanese).
Classes which have been suggested but that have not yet been formed because there is no instructor are: classical guitar, Bob Dylan., metal work, jazz, international foods, graffiti, survival, leather work, law and legal aid, auto mechanics for women, ceramics, wines and liquors, wine-making, consumer education, and flamenco guitar.
Anyone interested in suggesting a course or in signing up for a current class may call the Free University at 843-8202 or go by its office at Canterbury House.
Chalmers comments on Bubb's letter, strike
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said Wednesday it was unfortunate that Henry Bubb's letter to professor Tom Weiss was printed on Regent's stationery.
Chalmers also said that he thought Bubb was operating on a double standard when he sent his letter.
In his letter to Weiss, Bubb said that he would hate to let his personal feelings towards Weiss hold up his progress at the University. In the recent controversy over the promotions
of professors Velvel and Litto, that is exactly what Bubb did, Chalmers said.
When asked about his reaction to the student strike last Wednesday, Chancellor Chalmers said that he was extremely proud of the manner in which the students conducted themselves.
"As far as I'm concerned," he said, "the score read 17,500 students for peaceable assembly and free speech against 3 or 4 possible nonstudents for violence."
Fire in rooming house 'was possibly arson'
The fire broke out around midnight at a rooming house at 1225 Indiana. The fire was restricted to the basement with extensive smoke damage throughout the house.
Fire Chief F.C. Sanders speculated Wednesday that the cause for Tuesday night's rooming-house fire was "possibly arson."
Sanders said, "It is a possibility that it was caused by arson, but we have no proof yet. The electricity and gas had been shut off which leads me to believe that arson may have started it. However, it could also have been an accident — maybe someone just dropped a cigarette in the basement."
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The rooming house is owned by Daniel S. Ling, associate professor of physics at the University of Kansas.
In an interview at the scene of the fire, Ling said that he ordered the tenants out of the house last Thursday morning for delay in payment of their rent. "It could be arson for the reason that the renters were huffed at Ling." Sanders said, "but I haven't talked to them yet. I do have their names however."
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