University Daily Kansan
Monday, January 24, 1977
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More classes, students mark second intersession
By BARRY MASSEY
Staff Reorder
With an enrollment that may exceed 1,000 students, the second University of Kansas intercession, which ran Jan. 3-15, can easily be called a success, Jerry Hutchison,erman of the intercession committee and president of the university for academic affairs, said last week.
Albough final enrollment figures won't be available until Jan. 28, when grades are sent to the Office of Admissions and Records, Hutchison said, intercession enrolment this year far exceeded the number students enrolled in the program last year.
Initially 67 class sections were offered, but some were dropped because of low enrollment, Hutchison said. Last year, 37 sections were offered.
HUTCHESON PARTLY attributed the enrollment increase to an expanded curriculum and said there were between 50 and 60 class sections.
The intercession program, which began last year as a way to offer a more flexible and innovative curriculum, has remained basically unchanged. Hutchison said.
BESIDES THE expanded curriculum and the fact that the intercession program became financially self-sufficient this year, the program remained the same, he said.
According to Hutchison, the program is designed to not duplicate the regular semesters' curriculum; allow students to enroll in courses not usually available to them, such as courses in some University specialized schools; offer innovative or challenging classes; and provide classes that lend themselves to masters study, such as field trips.
Courses were offered at the Lawrence campus and the Linwood Center in Kansas City, Kan. All courses were for either two or three credit hours, and students spent an average of two and one-half to three hours in class each day, Hutchison said.
"In recent years, the University has been exploring ways to break out of the formal classroom and engage with 'and' to provide a variety of ways for students to learn and enjoy learning much more.
The intercession course offerings this year ranged from Topics in Automobility and American Business, Urban Affairs, and Politics to an undergraduate seminar called Silence, Awareness and Listening in Human Engagement, in glassblowing, skiing and solar energy.
reld trips were to Atlanta, Nashville, London and even Horton, Kan.
In addition to lab fees and travel expenses, regular intercession fees were $16 for every undergraduate credit hour and $22 for every graduate credit hour.
INTERSESSION COURSE IDEAS CAME
form individual instructors who vol-
unteer to teach the course.
and enrollment fees paid for the extra faculty salaries.
Bad weather plagued the two-week intercession, but Hutchison said the snow had caused no problems except on the first day of classes, when a snow storm in the Kansas City area had prevented some students and faculty from getting to Lawrence.
Hutchison said he was pleased with in-
tersession this year and thought the program's future looked bright.
"I don't see intercession becoming a giant program or another general arm of the University," he said, "but there's no reason not to continue it.
"It seems to fulfill the interest of the students, and as long as it continues to do so," he said.
U.S. executive says coffee shortage real
By United Press International
GARSON, WHO trowed several Brazilian coffee plantations at the invitation of Hills Brothers Coffee Co., said, "Until you get to know the people, you don't know the true picture. It is unbelievable."
An American supermarket executive on a fact-finding tour of Brazil's coffee-growing regions called the 1975 fire damage to the world's largest coffee crop "unbelievable" and warned it might be two or three years before production is normal.
"But whenever there are adverse weather conditions anywhere in the world, the consumer has to carry the full burden," she said.
The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs says enough coffee supplies exist to meet current demand and that New Yorkers are drinking less coffee.
"IT IS SIMPLY a case of diminishing supply," said Garson, one of 29 U.S. supermarket executives and consumer group representatives inspecting the aftermath of the July 1975 frost, which killed three-thousands of Brazil's coffee trees.
In Sao Paulo the executive, Barnett Garson, executive vice president of American Seaway Foods of Cleveland, Ohio, ruled out stockpiling by the Brazilian government to drive up prices to record levels on the world market.
In New York City, Jean Ende, director of consumer information, said, "According to the coffee industry, there is a shortage. But we believe there are adequate supplies to handle current demand and producing nations are stocking."
Ende said the frost in Brazil, the war in Angola and natural disasters in other producing nations had whittled down the world supply.
"We went to the plantations and saw the rot and the trees spoiled one and one-half years ago in 1975. We saw the younger trees coming up, which won't be developed for two or three years. It's going to take time. The true picture is what I have seen
and heard here because I have to believe the men in the field who were talking."
In Managua, Nicaragua, officials also had grim news for U.S. coffee drinkers, now paying an average of 30 cents a cup in Mexico and 25 cents a cup in the brewing. The government said that “roya”—a killer fungus—destroyed 200 acres of coffee trees and that an additional 8,400 acres may have to be burned off at $1.5 billion coffee crop.
In New York, a Consumer Affairs Department survey indicated that 52 per cent of the city's coffee drinkers are not tipping coffee entirely or are drinking less.
The boycott has created some backlash in Salvador, Brazil, where a sign in a local bar reads: "Americans are boycotting our coffee. Don't drink Coca Cola."
THE SYRACUSE, N.Y., consumer affairs unit reported that 47 area supermarkets had posted signs supporting the boycott. Bob Page, owner of the Beef 'n Broom Specialty House in Cleveland, stopped selling coffee and other foods in service once other restaurants to follow suit.
And a Rio de Janeiro newspaper reporting from Salvador said Camilo Calazans, Brazilian Coffee Institute president, thinks the U.S. boycott is "picturesque."
Town enjoying 5 $ ^{c} $ java break
A small cafe in this Summer County community lowered its coffee prices several weeks ago, and citizens' band members are urging the cafe to raise coffee. Business has been brisk ever since.
CALDWELL (UPF)—While most Kansans are支付 from 15 cents to a quarter for a cup of coffee, residents of this town of 1,450 are enjoying an old tradition—nickel coffee.
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