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I. 'A ly Y the tth. entette do Coml ~ mut W oB4" y for "M ntto of O th well .anyhin 06 extren no appart uns. W t a;i which ~ ~ ~ ~ a gc enud6WYS h iditin sh ide. Guet Coetain o The motto ofmoen1rtnmight allbe"anthnggoes There are no apparent bounds. i?tb this in mind I come upon a wrt of art which has been und&way at the University for quite a while. 'This latest attempt is certainly not lacking in ambition or originality, but you might say it's kinda hur ting for integrity. It seems that certain Rem brandts of the grapevine, working independently Land limiting themselves to Ir imagination, have taken on th*ask of painting a sort of mental monstrosity by word of mouth to those willing to listen. An amazing feature of this surrealistic masterpiece is that it's never complete; it actually grows. Every day it seems some new 'feature is added. The full details of this picture would take quite a lot or space, but a capsule version is as follows: A study program where students receive more than $500 for in complete * meaningiees projects, get easy gXjdes and one tolrd paid time off for their advisors to boot. As hard as it is for me to believe, the name which these somewhat less than ill-informed people have attached to this bit of absurdity is the Contemporary University Program. The bad part about it is that, like any other fantasy-based rumor, some people accept it on faith. Thus the delusion becomes a reali'ty. Tlhe result of all of this is that the future of the Contemporary U niversity program may lie in the hands of the people who have been madle receptacles for such gar b)age, andl that's not good. * At least it's not good as far as I'm concerned as a present par ticipant in (gontemporary tlnmversity. And a lot of people who have worked hard to make this project a success dion't think it's tOo) good eit her, liut the thing that's hardl to unmderstandl is why. Why do these pe'ople feel so strongly compeclledl to criticize a program which they ob)viously know little, if anything, ab)out? "' V.\CTE fI4P Tlhe bulk of this criticism is being sprIEadl am1ong memix.rs of the Iiiversity faculty. These faculty tfeembers seem to view the programn as a. sort of semneste'r's vaicationi. all expenses paid, for the studtent and his a(eadem ic advisor just an e'xcuuse to get auway from the real. impoJrrtan)t work of college. In the' light of my feelings on the worth of the conventional college ednufation, it 's hard for me to 'restrain myself and answer these erliticisms obl)jectively. After all, fim probably :u little radical in my views on eduicat ion. lint aunyway. let 's Iak' I ime out andl Iruy to figure just what th(e Contemporary University Program is and does. Founded in W9;g by .Joe IThodes of Sceranton Commission fame) annd Mike Gauret. two graduates of el Tech, it is a program which tiosa student to receive a semester-'s credit for Independent stidy irt a topic of his choice. I" nding for the program comes *tly from the Ford Foundation S pertly from the Uiniversity is*re admitted to the <*gad on (Me basis of a proposal they eubmit to a selection pitde Vonttrary to another admbitt*nce to the program uOetri#tett t stUdents with ~je~creeerds, but tather ~. . .. .. I rning unles a i0 t, tro Mby b,nm m oips ,r Ie",Sy good grot kthve st%0d*t support In *ler concerts. This Is i the Coilsen., which bo from the University, U*0d entertainment can committee cheaper than ps only if students go to littee say that at least 2 he Kenny Rogers concer 0 "Mountain". of debt. iely small price to pay foi od as Kenny Rogers and ;ays CU Is judged on the basis o proposal and a personal inter MONEY Funds for each student granted after he has turned proposed budget to a fi committee. These are carel examined by the committi may come as a shock to soi know that the average budgi student this semester will con to less than $100. Each stud also expected to spend the n amount that he would spej books out of his own pocket As to the meaningfulnes projects, one can only judg past successes. Two students worked on a project in education received $6,000 various organizations to set model last summer. As a resi their success, they have subr to the U. S. Office of Educat request for $200,000 to set u adult education prograrn Blythewood, South Carolina. Two students who did a pr on hunger and parasites in ! Carolina-had their project us( a member of the legislature submitted a bill for correctioi these areas. Another student < survey on the attitudes of bl U.S. Cheerleaders say, GROUCHO S FORGET TH( AND LIMP ENJOY FOOD - Sandwic Party F -Special G Advance make youl Grouch 611 Hi of we PS, the an *s the be the the 000 In Wo an "MtIS ST06 0 the \'1s MUsrw w L misunderst the toward whites and vice versn in the riew, state and the following semester became campaign manager for a are candidate for lieutenant governor. in a ance One student as a result of her dlly project was a medalist in the South !. It Carolina Psychological ie to Association's Student Research t per Competition. Another student did a e out study of two party politics in South nt is Carolina and is now head of a rmal statewide student party d on organization. Add to such honors the fact that a faculty study committee found that every student in the program last fall of improved his grades from the by semester previous to CU in the who semester following CU study. dult rom Although national or statewide ip a acclaim is nice, it's not the goal of It of the program. The goal of the tted program is attempting to allow a n a student to study on his own in a an field that he thinks is relevant to in himself, his ducation and his life. On this he works with an advisor of his choice. Contrary to another rumor, these advisors are not ject receiving any time off from their )uth other duties. In fact, the faculty i by director of the program, who was who supposed to have received one half s in time off from his classroom duties, id a has ended up getting something ecks less than one third off while it's the red 4YS: SE COLD HOT DOGS SANDWICHES THE GAME Will :ROM GROUCHO' hes lxmngs ame Bag for Two rder requested parties fly high, supply them fron 's (Dellie) Delic rden St.in5 Pointa PhA]l ood working nearly full time on the. program. FOUNDLING Contemporary University is not a model of excellence. Rather it's a foundling, a struggling program which has more than it's share of problems. These problems, rather ithan being a basis for criticism of 4CU, show weaknesses in the educational system which the 'program is trying to change. Even so, criticism of a constructive nature would be welcome. In fact, any show of informed interest would be like a breath of fresh air to those who have been working on the program. As a student in the program and a person very much interested in educational reform, I am truly frightened by people who favor doing away with such experiments and returning to the safety and security of archaic methods. When I think about this, I can't help but picture in my mind a bunch of people on a ship that's sinking, who can't see the hole and are doing their best to make sure that nobody gets off. Contemporary University is like a little boy sticking his foot in unknown waters. It doesn't need any blind sharks to come along and bite the foot off. ii thing S 250 Only Groucho's atessen L 2.1963 Dear Uh.N,i,.s rei the "vsrans report" .ad the00t ofrCoJurIng up old Movies andlootballfaMes for Mr. Bloschock, . thehis diatribe on contemporary antimilitarism 'in America brought back to this readet visions of a nuyg bourgeois conformism which held undisputed sway over our society in the 20s and 50s. Karl Marx, revising Hegel,, wrote in "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon" that Important historic facts and. personages occur twice-once as ,tragedy, and again as farce. We in America were saddled with Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s and by any criterion he and his reign of terror (though brief) were a national tragedy. We are now saddled with the Agnew-Bloschock team for whom, by some torturous logic, all op ponents of the "war" in Vietnam represent existing or potential members of the Weatherman branch of SDS. If this Baroque manifestation of "Neo McCarthyism" does not turn out to be another tragedy, it \will surely be a farce -- and indeed already is. Hopefully both are a detour from our national purpose and a dead end. Perhaps in the long run, we shall all have to laugh to keep from crying. Of such ingredients is sick political humor made. MICHAEL P. CLARK EN Letters policy Letters to the editor should be brief. typewritten. and about matters of concern to USC students. All letters must be signed. but iames may be withheld by request. The editor reserves the right to edit letters ror style. good taste. and libel laws. Send letters to The Gamecock. Drawer A. USC. qolumbla. S. C. 2F. -Wft cnold thi only. B] Open Fr-iday Till 9:00 P.M. 2 At tory draws In the cold Dear Miss Manning: Upon reading Mr. Bloschock's j letter to the editor, I was reminded d of Paul Harnick's survey of those a veterans returning to college. 6 Being a Marine draftee myself, I I felt somehow left out in the cold when not interviewed;therefore, I'm dedicating this letter to those veterans interviewed and Paul Harnick. t Somehow I missed the com munistic, totally unamerican, s trashy, inhuman treatment while 0 in service. Maybe because I had been disciplined well enough at home before getting drafted or h possibly because I got my "kicks" U out of wearing a pair of jungle ti utilities for months on end, I was i not aware that the treatment was The Ga n THE GAMECOCK is published tri-weekly during t during the summer semesters with the exception o Change of address forms. subscription requests and ot USC. Columbia. S.C. 29206. Subscription rates are 17 p and $1 for both summer sessions. Bulk copies are $6 pe $39.000 from the qtudpnt activjty fund, entitling full-tir Offices of THE GAMECOCK are in Rooms 306 and 31 campus. Phones are 777-8178,7774249 and 7774220. Seq Although THE GAMECOCK is published by the Univ pressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the the paper. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF . . . ......... ASSOCIATE EDITOR . . ......... BUSINESS MANAGER .......... MANAGING EDITOR . . ......... ASST. MANAGING EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR . . . . CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER . NEWS EDITORS . .............. 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I Pill continue my praise for the rmed forces, although I realize it as faults just like anything else. 0 yon suppose we could accredit iese fAults to our "loyal" aterans here at Carolina? FItANK ARANT ecock e fall and spring semesters and weekly Univeritv holidays and exam erlods. her mail items should be sent to Drawer A. .r year or $3 per fail and spring semesters r 100. THE GAMECOCK this year received ne students to a subscriotion to the paper. 0 of the Russell House on the University ond class postage paid at Columbia. S. C. ersity of South Carolina, the opinions ex University, the student body or the staff of . . . . . . . . Cheryl Manning -.-.-.-.. . . . ..Michael Ball . . . . . . . . . . te Huckabee . . . . . . . . Elizabeth Phillips - - - - - . Scott Derks - - - - - - - . Teddy Heffner . . . . . . . .. . . . Gene Haney . . . . . . . . Charles Fellenbaum ................Chuck Keefer . . . . . .. . . Charles Beebe .. . . . . . . . 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