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No classes in new USC fall project II -MARK lMKK*K 1taff Writer University Without Wallm t IWW I an experimental progran in undergraduate education. i planning to offer students at th University an alternate way c obtaining a degree in the t971 fal semester, according to Dr. Warre Buford. UWW director. JWW is a national program i which to colleges and universitie will participate. The form that UWW will take a the University is not as ye definite, Dr. Buford said. But ther are certain ideas that are basic tj UWW and these will be part of thi program here. These basic idea! are: -- The inclusion of students administrators and faculty in th, design of the UWW program. -- The abandonment of th classroom as the principal ir strument for education and th substitution of a mixture of leai ning and teaching methods. Thes methods include "regular cours work, research assistantships an, internships, field experiences independent study, individual an, - - --- - grOup project activities. seminars in.the-field. telelectures. video tape playbacks. programmed learning and related media. trave m here and abroad." Offvampw learning will be a major part ol IWW )r Buford said. -- le of flexible time schedules The student will spend time ir different areas according to hi! I needs and interests. The program * is not tied to a stipulation that it must be completed in four years or any certain number of years. -- Inclusion of a broad age range of students in the program Students from age 16 to 6) and older will be eligible. Utilization of an "Adjunc Faculty.'' This faculty will include "government officials, busines! excutives. persons from com munity agencies, scientists, artist! and writers, but who enjoy teaching and who bring specia kinds of expertise and experience to the program." A "Seminar-in the Field" program will be used tc include these persons in the UWM unit. . Use of methods to promote I student-faculty eontact continuous by both on a one-toone basis and on a group basis during the program .Special seminars and related programs to aid the student in developing a capacity for self directed learning. Opportunities for students to take part in the UWW programs at other institutions with UWW units Periodic evaluations of the students in the UWW program. In addition each student will be ex pected to produce a "Major Contribution" before applying for his degree. This contribution could be a research study, work of art. community service, book, publishable article or some other worthwhile contribution. -- A research program to com pare the UWW graduate to a graduate from the regular program as to "cognitive and affective learning." UWW will be highly 'ex periential," )r. Buford said. It will give the student a range of ex periences never before realized in undergraduate education. UWW will bring "under an umbrella" a number of ideas that have been tried only piecemeal before. ------------------------------ Vol. LXI No. 33 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, November 30 ------- - ----------- --- - ----------------------------------- -NM I ----- sit, =1111111 Contempo The "Eephant Room" in Maxcy Coller basement provides an informal learnir environrvent which helps to soften t9 traditional student-faculty roles and crea CU accepting HY CILAtILS FELLENHAUNI an applicant Staff Writer students wil Contemporary University, an time partici educational experiment to teach All studen college students how to learn, is CU during th starting a third semester at USC. their grade Applications are due Friday and returned to may be picked up in Room I of the following se Humanities Office Building. Dr. David The program currently has 25 director of ( undergraduate students spending The indel one semester of their college conducted v career doing independent research academic sti and receiving a semester's credit. topic of the "CU helps narrow down a One CU st student's interests in planning the injecting dr rest of his life," said Bob Skenes, rats. She ha student assistant director. "it is rats saline a probably the only time in life when different z you will be lifted from the amphetami university academic structure student, a t unless you go to graduate school. It major. says would have to be an unusual embryos for graduate school at that." mation. There is some false information 'CU can about CU, said Skenes. "One myth student who is that credit hours cannot be D)r. Hichar arranged and a student will not advisor for graduate on time. CU will not set a motivates h student back. After a student is told me that accepted, his academic advisor have droppe and his CU advisor will get hadn't had together and arrange his credit pened by CL hours." Although Skenes said that selection is classes and based on the enthusiasm shown by student att F's may be droppe Committe By MISSY GREEN until a st Staff Writer satisfactory The Scholastic Standings and Satisfactor Petitions Committee will hold would be S hearings today and tomorrow present pass concerning a possible grading According i uystem change. the alternat< On Dec. 2, the Grade System may arise a Proposal will be presented to the meeting is th Faculty Senate for consideration. F after thi Instead of the present system, cessfully coi grades of A,B,C, Satisfactory and He said thE No Credit would be given, students do If a student makes below a C, he repeat the su would be given NC. the case the) 'Tbe grade NC will still appear on Dr. Perry testudent's transcript, but the the Scholas huswill not be averaged into the Petitions Con GPR. Couraes for which a no credit need to str maeis given may be repeated making t rary University le a community of persons in search of lear 19 ning in the USC Contemporary University ie proqram. te applications Approximately sixty meetings. The two weekly I be selected as full meetings include a two-hour pants for the spring. seminar where students take turns ts who participated in explaining their progress. Every a fall of 1969 improved few weeks a student must give a 45 averages when they minute presentation and then other regular classes the students offer constructive mester, dccording to criticism. "The students learn Stenmark, faculty from each other," Stenmark said. 1U. At the colloquium, also held once endent research is a week, students may hear outside 'ithout the "normal" speakers talk about how they do ucture of classes on a their own research or they may student's choosing. hold discussions on what they think ident this semester is is the real meaning of a university igs into 50 pregnant education. Both meetings take s given one group of place in a large basement-room rid three other groups full of cushions and chairs. imounts of meth- CI first came to Carolina in the ie (soeed). The summer of 1969 when the Ford hird year pharmacy Foundation gave three colleges a she will examine the total of $95,000 to introduce the any kind of malfor- program. Since then the project has disappeared at both the other do so much for the schools, the Federal City College in s fed up with school," Washington, 1).C. and the d iempel, faculty University of Massachusetts. CU, said. "It re- "The success of CU here has m. Several students frankly surprised the Ford they probably would Foundation and some people i out of school if they here," Hempel said. "I think the their interests shar- success here is due to the fact that students, faculty and ad free from regular ministrators took it seriously. final exams, each ends two weekly wontinued on page e considers nreceives a icquirement a 2.00. grade. According to the Grade System y or No Credit grades Proposal, a student would be mubstituted for the placed on academic suspension if -fail system. he failed to successfully complete stude ,ae heast hau e c arrying three outs, problem tais amunyhoouheyed biet ad itisere onth esion ifesearchior to may woudhvetoo chsfldy dicomplens on what ceny thin Ashly, cairmnio the core hoursn he atunierstd tic Sandins and duin Both pre eetings1 moths. placesi teesA Te ent'sgeecoresent-rdom ententesytm reiwdtonc gaea afrer colgs Sbaic radhme dscholpeare atohd the oe lack We program I awareness The Russell House lobby was barely clear of International Week exhibits when the Afro-American Students Association moved in to set up displays for Black Week. which begins today. According to Gerald Wilsnn, chairman of the Afro-American Students' Cultural Committee. Black Week was "concieved to introduce the Black Studies program which will begin this spring. We are using the week to emphaziie the heritage blacks have from Africa which developed into the Afro-American culture. Through Black Week, and the Association of Afro-American Students, we want to promote black awareness at USC, in the community and in the state." Black Week festivities will be initiated tonight at the Black Week Banquet at 7 p.m. in the Campus Room at Capstone Mrs. Victoria De Lee, an active civil rights worker will speak on "The Role and Importance of Black Women in Society." Dr. Reuben Weston of Wilberforce University will discuss the topic "The Introduction of Black Studies into the American System of Education." At the banquet, the three finalists for Miss Black USC will be announced. Seven black women from South Carolina will be honored for their contributions to black awareness. The speakers will also meet with faculty members to exchange opinions concerning the need for black studies at USC. Tomorrow, the Henderson Davis Players of South Carolina State College will present "Tell Pharoah," a play directed by H. 1). Flowers II. The play, which will be presented with the cooperation of the South Carolina Arts Com mission, deals with the migration of blacks from the South to the North. The Henderson Davis 0i irading indefinite suspension. : Grades of F which were given c prior to the acceptance of the new system would be replaced by a NC. Grades of D would not be changed C n Alinclded onthe propontmism Arstuet hio aires a entrin a freshout,retiingctoreyha one Un Matiscr grade would be b given gatioo students with aate ek gromotes Players have won several dozen awards internationally since they began in 1967. The play will be presented at 8:30 p.m. in Rutledge Chapel A program of Afro fashions will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Russell House Movie Room, The (Contiued on page 2.) USC receih A grant of $415,000 will go (UWW) from the U. S. Offic purposes. Announcement of tl Washington. USC, one of 18 colleges and i program, will receive about $ to Dr. Warren Buford, UWW Dr. Thomas F. Jones, US Washington for the announce Two private funding organ nounce additional grants to til next 30 days, Dr. Buford said planning UWW nationwide. Ticket schedule Pick-up for tickets to the Thursday USC-Auburn basketball game will be tomorrow from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m Students may pick up tickets according to the final digit of their ID numbers. The schedule is as follows: ID NO. TIME 0-1 8-9:30 a.m. 2-3 9:30-11 a.m. 4-5 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 6-7 12:30 p.m. 8-9 2-3:30 p.m. Married students and those who have not picked up their tickets. 3:30-4 p.m. Individual date ticke4s, $3 (if avaikable> 4-5 p.m. system .75-3.99 with no more than three ourses of NC on record. A cum laude would be awarded > students who have a 3.50-3.74 umlative GPR and have received o more than five courses of. NC on ecord. The proposal for a grade system hange will be sent to each faculty ember prior to the Faculty enate meeting on Wednesday. The hearings being held today nd tomorrow in Room 223 of the usiness Adminstration Building re open to all students and culty. If approved, the grading system roposal would go into effect at the eginning of the 1971 Summer masla. Parent organization for IWW is the Union for Experimenting 'olleges and t1niversities at An tiob 'ollege. Yellow Springs. Ohio )r Samuel Baskin is president of the organization that includes 18 colleges and univer sities joined together to foster research and experimentation in higher education Students entering the IJWW program need not have decided on a major. lDr. Huford said. UWW is designed to give each student a chance to find out what he really wants and is capable of. "We have really lost sight of one aim of a liberal education." he said. A liberal education should 'allow a person to study. to experience a number of things and ideally he will choose what he wants. "Un fortunately we have put students in a box," he said. Often students are required to declare a major the first year. Liberal arts education should allow a student to explore and give him a couple of years of experience to help him decide. Students going into professional fields could also benefit from UWW. he said. "I question right now whether pre-professional training at the undergraduate level is adequate." he said. Recently the professionals have raised this question and industry has questioned it for years. Since there is signifigant evidence that pre professional training is not adequate there is no reason why tIWW should not see if there is a better alternate. he said. One of the most misunderstood points about UWW, Dr. Buford said. is that it offers a "watered down education." UWW is not a place where a student can go and simply do "his own thing." in many ways, he said. UWW will be more challenging than the regular undergraduate program. The 1970-71 academic year is the planning year for UWW at all the participating institutions, Dr. Huford said. At the University a '.mini -operation" of UWW is being conducted in Psychology 399. Two special sections of this course will provide student input for USC's program. UWW is designed as an alternate in undergraduate education and is not meant to replace the regular program, Dr. Buford said. ''I don't think it seeks to un dermine or replace programs that meet the needs of many students. I just want our institution to accept this experiment with full faith that it is not designed to destroy the institution. i have no vested in terests in seeing the University of South Carolina becoming a University Without Walls. res $20,000 to University Without Walls e of Education for planning iae grant is expected today in iniversities taking part in the 20,000 of the grant, according director at USC. C president, plans to be in ment. izations are expected to an lte UWW program within the .These funds will also go to c4 Awed b~ ThIs young lady seems to t ceremonies at the State House Arpad Darazs dIrected a banc school band members from th' band, the USC choir, and varint When an iatitulmn commits itself to IYWW it is sayin that it is not satisfied with what it has. he said "The statistics damn us A large number of people fail and a high failure rate is not necessariky indicative of a good insUtitie ? IIWW is "merely a more legitimate way to handle those (tiestions asked about the present state of undergraduate education.'' Huford added Undergraduate education today is 'absolutely absurd.'' Conrad l.odziak. assistant director of IWW here. said '('ollege curriculums are far removed from the realities of life." he said The whole program is "traditi on based. not scientifically based ' 'Maybe school exists for the publication industry.'' Lodziak said "When a person goes to school he is confronted with one basic assumption. that people learn through reading." he ex plained. Some people do learn this way. but many more learn through '-concrete experience ' 'WW could provide this experience 'It '(UWW> is just one of the few rerpaining chances for any significant changes in the idea of schooling. We're trying to come up with something to put into pract ice all the things that have been said about education." Lodziak said "UIWW is the last string of hope for change within the system "One component I would like to see in UWW is community projects." Lodziak said. This would give students who feel strongly about community con ditions a chance to put these feelings into action. Three kinds of students will be especially suited for UWW. Dr Buford said. First, the program would be suited to "high-risk" students -- those students the University admits with minimum entrance scores. Second. students fron low-income situations would be suited for the program One proposed result of UWW will be the reduction of the cost of higher education. Finally any student who is suited to the learning styles of UWW would profit from the program. UWW is similar to the Con temporary University program at the University now. Dr. Buford said. One major difference bet ween the two is that UWW is designed to lead to an un dergraduate degree, whereas Contemporary University is a single semester program. L)r. Buford said he hoped cooperation between the two programs couid be developned Three major planning sessions between the participating in stitutions have been held. The first was held Oct. 29-31 at Roger Williams College in Rhode Island. The second was held Nov. 5-'7 at Loretta Heights College, D)enver. Colo. The third was held at Shaw University in Raleigh .N C., Nov. 12-14. One aspect of UWW that is 'really exciting' is that USC will be able to "rub shoulders" with a number of large and small in stitutions. D)r. Buford said. D)egrees awarded upon graduation from the UWW could come either from USC or from University Without Walls, Inc.. a ('ontinued on page 3.) itNl SnoigteCrlgtng yetra.RlhWh n as chtc a l nmaea