Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Letters 'Brigade' recruits requested MR. FARRELL: In January another Venceremos Brigade will leave the United States to participate in the sugar harvest in Cuba. Uke earlier Brigades this one will consist of Americang sympathetic to and interested in the efforts of the Cuban people to build a modern socialist society. Recruits will not be limited to "movement heavies" or to sophisticated Marxists but should include men and women with enthusiasm for and curiosity about revolution. There will be abundant opportunity for those on the Brigade to observe the situation in Cuba, for the trip-lasting from January into March-will include, beside work in the sugar fields, several weeks of travel about the island and discussions with dif ferent groups of Cubans. Since the deadline for application is October 1, those desiring an application and or further information should get in touch with me at: 1 I H ERE IS A BUCK TO T HA I ANYON E EL.S1 PIZZA ~]Offer Expirn 4620 Devine - 787-1470 2903 N. Main - 253-799 2811 Two Notch - 253 to the 50 Vanderhorst St. No. 403 Charleston, S.C. 29403 SUSAN MATTHEWS 'What's his name?' MR. FARRELL: The article on Lee what's- his name reminded me of a statement that was made concerning the Coliseum in general. People associated with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus credit only two arenas in the East as outstanding places to show. One is the Philadelphia Spectrum and the other Carolina Colieseum. As a former clown with the Greatest Show on Earth, I realize what good audiences are suppose to do; that is, welcome good shows with respect and welcome bad shows with silent pity! Let the jester on stage get his Dear John in a royal way--silent but deadly!! . -voNxAD MART. JR. Gameeoek - Charge Aeeout $100 or (Umit) 3RITTO1 FIND OUT WHY PIZZA HU K IN THE WORLD HUTS OF SOUTH C s Oct. 18 1971 SONE PIZZA HUT BUCK iox Abbott Dr. 794 (Most con OTHER LOCATIONS 1929 Broad 7 5421 Forest 912 Hwmy 1 ri editor Restrictions 6 grossly unfair' MR. FARRELL: According to the latest catalog, candidates for the B.A. and B.S. Degrees must fulfill the same ''General Education Requirements." These academic restrictions, supposedly designed to "prevent too narrow an academic focus" are grossly unfair to most science and many arts majors. The requirements are designed to keep the "undecided" major busy until he is forced to pick something in his junior year. But as these requirements are general, they also control the academic life of the person who knows why he is in college. It is easy to see how heavy a burden this could be to a-science student who wants an intensive major to prepare for graduate school. If his interests are in a field which require advanced work in iffs t. , the task is It 1!17 r SERVES MORE PIZZA AROLINA it any Columbia_ PIZZA HUT With The Purchase of Any Large Pizza PIZZA HUT PETE 5-3240 venient to USC) River - 772-4262 Dr. - 787-4006 ntsville- Open Soon almost impossible. Such a student finds he must use all his electives to supplement his cognate requirements, and has no time to go Into any other sciences in which he may want basic Information but does not. absolutely have to have. Instead he is stuck in liberal arts courses in which he has no interest, no need, and often no aptitude. The composers of these general requirements subscribe to the theory that liberal arts are for everyone, but science is only for those who volunteer. A mim nimum of 37 hours in liberal arts is required of all science majors, but only seven to eight hours ot science are required of arts majors. That means a science major must take six arts courses to every science course an arts malor takes. The arts student is even helped through this horrible with courses designed especially for him. It is possible to get 50 hours in "Sandbox Science", enough to get an interdeparmental major in not majoring in science. However, liberal arts is not as good at giving as it is at taking. The only History of Science courses are on the Graduate level and cannot be taken in Heu of the required History 101-102 sequence. The Savannah River Atomic Energy Plant in Aiken, which has more Ph. D.'s than many colleges, has had programs to teach these highly trained people how to write comprehensible technical reports. After years of trying to impress English teachers with yards of flowery prose, they find making a simple declarative sentence almost impossible. But Instead of BULK BEVEl 530 GERVAIS ST-COLI -HOURS. Mon.-Thurs.- 1 BUSCH 16 oz. 6-Pak $6" case D AVIS Planning f< ARE Part. Time Poi Apply Emplo 10:00 A.M. to Fridays unti writing course. to English 101 and a survey of scientific literatts course in lieu of English 102, we . are stuck with volunes of crackpot to cracker-barrel philosophy. Ignoring scentific literature to tragic for Liberal Arts as well as science, as anyone who has read the beautiful similes of Charles Darwin knows. We are told that the foreign language requirement is useful as we will have to read untranslated reports. However, the courses we are forced to take am all con versational! There are people who know what they want to do, and have come to college to learn how to do It. These people are strangled by the general education requirements, and are denied having any really free electives. How much simpler and more efficient it would be if there were only major requirements for those who have decided a major. Cognate courses could be more carefully chosen If advisors did not have to spend time going down the checklist of "What You've Got To Have" before each registration. Interdepartmental studies could be developed without cutting off all outside interests. Science majors would probably not turn into the egg-headed introverts some might expect just because they were given some freedom to chose the courses they are so dearly paying for. 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