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By HOLLY GATLING
Staff Writer
In the past seven years, only one
person has received a master's
degree from USC's theatre
department.
Russell Green, theatie director
said, "We have 15 active graduate
students and seven in the stages of
getting their degree."
A master's program was in
stituted in 1965 when Green
became the director and he said,
"Many students failed to get their
master's because of money or
because they had to work and had
to put it off."
Bob Treacy, who teaches theatre
at the regional campus in
Salkehatchie attributes his
slowness in getting a degree to
procrastination. "My thesis was
approved and I have taken all the
required courses. Mr. Green
wanted me to write an introduction
to my thesis but I've kept putting it
off." He said, however, he will
have his degree in June.
Another graduate student, who
asked not to be identified, said he
has been in theatre for a number of
years, "and I've never seen
anything so screwed up."
He said the attitude of the
department is "the show's the
thing" and that students are "used
and bled" without their experience
being an academic or teaching
one.
"I'm sure a lot of students didn't
deserve to get degrees," he said,
"but the whole program is too
much production oriented." He
said students rehearsed until 2 or 3
a.m. for one show after another,
"and unless a person is extremely
self-disciplined he falls behind."
He said also that he felt a theatre
program should be educational
rather than have the students be
given certain jobs that had no
academic value.
The GAMECOCK contacted a
former USC theatre professor, Dr.
Conrad Bishop in Milwaukee, who
now has a New York based touring
company. Bishop has his Ph.D in .
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theatre and said The master's
program at USC "was as good as
could be offered." He said he and
his wife Linda enjoyed working
there; "the theatre group was
small and offered a cohesive at
mosphere. I left because I found a
better job."
Bishop agrees with Green that
money and work tend to hinder a
person getting a master's degree
in theatre.
A member of the theatre
department, who also asked not to
be identified, said the theatre
program is very limited because
the size of the faculty is small. One
reason the program is not strong is
people like the Bishops keep
leaving.
Another attack on the theatre
department is animosity among
the faculty. The unidentified
graduate student said, "The
faculty over there all hate each
other and the students are
pressured to take sides."
Treacy, however dismissed this
and similar charges as "petty
jealousy." He said, "Things get
pretty tense during a show and a
lot of people are at each other's
throats. These charges sound to
me as if someone Is not over his
wounds from a show."~
Green said plans are being made
to institute a Master of Fine Arts.
"We're hoping to propose an
M.A.T. and a B.F.A." Green said.
The graduate student said, "It's
awfully hard to prove anything. I
think It's a crying shame that the
University is not doing some
checking on Its own to find out why
so few degrees have been
received."
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VOL. LXII - NO. 70 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, March 20, 1972
General Studies
Bachelors deg
By FRAN ZUPAN
Staff Writer
Two proposals for a four-year degree program in
the College of General Studies will be discussed at the
next meeting of the Faculty Senate April 5. A vote on
the proposals is slated for the May 3 meeting.
Under a proposal made by the Curriculum and New
Courses Committee of the Senate, a student seeking a
Bachelor of General Studies would have no requit-ed
courses but could determine his own 120-hour degree
program in consultation with an administrative staff
member from the College of General Studies and two
faculty members from other colleges or schools.
An alternative proposal, made by an ad hoc
committee of 11 faculty members, would provide for
a larger faculty-student group to decide whether the
degree should be unstructured or structured, and if
structured to make curriculum recommendations to
the Curriculum and New Courses Committee.
Spokesmen for both committees say they hope the
groups can agree on a measure.
Both proposals would allow students to transfer to
USC from community colleges and special purposes
institutions such as technical colleges ideally without
losing any credit.
Associate degrees, now offered by the College of
General Studies, would be continued under both
proposals.
The original proposal.made by the Curriculum and
New Courses Committee grew out of the proposal for
an experimental college, ex-officio committee
member and Vice Provost John Guilds said.
"This is almost identical with the proposal for an
experimental college referred to us by President
(Tom) Jones,"he said, "but this is better because the
College of General Studies already exists."
Guilds said under this proposal students could
specialize or generalize without the interference of
requirements. He said, however, that refinements in
the proposal are still being made. Students would
probably not have complete freedom to choose their
advisors, he said. The faculty or department would
have to designate which faculty members could serve
as advisors, he explained:
"It would not just be a student picking his favorite
prof." What the ad hoc committee's proposal does is
to divide the Curriculum and New Courses Com
mittee's proposal into two subparts, Dr. Richard A.
Kasschau of the Department of Psychology said.
He and "six or eight others" formed the committee
in mid-January to "look at innovative education and
how it might best be accomplished," he said.
"We tried to get with them (the Curriculum and
New Courses Committee) before the March meeting,
but we really didn't have our proposal ready until
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Student Government Security, group patrols south
said, "Our basic task is not a police and the other pa
function per so. Our main concern Green Street.
Is to help the student whenever
possible. With spring coming up, The patrols look
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"Presently the student division something unusual
is working on a student feedback immediately call
system to lessen the r.hnne af police station, whic
,ree proposed
then," he explained.
The only major difference in the ad hoc proposal
for a general studies's bachelors degree and the
Curriculum and New Courses idea is in the im
plementation. The ad hoc group would have a faculty
member from each college with an undergraduate
degree program and four students selected by the
Student Faculty Liaison Committee sit on a com
mittee chaired by the Dean of the College of General
Studies for the purpose of determining curriculum
requirements for a bachelor of general studies
degree.
This would provide for faculty control over
curriculum which is at stake, Kasschau said, "That's
Dne of the few areas still within faculty control."
Guilds, on the other hand, said he sees the two
proposals as "really not very different." He said that
either proposal would be satisfactory, but that the
Curriculum and New Courses proposal is less
cumbersome but still provides for "sufficient faculty
control."
The second division of the ad hoc committee's
proposal would establish a Division for Experiments
in Education at USC. This division would be an ad
ministrative home for an increasing number of trans
college programs such as Contemporary University
and Opportunity Scholars, Kasschau said.
In addition, an Advisory Council of 12 faculty
members, three undergraduate students and one
graduate student would screen experiments proposed
by administrators, faculty, students and staff. The
Advisory Council would decide whether a student
should get academic credit for his work and whether
an experiment's results could and should be applied
at USC, Kasschau said.
"For example, suppose a French teacher is also
interested in art," he said. "This kind of program
would allow him to teach an art course in French."
Kasschau said a student who wanted to earn a 120
hour unstructured degree could do so under the
Division for Experiments. He said the ad hoc com
mittee's two recommendations offer as much as the
Curriculum and New Courses proposal plus more
because the Division for Experiments would allow
administrators, faculty and staff as well as students
to experiment.
If either proposal for the general studies degree
passes, it can be administered without further ap
proval since the faculty has jurisdiction over
curriculum, Kasschau said. However, the establish
ment of a Division for Experiments in Education
would involve the creation of a new division, and as
such would have to be approved by President Jones,
the Board of Trustees and the Higher Education
Commission, he explained.
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to 1 a.m. One chosen through the work-study
of Green Sreet program and work five nights
trols north of during a two-week period.
The patrols began two years ago
for anything under Mike Spears' ad
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