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HC Students ... (Continued from page 1) Reithal said that he does not think there was ever any intention of the Honors College "skim ming off the top students and forming them into an elite corps.” The basic idea behind the Honors College was to bring together people who are seeking interchange and communication with others seeking the intellectual life. The discipline necessary for this kind of learning requires that a person be academically adept. The amount of work and thought process required of the Honors College student soon dooms to failure that stu dent who is academically lazy or intellectually passive. These same faculty members were also in dis agreement as to the amount of student partici pation expected in determining curriculum. Reithal said there "never can be any substitution for student self-government.” He added that the students cannot simply state dissatisfaction, how ever, but must also have some concrete proposals for improvement and reformation. OPPOSITE REACTION Svendsen reacted quite to the opposite by stat ing that he knows "more than any sophomore what is best for him.” He suggested that if stu dents are so determined to become a significant part of -the decision making process, instead of financing the best teachers, why not let students teach the classes. Herman Cohen, director of the Honors College, does feel that students have a very important position in determining curriculum. In conjunc tion with this, he is at the present time consider ing the formation of a student curriculum com mittee to study the Honors College curriculum in its entirety. He does not want just a piecemeal reform of present curriculum. He would rather have this committee evaluate that curriculum and decide what it is lacking. He hopes to see some proposals for bringing the program up to date to the students' needs. COMPETITIVELY ORIENTED Cohen has also suggested that Honors College faculty and members look into eliminating fresh man grades. He said that this "would unload something unpleasant to the Honors College.” Students are now competitively oriented and grades have become an index to that competitive ness. The Honors College would be more intel lectual without grades He added that grades, however, are a motivation to students to do their best work. The danger is that students will not show their best potential in ungraded classes but will devote more attention to those which are graded. One other common complaint about the Honors College is that it is not living up the ideal of students doing independent Study. Cohen said he understands that requirements take up too much of a student's time and tend to narrow his education. However, unrestricted study contains the “danger of losing all discipline.” He does feel that there is a definite need for more flexibility in requirements and curriculum but has not formulated any definite proposals yet. STUDENT DISCONTENT When asked about the student discontent with the Honors College, most professors made it clear that they considered it to be in the context of students not rejecting the concept of the pro gram. They are working toward those ideals by demanding more from the faculty and the struc ture to make the system always more progressive and to fill the needs of the students. Svendsen views the dissatisfaction as part of a “generalized rebellion and dissatisfaction among the young. Honors College people probably have more drive to find discontent.” Peirson finds it to be "in context to belief in the College. The Honors College is geared to ideals that must face some degree of failure.” Therefore the students must always demand more from the program in order to push it toward those ideals. DIRECTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION Cohen considers one reason for dissatisfaction in the direction that all higher education is tak ing. Universities have “become professional-di rected schools.” They are pre-training grounds for graduate students. The tendency is to reject those students who are not majoring in that particular field but are just interested. It is therefore becoming difficult for students to find courses that are directed toward giving them an overview of a field. The core-courses of the Honors College do try to do this but are not diversified enough and some of them are still too much in depth to satisfy those outside the field. This is Russ Kennedy of Balboa Island, California, on an in-port field trip as a student abot Chapman College's floating campus. The note he paused to make as fellow students went ahead to inspect Hatshepsut’s Tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, he used to complete an assignment for his Comparative World Cultures professor. Russ transferred the 12 units earned during the study-travel semester at sea to his record at the University of California at Irvine where he continues studies toward a teaching career in life sciences. __ As you read this, 450 other students have begun the fall semester voyage of discovery with Chapman aboard the s.s. RYNDAM, for which Holland-America Line acts as General Passenger Agents. In February still another 450 will embark from Los Angeles for the spring 1967 semester this time bound for the Panama Canal, Venezuela, Brazil. Argentina, Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco’ Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Denmark, Great Britain and New York. . , For a catalog describing how you can include a semester at sea in your educational plans fill in the information below and mail. I I I i I I I I J t Director of Admissions Chapman College Orange, California 92666 Chapman College Orange, California 92606 Name_ (Last) (First) Address__ (Indicate Home or College/University) City-State_Zip_ Telephone _ Age_M_p Present Status College/University Freshman □ Sophomore □ Junior □ Senior □ Graduate Q The Ryndam is of West German registry. Graduate Council To Meet Wednesday The Graduate Student Advisory Council will hold its first fall meeting at 3 p.tn. Wednesday in the Student Union. The council is at full strength following ap pointment of representatives from all University' professional schools and departments but one. On the agenda for Wednesday are the development of a gradu ate student orientation booklet and graduate student newsletter. Other topics the Graduate Coun i cil will deal with this fall are: • Shuttle bus service to mar ried student housing; • Campus parking; • Problems in married student housing; • Changes in Ph D. language re quirements; • Pass-fail or no-grade gradu ate courses, especially for semin ars, conference, and research; • Role of graduate students in administrative and curriculum policy decisions; • The University co-operation with Selective Service. The Graduate Council is organ ized to provide liaisan between the administration and students ( in dealing with graduate student ! problems. It also seeks to pro mote educational, social, and wtd 1 fare activities of graduate stu ! dents. Each professional school and each department in the Liberal I Arts OoTteffe wdiich lias a gradti ate decree program is entitled I to representation on the coun I cil. Representatives are elected by i student vote or may l>e appoint | ed pro tein by deans or depart | ment heads to fill vacant posi | tions. 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