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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.
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