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Three-Hour Course Base Criticized; Option Asked By DENNIS NELSON Of the Emerald “Departments within the Uni versity should offer undergradu ates the option to receive an additional one or two hours of credit for independent study in existing three-hour courses.” This recommendation is cur rently being presented to the faculty and is the result of an intensive study by the Course Base and Degree Requirements Committee which was formed under the ASUO Vice-President Mike Donahue. The purpose of this commit tee was to “evaluate both sub jectively and objectively the status of the three-hour course base as it exists at the Uni versity.” In a report just re leased, the committee felt the three-hour course base had the following weaknesses: • It does not always offer an intensive enough develop ment of the subjective matter. • The three - hour course may stifle educational experi mentation and innovation. • It necessitates that a stu dent take live or more courses per term to maintain an aver age load of study. • Five or more courses cre ate an academic overload under which adequate preparation in some courses is carried on at the expense of other courses. The committee circulated a questionnaire to the heads of departments at the University concerning their willingness or We'll Check Your Car And give a written diagnosis and estimate WITH NO OBLIGATION We Welcome Problem Jobs Loan Cars & BankAmerlcard Thrifty Auto Repair 400 Block Coburg Road 344-2219 Eves. 343-5997 PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS r— 1 ■ . i — ■ ' ■ lack of willingness to alter pres ent class structure. Among the positive respon ses, a chairman wfote, “there is a place for one hour courses, two hour courses, three hour courses, and four and five hour courses. In other words, I ad vocate maximum flexibility in the hours designated so as to ‘fit’ between the nature of the offering and the hours to be de voted to it.” On the other hand some de partment heads indicated they would not like to teach a class that met four to five times a week. One department head stat ed, “It seems to me that when a student is required to meet a class four to five times a week, he is not given ample time to digest and think about the ma terial that he has to read and talk about.” The committee also corres ponded with other universities which are currently operating on some system other than the three hour course base. The dean of the college of Letters and Sciences at UCLA said of their system, “We adopt ed a standard basic course of four quarter units and now state our requirements in terms of ‘courses’ rather than units . . . and we abandoned the former practice of basing course (or unit) value on the number of hours a class meets. Depart ments may schedule class meet ings in any way they choose. “This system assures that a student will normally take only four courses per quarter and allows much greater flexibility to departments and individual instructors in planning their courses. “One striking result of the new system has been that many fewer students have been sub ject to probation or dismissal and the number of students on the dean’s list has been more than doubled.” The committee is now eliciting faculty advice and support for the recommendation. The com mittee felt “that faculty - stu dent co-operation has been the key to the progress that has al ready been made in these areas.” It urged the continuation of the committee until its work is completed or given over to an other student-faculty organ. Reporter Notices Chanqe in China By WANDALYN RICE Of the Emerald “There was everywhere a spir it of improvement in Red Chi na,” Lisa Hobbs told listeners Friday night in the last speech on the “Three Days of Concern in Vietnam” program. In 1965, Mrs. Hobbs, a staff writer for the San Francisco Examiner, spent 26 days in Red China, thus becoming the first reporter from an American publication in ten years to vis it that country. Throughout her speech, Mrs. Hobbs emphasized the improve ments that the Chinese have made under communism, and also the “very ethnocentric” na ture of Chinese nationalism. RAMSEY LEWIS IN CONCERT MticARTHUR COURT Sunday, May 5th, at 7 p.m. General Admission Ticets $2.00 Reserved Seats $3.00 Tickets on Sale at the EM Main Desk TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 150 SCIENCE Wednesday, May 1st 6:30 & 9:00 P.M. Admission: 50 cents (students only) SPONSORED BY MODEL UNITED NATIONS & YOUNG DEMOCRATS The improvements the Chi nese have made, she said, are not great, but “the basis (what they have started from) is so low that there is a long, long way they can go” on their own efforts. Even small improvements, she explained are great compared to China's past. She described meeting a bare ly literate man in a commune who was trying to build a ma chine in order to help the com mune. "The point,” she said, “is not that the machine didn’t work, because it didn’t,” . . . but that the farmer "barely out of the middle ages,” thought of himself as a “maker of ma chines.” This formation of "a social ist conscience” has been a ma jor accomplishment of the Red Chinese government. Mrs. Hobbs said that 50 per cent of the Chinese population is under 20 and said that young people are “ignorant of the out side world.” During the tour, Mrs. Hobbs said she "sad the feeling they (the Red Chinese) were slightly contemptuous.” Later, when she talked to others who had been in China, they agreed that the Chinese are contemptuous of those who aren't Chinese. Mrs. Hobbs, in the question period following the speech, ex pressed the fear that the ignor ance and cthnocentrism of the younger Chinese would make them dangerous, because "they feel that they’ve got the gos pel . . .” Accompanying the speech, Mrs. Hobbs showed slides she had taken on her 26 day tour. An Australian citizen, she did not tell the Chinese that she was a reporter for the Exam iner. She told of watching dem onstrations against the war in Vietnam and of visiting Chi nese Universities where stu dents were regularly asked to criticize themselves because of their errors in upholding the communist ideology. Choose Jack CRAIG Democrat Commissioner Pd. Pol. Adv. by Craig for Commissioner 2159 Emerald Eugene Columbia Protestors Face Counter Attack NEW YORK (AP)—An im patient faction of the Columbia University student body threw up a blockade Monday to squeeze off a protest by fellow students that has disrupted the Ivy League school for a week. Columbia’s President Grayson Kirk announced late Sunday that the Ivy League school would be closed again pending "discussions relating to a set tlement of the present contro versy,” adding: "Normal opera tions will resume again as soon as possible.” But some students eager for the school to return to normal formed what they called the Majority Coalition to end the protest and threw up a block ade around Low Memorial Li brary Sunday night. They tightened it this morn ing, saying they were cutting off all food and medical supplies for about 100 protesters inside. About 200 students manned the blockade. The student protest, which be gan a week ago, led to suspen sion of night classes for three days last week and to suspen sion of day classes Friday. School authorities estimate that 500 to 600 students are oc cupying the buildings and Kirk’s offices in Low Library. The university’s total enroll ment is 27,500. The protesters originally de The Oregon Daily Emerald is pub lished Monday thru Friday, Septem ber to May, except during exam and vacation periods. Bi-weekly June thru the first week of August, once a week the last three weeks of August, by the Publications Board of the University of Oregon. Second-class postage paid at Eu gene, Oregon 97403. Subscription rates $8 per year, $3 per term. Man's Best Friend when he wants to buy or sell: The Oregon Daily I’.merald Classifieds. manded halting of construction of a gymnasium on a portion of a Harlem park adjoining the university, and an end to Co lumbia’s participation in a de fense-oriented .government re search project. The university stopped con struction of the gym. However, the student rebels demanded amnesty for all demonstrators and an end to what they called the administration’s “repressive rule.” At a meeting Sunday morn ing, the university’s professors voted against granting amnesty to the demonstrators, echoing an earlier action by the Colum bia board of trustees. The other campus structures being occupied are Hamilton Hall, Fayer-Weather Hall, Av ery Hall, and the Mathematics Building. We Give Our Used Volkswagens A Complete inspection WHY DON'T j YOU? | Over 40 Reconditioned Volkswagens to Choose From At One Location! PAPE' CROSS Volkswagen OPEN .SUNDAY Lane County's Authorized VOLKSWAGEN—PORSCHE Sales and Service Center #20 Coburg Road 343-3307 '/ Who pays resident tuition during Summer Session? Everyone Out-of-state undergraduates, see what it’s like to be an Oregonian in the cashier’s line—you can figure out later what to do with the $210 you’ll save. 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