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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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