4Escape9 to off-campus credits
The ESCAPE Field Studies
Program has a way to bypass
credit hours typically spent in
University classrooms
By working as a volunteer at
one of ESCAPE'S 70
participating agencies and
schools, students receive one to
five hours of upper-division
University credit
•‘It's not your typical learning
situation,'' says director Trudy
Flanery
ESCAPE is an "experiential"
program that allows students a
lot of flexibility, and students
who make the most effort gain
the most from the experience,
she says
"Otherwise they're just look
ing at it as a program for bogus
credits and they're not putting
that much into It." Flanery says
Approximately 400 students
enroll each term in the program,
which is coordinated and
supervised entirely by students,
she says To receive credit,
students must complete a mid
term and final conference and a
final project
There are no prerequisites for
the program, and anyone who
"has the energy to do some
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term last year — tor a total direct
athletic department subsidy of
$544,066 Ticket sales are ex
pected to bring the subsidy up
to last year's $766,571 level
The revised subsidy system is
the result of complaint's last
year that free tickets discrimin
ated against students who did
not attend sporting events. Ed
munson says
By negotiating with the
University administration, the
ASUO obtained a compromise
— students paying half price for
athletic tickets and less in in
cidental fees
But University Pres Paul
Olum told the ASUO the athletic
tee would go up again next year
if student ticket sales fail to
make up the $222,500 differ
ence, Edmunson says
"It would be false security to
think the battle was won last
year over the athletic ticket in
crease,'' he says, adding that
students will continue to have to
support the athletic department
until “it doesn't need it
anymore "
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thing away from campus” can
be an effective volunteer, Flan
ery says, adding that the ES
CAPE staff conducts a leader
ship training session at the
beginning of the term, before
sending students out to their
agencies.
Volunteers at schools work at
jobs ranging from tutoring
refugee and gifted children to
coaching or teaching arts and
crafts
In addition, just about any
position where the student is in
a "direct helping relationship"
with other people — such as
health care and legal aid agen
cies — can count as ESCAPE
credit, Flanery says
The ESCAPE program, which
has been in effect at the Univer
sity since 1969, is divided into
three divisions: community ser
vice. coordinated this year by
Jeff Conway; public schools,
coordinated by de Shauna
Blankinship, and the Bethel
School Project.
Credit also is available for
former ESCAPE volunteers who
would like to work as an ES
CAPE "volunteer coordinator,"
she says, and ESCAPE can be
repeated as many times as a
student wants.
Students interested in posi
tions should contact Blankin
ship or Conway at 686-4351.
ESCAPE staff members will
be at McArthur Court during
registration and outside the
Fishbowl during the first two
weeks of classes to talk with
students about positions availa
ble
There’s a new attitude on campus.
It’s confident and optimistic. It’s young
Americans concerned about the future,
hut most of all, concerned about
America.
It’s a spirit of working together
and sharing ideas to make a better
world for everybody.
It’s a healthy attitude of
responsibility and renewed leadership.
And being part of helping to make
things better.
Army ROTC invites young men
and women who share these concerns
to stop by the Department of Military
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