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CASH For Textbooks Mon -Fri Smith Family Bookstore 768 E 13th 1 Bl From Campus Pb 345- 16S1 Oakway filial-71-Sown From garters to gowns. . . From footwear to formals. . . WE’VE GOT IT ALL All for love. . All for you . . . 22 Oak way Mall 485-0410 -- -<£ catch yx* y the classifieds! HAPPY HOUR I Video Games <^EQ> FREE U$l-29 Fresh Popcorn Hors d’oeuvres Free Taco Bar Every Day 3:30-6:30pm. TUESDAY Come as-you-are nhe Happy Hour ’til closing THURSDAY" L.C.C. Happy Hour ’til closing for all students and faculty, with valid student or faculty card SUNDAY Jogger’s Nite Happy Hour ’til closing on any orange juice drink. MONDAY Night Football Happy Hour til closing for all football jersey wearer' WEDNESDAY (Over the hump!) U of O Nite Happy Hour ’til closing for all students and faculty with valid student or faculty card. Large Screen T.V. Sports General Hospital Daily 2 -3:00 Wine and Dine Lunch Special $1.19 12 2 daily Lyon’s Restaurant 1933 Franklin Blvd. 484-4333 SEARCH offers alternatives What do the Food-Op, the tool library, the women's studies department and — to some ex tent — the EMU Craft Center have in common? They all start ed as SEARCH classes Since the nontraditional pro gram began in the winter term of 1967, 50,000 students have tak en SEARCH workshops and courses and more than 100,000 credits have been awarded, says Kevin Kouns, the pro gram's administrative coordina tor "SEARCH is a supplement and a complement to the exist ing system,” he says. "As far as I know, we are the only one in the country that generates credit for student-taught courses " SEARCH offers Uni versity-approved credit courses and free, non-credit workshops that would not oth erwise be taught, Kouns says The courses and workshops are distinct from the usual University offerings because students, faculty, and commun ity members can teach or take a SEARCH class, Kouns says SEARCH also serves as a compliment because "if students or faculty have an idea, they can try it out here and let it spin out," Kouns says. "With the budget cuts, SEARCH becomes more neces sary Departments have less money for experimentation, fewer GTF positions and less flexibility They can work out their ideas here," he says For example, a 1970 SEARCH course titled ‘‘Can Man Survive?” initiated the Survival Center, Kouns says. "I guess the Survival Center is kind of our grandchild, but it's more than twice our size.” The SEARCH program began as part of the “free university” movement "Rather than just classroom learning, students felt that learning should be more responsive and more flexible The program grew out of the radicalism of the '60s," Kouns says The program bred antagon ism toward the University and the University became afraid of the program, he says "They thought the program would be taken over by radicals,” Kouns says. The University, however, couldn’t do anything to ease their fears ex cept support the program and keep some control over it, he says "That is why SEARCH took the form that it did and became part of the ASUO," Koun says. Since 1967, SEARCH has of fered numerous classes and workshops Some of their class offerings have been: Mountain eering, Dutch, Hebrew, An thrology, Emerging Law of Students Rights and Economics of Wine Industry "The courses we offer usually tend to be more narrowly focused or are controversial,” Kouns says SEARCH got in some trouble when it offered Aerodynamics Kevin Kouns of the Frisbee "How are you teaching frisbee in a University7" Kouns quotes critics as asking at the time All students are encouraged to investigate enrolling in or and teaching SEARCH courses, Kous says To bolster interest in the program, the organization is running weekly advertisements sending out letters and flyers, and organizing an outreach list of community organizations whose personnel might want to teach classes "For the past couple of years the attitude on the part of the SEARCH management was that the program can run itself Well, it can't and we are trying to turn things around,'' Kouns says By Lori Lieberman Photo by Mark Pynes fasv to loam, but hard to master IntfiKUinii Mysterious I •<-.ill t till I tv ( timplev A 1 l.lssu U«ime cit skill M.n be th.it s w In lilt'll .iiul y\niiien have been pl.ivniK I’ente tor .is loon <1 s ° men and women h.t i been pi,n mu ji.iint's PENTE THE CLASSIC CAME Of SKILL mKLWUR GAMES lid. I 296 E. Fifth Street 343-3331 l