COAST Continued from Page 1 just for seniors either, we've had some very successful freshmen ns well." Three days a week students attend classes that focus on problems or themes having to do with the Oregon Coast. Students spend the remaining days on their individual research projects, which they choose and develop throughout the term. Projects have ranged from developing a permanent plan to save an elk herd, to rearranging Charleston's downtown, to developing an interpretive trail guide for a national recreation area. % Medlor said the project ideas, which the students come up with on their own. are endless. He said many research pro jects, besides giving the students hands on experience in that area, develop into plans and programs that benefit the Charleston community and the coast. ''If students hadn't have done the leg work, the nation's first estuary marine reserve on the south slew of Coos Bay wouldn’t have gotten sanctuary status as quickly." Medlor said. "This is an exam ple of something dramatic that actually came from what they did." Medler said the program has two dis tinct goals. "First, we trv to give students the skills to solve environmental problems by using and learning marine biology, car tography. landscape architecture classes and analytic skills like political science to help them in public policy and man agement to solve these problems," Medler said. "Everybody wants to save the world, hut they need the skills to do it." he said. Medler said the second goal of OIMB is to teach a broader, more theoretical understanding of environmental issues Many OIMB students said they received I letter grades while in Charleston. “I got batter grades, even though it's a lot of fun, because you're learning and you're right there in it." senior history major Dan Blake said. "If you sleep in for a class, the professors will c ome in and wake you up.” Medler said the main difference is that students are living in what they're actu ally studying. "It's not like walking down 13th Avenue." he said. “Here, you're walking down the bay with the wind in your face and you're studying where you are; it's at your feet and in front of your eyes as opposed to in a text book." Besides the different edui-ational expe rience OIMB offers, the social aspect is memorable as well, some students said. "It's the ideal educational experience because here at the University we re totally detached and there, you're all together and part of the process." Wagn er said. Students and professors alike agreed the weekends, although some students go homo or hack to campus on occasion, aro a time to relax and party together. “Wo havo tho weekends off. but the program develops its own momentum." Medler said "Picnics, parlies, excursions — it's an all-the-time program." Medler said the program hasn't denied anyone admittance, hut he said certain kinds of people are more conducive to the program’s environment than others "The right kind of people are those who like to put things together and do things by themselves," Medler said "Those who like to connect the science area to the social science area and see how things go together are the best for the program." The only prerequisite class that is needed Indore acceptance is Introduction to Ecology. Tuition for OIMB is the same as the campus tuition and the dorm cost are also equivalent to the donns here. Finan cial aid can be applied to the program, and most students take between 14 to 20 credit hours, Medler said. Those interested in applying for the program shouldn't register with Duck Call. Medler said, because the registration is done in Charleston at the beginning of spring term Many students who have gone through the program say it's on experience they will never forget."It's a place I'll always go hack to," Wagner said "There is defi nitely a part of me that is still there ” Continued from Page 1 and the National Organization for Women Similar fees are imposed at the other eight UC. campuses The ltt California State Universit) campuses also collect some mandatory student fees. Anthony Caso, a Pacific Legal Foundation lawyer who helped represent the 36 dissident students in the case, said it would he easy for the university to distinguish between the non-political chess club and the political Sierra Club. Ho called the ruling a victory for free speech. "It reinforces the now long line of decisions that individu als may not be compelled by their government to support political activities," he said. 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