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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 19M H o n o rs C o l l e g e MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Watched by Educators Throughtout. Country. (Editor'! note: The follow, ing article about the Univer sity of Oregon's Honors Col lege was written by Don Rob inson, reporter for the Eugene Register - Guard and former Mail Tribune reporter.) Bv DON ROBINSON It's a" little hard to find, a lit tle hard to describe. But it's made Time magazine and the New York papers; a survey shows students inside like it and students outside ac cept is, and the president sas it is working well enough and growing fast enough to siart thinking of giving it a sister. That being true, success would seem to be the word for the University of Oregon's three-year-old experiment in Jeifer sonian education the Honors College. Physically, all there is of the Honors College is an Honors College Center. Tucked into the basement of old Friendly Hall, the center is one central room with a series of auxiliary cubicles, one of which houses Honors College Director Lucian Marquis. Wander Into Center Students wander down the flight of steps into the center all hours of the day and much of the night for study an con versation. No coffee or refresh ments. The Danish furniture is too valuable. What kind of students are they? Talks with Marquis and some of the students themselves pro duce an impression that an Hon ors College student is bright, but not JUST bright He is likely also to be broadly inquisitive, curious about fields outside his specialty. Significant Difference This may well be the signifi cant difference between those able students who choose the Honors College and those who 1 don't. There are a good number ;just as talented who prefer the regular university program. ! The Honors College is not the jideal vehicle for the jet-class ; student streaking as quickly and directly as possible to his bach elors degree. It is more for the explorer who wants to see some academic countryside on his way. : Neither, in appearance, are these Honors College students of the protest - Beatnik - Bo hemian ilk. If comparisons are required, they look more like : Stanford than they do Reed Col- j lege. The heart of the Honors Col lege program is a series of six core courses, ordinarily com pleted in freshman and sopho more years. These are all given in honors classes. That is. classes con taining exclusively Honors Col lege students, with material and .study plan geared to them. The core courses are history, litcr- ature, social science (introduc tion to the social sciences, or principles of economics), sci- ience (biology, chemistry, or ! physical science survey), phil osophy, and mathematics 'a j s p e c i a 1 introductory math 'course, or calculus). Core Requirements i The core requirements are satisfied when the student pass es a comprehensive examination i in each, covering the whole year's work. It is a measure of the col lege's flexibility (one hears a lot about "escaping from struc tural rigidity") that students are permitted to take these exams 1 without enrolling in the courses. i It is thus possible for a student to piow through a heavy read- : ing list in the summer and pass the comprehensive in a particu lar course that fall. So far 25 students have done it. I In his junior and senior years the Honors College student will up with an instructor who is not fulfill requirements esub- in the student's major. From lished for his major. ' time to time all students in the AU Honors College students colloquim seminars will gather except those in physics, business to hear outstanding visit! n g administration and mathemat- speakers. These have included ics will write a senior honors es-: John Ciardi. Saturday R e view say a research paper ap- poetry editor, and Sen. Wayne Morse. preaching thesis caliber. Part of Program Another part of the program is the colloquim. Juniors and seniors participate in two each year. There is one colloquim each term, each with a broad theme. This year's themes were Romanticism, The Self, and the Exploration of Outer Space. There are seminar-type class- appear to be these: es in which the student signs Classes are smaller largest this year has about 23; students. j This means as Marquis put it. i "More conversation with the j teacher and with other students. I Are More Interested And as some of the students , nit it Thtt mdniMnM in miir ' The colloquia are ungraded. nleresied in you because they . except for pass or fail designa- 'can get know or .. tions. They'll Do It Every Time ly motivated by the student's own interest. The other caliber of fellow students, with whom one has great opportunity to exchange ideas and arguments, is high. And there is flexibility in time schedule and even in meet ing place. This year some class es are meeting in rooms above can get to know you, or "the mjtorv dini halls instructors themselves read and u ,;. , j: All told Honors College stu- grade the paper, not some grad- ,c 6"UU'B ' J " " ?mjZ 1 i U3te S,Uden'- i The best description seems to of their class work in honors nere jj more opportunity be that grades are used but are eIasses- for self - generated, independent not allowed to become dictators. The advantages, as described research and study. This means Admission to the Honors Col by Marquis and by the students, more reading, enriching a stu-, lege is based only partlv on high ; aent s experience in a given sub- j school grades, the rest on an The 1 ject, and more writing, hopeful-' applicant's written statement of i reasons for seeking entrance. results of College Board Exam ! inations, and personal recom i mendations. There is no absolute, pegged grade-point average determin ing whether a student stays in the college. Students are disqual ; ified when they are not "making i satisfactory progress." Some of By Jimmy Hado V'j X w.vz.S-s WV jinx ' r A POV UPOvJ TO PJOO l 5C JOCSS IV-O.JS 4ACD AT LB-T, T-'E OBVIOUS AJ NAUSEAM- r .i - . : I I ---LLC GS,ta?.' II AiD TUATi IWAT" " .-V-V OLVS .' TZ7i ST LL TME f SZWJL, TO CCA'E DOWM TO pA3py ZjONi, ,V -"35. y USZO-CAZ LOT AT 1 , fOs.AUXC 0KJ AND QDQUZZCKT ASD SJi J r -" C2i- V, WE C43 OPYOU2 Bjt coms it a WJTTA-'MHb .ELOt5Y TrAT VOJ'O LK TO kjOV THE TITLE CF V.JJATDOvaJOET? SOU ftLiESSD IT- A COMMERCIAL Independence Fire Destroys Laundry Independence. Ore. ( UPI ) Fire destroyed an Independence laundry Saturday and owner Ray Dur.ckel estimated the loss of the building and equipment at $56,000. The blaze, which broke out shortly after 5 a.m.. burned through the frame building in about 30 minutes, according to Independence firemen. The alarm was turned in by city patrolman Dave Jester. The fire also burned telephone ! lines and about 60 telephones in the area, including the police department phone. Homes next to the laundry, located in the downtown busi ness district, were saved. this is grades, but probably more of it is whether the stu dent is taking, and passing, the comprehensive exams in core i subjects. ; This does not mean Honors College students are slouches in their grade reports. This year's graduating class of 22 has an average GPA of 3 28. The college apparently draws students widely distributed in academic specialty. From lib eral arts this year the greatest number are majoring in anthro- ipology 14-t), math (4:;, and English 123). From the profes sional schools the greatest num ber are in journalism (11), edu cation (9), and architecture (7). From other curricula the great est number are in pre-medicine (33). and pre-law ( 14). Total en rollment is about 370. Participate In Activities Honors College students ap pear to participate in their share of extra-curricular activities. "Bright kids do a lot of things," Marquis commented simply. He noted that in the last student body election a sizable number of candidates were from the Honors College. Someone is bound to ask: Is the Honors College undemo cratic. - The answer of Honors College advocates is that it is demo cratic in the Jeffersonian sense. It enables the total university to provide opportunity for all. , but also permits academic chal-1 lenge to be fitted to the indiv-; idual student's potential so that j each may realize it to the full-; est. "There is nothing undemo- cratic about giving people of ability the opportunity of work- j ing together," Marquis re marked. Not Intellectual Elite One of the students probably ' had a good point when he said the Honors College is not ere-' ating the kind of intellectual elite that might be resented, simply because as was noted before there are a lot of equally bright students who are not in' the Honors College. Last November UO President Arthur Flemming hinted some thing just in the talking stage now a second honors college. He said 550 is considered the optimum enrollment of the ex isting Honors College, and that will be reached in another cou ple of years. "As time goes we may very well wind up with a number of honors colleges." Flemming said in that news conference. In the meantime, the first and to this date only Honors College, a unique experiment, is being watched by enducators around the country. They want to see whether it really is pos sible to provide within and as a part of a large state univer sity something resembling a ca 0 high quality, small libera) arts college. M no u,rO. 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