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Page Four TH£ SAL€MIT€ Stanford Study Advocates Faculty, Student Creativity At School Monday, December 4 Palo Alto, Calif. - (I.P.) - As an alternative to the three-year degree program now being deba ted nationally, Stanford Univer sity undergraduates may have the opportunity to take a leave of absence from academic work to learn off campus from a mem ber of their future profession. The proposed program of undergraduate “externships,” de signed by Douglas Davis, associ ate dean of undergraduate stu dies, would enable the student to gain an opportunity to relate past and future studies to the mainstream of society’s needs, as well as a chance to test acade mic interests and obtain impor tant work experience. Students participating in the externships would take approx imately the same amount of time for a degree as at present, but the degree would be more mean ingful and less costly, Davis comments. He points out that the accelerated, three-year de gree options being tested at oth er schools fail to take into ac count the relationship between time, the maturation process, and effective scholarly work. “Neither graduate schools nor employers want 19 or 20-year- old baccalaureate holders,” Da vis argues. He also thinks the proposed externships would an swer another challenge from stu dents who argue that college ed ucation now costs too much and does not relate academic offer ings to human problems. “The externship proposal calls upon the University to ex pend its concept of community to include on a limited basis those learned men and women located elsewhere who are ap plying knowledge to the needs of humanity, and who may have significant things to say about the nature of knowledge needed in the future,” Davis suggests. The new program would draw upon an already established but little known leave of ab- sense policy, which allows any undergraduate in good academic standing to leave at the end of any quarter and return to regis ter at the beginning of any subse quent quarter within sbc years. No applications, notice, or other paperwork is required. The leave of absence would be coupled with a new kind of academic credit, called reserve units, to be granted for full time, unpaid work experience off campus. These units would be held in reserve by the student, and drawn on only to meet the University requirements of 180 units for graduation. They would not count toward the comple tion of a major, or the Universi ty distribution requirements, nor would they be transferable to another institution. No tuition would be paid for them, thus re ducing the cost of education for some students taking the extern- ship option. To implement the program, Stanford would survey its fac ulty, alumni, and other friends for potential externships. The experiences should involve the full time of the student for three, she, nine or more months, preferably under the guidance of a present-day practitioner in the appropriate area of problem sol ving. No pay, or only a small cost- of-living allowance would be pro vided for these experiences. No direct credit would be allowed for an externship. A faculty-stu dent committee would review all proposed externships as well as student applications for them. Unlike internships now of fered througlrout the University, the externships would come ear lier in the undergraduate years. They would be designed to help a student select a field and de- velope the motivation needed for study in an area where the stu dent might later serve as an in- Summer Program With exams and cold Decem ber winds both blowing down our necks, it might be interesting to project a pleasure-coated edu cational experience that com bines a rich core of unusually effective learning techniques with a holiday setting on the French Riviera. This is not just a student dream for a winter’s night: it is the summer program in the French language and cul ture offered by the University of Nice. A Salem faculty member, Mrs. Laura Edwards of the English Department, is participating as a group leader in a program offered by the University of Nice for for eign students at all levels of com petency in French. This is an exchange program that has been popular with Europeans of all ages for some time. It makes pos sible for students, at a reasonable cost, to concentrate on a for eign language in the social and cultuial setting of the language itself. This total immersion in French language and culture for one month, twenty-four hours a day in a French community has proven an enormously efficient and practical way to become progicient in a language in a very short time. For instance, there is a course for students with no knowledge of French that ap proaches their learning by the same audio-visual means that a French child employs to make the language his own. The courses offered go from this ba sic introductory program that sends students back to their countries not only speaking French, but also having a feeling for the culture itself to the ad vanced courses in literature such as Mrs. Edwards will be taking in Twentieth Century French Literature for her own World Literature course here at Salem. The program starts July 2 and ends August 2. It includes a week in Paris following the one month summer school ses.sion and nu merous side trips to places of artistic and historical interest as well as to resort areas such as San Tropez, Cannes, Monte Carlo and others that are only a few hour’s drive along the Mediter ranean from Nice. The total cost including trans-Atlantic fare, tuition, room and board is S640 for the regular French courses. tern. Externships also would differ from work-study or work pro grams, where there is often little relation between the work done and the student’s individual aca- cemic motivation, plans and questions. Davis suggests that the extern- ship program might be of special use to premedical undergradu- uates. Although the top third of Stanford premedical students have no difficulty getting into medical school, able students of the middle third might be helped by the additional research or ap plied learning experience. For the bottom third, the externship would provide exposure to allied health professions which might aid students in redirecting their academic energies earlier in their careers, he suggests. In a related development, Da vis also recommended the pre sent policy of in absentia regis tration, now available primarily to graduate students, to be ex tended to undergraduates who wish to specialize in academic work. In absentia registration would make it possible for a student to undertake a program of indepen dent study research of directed reading at another university or even oberseas, if library collec tions or research facilities re quired such travel. Undergraduate participants would be required to demon strate that they had a clearly defined goal, preferably related to their academic majors, and a procedure for accomplishing that goal. Participants would have to give evidence of successful aca demic experience with indepen dent study and of acquisition of sufficient background to support the proposed work. Individuals also would have to obtain the active support of a faculty mem ber in the development of the proposal and the conduct of the study. “Taken with our present po licy of leaves of absence, the combination of in absentia regis tration and the externships would allow the University to move toward the goal of in creased options for undergradu ates, both in the pace of their undergraduate years and in the variety of educational experi ences available to them,” Davis concludes. Old Salem host at the Brothers House hangs the Moravian Christmas Star. JFK by John Covert You’d think people would listen to a man like Cyril Weeht. He’s a forensic pathologist - a person with degrees in both law and medicine. He’s Research Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Forensic Sciences, at Duquesne University in Pitts burgh; and a clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. He’s also a recent past president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and of the American College of Legal Medicine. Besides that, he’s the Coroner of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh). But when the discussion turns to the charges by Weeht of dis crepancies in the Warren Com mission Report on the assassina tion of President John Kennedy, persistent silence is the official response. This August, Weeht became tire second non-governmental medical expert allowed to view the items from the autopsy of President Kennedy stored at the National Archives in Washington. In a recent interview, Weeht said he questioned the Warren Commission’s findings even be fore his two days of research at the Archives. But when he came out his conclusion was that “the Warren Commission Report is totally untenable, unacceptable and absolutely incorrect as far as its findings on Lee Harvey Oswald and the single assassin theory.” The Kennedy family turned over numerous items from the autopsy to the Archives in Octo "YOU THEY YELL ABOUT STUDENT APATHY-- YOU GET TOGE.HER AND IT'S CALLED A RIOT!" ber, 1966, with the stipulation that none of the material be re leased to the public during the lifetime of Kennedy family mem bers, and that after five years “recognized experts in patholo gy or related sciences” be al lowed to view them. The first “expert” granted permission to view, the items was Dr. John Lattimer of New York. Lattimer is a urologist - a kidney and bladder specialist - whose only qualification seems to have been that he has been a consis tent defender of the Commis sion’s findings. Lattimer spent just three hours in the Archives last January and immediately afterwards released his conclu sion that the autopsy items sup ported the Warren Commission’s findings. Weeht, then, was the first cri tic of the Warren Commission Report to be allowed entrance, and this only after he spent near ly a year attempting to get per mission from Burke Marshall, a law professor at Yale Law School who acts as an official represen tative for the Kennedy family. Weeht says he probably wouldnt have gotten permission at all if Marshall hadn’t been prodded by others interested in the au topsy items. When Weeht finally did make it to the Archives, on August 23 and 24, he said he discovered a number of autopsy items were inexplicably missing - most not ably the preserved brain of the President and a number of mic roscopic slides of tissues re moved from the bullet wounds So far, no one has explained the disappearances. But what re mained at the Archives was enough for Weeht to confirn his doubts. In our interview, Weeht re created the scene at DealeyP* za and Parkland Hospital in D las and at the Bethesda Nav Hospital, where the autopsy was performed the evening of t * assassination. In Dealey Plaza, the dent’s car “had just made a ngi> hand turn and was proceeding an underpass when shots ra out. President Kennedy elute c his throat, Governor John, ° nally was struck, then ^ was struck in the head. By time the President was to Parkland Hospital minutes later, he was dead with the basics of being preserved only hy chine. “Under Texas law the aut F continued on page 5
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