Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mystical Transition. It was certainly a different way to start a college. When the students and teachers arrived, Chancellor McCoy got them together in the camp's main meeting room, told them where they would sleep and eat, and urged them not to make too much litter. Then he walked out. They had no organization. They had no curriculum. Completely the opposite of the typical college experience in which you are presented, on arriving, with a series of established slots, and told to decide which one you will wedge yourself into for the next four years. Here the only...
...group sessions were a good way to start. But you have to be young to take it. George Armacost, 65, the about-to-retire president of the sponsoring University of Redlands, came out to the camp one evening and started talking like a normal college administrator until one of the kids cut him off: "C'mon, George, get with it." It was the first time a Redlands student had ever called him George. He was still up at 4 a.m., banging away on his portable typewriter, setting down his reaction to the experience. He didn't quite understand...
...Crimson coach is not counting on having either Shaw or Dave Pottetti today. Both came to cross country camp out of shape and lately have been running on their own instead of practicing with the team. Shaw will probably start with instructions to drop out if his injured calf bothers...
...SHORT SUMMER, CHARLIE BROWN (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Remembrances of sum mer camp flood Charlie's mind on the first day back at school in the newest Pea nuts special...
...version of Route 66. The star, Michael Parks, 31, has for several years been called Hollywood's next James Dean or next Marlon Brando, probably because he doesn't talk much. In the premiere, Parks laconically brought an autistic child to his senses in a scenic Wyoming camp for disturbed children and then varoomed off, presumably toward a less tearjerking episode...