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...over. Though they had started the day at 5 a.m., they still had to run a mountainous ten-mile course, evading aggressors armed with blank bullets and dummy grenades. Most of them made it back to their mess hall just in time for the next day's classwork...
...middle two years students need be on the campus for only two terms. They can choose from among some 30 combinations of classes and off-campus independent study, full-time work, foreign study or just plain vacation. A student can, in fact, arrange to ignore formal classwork and the campus for a full year, yet graduate on time. Professors, too, can get a full year off, with full pay, by teaching for three terms in a row. Most students and faculty seem eager to put in the long stretches so they can enjoy the freedom that follows...
Although they are badly outnumbered, defenders of the single-sex campus maintain that girls are more apt to display their intellectual talents when they are not also vying for dates in the classroom, that either sex concentrates more intently on classwork when they are separated, that the separate campus is more relaxed and casual in dress. Some also contend that a coed curriculum tends to overemphasize masculine vocational interests. After competing with men in a coed college, claims President Paul Weaver of Ohio's all-girl Lake Erie College, a girl is likely to become "dissatisfied in the role...
Many students use Wonderful Wednesday to take up intellectual pursuits that have no direct connection with classwork. Math Major Beth Nash says the off day has given her a chance to go to "concerts, movies, and do lots of things" she never had time for before. Brenda Conner, a biology student, spends most of her day working on a pet project-a study of the distribution of histones (basic proteins) in chromosomes. One group of students organized a classic-films discussion group. Others spend the day tutoring children in Vine City, an Atlanta Negro slum...
...them to find after-school jobs, adjusts the classroom schedule to fit working hours. Students on a 4-to-12 p.m. work shift, for example, are permitted to come to classes from around 10 in the morning till 2 in the afternoon. They are given the regular amount of classwork but granted exemptions from gym and study periods. Some students are allowed to blend daytime class and work schedules, alternating one week on a job with a week of classes. For those in desperate money trouble, there is a loan fund; students can borrow up to $50 on their signature...