Word: credited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the guise of getting broad lib eral educations, my wife and I received credit for most of the aforementioned courses and at highly accredited Western universities, too. Admittedly, that coeducational ballroom-dancing class was tough; I pulled only a C. (Never could get my hips moving in time with the music during the merengue...
...Free University, for instance, offers no fewer than five courses in the subject: Jungian Astrology, Advanced Astrology, Out of the Aquarium and into the Aquarian, Occult Things and the New Age, and an Occult and Astrology Workshop. When the University of South Carolina recently offered Witchcraft as a non-credit voluntary course, an astounding 247 people signed up?though Professor Sidney Birnbaum expects many of them to drop out when they discover that he is going to teach only history...
...receive tax subsidies but fail to root out social problems, it "could be set up as the goat of the next ten years." That is precisely the risk that businessmen run when working in Washington. The greater their voice in setting national policy, the more they will share the credit for U.S. triumphs-and the blame for failures...
...also suggested that law students might attend only one-and-a-half years of classes. The rest of the three-year program could be spent working in communities for academic credit, he said...
Major Walter H. Yanochik, associate professor of Naval Science, said that the unknown fate of ROTC on campus and the loss of academic credit for ROTC courses were partially responsible for the decline in student interest in the Naval ROTC program. The number of undergraduate applicants dropped from 35 last year to 5 this year, he said...