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...First Alarm. Allen's off-campus missionary projects (400 speeches last year) occupy him four days a week, and even though he often starts his on-campus days at 4:30 a.m., troubles are building up. Ironically, the new ed school shows signs of tripping into some of the intellectual vacuity that marked its pre-Allen days. Administrative procedures are disorganized; last summer the state auditor's office sounded the first alarm in a probable public reaction by charging that the school's books were too vague...
...crack at formal learning, the commission wants the Federal Government to guarantee two years of college for everyone-and to put it "in the bank" for withdrawal at any age. In addition to more two-year community colleges, which this obviously requires, the commission urges a big expansion in off-campus education -correspondence courses, TV lectures, home teaching cassettes. Eventually, some youngsters and adults (including housewives, the aged and the poor) could earn "external" degrees without attending college at all. Moreover, a new system of equivalency exams would give credit for skills acquired through reading and job experience...
...Network consists of a large number of cooperating individuals, groups and organizations in all fields and dispersed over a wide geographical area," Rakoff said. Faculty members at Tunbridge would come from the Network and students doing off-campus projects would get assistance from other Network members...
This attack has been the second in three weeks. The last one took place Oct. 13 in an off-campus Radcliffe House, when a Radcliffe sophomore was raped. The sophomore described the rapist as dark-haired, about 5'10" and 19 or 20 years old. He wore faded jeans and a tan jacket...
Undergraduates usually first meet Epps when they approach his office with a few typical problems: requests for moving off-campus, all sorts of special room or board considerations, special arrangements for independent study work, and academic problems in general all lead students to see Epps. Epps acknowledges that his office often functions as a complaint bureau; he sees himself as an ombudsman, exercising judgment appropriate to each case. Epps describes his role as a dialectic relationship with students as both "friend and critic." While on the one hand he is the one administration official who accommodates student problems...