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...Pioneer. Similarly individualized courses of study are offered to the 3,000 students-aged 17 to 76-enrolled in the University Without Walls, which has programs ranging in size from two dozen students at Bard College in New York to 130 at Antioch's campus in San Francisco. Although the schools set their own admission standards and tuition (from as low as $300 to as high as $3,000 a year), they all have the same major degree requirement: each student must present to a student-faculty review committee evidence of his expertise, which may be as conventional...
...pioneer in these experiments is Britain's Open University. Launched by the Labor government in 1969, Open University now has 35,000 housewives, truck drivers and even soldiers studying toward bachelor's degrees in various fields of science and the arts. It has no formal entrance requirements ("All we ask," says Dean Geoffrey Holister, "is that a student can read and write"), but teaching is rigorous. At a cost of about $200 per student, each course involves one week of summer school, 34 weeks of television and radio lectures, and large amounts of required reading and writing assignments...
...week each month. In two other weeks of the month, Cavett's time slot will be filled by various programs of drama, mystery, comedy and musical variety. In the remaining week it will be filled by another talk show-this one to be hosted by Late-Night Pioneer Jack Paar...
...book, The Limits to Growth, which avowedly aims at "a Copernican revolution of the mind" (TIME, Jan. 24). It was prepared by a team of 17 scientists, ranging from an Iranian population expert to a Norwegian specialist on pollution. The study was begun by Professor Jay Forrester, an M.I.T. pioneer in computer analysis of likely future trends, and completed by his 30-year-old protege, Dennis L. Meadows, a business professor who has recently moved from M.I.T. to Dartmouth. The study was sponsored, endorsed and publicized by the Club of Rome, an organization of distinguished industrialists, bankers and scientists from...
Scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center figure that the odds of such a collision are no worse than one in ten. Says Project Scientist John Wolfe: "Pioneer should get through without any trouble at all." Still, the density of the asteroid belt, now estimated as one particle per 10 million sq. km., is one of the questions that scientists are now trying to answer, and they cannot really be sure. In fact, a surprise of the pre-belt journey is that Pioneer was hit by 56 tiny meteoroids, or about 50% more than expected. Fortunately, these impacts, detected...