KAGE TWO
Senate Votes to Reduce
Class Meetings by One
The University Senate voted Thursday to reduce the
number of class meetings per semester of regular three
credit courses, thus eliminating the rearranging of classes
at the end of each fall semes
After rejecting several
Visiting Prof
To Speak
On Plato
Dr Leo Strauss of the Univer
sity of Chicago faculty will speak
at 8 p.tn. Tuesday in 121 Sparks.
The fifth speaker in the Dis
tinguished Lecture Series m Phil
osophy, Strauss will talk on “The
Central Thread of Plato’s Repub
lic ’’
At 4 15 the same day he will
deliver a technical talk in 203
Willard on existentialism.
His appearance is sponsored by
the Department of Philosophy
and the Liberal Arts Lecture
Senes.
Strauss received the doctor of
philosophy degree from the Uni
versity of Hamburg in 1921. He
has served as research assistant
at the Academy for Jewish Re
search in Berlin, and has taught
at the New School of Social Re
search in New York,
In 1954-55, he was visiting pro
fessor at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem.
Strauss has been a Rockefeller
Foundation Fellow in the Social
Sciences in France and England.
He is internationally known for
lus work in political theory and
fiolitical philosophy and has pub
ished numerous articles m pro
fessional journals.
Of his books, the most impor
tant are: “The Political Philoso
phy of Hobbes;’’ “On Tyranny;"
‘‘Persecution and the Art of Writ
ing;” “Natural Right and His
tory;’’ and “Reflections of Machia
velli ”
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er as will occur next week,
alternate proposals from the
floor, (he Senate accepted a re
vised calendar system that would;
allow 44 instead of 45 class meet
ings a semester for courses meet
ing three times a week.
Previous Senate regulations
■>tated that a course must meet
15 times a semester for each hour
it meets in one week.
The revised calendar also adds
an extra half day to the Thanks
giving vacation and provides
for at least a 14-day Christmas
vacation and a study day be
tween the last day of classes
and the start of final examina
tions.
The Senate also approved “dis
tinction'' designations on diplo
mas of students having a 3.4 or
better All-University average.
Fred M. Coombs, chairman of
the Senate Committee on Class
Schedule and Calendar, said that
reducing the number of classes to
44 would eliminate the usual con
fusion to students and faculty
alike because of the extra class
days that must be made up at
the end of each fall semester.
The dismissal on Tuesday in
stead of Wednesday noon for
tha Thanksgiving vacation in
the revised calendar, Coombs
said, will provide an equal
number of classes for sequen
ces courses meeting three times
a week. Under the old system,
the Monday-Wednesday-Friday
sequences would meet more
than tha Tuesday-Thursday-
Saturday courses, necessitating
tha makeup classes at the end
of the semester.
Several senators objected to the
loss of the extra day and pre
sented alternate proposals. How
ever, each was defeated by al
most unanimous vote.
One proposal, made by Dr.
Benjamin F. Howell in the form
of an amendment to the re
vised calendar, provided for
Orientation Week the same
week as Labor Day.
It proposed that registration be
held from Monday noon to Thurs
day the week following Labor
Day week and that classes begin
that Friday. He said this would
more evenly balance the classes
and also eliminate the semester
end make-up classes.
Howell also suggested holding
registration 12 hours a day in
stead of the usual eight which
would cut the time required to
two and one half days.
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hesitations. Then he called for
questions, often joking with mem
bers of the capital press corps,
who made up most of his audi
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swer some questions concerning
administration policies yet to be
determined and he expertly par
ried some political questions.
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Chem-Phys,
LA Staffs
Plan Talks
A solution to the problem of
communication between college
faculties as the University be
comes larger has been attempted
by the Colleges of The Liberal
Arts and Chemistry and Physics
by planning discussion meetings
between the two faculties.
Both formal meetings of the
liberal arts planning board and
the elected senators in chemistry
and physics, and informal discus
sion sessions between the college
faculties have been arranged.
According to Dr. Alfred Pundt,
professor of European history, an
evaluation report of the Univer
sity prepared by the Middle
States Association last year
stressed the need of closer rela
tionships betwen the arts and sci
ences.
A formal meeting will be held
Jan. 15 to continue discussion
on the liberal arts college's sci
ence requirement and how it af
fects the chem-phys college.
Besides taking over laboratory
requirements for liberal arts ma
jors, discussion has centered
around LA studies for science stu
dents.
It was stated by the science
faculty at the first meeting that
it wants students to take work
which will help develop their
abilities in communication and
critical thinking. It was pointed
out that science students some
times resist taking work outside
their major, so they need the best
teaching available.
The informal faculty meetings
have been ‘‘extraordinarily well
attended,” according to Pundt,
with about 60 members at the
first and about 50 at the second.
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