Free U
offers
classes
Providing an alternative
education and an open
classroom where students
actively • participate is the
purpose of the Free
University. according to its
co-ordinator Dean Philips.
Since its origin in 1970,
Free U has given students
and area residents• a chance
GSA to hold orientation program
While freshmen are learning about campus life this week
through tests, meetings and jammies, about 1500 graduate
students also will be getting their first look at the University
through an orieiCalion program sponsored by the Graduate
Student Association.
Graduate students will have a chance to mix with GSA
officers and faculty members at a social 8 p.m. Thursday in
102 Kern. ; GSA President Roger Richards said the social.
which has been successful in the past, will give new students
an idea of how GSA works.
In addition. GSA will provide an information table 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. every day this week in Kern lobby. Campus maps.
graduate school catalogs. University brochures and GSA's
- Guide to Graduate Living" will be distributed, along with
general information on the University and housing. ,
According to Richards, workshops have been eliminated
from graduate orientation this term because such programs
have failed in the past. Instead. he said. GSA will sponsor
workshops on topics such as thesis preparation during the
term.
Other GSA projects for Fall Term include a possible
graduate student picnic. a film series, and coffeehouses co
sponsored by the Folklore Society.
Aluried invitiational film festival scheduled for February
Boa: football player's roommate
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP)
Tom Osborne, a tight end on
the University of Toledo
football team. may be the
only player on the team with a
female roommate.
He also . rtiay be the only
college football player in the
nation whose female
roommate is a snake.
This unusual liaison tends
to restrict the Osborne
hospitality a bit, too.
Osborne's roommate is a
pet boa constrictor he named
Herbie, even though Herbie is
a female.
Herbie is only 42 inches for
right now; but eventually she
will be nine feet long and
about as big around as a
man's forearm.
"She sleeps most of the
time, and she's never bitten
anyone," said the Bluffton,
Ohio youth, "but I guess most
people still are afraid of her
because she's a snake.
"Inez, the maid who cleans
our dorm rooms, wouldn't
even come in my room for a
whole year after I had
Berbie. Now she comes in
and asks me how the snake is
and if it's been eating good.
She sort of grows on people."
That last statement may be
the exact reason few persons
come around to see the
female roommate,.
Osboi :e has another, more
normal roommate, his twin
to develop craft -skills and
study academic courses
without the pressure of
grades.
"It's great to see a
classroom !of people hungry
to learn and find out,
especially Jin art academic
course," Philips said. '
Anyone can register for or
initiate a course. No limits
are set on 'the courses. "MI
we ask is to keep it legal,"
Philips added.
To gain listing in the Free
U course booklet, initiators
should register their course
by Sept. Late registrants
will appear, in a supplement.
Student registration will be
held Sept. 20 and 21 in the
HUB Ballroom.
Free U's first term
brother Mike, also a Toledo
varsity football letterman.
Until now, Osborne's
mother grew Herbie's diet
back in Bluffton. "At first,
Herbie ate about two mice a
week," said Osborne. "Then
she settled into the pattern
most snakes have of eating
about •10 mice at a time, or
about 20 a month."
But; Herbie's appetite has
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featured 16 . courses. Last
spring 130 courses were
offered, 1,500 people regis
tered, and approximately
3,000 people in all took part.
Free U began by offering
mostly academic courses but
this trend has reversed, with
half the classes concentrating
on crafts and the rest divided
between academic and
sensitivity catagories.
Some new classes offered
this term include the risks of
nuclear - energy, beginning
accordian, living off the land,
competitive swimming and
diving, white tail deer
hunting, and table hockey.
Although primarily in the
"course business," Free U is
also associated with Colloquy
and sponsors Gentle
also is in the planning stages. Richards said the films wil be
screened before three judges and awarded prizes.
Richards called GSA an organization "that tries to do' just
about everything:' He said he sees a "definite change in
direction" since last year for the group from programming
to social activities.
Richards said GSA also is in the process of reorganizing
its academic affairs committee and has set up a caucus to
work with the University:Faculty Sena tecaucus.
Past activities have included:
a four-day "Prison Awareness Colloquium" last
I,January which spotlighted such topics as women's prisons.
the role of punishment, Project New-View and the Attica
riots:
the formation of a Women's Interest Committee: and
the rental of garden plots to graduate students.
According to Richards, all graduate students at the
University are automatically GSA members. Students in
each department of the University elect delegates° to the
GSA council, the organization's legislative body: GSA also
elects graduate student members of the Faculty Senate.
Graduate students interested in working for GSA who
have not been elected to the Council may contact members
of GSA's various committees. •
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grown. This summer her diet
switched to rats.
"My mother has tolerated a
lot of weird hobbies of mine,"
said Osborne, but at this point
she drew the line. Now he has
to begin raising the rats
himself in his dormitory
room.
Herbie, housed in a 10-
gallon aquarium, soon will get
a new , home -- a 25-gallon
Thursday, the Festival of
Life, jammies and a
children's filth series.
The' Festival of Life and
Gentle Thursday lost money
last year and may not be here
this spring, Philips said. But
'prospects are still good, he
added.
Free U will be pushing to
increase its membership this
year, since active
membership has remained
the same for the past few
years.•
"A free university has to
change," Philips, said. "The
average life is three years
and Penn State's is three
yeart old."
The Free U'office is located
203 C HUB.
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aquarium
Having a snake as a pet was
"just something I had to do,"
he said.
"I hate to think of the
money I've spent on her
already, and as she grows I'll
have to spend more, but she's
my responsibility, and I hope
to keep'her until she reaches
full growth.'=-
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Food demand outstrips supply
Relief projects lack food
Charitable agencies which distribute
millions of dollars worth of food to
needy people overseas warn they may
run out of essential commodities -be
cause of cutbacks in supplies normally
provided by the U.S. government.
The problem stems from the
increased demand for grains such as
wheat, soybeans and corn. This
worldwide demand has outstripped the
supply, driven up prices and caused the
U.S. Department of Agriculture ,to
suspend for almost two months the
purchase of commodities for free
distribution overseas under the Food for
Peace program.
The department announced Friday it
would resume about 133 million pounds
if foodstuffs for distribution overseas in
Dctober. Spokesmen said, however, the
amount purchased would be only about
half the normal order and would not
include any wheat flour, corn meal or
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Approximately $l9B million has been
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according to an Agriculture Department
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less for the money than they did earlier
in the year and they note that, by
comparison, purchases for distribution
during the entire first three months of
the fiscal year cost only $l7l million.
The full extent of current cutbacks is
still uncertain. Agriculture Department
and Food for Peace spokesmen agreed
the United States simply will not be able
to supply as much• food to needy. people
around the world as it has been.
Huge exports last year, including the
sale of 440 million bushels of wheat to
Russia, have depleted U.S. stockpiles.
Worldwide production is down this year
because of crop failures overseas.
Although record crops are expected in
the United States. the harvests-have not
come up to earlier predictions.
Soaring prices have added to the
problem. Wheat was selling at about
$1.50 a bushel before the Russian grain
deal last year: it was selling at nearly $5
a bushel on some exchanges-Friday.
News of the cutbacks and uncertainty
over their severity has caused serious
problems for agencies like CARE.
Catholic Relief Services, UNICEF and
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"We do not know...what size program
if any we will be allowed to have,"
said Anthony Foddai of Catholic Relief
Services which distributed 800 million
pounds of food to more than 10 million
people in 58 countries during the last
fiscal year.
Foddai said Catholic Relief Services
:ould not go out and buy the foodstuffs.
Fred Devine. deputy executive
director of CARE. said the agency
would run out of food in two months if
more supplies were not purchased. He
said CARE supplied $69 million worth of
food to 30 million persons most of
them children in 32 countries in the
last fiscal year, but has received
"almost nothing" for this year.
American agencies are not the only
ones affected. A spokesman for
UNICEF, the U.N. children's fund, said
"the picture is grim" for the more than
a dozen countries receiving aid.
Present supplies, the spokesman said.
"will last at a maximum until the end of
this year...then we will be completely
without emergency reserves."
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