20—The Daily Collegian Monday, March 29, 1982
23,000
policy
By SCOTT G. OTT
Collegian Staff Writer
WASHINGTON Chanting "No Draft
No War U.S. out of El Salvador" and
waving banners, about 23,000 protesters
marched through a mostly Hispanic
neighborhood and rallied in front of the
White House Saturday.
The protest, organized by the March 27
Coalition, a group of 16 committees op
posing U.S. policy in El Salavador, came
on the eve of elections in the Central
American country.
"I will go to jail . . . I will die before I
let my other son go to El Salvador," said
Annie Chambers, of Baltimore, whose
son was killed in the Vietnam war.
Several groups yelled, "Hey, hey, Un
cle Sam, we remember Vietnam."
Chambers was among several dozen
speakers who urged the Reagan adminis
tration to stop military aid to El Salva
dor.
"America needs to clean up its own
house," Chambers said. "We've got to
get Reagan out of the White House."
The demonstrators' displays of dissat
isfaction with the Reagan administration
went further than concern about U.S.
policy in El Salvador.
Chants such as, "Ronald Reagan, he's
no good. Send him back to Hollywood,"
and the cheers following Chamber's re
marks signaled the crowd's displeasure
with what University student Bob Allen
(graduate-philosophy) called "a whole
range of things."
Allen said that although groups at the
rally ranged from labor unions to church
es, "they all agreed they don't support
the present policy in El Salvador."
University philosophy professor Nancy
McKenzie said this demonstration
seemed "preparatory" for a larger one
scheduled for May 3 and described it as
"a mobilization against all of Reagan's
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That demonstration will be the culmi
nation of National Days of Resistance
week, April 24 to May 1, an event aimed
at addressing the issues of "jobs, equali
ty and human needs."
McKenzie said, "The crowd seemed to
be more serious at this one than the ones
I've been to in the last five years. There's
something very startling about being
across from the White House."
Although the presence of police offi
cers between demonstrators and the
White House lawn made some people
nervous, McKenzie said, the police
"helped to galvanize the crowd."
The demonstration was described by
many as reminiscent of Vietnam-era
anti-war protests.
Salespeople roamed the park offering
buttons, bumper stickers, posters, ban
ners and all types of literature from
books to militant newspapers; often for
free, but usually for a "small donation."
Volunteer security people linked arms
to form human fences to restrict the
movement of the crowd.
Park police officers, both mounted and
on foot, isolated a group of Marxists
mostly members of the Sparticist League
from the rest of the demonstrators,
because, they, as one park policeman
explained, had "gotten into a little
scuffle with the liberals. Just a friendly
political argument, like between the Re
publicans and 'Democrats."
The Sparticist League members car-
ried banners reading "Military Victory
to Salvadoran Leftists Join the Anti-
Imperialist Contingent" and shouted
through several megaphones, "Take San
Salvador. No negotiation."
A bus sponsored by the Friends of
Central American Liberty and the Third
World Student Coalition took about 40
University students and local residents
to the rally.
greeks, Greek Week Chairwoman Ellen
Kehlenbeck said, but this year anyone
can participate.
Also, scripts for Greek Week skits
must be submitted by 5 p.m. Friday in
the Panhel/IFC office.
—by Patricia Hungerford
Proposed
By ROSA EBERLY
Collegian Staff Writer
Because of a lack of funding in the
College of The Liberal Arts, the En
glish department will not Offer a pro
posed freshman/junior-year
composition program under the se
mester system, said Wendell V. Har
ris, head of the department.
"There just isn't the money in the
college to do it," he said.
The department's initial proposal
suggesting that students take English
15, a basic composition course, in their
freshman year and English 220, a more
in-depth composition course, in their
junior year was forwarded to the
Calendar' Conversion Council during
Fall Term, he said.
Stanley F. Paulson, dean of the Col
lege of The Liberal Arts, said funds
would have been necessary for additio
nal faculty members because under
the term system both English 10 and 20
can be taught at Commonwealth cam
puses. Under the department's initial
proposal, the second composition
course would have to be taught at
University Park.
In the Jan. 12 issue of The Daily
Collegian, Harris said the junior year
would be a better time to take the
second half of the composition require
ment because writing. skills that stu
dents have learned in earlier courses
would be reinforced and students could
write about specific topics either in
their major or of interest to them.
The proposal was discusses in the
college dean's office, the Office of the
Provost and the Office of Planning and
Budget, and the department was asked
to submit another proposal, Harris
said.
Paulson said the department's origi
nal proposal would have cost Universi
ty Park additional money.
Because of the funding problem as
sociated with additional faculty mem
bers, Harris said, the departMent
"decided it would be better to have the
second course in the sophomore year."
University Provost Edward D. Eddy
said, "(Additional) funding was not
necessary if the course could be spread
between the sophomore and junior
year."
Eddy stressed that the current pro
posal does not mandate the second
composition course be , taken in the
sophomore year. The course is "to be
taken anytime after the beginning of a
student's fourth semester."
The original plan would have put the
entire teaching load for
_the second
writing program scrapped
composition course on the University
Park English department's faculty, he
said.
Also, Eddy said, the University al
ready has an adequate number of
faculty members at the Common
wealth campuses teaching English
composition. Under the department's
original proposal, those faculty mem-.
bers would have taught fewer classes
under the semester system.
Another problem with the depart
ment's original proposal was that if
students were required to take the
second half of their composition re
quirement during their junior year, it
would have been difficult for some
majors to still reqUire students to take
business or technical writing, too, Har
ris, said.
"It would be difficult to fit both into
(a student's) third year," he said.
Specific curriculum changes in the
department's new proposal are not
final, Harris said, pending approval by
the faculty senate's Curricular Affairs
Committee. •
However, the department has decid
ed upon basic changes in the courses,
he said.
According tO the department's new
proposal, it will offer English 15 to
replace English 10. English 15 will be
an intensified version of 10, restruc
tured to take advantage of the 14-week
semester.
The second half of the requirement -
may be fulfilled by any of four courses
,at the 200 level:
o English 201, with a social science
emphasis.
o English 211, with an emphasis in
humanities. -
• English 218, technical writing
• English 219, business writing.
Under the department's original pro
posal, students would not have been
able to use technical or business writ
ing to fulfill their basic composition
requirements, Harris said.
English 15 will include more writing
and a "more sophisticated require
ment," than English 10, he said.
While English 211, now an advanced
composition course, will be changed to
cater to students who "would like to
have content from the humanities,"
Harris said, English 201, with a social
science emphasis, will be a totally new
course.
Technical and business writing, now
English 117 and 119 respectively, will
become English 218 and 219, Harris
said.
"We're not only changing the num
bers" but adding a bit more content
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'Although not ideal, it seems as though we
have moved ahead substantially.'
—Stanley F. Paulson, dean of the College of
The Liberal Arts
and an emphasis on writing style, he
said.
Also, the . department's proposal
said, "English 4 and 5 will be offered
as at present. English 30 will be offered
as an Honors alternative to 15. Honors
version of 200-level courses will be
offered for University Scholars."
Under the I semester system, stu,
New English
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By ROSA EBERLY
Collegian Staff Writer
You can't always get what you
want.
But the English department is well
on its way to getting at least part of
what it wants concerning composi
tion requirements under the semster
system without costing the Univer
sity additional money.
Wendell V. Harris, head of the En
glish department, said although the
new proposal - is not ideal, it is an
improvement over the present compo
sition program..
"We were not able to do what we
haa\hoped for in improving the total
UnivT'sity, writing system," he said.
But Harris said he does not'think the
new proposal will decrease the ,writ
ing competence of University stu
dents. It will "kind of improve it, we
hope," he said.
Stanley F. Paulson, dean of the
College of The Liberal Arts, said the
new proposal is an improvement over
the present system.
"Although not ideal, it seems as
though we have moved ahead sub
stantially," he said.
Harris said moving the second half
of the requirement to the sophomore
year is a positive change from the
present because the average fresh
man is not comfortable writing about
substantive topics.
The new proposal will provide
"somewhat more chance for students
to apply what they have learned in
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dents will no longer be able to "test
out" of one part of the composition
requirement, Harris said.
Under the term system, a student
can test out of English 10 and then take
a test to be eligible for English 30
instead of English 20.
"All students will take either (En
glish) 15 or 30," Harris said.
other topics," Harris said.
In addition, he said *two freshman
composition courses like the pre
sent English 10 and 20, or two fresh
man composition courses under the
semester system might do more to
discourage than to encourage stu
dents.
"For most students, .writing is
hard," he said.
The proposal is an alternative to
offering "two courses that you get
through and never have to worry
about writing again."
Robert Downs, head of the depart 7
ment's undergraduate writing pro
gram, said that instead of having a
"boot camp" of freshman composi
tion that students must "just get
through," students will have an intro
ductory course in the first year and a
more involved course in the second
year.
Downs said he cannot see anything
but an increase in the level of writing
competence under the department's
new proposal..
"I think (the proposal) is wonder
ful," he said.
Downs said the new proposal is just
as advantageous as the original in
giving students an opportunity • to
write about things they are interested
in, or subjects involving their majors.
"I don't think that it makes all that
much difference (whether the second
course is taken in the sophomore or
junior year) because by - the fourth
semester the student has usually cho
sen a major," he said.
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