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The Student Newspaper of CaseWestern Reserve Unive rsit y
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September 5 , 1969
1st Observer Ai .ds F'rosh Orie ntation By BLAKE LAN GE, MANAGING EDIT OR
VrM is one of the many campus act many campus activities open to freshmen . See inside pages -for more details .
1-4 Provldeevldes Opportunity for enslve~f'nte ~ I nte rsess'i o n Study of the major changes ie uni versity with wh ich .ming freshmen will be the new calendar. It is differen t from the onal " calendar most lave. This change came cial existence last spring ie faculty passed the calendar change and . Morse and the board I!S approved it . the summer the sion Committee, the acuIty committee that sible for developing the change, has worked to rate the change and to age immaginat ive ms, Because of the lti es of this change, this vill try to bring the I up to date on some of ts of this program. hange in the university gives the students the mity to study one intens ively during the aonth of January. To this the first semester n on Sept . 9 and will ie Christmas holida y on ier 2 3 , 1969. T he ion begins J anuary 5, sd ends Jan uary 30 , he seco nd four-month will begin Febr uary 3, :en tbe custom, and will lay 22, 1970. 19 tbe one -month ion the student works in academic area with hip . He may write a create an imaginativ e art , develop a pro ject of nc natu re , or engage in vor k in or out o f his field. Dependi ng upon ire of the project or the st udent may work ith another student, or
with a ranges Intersesswhich students 'lll be to vario . It is states 011 the projects most
with a class. A number of Intersession projects will take student s away from the campus , to various parts of the United states or abroad. T he choice of projects is virtually unlimited.
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The overall aim of the January Intersession is to enrich and intens ify the student 's collegiate experience and to make it more meaningful and relevant for him. The student may immerse himself, for four weeks, in a subject which alone interests him and in a setting in which he is free of competing course pressures. The programs , projects , and courses during this period will be mutally developed by students, faculty members and adminstrators . They will be
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des igned to encourage self-discipline in endeavors for which the student has a large measure of responsibility . These programs will afford not only a period for creative experimentation by the student , but will augment personal and intellectual ties between students and facu lty . In most major fields , student participation in the Intersession program is optional. Grades will normally be given on a pass/fail basis in order to encourage the student to venture outside his major field. Credit hours will be determined by the student's program and are applicable towards graduation, but students
In an effort 10 help the freshmen of CWRU get acc lima te d 10 th e University and to Cleveland , the members of T he Observ er staff have prepared this freshman orie ntatio n issue . This also marks the beginni ng of what we hope will be an excell ent coUege newspaper. For SOmeone entering this university for the first time there is not a lot anyone can do to assist them exce pt to hel p them become infor me d as quic kly as possible . Th e reason is that t here is no one yet who has been able , effectively , to tell someone wha t it is Liketo undergo the experi ence of en tering co llege. No matt er what you expe ct you are prob ably wrong wh ich doesn 't help you much . You are probably wond er ing where The Ob server came from . It wasn 't publi cized at aU in the literatu re sent out to the freshmen . The Observer had its beginnings in the first yea r of the federat io n when the study com missions set up by the college gove rn ments recommended that th e R eserve Tribune and the Case Tech be merged to form one unive rsit y newspap er. It almost happ ened at the end of that year but th ere was st ill quite a bit of anim osity an d bitterness over the merger o f the institut ion s. Last year the two papers appeared as if t hey would co ntin ue as is from then on out, but when th e edit or of th c Tech transfe red to Adelbert it set the pot boilin g again. Revere amo ng th e edito rs of the Tech upon the request o f the edi tor of th e Tribune indicated th at th ey now felt th at it was time to for m a un iver sity newspape r. When the editorial boards ann ou nced that tJ1CYhad deci ded to work to form a university newspaper , now the Ob server, a heale d controversy arose on wh eth er to retain the Case Tech . Everyo ne was accused o f being und erhanded and all of that po litical st uff . It ended up th at there willstillbe a Case Tech this yea r an d the Observer will start prin ting for the first time. The office of Th e Observer is o n th e th ird floo r of Th wing Hall, the St uden t Union of CWRU. As it is a new paper there is need for many new faces for wri tin g, pho tography , business , an d the mechan ics of the paper. Before I forget, welcom e to the CWRU class of '73.
Activities Fairbegins StudentUnion's year
A dance with free refreshments will highlight this Monday's "Activities Fair" which begins the Thwing Hall Student Union programs for the year. Every campus club or organization has been invited to sponso r a booth o r displ ay in the Union for the " Activities Fair ", in order to introduce the organiz at ions to the freshmen and to encour age parti cipation. The displ ays will occupy the second and third floors of the Union and will be intermixed with the meetings and "open houses" of the organ izations which have offices in the (Continued on Page 9) Union . Beyond the "Act ivities Fair" looms a series of free Friday night " Ked Garter" programs including old comedy flicks and Dixieland Bands. Mel Weisblatt , director of the Student Union , said that the four "Red Garter" programs held during the summer were "quite successful, c o n sidering the number of stu den ts we had on campus ." A l o n g w ith this seri es, We is b l a t t mentioned th e add it ion of beer on tap in the sna ck bar. The beers are 3.2 in alcoholic conten t , and are Duke (dar k beer) and Budweiser (ligh t beer ). They are availab le to any CW R U st ude n t upon prese nta tio n o f ill and proof of age. Again this year the Union w ill sponsor a Fine Arts Festival . The fe st iva l encompasses many as p ec t s of art . .. "an yt hing goes. " Last year 's festival had underground films , a contemporary play , folk singers , and other "Happenings" . THWING HALLis the CWRU Student Union .