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For more information, please contact [email protected]. .. • •• •• European Tour High Iights • UOP January Winter Term • A month of study in Europe for approxi­ mately 110 students highlights the January Winter Term at Pacific . • Eight different groups of students are ex­ ploring a variety of topics in Europe under the Winter Term concept, which allows the stu­ PACIFIC dent to engage in one month of independent .. study between regular four-month semesters. Courses in Europe include a study of Hemingway's Spain, the culture of France in Paris, a United States Information Service • REVIEW sponsored touring company for drama stu­ dents, visits to several museums for art stu­ UNIVERSITY dents, seminars on Christian-Marxist • philosophies, world business at the various OF THE PACIFIC finance centers, literary and theatrical London, and a children's literature class that will visit the sites of famous children's stories. • JANUARY, 1972 While these courses are the most wide­ ranging in terms of distance from Stockton, many other students have traveled a consider­ able distance to pursue a special interest not available during a conventional semester. Some students are studying geology in Death Valley, another group is exploring the marine world via scuba diving off Baja, Cali­ fornia and a third group is observing schools in Sonora, Mexico. Approximately 30 com­ munication students are in Hawaii studying the multitude of cultures and the sematic dif­ ferences present there, while business admin­ istration students are studying Pueblo and Apache programs on Indian reservations in New Mexico. Students remaining on the Stockton PACIFIC drama students rehearse one of the campus for the Winter Term are taking a plays they are presenting in major cities of variety of courses not normally part of the Germany and Austria this month as part of the UOP curriculum; many have developed their Winter Term of Independent Study. Nine own independent projects with the aid of students, with Director Sy Kahn are making faculty advisors. Topics being explored in­ the tour which is sponsored by the United clude prestige, gambling, love, the great de­ States Information Agency. The plays are all pression, ESP, and sex in history. by contemporary American authors. This one, Current issues relating to minorities, titled "A3", is a black comedy about three alienation, women's liberation, the judiciary, astronauts who achieve their highest and federalism are topics of some courses. aspirations and their worst nightmares. Several classes are considering different Vaughn Moosekian plays the Ape Man, aspects of the environment pollution problem Christopher Catt is the Astronaut, and Ted through courses in environmental audiology, Snyder is the Angel. chemical pollution, environmental geology, the automobile engine, population and pollu­ tion, and birth control and population. One dent interest for a course on survival training interesting course involves a study of the has evolved into a winter back-packing trip causes of pollution at Blue Lake, which is into the Sierras. located near Clear Lake in Lake County. The Winter Term program involves ap­ Other courses include photography along proximately 2,500 of the 4,100 students on the California coast, rug making for art stu­ Pacific's Stockton campus. Many of the dents, moral development in children, politi­ students are from College of the Pacific, as cal conflict in urban areas, comparative in­ COP students must take the Winter Term dustrial development, problems of a political ~hree times in four years. economy, a class titled experiencing, where COP Associate Dean Clifford Hand noted STOCKTON, SAN FRANCISCO, students engage in a variety of new ex­ that the initial Winter Term at Pacific last SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA periences and record their thoughts on each year was very successful. He said the primary COSTA RICA • JAPAN • INDIA one, and a popular chemistry course that value to the student's intellectual develop­ deals with nutrition. ment is the "independence and self-direction" of the project. "Equally important," Dr. Hand COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC RAYMO ND COLLEGE ELBERT CO VELL In the area of athletics, one course is of­ COLLEGE CALLISON COLLEGE CONSE RVATO RY OF MUS IC fered on social psychology and sport and an­ added, "is the combining of life outside the SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SCHOOL OF PHARMACY SCHOOL OF other on an existential inquiry into sport. Stu- classroom with academic experience. " ENGI NEERING SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY McGEO RGE SCHOOL OF LAW SCHOOL OF MEDICA L SCI EN CES GRA DUATE SC HOO L • Relevance and Education Theme of Dr. Gross Talk .• Dr. Paul Gross, Professor of Chemistry, and decrease pollution of all kinds. COP, was an invited speaker at a recent In order to slow down and possibly reverse •• convention of the American Field Service in these dangerous developments, it will prob­ Atlantic City. Dr. Gross' remarks were the ably be necessary to educate a majority of the keynote for a panel discussion titled "Mak­ people to accept legislation limiting their • ing Education Relevant for Tomorrow." freedom to reproduce to two children-with a Following are excerpts from his speech: third one only granted when there is no genetic I would like to discuss a few of the more deficiency and an above-average ability to • desirable features of "tomorrow" and will try care for the children's education. to propose an educational goal, that in my Also, it is necessary to educate the people opinion has to be reached, in order to imple­ to give up the right to pollute. The simplest • ment the corresponding future feature. I shall rule, which would mean a minimum of con­ fl discuss first those future features, on the trolling bureaucracy and therefore a desirability of which majority agreement is minimum of government interference, would most likely. be the "no effluent" rule, which would not al­ None of us, I believe, wants an all out low discharge into river, lake or ocean. If dis­ atomic war. The situation is most dangerous, charge water is cleaned well enough, it may however. Suppose I were to give my son, age 7, be recycled or used for irrigation. Similarly, the key to my gun cabinet (incidentally, I trash may be recycled and the remainder • don't have a gun cabinet!) If I were to do that turned into fertilizer, or building material. you would call my behavior foolish and We may wonder whether voluntary con­ dangerous and rightly so. Yet we, the sci­ trols will work in any of these areas. Volun­ .. DR. PAUL GROSS entists have given generals and politicians the tary limitation of reproduction will mean that atom bomb and the ability to conduct an all- reasonable parents will be biologically out atomic war. This comparison is not a par­ selected against in the long run. Voluntary ticularly good one, because my son probably pollution control will put people who keep the knows more about guns than politicians and landscape clean at an economic disadvantage. generals know about the possible physical, You may also wonder why I, as a chemist, biochemical, biological and social implica­ am not advocating a research and technician tions of an all-out atomic war. It is true, they training program to promote more "relevant" do have scientific advisors, just as my son has investigations with regard to sources of pollu­ me. It is true, that politicians are elected, at tion, or with regard to the medicinal and tech­ least in principle, by the public and that they nological aspects of pollution and population are responsible to it, just as my son is control. responsible to me. But it is true also, that once The fact is that we know more than power has been delegated to generals and enough about these things in order to start politicians, their final decision is influenced now, and the technological tools are available mostly by military and political considera­ now. How to solve these problems has been tions, just as my son is influenced by his child­ demonstrated somewhere on this planet, in ish motivations. praxis or in the laboratory. The problem, I be­ Question: What do you do, if for some lieve, is simply the education of the public, reason you cannot take the key to the gun and creation of an effective lobby to counter cabinet away from your child? Obviously, it shortsighted business interests who want to seems highly impractical to propose that the stall the cleanup. generals and politicians get their atom bombs You will have noticed that I did not limit taken away from them. my discussion to formal education in school­ But I propose, that you teach these people although I am particularly happy to teach at a New Transmitter ' as much as possible about the possible physi- University which has the only Spanish speak­ For KUOP-FM cal, biochemical, biological, and social im­ ing college in the U.S.A., which has a foreign plications of atomic wars. What for instance, campus in India, and which emphasises in­ KUOP-FM, the non-com- would be wrong with requesting a science dividual education in a multitude of colleges. mercia! public broadcasting degree as a qualification from a candidate for But education in the home, adult education in radio station at Pacific, has president, governor, or senator, in this day the widest sense, and education by in­ returned to the air after an and age, when science is exploited by tech­ ternational experiences are equally important absence of 10 days.