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Show FREE UNIVERSITY offers revolutionary class program Prominent among campus signs of change stands the Free University. From "Man in Tomorrow's World" to "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Peace" the Free University explores subjects of special student interest in the sixties. More than just another set of classes, the originators searched for a "free" learning atmosphere, free of ordinary classroom restraints, open to the specifically interested student, varied to meet needs that traditional structured courses could not. Autumn Quarter gave birth to eight Free University classes - "A Student's Eye View of Vietnam" offered student body President John Kesler's observations made during his two-week Vietnam visit. A second examined "What Present-Day Theologians Are Thinking." The third was titled simply "Contemporary Poetry." The eighty Utes enrolled in Autumn Quarter's Free University classes found an unusual opportunity to express themselves in the "experiment in learning." Led by the Free University Council, an independent student-faculty group, the new program with its unstructured, contemporary, non-credit curriculum promises to be a permanent sign of campus intellectual pursuit. Classes provoke quiet reflection, spirited discussion, careful attention, close reading, and occasional grins. 134 |