Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sign and symbol of Buffalo's new militancy is its Second Festival of the Arts Today, a 16-day program of cultural events that include premieres of two plays by Edward Albee and an opera by Belgium's Henri Pousseur, the first U.S. performances of new works by Penderecki and Greek-born lannis Xenakis, a new movie by Underground Mogul Jonas Mekas, John Barth reading his new novella aloud, and lectures by City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis and Designer Buckminster Fuller. The whole shebang got under way last week with a display of 300 constructivist paintings and sculptures called...
What happens when you take one of Berkeley's liberal-minded philosophy professors and give him complete freedom to fashion an experimental liberal-arts program that lets students talk endlessly with talented teachers? Quite naturally, some of California's most pro test-prone, far-out students will sign up. In 1965, when Joseph Tussman started his Experimental College Program, the far-outers soon discovered that Tuss man, former head of Berkeley's philosophy department, had some seemingly square notions-such as that learning involves hard work and that one aim of education is good citizenship. But those...
Started in response to student protests about the impersonality of the multiversity, the Tussman program took 150 freshmen volunteers and isolated them from the rest of the school for two years in a neo-Tudor-style fraternity house. There Tussman, four professors (one each from law, mathematics, political science and poetry) and five graduate assistants led a complete "intellectual immersion." Based loosely on a great-books-oriented program that Tussman studied under Wisconsin's late Alexander Meiklejohn, the first year concentrated on such Greek writers as Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton...
...program nearly collapsed in its first year. Restive students, as well as some of the staff, revolted at the tough regimen and Tussman's rigid concept of a meaningful curriculum. Demanding the right to shape courses to their own interests, some students pleaded for an emphasis on Eastern rather than Western culture. Tussman acidly answered that a student cannot "pick up the wisdom of a foreign culture if he doesn't understand his own." Many of the students took to introspection with drugs, turned up in class turned on-which infuriated Tussman, who feared his project could...
Last fall Tussman began another two-year cycle of his program with new students and a different kind of faculty: five philosophy professors from other campuses, including Harvey Mudd College and the University of British Columbia. Two are former Tussman students, who are likely to share his own notions about education. The demand for student power, as Tussman sees it, carries "peer-group consciousness" into the absurdity of a "children's crusade." A college, claims Tussman "must remain in its mood, its state of mind and its morality essentially adult-it has a civilizing mission...