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Show General ed offer credit for servin By LIDIAWASOW1CZ Chronicle Staff Granting general education credit for community service work, a pilot project which will begin winter quarter, aims at broadening the students perspective per-spective of the community, helping the community accomplish ac-complish its own goals and improving the University-community University-community relations. Directed to the undergraduate students, especially freshmen and sophomores, the program of accredited community service work was masterminded by Kent Stevens and Kent Scott, two law students guided by the suggestions of Dr. Delvert Ward, director of the Bureau of Community Com-munity Development, through the impetus of an Honors Seminar assignment requiring a proposed change in the University structure. struc-ture. Dean approves "Since the program falls in with the general education philosophy, stressing the importance im-portance of broadening a student's academic background before he enters the detailed study of his major, it received approval from Oakley Cordon, dean of Ceneral Education," said Mr. Stevens. Attempts to initiate such a program on a University-wide scale will follow the conclusive evaluations of the winter quarter pilot project, if they uare favorable. Considering the student, faculty and community supervisor evaluation, Dean Cordon and Larry Herron, assistant dean of Ceneral Education, will decide whether an expanded version of the program, a three quarter series which could be used to fulfill an entire Ceneral Cen-eral Education area, will go into effect fall quarter, 1972. A group of 50 students, selected on the basis of interviews with the program's faculty, will work with 10 teachers in six areas of community service, receiving three hours Ceneral Education credit. The students will be graded creditno credit on the basis of punctuality and attendance at-tendance (the class in scheduled for two days a week, two hours a day). Residents help With the assistance of Dr. Alton Hadlock, director of adult education in the Division of Continuing Education, Mr. Stevens and Mr. Scott arranged to concentrate the pilot group's efforts in a neighborhood council, the People's Freeway, Inc. The council was organized to help local residents set up and carry out their own programs; to find and use resources available to support local programs; to improve delivery of services to community; to make plans to overcome poverty in the community; com-munity; to inform residents of public policies which relate to them; to encourage program improvements and help residents protect themselves against outside interests and pressure groups. The council includes all the inhabitants from Main Street to Seventh West and South Temple to 13th South. The People's Freeway, Inc., chose all the areas of concentration for the pilot program. "We are using their programs and concentrating on the problematic areas of their choice, not imposing our own on them," commented Stevens. The six areas of concentration, from which students participating in the project can rK include: CS Jutonng in com faculty supervised ? ' Della-Piana.canbei students. take: Work with children The tutors will work witw of elementary anrJ" levels through the r School Service,' Naomi Evans, renreJ Lake City eaue ,n coopera,i0Mr Salt Lake City Board of Ed,, Subjects covered will, English, basic mathem science to history ir physical education. ' The tutor will work K teacher of the pupils to sc-the sc-the time of tutoring, to dev which students need help-choose help-choose an approach best for obtaining a rewarding , experience for the tutor r tutoree. Tutoring in the People's Fr open to 10 students, faculty supervised by ; McPhee and Jim Pappas. In this program, the tuto-work tuto-work with children desi dividual attention in subjects, such as reading,;, grammar, mathematics, s history, etc. Depending on his times! the University student ie with his pupils in the seta the Satellite Center, J Second West. Also with parents The tutor will also k-portunity k-portunity to work with the: parents or parents wk themselves desire Mow Supervised by Lin Rocbs: Leon Griffin, the Cor Recreation is open University students. The student will work in : several community s' probably a junior high supervising youngstr basketball, voile weightlifting, gyn trampoline, etc. The stint-probably stint-probably have to tramp" children from the Satellite, to the school and back Center or to the child's " The activities will tak Monday through Friday if 2:30 p.m. or 3 p.m. air The youngsters will be it? 15 years old and wille-struction wille-struction as well as super. Zoning and Ordinance vised by Claron Nelson,"" -five students. Students in this pros People's Freeway an area where sped moving in and buying to organize thems protect their int; acquiring copies ; maps of the area, d ownership, seek residential, coming vacant areas and maps respectively. To estimate land v Stents will f assessment ana P'anhh;ast0reeS ccieSbacMo-- "One the PF'inaHers& b6tr "She "I workings of tneiu chitectUr3PH o page 5) (continued on v Pilot project Credit offered for service (from page 4) five students who will work with the ASSIST program under the supervision of an advanced architecture ar-chitecture student. The students will survey the PF area and evaluate the existing residential structures for the feasibility of remodeling. This survey will aid in the selection of these units as qualifying for the FHS low-cost housing improvement im-provement plan. Students will also work on teams or committees to help arrange a utilization of existing man power by coordinating the unemployed of the area with the work on houses that need minor repairs and improvements. Five students will be accepted into Historical Investigation, supervised by Harold Bauman. Compile diaries Students in this program will help compile diaries, papers, artifacts, and first-hand accounts from the PF area's senior citizens into a booklet relating to the heritage of the area now included within the People's Freeway, Inc. The students will participate in research projects aimed at uncovering un-covering the reasons for the Pioneer Park's (4th South 2nd West) not being cited on the Utah Historical Society's register as a historical maker. The consequences con-sequences of obtaining such information would be significant in terms of the local residents' funds, playground equipment, better maintenance of the park etc. Students will also investigate the issue of plans to convert the Grower's Market, which has been in existence as an exchange station for agricultural products since 1912, to a hotel. Tenant Union, supervised by Earl Snell, is open to five students. Divided in groups Students in this program will be divided into two groups: one group of two working at the Tenant Union on Sixth South and one group of three students working at the PF. The students working at the union will need a basic background in accounting and bookkeeping. They will help the union, set up several months ago, to maintain the accounts and will assist the people in establishing relations with reputable merchants who sell their goods at reasonable prices. Students working at the PF will need a typing background for the office work. They will prepare a listing by name of all the blocks and put together a telephone directory for the area. Students interested in participating participat-ing in the pilot project should pick up applications in Park 304, 8 a.m. -12 p.m. and 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Applications are due Oct. 29. All applicants will be interviewed by faculty supervisors Nov. 1-5, and will be informed of their rejection or acceptance by Nov. 11, before advanced registration. |