1972-01-28; Central Michigan Life

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Freest/ classes
student iniUat$d.
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**■      By TERR! BURKHARDT
LIFE Staff Writer
"The Free University classes are an
unequiyp^cai, success-,'' said Mike Wright,
Free University spokesman. "There is
no doubt about their success, and even
the bad weather didn't interfere too much
with class attendance'.'*
Free University classes, based on a
no tuition, no credit concept, are usually
student initiated and student taught.
. There are approximately 12 Free University classes now in progress containing about 300 students. Yoga and hitchhiking are the largest classes with 80
and   55 people registered respectively.
"Registrational sign up is only a formality," Wright Explained,-''to give us
an indication of how many plan to take
the class and aid us in deciding its
locality. Even if you haven't registered,
you can still sit in on the class if you
like."
"Not only are the Free University
classes radically different in material
than those taught by the University, but
they are also different in their teaching
methods. There are no tests or grades,
no formalized lectures, instead there
is an easy-going informal type of rap
session with everyone learning something.
The Free University classes are an
attempt to break down the walls of education by the elimination of fife authoritarian roles," Wright'said.
Some of the classes being offered are
only for the person's own enjoyment
and enlightenment, but others, like the
Co-op class, can help him to work within the community, Wright continued.
There will be two sessions of Free
University classes this semester. The
session in progress now will be offered
until spring break. After spring break
the second session, with more classes,
will be offered.
Registration for the second session
will be held in the University Center
before  Spring  break.
Some of the new classes being offered
second session include: Social Work, Bicycling, Basic Arabic, Trouble in the
Universities, Macrame, Working in a Political Campaigns, Mysticism, Astrology,
Auto Repair, Wild Food Gathering and
Survival in the City.
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Volume 52, Number 48
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Friday, January 28, 1972
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Detroit students
fly home?
By BRIAN HLAVATY
LIFE Staff Writer
Tired of driving home to Detroit in
our feet of snow, or calling 50 people
[or a ride home next weekend, or shoots
jr mg $13 on a, bus ride that lasts forever?
Why not fly?
Don't laugh, flying home for the week-
" w now a possibility because of Trans-
San  Airlines' <T!MA), new stuaW
?e  which allows a student to fly
ground-trip to Detroit for two-thirds fare.
''We feel there is a definite market
w flying students," says Chuck Schrenk,
J £xecutive director, of the Mt. Pleasant
I J-namber of Commerce which regulates
lr local TMA flights. "That's, why TMA
Ijsi initiated its flights with a special
■student rate on a 90-day trial period."-
"If we can prove to the company that
, JJfe is a flying market here, then the
j Jljcy and flights will become a,permanent.
leature.     Flights can benefit: not only
HUdents,  but industry,  citizens of Mt.
peasant and the' rest of the university,"
| ^ists Schrenk.
The Traverse City-based airlines wasr
- .JYjally tQ begin its trial period Nov.
iPQnei  schedulinS problems forced' post-
I?.   Schedules were made up1 in advance
Ipi Nov. l was the start of the nation-'
wide daylight savings time change," he"
adds. "North- Central Airlines, which
flies the same ' routes as TMA between
Detroit, Flint, Tri-City and Traverse
City, had its'- planes leaving Michigan
airports 10 minutes ahead of TMA, forcing
TMA to revise its flights,;"
TMA flies a Beechcraft 99 turboprop
which is .a 15 passenger, 250-mile-per-
hour, two engine aircraft.
The student package has been in effect
since Jan,_ 1 of this year. It offers
two-thirds ^reduction on air fare plus a
special non-stop flight to Detroit for the
weekend.
The plane leaves Mt. Pleasant City
Airport at 6:50 Friday night and arrives
at Detroit Metropolitan Airport at 7:30
p.ta. .The return flight leaves Metro at
7:50 p.m. Sunday and arrives in Mt:
Pleasant at , 8:50 p.m. Students pay.
$31 round trip as opposed to $46 for
normal fare:
*
Schrenk explains the plan is highly
flexible to student needs. "If students
show a steady demand to land in Pon-
tiac or Detroit City Airport instead of
Metro, this could be arranged in the
future," he adds. "Time prevents us
from   rearranging  the   schedule  now."
A 1:05 afternoon flight could also affect the nonstop flight. "If students tend
to use the a-fternoon flight to go home,
then the non-stop flight might be moved
to the mid-afternoon range," he says.
"The reduced student rate is good at
anytime however."
"We are extremely flexible because
we want to find out how we can best
serve students," emphasizes Schrenk.
"If a need is shown for scheduling different times or places, we will make
an attempt to supply it."
present,   there      are two TMA
per day- from the Mt.  Pleasant
Detroit,   at   7:35   a.m.   and
At
flights
airport  to
1:05 p.m.
Since we
respond  to
don't know how people will
the flight schedule we are
using a flag service now, for all flights,"
says Schrenk. ,-••■■_
A flag service is where the incoming
TMA-plane radios Mt. Pleasant to^ see
if there are passengers or cargo to pick
" up.  If there is a sufficient number of
people waiting, the plane will stop.
Students however,- need not wait in
uncertainty as to whether the* plane will
land. Students^should make reservations
at Central Travel Agency or Valley
i ravel Agency in Mt. Pleasant-, Schrenk
said.
"They will book passage for you and
if there are not enough people to warrant
a stop the students will receive 24-hour
notice1 of the cancellation," he assures.
The necessary number varies but five
or six students will constitute a stop
for the plane.-
"there are 2,500 people "from the
Detroit Metro area at CMU," explained
Schrenk. "Each student has to fly only
one weekend every three years to keep"
the plane full every weekend."
"We're hoping for quite a few reservations during spring and Easter break.
It's up to students to make this plan
work. If they only fly once while at
Central , it will help the shuttle service continue."
. Schrenk urges students to comment
on the service whether favorably, or critically. "Their comments can only help
tell us how to better our flights, "he
says.
Belt ends joke
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SOUTH BENFiLEET,  England (AP) -
Tom  Smith  locked,, his  wife up in an
antique chastity belt for her 26th birthday.    Then their 3-year-old -son Mark
"threw away the key.
Smith attacked the medieval cast iron
with a saw and-broke two blades. Father
bundled mother into-the car and drove
her to the firehouse.
Chortling firemen freed Mrs. Smith
with their wire cutters*
"When Tom presented me* with it> I
said it was what I had always wanted,"
she said, "It was a joke—but it wasn'
too funny.
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