THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MAY 21,196? THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MAY 21, 196~ I Faculty Retiuer Prof. Albert Luconi IM F , (Fourth in a Series)' By JEFFREY K. CHASE Prof. Albert Luconi, clarinetist, remembers during World War I, in which Italy and Germany were opposed; when Arturo Toscanini was a guest conductor of the St. Cecilia Symphony Orch. of Rome. Toscanini headed the program with the "Funeral March" from act four of "Die Gotterdam- merung" by Wagner. As the music began the audience commenced with disturbing noises in objection to the composer's nationality. Toscanini stbpped conducting, waited for the audience to quiet down and then with renewed de- termination, began again. This time he was permitted to finish the work. The next day a piece by Toscanini appeared in the paper which read that on that previous evening "Rigoletto," an opera by Verdi, an Italian, was performed in Berlin. "This points out," Prof. Luconi says, "that music is inter- national; it transcends both poli- tics and war." National Academy Prof. Luconi, born in 1893, was educated at the National Academy' of St. Cecilia in'Rome, where upon graduation in 1919 he was one of three recipients of the Prize of the Province of Rome. Set Conference To Aid Writers The 11th Michigan Writers' Conference, sponsored by the Eng- lish department, will be held Thursday and Friday in conjunc- tion with the Hopwood Awards presentations and Michigan Week. About 150 people are expected to take advantage of the practical advice and criticism to be offered by University professors and pro- fessional writers. nent in Detroit-where he lives with his wife-first for two, then three and finally five days a week. Prof. Luconi recalled that when he first taught here, the faculty was so small that it did not af-1 ford a specialized teacher for each instrument as it does now. "The" music school has made great strides since my early days here,"' he remarked. Prof. Luconi, a founder ot tne UniveIsity Woodwind Quintet, said+ that the group was originally a quartet. "It was composed of four professors-of horn, bassoon, oboe, and clarinet-who lived in Detroit. Later a flutist was added, making a quintet." Staff Musician While on the faculty Prof. Lu- coni simultaneously occupied a post on the cooperative faculty of Wayne State University and was a staff musician for .a radio sta- tion. Recently Prof. Luconi, who has used the same Selmer clarinet since 1918, designed a new custom mouthpiece. His many requests for it include one from the United States Air Force Band. An appreciator of modern music, he is on retirement furlough for the 1962-63 academic year. He will return to the University for the 1963 fall semester to fill in for the present clarinet professor, who will be on leave of absence. After that he and his wife plan to return to Italy and live with his brother. PROVIDE FOR EXPANSION: Faculty Considers Residential College (Continued from Page 1) 4) The social science distribu- tion could be taught as two eight- hour courses, one of which would center on history and the other on empirical analysis of individual and collective behavior. Class Load 5) Course depth and student course work could be increased so that a 16-hour class load would be all a student could handle in a! semester. "The general image of the cur- riculum as we visualize it would permit students to transfer from the new college to almost any other liberal arts college. We would not, however, want to accept transfer students to the new col- lege since this would negate its communal features," the report notes. Enroll Elsewhere "Students who consider fratern- ities and sororities of primary im- portance should enroll in other undergraduate schools in the Uni- versity. It may be expected that some students would live outside the residence halls. Most or all of these would be either married, more than 21 years old or other- wise distinguished. "The n e w college residence buildings would be used as more than sleeping and eating accom- modations. Except for some labor- atories and large lecture rooms, all of the teaching facilities and most of the studying facilities of the new college, it is hoped, would be in the residence halls. This would facilitate intellectual inter- action between students." The residential college could be as economical as the larger literary college, the report continues. The loss of economy associated with more personal attention to advanced students could be made up by greater economy in other areas. As proposals which seem both feasible and desirable for re- ducing teacher effort, the report cites: 1) Pooling large lecture sections whenever possible. 2) Eliminating unnecessary dup- lications of course content. 3) Assigning students in one course to certain lectures in an- other course. Reading Periods 4) Scheduling reading periods either as part of the academic cal- endar or as part of indvidual courses. 5) Using programmed learning, achievement tests and other incen- tives and aids to self-teaching. "These procedures should, how- ever, be used with extreme cau- tion least we change our defini- tion of education to meet the cap- ability of a machine," the report adds. "As a begining, existing facili- ties in larger dormitories might be used to get the operation of the new college underway as early as possible," the report said. Ask Broad Support As a prerequisite considered in- dispensable for the success of a residential college, the committee asked that "broad support from the faculty, and formal evidence for this support satisfactory to the executive committee," exist be- fore proceeding further. If the plans for the new college are carried through, student en- rollment in the literary college should not be increased beyond the present level, the report asks. If in the future the need for growth should exceed the capacity of the residential college, the pat- tern of further growth should be reconsidered in the light of the success of the residential college. Report on Success A review committee would re- port on the success of the college approximately five years after its establishment. "The University has a historic responsibility to grow and to meet the needs of the college education of the youth in our state," Roger W. Heyns, vice-president for aca- demic affairs and former literary college dean, said. "The residen- tial college is intended to provide the means of growth of liberal- arts education within the Uni- versity." "The residential college, as a potentially exciting attempt to. solve a very basic educational problem, may attract financial backing which would not other- wise be attracted to the Univer- sity and in that sense may earn its own way," the report says. The members of the Residential College Comipittee are Professors Slobodkin, Paul J. Alexander of1 the history department, Otto Graf of the German department, James H. Meisel of the political science1 department, Theodore M. New- comb of the psychology and so- ciology departments, Noah Sher- man of the physics department and Charles J. Titus of the mathe- matics department. Peace CorpS To Give Tests John D. Rockefeller IV, opera- tions officer for the Philippines ini the Peace Corps Far Eastern Divi- sion, will arrive at the University tomorrow to join a team of Peace Corps officials from Washington engaged in an intensified recruit- ment program of Peace Corps volunteers. The team is giving a one-hour aptitude test four and five times daily this week The one-hour test is being given in Rm. 3C of the Michigan Union according to the following sched- Study Group Favors Plan For Merger (Continued from Page 1) PROF. ALBERT LUCONI ... Toscanini soloist While touring France and England with the Royal Band of Rome; during World War I, Prof. Luconi met troop commander Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless; radio. In 1920 Toscanini heard him perform and invited him to join the Toscanini Orchestra of La Scala as solo clarinetist. Prof. Lu- coni joyfully accepted! This decision, it later proved, was a turning point in his career, because it was Toscanini who brought him to America. Detroit Symphony While on a concert tour with the Toscanini Orchestra Prof. Luconi was heard by the manager of the Detroit Symphony, who askedhim to Join the ensemble. The result was his three-year ten- ure as first clarinetist in Detroit. In 1927 he relinquished this post to spend time concertizing as both a soloist and chamber en- semble member and teaching pri- vately. In 1941 the music school asked him to join the faculty. He did so, commuting from his home Excerpts from LSA Unit Report C e Rou'ndup By CARL COHEN signed to "face the realities of the PRINCETON-Thirteen Prince- 20th century. The program will ton University students were found last six years. At its conclusion guilty by a magistrate court last the student will be placed in the week on charges coming out of third year of a medical school. the "spring riot" of May 6. More * * * than 1500 students were involved BERKELEY-About 10 students in the riot, and damages are esti- of the University of California at mated at thousands of dollars, Berkeley were arrested last week * * as they demonstrated outside of NEW HAVEN - Similar "spring San Quentin prison against capital riots" were staged early this month punishment. at Brown, Columbia and Yale uni- * * * versities. The Brown riot lastedW seven hours, and as a result the ITHACA - Women at Cornell university has postponed action University voted to change curfew on parental rules and banned all hoursaforsfreshmen last Tuesday. social functions until commence- Upperclass hours-midnight--will ment. . go into effect after next Thanks- giving. ITHACA-The Cornellx Univer- sity Interfraternity Council voted ' URBANA-CHAMPAIGN - Uni- to accept with clarification two of versity of Illinois President David three non-discriminatory pledges Dodds Henry answered the censure proposed by its Commission on of the American Association of Discrimination. The newly pro- University \Professors Wednesday. posed pledges bar external, inter- He said that the firing of Prof. nal and individual discrimination Leo F. Koch of the biology dept. in choosing members. was "in accord with the statutes S h g s of the university," and that Prof. PROVIDENCE-Brown Univer- Koch had "formal hearings before sity will institute a new medical the Senate Committee on Aca- education program this fall, de- demic Freedom." "- EXCELLENT undergraduate education has been provid- ed by colleges that have made radical departures from the course hour-grade standard curriculum system. It is. possible to argue that the arbitrariness of grading and course hours is bad for the educational experience=and most of the com- mittee would agree. It is nevertheless the case that many of our best graduate schools specify certain course and grade requirements for their applicants. Since we see one major function' of the residence college as prep- aration for graduate school, we feel conventional grades, course hour credits and meaningful course descriptions should be retained ... SINCE WE ARE ABLE to build our curriculum and course re- quirements "de novo," we can try to avoid some of the uneconomi- cal and educationally dubious rep-I etition of subject matter that has grown up in the literary college.1 For example (and without con-' denmation since this type of thing is probably inevitable in a large enough school), the meiotic proc- ess in gamete formation is taught at the moment in the departments of zoology, botany, anthropology, psychology and sociology ... Unnecessary repetition of sub- ject matter can be minimized by suitable cooperation and mutual communication between staff members, both within and between departments. The curriculum to be followed by a student in the new college, while not differing in principle from that of a student in LSA, would differ somewhat in orga- nization and timing. WE FEEL that freshmen and seniors require maximum freedom in their choice of courses. The freshmen are not clear as to their own interests and must to some degree shop around. The seniors, having definite intellectual goals, must have freedom to get the in- tellectual material that they need. Starting with the second semes- ter of the freshman year and ex- tending through the junior year, the student may be considered ma- ture enough to understand the necessity for course requirements but not mature enough to dis- pense with them. Freshmen entering a liberal arts college expect, in our opinion, either a continuation of high school or a vaguely defined but glorious intellectual awakening. A literary college is not doing its job if it permits the first expectation1 to persist or does not, to some de- gree, foster the second. By the end of a student's first semester, his image of the college has usually crystallized to a large' extent ... * * * DURING the first two years a student would take: a. Two required courses of eight hours each-one in great books and composition, the other in either history of political, social and economic thought, or individ- ual and collective behavior. b. Sixteen hours of language plus eight of science. c. Free electives in various de- partments (20-24 hours, for a to- tal of 60-64 in the first two years). In the student's last two years he will take: Courses in major - up to 40 hours. Cognate-approximately eight hours. Electives - approximately 12. hours (or around 60 for the last two years)... THE FIRST two years in the new college would differ from the first two years in LSA in these ways: 1) Great books and composition would be taught as one eight-hour course in the first semester to ac- custom the entering student to the idea of extensive reading and writ- ing, to establish a common back- ground for all the students of material read, to reinforce the idea of college as an intellectual ad- venture and to break away from the high school routine. 2) Foreign language would be postponedsuntil the second semes- ter and presented as two intensive eight-hour courses to provide a foreign language proficiency in a reasonably short time. The stu- dent would be required, it is as- sumed, to apply his lanuguage skill regularly in concentration and cognative fields. 3) All students in the elemen- tary laboratory science courses would be required to attend at least one lecture a week which would tend to illustrate the con- vergence of scientific activities on certain common problems. These lectures would be attend- ed by all such students whatever elementary science course they were taking .. . (They would at- tempt) to foster communication between students taking different sciences and to provide a broad view of science as a whole in addi- tion to knowledge of special scien- tific areas. 4) The. social science distribu- tion would be taught as two eight- hour courses, one of which would center on history and the other on empirical analysis of individual and collective behavior. IT MAY BE NOTED that the general image of the curriculum as we visualize it would permit students to transfer from the new college to almost any other lib- eral arts college. We would not, however, want to accept transfer students to the new college since this would negate its communal features.. The following proposals seemt both feasible and desirable: -Increasing the depth of eacht course and the student work ini each course so that a 16-hourf class load is all that a student can handle in a semester. At pres- ent, students often take 18 or moreI hours since the normal 16-hour load does not make sufficient de- mands on them. Obviously, we are not advocat- ing busy work, but are asking for richer, more demanding teaching. -Pooling large lecture sessions whenever possible. If a lecture is to be large, let it be very large. In several subjects one large lec- ture section can provide certain; types of basic information for all the students. The discussion and lab sections associated with the course may then differ among themselves to accommodate dif- ferences in student ability, interest and objectives. -Making the lecture sequence of each course public so that, for example, a physics professor may assign his students to a lecture on chemical bonding that is part of a chemistry course and a chemist may assign his students to a physics lecture on atomic struc- ture. This not only saves the effort of preparing a lecture in an area out- side of one's customary region of competence but also ensures that the most able lecturer available presents the matter to the stu- dents. -Scheduling reading periods either as part of the academic calendar or as part of individual courses. To be effective these would require that teaching be strongly oriented towards making the stu- dents intellectually independent. -Using programmed learning, achievement tests and other in- centives and aids to self-teaching. These procedures should, however, be used with extreme caution lest we change our definition of edu- cation to meet the capabality of a machine ... TO AID communication between students and to foster the growth Ackley To Speak On U.S. Economy Prof. Gardner Ackley of the eco- nomics department, on leave from the University to serve on President John F. Kennedy's Board of Economic Advisers, will speak on "The Federal Budget and the Dynamical Economy" at 3 p.m. to- day in Rm. 130 of the Business Administration Bldg. DIAL 2-6264 * ENDING TODAY -wLOR Of (AIX! *WEDNESDAY* 'low sweet it is,, .. Jackie Gleason va-,.: of an intellectual community, we would suggest that all students in the new college maintain residence' in contiguous University housing units. Students who consider fraterni- ties and sororities of primary im- portance should enroll in other undergraduate schools in the Uni- versity. It may be expected that some students would live outside the residence. Most of all of these would be either married, over 21 or otherwise distinguished. Out- side residence would be much less common than in LSA. The new college residence build- ings would be used as more than sleeping and eating accommoda- tions. Except for some laboratories and large lecture rooms, all of the teaching facilities and most of the studying facilities of the new col- lege, it is hoped, would be in the residence halls. This would facilitate intellectual interaction between students..." Le -. Today: 9:15 and 11:15 1:15, 4:15 and 7:15 p.m. Tomorrow: 10:15 a.m.;j 4:15 and 7:15 p.m. Thursdayn: 9:15 and 11:15 1:15, 4:15 and 7:15 p.m. Friday: 10:15 a.m.; 1:15, 4:15 and 7:15 p.m. Saturday: 10:15 a.m. Applicants who wish to begin training this summer (or later) for Peace Corps projects must take the aptitude test and complete a questionnaire obtained from the Corps information center in the lower lobby of the Union. MCA To Offer $1500 Fellowship The Music Corporation of Amer- ica is offering a $1500 graduate fellowship in creative writing for 1963-64. Those interested should appear for an interview at 4 p.m. Friday in the Hopwood Rm. 1:15,1 Government Council, two graduate and four undergraduate elected members, four alumni, and a Re- gent. The Union Board also in- cludes a representative from the Office of Student Affairs, the Of- fice of Business and Finance, and the faculty, as well as the Union's general manager as a guest. The new board will eliminate the Regents, the OSA representa- tive, the SGC president and the elected student members, while raising the number of faculty members to four. Its student-non- student ratio of voting members will drop from the present 5-4 ration to the proposed 1-2 ratio. The present League Board, which will also be eliminated on acceptance of the report, includes four student officers, four alum- nae, two women faculty members, one female Regent, one woman from the OSA and three ex-officios without vote-the alumnae council eecretary, the business manager and the program director. Its stu- dent-non-student ration stands at 1-2. The coeducational activities committee will operate "indepen- dently of close supervision by the board except for funds and fi- nancial guidence." Its four executive officers, who will sit on the governing board, will be chosen by a selections committee of four students and three non-students.Executiveof- ficers will choose their own com- mittee chairmen. The proposal activities: group differs from the present Union groups in that it will derive its funds directly from the governing board. 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