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"Chinese latest addition to curriculum
• By ALAN WHEELER
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• After more than 10 years
jof demand and proposals by
-University (acuity, the U S
■Department of Education
[has opened a window to the
•East by approving an East
•Asian culture proposal
; As part of the new
•program and funding, the
(Comparative Literature
: Department hired Oscar
(Lee, an instructor from
•Columbia University, to
; teach Chinese literature and
• the Chinese language to
(graduate and undergraduate
(students
: The courses are so new
(that they didn't appear in the
(Undergraduate Bulletin, so
(Greg Veeck, a graduate
(student, posted signs in Park
•Hall to advertise them
The Chinese 101 class,
which fulfills any language
requirements, is full of
students both auditing and
taking the course for credit
Lee said he was pleased
with the wide aray of
majors, "There are students
from business, geography,
journalism and English
Susanna Stiles, a senior
history major, said Chinese
101 "is very different from
German, but it doesn't seem
any harder yet.’'
“Chinese is slightly more
difficult (than ether
languages) because of the
great difference, but it
doesn't take a China Jock’
or someone who works out
five hours a day looking in a
Chinese dictionary and
running into doors." Lee
said.
Chinese 101 is a
prerequisite for three
quarter of intermediate
language Lee will teach
Chinese literature 460/660.
which covers traditional
literature, and two more
courses that will cover pre
modern drama and fiction
up to the modern East Asian
novel.
Although the Chinese
literature courses don't
currently fulfill un
dergraduate core
curriculum, Lee said a
student wanted the class
badly enough to get per
mission to substitute it for a
literature requirement
"The Chinese language
class is only part of a two-
year fund approved by the
U S. Office of Education,"
said Clifton Pannell, a
University geography
professor and director of the
proposal
The proposal was "cross-
disciplinary," under the
umbrella of “East Asian
culture," Pannell said.
"We hadn't yet offered a
class in Chinese religion,
though we did have Bud
dhism classes," Pannell
said. “But we still do not
have courses in an
thropology or economics —
maybe that is something to
work on."
Out of more than 100
schools, the University was
one of so to have its proposal
approved.
"We were one of the few
universities in the Southeast
that didn't Chinese language
classes We just found out
the Tech is offering Chinese
too, so the Office of
Education agreed that it
should he implemented,"
Pannell said
late said graduate students
in geography, foreign
business, and political
science demanded courses in
Chinese language, but there
is a problem generating
student interest.
"The strategy was to in
volve more of the Univer
sity, and get a firmer
commitment from ad
ministration," said Tom
Ganschow, an associate
professor history and
assitant director of the
proposal
“We advertised the course
in newspapers, news stories
on radio, and sent flyers"
Ganschow said
Children’s zoo to be clipped and groomed
By KIM SIMON
Krd and Hlarb Sun W riu-r
Facilities at the Athens Children’s
Zoo will be clipped and groomed by the
end of 1985. if the zoo receives up to
$40,000 from the federal government
and two Athens service organizations.
Lonnie Dickerson, director of the
Recreation and Parks Department,
said the most urgent need is to make
the park more accessible for han
dicapped people and for parents with
children in strollers.
Zoo officials plan fo build a winding
concrete walkway through the zoo to
alleviate the hike around the sloping
park, Dickerson said.
Planners say they will handle land
scaping and erosion control through a
network of retaining walls, terraces,
and water diversion devices allowing
water to drain into natural run-off
areas.
Robinson Fisher, an Athens land
scape architect, will organize the land
scaping, which will include dogwoods,
violets, azaleas and other species of
plants native to a Piedmont hardwood
forest. Dickerson said.
Animal improvements are also in the
works, with the top priority being a new
natural-habitat bear pen which will
encompass about an acre, and contain a
soft surface, an electric fence system
and a pool to allow the bears to cool off
during the summer.
Another proposed change in the
construction of new educational signs
that will identify both plant and animal
life within the park
Because the zoo is often used as an
educational facility. Dickerson said the
signs will provide valuable information
to children who tour the park.
Evelyn Bain, president of Athens'
Pilot Club, said the organization's main
interest is in seeing the zoo improve its
accessibility to handicapped people.
The club, along with the Classic City
Pilot Club, will raise money for the
project through a campaign called
"Light a Light" Pilot Club members
and the Athens Recreation and Parks
Department will sell lights for the city
Christmas tree through Nov. 27. A list
of contributors will be on display along
with the tree
The Pilot Clubs, which are service
clubs for executive business and
professional women, raised a total of
$12,000 last year with the help of Athens
firemen to buy a “Jaws of Life," a
device for prying open wrecked cars,
for the fire department
Although the Pilot Clubs have set a
goal of $5,000, they hope to raise more,
Bain said.
“Last year we raised more than we
expected for the ‘Jaws of Life' project,"
said Nira Haggard, president of the
Classic City Pilot Club “We expect to
do well this year too, and everything we
make will go to the zoo."
Dickerson said he feels hopeful about
the project even though the zoo hasn't
received much funding since It opened
in 1948
He said the department almost
decided to terminate the zoo. but in
stead elected to make one last effort to
preserve it. He said. “1 feel there are
people out there, the silent majority,
who want the zoo and will support it,"
Dickerson said.
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