"basket weaving" revisited

[Charles Doyle]

Well, OF COURSE Reed College would offer basket weaving . . . .

--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 21:57:23 -0400
>From: James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
>Subject: Re: "basket weaving" revisited
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>I remember quite distinctly an item on some news or fluff show in the '80s about a college that was in fact offering a course on underwater basket weaving -- apparently the material is more workable when constantly wet. Looking on the web, I see that it might have been UCSD. Here's some info from http://www.answers.com/topic/underwater-basket-weaving: "TheUniversity of California, San Diego's recreation department first offered an underwater basket-weaving class in 1984. Saint Joseph's College in Indiana offers this class as well, as does Simon Fraser University in Canada. Reed College in Portland, Oregon also offers an Underwater Basket Weaving class during Paideia, its festival of learning."
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>James Harbeck.

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