If students are to learn as much as they can, they should themselves choose what they wish to study. College faculties who set up course requirements, for whatever ostensible reason, are usurping a function which belongs to the student. Explicit guidance, in the form of advice from a faculty member, is better than the implicit guidance of course requirements. Perhaps the faculty is less to blame for the present situation than are administrators. Administrators have the function of allocating and acquiring resources. Too often, decisions on these matters are made for transient, trivial, or merely traditional reasons. A simulation lasting for eight months and involving from 200 to 500 students was set up to explore an alternative way of deciding work. (JK)