University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, November 19, 1975
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KU absence policy varied
By JEANIE EMERT
Staff Writer
Any student who has spent a winter at the University of Kanaas knows how cold it can be trudging up the hill to care. It's often in bed in bed and miss the class on those days.
For students that do succumb to temptation and skip class, the University doesn't have a specific absence policy. Instead, it is instructed to deal with absences and instructors to deal with absences.
The majority of schools have absence policies printed in their catalogs. All of these policies state that there is no system of permissible absences and that excessive absences may result in the student being withdrawn from the class.
The absence policy for the School of Fine Arts reads: "Students are expected to attend all classes and lessons. A student having unexcused absences in excess of the number of credit hours for the course may be drawn from the course with a grade F."
According to Jean Mattison, secretary for the School of Fine Arts, the policy is enforced and students are withdrawn in many cases when it is felt necessary.
"Absences are always a problem with a Mattson said recently, "but not a large one."
Mattison said performance reports on the students were turned in by instructors and then turned over to the department chairman or advisers.
During the first class of the semester,
economics, and high school students in his introductory
economics.
Tavern owners asked to take ad once more
The Lawrence City Commission again asked the owners of taverns in the 14th and Ohio streets area to run a full-page ad in the Kansan this week to set guidelines for the crowds who congregate there after home football games.
The crowds last Saturday were "just excellent," Mayor Barkley Clark reported last night at the commission's regular meeting.
he reported that the crowd was well-behaved, and the other commissioners indicated that Clark's report pleased them. But, as an added precaution for the larger crowds expected for this week's game with the Raptors, they requested that the owners run the ad again.
Commissioner Donald Binsnad, said
Owen McQuay, who served as the
maybe has a lot to do with it".
When contacted after the meeting, Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., said it was too late to run the ad in a press release because the deadline for ads had passed.
The other taverns involved are the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507. W 14th st., owned by John Wooden, and the Bierstau, 1344 Tennessee St., owned by Whit Shea.
Wallace said he wasn't aware that the commission had been discussing the taverns and hadn't been prepared for any action.
Wallace said he would discuss the situation. Clark and try to work with you.
"Certainly, whatever they request I'll try to go along with to the best of my ability."
class that the taxpayers and parents were paying for the students' education. He said that if students didn't do their part at school, they were taking the money of the taxpayers.
"The student is breaking a contract with
the taxpayer, they are
paying the student and they are
Daicoff takes attendance at each meeting of his large introductory economics class.
"I'm doing this as an experiment," he said. "I want to see the correlation between
Dalcoff said he thought reasonable attendance would produce satisfactory results. He is also interested in seeing students not attend class and still do well, he said.
According to Nancy Denney, interim acting chairman of the department of psychology, teaching assistants in general education by taking attendance in discussion sections.
"They found a high correlation between high grades and high attendance," Denney said. "Missing class is a problem for the students because it affects their grades."
James Gowen, chairman for freshman-
sbomhore English, said even though there
According to Gowen, the classes are small and teachers have a more personal contact with the students. He said it was easier to tell who was there and who wasn't.
were no hard and fast rules about taking
classes, missing class was taken
aeronautical.
"We make it clear that there is no such thing as an excused absence, he said. "I will work with you."
Gowen said attendance wasn't computed into the students grade but was involved. He said absences would harm class parity and would be missed that couldn't be made up.
According to Gowen, a small minority of students have a large amount of absences. He said he thought less than one in 20 had excessive absences.
"Serious students will occasionally miss class." Gowen said. "The ones in real trouble periodically absent themselves for a long time."
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences doesn't print an absence letter in its catalog.
Frances Horowitz, associate dean of the schools, teaches the courses required in instruction. She was left up at instruction.
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Senate to study fund requests
This will be the first time Senate BILL 050, a piece of legislation consolidating all of the Senate's fund allocations, has been acted upon. The Senate has been discussed in earlier Senate meetings.
Line item requests from several student organizations for the 1976-77 fiscal year are scheduled to be discussed at the Student Senate meeting tonight.
The bill, with 17 different items to be considered separately, was broken up so that the Senate could discuss each student's funding proposal apart from the others.
The University of Kansas Intercollegiate Corporation, Women's Intercollegiate
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said he didn't expect all student organizations requesting line items to be discussed tonight but added he was confident all of the would be acted upon by the Senate by the body's last regular meeting on Dec. 3.
Rolfs also said that if the total amount allocated to all of the organizations exceeded the Student Activity Fee, the Senate would reexamine the proposed allocations and would pare the budgets of the organizations to fit.
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