University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 21, 1977
Final exam policy exemptions await guidelines
By BRIAN SETTLE
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Staff Writer
Instructors requesting exemptions from a new final exam policy that probits final exams during the last week of classes must wait until the Calendar Committee establishes precise guidelines, Harold Krogh, committee chairman, said.
The policy, passed last spring by the University Senate, prohibits instructors from giving final examinations on the last day of regular scheduled classes.
The policy takes effect for the first time this semester.
Kroph said the Calendar Committee was responsible for approving any exceptions to the policy.
Krogh said he had received eight formal requests from instructors requesting execu- tions.
The requests have been considered, Krogh said.
"WE'RE BEING very careful, because if we are too lenient on enquiries then we will move right back to what the code stated before the proposal was passed."
SenEx also has received requests for
exemptions to the rule, and referred them to the Calendar Committee.
In a meeting Tuesday, William Westerbeke, SenEx chairman, said Krogh had requested SenEx to provide some guidelines to be used in processing petitions.
At its meeting SenEx failed to outline any specific guidelines, but several members suggested taking what Don Marquas, a professor of philosophy, called a "hard-line approach."
MARQUIS SAID acceptable exemptions might include, for example, performance exams in which a student might have to take an immediate dramatic production the week before finals.
Krogh said yesterday that Westerbek had not provided him with guidelines but had insinulated that SenEx suggested that a touch approach be taken.
Marquis, a member of the Academic Procedures and Policies Committee at the time of the proposal, said that the proposal was designed to ease the problem of instructors giving final exams during the week.
When all instructors give exams, he said,
students had a heavier-than-usual work load.
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He said the Calendar Committee also had received requests from several students who called him, hoping to leave campus earlier than their exam was scheduled for.
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Administrators also had voiced concern that finals week was underused because of the lack of experience.
KROGH SAID he preferred the tough approach Westebaker referred to, but could not speak for the committee as a whole until it discussed the matter.
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Krogh said in these cases, he advised them to go to the individual instructor with them.
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